Western Standard - Carney’s cabinet. Same dung, different pile

00:00:00.000 Good day.

00:00:29.840 welcome to the cory morgan show second take i know a lot of you are getting ready for the long

00:00:35.620 weekend you can always tell it's the may long weekend the clouds come over the snow threatens

00:00:40.220 in the mountains and the price of the gas pump suddenly goes up 20 cents a liter a coincidence

00:00:45.040 i'm sure it is every long weekend somehow but that's just the way life goes still it's a you

00:00:51.720 know i think a lot of people's favorite long weekend i mean there's really only so much you

00:00:54.680 can celebrate on uh remembrance day and such when the snow is flying and things are cold so

00:01:00.880 hopefully you're getting out having a good time as this one comes take a little breather from

00:01:04.920 the politics just suck in another hour or two politics out of me for today and then you can

00:01:08.600 run off for the weekend we got a lot to cover today i am going to talk in a bit about uh carney's

00:01:13.920 cabinet we'll speak as well actually alexander brown of the national citizens coalition is going

00:01:17.680 to come on and we'll break that down a little bit talk about what do we got is this big grand uh

00:01:23.100 change coming out of the carny regime as compared to the trudeau regime now it looks like the same 0.94

00:01:27.280 old shit uh what else we got john carpe yeah he's a lawyer at the justice center for constitutional 0.95

00:01:32.960 freedoms and they've got an interesting one going on basically uh standing up for a lawyer who's 0.99

00:01:38.640 battling a woke law associations they're really you know the wokeism that that sickness is it 0.54

00:01:45.980 slithers through and it gets into professional organizations and such and it's it's more of a

00:01:50.340 covert way to control conversation, or in this case, lawyers, which is of concern, because

00:01:54.820 as well, we may have a love-hate relationship with lawyers when we really do need them. We

00:01:59.260 really do need them sometimes. So that'll be an interesting conversation as well.

00:02:03.600 But yeah, this is cabinet. I just want to laugh at some of these things, you know,

00:02:09.160 some of the voices that we're seeing on X coming up, talking about Carney's first, you know,

00:02:14.440 moves as the new prime minister. And yeah, it's the same old bloody faces. He didn't do a new

00:02:21.300 cabinet. He shuffled it. And he's not even going to give us a budget. Oh, sorry. No budget this

00:02:26.600 year. Maybe next year. Really? I mean, he promised billions and billions more spending. So I guess

00:02:32.440 we'll just get to find out when, uh, later on, but EnderCoin, Warren Kinsella, both on X now

00:02:37.640 shocked shocked at how terrible carny's government is appearing to be already really i you know

00:02:45.860 andrew coin is saying that they pulled the wool over everybody's eyes they did over yours you 1.00

00:02:51.020 clown you laurentian elitist pompous jerk i you know coin where do you come from i mean were you 1.00

00:02:59.240 deliberately blinding yourself to this or are you genuinely actually shocked at this point you 1.00

00:03:05.180 carried water for those ding-dongs through the entire election campaign. You talked down your

00:03:10.960 nose, as you typically do, for every CBC panel, shot at the independent media like us who dared 1.00

00:03:17.880 to say, you know what, these liberal assholes are the same as the last liberal assholes. 0.99

00:03:22.320 Yeah, this show doesn't go on the TV, so I don't have to worry about the CRTC. 0.99

00:03:26.020 So, you know, Kinsella, I'll give it to him at least, he was very critical of Trudeau when

00:03:32.260 Trudeau was in, but then he was expressing optimism. Well, you know, along with a lot of

00:03:35.340 the others, Carney will fix it. He'll be okay. He'll be better. And now he's like, oh, wow,

00:03:39.620 this doesn't look very good. No, no, no doubt. Anita Anand already coming out. I mean, we got

00:03:45.080 rid of Melanie Jolie, GI Jolie as a foreign affairs and instead got Anita Anand, you know,

00:03:49.960 another Trudeau minister traded in. And the first thing she came out did was support Hamas.

00:03:55.380 Good work. All right. Well, we'll rant more about that though. And I'll talk more about it when

00:03:59.580 I'm going to get Alexander Brown on

00:04:01.820 from the Citizens Coalition, and we'll look

00:04:03.840 at that federal thing. But let's talk about some

00:04:05.460 news updates and see what's happening. Since Dave's

00:04:07.980 taking off to the Holy Land, I've dragged Sean

00:04:09.940 Polzer in here. Hey, Corey. How are you doing?

00:04:12.060 Good, good. It's about time you came in

00:04:13.980 anyway. Yeah, on a Friday.

00:04:15.880 Yes, our energy and business

00:04:17.960 and, well, you worry about pretty much everything

00:04:20.040 out there. Got to be a jack of all

00:04:22.000 trades in this business. Yeah.

00:04:23.720 The big bucks for niche specialties. Know a little

00:04:26.000 bit about everything and a lot about nothing.

00:04:27.560 Nah, all that Russian money we're accused of getting, I...

00:04:30.340 Oh, yeah, where is it, man?

00:04:31.780 Where's my rubles?

00:04:32.820 Yeah.

00:04:33.240 My rubbles.

00:04:34.000 Yeah, no, I'm eating borscht.

00:04:35.320 That's just because it's not like an abort.

00:04:36.840 It's because Derek makes it by hand.

00:04:40.260 The fringe benefits of the Westerns.

00:04:41.920 Yeah, where are your fringe benefits?

00:04:43.040 No, it's borscht.

00:04:43.940 Yeah, it's borscht.

00:04:44.440 Bring your own sour cream.

00:04:45.780 And bill.

00:04:46.660 Yeah, that's good, actually.

00:04:48.460 I like borscht.

00:04:49.440 Yeah.

00:04:51.140 Okay.

00:04:51.780 Yeah.

00:04:52.280 So you want to jump right into this?

00:04:53.900 Sure, let's go at it.

00:04:54.580 Okay, so going on...

00:04:57.560 Prime Minister Carney.

00:05:00.260 Prime Minister Carney.

00:05:01.220 We have to call him Prime Minister Carney now.

00:05:03.320 We don't have to call him Liberal leader anymore.

00:05:06.160 So he quietly went, even though he campaigned on the anti-Trump rhetoric and the whole...

00:05:12.280 Elbows up.

00:05:12.940 Elbows up, yeah.

00:05:14.340 And he had Mike Myers and all the famous endorsements, right?

00:05:18.640 Well, he's quietly rolled back six-month tariff exemptions on virtually everything that he said that he was going to tariff in response.

00:05:27.560 So we're talking about food and beverage packaging, presumably that's aluminum, items related to health care, public safety and national security.

00:05:37.540 And automakers get a break, too. 0.99

00:05:39.900 So, I mean, every economist and every honest economist and people in general and always been saying counter tariffs are stupid. 0.99

00:05:48.860 Right. I mean, they're counterproductive. 0.99

00:05:50.600 To be fair, the tariffs were stupid out of the orange man in the first place. 0.99

00:05:53.600 But then doubling down on the dumb isn't a great way to battle it. 0.99

00:05:56.340 Well, and I think the issue here is that he campaigned on it, right? 0.96

00:06:00.400 So he's, you know, whatever.

00:06:02.300 That was last week.

00:06:03.540 We're here this week.

00:06:04.780 It sounds a lot like Pierre Trudeau Sr., wage and price controls.

00:06:08.520 Yeah.

00:06:09.780 Revisiting the liberal, stealing Pierre Pagliot's good ideas.

00:06:14.080 We've got an update on the ostriches, the plight of the ostriches,

00:06:18.440 who up until now had their heads in the sand.

00:06:21.600 Canadian genocide.

00:06:23.020 Everything's a genocide. 0.55

00:06:23.880 I'm running off with a genocide.

00:06:26.340 Anyway, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency now must prove that the birds are infected with avian flu.

00:06:33.460 Did the court rule that?

00:06:35.800 I'm not exactly sure.

00:06:37.160 This is a Jen Hodgson story.

00:06:39.320 Oh, well.

00:06:40.320 See, she ran out before we confirmed. 1.00

00:06:41.740 I was your second choice.

00:06:43.380 Oh, you were always my first, Sean.

00:06:44.880 I just had to, you know, I had a quota to fill, right?

00:06:47.580 Right.

00:06:48.000 We got enough old white guys on here already. 1.00

00:06:49.860 Anyway, have you eaten ostrich before?

00:06:51.440 No.

00:06:51.940 Oh, it's quite good.

00:06:52.760 Actually, I've had quite a few things.

00:06:53.920 I don't think I've ever had ostrich.

