Western Standard - Defending your home is a crime in Canada

00:00:00.000 G'day and welcome to The Pipeline.

00:00:28.240 And today is August 20th, 2024.

00:00:31.660 I'm Derek Fildebrandt, publisher of the Western Standard.

00:00:35.300 I'm joined by my two usual friends here,

00:00:38.260 former Western Standard opinion editor

00:00:40.260 and now just honored columnist, Nigel Hannaford.

00:00:46.320 Occasional guest, opinion editor Emeritus,

00:00:49.660 whatever you want to say.

00:00:50.540 Nice title.

00:00:51.540 Let's get a nice title.

00:00:52.380 Pro Temp War.

00:00:53.520 Pro Temp, yeah.

00:00:55.580 And Western Standard senior Alberta columnist,

00:00:57.680 cory morgan always a pleasure uh before we get into it though we've got an announcement the

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00:01:26.760 them at sgfradio.ca sgfradio.ca all right so uh more mass graves have still probably not been

00:01:41.440 found uh at another reserve in canada um will the moral panic reignite uh well certainly some

00:01:51.980 churches will probably reignite um see what i did there yeah probably not funny but yes

00:01:58.840 dark humor yes that's what that's what we do around here i don't know that uh yeah so uh

00:02:05.800 apparently more suspected mass graves we're uh on sports line we're gonna we're gonna start

00:02:12.940 we should we should start a bet on if any actually get found oh boy we'll have to give pretty good

00:02:18.820 odds, because

00:02:19.740 I bet you if we go to the

00:02:22.480 whoever is the guy actually claiming

00:02:24.680 this, I bet you he's going to require odds

00:02:26.860 that they actually find some bodies.

00:02:29.160 You would think.

00:02:31.020 That doesn't mean they won't eventually find

00:02:34.720 some, but I mean, so far

00:02:36.800 they're about

00:02:38.100 10,000 and all. The trick is you have to look.

00:02:42.320 Yeah.

00:02:43.220 Yeah. They don't seem to want to do that.

00:02:44.960 No. Okay.

00:02:47.620 Guess who's back?

00:02:48.820 Pierre Polyev is back, the Conservative Party's leader winning, smashing a by-election in Battle River Crowfoot constituency along central eastern Alberta, headed back into the House of Commons.

00:03:04.700 We're going to talk about the by-election itself. We'll kind of read the entrails of it, how it went, and where things are next for the Conservative leader and the Conservative Party.

00:03:14.440 but first uh a heinous crime uh really no words to describe uh how terrible this man is uh they're

00:03:26.560 in on in lindsey ontario uh someone broke into uh a well-known criminal who's broken into many

00:03:34.220 homes and committed other armed robberies he breaks into someone's house and that man

00:03:40.320 man who owns the home apparently produced a firearm of some kind and defended his home

00:03:47.040 and that bad man has been charged justice will be done that bad man is of course the homeowner

00:03:56.020 who defended his property of course you knew that right you know that's where i was going with this

00:04:00.860 that uh the guy who was at home uh we think sleeping and minding his business uh did not do

00:04:09.080 his duty to society by letting

00:04:11.840 this robber into his house,

00:04:14.160 steal his things, and threaten

00:04:15.820 himself and his family.

00:04:17.600 And so the Lindsay, Ontario police

00:04:19.920 have charged him with

00:04:21.860 what are some of the charges? It's

00:04:23.300 dangerous use of a firearm.

00:04:25.420 That was one. Dangerous use of a firearm.

00:04:27.800 Aggravated assault.

00:04:29.680 That's a big one, actually.

00:04:31.240 Oh yeah?

00:04:31.500 Yeah.

00:04:34.660 He's in big trouble.

00:04:36.900 So obviously

00:04:37.860 this is lit off a firestorm

00:04:40.600 because even the

00:04:42.960 biggest soft on crime

00:04:45.600 you know

00:04:46.900 progressivist

00:04:48.220 you know rehabilitate them all

00:04:50.880 kind of liberal 0.98

00:04:51.780 everyone realizes how ridiculous

00:04:55.100 this is I really don't think

00:04:57.000 there's anyone really

00:04:58.900 defending the police here

00:05:00.480 at least openly

00:05:02.640 quietly

00:05:04.280 this obvious this I think

00:05:06.940 It lines up with a very long-standing direction in law enforcement and justice in Canada,

00:05:16.540 whereby if you have a problem, you're supposed to rely on the police.

00:05:19.900 You never, ever take the matter into your own hands.

00:05:22.740 It doesn't matter if it's going to take half an hour for the police to arrive over here in a rural area,

00:05:28.520 maybe a couple of hours.

00:05:29.620 It doesn't matter.

00:05:30.720 You're supposed to let the justice system do the justice and not yourself.

00:05:35.100 and so this guy this guy's now facing uh huge charges um there's a long history of this in

00:05:44.180 canada a very close you know to where you're from uh cory uh we have eddie maurice of okotoks

00:05:49.420 a couple of years ago uh similar ish circumstances and uh he faced huge charges

00:05:58.220 ultimately were they were dropped or dismissed or they're dismissed i mean i could expand on that

00:06:03.560 Eddie have known for some time, and I followed

00:06:05.640 that pretty closely, but they put him through the

00:06:07.620 ringer, boy. Yeah, so, I mean,

00:06:09.380 in these things, you know, we don't

00:06:11.640 have a strict castle doctrine enshrined in

00:06:13.620 law in Canada, the criminal code,

00:06:15.660 but we have a long history of common law,

00:06:17.740 which says you are allowed to defend yourself. You are

00:06:19.600 allowed to defend your property. This comes from our

00:06:21.540 ancient English common law.

00:06:24.300 But the application of this

00:06:25.700 by the police and by prosecutors

00:06:27.440 does not seem to recognize

00:06:29.760 that. When these things go to

00:06:31.640 a jury trial, juries

00:06:33.600 in Canada

00:06:34.120 the vast majority of the time say

00:06:37.440 no, this was justified, get out of here

00:06:39.520 so you are allowed to defend

00:06:41.540 yourself in Canada, but you have

00:06:43.680 to have the ability to take out a

00:06:45.580 second mortgage on your house to defend

00:06:47.020 to afford the lawyers to get

00:06:49.560 some justice done here

00:06:51.780 so I don't know

00:06:54.440 Well, you know, I was very surprised to hear

00:06:57.440 Doug Ford, Premier of Ontario

00:06:59.540 coming out and actually saying

00:07:01.620 a helpful word here i'm not surprised because it's a popular thing to say if it's popular he'll say it

00:07:07.220 well if it's a popular thing to say maybe it'll be a popular thing for the uh

00:07:12.100 this is the kawartha lakes police department to hear like this is a hint from the premier saying

00:07:19.620 you should be able to protect your family and someone's going in there to harm your family

00:07:23.460 and your kids you should use all resources you possibly can to protect your family and maybe

