True Patriot Love - A Nation in Mourning： Canada Responds to BC’s Tragedy

00:00:00.000 Well, it's obviously a very difficult day for the nation.

00:00:05.300 This morning, parents, grandparents, sisters, brothers in Tumblr Ridge will wake up without someone they love.

00:00:18.280 The nation boards with you. Canada stands by you.

00:00:23.040 I want to thank and pass on a number of world leaders who've reached out directly to me in solidarity and compassion.

00:00:34.880 France, United Kingdom, His Majesty Himself, Norway, Finland, India, United Arab Emirates, many others.

00:00:47.460 The world is with you.

00:00:48.480 I have spoken to Premier Eby.

00:00:53.960 Minister of Public Safety has been engaged, as have many Canadian officials over the evening.

00:01:00.320 Minister of Public Safety is on route to British Columbia.

00:01:02.340 He and the Premier will be visiting the community.

00:01:04.640 All assistance, obviously, will be offered.

00:01:07.400 We thank the first responders, the teachers, the staff, the residents,

00:01:14.300 for everything that they've done in this terrible situation.

00:01:18.480 I, on the advice of the Clerk of the Cleverie Council in Heritage Canada,

00:01:25.520 I've asked that the flags of the Peace Tower here and across all government buildings

00:01:30.880 be flown at half-mast for the next seven days.

00:01:34.960 We will get through this.

00:01:36.160 We will learn from this.

00:01:36.980 But right now, it's a time to come together, as Canadians always do, in these situations,

00:01:42.360 these terrible situations, to support each other, to mourn together, and to grow together.

00:01:49.500 Now, I don't care what you think about Mark Carney as a politician or a person,

00:01:59.560 but it's impossible not to feel the emotion of the man talking about the victims of the tragic shooting in B.C.

00:02:07.100 What took place has shaken a lot of Canadians as he choked back tears

00:02:10.760 and talked about all flags at all federal buildings being dropped to half-mast for the next seven days.

00:02:17.200 A lot of us felt the same emotion.

00:02:18.820 Joined by Brady and Mike and gentlemen, this is every parent's worst nightmare,

00:02:24.040 which happened in Tumblr Ridge.

00:02:26.640 I remember the first time one of our daughters, when she was in high school,

00:02:30.480 they had a lockdown, and the absolute terror and panic of my partner and I,

00:02:35.000 and there was nothing like this.

00:02:37.560 There's no word to describe what the families in that community are going through right now.

00:02:42.680 I tried to find a bigger word than tragedy to cover this, but as a parent,

00:02:49.560 and having had high school students and to see how volatile and how important that time in a young person's life is,

00:02:59.260 this really hit home to a point where, even putting to words what you feel about this is going to be tough for all Canadians.

00:03:09.280 And then you focus in just a little bit on that little town

00:03:13.400 and think about the impact that it's going to have forevermore.

00:03:18.440 You know, Brady, and the one thing that's gone viral is one of the mothers posted a photo of this sweet 12-year-old girl

00:03:24.820 who's fighting for her life in a hospital, and it was bad enough to think about the victims, the tragedy,

00:03:30.560 see the prime minister in tears, and you see that photo going viral.

00:03:33.980 You're like, I can't believe that happened.

00:03:36.600 Like, what happened?

00:03:37.500 Yeah, I don't have children, but at this point, at the age that I'm at,

00:03:44.880 I've seen numerous friends and people live with fear like this is a thing that could happen.

00:03:52.200 We don't see it very often in Canada, anywhere in Canada.

00:03:57.020 And I don't know if it's just that we're so much in a pressure cooker right now

00:04:01.480 or people are just extremely frustrated,

00:04:04.340 but I hope this is not a thing that's going to become a regular thing here in Canada.

00:04:10.500 Do we get to the point now where we're becoming, you know,

00:04:13.460 the same problems that they're having in the United States?

00:04:15.460 Is this a gun buyback program issue?

00:04:18.960 Is this a gun issue?

