Western Standard - November 12, 2026


Carney smashes Trudeau's immigration numbers

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00:00:00 Good day, today is November 11th, 2026.
00:00:27 I am Derek Fildebrandt, publisher of the Western Standard, and you're watching The Pipeline.
00:00:32 I've got, as usual, Western Standard's Corey Morgan and Dave Naylor with us today.
00:00:37 Good evening.
00:00:38 Nigel couldn't make it, unfortunately.
00:00:41 That just means more time for us to boulevate and express our views on the world.
00:00:48 We're going to be talking about Alberta cracking down on DEI at universities and other government institutions
00:00:56 and the bull-vading coming from certain DEI hires in the Senate
00:01:02 who are very upset that people should be given positions based on their merit.
00:01:10 Very racist, if you ask me.
00:01:11 Senator Tickles, yes.
00:01:13 Yeah, that's a good name.
00:01:15 We're going to talk about the Republican annihilation in the midterm elections
00:01:21 and what impact that could have in Alberta, in the West, and in Canada.
00:01:26 But before that, though, we will start with the new immigration targets coming out of the Kearney government.
00:01:35 Big numbers, numbers that people had hoped, had prayed, were in the rearview mirror after Justin Trudeau.
00:01:43 It seems not so.
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00:02:16 Okay, so
00:02:18 So, Cardi's plan is holding, well, it says, at least, it's holding permanent resident missions at 380,000 people a year.
00:02:31 Same as Trudeau's target, but higher than Trudeau's planned, 365 for 2027.
00:02:39 Cuts new temporary arrivals to 370,000.
00:02:43 That's below where Trudeau was at in the 500,000s.
00:02:46 but there is some argument about what the real numbers are, Dave.
00:02:52 I know the Conservative Immigration Shadow Minister, Michelle Rempel,
00:02:58 says those numbers are bunk. They're actually much higher.
00:03:00 She says there's 674,000, which is an incredible number.
00:03:04 You thought the problems with immigration were over when Carney got elected,
00:03:09 but it appears it's the same old story and it's going to get worse
00:03:12 because where do immigrants go? 0.98
00:03:14 They want to go where they can have the best chance of finding a job, you would think.
00:03:18 And it's Alberta, where the economy is booming.
00:03:22 So we're going to take a good chunk of them, I would guess,
00:03:26 and further bringing down the school system and further clogging up hospitals and…
00:03:33 Jails.
00:03:35 Sure, you said it.
00:03:36 You said it, not me.
00:03:37 But yeah, it appears to be, I don't want to call it a hoax, because everybody thought that Carney was going to bring in some realistic numbers, and he said he was going to, but it appears he's sort of misled Canadians.
00:03:57 Corey, it's, I guess, one of the things here is they want to increase the number of permanent residents becoming citizens.
00:04:04 Part of the problem is, you know, we all kind of want people to integrate, assimilate,
00:04:09 although that's not one of our actual goals in our immigration system.
00:04:12 It hasn't been for an extremely long time.
00:04:15 But the problem is, once you make people citizens, now they can sponsor their brothers and their sisters,
00:04:21 their uncles, their grandparents, their parents.
00:04:23 And then you get this kind of family reunification scheme going on.
00:04:27 That was one of the great sins of Brian Mulroney was the massive expansion of family reunification, which might sound nice,
00:04:33 but really just kind of opens the door to bringing in more permanent residents who are not here actually necessarily adding to the economy necessarily.
00:04:42 So I think that's probably one of the big things that was missed by a lot of the mainstream media headlines here was the push to turn more permanent residents into citizens
00:04:52 and what the knock-on effects of that might be.
00:04:55 Well, that, and I believe part of it too,
00:04:56 is he took a lot of the temporary ones
00:04:58 and gave them permanent citizen status.
00:05:00 So he's kind of bumped everything all the way up the line.
00:05:03 And permanent residents, I mean, it's not necessarily as big a deal
00:05:06 because these are people who came through the proper channels.
00:05:08 These are people who were most, for the most part,
00:05:10 already working and established and doing things.
00:05:13 But as you said, that does change that status for now,
00:05:15 reaching out and bringing a bunch more people in.
00:05:19 And again, it sounds very backdoor.
00:05:21 those numbers when you bring it about the bottom line is how many new bodies are we bringing into
00:05:26 the country in the course of a year and it does appear to be or at least changing the status of
00:05:30 it it does appear to be into that 600 and some thousand range it the country had kind of shifted
00:05:35 they even the liberals were kind of grudgingly admitted okay we we had the floodgates open for
00:05:39 too long it caused consequences and and they did reduce the number of students and temporary
00:05:45 foreign workers for a little while and we saw the benefits of that that the housing actually
00:05:49 did start to increase we did see less pressures and then it's like well okay well there we did
00:05:54 we did our fix and now let's just open those floodgates again well the problem isn't going
00:05:57 to change well the disc goes back uh i don't have the name handy here uh but uh i think it's
00:06:04 wiseman and another guy uh these are the guys behind the century initiative who wanted canada
00:06:10 to have a population of a hundred million um by the end of the century i mean if that was just
00:06:16 because we're having a bunch of babies, that'd be
00:06:18 one thing. That's a slow 0.99
00:06:20 organic increase
00:06:22 and it's people who obviously don't require
00:06:24 assimilation, for the most part at least.
00:06:27 But that's not
00:06:28 what we're talking about and it's also
00:06:30 obviously not happening. We don't have
00:06:32 enough children to maintain our population, let alone grow
00:06:34 to it. These are guys who wrote these
00:06:36 radical plans working with the World Economic
00:06:38 Forum and
00:06:40 Carney kind of, you know,
00:06:42 waved his hand away at these guys.
00:06:44 this stuff that says, oh, don't worry about that during the election.
