Western Standard - August 23, 2025


Defending Your Home Is a Crime in Canada ｜ The Pipeline


Episode Stats

Length

48 minutes

Words per Minute

175.13591

Word Count

8,483

Sentence Count

796

Hate Speech Sentences

3


Summary

In this episode, we discuss the recent case of Eddie Eddie Ortiz and the charges he received by the police in the case of an intruder who tried to rob a home in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada. We also talk about the recent break-in case in Montana, where a homeowner tried to defend his own home from a would-be burglar, but was instead charged with a crime.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 There's four things driving this kind of crime.
00:00:04.760 Mass migration, drugs, particularly fentanyl,
00:00:12.520 a feckless and cowardly police culture.
00:00:20.200 Between BLM and long-predating BLM,
00:00:25.140 that kind of culture coming down,
00:00:26.700 trying to make police politically correct peacekeepers
00:00:30.520 instead of police,
00:00:33.000 and importantly, a disarmed populace.
00:00:40.320 And Canada is disarmed relative to the United States,
00:00:42.820 but in other parts of the world, not as much.
00:00:45.160 But just yesterday, we have a story
00:00:48.260 about the federal government, Corey,
00:00:52.320 trying again, I think, a third or fourth time now
00:00:55.040 on their so-called buyback program.
00:00:56.700 That's their confiscation program.
00:00:58.620 They can say buyback, but they're not buying it.
00:01:00.720 They're confiscating it and handing you a small amount of money.
00:01:03.340 And it's not back, because they never had it to begin with.
00:01:05.560 This is confiscation.
00:01:07.380 They are renewing their push to confiscate lawful weapons
00:01:11.020 from lawful and law-upholding gun owners
00:01:14.640 just as this kind of thing happens,
00:01:16.680 and they prosecute the home and gun owner.
00:01:20.920 Here's a statistic.
00:01:21.980 So these 2023 numbers, the most recent available,
00:01:27.960 the armed robbery rate in Canada
00:01:31.480 is 59 per 100,000.
00:01:35.320 So, Montana, just south of us here,
00:01:38.980 24 per 100,000.
00:01:40.980 Now, I'm not cherry-picking.
00:01:41.900 I didn't go through a bunch of different states.
00:01:43.880 There's way more variation in the states
00:01:45.260 than within Canada on these kinds of things.
00:01:47.480 I would hazard a guess that, you know,
00:01:52.980 the robbery rates in California
00:01:54.980 are probably comparable to Canada.
00:01:57.900 You know, similar political culture,
00:02:00.180 similar levels of legal gun ownership,
00:02:02.140 but higher levels of illegal gun ownership.
00:02:04.460 Montana, extremely high levels
00:02:06.500 of civilian legal gun ownership.
00:02:09.040 If you break into someone's house in Montana,
00:02:12.220 I'm willing to bet
00:02:13.580 they're going to try and shoot you.
00:02:15.780 It's just not worth the risk.
00:02:17.140 Yeah, maybe the house won't have a gun,
00:02:19.200 but there's a damn good chance they do,
00:02:20.560 and they're allowed to use it.
00:02:22.560 They have Castle Doctrine in Montana.
00:02:24.480 So, I think those are the four big things.
00:02:27.080 It's just mass migration.
00:02:30.060 It is the drug and fentanyl problem.
00:02:33.880 It is a cowardly police,
00:02:35.560 and it is a disarmed populace.
00:02:37.000 And this is just the regime
00:02:39.820 continuing to push.
00:02:44.280 These cases where someone
00:02:45.780 heroically defends their home,
00:02:47.320 their family, their property with a firearm,
00:02:49.020 it's bad propaganda for the regime
00:02:50.900 because it says,
00:02:51.740 this is why you should be allowed to have a gun.
