Adam Soss and Sid Vizard critique Alberta’s six-month pause on wind/solar projects, citing April’s 1% capacity output, while blaming progressive policies for surging homelessness and addiction—like Toronto’s opioid crisis. They expose elite hypocrisy (Freeland, Gates, DiCaprio) and question Trudeau’s healthcare restrictions after Sheila Lewis’ denied transplant. Canada’s immigration targets hit 500K by 2025 despite housing shortages, with migrants fleeing to war zones like Ukraine. Meanwhile, 75% back military spending upgrades, and Trump’s election plea contrasts with Biden’s cognitive decline, while Indigenous mass grave claims face skepticism over alleged exploitation. [Automatically generated summary]
Hello, everyone, and welcome to Rebel News' Daily Roundup.
I am your host, Adam Soss, and today I'm joined by the one and only Sid Vizard.
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Well, I'm doing all right.
It's a pleasure to be joining you today.
It's an exciting day.
There's a lot in the news we're going to be covering.
And Adam, how are you doing today?
Oh, great.
Yeah, I'm looking forward to it.
It is going to be fun.
Lots to talk about.
A little bit of good news, a little bit of bad news, some exciting events coming up.
Lots to discuss.
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Now, for folks out there who are maybe still on the fence about Danielle Smith, maybe think there's some good, some bad, still undecided.
Here's one politician that you don't have to be on the fence about.
This is probably the most Ralph Klein energy thing that I have seen in a long time.
This is a Rick Bell column, and the title reads, Smith Cabinet Minister Guts the Left's Lunacy on Drug Addiction.
Dan Williams believes strongly in the Alberta government's pledge to put people into treatment who are in danger to themselves and others.
Now, this is the sort of treatment program that we have been talking about, the Alberta model, that has been widely embraced, whether it be by First Nations communities, people.
We've had the opportunity to go to some of the facilities that are doing this work.
The UCP not only removed the $40 a day sort of charge that the NDP and previous Conservative governments had in place for people seeking addiction, but they also opened more beds than have ever been opened in the history of Alberta and are continuing to open new clinics with a special emphasis in many of the First Nations communities that are affected.
Now, progressives have sort of targeted this and they're advocating for harm reduction, which is effectively free, quote-unquote, safe drugs as a better alternative.
But I think you and I know that there's no such thing as free or as safe, hard drugs, nor are there such a thing as free drugs.
Someone's always paying for these things.
But it's incredible.
Dan Williams knows that there's going to be backlash on this.
And I want to read some of his comments.
And then Sid, I want to pick your brain about what it's like to hear a politician talking like this.
This is an elected official in Alberta.
He said, I couldn't care less what progressives and media and the radical activists say.
He knows that there's, and this is bell prompting, he knows what he says and he supports will cause social media wrath to rain down upon him.
But it's incredible.
He said that the sort of outcome of these free drug supplies are misery, carnage, and death.
He said there aren't other options.
The only thing left for us to do is to intervene.
And Williams points at these progressive policies as having caused these chaos.
The left's best thinking has gotten us.
Excuse me, sorry, an ad popped up.
The left's best thinking has gotten us to this point.
The idea we need more of the left's thinking to solve this problem is insanity, said the pointman on mental health and addictions for the UCP government under Smith.
For two decades, the progressive left has held a monopoly on policies around addiction.
Their logic is we haven't done enough of it.
It's obvious the radical progressive left has failed Alberta, Canada, North America, and the West in its thinking on addiction.
It would destroy us as a province to go down the path further.
The only solution is another road.
There are some things so crazy, you have to be an elected liberal or a socialist to believe them.
It's incredible.
He goes on and on, but ultimately he says, the solace I take is that we won an election.
We told Albertans exactly what we wanted to do.
And then he talks about how there's a moral responsibility, finally, to do the right thing and tackle this.
Yeah.
When's the last time you heard a politician talking like that?
It certainly doesn't happen too often, to say the least.
I do think this is very interesting.
And obviously, you know, there's one point I think that is fair to make here, and that is, has the problem gotten better or worse over the last few years?
You look around, I don't think you're going to be able to find somebody who says that the homelessness, the drug addiction problems in Canada have gotten better over these last few years, especially with the lockdowns that our politicians forced on us over the last couple of years again.
And these are leaving people in isolation, destroyed from their families.
There's so much harm that has been done, and we see the end result of it now.
I mean, you look at the streets of Toronto, Vancouver, even, you know, here in Calgary, you look up at Edmonton, any major city, and even a lot of the smaller towns too.
There's homeless problems and there's drug problems associated with them every time.
And you find a homeless problem, more than likely you're going to find a drug problem.
Unless we're talking about the migration issue that certain areas are facing.
But in terms of most of the homeless that we're seeing, it is drugs.
Drugs is such a huge problem that they're going through.
And look at the policies that we've put forward.
Nothing is helping them.
Yeah, let's give them drugs.
That'll solve the problem.
Who thought that was a brilliant idea?
That's the question I have.
Adam, what do you take on that?
Well, and I mean, the fact that they've convinced people, like you talk to people, even somewhat sensible people, and they're like, no, no, but like this harm reduction stuff, listen, like I know Mike Ellis, another one of the cabinet ministers here, he was a former police officer.
And he said that what you see is the people who are receiving these free supplies, they sell them at a premium to like college kids or whatever, because they're safe and they can sort of sell them for a premium.
And then they're buying dirty drugs anyways.
And the sort of net outcome is more drugs on the streets.
But people have bought into this.
They're going along with it.
I know I've talked to a few people.
I was in Kelowna last week.
Even in like a relatively small sort of resort vacation type atmosphere, there's just people on the streets.
People don't feel safe going out.
Some of the stories I've heard are just absolute horror stories.
And people are like, well, I can't go there anymore.
This is the mentality and the policies that have led to this.
So it's incredible to see that people aren't questioning this.
Things are categorically getting worse.
And the thing, and I've touched on this before, I'll touch on it again.
No one, if this was a member of their own family, would be like, well, I'm going to go get them the best drugs I can.
They'd be like, no, I'm going to help them get better.
And we've reduced, whether it be the homeless community, whether it be people struggling with mental health, whether it be people struggling with addictions across all these boards, we've reduced these people to sort of death statistics instead of human beings.
That's what we've ultimately come to.
And on the front of whether this is working or not, well, it's interesting since the sort of Alberta model has been implemented and some of these reduction strategies have come into effect, I think over the course of a year, and it's been advocated more recently, but they were starting to do work on this.
But over the course of a year, I believe only two months have been up and 10 months have been down.
Those were the most recent statistics I saw.
So overall, 10 out of 12 months seeing improvement in these extremely troubling fields that we've only seen skyrocketing increases in deaths, overdoses, all that stuff.
I think that's a pretty good indicator that some things are going the right way.
But I think it's good to see a cabinet minister under Danielle Smith who has the sort of, I don't know, cajones or at least the freedom to boldly stand and reject this.
You know, the strength of his language, we very often see it from the left condemning people, but it's good to see a conservative flipping the script and saying, no, no, you're the ones who are killing people and we're the ones who care about them and are trying to save their lives.
Well, and maybe perhaps just before we go on to the next story, I heard either today or it was recent, there is a coffee shop in downtown Vancouver and they had to shut down because over the last couple of years, the homeless problem is just getting worse and worse.
He was talking about how, you know, he realized or found out that there were special people you had to call to clean up blood because people were overdosing in their public bathroom.