00:06:54.860 it's a nice lean red meat it's uh you know for poultry it's you know it's it's tasty

00:07:00.200 so i mean that whole backstory though i mean that they're looking to move in and slaughter

00:07:03.860 400 of these ostriches over yeah bird flu well they're quite big birds there and and i would

00:07:10.680 imagine quite expensive it's not like going in and wiping out half a million chickens yeah which

00:07:14.720 even then could be hard on a poultry farmer but ostriches i mean it's some large livestock i've

00:07:19.700 never had an ostrich egg it's about the size of football yeah well we'll watch i mean it's funny

00:07:25.680 though how people respond to things too though i mean emotionally and and you know i mean if it was

00:07:29.580 a chicken farm with 400 chickens people say oh it's a shame but you're gonna kill 400 ostriches

00:07:34.520 oh my god well wasn't there some video of uh animal welfare activists showing people throwing

00:07:39.920 the chickens around them on the back of the truck or something there's a couple years ago

00:07:43.220 probably there has been chicken mistreatment i hate that i like to see at least some degree of

00:07:49.100 humanity. Well, I don't want to eat unhappy animals. Well, no, I want them to be smiling when

00:07:52.940 we cut their girls. Exactly. Yes, exactly. Also, there's an external review on the RCMP management

00:07:58.400 of the Freedom Convoy. 97 Gen is currently revealing the 92-page report, but the bottom

00:08:05.600 line is that the conclusion is that it was highly politicized. Gee. I wonder how much

00:08:11.240 that cost to come up with that conclusion. Yeah, where would we be without these reports?

00:08:16.700 And then a couple of stories that I'm working on, we've got a good old hostile takeover battle, Meg Energy.

00:08:23.280 So Meg Energy is in the Pathways Alliance.

00:08:25.660 They're building a multi-billion dollar carbon capture pipeline and system out north of Edmonton by Cold Lake.

00:08:34.320 Strathconer Resources is headed by Adam Watrous, a big Calgary financier.

00:08:39.380 He's also a backer of Conservative Party, Pierre Polyev, who's got to trouble because he hosted a meeting in Banff.

00:08:46.700 for uh some big donors that have some big you know a lot more money than you or i well that's

00:08:52.200 not a high bar no true enough this is an off the rack off the you you buy off the rack too yeah so

00:09:00.040 do i but uh i mean nancy southern's talking about we have this chilled business climate because of

00:09:05.120 independence talk and everything else you you wouldn't think something as major a move as this

00:09:08.780 would happen in such a unstable climate or maybe it would because it's consolidation you never know

00:09:13.760 like these share prices are being driven down you know like maybe you might be able to see

00:09:17.920 a lot more of this kind of consolidation happen um but you know especially vis-a-vis american

00:09:23.200 you can take advantage of instability to come in when things are low but at the same time it means

00:09:26.800 that their long-term view whoever that planner is thinks this is going to be a buy in the long run

00:09:31.520 right i don't know those are bigger minds than ours yeah okay we're we're getting a little off

00:09:37.040 truck getting a little bit into the weeds yeah yeah you know right now it's five or six billion

00:09:44.040 dollars you know well I'm looking at it more from oil production fifth or sixth largest oil producer

00:09:49.500 in Canada by volume yeah yeah and you know what Adam I would give all my life savings to Adam

00:09:55.460 Watkins and tell him just to take care of it for me they know their stuff yeah he knows his stuff

00:10:00.680 for sure and then another big story that we're looking at so the UK newspapers are all buzzed

00:10:08.360 today because apparently they found Chinese kill switches in solar panels that could disable the

00:10:15.560 whole power grid and as you recall a couple weeks back we had the issue in Spain so Spain is very

00:10:21.880 heavily reliable on renewable energy and particularly on Chinese made components Chinese

00:10:27.720 companies control about half of the supply chain for this stuff you know they're again higher level

00:10:34.200 than you or i will ever understand but it's the usual suspects huawei chinese communist party

00:10:39.660 the red army yeah i mean it's an oligarchy it's a semi-private type of uh corporations but they're

00:10:47.660 all tied in with and it's raising nothing large is going to operate in china without being

00:10:52.220 integrated with the chinese communist party of course not yeah right and if they and if they

00:10:56.520 think that they can shut down you know half the north american power grid by taking out a few

00:11:01.080 well-placed solar farms then you know hey

00:11:08.760 generated but uh yeah that's scary stuff i mean some countries are getting very dependent on this

00:11:13.320 renewal well and including canada like uh because we have no real manufacturing uh capability in

00:11:18.680 this country we basically assemble chinese parts um i dug up a letter from commons committee uh

00:11:24.840 back in october from canadian energy renewable canria canria basically arguing against tariffs

00:11:33.000 on chinese-made solar panels and products because uh otherwise it would delay our net zero goals

00:11:40.440 out to 2050 uh-huh

00:11:44.760 uh but uh you know the world's getting a reality check lately though on uh how integrated economies

00:11:52.360 are right you know it's funny that president trump's backing off or making deals with china

00:11:57.700 now and a lot of the tariff talk and everything else as well is whether he knew that prior or not

00:12:02.680 the reality was too i mean you can't drive 10 minutes anywhere in the united states without

00:12:07.940 seeing a dollar general store sure go into a dollar general store and you definitely meet

00:12:11.840 the pajama people who are trump's voter base right and they're shopping and 90 of the products are

00:12:16.700 chinese when you're going to hike the cost up by the amounts that he's talking about with those 1.00

00:12:21.640 tariffs yeah you've mentioned this before the the dollar store index yes it's it's it's real and

00:12:28.200 yeah you've been through you've been through louisiana you know poking at the americans i mean

00:12:34.320 especially in tighter times the dollar stores are busy spots and then but they're almost all

00:12:38.420 chinese goods absolutely well and major american retailers like walmart uh costco we you know like

00:12:44.880 uh costco uh we had to start here the other day uh has emerged as a major retailer of gold

00:12:50.520 They've become one of the largest gold brokers in the United States and in North America just by selling these little wafers at wholesale rates.

00:13:00.460 It's that reminder to everybody.

00:13:01.780 It's easy to say buy local, but when you start to look at how our economies work, actually, it's much tougher.

00:13:07.160 And I think you make a point, too, that Trump's tariffs, whether you like them or not or whatever you think of them, I know you don't.

00:13:14.440 I'm not fond of them.

00:13:15.540 No, but he's definitely raised awareness of the issue.

00:13:18.540 Yeah.

00:13:18.940 You know, like I said, I don't even think that he even knew.

00:13:22.340 A positive side effect.

00:13:23.560 I mean, kind of an economic experiment for everybody to remind them.

00:13:26.580 And again, I mean, maybe the lesson is to do as he's saying and localize your economy so you aren't just dependent on the external suppliers as much.

00:13:35.880 But it's letting everybody know if you want to do that, it's going to come at a pretty good cost to your wallet.

00:13:40.760 Oh, yes, absolutely for sure.

00:13:42.020 And then that brings me to my final story, which is China is now the number one buyer of Canadian oil off the Trans Mountain pipeline.

00:13:49.720 Oh, good.

00:13:52.260 And we're both trying to get around tariffs.

00:13:54.360 That is a good, well, depending on how you look at it, just as your business develops.

00:13:57.980 I mean, in broadening our customer base, because the original Trans Mountain before the expansion was still most of that went to Seattle.

00:14:03.960 Right.

00:14:04.300 And it did after the original expansion came on.

00:14:07.460 Most of it was going to Seattle as well.

00:14:08.880 but yeah and it's still not 100% full because they still have to set the

00:14:13.860 tariffs well tariffs tolls tolls how much they're gonna charge per barrel so

00:14:18.660 that that's going up before the Canadian energy regulator later this summer but

00:14:23.640 so once that gets all worked out then there's possibility for another couple

00:14:28.800 hundred thousand barrels a day and they're gonna expand it 1.6 million

00:14:32.820 barrels so yeah yeah well maybe they'll find some more destinations for those

00:14:36.840 tankers all the same. Because being reliant on China 0.55

00:14:39.000 doesn't sound to me like it's a heck of a lot better than being reliant

00:14:41.020 on the United States.

00:14:43.700 Until they flick that switch

00:14:44.760 and our power is on.

00:14:46.680 All right. Well, thanks for those updates.

00:14:48.720 That's a good and bad

00:14:49.840 economic outlook on things.

00:14:52.700 I'll let you get back to hammering out those stories.

00:14:54.900 And have a good long weekend, everybody.

00:14:57.280 Thanks, Sean.

00:14:58.020 Thanks, Corey.

00:14:59.620 Yes, that is business and energy. Sean Polzer,

00:15:02.200 he knows his stuff. He's digging into it all the time.

00:15:04.660 and those stories are constantly going up to the western standards and so i'd like to remind

00:15:08.180 everybody before i get to that next guest uh take out your subscriptions 10 bucks a month 100

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00:15:29.040 come on get on there guys it's a it's an investment in yourself you know throw some more cliche crap

00:15:34.380 about there. All right, let's talk to Alex Brown of the National Citizens Coalition and get on to

00:15:39.540 some federal politics. How you doing? Corey, I'm great. Congratulations on the Amazon sales of your

00:15:46.280 book of late. Oh, yeah. Yeah, it took quite a took off. I mean, I really am not that prescient. I

00:15:52.760 didn't know what was going to happen a couple of years ahead of writing that thing. But the

00:15:56.320 conditions for having a book that's a guidebook to Western independence have made for good book

00:16:01.240 sales lately. Well-timed, well-timed. Yeah, well, so, I mean, and as we go, as we look at these

00:16:07.720 things, we're a few weeks out from the federal election now. People are starting to, I guess,

00:16:12.880 accept that we've got Prime Minister Carney, but now we're getting a picture of what Mr. Carney's

00:16:17.420 got to offer, and it's, I mean, I'll let you take off from there. It's not looking that great.

