The Crusty Canuck Podcast - This is Reconciliation？？？

00:00:00.900 Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. It's a beautiful 2nd of July, 2021.

00:00:05.660 Coming up with the Christy Connect podcast, episode 138.

00:00:10.300 This is reconciliation and recent events, the toppling of certain statues in Winnipeg and around the country,

00:00:15.860 church fires and the wildfires in B.C.

00:00:18.240 All that and more coming up with the podcast. Please stick around.

00:00:21.320 And listener discretion and viewer discretion is advised. Enjoy.

00:00:25.240 Hit it, sweetheart. 1.00

00:00:31.000 Because I am hard, you will not like me.

00:00:33.960 Yes, sir.

00:00:37.420 There is no racial bigotry here.

00:00:42.280 Here you are all.

00:00:44.200 From Western Canada, this is the Christy Connect podcast, a Canadian veteran's point of view.

00:00:53.020 On political, social, economic issues, and life.

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00:01:03.860 Mama always said I had a face for radio.

00:01:07.500 That's right, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the Christy Connect podcast.

00:01:09.580 I'm your host, Christy Connect. Mind the light here.

00:01:12.020 We've had some issues with power in this area because of the overwhelming heat.

00:01:15.140 So all those out there, please hydrate to the best of your ability.

00:01:18.520 It is a bloody scorcher out there.

00:01:20.320 Like I said, I'm Christy Canuck in this episode, 138.

00:01:23.980 This is reconciliation.

00:01:25.860 Now, this is going to be a rant, ladies and gentlemen.

00:01:28.880 It's not going to be a huge podcast.

00:01:31.360 Needless to say, it's just going to be my rants and takes on the recent events

00:01:34.660 that's been going on in our country today.

00:01:37.480 Never mind the scorching heat.

00:01:38.940 How about those fires in B.C.?

00:01:40.280 Firstly, I want to say to anyone out there in Lytton, B.C.,

00:01:43.100 my sincerest condolences for your loss, your homes, your livelihoods,

00:01:46.640 and my condolences to the families and friends and loved ones of those who are lost.

00:01:50.900 And there's also a nasty house fire that happened in Chestermere in Calgary last night, too.

00:01:56.300 Seven lives were lost there as well.

00:01:58.220 So my condolences to those families as well.

00:02:00.800 I guess it was lightning strikes that set the fires that caused such devastation.

00:02:04.440 And this is what Catherine McKenna means about climate change,

00:02:08.360 things drying up and all this stuff, right?

00:02:11.060 So something to think about, folks.

00:02:13.120 And I'm not making light of people losing their homes,

00:02:15.260 but this heat is just nature's way of saying something.

00:02:19.800 It has nothing to do with climate change as far as I'm concerned.

00:02:21.900 It's just a scorcher.

00:02:23.680 And once again, my sympathies and my condolences to those who have lost their homes in B.C.

00:02:29.120 And we can build it back for all years.

00:02:33.100 I'm not going to say build back better.

00:02:34.120 I almost caught myself there.

00:02:35.580 But needless to say, ladies and gentlemen,

00:02:36.820 we can rebuild and do what we can to help each other out in these trying times.

00:02:42.080 And, wow, it's just tough to see a whole village wiped out because of a fire.

00:02:48.100 There's footage on CTV now as we speak about lightning strikes that started them all.

00:02:52.440 So there's no finger pointing.

00:02:54.340 There's no blaming here.

00:02:55.160 It's just people having to get together and be a community.

00:02:57.000 Regardless of what political power is calling the shots or not,

00:03:00.380 once again, my sincerest sympathies and condolences to those who have lost their homes

00:03:04.660 and their loved ones in this devastating fire.

00:03:07.620 And also my American friends, too.

00:03:08.980 My condolences to the individuals that have been found in that building in Miami

00:03:12.220 that toppled based to a poor foundation, what have you.

00:03:15.780 There's still investigations going on.

00:03:17.160 They're still finding bodies.

00:03:18.760 So to my listeners in Florida, my condolences out to you as well out there.

00:03:22.820 If you have family members or friends that you knew in those buildings

00:03:25.060 or that building per se.

00:03:27.080 Anyway, carrying on.

00:03:28.240 Is this reconciliation?

00:03:29.520 Now, there have been churches that have been set ablaze here in Edmonton.

00:03:34.320 Morinville.

00:03:34.800 I'm sorry, Morinville.

00:03:35.720 A couple in Calgary and in British Columbia.

00:03:38.600 And a few of those churches were on reservations.

00:03:41.280 I'll leave links in the description for you, ladies and gentlemen, to follow, too.

00:03:45.060 But this is going to be my rant and my take on it.

00:03:47.260 How is that going to create justice?

00:03:52.440 Okay.

00:03:53.380 Now, I've talked about this before in my last couple episodes in regards to reconciliation

00:03:56.620 and truth.

00:03:57.840 And don't get me wrong, ladies and gentlemen, I am a firm believer in it.

00:04:00.300 We've got to find the truth of what happened and we have to reconcile everything so we

00:04:03.620 can all move forward properly.

00:04:05.620 Okay.

00:04:05.820 Not the liberal brand of moving forward.

