Western Standard - February 23, 2026


CORY MORGAN SHOW： Canada’s bureaucratic class contributes to the mass immigration mess


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00:00:00.000 Good day, welcome to the Corey Morgan Show.
00:00:29.640 As you can see by my background, no more cactus, no more mountains, it's not just sitting
00:00:35.680 in the comfortable sun.
00:00:36.900 I'm back, and I see the weather of Alberta just made a point of reminding me of what
00:00:41.480 I was hiding from all winter.
00:00:42.900 I guess it was quite nice most of the time I was gone, but my lord, it's terrible out
00:00:46.920 there right now.
00:00:48.080 Ah, well, I'll get over it.
00:00:49.680 It's just a couple of days of taste for it.
00:00:51.460 Of course, nothing ever stopped while I was gone.
00:00:53.080 I was doing my shows while I was gone, as you saw, and now I'll be back to do them.
00:00:57.340 It's going to be a busy, busy eight months.
00:00:59.200 Boy, this is the year of independence and a lot going on.
00:01:03.040 So I'm going to talk actually a little while with Franco Teresano on some federal issues.
00:01:06.800 He's talking about the bailouts to Canada Post, and we've got a floor crosser, Matt Jenneru.
00:01:15.720 One of the things the Taxpayers Federation has been talking about is the raises given to our
00:01:19.500 members of parliament.
00:01:20.160 They're very well compensated, those guys, and they're getting another raise right away.
00:01:23.600 Matt sure earned it, hasn't he?
00:01:24.660 I can't wait to find out exactly what positions he gets and what raises he gets.
00:01:28.500 So the people up in Edmonton, I'm sure a number of them aren't terribly thrilled with
00:01:32.960 him.
00:01:33.160 All right, well, let me get going on what I want to rant about today, and it's mass immigration.
00:01:37.820 It's a big subject.
00:01:38.600 David Coletto actually put out some interesting numbers.
00:01:40.780 I mean, Canada is just beyond the pale with the numbers that have been coming in, thanks
00:01:45.200 to Trudeau's lunacy, and it's threatening the social and economic well-being of the entire
00:01:50.400 Western world.
00:01:51.380 One needs to only look at the catastrophes in Europe as decades of unchecked immigration
00:01:55.240 has led to entire sections of cities becoming uninhabitable to locally born citizens, while
00:01:59.700 race riots and demonstrations choke cities on a regular basis.
00:02:03.900 Integration has become nearly impossible as migrants cluster into introverted communities
00:02:08.160 of their own and refused to adapt to the cultural norms of democracies that they entered.
00:02:13.240 What we're observing in Europe is a precursor of what Canada can look forward to if there
00:02:17.120 isn't a radical shift in immigration policies.
00:02:19.800 Trudeau's decade of mass immigration led to overwhelmed health care and education services
00:02:24.300 while a housing crisis emerged.
00:02:26.140 Now, Prime Minister Mark Carney, he's taken some tepid steps in fixing the problem, but it's
00:02:30.360 only so far amounted to shuffling it around.
00:02:32.540 I mean, for example, the $1.2 billion program that was giving refugees hotel rooms in Canada
00:02:38.340 has been ended.
00:02:39.220 That just means the refugees are packing into Canadian shelters.
00:02:42.340 Nothing's going to improve until the actual flow of incoming refugees and many others is
00:02:46.860 cut, and those who don't belong in Canada are deported.
00:02:50.660 While cowardly politicians deserve much of the blame for this growing crisis, the massive bloated
00:02:55.320 bureaucracies that have mushroomed in Western democracies have made immigration reform close
00:03:00.300 to impossible.
00:03:01.440 Canada's system of immigration processing and control is so hopelessly inefficient and rife
00:03:06.120 with ineptitude that the backlogs just continue to grow no matter how much more money is tossed
00:03:11.620 at the issue.
00:03:12.420 It's unfair to both Canadian citizens and to those well-meaning immigrants who are trying
00:03:16.500 to legally enter the country.
00:03:18.040 Last October, the total number of applications in immigration, refugees, and citizenship in Canada
00:03:23.040 inventories was $2,182,000.
00:03:26.520 They got an accurate count of it.
00:03:28.100 The backlog is only continuing to grow, and it's little wonder when one looks at the speed
00:03:32.380 which they process applications at.
00:03:35.260 Privately sponsored refugees often wait nearly three years for their application to be processed.
00:03:40.460 Government-assisted refugees wait over two years.
00:03:43.640 In the meantime, they sit in limbo within Canada and collect either some form of social assistance
00:03:47.680 or often disappear as they head across the border to seek greener pastures in the United
00:03:51.620 States, which doesn't exactly help Canada endear itself more with the United States with
00:03:56.060 their currently prickly relationship.
00:03:58.900 The current cost for healthcare alone, just for refugee claimants, is over a billion dollars
00:04:04.060 a year.
00:04:05.280 Regular immigration processing isn't much better.
00:04:07.460 Family sponsorships take one or two years to process, and you can get what's called an
00:04:11.880 express entry that takes seven to eight months.
00:04:14.120 The problem begins at the border, with over 100,000 illegal immigrants and refugee applicants
00:04:20.780 currently awaiting background checks.
00:04:22.380 100,000 waiting for that.
00:04:24.200 They have 13,000 employees in the Immigration Department of Canada and 17,000 more in Canada
00:04:29.440 border services.
00:04:30.260 With 30,000 well-compensated civil servants tasked to the issue, why can't they get a grasp
00:04:34.960 on this?
00:04:35.760 The answer is simple.
00:04:36.560 Government bureaucracies are bloated, inefficient, and controlled by unions, making reform too difficult
00:04:41.360 for politicians to find the courage to take it on.
00:04:44.020 I mean, come on, we're living in the digital age.
00:04:45.460 It's hard for somebody to be truly undocumented, even if they're coming from the most underdeveloped
00:04:49.280 of nations.
00:04:50.040 It beggars belief they can be so difficult to perform simple background checks in less
00:04:54.060 than a few weeks.
00:04:54.700 In fact, when it comes to developed nations, those can be done in minutes.
00:04:58.480 Bureaucrats drag their heels and shuffle outdated forms from one desk to another while these
00:05:02.660 backlogs keep growing.
00:05:04.600 And when it's finally determined that an applicant will be denied, they're often misplaced.
00:05:09.600 At last count, Canada lost track of 34,000 foreign nationals who've been ordered to leave
00:05:14.560 the country.
00:05:15.840 One way to reduce that backlog immediately is to turn undocumented people away when they
00:05:21.220 arrive at the border.
00:05:22.000 Nobody has the guts to implement such a common sense and simple policy, though.
00:05:26.340 For those being processed in the system, it's time to light a fire under the butts of these
00:05:29.140 bureaucrats.
00:05:29.680 Before it came down, the 20% of them are going to be laid off within a few months.
00:05:32.840 Rest assured, they're suddenly going to find their way back to work because they're all
00:05:35.680 working from home and fighting that currently right now.
00:05:37.660 And if they want to avoid the acts, they'll find some efficiencies.
00:05:41.080 The ones of ambition and brains will cover their own butts and we'll see some improvement.
