Western Standard - January 11, 2024


CMS： Canada has lost control to a pro-Hamas minority


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Pro-Hamas thugs try to take over a public skating rink in Toronto. Mayor Olivia Chow tries to speak at a public event and is heckled by the thugs. Anti-Semitic attack on a Jewish woman in Vancouver. Wokeland author George Denny talks about what California could look like in a few decades.

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00:00:00.000 Transcription by CastingWords
00:00:30.000 Good day. Welcome to the Corey Morgan Show.
00:00:35.100 Oh, and it's a cold one.
00:00:36.660 I kind of said that before, you know, out in the West here,
00:00:39.040 we've been enjoying a pretty nice fall and winter.
00:00:42.620 We've been getting spoiled, but you know it had to catch up with us.
00:00:45.040 And it's catching up right now with a vengeance.
00:00:46.620 It's chilly out there and it's going to be for the next few days out here in the West
00:00:50.920 and probably across the country eventually.
00:00:52.800 It always seems to start out here and end up out there.
00:00:55.680 So bundle up, take your dogs in, guys.
00:00:58.360 I get tired of people saying, oh, my dog's an outdoor dog.
00:01:00.600 There's a few kinds out there that are outdoor dogs.
00:01:02.820 I admit there's a handful that love it in minus 30, but most of them don't.
00:01:06.780 Be responsible.
00:01:08.020 All right.
00:01:08.220 Use the comment scroll, guys.
00:01:09.260 This is a live show.
00:01:10.360 I see Angry Canadian Mr. Stanley and Mr. Sharp checking in from Saskatoon.
00:01:14.280 Good to see you all there.
00:01:15.800 Chat with each other, send questions my way, send them my guest's way.
00:01:19.640 And, you know, I won't read them all on the air, but I do see them all there.
00:01:22.540 And it helps me along.
00:01:23.440 They're good to see a Paradoxie and it keeps the show rolling.
00:01:27.720 I like that feeling of being live, seeing somebody checking in from Kelowna there and
00:01:31.340 knowing that I'm actually speaking not just to the air for a change or yelling at my steering
00:01:34.820 wheel like I normally do.
00:01:36.500 I got an author on today a little bit here.
00:01:38.520 His name is George Denny.
00:01:39.920 He wrote a book called Wokeland.
00:01:41.640 It's sort of a futuristic novel about what California could look like in a few decades if
00:01:47.020 things continue in the direction where they're going.
00:01:48.800 I like these sorts of things, these futuristic things, because they put real warnings into,
00:01:53.940 I guess you could say, a fictional read, though.
00:01:56.800 So it makes it digestible, but there's a real message to it.
00:01:59.660 And, of course, he's from in the heart of the woke and the insane, which is in California
00:02:04.180 itself.
00:02:04.720 He's out in San Francisco.
00:02:05.900 So it ought to be a pretty good conversation.
00:02:08.320 And, oh, I see Jamie Buchan joining the crowd there and asking about my favorite color.
00:02:12.840 He's mistaken me for a liberal or something like that who wants those buffer questions.
00:02:16.620 Jamie's just here to be a pain I know him all too well.
00:02:19.840 All right, let's get on to the other stuff I'm going to go on about today.
00:02:23.240 I mean, one of the things that's got me going.
00:02:24.900 So, I mean, there's a few things more Canadian.
00:02:26.520 If we're going to talk about things being Canadian and going out for an afternoon of ice skating
00:02:30.600 with your sweetheart.
00:02:31.460 I mean, that's just what a couple of seniors tried to do last weekend in Toronto.
00:02:35.580 The weather was mild.
00:02:36.900 Holidays are wrapped up.
00:02:37.980 It looked like it'd be a perfect day to get out and enjoy themselves together.
00:02:41.580 Unfortunately, the local Hamas thugs had other plans in mind. 0.68
00:02:44.800 Masked and screaming, they came pouring onto the skating rink, waving flags, intimidating
00:02:49.620 other skaters.
00:02:51.180 The older gentleman was upset and he let the protesters know as much.
00:02:53.920 He spoke up.
00:02:54.580 So this, they chased him.
00:02:55.920 And one of the thugs even laid a hand on him.
00:02:57.740 The man's wife intervened and they managed to skate away.
00:03:00.300 But their day was ruined, as with dozens of other people who came out to skate.
00:03:04.100 There were police in the area, but they meekly stood aside and just let the intimidation
00:03:08.080 happen.
00:03:08.460 This pattern is getting really common.
00:03:10.580 In the same day, same area, Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow, and she's made a point of pandering 1.00
00:03:15.660 to the pro-Hamas gangs for months now.
00:03:18.400 It was to no avail.
00:03:19.200 She tried to make a short speech at the event.
00:03:21.220 She was drowned out by the howling of the pro-Hamas demonstrators and they overwhelmed
00:03:24.860 her.
00:03:25.500 Security kept the thugs from actually touching Chow, but no arrests were made or efforts
00:03:29.360 were made to remove them from the site.
00:03:31.220 The thugs won the day and they took over the park.
00:03:33.520 And Mayor Chow at the end of it says, this is what democracy looks like.
00:03:36.360 No, Ms. Chow, that's an uncontrolled mob rule is what that is. 0.98
00:03:41.200 And it's the opposite of democracy.
00:03:43.260 But what do socialists know about democracy?
00:03:44.800 That's something they always have difficulty with.
00:03:47.160 It all follows a pattern of appeasement and lack of law enforcement when it comes to the
00:03:50.460 pro-Hamas lobby in Canada.
00:03:52.740 And it's coast to coast.
00:03:54.240 In Vancouver, Jewish girls were assailed on a public transit by thugs howling anti-Semitic
00:03:59.120 threats.
00:04:00.160 No effort seems to have been made to lay hate crime charges, though.
00:04:02.560 Had the victims been anybody else but Jews being targeted for their race or ethnicity
00:04:07.300 or religion, I suspect it would look different.
00:04:09.660 Jewish students have been intimidated and threatened on post-secondary campuses across
00:04:13.320 the country.
00:04:14.220 A University of BC family medicine professor of 30 years resigned from the university in
00:04:18.860 disgust due to the anti-Semitism he's had.
00:04:21.500 He says, screw you, I'm retiring.
00:04:23.200 At York University, the staff and some faculty found themselves charged for vandalizing a Jewish
00:04:28.400 owned business.
00:04:29.120 So what happened?
00:04:29.760 Well, anti-Semitic students and faculty staged a protest and a walkout in support of the anti-Jewish
00:04:36.900 vandals.
00:04:37.460 And how does it feel being a Jewish student in that school or any Canadian university?
00:04:41.680 They're not feeling protected by institutions themselves or, of course, the law.
00:04:45.760 While they were trespassing to try and block commerce at a Jewish owned business in a mall 1.00
00:04:49.040 in Toronto, we saw that one of the protesters took the time to threaten to kill somebody
00:04:53.220 right in front of the police officers.
00:04:55.520 The emasculated officers just stood there and did nothing.
00:04:58.280 The ongoing incidents of pathetic policing are too long to list.
00:05:03.840 I'm going to finish with the granddaddy of them, though, in Canada.
00:05:06.360 When Hamas supporting anti-Jewish protesters, they've been regularly and illegally blocking
00:05:10.080 an exit in Toronto from a freeway going into a Jewish community.
