Western Standard - CORY MORGAN SHOW： The WNBA finally became interesting, but for the wrong reason

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

00:00:29.860 looks like the peak of summer has passed. It's cold and rainy and miserable out there. Ah, well,

00:00:35.700 things are getting a little too dry and brown down here in Calgary anyways. And it's getting

00:00:39.400 tired of listening to the wife complain about me being too cheap to get central air conditioning.

00:00:42.700 So we'll get some cooler nights and relax a little more as we go into these dog days of summer.

00:00:48.720 There's probably still some more heat coming as we get closer to harvest and, well, it's Alberta.

00:00:54.660 You know, give it a few hours. So we've got lots to cover today. As usual, the news hasn't been

00:00:58.760 slowing down or stopping this summer much at all and I got a guest I've been looking forward to

00:01:03.380 you guys have probably already seen some of those podcasts dropping it's Randy Royer started the

00:01:08.120 Nation of People podcast and a lot of interesting stuff and talking about things such as old Pierre

00:01:15.100 Trudeau's constitution and things that he dropped on us that we're enjoying still to this day so

00:01:20.660 we're gonna have a conversation about that and I'm quite looking forward to it but let's get on to

00:01:25.860 what I'm ranting and raving about today a little bit to start things off I've never really paid

00:01:30.220 close attention to the NBA or WNBA I mean watching basketball it's never really been my thing I'm

00:01:35.720 more of an NFL guy I certainly hadn't tracked the growth of the WNBA which is the women's league

00:01:41.540 for those who don't watch that as a professional league though I have peripherally noted they've

00:01:45.520 been getting more and more popular over the years and they have some colorful sports personalities

00:01:49.740 emerging from within there suddenly though I'm watching the WNBA like a hawk because it's become

00:01:54.520 ground zero in the battleground between extreme trans activists and common sense. I mean,

00:02:00.340 basketball is a physical sport. You know, it's involving direct contact between participants

00:02:05.540 that often becomes rough. And the size and strength of the athletes are critical components

00:02:10.320 for the competitiveness. The smaller players, they're going to get shoved aside or the gameplay

00:02:14.420 will literally go over their heads, which is why players at the professional level are all large.

00:02:20.780 The statistics kept in professional leagues help illustrate the vast physiological differences between male and female players.

00:02:27.440 The average height of a player in the NBA is 6'7", and the average weight of one of those players is 216 pounds.

00:02:34.040 Now compare with the women's league. The average height of a player there is 6'1", and the average weight is 170 pounds.

00:02:40.200 The difference is pretty stark. 0.71

00:02:41.960 Only in the imaginary utopia of trans ideology can be conceived that physiological men wouldn't

00:02:47.160 have a distinct advantage when playing in a woman's league, yet that's exactly the narrative

00:02:51.200 trans activists are putting out there. Could you imagine a game where even three men of NBA 0.54

00:02:56.160 proportions were playing on a team within the WNBA? The game wouldn't even be close,

00:03:00.840 and the possibility of a woman being seriously injured would be actually quite high. All a man 0.97

00:03:05.340 has to do these days, though, to be considered a woman by trans activists is to state that he's a

00:03:09.480 woman. There's no need for surgery, treatments, or even shaving off a beard for that matter.

00:03:13.520 If a person identifies as a woman, their declaration is to be considered inviolate 0.99

00:03:18.680 despite the biological reality. The follow the science crowd really falls off the rails when it 1.00

00:03:24.180 comes to this issue. While individuals may choose to indulge the declaration of womanhood from a man

00:03:30.120 as they please, it becomes problematic when sports or institutions offer recognition to

00:03:34.620 self-declared women. That's how men entered sexual assault centers for women and impregnated women 0.82

00:03:40.460 in prisons. This is how women's sports now are being destroyed. Now, two former NBA players have 1.00

00:03:45.920 decided to put the absurdity to the test. Inez Cantor Freedom and Royce White have both publicly

00:03:51.620 declared they now identify as women and will stand for the WNBA draft in 2027. By the definition set

00:03:57.880 out by the woke, it would be a human rights crime to deny White and Freedom their right to play

00:04:01.900 within the league. Who are they to say these aspiring athletes aren't women? Now, while your 1.00

00:04:06.500 average two-year-old can tell the difference between a man and a woman, the question has 0.99

00:04:09.920 flummoxed the WNBA administration. League Commissioner Kathy Engelbert sent a memo to

00:04:16.160 teams stating that a task force now of presidents and general managers is going to have to get

00:04:20.500 together and discuss transgender participation. The league expressly says only women may play

00:04:25.720 within it, but they neglected to define what a woman is. Even if the league finds common sense 0.99

00:04:30.720 and tries to ban men from participation, any formal changes are going to require collective

00:04:35.280 bargaining from the Players Association. And many women within the Players Association are

00:04:40.100 hyper-woke and practice what God Saad says is suicidal empathy. They'd rather destroy their

00:04:45.120 league than admit that men aren't women. The debate has been playing out on the court as well.

00:04:50.340 Sophie Cunningham, star player and fan favorite with the Indiana Fever. She's been an outspoken

00:04:55.800 person, though, saying that biological men should not compete in women's sports. In recent

00:05:00.600 comments, she said she wants to protect young girls in a locker room or young girls in a sport

00:05:04.980 that shouldn't have to go against biological men. Cunningham's statements of simple truth

00:05:09.240 have put a target on her back on the court from woke players. On August 8th, during a Fever

00:05:13.520 versus Chicago Sky game, Sky guard Carrington viciously assaulted Cunningham in front of the

00:05:20.420 net, causing a minor injury. Carrington was ejected from the game for the assault, and she quickly 1.00

00:05:24.720 posted on X that she'd been ejected due to white privilege. The usual case to be made by the woke

00:05:29.560 and the weak. Hard to swallow considering over 80% of the league is made up of women of color. 1.00

00:05:35.020 Sports Illustrated reported on the assault with a vile headline saying Cunningham was a victim of 1.00

00:05:39.080 karma. In other words, they said she was asking for it due to reviews that men shouldn't play in

