Western Standard - CORY MORGAN SHOW： Indigenous reserves must embrace personal responsibility

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00:00:30.000 good day welcome to the cory morgan show

00:00:59.640 on this mid-november we're getting to still no snow on the ground in calgary not much in saskatchewan

00:01:05.340 i'm thrilled with it i know some people oh boy we gotta worry about the drought and everything else

00:01:09.020 yeah i know we need it eventually but we could put it off i was thinking it should really dump in late

00:01:13.440 january maybe give a foot or two to really soak the ground uh and then clear up in later february for

00:01:19.680 when i'm driving back but uh we take what we get with the weather global warming as far as i'm

00:01:23.760 concerned bring it on i'll start my little morgan banana plantation out in the printis area and just

00:01:28.880 adapt we can't change it so let's adapt by the way we got lots coming up we got uh william barclay

00:01:33.560 he's our new man on the ground in ottawa and i'm really looking forward to that conversation he's

00:01:37.420 already been putting great stuff out in the western standard we've had a bit of a void over there for a

00:01:41.680 little while now we have somebody there to cover that because we're a western paper but unfortunately

00:01:45.680 ottawa impacts us and we got to watch it and cover it um as well news check-ins rants and all that

00:01:52.540 good stuff so i want to talk about a subject that's been big on the news credit given to global for

00:01:57.880 actually breaking this it seems like global they break a few good things but then they just kind of

00:02:01.880 go downhill with other stuff but yeah it's that couch and garbage dump thing and it makes me want

00:02:07.400 to talk more on the broader issue as long as native bands are given unfettered authority on their land

00:02:12.620 but with no responsibility those reserves are going to remain dysfunctional poverty-ridden racial 0.92

00:02:18.320 enclaves of misery the massive unregulated garbage dump on the cowichan tribe reserve

00:02:23.400 next to a river is just the most recent example of this so there's a cowichan member and he

00:02:28.620 accumulated nearly 300 000 cubic meters of garbage on an illegal dumping spot the mess is now leaching

00:02:34.920 into the river putting salmon stock and drinking water at risk let's not pretend the band was unaware

00:02:39.920 this was happening over a period of years let's also not pretend that people from off reserve are

00:02:44.480 sneaking onto that spot dumping in the night those are sort of claims made by some people who

00:02:49.400 refused to attribute responsibility to the native bands and those people who make those excuses are

00:02:54.800 the problem band members and people off the reserve were both complicit nobody dared to intervene

00:03:00.200 though because you don't dare question the authority of the band to deal with things itself

00:03:03.260 and i can lay out how this is going to unfold because we've seen this before despite demands from

00:03:07.960 the provincial government the band won't clean up the site with the environmental damage being so

00:03:12.700 extensive and immediate the government's going to be forced to step in and clean it up for them

00:03:16.360 they'll then offer the bill to the band which will of course ignore try and collect from a first

00:03:20.900 nations reserve i wish you the best in fact some are going to justify this say it's the fault of

00:03:25.600 non-natives because they didn't stop it yeah so we get in trouble when we intervene and we get in 1.00

00:03:29.780 trouble when we don't a similar incident unfolded in the 90s in alberta on the enoch reserve they've been

00:03:34.960 using dugouts for dump sites and the alberta government had to clean it up the couch and tribe 0.99

00:03:39.880 is now calling on the federal government to clean their mess up and yeah so we'll we'll end up paying

00:03:45.000 for it in northern alberta another example near the community of conklin dump was so poorly maintained

00:03:49.880 that a large bear population had moved in and dozens were shot over the years in the early 2000s

00:03:54.660 activists blamed the provincial government rather than the nearby first nation which should have been

00:03:58.840 responsible for that dump look one of the most basic services provided by local governments garbage

00:04:03.380 collection and disposal every small town manages to do it or people like me who live on acreages we

00:04:08.280 take our own trash to the proper municipal dump many reserves however garbage is rarely dealt with

00:04:14.720 property properly whether at the household or government level and it's commonly strewn all over

00:04:19.080 the place that was part of what upset me with the sixica band or upset the band i should say when i

00:04:23.920 shot a video from a public highway on their reserve the garbage was appalling and i exposed it the band

00:04:29.640 could find people who failed to dispose of trash properly just as municipalities do but that would

00:04:34.920 involve taking responsibility and expecting it of their members let's get on the animal control that's

00:04:39.540 also a municipal responsibility on reserves across canada feral dogs are often out of control in fact

00:04:44.800 several children have been mauled to death by them on reserves when feral dogs were coming into calgary

00:04:49.180 from the neighboring satina reserve a few years back calgary's bylaw chief actually implied the feral

00:04:53.640 dog issue was due to city people dumping them on the reserve it was utterly absurd feral dogs are a

00:04:58.740 problem on almost every reserve in canada due to people living on them who refuse to spay and

00:05:03.120 neuter their animals and letting them run loose it's bad enough the bands the bands refuse to enforce

00:05:08.300 basic animal control but for city officials and off-reserve communities to try and claim it isn't

00:05:12.960 the responsibility the reserve is beyond the pale but it fits in with that usual approach of refusing

00:05:17.580 to apply responsibility to reserves and the citizens on them which perpetuates the problem animal rescue

00:05:23.740 societies are swamped with reserve dogs and from northern ones don't think the city people are driving 12

00:05:28.640 hours to go dump their dog somewhere charities are offering free spaying and neutering but they

00:05:33.500 can't keep up and they won't until the reserves start taking responsibility now let's talk drinking

00:05:37.720 water that's also a municipal responsibility thousands of municipalities across canada manage

00:05:42.560 to get clean water to their citizens every day meanwhile we hear news of dozens of reserves under

00:05:47.060 boil water advisories the reserves are well funded to provide water to their citizens but they mismanage

00:05:52.400 the funds and don't properly maintain the system so whose fault is it over 32 billion tax dollars