00:07:29.060 these criminals will think twice about breaking into someone's home um you know i've never taken

00:07:35.780 doug ford as being particularly strong on anything except well things that might get him votes but

00:07:42.020 if it's popular yeah so if i were you know if i were the police department i'd say oh

00:07:47.540 so the premier's not really with me on this one let's go let's take it a little bit easy

00:07:52.820 um i think uh i would hope doug ford is he's a populist in the worst sense of the word he just

00:08:02.320 does whatever is popular and that some of the time means he does good things and much of the

00:08:07.960 time he does bad things you know democracy is unfortunately two foxes in a hand voting on what

00:08:12.400 they have for dinner much of the time and so he goes with the foxes um you know but but he wasn't

00:08:19.660 wrong um you know i i was discussing this uh on a show with the rebel uh earlier today and and i

00:08:27.560 said i think there there's four four things driving this kind of crime uh mass migration

00:08:34.460 uh drugs particularly fentanyl um a feckless and cowardly police culture um that they have

00:08:47.800 You know, between BLM and long-credating BLM, that kind of culture, coming down, trying to make police politically correct peacekeepers instead of police, and importantly, a disarmed populace.

00:09:07.880 and Canada is

00:09:10.040 disarmed relative to the United States but in other parts of the world

00:09:12.100 not as much but

00:09:13.720 just like just yesterday

00:09:16.080 we have a story about the federal government

00:09:18.120 Corey

00:09:18.500 trying again

00:09:22.020 I think a third or fourth time now on their

00:09:24.060 so-called buyback program that's their confiscation

00:09:25.940 program like they can say buyback

00:09:28.100 but they're not buying it they're confiscating it

00:09:29.960 and handing you a small amount of money

00:09:31.440 and it's not back because they never had it to begin with

00:09:33.940 this is confiscation

00:09:34.860 they are renewing their push to confiscate lawful weapons from lawful and law-upholding gun owners

00:09:43.060 just as this kind of thing happens, and they prosecute the home and gun owner.

00:09:49.180 Here's a statistic.

00:09:52.920 So these 2023 numbers, the most recent available,

00:09:56.360 the armed robbery rate in Canada is 59 per 100,000.

00:10:02.300 so montana just south of us here 24 for 100 000 now i'm not cherry picking i didn't go through

00:10:10.860 a bunch of different states there's way more variation in the states than than within canada

00:10:14.740 on these kinds of things uh i would uh chance to get hazard to guess that you know the robbery

00:10:22.120 rates in california are probably comparable to canada's uh you know similar political culture

00:10:28.060 similar levels of legal gun ownership,

00:10:30.520 but higher levels of illegal gun ownership.

00:10:32.820 Montana, extremely high

00:10:34.340 levels of civilian

00:10:36.100 legal gun ownership. If you

00:10:38.240 break into someone's house in Montana,

00:10:40.560 I'm willing to bet 1.00

00:10:41.920 they're going to try and shoot you. 0.89

00:10:44.100 It's just not worth the risk. Yeah, maybe

00:10:46.140 the house won't have a gun, but there's a damn good chance

00:10:48.340 they do, and they're allowed

00:10:50.000 to use it. They have Castle Doctrine in Montana.

00:10:52.820 So, I think

00:10:54.280 those are the four big things. It's just

00:10:56.060 mass migration,

00:10:57.060 uh it is uh the drug and fentanyl problem it is a cowardly police and it is a disarmed populace

00:11:05.340 uh and this is just the regime continuing to push uh they these these cases where someone

00:11:14.120 heroically defends their home their family their property with a firearm it's bad propaganda for

00:11:18.780 the regime because it says this is why you should be allowed to have a gun now i'd be a bit uh a bit

00:11:25.600 more sympathetic to the police than you are it's not that they're cowardly it's just that when they

00:11:29.400 do the right thing they're not they're not supported i'm not very sympathetic with what

00:11:33.460 they did with me i waved a cane at vandals and they charged me i have no sympathy for a lot there

00:11:38.280 is a lot of good cops but tons of them are cowardly and they're just towing a political

00:11:42.300 line i have no sympathy so if they're towing a political line then there's a politician who i

00:11:48.440 would like to go after before i went after the uh with the police tell these people this is the

00:11:54.080 Discretion of the police. The police placed

00:11:56.120 this charge. These cops

00:11:58.160 were individually responsible. They should

00:12:00.140 have their badges stripped. They should be able to look at them all.

00:12:02.500 You're not going to get the local alderman

00:12:04.320 or councillor placing the charge,

00:12:06.440 but it's those people that the police

00:12:07.900 answer to. So they're

00:12:09.340 not doing the job the way they should

00:12:12.160 be doing it. You've got to go back to the people who pay

00:12:14.120 their wages and say, we need more and

00:12:16.140 better. I was under orders

00:12:18.180 is not always a good excuse.

00:12:20.500 These guys, it is their discretion.

00:12:22.880 The local aldermen

00:12:24.080 The local mayor does not say you're going to charge here and not charge here.

00:12:27.460 They're setting the political tone and these things.

00:12:30.200 But those police made the decision.

00:12:32.960 They have the discretion themselves, and they consult with prosecutions on this.

00:12:36.680 They made this decision.

00:12:38.540 The police and potentially the prosecution, if they consulted with the Crown Prosecutor,

00:12:42.900 they are directly responsible for this, and they should be stripped of their badges.

00:12:47.900 We don't actually know who the intruder was yet, I don't believe.

00:12:51.300 We do.

00:12:51.840 He's an offender who was wanted on charges with a history of this, and he had a weapon.

00:12:55.820 Okay, so is there a racial overtone?

00:12:59.080 That's an interesting question.

00:12:59.940 We don't know yet?

00:13:01.760 Extra points if there are.

00:13:03.860 You know, the thing is, if you have somebody of the wrong complexion,

00:13:08.060 and you don't charge them, well, you've got a racist police department.

00:13:11.940 So the police are doing what they do under some difficulties.

00:13:16.420 It comes from both sides.

00:13:17.320 But as we mentioned earlier, the Eddie Maurice case, which was in Alberta in Foothills County where I live.

00:13:22.800 There weren't, actually, though some people tried bringing it up.

00:13:24.840 No, those were both white bread meth heads who broke off. 0.93

00:13:28.200 You're thinking of the Colton Boushey case, which is another one in Saskatchewan, which had some.

00:13:33.220 There was nothing of that.

00:13:34.700 No, though some people tried to bring it in because they went under the assumption, which is another area of racism, actually.

00:13:41.600 I misspoke on the rebel then earlier today.

00:13:43.620 I guess this will have to do with my correction.

00:13:45.020 Yeah, well, those were kind of happening at the same time.

00:13:46.920 So part of it was political timing because Stanley just got exonerated on the Colton Bushy case, which was a bunch of indigenous armed kids on an impaired rampage who, one of them, unfortunately, I mean, still is unfortunate, but got killed in that one. 0.60

00:14:02.040 Eddie Maurice, though, the charges were laid on him.

