On the 500th episode of The Corey Morgan Show, Corey rants about Canada's addiction and enablement cult, Bill C-63, safe consumption centers, and the growing problem of overdose deaths across the country.
00:08:52.040So, I mean, there was a big disturbance of the force this morning where he met in Eau Claire with Premier Daniel Smith and later met with the media up at SAIT, where he says, no, despite Premier Smith's constant demand that he fire Stephen Gilbeau, he's not going to.
00:09:10.840He loves his environment minister and people who can't get along with him, you know, should change the way they work.
00:09:19.460We've got a story on a Rive scam. I know the Liberals don't like it to be called a Rive scam, but we've got some public works officials who say all those $60 million in cost overruns were fair and reasonable.
00:09:34.800I guess their definition of fair and reasonable is different than mine, Corey.
00:09:38.920We've got a story on Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland. Out in Victoria, she said everybody on the prairies dreams of moving to BC.
00:09:48.180it's their slice of heaven. Strange thing to say, she was an Alberta girl herself,
00:09:56.160and Medicine Hat's own Tamara Leach fired back and said her idea was heaven is when they're all1.00
00:10:02.720on the unemployment line. We've got a story on a senator's junket to Rome, 45 grand. Believe it
00:10:10.420or not, they were going to study soil and spend seven days in Rome, and that's a nice work if
00:10:17.460you can get it. We've got a new columnist by the name of Hall. He jumps in today in the Nenshi
00:10:25.900fight, or his leadership campaign now, I guess, to run for the Alberta NDP. Our Linda Slobodian
00:10:33.960has a piece on Jordan Peterson testifying in front of Congress yesterday in the States,
00:10:41.560talking about Big Brother watching and how a surveillance super state is coming to the West.
00:10:50.360And our opinion editor, Nigel Hannaford, has reached all the way to beautiful downtown Cape,
00:10:58.120what the heck is that place called? Cape Town in South Africa. I've been there, I should remember.
00:11:03.320And we've got a new columnist starting out of there called Kate Steinke, and she talks about
00:11:08.040about the mirror, the mirror stuff going on in South Africa that Canadians need to be aware of.
00:11:15.000So lots of stuff happening, Corey, as we speak. Premier Smith is having a media availability in
00:11:24.080Edmonton over her meeting with Trudeau, and our Ledge reporter, Jonathan Bradley, is there and
00:11:29.620will be filing as soon as it's over. Oh, great. Yeah, I won't be able to catch Premier Smith's
00:11:35.380live thing, but I still haven't forgiven you for playing Justin Trudeau's live conference in the
00:11:40.200newsroom for, what was that, two, three hours it felt like in the background going on over there?
00:11:44.820That was just torturous, Dave. It was. It was word salad that kind of made me feel a bit nauseous.
00:11:51.700Yeah, well, I guess news is news whether we like listening to it or not. All right, well,
00:11:55.760thanks for the update, Steve. Yeah, we'll see you on the pipeline, Corey. You betcha. I'll talk to
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00:12:35.520very much we really really do appreciate it all right so let's see what else is going on in this
00:12:40.960mad mad world and it is this one is is i i've been seeing making the rounds so the supreme
00:12:47.000court of canada ruled in a recent sexual assault case that it was problematic for a lower court
00:12:53.580judge to refer to the alleged victim as a woman. Yes, the court
00:12:57.960referred to the rape victim as a woman and implying that the
00:13:03.280more appropriate term should have been person with a vagina.1.00
00:13:07.540This is the Supreme Court of Canada, guys. This is what it's
00:13:10.220come down to. Justice Sheila Martin wrote that the trial
00:13:14.560judge's use of the word woman may have been an unfortunate and
00:13:18.120engendered confusion. This is insane. They, the lunatics, the woke, and now they've hit the
00:13:27.380Supreme Court of Canada, the top court of the nation. Women, speak up. They are literally
00:13:34.800stealing your gender. They're at the point now, this wasn't even a case where there was anything
00:13:40.960to do with transgender. This was a woman who was raped. This is what the case was about.