00:16:23.020 I mean, we talked about this last time, which was, you asked me, like, how's this going to

00:16:27.900 start off, and I paused for a while while I gathered my thoughts, and that sort of said

00:16:31.760 everything. But it looks like the last 10 years. There's a piece in the Globe, and I won't say the

00:16:40.240 writer, just to be respectful. There's a piece in the Globe today in their opinion section, which

00:16:45.220 was all in the tank for Carney during the election, that says, oh, we've been had. And it's

00:16:50.940 like, speak for yourself. We saw this coming. The Western Standard saw this coming. The

00:16:57.760 coverage has been great. I've been very proud to write for The Standard during the election window

00:17:03.300 and appear on these shows and taking down the paywall to try to share the concern and where

00:17:11.540 this was all headed. I mean, heck, you felt it as early as writing your terrific guidebook a few

00:17:17.220 years back. But starting with that Mark Carney, Man of Destiny piece in the National Post many

00:17:22.820 years ago. And just from reading what he put out there in his books, it's like this was this was

00:17:28.060 all here. He's run by the same team. He's he's rehired the exact same people. I'm hearing from

00:17:34.120 sources in Ottawa going, oh, I can't believe it. This is the worst start I've ever seen. And it's

00:17:38.280 what the heck did you expect? What the heck did these people expect? Like it's it's they they

00:17:44.360 milked these liberal boomer voters for all that they're worth. And now they're they're they're

00:17:49.980 already putting them out of their misery well gee thanks a lot if you're out west right now and

00:17:54.360 feeling alienated if you're under let's say 45 and you don't see any path to homeownership

00:18:00.480 you saw this coming from a mile away and and that brantford boomer middle finger that was given to

00:18:08.780 many on the campaign trail that should be pointed right back at this point well yeah and i i was

00:18:14.880 talking about that actually at the start of my show before before you got into the lobby i'm not

00:18:19.360 as kind and polite as you. I named that columnist. It's Andrew Coyne. Because, you know, I mean,

00:18:25.960 I just, come on, man. You were carrying their water for a month. You were looking down your

00:18:32.520 nose on anybody who questioned this coming in. I'm not going to sit and respect you being humble

00:18:37.860 now to say, oh dear, I was mistaken. No, you contributed to this by, you know, Coyne's not

00:18:46.640 a foolish writer he's a he's a smart pundit but he uh just went all in on this and and suddenly

00:18:55.580 now that this reversal it's just bizarre to be honest life uh that opinion section i have i have 0.96

00:19:02.740 i'm not always kind to it i i joked yesterday about some spiritual 71 year old globe editorial

00:19:09.780 board member being like yeah we lied to you but we were well-meaning while they barrel towards

00:19:14.160 well, they barrel towards the cottage past scenes of squalor. But no, life looks a whole lot

00:19:19.940 different in Rosedale or when you can abscond to the cottage or down to Del Boca Vista. It's easy

00:19:29.680 to opine on the yobs and the rest of Canada when you're a Gary Mason in Tawasson or you're an 0.99

00:19:37.460 Andrew Coyne in Rosedale. And the rest of us just have to actually live in the ashes and to live

00:19:44.080 with the the consequences of a fat social indulgences and protecting these sort of cocktail

00:19:52.720 party class just ideals when it's it's it's business as usual off the jump and that business 0.96

00:20:00.800 is bad it's it's a continuation of of just housing bullshit it's a continuation of these these non 0.91

00:20:08.120 answers on justice reform. You have Stephen Guibault already deliberately antagonizing 0.95

00:20:13.620 the need for more pipelines. He's a walking, talking unity crisis. And so, you know, gee,

00:20:20.200 thanks Globe Opinion section and editorial board. Like we knew this was coming. And for these folks

00:20:26.940 to turn around and go like, oh, they got all of us. No, they got you. Well, something that, I mean,

00:20:32.680 I'm not surprised that we got another bad government knowing who was elected, but I still

00:20:36.940 would have thought okay you're gonna you've made so many promises you've made so much radical

00:20:41.760 changes then whether it's getting rid of the carbon tax or it's the increased spending i mean

00:20:46.520 all sorts of things but we're not getting a budget i i was floored you guys are gonna give

00:20:52.040 us a fall economic update but not a budget and i mean i saw i saw some fart catchers making excuses

00:20:58.240 oh we always have budgets in spring yeah but we often had elections in fall you know you usually

00:21:02.900 will bring out a budget about three, four months after coming in. So you can set the tone. He

00:21:08.140 doesn't even have one scheduled. We, it could be a year out. We're talking a country that's got

00:21:12.600 some real economic serious issues going on and he won't give us a budget. I don't even know how

00:21:17.060 this is legal. Campaigned on a plan and not slogans. Hasn't produced a plan. Campaigned on

00:21:24.660 elbows up, elbows are down. It's, it's look, uh, it's kind of my beat on your show at this point.

00:21:32.900 uh is is crapping on ontario but even doug ford presented a budget yesterday and it's terrible

00:21:41.260 and his excuse and it's an excuse considering the fact that these spending habits existed before

00:21:48.180 trump and they will exist after him was oh you know folks g g golly elbows up and it's like i

00:21:54.100 the elbows were already down and he's running kathleen wind dalton mcginty deficits you know

00:22:00.520 ad infinite and there's no path back to balance in the foreseeable future. And let's be honest,

00:22:05.460 never, never. They're not interested in it. They're running liberal light and that's just

00:22:10.380 who they are. But even they could put out a flaming pile of dog poop on taxpayers' front

00:22:16.640 door. And for the federal, let's be honest, their federal liberal counterparts, that they feel like

00:22:23.180 they can just skate on this is a continuation of the last 10 years and it is as bad as an early

00:22:30.900 warning sign as you'd expect well and i mean it it i don't know as an independent supporter i almost

00:22:39.500 you know i feel it's we're getting to the point where we've always been kind of saying things

00:22:42.140 got to get bad before they get better well they're going to get bad uh with for geeky you know types

00:22:47.400 who look at economies and such, when we have the sort of spending and borrowing going on,

00:22:53.800 the only natural consequence, we saw that post-COVID, even though they expressed shock,

00:22:58.360 we're going to see devaluation of currency and we're going to see inflation. Like we're going

00:23:04.880 to get it hard and soon. And we won't even be able to try and plan or counter for that because

00:23:10.120 we don't even have a budget to look at to try and figure out what the heck it's going to be.

00:23:13.440 i'm no policy wonk i don't claim to be i'm a communicator by trade i speak populist to people

00:23:22.060 and populism and i can see how bad this is and and and and you know joe and jane lunch pail and

00:23:33.560 god bless them they're the people in canada that are getting screwed in our entire missing middle

00:23:38.040 They can see how bad this is. Like it's those GDP per capita charts. We've all seen them. We've all seen the the immigration charts to the heavens while housing starts are flatlined. Those are really, really bad. We can all see all our productivity metrics, inflation, what have you that that even we sort of yobbs to borrow from Andrew Coyne.

00:24:00.260 And if even we can see it, there's no hiding that this country's economy is just a Ponzi scheme at this point.

00:24:10.080 And the fact that it's not getting better under this fetid economic genius and that there are early signs that this is only going to get worse.

00:24:18.160 If you wanted to create more Western independent sentiment, you couldn't dream up a better scenario to drive that.

00:24:27.620 And like, I completely understand why people are looking around people like yourself, just

00:24:31.780 going like, Hey guys, uh, if not now, when?

00:24:36.100 Yeah, well, so that one of the big issues, one of the ones that was kind of pushing the

00:24:41.500 liberals down, I mean, affordability, cost of living, which is going to continue to be

00:24:45.160 a problem.

00:24:46.320 Housing was a huge one, especially among younger people and younger people.

00:24:49.440 That's part of why they, they, they did turn their back on the, the liberals in the last

00:24:53.200 election.

