On this episode of The Cory Morgan Show, Cory talks about the early days of the campaign and what to look forward to in the coming weeks. He's joined by Michael Nidafore, Chris Oldcorn and Frances Widowson.
00:04:14.520Well, I think you can just see it in the polls that it's favoring Carney.
00:04:18.700So far, I mean, just the fact that Trump didn't insult him, you know, Carney would have had to be breathing a deep sigh of relief.
00:04:27.740And to be honest, it looks good that he can almost control, so to speak, Donald Trump, even though nobody can, but calm down Donald Trump.
00:04:36.960But the other thing it's done is it's taken him off the campaign trail.
00:04:40.360All right, so he gets to go act all prime ministerial and doesn't have to do any campaigning where he's exposed to that nasty media that he doesn't like dealing with.
00:04:52.000So how long he'll stay behind closed doors, I guess, remains to be seen.
00:04:56.820But, you know, it couldn't have come along at a better time.
00:05:00.340You know, I guess fortunately for Conservatives, it's happened early.
00:05:04.280As you say, we're only a week into it, a long time in politics.
00:05:08.220and still a month ago, anything can happen.
00:05:10.580But right now, the polls are all favoring Kearney.
00:05:13.660Yeah, well, it's trending that people really have to watch for in polls
00:05:36.820but i mean everybody else is agreeing that there's definitely been a yeah i'm seeing a couple of
00:05:41.460polls where the the the gap is narrowing it's not a 15 point lead for carney it's a you know
00:05:47.540four or five point lead so you know there's still hope there um probably as we speak now poliev is
00:05:54.340in uh nanaimo he's launched he's doing his big crime thing today where he's going to he's going
00:05:59.700to lock up gun smugglers for life he's going to lock up fentanyl dealers for life so he's really
00:06:05.940going to get uh get tough on crime um he started the week in ontario with large large rallies
00:06:14.020thousands and thousands of people uh lineups for for blocks long so despite what the polls are
00:06:19.780saying there's still some excitement you know when you get that big a rally in toronto that's
00:06:25.300in southern ontario that's unusual uh and then as he moved west they had a huge rally last night in
00:06:31.380surrey uh like 5 500 people uh poor jared our reporter had to park miles away because he
00:06:37.460couldn't even get parking space you know what you know what he does for the weekend like he walks
00:06:42.420like 50 kilometers in a day on purpose on purpose yeah he goes and you know he lives in downtown
00:06:47.620vancouver he goes and visits his parents in like burnaby and he walks he's a bit nuts that guy
00:06:53.220well that's we need that kind of nut uh there but he does have nice hair you gotta admit absolutely
00:06:58.020i mean you know we have to we can only envy it but once he starts getting into our you know
00:07:01.70050s and such uh we'll see how that holds out exactly so uh after today uh paulia flies to uh
00:07:08.900uh winnipeg and they'll be holding a press conference tomorrow and a rally tomorrow
00:07:14.020afternoon in winnipeg and uh our jen hodgson will be will be covering that so stay tuned for that
00:07:19.700it's interesting with nanaimo though picking for justice i mean that's a city that
00:07:23.300you know if people aren't familiar with the west or familiar with vancouver island i mean
00:07:26.340In Vancouver, it's beautiful in those cities and the coastline and everything, but Naimo, to be blunt, is a shithole.
00:07:31.840Yeah, that's not the nicest of places.
00:07:34.080It's gone really rough a lot due to the epidemic of opioid addiction and so on on the island.
00:07:39.840But there's been a lot of stories over the years of frustrated citizens, you know, with that light on crime, with that enablement thing in B.C.
00:07:46.980I mean, East Hastings, everybody thinks so, but they don't think of Naimo.
00:07:50.000And that's an area that I think this instance will respond to a tough on crime.
00:08:06.680But now he's got to start hammering issues like crime, like he's doing today.
00:08:11.740And hopefully that will get more people's attention and, you know, back on his campaign and thinking, yeah, the last 10 years have been kind of rough.
00:08:50.280I mean, that's another factor, aside from the Trump factor, though, that that's really, I mean, the Liberals, the stars are just lining up for them.
00:15:23.100They were going to end climate change.
00:15:24.620They were going to create a great local bustling EV manufacturing economy, battery plants.
00:15:30.600It all seems to have kind of fallen by the wayside all of a sudden, hasn't it?
00:15:33.560Well, it happens. I think that a lot of people who made these decisions and if you're talking about the markets, the people who came up with this forgot all about it.