00:05:43.340 women's sports. Amateur sports have been slowly but surely banning men from participating in the

00:05:47.960 women's categories. Now the issue's in the hands of the professional leagues. Will common sense 0.66

00:05:52.280 win the day with the WNBA or will they tear down that league that they've built on an absurd point 0.98

00:05:57.280 of principle either way whatever the outcome it's finally made women's basketball interesting to

00:06:02.260 watch I'll be tuning in in future days all right well that's what's got me started today we're

00:06:07.200 gonna get a news check in see what else is going on with Dave Winnick from the newsroom how's it

00:06:10.380 going not too bad Corey how are you doing yeah I'm all right actually sounds good so speaking

00:06:14.300 of sports when are you gonna be signing up for the WNBA oh listen I'm under no delusions that 0.98

00:06:19.780 I could compete with the women in that league they would still mop the floor handily with me 1.00

00:06:23.860 I'd be lucky to take on a high school women's league at this point. 1.00

00:06:29.040 Well, the only reason I bring that up is QR 77. 0.96

00:06:31.240 I don't know if you heard this just landed the broadcast rights for the

00:06:33.580 flames games. Yeah. I think it's a five-year deal.

00:06:35.800 They haven't said how much it's going to be yet.

00:06:37.220 Now they've kind of taken over the slack since a sports that nine sixties

00:06:40.320 gone off the air. I was just wondering,

00:06:41.760 were you ever a fan of sports nine sports that nine 60 and whatnot,

00:06:44.580 or listening to flame games on the radio?

00:06:46.080 It's been a long time since I have too much.

00:06:47.920 I remember listening to them many years ago when I used to make bets on the

00:06:51.220 nfl games actually and i was surveying so i could listen to it from the truck you know on the am

00:06:55.380 radio and find out how terribly my choices were made on those tickets but uh i wasn't a big follower

00:07:00.160 but i know it's big news for sports watchers who like uh radio i guess oh yeah definitely i used

00:07:03.560 to be a big fan but i don't know it's been years since not many people listen anymore there yeah

00:07:07.020 i found that hey i guess somebody does though anyway um yeah i saw something actually this is

00:07:11.000 interesting just came up apparently the lawyers in the uh charlie kirk assassination case uh tyler

00:07:15.120 robinson apparently they're claiming now that robinson shouldn't be challenging the death penalty

00:07:19.640 because the shooting didn't endanger anyone else at the event and he hit his target how exactly did

00:07:25.300 they figure that i mean talking about absurd really well yeah i guess they got to try and

00:07:29.080 make whatever little case they can we'll see if that gets accepted yeah it's gonna be a difficult

00:07:33.860 yeah i have no idea oh man and also as well uh jeff wrath is apparently getting um his assets

00:07:39.640 frozen a beat by um i'm just looking here the asturgeon lake cree nations accusing him of

00:07:43.560 misusing their trust funds as well i think that's the second one now after i think it was the tall

00:07:48.020 creek first nation were the first ones that accused him of that he obviously denies it but

00:07:51.180 i mean there's two now do you think there's going to maybe be if this is like more to come or what

00:07:54.380 exactly i don't know but i mean can they freeze he's already been frozen with what he had are they

00:07:58.980 just refreezing what he's got i don't really know exactly i think they're looking into like trying

00:08:03.120 to so i don't know how much assets he has but i mean like 42.4 million i mean that's an absurd

00:08:07.880 amount i think the first what was it 8 million i think the first band was going after him for an

00:08:11.780 assets it's 8 or 12 or something i think so somewhere in the range so i don't know you

00:08:15.760 following that one. He froze my account. All they get is, you know, 2,000 bucks and some

00:08:19.760 bubble caps or something. Yeah. I was just going to say as well, Air Canada is also selling off

00:08:23.920 a 25% stake in their aeroplane for 2.5 billion. So now the loyalty program is being valued,

00:08:29.060 I think at 10 billion. So I guess maybe that's good news. I guess there's been a lot of bad

00:08:32.380 sort of wraps for airlines recently with WestJet strikes and everything. So

00:08:35.100 something positive for the airline world would be good. You know, what is it with airlines lately

00:08:40.680 though? There's no such thing as a negotiated agreement anymore. It's just basically an

00:08:44.400 automated automatic strike whenever it was mechanics uh pilots or or uh flight attendants

00:08:50.320 i still try to call them stewardesses but yeah and i kind of do that i'm just bad no it just

00:08:54.060 annoys me too because they go on strike like west jet and then the day after it's like oh

00:08:57.860 everything's cleared up and it's like they've already messed up like who knows how many like 0.58

00:09:00.740 flights the chain reaction disruption though is massive in a day or so yeah it's just ridiculous

00:09:05.640 to me but yeah i know and also obviously one of the big ones as well as the fires in bc and

00:09:09.480 apparently the calls are going for the uh fire uh what is it the uh forest minister um rabbi i

00:09:13.880 I think you pronounce his name, Parmar, to resign over mill closures and obviously wildfire management.

00:09:18.100 And he's made some remarks like dismissing conservative criticism.

00:09:21.480 But obviously, Evie's been standing by.

00:09:23.240 But what's your whole take on the whole wildfire situation in B.C.?

00:09:25.840 Because, again, it's probably like all over Canada.

00:09:27.820 Years of wildfire enforcement mismanagement really has caused a lot of this, I would say.

00:09:31.320 Yeah, I mean, everybody, of course, opposition is always going to hold the feet to the fire, I guess you could say, of the government.

00:09:37.000 We saw that in Alberta when the fires were happening here.

00:09:39.840 I mean, there have been a lot of things.

00:09:41.260 We aren't doing the spacing with some communities.

00:09:43.340 We haven't been logging like we have in past times to clear this out.

00:09:46.960 I mean, that's sort of some of the discussion is if forests don't get taken down one way or another, fire is going to do it.

00:09:53.940 I'm just curious what you would think, how they would go about that going forward with managing forestry.

00:09:58.680 Do you think there needs to be more, I don't know, controlled burns everyone talks about?

00:10:01.820 I mean, I don't want to delve too far outside of my own expertise.