00:24:53.640 Unfortunately, a lot of boomers said, well, I got mine and I'm going to jealously protect 0.90

00:24:56.780 it and you know keep those liberals in there but they've put uh mayor moonbeam there uh what's his

00:25:01.760 name gregor robertson uh i mean this was a hard leftist vancouver mayor and they've put him in 0.88

00:25:08.860 charge of housing and he's already come out of the gate sounding like a twit i uh i can be your boots

00:25:16.600 on the ground guy here in vancouver right now and like even crunchy kitzelano granola moms

00:25:23.940 at Whole Foods are saying, really, they picked Gregor Robertson? My kids are in this $3,500

00:25:31.480 rental. There's no path to any future here. My fiance and I, she has work considerations to be

00:25:41.660 close to the developing world hell pit that is downtown Vancouver. Our only path to potential 1.00

00:25:49.240 homeownership is being at the end of the commuter line in a one and a half bedroom apartment that

00:25:55.960 is going to be overpriced beyond belief. And so the fact that they've turned to Gregor Robertson

00:26:00.760 where his, without getting anyone here in trouble, his private reputation is even worse than his

00:26:05.960 public reputation. This is a man who has some dodgy ties. And what he presided over was like

00:26:12.460 110% increase in real estate costs in Vancouver, in the so-called Vancouver model, which is like

00:26:21.120 an actual referred to in texts and tomes now on like how to create like a foreign investment scam

00:26:29.440 through real estate. We walk through Shaughnessy some nights. It's beautiful. These old manor homes,

00:26:34.700 half of them are empty, Corey, because they are somebody else's investment. Housing is not to be

00:26:39.500 lived in here. And so if that is going to be stretched nationwide, and it's not as if there

00:26:44.760 aren't bright, well-oriented people working on this housing plan, but if that's the guy who's

00:26:52.040 going to be calling the shots, that tells you that he was put there for a reason, and it's not good.

00:26:56.860 It's a future of these Brookfield Khrushchevkas, of these leaseholds that you don't actually own, 0.99

00:27:03.440 that runs out of clock. They want forever renters. And there are millions of Canadians

00:27:09.360 who already feel like they're forever renters right now. They feel like they are at their

00:27:13.600 wits end, like this hamster wheel can't keep going for them. And to signal that right out

00:27:19.780 of the jump, if I'm a young person, if I'm entrepreneurial, if I am particularly productive

00:27:26.760 and more intelligent and business-minded than myself, I don't want to feel like I have to leave,

00:27:33.160 but I am deeply considering it. Well, so I'll kind of go back to cabinet in general. I'd kind

00:27:39.260 of hoped and thought you know it seemed like things kind of go up and down uh trends coming

00:27:44.000 up and down wokeness uh people were quietly critical of trudeau's gender balancing in cabinet

00:27:50.500 but we thought that maybe carney be smart enough to say no we're going to stop that woke quota idea

00:27:56.420 to for these top positions i mean there's very there's many well-qualified women in the liberal 0.93

00:28:01.900 caucus i'm certain but you know the bottom line is we generally want the best person for the job

00:28:06.720 And it might not always be the case, especially if you find yourself forced now to pick your choices based on gender rather than capability.

00:28:14.400 They're patting themselves on the back over having their 14 women, 14 man cabinet. 1.00

00:28:20.020 But we're in a pretty tenuous time right now.

00:28:22.740 I don't know if this is a good sign for their priorities as they go forward.

00:28:26.920 It's not. And I think it's a sign that it's I think people were hoping that with the right, slightly less destructive figurehead at the helm,

00:28:36.340 that he could rein in, you know, the exact same group of PMO advisors and staffers, and then

00:28:42.500 largely the exact same cabinet. And we're seeing that he either can't or won't, or this was all

00:28:49.240 just a temporary expectation to win votes. Because it's, you're already seeing a guy like

00:28:54.580 Nate Erskine-Smith, who came back into the liberal fold. There's a story today in Blacklock's

00:29:01.000 reporter that like, unlike Carney, he actually like sold out all his assets so he wouldn't be

00:29:05.620 in conflict to stay as housing minister because to his credit and limited liberal partisan credit,

00:29:12.640 like he actually believed in his file and doing better by young Canadians. And he got the got

00:29:17.000 the hook for the Vancouver housing crisis guy. And so and that was largely and supposedly and like

00:29:23.180 it might have been because Carney prefers the Vancouver housing crisis guy was because he

00:29:28.200 wasn't meeting this balanced, imagined sort of ESG number that he had to hit because he

00:29:35.520 didn't have female characteristics. 1.00

00:29:37.360 And so we've been told that Carney is a more serious, fetid economic genius who's going 1.00

00:29:46.440 to focus on the real things, but he's going to continue to pay lip service to this crap. 0.98

00:29:53.980 We'd be fools to expect anything different than what we just saw over the last decade. 0.95

00:29:58.200 And beyond Carney's economic actions, I mean, in cabinet selections, he put Fraser into justice.

00:30:07.500 He sent you, you know, Fraser already screwed up his other files, housing among them.

00:30:11.780 And now he's, you know, Vancouver is already dealing with housing crisis.

00:30:15.520 I just talk about taking a beating.

00:30:17.380 Now you've got a very incompetent man who has taken over the justice file.

00:30:22.400 It looks pretty bleak.

00:30:23.640 It's bleak.

00:30:24.380 yesterday in vancouver or two days ago a guy axed someone in the face cory just walking down the

00:30:31.840 street it was like i want your sunglasses ax to the face take a guess you know was he out on bail

00:30:37.340 that day from doing something similar he absolutely was and so now sean fraser gets to drag his his

00:30:43.980 scythe from immigration to housing over to justice and we're already seeing you know the sort of

00:30:50.240 degenerative scenes again, like in Toronto at Cafe Landwehr, where you have Hamas-oriented 1.00

00:30:58.120 protesters lighting smoke bombs when there's pregnant women out on the deck trying to have 1.00

00:31:03.100 their supper. And it's open season again. This is a country that needed dire justice reform.

00:31:12.260 And as much as that spooked the left, that meant invoking the notwithstanding clause,

00:31:16.620 which is a part of the charter. And instead, we're just going to get Sean Frazier signal that

00:31:21.660 he's going to be working home from working from home a lot because he actually does want to spend

00:31:25.500 time with his family, which was the reason he left in the first place. And then the polling

00:31:29.360 winds changed and he came back. This is supposed to be a full time job. Canadian cities are less

00:31:34.420 safe than ever. Families are feeling driven away. And to turn around and give on housing,

00:31:42.260 the Vancouver guy and on justice probably the third biggest file after the first two that Sean

00:31:47.920 Frazier nuked to him is just like if you're under 50 like how do you not just like lay down in the

00:31:56.560 street right now and go like maybe the future here isn't for me well and just to close out I mean

00:32:01.940 speaking of opportunistic Hamas supporters Anita Anand has taken over the foreign affairs file and

00:32:07.140 her very first thing was to come out and support Hamas and she was also one of those who said when

00:32:11.760 the polls were low oh boy i'm not going to run again i'm going to spend time with the family

00:32:15.560 and then when the polls bounce she bounced right back in carney is targeting his least principled 1.00

00:32:20.700 caucus members and sticking them in the most senior spots yeah you have stephen guibault in

00:32:26.220 charge of culture i mean whatever what if that position should even exist at all especially from

00:32:31.380 a government and a party that you know ignored canada's history for the last seven eight nine

00:32:37.000 10 years he should be attending you know butter tart festivals he shouldn't be immediately

00:32:42.420 tossing bombs at alberta and you're just seeing the same lunkies be rewarded and it's uh look 0.60

00:32:51.760 we're all going to keep doing the work and we're all going to keep organizing and and and this gets

00:32:56.240 worse in a vacuum but it's i think it was warren kinsella who said this and like you know there's

00:33:01.380 a pretty high fail right there but he was like this is the worst start i've ever seen from a

00:33:05.940 new cabinet, but it's not a new cabinet. It's the old cabinet. It's the old people. All that's

00:33:11.660 different now is you have a deeply convicted, conflicted, yeah, not yet. I mean, let's see if

00:33:19.780 we can actually look into some of those assets, figurehead at the helm. And so, holy cow, we all

00:33:26.240 have a lot of work to do to further communicate this, this, this screw job, this rug pull to the

00:33:33.520 public and and to sort of try to explain i think to these liberal boomer voters who i guess like

00:33:39.360 andrew coin are feeling oh i've been had it's like well yeah so you can't do this again

00:33:44.240 well it's before i let you go yes as you said you got your work cut out uh with the national

00:33:50.240 citizens coalition oh that's your job kind of reaching out pulling up these things and

00:33:53.720 letting the public know digesting it uh where can people find what you guys are doing and

00:33:58.060 how can they support you well i got a new post uh or a new column coming out for you guys

00:34:02.920 hopefully today or this weekend that's like, hey, we tried to warn you. I think that might

00:34:07.160 even be the title. You can find us at nationalcitizens.ca where we're putting together

00:34:11.500 all kinds of post-election plans on Twitter at NatCitizens, on Facebook at National Citizens

00:34:17.500 Coalition. And yeah, the name of the game now is creating inertia, continuing to grow this

00:34:23.840 sort of groundswell of everyday working-oriented, working class. It's a totally different coalition 0.93

00:34:31.960 than these traditional conservative coalitions of the past.

00:34:35.340 And I completely understand why people would be upset and disenfranchised.

00:34:39.460 I am too.

00:34:40.700 But we have no choice but to continue to do the work

00:34:44.400 and to continue to pull these people back towards the center

00:34:47.700 because we've seen already that, you know,

00:34:51.180 their campaign promises were worth less than nothing.

00:34:55.920 All right.

