Western Standard - CORY MORGAN SHOW： Jason Arday was the tragic victim of his own BS

00:00:00.000 Good day.

00:00:27.820 welcome to the cory morgan show still in summer hanging in there it's nice gotta maintain my tan

00:00:35.100 for a little longer lots going on out there despite the summer lots of news it's gonna be a

00:00:39.500 good show i've got preston manning coming on in a little while that'll be a interesting discussion

00:00:44.300 he's got another assembly scheduled say another he held a big one back in 1987 which founded the

00:00:49.980 reform party a bit of a gap between these assemblies but interesting nonetheless uh both

00:00:55.580 kind of came on the tail end of trudeau's and uh both were well western alienation was at its

00:01:02.140 height so let's see what he's trying to accomplish this time around good to see some of you guys in

00:01:06.780 the comments scroll already yes uh you know it is interactive get those comments questions up there

00:01:11.740 i do see them all don't necessarily read them all out because it's a busy show and have discussions

00:01:16.700 with each other just you know follow that rule try to remain somewhat civil with with each other

00:01:20.860 save the vitriol for x that's where it belongs and it can be fun on there all right well i'm

00:01:25.180 I'm going to get ranting about the attack on the media in the UK. You know, I mean, the media earns

00:01:30.160 a lot of attacks at times, but this is getting crazy. So let's talk about, if you aren't familiar

00:01:34.000 with it, the death of Jason Arday. And it was a tragic end to a bizarre tale. The story hasn't,

00:01:39.020 story hasn't ended though, as extreme leftists and race hustlers are scrambling to canonize a man

00:01:44.340 through rewriting the history of him and blaming media for driving him to suicide. If they truly

00:01:49.280 respected Arday, they'd let him rest in peace and be lobbying for stronger mental health supports.

00:01:55.100 Arday was no martyr or victim. 0.72

00:01:56.980 He was a pathological liar whose rise to prominence was facilitated by an ideological obsession 0.74

00:02:01.680 with DEI in educational institutions, which ultimately put him into an untenable position, 0.98

00:02:07.380 and that led to a suicide. 0.82

00:02:09.140 The rise of Jason Arday was a dream come true for racial equity advocates.

00:02:12.980 It was the story of a young man who overcame numerous barriers to ultimately become the

00:02:18.280 University of Cambridge's youngest black professor in history.

00:02:22.020 Arday was apparently nonverbal until the age of 11, unable to read until the age of 18,

00:02:27.180 and overcame autism, epilepsy, and a list of other challenges, according to him.

00:02:32.100 And he earned his PhD to climb the academic ranks with extraordinary speed.

00:02:36.920 He became a poster child as an advocate on racism in higher education,

00:02:41.420 and appeared in the media, and cultivated an image of inspirational resilience. 1.00

00:02:45.700 Problem was, it was all bullshit. 0.57

00:02:47.880 Evidence surfaced of chronic plagiarism in Arday's work beginning with his doctoral thesis in 2015 0.98

00:02:52.920 and continuing from there. Once smoke started to rise, media outlets applied more scrutiny to Arday's

00:02:58.680 claims and found a mountain of fabrication. Reporting by The Telegraph, The Times, The Guardian

00:03:03.400 and others documented further problems. Arday duplicated or recycled interview material

00:03:08.680 across papers and suggested possible fabrication of data. Claims of visiting professorships and

00:03:14.280 and honorary appointments that institutions denied ever existed and embellishments or

00:03:21.380 contradictions in the autobiographical details that had helped fuel his public profile, it was

00:03:26.480 hard to find truths from the man, to put it bluntly. Ultimately, Cambridge announced an

00:03:30.560 investigation at the beginning of August, and sadly, Arday took his own life shortly afterwards.

00:03:35.720 The carefully crafted identity Arday created made him a hero and an inspirational figure for many

00:03:40.200 people. The disappointment on discovering his disingenuity must have been crushing, but rather

00:03:45.520 than accept the reality that he was a con artist rather than an academic wonder, some activists

00:03:49.920 are trying to paint him as a man who was unfairly torn down by the media. History is rife for the

00:03:54.900 examples of racial discrimination against black people. That doesn't mean every adverse outcome

00:03:59.960 that lands upon a black person, though, is the result of racism. Race hustlers are lining up to 0.60

00:04:04.160 take advantage of our day's death to portray him as a victim. One article, of course, went straight

00:04:08.180 to the punch and claimed it was a modern-day lynching by the media. It's a vile comparison

00:04:12.440 considering what real lynchings are all about. Arday himself was the architect of his own demise.

00:04:18.440 He built a career upon lies and eventually they caught up with him. The stress must have been

00:04:22.540 incredible as he saw his inevitable downfall approaching. I mean, Arday wasn't an honest man,

00:04:27.140 but he wasn't a stupid man. He knew the gig was up. It's still terrible that he chose to end his 0.98

00:04:31.920 own life at 41 rather than live with the consequences of his actions, but that doesn't

00:04:35.320 undo his actions. If any blame for our day's situation is to land beyond his own actions,

00:04:39.940 it's with the academic institutions that facilitated his falsehoods. In their zeal to

00:04:43.960 raise a black man to the highest levels of academia, universities barely offered cursory

00:04:48.220 examination of his credentials. By elevating him so rapidly and so publicly, Cambridge and the

00:04:53.860 broader academic culture that celebrated the higher created the conditions for the later

00:04:58.060 scrutiny. If media could so quickly cut through the web of lies our day had spun, Cambridge should

00:05:03.340 have been able to do so long ago as well. But they purposely blinded themselves for putting DEI goals

00:05:08.140 ahead of scrutiny of credentials. They put Arday into a position where his fall would be inevitable

00:05:12.600 and it didn't take long before it happened. A quieter career at a less visible institution

00:05:16.760 might never have attracted the same level of attention. Arday was skilled in the art of BS

00:05:21.940 and he could have probably found tenure in a different university until he retired but his

00:05:26.040 ambition surpassed his sense. The media in the UK did its job. They investigated and exposed a man

00:05:31.560 who was improperly placed into a high role in one of the most prominent universities

00:05:35.520 in the world. 0.87

00:05:36.700 Was media supposed to ignore this because he happened to be black?

