Greg Wycliffe is back on the show! We talk about his new role on the board of the Dominion Society, his new documentary on the hate network, and what it means to be a member of the society.
00:00:30.000Well, it's the first Thursday in September, September the 4th, 2025, so we've got another
00:00:36.980live episode. Really happy to have Greg Wycliffe back on the show, and we'll talk a bit about the
00:00:44.060Dominion Society that he's recently got involved in, and a bunch of other things. We'll see what
00:00:48.680comes up in the chat as well. So I'm sure we're going to have a lot to talk about, so let's get
00:00:52.840right into it good evening my name is nicholas wansbutter i'm a lawyer in stratford ontario
00:01:11.500and welcome to don't talk tv and greg welcome back it's been a while since we've had you on
00:01:17.820or since i've been on your show i know i've been trying to make this happen for a while so
00:01:21.540it has yes it has been a while thanks for having me so much has gone on it feels like so much has
00:01:27.460gone on just in the past couple weeks in terms of crime uh related to immigration and just outrageous
00:01:35.940outrageous stuff happening in canada and i guess you know as a practicing lawyer
00:01:42.020your head just must be spinning with all this stuff
00:01:44.020well it's actually not spinning just because i'm kind of i'm old enough now and i've seen
00:01:52.480enough of this stuff and i think i've seen this coming for so long that i'm kind of like yep
00:01:58.460that's about what i expected to start happening at a bob probably thought it was gonna be uh maybe
00:02:05.280it's a little bit the speed that things seem to be picking up is maybe a little what's a little
00:02:10.140bit surprising to me but i i mean you've been really busy yourself we'll get into what's going
00:02:15.020on with canada but that kind of what's going on in canada is also why you're doing a lot of things
00:02:20.120you're doing i know you're filming a documentary that uh you just wrapped up the filming on that
00:02:26.420and then you dove right into the dominion society so maybe let me give you a few minutes to talk a
00:02:33.400about those things and then we'll start we'll go from there yeah yeah so um it's been over a year
00:02:41.960now that i've been working on this documentary about free speech in canada the working class
00:02:46.600or sorry the working title is the hate network and uh it really takes a lot of uh what we saw
00:02:53.560during covid during the convoy um it talks about people who speak out against transgenderism
00:02:58.760in schools, or just as a nurse, and all sorts of different examples. And it kind of has a common
00:03:05.040thread of, well, our institutions have very specific politics, very specific ideology. And
00:03:12.980it will, almost like clockwork, target people who are either loud enough, effective enough
00:03:21.460at inspiring others to kind of oppose the ruling ideology. And we've seen this throughout history,
00:03:27.600We kind of bring in history into it. We also target an organization called the Canadian Anti-Hate Network, as they are responsible for propagating, in some cases, lies about people and a lot of half-truths and a lot of just demonizing Canadian citizens, basically to make people hate one another.
00:03:48.940uh very ironic that their name is anti-hate anyway but uh that's going to be uh you know
00:03:55.460i'm still working on a lot of that still working through hours of interview footage but yes it's
00:04:00.000also kind of uh congruent or kind of fits that i've joined the dominion society as we're seeing
00:04:08.320especially in the uk people who criticize immigration the wrong way people who talk
00:04:12.840about immigration the wrong way are also going to people putting up the wrong flag or the wrong
00:04:17.420sticker are getting targeted and persecuted um by the police for having specific politics so i
00:04:25.100thought it would be appropriate to hop on the board of dominion society because i think that
00:04:30.060will be uh or that already is a front of contention with this with these kind of insane western
00:04:36.220governments where they're persecuting their own citizens for criticizing public policy it's quite
00:04:41.180insane but um yeah there it is there's our home page yeah keep that up there so we can see what
00:04:47.580we're talking about here but uh yeah i mean i i don't think canada is yet where the united kingdom
00:04:55.020is i mean people aren't yet being thrown in jail for two to three years simply for protesting but
00:05:02.940you can see it happening other places you have to take the cautionary tale and not think oh
00:05:07.180this could never happen here especially when we our government seems to have a lot of the same
00:05:15.740you're talking about ideologies or institutional ideologies it seems to be the same beliefs that
00:05:21.900are required to be held for teachers nurses i mean lawyers i think there's to an extent
00:05:30.140there's that any of these professional organs organizations they've got us with the whole
00:05:37.500ethics thing because they've now turned this into a moral thing that it's unethical and immoral
00:05:43.820to hold a view other than the accepted one yeah and that's kind of been uh for a quite a long time
00:05:52.860i i think that the the kind of culmination of that was having justin trudeau as our our lord
00:05:58.860and savior and prime minister and he really mainstreamed and he kind of unfortunately was
00:06:05.180effective at creating you know far left progressivism into the canadian ethos i.e diversity
00:06:12.540is our strength and if you disagree with multiculturalism it's uh it's a sin and oh
00:06:20.700that's changing now thankfully which is giving me a lot of hope but back in 2019 my inception into
00:06:27.260politics was running for the ppc in 2019 if you have if you criticized immigration or
00:06:34.460multiculturalism back then this was like the climate election it was the climate change
00:06:38.540election when greta tunberg greta tunberg literally came to canada like a week before
00:06:44.060the election happened in canada almost to like help help the sort of liberal campaign
00:06:49.340uh because that was the whole craze anyway but criticizing immigration back then made you a
00:06:53.820heretic i was in a left like a very left-leaning riding i was in parkdale high park i had an 18
00:07:00.700year old volunteer uh intimidated by a man twice his side twice his size racist racist get out of
00:07:06.700here racist and i'm like sir do you mind he's 18 he's a volunteer like do you want to talk about
00:07:11.580anything but like rapidly this person could come down and have a conversation um yeah it was wild
00:07:17.900it was wild how uh like you said how it's like a it's seen as a moral thing and yeah that's
00:07:24.940unfort fortunately like that is baked deep into the cake like that has been what i say like
00:07:30.860generational uh lies like lies that have been told for basically generations or at least since uh
00:07:37.100the end of world war ii um how deeply this sort of like open society has been uh pushed upon us
00:07:44.460but uh even over the past few years you know the programming is breaking really quick
00:07:50.860because when you see some of this egregious stuff go on this kind of disgusting stuff
00:07:55.660that triggers that disgust in people it makes you start to think it breaks the programming
00:08:00.860it makes you start to think about the canada you grew up in and how it's different and how this
00:08:05.100person is not the same as this person and people who came from this country are not the same as
00:08:09.340the people who came from this country and actually there are kind of patterns there are kind of like
00:08:12.620behavioral patterns that are significant and you know if we if we want to have a country
00:08:19.260that we're going to feel comfortable in we need to start talking about this stuff
00:08:22.940right well i mean behavior is different because beliefs are different there seems to be this
00:08:31.180concept or thought that oh everyone holds the same values regardless of where they're from
00:08:36.380regardless of their background but no not everyone people don't all hold the same values i mean i
00:08:44.220think maybe people fall into that because there's this concept that canada's this post christian
00:08:51.340state and therefore christianity had nothing to do with why canadians are the way they are