00:02:55.240 I'd be a bit more sympathetic
00:02:57.820 to the police than you are.
00:02:59.360 It's not that they're cowardly.
00:03:00.420 It's just that when they do the right thing,
00:03:01.920 they're not supported.
00:03:03.700 I'm not very sympathetic
00:03:04.680 with what they did with me.
00:03:05.820 I waved a cane at vandals,
00:03:07.640 and they charged me.
00:03:08.540 I have no sympathy for a lot.
00:03:09.860 There's a lot of good cops,
00:03:11.160 but tons of them are cowardly,
00:03:13.040 and they're just towing a political line.
00:03:14.580 I have no sympathy.
00:03:15.300 So, if they're towing a political line,
00:03:17.960 then there's a politician
00:03:19.460 who I would like to go after
00:03:20.980 before I went after the police.
00:03:24.320 Tell these people...
00:03:25.240 This is the discretion of the police.
00:03:26.800 The police placed this charge.
00:03:28.980 These cops were individually responsible,
00:03:31.640 and they should have their badges stripped.
00:03:32.800 They should be allowed to look at them all.
00:03:34.460 You're not going to get the local alderman
00:03:36.040 or councillor placing the charge,
00:03:38.180 but it's those people
00:03:39.040 that the police answer to.
00:03:40.720 So, they're not doing the job
00:03:43.300 the way they should be doing it.
00:03:44.460 You've got to go back to the people
00:03:45.540 who pay their wages and say,
00:03:46.880 we need more and better.
00:03:49.080 I was under orders.
00:03:50.020 It's not always a good excuse.
00:03:52.220 These guys, it is their discretion.
00:03:54.580 The local alderman,
00:03:55.800 the local mayor,
00:03:56.720 does not say,
00:03:57.660 you're going to charge here
00:03:58.340 and not charge here.
00:03:59.120 They're setting the political tone
00:04:00.500 and these things,
00:04:01.960 but those police made the decision.
00:04:04.720 They have the discretion themselves,
00:04:06.260 and they consult with prosecutions on this.
00:04:08.420 They made this decision.
00:04:10.320 The police and potentially the prosecution,
00:04:12.560 if they consulted with the Crown prosecutor,
00:04:14.680 they are directly responsible for this,
00:04:17.540 and they should be stripped of their badges.
00:04:19.600 We don't actually know
00:04:20.840 who the intruder was yet,
00:04:22.320 I don't believe.
00:04:23.060 We do.
00:04:23.380 He's an offender who was wanted on charges
00:04:26.200 with a history of this,
00:04:27.180 and he had a weapon.
00:04:27.600 Okay, so is there a racial overtone?
00:04:30.860 That's an interesting question.
00:04:31.720 We don't know yet?
00:04:32.500 That's what we know.
00:04:33.700 Extra points if there are.
00:04:35.620 You know, the thing is,
00:04:37.320 if you have somebody of the wrong complexion
00:04:39.760 and you don't charge them,
00:04:41.500 well, you've got a racist police department.
00:04:43.720 So the police are, you know,
00:04:45.320 doing what they do under some difficulties.
00:04:48.220 It comes from both sides,
00:04:49.200 but as we mentioned earlier,
00:04:50.380 the Eddie Maurice case,
00:04:51.280 which was in Alberta in Foothills County
00:04:54.100 where I live.
00:04:54.600 There weren't, actually,
00:04:55.460 though some people tried bringing it up.
00:04:56.660 No, those were both white bread meth heads
00:04:58.740 who broke off.
00:04:59.980 You're thinking of the Colton Boushey case,
00:05:01.800 which is another one in Saskatchewan,
00:05:03.400 which had some...
00:05:04.220 At the police one,
00:05:05.160 there was nothing of that.
00:05:06.500 No, though some people tried to bring it in
00:05:08.080 because they went under the assumption,
00:05:09.820 which is another area of racism, actually.
