In this episode of The Pipeline, we talk about the latest immigration aggravation in Canada, the case of Roosevelt Rush, and the so-called peace deal between Israel and Hamas in the Middle East. Also, we discuss the recent sentencing of a Jamaican cocaine smuggler.
00:01:52.720took a while but it was finally conquered
00:01:56.100It's now ruled by communists and Islamists, and you can't say anything that could hurt anyone's feelings online, and those laws are coming straight to Canada.
00:02:07.340But we're going to begin with immigration aggravation.
00:02:13.380Three big stories, just in the last 24 hours on immigration in Canada.
00:02:17.820I mean, we used to go years without major immigration stories, years where it was just a non wasn't a big issue, except for I have to apologize, I guess, retroactively to people I used to call cranks.
00:02:30.800Maybe they were on to something and I thought they were just total cranky and, you know, curmudgeonly guys.
00:02:37.460And no, I guess I have to apologize in retrospect to some of these guys.
00:02:42.480Just in the last day or two here, we've got an Ontario judge having the sentence for a Jamaican cocaine smuggler because he would face deportation and wouldn't get his citizenship.
00:02:56.520We have to keep this career criminal in Canada.
00:02:59.960If we send him to jail, we're not going to be able to give citizenship to the career criminal.
00:03:06.620Citizenship and Immigration Canada just put out.
00:03:11.600on social media, an advertisement to the world that, hey, guys, we got free health care,
00:03:17.600free health care in Canada. So come to our shores and use our precious tax dollars for our already
00:03:23.820massively overstrained and collapsed health care system. Comes at an interesting time because now
00:03:30.020Parliament, I think at the behest of Michelle Rempel, a committee in Parliament is going to be
00:03:35.340probing the link between immigration and strain on the Medicare system. So that's a lot to just
00:03:40.660spew at you, Elise. That's okay. So let's start with what happened with the Ontario justice,
00:03:49.500Robert Horton, Justice Robert Horton. He is one of many, many, what I would call activist judges
00:03:59.220that are intervening with the criminal code or criminal law, but also putting their thumb on
00:04:05.040the scale of justice when it comes to immigration law. So the story of Roosevelt Rush, the cocaine
00:04:10.640dealing guy that you were just referring to. I'm sure his mother's very proud. He came to Canada
00:04:16.520at 19. And while he may, it appears that he tried to have a few jobs, he suffered a back injury
00:04:23.700as he was a forklift driver. But subsequent to that, the back injury apparently didn't get too
00:04:31.220in the way of his criminal behavior because he kicked up a pretty significant career in crime,
00:04:39.180trafficking fentanyl. He has firearm charges. And actually, while he appeared before Justice
00:04:47.480Horton on a cocaine charge, he was actually, that stems from him being out on bail with a GPS
00:04:53.680monitor roaming around Bellevue selling cocaine. He's out on bail selling cocaine, GPS monitor,
00:05:01.040but police suspected that he'd be a problem. So they were tracking him. So the sentencing
00:05:05.560that with Justice Horton that we're referring to is actually his second sentencing in a very short
00:05:11.320period of time. That first conviction of fentanyl and firearms, it was six years. And the second
00:05:19.660one is where Justice Horton gets involved and says, you know what, this poor guy, he suffered
00:05:24.720racial discrimination, systemic racism. It's hard. He had a back injury as a forklift operator,
00:05:31.520you know not you know failing to mention he's run from the police quite quite easily many times but
00:05:37.480um you know he so he puts his finger on the scale and says well I can't give you the full
00:05:41.900two-year sentence for trafficking 55 grams of cocaine I'm going to cut it in half because I
00:05:47.900don't want you to get deported I or he doesn't say it exactly like that he says I do not want you
00:05:54.140I do not want your offenses to get in way of your citizenship now since Mr. Rush was about
00:06:01.500Rush, the convicted criminal in this case, convicted drug trafficker. And interestingly
00:06:07.980enough, we're trying to get these guys out of the country. He didn't grow up in Canada. He didn't
00:06:15.180suffer systemic racism as a lad, as the justice tries to refer to. In fact, he arrived in Canada
00:06:21.440just before his 20th birthday. He's only 32 now. And in those 12 years, he spent a significant
00:06:26.980portion of his life as a criminal. So this is part of a smattering of justices from British
00:06:33.800Columbia, but mainly in Ontario that think they need to intervene, put their thumb on the scale
00:06:40.080and they've really become activists. And my question when we see these stories is, remember
00:06:45.100when we were all a very quaint little country and never wanted to see an elected judge or an
00:06:50.300elected senator? Because we were trying to avoid this sort of political ideology going into our
00:06:56.120courts or activism. But I think now we might have to look at how we're choosing our judges
00:07:01.420in a different way. And I think it brings us back to elected senators and possibly elected judges.