00:08:56.700and therefore everyone's going to be like that but you take i mean this is just one layer of things
00:09:02.620but just taking the christianity aspect you take people from countries that never had any
00:09:07.420influence of christianity they're just going to have different different values because
00:09:13.420they're they're coming from a different system
00:09:19.660yeah yeah and uh i i think that it's you know
00:09:24.780i remember a young man uh named tyler l russell he's like a zoomer he was like really into like
00:09:34.480nicholas fuentes way back in 2019 and uh he told me and i back then i was kind of i was still more
00:09:40.780like a libertarian minded person but he told me something that always freaked me out which was
00:09:44.480they freaked me out at the time but it's totally true which is tribalism the rise of tribalism
00:09:49.640is inevitable and that's what we're seeing that's what we're seeing with this kind of
00:09:55.240multiculturalism experiment playing out in different uh western countries and uh yeah like
00:10:02.780the the if you import enough people who have these strong convictions to their foreign religion
00:10:09.380foreign people who are loyal and passionate about their foreign religion you know that's who they
00:10:15.200are that's just who they are that's what they do and uh they're going to uh you know if their
00:10:20.960convictions are stronger than the host populations then you know they're they're going to start to
00:10:27.840assert their dominance culturally because they have a stronger conviction you know like it's
00:10:33.040not it's not even like oh a good thing a bad thing it's just like the way it is like that's just the
00:10:36.960way um things are going to play out and that's why uh dominion society we're trying to build
00:10:43.680that conviction of like hey we are a christian european nation that's what we are historically
00:10:49.680uh we actually have a very detailed history that details are ethnogenesis that canadians
00:10:56.080are an ethnicity if you just look at the historical facts of the matter you know and
00:11:00.640this is this has triggered so many people nicholas it's insane just listing historical
00:11:05.760facts has triggered so many people people calling us woke right people saying that we want a white
00:11:11.440ethno state and it's like folks folks we have we're in a situation right now where we there's
00:11:18.720hundreds of thousands potentially millions of people who should be deported based on our existing
00:11:23.760laws and we clearly don't have the political will to actually enforce those laws and people want to
00:11:30.320people want to get all alarmed about like white supremacy and all this stuff and it's like what
00:11:35.040we have we have children getting raped we have we have people getting executed in their own living
00:11:41.680rooms from burglars and then these same people are literally worried about like you know too
00:11:47.760many white people thinking their identity is important as if that's a problem it's insane
00:11:52.480yeah which is always i i mean there's a whole bunch of few points there to try to break down
00:11:57.120i mean the whole what is a canadian thing and how it's like now you're some evil racist or wanting
00:12:03.600a white ethno state i mean i'm old enough that i grew up in the 80s i mean that in the 80s
00:12:11.520people generally had a concept that there is such a thing as being a canadian we had those heritage
00:12:16.800minutes i mean those are fantastic any people who are younger than me probably never saw them
00:12:21.440but you'd have these little one minute things during commercial breaks where they'd give you
00:12:26.400some little story from canadian history and uh and it was along the type of stuff i pulled up
00:12:32.880the what is a canadian page on the dominion society because it was the type of stuff that
00:12:38.560you talk about here about being canadians being descendants of the pioneers who built the cut this
00:12:44.800country and that's what those heritage minutes were all about is a lot about pioneers and their
00:12:49.760different stories people that fought in world war one people that fought in world war ii and i mean
00:12:55.840that was presented this is our heritage that's what we call the heritage moments i mean this is
00:12:59.680these are Canadians, this is Canada, this is what we're about. And you could clearly get the values
00:13:05.840that there were Canadian values as well. Yeah. And what I like about the approach of
00:13:12.700demeaning society is it really does come from a place of self-love and self-respect more than
00:13:19.380anything. And what I love about that as a core is that the natural conclusion of being self-respecting
00:13:26.100loving yourself and wanting the best for your people is at this point is remigration is to
00:13:33.860maybe tweak the laws a little bit tweak the incentives in our immigration system to reverse
00:13:38.900the flow of immigration if we respect ourselves if we love ourselves as a nation and for anybody else
00:13:45.060who respects and loves the canada from before and wants that back then it's kind of a no-brainer to
00:13:51.860support what we're doing at dominion society you know and i think that is an important distinction
00:13:56.420to make because sometimes the energy can be very anti-immigration it can be very kind of hateful
00:14:04.420and have like a resentment energy of just like i want i want these people out of here type thing
00:14:09.060which is totally relatable totally understandable where that comes from but um i think that making
00:14:15.300the swipe the slight tweak in energy change of coming from the place of loving our nation and
00:14:20.340respecting its history and starting there and making it very clear that you know this is not
00:14:25.860like an anti-immigration thing this is a pro-canadian thing this is a pro wanting the nation to survive
00:14:31.780a pro wanting to respect the history of this country and anybody who lives here respecting
00:14:37.380the history of this country which i think like what is so radical about that right well yeah
00:14:44.100it shouldn't be radical and i i often try to get people to do the thought experiment like
00:14:49.300take any non-european based country in the world and you'd ask like is is it okay for them or good
00:14:56.740for them to be proud of their heritage well of course it is and i take i agree of course like
00:15:02.260they should indians should be able to be proud of their heritage and their country and chinese
00:15:07.780should be able to be proud of theirs you know anyone and same thing with canadians and people
00:15:15.540try and say oh well canada's only been around since 1867 except as we know people of the canada
00:15:23.300yeah officially 1867 but really the canada we're talking about was around for a long time before
00:15:28.660that i mean pioneers and settlers uh building what became canada they were here for several
00:15:36.500hundred years before that um you know i want to touch on that point just to make it's such an
00:15:43.620interesting comparison because if there's this video that talks about here is the ghana culture
00:15:49.540from ghana these are the ghana people here's what they did here's what they do here's their history
00:15:55.780here's their lineage here's their ancestry you post that on cbc and there's going to be these
00:16:01.140liberals in tears of how beautiful it is how beautiful these people are and then we do the
00:16:06.100same thing at the meaning society about what a canadian is and they're like what what is this
00:16:10.260wait that's no nationalist what is this oh my gosh this is disgusting yeah and and it's and
00:16:17.220it speaks to like i said earlier the programming how deeply ingrained the programming is it's not
00:16:24.340just the past like eight years or ten years of trudeau it is it's kind of been generational
00:16:29.140it's been some decades of this um that's kind of slowly but surely been seeping into our education
00:16:34.980politics and and uh mainstream media yeah it's accelerated in recent years but this is
00:16:42.180this is nothing new and i mean i would say
00:16:47.220i don't know if you can ever pick a precise starting point but i mean you go back to
00:16:52.660the two world wars at the beginning of the 20th century where millions of young men died i mean
00:16:59.780I mean, World War I, in my view, was about doing away with the old order.
