Western Standard - CORY MORGAN SHOW： High-speed train wreck coming for Canadian wallets

00:00:00.000 Good day, welcome to the Corey Morgan Show.

00:00:29.800 getting into spring broadcasting from the permanently ceded territory on what uh under

00:00:37.400 treaty seven says our indigenous bands have no more claim to any longer i just wanted to reiterate

00:00:43.240 that today at a fundraiser last week i gave kind of my own version of a land acknowledgement and

00:00:48.280 it's something else the fellow who videoed it took a little 30 second clip of it and threw it out on

00:00:53.800 facebook the last i checked over the last 10 hours it's had nearly 400 000 views i think

00:00:58.120 people are getting tired of the old land acknowledgements maybe we should just start

00:01:01.800 replacing them all with the real ones i own my property i don't care who was there 500 years ago

00:01:07.640 all right i got an interesting show though just going to talk about some historical things i'm

00:01:11.320 going to have author and journalist john fraser on he wrote a book about the governor's general i know

00:01:16.280 i'm not much of a monarchist but all the same i still the history is fascinating and the rule is

00:01:20.920 important and it's played a big part and it's worth looking back on and remembering and talking

00:01:26.280 about even if i hope one day perhaps the parliamentary system's in the rear view mirror

00:01:30.680 it should be a really good discussion uh otherwise lots of news and things to cover let's get on to

00:01:35.880 what i'm going to rant about today you guys will probably see it hang on to your pocket books this

00:01:39.480 is the the latest big liberal project so while the canadian economy is on the rocks you know

00:01:45.480 we get the ongoing tariff or racking the manufacturing sector while canada's soft

00:01:50.280 embargo on expanding the ability to export oil and gas products prevents the energy sector from

00:01:55.240 filling the economic void we got subsidies for everything from battery plants to edible cricket

00:02:00.680 farms and they produce nothing more than a list of business failures and our national debt's

00:02:03.880 exploding yeah nice picture so to address all of this the economic wizard of prime minister

00:02:08.600 mark carney's decided what the nation must do is sink around 100 billion dollars into a publicly

00:02:14.200 owned high-speed rail project to surface service the laurentian corridor in eastern canada the

00:02:19.720 insanity of this notion beggars belief yet the liberal party along with its stalwart supporters

00:02:24.600 and legacy media have circled the wagons and are now in full campaign mode pushing the alleged

00:02:28.980 merits of a high-speed rail line. Proponents of the line can't pretend there isn't a model of a

00:02:34.420 North American high-speed project to examine before diving into this one. California began

00:02:38.860 its high-speed rail odyssey in 2008. It was supposed to run between Los Angeles and San

00:02:43.720 Francisco and cost about 35 billion U.S. dollars to build. They anticipated to be operational by

00:02:49.000 2020 yeah six years ago and with over 20 million people along an 800 kilometer corridor surely it

00:02:54.680 could be a viable right route for high-speed rail right well after 20 years and billions spent not

00:03:01.160 a single mile of track is operational on the california line the budgets exploded over 126

00:03:07.960 billion dollars for phase one and they hope it might be operational by 2040. in short it's been

00:03:14.600 been a catastrophe and due to the government clinging to the sunk cost fallacy we'll be able

00:03:18.900 to watch this slow motion train wreck for decades to come. The Canadian plan now is even more

00:03:23.580 ambitious than the California one. They want to build a thousand kilometers of high-speed rail

00:03:27.500 through regions with far less population density than California. They're going to have to try and

00:03:31.860 get it built in adverse Canadian weather and they think it could be done for 23 percent lower than

00:03:37.000 the current California line projections and they think it's going to be finished by the 2040s as

00:03:41.160 well. Look at the modest, relatively modest light rail transit expansion of the Ontario line. These

00:03:47.380 are the same geniuses who are going to build this high speed one, right? A mere 15.5 kilometers of

00:03:52.160 line was supposed to be built with a projected cost of 10.9 billion in 2019. And it was going

00:03:56.840 to be ready to go by 2027 next year. Well, the cost over seven years is tripled and the completion

00:04:02.140 date's been pushed into the 2030s. Just think of what they're going to be able to do with a high

00:04:05.740 speed rail mega project. Proponents of high speed rail like to point to European and Asian models

00:04:10.700 as examples to follow, but it isn't an apples to apples comparison by any measure. First of all,

00:04:15.280 the population densities aren't even comparable. I mean, Japan's in an area, what, smaller than

00:04:21.140 Newfoundland, and it's got 120 million people. European and Asian cities are massive and close

00:04:25.500 together, which creates a demand and feasibility. Even in the Laurentian Corridor, the precious 0.71

00:04:29.720 Laurentian Corridor, Canada comes more close to the densities of Europe and Asia. Then there's 0.99

00:04:34.480 the vehicle culture. In Canada, over 80% of citizens have a private vehicle. In Europe,

00:04:38.400 but it's only 56%, and the number's even lower in most of Asia.

00:04:41.700 People in Canada aren't going to give up their vehicles in the millions

00:04:44.240 just because they have access to a high-speed rail option,

00:04:47.160 whenever that might come.

00:04:48.800 The ongoing subsidies, though, are going to be massive

00:04:51.040 if this project even becomes complete.

00:04:53.500 If the cost of the line and its maintenance are going to be recovered,

00:04:55.540 the tickets will have to cost hundreds and hundreds of dollars each,

00:04:58.340 and it'll take over a century to pay it off

00:05:00.200 if people are willing to pay that much.

00:05:01.780 I mean, somebody calculated out you could pay for the airline flights

00:05:04.900 between Montreal and Toronto for 180 years for the cost this line's going to be.

00:05:08.400 The economic benefits of such a line are negligible, it won't be transporting freight, and with modern communication methods, people don't need to commute like they used to.

00:05:16.000 The tourism demand between those cities' service is small, and the novelty of the line itself certainly isn't going to bring people out.

00:05:22.540 The Liberal government likes spending announcements and likes mega-projects, which are going to provide contracts and jobs for their friends for decades to come, whether the projects are ever completed or not.