00:07:07.900Nigel, I would think that a drug smuggler is exactly the kind of person we don't want
00:07:16.100as a citizen. Obviously, he cries systemic racism. Well, if it's so racist here,
00:07:26.000If it's such a racist place and you're so hard done by, why don't you go back?
00:07:30.820You know, this guy is a career criminal.
00:07:35.160And we now go out of our way to make sure that he's not just in prison, but that he could stay here for the rest of his life by becoming a citizen.
00:08:34.240You know, you want to bring your dad over so that he can live with you in his dotage and so forth.
00:08:39.620And the standards kept changing and changing and widening and widening.
00:08:45.260So now you do have people who come here from other countries, bringing with them their bad habits, and somehow or other, the judges are prepared to make that kind of a judgment that the worst possible thing that we could do in the administration of Canadian justice is to send somebody back who had misbehaved and abused our hospitality.
00:09:07.260hospitality uh the the system is crazy there were people who saw it coming they were mocked derided
00:09:14.760as racist and various other nasty things but you know they were right cory i i don't know if you're
00:09:23.640at the camp where you owe people an apology or if you're owed an apology uh i think you like me you
00:09:28.380were pretty good on pretty open on immigration i'm still pro-immigration if it's done right
00:09:34.360But before raising the warning flags quite a while back, mass immigration, that's the term that has to come in.
00:09:41.940I mean, you know, everything in quantity.
00:09:43.840And we've had mass immigration for over a decade.
00:09:46.640And even most reasonable moderates now are admitting our system can't handle the amount coming in of people, whether it's health care, education, housing.
00:09:56.140We're getting pressured on all fronts.
00:09:57.740So I'm happy to see some of the other people admitting now that, okay, this is problematic.
00:10:02.640it. We got to do something about it, but I don't have much faith that we're going to do anything
00:10:05.840about it. If we can't even find the courage as a country to get rid of the Coke dealers,
00:10:10.300how are we going to screen the, even the, the semi-reasonable immigrants that we would have
00:10:16.200to turn away just to bring levels down to a manageable number. We don't have the courage
00:10:20.280as a nation to get rid of the, or the other gentleman who was trying to hire a teenage
00:10:24.160prostitute. Uh, we couldn't get him out of the country either. So I fear people are realizing
00:10:30.440there's a problem but this country is incapable of solving it and that's problematic well this is
00:10:34.720what's going to radicalize people on immigration here it's this kind of crap um you know i mentioned
00:10:39.860at the top of this segment you know that just now immigration and citizenship canada putting out
00:10:46.200advertisements to the third world saying free health care immigration is supposed to be a trade
00:10:53.060between two parties the person who gets to go to canada which is probably a richer and safer and
00:11:00.200nicer place than where they came from, so they get the benefit by it. But the host country should
00:11:06.440get to benefit by it. We're bringing in people that we need for some kind of job. They're going
00:11:12.860to pay into the tax base, especially when you've got an aging population because we don't want to
00:11:17.940have kids anymore. And while they're here, they have to behave. They have to assimilate. They got
00:12:05.100Now it's there seems to be no discernible benefit to the people here.
