Western Standard - Canada’s election is in Trump’s hands

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00:00:30.000 Good day.

00:00:59.000 Hey, welcome to the Cory Morgan Show.

00:01:01.820 I bet you're all pumped.

00:01:02.920 It's French debate night, right?

00:01:04.560 You've got the popcorn set aside and your time all set up to watch that and take part.

00:01:11.060 Or not.

00:01:11.660 I don't know.

00:01:12.240 It's just hard to tell what the value of debates may or may not be in an election.

00:01:16.820 Sometimes they are, sometimes they aren't.

00:01:18.520 I think part of the problem is that there's too many candidates, so it's hard to get a

00:01:22.580 good one-on-one between the real top contenders.

00:01:24.860 But we have one less now.

00:01:26.000 Now the Greens have been kicked out.

00:01:27.120 I'll talk about that a little more in a little bit. Got a good show lined up. Somebody different.

00:01:31.520 I see Jordan checking in, by the way, the show's live. So yes, use that comment, scroll, chat with

00:01:35.800 me, send me questions, comments. I appreciate them. Just keep things civil. You can also discuss

00:01:41.800 things with each other. And as he mentioned, yes, I've got Tristan Hopper coming on. He recently

00:01:46.680 wrote and released a book called Don't Be Canada, How One Country Did Everything Wrong All At Once.

00:01:53.540 And if you're familiar with Tristan Hopper, he's got a great presence on X with a lot of his comments.

00:02:01.140 And, of course, his columns of the National Post are fantastic.

00:02:03.980 Very sharply critical on a lot of things.

00:02:06.520 So he's compiled it all into one fantastic book, and we're going to discuss that book.

00:02:10.340 It's an interesting time during the election for all of this to come up.

00:02:13.000 What I want to ask him, though, it sounds like a lot of the things he brought up throughout the book, which were fantastic,

00:02:18.140 aren't really turning into issues in this election or not nearly as much as we would hope they should.

00:02:23.540 so we will have a chat about that. And I don't have Dave in today. He's out doing more important

00:02:30.600 stuff, and most of our reporters and news crews are all over the country doing election coverage,

00:02:35.340 so I'll give you guys the news update after I give you my opening rant. So what I want to talk

00:02:40.300 about election-wise then, if nothing else, President Trump taught Canadians that there's

00:02:46.060 no such thing as a foregone conclusion, at least not when it comes to polls. Only a few short

00:02:51.080 months ago, the Liberals, they appeared to be in an impossible spot. They were like 17% in the

00:02:55.400 polls. They were down to the bottom. Even with the replacement of Trudeau, nobody thought the party

00:02:59.700 could recover by the next election. Well, that all changed after Trump was inaugurated, didn't it?

00:03:05.280 Riding on the tumultuous actions of Trump, the Liberals haven't just recovered their support

00:03:09.440 numbers. They've taken a solid lead in the polls. And Trump, because he provided them the only gift

00:03:15.020 that could save them, he gave them an external threat to the nation. When a country nation goes

00:03:20.600 to war, whether kinetic or economic, the first instinct of people is to rally around the existing

00:03:25.320 leadership. Internal differences get set aside while the immediate threat is dealt with. The

00:03:30.800 liberals have jumped on this opportunity masterfully as Carney strategically switches between

00:03:35.360 being an acting prime minister and being a political candidate throughout the campaign.

00:03:40.360 Meanwhile, Polyev's conservatives have been in a tailspin and they're struggling to find political

00:03:44.020 oxygen. In the last couple of weeks, the Trump factor weakened a little. Trump backed off and

00:03:49.780 some of his tariff threats and stopped with the taunting 51st state jabs he was making all the

00:03:55.840 time. And it actually allowed other issues to hit the news headlines. And for the first time since

00:04:00.040 the campaign began, lo and behold, the Conservatives have seen some upward movement in the polls.

00:04:05.020 You see, when Trump isn't dominating every broadcast, Canadians pay attention to domestic

00:04:09.340 issues, and then it benefits the Conservatives. When the news cycle returns to normal issues,

00:04:14.720 local issues, Canadians are reminded why four out of five of them wanted to get rid of the

00:04:18.280 Liberal government not so long ago. The cost of living is still challenging. Housing is still

00:04:22.320 hard to find and priced out of reach for many Canadians, if not most. Immigration levels are

00:04:26.520 still out of control. Crime levels make Canadians feel unsafe on the streets. And the opioid addiction

00:04:30.800 crisis is killing thousands. Carney's Liberals desperately want Canadians to forget about all

00:04:35.580 that. And as long as Trump keeps poking at the hornet's nest, people will. Foreign interference,

00:04:41.200 that fell by the wayside. Liberal efforts to drag all the investigations over the years,

00:04:45.760 drag him out appears to have paid off because Canadians have collective ADHD. Their attention 0.94

00:04:51.360 spans limited. They stopped paying attention at what the Liberals had done because Trump had

00:04:56.320 dominated everything else. I mean, we had evidence of the Communist Party of China's support of

00:04:59.840 Carney come out and some Liberal candidate issues have erupted, but it doesn't seem to have impacted

00:05:04.220 voting intentions. Canadians aren't paying attention to the issues. At least they aren't for now. If

00:05:09.840 they could just go a week or two without being distracted by Trump's actions, they might remember

00:05:13.420 these things. The liberal lead isn't a solid one. When the polls swing wildly in one direction,

00:05:17.500 they can swing back just as quickly. The electorate is volatile, that we can see,

00:05:22.220 and their support remains fluid. The liberals know this, and they don't feel too secure with

00:05:26.420 their lead. It shows with their recent actions. I mean, having staffers try and disrupt and create

00:05:31.760 a scandal at a conservative event with buttons. I mean, come on, that was pathetic and weak. 1.00

00:05:36.120 But that's what the liberals just tried. The abortion card, they recently played that as 0.99

00:05:40.120 well. They usually save that for the final week of the campaign. The Liberals aren't acting like

00:05:43.740 a party confident it's going to win. If Canadians can take some time to think about the issues and

00:05:48.280 the records of the parties, they will drift back to the Conservatives. Polls have consistently

00:05:52.120 indicated Canadians want to vote for change in this election. Yet, due to the bizarre Trump

00:05:55.580 factor in the campaign, Canadians in the same poll will say they want change, but they support

00:06:00.080 the Liberals. It doesn't make sense. The Liberals can't campaign on their record, nor do they want

00:06:04.700 to focus much on the current issues. The trade war and Trump are their biggest campaign assets,

00:06:08.920 and they want to keep the focus there.