00:05:58.020 go to the reserves every year the failure to provide basic services isn't due to a lack of funding

00:06:03.080 perhaps if reserves tax citizens to provide services as municipalities do they feel more incentive to

00:06:08.200 actually provide those services activists and indigenous leaders like to pretend that the reserves

00:06:12.960 are little sovereign states within canada but they're anything but they're dependencies that won't

00:06:17.260 even take care of the most basic of local needs the reserve system itself will likely never succeed

00:06:22.440 it's based on racial apartheid and segregation if there's ever going to be hope that reserves 1.00

00:06:27.920 are to become socioeconomically functional though it has to begin by embracing a sense of personal

00:06:32.780 responsibility for their affairs if there's authority without responsibility they're going to fail

00:06:37.660 and i will finish because i know i'm going to get the feedback by saying yes some reserves don't

00:06:41.740 have all these problems they are the exception though rather than the rule and things on most reserves

00:06:47.120 are only going to get worse all right that's how to kick things off today let's check in with other

00:06:51.860 news with the kneeler our newsletter how's it going a banana plantation oh bananas maybe pineapple

00:06:56.800 hmm i'm not sure no no it's not we're not going to get that kind of weather change in our lifetime

00:07:04.840 well i'd like to be an optimist mangoes mangoes yeah that'll be different kiwi yeah of course i could

00:07:10.480 barely grow weeds in my place i'm terrible gardening but i'll try maybe you should just stick with bees

00:07:14.680 well the bees are doing well there you go at least you can make honey right yes so really busy

00:07:19.180 news day today cory already uh the city of calgary has announced they're doing something that's not

00:07:24.260 going to cause any controversy whatsoever they're going to raise the palestinian flag

00:07:29.000 on uh november 30th yeah that should be a nice calm afternoon calm afternoon get the uh get the riot

00:07:37.600 police and the horses on standby um i don't know about you cory i think city hall you can you can fly

00:07:44.080 the city of flag the canadian flag and provincial flag but that's got to be it right it's funny and

00:07:49.240 i was going to get onto that because there is a motion i think coming to the ucp convention floor

00:07:53.940 that people said was an outlier but where the municipalities would be directed you know what

00:07:58.080 just keep your flags at that i i think that would be a nice one just it's not impressing you know just

00:08:02.860 everybody you can't pick and choose there nobody else has one there's no point making controversies

00:08:07.340 when you don't have to no we have plenty enough uh speaking of controversies the details have

00:08:12.040 been leaked about prime minister carney's next big five projects announcement which he's doing

00:08:17.140 tomorrow in prince rupert uh none of them are pipelines though cory so yikes um there is rumblings

00:08:24.980 that there may be a memorandum of understanding uh you know between the province and the feds on

00:08:31.160 building a pipeline uh but we're working to get some details from the premier's office but

00:08:35.680 i would think if there's no pipeline she's not going to be happy a memorandum of understanding 0.94

00:08:40.200 is uh not worth another promise a piece of toilet paper not worth the paper that it's uh uh that

00:08:46.700 it's written on uh we've got a liberal mp slamming his own party's budget uh nathan erskine

00:08:53.700 smith uh uh says it doesn't do what it should be doing so you know the liberals are always talking

00:08:59.160 about this uh dysfunctioning conservative party and they've got people on their own that uh that uh

00:09:04.200 uh don't like what they're doing uh new bombshell scandal today on uh jeffrey epstein and donald trump

00:09:12.240 uh emails released that said donald quote knew all about the girls uh so we'll see uh this is sort of

00:09:19.580 a scandal that just doesn't seem to want to go away with him well trump invited it right i mean yeah you

00:09:25.780 know i don't get he went and used the epstein thing when he was not in power of course and kept

00:09:30.500 twisting and pushing and then suddenly once he's in there oh don't worry guys look somewhere else

00:09:34.200 well sorry donald you gotta wear this too it's a an ugly scene to watch a distraction from the

00:09:41.060 serious politics exactly uh you obviously heard the big plan by the canadian armed forces to enlist

00:09:46.800 300 000 bureaucrats oh yes it's sort of a dad's army type thing uh columnist john thompson has written

00:09:53.840 about that when he wasn't rolling over the floor and laughing i mean how can you go from a cr

00:09:59.960 car call taker in the morning to a warrior in the afternoon we can't even get them to leave their

00:10:06.420 houses for more than two days a week to come into the office no i'm going to stick them on a battlefield

00:10:10.520 i mean i and you know the army has changed i mean the positions aren't there i'm sure there was

00:10:16.980 probably a lot of applications for tail gunners but modern equipment doesn't call for that role any

00:10:21.360 longer yeah and i'm not sure who would be applying for a tail gunner job i'm upset

00:10:25.020 uh that was trouble yeah kenneth green from the fraser institute has a column on

00:10:32.080 david eby who comes across as an environmentalist but uh mr green says he's uh very far from that

00:10:39.840 and former liberal mp dan mcteague who's now doing good work on gas prices uh he's got a column out on

00:10:46.540 the the liberals green spending on evs and all that sort of good stuff is leading canada down a road

00:10:52.700 to ruin so so busy day uh we're our david winnick is just back from a pier polia press conference so

00:10:58.940 we've got him uh him responding to the uh uh pipeline announcement so we'll have that up shortly

00:11:06.600 right on well thanks yeah lots on the go can we show the head of our new reporter oh no he was on a

00:11:13.020 different show i did earlier i did warn him you know if if you got a booger or something he's

00:11:17.060 taken care of you're in the spotlight now so uh but if he wants to outdo dave you know and it'll say

00:11:21.940 well that's uh it should be william vassar who's uh going to be our new uh legislature correspondent

00:11:27.620 in edmonton so branching out all over the place edmonton or one the western standard is spreading

00:11:32.780 like a fungus or a fungus something better i gotta come up with a better analogy yeah i think so

00:11:38.840 all right all right thanks dave i'll let you get back to that plethora of stories to cover and

