Western Standard - CORY MORGAN SHOW： Race based policies are sinking Canada

00:00:00.000 Welcome to the Corey Morgan Show.

00:00:29.200 We're creeping up on Christmas now.

00:00:32.160 I don't know if you, I think you can kind of see it through the windows behind me.

00:00:35.040 It looks like winter's returning with a vengeance.

00:00:36.700 It's supposed to get pretty harsh way out there on the prairies.

00:00:39.080 And we're getting a little bit of it over here in the foothills.

00:00:41.940 I despise this season, but there's no avoiding it.

00:00:45.240 What are we going to do?

00:00:46.100 Maybe when we separate, we promote enough climate change, we'll warm things up and Alberta can have a tropical winter. 0.78

00:00:51.320 Until then, we just have to suck it up and endure it.

00:00:54.880 All right, let's see what we've got coming up.

00:00:56.840 Lise Merle is going to be coming on in a little while. 1.00

00:00:58.560 She's the author of the best-selling children's book, Buck the Rainbow Unicorn.

00:01:04.520 If you wonder why the hell I'm interviewing a children's book author, well, actually, Lise does work with Rebel Media as well.

00:01:10.900 And it is a great children's book, but it's got some, you know, messaging in it that I guess you would call atypical,

00:01:17.240 considered what's supposed to be politically correct these days and whatnot.

00:01:20.900 So, we'll have a good conversation with her.

00:01:23.260 The show is live.

00:01:24.060 Make sure to get those comments, questions in there.

00:01:26.760 And I see them all.

00:01:27.820 I don't necessarily read them all out.

00:01:29.360 Discuss things with each other.

00:01:30.880 Keeps things lively.

00:01:32.060 Just keep things somewhat civil.

00:01:34.240 Leave the rudeness to me.

00:01:35.160 I'm good at it.

00:01:36.460 All right, let me start with some of that.

00:01:37.880 I'll start on a light issue.

00:01:39.400 Let's talk about racial policies.

00:01:41.380 Let me list some proposed national policies and just think of how Canada would be if these were imposed, okay?

00:01:47.800 So, imagine if we abolished the Indian Act and removed special legal status for Indigenous people

00:01:52.720 and then terminated existing treaties and transferred federal responsibility for Indigenous affairs to provinces.

00:01:59.240 What if we eliminated what's called Indian status and assimilated Indigenous people in a mainstream Canadian society as equal citizens? 0.94

00:02:05.940 How about if we converted reserve land by turning reserve land into private property that could be sold?

00:02:11.920 And then we could dissolve what was called the Indian Affairs Department and close all federal departments responsible for Indigenous issues.

00:02:18.400 Do these proposals sound extreme or unreasonable or unworkable?

00:02:22.440 I dug every one of those out for a policy document called the White Paper, created in 1969 by none other than Pierre Trudeau and Jean Chrétien.

00:02:30.680 Unfortunately, while Trudeau stood strong with most of his terrible policies he imposed upon Canada,

00:02:35.940 he folded like a cheap suit with the White Paper, and now we're all paying the price.

00:02:40.440 Look, if those policies proposed in the White Paper had been implemented 56 years ago,

00:02:44.740 Canada would be a stronger, more united country.

00:02:46.920 Instead, Indigenous people live in misery on reserves in a form of racial apartheid 0.98

00:02:51.800 while constantly pandering to the Indigenous industry as cratering the Canadian economy.

00:02:57.160 To be a truly modern democratic nation is to eschew all race-based policies forever.

00:03:03.580 However, we must take a step back and look at the primitive absurdity of thinking we can have a functional nation

00:03:09.140 when we have different sets of laws and policies that apply to different people based on the colour of their skin.

00:03:14.520 Nations have fought wars to end race-based policies, yet Canada is entrenching them further

00:03:19.120 and decries opponents of racial policies as being racist.

00:03:22.720 It's a rather gross irony. 0.78

00:03:24.440 How far must we go with this ludicrous system before admitting it can never succeed?

00:03:29.200 Indeed, we've got to start measuring policies by outcome rather than intent,

00:03:32.780 and the outcomes of every race-based policy in Canada are failing.

00:03:37.760 Canada set up separate sentencing guidelines for Indigenous offenders along with alternative means of incarceration.

00:03:43.940 What do we get as a result?

00:03:45.060 Crime rates among the Indigenous have skyrocketed, and the number of Indigenous victims of crime have skyrocketed. 0.99

00:03:50.820 Funds have been poured into Indigenous business ventures.

00:03:53.300 As a result, Indigenous businesses have a terrible success rate, and those that do succeed usually only do so 1.00

00:03:59.280 because they specialize in government contracts.

00:04:01.560 We've set up separate educational systems and set up different bars for Indigenous people to acquire degrees and diplomas. 1.00

00:04:07.240 As a result, the education level of Indigenous people lags well below non-Indigenous and is sinking. 0.97

00:04:12.800 Extra funding has been poured into health care measures for Indigenous people.

00:04:15.780 As a result, they suffer from more chronic health issues than anybody else and die younger than non-Indigenous people on average.

00:04:21.300 In Alberta, for example, Indigenous men die 19 years younger, I'm not misspeaking, 19 years younger than non-Indigenous men. 0.99

00:04:28.120 That stat alone should make people understand how broken the system is.

00:04:31.900 Grants have been given to reserves to take care of child services.

00:04:34.520 Well, foster and emergency child care services are disproportionately populated by Indigenous kids to the point of crisis. 1.00

00:04:40.640 Countless programs in both the public and private sectors have been formed to offer preferential hiring to Indigenous people.

00:04:47.440 Despite this, they're among the most chronically unemployed people in Canada.

00:04:50.260 There's not enough government jobs to really cut into that number.

00:04:54.180 Due to there being no written language for Indigenous people, the courts have enshrined oral history as being credible when it is anything but.

00:05:00.080 This has led to some of the insane rulings on land claims and fostered the Kamloops residential school child burial hoax that led to burning and vandalism of over 100 churches.

00:05:08.640 Canada is now fast becoming a total economic basket case as the Eastern manufacturing industries are collapsing if they don't get massive subsidies.

00:05:16.640 And the resource-based industries that used to pay all those subsidies for them are hamstrung by false veto authority held by Indigenous bands. 0.99

00:05:23.040 The nation is becoming an investment pariah while British Columbia is castrating its real estate industry through potentially violating property rights with land settlements offered to Indigenous bands.

00:05:32.760 In short, nobody's winning. Indigenous people are being held back and infantilized with Canada's race-based system. 0.88

00:05:39.020 It's taken great people and led them into a socioeconomic catastrophe of dependency and dysfunction.

00:05:45.080 Meanwhile, those who have to pay all the bills are running out of ways to make money to do it.

00:05:48.840 The solution is actually simple yet difficult to implement.

00:05:52.140 All race-based policies must end.

00:05:54.700 No modern nation can function effectively when people hold different statuses under the law due to their bloodlines. 0.87

00:05:59.780 The only question is time.

