Western Standard - FILDEBRANDT： Tim Hortons betrayed Canada

00:00:00.000 G'day, welcome.

00:00:25.960 Today's June 18th, 2026.

00:00:28.980 I'm Derek Fildebrandt, publisher of the Western Standard.

00:00:32.280 Normally, you've got Marty up north for your Thursday live call-in show.

00:00:37.560 Marty is attending to other obligations right now, so I figured, what the hell?

00:00:42.420 I've got nothing better to do. I'll fill in.

00:00:44.640 So we're live now, 1 o'clock, mountain time.

00:00:50.080 Not really used to this format, so we'll see how it goes.

00:00:53.120 Normally, I just do the pipeline with other staff in here.

00:00:55.780 And, you know, if we screw up too badly, you know, we can, you know, I'm on a 10 second delay like Don Cherry was.

00:01:02.920 We could just bleep me out.

00:01:04.200 But this is live.

00:01:04.900 So if I say something particularly outrageous, it's on the record for all time.

00:01:11.880 A few things I'd like to talk about.

00:01:14.060 Oh, actually, first, we'll just give you the call in the call in number.

00:01:18.020 Uh, you can call in, chat, uh, on the show live at, uh, 866-479-WEST or 9378 extension 711.

00:01:30.020 Uh, and that'll bring you right through, uh, Pat will patch you into the studio, uh, live on the show.

00:01:35.940 Uh, you can also, uh, interact with the show in the comments section on, uh, on X, uh, YouTube, Rumble, uh, whatever platform you're watching on, you can just, uh, in the comments.

00:01:46.780 So most of them should. Do I see the X comments in here? They don't come through, right?

00:01:51.820 No. OK, but we'll be watching on X as well. Just a little less directly.

00:01:57.400 So those are ways you can interact with the show.

00:01:59.520 They can chat more or less about whatever you want.

00:02:03.560 But some of the things. Yeah, my office is beside a newsroom, so we're going to chat about what's in the news today.

00:02:11.220 um i want to chat about the gang rape report out of the united kingdom the fantastic findings that

00:02:20.840 have come and come out of that i want to talk about some of the fallout of it the way the press

00:02:24.940 has responded to it or not responded to it we'll talk about the danny dollars danielle dollars in

00:02:30.720 alberta uh like a hundred bucks uh for at least most albertans under a certain income limit uh

00:02:39.320 Free money. I think this is probably not the smartest way to spend taxpayers' money.

00:02:46.400 But, you know, in some debate I had yesterday on the pipeline with Nigel Hannaford,

00:02:51.820 I've come to the conclusion that, I mean, if the government's going to waste money,

00:02:55.600 this is probably one of the more efficient ways to waste money.

00:02:59.040 I don't know if that counts as faint praise or a backhanded compliment.

00:03:04.840 I didn't choose your metaphor, but I don't know.

00:03:09.020 I want to hear your thoughts on the Danielle Dollars giveaway

00:03:12.700 the Alberta government's conducting here.

00:03:15.300 Talk about the Iran war.

00:03:18.520 I know I'm offside with a lot of my colleagues at the Western Standard here

00:03:23.660 who are enthusiastic supporters of both the first and second Iran wars

00:03:28.460 launched by Israel and supported by the United States.

00:03:31.940 uh i've been a pretty outspoken critic of both of these wars i've never thought these are

00:03:38.420 america's wars that this was um yeah this is clearly not in america's interest not in the

00:03:46.640 west's interest this was a parochial dispute between two middle eastern powers and it should

00:03:51.460 be left to a parochial dispute between two middle eastern powers the peace deal more or less mou

00:03:57.180 whatever you want to call it, has been signed, and it is a decisive loss for America, a decisive

00:04:03.240 loss. And I know I'm probably offside, maybe even with a majority of you watching, I don't know,

00:04:09.260 probably offside with a lot of the older right-leaning people watching this. I imagine a

00:04:15.760 lot of younger right-leaning people are, maybe I'd say in aggregate, probably a little closer

00:04:20.260 to where I'm at, but I want to hear your thoughts on it. And of course, I mean, this is not really

00:04:25.780 the news just today this is just kind of an ongoing piece um uh tim hortons uh it's betrayal

00:04:33.720 of canada we all know about that uh but the weakness that it's left itself open up opened

00:04:39.340 itself up to it has coasted on the fumes of the goodwill and canada of canadian patriotism for

00:04:46.120 decades it has been uh had a virtual monopoly monopoly as a as a kind of a lower cost coffee

00:04:52.940 shop or donut shop you know i guess donuts aren't really the main thing there anymore

00:04:56.460 uh and uh it has taken canadians for granted so terribly that now duncan donuts has set its site

00:05:03.460 set its sights on canada um and all of a sudden it's panicking acting like oh we're gonna hire

00:05:10.080 canadians that's a novel thought that'll make us patriotic uh hey john on production um see if you

00:05:15.900 can find it i want to play this in a bit see if you can find this video a lot of people have seen

00:05:20.360 it um it's kind of these propaganda videos that tim hortons is putting out i'm not sure they're

00:05:25.260 formal commercials but they might just be from local franchises on behalf of the corporation

00:05:29.960 but uh it's just these commercials showing all these canadians working at tim hortons

00:05:36.160 like this was 1997 and i'm in high school still uh see if you can find these these videos i'm not

00:05:42.600 sure they're formal commercials but these videos being put out by tim hortons showing like look at

00:05:47.080 all the Canadians working here we're not hiring cheap foreign labor undercutting Canadians wages

00:05:53.580 uh and jobs see if you can find it uh because that'll be uh that'll I think that'll be very

00:06:01.080 interesting for the conversation uh first off I know we got well that's I'm not going to say

00:06:06.780 your username if it's a bunch of letters and numbers uh it looks like you can oh we got a call

00:06:17.080 Oh, I don't know what that sound was.

00:06:18.260 Okay.

00:06:19.340 But JW says Iran's been funding terrorism

00:06:22.880 and should have been handled by the entire world

00:06:25.020 47 years ago.

00:06:27.820 Okay.

00:06:29.920 LC says it's a banker's war.

00:06:31.640 We don't want wars.

00:06:32.640 We just want to be left alone without invaders.

00:06:37.060 So. 0.99

00:06:39.340 And Dawes.

00:06:40.960 It says them Danny dollars are nothing

00:06:42.960 but a slap in the face to me as an Albertan.

00:06:44.880 100 bucks. In the words of Austin Powers, whippity-doo basil. One tank of gas. Not even

00:06:53.100 for some people. Those of us who drive a truck, it's not even close to a tank of gas. I'm pushing

00:07:00.680 nearly 200. And I've got a midsize truck. It's not even a particularly big truck. I got a midsize

00:07:06.640 truck. I can't even approach filling up my truck for 100 bucks right now. I don't know.