00:05:30.680 For caps, Canada should just institute a direct fund with a budget of a few billion a year that Liberals can legally transfer to their cronies with.

00:05:36.980 it'd be abhorrent, but it's still cheaper than going through the motions of building a high-speed

00:05:40.260 rail line. It may be more effective for economic stimulation. You don't need to be honest to

00:05:44.660 foresee the disaster this high-speed rail line is going to become. It's just going to be a matter

00:05:50.220 of how much is going to be blown on it and how long before a fiscal reality forces the project

00:05:54.200 to be formally ended. And one more word of warning, as much as I like her, our Premier Daniel Smith

00:05:58.940 has got a fixation on trains and high-speed rail as well. We could see such a boondoggle out here

00:06:04.320 if we aren't on guard they sure love building those things all right let's see what else is

00:06:07.840 going on in this big wide world of uh brilliance with our news editor dave nailer hey dave as we

00:06:13.600 can see uh oh we can't afford razors so so depressed oh so depressed had a lovely long

00:06:21.760 weekend in uh the lower mainland and the trees were blooming the cherry trees were blooming and

00:06:29.040 And the grass was all green and I was in shorts and was more than, I think it was 21, 22 Celsius.

00:06:36.060 Get off the plane yesterday and it's snowing.

00:06:38.440 Yeah.

00:06:39.200 We still got at least five or six more snowfalls this winter.

00:06:42.440 Yeah.

00:06:42.840 You're to blame.

00:06:43.580 I keep saying you're to blame.

00:06:44.960 Hey, I've still got my winter tires on.

00:06:46.360 I mean, that's the real asking for it's when you take your winter tires off.

00:06:49.440 Three weeks ago, you said spring is spring.

00:06:51.660 Well, just some false optimism to get people through the day.

00:06:55.360 My apologies.

00:06:56.040 Hey, speaking of that high-speed train, our finance minister, Francois-Philippe Champagne, his wife is a senior director of the train people.

00:07:05.200 Wow, what a coincidence, eh?

00:07:06.220 What a coincidence, eh?

00:07:09.380 It's unbelievable.

00:07:11.020 Speaking of unbelievable stuff out of Ottawa, we've got another floor crossing. 0.99

00:07:16.060 Traitorous floor crossing, Marilyn Gladue from Sarnia.

00:07:19.960 Her last comment before the House of Commons rose for their latest long break. 0.71

00:07:26.040 was a tirade against floor crossers and said there should be an automatic by-election 0.99

00:07:31.040 for anybody who crosses the floor.

00:07:33.760 Of course, when she was smiling with Carney this morning, there was no word of a by-election.

00:07:39.340 No, she sort of forgot that quickly.

00:07:42.380 How many more have we got, do you think?

00:07:44.160 At least, well, somebody was saying last week that they were talking to 10 members of the Conservative Party.

00:07:52.020 So that means nine left, I guess.

00:07:54.820 I mean, these people have the ethics.

00:07:57.360 They're just, they have no ethics, right?

00:07:59.620 It's just personal opportunities.

00:08:01.180 Weasels.

00:08:01.660 And, you know, the thing that drives me nuts the most about it is it sours everybody on the whole process.

00:08:06.600 It causes more apathy, more indifference, which unfortunately just serves the weasels even more.

00:08:12.160 Yep.

00:08:12.580 It's a self-perpetual.

00:08:13.920 I think Gladue was right.

00:08:15.300 There should be by-elections if you want to cross the floor.

00:08:17.680 You were elected under a Tory banner.

00:08:19.900 What gives you the right to decide you're going to become a liberal?

00:08:22.180 Or at the very least, a realistic recall mechanism federally.

00:08:26.940 Yeah, exactly. 1.00

00:08:27.860 Give people a chance if they're in Sarnia saying, you know what, screw you, we want to hold it by election and take the choice out of her hands. 0.97

00:08:36.240 She's a rather tall woman and she looked like she was about a foot taller than Carney.

00:08:41.660 Yeah, I saw that picture.

00:08:43.420 I don't go on about their appearances that often, but it was a striking picture.

00:08:49.440 How tall is Carney?

00:08:50.700 He can't be anymore.

00:08:51.580 Very big, man.

00:08:52.300 Five-eight, maybe?

00:08:52.940 Five-eight, perhaps, yeah. 0.64

00:08:54.000 Something in the high heels.

00:08:56.880 Anyways, that's depressed, everybody.

00:08:59.280 And another depressing story today on the Alberta Human Rights Commission.

00:09:03.720 Your favorite body has apparently going to hear the case of a Leduc woman who was in charge of a local newsletter in Leduc. 0.94

00:09:13.940 And she made a comment that she didn't really care for drag shows, drag queen story hour.

00:09:21.580 whatever that monster yeah she said didn't like him um and somebody uh went apoplectic and reported

00:09:30.260 her to the human rights commission so there was something with that one too though i mean at first

00:09:34.860 the human rights commission said no it's too late and we're not going to do anything yeah

00:09:37.540 now it's been renewed they missed the filing deadline and now they've said okay well i know

00:09:42.160 you've missed it but we'll we'll we'll hear your case anyways so she's being uh she's she's got

00:09:47.500 Your lawyer's on the case, Corey, with the JCCF.

00:09:50.340 Ah, yes.

00:09:51.120 It's the Justice Center for Constitutional Freedoms, by the way, guys.

00:09:53.900 Exactly.

00:09:55.420 We've got another latest from Joe Rogan, our friendly American podcaster.

00:10:00.840 He's talking about the liberal gun grab, and he's got a comedian on there to talk about it with him,

00:10:06.920 so it's very entertaining.

00:10:09.180 And job opening, Corey, you can apply for.

00:10:12.640 The University of British Columbia is looking for a new forestry professor.

00:10:16.380 or forestry professor, anything like that, trees grow, you know, they burn in forest fires,

00:10:23.100 but in order to apply for the job or in order to be considered for the job,

00:10:29.020 you have to be an indigenous disabled woman, preferably of color. 0.99

00:10:37.660 I guess if you're indigenous, you already are, right? Indigenous disabled. 1.00

00:10:42.460 Jeez. 0.82

00:10:42.960 I mean, what if I cut off a finger, identify as Indigenous, and count my tattoos as colour? 0.93

00:10:46.680 The job is yours.