00:05:44.980 The federal government's been in a pitched battle with them trying to get them back to
00:05:47.840 work since COVID.
00:05:48.880 It's time to lay down the bloody law, return to work, or be fired.
00:05:51.740 It doesn't need to be more complicated than that.
00:05:54.200 It's ridiculous and unacceptable in a country the size of Canada with rather easy borders
00:05:57.960 to control and a staff of 30,000 dedicated to immigration can't figure out how to process
00:06:02.340 applications in less than a couple of years.
00:06:04.500 Politicians can rail and claim they want to address the issue all they like.
00:06:07.780 Unless they want to take on the incompetence of the bureaucracy, though, things won't change.
00:06:12.920 And Canadian cities can look forward to the no-go zones that Paris is currently enjoying.
00:06:17.820 Immigration can be a good thing.
00:06:19.160 In fact, it is and we need it.
00:06:20.340 But only if it's controlled and planned.
00:06:23.140 And that's not going to happen until we take Canada's civil service and bring it in line.
00:06:27.340 All right, well, let's check in and see what else has been happening in the news while
00:06:30.060 I've been hiding out south of the border.
00:06:32.000 They let me across the border.
00:06:33.340 They did.
00:06:33.660 You must be miserable.
00:06:35.100 I'm always miserable.
00:06:36.180 I mean, minus 37 with the windchill this morning.
00:06:39.080 Oh, I know.
00:06:39.640 And you're used to plus 37.
00:06:42.120 I mean, it must have...
00:06:43.500 It's been a shriveled...
00:06:45.100 Shriveled yourself.
00:06:46.180 Well, some things were terribly shriveled when I came in.
00:06:48.400 There wasn't much to begin with.
00:06:49.780 No, it's not fun.
00:06:50.800 But at least the snow has stopped, so...
00:06:52.700 Yeah, it's just one blast, I guess.
00:06:54.740 We'll always get one every February.
00:06:55.980 It usually could have gotten in a week earlier, maybe.
00:06:58.040 Exactly.
00:06:59.080 So speaking of your rant, Premier Smith has an address to the province tomorrow night.
00:07:05.100 And her chief of staff tweeted those immigration statistics.
00:07:09.980 I think you said Canada's grown by 24%.
00:07:12.300 34.
00:07:13.060 34.
00:07:13.340 The worst immigration numbers, yes.
00:07:14.840 And by far, double, triple the rest of the world.
00:07:18.840 And her chief of staff, Rob Anderson, tweeted, make sure you tune in tomorrow night.
00:07:25.360 So it sounds like she's going to be addressing it.
00:07:28.900 Probably looking for more control, you know, same as Quebec has.
00:07:32.100 Yeah.
00:07:32.460 Well, we know, though.
00:07:33.400 I mean, this is the way it works.
00:07:34.720 We can ask for what Quebec has, but when we do, we're jerks.
00:07:37.260 Quebec does it.
00:07:38.020 It's their right.
00:07:38.740 So carry on, I guess.
00:07:40.540 We'll see what happens.
00:07:41.420 See what happens.
00:07:42.840 Yeah, the news didn't stop while you were gone.
00:07:45.420 Tubbler Ridge and all sorts of horrible, horrible stories.
00:07:50.440 In fact, that's our lead story at the moment.
00:07:52.940 You remember there were some news reports of a young girl, I'm 12 or 14, called Maddie,
00:07:58.240 who spent 45 minutes doing CPR on one of her classmates who was shot.
00:08:02.820 And she's written a Facebook post today or late last night and gut-wrenching thoughts
00:08:09.620 on what happened to her friends.
00:08:13.900 I think her fly angels fly is the headline on it.
00:08:18.520 And you'll remember Adam Skelly, Toronto barbecue place.
00:08:23.680 I think it was actually Etobicoke.
00:08:25.080 He was a guy that kept opening up his restaurants during COVID,
00:08:28.360 and they finally sent in dozens of police and the mountain patrol unit to shut him down.
00:08:34.680 He was so thrilled he moved to Alberta.
00:08:38.380 You know, he lost everything, moved to Alberta.
00:08:41.280 But his case is finally going to be heard by the court system next week.
00:08:45.800 Five years?
00:08:46.820 Yeah, five years.
00:08:48.600 You mentioned, you touched on it, Matt Jeanneau, Edmonton MP, crossing the floor.
00:08:54.380 This is the guy who said, he was close to crossing the floor last year.
00:08:58.480 And then he basically got caught out.
00:09:00.640 So he just said he was going to resign from politics.
00:09:02.800 Now he's claiming today that Prime Minister Carney's speech in Davos really touched him,
00:09:11.280 and that's the reason he's crossing the floor.
00:09:13.940 Sure, something touched him already.
00:09:15.280 Written a wallet with a cabinet minister's post in a few months.
00:09:18.160 Exactly.
00:09:19.240 His former colleague, Edmonton Conservative MP Kerry Diot, this morning tweeted,
00:09:24.880 what a jerk.
00:09:26.620 Then he quickly deleted it.
00:09:28.060 But I think a lot of his constituents will share the same thing.
00:09:31.920 Interesting story.
00:09:34.720 84-year-old Alberta guy has won the right to go to the Alberta Human Rights Commission
00:09:39.600 and asking whether or not mandatory driving tests for elderly people is constitutional.
00:09:48.220 You know, he's had to pay a couple of hundred bucks each time.
00:09:51.040 The thing is 80 or 75 and 80, and he has to go for driver's tests.
00:09:55.360 And he says, that's not fair.
00:09:56.680 I've got nothing wrong with me.
00:09:58.480 Why should I have to go for a driver's test?
00:09:59.980 I've got to go for those, actually, every three years for my class two or class.
00:10:03.460 No, what the hell have I got?
00:10:04.260 I got a class four.
00:10:05.300 But yeah, I got to get tested every three years.
00:10:06.700 It costs 140 bucks, actually.
00:10:08.200 Outrageous.
00:10:08.580 Yeah, it's a hard hit.
00:10:09.500 That's outrageous.
00:10:10.120 Speaking of 84, my dad turned 84 today, so I'd just like to wish him a happy birthday.
00:10:16.860 Love you, dad.
00:10:18.380 A bad story out of Lake Tahoe, the avalanche yesterday.
00:10:23.900 Nine people currently buried under the snow and missing and unlikely to be still alive.
00:10:30.520 And we've got another entry into the B.C. conservative leadership race.
00:10:34.180 Somebody by the name of Harman Bangow.
00:10:37.620 I must admit, I've never heard of the gentleman.
00:10:40.320 Well, I'm sure Jared's tracking it closely, though, for the B.C. viewers.
00:10:44.460 It's a pretty familiar name to folks out there.
00:10:46.020 We've got a story on, and it's getting quite crowded.
00:10:48.600 I think that's at least half a dozen of them in there.
00:10:51.580 It's still time to go.
00:10:52.780 They need a competitive race, I think, that party.
00:10:55.320 Well, conservatives being conservatives are busy ripping themselves apart, so hopefully some sort of leadership emerges.
00:11:00.460 And the fun and games will really begin when John Rustad enters the race.
