Western Standard - CMS： Episode 500—A Deep Dive into Canadian Politics

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00:06:59.880 We do know what won't work though and that's enablement.

00:07:02.960 The enablement cult is populated by academics, activists, politicians.

00:07:06.640 One thing lacking within that cult though were the voices of recovered addicts.

00:07:10.780 They know what won't work and they support treatment rather than enablement.

00:07:14.600 This cult must be defunded guys and we got to shut it down.

00:07:17.260 Until it is, this addiction epidemic is only going to continue to spread and get worse.

00:07:20.340 All right, that's what's got to do with the

00:07:28.900 and that's what's going to do with the news.

00:07:29.700 All right, let's check in on other news and see what our news editor Dave Naylor is up to.

00:07:35.580 Hey Dave, how's it going?

00:07:36.220 Yeah, it's going well, Corey.

00:07:37.440 I've got to ask though, don't you think it's time for a haircut?

00:07:40.880 I was talking to Nico about that earlier.

00:07:42.940 Yes, but I'm putting it off.

00:07:44.280 I can't stay and get my haircuts. 0.98

00:07:45.420 Pain in the butt. 0.98

00:07:46.500 Yeah, well. 0.99

00:07:47.100 Hey, did I read somewhere that you got bit this week by one of your pet bees?

00:07:50.500 Yeah, the ingrate stung me on the inside of my wrist.

00:07:52.760 It's still itchy.

00:07:53.940 Annoying.

00:07:54.700 I was just feeding them for the spring feeding and they were upset with me opening up their

00:07:58.180 nice comfy hive and gave me a zap for my troubles.

00:08:01.580 You're not supposed to be wearing some sort of suit or gloves?

00:08:04.920 Actually, I did.

00:08:05.640 The thing managed to get me through the glove. 0.99

00:08:07.680 It was too thin.

00:08:08.600 I'm learning.

00:08:08.960 I like learning things the hard way, but I let it go, gave them their food and moved aside.

00:08:13.800 But this is not a good way to kick off our spring relationship.

00:08:16.880 No, no kidding.

00:08:18.280 So tell me, Corey, when you were driving in today and coming into work, did you feel a disturbance

00:08:22.740 in the force to feel something strange was going on around you?

00:08:27.300 Because the prime minister's in town.

00:08:30.980 Oh, yes.

00:08:31.540 Right?

00:08:31.960 So, I mean, there was a big disturbance of the force this morning where he met in Eau Claire

00:08:37.120 with Premier Daniel Smith and later met with the media up at SAIT where he says, no, despite

00:08:43.660 Premier Smith's constant demand that he fire Stephen Gilboa, he's not going to.

00:08:48.780 He loves his environment minister and people who can't get along with him, you know, should

00:08:54.040 change the way they work.

00:08:56.860 We've got a story on a Rive scam.

00:08:58.740 I know the Liberals don't like it to be called a Rive scam, but we've got some public works

00:09:03.740 officials who say all those $60 million in cost overruns were fair and reasonable.

00:09:11.640 I guess their definition of fair and reasonable is different than mine, Corey.

00:09:15.000 We've got a story on Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland out in Victoria.

00:09:20.440 She said everybody on the prairies dreams of moving to B.C.

00:09:24.600 It's their slice of heaven.

00:09:26.740 Strange thing to say.

00:09:27.920 She was an Alberta girl herself.

00:09:31.100 And Medicine Hat's own Tamara Leach fired back and said her idea was heaven is when they're 1.00

00:09:36.800 all on the unemployment line.

00:09:39.500 We've got a story on a senator's junket to Rome, 45 grand.

00:09:43.800 Believe it or not, they were going to study soil and spend seven days in Rome.

00:09:49.380 And that's a nice work if you can get it.

00:09:53.820 We've got a new columnist by the name of Hall.

00:09:56.560 He jumps in today in the Nenshi fight.

00:09:59.600 His leadership campaign now, I guess, to run for the Alberta NDP.

00:10:03.960 Our Linda Slobodian has a piece on Jordan Peterson testifying in front of Congress yesterday in the States, talking about Big Brother watching and how surveillance super state is coming to the West.

00:10:20.820 And our opinion editor, Nigel Hannaford, has reached all the way to beautiful downtown Cape.

00:10:26.460 What the heck is that place called?

00:10:28.260 Cape Town in South Africa.

00:10:30.320 I've been there, I should remember.

00:10:31.940 And we've got a new columnist starting out of there called Kate Steinke. 0.95

00:10:35.440 And she talks about the mirror, the mirror stuff going on in South Africa that Canadians need to be aware of.

00:10:43.000 So, lots of stuff happening, Corey, as we speak.

00:10:47.020 Premier Smith is having a media availability in Edmonton over her meeting with Trudeau.

00:10:52.900 And our Ledge reporter, Jonathan Bradley, is there and will be filing as soon as it's over.

00:10:58.540 Well, great.

00:10:59.140 Yeah, I won't be able to catch Premier Smith's live thing, but I still haven't forgiven you for playing Justin Trudeau's live conference in the newsroom.

00:11:06.320 What was that, two, three hours it felt like in the background going on over there?

00:11:10.380 That was just torturous, Dave.

00:11:11.920 It was.

00:11:12.560 It was a word salad that kind of made me feel a bit nauseous.

00:11:17.340 Yeah, well, I guess news is news, whether we like listening to it or not.

00:11:20.980 Well, thanks for the update, Steve.

00:11:23.400 Yeah, we'll see you on the pipeline, Corey.

00:11:24.840 You betcha.

