Western Standard - Censoring Alberta independence

00:00:00.000 Good day. Today is June 17th, 2026. I am Derek Fildebrandt, publisher of the Western

00:00:29.520 Standard, and you're watching The Pipeline, I've got our usual crew here, former Western

00:00:35.500 Standard opinion editor, Nigel Hannaford.

00:00:38.060 Good evening.

00:00:39.080 Senior Alberta columnist, Corey Morgan.

00:00:41.540 Always a pleasure.

00:00:42.560 And our senior news editor, Dave Naylor.

00:00:45.180 Are we the new knights of the roundtable?

00:00:47.520 It would appear so.

00:00:48.800 All for one, one for all. 0.87

00:00:50.840 That's the wrong thing.

00:00:52.080 We're just missing swords.

00:00:53.780 Yeah.

00:00:54.760 Okay.

00:00:55.280 Well, we're going to talk about the rape of Britain, the long-awaited inquiry into rape gangs in Britain has been released, and it's come out with a conspicuous silence in the mainstream legacy media in Britain.

00:01:15.200 some pick up, but most of the attention coming around the world. Its findings are, even for

00:01:21.980 those of us who are very concerned and cynical about what's happening there, it's even more

00:01:28.800 extreme, its findings, than even I suspected. I would imagine many of you suspected. We're going

00:01:35.180 to talk about it because it's got major implications for what's happening in all Western countries,

00:01:40.920 including right here. We're going to talk about the Danny Dollars coming. Albertans,

00:01:47.880 at least under a certain income, can expect some free money from Alberta Premier Danielle Smith,

00:01:53.900 but it seems probably not the tax cut on fuel that we are hoping. But first, we're going to

00:02:00.920 start with censoring Alberta independence. Two very recent flare-ups on the independence

00:02:11.300 campaign taking place right now. The town of Sundry in western central Alberta denied the right

00:02:22.620 for independence activists to have a float in their annual rodeo parade. It's created a big

00:02:30.100 hubbub and they just canceled the parade outright um and it might be a kind of a rogue unregistered

00:02:37.000 parade taking place in its place um like and all all of this takes place uh our own cory morgan

00:02:43.420 who is a freelancer so he is therefore more free to do things he's not uh not full-time here so he

00:02:49.560 just kind of goes off and does crazy stuff on his own like start his own campaign organization on

00:02:55.380 independence uh i don't know i just woke up one morning i looked at twitter i was like oh okay

00:02:59.580 That's what, that's what Corey's doing. Um, Corey, you put up some, uh, paid to put up

00:03:04.420 some billboards in, uh, the town of Tabor and, uh, the town of Tabor, uh, very unhappy

00:03:12.120 about that, uh, demanded you take it down. I don't know, maybe just kind of, uh, set

00:03:17.180 the table a bit more for those who don't know about what's going on in both Tabor with

00:03:20.800 yourself and for, uh, with the parade and, uh, sundry.

00:03:23.780 Sure. Yeah. My goofy ventures catch a lot of people off guard. Jane was out of town when

00:03:27.280 I pulled that off and all of a sudden her phone was exploded because of all these donors because

00:03:30.760 oh you know Corey had all this free time he decided to start a whole new organization but

00:03:35.120 I as a you know long-time independence activist I've always still promoted that and I was frustrated

00:03:40.820 with the petitioning having ended you know nearly a month ago and no campaign going nobody's doing

00:03:46.060 anything nothing's happening so I thought well I'll start a little thing get some signs in the

00:03:50.440 ground raise a few dollars and just start some awareness until the other bigger groups get

00:03:55.560 moving on the campaign one of the fastest ways to do it because people ask why did you target

00:03:59.600 Tabor well it's because it was there and it was available and it was a good price somebody hooked

00:04:03.740 me up with a gentleman said I could put signs up on a billboard a digital one in Tabor it's fast

00:04:08.160 you could just email your file and I had a simple sign it said send a message to Ottawa yeah let's

00:04:13.900 yeah let's put the image up the Alberta flag and then choose Alberta nice and positive and then

00:04:18.780 some identifying things it's a legal you know third-party advertising organization I have to

00:04:22.400 have that contacted but didn't think much of it I thought you know it's just getting things on the

00:04:25.960 ground rolling but within a day or two some woke folks I guess emailed the town council and said

00:04:32.160 hey you know in the town administration we don't accept this we don't want to see the sign in our

00:04:36.960 town and they sent the city administration put a posting up on Facebook saying they're concerned

00:04:42.640 about it and sent a letter to the billboard owner who I'd booked it with demanding he remove it

00:04:47.620 within 10 days and threatening his license to operate within the town which since then that

00:04:53.320 made national news when i told them to get stuffed and i put two more billboards up in their town

00:04:57.680 and raised a great deal more money thanks to their obstinance and the billboard still hasn't

00:05:05.500 come down today so that's kind of where it's sitting right now yeah yeah i know i i talked

00:05:10.040 to the billboard owner uh he's just a small business guy getting caught in the middle of

00:05:15.980 this big national news story and

00:05:17.880 controversy.

00:05:20.060 It does seem, though, that the town

00:05:22.040 of Tabor has eventually backed off. I think they

00:05:23.900 eventually consulted a lawyer, and

00:05:26.020 it seems that

00:05:27.300 they know they're on wildly

00:05:29.940 unconstitutional grounds

00:05:31.600 to be meddling in

00:05:34.040 free expression on this.

00:05:35.820 There's no nudity on this billboard.

00:05:37.680 There's no profanity. There's nothing that

00:05:39.940 would normally... You know how chaseless I can get.

00:05:41.760 If I really wanted to offend the town... I wouldn't put a pasty 0.85

00:05:43.920 to put up a nude billboard with profanity. 0.88

00:05:45.980 nude picture of Cory. Yeah, me and my

00:05:48.380 Alberta Speedo or something like that. Can't be much more

00:05:50.420 profane than that. No, but

00:05:52.060 no, it was nothing of that sort.