00:05:13.420 Yes, pure targeting and terrorizing of the local Jewish community and population.
00:05:17.880 We consider it a hate crime, as I said, with any other community.
00:05:20.220 In response, the police officers acted as concierges and blocked the road for these guys and brought
00:05:26.260 them nice hot cups of coffee to help them beat the chill while they spread their hatred 0.98
00:05:29.920 and intimidation.
00:05:30.780 I wish I was making this up.
00:05:32.840 So how has this campaign of appeasement of Hamas thugs been going?
00:05:35.880 Have the anti-Semitic incidents declined?
00:05:37.920 Have the pro-Hamas protests become less aggressive or are they starting to obey local laws?
00:05:43.100 Of course not.
00:05:44.340 The protesters are only becoming more emboldened.
00:05:46.680 They know they have nothing to lose in intimidating the members of the public and public officials
00:05:50.340 as well because the cowardly police forces refuse to intervene.
00:05:54.740 Things are only going to end one of two ways now, guys.
00:05:57.260 If the police continues its campaign of inaction in the face of these hateful, aggressive, illegal
00:06:03.460 protests, citizens will eventually step up and take matters into their own hands.
00:06:07.460 This is the natural progression when a state allows things to descend into chaos and lawlessness.
00:06:12.720 But vigilantes are rarely gentle with the application of justice and they can often target the wrong
00:06:16.500 people.
00:06:16.860 It is not a good way to deal with issues.
00:06:19.580 The police could also actually step up and start making arrests.
00:06:23.000 Hate crimes, death threats, they can carry some serious sentences.
00:06:25.420 That is when those charges are laid.
00:06:27.180 So get on with it.
00:06:27.980 You know, you don't need to arrest them all.
00:06:30.180 They just need to arrest some of them. 0.87
00:06:32.160 Arrest the leaders.
00:06:33.400 Give them serious charges.
00:06:34.580 Rest assured, many of the protests will suddenly back down for fear of being incarcerated or
00:06:38.780 getting fines or losing work or perhaps their student visas or residency in the country,
00:06:43.320 depending on their citizenship status, might be at risk.
00:06:46.500 I suspect those protests would suddenly fall dramatically.
00:06:50.120 As it is now, though, these extremists have nothing to lose and they know it.
00:06:52.880 This shouldn't be that complicated, but it won't get any easier for waiting.
00:06:56.440 Multiple Jewish schools have been shot at.
00:06:58.840 A Jewish deli was just firebombed.
00:07:01.080 This is serious business.
00:07:02.140 This is crystal knot, guys.
00:07:03.900 And eventually somebody is going to be killed if this isn't brought under control soon.
00:07:07.020 The pro-Hamas gangs, they're only a tiny minority of a minority, yet they have Canadian 0.99
00:07:10.880 authorities hiding with their tails between their legs.
00:07:14.920 Permissiveness has allowed a group to feel above the law and they're getting bolder and it's
00:07:18.460 an embarrassment for the entire nation.
00:07:19.900 This has to stop.
00:07:21.320 It's up to police and politicians now and who's going to do it, though?
00:07:24.400 It'd be better if authorities found their balls and did it themselves.
00:07:27.820 But if not, citizens will.
00:07:30.200 I just wish the government and police would do their jobs.
00:07:32.800 That's what's got me going today and lots of other things.
00:07:36.460 We'll get on to that.
00:07:37.320 So let's see what else is happening out there and check in.
00:07:39.200 It's been a while since he's been here.
00:07:40.720 Here's our news editor, Dave Naylor.
00:07:41.940 Hey, Dave, how's it going?
00:07:43.280 Fresh from holidays, Corey, and really enjoying this weather.
00:07:47.000 Yeah, I'll bet.
00:07:49.340 But you know what?
00:07:49.960 It's hard to complain if we've gone all the way through January and haven't really had
00:07:54.500 a cold snap.
00:07:55.280 We can't really complain too much.
00:07:56.960 Sure we can.
00:07:58.020 Yeah, that's true.
00:07:58.620 As long as it goes away quick.
00:07:59.960 Hey, is Duke the Wonder Dog one of them outdoor dogs?
00:08:02.680 No, he hates it.
00:08:03.680 At least he still does go outside and do his business, but he doesn't stay out any longer
00:08:06.980 than he has to.
00:08:08.000 Don't you have little doggy boots for him? 0.98
00:08:10.220 No, we have a doggy door so he can kind of run back and forth as his feet come cold and he
00:08:14.760 come back in to warm them up.
00:08:15.920 He's quite spoiled.
00:08:17.360 Good.
00:08:17.540 Well, give him my regards.
00:08:18.880 Yeah, I will.
00:08:20.240 Lots of good stuff on the website this morning, a busy day.
00:08:26.060 Sort of leading off with a story out of Peterborough, Ontario, where our friends, the police seem
00:08:30.840 to have maybe got it a bit wrong again.
00:08:33.400 A store was robbed there by a thug who came in wielding a bat and he clubbed the store
00:08:41.220 clerk with the bat and they wrestled and the clerk was able to get the bat off him and send
00:08:47.340 him on his merry way and then chased him out the store and sort of gave him what for.
00:08:52.320 So now the police have charged the clerk with aggravated assault.
00:08:56.740 We've got more on the menzoid fallout.
00:09:00.620 He's the rebel reporter that was so rudely interrupted when he was trying to ask Chrystia
00:09:05.420 Freeland a question interrupted by the RCMP.
00:09:09.840 The NDP and the bloc have blocked a parliamentary committee from asking questions about that
00:09:16.880 incident.
00:09:18.460 Our opinion editor, Nigel Hannaford, has got a fun type column where he takes a shot at the
00:09:25.460 Globe and Mail.
00:09:26.520 The Globe and Mail actually called themselves independent journalism.
00:09:31.180 Imagine the audacity of that.
00:09:33.500 The grey old Globe and Mail says they're independent.
00:09:37.820 We've got a nice story on a little Calgary puppy called Wally.
00:09:42.840 He was brought into the pound with a broken femur in his leg.
00:09:48.560 It turns out the city of Calgary has got their own veterinary clinic now that's up operating
00:09:53.120 and is first in Canada to be a municipally owned vet outlet.
00:09:57.460 And they picked Wally up, fixed him up, and he's now good to go.
00:10:02.020 If you're looking for a friend for Duke, he looks like he'd be a good prettiest dog, doesn't
00:10:06.900 he?
00:10:07.680 He looks nice enough, and I'm certain somebody will snap him up.
00:10:10.120 But we've got enough critters in our household to keep us for now, I think.
00:10:13.820 I'm sure Wally will find a good place to land.
00:10:16.240 Oh, I bet you he's already adopted by a good Western Standard reader.
00:10:19.640 But those are the main highlights at the moment, Corey, lots of other stuff up there to keep
00:10:24.600 the reader entertained.
00:10:26.620 So, yeah, that's it at the moment.
00:10:28.720 Right on.
00:10:29.360 Well, thanks for the update, Dave, and I'll let you get back to catching up after your
00:10:32.900 break there. 0.76
00:10:33.620 Yeah, we'll see you later on the pipeline.
00:10:35.280 You bet.
00:10:36.220 All right, that is our news editor, Dave Naylor.
00:10:37.980 I see lots of stuff breaking.