00:05:39.840 Some activists seem to think so.

00:05:41.080 In fact, there's even a petition calling for the government of the UK to impose a law

00:05:44.240 limiting how many articles the media might be allowed to write on any one individual

00:05:47.900 over a period of time.

00:05:49.260 The petition is absurd, but then so is the premise of most DEI-inspired policies and

00:05:53.600 that hasn't stopped the proliferation of them.

00:05:56.280 There are many figures who have overcome challenges and are worthy of the admiration

00:05:59.980 of citizens.

00:06:00.980 should be celebrated and should be used to inspire others in difficult situations but R.D. was not

00:06:05.980 one of those figures and the efforts to posthumously turn him into a victim don't do him or anybody

00:06:12.320 else any favors. So hey guys this is one time lay off the media they didn't do anything wrong.

00:06:18.720 You know anything wrong in media lately Dave? Not that I'm aware of. Oh okay well that's good.

00:06:22.860 So is R.D.'s tombstone going to read liar liar pants on fire? It'll probably be misspelled if 0.99

00:06:27.520 It's left to his compatriots to do it.

00:06:29.600 Well, I think one of his claims was he ran six marathons and six days of broken legs.

00:06:35.120 And just all sorts of, I mean, again, it is sad that the man died.

00:06:40.420 I mean, he, he had mental health issues, obviously, but you know, for them to turn

00:06:44.760 this around, the protests that are happening and the visuals, the man was a con artist. 0.99

00:06:48.600 He was an insult to all actually of the minorities who really did work their asses

00:06:52.020 off to get into positions like that.

00:06:54.260 we've talked a lot about DEI in the Canadian universities and some of the

00:06:58.500 messes that they're creating, but you know, to think that it would happen at

00:07:01.700 such an institute like Cambridge.

00:07:03.220 Cambridge, yeah, it's not Red Deer College or something.

00:07:05.460 No, no, exactly.

00:07:06.500 I think a lot of blame lies with them and you're right, they were in such a

00:07:09.860 hurry to promote this guy and say, Hey, look at what we're doing. 0.99

00:07:13.460 We're getting to have a black professor that they just lost, lost common sense. 0.93

00:07:18.580 And it's also that, that racism of low expectations. 0.77

00:07:22.660 eventually i'm certain a black individual man or woman is going to rise to that role but people

00:07:27.460 will look at it you know wondering what was it dei or was this person genuinely qualified to go

00:07:32.820 where they would i mean i would hope cambridge learned from this but it's as i said it causes

00:07:37.300 damage to the people who really did work their butts off for their positions that's right oxford

00:07:40.900 is way better because my son went there so i'm not well that's i'm a bit worthy of bragging about

00:07:46.500 without no kidding uh so the news today corey we've been uh plowing through uh the uh alberta

00:07:54.180 prosperity projects uh draft constitution or legislature reporter will vassar and he's come

00:08:00.420 up with some interesting stuff on how the government would work in a independent alberta

00:08:07.060 they would base their president in calgary could be you i'm not applying for the job who knows you

00:08:13.700 You know, uh, vice president also in Calgary, uh, senators, which is more

00:08:18.460 kind of a job that you would like.

00:08:20.760 Cause you don't have to do anything, right?

00:08:22.160 You just sit there, but yeah, that's in Red Deer.

00:08:26.060 So, I mean, what do you do?

00:08:27.940 It's a pretty big sacrifice.

00:08:28.980 I mean, it's Red Deer.

00:08:29.840 You got that donut thing on the, uh, the highway though.

00:08:33.480 Oh yeah.

00:08:33.880 The mill there on gasoline alley.

00:08:35.640 I mean, that, that's a draw.

00:08:37.380 Uh, I know you don't have a legal background, but you could be

00:08:40.780 appointed to the Supreme court, but then you'd have to live

00:08:43.620 Grand Prairie because that's where it's going to be based and the auditor general and the attorney

00:08:49.380 general i think we can rule you out of those two they're going to be based in lloyd minster

00:08:54.020 but on the alberta side so they're spreading this all around like creative you know it sounds a

00:09:00.100 little odd when you first hear it but i don't know if it's necessarily bad i i you know having a

00:09:05.140 government all centered in one spot look at edmonton i mean part of the reason also that

00:09:08.980 edmonton is is uh you know unionized and so left-wing is because all our civil servants are

00:09:14.420 packed into that one spot uh maybe sprinkling them around a little more would reduce those

00:09:19.300 concentrations that cause problems yeah apparently the only other country that does this is south

00:09:23.540 africa so they've always liked separating in south africa but not necessarily in the best ways

00:09:29.140 necklacing and stuff like that so you know it might not be a good uh thing to follow a good

00:09:35.300 model to follow well i haven't seen them collecting tires yet uh we've got uh premier

00:09:41.540 daniel smith saying if the referendum if the question of do you want to have a referendum

00:09:48.180 to have a ref if it passes then she's aiming at spring of 2027 to hold the binding referendum

00:09:56.020 she wants it over and done with before the next election so that would be a quick uh quick

00:10:01.620 turnaround wouldn't it yeah um alex our bc reporter has got part two of the british columbia teachers

00:10:09.700 association racism training yeah very well worth reading very well worth reading uh he uh he went

00:10:17.300 undercover posing as a as a teacher and took the course and what they're telling these teachers is

00:10:22.820 just shocking really shocking just taking one for the team too it must have been agonizing sitting

00:10:27.460 through that i got put through a aboriginal cross-cultural communication course many many

00:10:33.380 years ago for two days over an episode i had but either way i mean it was so i almost cried sometimes

00:10:39.860 with the political correctness jammed down your throat and that was decades ago it must be worse 0.99

00:10:43.220 that's got to be worse kids in bc have no chance if their teachers are following this crap no 0.98

00:10:48.340 uh i guess we got to talk the trade deal uh uh trump came out last night and put a pause on the 0.98

00:10:54.260 the 50% tariffs and painted that Keystone pipeline is back, baby.