00:06:47 That's just these guys navel-gazing, none of that.
00:06:50 And he's got these guys in charge of it now.
00:06:52 These are the guys running the immigration plan.
00:06:56 Well, I mean, I think Coyne was going on.
00:06:59 It's a conspiracy theory yet again becoming true.
00:07:01 It seems to happen.
00:07:03 I mean, there's a number of the things as to what's the motivation for Carney to keep
00:07:06 dipping into this.
00:07:08 I think there's two things that look like it.
00:07:10 I mean, part of it is he's really got to hang up with ingratiating ourselves with the EU.
00:07:15 And how much of that is, well, what does the EU want with Canada?
00:07:19 Well, they're filled to the seams because they brought in mass immigration that's really causing them untold hell. 0.82
00:07:24 If they could find another outlet in Canada to dump a whole pile of them over this way, I'm sure they'd be more than happy to do so. 1.00
00:07:30 That could be part of it because Carney really wants to cut a deal with them.
00:07:33 Another part is just the straight economics.
00:07:35 I mean, when you've got a bad economic management, when you're looking on the verge of recession all the time, that's what Trudeau kept doing.
00:07:43 Open the immigration floodgates.
00:07:44 It gives you a data point to show, look, look, the economy's growing.
00:07:47 We're not sinking into recession.
00:07:48 Yeah, but meanwhile, your services and standard of living.
00:07:51 Your per capita GDP is going on, but the recession is measured by gross GDP.
00:07:55 Exactly.
00:07:55 He's just doing the same thing his predecessor did.
00:07:58 I know he wants to ingratiate himself to Europe, but I'm not convinced that this is it.
00:08:04 Because no matter what Canada takes in, it's still not enough. 1.00
00:08:10 Europe is being not swamped by necessarily Indians. 1.00
00:08:13 No, it's North Africa.
00:08:14 North Africa, the Middle East, Sub-Saharan Africa. 0.95
00:08:18 That's what's coming into Europe. 0.94
00:08:20 Canada, well, we're taking from all of the above, but particularly India.
00:08:25 What I'm thinking is potentially there could be a very quick jump off point from Spain, France, UK into Canada if we've cut a big deal on shared immigration.
00:08:33 That's just theory.
00:08:34 I tend to think the goal is, one, to artificially juice GDP numbers so it doesn't look like a recession on paper, but primarily scab migration.
00:08:47 You know, unions use the term scab for replacement workers during a strike or something.
00:08:52 Well, this is scab migration where you're able to bring in replacement workers to displace the Canadian workforce, get people to work cheaper, get them to work in tougher labor conditions.
00:09:02 These are replacement workers, essentially, that are being imported to cut out the negotiate.
00:09:07 And that has knock-on effects throughout the Canadian labor market.
00:09:10 It hurts everybody's wage negotiating powers.
00:09:13 I tend to think, Dave, this is coming from the world that Carney does.
00:09:19 He comes from high finance.
00:09:20 It's big corporate, high finance.
00:09:24 This is the way they see the world economy working, is we're going to outsource what we can directly to overseas.
00:09:29 I was talking to someone the other day who was supposed to be a senior representative of a TD.
00:09:35 I was trying to get some things for the company bank account tightened up.
00:09:39 And this guy says, Calgary, that's in the West Coast, right?
00:09:43 No, no, Calgary's not on the West Coast.
00:09:46 Compared to Toronto, it is, right?
00:09:49 No, sir, it's not.
00:09:51 No.
00:09:51 So, you know, we've outsourced jobs directly to overseas.
00:09:54 I'm pretty sure that guy was not actually working at Toronto Dominion headquarters in Toronto.
00:09:58 Shocker.
00:09:59 Yeah. But some jobs that still have to be done here, they want to bring in third world workers because they'll work cheaper. 1.00
00:10:07 They'll work in tougher conditions to cut things out here. 0.99
00:10:11 And I don't think it's I don't think Carney probably sees it as malicious, but just that's the way the world economy is working.
00:10:16 And that's the way we're going to go.
00:10:18 It didn't work out overly well for him as the governor of the Bank of England.
00:10:22 He was failed there.
00:10:24 I think you hit the nail on the head when you said wage suppression.
00:10:27 That's going to be the toughest thing for middle-income Canadians is, yeah, you've always got this lower rung of workers that needs to be done.
00:10:38 You know, the floors that need to be scrubbed and the Tim Hortons coffee that needs to be served.
00:10:43 But they work a lot cheaper than regular Canadian workers.
00:10:49 So, yeah, wages will be suppressed because of this.
00:10:52 I think that's really where he's going here. 1.00
00:10:55 And I think the idea is, you know, you're going to bring in third world scab migrant workers and that replaces the lower rung because we're not bringing in just doctors and engineers anymore. 1.00
00:11:07 The time of that is long since past. 1.00
00:11:09 We're bringing in shit. 0.99
00:11:11 And you replace the lower rungs. 1.00
00:11:14 And that means that they just go on social assistance.
00:11:17 But the idea being that, well, this will still create overall more wealth.
00:11:21 The government will have more taxing revenue to be able to pay for it. 0.99
00:11:24 um same things are probably going to happen with ai ai is going to kill the middle class
00:11:29 white collar jobs are going to be eliminated there the idea is this is going to create a
00:11:33 bunch more wealth and then with that new wealth the government will have more revenue and be able 0.98
00:11:38 to provide more generous social assistance to keep the plebs happy with bread and circuses yeah well 0.90
00:11:43 the youth unemployment numbers are looking horrific and in canada's unemployment in general is looking
00:11:47 bad i mean again the formula just doesn't seem to make sense to people you got a lot of people out
00:11:51 of work and you're pouring a whole pile of people in to fill those jobs.