They'd replaced hundreds of windows because the glass kept on getting smashed over the years because of the local drug issue that keeps on getting bigger and bigger.
So on top of this affecting obviously the individuals with these addictions or their family members and their friends, it is also this culture of drug addiction, having drug addicts roam the streets as though it were no big deal.
Yeah, that's exactly the one.
This culture of allowing such violence and such a degradation, I believe that's the right word, of our neighborhoods for the sake of drugs is not something that's useful for anybody at the end of the day.
And it causes real harm.
It destroys communities and the people that are involved.
Well, and they use this language of like inclusivity, this rhetoric, but you're inclusive of what?
Like carnage, death, destruction, addictions, livelihoods, loss, suicide.
I don't want to be inclusive of that.
I want to create a Canada where people have opportunities and can ameliorate themselves.
But this is not what that is whatsoever.
So it's great to see a strong stance against this madness.
And hopefully it's effective because ultimately what we are talking about is people struggling and the penalty that they're suffering is often their very lives.
So it's so critical.
For me, when we first heard about this during the Alberta election, I went to the election and it was a powerful sort of there's people who've lost people, people who are working in addiction recovery, many of the First Nations chief.
I spoke there with a chief Roy Whitney who lost his own son as a consequence of sort of mental illness and addictions.
So it became one of the key sort of election issues for me.
And we've been doing a lot of stories on that, not just in Alberta, but across the province.
But it is good to see Alberta on so many of these issues taking a strong lead and saying, no, no, no, that's what Alberta is supposed to be doing.
We pay the bills, we show the nation how it's done, and we do our very best to set a bit of a moral standard that much of the rest of this country, maybe not all of it, but our part seem to have forgotten.
So, yeah.
Well, and I also said that was, you know, a last note, perhaps, before we go into the next story here.
But I also want to bring to light there is a situation that happened to me in Lethbridge, Alberta recently.
We were down there for some court proceedings, and this is a few months ago.
There was an individual who was homeless and he was looking around trying to ask people for smokes or whatever, cigarettes.
And he walked past me and we struck a conversation.
I'm not opposed to talking to whoever might come my way.
He was obviously homeless.
And he was telling me about how he got into that situation.
He used to be a bull rider here in Alberta.
You know, the rodeos, the guys who, you know, basically try and tame wild animals for show.
You know, that's the gist of it.
And there was an accident that he unfortunately suffered through.
Because of that accident, the doctor prescribed him some, you know, pretty serious drugs.
We don't normally think about that when a doctor's handing it to us.
But these were serious drugs in the same vein as stuff like heroin, just the light version.
Eventually, he got cut off from that supply that he needed for the physical pain he was enduring.
And he thought it necessary to go to alternative means or go through alternative means to get these drugs.
And there is that impact that we talk about on the streets where there are people destroying businesses, destroying their own lives because of these drugs.
But it's also how they get into these positions that is something that needs to be talked about.
How many people are on the streets because of a prescription a doctor gave them?
That's a question I'd like to know.
Police Divisions and Subsidiarity00:06:00
Yeah.
And you know, you hit something, you hit on something there that I want to talk about.
And if there is anyone out there who's like a sort of if you have an established medical practice, particularly if you're a naturopath, I know I'm waiting to hear back from one very well-respected naturopath, but for folks who do want sort of treatments or alternatives or naturopathic outlets, the Trudeau government, and this isn't a new story we have, I'm just kind of going off the cuff, but the Trudeau government seems to be going out of their way.
I've had lots of medical professionals reach out to heavily restrict, regulate, and limit access to these things.
I remember a time when the left were the ones advocating for sort of preventative treatment, whether we want to call it Eastern medicine, whatever it is, or sort of other outlets rather than hard medical pharmaceutical treatments.
But it seems that the left, whether it be the Democrats or the Liberals, have been co-opted by Big Pharma in a very big way.
And that's part of the reason, too.
They're pushing us towards these safe, medically provided things.
Where are these supplies coming from?
Who are the companies?
Who's benefiting from the sort of mass distribution of drugs?
Which, don't get me wrong, these drugs aren't free.
They're being purchased from companies that are profiting.
So there's always that question of where to follow the money.
Yeah, great conversation, said I appreciate that.
Let's jump to our next array.
We've got 20 to get through.
We spent a quarter of our time on this one, but I think it is a big and important story.
So this next one, big one, big and important too.
Alberta pauses plan to replace RCMP with provincial police force.
The Alberta police force option has been studied and touted by the Alberta government for years.
Still, it has faced opposition, including from municipalities, over cost implementation and staffing concerns.
The Alberta government has rolled back its pursuit of a provincial police force, contrary to mandate letters sent to Premier Daniel Smith's first cabinet in November.
On Tuesday, Justice Minister Mickey Amory told reporters his department continues to consult Albertans on policing, despite not receiving explicit directions from Smith in her recent mandate letter, alongside Public Safety Minister Mike Ellis.
Then Justice Minister Tyler Shander consulted residents on the need for a provincial police force preceding May's general election.
Folks can check out the article and read it for themselves.
You know, I don't know if you have a chance to talk to a lot of people out in the field about this, but even among sort of conservative circles, and despite a lot of what the RCMP has done, and we don't need to get into some of the questionable antics of the RCMP, but I find people are very divided on this.
Some might be in favor of the idea of sort of subsidiarity and reducing the federal influence and having more authority.
But then when they look at the costs and the sort of logistics that go into it, they're sort of like on the fence about it.
What have you heard or where do you sit on this issue?
Well, you know, it is tough to say.
I can understand there's, you know, the argument to be had on both sides.
And, you know, I think about it in the sense that, well, right now, Alberta is hiring the RCMP.
It's a contracted service that they provide, federal police to basically handle our any affairs that happen outside of Edmonton and Calgary, basically.
They have the infrastructure in place.
They have the officers at hand.
It makes sense financially, I would think, to just contract them to do the service.
However, you look at the end result of that service, and I can't help but think about the Couttes blockade.
You know, there's obviously a lot of legal matters that have evolved out of that.
People that have remain detained to this day, lots of charges that came through.
And that was a very large moment where people questioned, okay, why do we have the RCMP doing this?
Like even the, I still remember there's a fish and wildlife truck that they had at the blockade.
Yeah, you know, remember this barrier.
They were scrambling for resources, and that was probably one of the more high-profile incidents they've had to deal with.
Did they do a good job?
You know, that's a good question.
And I think from that, there was a lot of people that did, especially it was revitalized or revived this concept that we should have our own Alberta police force.
And at the end of the day, I do think that's the road that we should take.
How feasible is that?
Well, it seems like the current leadership here says it's probably not likely.
So yeah, well, we'll see how this story presents itself in the years ahead.
And I mean, you look at the gun grab, you look at some of the heritage front stuff, you look at the history there.
There's certainly problematic things.
Now, those things might pop up, but one thing that you got there perfectly right was Couts.
And I'm sure you probably noticed this as well.
But I know I talked to just about every cop who was there, and that was a lot of them over in Milk River.
They had to bring folks in because one, they didn't want the local police who'd be dealing with locals doing that stuff.
So they brought people from afar.
But doesn't that say something?
Like, if the police don't want to do it to the extent that they have to bring in police from out of province, that means the police know that there's something wrong.
So if we had an internal police force with more sort of Albertan sentiments, they might have said, well, we're not doing this.
And guess what?
They would have been right too.
For those who haven't seen the news, and we wrote it up, we discussed it on stream yesterday.
But Dina Hinshaw's COVID lockdown measures have been struck down effectively as unlawful and validated.