00:11:25.600 I'll talk to you later.

00:11:26.740 That is Dave Naylor, our news editor.

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00:12:01.940 All right, so let's see what else is going on in this mad, mad world.

00:12:06.480 And it is, this one is, I would see making the rounds.

00:12:10.180 So the Supreme Court of Canada ruled in a recent sexual assault case that it was problematic for a lower court judge to refer to the alleged victim as a woman. 0.97

00:12:19.800 Yes, the court referred to the rape victim as a woman and implying that the more appropriate term should have been person with a vagina. 0.98

00:12:30.660 This is the Supreme Court of Canada, guys. 0.98

00:12:32.880 This is what it's come down to.

00:12:34.220 Justice Sheila Martin wrote that the trial judge's use of the word woman may have been an unfortunate and engendered confusion.

00:12:43.200 This is insane.

00:12:45.260 They, the lunatics, the woke, and now they've hit the Supreme Court of Canada, the top court of the nation. 0.98

00:12:53.320 Women, speak up. 1.00

00:12:54.880 They are literally stealing your gender. 1.00

00:12:59.220 They're at the point now, this wasn't even a case where there was anything to do with transgender. 0.99

00:13:03.160 This was a woman who was raped. 1.00

00:13:05.100 This is what the case was about. 0.99

00:13:06.640 But somehow the use of the word woman rather than person with a vagina has made it offensive. 0.84

00:13:13.500 It's made it wrong. 0.97

00:13:15.480 You aren't allowed to be called a woman anymore. 1.00

00:13:17.840 You know, we can only speak up so much, I guess, as men, but women, this trans cult, you have to get back onto the cultishness of things. 1.00

00:13:25.620 The extremists, they've taken over. 0.99

00:13:29.260 The lunatics are running the asylum. 0.97

00:13:31.380 And it's, it's, it's stealing from you what you are. 0.96

00:13:36.140 You guys have got to speak up now.

00:13:37.940 You've got to say enough is enough.

00:13:40.460 Some are starting to speak up.

00:13:41.740 I, I watched JK Rowling.

00:13:43.360 You know, she's certainly no hard right winger, but boy, she's been getting it because she's dared to speak up against the crazed trans stuff. 1.00

00:13:51.520 But she's still speaking up.

00:13:53.140 But I mean, it's easy to speak up when you've got a billion in the bank.

00:13:55.720 For your common person, it's not so easy.

00:13:57.960 But this is getting just ludicrous. 1.00

00:14:01.000 Person with a vagina. 1.00

00:14:02.020 You're not a woman anymore. 1.00

00:14:03.400 Nope. 1.00

00:14:03.580 You're a person with a vagina. 1.00

00:14:07.060 Madness. 1.00

00:14:07.660 Madness.

00:14:08.000 And we've got to inject that into everything we do.

00:14:10.940 We, we, we can't even talk about a woman in a court anymore. 1.00

00:14:14.600 It's just, sanity has, has departed from us, guys.

00:14:19.600 So, yeah, speaking of sanity, Chrystia Freeland, as Dave mentioned there at the end of things, where was that quote?

00:14:25.280 I'm going to look down here and find this.

00:14:27.380 But she, she said along the lines of, yeah, you know, every person on the prairie's dream and little piece of heaven would be to, to move to BC.

00:14:34.760 You know, I kind of see what she might be trying to get at saying it's a, you know, it's nice out there.

00:14:39.980 People retire over there.

00:14:40.860 But talk about divisive, you know, when you're in a federal position, when you say things like that, because yes, the unspoken part is saying life sucks on the prairies.

00:14:50.560 If you work hard enough, you might raise enough money for yourself to retire in BC.

00:14:55.420 Look, I got nothing against BC.

00:14:57.060 It's nice on the island if you like rainy winters rather than sunny, cool ones.

00:15:01.520 You know, there's ups, downs, advantages, disadvantages of every region in the country.

00:15:07.160 You know, one of the things I learned as a surveyor, I traveled all over North America.

00:15:10.480 I worked literally from up by Tuk-Tuk-Tuk on the Beaufort Sea and the Mackenzie Delta area, all the way down to near the Texas-Mexico border and everything in between.

00:15:21.860 And something I found really interesting was no matter where I went, there was cool stuff to be seen and enjoyed and to be had.

00:15:30.020 The populations had unique qualities that you could, you know, interact with, get to know people.

00:15:35.640 People had pride in their areas and very good reasons to be proud of their areas, whether it was the middle of the desert, whether it was even West Virginia, with some of the, yeah, some of the people have earned their reputation over there.

00:15:47.860 And, yes, the prairies, you know, there's lots to be seen and done in the prairies.

00:15:52.480 The prairies are beautiful.

00:15:53.980 You want to see sunsets, hit the prairies, guys, and sunrises.

00:15:57.920 You know, culture, things to be done.

00:16:01.680 If you just drive a little bit off the road, the prairies are loaded with it.

00:16:04.480 It's not some hellscape. 1.00

00:16:05.420 And to have the deputy prime minister imply, perhaps, that the prairies are just a place you have to be, and as soon as you can escape to BC, you should do so, is just divisive and stupid. 0.98

00:16:16.980 But I guess it's kind of par for the course for Freeland. 0.99

00:16:20.700 She really is a weird little woman, isn't she? 1.00

00:16:22.820 And, yeah, so we did have, you know, I'll get on to that, her boss, Justin Trudeau, speaking of weird, and he is weird, he did his news conference.

00:16:32.620 He came to Alberta.