00:13:45.260but somehow the use of the word woman rather than person with a vagina has made it offensive it's0.95
00:13:53.160made it wrong you aren't allowed to be called a woman anymore you know we can only speak up so0.76
00:14:00.600much i guess as men but women this trans cult you have to get back onto the cultishness of things1.00
00:14:06.120the extremists, they've taken over. The lunatics are running the asylum. And it's stealing from
00:14:15.720you what you are. You guys have got to speak up now. You've got to say enough is enough.
00:14:21.280Some are starting to speak up. I watched J.K. Rowling, you know, she's certainly no hard right
00:14:26.000winger, but boy, she's been getting it because she's dared to speak up against the crazed
00:14:31.120trans stuff. But she's still speaking up. But I mean, it's easy to speak up when you got a0.99
00:14:35.140billion in the bank. For your common person, it's not so easy. But this is getting just
00:14:39.920ludicrous. Person with a vagina. You're not a woman anymore. Nope. You're a person with1.00
00:14:45.460a vagina. Madness. Madness. And we've got to inject that into everything we do. We can't1.00
00:14:53.480even talk about a woman in a court anymore. It's just sanity has departed from us, guys.
00:15:00.540uh so yeah speaking of sanity uh christia freeland as dave mentioned there at the end0.63
00:15:06.380of things uh where was that quote i gotta look down here and find this uh but she she said along
00:15:12.620the lines of yeah you know every uh person on the prairies uh dream and little piece of heaven would
00:15:17.900be to to move to bc you know i kind of see what she might be trying to get at saying it's a you
00:15:23.420know it's nice out there people retire over there but talk about divisive you know when you're in a
00:15:28.860federal position. When you say things like that, because yes, the unspoken part is saying
00:15:34.880life sucks on the prairies. If you work hard enough, you might raise enough money for yourself
00:15:39.180to retire in BC. Look, I got nothing against BC. It's nice on the island if you like rainy winters
00:15:44.900rather than sunny cool ones. You know, there's ups, downs, advantages, disadvantages of
00:15:51.860every region in the country. You know, one of the things I learned as a surveyor, I traveled all
00:15:57.340over North America. I worked literally from up by Tuktoyaktuk on the Beaufort Sea and the Mackenzie
00:16:03.480Delta area, all the way down to near the Texas-Mexico border and everything in between.
00:16:10.440And something I found really interesting was no matter where I went, there was cool stuff to be
00:16:16.220seen and enjoyed and to be had. The populations had unique qualities that you could interact with,
00:16:22.880get to know people. People had pride in their areas and very good reasons to be proud of their
00:16:28.160areas, whether it was the middle of the desert, whether it was even West Virginia with some of
00:16:32.500the people who have earned their reputation over there. And yes, the prairies. You know,
00:16:38.720there's lots to be seen and done in the prairies. The prairies are beautiful. You want to see
00:16:42.700sunsets, hit the prairies, guys, and sunrises. You know, culture, things to be done if you just
00:16:50.700drive a little bit off the road, the prairies are loaded with it. It's not some hellscape.
00:16:54.540And to have the Deputy Prime Minister imply, perhaps, that the prairies are just a place
00:16:58.600you have to be, and as soon as you can escape to BC, you should do so, is just divisive and stupid.
00:17:06.060But I guess it's kind of par for the course for Freeland. She really is a weird little woman,1.00
00:17:11.660isn't she? And yeah, so we did have, you know, I'll get on to that, her boss, Justin Trudeau,
00:17:18.360speaking of weird, and he is weird, he did his news conference. He came to Alberta.
00:17:23.820They do these things with short notice to reduce the amount of protests that are inevitably going
00:17:28.060to happen. And he popped up, he sat down with Daniel Smith. We'll hear more about that. I'm
00:17:33.040interested to hear what Premier Smith's going to say about it. I guess the point of this
00:17:36.740was to come to Calgary and announce a dental program for senior citizens, an expansion
00:17:43.580of dental coverage for senior citizens.
00:17:48.700It's just like this government is floundering.
