Western Standard - Canadian freedom under attack from Ottawa, and abroad

00:00:00.000 Good day, today is March 18th, 2026.

00:00:27.800 I'm Derek Fildebrand, publisher of the Western Standard, and you're watching The Pipeline.

00:00:32.120 I've got our usual roundup of miscreants here.

00:00:35.660 Former Western Standard opinion editor, Nigel Hannaford.

00:00:38.580 Still in trouble.

00:00:40.320 Western Standard, senior Alberta columnist, Corey Morgan.

00:00:42.460 Always a pleasure.

00:00:43.960 And Western Standard news editor, Dave Naylor.

00:00:46.220 Just here for the laughs.

00:00:48.000 We're all in our nice spring blue jackets, except for Dave.

00:00:52.140 Great. It's not spring yet.

00:00:53.400 You didn't get the memo.

00:00:54.680 No, I'll wear it tomorrow.

00:00:55.620 All right.

00:00:56.220 um we're gonna talk uh about the thing that everyone is talking about everyone can't get

00:01:03.920 enough news about the uh very important and decisive race for the leadership of the federal

00:01:09.300 NDP uh we've been maybe derelict in our duty we have just not really covered much for Canada's

00:01:19.560 a long-standing third party.

00:01:22.920 They've had nothing.

00:01:24.100 Nothing but bad news

00:01:25.160 for a long, long time, and it just continues

00:01:27.720 to get worse. But they are

00:01:29.640 in roughly two weeks?

00:01:31.540 Two weeks? Ten of the month. Okay, three weeks

00:01:33.820 plus. Soon, they're

00:01:35.640 going to vote on who their leader is.

00:01:38.420 Will it be of any consequence

00:01:39.760 whatsoever? Or is this just a tree falling

00:01:41.560 in the forest that no one heard? We'll talk about it.

00:01:45.060 The Emergencies

00:01:46.040 Act, formerly the War Powers 0.88

00:01:47.580 Act that former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invoked to crush the militant uprising at the

00:01:57.180 Freedom Convoy, which has been repeatedly ruled to be unconstitutional and excessive powers.

00:02:05.140 On the last day possible, the Carnie government has decided to appeal that, take it all the way

00:02:12.920 of the Supreme Court of Canada, the very final appeal. That seems like curious logic to me,

00:02:18.840 since I think they would probably just rather let this be in the rearview mirror, but

00:02:21.760 that's odd. But it could have implications for the ability of the government, potentially in

00:02:26.820 the future, to be able to use military force to crush bouncy castles and hot tubs, things like

00:02:33.940 that. Other sundry threats to national security. But we're going to start first with some,

00:02:42.080 I think, rather ill-advised comments from the Israeli ambassador to Canada.

00:02:48.480 We covered this yesterday, both in the news and we had an editorial on it.

00:02:52.760 The Israeli ambassador to Canada said, you know, all eyes of the world are on Canada.

00:02:58.340 There's been a significant increase in anti-Semitism and hate incidents against our Jewish community.

00:03:06.400 I don't think many reasonable people would have disagreed with him.

00:03:09.920 But he kept on talking.

00:03:12.080 and he says uh you know this uh uh this could um this this is you know gonna need uh canadians to

00:03:21.600 give up some of their freedoms he did say what freedoms i think the implication is

00:03:25.440 more likely around freedom of speech possibly privacy rights you know with internet spying

00:03:31.120 from the government or something hard to say but probably most significantly freedom of speech

00:03:34.960 freedom of assembly those kinds of things let's say in order to combat the rise of anti-semitism

00:03:40.640 dave uh we're gonna have to give up some of our uh our freedoms i'll sing for a foreign ambassador

00:03:47.280 to say yes that's what he said so you're supposed to let me introduce all that stuff i'm kind of

00:03:53.040 tossing it to you to suss it out oh okay well i can't you you said it all uh yes that's what he

00:03:58.720 said uh clearly stepped over the boundary of uh diplomatic uh lines uh you don't go into a foreign

00:04:06.320 country, no matter where in the world, and tell their governments what to do. As far as I could

00:04:14.560 see, Derek, we were the only media that covered that angle, so I'm not expecting much of a rebuke

00:04:20.720 from the Liberal government. Normally, the ambassador would be called in by the foreign

00:04:25.360 minister and given a stern talking to, but I don't see that happening here.

00:04:30.160 Same logo I had on the Hannaford show here about a year ago.

00:04:36.040 You know, they do tend to overplay their hand.

00:04:40.380 There's a wide sympathy for Israel for the events of October the 7th.

00:04:45.320 I think everybody understood why they reacted.

00:04:49.620 Fifty years ago when I entered this business, everybody understood why they were so very sensitive to anything that appeared in press

00:04:58.560 that could be construed as anti-Semitic.

00:05:01.600 They were still processing the Holocaust.

00:05:04.340 And in fact, every now and then,

00:05:07.100 somebody still crops up who was a Holocaust survivor.

00:05:12.400 And if not them, then their children introduce them,

00:05:15.440 say, I am a Holocaust survivor's child.

00:05:19.200 Of course, they're sensitive about losing 6 million people

00:05:23.260 in an act of genocide.

00:05:25.200 So I think it was fairly forgivable

00:05:27.380 that my breath and the Jewish Defense League took a very active stance back there in the 70s,

00:05:34.880 the 80s. If they saw anything that, you know, seemed to be holding Jewish people in hatred or

00:05:40.460 contempt, they jumped on it right away. You probably remember the Keegstra story.

00:05:46.520 Alberta teacher who had a very countercultural view of recent history, blamed Jews for all sorts

00:05:53.380 of things. He got fired, became a litmus test of free speech in this country. So it was on and on

00:05:59.820 and on. I think Canada has been in the past a very fair country in terms of upholding the interest

00:06:08.660 of Jewish people in their own history and how it's perceived. Now, for some reason, and it may

00:06:15.400 be related to immigration from Muslim countries, that's all changed. And it's common for people

00:06:22.560 living in jewish neighborhoods to be very fearful and they turn the lights out at night gangs in the

00:06:28.320 street broken windows fire bombs at uh at their little restaurants and so forth and so on this

00:06:34.560 is wicked it is a this is the sort of stuff that we don't want in canada and we never tolerate it

00:06:42.560 in canada so let's see what's changed here i think the issue is we kind of are tolerating it now

00:06:49.360 and that our governments do not respond adequately. Good Lord, they would jump all

00:06:53.440 over a small-time newspaper for saying something about the Holocaust that wasn't directly on message.