00:16:34.040 They do these things with short notice to reduce the amount of protests that are inevitably going to happen.

00:16:38.820 And he popped up.

00:16:40.740 He sat down with Daniel Smith.

00:16:42.320 We'll hear more about that.

00:16:43.140 I'm interested to hear what Premier Smith's going to say about it.

00:16:45.660 I guess the point of this was to come to Calgary and announce a dental program for senior citizens, an expansion of dental coverage for senior citizens.

00:16:58.060 It's just like this government is floundering, you know?

00:17:00.500 I mean, they're throwing out programs and money and ideas, and doing their announcements in almost a campaign sort of way.

00:17:05.680 We'll just pick a random part of the country and plop down and announce another spending program.

00:17:11.760 So this dental plan, I don't know, might be good, might not be.

00:17:14.700 I'll have to look into the details of it.

00:17:17.640 But, I mean, if it's anything like the health care plan, well, it'll be great, except you're going to be waiting a long, long time to get your teeth looked at.

00:17:25.080 You know, when you take something I said a while ago, you know, P.J. O'Rourke, one of my favorite writers, said,

00:17:31.160 if you think health care is expensive now, just wait until the government makes it free.

00:17:35.600 It's true.

00:17:36.800 You're just waiting to see how much it costs when it's free.

00:17:39.220 Something along those lines.

00:17:40.180 I mean, yeah, it's free, but you're going to die waiting for it.

00:17:42.660 Your teeth will fall out waiting for it.

00:17:44.120 You might as well start carving your wooden teeth now.

00:17:48.020 But that's what he was here to announce.

00:17:49.520 But most of the questions at the press conference were, of course, about the carbon tax.

00:17:53.000 Because we've got multiple premiers, premiers from the Maritimes, Premier Smith, as we expected.

00:17:57.580 And she said going into it, she was going to ask Trudeau about that with the carbon tax. 0.72

00:18:01.920 And all he would do is just go on with long, rambling, pointless word salads about, you know, taxing pollution and crap like that.

00:18:11.800 It was just agonizing. 0.57

00:18:13.000 As I said, Dave was torturing me.

00:18:14.280 Hey, that's the job.

00:18:15.040 We'll listen to the news as it's coming out.

00:18:17.020 Justin might have said something newsworthy throughout that conference.

00:18:20.160 So we had to listen to it and report on it if anything of note were to surface.

00:18:24.580 But nothing did.

00:18:27.040 And this guy is just odd, you know.

00:18:29.340 They won't change their tack.

00:18:31.960 Like we're seeing poll after poll after poll.

00:18:33.980 I've never seen so many federal polls, especially when we're this far from what's expected to be the actual election period.

00:18:40.620 But it's just because it's a morbid curiosity on the part of the pollsters now when it's amazing how low the support for the Trudeau government is getting.

00:18:51.000 Like people are just wondering how bad can this get?

00:18:53.400 And it gets worse and worse and worse.

00:18:55.840 And they won't change their tactics.

00:18:58.740 That's what's kind of fascinating in this dark and morbid sort of way.

00:19:03.580 Like how bad is it going to have to get before you realize that nobody gives a hoot about your tax on pollution when they can't pay the rent, when they can't pay for the heat for their house because you've shut down too much of the energy sector.

00:19:20.300 He's just lost.

00:19:22.000 But we're stuck with him.

00:19:23.280 What a weird holding pattern we're in and a destructive one and a painful one.

00:19:27.720 Because, yeah, unfortunately, Jagmeet's holding him up in there. 0.91

00:19:31.400 And even if only 20% of the country still wants him as the prime minister or whatever it might be getting down to, we can't get rid of that clown until an election's called. 0.73

00:19:40.200 And he's showing no signs of wanting to back out.

00:19:43.220 He really does believe he can turn this government around.

00:19:46.400 Maybe he can.

00:19:47.240 I just, I don't see how he's going to manage to do it, but he's going to try.

00:19:52.520 Well, so far it looks like Landon's not going to make it again.

00:19:55.300 So, okay, fool me once, fine, fool me twice.

00:19:59.480 Landon, I appreciate your efforts, but you are not doing yourself any favors pissing me off.

00:20:05.520 You don't have a lot of favorable press in the city as it is.

00:20:09.280 And when you've stood me up twice now for a live interview, well, I'm not going to dedicate any more time to your efforts.

00:20:16.240 I still wish the best for them and the recall gondek thing and all that, but you got to do better, guys.

00:20:22.720 You got to do better.

00:20:23.820 All right, something else getting on to the news in general.

00:20:28.620 Let's see, the Department of Public Works, Dave mentioned that in a briefing note, claimed that arrive can charges were fair and reasonable.

00:20:34.500 Talk about double speak with government.

00:20:36.320 You know, talk about when we're getting scammed, we're getting ripped off.

00:20:38.860 The arrive scam thing is brutal.

00:20:40.900 The government's shutting down or trying to shut down investigation into this.

00:20:43.820 And the bureaucrats, you know, that's where the real rot is. 1.00

00:20:48.300 It's not the ones just in the front.

00:20:49.820 It's the bureaucrats underneath.

00:20:50.900 And how can they, with a straight face, how can they sleep at night to point at that and say it was fair and reasonable?

00:20:57.680 You know?

00:20:58.160 You know, and Anita Anand, the public works minister, told reporters, you know, of course, she wasn't to blame.

00:21:03.200 Everybody says it's somebody else's fault.

00:21:04.860 That's nothing new.

00:21:06.180 Guys, this thing cost $60 million that we know of for a crappy app that was 10 times over budget.