00:11:42.920 thank you cory after the show you bet right on that is our ever busy news editor dave naylor and

00:11:48.960 yes as you see lots of stories national local international even if we're going to bring up

00:11:54.320 trump and the reason we've got dave back there these new reporters these people spreading not

00:11:59.160 so fungus like but into edmonton and ottawa and all over we're going to have william barkley on

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00:12:46.040 things excited over there right all right either way yes lots going on i want to get back a bit to

00:12:52.220 just the scope of the mess this this story isn't going to go away for a while what's happening

00:12:56.840 with the couch and tribes and the and that garbage dump that's going on over there there's a a twitter

00:13:01.960 uh you know ex-personality i i guess you could say uh britain britanni she she posts by on there if

00:13:08.020 you're not familiar with it uh b-r-a-t-t-a-n-i and she actually works driving you know one of those 1.00

00:13:13.200 massive mining style uh dump trucks you know which moves a lot of dirt and everything she's been kind

00:13:18.760 of crunching the numbers with what we're hearing about that dump and what it would take to clean that

00:13:23.900 up because i threw out some rough numbers because it's not my field of specialty but i just looked you

00:13:29.320 know using google and trying to look at the cost per yard of cleaning contaminated soil or moving

00:13:33.960 it or whatnot and it could work out to 400 000 tons of soil which going on the low end disposing

00:13:42.360 of prop uh of of uh contaminated soil is about 250 dollars a ton you're looking at a hundred million

00:13:49.880 dollars that is a big tab and who's going to cover it we know unfortunately the taxpayers and that

00:13:57.080 could go as high as 600 a ton so it could be you know much more than that and people were wondering

00:14:03.560 how and why this happened this is where we need more investigation too because we've had construction

00:14:08.520 companies that were dumping their dumping is expensive if you do demolition and so on you have

00:14:12.520 to pay to take those materials to a landfill but if there was somebody offering say on the couch and

00:14:18.120 reserve saying you know i'll charge you only half that with cash well they go there those

00:14:23.480 construction companies should be looked into but where we're talking about hundreds of thousands

00:14:28.840 of tons of material even at half price again we're looking at millions and millions of dollars have

00:14:34.520 been changing hands that's why this individual felt compelled to pollute a giant area that he was

00:14:40.040 maintaining on the reserve and that's why because again if you look at the roads you look at the maps

00:14:44.520 if you look on google maps hundreds if not thousands of dump trucks were had to drive right past the

00:14:49.480 couch and band offices on the way to this illegal dump and dump their material let's not pretend

00:14:54.520 they didn't know what was happening so why didn't they do anything again it has to be investigated i

00:15:00.840 won't point fingers i don't feel like getting sued any more than i have to but i suspect some people

00:15:04.600 made some really good money out of that over some years and now we got to pay to clean it up so let's

00:15:09.720 keep that story alive because guys i hate to say it and i've been showing that on the videos i've

00:15:13.960 posted when i've toured reserves the couch and aren't unique with this unfortunately maybe it might be the

00:15:18.520 biggest i sure hope it is but there's issues going on everywhere okay let's get on to my

00:15:22.200 guest i've been looking forward to this we're expanding we've got william barkley out in ottawa

00:15:27.080 out in the heart of the federal politics and he's already been putting up great stories

00:15:31.800 and he's given us coverage from out there out east so let's bring william in and have a conversation

00:15:36.040 hey thanks for joining us today hey mr morgan thank you so much for having me on the show it's a

00:15:40.440 pleasure to meet you and be here with you today yeah great like anything i am the new parliamentary

00:15:45.400 correspondent for you guys that's western standard it's been a lot of fun yeah well i guess your

00:15:50.200 hardest part will just be picking and choosing i mean there's only so much you can cover and there's

00:15:54.280 so much going on over there um finding the most important stuff to to put into a story and and uh

00:15:59.960 share with us oh my god yeah there's just uh kind of a guy so much information so much going on here

00:16:04.680 especially in ottawa and uh the budget dropping and everything um one of the things that i found to be

00:16:09.880 kind of uh funny with everything uh just with regards to our uh mike coming along with you guys

00:16:14.200 is we actually have a very long history together um long before of much longer for uh fox designated

00:16:20.200 me as canada's uh foremost young conservative voice you guys actually published my very first op-ed

00:16:25.080 uh ever for young voices actually my very first interview uh because of that op-ed with you guys so

00:16:30.120 i just uh you know we have a very long history together i think i was i was actually interviewed uh

00:16:33.880 on the western standards anniversary so there's definitely some uh poetic entanglement at play you know

00:16:39.160 oh well awesome well i'm glad it came full circle and we've got you on board uh you know all the

00:16:43.800 time now i'm looking forward to your contributions uh your most recent one i mean we'll start with

00:16:48.440 that kind of your last column was on on military spending and i mean boy there's a lot of money

00:16:52.360 going in there uh trying to counter what's not been a lot of proper resources going into the military

00:16:58.680 for a long time can you kind of expand on that yeah well actually i would say there hasn't been

00:17:02.840 anywhere near enough money going into the military uh so despite the fact that the liberal government

00:17:06.840 has very much enthusiastically designated billions of dollars for left-wing talking points and and

00:17:11.560 wasteful di initiatives like the department for women and gender equity uh wage funny enough uh the

00:17:17.720 2025 budget has failed to actually earnestly invest in the canadian armed forces i mean this isn't really

00:17:22.120 surprising although it is disappointing uh because for over a decade the liberal government is really

00:17:26.440 forsaking the canadian armed forces and permitted canada's national security apparatus to erode and

00:17:30.760 and collapse spectacularly um our our forces suffer from a chronic lack of personnel and

00:17:35.160 adequate inadequate training i think we actually have to rely on an army of public service right

00:17:39.160 now service right now actually to add to boost our ranks by 300 000 i think it is um our military is

00:17:44.520 always uh severely under equipped and routinely forced to deploy decrepit military technology and