00:04:07.600 Not the liberal brand of kumbaya.

00:04:09.560 I'm talking proper moving forward as adults and as members of this society.

00:04:14.120 Okay.

00:04:14.860 As members of this society, once we know the real truth, we can move on.

00:04:21.820 But setting fire to churches, burning down places of worship, doesn't really make a point

00:04:28.720 now, does it?

00:04:30.080 I really don't think those individuals that set those fires, and it doesn't matter what

00:04:34.800 color they are, doesn't matter what generation they represent or who they're fighting for,

00:04:40.160 these individuals took it upon themselves to set ablaze other people's property, okay?

00:04:46.580 Whether it belongs to the Catholic church, Anglican church, or whatever community, okay?

00:04:50.540 There are still people in our society that still use those churches as places of worship,

00:04:55.680 as places of refuge, as a sense of community.

00:04:58.660 And regardless of how you feel about the Christian faith coming to North America the way it did,

00:05:05.900 that doesn't justify your actions.

00:05:08.580 That doesn't justify the reconciliation movement, okay?

00:05:14.580 I personally am not a Christian.

00:05:16.680 I've said this to you before numerous times, Angel.

00:05:18.660 I am not a believer.

00:05:19.980 I don't believe in God.

00:05:21.240 I don't believe in Jesus Christ.

00:05:22.200 I don't believe in the Virgin Mary.

00:05:23.400 I don't believe in Muhammad.

00:05:24.720 I don't believe in Moses.

00:05:25.680 I don't believe in any organized religion because my personal spirituality is me.

00:05:31.500 What I believe in, what I see, what I can touch, taste, and feel.

00:05:34.420 That's me.

00:05:35.040 So you can call me an atheist, call me agnostic, whatever you like, that's fine, okay?

00:05:39.220 But I don't believe in ruining anyone's place of worship in the name of an old ideology

00:05:47.060 or some old anger or retribution for something that I personally think that these arsonists

00:05:53.020 have really nothing to do with, okay?

00:05:55.680 If you want to put people on trial, then let's get the Vatican over here and to explain things.

00:06:02.080 Let's get the Church of England involved, too, because they were a part of it as far as I know.

00:06:06.820 And whatever monarch has the cojones to represent what the monarchy did at said time, bring them into the conversation, too.

00:06:14.920 And every politician that has been alive, that is still alive, who knew about residential schooling, who knew about the whereabouts and the facts and figures and all the data, okay, bring them into a hearing.

00:06:29.660 Okay, that's my solution.

00:06:33.600 That's probably the most peaceful solution I can think of without having to resort to this stuff all the time, okay?

00:06:40.520 Now, Queen Victoria, yeah, she was the sovereign of the Commonwealth at the time.

00:06:45.540 I get it.

00:06:46.140 Who knows what orders or what papers she might have signed or what declarations she might have signed to encourage residential schooling. 0.84

00:06:54.100 But that is not going to bring the memory of those fallen back, okay?

00:07:00.360 That is not going to understand the mass graves.

00:07:04.880 Now, we have heard about the ground radars.

00:07:07.480 We've heard about the technology going into this and discovering this.

00:07:11.640 Fine.

00:07:13.240 Dig it up.

00:07:14.300 Let's find out, okay?

00:07:16.380 Because if we can carbon date stones with dinosaur bones in them and carbon date them to how many millions of years ago they existed and roamed the earth and did all these wonderful things that gave us fossil fuels today,

00:07:27.460 how come we can't find people to dig up these remains to find out exactly what the fuck happened, right?

00:07:36.120 If there's so much money that's going to be poured into it from the federal government to find out what's going on, why they aren't digging these things up now?

00:07:57.460 And that's right, ladies and gentlemen, too.

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00:08:37.860 Anyway, carrying on.

00:08:39.200 Like I said, we have the technology to find things and discover things in the ground.

00:08:42.420 Okay, now whether it's 200 children or 100 children or 100 people or 100 of these or 100 of those, let's dig it up and find out.

00:08:52.880 Let's find the truth.

00:08:55.760 Is that not what we're supposed to be doing?

00:08:57.420 Trying to find the truth in this dilemma?

00:09:00.340 Okay?

00:09:01.320 And burning churches and burning places of worship, regardless of how heinous the Catholic Church or Anglican Church, United or Presbyterian, or whatever church was involved is,

00:09:10.340 that does not justify burning down a church now.

00:09:14.000 It doesn't.

00:09:15.380 I personally know some good people that happen to be Christian.

00:09:18.520 They preach their gospel, but they also walk their truths, too.

00:09:22.660 They go out of a way to help people out.

00:09:25.300 And I can guarantee there's not a racist bone in their body.

00:09:27.960 So they're not going to condemn anybody for being First Nation, from being from Pakistan or India or China or Japan or Pakistan.

00:09:35.220 I mentioned Pakistan or anywhere else for that matter.

00:09:38.120 Okay?

00:09:39.000 They're good-natured people. 0.99

00:09:41.240 And just because, let's say, their church did something heinous many moons ago, that doesn't justify some shithead or some shit pump to get out there and set fire to it. 0.99

00:09:51.400 Okay? 0.99

00:09:52.200 It's not right.

