Western Standard - April 03, 2024


CMS： Canada's growing protest culture is a sign of a broken system


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Why are the protests happening across Canada so often? And why are they so bad? And what's the reason for them? And who should pay the price for it? Corey answers all that and much more on today's show.

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00:00:00.000 Transcription by CastingWords
00:00:30.000 Good day, welcome to the Corey Morgan Show.
00:00:37.220 Oh, lots to cover today.
00:00:38.900 As usual, we have like an embarrassment of riches and stories to cover.
00:00:42.800 Not too many are good news, I'm afraid, but they are news and they're important.
00:00:46.380 We've got to discuss them, we've got to chew on them, we've got to think about them
00:00:50.040 and hopefully come up with some solutions now and then.
00:00:52.280 It's always easier to point out problems than solutions,
00:00:54.820 but hey, you're supposed to do what you're good at, right?
00:00:56.560 And I'm sure good at finding them and pointing them out.
00:00:58.320 I do point out solutions now and then too.
00:01:00.160 More of that goes into my columns and other things.
00:01:02.720 This show is live, at least for those who are watching it live.
00:01:05.720 You guys watching it on cable, maybe not.
00:01:07.580 But if you're watching live, use that commentary.
00:01:09.640 I see Leslie already making a comment. 0.91
00:01:12.320 Some things, questions my way, comments, ideas, notions.
00:01:15.540 I see them all.
00:01:16.400 I don't necessarily read them all out, but it helps prompt the show.
00:01:19.340 Keep it moving.
00:01:19.860 Remind me, there are people on the other side of that camera tuning in.
00:01:24.260 So let's get on to things.
00:01:25.760 It's been an interesting weekend.
00:01:27.980 I actually had to whip into Vancouver and back.
00:01:32.060 Jane and I left on Friday morning and came back on Monday evening.
00:01:36.760 And while I was passing back into Calgary on the Monday, of course,
00:01:41.020 probably lots of people heard about it.
00:01:42.240 I went through those protests on the side of the highway.
00:01:45.680 I saw the crowds there over by Highway 22 and Highway 1.
00:01:49.100 It wasn't so bad for me going eastbound.
00:01:51.640 For the people going west, though, they were pretty backed up.
00:01:54.640 I heard anything from, you know, an hour, 40 minutes to a couple hours in waiting.
00:01:59.060 Either way, though, what I want to talk about then, and I'll get on with this, is what's up?
00:02:04.060 Why are the protests happening so much?
00:02:06.360 Not just this one, but it's constantly left, right, center, doesn't matter.
00:02:09.300 Well, I mean, most people would rather do darn near anything than stand on a street corner
00:02:13.360 or a highway waving a protest sign.
00:02:15.880 I mean, time's a precious commodity, and using it to stand jumbled within a crowd
00:02:19.800 while police and many folks passing by are often less than supportive of your efforts.
00:02:24.120 Well, it's a sign of desperation.
00:02:26.280 On Monday of this Easter weekend, thousands of Canadians in dozens of locations
00:02:30.260 went out to protest the latest increase of Trudeau's carbon tax.
00:02:34.700 So why are more and more people subjecting themselves, though, to the elements
00:02:37.580 and possibly the long arm of the law with protests across Canada?
00:02:41.160 Well, it's pretty simple.
00:02:42.000 It's because they feel helpless.
00:02:43.380 They're frustrated, and they're out of options.
00:02:45.900 You see, in Canada's system, once a person's elected to office,
00:02:48.520 there's no mechanisms for citizens to hold them accountable.
00:02:51.680 No matter how poorly a politician might govern,
00:02:54.180 the people are stuck with them until the next election.
00:02:56.920 Now, some people will say, well, that's just how democracy works,
00:02:59.320 and they kind of have a point.
00:03:00.940 People got the chance to select their elected officials,
00:03:03.180 and they should have to live with their decisions, or at least within reason.
00:03:06.780 There are cases, though, where the politicians grossly misrepresented themselves
00:03:10.240 when applying for the job during an election.
00:03:12.940 And yes, we have a local example in Calgary.
00:03:15.240 Jodi Gondek has become, and she's managed to become,
00:03:18.100 Calgary's most unpopular mayor in Calgary history,
00:03:21.400 and she's barely served more than half of her first term. 0.99
00:03:25.160 Gondek campaigned as a moderate, won the election based on that.
00:03:29.320 As soon as she became mayor, she pivoted into a crazed, woke agenda. 1.00
00:03:34.120 She ushered in an insane $87 billion climate change plan. 1.00
00:03:38.280 She torpedoed an agreement for construction of a new arena. 0.87
00:03:41.460 She committed hundreds of millions of dollars to an electric bus program
00:03:45.200 and brought in a single-use plastic ban,
00:03:47.620 which enraged the city when it was implemented.
00:03:49.660 Not to mention how far she went out of her way to piss off our local Jews. 1.00
00:03:53.260 Taxes to fund those plans have spiraled as well, of course.
00:03:56.440 Now, had Gondek campaigned on doing all those things in the first place?
00:04:00.000 Sure, some citizens would still be upset, I mean, when those initiatives came about,
00:04:03.640 but I think they'd be more inclined to accept it until the next election
00:04:06.720 because, well, that's what she said she was going to do.
00:04:09.060 But since Gondek deceptively campaigned as something else,
00:04:11.980 people feel they've been misled,
00:04:13.560 and that she should be held accountable for that.
00:04:15.280 I mean, a recall petition in Calgary was initiated,
00:04:18.200 and it's garnered a lot of interest.
00:04:19.860 Alas, the legislation for recall in Alberta is terribly flawed,
00:04:23.220 and the bar for successful petitioning is set impossibly high.
00:04:26.680 After months of hard effort, it appears the recall Gondek campaign
00:04:29.620 will have only reached a little more than 10% of the signatures required to force a recall.
00:04:34.320 That's not to say the petition's been a total failure.
00:04:36.500 It's put an embarrassing spotlight on just how terrible Gondek has been as a mayor,
00:04:40.260 and it's shown how ridiculous the current recall legislation is in Alberta.
00:04:43.280 All the same, though.
00:04:45.660 If recall was the goal, it was an exercise in futility,
00:04:48.140 and many people now are going to feel even more frustrated with the process.
00:04:52.900 Last weekend of the Calgary Flames game,
00:04:54.720 thousands of attendees, and it made national news,
00:04:57.180 booed Jodi Gondek as she walked onto the ice for a ceremony.
00:05:00.460 And there's been many pearl clutchers, 0.89
00:05:02.320 and they've been aghast with the disrespect shown to the mayor.