So so much of what we saw was an extension of laws that should never have existed in the first place.
So some good news there.
I also have later today a report coming out with both John Carpe and Eva Chipiak weighing in on that.
So a massive win.
Yeah, you know, I don't mind, though, part of conservatism is sort of not jumping to something.
If the numbers don't make sense, not leaping forward.
That's what the other side does.
So I don't mind the government, a conservative government, hitting pause on this in order to sort of say, listen, is this cost effective?
Is this viable?
Is this something that we can pull off?
We'll jump now to a Toronto Star article.
You can actually go to the Alberta government website if you want and read about this yourself.
But I want to read, let's read from the Toronto Star's perspective just for fun.
Pausing for Grid Stability00:10:31
Alberta announces six-month plan on pause on renewable energy, citing rural concerns.
Now, this, I'm not sure if you've seen social media, but I think Denial Smith was trending and people are going ballistic over another pausing.
This is just a pausing.
It's a very conservative thing to do.
Let's stop.
Let's look at this because there are a lot of concerns with the massive booming renewable energy industry.
Now, the concerns are pretty dynamic, but we'll read a bit from the article here and then we'll discuss.
Alberta's United Conservative government is pausing all approval in the province's booming renewable energy industry in response to what it says are rural and environmental concerns.
In a statement Thursday, the government said that the Alberta Utilities Commission is to institute a six-month moratorium on approving wind and solar projects greater than one megawatt.
The commission will initiate an inquiry into the development on agricultural land, effect on scenery, reclamation of security, and the role of municipalities.
And I think this last one is really the ultimate one.
It's what I'm most concerned with.
System reliability.
So one of the issues with the massive sort of investment for folks out there who don't know is you can generate all the power in the world, but if you don't have a capacity to turn it on or off when you need it, it doesn't do you very much good.
So you have more.
to an extent that energy is way I think I heard what you're saying You were cutting out a little bit there.
But, you know, one thing I can add to that is the fact that, yeah, there's one thing which is the matter of creating energy.
The other thing is the matter of storing energy.
Now, you think about how we store diesel, how we store gasoline.
Obviously, everything has an expiry date some way down the line.
But a battery, you have to keep a battery charged.
And you also think about the influx in energy in the system.
So during the day, during the night, there's a difference in wind energy, how much can be, you know, the wind dies down during the night a bit.
But you have to provide a constant flow of energy to a system.
And let's say you think about an energy production site like a diesel generator that is, you know, a bit more largely scaled for communities instead of just your truck or a couple of plug-ins.
These things have to be running consistently.
And what they'll do is they'll run on idle or lower energy output while the implementation of solar is being propagated during the day.
And then they have to cycle up during the night to help offset the energy needs of night.
Something along those lines.
I might be a little mixed up in the weeds here.
But we do want to diversify what kind of energy we have.
And a good thing, though, to talk about is how we are pausing things for this little period.
It is good to take these pauses.
And over the last two years, especially with COVID and everything like that, a lot of us, I think, have unconsciously become not aware of, but we've gotten used to the routine that politicians put on us where, oh, you're back here?
I hope so.
Can you hear me okay?
Perfect.
Yeah, we're perfect.
Yeah, I was just saying, we've kind of gotten into this habit of, you know, every week or every two weeks, there's a COVID update.
There's an update from the government.
And people want to hear the next thing immediately.
This sense, we were demanding speed from our politicians.
When in reality, this idea to put pause for six months, in a sense, it makes a lot of sense.
You do want to pause and assess your situation.
If you're always go, go, go, then you're going to miss a lot of stuff along the way.
And particularly in the case of windmills, well, I've heard from a lot of southern Albertans who have expressed deep concerns about the windmills and about where they're putting them, because this does affect their crops.
This does affect their area in ways that people generally don't think about.
And of course, there are other environmental concerns with windmills.
Like you think about the birds.
I mean, how many birds have died because of windmills?
I laugh.
It's a sad situation, obviously.
But it's like we put them in the path of the wind, which is also very useful for the birds as a migratory path.
And then we don't expect them to all, well, we don't expect them to die in the numbers that they are.
It's kind of ridiculous.
Well, and hopefully everyone can hear me.
Sorry about that.
Not sure what exactly happened.
The audio seems to have just cut out on me.
It didn't move or anything.
But, you know, the other thing that I find incredibly interesting is the amount of energy that progressives put into, say, stopping mining in areas it'll be an eyesore.
And then they want to like clear-cut forests to put in solar panels and massive wind turbines.
I'm sure the big wind turbines to them look like some sort of European socialist utopia.
So maybe they like that.
But for most people out there, putting aside, I mean, there's questions about migraines and other concerns being investigated.
Compared to a pristine Rocky Mountain landscape, giant windmills, not exactly the prettiest thing you've ever seen.
So, yeah, it's interesting.
Daniel Smith really cannot win with these people.
She's advocating for technology.
She's not putting an end to this.
The sort of openness has led to a massive boom of these energies here.
But then she says, okay, we're going to pause for a bit because there's some concerns here.
This isn't a stop.
This is a pause to look at it.
Again, like you said, a conservative move.
But, you know, the thing I wanted to touch on here as well is this article.
It's funny how it talks about like up to 19% of the power being provided.
They're exclusively talking about peak periods when it's the best case scenario only.
They're not talking about the other times.
And that transitions us into our next article here, which is Alberta Wind Farms Nearly Ground to a Halt.
This is actually from a little while ago.
This is from April 5th.
But I think this, understanding this context, Daniel Smith would love to just have a bunch of massive, high-budgeted projects coming into the province, creating jobs, creating industry.
But if those projects don't work long term, they're going to become an economic burden instead of an economic boom.
So according to Alberta's energy grid data, wind and solar power production fell sharply Monday, and this was back in April, to 29 megawatts, less than 1% of the province's total energy capacity.
Pipeline Online reported Alberta's energy output from wind plummeted to 0.8% capacity with 29 megawatts generated just after midnight.
A great in-depth article there from Alex Dollywall.
But I more so wanted to sort of touch on the fact that while some of these technologies are great, until every one of us has one of those Tesla cells in our house that can store juice for a couple days and we can take the power off the grid and take it when it comes in, store it and use it when we need it, until that technology is viable, we can't go down this route.
We're not ready to yet.
This is one of those cases of the government trying to leap technology forward when it's not ready to.
We've seen it happen in other countries, the Leap Forward Manifesto in China, for example.
Quite a few million people died as a consequence of that.
Not saying that's going to happen here, but again, I think this whole pausing because the technology is not there and taking time to consider those other, all those other considerations matter, but the grid stability thing is the biggest concern for me.
And I think it makes sense.
Daniel Smith knew there was going to be backlash over this, but she also knew it was the right thing to do.
And I'm very happy to see a government that has the capacity to do that, whether it's on addictions, whether it's on crime, or whether it's on the massive, sort of booming eco-green industries that maybe aren't quite as ready as they think they are.
Any thoughts on that?
Well, it's a big can of worms.
And I remember at the global energy show here in downtown Calgary that happened a couple of weeks ago.
Daniel Smith had a speech.
Scott Mo was there.
A few politicians were there.
And the talk of the town was basically playing both sides of the fence, right?
You want to still produce your oil and gas, but you also want to have your hand in all these different pots.
And I'm talking about oil and gas, wind, solar.
You want to have your hand in all of these so that you can, in a sense, you have a stake in the game, but also so that you understand what's going on.