00:15:52.560Yeah, we're having a bit of connection problems. It's getting difficult to hear you a little bit there. We'll just give it a moment. Hopefully it catches up a little for you there.
00:16:00.040and uh but yeah i mean the evs you know we've seen these battery plants these were celebrated
00:16:05.560the ontario government doug ford uh we've seen quebec government pumping subsidies into some of
00:16:11.260them and of course the federal government all hand in hand and none of them seem to have created
00:16:16.640those jobs and and now they seem to be closing their doors well what's happened it was a bad
00:16:23.940So, should we be backing out of the EV market, though, then?
00:16:39.600Should the government disassociate the EV market and go from there?
00:17:18.300Not all of that's been spent, but a whole bunch has been committed to these battery plants, these things out in, of course, always Quebec, Ontario.
00:17:26.920You don't see any Western Canadian battery plants because that's not a priority for winning the votes, right?
00:17:34.680But they've partnered with Volkswagen, again, speaking of things that aren't Canadian and so on, and they never got built.
00:17:40.740Like, this should be, I think, should be almost a forensic investigation following up on these things.
00:17:46.380And not to mention now, the top electric vehicle supplier, you know, the one that cornered about 25% of the market was actually Tesla, Elon Musk.
00:17:57.600And Musk is now on the outs. Nobody likes Teslas any longer.
00:18:01.740Well, that's the one that broke the most ground for electric vehicles within North America.
00:18:07.660And then the other ones that were coming in around the world, you're seeing in Mexico, you're seeing in Europe, like them, hate them, whatever, were Chinese-made EVs.
00:21:59.280They haven't changed. The only thing that's changed is Carney himself, that the same old cabinet ministers are all running under Carney.
00:22:07.480In fact, some of them came back, you know, Anita Anand, Fraser, the ones who said, we're going to spend more time with our family, so I'm not going to run again.
00:22:14.580Ooh, look at that. The polls change. Suddenly they want to spend more time with their family.
00:22:18.240Their family must be feeling a little bit abused right now, aren't they?
00:22:21.040But as a Canadian, I'm sure feeling abused, but it's working.1.00
00:22:23.340I mean, some of it too. Coconut Lock, one of the commenters, pointing out, you know, CBC is spinning the story. Absolutely. Legacy media and state media are shilling for the Liberals for all they're worth. They are behind and pushing because they're subsidized.
00:22:43.400The party, the one thing that Carney hasn't said, and it's funny,
00:22:46.820Polyev has been kind of quiet about that lately,
00:22:49.800is that Carney will never cut the subsidies to the media.
00:24:25.320So strangely, we've got this flip around.
00:24:29.380But this should be very, very concerning for the conservatives too.
00:24:31.880You see, one of the reasons that when polling comes in, often conservatives get a better result than the polling will hint.
00:24:39.680part of it's because the conservative supporters were more inclined to get out to vote. It's one
00:24:43.500thing to respond in a poll saying, I would vote for this, I would vote for that. But if it's a
00:24:47.140lot of youth who actually, oh geez, there's a good party on tonight, I'm not going to bother
00:24:50.840going out to vote, older people tend to get off their butts and go out and vote. So it gets better1.00
00:24:55.300represented at the polls. Well, when the older people are now supporting the liberals,
00:24:59.900the youth of the conservative space, the conservatives have got that much more to be
00:25:03.860worried about. And so I'm going to bring up the polls here in a couple images. One is from
00:25:08.860abacus data. They've been, and this is bad news, guys, they've been the ones showing the least
00:25:16.060amount of support for the Liberal Party all the way throughout. But even they, you know,
00:25:24.040have to admit, now they've actually shown the Liberals have pulled into the lead. Look at that
00:25:28.780trend line, that red line that went from 20% all the way up now, almost doubled to 38%.
00:25:37.020And remember, this is the most modest projection of where the Liberals are sitting.
00:25:42.960You can see the Conservatives, they peaked at 47-46% and have dropped now down to the 39-38%, 8-9 point drop, which again mostly went to the bloody Liberals.
00:25:55.840And the other part, as I was talking with Dave about, is that yellow line you can see at the bottom.
00:26:02.240That is the NDP, and they are just cratering.
00:26:32.820The NDP voters, the traditional NDP voters tend to like the NDP, but they're saying, I'm scared, Polyev's going to come in and he's going to, you know, cut my welfare payments or whatever it might be.
00:26:44.960So thus, I will switch my vote to the Liberals just to keep that from happening.