00:17:05.720That was the first break from the past is we need to crush the last of the old monarchies
00:17:11.680and make the world safe for democracy, as Woodrow Wilson said, to usher in this new era.
00:17:17.520And then World War II was kind of part two of that.
00:17:21.880And I mean, the propaganda from World War II is the gift that keeps on giving, right?
00:17:26.820Because now you can paint anyone who's proud of their heritage.
00:17:29.140Oh, well, they're like the Nazis because the Nazis, they were into their heritage and look what they did.
00:17:46.800We have to be ashamed of our own heritage.
00:17:51.920And so and then, you know, I think it's it's progressed.
00:17:55.180it started out slowly like if you went back in time to the 50s you would compare today you'd say
00:18:01.120hey this seems totally different but i think the seeds were already there and as one of our viewers
00:18:06.620said i uh i agree that the uh uh the getting rid of the red ensign was a uh says a red flag i mean
00:18:19.580that was a piece of this, you know, disconnecting us from our heritage and, you know, taking this
00:18:28.420flag that had history to it and has symbolism to it of who we are, right? I mean, it fits perfectly
00:18:35.820with what Dominion Society's definition of a Canadian, but we had to, you know, get rid of
00:18:42.440that and move forward in in a new direction yeah in terms of the um significant i'm still learning
00:18:50.320about the specifics of this from but from what i understand the significant uh policy changes
00:18:56.800we'll say and attitude shifts in canada happens between 1965 and 1975 that's when uh you know
00:19:03.720official multiculturalism policy started in 71 i believe and that's around the time that the
00:19:08.600immigration policy started to open up and of course the flag change the flag change i think
00:19:13.600was either 64 or 65 when they uh when they changed to the uh the leaf the red leaf um where the red
00:19:21.140ensign does um signify the founding stock uh the english the french the scottish the irish and of
00:19:29.460course the union jack and um but i but i did want to go back to what you were saying about how the
00:19:34.380the gift that keeps on giving the kind of uh the programming or then the messaging since world war
00:19:38.940ii and it's this is a very um there's so i think this is if people are kind of wondering oh my god
00:19:47.660what's happening the world's so insane like all these lies everywhere i think it actually is
00:19:52.140really important to understand um this sort of phenomena that has happened since world war ii
00:19:59.020because i do think it is very foundational to what we're dealing with now a great book on this
00:20:04.780is return of the strong gods uh about nationalism populism uh is it's rr reno but uh it's it can be
00:20:14.860a little bit of a dry read sometimes but it's it's pretty good in terms of summarizing uh
00:20:19.740the different popular left like leftist thinkers who really kind of steered the ship right after
00:20:27.900world war ii and um i won't go i won't get into the like the dryness here i'll try to freshen it
00:20:34.780up and make it more relatable but you know if i were if i were talking to a center leftist for
00:20:39.900example or even a far leftist or a communist and they said greg why are you far right like that's
00:20:44.940crazy why are you far right why are you just like you know why are you in this like radical category
00:20:49.420i would explain to them that there are generational lies that have been told to western society
00:20:57.900mostly since world war the end of world war ii probably a little bit before then but like
00:21:01.980they really got popular after world war ii and these lies are continuing to kind of
00:21:07.180live on and cause a lot of problems and i feel that the far right are the only people who are
00:21:11.900actually addressing these lies and in summary they would be that you know nations nations are
00:21:18.060a real thing nations are a real thing based on uh you know our shared ancestry of a people
00:21:24.620um race is a real thing that has significance to it as well um and there's probably a few others
00:21:33.860but like like those those two alone are something that has been definitely undermined since the end
00:21:38.860of end of world war ii and it's this sort of like liberalism that uh is still with us that even a
00:21:46.620lot of conservatives still embody you know they're still they're still kind of they've been programmed
00:21:52.800to be liberal their entire lives and uh they even they have a hard time accepting the fact that you
00:21:59.520know race is a real thing and nation is a really significant thing unfortunately we have a lot of
00:22:05.040conservatives who are kind of just stuck up on that well we got to fix our economy thing
00:22:09.520uh but now we have this conservatism only yeah yeah which is brutal which is brutal um but uh
00:22:17.920And I think the best piece of propaganda or the best thing that's helping us right now is, quite frankly, just some of the egregious behavior of people who are some people who are non-white in Canada or just even even in America, too.