00:11:05.100 Well, he's been back and forth on it.
00:11:06.780 I think he confirmed that he's not going to as the last race.
00:11:09.080 Is he?
00:11:09.460 I think this is.
00:11:10.380 I don't know.
00:11:10.960 I'll bet you 50 cents that he enters.
00:11:14.700 Okay, I'll take you on that one.
00:11:16.260 All right.
00:11:16.740 All right.
00:11:17.720 Well, thank you.
00:11:18.640 Welcome back.
00:11:19.340 Yeah, thanks.
00:11:20.380 Thanks for the updates, and we'll see you on the pipeline.
00:11:23.380 See you on the pipeline.
00:11:24.220 Right on.
00:11:25.480 All right, that is our news editor, Dave Naylor.
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00:11:51.940 We've got so much to report on.
00:11:53.200 And, you know, you can see the new reporters always still over my shoulder there, populating that back room.
00:11:59.800 Yeah, you know, Matt Jenner, who, it's just the, what I don't like out of the whole thing, and I'm a crab, I'm a cynical sort of guy, and those sorts of self-serving moves just deepen that.
00:12:13.900 I'm also a political wonk.
00:12:15.180 I want to see people engaged.
00:12:16.500 I want to see people participating in politics.
00:12:18.400 I want to see people thinking they can make a difference through their elected officials.
00:12:22.740 And when you look at the saga of Jenner, you can see that he was planning on crossing for his own bloody sake.
00:12:29.000 Let's not beat around the bush.
00:12:30.080 He just doesn't want to be in opposition.
00:12:31.500 It's as simple as that.
00:12:33.160 And he got caught with it last fall, so he basically shut up, went to ground, lied, said he was going to leave this spring, said he wanted to spend more time with his family.
00:12:42.620 Can't they find a new trope?
00:12:44.100 Come on.
00:12:44.720 We've seen that with enough liberals.
00:12:45.860 Most of them don't like their own families.
00:12:47.260 They did that in the last election.
00:12:48.480 There were a couple.
00:12:49.180 They said they were going to spend more time with their family, and then the polls changed.
00:12:52.060 They said, I don't like my family, and they ran for office again.
00:12:54.820 Jenner, who's doing the same thing, and that'll lead to people not voting because they're going to say, what's the difference?
00:13:00.620 What's the point?
00:13:01.880 Why do we bother?
00:13:02.840 And that doesn't serve us well.
00:13:04.420 It really doesn't.
00:13:06.080 So, I mean, yeah, just the partisan self-serving crap out of them.
00:13:10.820 I mean, that's annoying enough on its own, but the damage it does to our system, to the faith of people in the hoping that anything can possibly change within this is immeasurable.
00:13:21.260 And, you know, I'm going to have my guest on soon.
00:13:23.860 I'd like to hear some of those numbers because I suspect that the spectrum that our former opposition member of parliament of income he could get if he manages to climb the cabinet scrotum pole to a higher position up there will be pretty generous.
00:13:39.580 And, of course, they'll say that wasn't the reason he crossed, and the same old song and dance from people.
00:13:45.400 Now, I know some people have been talking about it, and that's where I get some blowback, saying we should make it, you know, so that they must, absolutely must go into a by-election or resign if they want to cross the floor and all that.
00:13:56.040 And I still disagree with that.
00:13:57.440 I don't think they should be forced to do that.
00:14:00.960 I hate seeing these crossings, and I think it's unprincipled, and I think it was self-serving.
00:14:04.800 But if you think leaders are powerful now, take away the ability to floor cross.
00:14:09.540 It will become even worse.
00:14:10.720 I hate to say it, but it will actually get worse.
00:14:13.300 Actual functional recall legislation, though, if the local constituents really thought the crossing was that bad, if they had a mechanism federally, maybe that's where they'd be thrown out.
00:14:23.580 Rather than Alberta, you know, where we just had a bunch of provincial ones which failed because it was just actually a union publicity tantrum rather than an actual citizens initiative thing on the ground.
00:14:32.880 Either way, I'm sure we'll be talking about Mr. Jenneru.
00:14:34.800 A lot more in the future.
00:14:35.880 We can't hear from him because he put his ex-account on lockdown because he doesn't want to actually hear from his constituents because I suspect they're going to give him a bit of an earful if they get the chance.
00:14:44.140 All right, let's bring in Franco Terrezano from the Canadian Taxpayers Federation to add some more good news to seeing where our dollars is spent.
00:14:51.280 How's it going, Franco?
00:14:52.540 Hey, Corey.
00:14:53.280 I'm doing great, man.
00:14:54.100 Thanks for having me on the show.
00:14:55.040 Hey, can I just weigh in?
00:14:56.380 Because I heard you talking about the floor crossing.
00:14:58.360 And, you know, I think the, I don't know if it's a solution, but what I think needs to happen is we definitely need federal recall legislation, right?
00:15:06.100 And, like, I'm in Ottawa.
00:15:07.740 I'm in this, like, political bubble where you hear all these talking heads go on all the time.
00:15:12.980 And, you know, the one thing that they're forgetting about is that this shouldn't be about what the political strategists want.
00:15:19.360 It shouldn't be about what the party whips want.
00:15:22.300 The people whose voice really matters is the voters in that riding, right?
00:15:27.560 And that's why we need this tool, this accountability measure like recall legislation to give voters in that riding an ability to either hold their MP accountable, right?
00:15:38.820 If they're opposed to what Jenneru is doing, hold them accountable.
00:15:41.580 Or if they support it, then no need to go forward with the recall.
00:15:45.780 But I agree with you, Corey, that it's recall legislation is what Canadians desperately need.
00:15:51.740 Yeah, well, I would get a feeling, you know, like I said, Jenneru locked down his ex-account because he doesn't want to hear from people.
00:15:56.200 Well, I'd suspect if he was facing a risk of the constituents actually organizing and firing him, maybe he'd at least have the courage to face them and talk to them about why he crossed and so on.
00:16:05.940 But he's just kind of hiding and hoping that the Fuhrer way, you know, dies down and then he can take on.
00:16:11.940 I guess I'll go right into that.
00:16:14.460 One of the generous raises going to our members of parliament, I saw that from you guys at the press release just recently, it's pretty healthy level of income there.
00:16:21.540 Yeah, so, I mean, a backbench member of parliament, along with collecting dust in the House of Commons, they're getting about a $210,000 annual paycheck already.
00:16:31.360 So, look, you asked what's the difference between an MP pay and a minister's pay?
00:16:36.260 Well, an MP, you're getting about $210,000.
00:16:38.860 A minister's salary is about $310,000, right?
00:16:43.160 And, hey, don't forget, every year, and this year looks no different, on April 1, MPs pad their pockets with higher pay.
00:16:51.080 This year, the pay raise will be around $8,800, all the way up to an extra $17,600.
00:16:57.540 Now, Corey, a little bit of good news is you actually have one MP, one courageous MP from New Brunswick.
00:17:03.560 He's a conservative, Mike Dawson, who has publicly rejected the pay raise, you know, just talking about how the struggles facing his constituents in good conscience, he can't accept a raise.