00:05:54.340 And as I said, the town, I think,

00:05:55.980 realizes they misstepped,

00:05:58.360 overstepped, and made a mistake, but

00:06:00.160 they still won't let themselves put

00:06:02.240 out anything in writing saying, we're withdrawing

00:06:04.140 that request to bring the sign. Yeah, I think they've more or less

00:06:06.260 just said they're, quietly

00:06:07.880 let it be known. Well, they're not pursuing it any further

00:06:10.260 because they have a 100% chance

00:06:12.240 of losing in court, essentially. Pretty much.

00:06:14.080 it's beyond the pale but I'm not letting it go

00:06:16.420 so yes the lawyers of the democracy

00:06:18.440 have been talking to me and we're going to follow through

00:06:20.320 and we've got sundry 0.83

00:06:22.260 the sundry rodeo parade 0.73

00:06:24.180 so that one yes that's

00:06:26.300 a little bit different because it's not

00:06:28.320 a level of government shutting something down

00:06:30.220 but it was they have a rodeo

00:06:32.440 in sundry every year it's a big one it's a

00:06:33.980 classic Alberta foothills town

00:06:36.020 now it's had a parade associated

00:06:38.480 with it you kick it off you know like every small town

00:06:40.260 parade it really looks forward to it

00:06:41.520 I guess a float had been entered that was covered in Alberta flags and they felt that was too

00:06:48.380 politicized and rejected the float it's this committee not the town officials necessarily

00:06:54.320 but the committee so the float wasn't saying free Alberta it just had I don't believe so it's just

00:06:58.880 loads of Alberta flags and that has become a symbol people do realize if you see a car covered

00:07:02.620 in Alberta flags chances are yeah they're independent supporters but still it was as

00:07:06.200 innocuous as the flag itself but the other mistake they made was there was Thomas Lukasik's freedom

00:07:10.760 bus or whatever covered in canadian flags that went in with no problem you know if they'd have

00:07:16.880 banned both perhaps people would have been more accepting but they cherry-picked well this one's

00:07:20.280 okay that one's too political it led to public you know exposure a lot of uh hated discussion

00:07:28.200 and i can believe it i guess they got some very rough vitriolic feedback from some people probably

00:07:32.800 on both sides of the issue because they tried reversing it and allowing the float but by then

00:07:36.080 it was too late and then they started getting bad feedback from federalists saying well you can't

00:07:39.960 let that float in. So they took the most cowardly route they could find in the end of it all and

00:07:44.120 just canceled the parade altogether. And now the people who spent months building floats for this

00:07:49.560 parade and the kids who were looking forward to it don't get it because this cowardly committee

00:07:53.140 stepped in it and just decided to pull the pin rather than face the mess they made.

00:07:57.180 Yeah. You know, Dave, you spent a long part of your career as a city hall reporter at Calgary

00:08:01.440 City Hall. I don't know if you ever got around to ever covering any of these small city halls,

00:08:06.780 But, you know, it was a real wake up moment for me with the time I spent in politics dealing with small town halls, you know, Brooks, Strathmore, and even sometimes smaller ones into the villages and the counties that the people who, not obviously all, but disproportionately tend to fill the ranks of the councillors and the mayors.

00:08:28.880 they tend to be despite representing very conservative uh polities they tend to be

00:08:36.260 overwhelmingly kind of left-wing busybodies um who in many ways resemble the con your local condo

00:08:44.620 board uh you know i've had townhouses in a condo before and they're just the most maddening people

00:08:50.260 that have ever existed on earth and this is just kind of like the the pro league condo board for

00:08:56.120 these guys and and they tend to do this kind of thing and but taber and sundry are not known as

00:09:02.660 hotbeds of pro ottawa sentiment they're we are probably going to see pretty good numbers on the

00:09:09.240 independent side in the referendum however that turns out um but the town's going this way

00:09:14.520 anyways um what do you think would cause town councils to i i guess in the case of sundry

00:09:22.260 that's not actually the council that's probably a committee of the egg society or something is

00:09:27.220 my best guess but at least in taber that was that was council why would this who would get the

00:09:35.240 brainwave this is a good idea in taber i think it's in in terms of both both instances i think

00:09:42.120 we're looking at the power of the uh the uh warrior on the keyboard keyboard warriors and

00:09:48.880 And they sit there in their basement, the mother's house, and they can send out the most vile, threatening emails.

00:09:55.540 And you can see it on both sides. 0.95

00:09:57.780 You know, how dare you let this Alberta, you know, you're going to ruin your town.

00:10:02.560 I'm never going to go there.

00:10:03.880 And same on both sides.

00:10:05.180 But it just shows you that the intimidation factor that they've got, that these keyboard warriors can sway town councils and make the decisions for them.

00:10:16.900 There's also, I think, Dave, the type of people who tend to get involved in local politics in the first place.

00:10:23.680 Conservatives just want to be left alone to do their own thing.

00:10:27.960 We take that attitude to our own cost, frankly,

00:10:32.860 because when we don't step up other people who love to interfere and play God with other people's lives,

00:10:38.320 step forward and say, oh, well, if you don't want to do it, pick me.

00:10:40.400 And so those are the kinds who are more likely to have that kind of soft left disposition thinking they're doing a good thing.

00:10:49.160 Yeah, and Sundry had the big controversy last year.

00:10:53.560 You remember there was a float in the Sundry parade of Trudeau in blackface was the cost.

00:10:59.160 That was a great float. 0.99

00:11:00.940 And the proverbial crap hit the fan over that one. 0.95

00:11:05.300 So I think they didn't want to make the same mistake twice. 0.99

00:11:08.580 They were cognizant of the mistake they made last year.

00:11:11.720 Was it a mistake to allow it?

