Western Standard - Carney’s bailouts will sink Canada

00:00:00.000 Good day

00:00:29.980 Welcome to the Corey Morgan show on at a special time because tomorrow is, well, it depends

00:00:35.540 on who you ask, Canada Day for most.

00:00:37.900 For some of us going to mirror tomorrow, we call it Albertans Day.

00:00:40.900 Either way, it is a regulated holiday, so we aren't going to be in the studio and doing

00:00:45.340 things.

00:00:45.720 So we figured we'll do it on Tuesday and get that news and everything out to you.

00:00:50.720 So thanks for tuning in on this odd week.

00:00:53.660 You know, when you get those long weekends, I mean, it's one thing to have it on a Friday

00:00:56.200 or a Monday, but when you kind of splat one right in the middle of the week there, it's

00:00:59.900 a little unusual people aren't used to that but whatever breaks up the work week for some folks

00:01:04.160 and uh hopefully the rain will lighten up for a little while down here all right so yeah a bit of

00:01:09.240 stuff to cover i'm gonna guest on a little while jerry amernick he's been on before he's an author

00:01:13.260 he uh wrote sleepwoking it turns out he was yet another one who was set up by that cbc funded

00:01:19.800 group of people to basically try and mock and make fools of them like with uh uh francis widdowson

00:01:26.240 and some RCMP officers and others.

00:01:28.540 So he'll talk a bit about that experience and some of the stuff.

00:01:30.620 We'll get to know where our tax dollars are being spent with the state broadcaster.

00:01:35.780 As well, of course, lots of other news and things to cover.

00:01:39.160 So let me get on with what's got me going today, looking at stuff.

00:01:43.140 So for an alleged economic wizard, Prime Minister Mark Carney

00:01:46.640 has been rather underwhelming on the fiscal file since assuming office. 0.94

00:01:50.380 In fact, he's appeared outright inept.

00:01:52.620 And the condo bailout in B.C. demonstrates this in spades. 0.97

00:01:56.180 If the actions of the Kearney government can't be attributed to ineptitude, it signals something even worse.

00:02:01.580 The condo bailout is just the latest in a string of actions from the government

00:02:04.660 that amount to simply tossing billions of tax dollars at issues and hoping they solve themselves.

00:02:10.480 Developers built thousands of overpriced condo units in Vancouver and found themselves stuck with unsold units.

00:02:17.040 Over a third of these apartments were priced at over a million dollars, plus exorbitant ongoing condo fees,

00:02:21.940 So it really shouldn't have been that shocking that nobody was actually rushing out to snap up these units.

00:02:27.360 The proper approach in such a situation is to let the developers sink.

00:02:31.680 They could either reduce the price of the condos to an affordable level,

00:02:34.760 or they could go bankrupt and let the next owners of the units do what must be done.

00:02:39.340 It's the ultimate and most simple of market corrections.

00:02:42.020 It offers a lesson to investors and developers on the hazards of building overpriced products on bubbles,

00:02:46.980 and it brings the prices down for consumers.

00:02:49.280 Any grade 10 economic student could figure out those basic principles of supply and demand.

00:02:54.440 Unfortunately, those principles appear to have eluded Mark Carney,

00:02:57.760 who's decided to take your money and bail out the developers with it to the tune of billions of dollars.

00:03:02.960 Now, incompetent developers get rewarded for their actions,

00:03:06.520 taxpayers get screwed, and the housing prices remain out of reach for common BC citizens. 0.69

00:03:11.980 Everybody loses.

00:03:13.360 Well, everybody except those who are well-connected developers lose anyways.

00:03:18.340 So is Mark Carney a complete incompetent with economics, or was there a benefit to him and his party that can't be seen?

00:03:24.860 And the objects of it all certainly don't do him any favors.

00:03:27.300 In fact, the whole affair stinks to high heaven.

00:03:29.560 What is the long-term plan of the government, you know, under Carney to get Canada's failing economy on track?

00:03:35.080 I mean, while the GDP per capita for Americans has reached nearly 90,000 U.S. dollars, Canada's remains mired at 55,000 and sinking in comparison.

00:03:42.580 And Canada's entered a technical recession while Carney continues to maintain the policies that put us there in the first place, namely the Trudeau-era policies of shutting in Western Canadian resources.

00:03:54.040 Meanwhile, billions are being poured into bailouts and Laurentian vanity projects, such as the grotesquely expensive Alto high-speed rail boondoggle, which is priced at $90 billion and certain to rise.

00:04:04.960 The project hasn't even laid an inch of track yet, but already the executives are slurping up millions of tax dollars and bonuses. Nice work if you can get it.

00:04:12.580 The new $25 billion slush fund called Canada Strong is to be directed at investing in Canadian strategic interests.

00:04:19.820 I wonder how many of those strategic interests happen to overlap with Carney's personal financial interests or those of his compatriots.

00:04:26.080 Over $180 billion is going to be poured into military procurements over the next few years.

00:04:29.740 You can almost hear the scurrying of little feet of hundreds of lobbyists in Ottawa working to take bites out of that fund.

00:04:35.980 Billions are being dumped into the Canadian Arctic and some of that investment has already been effective in buying the floor-crossing love of a northern MP.

00:04:42.580 It remains to be seen how the common citizen in the tundra is going to see the rest of the benefits, though.

00:04:47.420 Carney brought back the $5,000 rebate for EVs that nobody wants.

00:04:50.740 When coupled with his deal to import Chinese electric vehicles into Canada, though,

00:04:54.520 incentivizing the purchase of them with tax dollars makes perfect sense.

00:04:57.880 To connected insiders on the deal, anyway.

00:05:00.060 In a little more than a year, the Carney government has managed to make the Trudeau administration appear fiscally responsible.

00:05:06.660 That's no small feat.

00:05:08.080 Carney's massively increased spending in the deficit

00:05:10.000 while maintaining a chokehold on resource development and exports.

