Western Standard - CMS： Organized labour is crushing Canada

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00:02:00.000 Good day. Welcome to the Corey Morgan Show.

00:02:05.020 Coming live from Calgary, the land of the unwashed due to lack of water, at least those who have chosen to follow the mandates and just shorten their showers and only flush on the occasional pinch.

00:02:17.740 Well, Calgary just isn't smelling very good right now.

00:02:20.140 But hey, only maybe four weeks to go and they'll get that water line fixed.

00:02:24.400 Nobody can move faster than government and fixing something up, eh?

00:02:28.120 Well, lots of other stuff to cover today anyways, besides the situation in Calgary.

00:02:33.300 Boy, I really appreciate my water well down in Prentice these days, though.

00:02:36.520 I've got a guest, Mark Mielke, the Aristotle Foundation coming on in a little bit.

00:02:40.300 We're going to talk about a column they put out recently.

00:02:42.660 And, yes, lots of news and rants and things going on.

00:02:46.120 Make sure you use that comment screen, guys, for the folks who are here for the live broadcast.

00:02:50.200 I appreciate it.

00:02:51.200 Seeing the discourse, chat with each other, send things my way.

00:02:54.740 Just keep it civil.

00:02:55.580 I see somebody came in early, must have seen the title of the show and threw a comment in, which I appreciate.

00:03:00.460 Sonny Brakes said, what are you talking about?

00:03:02.540 Labor unions fight for fair wages.

00:03:04.320 What I've noticed as a union employee is that an employer is within their rights to pay higher wages, but they never do.

00:03:10.320 Think about it.

00:03:11.680 I did think about it.

00:03:12.480 I had a little time since it was an early comment coming in.

00:03:15.540 Actually, employers always pay higher wages when the employee is worth more.

00:03:20.380 Now, somebody in the union environment might never understand that because all they have to do is put in days

00:03:24.320 and they're on a scale and they climb the scrotum pole based on seniority rather than actual performance or worth.

00:03:30.400 I've predominantly been in the private market, oil field, running my own business, things like that.

00:03:35.640 When an employee is worth more, you pay them more.

00:03:38.740 And it's a competitive market for good workers.

00:03:41.580 Unions skew that market. 0.88

00:03:43.640 But either way, Sonny, if you haven't been able to find an employer to pay you more money,

00:03:47.720 maybe you should look to yourself rather than the employer.

00:03:50.520 The union shouldn't be what makes you earn more money.

00:03:53.440 But let's talk more about that.

00:03:54.520 And that's getting to what I want to talk about today.

00:03:56.940 Organized labor in general.

00:03:58.540 And organized labor is crushing Canada.

00:04:01.100 And sadly, citizens can't expect help from the Conservative Party of Canada on this.

00:04:05.160 We had a recent federal bill, C-58, it whizzed through Parliament with unanimous consent and it will be law soon.

00:04:11.480 That bill makes it illegal for private companies in federally regulated sectors to hire replacement workers if there's a strike.

00:04:18.000 One can expect such a terrible piece of legislation to be supported by the NDP and the Liberals.

00:04:23.560 They're socialists, we expect that.

00:04:25.080 One would have hoped, though, the CPC would have allowed a free vote on the bill.

00:04:29.180 Sadly, we're disappointed.

00:04:30.440 Instead, the vote was whipped and that every member of Parliament was forced to support it whether they like it or not.

00:04:35.720 Or we're supposed to believe that 100% of the Conservative MPs really think that handcuffing private companies like this is a good idea.

00:04:42.380 The only thing that terrifies federal politicians more than Indigenous issues is organized labor. 0.97

00:04:48.200 Not a single federal party is willing to stand up for Canadians against this union tail wagging the national dog.

00:04:54.220 And we're all going to pay dearly for that.

00:04:56.180 Canadian productivity and GDP per capita when measured against other developed countries has been in freefall for years.

00:05:02.260 Inefficient unionized workplaces and a continually bloating civil service has contributed heavily towards this.

00:05:07.740 Despite the growth of the federal civil service numbers by 40% in the last decade, services have become more terrible than ever.

00:05:15.080 Not only that, but the government workers have become more belligerent and entitled than ever, too.

00:05:20.680 I mean, last year they held Canadians hostage with a strike.

00:05:23.380 And this year they're threatening what they call a summer of discontent.

00:05:26.640 You want to know why?

00:05:27.680 Because they might have to show up for work more than two days a week.

00:05:31.560 Oh, those poor dears. 1.00

00:05:33.500 Public service unions have been much too powerful for far too long.

00:05:36.900 Governments capitulate to union demands with a little hesitation.

00:05:40.580 And as if that wasn't bad enough, C-58 will now empower those unions to hold private companies in fields like trucking, media, telecommunications hostage as well.

00:05:49.840 Even pipeline construction is going to be subject to a ban on replacement workers if the pipeline crosses a provincial border.

00:05:56.240 I mean, look how expensive the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion was.

00:05:59.620 And think of how bad it's going to be now that unions are truly going to run the show.

00:06:03.180 So, organized labor doesn't just harm us through the skyrocketing compensation demands and the chronic labor actions and the protection of lazy workers.

00:06:11.240 It actively fights against the pursuit of efficiency and changes.

00:06:15.300 Canada Post is a perfect example.

00:06:17.120 The days of house-to-house mail delivery should have been gone long ago.

00:06:20.480 We don't need it anymore.

00:06:21.460 And it costs a fortune.

00:06:22.320 They're just overpaid flyer delivery boys.

00:06:24.280 The Crown Corporation began moving towards centralized mailbox systems until the Postal Union managed to convince Trudeau to end this important evolution in delivery.

00:06:34.160 Liberals had an election approaching and they were afraid of the Postal Union.

00:06:37.440 So, they bought their support with a promise to maintain obsolete home delivery.

00:06:41.340 Now, Canada Post is burdening taxpayers as a chronic money loser.

00:06:46.240 Last year, they lost $740 million just in one year.

00:06:49.660 And it's not going to get any better.

00:06:50.580 Now, while the union control of the postal system is an expense of annoyance, it becomes even more dangerous as unions fight reforms and efficiency in fields such as health care.

00:06:59.820 The Canadian health care system is collapsing in every province, every province, under every government of every political stripe.

00:07:05.980 The rigid monopoly system has created a monster that costs more every year while the waiting lists for procedures get longer and longer.

00:07:12.340 The system itself needs reform, but unions act to fight every effort to change the status quo and they fight it tooth and nail.

00:07:18.600 Even the outsourcing of something as simple as laundry services suddenly becomes a hill for unions to die upon and governments back away in fear from pursuing even those minor reforms.

00:07:27.620 Meanwhile, people are literally dying while waiting for treatment.

00:07:30.980 Unions are there for the unions, not the patients, despite what they claim.

00:07:34.520 Teachers unions, they regularly demonstrate where union priorities really are as well, despite their claims to be in there for the students.

00:07:40.440 They like to cloak themselves as professional associations and purport to be acting in the interest of the students.