00:11:54 Yeah.
00:11:54 I had a lesser number than the ones existing.
00:11:55 This is really problematic.
00:11:58 And, and, and with the changing job market, there's, there's no future in
00:12:02 graphic design, there's no future in copywriting.
00:12:06 Programming or yon.
00:12:07 Programming, accounting, bookkeeping.
00:12:11 Guys, these things are all going to disappear. 1.00
00:12:13 We need to be redirecting our younger population to hands-on jobs. 0.98
00:12:17 Even if they're at the point of yes, working Tim Hortons or hopefully 1.00
00:12:20 trades plumbing things that can't and these are the very ones where they want to bring in the 1.00
00:12:25 scab workers so this is really really going to disrupt this country and hurt it and really hurt 0.99
00:12:30 it with a whole generation that's coming up with a narrower job market i think than they've ever 0.91
00:12:34 seen anybody's ever seen before that generation has to realize that a job like an oil worker
00:12:42 construction they pay good money they pay six figures and in some cases a lot more so there's
00:12:49 there's no shame in being a plumber. You'll be retired
00:12:51 before I get it. You never see a plumber in an old car.
00:12:53 No, exactly. Well, once they
00:12:55 have actual physical robots
00:12:57 with AI, which is probably not
00:12:59 that far away. Eventually
00:13:01 the trades could get replaced once they have
00:13:03 good enough robotics with good enough AI.
00:13:05 For the time being, it's the better path.
00:13:07 For now. But I mean, if, you know, like
00:13:09 my kids,
00:13:11 you know, nine,
00:13:13 four, and
00:13:14 T-minus one month,
00:13:16 I'm not sure even I would tell them to go trades
00:13:20 Because the trades could conceivably be replaced too now
00:13:22 I'm just not sure what you can do
00:13:24 Other than be an oligarch and inherit money
00:13:26 At least for the time being
00:13:27 Anything where you're actually hands on
00:13:29 Healthcare is another big one
00:13:30 You know, my father is in a care home
00:13:34 And I'd say 85% of the staff are Filipino
00:13:37 And they're fantastic
00:13:38 They're doing a good job
00:13:39 But, well then, if people are looking for things
00:13:42 That's to a degree not going to change
00:13:44 You need people on the ground
00:13:45 in those facilities. 1.00
00:13:47 So can we train up domestic people? 0.94
00:13:50 That's not unskilled people. 1.00
00:13:51 That's a tough job to take care of in there.
00:13:53 And they do a really good job.
00:13:55 But then should we be looking at that for our economy?
00:13:58 That's where we'd be directing people towards
00:14:00 health care services, again, trades,
00:14:02 or even just service industries,
00:14:04 restaurant servers, whatever.
00:14:06 But I mean, the other ones aren't going to be there.
00:14:08 Okay, we'll flip now to the U.S. midterms.
00:14:13 the republicans were destroyed in a historic fashion certainly the biggest uh swing uh
00:14:21 in the house and the senate in my lifetime i'm not sure if it's ever maybe there's been bigger
00:14:26 sweeps but it was big democrats won in texas they won in mississippi like
00:14:35 Like, unheard of.
00:14:40 And, you know, there's...
00:14:43 Okay, so here's just kind of the basic numbers.
00:14:45 The Senate.
00:14:45 Remember, the Senate only elects one third of its members at a time.
00:14:48 So it can't have huge shifts.
00:14:51 But for a shift, this was huge.
00:14:52 The Democrats now took a majority.
00:14:55 They're at 54 seats.
00:14:56 The Republican, 44.
00:14:58 Oh, yeah.
00:14:58 And Alaska is still...
00:15:00 Actually, Mississippi's still not called.
00:15:02 But they might win Alaska.
00:15:03 Do you know how right-wing Alaska is?
00:15:07 It's the deep south in the far, far north.
00:15:09 It's crazy that Democrats even show up, yet they might have taken it.
00:15:17 The House, at least 254 called.
00:15:23 They're well above the 218 needed.
00:15:25 1619 races still uncalled.
00:15:27 Republicans totally wiped out.
00:15:30 They're electing a new minority leader right now.
00:15:33 in that process. Everyone's playing the blame game now about what it was. What is MEGA? MEGA's
00:15:43 changed. It's not the same thing. MEGA is actually kind of the new Republican establishment.
00:15:50 But the neocons, which were purged under Trump 1.0, they're back in, but they're still a part
00:15:57 of the trump cult this cult-like weird atmosphere of it they're saying well it's just because uh
00:16:06 you know we didn't campaign hard enough or we didn't commute communicate well enough or we
00:16:11 didn't spend enough money and you know they spent a lot of money that's what they're saying uh
00:16:16 others are saying and i'm more partial to this is i don't know maybe trump started a war of choice
00:16:23 that he was very clear
00:16:25 was not the kind of thing
00:16:27 that would ever happen
00:16:27 under his presidency.
00:16:28 That was not going to be
00:16:31 Democrat dovishness
00:16:33 where we're afraid of,
00:16:34 you know, military force,
00:16:36 but it was not going to be,
00:16:37 you know, Bush style,
00:16:39 neoconservative imperialism.
00:16:42 This was, you know,
00:16:42 America's not playing
00:16:43 world police anymore.
00:16:44 And then he just launches
00:16:45 the war in Iran anyway.
00:16:48 Very clearly not
00:16:50 in America's interest. 0.97
00:16:51 Very clearly screwed
00:16:53 the thing up.
00:16:53 It's unwinnable. It's completely unwinnable.
00:16:56 You have a couple of crazy voices saying, well, then they should just bring in the draft and send a million-man army in.
00:17:03 Okay, yeah, if you want a civil war in America, good luck.
00:17:06 Americans have—there's never been a war America's fought that's begun this unpopular.