00:21:13.820 How do they say that was fair and reasonable?

00:21:17.740 How bad does it have to get while being unreasonable?

00:21:21.860 You know, like, where's the line?

00:21:25.060 Where's the line?

00:21:25.840 And I don't know how or if and when it's ever going to get settled because these investigations just keep getting quashed.

00:21:33.240 The NDP keeps squishing them down.

00:21:36.400 All they're about is just hanging in there with their agreement with Trudeau, and he can get away with anything.

00:21:40.540 I'm really getting frightened.

00:21:42.160 People are going to get desperate.

00:21:43.900 If the democratic means of trying to change things seems to fail people, people start doing desperate things, and I don't want to see that.

00:21:51.140 Let's get a little closer to Alberta. 0.94

00:21:52.500 Of course, Nahed Nenshi, you know, a fellow I'm always happy to go on about, officially entered the NDP race for the leadership in Alberta.

00:22:01.580 And, you know, this is going to be an interesting race to watch.

00:22:05.420 Nenshi versus old Gil McGowan.

00:22:08.080 And as it's kind of said in the past, you know, they're shoving the four women aside.

00:22:12.860 The two men are going to come in there and fix this party up now.

00:22:15.580 But the NDP loyal aren't necessarily so thrilled.

00:22:17.520 I mean, Nenshi's never exactly been a friend to the NDP.

00:22:20.780 He's a leftist.

00:22:21.780 Yeah, there's no doubt about that.

00:22:23.480 But he wasn't an NDP leftist.

00:22:25.000 He was just kind of his own thing all that time.

00:22:26.960 But now he's coming in as arrogant and as pompous as ever and saying, well, I'm going to come in and save you guys from yourselves and take over this party and save Alberta. 0.97

00:22:35.480 And holy crap, you know, it's not just the leftist people claiming, oh, we're so tired of the vitriolic politics and the negative politics and the attack politics. 0.99

00:22:46.040 Well, in the last two days with what Nenshi's been spouting out, he has called Premier Smith everything from immoral to a liar to you name it. 0.99

00:22:55.440 Like, he's just lit the ground on fire.

00:22:58.620 And this is like day three or two of his official campaign for the leadership of the NDP. 0.98

00:23:03.680 Can you imagine if that clown wins the leadership? 0.59

00:23:07.600 What the next few years with him as the leader of the opposition will be like? 0.98

00:23:12.020 It's going to be an interesting race.

00:23:13.340 But you see, the NDP really have to think about things.

00:23:16.140 As Nenshi, Nenshi's a chameleon.

00:23:18.500 He'll do and say whatever the hell he thinks he has to to win.

00:23:22.360 That's it.

00:23:22.980 That's it.

00:23:23.280 He doesn't really have that much for principle in him.

00:23:26.540 Gil McGowan, on the other hand, well, he's a pure labor sort, angry union leader.

00:23:33.880 But at least, you know, one thing I can give a little bit to Gil I can respect, he's true to his ideology.

00:23:39.580 You know what Gil's about.

00:23:41.760 And Gil will keep the NDP as a principled socialist party if you could create such a thing.

00:23:49.640 The NDP will remain the NDP.

00:23:51.040 If Nenshi gets in, well, the NDP is going to be whatever Nenshi tries to make it into. 1.00

00:23:57.220 And that's going to be something interesting as well.

00:23:58.920 Because Nenshi is not a team player.

00:24:01.640 He does not play well with others.

00:24:03.860 He doesn't tend to work well in a group.

00:24:06.940 We saw that when he had to actually bring a psychologist into City Hall because the rest of the counselors wouldn't cooperate with him.

00:24:14.560 That was kind of the arrogance of Nenshi.

00:24:16.140 That was pure Nenshi.

00:24:17.920 You know, when basically city counselors were fighting and standing up to him as he was supposed to be leading and guiding them.

00:24:25.140 So clearly they must be crazy because how could they not follow his divine guidance?

00:24:31.520 I mean, they don't know what they're talking about. 0.64

00:24:33.400 So let's bring in a psychologist.

00:24:35.180 Look it up.

00:24:35.780 You know, this is Nenshi's.

00:24:36.560 Nenshi's, his history is something else.

00:24:38.980 But people's memories are short.

00:24:40.680 And that's why I like to keep reminding people of just how rotten Nenshi is.

00:24:45.860 Because if people forget for too long, he can't be underestimated.

00:24:50.120 He is a skilled communicator.

00:24:51.740 He does have some talented people on the team helping to try and get him in there.

00:24:56.100 And, you know, nothing's impossible.

00:24:58.140 I 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.

00:25:06.200 And, boy, I certainly would have been wrong.

00:25:08.180 So I'm not going to sit here today and say it's impossible for Nenhen Nenshi to become the premier in a future government.

00:25:14.880 It's not impossible.

00:25:16.380 But if we watch, if enough people realize who and what he is, no, it should be pretty unlikely.

00:25:21.980 But, yeah, we do have to take it seriously.

00:25:23.560 We've got to wonder.

00:25:24.020 But this race is going to be, well, there's going to be a lot of political drama that's fun to watch.

00:25:28.380 But it's also very important for Albertans because it really is going to be an identity crisis for NDP supporters.

00:25:34.400 Because, as I said with Gil, Gil McCowan is true to the NDP base and he's a union man.

00:25:39.640 But he will not win the premiership.

00:25:41.360 And, I mean, again, I won't say 100% because, as I said before, nothing's impossible.

00:25:45.420 Very, very, very unlikely.