00:06:01.760 How long will Canada wait?

00:06:03.320 And how bad will things become before finally we're forced to realize that race-based policies are always wrong and must end?

00:06:10.360 So you won't hear this often, out of me, guys.

00:06:12.000 But let's follow Pierre Trudeau's advice and make everybody equal under the law at last. 0.98

00:06:17.560 Because right now it's crap. 0.98

00:06:18.900 All right. 0.99

00:06:19.580 Well, that's what's got me started today.

00:06:21.060 Let's see what else is happening in the news.

00:06:22.780 Dave, what are you so far with your glasses?

00:06:24.680 I got myself new glasses last night.

00:06:27.360 I can finally see you.

00:06:28.860 Oh, well, I'm sorry about that.

00:06:30.740 Or see right through you, as the case may be.

00:06:33.980 It's nasty outside. 0.72

00:06:35.140 That's gross.

00:06:36.000 I'm supposed to speak at an event in Vulcan tonight, but we'll see.

00:06:40.100 My daughter lives in that area, and the roads are supposed to be pretty bad.

00:06:44.040 Yeah, prairie areas, you know, I mean, I love them, but boy, when the wind blows, the snow will cross them.

00:06:48.400 They can be a little worse on the highways.

00:06:49.280 We'll see.

00:06:50.260 It's going to be tough on Jane when she has to go to the creek to pick up water tonight. 0.99

00:06:54.000 I know, I know.

00:06:55.140 I haven't got an update on her yet, just for those who don't know.

00:06:57.440 My water system failed.

00:06:59.100 We live rurally, and I got up this morning to no water in the taps, brushing my teeth with water out of the coffee maker.

00:07:07.140 I thought there was a weird smell, man.

00:07:08.940 Jane is tasked with trying to figure out what's going on, so we can have things like toilets and such when I get home. 0.99

00:07:14.480 Or maybe Vulcan might look more appealing.

00:07:15.940 Yeah, there you go.

00:07:16.840 There you go.

00:07:18.100 Does the Star Trek Museum, do they have a bathroom?

00:07:21.700 I don't assume, so it'll probably be closed by the time you get there.

00:07:24.540 I'll bring a treat to Vulcan.

00:07:25.860 There you go.

00:07:26.520 Well, you know, I don't want to sound like a parrot, but it's another busy news day today.

00:07:31.980 We're leading off with a column from Chris Oldcorn on some immigration proposals being put forward by Premier Daniel Smith.

00:07:39.840 The main one being that unless you're an immigrant that's wanted by Alberta, like Alberta can bring in their own immigrants, but they get dumped a lot on by the feds, that unless you're approved by the Alberta government, you'll get no welfare services, no health services, no education services.

00:08:00.760 Basically making it impossible for non-improved immigrants to move here. 1.00

00:08:05.880 Non-working immigrants. 1.00

00:08:07.200 Non-working immigrants, correct. 1.00

00:08:08.980 The condition of approval is typically employment and self-

00:08:12.520 Yeah, you have to be a contributing member of society and then society looks after you.

00:08:16.380 Boy, come on, Ian, if you want to work.

00:08:18.540 Seems to make sense, doesn't it?

00:08:19.920 You don't want to go to Quebec.

00:08:20.860 I mean, that's where our equalization goes anyway.

00:08:22.300 Yeah, we've got a Quebec story out also on the A&W, A&W franchisees down there are saying unless they get an increase in temporary foreign workers, they're going to have to shut down restaurants.

00:08:35.300 Basically, they said the kids, young adults, they don't want to work in the fast food industry anymore and they need temporary foreign workers.

00:08:41.600 Which, you know, I don't know how much it comes to the policy or what's best or worst, but I know from all the pub and restaurant, the next generation does not want to work in the kitchens for, yet at the same time, people don't want to reach into their wallets and pay for the living wage it would take to drag people out there.

00:08:56.180 So I think some people have to reevaluate what you want.

00:08:59.020 I mean, you sure A&W could hire all Canadian, you know, some people are screaming, we'll just let them hire Canadian.

00:09:03.440 Okay, if you're ready to pay $10 for that little cheeseburger, that's the route to go.

00:09:07.760 So it's interesting, just so you don't remind people, there's cause and effect, if you cut the TFWs, some prices are going to go up.

00:09:14.800 That's right.

00:09:16.080 This may come as a shock to you, Corey, but we've got a story about corruption in Quebec.

00:09:20.700 Oh, no.

00:09:21.460 Yeah, no, shocking.

00:09:23.800 Involving the newly appointed leader of the Quebec Liberal Party, Pablo Rodriguez, used to be a member of the Trudeau cabinet and stepped down to run for the job and win just six months ago.

00:09:34.820 But the party's been embroiled in a corruption scandal that saw basically members paid to vote, which is somewhat illegal.

00:09:43.800 So he is apparently stepping down this afternoon.

00:09:47.580 We've got a story on Kelowna MLA Gavin Dew.

00:09:51.360 He was sort of thought that he might take a run at the BC Conservative leadership vacated by John Rustad.

00:09:59.480 But he says that would take him away from his family too much, so he is not going to run.

00:10:05.360 The Liberal government's Islamophobia advisor secretly gave an $80,000 grant to a university's pro-Palestine group.

00:10:15.820 And this came about through access to information records dug up by our friends, a Blacklock's reporter.

00:10:22.920 And she had initially died or denied, not died, sorry.

00:10:28.020 Died of shame.

00:10:28.700 Died of shame, maybe.

00:10:30.260 She repeatedly denied ever doing this.

00:10:32.760 And now she's been proven to be not quite telling the truth.

00:10:35.960 And interesting story out of Great Britain, Bournemouth, actually, where lots of my family lives.

00:10:43.280 A guy who posted two tweets, I guess X's now or whatever you want to call them, slamming immigration.

00:10:50.680 This was after a terrorist or there was a would-be terrorist that killed the six people at the Christmas market.

00:10:58.360 He tweeted against immigration twice.

00:11:01.300 They were viewed by a total of 33 people, and he got thrown in the slammer for 18 months.

00:11:07.140 So I wonder if Premier Smith would get thrown in jail for some of the stuff she said about immigration here in Alberta.

00:11:13.180 No, I don't think so.

00:11:14.700 But things are way out of control in Great Britain.

00:11:17.980 They're throwing everybody who tweets in the slammer.

00:11:21.660 Well, you get locked up for tweeting about it.

00:11:22.980 But, I mean, if you go and do an illegal protest, you're fine.

00:11:25.740 Yes, yes, exactly.

00:11:27.460 Exactly. 1.00

00:11:27.860 Or wear a mask on the street and call for the death of Jews, you're okay. 1.00

00:11:34.280 Priorities. 1.00

00:11:34.900 Yeah.

00:11:35.220 Oh, well.

00:11:36.040 They've got to free criminals in England just to get all the tweeters in there.