00:17:12 They're at Vietnam levels of support, where they were at the end of Vietnam.
00:17:17 They started at that level at the beginning of Iran.
00:17:20 And yeah, of course, Democrats opposed it because people oppose wars from whatever other party president launches them.
00:17:26 That's table stakes.
00:17:28 But it started with roughly half of Republicans opposed to it.
00:17:33 Not necessarily just moderate, independent Republicans, but hard, hard Republicans, real megatypes.
00:17:40 And this has obviously had huge knock-on effects with cost of living.
00:17:44 Hard to keep gas and diesel prices down when the Strait of Hormuz is blockaded.
00:17:49 So that's a long, long opening rant.
00:17:54 I'll put it to you, Dave. 0.99
00:17:56 You know, I love to say I told you so, but Iran, you think that was the big reason they lost? 1.00
00:18:01 Certainly one of them. 1.00
00:18:03 I think if you look to domestic issues, the price of gasoline, the price of diesel.
00:18:07 Related to Iran, though.
00:18:08 Related to Iran.
00:18:11 Price of gasoline, price of diesel, price of food going up, inflation going up.
00:18:15 It all adds in to it. 0.95
00:18:17 But, yeah, it all goes back to Iran. 0.99
00:18:21 So, yes, Derek, you were right. 0.97
00:18:23 I love hearing that.
00:18:25 Can you say that, too?
00:18:27 Can you say, too, I know you liked the war.
00:18:30 You liked the war.
00:18:32 I'm reminding you, yes, the two of you and Nigel all sat here saying, 0.99
00:18:38 oh, goddamn, Ayatollahs, we've got to get them, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. 0.99
00:18:41 And I told you, I told you guys, I'm calling you. 1.00
00:18:45 Check the tape.
00:18:46 John, check the tape
00:18:48 Let's put Corey up
00:18:50 You go in, you drop the bomb, it's over
00:18:52 Well, you want to drop the big one
00:18:54 Okay, well, that, sure
00:18:56 Or you're talking about the bunker buster
00:18:57 Okay, well, let me say it's the bomb
00:18:59 That means the bunker bomb
00:19:01 The capital T, go home
00:19:03 The bomb we're talking about is the bunker buster
00:19:05 You drop it, it destroys the facility 1.00
00:19:07 Okay, but Iran 1.00
00:19:09 Domestically would be then 0.95
00:19:12 Well, within its rights to consider that an act of war 1.00
00:19:14 I will say you were right
00:19:16 I will say, like I said, I think my support for Trump jumping in there might have been lukewarm at the time, but certainly warmer than anything you ever offered.
00:19:23 I was I was more wrong than you were right.
00:19:26 Grant, all of that.
00:19:27 No, I was extremely right.
00:19:29 And how did the stock market react?
00:19:31 It lost three trillion dollars the next day.
00:19:34 Three trillion dollars.
00:19:36 So certainly the stock market wasn't overly thrilled with the Democratic victory.
00:19:41 So, you know, the thing is now he's got, they call him a lame duck president, which is the technical term for it.
00:19:48 But how crazy is he going to get?
00:19:50 Well, he might get worse.
00:19:50 He could get worse.
00:19:51 The president could do a lot without Congress.
00:19:53 He's got nothing to stop him now.
00:19:56 He's not going to run again.
00:19:58 I think some of it still was just people are getting sick of him.
00:20:01 They really are.
00:20:02 I mean, this has been stretched out more than just two back-to-back terms over four years.
00:20:05 No, he managed to find a way to kind of make it 12, even though he wasn't in for four of them.
00:20:09 And people have just sort of had enough of his ways.
00:20:12 I think some of the motivation, I mean, there's a lot of things to read into why he went into Iran last year,
00:20:17 which, as you were right, is an absolute catastrophe for him and the American people. 0.71
00:20:24 But part of it's trying to turn the page.
00:20:26 I mean, a shallow leader, a quick way to try and bring up your support,
00:20:29 let's make an enemy and let's win quickly, which he thought he would,
00:20:32 and then this will short up, which it most certainly didn't.
00:20:35 But I think he was already feeling that the sheen was wearing off on his presidency last year.
00:20:39 Yeah, Epstein.
00:20:41 A few other things.
00:20:43 And I don't know if there was anything to pull it out.
00:20:45 I mean, it's pure Trump, as you expected of him, saying, you know, if it had been me running, we would have won.
00:20:49 No, I think if it had been you running, you would have lost even further.
00:20:53 This was a repudiation of him.
00:20:54 I think the Republicans have really got to re-evaluate themselves now.
00:20:58 They've got two years to try and figure out how to be competitive when the general election comes.
00:21:02 So this, yeah, that might be a good thing for the Republicans that they needed to be, this was not a humbling, this was a scouring, they got a scouring, because, you know, the plan, the plan was, you know, Trump finishes up and passes the baton to J.D. Vance or Marco Rubio, you know, Trump kept his options open, that kept J.D. Vance on his heels that he can't distance himself too far.
00:21:28 I think this means that neither Vance or Rubio can be the nominee.
00:21:35 They might still end up being, you know, the Republican establishment still has a lot of sway over who that gets to be.
00:21:41 And Trump still has a lot of sway over who that has to be.
00:21:43 But this is the end of the Trump era.
00:21:45 Trumpism is over.
00:21:48 Mega is dead.
00:21:50 It could be reinvented in another form.
00:21:52 Like, I think original mega, you know, right now we're on mega, we're on new mega.
00:22:00 No one likes new mega.
00:22:03 Maybe kind of repackaging of original mega could work.
00:22:06 But I think this tells the Republicans that their strategy of just kind of handing off the baton now is not going to work because this has been such a disaster.