00:06:10.880 If polls continue to show softening support for the Liberals,

00:06:13.120 rest assured the Liberals won't wait any longer for Trump to stir the pot.

00:06:16.500 They'll pull a stunt and try to strategically provoke him.

00:06:19.580 Unfortunately, Trump's pretty reactive and he might play the part for them.

00:06:23.480 How Trump acts in the next couple of weeks, whether provoked or not,

00:06:27.180 is likely going to determine the outcome of our election.

00:06:29.860 It's a weird place we're in right now, guys,

00:06:31.400 when the President of the United States holds the fate of the Canadian election in his hands,

00:06:34.600 those little orange hands, yet here we are.

00:06:37.240 So let's just hope Trump can do something counterintuitive to himself and to his own

00:06:41.160 nature and just leave Canada alone for a couple of weeks. Just give us a couple of weeks,

00:06:45.320 let people watch, make their decision informed on the issues and not whatever haywire things

00:06:50.640 President Trump wants to get going on. And I suspect we might see finally a change from the

00:06:55.780 liberals. It's frustrating though, isn't it? You know, this is our election and whether we like it

00:07:01.020 or not, it's an outside influence that's really determining it. That's not a good place to be.

00:07:08.520 And it's really benefiting the liberals. I mean, whether you like or hate liberals,

00:07:11.940 and most of the people in this audience I know aren't big liberal fans, but they've got smart

00:07:15.260 strategists among them. I mean, look how they play it. Carney is a dull, weak candidate.

00:07:21.100 Whenever things look dull and weak, suddenly, oh, even if we need this in emergency, I got to have

00:07:25.780 a cabinet meeting. I'll cancel my events and now I'm going to be prime minister for a little while.

00:07:29.320 And the legacy media will chase along and treat him as the prime minister.

00:07:33.460 Meanwhile, Pierre Polyev is off doing conferences.

00:07:36.720 He's not getting ink.

00:07:37.520 He's not getting airtime, not from the legacy media outlets.

00:07:40.600 And then he can switch back because, you know, it's supposed to be a caretaker government during a campaign.

00:07:46.240 The prime minister isn't supposed to be doing prime ministerial things unless he has to.

00:07:49.720 But they can claim this crisis as a way to keep back and forth.

00:07:53.420 And it's working.

00:07:55.540 But we'll see.

00:07:56.560 We'll see if Trump can just, you know, just stick to bug Greenland for a couple of weeks, you know,

00:08:03.040 leave us alone for a little bit and maybe we'll get an informed vote.

00:08:09.120 It shouldn't be based on what somebody outside of the country is doing.

00:08:12.260 Yet again, as I said, that's where we are.

00:08:14.340 Let's see what else we've got.

00:08:15.720 So speaking of Kearney, and again, you know, something we should be looking at is his wishy-washiness on pipelines.

00:08:24.920 It's one of those indications he will say whatever it takes to be said to win.

00:08:30.660 Simple as that.

00:08:31.440 Nothing new in politics, but it's just so blatant with the Liberals right now.

00:08:34.680 But his past writings, his past behavior, his counseling of the Liberals, he's a net zero fanatic.

00:08:40.140 He's as ideological as Justin Trudeau was.

00:08:44.020 So he knows that Canadians want to see economic security.

00:08:48.020 Canadians for the first time, I mean, even Quebec, support a pipeline getting to the coasts.

00:08:53.120 So he said, oh yeah, I support that.

00:08:54.920 But when he's really cornered and pushed on it, he waffles.

00:08:58.540 He's, well, you know, it's not necessarily a top priority.

00:09:00.780 Well, what do you mean?

00:09:01.400 It's either a priority or it isn't.

00:09:03.740 And these are the things he needs to be cornered and questioned on.

00:09:05.920 Now, we've got the debate coming tonight.

00:09:09.600 So, yes, part of the problem is we've had the Canadian debates.

00:09:13.720 And it's difficult to overcome because we want to be democratic.

00:09:17.740 We've got a pizza parliament.

00:09:19.080 We've got all these different parties that have seats in there.

00:09:21.860 It led to having five people at debates typically.

00:09:24.580 Now, the Greens just got kicked out, and I'll explain why. But it's hard when you've got

00:09:31.380 really, realistically, only two contenders for the top job, but five voices eating up all the

00:09:36.960 oxygen during the debate. And people just end up tuning it out as they all shout and push around

00:09:41.700 and so on. I mean, even with a one-on-one debate, it can get bizarre or odd or nonproductive. But

00:09:46.940 when you've got five voices shouting, it really doesn't get anywhere. Now there's only going to

00:09:51.720 be four. The bar they set for entering the debates, and it's funny, they make an exception

00:09:57.600 to make sure that the bloc will always be able to get in. So you have to meet two out of three

00:10:01.200 criteria. One of which, all five had, was do you have a seat or not in the House of Commons? Okay,

00:10:06.700 the Greens, the NDP, the bloc, the Conservatives, the Liberals all have seats. That one's down.

00:10:11.880 Do you have five percent of the support across the country? Five or four, I think it was.

00:10:17.580 And if you've got one of those two, the block has that as well. Then you qualify. The third one, though, is are you running seats all the way or running candidates, you know, over 90% of the seats, I believe it is.

00:10:30.000 Now, you see, that's where they make the third qualifier to make sure the block can still get in because they only run in Quebec. Simple as that. So they only need two out of three.

00:10:37.520 The Greens recently just dumped 15 candidates, and they did it for strategic reasons.

00:10:45.300 They did it in ridings where the conservatives were close.

00:10:48.820 It was their way of saying, we're going to dump the race in favor of other parties in hopes that the Liberal or the NDP will win that seat, not the conservatives.

00:10:59.140 It's a tactic. It's not illegal, but it's pretty counterintuitive to democracy.

00:11:05.160 Do you stand on your principles and running in every seat or not?

00:11:09.060 That gave the debate commission a good, and I think solid reason to tell the Greens, you know what?

00:11:14.340 You weren't in this election in good faith.

00:11:18.020 We don't think your voice is going to contribute if you're going to play it that way.

00:11:21.720 You're out of the debates.

00:11:22.560 And that was just announced this morning, but we're talking the morning of the debate in Quebec and the Greens are out.