00:05:13.580 Costs to service the Canadian debt continue to rise

00:05:16.600 while the productivity in the nation continues to drop.

00:05:18.820 It's a bleak and ugly fiscal picture.

00:05:21.380 So we've got to ask ourselves again,

00:05:22.960 is Carney really this economically incompetent?

00:05:25.760 Or is the administration just in it to take the money and run?

00:05:28.660 In either scenario, things are not looking good

00:05:30.640 for the financial future of Canadians,

00:05:33.560 unless you have connections with the Carney government.

00:05:36.300 Then they're looking really nice.

00:05:38.020 either way dave you got any good investments with the carny government gonna make you some money

00:05:41.620 not exactly core you know ah well see so i see uh the dave number one is off visiting with the

00:05:47.380 grandchild again yeah for all week we're enjoying the the presence of dave winnick dave number two

00:05:52.740 yeah i'm getting used to this new setup this is my first time actually in this new studio

00:05:58.020 i don't know about the table though for four people for the pipeline a little fella keeps

00:06:00.980 us from stacking with too many jugs of beer or something it sounds good well like we were saying

00:06:05.780 off camera cory it's kind of a bit of a slow news day but the big one that i was thinking at least

00:06:09.580 locally is the sheldon schumer's finally shut its doors today after all those years it was calgary's

00:06:13.860 only supervised consumption site i think it started in 2017 i know there's there's a lot of

00:06:18.980 people that are happy to see it go i know that dan mcclain for years talked about trying to shut

00:06:22.380 that place down the counselor so he's probably going to be happy today i'm thinking how about

00:06:25.500 you well i would think i don't know he's not too happy because he didn't win a nomination he thought

00:06:29.300 he was gonna get you that was gonna come i know he didn't want to go there sorry dan but you know

00:06:33.320 that was unexpected but well welcome to the political life i guess he's still safe as a

00:06:37.280 counselor and can focus on that yeah no exactly and also as well i think the biggest news is

00:06:41.880 probably that um daniel smith's pipeline proposals going into the major projects office tomorrow

00:06:45.960 that's what everyone's been talking about and also last night a couple sources that said they

00:06:49.240 were close to the matter said that there is going to be no private proponents still for that so i

00:06:53.780 think the alberta government's going to be the initial proponent until they find a proponent

00:06:57.060 which i think has to be by october 1st before the feds make a decision on that but it doesn't

00:07:01.560 really come as any surprise that there is no private proponent because you saw everyone from

00:07:04.900 synovus to enbridge to you name it saying we don't really feel like getting involved in this

00:07:09.440 for any time soon well no they've never made a secret of it it's pretty straightforward do you

00:07:14.000 want to build a pipeline to a coast with no guarantees with a false indigenous authority

00:07:19.760 being given to veto for it and a pipe a tanker ban so even if you got it all the way out there

00:07:25.140 you're not allowed to actually sell it beyond there and lo and behold nobody has stepped forward

00:07:29.500 to say they're going to invest billions of dollars in this astounded well i mean i'm not surprised

00:07:33.660 as well especially with the whole um pathways carbon project there because that's supposed to

00:07:36.700 cost if it goes ahead i think 20 to 30 billion and i mean you're not really getting much return

00:07:41.420 on your investment i don't think for that and that's another thing that all these oil companies

00:07:44.220 have been looking at for that so no it looks like alberta's paying all the prices but getting none

00:07:48.860 of the benefits it well that sounds like a run-of-the-mill confederation actually unfortunately

00:07:53.820 yeah we got another one here uh pauliev's actually um reshuffled his shadow cabinet today and um

00:07:59.020 he's branding uh the party's a new affordability team and he was naming uh ontario mp michael

00:08:03.740 chong as the conservative's new financial shadow financial critic but um like we were saying before

00:08:08.460 i don't really know who the actual financial critic was for the most part because apparently

00:08:11.260 some guy i think from calgary east that we'd never really heard of yeah he was a member of

00:08:15.500 parliament for northeast calgary i forget somebody mentioned his name earlier yeah sorry i shouldn't

00:08:19.500 be so rude he might even be a follower online but i mean that does kind of say he's been pretty

00:08:23.900 underwhelming in the role then because i mean there's a heck of a lot of things that we could

00:08:27.020 critique the the government on financially and and we never hear of them yeah no no exactly this is

00:08:32.220 actually an interesting one too i don't know what your thoughts are and this is an international

00:08:35.580 one but um do you see that the u.s supreme court just shot down trump's um idea about um well what

00:08:40.540 the heck is it the um citizenship the uh birthright birthright citizenship thank you yeah five to four

00:08:46.300 in the supreme court so i'm just wondering what your thoughts were on birthright citizenship in

00:08:49.660 general for canada because i from what i can gather i think some of the laws are fairly similar

00:08:53.260 in both countries when it comes to that they are and i don't know i mean it's one of those dicier

00:08:57.580 areas i mean if you're trying to get immigration under control but you're kind of letting it being

00:09:01.260 out of control outside of your purview it's it's well i guess that's why you get a split court

00:09:05.740 decision on it i i i am sure that the orange man is going to be in a grumpy mood for a little while

00:09:09.900 though that won't help with the kuzma well that's the other thing that we're going to mention kuzma

00:09:13.900 is supposed to i think what does it expire tomorrow i think if that's what i'm remembering correctly

00:09:17.900 yes we haven't heard kind of a bit of sort of conflicting things what people have been saying

00:09:21.740 about that i think carney i mean again it's just very conflicting i think some people want it still

00:09:26.620 some people don't i think who do you think really would benefit if it basically got changed if trump

00:09:31.260 just said no and he actually stuck by that because he's always been saying for example that he doesn't

00:09:35.260 maybe he might sign it he might not sign it but i mean he says that constantly so i don't really

