Western Standard - It’s time to end all race-based policies

00:00:00.000 Good day

00:00:29.700 and welcome to the cory morgan show as you can see i'm still wandering in the desert actually

00:00:34.740 this is the last of the shows i'll be doing from down here in the south i'm with mixed feelings

00:00:40.740 starting to make my way back north uh to get to my regular life up there the news certainly hasn't

00:00:46.580 stopped while i was gone lots going on good bad and some terrible terrible tragic uh items going

00:00:53.220 on we'll talk a little bit more about that in the show of course you can't avoid talking about the

00:00:56.900 the horrors of what's happened in Tumblr Ridge. And yeah, lots on the independence front and many

00:01:03.040 other things on the go. In a little bit, I'll be talking with political theorist and columnist

00:01:08.000 William Barclay. He wrote a long column with the Western Standard. He's written a number of them

00:01:12.620 with us, of course, and it's on the independence movement. I'd like to get an Eastern perspective

00:01:17.080 on that. William's certainly not heavily opposed to the independence concept, and he's giving his

00:01:21.720 views on what's got guys behind it what's powering it so let's start uh with my opening monologue

00:01:30.820 something you know uh just that we got to keep on this so along with being incapable of understanding

00:01:36.100 the basic principles of supply and demand progressives have a blind spot when it comes

00:01:40.560 to race-based policies i mean they consider themselves champions of the downtrodden minorities

00:01:45.840 yet they support the divisive policies that cause minorities to become downtrodden in the first

00:01:50.480 place. They recognized that race-based policies caused injustice and wrongs for centuries,

00:01:56.200 yet they feel the way to reconcile those wrongs is to implement more race-based policies. Look,

00:02:00.280 guys, two wrongs do not make a right. And things move in waves and cycles. So diversity, equity,

00:02:06.480 and inclusion, DEI, those policies were trendy for a couple of decades. The policies finally

00:02:12.540 overshot the target. They went too far, and as it became more extreme, the public finally

00:02:17.040 recognized the absurdity of DEI. The pushback began in the private sector with things like

00:02:21.280 Robbie Starbuck and others pushing large corporations and those corporations realized

00:02:25.420 these policies were hurting their bottom line. Now the outrage of progressives was worth enduring

00:02:30.440 as they stripped away entire DEI departments from their corporate headquarters. But now we're seeing

00:02:35.200 something even better. Public institutions departing from DEI policies. The University of

00:02:40.360 Alberta dumping its DEI policies and boy some people are outraged of course. And it must be

00:02:45.320 so the u of a must be supported in this not only that this movement should be fostered and spread

00:02:50.920 among all institutions both private and public we're going to take advantage of the backlash

00:02:55.400 against race-based policies and strip them from government legislation uh from uh rest assured

00:03:02.040 social justice warriors they're going to immediately begin lobbying and trying to

00:03:05.240 enshrine new race-based policies as fast as we can get rid of them if we can go scorched earth 1.00

00:03:09.400 now with them though it's going to be a slow insidious creep for them to bring their woke

00:03:13.160 policies back. It could take decades. DEI policies are insulting and detrimental to minorities.

00:03:18.840 The principle of racial equality has been embraced by Western democracies for generations. Having

00:03:24.120 passed the equality hurdle though, progressives have moved on to the more loosely defined goal

00:03:28.280 of equity. And this is where they assume that even if all rights are equal, some minorities

00:03:33.720 are incapable of succeeding without an extra hand up. That is true racism. And it's ironic

00:03:39.960 how progressives don't understand that they've embraced an ideology no less vile than those of

00:03:44.840 historical segregationists. A slap in the face to people within minorities who've earned success

00:03:50.140 through hard work and merit, only to have some people start assuming they only excelled due to

00:03:54.460 the racially preferential hiring and lowered standards in education. In Toronto, a race-based

00:03:59.780 black-only school was opened in 2009 to the celebration of progressives. Martin Luther King

00:04:05.080 literally fought and died to end racial segregation in areas including education only to have fools 0.83

00:04:11.480 today entrenching segregation under the vanity of banner of equity generations later separating 0.98

00:04:17.400 black students from everybody else hasn't been a success considering black students drop out before

00:04:21.320 graduation at a rate 23 higher percent higher than other races in toronto it didn't work but since

00:04:26.120 when a progressive let success or failure stop them from pursuing race-based policies though right

00:04:31.480 the granddaddy of racist policies of course is the indian act even the name of the act indicates how 0.95

00:04:36.120 out of date it is in the modern world the act entrenches all sorts of race-based laws and has

00:04:40.360 done so since 1876. canada's indigenous people have been lagging the rest of the country in

00:04:46.040 every single measure of standard of living and it's getting worse crime poverty health issues

00:04:51.400 domestic violence low education rates and high suicide rates are a part of every reserve in

00:04:56.280 canada and the indian act is woven into every part of it despite this progressives fight bitterly

00:05:01.480 against any effort to scrap the act in fact they call people critical of the act racists

00:05:06.780 yeah they're really that blind to their own thinking in bc the government's actually

00:05:09.960 beginning to enshrine a new set of property rights based on race even got as far as to ban

00:05:14.420 people non-indigenous people from public parks this only increases distrust between cultures

00:05:20.240 and of course makes things worse for the already suffering indigenous population but again okian

00:05:25.900 outcomes don't seem to matter to progressives they've blinded themselves of bizarre misplaced

00:05:30.040 ideologies wrapped in virtue signaling and identity politics there's little sense trying to win over

00:05:34.520 the people immersed in canada's identity politics they're beyond reason we can and must cater to the

00:05:38.920 minority of canadians who are fatigued with watching race-based policies dividing people

00:05:43.080 while offering no visible benefits to anybody aside from some bureaucrats and lawyers who

00:05:47.720 profit from that division that is now educational institutions are the best place to begin and the

00:05:52.040 university of alberta with them moving away from dei policies policies they can lead the

00:05:56.280 the way for others to follow. Make it shameful for any institution, whether public or private,

00:06:01.020 to hold any race-based policies. Let's ride the current wave of public distaste for institutionalized 0.78

00:06:06.220 racism, real institutionalized racism, and wipe race-based policies from the map once and for all. 0.71

00:06:12.000 Beyond shaming these institutions, governments must start defunding the ones that insist on

00:06:15.740 maintaining racist policies. There's no better time than now to do it, and it is time to live

00:06:20.120 in a world with true racial equality. Okay, that's the rant that's got me going. Let's get

00:06:25.500 into our newsroom and check in with Dave. I know he is very, very busy today. Lots going on and

00:06:31.440 see what's happening there. Hey Dave, how you doing? Hey, good, Corey. I'm expecting to see

00:06:35.280 tumbleweed going behind you. Yeah, well, I think there'd be plenty if the wind was blown today.