00:22:16 And Trump, there's just no way he's going to let J.D. Vance freelance too much.
00:22:22 You've seen him freelancing a bit. J.D. Vance blamed the war, which was interesting because I know Trump's not going to like that. But is Trump able to allow him to freelance more? That's the only chance J.D. Vance has got is to continually distance himself from the Trump administration. But Trump's ego can't allow that, I don't imagine.
00:22:40 J.D. could resign, right? There's talk about Rubio resigning. So, you know, if they do that,
00:22:47 that would be smart. Whoever does it, it would be a smart way to, look, I'm sort of done with
00:22:52 this Trump guy now, but here's what I can set out for the future.
00:22:55 But you still need, Trump still has his followers. It's a cult. You can't lose them.
00:23:01 It's a dwindling cult. Still powerful, can't disregard it. They're an active one,
00:23:07 But it's a difficult spot for those two.
00:23:10 I think the, I mean, it's just my view from the outside,
00:23:13 but I think the Republicans need somebody fresh and new.
00:23:15 Vance and Rubio have already worn the Trump thing.
00:23:17 Even if you distant it, you're still connected with that.
00:23:20 I think maybe at least what they should do is try to turn the page.
00:23:25 And that means a new face.
00:23:27 Well, they brought in Stephen Miller, new chief of staff.
00:23:31 I mean, that guy breathed some hellfire on his first day.
00:23:34 uh this does signal maybe a harder turn uh the old chief of staff i can't recall her name
00:23:41 susan willis yeah she's a an establishment republican uh figure stephen miller uh seems
00:23:48 to be a bit more fire breathing um but then bizarrely you know trump trump did an interview
00:23:53 and he was asking you know well what could you work with the democrats on and his answer was
00:23:57 i'd like to do a deal on immigration and you know yeah maybe we went too hard we're just trying to
00:24:03 You know, by going against everyone, we should have just focused on getting rid of, like, violent criminals who are here illegally rather than people who broke the law by coming in.
00:24:13 And then he said, like, let's do an amnesty deal. 0.87
00:24:17 Who the hell is this guy?
00:24:19 What have you done with Donald Trump? 0.95
00:24:20 You've got a guy who starts wars just like W. Bush and a guy proposing to do a deal with the Democrats on amnesty for illegal aliens.
00:24:30 This is like a wild Democrat.
00:24:33 You'd think Biden was still in the White House.
00:24:36 He doesn't know what to do with himself.
00:24:38 You know, I mean, he's on the slide.
00:24:41 And it does show, too, that there's not an ideological consistency with Trump.
00:24:47 I mean, there's no...
00:24:47 Well, there's never been.
00:24:48 There's no consistency with Trump.
00:24:49 I mean, try to predict what that man's going to do.
00:24:51 And that's what we're talking about.
00:24:52 Being lame duck with two years ahead of him?
00:24:54 We could be in for a hell of a wild ride yet.
00:24:56 He comes out at his press briefing this week with Dana White as his new spokesman.
00:25:01 Right on there.
00:25:01 That was funny.
00:25:04 Maybe not good.
00:25:05 He put it out on Twitter.
00:25:06 Nobody believed it.
00:25:07 And the next day, there's Dana White in the White House press room.
00:25:12 He's just having a laugh, I think.
00:25:14 He's having a laugh at all our expenses.
00:25:17 Unfortunately, he's got a lot of power for a man who's just having a lark with him.
00:25:21 Well, the Democrats now have the power of subpoena.
00:25:24 They have the power of the purse.
00:25:25 So no bills are getting passed.
00:25:26 They're going to see shutdowns.
00:25:29 Nothing's going to get done for the next two years.
00:25:31 But the Democrats are now, there is, I would say, an excessive amount of smoke about corruption of the administration.
00:25:38 Like, they've been doing, like, you know, Bitcoins and NFTs, like, total scams.
00:25:45 Total scams and abuses of power.
00:25:48 Now that the Democrats have majorities in both houses, they're going to start launching, they're going to launch a lot of investigations.
00:25:55 A lot of people have gotten rich in a way that is probably unsettling to the average American voter here.
00:26:03 And I think this is going to torch, like, I think Trump's popularity is going to go down faster from here now.
00:26:10 Because it's not like a Canadian committee in Parliament.
00:26:14 They have no power. 1.00
00:26:15 They don't do shit. 0.99
00:26:17 American committees have a lot of power, especially for investigations. 0.99
00:26:20 Well, tactically, it'd be good. Turn over a lot of rocks, make it so he's doing nothing but addressing scandals for the next two years.
00:26:26 That's all he's going to do.
00:26:26 And you're going to march in with a Democrat president more than likely, again, depending on who, you know, Newsom or whatever the hell they choose.
00:26:33 God help him if they pick Newsom.
00:26:35 But he, Trump admitted this week in an interview, maybe 60 minutes, that he's made $3 billion off his presidency.
00:26:42 And then the reporter said, question, doesn't that seem excessive?
00:26:46 And he says, well, I didn't take a paycheck.
00:26:49 And, you know, if you want to earn $3 billion, you should invest in the stock market, he says.
00:26:55 And it tanks the next day to $3 trillion.
00:26:58 So, yeah, it's going to be Scandal City, no doubt about it.
00:27:03 Yeah.
00:27:05 The Democrats elected a lot of radicals, like a lot of people from the Democratic Socialist America, DSA.
00:27:11 Tons of their candidates won.
00:27:13 You know, they already had Momdomy in New York. 1.00
00:27:15 They just took L.A. 1.00
00:27:16 They took some senators. They elected, I think, the first Muslim senator.
00:27:22 They're run by Somalians now, I think. 1.00
00:27:24 Minnesota's been screwed for a while. 1.00
00:27:25 Yeah, yeah. So they're just, they're doing what you'd expect it to do. 0.98
00:27:30 The electoral math is going to follow the demographic math.