00:09:39.820 know but what happens if he actually follows through on that threat for canada if he says

00:09:43.340 you know what we're not actually signing it well you know ironically that stability might be finally

00:09:47.900 okay then it's not in the air and we can start planning around it i i it's one of the areas i

00:09:52.300 don't envy carney and and i don't fall too much i mean the how do you negotiate with a guy like

00:09:57.260 trump yeah he's so unpredictable like i said he's always you don't know if it's a real threat or

00:10:01.100 it's just like nothing will surprise you they might sign on for the following 16 years as it

00:10:05.740 used to be with the renewal terms or or it might be out the window and we're gone to a year i was

00:10:10.300 gonna ask you i don't know if you know this but how long is it do they have a year or whatnot i

00:10:13.340 think after it expires i think there's a year some sort of like grace period or something if i

00:10:17.260 remember correctly it kind of goes to a year by year yeah that's sort of thing after that so but

00:10:22.540 i mean that's not good stability especially when we look at projects things anything large

00:10:26.540 it takes years to plan and so on you have to have some idea what it's going to look like down the

00:10:30.380 road or nobody's going to spend any money no exactly same as anything really this is also an

00:10:34.380 interesting one too apparently do you remember the canada arm yes well the canada arm 2 is getting

00:10:39.020 repaired today at the international space station because there was some male in malfunctioning

00:10:42.700 joint but i didn't actually know this but it's been there the candidate arm 2 has been there in

00:10:46.700 operation for more than 25 years and it says here that the repair is intended to restore the arm to

00:10:51.100 full service after i think the engineers detected some elevated electrical current in one of its

00:10:55.900 joints during routine operations earlier this year that's kind of interesting because i just thought

00:10:59.820 like yeah i mean it was a big thing here earlier this morning and i just thought yeah you don't

00:11:03.180 really hear much about the canada armor really a bunch of space stuff except minus um the spatial

00:11:07.980 i can't remember what the name of is it now that just came back into uh what was it i can't call

00:11:12.620 of them anymore but yeah but i mean that was a point of pride i mean one direct part that canada

00:11:16.940 took part in and well you know i guess i won't get too upset about it things wear out now and then

00:11:22.060 though it's pretty serious when you're out in space though well i was gonna say yeah that's

00:11:25.420 something you definitely have to repair but yeah no other than that corey like i said it's been

00:11:28.460 pretty slow news day so far like we were saying before it's basically just summertime start of

00:11:32.060 summer start a stampede so i think things are probably gonna pick up next week yeah and fairly

00:11:36.220 hectic well we'll see if there's i'm sure there'll be some crazy stampede stories and weirdness to

00:11:40.060 come about as the drinking begins it's an early one this year i mean the parade's in a couple of

00:11:43.980 days and uh yeah as long as it doesn't rain all week or something then we're good to go we'll see

00:11:47.980 it looks like it's flooding out west in canada yeah well i think up in toefield and some areas

00:11:52.380 too are getting pretty bad in alberta actually i hope they can get a break because it's just

00:11:56.220 miserable i mean we need moisture but not that much moisture you can say well when a guy phoned

00:11:59.980 me who's up in lacrete alberta i was just talking to him or an hour or so ago he said it was 32

00:12:04.060 degrees up there so he's saying you know you can send your rain up here uh we'd never quite get

00:12:09.340 get what we want at the right time no we don't ever seem to do we all right well i'll let you

00:12:14.200 back to the newsroom to keep looking for more stories and uh you know we'll have more world

00:12:17.360 cup soccer and other goodies actually that's one quick thing what do you actually do you watch the

00:12:21.280 world cup no i knew that was gonna be the answer yeah no is a sentence yeah i mean hey i don't

00:12:27.000 begrudge those who are enjoying it and having a good time with it and i hope it goes great for

00:12:30.800 everybody and you know i'm a regionalist but i'm still sure if canada goes a long ways and they

00:12:36.740 manage to beat whoever's next morocco or whatever then good i was just gonna say so if you were

00:12:41.860 actually a soccer fan you wouldn't be supporting team canada then i guess i probably would be like

00:12:46.920 i said i i'm not embittered in that sense i'm not anti-canada i'm just pro alberta i can juggle both

00:12:51.660 i suppose yeah right on thanks cory all right well i will see you after the show and then we'll get

00:12:57.680 ready for the pipeline sounds like a plan right on thanks thanks so yes that is our news guy dave

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00:14:44.540 Okay, we got Jerry Emmerich back on the show, columnist and author. He's been on before we

00:14:48.980 talked to him before about his book Sleepwoking, which is fantastic. I just liked the simple

00:14:53.720 cover art of showing, well, somebody wandering blithely into the future and not knowing where

00:15:00.000 they're going. But it turns out he was another person targeted by that just repugnant tax-funded

00:15:06.920 hit piece, attempted show, I guess, that targeted Francis Widowson, some RCMP officers, and others.

00:15:12.820 We're just hearing from more as time passes with that. So let's bring Jerry in and have a conversation

00:15:17.260 about that. Hey, good to see you again. I appreciate you joining the show today. 0.85

00:15:21.460 hey cory thanks for having me back so you know i i don't know where to begin i mean i i really

00:15:27.560 enjoyed your your extended uh piece uh written on that uh what was it woke watch i believe is the

00:15:33.520 site you also wrote in the national uh that was a bit of a satirical piece i did yes in cheek but

00:15:39.120 you covered a lot of the events and what had happened with that yes maybe lay out because

00:15:44.020 you know you you kind of went through the whole process with it uh with these guys you know what

00:15:49.560 what exactly happened you you were lured into uh an interview uh where where there was just

00:15:55.560 basically planned to be a satirical ambush piece yeah well uh actually i got an email and it was

00:16:02.440 on my birthday it was april 20th i got an email from a producer who said her name was pam gibson