00:05:05.220 Well, they'd be better served to try and understand
00:05:07.360 why people are so upset in the first place
00:05:09.080 rather than complaining about the people being upset.
00:05:10.960 Citizens are exasperated, and they want to show their discontent however they can,
00:05:15.280 even at a hockey game.
00:05:17.300 Federally and provincially, citizens face the same dilemma.
00:05:19.560 There's no way for citizens to remove an elected official
00:05:21.860 no matter how terrible that official is.
00:05:24.720 Canada's Senate.
00:05:25.940 It's ostensibly the House of Sober Second Thought.
00:05:28.500 It's supposed to hold Parliament accountable. 0.53
00:05:30.140 Come on.
00:05:30.480 In reality, the Senate's an insult to democracy,
00:05:32.820 as appointed members act as rubber stamps for the Prime Minister's policies.
00:05:36.500 It's just a patronage pit for old folks to get a really big pension before they fully retire. 0.96
00:05:42.520 And while the Trudeau government is an incredibly low level of public support,
00:05:46.060 citizens remain stuck with it as they're propped up by the NDP.
00:05:49.560 And Jagmeet Singh isn't widely popular in Canada either.
00:05:52.880 But through his ugly alliance with Trudeau,
00:05:55.220 Canadians get to enjoy being governed by not one but two parties that don't really represent them.
00:05:59.680 It shouldn't be easy to remove an elected official from power.
00:06:02.500 That's fair.
00:06:03.060 Recall initiatives should have a high bar to be invoked.
00:06:05.640 We don't want to live in a world of endless recalls and by-elections.
00:06:08.580 Premiers and Prime Ministers shouldn't be removed from power on a whim.
00:06:12.000 While it shouldn't be easy to remove an elected person from power,
00:06:14.360 it should be possible.
00:06:16.280 A report from Canada's RCMP warned that civil unrest is growing
00:06:19.500 and is going to continue to grow in Canada due to bad governance and upset citizens.
00:06:23.560 The government's likely going to ignore that warning.
00:06:25.440 In Canada's system, the lack of accountability among politicians is making people desperate.
00:06:30.240 And as the desperation grows, anger grows.
00:06:32.400 And people are going to feel more inclined to take on dangerous or even illegal ways to express themselves to pursue change.
00:06:38.300 When a person's back is against the wall, they will lash out.
00:06:41.920 We're only seeing the warning signs now and it's going to get worse.
00:06:45.160 We could avoid much of this civil disorder
00:06:47.160 if only there was a reasonable way for citizens to have their voices heard
00:06:50.460 and respected by politicians between elections.
00:06:53.340 Unfortunately, there's little indication that politicians want to change the system
00:06:56.400 in any way that might disempower themselves.
00:06:57.880 So, I'm afraid that means things are going to get much worse before they get better.
00:07:02.280 So, again, yes, I'm the bearer of some bad tidings,
00:07:05.140 but it's worth bringing it up, guys, because we're going to see more disorder.
00:07:07.560 We're seeing it growing now and we're going to see it growing further.
00:07:11.040 So, good to see all you guys checking in in the comments.
00:07:13.100 Mr. Stanley Paradoxy, Theo Unpronounceable from Mission, and Carol all there.
00:07:19.160 So, okay, let's get somebody else to check in.
00:07:21.420 We've got something different today.
00:07:22.820 Jen Hodgson has some big shoes to fill. 1.00
00:07:25.240 She's giving us the news check-in.
00:07:26.800 She's one of our reporters here in Calgary,
00:07:29.360 because Dave has taken off somewhere sunnier.
00:07:31.260 How's it going, Jen?
00:07:32.240 Going pretty good, Corey.
00:07:33.380 How are you doing?
00:07:34.260 I'm all right.
00:07:35.200 I'm all right.
00:07:36.160 Shirt's a little wrinkled, but that's a separate story.
00:07:38.740 So, what's topping the news today, Jen?
00:07:42.280 Well, Corey, to your point about carbon tax protests,
00:07:45.540 they're going on nationwide.
00:07:46.740 We've seen footage from provinces across the country,
00:07:49.700 people coming out.
00:07:50.880 And as you say, it's no fun task to be out spending your day protesting on the street,
00:07:54.760 but really, Canadians are coming out in droves about this.
00:07:58.600 And though Conservative leader Pierre Polyev has the campaign to axe the tax,
00:08:03.940 he actually refused to answer yesterday about whether or not Canada would withdraw
00:08:07.860 from the Paris agreements if he were elected.
00:08:11.100 So, he's being a bit evasive about that and still pushing for a change to green energy.
00:08:16.100 On another note, we have some maid stories developing or the idea of romanticizing suicide.
00:08:25.000 Jordan Peterson retweeted a post from a young Dutch woman,
00:08:29.440 a 28-year-old Dutch girl who has depression and borderline personality 0.62
00:08:34.040 who is going to be suicided by the state in May.
00:08:37.700 She doesn't want to burden her boyfriend, she said,
00:08:41.120 as her reason for carrying through with this.
00:08:43.300 And here in Canada, we have the 27-year-old with autism
00:08:48.260 whose father has filed an appeal now to the court
00:08:52.240 that had ruled that she actually is eligible for MAID here in Canada. 1.00
00:08:56.260 So, we're seeing this encroachment towards people with mental disabilities
00:09:02.600 to be applying and accepted for MAID or other kinds of assisted suicide across the world.
00:09:08.900 Speaking of across the world,
00:09:10.900 we have an ongoing inquiry into the China election interference.
00:09:15.900 It came out yesterday that there's 13 ridings in Canada
00:09:19.860 that allegedly have been affected by foreign interference.
00:09:23.060 The Trudeau's government, the federal officials had hundreds of complaints
00:09:29.120 about this election interference.
00:09:31.720 However, the Conservative Party, which itself was targeted
00:09:34.900 by pro-liberal interference by Chinese agents,
00:09:40.440 allegedly, for the 2019 and 2021 election,
00:09:44.420 the Conservatives weren't informed.
00:09:46.880 The federal government kept that close to their collar.
00:09:49.240 Next up, we have the upcoming eclipse that's coming up next Monday.
00:09:56.220 And so, we've seen states and provinces take all kinds of precautions.
00:10:01.640 Most recently, the Niagara Falls region here in Canada declared a state of emergency.
00:10:06.680 And this week, Indiana, the state of Indiana declared a state of emergency.
00:10:12.120 Oklahoma's calling in the National Guard.
00:10:14.200 We have NASA shooting three rockets at the eclipse.
00:10:17.880 So, we've got all kinds of chaos surrounding.
00:10:21.400 What are people expecting?
00:10:22.940 Are aliens behind this?