00:10:59.480 Um, I think he's got a special personal interest in this because you remember

00:11:04.580 Joe Biden's first day in office, he killed Keystone.

00:11:07.940 So I think Trump is sitting there, oh, Biden killed it.

00:11:10.340 I'm going to resurrect it and save America.

00:11:13.700 Pipelines sure turned into a ping pong ball of, of just abuse.

00:11:20.260 I mean, the other thing that people have already asked on that, well,

00:11:22.300 where's the proponent?

00:11:23.120 Because, I mean, American side or Canadian, if you can't feel secure.

00:11:26.680 There is a Calgary company who said they would do it, but, you know, until they get it all figured out and, you know, all the T's cross and the, you know, we don't know.

00:11:37.160 But, you know what, if they get a West, I know you're very hesitant to agree, but if they get a West Coast pipeline and they get a pipeline going south, that's a big blow to the, to not only the Tory party, but the Independence party, right?

00:11:50.700 because the liberals have got all this done,

00:11:52.540 not conservatives.

00:11:53.880 Possibly, I guess.

00:11:54.860 I mean, if that's all it would take

00:11:56.320 to make Albertans happy, screw freedoms

00:11:58.140 as long as we get a nationalized pipeline or two.

00:12:00.320 There you go.

00:12:01.520 You're so bitter.

00:12:02.640 I know.

00:12:03.660 And finally, a story to get you angry,

00:12:06.240 we got a guy in Windsor who was being arrested

00:12:09.080 for sexually assaulting a couple of kids.

00:12:12.280 Now, the furiating thing is this,

00:12:14.200 he was released on bail,

00:12:15.780 and that was the third time he was on bail.

00:12:18.260 And every time he went on bail,

00:12:20.200 he sexually assaulted other kids and he gets arrested and locked up again and freed and uh

00:12:25.720 you know same thing happens i mean come on i know i i have that one in my notes i mean the

00:12:29.640 only difference with this one is i imagine there's no deportation talk so he's uh a citizen you don't

00:12:35.480 know that that's a funny name well it is a name funny name yes but uh just again i mean how many

00:12:42.040 kids have they got a molester for maybe stop letting them out is it that bloody complicated

00:12:46.440 jails aren't that overcrowded from what i understand no actually i've heard that the

00:12:49.880 federal ones have space so let's lock them up don't hear any disagreement out of me all right

00:12:55.560 that's it for me that's it all right well i'll uh let you back to that newsroom to cover all

00:13:00.920 these these hot and heavy events and uh yeah we'll see you on the pipeline we all crowd around this

00:13:05.320 tiny table yes you know get your your legs in order for all of us to give our cuddle and talk

00:13:09.720 about the events in the group you bet right on thanks steve says our news editor dave naylor

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00:14:16.680 So yes, you know, top issue, certainly for the Western standard and has been for a long

00:14:20.960 time is Western issues, Western alienation.

00:14:24.260 We're facing a referendum in a couple of months now.

00:14:28.220 And I'm seeing a lot of deja vu in a sense, as I got to say, I said that in an earlier 0.93

00:14:34.400 show I did today with Western alienations on a high.

00:14:38.520 We just finished a term of a Trudeau, and Preston Manning has taken part in an assembly to look at different means on how to address it.

00:14:47.020 Well, here we are again, and Preston Manning is back up, and he's got an assembly scheduled this fall that sounds very interesting.

00:14:54.200 It's September 19th and 20th, and he's given us some time to come on and discuss it with us.

00:14:58.900 So thank you very much for joining us today, Mr. Manning, and, well, interesting times.

00:15:06.300 Well, that's true.

00:15:09.140 Some of these issues have been around for a long time, but this is another kick at the can.

00:15:13.600 So we shall see.

00:15:15.600 We shall see.

00:15:17.160 Well, and, you know, just for those of the younger audience, I guess, you know, the Assembly in 1987 in Vancouver, I mean, that led to the formation of the Reform Party.

00:15:26.480 And I'm certain you're not looking to fire up any new political vehicles or parties this time.

00:15:31.840 It'll be more of an educational format, I gather.

00:15:34.420 Yeah, the idea, Corey, is say it's on September 19 to 20, and it's a virtual assembly.

00:15:42.620 People can participate by it'll be live streamed to be some delegates to cross-examine people making presentations.

00:15:51.040 But the main idea is to put forward these various options that face the West for dealing with its current concerns and aspirations.

00:16:00.480 and we'll have a presentation on the secession option.

00:16:05.680 We'll have a presentation on this sovereign province

00:16:09.380 within the federation, which has been the premier's position,

00:16:13.380 the Alberta government's position.

00:16:15.800 There'll be a look at, there's been these letters sent to Kearney

00:16:19.660 over the last year.

00:16:20.900 There's about 25 items.