And if like the big thing that's coming up with hydrocarbons and hydrogen energy and stuff like that, well, where are you going to get your hydrogen?
Well, you're going to get it from oil and gas.
You're just refining it twice, basically, is my understanding.
Or maybe you'll change the way that you process those materials.
But the oil and gas industry is never going to go away.
And the faster people realize that, the better.
I mean, you think about your pharmaceuticals, right?
You're so needed, so desperately loved drugs that the doctor will give you.
Well, how much of that is reliant upon the oil and gas industry a lot?
You know, you want to talk about plastic straws.
And, you know, we're doing all of this for the sake of the energy transition for the saving of the planet, right?
So, what do we do?
Instead of getting oil from the hole in the ground that also gives us plastic straws, we decided to burn down the forest or not burn down.
We decided to chop down the forest.
We could put up a bunch of solar panels.
And then, what do we do with the trees?
We turn them into wooden forks and knives and spoons to replace the plastic ones that came from the hole in the ground.
We destroyed an entire forest for that, you know, for the environment.
It's gotten so delusional at this point.
It's almost hard to, it is hard to address because it is so blown out of proportion.
It's turned into a fantasy land.
And you look at Stephen Gilbo, right?
The environmental activist who back in the day tried to climb the CN Tower to make a stance for Greenpeace.
And then now environmental protesters are protesting him.
I mean, it's this weird cycle they go through.
And you look at the news about Christia Freeland recently and her driving around.
She says she doesn't own a car or whatever like that.
Yeah, she doesn't own a car, but she owns a valet service, right?
And the same thing with all of our elites, Bill Gates, our actors, you know, Leonardo DiCaprio.
He'll go there and stand up at the United Nations and say the planet's going to blow up unless we change the environment.
And then he'll fly back home on his private jet.
Bill Gates, every single day, not every single day, I probably can't say that, but he incessantly uses that private jet, whether he's going to private islands or fancy business trips around the world.
It's absolutely ridiculous, the double standard that's in play.
McDonald's Health Push?00:10:59
Oh, absolutely.
If any of these folks actually believe this stuff, they wouldn't be acting the way they are.
Even the amount of people who have oceanfront properties and are saying, oh, these are going to flood.
I'm like, I'm pretty sure if you believe that, you'd be selling off your $50 million mansions that are right on the coast.
The hypocrisy is glaring.
The other thing, and I mean, this goes back to it, but let's look again at where the money flows.
We switched not that long ago.
We've talked about this on stream a few times.
We switched from paper to plastic because plastic was a byproduct we could sort of naturally acquire from other processes.
It was like using the leather from a cow you're going to eat anyways.
Now we've switched back and we're clear-cutting forests to make these products.
And then the resources that are available, we're not using anymore.
I really do wonder, though, how many people who are making these decisions sort of maybe like we saw Ford had a connection to a company making decals and warning labels that they hired to sort of put all over whether it be public transit or in restaurants or whatever.
So you wonder how much of a connection there might be between some of the people making decisions and then some of these industries.
But we are way overdue for a commercial break.
Let's jump to that commercial break and then we'll come back.
We'll talk a little bit.
We'll get into some federal politics, talk about Polyvra and Trudeau.
How in the world could such a small group of people with limited resources change world history?
But in fact, that's happening.
And it's the power of the truth.
The truth is like kryptonite healthcare isn't in some sense working very well.
Foster Coulson is thinking about this.
He's got a new company, an online healthcare platform called the Wellness Company, a telehealth company called the Wellness Company.
The wellness company.
The most popular product is the detoxification supplement that features natokinase.
Natokinase is the only enzyme that we're aware of right now that dissolves the spike protein.
Spike protein is loaded in the body with the COVID-19 infection and definitely with the vaccines.
We've been completely accurate on the spread of the virus, early treatment, on the deficiencies in hospital care, and now the deaths that are occurring after vaccination.
This is a human outrage and it's occurring at the end of a hypodermic needle.
Isn't it interesting?
Natural substances combating this man-made disaster now.
Quickly, before we keep rolling with our stories here, I just want to mention for folks out there: one really cool thing with the wellness company is it's actually a group, many of which are comprised of doctors who spoke out throughout COVID-19 and sort of questioned lockdown mechanisms.
And if you think about it, these are folks who went to medical school, likely spent years building a practice.
And then when they saw something was wrong, they put it all on the line, and many of them lost their jobs as a consequence.
Now they're coming together to try and help people and restore that sort of pre-restrictions feel, if you catch my meaning.
So if you're in need of sort of any of these types of services that they offer, they mentioned there that spike support formula.
Do consider supporting a company like theirs because they've been standing up against this stuff, stuff that no doubt many of you are concerned about from the very beginning.
And like so many people out there, they've also paid a price, but they're trying to turn it into something positive.
So kudos to the wellness company for the stuff they're doing as well as for supporting the work we do.
So I really appreciate that.
You can actually use the code as well, Rebel, for 10% off your checkout, including on that spike support formula.
So check that out when you have a chance.
On that note, as we mentioned, we're going to transition into some federal discussions, rather.
And we've got a video, I believe, from Pierre Polyevre here on Trudeau and his love of red tape.
So let's jump to that video clip now.
We can discuss.
By the way, we will also stand up against Trudeau's attempts to shut down natural health products.
He's trying to shut those down.
This is about nothing more than giving more power, more control to multinational pharmaceutical companies rather than letting Canadians have the freedom and choice to try different kinds of treatments.
We need more freedom and choice, not less, in the health decisions that we make.
Yeah, that's what we touched on earlier there.
It's wild to see them going after this.
And the only thing you can think of, I mean, this isn't like, oh, let's implement a couple extra restrictive measures.
This is overboard.
I've talked to many naturopaths, extremely concerned about what this federal government is doing in the attacks on their industries.
It's wild.
And if you look at socialized health care in general, countries like Canada provide the least innovation in healthcare.
Lots of the treatments that we're implementing are archaic.
Like the best analogy I can think of is like a NASA space shuttle.
We're effectively using technology from the 70s while other countries are advancing, realizing that there's opportunities and actually developing.
So much of, and we talked about this earlier, the rhetoric of the left about preventative health care and sort of preparing yourself before you're getting sick.
Well, now they're saying, no, no, no, scrap all that.
We're going to make it impossible to access basic vitamins that have been proven to help people.
And we're going to shift towards this sort of ultra-regulatory industry where we give everyone farm and we don't allow all these other alternatives that have been tried and tested throughout time.
Can you think of any other motivation, Sid, for this attempt to basically strip down natural, healthy alternatives?
I mean, let's, how conspiratorial can we get today?
It's difficult, right?
I mean, I think about the food supply.
I think about the pharmaceutical industry.
And obviously, they're very tied together.
These are the nutrients that allow us to live.
You know, you should really be thanking our farmers for all the food we have at hand.
But the problem does come with the narrowing of what we are allowed to consume, the narrowing of the health strategies we're allowed to implement for ourselves.
You think about look at the last two years with the pandemic.
I mean, if I didn't take their shot, then I wasn't allowed to sit down at a restaurant.
If I didn't take their shot, then I might not have been allowed to go to a grocery store in Quebec.
And this is the road we were going down: if you do not comply, then you do not get to live.
Basically, I mean, they want to say, obviously, oh no, we didn't force anybody to do this or that or whatever.
I don't know how many people killed themselves over the last two years because their own family members were turning against them, saying you can't come to our family events because you're not vaccinated.
Their bosses telling them you can't go to work because you're not vaccinated.