00:14:05.060 For those who don't remember it, he was alone at home late at night.

00:14:08.680 He was the one person and his toddler was in the house and he fired one shot, which ended up hitting one of the methods in the elbow.

00:14:15.480 And I've been to his house.

00:14:16.640 this was from like 12 feet away. Uh, if the intent was to kill the guy, Eddie most definitely could

00:14:23.040 have perforated him a heck of a lot more than that. Either way, they put him through the ringer,

00:14:27.680 they ran him through it. And it was, uh, we were furious in our part of the world because this was

00:14:31.840 our neighbors, you know, I mean, yeah, it's a 40 minute drive from me, but Foothills County,

00:14:35.600 its neighbors were rural. And there was a lot of town hall meetings held by the RCMP to try

00:14:40.640 and calm the public and it didn't work. So the one apprentice right by my place and when I was in it

00:14:45.440 and that cop got heckled a lot they start the meeting by pointing out yes our average response

00:14:51.320 time is 40 minutes in our area so he's admitting that fair enough because they got limited resources

00:14:55.780 you got five cops in a huge area but then he says so what you must do and that's what i labeled it

00:15:01.500 as when i wrote the column on it and came to the mic was call cower and pray you're saying

00:15:05.640 if somebody's breaking into my house this was to call you find a corner of the house and cower and

00:15:09.600 pray that this person doesn't get in and doesn't want to do me harm because you're they were telling

00:15:13.320 us, do not defend yourself. Everything a person brought up, because people were bringing up,

00:15:17.700 what if I shot him with a paint gun? He said, you'd be charged with discharging a firearm at them.

00:15:21.120 It's not a firearm, it's a paintball gun. If they think it's a firearm, we will charge you

00:15:24.340 as if it was a firearm. This is the way their laws go. What if I stick my dog on him? We will

00:15:28.860 charge you with assault. What if I pepper spray him? We will charge you with assault. Everything

00:15:32.920 they told us was call, cower, and pray. And you could tell by the whole room, they were saying,

00:15:37.420 even if it was you breaking in, we're going to blow your brains out. We're defending our homes 0.96

00:15:40.960 and our parsons and our property the police are disconnected from the reality of the homeowners

00:15:46.200 now not every individual officer I'm certain many are very understanding that they would do the same

00:15:51.660 thing if they were in their home and there is a political pressure going on but it has gotten

00:15:56.420 down into a culture among the police too and they jealously guard that ability feeling you

00:16:00.300 it's our role and we just even if you were put at risk waiting for us you must wait for us

00:16:05.120 and that's got to change because these shootings are going to keep happening I know that

00:16:09.100 But in my household, I mean, if I can get the combo to the firearms safe fast enough and so on, it's going to bode very poorly for the intruder.

00:16:18.320 We've got to get realistic on these laws.

00:16:21.580 Well, I mean, to Derek's point, much as I do defend the police if I think that there's political pressure on them to go easy on certain types of crime.

00:16:31.820 The one that got me angry a year ago was the fellow in Ontario who said, look, there's a lot of carjackings.

00:16:39.820 Just leave the keys handy where the thief could get it.

00:16:43.780 And, you know, nobody gets hurt and there's less trouble.

00:16:46.540 That is not a policing attitude.

00:16:48.660 And then this morning when I was looking up the background of these incidents, I came across, it's a pretty well, it's easy to find.

00:16:58.160 But there's this video of an American police officer.

00:17:01.200 I think it's in Santa Clara County.

00:17:03.400 And he says, well, you know, people are talking about whether they should shoot an intruder if they come in.

00:17:08.520 They kind of prefer it if you do.

00:17:11.300 It's a lot lost paperwork.

00:17:14.980 I think the chief police down there just didn't notice because it came up on news searches and everything.

00:17:20.580 His name is Corey Morgan.

00:17:22.540 What?

00:17:23.500 I believe in Santa Clara.

00:17:24.760 Santa Clara, Santa Barbara, one of those two anyways.

00:17:26.620 Yeah, because he ran for

00:17:28.240 the opposition because you have to run for...

00:17:30.160 Oh, so he's like the elected sheriff.

00:17:31.840 It was popping up in the scroll for this political Corey Morgan.

00:17:34.180 That's not me. He looks like a good conservative,

00:17:36.480 bro, I guess.

00:17:38.560 Corey Morgan tells everyone 0.99

00:17:40.320 to shoot the intruder. 0.97

00:17:42.220 Which one? I'm not far off from him. 0.99

00:17:44.280 I mean, so where discretion...

00:17:46.300 Like, the police are supposed to use their discretion here.

00:17:48.820 The discretion should be

00:17:50.260 was your force

00:17:51.860 proportional to the threat?

00:17:53.920 So, you know,

00:17:55.720 if it was just a kid on the lawn

00:17:57.940 and you came out and blew him away

00:18:00.080 with a shotgun, that's not proportional.

00:18:02.740 You should be charged. That's not

00:18:04.080 defending your property. Someone knocking on your door

00:18:05.920 asking directions or whatever. You can't do that.

00:18:08.320 Yes, quite different from somebody who's at your house

00:18:10.220 at two in the morning. Yeah, and there's a lot of gray area

00:18:12.360 and that's where discretion needs to come in.

00:18:14.760 But, you know, this

00:18:16.200 kind of thing, a armed

00:18:18.120 intruder

00:18:19.600 comes into your house to rob you, potentially

00:18:22.040 to do you harm.

00:18:24.240 As soon as he sets foot,

00:18:25.720 But inside the threshold of the house, he has surrendered his right to be protected by the state.

00:18:32.380 His life now belongs to you.

00:18:35.020 It belongs to the property owner, and they get to decide what's reasonable or not at that point.

00:18:40.300 At that point, there should be no more discretion.

00:18:42.380 And as you said, when this goes to jury, and they always do, they almost always are acquitted.

00:18:47.400 The Bushi case, even going all the way back to Kessler, who was a drugstore owner in Calgary,

00:18:50.880 some people might remember that was an 80s case, because he shot, he'd been robbed so many times,

00:18:54.640 and he shot the guy while he was fleeing, and still a jury acquitted him.

00:18:59.580 So, I mean, our courts aren't up on what the public feels in this case.

00:19:03.360 That's why jury systems are so important, because it's supposed to reflect your peers,

00:19:06.660 not what some ivory tower academic activist judge might think in the end of things.

00:19:10.760 Yeah, we really have lots of threat on this thing.

00:19:12.780 There's only two reasons that really justify paying taxes.

00:19:16.000 One is protection against external threats.

00:19:18.580 The other is protection against internal threats.

00:19:21.280 Law and order.

00:19:22.400 And you get neither in Canada.

00:19:23.340 And you get neither in Canada.

00:19:24.360 So what do you expect? People are going to take it on themselves?

00:19:27.620 Well, in Canada, the federal government is the threat.