00:10:24.880 Or is there going to be mass explosions?
00:10:26.980 I mean, I think there's been a few million eclipses
00:10:29.360 over the last few millennia or whatnot.
00:10:32.320 And the world didn't end.
00:10:33.900 Why is this one the one that's bringing about a state of emergency?
00:10:37.280 Right.
00:10:37.760 It's certainly very hyped.
00:10:38.900 And I think that people actually don't know what to expect
00:10:41.280 because of all that hype.
00:10:42.720 It is a naturally occurring event.
00:10:44.580 We've seen solar eclipses before.
00:10:46.860 However, it seems that this particular one is causing a lot of controversy
00:10:50.520 with most provinces and states are citing the influx of people
00:10:54.840 that they're expecting to their region.
00:10:56.940 And that's why they've preemptively, by the way, called a state of emergency.
00:11:01.040 Niagara Falls in Canada is currently in a state of emergency
00:11:04.220 because of an eclipse that is expected next week.
00:11:08.080 Ah, great.
00:11:09.360 What else we got?
00:11:10.080 All right.
00:11:11.220 So we have some social media scandals.
00:11:13.740 We have Facebook caught spying on Snapchat users and looking at their data,
00:11:19.660 collecting their data, as well as the U.S. government has ordered YouTube
00:11:24.340 to identify users who have actually watched certain YouTube videos
00:11:28.240 and have watched them more than once.
00:11:30.400 So we have this monitoring and this data hacking going on with social media companies.
00:11:36.720 And finally, Corey, I'll end with this, with this trans insanity that has come across our country. 1.00
00:11:43.160 So I came across this morning a tweet from the Liberal MP, the sports minister,
00:11:50.480 pushing transgender in sports, saying that it's an evidence-based assertion
00:11:56.420 that biological men can play on women's teams and vice versa.
00:12:01.700 And also, in this context, we have an Ontario man who wants to have a vagina constructed alongside his penis
00:12:11.260 so he will actually have both anatomical parts.
00:12:15.380 And the courts are going to decide if it's actually Ontario taxpayers that are going to foot the bill for this or not.
00:12:22.440 So if that guy, gal, whatever, manages to knock himself up, who's responsible for child support?
00:12:29.500 I guess it would probably be taxpayers as well, Corey.
00:12:33.100 Well, geez, you know, I mean, it's bad enough paying for my own.
00:12:35.820 I imagine there's probably some physiological things that would prevent that.
00:12:38.900 But, boy, it's getting to the point where we just have to foot the bill for every modification.
00:12:43.800 I can't wait till somebody wants labia for earlobes. 0.99
00:12:49.520 Told you I was going to make it hard on you today.
00:12:51.320 Oh, thank you very much.
00:12:52.780 I'll leave you alone, Jen. 0.96
00:12:54.560 Thanks, Corey.
00:12:55.540 We'll let you get back to writing up more news.
00:12:57.220 There's a big void to fill while Dave's runoff.
00:12:59.380 So I appreciate the check-in today, and we'll see you after the show.
00:13:02.700 Happy to do it.
00:13:03.420 Thanks for having me.
00:13:04.460 All right, thanks.
00:13:05.100 Okay, hi.
00:13:06.000 So that is our Jen Hodgson.
00:13:07.200 You see, there's a lot of stories by her, very prolific writing on all sorts of issues there in Calgary, in Alberta,
00:13:13.160 and as you can see, around the world.
00:13:15.540 So let's see what else we got going on.
00:13:18.120 Just before we get to my next guest here, and I'm looking forward to that conversation.
00:13:21.580 We've had him on before with Mr. Geisbrecht, but we'll have him back.
00:13:25.660 He's been writing some columns for the Western Standard as well.
00:13:29.900 Just getting on.
00:13:31.800 I don't even know where to begin.
00:13:32.700 Trudeau has a lunch program coming out for a billion dollars.
00:13:36.960 So this government that, again, that made the Trans Mountain Pipeline go, what, from $4.5 billion to $40 billion and delayed it by years and years,
00:13:46.240 is now going to take on the responsibility of feeding your children.
00:13:49.520 I can't see what possibly could go wrong with this, right?
00:13:54.020 It's just madness.
00:13:55.120 But this seems to be the trend of the liberal government right now.
00:13:57.420 They keep jumping into provincial jurisdiction, throwing our own money back at us.
00:14:02.460 And then, of course, if anybody questions it, you oppose feeding children.
00:14:06.160 You oppose free dentistry.
00:14:07.540 You oppose this.
00:14:08.220 You oppose that.
00:14:08.820 They're laying landmines is what they're doing. 1.00
00:14:10.700 They're laying the traps for the next election.
00:14:12.580 So even though these policies are all stupid, if anybody opposes them, the usual gang will come out and call you nasty and evil for daring to oppose what is sure to be a terribly poorly mismanaged program,
00:14:26.180 probably run by a few liberal insiders where they'll charge $500 a sandwich and only feed six kids a month per school or something. 0.88
00:14:33.860 But here it comes.
00:14:34.580 Yes, Justin figures, Justin, who's probably never made his own sandwiches entire life, is now going to take a billion of your dollars and take on the responsibility of feeding your kids.
00:14:44.460 I'm really looking forward to seeing how well that one works out.
00:14:48.040 All right.
00:14:48.800 Let's get on to something a little bit more important and bigger, and that is residential schools.
00:14:54.960 Yes, we're getting on the three-year anniversary of the big, I'll say it, you know, with the air quotes, discovery in the Kamloops residential school site.
00:15:02.460 Retired Justice Brian Geisbrecht, he's written columns for us, he's been on the show before, and he's written a book on this.
00:15:08.200 Welcome back to the show, Brian.
00:15:09.620 Good to see you.
00:15:10.660 Good to see you, Corey.
00:15:13.060 So, I mean, you know, you've written a lot on this, as I said, from a book to columns and so on.
00:15:19.960 I just kind of want to start there.
00:15:21.320 We're getting near three years since the world got turned upside down with the anomalies discovered in the Kamloops residential school site in an old apple orchard.
00:15:32.460 But there's been no effort yet to actually verify that there's actually any remains there, right?
00:15:38.400 That's right.
00:15:39.180 And I don't think there will be any, Corey.
00:15:42.760 The only residential schools where they actually did this turned up absolutely no one.
00:15:48.580 So there have already been searches at Pine Creek, Shubanekedi, and a couple of others, and they were the same stories about priests murdering and secretly burying children with the forced help of six-year-olds, that type of nonsense.
00:16:06.900 And the people really believed it.
00:16:09.520 That's the sad part.
00:16:11.180 And when they dug this up, they found, no, there was nothing there.