00:06:40.800 This has been a brilliantly calm day and not blazingly sunny for a change, so good for shooting

00:06:45.380 live video. Nice. Seen any snakes? No, I keep looking. I want to bring you one back for a pet,

00:06:53.000 but i've had no luck i do a lot of walking no snakes yet yeah well that's good that's good

00:06:57.240 uh yeah extremely busy um uh dominated by tumblr ridge the horrible horrible shooting that uh last

00:07:05.740 night uh done by a 18 year old trans person by the name of jesse strang uh right now we're leading

00:07:14.620 off with a 12 year old girl that is fighting for her life in the vancouver hospital uh she was shot

00:07:21.100 in the head and the families put out a statement and and go fund me our publisher derek fildebrand

00:07:29.580 went on a bit of a rant this morning the inside story of the shooting and why the mainstream media

00:07:36.220 will not report that the shooter is uh trans so that's uh that's worth a watch uh chris old corn 0.94

00:07:43.420 our columnist uh uh takes a look at it these transgender shooting shootings whether you 0.87

00:07:50.540 whether you want to admit it or not they're they're getting uh we're getting more and more

00:07:54.940 often uh it was our jared uh yager our vancouver reporter who was the first one to be able to

00:08:01.980 identify the shooter last night obviously as with anything uh these type of incidents core you get

00:08:08.460 a lot of uh uh shall we say fake news out there uh this morning condolences came in from around

00:08:15.980 the world uh king charles prince william princess kate uh the leaders of germany france uh you know

00:08:24.540 you name it india uh pouring in their condolences uh the party leaders mark carney and uh pierre

00:08:31.740 polyev due to give statements right now in the house of commons the question period has been

00:08:37.180 cancelled for the day for these statements and carney has ordered flags to fly at half mast on

00:08:44.860 all government buildings so other than tumblr ridge we've got a bonnieville minor league baseball

00:08:51.980 coach charged with a litany of child sex abuse child porn bestiality stuff you name it he's

00:08:59.740 being charged with it and the government incompetence story of the day cory public

00:09:05.420 health agency of canada has had to admit 20 million dollars worth of specialty drugs was

00:09:12.140 spoiled because someone left the door open on the refrigerator so there you go 20 million of our

00:09:18.300 taxpayer funded money out the door because uh uh somebody forgot to close the door yeah yeah and i

00:09:28.140 i don't doubt that that department still managed to get bonuses for their performance this year

00:09:32.140 you know whereas in the real world you get fired for that sort of thing yes in the real world you

00:09:38.320 do so the rcmp uh who last night described the shooter as a gun person a phrase i've never heard

00:09:45.080 used before they're set to hold a press conference uh at any moment now so we'll uh keep uh checking

00:09:51.640 back with the westernstandard.news and we'll have all the updates as they come in all right thanks

00:09:56.860 for the updates dave uh dark as they may be and i'll uh see you in person for the next show

00:10:01.380 yeah safe travels back all right thanks dave that is our news editor dave naylor and yeah the

00:10:07.420 standard has been putting those stories up as this this horrible tragedy has been unfolding

00:10:12.040 uh the reason we're at that newsroom has got the people out there and jared working so hard out in

00:10:16.640 the west and chris old corn out in the east of us it's when you got to remind you guys it's because

00:10:21.340 you've subscribed so uh thank you if you've subscribed already and if you haven't get on

00:10:25.740 their western standard dot news slash subscription because we will provide real unvarnished news

00:10:33.440 guys we won't go into that woke bizarreness that uh the rcmp and other news outlets will do as

00:10:40.480 dave mentioned this was one of the things with things as they were unfolding with the tumbler

00:10:46.320 ridge mass shooting the horrible school shooting there but they reported as a gun person in a dress

00:10:52.180 like they're so terrified of the woke so terrified of the this this weird transit fixation the

00:10:59.860 world's had for the last few years that they just can't say a man in a dress because that's what it

00:11:05.020 was a young man in a dress murdering people that's what it was and it doesn't you know if we'd be

00:11:14.340 more honest it would defuse perhaps some of the hate and conspiracy theories that can come out of

00:11:21.420 something like this look not every trans person is violent not by a long shot uh but if you try

00:11:29.420 to hide when this happens or try to hide from the trend that Derek Fildebrand did talk about that

00:11:34.720 that there is a higher number of trans people participating in these kinds of shootings than

00:11:40.340 others it's still a minority of a minority literally so the vast majority of trans people

00:11:46.620 aren't going to hurt anybody but the consequences when somebody flips their lid goes off and decides

00:11:52.660 that for whatever reason they got to take a gun and start slaughtering people particularly in this

00:11:56.900 school we got to study what's underneath that now we can take a few days to start digesting and

00:12:02.340 studying that we got a a community that's just been traumatized it's horrible to think i i worked

00:12:09.480 a lot up in tumblr ridge for people unfamiliar with it it's in northern bc it's a town that

00:12:14.900 it was based on coal mines that kind of opened and closed it's an interesting town when you

00:12:18.980 drive around it you tell it's a company town you know a real planned central downtown it's not

00:12:23.780 terribly old uh there was a big gas exploration boom up there so i worked up there quite a bit

00:12:28.820 for a few years back when i was a surveyor lots of grizzly bears too but it's a small tight

00:12:35.140 isolated community so you just know i mean with with 20 what is it 27 people still injured and