00:22:33.640you know like doing these killing people on the highway doing a u-turn while you're driving a
00:22:39.080huge transport truck and not showing an inkling of remorse afterward that that shocks people not
00:22:45.240even so much the car accident but like the look on the space afterward um you know there's there's
00:22:50.760been so many clips over the past three years that have been going viral and this is really
00:22:55.880you know it's exposing that lie that you know there is a difference between nations there is
00:23:01.400a difference between different racial people you know um who are we kidding and it's it's gonna be
00:23:09.160it's a pretty exciting time because people have been programmed so effectively to not look at
00:23:14.200this not pay attention to this but uh that confrontation is obviously happening and uh
00:23:21.160yeah i think what's great about dominion society is it offers people a calm cool collected solution
00:23:28.440and a little bit of an explanation and justification as to why it's the best uh path forward being
00:23:34.360remigration of course yeah so we'll talk about remigration a minute but just you kind of touched
00:23:40.440on something that i want to go back to like what exactly is the dominion society like what is it
00:23:46.520meant to be is it a like a lobby group or like what what is your what are you envisioning it to
00:23:52.520to be? Yeah, Dominion Society is a vanguard movement. So it wants to inspire and influence
00:23:59.260not just political parties, but it wants to inspire Canadian culture, the culture of the
00:24:03.360Canadian people. And it wants to frame Canadian nationalism as being a top priority, along with
00:24:10.400promoting remigration. So we want to be influencing every conversation that we can, every person that
00:24:16.920we can to culminate in an uncompromising voting bloc a voting block we want to we eventually want
00:24:24.520to have a million dominion society members across canada and it's like hey political party hey
00:24:31.160political candidate um we're only going to vote for you unless you um we're only going to vote
00:24:37.480for you if you push these remigration policies so if you want a million votes for your party then
00:24:44.360And maybe you should include that in your policy.
00:24:48.200And maybe you should start talking about this.
00:24:50.600And some people, I think, are incorrect to assume that it's just like a right wing thing.
00:24:57.560I think there's actually a very growing appetite for remigration policies coming from the left.
00:25:06.260You know, like if you let's talk about the temporary foreign workers, you know, how does that if you're if you're like a voters.
00:25:13.240sorry workers rights guy from the NDP how does importing cheap foreign labor factor into your
00:25:20.020politics if you're constantly going to be importing cheap foreign labor labor to lower and lower and
00:25:25.780lower wages if you're a true like you know leftist who cares about the worker you would have a problem
00:25:31.640with that um and also we've seen from various liberal politicians them actually almost being
00:25:39.020more aggressive in terms of saying we actually do need to deport these people you know so i i i like
00:25:44.940that it's um it's it's focused on remigration and canadian nationalism but it's also sort of
00:25:53.060broad in terms of how we are going to be pressuring every single political party everybody in the
00:25:58.220political conversation of how this is uh this should be the priority for our nation yeah well
00:26:04.940Well, and it's interesting to say about how some liberals, as in Liberal Party of Canada, have been even more aggressive.
00:26:10.100I think it's because the Liberal Party of Canada, unlike the Conservatives, they're actually willing to change their policies a bit if they think it's going to earn them votes.
00:26:18.780Whereas the Conservative Party seems to just be dead set on being as weak and inoffensive as possible, regardless of what the people actually want.
00:26:29.920And I focus on using the party names because I think I like the European terminology more because in Europe, the Conservative Party of Canada would be considered liberals based on their policy by the European definition of liberal versus conservative.
00:26:46.420And the Liberal Party of Canada would be considered socialists in Europe.
00:26:50.560And I think that is actually more accurate.
00:26:53.340The Liberal Party of Canada are socialists.
00:26:55.180And I mean, fiscal conservatives, that is classical liberalism.
00:26:59.160and i i guess that's really all that sort of we get from the conservative party i don't even know
00:27:05.580if we if we would have that when you look at conservative premiers i'm not seeing a whole lot
00:27:10.760of fiscal conservatism i just realized i was on the wrong microphone i probably sound a lot better
00:27:17.480now sorry about that shoot um yeah you do sound better but wasn't too bad before okay uh yeah no
00:27:26.260it's weird how all the words kind of get mixed up um you know is the liberal party liberal they're
00:27:32.840more authoritarian than anything else you know socialist i think is more appropriate in that
00:27:38.360vein because socialists tend to be authoritarian because that's the only way you can implement
00:27:43.220socialism yeah yeah yeah um but yeah i don't know i i'm uh like i i'm a broken record when it comes
00:27:54.680to this uh conservative party i just do not think they are strong enough i think that
00:27:59.080the amount of outrage like let's can we talk about this do not uh or just comply clip can we play
00:28:05.400that sure yeah we got that one here because i know lots of people have been asking about it so
00:28:11.400let me uh outrageous man yeah it's uh we'll get this get this going here uh
00:28:25.640and make his own statement and his own mind up about that what i would say is as we'll follow
00:28:32.680the laws as they're written the laws change will change with the laws um but as it stands um we
00:28:39.160know uh the best defense uh for most people is to comply as you've just heard a number of uh
00:28:45.560safety recommendations um will allow for those that are victimizing members in the community
00:29:45.860um and um we see more often than not when people comply um that uh you know
00:29:55.060injuries are not uh are not happening and people are not victimized in terms of injury or or in
00:30:02.480this case unfortunately we've seen the loss of life in some of these incidents
00:30:06.540damn it feels good to be a gangster dude if you're a gangster in canada right now you're like yeah
00:30:16.520that's right comply to me the the law breaker the criminal just comply to me being a violent
00:30:23.840thug breaking into your home i rule i am the ruler in canada i am the burglar you must comply
00:30:32.200to the burglar it's hard to put into words the uh like the the amount of outrage that should be