00:05:13.420 I misspoke on the rebel then earlier today.
00:05:15.480 I guess this will have to do with my correction.
00:05:16.900 Yeah, well, those were kind of happening
00:05:17.940 at the same time.
00:05:18.880 So part of it was political timing
00:05:21.040 because Stanley just got exonerated
00:05:23.860 on the Colton Boushey case,
00:05:25.180 which was a bunch of Indigenous armed kids
00:05:27.020 on an impaired rampage
00:05:29.020 who, one of them, unfortunately,
00:05:31.100 I mean, still is unfortunate,
00:05:32.260 but got killed in that one.
00:05:33.880 Eddie Maurice,
00:05:34.700 though the charges were laid on him,
00:05:36.760 for those who don't remember it,
00:05:38.640 he was alone at home late at night.
00:05:40.520 He was the one person
00:05:41.440 and his toddler was in the house
00:05:42.800 and he fired one shot,
00:05:44.820 which ended up hitting
00:05:45.660 one of the meth heads in the elbow.
00:05:47.600 And I've been to his house.
00:05:48.500 This was from like 12 feet away.
00:05:51.860 If the intent was to kill the guy,
00:05:53.820 Eddie most definitely
00:05:54.760 could have perforated him
00:05:55.700 a heck of a lot more than that.
00:05:58.000 Either way,
00:05:58.600 they put him through the wringer.
00:05:59.680 They ran him through it
00:06:00.760 and it was,
00:06:01.480 we were furious in our part of the world
00:06:03.100 because this was our neighbours.
00:06:04.500 You know, I mean,
00:06:05.020 yeah, it's a 40 minute drive from me,
00:06:06.640 but Foothills County,
00:06:07.500 its neighbours were rural.
00:06:09.160 And there was a lot of town hall meetings
00:06:11.160 held by the RCMP
00:06:12.140 to try and calm the public
00:06:13.340 and it didn't work.
00:06:14.440 So the one at Prentiss,
00:06:15.740 right by my place
00:06:16.700 and when I was in it
00:06:17.420 and that cop got heckled a lot.
00:06:20.600 They start the meeting by pointing out,
00:06:21.980 yes, our average response time
00:06:23.580 is 40 minutes in our area.
00:06:25.480 So he's admitting that.
00:06:26.340 Fair enough,
00:06:26.680 because they got limited resources.
00:06:27.800 You got five cops in a huge area.
00:06:30.260 But then he says,
00:06:31.020 so what you must do,
00:06:32.400 and that's what I labelled it as
00:06:33.600 when I wrote the column on it
00:06:34.800 and came to the mic was
00:06:35.660 call, cower and pray.
00:06:37.040 You're saying
00:06:37.560 if somebody's breaking into my house
00:06:39.160 that's supposed to call you,
00:06:40.140 find a corner of the house
00:06:40.900 and cower
00:06:41.280 and pray that this person
00:06:42.420 doesn't get in
00:06:43.320 and doesn't want to do me harm
00:06:44.140 because they were telling us
00:06:45.400 do not defend yourself.
00:06:47.400 Everything a person brought up
00:06:48.620 because people were bringing up,
00:06:49.640 what if I shot him with a paint gun?
00:06:50.880 He said,
00:06:51.100 you'd be charged
00:06:51.680 with discharging a firearm at them.
00:06:53.060 It's not a firearm,
00:06:53.700 it's a paintball gun.
00:06:54.520 If they think it's a firearm,
00:06:55.540 we will charge you
00:06:56.260 as if it was a firearm.
00:06:58.400 This is the way their laws go.
00:06:59.500 What if I stick my dog on him?
00:07:00.540 We will charge you with assault.
00:07:01.740 What if I pepper spray him?
00:07:02.840 We will charge you with assault.
00:07:04.560 Everything they told us was
00:07:05.720 call, cower and pray.
00:07:07.880 And you could tell
00:07:08.280 by the whole room,
00:07:09.000 they were saying
00:07:09.360 even if it was you breaking in,
00:07:10.640 we're going to blow your brains out.
00:07:11.900 We're defending our homes