00:10:39.180 Stuff from the good news stories with the dogs to the opinions, as we said, with Nigel
00:10:42.900 Hannaford to all sorts of news copy on the issues as they break and as we write
00:10:48.280 up on them, that's where I kind of like to remind all you guys, this is why, you know,
00:10:51.840 unlike the Globe and Mail, when we say we're independent, we actually mean it.
00:10:55.160 And it's true. 0.56
00:10:56.300 But the reason we are is because you guys have subscribed.
00:10:58.940 We're subscriber based very much.
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00:11:05.040 And it keeps us going, keeps those reporters out there, keeps those columnists writing,
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00:11:11.840 It's really appreciated.
00:11:12.940 If you already have, thank you very much.
00:11:14.660 And hey, you know, nag, share it with friends, get other people to subscribe. 0.96
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00:11:20.860 It's really important.
00:11:23.260 Because, yeah, we'll talk about things others won't.
00:11:25.740 Here's something I want to talk about.
00:11:27.340 This is, let's get into the world of insanity, the world of the woke.
00:11:30.940 It would help, you know, segue things for my guest when he does get here.
00:11:35.740 This was from the National Post, but, you know, so good on them.
00:11:39.440 Adam Zivo wrote,
00:11:40.460 that BC's planning to give safer supply of fentanyl now to minors.
00:11:46.300 Yeah, to kids.
00:11:47.220 And parents don't have a say.
00:11:49.320 There's no minimum age listed in the protocols for this tax-funded drugs that they're going to give out free to minors in BC.
00:11:56.520 If your kids are addicts considering becoming addicts or whatnot,
00:12:00.580 BC is planning to give your kids drugs if they want them. 1.00
00:12:03.480 Fentanyl, in fact, very strong, serious, dangerous drug.
00:12:08.280 And you won't even be allowed to know as a parent.
00:12:12.420 You know, you can't make this crap up.
00:12:16.100 It's nuts.
00:12:18.220 And this is what's going on out in BC.
00:12:21.600 How bad does the havoc have to get?
00:12:23.720 I call them the enablist, the enablement cult, because it's really to that point.
00:12:28.980 It doesn't matter how badly they see the carnage on the streets, how contrary it is to just simple common sense.
00:12:36.160 They are fixated on enabling addiction and somehow thinking that if we could just give these addicts enough drugs,
00:12:44.480 they'll kick the habit. 0.83
00:12:46.220 It doesn't work that way.
00:12:47.960 And what's happening is it's spreading.
00:12:50.000 We're seeing that.
00:12:50.840 We saw stories.
00:12:51.600 We've seen exposés.
00:12:52.480 We saw that in Nanaimo.
00:12:54.320 The dealers would hang out outside of the place where they're distributing the free drugs because the addicts get the drugs.
00:13:01.020 They give them to their, they sell those drugs because they're not strong enough for the hardcore addicts.
00:13:05.440 They sell those.
00:13:05.940 That's where it gets to the kids.
00:13:07.200 That's where it gets to the young ones, new addicts spreading the problem.
00:13:10.340 And then they buy their street crap and tend to overdose and get messed up on that.
00:13:14.740 That's the cycle.
00:13:16.160 But the enablist just won't give up on that.
00:13:19.740 They just won't.
00:13:20.460 And every time, every time you go out in the streets, it gets worse.
00:13:23.340 When you see, you know, the number of addicts, the housing encampments, the tense cities, worse and worse and worse.
00:13:32.760 Yet these guys keep doubling down and they still manage to shock me.
00:13:37.120 I'm a crabby show host.
00:13:38.700 I write these columns on these things.
00:13:40.260 I think very little of these lunatics.
00:13:42.080 Yet still, I didn't expect to see a headline like I did today when they said they plan on giving.
00:13:47.440 And I see they, in the headline, thankfully put it in quotation, safer supply of fentanyl to minors in BC.
00:13:54.160 And the parents will not be allowed to have any say in it or even know it's happening.
00:13:58.560 The world has gone mad.
00:13:59.900 It really has.
00:14:00.700 This isn't even talking about, you know, some of the idiocy of the gender pronoun thing and whether your kids want to identify as this or that and whether the school should let parents know or not. 0.79
00:14:09.020 These are kind of minor in the whole scheme of things.
00:14:11.760 This is your children being given drugs like fentanyl and you aren't allowed to know about it as a parent.
00:14:17.680 But it's absurd.
00:14:19.480 And I had to double check.
00:14:21.400 It's not April 1st.
00:14:22.580 This is really happening on Canada's West Coast.
00:14:25.340 And, yeah, I don't know.
00:14:26.280 It's a West Coast thing.
00:14:27.600 Canada is certainly far from alone in this by a long shot.
00:14:33.220 And that's why I'm looking forward to my guest who's going to come on shortly.
00:14:35.660 He's author George Denny.
00:14:37.900 And he wrote Wokeland, which is, you know, getting into the American West Coast.
00:14:41.460 I've had a guest on, you know, a legislator from Oregon and the insanity that's going on there.
00:14:45.780 And there's just something in the water on the West.
00:14:49.540 I don't know what it is, but they're letting things go.
00:14:52.980 And it's going badly and quickly.
00:14:55.480 So he's written a novel.
00:14:57.580 And it's a fictional novel.
00:14:59.160 But, of course, it's depicting and looking ahead to what things are going to evolve to or potentially evolve to if we keep letting the land of the woke evolve and do what it does.
00:15:07.840 And it's focused in California.
00:15:09.860 And, you know, things that happen in California, it seems like they come here a little later on.
00:15:14.480 So it's good to talk to Mr. Denny first and see what we've got to look forward to.
00:15:18.760 So let's bring him in and have our conversation here.
00:15:22.880 Mr. George Denny.
00:15:24.080 Hey, thank you very much for joining us today, Mr. Denny.
00:15:27.220 Thank you for having me on, Corey.
00:15:29.380 Yeah.
00:15:29.860 So I just I like books, you know, like yours, the way you're making that effort.
00:15:35.280 Like it's a serious message.
00:15:36.300 It's a serious issue.
00:15:37.520 But putting it into a work of fiction makes it more palatable for people, you know, consumable.
00:15:43.480 I think of things like Atlas Shrugged or 1984 or Animal Farm where you'll have a plot to read.
00:15:50.820 I mean, there's weenies like me.
00:15:51.960 I'll read The Road to Serfdom. 0.90
00:15:53.300 But most people won't put packing it into a fictional package, I guess, makes it more consumable.
00:15:59.760 Was that sort of your intent and what you put together in this novel?
00:16:02.140 I guess it was, and you actually brought in a couple of my influences, you know, 1984 being the gold standard of authoritarian dystopia.
00:16:12.880 Wokeland came from the idea that California is so off the rails.
00:16:17.060 Let's let's give the rest of it to the people who are currently running the government so that we can go full on identitarian and make your identity the driving force of really every conversation and every claim about truth.
00:16:30.300 Well, that's it.
00:16:33.120 And I guess with what you put together, it's sort of, I guess, a situation where we're saying, OK, let's let them have it.
00:16:39.120 Let's let them do it.
00:16:39.960 They've become their own state.
00:16:41.480 Let's be permissive and let all of those woke policies just run their course and become implemented in law.