00:07:14.880 And, you know, on this kind of cash giveaway, just remember that in kind of the last few months, I think it was, last month, last half year, of the Trudeau government, the federal Trudeau government, they did a giveaway.

00:07:32.340 Now, they had no surplus of money.

00:07:34.300 They were borrowing money.

00:07:35.460 It was all borrowed money they gave away.

00:07:36.780 But it was some kind of affordability payment to Canadians.

00:07:41.300 But it was free money.

00:07:42.380 It was clearly vote buying. 0.98

00:07:43.660 And remember that all you conservatives, every single last one that I can recall, 100%, 100% of conservatives opposed it and said this is stupid, this is socialism, this is redistribution, it's free money from some taxpayers being given to others. 0.94

00:08:01.040 now the danielle dollars it's different you know in detail uh but first of all it's less money 0.96

00:08:10.640 uh second the alberta government is expected to run a temporary non-structural surplus uh due to

00:08:18.540 the high price of oil bringing in more royalties for the alberta government so it's not being it's

00:08:23.300 not borrowed money being given away but but the principle is still the same it's it's free money

00:08:27.680 it's not going to really make a big difference in anyone's life huge a big proportion of it is

00:08:32.360 going to be eaten up in administration costs and uh you know like so you get a hundred

00:08:39.200 you want to be johnny you find that video i heard kept on here in the back of my ear

00:08:46.600 did you find the video john okay all right stand by for it we'll go come to it in a bit

00:08:52.160 but just you know you get a hundred bucks in your pocket but it's not a hundred dollars

00:08:56.960 of taxpayers' money that was spent.

00:08:58.240 It's going to be more

00:08:59.000 because there's significant administration costs.

00:09:01.580 This stuff has got to go through the Canada Revenue Agency

00:09:03.500 because they've got to figure out how much you earned

00:09:05.240 in your tax slip last year, all of these things.

00:09:09.080 So if you opposed it when Justin Trudeau did it,

00:09:11.140 you should probably oppose it when Danielle Smith does it.

00:09:13.960 They're not complete apples to apples,

00:09:17.240 but it's like they're different.

00:09:18.100 One's an ambrosia, one's a granny smith.

00:09:21.300 They're apples, but they're different kinds of apples.

00:09:23.120 I know they're not exactly the same situation,

00:09:25.480 but they're close enough.

00:09:26.500 that if you oppose one, you should

00:09:28.360 probably oppose the other.

00:09:35.420 Jacqueline says

00:09:36.320 energy rebate replaces

00:09:37.780 fuel tax program.

00:09:40.460 I find Daniel Smith's

00:09:42.260 reasoning to be a bit disingenuous. Rural

00:09:44.280 residents spend way more on fuel

00:09:45.920 than average, than

00:09:50.340 her averages.

00:09:52.120 Yeah, I mean, a really good point here is this is being

00:09:54.220 tied to the

00:09:56.500 price of gas at the pump. I drive a truck. Uh, at least when the weather's not nice, I drive my

00:10:03.220 truck. Uh, and all winter I drive my truck. Um, oh, uh, and, um, and I would get the same rebate

00:10:11.680 as someone who takes the bus and no problem with anyone who takes the bus, but the bus or the C

00:10:16.560 train, uh, these things are already subsidized by the taxpayer. Um, and the price of a bus ticket

00:10:23.120 It does not go up or down with the price of gas.

00:10:26.180 It's pretty baked in, and it's subsidized by the taxpayer.

00:10:29.180 But they're still getting a fuel rebate, even though it affects them a little bit with, say, the price of groceries.

00:10:35.460 Grocery costs are affected by the price of gas, but it's the same amount going to everyone.

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00:10:53.120 um jw says he opposed it when ralph did it that's that's important remember you know ralph bucks

00:11:01.260 uh geez i would have been uh i think i was i was in high school when that happened it was circa

00:11:06.820 2005 2006 era uh right right at the end of ralph klein uh before uh before ed stelmack became

00:11:13.860 premier um and adjusted for inflation that was a lot more that was a lot more and i think it was

00:11:20.820 a bad idea then, but it was

00:11:22.800 probably a little more justifiable. Alberta had

00:11:24.840 no debt. Zero. We had

00:11:26.700 remember Ralph Klein holding that big sign, paid in

00:11:28.820 full. Alberta had no debt. It had saved

00:11:30.860 a bunch of money in the Heritage Fund

00:11:32.760 and something that's called the Sustainability Fund.

00:11:34.800 The Sustainability Fund is long gone now. That

00:11:36.780 was spent down by a combination of

00:11:38.700 Ed Stelmack and Allison Redford.

00:11:41.640 Jim Prentice

00:11:42.220 tried to spend it, but he was not there long enough.

00:11:45.440 Rachel Notley finished the

00:11:46.740 very last of it off, and we've been

00:11:48.700 going into debt really ever since.

00:11:50.820 um okay uh i know we've got some comments on well i'll read this comment on tim hortons and then

00:11:57.300 we're going to play that video from tim hortons uh freedom train says the the federal government

00:12:01.620 betrayed canadians tim hortons took advantage of it canadian taxpayers are forced to subsidize

00:12:06.340 their wages housing and health care won't stop until the subsidies end okay uh so tim hortons

00:12:14.180 you know when i i i grew up with tim hortons um you know all of us did um and it always had this

00:12:23.260 warm fuzzy canadian feeling uh i remember i'd go to you know as a kid my dad would take me in there

00:12:28.720 i remember when they it was it was very controversial it was no longer you couldn't

00:12:34.180 smoke everywhere anymore and my dad was a smoker and so he uh he they had this partition section

00:12:40.440 a big glass partition and we'd go and sit in the the section partition by glass and it was

00:12:45.140 the most wildly ventilated area ever um you know so people would smoke in there but like you couldn't

00:12:52.380 see a trace of smoke because you know the vents are are sucking it up and i and my dad would read

00:12:57.720 the sun you know i'd maybe try not to get noticed taking a peek at the sunshine girl back when that

00:13:02.900 was a thing um you know it was we all have these tim hortons experiences growing up a lot of my

00:13:09.600 friends worked at tim hortons going through high school uh i didn't work at tim hortons i i had

00:13:14.460 other you know kind of teenage jobs but some of my friends worked at tim hortons um you know we

00:13:20.820 all have these very fond memories and tim hortons you know for all of us growing up there was kind

00:13:25.960 of there was two if you're going to kind of stereotype who worked at tim hortons it was kids