00:26:48.920It's a negative reason to vote, but it's what they are doing and it's working.
00:26:54.340And now it'll get a little scarier, I'm afraid.
00:47:54.040So, I mean, maybe to start with agriculture, of course.
00:47:56.620I mean, it's a prime, prime industry in Saskatchewan right now.
00:48:01.740And, you know, the Liberals haven't traditionally been very friendly with the agricultural sector.
00:48:07.340Or does it imagine that's a factor right now?
00:48:10.740Yeah, especially particularly with the Chinese tariffs, because canola is one of the biggest crops here in Saskatchewan.
00:48:18.040And there's presently 100 percent tariff on our canola, which was China retaliating for our putting 100 percent tariff on Chinese electric vehicles, which you can't even find one on the roads of Saskatchewan.
00:48:30.760So I'm not exactly sure where all these Chinese EVs we had to stop coming into the country are from.
00:48:35.320and and where they're driving around but um it's the canola producers in particular in the province
00:48:42.800are quite concerned and then also there's a lot of pork producers in manitoba they're also concerned
00:48:47.540as well because they also got slapped with the same 100 percent terror uh on pork products which
00:48:52.940we export a lot to um china as well so so something has been kind of i you know i gotta admit i was a
00:48:58.640bit frustrated with too though i mean these trade wars there's just no winners when we do these
00:49:01.940things. I think too, I mean, there's things we can point at, but I think Trump's approach with
00:49:08.040Canada was pretty out of the blue and unjustified. I mean, he's got issues to be upset with, fair
00:49:12.700enough, but these crazy 25% tariffs are a little much. But in the case of the EVs, Canada brought
00:49:19.100that on themselves. We put that tariff on Chinese goods and invited the retaliation, but I'm not0.58
00:49:25.940hearing a single politician saying they're going to get rid of that either. No, I mean, Premier
00:49:30.420Scott Moe was calling on Carney even prior to the election that he needed to call President
00:49:37.780Jing and talk about this because one, there was nothing from the Trudeau government about trying
00:49:46.460to stop these Chinese tariffs on the canola and pork. And it also affects Atlantic Canada too,
00:49:51.380because they put it on seafood as well, for example. So it's not just an issue in Western
00:49:56.280Canada, where Trudeau just ignored. Western Canada didn't really care about helping them
00:50:01.380economically. He was only concerned in the central part of the country and Atlantic Canada.
00:50:07.860But Moe repeatedly even called on Carney before he called the election on Sunday to even be like,
00:50:13.980like, reach out, like, like, this needs to stop. We're coming up on planting season.
00:50:19.520And our farmers need to know what they can plant and what they're going to make money off of,
00:50:23.900Because you can't make money off of when you have these massive tariffs because it makes your product too expensive and then they go buy someone else's product.
00:50:33.940Well, something though, you know, to be fair with things, and that's where I find myself frustrated, though, I'm not hearing Scott Moe calling out Polyev and saying, Mr. Polyev, are you going to commit to getting rid of these tariffs?
00:50:44.700Like nobody's holding his feet to the fire either.
00:50:46.440And he's sort of kind of dodging on this one.
00:50:48.100yeah well i mean technically right now pierre has no power to actually affect anything over the next
00:50:55.660you know four weeks or so um but but now would be the time you make the time to to to get up uh and
00:51:02.780i mean he he is going to be in manitoba tomorrow i believe uh doing a press conference so maybe he
00:51:08.260will touch on farming issues due to the fact that uh the tariffs are basically hitting manitoba
00:51:14.180and Saskatchewan, really hard, the ones from China. Not to mention, the U.S. buys most of0.68
00:51:20.780our potash. So those tariffs are going to affect us here immensely. Plus, we ship a lot of oil,
00:51:28.400obviously not as much as Alberta ships. But we do still have quite a big oil business in this
00:51:35.000province. Not to mention, the U.S. needs our uranium to run their nuclear reactors.0.97
00:51:39.960and we're just about to open up another uranium mine here and basically american companies have
00:51:48.040already been the buyers of uranium that hasn't even come out of the ground yet uh and that's
00:51:54.040going to get slapped with a tariff as well and it's going to make everything more expensive for
00:51:58.580americans because all of a sudden their energy is going to cost more uh the farmers inputs are
00:52:05.400going to be more because of the tariffs on potash and oil will go up because most of the oil in
00:52:10.900Canada, we don't have refineries here anymore, really. So all of our stuff gets shipped down
00:52:15.220to the States to be refined and then used in the U.S. So all of those things are going to make
00:52:20.180life more expensive for the average American because potash goes into farming, which goes
00:52:27.160into food. You've got oil and gas also getting nailed with tariffs. And then you've got uranium
00:52:32.120getting nailed with tariffs. So their energy costs are going to go up. Well, it's getting scary on
00:52:36.580every front. Now, one of the things he's been questioned on it and he dodged on it, he wouldn't
00:52:40.840answer, but Kearney said he hasn't ruled out putting export tariffs on Western resources,
00:52:48.980whether it's Albertan oil, gas, or the potash coming out of Saskatchewan. That's got to be
00:52:56.660getting people pretty concerned as well. I mean, again, potash is a brilliant industry and
00:53:00.760Saskatchewan is one of the biggest providers of that in the world.