00:17:14.140 But, you know, you mentioned about MPs sticking their head in the sand or whatever.
00:17:18.480 You know, the reason that these members of parliament get away with these pay raises every single year is because they know if they all stay silent, they'll weather the public storm, and they'll be able to take more money.
00:17:30.340 But, you know, thankfully, that has all changed because of this courageous MP who's finally publicly opposing the politician pay raise.
00:17:39.020 Yeah, no, and it's good to give a thumbs up now and then.
00:17:41.360 I mean, we should, you know, I'm always there ready to pounce on them when they do something wrong, and they give me plenty of opportunity to do it.
00:17:47.280 But we can't forget to thank them and give a thumbs up.
00:17:49.720 Some of them do have some principles, and they put the, well, our money where his mouth was, so that's appreciated.
00:17:54.460 It'd be nice if that started a trend.
00:17:57.440 Yeah, why is it only Mike Dawson, right?
00:17:59.760 Why is it only one MP who's publicly opposing this pay raise, right?
00:18:03.780 Why?
00:18:04.360 Where is the rest of the 300 of them?
00:18:06.400 You know, Corey, you know, we always hear these politicians say, we're all in this together.
00:18:10.540 I'm starting to think they're talking about the gang of 300 of them up here in Ottawa when they say they're all in this together, right?
00:18:16.460 Like, where is the rest of the MPs here, right?
00:18:19.460 Prime Minister Mark Carney, he told Canadians a couple months ago to brace for sacrifices.
00:18:25.340 What, sacrifices for me, you, and your audience?
00:18:27.480 Corey, what about the sacrifices for Carney as MPs?
00:18:30.740 Or what about the Conservatives, right?
00:18:32.600 The Conservatives always talk about, you know, cutting taxes, reducing spending, finding savings, and the right to talk about that.
00:18:38.360 But where's the official opposition forcefully and publicly opposing the MP pay raise?
00:18:42.820 Why aren't they standing with their own Mike Dawson?
00:18:45.440 Or how about the NDP, right?
00:18:47.120 The NDP always talk about sticking up for the little guy.
00:18:49.380 Well, why isn't the NDP publicly opposing this massive pay raise for members of Parliament who all make over 200 grand a year?
00:18:57.140 Yeah, the silence is rather deafening.
00:18:59.120 I mean, just to put things in perspective, Alberta's premier makes about 190,000 a year, which is sick.
00:19:04.440 That's some pretty healthy compensation.
00:19:07.120 But you could actually be the premier of a province of 5 million people and still make less than a backbench member of Parliament who never actually does anything for four years in their elected position.
00:19:16.720 That says a lot.
00:19:17.600 It's crazy.
00:19:19.360 It's crazy.
00:19:20.000 And look, I hear some MPs saying, oh, you know, we'll give it to charity.
00:19:23.740 Here's what I say.
00:19:24.600 That's not good enough anymore, right?
00:19:26.460 You all make more than 200 grand a year.
00:19:29.680 You can give to charity without billing taxpayers for your pay raise.
00:19:33.460 Also, you've had years to fix this, right?
00:19:35.280 We've been talking about this since, what, the beginning of the pandemic?
00:19:38.100 Years ago, right?
00:19:39.160 They've had years to fix this.
00:19:40.640 There is no, you know, getting by this issue anymore.
00:19:44.500 They have to do the right thing.
00:19:45.520 They have to fix this.
00:19:46.320 Also, I hear some people chiming in on social media, right, saying, well, it's hard to stop a pay raise.
00:19:51.860 And I'm over here like, what do you mean?
00:19:53.940 Okay.
00:19:54.320 This isn't rocket science we're talking about.
00:19:56.380 We're talking about politicians not taking more money from Canadians who are struggling.
00:19:59.940 Like, come on.
00:20:01.120 Like, if we can get somebody on the moon, pretty sure we can figure out a way to stop giving politicians a pay raise every single year.
00:20:07.080 Absolutely.
00:20:08.640 Well, we'll just have to keep pressure and, I guess, keep firing them when we can when we get those elections.
00:20:13.240 So, what I first contacted you about, though, was something that a lot of people are perhaps already forgetting about.
00:20:18.960 But just that ongoing Canada Post saga, striking, not striking, settling.
00:20:26.380 And, of course, the bailouts.
00:20:27.680 I mean, the bailouts are coming.
00:20:28.820 They don't seem to be cutting the size of that corporation.
00:20:32.120 What are we going to do with this, Franco?
00:20:34.820 Well, we should be selling the Canada Post, right?
00:20:38.100 But, I mean, at the very – I mean, look, why do we need – it's 2026.
00:20:41.040 Why do we need a state-owned postal service?
00:20:44.420 Come on, right?
00:20:45.020 A bunch of our peer countries have privatized their government state, you know, their version of Canada Post.
00:20:50.640 There's no reason Canada can't do it either.
00:20:53.100 But, look, at the very least, if Canada Post is going to be a crown corporation,
00:20:56.760 then it needs to figure out a way to operate without, you know, taking a billion-dollar bailout from taxpayers every single year.
00:21:03.720 Because, remember, folks, in 2025, the government announced a billion-dollar bailout, right?
00:21:08.880 It was supposed to be repayable.
00:21:10.580 And then a year later, the government announces another billion-dollar bailout for Canada Post.
00:21:15.660 So, a couple things come to mind, Corey.
00:21:17.420 Number one, MPs should be demanding in the House of Commons when that money is going to get paid back to taxpayers, right?
00:21:25.060 Because the government told Canadians there's supposed to be repayable funding.
00:21:27.940 Okay, so when are we going to get our money back?
00:21:30.160 And number two, if Canada Post doesn't pay back that money, then MPs should be asking this simple question.
00:21:36.720 Who's getting fired?
00:21:38.060 That's the question that we're demanding, right?
00:21:40.740 But, Corey, I think this goes even deeper than just Canada Post, right?
00:21:45.200 Like, look, the government is completely broke, more than a trillion dollars in debt,
00:21:49.480 and taxpayers can't afford, and we shouldn't expect to have to bail out every crown corporation
00:21:54.960 that goes to Ottawa cap-in-hand begging for more cash.
00:21:58.920 Well, yeah, and that's one of them.
00:22:00.820 And the numbers, you know, I want to get further into that.
00:22:03.260 That massive deficit that was given to us last fall continues to grow.
00:22:09.000 I saw an updated number just recently.
00:22:11.820 Carney is still just pulling out that checkbook.
00:22:13.960 Look, he's making Trudeau look like a spendthrift, almost, with the speed that he's increasing spending.
00:22:19.860 When's the next budget update going to come to tell us just how much more they're borrowing on our grandchildren?
00:22:24.540 I mean, look, now that the budgets are in the fall, I'm hoping we get some type of budget update in the spring, right?
00:22:30.540 Like, I hope we get some basic transparency from the federal government.
00:22:34.180 But you'll remember, right after the last election, you even had Finance Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne.
00:22:40.060 Remember he was musing about perhaps no budget in 2025?
00:22:43.200 And it wasn't until, like, massive pressure, massive backlash from the Canadian public, including the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, that the government backtracked and even provided us with a budget for 2025.