00:13:30.580 in high school and it was old ladies old ladies uh like the kind of lady you'd see at the legion 1.00

00:13:36.180 making triangle egg salad sandwiches for remembrance day or battle of the atlantic day

00:13:41.060 and things like that um that's who worked at tim hortons and it felt like the community you knew

00:13:46.980 these people and they certainly spoke english um well i don't know when exactly that changed and

00:13:54.820 it didn't start just a few years ago it's been on this way for a while but it got really extreme

00:14:01.860 where it's it's just temporary foreign workers um i don't mind people with an accent that's fine

00:14:08.820 but i it's very noticeable when there's not a single person working at this great canadian

00:14:14.820 patriotic franchise where not a single person doesn't have an accent and where they don't

00:14:21.300 at least very often you'd think they'd prioritize putting a good english speaker at the drive-in

00:14:26.500 window or at the counter you know in the back where people are just making making food less

00:14:32.020 important there but at least when you're interacting with the customers we we have

00:14:35.780 i i don't need to really go on about this we all know it tons of us have stopped going to

00:14:40.980 tim horton's because it's it's it's maddening and it's just sad it's if we it feels like a

00:14:47.540 canadian institution it's owned by a brazilian multinational corporation it's not even canadian

00:14:52.100 owned anymore um some of the franchises i'm sure canadian owned probably i would imagine the vast

00:14:57.540 majority of them are uh that's just a guess but the corporation itself this is all under a brazilian

00:15:04.440 dominated multinational um it feels like something's been lost and they've been able to just

00:15:12.100 coast on the good warm feelings and canadian canadiana nostalgia for a long time now where 1.00

00:15:20.700 The quality is just, it's dog shit. 1.00

00:15:23.500 Like, if you've ordered, like, the ham and cheese sandwich now, it's dog shit. 1.00

00:15:28.840 They stopped making fresh donuts there a very long time ago. 0.99

00:15:31.680 You can't blame that on, you know, temporary foreign workers or anything.

00:15:35.380 You can't blame that on the government.

00:15:36.340 That's just them lowering their standards, lowering their quality.

00:15:40.900 It's been going downhill for a very, very long time.

00:15:45.080 um i i i avoid tim hortons like the plague now but i was coming back from montana a couple weeks

00:15:51.260 ago and i stopped in fernie um and fernie is kind of the middle of nowhere beautiful town but out

00:15:57.380 out in the rocky mountains in british columbia and uh well i figured well i mean i need something

00:16:04.040 quick along the way i just need a little quick pit stop get some donuts to bring back to the

00:16:08.120 kids too so i i i stopped at the fernie uh tim hortons there wasn't a single canadian working

00:16:14.040 there in Fernie in the middle of nowhere I figured out here hours from the closest large city and I

00:16:22.920 was probably still at least at least three probably more three four hours from Calgary I forget

00:16:28.420 exactly but it's still a long ways away from any major city like Calgary this is going to be staffed

00:16:34.220 by Canadians not not one not one out in Fernie so they've just done this everywhere and Canadians

00:16:43.220 are taking to social media in big numbers complaining about it and all of a sudden

00:16:48.120 Dunkin Donuts uh some of us remember that you know uh you know I'm a millennial I guess and so

00:16:55.060 you know from our younger years we remember things uh Baker's Dozen and Dunkin Donuts some

00:17:00.860 of these other chains they were just finishing dying around then oh uh Robbins Donuts I remember

00:17:06.300 Robbins I grew up in a lot of military towns and one of them had had a Robbins another had a

00:17:11.680 baker's dozen uh dunkin donuts dunkin donuts i think was more more in the states though but

00:17:15.780 dunkin donuts has realized canadians were pissed canadians like their coffee and donut shop it's a

00:17:21.660 it's an institution but the the particular institution has lost we've fallen out of

00:17:27.860 love with it because it's it's a bad marriage and we're just taken for granted so dunkin

00:17:33.120 donuts has announced it wants to open uh it's either one or 200 um locations in canada for the

00:17:40.600 exact number but start with a significant beachhead and that has scared the piss out of tim hortons

00:17:48.180 and all of a sudden we get these uh great uh i mean maybe it's maybe i'm being unfair to call

00:17:54.340 propaganda every commercial is propaganda uh in one form or another it's it's messaging trying

00:18:01.080 to get you to do something it's got an ask so maybe i'm maybe i'm being unkind maybe i'm being

00:18:06.040 uncharitable and calling it propaganda. But let's just call

00:18:09.980 these informational videos. So let's play this piece put out

00:18:17.380 by Tim Hortons that comes out as soon as Dunkin Donuts

00:18:22.660 announces it's coming to Canada. Let's roll this. Hi, I'm

00:18:26.160 Bill. Hi, I'm Kim. Come meet our team. We've been Tim Hortons

00:18:31.660 restaurant owners for 21 minutes. When we're hiring team

00:18:34.380 members we look for people that just love people my name is Deb and I worked

00:18:40.080 at Tim Hortons for 34 years so I choose to keep coming back to Tim's because of

00:18:44.580 the people staff and customers people I see daily and the new people that come

00:18:48.820 in the doors every day my name is Lauren and I worked at Tim Hortons for five

00:18:52.980 years my favorite thing would be the co-workers that do forced relationships

00:18:56.520 as well as the customers my name is Stacy and I've been working for Tim

00:19:00.540 Hortons for almost 40 years one thing I wish people knew about working at

00:19:04.260 Timport is the opportunities that we have to offer.

00:19:07.060 You can be multi-trained in every area, every aspect of the business.

00:19:11.940 I wish people knew about the Timport Scholarship Program.

00:19:14.500 I have the opportunity to apply and receive it in 2025 and put it towards my university studies.

00:19:20.100 If I could give one piece of advice, it would be, don't let the nerves get to you

00:19:23.940 and just take it one day at a time.

00:19:30.420 Welcome to Tim's.

00:19:34.260 Well, isn't that just some nostalgic Canadiana there?

00:19:41.060 Where did they find this place?

00:19:44.080 Where did they find this place?

00:19:46.260 Well, they got five people up there.

00:19:48.220 Maybe there's some other. 0.94

00:19:52.000 Wouldn't it be funny if they had a bunch of temporary foreign workers working there, 1.00

00:19:57.180 but they're like, get in the back. 1.00

00:19:59.620 We're making a video.

00:20:01.320 The Canadians are pissed.