00:11:12.940 Well, it was an accurate representation of how the prime minister has looked on quite a few occasions.

00:11:20.640 Yeah.

00:11:20.980 I mean, everybody around this table loved it.

00:11:23.820 You know, but as Corey says, the parade's not supposed to be political, is it?

00:11:27.640 Justin Trudeau in blackface is about as political as you get.

00:11:31.280 They always have been, though.

00:11:32.700 I mean, you've always seen every aspiring politician will make sure to get into those parades.

00:11:36.100 The local MLA and the MP are there.

00:11:37.660 But of course, they'll just ride on their own thing, maybe not necessarily put out a statement like Justin in blackface.

00:11:44.220 I guess, you know, it distracts potentially from, you know, throwing candy to kids and talking about rodeo and having fun. 0.79

00:11:50.560 But we laughed our heads off. OK, I can see why they want to just avoid the distraction.

00:11:55.360 But this was Alberta flags, not Justin prancing around in blackface.

00:11:59.600 Yes. Yeah. In the in the case of Tabor, I know we saw a bunch of federalists say, I'm going to boycott Tabor Corn until the town has this taken down.

00:12:13.460 Like, OK, so many levels of dumb there. There's idiots on all sides. 1.00

00:12:19.280 Both sides have got their idiots. Both sides have got their more intelligent, thoughtful people. 1.00

00:12:23.940 But, you know, it would just never cross my mind to, and even the crazy people on the independent side, I don't think it would cross their mind to boycott Tabor Korn until a pro-Ottawa federalist billboard would be taken down.

00:12:40.980 You wouldn't fathom it. It's just a crazy thing to do. It's a private billboard leased from the town, but the town is not supposed to be into the business of, well, this town likes A&W and not McDonald's, so no McDonald's signs.

00:12:59.440 no no it's a private business and as long as he's following some very basic rules of decorum no

00:13:04.560 nudity and or expletives you know it's a pretty basic common sense stuff um it's their it's just

00:13:12.320 their own business but yet all these people uh the forever canada crowd etc saying yeah we're

00:13:17.920 gonna boycott tabor i'm not i don't know how much tabor gets in uh tourism but they're not

00:13:24.480 they're known for corn anyways that's their their hide that in the rug they're known for corn

00:13:28.560 and uh their footloose laws of a few years ago with a band swearing which you might remember i

00:13:35.080 went out to their town and that was 10 or 11 years ago and did my very first youtube selfie

00:13:40.100 video where i was i can't say exactly what i said on this show but i tested their swearing law

00:13:45.400 were you arrested no fined no it was buried in my youtube videos like that was from it was

00:13:50.860 11 years ago. It was apparently a weird

00:13:52.940 thing kind of around trying to target

00:13:54.960 the Mexican Mennonites.

00:13:56.780 It's an unusual town. There's a

00:13:58.860 balance going on. You have the Mormon population.

00:14:01.200 You have a lot of descendants

00:14:03.020 from the Japanese internment camps that

00:14:04.940 live out there. All 1.00

00:14:06.900 kinds of things. It's always been an unusual

00:14:08.820 town. It is. But still, the

00:14:10.920 boycotting corn. I mean, come on, you guys.

00:14:13.520 But I think it shows that that's their attitude,

00:14:15.040 their mentality, the things that have been successful for them.

00:14:16.960 They think if they can get their way with their

00:14:18.660 cancel ability is to scare private enterprises. It's why independence, uh, meetings that have

00:14:24.580 been held at hotels or rallies constantly get chased out and canceled because they call

00:14:28.080 and they threaten the hotels with boycotts or they'll threaten local restaurants with boycotts

00:14:32.200 and businesses. The reality is though, I mean, I understand the reactiveness of these businesses.

00:14:37.180 As Dave said, these are sweller, seller dwelling pinheads who usually probably don't even live in

00:14:42.280 the town. The amount of impact they would have on these businesses with their alleged boycotts,

00:14:46.560 probably next to none yeah but the businesses retract in fear and there's where they go but i

00:14:51.140 doubt these guys even well the corn doesn't even come out for a couple of months i mean come on

00:14:55.560 guys how are you gonna boycott it okay uh so kind of a uh a disclaimer here we're pre-recording this

00:15:04.460 episode so we're operating without most of the details about the danny dollars that are being

00:15:11.580 announced pretty much as soon as we're done pre-recording the timing is pretty uh pretty

00:15:16.620 piss poor but um you know uh gas prices have been through the roof uh because of the brilliant

00:15:23.360 war with iran uh oh yeah and the peace deal signed today i just want to take this opportunity again 0.76

00:15:28.900 and say i told you so you guys were wrong anyone want to dispute that that this war was a success

00:15:34.940 by any metric?

00:15:36.980 Anyone? Do we have an hour?

00:15:39.360 Okay, we'll take this offline.

00:15:41.440 I will accept your apology

00:15:42.940 eventually, but I mean

00:15:44.920 we're going to get Danny dollars out

00:15:47.040 of it? Who knows?

00:15:49.600 Who knows?

00:15:50.960 I mean, for Alberta, because

00:15:52.660 world oil prices have been high, it's been good

00:15:54.740 for Alberta, but I don't think

00:15:56.640 Donald Trump was thinking about Alberta's

00:15:58.660 provincial government coffers

00:15:59.860 when he agreed to go to war in Iran.