00:25:47.660 If the NDP want to win the premiership again, they want to get into power again, Nenshi's probably their better path.

00:25:54.900 But they've got to sell a lot of their soul to do so.

00:25:58.340 So they've got to make their mind up.

00:26:00.600 Are they going to be true to who they are with their roots?

00:26:02.760 Or are they going to jump on with good old NAHED and see if they get a better chance of getting themselves to the premier's chair for that? 0.85

00:26:10.620 So we'll be watching, of course, and covering that all the way through.

00:26:13.680 And, you know, the main thing is, and I've always been hard on Nenshi for years.

00:26:18.060 The main thing that's always driven me nuts with him, again, as I said, he's a political chameleon.

00:26:21.740 When he first won as mayor, he campaigned as a conservative.

00:26:26.240 I mean, those of us who were already familiar with his history at Mount Royal and his time beforehand knew that he was certainly no conservative by any measure.

00:26:35.960 But enough Calgarians fell for it and they put him in there.

00:26:38.420 And he was so bad, businesses actually had to rally outside of City Hall.

00:26:43.500 Business owners, they're not typically the people who protest at City Hall and things like that.

00:26:47.340 But they had to get out and basically beg for the tax increases to stop because he was spending so badly and punishing and crushing businesses so badly that they had to just beg him to stop.

00:26:58.680 He's not a conservative.

00:27:00.000 He's not right wing.

00:27:01.380 No, people know better by now.

00:27:03.340 But I just don't like it when people are disingenuous coming in.

00:27:06.100 As I said with Gil McCown, at least I can respect him for being open about what he is.

00:27:11.820 Nenshi, Nenshi's just whatever he feels he has to be.

00:27:14.460 And I have a hard time respecting that.

00:27:17.340 All right, let's talk about, we're going to get on, John Carpea hopefully will show up pretty soon.

00:27:22.560 And we're going to talk about C63, but let's talk about some of the free speech and things we've got going on.

00:27:27.120 This was an interesting one, a BC talk radio station.

00:27:31.000 You know, and talk radio has just gotten so weak and milk-a-toast and boring for the most part.

00:27:35.680 Most of the hosts are just, they're afraid of being edgy any longer.

00:27:38.760 You know, we used to have people like Weisbeck and Peter Warren and unfortunately Gormley is retired, Rutherford's gone.

00:27:45.980 John Smith is now premier.

00:27:48.160 We've got this fella in BC.

00:27:50.280 And I don't even know if this host is typically an edgy one or anything else, but he dared to call out a Muslim guest.

00:27:57.500 That's what the bottom line was.

00:27:58.980 So this gentleman's name is Munir.

00:28:01.300 And I guess they were talking about, you know, Hamas, a very divisive issue, a controversial one.

00:28:06.720 And here's some of the quotes from, you know, he said, is Hamas not a barrier to peace? 0.71

00:28:10.100 And the guess I'm going to correct you and say the United Nations does not recognize Hamas as a terrorist organization.

00:28:15.980 And he says only a few nations do.

00:28:17.460 He's denying that Hamas are terrorists.

00:28:20.180 And the host said when Hamas fighters are taking glee and cutting heads off and he interrupts, do you have evidence of that?

00:28:23.960 And he said, yes, video.

00:28:24.900 They posted the video.

00:28:25.820 And yes, unfortunately we saw it.

00:28:27.500 And he said, no, they didn't.

00:28:28.920 And then the host said, you know what?

00:28:30.020 We're done here.

00:28:30.700 We're done here.

00:28:31.200 I'm not going to sit here and listen to somebody make excuses for a group of people that did that.

00:28:34.200 So he cut the guest off and got rid of him.

00:28:36.440 Okay, fine.

00:28:37.360 So they had a fight on the air.

00:28:38.540 The host said to hell with you and kicked him off the show because the guest was basically spreading BS.

00:28:45.060 So 157 complaints came in to the national ombudsman of this Kamloops BC talk radio show.

00:28:54.540 I mean, come on.

00:28:55.040 There couldn't have been more than a couple thousand listeners.

00:28:58.020 I mean, not to knock the guy's show, but it shows the cancel culture, the lunatics, the people who want to shut down discourse, how quick they are to get on there and try and block the voices they don't want to hear from.

00:29:12.120 So 157, the ombudsman at the end of it basically dismissed the complaints and said, piss off.

00:29:20.020 They accused this man, though, of Islamophobia, all because he just countered the narrative being spread by his guest on the show. 0.99

00:29:28.420 It's ridiculous.

00:29:29.020 But this is where we get into trouble with a lot of the things, with Bill C-63, which empowers the Human Rights Commissions.

00:29:39.580 We see, we're not talking about courts anymore.

00:29:40.980 We're not talking about law.

00:29:41.700 We're talking about the Canadian Human Rights Commissions.

00:29:43.840 These are kangaroo courts.

00:29:45.080 And these are things that don't operate on reality.

00:29:48.520 They do operate based on complainants.

00:29:50.720 And they won't necessarily identify the complainant.

00:29:53.540 They won't tell you if there was one or a thousand if you were somebody who was brought before one of their tribunals for something they say crossed a line somewhere.

00:30:02.020 And it's very disturbing.

00:30:04.320 You don't have the regular elements of defending yourself with a situation like that.

00:30:10.400 So this guy out here, Brett Meneer of CHNL, AM Radio and Calibs, he got cleared on it.

00:30:19.120 But boy, what a madness if, you know, you just say these things and suddenly you get 147 complaints.