00:12:42.180 recovering hopefully and that 12 year old girl who's fighting for her life let's really hope she

00:12:45.880 makes it uh plus you know nine others murdered and then one who killed himself himself uh everybody

00:12:54.180 will know somebody who's been impacted this by this up there it's it's just unimaginable that

00:12:59.120 what's going to be going on the grief and and and responding to it i i mean uh there's no quick way

00:13:05.700 to respond to something like this in general i mean nobody expects it nobody sees it coming

00:13:09.800 but at least in a city you have a lot of resources you have big hospitals you have helicopters you

00:13:15.180 have a plethora of police officers tactical teams tumblr ridge has an rcmp detachment and i think a

00:13:21.540 little health unit uh the victims of this would have had to have been i i guess evacuated to

00:13:27.720 grand prairie might be one of the closest larger places or dawson city i'm sorry dawson creek

00:13:33.080 but it just made it worse you know i perhaps there could have been more survivors if the

00:13:37.840 resources had been there you can't plan for everything particularly something like this

00:13:43.440 but let's evaluate this as we start to try and wonder what the heck happened how it happened

00:13:51.120 carefully and not be afraid to start digging in to find out the roots of some of this i don't 0.96

00:13:58.160 think we'll ever be able to prevent every sick lunatic from going out on murderous rampages

00:14:04.240 unfortunately a screw goes loose in some people and they do the worst things but if we're afraid

00:14:09.500 to dig into some of the underlying factors we want to pretend that the trans aspect has nothing to do

00:14:14.700 with it then we aren't truly trying to seek a solution are we we're we're just following a

00:14:21.680 politically correct move you know trans this transgender thing's been a fad i want to talk a 0.98

00:14:27.800 little bit about that a little later there's real trans people there always have been there's people

00:14:32.120 who really want to live out their life as a different gender than what they were born. 1.00

00:14:37.600 But let's face it, there's a whole heck of a lot who just embraced it because it's the thing to do

00:14:40.960 lately. And then they'll just embrace something else later. But when somebody is willing to

00:14:46.280 embrace something like that, that's an indication of some dissatisfaction with life that's not

00:14:50.000 typical. All right, let's get on to Independence Talk. And I'll talk a little more about what's

00:14:54.240 going on in Tumblr Ridge. We've got William Barclay. I've been looking forward to this.

00:14:57.300 He's great to talk to. He's been on before. It's been a while. And he wrote a great column on the

00:15:01.900 government independence movement and uh you know some of the underlying roots and what's going on

00:15:07.120 with that and what's inspiring it so let's bring William in and discuss that a little hey uh good

00:15:13.060 to see you Will how you doing? Hey thank you so much for having me it's a pleasure to be back with

00:15:17.020 you uh in studio I guess eh? Well kind of I'm in the desert but it all runs through the studio

00:15:22.600 John's working really hard to coordinate us and pull us together there and uh uh the conversation

00:15:27.440 is what's important rather than the setting but it's a nice backdrop isn't it? I was gonna say

00:15:31.160 looks like you're having fun at least. Yeah, yes, a little break from the weather and you're looking

00:15:35.240 nice and bookish as anticipated. Thank you. I appreciate I got a little bit of a new setup,

00:15:40.720 you know, and managed to migrate into a new room, so that's nice. Right on. So what kind of

00:15:46.380 interests me, I mean, you know, independence has been a sort of a subject I've been pretty immersed

00:15:49.580 in for quite a while, but you offer, I mean, you know, a well-educated political view and what you

00:15:55.340 offered is from a person looking outside in. You're in the east, but you've obviously been

00:16:00.020 looking at it closely. Maybe just kind of start with a, you know, offering a nutshell what your

00:16:05.940 column was about. Yeah, absolutely. I think so. What we've all seen is that the Alberta

00:16:10.780 independence movement is being condemned by various pundits and political actors like the

00:16:16.040 premier BC, David Eby, as treasonous and little more than a byproduct of Alberta's lust for oil

00:16:21.820 and its archaic conservative values and politics. However, the recent surge in popularity that

00:16:27.540 secession has enjoyed throughout Canada and in Alberta was not a consequence of simple politics

00:16:31.900 or treason. Rather, the modern advent and onset of the Alberta independence movement is very much

00:16:37.300 Canada's right-wing response to the past decade of liberal oppression and a result of the fact

00:16:41.580 that not just in Alberta, but everywhere across Canada, all right-wing ideology and politics have

00:16:46.840 been openly persecuted and conservatives have already overwhelmingly been forced to seek out

00:16:51.700 alternative means of political expression outside of mainstream society in order to achieve any

00:16:57.060 political agency and it'll affect their future in a way you could say that albertans don't now seek

00:17:01.940 to leave canada at all and in fact they were abandoned by the canadian nation long ago

00:17:08.180 so some of you went into a lot more than i i don't as much which is fine but uh so more into

00:17:12.900 it being a right versus left sort of thing we've had a progressive dominated government in ottawa

00:17:18.980 with a conservative dominated ideology i guess you could say in alberta and saskatchewan

00:17:23.700 And but you feel that I mean, there might not be a little more underpinning the movement than just political ideology.

00:17:30.240 That's definitely the larger part. I mean, I go to these meetings, 90 percent of the people at the meeting,

00:17:34.060 if you're going to tell where they are on the ideological spectrum, they're conservative.

00:17:38.780 But, you know, is there perhaps something a little deeper as well?

00:17:42.180 Yeah, absolutely. I think that you could you could say that, broadly speaking, the Canadian state,

00:17:46.740 the Canadian nation is collapsing all around us and Albertans don't want to participate in it anymore.