00:07:00.480 But now, if you want to hold a demonstration on a bridge, block traffic, slag Israel, nobody does 0.96

00:07:07.040 anything. So I think the ambassador, although I strongly disagree with what he said, I see where

00:07:12.800 he's coming from. Yeah, it happens every weekend, right? And especially in Toronto, where they got

00:07:16.720 death to israel chants by mass people and uh toronto police just bring them donuts part of

00:07:21.740 what he's hit though is is overstepping oh yeah let's see as we said i mean the bottom line is

00:07:27.120 we have all the mechanisms to deal with this the country has not been choosing to exercise them

00:07:32.780 so we don't need to reduce any freedoms any further that's a terrible thing to say that's

00:07:37.060 never a good statement to put out i mean that kind of ties into what we'll talk a little bit

00:07:40.860 about later with the emergencies act uh i mean i can understand him expressing concern that's

00:07:46.180 pretty good thing. We've had, you know, some people of the

00:07:47.880 Jewish faith are feeling unsafe. We think Canada's 1.00

00:07:50.120 not been stepping up well enough. He just

00:07:52.160 phrased it terribly. And when we

00:07:54.120 have discussions going on on things like C9

00:07:56.120 and such, we're a little more sensitive

00:07:58.120 to where things might be

00:08:00.220 going. Don't need pressures. We've got enough fight

00:08:02.120 going on in here. We don't need the outsiders 1.00

00:08:03.920 chiming in on the legislation.

00:08:06.940 So, I mean, it was worth

00:08:08.060 noting because it's just not the police of a diplomat

00:08:10.080 to say those sorts of things or go into that.

00:08:12.380 But he is identifying a

00:08:14.100 problem. Absolutely. It was worth speaking to.

00:08:16.180 It's cure that's the problem.

00:08:19.640 Yeah, I mean, tell your Toronto police to stop bringing them coffee and donuts and actually enforce the laws you already have.

00:08:24.780 That's a very valid case and point to make.

00:08:27.280 And no extra freedoms need to be infringed to do that.

00:08:29.900 You just actually have to enforce the existing laws you have.

00:08:32.560 I was chatting, I won't name the person, but I was chatting with a Jewish friend of mine last night about this.

00:08:39.700 The legacy media covered it and just said, yeah, the Israeli ambassador is talking about the anti-Semitism problem in Canada.

00:08:44.680 But we made very prominent in how we chose to cover this story that and he says the solution is we have to have less freedoms.

00:08:54.660 And he said so out loud. He didn't just imply it. He said it very explicitly, which just doesn't seem like a very good thing for a diplomat to say.

00:09:04.200 But I was putting it, it was a good natured conversation. And I put it this way, how I, as a non-Jewish person, received what he said.

00:09:12.440 You know, there are people who have obviously very legitimate problems with gun crimes and shooting, but then they see the solution to go and take everyone's guns away. Punish everyone, limit everyone's freedoms, because there are a few people who do bad things. And that makes me dislike the groups that want to take my guns away.

00:09:34.100 And so I explained to this person that, like, this will not help lessen anti-Semitism.

00:09:41.460 This would be playing into the worst stereotypes.

00:09:45.040 This would be taking away some of everyone's freedoms.

00:09:49.120 To probably give yourself a false sense of freedom probably won't help.

00:09:51.920 Like, censoring people is not actually going to make anyone safer, just as a lot of these gun laws do not actually make anyone safer.

00:09:57.200 All you're going to do is breed resentment.

00:09:59.360 and I think the person understood

00:10:01.620 and I took this well but

00:10:02.920 this is just overplaying

00:10:05.560 the ambassador is overplaying

00:10:07.820 his hand I mean this would be a terrible thing

00:10:09.300 or even a Canadian citizen I think to say

00:10:11.700 it would be bad enough but fine

00:10:13.100 we've got plenty enough of them

00:10:14.080 we've got them

00:10:16.660 but then a foreign ambassador says this

00:10:19.260 and you know we should be

00:10:21.220 we would be I think

00:10:22.280 we would be outraged if the Chinese 1.00

00:10:25.240 engage in foreign interference all the time

00:10:26.740 but they're subtle enough not to say

00:10:29.000 You need to elect the liberals, or you need to, you know, there's some anti-Chinese racism, so you need to have less freedoms because of that.

00:10:36.180 They're more subtle.

00:10:36.940 They'll stack buses and go to a liberal nomination meeting or something.

00:10:39.900 But this is foreign interference.

00:10:42.080 I mean, they're allowed to express their views on our country, I suppose.

00:10:44.500 But this is a clearly domestic political issue.

00:10:48.380 Canadians get to decide what their rights are, and the charter decides, not a foreign diplomat.

00:10:52.320 The thing is, this is going to backfire on him, Derek, because there are plenty of people who,

00:10:56.480 like myself, are very sympathetic to what the Israelis are trying to cope with over

00:11:00.480 there who are fine right up to the point that he wants to limit my freedoms here in Canada.

00:11:06.720 No, no, no. I'm backing off for just for a week or two until this gets sorted out.

00:11:13.760 We need an apology. Yeah, but how we got here is a failure of

00:11:18.240 numerous canadian institutions starting with the the border and immigration people who are letting

00:11:24.240 into this country people that hate jews uh from from muslim countries uh letting in letting them

00:11:31.120 in by the boatload and then again not only immigration but then we've got the the failure 0.82

00:11:36.240 of cses to weed out uh any uh any islamic type guy we got the failure of any deportations you know 1.00

00:11:45.440 We've got these 700 Iranian agents in Canada.

00:11:49.020 Nobody's talking about, or nobody's deported them.

00:11:52.460 And as we've already mentioned, we've got the failure of the police services in Canada, in Ottawa and Montreal.

00:11:57.800 Dave, I really think that it's possible to build a conspiratorial narrative of evildoing in Ottawa directed against the rest of the country.

00:12:07.700 You can do that. I could do it. Maybe I should do it.

00:12:11.060 But the truth of the matter is that they don't understand.

00:12:17.020 We are governed by politicians who have got a rosy view of the world

00:12:21.180 and think that if everybody comes to Canada, they muck in together

00:12:23.820 and they will all be think the same, eat the same, do the same,

00:12:26.880 cheer for the same set of teams.

00:12:29.520 And it's not like that.

00:12:30.880 People come in from certain parts of the world

00:12:32.820 and they bring their stuff with them.

00:12:35.840 We've seen it.