00:20:02.540 the canadians are pissed and we got to show them that there's canadians working here so uh all the 0.99

00:20:08.000 tfw's go hide in the go hide in the the walk-in fridge and take a break or go go take a smoke out

00:20:16.020 by the by the drive by the homeless guys at the drive-thru get out of here we're making a video

00:20:21.500 um i don't know i don't know where that location is

00:20:25.100 I don't know

00:20:30.060 I haven't seen a Tim Hortons that looks like that

00:20:33.340 in long over a decade

00:20:37.140 maybe two, maybe two decades

00:20:39.540 you know, two decades ago, like, who cared?

00:20:42.700 hey, maybe we do need some people, and I like newcomers, this is a good thing

00:20:46.020 but, you know, now it's only

00:20:48.980 it is exclusively so

00:20:51.260 um so this is clearly a very panicky video uh if anyone knows where that was actually shot like

00:20:59.880 where that location is let me know in the comments uh like as i said i was in fernie bc it's it's a

00:21:07.200 gorgeous little community but it's it is in the middle of nowhere i don't mean that as an insult

00:21:10.340 i i tend to grow up in places that were largely in the middle of nowhere but fernie's really far

00:21:15.040 away from a major population center. And it's Tim Hortons where all workers were all at least

00:21:22.820 appeared to be TFWs. I don't know. Maybe some were permanent residents. I don't know. But

00:21:27.820 where did they find these guys? And did they have any temporary foreign workers and just put them

00:21:34.980 in the back while they shot this video? I don't know. I don't know. But it's clearly coming from 0.85

00:21:42.340 The very clear falling out of love the Canadians have had with Tim Hortons, which is sad.

00:21:48.700 Comment from Freedom Train here said, if Smith wants to help Albertans, she needs to stop forcing Albertans to subsidize foreign workers.

00:21:54.280 We're financing our own replacement in the workforce.

00:21:58.120 I mean, there are a lot of people completely buried in the news with the Alberta independence referendum is that there's nine other questions.

00:22:05.380 Roughly half of them are to do with proposed constitutional amendments

00:22:08.640 that have a virtually 0% chance of being adopted by the rest of Canada

00:22:12.240 and therefore becoming a part of the Constitution.

00:22:14.440 The other half have to do mostly with issues around migration

00:22:18.160 and voter ID and things like that.

00:22:20.860 One of the proposals in that referendum is

00:22:23.720 that the Alberta government would be able to certify

00:22:29.920 which migrants we want, which ones we don't.

00:22:33.440 And if you're not certified by the Alberta government, you're not eligible for social services, schooling, healthcare, welfare, all of these things. So I think that is a good step forward. I don't know why she's putting that to a referendum. That's clearly got overwhelming majority support in Alberta. You'd have to go to like a university campus faculty or the Calgary Chamber of Commerce to find people naive enough to not support something like that. 1.00

00:23:01.700 So, I don't know why she doesn't just do that, but that is a policy that's on the table, and it seems very likely the Alberta government will drive forward.

00:23:09.660 a bit off topic but related uh i think uh giordano uh said one less commonly mentioned

00:23:27.480 reason for alberta independence is protection of english the majority of our immigrants don't

00:23:31.080 speak english as their first language french is overly subsidized um i mean that i have mentioned

00:23:37.620 this a little bit before but it's not commonly talked about i mean quebec independence is driven

00:23:41.780 in large measure uh by language politics by uh protecting the quebec culture the quebec ethnicity

00:23:50.740 or ethnos um you know so language plays a huge role in the quebec independence and nationalist

00:23:56.020 movement uh you know the alberta independence movement is never until very recently not never

00:24:03.860 surpass Quebec in its level of support. And it fairly regularly, not always, but fairly regularly

00:24:09.860 does pass Quebec in support for independence now. And it's traditionally been driven by economics

00:24:14.820 and fiscal policy, feelings of democratic exclusion, that kind of stuff. Language has

00:24:20.580 never played a big role in it until extremely recently with a massive influx of migrants at 1.00

00:24:28.180 levels of which we cannot absorb at a reasonable at a reasonable pace um it's impossible to so i 1.00

00:24:35.940 mean i i have no fear that uh english will disappear from alberta but it is a very real

00:24:44.580 thing that it is no longer the you know you can go everywhere and speak english we do have pockets

00:24:51.860 in Alberta now where you might not be able to get away with English. I mean, it's not a lot,

00:24:59.560 but it's not just language, it's just overall culture. Is our dominant Anglo-Canadian culture

00:25:06.060 unquestioningly supreme in Alberta, which was founded as an Anglo-Canadian land? Founded not

00:25:15.480 just by anglo-canadians it had ukrainians germans french scots uh bit irish um uh you know some 0.99

00:25:24.660 dutch and norwegians swedes um you know so it has non-anglo peoples but they all very quickly

00:25:31.520 assimilated into the dominant anglo-canadian culture of alberta and that is no longer above

00:25:41.740 question. It is no longer hyper-dominant. It's still the biggest, but it's no longer the

00:25:46.800 hyper-dominant question. So culture very much has become a part of the conversation now around

00:25:52.740 Alberta nationalism. There's a lot of complaining about Tim Hortons. I get it.

00:26:04.940 uh bread boil says tim hortons uh tfw temporary foreign worker program tim hortons was ramped up

00:26:15.560 with the harper kennedy uh kenny cons i know because kenny was my mp at the time and i was

00:26:20.840 freaking out about wage drops housing shortages etc where were you then um so uh oh well that was

00:26:31.240 an interesting uh i don't know what that uh that image was on there but um yeah uh yeah we we have

00:26:41.480 seen a lot of temporary you know we we this was driven in large measure at least by corporations

00:26:50.040 that claimed uh there was a a labor shortage and at times that's been the case particularly in

00:26:57.240 Alberta, where we have a booming, expanding economy, and we want to bring more people in.

00:27:02.960 And so sometimes that's been a legitimate excuse. There used to be more safeguards around making,

00:27:10.340 you know, something called labor market analysis, and a corporation that wanted to bring people in

00:27:16.780 as temporary foreign workers had to show that they have made a good faith and serious effort

00:27:22.000 to find Canadians to fill the job, and that they cannot find people with appropriate skills to do

00:27:26.360 it. But that got bent, and it got bent, and I got bent, and the numbers got ramped up. At what

00:27:31.960 point did it become unreasonable? I don't know. But the numbers did very much get pretty damn high

00:27:39.220 while Jason Kenney was the Immigration and Citizenship Minister under Stephen Harper.

00:27:44.780 It certainly, I think it would be very unfair to him to say that, to make it equivalent to

00:27:52.760 what happened under Justin Trudeau where they just threw open the barn doors and said anyone

00:27:58.720 can come in uh enjoy yourselves no restrictions and and numbers came into the millions um so

00:28:06.680 they're they're not comparable in in in the sheer scale but it it is fair to make some comparisons

00:28:13.560 there it it was too much certainly in hindsight some said so at the time but not not many and I'm

00:28:20.660 not sure I could even really credit myself of saying so at the time. I mean, immigration just

00:28:25.100 wasn't a very major interest of mine at that time. I saw it was a major problem in Europe.