00:12:10.060And when we don't even keep track of millions of people who came here as temporary foreign workers or on phony student visas,
00:12:19.120the government knew we're phony to begin with and let it happen anyway with a wink, wink deal.
00:12:23.880um when we have known criminals and we go out of our way to keep them here and then give them
00:12:29.640citizenship this is what turns people like me who believed in relatively open-ish migration
00:12:39.320being opening to the world bringing people here uh it turns people like me into thinking
00:12:46.440we just need to stop it and and there's going to be a lot of good people who i actually would
00:12:50.440otherwise like to be here but it's so wildly out of control that we just got to put a hard bloody
00:12:55.640stop to it it's this is this is our our politics on immigration is now poisoned or becoming poisoned
00:13:02.920the way it has been in a little bit in the united states and is now in europe right now where
00:13:08.280something that was a good has become an existential threat to the host society
00:13:12.440you know derek it's a you drew attention to that ad that they put out saying come here
00:13:19.080free health care and if you object to that straight away people think well you're being
00:13:23.960racist actually there are a lot of people who came here under the old way who worked hard did well
00:13:31.080are not white who would feel exactly the same way and so we've got to get past this idea that
00:13:38.280somehow the only people who object to mass immigration are people like us like elise well
00:13:44.120Well, I think things have things have really changed.
00:13:47.160I actually saw a poll and I wish I could pull the name of the polling company because it's a great poll.
00:13:53.660It talks about the shift and it speaks very much to what you're saying, Nigel, but it also speaks to what you're talking about, Derek, which is this idea of how do regular people, people that we've all sat next to at different times, how do they get, quote unquote, radicalized or how do they become like seething with anger?
00:14:11.800and you see them at these protests, they suddenly something switches. What it is, is how we're
00:14:17.780looking at immigration. So number one, we have the highest rate of temporary Canadians in this
00:14:22.640country in our history. 7.2% of our population are temporary Canadians. That's 3 million people
00:14:30.340here. That's a number that has just shown up in a relatively short period of time. That's only
00:14:36.220six years it took to create that within that temporary status you have the humanitarian what
00:14:43.900is it the humanitarian claim support system that they refuse to turn anybody away we just saw
00:14:50.560another story um i believe it was out of saskatchewan where the you know a nigerian family
00:14:57.580has been asked to leave uh because they came under false pretenses claiming they needed political
00:15:02.320asylum and they don't want to leave because their child has leukemia and they think canada owes it
00:15:07.080to them i do not want to see children die of leukemia but i also it's not my responsibility
00:15:11.940to pick up your check i am waiting 18 hours just to get into biotics the other thing is i'd say
00:15:18.160that british columbia which people and i will joke with you is very left and and not necessarily
00:15:23.300connected to important issues there is seething anger about that ircc post or immigration canada
00:15:29.320post um and i would say that well over from that poll well over 65 of canadians think this has gone
00:15:37.000too far uh so when bc bc in this country is ground zero for the collapse of the greatest lie ever
00:15:43.800told which is free health care um you're going to see very angry people so i don't think we should
00:15:49.960discount it i think things have shifted nigel um and i have to tell you uh my parents emigrated
00:15:55.640to this country i know exactly what those rules were and i actually attended their citizenship
00:15:59.900ceremony when i was eight years old and i remember it very well and it was something my parents
00:16:05.360reminded me that was a privilege uh not a right to be canadian well before we move on um i'm gonna
00:16:12.920be a good segue to the uk the i think people have shipped and they've shifted very decisively
00:16:20.540very quickly whereas in europe and in the united states it built up to it more over time whereas
00:16:26.520in canada we had this overwhelming uh consensus on immigration anyone who talked about it was
00:16:33.540instantly denounced as a racist bigot far out there um and then it turned around really quickly
00:16:40.320but in places where it's been an issue for longer the people have voted to end it but it doesn't
00:16:46.400seemed to end. So the UK, one of the biggest drivers behind Brexit was control over their
00:16:53.280own migration. And that was a damned important thing for them to do. It hasn't gotten any better
00:16:59.820after Brexit. Illegal aliens are showing up by the dinghy load in Britain every single day.
