Western Standard - Gun Ban Hypocrisy： Prepping for Armed Resistance Without Guns

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00:10:00.000 G'day, welcome. I'm Derek Fildebrandt, publisher of the Western Standard.

00:10:20.000 I actually don't do a lot of live streaming. I do the weekly pipeline with Nigel Hannaford

00:10:26.400 and Corey Morgan, but I don't normally do a lot of these. I'm going to try and be a little more

00:10:31.400 present for our readers, viewers, and listeners. I just got a lot on my chest, but I got to get off.

00:10:38.860 And I normally find my outlet by, you know, in the newsroom behind me here. I'm able to assign

00:10:43.720 stories to people, you know, columns, news stories, that kind of thing. But I don't really get into it

00:10:49.520 all that much myself too often. I used to be a camera hog. I'm not anymore. But I've been hearing

00:10:56.280 a lot from our readers, our viewers, listeners, that they want to see more of me. Not a lot of

00:11:01.560 people say that, but they exist. So here I am. I'm going to try and do a bit more.

00:11:08.180 Not necessarily regularly scheduled, but just as shit goes down, as things are happening, 0.70

00:11:13.240 when there's something really big I get out of my chest. And it really just occurred to me 0.87

00:11:18.680 yesterday that um you know we're not governed by the best we're not governed by uh the brightest

00:11:26.420 but sometimes they really just do blow your mind with the insanity of things and i i was reading

00:11:34.920 um in the morning i was you know we were covering the story that uh the carny liberals are following

00:11:44.120 through with the Trudeau-era policy of confiscating the lawful firearms of Canadian gun owners.

00:11:52.180 It will not succeed, but they're going to try. It's especially not going to succeed in Alberta

00:11:56.320 and Saskatchewan, where our governments here pass laws quite effectively, it seems so far,

00:12:02.980 at least, in blocking federal government officials from going door-to-door and confiscating our guns.

00:12:10.220 But they're following through on it.

00:12:13.520 And then the same day, the Globe and Mail broke an interesting piece.

00:12:20.000 It shouldn't be anything that's too shocking.

00:12:22.220 But the combination of these things really just made it too juicy to not talk about.

00:12:28.720 The Globe and Mail reported, here, let's pull up a story.

00:12:34.540 What's the headline here on the Globe?

00:12:36.060 Military Model's Canadian Response to Hypothetical American Invasion.

00:12:43.980 I don't know.

00:12:45.400 It's even slightly before my time, but I still saw it after it came out.

00:12:51.060 The older viewers will know the movie Canadian Bacon, starring John Candy.

00:12:56.520 I didn't know until years later it was actually directed by Michael Moore,

00:13:00.280 which is surprising.

00:13:01.640 Normally it goes on kind of left-wing, typical lefty screed.

00:13:05.140 But it was a funny film about, you know, the Cold War is over, America needs a new enemy, and they decide Canada.

00:13:15.940 Canada's it, you know, because that's how you rally public opinion in America.

00:13:19.040 You need to have an external, I shouldn't even say America, really any country. 0.54

00:13:22.720 Canada uses America. 0.77

00:13:24.620 It's not hypothetical for us.

00:13:26.200 America is our foil. 0.66

00:13:27.180 We're better than America.

00:13:28.320 America is this crude, rough individualism.

00:13:31.840 We're softer, kinder, gentler. 0.93

00:13:33.900 We have shitty universal health care, and we ban people from defending themselves, and that makes us morally superior.

00:13:42.340 We use America as a foil all the time. 0.89

00:13:45.020 But in this movie, America uses Canada as the foil.

00:13:48.500 And John Candy goes on, he kind of gets a little ahead of himself.

00:13:52.620 The American government's not planning on invading, but John Candy, who's a Canadian in real life,

00:13:59.600 but in this, he's like a local cop, kind of a dummy.

00:14:03.200 And he leads, you know, like half a dozen of his buddies into a little invasion of Toronto.

00:14:09.320 The most resistance they run into is an RCMP officer who pulls over their truck, which is graffitied in anti-American slogans.

00:14:19.460 He pulls them over and issues them a ticket for it not being officially bilingual.

00:14:23.340 It's a great movie. 1.00

00:14:25.140 But, I mean, you know, Trump is a bit of a mad dog. 0.98

00:14:30.000 you know trying to figure out what he's going to do next people have tried to figure out well 0.98

00:14:34.440 what is trumpism there's no such thing as trumpism uh maybe there are some broad outlines to what

00:14:41.960 he's doing but it you know on a tactical level uh you know on a tactical level you have no idea

00:14:48.520 what the man's going to do uh for about two weeks it actually sounded like the guy might actually

00:14:55.060 be serious about taking Greenland, not necessarily by, you know, shooting, but, you know, just maybe

00:15:01.160 landing troops and putting an American flag on it. Then yesterday, no, he's not going to do that.

00:15:07.840 They have some kind of framework for a deal. But America is kind of done with the post-war,

00:15:17.040 post-Second World War and even the post-Cold War order. We're returning, Mark Carney calls a new

00:15:23.880 world order. I don't know what to call it. In some ways, maybe it's a return to an old world

00:15:31.780 order, kind of pre-First World War, perhaps. Great power conflict, you know, multi-polarity,

00:15:40.880 whatever it is. But either way, it's not the nice rules-based liberal international order

00:15:48.480 of the post-Potsdam, post-1945 world.