00:17:52.900 I mean like the Canadian state actually displays the two quintessential hallmarks of any failing

00:17:56.740 or failed state that's unable to secure its borders or maintain sovereign control over them

00:18:01.140 and it's lost a monopoly over the use of force inside its society right so these are the two

00:18:05.620 quintessential hallmarks of a failed state or failing state we'd see over uh overseas let's

00:18:09.540 say and we see them home at home in Canada um and I think maybe broadly speaking even more so you

00:18:14.820 could say the Trudeau senior was almost the father of Alberta independence we could call it all maybe

00:18:19.300 be a tale of two Trudeaus, but we can get into that a little bit more later. I think that very

00:18:23.660 much Albertans don't want to participate in the continued failing and failure of the Canadian

00:18:28.280 nation when the Albertan province simply could be doing so well and has been asked to almost

00:18:34.080 prop up this failure and Albertans have it extracted from their own backs and from their

00:18:38.540 own flesh. Yeah, and it's a good point. Like it's the state itself is sort of, I mean, my feelings

00:18:44.760 honor is that it's fundamentally flawed in the constitution and it's just a matter of time as

00:18:49.340 the cracks start to show and that's what this is it's indicative of saskatchewan alberta even bc a

00:18:54.100 little bit quebec is starting to liven up again uh whether a person you know is on the right or

00:18:59.160 the left they should start understanding that there's something to be addressed or this country

00:19:03.680 could be split up and and i'm just wondering if maybe progressives will finally start to sit up

00:19:07.720 and take notice like you know we got to do something about this or this province this country

00:19:13.600 could be splitting apart. Oh, absolutely. I think it's food bank usage in Canada is up 100%

00:19:19.780 with one third of all the people who are using the food banks being children. And 25% of all

00:19:25.680 Canadians are currently suffering from food insecurity. It simply shouldn't be that way in

00:19:29.420 a developed nation, so to speak, as Canada. I think the OECD itself actually confirmed that

00:19:34.160 we're going to boast the single worst performing economy of all 38 OECD members until 2060.

00:19:39.540 And I mean, like we were saying, it simply shouldn't be that way in Canada. For a long

00:19:42.780 time we're a prosperous nation that could sit beside the u.s at the table right now we don't

00:19:47.480 even have a seat no it's uh you know that's another factor that's kind of come into it

00:19:54.620 is this this uh you know the the instability in general i mean people are kind of a you know

00:20:01.740 feeling insecure they don't feel there's a good response as an independent state of canada when

00:20:06.920 when basically we're being kind of being pushed around pretty heavily by our southern neighbor

00:20:10.960 and our federal leadership hasn't been able to contain that or control that.

00:20:14.920 So I think maybe it makes people start to, you know, lose faith in the Federation itself.

00:20:21.180 Absolutely. I think you could say that Danielle Smith is probably the politician 1.00

00:20:24.140 who has the most influence over in America, maybe any influence at all anymore, right?

00:20:28.580 And I think she said it herself very recently, kind of no matter how the Eastern media seeks to twist,

00:20:33.920 that Albertans don't really want anything outside of really standing as equal partners in Canada,

00:20:38.740 not being treated as second-class citizens. 0.99

00:20:40.380 There have been a ton of articles recently that talk about how anybody who has a conservative ideology is in favor of separatism is, to put it lightly, an idiot. 0.99

00:20:48.940 And I think that, in a way, is this underlying problem in Canada. 0.97

00:20:52.580 It's not that, let's say, conservatism is a competing ethos or ideology.

00:20:57.540 It's something that's become necessary to eradicate and a threat to all democracy, according to progressives.

00:21:03.620 so kind of turning that uh you know farther back to what you mentioned earlier that i like how you

00:21:09.200 put it the tale of two trudeaus i mean canada's two largest eruptions of independence movements

00:21:14.660 historically have been back when pierre was in both in alberta and quebec there were serious

00:21:19.280 issues going on and justin trudeau has written off into the sunset with a pop star but it was

00:21:25.400 10 years of his leadership that really has exacerbated the independence movement to where

00:21:30.520 it is and something both did was really try to change the social structure of the country they

00:21:36.560 really went after the identity uh particularly justin i think later where your land acknowledgements

00:21:43.200 and and uh constant pandering to others saying we should look at our shoes we should be ashamed

00:21:47.340 of ourselves as a country and there shouldn't be pride and we're a post-national state and then of

00:21:52.500 course he takes off when the consequences of 10 years of that sort of attitude come about which

00:21:56.780 is a country that no longer feels united. Yeah, no, absolutely. I think that the

00:22:01.420 overmodeling majority of Canadians would be unable to even say what it is to be Canadian 0.97

00:22:05.300 outside of non-American, and that's a problem. I think with regards to Trudeau Jr., what you saw

00:22:11.500 really was this modern advent of identity politics where identities rather than actions became right

00:22:17.720 and wrong. And you could say that that really has led to a plethora of really the outbreaks,

00:22:24.600 the downgradings the the collapse of canadian society that we've seen um even let's say what

00:22:29.880 happened in tumblr recently um it reeks to me of someone who had become hopeless thought perhaps

00:22:35.320 the way like the last way to let's say change their lot in life was to change their identity

00:22:39.160 because that's what they were fed for their entire life uh i think ostensibly even by their parents

00:22:44.440 and when they did that they did change their identity and they still felt the same way they

00:22:48.840 had nothing left but to do uh than to really abort themselves and everybody else and i do very much 0.60

00:22:54.200 thinking it is an inevitable result and product of these hyper left-wing politics that have been

00:22:58.760 forced and imposed upon canadian society well that's it i mean personal pride you can't do well

00:23:05.480 for yourself if you're told your whole life you should be ashamed of something or or you know

00:23:09.560 actions that were outside of your control uh but i mean getting back to the independence aspect of

00:23:14.600 it so with this mess which has been created by the past two trudeaus uh you know by a number of 0.99

00:23:19.960 events where do you think because i want to ask you from somebody outside of alberta

00:23:25.480 you know mark carney's going to be the prime minister for some time presumably this is

00:23:29.400 something he has to deal with somehow how and what should a prime minister try to do

00:23:35.240 to quell discontent in alberta and or quebec um i i think to be honest it's too far gone to kind of

00:23:41.960 quell it let's say i think that in a way he has to sit back at this point and and let the river

00:23:46.280 see its course. I think that it's a little bit too much for Mark Carney to undo a decade of

00:23:53.320 liberal oppression, like I was saying, in just such a short amount of time. And I don't really

00:23:57.300 think he's really the man to do it. I don't think in a way he has any great desire to do it outside

00:24:02.320 of perhaps the economic ramifications. I think that, in fact, perhaps Canada's own relationship

00:24:09.700 with America is going to deteriorate on the back of it as well. Because, I mean, Carney himself

00:24:14.660 has antagonized Trump. The liberals have antagonized Trump. I mean, they misappropriated

00:24:18.860 Gordie Howe's phrase, elbows up, in order to do it. I think with Alberta leaving, the U.S. itself

00:24:23.900 doesn't really have any great impetus to continue the relationship that it even currently has with

00:24:29.240 Canada. Yeah, so I'll give a little credit to Kearney, and I don't give much to liberals often.