00:16:09.480 and uh they were going to do uh a documentary series uh about johnny mcdonald and the idea

00:16:16.040 was to bring back the legacy of mcdonald the the true legacy of mcdonald so it was very pro mcdonald

00:16:22.840 and i wanted to know where they got my name and they mentioned that patrice dutill whom i believe

00:16:26.840 has been on your program before and uh they wanted to uh get patrice who's written a book

00:16:33.640 about johnny mcdonald and i think is the foremost authority on mcdonald today in canada by the way

00:16:39.880 and um he wasn't able but he said we should probably talk to jerry emanich they called me

00:16:44.440 and i confirmed that he did provide my name so everything seemed above board so there was some

00:16:50.360 give and take um they wanted to send me to vancouver uh pay uh an honorarium i had some

00:16:59.160 questions then they bump up the honorarium and everything seems to be legit it's this

00:17:05.160 company called forge media tv and uh so it all seemed to be above board so i flew out to vancouver

00:17:13.000 for a day and a night, and had the interview there. I can't say that I thought it was very

00:17:21.960 impressively done. They had a lot of people there. They had a full crew, but never did I think I was

00:17:28.800 being set up. It was only after I came back to Toronto a couple days later, I was talking with

00:17:34.140 James Pugh, the editor of Woke Watch Canada, and I'd written some pieces for him, and he told me

00:17:41.180 that it was a setup, along with Francis Woodison was there the same day,

00:17:46.140 Lindsay Shepard was there the same day, but they made sure to keep us apart

00:17:49.780 so we wouldn't overlap.

00:17:51.820 And then the thing got bigger, and we've since discovered, Corey,

00:17:55.140 that a lot of other people were targeted in this as well,

00:17:57.700 including some former RCMP officers, other journalists they went after.

00:18:02.840 And, you know, when I first did an interview about this, I said,

00:18:06.840 if the CBC is involved, it doesn't look very good on the CBC,

00:18:10.480 But, of course, they were, along with APTN, Northland Tales, as they call the series.

00:18:16.340 So the whole thing was a scam.

00:18:19.100 And the fact that your state public broadcaster is involved in this is pretty sad.

00:18:25.800 I don't know what else to say.

00:18:27.380 Well, yeah, I mean, if it was a private company, you know, it might be tasteless and whatnot.

00:18:32.180 But if it's their own dollars and they're trying to put something together like this, well, good on you, I guess.

00:18:36.240 And maybe you could find an audience.

00:18:37.560 But the state broadcaster of all institutions with a production that appears so heavily focused on undercutting pride in some of the foundational figures and institutions of Canada is just kind of extra repugnant.

00:18:54.760 I mean, it's not that the RCMP or McDonald were above reproach, but this is clearly something much uglier than that.

00:19:00.740 This is really, you know, along the lines of the people who tear down statues.

00:19:04.040 Yeah, well, initially, well, it's right in line with that, actually.

00:19:08.320 You know, I asked where is this going to air when they first approached me.

00:19:12.480 They said it would air on the CBC in the fall.

00:19:16.120 So right away I said, well, the CBC is no friend of Johnny McDonald.

00:19:20.000 And I immediately do a search and look up the most recent references to McDonald on CBC, and every one of them is negative.

00:19:28.060 So they assured me that's not going to be the case.

00:19:30.860 They're a private company doing it.

00:19:34.200 But as I say, everything they told me was not true.

00:19:38.740 It was just really one lie after the other.

00:19:41.800 So that was the whole thing.

00:19:45.800 And, you know, the National Post called me and said, would you like to do a piece on this?

00:19:50.260 So I did.

00:19:50.860 And then I did a satirical piece for Woke Watch, which got into a little more detail and was more with my personal sentiments.

00:19:59.580 so i call that a satire as i said no and it was well written and enjoyable and it laid out a lot

00:20:05.740 of just that process because people wondering too and you know and you kind of just said in that way

00:20:10.520 like because some people say well how would francis fall for that or others well it's innocent

00:20:15.280 enough if somebody phoned me up and said hey you know we're going to give you a flight in a hotel

00:20:19.040 room and it sounds honest and we'll talk about political things for an interview with an honorarium

00:20:23.600 yeah why not i mean i'll go for that i contrary to what people believe that you don't get rich

00:20:29.160 with independent media. So if I could make a few dollars and speak on the issues, that'd be great.

00:20:34.100 Well, you know, like I said in that piece, Corey, you know, when people tell me who they are

00:20:38.560 and what they're doing, I tend to believe them. I mean, why wouldn't you, right?

00:20:43.460 And then you find out later what was really going on. So I think it's beyond disgusting. But I think 0.82

00:20:49.800 the most disgusting thing in this whole thing was their treatment of the former RCMP officers.

00:20:56.200 uh really i mean beyond disgusting um and uh so there's nothing positive here but but again the

00:21:03.960 fact that the state broadcaster was involved in this uh it's it's pretty low and it's pretty sad

00:21:09.580 yeah well and patrice dutille that was surprising and i mean i i've had him on i read his book uh

00:21:15.420 his recent one i mean he's written a number as you said he's an expert on sir john mcdonald and

00:21:20.100 his book was not absent of critique of Sir John A. He didn't put him up as a perfect person by

00:21:27.060 any means. He spoke of those later years of his time in office and the challenges and self-doubt

00:21:32.220 and those realities. But I mean, it says a lot then that they're going after him. You know,

00:21:37.280 Frances Widdeson, okay, she likes diving into the mix, stirring things up. I think she does

00:21:40.980 fantastic work and she writes some nuanced stuff as well. But okay, you could see why that would

00:21:46.000 paint a target uh for for for opponents i guess but with patrice this is a man who's just an

00:21:52.180 academic who's writing some some excellent pieces that are balanced on mcdonald and they wanted to

00:21:57.920 go after him as well that that's they're really on an ugly agenda well i think they were actually