00:10:05.300 I'm a guy who worked in the bush a lot.

00:10:06.740 I do know areas I've worked.

00:10:08.760 to someone that scares me.

00:10:09.720 I'll talk about it, you know, out in a Wipers area and in the foothills there,

00:10:14.400 I did a lot of heli portable survey out that way years gone by and it was so

00:10:18.480 choked with dead underbrush and, and, and such in that area, we could barely

00:10:22.920 crawl through that area.

00:10:24.180 If it ever lit up, it's such a tinderbox.

00:10:26.380 There'd be no way of fighting that and the fire would be massive.

00:10:29.800 And part of the reason it's built up so much is because it's near populated

00:10:32.800 areas, we fought those spot fires for so many years, it hasn't been able to

00:10:36.780 clear itself out.

00:10:37.600 but i don't have a solution necessarily i mean the amount of resources to actually clear an area

00:10:42.040 like that would be massive environmentalists would go nuts if they saw clear-cut logging in an area

00:10:46.820 that visible yeah and uh to have a controlled burn the chances of going out of control would

00:10:51.700 be huge i'm just saying anyways i wouldn't buy a cabin out that way right now that's for sure

00:10:55.620 i don't blame it that's about all i have for the time being cory so we kind of a slow morning but 0.96

00:10:59.840 hopefully it's going to be picking up here later oh i'm sure something stupid will happen for you

00:11:02.720 guys to be scrambling in the newsroom hope so well right on well thanks for the update appreciate it

00:11:07.500 i guess i'll be seeing you on the pipeline i guess so yeah or i guess that's an hour or two

00:11:10.940 yeah right on sounds good all right thanks all right and yes it was the substitute dave he does

00:11:16.220 a great job though isn't he and uh yeah the reason we've got all that going on in the newsroom and

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00:11:47.620 already subscribed, thank you very much, guys. I really do appreciate it. So, you know, there is a

00:11:54.320 lot happening out there as always. Let's just have a quick peek. A couple of the folks in the

00:12:00.200 comments. Scroll. Good to see Paradoxy, Jacqueline and LZ and GP folks coming from northern Alberta.

00:12:06.880 Those areas, you know, again, where you get some of that fire risk and forest management things,

00:12:10.100 things we got to look at. You know, it's difficult to come up with solutions. And hey,

00:12:15.560 things are getting drier. They are getting hotter. I mean, we got a much larger debate about how much

00:12:21.080 degree humans are causing that to happen or how much of it might be natural cycles or whatnot.

00:12:26.460 But come on, you know, I'm getting a little long in the tooth.

00:12:29.600 And I do remember as a kid who grew up in Banff and a guy who spent 20 years surveying in the bush, we didn't see burns going on 20, 30 years ago like we're seeing today.

00:12:38.620 And there could be a number of factors.

00:12:40.180 These are things we should be talking about.

00:12:41.300 As Dave was saying, some of it is how much is it have we dropped the ball on management?

00:12:45.000 How much have we let tinder build up in these forested areas?

00:12:48.520 But there's a little more going on, too.

00:12:50.300 And it's that hot and dry consistently.

00:12:52.060 it makes for for uh much more problematic issues of these things getting lit in the first place

00:12:56.880 and trying to fight them once they do get rolling so uh we'll be watching let's just hope they get

00:13:03.080 things under control in bc i mean it's been terrible over there uh some of the awful awful

00:13:07.260 scenes there was a one on the western standard showing a video clip though of some cattle that

00:13:12.460 thankfully did escape the fire and narrowly got out of it check it out of the western standard for

00:13:16.440 that but you know wildlife and and a lot of things suffer really terribly in these fires and

00:13:21.380 and it's awful. So we'll see what we can do about it. Speaking of stability, yes, Canada

00:13:27.440 is in more unstable than ever. And that kind of leads into the guest I'll be speaking to

00:13:31.440 in a moment. I just wanted to note one thing I saw in a poll as a, well, a person like me who

00:13:36.440 likes to stir up the federalism pot. The Parti Quebecois is poised now, as far as polling is

00:13:42.620 concerned, to win a majority in this fall's election. I mean, it was looking like a minority

00:13:46.180 for a while but they're still gaining they changed leadership in quebec with others thought maybe

00:13:52.100 you're looking at a minority position the pq now is is is looking to potentially win this fall in

00:13:56.900 quebec and their mandates to hold a referendum again uh something's got to change in canada

00:14:03.160 what's fundamentally wrong with it why are provinces tearing themselves apart from every

00:14:06.920 direction maybe mr randy royer has some answers on some of that hey thanks for joining us in studio

00:14:11.820 today nice to see you cory thanks for having me yeah so i mean you maybe just kind of introduce

00:14:16.540 yourself you've written some uh guest columns people are familiar with you but uh you know

00:14:21.100 who are you who am i um so i'm uh raised born in wetasquin actually raised in uh raised in

00:14:27.100 lesbridge and uh and i've kind of long been possessed by the concept of western alienation

00:14:33.900 and spent much of my adult life trying to figure it out and i got involved with national politics

00:14:39.580 and uh and have got lots of lots of uh views and lots of perspectives that are somewhat unique

00:14:47.020 because uh because of my political aspect you know political work and i've written three books

00:14:53.580 on the subject um over the years starting in 2007 actually uh predicted the uh what was going to

00:14:59.660 happen with the progressive conservatives that they were going to lose to a third party which

00:15:04.860 ended up actually happening and then another book that was uh i think the top 10 reasons why

00:15:09.820 alberta doesn't fit in this canada and then the most recent one is alberta should lead not leave

00:15:16.300 which is a phrase quoted many times by politicians it has been quite popularized now yes um so your

00:15:24.540 new podcast getting it out there and that gets to the fundamentals of you know because we're kind of

00:15:28.620 seeing i think a national crisis emerging different parts of the country and you delve into with your

00:15:33.980 your nation of people podcast uh sort of the the history the more recent history and and what's

00:15:38.700 pulled us together what's it all about well um the podcast is is fundamentally about empowering

00:15:44.100 people and so um you know my personal belief is that uh democracy is about people empowerment