00:24:36.380 I haven't seen him go out of his way to inflame Alberta, at least. He doesn't do anything to fix

00:24:41.200 anything and as you said maybe there's nothing he can do but at least he hasn't been provocative

00:24:45.300 he hasn't been insulting as we've seen with out of Trudeau or even Kretchen a bit in the past

00:24:50.320 and we're certainly seeing out of Doug Ford and David Eby uh some some people I you know I would

00:24:57.020 put out to others if they don't understand if you aren't in Alberta or when you've got a domestic

00:25:01.540 issue going on you're only going to get more angry when somebody from outside wags their finger at

00:25:06.460 you and calls you names and does things uh maybe as a role of leadership there's not much carny

00:25:11.360 could do but you know maybe you could pull eb and forward aside and say hey guys you know you

00:25:15.320 aren't helping things right now you'd hope so right i think that a lot of data is confirmed

00:25:20.260 exactly what we're talking about and it's in a way unavoidable i mean the democracy index itself

00:25:24.760 has confirmed that tensions between the liberal federal government and the conservative uh

00:25:28.560 provinces are now one of the biggest risks to canada's political stability overall so you

00:25:32.700 really would hope that you take these people aside and say hey maybe don't make it worse right

00:25:36.600 you would hope uh and being out east i mean what are some of the attitudes you're hearing out there

00:25:44.240 like from the time i've spent out there which admittedly hasn't been a whole lot though i've

00:25:47.660 gone occasionally wasn't so much that there's a anybody in the east has a beef with the west

00:25:51.760 most often they just don't even really think about the west it's an indifference if anything

00:25:55.760 uh but it's certainly many the independence move is making a lot of national news now and start

00:26:02.440 spreading a lot of national discussion how do you feel that people on the ground out in ontario

00:26:06.680 quebec are are reacting to this or are they starting to think about it more well so funny

00:26:10.940 enough in quebec especially amongst the youth and this is kind of where i i definitely differentiate

00:26:15.100 between different demographics right but in quebec uh the the youth overwhelmingly actually

00:26:20.160 support uh uh separatism let's say they're they're leaning towards it something they want to produce

00:26:25.000 they want to pursue over in quebec themselves right and so i think that in the media what you're

00:26:29.320 going to be hearing out east and almost everywhere is that uh there's no support for the independence 0.98

00:26:33.980 movement uh they think that albertans are treasonous etc um they're they're foolish and

00:26:37.980 all these things um but i think that in reality it's not just the relationship between alberta 0.54

00:26:43.240 and the federal government that's deteriorated over the past 10 years the relationship between

00:26:46.580 countless provinces so many provinces deteriorated um over the past 10 years and so there there are

00:26:52.420 huge sectors of each province that do understand exactly where alberta is coming from i think

00:26:57.460 particularly amongst canada's youth and and amongst conservatives i think it goes without saying but i

00:27:01.620 think that these people who have had their future robbed and almost eradicated out from under them

00:27:05.780 again canada's youth um understand exactly where alberta's coming from i think it was at the outset

00:27:11.460 of the last election actually almost half of canada's youth were uh in favor of annexation

00:27:16.980 by the us of becoming some kind of territory of the us um because they saw no future here and i

00:27:21.700 think that's concerning essentially half of canada's future saw no future in canada and

00:27:26.180 And it's something that I think the Liberal government is going to have to contend with, regardless of what happens in Alberta.

00:27:31.440 Well, most definitely. And that's a change from the independence movement I knew from 20 years ago when I was involved with it.

00:27:37.480 It was particularly the older generation that was behind it.

00:27:40.540 And there's still a strong segment of older people active and involved.

00:27:43.900 But when we look at the polls and we drill down in Alberta as well, it's younger people driving this. 0.86

00:27:48.900 And that's something I think, you know, I'm trying to play some devil's advocate for the guys who those who oppose the independence movement.

00:27:55.640 they should be cognizant of. Find out what's got them discontent and address that then. As you said,

00:28:01.240 they aren't seeing a good future. They aren't seeing a hope. They aren't seeing an ability to

00:28:04.280 buy a home or get a good career. And if that doesn't change, they're going to pursue more

00:28:09.460 radical means of change and independence offers them that. Oh, absolutely. And I think it's part

00:28:14.260 of this broader thing that we're seeing right now that conservatives have to be a little bit

00:28:17.080 cautious of and kind of seeding this discourse where we hear in a lot of ways, especially here

00:28:22.000 in Canada that conservatism is dying out. There's very little support for it. Religious ideology

00:28:27.240 along with it, all conservative religious ideologies being eradicated. It's simply not

00:28:33.040 true, right? And I think that in a lot of ways, conservatives here in Canada need to be careful

00:28:36.860 to not, let's say, let the tail wag the dog, so to speak, and to kind of cede this discourse and

00:28:41.080 capitulate to it. Because especially if you speak to younger people in Canada, there's this huge

00:28:45.260 desire for structure. And it is something that conservative ideology and conservative values

00:28:50.560 do offer very uniquely to young people, right?

00:28:53.160 It's something that liberal ideology,

00:28:55.320 leftist ideology nowadays actually abhors.

00:28:57.740 And so it's something that I do think

00:28:58.960 that we as conservatives need to lean into

00:29:00.980 is that we do offer a structure and a future

00:29:03.940 and some kind of good

00:29:05.260 that is this light at the end of the tunnel.