00:11:28.500 So what do we got?

00:11:29.040 We got the French debate tonight.

00:11:30.380 and uh with the french debate going on one of the things that's interesting in this

00:11:37.980 is they're going to discuss immigration in tonight's debate but in tomorrow night's debate

00:11:43.220 the english one they won't be discussing immigration they've released the media group

00:11:48.360 that runs this they've released the uh subjects they're going to be covering that's one of the

00:11:54.060 only reasons i kind of see to watch the french debate or at least look at the headlines from it

00:11:58.120 because that's one of the things the politicians do when they're playing things. And again,

00:12:02.080 the liberals are bad for it, but all of them could do it. They'll say one thing when they're

00:12:04.640 in this writing, and they'll say another when they're in another, and they just play the game

00:12:08.200 all over the map. What did they say in the French debate when they're pandering to Quebec versus

00:12:13.580 what are they going to say in the English debate? So you kind of got to pay attention to both.

00:12:18.220 And it's interesting, though, that they will give them different questions on something that,

00:12:23.520 I mean, it'd be one thing if it's a French debate with a question that's specific to Quebec

00:12:27.100 that wouldn't apply so much in the English debate the next day.

00:12:29.820 Okay, fine, that's fair enough.

00:12:30.900 But immigration, that's a national issue.

00:12:32.600 That's something worth discussing all the way across the country,

00:12:35.440 yet they've decided not to touch that one tomorrow.

00:12:39.580 Immigration is one of the ones where the conservatives have a pretty strong point on it,

00:12:43.700 though Polyev hasn't been all that strong on saying he's going to reduce immigration to a manageable level.

00:12:50.900 I mean, he's mentioned it, but he's been a little weak on that one, too.

00:12:55.100 There's the frustrations in these elections.

00:12:57.100 though. I mean, everybody's worried about the gotcha games. They play in the mushy middle.

00:13:02.020 You don't commit to too many things. The other thing tonight that's going to be different and

00:13:07.540 difficult for Carney and the Liberals, though, is his French. Now, hey, my French is terrible.

00:13:15.460 It's virtually non-existent. So I can't get on a high horse, but then I'm not running to be

00:13:21.040 Prime Minister. And I'm certainly not trying to participate in a French debate.

00:13:26.120 Apparently, I could tell even from listening to him when he speaks in French, which is better French than mine, but that's a pretty low bar.

00:13:31.760 You could tell his accent is very, very thick.

00:13:34.260 His pronunciation of those French words is with that English intonation, which must be hard on the ears of a French speaking listener.

00:13:42.120 All the same, he'll do what he can.

00:13:43.540 Now, in a debate circumstance, when you're highly stressed, when you're under pressure and you're not fully bilingual, he's going to have a hell of a tough time in there.

00:13:55.200 I mean, you know what Polyev and, of course, Blanchet are going to do. They're going to speak fast. They're going to talk quickly. For example, I'm not half bad in translating somebody speaking Spanish if they speak, but they've got to talk slowly and they've got to spill it out. If they speak quickly in Spanish, I'm lost. I don't have a chance.

00:14:13.180 if Carney is dealing with the debaters and they're going to be speaking quickly in French,

00:14:20.420 he's going to have a really tough time understanding what they get at. And if you

00:14:24.240 want to talk about a tactic, that'll be a smart one. Speak quickly, use big words. It's just the

00:14:30.620 nature of it. So it's going to be interesting to watch Mark Carney try and hold his own. And I

00:14:33.860 think tonight that's most of what his goal is going to be in the debate. Just try not to mess

00:14:37.800 things up seems solid, and it is important to the French voters. You know, that's a big aspect with

00:14:43.440 them. They want somebody who's going to comfortably communicate with them in French, and, you know,

00:14:48.960 respects, they feel respects and takes their language rights seriously. So we'll see if

00:14:53.680 Carney can come across that way tonight. That's going to be his battle tonight, and it's going to

00:14:57.480 be difficult in this. I couldn't imagine going into a debate trying to do it in a second language.

00:15:01.760 Again, you know, I've certainly got my leanings. I'm not hoping for Carney to do all that great,

00:15:06.520 but all the same, it'll be interesting to watch and how they deal with that. All right, let's get

00:15:10.600 on to our guest and into some issues, and that's Tristan Hopper, columnist with the National Post,

00:15:14.820 as I said, and author of this book, Don't Be Canada, How One Country Did Everything Wrong 0.99

00:15:21.340 All at Once. Hey, thank you very much for joining us today, Tristan. I really appreciate it.

00:15:26.060 Thank you, Mr. Morgan. Thank you for allowing me to shamelessly promote my book.

00:15:29.700 Hey, if you can't promote it, well, what's the point of writing it? But I mean, I read it,

00:15:36.920 you know, they sent it out quickly to me, and I appreciate that. And you really covered,

00:15:41.720 you know, a lot of the issues that, as I kind of said earlier in the show, though,

00:15:45.560 the timing you would think for this book would be perfect, but most of these issues

00:15:49.280 aren't coming up a heck of a lot in this election or not in depth. It's kind of a frustrating

00:15:54.720 turnabout this time around isn't it yeah it's sort of a theme that came up when i was writing

00:16:00.720 the book is uh you know if you read the book your sort of jaw is open or on the floor as you're

00:16:07.520 reading about a lot of these things and one of the problems we have is that most canadians uh

00:16:12.800 don't know that these things are happening and you know will often sort of refuse to accept that

00:16:18.640 they're happening um so it's it's one thing um and every chapter in the book i only wrote about

00:16:25.360 a failure of canada if we were uniquely bad at it so there's not going to be a chapter on just

00:16:30.480 you know we had you know that climate policy or we had we ran up too much debt or we underspent

00:16:36.000 in the military because that's things a lot of other countries are doing you know western countries

00:16:40.480 are doing um so i only gave it a chapter if we were doing something way more extreme than anybody

00:16:46.400 else and experiencing consequences way more extreme than anybody else you know measurably

00:16:52.800 but a lot of these issues i think they got that bad because if you explain what is happening to

00:16:59.280 canadians um you know they just don't believe you and you start to sound like a crazy person

00:17:04.720 so you know in the lead up to writing this book i would write a story from the national

00:17:08.960 post and i would be called into a radio interview to discuss it very much like this

00:17:12.720 and as i was explaining you know what the law says and you know what is now the rule in canada

00:17:18.560 i realized i sounded like an absolute nutbag and i think that is sort of one of our problems i

00:17:25.600 i sympathize with the conservatives maybe not hammering on these issues so much

00:17:31.200 because they probably have internal poll data showing that if you bring that up

00:17:35.440 people are not going to believe you and they're going to think you're making it up

00:17:39.620 Well, that's where we can almost, you know, be thankful for social media in some ways to show the absurdity of things.

