Western Standard - July 01, 2026


Carney’s bailouts will sink Canada

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Corey has a guest on the show to talk about the latest government intervention in the Vancouver housing market, the $25B slush fund, and much more. Corey is joined by author and former CBC employee, Jerry Amernick.

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00:00:00 Good day
00:00:29 Welcome to the Corey Morgan show on at a special time because tomorrow is, well, it depends
00:00:35 on who you ask, Canada Day for most.
00:00:37 For some of us going to mirror tomorrow, we call it Albertans Day.
00:00:40 Either way, it is a regulated holiday, so we aren't going to be in the studio and doing
00:00:45 things.
00:00:45 So we figured we'll do it on Tuesday and get that news and everything out to you.
00:00:50 So thanks for tuning in on this odd week.
00:00:53 You know, when you get those long weekends, I mean, it's one thing to have it on a Friday
00:00:56 or a Monday, but when you kind of splat one right in the middle of the week there, it's
00:00:59 a little unusual people aren't used to that but whatever breaks up the work week for some folks
00:01:04 and uh hopefully the rain will lighten up for a little while down here all right so yeah a bit of
00:01:09 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 he uh wrote sleepwoking it turns out he was yet another one who was set up by that cbc funded
00:01:19 group of people to basically try and mock and make fools of them like with uh uh francis widdowson
00:01:26 and some RCMP officers and others.
00:01:28 So he'll talk a bit about that experience and some of the stuff.
00:01:30 We'll get to know where our tax dollars are being spent with the state broadcaster.
00:01:35 As well, of course, lots of other news and things to cover.
00:01:39 So let me get on with what's got me going today, looking at stuff.
00:01:43 So for an alleged economic wizard, Prime Minister Mark Carney
00:01:46 has been rather underwhelming on the fiscal file since assuming office. 0.94
00:01:50 In fact, he's appeared outright inept.
00:01:52 And the condo bailout in B.C. demonstrates this in spades. 0.97
00:01:56 If the actions of the Kearney government can't be attributed to ineptitude, it signals something even worse.
00:02:01 The condo bailout is just the latest in a string of actions from the government
00:02:04 that amount to simply tossing billions of tax dollars at issues and hoping they solve themselves.
00:02:10 Developers built thousands of overpriced condo units in Vancouver and found themselves stuck with unsold units.
00:02:17 Over a third of these apartments were priced at over a million dollars, plus exorbitant ongoing condo fees,
00:02:21 So it really shouldn't have been that shocking that nobody was actually rushing out to snap up these units.
00:02:27 The proper approach in such a situation is to let the developers sink.
00:02:31 They could either reduce the price of the condos to an affordable level,
00:02:34 or they could go bankrupt and let the next owners of the units do what must be done.
00:02:39 It's the ultimate and most simple of market corrections.
00:02:42 It offers a lesson to investors and developers on the hazards of building overpriced products on bubbles,
00:02:46 and it brings the prices down for consumers.
00:02:49 Any grade 10 economic student could figure out those basic principles of supply and demand.
00:02:54 Unfortunately, those principles appear to have eluded Mark Carney,
00:02:57 who's decided to take your money and bail out the developers with it to the tune of billions of dollars.
00:03:02 Now, incompetent developers get rewarded for their actions,
00:03:06 taxpayers get screwed, and the housing prices remain out of reach for common BC citizens. 0.69
00:03:11 Everybody loses.
00:03:13 Well, everybody except those who are well-connected developers lose anyways.
00:03:18 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 And the objects of it all certainly don't do him any favors.
00:03:27 In fact, the whole affair stinks to high heaven.
00:03:29 What is the long-term plan of the government, you know, under Carney to get Canada's failing economy on track?
00:03:35 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 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 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 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 The new $25 billion slush fund called Canada Strong is to be directed at investing in Canadian strategic interests.
00:04:19 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 Over $180 billion is going to be poured into military procurements over the next few years.
00:04:29 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 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 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 Carney brought back the $5,000 rebate for EVs that nobody wants.
00:04:50 When coupled with his deal to import Chinese electric vehicles into Canada, though,
00:04:54 incentivizing the purchase of them with tax dollars makes perfect sense.
00:04:57 To connected insiders on the deal, anyway.
00:05:00 In a little more than a year, the Carney government has managed to make the Trudeau administration appear fiscally responsible.
00:05:06 That's no small feat.
00:05:08 Carney's massively increased spending in the deficit
00:05:10 while maintaining a chokehold on resource development and exports.
00:05:13 Costs to service the Canadian debt continue to rise
00:05:16 while the productivity in the nation continues to drop.
00:05:18 It's a bleak and ugly fiscal picture.