00:17:49.000 equipment i think it's 50 percent of our military equipment is actually unavailable and unserviceable and

00:17:53.800 only 58 of the military would actually be able to respond at all if uh nato uh called on this for any help at

00:18:00.040 all i think actually the sum total of our military projection ambition now consists of only three

00:18:05.000 frigates two fighter jet squadrons and one mechanized brigade i think this is probably worst of all

00:18:09.800 um under the auspices of liberal government uh the canadian armed forces is very much being forced to

00:18:14.280 very much abandon canada's proud military history and marshall's sentiment um i think the canadian

00:18:19.400 nation as a whole very much has been forced to divorce itself from the reality that uh long before

00:18:24.120 the canadian state was a peacekeeper and a steward for other nations canada was a peacemaker and renowned as

00:18:29.800 one of the international community's most spectacular merchants of violence uh and loving severity um i

00:18:35.720 think the problem for all of us though is that uh despite the liberal government's attempts to to

00:18:39.880 shirking his military history uh national power and sovereignty have become a prerequisite for for

00:18:44.760 every state post trump and i think all of us in canada i kind of have to confront the fact that this

00:18:50.360 disturbing lack of military funding uh kind of forces this looming specter of a 51st state to become

00:18:56.360 altogether too real so i mean part of this too is mark carney seems to be most concerned with his

00:19:03.640 reputation in europe he's been very europe cent eurocentric with a lot of his actions and just the way

00:19:08.520 he is one of his bigger embarrassments i think though getting raked over the coals was canada has been

00:19:13.400 terribly short when it comes to fulfilling nato commitments i mean whether people agree or not

00:19:17.320 we've committed to a certain amount is this civil service idea just more of a number juggling way to

00:19:23.400 say look we've expanded our capability and it's also a way maybe to keep some civil servants subsidized

00:19:29.240 and happy because it's not i can't see how this could turn into anything functional militarily whether

00:19:34.840 a peacemaker peacekeeper or heaven forbid an actual wartime action oh absolutely i agree with you 100

00:19:40.840 i think it was our previous minister of national defense and our military is in a death spiral

00:19:44.440 and i don't think the 300 000 public servants however many are going to fix that that spiral

00:19:48.680 anytime soon what we need is is submarines aircraft carriers we need proper training i think we only

00:19:54.840 have one submarine i think it was built in the 1980s to to police our whole coast and and that's just

00:20:00.200 simply unacceptable um especially to try to back it up with public servants and i think even with

00:20:04.440 regards to the the funding uh that's supposed to go towards the military in the budget uh it's

00:20:08.440 remained kind of vague they haven't even really told us how much is supposed to be going there year

00:20:11.720 by year they just kind of said we're going to give this much money to you guys eventually at some

00:20:15.000 point um and that's simply not okay especially for a country like canada that like i said used to be

00:20:20.280 at the vanguard of military uh let's say prominence on the international stage so something that's on

00:20:27.080 your table now with your role over there we've got the budget deliberations going on it's a massive

00:20:31.880 budget a massive deficit budget uh the question people are throwing out i don't personally i don't

00:20:39.160 think it's going to happen but we're watching the intrigue the political play and so on

00:20:42.920 do you think this budget is going to pass um i i think that it'll ultimately lead to an election i

00:20:50.920 i think that's what everybody's gearing up for i think that is in a way what the majority of the

00:20:54.600 parties and political actors want um but i i think that it will ultimately lead to an election um i i

00:21:00.440 think too uh maybe the other thing that the budget has done is it's act as a catalyst for a curious

00:21:05.400 fracturing of not just the conservative party but the liberal party as well um what we've seen actually

00:21:10.040 is mark carney is quietly being being forced to kind of uh back off on getting rid of the ev mandate

00:21:15.000 that actually i think is going to be sticking around in order to placate people within his own

00:21:18.360 party like uh like yobo and and uh we've actually seen uh liberal mps i think it was uh erskine

00:21:24.120 uh criticize the budget uh emphatically uh simply because it failed to deliver and it's placed debt

00:21:29.320 uh incredible debt upon upon the shoulders of canada's youth and so i think that more than anything

00:21:33.720 what we're seeing with the budget is is not just it'll it'll result in an election but it is it has

00:21:37.800 resulted in very much a fracturing of not just the conservative party but but all parties i would

00:21:42.440 i would wager so i mean yeah the interesting thing with erskine you know the one uh liberal

00:21:47.880 voice kind of jumping out of the crowd which is exceptional because they tend to keep a pretty

00:21:51.080 tight ship uh though he's coming at it from the left he's not saying that they're spending too much

00:21:56.920 or spending irresponsibly he's concerned about you know them cutting in areas like that's uh failing

00:22:02.520 tree planting program or or some green initiatives but that kind of comes towards some of the stuff

00:22:07.080 that you sent in your abstract uh the liberal government has spent a long time oppressing

00:22:12.200 the right-wing conservative values and for carney to try and pivot now to try and eat some of that

00:22:18.680 voter base up or or try to pretend that he can build the economy this is the pushback he's kind of getting

00:22:25.400 into the soup of his of the liberal party's own making at this point yeah absolutely i i think you're

00:22:31.000 bang on i think that what we've seen is for over a decade all right-wing ideology and politics

00:22:35.160 have become oppressed in canada and and what we've seen is that left-wing pundits and political actors

00:22:40.040 are complicit in this um they very much deployed the term populism and populist's catch-all term for

00:22:44.680 all right-wing ideology and every conservative and so they've erected almost this ecosystem right where

00:22:50.600 in every right-wing ideology is not really a competing ethos not the values are not merely a different

00:22:55.240 perspective but rather rather they're inherently evil and undemocratic and therefore an enemy that has to

00:23:00.680 be eradicated and destroyed along with its adherents and so what we've seen in canada is political

00:23:05.080 discourse has collapsed and open persecution has become a macabre reality almost for daily for the