And this ties into what Pierre's saying here.
Yeah, sure, we want natural health products to be available.
We want people to pursue those remedies and to bring them to light because more options is better if you're looking to protect your health.
The government doesn't know what's healthy for you.
They know what they want from you.
And that's something that I think a lot of people need to have a little more perspective on.
You know, I think about Sheila Annette Lewis, the woman who recently, Alberta Health Services, they denied her a life-saving organ transplant because of her vaccination status.
This is the narrowing of your health products, the nutrients you are allowed to consume.
And personally, I'm of the belief that I should eat as much of what God created as possible.
When it comes to the fruits, I want to try all of them.
The vegetables, I want to try all of them.
The meats, I want to try all of them, you know, to a reasonable extent.
But that's not something they want.
They want you to have macaroni and cheese that came out of a factory for the rest of your life.
This is not healthy for anybody.
Yeah, exactly.
Eat the bugs.
Eat the bugs.
We'll grind them into a paste and inject it through your, you know, your into you.
It's absolutely horrendous.
And I think, you know, you want to talk about the end game in this.
Why are they doing this?
Well, why are they boiling milk before we get to drink it?
I'd like to know.
I'd like to be able to have a raw, natural glass of milk and be more in tune with what our bodies were designed for, which is the natural environment we live in, not the factory-made stuff that comes out of a machine that we're told we have to eat on a daily basis.
I mean, for those people that are giving their children these, you know, pre-made boxes of this weird cut of meat, a weird cut of cheese, and a weird cracker, that's your lunchable.
I don't want to accuse lunchable specifically as a brand, but you talk about these manufactured meals.
What health, what has that done for our health?
What is McDonald's, Tim Hortons, what have these massive industries done for our health?
They've destroyed it.
And here we are, we're trying to prevent the regulation more in the food industry, in the medical industry, in the health products that we're allowed to consume.
How many doctors were terminated or shunned from the industry because they were proposing other medicines that proved to be effective during the pandemic?
And they're still not allowed back into the club, as it were.
Well, and I think on that note, for example, though, and I think we'll redirect the malice towards the government because you don't have to have McDonald's.
You can.
I happen to like it as the odd alternative.
I get a McDouble with an extra patty.
That's my jam.
But it's an option.
The government isn't, McDonald's isn't saying I can only eat McDonald's.
My problem is when the government is trying to restrict.
And look, you look at like the USDA food guide, the onset of obesity within our culture stems from the onset of the USDA food pyramid, which in no way mirrors what people have eaten through all of human history.
It's a complete anomaly.
And it was effectively grain farmers who were contributing to this agricultural directive to eat way more grain.
And people take that as gospel.
They actually think that that breakdown of nutrition is what's healthy.
And these are the same people who are saying maybe you should take some of these injections or else you can't go to work.
And they're now the same people who are targeting some of these health industries.
And you know what's wild is if you ever had any apprehensions about some of the sort of naturopathic health alternatives, the government trying to take them away from you, particularly Justin Trudeau's government, is probably the strongest endorsement and proof that there's something effective about them that we've ever seen.
So yeah, sincerely concerning.
And there's no reason for it.
This isn't, oh, we're going to add a little bit of regulatory FDA level control to ensure that these aren't coming out of sketchy Chinese factories.
Everything I'm hearing is that they're trying to fundamentally undermine this.
So big pharma is the only way that you can seek treatment.
Union Members Speak Out00:08:56
In other Polyevra-related news, we do have a video, I believe, of Pierre Poly, or is it just a tweet?
Yeah, no, I think it's just a tweet potentially here.
Pierre Polyeva's conservatives are now popular with union members, immigrants, women, and young people.
And this was achieved without flip-flopping to become liberal light.
Now, some people might argue about that, but there's no doubt that Justin Trudeau is losing even his base.
And it is based on things like health issues.
Like, don't get me wrong, there are hippies who we now see at freedom protests because of medical coercion and because of attacks on sort of natural alternatives.
And now, for people who are hard working class people who have gone along with their unions for years and voted socialist or liberal or NDP or whatever it may be, those people, the little raises that they're getting for going along with their unions, they're not offsetting the fact that house costs have doubled.
They can't afford their groceries.
They're saying enough is enough and they're flipping the script.
Ezra commented on this as well, I believe.
I think we've got a tweet from Ezra here.
Union members are more likely to vote conservative than non-union members.
That's shocking.
Union members are more conservative.
They're nearly twice as likely to vote conservative than NDP.
The NDP has become the party of woke leftists, a luxury brand dedicated to virtue signaling about global warming and transgenderism.
Dead on.
Like, there's always been sort of a disconnect in my mind.
I don't know if you've noticed, too.
I mean, you have a background.
You and I have both worked hard labor jobs, but there's sort of a mentality that sort of union folks are hardworking, salted earth, decent people, but then they were voting for, they seemed conservative, but then they're often voting for sort of leftist parties.
Well, there's been a sort of a balancing of the force, and they're coming back home to their roots and their values.
They're rejecting what the unions have been telling them, the false promises that those politicians feed to unions, and unions then push on their workers.
They're saying, no, I can't afford to pay my bills.
And so I'm going to stop voting for this madness.
Yeah, no, to say the least.
I mean, obviously there's depends on the union we're talking about, right?
There's a lot of good unions, there's a lot of bad unions.
And I always err on the side of caution, you know, when I would address them.
But especially, you know, considering, and I don't want to beat a dead horse here too much, but over the last two years, I mean, did they stick up for their people?
You know, were they defending people's rights as their employers were forcing certain permanent medical procedures?
I mean, I say permanent, but perhaps the medicines like the one in the advertisement we just brought up would hopefully change that for those who are looking to find an out, I guess you could say.
But it is interesting, this turning on Trudeau and the liberals by extent.
And it's about time.
I mean, how many years has it been?
And, you know, I don't necessarily need to hop on this too much, but, you know, he did, Trudeau, Justin Trudeau can't keep his own house in order.
What makes you think he can keep a country in order?
That's the bottom line.
And it's going to go in Pierre's favor by the time that these chickens come home to roost in the election.
I don't see a way for Trudeau to maintain that support.
And we were talking about this previously.
The Hutterites and the hip-hop scene in Toronto were both mad at Trudeau.
Every side of the coin here, everybody's getting to the end of the rope with Justin Trudeau.
So it really is, in my opinion, just a matter of time before he's out.
And every day it looks more the case.
So.
Well, I've got very progressive friends who now, as a sort of, it's become like an idiom or a turn of phrase they use.
Anytime something goes wrong, they say thanks, Trudeau.
Like ironically, they're like, thanks, Trudeau.
Like, like an engine light can come on and they say thanks, Trudeau.
He's gotten to the point where he's like a universal stand-in for things going terribly awry.
But even you can be a local business.
As I was, I was filming an interview with Amahmoud Mura yesterday.
I'm the organizer of the Muslim anti-LGBTQ indoctrination protests here in Calgary.
And when I walked by, I had all my camera gear with me.
And then I walked past a shop that was in a pretty trendy, progressive-ish area.
And I go in and the lady there goes, I won't say names, but the lady there goes, oh, your news.
Then I say, I'm with Rebel.
She doesn't say anything.
I'm like, I'm in a progressive neighborhood, maybe not.
Then some other customers leave and she leans in.
She's like, you know, the last prime minister who couldn't keep his family together was his dad.
And it's just immediately, like, it doesn't matter where you go.
Nobody seems.