00:15:50.520 that the government should work for them not the other way around and uh and so what we're trying

00:15:55.020 to do is we're trying to give people an education so we're you know we we refer back to history how

00:16:00.020 we got to where we are and we will be in the future episodes we're inviting people on and

00:16:06.360 we'll get their perspectives and then what we're doing in this it's a 20 episode podcast and and

00:16:12.040 we're taking kind of a business plan approach to what should Alberta do and so we're looking at

00:16:17.500 the foundations of you know what got it like I said what got us here but the idea is that we

00:16:23.740 will look at the options we will game out those options kind of model out what happens if we do

00:16:29.460 A, B, C, or D. And my personal opinion is that with what's happening in Quebec and what's

00:16:37.080 happening here in Alberta, the country's either going to go one of two ways. It'll either fall

00:16:41.600 apart and balkanize, or it could potentially be a cathartic moment where we actually get our act

00:16:48.160 together and grow up. Well, we'll see. And certainly, I think we're at a turning point.

00:16:52.260 I think everybody's kind of feeling that. Things have come to a head. So your first couple of

00:16:56.860 episodes and you were talking a lot about the 1982, uh, you know, patronizing repatriation

00:17:02.560 of the constitution, uh, and, and Pierre Trudeau's, uh, you know, part in all of that.

00:17:08.680 Uh, what did you go into with those episodes?

00:17:11.300 Well, first of all, uh, you know, I contest the word repatriation because we didn't have

00:17:16.240 a codified constitution before it was a British parliamentary.

00:17:19.660 We had a British parliamentary system, which drives you to common sense and, um, and, and

00:17:26.020 compromise versus uh a codified constitution which is an american concept which we imported

00:17:33.700 and that drives you to litigation and adversarial approach so talking about the uh the the i'm gonna

00:17:41.620 dive into this but now i'm talking about the the wnba yes and what a crap show that has turned into

00:17:48.100 you know the the uh trans translation reminds me of a story about and this was years ago

00:17:53.860 that a female reported it happened in two places boston and winnipeg and in boston uh the female

00:18:01.040 reporter wanted to get into a change room and this is you know years ago and she couldn't wouldn't

00:18:06.660 let in be the team wouldn't let her in because she was a female and it was a men's sport and so

00:18:11.760 she took it to court and it became this big constitutional issue there's all this huge

00:18:16.520 litigation it got all over the all over the place and it would just become a mess and finally you

00:18:22.360 the judge decided one side of the other i don't remember what happened as opposed to in winnipeg

00:18:29.000 same thing happened that a female reporter wanted to get into the the men's locker room and it goes 0.98

00:18:34.760 in front of the judge and the judge said this is stupid it shouldn't be in court you guys go and 0.96

00:18:39.400 figure out something reasonable and get out of my face that was pre-1982 constitution so that was 0.97

00:18:46.040 canada that had common sense and made and and had logic and it let people find compromise uh versus

00:18:53.640 when we adopted the american system that's all gone and that's what i'm trying to point out

00:18:58.520 in in our discussion about uh about the about in the podcast yeah well things going so much

00:19:05.160 into the courts now being litigated uh not only you know i mean there's many questionable rulings

00:19:11.720 i think that are coming from it but the time frame we can't address issues in a timely manner

00:19:17.000 anymore these things take years to get through the system when again we just don't seem to have

00:19:21.960 the capability of a judge to put his or her foot down and say come on get out of my courtroom you're

00:19:25.640 wasting my time or at least you know let's get this done fast well the instructions to the judges

00:19:31.480 changed in 1982. suddenly they had this constitution that they had to refer to and you know there's

00:19:37.160 different ways they could approach it you know it's called originalism what did the what did

00:19:40.760 the authors think or it's called they call it the living tree i call it the judicial advocacy

00:19:45.720 but they can kind of make up their own story and and things like you know bike lanes that are now

00:19:51.400 becoming constitutional charter rights uh and you know in british columbia one judge said that

00:19:57.480 uh it was a constitutional right to do hard drugs in playgrounds you know like crazy stuff that and

00:20:03.400 then it and then as you said it takes years to actually for the supreme court to decide whether

00:20:08.520 they agree with the lower courts or not and so we get stuck in this mess one of the problems is

00:20:14.040 the canadian judicial system was never built for this kind of adversarial approach and that it and

00:20:21.080 it was never built to be the extreme you know the supremacist supreme position in in our democracy

00:20:26.760 and so it's never caught up whereas in the us you go to court and you're in and out within six

00:20:31.400 months to a year in canada it's two three years well and then this living tree though just used

00:20:37.240 to be growing like a weed in a lot of bad ways. It was at the 2004 Haida decision. I mean, people

00:20:42.760 assume that consultation, for example, is entrenched in the constitution when it comes

00:20:46.280 to indigenous people. And no, it's not actually. That work doesn't appear anywhere there. But the

00:20:50.280 justice ruling in 2004 brought in the obligation to consult based on respecting treaties. That was

00:20:58.280 read in though. That wasn't part of the constitution, but now it becomes considered a constitutional

00:21:02.760 right that's right and now that's starting to evolve into consent rather than consultation

00:21:09.080 and we have this animal that just makes things more and more difficult to deal with

00:21:13.160 uh but also we can't seem to reform our constitution in any other sort of way

00:21:17.800 either so how do we deal with the impasses that we come well two quick things one is you talked

00:21:22.440 about the forest fires well the simple reality is the forest fires have been hit by two things one

00:21:27.560 One is the tariffs to the US, when Trump was complaining about the smoke coming down,

00:21:34.120 I thought to myself, you know what, why don't we cut our trees down, sell them to the United

00:21:38.840 States without tariffs, bring down your housing costs, and we'll be able to manage our forests

00:21:43.400 again.

00:21:44.400 Anyway, he didn't want to do that.