00:34:56.800 Well, thank you for working to bring it to the fore

00:34:59.720 and for coming on to talk to us today.

00:35:01.080 and I'm certain we'll talk again soon.

00:35:03.220 Corey, you're the man.

00:35:04.200 Sign a copy of the book for me.

00:35:05.800 Right, I will do.

00:35:06.640 All right, thanks.

00:35:08.820 So that is Alexander Brown, yes,

00:35:10.820 from the National Citizens Coalition.

00:35:12.280 And that organization has been around a long time

00:35:14.600 and they've been doing a lot of great work.

00:35:16.660 Check them out, guys.

00:35:18.380 You know, we need to, you know,

00:35:20.900 not everybody's going to be digging through

00:35:22.080 all those policies, cabinet ministers, all that stuff.

00:35:24.680 It's our job, people like me and Alex,

00:35:26.040 to kind of encapsulate it and bring it out

00:35:28.680 for uh uh consumption so uh i see lynn saying uh jan arden the reason for the ring doorbell

00:35:36.040 yeah i don't know people weren't on social media that much and there were people who were more up

00:35:40.460 to date on music jan arden's a washed up canadian singer from uh had a couple hits in the 90s and

00:35:45.940 actually not bad songs i give her credit where i do as far as that goes but uh aside from that

00:35:50.480 she probably wouldn't have had much of a career except it turned her into a cbc darling uh so

00:35:56.260 they of course they keep making cbc specials and things like that so they can continue to pay her

00:36:00.040 six figures because she's not selling music anymore and certainly doesn't sell out places 1.00

00:36:03.580 for performances but it gives her a nice long career sort of like rita mcneil you know boy

00:36:08.600 she did well on on her cbc career as well when her when her music went by i i i would say rita

00:36:13.640 even had more musical talent but uh there's something with that jan arden and rita mcneil

00:36:18.380 they got some commonalities as well i don't know it's something to the taste of cbc producers i

00:36:22.180 guess, or something like that. Either way, Ms. Arden went on a tirade on social media, swearing 1.00

00:36:27.860 and calling Albertans pricks and a number of things. If you really want to watch, you know,

00:36:35.000 Behold a Woman Who's Lost Her Mind, that is a good example. Just the pure, bitter, to use that 1.00

00:36:40.800 term, Karen-type, entitled, snotty, and sour. Boy, Jan, maybe just go somewhere else then. 0.99

00:36:49.540 but uh you know the attitudes from her when when we've got the rising independent support there's

00:36:58.020 no doubt about that i mean it's not just rising it's exploding in the west it's saskatchewan and

00:37:02.620 alberta interior bc and uh what's going on with that though from the laurentian elites from the

00:37:10.560 andrew coins uh from the even though she's from out here in the west jan arden i don't know where

00:37:16.500 she lives these days uh in a buffet somewhere or something like that um just a moment i've

00:37:22.440 unplugged my earpiece again hang tough it yeah this is the fun of live broadcasts all right

00:37:31.520 there we go i can hear it again i got a guest coming up with john carpe in a little bit if

00:37:38.560 i don't have the earpiece i'd have to go on lip reading there but either way getting back to what

00:37:43.200 I was rambling about before I stepped on my own cable. The attitude isn't that the West shouldn't

00:37:50.200 leave. It's that the West can't. They oppose us even having a discussion or a vote on whether or

00:38:00.260 not we want to stay. We don't need your permission. We aren't asking for your permission. You know,

00:38:07.020 how bloody vain you guys are to feel that you can tell us whether or not 0.97

00:38:15.580 we can have that discussion, get stuffed. 0.98

00:38:18.980 We're having it.

00:38:20.320 And it's people like you tell us exactly why we should be having it.

00:38:24.440 And you're just entrenching the independence attitude all the more.

00:38:28.840 Make a case.

00:38:29.840 You know, the difference in attitude, I've talked about that before.

00:38:33.460 I said that at a rebel rally the other night, when Quebec was going, for those of us old enough to remember in the 90s, there were traveling out rallies, there were buses, there were people out there, please Quebec, stay, we love you Quebec, oh, we would be lost without your Putin and your corrupted politicians and draining our equalization payments, please, please, please don't vote to go. 0.98

00:38:57.880 now when alberta's looking at it they're saying you're assholes you're not even allowed to have 0.96

00:39:03.680 the referendum much less leave what wait a minute well we're the ones paying the bills you guys 0.99

00:39:10.960 and uh uh you know i don't expect you to come begging and groveling but what we need to see

00:39:19.020 is a difference in attitude tell us why we shouldn't leave because that's going to have

00:39:24.280 much more impact. If you're going to have any impact in stopping the independence movement,

00:39:27.980 you've got to tell us why stay. Don't tell me I can't go. That's not up to you. It's up to us

00:39:34.480 in a vote. And the vote is going to be coming. It's getting clear. And it's getting interesting,

00:39:40.440 some of the polling numbers that was released by the Standard. Premier Smith, with internal

00:39:46.720 polling, found that a majority of Albertans now are supporting exiting the Canada pension plan.

00:39:53.560 That's not full-out independence, but that's getting a step towards it.

00:39:56.520 And independent support is going up too, of course.

00:39:58.880 This is one of the things that's going to strike fear down the backs of Laurentian elitist Canadians

00:40:03.600 who do have a little bit of understanding of economics.

00:40:07.560 Because Albertans hold up, like, I mean, don't hold it back.

00:40:13.200 They hold up the Canada Pension Plan.

00:40:15.180 This province over-contributes and under-draws to the tune of about $5 billion a year.

00:40:21.700 so if albertans say and we have the mechanism again it's not up to you guys it's up to us

00:40:29.220 if we're going to stay in the pension plan and if alberta leaves that pension plan the rest of

00:40:35.800 canada then still has the remainder of the balance but what they will have to do is either

00:40:41.500 cut their benefits or increase their payments into it in order to make it keep going well

00:40:47.880 that's what you get guys you know i don't think i mean part of the reason the support i think for

00:40:53.100 leaving the cpp earlier in alberta was a bit lower was that albertans still felt generous they felt

00:40:57.680 well you know we don't want to leave our our fellow canadians on the hook if we pull out of

00:41:01.620 the cpp so we'll stay in and keep overpaying but now that we've seen this election result now we're

00:41:06.100 seeing the attitudes from the andrew coins the jan ardens the mark carneys it's like you know what

00:41:11.320 the hell with you guys we're uh you know many many of us we're talking close to 40 now we're 0.60

00:41:16.320 at the point of saying we want to vote to go and it's going to grow. But over 50% now are saying,

00:41:21.340 yeah, you know what, let's just take our bite of the Canadian pension plan and just have it over

00:41:25.480 here. And already the response again is visceral. You jerks, you selfish Albertans, you nasty souls.

00:41:33.180 Well, we're not asking for something that another province doesn't already have. If you want to look 1.00

00:41:38.020 into it, Quebec has its own pension plan. They always have. Good for them. Right on. But again,

00:41:44.720 why is it that we're jerks if we want to have a pension plan, but Quebec is asserting themselves 0.97

00:41:49.140 and should be respected when they have theirs. So, you know, you guys better start sweating 0.98

00:41:55.740 out in the Laurentian East, because we have the mechanisms. And as I said, we're not asking

00:42:01.200 permission for the political wonkish types of folks who want to dig into the legislation. I

00:42:08.900 mean, some people are looking at the Clarity Act and trying to interpret it and saying the Clarity

00:42:13.180 Act basically makes it impossible for a province to exit the Federation, which is absolutely

00:42:17.080 untrue. Fine. The Canada Pension Act, though, has a very distinct exit clause and a province

00:42:25.280 can give notice and can leave and can start their own pension plan. And Alberta is going to do that. 0.52

00:42:31.460 The only thing we're going to quibble over right now is how much of that principle that's sitting

00:42:35.500 in that asset pool Alberta is entitled to. And I do believe that the original report

00:42:43.180 I think it was LifeWorks, it was called.

00:42:45.280 It was done by the Alberta government.

00:42:46.460 I think they shot too high.

00:42:47.860 They took a very generous interpretation

00:42:49.540 and said Albertans were entitled

00:42:51.160 to over half of the principle in it,

00:42:52.640 and it enraged a lot of people.

00:42:54.060 And I think it was almost a too-good-to-be-true moment.

00:42:56.900 Fair enough, fine.

00:42:58.980 But we were supposed to wait for the Ottawa

00:43:03.160 to give us a report on it then

00:43:04.380 to tell us what Alberta would be entitled to,

00:43:06.400 and they gave us a late report just before Christmas

00:43:08.640 full of baffle gab and never gave us a number.