00:04:20.020 Or is this just frustration?

00:04:21.940 This is the worst thing I've heard in a very long time.

00:04:26.000 Very difficult to even sort through those things like,

00:04:31.060 oh, is this, where did the crack in the system occur here?

00:04:36.680 But, you know, in the coming days,

00:04:39.040 I'm sure that's what we're going to hear a lot about.

00:04:41.460 For the moment, to hear the prime minister

00:04:43.260 stand with the nation, I have to admit, with you,

00:04:49.260 a very classy maneuver, very human response to it,

00:04:53.260 much like all of ours.

00:04:54.760 You know, I read the story last night.

00:04:56.760 It was interesting because it came up,

00:04:59.180 and I looked at it like I was reading something that had occurred in the U.S.

00:05:04.680 So my first response was, oh, no, what?

00:05:08.700 What?

00:05:09.840 Oh, no.

00:05:10.620 And the real tragedy of that was twofold to me.

00:05:14.200 One, that it had occurred at all.

00:05:16.500 And then, two, that this kind of thing

00:05:18.840 that we've become sadly accustomed to seeing in the U.S.

00:05:22.720 and, you know, primarily from our news in the U.S.

00:05:26.040 and other parts of the world,

00:05:27.680 here it is right here in Canada in a beautiful small town

00:05:30.320 with a very small, tight-knit community of people

00:05:34.100 who will know the killer, who will know the victims,

00:05:37.220 who will know the first responders,

00:05:39.860 who will know the, you know,

00:05:41.940 this will be an indelible mark on the souls of the people of that town

00:05:49.120 the rest of their lives.

00:05:50.060 The township is never going to recover.

00:05:52.720 Oh, I don't know how you, yeah.

00:05:54.220 This is, I couldn't agree more.

00:05:55.760 I know it's been talked about in Milano and Cortina,

00:05:58.980 the Olympics team, Canada, the Olympians,

00:06:00.880 it's been a thunderclap.

00:06:03.000 They can't believe what happened

00:06:04.700 because of the time change.

00:06:05.820 They got the news.

00:06:06.640 Right.

00:06:07.200 And a lot of the hockey players,

00:06:09.040 a lot of all the different athletes

00:06:10.160 are trying to have some sort of commemoration

00:06:12.600 for the victims and the injured in the town in B.C.

00:06:15.340 because a lot of the athletes are from British Columbia,

00:06:17.920 maybe have roots near the area.

00:06:20.120 And so this is hitting a lot of people hard.

00:06:23.080 And especially where even if you have kids or don't have kids,

00:06:26.180 any human being can see that.

00:06:28.460 And you just alluded to first responders.

00:06:30.660 They are humans.

00:06:31.580 We forget the paramedics and fire and police.

00:06:34.560 They're the first ones to go in there and see the aftermath of that.

00:06:38.020 And they don't always recover.

00:06:40.100 No, you pointed out that there was a family tragedy

00:06:43.380 that occurred here in a drunk driving incident,

00:06:46.160 the Musil case.

00:06:48.020 And the family that was so tragically torn apart by that,

00:06:52.280 the first responders, some of them to that event,

00:06:56.300 never returned.

00:06:57.560 No.

00:06:58.800 I should point out that we sat down to do this podcast today

00:07:02.160 and had another show planned.

00:07:03.420 But the reason that we're doing it, I think,

00:07:04.880 is maybe to share our feelings, yes,

00:07:07.680 but really to talk it through as a group.

00:07:10.520 This is so fresh and so new and so, so deeply sad and horrifying.

00:07:17.800 May I say something, gentlemen?

00:07:19.200 That we're just kind of ruffling through it.

00:07:20.600 That there are some people maybe watching this Reddit

00:07:24.620 or trying to digest in their social media.

00:07:27.260 If you're overwhelmed,

00:07:29.020 call your local mental health association.

00:07:30.960 They have 1-800 numbers, 24 hours a day.