00:29:07.700 And I think that by leaning into that

00:29:09.100 as conservatives here in Canada,

00:29:11.120 that's how we start to be able

00:29:12.540 to really speak to the youth again.

00:29:14.500 And I think that in a lot of ways,

00:29:15.600 that's what Alberta's secession, 1.00

00:29:17.360 its independence movement really offers, a future.

00:29:21.160 Well, it's certainly a lot of food for thought for hopefully a lot of people thinking about it.

00:29:25.600 I, you know, a lot of what I'm getting at is as well, Alberta's discontent's been there for a long time,

00:29:31.060 but now the nation's sitting up and paying attention, whether or not they're productively going to react to it, we'll see.

00:29:36.940 I guess that'll be the fodder for the next time I have you on to discuss things.

00:29:39.640 I mean, this year is going to unfold with this subject being on top, obviously, for months and months as a referendum approaches.

00:29:46.240 And I look forward to your views on it and others as we work on this,

00:29:50.320 Because, I mean, it's a fascinating time to be alive, if nothing else, as a political weenie as we are.

00:29:55.400 So, before I let you go, where are people going to find your work?

00:29:59.280 I mean, we know you write columns within the Western Standard, but you're prolific on social media and elsewhere.

00:30:03.600 Where can people get your stuff, William?

00:30:05.420 Yeah, thank you so much.

00:30:06.400 I guess we want to stay up to date on my work and say hi, reach out about working together, anything at all.

00:30:10.400 You guys can follow me on Twitter.

00:30:12.220 My handle is at Will Barclay PCBG.

00:30:15.340 I guess that's Twitter or X nowadays, but the handle is at Will Barclay PCBG.

00:30:19.560 Like you said, I'm also a national columnist with everybody at the Western Standard,

00:30:23.200 and I've actually just debuted a column in the American Spectator.

00:30:25.960 So, yeah, please feel free to check out my work and say hi.

00:30:28.340 I'd love to meet and chat with everyone.

00:30:31.260 Right on.

00:30:31.680 Well, thanks for your column there, William, and thanks for your time today.

00:30:35.000 I'm sure we will be talking again soon.

00:30:36.840 There's just so much to cover right now.

00:30:39.100 Thank you so much for having me.

00:30:40.160 It's always a pleasure.

00:30:41.620 Great.

00:30:41.900 Thanks.

00:30:42.440 So one more time, folks.

00:30:43.600 Yeah, look it up.

00:30:44.380 William Barclay, and you can see his stuff out there,

00:30:47.300 And he's getting columns published in other national publications because, as you see, a nuanced conversation.

00:30:54.080 We got to watch ourselves. You know, we we can be at risk of an echo chamber.

00:30:57.220 I'm an Alberta guy. I can certainly speak to a lot of things within the independence movement in Alberta.

00:31:01.540 But I want to see how people in the other parts of the country are thinking about.

00:31:05.500 I know there's a lot of people saying, I'm tired of listening to people in the other parts of the country.

00:31:08.980 I understand that. But in the broader scheme of things, getting a little more perspective from there,

00:31:14.220 as you can see will is very reasoned and and looking at things you know from a a reasonable

00:31:20.060 perspective i think it kind of helps both sides in a sense uh my side is of course on the independence

00:31:26.860 leaning thing uh see what else is going on out in the world before i get on to tumblr ridge a little

00:31:31.660 more uh the olympics are happening i i i don't know i i some people love watching it i used to

00:31:37.900 you know but like i was evolved you know it's showing my age i guess but you know 30 years ago

00:31:45.340 when the olympics were on whether it was summer or winter everybody set aside all their time to

00:31:49.820 watch it you had of course your limited channels on television that's where you were going to watch

00:31:53.260 it maybe you were watching at bizarre times because of the time changes depending on where

00:31:56.540 the events were being held but it was a huge affair i mean people were just locked onto it

00:32:01.740 it for weeks and i don't think that's quite there anymore uh maybe i'm wrong you know you can you

00:32:08.100 guys can correct me in the comments and so on but it's it's just turned into such a showy affair i

00:32:14.760 guess and such and and lost the the focus on athleticism i think uh i really hope the canadian

00:32:21.320 athletes do well i mean i'm an independent supporter but i still want to see those athletes

00:32:24.300 do great i i look forward to watching some of it and things but i mean look at some of the other

00:32:29.280 here's an example of you know okay you get sponsorship your fashion if those have seen

00:32:32.800 those lululemon outfits that those poor athletes had to wear those weird giant cloak jackets and

00:32:39.280 so on like this is supposed to be athletics not ugly fashion shows embarrass those guys when they

00:32:44.960 had to walk out there and gals would bring that junk and it really does make canada look all the

00:32:50.960 the stranger you know i mean that's part of it that's when the countries all get to get on the

00:32:54.240 world stage that's one of the things i guess with the olympics it's good for smaller countries to

00:32:58.320 stand out if they have a an athlete or a number of athletes who can manage to break out of the

00:33:03.440 pack and and really uh grab the attention of the world but if the attention is on something as 0.98

00:33:08.560 stupid as an ugly outfit it hasn't done canada any favors uh let's see yeah here's another one 0.99

00:33:18.640 and this is one of the things uh you know getting back to the elbows up getting to the carny 1.00

00:33:22.320 you guys have probably heard a bit of that that's been going on already uh some weirdness

00:33:28.000 how do you deal with trump you know he's he's just a a figure all onto his own you can't predict him

00:33:35.280 you can't cope with you can't deal with him and these are his lines with the bridge between

00:33:40.320 ontario and michigan that's been going on for years it's been billions of dollars it's a huge

00:33:43.920 trade route both ways and he said canada's building a massive bridge between ontario and michigan

00:33:49.200 uh he said they own both canada and the united states side and of course built it with no u.s

00:33:53.440 content well that's because canada spent all the money to build it he wanted to kick in on half i

00:33:58.160 guess something could have been arranged the bottom line is uh it was built he says president

00:34:03.220 barack hussein obama stupidly gave them a waiver so they could get around the buy american act

00:34:07.540 he says i will not allow the bridge to open with the united states until it's fully compensated 0.78

00:34:12.340 for everything we've given them you know i mean blah blah blah blah blah like guys i know i got

00:34:17.180 lot of trump fans on my my feed are good on you and that's fine but it's ridiculous it's tiresome

00:34:23.860 the trade on that bridge in other areas and pipelines and so on benefits both the united

00:34:30.560 states and canada massively i understand push and pull i understand uh negotiation but nobody's 0.61

00:34:39.560 winning out of this crap nobody's winning out of the tariffs we got to get out of this somehow i

00:34:43.580 I don't know how or when. 0.98

00:34:45.220 And this is one of the areas, again, where I give Karni a little bit of a pass

00:34:50.540 just because who on earth can deal with Trump?