00:43:10.260 So let's say we just took 12% of the principal. Let's just say we just took that based on

00:43:16.540 population. That would give us a good $80 billion pool to start with. And if we just kept benefits

00:43:23.600 the same and kept the payments going in the same, we would be sitting just as well off as we are

00:43:29.680 today as people who are retired or people moving into retirement. Plus we'd have a spare $5 billion

00:43:34.340 a year to either add to the plan or reduce premiums or add to payouts to people. So

00:43:39.120 there's a pretty good case to be made for getting out of the pension plan. And I don't

00:43:43.380 think there's much sentiment on the part of Albertans anymore to say, yeah, we'll stay in

00:43:48.240 it just for the sake of being nice to our masters out there in Ontario and Quebec, because they

00:43:53.720 don't seem to appreciate it. So how much more should we bend over for them any longer?

00:43:59.720 So yeah, interesting times coming. We certainly, you know, again, if we don't have outright support

00:44:04.560 for independence. We've got a regionalism that's going on, though, that we haven't seen in decades,

00:44:10.580 and it's only going to get worse. I'll finish off before I get to my next guest, just with a

00:44:17.100 question that's common, and I just want to hit it fast. LeafBuzzBee saying, can Canada just join

00:44:21.840 the US? Our policies kind of suck. No, we can't. It's not an option. We got to look at things 1.00

00:44:26.240 province by province right now. The America 51 thing is an interesting distraction, but it's

00:44:31.460 not something that's going to happen. Not to mention, I love a lot of things about the United

00:44:35.500 States. I love Americans and they have a lot of positive aspects, but guys, their system has a

00:44:42.240 whole bunch of flaws as well. So we'd be just jumping from one frying pan into another fire.

00:44:46.880 All right, let's kind of turn the page a little though and get on to my guest, John Carpe. He's

00:44:50.740 with the Justice Center for Constitutional Freedoms. He's done a lot of great work and

00:44:55.020 else more great work going on. Good to see you, John. It's been a couple of days.

00:44:58.080 oh i think you might be muted john

00:45:02.480 hmm still not quite getting me i'm afraid sorry about that there we go we got you that's all

00:45:11.360 right it's live like i said earlier you missed it but i stepped on my own earpiece and pulled

00:45:14.600 the plug out so uh uh just there it shows it's real guys we are at ai i wouldn't make mistakes

00:45:20.500 like this so uh thanks for for joining me today john it's good to see you um i i guess that you

00:45:26.420 got a lot of cases on the burner, but one is this one about you guys having an Alberta lawyer

00:45:31.280 challenging the Law Society on their authority, you know, I guess questionable authority to be

00:45:36.860 woke. Can you kind of expand on that? Yeah, so a very courageous Calgary lawyer by the name of

00:45:42.480 Roger Song is suing the Law Society of Alberta over the, I guess, perversion of legal ethics

00:45:50.160 and twisting them politicizing the legal profession where the ethical requirements

00:45:55.800 include agreeing with equity, diversity, inclusion, and woke politics.

00:46:03.100 And the biggest example of this is a mandatory course that Alberta lawyers must complete

00:46:10.060 if they wish to earn a living by practicing law, and it's called The Path.

00:46:15.320 I took The Path a few years ago.

00:46:17.240 I spent, I can't remember if it was like five hours or eight hours.

00:46:21.720 It was not excessively long, but still, you know, five to eight hours of your time to go through this course.

00:46:27.740 It's very woke.

00:46:30.880 You are kind of required to agree that colonization, which they never quite define colonization, is a very bad thing.

00:46:41.100 Decolonization is a good thing, although neither term is clearly defined.

00:46:44.580 and along along with that we've got this reconciliation that you're supposed to be

00:46:52.600 in favor of that's not quite defined and so it's a very political course that has a particular

00:46:58.900 aspect on aboriginal issues aboriginal rights and as a defender of free expression I would

00:47:06.940 I would defend to the death anybody's right to promote whatever view they want you know on

00:47:12.140 Aboriginal issues or just about anything else. It's a problem, though, when you have the Law 1.00

00:47:16.120 Society as a government body that is requiring lawyers in Alberta to take this course and agree

00:47:24.140 with the assertions in it as a condition of practicing law. If you don't complete the path,

00:47:31.400 if you don't take this course and express your agreement with the Law Society's politics,

00:47:37.300 well, then you can't practice law, you can't earn a living. So this is an example of what

00:47:43.320 the lawyer Roger Song is up against in his lawsuit against the Law Society of Alberta.

00:47:51.580 Yeah, well, and I mean, people, I think perhaps your average person just doesn't understand how

00:47:56.620 dangerous this is. I mean, we really always, at some point or another, need legal representation.

00:48:01.260 We need them to remain as true to the legal ethics that they hold as possible.

00:48:09.260 And there's a reason for professional associations or a law society.

00:48:13.120 But when they start politicizing, that can become very dangerous for some people who are relying on legal representation when your own lawyer feels like they might not be able to address issues properly.

00:48:23.580 Yeah, that's exactly it. Law societies need to, especially law societies, even more so than other bodies or entities, need to respect the charter freedoms of expression, religion, conscience.

00:48:37.940 Mr. Song's own personal history is that he was exposed to political indoctrination in communist China. He was previously a law professor in Beijing.

00:48:50.660 So he has seen this movie before where the law societies get politicized, which as a side thing, it's also in my book, Corrupted by Fear, I talk about how the law societies in Germany in the 1930s became politicized and they lost sight of the rule of law and protecting the rights and freedoms of German individuals.

00:49:18.500 And instead, they got into this ideology. And the law society actually admits to being political and ideological and having these objectives, but they say they're entitled to do that.

00:49:33.180 So this court case is going to be very interesting because we are challenging the law society's claimed right to be political.

00:49:43.580 Yeah, and I see from your release, you know, Mr. Song was saying the society is advancing policies under vague terms like, I mean, competence and ethics.

00:49:51.240 Okay, well, those are things, I guess, that we need a degree of oversight on.

00:49:56.960 But diversity is thrown in there.

00:49:59.620 Well, I don't care about diversity.

00:50:02.000 As a person who needs to be served by legal representation now and then, I just want to be assured that my representation is the best I can potentially find. 0.88

00:50:11.860 the diversity aspect is ridiculous. Well, these are, these are political things, right? Equity,

00:50:18.360 diversity, inclusion. Those are political objectives. And I fully support the right of

00:50:25.840 individuals and, and even, and private organizations as well. If you want to pursue

00:50:30.900 that as a goal, okay, fine. If you're a private company and without government pressure, you put

00:50:36.860 in racial quotas and you've got these policies uh these woke policies to pursue equity diversity

00:50:42.800 inclusion if the private company is doing that um you know on its own initiative and then not

00:50:49.840 coerced into it by government that that's part of your freedom and so every lawyer in alberta is free

00:50:54.960 to advance you know to believe in equity diversity inclusion whatever but when it comes to serving

00:51:01.900 clients right the the law society should be monitoring only the competence of lawyers not

00:51:09.620 their politics right so there is a disciplinary process if a lawyer steals trust funds or if a

00:51:16.060 lawyer fails to show up in court for a client and and gets the client in trouble

00:51:21.520 there's a code of ethics and that's fine but what's happening with the law societies across

00:51:28.360 Canada is that the code of ethics is being converted into a political instrument where

00:51:34.780 adhering to libertarian and conservative opinions and rejecting equity, diversity,

00:51:41.980 inclusion is deemed to be unethical. And so you can get in trouble with your law society.

00:51:48.540 I know of a case in British Columbia where a lawyer was not allowed to have his own counsel

00:51:55.720 present at a disciplinary hearing because his own counsel had not been injected with COVID vaccine.

00:52:02.740 So, you know, this is a problem that we have to fight back against in the same way that we need

00:52:09.940 to resist the colleges of physicians and surgeons when they repudiate science by aggressively

00:52:16.560 threatening the livelihood of doctors who disagree with the government's narrative, right? And that

00:52:22.260 that is likewise is a very serious problem. We need the colleges of physicians and surgeons to

00:52:28.360 uphold medical ethics. So for example, a doctor is not allowed to have sex with a patient,

00:52:33.840 fine, but not to step in there and on ideological grounds, tell doctors how to practice medicine

00:52:43.680 and interfere in the doctor patient relationship. So all of these government bodies, law societies,

00:52:48.900 colleges of physicians and surgeons, we need to hold them to account and resist their efforts

00:52:55.540 to impose woke ideology on the population. Yeah. And I mean, these colleges and professional

00:53:05.300 associations and they hold a lot of sway. I mean, they can have a thumbs up or thumbs down on your

00:53:11.460 career. Another aspect we saw is with Dr. Jordan Peterson, if he wanted to practice as a psychologist.

00:53:16.460 And again, he had to adhere to a political, basically, statement if he wanted to continue practicing.

00:53:23.460 And he lost every appeal.

00:53:32.280 I appear to have lost the sound.

00:53:36.660 Okay.

00:53:40.000 Can you hear him?

00:53:41.240 Okay, I'm sorry, John, you appear to be muted again.