00:12:36.800 The Sikhs have brought their stuff with them.

00:12:39.600 and they're not part of this argument, but very clearly,

00:12:43.080 you look at the footage of the demonstrations against Israel,

00:12:47.240 who do you see out there?

00:12:48.880 The people who have brought their stuff with them from some other continent.

00:12:52.720 And the people who vote to bring them.

00:12:54.280 And the people who vote to bring them.

00:12:55.660 But they're the ones that I really have an issue with. 1.00

00:12:57.580 They are stupid as brave. 1.00

00:12:58.460 They should know better. 1.00

00:12:59.320 Yeah, well, maybe that's part of it.

00:13:00.480 I mean, again, just what was just a terrible statement in general,

00:13:03.580 either maybe either an apology or go to ground,

00:13:05.880 or at least you should expand on what were you talking about?

00:13:08.120 I mean, some people try to defend, I mean, you know, I call out, say, we got 700 identified IRGC people in Canada.

00:13:14.260 Why the hell are they even here?

00:13:15.580 Why do we not have them on a couple of planes and just dump them back in Iran? 1.00

00:13:18.580 That's where they want to be appears.

00:13:21.240 But somebody on, you know, the extreme left side, well, that would infringe on their freedoms.

00:13:25.400 Now, maybe in a roundabout that way, that's what, I can't speak for it.

00:13:29.440 If you're not a citizen, I don't care about your freedoms. 0.91

00:13:31.460 Yes, I'm with you there.

00:13:32.300 Your freedoms belong in your country.

00:13:33.360 That's what I'm saying.

00:13:34.020 Maybe there was room for this guy to phrase where he was trying to go with this. 1.00

00:13:37.620 Because it just sounds so damn stupid. 1.00

00:13:39.780 It's just not typical for a diplomat, you know? 1.00

00:13:42.540 He's probably back in his office in Ottawa, slapping his forehead.

00:13:45.400 He's probably had, I would imagine, a few emails like, dude.

00:13:48.140 Somebody else slapping his forehead as well.

00:13:49.700 But, I mean, it's kind of as we all conclude.

00:13:53.060 I mean, there's lots we can do to make things better without infringing on any Canadian citizens' freedoms.

00:13:57.860 And the discussion of limiting them just shouldn't even be coming up.

00:14:00.580 Well, this would seem to be counterproductive because they're, I mean, Canadian society is pretty divided on the Israel-Palestine issue.

00:14:07.060 I think we're generally much less divided, although unfortunately not unanimous.

00:14:11.920 We're less divided on people of every minority group we've got should be protected.

00:14:15.780 They should be safe.

00:14:16.540 They shouldn't have, you know, you want to demonstrate for the Israeli embassy and you're not calling for violence.

00:14:21.220 You know what?

00:14:22.120 Agree or disagree.

00:14:23.080 That is acceptable.

00:14:24.360 That's fine.

00:14:25.140 That's, you have the freedom to do that.

00:14:26.580 going through a residential neighborhood

00:14:29.160 that just happens to be populated by

00:14:31.080 Jewish people

00:14:31.620 I'm not sure how we frame that as like

00:14:34.960 this is a Jewish zone, this is a non-Jewish zone, I'm not sure how 1.00

00:14:37.020 we can actually legislate around it, but it's

00:14:38.940 obviously not cool, it's obviously over the

00:14:41.060 line. And that's where, that's the difference between

00:14:43.080 protesting against Israel and protesting

00:14:44.780 against Jews, and you look at

00:14:46.740 you know, we've got Bernie Farber or Abby

00:14:48.940 Lewis, not every Jew is necessarily supportive 0.98

00:14:51.220 of what Israel's doing 0.98

00:14:52.980 but when you target that neighborhood, you're targeting

00:14:55.220 avi and uh bernie and all the rest of them while you're out and i'm not sure how you actually of

00:14:59.540 course law around they're saying like you know this is a jewish zone and this is a non-jewish 0.98

00:15:02.900 zone it's the muslim zone it's difficult but i mean we know i'm not sure how you do it we know 0.94

00:15:06.660 where there's a part of town where predominantly black people if we all decided to throw on the 0.89

00:15:11.220 old white hoods and go trotting around the neighborhood we're gonna have an intervention 1.00

00:15:16.820 on something something's gonna come along yeah what cory's found in his bed sheets walking

00:15:21.300 through a certain part of town i guarantee you the police will enforce you're not getting

00:15:24.980 coffee and donuts they're gonna have a conversation and and that's kind of what's i know it's you can

00:15:30.260 talk about the line being fuzzy but when you have a very distinctive jewish neighborhood and you have

00:15:34.420 people walking around with with palestinian flags and such it's not that's where you need a smart 0.79

00:15:40.260 cop to say no yeah that's all you do you need one smart cop to say no and put up the mounted patrol

00:15:45.940 they'll go away there's been no consequences we don't know if consequences will work because

00:15:51.460 they've never tried it yeah that smart cop you speak of they will probably be disciplined by

00:15:55.780 his superiors on the orders of the people who instruct his superiors okay let's don't rock

00:16:00.580 the boat so let's actually this is not we have to take time away from other things but actually this

00:16:04.900 is maybe we should just take a moment to talk about the edmonton police chief and the hot water

00:16:09.540 he's found him and himself in uh you know i am not uh unquestioningly with israel on a lot of

00:16:17.300 of what they've done my own views have changed on the topic um but i mean the guy goes on a trip

00:16:23.380 with other chiefs of police to israel it seems pretty harmless to me um and you know you've got

00:16:31.880 everybody calling for his resignation you've got the mayor can knacker whatever the hell his name 0.60

00:16:37.340 is uh you know demanding this guy's head on a plat uh we'll call him knickers knack knack

00:16:44.420 Nick-nack. It's the worst mirror encounter.

00:16:46.140 Nick-nack, all right. 0.99

00:16:46.620 He's terrible. 0.52

00:16:47.220 Yeah, but you've got these guys calling for the police chief's head because he went to Israel.

00:16:53.940 I don't know.

00:16:54.440 When I went to Israel and in the West Bank, it actually opened my eyes up to, you know, actually a lot of the suffering of the Palestinians.

00:16:59.440 I saw it with my own eyes.

00:17:00.380 It actually made me more empathetic with the other side.

00:17:03.240 I think I came out more sympathetic to an extent with the Palestinians.

00:17:08.380 I don't actually understand what people are angry about.