And I mean, I'm not making light of the guy's personal struggles, but it's just no matter where you go and no matter what the walk of life, people aren't behind him anymore.
Speaking of which, we're going to be one.
I just want to say he's quite literally an international embarrassment at this point.
You've got high politicians from around the world looking at this guy like he's a joke.
Why shouldn't we?
But you wanted to jump to the ad there, sorry.
Yeah, no, no, one more video here, and then we've got an ad here.
Just to sort of touch on Justin Trudeau and wrap him up, this was posted by Ryan Garritson on Twitter.
This is a lesser-known 2021 campaign speech from Trudeau.
It sums up just how vile and divisive this man was and still is.
This video highlights how unwell this man is.
No one has stroked anger or fear more than Trudeau.
Let's play that.
Over the last little while, you've probably seen the disturbing anger of anti-vaxxers and anti-maskers.
You might have seen them marching downtown against local businesses that are following public health rules, or yelling at a grocery store clerk or a server at your local diner, or even threatening people at one of our rallies.
Let's be clear.
It's your freedom I'm focused on.
The freedom of the responsible majority of us who are fully vaccinated.
The freedom of our children under 12 who can't yet get their shots.
Because that's what's at stake.
And I will always stand up for your right to be safe, to be in places that are free from COVID-19.
Your right to not be forced back into lockdown.
So we'll stand firm on our commitment that federal public servants should be vaccinated.
We'll make sure everyone on your plane or train is vaccinated.
We'll protect businesses that mandate vaccinations from unjustified lawsuits.
And we'll pay for the rollout of proof of vaccination programs for every province and territory.
Oh, can't hear you there, Adam.
Sir, can you hear me now?
Not sure what's going on.
Perfect.
The bizarre thing with Justin Trudeau is whenever he turns on that very serious voice of his, you know, he's going to say something absolutely moronic.
Like he never turns that on for really important.
Well, I mean, I don't know how often he's actually said anything really important, to be honest, but he always gets very serious when he's going to say something just truly awful and something fundamentally un-Canadian.
I don't, especially now looking back on that and just how wrong he is about everything he said there and how fundamentally, and I mean, the Ingram ruling here in Calgary and the Alberta courts, countless rulings, the legal precedent now is shifting to just highlight how absurdly wrong that man was on this.
It's wild.
Wild to see that.
Well, and I got to be honest, one thing that does actually upset me about the situation we find ourselves in is the fact that it does seem like there's going to be an election in the fall.
At least there is going to be an election that does come eventually.
Is Justin Trudeau going to be held accountable for what he did over the last few years?
Those who are in his cabinet, are they going to be held accountable for what he did over the last few years, for what they did over the last few years?
Or are they going to retire and everyone's going to forget about it?
That's the thing that I'm concerned about.
That's the worry I have: we're going to forget.
I mean, you already look around now.
You sit down at a restaurant.
You don't remember that you may not have been allowed to do that over the last few years.
You don't remember the punishment they put you through because realistically, most people don't carry with them all of that negativity on a daily basis.
It's just too much.
I mean, there was curfews in Quebec.
You think about the insanity that was done to us over the last few years.
Of course, people want to forget.
But if these people, these politicians, they go without consequence for their actions, which I mean, what was the news recently about the Canadian military?
That this was an unconstitutional enforcement of the vaccine mandate.
Correct me if I'm wrong there.
That's how far we got with this insanity because of them.
And they're going to hop off now.
They're going to leave.
They're going to exit politics while they're sitting on high ground.
You know, that's one thing I think is a true shame.
Why We Forget00:12:11
Yeah.
And I discussed this, the interview that should be out either today or tomorrow with John Carpy and Ava Kipiak, Chipiak, rather, excuse me.
We discussed whether there would be sort of, I mean, for the Ingram ruling particularly, most of the people who were ticketed, harassed, faced jail, faced legal fines, were sometimes bankrupted trying to pay for legal defenses, forced to crowdfund.
Thankfully, Fight the Fines helped over 3,000 people with legal defenses.
But I mean, there was countless more out there who were in life-altering struggles.
And the way that they've set this up, it seems that there may not be consequences for the people who violated these laws.
If you or I went out and violated people's fundamental Canadian charter rights, we'd be in jail.
No questions asked, but politicians seem to get a free pass.
But yeah, John Carpe does weigh in on that on our interview.
So check that out.
He can speak to it more authoritatively than I. We're going to jump to one last ad break here, and then we're going to try and rip through as many of our remaining stories as we can.
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I just want to encourage folks that we actually are very happy to announce that we have eight more screenings of this incredible documentary.
If you haven't seen it yet, come to one of these live events.
It is so much fun, obviously, made by our very own Kian Simoni and Sheila Gunread.
So in British Columbia, we have got, I'm just going to make sure I get these right on August 10th, we are in Whistler.
August 12th, we're in Powell River.
And then I believe there's one other date there, but at least those two dates.
And Tamara Leach is also going to be there as well, signing copies of her book.
So you get to check out the film in addition to getting your book signed.
They're incredible events.
I've done a couple of them in Calgary.
It's so much fun.
Maybe there aren't as many protests occurring around here.
You're going to see lots of those faces that you haven't seen in some time.
We also have without Tamara Leach signings a series of screenings here in Alberta.
We're in Lethbridge on August 23rd, Red Deer, August 24th, Edmonton, August 25th, Mirror, August 26th, West Lock, August 27th, and Grand Parry, August 28th.
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They're a blast.
It's great.
Usually there's at least one or two familiar faces from Reddit, maybe even some folks from Stream on location.
So do check out those events while you get a chance.
Incredible film really sort of captured so much of what happened.
Same way, looking back at that clip of Trudeau highlights just how sort of unhinged he was.
This documentary does an incredible job recapturing and sort of documenting for history what happened.
Jumping into this next story, a story that there's a lot to say about, but a rally took over Portage in Maine, and they're protesting effectively in Winnipeg for a landfill search for lots of the missing Indigenous women, men and women as well.
But particularly, there's lots of men, lots of women rather, who are missing.
And there are questions about the extent to which police are actually investigating this.
Now, I know I believe part of the original hesitancy towards searching landfills: one, there is an immense cost associated, and two, they're not exactly sure the extent of the evidence pointing that this is where these folks are.
So, but I mean, on the note of this protest, it's incredibly interesting to see how the media, and I'm very sympathetic to these people, make no mistake.
But when truckers were protesting and blocking roads, it was all vilification.
A different group with a different agenda, also noble, whether it's setting up for your medical freedoms or calling for legal accountability.
And the headline is, It brought me to tears.
Look how beautiful this is.
There is an absolute glaring double standard there.
But the thing that really struck me with this, and it's a bit off topic.
I do encourage authorities to investigate this.
And I do want to say this is self-evident, and I shouldn't have to, though.
But every life is equal, not necessarily in terms of outcomes or in terms of talents and capacities, but it doesn't matter if you're black, white, First Nations, wherever you come from.
If there is a missing person, we shouldn't allocate resources more or less depending on where they come from.
A Canadian is a Canadian, whether they're First Nations or not.
So authorities need to get to the bottom of this.
And look, there's violence at record numbers, there's murders, there's addictions, all this stuff in First Nations communities, but they need to get to the bottom of where these women are.
But what immediately jumped to my mind is they're talking about doing this massive undertaking to dig up this landfill and search for people.
I have another suggestion as to a place that they could dig in order to find some answers and heal some wounds.
And that's in Kamloops.
The amount of conversations.
Go ahead.