00:15:53.320 That's gone.

00:15:55.140 So anyway, while it's still very hypothetical,

00:15:59.780 extremely unlikely,

00:16:01.580 it's at least now hypothetically possible

00:16:05.520 that the United States might just say,

00:16:07.260 no, we're taking Canada.

00:16:09.660 For whatever reason, you know,

00:16:11.020 perhaps Canada hypothetically drifted

00:16:15.280 even further into a Chinese orbit 0.84

00:16:17.040 and we were seen as too friendly with Beijing,

00:16:20.780 the United States would obviously consider that unacceptable.

00:16:24.220 They would intervene.

00:16:25.500 There's no way the United States would allow a Chinese-aligned Canada 0.98

00:16:29.500 along its northern border.

00:16:32.140 So whatever it is, it's still extremely hypothetical,

00:16:35.860 but ever so slightly less hypothetical than it was a few years ago.

00:16:41.300 So anyway, the Globe and Mail article, I'll pull it up again.

00:16:45.080 I'm going to quote from just a few little pieces.

00:16:47.040 The Canadian Armed Forces has modeled a hypothetical U.S. military invasion of Canada and Canada's potential response, which includes tactics similar to those employed against Russia and later U.S.-led forces in Afghanistan, two senior government officials say.

00:17:03.580 They're not naming who they are because this is a leak.

00:17:06.980 A military model is a conceptual and theoretical framework, not a military plan, which is an actual step-by-step directive for executing operations.

00:17:17.040 Two senior government officials said the military planners are modeling a U.S. invasion from the

00:17:21.520 South, expecting American forces to overcome Canada's strategic positions on land and sea

00:17:26.320 within a week and possibly as quickly as two days. Canada does not have a number of

00:17:33.360 military personnel or sophisticated equipment needed to fend off a conventional American 1.00

00:17:37.580 attack, so the military envisions unconventional warfare in which small groups of irregular

00:17:43.560 military or armed civilians would resort to ambushes, sabotage, drone warfare, or hit-and-run

00:17:49.620 tactics. That'd be tactics like those used by the Afghan Mahajidine in their hit-and-run attacks on 1.00

00:17:55.960 Russian soldiers in the Soviet-Afghan war. Similar tactics employed by the Taliban in the 20-year

00:18:03.840 war against the United States and the U.S. and its allies, including Canada. The aim of such

00:18:10.980 tactics would be to impose mass casualties on U.S. forces. So, they said this would follow

00:18:18.640 clear signs from the U.S. military, the two countries' partnership in NORAD, and NORAD

00:18:24.960 was ending, and the U.S. was under orders to take Canada by force. Okay, there's a bit

00:18:31.160 more, I'll get into in a bit. So, they are, it's a frank admission. You know, despite,

00:18:38.620 you know the wet dreams of some people uh even if canada had a serious military it would still

00:18:48.060 stand absolutely no chance against the united states other than the great lakes canada has

00:18:52.620 no natural frontier you ever seen the 49th parallel trump wasn't wrong when he said it's

00:18:59.960 just a line on a map that was literally uh canada and the states and when canada was part of the

00:19:05.380 british empire we had disputes with the united states about the border because it was literally

00:19:08.280 just a line drawn on the map and we didn't really know where exactly it ended it was just supposed

00:19:12.200 to go to the pacific ocean uh but then that would have had some conflicts with vancouver island are

00:19:17.720 we gonna literally victoria would be a part of the united states but if i'm getting things right so

00:19:22.040 it is a line on a map for the most part with open prairie for a large extent of that utterly utterly

00:19:29.000 undefensible uh nowhere to hide there's not even a tree you'd have to hide behind blades of grass

00:19:35.400 and Manitoba and Saskatchewan. There's no natural barriers between Canada and the United States,

00:19:41.160 other than mostly the St. Lawrence and the Great Lakes. So even if Canada had a significant

00:19:49.000 military force and we actually took our national defense seriously, there's nothing we could do.

00:19:55.400 In all likeliness, Canada would probably not actually fire a single shot. Canada would come

00:19:59.960 to a similar conclusion when faced with overwhelming power that many countries have

00:20:06.700 throughout history that, yes, a token resistance would seem nice, but is it worth potentially tens

00:20:15.080 of thousands of deaths and destroyed infrastructure to make no discernible difference in actual

00:20:20.940 defense of the territory when you have a zero percent chance? So that's likely what would

00:20:25.300 happen. So the military, again, it's not a military plan, but it's kind of mapping out what

00:20:30.720 would happen. They're saying our best chance then would be unconventional warfare, guerrilla

00:20:35.560 warfare, hit and run tactics. And that stuff is almost always mostly reliant upon an armed

00:20:44.320 civilian population. That is regular people who do not want to form power there using either their 0.91

00:20:52.140 own weapons or weapons they can acquire uh to engage in unconventional warfare okay uh they

00:21:00.800 also here's where maybe they're a little less realistic they say canada could count on support

00:21:05.000 from european countries uh britain japan south korea and other democratic nations uh this is a

00:21:11.380 general speaking about it uh you know if you come after canada you're gonna have the world coming

00:21:15.360 after you even more than greenland people do care about what happens to canada unlike venezuela

00:21:20.220 said Mr. Frazier. This is a guy being quoted in the story.