00:17:11.340 Yeah, and as far as policing goes, I mean, if there's any country where the local police at least know how to watch for and deal with terrorists, I think Israel's had a lot of dealing with that. 0.67

00:17:19.260 I mean, aside from the government things, watching for packages, watching for settlers, the terrorists.

00:17:24.080 I don't know, we're starting on a different thing.

00:17:25.920 Look, you know, an area where they have dealt with knife-bearing nutcases, bombs left in public places, you know, things like that.

00:17:33.280 There are things that can be shared just from a raw policing perspective that, you know, are of worth.

00:17:39.480 because we are seeing rising things and shootings of synagogues and things like that.

00:17:43.580 There might be some stuff to be shared.

00:17:44.860 It doesn't mean he's endorsing the Israeli government's stance in Palestine or anything of the source.

00:17:49.300 I just don't understand what people are upset about.

00:17:51.380 Keep in mind Edmonton's been the site of the only confirmed ISIS-inspired attack when the guy shot up City Hall.

00:17:59.100 So for Nick Mac to go off the deep end and criticizing the police chief for trying to gain experience,

00:18:06.140 and he didn't just talk to the Israelis.

00:18:08.340 He talked to the Muslim Jews.

00:18:10.220 He talked to Muslims.

00:18:11.540 He gained a valuable policing experience with other police chiefs on how to deal with important matters. 0.96

00:18:19.060 It is absolutely the most ridiculous controversy this year.

00:18:22.860 Speaking of telling you, I guess, you know, like an ambassador has overstepped his grounds. 0.67

00:18:26.300 Don't forget the groups that made the biggest complaints right off the bat were like the Muslim Association of Edmonton and the rest.

00:18:31.960 What the hell is your place to tell the police chief where he's allowed to go?

00:18:35.100 Well, this is this is overreach kind of on both sides of things, you know, guys like the ambassador, people who agree with them that, yeah, we should take away the freedoms of Canadians to curtail anti-Semitism.

00:18:45.520 And you've got nutters on the other side to think that visiting Israel and meeting with police there somehow makes you complicit in, you know, the good, the bad and the ugly of what goes over there.

00:18:56.280 People on both sides have just totally lost their minds.

00:18:59.860 Yeah.

00:19:01.280 You don't owe me just because you've given me a job as a policeman.

00:19:05.100 Exactly.

00:19:06.180 All right, well, speaking of police and losing minds, the Emergencies Act.

00:19:11.960 So, you know, Corey, we all know what happened with the Emergencies Act.

00:19:16.740 We had to crush the insurrection of hot tubs and bouncy castles.

00:19:20.620 The federal government has lost, I think, every step of the way,

00:19:25.180 finding it unconstitutional, invoking the Emergencies Act there.

00:19:29.160 And then we see from the Canadian Constitution Foundation announced yesterday,

00:19:32.060 Christine Van Gein, who we've had on shows and had her in our paper before, we find out the very

00:19:38.520 last minute the federal government is appealing their losses and now goes to the Supreme Court.

00:19:43.600 They just don't want to let this one go. And it's not like we're reaching for consequences

00:19:49.040 like we should when we've had multiple levels of the courts have said that the government

00:19:52.720 will basically illegally impose martial law on Canada. They should call the Emergencies Act

00:19:57.600 martial law again, so people understand the gravity of what that act actually is. It's

00:20:02.240 suspending rights to deal with an immediate situation. It was improperly used. That was

00:20:06.500 found multiple times. Maybe they're worried that there are consequences that are coming.

00:20:10.280 In Korea, there's an example recently where their prime minister illegally used the Emergencies

00:20:16.120 Act there, their martial law there, and he's got a life sentence in jail now. There was actually

00:20:20.260 calls for execution. That politician was thrown in jail. Our former politician who did it illegally

00:20:26.380 and Canada is nuzzling in the chest of a pop star somewhere on a beach.

00:20:31.500 Maybe they do fear it will eventually lead to consequences for politicians

00:20:34.860 for the first time in Canadian history.

00:20:36.400 I don't know, because why are you appealing this up farther?

00:20:39.220 But they're taking it to the higher court.

00:20:40.940 And people have some valid questions, too,

00:20:42.420 because Richard Wagner on the court has been very vocal already in public

00:20:47.400 about his thoughts on the convoy and called them, you know,

00:20:50.180 basically anarchists and said they were taking other citizens hostage.

00:20:53.860 Yeah, he's prejudged the case before it comes to happen.

00:20:55.820 Yeah, so I don't have much faith in him giving it a good earring when it gets to there.

00:21:00.420 This is of concern.

00:21:01.640 I mean, we had, speaking of restricting individual freedoms without cause, that's exactly what happened in this case.

00:21:08.240 We should be examining ourselves how we can tighten things up so it doesn't happen again

00:21:12.220 instead of the government trying to get itself out of the hole and make an excuse for having done it.

00:21:16.420 Nigel, I'm not sure I'm following the federal government's logic here because unlike, what's his name, Moon or whatever, the South Korean guy,

00:21:25.440 there is no consequences

00:21:28.080 when a government is found to break

00:21:30.080 its own laws because these things are not a part of the criminal

00:21:32.040 people don't understand the difference between just the law

00:21:34.400 regular statutes and then criminal

00:21:36.340 code this is not a part of the criminal

00:21:38.280 code this is its own standalone act

00:21:40.040 and it says it's reviewable by the

00:21:42.220 courts but doesn't say what happens if you

00:21:44.220 lose it's just the court waves its finger and says

00:21:46.060 be more careful in the future you know it's like

00:21:48.220 when the if a government

00:21:50.260 blows through its it's you know it's debt

00:21:52.260 ceiling or something it's in

00:21:54.080 contravention of the law, and it just means they change the law to comply with it normally.

00:21:58.280 So there's no actual consequences beyond, you know, giving kind of a baton for the Freedom

00:22:03.260 Convoy people to beat them with rhetorically. No one's going to go to jail. No one even gets

00:22:08.100 fined a nickel for this, other than just they get a rhetorical baton. But, you know, people who

00:22:16.100 supported using the Emergencies Act, War Measures Act, they still support it generally. People who

00:22:21.000 opposed it still oppose it i don't think the courts are actually really changing people's

00:22:25.600 minds all that much on this all this does is open up the feds to just another round of 0.99

00:22:31.680 some bad headlines that they lost again this time potentially at the supreme court even the supreme

00:22:37.460 court stacked i think almost entirely by liberals at this point not 100 and wegener i think was a

00:22:43.400 harper appointee and he should recuse himself from this because he's already prejudged it publicly

00:22:48.440 what is the win here for the liberals

00:22:52.800 I guess unless they are confident

00:22:55.280 they're going to win at the Ziprim Court

00:22:56.520 despite having lost every single time

00:22:58.740 the win for the liberals

00:23:00.520 is the satisfaction

00:23:02.300 of placing their thumb firmly

00:23:04.900 on top of people that they despise

00:23:07.560 and grinding them

00:23:08.880 into the top of the desk

00:23:10.580 it was very obvious

00:23:13.160 they're the defendants here

00:23:14.240 this is not going to keep Tamera

00:23:17.180 Yeah, but they're the ones who are keeping this thing going.