00:53:03.380But if your prime customer, you suddenly hit them with a 25% price increase, we're going
00:53:10.960Especially when you look at the deal that Trump made with Russia this week, where he
00:53:15.700has basically said that as long as Russia goes by the Ukrainian war peace deal, where
00:53:23.420Ukraine wasn't even involved in the negotiations, that he will restore the agricultural and
00:53:30.240fertilizer markets for Russia. So in one way, we're getting hit with tariffs by the U.S.
00:53:40.460on, for example, potash. But then the president of the United States goes and helps Russia sell
00:53:46.060their potash. So it's almost like America's allies became their enemies and their enemies
00:53:52.580have now become their allies because it's completely frustrating for people in Saskatchewan
00:54:01.060when they see policies like this. This was debated in the legislature this week several times about
00:54:08.820the issues with Donald Trump and making the deal with Russia because due to the fact that
00:54:16.020russia had those sanctions it made saskatchewan basically the only place on the planet where you
00:54:23.220could get potash and if belarus and russia open back up uh the potash price will go down which
00:54:31.860obviously affects natural resource revenues for the government here in saskatchewan not to mention
00:54:37.860that we do now have some international customers and they are trying to diversify who buys our
00:54:44.420potash so for example brazilian farmers need our potash so that some of our potash now goes to
00:54:51.700brazil but the other problem is that the fertilizer that canadian farmers need comes from the states
00:54:58.580and the fertilizer american farmers needs comes from canada so if we're taxing each other's
00:55:05.540fertilizers with tariffs duties levies whatever you want to call them
00:55:10.900the input costs are going to go up for farmers on both sides of the border
00:55:14.420uh and that's a that's another big issue and and matter of fact grain growers this week were
00:55:20.160talking about this as being a major issue because 90 of the fertilizer the Canadian farmers buy is
00:55:25.820from the U.S. Well then that's you know it highlights just unfortunately the self-defeating
00:55:30.980nature of trade wars and how it just hurts everybody uh pretty much like any kind of war
00:55:35.960I guess in that sense uh a commenter Clinton DeVoe brought up a good point I know Clinton's
00:55:40.060spoken on this a lot before with Wab Kinu in talking about the deep water port in Churchill
00:55:45.480expanding that we're talking about utility corridors or perhaps you know increasing rail
00:55:50.500capacity or ability or shipping ability there has that been much in discussion that you've
00:55:55.700been seeing in Saskatchewan and Manitoba? It has been very recently in particular both the SAS
00:56:02.120party and the NDP have both called for pipelines going in every direction meaning one up to
00:56:08.280Churchill, more going to the West, more going to the East, and then also twinning the Trans-Canada
00:56:12.800Highway so that we can get stuff to the ports to go to countries other than the U.S.
00:56:22.140Scott Moe keeps saying that once all this is over and everything shakes out, the U.S. will still be
00:56:26.440our largest trading partner. But Saskatchewan's economy is the most diverse in terms of the
00:56:33.620exports compared to any other province. 45% of our exports go to countries other than the US and only
00:56:40.88055% go to the US. So we are in some ways protected a bit here in Saskatchewan compared to other
00:56:47.620provinces that rely more heavily on American trade. And part of that has been the SAS party
00:56:53.860since they came into power and they have been opening up trade offices around the world. And
00:56:58.860They now have nine trade offices around the world that help facilitate selling Saskatchewan,
00:57:07.060particularly potash, and a lot of our farming agricultural exports as well around the world.
00:57:13.940Yeah, well, we get markets like India, for example, has been a fantastic developing market.
00:57:18.640A lot of Canadian lentil products go to India.
00:57:21.720They've been a large customer, diversifying our customer base.