00:10:47.580 Well, you know, it's got to pay a little better than I could afford razors.

00:10:50.220 There you go.

00:10:50.960 Me too.

00:10:52.920 That's insane.

00:10:55.500 You know, it's the last bastion of wokeism.

00:10:59.340 Well, they're getting really specific now, though, right?

00:11:01.400 Like, you know, they've got such a checklist they have to hit.

00:11:04.040 Like, it must be somewhere they've got a chart with a shortage.

00:11:06.520 Lord, look at that. 1.00

00:11:07.760 We're missing an Indigenous disabled woman somewhere. 1.00

00:11:10.520 Exactly.

00:11:10.920 Well, they've got to be out there.

00:11:12.300 Oh, yeah.

00:11:13.680 Just go downtown.

00:11:15.100 Exactly.

00:11:16.460 What they know about forestry, though, I'm not sure.

00:11:19.160 So we're going to be in front of the Human Traits Commission.

00:11:21.060 Yeah, we better move on.

00:11:23.080 So that's it.

00:11:24.020 That's all that's going on.

00:11:25.080 All right.

00:11:25.560 I heard there's a little bit of stuff in Iran going on, too, maybe.

00:11:27.720 Yeah.

00:11:29.160 Yes.

00:11:29.760 Yeah.

00:11:31.080 Ceasefire.

00:11:32.140 Israel is continuing to bomb the hell out of Lebanon.

00:11:35.300 The Straits of Hormuz are closed by Iran, apparently. 1.00

00:11:39.000 so yeah it's a bit of a bit of a schmozzle yeah but at least their civilization lives on after 0.99

00:11:45.880 yes some threatened to make the iranians extinct so yeah it was bizarre bizarre is the word yeah

00:11:56.080 we'll keep watching and reporting as we see it i imagine we will all right well thank you for the

00:12:00.500 update i'll let you go back to morosely looking out the window at the uh unblooming trees snow's

00:12:06.160 coming this afternoon that's coming again and god i hate you at least you've got the comfort of your

00:12:10.740 memories right all right well thanks for the update dave i'll talk to you after the show yeah

00:12:16.660 sure you will ah yes that little ray of sunshine is our news editor dave naylor and uh yeah you

00:12:23.380 know again aside from being a little upset with the weather he's really working on getting those

00:12:28.360 news stories cranked out there in a timely manner and covering these things as they break and they

00:12:32.040 just keep breaking so fast so it's where i like to remind everybody the reason we can do that the

00:12:37.280 reason dave can do it even without being able to buy razors is subscribers so guys check it out

00:12:44.380 westernstandard.news subscription ten dollars a month hundred dollars for a year full access get

00:12:49.720 past that paywall and um you know help support independent media so we can cover these things

00:12:56.840 yeah I don't know where to go with this you know so Marilyn Gladue I mean she's not even as Dave

00:13:05.180 said one of her last things was railing you know the hypocrisy is just going they don't even think

00:13:09.040 twice about just completely flip-flopping on their own word and she wasn't of the red Tory

00:13:14.900 bunch she wasn't somebody who was a little bit liberal and leaning that way you know like Jen 0.70

00:13:19.800 Rue up in Edmonton really was just more of an opportunistic liberal in the first place rather 1.00

00:13:23.660 than a conservative. Gladue was ripping into the liberal government for years. Very conservative

00:13:30.300 and re-elected as a conservative. And she was on about the gun grab, which I guess she's okay

00:13:36.660 about that now. She has been very critical about the liberal censorship on bills and things like

00:13:42.500 that. I guess she's okay with the liberal censorship now. Like it's just sickening.

00:13:50.020 And, and that's why people don't bother going out to vote anymore. It really is. The turnouts go down. And as I said to Dave, then the weasels just really entrenched themselves because nobody's holding them accountable anymore. And, uh, we, we all lose. We all lose. Uh, I mean, I've got no shortage of, of, of cynicism within me. I always had a degree of that, but I always like to feel though, that at least if we got up, we engaged, we participated in the electoral process.

00:14:20.680 Our representatives will, to some degree, fill that role with some principles and stay within there.

00:14:26.420 But as we see, there's been differences with those floor crossings, some who are perhaps a little close in ideology to the federal government than others.

00:14:35.240 We're glad to. Come on, guys.

00:14:36.760 I mean, I got to wonder how some of the Liberal members feel suddenly embracing this new member of their caucus who so recently was ripping them on pretty much every principle she could.

00:14:47.180 All right, well, let's get on to the unelected aspect of our government. And it's still, it's fascinating. And as myself, you know, I'm not much the monarchist type, but I still am. I love our history. And it's something that I love reading about and going into. And even if I want to see it change.

00:15:05.660 So John Fraser, who's a journalist and author who's been around a long time, wrote The Governor's General.

00:15:11.320 And it's a lot of short stories covering them from the 60s all the way up into the current.

00:15:15.980 It's a little more than just your typical history book or something like that.

00:15:20.020 A lot of personal information from whether, well, he managed to use praying to get out of getting the cane for smoking

00:15:26.480 or offering the latest Governor General's husband just some advice on how to be the second person in office there.

00:15:34.580 It was a really, really good read, and I've been looking forward to talking to him.

00:15:37.680 So let's bring in Mr. Fraser and discuss that book.

00:15:42.120 Hello, sir. Thank you very much for joining us today.

00:15:44.880 I'm thrilled. I was enjoying listening to you talk about the very transportable members of parliament that we have these days.

00:15:53.540 Yeah, well, and I guess, I mean, it's an elected role. People will come and go.

00:15:59.560 People come and go in the role of governor general as well.

00:16:03.480 But I guess with our vice regals, I could see in some sense, there's a little more of an honesty to it.

00:16:07.620 You know that it's a role that's an appointed one and often for optics or political reasons rather than functionality.