00:09:53.100 Because I know for a fact that a lot of churches and communities I grew up in have always been a good pillar of support when it comes to charitable things.

00:10:02.240 Kids at Christmas, kids at Easter, kids overseas.

00:10:06.000 Right? 0.98

00:10:06.220 And there's always going to be the odd shithead in the mix, causing trouble. 0.99

00:10:10.680 We get that. 0.99

00:10:12.000 Okay?

00:10:12.300 And regardless of myself being a non-believer, that doesn't mean I'm going to chastise anyone who goes to Sunday worship or Wednesday worship or Christmas mass.

00:10:23.200 You know, I don't care.

00:10:24.560 My lifestyle is not compromised because of that.

00:10:27.580 Okay?

00:10:28.160 And the Christian faith has had a big overhaul over the past hundred years in regards to enforcing rules and regulations and all this stuff.

00:10:35.220 Heck, I remember as a kid, Sunday shopping laws were such a big deal.

00:10:39.560 Oh, my God, you can't go shopping on Sunday.

00:10:41.900 It's a sin.

00:10:42.960 How dare you?

00:10:43.620 It's the Lord's Day of Rest. 1.00

00:10:46.520 And people realized, fuck, we can make some money on Sunday. 0.99

00:10:49.900 There you go. 0.99

00:10:50.780 So people started opening up the shops on Sunday.

00:10:52.940 Right?

00:10:54.260 So regardless of where you sit on the religious fence or not, it doesn't matter.

00:10:57.360 It does not justify someone burning the church over what was found on this reservation, on this piece of land, or in that piece of land.

00:11:05.740 It doesn't justify it.

00:11:07.680 Okay?

00:11:08.340 It doesn't.

00:11:10.400 You're not going to bring or honor the memory of anybody fallen by burning down the monument.

00:11:15.900 Now, I've been angry at the government for a long time.

00:11:18.640 Okay?

00:11:20.100 But I'm not going to set fire to a government building because of their lack of respect for the veteran.

00:11:25.040 Okay?

00:11:25.480 I'm not going to do it.

00:11:28.200 What would I have to gain by doing that?

00:11:31.260 Okay?

00:11:31.820 Nor am I going to gain any notoriety for toppling a statue of Pierre Trudeau. 1.00

00:11:36.640 Now, I personally disagree with even having a statue of that piece of shit. 0.99

00:11:41.140 That's just me, though. 1.00

00:11:42.540 Okay?

00:11:42.980 But my lifestyle is not going to improve or going to change if a statue is sitting there or if it's sitting here.

00:11:50.900 I can understand the anger and the frustration.

00:11:53.440 Yes, of course.

00:11:54.980 But you're not going to bring the memory or honor the memory of them by doing that.

00:11:59.040 Right?

00:11:59.140 My idea of truth and reconciliation is this.

00:12:03.280 Leave the statues up where they are.

00:12:04.980 Let history be there.

00:12:06.140 Regardless of the bad bits and the bad points and all these terrible things that they supposedly did, let's resurrect some statues of Tecumseh.

00:12:15.140 Let's erect a statue of Joseph Brant.

00:12:19.880 Let's erect another statue of Sitting Bull.

00:12:22.100 Let's erect a statue of some of the Comanche leaders out there.

00:12:25.100 Let's erect a statue of the Dakotas.

00:12:27.620 Let's erect a statue of some Inuit leaders out there.

00:12:30.860 Some notable Canadians.

00:12:33.120 Now, I can say first Canadians, too.

00:12:34.440 If you want to get technical, fine.

00:12:36.000 Let's erect that. 0.99

00:12:37.680 Share the land together as we should.

00:12:39.100 Should we not?

00:12:39.600 Or do we constantly have to sit in little groups and categories over and over again?

00:12:45.700 Right?

00:12:46.020 I don't like groups and categories.

00:12:47.760 It's good to acknowledge someone's background, yes.

00:12:49.900 But is that who they are?

00:12:51.980 Right?

00:12:53.860 My background comes from Ireland and Scotland.

00:12:56.860 But if I was talking to an Irish right now, he'd look at me going, you're not Irish.

00:13:02.460 Rightfully so.

00:13:03.120 I would not be Irish. 1.00

00:13:04.300 Name might be Irish.

00:13:05.380 But my name is also Scottish, too.

00:13:07.580 A Scotsman would probably say to me, you're not Scottish.

00:13:09.640 What do you know?

00:13:11.500 Exactly.

00:13:12.380 I am a Canadian.

00:13:13.500 My roots come from Europe.

00:13:14.560 Yes.

00:13:15.140 And it's funny because it's bringing me to a point of conversation, too, where I had with

00:13:17.680 someone on Facebook.

00:13:19.120 Like I say, I'm not going to mention any names, ladies and gentlemen. 0.99

00:13:20.880 I don't believe in this doxing bullshit. 0.99

00:13:22.700 But she made it very clear that she was a female. 0.97

00:13:26.060 And she made it very, very staunch and clear to me that European descendants should just 1.00

00:13:30.300 go back to Europe. 0.70

00:13:31.760 Okay.