00:11:40.900 Proof of them.

00:11:42.680 I mean, most of the guys that I know, I'm an example of it.

00:11:45.180 You know, we're just all dorks who play on X and everything anyway.

00:11:47.660 So if you really want boring prison movies and stories, you know, have a bunch of the online geeks filling all those cells rather than nice hardened criminals we're supposed to enjoy watching.

00:11:55.580 Exactly.

00:11:55.960 Things are a bit broken.

00:11:57.720 Yes, they are.

00:11:58.900 Oh, well.

00:11:59.840 Anything else up?

00:12:00.720 You know, Christmas plans this year?

00:12:02.380 Yeah, I'm going to head out to the lower mainland on my grandson's first Christmas.

00:12:07.180 So very excited about that.

00:12:10.040 But, you know, weather, floods, getting through the Coquahola, getting through Highway 1 through Hope to the lower mainland could be a bit of a difficult day.

00:12:20.800 You're going to drive it.

00:12:21.380 I need a vehicle to get all my Christmas presents back, right?

00:12:26.140 Because I wouldn't say I'm anticipating it's a great whole grandchild.

00:12:30.320 Yeah.

00:12:30.900 Yeah.

00:12:31.200 But I need room to bring all my presents back.

00:12:33.800 Oh, well, yeah.

00:12:35.180 No, no.

00:12:36.000 My mom likes to, you know, load me down with things like toilet paper for the year and that sort of stuff.

00:12:42.040 Important stuff.

00:12:42.860 Important stuff.

00:12:43.380 I'm learning about the absence of proper sanitary facilities today.

00:12:46.600 There you go.

00:12:47.300 Yeah.

00:12:47.500 You've been sort of living in the washroom here at the Western Standard.

00:12:51.160 Yeah.

00:12:51.700 I had to make use of the public facility.

00:12:53.500 I don't do that.

00:12:56.320 I'll be in the woods tonight.

00:12:57.700 Oh, you and the bears.

00:12:59.040 Yes.

00:12:59.800 All right.

00:13:00.320 Well, thank you very much for the updates.

00:13:01.880 And I offered more updates than you needed.

00:13:03.800 But today, that's the nature of this show.

00:13:05.960 Thanks, Corey.

00:13:06.460 I'll see you after the show.

00:13:08.180 All right.

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00:13:34.600 Mavros Whistle, a commenter, fired $10 our way.

00:13:37.300 Well, I really appreciate that.

00:13:39.420 And saying the biggest race-based issue right now is the Gladue Principles.

00:13:44.100 Merry Christmas, Corey in WS.

00:13:45.620 Thank you.

00:13:46.180 It is a huge one.

00:13:47.240 The Gladue Principles are a gross violation of equality and justice.

00:13:52.520 For those unfamiliar with that, I wrote on it recently, actually, in a different publication.

00:13:57.420 But it was a ruling that came through that basically forces judges to take into account

00:14:02.200 the race of the offender and to apply lighter sentences whenever possible to them,

00:14:07.500 specifically Indigenous ones, not anybody else.

00:14:10.520 And again, you know what?

00:14:11.780 If it worked, if it worked and there were very few Indigenous people going to jail,

00:14:16.880 very few reoffending, you know what?

00:14:18.140 I'd be all for it.

00:14:18.920 I want what works.

00:14:20.160 But it didn't work.

00:14:20.960 Since those principles came in, crime rates have gone up.

00:14:24.440 The incarceration rates for Indigenous people have gone up.

00:14:27.820 And we're talking 25 years since those things came about, or 30 years.

00:14:30.580 I think, how long do we have to wait to admit, geez, maybe it doesn't friggin' work?

00:14:34.540 I don't know.

00:14:35.000 This is Canada.

00:14:36.060 And we can be waiting a long time.

00:14:37.320 I'm not going to hold my breath waiting for common sense.

00:14:38.980 I'll turn way too purple.

00:14:40.900 I'll just let the usual high blood pressure take care of that for me.

00:14:44.380 So let's get on to something lighter, not so much lighter.

00:14:47.640 This is great.

00:14:48.040 I've been looking forward to this.

00:14:49.220 I've been a guest on a show for her a couple of times, but I've never had her on our show.

00:14:54.460 Lise Murrell, a best-selling author of a children's book, Buck the Rainbow Unicorn.

00:14:59.320 Yeah, it's taken things by storm, and right up there in the Amazon bestseller.

00:15:04.160 So let's bring Lise in and chat about this.

00:15:07.480 There you are.

00:15:09.060 Hey, Merry Christmas, Lise.

00:15:10.740 Welcome to the show.

00:15:12.000 Well, hello, my darling Corey Morgan, and Merry Christmas to you from a number one Amazon best-selling author.

00:15:21.200 I mean, I couldn't be more surprised if I tried.

00:15:26.540 Couldn't be more surprised if I tried.

00:15:28.440 You sort of teased on the book, but let's talk about it, Corey Morgan.

00:15:32.720 Yeah, well, absolutely.

00:15:34.300 I mean, there are, you know, many, many children's books out there.

00:15:38.440 I mean, lots of people really dream of writing a children's book, and there's some great ones out there that just didn't quite break out of the pack necessarily

00:15:45.500 and turn into number one on the Amazon list, for crying out loud.

00:15:49.260 What is it that distinguishes Buck the Rainbow Unicorn from the other children's books?

00:15:53.760 Well, Buck the Rainbow Unicorn is truly a tale and fable for our time at this moment in time.

00:16:01.460 Because if we think about what our children have been exposed to, whether it be in public education, whether it be from public institutions, whether it be from the government of Canada,

00:16:13.300 that they have been told an egregious lie as it pertains to gender ideology, and this book confronts that in a way that is age appropriate for little ones,

00:16:23.740 in a way that allows parents to have conversations with their children about these things, and in a way sort of takes things back for us.

00:16:32.940 The common sense, rational, conservative parents who have just all acknowledged at the same time that this is not something that we are ever going to support as it pertains to our children.

00:16:45.260 Yeah, I see from the live comments, good old Sheila Gunn-Reed is in there watching and has kindly gifted us for Christmas there as well. 0.98

00:16:53.540 Thank you, Sheila.

00:16:54.660 And here to cheer on her best friend, the acclaimed LGBTQ2SAI+.

00:17:02.340 She forgot the Ambersan, so clearly Sheila is intolerant, but he's offering support. 0.58

00:17:08.280 Either way, that is fantastic.

00:17:10.180 And I did read it, you know, and you've written it at a level where even I can take this in.

00:17:13.620 It's a brilliant book, and despite there being, you know, realistically, there's a little bit of a, I guess you could say a political undertone, but it's positive messaging.

00:17:21.900 It's the kind of messaging we should have in children's books.

00:17:24.200 It's saying, embrace who you are.

00:17:26.680 Be real.

00:17:27.300 Be realistic about it.

00:17:28.340 Talk with your parents.

00:17:30.500 Don't let the pressure push you the wrong way.