00:05:21 So we've got to ask ourselves again,
00:05:22 is Carney really this economically incompetent?
00:05:25 Or is the administration just in it to take the money and run?
00:05:28 In either scenario, things are not looking good
00:05:30 for the financial future of Canadians,
00:05:33 unless you have connections with the Carney government.
00:05:36 Then they're looking really nice.
00:05:38 either way dave you got any good investments with the carny government gonna make you some money
00:05:41 not exactly core you know ah well see so i see uh the dave number one is off visiting with the
00:05:47 grandchild again yeah for all week we're enjoying the the presence of dave winnick dave number two
00:05:52 yeah i'm getting used to this new setup this is my first time actually in this new studio
00:05:58 i don't know about the table though for four people for the pipeline a little fella keeps
00:06:00 us from stacking with too many jugs of beer or something it sounds good well like we were saying
00:06:05 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 locally is the sheldon schumer's finally shut its doors today after all those years it was calgary's
00:06:13 only supervised consumption site i think it started in 2017 i know there's there's a lot of
00:06:18 people that are happy to see it go i know that dan mcclain for years talked about trying to shut
00:06:22 that place down the counselor so he's probably going to be happy today i'm thinking how about
00:06:25 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 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 that was unexpected but well welcome to the political life i guess he's still safe as a
00:06:37 counselor and can focus on that yeah no exactly and also as well i think the biggest news is
00:06:41 probably that um daniel smith's pipeline proposals going into the major projects office tomorrow
00:06:45 that's what everyone's been talking about and also last night a couple sources that said they
00:06:49 were close to the matter said that there is going to be no private proponents still for that so i
00:06:53 think the alberta government's going to be the initial proponent until they find a proponent
00:06:57 which i think has to be by october 1st before the feds make a decision on that but it doesn't
00:07:01 really come as any surprise that there is no private proponent because you saw everyone from
00:07:04 synovus to enbridge to you name it saying we don't really feel like getting involved in this
00:07:09 for any time soon well no they've never made a secret of it it's pretty straightforward do you
00:07:14 want to build a pipeline to a coast with no guarantees with a false indigenous authority
00:07:19 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 you're not allowed to actually sell it beyond there and lo and behold nobody has stepped forward
00:07:29 to say they're going to invest billions of dollars in this astounded well i mean i'm not surprised
00:07:33 as well especially with the whole um pathways carbon project there because that's supposed to
00:07:36 cost if it goes ahead i think 20 to 30 billion and i mean you're not really getting much return
00:07:41 on your investment i don't think for that and that's another thing that all these oil companies
00:07:44 have been looking at for that so no it looks like alberta's paying all the prices but getting none
00:07:48 of the benefits it well that sounds like a run-of-the-mill confederation actually unfortunately
00:07:53 yeah we got another one here uh pauliev's actually um reshuffled his shadow cabinet today and um
00:07:59 he's branding uh the party's a new affordability team and he was naming uh ontario mp michael
00:08:03 chong as the conservative's new financial shadow financial critic but um like we were saying before
00:08:08 i don't really know who the actual financial critic was for the most part because apparently
00:08:11 some guy i think from calgary east that we'd never really heard of yeah he was a member of
00:08:15 parliament for northeast calgary i forget somebody mentioned his name earlier yeah sorry i shouldn't
00:08:19 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 underwhelming in the role then because i mean there's a heck of a lot of things that we could
00:08:27 critique the the government on financially and and we never hear of them yeah no no exactly this is
00:08:32 actually an interesting one too i don't know what your thoughts are and this is an international
00:08:35 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 the heck is it the um citizenship the uh birthright birthright citizenship thank you yeah five to four
00:08:46 in the supreme court so i'm just wondering what your thoughts were on birthright citizenship in
00:08:49 general for canada because i from what i can gather i think some of the laws are fairly similar
00:08:53 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 areas i mean if you're trying to get immigration under control but you're kind of letting it being
00:09:01 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 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 though that won't help with the kuzma well that's the other thing that we're going to mention kuzma
00:09:13 is supposed to i think what does it expire tomorrow i think if that's what i'm remembering correctly
00:09:17 yes we haven't heard kind of a bit of sort of conflicting things what people have been saying
00:09:21 about that i think carney i mean again it's just very conflicting i think some people want it still
00:09:26 some people don't i think who do you think really would benefit if it basically got changed if trump
00:09:31 just said no and he actually stuck by that because he's always been saying for example that he doesn't
00:09:35 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 know but what happens if he actually follows through on that threat for canada if he says
00:09:43 you know what we're not actually signing it well you know ironically that stability might be finally