00:19:30.180 Well, we'll be watching this one closely, that's for sure.

00:19:32.440 Yeah, we're not letting this go.

00:19:34.560 This one, just as soon as I saw this one, this is one that's going to be with us for some time.

00:19:44.240 Well, we're going to have to get a reporter stationed in Lindsay or wherever this guy's trial is going to be.

00:19:49.420 It's going to be delicious.

00:19:51.100 Okay.

00:19:53.600 Nigel,

00:19:54.380 we had

00:19:55.820 Pierre Polyev's by-election

00:19:57.900 in Battle River Crowfoot.

00:20:02.740 Everyone already knows what happened,

00:20:04.660 but

00:20:04.860 the

00:20:06.580 major segments, I should say,

00:20:10.560 of the legacy media tried to

00:20:12.520 play the expectations game.

00:20:14.600 He doesn't get... Of course he was going to win.

00:20:16.440 He was going to win big, but he was going to win big enough.

00:20:18.280 I think if there was a fair measure, it'd be, well, could he match

00:20:21.340 with Damian Couric, who resigned for him got?

00:20:24.820 And that is a crazy high bar to hit it. It was like 83%.

00:20:27.360 And he did hit it. He's at 83%, 85%, somewhere in that neighborhood.

00:20:31.000 Just over 80%. Yeah. Close enough.

00:20:33.520 Within the margin of error, we're talking about him. Yeah. I do love that

00:20:36.600 there's literally dozens and dozens and dozens of candidates

00:20:39.760 who got zero votes, because they've never even

00:20:42.660 set foot in their riding. But

00:20:43.980 the expectations game

00:20:47.920 Pierre Polyev has at least met that

00:20:50.240 it was an embarrassing

00:20:52.020 the whole thing has been embarrassing for him

00:20:53.740 and it's bad enough with your party

00:20:55.800 and your caucus to lose the election

00:20:57.100 really really bad to lose your seat

00:21:00.080 but he seems to have had enough

00:21:01.760 horsepower still within the party to continue on

00:21:04.180 this has damaged him within the party I think

00:21:06.260 but he'll be now back in the House of Commons

00:21:08.380 which really is

00:21:09.800 he's like a fish in water

00:21:12.340 there, he's a really strong performer

00:21:14.280 in parliament

00:21:14.760 I

00:21:16.980 i you know let you take it from well you know like you say it was really no surprise that the eastern

00:21:22.260 media said well of course he would win in a riding like that but you know they've never met

00:21:28.980 a conservative they liked anyway so of course they were going to look for a negative angle

00:21:33.460 and the narrative was taking shape that was um you know so he's won but he's got a leadership review

00:21:41.140 then we'll have some blood then we'll be able to write nasty stories about him that's coming up

00:21:45.460 next year and it was one fellow saying he should actually step aside because nobody likes him and

00:21:51.380 he'll never get elected well you know i i i don't hear that's media line i don't hear conservatives

00:22:00.660 saying that and by the way i don't expect let let's just say he does have a let's say he does 1.00

00:22:07.460 have an abrasive side to his personality as when he takes a stupid reporter asking stupid questions 0.99

00:22:14.340 and tears him down a peg or two which he's done more than once um you know i don't necessarily 1.00

00:22:22.020 want to like my surgeon or my airline pilot i do want them to be competent and do the job properly

00:22:29.620 and that is the measure of who you should select for a prime minister now obviously mr mr poyev

00:22:36.580 didn't get that but when you when you go deeper into the numbers you find that there's a certain

00:22:41.700 stereotype that

00:22:43.620 rejects him. Young guys like him.

00:22:47.760 Older 0.87

00:22:48.040 women don't. Well, he's sassy. 1.00

00:22:50.340 He's not nice.

00:22:52.160 That is not the measure of

00:22:53.940 who you want as a Prime Minister.

00:22:55.900 So anyway, he's got that to look

00:22:57.980 forward to in the new year.

00:23:00.500 What I'm actually expecting

00:23:01.760 is that come September the 15th,

00:23:03.880 he's going to be back in the House.

00:23:06.060 He's going to be challenging Prime Minister

00:23:07.920 Carney, who is

00:23:08.840 not brilliant on crime

00:23:11.720 and immigration particularly

00:23:13.120 but frankly on what I think

00:23:15.720 is the whole bill of goods that Mr. Carney

00:23:17.440 has passed off on us, making promises

00:23:19.800 but making the promises conditional

00:23:21.640 so you don't get good performance

00:23:23.900 but you always have a reason, always have a good

00:23:25.780 excuse and Polio is not

00:23:27.920 going to let him get away with that. He is going to

00:23:29.740 hold his feet to the fire as

00:23:31.800 they say and I think the longer

00:23:33.740 it goes on the more obvious it will be

00:23:35.920 even to those

00:23:37.840 precious souls who find that Pierre

00:23:39.980 is a bit abrasive, he's actually the one

00:23:41.940 who should be running things. It's everything he ever

00:23:43.960 recommended doing, Carney is doing.

00:23:45.860 Well, let the guy who thought of it take it.

00:23:49.640 I'd like

00:23:50.220 to agree with you. I'm not

00:23:51.980 sure I can.

00:23:54.140 You know, those who are saying he'll

00:23:55.920 never get elected, they might be true. 0.98

00:23:57.800 They might be correct.

00:24:00.320 Carney has probably got four years

00:24:01.860 ahead of him here. Now, he might call an early

00:24:03.700 election to try to secure a formal and

00:24:05.740 larger majority than he has, but he effectively

00:24:07.760 has a majority. They're like, what, like a seat or two short. The NDP is in a shambles. You can buy

00:24:12.780 them off, no problem. He's got an effective majority. For all intents and purposes, this

00:24:17.840 is a majority government. It's a really slim one. Maybe he calls it an early election. And as far

00:24:23.640 as, I hate to be meaner, as far as the boomers that broadly voted for him and the East that

00:24:30.520 broadly voted for him are concerned, this is a new government. This is not just a continuation

00:24:36.100 of Trudeau. This is a new government.

00:24:37.960 The caucus might be pretty much just the same.

00:24:40.100 The cabinet might be mostly the same. The staffers

00:24:41.920 might be exactly the same. The guy

00:24:43.860 in charge is different.

00:24:46.080 He's the daddy CEO

00:24:47.980 prime minister. We got rid of the

00:24:49.940 annoying guy who was here for a decade.

00:24:52.040 This is a new government.

00:24:54.780 At best, I think

00:24:56.000 we've got... We're stuck with him for

00:24:57.820 four years here.

00:25:01.060 There was the Pollyov moment. It looked like 1.00

00:25:03.720 that was supposed to happen.