00:28:30.100 I saw what was happening there, but in Canada and in Alberta, it seemed to be chugging along

00:28:38.780 more or less fine. We didn't really have these big major problems and social disruptions and

00:28:44.740 economic chaos created by it housing shortages these things were there but they were not acute

00:28:50.820 and so i admit i wasn't paying attention to it in a major way at the time uh but but these things

00:28:55.320 were taking place under the harper government well kenny was the immigration minister

00:28:58.900 but it went to a whole other scale of magnitude under the trudeau government

00:29:04.440 all right

00:29:14.760 okay guys i get it i get it you guys are really angry at tim morton's i get it i'm

00:29:23.780 trying to i'm trying to whip you up but i guess it's working um but yeah uh lots of

00:29:31.940 hate on, lots of hate on for Tim Hortons. Um, but yeah, I, uh, I love that, um, little kind of

00:29:41.860 propaganda video put out by that Tim Hortons franchise. Um, I, I, I can't say, but I would

00:29:49.580 speculate that it seems very plausible to me that someone at corporate headquarters or at the very

00:29:56.540 at least regional headquarters, was like, okay, guys, we got an image problem.

00:30:02.680 People are, pardon the slur, but, you know, people are saying things like,

00:30:06.980 Sing Hortons.

00:30:09.340 People are angry at us.

00:30:11.540 They feel like we've, you know, we've sold out this great Canadian brand.

00:30:17.340 And they only ever see TFWs here.

00:30:19.480 So let's find one local franchise that's got some Canadians working at it.

00:30:24.140 uh there's five people in those video in that video i think i counted maybe i'm wrong but i

00:30:28.300 counted five um who do not appear to be temporary foreign workers uh and i know there's a lot more

00:30:35.040 there they are five uh there's more than five people who work at a tim hortons uh and on any

00:30:40.980 given shift generally in the middle of the day so i feel like there's probably more people actually

00:30:45.400 working at tim hortons when this photo is taken i'm not saying some people were told to

00:30:52.760 excuse themselves while they film this video and take a picture.

00:30:56.720 I'm not saying that happened.

00:30:58.680 But I'm saying it's, uh...

00:31:00.900 It seems pretty plausible.

00:31:04.820 So they found one branch that's actually got some Canadians going for it.

00:31:08.160 Congratulations.

00:31:09.500 But yeah, Tim Hortons, you know, I really, uh, Tim Hortons is panicking.

00:31:14.260 Uh, but, you know, I hope this is good.

00:31:17.900 I mean, they're a big, faceless corporation.

00:31:20.360 they are required by law to only really care about money so whatever but when when their

00:31:28.540 reputation is hurting their ability to make money maybe maybe they will care so i you know

00:31:32.700 hopefully the backlash does force some changes they start to actually hire some canadians

00:31:37.300 uh they put they they drape themselves in the flag more than like bud light with america like

00:31:44.380 the tim hortons cup it's red and it's white and the lid is literally a freaking maple leaf

00:31:49.200 like you're you're drinking sir john a black today like it's they really lean into the

00:31:56.660 canadian brand on this stuff and uh but then pay it no substance it's it's it's it's pure

00:32:05.820 publicity it's it's just such a brand and and i'm fine you want to wrap yourself in the flag

00:32:11.120 the canadian flag the alberta flag the quebec flag i mean if you like uh what's that chicken

00:32:15.920 place in Quebec. Oh, I love it. A St. Hubert chicken. Um, you eat St. Hubert chicken with

00:32:20.860 the sauce, you vote for Quebec independence overnight. Oh, and if they want to wrap,

00:32:26.480 if St. Hubert chicken wants to wrap their, uh, themselves in the fleur-de-lis, good for you. 0.81

00:32:31.800 As long as you're doing tribute to your people, you know, as long as, uh, as long as, uh, St. 0.97

00:32:38.520 Hubert is actually hiring Quebecers to work there. I haven't been at St. Hubert probably

00:32:44.060 well over a decade so i don't know who actually works there anymore but if you're going to wrap

00:32:47.580 yourself in your flag whatever your flag is you better hire people who love that flag and who are

00:32:54.540 who are citizens of that flag so all right i'll move on a bit i'll move on from uh tim hortons a

00:33:02.140 bit um i want to talk about the iran war a little bit i know what a that's not a good pivot um but

00:33:10.940 the iran war um so this mou member member memorandum of understanding was signed between

00:33:17.820 the united states and and iran uh very tense language uh you that's taking place not between

00:33:27.660 united states and iran right now but between israel and the united states um members of

00:33:34.540 uh benjamin netanyahu's cabinet not bb himself but members of his cabinet and that's a coalition of

00:33:41.740 of parties uh as is always the case in uh israeli governments from the knesset um

00:33:49.660 openly criticizing donald trump and uh jd vance had some words today just you know

00:33:55.900 hitting back of that saying like donald trump is your only ally right now he is the the only leader

00:34:02.220 in the world who's actually positively disposed towards Israel at this moment.

00:34:10.080 In case you haven't checked the poll numbers, you're not very popular anywhere in the world,

00:34:14.320 even in America.

00:34:15.520 But despite American polls, Trump is still backing them.

00:34:19.900 And so because the Israeli government is very upset that the war ended without achieving

00:34:27.560 any a single one of uh their war objectives such as they are because we the war objectives were

00:34:35.260 never well defined it was about destroying weapons of mass destruction and then in the next breath

00:34:42.120 you know the question is well you said you destroyed their nuclear weapons program six

00:34:46.600 months ago in the first iranian war uh or nine months ago whenever that was uh so how can you

00:34:52.280 have destroyed their how are you destroying their nuclear program right now if you destroyed it six

00:34:57.380 or nine months ago when you said you completely obliterated it so that question never held uh 0.90

00:35:02.140 never stood up to scrutiny and then it was well uh we're gonna liberate the people uh the Iranian

00:35:07.540 government cracked down on these protests and killed uh killed a bunch of people and we're

00:35:11.120 gonna liberate them and the question was okay so you're gonna launch a ground invasion you're

00:35:17.340 gonna work that would require a force of probably realistically speaking at least a million American

00:35:24.080 personnel on the ground a million would be the biggest american military action since uh at least

00:35:31.780 korea or perhaps vietnam if you added it all up but it would be uh this would be a lot harder than

00:35:37.840 vietnam probably harder than korea this is an immensely larger and more powerful country than

00:35:42.660 vietnam or or north korea ever were uh so that that never held up um and then the war objectives

00:35:50.020 became reopening the Strait of Hormuz.