00:16:22.340 We call it the list option where people are the premiers

00:16:27.400 and some of the business executives have said,

00:16:29.460 if you did this or if you did that it would alleviate some of the the tensions and then

00:16:34.400 there's the remain or stay option and we're asking the obvious question there remain and then stay and

00:16:40.940 do what so the idea is to have these presentations have some cross-examination of them and and let

00:16:46.740 people hopefully it will inform their discretion with respect to the referendum okay so there is

00:16:55.540 then it's an open discussion by the sounds of it it's not necessarily the the event in itself

00:17:01.000 taking one side or another you're oh in fact we're trying to be very careful on that cory like if it

00:17:06.440 seemed to be slanted or pitching one approach to the other then of course the other people won't

00:17:11.880 participate so we're trying to keep it as objective as as we can absolutely and then it's not just

00:17:19.560 centered on alberta you have a former premier uh gordon campbell on uh co-hosting that with you as

00:17:25.060 Well, yes, because a lot of these concerns, the systemic constitutional unfairness, the

00:17:33.080 federal intrusions in the areas of provincial jurisdiction, particularly natural resources,

00:17:39.860 these concerns are shared much broader than Alberta.

00:17:42.960 The worry about this is just as strong according to the pollsters in Saskatchewan and in much

00:17:48.440 of British Columbia and in rural Manitoba.

00:17:51.800 have delegates people that are going to do some of the cross-examining from each of those provinces

00:17:58.200 although the majority be from alberta because as you said in alberta's case there's going to be this

00:18:03.640 referendum on october the 19th yeah well and we have nine questions along with uh the the 10th

00:18:11.080 which is the one asking about moving further towards a a clarity act compliant referendum

00:18:17.480 A lot of those nine questions, though, as you've mentioned, we've got constitutional problems.

00:18:23.580 This is a hang-up that's been going on since, you know, talking about a triple E Senate in the past, being able to move those things forward.

00:18:31.180 And there's a regional interest in eastern Canada to maintain the status quo.

00:18:36.120 I mean, it serves them better Senate-wise anyways.

00:18:38.440 uh the final question i guess question 10 it offers an opportunity for leverage even if people

00:18:46.160 aren't necessarily looking to go yet i mean i i understand you don't necessarily take a side but

00:18:51.240 it's something for people to consider oh yeah it's one of the options out there and

00:18:59.000 there'll be questions and discussion on suppose some province did get a clear

00:19:05.200 majority on a clear question to secede that's most likely to occur in quebec before whatever

00:19:11.760 happened in alberta of course quebec's got a provincial election prior to october the 5th

00:19:17.840 where this is going to be the whole debate should it be a sovereign country outside the federation

00:19:22.640 or should it be a sovereign province within the federation but there there's uh that'll be

00:19:28.160 certainly one of the issues and it'll get into what what exactly happens if some province did

00:19:33.360 get a clear majority on a clear question and that's where the Clarity Act comes into focus.

00:19:40.800 One of the people on our little organizing committee is Jack Major who was on the Supreme

00:19:45.460 Court at the time it ruled on the Clarity Act and basically what it says if someone

00:19:50.440 ever got to that position say it's more likely to be Quebec, the federal government is under

00:19:56.360 an obligation according to the court to negotiate in good faith with that province. That would then

00:20:03.800 require some constitutional amendments, which requires seven of the provinces with 50% of the

00:20:08.280 population. In other words, if somebody ever got to that, it would blow up the current constitution,

00:20:13.560 maybe create the opportunity for a reconstitution, who knows. But they'll be attempting to make some

00:20:21.880 of that clear because i think some people feel if you if somebody did get a clear majority on

00:20:27.720 it to your question that you could just waltz off into independence land unfortunately it's

00:20:33.000 it's not quite that simple no it is a complicated process uh but so is is trying to fix things from

00:20:40.200 within the system one of the commenters uh asked a very good question uh saying how does alberta's

00:20:46.200 sovereign jurisdiction while still within Canada work? I mean, that's been talked about for a long

00:20:53.720 time, but we haven't seen a lot of actions moving towards it actually. Things like a pension plan

00:20:58.200 or things that Quebec has done at least. Well, except Corey, Quebec has spent millions of

00:21:03.720 dollars on this and hours and hours of this. They're a lot further along this route than us,

00:21:08.520 but the Premier's been fairly clear enough on a few of the things that that means.

00:21:13.880 First of all, I believe it means increasing and strengthening the activity of the province in

00:21:20.280 every area that the current constitution assigns to the provinces. Secondly, it involves pushing

00:21:25.800 the envelope in these joint jurisdiction areas, which are agriculture, environment, and immigration.

00:21:32.120 That's why I think the first five questions on that referendum ballot are dealing with should

00:21:37.240 the province do more in the area of this joint jurisdiction of immigration and then a third area

00:21:43.640 and here's where you're right that has not been talked about much it ought to be talked about more

00:21:47.880 by the federal people is the federal government there are federal statutes which authorize the

00:21:55.240 federal intrusion in areas of provincial responsibility the impact assessment act is the

00:22:00.760 federal statute that authorizes the federal government to get into natural resources the

00:22:07.240 Canada Health Act is the act that authorizes federal intrusion in the health jurisdiction,

00:22:13.320 which is a provincial jurisdiction. The Canada Infrastructure Bank Act and the National Housing

00:22:19.000 Act are the federal statutes that authorize federal intrusion in the area of municipal

00:22:23.960 governance, which is a provincial area. One of the suggestions is that if the federal

00:22:28.680 government is serious, if the Kearney government is serious in reducing this tension with the

00:22:34.440 provinces one of the things it could do is amend those statutes either to repeal them or to reduce

00:22:40.680 their intrusiveness so there's about three aspects all of this involves strengthening the sovereignty

00:22:46.280 of the provinces within the federation it'd be interesting to see whether the federal government

00:22:50.440 has anything to say on uh with respect to being being receptive to that kind of change yeah so

00:22:58.520 so back to the assembly uh there's going to be a number of other speakers presenters on different

00:23:03.080 things have you nailed some down yet or you you're still in that process we're in the course of of

00:23:08.360 invitations but we're pretty sure that there'll be a presentation on the sovereign province within the

00:23:14.440 federation there's two of the the secessionist groups that we're virtually certain will be

00:23:20.200 willing to make uh presentations we're still trying to nail down the the remain and stay

00:23:27.160 option because the question there isn't just remain or stay it's remain and stay and do what

00:23:32.120 and there's a number of groups advocating in that area and we're trying to sort that out.