00:16:14.540 But but it's maybe I could have faith in feeling a little better about some of the people there rather than our elected officials right now.

00:16:20.420 Well, it's sorry.

00:16:22.420 You see your elected officials that more or less decide who's going to be your governor general.

00:16:25.900 I think it's something most Canadians don't quite factor in because we're not that good on civics in this country or civic education.

00:16:34.780 But at the moment, Canadians don't want to have a British monarch as their head of state or don't want governors general.

00:16:41.860 All they have to do is get 10 legislatures to agree.

00:16:44.880 Well, 12 legislatures, actually, with some territorial.

00:16:47.600 And that's the end of it.

00:16:49.200 But you and I both know there's not a hope in heaven of that ever happening.

00:16:52.940 and my view on one level is practical if this is what we've got let's make the best of it because

00:16:59.380 there's many good things that system that we have evolved over the years does well and um one of

00:17:06.840 them is is that it is not a huge issue our our head of state in terms of of um screwing up our

00:17:15.160 minds uh when things go back uh you know i and the the american system which is a really interesting

00:17:22.240 republican system which is lots to admire um produced lincoln and roosevelt and and so on

00:17:30.160 but it is basically a a 18th century system of government my theory is they keep re-electing

00:17:37.280 george iii every four years down there because they talked to the head of state that's modeled

00:17:42.640 on on a hanoverian monarch george iii so and it's very hard to change that constitution

00:17:48.480 Oh, yeah. Neither constitution is as easy to change at this point. And for the most part,

00:17:54.720 our governors general, I mean, are harmless. They've got a large amount of theoretical power,

00:18:00.960 but it's very rarely exercised. They have influence and you do cover that in your book.

00:18:07.360 I mean, they are an important part of the culture.

00:18:09.520 it's true um but their their job is ceremonial and it is to do the the dignified end of of of

00:18:17.680 our constitution and it's it's evolved i there's a grand old dam at the college i used to administer

00:18:24.160 in toronto named ursula franklin she's a holocaust survivor and um uh physicist physicist and she said

00:18:31.440 she liked the crown because she liked the whole spectacle of absolute power completely defanged

00:18:37.200 which is an interesting way of looking at it that is absolutely i i've only had one uh experience

00:18:44.480 with a vice regal and that was at the alberta lieutenant governor uh it was lewis mitchell

00:18:49.200 actually we'd had a time capsule opening in the small town that i'm in and my wife was on the

00:18:53.280 committee and they said well let's reach out and see if she would come out and she did and what

00:18:57.360 astounded me though was actually the amount of rules and advanced work and everything we were

00:19:01.680 told about all that that pomp and many many head of state but you know it's alberta we have to thank

00:19:08.260 for producing the first indigenous person to be a vice regal and that goes back a bit the the

00:19:13.820 provincial vice regals have often been the pace setters for innovation in this position the first 0.99

00:19:19.540 woman the first indigenous person the first black person first chinese person that's all come not

00:19:24.880 from ottawa but from but from the provinces and um it's a way it's if you want to look for positive

00:19:31.220 things about our system it's a way of signaling the changes in our society without having to go

00:19:38.580 through um subject some poor people to all some of the horrible things that happen in in in in

00:19:45.540 elections um yeah well and it's it it made the event that we had actually more special rather

00:19:52.100 than if there was just an elected official as much as at first i was like well look at all these these

00:19:55.940 old trappings of an old system that I find insulting almost as a non-monarchist. But then

00:20:01.120 when you take part in it, well, you realize, well, this made this event something much more

00:20:04.780 and something more special because this was a person of a different sort of stature. And it

00:20:10.020 made, you know, people remember that. So it showed a different service they're providing that people

00:20:13.840 don't think of necessarily. Yeah. And also not wanting the monarchy is a perfectly legitimate

00:20:20.440 stance i mean canadians should should be examining their system of government they that's a proper

00:20:26.980 thing a good citizen does one thing canadians most canadians don't realize but is actually

00:20:32.520 caught up in our system and has to do with this whole business of reconciliation that we've all

00:20:39.200 been gasping our way through one way or another is that is that um that the crown has its own

00:20:47.300 unique history with the indigenous nations of this country. And it's all based on treaties,

00:20:54.540 on legal relations. And it's sometimes a shock for non-indigenous Canadians to realize that

00:21:01.200 for many, many indigenous people, particularly older ones, the reverence for the crown

00:21:05.820 seems almost inexplicable, except that it is rooted in what they consider to have been a fair

00:21:13.540 relationship um before confederation goes right back to the original original um treaty relationships

00:21:21.700 between uh the crown the british crown and and the canadian indigenous communities and that's

00:21:28.500 something that has resurfaced in the wake of all the turmoil we've been putting ourselves through

00:21:34.020 uh in in in reconciliation and it it has the opportunity of of being the crown being a bridge

00:21:43.060 community. It's really interesting, Corey, if you look at some of the history, whenever Queen

00:21:48.620 Elizabeth ever came over here, there was always a meeting with Indigenous leaders. And it was almost

00:21:53.300 as if the two sides, the Crown and the Indigenous leaders, both knew that they were somewhat

00:21:59.320 disdained by the broader Canadian masses, but that they had each other and they could support

00:22:04.400 each other. That was an insight I took from all those meetings. That's a very interesting way to

00:22:10.600 look at it. And I really enjoyed reading your book and how you presented it because it wasn't a dry

00:22:15.800 old history book on this. It was just giving some good accounts and personal things. And what I

00:22:19.760 liked is you brought up actually some of the other people, including the spouses of the governor's

00:22:24.480 general, because people forget them and they're important. But also this gentleman, Esmond Butler

00:22:28.740 came up a number of times. It seems almost like a whole book could be done on this man. Speaking of

00:22:33.720 the power behind the throne, he's being done. Fascinating. It's being done. There's a guy down

00:22:37.900 in Nova Scotia that's doing a peace town. He was a really interesting guy. One of the problems

00:22:41.980 some of the successors of the early sort of more

00:22:45.500 imperial governor generals had was they didn't have

00:22:49.480 a solid bureaucrat there helping to guide them.