00:25:05.220 and that went on for some time

00:25:07.160 but people got feckless

00:25:09.860 because they were feared of Trump

00:25:10.840 at some point Carney has

00:25:13.840 introduced something

00:25:14.760 no! Trudeau could

00:25:17.740 govern vapidly for a decade

00:25:19.260 and people still voted for him until he finally

00:25:21.880 gave up

00:25:22.500 people have a long, it takes people a while

00:25:26.060 to really tire

00:25:28.040 people are giving him a chance right now

00:25:29.580 and he's going to eventually make some fun

00:25:30.760 anybody deserves a chance for six months

00:25:33.380 But, you know, once Parliament resumes, once you've been there for a while, well, you said pipelines were going to be built.

00:25:40.700 There aren't any pipelines.

00:25:41.820 Well, you know, I have my excuses for that.

00:25:45.580 Yeah, but you can drag that out for quite a while.

00:25:49.020 Albertans will get pissed off.

00:25:50.500 Now, will we get pissed off enough to actually throw off the federal government itself, not just voters?

00:25:55.540 That's a whole other subject.

00:25:56.700 That is.

00:25:57.760 I recommend to the reader my great call on that this morning.

00:26:01.720 But outside of Alberta, Saskatchewan, pockets of BC, and some pockets of rural Ontario, most Canadians, they just, as long as we're still comfortable, our money might be being debased on a daily basis.

00:26:18.940 we might have mass migration pouring through our airports on a daily basis we might have crime 1.00

00:26:24.700 running over our streets but as long as your broad creature comforts are still there as long as the

00:26:33.820 boomers have still got a house as long as you know steak might be a luxury item now but as long as i

00:26:40.380 can still afford it they're gonna continue to vote for the status quo and we've got it we're gonna

00:26:46.600 have this for at least four years i'm not come i'm not confident that the creature comforts are

00:26:51.160 going to be that solid for four years though we've got an economic freight train speeding towards us

00:26:55.800 and a guy who's looking a lot like mr dithers from 10 years ago or 15 years ago people are expecting

00:27:02.140 something out of carny now and he hasn't done a damn thing except talk his opportunities for

00:27:07.500 block and i don't i'm sorry for all boomers i know we got a lot of boomers who watch i'm pick

00:27:11.780 gone. This is less applicable to Alberta boomers, but particularly Eastern boomers and Vancouver

00:27:18.340 boomers. They're the most prosperous generation in the history of the world, and their children

00:27:24.760 and their grandchildren are not anywhere close to as prosperous as they are, and they have no

00:27:29.300 prospect of being so. Four years from now, the math inevitably shifts a bit, but the country is

00:27:35.400 already in the dump uh you you can't how do you how you unless someone's going to propose mass

00:27:40.940 remigration unless we're going to propose going to the gold standard like unless we're talking

00:27:46.520 absolutely radical solutions none of this is ever going to get fixed the the cat's out of the bag

00:27:51.180 well again i mean how how long is he going to defend this he said we're gonna we're gonna

00:27:55.520 listen to people and tamp down on immigration turns out no the floodgates are still wide open

00:27:59.120 even the movers are recognizing this is why i can't get into a hospital in time this is why my

00:28:03.800 Kids can't afford rent on their place.

00:28:05.740 This is why I feel scared going to stop the real estate.

00:28:07.840 How about you say transit?

00:28:08.900 That's good stuff.

00:28:09.420 Well, there's that.

00:28:10.900 If you can find a buyer, it's great.

00:28:13.160 It's just, I don't know how long Carney can hold that balancing act.

00:28:16.980 I mean, his first session of parliament, probably well enough.

00:28:19.780 But we're talking, as you said, four years.

00:28:22.040 And by year three, he's going to have to show something.

00:28:26.860 He sure is.

00:28:27.660 And, you know, they've got a huge problem with the debt.

00:28:31.620 And you can do one of two things.

00:28:33.180 You can raise taxes, you can cut expenditures, or you can let inflation work.

00:28:38.780 There's only three things.

00:28:40.380 And what do you think the banker's going to pick?

00:28:42.260 Well, and guess what?

00:28:44.480 Taxes are bad for raising taxes.

00:28:46.460 You can't do that.

00:28:47.100 People will vote for you.

00:28:48.520 Cutting services.

00:28:49.980 You just talked a lot about the boomer generation.

00:28:52.960 Who are the biggest users of services?

00:28:55.060 It's the boomer generation. 0.95

00:28:56.320 He's not going to cut services.

00:28:57.380 He's going to print money, and he's going to issue debt.

00:28:59.560 He's the banker.

00:29:00.500 Those are the obvious things he's going to do.

00:29:02.100 All those things that you're saying are going to make boomers comfortable are going to be taken away from them 0.93

00:29:06.460 because the value of the money that they hold in their rifts is going to be diminished.

00:29:12.720 It already is.

00:29:14.020 I mean, it's very difficult.

00:29:14.920 In four years, this country is not going to have anything worth saving at this point.

00:29:19.120 Like, it's already almost gone.

00:29:20.540 Oh, and I'm already well at work on that contingency from the West, I understand.

00:29:24.540 And the other thing that becomes more defeatist, I think, is if in three years the public in the East has finally realized that, you know, Kearney isn't the savior and they decide to go with Polyev.

00:29:37.120 Well, the reality of federal politics is Polyev isn't going to change much substantially if he becomes prime minister either.

00:29:42.400 He'll be less bad than Kearney.

00:29:44.140 That's all.

00:29:44.660 I mean, we've got a broken system.

00:29:45.960 That's your conversation.

00:29:47.820 But either way.

00:29:48.360 Is it a broken system or a broken people?

00:29:50.540 A bit of both, I guess.

00:29:51.800 You guess the government you deserve.

00:29:52.860 but no we get the government that Ontario deserves and that's

00:29:56.800 but I mean back to the by-election I mean it was predictable as it is but it also really showed too

00:30:04.120 that that Polyev is not going to get even an inch from the legacy media from the establishment from

00:30:09.200 the usual people who tried to prop up Bonnie Critchley as if she was a contender and she

00:30:12.680 wasn't or the National Observer even putting out Polyev might fear for his seat in this rut

00:30:17.580 That was absolutely mental.

00:30:20.460 This guy did better than Kim Jong-un and Kanye.

00:30:22.600 Yeah, but he's not going to get a break from legacy media all the way to the end.

00:30:27.800 As you said, now they're saying, well, the leadership review, he might be in trouble.

00:30:30.300 No, he's not. 0.96

00:30:31.160 You're the same clowns who said Daniel Smith was at risk in her leadership. 0.97

00:30:34.080 What was it, 94% she got? 0.98

00:30:36.600 But he's going to deal with that.

00:30:38.320 He's going to be swimming upstream for this whole four years or whatever it might be for an election.

00:30:43.680 You know, Corey, tell me what you think of this.

00:30:46.780 They were saying that Capir's election was a setback for the Western independence movement.

00:30:53.920 I can't put that together.

00:30:55.400 There was no independence party on the ballot.

00:30:57.720 Yeah, that's part of what they were trying to say because Bernier went with his bizarre,

00:31:01.720 oh, suddenly I support Western independence thing, and his candidate got 0.3%.