00:22:54.940 But look, I mean, it's bad news here in Ottawa.
00:22:58.080 I mean, think about it this way, right?
00:22:59.300 Because, you know, I love Alberta, no provincial sales tax, but you still pay federal sales tax, right?
00:23:04.860 And every single dollar you pay in federal sales tax is going to pay interest on the debt, right?
00:23:09.680 This is bad.
00:23:10.940 This is not good, right?
00:23:12.380 They are wasting your money on debt interest.
00:23:14.300 They're wasting your money left, right, and center.
00:23:16.840 And look, they're sticking your kids, your grandkids, with a mighty debt bill that they're going to be paying back for the rest of their lives.
00:23:24.360 Yeah, well, you guys, I'm sorry, I'm trying to remember what that was.
00:23:26.960 You put a sign out in front of Parliament to help remind them a little bit of what's going on with their dollars, didn't you?
00:23:32.280 Oh, yeah.
00:23:33.300 Oh, yeah.
00:23:33.640 I mean, we have a sign up right now, actually, too.
00:23:35.880 I mean, so we put up billboards, you know, quite frequently.
00:23:40.500 One of them, we talked about how the biggest waste of money is the interest charges on the debt.
00:23:44.360 More than a billion dollars every week, poof, gone, right?
00:23:47.340 Because that money is going to the bond fund managers on Bay Street.
00:23:49.640 Corey, you're like the billboard we just put up, okay?
00:23:53.360 It shows that the cost of the federal bureaucracy has gone up 80% in 10 years, yet most Canadians say services have gotten worse.
00:24:02.780 Shrink the federal bureaucracy.
00:24:04.520 Right in downtown Ottawa, right in front of Parliament Hill, right in front of the prime minister's office, where bureaucrats have to walk by that sign every single day.
00:24:11.980 And they'll know that Canadians are sick and tired of paying higher taxes to fund a bloated and underperforming federal bureaucracy.
00:24:18.960 Yeah, well, and reminding people of, I mean, because, I mean, most people, I despise interest payments.
00:24:23.820 I hate it on my own credit cards if I've, you know, put off paying too long.
00:24:27.140 It's just money burned.
00:24:28.560 I mean, you really are getting nothing of value out of that, aside from somebody who extended and lent you some money to begin with.
00:24:35.500 I mean, just some of those analogies to make Canadians realize you could build a hospital a week in this country for what we're just throwing away on interest.
00:24:43.720 I mean, if health care is your number one concern, they should get on the members, you know, in Parliament's case and say, well, let's get that down so we can start building hospitals instead of talking about it.
00:24:52.760 Yeah, and look, you know what I always say too, Corey, is the biggest threat to a government bureaucrat's paycheck is not political ideology.
00:25:01.560 It's not even the Canadian Taxpayers Federation right there, right?
00:25:04.860 The number one threat to a government bureaucrat's paycheck is the interest charges on the debt.
00:25:09.840 You don't believe me?
00:25:11.040 Ask the Saskatchewan NDP of the 1990s what happens when you keep kicking the deficit camp down the road forever, right?
00:25:18.520 Things got so bad in Saskatchewan that what the NDP government in Saskatchewan was forced to close down dozens of hospitals across the Prairie Province, right?
00:25:26.740 So, look, times are bad.
00:25:29.020 The unfortunate part is that it doesn't seem like really any political leader in Ottawa, or I should say within the Liberal government, is taking it serious, right?
00:25:38.740 You asked me about Carney versus Trudeau comparisons.
00:25:42.060 I mean, over the next handful of years, Carney's planning to add twice as much to the debt as what even Trudeau was planning, right?
00:25:50.140 The banker was supposed to be better with the numbers than the drama teacher, but the banker is planning on adding up even more debt over the next handful of years.
00:25:58.160 Well, then, getting down, I mean, there's only one taxpayer, but we get hit with all those levels.
00:26:02.500 I see your provincial directors are busy enough.
00:26:04.820 Alberta's got a budget coming out next week that sounds like it's going to be pretty ugly.
00:26:08.540 We like to get on our high horse, but we're not balancing budgets here either.
00:26:11.680 And in B.C., I just saw that release come out from your British Lafayette director.
00:26:17.400 They got a crazy deficit coming ahead of them.
00:26:21.100 I mean, this debt is just swamping us on every level.
00:26:24.340 Well, let me just talk about the B.C. budget for a second.
00:26:27.020 We can get in Alberta.
00:26:27.840 But look, the B.C. budget is almost impressive in how bad it is, okay?
00:26:32.760 Like, the government is increasing the debt out there in B.C. by like $30 billion this year.
00:26:37.300 That's how much the debt is going up according to the B.C. budget.
00:26:40.840 And, like, the government is massively increasing debt while it hikes income taxes,
00:26:45.960 while it puts through that sneaky backdoor income tax hike known as bracket creep.
00:26:50.920 Corey, you remember the bracket creep fight in Alberta not too long ago, right?
00:26:55.020 Also, the B.C. government's essentially hiking PST on some types of services.
00:27:01.060 So it's absolutely startling that the debt is going up so fast in British Columbia,
00:27:06.500 all while the government under EB is hiking taxes.
00:27:09.760 Like, what's going on here?
00:27:11.600 Well, not to mention EB hasn't shown himself to be terribly friendly to resource development
00:27:15.420 or some of the things that would generate the economic activity to pay for some of this spending.
00:27:20.060 They burn us on both fronts.
00:27:23.240 Oh, that's right.
00:27:24.200 And look, like, you know, it was years ago when I was the Alberta director for the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.
00:27:28.800 But, you know, one of the big reports, I think it came out in 2019, Corey, correct me if I'm wrong,
00:27:33.460 but was it that blue ribbon panel, right, on spending?
00:27:36.600 And it showed that, like, the Alberta government back then was spending per person, like, what,
00:27:42.060 $10 billion overcharging taxpayers compared to similar provinces?
00:27:46.360 So, I mean, Alberta does have a long history of spending way too much money.
00:27:51.600 You know, I'd have to go through the books and see what Premier Smith is doing.
00:27:54.840 But for years, we were pushing the Alberta government to drastically cut spending because it was just spending too much, right?
00:28:02.080 After the PCs, after Klein held up that paid-in-full sign, then the NDP, and then even the UCP under Kenny, right?
00:28:10.600 Spending way too much.
00:28:13.120 Oh, absolutely.
00:28:13.900 And, I mean, Klein, you know, as much as he is a saint, essentially, in Alberta in history,
00:28:18.160 but he loved that bracket creep you were talking about.
00:28:20.340 That was the nice sneaky tax tool to keep raising taxes without appearing to be raising taxes on folks.
00:28:26.200 And, I mean, I, for the most part, like a lot of what Premier Smith's doing.
00:28:29.640 But, boy, I'm not seeing the fiscal conservatism out of this government that you would expect out of the UCP.
00:28:36.980 I'm kind of worried about this upcoming budget.
00:28:39.820 Yeah, I'm worried too.
00:28:41.080 And, like, I know Chris Sims, our mutual friend, Corey,
00:28:45.300 will be covering the Alberta budget for the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.