00:07:46.140 Somehow the interest of the students always translates into more compensation for teachers, though, with fewer days worked.

00:07:51.160 The teachers unions dig deeply into social activism as well and bring their woke ideals into the classroom while fighting against any form of standardized testing to assess whether they're actually effectively teaching children.

00:08:02.000 They say every child learns differently, yet they vigorously oppose diversity learning through opposing charter or alternative schools.

00:08:10.140 The social activism within unions has really come to a head during the Israel-Hamas conflict.

00:08:15.340 QP Ontario leader Fred Hahn's vile demonstrations of anti-Semitism, oh, he hates Jews, have horrified Canadians since the conflict began,

00:08:23.100 as he coaxes his union members to actively take part in anti-Israel protests.

00:08:27.100 No matter where one lands on that issue, it should be asked why is one of the largest unions in Canada taking any role in that conflict on any side?

00:08:34.100 What has it got to do with Canadian worker rights?

00:08:36.780 Nobody will ask those questions, however.

00:08:39.140 Even Polyev's Conservatives have tightly gagged themselves when it comes to dealing with unions.

00:08:43.540 Organized labour is spreading like an infection, while callow politicians purposely look the other way.

00:08:49.280 Canada should be looking at right-to-work legislation rather than banning replacement workers in private industries.

00:08:54.320 Instead, we see unanimous consent on legislation that's handcuffing industries.

00:08:59.000 Sorry, kids, the economy's going down and things are going to get much worse before they get better.

00:09:04.020 Either way, yes, I will call out the Conservatives when they do things wrong just as quickly as I'll call out the Liberals.

00:09:08.980 And guys, they should have at least spoken up on that bill before it went through.

00:09:12.860 All right, let's see what else is going on out there and check in with our news editor, Dave Dealer.

00:09:16.560 Hey, Dave, how's it going?

00:09:18.060 Well, Corey, I've got to be a bit serious for a moment.

00:09:20.400 Well, you and I have known each other now for, what, four or five years?

00:09:23.920 Yeah, something like that.

00:09:25.460 I think it's fair to say that, you know, we consider ourselves friends.

00:09:29.400 I think so.

00:09:30.440 Can I ask a favour then?

00:09:32.620 Ride at the airport?

00:09:34.340 No, can I come over for a bath?

00:09:36.440 Oh, yes.

00:09:37.280 I was thinking of renting out the water facilities in Prittis.

00:09:40.980 I can certainly offer a friends discount.

00:09:43.920 Well, actually, I've seen some Facebook ads.

00:09:46.240 People who own their own indoor pools in Calgary are now starting to, you know, charge people to come and use them.

00:09:51.860 Because all the city pools are closed.

00:09:54.120 So I guess one way to earn a little bit of extra money.

00:09:56.920 Black market swimming. 0.83

00:09:58.920 Exactly.

00:09:59.820 Okay.

00:10:00.620 You know, how does 7 o'clock tonight sound?

00:10:02.580 I'll be there with my little rubber ducky and you can draw me a bath?

00:10:06.680 Yeah, just send me a preferred temperature.

00:10:08.820 We'll see what we can arrange.

00:10:10.020 All right.

00:10:10.460 Sounds good.

00:10:11.020 Anyways, what do we got on the website this morning?

00:10:15.520 We've got a Regina doctor who is now being suspended for a month because he gave one of his patients ivermectin to treat him when he was suffering from COVID-19.

00:10:25.800 And as we know, the medical societies have said that is a no-no.

00:10:31.960 We've got a whole bunch of Toronto schools introducing a new policy for 10-year-olds when they're talking about reproductive health.

00:10:39.660 They've removed the phrases men's and women's. 0.99

00:10:43.320 And it's just, you know, people with a penis and people with a uterus. 0.98

00:10:48.660 There's no reference to men, women whatsoever involved in it.

00:10:52.520 So, if you've got a flight booked on WestJet in the next little while, you might want to double check that it's going ahead.

00:10:59.500 Today, WestJet canceled a whole bunch of flights because of a looming strike by mechanics and other maintenance workers.

00:11:06.580 And I think, Corey, if there's one industry that you really don't want replacement workers in, it's probably aircraft mechanics.

00:11:12.880 Yeah.

00:11:13.860 Some areas are replaced in others, yeah.

00:11:16.640 Yeah, you kind of need the top people.

00:11:19.140 Well, the anti-oil wackos sort of crossed the border or crossed the line of decency again today when they attacked Stonehenge on the eve of summer solstice. 0.61

00:11:30.140 When Druids are about to go, they attacked it and spray-painted it, or not spray-painted it, but covered it with some sort of red fire extinguisher discharge. 1.00

00:11:41.480 And just people are idiots, Corey. 1.00

00:11:44.760 And we had a nice exclusive this morning from our Sean Polser. 1.00

00:11:49.740 Calgary's first municipal election slate is going to kick off with an event tonight.

00:11:56.940 If you remember, the UCP Alberta government changed the rules to allow party slates to run in municipal elections.

00:12:06.820 And local conservatives have got together and are taking a run at the sort of the union-backed city council that Calgary is suffering through right now.

00:12:18.520 Yeah, so those are the highlights.

00:12:20.320 We got the latest on the Oilers' win last night.

00:12:23.260 Man, those Edmonton Oilers fans are sort of getting annoying, Corey.

00:12:27.340 But they're still delusional.

00:12:28.920 They still think they're going to win it all.

00:12:30.180 Well, it'll be over soon, one way or another.

00:12:35.400 Well, right on, I'll let you get back to getting that news together, and I'll make sure to send Jane a heads up that you'll be showing up with a towel a little later this evening. 0.99

00:12:42.620 I'll be there.

00:12:43.180 Thanks, Corey.

00:12:43.900 Right on.

00:12:44.400 Thanks, Dave.

00:12:45.160 That is our news editor, Dave Naylor.

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00:13:32.520 All right.

00:13:32.740 I see back in the comments, girl, it's funny when organized labor comes up, the union guys come crawling out of the woodworks, don't they?

00:13:38.440 Well, they've got nothing else to do.

00:13:39.440 It's not like they're working.

00:13:40.120 They're at home licking beans and doing whatever else they do,

00:13:43.400 because they only have to come in two days a week.

00:13:44.900 But Gary Baggy has come in and says, so Pierre Polyev wants to ban unions.

00:13:48.500 He won't get my vote.

00:13:50.200 Gary, where in this whole first, what, 10 minutes of this show did anybody say Polyev wants to ban unions?

00:13:58.400 In fact, what I was saying was Polyev is afraid to do anything about unions.

00:14:02.040 He's just as status quo about unions as Justin Trudeau or Jagmeet Singh.

00:14:06.940 If you'd get the union wax out of your ears, maybe you would have caught that.

00:14:09.880 I, however, am calling for right-to-work legislation, which, again, isn't banning unions.

00:14:14.640 I would just like to see people have a choice.

00:14:17.180 People could choose whether to be part of the union or shouldn't.