00:13:32.080 And I pondered, you know, the question before I asked her, thinking, okay, what if everything

00:13:39.040 European went back to Europe? 0.95

00:13:42.140 Every innovation in the past, let's say, 200 years for shits and giggles. 0.98

00:13:45.660 Okay.

00:13:46.180 Every innovation that has come to North America from the European settlers all of a sudden 1.00

00:13:50.860 said, fine, we're packing up. 0.95

00:13:52.160 We're getting the fuck out of here. 0.93

00:13:54.100 Okay. 0.98

00:13:54.500 And she said, well, that'd just be fine.

00:13:57.860 Just let me go hunt with my rifle and go live in the bush and I'll be just fine.

00:14:02.100 She didn't like the fact that I told her, well, guess what?

00:14:04.360 Your rifle's going too.

00:14:06.140 Because, you know, gunpowder and muskets and all that good stuff came from the European

00:14:11.260 settlers.

00:14:12.360 So if you want to get back to traditional roots, fine. 0.68

00:14:15.140 You go back, live in the bush, teach yourself again about the medicines and the healing elements

00:14:21.140 of certain plants and foods, okay, and hunt with a sharp, pointy stick or a spear, no

00:14:26.840 metal, no metal, because before Europeans came to North America, not to me, people knew

00:14:33.760 how to forge steel to make good spearheads or make good arrowheads.

00:14:38.620 You know what I mean?

00:14:39.680 So keep that in mind.

00:14:41.420 Now, societies lived and thrived without the European intervention for a very, very long

00:14:46.260 time.

00:14:46.700 They made tools, bone and stone and what have you.

00:14:49.600 So if you want to get rid of the European influence in North America, then fine.

00:14:55.180 You start from ground zero, start from the ground up, okay?

00:14:58.900 Create your own antibiotics, create your own medicines, create your own cell phones, your

00:15:02.860 own radio waves, your own technology, okay?

00:15:05.740 Your own weapons, you know, without any European influence.

00:15:09.140 And we'll see how that goes, okay?

00:15:12.160 For those of us who want to cancel history, yeah, good luck to that, okay? 0.97

00:15:16.800 All right, I want to get so sick and tired of this cancel culture bullshit, okay? 1.00

00:15:23.120 So Johnny McDonald helped create the railroad in this country, okay? 0.99

00:15:29.480 So Wilfrid Laurier united a lot of French and English division, okay? 1.00

00:15:34.400 So Robert Borden mobilized a nation to go fight a dirty, nasty fucking war. 0.97

00:15:39.000 And regardless of how you feel about those three prime ministers, okay, and I know I'm missing 0.99

00:15:44.460 one in between Laurier and McDonald, I'm a little shady on my Canadian politics at the

00:15:50.360 1870s, but I think you get my point when it comes to understanding the building of this

00:15:56.680 country, okay?

00:15:58.800 Now, I'm not justifying any terrible thing that's happened to anybody, but a lot has

00:16:05.880 changed in Canada since the 1860s, quite a bit.

00:16:11.660 And if those individuals that sit there and go, rah, rah, rah, let's burn the church, rah,

00:16:15.800 rah, rah, let's tear down the statues, rah, rah, rah, you're not just denying history for

00:16:21.060 yourselves because you don't like it.

00:16:22.800 You're denying history for the next generation that's coming up because let's say if you

00:16:27.580 lot end up spawning some kids and they ask you the tough questions, mom, dad, who is

00:16:32.520 this person?

00:16:33.580 Mom, dad, who is that person?

00:16:35.700 And while you're tearing down statues and tearing up the books and everything right now,

00:16:39.680 you won't have that information to give them.

00:16:42.640 You see what I'm getting at here? 1.00

00:16:44.840 And you'll probably look like a fucking moron. 1.00

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00:17:35.340 Anyway, carrying on.

00:17:36.180 More of this.

00:17:36.920 Is this reconciliation?

00:17:38.600 Is this, are these issues that has happened the past couple of weeks?

00:17:42.360 At least this past week?

00:17:45.400 Justified?

00:17:47.000 Right?

00:17:47.720 I heard rumblings of people saying, oh, someone started the fires in BC.

00:17:51.120 Well, there's footage that lightning struck.

00:17:53.700 So I don't think anyone started the fires in BC. 0.99

00:17:56.820 I think it's just a freak of nature and shit happens. 0.77

00:17:59.600 But once again, I like to say to my friends and family in British Columbia, my sincerest 0.96

00:18:05.180 condolences to my brothers and sisters out there.

00:18:07.620 Please, my deepest sympathies.

00:18:10.820 And if some of you just have my email, please don't hesitate to ask me for anything.

00:18:15.220 Okay?

00:18:15.420 I'm available.

00:18:16.240 Please give me a call to some of my friends who know, you know who I am.

00:18:20.280 Let me know what's going on, folks.

00:18:21.620 Please keep me posted on what's happening.

00:18:25.980 But moving on, still, reconciliation.

00:18:28.440 You're not going to reconcile any kind of differences by burning someone's property.

00:18:32.260 Okay?

00:18:32.720 Whether it belongs to a wealthy religious conglomerate or a small town.