00:35:52.560 That doesn't hold up well because it's like

00:35:54.080 the Strait of Hormuz was

00:35:56.160 open before you launched this war.

00:35:59.020 So you're

00:35:59.820 fighting the war to achieve

00:36:01.940 what you had before the war.

00:36:03.940 And then once we had the ceasefire, 1.00

00:36:06.240 the Iranians demonstrated their ability 1.00

00:36:07.940 to keep the strait closed. 1.00

00:36:09.440 That's driven oil prices

00:36:11.060 through the roof. That's been good for Alberta. 1.00

00:36:14.140 I mean, some good from the war. 0.87

00:36:16.920 Alberta's made some money.

00:36:17.820 I mean, that's not how I want us making money. 1.00

00:36:21.720 It's blood money.

00:36:23.300 Alberta is not responsible for it, so that's unfair to call it blood money.

00:36:26.620 But it's not the reason we want oil prices to be high.

00:36:30.380 We don't want to be high because people are dying.

00:36:33.300 People are being bombed.

00:36:35.400 We want to be high because people just want what we got.

00:36:39.740 And we've got access to world markets for it.

00:36:41.600 So we have more or less the peace deal now.

00:36:47.820 And Iran has said it will continue to not have a nuclear program.

00:36:53.860 That's funny language, because it's kind of the United States more or less agreeing that they didn't have one. 0.60

00:36:59.960 Well, they did have one, sorry, but a nuclear weapons program, I should say.

00:37:03.240 They do have a nuclear program.

00:37:05.280 They've denied having a nuclear weapons program.

00:37:07.280 And that's up for debate.

00:37:09.300 But I've always been very hesitant with the American and Israeli accusations about secret nuclear weapons programs after Iraq. 0.67

00:37:18.660 And with Iraq, at least they provided some half-ass fake evidence.

00:37:22.440 With Iran in both wars, they provided zero evidence. 0.91

00:37:26.000 They just said, you're going to have to trust us on this one. 0.64

00:37:27.760 And I'm sorry, if you like Donald Trump or not, never trust people in power to just take your word for it.

00:37:35.300 Especially when we're talking about, you know, this isn't some Danielle dollars.

00:37:40.220 This is war.

00:37:41.720 This is people's lives.

00:37:43.100 This is the global economy.

00:37:44.400 This is the world order.

00:37:46.540 So no, you don't take the word for it. 0.57

00:37:47.840 So the war has been a disaster from top to bottom.

00:37:52.080 America's prestige in the region is destroyed. 0.96

00:37:58.340 I think the Iranian regime has been deeply entrenched. 0.77

00:38:03.820 It's now more radical than ever. If they weren't building nuclear weapons before, they're definitely building them now. They've been attacked by the U.S. and Israel twice in a year while they were at the negotiating table. 0.95

00:38:19.240 And so from their perspective, and I know it's hard to think of the perspective of people so very different from us.

00:38:25.100 And these people are very different. 1.00

00:38:27.100 They're nuts. 1.00

00:38:28.440 I'm not an apologist for these Ayatollahs nutters. 1.00

00:38:33.640 But you have to try and think from their perspective.

00:38:36.820 From their perspective, the United States and Israel just attacked them twice.

00:38:42.040 From their perspective, at least, unprovoked, by choice, while they were in active negotiations.

00:38:48.400 um they killed the ayatollah his son has been installed and so they're they're still entrenched

00:38:54.800 they're more radical than ever uh and so if they weren't building nuclear weapons and it's

00:39:00.780 i don't know no way to tell if they were or not but if they weren't building them before 0.59

00:39:04.460 they're definitely building them now there is iran would be crazy not to build nuclear weapons

00:39:11.580 because nuclear weapons are the one thing that stops a major conventional military strike

00:39:17.940 or war against you. If you have the ability to incinerate your enemies or your opponent's

00:39:26.140 biggest cities, that guy is very unlikely to launch a major strike against you. So from Iran's 1.00

00:39:33.020 perspective, they need nukes now. So I'm not convinced we were on track for a nuclear Iran 0.83

00:39:39.360 before. I think we probably are on track for a nuclear Iran now at some point. At some point,

00:39:45.000 they're going to get the bomb. But guess what? We can't, can't believe the United States.

00:39:50.540 Benjamin Netanyahu said, has been saying that Israel has been, sorry, that Iran has been on

00:39:57.080 the verge of obtaining a nuclear weapon in just a few weeks. And he's been saying it since I was 0.75

00:40:04.000 like a toddler. I was a little kid. At least it goes back until I was in elementary school,

00:40:10.160 like in the fifth grade. He's said this stuff forever. So, you know, it's chicken little.

00:40:15.900 It's the boy who cried wolf. So it's impossible to believe this man when he says it. But he wanted

00:40:21.720 this war for other purposes. And he got it twice. But he and his cabinet are extremely upset that

00:40:29.800 it's ended from their perspective prematurely. It's ended without the complete destruction of

00:40:35.000 the Iranian regime. And that was never going to happen. They had these crazy ideas, just like

00:40:43.720 they had, you know, with many of the other wars in the Middle East, you know, just knock on the

00:40:51.120 door on a rock and the people will greet us as liberators. It'll be easy. The people will throw

00:40:55.580 off the regime themselves. We'll barely have to do anything. Syria, you know, if we destabilize

00:41:01.820 the Assad regime. It'll be this wonderful liberal democracy. Well, now it's governed by Al-Qaeda

00:41:06.700 or ISIS. Take your pick which flavor. This guy's been involved. The new president there has been

00:41:12.820 involved with both. Libya, Egypt. None of these things have turned out well. None of them. And yet

00:41:19.780 it was supposed to turn out well with Iran and the people would just overthrow the government. 0.78

00:41:25.760 There was no prospect of that happening without the United States going in with a million man

00:41:30.600 plus military force. It was never going to happen. But I believe that that is what the Netanyahu

00:41:38.040 government was hoping for. And that was just never in the cards. I guess the idea was to get the

00:41:42.920 United States in, in for a penny, in for a pound, continually escalate the war, and the United

00:41:48.260 States would just be eventually drawn into it. You know, Vietnam did not start big. Most wars don't

00:41:53.180 actually start big. But Trump's popularity at home has taken a shellacking from this, the economy

00:42:00.160 tanking with the Strait of Hormuz closed the war itself is unpopular it's it's unpopular

00:42:05.660 Democrats and it's also unpopular with a lot of Republicans especially America first megatypes

00:42:12.460 you know Trump campaign is the guy who's against these kinds of pointless Middle East forever wars

00:42:17.840 he was against this kind of stuff until he all of a sudden seemed to be for it one day and just

00:42:21.940 watches two of these wars out of nowhere um and so this was unpopular with a lot of Republicans

00:42:28.680 And so Trump eventually put the brakes on it, de-escalated the war, and none of the United States' objectives, however very fluid those are defined, have been achieved.