00:14:20.180 If the unions are so good, they have nothing to fear, right?

00:14:22.220 People will choose to join the union.

00:14:24.740 Yet they are terrified of choice.

00:14:27.200 Terrified.

00:14:28.320 Abjectly terrified.

00:14:29.160 Maybe it's because the unions really aren't all they're cut out to be, are they?

00:14:33.540 Well, speaking of mental health issues, Elizabeth May, you know, we talked about her last week

00:14:38.580 because she had gotten the security clearance to read that report on foreign interference

00:14:44.320 and she dove into it and, you know, somehow managed to, despite seeing double, read and interpret and come out.

00:14:51.740 She said, no, there's no MPs named in it and there's nothing to worry about.

00:14:56.000 And, uh, the, there's no spying going on.

00:14:59.200 It's all quite fine.

00:15:00.780 Strange.

00:15:01.520 And a lot of, of course, legacy media jumped on.

00:15:03.700 You see, Liz said it's fine.

00:15:04.900 There is no, there's no traitors in parliament.

00:15:07.500 Liz said so.

00:15:09.240 Jagmeet Singh, to the left of Liz, or, you know, somewhat, he had a read of it as well

00:15:15.120 and he got quite a different interpretation.

00:15:18.100 He said, no, no, it's very concerning.

00:15:20.460 There are traitors within parliament and we've got to work on this.

00:15:23.260 And suddenly Elizabeth May has come out yet again and she gave a press conference that was almost an hour.

00:15:28.600 That was one of the times I really did actually feel pretty sorry for legacy media reporters

00:15:32.400 because they had to sit through listening to that woman ramble on for that long 1.00

00:15:35.480 to basically backtrack on everything she'd said the week before.

00:15:39.320 Why they give her any time?

00:15:40.840 Well, I guess I'm giving her some time right now as well.

00:15:42.980 She is an elected member of parliament and, boy, she got a heck of a lot of ink over her first

00:15:48.020 and then second interpretation.

00:15:50.560 The bottom line is with this whole thing, we don't know.

00:15:54.960 We've got to open it up, guys.

00:15:56.380 We've got to add transparency to this.

00:15:58.520 This is insane.

00:16:00.020 This is insane.

00:16:00.940 We're an international laughingstock.

00:16:02.840 We've literally got traitors in our parliament and we can't seem to find ourselves to do anything about it.

00:16:09.560 This is problematic to say the very least.

00:16:12.360 All right.

00:16:13.380 Enough about that.

00:16:14.080 I see my guest is in the lobby and I've been looking forward to talking to him.

00:16:16.360 It's been a while since he's been on.

00:16:17.820 We've got Mark Mielke of the Aristotle Foundation to come on to talk about a recent column that came across my email.

00:16:26.120 Hi, Mark.

00:16:26.600 Welcome back to the show.

00:16:28.200 Corey, it's great to be on.

00:16:29.340 Thanks for having me back.

00:16:31.040 Yeah, thanks.

00:16:31.640 So, you know, where to start?

00:16:34.440 I mean, it's the evolution of activism, I think, to a degree.

00:16:37.720 Things have kind of come full circle.

00:16:39.180 The big battles have been won, but now it's getting almost, it's come full circle now.

00:16:47.420 Your color blindness is now the new racism.

00:16:51.140 Right.

00:16:51.840 New evils or old evils, rather, and old ills always show up in new ways and possibly often in ways you wouldn't expect, right?

00:16:58.980 So, Chong Nguyen and I wrote a column recently on this notion of reverse racism and how this came about, where when you say you're colorblind, now you're considered to be part of the problem.

00:17:10.880 You're considered to be racist.

00:17:12.320 And the most famous proponent of this view is Ibrahim X.

00:17:15.620 Kennedy out of the United States, a quasi-scholar who has promoted this line of thinking.

00:17:20.380 So, how did we get to this place where when you say, look, I want to be Martin Luther King, you know, his famous speech in 1963 at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., where he says, judge people.

00:17:34.580 I want my kids to be judged on the color of their skin.

00:17:36.760 Sorry, the character, content of their character, not the color of their skin.

00:17:40.000 How do we get to a place now in Canada, the United States, and in Western countries anyway, where to say that, to say I'd like to be colorblind, to be treated colorblind, I am colorblind, is now suspiciously looked at.

00:17:54.440 Well, really, you're part of the problem.

00:17:56.980 And how this came about, in part, is because of the redefinition of what it means to be racist these days.

00:18:01.820 Corey?

00:18:02.700 Yeah.

00:18:03.240 Well, it just seems that they're trying to keep the divisions going when we'd actually been making them fade.

00:18:09.180 I mean, you know, race is going to be there.

00:18:11.200 Cultural differences are going to be there.

00:18:12.600 They don't have to be erased or disappear.

00:18:15.160 But we, you know, what we wanted to work towards was stopping allowing those differences to control our actions with and to each other.

00:18:22.880 But now it's come full circle into trying to embrace and segregate the different cultures and races from each other, which is only going to lead to more friction yet all over again.

00:18:32.120 I just get so frustrated watching it.

00:18:34.080 I mean, the celebration of a Black-only graduation recently and other events where we should be working together, you know, while still celebrating cultural and history and things like that.

00:18:45.240 But we're going the other way.

00:18:47.260 Well, we are.

00:18:48.100 And again, I think it's due to a number of factors.

00:18:50.500 One is that people look at differences in outcomes between cohorts, right, statistical cohorts.

00:18:56.260 So, you know, you can be, you know, one ethnicity versus another or majority of population white in Canada versus, you know, the Black population or something.

00:19:06.780 So you can carve up statistics in this way.

00:19:08.680 And, you know, there's some use in doing that to figure out what's going on is some community, some particular community is defined by however you want to carve up, you know, cohort and statistics doing well or better on some indicators.

00:19:21.440 So, for example, we know that Indigenous Canadians are not doing well on average compared to, say, other Canadians or compared to Taiwanese Canadians.

00:19:30.220 Now, the assumption, though, that a lot of people have is they see a difference in outcomes and they say, OK, that must be due to racism.

00:19:37.080 Now, why people pick one factor, you know, is there's a whole bunch of reasons, I guess, but it's it's monocausal.

00:19:43.840 It's wrong.

00:19:44.580 So why is there a difference between, say, Indigenous Canadians on average incomes and, say, Taiwanese Canadians on average incomes?

00:19:51.180 Well, one factor, education levels.

00:19:53.980 Taiwanese Canadians are among the most educated as a group in Canada on average compared to, say, Indigenous Canadians.

00:19:59.480 You know, and guys like you and me with our skin color are in the middle of somewhere.

00:20:03.680 So is that due to racism?

00:20:05.220 No, it's due to education levels.

00:20:06.740 Or another factor that can affect incomes is, again, using Indigenous Canadians or First Nations Canadians as a specific example, is a greater proportion of First Nations Canadians live in the middle of nowhere, often not always, but often on a reserve.