00:21:23.240 You could actually see German ships

00:21:24.600 and British planes in Canada to reinforce

00:21:26.520 the country's sovereignty. 1.00

00:21:29.260 Bullshit. They'll send 1.00

00:21:30.640 diplomats. They'll say a lot

00:21:32.420 but there is no

00:21:34.000 way in hell that

00:21:36.320 Germans and Brits and 0.99

00:21:38.500 Frenchmen and Poles

00:21:40.600 and Slovakians and Italians are going to 1.00

00:21:42.580 come and die for Canada 0.99

00:21:44.020 when Canada would have a 0%

00:21:45.940 chance of successfully repelling

00:21:48.400 a conventional

00:21:50.160 U.S. military invasion. It would never happen. So they're totally nuts.

00:21:57.920 But anyway, the report says insurgency tactics would be the best way to deal with U.S. invading 0.77

00:22:02.700 forces. There's a quantum difference between defending another land like Canadians did in 0.71

00:22:09.340 Afghanistan versus defending Windsor, Ontario. You don't walk across that border because everybody 0.99

00:22:14.400 is your enemy then okay so we're talking armed civilians um i don't know uh again i think this

00:22:24.000 movie came out before i was even born but i i like it it it's kind of terrible but it's also

00:22:28.440 amazing it's over the top but it's just so raw raw american and every every little boy playing

00:22:33.380 with his toy guns pretends and you know fighting uh you know i used to play in the forest and

00:22:38.380 pretend to fight some invaders, sometimes Americans when I was a kid. But, you know,

00:22:45.500 Red Dawn. Have you seen Red Dawn before? It's, you know, it's in the 80s. The Cold War has taken

00:22:55.020 a turn for the worst. The Green Party came to power in Germany. And Europe is out of NATO.

00:23:01.660 They've fallen into the Soviet sphere. And the Soviets and Cubans parachute into America. Somehow 1.00

00:23:06.980 Now they parachute into Montana.

00:23:12.420 I don't know how the geography of the invasion works.

00:23:15.500 But anyway, these kids, the Wolverine, you know, it's like a football team called the Wolverines.

00:23:19.260 And they fight an insurgency against the Soviets. 0.99

00:23:22.200 They killed the dirty communists. 0.99

00:23:23.840 It's all good fun. 1.00

00:23:25.180 It's a ridiculous movie, but I love it. 0.64

00:23:29.340 So, you know, I guess some people have, you know, this idea that that's what we do against the Americans. 0.93

00:23:34.700 You know, we'll take up arms and we'll we'll fight against the American invader.

00:23:39.520 Maybe we can't stop them at the border, but we'll make them bleed enough that it's not worth it.

00:23:43.280 We'll make it Vietnam North and we'll drive them out by inflicting enough casualties. 1.00

00:23:49.020 OK. All right. I hear you out.

00:23:54.460 But what was in the news the same day, the same day?

00:24:00.300 Let's let's pull up the story about we published in the Western Standard.

00:24:04.000 the um uh what do we call it we got the federal gun grab uh this guy the federal minister

00:24:11.940 responsible whose name i cannot pronounce i won't even begin to pronounce it it's just a lot of a's

00:24:17.700 and b's and e's uh whatever his name is liberal federal public safety minister guy no idea what

00:24:25.720 his name is um but uh let's see liberals begin national gun grab program for individuals quebec

00:24:32.720 first to participate. Are we pulling up the story here? Yeah. Okay. So, I mean, this has been in the

00:24:40.320 works for a long time. This began with Trudeau. They used ordering council, which is just

00:24:47.080 essentially cabinet orders, randomly banning thousands of different firearms, 25,000 different

00:24:54.580 firearms, almost exclusively just for their aesthetic value. Normally guns that were totally

00:25:02.580 legal either single shot or semi-automatic so standard stuff uh you know if there's any uh

00:25:11.000 any lefties watching a semi-automatic is used for hunting uh half the rifles used in hunting today

00:25:18.800 are semi-automatic maybe even more um they're not particularly more dangerous than uh than a single

00:25:27.600 action um they're standard but uh the guns they banned weren't really on any kind of technical

00:25:35.000 basis it was just guns that are typically um modifiable to replace wooden stocks with uh

00:25:44.380 plastic or some some kind of uh artificial compound stock um so they look scarier and

00:25:51.660 So instead of your grandpa's hunting rifle with a wood stock and wood butt, it's black or it's dark gray.

00:26:02.240 And, you know, it's got, you know, it's got a modifiable, you know, it's got a rail along the top of the barrel where, you know, you can put optics on and things.

00:26:12.880 You can make it look scarier.

00:26:14.480 I could take my kids' wooden BB gun, replace the stock, put some optics on it, and I could make that thing look scary.

00:26:24.160 And it's a BB gun that wouldn't break my skin.

00:26:26.700 It busts through, barely busts through the paper target.

00:26:30.320 That's what they banned. 0.88

00:26:32.300 And this has been a disaster.

00:26:34.360 No one's complying.

00:26:36.200 They call it a so-called, they call it a buyback program.

00:26:39.640 You've probably heard me a hundred times.

00:26:41.200 You can't buy back something that you never had to begin with.