00:16:47.820 And I guess it's your vision of how the world would look in that circumstance, right?
00:16:52.900 Absolutely.
00:16:53.300 I mean, so one of the things that I think a lot of people are catching on to the DEI discussion these days is that it's really a backdoor to a sort of identitarian Marxism to make each group the same became the overarching goal of San Francisco and the West Coast and identity politics and therefore broke in all of our American freedoms, rights of individualism and so forth that that allowed our country to be this great.
00:17:20.940 San Francisco also is a great place to set the novel because there's really no idea that's too extreme.
00:17:26.700 As you said earlier, San Francisco and Vancouver do have certain overlaps in terms of permissible drug policy.
00:17:34.680 And I think the outcomes speak for themselves.
00:17:37.500 Not everyone realizes that San Francisco has a bigger budget than New York with the outcomes that are quite world famous.
00:17:45.120 And it's just such a shame to watch.
00:17:47.180 I mean, California is a fantastic state.
00:17:49.940 I mean, it's beautiful.
00:17:50.900 It's blessed with an abundance of resources from oil and gas to agriculture to human resources to Hollywood, even for that matter.
00:17:57.500 Yet now we're seeing a changing of the tides.
00:18:00.440 I mean, the net domestic migration has been dropping in California.
00:18:04.340 People are fleeing California for other states despite all that potential.
00:18:08.680 I mean, illegal immigrants are kind of coming in at a large level, but people are voting with their feet. 1.00
00:18:15.360 You know, that can only lead to bad things in the long run.
00:18:19.020 Yeah, it's a fairly predictable process.
00:18:22.980 I mean, California had, as you mentioned, all these economic opportunities from Silicon Valley to Hollywood to land in the Central Valley where you can grow anything, which is why our farmers love California and actually stick around.
00:18:36.360 But the outward economic migration is oftentimes taxpayers replaced by economic dependence in the cities who are oftentimes drug addicts and homeless.
00:18:48.220 And as you can see from our major cities, sort of replacing the old system that built California.
00:18:57.220 And this used to be somewhat of a conservative state 30 and 40 years ago.
00:19:01.880 And now we are bordering on socialists.
00:19:04.800 Well, and it seems to really stem a lot, though.
00:19:08.380 I mean, from the civic level, and we're doing that here, too.
00:19:11.600 I mean, Calgary is in Alberta and Western Canada.
00:19:14.140 We're known as the Texas of Canada, typically the more conservative part of Canada.
00:19:19.060 But we elect these far, far left mayors and councils for whatever reason.
00:19:23.900 And then we're always shocked when they become exactly what they are.
00:19:27.260 I mean, in San Francisco, though, what's interesting, we're watching London breed infighting with white progressives now, though, because there's one of the interesting things that happens with the woke.
00:19:36.200 They start eating their own.
00:19:37.340 And, you know, when you're so focused on identity, you can't even get along with your allies any longer.
00:19:42.480 It's been kind of a bizarre thing to watch down there.
00:19:46.180 And that is somewhat entertaining for a lot of us, because there's really no such thing as being woke enough.
00:19:54.040 You know, the battle in San Francisco is not Democrats and Republicans.
00:19:57.420 It's Republicans and Democratic Socialists, which was my last supervisor in District 5, Dean Preston, who wants to challenge London breed for mayor from the left.
00:20:09.180 So even though London breed is running a city that a lot of Democrats would approve of, in San Francisco, she's constantly being attacked from the left for not doing enough, not defunding the police more than the 3% that she did in 2020. 1.00
00:20:23.440 And, you know, not quite being progressive to the socialists' desires.
00:20:29.720 So in the fictional depiction you have, basically, California has sort of broken away.
00:20:35.620 There's been something of an independent state now, though dominated by the woke.
00:20:40.180 I mean, when we see that population shift, though, I mean, the people of ambition, the people of common sense, the people of means are fleeing.
00:20:46.840 When you get that misbalance, it doesn't necessarily, it's not that necessarily unbelievable that you can start seeing secessionist movements.
00:20:55.480 It would be interesting, and, you know, certainly the premise of the book isolates California and proposes an American solution to our current division by sort of putting all of the far left in the same place in California and allowing the rest of the country to sort of get back to the classic American values.
00:21:17.800 But the future of Wokland is, in many ways, reflective of the California of today with the outgoing migration and people who love California for what can't be ruined, but the way that government has really taken over all of it, pushed out the middle class and made it so hard to live here, I think portends a future Wokland in some way.
00:21:40.560 Yeah, well, dark comedy almost would be kind of some words that could be applied.
00:21:45.120 You use some, a little bit of humor in a sense, but it's more you got to laugh to keep yourself from crying sort of thing.
00:21:51.480 And the actions of the woke or the trends of things certainly give you a lot of writing material.
00:21:55.920 It sounds absurd, but are based on very real efforts and things going on today, aren't they?
00:21:59.880 Absolutely. And, you know, one of the first images that I had that made me write this book is the idea that all of these identitarian politics sound like great virtue signals, but when push comes to shove, it's really hard to get anything done.
00:22:16.600 And I said, Act One, at the end, there's a battle for South Lake Tahoe on the border of California and Nevada.
00:22:25.400 And in a situation of combat, I think the stakes couldn't be higher, and that's really a way to weed out the virtue signals and what's really important to people.
00:22:36.400 So in that sense, it might be a dark comedy for military vets.
00:22:40.620 Yeah, well, and Lake Tahoe, I mean, you know, I read some of the crazy things in California.
00:22:47.740 Everybody's kind of seeing as we get larger populations, some things are happening.
00:22:50.900 Fresh potable water is a commodity that's getting expensive and difficult to come across.
00:22:56.260 But I recall a recent big desalinization project that was supposed to come along to hopefully ease some of the water issues and things going on and to help with that and reduce the draining of things like Lake Mead and things like that.
00:23:08.520 It got shut down, though, by the woke again, because apparently they were worried about pulling water from the Pacific Ocean.
00:23:15.800 Are you familiar with that one? It really kind of shocked me up here.
00:23:20.380 Yeah, I mean, so the environmental agenda in California has worked against a number of things,
00:23:26.200 but the water issue is really what pits the urban cities and oftentimes the true blue population of California against the red farmers in the center of the state.
00:23:35.180 You know, it sort of reminds me of how if you wanted to even redecorate your bathroom,
00:23:41.980 you'd have to get an environmental impact report and about three years of paperwork to even propose the city tax you for it.
00:23:52.280 Well, and the disrespect, I guess, in general for you mentioned earlier, you know, individualism, individual rights,
00:23:58.120 or even getting into businesses.
00:23:59.240 I seem to recall a while back, maybe you can give me an update, I didn't follow up on that.
00:24:03.920 Karen Boss in Los Angeles, they were talking about forcing hotels to take homeless people in if they had vacant rooms in their hotels.
00:24:11.420 I mean, that the concept of private property and what the hotel owners pick and choose who can stay in them was not even a consideration for these guys.
00:24:18.400 Did that ever actually come to being or did some common sense prevail on that one?
00:24:22.340 No, common sense has not prevailed.
00:24:26.160 And the sanctuary city laws of America are actually becoming more and more at the forefront as the hotels,
00:24:33.020 which you mentioned, in places like New York and I think Chicago have now been completely full.
00:24:38.600 So they are closing schools.