00:20:21.220 A greater proportion live in rural areas because you live on a reserve in the middle of nowhere.

00:20:25.120 Well, we know whether you're white, Indigenous, Asian, Canadian, if you live in a rural area, you will earn less. 0.64

00:20:31.720 So you add education, you add geography, and all of a sudden this notion that everything can be due to, you know, is assumed to be due to racism today or past racism becomes ridiculous.

00:20:43.060 There's lots of other factors that go into why people succeed or not, even why certain cohorts succeed.

00:20:49.680 So that's part of the problem is people are thinking simplistically when they see differences in outcomes.

00:20:54.260 A famous example I like to give is from Thomas Sowell in one of his books.

00:20:57.360 He talks about the differences between Italians, you know, and the Swiss, and apparently historically in fishing fleets around the world, the Italians dominate the fishing fleets.

00:21:09.120 Now, not the Swiss. 0.99

00:21:10.440 Is that because the Swiss are discriminated against, you know, by those in the fishing fleets, you know, when they try and enter?

00:21:17.040 No, historically or geographically, the reason is quite simple.

00:21:20.480 Italians grow up around coastlines.

00:21:22.280 The Swiss have none. 1.00

00:21:23.220 And so it stands to reason, you know, if you're from Switzerland, you're less likely to have ever, you know, gotten on a boat and certainly entered the commercial fishing industry.

00:21:32.820 There's all sorts of reasons why groups differ in outcomes.

00:21:35.560 But we've arrived at a stage where everything is blamed on racism or most things.

00:21:40.040 That's nonsensical.

00:21:41.240 It's monocausal.

00:21:42.200 It's simplistic.

00:21:43.040 But that's what's driving federal policy, for example, a lot of provincial policy, university admissions policy, university hiring policy.

00:21:49.840 I could go on.

00:21:50.800 Corporate DEI.

00:21:51.620 So we live in this weird age as well where people think pure culture is going to save them from, you know, whatever.

00:22:01.460 You know, and that, you know, the black only graduation ceremony, as you mentioned a moment ago, that's a good example of that.

00:22:07.420 And I can expand on that.

00:22:08.400 But that's actually really dangerous to think your culture is going to save you.

00:22:11.820 But I'll stop there and let you interject, Corey.

00:22:13.920 Well, yeah, I mean, you know, one of the things you'll get from activists and the pushback, you'll always say, so you're saying racism doesn't exist or something like that.

00:22:21.880 And that's not the case at all.

00:22:23.060 There's still some terribly bigoted individuals out there.

00:22:26.180 There's going to be some companies that decline to hire other people based on race or landlords who aren't renting to certain individuals based on race.

00:22:33.440 These things are there.

00:22:34.060 But we're beyond the big institutional racism.

00:22:38.160 I mean, the American Jim Crow laws are long gone.

00:22:41.500 The ability to openly discriminate based on race has been wiped out legislatively anyways.

00:22:49.180 Well, and that's the key difference, isn't it, Corey, that people need to remember.

00:22:52.720 That when you hear accusations of systemic racism or institutional racism today, people are often sloppy.

00:23:00.640 They're not defining what they mean. 0.85

00:23:02.020 So they conflate the notion that, yes, of course, you can meet a bigot on the street or online these days that says something that's, you know, racist or whatever, ridiculous. 0.91

00:23:13.060 That hasn't gone away, unfortunately.

00:23:15.280 Although I think even societal attitudes have changed dramatically in the last 70 years in the post-war world.

00:23:19.680 And the polls seem to indicate that.

00:23:21.360 But that, meeting an individual bigot or racist out there, is not the same thing as systemic institutional racism.

00:23:28.260 And when you make systemic racism just kind of this ether in the air that we all breathe in, well, it's unprovable.

00:23:34.480 It's unfalsifiable, right?

00:23:36.820 And so, frankly, it's unscientific and anti-scientific, that claim.

00:23:40.640 Institutional or systemic racism is when a white hospital in San Francisco a century ago says to Chinese Americans, you can't come here.

00:23:48.580 Or an Ivy League university says to Jewish Canadians or Americans, you know, in the 1930s, you can't enter in, you know, into this university in, you know, above a certain proportion of the student population.

00:24:00.480 That is institutional and systemic racism.

00:24:02.880 But a lot of this was carved away legislatively starting in the 1910s in some cases.

00:24:09.280 In PEI, for example, there was a law that started to work against discrimination that way.

00:24:14.780 Most perhaps famously in the largest province in the country in the 1950s, Ontario passed laws in the 1950s against discrimination on, you know, religious grounds or racial grounds and accommodation, housing, hiring in the early 1950s.

00:24:28.860 And yet we have people, 70 years later, that think we live in a systemic, institutionally racist country.

00:24:34.640 No, we don't.

00:24:35.540 We did.

00:24:36.620 Or those before us did at one point.

00:24:38.720 And it was pretty common around the world, unfortunately.

00:24:41.300 But that, legislatively, as you mentioned, was done away with 70 years ago in many cases.

00:24:46.720 Yeah, well, and so I wonder, to some degree, if we've got a case of activists who just don't know what else to do with themselves.

00:24:53.780 Like, somebody else sent me an article on, it was on LGBTQ issues, but it was called the March of Dimes Syndrome.

00:24:59.660 And it's quite interesting, actually.

00:25:01.060 It was talking about how the March of Dimes, which was an activist group to bring about the end of polio and inoculation came along.

00:25:08.300 It kind of did that.

00:25:09.140 But now these activists didn't know what to do with themselves anymore, and they marched right into different causes because they just, their activism becomes their sense of being.

00:25:18.720 They need something to do.

00:25:19.620 Yeah.

00:25:20.120 They can't see the finish line anymore.

00:25:22.460 I mean, look, I get it.

00:25:23.360 I once worked for the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.

00:25:25.840 It's how I got my start in advocacy and public policy, starting in 1997.

00:25:30.140 It goes back a ways.

00:25:31.140 But I remember thinking at one point, what if we actually get, you know, a lot of these, you know, what if we get government spending under control, you know, and get them to stop spending money on dumb things as opposed to, you know, the smart things government should spend our tax dollars on.

00:25:44.120 What if we get tax rates down to a certain extent where, you know, I'm saying, well, maybe we need a few more tax dollars.

00:25:49.520 That theory has never been tested.

00:25:51.180 But, you know, at some point, you know, you keep going as an activist, you know, and unfortunately, we've gone in the wrong direction on those issues.

00:25:57.960 But I get the temptation to keep going to find a new cause.

00:26:01.140 And I suppose there will always be causes to attach oneself to.

00:26:05.060 But then what you want to do is make sure that it's the right cause and you're actually diagnosing the problem correctly.

00:26:09.980 Because if you're not, let's go back to the Indigenous Canadians example. 0.99

00:26:13.280 You know why we shouldn't focus on racism or historic racism as a reason why Indigenous Canadians are in the plight that some of them are today, not all, but on average, again, compared to other cohorts.