00:34:54.980 You don't know day to day, week to week what he's going to do.

00:34:57.400 But we're talking about a bridge that has billions and billions and billions

00:34:59.920 of traffic going both ways on it, commercial traffic.

00:35:04.100 And if it suddenly gets thrown in the air, everybody can get screwed.

00:35:06.880 Layoffs can happen on both sides of the border.

00:35:08.440 And over what?

00:35:09.120 Because it got approved under Obama and he's still heady about it?

00:35:11.960 I don't know.

00:35:13.580 We got a lot to work on.

00:35:16.400 Here's another beauty. 0.90

00:35:17.420 Here's one of the areas where you have a difficulty getting a bride going in Canada. 0.75

00:35:21.600 This was in the Toronto Sun.

00:35:22.760 You give credit.

00:35:23.940 Non-citizen is the term they're using.

00:35:25.740 In other words, an immigrant. 0.99

00:35:27.300 In Brampton, which has got no shortage of non-citizens. 1.00

00:35:31.760 It's a serial rapist. 1.00

00:35:33.900 Serial. 1.00

00:35:34.540 Like many, many, many, many rapes of children.

00:35:37.440 13-year-old, as a matter of fact, he impregnated her and kept getting bail repeatedly and thrown

00:35:42.380 back in and getting bail and thrown back in why the hell is he still in the country what does it 0.76

00:35:48.880 take if canada can't deport a serial child rapist who can we deport it's bad enough we got a number

00:35:56.800 of the people from let's say it low trust societies who are taking advantage of food

00:36:01.200 banks and subsidized housing and a whole number of things because if they see items they grab

00:36:07.220 it's different it's cultural differences between some people and those change but we got to get 0.92

00:36:12.100 realistic with some things but to the point where we can't even get rid of a child rapist

00:36:17.180 how is the country supposed to feel proud how are we supposed to see a good future in the country

00:36:23.200 when this nation is so broken that it can't control who lives there and who doesn't to the

00:36:31.720 point of one of the most odious characters you could possibly have within your borders

00:36:36.460 i want no part of a country that will do that i don't want to be a country that's a haven for 0.84

00:36:41.040 child rapists. A country that stares at its shoes has tied itself in progressive knots over its

00:36:46.720 crappy justice system with so many steps and levels to try and deport somebody when this

00:36:52.520 is such a cut and dry case. Get him the hell out of there. And Canada can't do it. 0.67

00:36:59.300 Raping 13-year-olds. And it's just one, right? How many of those cases do we keep seeing? 0.95

00:37:05.060 Repeat offenders, repeat offenders, repeat offenders, and judges actually giving them

00:37:09.500 reduced sentences. And they're usually rapists. That seems to be their crime of choice, by the

00:37:13.760 way, guys. Reduce sentences so that they don't have to face deportation. Screw that. Screw that.

00:37:21.120 You know what? If you came to Canada and you have anything more than a parking ticket,

00:37:24.960 you should get the hell out. You can't behave yourself that long. You can't be a safe,

00:37:30.240 productive citizen that long. Get out. We don't need you. There's a whole world of people who

00:37:35.220 understand that if you're going to a new home you treat it with respect you follow the laws there

00:37:41.300 we don't do that we've got our cultural mosaic to think of we got our post-national state thank

00:37:46.500 you justin trudeau that you came up with and now we've seen the final consequence to the point

00:37:52.180 of child rapists still within our country that we can't get rid of uh getting on to

00:37:58.820 direct democracy and independence in alberta uh see there's a citizens initiative petition this

00:38:06.100 is one of the great things that the left jumped on all sorts of because you know premier smith

00:38:09.860 brought in director democracy measures or at least she fixed the ones that jason kenny put in which

00:38:14.180 were crap and uh it's allowed though they jumped on and said well we're gonna use it all over the

00:38:20.260 place and fight back against smith with it so they started one to ban public funding to alberta's 0.97

00:38:25.780 private schools. Yes, this is it. Because most of these things you see were union spawned.

00:38:30.340 Let's not beat around that bush. They were union spawned. They denied that they were union spawned.

00:38:34.200 It was teachers having a temper tantrum. You got to think of where the unions went.

00:38:38.720 The unions used to be labor unions, lunchbox carrying workers 0.98

00:38:41.700 who needed better conditions. Now they're civil servants and teachers.

00:38:45.920 Those are the powerful ones. The blue haired teachers locked in

00:38:49.860 progressivism who've never lived in the world of reality probably took on teaching because

00:38:53.720 their liberal arts degree wasn't getting them any work aside from being a barista and now they're

00:38:57.760 embittered and sucking in hundreds of thousands of dollars and yes it's in Alberta they're making

00:39:01.520 well over a hundred thousand a year and turning down 12% raises and then upset when that was

00:39:08.760 imposed upon them when they held Alberta's children hostage so they decided to use the

00:39:13.720 direct democracy system to get back at Daniel Smith and their petition fell short fully short

00:39:21.060 They basically didn't even get half of the signatures they needed, or maybe a little more than half of what they needed, and it died.

00:39:26.780 Meanwhile, the independence petition is roaring out of the gates.

00:39:29.700 The other thing they did was started recall petitions against over 20-some MLAs sitting in the legislature and legacy media.