00:23:20.620 And they want to have the...

00:23:23.000 Look, everything you read about the liberal government at the moment,

00:23:28.160 whatever bill it is that you're examining,

00:23:30.780 when you get past the fluff which says this would be a good thing to do

00:23:35.840 because you get down to...

00:23:37.840 And in order to do that, we are going to curtail a liberty

00:23:41.280 in one direction or another.

00:23:43.460 We want to cut back on child pornography.

00:23:45.720 by the way there's a thing in here about redefining hate and that's going to make it more difficult

00:23:50.940 for people who hold a certain point of view to express it oh this this this bill over here

00:23:56.360 yeah we really need to uh cut down on uh on the use of cash this is bill c2 oh why oh well drug

00:24:05.300 stuff you know people people don't need large amounts of money well maybe some don't need it

00:24:09.480 but just prefer it that way anyway we're going to take that liberty away and one day you know

00:24:15.080 when we have a currency that is entirely electronic, it'll be just that much more

00:24:20.840 convenient. You're not applying the government would freeze your bank accounts or anything.

00:24:25.320 Well, that's something that this is about. So when you ask me, why would they do this? What

00:24:32.040 is the upside? In one sense, it's a rhetorical question. What is the upside? Half the people

00:24:38.280 involved in this are no longer in office. But the other half are, and they feel very strongly,

00:24:44.680 but in canada in order for everybody to get along and play nicely they need to do exactly as they

00:24:51.560 are told and this is about winning the argument that if we say it's an emergency it's an emergency

00:24:58.760 and you must do exactly as you are told so this is not necessarily logical this is in some cases

00:25:05.640 deeply personal but in another case part of a larger government plan for complete domination

00:25:13.320 of the canadian people and deeply expensive just imagine how the billable hours all the team of

00:25:19.560 lawyers lawyers lawyers are going to get rich out of this richer and uh you know at a cost of likely

00:25:30.920 hundreds and hundreds of thousands of dollars it's uh it's a money-making machine for that

00:25:35.400 low volume yeah yeah it'll be in the millions it's an authoritarian bent as nigel is saying 1.00

00:25:41.720 And part of it, I guess, is they also want to make sure that they still have this act in their pocket down the road if they feel they might need to use it again.

00:25:49.260 I don't think they have anything specific in mind, but are they feeling then that they're going to get large protests again in the future somewhere where they feel that they need to be able to justify it in using it in this case?

00:26:01.460 What if Alberta voted for independence? Do you think they would not invoke martial law then?

00:26:07.100 Well, that would really be a poor idea, but that's a rabbit hole.

00:26:10.500 Yeah, but I can foresee some, you know, not entirely hypothetical circumstances under which they might want to have this in their back pocket.

00:26:19.360 I mean, losing the case doesn't mean that the act goes away, but it might mean that certain courts will be more likely to step in and say, this is unconstitutional, we're putting this to review, you don't get to just implement this with a blank check yet.

00:26:33.660 That's the big thing.

00:26:35.080 right eric this is about precedent this whatever the court decides now will shape how future

00:26:41.080 governments can invoke the emergency powers and there's always going to be an emergency if you

00:26:48.760 yeah i mean i also i guess it would be nice for them to say if they can win i mean because they've

00:26:53.160 got a pretty stacked court here um it's even i think like the last one or two herper appointees

00:26:59.800 even there oh they're already prejudged on side so maybe they got a good chance of winning uh so

00:27:04.040 So then you'd like to take that rhetorical baton away from the Freedom Convoy supporters.

00:27:08.620 I wouldn't place too much hope in who appoints the judges.

00:27:13.020 Something about working on the Supreme Court, in fact, any court bench, people become very collegial.

00:27:19.740 And they'll actually say, well, you know, I'm going to let them win that one.

00:27:23.060 No, you want people like Anton Scalia, the U.S. Supreme Court, came in, heard the case, went home, wrote up his notes, didn't talk to anybody, never went to the parties, never went to the drinking sessions.

00:27:32.520 These people are pals.

00:27:33.700 but don't forget there were two lower court judges that ruled against it and you would think they

00:27:38.180 would also be a liberal appointed well there was nothing no the lower courts will be provincial

00:27:42.260 yeah not the federal court of appeal but if you're talking like lower the lowest courts will be

00:27:48.660 but here you've got nine people who've worked together the other courts i don't think it's

00:27:52.340 the same you you and someone you know it's random presume the evidence is still the same the bottom

00:27:57.780 line the problem they had was there was nothing they did when they got rid of the demonstrators

00:28:03.620 and such that couldn't have been done

00:28:05.480 without the Emergencies Act.

00:28:07.980 Aside from the tow trucks

00:28:09.640 in press gangs for that which they never

00:28:11.560 used.

00:28:13.000 No, well it was the threat of it. They said we will press you into it

00:28:15.700 and the tow truck drivers

00:28:17.180 had been refusing to, rightfully

00:28:19.360 they have the right to refuse their services.

00:28:21.560 Conceivably the demonstration could have been

00:28:23.600 dealt with, maybe a little more slally, but it could have been dealt

00:28:25.600 with without the invocation of the Emergencies

00:28:27.680 Act. The police had the authority at that point to

00:28:29.560 start clearing people and you could

00:28:31.560 find means. That's part of where it was

00:28:33.480 failing in court. They have to come in and say

00:28:35.100 they have to make their case. Why was it absolutely

00:28:37.560 impossible to clear out this demonstration

00:28:39.700 without evoking the Emergencies Act

00:28:41.500 and they can't make that case?

00:28:43.320 I would just hope that these justices still remember

00:28:45.360 their initial legal training and that

00:28:46.880 even if they feel beholden to their

00:28:49.340 liberal people who pointed them

00:28:51.540 in there, that there's just not a good

00:28:53.660 basis for...