00:18:37.840 Okay?

00:18:38.340 It's not going to honor the memory of those who have fallen.

00:18:40.880 It's not going to bring back those who have fallen.

00:18:42.980 You're just creating more anger and division. 0.99

00:18:45.260 And the last thing we need right now, ladies and gentlemen, is more bloody fucking division. 0.99

00:18:50.140 We've already got professional victims in Ottawa doing that for us. 0.99

00:18:53.920 Why the hell do we think we need to hear right now?

00:18:56.520 Okay?

00:18:57.480 Do the math.

00:18:58.900 Okay?

00:18:59.620 Now, I've had a couple of First Nation members come aboard me, like I said in my last episode,

00:19:04.620 reminding me about my privilege and all these wonderful things.

00:19:08.580 And yet, I saw the footage of two years in Winnipeg.

00:19:13.960 Okay.

00:19:15.840 You've got the ability to travel to one side of the nation to the next to tell me about my privilege

00:19:21.160 because you're pulling down statues.

00:19:23.860 Okay.

00:19:24.840 Well, your actions speak louder than words now.

00:19:28.320 Okay?

00:19:29.240 And I'm a firm believer that you take action to fix something, to do something, to make something better.

00:19:34.800 You don't take action to destroy something.

00:19:37.100 Okay?

00:19:37.700 Now, regardless of how I feel about the monarchy right now, and my loyalty is to Canada,

00:19:41.680 first and foremost.

00:19:42.720 I'm not loyal to the Queen anymore, regardless of what affirmation I made as a soldier.

00:19:47.420 Okay?

00:19:47.780 And out of tradition and in a certain respect, yes.

00:19:51.820 Like I say, I'm sure she's a wonderful lady. 0.99

00:19:53.620 I'm sure she's very polite and curious.

00:19:55.260 Yes.

00:19:55.480 And ask a pity, whatever.

00:19:56.820 Yeah.

00:19:56.920 But my Canada doesn't include the monarchy governing anything.

00:20:02.360 We can use the likeness, maybe.

00:20:05.240 We can maybe have some of it on our doctrine.

00:20:07.920 But as far as I'm concerned, she does not govern me.

00:20:11.100 And the future king will not govern me.

00:20:13.520 Or any future king or queen thereafter.

00:20:16.440 That's just how I feel about it.

00:20:19.200 Okay?

00:20:19.980 And I'm not going to enforce that to anybody else.

00:20:21.840 I'm not going to preach that gospel until my eardrums bleed.

00:20:26.540 Okay?

00:20:26.640 That's just my personal opinion.

00:20:28.820 But I'm not going to call myself an ally because it's trendy.

00:20:31.800 I'm going to call myself a human being to other human beings too.

00:20:34.920 That we're in this country together, ladies and gentlemen, regardless of color or creed.

00:20:39.900 Okay?

00:20:40.100 Regardless of the history.

00:20:41.180 Yes.

00:20:41.780 The 1860s were a bloody decade in North America.

00:20:46.440 Okay?

00:20:46.900 We know this.

00:20:47.720 The United States Civil War happened.

00:20:52.060 250,000 people were killed in that war. 1.00

00:20:54.400 A terrible, fucking dirty civil war. 1.00

00:20:57.740 Okay? 1.00

00:20:57.980 And at that time, Canada was starting to build things.

00:21:00.380 To get permission from Britain.

00:21:01.980 To get support from Britain in regards to building our own nation.

00:21:06.040 Okay?

00:21:06.200 Now, I'm reflecting back to my early high school history here.

00:21:09.920 What I remember.

00:21:11.300 But Canada was just tiny.

00:21:14.240 I think maybe about 4 million people.

00:21:15.940 Tops.

00:21:16.340 Very, very tiny population compared to the United States.

00:21:19.920 I think that at that time had about 25, 100 million people living in the original 13 states and other territories that they were expanding it.

00:21:30.280 Okay?

00:21:30.660 So, there was quite a bit of population difference in that area.

00:21:35.400 Okay?

00:21:35.940 Correct me if I'm wrong, though.

00:21:37.180 This is all speculation based on the notes I took in high school.

00:21:41.140 Okay?

00:21:41.580 So, bear with me, folks.

00:21:43.280 But there's still quite the difference there.

00:21:45.200 And there could have been annexes here, annexes there.

00:21:48.660 But there wasn't.

00:21:49.400 But there was a threat of annexation.

00:21:53.660 And a guy by the name of Sir John A., and the other father's confederation, decided to do something about it.

00:21:59.840 Which, it worked.

00:22:01.280 So, to summarize, okay, it worked.

00:22:04.800 And you had people that assisted in building the railway, getting money here, getting money there.

00:22:12.420 And, yes, there was slave labor.

00:22:14.500 Okay?

00:22:14.700 There was Chinese inventors there.

00:22:18.320 Or not inventors.

00:22:19.020 Sorry.

00:22:19.360 There was Chinese people that were taken, used as cheap labor.

00:22:23.140 There were other people who used as cheap labor, too.

00:22:24.980 There was quite a bit of an entourage there.

00:22:27.660 And it wasn't perfect.