00:17:44.700 I mean, all of these issues, as you said, for every developed country, they've been dealing with these things, like the chapter on the trans issues.

00:17:51.880 You know, every country is sort of grappling with it.

00:17:54.240 What's the degree of rights for trans people and how much accommodation should we make?

00:17:57.840 But we, as Canadians, just seem to have to go far and beyond to the point of that shop teacher or Jessica Yaniv out in the West Coast where it gets unimaginable. 0.95

00:18:07.020 Yes, somebody with giant fake breasts just has to take it to an extreme or somebody demanding waxing of their testicles, and it makes it hard to discuss the issue with any seriousness, even though it's very, you know, has some gravity. 0.91

00:18:19.520 Yeah, I mean, that's sort of a great example of a perennial mistake that Canada has made is you've got sort of an issue, you have to decide how you're going to address this issue. And Canada approaches it in a way in which we just have zero imagination for unintended consequences or bad actors. 0.97

00:18:37.760 So there is no one in the room when you're saying, okay, well, how are we going to deal with

00:18:41.340 transgender rights? And then they say, okay, we'll just do self-ID. That's sort of the lowest

00:18:45.120 barrier. Anybody who says they're a different gender, they just sign a form, boom, done. 1.00

00:18:49.680 You know, no red tape on it. And there was no one in the room to say, do you have any, so, okay,

00:18:55.480 I can just go into women's change rooms. I can go into women's prisons just by saying I'm a woman. 1.00

00:19:00.740 You know, even if you have the best intentions, do you not understand how there are people who

00:19:06.700 might exploit something like that. And that's something that comes up everywhere from medical

00:19:12.000 assistance dying to bail policy. Canada pursues a policy. You look at it now knowing what happened

00:19:18.440 and you're like, well, this is obviously what was going to happen. These things were going to go off

00:19:23.320 the rails immediately. And at the time, these are relatively uncontroversial. Whether it's before

00:19:28.360 the Supreme Court, whether it's before the House of Commons, you have pieces of legislation that we

00:19:32.920 now know we're massively impactful, and no one started speaking up about it. And I think it's

00:19:39.320 because Canada traditionally has been a relatively well-run country. Just 10 years ago, most

00:19:46.360 international headlines about Canada are, you know, if you want a well-run immigration system,

00:19:50.960 follow the Canadian model. If you want to get yourself out of a sovereign debt crisis, do what

00:19:54.720 Canada did in the 1990s. Canada is home to the world's richest middle class. Income mobility is

00:20:00.140 more true in Canada than it is in the United States. So the American dream is actually a

00:20:04.120 Canadian dream, if you think about it. None of those things are true anymore. But I think it led

00:20:09.740 to, we are very complacent about our government. We trust our government. We assume there's no bad

00:20:15.420 actors. We think we don't have to put checks in. We don't have to be suspicious. We don't have to

00:20:20.100 worry about corruption. And that means when you get bad ideas hit in Canada, we had zero defenses

00:20:26.480 above it. We just opened up the door, let it in, didn't even imagine they could go wrong. And

00:20:32.220 that's why a lot of these bad ideas, they exist in other countries, but they're much harder and

00:20:37.280 much more prevalent in Canada. Yeah. And you began the book with the medical assistance in dying,

00:20:42.340 you know, and with some of the history of it, because that's an issue that's been going for

00:20:45.580 a long, long time. I remember Sven Robinson and Sue Rodriguez. I had the opportunity to

00:20:50.220 interview one of the lawyers who was representing Sue Rodriguez. And I asked, like, is this what

00:20:55.820 you guys envisioned when you were, you know, promoting the medical assistance back then?

00:21:00.860 He said, heavens no. I mean, we, again, wanted, you know, the means for people who were terminally

00:21:05.960 ill and in terrible suffering to be able to go out with dignity, but to extend it to the point

00:21:10.480 of people with mental illness or poverty, they never imagined it would get that far.

00:21:16.640 As you mentioned, though, it seems to be, and I know you were careful to try and stay non-partisan

00:21:20.620 in this, but there's a pattern. A lot of this really exploded in the last 10 years. And that

00:21:25.540 the beginning of the trudeau government yeah yeah i would say he accelerated it so that's sort of

00:21:30.740 you're not going to see the name trudeau very much so you know if you're looking for just you

00:21:34.900 know a book about how everything is trudeau's fault in canada um i see more of a symptom um

00:21:40.340 you know we created him rather than you know he created us um because basically every one of these

00:21:46.980 problems was already germinating by the time justin trudeau came into office and that includes

00:21:52.980 medical assistance of dying. The Supreme Court case, which essentially legalized it and ordered

00:21:59.460 the House of Commons to put in legal medical assistance of dying, that was prior to his

00:22:04.100 election. So I guess what was interesting to me is all of these issues existed in some form and

00:22:10.100 were already sort of working their way through the Canadian institutions, but if Justin Trudeau

00:22:15.960 is guilty of anything, it's accelerating them very, very quickly. Yeah, I mean Canadians have 1.00

00:22:20.980 had the opportunity or multiple times over the course of that 10 years to change that if they

00:22:24.740 wanted to in elections, and they didn't. So we've got to take some of the responsibility for this,

00:22:29.300 which kind of comes to as well, especially when you talked about the opioid epidemic and some of

00:22:34.760 that. We're also intransigent and stubborn, though, when it shows that some of these initiatives are

00:22:39.280 failing, we just don't seem willing to admit an error and back off. It's more like an inclination

00:22:45.580 to just keep doubling down

00:22:46.880 and feeling that these ideological approaches are going on.

00:22:51.200 You're a snowbird.

00:22:52.440 You're only in Canada six months of the year.

00:22:54.480 It's easy to just not think about these issues.

00:22:57.260 I mean, one thing that comes up throughout the book

00:22:59.940 is that issues that are identical

00:23:02.400 and quite controversial in other countries,

00:23:05.660 they happen in Canada

00:23:06.740 and just nobody cares and nobody notices.