00:28:55.500 You know what would have ended it quickly

00:28:57.440 if Trudeau met with these people

00:28:59.420 instead of running off to

00:29:01.000 cowardly to Arrington Lake.

00:29:03.460 Or at least he would have had actually more of a

00:29:05.200 moral authority to say, look, I tried to negotiate

00:29:07.280 with these guys. They're crazy. They're 1.00

00:29:09.080 irrational. They all threw snowballs at me.

00:29:11.400 Now we've got to

00:29:12.760 act a little more firmly.

00:29:15.200 He had a wedgie in the bouncy castle.

00:29:16.860 He never even tried to negotiate.

00:29:18.720 That was another aspect.

00:29:21.300 Foul. Foul.

00:29:23.180 That's got to be a two-week suspension.

00:29:28.040 That guy.

00:29:28.780 Alright, well you're going to be last on Parting Thoughts now.

00:29:31.000 Okay, let's switch it up to the most important thing going on in Canada right now, the NDP leadership race.

00:29:40.180 NDP leadership, and you're picking an old conservative to talk about it.

00:29:43.480 I don't even know how to introduce it.

00:29:45.260 It'll go straight to you, Nigel, because I don't know what to say about these guys.

00:29:48.880 Well, there ain't really that much.

00:29:51.120 But from what we read in this morning's news, Avi Lewis is leading in fundraising.

00:30:00.340 And when you're leading in fundraising, you're probably leading in popularity as well.

00:30:05.620 So there are five of these hopefuls.

00:30:07.460 And if there is an interesting thing about it, it is how between the five of them, they actually cover the ground that the NDP travels on.

00:30:18.860 So you've got a hardline union leader.

00:30:21.120 You've got an airy-fairy, you know, blue skies and kiss the grass candidate. 0.59

00:30:27.220 you have got

00:30:29.220 you've got

00:30:31.980 the green side, you've got the blue side

00:30:34.380 you've got the brown side

00:30:35.240 the brown side is not a reference to race

00:30:38.500 it's a reference to the brownfield

00:30:40.460 development by the way for those people

00:30:42.100 I thought you were going to say brown shirts

00:30:44.660 well

00:30:45.260 Jagmeet Singh has resigned so we have no

00:30:48.540 more about that

00:30:49.920 so you've got Don Davies

00:30:52.380 serving as an interim leader

00:30:53.980 and you know

00:30:55.900 So, here's where they all, here's what they're all about.

00:31:00.500 Abby Lewis, well, he's a journalist, a documentary filmmaker, a long-time climate activist.

00:31:06.120 So, you have...

00:31:06.940 And, like, son or grandson of the former NDP.

00:31:08.780 He is Stephen Lewis.

00:31:10.280 He is the actual son of former NDP leader Stephen Lewis and the grandson of former federal leader David Lewis.

00:31:18.880 So, he has...

00:31:19.400 What a family affair. 0.92

00:31:20.340 He has perfect credentials.

00:31:22.780 And is he married to Naomi Klein?

00:31:24.560 Yeah.

00:31:25.480 Is he?

00:31:25.760 Yeah, like this is one big family affair.

00:31:28.220 Yeah.

00:31:28.660 So anyway, if you are the kind of person who wants everybody to drive an electric car or ride a bike,

00:31:36.580 and by the way, give the country away, he'd be the pick.

00:31:43.980 Now, he has raised roughly $778,000, I'm told.

00:31:50.300 I beg your pardon, that's over a million now.

00:31:52.940 And he has the largest number of donors.

00:31:55.000 We picked that up out of the Hill Times.

00:31:58.040 So he is, that's about twice as much as anybody else has raised.

00:32:02.360 In fact, it's more than anybody the rest of them have.

00:32:04.980 So it looks like Abby Lewis is going to be the guy unless they find out something terrible about him.

00:32:12.760 You know, like that he once had dinner with Donald Trump or something.

00:32:17.340 You know, that would be bad.

00:32:18.940 But he represents the left end of the party.

00:32:21.240 It's all about climate justice, activist policies, and a far more confrontational stance towards corporate power and capitalism.

00:32:29.760 Then you've got, from Edmonton, Heather McPherson.

00:32:33.740 Heather McPherson.

00:32:35.200 She is an MP.

00:32:36.240 She's actually the only sitting MP in the race. 0.73

00:32:39.940 And what's her background?

00:32:41.200 Well, international development, humanitarian aid.

00:32:44.640 You know, I don't think it's necessarily a bad thing to be looking out for your neighbors.

00:32:49.060 but these people never do it with their own money so she is also she has been

00:32:57.940 in Israel and she's quite anti-Israel she's quite anti so when she goes to

00:33:02.620 Israel she goes to see the wrong people as far as I'm concerned I don't know how 0.85

00:33:06.820 the mayor feels about her wandering in the streets of old Jerusalem whether he

00:33:12.580 feels any better about her being there than the police chief but anyway she is

00:33:16.840 an elected representative so it is of interest to all of us that that's where she went when she

00:33:22.120 had the chance cory uh on mcpherson um she's kind of got a tough a tough track to tread with kind of

00:33:31.700 rank and file more you know conventional urban ndp members now because she's represented in

00:33:37.660 alberta riding and she was extremely tepidly and really just on paper technically in favor of the

00:33:44.900 Trans Mountain Pipeline. She represents an Alberta constituency, which shared a name and

00:33:49.660 overlapped with Rachel Notley's constituency when Rachel Notley was the NDP leader and premier and

00:33:55.400 opposition leader. And, you know, so as an Alberta MP, she had to. She was extremely

00:34:02.540 tepid. She never talked about it. But on paper, she was in support of the pipeline. And that is

00:34:07.740 a cardinal sin among the modern people. You can hardly get away with that as a liberal in most

00:34:14.480 areas of the country at this point. You could definitely not get away with it as a modern

00:34:17.720 new Democrat. And as far as I can tell, like, Abby Lewis is beating her. He's like, it's

00:34:23.640 like a pipe bomb, no pun intended. He's just beating her with it.

00:34:26.960 Yeah. And there's no room for a moderate NDP leader at this point. Abby's looking

00:34:32.780 If we consider her moderate.