00:09:47 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 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 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 it's just like nothing will surprise you they might sign on for the following 16 years as it
00:10:05 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 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 think after it expires i think there's a year some sort of like grace period or something if i
00:10:17 remember correctly it kind of goes to a year by year yeah that's sort of thing after that so but
00:10:22 i mean that's not good stability especially when we look at projects things anything large
00:10:26 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 road or nobody's going to spend any money no exactly same as anything really this is also an
00:10:34 interesting one too apparently do you remember the canada arm yes well the canada arm 2 is getting
00:10:39 repaired today at the international space station because there was some male in malfunctioning
00:10:42 joint but i didn't actually know this but it's been there the candidate arm 2 has been there in
00:10:46 operation for more than 25 years and it says here that the repair is intended to restore the arm to
00:10:51 full service after i think the engineers detected some elevated electrical current in one of its
00:10:55 joints during routine operations earlier this year that's kind of interesting because i just thought
00:10:59 like yeah i mean it was a big thing here earlier this morning and i just thought yeah you don't
00:11:03 really hear much about the canada armor really a bunch of space stuff except minus um the spatial
00:11:07 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 of them anymore but yeah but i mean that was a point of pride i mean one direct part that canada
00:11:16 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 though it's pretty serious when you're out in space though well i was gonna say yeah that's
00:11:25 something you definitely have to repair but yeah no other than that corey like i said it's been
00:11:28 pretty slow news day so far like we were saying before it's basically just summertime start of
00:11:32 summer start a stampede so i think things are probably gonna pick up next week yeah and fairly
00:11:36 hectic well we'll see if there's i'm sure there'll be some crazy stampede stories and weirdness to
00:11:40 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 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 it looks like it's flooding out west in canada yeah well i think up in toefield and some areas
00:11:52 too are getting pretty bad in alberta actually i hope they can get a break because it's just
00:11:56 miserable i mean we need moisture but not that much moisture you can say well when a guy phoned
00:11:59 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 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 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 back to the newsroom to keep looking for more stories and uh you know we'll have more world
00:12:17 cup soccer and other goodies actually that's one quick thing what do you actually do you watch the
00:12:21 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 begrudge those who are enjoying it and having a good time with it and i hope it goes great for
00:12:30 everybody and you know i'm a regionalist but i'm still sure if canada goes a long ways and they
00:12:36 manage to beat whoever's next morocco or whatever then good i was just gonna say so if you were
00:12:41 actually a soccer fan you wouldn't be supporting team canada then i guess i probably would be like
00:12:46 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 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 ready for the pipeline sounds like a plan right on thanks thanks so yes that is our news guy dave
00:13:03 winnick with uh you know a fair amount of stuff in coverage but yeah summertime things start getting
00:13:07 a a little leaner in the newsroom but things will break and we still have a full newsroom full of
00:13:11 people there so that's what i'd like to remind you get on there subscribe it's 10 bucks a month
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00:13:19 along and are able to fly d vote for those family visits that are oh so important in summertime
00:13:25 okay before i get to our guest i'll just announce a couple other things coming up
00:13:28 If you go to the Western Standard site after the show, of course, there's going to be a debate between Dwayne Bratt and Derek Fildebrand on Alberta Independence on July 9th.
00:13:38 That ought to be a good one between the two of them, the pros and cons, I imagine.
00:13:42 And it's going to be, I believe, at the Glenmore Inn.
00:13:44 Hey, tickets, I mean, we're talking nice and cheap, guys.
00:13:47 Ten bucks, it's a good night out.
00:13:48 It's much cheaper than a movie and a better time than that.
00:13:50 But you've got to get onto the westernstandard.news site to grab a ticket there and attend that debate.
00:13:57 I'm sure it'll be streamed later on, but it won't be live streamed.
00:14:00 So if you want to catch that as it's happening, check it out on westernstandard.news.
00:14:05 Now, another one, I'm afraid it's not on westernstandard.news, but we're going to remedy that soon.
00:14:08 The Western Standard Stampede Barbecue is going to be at the Senalta Community Center on July 8th.
00:14:13 And you can find the RSVP actually on the Western Standard X account for that.
00:14:18 And you will have the opportunity to buy water balloons and pelt our publisher, Derek Fildebrand, with those at the barbecue.
00:14:25 here. So I mean, not just weenies and burgers, but you'll have the opportunity to have some fun
00:14:29 and give Derek a much needed soaking. Just keep something that he's annoyed you with in mind when
00:14:35 you throw the balloon and your aim will be true. Derek's always offered one thing or another for
00:14:39 you. So check those things out, guys. Yeah, the festival barbecue water balloon season is coming.