00:17:32.840 That's right.

00:17:33.580 And just to really put a fine point on the fact that family is everything.

00:17:39.600 Family is really everything, especially to conservatives.

00:17:42.500 This is the foundation of our civilization.

00:17:45.320 And to encourage parents to bring their children nearer, to have critical conversations with little ones when they're in a really formative part of their development.

00:17:55.300 This book enables all of that.

00:17:57.520 And I've been, I've been receiving the most incredible feedback on the book from parents who have been really negatively impacted by this in their lives.

00:18:07.080 Their children have fallen victim to this really caustic, toxic, and damaging ideology.

00:18:13.280 And those parents are hyping the book.

00:18:15.360 Regular parents are hyping the book.

00:18:16.940 Grandparents are sending the book.

00:18:19.080 And the funny thing is, Corey, you will love this detail.

00:18:22.100 So in the book, Corey read the book.

00:18:24.020 And the book was actually written on a typewriter, you guys, from 1948.

00:18:28.960 Okay.

00:18:29.200 And in 2023, and I just happened to be parked on the Trans Canada Highway when I did it.

00:18:35.900 Well, if you put trans in your book, then it will soar to the, and put a rainbow on the cover. 0.96

00:18:42.020 Okay.

00:18:42.280 A rainbow or unicorn on the cover.

00:18:43.720 Amazon is going to make it number one in the LGBTQIA listings.

00:18:48.900 So thanks so much for that, Amazon.

00:18:51.400 And also, we're number one.

00:18:53.300 Okay.

00:18:53.540 Get this, you guys.

00:18:54.480 We are number one globally for Amazon hot new releases.

00:19:00.200 This is, this is incredible.

00:19:01.740 Every single author you have ever heard of is underneath Buck the Rainbow Unicorn on Amazon right now, which like makes my day.

00:19:08.080 But we're also number, we're a number one bestseller on Amazon for children's books about self-esteem and self-respect.

00:19:16.020 And so I ask you guys, are we raising our children to have self-esteem and have self-respect?

00:19:21.940 Respect for themselves, respect for their families, respect for our values and beliefs.

00:19:28.020 And if the answer to that is yes, well then Buck the Rainbow Unicorn is for you.

00:19:33.800 Yeah.

00:19:33.960 Well, and parenting, I mean, it's tough.

00:19:36.020 It's complicated.

00:19:36.960 It, it, it's, especially when we get issues like this and what do you do if your child has come home and, and let's face it, there's some activist teachers out there.

00:19:45.020 There's other individuals and your, your, your child's confused by some of the messaging, but they're not adults to sit at the dinner table and break down and discuss something like this when they're still in a formative place.

00:19:54.800 What better way to sit down with a children's book at night and just kind of lay out page by page.

00:19:59.960 And then you can expand perhaps a little bit of what it's talking about.

00:20:02.720 But it is a great way to communicate it on the child's level because they're not going to listen to a long political diatribe.

00:20:07.820 My kids got sick of that when they were six with me.

00:20:10.440 This, this is exactly right.

00:20:11.920 Because what, what children are told is you must be kind.

00:20:14.860 You absolutely must be kind.

00:20:16.580 You have no choice.

00:20:17.400 You must be kind.

00:20:18.720 And there is, you know, transphobia is not allowed here.

00:20:21.840 And homophobia is not allowed here.

00:20:23.420 And, you know, bigotry is not allowed here.

00:20:25.200 And they're told these messages that have no factual basis in reality.

00:20:30.120 When, when family is the heart of your life, like it is for mine as a mother of six from Saskatchewan, nothing in this book is controversial.

00:20:40.500 This book, this book really promotes, promotes the idea that the family loves you best and knows you best.

00:20:48.200 And this is a way for us to, again, just take back our children who have been told are a really, a really, really egregious fib.

00:20:56.280 Yeah.

00:20:56.760 Well, you've kind of been well-trained in the family lessons in life.

00:20:59.600 What I caught in that as well as what you've been quite prolific in, in your life and in having children.

00:21:04.660 You were a solitary child growing up.

00:21:06.900 So it, it takes different communication, smaller families, bigger families, and things like these books are a great way to bring that across.

00:21:14.760 Yes.

00:21:15.700 And, and this book is actually, you know, in addition to parents and grandparents gobbling up this book, telling me that it's necessary that this is, you know, to continue on this work that I'm doing.

00:21:27.420 Counselors in schools are also buying this book, Corey.

00:21:30.320 Daycares are buying this book.

00:21:32.400 Educators are buying this book.

00:21:33.880 Homeschoolers are buying this book.

00:21:35.240 So that just tells me that there is a real, real need to have truthful conversations with children.

00:21:40.120 And this book allows you to do that.

00:21:42.060 Yesterday, I got a text from a daycare provider who read it cold.

00:21:45.360 Okay.

00:21:45.480 Hadn't read it before in her life, received the book, sat down in front of her kids.

00:21:49.600 And she said, at first, the boys were like, oh, a rainbow unicorn.

00:21:54.720 I don't want to listen to a book.

00:21:56.240 But there's a plot twist in the book.

00:21:58.300 Okay, guys, there is a plot twist in the book.

00:22:00.540 And when the boys, when, when the plot twist was revealed to the boys, they were out of their minds excited about the book.

00:22:09.200 Okay, so these are little boys that are like, that are like, you know, they see the cover and they're like, I don't want another girl book. 1.00

00:22:16.100 And then they realize that, that there's a message in there for them.

00:22:19.200 So that, that's just making my life, buddy.

00:22:21.460 It's just making my life.

00:22:22.520 That kids are loving it.

00:22:23.440 That senior citizens are loving it.

00:22:25.440 The parents are loving it.

00:22:26.480 And that families are loving it.

00:22:27.740 I mean, I just couldn't be happier.

00:22:28.960 Yeah, well, and what I liked about it, I mean, again, you, you've packed a metaphor of a political message into a book in a sense, but it's all positive.

00:22:37.800 The whole book is positive.

00:22:38.920 It's not saying reject somebody or be mean to somebody or anything of this sort.

00:22:44.440 It's just talking about embracing who you are.

00:22:47.320 I mean, the messaging is positive from start to end, which is great.

00:22:50.700 Thank you.

00:22:51.220 Yes, I agree.

00:22:52.080 And to think that that whole entire book came out of a 20 second, or excuse me, a 20 minute session on the side of the Trans-Canada Highway was incredible.

00:23:00.760 Like one page.

00:23:01.420 It took one page.

00:23:02.240 It was about 200 words.

00:23:03.820 It was messy in its writing a little bit, right?

00:23:06.560 Like it's not, there are not proper poetry stanzas in the story, but the story is just so good and delicious.

00:23:14.460 And I read it like, Corey, I've been reading this story on a piece of paper for two years and thinking every time I read it, it just gets better and better.

00:23:20.580 Like I like it more and more.

00:23:22.080 So to see the world responding to it with such positivity is just so gratifying for me.