00:27:35 The question will be, I think, both parties are reassessing.
00:27:39 You know, the Democrats now smell victory for the presidency in 2028.
00:27:42 It is, they can taste it now.
00:27:45 But are they going to go the radical route or just play it safe with another kind of establishment Biden type figure?
00:27:54 And then the Republicans, the Republicans are now in a brutal civil war.
00:27:59 It's been brewing. It's already been actually on for some time.
00:28:01 But now the kind of harder mega side, I think, sees advantage because Trump is now shit the bed. 0.98
00:28:09 The war on Iran is thoroughly discredited at this point. 0.98
00:28:13 Trump is now completely waving the white flag on immigration.
00:28:17 And you're right, Dave, that Trump is unpredictable.
00:28:21 But there's generally been some consistent through lines to him. 1.00
00:28:25 And one is, no more stupid foreign imperialist wars and control the border and expel illegal migrants. 0.99
00:28:34 Those are things that, whatever he says. 1.00
00:28:36 That's what got him elected.
00:28:37 What got him elected both times.
00:28:39 He would argue three times.
00:28:40 he's never waffled on that
00:28:44 he's said different things around them
00:28:46 but those are the through lines that never changed
00:28:47 until Iran
00:28:49 and until
00:28:51 yesterday
00:28:54 where he says let's do an amnesty deal
00:28:56 for illegal aliens in America
00:28:57 so the two big through lines, they're now gone 0.99
00:29:00 so I
00:29:02 think the Republicans are now going to enter
00:29:04 a brutal civil war, it's not going to be
00:29:06 I don't think it's going to
00:29:08 go back to just another stage full of
00:29:10 a bunch of establishment Republicans
00:29:11 and then one libertarian gadfly.
00:29:14 I think it's going to be
00:29:15 a bunch of Trump-like figures on stage.
00:29:17 Maybe not without his character
00:29:19 because he's such a unique character,
00:29:21 but it's now,
00:29:23 they're going to have their own civil war
00:29:25 and it's going to emerge
00:29:26 kind of the neocon establishment
00:29:28 three, you know,
00:29:30 maintains control
00:29:31 because they've been trying to reassert control
00:29:33 behind the scenes with Trump
00:29:34 or something way harder,
00:29:37 way scarier than Trump ever was.
00:29:38 I can't imagine.
00:29:42 I mean, it's unpredictable politics down there.
00:29:46 It is a bizarre world, the way they select people and who rises to the top.
00:29:50 Well, we're in for lots to report on, just hopefully in a good way.
00:29:54 The other thing not mentioned, we haven't touched actually, is the tariffs.
00:29:57 And that's something Trump's always been consistent with.
00:29:59 He's always been hung up on tariffs.
00:30:00 That was a loss for reasons in the border states.
00:30:02 Northern states are still not very amused with that whatsoever.
00:30:06 And we'll see where that goes on who's coming up and trying to fill that role.
00:30:10 That's an area where he should have said, I'll do a deal with the Democrats because he's been defeated there.
00:30:15 He doesn't have the legal powers to do this stuff.
00:30:16 It's been executive orders that keep on getting struck down, even by his own friendly Supreme Court.
00:30:21 It cost him a lot of votes in northern states that are obviously trade reliant with Canada. 0.99
00:30:28 And the Democrats are like, no, let's end the stupid trade war. 0.99
00:30:31 Let's get a reasonable deal in place. 0.99
00:30:34 That's where he should have said, let's do a deal with the Democrats.
00:30:36 actually that is one of the other through lines though i guess i maybe left out on trump was
00:30:41 he wanted tariffs and a more industrial policy at home maybe he's still consistent on that
00:30:47 he hasn't shown any signs of bending on that one yet no no just just to mention once again for the
00:30:53 record you were right oh god i'm so right just driving that home sorry so you know we are coming
00:31:00 enough for annual review. Someone wants a raise, I can tell. Okay, bring it back home here. The
00:31:09 Alberta government's tabled new campus neutrality legislation. The University of Alberta is
00:31:15 already dropping its DEI hiring. So yeah, it's Bill 38. It will require institutions to adopt
00:31:24 neutrality and freedom of expression policies and borrow formal instructional statements
00:31:30 on political or ideological issues
00:31:32 outside of academic missions.
00:31:34 Individuals still free to speak,
00:31:36 but the company itself,
00:31:39 sorry, the schools themselves
00:31:40 can't preach it.
00:31:43 So, I just love the reactions.
00:31:47 The most prominent reaction
00:31:48 we've seen so far
00:31:48 is from so-called Senator Christopher Wells.
00:31:51 That is a Trudeau appointee.
00:31:53 Senator Tickles, as you call him.
00:31:56 Our creepiest senator, by the way.
00:31:57 He is the creepiest guy, I think,
00:31:59 who has ever graced the halls of the Senate.
00:32:02 My God.
00:32:03 And I really, I don't want to get sued, so I won't.
00:32:06 I won't.
00:32:07 And the Human Rights Commissions will come at us at the same time, too.
00:32:10 But this guy, let's just say he has built his career
00:32:13 on the sexualization of children through academia, 0.99
00:32:18 the need to push transitioning of young children 0.69
00:32:22 to change their sexes. 0.96
00:32:26 Really weird, really radical stuff. 0.98
00:32:28 This guy is a DEI hire. He's never done anything in his life that's not just about his own sexual, personal sexual proclivities. 0.55
00:32:36 So he's a DEI hire. And here, let's just play a quick clip of Senator Tickles.
00:32:45 Today, we are raising concerns about Alberta's Bill 33.