00:17:07.740It doesn't end. The United States appears to be uniquely able to... Poland and Hungary don't have this issue because they just never allowed it to happen to begin with. They kept borders in place their whole time, and they decided they don't want to go down the road of relativist multiculturalism.
00:17:27.060The United States is at tremendous cost in several ways trying to stop this, but it seems that no matter what people vote for, it doesn't change.
00:17:42.820The people of Germany voted to end this, and they've still got a left-wing government that has totally open borders.
00:17:49.180The people of the UK voted to leave the European Union over, which is a much bigger decision than just putting a party in power, and the Conservatives continued.
00:17:57.060to allow it to happen so i just kind of leave it with that that i i'm not sure you can vote your
00:18:01.560way out of this kind of thing well you look at the numbers though that came out today look at
00:18:06.640the reform numbers if an election was held in the united kingdom today nigel lafarge is going to
00:18:13.140rock it through it is a huge surge and starmer should be very concerned he you know people are
00:18:19.780already writing his obituary and you know well i it might be it might be sooner rather than later
00:18:28.240i don't know i don't know i don't know but it's it's in all likeliness probably three years away
00:18:33.200and even then i gotta wonder people have voted to end this stuff before they voted for brexit
00:18:38.580they voted for the conservatives all of it was supposed to fix it and nothing has improved and
00:18:44.480And I, you know, Cardi promised to fix it here.
00:18:47.360Obviously, it's not going to get fixed here.
00:18:49.760So anyway, so this is a good, I think, segue into what's coming to Canada from the UK.
00:18:57.220I guess disastrous migration policy is one.
00:19:00.300Now, UK style, German style totalitarianism, where, you know, online hate speech, hate
00:19:09.740speech as broadly as possibly defined we're not talking guys with cranky even cranky opinions
00:19:16.340anymore which i still don't think anyone should have ever faced criminal charge for you should
00:19:20.380be allowed to spew whatever kind of cranky nonsensical ideas you want in a free society
00:19:25.660as long as you're not actively counseling the harm of an individual or group um but now uh the
00:19:33.420UK is throwing people in prison by the thousands for posting things, you know, people saying
00:19:40.060online, I don't want my tax dollars going to migrants who are committing crimes.
00:19:45.240Okay, you might, maybe you think that's an unpleasant thing to say, even if it's true.
00:19:49.800You might think that's an unpleasant thing to say, but people go into prison for it there.
00:19:53.520And Nigel, you know, you've written on this, that this is now coming to Canada.