00:23:27.840 Like, especially, you know, coming from you, it's a pretty big, oops, it's a pretty big compliment.

00:23:32.940 Well, you brought it down to my level so I could consume it properly.

00:23:38.200 But so the illustrations, I mean, that's the other aspect.

00:23:41.580 You had the 200 words for quite some time.

00:23:43.820 The illustrations are great and that helps with kids as well.

00:23:46.140 I mean, you know, you want to be able to point to things, look to things.

00:23:48.680 They're eye-catching and fantastic.

00:23:52.240 How did you have those created?

00:23:54.360 Well, let me tell you, Corey Morgan.

00:23:56.740 The book is based on, like, it is so Saskatchewan and Alberta coded in the illustrations.

00:24:01.460 Like, there's wild roses for Alberta and there are prairie lilies for Saskatchewan.

00:24:06.400 And the setting of the book is actually My Grandma's Farm from 1937 in Halbright.

00:24:11.800 So I had this old, grainy, black and white photo that we then transformed using AI to illustrate the settings of the book.

00:24:21.220 So what you're actually looking at is My Grandma's Farm, Halbright, Saskatchewan, circa 1937.

00:24:27.860 And there's a, you know, there's a couple other settings.

00:24:31.280 There's a couple other settings in the book that you'll see as you sort of travel along the story in the book.

00:24:36.520 One of them is a small town rodeo in Saskatchewan, the Arcola Rodeo.

00:24:41.060 One of them is, you know, another farm setting.

00:24:45.480 But all of the characters and all of the development were done using AI, which I think is a really happy marriage, considering the poem was written on a typewriter, which was state of the art in 1948 when it was built.

00:24:58.600 Like, typewriters were created out of a, after the war, there was a whole bunch of steel products, right?

00:25:04.280 Like, we had this, we had this market for steel and they started making typewriters out of it.

00:25:09.220 So my stuff, my, that story came off a machine that was made out of the same stuff as battleships.

00:25:14.740 Okay.

00:25:14.980 So that's on one side.

00:25:16.000 And then on the other side, we have all of the imagery in the book that was created from AI, but from vintage sources.

00:25:23.520 So it's just super, like, it's super cool for me to be able to explain to you guys in that way.

00:25:28.520 But I'm delighted that you like the illustrations, Corey.

00:25:31.840 Oh, absolutely.

00:25:33.860 I mean, I know the attention span of kids.

00:25:35.720 It can be difficult.

00:25:36.640 I tried to read them Atlas Shrugged and they just jumped away from their bed as far as they possibly could.

00:25:42.520 You need to have great things like illustrations to go with the words to keep it interesting and exciting.

00:25:49.620 And I'm still chasing them around with the fountainhead now.

00:25:51.880 But all the same, it's just a great children's book.

00:25:55.600 I mean, you didn't just slap something together to make a point or something like that.

00:25:59.220 This is a functional, good, fun, you know, large format.

00:26:02.640 So you could sit there at bedtime or whenever and read through that.

00:26:06.340 That's exactly what we want to happen.

00:26:08.000 And we want kids to have this right beside their bed so that every night before bed, you touch on this.

00:26:14.780 You know, we all had that favorite book growing up that you read so often that the pages got dog-eared and the spine ripped a little bit.

00:26:22.580 And, you know, it was just so well-loved and well-worn that you didn't even have to read the words to tell the story because it became so familiar.

00:26:29.260 And that's really what I hope for with this book is that people, people read it and that it resonates with them and that it's loved by little children because it's so dearly needed.

00:26:38.800 And they're worth it.

00:26:39.780 They're worth it.

00:26:41.180 So, you know, I do have to ask about some of the negative in a sense.

00:26:45.260 We know it's the world of social media.

00:26:46.780 It's a world of hysterics and, you know, accusatory things.

00:26:51.460 Which bad feedback have you been getting?

00:26:54.020 I mean, it sounds like for the most part, it's been fantastic and positive, but I imagine you've had some, some nutters coming at you on this.

00:26:59.200 Yeah.

00:26:59.580 Yeah.

00:26:59.940 They're leaving, you know, the worst of the worst are leaving poor Amazon reviews, calling it all.

00:27:06.280 I mean, all of the predictable names.

00:27:08.280 It's hateful.

00:27:08.880 It's anti-2SLGBTQIA. 1.00

00:27:11.900 It's bigoted.

00:27:12.980 It's all of the things.

00:27:13.780 But the overwhelming, overwhelming majority of reviews are positive reviews from people just like you and I, who believe that children deserve to be told the truth and children deserve to be honored in this way.

00:27:27.700 And so it's great.

00:27:28.860 It's great for families.

00:27:30.440 It's great for anybody that knows a little one.

00:27:32.460 And I even had a guy reach out and tell me that he bought 10 to put in a little free libraries.

00:27:37.880 So we're actually like guerrilla marketing this into the atmosphere so that people just in, in the wild can experience this book too, because, because it is, it is a really special story.

00:27:49.400 Like it is a really special story and one that's really, really important for this moment in time.

00:27:56.040 Absolutely.

00:27:56.600 And it's fun.

00:27:57.120 I mean, you can read through it.

00:27:58.080 Part of it's just, you know, it's engaging.

00:27:59.520 It's not just rattle through it with the kid, read it, see if they've got questions, chat back and forth, process it, or as I said, get dog-eared and apply it over time as well.

00:28:07.880 Is that some kind of rainbow unicorn in your background I see back then?

00:28:11.100 You're a balloon?

00:28:12.160 You're this guy?

00:28:13.220 That is a, that is a rainbow unicorn.

00:28:14.860 I got myself a special balloon to, to just celebrate a little bit that we have a hot hit on our hands.

00:28:22.520 And I, like, as a literary icon, Corey Morgan, you can claim to have known me before I was a literary icon, but I thought that, you know, spending 12 bucks on a little piece of decoration wasn't outside the norm for this.

00:28:35.800 So, well, it, it complements everything fantastically.

00:28:39.600 And I mean, Amazon getting to the modern from typewriter to AI to Amazon, I mean, the days are gone where you have to get in through, uh, the old publishing houses to manage to break through into the big bookstores and chapters or Kohl's.

00:28:52.320 If we want to go way back this way, you can really get to everybody fast, efficiently at a good price.

00:28:58.480 It's, it's, it's brilliant.

00:29:00.020 Uh, so before I let you go, I mean, that, that's the main place to get a copy or 10, right?

00:29:03.960 Uh, Amazon.

00:29:05.200 Yes.

00:29:05.620 Amazon, uh, you can go to bucktherainbowunicorn.com.

00:29:09.760 That's going to direct you straight to Amazon.

00:29:12.240 Uh, it is on sale.

00:29:14.200 Buck the rainbow unicorn right now is on sale on Amazon for $18.

00:29:18.880 So for $18, you hit click buy and Amazon, uh, immediately, immediately sets to printing the book and shipping it.