00:16:03.060 So 0.98

00:16:03.180 there's been that nice effect for us

00:16:06.020 but it is damned expensive

00:16:07.680 when I fill up my truck

00:16:08.720 I want to cry

00:16:10.480 I'm only

00:16:12.300 it's only offset

00:16:14.200 the sadness is offset a little bit

00:16:15.680 just knowing that Alberta's got more money coming in

00:16:18.400 Derek is so you can ride your bike

00:16:20.960 I've been trying to

00:16:22.220 but it's been raining a lot lately

00:16:23.440 so anyway

00:16:25.340 so for relief at the pumps

00:16:28.760 it does not seem

00:16:30.360 well Dave

00:16:30.880 tell them

00:16:32.880 what we know okay uh as as derek mentioned money has been raining into the coffers we were eight

00:16:40.340 or nine billion dollars in in the red we're now going to be in the black so when governments get

00:16:46.440 money that exceeds they're going to spend it and our legislature reporter will vassar did some

00:16:53.100 mathematics last week and looked at the oil prices since the war started and we have reached the

00:16:59.780 plateau now where the the provincial government should be removing the uh their provincial fuel

00:17:06.160 tax uh 12 13 cents so that looks like it's a definite gonna to come off for three months

00:17:13.060 but it also looks like we may be getting cash cash in hand you remember the ralph bucks how

00:17:18.440 much how much did we get 250 250 and that was in 90s or early 2000s a fair amount of money back

00:17:25.380 It was nice to go out for a good meal in a bender on that back then.

00:17:28.820 Yeah, yeah.

00:17:29.900 So there's rumors.

00:17:30.420 Go to the bar in Tabor.

00:17:31.940 Eat some corn.

00:17:33.440 There's rumors that we're going to get Danny dollars, not Ralph Bucks, but Danny dollars.

00:17:37.880 The amount remains to be seen.

00:17:41.040 But, yeah, I mean, it's from going into a huge debt deficit only months ago into, you know, now we're making money.

00:17:51.480 That's absolutely stunningly huge for Alberta. 1.00

00:17:54.180 man i i'm not a fan of these danny doll you know take the fuel tax off when it gets to a certain 1.00

00:17:59.780 point uh that's nice you know and i agree it should be tied to the price of gas uh you know 1.00

00:18:05.200 so it's on when they're when prices are more reasonable when prices are high tax comes off

00:18:10.260 okay that's nice uh but the danny dollars thing i mean it's what kind of dividend is this because

00:18:16.780 it's it's income tested so we don't know above what what income but above certain incomes you

00:18:21.980 don't get it so the people who are actually paying the most tax in alberta and creating jobs do not

00:18:27.160 get any of this not that it would make a big difference to them anyway because you know they're

00:18:29.860 high income people but uh but it's kind of the point of it but how is this any kind of fuel relief

00:18:35.460 um is this going to go to everyone so uh when you know ralph klein did this kind of thing before

00:18:42.200 we went to drivers people had a vehicle registered to them or something if you take the bus every day

00:18:47.660 and don't pay the price of fuel uh you still get it um if you are uh it's going to essentially

00:18:56.500 everyone below uh below certain incomes everybody who's filed an income tax yeah from 2025 yeah so

00:19:03.580 i mean uh you could take uh the seed train or ride the bus or whatever your transportation's

00:19:09.280 already subsidized by taxpayers from the province and from the city itself that's subsidizing your

00:19:14.020 transit already and your cost of transit does not go up or down at all with the cost of fuel yet

00:19:20.920 they're going to get a check but uh it's not just filling up the gas tank though right it's

00:19:25.920 everything has gone up in cost because of the the iran war the the trucking costs the grocery costs

00:19:32.000 they've all gone up fair enough yeah you do pay more in grocery prices etc because all that stuff

00:19:36.860 is reflected down down the supply chain but the biggest the biggest area is at the gas tank at the

00:19:42.100 pump and people are going to be getting the same amount someone who walks to work is going to get

00:19:47.840 the same uh check from the government as someone who fills up an f-350 and drives into the patch

00:19:54.880 every day it just seems gimmicky well it is i mean this is a symptom of a government that just

00:20:01.020 showed their internals dropping this is what we're seeing yeah and it works it worked for

00:20:05.420 ralph klein when he did it too people complained at that time come on you're just cutting checks

00:20:08.800 you could cut taxes. Yeah, but we don't see that extra few dollars you're saving on every fill up

00:20:14.020 and not every person who has a vehicle or people who don't won't see it. If you're looking to buy

00:20:17.980 political love, you want to make sure that those dollars get into as many hands as you can. I mean,

00:20:23.580 it was shallow. It was clear. It was transparent when the Ralph bucks came out, but you know what?

00:20:27.700 They work like a darn. Everybody who had them was thrilled. Restaurants, bars, pubs, because for a 0.84

00:20:32.200 short time, well, this was considered kind of, you know, unexpected money and people go out and spend

00:20:36.820 and it puts everybody in a good mood or put it in the put it against their mortgage which is what i

00:20:41.860 was doing at the time well you're you're a bit more responsible than cory probably more responsible

00:20:46.740 than premier smith we've still got a debt i get less headlines and i would rather see this surplus

00:20:51.780 knock the debt down then you can start talking about it yeah we've you know been running up

00:20:56.340 debt essentially well we spent down our savings beginning under at stalmac and and that ran out

00:21:01.540 out and ran out and we went into debt beginning mostly in Redford and it's ramped up and it's

00:21:07.380 never really gone away. We've paid down a tiny bit, but there's no prospect of paying it back

00:21:10.700 right now. In the last election though, Nigel, one of Danielle Smith's signature promises was 0.97

00:21:15.860 a significant personal income tax cut. We haven't got that, which was promised and could be funded 0.97

00:21:25.260 out of this kind of revenue. Although keeping in mind, this is a temporary boon in revenue. It's

00:21:29.500 not necessarily reliable but but spending is high and there and there's reasons for that some

00:21:36.040 legitimate some not um but spending is high uh when can we do you think we can expect our income

00:21:41.820 tax cut are we just going to get this kind of give away and we're told to be happy there's a

00:21:47.540 structure on structural imbalance in alberta's funds we all know that um we go up and down with

00:21:52.960 the oil patch so you asked when we're going to get an income tax cut the only time i can think

00:21:58.060 it would be right before an election well that's just the way it is what i will say about this