00:31:05.240 That's just because the PPC is really becoming a running joke.

00:31:08.700 And that weird Canada unity party, is it, or whatever, that they call themselves a United Canada party.

00:31:14.400 United Canada. So the United Canada, but apparently

00:31:16.760 they were an independence

00:31:18.440 candidate. Worst independence party

00:31:20.680 name ever, if it was. It's not an

00:31:22.480 independence party. I don't understand.

00:31:24.180 And independence wasn't even on the local ballot anyway.

00:31:26.420 But I mean, they'll do whatever they can to frame this

00:31:28.260 as they can. You know,

00:31:30.080 Lukasik should have run that and show how well the 0.94

00:31:32.100 elbows up clowns 0.94

00:31:34.220 would do in this. Well, let's talk about how well the elbows 0.80

00:31:36.020 up clowns did. So the 0.89

00:31:38.060 PPC, I mean, got an irrelevant

00:31:40.320 0.3-ish.

00:31:43.220 So

00:31:43.620 Crombie got just under

00:31:45.580 10 or so, which is actually

00:31:47.720 very good for an independent. Independents

00:31:49.540 do not do well in Canada

00:31:51.680 with very few. There's some extreme

00:31:53.740 exceptions, but 10% is actually

00:31:55.740 very respectful for an independent.

00:31:57.980 The Liberals, 4.

00:32:00.540 4%.

00:32:01.060 The NDP, 2.

00:32:04.400 Jeez, in the head can't be.

00:32:05.520 These parties,

00:32:07.920 the NDP

00:32:09.200 was much closer. The Liberals

00:32:11.800 in the NDP were much closer in their vote count

00:32:13.760 to the PPC than the Liberals

00:32:15.700 were to the Conservatives.

00:32:17.940 Can we agree that in

00:32:19.680 rural Alberta, the Liberals in NDP

00:32:21.360 are fringe parties? They're total

00:32:23.640 fringe parties. Yes.

00:32:25.680 And I mean, it's a secret ballot. It's not like

00:32:27.720 there's even a bunch of closet NDP and Liberal people

00:32:29.580 in rural that, you know, would come out and make a mark.

00:32:31.680 They don't, they aren't there.

00:32:32.980 Yeah, there's, I

00:32:35.340 do remember there was a by-election.

00:32:37.700 The federal MP in

00:32:39.260 Medicine Hat

00:32:40.800 died in office and there was a by-election

00:32:43.160 and the NDP in Alberta had come to power

00:32:45.580 it was within a year or so

00:32:47.780 of that happening and the NDP

00:32:49.560 federally scored 1%

00:32:51.680 and I remember I

00:32:52.520 gave some speech in the house just chatting

00:32:55.400 about how the NDP are the 1%

00:32:57.740 they were beaten by the

00:32:59.480 Christian Heritage Party, nearly beaten

00:33:01.620 even by the Rhinoceros Party

00:33:03.260 which I really want to see them run more

00:33:05.600 at least they got a sense of humor

00:33:07.060 if you're going to run Joe candidates, don't do this thing

00:33:09.180 you know, where you flood the ballot with like

00:33:11.140 100, 200 people doing nothing.

00:33:13.560 Let's get the rhinos back on the ballot. 1.00

00:33:15.500 That's, that adds a little

00:33:16.940 democracy

00:33:19.060 is a serious business, but it shouldn't be that serious.

00:33:21.600 Well, certainly room for one.

00:33:23.660 Yeah.

00:33:24.860 Let it be them. Okay. I agree.

00:33:27.880 Alright, well, uh,

00:33:29.640 something less

00:33:31.320 funny. We'll switch

00:33:33.260 it up to the latest

00:33:34.480 incidents of suspected mass

00:33:37.460 graves. So, Corey,

00:33:38.880 uh there's another one uh i think also in bc is it yes yeah it's in bc uh yeah they found a pit

00:33:44.400 where uh residential school survivor uh non-survivors have been lined up and shot into

00:33:50.640 an open pit right that's what they found well that's okay to the point of almost what they're

00:33:54.640 alleging i guess i mean it's that's pretty much the way the headline implies well you know and

00:33:59.760 and if you go farther back into this one and what their background is on it so the the two areas of

00:34:04.160 evidence of what they got going on and this is a sorry sechelt is the name of it it's just north

00:34:08.960 of vancouver and it's an indigenous band it's an old residential school site they rely on oral

00:34:13.760 history again so some some people have claimed that uh children were led off into the woods by

00:34:20.560 uh school staff and priests and nuns and just never came back they're they're alleging murder

00:34:24.720 i mean that's the other thing people they're claiming murder if this was murder there should

00:34:28.400 be a forensic murder there should be a forensic investigation which means you actually have to

00:34:32.080 to dig a hole, but they will not

00:34:34.300 as with Kamloops. So they've done

00:34:36.400 ground penetrating

00:34:38.320 radar studies which show anomalies.

00:34:40.160 They've announced, now there's 81 of them

00:34:41.720 on this site. Nobody's

00:34:44.140 reported missing. Nobody is

00:34:45.620 close. So this was reported, I'll just

00:34:48.100 remind folks, by the CBC

00:34:49.520 as graves. Not even

00:34:52.000 alleged graves, not suspected graves.

00:34:55.260 Graves.

00:34:56.440 They've already been slapped for this by the Robbins

00:34:58.300 middle line. She got slapped, that reporter 1.00

00:35:00.260 Alana, again, I should have written her last name 0.97

00:35:02.180 down, I can't remember, but she posted that out

00:35:04.200 there, reporter on it on X, and just

00:35:06.080 got so roundly pummeled

00:35:07.960 and community noted that she actually locked

00:35:10.220 down her X account

00:35:11.640 so that you people can't

00:35:14.160 communicate with her anymore. Which CBC

00:35:16.140 reporter recently reported

00:35:17.820 that there were mass graves discovered

00:35:19.880 in British Columbia?

00:35:22.140 Okay, that'll take us a moment.

00:35:24.140 But you know what?

00:35:25.920 She deserves credit for her journalism. 0.64

00:35:28.680 We should use her name.

00:35:29.940 Well, one promising thing out of this is that CBC is really the only ones who gave this any ink.

00:35:34.800 It's not like before with Kamloops when it made international news or anything.

00:35:39.340 This has just been a blip.

00:35:41.380 And there's a coast reporter called it on Mark Graves, too, I see.

00:35:47.460 Unless you found even a single body, you got to quit calling these graves.

00:35:52.080 I mean, I'm not trying to be cold and nasty, though that's my nature.

00:35:56.600 Yeah, but I mean, these were generally understood, these are understood to be generally unpleasant places, you know, not the brightest spot on Canadian history.

00:36:08.560 You know, don't want you to underplay it, but don't chronically overplay it, because you discredit everything.