00:14:44 Okay, we got Jerry Emmerich back on the show, columnist and author. He's been on before we
00:14:48 talked to him before about his book Sleepwoking, which is fantastic. I just liked the simple
00:14:53 cover art of showing, well, somebody wandering blithely into the future and not knowing where
00:15:00 they're going. But it turns out he was another person targeted by that just repugnant tax-funded
00:15:06 hit piece, attempted show, I guess, that targeted Francis Widowson, some RCMP officers, and others.
00:15:12 We're just hearing from more as time passes with that. So let's bring Jerry in and have a conversation
00:15:17 about that. Hey, good to see you again. I appreciate you joining the show today. 0.85
00:15:21 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 enjoyed your your extended uh piece uh written on that uh what was it woke watch i believe is the
00:15:33 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 you covered a lot of the events and what had happened with that yes maybe lay out because
00:15:44 you know you you kind of went through the whole process with it uh with these guys you know what
00:15:49 what exactly happened you you were lured into uh an interview uh where where there was just
00:15:55 basically planned to be a satirical ambush piece yeah well uh actually i got an email and it was
00:16:02 on my birthday it was april 20th i got an email from a producer who said her name was pam gibson
00:16:09 and uh they were going to do uh a documentary series uh about johnny mcdonald and the idea
00:16:16 was to bring back the legacy of mcdonald the the true legacy of mcdonald so it was very pro mcdonald
00:16:22 and i wanted to know where they got my name and they mentioned that patrice dutill whom i believe
00:16:26 has been on your program before and uh they wanted to uh get patrice who's written a book
00:16:33 about johnny mcdonald and i think is the foremost authority on mcdonald today in canada by the way
00:16:39 and um he wasn't able but he said we should probably talk to jerry emanich they called me
00:16:44 and i confirmed that he did provide my name so everything seemed above board so there was some
00:16:50 give and take um they wanted to send me to vancouver uh pay uh an honorarium i had some
00:16:59 questions then they bump up the honorarium and everything seems to be legit it's this
00:17:05 company called forge media tv and uh so it all seemed to be above board so i flew out to vancouver
00:17:13 for a day and a night, and had the interview there. I can't say that I thought it was very
00:17:21 impressively done. They had a lot of people there. They had a full crew, but never did I think I was
00:17:28 being set up. It was only after I came back to Toronto a couple days later, I was talking with
00:17:34 James Pugh, the editor of Woke Watch Canada, and I'd written some pieces for him, and he told me
00:17:41 that it was a setup, along with Francis Woodison was there the same day,
00:17:46 Lindsay Shepard was there the same day, but they made sure to keep us apart
00:17:49 so we wouldn't overlap.
00:17:51 And then the thing got bigger, and we've since discovered, Corey,
00:17:55 that a lot of other people were targeted in this as well,
00:17:57 including some former RCMP officers, other journalists they went after.
00:18:02 And, you know, when I first did an interview about this, I said,
00:18:06 if the CBC is involved, it doesn't look very good on the CBC,
00:18:10 But, of course, they were, along with APTN, Northland Tales, as they call the series.
00:18:16 So the whole thing was a scam.
00:18:19 And the fact that your state public broadcaster is involved in this is pretty sad.
00:18:25 I don't know what else to say.
00:18:27 Well, yeah, I mean, if it was a private company, you know, it might be tasteless and whatnot.
00:18:32 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 And maybe you could find an audience.
00:18:37 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 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 This is really, you know, along the lines of the people who tear down statues.
00:19:04 Yeah, well, initially, well, it's right in line with that, actually.
00:19:08 You know, I asked where is this going to air when they first approached me.
00:19:12 They said it would air on the CBC in the fall.
00:19:16 So right away I said, well, the CBC is no friend of Johnny McDonald.
00:19:20 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 So they assured me that's not going to be the case.
00:19:30 They're a private company doing it.
00:19:34 But as I say, everything they told me was not true.
00:19:38 It was just really one lie after the other.
00:19:41 So that was the whole thing.
00:19:45 And, you know, the National Post called me and said, would you like to do a piece on this?
00:19:50 So I did.
00:19:50 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 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 of just that process because people wondering too and you know and you kind of just said in that way
00:20:10 like because some people say well how would francis fall for that or others well it's innocent
00:20:15 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 room and it sounds honest and we'll talk about political things for an interview with an honorarium
00:20:23 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 with independent media. So if I could make a few dollars and speak on the issues, that'd be great.
00:20:34 Well, you know, like I said in that piece, Corey, you know, when people tell me who they are
00:20:38 and what they're doing, I tend to believe them. I mean, why wouldn't you, right?
00:20:43 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 the most disgusting thing in this whole thing was their treatment of the former RCMP officers.