I was going to say, the amount of conversations that I've had with First Nations people who are heartbroken and they are literally like brought to tears just talking about it.
Some of them have been frankly fed lies that hundreds of millions of people were First Nations people were killed in a genocide.
That's what they've been led to believe by the rhetoric that's out there.
They are heartbroken and they're living within a reality that isn't within it within a sort of scope that isn't real.
They've been fed a load of rhetoric that's extremely troubling.
We need to actually get into the ground and find out what happened and unveil this truth.
Part of the truth and reconciliation is truth.
And while we can be looking for truth in this spot, certainly look through the landscape if it's viable, if evidence points there.
But there's another place in Canada where a lot of hurt and ache has been sort of mustered up for First Nations communities.
And I think they need to start looking for answers there first.
Well, there's a bit of a catch there, right?
You know, when you think about the burial grounds that were discussed, it's not exactly like you can go dig those up without causing some issues, let's say, with the community is my understanding.
I mean, you don't dig up those burial grounds.
That's a very taboo thing to do, which is, it puts everybody in a bit of an odd situation, right?
It's like, yeah, we're saying there's 100 bodies under the ground.
Are we allowed to dig it up?
Nope.
So, you know, although, you know, on top of that, though, I do think, and I'm actually, I guess, in a bit of an opposite position to yours, where this situation that's happening now with they want to go through this site and look for those bodies of the people that were potentially murdered or, you know, have disappeared.
I think that actually makes a lot more sense.
I mean, for the last few years, we've been seeing there is a very large issue with Native American women being disappeared.
And we don't understand the root cause for this.
We don't have a true grip on the situation.
And, you know, we can dig up the past, but realistically, they got problems today.
You know, and I kind of think about this issue too in the Black Lives Matter aspect, right?
They want reparations, this and that.
You go back a few hundred years, everyone was a slave, all right?
Like, I'm sorry, but today there are more slaves than there were back in the day.
And we all used to be in that situation.
People don't look at the issues that are currently being had.
And I think that would actually cause a lot more of a positive impact than trying to dig up the past.
Everyone has a past.
Everyone has thousands of years of past.
Yeah, but the thing is, is digging the digging, literally digging in Kamloops wouldn't be digging up the past.
Digging out the past is what the liberal government has been doing to try and stir up emotions and divide people and hurt people.
And they've fed into the rhetoric that has people believing that they were, don't get me wrong.
I have no problem with the use of the term cultural genocide.
The federal government literally planned with residential schools to delete sort of First Nations history.
It's in writing.
That's what they planned to do.
But they've perpetrated a lie and the federal government has been digging up lies.
And my sole intention here, I'm applying the same standard in both instances.
There isn't an and or or.
If it was discovered that a bunch of, let's say, I don't know, my background's Hungarian, a bunch of Hungarian immigrants were all subject to genocide in 1920, and there's a mass grave there, the government would immediately start digging and looking to investigate what actually happened.
And I would suggest that if there was a whole bunch of white women missing and there was a suggestion that they were in a landfill, the government would be looking.
The problem is this federal government and even provincial governments to some extent treat First Nations people differently and not as well in many cases as they treat the rest of the population.
So I'm not saying one or one or the other.
I'm saying that there are two situations here where, yeah, investigate that, but there's another situation here that is ready and present and is causing a whole lot of hurt.
And they're not willing to look at either.
Yep.
No, and that's absolutely fair take.
Yeah.
All right.
And another story, virtually unrelated, food influencer who ate all raw vegan diet dies of starvation.
Yeah, I'm not a doctor, but I mean, eat a steak.
That's my suggestion.
The pictures of this person, and it's whenever you see someone, there's people out there who, through great extreme efforts, can manage to sustain health on a vegetarian diet.
But the extent you have to go to, and it's not normal to what we've been throughout our human existence.
We've typically eaten quite a bit of meat.
When we don't, it's because, as the old proverb goes, it's usually because you're a bad shot.
But yeah, this is not surprising to me.
You can usually see, you can watch vegetarian convert fitness people.
Maybe for the first couple months, there's some perks, but generally their skin starts to fade and they start looking a bit tired.
This obviously taking it to an extreme, but yeah, not great to starve yourself to death, particularly when you're influencing people.
It is funny within society today, though, that you seem to have extremes.
It's either people starving themselves to death or being quite a bit overweight, and both of those things are celebrated.
Being healthy in the middle or that, that's boring.
Nobody wants that.
You have to be on an extreme these days, it seems, to get by.
Any thoughts on that?
I know we're running tight on time, so we're probably going to rip through a few here quickly.
Well, it's just a shame to see that this person has passed away.
But also, what do you expect?
I mean, a lot of people, maybe they just don't realize that if you want to go full vegan, that's a science experiment you are doing on yourself.
That's not just like, oh, yeah, I'm going to eat carrots for the rest of my life, you know, no problem.
No, there are repercussions to either eating or not eating a full diet.
And clearly, this is one of the problems that arose is this woman's passing because she was lacking certain essential nutrients that she couldn't, you know, fit into the science experiment that was her diet.
And this is not to say that was on purpose.
It may have been unknowing, but either way, she's dead because she decided that it was a good idea not to not have certain nutrients in her life.
And I remember a story that happened recently.
I don't know if this was last year, but there was a woman in the States who, I believe, one or a couple of her children, I think it was something like that, had passed away because they were starved to death by their mother, who was also going along these lines of, you know, vegan activism.
Yeah, you kids don't need meat to eat.
That's a societal impression that they've left on you.
I mean, the same thing happens with dogs.
You know, a dog, a cat, I mean, let's use the dog for the example, is they do need those kinds of proteins.
Yeah, we have dog food, but if you try and feed a dog lettuce for the rest of its life, it's not going to have a long life.
Yeah.
They don't have the stomachs for it to break it down.
Spending Spree and Housing Crisis00:04:23
We're going to hit on a couple articles here really quickly.
Jump in if you feel that you'd like to weigh in.
But three that are very often connected.
One you talked about a little bit earlier, though, but so if you want to weigh on this one by all means.
But Canada has no plans to decrease immigration amid housing crisis.
New minister says.
So clearly those big shakeups in parliament making absolutely no difference.
Immigration Minister Mark Miller is expected to announce Canada's annual immigration plan later this year, which provides details on the number and categories of newcomers in this country.
As per the current plan, the country aims to invite 465,000 permanent residents and then 485,000 in 2024 and then 500,000 in 2025.
Despite a crises, their agenda of just increasing immigration doesn't seem to be going anywhere.
Well, and you know what?
They're trying to, you know, well, they're not going to reduce the numbers anytime soon, it says, right?
But still, it's the same issue as the issue with Ukraine, right?
How many billions of dollars have we given them when we've got hordes of homeless drug addicts on the streets that need help, right?
And here we are, we're telling 500,000 people from around the world to come to Canada every year.
And more and more, those people in their own home countries are looking at Canada being like, oh, they're selling a lie.
They're telling me I can go here and get a nice education and live in this fancy place.
And then they get here and they're living in some single room basement and they're being provided horrible conditions for living.
And I think that's important here.
Sure, these guys, our current elected officials might want to increase or continue on the propagation of allowing migrants into the country.
But I think more and more, those people who would be migrants are looking at other options around the world because they see Canada is turning into a dumpster fire.
Well, I've literally heard stories of like people coming here from the Ukraine or from Ukraine, I should say, rather, and then going back.
Like going back to a country that is currently at war because it's better than the slum they're living in in Toronto.