00:16:14.620 And so Kamloops is, by now, they know that there are nobodies and they are not going to be digging.
00:16:22.620 They claim now as, well, this is a sacred ground or something like that.
00:16:28.200 But we know that's not true because in Winnipeg, they've just, the governments are spending $40 million to sift on a totally pointless search to dig up toxic landfill.
00:16:40.520 So there aren't going to be any excavations there because they know that there are nobodies.
00:16:47.000 I'm quite sure that the sophisticated people in that community realize that they've made a terrible mistake.
00:16:54.540 I mean, a principled person would still want the mistake rectified.
00:16:57.860 I mean, this has caused so much pain for the people who believe that these things happened and uncertainty and division between, you know, social populations that already had enough division to begin with.
00:17:08.360 And I mean, you know, to play the devil's advocate, what if there really are children buried there?
00:17:13.640 It only makes sense that we would exhume them and find out if it was recent enough to try and find a perpetrator and also to try and reunite those remains with the family so they could be properly interred.
00:17:24.060 It's ridiculous that they claim that these things happened, but then say that we aren't going to investigate further.
00:17:28.100 Well, of course, and if there had been 215 children or then the thousands that were later claimed, you would have some history of that.
00:17:39.960 You would have parents who had gone to the authorities or the chief and said, well, my children disappeared at residential school.
00:17:47.880 Where are they? There's absolutely no history of it.
00:17:50.860 No, we were our group.
00:17:53.100 I should explain, Corey, our research group came together very shortly after the original claim.
00:17:59.080 I had written an article in a newspaper saying basically what I say now that, no, these are stories.
00:18:06.500 This is a conspiracy theory.
00:18:08.200 And we've been working on this for some time, and we recently found out some very interesting information.
00:18:17.080 Our lead researcher has found out that really this is all part of a conspiracy theory which goes back to the 1990s and which really was incorporated by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, this idea that there's thousands of disappeared children.
00:18:37.120 It comes from a fellow named Kevin Annette, who was a defrocked United Church minister and made it his life's mission to tell wild tales about thousands, hundreds of thousands of children being killed at residential schools.
00:18:54.900 And somehow, through our elected representatives, by the way, it was through an MP by the name of Gary Morasti, this eventually became part of TRC, that's the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's search.
00:19:12.520 They had no business doing it, but they went on this wild goose chase.
00:19:17.200 And that's why I believe, that's why Canadians are so willing to believe this absolutely improbable story about priests murdering and secretly burying children with the forced help of six-year-olds.
00:19:29.420 So they've been basically conditioned that even all of the reporters in the mainstream news have sort of been conditioned to believe that this story must be true, but of course, it's completely false.
00:19:42.800 Yeah.
00:19:43.240 Yeah, and that's another, you know, lacking piece of this puzzle.
00:19:47.040 I mean, if thousands of children, even hundreds of children had disappeared, that would mean they would have hundreds and or thousands of family members asking questions.
00:19:56.220 They would say such and such, left the household at this time, and never returned.
00:20:01.120 We don't have that.
00:20:02.400 I mean, they keep talking about missing children, but there's none or next to none documented that actually went missing.
00:20:08.060 They've been accounted for.
00:20:09.020 I mean, some children passed away in those schools.
00:20:11.100 Some were buried at school.
00:20:12.080 Some were repatriated to their home reserves.
00:20:14.540 But there's no bunch missing.
00:20:16.440 I mean, if there was a parent saying, I think my child was murdered and buried in Kamloops, they probably would be digging.
00:20:22.000 Well, in fact, the children who went to residential schools were actually far better documented than Indigenous children who didn't go to the schools.
00:20:30.920 Only a tiny fraction of Indigenous children went to these residential schools in the first place.
00:20:36.860 But they were very carefully documented, in large part because the federal government didn't want to spend any more money than they had to.
00:20:45.020 They were notoriously cheap.
00:20:47.640 They've always that that's part of the history.
00:20:49.800 They were trying to save money on what for them was a very expensive program.
00:20:54.040 So they did not want to pay for children that that were not attending.
00:20:58.780 So the children are very well documented.
00:21:00.860 And when a child did die from and it was almost always from disease, either tuberculosis or during the influenza epidemics, because Indigenous children were much more likely to die, whether they went to residential schools or day schools or any school.
00:21:17.460 Those children were very carefully documented.
00:21:21.100 There was a report, internal report made.
00:21:25.900 These were Christian schools, so they all had a Christian burial.
00:21:29.620 And the vast majority of these children are buried on their home reserves.
00:21:34.040 They were buried by their families with their priests or with their ministers.
00:21:38.560 And Kimberly Murray, who is the interlocutory, has even admitted this.
00:21:43.040 She said, if you're looking for the missing children and you'll find them in the cemeteries, all you have to do is go to the find the death certificates, which is what the researcher in our group had had the presence of mind to do.
00:21:59.540 And you can find where these children were actually buried.
00:22:04.420 So there are no missing children.
00:22:07.900 Cory, Tom Flanagan, who's in our group, said, no, no, there's not.
00:22:11.860 They're not missing children.
00:22:13.100 These are forgotten children.
00:22:14.760 These are children that were buried.
00:22:16.540 The cemeteries were not properly maintained for various reasons.
00:22:20.600 And now the families, 100 or 100 and some odd years later, think that something horrible happened to them.
00:22:27.940 Well, no, these are just children who sadly died of disease in the early days.
00:22:33.300 And as I say, residential schools had nothing to do with it.
00:22:36.440 Day school children died, too.
00:22:38.400 Most of the children didn't even go to school.
00:22:40.760 And too many of them died as well.
00:22:42.780 So there is no story here.
00:22:44.440 But unfortunately, the TRC and then this particular odd government we had and its ally, CBC, have created a story where there shouldn't be one.
00:22:57.940 And my big worry is that this is all going to start tumbling down once this government and once the CBC in its present form is gone.
00:23:06.360 And we are in for a lot of trouble because the indigenous communities believe these stories, believe these false stories. 1.00
00:23:13.520 So we have a problem.
00:23:14.620 Well, yeah, I mean, to be honest, if I believed that, you know, some cousins of mine or ancestors had been so ill-treated, murdered, hidden, abused like that, I'd be upset as well.
00:23:28.320 I mean, and I perhaps would lash out if I felt there was no recourse.
00:23:31.880 But this government seems to be more inclined to perpetuate or even expand the mythology rather than in the irony as a truth and reconciliation commission.
00:23:41.580 They should be peeling off the band-aid and finding the truth.
00:23:45.220 Well, they've all painted themselves into a corner.
00:23:47.700 We even see it getting worse all the time.