00:23:09.360 So I often hear the criticism against the United States.

00:23:13.620 You know, they can just have mass shooting after mass shooting after mass shooting, and there's no fundamental change to access to firearms as a result.

00:23:21.400 And we say, well, those heartless Americans, they would rather, you know, just see these mass shootings as a necessary type rather than making common sense gun reforms.

00:23:29.820 But you can make the identical argument against Canada just on the issue of a clearly broken bail system.

00:23:36.980 I mean, any number of tragedies caused by people who failed multiple interventions, repeatedly given parole, repeatedly given bail, have shown no inclination to follow the conditions of release or bail, just keep getting out, just keep harming more people, and then eventually they kill someone or kill a whole bunch of people.

00:23:58.500 And what surprised me is there's any number of these issues that would have been massively controversial in, say, a normal country.

00:24:06.980 There would be legislation named after it. You know, you would have mass protests. I mean, the names of the victims in these cases, I'll mention one in Edmonton. This was a man who had a long history of random attacks and random violent attacks.

00:24:24.200 So just, you know, unprompted stabbing someone in the back, almost killing them at a bus stop and just repeatedly given release token sentences is given is given parole violates the conditions of the parole is given parole again, just multiple, multiple releases, something we're quite used to in Canada.

00:24:41.600 And then eventually a mother is picking up her child outside an Edmonton school. He appears out of nowhere, stabs them randomly to death in full view of a surviving sister. Just as horrifying as you could possibly imagine it. Spring day, broad daylight, they are locking down the school. The school sees this through the windows and just a mother and child randomly killed.

00:25:02.860 So you probably don't know the name of that mother and child. It wasn't a national news story. This was sort of, you know, locally tragic. There was, you know, one local vigil, but then it just kind of went away. I'm inclined to say that any more normal country that was more engaged and more apt to engage with the problems of its country. Yeah, that would have that should have spurred more political action than nothing, which is what it did spur.

00:25:31.420 Yeah, well, there's a couple of sacred cows you touched upon and one that terrifies politicians 0.98

00:25:35.400 that you did mention in that a bit.

00:25:37.600 And that's with the bail and the release with the case in Ontario with the police officer

00:25:42.840 who was murdered in cold blood.

00:25:45.220 And that's the Gladue principles that get applied.

00:25:47.760 Again, good intentions that have gone bad.

00:25:49.600 They're trying to reduce the amount of Indigenous representation in prisons by giving bail

00:25:54.740 practically whenever humanly possible.

00:25:57.820 But it hasn't reduced the amount of Indigenous people.

00:26:00.540 in jail and some very dangerous people have gotten loose and and unfortunately it's led to the worst

00:26:05.820 outcomes but nobody wants to touch that when you kind of dip into the first nations issues and

00:26:10.220 maybe it's time we started to find some courage to do so even though and then this is sort of what

00:26:14.380 this came up in the chapter it's it's quite surprising the dissonance between the way

00:26:18.860 indigenous leaders talk about these issues and the way you know white people talk about it on

00:26:24.060 their behalf uh is it's you look at aptn you look at sort of local indigenous reporting it is not

00:26:29.900 particularly controversial that if someone is a dangerous individual and keeps victimizing people

00:26:35.340 that they have to be put away from society so i've got multiple quotes in that chapter of

00:26:41.100 you know first nations leaders saying um you know expressing basically seeing it as a new form of

00:26:47.180 colonialism in which you know we have someone who has harmed our community you know you caught a

00:26:51.420 serial killer who targeted indigenous women he's eventually going to get bail so we've got the

00:26:57.900 tragedy of just having been preyed upon by a serial killer and then you've got the double

00:27:02.140 tragedy of the government telling us uh that this person is eventually going to be freed and they're

00:27:07.980 probably maybe they'll tell us when he's freed and when he's getting parole but you know sometimes

00:27:12.460 they forget um yeah i mean it is mentioned it's disproportionately the indigenous people are the

00:27:17.980 victims as well i i mean they're scared as well they don't want to be victims of crime any more

00:27:21.980 than anybody else does that's right yeah if you're letting out someone um who just has a penchant

00:27:27.900 to find vulnerable people to hurt or kill them,

00:27:31.760 yes, that victim is disproportionately 0.93

00:27:34.180 going to be an indigenous person 0.65

00:27:36.380 and often an indigenous woman. 0.91

00:27:38.460 So it's weird.

00:27:39.480 Another thing I mentioned in the Missing

00:27:41.380 and Murdered Indigenous Women Report,

00:27:43.280 tens of millions of dollars.

00:27:45.680 And at no point in this report

00:27:47.440 did they actually address who is killing them

00:27:49.480 under what circumstances.

00:27:50.980 Now, if they had, they would have found out

00:27:52.940 it is exactly what we're talking about.

00:27:54.940 people who have had multiple points of contact with the justice system kept getting out until

00:28:03.780 they eventually killed someone. Very preventable deaths. And instead, we just got a screed about

00:28:08.700 how this is ongoing genocide. So just a great example of we are ignoring practical solutions

00:28:15.060 that would help marginalize people in favor of, you know, some high-level academic circuit jerk

00:28:20.880 with you know massive consequences for people absolutely and then uh time went quick here i

00:28:26.980 mean the final chapter you hit on i guess the other granddaddy of sacred cows though which is

00:28:31.020 health care and again where we just and i haven't heard health care come up at all i think in this

00:28:36.640 election yet even though it's always polls at one of the top concerns for people uh canada's system

00:28:42.240 when you look at it just by the measures of what we're getting for our value for dollar is terrible

00:28:47.080 but nobody will dare uh question the system on on sort of the biggest issue so sort of the big

00:28:53.380 you know we could let it get as bad as we wanted but we could always say well there's americans

00:28:56.920 dying because they don't have health care insurance health insurance so we're better than

00:29:00.460 them um i mean in the book i've got it if you look at the amount of canadians who are dying

00:29:04.960 because we have health insurance but we can't access it because the weight lines are too bad

00:29:09.060 i know i haven't had a family doctor in years all the free clinics are closed like i'm absolutely

00:29:13.860 screwed if i have a lump but i have to check it out i don't know what i don't know what to do

00:29:17.620 where to go the number of canadians we have in that situation who are dying every year per capita 0.97

00:29:23.300 is about 10 times higher than the amount of americans who are dying because they don't

00:29:26.660 have health insurance so if you're just talking about raw health care access the americans are 0.97