00:22:05.280 going after anyone who questioned the graves and kamloops story right uh and i and i'm in that uh

00:22:11.500 that group as well but but i have to tell you about johnny mcdonald i have a chapter in my

00:22:16.060 book about johnny mcdonald i just call it the trashing of johnny mcdonald and you know i did

00:22:21.620 a lot of research on mcdonald in writing my book sleepwalking and i have to tell you

00:22:25.720 when i thought when i look at what i knew about mcdonald when i started this project

00:22:30.320 and what i know about him today you know everybody says he wasn't perfect well i don't know anybody

00:22:35.980 who is but i think i i i'm full of admiration for johnny mcdonald the more i learned about him

00:22:41.480 the more I admired them. And when you look at the personal tragedies he had to put up with,

00:22:46.040 I don't think people are really aware of that. And the country, I mean, Canada, you can't think

00:22:52.740 of Canada in 1867 the way you think of Canada today. It was very different. He brought all

00:22:57.460 these disparate groups together. He was a master politician. And it's amazing what he did. And also

00:23:03.880 in threats of american annexation right uh it's incredible what he did and and i think tomorrow

00:23:11.560 was canada day i think i think the man should be honored and respected but you know as i say you

00:23:17.800 lost a little bit of connection there yeah yeah oh i think we caught up yeah no i just said the uh

00:23:36.680 the federal government does not honor johnny mcdonald and and he's not treated very well

00:23:41.800 but by the feds and you know you look at all you mentioned i was watching earlier

00:23:46.040 talked about the world cup and soccer people celebrating canada going on in the world cup

00:23:50.360 well that's great but i wonder if some of these people who are celebrating this are also people

00:23:53.820 who are tearing down mcdonald's statues you know so um and and that's all due frankly to

00:24:00.960 misinformation misinformation about mcdonald well and i i find quite an irony with it in that you

00:24:07.280 know we've got quite a an explosion of regionalism in alberta a vote on independence uh sort of

00:24:12.480 come a symbolic one anyways coming this fall yeah i'm very much a part of that i i've always been so

00:24:17.360 and the people who've been trying to undercut canadian pride whether it's through the rcmp

00:24:22.280 the residential school sir johnny mcdonald then express shock when you see regionalist movements

00:24:27.140 exploding and people feeling a lack of connection with the country that was holding together in the

00:24:30.900 first place they don't seem to understand they were the ones eroding those underpinnings for

00:24:34.940 years now and this is the consequence of their actions well i i agree with you i mean i think

00:24:41.360 the top, the prime role of the federal government should be to unify the country. And I don't think

00:24:47.120 they're doing a very good job of that. I don't think they've been doing a very good job of that

00:24:50.700 for a number of years. And I think we have a leadership crisis. And I think it's also in the

00:24:58.320 opposition too. I mean, I think we have a leadership crisis right across the board in

00:25:04.140 this country, and it's a shame. But my file that I like to specialize on, Corey, as you know,

00:25:09.980 the history file in historical revisionism and and it's all about this misinformation about not

00:25:16.140 only mcdonald but other important historical figures who are part of canadian history and

00:25:22.380 you know if there are negative things about them that are true and factual fine but a lot of the

00:25:27.020 things that are that have come out about these historical figures are not true it's based on

00:25:31.500 misinformation and um you know like i say the feds should be up front in honoring johnny mcdonald

00:25:39.340 i don't see them doing that no and i mean we could be respectful of the past while critical

00:25:44.780 of it i i'm as i said a a pretty uh unapologetic alberta independence type supporter yet at the

00:25:50.300 same time and i say to many of my public presentations i value the history of canada

00:25:54.300 i value what the people built to bring me the free state where i can uh lobby for what i do

00:25:59.420 lobby for and and even if we did become independent at some point it's still a part of our history it

00:26:04.620 will still be there and it should be accurately represented and respected for what it is it's it's

00:26:10.380 the this revisionism is a terrible terrible trend in in the world uh particularly in canada well i

00:26:17.500 don't know if it's worse anywhere else than it is in canada because it's endemic here from coast to

00:26:23.100 coast and uh you know it it got worse over the well the last 10 years and again after the 2021

00:26:30.380 announcement about the graves in Kamloops, a story that has zero evidence, absolutely no evidence at

00:26:36.620 all. That's what took it overboard and was basically, you know, unruly, mob, brutal rioters

00:26:45.500 tearing down statues of important historical figures across the country. Notably,

00:26:52.540 McDonald. I think he has suffered the biggest fall from grace. I was at a meeting two months ago

00:26:57.820 in Prince Edward County, Ontario, in Picton, not far from Kingston, where McDonnell began his law

00:27:03.800 career. And the council had a motion there to bring back the statue of McDonnell that was

00:27:09.280 commissioned by Ruth Abernathy, an internationally acclaimed sculptress.

00:27:15.440 It went up in 2015. And in 2021, they removed it. And they were debating whether to bring it back.

00:27:21.460 And they voted against bringing it back. I was there to do a deputation why they should bring

00:27:26.300 the statue back but you had all these activists some of them were indigenous some of them weren't

00:27:31.540 and you know painting mcdonald as a racist and bigot and did all these terrible things and

00:27:37.040 and pretty well everything they said was incorrect but uh you know the council uh 0.91

00:27:43.360 voted eight to six against bringing the statue back which is ridiculous so this is again

00:27:48.520 historical revisionism based on what i call mob rule and misinformation well the other parts

00:27:56.280 political cowardice i i believe in front of queen's park the sir johnny mcdonald was boarded

00:28:00.860 up and covered for a couple of years five years yeah ford couldn't find the courage to say you

00:28:07.140 know what we're gonna put it out there and if we must we'll put security in front of it and put

00:28:12.200 cameras on it but we're not going to let bullies push away parts of our history but instead he took