00:23:50.100 Just the other day, we had a Vancouver archbishop who is now promoting the Kamloops stories.
00:23:57.700 He's basically spreading a Kevin Annette conspiracy theory.
00:24:05.220 And by the way, Corey, people can Google what I'm saying.
00:24:09.340 We just go online and get Kevin Annette's famous movie, Unrepentant.
00:24:16.720 You can download it free and watch it.
00:24:19.100 And this is where this junk comes from.
00:24:21.680 These are conspiracy theories.
00:24:23.440 But they were even believed by very smart people.
00:24:26.720 Noam Chomsky praised the documentary.
00:24:29.540 Even Jordan Peterson, of all people, believed at least some version of indigenous children being burned in burning barrels in the 1960s, for heaven's sake.
00:24:42.700 So we have some very smart people who've just bought into this junk.
00:24:47.260 And I'm afraid that I single out CBC because they're the ones that are being paid salaries.
00:24:53.520 They're not even looking at this stuff.
00:24:56.000 And I have some personal experience with this where the level of knowledge of CBC reporters is dismal.
00:25:04.240 And they don't only report on this particular issue, but all residential school issues incompetently.
00:25:11.680 They keep reporting that all the children went to residential schools.
00:25:15.720 A fraction did.
00:25:17.040 They report that the children were forced to attend.
00:25:19.660 Well, no, in the usual case, parents had to apply to send their children to residential schools.
00:25:25.620 And many of them were refused because there wasn't room.
00:25:29.300 But this was a voluntary thing on the part of most parents.
00:25:33.480 So we have a staggering level of incompetence in the reporting.
00:25:39.340 And that's been going on for decades now.
00:25:41.380 And so Canadians have been conditioned to this, to believe this stuff.
00:25:45.660 And this really distracts and takes away from what we do have.
00:25:50.320 I mean, a very serious crisis on our hands.
00:25:52.580 Another thing with poorly educated people, a lot of people just haven't gone out enough.
00:25:56.160 I spent 20 years in the oil field.
00:25:58.440 I worked on reserves across the country, up from the territories and into a number of provinces.
00:26:03.880 We've got a socioeconomic catastrophe going on on just about every reserve in Canada.
00:26:08.840 We've got some very troubled people.
00:26:10.680 We've got things getting worse year by year by every measure, whether it's economic, whether it's justice, whether it's health, you name it.
00:26:16.960 And here we are fighting over things that didn't happen 100 years ago when we should be addressing what's going on today right now on those reserves.
00:26:26.160 In fact, we're making it worse because we're increasing division and the bitterness between the people on reserve and the people off.
00:26:31.880 Well, I'd go even further and say that this is being done by many as almost as a distraction from the real problem.
00:26:40.940 Because as you point out, the problem is not people who died 150 years ago or 100 years ago.
00:26:48.140 The problem is right now.
00:26:50.280 And what they've done is, and again, they being this particular government and even our Supreme Court, they've created this illusion that, well, we have a solution for problems.
00:27:02.140 We're going to go further and further into this nation to nation concept, and we're going to go on this quest for reconciliation and this is going to fix the problems.
00:27:15.480 That's nonsense.
00:27:16.260 And the idea that residential schools cause the problems of indigenous people, well, it's one on a very long list of problems that have to be addressed, but they are not being addressed.
00:27:28.880 We're in a nonsense world.
00:27:31.400 We're spending a great deal of money.
00:27:32.760 We're relying on new legislation like this atrocious UNGRIP bill, which is going to just completely stall and development and hurt our economy greatly.
00:27:48.880 So we're on a very bad path, and I have to hope that some new government is going to take a look at this stuff and realize, no, we're going in the wrong direction and trying to waste time and money on these false missing children's claims is not helping at all.
00:28:09.340 Yeah, and so, I mean, just to expand for people, if they're wondering, they've probably heard the term before, that UNGRIP is the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, I believe.
00:28:18.960 And, yeah, it's a terrible document, which is only going to make things much, much worse, and it's being taken seriously here, unfortunately.
00:28:26.200 But, I mean, that's the bottom line.
00:28:27.700 People kind of need to research, get beyond the buzzwords, and see what's really going on out there.
00:28:32.700 As you said, the documents are there.
00:28:34.140 The information is there.
00:28:35.200 People like yourself or Nina or Dr. Flanagan have been doing a fantastic work, Aimee Rubenstein, on at least documenting what we know and what's out there.
00:28:46.140 Where can people find more information on all this, Brian?
00:28:49.720 Well, I'm a contributor, so I'm plugging the book, I guess.
00:28:54.340 But Grave Error is an excellent book to start with.
00:29:00.200 It contains a number of the essays written by members of our group about this Kamloops claim, this false Kamloops claim.
00:29:08.160 And I'm also a contributor and author in From Truth Comes Reconciliation, which is another book, and we're coming out with another edition of this book very soon.
00:29:20.120 In addition, you can go to our site, the Indian Residential Research Group site, and that is an excellent source of material.
00:29:33.160 And Jaime Rubenstein's site is also very good.
00:29:39.820 He posts a different essay every day.
00:29:43.740 So that's a good place to start.
00:29:47.120 Great.
00:29:47.660 Well, yeah, I mean, the UNDRIP thing, you mentioned that.
00:29:51.020 That's a whole show on its own if we want to show you there.
00:29:52.720 Yes, it is.
00:29:53.880 And that's why I wanted to leave off on, you know, offering other resources for people to get out there because, yeah, we've run out of time.
00:30:00.760 And I know, just to give another plug, you've written some columns for us at the Western Standard on other things too, some of the Woken Sanity and things such as that.
00:30:08.000 So let the viewers know to watch for your name and catch those.
00:30:11.620 And, yeah, I appreciate your work on this and your book, and you're coming on to talk to us about it today.
00:30:19.160 Anytime, Corey.
00:30:20.440 All right.
00:30:20.960 Well, thank you.
00:30:21.460 I'm sure we'll talk again.
00:30:23.960 So that was Brian.
00:30:25.920 Brian Geist, correct.
00:30:26.860 And, yes, the book is Grave Error.
00:30:28.940 Look it up, guys.
00:30:29.740 I mean, we really got to get to the facts of this thing.
00:30:31.780 It just keeps going on and on, and nobody's winning.
00:30:35.860 You know, if you want to talk about some sort of issue or subject or something where there's a winner and a loser, we're all losing, guys.
00:30:41.940 We're just a whole bunch of losers.
00:30:43.520 The only ones winning, I guess, are the, you know, there's a whole area.
00:30:47.780 I mean, some people have called it in past books the Indian industry, you know.
00:30:50.740 There's a lot of lawyers, bureaucrats, advocates.