00:22:53.780 Every cabinet minister has a senior unelected

00:22:57.980 advisor in the deputy minister, and governor generals are no different.

00:23:01.980 They come and they go, but they need someone that actually knows how

00:23:05.940 things are done in in in the palace in in london they're known as the gray people this is prince 1.00

00:23:11.300 harry's book he talked about the horrible gray people but they're the people that actually make 1.00

00:23:15.220 make a system work they're the people like we sit on we're looking out from a camera but you know 1.00

00:23:20.580 how many people need to make you look good on that camera and all that sort of thing so um those

00:23:26.900 people are important and esmond butler was important and he lived through about three four or

00:23:31.540 five vice regal appointments. And then governor general started to want to have their own person

00:23:37.280 to be their deputy minister. And I think they lost some of the sense of continuity, but

00:23:43.060 they didn't ask my advice, although they're getting it.

00:23:47.560 Yeah, well, I mean, you did note, you know, you were critical when need be. One of the issues

00:23:53.820 with governors general, particularly when you're going to be in such a spot with such prestige is

00:23:57.600 the vanity can really come forth. It seems to be their own biggest enemy for the most part for the

00:24:02.240 ones. If they manage to get into trouble, they've sort of forgotten about how some of their actions

00:24:07.440 might be perceived by the public. I think what happens in the cases that don't work is they've

00:24:12.500 forgotten that they're not there because of them. They may think that it's because of them, and that

00:24:16.940 may be what propelled them to the attention of the prime minister, but in the end, the job is not

00:24:21.700 about them is about the country and and my advice to anybody who's who's considering that they think

00:24:27.980 they would be a good governor general is take a look at the country that you love and has propelled

00:24:32.980 you in this position and what do they need what does it need at the moment what what what are

00:24:36.800 people out west thinking what the what do they want what do people what why is quebec so alienated

00:24:41.740 all sorts of things and then how do you how do you then do things that don't conflict with elected

00:24:47.060 officials but can somehow make people feel good and i i did try and give an example uh a practical

00:24:53.540 example uh when adrian clarkson brought the unknown uh warrior back to a soldier and i did

00:25:00.680 her whole speech because i thought there was someone struggling to try and pull people together

00:25:05.500 through this symbolism of of this sacrifice and to me that's what a governor general should be doing

00:25:11.760 yeah and that speech was excellent i mean from the point of just reminding people somebody might

00:25:16.840 have gotten a telegram about their their loved one and and that's all you knew and and and you

00:25:21.300 never heard of such and we shouldn't forget that sort of thing but i'm wondering then did i mean

00:25:26.260 she she uh presented the speech fantastically and and she's a very skilled media person still is

00:25:32.720 uh but was that written by her or for her in that case oh no believe me it was written by her she's

00:25:38.940 she don't don't even suggest anything well she's quite capable that's why i'm asking i mean

00:25:43.720 if i had i'd know it was written by somebody else any any importance she has speechwriters she had

00:25:48.440 speechwriters all governor generals do all premiers do but she she knows she she had the 1.00

00:25:54.200 reason she was a good governor general um and you know she she has a prickly personality too

00:26:01.720 uh which is known for you there's this comedy routine that you say oh i'm adrian clarkson 0.65

00:26:06.120 you're not was meant to to sort of symbolize that she was perhaps a bit of a snob or whatever but

00:26:11.000 But she was a great governor general because she had a sense of the country.

00:26:15.160 And that speech was an example.

00:26:17.080 But she also, whenever there was something, a big deal, she would write her own speeches, no question.

00:26:22.840 And to me, that was one of her assets, was that she was a good communicator.

00:26:26.440 She knew how to present herself and she understood, perhaps because she was slightly at a remove from a traditional government general because of her race and her gender. 0.95

00:26:41.940 Yeah, well, and then she wasn't lacking for resources in the household.

00:26:46.200 I mean, her husband, John Ralston Saul, is, you know, a persona in his own right, of course.

00:26:51.640 And he seemed as, I guess, being in that role, comfortably embraced being kind of the second person for a little while.

00:27:01.240 I guess confident enough in his own place that it worked out very well, actually.

00:27:07.000 That's it. That's exactly it.

00:27:08.280 In his case, under the new sort of governor general, and under the old system, the more traditional governor generals, 0.66

00:27:14.980 the only one that was really happy was Madame Bagné because she was used to that position.

00:27:19.120 But, you know, I put in the book a story that I once had an interview with Prime Minister Harper, and he said the single biggest headache he had with most of his vice regal appointments was spousal alienation, the Prince Philip job, walking three steps behind, and just not defined.

00:27:36.860 And the only thing I've suggested that I thought any new prime minister or appointment to this office should consider is to make an understanding that the spouse, whether it's male or female, has a more elevated role in this and could do things.

00:27:53.060 And to me, there was a great example by accident when Governor General Leger, who had a stroke in office, and his wife basically had to become the governor general.

00:28:04.520 She read the speeches from the throne and did a terrific job.

00:28:10.680 And most of our relationships, our marriages, if they're working, is marriage of equals.

00:28:17.600 And I think that that office should be a reflection of what is everyday reality in our lives.

00:28:23.040 Yeah, well, and just to kind of cap it off, it went quickly, but I mean, I would suggest people read the whole book so they could get it all.

00:28:29.260 And towards the end, you shared what you'd offered as advice for Mary Simon's husband, in a sense, I guess, just to help with that role and things like that.

00:28:41.380 Is perhaps, you know, it important, I guess, for these people getting into these roles.

00:28:46.000 They don't necessarily know what they're getting into or their spouses might.

00:28:49.000 I haven't a clue.

00:28:50.540 I don't think anyone has a clue when they go into it.

