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.
00:13:32.700Trudeau has a lunch program coming out for a billion dollars.
00:13:36.960So 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,
00:13:46.240is now going to take on the responsibility of feeding your children.
00:13:49.520I can't see what possibly could go wrong with this, right?
00:14:08.820They're laying landmines is what they're doing.
00:14:10.700They're laying the traps for the next election.
00:14:12.580So 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,
00:14:26.180probably run by a few liberal insiders where they'll charge $500 a sandwich and only feed six kids a month per school or something.
00:14:34.580Yes, 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.
00:14:44.460I'm really looking forward to seeing how well that one works out.
00:14:48.800Let's get on to something a little bit more important and bigger, and that is residential schools.
00:14:54.960Yes, 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.
00:15:02.460Retired Justice Brian Geisbrecht, he's written columns for us, he's been on the show before, and he's written a book on this.
00:15:21.320We'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.
00:15:32.460But there's been no effort yet to actually verify that there's actually any remains there, right?
00:15:39.180And I don't think there will be any, Corey.
00:15:42.760The only residential schools where they actually did this turned up absolutely no one.
00:15:48.580So 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.
00:16:11.180And when they dug this up, they found, no, there was nothing there.
00:16:14.620And so Kamloops is, by now, they know that there are nobodies and they are not going to be digging.
00:16:22.620They claim now as, well, this is a sacred ground or something like that.
00:16:28.200But 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.
00:16:40.520So there aren't going to be any excavations there because they know that there are nobodies.
00:16:47.000I'm quite sure that the sophisticated people in that community realize that they've made a terrible mistake.
00:16:54.540I mean, a principled person would still want the mistake rectified.
00:16:57.860I 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.
00:17:08.360And I mean, you know, to play the devil's advocate, what if there really are children buried there?
00:17:13.640It 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.
00:17:24.060It's ridiculous that they claim that these things happened, but then say that we aren't going to investigate further.
00:17:28.100Well, of course, and if there had been 215 children or then the thousands that were later claimed, you would have some history of that.
00:17:39.960You would have parents who had gone to the authorities or the chief and said, well, my children disappeared at residential school.
00:17:47.880Where are they? There's absolutely no history of it.
00:18:08.200And we've been working on this for some time, and we recently found out some very interesting information.
00:18:17.080Our 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.
00:18:37.120It 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.
00:18:54.900And 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.
00:19:12.520They had no business doing it, but they went on this wild goose chase.
00:19:17.200And 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.
00:19:29.420So 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.
00:19:43.240Yeah, and that's another, you know, lacking piece of this puzzle.
00:19:47.040I 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.
00:19:56.220They would say such and such, left the household at this time, and never returned.
00:20:16.440I mean, if there was a parent saying, I think my child was murdered and buried in Kamloops, they probably would be digging.
00:20:22.000Well, in fact, the children who went to residential schools were actually far better documented than Indigenous children who didn't go to the schools.
00:20:30.920Only a tiny fraction of Indigenous children went to these residential schools in the first place.
00:20:36.860But they were very carefully documented, in large part because the federal government didn't want to spend any more money than they had to.
00:20:47.640They've always that that's part of the history.
00:20:49.800They were trying to save money on what for them was a very expensive program.
00:20:54.040So they did not want to pay for children that that were not attending.
00:20:58.780So the children are very well documented.
00:21:00.860And 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.
00:21:17.460Those children were very carefully documented.
00:21:21.100There was a report, internal report made.
00:21:25.900These were Christian schools, so they all had a Christian burial.
00:21:29.620And the vast majority of these children are buried on their home reserves.
00:21:34.040They were buried by their families with their priests or with their ministers.
00:21:38.560And Kimberly Murray, who is the interlocutory, has even admitted this.
00:21:43.040She 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.
00:21:59.540And you can find where these children were actually buried.
00:22:44.440But 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.
00:22:57.940And 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.
00:23:06.360And we are in for a lot of trouble because the indigenous communities believe these stories, believe these false stories.
00:23:14.620Well, 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.
00:23:28.320I mean, and I perhaps would lash out if I felt there was no recourse.
00:23:31.880But 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.
00:23:41.580They should be peeling off the band-aid and finding the truth.
00:23:45.220Well, they've all painted themselves into a corner.
00:23:47.700We even see it getting worse all the time.
00:23:50.100Just the other day, we had a Vancouver archbishop who is now promoting the Kamloops stories.
00:23:57.700He's basically spreading a Kevin Annette conspiracy theory.
00:24:05.220And by the way, Corey, people can Google what I'm saying.
00:24:09.340We just go online and get Kevin Annette's famous movie, Unrepentant.
00:24:16.720You can download it free and watch it.
00:24:19.100And this is where this junk comes from.
00:24:29.540Even 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.
00:24:42.700So we have some very smart people who've just bought into this junk.
00:24:47.260And I'm afraid that I single out CBC because they're the ones that are being paid salaries.