00:26:44.060 you can't buy it back you also can't buy something that's not consensual this is not consensual

00:26:48.660 you go to jail if you don't do it so that's not buying that's confiscating and you're not taking

00:26:53.860 it back because you never owned it but anyway that's the semantics of it uh it's been a disaster

00:27:00.140 it hasn't worked uh they got some suckers in atlantic canada to participate in uh cape

00:27:06.420 britain to participate in the buyback program uh is it cape britain uh no no it's not cape

00:27:12.780 britain it was um what's their where are the trailer park boys from northern nova scotia uh

00:27:19.460 is that k britain anyway i'm having a break part anyway we're up at the trailer park they went

00:27:25.200 through sunnyvale trailer park i mean if you're going to take the guns that's probably a good

00:27:29.040 spot to start but um they had a pilot program there costed millions of dollars i think they

00:27:35.440 got like 25 guns even a disaster there they're going to get probably close to zero in alberta

00:27:40.840 saskatchewan where our governments have passed legislation protecting us so anyway they announced

00:27:44.840 they're going forward with this this is a nationwide program every firearms owner got

00:27:49.720 uh got an email that day and i'm sure the the paper copy will land uh you know land in my

00:27:54.920 mailbox and everybody else's mailbox in the next couple days whenever canada post gets around to it

00:28:00.520 um you know saying thank you for not using your prohibited firearms during this period

00:28:05.960 okay yeah uh you're welcome you're welcome for not using them okay um and uh you know

00:28:16.920 this is happening you have to comply and uh you know there'll be a you know register now and uh

00:28:23.600 we'll send you some money for your gun they're gonna get extremely little take-up i think they'll

00:28:28.240 mostly get people who inherited guns who aren't gun people themselves and they're like well

00:28:31.520 whatever i'm not gonna hang on to this the government said it's illegal i don't want to

00:28:34.240 get in trouble. May as well get a few dollars for it. They'll probably get a couple of hundred guns

00:28:38.380 that way. That's about it. And maybe they'll get some take up in Quebec, where the Quebec government

00:28:43.900 is actively participating in stealing people's guns. So, same day, two new stories. None of the

00:28:53.040 media seem to really put this together. These two stories have a lot to do with each other.

00:28:58.360 One, biggest story in Canada that day, arguably, that the Canadian military is preparing hypothetical

00:29:04.200 studies around a potential U.S. invasion, and the inescapable conclusion is that the absolutely

00:29:11.560 only thing we could do would be an armed civilian insurgency, hit-and-run tactics, behind enemy

00:29:18.440 lines, unconventional warfare, but at its core, armed civilians. And on the same day,

00:29:27.480 Ottawa announces we're going to steal all of the guns from civilian gun owners all the legal guns

00:29:34.840 you know the only guns left in Canada will be uh you know murderers and thieves and all the rest

00:29:42.180 of them uh but all the legal civilian guns uh for the most part were taken away at least the ones

00:29:47.680 that look scary and make no mistake they will come for the rest like the mask is off there is

00:29:53.320 no point, there is no point at which, you know, the Liberal government and its voter

00:30:00.740 coalition is going to say, you know what, we're happy with the gun arrangement in this

00:30:04.840 country now.

00:30:06.860 We're satisfied.

00:30:08.160 We're comfortable with the level of guns.

00:30:10.400 We're comfortable with these guns that you have.

00:30:12.960 And it's peace from here.

00:30:14.800 We have detente with gun owners.

00:30:16.580 No, we already had that.

00:30:17.660 We have, Canada has a very strict system of licensing and background checks.

00:30:22.740 Canada prohibits most like actual firearms that are designed for killing people they're banned

00:30:29.700 we have sport shooting guns we've got hunting guns and we've got sport shooting pistols and

00:30:36.840 those of you who don't have pistols you can't even legally shoot them unless you go to a range

00:30:41.440 you have to be a member of a range it's it's onerous and you know for the most part most

00:30:47.500 Canadians agreed, okay, fine. We had a general agreement on this, but the militants on the other

00:30:53.340 side kept pushing. They will not be happy. Even if they succeeded in confiscating all of these guns,

00:30:59.740 they will not be happy. They won't say, okay, we're good with this. We can accept this level

00:31:08.920 of gun ownership. They're going to say, okay, well, now we need to get the rest. Why do you

00:31:12.600 need a gun? Do you really need to shoot a deer to shoot a moose, shoot a duck? You really need 0.98

00:31:17.440 to go sports shooting and massacre a piece of paper. Yeah, you might like it, but it's a small 0.98

00:31:23.080 price to pay if it saves just one life. You know exactly what they're going to do. They're not

00:31:29.240 going to stop there. So no one's complying. No one's complying. I know a lot of gun owners. Most

00:31:35.640 of my friends own guns. I'm not going to name any of them right now. No one's complying. No one's

00:31:42.700 giving up their guns. What are they going to do? Are they going to go door to door and violently

00:31:50.000 bust the bolts on every door in Canada, looking for guns? And what's funny is they would go door

00:31:59.380 to door to the licensed people. They wouldn't go door to door in neighborhoods that are 0.85

00:32:03.740 disproportionately high in crime, but don't have a high level of legal gun ownership and registration.