00:20:56 uh really i mean beyond disgusting um and uh so there's nothing positive here but but again the
00:21:03 fact that the state broadcaster was involved in this uh it's it's pretty low and it's pretty sad
00:21:09 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 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 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 any means. He spoke of those later years of his time in office and the challenges and self-doubt
00:21:32 and those realities. But I mean, it says a lot then that they're going after him. You know,
00:21:37 Frances Widdeson, okay, she likes diving into the mix, stirring things up. I think she does
00:21:40 fantastic work and she writes some nuanced stuff as well. But okay, you could see why that would
00:21:46 paint a target uh for for for opponents i guess but with patrice this is a man who's just an
00:21:52 academic who's writing some some excellent pieces that are balanced on mcdonald and they wanted to
00:21:57 go after him as well that that's they're really on an ugly agenda well i think they were actually
00:22:05 going after anyone who questioned the graves and kamloops story right uh and i and i'm in that uh
00:22:11 that group as well but but i have to tell you about johnny mcdonald i have a chapter in my
00:22:16 book about johnny mcdonald i just call it the trashing of johnny mcdonald and you know i did
00:22:21 a lot of research on mcdonald in writing my book sleepwalking and i have to tell you
00:22:25 when i thought when i look at what i knew about mcdonald when i started this project
00:22:30 and what i know about him today you know everybody says he wasn't perfect well i don't know anybody
00:22:35 who is but i think i i i'm full of admiration for johnny mcdonald the more i learned about him
00:22:41 the more I admired them. And when you look at the personal tragedies he had to put up with,
00:22:46 I don't think people are really aware of that. And the country, I mean, Canada, you can't think
00:22:52 of Canada in 1867 the way you think of Canada today. It was very different. He brought all
00:22:57 these disparate groups together. He was a master politician. And it's amazing what he did. And also
00:23:03 in threats of american annexation right uh it's incredible what he did and and i think tomorrow
00:23:11 was canada day i think i think the man should be honored and respected but you know as i say you
00:23:17 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 the federal government does not honor johnny mcdonald and and he's not treated very well
00:23:41 but by the feds and you know you look at all you mentioned i was watching earlier
00:23:46 talked about the world cup and soccer people celebrating canada going on in the world cup
00:23:50 well that's great but i wonder if some of these people who are celebrating this are also people
00:23:53 who are tearing down mcdonald's statues you know so um and and that's all due frankly to
00:24:00 misinformation misinformation about mcdonald well and i i find quite an irony with it in that you
00:24:07 know we've got quite a an explosion of regionalism in alberta a vote on independence uh sort of
00:24:12 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 and the people who've been trying to undercut canadian pride whether it's through the rcmp
00:24:22 the residential school sir johnny mcdonald then express shock when you see regionalist movements
00:24:27 exploding and people feeling a lack of connection with the country that was holding together in the
00:24:30 first place they don't seem to understand they were the ones eroding those underpinnings for
00:24:34 years now and this is the consequence of their actions well i i agree with you i mean i think
00:24:41 the top, the prime role of the federal government should be to unify the country. And I don't think
00:24:47 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 for a number of years. And I think we have a leadership crisis. And I think it's also in the
00:24:58 opposition too. I mean, I think we have a leadership crisis right across the board in
00:25:04 this country, and it's a shame. But my file that I like to specialize on, Corey, as you know,
00:25:09 the history file in historical revisionism and and it's all about this misinformation about not
00:25:16 only mcdonald but other important historical figures who are part of canadian history and
00:25:22 you know if there are negative things about them that are true and factual fine but a lot of the
00:25:27 things that are that have come out about these historical figures are not true it's based on
00:25:31 misinformation and um you know like i say the feds should be up front in honoring johnny mcdonald
00:25:39 i don't see them doing that no and i mean we could be respectful of the past while critical
00:25:44 of it i i'm as i said a a pretty uh unapologetic alberta independence type supporter yet at the
00:25:50 same time and i say to many of my public presentations i value the history of canada
00:25:54 i value what the people built to bring me the free state where i can uh lobby for what i do
00:25:59 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 will still be there and it should be accurately represented and respected for what it is it's it's
00:26:10 the this revisionism is a terrible terrible trend in in the world uh particularly in canada well i
00:26:17 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 coast and uh you know it it got worse over the well the last 10 years and again after the 2021
00:26:30 announcement about the graves in Kamloops, a story that has zero evidence, absolutely no evidence at
00:26:36 all. That's what took it overboard and was basically, you know, unruly, mob, brutal rioters
00:26:45 tearing down statues of important historical figures across the country. Notably,
00:26:52 McDonald. I think he has suffered the biggest fall from grace. I was at a meeting two months ago
00:26:57 in Prince Edward County, Ontario, in Picton, not far from Kingston, where McDonnell began his law
00:27:03 career. And the council had a motion there to bring back the statue of McDonnell that was
00:27:09 commissioned by Ruth Abernathy, an internationally acclaimed sculptress.