00:19:58.200First of all, you actually summarized the situation pretty much the way I was going
00:20:05.160to introduce the subject. You've had successive governments that have dropped the ball in
00:20:09.720controlling illegal immigration. When people complain, instead of fixing the problems,
00:20:15.000the British government has been trying to fix the complainers, which they have done quite
00:20:19.080effectively. They actually started emptying out the jails of people who were put in there for
00:20:25.000actual crimes a pettier variety but they're still crimes and they still merit a jail time
00:20:29.960they were getting those people out so that they could put the people who had expressed unpleasant
00:20:37.480opinions on the internet into the jails and when they ran out of room in jails they made a deal
00:20:42.920with i think it was lithuania to ship some of our um our more belligerent free speech advocates
00:20:49.560to lithuania maybe it was latvia but it was one of the belting states to go to jail there i mean
00:20:56.060is it you can't make this stuff up now you're saying it's coming to canada well it's uh
00:21:03.500it's free speech has gone out the window and we have a government here that doesn't want any
00:21:11.780trouble so would people please shut up unless of course you were of the palestinian persuasion in
00:21:16.960which case you sort of stand back and wave your kefir and your palestinian flag so they have passed
00:21:24.400legislation putting the internet under the control of the crtc that was bill c11 that was done two
00:21:31.600years ago and so it was the online news act which had the effect of taking news off facebook
00:21:37.840and then they tried to pass bill c69 and what bill c69 would have done it died on the order
00:21:46.160paper before the election but what it would have done is criminalize the kind of comments
00:21:51.040that people do make that are not racist are not they are just expressions of disgust and contempt
00:21:58.160for the kind of government malfeasance that we're looking at now it didn't pass but now we find that
00:22:09.200they've only been back in office a few months and they have bill c9 an act to amend the criminal
00:22:15.920code which is basically back to internet censorship even though the government says it isn't now i
00:22:21.760want to quote michael geist here michael geist is uh you know an internet guru somebody who's
00:22:27.360opinionized certainly um you know i i look it up and then i write it down and pretend it's my own
00:22:34.080so you know you're a pretty credible source i plead right we call that we call that research
00:22:38.640yeah and uh anyway michael geist has raised significant concerns about the potential
00:22:44.400impact of the Combating Hate Act, that's what it's called, Bill C-9, the effect on fundamental
00:22:50.400rights and freedoms, particularly free speech. And his criticisms include the very vague definitions.
00:22:56.800He argues that the bill uses vaguely defined language and a lower threshold for hatred,
00:23:04.080which could lead to its misuse. Don't forget these cases, if there are cases, end up before
00:23:08.720a Human Rights Commission where you don't have all the defenses of the criminal code. Instead,
00:23:14.000it's just well he said well he must be wrong then um anyway all this gets used to misuse a stifle
00:23:20.080debate and the lack of clarity around what constitutes hatred could make disagreement
00:23:26.720a crime if it offends somebody and it shifts the standard from facts to feelings and once you get
00:23:32.720into the area of feelings you know oh i i felt offended so so i'm due i'm due some compensation
00:26:43.260often the only way to fight back is to maintain your freedom of speech and in Canada, that's
00:26:48.060freedom of expression. And we're seeing that being systematically cut down in the UK predominantly,
00:26:55.260but can't can under Trudeau, they tried to tackle this beast several different times
00:27:01.360different, several different ways. And, you know, Bill C 63, which is the original piece
00:27:07.300of legislation that has these you know you can't say you hate your neighbor uh or no well no you
00:27:14.180can't think about hating your neighbor um and you can't think about putting that on the internet
00:27:18.660because we're going to go in for thought crimes that to me was a sign that we had literally jumped
00:27:23.540the shark in this country thought crimes were now going to be penalized or litigated um with serious
00:27:29.300consequences attached to them so i think what i was saying in regards to the ircc issue which
00:27:35.620is immigration canada talking about hey we have free health care and i said this on twitter and
00:27:39.460i'll say it in regards to free speech and i will defend everyone's right to speech um that i want
00:27:46.740people to fight i want you to litigate this i want you to stand on your corner and yell and talk and
00:27:53.300scream and do whatever you have to do to hold the line in this country i would never have heard
00:27:59.140myself say that five years ago gentlemen you wouldn't this is not the elise from five years
00:28:04.020ago when I see what's happening in this country I want to litigate I want to sue the government
00:28:09.300the betrayals that our governments commit on us is unfathomable I would not have imagined this
00:28:16.400five years ago so fight for free speech and to prove that point say a lot of bad things that
00:28:22.120will offend a lot of bad people you should be able to have the right to say it yeah Corey I mean
00:28:27.400That's been on my mind, is that I might, and I would hope many others would intentionally commit hate crimes, even if we don't mean it.
00:28:37.480Like, I'll start, you know, I'll make comments about faux, and I'll continue to turn up the heat until I finally get charged or something.
00:28:46.160You know, that it's going to have to be challenged.