00:36:16.140 The reality, if you're caught lying about major aspects of this story, it then calls into question the whole story, not just to cause any justice.

00:36:24.360 they're removing the ability to prove their lie out now because they're all now once they find it

00:36:29.240 they lock down and say we're not going to excavate further we're going to call it a sacred site by

00:36:33.240 the way give us some more millions of dollars like in kamloops where they already got eight million

00:36:37.000 couldn't buy a 30 shovel and they want four more million dollars to follow up on this thing further

00:36:45.000 this is enough this is a racket well it is a racket the 704 million dollars has actually been

00:36:51.880 asked for. Yeah, $246 million

00:36:54.220 paid out so far. Yeah.

00:36:56.020 I think there was something. Courtney Dickinson,

00:36:58.100 is that it? It was Alana something,

00:37:00.140 actually. Well, Grok is saying

00:37:02.260 the August 15th story

00:37:03.920 on Shalisha

00:37:06.120 Nation. Salish. 0.97

00:37:08.420 Salish? I think it's Salish, yeah.

00:37:10.200 Either way.

00:37:12.680 It's saying Courtney Davidson.

00:37:14.360 It was Alana

00:37:16.140 something or other, and she'd had an exchange

00:37:18.220 with Jonathan Kaye, if you follow X

00:37:19.840 closely and so on.

00:37:21.880 And again, she'd locked down her account.

00:37:25.540 But either way, it showed people are willing to call it out.

00:37:28.660 I mean, when this first happened with Kamloops, this was sacred.

00:37:30.960 People didn't even dare question.

00:37:32.520 Oh, Lord, there's 215,000.

00:37:35.460 So there she is, Alanna Kelly.

00:37:37.880 Alanna Kelly.

00:37:38.760 Sea to Sky region.

00:37:39.560 I don't know if that'd be the area.

00:37:40.860 Yeah, Squamish area.

00:37:41.780 There she is.

00:37:42.220 Okay.

00:37:42.820 So she locked down her ex account.

00:37:45.140 Let's put her face and name up on the screen.

00:37:48.100 And she didn't retract her anything to my knowledge.

00:37:50.420 Did she just, oh boy, I'm really taking a beating.

00:37:52.540 I'm just going to pull my...

00:37:53.440 Yeah, I wonder if it's possible the story's been updated

00:37:55.840 because it's clearly factually incorrect.

00:37:57.940 It's not even a matter of interpretation.

00:37:59.160 You can't call it graves unless you have a body.

00:38:01.740 And she called it graves.

00:38:02.680 You've got to have at least two bodies to say graves, plural.

00:38:06.420 You've got to have one body to say a grave.

00:38:08.180 Yeah, a friend to the standard, Peter Menzies,

00:38:11.200 he really has been beating on that one as well.

00:38:13.280 But, you know, because again,

00:38:14.080 he's very much on responsible journalism

00:38:16.600 and it was very irresponsible on her part

00:38:20.120 to try and allege that these were graves.

00:38:22.220 But this story's getting old.

00:38:23.440 It's getting tiresome, and it's not stopping.

00:38:25.600 Well, that's maybe why it had the CBC

00:38:27.700 and then some extreme, like, really, like,

00:38:31.180 explicitly Marxist small online publications.

00:38:36.360 It didn't have the big front-line moral panic

00:38:39.700 that we saw in previous cases where this,

00:38:41.820 because it's now embarrassing.

00:38:43.440 And because it's breaking the narrative

00:38:45.260 that these places were death-factor.

00:38:47.400 And the racket's going on.

00:38:48.580 like in Gruard, I wrote that in a column

00:38:50.480 that'll be coming out soon. That's in northern Alberta.

00:38:52.900 There was a big announcement in 2022

00:38:54.520 where they found dozens of them here

00:38:56.680 and everything. And then, of course, you look further into it.

00:38:59.100 They were doing their survey in

00:39:00.520 the known church cemetery.

00:39:03.340 So these were, yes, they

00:39:04.600 were burials. And yes, they had wooden crosses

00:39:06.760 80, 90, 70, even 50

00:39:08.600 years ago. A wooden cross typically

00:39:10.540 is going to fall down. Everybody was outraged.

00:39:12.680 That church in Gruard was a big, beautiful brick one too.

00:39:14.660 They burned it to the ground.

00:39:17.280 This is not harmless.

00:39:18.460 I'm sure they were looking for the arsonist.

00:39:19.920 Yes, yes.

00:39:21.120 This is not harmless.

00:39:22.420 The other thing is, are there Indian children, Indigenous children, who are not accounted for?

00:39:29.680 No.

00:39:30.440 I believe there are not.

00:39:33.240 Or if there are, I mean, it would not be anywhere in these numbers.

00:39:37.360 I'm sure, as I said, they're not great places.

00:39:40.860 There probably are some unaccounted for.

00:39:43.100 Oh, sure.

00:39:44.340 And I'm certain there were abusers in these schools.

00:39:47.520 The other part is, if you believe the narrative, if you believe these were children buried there, you should be eager to have them exhumed so we can reunite them with the family, have closure, have them interred properly, and an investigation to find out what happened.

00:40:01.320 We dug up a whole Winnipeg landfill to reunite families with the remains of two murdered women there. 0.88

00:40:05.680 Did they find them?

00:40:06.440 Yes, they did, actually, at a cost of tens of millions.

00:40:09.300 Yes.

00:40:09.740 Again, this was real.

00:40:10.760 Fine, if it's that sacred.

00:40:12.300 There's obviously the double standard.

00:40:13.380 so it's so sacred that we will spend tens of millions

00:40:15.900 of dollars to dig up a landfill to find a couple

00:40:17.760 of bodies, okay

00:40:18.820 but these are not sacred

00:40:20.820 or thousands of bodies are not sacred

00:40:22.620 we know within apparently a couple of feet of where they are

00:40:25.660 not as they're talking about excavating a whole landfill

00:40:27.900 and we won't dig six feet

00:40:29.500 that's a hoax

00:40:30.900 and that's why I keep calling it, I know it makes them bristle 1.00

00:40:33.480 it drives them nuts, but you want to shut me up

00:40:35.260 get a shovel 0.90

00:40:36.560 simple

00:40:38.940 yeah

00:40:39.380 I think it is that simple

00:40:42.760 I think there's something bigger going on here.

00:40:47.000 If this narrative that the colonialists murdered Indigenous children,

00:40:52.580 it puts such a burden of guilt on the descendants of the colonialists

00:40:57.760 that whatever the Canada's Indigenous peoples asked for,

00:41:03.080 they ought to be given,

00:41:04.600 including control over massive amounts of land and money.

00:41:09.100 It is meant to demoralize us.

00:41:11.240 It is made to illegitimize us.

00:41:13.880 It is made to make us lose any sense of consciousness of our own history,

00:41:19.440 our own traditions, our own institutions,

00:41:21.460 things that we have a right to be proud of.

00:41:23.720 It is very, I think, deliberately designed to do that.