00:29:31.220 completely kicking our ass you know whatever you think about their system yeah i mean the bottom 0.99

00:29:36.420 line is whatever the cause might have been leading to a preventable death you're dead and we just 0.99

00:29:41.220 want to avoid it so getting on a high horse if people are dying waiting for care it's not

00:29:45.700 acceptable we should be examining that but when you always it's uh the squirrel defense you know

00:29:49.780 hey look over there at them dying of this guy with the bankruptcy because he couldn't get care well

00:29:53.380 okay well both are problems but uh we need a frank discussion on it so uh before i let you go then

00:29:59.540 where can people uh pick up a copy of this book and see your work in general uh i'm a reporter

00:30:04.500 columnist for the national post we have a new podcast called don't be canada uh no sorry no

00:30:09.380 the book is called don't be canada the other one's called canada did what that's actually a canadian

00:30:12.820 history podcast slightly more uplifting than what we've been talking about and the book is called

00:30:17.300 don't be canada available at indigo amazon and i'm working on an audio book now apparently i have a

00:30:23.220 lot of visually impaired fans so you know you don't have to read it if you just wait a few weeks

00:30:28.980 great well a lot of people like getting the book to here in the drive and this is the book here

00:30:32.260 guys and it was a great read i i really uh did enjoy it and and as i said in my opening monologue

00:30:38.180 i'm kind of hoping the trump factor goes aside and canadians kind of just drill down into issues

00:30:42.660 for a couple of weeks before they make their minds up in the election i couldn't hope to

00:30:46.020 screw us nearly as hard as we screwed ourselves that's the moral of the book well we can't blame

00:30:50.580 it all on him no if we pay attention then we really don't have an excuse so you've really

00:30:54.420 laid out the top issues people should be looking at and just kind of uh a good drill down if a bit

00:31:00.180 depressing when you read it but it's a cold bucket of water we need as canadians i think so

00:31:04.580 I appreciate you writing it and, uh, I look forward to, uh, seeing more of your columns

00:31:09.360 in the post. Thank you very much. Great. Thank you. So as I said, that was Tristan Hopper from

00:31:15.000 the national post and it really is a good read. And as I said, non-ex too, he's, he's a fantastic

00:31:18.860 personality on there. He gets that, uh, uh, opinion knife out and, and, uh, cuts without

00:31:24.000 mercy on there. And the book was a good read. So check it out. Don't be Canada. Uh, I, it's, uh, 0.99

00:31:31.240 we're a sad, bad example of things. And I can imagine, I don't know the timelines, but I think

00:31:37.540 a lot of this was written, I would guess, before everything kind of changed, right? It takes a

00:31:43.120 while for things to get published and get to print and the whole works. So presumably maybe Trudeau

00:31:46.860 was still in power at the time of that, or maybe he'd just gone out, but things have changed so

00:31:51.020 dramatically. We can't forget all of these things, healthcare, crime, immigration, housing crisis,

00:31:56.680 he covers that in this. And again, Canada has become a negative example for everything on

00:32:03.980 these things, where we, yeah, self-styled genocidal country and this bizarre

00:32:10.360 extremes we go to. I mean, he points in the book to a disabled veteran, yeah, trying to get help

00:32:20.420 getting a chairlift. And Mike with Freedom Honey has been covering that too, as he's a veteran.

00:32:25.840 The amount of veterans been pushed to medical assistance and dying.

00:32:29.620 You know, it's, we've seen memes about it.

00:32:32.580 We've seen that joke about it, you know, where they talk about it.

00:32:35.680 If somebody has an injury that they want treated, you know, if they go to an American place, 1.00

00:32:40.680 it's kind of like, you know, how much do you want to spend?

00:32:42.140 Or it'll cost this much.

00:32:42.940 And if you go to England, they say, it'll take this long.

00:32:44.840 And in Canada, you go and they say, have you considered death?

00:32:47.900 And the numbers that Tristan covers in this book too, when you offer it, when you push

00:32:52.840 it that much, yeah, there's an astounding amount of people who've been choosing medical assistance

00:32:59.980 and dying. There was one person who chose it and it kind of coupled in with the healthcare coverage

00:33:04.900 that Tristan talks about in there, where he got bed sores so bad the bone was exposed. He was in

00:33:09.360 terrible pain. This was a man with a lot of other issues. And rather than deal with months of

00:33:13.480 terrible treatment and pain for it, he just said, you know what, I've had it, I'm done. And he chose

00:33:17.800 medical assistance and dying. This was not a man in terminal condition. It was a man in bad condition.

00:33:22.840 And then we're talking now that it expanded into people with mental health issues.

00:33:28.700 Well, if you've got a mental health issue, are you not the worst person at that particular time to judge whether or not it's time to end your life?

00:33:38.080 It's quite different than, say, if it's somebody, again, with a terminal disease that is, you know, progressing and leaving them in misery and there's just no way they're going to come out of it.

00:33:48.460 And they'd like to perhaps end while they still have, you know, some degree of function and, you know, fine, that's one thing.

00:33:56.780 But now they've expanded and call it a right to everybody for the most trivial of reasons.

00:34:02.520 Sometimes it's not good, guys.

00:34:03.920 And it's, aside from the tragedy, it's embarrassing.

00:34:07.020 It's, as he said, don't be Canada.

00:34:08.920 But we take everything and take it to the extreme.

00:34:11.980 I don't know.

00:34:12.480 We'll see.

00:34:13.140 But honestly, search it out.

00:34:14.260 Give it a read.

00:34:14.760 Tristan's great out there.

00:34:16.340 Let's see here.

00:34:17.180 so let's get back to some of our polling some of the other interesting stuff i was talking a little

00:34:21.720 bit about um the debate and now polls are kind of fluid right now and things right so uh there's a

00:34:27.700 poll and uh post media put out on uh support for quebec sovereignty again you see everybody kind

00:34:33.480 of circles the wagons when you get the outside threat so everybody got annoyed with trump they

00:34:37.000 got pissed off the support for sovereignty in uh quebec had dropped to 30 percent dropped to 30

00:34:44.640 you think about that. Since then, it's bounced back up to 36. Don't dismiss this. That's a

00:34:52.820 significant amount of support for outright independence. People who aren't long enough

00:34:58.620 in the tooth, I guess, to remember, but it was only 1% back in the 90s when they went to their

00:35:03.220 referendum, and things can change fast. The sovereignty issue in Alberta is one that's

00:35:09.160 growing too. We're looking at numbers now that rival Quebec's, and they're only going to grow.