00:28:48.120One part of this is they want to ban symbols of hate.
00:28:50.400I don't think they mentioned anything by name except for the swastika or the swastika banner.
00:28:59.380But that's not been illegal in Canada.
00:29:02.000The only time I can ever recall one ever being flown in public in Canada, at least myself,
00:29:07.400was during the Freedom Convoy when there was a masked individual who was later possibly identified as a Trauma Star employee.
00:29:17.000That person has denied that it was them, but I have not seen any definitive evidence, yes or no, but it didn't make sense to be a Freedom Convoy person, but I mean, that is obviously a very strong symbol that evokes extremely strong feelings in people, but it is not until this bill likely passes been illegal to display it because displaying a symbol doesn't hurt anyone.
00:29:47.000it might mean different things to different people
00:31:33.420But it gives the government a lot more rein and leeway.
00:31:36.420And then where do you see, you know, I know it's just, it's a lazy way to go, but slippery slope arguments have merit to them, but other things are going to start getting banned and then symbols and, and going from there and, and intruding on them to channels.
00:31:52.280I suspect one of my monologues or any one of my posts on X might still get me a foul of the law, but I'm not going to go goose step.
00:31:59.800swastika that is someone from a german family but you you're you're you're a different background
00:32:06.460you could you can't you still can't get away with it but you'd have a better time getting away with
00:32:10.840it than me i wouldn't want to have to keep explaining the context yeah yeah that's just
00:32:15.320going to be a that photo is going to live with you forever to be like come on i was protecting
00:32:19.720the totalitarians i'm certain we could find a way to challenge it i think maybe not that one
00:32:23.980Guys, I just want to mention that a lot of what in the banning of the swastika, which is, I don't think something we even imagine that we'd have to do.
00:32:32.920I think part of this is a response to, I hate to say it, the mass immigration that is imported hate.
00:34:13.940But the flag itself shouldn't be illegal. If some dumbass white kid who grew up in the suburbs and is just yearning to struggle against something wants to go and, you know, fly the Hamas or the Hezbollah flag, it's disgusting.
00:34:28.340But, you know, they're a citizen. It's their God-given right to do disgusting and stupid things, as long as you're not actively committing an act of violence and crime against a person.
00:34:40.680You know, Derek, I think when Corey said earlier, like, who even wants to fly the swastika?
00:34:49.680Like, you don't have to legislate against it.
00:34:52.680The reason that it is in there is to give them a talking point.
00:34:56.680If it was only the militant Islamist symbols that they had come down hard on, then, well, you're anti-Islam.
00:42:04.580I want everyone to understand that we are even further away, or maybe we've now been shown how far away we are from any sort of Palestinian state.
00:42:17.200Absolute chaos and murder has descended upon what is known as Palestine or Gaza.
00:42:24.840They've now turned on their own people.
00:42:32.260They have revealed themselves to what they are in other places like Africa, but under different terms like Boko Haram and all these other names that I cannot pronounce, but have been massacring Christians across the continent for several years now, and then those into parts of Eastern Europe, right?
00:42:52.200We forget about the Islam, what we now call Islamic terror, what we used to call, you know, Muslim wars, right?
00:43:01.560There are this what's happening in Palestine or sorry, in Gaza is so horrific.
00:43:07.580I can't even I personally can't stomach it anymore.
00:43:10.400We know we can't get to a Tuesday. And President Trump said this morning, and I've been in sort of close contact with my Americans within Trump organization for the last several days.
00:43:23.020I don't think anyone expected that to become this, but that demonstrates how very little we understood the commitment Hamas had to maintaining control.
00:43:33.780I think we're going, as Trump said today, he's going to roll military in there if they don't drop their arms.
00:43:40.660And I suspect this is now going to become some sort of hybrid, what we used to call the blue helmet peacekeeping, but with American style.
00:43:48.980And I think the worst, some of the worst is yet to come still.