00:41:27.220 And it has been remarkably successful.

00:41:29.720 You have still got the so-called national broadcaster

00:41:32.360 reporting this kind of propaganda as if it's fact.

00:41:35.240 It's been remarkably successful.

00:41:36.980 And when they do correct, as they sometimes do, it's buried.

00:41:40.500 oh yeah

00:41:41.440 that's a footnote

00:41:42.940 that was not a bad pun

00:41:44.400 I'm sorry about that

00:41:45.200 but that was

00:41:46.000 they don't play it up

00:41:50.740 they don't talk about it

00:41:51.700 sorry you made a mistake

00:41:53.220 and then life goes on

00:41:56.120 but meanwhile

00:41:56.800 the reputation

00:41:58.080 of the

00:41:59.920 people who colonized Canada

00:42:02.940 the people who arrived

00:42:04.160 from other countries

00:42:05.160 came in

00:42:06.580 developed what we have today

00:42:08.060 the cities

00:42:09.200 the railways

00:42:10.060 the industries you know i could go on about the history of the wars that we you know first world

00:42:16.600 war and the second world war canada is an amazing country but you would never know it if all you got

00:42:23.140 was what the cbc reports and that's that that's the purpose of this thing i'm sure

00:42:29.740 it is delegitimization could we just imagine if this was an untamed wilderness today and

00:42:36.760 there was only the first nation

00:42:38.740 it was as they found it

00:42:40.820 or we would just go back

00:42:43.100 in time and we had to settle

00:42:45.040 this place with the cultural Marxists

00:42:46.980 who lay claim to cultural

00:42:49.060 and political leadership today

00:42:50.840 can you imagine these people trying to

00:42:52.800 hack civilization

00:42:54.120 out of the prairie

00:42:55.720 they'd be dead in a week

00:42:57.840 I'd be dead in two weeks 0.99

00:43:00.940 I'd laugh a little longer

00:43:03.020 folks, we're gonna give that

00:43:04.540 It's too tough even for me.

00:43:05.740 I think I last a little longer, but I don't think I'd make it either.

00:43:08.300 It's just because you'd eat a couple of woke ones before you.

00:43:12.220 I'd make a jacket out of their pelts.

00:43:17.200 Okay.

00:43:18.840 All right.

00:43:19.900 We're going to wrap that there and go to our parting shots.

00:43:24.860 Corey.

00:43:25.640 Let's be quick.

00:43:26.360 I mean, we see all the strikes here.

00:43:28.080 Canada attendance.

00:43:29.520 Posties are talking yet again.

00:43:31.100 last year with CRA workers, the rest.

00:43:34.600 Just don't forget, guys, the reason this is happening, a large part of it,

00:43:38.200 and we're going to see more of it, is because they legalized the use of

00:43:40.860 replacement workers in federal regulated industries.

00:43:44.020 So get used to it, every one of these industries.

00:43:46.880 The unions now have everybody by the short curleys, and they're just going

00:43:50.200 to keep pressing.

00:43:52.380 Nigel.

00:43:53.540 I'm still chuckling over the fact that Melanie Jolie's department paid $2,000

00:43:59.700 dollars an hour to a consultant to what to learn how to talk to americans do you mean that these

00:44:07.800 people have nobody that they know south of the border that they don't ever switch on fox news

00:44:14.120 and just see what the kind of general tenor of the conversation is but they had somebody come

00:44:19.540 in from a pr company sit down with them for three hours give them a bill for six thousand dollars

00:44:24.520 And now we know how to talk to Americans

00:44:26.540 These people are unbelievable

00:44:28.280 It's only $6,000

00:44:29.560 But if that's the mentality that pervades Ottawa

00:44:32.540 You know

00:44:33.560 It's all going badly

00:44:35.920 This is the only time

00:44:38.800 You're ever going to hear me say it

00:44:39.780 Perhaps we need to bring back

00:44:41.640 A segment of the CBC that we don't have anymore

00:44:43.820 This hour is 22 minutes in the 90s

00:44:45.940 With talking to Americans

00:44:47.040 That was a

00:44:48.120 That was a solid segment

00:44:51.200 Rick Mercer talking to Americans

00:44:52.760 Rick Mercer became kind of unlistenable later on as he became a little too self-pious.

00:44:57.660 But in his day, talking to Americans, that was top shelf.

00:45:03.120 All right.

00:45:03.560 Mine is the Sutina Media Ban.

00:45:07.660 Those of you not from southern Alberta, Sutina is a reserve that is immediately abutting against the city of Congaree in the southwest.

00:45:19.840 A ring road even goes through part of it.

00:45:21.440 So it's practically, at least parts of it are practically a part of Metro Calgary area.

00:45:29.880 Generally, one of the better reserves around.

00:45:33.220 They've got some business sense, but not without their problems.

00:45:36.680 Just yesterday, they put out notice saying that there was an operation to nab some child sex traffickers at the Grey Eagle Hotel and Casino,

00:45:47.740 which is on the reserve

00:45:50.700 but like feels like it's in Calgary

00:45:52.880 it's like I drive by it every day

00:45:54.340 the people who are charged are not

00:45:58.820 from Sutina

00:45:59.800 so at least from what we know about that case so far

00:46:02.340 which is not a ton

00:46:03.020 no one's Sutina's the bad guys there

00:46:05.380 but they imposed a media ban

00:46:07.460 media are not allowed to come to the reserve to talk to anyone

00:46:10.200 that's weird

00:46:11.560 like

00:46:12.240 you guys aren't at risk

00:46:15.240 It's not like Sutina is actually

00:46:17.320 rampant up to the bad guys here.

00:46:19.040 You guys actually helped in getting

00:46:21.380 these guys. So why would you do this?

00:46:24.740 Well, it turns out

00:46:25.540 two weeks earlier, the chief

00:46:27.420 of Sutina was charged

00:46:29.380 with sexually assaulting

00:46:30.880 men, maybe 0.98

00:46:33.420 boys, I'm not sure exactly. I think they're men.

00:46:35.480 Yeah, okay. Anyway, but sexual assault of 0.61

00:46:37.360 some guys. Young men, but yeah. Yeah. Sexually 0.72

00:46:39.280 assaulting some guys. Unproven

00:46:41.400 alleged disclaimer here.

00:46:43.500 um if i was him and again unproven maybe did maybe didn't uh i would not like the media creeping

00:46:50.920 around but i can't just you know i'm trying to a sexual assault i can't just declare a media ban

00:46:55.280 on everywhere i would go but this happens two weeks later that gives me a convenient excuse

00:47:00.220 to do it so i'm putting on a mild tinfoil hat here thinking perhaps the excuse uh of of this

00:47:07.460 set of charges here is just being applied to it to protect the chief uh it's uh it smells it smells

00:47:14.420 bad so all right that's it for today cory nigel thank you very much thank all of you for joining

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Western Standard - August 21, 2025

Defending your home is a crime in Canada

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