00:30:53.660 They're winning because they keep the anger.
00:30:55.940 They keep the disorder.
00:30:57.420 They keep the division going, and they make a whole lot of money on this issue.
00:31:02.860 They don't solve any problems.
00:31:04.120 They, in fact, they exacerbate them, but they get paid really well to do so.
00:31:08.040 So endless court challenges or things like doing GPR surveys of known cemeteries and saying, look, I've discovered graves.
00:31:16.320 Yes, it was next to the headstone.
00:31:18.160 What a shocker.
00:31:19.040 Good work.
00:31:19.820 Brilliant.
00:31:20.500 And then the ones where there wasn't a headstone, and as Brian pointed out, the few times they've actually excavated to confirm it, it turned out there was nothing there.
00:31:29.240 Radar has very big limitations on what it can or can't identify.
00:31:36.980 Now, I see there's a commenter.
00:31:38.460 Wes Wayne has been putting out a bunch of the baloney out there on the comments, and that's fine for those reading it, saying, you know, the clergy wouldn't bury them on church grounds.
00:31:45.200 They were throwing them in rivers and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
00:31:46.860 Okay, well, nobody's been reported missing, Wes.
00:31:51.420 So who, where, how, when?
00:31:53.840 You're just spouting BS.
00:31:55.760 But this BS is getting entrenched, and some people are believing it.
00:31:59.420 And the people who believe it are getting pretty darn upset.
00:32:01.900 And, I mean, something I didn't get a chance to talk to Brian about.
00:32:03.920 I mean, we've had, what, is it 80 churches now that have been vandalized or defaced or burned to the ground?
00:32:09.260 This is serious business.
00:32:11.720 And, meanwhile, the myths get perpetuated.
00:32:14.200 We need evidence.
00:32:16.500 Evidence.
00:32:17.300 Real evidence.
00:32:18.360 Not stories.
00:32:19.380 Not myths.
00:32:20.100 Not old wives' tales.
00:32:22.120 Evidence.
00:32:23.080 Tell you what, oral history sucks.
00:32:25.300 Play the telephone game.
00:32:26.420 You know that game.
00:32:27.160 Everybody sits in a circle, whispers something in their ear, go around in a circle and see what it sounds like.
00:32:31.520 By the time it gets to the end person, it's totally different to whatever you began with.
00:32:34.100 And we're supposed to believe the oral history of children from the 50s all the way to today.
00:32:38.960 And it turns out whenever we checked into the evidence, it just, a lot of it wasn't there.
00:32:44.760 So, yeah.
00:32:45.860 Brian's working on getting to the truth.
00:32:47.220 He's working on the group that's getting to the truth.
00:32:49.240 So, watch for his columns.
00:32:50.580 Watch for his items.
00:32:52.040 So, let's talk about another fool since we're there.
00:32:55.280 Catherine Ford.
00:32:56.300 She's an established columnist with the Calgary Herald.
00:32:59.180 Been there a long time.
00:33:00.560 It's getting back to Jody Gondek, you know, mayor of Calgary.
00:33:03.680 And, yes, most people across the country saw it.
00:33:06.040 I mean, Gondek, you don't have to see a Western Canadian mayor trending across acts like that.
00:33:10.600 But Gondek managed to do it because when she walked out onto the ice for a ceremony at the Saddlewoman Calgary,
00:33:17.940 for the Calgary Flames game, the whole place booed her. 0.98
00:33:20.640 I mean, it wasn't just a handful of people booing.
00:33:22.360 It was a rumbling, low booing from the majority of the crowd.
00:33:27.660 And people were just, oh, they're upset.
00:33:29.420 They're horrified.
00:33:30.020 But, you see, now, what does Ford come up with?
00:33:32.900 She says, and this is from the headline of her column,
00:33:36.600 Sexism, racism still lurk in the shadows as Gondek faces recall petition.
00:33:42.400 Straight as usual to the identity politics.
00:33:46.900 Oh, look, people are trying to recall Gondek.
00:33:49.760 People are booing Gondek.
00:33:51.320 People don't like Gondek.
00:33:52.360 It must be because they don't like her.
00:33:54.200 They despise her because she's a woman of South Asian descent and because she's a woman, right? 1.00
00:33:57.980 That must be the reasons.
00:33:59.040 No, it's not.
00:33:59.580 It's because she sucks. 0.54
00:34:00.840 It's because she literally is the worst mayor in Calgary history as far as polled support demonstrates. 1.00
00:34:07.960 So why do you got to throw that in there?
00:34:09.940 Are you doing Gondek any favors, Mrs. Ford?
00:34:13.000 Ford brings up a bunch of crap in there about how the Petroleum Club in Calgary,
00:34:16.340 she's trying to put out Calgary is a hotbed of misogyny and nastiness towards women 1.00
00:34:20.440 because the Petroleum Club didn't even allow women into it until into the early 90s. 1.00
00:34:23.420 And that's true.
00:34:24.160 That is true.
00:34:24.760 And it was wrong.
00:34:25.340 But it was also 30 friggin' years ago.
00:34:29.420 The problem with Gondek has absolutely nothing to do with that.
00:34:33.060 She says in her own column, I don't really actually have any evidence of this,
00:34:37.220 but you can tell there's an undertone of it in there.
00:34:39.460 An undertone.
00:34:40.640 See, talk about spreading division.
00:34:42.160 The people who read crap and believe crap read her crap, and they embrace her crap,
00:34:47.420 and it makes them crappier for it.
00:34:48.760 Okay, enough about crap.
00:34:50.320 But I mean, talk about misinformation.
00:34:52.520 We're not talking about somebody who hasn't been around for a long time.
00:34:55.740 Catherine Ford's been writing a long, long time.
00:34:58.680 She's aware of what she's doing.
00:34:59.920 She's aware of what she's writing.
00:35:02.660 This had nothing to do with racism.
00:35:04.420 I'm sure there's some racists out there.
00:35:06.140 I'm sure there's some.
00:35:06.700 People have said some terrible things about Gondek because of her race.
00:35:09.160 That's wrong.
00:35:09.440 I blocked a few of those on X myself.
00:35:11.540 I had one, you know, ding-dong going on about Ninchy should be deported and people of his ilk. 1.00
00:35:17.900 Whoa, okay, a couple of things.
00:35:19.360 Ninchy was born in Canada.
00:35:20.720 I got no use for him, rest assured.
00:35:22.000 I spent a lot of time beating on the head Ninchy. 1.00
00:35:24.460 But he's born in Canada.
00:35:25.400 Don't go into that deporting stuff.
00:35:26.680 Let's get real.