00:26:23.400 One of the reasons we shouldn't blame everything on racism and most things is because it has to do with geography.

00:26:28.820 It has to do with education.

00:26:30.240 We know from StatsCan data that if you're a First Nations Canadian, Indigenous Canadian of any stripe, you will do better in cities than you will in rural locations because the educational and career opportunities are there.

00:26:43.160 We also know that if you get your education up and if you do an apple to apple comparison among Indigenous Canadians to other Canadians, and I've done these and they're in my past books, you will see that there's no difference between incomes for, you know, the average Canadian, the non-Indigenous Canadian out there, rather, and an Indigenous person in this country.

00:27:02.280 If they have the same education level, if they have the same education levels and work full year full time, what does that tell you?

00:27:06.960 What it tells you is that some of these problems are solvable through moving off the reserve to a city or nearby a city and getting an education.

00:27:14.620 That's actually tremendously positive.

00:27:16.080 But if you blame everything on systemic racism and you concentrate on this mysterious ether in the air, you're never going to solve anything.

00:27:23.640 And so it's actually very damaging to focus on the wrong cause for a wrong assumed cause for an effect that you see out there.

00:27:32.800 When people get it wrong and activists get it wrong, they do damage to the very people they think they're trying to help.

00:27:37.500 Yeah. So, so not seeing race makes you a racist now, just, it's hard to keep up with where to be right and wrong.

00:27:44.180 Or I like to think common sense can dominate, but I mean, here comes the hard part, you know, as a society, we're trying to move forward.

00:27:50.080 We're trying to get better. There, there were wrongs. There's still some issues to deal with.

00:27:54.280 What should we be doing aside from what has been being done? What's the solution?

00:27:59.540 Well, focus on people as individuals, right. And focus on things like poverty as opposed to, and other ways to get people up out of poverty.

00:28:07.480 Um, as opposed to what you look like, your skin color, where you're from, right. That makes more sense.

00:28:14.160 One of the things we just did at the Aracela foundation is publish a paper by Matthew Lau and David Hunt.

00:28:19.760 They looked at poverty in Canada and lo and behold, because, you know, guys, you know, guys and gals with our skin color are the majority of population.

00:28:27.520 You would find that the majority of people in poverty in terms of the numbers happen to be white.

00:28:32.160 I don't like using language like white and black. Again, I think it divides people unnecessarily, but that's the statistics.

00:28:37.120 It's Canada language or non, you know, non-minority, non-indigenous by which stats can means white.

00:28:42.960 The fact is, you know, um, some cohorts like black Canadians or indigenous Canadians show a greater proportion of their cohort in poverty,

00:28:50.000 but in absolute numbers, the two and a half million Canadians who happen to be Caucasian and happen to be in poverty.

00:28:58.000 And rather than focus on skin color or ethnicity, it's better to focus on things like two-parent family on are there actual barriers to people getting into the work force.

00:29:13.140 Then that way you're being colorblind and gender blind and ethnicity blind and identity blind, which is what we should be doing. 1.00

00:29:18.880 Because after all, I mean, I used to use this example before Bill Cosby became toxic, but why would you have an affirmative action program, a quota program,

00:29:27.320 which helps the great grants of the grandson of say Bill Cosby based on skin color, as opposed to, you know, some poor kid who's, you know,

00:29:36.940 parents survived the great depression or something or grandparents did, um, or maybe a Jewish Canadian whose grandparents survived the Holocaust.

00:29:43.700 Why would you help people based on skin color as opposed to poverty? You end up helping the wrong people.

00:29:48.460 And in fact, David and Matthew found just this in their Aristotle Foundation study.

00:29:52.540 The benefits go to the connected, the politically connected in any group, as opposed to, again, thinking about let's concentrate on getting on,

00:30:00.040 on lifting all boats, um, and getting people out of poverty, regardless of their skin killer.

00:30:05.580 Um, anything else is really, you don't treat people as individuals and you begin picking on people again, based on their, uh, what they look like.

00:30:13.180 And that's regressive.

00:30:14.320 I mean, Pierre Trudeau would have, would have never agreed with most of this, right?

00:30:17.300 Unlike his son.

00:30:18.580 Um, he was very much a classic liberal that said, look at the individual, you know, emphasize individual rights over collectivist, at least, you know, non-economically.

00:30:26.260 He was a collectivist on the, on the economic stuff, but not the rest of it.

00:30:29.720 So I think you have to look at the individual, uh, Corey, that's, that's where you want to start.

00:30:34.260 And all of the rest of this is heading down the wrong road that, you know, is much of human history dividing based on characteristics that don't matter and shouldn't matter.

00:30:43.700 Well, it's, it's, uh, a place to start too, is having those sensitive conversations, I guess, and have the courage to, to dip into those waters when there's so many people willing to shout you down.

00:30:52.420 And Aristotle Foundation has been happy to go into the facts of matters and report on, as, as you interpret, where can people find, uh, your, your work and, and, uh, support you guys if they'd like to.

00:31:02.680 And, uh, AristotleFoundation.org, and you can also find, uh, our, our first book, The 1867 Project on Amazon and in local bookstores.

00:31:11.600 Right on.

00:31:12.220 Well, I appreciate you coming on to talk to us today, Mark, and, and the work you guys do.

00:31:15.920 And, uh, hopefully we can talk about this again sometime soon.

00:31:18.760 Anytime.

00:31:19.120 Thank you, Corey.

00:31:20.480 Great.

00:31:20.760 Thank you.

00:31:21.980 So yes, that was Mark Mielke of, as you said, the Aristotle Foundation and, and yes, some of the 1867 project, great book, a lot of good work they do.

00:31:29.420 And I mean, there's part of it again, it's nobody's saying, and I don't like the shouting down when this conversation comes up.

00:31:35.320 That's the problem, uh, when somebody points to other socioeconomic factors that might lead to an identifiable group that's lagging in other outcomes, uh, perhaps race is one of the contributing factors.

00:31:50.420 But if you feel that is it, it doesn't mean it's the only contributing factor.

00:31:54.920 You can't let that override every other, uh, measure and, you know, and what's going on, what's happening there.

00:32:01.860 Why is one community having a better time with things than others?

00:32:05.640 And there's certainly a measurable differences we can see, as he said, with indigenous Canadians, with some black Canadians, they're having a harder time.

00:32:13.540 Some Asian Canadians are having a, uh, they're very successful and they dealt with, uh, man, Canada treated the Asian Canadians terribly at the turn of the century last, uh, you know, a hundred years ago, but they, they moved beyond it.

00:32:26.260 So what is happening?

00:32:27.700 What's the difference?

00:32:28.440 Let's look at what's making the success is rather than worrying about the divisions.

00:32:32.940 Again, it doesn't mean you're saying it doesn't exist.

00:32:35.340 It doesn't mean the saying the racism isn't there, but maybe it's not the overwhelming and immediate factor.

00:32:41.360 And plus when we keep the divisions up, then maybe we can actually, even if well-intentioned, make things worse as we're always working at cross purposes or seeing somebody as a competitor or an adversary rather than just a fellow citizen.