00:22:30.280 But that was a sign of the times, too.

00:22:33.440 Okay? 0.99

00:22:34.000 Now, you'd be hard-pressed to find too much of that kind of garbage going on right now. 0.75

00:22:38.660 Because the Asian population in this country has contributed quite a lot towards academia, towards art, towards the economy, towards technology. 0.89

00:22:46.780 And the Asian Canadians I worked with in the military, they had no problems.

00:22:54.940 They had no issues.

00:22:57.080 Right?

00:22:57.660 They're some of the best.

00:22:58.620 I made some great friends out of Asian Canadians.

00:23:02.060 And I'm not going to be one of those guys saying, oh, I have this friend who's this.

00:23:05.080 And, you know, I'm just telling you how it is.

00:23:07.800 Okay?

00:23:08.960 So, when we look back at our history, we have to really, really appreciate the differences we've overcame.

00:23:14.940 The resilience that Canada overcame those years.

00:23:19.540 Regardless if there was loyalty to an empire, or loyalty to a monarchy, or loyalty to anything other than democracy.

00:23:28.860 And we're missing that right now, too. 0.99

00:23:31.080 We're missing this loyalty to democracy because we're seeing all this shit come down from Ottawa. 0.99

00:23:36.180 We're seeing all this garbage come on from Ottawa about our deficits and about the WE scandal. 0.99

00:23:41.040 And SNC-Lavalin and rampant sexism and misogyny and all the environment and all climate crisis and all this inflation. 0.99

00:23:52.040 And it seems ironic, too, that even our federal government has taken advantage of this opportunity to tell us again how racist we are.

00:24:02.680 Tell us again how bigoted we are.

00:24:04.420 Oh, we should be ashamed. 0.98

00:24:05.720 And yet, these are the clowns, too, that said it was okay to give themselves another pay raise two years in a row. 0.98

00:24:12.460 Okay? 0.97

00:24:13.480 It's okay to give themselves a little more incentive while they take more from us.

00:24:18.600 But, of course, the voter base doesn't want to see that.

00:24:21.140 They want to see the freebies and the handouts.

00:24:23.700 While we have no more resources to promote and no more product going out, resources begin to dry up. 0.97

00:24:30.000 Because when you start printing shit money, then you start printing false currency at a higher inflation rate. 0.86

00:24:37.600 So that free money doesn't become free anymore. 0.98

00:24:41.160 Okay?

00:24:42.020 Think about that, folks.

00:24:44.080 It doesn't become free anymore.

00:24:47.440 Right?

00:24:49.420 Something to ponder.

00:24:52.340 Okay?

00:24:53.240 Who doesn't like a handout?

00:24:54.320 Well, sure. 1.00

00:24:54.780 Fuck, I'd love a handout. 1.00

00:24:55.820 But I'm the kind of person I'd rather go and work for, which I do. 1.00

00:24:58.760 I do.

00:24:59.860 Okay?

00:25:00.280 I am employed.

00:25:01.520 You know?

00:25:02.320 And I do get some income from this podcast and from my videos, what have you, too, which I'm very grateful for.

00:25:07.700 And I do want to thank my audience out there who has contributed so much to me this month.

00:25:11.100 Thank you once again to everyone who has donated and contributed.

00:25:14.120 But please consider donating still.

00:25:16.720 Like I say, either in Supercast or just follow the link there at the bottom of your page.

00:25:21.440 KrustyKunk.ca at donations.

00:25:23.720 And go from there.

00:25:25.000 Right?

00:25:25.840 But it just gets ridiculous how there's so much race baiting out there.

00:25:31.780 And there's even people my age, too, who are all over it.

00:25:35.520 Like it's some kind of, oh, my God, we've never heard about this before.

00:25:39.920 Oh, the inhumanity.

00:25:42.760 I can tell you about those people personally.

00:25:45.800 A lot of them are just jumping on the bandwagon to look like they care.

00:25:49.100 When the majority of them don't.

00:25:51.960 Okay?

00:25:52.180 I care because I do have friends of mine that are First Nations.

00:25:59.260 But they grew up in a pretty good household, too.

00:26:01.340 But they don't want to have to carry the weight because one group says they should.

00:26:07.540 Okay? 0.97

00:26:08.920 They don't want to have to carry the physical and emotional garbage because one group says they should. 0.94

00:26:15.620 Okay? 0.95

00:26:15.860 And that's the thing.

00:26:17.340 The whole tribal thing is coming back and forth again.

00:26:20.780 Right?

00:26:21.860 Yes, I agree.

00:26:22.820 We should recognize some privileges out there.

00:26:25.440 But not because of one person's skin color or one person's culture.

00:26:31.040 It's about people's choices.

00:26:33.440 Now, you can choose to sit and be angry about this all the time.

00:26:36.600 And believe it or not, I'm pissed off, too.

00:26:38.360 Because we all knew the federal government had inside information on many things.

00:26:42.560 As well as a lot of the clergies. 0.79

00:26:44.680 And the provinces, too.

00:26:46.060 And I would say a majority of the municipalities as well.

00:26:49.740 And certain boards of education, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

00:26:53.660 Okay?