00:21:47.120 But the other thing is that the duty to consult has really become, you know, I want to call

00:21:53.280 it kind of legalized blackmail that uh we know because the court insisted on something and then

00:21:59.520 the governments have not set parameters around it it's really a negotiation and so when when

00:22:05.120 one side has the government support of the you know requirements i mean it's undefined so they

00:22:11.600 can kind of you know it's it's it's come almost like constitutional blackmail and i don't mean

00:22:19.120 that in a negative way but uh and i don't mean that they shouldn't be consulted but it needs a

00:22:24.560 frame a framework and the and governments haven't done that and so what's ended up happening is it

00:22:29.600 has devastated the forest industry and the and the um forest management was largely conducted

00:22:35.520 by the forest companies and they've frankly most of them have moved to the united states now

00:22:40.080 and so that's one problem the uh the second part of your question was uh amending the constitution

00:22:47.120 is a non-starter we tried in 2021 we're going to try it again here with the upcoming referendum

00:22:52.880 the first nine questions uh but you know in 2021 the equalization question was just basically

00:22:59.920 disregarded and so my view of it is we have to break the egg and that means that i think

00:23:06.080 we should have had a referendum in 1982 to get the citizens approval we didn't do that 0.71

00:23:13.200 i think that obligation still exists and i think we should have a referendum on do we accept or

00:23:18.560 reject the 1982 constitution well that's part of uh the basis of one of your podcasts that have

00:23:24.480 already dropped is that you know we never really had the consent of canadian people on a document

00:23:28.640 so important as the constitution and the charter of rights it was all done by a small group

00:23:33.520 essentially of of elites absolutely i mean as my personal opinion being there at the time and i i

00:23:40.960 think in the second episode I divulged that I actually voted against it because I didn't want

00:23:46.480 us to become American and which I think arguably we have. Anyway, my argument is that the government

00:23:58.080 promised they wouldn't take away rights and they did that and they didn't do it with our informed

00:24:04.000 consent. No and there's rights that never went into the charter in the first place too that

00:24:09.840 are in question i mean property is a big one uh we we do have property rights but they aren't

00:24:15.680 entrenched in the charter and constitution so if there's an infringement on it you don't have a

00:24:19.600 really solid basis to defend yourself whether it's expropriation or or in the case of title being

00:24:26.240 given to a indigenous band you're kind of out of luck well look at the cowichan decision that's

00:24:31.040 what i'm saying yeah i mean the cowichan decision the judge virtually said what was i to do in the

00:24:36.000 constitution indigenous have land rights in section 35 3 and there are no land rights for the general

00:24:43.040 population so what am i to do and and she makes a good point that the instructions from the

00:24:48.400 constitution are indigenous have land rights that are recognized and protected the general population

00:24:54.160 doesn't and um and and then when uh i don't know if you noticed but recently one of the land owners

00:25:00.960 it was a company that was developing warehousing, they wanted to continue on their program and they

00:25:07.040 can't get financing because lenders won't give them the money because they don't own the land.

00:25:12.480 And they tried to intercede in the court case. And for a bunch of reasons, the judge said,

00:25:19.120 it's too late, you don't have standing and just basically punted them out. And so the fundamental

00:25:25.920 problem and bc doesn't get this because they just they regard in bc they tend to regard

00:25:32.640 ottawa as something very distant and not involved in their lives we we view it as something that's

00:25:38.320 attacking us they view it as something different i call them the orphan of confederation we're

00:25:43.200 the abused child they're the orphan child um and so they're looking at uh uh drippa as their

00:25:50.080 problem but it's actually founded in the constitution just as you said well i mean

00:25:55.040 using the family analogy we got the drunk uncle in Quebec and we've got the uh you know neglectful

00:26:00.240 father in Ontario so getting on to changing the charter constitution as you said perhaps through

00:26:05.280 a referenda or something like that uh how do we get the federal will though to want to make those

00:26:10.640 kinds of changes there's part of the problem we have yeah I mean part of the problem is that is

00:26:15.920 the federal the federal entity that the federal government has a veto on any changes any changes

00:26:23.280 what they don't have is the will of the people and so what we need to do is uh for and this is

00:26:28.720 the can't alberta should lead not leave part uh if we lead the rest of the country to say

00:26:35.200 break the egg 82 constitution doesn't work we need a people's driven constitution and then

00:26:41.520 possibly get british columbia on side because of their land issues and some other things uh

00:26:47.680 hopefully get saskatchewan on side if we were to have that and quebec is already outside of the

00:26:53.040 constitution we would have more than 50 of the population outside of the of the constitution

00:26:58.560 it cannot stand it's an interesting way i go about it i mean i'm of a similar uh mindset and i feel

00:27:03.520 that the egg needs to be broken so we can uh you know reevaluate it though i take more of the

00:27:07.600 secessionist approach as opposed to trying through a more general uh um referendum i i guess i mean

00:27:14.080 I mean, the bottom line is we seem to be in a pressure cooker though, if we don't

00:27:17.320 change something substantially, this country is going to shatter one way or another.

00:27:21.280 Oh, absolutely.

00:27:22.240 We, we've, you know, we, we gave away our economy, uh, in under NAFTA and we're

00:27:27.720 realizing that that was a mistake.

00:27:29.840 Uh, at least I'm realizing it was a mistake because we have no control

00:27:33.880 over our economy now.

00:27:34.780 We, we, we ceded it to the United States.

00:27:36.880 We, then we, we, we got rid of our British parliamentary system and decided

00:27:42.220 to to duplicate the american system which is judicial and it's judicial supremacy and and

00:27:49.740 all that stuff and so when do we actually turn and say who are we as canadians or who are we as

00:27:56.060 albertans or western canadians and start to drive towards who we are and i think i think this might

00:28:03.580 be the point where you know alberta separatism is the catalyst for us actually thinking those things

00:28:11.180 through and you know who knows what happens at the end uh my aspiration and this is why we call

00:28:17.420 it the nation of people my aspiration is that the people will be in charge and will tell the

00:28:22.700 government what to do rather than the other way around that would be really refreshing that's

00:28:26.860 absolutely uh well i mean the time went quickly i knew it would so before i let you go though i

00:28:31.820 mean you've had a couple episodes dropped as you said there's a whole bunch of them coming really

00:28:35.100 looking forward to it's a conversation we need to have and very timely as we are really in national