00:23:36.200 But the important thing, I think, for your listeners and your viewers is this thing will

00:23:42.360 be live streamed. And if you put those dates down, September 1920, there's a website that explains

00:23:49.080 all of this, albertaandthewestassembly.ca. And people can tune into this thing and there'll be

00:24:01.640 surveying done of the people that are live streaming so that they'll get a chance not

00:24:05.480 only to ask questions but to express their opinion on the various subjects that are being brought up

00:24:13.080 great i was going to ask about that the interactivity of it i mean some of this

00:24:16.680 this modern technology makes this sort of uh you know thing it's not like a giant convention

00:24:21.800 booking a hall getting people there monitoring microphones there's a real opportunity actually to

00:24:26.920 to solicit questions from viewers and so on

00:24:29.840 and get through quite a few

00:24:32.440 and have a truly interactive event if it is.

00:24:35.220 Well, yeah, and we're hoping, Corey,

00:24:36.980 and I'm sure you share this, 0.62

00:24:39.100 I worry about the younger people opting out

00:24:43.060 of this democratic process.

00:24:44.660 There was a poll down the other day, I forget,

00:24:47.540 no, but I think by abacus,

00:24:48.920 it indicated 47 or 49% of young people kind of questioned

00:24:53.920 What's the merit and what's the point of having these elections and having a parliament?

00:24:58.580 Would it be better to have a strong person that just went ahead with the decision?

00:25:03.080 And I'm hopeful that this technology,

00:25:06.040 in which the younger people are a lot more familiar with than I am for communication,

00:25:10.380 this is using the technology that they are very familiar with

00:25:13.760 and using it to engage in the democratic procedure.

00:25:17.900 I'm hoping this thing can kind of demonstrate the applicability of that technology

00:25:22.460 it could be used to deal with other issues particularly to try to pull younger people into

00:25:27.260 this is their future that's being decided not not mine yeah so will there be an admission

00:25:32.380 price or registration uh how the means is something well if they go to that website

00:25:36.140 they can register and what the registration does is means you they'll keep getting notices yeah

00:25:41.820 september 19th 20th this is what it's about please tune in but there's no there's no charge or

00:25:47.580 or anything like that.

00:25:49.320 Yeah, which is another great advantage

00:25:50.760 of this new technology,

00:25:52.040 because I mean, to offer free admission

00:25:53.440 for thousands of people at a open event

00:25:55.860 would cost a small fortune.

00:25:58.780 And you have another event you were going to be looking

00:26:00.600 at scheduling after the referendum as well?

00:26:02.820 Sort of a follow-up?

00:26:04.540 We're going to wait until after the referendum itself,

00:26:07.360 because whatever that decision is,

00:26:09.240 another big input into this decision.

00:26:11.400 What's the best path forward for the West?

00:26:13.560 So we'll have one more session of this assembly

00:26:16.280 after October 19th, we haven't set the date yet,

00:26:19.340 and put forward propositions, okay,

00:26:22.080 based on all this input from this assembly

00:26:26.180 and from the referendum,

00:26:27.880 and the question will be to the delegates,

00:26:29.700 if you had to make a recommendation today

00:26:32.880 to your provincial legislature on the best path forward,

00:26:36.300 given all this options and information,

00:26:40.060 what would that be?

00:26:41.220 And that'll be the aim of that last session.

00:26:44.340 And then the recommendations that come out of that will go to the provincial legislatures and the provincial government.

00:26:52.340 So I know you're trying to stay carefully nonpartisan with this, but will there be any participation with elected people, whether in government or in opposition?

00:27:01.180 Well, we have. Yeah, we discussed that, Corey. We haven't got any elected people among these delegates, but all the output of this will actually go to the legislatures.

00:27:10.820 And we've been saying to elected people, you'll get a kick at the can after we've got all this input put together, but it'll occur in your legislature, not in this assembly, partly because we're trying to keep the political polarization that happens so easily once you get a room full of elected people or even former elected people like me.

00:27:37.060 Well, we're both familiar with rooms full of politicians. They're a necessary evil, but it can also take things off the rails pretty quickly. So can open events, though, I imagine there'll be some degree of controls over the discourse or ways that, you know, questions get through and they can be efficient and such.

00:27:56.000 Yes, it's almost like an assembly, like an elected assembly.

00:28:01.840 Gordon Campbell and I are the co-chairs, so we'll be like the speaker

00:28:04.920 and the delegates will be like the members.

00:28:08.860 And, of course, one of the controls the speaker has in the House of Commons

00:28:12.740 or the legislature, he can cut you off if he decides you're making a speech

00:28:19.220 instead of asking a question.

00:28:20.680 So Gordon and I will try to diplomatically exercise that function.

00:28:26.000 Excellent. Well, I'm really looking forward to it. It's an interesting exercise and, of course, very timely with everything that's going on. And you can certainly lend, you know, I wasn't saying the sense of deja vu in a bad way, fully anyways. There's a lot of experience that's been gained. You've been fighting this battle for some years now, anyways. And, you know, I guess just this trying to find a different path rather than hitting our heads against the wall over and over again is what people really want to do.