00:29:27.500 And it will be at your house within, um, two days in Canada.

00:29:31.660 So it, they made it so easy.

00:29:33.920 And it's really like, like talk about the German printing press.

00:29:36.960 Like this is the next level of the German printing press.

00:29:39.620 What they're doing on the Amazon side is kind of spectacular, um, in the way that we can get information to people, but it's super easy to buy 18 bucks delivered to your door and, um, a little one or little ones in your life will have a really, really great story to read.

00:29:54.940 Yeah.

00:29:55.380 Well, I, I, yeah, I don't think Gutenberg envisioned this coming to an end, uh, eventually with publishing, but it's great to see real books too.

00:30:01.860 That's the final thing I want to say as a bookworm, a lover of them and fighting with the digital world, boy, get some paper books in some kids' hands and maybe.

00:30:10.040 Pass on some of that love of books that's being kind of lost by a lot these days.

00:30:14.240 There's something, there's something about holding something tangible in your hands.

00:30:18.180 It is real when it exists in your hands.

00:30:20.540 So I absolutely agree.

00:30:22.100 I thought what we can all agree children need more good books and they should read more good books where they're being inundated, inundated with social media and algorithms and their little brains are being molded in ways that we can't even envision.

00:30:35.800 Okay.

00:30:36.420 This book is the counter to that.

00:30:38.300 So, uh, yeah, let's all, let's all read some books together.

00:30:41.900 And hey, Corey, you have a book.

00:30:43.720 You have a book on Amazon.

00:30:45.440 We should just talk about that real quick.

00:30:47.740 Oh, I talk about that one plenty, but yes, that's the Sovereign's Handbook.

00:30:51.260 I got up to a number 11 at one point actually last spring, but oh boy, you've eclipsed me by a long shot.

00:30:57.540 So, uh, and, uh, I, I do encourage children to read it once they turn 18, stick to Buck the Rainbow Unicorn and some enjoyable, uh, books until you, uh, hit adulthood and then we can bore you and, and inflame your, your, uh, political minds with my sort of pap.

00:31:12.980 So, but, uh, great.

00:31:14.800 Well, thank you for the, the, throwing the, the plug back my way.

00:31:17.200 And I know Sheila's been a fantastic advocate of my book, probably a better marketer than I am with it.

00:31:21.320 Oh, she sells up. 1.00

00:31:22.340 She loves selling your book, Corey Morgan.

00:31:25.280 And like, nothing gives her more pleasure.

00:31:27.520 Yeah, I'll have to get another case of beer the next time we're at a, a common function.

00:31:32.120 Oh, deal.

00:31:33.000 So thank you very much for, uh, for writing the book, for coming on to talk about it.

00:31:37.020 And good, you answered the other question.

00:31:38.520 So folks get out there.

00:31:39.800 It's still there in time for a Christmas.

00:31:42.040 You can get one, get it there, a stocking stuffer or wherever for a Christmas gift.

00:31:46.880 No better time to get it.

00:31:48.180 And, uh, uh, see one of the commenters, Mavro saying Buck the Sovereignist might be the, uh, uh, sequel to this coming up down the road.

00:31:55.280 That might be our next collab.

00:31:57.160 Corey Morgan is a children's book for, for little separatists.

00:32:00.420 I kind of love this idea.

00:32:02.840 Inspiration can come from anywhere.

00:32:04.580 All right.

00:32:05.500 I'll let you go.

00:32:06.500 I hope you guys survive that, uh, horrible weather.

00:32:08.980 Sounds like it's coming out Saskatchewan's way for the next day or two.

00:32:11.500 Meh, it's fine.

00:32:13.020 We're, we're used to it.

00:32:14.040 We're made of tough stuff.

00:32:15.280 And, um, for everybody at the Western Standard and all Western Standard viewers, have a very, very Merry Christmas and wishing you, um, health, wealth, and happiness in 2026.

00:32:25.280 Well, thank you very much.

00:32:26.180 And, uh, again, back at you guys at Rebel and everything, uh, our friendly competitors, we're more than happy to, uh, collaborate with, with an ever possible.

00:32:34.440 Yeah.

00:32:34.720 All right.

00:32:35.440 Well, thank you again.

00:32:36.300 And, uh, we'll talk again soon.

00:32:37.820 Thanks kids.

00:32:38.540 Thanks for having me.

00:32:39.760 All right.

00:32:40.680 So this one more time guys, Lee Smurl and, uh, yes, Buck the Rainbow Unicorn.

00:32:45.220 Very easy to find online.

00:32:46.620 It's just taken off brilliantly.

00:32:48.320 We need something positive now and then.

00:32:50.200 And that's what this is, is positive.

00:32:52.080 I'm here for the Krabby Negative.

00:32:53.440 That's my job.

00:32:54.580 Once in a while, let's break it up.

00:32:55.780 The kids don't need my sour face for this sort of thing.

00:32:58.400 But boy, a really good read.

00:33:00.760 Get Buck the, uh, the Rainbow Uniform.

00:33:03.200 Rainbow Uniform, boy.

00:33:04.540 Too many words coming up today.

00:33:05.900 Rainbow Unicorn.

00:33:07.020 And grab a copy, have some fun and explore those messages with your kids.

00:33:12.560 Because again, I, I, I'm, I like to think I was a decent parent, but I, you know, as you

00:33:17.100 can imagine, I'm not one of the great ones to talk to on that one-on-one kid level.

00:33:20.120 I wasn't the great dad that way and things like that.

00:33:22.020 Children's books really help.

00:33:23.300 They help.

00:33:23.880 So somebody who's better at communicating that way, and then you can read them together,

00:33:27.860 get through those things because, you know, they're getting mixed messaging.

00:33:32.280 They're, they're not just hearing from you.

00:33:33.760 They're hearing from activists in schools, the teachers, the teacher's assistants, or

00:33:38.060 maybe even other students who just have gotten mixed messaging.

00:33:43.680 And you want to correct that at home.

00:33:45.800 That's the role of the home.

00:33:47.100 That's part of the sad politics that's been going on.

00:33:49.900 Teachers unions, others that want to get between parents and their kids.

00:33:53.300 They don't believe the parents should be communicating with the kids.

00:33:55.740 That's part of the battle in Alberta.

00:33:57.300 That's part of what's been going on with Premier Smith with them saying, well, we can't force

00:34:02.560 the schools to communicate issues that are going on with the children to their parents.

00:34:05.600 Well, why the hell not?

00:34:06.480 It's their parents.

00:34:07.360 The family is paramount.

00:34:09.460 The parents are the final authority.

00:34:11.980 They must be.

00:34:13.720 It's, it's, it's how we've evolved, not teachers unions.

00:34:17.600 And I can hear from people, not every parent is, is accepting.

00:34:21.740 Not every parent, you know, there's bad parents.

00:34:23.680 I understand that.

00:34:24.960 But the vast, vast majority of parents, vast majority want what is best for their children.