00:35:27.580 But yes, the racists exist out there and some of the anti-women. 1.00
00:35:30.120 But the bottom line, that's not what got Gondek down to the point of whatever it is,
00:35:34.580 20% support in the city now or whatever record low it is.
00:35:38.800 Mr. Stanley's pointing out a good point, a commenter saying she's only the mayor.
00:35:42.120 She doesn't actually control everything. 0.76
00:35:43.280 There is a council.
00:35:43.860 Yes, she's one of 15.
00:35:45.520 That's absolutely true.
00:35:47.140 But the mayor controls the communications.
00:35:49.360 The mayor controls the direction.
00:35:50.660 And the mayors and cities in Calgary are very powerful, though, actually.
00:35:53.820 They can impose a lot of things or a lot of attitude and things that come along.
00:35:58.920 But yes, she is supported by a lot of terrible councillors as well. 1.00
00:36:01.400 But no, it was her directly who brought in that $87 billion climate change plan.
00:36:06.460 It was her who torpedoed the arena. 1.00
00:36:08.980 And again, you might think it was a good idea to get out of the arena.
00:36:12.600 That's certainly very debatable.
00:36:15.460 But that's not what she campaigned on.
00:36:17.920 If she had gone in on the campaign saying, I'm going to blow up the arena deal, then she would do so.
00:36:22.980 But yeah, this is one of the items from Catherine Ford's column, you know, before I move on from this one.
00:36:29.700 I make this assumption about the underlying sexism waged against Gondek and hold this opinion for a simple reason.
00:36:34.660 Being there, done that.
00:36:36.580 Live through outright sexism.
00:36:38.400 Oh, Ford, some of your columns sucked.
00:36:40.220 That's part of why I didn't like you much in the past.
00:36:42.720 But the underlying, right?
00:36:45.740 That's why.
00:36:46.260 And make this assumption.
00:36:47.980 Yeah, it's because you had no bloody evidence, Ford.
00:36:50.200 Ford, Gondek's a terrible, terrible mayor.
00:36:53.680 Get over it.
00:36:54.560 Speaking of terrible, let's get a little more national and talk about Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, one of everybody's favorite subjects, right?
00:37:00.480 There was an interesting, candid moment yesterday from Trudeau.
00:37:04.680 I think it was yesterday that came out.
00:37:06.160 Recently, anyways.
00:37:07.000 The video clip is out there.
00:37:08.440 And it was funny because this video clip, you hear protesters in the background and there's hammering drums and yelling and shouting.
00:37:13.880 I mean, again, it's getting back to my original monologue.
00:37:16.360 People are getting upset.
00:37:17.440 They're protesting everywhere.
00:37:18.380 Trudeau can't go anywhere without being surrounded by protesters.
00:37:20.780 But he did say, and he admitted, that Canada has been taking in too many immigrants, more immigrants than it's able to absorb. 0.98
00:37:29.540 Good.
00:37:30.560 I mean, even though I got no use for Trudeau, I'm glad to see him acknowledging the problem finally.
00:37:37.000 Finally.
00:37:38.140 People have been screaming this from the rooftops for years.
00:37:40.580 We can't take them in at this speed, at this level, while supporting them when they get here.
00:37:48.220 We don't have the infrastructure.
00:37:49.840 We don't have the health care ability, the education ability.
00:37:52.080 We certainly don't have the housing for the level we're at.
00:37:55.240 Nobody reasonable is saying end all immigration.
00:37:57.880 Some people are saying that.
00:37:58.720 But as I said, nobody reasonable is saying that.
00:38:00.440 But we need to get it in line.
00:38:02.180 And Trudeau finally admitted that.
00:38:03.320 But then he talked outside of it as if it wasn't a problem that he made in the first place.
00:38:11.160 This has all started since you became the prime minister.
00:38:15.260 At least, at least say, we screwed up.
00:38:19.120 He won't do it.
00:38:19.820 He won't say it.
00:38:20.540 And you know what?
00:38:20.900 That's fine.
00:38:21.600 I think that's fine.
00:38:22.440 Because Canadians see through it. 1.00
00:38:24.120 And if that dingbat is finally going to acknowledge a problem that 90% of us already knew, but still won't show even a little bit of contrition that he was the one who brought about the problem in the first place, it's really going to make sure, as long as it's bloody well going to be, but he's going to be wiped out in the next election.
00:38:43.580 Rightly so.
00:38:44.500 But I still am a little bit happy that whatever, so he's not taking full responsibility for it.
00:38:50.580 If he's at least acknowledging that it's a problem, then he might actually tap the brakes on it.
00:38:58.880 We can't afford this.
00:39:00.260 Young people can't even dream of owning a home. 1.00
00:39:03.360 People are waiting months and months and months just to find a family doctor.
00:39:06.600 They're waiting years to see a specialist.
00:39:10.120 And we talk about the housing crisis.
00:39:12.700 Well, we need more immigrants to build the houses. 1.00
00:39:15.160 Sure.
00:39:15.780 But we got to target that then.
00:39:17.700 Are we bringing in predominantly electricians and plumbers and carpenters, landscapers even?
00:39:24.680 Or in medicine, are we bringing in more doctors and pharmacists and chemists and nurses?
00:39:29.640 Because that's where we have the need.
00:39:31.320 Bring that in.
00:39:32.860 Target those categories until we can sustain who's coming in.
00:39:37.680 Then we can look to broaden it.
00:39:38.760 It's a good place to be.
00:39:40.540 You know, Canada's GDP per capita is plummeting due to bad management and a many number of things.
00:39:46.480 But we're still one of the better countries on the planet to be in.
00:39:49.560 There's a lot of people really want to come here badly and work and make a life for themselves.
00:39:53.580 And it's a great place to be where we're here now.
00:39:56.340 And it's great to be able to bring some people in and allow them, like almost the rest of our ancestors did, to come here and make a better life.
00:40:02.740 That's great.
00:40:04.000 But we got to do it with planning and with care.
00:40:06.240 We haven't done that.
00:40:08.240 It's made a mess.
00:40:09.400 But at least step one, step one.
00:40:12.480 You know, as a friend of Bill W. and myself, I remember all 12 steps.
00:40:15.100 And that first one really is admitting, you know, there's a problem.
00:40:18.920 And he's gotten there.
00:40:21.040 He's got a lot of steps to go.
00:40:22.740 I just want him gone.
00:40:23.660 I don't think he's going to get through those steps.
00:40:25.720 But Trudeau did admit, at least, the root of the problem.
00:40:28.560 That's taken a lot of time and kicking and screaming.
00:40:32.500 Bringing in skilled people is awesome, but it doesn't make them supposedly upgrade for years before they can practice their trade.