00:32:09.380 they would go to the houses where people have legal firearms licenses they would target very

00:32:16.540 specifically the legal gun owners but even that uh you'd have to go through millions of people

00:32:22.820 and you know there's estimates on uh where is it here dave veichnik let's pull up his story real

00:32:28.420 quick um he's got a good column on uh a good good good column on just this today uh federal

00:32:37.400 government estimates that there's 150,000 of these firearms that they want to confiscate

00:32:42.780 in Canada. That's an extremely low estimate. Firearms owner groups, industry analysts figure

00:32:51.660 that it's significantly higher. It could be closer, somewhere between 300,000 and 500,000

00:32:58.320 firearms in Canada. They really don't know. Because what happened is they were not banning

00:33:06.900 guns that were already on the restricted list. There's kind of three main categories of guns in

00:33:10.580 Canada. Non-restricted, that's, you know, very basic guns, almost all rifles and shotguns,

00:33:16.820 basic stuff. And then there's restricted, which is every single pistol, plus some rifles, which

00:33:23.000 used to include, say, the AR-15, not for any particular good reason, but again, because it

00:33:27.860 just looks scary. And then prohibited. You're not allowed to have it, except under the most extreme

00:33:33.500 circumstances. More or less, you're not allowed to have prohibited guns. They're prohibited.

00:33:38.960 And the restricted guns all had to be registered. If you have a pistol, you got a restricted

00:33:42.560 rifle, you had to register with the government. So the government knew you had it. But the

00:33:46.920 liberals made a really dumb mistake. They took 2,500 non-restricted guns. So people had a license 0.99

00:33:56.460 for them, but they didn't have to register the gun themselves. And they went straight over to

00:34:00.820 the prohibited side, so they don't even know who bloody has them. Someone could technically have

00:34:06.100 10,000, and Ottawa would have no idea. Someone could have one, and they might think they have

00:34:11.880 10,000. Ottawa has no idea. They're never going to get it. They're going to go through the motions,

00:34:17.620 but they're now, they're intent on trying. They're going to try. They're going to fail.

00:34:22.920 They're going to fail. Don't give your guns up. Do whatever you have to do. Don't give these

00:34:28.580 bastards an inch. Don't give them up. It's the right thing to do. But they're not going to get 1.00

00:34:36.380 them. Just wait them out. Wait them out. But they're going to try. They're going to try and

00:34:43.380 seize somewhere between 300,000 and 500,000 otherwise legal firearms from otherwise legal

00:34:54.140 licensed firearms owners in Canada, people who know how to use guns, people who are

00:35:00.960 disproportionately, not entirely, but disproportionately rural, people who know how to

00:35:05.200 shoot, know gun safety, people who probably disproportionately have some interest in the

00:35:10.000 military and things along that lines, you know, guys who like to watch a lot of history

00:35:14.620 documentaries on YouTube, but, you know, not the History Channel anymore, but back in the day when

00:35:19.360 there was history on it. You'd watch that. They're going to go after these people and steal their

00:35:24.460 guns at precisely the moment they're planning on a civilian armed insurgency against a hypothetical

00:35:38.340 American invasion. How the hell is that supposed to work? What are they going to fight the Americans 0.86

00:35:44.260 with. Our elbows? We're going to jab them to death with our elbows? Perhaps they'll seize the guns

00:35:56.300 and they'll put them in some collection depots that says, you know, break glass in case of

00:36:01.540 American invasion. So, okay, when the Americans invade, we can go back and we can get our guns 0.83

00:36:06.180 back that our own government has stolen from us to go and fight the foreign government that

00:36:12.880 It probably stands a better chance of giving us our guns back.

00:36:16.380 They probably wouldn't have stolen our guns from us.

00:36:20.540 What are they proposing we fight with?

00:36:22.220 What are they proposing we do? 0.84

00:36:24.320 This is ass end backwards. 0.99

00:36:26.460 The chief of defense staff, this DEI her lady, she's talking about a reserved armed force of up to 400,000 made up, you know, and they're going to have a bunch of weekend warriors from the federal bureaucracy. 0.99

00:36:41.240 Yeah, we're going to get a bunch of blue-haired, pampered, overpaid bureaucrats to go out on the weekend and train how to supplement a tank crew, train how to operate the sonar on a ship. 1.00

00:37:01.320 It's never happening.

00:37:03.940 No one's joining the military anymore.

00:37:06.220 I grew up in military towns, Petawawa, Trenton.

00:37:10.140 I spent summers at Blackdown, Comox, Kingston.

00:37:17.500 I grew up around the military in a lot of what I did.

00:37:21.800 I'm not a veteran.

00:37:22.660 I'm not going to pass myself off as a veteran.

00:37:24.720 But I grew up in military culture around this.

00:37:29.360 um and the kind of guy and yeah it's mostly guys it's not entirely i mean there's great

00:37:38.700 women in the forces but it's mostly guys kind of person who joins the military 1.00

00:37:42.840 is a disproportionately rural or small town it's a guy it's probably white he likes guns 1.00

00:37:52.340 He likes blowing shit up. He likes a sense of camaraderie, community, that he's with people, with a shared common goal. 0.99

00:38:04.600 You're working for something. And that means also for your country that you deeply love.

00:38:11.340 And our government, to different degrees under different parties, obviously more pronounced under liberal governments than under conservative governments.

00:38:18.260 Conservative governments have reversed it a bit, but never totally rebuked it. But governments for decades in Canada, my entire life, have been intent on a multicultural, sort of post-national view of Canada.

00:38:37.900 As the Boy Scout of the world, we, you know, we're kind of above military conflict.

00:38:45.200 We have no real culture of our own.

00:38:48.160 You know, at best, you know, conservatives, you know, will grant them their due.