00:24:40.900 This is the announcement from New York that some schools will go to remote learning because they have migrants sleeping in the gyms and so forth. 0.98
00:24:50.460 In Los Angeles, in Karen Bass, you have a really steadfast homeless problem because the existing strategy of Housing First pretty much promises to be an attractive, you know,
00:25:05.500 the carrot that draws more and more homeless in as you deal with your existing population.
00:25:12.520 So your book, I mean, offers, as the other ones we mentioned before, sort of a warning.
00:25:16.640 I mean, it's a prediction.
00:25:18.320 It's where this path could go.
00:25:19.900 But do you feel optimism, I mean, that this path can be avoided, that this track towards such a, you know,
00:25:26.100 the fictional land of Wokland and the insanity, can you avoid that outcome?
00:25:32.560 Yeah, well, I hope so.
00:25:34.960 And I think there are moments in time that come along that split the American electorate.
00:25:40.700 I think Israel and Palestine right now has divided the left in certain ways.
00:25:46.160 I think there are data points, like there was once the defund police movement.
00:25:50.300 Now in Democratic circles, no one will even admit that that happened.
00:25:54.140 So I think that that shows the capacity for learning.
00:25:58.640 And in a representative democracy, you hope that we will eventually vote in better ways,
00:26:04.520 even though we're empowered to make really disastrous political decisions out here.
00:26:08.800 Yeah, well, there have been some wake-up calls for the woke.
00:26:11.800 I seem to recall a little while back, actually, I think it was a CNN news crew that was setting up in San Francisco to do something.
00:26:16.380 They left their car for 20 minutes and came back and found that it had been broken into and they'd been robbed.
00:26:22.160 You know, welcome to San Francisco.
00:26:23.900 And I'm sure it seasons a little of, you know, the biased view they might have been coming into
00:26:30.300 and thinking they were going to report on when they show up in San Francisco
00:26:32.940 and find out that the high crime and the disorder is not an exaggeration and nobody's immune from it.
00:26:39.900 It's not only not an exaggeration, but it's so out in the open.
00:26:43.400 I remember once talking to a police commissioner and suggesting he do, for car break-ins, you know, any sting operation.
00:26:50.060 And everyone else in the community call immediately started laughing that you wouldn't have to wait more than two minutes
00:26:57.500 for a computer in the back of a car to be stolen.
00:27:00.360 And I think they just don't have the manpower.
00:27:03.360 San Francisco is, like a lot of blue cities, in a recruiting crisis.
00:27:07.760 The defund police movement, while it only trimmed a few actual officers from San Francisco, it destroyed morale.
00:27:15.360 And I don't think they've climbed out of that hole even yet.
00:27:17.600 No, it's a hard time to be a police officer.
00:27:20.880 And again, I mean, just for examples that come from up here north of the border and in Montreal, Canada,
00:27:25.940 the local police there just recently put out a statement because people had been putting out video of their doorbell cameras
00:27:32.060 as the thieves come up and steal their packages off of their patios.
00:27:36.500 And the police warned people, stop posting those because you're infringing on the privacy of the thieves.
00:27:42.200 Well, the privacy of the thieves.
00:27:46.220 I mean, that's so disrespectful to be mean to your local thief.
00:27:51.420 Well, yeah, it's just insane, you know.
00:27:53.800 And as I said, you know, the material just almost kind of writes itself and you've compiled it into a book and a dystopian future.
00:28:00.080 But that's what I just like to remind people, you know, it's not that fictional with these things.
00:28:04.760 There really are authorities and governments and people who just really are that disconnected from reality and victimizing the victims.
00:28:12.840 It's frustrating.
00:28:15.040 Absolutely true.
00:28:16.260 Absolutely true.
00:28:16.980 Well, I really, you know, appreciate you writing this and coming on to talk to us today about it.
00:28:23.060 And, you know, the important part, where does somebody go to get a copy of your book?
00:28:27.940 I see a couple of sites it's available on.
00:28:31.100 Well, we're on Amazon.
00:28:33.040 We're on Barnes & Noble.
00:28:34.560 Wokeland.com should have been just set up so you can get a link through there.
00:28:38.840 But it's Woke, L-Y-N-D, Wokeland, misspelled, just to sort of reflect the education system.
00:28:47.480 Yeah, and I appreciate you pointing that out because some people don't have the visual.
00:28:51.560 They'll be listening on the podcast.
00:28:53.020 So if you're searching for it, you've got to spell it a little differently or look for George P. Denny and you'll get it.
00:28:58.600 Do you have future books in mind?
00:29:01.060 Are you working on a sequel or another one in the future here?
00:29:04.280 Well, it's not a sequel, but I have a far lighter book on the intersection of romance and technology, also set in San Francisco.
00:29:14.960 And funnier, easier to read, but not nearly so political and deep.
00:29:22.880 Okay, well, hey, we can't always read nothing but the political and deep stuff.
00:29:27.000 Well, thank you very much for coming on to talk to us today.
00:29:29.660 And I really hope your book sells excellently or continues to.
00:29:34.700 And I always appreciate just, you know, again, people packaging up serious messages into a nice palatable package like that so we can read it and make people think.
00:29:44.600 Thank you so much.
00:29:45.540 Best of luck to you and to Canada.
00:29:47.400 Great, thanks.
00:29:48.080 All right.
00:29:48.440 So that was George P. Denny, author of Wokeland.
00:29:51.620 And as he said, it's spelled Woke, L-Y-N-D.
00:29:54.360 And if you Google those things, you will find his book and get that picture, that image of that potential dystopian future.
00:30:01.920 As I said before, I watch things that are happening in California.
00:30:06.100 And I'm sure that Calgary's mayor and some of the others watch what's going on down there for inspiration for themselves.
00:30:12.780 Because the things you say, oh, my God, that we wouldn't be so crazy as to do that up here.
00:30:15.860 And six months later, here we are doing it.
00:30:19.400 So with what Mr. Denny has been writing about, that is what we've got to look forward to if we don't figure out how to slam the brakes.
00:30:27.320 And as he said, it's not all negative.
00:30:29.180 You know, some people are learning.
00:30:30.320 They're figuring some things out.
00:30:31.760 You hit some walls and reevaluate where you're going.
00:30:35.520 So speaking of dystopian and weird and police and things like that, one of the areas that a lot of people have been talking about, of course, lately has been with David Menzies out in, he's the rebel news reporter.
00:30:48.360 This, I think even Elon Musk jumped in on X about that when the video went pretty viral.
00:30:53.820 He was walking along trying to kind of scrum Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland.
00:30:59.340 And suddenly from the side, this bald-headed gentleman here, you can see in the picture, was a plainclothes police officer who stepped in his way and bumped him.
00:31:10.720 And then it was just, it was bizarre.
00:31:12.520 He roughly slams Menzies against a billboard screen and says he's going to be arrested for assaulting a police officer.
00:31:21.240 It was completely ridiculous, completely out of bounds and inexcusable.
00:31:27.300 You know, I'm seeing some of the people, although there's this rebel news, who cares?
00:31:32.260 Guys, you don't have to like rebel to respect their rights to do their business.
00:31:40.560 And you can see the video playing for the people watching it on the side.
00:31:43.680 Yeah, you can see Freeland goes over and suddenly look at him slamming Menzies up there. 0.92
00:31:47.620 I mean, Menzies has been arrested before.