00:30:43.060that this should be met with you know what i mean like it's uh it's it's hard to even even
00:30:49.120kind of conceive how outraged people should be yeah although it seems that it is starting to
00:30:56.240get a little bit of traction and unfortunately i think it's the the way things often are things
00:31:00.900need to get bad before people will start getting upset because i mean in fairness to the chief
00:31:08.280there he he's actually correct about when he's talking about the laws the way they are i think
00:31:13.100we've seen well you know there's a whole bunch to unpack there i mean we've seen the way the
00:31:19.180police and prosecutors enforce the law the the law of self-defense in and of itself i looked at
00:31:26.360this way back in episodes 18 and 19 of Don't Talk TV. So people want to look at that for a bit more
00:31:31.480in depth. You'll see that people generally are acquitted by their fellow Canadians, or even
00:31:36.720judges, if it's not a jury trial, but they still get prosecuted. And our law is also, I mean,
00:31:45.880don't shoot the messenger. I strongly disagree with this, but the law in Canada is possession
00:31:51.800of any object for the purpose of self-defense is in and of itself the crime of carrying a weapon
00:31:58.840for a dangerous purpose. So, and that's, there's case law from back in the 80s and 90s. The 70s
00:32:04.900is when it started changing, where the judges started saying, wait, we don't, they straight
00:32:11.880up said, this isn't a direct quote paraphrasing, but they said, we don't want people defending
00:32:17.840themselves because that actually makes the community more dangerous that was the view
00:32:22.080that judges have been taking since since started turning in the 70s and into the 80s uh
00:32:28.080i i talked about that in uh richard i'll get you to put the link i think is what episode
00:32:33.52041 or somewhere around there so what about this is this like is this a this guitar is that like
00:32:40.960uh a weapon for a dangerous purpose if someone broke into my house and i used that to like
00:32:45.920bash their head in well it wouldn't it would become a weapon if you use it to hit someone
00:32:52.640like if you're just carrying it around as a guitar it's not a weapon but if you are carrying it
00:32:57.120specifically because i'm going to use this to defend myself with it now it's become a weapon
00:33:01.680for a dangerous purpose in the eyes right but but it's in it's in the context of a of a burglary
00:33:06.400in my house right so it was still a weapon and then it comes down to oh is is this a reasonable
00:33:12.720use of force which again people after they've been punished by the process of being arrested
00:33:18.880and prosecuted they usually get acquitted in the end the problem is getting there and that's why
00:33:24.320i have to say about doug ford talking about how all people should be allowed to defend themselves
00:33:29.440i'm outraged by what the police are doing it's like well mr ford it's your prosecutors who are
00:33:34.720prosecuting this prosecutors in ontario and probably most provinces but i know for sure
00:33:41.840Ontario, they have a whole policy manual for what they're supposed to do with different types of
00:33:47.100cases. They're not allowed to drop drunk driving charges, for example, unless there's some clear
00:33:53.940problems with it. Then they can offer a careless driving under the Highway Traffic Act. Generally,
00:33:59.640I don't even know if they can drop them outright. So Doug Downey, the Attorney General, Doug Ford's
00:34:04.860Attorney General, he could add to that policy manual that we think people have the right to
00:34:10.320defend themselves if it's inside a home we're not prosecuting it he could that's obviously not
00:34:14.940happening so I you know there's a little bit of actions speak louder than words I think and so
00:34:22.180that goes back to you know to be a little bit fair to that police chief he's not completely wrong
00:34:27.260when he says the law is this way and you know he's I think he's trying to tell people and I'm
00:34:35.820I'm not necessarily saying that he's trying to help us, but I think he's actually factually correct in saying that, yeah, if you defend yourself, we're probably going to arrest you.
00:34:44.740And the law is the law until it changes, et cetera, as he was saying.
00:34:50.660I think the law does need to change, but the policies and how the current law is enforced could also change.
00:34:56.120And the people who are in charge, they're just talking to the media instead of actually changing it, as far as I can tell.
00:35:00.840i think what bothers me the most about that clip is that it was a message to potential victims of
00:35:11.320a burglary and telling them to just accept it it's like i feel like if you're a good police chief
00:35:17.240you should be intimidating the criminals if you're a good police chief you should be trying to strike
00:35:22.600fear into the hearts and minds of the people breaking the law because instead the message
00:35:28.840instead the message was just comply with the burglars i'm i'm a little i'm a big tough police
00:35:35.480chief look at all my look at all my uh accolades on my chest telling my own citizens to just crawl
00:35:43.080up in a ball and get their kicked in it's uh like what what do you what do you think
00:35:51.800i think you kind of just mentioned it or alluded to it like if you had a magic wand as a lawyer
00:35:57.160and you could and you could correct the uh the current laws we have just we'll just say
00:36:02.440specifically because i know there's lots of changes you might want to make but but if it was
00:36:07.480just for uh specifically the you know break and enter stuff where a canadian citizen is not allowed
00:36:14.520to defend themselves if you could wave a magic wand what would the the wands butter wand do
00:36:21.080i mean the easiest one specifically what we're talking about i i would put in a castle doctrine
00:36:30.200where i'd change the self-defense laws where it says you don't even have to be restricted by
00:36:36.120reasonable force if someone is in if if someone has invaded your home you're allowed to use
00:36:42.280whatever force you deem necessary uh the way you'd have to work i think what i would do is
00:36:48.040instead of making it a defense because that's the way the police always word it to say well you know
00:36:53.320they still committed the offense self-defense is a defense but you have to raise that at trial
00:36:58.360i would change a lot of the sections of the criminal code in and of themselves to make it
00:37:03.160not even an offense if so for example like have written right into assault aggravated assault
00:37:09.400you know use discharge of firearm in there that right into an exception so for example assault is
00:37:16.520any application of force without the other person's consent add a word in there that you
00:37:23.320know any application of force without the other person's consent uh you know so long as they're