00:57:25.100I think people are finally realizing the importance of that.
00:57:28.860And Saskatchewan's been doing so. It's been interesting watching Scott Moe, though. I mean, he's not getting into the soup as much as Alberta's premier, Daniel Smith, when she tries to talk directly to the USA and she's being villainized for it. Mr. Moe is staying in the background somewhat.
00:57:43.980Yeah, he's had several trips to Washington this year already to try and deal with the issues around Donald Trump.
00:57:54.040Luckily for Saskatchewan and Alberta as well and Manitoba is that a lot of senators, governors from the Midwest are now in the Trump administration.
00:58:04.520So there's already established relationships that Scott Moe had with them.
00:58:08.440uh and i'm sure daniel smith probably had the same relationships because we're all basically
00:58:14.840right around the same area of the country and who we deal with on the other side of the border
00:58:18.060and so he has uh and actually just today he's gone over to europe actually to try and sell
00:58:24.520more of our stuff into europe as well um he's i i think all the premiers wants i mean trudeau's
00:58:31.340been a lame sitting duck through the entire liberal leadership race and the premiers had to
00:58:36.680take diplomacy on by themselves for that time period. And because of that, you know, the
00:58:44.140premiers had to make trips to Washington to talk with people in commerce and the White House,
00:58:49.820et cetera. And that has, from what we're seeing coming out of the White House, not had much
00:58:58.680effect. Maybe once we get through this election and we have a, you know, someone has like a
00:59:06.140four-year mandate, which is what we expect in Canada, in terms of the length that we have
00:59:12.100between our federal elections, that we will have a prime minister that will be able to deal directly
00:59:18.640with Trump for the rest of Trump's term. And the other thing with Trump is someone has to replace
00:59:23.840him because this is his second term. So we have to deal with Trump for four years. And then after
00:59:30.720that who knows who we're going to deal with um but we're barely two months in and in some ways
00:59:38.400you can't fault trump for trying to protect american industries however i don't think he
00:59:43.560realizes how much over the last 50 60 years the economies between canada and u.s have been
00:59:51.560integrated for example like in the auto industry for example like it's so integrated integrated
00:59:58.520that parts like cars are going over the border you know two three hundred times before they're
01:00:03.040completely assembled yeah you can't separate you can't separate that it's almost like there is
01:00:09.020absolutely no border between Ontario and Michigan and Ohio so I guess we'll just kind of turn a
01:00:16.040little and look into to Winnipeg then in that area you're kind of closest and I know you watch
01:00:20.300things out there there's a few ridings definitely in play out there how do you see that developing
01:00:51.180I think Carney is still on his honeymoon
01:00:53.620of becoming the liberal leader, just like we see a bump after, you know, leadership conventions,
01:01:00.260party conventions, all of those sorts of things. There's artificial bumps that go up and then they
01:01:05.300go back down. It'll just depend on what happens between now and the election. But definitely,
01:01:11.360Manitoba has a lot more ridings that you would call in play or could swing one way or the other,
01:01:17.980particularly in urban settings in Manitoba, sorry, in Winnipeg, in particular Manitoba.
01:01:23.620yeah so i mean kind of getting outside of the election issue but it everything impacts it and
01:01:28.500so on i've seen stories coming out from out your way the the overdoses the addiction epidemic the
01:01:32.980fentanyl everybody's dealing with that everywhere around the entire bloody world i mean it's just
01:01:36.900a horrific horrific drug with what it's doing uh but you're it's starting to spike again out
01:01:42.420there it appears to be yes we have a bad batch of fentanyl that's been circulating up in saskatoon
01:01:48.580area and a little bit into Prince Albert now, it is deadly. Normally when you take fentanyl,
01:01:59.860particularly the straight version, it hits you pretty quick. You know, you're feeling the effects
01:02:05.08015, 20, 30 seconds, one minute. But the batch that's going around now, and it's a burgundy red
01:02:12.000color, it takes like 15 minutes to kick in. So people take some and they don't think they took
01:02:17.580enough because nothing's happening. And then they take more and more and more. And by the time you
01:02:21.620get to the 15 minute mark and it kicks in, you're well on your way to an overdose. And to make it
01:02:27.760even worse, it's taking four or five shots, plus oxygen to revive people. This is a very, very bad
01:02:39.760because they're taking so much. It's a very, very bad situation in Saskatoon. They had to open an
01:02:45.680emergency center the provincial government did to coordinate all the emergency services
01:02:50.620specifically around overdoses and actually the prairie harm reduction which is um uh it's a
01:02:58.080federally funded uh safe injection site i don't like using the word safe injection site because
01:03:04.140there's no safe way to inject drugs into your body um but it was federally funded and they've
01:03:10.340actually closed down uh because their staff is exhausted and two saskatoon libraries in the
01:03:17.020downtown area have also closed down for a month because uh they were having multiple overdoses
01:03:23.720every single day in the library because people are going into the washrooms there and shooting up
01:03:28.780uh and there it just became it wasn't a library anymore so they had to shut it down
01:03:36.320Yeah, and as I said, I mean, people don't blame the staff, you know, for not wanting to deal with it. You sign up to be a librarian, not a social worker or a paramedic or a police officer. It's a difficult role that they get put into, but it really highlights just how terribly acute this problem has been becoming.