00:28:39.500 flux as i mentioned quebec's really kind of getting on the edge now too uh what can people

00:28:43.820 look forward to in these coming episodes uh and where can they find them i know western standards

00:28:47.980 carrying them i guess is pretty straightforward yes yeah so we're going to talk about vision of

00:28:52.060 canada and uh you know in one of the next episodes um i think the uh we're actually going to talk

00:28:58.540 about the character uh in the next the next episode and that how the character in western

00:29:04.060 canada is different than the colonial character in the east and we're going to talk about where

00:29:09.740 that came from the history behind it and why we're different and uh and then we're going to talk

00:29:14.460 about there's three different visions of canada and none of the three want to talk to each other

00:29:18.700 and we admit the other two exist and then after that we're going to talk about um about the social

00:29:23.820 contract so this is all very foundational stuff later on we're going to bring in some guests and

00:29:30.300 and get their views on on you know what their their perspectives are and and uh ultimately

00:29:35.980 we're gonna our intention is to drive at uh taking kind of a business plan and look at it

00:29:41.020 what are our strengths and weaknesses outside um outside environment like you know the

00:29:47.260 for example the president of the united states has said that he wants to annex us

00:29:51.100 well what pressures does that put us under and then we're hopefully kind of come up with a

00:29:55.260 recommendation great well i appreciate you taking the time to come and talk on the show today i'm

00:30:00.060 looking forward to those episodes as they drop and uh it looks like it's going to be a fascinating

00:30:03.740 conversation super i look forward to it and i do hope people get engaged because in and informed

00:30:08.780 that's our aspiration well that's it and actually if people have feedback since you're still airing

00:30:12.940 these and shooting these how can they get a hold of you actually if they wanted to go to our website

00:30:17.500 nationofpeople.com and just uh info at nationofpeople.com and they can catch me excellent

00:30:23.340 Sounds great. Thank you again. Thanks, Corey. I'm sure we'll talk again soon.

00:30:25.660 Got to look forward to it. Right on. So check it out, guys, nationofpeople.com,

00:30:29.300 and that's Randy Royer. I mean, it looks like it's going to be a fascinating and important

00:30:32.820 series on the go. So, you know, we're all kind of reevaluating where we are, what we're doing,

00:30:39.000 where we're heading, and it's coming towards a breaking point. Maybe it's imagined. I don't

00:30:43.720 know. I mean, in 95, everybody thought the nation was at a breaking point. Well, it narrowly escaped

00:30:48.700 that. And we've gone on for another 30 years. Oh, here we are asking all of those same questions

00:30:53.200 again um I will back up a little quickly too I mean just I see Will Vassar pointed out he said

00:30:58.420 uh you know when back to the NDP WNBA thing so I just want to you know because that's where I

00:31:03.240 started things uh because he's he's a better watcher than I am and there's nuances to the

00:31:07.960 league that I didn't cover in my monologue as he pointed out an added layer to the debate is the

00:31:11.460 fever of the most polarizing team in the league they have Caitlin Clark which again see even as 0.99

00:31:15.380 a viewer non-viewer myself I've heard the name uh you know who brings the WNBA massive attention 1.00

00:31:21.300 Other teams want to take cheap shots at them. 0.95

00:31:23.840 Yeah, the motivation is to some of the physical attacks, I guess, on that particular team.

00:31:28.260 You know, there's a lot of intricacies that go on in professional sports and things that stand out.

00:31:33.120 But the league has been growing.

00:31:34.700 It's been catching interest.

00:31:35.780 It's been getting there.

00:31:36.380 I mean, they've been struggling for a long time, I think, for the WNBA to kind of try and get into the massive viewer base for the NBA. 0.92

00:31:43.280 But now we've got this whole woke fiasco kind of coming in.

00:31:46.400 And, you know, I think this is just my view, as I've demonstrated, I'm certainly not a WNBA expert, but all of this attention being drawn on the league and some of the characters within it, the players within it and things like that, this ridiculousness of, you know, the potential men coming into the draft or playing in the league and so on.

00:32:06.280 I hope they just rule with common sense and say, that's enough.

00:32:08.840 You're born at these chromosomes.

00:32:09.980 You do not play in the league.

00:32:11.040 Simple as that.

00:32:11.900 That's the way it goes.

00:32:13.360 Let's move on with life.

00:32:14.900 But that whole discussion has shown such a spotlight on it that, you know, there's that many more new viewers and this league can continue to grow and be entertaining and good for people. 1.00

00:32:24.680 But if they go the wrong way, if they really are that woke, they really are that stupid. 1.00

00:32:28.160 And I'm afraid, you know, we can't underestimate the stupidity of people anymore. 1.00

00:32:33.340 It'll be the end of the league. 1.00

00:32:35.240 It'll be the end of the league.

00:32:36.160 I mean, really, you know, I wasn't kidding around that much about, you know, what would it look like if a couple of those guys, these former NBA players who were jokingly putting their names forward into the draft, what if one of these team owners, you know, says, you know what?

00:32:49.120 Yeah, I'm going to draft one or both of them.

00:32:51.700 And they get out on the court and the floor with these women. 0.97

00:32:54.300 They're going to knock them around like, you know, I'm not saying these men are necessarily violent or anything, but you can't play around that discrepancy between them. 0.76

00:33:00.980 It would turn into a novelty sideshow for, what, a few games into the season, and that would probably be the end of the league.