00:24:53.520They're not even looking at this stuff.
00:24:56.000And I have some personal experience with this where the level of knowledge of CBC reporters is dismal.
00:25:04.240And they don't only report on this particular issue, but all residential school issues incompetently.
00:25:11.680They keep reporting that all the children went to residential schools.
00:26:10.680We'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.
00:26:16.960And 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.
00:26:26.160In fact, we're making it worse because we're increasing division and the bitterness between the people on reserve and the people off.
00:26:31.880Well, I'd go even further and say that this is being done by many as almost as a distraction from the real problem.
00:26:40.940Because as you point out, the problem is not people who died 150 years ago or 100 years ago.
00:26:50.280And 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.
00:27:02.140We'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.
00:27:16.260And 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.
00:27:32.760We're relying on new legislation like this atrocious UNGRIP bill, which is going to just completely stall and development and hurt our economy greatly.
00:27:48.880So 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.
00:28:09.340Yeah, 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.
00:28:18.960And, yeah, it's a terrible document, which is only going to make things much, much worse, and it's being taken seriously here, unfortunately.
00:28:35.200People 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.
00:28:46.140Where can people find more information on all this, Brian?
00:28:49.720Well, I'm a contributor, so I'm plugging the book, I guess.
00:28:54.340But Grave Error is an excellent book to start with.
00:29:00.200It contains a number of the essays written by members of our group about this Kamloops claim, this false Kamloops claim.
00:29:08.160And 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.
00:29:20.120In addition, you can go to our site, the Indian Residential Research Group site, and that is an excellent source of material.
00:29:33.160And Jaime Rubenstein's site is also very good.
00:29:53.880And 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.
00:30:00.760And 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.
00:30:08.000So let the viewers know to watch for your name and catch those.
00:30:11.620And, yeah, I appreciate your work on this and your book, and you're coming on to talk to us about it today.
00:31:20.500And 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.
00:31:29.240Radar has very big limitations on what it can or can't identify.
00:31:38.460Wes 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.
00:31:45.200They were throwing them in rivers and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
00:31:46.860Okay, well, nobody's been reported missing, Wes.
00:36:54.560Speaking of terrible, let's get a little more national and talk about Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, one of everybody's favorite subjects, right?
00:37:00.480There was an interesting, candid moment yesterday from Trudeau.
00:37:04.680I think it was yesterday that came out.
00:38:24.120And 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.
00:39:40.540You know, Canada's GDP per capita is plummeting due to bad management and a many number of things.
00:39:46.480But we're still one of the better countries on the planet to be in.
00:39:49.560There's a lot of people really want to come here badly and work and make a life for themselves.
00:39:53.580And it's a great place to be where we're here now.
00:39:56.340And 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.
00:40:23.660I don't think he's going to get through those steps.
00:40:25.720But Trudeau did admit, at least, the root of the problem.
00:40:28.560That's taken a lot of time and kicking and screaming.
00:40:32.500Bringing in skilled people is awesome, but it doesn't make them supposedly upgrade for years before they can practice their trade.
00:40:39.680Okay, 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.
00:40:51.960They might come from a country that has lower standards.
00:40:53.700Some of the countries have higher standards for some of the trades and professions.
00:40:59.120But 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.
00:41:11.500Though you can't just let somebody come in and start practicing medicine without ensuring that, you know, we have enough qualifications and skills.
00:41:21.900I mean, if you're a doctor from some countries, it might not be quite as good as what we're offering here.
00:41:26.660But 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.
00:41:33.700Let'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.
00:41:46.520It'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.
00:41:53.700As 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.
00:42:01.080But as a whole, Alberta over-contributes a lot and under-draws.
00:42:04.600And 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.
00:42:14.780Well, the average payout for CPP, average, for a person once you retire and get it out, is $758 a month.
00:42:25.860It depends on how long you've been working, how much you've put in.
00:42:28.620The average is $758 a month you're supposed to live on and retire.
00:42:36.240On the top, I think it's about $1,300, $1,400 a month.
00:42:39.180If 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.
00:43:00.460They're almost 10 times the average of what other Canadians who work a whole lifetime towards.
00:43:05.760And 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.
00:43:48.380As 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.
00:44:45.740Either way, again, so when we've got this terrible pension plan and Albertans are nasty for daring to try and seek a better way,
00:44:53.660that hypocrisy is really well exposed when we see that our members of Parliament are averaging $78,000 a year as a pension.
00:45:00.980I mean, when you're pensioning, you're expected to be kind of making it a little bit less.
00:45:03.860You're just kind of getting by and retiring and relaxing.
00:45:07.460But 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.
00:45:14.380I mean, I don't expect them to work for minimum wage in Parliament, but come on, guys.
00:45:18.840And again, they get Canada pension on top of that and a number of other things as well, I'm sure.
00:45:23.600So, and they're the ones telling us, tighten your belts.
00:45:49.660How 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?