00:35:14.640 it's a funny balancing act that our leaders have to deal with right now. Premier Smith in Alberta

00:35:23.900 is really pushing hard on the provincial autonomy front. She hasn't pushed for full-out separatism

00:35:29.900 or sovereignty or anything of the sort, but she definitely is more regionalist and inclined that

00:35:35.180 way. But that infuriates people in other parts of the country. And then when they get upset,

00:35:41.220 uh then that can get dropped on polyev you know there's a lot of guilt by association we're dumping

00:35:47.420 on politicians all the time i mean polyev's never been sitting one-on-one with trump or anything

00:35:52.160 like that or close friend but just the fact that trump's considered conservative which again if he

00:35:56.620 tries governing by tariffs i don't call him all that conservative but whatever because people

00:36:01.640 think well trump's conservative polyev's conservative thus polyev must be like trump 0.99

00:36:04.740 thus i won't support him like it's it's nuts it's stupid they're different individuals all together 0.99

00:36:09.320 with different policy sets, but that's the way some of these things work. And then it comes to, 0.98

00:36:13.980 well, Premier Smith likes Polyev and Smith has been flirting with independence-minded people,

00:36:20.820 thus Polyev must be doing so. And they play that game again and again. It's where it sounds like

00:36:25.840 Premier Smith's going to try and be a little quiet on things, at least till the federal election's

00:36:29.760 over, just so it's not dominating. Paradox, he's saying the logic of a three-year-old. Unfortunately,

00:36:34.160 Yes, but it seems a lot of our central Canadian voters are lacking logic.

00:36:40.660 Commenter James Metcher saying, Quebec will never leave.

00:36:43.060 They like being on the gravy train.

00:36:44.480 There's where I disagree.

00:36:47.660 There's certainly some.

00:36:48.720 There's politicians who take full advantage of being able to wag the Canadian dog, you know, as a tail by always threatening to go.

00:36:54.920 And they constantly get pandered to.

00:36:56.380 They constantly get, you know, a disproportionate amount of attention, political power, transfer payments, money, everything.

00:37:02.540 They're not going to say no to it.

00:37:04.160 But don't say they'll never leave because the secessionist movement there is real. It is real. And it's not like the Western one. We put our Western lens on Quebec independence-minded people and it doesn't make sense to us.

00:37:21.020 They would say, well, they're a recipient of equalization, and they're, you know, coddled by the federal system, and they get extra contracts, and they get extra government work, and all of that.

00:37:32.980 It would hurt them terribly economically if they left, and that's true.

00:37:36.980 And you've got to remember, the Alberta, Saskatchewan independence movements, they're based mostly on looking at the economic aspect of it, but they're looking at it in the cultural and language.

00:37:47.720 and I found this out because I didn't, I thought otherwise too until I was leading the Alberta

00:37:51.720 Independence Party and I met with some bloc members back then and we discussed a lot of

00:37:56.660 things. Gilles Duceppe was leading back then and that's where I really got to see it first one-on-one

00:38:00.440 just coffee shop discussion things like that or back in those days more often bar but they want

00:38:04.860 out. They don't care. They're willing to lose money to get out. They want their French state

00:38:10.600 and nothing less. The true hardcore independence-minded people in Quebec. So the economic

00:38:16.800 case doesn't hold the water with them as you think it might. And it's not a matter of them

00:38:21.720 just constantly wanting handouts. The true hardcore ones out there, they want an independent Quebec

00:38:26.960 no matter what. Whether they'll get there or not, I don't know. And there are opportunists

00:38:30.800 with that. An interesting question out of another commenter, Joe Mills,

00:38:35.980 saying most of the province of Quebec is indigenous or crown land. Where are they 0.81

00:38:38.500 going to get their boundaries? You know, there's a discussion that Canada needs

00:38:43.040 in general and overall and in a large way, because there's a lot of misinterpretation

00:38:49.260 on the authority and scope of what the indigenous lands are. They aren't sovereign nations. We got

00:38:59.160 to cut that myth out. We got to quit calling it that. I mean, they're unique creations. They're

00:39:05.120 through a treaty. It's through, you know, lands that were set aside. They're governed by the

00:39:09.380 Indian Act, which is legislation, but it's off to the side. But people say no province can separate

00:39:14.280 without permission of the indigenous. Why? Where? Where do you see that? Where's the clause that 0.99

00:39:19.060 says we need their permission? Likewise, with infrastructure projects, there's an obligation to

00:39:25.340 consult, but there's nothing saying we have to have their permission. We should try. We should

00:39:32.540 consult in good faith on any large move that's going to impact them like any other citizen.

00:39:36.780 But they aren't sovereign countries, guys. Not even close. Not even close. I mean, we want to talk about sovereign nations. Let's talk about it. You should have your own full governance, your own income, tax your own people, pay your own bills, their dependencies. And it's not their own fault. That's a longer, bigger discussion.

00:39:56.420 But we've allowed this myth to kind of come in and think that any province needs the permission from indigenous nations.

00:40:07.340 They aren't nations.

00:40:08.720 They're cultural groups.

00:40:10.400 They're bands.

00:40:11.140 They're highly empowered municipalities.

00:40:14.100 But they aren't nations.

00:40:17.740 And Joe Mills saying they tried in the last referendum indigenous said, no, I think maybe what you're talking about is the Meach Lake and Charlottetown Accords.

00:40:25.700 And that's where we're talking about constitutional reform.

00:40:29.280 And that's where it starts getting ridiculous too.

00:40:31.400 Yeah, because we can't reform our constitution without permission from a racial group. 0.98

00:40:36.760 That's absurd and that's ridiculous.

00:40:38.480 And again, it comes back to considering consultation to be consent. 0.92

00:40:42.660 Two totally different words.

00:40:44.380 Quit putting that in there.

00:40:47.460 Circle back.