01:03:56.200I mean, that was something that I think most people kind of agree that was a pretense on the trade war.
01:04:02.060There's been issues of stuff crossing the border, but that wasn't the real base issue for things.
01:04:07.100But it's still something worthy of addressing.
01:04:09.900Has there been improvement or more news on the border control with southern Saskatchewan?
01:04:14.740Yes, they've put. Basically, they took a lot of the conservation officers who would normally be looking for people fishing illegally and things like that and putting them more on to searching for people coming across the border through because the border between Saskatchewan and the U.S.
01:04:36.460I mean, there's a couple of crossings, but I mean, you could be in a farmer's field and not know if you're in Canada or the US.
01:04:43.060It's like it's it's not like a border you drive up to and there's a fence or anything.
01:04:47.680So a lot of the conservation officers have been switched to dealing with the drug trade.
01:04:53.920And they've taken some of the highway patrol as well as some of the RCMP and put them as close to the border as they can.
01:05:01.020There are some issues between the Canadian Border Security Agency and the RCMP on how close they can go to the border in the province, which I found was kind of weird because I would think you would be able to go basically up to the border.
01:05:14.320But there's actually like a there's like three kilometers within the border they're not allowed to go into or something, which is weird, but whatever.
01:05:24.320And they're also using drones as well.
01:05:26.700And there has been a significant uptake in the seizures of illegal drugs, not just coming across the border, but across the province as well.
01:05:38.720And it's part of the SAS party's two-step process to deal with the fentanyl crisis.
01:05:44.480They're going after the supply, which is the dealers.
01:05:48.480But they're also, we've added 500 addictions beds across the province.
01:05:56.700But the other half will be operational by the end of the year so that they're dealing with both the people who are addicted to these drugs to get them off the drugs and then back into society where they can work a normal job, et cetera.
01:06:10.960And they're also dealing with the criminals who are coming in and bringing these poisonous substances.
01:06:20.220there's no there's no other way to describe it they're you're injecting poison into your body
01:06:24.620um and dealing with stopping that um and i'm pretty sure that you will continue to see these
01:06:33.420busts because they have expanded their drug units in the major cities and stuff as well
01:06:37.320great well it's uh before i let you go then i mean you're you're quite prolific you're always
01:06:43.360giving us great coverage from out there are there a couple of stories you've got on the go you want
01:06:46.760kind of let people know about uh yeah we uh we had a story come out yesterday uh the privacy
01:06:51.960commissioner here in saskatchewan um there was uh some parents that asked for some information on
01:06:57.640gender identity and uh transgender uh clubs education etc in public schools like kindergarten
01:07:06.520to grade eight uh and when they got the stuff back it was heavily redacted and a lot of things were
01:07:14.600just simply withheld for lawyer-client privilege. I guess there seems to be lawyers in every
01:07:20.760classroom in this province. And the privacy commissioner gave the strongest rebuke he has
01:07:26.040ever given to anyone to vagina public schools. He ordered thousands of pages to be turned over1.00
01:07:32.920and he's even asked to speak with the person who redacted the pages that did get turned over
01:07:38.040because there was pages where the only thing you could see was the date and the rest was just
01:07:45.640blacked out. So even the, they turned over 10% of what they should have, the other 90,
01:07:52.100they didn't hand over. And the 10% they did hand over was heavily redacted. It was, it was basically
01:07:58.440useless. And the privacy commissioner said, look, these parents deserve to know what's going on in
01:08:04.480schools. And on top of that, some of it was actually about communication between the parents
01:08:11.520and the school. And they even redacted the parents emails to the school, which they already had,
01:08:17.440they wanted, they wanted to know that like, was it shared internally in the school board.