00:37:30.680not inside your residence or or something along those lines i i you know you would i obviously
00:37:37.400haven't fine-tuned to precise wording because the devil is always in the details would have
00:37:41.880to be precisely worded because you don't want situations where people are say luring people
00:37:46.280into their homes so they can do a murder and get away with it so it would have to be that they
00:37:51.800broke into the house before that aspect of it gets triggered so there would have to be some
00:37:58.520nuance to it but i i think that and totally re overhauling our sentencing regime i think would
00:38:06.120also be be an important piece of it uh although i think number one people need to fear that hey
00:38:12.920if i break into that house that guy could kill me and nothing's going to happen to him where
00:38:18.680criminals do not have that fear when they hear police chiefs saying just comply they have no
00:38:23.880fear and in terms of if sorry if anything they feel emboldened if anything if you're already a
00:38:30.360criminal who's thinking about doing this stuff and you just saw a police chief on tv tell people to
00:38:37.480just comply you're like you know what i feel even more jacked up about this burglary at burglary i
00:38:43.240was planning next week do you not like i just should just to get into the mind of a criminal
00:38:47.480like i feel like that's a pretty emboldening message from a police chief just comply wow
00:38:54.120yeah well and i mean this isn't the first time i've heard this wasn't there somewhere also
00:38:58.600maybe it was york region the previous time where they were saying yeah just leave your car keys
00:39:02.440out leave your car keys by the front door so they can just take your car insane insane
00:39:11.160and yeah you said it best i think if a homeowner did have the freedom to use lethal force against
00:39:20.200someone who broke into their home i think that would be a pretty strong incentive for burglars
00:39:25.480to be like you know what maybe maybe i shouldn't break in because maybe this will be my last break
00:39:29.320in maybe there's going to be some dude with a uh you know a hockey stick and he's going to go
00:39:35.400you know fill in the blank well you do see that in countries where they've tried that i don't have
00:39:41.320the statistics to hand but i recall reading a few years ago i mean brazil had a huge problem
00:39:47.960with home invasions and under bolsonaro he greatly liberalized their firearms laws and
00:39:55.160self-defense laws and break and enters plummeted there you go incentives they work incredible um
00:40:07.000but i i think the other thing that we wanted to talk about here is uh and it's it's connecting
00:40:14.120two dots that people don't want to connect and that is the rising crime with the rise in immigration
00:40:21.240the rise of foreign people coming here and uh being across the nation and also a rise in the
00:40:27.880the criminal behavior um yeah i mean do you have any statistics on hand that sort of uh that you
00:40:38.520try to show people when it comes to this pattern or is it is it something that you kind of steer
00:40:43.800clear of it it is sort of um you know it makes sense why people are kind of afraid to connect
00:40:50.120these dots but at the same time it's like uh if you if you look at all these like police reports
00:40:55.400and you see the colors of the faces over and over and over again it's uh you know people are starting
00:41:01.480to notice even liberal people are starting to notice you know what i mean yeah i i don't have
00:41:07.320any stats to hand i probably should i've done it in the past i know i've i've looked at uh
00:41:13.880at the statistics but you can do a google search and you'll find crime stats are
00:41:19.240are on the rise generally and there's a lot of things like uh yeah violent crime being on the
00:41:26.600rise and you know some people say oh this is just a pure coincidence that that we're having this
00:41:34.360crime, just pure coincidence that there's all this extreme numbers of immigration coinciding
00:41:41.300with the rise in crime. Now, I think it would be wrong to just say that, oh, it's just because
00:41:46.480it's all immigrants doing this crime. It's because we've got a lot of immigrants that
00:41:49.800it's happening. I mean, there's a lot of factors, right? I mean, a big piece is how it's destroying
00:41:55.200our economy of bringing in so many new people, so much more strain on infrastructure, putting
00:42:01.840rent through the roof so you have people who are already here for a long time homelessness despair
00:42:07.840getting into drug use getting into all kinds of things so there's a lot of different factors but
00:42:12.960you keep coming back to the i think the common denominator of what has changed
00:42:18.720or i mean one of the big changes i think there's there's a few changes but one big change is you
00:42:24.480know how many new people have come to this country in the last just the last few years because i mean
00:42:30.880it's not like we're talking about small numbers i mean what the population of canada in 2020 was
00:42:36.400what 32 million now it's 42 million there's maybe 33 or 34 million in 2020 but i mean it's absolutely
00:42:45.040surged and it's not because there's been some big baby boom yeah yeah it's um yeah it's it's
00:42:54.000it's it's quite i saw a clip actually before going live and it was a clip of it was like a
00:43:00.720man on the street thing and it was uh i don't know the one guy had a pakistani shirt on the
00:43:05.520other guy looked east indian and he was like what's the craziest thing you saw at like ridgetown
00:43:09.840mall or something like that and the guy described how like a group of guys like ran up on a woman
00:43:16.000and like it was a battery ting or something and it's like you did you see a rape and he was like
00:43:22.000yeah i wish i would have like joined in or something it's like it's like what and and
00:43:25.920this is just an example of something i see where it's like because i try to be very diplomatic
00:43:30.320when talking about these things but like i'll see i'll see some clips and i'll think to myself
00:43:36.640maybe i'm not racist enough like what like what the hell was that like is that is that a common
00:43:42.080attitude that people have from pakistan you know it's uh it's quite alarming and and then again
00:43:48.320now that i say this out loud maybe that's actually an approach for the stats is to actually get stats
00:43:54.840in the countries where these people are coming from and say hey look how common this is look at
00:44:01.600the laws around this in in pakistan or in india and these 40 of the people coming in are from india
00:44:10.260so could that have to do with uh you know the rise in this type of crime you know uh and while
00:44:16.940we're actually talking about this dominion society is working on uh collecting as many stats as we