00:38:52.960 You know, they would not be ashamed of Sir John and MacDonald.

00:38:55.840 They would not be ashamed of the founding fathers and, you know, the men and women who came across the prairie and built civilization out of a frozen wilderness.

00:39:05.440 They weren't ashamed of that.

00:39:06.720 But they were perhaps not as strong as they should have been in rebuking the other side. 0.72

00:39:11.840 So give them their due.

00:39:14.240 But we have generations now that have grown up told to loathe themselves.

00:39:18.400 You're genocidal. 0.99

00:39:19.980 Your ancestors were racists. 1.00

00:39:21.840 You should be ashamed. 0.99

00:39:23.180 You should be ashamed of who you are. 0.99

00:39:24.720 You don't deserve your own country. 0.99

00:39:27.520 The whole world can come here now because it's not yours. 0.88

00:39:29.920 You're on stolen land.

00:39:31.720 You're on stolen land.

00:39:32.980 Well, if we're on stolen land, why would I defend it?

00:39:35.520 why would i go fight and die why would i send my son to go fight and die for stolen land

00:39:42.180 why would anyone be willing to bleed for something that's not theirs that just anyone can come and

00:39:50.900 take you know they they compared the people the people who came and built this country

00:39:55.520 the pioneers who built a one of the greatest countries that's ever existed on the planet

00:40:04.760 A first world nation with a proud history, prosperous, peaceful.

00:40:11.360 They compared the people who hacked that out of the wilderness saying, well, they're just immigrants.

00:40:16.580 That's the same as someone who came yesterday and registered for benefits.

00:40:22.000 Why would I fight for that?

00:40:23.900 There's no shared history.

00:40:25.280 There's no shared people.

00:40:26.840 So they've broken down any sense of what's worth fighting for.

00:40:30.180 In the military, they actively discourage the main demographics who want to join.

00:40:35.380 I've got friends and family who served since right after high school.

00:40:41.360 And they're out now.

00:40:43.340 They want nothing to do with it. 1.00

00:40:45.640 It's a bunch of woke shit shoved down their throat every day. 1.00

00:40:51.440 You know, you look at recruiting posters. 1.00

00:40:54.220 You know, we always say, well, you know, people should be able to see themselves reflected in it.

00:40:57.740 No one looks like me on a recruiting poster anymore. 0.98

00:41:00.180 um you know it's all about diversity celebrating diversity no it's about defending the fucking 0.98

00:41:06.160 country it's about defending your people your homeland the place you live the place your 0.96

00:41:12.660 ancestors bled for that's what it's about it's not about representing the demographic makeup

00:41:19.060 of the country it's about doing a job and that's not what they're looking for in the military we 1.00

00:41:25.960 have the military put fucking tampons in the men's room fucking tampons i can hear my producer 0.99

00:41:34.300 snickering off camera i actually kept one from a federal airport it's in my office around the 1.00

00:41:41.740 corner back there i kept it as a memento one day we're gonna put this thing in the museum and 0.97

00:41:45.280 i'll tell my grandkids about how how dumb we were how dumb we were as a people that we put tampons 0.86

00:41:51.120 in the men's room, but our military installations have, right now, have vending machines in the 0.98

00:41:59.860 men's room with tampons. What kind of soldier are we trying to attract? I'm fine with women 1.00

00:42:13.020 in the military. That's fine. You know, there's issues you got to work out with it, but I'm fine

00:42:18.180 with that. I'm fine with women in the military. But what? Who the fuck are these guys who need 1.00

00:42:24.140 tampons? That's going to scare the Americans. That's going to instill fear in our enemies. 1.00

00:42:32.120 We are not a serious country. Are we even a country anymore? We're told we're not. We're

00:42:37.800 post-national. We're just a piece of real estate. And if we are just a piece of real estate, if we

00:42:42.800 don't constitute a nation, then what's there to defend? If it's just a piece of real estate on

00:42:47.920 stolen land, then why shouldn't someone else steal it? Why shouldn't they? It's fair game.

00:42:52.040 If we stole it, someone else can steal it. There's no moral imperative to defend

00:42:55.620 something that's stolen. No, there was nothing here. People came here and they built something.

00:43:05.240 They built Alberta. They built Saskatchewan. They built Ontario. They built Quebec.

00:43:09.100 They built British Columbia. These things did not exist before settlers. And I'm not a settler.

00:43:16.480 I'm a descendant of settlers. I'm a descendant of immigrants as well, or refugees.

00:43:20.920 But settlers came here, and they built it.

00:43:23.800 And it's not a pejorative word.

00:43:25.680 It's not a pejorative thing to be a settler. 1.00

00:43:27.540 Those people were hard as fuck. 0.99

00:43:30.640 I think I'm, I fancy myself a little bit tough. 0.99

00:43:34.500 But I'm nothing tough like the guys who built Alberta, who built Saskatchewan,

00:43:38.580 The people who came across the prairies, the frozen wasteland that they did not know had oil below it.

00:43:48.020 It was just a frozen wasteland with virtually nothing here.

00:43:52.580 And then they lived in sod huts.

00:43:55.900 And then, in decades, built a first world country.

00:44:01.500 Those people are hard.

00:44:03.880 Those people we should be proud of.

00:44:06.120 But no, they're settlers.