00:07:12.900 and our parsons and our property.
00:07:15.140 The police are disconnected
00:07:16.260 from the reality of the homeowners.
00:07:18.400 Now, not every individual officer,
00:07:21.020 I'm certain many are very understanding
00:07:22.680 that they would do the same thing
00:07:23.880 if they were in their home
00:07:24.960 and there is a political pressure going on,
00:07:27.540 but it has gotten down
00:07:28.580 into a culture among the police too.
00:07:30.220 They jealously guard that ability,
00:07:31.740 feeling you, it's our role.
00:07:33.920 And just even if you were put
00:07:34.940 at risk waiting for us,
00:07:35.920 you must wait for us.
00:07:37.420 And that's got to change
00:07:38.540 because these shootings
00:07:39.360 are going to keep happening.
00:07:40.180 I know that in my household,
00:07:42.760 I mean, if I can get the combo
00:07:44.020 to the firearms safe fast enough
00:07:46.060 and so on,
00:07:46.860 it's going to bode very poorly
00:07:48.160 for the intruder.
00:07:50.320 We've got to get realistic
00:07:51.260 on these laws.
00:07:52.440 Yeah.
00:07:53.620 Well, I mean,
00:07:54.360 I certainly,
00:07:54.960 I mean, to Derek's point,
00:07:56.320 much as I,
00:07:57.000 I do defend the police
00:07:58.440 if I think that there,
00:07:59.580 there's political pressure on them
00:08:01.760 to go easy
00:08:02.420 on certain types of crime.
00:08:04.360 The one that got me angry
00:08:06.320 a year ago
00:08:06.940 was the fellow in Ontario
00:08:09.120 who said,
00:08:09.780 look,
00:08:10.340 there's a lot of carjackings.
00:08:11.820 Just leave the cars.
00:08:12.820 Just leave the keys handy
00:08:13.920 where the thief could get it.
00:08:15.600 And, you know,
00:08:16.460 nobody gets hurt
00:08:17.520 and there's less trouble.
00:08:18.600 That is not a policing attitude.
00:08:20.640 And then this morning
00:08:21.320 when I was looking up the,
00:08:22.460 looking up the background
00:08:24.240 of these incidents,
00:08:25.360 I came across,
00:08:27.200 it's a pretty well,
00:08:28.960 it's easy to find,
00:08:30.280 but there's this video
00:08:31.140 of an American police officer,
00:08:33.180 I think it's in Santa Clara County,
00:08:35.360 and he says,
00:08:35.900 well, you know,
00:08:36.860 people are talking about
00:08:37.680 whether they should
00:08:38.380 shoot an intruder
00:08:39.440 if they come in.
00:08:40.540 They kind of prefer it
00:08:41.240 if you do.
00:08:43.340 It's the hot lost paperwork.
00:08:46.240 Oh, that's hilarious.
00:08:48.420 I think the chief of police
00:08:50.060 down there,
00:08:50.440 just didn't notice
00:08:50.800 because it came up
00:08:51.400 on news searches
00:08:52.100 and everything,
00:08:52.600 his name is Corey Morgan.
00:08:53.540 I believe it's Santa Clara,
00:08:56.800 Santa Clara,
00:08:57.280 Santa Barbara,
00:08:57.740 one of those two anyways.
00:08:58.800 Yeah, because he just ran,
00:08:59.660 he ran for the opposition
00:09:00.980 because you have to run for.
00:09:02.220 Oh, so he's like
00:09:03.000 the elected sheriff.
00:09:03.860 It was popping up
00:09:04.520 in this scroll
00:09:04.940 for this political Corey Morgan.
00:09:06.240 That's not me,
00:09:07.100 but it looks like
00:09:07.720 a good conservative,
00:09:08.520 bro, I guess.
00:09:10.640 Corey Morgan tells everyone
00:09:12.380 to shoot the intruder.
00:09:14.220 Sheriff, which one?
00:09:15.060 I'm not far off from him.
00:09:16.320 I mean, so where discretion,
00:09:18.360 like the police are supposed
00:09:19.260 to use their discretion here.
00:09:20.860 The discretion should be,
00:09:22.340 was your force
00:09:23.940 proportional to the threat?
00:09:25.460 Was your force
00:09:26.000 proportional to the threat?