00:28:54.000 um i'm i'm hoping i'm hoping my book scares off the right people and and encourages the right ones

00:29:01.060 well that's it it sounds like a lot of it's the the right place in the right time as you mentioned

00:29:05.900 you might have been in consideration at one point but they felt uh we've had enough journalists for

00:29:09.820 now and uh that's true but there was the other issue i had which was my wife when she heard there

00:29:14.820 was sniffing around me she said if you want to play queen you can do it on your own and we've

00:29:19.500 been married 50 years and i know who the boss is and i also have owe her so much because i was 20

00:29:26.820 years in a kind of similar position at massey college as the master of the college and she gave

00:29:32.980 up she gave up her career in cbc and and uh lots of things so that so that we could do it together

00:29:39.060 and she was great at that so she she she'd earned the right to say okay enough well that's good and

00:29:45.480 you'd written on the importance on how it is a partnership for the governors general and their

00:29:49.300 spouses going in so you knew as well in such a role if you don't have the other half on board

00:29:53.760 you're you're just a recipe for disaster misery all right well thank you very much for writing

00:29:59.580 that and for taking the time with us before i let you go how can people find a copy of this book 0.86

00:30:03.260 should be in leading bookstores ever are there any bookstores left out in the west come on there's a

00:30:07.780 few here and there they're not like they used to be that's for sure i gotta admit i get most of

00:30:11.540 mine online now you want to hear something shocking they told me yesterday i think because

00:30:15.500 It got launched officially, and there was a launch.

00:30:19.180 But they told me it was – this is a book on governors general,

00:30:23.020 and you know what I'm talking about.

00:30:24.800 It was number one of the day nonfiction on Amazon.

00:30:29.680 And it's the timing.

00:30:30.780 I do think we thank President Trump for making us take a look

00:30:35.260 at our own system of government.

00:30:36.420 That's one of the pluses of that presidency.

00:30:38.940 And also, I think also the transition is coming.

00:30:42.200 There's going to be a new one appointed almost any day or announced.

00:30:45.500 Yeah, no, we've seen that announced. Yeah, it's on the way. And we certainly, to see a parallel of our system with the crazy orange man down south helps us maybe examine that as imperfect as ours might be, there's also some issues to be dealt with on the other end of the spectrum.

00:31:01.940 There are. There are. 0.55

00:31:03.520 All right. Well, thank you for talking about this subject, which is very dear to my heart and important.

00:31:11.600 Oh, I could tell in reading the writing of it.

00:31:13.660 And I look forward to being able to speak with you about it.

00:31:15.740 So I thank you again and look forward to perhaps seeing more of your work out there.

00:31:19.900 Thanks, Corey.

00:31:20.720 Take care.

00:31:22.540 So, hey, guys, one more time that it was John Fraser.

00:31:25.420 And if you look it up, yes, on Amazon or in your local bookstores, then The Governor's General.

00:31:30.900 And it's a good read.

00:31:32.160 And it's just the ones from the 60s getting up into contemporary.

00:31:37.280 And as I said, you know, I mean, yeah, there's guys like me.

00:31:40.160 I like reading.

00:31:40.740 some nice thick history tomes and so on but this is broken more into bite-sized pieces governor

00:31:46.860 general by governor general and it's not going into the real nuts and bolts but just more of the

00:31:51.420 personalities and uh characters of them and they have been uh from ones i i guess and he was you

00:31:57.920 know a critical answer and flattering uh on on each of them in different aspects ed schreier

00:32:03.800 sort of one who was just sort of adequate he was there he did okay didn't do bad didn't stand out

00:32:08.900 and uh filled the role and and you get farther as i mentioned julie payette who uh really i think

00:32:16.680 most people would agree just was a terrible terrible selection for the job just was it was 0.90

00:32:20.800 not the person who should have been there and it's not that she was a foolish person that she

00:32:25.100 was very accomplished i mean this is an astronaut literally this is a strong force a determined

00:32:30.620 person but just did absolutely horrifically in that role and some of that i guess is you got

00:32:38.020 a point to the person who selected her for that and that is Justin Trudeau whose vision for the

00:32:43.840 consequences of his actions was never really one of his stronger points to to say the least I've

00:32:48.540 been you know you know how I feel about former Prime Minister Trudeau either way yes I suggest

00:32:54.680 you guys get out grab that book if you like history if you and contemporary history and

00:32:59.000 and the realities of some of the things with the system right now I mean I'm as critical of the

00:33:03.040 system as it gets. I feel that we should work towards something of a more Republican system

00:33:10.980 or of course, right, independence. I mean, and if we look at Michelle Jean, she was independence

00:33:19.620 leading from the Quebec side of things and still managed to sit as a governor general. You know,

00:33:24.200 again, an interesting cast of characters. I don't think I'll ever be sitting in that role,

00:33:27.880 but we've got to learn from what's gone on before us and what's happened in there and

00:33:32.480 and realize that these, these people do hold important roles, even if, if at times it feels

00:33:38.640 they, they, they aren't necessarily doing a good job at it. All right. I'm just trying to keep up

00:33:45.460 with the news with things. I was, you know, speaking of polarity in politics, I mean,

00:33:49.600 I'm pretty conservative, but yeah, Trump boy, you know, when, when I saw that statement,

00:33:54.320 when he was talking about annihilating a civilization and then if people you know

00:34:01.680 look the word genocide has been abused it's been misused it's been applied to everything

00:34:06.480 from kentucky fried chicken outlets to uh you know to what's happening uh or happened in gaza

00:34:14.080 to all over the place and it is questionable but when you actually will stand up and say

00:34:19.120 that you're going to eliminate an entire civilization. And he didn't. And he probably

00:34:27.300 never was planning to. But that is what genocide is, guys. It is. And I'm sorry, but that is

00:34:34.140 grossly irresponsible. I'm tired of the apologists for Trump and the mess he's making on some of

00:34:39.880 this, guys. And they get all upset with me. You know, when I put a tweet, I was just saying,

00:34:44.400 look, no president should speak that way ever. You just don't. You just don't. I don't care

00:34:48.760 about your art of the deal crap. I don't care for some people trying to say, well, he didn't really 0.98

00:34:53.420 mean it. He's just a BS-er and that's the way he negotiates. You don't negotiate by threatening to

00:35:00.800 annihilate an entire civilization. People say, well, he only just meant actually the Iranian

00:35:05.580 government or the IRGC. No, he didn't. He said his whole civilization. You don't take him literally.