00:42:40.840 And certainly not Netanyahu's war objectives, which is regime change.

00:42:45.760 So, keep it an eye. I know some of you guys very much do not agree with me.

00:42:54.900 I expected a lot of you not to.

00:42:58.680 okay

00:43:15.260 William

00:43:18.440 Robel says it was never about

00:43:21.020 keeping the strict rules open it was a

00:43:22.900 geopolitical play

00:43:24.380 still is

00:43:25.360 well it became about

00:43:27.700 and then he says

00:43:29.900 Iran attempted to close the Strait of Hormuz

00:43:31.840 following the flare-up of hostilities

00:43:33.220 yeah, well it wasn't about

00:43:35.480 the Strait of Hormuz until the war got going

00:43:37.700 and Iran then closed the Strait of Hormuz

00:43:39.820 you know, so it's

00:43:41.420 it became a war objective after

00:43:47.360 to restore the

00:43:49.100 pre-war status quo ante

00:43:57.580 that we're just trying to achieve

00:43:59.420 what we had before we started this war.

00:44:02.300 So, yeah.

00:44:05.280 Although I'm not sure what William's saying

00:44:07.840 I'm wrong about here.

00:44:08.480 He says I'm 100% wrong.

00:44:10.400 Yeah, entirely possible.

00:44:11.780 But I'm not sure what he's saying

00:44:13.040 I'm wrong about here.

00:44:25.420 Woken Promise has a couple of questions,

00:44:27.280 Derek, what do you think this failure says about the U.S. military's capability and what do you

00:44:33.080 think Israel will do militarily going forward? I mean, the United States still has a tremendous

00:44:40.300 military capability. Theoretically, America could do it. They could conscript everyone between 18

00:44:48.680 and 30 and build a many million man military and, you know, send people over in giant converted

00:44:57.500 transport ships and invade it, you know, as if this was the first or second world war.

00:45:02.220 America could do that. But a part of any military calculation is also the political

00:45:07.340 calculation. There would be no appetite for that. Americans are not convinced they have a dog in the

00:45:14.140 fight. Americans aren't generally enthralled with the Iranian government, nor should they be,

00:45:18.560 But most Americans do not believe this is their war.

00:45:24.480 It's not their war.

00:45:26.760 And, you know, I'll be damned if I have to go fight or, you know, my son's too young.

00:45:31.220 But if he was older, if I had to go send my son to go fight and die for not my country, it was just it was never explained really why this was in America's interest, why this was America's war. 0.51

00:45:44.240 I mean, America sunk the Iranian Navy. It's gone. They destroyed a bunch of Iranian military installations. Fine. But the regime is still there. It's more entrenched than it's ever been. It's more radical than it's ever been.

00:46:02.880 It's more likely now to want to build a nuclear weapon than it's ever been.

00:46:09.060 And the strength of American alliances in the region are degraded.

00:46:16.000 So how has this been a part of America's interest?

00:46:19.380 The American military functions spectacularly well for what it does.

00:46:23.620 The American military is not geared towards multi-million man invasion forces.

00:46:30.600 it can bring itself up to something from time to time.

00:46:34.600 I mean, the invasion of Iraq was big.

00:46:37.280 I forget how many, but it was a significant force. 0.95

00:46:41.460 But it wouldn't be nearly enough to take on a country three times the size

00:46:44.980 and much more mountainous like Iran. 0.90

00:46:49.360 The American military functioned well, and no one else can do what they do.

00:46:54.300 But even that was beyond its capabilities,

00:46:56.660 unless it was in a kind of a total war situation.

00:47:00.600 And there just was no political will for it.

00:47:05.860 Second part of his question is, what do I think Israel will do militarily going forward?

00:47:10.620 Well, we see right now that Israel is still, has not removed its invasion force from Sudan and Lebanon, where they say they're there to clear out Hezbollah.

00:47:24.820 That is perhaps at least partially true, but it's certainly not entirely true.

00:47:29.360 More than a million people have been ethnically cleansed by the IDF there, a very large number of which are Christians.

00:47:37.540 There's a lot of Christian towns and villages in southern Lebanon, and they've been completely driven out.

00:47:44.960 And last I checked, there are no Christians in Hezbollah.

00:47:49.700 Hezbollah is a radical Shiite Islamist militia.

00:47:55.220 It doesn't have Christian members.

00:47:57.520 They're not allowed to be members, and I doubt any Christians would want to be members. 0.95

00:48:02.720 Yet entire Christian villages have been ethnically cleansed, because what Israel's trying to 0.99

00:48:08.660 do is essentially try to, I think, turn southern Lebanon into a form of the West Bank, where

00:48:13.780 it's not perhaps formally annexed, but you can drive out the local population, and then

00:48:17.760 you set up settlements, kind of armed, fortified settlements.

00:48:22.140 I think that's their play there.

00:48:24.220 And that is disrupting the peace deal.

00:48:27.180 Because Iran is saying, Iran and the United States' agreement says that Israel has to stop its invasion and occupation of southern Lebanon.

00:48:37.540 And Israel's saying, no, we don't.

00:48:41.060 But then Iran says if Israel doesn't stop, then that invalidates the whole agreement, including with the United States.

00:48:46.540 And so you're seeing real tension right now between the Trump administration and the Bibi administration.

00:48:53.620 They are, for the first time, and I think in a real way, publicly, really at loggerheads.

00:49:00.080 The United States wants this war over.

00:49:02.960 The Trump administration has never and will never admit that this was a mistake, but they

00:49:08.000 know that it is not in America's interest to continue the war.

00:49:11.340 They want to open this trade.

00:49:12.620 They want to get back to normalcy.

00:49:13.940 They want to restore international trade for him of the seas.

00:49:16.600 Israel's interests are about regime change in Iran and about territorial expansion in northern

00:49:25.100 Lebanon. So they have very different interests at play here. And that's why you're seeing some

00:49:31.900 very strong attacks coming from, again, not Bibi himself, but members of his cabinet against Trump

00:49:39.260 and the administration, and then J.D. Vance hitting back against members of B.B.'s coalition

00:49:49.180 cabinet. It's tense. I've never seen this much daylight between the Trump and B.B. governments

00:49:55.460 as, as we have right now. All right. So just, we'll switch gears here. Something a little

00:50:10.140 lighter. Let's talk about the gang rape report in the UK. So Rupert Lowe, he is a member of

00:50:17.520 parliament. I think he was originally elected as part of the reform party in the UK, Nigel Farage's

00:50:23.300 insurgent party on the right. Nigel Farage expelled him for being, I guess, too hardcore,

00:50:30.640 radical. I'm not sure if he used the words, he probably, I can't say for sure, but I think he

00:50:33.940 called him a racist and xenophobe and things like that. You know, those usual buzzwords.