00:32:53.020 But either way, they're conversations that we have to have and, uh, we'll carry on having as we, as we go ahead.

00:32:59.780 So let's talk about another guy in the conversation.

00:33:01.900 This is interesting.

00:33:02.800 I saw this pop up and this is on the Western standard too, I believe.

00:33:05.940 Andrew Leach, and not everybody may be familiar with him.

00:33:08.580 He's an economist at the university of Alberta. 0.61

00:33:11.360 Uh, poor devil's a ginger. 0.99

00:33:13.040 He's, he's had a lot of rough goes in his life as it is, but on top of all of that, he's always been just pushing the line before for Rachel Notley's government with the NDP.

00:33:23.500 And he's just been a harsh, harsh critic of, uh, Premier Smith and, uh, and, uh, Poliev, you know, with, with hard left criticism, which is fine.

00:33:32.220 Everybody has their point of view, but the difference is because he was a darling guest of legacy media.

00:33:36.420 He'd always be on to talk about policy and economic issues, particularly with the energy sector and oil field, carbon taxes.

00:33:42.440 Well, lo and behold, and he trolls, he trolls on social media.

00:33:45.640 He calls people things.

00:33:46.660 That's fine.

00:33:47.080 I do that too.

00:33:48.340 The difference.

00:33:49.480 He got $68,000 from the federal government to be out there trolling social media.

00:33:55.040 I don't get any of that, which is fine.

00:33:57.600 I don't want federal dollars.

00:33:59.040 I'm not asking for federal dollars.

00:34:01.580 I am worried though, when these experts, remember everybody keeps saying, you got to listen to the experts.

00:34:06.260 You're not an expert.

00:34:07.140 You're not an expert.

00:34:07.840 This is the expert you got to talk to.

00:34:09.040 No, no, listen to that expert.

00:34:10.140 This expert over here is the one who's got it all figured out.

00:34:12.120 Well, Andrew Leach was supposedly an expert.

00:34:14.180 No, he's a lackey. 0.98

00:34:15.720 He's a lackey. 0.74

00:34:16.600 He just, uh, goes where his bread's buttered.

00:34:18.660 And that bread butter was coming from the liberal party of Canada, $68,000 in, uh, consultancy fees.

00:34:26.240 Yeah.

00:34:26.420 They received from the headline in the Western standard, he called conservative sociopaths.

00:34:31.120 So isn't this a neat cycle of your dollars?

00:34:33.080 You work your butt off union or non-union.

00:34:35.420 You pay your taxes.

00:34:36.960 They go to that big pot out there with Justin drooling over it and, you know, other levels of government.

00:34:41.440 And they give a chunk of it back to guys like this.

00:34:45.520 So he can go on to legacy media outlets and spread BS and take partisan stances and slash and cut at them.

00:34:53.960 So I think, you know, and it was Blacklock's reporter that dug that out.

00:34:57.700 Uh, thank you for digging it out.

00:34:59.760 So let's just remember that every time Mr. Leach wants to come up and take his swipes, who's paying your bills this week, Mr. Leach?

00:35:07.060 Uh, me probably in the long run, but, uh, you know, with the sole source contracts for consulting, you've gotten.

00:35:13.640 And chances are it's the Trudeau government and it just never stops either way.

00:35:20.680 Expose them when they get it.

00:35:22.120 Hopefully we can turn things over and fix things a little.

00:35:24.380 I mean, there's no quick fixes, no immediate fixes for anything in Ottawa.

00:35:27.980 It never works that way, unfortunately.

00:35:29.180 But, uh, when we see it happening, point it out, say, Hey, that guy's just another paid lackey of the federal liberals.

00:35:37.900 Speaking of which, you know, legacy media, interesting to watch.

00:35:40.980 You know, they're, they're going down, they're going down hard and fast.

00:35:43.740 Unfortunately, it's going to probably lead to more bailouts, but I've been watching, you know, chorus entertainment.

00:35:48.220 And, uh, they, they got a large media empire, or they used to, their stock is down in the last five years, over 97%.

00:35:56.660 They were around 14 cents a share this morning.

00:35:59.820 It's just completely collapsing.

00:36:01.600 Now that group runs global news and a whole pile of radio stations, you know, and Alberta 630, CHED, and, and, uh, QR 77.

00:36:12.140 Now, some people have been talking about that saying, Oh, go, what go broke.

00:36:15.140 It's, it's, it's the terrible content on those talk radio channels.

00:36:17.480 It's a led to this.

00:36:18.560 Yeah, it doesn't help.

00:36:19.660 I mean, it really has gone downhill as it's almost unlistenable the way they've gotten these days.

00:36:23.740 But the bigger problem is they've got hopelessly outdated media models.

00:36:29.240 That's the reality.

00:36:30.080 Even if their content was better, I, the main one that gets me is a, you know, I spent a lot of time driving and I still listen to, cause it's the only radio stations you can get for now.

00:36:38.380 Hopefully that'll change.

00:36:40.160 Um, they got a traffic helicopter.

00:36:42.120 How much does it cost to get a traffic helicopter up and flying around the city of Calgary every day to report on something that people now can figure out on their phone through Google maps in seconds?

00:36:55.120 Why, why are you wasting that money?

00:36:57.300 Why are you pouring that money down the drain when your industry is going down the drain?

00:37:01.980 But that's what I mean.

00:37:03.040 These industries, they've been around too long in the incarnation that they have.

00:37:07.660 They, they don't know how to change.

00:37:09.560 They don't know how to flex, which all that tells us don't bail them out. 1.00

00:37:13.100 Let them die. 1.00

00:37:13.840 They've got to go. 0.99

00:37:15.520 Likewise, when you watch the evening news and you see the meteorologist give the weather report, that was fantastic 30 years ago.

00:37:22.060 Now I can find out on my phone within seconds what the forecast looks like for the next few days.

00:37:26.360 Why are you keeping that person on staff?

00:37:28.520 Nothing against the meteorologist.

00:37:30.500 We just don't need it anymore, but they won't change their models to change with the time.

00:37:35.520 So if they won't change their model, time to go guys, it's over.

00:37:39.600 And it looks like that's happening with chorus.

00:37:42.680 We'll see.

00:37:44.040 CTV, likewise, big layoffs.

00:37:46.080 The government keeps bailing them out, bailing them out. 0.99

00:37:48.160 And they just keep laying people off because you can't bail out a broken model fast enough.

00:37:53.500 And of course, then you've got the CBC in the midst of things there, that, that, that giant, ugly monster, that tax funded thing that nobody watches anyways.

00:38:01.880 They get a guaranteed 1.4 billion a year.

00:38:03.820 And the irony of that whole thing is, of course, that's part of what's crushing the other private, well, private, but bailed out media outlets that are existing out there.

00:38:13.280 Because CBC is competing for those same advertising dollars and the eyes of viewers while they're out there.

00:38:17.600 It's a sick, ugly model we have in Canada right now.