00:32:49 If passed, it would restrict employment equity measures in hiring and promotion across provincial public bodies and prohibit certain mandatory diversity, equity, and inclusion training, subject to some exceptions.
00:33:04 As a senator from Alberta, I'm deeply concerned about what this could mean for people who continue to face barriers in workplaces and schools, including Indigenous and racialized people, women, persons with disabilities, and 2SLGBTQI plus communities.
00:33:22 The Honourable Senator Tickles right there.
00:33:26 Corey.
00:33:28 It's just, I don't know.
00:33:29 I mean, it's the only stance he can take.
00:33:31 How do you argue with DEI when you are a DEI hire?
00:33:35 Yeah, pretty much.
00:33:36 You know, you're in there.
00:33:37 I mean, you don't want to have to suddenly justify yourself retroactively as to why you might have risen to whatever role you're at.
00:33:42 It says a lot about, I think even Carney wouldn't have appointed somebody like him, but just how woke Trudeau was.
00:33:49 And honestly, he picked the most odious figure he possibly could to put into the Senate.
00:33:52 Not just to say, you know, we aren't going to take your elected senators and put them in, but I'm going to find somebody you despise and stick them in there and you get rid of them.
00:34:01 But DEI, I think for most people...
00:34:03 Ed, funny, he got the job over a woman, Erica Barutz, who used to be on the pipeline,
00:34:08 who actually won the election to the Senate. 0.52
00:34:10 Yeah. 0.88
00:34:10 So he got it over a woman. 0.63
00:34:12 Well, he got his DEI appointment to the near top job.
00:34:15 Maybe he'll be the governor general in the future.
00:34:17 Can't wait to see his outfit.
00:34:18 Sorry, I interrupted.
00:34:19 Go ahead.
00:34:19 It's all right.
00:34:21 But it's DEI.
00:34:22 I mean, I think that's one of those ones that if you can frame it right,
00:34:25 most common sense, people are okay with getting rid of it.
00:34:28 You know, let's just get the best person for the job.
00:34:31 It's that racism by low expectations too.
00:34:37 You can foster a lot of support from people who are in visible minority positions
00:34:42 because they worked their butts off to get where they were.
00:34:44 And then others look out of the corner of their eye and think, well, was that a
00:34:47 DEI promotion or was that a DEI reason they got in?
00:34:50 And chances are it might not have been.
00:34:52 I mean, this is a policy that stinks and we're due to get rid of it.
00:34:55 And it is only people like Mr. Wells, who are mostly in open opposition to, oh, and Mr. Nancy, of course.
00:35:02 I think the big winner out of this whole thing is the, on the campus free speech aspect is Frances Whittleson.
00:35:09 That's what I was going to ask you. 0.99
00:35:10 She has got to be licking her lips ready to go to the University of Lethbridge again once this becomes law. 1.00
00:35:17 And in theory, there's nothing the university can do to stop her. 1.00
00:35:21 You know, they've had mob scenes with her down there before. 1.00
00:35:25 She is suing them with the help of the JCCF. 0.89
00:35:29 So, yeah, she's got to be happier than anybody with this free speech stuff coming in.
00:35:35 Yeah, so that's where I wanted to go with this is, you know, we've seen these crazy scenes.
00:35:40 University of Lethbridge, the most prominent of them, Frances Whittleson.
00:35:44 So she's a former professor at Mount Royal. 0.95
00:35:47 She was fired for, I guess, not towing the politically correct line.
00:35:53 I think around native, like, Aboriginal issues. 0.88
00:35:56 BLM, yes.
00:35:57 Yeah, she opposed BLM and did not endorse the Canadian genocide.
00:36:05 And the Calmoop School.
00:36:06 Yeah.
00:36:08 Yeah, she was sure wrong on that one.
00:36:12 Yeah, and so you've had mobs using force to cancel events and whatnot,
00:36:16 and the university going along with it,
00:36:17 the university saying you're not allowed to come
00:36:19 and having her arrested for it.
00:36:23 This could have, if it works out as planned, this could have real world effects, but it will still require enforcement that universities will have security or police when necessary to protect the right of people to speak on campuses.
00:36:35 Without that, this legislation will mean nothing.
00:36:38 And the university is not going to want to do this.
00:36:40 So there's the one thing missing from this bill, those teeth.
00:36:42 What are you going to do if a university gives you the finger and says, well, it's too bad.
00:36:46 We're still not letting that speaker in here.
00:36:48 Now, the province has a lot of ability to pressure the university.
00:36:51 Because they transfer a heck of a lot of funding there.
00:36:53 But will the province have the courage to actually, will they do it?
00:36:57 That's the big question.
00:36:58 But I guess they must know, the university must know, the government must know.
00:37:02 As you said, Francis, she's going to go straight for this. 1.00
00:37:05 She's going to make a lot of noise. 1.00
00:37:06 She's going to make an appointment. 0.99
00:37:08 She's going to go there to speak, and she's going to put it to the test.
00:37:11 This gets tested the first day this is proclaimed into law.
00:37:14 She shows up the first day.
00:37:15 For such a diminutive woman, she's not afraid of riots and sniffing into crowds. 0.99
00:37:20 She's used to getting arrested. 0.81
00:37:21 carried away. So we've got something to look forward to and watch with this. She will put
00:37:27 it to the test and I hope the test passes. The university, you're supposed to be a place
00:37:31 for discourse, controversial or not. You should be telling your students, guys, if you're students
00:37:36 and you're going to assault or try to stop a speaker, we will expel you. What a quaint,
00:37:43 old-fashioned idea, Corey. I think you're very naive. I know. Things like that, the university
00:37:50 has a lot of authority and power to keep this under control as well, if they'll do it.