00:43:52.800Yeah. The only thing I know is it's not done.
00:45:26.880there this morning anyway look total chump you know he's on the spot in in the house answering
00:45:35.460questions where are the border security agents that you uh that you promised during the election
00:45:41.620to police the border to satisfy the americans so that we so that we don't have have uh that
00:45:48.420particular packs against us in the tariff negotiations i don't know well what do you
00:45:56.180you don't know you're the public safety minister it's not my job to hire these guys this is a guy
00:46:01.460who is uh this is the second strike one more he needs to be out yeah uh at least here
00:46:09.940my parting shot and i admit i'm doing this a little bit on the fly that my parting shot
00:46:14.260is to mark carney um and it is in regards to all the things we were talking about today
00:46:20.580it is not so much more of a drill down on him as sort of me me pleading with him to follow through
00:46:27.540on his commitments uh because this country and i think you said it best derek is that you're it's
00:46:33.300going to form radicalization it is a tinderbox in canada ready to go and you can easily see
00:46:40.340when you break the backs of your citizenry and you take away their rights uh their freedoms and
00:46:46.100their liberties and access to health care access to good paying jobs and then you force certain
00:46:51.140ideologies down on them you are creating uh you're creating the breakdown of canada and i would
00:46:58.020suggest that instead of flouting around with his buddy starmer and not can he just come back to
00:47:03.940canada and deal with the issues that we are facing he promised us that all we had to do was watch him
00:47:10.500and he would deliver i don't know how many days we're in now but i don't see one damn thing being
00:47:17.140delivered i just see it getting worse and worse and worse what's his plan what where are we where
00:47:22.660we going to that's my last word all right cory how did you not before you head over to duck some
00:47:29.380shots sure uh yeah well alberta's got the second best motto in north america after new hampshire
00:47:35.300and that's with strong and free in alberta and it's going on the license plates where it belongs
00:47:40.500Yeah, it's with Pennsylvania as we mean it. I'm not so sure about those guys. New Hampshire. New Hampshire. Yeah, it's live free or die free. It's theirs is better. You know, you can't actually, if you want the police to stop you, I, I had a live free or die t-shirt because I'd be in a New Hampshire for the primaries and I was actually stopped by a police officer saying that that was inciting anger and all of the, yes, I actually had to call a lawyer and just
00:48:10.500to make sure because i didn't get arrested but i was warned somebody had seen me at the gas station
00:48:15.780and had complaints okay uh well mine is for uh your good friend out there david eby uh david eby
00:48:23.860saying no no pipeline from alberta through bc um you know and then you know the greenies who don't
00:48:30.980understand how the constitution works they say albert is trying to have it both ways alberta
00:48:35.300wants more control and autonomy for itself but then it wants auto watch to impose pipelines
00:48:40.180here now no we want alberta to govern itself within its provincial jurisdiction and every
00:48:45.300province to govern itself within its provincial uh jurisdiction under the constitution and then
00:48:50.660ottawa to do its job under its jurisdiction under the constitution and the infrastructure
00:48:56.180that crosses provincial boundaries is under strict federal jurisdiction and that means a pipeline from
00:49:02.420alberta through bc to the coast is federal jurisdiction and this is david eby uh trying
00:49:08.420to usurp federal jurisdiction. It is rightful federal jurisdiction. If this country means
00:49:13.780anything, it is that it can connect the different parts of it economically and socially.
00:49:21.140And so if DBDV wants to play this game, nope, Alberta pipelines through BC,
00:49:26.820just be warned the two can play this game. We could say no BC lumber trucks through Alberta.
00:49:34.020We can say, no, trains full of your goods coming through Alberta.
00:49:38.780If we're going to be usurping the Constitution and our areas of jurisdiction,
00:49:43.180if we're not going to act as a country, well, we can bloody do it too,
00:49:47.260and most of our trade goes south, not to the west.
00:49:49.980We can hurt B.C. a lot more than it can hurt us.