00:35:11.460 I have to take him literally because he literally is the man with the access to the nuclear codes. 0.99

00:35:17.900 So when he says stuff like that, even though you know, and I knew when I saw it that, yeah, he's probably just being full of crap again. 0.98

00:35:25.680 But this is serious, serious business. 0.99

00:35:27.940 This is a war.

00:35:29.100 This is missiles flying, people dying, buildings being leveled.

00:35:34.400 And when a man as unserious as that is propagating this,

00:35:39.820 And then people are saying, look, he got the ceasefire today.

00:35:43.140 That lasted only about 20 minutes.

00:35:44.800 It sounds like the latest reports now that Iran has closed the strait again,

00:35:50.460 and they've launched missiles into Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, UAE, and Israel.

00:35:56.600 So I don't know.

00:35:58.660 The hornet's nest has been poked over there.

00:36:01.000 The goal should be to find a ceasefire and some resolution.

00:36:05.600 Some people are, you know, some of the stuff they're saying to me, 0.99

00:36:08.320 oh, Corey, put the tampon back in your butt and stuff like that because I was critical of Trump. 0.99

00:36:13.040 Guys, if your leader can't be criticized, you're in a cult, okay? 0.99

00:36:20.760 I'm not saying Trump hasn't done a single thing that's been good.

00:36:23.740 No, he's done some good things.

00:36:25.580 But seriously, he's doing some really unhinged things lately. 0.98

00:36:29.720 I mean, I am not a supporter of Iran.

00:36:32.780 I've always been a strong supporter of Israel.

00:36:35.180 I still am supportive of the efforts in southern Lebanon 1.00

00:36:39.260 because you've got Hezbollah. 1.00

00:36:40.760 It's been launching missiles from there into Israel

00:36:43.560 for years and years and years.

00:36:45.900 And how long are you going to put up with that?

00:36:47.560 The analogy I use is if you're near Buffalo, New York,

00:36:51.280 and then on the Canadian side for years,

00:36:52.940 they were just launching missiles into Buffalo all the time.

00:36:55.180 How long do you think it'd be before there's going to be retaliation?

00:37:00.120 I see a commenter, Cyril Arnold, said,

00:37:01.940 Israel broke the ceasefire by attacking Lebanon and Iran.

00:37:05.060 And I tell you, well, you see, the ceasefire didn't involve Lebanon. 0.68

00:37:08.400 It was about Iran.

00:37:09.880 So we've got to understand the complexities of this deal.

00:37:12.120 And that was already put up by the White House.

00:37:13.900 Their peace deal had nothing to do with Israel dealing with Hezbollah

00:37:16.780 and southern Lebanon.

00:37:19.720 That wasn't part of the deal. 0.94

00:37:21.120 That's the excuse that Iran's using now to start shooting again. 0.95

00:37:25.520 Though, again, I'm not saying Israel doesn't do anything wrong either. 0.98

00:37:27.980 No, they do. 1.00

00:37:29.440 But how long are you going to put up with it? 0.90

00:37:30.860 I, we, the Middle East has been an issue since, you know, since the Messiah was walking around

00:37:39.320 if he did. Uh, and it will continue to be. And, uh, you know, how do you resolve it? I don't know, 0.99

00:37:49.400 but you need somebody more nuanced than Trump to deal with it. That's one thing I'll definitely

00:37:54.640 say and we can't sit and and claim he's doing a good job when he pulls off things like that and

00:38:02.520 even if the ceasefire had held and maybe it'll come back in look at the terms of it he's calling

00:38:06.700 it a victory but that's trump i mean trump would crap himself and claim it was a victory because

00:38:10.360 he saved a bathroom somewhere i mean they were talking about this ceasefire deal meaning that

00:38:15.720 iran gets to charge a toll for every ship going by there and that they still get to maintain their

00:38:21.680 weapons development programs and basically saying we're turning back the clock and and maybe we'll

00:38:26.280 actually help you rebuild some of that what on earth did you just accomplish i don't know but

00:38:33.600 what i i mean i there's stuff i literally don't know there's stuff i don't know what happened

00:38:38.340 with this behind closed doors or whatever else fine but that response from some of the people

00:38:44.840 and i know social media is not exactly where i'm going to get good nuanced responses to thoughts

00:38:48.340 and questions. But when you, some of them climb all over me because I criticize the orange man.

00:38:54.620 Guys, again, think a little harder. No, no leader is above

00:39:01.640 critique, particularly Trump. And I'd say he's getting worse. He's getting more unstable and

00:39:11.200 he's in a very strong position of power. And I don't, I can't say that his moves have been

00:39:18.700 rational when they haven't been. Let's see what else we got going on in our mess. Speaking of

00:39:24.380 identity and history and things like that, Nigel Hannaford, you know, writes fantastic opinion

00:39:29.660 stuff in here as always. Talking about Canada's ministry, they're rewriting the Citizen's Guide

00:39:34.540 into Woke Utopia. Give that one a read, it's good. This is where we're going. This is the

00:39:38.820 citizenship guide. This is the new Canadians that were supposed to be coming here and this guide 1.00

00:39:42.760 towards citizenship because they put in a whole bunch of revisionist woke crap into it. And that's 0.97

00:39:49.740 what they're getting taught when they come here. And we wonder why we have problems with assimilation,

00:39:57.320 integration, communities getting along over here. This is more of that undercutting of Canada's 0.88

00:40:04.160 identity. This is more of that post-national state that Trudeau talked about that actually

00:40:08.540 has led to the unity crisis we're having today. And it's, you know, things are falling apart,

00:40:15.800 speaking on the unity front. So we've had the court hearings going on with the, just for people

00:40:21.100 not familiar with Alberta, the Sturgeon Lake Band feels that it should not be allowed for Albertans

00:40:27.880 to have a referendum without their permission. That's the bottom line. They feel that people

00:40:31.280 who represent less than 5% of Canada's population should be able to tell the whole 100% what we're

00:40:37.180 allowed to. We're not allowed to have a vote on it. It's before a judge. And it sounds like that

00:40:41.980 it's a gong show. Their legal team, they picked them from Timu or something. They're just bizarre.