00:17:50.940You know, I mean, they're throwing out programs
00:17:52.480and money and ideas and doing their announcements
00:26:05.720I mean, you know, a number of years ago, I would have said it's impossible that Alberta would ever have an NDP government with Rachel Notley as a premier.
00:26:13.980And boy, I certainly would have been wrong.
00:26:15.740So I'm not going to sit here today and say it's impossible for Nhat Ninchy to become the premier in a future government.
00:29:52.960The host said to hell with you and kicked him off the show.
00:29:54.840because the guest was basically spreading BS. So 157 complaints came in to the national
00:30:05.340ombudsman of this, this Kamloops, BC talk radio show. I mean, come on, there couldn't have been
00:30:10.960more than a couple thousand listeners. I mean, not to knock the guy's show, but it shows the
00:30:15.860cancel culture, the lunatics, the people who want to shut down discourse, how quick they are to get
00:30:22.840on there and try and and block the voices they don't want to hear from. So 157, the ombudsman
00:30:32.000at the end of it basically dismissed the complaints and said piss off. They accused this man though
00:30:37.200of his Islamophobia, all because he just countered the narrative being spread by his guest on the
00:30:43.980show. It's ridiculous. But this is where we get into trouble with a lot of the things with Bill
00:30:49.460C63, which empowers the human rights commissions. We see, we're not talking about courts anymore,
00:30:57.240we're not talking about law, we're talking about the Canadian human rights commissions.
00:31:00.140These are kangaroo courts. And these are things that don't operate on reality, they do operate
00:31:05.460based on complainants, and they won't necessarily identify the complainant. They won't tell you if
00:31:10.480there was one or 1000 if you were somebody who was brought before one of their tribunals for
00:31:15.460something they say crossed a line somewhere. And it's very
00:31:20.260disturbing. You don't have the regular elements of defending
00:31:23.440yourself with a situation like that. So this guy out here,
00:31:29.520Brett Menear of CHNL AM radio encounters, he got cleared on
00:31:36.160it. But boy, what a madness if you know, you just say these
00:31:40.060things, and suddenly you get 107 complaints. Now, what happens if
00:31:43.780C63 comes in. C63, you see, when I first started reading that bill, and when it came out a couple
00:31:50.940of weeks ago, and it's hundreds of pages long, and it's an omnibus bill, and that means they've
00:31:57.700packed a whole bunch of stuff into one bill, and I despise that, because this is what the
00:32:01.700government does. This is a tactic. They'll stick something in the bill that almost everybody
00:32:06.360supports, so that way anybody who questions the bill itself will be accused of opposing that.
00:32:11.980So the bill starts out with talking about cracking down on, you know, the posting of child porn, which, of course, everybody says, yes, okay, fine.
00:32:21.560We've got no sympathy for pedophiles, you know, having more cracking down on providers who are hosting that sort of crap and things like that.
00:32:28.740So, yeah, you know, as I read through, yeah, okay, I can get down with this stuff.
00:32:32.520then you get further into this bill and then suddenly it goes into hate speech and sentencing
00:32:42.040like one of the frightening things it talks about if a person uh is promoting genocide yeah pretty
00:32:50.640awful thing to promote but we'll talk about that a little more in a second here they could be
00:32:54.180subjected though to a life sentence we can't even keep murderers in jail for life sentences these
00:32:58.680days. But apparently, a life sentence can be garnered under this bill if you support genocide.
00:33:08.440Now, genocide used to be some of a cut and dry term. But unfortunately, these days, it's been
00:33:14.180turned to it's one of the most abused words we've seen in the English language lately. Everything's
00:33:18.040genocide now. I mean, you know, the residential schools in Canada have been considered genocide
00:33:23.540by some. You know, there's debatable things. For example, I mean, we're certainly hearing a lot of
00:33:29.740it with the conflict in Israel right now, and that they're saying Israel's committing genocide
00:33:37.560against Palestinians. I'm not going to start down the road of that debate right now,
00:33:43.380but it's debatable. It certainly is. There's definitely room for people to say that Israel
00:33:48.060isn't. But if at some point the government or one of these commissions or one of these
00:33:52.780tribunals determines that it is genocide. And somebody dared to
00:33:57.100say that it isn't. They could be subjected to a life sentence,
00:34:03.020can be technically by that bill. That's how insane this bill
00:34:05.540is. And likewise, we've had others talking about
00:34:09.980criminalizing, referencing anything, you know, they talked
00:34:15.100about criminalizing residential school denialism, it's not the
00:34:19.760people deny, they love using that language, because of course,
00:34:22.300They're trying to tie it in with Holocaust denial.