01:08:22.640So that's a story is up right now on our site. But that's, that is the major story hitting
01:08:29.600saskatchewan today great well yeah i appreciate you cover those stories and again the the legacy
01:08:35.520media outlets are ignoring it i mean nobody gets you know nobody wants the state getting between
01:08:39.440them and their kid it's not a left right thing it's it's your right as a parent to know what's
01:08:43.440happening in there and it's pretty disturbing how hard the bureaucracy will work to keep parents
01:08:48.880from knowing what's actually going on with their own bloody children yeah one of the parents for
01:08:52.960example for two years their kid who was in grade one and two at the time was participating in a
01:08:59.120gender identity lunch club at school yeah and they blocked all the information about it
01:09:07.440like like like for someone in grade one and two you know we're talking like six and seven year
01:09:11.840olds two years in a lunch club talking about uh gender identity and what gender are you and all
01:09:17.920this stuff uh and the parent didn't even find out until that the kid said something about this lunch
01:09:23.440club that they were in and started talking about something they talked about uh in that lunch club
01:09:27.760And the school even tried to hide that.
01:09:30.860Yeah, parents trying to find out, and then they redact the information.
01:09:34.860Well, I appreciate you keeping on there, Chris, and for watching things out there in the Saskatchewan and the Plains in general for us.
01:09:41.280So I'll let you get back to it, and we look forward to talking to you again soon.
01:09:45.960Thanks very much, Corey. Have a great day.
01:13:04.320You don't have to agree with where they're sitting.
01:13:06.140But those two alone, between Shapiro and Prager, they reach more conservative Americans than 10 CNNs will.
01:13:14.820so and again you could uh it's fair critique to say smith is overstepping her authority maybe0.98
01:13:22.440she shouldn't be down there meddling and things particularly when there's a federal election going0.87
01:13:25.740that's a fair enough discussion to be had and uh you know some people can say she's doing more
01:13:31.540damage than good maybe maybe not but to go straight into that she's associating with racists1.00
01:13:37.840oh god i'm sick to death of it i'm sick of it unless you see real evidence of that happening0.81
01:13:44.020real evidence let's get off that narrative isn't that what we all kind of got sick of isn't that
01:13:49.420part of why trudeau's support went down to 17 people were tired of the woke garbage going on
01:13:56.140where people were tired of everything being labeled as racism no matter what happens
01:14:00.880but we're still there we're still there and is it working i don't know
01:14:07.940we're getting back to you know i meant to ask chris about that but that's fine
01:14:13.280And, you know, there's a degree of independence type sentiment going on in Saskatchewan and Alberta, too.
01:14:17.440And as I did mention with him, Carney won't rule out using Alberta's oil and gas, Saskatchewan's potash, things like that, as tools to weaponize in fighting the trade war.
01:23:45.680I guess to start with, you're going to be going to Powell River and speaking on this?
01:23:49.940That's correct. On Sunday, March 30th, I'll be traveling to Powell River with my videographer, Simon Hargott, who's a filmmaker in Kamloops, actually.
01:24:01.420We're planning on doing a documentary on the Kamloops case and Pell River is connected to the Kamloops case because the name change process, which I've been following for a number of years, was actually fomented by the chief, John Hackett, who said because the 215 children have been found at Kamloops, people should not resist his efforts to change the name of Pell River.
01:24:30.320So that was based upon false assumptions, and so Powell River has been impacted by this as well.
01:24:37.960Yeah, it's just bizarre, and it's turned into a club that can be used against anybody, it seems, on Indigenous issues.
01:24:44.600Anything comes up, and you're immediately, well, even if it's unrelated, we'll pull it in.
01:24:48.860Well, you're a residential school denier.
01:24:50.520We can't get reconciliation unless we accept the responsibility for this horrific mass murder.
01:24:58.020Well, we have no evidence of remains at Kamloops, and it's highly improbable that there are no remains there because not one parent has said that their child never came home from the Kamloops Indian Residential School.
01:25:16.140So if that is the case, who are the not 215, because Sarah Bollier, after hearing about the archaeology department at Simon Fraser doing excavations in a particular area that she'd surveyed, and they didn't discover any remains, actually downgraded the 215 number to 200.
01:25:39.040it. Possible remains or anomalies or targets of interest, but we need excavations. We need
01:25:49.280Bollier's report to be released and we need excavations. At Kamloops, $9.2 million was
01:25:57.680requested for ancestral excavations. Not one shovel has gone into the ground at Kamloops.