00:28:54.620 Yeah, that'll be the big question. It'll be the question to these presenters. If your option was accepted, exactly what has to happen to move it beyond talk and studies and recommendations and reports?

00:29:11.560 A lot of Westerners are impatient with these issues are well defined, there's even solutions

00:29:18.940 defined, but the roadblock, particularly if it involves constitutional amendments, that

00:29:24.180 is the roadblock.

00:29:25.920 One other encouraging thing on this, as you know, to amend our constitution, you need

00:29:30.480 at least seven provinces with 50% of the population from the provincial side to push an amendment.

00:29:36.240 You still got to get it through the parliament.

00:29:39.180 Right now, among these provincial premiers, Wacom, this new premier in Newfoundland,

00:29:45.420 Premier Frechette in Quebec, or even if there's a new PQ

00:29:50.940 premier, they're all in favor of decentralization, Premier Smith and Premier Moe.

00:29:55.660 You've got four strong premiers that are in favor of at least trying to get the federal government

00:30:00.300 out of this intrusive role. You could probably pull along Houston from Nova Scotia and maybe

00:30:06.140 Doug Ford from Ontario depending on what kind of day it was but now you start you're starting to

00:30:11.580 get up to this six or seven premiers who whatever else they disagree on agree on a more decentralized

00:30:20.060 federation and that that has not happened in the past so that's one encouraging route towards

00:30:28.140 constitutional amendment well we'll certainly wait and see this could be a step that starts

00:30:33.580 moving us towards it so uh i guess before i let you go one more time where can people

00:30:38.700 find information on this assembly uh so that they can take part or observe it yes that alberta and

00:30:44.700 the west dot ca that that website uh will give people the information on it and and say they

00:30:51.420 can register there to get reminded that this thing is going to be on on september 19 and 20.

00:30:57.900 excellent well thank you for putting all that together and then taking some time to explain

00:31:02.140 it to us today i'll certainly be tuning in and watching it with with great interest and uh

00:31:07.500 hopefully it uh has some productive outcomes for us okay we shall we shall wait and see

00:31:13.100 great thank you great talk thank you cart so there you go guys set those dates aside you know

00:31:19.020 september 19th and 20th it is an opportunity and i know and and as as mr manning stated we're

00:31:25.020 getting impatient i'm one of them i know a story i like to tell it's from way back as the political

00:31:30.700 junkie I am. I bought my very first political membership from this man I figured was ancient

00:31:37.040 at a Calgary Stampede event who actually took some time to speak to me. I think I was 18 or 19

00:31:41.940 years old. It was the end of the 80s. And it turned out that was actually Preston Manning

00:31:46.500 working to get the Reform Party going. And I was so thrilled with that little card I ended up

00:31:50.540 putting in my wallet. Wow, I'm participating in politics. And look at the lunatic it turned me

00:31:55.300 into after this much time. But, you know, it also illustrates how long this has all been going on.

00:32:02.840 We've been at this for decades. That assembly he held, we're coming up on the 40th anniversary of

00:32:08.720 that one that was held in Vancouver that formed the Reform Party. So he's not trying the exact

00:32:14.340 same thing. And he's not taking the independence option off the table in this gathering. You know,

00:32:22.020 there's going to be people presenting and proposing that side of it. It's as I feel,

00:32:27.620 I mean, I'm an independent supporter. I'm unabashed about it and there's no getting around that.

00:32:32.400 But I do believe there's an opportunity in those people then who just want to send a message. Those

00:32:36.640 people who want, you know, to shake things up and rattle them. Well, this is the opportunity

00:32:44.180 coming this fall. And there's one of the things I think, unfortunately, and tactically, it depends

00:32:49.820 which way people look at stuff when premier smith is saying because she's been a uh a federalist

00:32:57.260 she's made no bones about that it's mostly just that i get annoyed when she starts leaping into

00:33:01.980 the discussion a little too heavily but with saying that she would schedule the referendum

00:33:07.500 if we got over 50 this october she would schedule it to try and get it held this spring

00:33:14.860 i personally i'm just guessing from a tactical level and i could be wrong but

00:33:18.540 But I think the reason she's stating that is because it will turn away the people who are saying they, you know, who were campaigning towards to send a message, to shake things up, to stir them up, because it puts the definitive referendum so much closer after that.

00:33:32.120 It starts to turn this one this fall into the big one and muddies those waters between them and would make people shy away because they wouldn't want to have the real referendum only a few months later.

00:33:43.300 I think that might be some of the tactics on what's going on there.

00:33:46.000 uh there really are only two ways that would have to go though if there was a a big vote to move

00:33:53.100 forward with the process with a clarity act uh compliant question after a referendum this fall

00:34:00.060 it would have to be either yeah spring in just a few months or probably at least more than a year

00:34:05.820 farther ahead to get uh past the general election that's scheduled you know a year after that

00:34:13.100 They're not going to have the referendum and a general election happening at the same time.

00:34:16.400 Just would be politically difficult to say the least.

00:34:21.920 You know, getting back to that justice issue, this is one that never hits politics enough.

00:34:30.840 We talk about it.

00:34:31.500 We get mad during news stories.

00:34:32.820 We go on about these things.

00:34:34.560 Politicians talk about them and nothing ever changes.

00:34:37.100 This I do not understand.

00:34:38.460 Dave mentioned that in the news check-in.

00:34:40.120 I'll give the details of this man, this guy.

00:34:43.060 So he's a 22-year-old Windsor man already facing multiple child sex charges. 1.00

00:34:50.080 He's a child rapist. 1.00

00:34:51.720 Let's just put it for what it is. 1.00

00:34:52.960 He's a pedophile. 1.00

00:34:53.960 He's dangerous. 1.00

00:34:54.940 He harms children.