00:26:55.420 But enough of the finger pointing and the blame and the race baiting.

00:26:59.520 And burning down people's property.

00:27:03.520 Okay?

00:27:04.200 If we're going to find a possible solution to this,

00:27:08.220 why can't we learn from people like Gandhi who sat and protested without violence?

00:27:15.260 Like Martin Luther King who sat and marched and protested without violence.

00:27:20.220 Okay?

00:27:21.180 He didn't tell people to go out and burn buildings and set fire to businesses and burn churches.

00:27:26.380 He told people to love and care and do what you can.

00:27:29.860 And regardless of how imperfect his personal life was, 0.99

00:27:33.020 the man still amplified one hell of a fucking message. 0.99

00:27:37.060 Same as Gandhi. 1.00

00:27:38.220 He took on an empire.

00:27:42.240 Okay?

00:27:43.420 He took on an empire peacefully.

00:27:46.520 There could have been many countries that would have sold him weapons and sold him guns

00:27:50.540 and sold him bombs and fireworks and everything.

00:27:53.380 Oh, my.

00:27:55.100 But he didn't.

00:27:57.020 Look what he did.

00:27:59.080 Okay?

00:28:00.180 And that's something to learn from, regardless if you agree with it or not.

00:28:05.200 And setting fire to churches and toppling statues,

00:28:07.640 isn't going to bring the lost ones back.

00:28:11.320 Okay?

00:28:13.640 Setting fire to Vimy Ridge will not honor the memory of our men and women that died there.

00:28:19.640 Setting fire to any monument in Dieppe will not honor the men and women that fought there.

00:28:26.820 Okay?

00:28:27.580 And regardless of the social structure at that time or not,

00:28:30.700 I'm well aware of the First Nations that committed the ultimate sacrifice, too,

00:28:34.500 in the name of Canada, in the name of family and friends,

00:28:37.680 in the name of your tribe or your clan.

00:28:40.040 I understand that.

00:28:41.720 And I am very, very grateful that I actually got to know a couple of veterans.

00:28:47.240 I actually met a couple of First Nation veterans that fought the Nazis,

00:28:51.280 fought real Nazis, too. 0.99

00:28:53.520 And I'll say that for another episode, but some great fucking stories, too. 0.98

00:28:58.400 Great stories in history and the way they were treated and the resilience, 0.98

00:29:03.780 the resilience they presented in the face of that adversity.

00:29:08.700 That gives you inspiration, right?

00:29:13.660 And once again, ladies and gentlemen, please consider donating at SuperTech, right?

00:29:18.460 Or SuperCast.

00:29:20.660 If you find me at SuperCast, I'll leave the link down here at the bottom for you, too,

00:29:24.620 to check out as well.

00:29:26.560 You'll also find links in my description.

00:29:28.300 And there'll be links in the description in this video as well.

00:29:32.480 Ellis Ross makes a good point with Aaron Gunn.

00:29:35.000 And Aaron Gunn, if you're listening right now, congratulations on your attempt

00:29:40.060 or your future attempt to getting into liberal politics.

00:29:43.520 Now, I disagree with the liberal brand right now

00:29:46.120 because liberals do not stand for the same liberal principles that I grew up with.

00:29:51.260 They're the furthest thing from it, right?

00:29:53.560 They want to take your money and run.

00:29:55.440 Okay.

00:29:56.080 But good luck to Mr. Aaron Gunn, the citizen journalist.

00:29:59.680 You'll see him pop up on YouTube.

00:30:01.600 And he's been a guest speaker on Rebel.

00:30:03.940 And TrueNorthMedia, what have you.

00:30:08.140 And I managed to have a couple of chit-chats with him. 0.98

00:30:10.460 A nice guy.

00:30:11.640 So, please, good luck to you, Aaron, on your endeavors.

00:30:15.260 Hopefully, I might see you in Parliament someday.

00:30:17.380 We'll see.

00:30:18.840 But I need to say, buddy, good luck to you.

00:30:20.540 But he did a video with Ellis Ross there.

00:30:23.460 BC MLA out of the Skeena area.

00:30:26.640 And he's got some interesting stories, too.

00:30:29.580 I'll put some links in there.

00:30:31.440 In the description for you guys to follow as well.

00:30:34.740 And please, stay with me this Sunday.

00:30:37.020 We're going to have another fastball.

00:30:38.480 I'm trying to get some new guests on.

00:30:40.580 A couple of people have left the show so far.

00:30:44.280 Nothing bitter.

00:30:45.460 No animosity towards these individuals.

00:30:47.580 All they just went on to pursue different things, which is fine.

00:30:50.160 And I'm trying to get a couple of interesting guests on to weigh in on their belief and what's going on in the world of politics and social upheaval, what have you.

00:30:59.380 So, please stay tuned to that.

00:31:00.700 I'll be posting information up on the fastball for this coming Sunday, July 4th.

00:31:05.400 To my American listeners, I know you're celebrating 4th of July, your Independence Day.

00:31:09.760 So, if I don't get to hear from you or see you, happy Independence Day to my American listeners and viewers out there, too.

00:31:17.540 Have a couple of Pabst Blue Ribbons.