00:23:10.600 daily life in the daily life of every conservative in canada in fact politically motivated violence

00:23:15.720 even now threatens to replace all dialogue and implode the canadian state um i think most people in canada

00:23:20.920 now feel as though they inhabit something that's more akin to kind of this hebizian state of nature than any

00:23:26.600 proper nation so getting to that one of the things you're going to be able to give us a better

00:23:32.920 perspective of being in ottawa a lot of what goes on too we've got a conservative liberal split

00:23:40.920 regionally across this country that divide is pretty pretty harsh and it's difficult for conservative

00:23:46.040 parties to win inroads in central canada uh but i mean some of that interplay that's going on in

00:23:52.360 ottawa is there much concern about the regionalism the fracturing the things that are going on or are

00:23:58.040 they still more focused on centralized power well i think unfortunately ottawa is kind of a beast unto

00:24:03.800 itself i think they're focused on their own agenda um what i would say though is that the

00:24:08.040 democracy index one of the foremost indicators of again democracy in the world has actually

00:24:12.200 confirmed that tensions between the liberal federal government the conservative led provinces

00:24:16.280 are now one of the biggest risks in canada political to political stability in canada

00:24:20.440 and this is specifically because the liberal government has flagrantly abused and manipulated

00:24:24.600 canada's fundamental democratic processes in order to ignore the values of conservative canadians and

00:24:30.040 exclude right-wing needs um from canada's national trajectory so there's a lot of speculation then

00:24:37.480 going on i mean i i kind of to be honest and it's good we get those different views i got a feeling

00:24:41.800 they're going to squeak through with this budget i mean the conservatives uh would love to to win a

00:24:47.320 government but they don't really seem well placed to do it at this point i i i my prediction though i

00:24:52.040 could be wrong i certainly have been before is that a handful of conservatives will get the flu on key

00:24:57.080 votes and those things will manage to slide by but if it doesn't happen is if as you think we head into

00:25:03.720 an election what do you think i mean then it would probably be liberal government manufactured i mean

00:25:09.080 they'd be the ones who would want it the most they're kind of sitting pretty good right now if they

00:25:12.520 can look like they were uh pushed off of a a good agenda in order and forced into an election that's

00:25:17.640 how they would play it what do you think their strengths would be or or campaign platform going

00:25:22.280 into an election less than a year after the last one well so i i think that one of the things that we

00:25:28.120 need to stay away from is this narrative uh that conservatism is somehow in in decline in canada

00:25:33.880 um i think that the median liberal politicians have essentially constructed this narrative especially

00:25:38.040 post-election and now certain conservative politicians are becoming beholden to it and

00:25:42.440 kind of bullied into fulfilling its prophecies you know i think we've seen generu retire recently and

00:25:47.640 everything with chris d'antremont um but i think that this is all part of a greater attempted narrative

00:25:52.280 push we've seen over the past few years uh this attempt to kind of convince everyone that right-wing

00:25:56.520 values conservatism religion are all dying out and it's simply not true especially amongst canada's

00:26:01.720 youth and which is for all intents and purposes canada's future and that's kind of where i look

00:26:05.800 uh for for the election i think that data indicates that if the last election were to

00:26:10.440 have been decided by canada's youth actually we would have been blessed with the conservative

00:26:13.720 government um and countless studies demonstrate that conservative values are firmly on the uptick

00:26:18.360 among canada's youth within this era of of rampant uncertainty they crave they aspire towards

00:26:23.160 structure and objective value and that is the hallmark of conservatism i think more than anything

00:26:28.680 we need to as the right need to be careful not to inadvertently fall into this trap of reiterating

00:26:34.520 that narrative that conservatism is in decline because it's simply not true but we do risk

00:26:39.480 speaking it into existence i think that's precisely what's happening kind of right in front of our eyes

00:26:43.640 even uh with this so to speak fracturing of the conservative party with this narrative that the

00:26:48.520 conservatives have no hope in the next election uh with this belief that that regardless of what

00:26:53.000 happened we're looking at a liberal government um i i think we need to in a way like like i was saying

00:26:57.960 abandon and avoid speaking that into existence yes no i mean defeatism of course is going to be a

00:27:04.280 self-perpetuating uh uh ideology if you take that on uh the budget's kind of overwhelming everything

00:27:10.680 right now as as it should i guess i mean it's it's a massive thing but we are in the middle of a

00:27:14.600 parliamentary session are there some other bills or or committee actions these are the sort of things

00:27:19.320 you're going to be you know trying to keep your eyes open through but but they slide under the radar

00:27:23.000 sometimes during budget time is is there other stuff going on we should be watching oh what i'd

00:27:27.640 be looking at right now actually is the major projects i think what we've seen is that although

00:27:31.480 carney's i spent a little bit of time kind of pantomiming that he's on it that danielle smith

00:27:35.400 is on the other line and that there will be a pipeline eventually um he he's i guess he's

00:27:40.040 announcing them officially on thursday but uh the the latest batch of on his living list of major

00:27:45.720 projects is kind of leaked and there are no new oil pipelines on this list right um and and i think

00:27:51.480 that that's really one of the the things that i'd look at right now is this major projects office

00:27:56.200 um it's supposed to be a living list it's supposed to be something that's perpetually updated and

00:27:59.800 dynamic and so i would wager that um anything that's going to be kind of slipped under the table

00:28:06.680 uh maybe not slipped under the table but i i think that this this major projects office is is really

00:28:12.440 going to be uh the locus of a lot of controversy for the liberal government going forward especially with

00:28:18.120 how much carne is being over promising and under delivering especially vis-a-vis oil oil pipelines

00:28:24.200 yeah well it's funny i was doing an interview with uh well i'll say all right with rebel uh

00:28:28.280 this morning and something that was laid out that they've dug into which is interesting that major

00:28:32.200 projects office they put supposedly in calgary for the sake of optics it turns out that six months