00:37:55 And we've seen the NDP, predictably, you know, Nenshi, came out against this. I guess this is
00:38:02 one of the tricky issues. Smith faced it with independence in her party. Nenshi faces it with 1.00
00:38:07 DEI and identity politics in his, where a majority of people, activists and voters within that voter
00:38:14 coalition, support something, but a majority of people outside of it oppose it. And Nenshi is kind
00:38:19 of, uh, he, he, he's trapped on this one. He probably personally believes in this kind of
00:38:23 crap anyway, but, uh, you know, hardcore NDP activists, the core of, and then the core of 0.98
00:38:29 their voter coalition, they support this kind of thing, but Albertans do not overwhelmingly 0.98
00:38:34 support this kind of thing. So this is, this is good politics for Smith, especially leading into
00:38:39 a convention that could be raucous. She needs some red meat to throw the small C conservatives 1.00
00:38:45 in that convention, and DEI is a good one to toss their way 1.00
00:38:48 because the upset ones are mostly on the independence front,
00:38:51 and we're seeing whatever's going to build up there and so on.
00:38:52 But DEI gives her a good, again, 2080,
00:38:56 among UCP, more like 1090 type of a 90.
00:39:00 Oh, no, among UCP, it's probably 99.
00:39:04 It's about universal.
00:39:05 It's a smart one to go.
00:39:06 Whether it'll be enough for them, I don't know.
00:39:08 And I noticed Ninch, he took his obligatory shots at this,
00:39:11 but he hasn't made a lot of noise about it either.
00:39:13 He probably knows he's on the smaller side of a lot of things, but yeah, this one he's not making a hill to die on, and probably wisely so.
00:39:20 It's because he's being hammered for his role as mayor in the destruction of our water system, and the UCP is going to be pounding that from now until Election Day.
00:39:30 He was busy paving the sidewalks. He was too busy paving the sidewalks to take care of the water main.
00:39:35 His pet projects, the big blue circle and all that sort of crap. 0.96
00:39:40 Yeah, no, and Calgarians said political tactics.
00:39:44 I mean, the timing of when they released that report and the rest, right when the water restrictions came back in again.
00:39:49 It's beautiful.
00:39:49 We understand that that's purposely done.
00:39:51 And it was brilliantly done because people having their three-minute showers and having their water bill about to double and a big tax hike coming.
00:39:59 Let's, they will plant that on Nenshief every week for the next 51 weeks or whatever until the general election.
00:40:07 It's going to be a dirty year.
00:40:08 Yeah.
00:40:09 Okay.
00:40:10 Our parting shots, gentlemen, Dave.
00:40:13 City budget released this week, 15% tax hike.
00:40:18 It's the largest in 30-some years.
00:40:22 Come on, Nenshi, what are you playing at?
00:40:24 You opposed this type of stuff when you were an alderman or a councillor back then,
00:40:29 and now you're 100% different.
00:40:33 We need the old Jeremy Farkas back, because 15%?
00:40:37 That's outrageous.
00:40:38 But I think, how much of that, though, is fixing the water mains?
00:40:44 I don't know.
00:40:45 I'm guessing that's going to be...
00:40:48 Because that's what they're putting the doubling of the water price into
00:40:50 and saying it's for the capital investment.
00:40:52 And that's outside the property tax.
00:40:54 That's outside the property tax.
00:40:56 But you guys don't care.
00:40:57 You don't live in Calgary either.
00:40:59 Oh, I could say I had to spend a lot of money,
00:41:01 $50,000 to rebuild our septic field.
00:41:04 So we don't get a break.
00:41:05 $50,000.
00:41:05 50 grand because I live. My property
00:41:08 bounds on Fish Creek so there's a few environmental
00:41:09 controls. I was saying we should just sneak a
00:41:11 pipe in and just pump it straight in there. It just goes to the
00:41:13 reserve. You'd be like Victoria. But Jane said we've got
00:41:15 to follow the rules. So while you're doing the kitchen
00:41:17 or redoing the kitchen?
00:41:19 You're in your house. You were redoing the
00:41:21 renovating the sink. Is that all part of the
00:41:24 $50,000 bill or is that something? No, this is
00:41:28 a new bill. Oh, good.
00:41:30 She's got to get quilting, huh?
00:41:32 Is this your parting shot?
00:41:33 No, I'm not going to get into it.
00:41:36 But this time is directed against Jane?
00:41:38 I'm not going to get into it.
00:41:39 Come on, I've got to get home and survive this. 1.00
00:41:41 She watches these shows. 0.99
00:41:43 She's the one.
00:41:44 Yeah, someone does.
00:41:45 All right, so you're putting shot.
00:41:46 Yes, and that was from Leah, I believe, in the Western Standard.
00:41:50 But that B.C. human rights ruling, I mean, the tribunals are increasingly stupid. 1.00
00:41:54 But this is a whole new level, and we shouldn't be shocked with things. 0.98
00:41:57 But when a laboratory has now been fined for misgendering people coming in,
00:42:02 Is this the point where we have to do PSA tests on people who were born women or test for ovarian cancer on people who were born men?
00:42:10 I mean, we're into the world now of medical science. 0.97
00:42:13 I'm sorry you were not born with balls and there's no sense testing for these things. 0.97
00:42:17 But now they will actually be fined if they treat a self-identified person of a different sex. 0.99
00:42:23 It's nuts. 0.97
00:42:24 Corey, that is racist and anti-Semitic. 0.98
00:42:27 I just wanted to use the term nuts. 0.94
00:42:28 my parting shot
00:42:31 I just want to remind everyone that I was right
00:42:34 you'll remind us a lot
00:42:36 oh jeez
00:42:37 I had one
00:42:38 I actually had a parting shot
00:42:41 it's now slipped my mind though
00:42:44 but alright
00:42:45 Dave, Corey, thank you very much
00:42:48 and thank you John, running production
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