00:40:39.680 Okay, so I think what you're getting at, and there's some truth to that, we've had a lot of problems in being at least fast in making sure that the people we're bringing in can transfer their qualifications straight over.
00:40:51.960 They might come from a country that has lower standards. 0.51
00:40:53.700 Some of the countries have higher standards for some of the trades and professions.
00:40:57.040 We have to make allowances for that.
00:40:59.120 But we shouldn't also keep the new Canadians on the hook for months and months at a time while we determine that or stop a lot of people from working in the things they're well qualified for because of the bureaucracy and trying to make them reprove where they are.
00:41:11.500 Though you can't just let somebody come in and start practicing medicine without ensuring that, you know, we have enough qualifications and skills.
00:41:21.900 I mean, if you're a doctor from some countries, it might not be quite as good as what we're offering here.
00:41:26.660 But there's a lot of countries that put out fantastic professionals and trades and all sorts of things, and we would benefit by having them here.
00:41:33.700 Let's talk about, here's the latest, you know, we've been talking, I've been going along and touring and speaking events for talking about the Alberta pension plan idea, you know, the province going its own way and getting its own pension.
00:41:45.440 That's been a big issue out here.
00:41:46.520 It's been a big across the country because, of course, if Alberta pulls out of the pension scheme nationally, the national scheme is going to have a lot of trouble paying the bills.
00:41:53.700 As Alberta over-contributes, and I'm going to go down that rabbit hole, every Alberta person by person is the same amount as the rest of the country, I understand that.
00:42:01.080 But as a whole, Alberta over-contributes a lot and under-draws. 0.99
00:42:04.600 And then the people poo-pooing on it, the people saying we should be satisfied with the Canadian pension plan, the people saying we're whiners out in Alberta, how dare us question this fantastic Canada pension plan.
00:42:14.780 Well, the average payout for CPP, average, for a person once you retire and get it out, is $758 a month.
00:42:23.420 That's it.
00:42:24.260 That's it.
00:42:24.920 You could have worked for decades.
00:42:25.860 It depends on how long you've been working, how much you've put in.
00:42:28.620 The average is $758 a month you're supposed to live on and retire.
00:42:36.240 On the top, I think it's about $1,300, $1,400 a month.
00:42:39.180 If you have maximized contributions all the way up and managed to take them out, if you're a Member of Parliament, yeah, Member of Parliament, the average, average Member of Parliament pension is $78,000 a year.
00:42:59.060 Yeah.
00:43:00.460 They're almost 10 times the average of what other Canadians who work a whole lifetime towards.
00:43:05.760 And these are the ones that are sitting on a $78,000 average, some of them are getting a pension well into six figures, telling us, shut up, be happy with your $758 a month.
00:43:17.760 Just tighten your belt a little.
00:43:19.320 Don't worry, Justin's making sandwiches for the kids in school, right?
00:43:22.400 We'll all be all right.
00:43:24.320 The hypocrisy, the disconnect, the lack of vision on this.
00:43:29.500 And they see their pension, they don't put a heck of a lot into it.
00:43:32.820 I mean, they put a chunk in, sure, but they get pension matching in a way from the taxpayers on top of that that we can't even dream of.
00:43:40.440 Plus, it's a separate fund.
00:43:42.580 It's not like the CPP.
00:43:45.240 Unacceptable for instance, there's no money left, true to have spent at all.
00:43:47.720 Not quite true.
00:43:48.380 As far as at least the actuarial records go, the pension fund, the Canada Pension Fund, has about 33% self-funding, a balance going on, a principle.
00:43:59.520 And that was started in the 90s.
00:44:00.780 It used to be fully pay-as-you-go.
00:44:02.260 Now 30% of it isn't.
00:44:03.880 Still, almost 70% is pay-as-you-go, which means we have to keep people pumping money in to keep the last ones paid off.
00:44:10.160 Another term for it is a Ponzi scheme, kind of, because you've got to keep broadening that base to increase the payments to the top.
00:44:16.420 And as people are living longer, you've got to think this pension came about in the, what, the 60s?
00:44:21.120 People on average back then died.
00:44:22.800 You know, I hate to say it, but the average life expectancy was in your 60s.
00:44:25.540 So they figured people retire when they're 65, a lot of them even aren't even going to make it that long.
00:44:29.240 And they're probably only going to live a few years afterwards so we can afford to pay them out.
00:44:32.500 Problem is now we're living until into our 80s on average.
00:44:35.360 And it's great, but it's also making it a lot more expensive to try and sustain and maintain pensions for the people like that. 0.93
00:44:42.600 So, yeah, we've got issues with that.
00:44:45.740 Either way, again, so when we've got this terrible pension plan and Albertans are nasty for daring to try and seek a better way,
00:44:53.660 that hypocrisy is really well exposed when we see that our members of Parliament are averaging $78,000 a year as a pension.
00:45:00.980 I mean, when you're pensioning, you're expected to be kind of making it a little bit less.
00:45:03.860 You're just kind of getting by and retiring and relaxing.
00:45:07.460 But if you're a member of Parliament, you're getting more in pension than your average person even makes when they're at the peak of their working life.
00:45:14.380 I mean, I don't expect them to work for minimum wage in Parliament, but come on, guys.
00:45:18.840 And again, they get Canada pension on top of that and a number of other things as well, I'm sure.
00:45:23.600 So, and they're the ones telling us, tighten your belts.
00:45:27.840 Right.
00:45:28.160 So, I mean, to finish out, yes, this is a story that was in Black Locks.
00:45:31.460 I think this is a standard might pick it up.
00:45:33.200 It says there's a document that came out.
00:45:36.080 The Cabinet federally needs new strategies to restore public trust in the government of Canada.
00:45:42.080 Yeah, it was an access to information memo.
00:45:44.760 Yeah, again, they're sort of figuring it out.
00:45:47.420 Jeez, people don't trust them.
00:45:48.700 Well, why?
00:45:49.660 How could I not trust somebody who's telling me, hey, Corey, enjoy your retirement after a lifetime of work at $758 a month whilst I whisk off to my private island on $80,000 a year pension?
00:46:02.260 God, it's stomach turning.
00:46:05.320 But it's par for the course in Canada.
00:46:07.380 People are protesting.
00:46:08.240 People are screaming.
00:46:08.760 People are shouting.
00:46:09.380 Sometimes they push it a little too far.
00:46:10.840 I'll talk about that in a future show.
00:46:12.940 Either way, I'm out of time for today.
00:46:14.680 That is the show.
00:46:15.420 We covered a lot of ground and a lot of issues.
00:46:19.180 There were more I wanted to hit, but we just don't have more time.
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