00:34:29.560 Nobody will want what is best for their children more than a parent.

00:34:33.360 And there's nothing more abhorrent than seeing teachers unions who are entrusted with the

00:34:39.160 care of our children for so many hours a week, so many months a year. 0.97

00:34:43.200 We entrust them to you and you put your political crap into our children and then tell us we don't 0.92

00:34:49.440 have the right as parents to communicate with our children for it. 0.98

00:34:53.960 It's just wrong.

00:34:55.300 And we can't eliminate all of it overnight.

00:34:58.400 Not everybody can afford to put their kids into private schools or has the resources to

00:35:02.640 be able to homeschool.

00:35:03.660 So they have to counter what their children have been getting in the public schools.

00:35:07.900 And books like this are a fantastic way to do it.

00:35:10.760 A great way to communicate directly with the smaller kids because it's a big message.

00:35:14.260 It's a complicated message when you really drill down into it.

00:35:17.660 But this way it simplifies it and starts the conversation.

00:35:20.500 And it's the same sort of fable that we've seen in many other books anyways.

00:35:25.060 They've always just celebrated.

00:35:26.600 Be you.

00:35:27.900 Be you.

00:35:28.440 Don't worry about what somebody else is telling you to be.

00:35:31.420 Talk to your parents about who you are.

00:35:33.820 Think to yourself about who you are.

00:35:35.360 Don't worry about what's considered trendy or what might garner attention and things like

00:35:40.220 that.

00:35:40.480 It's just, and it's, you know, pressy.

00:35:44.160 It's a good time to have this discussion because the world's gone batty. 0.99

00:35:47.560 I mean, really, it has.

00:35:49.760 You know, we just did this gender confusion, lunacy that's been going on. 0.99

00:35:55.340 Let's just have those conversations early because kids are impressionable.

00:35:58.940 They're learning.

00:35:59.520 They're being introduced to the world.

00:36:01.460 And it's our job to make sure they have as much good information on their way in as

00:36:06.940 we can possibly give them.

00:36:08.120 And children's books are a great way to do it.

00:36:09.860 And as I said, I'm just a book geek.

00:36:11.960 The kids who start with books like this, there's a much better chance they'll eventually

00:36:15.720 get onto Atlas Shrugged and then the Sovereignty's Handbook when they get a little older.

00:36:19.240 So this is a gateway drug into literacy.

00:36:22.880 So get your kid addicted early with a copy of Buck the Rainbow Unicorn.

00:36:28.440 All right, let's get back to some of the serious stuff.

00:36:30.740 If I have to, you know, going on into actually, you know, modern journalism, modern coverage

00:36:38.160 of things.

00:36:38.580 And it ties a little bit into what I was talking about before with race-based policies and

00:36:42.900 things such as that.

00:36:44.120 There's a gal I've met her a number of times at events.

00:36:46.760 She's been doing great work down in Okotoks, which is a kind of a satellite community south

00:36:51.260 of Calgary.

00:36:52.200 And she's got an online, if you look it up, the Okotoks Observer.

00:36:56.860 And she's just been, as a citizen journalist, it's Angelica Ullinova.

00:37:02.580 I'm probably mispronouncing it.

00:37:03.860 You know, I'm terrible with reading out those names.

00:37:06.200 But look up Okotoks Observer.

00:37:07.840 She's been doing FOIPs, you know, Freedom of Information Requests.

00:37:10.580 And it turns out in Okotoks, this small bedroom community next to South Calgary, that has

00:37:18.860 nearly no Indigenous population.

00:37:21.140 Very, very few Indigenous people there.

00:37:23.660 Though I've heard a rumor that the chief of the Siksika Reserve has a house there.

00:37:26.840 I don't know.

00:37:27.140 That's a separate issue.

00:37:27.840 But she found that there's an Indigenous consultant that this small community is paying $115,000

00:37:36.120 a year for.

00:37:37.360 Indigenous consultant.

00:37:39.120 In a whole year for $115,000, this consultant was asked through FOIPs.

00:37:44.800 She found she defended the mayor against one crazy person who accused her of being a racist,

00:37:49.600 apparently.

00:37:50.560 She arranged a meeting between the Town of Okotoks Administration and his own grandparents

00:37:55.580 and organized a teepee transfer ceremony.

00:38:01.920 And there were no chiefs at the event or something.

00:38:05.800 Just bizarre.

00:38:06.900 But you see, you've got to think of this.

00:38:08.160 This is a small community of taxpayers with limited funds.

00:38:11.300 $115,000 a year.

00:38:12.500 That's a lot of money to any of us.

00:38:14.300 I despise when I see people saying, oh, that's just peanuts or this or that when it comes to

00:38:17.600 tax expenditures.

00:38:18.300 No, it's our money.

00:38:20.300 And it's all important to us.

00:38:23.360 And when you think this is just one community in Canada out of thousands, when we want to

00:38:28.380 talk about what I talked earlier about, the Indigenous industry, here's an example of it.

00:38:33.420 How many thousands of these consultants exist out there sucking six-figure salaries out of 1.00

00:38:39.300 taxpayers for stupid crap like this? 1.00

00:38:42.920 This is just one of those drops in a giant bucket of drops in this broken system we have 1.00

00:38:47.680 in Canada.

00:38:49.120 And, you know, you try to get rid of these and guess what you're going to be called.

00:38:52.080 You're going to be all of those other things.

00:38:53.660 Either way, just check it out.

00:38:54.760 If you live in the county of Foothills, they change names.

00:38:57.560 This is another way of wasting taxpayers money.

00:38:59.100 I live in the county of Foothills.

00:39:00.020 Okotoks is a town in it.

00:39:02.780 And if you're curious about what your council and mayor have been doing down there, check

00:39:07.320 out the Okotoks Observer.

00:39:08.860 She covers other things besides just the Indigenous stuff.

00:39:11.280 But it just, it put a point on, you know, how bad and entrenched and the mess, because

00:39:17.340 I'm not exaggerating.

00:39:19.800 I'm really not when I talk about race-based policy sinking the country, because it applies 1.00

00:39:24.460 on so many levels in so many places we don't see.

00:39:26.060 That's not even the federal spending.

00:39:27.300 That's not even the provincial spending.

00:39:28.960 It's not even big cities like Calgary spending.

00:39:31.620 It's not high Indigenous cities like Battlefords or Winnipeg.

00:39:35.960 It's Okotoks.

00:39:38.320 And they're spending.

00:39:39.600 And that guides the actions of that council.

00:39:43.200 We are really messing ourselves up.

00:39:45.800 Let's look at some of the other news that's been interesting.

00:39:48.360 Skate Canada, you've probably heard about it.

00:39:50.120 You know, Dave mentioned it.

00:39:52.200 So Skate Canada won't come to Alberta for events anymore.

00:39:55.400 They're the ones that run figure skating events. 1.00

00:39:57.560 And they won't come because Daniel Smith won't allow men to participate in girls' sports.