00:33:10.280 So I hope they're thinking harder. 1.00

00:33:12.560 But it's really brought not just the league into the spotlight, but the utter stupidity of the trans ideology and what it's got to at this point. 1.00

00:33:20.500 I mean, come on. 1.00

00:33:22.280 You know, an individual wants to identify as another gender. 1.00

00:33:26.860 You know, dress up, get surgery, do the works, marry somebody. 1.00

00:33:29.340 of it. Fine. I don't care. By all means, I hope it makes you happy. I hope it's good and you can

00:33:34.700 lead as functional a life as possible. If a person comes up, presents as a, you know, a female, a male

00:33:40.160 prefers to be called out of respect. I typically will. The gender ID you want to give, but we still

00:33:48.040 have to put limitations on things to reflect reality. As I mentioned in the monologue,

00:33:53.940 there was an American prison where a number of prisoners got pregnant. In other words, the man

00:33:58.600 they put in with the women prisoners wasn't just, you know, this wasn't somebody who had surgery and

00:34:03.140 had the nuts and berries cut off or anything like that. This was a fully functional man with all the

00:34:07.420 parts and clearly a straight one. Likewise, a battle in British Columbia over a women's shelter,

00:34:14.900 women's shelter, women who had been assaulted by presumably a man most often, and they're trying

00:34:21.320 to feel somewhere safe to recover, to rebuild, to get on with life. And these woke arseholes 0.98

00:34:26.900 put men in with them, put men in with them, and made it a legal battle to put men in with these 1.00

00:34:33.960 vulnerable, already victimized women. That's how sick the woke ideology is. So if the prisons and 0.98

00:34:43.780 women's shelters weren't enough to bring common sense in, well, it's sad that that wasn't enough, 0.95

00:34:48.000 but maybe the WNBA will be what it takes to make people realize this is getting ridiculous. 0.52

00:34:55.500 us. All right. Let's have a look into how well our federal government is spending our money. Let's

00:35:01.180 just pivot a little bit, you know, some happy news. This one's in the Western Standard. The

00:35:05.280 Senate Speaker, her name is Raymond Gagne. I don't know. I can't pronounce some French names.

00:35:13.040 You know, says so much. Who knew what the name of the Speaker was in the first place? Nobody.

00:35:19.900 Because it's the Senate. They don't do anything. They're useless. It's a patronage pit. It's just

00:35:23.980 somewhere you stick people because you owe them a political favor. They get a good pension and

00:35:29.120 don't have to work very hard and get a massive salary. Well, she has billed taxpayers for $875,000

00:35:37.660 for international travel. The Taxpayers Federation found this since she was appointed three years ago.

00:35:44.720 $300,000 in travel. I mean, this is on top of all the hundreds of thousands they take out of us and

00:35:48.880 everything else. 300,003 years for a person that nobody in Canada has ever heard of, much less

00:35:56.400 anybody overseas. What purpose do we have to send a senator out of Canada, the Speaker of the Senate?

00:36:05.500 None. This is just more of the gravy train for them. And how on earth, what sort of five-star

00:36:11.280 hotels and platinum treatment are you getting to run up a bill like that? And you know what

00:36:16.020 the consequences are going to be for her for that? None. Nothing. We're continuing to take it up the

00:36:22.460 keister, guys. This country is ripping you off. Your work, your taxes, the stuff you see coming

00:36:27.520 out, this is what it goes towards. This is what it goes towards. You know, even the prime minister,

00:36:32.080 when he has, what, single flights where there's a hundred and some thousand just in food costs,

00:36:35.980 so he can treat all his friends to the most expensive of possible foods.

00:36:40.560 but at least i understand why a prime minister has to travel i understand why a prime minister

00:36:47.040 can't fly coach i understand why it'll cost more than your typical flight though that's still

00:36:51.720 above and beyond and it's ridiculous but i can understand that there's no damn reason

00:36:56.840 the speaker of the senate should be costing over 300 or just under 300 000 a year for travel

00:37:04.320 expenses come on for international travel that's not just flying back and forth the senate because 1.00

00:37:09.280 she represents somewhere else. No, this is just international travel alone. But nothing will 0.97

00:37:14.420 happen, nothing will come of it. Speaking of nothing happening, we're getting a little darker

00:37:17.600 here. And speaking of our bad courts and our ridiculous rulings from them. The Edmonton 0.89

00:37:24.980 Police Service, they've warned us that Jamie Edward Meads, he's 38, he's considered a significant

00:37:30.500 risk of harm to the community. Yeah, he should be because he's got a 20-year history of rape

00:37:37.120 and assault. He's had eight known victims identified during that period. He was convicted

00:37:43.980 of assault by bodily harm when he choked, suffocated, strangled, and aggravated assault

00:37:49.320 and forcible confinement. Intimidation all against a woman last year. 2025. Just a little over a year

00:37:56.320 ago. He's loose again. Do you think he might re-offend? And you see, this isn't a shoplifter.

00:38:03.160 This isn't somebody who's going to do minor harm. This isn't a car thief. He's a rapist and a woman beater. So why do they keep releasing him? Because he's indigenous. Look into it. He's a Gladue case. What's a Gladue case? That's the geniuses in our court system.

00:38:20.260 They ruled in the Gladue ruling, who I believe she was with the Niska or Cowichan or one of those bands. 0.98

00:38:26.860 Either way, whereas Indigenous offenders must, the judges have to take their race into account and give them reduced sentences whenever possible. 0.97

00:38:39.060 In this case, it shouldn't be possible. 1.00

00:38:40.720 A judge should be able to say, I don't care about the Gladue principles.

00:38:43.420 This man is a hazard to society. 0.99

00:38:46.280 He should die of old age in prison. 1.00

00:38:48.080 so he doesn't rape another, a ninth woman, and beat them. 1.00

00:38:52.360 But nope, he's loose again.

00:38:54.000 All the Edmonton police can do is warn us,

00:38:57.820 hey, this guy's on the loose again.

00:39:00.140 Try not to be the one that he's going to assault and rape this time. 0.91

00:39:03.660 But there's going to be another one. We know it. 0.75

00:39:05.800 We can't protect our citizens.

00:39:07.400 The state is failing us.

00:39:09.680 What is the point of the state?

00:39:11.800 What is the point of the government?

00:39:13.060 One of the few things, the most basic principles of a government

00:39:16.300 is to keep the citizenry safe, to keep us to do what it can to prevent monsters like this man

00:39:24.480 from harming us and harming our women, harming our daughters and children.