01:26:06.300So what was that, you know, millions of dollars spent on in the Kamloops case?
01:26:10.820Well, and the hypocrisy has been kind of exposed when we look at Winnipeg, where they were willing to spend tens of millions, possibly even to the hundreds of millions to find four bodies of murdered indigenous women, which is tragic and horrible.
01:32:10.140This is the other thing is that in the Fifth Estate program that aired in January 2022, both Manny Jules and Ted Gottfriedson said that they were going to be conducting, I believe they used the word exhumations, but of course that's jumping the gun on the issue because you only do exhumations if there are actually bodies there.
01:32:36.060But they were wanting to go and actually do the excavation work that might result in exhumation.
01:32:45.840So they both stated that on this program.
01:32:48.660Manny Jules said that the 13 family heads had agreed.
01:32:52.900So if that's the case, if the 13 family heads did agree, why has that not happened?
01:35:13.760So these Indigenous neo-tribal elites continue to make the claim that there are these remains found. And what that allows to happen is it allows the Aboriginal industry to divert resources away from the much needed services that are required in Indigenous communities.
01:35:33.220You know, this is kind of the untold story is that we have terrible deprivation in these isolated Indigenous communities.
01:35:42.920And by spending all this money on lawyers, consultants and, you know, archaeologists who are running their GPR machines over all these places when we have no evidence of missing children anyway,
01:35:56.840that means that that money cannot be spent on what it needs to be spent on which is improving
01:36:02.700the conditions in indigenous communities yeah it's distracting from the real needs that are
01:36:08.240happening because there are real very serious and real issues with the the first nations in general
01:36:12.700uh it's just madness i i appreciate your your courage and still standing up and taking it on
01:36:18.600and and pushing back you know that's the thing is they they tend to push people away people get
01:36:22.480fearful and then they leave the issue. You're stubborn and I really do, you know, appreciate
01:36:28.320that and I'm happy you're doing so. So before I let you go, where can people find what you're up
01:36:32.640to at Powell River and otherwise? Yes, so there's a website called www.wokeacademy.info. I publish
01:36:41.620all my speaking engagements on that site. I'll be posting some materials today and tomorrow on,
01:36:50.880you know, the Powell River situation. I also post many things on Facebook, so, and on Twitter at
01:36:59.280Woke Academy as well. So, on social media, I try to keep people apprised of everything that's
01:37:06.320happening. Great. Well, thanks, and I hope everything goes great in Powell River, and then
01:37:11.540please, you know, keep up that good fight, and hopefully one day we'll get some actual resolution
01:37:15.460on just what the hell happened over there. Yes, and this is the fourth year anniversary coming up
01:37:19.520on May 27th. So we should be pressing hard for answers in the Canloops case and not allow the
01:37:27.060ban to be able to take millions of dollars and not do the excavations that they were supposed to have
01:37:32.760done between 2021, 2023. Absolutely. It's getting to the point of fraud now, to be honest. And I
01:37:38.980said as much in a recent column, it's time to start calling it out. So thank you very much
01:37:44.620again. And I'm certain we'll talk again soon. Thanks very much, Corey. Great. Thank you.
01:37:49.080Yeah, it's Frances Widowson. And again, if you just Google her name, you'll see what she's up to. And she is persistent. And we need to be on this. We do. And there's nothing worse than seeing, you know, the efforts to gag and criminalize discussion. Again, the authoritarianism of it.
01:38:04.740And what they've taken, and, you know, we've got some cross things going on, denialism.
01:38:11.320You know, they very much want to make it seem as if it's like the same people who denied the Holocaust in World War II.
01:38:17.680And was pointed out, you know, from Kenzie saying, well, haven't we criminalized discussion about the Holocaust?
01:38:47.980And the evidence when it comes to the Holocaust, which again, I don't think we should criminalize discussion of it,
01:38:53.040but the evidence is pretty overwhelming.
01:38:54.640If anything else, it was actually, if you read up on those things, it says how horrifying, how meticulous record-keeping was with the camps.
01:39:04.460And they took a picture, they literally put a tattoo on the wrist of every Jew with a serial number.0.78
01:39:12.400That's how mechanized and sick this was.
01:39:15.100Thousands and thousands of soldiers liberating from Russia, from the United States, from Canada, came to these camps and saw and documented what was happening there.
01:39:24.180And something that was often found at those camps and holes and excavations through Ukraine as well with some of the mass murder sites was bodies.