00:40:02.540 Won't allow men to wave their schwanzas about and change rooms, as has happened with swimmers 1.00

00:40:08.160 in the States and other things, because we're supposed to look at men and pretend they're

00:40:11.860 women. 0.81

00:40:13.340 And Daniel Smith has said, no, we're not allowing that anymore.

00:40:17.200 So they said, fine, we're not going to come to your province.

00:40:18.960 You know what?

00:40:19.880 Stay out then.

00:40:21.200 This is happening all over the world.

00:40:23.360 It's going the other way.

00:40:24.840 Skate Canada is on the wrong side of history here.

00:40:27.840 The pushback is finally coming.

00:40:30.020 The Olympics are already talking and they're saying no more of this.

00:40:32.780 No more men pretending to be women to gain an athletic advantage in sports. 0.91

00:40:36.940 It's sad that we had to ruin the athletic and sporting experience for so many women for 1.00

00:40:42.640 so many years over this idiocy. 0.99

00:40:44.120 At least the Olympics are getting there. 0.99

00:40:48.000 Other sport organizations are getting there.

00:40:50.240 But leave it to good old Canada to have Skate Canada still standing up and boycotting Alberta for it.

00:40:57.380 This is nuts. 1.00

00:40:58.360 It's stupid. 1.00

00:40:59.060 If you want to see a tweet I made about it and nuts and figure skating, you might want 0.99

00:41:03.780 to have a look at that on X, but I won't bother going into that on here.

00:41:07.060 Smith is really lighting things up though.

00:41:10.260 Boy, is the year comes to a close here.

00:41:13.160 On the independence front, of course, Bill 14 went through and every push is showing there's

00:41:17.940 going to be a referendum next year.

00:41:19.720 There's no getting around it.

00:41:21.280 It's not saying Smith supports a yes vote, but boy, it's clear her government wants that 0.94

00:41:26.860 vote to happen, wants that campaign to happen.

00:41:29.740 The petitioning is going to start soon.

00:41:33.980 How it's going to end?

00:41:35.080 I don't know.

00:41:35.720 Six months, eight months of solid talking about what the advantages are to staying in Canada

00:41:41.420 for Alberta and it's got a difficult discussion for pro-Canadian people, pro-Federalists.

00:41:47.180 It might change a lot of minds before that vote comes.

00:41:49.320 We'll see.

00:41:50.760 But she's talking about other things.

00:41:51.980 Immigration.

00:41:52.580 This one is something else.

00:41:53.500 Dave talked about that.

00:41:54.920 So with new immigrants, if they aren't employed, if they don't qualify, we'll see. 0.79

00:42:00.840 If people are going to go wild over this, they won't qualify for a whole bunch of the

00:42:03.660 services that are provided in Alberta.

00:42:05.540 And some of the conversation was pretty straightforward.

00:42:08.160 Pursue your permanent resident status.

00:42:11.440 Pursue your citizenship. 1.00

00:42:12.880 We just, this is targeting the, well, I'll still use the term for now, Canadians of convenience.

00:42:18.480 The ones that come just to milk things out and don't contribute because immigration, and 0.99

00:42:23.420 I know some people argue with me on this, on the conservative front, that's fine, but

00:42:26.160 I do think it makes us stronger.

00:42:27.500 It makes us much better.

00:42:28.320 People bring skill sets, values.

00:42:30.760 That's a harder one to determine, but there's some great values and contribute and come into

00:42:36.360 Alberta, whether from other countries, other parts of the country, wherever.

00:42:40.020 However, there's a whole lot that don't.

00:42:42.760 There's a whole lot that bring a lot of cultural intolerant baggage.

00:42:46.560 Let's, you know, you get to know who populates our pro-Palestine protests, for example, aside

00:42:51.680 from the blue-haired, locally grown hammerheads.

00:42:56.100 Taking a stance because the province can't control immigration directly.

00:42:59.140 Quebec, you know, they have some degree of say in it, but the reality is people land

00:43:02.200 in Canada, they can re-migrate to wherever they please from there, and that's true, but 0.97

00:43:07.440 the province controls who gets access to which programs where.

00:43:11.980 So if those programs aren't available for these Canadians of convenience in Alberta, I

00:43:17.760 guess they'll settle somewhere else.

00:43:19.720 That's fine, right?

00:43:21.120 If it's a bad move on Alberta's part, then I guess it'll be to the benefit of Toronto

00:43:24.480 and Montreal.

00:43:27.180 Have at it, guys.

00:43:28.340 But, you know, the backlash is going to be something else, and she's really poking into

00:43:32.280 it with this, because that's what we're going to talk about, where allegedly it's going to

00:43:34.660 be a right for people to show up and begin consuming the local services on what's happening

00:43:40.680 here.

00:43:42.800 And it's a conversation a lot of people are going to have, because when we're running

00:43:45.540 short on access to health care, educational seats, housing, things like that, the real

00:43:51.820 number is the volume.

00:43:53.760 Well, then we've got to find a way to reduce the demand, and I think she's found an interesting

00:43:57.360 way to want to do it.

00:43:58.340 And the other part is not that anybody should be able to vote in a referendum if they weren't

00:44:02.600 permanent citizens, or at least actually actual citizens.

00:44:06.240 Some of the people who would be difficult to determine if they're citizens or not are

00:44:09.000 not going to be here anymore, because they will move to where the social services are

00:44:11.940 better.

00:44:12.960 It really kind of helps Alberta along that way, too, if we're looking at an independence-minded

00:44:16.100 sort of thing.

00:44:18.580 I'll leave off on one more note.

00:44:19.960 You know, keep watching our Jared Yeager.

00:44:21.860 He's fantastic.

00:44:22.660 He's our BC guy covering out in the West Coast there, because, boy, speaking of conservatives,

00:44:26.980 shooting themselves in the feet.

00:44:28.480 The gong going on in the conservative movement in BC is just a dark, dark comedy to watch.

00:44:33.720 So the party of two, which they called one BC, is split into two, two MLAs anyways.

00:44:43.300 And then, you know, the BC Conservative Party has punted Rustad.

00:44:47.740 They're going into a leadership race.

00:44:49.500 It's just a hot mess, unfortunately, because BC really actually has some great conservatives

00:44:55.000 in the interior, BC, in the north, and in Vancouver, Lower Mainland.

00:44:57.960 They used to put some great reform party MPs in from there.

00:45:00.760 But as conservatives, boy, the only people we like fighting more than liberals are ourselves.

00:45:06.100 Hopefully, BC can get it together, because it is a great province, and they've got a lot

00:45:10.180 to offer if they could just get their affairs in order.

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00:45:14.820 There's going to be kind of a Christmas special coming out next week.

00:45:17.980 It'll be recorded, but it'll have some newer stuff on the regular schedule as we get through

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00:45:23.800 Watch for the pipeline tonight.

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Western Standard - December 21, 2025

CORY MORGAN SHOW： Race based policies are sinking Canada

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