00:34:56.100 He's one of the worst possible people we could ever have on the loose.

00:34:59.300 And somehow we can't keep him behind bars. 0.98

00:35:03.100 He sexually assaulted two boys while free on bail prior.

00:35:07.760 and then a third time and they put him on bail again and guess what he molested

00:35:13.040 another kid how much does it take to make this a pattern how hard does this

00:35:17.660 have to get you know what I think should happen I think the committees are

00:35:21.400 determined bail or the judges are determined bail should have to keep

00:35:25.160 these offenders in their own household for two days after they give them bail

00:35:28.080 if you think they're safe enough to release among us and our children then

00:35:32.120 you should have no qualms about having these perverts in your home with you

00:35:35.220 should you seriously how are you letting these guys out among us what is the matter with you

00:35:40.180 whoever let him out on bail should be disbarred removed from the bench it's absurd i don't care

00:35:46.880 we don't need legislative changes to change the bail requirements that's the reason we have a judge

00:35:53.680 that's the reason a person sits there and looks at it and listens to the evidence and says this

00:35:59.960 person is a risk to society thus must be held until the full trial is done or this person is

00:36:07.880 not a high risk we can allow them back out say if it was a shoplifter or uh you know other things

00:36:14.580 that aren't as dangerous to society or didn't have a long long history so okay post bail and

00:36:19.400 we'll move on with the trial but we won't spend all the expense of keeping you locked up and let 0.72

00:36:22.860 get on with the world but this guy this pervert with multiple child sexual assaults released

00:36:31.580 again among the public and he's clearly not learning so you know either are our authorities 0.85

00:36:40.540 though what does it take i really feel for the police i do how many times they got to arrest

00:36:44.940 this guy see the victim see what they've done and realize that we're just arresting him putting him

00:36:49.900 in and some liberal judge is going to throw them back out to molest more kids. This guy's name is

00:36:55.360 Kasim Sabi. 22 years old with that many child molestation charges under his belt. This is a

00:37:03.940 broken individual who should never be loose again, much less constantly put out on bail. You know

00:37:09.400 what? Every week I seem to be going into one of these stories. Every bloody week. What does it

00:37:14.340 take? What's the point of a justice system? And you know, the prisons aren't full. Dave mentioned

00:37:19.200 that. They aren't full. Our remand centers have been overcrowded, but the prisons aren't.

00:37:24.860 Put them away. Either way, I had to get on with that. It's just insane. Let's turn the page on

00:37:32.280 to the trade. A nice, easy subject. What's going on with President Trump, with Carney, who's hiding

00:37:38.780 out in Italy, with Kuzma that's on again, off again, on again, off again. Trump made it right

00:37:43.760 till two hours before the deadline on the latest threat of putting heavy tariffs on Canadian things

00:37:49.960 and then bought another three more days and said, nah, maybe we'll hang on. We've got a good deal

00:37:54.260 that's coming. One of the things I read out of that, though, that's interesting. It's hard to

00:37:57.780 read anything into Trump. I mean, come on, he's the most unpredictable president in history.

00:38:02.200 But he mentioned that he'd emphasized that American farmers are going to benefit from this,

00:38:09.720 whatever agreement he's talking about, and that it would expand access for some

00:38:14.300 products in Canada. Is a deal finally coming to get rid of bloody supply management,

00:38:23.000 dairy supply management? Is it, is he finally, because you know, Canadian consumers should

00:38:27.240 have gotten this pushed out. It robs Canadians. Families are spending hundreds and hundreds every

00:38:31.660 year extra because of this supply management that protects the Quebec dairy industry predominantly

00:38:36.140 and artificially keeps the prices of all dairy products higher.

00:38:39.800 We'd keep talking about food inflation.

00:38:41.320 Well, if you want to fight food inflation,

00:38:42.700 get rid of supply management, but they won't do it.

00:38:47.440 But I mean, it took President Trump maybe strong arming,

00:38:51.180 twisting, and I'm not a fan of his negotiation tactics.

00:38:54.680 I don't like how he's shoving us around on these trade deals.

00:38:57.400 But if one of the things comes with a good outcome

00:38:59.560 in that this federal government is finally forced to admit 0.97

00:39:02.200 that supply management is crap and that they get rid of it, 0.98

00:39:04.900 we're all going to win. 0.99

00:39:06.140 it's not going to be a victory just for american producers it's a victory for us as canadian

00:39:10.140 consumers the ridiculousness in that we have dumped and the food professor you know uh uh

00:39:17.980 charlie boy i've had on my show multiple times billions over the years billions of liters of

00:39:24.780 milk have literally been dumped down the drain because canada's supply management cartel system

00:39:31.260 makes it illegal for them to sell it. They purposely strangle the supply so that the price

00:39:37.940 stays high. They will throw it in the ditch, literally, rather than let you get a break at

00:39:43.320 the grocery store. It's a sick system that's a slap in the face to agricultural producers in 0.99

00:39:50.780 every other area that work on proper manners of competitiveness and building better things.

00:39:59.120 So you know what, if anything comes out of this and the supply management is gotten rid of,

00:40:04.480 and we start phasing it out, and I know you can't get rid of it overnight. You got to buy out the

00:40:07.840 quotas. We can't bankrupt our farmers. I know that, but get rid of it. It's done. It's a garbage

00:40:12.100 Soviet style system of quotas. It's embarrassing. And it's also on poultry, just so you know, 1.00

00:40:18.160 and eggs. We had in Alberta, a guy literally got arrested a couple of years ago on his farm.

00:40:24.920 a bunch of RCMP cars showed up because he'd been selling eggs outside of the cartel.