00:28:48.720 So, you know, I'm not really looking forward to seeing what's in that budget.
00:28:52.920 Maybe we'll be surprised.
00:28:54.260 But I know Chris is going to really make a stink if there's anything bad in there.
00:28:58.560 Oh, I know she won't hold back.
00:29:01.800 Well, I'm looking forward to that budget.
00:29:03.420 Hopefully there's some nice surprises somewhere hiding in there.
00:29:06.180 Or, I mean, Premier Smith's warning, you know, signaling that it might be a little rough.
00:29:10.440 Maybe there's actually going to be some spending cuts coming.
00:29:12.880 Not that people necessarily enjoy them, but we need them.
00:29:16.500 Before I let you go, then, you know, where can folks find the work you're doing,
00:29:20.620 the work Chris is doing, the stuff in BC, and all that good stuff?
00:29:22.940 Well, the best place to find all our stuff is on Taxpayer.com.
00:29:27.620 That's our website, Taxpayer.com.
00:29:29.500 You can also follow us all over social media.
00:29:31.900 Best way to do that is just type in Canadian Taxpayers Federation.
00:29:35.460 Right on.
00:29:36.080 Well, thanks for joining us again, Franco, and giving us an update on the fiscal scene.
00:29:39.780 It seems to be kind of the same story over and over again, but we can't give up.
00:29:43.240 We've got to keep letting people know what the hell's going on over there
00:29:46.200 and hopefully just make the victories where we can,
00:29:48.300 and the opportunity to give a thumbs up to one good member of Parliament.
00:29:51.280 So thank you very much to him out in New Brunswick.
00:29:54.300 Hey, Corey, it's always a pleasure to come on your show, man.
00:29:56.460 Can't wait to see you next time I'm in Calgary.
00:29:58.540 Yeah, keep missing you when you come in.
00:29:59.920 I'll get you on the next one.
00:30:00.880 Right on.
00:30:01.220 Thanks, Franco.
00:30:01.960 I'll talk to you again soon.
00:30:03.480 See ya.
00:30:05.560 So yes, guys, the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, Franco Terrezano,
00:30:09.020 and check them out.
00:30:09.520 They do have somebody in every province covering these things,
00:30:12.180 and we need to look at it.
00:30:13.620 As well, look at the municipal level.
00:30:15.860 We didn't even have time to go into that,
00:30:17.340 but you citizens forget.
00:30:19.400 I think we're just so exhausted,
00:30:21.360 but we're just getting hit on level after level after level
00:30:24.120 with taxes and bad spending.
00:30:26.900 You know, our own Derek Fildebrandt was with the Taxpayers Federation before,
00:30:30.080 and the battles he used to have with Nenshi when Nenshi was mayor were legendary.
00:30:34.380 So, you know, check out the Taxpayers Federation.
00:30:36.680 They put it into good lay terms,
00:30:38.900 not necessarily all that dull economist sort of thing,
00:30:42.160 and just really exposed what's happening to the money you work so hard to earn
00:30:45.880 that gets taken away by the government.
00:30:47.240 Okay, we're going to try something different.
00:30:48.820 We're going to bring in callers, okay?
00:30:50.520 This is new to us, new to me,
00:30:52.280 and we'll put the number up there on the screen.
00:30:54.120 Now, we don't have a system where we can keep a bunch of people in a queue on hold,
00:30:58.140 so it's kind of the first one gets through,
00:30:59.700 and then it goes into a voicemail,
00:31:01.460 but I'd really like some interaction with folks on there.
00:31:04.620 We'll just see what that phone number is in a moment there.
00:31:07.640 There we go.
00:31:08.380 So, it's 866-479-WEST.
00:31:13.960 I don't know what WEST translates into numbers,
00:31:16.000 and then it's extension 711.
00:31:17.540 You can see that in the bottom of the screen there, though.
00:31:20.280 And call in, talk to me about anything,
00:31:22.260 you know, aside from anything that would get us in trouble with the CRTC
00:31:24.700 or something for discussing on here.
00:31:26.980 Check out that number below there.
00:31:28.100 Give me a shout.
00:31:29.020 Let's have a chat.
00:31:30.020 Let's see what's going on.
00:31:31.240 So, it's not just me rambling all the time into the wind.
00:31:33.320 I can hear it from some of you guys.
00:31:34.680 So, while hopefully somebody comes in to give us a shout and chat with things,
00:31:38.620 let's see what else is going on out there.
00:31:41.000 Let's talk legacy media, some of the beauty stuff.
00:31:43.820 City news, you know, this was something else.
00:31:47.540 So, Demetrios Nicolaitis is the education minister in Alberta.
00:31:52.320 He was actually a target of a recall.
00:31:55.100 The teachers' union hates him passionately.
00:31:57.920 And they tried to get into a recall that failed.
00:32:01.160 To take him out of power.
00:32:03.400 And then, he went on a fundraising and awareness thing about domestic violence.
00:32:09.500 He climbed with a group of people to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro.
00:32:13.340 And it raised money for domestic violence because his sister had been killed.
00:32:18.660 So, at the top, they did, you know, photo opportunities at the top of the mountain.
00:32:21.720 They had an Alberta flag.
00:32:23.060 And they held it up there, a flag of Alberta.
00:32:24.420 Of course, you're an Alberta politician, cabinet minister, Albertan, you do that.
00:32:28.600 Well, City News puts the picture up.
00:32:31.160 And implies that it questions, you know, his loyalty to Alberta as he's waving essentially this separatist flag.
00:32:38.760 Wondering if he's a separatist or not because he held an Alberta flag while at this hike, this event, this thing for, you know, trying to battle against domestic violence.
00:32:47.760 This is how ridiculous and absurd legacy media is getting.
00:32:52.240 That was true journalistic incompetence.
00:32:55.020 But the slant that the media has in Alberta, the loathing they have of Premier Smith is really something to behold.
00:33:07.660 And it just really exposed itself on there.
00:33:13.660 And these guys are going broke.
00:33:15.060 People are tired of it.
00:33:16.620 People are tired of it.
00:33:17.340 That's why I like to remind you, you know, get on, subscribe to the Western Standard.
00:33:20.520 We have our, particularly on my show.
00:33:22.420 I mean, our reporters report the news.
00:33:24.240 Myself, I give opinions.
00:33:26.340 But we're honest about what we're doing.
00:33:28.720 We're not hiding it.
00:33:30.220 And legacy media is going down.
00:33:32.760 They're beholden fully to the government.
00:33:34.840 Chorus Entertainment, I think their stock is down to like three cents a share now or something like that.
00:33:39.180 We'll see what happens with that.
00:33:40.600 You know, the old heyday of talk radio has really disappeared.
00:33:45.460 The last good one kind of was Daniel Smith.
00:33:47.700 You know, they're almost unlistenable in Alberta in particular.
00:33:51.480 Because, again, there's just this anti-provincial government mindset among them.
00:33:58.300 But they just can't seem to get over and can't let go.
00:34:02.820 So that's all you do is listen to the show.