00:30:24.540 Now, what happens if C-63 comes in?

00:30:26.960 But C-63, you see, when I first started reading that bill and when it came out a couple of weeks ago, and it's hundreds of pages long, and it's an omnibus bill.

00:30:38.420 And that means they've packed a whole bunch of stuff into one bill.

00:30:41.000 And I despise that because this is what the government does.

00:30:43.840 This is a tactic.

00:30:45.240 They'll stick something in the bill that almost everybody supports.

00:30:48.940 So that way, anybody who questions the bill itself will be accused of opposing that.

00:30:53.200 So the bill starts out with talking about cracking down on, you know, the posting of child porn.

00:31:00.900 Of course, everybody says, yes, okay, fine.

00:31:02.580 We've got no sympathy for pedophiles. 0.99

00:31:04.480 You know, having more cracking down on providers who are hosting that sort of crap and things like that. 0.97

00:31:09.480 So, yeah, you know, as I read through, yeah, okay, I can get down with this stuff.

00:31:13.920 But then you get further into this bill.

00:31:16.300 And then suddenly it goes into hate speech and sentencing.

00:31:22.400 Like, one of the frightening things, it talks about if a person is promoting genocide.

00:31:29.620 Yeah, a pretty awful thing to promote, but we'll talk about that a little more in a second here.

00:31:32.720 They could be subjected, though, to a life sentence.

00:31:34.860 We can't even keep murderers in jail for life sentences these days.

00:31:38.260 But apparently a life sentence can be garnered under this bill if you support genocide.

00:31:46.920 Now, genocide used to be some of a cut and dry term.

00:31:50.680 But unfortunately, these days it's been turned into, it's one of the most abused words we've seen in the English language lately.

00:31:55.800 Everything's genocide now.

00:31:57.700 I mean, you know, the residential schools in Canada have been considered genocide by some.

00:32:02.500 You know, there's debatable things.

00:32:04.500 For example, I mean, we're certainly hearing a lot of it with the conflict in Israel right now and that they're saying Israel's committing genocide against Palestinians.

00:32:15.420 I'm not going to start down the road of that debate right now, but it's debatable.

00:32:19.760 It certainly is.

00:32:20.440 There's definitely room for people to say that Israel isn't.

00:32:24.500 But if at some point the government or one of these commissions or one of these tribunals determines that it is genocide and somebody dared to say that it isn't,

00:32:32.500 they could be subjected to a life sentence, couldn't they?

00:32:37.320 Technically, by that bill, that's how insane this bill is.

00:32:40.520 Likewise, we've had others talking about criminalizing, referencing anything.

00:32:47.000 You know, they talked about criminalizing residential school denialism.

00:32:51.900 It's not that people deny, they love using that language because, of course, they're trying to tie it in with Holocaust denial.

00:32:56.380 But there's nobody denying that the residential schools existed, but now they want to deny, you know, if anybody should question this narrative.

00:33:03.580 We've got Kamloops to this day that the country was turned upside down over almost three years ago now over these anomalies found with ground penetrating radar.

00:33:12.760 And not a single body has been found.

00:33:15.900 I mean, we had the Pope over here giving a groveling apology.

00:33:19.600 The government was over there handing out money like candy as usual.

00:33:22.480 A whole new holiday was made because of the alleged burials of 200 children at the Kamloops residential school site.

00:33:29.880 But they still haven't found one yet.

00:33:31.260 And we're going to get to a point where, because that's getting called genocide as well, that if you questioned that, you could get a life sentence.

00:33:42.320 You know, we have laws about inciting people to a crime.

00:33:47.500 I mean, if you're going to stand on a street corner with a bullhorn and say, I want everybody to get together and round up and kill this group. 0.99

00:33:55.060 I want you to slaughter these people over here. 0.99

00:33:57.100 I want you to wipe those individuals out over there. 1.00

00:33:59.680 Yeah, that's certainly trying to promote genocide. 0.96

00:34:03.400 But guess what?

00:34:03.800 That's also criminal incitement.

00:34:05.600 We have laws to deal with that. 0.99

00:34:07.680 And you can and will be charged with it.

00:34:09.940 So why do we need this with C-63?

00:34:12.620 The other thing that's kind of weird in it, and others have been talking about that, is that there's provisions in that bill to put people under house arrest for suspicion that they might commit a hate crime.

00:34:25.360 Yes, true thought crimes.

00:34:28.000 As we're getting into the realm of 1984, they're talking about sanctions against citizens, locking them in their homes, punishments for crimes they haven't committed yet, but crimes the government fears they might commit.

00:34:41.720 Do we have any idea how insane this is?

00:34:44.720 How far it's gone?

00:34:46.080 Margaret Atwood called it out.

00:34:48.900 Margaret Atwood. 0.64

00:34:50.040 She's as far left and loony as they get. 1.00

00:34:53.000 But she at least could see, like, whoa, guys, this is too far.

00:34:57.580 This is a problem. 1.00

00:34:59.640 I mean, these are the things that our idiot prime minister should be talking about. 1.00

00:35:02.980 Try to justify this insane bill you've put before the House of Commons. 1.00

00:35:07.580 Instead of saying, we're going to spend another few billion on old people's teeth, we've got bigger things to talk about, prime minister.

00:35:15.540 That's why his approval is going into the toilet.

00:35:17.740 But this government is obsessed with control.

00:35:21.700 And they're authoritarian.

00:35:23.180 And this is what gets disturbing.

00:35:25.000 This is what gives me chills.

00:35:27.180 C-11, C-18.