00:44:07.160 and settler is a bad word and now we're a settler because we're here we're all we're all immigrants

00:44:12.220 you know it's just a piece of land and we stole it if we stole this piece of land if we're on

00:44:19.120 stolen land then we're a bunch of thieves and who are we to tell someone else to thieve it from us

00:44:23.340 we've got no moral ground and who are the people who are you know are having these kind of uh

00:44:32.340 fever dreams of larping as uh the you know northern vietcong or you know a canadian version

00:44:40.600 of red dawn fighting the foreign invader disproportionately the people larping about 0.89

00:44:46.380 this stuff are uh the elbows up crowd disproportionately but not entirely boomers

00:44:53.160 and of course not all boomers i know we got boomers watching but you know it's it's the

00:44:57.560 people who voted for mark carney the people you could see going like this doing the chicken dance

00:45:01.860 with their elbows here you know they're the people in in the polling on this very disproportionately

00:45:09.120 they're the ones saying if the americans come we should fight them with force militarily okay yeah

00:45:16.200 you say that you say that i wouldn't like it but you say that oh we're gonna have tens of thousands

00:45:23.940 maybe more but tens of thousands of casualties of a generation of our young men die for a zero

00:45:31.260 percent chance of resisting an american invasion okay well fine maybe okay they'll concede maybe

00:45:37.980 we can't stop the americans in a conventional uh battle at the border but you know we're gonna

00:45:43.920 fight this insurgency we're gonna we're gonna have armed civilians fighting the american invader 0.98

00:45:49.220 well who were the same fucking people who voted to take our guns away who were the same people 0.89

00:45:56.540 If you had a Venn diagram of the people who want to fight a war against America and the same people who want to seize the guns, that Venn diagram looks an awful lot like a circle. 0.98

00:46:08.920 There's a lot of overlap. 0.99

00:46:10.920 It's the same damn people. 0.99

00:46:12.640 The same people who are willing to send a generation of young men to die to fight for Canada are the same generation who want to take the guns away from these people. 0.99

00:46:23.600 I mean, even if we were an extremely well-armed people, even if we had like a Second Amendment and we actually had some serious guns in this country, which civilians in Canada do not, even if we had serious guns, and a lot of them, we would have a hard time fighting even an insurgency.

00:46:40.800 We would have a hard, hard time.

00:46:43.540 I suspect that we're just too comfortable and decadent to society to actually bother doing it.

00:46:48.920 We would probably just end up making our peace with whatever the new order is.

00:46:52.300 as Thucydides said

00:46:54.220 the strong take what they will

00:46:55.920 and the weak suffer what they must

00:46:57.220 and the reality is

00:46:58.520 we're the weak party

00:46:59.820 there's just no way

00:47:01.420 we'd ever be able to stop it

00:47:03.440 we probably

00:47:04.420 and this is going to hurt

00:47:06.280 the egos of some people

00:47:07.700 people who probably even

00:47:09.500 are with me on a lot of issues

00:47:11.040 but there's really just nothing we could do

00:47:14.220 we would probably just end up

00:47:15.340 having to make our peace with it

00:47:16.380 it would just be the reality we live under

00:47:18.300 and that's the reality of the way

00:47:19.920 the world has worked

00:47:20.740 for really all of human history, with some exceptions, in the 1945 to 2000 and recently period.

00:47:33.700 It's just the way the world works. And, you know, Canada has a so-called middle power.

00:47:40.960 You know, Canada's done well in the so-called rules-based international order.

00:47:44.720 but that order is over and it's an anomaly we've grown up with it my parents grew up with it

00:47:51.760 my grandparents partially grew up with it we are so acclimatized to it that we think that this is

00:47:57.760 just the way it's always been this is this is the way the world works it's not the way the world

00:48:03.660 works it's just the way it worked in parts of the world for a very short period of human history

00:48:09.320 If the Americans want to take it, they're just going to take it. 0.99

00:48:13.520 There's nothing we can do about it. 0.99

00:48:16.580 And that's shitty. 0.87

00:48:18.280 But that's the reality of things. 0.84

00:48:22.080 But if you wanted to give it the old college try and fight at an unconventional civilian, armed civilian guerrilla war against a hypothetical American invader, you're going to need two things.

00:48:36.220 You're going to need men and you're going to need guns.

00:48:39.320 and our government hates both of those things right now and and to get men you need people

00:48:46.220 to believe that this is their home and that it's legitimately their home that it's not stolen it

00:48:53.080 wasn't done by hook and crook that we didn't just show up here and took over this great stuff that

00:48:58.360 was in alberta that was in saskatchewan that was in bc or ontario or quebec no there was nothing

00:49:03.460 here there was prairie there was trees there was tundra there was rock there was snow there was

00:49:08.840 grass. There was nothing here. They had to build it. People have to believe, if you want to get

00:49:15.580 men to fight, they have to believe this is their home and it's worth dying for. And no one's going

00:49:21.560 to die for something that they don't believe is rightfully theirs. Well, we stole it. We stole it

00:49:28.040 from the Indians. So, uh, I guess, you know, who are we to stop the Americans from stealing it from 0.98

00:49:33.260 us? That's going to be the reaction because we propagandize generations of people to think that. 0.87

00:49:38.840 so all right um

00:49:48.080 we'll just take a minute we'll take a just couple minutes to go through chats

00:49:53.340 i had to get it off my chest thanks thanks for bearing with me i have no idea if you guys

00:49:58.980 like that or not

00:50:08.840 All right. I don't know if I understand that.