00:31:50.080 People point that out.
00:31:51.080 He does a lot of gotcha journalism.
00:31:54.160 He likes making a lot of noise, a lot of sensationalism.
00:31:58.140 But in this case going on here, he was not being aggressive.
00:32:01.700 He was not breaking any laws.
00:32:03.060 He was not crossing any lines.
00:32:05.020 At worst, he was annoying.
00:32:06.920 At most, what security should have done in that circumstance is kind of get in the way and say,
00:32:11.360 excuse me, sir, please move aside.
00:32:13.260 She's going into an event or something like this.
00:32:15.180 But that physical altercation, the slamming of him against that.
00:32:19.980 And then suddenly you see later in the video, he's handcuffed by four police officers as if he's a monstrous, dangerous criminal.
00:32:27.820 I mean, again, the politician is long gone by now.
00:32:30.520 And he was charged.
00:32:32.300 The charges were dropped four hours later.
00:32:34.460 And then some people say, Stacey, no harm, no foul.
00:32:36.440 No, no, no, no, no, no, no, guys.
00:32:38.320 It doesn't work that way.
00:32:40.080 There was harm.
00:32:41.160 There was a foul.
00:32:42.020 There was a chilling effect.
00:32:43.180 There was an assault against a person doing their job.
00:32:48.640 You don't have to like how they do it.
00:32:50.120 You don't have to think he's good at doing it.
00:32:51.880 You don't have to think he's credible at doing it.
00:32:53.900 But you bloody well have got to respect his right to do it.
00:32:57.220 And it was violated.
00:32:59.320 And I tell you what, if you know how, you know, Rebel operates in a lot of ways,
00:33:04.120 and hey, they go into some things, they break some stuff that other outlets don't, whether you like them or you don't like them.
00:33:10.060 But the other thing is, they love fundraising, and they love finding causes and things like that.
00:33:14.580 Well, guess what?
00:33:15.480 This one, I bet you, is doing great for them because people are furious.
00:33:19.880 They've got the site up, raising funds for Mr. Menzies.
00:33:22.920 So do you really think that in giggling and supporting that sort of police abuse of a reporter, that you're actually harming Rebel?
00:33:31.040 And yes, there is.
00:33:32.280 He's already said that there's going to be a lawsuit against the police force and others.
00:33:35.920 And yeah, he's going to win.
00:33:37.140 He's going to win.
00:33:38.860 So I just see nothing but losses all over the place, except, yeah, sure, Rebel will get a few bucks, but that's not the right way to get it.
00:33:45.140 Of course, that's, you know, people have to understand it's more important to protect the rights of ones you don't like than the ones you like.
00:33:57.120 It's easy to say, you know, stand up for the ones you like, but you've got to stand up for the ones you don't.
00:34:01.500 Well, I don't dislike Menzies. 1.00
00:34:03.800 He's, as I said, he's sensationalistic.
00:34:06.300 He's a bit bombastic.
00:34:08.420 He gets in their face.
00:34:09.840 There's different styles.
00:34:10.960 There's different types of reporters in that.
00:34:14.900 And it's, they shouldn't be interfered with.
00:34:21.340 And I mean, for people who say it's not a big deal, keep in mind, the government in power today might not be the same one as later.
00:34:27.280 Do you, you know, to the left, he's not that there's a lot of them that watch my show.
00:34:30.680 But they got to think about that.
00:34:31.940 If, assuming it's Poliev who's in, and let's say he gets tired of the left-wing media and there's plenty of it.
00:34:38.940 I mean, he's done his method of dealing with them, you know, munching an apple while they try to shoot loaded questions at them or chewing them out.
00:34:45.080 But he's not having thugs slam them against walls and pull them aside and put handcuffs on them.
00:34:51.920 If the president gets set that these guys can get away with that, I'm not saying Poliev would do it, but he could.
00:34:58.080 Couldn't he?
00:34:59.220 Guys, this is serious business.
00:35:01.400 This is not a minor thing.
00:35:04.300 And better stand up and pay attention.
00:35:07.740 All right.
00:35:09.020 Oh, yeah.
00:35:09.580 Let's talk about a Code Brown.
00:35:11.160 I think everybody's kind of seen that one.
00:35:12.920 The airline, Alaska Airlines, I just can't imagine.
00:35:15.960 I don't like flying at the best of times.
00:35:17.760 It's just not one of my favorite things.
00:35:20.080 And I've done a lot of it.
00:35:21.920 I'm sure if I was on that plane, though, when a piece, I guess there's a piece that covers where there was a potential door port and they bolted on.
00:35:28.560 Mid-flight, this thing falls off.
00:35:31.340 The air is whipping through this jet.
00:35:33.960 Some kid's shirt got ripped right off him.
00:35:35.920 Phones got ripped out and thrown out the door.
00:35:38.700 Nightmare fuel, guys.
00:35:39.980 Just pure nightmare fuel.
00:35:41.340 Thankfully, no serious injuries.
00:35:43.060 But as I said, Code Brown, I'm sure I would have ruined my underwear.
00:35:46.200 And a lot of people on that flight's underwear was ruined.
00:35:48.800 That's just nuts.
00:35:50.820 Scary stuff.
00:35:51.880 And then I see, I open the news and I see it.
00:35:53.840 Air Canada.
00:35:54.780 Oh, yes.
00:35:55.240 You know, we've got to get in on the mix.
00:35:56.940 Though this isn't a screw up on the airport on Air Canada's part for a change.
00:36:00.620 I'll give them that.
00:36:01.520 But I guess they're investigating a passenger on board a flight from Toronto to Dubai.
00:36:06.460 Opened a cabin door.
00:36:08.040 He opened the door himself or something.
00:36:10.220 And fell out onto the tarmac on his face.
00:36:13.580 He didn't fall far enough because he survived, the idiot.
00:36:15.820 You know, I'm just talking as far as the Darwin Awards go.
00:36:18.320 If people watch Dumb and Dumber, there's that scene actually where he goes running, you know, up the airline gate and up to an airplane.
00:36:26.240 The plane's pulled away and the idiot goes running out the edge and slaps onto the tarmac.
00:36:29.540 Well, I guess that's what this twit did with Air Canada.
00:36:32.220 But, you know, just for a light note on something.
00:36:34.060 Anyways, from something that could have been very serious.
00:36:36.560 I imagine a door flying off a plane also could have led to a crash or a whole lot of terrible things.
00:36:40.880 And it didn't.
00:36:41.340 So let's be happy for that.
00:36:42.840 But, oh, how terrifying it must be.
00:36:45.660 And, yes, here's the other dolt opening a door on his own on a parked airplane and falling onto the tarmac.
00:36:52.680 Boy, there's a lot of stupid people.
00:36:54.840 Commenter, angry Canadian, saying, shouldn't those doors have locks?
00:36:57.700 I'm going to throw a guess out here, but I'm saying no.
00:37:00.500 In the case of the guy who let himself out and fell on the tarmac, you have to keep it so it can be opened by a passenger because there are emergency exits, right?
00:37:07.320 Like perhaps there would be an incident where there's not a person in authority to open that.
00:37:12.500 Maybe there's a fire coming through the cabin.
00:37:14.060 Maybe it just crash landed, something like that.