00:34:34.020 Well, I know. She's a fruit loop. I mean, you know, I watched her stand in the House 0.94

00:34:38.860 of Commons in her cafe and, you know, her, and as you said, she only has been silent

00:34:43.980 on the pipeline out of political pragmatism not because she supports it in any sort of way this

00:34:49.500 she just kind of reiterates and as nigel's going through it and that's the top two and then it only 0.96

00:34:53.580 goes downhill from there uh this i wouldn't necessarily call the labor guy i understand

00:34:59.500 those guys yes i understand i'm just talking about yeah but they have no chance of winning yeah

00:35:05.420 well i would think this party is heading for the basement for a while and the person who's

00:35:10.140 going to be most upset about it i think you know just to sidetrack a bit wasn't ahead and edgy

00:35:14.460 because there's been that anchor of the federal ndp on the provincial ndp that's a little bit of

00:35:18.780 harms them as well and and as abby lewis or or whether it turns out to be mcpherson pulls this 0.92

00:35:25.340 even farther left loses sight of the old labor roots they used to have uh you know it's been

00:35:30.780 long gone at this point yeah it's it's you know the only union members now are more the teachers

00:35:35.340 lounge ones not the lunchbox one carrying ones this is a party in dire trouble and they don't

00:35:40.700 even know it they they're pulling it into a hammer and sickle mode rather than trying to

00:35:46.780 here's something to watch out for if it's either it's coming down to lewis or uh mcpherson both of

00:35:52.860 them i think you could describe this what you just did uh i'm not going to say because i don't want

00:35:57.340 to get done for slander but either one of those two becomes leader they go to the house of commons 0.99

00:36:05.020 You may have some disillusioned NDP people who say, screw it, I can't deal with this sort of idiocy, I'm going to the liberals. 0.99

00:36:13.380 That's already happening. 1.00

00:36:14.560 But yeah, they lost one just last week.

00:36:17.140 Well, even voters too, though.

00:36:18.400 Well, that's actually where I was going to go with this, was that, you know, if you get somebody with the views of Lewis,

00:36:26.660 there are some of the old NDP people who voted for Jack Layton, who would say, you know, 0.99

00:36:32.780 The idiocy I don't want to have any more to do with is the liberal idiocy. 0.99

00:36:37.540 So I'm not voting liberal anymore. 1.00

00:36:40.060 At least these people say what I believe.

00:36:42.980 And that's a powerful motivator for the NDP.

00:36:46.600 So this has got something to do with whether we have an election in the spring.

00:36:50.180 Nigel was talking about, you know, every party's got its different factions.

00:36:53.900 The liberals oddly have, I think, the least factions.

00:36:56.080 It's just more or less kind of lefty, and we like to be in government.

00:36:59.500 So there's less closely defined factions.

00:37:02.120 They've got some factions, but not to the same degree

00:37:04.000 that conservatives or new Democrats do.

00:37:05.840 But traditionally, you've got the two

00:37:07.620 polls that are often

00:37:09.200 in real conflict

00:37:12.200 with each other, even if they try to keep it under the radar,

00:37:14.480 between labor and then

00:37:15.880 urban, social progressivist.

00:37:20.600 You know,

00:37:21.940 you could be the workers' party or the

00:37:23.940 professors' party, and you can't really be both.

00:37:26.720 And I guess they've got a workers' party

00:37:28.060 candidate, but he's just so far down.

00:37:29.740 He's a non-factor. The two frontrunners

00:37:31.920 are both leading to become the professor's party,

00:37:35.860 the urban, you know, the barista party.

00:37:38.940 You know, Heather McPherson dresses like a barista, for God's sakes. 1.00

00:37:42.820 Both of them are running to lead that.

00:37:44.920 That does seem to indicate, you know, people have talked about

00:37:47.720 how is the NDP going to reinvent itself?

00:37:49.640 It's been utterly crushed by Mark Carney.

00:37:52.240 And there might even be an opening on the left

00:37:53.640 because, you know, as much as we see Carney as on the left,

00:37:56.700 a lot of Canadians see him as more reasonable than Justin Trudeau.

00:38:00.840 He's at least more competent.

00:38:02.120 We'll have to grab the devil is due. 1.00

00:38:03.880 You know, he's not an idiot. 0.99

00:38:06.360 And, you know, he is at least rhetorically, 0.98

00:38:08.840 we haven't seen the substance of it yet,

00:38:10.660 but rhetorically, he's not as anti-development

00:38:14.020 of oil and gas and infrastructure,

00:38:15.940 that kind of thing.

00:38:16.540 So there's some opening, perhaps,

00:38:18.940 on the Liberals' left flank.

00:38:21.040 And people have been talking, you know,

00:38:21.920 is it going to be a workers' party,

00:38:24.440 or is it just going to be, you know,

00:38:26.840 the professors' baristas' party?

00:38:28.120 the two overwhelming candidates

00:38:30.860 they're clearly

00:38:32.820 the professor's

00:38:34.180 barista's party

00:38:35.260 this I think is like

00:38:37.240 there's no candidate of any standing

00:38:40.000 who's going to make a good showing

00:38:41.720 for being the workers party anymore

00:38:43.480 well we'll have to see in the vote

00:38:47.800 but I mean

00:38:49.400 the other thing about the NDP is

00:38:51.780 that if you look carefully into their positions

00:38:54.020 on the left of the nation

00:38:56.160 you have to wonder what their founders

00:38:57.960 would have ever made of it.

00:39:00.240 Tommy Douglas would euthanize them.

00:39:03.920 Well, you know,

00:39:04.820 the politics of the NDP,

00:39:06.600 there's a whole new rabbit hole.

00:39:08.200 As my Christian friends remind me from time to time,

00:39:11.500 the NDP was started by

00:39:12.880 Christians, you know, Nigel. 1.00

00:39:15.260 And I have to admit

00:39:16.560 that they were.

00:39:18.460 They're prairie socialists, but it's

00:39:20.480 nothing of the party that they

00:39:22.680 were of old,

00:39:24.740 that's for sure.

00:39:26.340 Okay.

00:39:27.120 I'm not very wrong here.

00:39:28.840 All right, parting shots.

00:39:29.940 Since Nigel didn't care to mute his phone before going here,

00:39:33.600 we'll give Dave first shot.

00:39:35.720 All right, first shot.

00:39:37.640 Big doings at Calgary City Hall, Friday morning at 1030,

00:39:42.720 where there will be a solemn procession of 215 smelly old discarded shoes

00:39:49.000 that have been there since the announcement by the Kamloops First Nation

00:39:54.120 of 215 children's bodies found in the graveyard there.

00:39:59.240 So they're going to march these 215 pairs of shoes

00:40:03.460 over to the confluence.

00:40:06.860 Yeah, Fort Calgary for those.

00:40:08.640 Formerly Fort Calgary.