00:27:15 It went up in 2015. And in 2021, they removed it. And they were debating whether to bring it back.
00:27:21 And they voted against bringing it back. I was there to do a deputation why they should bring
00:27:26 the statue back but you had all these activists some of them were indigenous some of them weren't
00:27:31 and you know painting mcdonald as a racist and bigot and did all these terrible things and
00:27:37 and pretty well everything they said was incorrect but uh you know the council uh 0.91
00:27:43 voted eight to six against bringing the statue back which is ridiculous so this is again
00:27:48 historical revisionism based on what i call mob rule and misinformation well the other parts
00:27:56 political cowardice i i believe in front of queen's park the sir johnny mcdonald was boarded
00:28:00 up and covered for a couple of years five years yeah ford couldn't find the courage to say you
00:28:07 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 cameras on it but we're not going to let bullies push away parts of our history but instead he took
00:28:16 the cowardly approach and just let it be hidden for years i mean that's an embarrassment on a
00:28:21 number of levels. Well, I think I agree with you. And, you know, I think we've got cowards
00:28:26 provincially and federally, certainly on the history file. We can go into other issues if
00:28:31 you want. But on the history file, they've just done a horrible job. And again, you know, look
00:28:37 at facts. What I've done in my book is I look at biographies that have been written, you know,
00:28:43 Hansard laws, legislation, a lot of stuff I uncovered in doing my research on McDonald and
00:28:50 and other figures. And like I say, in his case, the more I found out about him, the more I came
00:28:55 to admire them. I mean, he really almost single-handedly created this country. And I
00:29:01 think he should be honored and respected for that. No, absolutely. I'm in full agreement there. And
00:29:07 I mean, I love history. And that's why I was thrilled to have Patrice on and read his book.
00:29:11 I mean, it added so much more depth to a man who was an incredible figure and strong. And
00:29:17 And we could have done a heck of a lot worse for a national founder if people would just realize that.
00:29:24 So, you know, just throw one more plug out for him and yourself.
00:29:28 Look it up, people.
00:29:28 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 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 Do you think it's ever going to air?
00:29:45 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 Yeah, well, the CBC came out with their statement a while back where they said it's on pause.
00:29:55 So I haven't heard anything else, but I think it would be pretty difficult for it to air.
00:30:00 There's been a lot of publicity about it, all of it negative, deservedly so.
00:30:05 So I don't see how it can air.
00:30:07 But, I mean, who knows?
00:30:08 I mean, if someone had asked me a few months ago, would the CBC stoop to something like this?
00:30:14 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 but I was wrong. So they did. So who knows? That's a sad state. Well, thanks for sharing
00:30:24 all that on woke watch and national post and, and for your book, uh, where, you know, and you've
00:30:28 written a number of others and nonfiction as well, before I let you go, where can people find your
00:30:32 work and, uh, you know, keep up with what you're up to? Uh, well, sleepwalking is available on
00:30:38 Amazon, amazon.ca. We had a launch in Toronto a while back and earlier in June, we had one in
00:30:43 Vancouver that was quite successful and it seems to have gotten on with a lot of readers out west
00:30:49 so you can find it on Amazon amazon.ca you can get it on my website jerryamernick.com
00:30:56 great well thanks again it was good talking with you and thanks for pushing back you know if people
00:31:02 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 I appreciate your effort and your writings and look forward to talking to you again
00:31:11 okay thank you cory you take care all right thank you so one more time guys jerry amernick
00:31:17 if you look it up sleepwalking and a number of other columns articles things over the years
00:31:21 and what a just you know this is your tax dollars this is the state broadcaster i mean i question
00:31:27 whether such a broadcaster should even exist but if it must if it must the mandate should be
00:31:34 as heavily history laden accurate history laden you know pro canada educating people on the nation
00:31:42 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 end the only i guess almost cold comfort in the bunch is is that uh not many people watch it
00:31:57 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 anymore because the viewership levels are terrible but you know when we talk about independent media
00:32:07 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 modern world when conventional media can't afford to operate like it used to we don't have the demand