00:37:15.840 You have to make the doors able to be opened quickly and easily by somebody.
00:37:21.400 Unfortunately, that doesn't stop the morons.
00:37:23.460 And that's the bigger risk you have.
00:37:25.240 So I don't know what you do, you know, give an IQ test and the people who are under a certain level are chained to their seats to drool for the flight so they don't open doors on the tarmac or something. 0.96
00:37:32.740 I don't know.
00:37:33.800 But the world's a crazy place.
00:37:36.480 Some interesting numbers coming in.
00:37:38.020 As, again, this ongoing thing, you know, our immigration is just massive right now and our housing crisis is hitting, inflation is hitting. 0.97
00:37:45.580 It looks like 355,000 foreign students have chosen to stay in Canada as permanent residents.
00:37:53.180 See, this is part of when they do the number juggling.
00:37:56.040 Some people, liberal defenders and everything say, no, the actual immigrants are only, you know, 400, 500,000 a year.
00:38:00.720 Yeah, but they neglect talking about the people here on temporary visas, people here who are students, they're supposed to be temporary, things like that.
00:38:08.340 Well, 355,000, almost 30% of them stayed permanently.
00:38:12.420 And, you know, it's not necessarily a bad thing, okay?
00:38:14.760 These are hardworking students, many of them, they're contributing, they're going to go out, get jobs, they've taken their training, whatever that may be, and post-secondary.
00:38:23.400 They've paid a premium to go to those schools.
00:38:25.360 They spent a lot of money to go to them.
00:38:27.360 But it also does add to the challenges we have, okay?
00:38:31.920 They still need houses, they still need food, they still need cars, they still need all of these things.
00:38:37.400 So when we talk about those immigration numbers being beyond just what the government is purposely taking in year over year,
00:38:44.340 let's bear in mind we've got hundreds of thousands of students who are graduating and staying,
00:38:48.400 which can be good for the economy, can be good for everything.
00:38:51.540 We need more nurses, we need more doctors, we need more chemists, we need more carpenters, you name it. 1.00
00:38:57.060 But let's be real with the numbers.
00:39:00.460 They're big and they're coming in hard.
00:39:03.580 So let's see here.
00:39:07.540 Yeah, here we go with Gaza. 0.97
00:39:10.680 Speaking of which, so, you know, you might have heard as well,
00:39:13.460 the liberal government has jumped on and said we're going to bring in a thousand cousins, in-laws,
00:39:20.260 as extended family.
00:39:21.920 Yeah, we're getting pretty far on this.
00:39:24.380 And they did extend that as well, from Gaza.
00:39:26.780 As well, it's not even people who are necessarily Canadian citizens who have the family, cousins, in-laws,
00:39:33.760 and extended family they're going to allow to come in.
00:39:36.680 This is even people who consider themselves permanent residents here.
00:39:41.380 Guys, we have enough immigrants. 1.00
00:39:44.960 We have enough that we can pick and choose the better of the bunch.
00:39:51.280 Gaza is a nest of terrorists. 0.76
00:39:54.920 I'm just going to come out and say it.
00:39:56.560 Come on.
00:39:58.320 There's no other countries.
00:40:00.380 The Arab countries won't take them in. 1.00
00:40:02.720 This is not what we need right now.
00:40:04.800 I believe we should take in refugees in Canada.
00:40:06.980 I think it's one of the great things we can do.
00:40:08.720 There's people coming from war-torn countries in terrible situations, want to make a new life for themselves.
00:40:14.300 And we have the space, and they want to come here and work.
00:40:17.180 And I think it's fantastic, and we should bring in refugees.
00:40:19.520 But we've got to be selective with where we're bringing them from and who they are.
00:40:24.020 And I'm sorry, guys.
00:40:25.240 If the Gazan citizens want to stop the war, they should turn in their Hamas buddies. 1.00
00:40:31.220 Quit pretending that all these residents of Gaza didn't see the hundreds of kilometers of tunnels being built. 0.99
00:40:36.860 Quit pretending they didn't see the water lines ripped out and converted into missiles.
00:40:41.720 Quit pretending these citizens didn't see the training of the terrorists on hang gliders with their guns, the importing of the supplies.
00:40:50.160 And let's quit pretending that the reality is out there that over 75% of Gazans support Hamas.
00:40:56.820 Hamas is an illegal terrorist organization by Canada's definition.
00:41:02.640 So if we've got a population where three-quarters of them say outright they support the illegal terrorists that we have banned in this country,
00:41:10.700 why the hell would we bring them in?
00:41:13.060 You want to see peace in Gaza?
00:41:14.840 That's up to Gazans. 0.96
00:41:16.540 Tell the Gazans to turn in whatever surviving hostages are still there. 0.76
00:41:21.840 Gaza's only, again, it's under a million people.
00:41:23.940 They know where those hostages are, those poor ones who have been abused, and God knows what, in this last few months.
00:41:31.200 And they will not turn in their buddies.
00:41:33.760 So guess what?
00:41:34.640 Israel's going to keep bombing the crap out of you. 0.99
00:41:37.200 That's the way it works, guys.
00:41:38.660 You poke the hornet's nest, you get stung.
00:41:41.940 I don't like seeing the bombing and the civilian deaths and the collateral damage.
00:41:47.080 It's horrible.
00:41:47.660 But bringing the citizens over here, hell no.
00:41:51.800 We've already got enough of that battle taking place in our streets or even our skating rinks.
00:41:57.020 Do you think the thousand Gazans that we would bring in would just settle on in and become comfortable, functional citizens? 1.00
00:42:04.180 Or perhaps would they join the lunatics who are already causing trouble here?
00:42:10.940 Guys, let's be a little selective.
00:42:12.700 Speaking of government ineptitude, always lots of room for that, isn't there?
00:42:18.760 I saw a story that crossed.
00:42:20.780 So Canada, about a year ago, said they were going to give a $400 million surface-to-air missile system to Ukraine,
00:42:28.720 among all the other money and things that they're just throwing at Ukraine and everything.
00:42:31.780 Justin just loves giving our money to other people in other countries.
00:42:35.540 But we can't afford to take care of our own veterans, but we can send things over there.
00:42:39.280 But it turns out they've misplaced this surface-to-air missile system.
00:42:43.440 They can't find it.
00:42:44.760 And they're stonewalling. 1.00
00:42:46.200 People are starting to ask questions.
00:42:47.560 Ukraine's starting to ask questions.
00:42:48.760 You know, hey, shouldn't this kind of arrive by now?
00:42:52.860 They don't know where it is.
00:42:55.440 This is the government that wants to start a plastics registry, wants to register our firearms.
00:43:00.400 They think they can track my old duck gun from the basement,
00:43:03.020 yet they can't keep track of a $400 million surface-to-air missile system?
00:43:09.180 What did you twits do with it?
00:43:10.680 Where is it?
00:43:12.100 Did it even exist?
00:43:13.940 Angry Canadians saying it's on eBay.
00:43:16.220 Yeah, maybe, you know, or Craigslist or Kijiji or something.
00:43:19.580 Maybe.
00:43:20.080 If they wanted to ship it over to Ukraine, what they should have done,
00:43:23.960 this is a good workaround,
00:43:25.920 list it on Amazon but only privately send the message to Ukraine.