00:40:08.960 Formerly Fort Calgary will be Fort Calgary again,

00:40:11.500 where these 215 smelly shoes will be housed

00:40:15.360 in a $7.5 million exhibit.

00:40:21.140 So talk about a waste of taxpayers' money.

00:40:24.120 But on the right side, our good friend Francis Whittowson and her pals vowed to disrupt the whole procession with questions about the 215 graves.

00:40:35.400 So it's going to turn into a police melee.

00:40:39.000 So John, our production guy and a Western Standard team, will be there Friday morning, 1030, to document all the fun.

00:40:48.300 I don't know if John knew that. I think he's like, oh, shit. 0.99

00:40:51.500 No, he knew. We talked. 1.00

00:40:54.620 Okay. Okay. Corey.

00:40:56.340 Yeah, I'll keep a little profile.

00:40:57.860 Since you made it your phone, you get to go next.

00:40:59.340 Oh, thanks. I just wanted to give a shout out to our friends at the CBC.

00:41:02.480 And, you know, thanks to our friends at the Taxpayers Federation for reminding us and putting that out with their ratings numbers.

00:41:09.660 The CBC News now is capturing 1.7% for our $1.5 billion a year.

00:41:16.160 That's that their news hour actually captures for audience share.

00:41:20.460 Their top shows are 3.6%.

00:41:23.660 So it's bad enough that we're spending as much as we do on them.

00:41:28.900 You would think at least it would get in front of people. 1.00

00:41:31.240 But, no, they aren't watching their crap. 0.99

00:41:33.340 I think this is good news. 0.99

00:41:34.480 Well, it's kind of in a way.

00:41:35.480 I'd rather just waste the money.

00:41:36.460 It's just burnt money, I guess.

00:41:37.820 Yes, but it's just to remind people when you're trying to defend

00:41:41.340 keeping that dead old institution, people aren't even watching.

00:41:44.640 Did you see David Cochran's coming back, though?

00:41:47.060 Oh, well, that'll bring it back.

00:41:48.320 He's been missing since Dan Raj's testimony, eviscerated him, went on medical leave, but he posted a lengthy thing yesterday saying, not telling you what it's all about, but I vowed to be back.

00:42:03.880 And Rosie Barton retweeted a fist pump. 1.00

00:42:08.400 Looking forward to having you.

00:42:09.880 So an increase in ratings, increase in ratings soon to come.

00:42:14.560 1.6% of what?

00:42:16.300 Do we know?

00:42:17.280 Of people watching news.

00:42:18.880 Oh, okay.

00:42:19.440 So is that like 165,000 or 16,000 or 1,600?

00:42:23.680 I don't know the herd numbers.

00:42:24.680 I'd have to dig into that.

00:42:25.660 That's just the audience share numbers.

00:42:27.560 There's part of it, too, is not a lot of people watch TV news anymore anyway.

00:42:30.460 That's no matter what station it is.

00:42:32.180 It sounds like not a lot.

00:42:34.300 Yeah.

00:42:34.600 Yeah.

00:42:35.020 Okay.

00:42:35.480 All right.

00:42:35.660 Well, I'm going in front of Nigel.

00:42:37.400 Good.

00:42:37.900 I'm going in front of Nigel this time.

00:42:39.260 I always save myself for last.

00:42:40.340 Not today, because that was rude.

00:42:41.640 The now former director of the United States's counterterrorism office, Joe Kent, who was a Trump appointee, resigned in quite a fashion yesterday, writing in opposition to the war with Iran.

00:43:07.920 And, you know, he did not criticize Trump, but he says, effectively, Trump has been manipulated by certain players into doing this.

00:43:21.040 Iran, you know, is not friendly, but it was not an imminent threat.

00:43:24.340 It was not in America's interests.

00:43:25.920 You know, you ran three times over president.

00:43:27.700 It's America first. 0.94

00:43:28.500 No more of these forever wars in the Middle East.

00:43:32.520 and what obviously got everyone's attention

00:43:35.460 was he says he was manipulated into it

00:43:37.320 by the Israeli government

00:43:38.460 and its lobby in Washington.

00:43:40.300 That is obviously a very spicy thing to say

00:43:43.380 and it's raised a lot of conversation

00:43:48.020 but this is the first big high-profile resignation

00:43:51.820 since Trump resumed the presidency last year.

00:43:56.260 I don't know how much more there could be

00:43:58.240 but Trump's response was

00:44:01.340 He was never very good on security. Well, then why the hell did you appoint him to be in charge of counterterrorism? I mean, I mean, but we know Trump, you take him seriously, but not literally, I think, you know, either it was dereliction of duty to appoint someone who's no good on security to be in charge of counterterrorism, or you're not telling the truth.

00:44:22.140 But anyway, this is a pretty big moment in the United States, and I've predicted before, I think Iran very well could be kind of the beginning of the end of MAGA, breaking that coalition apart. 0.90

00:44:38.380 You may be right.

00:44:39.480 Let me tell you, however, about the peculiarity of B.C. Premier David Eby, and we did report this on the news pages, who went out confronted by a bill to abolish the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal from one of the opposition parties.

00:44:59.460 And he made an emotional speech saying how the BC Human Rights Commission and its tribunal were there to protect people.

00:45:09.260 They were there to protect women.

00:45:11.880 This, from the lips of the Premier, after his same-said Human Rights Tribunal,

00:45:18.780 has just penalized a school board trustee

00:45:23.640 in the amount of $750,000

00:45:26.720 for protecting the dignity of women

00:45:31.320 by saying, you can't just come along

00:45:34.120 and say you're a woman if you're actually a man.

00:45:38.100 It is, how they can't make those connections,

00:45:42.500 I guess, is just their minds are programmed differently.

00:45:46.180 And this is a problem in this country.

00:45:47.580 than a lot of people with their minds i think it is it just seemed like computer programming and

00:45:51.980 and there's a problem with the buying no pun intended there's probably the binary code here

00:45:56.060 yeah uh there they're still feminists but then they're also for essentially getting rid of 1.00

00:46:03.180 women's rights because you know you know this trans rights thing yeah i think there's a there's 0.98

00:46:07.660 a there's a programming problem it's like when you ask uh like a hardcore pro-abortion activist about

00:46:15.020 sex selection abortion and they're a feminist it's the the the robot starts twitching does not compute 0.98

00:46:23.020 yeah okay all right that's it for today thank you nigel curry dave thanks john on production

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Western Standard - March 19, 2026

Canadian freedom under attack from Ottawa, and abroad

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