00:28:37.640 later whatever it's been since they announced it they still don't even actually have an office yet

00:28:41.160 they've only got one employee and one person in charge of it but they've got a budget of something

00:28:45.800 like 20 million dollars so what on earth are they doing i mean this is just sounds like okay we've

00:28:50.760 created this shell of an office but in reality everything's going to come through the privy council

00:28:55.720 yeah absolutely i think and again i that seems to be one of these hallmarks of the carny government

00:29:00.760 again like uh all these these potemkin villages that appear to be something and then they're really

00:29:06.520 just almost vapor uh and i i think that he again is in a lot of ways worse than justin trudeau in a

00:29:12.520 lot of ways i think he's worse in terms of globalism i think he's worse in terms of canada's

00:29:16.600 future and i think he's definitely worse in terms of being kind of the quintessential liberal uh wearing

00:29:21.160 the these rose-tinted glasses as champagne socialists promising everything to canadian

00:29:25.720 people and really delivering nothing uh to them really every dollar and cent going into his own coffers

00:29:32.040 well yes a lot of things seem to roads lead to brookfield and i understand he's he's distanced

00:29:37.640 himself from the management of that but i you know that's a a difficult area though when you are

00:29:43.000 to be fair a little bit to to prime minister kearney when you've had a lot of financial interests

00:29:47.880 you recuse yourself from those when you go into government and because his are so large and so

00:29:52.760 extensive with large operations i mean even he may not be at fault with some of them that fall into

00:29:58.760 government contracts or conflict but he's always going to be accused there's always going to be that

00:30:03.000 taint if we see anything tied into brookfield coming through the federal government it's a mire

00:30:07.960 he's going to have to deal with for his entire term absolutely i think that that the way that

00:30:12.680 he has sought to deal with it though is it speaks volumes he hasn't endeavored to be open and transparent

00:30:18.200 although he has used those words instead he's tried to conceal things and and i think that he is

00:30:22.840 very much like a walking conflict of interest is really the the phrase that that's bandied about

00:30:27.240 um i i i think that he's engaged in in uh an excess of lies uh since his term began i think beginning

00:30:35.320 with things like uh uh pretending to call off the tariffs and these kinds of things with donald trump

00:30:42.360 and things that just simply didn't happen yeah well there's a lot to watch and a lot going on it i

00:30:49.800 mean uh it seems like it's cool this is the same stuff different face in a sense i'll not use the full

00:30:55.240 analogy that tends to be a little more fecal uh so before i let you go i really appreciate you

00:31:01.000 coming on i guess you're going to pop on the pipeline with us a little later too uh what else

00:31:05.800 are you working on right now and and where can people find your work not just with the western

00:31:09.400 standard but outside of it yeah so uh on the 16th and 17th actually what's next up for me is i'll be

00:31:15.320 at the toronto democracy forum at the university of toronto presenting my essay uh canada's right-wing

00:31:21.240 response to a decade of liberal oppression um and you if you guys want you guys can find my work over

00:31:25.960 on twitter at at will barclay pcbg and that's where you find all my articles uh for western standard

00:31:31.880 elsewhere all my media appearances and we should have a home page and a website up properly thank

00:31:37.160 you guys so much all right excellent great to meet you and looking forward to watching you covering

00:31:42.200 auto on our behalf because i don't want to go over there and look at all that stuff

00:31:45.720 so uh thank you again i'm sure we'll be talking again soon sounds great thank you so much for

00:31:50.520 having me great thanks so one more time guys yeah that's william barkley and yeah you're going to be

00:31:55.640 seeing a lot out of him i mean as you can hear there he's got his finger on the pulse of all those

00:31:59.560 things that are going on over there uh you know ottawa is i mean one of the things he mentioned is true

00:32:04.920 there's a different attitude there it's it's a they're introverted you know they don't necessarily

00:32:10.600 think outside of there that's one of the things i talk about regionalism people get upset with

00:32:13.720 ottawa or toronto uh saying they don't look like westerners actually guys it's a lot worse than that

00:32:18.600 they rarely actually even think of us we don't register on their scale of paying attention and uh

00:32:25.320 that's i think more hurtful in some ways than uh you know them actually doing things uh detrimental to

00:32:31.320 us it's an indifference and that was i remember answering a question about that before with somebody

00:32:38.520 who's saying well should we send more people as mps the way i see is we're sending more good people

00:32:42.840 to ruin them in ottawa the term used to be dome disease or auto washed you look at members of

00:32:48.520 parliament when they spend too much time in that world and how they come back there's truth to it

00:32:54.120 that's part of uh with with jason kenny as i said i really respected his work in the 90s taxpayers

00:33:01.560 federation and then as a member of parliament with the reform party he was a bulldog he was repeatedly

00:33:07.800 uh awarded kind of like the hardest worker in parliament and after all that time he came back

00:33:13.400 he came provincial and you know what he'd lost touch with the province and the people that he began with

00:33:20.040 he'd been in ottawa too long smart man dedicated man but he'd really kind of forgotten why he began

00:33:27.160 or what the connection was out here anyways and that's why he couldn't maintain that he did good

00:33:32.120 work in getting the parties together becoming premier but really didn't get a grasp

00:33:37.800 on what the citizens and the conservative citizens wanted out here and it ultimately it cost him his job

00:33:43.880 uh yeah we got all sorts of stuff going on and and as as william pointed out this this has been coming

00:33:50.040 up dave mentioned that memorandum of understanding i i'm wondering when premier smith is is gonna

00:33:58.760 take the claws out she's been polite she's kept talking about optimism i think a lot of its politics

00:34:05.000 because she's no fool by any measure and nothing's happening i mean she made nine demands you know

00:34:12.200 getting up to six months ago this is what we want to see from the government or else but she never 0.83

00:34:16.760 filled in after that or else and that deadline is creeping up really fast now she the deadline of

00:34:23.080 nice optics was gray cup day well that's coming up this weekend the deadline is here where's the or else