00:44:23.400can to connect these dots between uh crime and immigration just to create as much urgency as
00:44:29.240possible so if you have any tips then please send them to info at dominionsociety.ca because
00:44:36.460uh like you said we we don't want to just make oh it's oh it's just because of it's just because
00:44:41.560i'm immigrants blah blah blah blah like like we're not trying to lie or we're not trying to
00:44:46.580kind of like you know be be unnecessarily uh what's the word hyperbolic or anything like this
00:44:52.900we want to have the credibility of having the stats and the truth and the facts on our side
00:44:57.560when we're going to be kind of connecting dots like this so if you do have any stats if you do
00:45:01.860have any tips info at dominionsociety.ca send us an email with the with the link some stats can
00:45:08.240you know any anything that has kind of some credible um research or sort of you know methodology
00:45:15.660behind the statistics would be fantastic yeah i mean i think data is always crucial because i
00:45:25.540think that's one thing that people often criticize our government for the people that are doing
00:45:32.760policy you know they never want to talk about the actual statistics or the actual data it's
00:45:37.140more about you know feelings or their moral view of what's right to do regardless of what the actual
00:45:44.060facts are have you ever looked at canadian crime statistics i only tried to look at it once
00:45:51.820on stats can and if i recall correctly the way they break down like race or ethnicity
00:46:00.140was really odd to me i could be wrong but like i'm pretty sure i did this like a year or two ago
00:46:06.140and they had like the wildest different categories like they i feel like they had like
00:46:11.340four or eight different like first nations ethnicities like indigenous ethnicities like
00:46:21.340that was broken down into like you know four or five different categories of like all these
00:46:25.660different specific type of indigenous races and then like only a few others besides that like it
00:46:31.340was like it was grossly overrepresented in terms of the options of the different ethnicities
00:46:35.660a whole bunch of them were were different uh like indigenous ethnicities which uh i mean if
00:46:43.100you look at the stats in i think saskatchewan of like how often the crime is being done by uh
00:46:51.820by like natives uh i've heard it's quite alarming but again this is not stuff that uh i've dug deep
00:46:58.700into and um a little bit a little little bit different from remigration but still uh still
00:47:06.720interesting stuff yeah well there's a whole yeah there's there's a lot going in and but of course
00:47:14.900the numbers are only as good as the reporting as well right so and for crime rates i that would
00:47:22.720require people to be reporting things to the police that would require the police to act to
00:47:28.160be laying charges so i mean that's another thing the statistics they're not you know they may not
00:47:36.680be always reliable so for example if you looked up statistics they would probably say that zero
00:47:43.400churches have been zero christian churches have been criminally burnt down in canada over the
00:47:48.520last several years right the arson in canada is not arson christian churches is not a problem
00:47:53.400because the police haven't arrested made a single arrest so they haven't proved that these are
00:47:58.660actually arsons but i i think when you see obviously that's happened right i think it's
00:48:05.040over 200 now 200 churches burning down oh really i i thought the number was hanging around like
00:48:13.720140 or something like this i didn't realize it was that high but um speaking of that because
00:48:20.460i have a direct sort of example of um of like how are the statistics reported um anthony house father
00:48:29.400august 31st he posted this this letter talking about the safety of jewish canadians
00:48:37.000and in the letter he taught what was the stat let me find it right now jews make up slightly
00:48:43.920more than one percent of canada's population but are the victims of 70 percent of reported
00:48:48.820religious based acts of hate and i thought oh i commented and i actually ratioed him i said over
00:48:56.740100 churches have burnt down in canada over the past few years and christian singers get routinely
00:49:01.940banned from performing you know not to mention the statues that are toppled of our christian
00:49:07.220historical figures like sir johnny mcdonald etc like is that form of hatred factored into that 70
00:49:14.020figure you know like like are we not counting why wouldn't we count sir johnny mcdonald as a
00:49:18.720christian who's being attacked by antifa is that not an act of hate is is uh like these over a
00:49:25.240hundred churches burning down is that how you know if if if jews are targeted 70 percent of the time
00:49:32.600like like how big is the percentage what was the methodology of collecting this you know well the
00:49:37.420methodology yeah and yeah and what is considered what is their uh definition or what do they
00:49:43.100consider a hate crime they're probably considering what's been charged i can tell you in 20 years
00:49:48.600as a criminal lawyer i've yet to see anyone charged with hate crime against a christian
00:49:55.100yeah and it's disproportionately certain groups where you get charged i mean
00:50:01.060just because you're speaking specifically about jews no other group has a law specific to them
00:50:06.880making it a crime to in any way downplay although they don't define what they mean by downplay but
00:50:14.700to downplay an event from their history where they were victims of persecution like it's so
00:50:22.680the holocaust right that that was a private member's bill from the conservative party of
00:50:26.680canada you're not allowed to downplay any aspect and i i've said i had problems because it's so
00:50:33.220vaguely worded I don't know what they're outlawing because it's so vaguely worded but you know they
00:50:38.360have that so of course you're going to get more crimes when they're the only group like if someone
00:50:42.820denied the Armenian genocide in Turkey that's not a crime so of course that's not going to show up
00:50:48.220in their statistics or if someone denied the holodomor the you know death by starvation of
00:50:53.940millions of Ukrainians by the Soviet Union that's never going to show up in hate crime statistics
00:50:59.340because it's not a crime to say that that didn't happen
00:51:02.240or to say that, well, you know, they deserved it.
01:03:55.620In fact, that's a principle in law that you can rely on official publications
01:03:59.000of the government, uh, to understand what the law is.
01:04:02.180So just from that quick review there, I think a number of the parts of the Dominion Society's plan there could be done without even changing the current laws, just enforcing in a perhaps more strict or robust way the laws that are currently on the books.