00:28:16.720 the cowardly approach and just let it be hidden for years i mean that's an embarrassment on a

00:28:21.320 number of levels. Well, I think I agree with you. And, you know, I think we've got cowards

00:28:26.900 provincially and federally, certainly on the history file. We can go into other issues if

00:28:31.640 you want. But on the history file, they've just done a horrible job. And again, you know, look

00:28:37.160 at facts. What I've done in my book is I look at biographies that have been written, you know,

00:28:43.520 Hansard laws, legislation, a lot of stuff I uncovered in doing my research on McDonald and

00:28:50.400 and other figures. And like I say, in his case, the more I found out about him, the more I came

00:28:55.620 to admire them. I mean, he really almost single-handedly created this country. And I

00:29:01.880 think he should be honored and respected for that. No, absolutely. I'm in full agreement there. And

00:29:07.020 I mean, I love history. And that's why I was thrilled to have Patrice on and read his book.

00:29:11.800 I mean, it added so much more depth to a man who was an incredible figure and strong. And

00:29:17.560 And we could have done a heck of a lot worse for a national founder if people would just realize that.

00:29:24.020 So, you know, just throw one more plug out for him and yourself.

00:29:28.080 Look it up, people.

00:29:28.780 There's a lot of history that we should be reading and embracing and not letting these cancel folks pull off stunts like that.

00:29:36.420 So maybe just in closing, do you think that that production, now that it kind of blew up in their face, you know, it's kind of where we began with that fake outfit.

00:29:44.680 Do you think it's ever going to air?

00:29:45.800 I mean, it looks to me like they kind of embarrassed themselves and it's probably going to end up on the shelf.

00:29:50.300 Yeah, well, the CBC came out with their statement a while back where they said it's on pause.

00:29:55.800 So I haven't heard anything else, but I think it would be pretty difficult for it to air.

00:30:00.300 There's been a lot of publicity about it, all of it negative, deservedly so.

00:30:05.300 So I don't see how it can air.

00:30:07.380 But, I mean, who knows?

00:30:08.860 I mean, if someone had asked me a few months ago, would the CBC stoop to something like this?

00:30:14.160 I would have thought, no, I, you know, I thought like, I'm not a fan, but I would have said no,

00:30:19.180 but I was wrong. So they did. So who knows? That's a sad state. Well, thanks for sharing

00:30:24.820 all that on woke watch and national post and, and for your book, uh, where, you know, and you've

00:30:28.560 written a number of others and nonfiction as well, before I let you go, where can people find your

00:30:32.660 work and, uh, you know, keep up with what you're up to? Uh, well, sleepwalking is available on

00:30:38.060 Amazon, amazon.ca. We had a launch in Toronto a while back and earlier in June, we had one in

00:30:43.920 Vancouver that was quite successful and it seems to have gotten on with a lot of readers out west

00:30:49.720 so you can find it on Amazon amazon.ca you can get it on my website jerryamernick.com

00:30:56.400 great well thanks again it was good talking with you and thanks for pushing back you know if people

00:31:02.260 won't speak up and speak out about what's going on well they'll continue to get away with it so

00:31:07.100 I appreciate your effort and your writings and look forward to talking to you again

00:31:11.540 okay thank you cory you take care all right thank you so one more time guys jerry amernick

00:31:17.020 if you look it up sleepwalking and a number of other columns articles things over the years

00:31:21.960 and what a just you know this is your tax dollars this is the state broadcaster i mean i question

00:31:27.560 whether such a broadcaster should even exist but if it must if it must the mandate should be

00:31:34.500 as heavily history laden accurate history laden you know pro canada educating people on the nation

00:31:42.680 instilling pride in the nation and it's it's it's agenda its approach has gone so far off the deep

00:31:50.440 end the only i guess almost cold comfort in the bunch is is that uh not many people watch it

00:31:57.120 anymore we all have to pay for it but it really it's hard to say how much impact it really has

00:32:03.580 anymore because the viewership levels are terrible but you know when we talk about independent media

00:32:07.960 we talk about dollars I mean you look at the CBC let's just say again if we felt you know in the

00:32:12.420 modern world when conventional media can't afford to operate like it used to we don't have the demand

00:32:16.960 for advertising and newspapers classified ads you know television ads like they're used to

00:32:21.300 let's say the Canadians were comfortable spending 1.4 billion dollars a year for news broadcasting

00:32:28.520 think of how that would break out if it wasn't the CBC what about if we put it in the hands of

00:32:33.460 creative people. That would add up to, let's say, 140 independent media outlets in every province

00:32:41.920 in Canada with a $1 million a year budget each. What would give more news, more coverage,

00:32:50.360 more ability in general, local news, things like that? Because that's what's been suffering,

00:32:54.300 right? Local news, small towns, places like that. If every province had 140 units that were making

00:32:59.600 a million dollars each just well no a million dollars just from the tax funding maybe if they

00:33:03.260 sold some more advertising and so on they would be larger that would be thousands of reporters

00:33:08.460 across the country 1400 outlets broadcasting online or putting out stories would we get more 0.99

00:33:16.680 value out of that or the cbc that runs these these garbage attack pieces and crap like this 0.83

00:33:24.320 i mean again i think that you know i don't think the government should fund for 1400 outlets but 0.77

00:33:30.380 i'm just saying i would rather see that it would definitely do canada more good than what we're

00:33:35.520 getting out of it right now i mean what a sad state of affairs and and as you know we couldn't

00:33:41.460 talk long enough to cover it all the rcmp officers people who served you know and there's lots of

00:33:47.200 things to question with the rcmp contemporary and in the past but still most officers they took on

00:33:52.080 a tough job with a lot of dangerous and terrible circumstances situations they would be you know

00:33:58.460 stationed in areas away from home it's not an easy thing and it's a thing of pride and then to have 0.94