00:07:34.240 Talk to somebody.

00:07:35.240 This is hitting a lot of people in the guts and heart.

00:07:38.900 And there's help out there.

00:07:40.180 You're not alone.

00:07:41.560 If you want to send comments to us,

00:07:43.100 we'll respond to them.

00:07:44.140 I have no sympathy for the shooter.

00:07:48.080 None of the information has been put out yet.

00:07:50.380 I have 24 hours afterwards here as we record this.

00:07:54.180 I have only sympathy for the families and the victims.

00:07:57.240 But if you get to the point where you're that angry

00:08:01.140 or that fed up,

00:08:03.240 do yourself and everybody else a favor

00:08:05.740 by either talking to a mental health professional

00:08:08.180 or go deal with this on your own.

00:08:10.080 Do not involve other people.

00:08:11.540 Like, what is going on?

00:08:12.600 I don't know.

00:08:13.860 What we're seeing is a fracture in a couple of things.

00:08:17.600 Mental health awareness comes to mind.

00:08:21.120 We have a huge mental health issue here in Canada.

00:08:23.980 And it's not getting any smaller.

00:08:25.340 And you can hashtag Bell Talks all you want.

00:08:27.940 But we're not actually confronting it.

00:08:32.340 We used to throw pills at it before,

00:08:33.940 and we realized that that was a problem, right?

00:08:35.840 That causes probably more problems than it's fixing.

00:08:37.880 But we need to address this.

00:08:42.280 It's, then again,

00:08:44.060 as a country.

00:08:45.060 To understand what happened, I think, still remains.

00:08:47.980 Jim, the details, I think, are how many in hospitals currently?

00:08:53.480 At least 25, maybe 27, some of them seriously.

00:08:57.780 Here's one thing I'd like to say.

00:08:59.440 I know everyone wants to get on social media

00:09:02.220 and get their likes and their clicks

00:09:04.100 and be an influencer.

00:09:06.260 That's gross.

00:09:06.700 There are some times you have to let the professionals do their job.

00:09:10.420 And there are some times where the RCMP and the police,

00:09:15.400 they have a legal duty to inform next of kin

00:09:20.160 before they start announcing names.

00:09:23.180 And they have an investigation.

00:09:24.320 And they let you know what's happening. 0.99

00:09:26.940 We don't know shit. 0.99

00:09:28.860 No. 0.99

00:09:29.280 We don't know anything.

00:09:30.440 A lot of the time, too,

00:09:31.360 some of this information is like

00:09:32.600 when they say we have to contact the next of kin.

00:09:34.520 Well, we talked previously before recording this

00:09:36.800 that they found two bodies at a residence.

00:09:39.720 That's probably the next.

00:09:40.780 That they're relating to this.

00:09:41.340 That might be the next of kin. 0.81

00:09:43.320 But there might be someone involved

00:09:44.620 that they have to reach out to.

00:09:45.940 There we go.

00:09:46.800 Our speculation begins.

00:09:48.020 And what the problem is with that,

00:09:50.200 and I think, Jim, you raise a really good point.

00:09:52.360 I think it's okay for us to have a tragic moment together

00:09:57.540 without us peeling it apart with the professionals in place.

00:10:00.980 I do think that's really important.

00:10:02.840 And that you guys would say,

00:10:04.480 okay, this could impact how you feel.

00:10:07.060 Read that story,

00:10:08.000 and my eyes filled with tears instantly.

00:10:12.720 And, you know, we follow the news all day long.

00:10:15.520 It takes a lot for that to happen.

00:10:17.320 Anybody who's in a world where you're seeing news 24-7,

00:10:24.340 whether it's positive or negative,

00:10:26.420 it's overwhelming.

00:10:27.720 It can be.

00:10:29.140 That's why they call it doom-scrolling, right?

00:10:30.940 Right.

00:10:31.220 It's overwhelming.