00:53:46.460 um we'll we'll try again in a moment you're still there we go yeah the bc college of nurses and 0.63

00:53:56.060 midwives disciplined amy ham amy ham said publicly that there's only two genders and that a man can't 0.94

00:54:02.240 become a woman a woman can't become a man uh women deserve to have safe spaces like their uh you know 1.00

00:54:08.340 locker rooms, change rooms, female prisons should not have guys coming there, etc. And she's found 0.97

00:54:17.320 guilty of professional misconduct by the BC College of Nurses and Midwives. So we are taking

00:54:25.020 that to court on behalf of Amy Hem. So that's a similar thing. You've got a professional body

00:54:29.260 that has become politicized and they're going to pursue woke progressive ideology and impose it on

00:54:38.000 their members and punish their members for not adhering to it. And so we've got to fight back.

00:54:43.260 We are fighting back very hard against groups like the BC College of Nurses and Midwives.

00:54:50.120 Yeah. I mean, I'll kind of pull off a bit of a sidetrack, but it ties into the legal profession

00:54:54.420 and concerns onto the criminal end. For people not familiar with it, you know, applying Gladue

00:54:58.860 principles. It's from a case out in a domestic case out in Vancouver, but where it's assumed

00:55:05.260 that Indigenous people have to be kind of treated differently

00:55:08.180 and different things have to be taken into account

00:55:10.040 when considering sentencing, things like that.

00:55:13.140 It's a very torqued area of law.

00:55:17.380 And I mean, some people are questioning

00:55:18.480 whether or not that's working out as it should,

00:55:20.200 as Indigenous incarceration rates

00:55:21.820 are just going ever higher despite it.

00:55:24.180 But most lawyers would be terrified, I think,

00:55:26.820 to challenge that because that starts getting

00:55:28.620 into the areas of the law society

00:55:30.320 where you're supposed to just accept

00:55:31.500 these bad aspects of colonialism

00:55:33.440 and different treatment for Indigenous people than others.

00:55:38.000 I mean, all of the public can be more poorly served justice-wise

00:55:41.220 if we keep up this sort of thing.

00:55:43.700 Well, it also means that if the law societies are woke

00:55:47.780 and want to impose their woke progressive ideology on every lawyer,

00:55:53.200 it also creates less access to justice.

00:55:57.140 I recall vividly about six years ago when Jonathan Jessica Yaniv

00:56:02.420 with the Twitter handle, quote, wax my balls, quote, was the Twitter handle for this person 0.99

00:56:08.800 approached women asking for Brazilian bikini wax for his male privates, so to speak. 0.98

00:56:18.220 One of our clients, the Justice Center represented these women and we succeeded in having the human 0.97

00:56:23.140 rights complaints dismissed. And so that was good. But one of our clients said she went to

00:56:29.860 17 different law firms in Vancouver, or maybe throughout British Columbia, 17 different law

00:56:37.400 firms to get legal representation because she'd been served with this human rights complaint by 0.98

00:56:42.040 Yaniv, who wanted a Brazilian bikini wax from a woman. And 17 law firms refused to take on her 0.97

00:56:54.100 case, refused to represent her because they said, we are terrified of being publicly called

00:56:59.800 transphobic, and so we're not going to risk our reputation, so we're not providing you with legal

00:57:04.680 representation. So this is another thing. If you've got ideology infecting the law societies,

00:57:11.160 then that is going to trickle out or trickle down to the law firms, and you get into a situation

00:57:16.660 where it becomes harder to get legal representation if you don't have the correct

00:57:22.320 political views. And that's not a good situation. No, not at all. So, you know, just kind of

00:57:29.240 getting towards the end here with Mr. Song's case, there was a hearing on May 6th. How long

00:57:34.380 is this going to go on for? Well, typically the courts will render their rulings in two, four,

00:57:42.120 six, eight months. Sometimes it takes longer. I've been involved in cases where it has taken a year

00:57:48.460 from the time of the hearing until the time of the judgment, but, uh, you know, hopefully it's

00:57:53.000 less than a year, but we will be getting a ruling and we will be looking at it with interest and,

00:57:58.040 uh, you know, would not be surprising that whichever side was unsuccessful on this round

00:58:04.460 might want to appeal it to the, um, Alberta court of appeals. I mean, this is probably going to go

00:58:09.080 on for a while. Yeah. Well, and you guys have a lot of irons in the fires and you've had some

00:58:13.720 great victories in the last few years too, which is really, really appreciated. Um, and actually

00:58:18.780 there's an award for freedom you guys offer as well. Uh, wasn't there something coming up for,

00:58:23.520 uh, that pretty soon? Dr. Francis Whittowson is the 2025 recipient of the George Jonas Freedom

00:58:30.760 Award. Uh, we've been, we've handed out this award, uh, each year to people like Mark Stein,

00:58:37.260 Jordan Peterson, Tamara Leach, Ezra Levant, Christy Blatchford. Uh, so Francis Whittowson,

00:58:43.380 of course, was fired from Mount Royal University for essentially political ideological reasons.

00:58:52.120 And we're representing her in a court case where we're suing the University of Lethbridge for

00:58:58.100 practicing cancel culture against her. And the dinner in her honor in Calgary is Friday,

00:59:04.440 September the 19th. And so more information on that is you can buy tickets on our website,

00:59:10.080 at www.jccf.ca for the dinner Friday, September 19th.

00:59:17.580 Excellent.

00:59:18.240 Yeah, and I was going to ask you about that, jccf.ca,

00:59:21.180 because also you guys rely on contributions.

00:59:24.020 I mean, you're providing a service for people

00:59:26.000 protecting their constitutional freedoms and rights,

00:59:29.040 and it takes other people's support for you guys to be able to keep doing this.

00:59:32.600 So I just want to remind everybody, you know, they're looking out for us guys,

00:59:36.340 and that's where people can get on there and support you guys and help out,

00:59:39.560 whether it's a contribution or attending things like that dinner, right?

00:59:42.760 Yeah, absolutely.

00:59:43.820 We're grateful for, we got support from people all across Canada

00:59:47.440 and that enables us to have our team of lawyers from BC to Quebec.

00:59:51.540 We've got lawyers, paralegals, communication staff,

00:59:54.420 and that's 100% funded by voluntary donations from Canadians.

00:59:59.220 Well, it's really appreciated the work you guys do

01:00:02.780 and you're coming on today to talk to us about it.

01:00:05.500 So thank you very much, John.

01:00:07.180 And, uh, I look forward to hopefully seeing more positive rulings as you, uh, you guys

01:00:11.220 just don't let go on these issues and make sure that, uh, you're standing up for us.

01:00:14.900 We'll keep on working hard.

01:00:16.300 Have a great rest of the day, Corey.

01:00:17.720 Great.

01:00:18.260 Thanks, John.

01:00:20.200 All right.

01:00:20.720 So yes, guys, you can remember that JCCF.ca.

01:00:23.560 That was John Carpe.

01:00:24.640 And they have, uh, had, uh, as I said, a great many successes and, and, uh, uh, rulings in

01:00:31.720 favor of freedoms and they celebrate freedoms.

01:00:34.100 It's important.

01:00:34.620 And if we don't stand up for ourselves, nobody else will.

01:00:38.700 It is so integral.

01:00:42.620 And yeah, I've got a personal interest in it in a sense.

01:00:45.840 With something earlier, I've got a court challenge going on with the Siksika Nation in Alberta

01:00:53.060 over a video I'd taken on the reserve from a public highway, and they've charged me with trespassing.

01:00:58.680 And actually, a branch of the JCCF is helping me out on that one as well, and we're challenging that.

01:01:03.720 But it's not as dire as some of these other cases. We've got lawyers potentially losing licenses, and people are just some of the absurdity. You know, I'm glad he brought up that Jessica Yaniv case. I mean, it just shows how the woke can suspend reality to the point of causing harm, real, real harm.

01:01:27.400 So for those not familiar with that, because this is a case just worth, I think, bringing up again and again, because I think she's surfaced again. 0.94

01:01:34.300 She's calling herself Indigenous, this crazy person. 1.00

01:01:37.700 I keep saying she. 0.98

01:01:38.780 I try to be polite.

01:01:40.320 You know, with real trans people, if they identify as she, okay, that's fine. 0.93

01:01:45.140 And live how you will.

01:01:46.240 And I hope you're happy.

01:01:46.940 And I'll respect that typically.

01:01:48.200 But this Jessica Yaniv, her name's Jonathan. 0.98

01:01:51.320 She's just a nutcase. 1.00

01:01:53.900 or even a con artist, I would say. 1.00

01:01:57.500 I mean, what was happening was,

01:01:59.060 yes, she was going to estheticians

01:02:01.720 typically run by new Canadians in Vancouver and such

01:02:05.840 and demanding to have her nuts waxed. 1.00

01:02:09.520 And these places, of course,

01:02:11.200 they specialize in that sort of, you know,

01:02:14.880 cosmetology for women. 1.00

01:02:16.520 That's the plumbing they work with. 1.00

01:02:18.640 That's the parts.

01:02:20.320 And she knew, Yeniv knew they were going to refuse.

01:02:25.440 And then she would just take them to the Human Rights Commission.

01:02:28.400 She did dozens of them, or at least a dozen. 0.50

01:02:30.380 There was a whole pile of them.

01:02:31.380 And now there was a few things.