00:39:40.260 Oh boy, oh boy, Daniel's in trouble.

00:39:42.180 They're falling like matchsticks.

00:39:43.580 They're not even close.

00:39:44.780 The one against Angela Pitt, I think, came in at 16% of what they needed.

00:39:48.900 So I just want to celebrate that loss.

00:39:50.200 The direct democracy is working because enough Albertans, hundreds and hundreds of thousands of Albertans, want an independence referendum.

00:39:59.140 But there's not that many who want to ban funding to private schools.

00:40:04.780 Because actually, when you look at the first funding per student, the private schools save the system money.

00:40:10.480 The beef isn't equity, as they always like to put it.

00:40:14.120 Their beef is that these schools are non-union.

00:40:17.340 Their beef is that teachers are paid on merit at some of these private schools.

00:40:21.420 In fact, some of them are probably making more than those already very well compensated teachers in public schools.

00:40:28.120 Oh, well, too bad because they pay by the individual, not the other.

00:40:32.200 So, guys, if that appetite was there, I guess you would have gotten your petition through, wouldn't you?

00:40:36.880 But you didn't. You didn't.

00:40:39.820 All right. So we're going to talk a lot more about the shooting in Tumblr Ridge.

00:40:44.860 you know that's definitely going to be the subject for a while i guess we got to watch

00:40:48.960 the knee-jerk reactions and it's going to happen on left and right there's going to be people

00:40:52.900 vilifying the whole trans community way too much over this because it wasn't the whole 0.99

00:40:57.840 trans community who did it it was one sick sick man young man who identified as trans 1.00

00:41:03.620 bear that in mind when you're getting upset with it think about it's not the entire firearm 0.94

00:41:08.880 community who did this either and the left is going to say that they're going to try and use

00:41:11.920 this is an excuse to ban firearms from law abiding citizens they do every time there's a shooting

00:41:16.600 they're going to say that your hunting rifles should be banned and your recreational shooting

00:41:22.140 rifles should be banned and your other firearms should be taken away stolen by the government

00:41:27.820 so before you try to label everybody in the trans community because of this just kind of keep that

00:41:33.920 in mind that it's just as unfair as labeling everybody in the firearm community but there's

00:41:39.400 discussions to be had a person identifying as trans most often is a kid who's acting out

00:41:47.080 a kid who's lost hope uh william kind of touched upon that a little week there's a different

00:41:52.960 discussion about that troubled kids they've always grabbed onto something generation after

00:41:58.260 generation we've known that you see any more goth kids anymore punk you know with uh punk kids with

00:42:05.020 you know safety pins through their ears and and uh mohawk haircuts you see them occasionally i

00:42:11.180 guess you know people trying to play retro emo kids greasers from the 50s look young people

00:42:17.880 embrace things to if they were troubled to try and draw attention to themselves whatever their

00:42:24.120 beefs may be trouble at home mental health issues all sorts of things lots of things and they came

00:42:29.240 and went with different trends the thing was always the same it was a troubled kid

00:42:32.740 but if a kid's that troubled with mental health issues unfortunately it can manifest in the worst

00:42:38.580 possible way later on down the road which is what happened in tumblr ridge and it would happen with

00:42:42.360 some of those other trans shooters and there's been a number of them in the states now it's not 0.99

00:42:47.020 a matter of the trans aspect it's a matter that the trans should be a flag with some of them 0.97

00:42:50.620 to make it realize this kid has got something going on and there's some problems to be addressed

00:42:55.600 that's why there's so many more trans kids now than there had been 20 years ago 0.92

00:42:59.400 because most of them aren't really trans they're just kids who want to get attention yeah you can 0.98

00:43:03.960 all get upset with me as much as you like there are real trans people people have turned their

00:43:07.920 whole lives around to try and live as a different gender and if they're adults i hope it works for 1.00

00:43:14.000 you great go ahead with it but all this non-binary bullcrap and uh the ones in school and the bulk 1.00

00:43:20.880 of them and all that those are just kids riding a trend and finding another way to seek attention

00:43:25.820 and act out so just as you saw the kid dressed all in black goth and everything else and hanging

00:43:32.940 out with all the rest depressed kids 20 years ago didn't mean that that kid was going to get violent

00:43:38.420 or uh necessarily harm people i think the columbine kids were goth or something too it could be wrong

00:43:44.760 uh but it's a flag that the kid's experiencing something and not doing well with it right now

00:43:51.380 it's trans so should we ban every trans kid of course not but pay a little closer attention to 0.98

00:43:56.700 it and it's already starting to fade anyways we've seen some of those numbers coming the kid you know

00:44:00.300 that's kids right well that was so five years ago two years ago whatever it's a factor in the

00:44:07.360 shooting that happened in tumblr but it's not the only factor we should ask questions on why this

00:44:12.500 kid had access to the firearms they did we don't even know what firearms were used yet

00:44:15.740 what other precursors were there, what

00:44:18.940 happened, what drove this. Trans is just 1.00

00:44:21.860 one part of it. We can't pretend it's not a part and say

00:44:24.920 nothing about it, but let's not get too obsessed about

00:44:27.800 that in itself as well. This is something bigger than that

00:44:30.300 and terrible. Again, you just

00:44:32.820 can't imagine. You just send your kid to school and they get

00:44:36.760 slaughtered. It's awful.

00:44:40.200 So for those who are into prayer,

00:44:42.820 by all means pray for those survivors and I hope they can come through

00:44:45.720 this and uh well let's just hope we see less and less of this we do have to discuss it we have to

00:44:51.840 dissect it these things aren't 100 preventable but there's got to be some things we can do

00:44:56.340 to reduce having to see any more of this nobody wants to see this all right that's it for today

00:45:02.360 we're going to break that down a little more with the pipeline tonight by the way uh where nigel 0.83

00:45:06.200 derek dave and i'll break down some more issues and things that are going on and i'll be back in

00:45:10.260 studio in Alberta next week. So thank you for tuning into the last of my desert series today,

00:45:16.060 guys, and I will catch you all on the next one.

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Western Standard - February 12, 2026

It’s time to end all race-based policies

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