Imagine if you landed in downtown Winnipeg and that was your life.
That's where you have to live now.
I'm sorry, but like downtown Winnipeg is a very stabby place, you know, and there's a lot of other places around the world.
You don't have a house.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And in the middle of the day.
We're qualified for our Winnipeg friends.
Yeah.
Yeah.
No, for sure.
Yeah.
And it feeds into some of these other stories here.
Like housing is unaffordable.
There's a lack of housing.
You're bringing people in.
Some of the folks who come in are very wealthy and can't afford this stuff, make no mistake.
But there's a housing crisis as well here, too.
And then you continue to just bring people in en masse where there's nowhere for them to live.
Not to mention, and this is our next article here.
And we're going to hop through a few really quickly.
But a Barry area woman watches her mortgage payments go from $2,850 to $6,200.
Now, I don't know what the exact terms are, and I don't know why your terms changed two years after moving.
Maybe it was on a variable rate.
But I mean, since Justin Trudeau has been in, I believe it's that mortgages have mortgage payments and rent have doubled just in the time that Justin Trudeau has been in.
That's wild.
Don't get me wrong.
Prices are going up, but inflation is caused almost entirely by the government printing money and by spending irresponsibly.
And we're seeing people suffer as a consequence, which transitions into our next story.
Not only are prices going up, but people aren't making money anymore.
They're approaching this.
You'll own nothing and you'll be happy mentality very quickly.
Canadian business insolvency is at their highest level since 2014.
So not only are houses skyrocketing, but businesses are struggling, shutting down, and not only as a result of COVID-19.
Obviously, lots of people lost everything throughout that, but it's getting worse than ever now.
People can't afford it and they're not making money.
It's being sort of the candle is being burnt at both ends.
Canadians are struggling.
And I think that's why we're seeing this massive shift in the polls.
What's wild, though, and this is our rapid transition into our next story, the government is spending so much money.
More money is going missing than past governments have spent.
Trudeau has accrued more debt than I believe all prime ministers in this country prior combined.
But our military in the perspectives of many, and this is a poll on how Canadians see the military.
More than half of Canadians, 56% see the Canadian armed forces as old and antiquated.
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And 75%, I believe it was, said that they believe that government spending should increase to basically provide these folks with what they need.
So the government keeps spending, but everything seems to be getting worse.
And they're not only not taking care of the veterans, they're not taking care of the current active soldiers and providing them the equipment they need.
Yeah, maybe government spending isn't the answer.
I think that's the same answer for everything is government spending isn't the answer.
Yeah, that is it in a nutshell.
Finally, I think we'll just touch on this one article here.
It is from yesterday, but I don't think we had a chance to discuss it.
I'm sure folks are aware, but Trump pleads not guilty to federal charges that he tried to overturn the 2020 election.
Donald Trump, once again, has pleaded not guilty on Thursday for trying to overturn the results of his 2020 election loss, answering for the first time the federal charges that accuse him of orchestrating a brazen and ultimately failed attempt to block the peaceful transfer of presidential power.
Trump appeared before a magistrate judge in Washington's federal courthouse two days after being indicted on four felony counts by Justice Department special counsel, Jack Smith.
The charges accuse him of trying to subvert the will of voters and undo his election loss in the days before January 6, 2021, when supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol in a violent and bloody clash with law enforcement.
You know, I'll pick your brain on this, but the thing that always jumps out at me is like the amount of crazy stuff and questionable content that probably every president in the history of the United States has done, that most people would probably be in pretty illegal heavy fire for.
Unless Trump gets the Hillary treatment and ultimately nothing comes of this, like with the emails and with this other stuff, does it not seem like there seems to be a, and I don't know if it's just the media paying more attention to it, but there seems to be a concerted effort to sort of get or at least discredit Trump.
Of course.
Absolutely.
I mean, if he's going to run for president again, anybody who runs in that position, they're going to do everything they can to try and discredit them.
And obviously, Trump, I mean, he's a very theatrical guy.
He knows how to engage with the audience.
And he's done that quite a bit, obviously, over the last few years.
And they want to shut that down.
I mean, look at Joe Biden, right?
I mean, what kind of president is he?
What kind of person is he at this point?
And I mean, no disrespect.
Like, I honestly, when I was looking at the back in the day, the debates that were taking place between Biden and Trump, I felt bad for Joe Biden.
I still feel bad for him because he's an old man who's dying and who's basically, he's lost.
He's gone.
And I actually feel extremely bad for him in this position.
I don't feel bad for him in regards to his actions through his entire life, but as an old man who's clearly, you know, less and less by the day, I think it is a very horrible thing to see him as president.
And you put him versus Donald Trump, let's say, as we're talking about him.
How could those two even have a conversation at this point?
I mean, what would Joe Biden say?
He would not be able to keep speed with Trump.
So if it's going to be those two, if Trump's going to be running again, then yeah, I'd do everything I could if I was in their shoes to shut him down too.
Yeah, I mean, it's, don't get me wrong, and everybody knows this.
Trump is brazen.
He knows this.
He sort of welcomes conflict.
Lots of people out there saying that he's sort of, and I don't necessarily agree with this, but thinking that Trump in his planning and strategy, this will ultimately come back to help him.
But yeah, you're dead on with that stuff.
I mean, Joe Biden is starting to look a little bit like weekend at Bernie's, to be entirely honest.
He's pretty much being paraded out there.
And I don't know what their strategy is.
I don't know what their plan is.
I know there's been talks that he's going to run again, Joe Biden, but I mean, I don't know what they're going to do.
If Trudeau is not willing to come out and have a debate, he's at least got the capacity to stand on his own two feet and put together something resembling sentences.
Joe Biden, he can barely get through a speech when there's a prompter there and a team sort of facilitating him.
So the next election, if it does get to the point where Trump can actually run and he wins the Republican nomination, if it's him versus Biden, that's going to be something else.
If you felt bad about the last debates, well, boy, oh boy, it's not going to be a pretty sight this time around.
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Sid, that's all our time for today.
We went a bit over, but we had a lot of stories to get through.
So any final thoughts for the folks before we wrap up?
Well, maybe just the one thing is amnesty.
I wanted to touch on that before.
You know, Daniel Smith talked about amnesty.
I know that maybe fell apart a little bit, but we talk about the repercussions in a lot of these businesses that have been obliterated by the COVID lockdowns and this stuff.
And we see now where these health restrictions came from, in a sense, now's the time for amnesty if it's going to happen.
We did have one chat come in from Salty Duke.
He gave us $5.
He said, Indigenous communities claiming mass graves know they will never have to provide evidence because of cultural sensitivities, which is entirely right.
We're being manipulated.
It's a grift.
And, you know, I think for most of the people out there, when you actually talk to not, and there's a lot of really good chiefs in this country who aren't on board with this, make no mistake.
There are some chiefs, though, who know by keeping this veil up and not looking at the facts, they can continue to sort of ask the government for things.
And this government that tells veterans and other groups That it's too much to ask.
Well, for First Nations communities on this front, they're willing to dish out and not ask too many questions.
Many people have suggested the reason they haven't, Doug, is because it gives them an opportunity and some leverage to negotiate.
So, definitely, I wouldn't categorize the vast majority of First Nations people as participating in that, but there are certainly some influencers who are high up within the ranks of First Nations communities who seem to be playing games rather than seeking honest truth and reconciliation for their communities.
So, thank you so much for that chat, Salty Duke.
It's been a great show, Sid.
Thanks so much for joining me.
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