00:39:28.360 And it's failed. It's failed and it continues to fail. This state isn't worth a crap. Canada is

00:39:34.580 broken. People wonder why I support independence. Oh, how could you possibly want to bust up this

00:39:41.200 beautiful state? Because the state's crap. It's releasing guys like this to come out and rape 1.00

00:39:45.140 people that's why and here's another one mendehany johans not a canadian by the way he came as a 0.97

00:39:52.340 refugee he's had two convictions for sexual assaults on strangers too not accusations

00:39:59.780 convictions he's repeatedly breaches breached his court orders because they keep letting him 0.53

00:40:04.660 out to rape more women he's been described by police as high risk and uh can't deport him 0.99

00:40:13.620 they won't deport him he's not even a citizen why the hell is this rapist here 0.99

00:40:18.340 why is this rapist here the immigration minister repeatedly in parliament keeps telling us 0.91

00:40:23.780 that inadmissible people don't get to stay well what does it take to become inadmissible 0.99

00:40:29.780 half a dozen rapes a dozen rapes

00:40:34.660 why is this so hard you know a lot of things in comp in politics are complicated a lot of things

00:40:41.700 are nuanced a lot of things take some thought and discussion getting rid of rapists shouldn't take

00:40:47.380 a lot of discussion keeping them in jail shouldn't uh be something that uh does such uh canadian

00:40:58.020 spider-man says uh sorry i have to hard disagree on the state being responsible for our safety

00:41:01.060 that gives them the power over our independence takes away individual accountability which is

00:41:03.940 wrong well i'm not a hundred percent libertarian in an anarchist world i do believe though i agree

00:41:08.980 I think we got some area of agreement that we should have more ability to protect ourselves, period, anyways.

00:41:14.560 That right should be paramount in the first place.

00:41:17.360 I fully agree there.

00:41:18.520 I believe in castle law and those sorts of principles.

00:41:21.720 But still, in an organized society, the state should have a degree of policing and law enforcement.

00:41:29.640 And not everybody is capable or willing, you know, to have the firearms required or ability to fully protect their household or themselves.

00:41:36.980 and that's where as a society I think we should try and manage to again protect those liberties

00:41:44.720 of people as much as humanly possible but one of the obligations of the state though is that

00:41:49.520 management of those things we can't go into a full free-for-all either uh you know I I I do

00:41:56.180 as I said I'm quite libertarian but at the same time we do need to agree but either way the state's

00:42:01.940 failing on that end and that's part of it too is as long as the state is failing we should be

00:42:06.500 opening up more ability to take the law into our own hands. If the state won't do it, if the state's

00:42:12.680 failing, I think it's our obligation as citizens to take care of ourselves and take care of our

00:42:17.600 neighbors. That's the anarchy it's going to lead to. And, you know, I see a commenter, LZGP, laying

00:42:24.280 out all the things, yeah, just one after another. Justice system's a mess. Health care system's a

00:42:28.360 mess. The border system's a mess. Yes, everything's a mess. Yet I get called every name in the book

00:42:33.700 for pointing out, well, the only way I can think of to try and solve this is through independence.

00:42:38.840 I'll leave that with one more mess that's going on. I've been talking about that. Elections Alberta

00:42:43.180 is a mess. As we're going into this referenda, I say referenda, it gets confusing. Referenda is

00:42:48.720 the plural for referendum. Referendum is just one of them either way. As we're going into a bunch of

00:42:52.960 them being held this fall, Elections Alberta is just a gong show. They won't, again, with Lukasik,

00:42:58.820 who is clearly campaigning, won't deal with applying equal scrutiny and obligations upon

00:43:05.140 his campaign whilst following the other ones with a fine-tooth comb. And now with the scrutineering,

00:43:10.320 the biggest step in holding them, you know, that we can hold elections accountable, having people

00:43:15.660 there in person to watch the vote, watch the count, watch the process. Well, it turns out for

00:43:20.540 the first time ever, there's a two-month cutoff before voting date for scrutineers. What this

00:43:26.980 means is we can't get scrutineers anywhere after august 24th what the hell and they certainly

00:43:33.940 haven't been expressly talking about that it has been available on the website but they haven't

00:43:37.420 really been letting us know i run a third-party advertising group and they won't tell us the

00:43:41.340 process on how you can get people appointed between now and the 24th so they're telling us

00:43:45.980 i must get this done by the 24th but we're not going to tell you how to get it done and then

00:43:50.100 once the deadline passes away you're up shit creek you can't have a scrutineer this is elections

00:43:55.100 Alberta. We contacted them a couple of days ago. Still waiting on a response. What are you clowns

00:44:02.100 doing? Just make an application for them. That's why we're even asking at this point, but apparently 0.99

00:44:08.140 Microsoft Word eludes them. This is the top authority of elections in Alberta. As they keep

00:44:15.800 screwing this stuff up, the integrity of the entire process is going to be questioned. No matter which

00:44:22.020 side loses in this, they're not going to take the outcome seriously because the electoral authority

00:44:27.840 is either incompetent or has been corrupted somehow. Not good. Not good at all. If you can't

00:44:37.000 have a clean democratic action, your democracy isn't working. It isn't working. So, I mean,

00:44:45.720 I don't know. I don't know how much more pressure can be put on elections in Alberta. People said

00:44:48.300 the premier should step in. I like to remind people that's not a precedent we want to see.

00:44:54.180 We don't want to see the premier poking into the electoral thing. It should be an all-party

00:44:57.440 committee. It might even have to come to a judge, but somebody's got to intervene because that

00:45:01.460 electoral officer is, I don't know what the hell his interest is, but it doesn't seem to be in

00:45:05.640 democracy and protecting those rights. Well, I'll leave it at that, guys. Hey, make sure to tune in

00:45:11.200 to the pipeline tonight. We're going to have a kind of a different panel lined up due to some

00:45:14.920 people not necessarily being available today, but we're going to cover some issues. They'll

00:45:18.740 be really important. So tune into that, subscribe to our channels to catch things like Randy's

00:45:22.920 podcast, this show, and lots of news updates as they come up, not to mention Nigel Hannaford's

00:45:27.500 fantastic social show. So thanks for tuning in today, guys. And we will see you all again

00:45:31.920 to do this next week at this time.

00:45:44.920 We'll be right back.

Western Standard - August 15, 2026

CORY MORGAN SHOW： The WNBA finally became interesting, but for the wrong reason

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