01:04:24.060absolutely and this kind of goes back to uh it's funny how the you know the conversation
01:04:31.560kind of gets twisted around right like like as i mentioned there's been some people in the right
01:04:35.980wing space who call themselves right wing um who are like oh this is authoritarian or this is like
01:04:42.620a white ethno thing and it's like folks there are hundreds of thousands of people who are overstaying
01:04:50.520their visas and we if we want to enforce those laws we need to deport them and there's like
01:04:57.580very little willingness to enforce the existing laws so this represents like a much much bigger
01:05:03.380problem where it's like if we're going to have these laws and not enforce them then what do the
01:05:07.660laws even mean what does this country even mean you know it's and like really it's about building
01:05:13.100that backbone um because like if we don't have that backbone we're just going to continue to
01:05:19.220get sorry to use the language but like invaded by foreign people who are going to be exploiting our
01:05:25.080sort of whack of a backbone our our jellyfish kind of doormat nature and that's exactly what
01:05:31.800needs to change and that's why i think simultaneously asserting who we are as a
01:05:38.640country who we are as a nation starting with our history um is is important because it starts with
01:05:44.820like the self-respect of of that fact of that truth as that as the foundation and the natural
01:05:52.260thing after that is like that's why we need to enforce these laws to protect that yeah and it's
01:05:58.580you know the the word racism's come a lot up a lot during this podcast because that's always the
01:06:04.100accusation but in my view i haven't heard i don't neither of us have said anything about that we
01:06:10.100hate people from other countries it's just you're allowed to have your own country and i i always
01:06:15.460return to that like what what how would this conversation be taken if it was taking place
01:06:20.980in another country or like what you know they always talk about well you know colonialism
01:06:25.940africa all these white people moved to africa well you're saying that's bad aren't you saying
01:06:30.900it's bad for people to be displacing the population sorry there now they would turn it around and say
01:06:35.860well you know that applies to canada because canada was all stolen i mean that's that's a
01:06:40.020whole other topic that we don't have time to get into in terms of the history of canada and how
01:06:44.320many people actually lived here how much of the land was unoccupied how how all the treaties
01:06:50.580panned out and how many roads were there how many towns were there how many buildings were there how
01:06:55.880many structures were there where did they come from uh yeah um we don't have time to get i mean
01:07:01.980could do a whole two-hour episode probably just talking about the history which isn't taught in
01:07:07.660schools so people don't i mean you'll get a few sound bites from cbc but i don't think very many
01:07:13.180people have actually looked into like the actual like what actually happened read some of these
01:07:20.140actual treaties read some first-hand accounts read things that were going on um there's a lot of
01:07:27.660epic things in canadian history and i hope to learn a lot more about it because i i think i'm
01:07:33.740actually a great example uh of a bad example like i'm a great example of a of a bad example i mean
01:07:39.740that as in like you know i grew up um i'm 36 now but i grew up like in the 90s and through the
01:07:46.300education system i can tell you offhand it was canada's a cultural mosaic juno beach um you know
01:07:56.140vimy ridge uh and then pretty quickly it goes straight into like you know we had brave shoulder
01:08:02.860soldiers in world war ii uh upper upper canada lower canada maybe heard a little bit about that
01:08:09.500and then honestly it goes straight into the heritage minutes that you mentioned uh maple
01:08:14.460syrup hockey poutine like it goes straight like after those like few touch points it goes straight
01:08:20.860into like sort of this um very shallow version of understanding what it means to be canadian not
01:08:27.380one that's based in history and that one like here's another uh thing thing that relates to
01:08:33.360that there's a beautiful park called algonquin park in ontario the probably the best place for
01:08:40.800camping and canoe camping in in uh definitely in ontario and there's a really highly recommend
01:08:46.980this hike it's called like the track and tower hike but uh when you go on this hike in algonquin
01:08:52.900park you can just drive in drive out but when you go on this hike you can get a little like brochure
01:08:57.160that kind of explains different parts on the hike and there was a highly trafficked railroad that
01:09:04.800was going right through algonquin park back in the day that had like so much lumber that was going
01:09:10.560towards uh going towards i guess like somewhere the the saint lawrence and it was for um the war
01:09:17.340effort and it's crazy because like you look around you don't see you don't see the railroad at all
01:09:22.580but like just to hear about like the logging industry in canada and how robust and intense
01:09:27.440it was and it's like this is something that connects me to this country and connects me to
01:09:32.840the land you know it's like like you know algonquin park is doing a better job at making me feel like
01:09:37.320a proud canadian much more so than the cbc is you know um but like you know things like that i i
01:09:43.340would i really want to learn uh more about because uh i think it just kind of connects the
01:09:48.760the beautiful landscape to the beautiful people who helped develop the nation you know it kind
01:09:55.580of like it marries those two things um because you know conquering this this wicked landscape
01:10:02.400is is quite the the task that we should feel very proud of and i think that is i think that
01:10:07.000is a very foundational thing about our identity that we need to not only talk about more,
01:10:13.460but kind of be more assertive about and try to honor in everything that we do.
01:10:20.980Well, I think that's a great place to end off.
01:10:25.720I think we've covered a lot of ground here.
01:10:27.240And yeah, I think that's kind of circling back to the positivity and learning who we
01:10:36.620are where we came from and cherishing that because there's canada has a much richer history than i'm
01:10:43.260sure a lot of people would even guess even maybe it hasn't been around as long as places like france
01:10:48.620or china or japan or germany but well although arguably germany is actually younger than canada
01:10:55.580from a certain perspective um because germany and italy both were didn't become countries
01:11:02.460as we know them until the after canada was a country but um yeah so uh thanks thanks for uh
01:11:09.900for joining us greg we're gonna have the uh link to the dominion society in the show description so
01:11:15.500we invite people to have a look at that uh and so greg's on the board of directors i don't want
01:11:21.660any false advertising i'm not any in any capacity affiliated with the dominion society so i just
01:11:28.300say that because i don't want to be trying to steal any thunder from you or having people
01:11:31.020thinking that that i i'm helping run it but it's something uh of interest so i wanted to have you
01:11:36.940on the show to talk about it and uh i think we had a great discussion so thanks for for joining
01:11:42.060me and having this chat yeah yeah thanks so much for having me nicholas and yeah we we appreciate
01:11:48.860anyone who wants to kind of learn more about dominion society um i think it's the beginning
01:11:54.700of something very significant uh one of my tasks as a board member is calling new members i'm
01:12:01.500talking to ceos i'm talking to you know white color workers blue color workers young men in
01:12:08.220university majoring in polyscience becoming lawyers uh it's a lot of focused people who
01:12:13.900love this country and uh they also see like the long term they see the long term kind of plan
01:12:18.780and in uh in what we're doing and uh you know there's been a lot of long-term long-term
01:12:25.660let's try that again there's been a lot there's been a lot of long-term damage
01:12:29.980that's happened to the country it's going to take a long-term solution to uh to rectify things
01:12:37.020yeah so i've got to do my lawyerly disclaimer of course no legal advice was given in this
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