00:22:02.460 particular issue without knowing all the details of how much money is actually out there how much

00:22:09.580 she might have decided to put into the heritage fund which is what i would have thought would

00:22:13.420 have been the first place she would have directed it that would make more sense uh you know and

00:22:18.140 maybe and maybe she means to do that but at least on a matter of principle she recognized that this

00:22:25.580 money actually belongs in the pockets of albertans not in the pockets of the government's favorite

00:22:33.980 people which is what you would have expected from another government they would have found

00:22:39.660 they would have made sure their interest groups were looked after more money for this group more

00:22:44.860 money for that group wages salaries conditions and so on and we would have been locked in to a

00:22:50.460 permanent raise forever in this case the money comes in the money goes out there is you don't

00:22:57.980 even need a sunset clause because when it's gone it's gone you know that's probably the

00:23:01.340 best argument i've heard for it we're wasting it in the most efficient way possible well so i don't

00:23:06.620 know how can you you know i mean that's a good way that's a good way of putting it in some ways but

00:23:11.100 certainly there are some governments who would definitely have just taken that locked it in

00:23:15.580 Yeah, it's a sweetheart deal for some of the government

00:23:17.400 unions or something.

00:23:18.840 Yeah, fair enough.

00:23:21.700 You know, I'm with you. I don't have

00:23:23.400 a 350, but I

00:23:24.540 certainly would appreciate some relief.

00:23:26.860 I don't have a 350. I have a 150.

00:23:29.280 It's a poser truck, but, you know,

00:23:31.360 it gets the job done.

00:23:33.820 Yeah. All right.

00:23:35.700 Well, I want to save a little extra time. 0.59

00:23:37.760 We've got two Britons 0.59

00:23:38.680 here. We've been talking about Britain a lot

00:23:41.300 lately. You know, there was the

00:23:43.340 Newark

00:23:43.620 video released

00:23:46.180 where the police

00:23:48.300 cuffed him and let him bleed out because his

00:23:50.320 murderer accused him of racism.

00:23:53.220 You know, we had

00:23:54.260 Belfast.

00:23:57.240 Some other

00:23:58.180 significant but less

00:24:00.200 high-profile migrant

00:24:02.140 murders and attempted murders and rapes

00:24:04.040 in between all of that.

00:24:05.880 It's just kind of getting lost in it.

00:24:08.620 But I think it was

00:24:09.820 just yesterday we had the release

00:24:11.740 of

00:24:13.460 what's his last name?

00:24:17.780 Lowe. Lowe's

00:24:19.560 inquiry on gang

00:24:23.220 rapes in the UK.

00:24:26.760 Nigel, I don't know,

00:24:27.240 maybe you want to just give the high level.

00:24:29.000 Everyone should go look at at least the highly.

00:24:30.980 It's a big report. You're not going to read it.

00:24:32.480 But people should go read the highlights for themselves.

00:24:34.320 But maybe just give us Nicole's notes.

00:24:35.680 Well, you know, the very

00:24:37.520 high level stuff is that this is

00:24:39.080 an independent citizen's report.

00:24:41.740 privately funded, led by British MP, Rupert Lowe, and it addresses a problem that goes

00:24:51.020 back 30 years, which is the startling accusations of gang rapes of white British girls by Pakistani

00:25:01.300 gangs.

00:25:04.520 The report alleges something in the order of 250,000.

00:25:11.140 My own internet researches, you know, imprecise as they perhaps are, cannot round up more than

00:25:20.060 a few hundred men who have actually been convicted, tried convicted and sentenced.

00:25:27.220 And there is this sense in Great Britain that a whole part of their population has been

00:25:33.840 allowed to suffer allowed to be preyed upon because the politicians who lead the country

00:25:41.600 don't have the courage to address what is going on now what is going on the first thing that 0.56

00:25:50.480 people will say was it may be pakistani men who are doing this but that doesn't mean that all

00:25:55.200 pakistani men are are evil and that would be that would that would be a true statement but what it

00:26:01.680 says to me is that then you need to go after the people who are responsible and if there have been 1.00

00:26:10.560 250 000 cases of rape and only a few hundred have actually been apprehended and faced the charges

00:26:19.680 there has a hell of a lot of personal accountability that remains to be seen and done and that our

00:26:27.520 governments i say our day have written recognizing the enormous union jack over your desk as the uh

00:26:33.840 as the team goes out to play you know the original british soccer team for the record

00:26:40.560 no it's an english england but anyway yeah i don't know i don't know but what we're already

00:26:44.800 getting at here is that the british ruling classes ignored this because they didn't want to be called

00:26:49.840 racists you couldn't say well look all the victims were white and all the assailants were from

00:26:55.920 package yeah but that doesn't mean you know and then you can do that for a while that's been going

00:27:02.560 on for 30 years and people are mad i won't say this other thing too we had a citizen's inquiry 0.98

00:27:07.680 a few years ago over covet why do we need a citizen's inquiry well it's because the damn 0.95

00:27:13.520 government won't do it won't do it so now you know the reaction to this first of all is the 0.77

00:27:19.840 mainstream media has been you know this is just rupert lowe you know what he's like anything that

00:27:24.400 bears his name it's kind of weird we can't touch that it's probably grossly unreliable

00:27:29.600 yeah they would say that but they've never investigated themselves either so that's and

00:27:35.360 the the second thing is that if you do not if governments will not act eventually people will

00:27:42.320 lowe's report is explosive if he's only half right it's still explosive it's still going to take down

00:27:49.760 a city block uh and this this is an intolerable situation the british have not looked after their

00:27:57.520 own women that is appalling so you know you you said you know it was the british politicians and

00:28:06.640 establishment but i think the establishment of it goes all the way through you know just

00:28:12.240 Just as we saw in the Newick case where the police believed the murderer who says, oh, he attacked me and said racist things when that was obviously quite not true.