00:34:04.200 When you hear a news report with some certain talk show hosts in Alberta,
00:34:07.800 first thing, they'll list the report and then explain why Daniel Smith's an idiot.
00:34:11.280 That's the formula for all of their shows as you listen.
00:34:15.940 For those who remember it, the old days of talk radio.
00:34:18.140 And that's what we're trying to replicate a little bit by getting some live interaction with some calls
00:34:21.620 if somebody wants to give it a shout there on that number below.
00:34:25.140 I don't know if you remember the 90s.
00:34:26.460 That's some of the way I grew up with the politics.
00:34:27.920 You had Dave Rutherford.
00:34:29.420 They had a number of Daves, you know, these different hosts.
00:34:31.860 And Dave was quite conservative and unapologetically shown.
00:34:34.380 He kind of had the unapologetically shown and he held the anchor spot kind of.
00:34:40.040 And you had Dave Taylor in the afternoon.
00:34:42.220 And Taylor was a liberal.
00:34:44.080 A reasonable liberal.
00:34:45.040 Kind of the older liberals.
00:34:46.220 More of the Chrétien-style liberals, not the Trudeau liberals.
00:34:49.260 But you got a bit of balance.
00:34:50.820 And they wore their bias on their sleeve because they were opinion hosts.
00:34:56.280 But the show would actually, you know, you'd have multiple shows from people coming from different perspectives on it.
00:35:02.480 And it was good.
00:35:03.640 And you could actually form some things.
00:35:05.460 So you'd listen to different folks.
00:35:06.960 Now, it's all left all the time.
00:35:10.100 One exception I'll give is Ben Mulroney, who has been syndicated across the country.
00:35:13.780 I think it might be a little too little too late.
00:35:16.080 But when you listen to the Alberta hosts, man, you'd think Alberta was an NDP province.
00:35:20.660 I mean, you can tell that they want us to be again.
00:35:24.300 So let's talk about demographics in Alberta.
00:35:26.300 Here's an interesting thing that popped up.
00:35:29.400 I'm going to write about this for next week's column, I think.
00:35:34.640 So the top name for Albertans.
00:35:37.260 And this is happening all around the world.
00:35:41.340 Mohammed.
00:35:42.500 And actually, at first we reported that Mohammed was only eighth in Alberta.
00:35:46.560 Meanwhile, it was number one in Toronto.
00:35:48.200 You know, and it's been number one in a lot of European cities for a long, long time.
00:35:51.460 But it turns out it's number one in Alberta, too.
00:35:53.660 It's just that there's a lot of different spellings for Mohammed.
00:35:56.480 So the, you know, and we've got to walk carefully with this.
00:36:00.860 Look, it represents a religion.
00:36:03.980 It represents a culture.
00:36:06.480 And religions and cultures and the practices are choices.
00:36:10.600 Okay?
00:36:11.180 You can choose on how much you want to act upon religious dictates,
00:36:15.480 on how orthodox you want to be,
00:36:19.020 on how, you know, true to the old ways.
00:36:21.140 I mean, if you look at any religious texts that are thousands of years old,
00:36:24.240 they're probably talking about some things we just don't do anymore.
00:36:27.220 You know, no more slavery, no more polygamy, you know,
00:36:31.780 and that's in the Christian Old Testaments, things like that.
00:36:34.060 You're not going to sacrifice your kids on rocks and things like that.
00:36:36.920 Just doesn't happen anymore.
00:36:39.020 At least for most.
00:36:40.060 But there is a problem with Islam, and we've got to get frank about it, guys.
00:36:46.860 That particular religion is hanging on to the old Stone Age tenets through Sharia law,
00:36:51.700 and they really have a thing with trying to convert the world.
00:36:55.160 Not every one of them, and that's where it gets dicey.
00:36:57.160 I mean, there's loads of fantastic Muslim people.
00:37:00.520 There are.
00:37:01.020 But there is a disproportionately high number of them that are difficult to deal with,
00:37:06.940 and they're a problem in every country in the world.
00:37:10.520 Every one of them.
00:37:12.440 Name a single Islamic country that isn't a dictatorship.
00:37:15.760 Name one that isn't.
00:37:17.880 Name one that follows what we accept as common human rights now.
00:37:21.980 Name one that gives rights to gay people.
00:37:25.580 That they don't exist.
00:37:27.120 Yet we embrace this.
00:37:29.860 Name one large population of Islamic people into a new nation where they're getting along with their new neighbors.
00:37:36.720 It's not happening.
00:37:37.740 We're seeing that throughout Europe.
00:37:38.860 We're seeing the riots.
00:37:40.160 We're seeing the abuse of citizens in the streets.
00:37:43.720 We're seeing some of the rape gangs.
00:37:45.400 Because, again, and not all of them.
00:37:47.260 I always got to cover with that, but it's true.
00:37:49.540 I don't want to accuse everybody of such,
00:37:50.900 because most of them certainly don't want to go out and molest people in general.
00:37:55.560 But there's a larger number within that cultural choice than we're seeing within others.
00:38:01.360 So when we see Muhammad topping the names, the names of new kids,
00:38:08.080 we should just think a little bit, okay?
00:38:10.580 Is that where we want to go?
00:38:12.180 We want to bring in immigrants.
00:38:14.040 Some of the discussions I have with people say,
00:38:15.680 we've got to shut down immigration altogether.
00:38:17.200 No, we don't.
00:38:17.740 We can't.
00:38:18.320 It's good for us to bring in new Canadians, new Albertans.
00:38:22.720 We just have to be bloody selective about it.
00:38:24.640 That's the thing.
00:38:26.060 We want to make sure that they will economically contribute,
00:38:30.400 that they'll settle in, that they will be a benefit to us over here.
00:38:34.620 But the other part that they're afraid to talk about,
00:38:37.580 people in the political levels,
00:38:40.280 is cultural immigration.
00:38:43.420 Are they a good cultural match for who we are here?
00:38:46.440 Are the people we're bringing in people who will value human rights,
00:38:50.500 that will value the rights of women,
00:38:52.640 that will value the rights of other religions?
00:38:56.440 Not necessarily.
00:38:58.740 Particularly when most of them are coming from, unfortunately, Islam.
00:39:04.740 So, guys, watch those trends as they keep going,
00:39:10.440 because it should be a warning and a precursor to us right now.
00:39:15.280 Jordan's pointing something out, saying,
00:39:16.560 we need more born and raised Albertans having kids,
00:39:18.240 but we can't afford kids while wages remain repressed for private sector workers.
00:39:21.620 Okay.
00:39:22.360 That's an interesting larger discussion on things all around.
00:39:24.920 Um, yes, uh, you know, settled North Americans tend not to have large families anymore.
00:39:32.020 Doesn't really happen unless you're, again,
00:39:33.700 they're very religious Mormons, things like that.
00:39:35.300 Well, not necessarily.
00:39:35.880 I mean, there's some large families of people of all sorts of faiths,
00:39:38.120 Catholics, Christians, you name it.
00:39:39.520 But for the most part, small families are sort of what's in right now.
00:39:43.340 They're having, you know, one to two kids.
00:39:45.020 If people are having kids, some of them are not having kids at all.