00:34:02.720 them brought into one of these ambush things and humiliated by these these clowns and uh again if

00:34:10.520 you look it up in woke watch and jerry breaks it down a little more like the producers they weren't 0.89

00:34:14.080 even you know canadian it was some guy named igor from the united states and somebody else

00:34:17.700 like they don't even hire local people to do their crappy hit pieces some people try to compare it

00:34:22.980 to like borat and how we set people up and things like that okay a couple of things for one borat

00:34:27.200 was funny for another it wasn't funded by your tax dollars big difference huge difference as a

00:34:34.700 matter of fact now let's cover a couple other news things uh it's pride week or pride month

00:34:40.820 or whatever we come to the end of it and uh toronto has had its annual uh fetish fest because

00:34:48.800 that's all it is now unfortunately this huge parade of just perversion guys walking around

00:34:56.040 with their peckers hanging out in front of children this how is this unifying communities

00:35:04.060 why do they have to bring it to this extreme of grossness a guy who was on a leash with a dog

00:35:09.600 face on and some other stuff greeting the prime minister you know it used to be this is having 0.66

00:35:17.740 events so people could understand that people in the lgdb community could have some pride that they

00:35:24.260 want to live like everybody else as most members of that community do and it used to be something

00:35:28.860 that was described as shame for someone to be gay and it was illegal until what 1969 sure there was

00:35:36.200 a reason for these pride events but now they've morphed the the activists the lunatics and the 0.98

00:35:41.160 perverts let's just say it they're perverts are dominating these now they were whining about it 0.74

00:35:46.720 on a outlet the other day oh they're 700 000 short on their parade why because the sponsors dropped 0.99

00:35:52.400 out why because you're waving your dicks in the faces of children no sponsor is going to cover

00:35:58.440 that you guys this thing needs a reset and then people get on pierre pauliev's case why isn't he 0.97

00:36:07.880 attending these events well that's why why should he quit that bullying quit that pushing in fact

00:36:14.040 most politicians should start boycotting the events when they go that far say that's it i'm

00:36:17.320 not going there i have nothing to do with it i will not endorse it until you guys clean it up

00:36:22.920 because this is not something that anybody should be endorsing it's an embarrassment

00:36:27.240 And if anything, it brings more distrust and hate upon a community that doesn't need more of it. 0.99

00:36:33.980 It's the extreme end of a minority community being represented at these things now. 0.99

00:36:39.780 So quit twisting people's arms to go.

00:36:43.360 Make it a better function.

00:36:45.160 I went to pride events back in the 90s.

00:36:47.700 It was a great parade in Calgary and a gathering in a park downtown.

00:36:52.420 I'm not gay, but whatever.

00:36:53.720 I had a girlfriend who took me to those things because a friend of hers was there.

00:36:55.900 And it was a good experience to get to know people because back then, especially the gay community was a mysterious thing to most of us.

00:37:04.060 We weren't raised that way in the 70s and 80s to be embracing of it.

00:37:07.620 And we realized they are just neighbors, friends, folks that are just moving along and not bothering anybody.

00:37:12.220 They just wanted to be able to come out in the open for who they are.

00:37:15.640 And that's what it was.

00:37:16.700 And it was valuable.

00:37:17.260 And it helped a lot of people, including me.

00:37:18.900 but now now you go there and and and it just it in fact they highlight all of the worst

00:37:26.400 stereotypes about the community you know the issues that would come with perversion promiscuity

00:37:32.040 fetishism it's it's it's again if you're grown adults do whatever the hell you please absolutely

00:37:38.760 but there's no need to parade it and i just it's time for public figures and others i notice again

00:37:44.740 as i said corporate candidates pulling out they're saying we're not funding this anymore you guys

00:37:48.640 uh you know a feisty fryer saying a los angeles man was arrested for shooting naked people with

00:37:54.900 a bb gun i imagine as they rode their bikes in the nude okay yeah well these are mixed things 0.99

00:38:00.720 i understand the frustration and the grossness with these stupid nude bike rides and all that 1.00

00:38:05.540 crap too but it's not advisable to shoot at people with bb guns either way i i understand 0.99

00:38:10.080 the problems both ways with that plus you know this comes down to some of the other things just 0.97

00:38:13.700 to go further bb guns paintball guns replica guns even if they are technically harmless they're very

00:38:20.660 very dangerous don't ever point those at people uh police officers can't necessarily tell the

00:38:24.580 difference fast enough and just things could go much much worse plus uh as per the old christmas 0.51

00:38:29.940 movie even if it's some ding dong riding around nude on a bike he could take an eye out with one 0.54

00:38:34.160 of those things whether his uh his own thingy or the bb's so let's keep it from getting violent 0.95

00:38:38.640 with these things but let's start uh yeah i think they should be starting to charge some of these

00:38:43.040 people for public nudity that's enough we got standards and such if you walked down the street

00:38:47.820 with your junk jangling around typically downtown you will find yourself incarcerated and covered up

00:38:52.600 really fast just because it's some pride parade full of other fetishists doesn't mean it should 0.95

00:38:57.180 be allowed and it's not a family event to be honest it's just getting gross that that's where 0.98

00:39:03.560 they are let's uh see another headline here here shows some of the idiocy of legacy media this is 0.94

00:39:08.020 the globe and mail the old toronto globe and it's not an american story but it's applying everywhere 1.00

00:39:12.440 these days right again when the activists have gone way overboard and into the realm of stupidity 0.99

00:39:16.900 and extremism supreme court allows this some states to ban transgender girls and women from 0.99

00:39:22.100 school athletic teams that's the globe headline but the problem is it's not banning girls and

00:39:28.880 women from athletic teams it's banning men pretending to be women from being on girls

00:39:34.260 athletic teams let's be clear about what it is nobody is being banned from sports they just have 0.61

00:39:40.220 to participate in the ones that their plumbing designates them to men can compete with men