00:38:21.600 And it's time to let them go. 0.98

00:38:23.540 Just let them go.

00:38:24.660 No more bailouts.

00:38:25.800 Fix yourselves or go away.

00:38:28.420 And yes, it's sure I got self-interest.

00:38:29.960 I'm with an independent media outlet here.

00:38:32.140 That's fine.

00:38:32.940 But hey, I'm not afraid of competing.

00:38:34.780 Come on, get it together.

00:38:36.060 Compete with us.

00:38:36.800 Just quit asking taxpayers to bail you out.

00:38:41.720 You know, Wilder's saying, I don't know, it'd be kind of nice to hear news, weather and sports at 7 p.m.

00:38:45.400 Well, fine.

00:38:46.060 And if a station can provide that without tax dollars, let them go.

00:38:49.820 Go to town.

00:38:51.140 But if they can't, well, you know, c'est la vie.

00:38:54.260 I used to like browsing to get videos at the Blockbuster store, but those days are gone as well.

00:39:00.540 Speaking of bailouts, let's look at that.

00:39:02.020 A report from the Parliamentary Budget Officer.

00:39:04.440 Boy, Trudeau's really learning to hate that.

00:39:06.200 But he can't even pronounce it, probably.

00:39:07.820 Either way, he can't read those reports unless they come in, you know, like a pop-up book form for him or something.

00:39:11.540 But it's found that government subsidies for electric vehicle factories.

00:39:16.180 You know, Justin's been running around cutting ribbons all over the place for these EV factories,

00:39:20.100 even though private factories, Ford and others, are all actually scaling back their EV production 0.85

00:39:24.980 because nobody wants to buy the frigging things.

00:39:27.520 They're too expensive. 0.88

00:39:28.500 They wear out too fast.

00:39:29.660 They don't have a good enough range. 0.78

00:39:30.700 They're damn near useless in winter.

00:39:32.960 So we just keep bailing them out, bailing them out. 0.99

00:39:34.680 Well, the subsidies going in are $52 billion in Canada.

00:39:39.240 Subsidies, your dollars, $52 billion.

00:39:42.000 You know how much the private industry has put into them in Canada?

00:39:44.560 $46 billion.

00:39:45.820 The government is more invested in the EV market than the companies.

00:39:53.120 Pardon me.

00:39:55.780 It's insane.

00:39:57.360 It's insane.

00:39:57.900 It shows how unviable that industry is.

00:40:01.940 Again, we shouldn't be dipping into it.

00:40:03.700 We should be getting the heck away from it as fast as humanly possible.

00:40:08.420 He keeps diving in deeper and deeper and deeper.

00:40:11.080 I brought it up at a speaking event I was at last week.

00:40:14.760 Anybody familiar with southern Alberta?

00:40:16.440 You drive south of Calgary by High River.

00:40:20.540 If you look to the west, a lot of people, you'll see a big brick building there, just sitting there.

00:40:25.080 It's been there forever.

00:40:26.280 It's been there actually since the late 80s, early 90s.

00:40:28.840 It's part of the Don Getty government diversifying Alberta's economy.

00:40:33.540 They took tax dollars, half a billion of them, which is a lot today.

00:40:37.200 That's a massive amount back in the late 80s, early 90s.

00:40:40.360 And they said, we're going to diversify Alberta's industries by investing in a magnesium plant.

00:40:45.480 That's what that big red abomination is off the highway over there. 0.99

00:40:48.420 It's a magnesium plant.

00:40:50.340 It was only open for a couple of months.

00:40:52.020 It went broke.

00:40:52.560 And then it has sat there, unoccupied, for getting, what, well over 30 years now.

00:41:00.240 That's what happens when government gets into business.

00:41:02.280 We're going to see that with these electric vehicle factories.

00:41:04.760 It's funny.

00:41:05.180 I was always thinking, and the problem with that magnesium factory as well is that it was so specialized, the way it was built and everything else.

00:41:12.740 You just can't use it for anything else.

00:41:15.120 So it just sits there, and you see a security guard there, and you see a light on there.

00:41:18.340 So I guess they maintain it and keep it up, but it doesn't do anything.

00:41:21.920 But I think it should stay there.

00:41:23.260 I think they should let it rot, though.

00:41:24.460 Turn off the power.

00:41:25.240 Take away the security.

00:41:26.260 Let the graffiti get up there.

00:41:27.440 Let the bricks fall down.

00:41:28.900 Let this thing stand as a testament to what happens when governments get into business.

00:41:34.820 It fails every time.

00:41:36.700 So, yeah, we're going to look at a bunch of electric vehicle factories in eastern Canada.

00:41:40.480 Notice these subsidies, of course, from Trudeau are pouring in, there's no mistaking it, into the areas he wants to win votes.

00:41:47.000 Eastern Canada, they aren't coming out here. 0.65

00:41:48.340 I don't want the subsidies out here.

00:41:49.720 I just don't want them given out at all.

00:41:51.380 But, again, $52.5 billion tax dollars into this industry when private industry only put in 46.

00:41:58.640 Man, this is not good, guys.

00:42:01.180 This is not good at all.

00:42:02.440 But, speaking of Trudeau, he brought up the unmarked graves canard the other day, too.

00:42:07.140 He just throws everything out there as he gets near a microphone.

00:42:09.320 He's almost as bad as his little gal there, Lizzie May. 0.66

00:42:12.660 He was going on about the unmarked graves at residential schools.

00:42:16.780 I've gotten to the point now on saying it, at least with the Kamloops case, it's a hoax.

00:42:21.120 I'm going to say it out right.

00:42:21.920 It's a hoax.

00:42:23.180 It's been over three years.

00:42:24.320 They've gotten $8 million to find even one body, much less 200 or 215.

00:42:33.040 They haven't found a single one because they aren't looking, because there aren't any bodies there.

00:42:37.960 It was a hoax, one of the biggest hoaxes, I think, in world history.

00:42:41.040 The whole nation was in mourning.

00:42:43.320 There's still a bunch of shoes and a bunch of teddy bears and garbage on Calgary City Hall steps

00:42:47.640 representing the 215 bodies that were in Kamloops, but there's no bodies.

00:42:51.180 It was a hoax.

00:42:51.980 And Trudeau is still playing up that hoax.

00:42:56.600 And if you want to prove, if you're upset when I call it a hoax, because people get upset on social media when I do that, fine, fine.

00:43:02.720 Tell them to get a shovel, put in a few hours' work, and find a body.

00:43:06.720 It shouldn't be that hard.

00:43:07.880 It shouldn't take three years.

00:43:08.760 It shouldn't take $8 million.

00:43:10.180 It's a hoax. 0.62

00:43:10.920 It's a bunch of baloney.

00:43:12.180 And it's really divided this nation badly. 0.89

00:43:15.020 It's really harmed a lot of people. 1.00

00:43:17.060 And that idiot prime minister we have is perpetuating it. 1.00

00:43:20.620 He's still putting it out there. 1.00

00:43:21.980 Still to this day, you'd think.