00:39:48.440 Some of that has to do with prosperity.
00:39:50.120 And changes in culture with us over here now too.
00:39:54.040 You got to remember a few generations ago,
00:39:57.500 child mortality was quite high.
00:39:59.460 You had to have a few kids actually,
00:40:01.220 because you wanted to make sure you had a few make it to adulthood.
00:40:03.820 There was no such thing as pension plans, retirement plans, things like that.
00:40:07.260 So you had to make sure you had a large family
00:40:10.460 so your kids could take care of you in your old age later.
00:40:15.140 It was an economic choice to have a lot of kids.
00:40:17.480 The irony of it was the more poor a person is,
00:40:20.720 the more children they need for economic security,
00:40:22.980 even though children are something of an expense in some ways.
00:40:25.740 It's an investment in their future.
00:40:27.640 When you're in a country, which still for the time being,
00:40:30.340 and Western countries where we're wealthy,
00:40:33.640 because I mean, let's face it, raising 10 kids,
00:40:35.800 see, that's a lot of work.
00:40:36.840 That's a difficult household.
00:40:37.880 That's a heck of a commitment and a task.
00:40:40.660 You can afford to just have one or two.
00:40:43.180 And that's what people are choosing to do.
00:40:45.200 And I don't know how that's going to change necessarily.
00:40:50.420 Like, I don't think we could tell people,
00:40:52.100 well, just breed more.
00:40:53.340 I don't think people want to have more than a couple of kids
00:40:56.320 for the most part.
00:40:57.380 And I understand that varies person by person,
00:40:59.720 couple by couple.
00:41:01.460 So we're not going to change the birthing trends over here.
00:41:04.740 That's part of why we need immigration.
00:41:06.340 Because having a declining population
00:41:08.360 is not going to be good for us in our economy either.
00:41:10.540 But we have to be selective about who we're bringing in.
00:41:15.180 And that's why, yes, in developing countries,
00:41:17.820 you still get the larger families.
00:41:19.340 And a lot of the people coming from the Islamic nations here
00:41:23.020 are carrying that trend over from the less developed countries.
00:41:26.680 And they're having large families.
00:41:28.300 We're just going to calculate those things in.
00:41:32.680 You know, and to be honest,
00:41:35.940 the onus of integration is,
00:41:37.720 I got to be on the immigrant now.
00:41:39.020 We're going to stop with us having to accommodate.
00:41:41.720 If you're not willing to come here and integrate
00:41:43.580 and accept the values of the nation you're moving to,
00:41:46.800 then don't come.
00:41:48.580 Stay where you are.
00:41:51.200 You want to chase Jews around.
00:41:52.680 You want to beat women, kill dogs,
00:41:54.280 and do all those beautiful things that the hardcore Islamists do.
00:41:58.500 And stay in one of the many, many, many Islamist countries out there.
00:42:02.180 Don't bring that crap here.
00:42:03.540 Don't sit there and we see that stuff
00:42:04.920 where they're doing protests in the middle of streets,
00:42:09.000 you know, and all slamming face down
00:42:10.920 in the middle of an intersection and a prayer.
00:42:14.060 That, you know what that is?
00:42:15.840 That's a dog peeing on your leg marking its turf.
00:42:19.320 No, I'm not calling all Islamic people dogs, by the way.
00:42:23.040 But when they're doing that on our streets,
00:42:25.560 that is what they're doing.
00:42:27.520 And that's a power play.
00:42:29.620 That's a dominance play.
00:42:31.260 That's a culture war.
00:42:33.340 And we shouldn't be taking it lightly
00:42:35.040 or accepting what's happening there.
00:42:36.660 Everybody has the right to pray.
00:42:38.060 Do it in your place of worship.
00:42:39.700 Do it in your household.
00:42:40.940 Do it in a public park.
00:42:41.960 But when you purposely block streets as a demonstration,
00:42:46.160 that's their way of giving you a collective middle finger
00:42:48.900 and dominating you.
00:42:50.440 That's what that is.
00:42:51.400 And no, we don't have to put up with it.
00:42:53.560 Like I said, religion and its practices are a choice.
00:42:57.560 Race isn't.
00:42:58.940 That's why racism is unacceptable.
00:43:00.420 A person is born to whatever race they are.
00:43:01.940 That doesn't change.
00:43:03.480 And it's wrong to hold any of that against a person.
00:43:06.960 Ever.
00:43:08.620 But cultural and religious practices are a choice.
00:43:11.860 And we can criticize those.
00:43:13.380 In fact, we must criticize those.
00:43:15.240 And we want to make sure that we're developing a modern,
00:43:21.280 civilized world as well as we possibly can.
00:43:24.800 One more note.
00:43:27.520 You know, Frances Widowson, she's been outspoken.
00:43:30.200 The Kamloops band, you know, where the hoax with the buried children thing
00:43:35.000 is still ongoing.
00:43:36.780 Put out a big weird press release documenting a bunch of stuff.
00:43:41.140 Basically, basically just telling us what we all already knew.
00:43:45.180 They haven't found any bodies.
00:43:46.660 Of course, the bottom line is they never looked.
00:43:48.780 They got $12 million to look, but they never actually looked.
00:43:52.920 And then the government went and slammed shut the books.
00:43:55.700 So we can't find out exactly what they did with all that money.
00:43:59.280 But it also talks about all the complexity of being able to look for these children.
00:44:03.940 It must be complicated when they don't exist.
00:44:06.520 And hinting almost as if that maybe if you just gave us a little more money,
00:44:10.540 we'd start looking harder and we'd find them.
00:44:11.920 Look, that issue can be resolved quickly, one way or the other.
00:44:17.600 Dig a bloody hole, get a shovel, go to Home Depot.
00:44:22.060 I'll buy it.
00:44:23.060 I'll send it out by UPS.
00:44:24.980 I'll buy you a shovel.
00:44:26.800 You've got all of those marked spots, all those little flags in the ground
00:44:30.620 where these alleged burials were.
00:44:33.360 Dig a hole or shut up.
00:44:36.180 And they should be refunding that $12 million they got to look
00:44:39.420 because obviously that was just fraud.
00:44:41.520 If you're not even actually going to look.
00:44:43.160 But no, the government instead of pursuing the money they threw at these fraudsters
00:44:48.500 closed the books so we can't find it.
00:44:51.860 You know, we can't find out what they did with it.
00:44:54.500 That's a real problem.
00:44:55.780 But their press release, look it up online.
00:44:58.220 It's a sad joke.
00:45:00.160 One joke, I guess, out of 8-6 saying,
00:45:02.220 talk about shovel-ready projects.
00:45:05.000 Something of a light joke on a dark issue.
00:45:07.120 But I like that one.
00:45:07.960 Thank you very much for that.
00:45:09.900 All right, guys.
00:45:10.540 Well, thank you very much for tuning in today.
00:45:12.680 Maybe write down that phone number, though, and keep it in mind for next week.
00:45:15.660 We'll open it up again in that last 15 minutes
00:45:18.080 and see if folks want to chat one-on-one on some things.
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00:45:30.180 John's been working his butt off as we keep expanding our video content on here.
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