00:39:47.080 women can complete with compete with women but if you want to play pretend you don't get to compete

00:39:53.720 with the other group that's the way it goes sorry take it up with god if you feel there is one 0.66

00:39:58.340 if you were born with the parts you don't feel you deserve to have you do many many many things 0.53

00:40:03.660 in life but you can't go into the girls team if you were born with a pecker and mackers that's

00:40:09.380 life get over it it's sad that it had to go to a supreme court ruling in the united states and

00:40:14.380 this is happening all over the world most countries are backing off on it even left-leaning socially 0.99

00:40:21.020 progressive european countries they're realizing this is too far this is stupid you cannot have 0.99

00:40:30.140 somebody with the physique of a man participating on a woman's rugby team somebody's going to get 1.00

00:40:36.180 hurt you can't get a swimmer like that pervert down in the states walking around in the girls 0.98

00:40:40.520 change room with his fully uncut junk flapping around in there and unfairly stealing medals 0.99

00:40:46.680 from women who worked very hard to win the top of their role in that sport and it's getting 0.97

00:40:53.560 knocked out finally but it has to be a battle and it's ridiculous i do love and i can't remember 0.90

00:40:58.720 her name it doesn't matter that weird purple head lunatic who was the head of the american

00:41:03.040 women's soccer team you know apparently a very good soccer player they were one of the better 1.00

00:41:07.840 ones I guess the women's the American women's team and she's one of the trans activists says

00:41:12.060 we should allow men to compete in these teams or sorry trans women spare me their men her team

00:41:17.580 her national American women's team you can look this up lost when playing against a team of male 0.74

00:41:25.980 15 year olds when they sit and pretend that there's no genetic advantage for women versus men

00:41:32.340 yet the top one of the top women's soccer teams in the world couldn't beat

00:41:36.600 a high school team of men boys for that matter it kind of shows the problem doesn't it

00:41:44.900 things are broken up by gender quit quit pretending let's get real we can't change 0.83

00:41:51.980 biological reality again people want to try it for themselves they're trans they go live your

00:41:58.160 life i hope for all the best i hope you're happy i hope you find a good relationship all that good 0.97

00:42:01.720 stuff but you're still whatever the heck you were born you can you can have some some surgery to

00:42:07.220 change some things and some therapies and hormones to make them seem as close to the other side as

00:42:11.640 you can but you know what you're still stuck with the other thing i mean we're talking about that

00:42:15.920 in prisons and things too what was that case was it new jersey or somewhere where they actually

00:42:19.080 you know again put a guy with his full junk and the whole works into a women's prison and guess 0.99

00:42:22.380 what he impregnated a bunch of them god really and you know that that nutcase who was heading the 1.00

00:42:30.100 the the ndp group uh out in vancouver she uh she she led their leadership race that weird one 1.00

00:42:36.900 uh what a bizarre thing but she actually fought for sexual assault centers to allow men within them 1.00

00:42:42.500 women who are trying to get away from being sexually assaulted shelters that's the point 1.00

00:42:47.460 and she felt it's a right to have men with all their physical parts in these safe spaces next

00:42:52.420 to the women i guess an abusive rapist could just say no no i'm identifying as a woman this

00:42:56.900 this week, please put me in the apartment with the others and he can have a good old time, right? 0.99

00:43:01.180 Nuts. Nuts. No, pardon the pun. That really was unintentional. These are the headlines these

00:43:07.300 days, right? One more thing, the court ruling in the stay free Alberta petition. That was

00:43:11.680 interesting. So, I mean, we're not going to see a referendum question change. That's going to stay

00:43:16.520 the same, but at least the numbers will be counted. And guys like Nenshi who keep saying the petition

00:43:22.700 is invalid or it was signed by a bunch of fake signatures because of the david parker's idiocy

00:43:27.500 nothing to do with any of that so they'll be able to clarify that and the work of all those 0.66

00:43:32.260 thousands of petitioners who got hundreds of thousands of albertans to sign will at least be

00:43:36.160 verified and proven that people did want this referendum and it was all signed and done in

00:43:42.040 good faith so i'm looking forward to that and i guess i'll close out with a plug for those going

00:43:48.680 out in mirror alberta just east of red deer every year there's a big event at that's chris scott's

00:43:53.500 whistle stop cafe if you look it up from 10 o'clock until the evening it's going to be albertan's day

00:43:58.580 it's turned into an annual tradition i'll be there uh as well a bunch of others there's going to be 0.99

00:44:02.600 public speakers there's going to be food there's going to be bands i think tamara leach is going

00:44:07.160 to be playing uh there's going to be yeah something like 60 vendors they think uh showing up out there

00:44:12.580 last year there was about 3 200 people came out to that hoping to have a lot more of them coming

00:44:17.320 out this year it should be a really good time i look forward to seeing and meeting a lot of you

00:44:21.240 guys there it will be a good fun event hopefully the weather cooperates just things to remind

00:44:27.240 people of bring an umbrella chances are it might get a little bit of rain now and then but supposed

00:44:31.400 to be looking better than it has been recently bring bug dope or for those who haven't worked

00:44:35.560 in the bush mosquito repellent they are fierce right now and the second the the the rain stops

00:44:42.520 the skeeters come out so i just want everybody to have a good time these are a couple of things to 0.97

00:44:45.480 to think of uh bring in if you're going to come out there but hey if you have the day free what

00:44:50.000 the heck it's the middle of the week drive out check it out loads of independence-minded albertans

00:44:54.620 having a good time having some good food and networking and just meeting with each other i

00:44:59.140 look forward to meeting some of you guys face to face so people can see i really do exist in the

00:45:03.960 wild sometimes all right guys thank you for tuning in and the pipeline will be on tomorrow night with

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00:45:19.200 and we will see you next week on the cover.

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Western Standard - July 01, 2026

Carney’s bailouts will sink Canada

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