00:34:24.480But there's nobody denying that the residential schools existed,
00:34:27.600but now they want to deny, you know, if anybody should question this narrative.
00:34:31.400We've got Kamloops to this day that the country was turned upside down over,
00:34:36.140almost three years ago now, over these anomalies found with ground penetrating radar,
00:39:06.160If you want to look at internet free speech and free press and things such as that, Geist has really done a lot of work on that.
00:39:15.300And C63, I'm not sure if he's hit that as hard as some of the others, but I'm pretty sure he's been critical of it.
00:39:20.600but I think part of it might be he's overwhelmed. We've just got, I mean, listen to that. That's
00:39:26.240three different bills that are beating on our free speech all at once. How much can you keep
00:39:30.760up with? How much can you cover? And, uh, but look him up because he, he makes the case
00:39:36.140fantastically. And again, the great thing with Michael Geist, he's not a libertarian conservative
00:39:40.980type like myself. He's more of a classical liberal, I guess I'll give it that, but he he's,
00:39:45.580a left of center sort of individual. He's worried about authoritarianism. I like seeing some of the
00:39:51.520others breaking ranks. And so I like seeing out of people like Margaret Atwood and Michael Geist,
00:39:57.700or even Warren Kinsella on some of these things, is at least they hit a point where they realize
00:40:02.860that it's not leftism, it's not rightism that is our problem. It's authoritarianism. It's
00:40:09.460government wanting to control the people too much and how dangerous it is. You see, I don't think
00:40:16.120maybe Margaret Atwood fears the power that Trudeau might wield with something like C63, but maybe
00:40:22.860she's smart enough to realize when you're giving a government a power, any kind of more increased
00:40:29.720power or reach over people, you should always envision, would you be comfortable with the
00:40:34.920government having that power if it was led by somebody you despise you see liberals will give
00:40:42.060them all this power to crush people's speech and ability to demonstrate and things like that because
00:40:46.460that's no problem okay fine but do you understand that trudeau will not be in forever it's gonna
00:40:51.640feel like forever it already feels like forever but he's not gonna be there forever and as you
00:40:57.860keep putting in these, these, you know, controls, giving more power and authority to this government
00:41:05.340as you keep stripping away individual rights, you better hope the next government isn't vindictive
00:41:12.160and doesn't use those to crush your end of the political spectrum. That's where less government
00:41:17.520is better government. Marie Perrin saying, I believe Pierre will cancel this bill says he'll
00:41:22.180repeal C-11. I think he will too. I think he will too. But I tell you what, governments lose a lot0.98
00:41:29.020of appetite for repealing bills once they get in. You know, I'm not saying Polyev and his government
00:41:35.340is going to do that. I'm just saying it's better to shut these bills off before they get entrenched
00:41:39.420because the government can sometimes kick the can down the road once they get into power, right?
00:41:44.480Now suddenly it might turn into a useful tool for themselves and that can get turned around. That's
00:41:50.280I do not want that government to have the ability to tell us what we could say, where we could say, how we say, no matter who is in power, because they might not be inclined to get rid of it.
00:41:59.140Similar to Trudeau and his lie saying he was going to reform the electoral system.
00:42:02.580We see that over and over in countries all over the place.
00:42:04.640We're going to change the electoral system.
00:42:06.160We're going to bring in proportional representation and this and that.
00:42:09.700Look, if the government gets into power with a majority based on the current system, they're not going to change the system that got them in where they were in the first place.
00:42:16.400They've lost all incentive to do so, and Trudeau proved that quite well when he just basically broke and ignored his own promise, which I'm glad of.