00:34:31.240 don't wave a memorandum of understanding and say look we got something by gray cup day that's crap 0.56

00:34:38.360 that's an iou that's it's it's not worth the paper it'll be written on it's pointless so let's see

00:34:45.320 something because yes we were talking the bigger announcement and it's been leaked so we know

00:34:50.280 there's no oil going and the reason there's no oil and that's the juggling act and that's the

00:34:55.880 disingenuous crap coming out of carny is of course they keep playing that saying there's no private

00:35:01.800 interest wants to invest of course there isn't who in their right mind would invest in developing oil

00:35:08.200 in alberta and trying to get it to the coast when we have a tanker ban it's impossible to export it

00:35:13.560 why would you invest in that or when we have bill c69 the anti-pipeline bill those have to go first

00:35:21.240 those have to be stricken before a private company is going to say you know what i'll consider

00:35:28.120 starting the process to get a pipeline out of alberta to a coast because they've had the rug pulled

00:35:34.360 on them too many times already they know better and hey i know it's not just canada they built the

00:35:38.920 keystone right to the alberta border and then biden yanked it out on them we had energy east which

00:35:45.320 again they say oh well the private interest to pull out because it wasn't financial financially

00:35:50.280 feasible that's true but the reason it wasn't feasible was because the bloody government threw

00:35:55.560 so many regulations on it they drew ground it into the dust i mean i think it was tc energy but they

00:36:01.640 lost a a billion on that thing just trying to get it done and it never got off the ground trans 1.00

00:36:09.320 mountain again the liberals like to rephrase it or west you know eastern uh apologists say look what

00:36:14.680 we gave the west we gave them the trans mountain i'll kiss my butt we never asked you guys to build 0.99

00:36:19.720 the trans mountain we just wanted you to get out of the bloody way that was an example of trudeau 1.00

00:36:25.560 overplaying his hand because he shut down the northern gateway which would have been built by now

00:36:29.640 he shut down energy east and then kinder morgan mired in all these regulations spending billions

00:36:37.160 losing all that money finally they said you know what we're out we can't do this expansion we're

00:36:41.800 done we're pulling out and they realized holy cow we've overdone it because financially i'm sure

00:36:47.000 trudeau didn't figure it out but somebody smarter than him in his office said we've got to do something

00:36:50.520 about this kinder morgan wasn't coming back so they spent 30 some billion tax dollars to build that

00:36:57.560 when it could have been built years prior without a single tax dollar and privately at a cost of i

00:37:03.400 think the initial one was four and a half billion maybe seven it moved up to so we are not getting

00:37:11.000 this pipeline so then the ball is in daniel smith's court because that's what it is it's back and forth

00:37:17.400 right it's the things she's been generous enough to say it's in the federal government's court for this

00:37:22.520 long well nothing's happened and that was great with with sheila and at least when i was on that

00:37:27.160 interview when they broke it out and showed it with checking those numbers out from the privy council

00:37:31.640 how serious are they about this supposed big office all that fanfare and opening it in calgary calgary

00:37:38.040 downtown still has a vacancy rate of nearly 30 percent it's not like they're having a hard time finding

00:37:43.480 room down here because they drove out all the oil companies we got lots of office space guys

00:37:48.360 you haven't even opened an office you haven't even hired multiple staff this is supposed to be

00:37:54.440 something that's managing the projects that are going to move billions perhaps over time supposedly

00:38:00.600 if you believe the hoopla trillions of dollars in canadian products all over the world for decades

00:38:07.560 they got one person assigned to it who has one assistant who presumably is working from home

00:38:12.760 because they haven't even leased an office eight six a commenter saying uh where do we go from here

00:38:20.920 all roads lead to independence yes that's where i see it i i've talked about that i don't think

00:38:25.320 premier smith should come out and say we need to move towards independence but that's where i'm saying

00:38:29.560 she should pull the trigger and say okay you know what the referendum's on june 20 or something i don't

00:38:34.440 know set a date let's run it let's have the question let's have it out uh commenter my two cents

00:38:41.000 581 says there's an option alberta can ship oil north to alaska and move it out that way yes but

00:38:46.600 it would cost a fortune plus we just can't get it up there even without a whole bunch of federal

00:38:54.520 getting out of the bloody way plus there's the same hazard with that that you get it built to the

00:39:00.680 edge and then suddenly a democrat comes in and shuts down as they did with the keystone we need to

00:39:06.040 get to a coast absolutely but we need to get it moving domestically this is where this is the only

00:39:11.320 chance this is it this is what a federation is supposed to be for this is why it isn't a unitary

00:39:18.360 government supposedly in canada it's supposed to be 10 provinces yet bound by an agreement by a

00:39:24.280 constitution saying we're going to work in each other's interests together because it makes it

00:39:29.080 stronger as a federation part of that is is a province is not supposed to be allowed

00:39:35.880 to stop interprovincial infrastructure highways railways pipelines that's government federal

00:39:42.920 government authority that's where a proper federal government should be stepping in telling david eby

00:39:49.240 too damn bad it's not your authority it's an interprovincial pipeline it's gonna go we don't 0.86

00:39:54.760 need memorandums of understanding we don't need committees look we are sitting on one of the

00:39:59.640 largest oil deposits on earth the world wants it they want it badly demand for oil and the products

00:40:07.400 associated with it has only risen despite the peak oil cook balls oh we're gonna run out of oil or

00:40:12.520 people won't want it anymore they've been telling us that since the 70s i was in diapers when they were

00:40:17.160 talking about peak oil look at me now i'm gray i'm late middle-aged peak it'll peak one day but it

00:40:23.400 hasn't yet and if it's gonna peak that means we should be digging it out and selling it as much as

00:40:27.080 possible before it does it means we got to get pipelines to the coast canadian coast how do we do

00:40:35.320 that again the companies know that they know there's demand they know that they can move that product but

00:40:42.520 they need to know they can get it done they need the tanker band gone and they need c69 gone