00:43:29.220 Get Ukraine to buy it for $5 and Amazon will ship it
00:43:31.780 because they seem to be able to get your package anywhere in short order.
00:43:35.640 It's amazing what those guys do.
00:43:36.840 You kings of logistics, you don't have to like Bezos,
00:43:39.500 you don't have to like Amazon itself, but holy crap, they're good at it.
00:43:42.820 But the Canadians, no, we've, oh, I don't know, it's in the other warehouse or something.
00:43:47.480 They've lost a $400 million surface-to-air missile system.
00:43:50.900 Good work, guys.
00:43:52.220 Good work.
00:43:53.900 My God, what an embarrassing country this is sometimes.
00:43:57.160 Speaking of which, Canada Post, here's another beauty, right?
00:43:59.500 So Canada Post is bleeding again.
00:44:01.300 You know, as I said, Amazon's making a fortune in shipping.
00:44:03.660 Package deliveries are huge.
00:44:05.000 They have been for companies and private companies all over,
00:44:07.260 particularly since COVID, except for Canada Post.
00:44:11.200 They can't seem to make money out of it,
00:44:13.140 even with the massive monopoly on these things they've got.
00:44:15.660 So they're losing money.
00:44:16.540 They're losing hundreds of millions a year.
00:44:19.360 Let's see, in 2023,
00:44:20.840 they figure they've lost $361 million in the first half of the year.
00:44:25.760 So they sold a subsidiary.
00:44:27.400 But here's the brilliance of it, too.
00:44:29.400 This subsidiary they sold,
00:44:31.880 it will be sold to Metro Supply Chain Incorporated of Montreal,
00:44:36.220 actually made profits.
00:44:38.840 It made, you know,
00:44:41.480 it had 300,
00:44:42.220 this subsidiary of Canada Post
00:44:43.740 at $327 million in revenues,
00:44:46.180 $16 million in profits.
00:44:47.200 Again, not a game changer
00:44:48.500 when you consider that they're on track
00:44:50.420 to lose over half a billion this year.
00:44:52.000 But still,
00:44:53.580 this is government bureaucrats in action, right?
00:44:55.500 We've got a crown corporation.
00:44:56.660 We've got something owned by the government.
00:44:58.100 One branch of it is actually making money
00:45:00.720 so they get rid of it.
00:45:02.740 Oh, wow.
00:45:06.640 Okay, well,
00:45:07.780 I wish them the best.
00:45:08.900 On the same lines,
00:45:09.600 I see in Alberta,
00:45:11.780 Premier Smith has talked about
00:45:12.920 selling the Sturgeon Refinery in Alberta.
00:45:15.180 That's a big white elephant
00:45:16.200 that's been going on up there.
00:45:17.660 So, I mean,
00:45:18.060 just to be fair with things, too,
00:45:19.220 because that was a conservative,
00:45:20.720 quote-unquote,
00:45:21.300 initiative from Stelmac.
00:45:22.780 Kenny supported it.
00:45:23.960 And it's just hung over
00:45:24.740 and been all the way up.
00:45:25.780 Government got into the business
00:45:26.800 of being in business.
00:45:27.760 And, of course, it stinks.
00:45:28.920 They're not recovering all the money
00:45:30.080 they put into it.
00:45:31.060 They probably aren't going to
00:45:32.100 unless somehow it manages
00:45:33.820 to survive for another
00:45:35.100 decade of operation
00:45:37.200 or something like that.
00:45:39.120 But Smith's actually
00:45:40.340 talking about selling it.
00:45:41.980 Good sign moving
00:45:42.640 in the right direction.
00:45:43.200 Not sure who would want
00:45:43.820 to buy it, though.
00:45:44.860 We will see.
00:45:46.340 But, again,
00:45:46.720 things like that.
00:45:47.200 If a private operator
00:45:48.040 gets hold of it,
00:45:48.800 they might be able
00:45:49.540 to actually turn it
00:45:50.620 into something
00:45:51.260 that makes money.
00:45:52.840 The battles in Alberta
00:45:53.460 we're going to see
00:45:54.080 with Premier Smith,
00:45:54.980 I'm looking forward to them
00:45:56.060 because she really
00:45:56.720 is a tough Premier.
00:45:58.460 She's willing to take on
00:45:59.340 the tough issues.
00:46:02.180 Health care reform,
00:46:02.820 things like that.
00:46:03.280 I see the nurses 0.94
00:46:03.680 are all howling in Alberta,
00:46:05.260 too.
00:46:05.400 Oh, Lord.
00:46:06.140 They're coming after them
00:46:07.000 with the overtime.
00:46:07.640 You see, look into
00:46:08.460 the nursing overtime scam,
00:46:09.700 guys.
00:46:09.920 It's pretty kind of
00:46:10.480 interesting what they do.
00:46:11.900 Most of the, you know,
00:46:12.520 a whole pile of them
00:46:13.160 come in as part-timers.
00:46:14.620 And then they change
00:46:15.240 shifts all over the place.
00:46:16.160 What happens with
00:46:16.520 their union contract
00:46:17.140 is then they can charge
00:46:17.860 overtime when they come
00:46:18.540 in for a shift. 0.63
00:46:19.380 They can work a 40-hour week,
00:46:21.140 but the bulk of it
00:46:21.920 turns out to actually
00:46:22.560 be overtime hours.
00:46:24.060 I mean, we saw that
00:46:24.580 exposed a few years ago
00:46:25.660 and some nurses, 1.00
00:46:26.340 I think one was found
00:46:27.140 to have made almost,
00:46:27.900 what, a few hundred
00:46:28.840 thousand dollars.
00:46:30.660 So don't scream foul
00:46:32.260 when we start examining
00:46:33.500 the overtime guys.
00:46:34.800 Some of them earn it,
00:46:35.720 but some of them
00:46:36.100 obviously don't.
00:46:37.160 And Smith is ready
00:46:38.320 to wade into those battles,
00:46:39.420 so I'm wishing you
00:46:39.860 the best.
00:46:40.780 All right, I think
00:46:41.520 I've kind of run the show
00:46:42.340 out.
00:46:43.120 Just to let you all know,
00:46:44.300 I'm going to take off
00:46:45.200 somewhere warm
00:46:45.940 for a few weeks.
00:46:47.080 I'll be available
00:46:47.700 on social media a bit.
00:46:48.840 I just can't stay away
00:46:49.680 from it and things like that,
00:46:50.540 but I won't be doing
00:46:51.140 any shows for a few weeks.
00:46:52.280 We're going to have
00:46:52.600 a guest host come in
00:46:53.460 and take care of that.
00:46:54.720 There'll still be things.
00:46:55.440 Watch the Western Standard
00:46:56.460 channels.
00:46:57.000 Get on there.
00:46:57.860 Take out your subscription
00:46:59.060 and, you know,
00:47:00.940 watch the show
00:47:02.020 with the guest host.
00:47:02.880 It'll be a good time
00:47:03.660 covering some new things.
00:47:04.720 Listen to a new voice
00:47:05.480 for a change
00:47:06.600 for a few weeks anyways.
00:47:07.960 And I will see you all
00:47:09.700 in early February.
00:47:10.860 So thanks for tuning in,
00:47:12.160 guys,
00:47:12.520 and try to stay warm.
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00:47:23.640 helping to draft
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00:47:29.940 And more importantly,
00:47:31.020 educating the public
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