00:42:26.580I'm glad of. I can imagine the deals that would be cut.
00:42:29.440It's bad enough with him and Jagmeet Singh as it is right now, but if they had to have a pizza parliament with 12 parties in there and a proportional representation, it would be a catastrophe.
00:42:44.240if we want to talk about whole systems that we could reform, I mean, that's a whole separate
00:42:47.500discussion, you know, if you really have, what I would like to see maybe proportional representation
00:42:51.780for a Senate and a rep by pop in the parliament and an elected Senate, of course, but these are
00:42:57.880all dreams that would take constitutional reform and that's not going to be happening during our
00:43:03.240lifetime. It's the only way we're going to see constitutional reform is if and when a country
00:43:08.920province is on the brink of or finally separates. And, uh, you know, I've written the book on how
00:43:14.660we should pursue that literally, but, uh, that is still going to be a while away yet. Um, are you
00:43:20.660saying seven premiers are against the carbon tax now and voicing their opinions? Yeah, yes, they
00:43:24.240are. And that was asked of Trudeau, as I, as I said, during the press conference he had today.
00:43:28.660And, uh, he just talked around it and talked around it and talked around it. I think, I think
00:43:34.680this government's getting to the point where they just don't care. They do know they're in the
00:43:39.360toilet. They do know they aren't going to turn it around. They don't have a hope. And they're just
00:43:44.600going to keep pushing ahead and putting this stuff in there until they get wiped out. I can't think
00:43:48.840of any other explanation. I mean, when you've got regional leaders all coming out united against
00:43:54.460you like this on something like this carbon tax, but he will not back down. What a stubborn,
00:44:00.200ideologically loony man. Another one, I'll close off a show with that. Half the Canadians,1.00
00:44:05.480this is an interesting one, say that there are too many immigrants, according to a new leisure
00:44:09.000survey commissioned by the Canadian Association for Canadian Studies. All right, so I guess it
00:44:15.400was rated 50% saying there's too many coming in. See, again, it's not people saying we should have
00:44:19.300no immigrants. There's some people who say that, but I think majority of people understand immigrants
00:44:23.600are good for Canada. You know, most of us are either are immigrants or we're only one or two
00:44:29.640generations away from immigrants, but we're just, the floodgates are open. We've got to have1.00
00:44:34.700controlled immigration. And that's what this was saying. Half the Canadians are saying there's too
00:44:39.060many immigrants. You got to remember, if half the Canadians are saying that, a lot of the people
00:44:42.420saying that are people who immigrated here. We've got to think for the sake of the immigrants as
00:44:47.460well as us here. How's it going to be when you get here? Great. Here's the new life I'm going to make
00:44:50.960in Canada. Oh, by the way, yeah, you're going to wait 18 months for an MRI and you can barely get
00:44:55.700into a school. You can't find a family doctor. You can't afford the rent. And oh God, don't even
00:45:00.420dream of getting a down payment for a home to buy right now. And this government's in denial. They
00:45:06.500will not tap the brakes on the immigration levels. Like guys, it's just math. That's all it's down
00:45:13.460to now is math. That we don't have the resources to accommodate the number of people we're bringing
00:45:20.240in. Why is this so hard? I mean, part of it is, is the government's falsely shoring up the economy
00:45:26.740because yes, immigrants bring in a burst of economic activity when they come in. But it also
00:45:32.220hits the resources very, very hard. They need resources like everybody else. And we don't have
00:45:38.480them. And that hurts them and us. And these polls keep coming out. More and more academics are
00:45:45.540coming out. More and more politicians are coming out. People are saying, Justin, Trudeau, please,
00:45:51.180you know, the banks are coming out. You've got to slow this down. And he just ignores it. He just
00:45:56.960lets it blast by them. But I mean, when you're a trust fund baby, who knows you're going to retire
00:46:01.020on a private island someplace with a giant pension. You're not worried about the economic
00:46:05.380damage you're actually reaping by trying to shore up this false economy. I guess you can afford to
00:46:10.800ignore it. But the rest of us are all going to be paying a terrible, terrible price for this.