00:35:28.240 All of these bills are about trying to control what people are allowed to say, what they're allowed to talk about, what they're allowed to report on.

00:35:35.800 And they're offering criminal sanctions in C-63 heavier than those we offer for second-degree murder.

00:35:42.500 Wake up, people.

00:35:43.600 We've got some serious, serious issues going on here.

00:35:48.900 Meanwhile, what's left of the media, the legacy media, yeah, they're subsidized.

00:35:55.480 They're beholden to the federal government.

00:35:57.520 But those who they can't fear, you know, bully into submission and those that, or, you know, that they can't threaten, they're trying to bribe.

00:36:06.480 So, I mean, they extended the handouts they're going to give to other outlets and so on.

00:36:11.620 They're spending more on it with subsidies.

00:36:15.300 What do you think happens?

00:36:17.080 What do you think happens when that gets put in there?

00:36:19.940 Well, I know that's not going to shake the tree, is it?

00:36:22.260 And the government bloody well knows it.

00:36:23.980 But then you look at some of the outcomes.

00:36:25.460 So, I mean, CBC just had an increase in their budget when word just came down recently, even though they've laid off hundreds and hundreds of people, that they took that money and gave bonuses to their executives.

00:36:36.460 Yes, the state broadcaster.

00:36:39.000 And I'll call it the state broadcaster.

00:36:40.800 I know it drives them nuts whenever I do that.

00:36:44.200 But it's true.

00:36:44.940 Do you ever really see them that critical of the liberals?

00:36:50.280 Come on.

00:36:50.880 They are a tool of the liberal party. 0.95

00:36:53.800 I do look forward, again, to Polly of Gideon and defunding that wretched machine, that institution, that rotten old thing. 0.93

00:37:03.280 It hasn't been useful since they put out the beachcombers and the littlest hobo.

00:37:06.040 But Paradoxie is asking, why did Michael Geist not come down on this one so much?

00:37:12.220 I think Michael Geist has been very critical of this, I believe.

00:37:16.080 I'm not sure.

00:37:16.800 He's certainly been very...

00:37:17.880 Michael Geist, by the way, for those not familiar with him, he's a professor out in Ontario somewhere.

00:37:22.520 I've had him as a guest before.

00:37:24.360 He's been very outspoken.

00:37:26.260 He's got a fantastic blog.

00:37:27.480 If 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.

00:37:36.140 And 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.

00:37:42.020 I think part of it might be he's overwhelmed.

00:37:44.860 We've just got...

00:37:45.560 I mean, listen to that.

00:37:46.660 That's three different bills that are beating on our free speech all at once.

00:37:50.240 How much can you keep up with?

00:37:52.180 How much can you cover?

00:37:54.260 But look him up because he makes the case fantastically.

00:37:57.220 And again, the great thing with Michael Geist, he's not a libertarian conservative type like myself.

00:38:02.820 He's more of a classical liberal, I guess.

00:38:04.280 I'll give it that.

00:38:05.160 But he's a left of center sort of individual.

00:38:08.240 He's worried about authoritarianism.

00:38:10.380 I like seeing some of the others breaking ranks.

00:38:13.400 And so I like seeing out of people like Margaret Atwood and Michael Geist or even Warren Kinsella on some of these things is at least they hit a point where they realize that it's not leftism.

00:38:24.540 It's not rightism that is our problem.

00:38:26.840 It's authoritarianism.

00:38:28.720 It's government wanting to control the people too much and how dangerous it is.

00:38:33.560 You see, I don't think maybe Margaret Atwood fears the power that Trudeau might wield with something like C63, but maybe she's smart enough to realize.

00:38:44.220 When you're giving a government a power, any kind of more increased power or reach over people, you should always envision, would you be comfortable with the government having that power if it was led by somebody you despise?

00:38:58.440 You see, liberals will give them all this power to crush people's speech and ability to demonstrate and things like that because that's no problem.

00:39:06.160 OK, fine. But do you understand that Trudeau will not be in forever?

00:39:10.160 It's going to feel like forever. It already feels like forever, but he's not going to be there forever.

00:39:14.880 And as you keep putting in these controls, giving more power and authority to this government, as you keep stripping away individual rights, you better hope the next government isn't vindictive and doesn't use those to crush your end of the political spectrum.

00:39:33.560 That's where less government is better government. Marie Perrin saying, I believe Pierre will cancel this bill, says he'll repeal C-11.

00:39:40.280 I think he will, too. I think he will, too. But I tell you what, governments lose a lot of appetite for repealing bills once they get in.

00:39:48.800 You know, I'm not saying Polly Evans and his government is going to do that.

00:39:52.720 I'm just saying it's better to shut these bills off before they get entrenched, because the government can sometimes kick the can down the road once they get into power.

00:40:00.680 Right now, suddenly it might turn into a useful tool for themselves, and that can get turned around.

00:40:06.820 That's why I 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.

00:40:15.660 Similar to Trudeau and his lie saying he was going to reform the electoral system.

00:40:19.120 We see that over and over in countries all over the place. We're going to change the electoral system.

00:40:22.680 We're going to bring in proportional representation and this and that.

00:40:25.360 Look, 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.

00:40:32.920 They've lost all incentive to do so.

00:40:36.700 And Trudeau proved that quite well when he just basically broke and ignored his own promise, which I'm glad of.

00:40:42.880 I'm glad of. I can imagine the deals that would be cut.

00:40:45.460 It'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.

00:40:59.280 If we want to talk about whole systems that we could reform, I mean, that's a whole separate discussion.