00:50:16.320 Colin, training 42-year-old mothers of two hold the line at home government workers.

00:50:25.560 I don't understand what the hell that means.

00:50:29.740 Okay. Oh, this is interesting. Okay.

00:50:31.180 Anyway, the CCFR, that's Cating Coalition for Firearms Rights, says there are over 2 million guns on the list.

00:50:40.000 Yeah, there's different estimates.

00:50:43.200 I don't think the liberals appreciate how much people like guns.

00:50:47.500 I think, you know, I see, you know, you watch the CVC, you watch CTV, or you'll see it in the Globe,

00:50:54.740 you'll see a you know national post you know uh cache of guns and ammunition raided by police

00:51:02.500 you know it'll be a drug buster or or something you know some gangbanger uh you know gets arrested

00:51:09.140 they go to his house and they go through his crap and you know they find like four or five

00:51:13.700 guns and a couple hundred rounds of ammunition and they'll say like cache of weapons found 0.98

00:51:24.740 okay so like the government thinks four or five guns is a cache of weapons

00:51:29.380 uh or an arsenal they found an arsenal there's seven guns it's an arsenal

00:51:34.180 you know what almost certainly Ottawa is significantly underestimating how many guns

00:51:43.060 are out there you you don't know us so yeah I like I I don't know no one no one knows it's

00:51:54.060 estimates, Ottawa's estimates, $150,000. I think they actually probably know it's a lot higher than

00:51:58.900 that. I think they're estimating you get $150,000 because that'll keep the budget. This is going to

00:52:04.580 be absurdly expensive to do and it won't succeed. It will not succeed. I'm quite confident that

00:52:11.620 thankfully our government is too, our government's too incompetent to do most things. It's definitely

00:52:15.780 too incompetent to do this, which I'm thankful for in this case. I wish they could, I wish my

00:52:20.660 You know, in the city of Calgary, in which I work, I live outside the city, but I wish they were competent enough to, I don't know, fix the water feeders so we don't have to shut down the water for two weeks in this city.

00:52:33.740 But they're not competent to seize the guns.

00:52:35.760 I think they're intentionally lowballing it so that the budget estimates for the cost of doing this is not going to be as high.

00:52:41.960 They know it's higher.

00:52:43.660 Is it $2 million?

00:52:44.660 Maybe.

00:52:45.620 I don't know.

00:52:46.940 But it's a lot more than their government officials think.

00:52:50.660 ah well there's the canadian coalition for firearms rights hold on your guns

00:52:57.940 good folks the canadian coalition for firearms rights i like them uh how are the police services

00:53:05.660 getting their handguns now that they're banned no uh they're only banning the guns for the

00:53:10.480 civilian population also handguns aren't ownership is not banned only the sale of handguns is banned

00:53:16.540 So we're not allowed to buy handguns.

00:53:19.440 I remember that the Liberals, they just don't understand gun owners.

00:53:23.300 They announced, we're going to be in a few months banning the sale of handguns.

00:53:28.320 And they thought that would send a message to gun owners that you should just hand in your handguns to the government.

00:53:33.520 No sense in buying more. We're going to ban them anyway.

00:53:36.260 In like 48 hours, every handgun in Canada sold out.

00:53:39.700 There were lines out the door into the parking lot at Cabela's.

00:53:43.140 um thankfully that most canadian gun owners are peaceful people we'd be shooting each other to 1.00

00:53:47.620 get these guns um everyone went out everyone went out and bought all the handguns they could

00:53:52.480 uh so you can't buy handguns anymore in canada but you can keep the ones you have for now they're

00:53:57.620 obviously going to come for them those are registered so they'll probably have a little

00:54:02.320 more luck in trying to seize them from uh lawful gun owners uh unlike the 2500 uh guns they're

00:54:08.680 going after on this program, but good luck. I think a lot of people are just going to have

00:54:13.980 tragic boating accidents and lose their guns. And just for the court record, when this gets

00:54:19.400 replayed back to me at my trial, I'm joking. I'm joking. I don't mean any of this. Nothing I said

00:54:25.720 today I mean. This is for the court record. When this is played back to me at my trial

00:54:29.920 for not handing over my guns, I'm joking. I don't mean a word of what I'm saying right now.

00:54:38.680 all right uh actually we got dave now you can see him uh the camera's funny guy right there

00:54:45.960 uh he's actually got to come on he's got to do a news hit with a with a channel here uh so i'm

00:54:51.100 gonna cut it cut it right there i just had to get this off my chest how silly of people we are how

00:54:58.300 unserious a country canada has become canada's gone from such like one of the greatest countries 0.61

00:55:03.740 the world has ever seen i know everyone says we're the greatest ever there's been some great

00:55:08.400 countries in the world we're not one of the great empires but we're definitely one of the great

00:55:12.040 bright spots and we fucked it up we fucked it all up it's uh it's doubtful we get to come back from 0.99

00:55:20.220 this but uh we should at least try to take ourselves a little more seriously from time to 0.67

00:55:23.940 time we should try to if we're not going to be a serious people we should at least act a little bit

00:55:28.400 like serious people on the weekends so anyway that's it for me today thank you very much for

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Western Standard - January 23, 2026

Gun Ban Hypocrisy： Prepping for Armed Resistance Without Guns

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