00:40:49.960 But it's funny, on social media, I was getting these tweets from people. We're saying, yeah,

00:40:53.980 Corey, you came up in the courtroom yesterday. What? Yeah, I guess because I shot that video

00:41:00.000 on the Sixica Reserve. That's the reserve that got over

00:41:02.060 a billion dollars from Trudeau. And yet the people

00:41:04.140 it looks like backwater

00:41:06.140 Mexico because the chiefs and council

00:41:08.060 did something with $1.2 billion. Who knows?

00:41:10.240 But it certainly didn't build houses.

00:41:11.760 And I shot video of it and got them very upset.

00:41:13.960 And they charged me with trespassing. That's

00:41:16.120 going to go to my own trial, which would make sense that my

00:41:18.060 name's going to come up in later in June.

00:41:20.740 But I guess they were claiming that the

00:41:22.040 whole independence movement's full of racist because of that.

00:41:24.720 They called me racist in the

00:41:26.040 courtroom. You know, as I said, I don't

00:41:28.040 quote Trudeau's often, but Pierre Trudeau said it best at one time saying, I've been called worse

00:41:32.340 by better. I really don't care if a bunch of entitled losers like the Sturgeon Lake Band and 0.93

00:41:37.640 their half-rate lawyers. Were these DEI hires or something? The judge, I guess, has mostly been 0.98

00:41:43.100 dismissing all of their stuff. They were talking about foreign interference and the Russians are

00:41:46.420 behind the independence, but all this crazy stuff in front of the judge and the judge is like,

00:41:49.380 geez, what's going on? Either way, I just like to bring attention to things. So if you want,

00:41:55.660 check out my youtube channel look up cory morgan you can see for yourself some of the reserves i

00:42:00.220 shot a video on let's keep using that stray sound effect if you guys want to keep coming back at me

00:42:04.740 on this that's fine i'll keep exposing what you're doing over there and it's not good guys

00:42:09.700 i can't believe somebody who's managing their own people's lives so horribly and corruptedly

00:42:15.480 is corruptedly a word i don't know as the chiefs though have the nerve to tell anybody else that

00:42:23.080 they can or can't have a referendum on something. I just got to hit a commenter again, you know,

00:42:31.080 Cyril Arnold saying Lebanon did not attack Israel. Bull, spare me. Come on. Hezbollah has been camped

00:42:38.820 and I was just there last fall, Southern Lebanon, and using it as a launch pad to attack Israel for 0.91

00:42:46.140 years. They're entrenched in there. Why are houses getting hit? Because they put the rocket launchers 0.97

00:42:52.160 in people's houses and the government of lebanon has had a long time to clean that up and like i

00:43:00.060 said the other analogy talking about somebody launching stuff into buffalo like the canadian

00:43:03.900 government saying oh well we're not doing it but it's those guys down there down in niagara falls

00:43:07.980 doing it's not our fault you think the states would say oh okay well we'll just let them keep

00:43:12.540 launching rockets at us then no lebanon did attack israel at least hezbollah did attack israel from

00:43:19.600 southern Lebanon. And Lebanon keeps housing Hezbollah. So yeah, this is going to happen.

00:43:26.940 You know what? Something I mentioned a little while ago. Look at the map. Jordan. Kind of got

00:43:30.620 the biggest border with Israel of all. Look at that. Jordan, full of Palestinians, Muslims,

00:43:35.260 Islamic people. And guess what? Israel has never done a thing to them lately. Why? Because Jordan

00:43:41.360 hasn't been attacking them. Look at that. You don't launch rockets into Israel. You don't send

00:43:45.240 terrorists into Israel. You don't rape Israelis and slaughter people at music festivals. And 0.91

00:43:49.300 holy crap, they leave you alone. What a formula. Astounding how that works, isn't it? 1.00

00:43:55.240 It's a mess over there, but I'm not going to make excuses for Lebanon's government. They've

00:43:58.420 been housing that crap. All right, back to the other thing. Just one other thing, 1.00

00:44:01.440 land acknowledgements and fun stuff. Freedom Calendar put that up. It was about half a

00:44:06.200 million views. I spoke at a fundraiser last week and I did my own version of a land acknowledgement,

00:44:10.980 like I said, and it's just gone crazy with that. People are sick of those things.

00:44:15.200 And they're sharing that like heck, so they want to hear something else. Maybe it's time we all,

00:44:18.640 at every possible opportunity, give a realistic land acknowledgement. Let's push back. Stop that

00:44:23.520 indoctrination and crap from being fed in our schools, our sporting events, our radio stations, 0.99

00:44:29.680 you name it. I'll be doing other things. I'll be at Peace River Friday night, speaking with Chris 0.91

00:44:33.440 Scott and some others on independence this week, driving up north. I'll be at La Crete Saturday

00:44:38.140 night, way up there. Come on out if you get the chance though. It'll be a good chat talk and some

00:44:42.840 independence. We're spreading that stuff all over the place and putting a lot of miles on the car

00:44:46.980 these days. We'll see how the court actions go. Tomorrow, I believe Jeff Rath and Eva Chipiak

00:44:52.460 are going to be speaking on the pro-referendum side. It's sad that we have to fight for the

00:44:56.640 right of democracy like that, but we do, and that's the way it goes. Be sure to tune in

00:45:00.900 to the pipeline. Tonight, we'll break down some more issues and things going on, and subscribe

00:45:05.780 to all those Western Standard channels and things and everything else. Thank you guys for the

00:45:09.380 comments. Even the ones disagreeing with me, that's part of it. I do support free speech,

00:45:13.500 even if i'm going to call you weenies for disagreeing with me at times so thank you

00:45:16.880 for tuning in today guys we will see you again next week at this time

00:45:43.500 We'll be right back.

Western Standard - April 11, 2026

CORY MORGAN SHOW： High-speed train wreck coming for Canadian wallets

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