00:28:24.860 And they handcuffed him and let him bleed out to death because of their incredible fear of being called racist or being perceived as racist or anything.

00:28:33.300 um many of the examples cited in uh the low report here uh said there were very young girls

00:28:43.960 like not young women these were girls uh who were victims of not it wasn't just rape just

00:28:51.120 mutilation of the most horrific kind um they would come in and tell the police what's happened

00:28:58.600 and uh the police would essentially shoo them away on the grounds that you don't be racist 0.77

00:29:04.940 you know say there's a group of pakistani men getting raped mean to say don't be racist 0.92

00:29:09.500 and they would shoo her on and then she ends up right back in they end up going into prostitution 0.97

00:29:15.540 more mutilation and beatings and rape and goes on and on and on so it's not just the politicians

00:29:22.420 It's the police and the director of public prosecutions, who is now Prime Minister Keir Starmer.

00:29:30.960 And I think they found the report says that somewhere 13 to 15,000 cases that came before his desk.

00:29:38.980 He just simply sent the alleged rapists a warning, prosecuting very, very few of them because he didn't want to be perceived as a racist.

00:29:50.960 It gets even worse than that, actually. I mean, that's pretty bad. But there was one particular city where this investigation did take root, and that was Rochdale. And in Rochdale, there were about 60 convictions.

00:30:05.240 Well, what we discovered while that case was unfolding was that not only were the police not acting for these young girls, even the social services would rather not know about it and wash their hands of it and told them to run along.

00:30:22.260 So this is, you know, it's great to pick on Keir Starmer, and I do, and I join you, but every other prime minister we've had for the last 30 years could have dealt with this.

00:30:33.160 none of them did every mp politician every chief of police could have dealt with this

00:30:39.400 because this is right across the country but they didn't and even the people who actually

00:30:46.240 are engaged employed by the state to see the children are are cared for just wouldn't want

00:30:53.220 to touch it same thing didn't want to be a pure racist we've got to go back and say i don't care

00:31:00.540 whether we feel racist or not, but you, sir, are accused of doing something, and you must answer

00:31:06.080 for it. If we are going to say, look, you can't blame the whole population of Pakistani men

00:31:12.900 because of the actions of some, well, then some must answer for their own reputations

00:31:19.100 and exonerate the rest. Although it does seem... There are some cultural aspects to this. Yeah,

00:31:25.820 It's not to be unfair to you. It's not some, certainly not all Pakistani men in Britain, but it's a bit out of proportion.

00:31:33.740 We've got to take the race out of this equation and have a frank world discussion. 1.00

00:31:37.140 It's Islam. Let's just say it. It's a culture and it's a religious basis to it.

00:31:42.680 Not every Muslim is practicing, I understand, but facets of that Islam, we don't have Chinese rape gangs. 0.99

00:31:47.940 There aren't any Mexican rape gangs. There aren't any Japanese rape gangs. 0.99

00:31:51.320 there aren't any hindu ones or buddhist ones it's islamics and i mean if you start to get into that 0.98

00:31:57.900 root of a culture that sees women as subhuman that sees their prophet who had nine-year-old wife

00:32:03.300 you've got some people who have a misguided view on the value of women in a society and how they

00:32:09.560 can be treated and if we keep shutting the discussion down but for fear of the race aspect

00:32:14.780 and i don't like racism you don't choose a race you're born whatever color you have but you do

00:32:19.740 have a choice on the cultural practices you adhere to and the religious practices that you follow

00:32:24.580 and I don't think it should be outside of fair critique to be able to finally start calling it

00:32:29.140 out and saying there's some serious inherent problems with that faith not every person who

00:32:35.120 practices it I know we still have to couch it with that but look at the names of the perpetrators in

00:32:40.380 this every time and it's not so I want to agree but push back a little bit um obviously the

00:32:46.960 Pakistani men are very likely universally Muslims, but it was out of proportion. Now,

00:32:54.460 Pakistanis are a particularly large group in Britain, but it was out of proportion to people

00:33:00.860 from other Islamic background groups. So there does seem to be, I would say, probably a confluence

00:33:09.100 of religious, but also more parochial, cultural. It's the commonality with the Syrians and the

00:33:16.320 German New Year's Eve rape fest. That went quite well as well. This wasn't anywhere near Pakistan, 1.00

00:33:21.080 but what was the common denominator? Yes, and that's far out of proportion to the indigenous 0.88

00:33:25.900 German population with the Syrian rapes, but it would appear to me that the Pakistani Muslims

00:33:33.020 were engaging in this at a higher rate than the Syrian Muslims, and the Syrian Muslims were

00:33:39.280 obviously at a higher rate than indigenous Europeans. There's nuance within the community,

00:33:42.520 I understand. What I'm saying is some are worse than others. Yes. And the Pakistani community,

00:33:48.440 or large proportions of it, you know, not a lot. Let's have those discussions on then,

00:33:56.920 how we can segment and identify those portions of that community, because it is outstanding and

00:34:02.280 causing incredible damage. If we can't have that frank discussion, we won't solve it.

00:34:06.440 Well, here's the toughest part of the conversation, Dave. I think everyone agrees,

00:34:10.040 at least in principle that we should not allow violent medieval rapists into one's country

00:34:16.780 although we still do uh but on in principle pretty much everyone agrees with that point

00:34:22.240 um but if people are coming from one particular national or religious origin and there is a

00:34:31.680 very large disproportionate number of people who come from that

00:34:36.060 is it really on the host country then to let everyone in anyway and then just throw about

00:34:41.700 the bad ones or is it more responsible for the people of that country the indigenous people of

00:34:48.000 that country to just say you know what we're sorry i'm sure there's many good people in your group

00:34:53.260 but it's not worth the risk to us we're just not taking any no i mean that would be the easy way

00:34:59.020 to stop it uh but the thing in now in england is a large chunk of the country is controlled 0.99

00:35:05.380 by Muslims. Entire cities are run by Muslim councils. So it goes back to what everybody 0.85

00:35:14.500 was talking about earlier. The worst thing you can do is be called a racist. That's what people

00:35:19.320 are thinking. If you're called a racist as a politician, your career is over, even though

00:35:23.760 there may not be any truth to it. A cop doesn't want to be called a racist and a social worker

00:35:28.940 doesn't want to be called a rapist. So it's all swept under the cover. The only way it's going

00:35:34.600 change is with a new government. In the next election, the Labour Party will be destroyed.