00:43:25.200 As I've noticed, a lot of activists have kind of gotten quiet on that thing lately.

00:43:28.700 Even the band itself is now calling them anomalies, the indigenous band, rather than grave sites like they used to.

00:43:35.180 Not Justin.

00:43:36.180 Not Justin.

00:43:36.900 No, he's still going to play this right to the bitter end.

00:43:39.440 Meanwhile, dividing Canadians and making them think there was mass murder committed at the Kamloops Residential School.

00:43:45.920 And again, this gets back to the race discussion and everything, too.

00:43:50.420 Just because I'm questioning the hoax of the bodies at Kamloops School doesn't mean I'm saying there was no abuses at residential schools.

00:43:56.920 See, that if-then statement is constantly the way it works when you get with these activists who thrive on all this.

00:44:03.520 And no, I'm not saying the residential schools were not nice places.

00:44:07.400 I'm not saying there was never abuses that happened within them.

00:44:10.820 I'm saying, though, that there aren't 200 bodies buried in Kamloops.

00:44:14.380 And you know what?

00:44:14.880 The burden of proof is on you guys now.

00:44:17.020 Show me the body.

00:44:18.500 Yeah, I won't hold my breath. 1.00

00:44:21.220 Getting into where the stupidity of things is. 0.99

00:44:23.340 Dave mentioned that. 0.99

00:44:24.280 It's in the Western Standard on the news, too.

00:44:25.980 The Toronto District School Board. 0.99

00:44:27.120 And boy, those guys are crazy. 0.92

00:44:28.560 They had actually over 1,000 Jewish protesters, I think, over last weekend outside of their offices or the other day. 1.00

00:44:36.440 Because, of course, they have chosen in their woke, insanity, anti-Semitic crap, which is anti-Semitism. 0.98

00:44:42.060 The left has really embraced it these days, hasn't it? 0.99

00:44:44.580 Just want to stop teaching about the Holocaust. 1.00

00:44:47.200 You know, just get sympathy for those darn Jews. 1.00

00:44:51.560 They're nuts. 1.00

00:44:52.440 The Toronto District School Board is so woke and far left, it's insane. 0.99

00:44:55.820 But now, yes, so 10-year-old boys and girls.

00:44:58.580 Oh, not allowed to say boys and girls.

00:45:00.140 Yeah, that's the school thing.

00:45:01.220 They're not boys and girls.

00:45:02.100 They're not women and men.

00:45:03.380 They are.

00:45:04.980 Woman, how do you like this? 0.98

00:45:06.680 You're a person with a uterus. 0.99

00:45:09.160 This is what the children are being taught in school today. 0.99

00:45:11.700 This isn't a wacko screaming on a street corner.

00:45:14.700 This isn't a pamphlet given out somewhere.

00:45:16.320 This isn't some weird website.

00:45:17.360 This is being taught to fifth graders. 0.99

00:45:20.160 There aren't any women anymore, just people with uteruses and people with penises. 1.00

00:45:26.280 And people who have more testosterone and people who have more estrogen. 1.00

00:45:30.720 This is insane. 0.97

00:45:32.500 This is ludicrous. 0.99

00:45:33.680 They're men and women. 0.98

00:45:34.660 Get over it.

00:45:35.400 The activists have gone bananas.

00:45:37.020 But that's fine. 0.75

00:45:37.620 There's always nutcases.

00:45:38.640 There's always extremists.

00:45:39.600 There's always activists.

00:45:41.420 Quit indulging them, though.

00:45:42.760 That's the problem.

00:45:44.480 We're giving people with authority the ability to act on what these nut bars are asking for. 0.99

00:45:49.620 And look at the crap that's coming out. 0.99

00:45:51.680 It's nuts. 0.99

00:45:53.060 All right, another thing going on.

00:45:54.300 Yes, tonight for folks in Calgary, the first political party is taking off.

00:45:59.060 There's going to be a rally at, used to be called the Blackfoot Inn.

00:46:01.520 I think it's one of the holiday inns now.

00:46:03.920 If you look it up, it's on Blackfoot Trail down 58th Avenue in Calgary.

00:46:07.060 They're going to have their kickoff tonight, so the first political party getting in there.

00:46:10.680 And, you know, we talk about some terrible, bad, wacko civic politicians getting in.

00:46:15.440 This is the way to vet them.

00:46:17.420 This is the way to fix that up.

00:46:19.080 If you're interested in that sort of thing, get on down there and check it out.

00:46:21.620 Because the more the merrier.

00:46:22.380 The problem is there's always wackos looking to take over these new parties, too. 0.98

00:46:25.140 There's wackos on the right. 1.00

00:46:26.780 Rest assured, there's wackos on the right. 1.00

00:46:29.220 And if you want to keep the wackos on the right from taking over this party in the early stages, 0.85

00:46:32.280 get down there now because there's safety in numbers and make sure that common sense dominates this thing

00:46:39.340 before the Froot Loops take hold of it and destroy it.

00:46:43.260 And then you see Yodi Gondek in for yet another term because that is what will happen.

00:46:48.160 And, yes, Stonehenge was vandalized with spray paint, another news item.

00:46:51.820 You know, again, have they considered charging and convicting some of these activists?

00:46:55.140 I know it's a crazy thought, but I'm pretty sure there's laws against this.

00:46:58.620 Again, indulging the insane.

00:47:00.480 Stop it.

00:47:01.160 Stop it.

00:47:01.660 You know what?

00:47:02.160 These are white bread wimps. 0.99

00:47:03.800 These are nerds and dorks. 0.99

00:47:05.120 Stick them in jail for even a week with general population. 0.98

00:47:09.620 I'm not saying to have them abused or assaulted, but certainly scared.

00:47:13.300 And I got a feeling you're going to see a whole heck of a lot.

00:47:15.900 Fewer artworks being destroyed.

00:47:17.880 Fewer historical things like that being destroyed by these nut bars. 1.00

00:47:21.240 But as long as you give kid gloves with these idiots, that's what's going to happen. 1.00

00:47:24.880 Okay, my time's run out. 1.00

00:47:25.860 This weekend, I'm going to be at the Quilt Canada show in Edmonton at a booth.

00:47:30.480 Long story as to why that's happening, but I'm going to be there.

00:47:33.560 If you happen to be in the area, drop by, say hi.

00:47:36.080 I'm not into quilting, but I'm filling in for somebody who needs the help.

00:47:39.800 Yes, my wife.

00:47:40.800 She puts up with a lot.

00:47:41.840 So, yeah, that'd be crazy not to help her at this point.

00:47:44.540 Aside from that, I will see you all here again at this time next week.

00:47:49.020 Be sure to tune into the pipeline tonight.

00:47:50.880 And, yeah, we'll dissect a whole bunch more issues with the panel.

00:47:53.980 So, thanks for tuning in.

00:47:55.220 See you next time.

00:47:55.820 We'll see you next time.

00:48:25.820 We'll see you next time.

Western Standard - June 19, 2024

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