00:40:29.780 Yeah, Canada's not as free as some people might think. Though I think most people who follow my

00:40:34.800 show know that there's not much freedom in Canada in a lot of ways. Commenter James saying the dairy

00:40:43.400 cartels, again, part of the Liberal Party. Well, you know what? One thing I'll say, actually the

00:40:48.160 dairy cartels have got their claws into every party. They got the Conservatives as well.

00:40:54.220 They are incredible lobbyists.

00:40:56.480 They spend millions and millions of dollars to make sure that political parties,

00:40:59.380 both the Conservatives and the Liberals, are terrified of taking them on.

00:41:02.800 And they won't.

00:41:04.020 And it cost a leadership for Maxime Bernier.

00:41:07.840 That really was what was it.

00:41:08.940 He was the only candidate proposing.

00:41:11.400 He would have won the Conservative leadership.

00:41:13.740 Except the dairy cartels funded his opponent heavily

00:41:17.060 because Bernier was opposed to supply management.

00:41:22.560 They are powerful.

00:41:24.320 But a government in power can get rid of it.

00:41:27.520 There is a way to do it.

00:41:29.520 And it's time that we did.

00:41:30.640 It's past time that we did.

00:41:32.300 God, I get tired of reading these constant articles whining about the higher cost of groceries.

00:41:37.460 Yes, they are higher.

00:41:38.340 And they're pressuring everybody.

00:41:39.120 But the most obvious and easy ability to change that is right in front of us by getting our supply management.

00:41:45.000 And the government doesn't have the courage to do it.

00:41:48.060 Let's see.

00:41:48.560 We got some news in Alberta.

00:41:49.960 this will be somewhat interesting. Calgary Shaw has a by-election. It was, you know, vacated

00:41:55.540 unexpectedly. There was an interesting nomination race, and Mike Derry, I believe, is the name of

00:42:02.560 the gentleman who won the Conservative. Yes, Mike Derry for the United Conservative Party. NDP's got

00:42:07.300 some guy named Kyle Campbell. Look, it's a pretty safe UCP seat. It should stay there. But the

00:42:12.280 Alberta Liberal Party leader, yeah, they still exist. John, you know, I interact with them a lot

00:42:18.660 on X, but I never actually mentioned his, say his name. So sorry, Mr. Roggenveen. I got a Dutch

00:42:26.660 wife. I should be able to pronounce that, but he is actually running in it. Good on him. I think 1.00

00:42:30.820 he's going to get annihilated, but at least he's putting his name on there. And a fourth candidate

00:42:37.580 is, well, here we go with the Kyle Joseph. Yeah. Grade six social studies teacher. He's running

00:42:45.720 for the progressive Tory party of Alberta. That's, uh, uh, Peter Guthrie's little party there. He,

00:42:53.640 he left the UCP in a huff. Uh, they had internal battles and fights and he started his own little

00:42:58.080 party. He wants to start basically the progressive conservatives all over again. He couldn't use the

00:43:02.420 name conservative. So he used progressive Tory. Basically he's the liberals. You know, that's the

00:43:08.000 liberals with a new coat of paint. I'm kind of hoping he gains some ground here. I really am.

00:43:13.000 because those of us old enough to remember the 90s and so on how did the left get annihilated

00:43:18.280 in so many alberta elections well you want to know why because the ndp and the liberals split

00:43:21.620 that left-wing vote it was in progressive conservatives finally got pushed too far

00:43:25.320 from not having a good conservative opposition and went too far left and a whole bunch of other

00:43:29.600 things happened but if this united progressive tory party comes together they're not going to

00:43:35.240 pull support from the ucp they're going to pull it from ninchi and the ndp so uh i don't think

00:43:42.320 they'll be lucky. Here, I'll put in my guess right now on this by-election in Shaw. I think

00:43:48.960 their candidate's going to get 4%. And I think the Liberal is going to get 0.8%. That's how hard it

00:43:57.000 is for outside parties to break through in Alberta. It really is. But I predict that's what's going to

00:44:00.720 be happening. But still, I would like to see them get a toehold in there and pull in some of that

00:44:05.680 school teacher liberal vote in Calgary and break it away. Finally, it's on the Western Standard

00:44:13.740 site. This is bizarre. Getting back to the idiotic, endless accusations of racism, that

00:44:17.680 sugar mill worker who put out a video walking barefoot through sugar. I mean, it's gross. Come 1.00

00:44:22.960 on. This was stuff that was going to be packaged and sold to us and we're going to eat and consume

00:44:26.600 it. We don't want to lick that man's feet or anything that came off it. And he said he was

00:44:32.380 doing it uh uh what do you say to assert his dominance putting his feet on our food his dirty 0.94

00:44:39.800 filthy feet on our food and he posted a video maybe it was just somebody looking to get clicks 0.88

00:44:43.760 probably was so but of course it got a big bad pushback because people are disgusted but lo and

00:44:49.820 behold prabdeet singh now is claiming the backlash was due to racism piss off i'm tired of that i'm

00:44:58.040 sick of that. I don't care what the race is. I don't want anybody's feet going into the food

00:45:03.680 items that I plan to consume. It had nothing to do with racism. It had to do with you being a pig

00:45:09.980 and looking to be violating the food that people in public are going to be consuming 0.98

00:45:14.820 so you can get clicks on your YouTube video. So the backlash you got was well-earned,

00:45:20.220 well-deserved, had nothing to do with your race. Kiss my ass. Go away. Man, it's gross. 1.00

00:45:26.320 either way leave it on that a lot of positive things to cover too that's the end of the time

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Western Standard - August 22, 2026

CORY MORGAN SHOW： Jason Arday was the tragic victim of his own BS

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