00:35:41.480 The Conservatives too, probably. And the Conservatives even worse. They deserve it.

00:35:45.640 So right now it's shaping up to a fight between Nigel Farage and Reform and Rupert Lowe and the

00:35:52.280 Restore UK party. That's a shift in the Overton window. Then of course you're facing the danger

00:35:59.160 of vote splitting and you know the labor government surviving anyways but it you know you need a

00:36:06.040 politician to stand up and say enough is enough call me a racist all you want but i'm going to

00:36:11.240 start deportations i'm going to start blocking boats from coming in on the english channel

00:36:16.600 i'm going to send warships and blow them out of the water if you need to that'll stop them

00:36:21.160 immediately one boat blown out of the water and then it'll stop them and it's all middle it's all

00:36:27.160 uh fighting age men that are coming in another interesting point they wouldn't be sick of bolts

00:36:33.480 with women and children no exactly all fighting age men coming in uh most of them go immediately

00:36:39.400 on to uh the dole and get benefits and and they don't work right so they got time on their hands 0.90

00:36:45.880 what are they going to do great rape white girls apparently but you know david let me ask you a 0.91

00:36:51.480 question i am racking my own brains here and i can't i can't think of the answer has canada ever 0.99

00:36:57.640 voted on immigration has anybody ever said you know we need to bring a whole lot more people and

00:37:03.560 we want to take them from the following places if you like that idea vote for me and if you don't

00:37:08.280 vote for somebody else i don't think that's ever had anybody uh you know after the um when the

00:37:13.640 syrian civil war how does this happen well you know we actually kind of did get a bit of

00:37:17.560 one um you know after the syrian civil war broke out largely due to western actions um

00:37:25.560 and merkel just opened the door to europe uh you know there was this famous uh photo of a syrian

00:37:33.560 refugee girl who died in the mediterranean on a boat and she washed up in the shores of anatolia

00:37:38.680 or something and that was a very impactful picture and it started this kind of bidding

00:37:43.720 more because remember the Canadian federal election the 2015 election was going on at this

00:37:47.800 time and Harper proposed bringing in quite a few and this was just a bidding war and then Thomas

00:37:54.680 Mulcair of the NDP said well I'm gonna beat you here's my number and then Justin Trudeau said yeah

00:37:59.440 well hold my beer and they were just picking numbers out of thin air and probably a combination

00:38:06.540 of compassion and wanting to appear compassionate and so we did have an election there where all

00:38:12.960 parties were bidding on having the highest number of refugees because that photo was a trigger issue

00:38:18.960 though for the 15th election there were other no it wasn't it wasn't the decisive issue but it was a

00:38:24.320 significant part of that election and and and trudeau used this to frame harper as cold and

00:38:30.240 uncaring and uncompassionate because he only would allow sir i forget the i forget the actual numbers

00:38:35.520 everyone was bidding on but they were all big numbers the trudeau number was just insane but

00:38:40.160 But they were playing to Canadian a sense of compassion and worldliness.

00:38:46.760 Canadians have never voted as a major issue in an election for long-term sustained mass migration.

00:38:52.680 But 2015, you know, I think people's compassion got the better of them.

00:38:58.340 And all the major parties ended up in a bidding war over it.

00:39:01.600 You know, we recently had a human trafficking ring busted in Ontario.

00:39:06.500 Every single person who was arrested, I think there were eight of them, were Pakistani men.

00:39:11.760 So I think Canadian lawmakers had best take a look at what's happening in England 0.74

00:39:16.580 because it's on its way here.

00:39:18.420 It's already established, and it's only going to get worse.

00:39:21.360 It's a bellwether.

00:39:22.320 I mean, we're seeing our future.

00:39:24.580 So what kind of sentences were they handed out?

00:39:28.800 In England, some of them got large sentences.

00:39:30.740 No, here in...

00:39:31.720 Oh, I don't think they were just charged.

00:39:32.960 Some of the people in England got more than 20 years.

00:39:36.500 So you've got to start the deportations, you know, instead of sentencing somebody to a year in jail.

00:39:41.580 All right. You're on the next plane out.

00:39:43.840 Well, Rupert Lowe has said he wants to bring back the death penalty for this.

00:39:47.700 Now, in common law, you can't.

00:39:51.500 You know, change the sentence after the fact, really, but most of these people haven't been charged yet.

00:39:56.960 So I suppose you could reintroduce the death penalty and then start the trial.

00:40:00.740 So most of these guys have not been put through a trial and found innocent or something.

00:40:03.900 they just weren't prosecuted because the prosecutors and the police and everybody else

00:40:08.640 was afraid of being called a racist now most of these people are just going to get away with it

00:40:12.540 no matter what Rupert Lowe is called for the death penalty of not just the rapist but also

00:40:18.500 every public official who was complicit in it which I don't know if I'm reading too much into

00:40:23.880 it but was he essentially calling for the death penalty for Keir Starmer am I reading too much

00:40:31.640 to that, or was that more or less what he was

00:40:33.680 saying? Why don't you save that for your parting shot?

00:40:37.460 Well,

00:40:37.860 that's my parting shot in the segment. We're out of time

00:40:39.740 for the segment. Okay.