00:10:31.900 Yeah, and so don't try to resist the temptation

00:10:35.140 to doom-scroll maybe,

00:10:36.580 and spend that time with a quiet prayer

00:10:39.360 or meditation for that community.

00:10:42.400 And let's wait to hear what's needed next.

00:10:45.220 If what's needed next is a GoFundMe,

00:10:47.900 if what's needed next is support from other places,

00:10:51.460 if what's needed next is for us to just mourn as a nation,

00:10:56.120 let's find out what that is.

00:10:57.760 Let's determine that.

00:10:59.140 Please, this time, without polarity,

00:11:01.660 with class and dignity,

00:11:03.520 let's help this community.

00:11:05.320 Virtued patience too, right?

00:11:06.840 Like patience is virtue.

00:11:08.020 That's an old one of the golden rules.

00:11:10.240 It's still there.

00:11:11.140 It still applies today.

00:11:12.460 And Brady, like, you know, Canadians, we have our faults.

00:11:15.260 Well, it's one thing.

00:11:16.120 We gather together as community,

00:11:17.920 whether it's a natural disaster or a tragedy or whatever,

00:11:22.640 we will, people from coast to coast will reach out and say,

00:11:25.640 what can I do to help?

00:11:27.320 Yeah.

00:11:27.780 And they will.

00:11:28.800 I have to admit,

00:11:29.760 I don't think that I've ever seen one of our leaders in tears.

00:11:33.680 And there was Mark Carney this morning.

00:11:36.600 Really, really.

00:11:37.900 Shaped him.

00:11:38.820 Really.

00:11:39.500 Yeah, shaved.

00:11:40.000 Like it was one of his own.

00:11:41.380 Yeah.

00:11:41.820 That, I was like, that blew me away.

00:11:44.400 So that is, I think, the correct.

00:11:48.360 I mean, everybody's going to have their own response

00:11:50.340 and there's no valid or non-valid response to this emotionally.

00:11:53.340 I would, I would ensure you of that.

00:11:56.860 But I could relate to that dad this morning.

00:12:00.500 Oh, hell yeah.

00:12:02.220 Yes.

00:12:02.860 And when I saw the clip, my first reaction was, oof, yeah.

00:12:08.080 This one's tough.

00:12:09.200 Yeah.

00:12:09.620 And I hope, I hope the, the group down south

00:12:14.360 doesn't use this as a talking point too.

00:12:17.120 Well, let's just tune them out maybe for a week or so.

00:12:19.400 I think it's just fine for us to be.

00:12:21.360 We can forget about what they have to say for a few days here

00:12:23.800 and just worry about Canada for a change.

00:12:26.520 That's exactly it.

00:12:27.620 That's a very good.

00:12:28.400 We have an opportunity to be a family as a nation for the moment

00:12:31.700 and take care of ourselves, take care of our own.

00:12:34.420 Yeah.

00:12:35.480 And maybe if we had more of that spirit,

00:12:39.040 less of this kind of tragedy will occur in the future.

00:12:43.140 I think that's something we could take away from this too.

00:12:45.280 And I, you know, I'm a pretty,

00:12:47.340 I'm a pretty crunchy old guy about, you know, the feelings.

00:12:52.540 But this is just too much for us to take on in any other way except together.

00:12:59.880 I, you know, Tumblr Ridge is a small community, rural Northeastern BC,

00:13:03.700 but they'll be surprised to know there's 40 million plus Canadians

00:13:06.860 that have their back.

00:13:08.240 Yeah.

00:13:08.500 Yeah.

00:13:08.960 They have their back.

00:13:09.920 My thoughts, I know yours, are deeply ensconced in the emotion of tragedy

00:13:18.680 and sorrow over this.

00:13:21.260 And to that community, we as a community here are here for you.

00:13:25.400 And we would be happy to help in any way that we can,

00:13:29.460 but just know beyond condolences, the tragedy is in our hearts with you.

True Patriot Love - February 12, 2026

A Nation in Mourning： Canada Responds to BC’s Tragedy

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