00:32:16 for advertising and newspapers classified ads you know television ads like they're used to
00:32:21 let's say the Canadians were comfortable spending 1.4 billion dollars a year for news broadcasting
00:32:28 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 creative people. That would add up to, let's say, 140 independent media outlets in every province
00:32:41 in Canada with a $1 million a year budget each. What would give more news, more coverage,
00:32:50 more ability in general, local news, things like that? Because that's what's been suffering,
00:32:54 right? Local news, small towns, places like that. If every province had 140 units that were making
00:32:59 a million dollars each just well no a million dollars just from the tax funding maybe if they
00:33:03 sold some more advertising and so on they would be larger that would be thousands of reporters
00:33:08 across the country 1400 outlets broadcasting online or putting out stories would we get more 0.99
00:33:16 value out of that or the cbc that runs these these garbage attack pieces and crap like this 0.83
00:33:24 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 i'm just saying i would rather see that it would definitely do canada more good than what we're
00:33:35 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 talk long enough to cover it all the rcmp officers people who served you know and there's lots of
00:33:47 things to question with the rcmp contemporary and in the past but still most officers they took on
00:33:52 a tough job with a lot of dangerous and terrible circumstances situations they would be you know
00:33:58 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 them brought into one of these ambush things and humiliated by these these clowns and uh again if
00:34:10 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 even you know canadian it was some guy named igor from the united states and somebody else
00:34:17 like they don't even hire local people to do their crappy hit pieces some people try to compare it
00:34:22 to like borat and how we set people up and things like that okay a couple of things for one borat
00:34:27 was funny for another it wasn't funded by your tax dollars big difference huge difference as a
00:34:34 matter of fact now let's cover a couple other news things uh it's pride week or pride month
00:34:40 or whatever we come to the end of it and uh toronto has had its annual uh fetish fest because
00:34:48 that's all it is now unfortunately this huge parade of just perversion guys walking around
00:34:56 with their peckers hanging out in front of children this how is this unifying communities
00:35:04 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 face on and some other stuff greeting the prime minister you know it used to be this is having 0.66
00:35:17 events so people could understand that people in the lgdb community could have some pride that they
00:35:24 want to live like everybody else as most members of that community do and it used to be something
00:35:28 that was described as shame for someone to be gay and it was illegal until what 1969 sure there was
00:35:36 a reason for these pride events but now they've morphed the the activists the lunatics and the 0.98
00:35:41 perverts let's just say it they're perverts are dominating these now they were whining about it 0.74
00:35:46 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 out why because you're waving your dicks in the faces of children no sponsor is going to cover
00:35:58 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 attending these events well that's why why should he quit that bullying quit that pushing in fact
00:36:14 most politicians should start boycotting the events when they go that far say that's it i'm
00:36:17 not going there i have nothing to do with it i will not endorse it until you guys clean it up
00:36:22 because this is not something that anybody should be endorsing it's an embarrassment
00:36:27 And if anything, it brings more distrust and hate upon a community that doesn't need more of it. 0.99
00:36:33 It's the extreme end of a minority community being represented at these things now. 0.99
00:36:39 So quit twisting people's arms to go.
00:36:43 Make it a better function.
00:36:45 I went to pride events back in the 90s.
00:36:47 It was a great parade in Calgary and a gathering in a park downtown.
00:36:52 I'm not gay, but whatever.
00:36:53 I had a girlfriend who took me to those things because a friend of hers was there.
00:36:55 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 We weren't raised that way in the 70s and 80s to be embracing of it.
00:37:07 And we realized they are just neighbors, friends, folks that are just moving along and not bothering anybody.
00:37:12 They just wanted to be able to come out in the open for who they are.
00:37:15 And that's what it was.
00:37:16 And it was valuable.
00:37:17 And it helped a lot of people, including me.