00:40:41.540 Parting shots. Dave. I want to give

00:40:43.640 a shout out to the people of High River,

00:40:45.740 not High River, Fort McMurray,

00:40:47.620 who were fed up with the state of their roads.

00:40:50.460 Highway 63,

00:40:51.800 potholes particularly bad.

00:40:53.940 No level of government would fill them in,

00:40:55.720 so they went and did it themselves.

00:40:57.360 Put up some barricades and

00:40:59.200 filled it in. So good for them.

00:41:01.320 They didn't get much thanks for it, though, did they?

00:41:03.340 Didn't get much what, sir?

00:41:04.180 They didn't get much thanks from the local officials.

00:41:06.500 No, the RCMP was warning that they would all be arrested.

00:41:10.040 How dare you help yourself.

00:41:11.300 This is so very Canadian. 1.00

00:41:13.080 So very Canadian.

00:41:14.940 Corey.

00:41:15.420 I'll just tack on further to what we just talked about.

00:41:17.560 Just somebody to watch on, well, I think for a lot of things in general, but on X and so on.

00:41:23.160 It's been indicative of the discussion in the UK and how it's crossed the tipping point.

00:41:27.020 And that's John Cleese, who's always been actually quite a leftist and a very progressive man.

00:41:30.840 But something clicked in him this last eight months or so.

00:41:34.420 And if you want to see somebody speaking...

00:41:36.100 I think it started during COVID with him. 0.70

00:41:37.320 Well, more so with Islam, though, is this issue.

00:41:39.760 And he's being very frank in calling out, again, not races and so on, but saying that's enough.

00:41:45.260 This has got some serious issues, even though I'm still a progressive man. 1.00

00:41:49.020 We've got some problems with Islam we've got to start talking about. 0.76

00:41:51.240 So my thought from the papers this morning was one story that reported that since October the 7th, 2023, when the people of Hamas swarmed into Israel and started killing people and killed more than a thousand, there has been a 50% reduction among Canadians, according to polls, in support for Israel. 0.51

00:42:19.320 I just cannot think how this country actually manages to put facts together.

00:42:25.520 If when a group of people swarms another country, murders a thousand people, then it's actually the country that's just been sworn that you must condemn. 0.97

00:42:35.600 We are so screwed up in this country. 0.81

00:42:38.700 Well, I think it is more than just the conflict in Gaza there. 0.99

00:42:42.140 They've been ethnically cleansing Christians, as I saw firsthand, started a war with Iran.

00:42:47.560 And there's a lot of, I think there's a lot of things driving.

00:42:50.880 There's a lot going on.

00:42:52.120 I have a strong sense that this poll is based on people's reactions.

00:42:58.660 They're not thinking about ethnically cleansed Christians, because only you know about that, people who listen to this program.

00:43:07.500 But, you know, we have a very poor record in this country of connecting cause and effect and what our own best interest is.

00:43:13.320 Very quickly, the UN charity, UNRWA, was proven to be infiltrated with Hamas terrorists.

00:43:21.400 And this week, Canada gave them millions and millions and millions of dollars.

00:43:24.640 A million, yeah.

00:43:25.300 Really nice new rockets.

00:43:27.440 Lots of bullets.

00:43:28.500 And they don't even make a pretense about getting accountability.

00:43:31.440 It's just, there you go, spend it as best you can.

00:43:33.520 To be fair, that's what Canada does with all the money the feds spend.

00:43:36.780 They don't request accountability on any of the money they throw out.

00:43:39.860 So that's standard operating procedure for giving it to the Arrive Can app or to Hamas. 0.70

00:43:46.080 So that's just how we operate here, I guess. 0.92

00:43:48.980 I rest my case. We're screwed up. 0.97

00:43:51.280 Yeah. Okay. 0.96

00:43:53.380 Mine, speaking of genocide, us genociders, settlers on the stolen land.

00:43:59.980 The three treaty chiefs in Alberta today issued a call for Danielle Smith and the UCP to be investigated for treason.

00:44:08.280 the headline on this one has got to be off the reservation uh these look i get i get it guys

00:44:15.600 these chiefs they they really don't like independence they're allowed to speak out

00:44:20.580 each of you got one vote each that's three votes you can try to convince your communities everyone

00:44:24.700 within there and you can even try to convince albertans at large that's fine uh but they've

00:44:29.740 gone out of their way to not even allow uh the referendum to take place with court injunctions

00:44:34.700 and the courts made some very bad decisions that'll probably get overturned in time at appeal.

00:44:41.640 But they've gone out of the way to not allow the vote. And now they're calling this treason

00:44:47.420 for allowing, essentially, the government is saying, fine, this is a citizen's initiative

00:44:51.860 referendum. The courts are messed up in the meantime. We're just going to put it on.

00:44:55.620 They're calling this treason, even if the government was openly pro-independence, which it's

00:45:00.060 not. But this is just madness. I get chasing headlines. I spent, you know, the first two

00:45:08.460 thirds of my career in the Canadian Taxpayers Federation and in politics, you chase headlines.

00:45:13.580 I get it. And sometimes, yeah, you got to say something a little outrageous to try and get

00:45:17.500 that headline. I get it. But this is batshit crazy. The Chiefs are not, you're not doing

00:45:25.500 your communities any favor you're making yourselves look crazy um you know and threatening

00:45:32.160 essentially violence if you know if this referendum goes forward or or or passes you

00:45:37.240 know it's um this is not the way a civilized democracy behaves when there's an issue we

00:45:42.860 disagree on we're gonna vote on it and i don't agree every voter is of the same intelligence

00:45:48.400 but we all still get one vote anyway that's just better or worse that's just the way the system

00:45:53.820 work so get out there and campaign buy some billboards like cory but a put a billboard in

00:45:58.480 taber uh that's that's how you can show yourself here not calling for people being investigated 0.83

00:46:03.320 for treason for simply allowing a vote to go for it it's it's just madness okay cory dave nigel

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