00:31:19.340 Maybe smoke a hoolie.

00:31:20.780 Put on some Leonard Skinner and rock on.

00:31:22.660 Not that I'm saying you all listen to a nerd, Skinner, but I think you catch my point, right?

00:31:28.940 But, anyway, to my American listeners out there, happy Independence Day to you.

00:31:32.640 And welcome to the World of the Krusty Canuck podcast, if you can make it so, please.

00:31:39.780 That's 4 o'clock Sunday, Mountain Standard Time.

00:31:43.720 You can tune into that, too.

00:31:45.680 But I'll be taking a break from that for the next couple of weeks after that, too.

00:31:49.700 My work schedule has just increased.

00:31:51.140 We have a couple of employees that are going on holiday.

00:31:54.000 So, I'll be taking over the extra hours, which is nice, which means a few more dollars in the bank.

00:31:59.680 Getting things paid for, not done.

00:32:01.680 I've got to do some deck work, what have you.

00:32:03.360 So, lumber is like buying cocaine.

00:32:05.700 It's quite the fortune now.

00:32:07.280 So, I've got to be careful with my pennies, ladies and gentlemen, when it comes to getting lumber.

00:32:12.880 I mean, it's to say.

00:32:13.940 But that's basically my rant for today, ladies and gentlemen, for the 2nd of July, 2021.

00:32:19.060 We're not going to replace history because you're mad.

00:32:22.140 You can be mad at all you want.

00:32:23.200 There's a lot of figures in history that I'm mad at.

00:32:25.580 But I'm not going to burn any textbook or smash any information or destroy any information that presents their case or their actions, what have you.

00:32:35.000 We're supposed to learn from history.

00:32:36.340 We're supposed to embrace from it.

00:32:37.460 And take what we can because, you know, who am I to deny you something you want to see and vice versa?

00:32:44.260 We know this.

00:32:45.200 This is common sense, okay?

00:32:47.380 You're not going to get ahead in progress and move forward if you keep destroying things.

00:32:53.220 And like I said, if you want to topple statues down, fine.

00:32:57.000 They're objects.

00:32:57.700 They, but they still have meaning.

00:33:01.140 They represent history.

00:33:03.660 And if you want to add to the history, do so.

00:33:07.060 Like I say, erect a statue of Tecumseh or Joseph Brandt, okay?

00:33:11.260 Or of Sitting Bull.

00:33:13.440 Erect said statues.

00:33:15.560 You know, let's find some more indigenous leaders that made a difference and erect statues for them too.

00:33:20.540 Let's put some more up of Terry Fox, right?

00:33:23.360 Let's put a statue up of Roberta Bondar, okay?

00:33:27.180 She was one of the first Canadian females in space.

00:33:29.440 If not, I think the first.

00:33:31.400 So there's an honor right there we can erect, okay?

00:33:34.460 There's lots of history this country has.

00:33:36.260 And it may not be as glorious and as bloody as some of our allies' history.

00:33:41.800 But it's worth the time and the effort to learn about just the same, okay?

00:33:46.560 Like I said, ladies and gentlemen, I've been Krusty Canuck on this beautiful and over-hot.

00:33:50.860 But it's about 30 Celsius now in here.

00:33:54.100 I got two fans going.

00:33:55.680 I just see the sweat dripping down my chrome dome here.

00:33:59.020 But like I say, you know, it's been an interesting week.

00:34:04.420 But stand our ground, folks.

00:34:05.480 Do what we can.

00:34:06.240 Do what's right.

00:34:07.820 You know, be honest.

00:34:09.000 If we're going to demand truth and reconciliation, then demand the truth and reconcile like adults.

00:34:14.340 Not like a bunch of spoiled little kids, okay?

00:34:18.300 You're not going to honor the memory of anybody fallen by destroying property and setting fire to things.

00:34:23.020 You're not.

00:34:24.800 You know, that makes you no better than the oppressors of yesteryear.

00:34:27.880 So think about that.

00:34:29.740 Like I said, I've been Krusty Canuck on this beautiful 2nd of July 2021.

00:34:33.840 Keep hydrated.

00:34:34.540 Do what you can.

00:34:35.200 Help each other out.

00:34:36.540 Look after your friends and loved ones and all that good stuff.

00:34:39.160 And remember, ladies and gentlemen, humanity and merit wins the day.

00:34:44.300 Hope to see you Sunday.

00:34:45.600 Take care.

00:34:46.420 Bye for now.

00:34:50.480 Hit it, sweetheart. 1.00

00:34:52.700 Because I am hard, you will not like me.

00:34:55.520 Yes, sir.

00:34:59.120 There is no racial bigotry here.

00:35:03.700 There you are all equally working.

00:35:05.720 This has been another episode of the Krusty Canuck podcast.

00:35:11.880 Stay sane.

00:35:12.800 And thank you for listening.

00:35:14.340 From Western Canada.

00:35:15.720 This is the Krusty Canuck podcast. 1.00

00:35:21.280 Smack my ass and call me Judy. 1.00

00:35:23.600 Listen, thanks for listening. 1.00

00:35:47.500 Thank you.

The Crusty Canuck Podcast - July 03, 2021

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