00:50:39.380 Because while Reform UK wants to crack down on immigration, Robert Lowe wants to end it. He wants

00:50:48.500 remigration and in significant numbers. So being expelled from reform, he started Restore UK

00:50:55.340 to the right of reform in the UK. And just for context, those of you who don't follow British

00:51:02.760 politics, the Labour Party, the traditional two big parties in Britain, Labour and the Conservatives

00:51:09.760 have both cratered into like fourth and fifth place. They're going to get annihilated in the

00:51:15.000 next election uh the reform party leads in the uk and followed sometimes by like the lib dems and

00:51:20.520 stuff like that and then uh restore uk uh this guy's party uh has been really coming up on the

00:51:27.820 further right flank anyway uh he had been demanding for years an inquiry into these rape gangs in the

00:51:35.020 UK that are a huge problem. And successive governments have refused to call it. He was

00:51:45.280 elected at the time as Keir Starmer's Labour government. Keir Starmer refused to call a public

00:51:51.140 inquiry on it. So he called his own, he had his own independent inquiry. A proper inquiry with

00:51:57.720 all parties and an independent commission and whatnot would have been best, but the government

00:52:01.900 refused to do it and when you really read this report you can see why they refuse to do it it is

00:52:10.700 damning is too cliche not nearly strong enough of words

00:52:16.620 this should this should be like a storming of the bastille moment 0.99

00:52:22.540 uh members of the uk establishment uh should be getting thrown in wood chippers and piccadilly

00:52:30.140 square for this um it is uh the report claims that approximately a quarter million indigenous

00:52:42.620 british girls uh have been victims of these gang rapes uh overwhelmingly something 95 percent

00:52:50.660 in that area by Pakistani, uh, rape gangs. So, um, details here showing people throughout the

00:53:02.300 system, uh, police, prosecutors, doctors, teachers, social workers, uh, all the way through, uh, young

00:53:13.040 girls victims uh would come to them seeking help and they'd be told not to be racist and just

00:53:21.220 forget about it and some cases sent back to uh the rapists these gang rapers sent back to them

00:53:31.480 um horrifying stuff uh and it says keir starmer who was a director of public prosecutions at the

00:53:41.920 time. I'm not sure if I'm getting that title 100% correctly, but I think that's it. He apparently

00:53:47.980 let, uh, it alleges he let off 13 or 15,000 gang rapists with warnings. Naughty, naughty. Don't be

00:53:58.200 raping. Very naughty. This is England. Please try not to rape while you're here. Um, 0.99

00:54:05.920 it's uh it's wild stuff uh you know some of the usual characters have come out

00:54:12.540 and tried to uh pour cold water on it i don't know i'm sure there's going to be legitimate

00:54:20.460 criticism criticism criticisms of it i'm sure but uh it's uh if you've got if the government

00:54:31.180 has criticisms of it, the government should call its own inquiry with the full resources of the

00:54:36.880 state. You know, if Keir Starmer doesn't like this inquiry, he should call his own inquiry,

00:54:43.700 have an independent commissioner go out and get the facts. Let's see if Rupert Lowe is wrong.

00:54:50.720 That's fine. And I don't know why we're not doing this here. I don't think the problem is as acute

00:54:58.580 here as is in the uk um there's versions of this problem across europe um you know when

00:55:06.680 angela merkel opened up the floodgates uh to so-called refugees uh during the iranian

00:55:13.080 sorry the syrian civil war uh millions came to europe not just germany she she destroyed not 0.64

00:55:20.160 just germany she destroyed europe um she wasn't she didn't begin the process but she really

00:55:25.660 accelerated it um and then soon after you know we had uh in the city of cologne uh rape gangs 0.98

00:55:33.580 roaming the streets uh raping german girls um those were not pakistanis those were syrians

00:55:41.740 afghans and whatnot but you know there's a common denominator here they're not they're not generally 0.78

00:55:48.320 born and raised where this is happening they're doing it in where they're a guest in another land

00:55:54.060 uh so i want to hear from you you know should we have uh an inquiry of something like this at the

00:56:02.540 very least i know the united kingdom needs a formal inquiry called by the government

00:56:07.340 germany needs it france needs it poland and hungary don't seem to need it wonder why that is

00:56:15.400 anyone want to take a wild guess why poland and hungary don't seem to

00:56:20.100 of a big gang rape problem i don't know maybe it's the food maybe it's the climate i don't know

00:56:28.780 that's just me um i don't think the problem is as um

00:56:35.400 as acute here but i it probably is a thing uh let's see valerie jordan ab says they caught

00:56:44.380 another pakistani man trying to kidnap a child this week he claimed there are no age restrictions

00:56:48.980 in Islam, and he didn't understand British tradition. I can't verify that. I think I saw

00:56:54.640 that, but I can't verify it. But yeah, it's a thing. It's a thing. I don't know. It makes me

00:57:10.960 upset. And I'm going to be over in Europe and I think a few weeks from now.

00:57:18.980 and i used to love going i used to love germany austria the netherlands england

00:57:29.380 belgium but they're not germany austria netherlands belgium england anymore they're gone

00:57:39.540 last time i was there was 2017 and i was after england merkel opened up the floodgates

00:57:43.940 and uh you know family i've got a city i've got a lot of family roots in and a lot of history in

00:57:50.560 myself munich even munich wasn't munich anymore it was gone i don't think my children will never

00:57:57.000 see munich again it's it doesn't exist uh and there's a lot of cities are a lot worse off than

00:58:03.140 Munich, Berlin, Brussels, London.

00:58:09.380 So take your kids now because these things are practically already gone.

00:58:15.460 There won't be any semblance of them left soon.

00:58:18.140 All right.

00:58:18.780 Well, I got to get to, I'm filling in for Marty up north.

00:58:21.220 So I have to get back to my, my real job now.

00:58:24.420 Trying to bring order to the chaos around the newsroom here.

00:58:27.300 So I'm going to sign off now.

00:58:28.680 Thank you everybody who participated.

00:58:30.500 We had a good chat in the comments here.

00:58:33.140 let me know how you liked it. I don't know. Maybe we'll do this semi-regularly. I'm pretty busy,

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Western Standard - June 22, 2026

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