01:02:33.140 For one, some of them were getting shaken down because they're immigrants and they're scared of the system.

01:02:37.240 They don't want to get caught up in it.

01:02:39.160 Others, as John pointed out, though, having trouble finding a lawyer to represent themselves because they're scared they don't.

01:02:46.020 Lawyers just didn't even want to go into a trans issue because you could end up canceled

01:02:50.220 and with all that trouble.

01:02:51.180 It's insane.

01:02:52.660 Think of what she, it, Jonathan was demanding. 1.00

01:02:57.280 She was demanding the law force an unwilling woman to touch a man's testicles. 1.00

01:03:02.620 When you break it all down to what this case actually was, that's what it was. 0.97

01:03:07.200 It was saying we should have the force of law to force the women working in that place 1.00

01:03:12.120 to touch his nuts. 0.95

01:03:13.840 And it had to go through the courts. 1.00

01:03:16.020 It was not, this was so insane and so stupid and so ridiculous that it should never even have been considered, yet it actually went through the legal system. 1.00

01:03:26.660 It's nuts, nuts. 1.00

01:03:28.340 I didn't mean to be a bad pun there, but you know what I mean? 1.00

01:03:31.000 This is, we've had cases with women's shelters, because they're often run by woke idiots, who let men into the woman's shelter. 1.00

01:03:42.120 Because, well, we have to respect he's identifying as a woman. 1.00

01:03:44.680 Yeah, but he's got cock and balls. 1.00

01:03:47.320 And this shelter is full of women who have been abused by men sexually, physically. 1.00

01:03:52.420 It's the reason it's called a shelter.

01:03:54.080 They're there to be kept away from that, to heal, to reestablish themselves, to feel safe for a little while. 1.00

01:04:00.640 And you've got shared spaces and some blue-haired, bloated idiot saying, 0.99

01:04:05.320 we've got to let this man in here because this man's identifying as a woman. 1.00

01:04:09.120 And now put all these women at risk.

01:04:12.480 Put them more into fear.

01:04:14.680 challenge their feeling of safety as they're trying to recover from being abused by a man

01:04:19.020 already. But we're afraid to say no, because that would be being insensitive to the trans community.

01:04:26.960 Are we not allowed to have a little common sense yet, guys? Apparently not. Apparently not. You

01:04:32.960 know, I've talked about that. I talked about that when it comes to the sports, when it comes to the

01:04:37.880 prisons, when it comes to the shelters. I think at least to a degree we can accommodate, but that's

01:04:44.580 if the person's fully committed and that's very easy to identify or not. Have you still got the

01:04:52.020 plumbing or have you had it chopped off? If the junk's gone, okay, you are definitely committed

01:04:59.860 to being a trans person. And yes, you should perhaps, you know, you would be safe in a woman's 0.99

01:05:04.860 prison or a, you know, woman's shelter or in women's sports even perhaps. But if you've still

01:05:11.340 got all that stuff hanging down there, then you're just a guy in a skirt. And you were presenting

01:05:17.280 potentially just as much danger to somebody in some of those exclusively women spaces, and you 0.99

01:05:23.420 should not be there. Why is it controversial to say something like that? Why does it put somebody

01:05:28.780 at risk of being canceled just to say the obvious? It's a topsy-turvy insane world we are in. And

01:05:38.380 it's interesting with john was talking about that as we said you have to go through these courses

01:05:43.000 and the same with jordan peterson it's indoctrination you're forced to say these

01:05:48.760 statements and and these these politicized bizarre cultish things where did we hear that before that

01:05:55.360 was from the re-education camps of communist chinese khmer rouge those sorts of things

01:06:01.280 that's indoctrination extremely dangerous speaking of which this is getting back to how

01:06:06.880 how dangerous Canada is, how bad it is.

01:06:09.540 Again, Joseph Tay, the conservative candidate

01:06:13.080 in the last election,

01:06:14.900 he's had two relatives being questioned

01:06:16.780 by, you know, communists in Hong Kong

01:06:20.100 because he spoke out.

01:06:21.720 This is Canadian citizens getting pressured

01:06:25.660 by the Chinese Communist Party

01:06:26.820 and we've got a liberal government

01:06:27.900 that is beholden to the Chinese Communist Party.

01:06:29.900 We are in a whole lot of trouble

01:06:32.400 and it's frightening.

01:06:35.020 And when we can't say common sense things, a spade's a spade, and a man's a man, a woman's a woman, we just have to get realistic.

01:06:46.460 And, yeah, I don't know where else to go.

01:06:49.780 We've got interesting times going on, if nothing else.

01:06:52.560 Gilbo was mentioned earlier.

01:06:53.860 I mean, I just want to reiterate on how the liberals are no different.

01:06:57.920 Nothing has changed.

01:06:58.900 We're back to the same thing.

01:07:00.120 Gilbo, who is now in charge of culture.

01:07:02.980 Yeah, whatever.

01:07:04.000 You know, a ministry of culture, there's one of those things too.

01:07:07.320 Let culture organically develop how it will.

01:07:10.800 It's not the role of the government to protect, preserve, or practice culture.

01:07:14.560 Culture is a living thing.

01:07:16.460 It changes.

01:07:17.120 That's part of the great melting pot we have.

01:07:19.920 We take on aspects.

01:07:20.920 Some cultures change.

01:07:21.860 They aren't the same as they were 100 years ago.

01:07:23.460 They aren't the same in this part of the country as they are in that part of the country.

01:07:26.400 We don't need a central government to define it or tell us how to practice it. 0.98

01:07:32.240 But that's what his job is he's making six figures and he's a lunatic.

01:07:35.760 But then even then, he's no longer the environment minister, but he still got to the microphone and beeped up and said, we're not going to get any more pipelines in Canada.

01:07:43.960 Why is the culture minister telling us this?

01:07:46.760 Why are you even dipping into that, Gilbo? 0.97

01:07:49.660 Shouldn't your boss, the prime minister, say, hey, Gilbo, shut the hell up. 0.89

01:07:55.700 You're not the environment minister. 0.95

01:07:56.720 You're not the energy minister.

01:07:58.260 You're just an extremist who's popular in a Quebec rioting and we stuck you in a token position.

01:08:02.240 stay out of the energy sector why didn't the prime minister tell him to shut up because the

01:08:10.280 prime minister agrees with him we aren't getting pipes that's the other aspect that you know even

01:08:15.500 coined and the others aren't talking about but it's the truth of it that uh as much as carney

01:08:20.960 promised all these economic corridors and all of these things and recognize that canada's economy

01:08:25.660 is getting blown to hell our productivity is crap our gdp per capita is falling into the toilet 0.92

01:08:30.560 a lot of which is because we've idiotically shut in our natural resources because we had a prime 0.98

01:08:35.620 minister ding dong for 10 years stuck on environmental extremism well now we got 0.95

01:08:40.280 Carney who's just as environmentally nutty as Trudeau was he's just a little bit brighter

01:08:44.180 and he's going to shut it in he said outright this is funny when we see people talking about

01:08:50.480 oh the province can't leave because the clarity access they can't actually clarity access we can

01:08:54.120 and then they say but we're going to be selective with the uh constitution the constitution

01:09:00.460 says that these sorts of infrastructure, the province shouldn't be able to hold it up. He's

01:09:07.360 talking about free trade across the provinces. Well, part of that free trade is getting a pipeline

01:09:10.200 across Quebec. But Carney came up and said, well, unless we get consent from Quebec, we're not going

01:09:15.280 to do it. Well, then in other words, we don't actually care about the constitution. We don't

01:09:18.760 actually have a federation. And that's what I come back to with Alberta. And that's part of why

01:09:23.940 we're seeing independent sentiment exploding because people are realizing,

01:09:28.180 Canada's not giving me anything here. I mean, that's what politics always eventually come down

01:09:32.960 to, the bottom line and the end of everything. What's in it for me? That's what people vote for.

01:09:37.860 What's in it for me? What's in it for Albertans right now? Let's see, having our resources shut

01:09:42.400 in, being underrepresented in the Senate, being called assholes for standing up for ourselves, 0.75

01:09:47.480 you know, being drained through equalization payments, bad justice system. What the hell's 0.99

01:09:53.080 in it for us you know what is the federation offering us be honest squat either way that's

01:10:01.780 enough of my crabbiness for now guys there's a long weekend coming up it's the may long weekend

01:10:06.640 victoria day for others get out enjoy it take a breather we got lots more to work on throughout

01:10:13.600 the rest of the course of the spring and the summer so uh be sure to tune in to the western

01:10:17.600 standard shows. There's all sorts coming out from Sean, from Derek, from Nigel. And, you know,

01:10:24.320 tune in, share the links, do all that. We can bypass the old legacy media. We can cut through

01:10:28.980 that. So thank you all for tuning in on this Friday, guys. And I will see you again on Wednesday

01:10:34.060 for my regular show. So have a good weekend. Catch you then.

01:10:47.600 We'll be right back.

Western Standard - May 17, 2025

Carney’s cabinet. Same dung, different pile

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