00:40:48.840 carney knows that too he won't get rid of it well yeah the independence option then let's get on with

00:40:54.920 it let's talk about it let's have that vote now what else we got going on out there yeah that

00:41:01.160 dave talking about that you know flags it at city halls you know let's just stop it let's just stop it

00:41:07.800 no flags you know that that's a motion put forward uh going to the uh i think it was bonita i'm not sure

00:41:16.120 but it's coming up from one of the constituencies going to the ucp convention i think it's a very

00:41:20.200 reasonable one let's just stop all this crap why should any municipality be worrying about flying

00:41:24.280 the international flags or flags of lobby groups or anything whatsoever just stop it just stop it the

00:41:29.480 symbolism just divides people infuriates people brings i mean a lot of people talk about when you

00:41:35.080 talk about the middle eastern thing going on it brings that conflict to our streets people saying i don't

00:41:40.760 want to hear about either side of it okay well why are we inviting flashpoints by civic governments

00:41:45.960 taking sides and getting involved in it make it simple national flag provincial flag and a city flag

00:41:54.760 or municipal flag if they have one of that sort and that's it nothing else for anybody else get over it

00:41:59.480 it's not an infringement of free expression you can fly your flag wherever you want and whatever you want

00:42:04.680 to do just not on the property of a civic building because let's cut it out it's not making things

00:42:10.840 better you know i've been talking since i got back from israel and some of those things there's a lot

00:42:15.720 going on we need some rational debate on it some of the stuff going on in the west bank right now

00:42:21.320 and there's truth to that settlers in the west bank it's a complicated mess of an area

00:42:26.920 it's managed somewhat by the palestinian authority managed somewhat by israel managed somewhat by third

00:42:32.680 parties and they're all somewhat living in that mess you know in gaza was just a walled off city

00:42:38.920 full of a you know a terrorist farm and we saw the worst possible outcome but there are some extreme 0.54

00:42:43.480 settlers jewish ones israeli ones that are attacking other settlements in the west bank and it happened

00:42:52.840 again there was a big one yesterday it's got to stop this is not helping this is not this is giving

00:42:59.240 ammunition to the anti-israel bunch apparently the israel responded quickly and uh did crack down

00:43:05.640 and intervene on those settlers attack in the neighboring uh uh settlements out there in the

00:43:09.560 west bank but they've been known to kind of get some selective blindness when those attacks were

00:43:14.280 happening before let's have those talks if we do want to see peace we would do i see things resolved

00:43:19.960 we got to start talking about how we deal with that then maybe backing off some of those settlements

00:43:23.400 in the west bank but you know building bigger walls around gaza i don't a lot more talk

00:43:28.360 but when we're doing stuff out here like raising flags back and forth and screaming at each other

00:43:33.480 and inviting the lunatics to uh spout out all our garbage and baloney about uh colonialism and all

00:43:39.480 that crap then nothing productive is happening here or over there so yeah everything starts at home

00:43:44.520 a little bit on our end as well whether we want to talk about those issues over there or not

00:43:50.040 it's uh they are going to impact us a bit that's one of the things with canada being

00:43:54.760 a country that has people that came from all over the world that that landed here they do

00:43:58.520 unfortunately bring some of their baggage with them and they maintain some of that they maintain

00:44:02.520 feelings and ties to wherever they came from whether it's ireland whether it's pakistan

00:44:06.600 whether it's china these things have to be addressed i think in ways if we do it right it can make us

00:44:12.040 stronger as a country but if we allow those divisions and wars and fights from over there to come over here

00:44:17.320 and we start fighting each other on the canadian streets well we're not solving much of anything

00:44:22.280 over there or here but at the beginning stop raising bloody flags and city halls that don't

00:44:27.480 belong why the hell should the palestinian flag go up in calgary at the city hall or toronto at the

00:44:32.920 city hall it's just a flash point and there's going to be problems that we invited that we didn't need

00:44:39.880 speaking of stupid problems i'll leave off with yet another one because we aren't hearing about justice

00:44:43.720 reform from the liberal government they keep talking about but they aren't doing it another gladi

00:44:47.080 decision the gladi decision is a court thing where judges are instructed to basically give a lighter

00:44:53.720 sentence to indigenous offenders because well life's just been rough to them and it doesn't 1.00

00:44:58.280 make them any less dangerous it doesn't help them get reformed it just means they get out faster

00:45:02.280 to reoffend and hurt somebody else it doesn't work i don't care about well-meaning policies i

00:45:06.840 care about outcomes and the gladi decisions are hurting people this guy was a dangerous offender

00:45:11.640 who had a flame for a thrower in his trunk yeah he was already a convicted drug dealer very dangerous

00:45:17.400 man the judge said we're gonna let you out without doing any more time because yeah we know you're

00:45:22.760 dangerous we know you'll probably kill somebody eventually but you've suffered from intergenerational

00:45:27.480 trauma yeah there's gonna be trauma when he kills somebody we will you don't carry a flame

00:45:34.520 for around without being a problematic person i don't care about the intergenerational trauma

00:45:39.320 the intergenerational crap has got to stop too that's the excuse to keep this milking of wrongdoings 0.85

00:45:46.760 that happened a hundred years ago and claim that that's your excuse for failing in life today

00:45:52.200 too damn bad and you want trauma you want people who are poorly treated who didn't fall into that 0.56

00:45:57.960 check out the chinatown of any city in canada the chinese were so abused a hundred and some years ago

00:46:02.600 in canada treated as second-class citizens deported all sorts of crap and guess what they're

00:46:08.200 some of the most successful communities in this whole country today because they didn't mire

00:46:11.640 themselves in victimhood they just worked harder and made themselves better and good on them they

00:46:15.240 deserve every dime they've earned all right that's enough ranting out of me to make be sure to tune in

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Western Standard - November 14, 2025

CORY MORGAN SHOW： Indigenous reserves must embrace personal responsibility

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