00:37:18 but now now you go there and and and it just it in fact they highlight all of the worst
00:37:26 stereotypes about the community you know the issues that would come with perversion promiscuity
00:37:32 fetishism it's it's it's again if you're grown adults do whatever the hell you please absolutely
00:37:38 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 as i said corporate candidates pulling out they're saying we're not funding this anymore you guys
00:37:48 uh you know a feisty fryer saying a los angeles man was arrested for shooting naked people with
00:37:54 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 i understand the frustration and the grossness with these stupid nude bike rides and all that 1.00
00:38:05 crap too but it's not advisable to shoot at people with bb guns either way i i understand 0.99
00:38:10 the problems both ways with that plus you know this comes down to some of the other things just 0.97
00:38:13 to go further bb guns paintball guns replica guns even if they are technically harmless they're very
00:38:20 very dangerous don't ever point those at people uh police officers can't necessarily tell the
00:38:24 difference fast enough and just things could go much much worse plus uh as per the old christmas 0.51
00:38:29 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 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 with these things but let's start uh yeah i think they should be starting to charge some of these
00:38:43 people for public nudity that's enough we got standards and such if you walked down the street
00:38:47 with your junk jangling around typically downtown you will find yourself incarcerated and covered up
00:38:52 really fast just because it's some pride parade full of other fetishists doesn't mean it should 0.95
00:38:57 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 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 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 these days right again when the activists have gone way overboard and into the realm of stupidity 0.99
00:39:16 and extremism supreme court allows this some states to ban transgender girls and women from 0.99
00:39:22 school athletic teams that's the globe headline but the problem is it's not banning girls and
00:39:28 women from athletic teams it's banning men pretending to be women from being on girls
00:39:34 athletic teams let's be clear about what it is nobody is being banned from sports they just have 0.61
00:39:40 to participate in the ones that their plumbing designates them to men can compete with men
00:39:47 women can complete with compete with women but if you want to play pretend you don't get to compete
00:39:53 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 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 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 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 this is happening all over the world most countries are backing off on it even left-leaning socially 0.99
00:40:21 progressive european countries they're realizing this is too far this is stupid you cannot have 0.99
00:40:30 somebody with the physique of a man participating on a woman's rugby team somebody's going to get 1.00
00:40:36 hurt you can't get a swimmer like that pervert down in the states walking around in the girls 0.98
00:40:40 change room with his fully uncut junk flapping around in there and unfairly stealing medals 0.99
00:40:46 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 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 her name it doesn't matter that weird purple head lunatic who was the head of the american
00:41:03 women's soccer team you know apparently a very good soccer player they were one of the better 1.00
00:41:07 ones I guess the women's the American women's team and she's one of the trans activists says
00:41:12 we should allow men to compete in these teams or sorry trans women spare me their men her team
00:41:17 her national American women's team you can look this up lost when playing against a team of male 0.74
00:41:25 15 year olds when they sit and pretend that there's no genetic advantage for women versus men
00:41:32 yet the top one of the top women's soccer teams in the world couldn't beat
00:41:36 a high school team of men boys for that matter it kind of shows the problem doesn't it
00:41:44 things are broken up by gender quit quit pretending let's get real we can't change 0.83
00:41:51 biological reality again people want to try it for themselves they're trans they go live your
00:41:58 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 stuff but you're still whatever the heck you were born you can you can have some some surgery to
00:42:07 change some things and some therapies and hormones to make them seem as close to the other side as
00:42:11 you can but you know what you're still stuck with the other thing i mean we're talking about that
00:42:15 in prisons and things too what was that case was it new jersey or somewhere where they actually
00:42:19 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 what he impregnated a bunch of them god really and you know that that nutcase who was heading the 1.00
00:42:30 the the ndp group uh out in vancouver she uh she she led their leadership race that weird one 1.00
00:42:36 uh what a bizarre thing but she actually fought for sexual assault centers to allow men within them 1.00
00:42:42 women who are trying to get away from being sexually assaulted shelters that's the point 1.00
00:42:47 and she felt it's a right to have men with all their physical parts in these safe spaces next
00:42:52 to the women i guess an abusive rapist could just say no no i'm identifying as a woman this
00:42:56 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 Nuts. Nuts. No, pardon the pun. That really was unintentional. These are the headlines these
00:43:07 days, right? One more thing, the court ruling in the stay free Alberta petition. That was
00:43:11 interesting. So, I mean, we're not going to see a referendum question change. That's going to stay
00:43:16 the same, but at least the numbers will be counted. And guys like Nenshi who keep saying the petition
00:43:22 is invalid or it was signed by a bunch of fake signatures because of the david parker's idiocy
00:43:27 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 thousands of petitioners who got hundreds of thousands of albertans to sign will at least be
00:43:36 verified and proven that people did want this referendum and it was all signed and done in
00:43:42 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 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 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 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 public speakers there's going to be food there's going to be bands i think tamara leach is going
00:44:07 to be playing uh there's going to be yeah something like 60 vendors they think uh showing up out there
00:44:12 last year there was about 3 200 people came out to that hoping to have a lot more of them coming
00:44:17 out this year it should be a really good time i look forward to seeing and meeting a lot of you
00:44:21 guys there it will be a good fun event hopefully the weather cooperates just things to remind
00:44:27 people of bring an umbrella chances are it might get a little bit of rain now and then but supposed
00:44:31 to be looking better than it has been recently bring bug dope or for those who haven't worked
00:44:35 in the bush mosquito repellent they are fierce right now and the second the the the rain stops
00:44:42 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 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 the heck it's the middle of the week drive out check it out loads of independence-minded albertans
00:44:54 having a good time having some good food and networking and just meeting with each other i
00:44:59 look forward to meeting some of you guys face to face so people can see i really do exist in the
00:45:03 wild sometimes all right guys thank you for tuning in and the pipeline will be on tomorrow night with
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