The Darcy Gerow Podcast

It’s obvious that Justin Trudeau, his Liberals, the bureaucratic State, and even many of your friends and neighbors have a hard time with economics. Many of us, despite knowing that Trudeau and his cronies are wrong, lack confidence in our own understanding of economics. Economics can be an intimidating subject and it’s easy to get confused when you hear Tiff Macklem, Governor of the Bank of Canad...

Gene Balfour is a candidate for the Ontario Libertarian Party and he joins us today to talk about his new book “What to do about Climate Change? A Libertarian Proposal.” Is the current climate hysteria justified? Probably not. Is climate change an issue that requires government intervention? As Gene and I discuss, it is definitely not. The current laws and regulations in place to pursue a “green”...

You don’t have to look very far in Canada today to see signs of social and economic decline. In cities like Vancouver or Toronto the tent cities and homeless encampments have steadily increased over the past 15 years since the financial crash of 2008. So, it would follow that a person should look at the predominant and fastest growing cultural and political ideology over that same period. The term...

Todd Brown is the founder and executive director of F.I.R.E. (the Firearms Institute for Rational Education). He has written policy and consulted for many Canadian political parties including the PPC and Libertarian Party federally, in Alberta for the Wildrose Party, Freedom Conservative Party, Wildrose Independence Party and the United Conservative Party, and for the Buffalo Party of Saskatchewan...

On April 25, 2022, The Government of Canada established the Public Order Emergency Commission (POEC) to inquire into the circumstances that led to the declaration of emergency that was in place from February 14-23, and the measures taken for dealing with the emergency. If you followed the POEC at all , you would have seen our guest today, Eva Chipiuk, cross-examining Prime Minister Justin Trudeau....

Medically assisted suicide is one of those subjects that has many people reconsider previously held views and opinions, especially in a state funded, socialist healthcare system. Tim Moen is back to help us break down what is happening with Canada's MAiD program (Medical Assistance in Death). In 2016, when the original MAiD legislation was passed, 1,018 people chose to end their life using the pro...

By the end of 2021 many restaurants in Calgary had quietly closed their doors for good, some had caved to the Covid regimes covenant, and only too few decided that enough was enough. Without Papers Pizza was a favorite spot for Calgarians. Inglewood, the oldest part of the city was not yet completely gentrified when WOP opened. It was the perfect mix of inner city class and early western industrio...

Alex Joehl is the interim leader of the Libertarian Party of British Columbia. He joins us to get us caught up on B.C. politics, Langley municipal politics, and their new Premier. ICBC and no-fault insurance is among our topics. Who would have thought that a government monopoly would cause prices to increase and quality of services to fall? Yes, I will admit that short term cuts in prices are attr...

First, some housekeeping. I’ve taken a few long breaks from releasing podcast episodes. I want to thank everyone who reached out and I want to let you know that, yes, everything is fine. In fact, despite the state of the world, and Canada specifically, life is great. It’s no secret that I have a day job and not in academia or politics either. For the sake of being able to look at myself in the mir...

Andrew Lawton’s bestselling book, The Freedom Convoy: The Insides Story of Three Weeks that Shook the World , tells the whole story of the convoy, including his own on-the ground reporting and countless hours of interviews with organizers and volunteers. We talk about his book, its success, and its importance - not only from a historical point of view - but also about independent journalism making...

Not all Canadians suffered the effects of lockdowns equally. Bank of Canada employees had to suffer through pay raises and bonuses equaling $45 million in 2020 and 2021! Well deserved given that their mandate, as defined in the Bank of Canada Act “is to promote the economic and financial welfare of Canada.” And it’s not just the Bank of Canada where this is happening. Government bureaucrats receiv...

Jimmy Morrison’s 2018 documentary, The Housing Bubble , is an entertaining and easy-to-digest lesson on the history and economics of what caused the American housing crash and subsequent crisis. It has interviews from those who predicted the crash like Ron Paul, Peter Schiff, Jim Rogers, Marc Faber, David Stockman, and Doug Casey. It was co-wrote and produced by Tom Woods, who wrote the New York T...

From Jacques Boudreau: Hello, I hope you're doing well. I wonder if you could help me, although I recognize it's a bit awkward. Every three years, Elections Canada (EC) requires that every registered political party provides signatures from 250 of its members. By the deadline of June 30th, we had only received 170 in spite of repeated emails asking the members to fill out the required form. Since...

It seems that if politicians in Ottawa and the various Provinces are unclear on what the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms says, they should simply ask the people who wrote it. Instead, it seems as though they just don’t care what it says. Brian Peckford is the former Premier of Newfoundland an Labrador. He joins us to talk about his court case against the Federal Government in which he make...

Even though the travel restrictions imposed on Canadians are being lifted, Maxime Bernier says he, along with former Newfoundland Premier Briand Peckford and the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms, will continue their legal challenge against the feds. On Tuesday, the Trudeau government announced that the mandatory vaccination requirements for domestic air travel and outbound flights will e...

Things are moving quickly these days. It seems almost impossible to stay up to date on everything making news. Thankfully we have Cory Morgan around. He joins us today to get us up to dat on some of the crazy things taking up space on the news headlines. We touch on a number of subjects including: the Trudeau Liberal’s handgun ban, Bill C-5, Calgary City Councils climate activism policies, The CPC...

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It is a real honor to have Walter Block join me to talk about his 2006 book The Privatization of Roads and Highways. He has been called the most prolific living libertarian, having written over 600 peer reviewed articles and more than 30 books. He currently holds the Harold E. Wirth Eminent Scholar Endowed Chair in Economics at the School of Business at Loyola University New Orleans, and is a seni...

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