00:40:48.120 Some of the folks watching me on social media might know I've gotten myself into an interesting

00:40:53.040 circumstance with the Siksika First Nation or Reserve out west of Calgary, or east of Calgary,

00:41:02.320 I should say. And yeah, I shot that video. I talked about that before. I put it up on YouTube

00:41:06.180 on my own channel, on Corey Morgan on YouTube. And yeah, those clowns sent out these ridiculous 0.99

00:41:11.560 trespassing notices. And, you know, they're threatening, trying to charge me $2,000 in fines 0.98

00:41:16.520 for having done so. I'm going to fight it. It's not going to, you know, it's going to take some

00:41:20.160 time and it might have to go through a couple of court levels who knows but it gets back to who the

00:41:25.340 hell are you guys to tell me i can't travel on a provincial highway because that's what it was i

00:41:32.020 mean are you going to start charging people for trespassing if they're driving on vacation and

00:41:35.920 having to pass through reserve did you know that you drive through the stony reserve when you go

00:41:39.420 from calgary to banff in fact you're there is no way to drive from calgary to banff without crossing

00:41:45.700 that reserve, whether it's the Highway 1 or 1A. So no, they can't stop people. Now, getting into

00:41:51.320 back roads and certain communities and things, certainly you could set up trespassing things. But

00:41:54.980 again, people thinking, you were wrong, you trespassed. No, didn't. It's not another country.

00:42:02.620 It's not a border crossing, you guys. And we're going to quit indulging that thought set. Plus,

00:42:08.780 and that's, you know, I'm going to be doing more videos, by the way. I'm going to have another one

00:42:12.440 coming out this weekend on a different reserve. Because it's failing. It's not serving them.

00:42:19.640 It's not working worth a crap. They're suffering. It's terrible. And it's this hybrid society we 0.95

00:42:27.400 have now of a culture within a culture within a not exactly a country, but not exactly a

00:42:32.340 municipality. And what it's always caused is an unholy mess. And it's caused a lot of social

00:42:36.780 disruption. It's caused a lot of entitlement. It's caused these guys to think that they can

00:42:41.800 charge a citizen for trespassing on a public highway. And I guess we will just have to

00:42:47.400 lay that out through the courts. What a waste of time and energy. But you know what? It's time to

00:42:52.520 take it on. It's time to take it head on. Let's define what this really is about them. And what

00:42:59.320 it is about is a myth that these are nations. They were treaties. They were agreements with

00:43:04.800 bands that were, I mean, we're talking 150 years ago that were nomadic. I mean, to put the

00:43:13.400 base definition on, it's nothing against the people. It's just where things were sitting.

00:43:17.000 They were Neolithic. These weren't developed nations. They were signing an agreement with 0.74

00:43:22.360 nation to nation. This was an agreement with existing peoples, with a country. Sure, it was

00:43:26.840 colonialism. And again, it was 150 years ago. Boundaries have changed since the beginning of

00:43:31.260 mankind. And to sit here and pretend that we've got these nations within nations, it's been

00:43:35.500 destructive, it's been stupid, and it's holding up development and progress for people in and 0.99

00:43:43.960 outside of the indigenous community. So yeah, it's really time to start discussing these things. 0.99

00:43:50.840 Let's see. Speaking of some of the fun and joys, this was a neat one that somebody sent me a note

00:43:56.660 on. And this is happening, you know, again, when we're not paying close enough attention to our

00:44:00.120 politicians, how badly we get burned. And this is on every level. This is one of the areas where

00:44:03.400 Trump, I think, is getting things right, though, that maybe they're doing it clumsily, is doge.

00:44:06.900 Get in there and get those bureaucrats, because they're what's holding up a heck of a lot of good

00:44:10.860 progress, and they're what's costing you a fortune. And it's at every level of government. In fact,

00:44:14.720 you don't scrutinize your local government enough. And here's Calgary. We can't get on a high horse

00:44:18.660 in Alberta and claim we only elected governments. We've elected a lot of terrible governments.

00:44:22.860 Gondex, Calgary is awful. And there's an add-up for basically a DEI manager position. So if you

00:44:29.040 want to apply for that, if you've got your degree in gender studies or whatever BS you need to get

00:44:33.520 that, it pays as much as $190,000 a year, plus full benefits, plus pension. It's only 35 hours a week.

00:44:41.000 They say that's what the standard is. The standard. Everybody else has to work 40 hours a week

00:44:44.840 minimum. You work for a city government, 35. Plus every third week, you get the Friday off. Plus you

00:44:50.280 get weeks and weeks and weeks of paid vacation. Plus you get the sick days on top of that.

00:44:53.980 And a pension again that you couldn't even dream up. And what does this person do? They manage DEI.

00:44:58.820 Hey, diversity, equity, and inclusion.

00:45:00.340 They want to make sure they've hit enough quotas of, I don't know, one-legged people, black people, yellow people, gay people. 1.00

00:45:06.960 It's stupid. 1.00

00:45:08.400 I thought we were over this. 1.00

00:45:09.460 I thought we were tired of this.

00:45:10.340 I thought the backlash had come. 1.00

00:45:11.480 We'd said enough of this DEI crap. 0.98

00:45:13.680 Don't worry, guys. 0.97

00:45:14.380 It's as entrenched in the universities and civic governments and provincial governments and federal governments as it's ever been.

00:45:19.940 Get mad at your politicians.

00:45:21.500 You should.

00:45:22.200 But don't forget, it's those pointy-headed bureaucrats who are really taking it to you. 1.00

00:45:27.280 Can anybody name the deputy minister?

00:45:28.820 of any of the ministries out there,

00:45:30.200 those are the ones that really hold the power, guys.

00:45:32.320 They make more money than the ministry usually. 1.00

00:45:34.840 And they're the ones that put out these stupid, stupid jobs. 1.00

00:45:37.620 All right, guys, the Western Standard is 1.00

00:45:39.040 you can get past the paywall for another week in summer

00:45:41.740 until the end of the election.

00:45:42.820 Get in there for free.

00:45:43.620 See those comments and everything.

00:45:45.660 Take out a subscription if you can.

00:45:47.060 Anyways, though, I mean, come on, at $10 a month,

00:45:48.840 it keeps us rolling.

00:45:49.900 We got reporters across the country

00:45:51.280 before the election, during the election,

00:45:52.960 after the election.

00:45:53.780 It'll be very important.

00:45:54.740 Independent media is important.

00:45:56.060 And join us tonight for The Pipeline.

00:45:58.680 Friday, we're going to have another live show with me from 11 onward

00:46:02.340 and covering a few more of those issues.

00:46:04.820 Lots and lots to talk about.

00:46:05.980 So thanks for joining me today, guys, and we will see you on the next one.

00:46:26.060 We'll be right back.

Western Standard - April 17, 2025

Canada’s election is in Trump’s hands

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