00:41:03.020 You know, if you really have what I would like to see, maybe proportional representation for a Senate and a rep by pop in the parliament and an elected Senate, of course.

00:41:11.900 But these are all dreams that would take constitutional reform and that's not going to be happening during our lifetime.

00:41:19.220 It's the only way we're going to see constitutional reform is if and when a country or a province is on the brink of or finally separates.

00:41:27.360 And, you know, I've written the book on how we should pursue that literally, but that is still going to be a while away yet.

00:41:34.440 I'm going to be saying seven premiers are against the carbon tax now and voicing their opinions.

00:41:37.320 Yeah, yes, they are.

00:41:38.360 And that was asked of Trudeau, as I said, during the press conference he had today, and he just talked around it and talked around it and talked around it.

00:41:46.200 I think I think this government's getting to the point where they just don't care.

00:41:50.960 They do know they're they're in the toilet.

00:41:52.800 They do know they aren't going to turn it around.

00:41:55.020 They don't have a hope.

00:41:56.320 And they're just going to keep pushing ahead and putting this stuff in there until they get wiped out.

00:42:00.520 And I can't think of any other explanation.

00:42:02.900 I mean, when you've got regional leaders all coming out, united against you like this on something like this carbon tax, but he will not back down.

00:42:11.280 What a stubborn, ideologically loony man.

00:42:13.900 Another one. 0.97

00:42:14.560 I'll close off a show with that.

00:42:16.440 Half the Canadians.

00:42:17.380 This is an interesting one.

00:42:18.260 Say that there are too many immigrants, according to a new leisure survey commissioned by the Canadian Association for Canadian Studies.

00:42:25.340 All right.

00:42:26.180 So I guess it was rated 50 percent saying there's too many coming in.

00:42:28.700 See, again, it's not people saying we should have no immigrants.

00:42:31.580 There's some people who say that.

00:42:32.680 I think majority of people understand immigrants are good for Canada.

00:42:36.240 You know, most of us are either are immigrants or we're only one or two generations away from immigrants.

00:42:42.340 But we're just the floodgates are open.

00:42:45.060 We've got to have controlled immigration. 1.00

00:42:47.340 And that's what this was saying.

00:42:48.740 Half the Canadians are saying there's too many immigrants.

00:42:50.580 You've got to remember, if half the Canadians are saying that, a lot of the people saying that are people who immigrated here.

00:42:55.840 We've got to think for the sake of the immigrants as well as us here.

00:42:59.300 How's it going to be when you get here?

00:43:00.640 Great.

00:43:00.960 Here's the new life I'm going to make in Canada.

00:43:02.680 Oh, by the way, yeah, you're going to wait 18 months for an MRI and you can barely get into a school.

00:43:07.360 You can't find a family doctor.

00:43:08.760 You can't afford the rent.

00:43:10.080 And oh, God, don't even dream of getting a down payment for a home to buy right now.

00:43:15.600 And this government's in denial.

00:43:17.060 They will not tap the brakes on the immigration levels.

00:43:20.860 Like, guys, it's just math.

00:43:23.060 That's all it's down to now is math.

00:43:25.840 That we don't have the resources to accommodate the number of people we're bringing in.

00:43:31.940 Why is this so hard?

00:43:33.540 I mean, part of it is the government's falsely shoring up the economy.

00:43:37.320 Because, yes, immigrants bring in a burst of economic activity when they come in.

00:43:41.680 But it also hits the resources very, very hard.

00:43:45.140 They need resources like everybody else.

00:43:47.900 And we don't have them.

00:43:49.220 And that hurts them and us.

00:43:52.000 And these polls keep coming out.

00:43:54.140 More and more academics are coming out.

00:43:56.040 More and more politicians are coming out.

00:43:57.960 People are saying, Justin, Trudeau, please.

00:44:01.140 You know, the banks are coming out.

00:44:02.680 You've got to slow this down.

00:44:04.920 And he just ignores it.

00:44:06.660 He just lets it blast by them.

00:44:07.980 But, I mean, when you're a trust fund baby, who knows you're going to retire on a private aisle in some place with a giant pension.

00:44:13.660 You're not worried about the economic damage you're actually reaping by trying to shore up this false economy.

00:44:19.340 I guess you can afford to ignore it.

00:44:21.180 But the rest of us are all going to be paying a terrible, terrible price for this.

00:44:25.500 And on and on it goes.

00:44:28.420 Well, doing what we can, guys.

00:44:31.100 All we can do is keep pointing it out.

00:44:32.240 Keep pushing.

00:44:33.260 We've got another election coming eventually.

00:44:35.520 We just want to make sure we get it right when we get there.

00:44:38.740 Well, guys, I'm sorry.

00:44:39.960 Yes, I guess I got stood up by two guests in one show.

00:44:42.380 That's a new record for me.

00:44:43.360 I've had guests stand me up before.

00:44:44.820 But this is the first time two-in-one show.

00:44:46.620 And rest assured, you won't have to worry about me booking them again and wasting your time and mine.

00:44:50.400 But thank you for tuning in and listening to me today, guys.

00:44:52.920 I do appreciate it.

00:44:54.140 We did cover a lot of ground.

00:44:56.140 Be sure to tune in to the pipeline tonight.

00:44:59.200 And next week, we'll be on with a fresh new show and a fresh new guest who I'm certain will actually show up for it.

00:45:04.780 So y'all have a good one.

00:45:05.900 We'll see you this time next week.

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Western Standard - March 17, 2024

CMS： Episode 500—A Deep Dive into Canadian Politics

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