Western Standard - August 20, 2026


Jason Arday was the tragic victim of his own BS


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00:00:00.000 Good day.
00:00:28.920 Welcome to the Cory Morgan Show.
00:00:31.940 Still in summer, hanging in there.
00:00:34.600 It's nice.
00:00:35.100 I've got to maintain my tan for a little longer.
00:00:37.560 Lots going on out there despite the summer.
00:00:39.700 Lots of news.
00:00:40.260 It's going to be a good show.
00:00:41.160 I've got Preston Manning coming on in a little while.
00:00:43.980 That'll be an interesting discussion.
00:00:45.520 He's got another assembly scheduled.
00:00:47.700 Say another.
00:00:48.400 He held a big one back in 1987, which founded the Reform Party.
00:00:51.920 A bit of a gap between these assemblies, but interesting nonetheless.
00:00:55.920 uh, both kind of came on the tail end of Trudeau's and, uh, both were, well, Western alienation was
00:01:02.860 at its height. So we'll see what he's trying to accomplish this time around. Good to see some of
00:01:07.680 you guys in the comments scroll already. Yes. Uh, you know, it is interactive. Get those comments,
00:01:12.020 questions up there. I do see them all. Don't necessarily read them all out because it's a
00:01:16.200 busy show and have discussions with each other. Just, you know, follow that rule. Try to remain
00:01:20.140 somewhat civil with each other. Save the vitriol for X. That's where it belongs and it can be fun
00:01:24.800 on there. All right, what I'm going to get ranting about. The attack on the media in the UK, you know,
00:01:30.460 I mean, the media earns a lot of attacks at times, but this is getting crazy. So let's talk about,
00:01:34.640 if you aren't familiar with it, the death of Jason Arday. And it was a tragic end to a bizarre tale.
00:01:39.060 The story hasn't, story hasn't ended though, as extreme leftists and race hustlers are
00:01:43.220 scrambling to canonize a man through rewriting the history of him and blaming media for driving
00:01:48.480 him to suicide. If they truly respected Arday, they'd let him rest in peace and be law, lobbying
00:01:53.860 for stronger mental health supports. Arday was no martyr or victim. He was a pathological liar
00:01:59.360 whose rise to prominence was facilitated by an ideological obsession with DEI in educational 0.97
00:02:04.660 institutions, which ultimately put him into an untenable position, and that led to his suicide. 0.75
00:02:10.320 The rise of Jason Arday was a dream come true for racial equity advocates. It was the story of a
00:02:15.480 young man who overcame numerous barriers to ultimately become the University of Cambridge's
00:02:20.520 youngest black professor in history.
00:02:23.120 Ardei was apparently non-verbal until the age of 11,
00:02:26.260 unable to read until the age of 18,
00:02:28.300 and overcame autism, epilepsy, and a list of other challenges,
00:02:32.420 according to him, and he earned his PhD
00:02:34.380 to climb the academic ranks with extraordinary speed.
00:02:38.120 He became a poster child as an advocate on racism
00:02:41.360 in higher education and appeared in the media
00:02:43.260 and cultivated an image of inspirational resilience. 1.00
00:02:46.780 Problem was, it was all bullshit. 0.91
00:02:48.900 Evidence surfaced of chronic plagiarism in R.A.'s work beginning with his doctoral thesis in 2015 and continuing from there. 0.97
00:02:55.740 Once smoke started to rise, media outlets applied more scrutiny to R.A.'s claims and found a mountain of fabrication.
00:03:02.400 Reporting by The Telegraph, The Times, The Guardian and others documented further problems.
00:03:06.400 R.A. duplicated or recycled interview material across papers that suggested possible fabrication of data.
00:03:13.120 Claims of visiting professorships and honorary appointments that institutions denied ever existed
00:03:21.000 and embellishments or contradictions in the autobiographical details that had helped fuel his public profile.
00:03:27.460 It was hard to find truths from the man, to put it bluntly.
00:03:30.200 Ultimately, Cambridge announced an investigation at the beginning of August
00:03:33.500 and sadly, Arday took his own life shortly afterwards.
00:03:36.820 The carefully crafted identity Arday created made him a hero and an inspirational figure for many people.
00:03:41.620 The disappointment on discovering his disingenuity must have been crushing,
00:03:46.300 but rather than accept the reality that he was a con artist rather than an academic wonder,
00:03:49.940 some activists are trying to paint him as a man who was unfairly torn down by the media.
00:03:55.040 History is rife with examples of racial discrimination against black people.
00:03:58.820 That doesn't mean every adverse outcome that lands upon a black person, though, is the result of racism.
00:04:04.080 Race hustlers are lining up to take advantage of our day's death to portray him as a victim.
00:04:08.180 One article, of course, went straight to the punch and claimed it was a modern-day lynching by the media.
00:04:12.480 And it's a vile comparison considering what real lynchings are all about.
00:04:16.020 Ardé himself was the architect of his own demise.
00:04:19.540 He built a career upon lies, and eventually they caught up with him.
00:04:22.800 The stress must have been incredible as he saw his inevitable downfall approaching. 0.99
00:04:26.440 I mean, Ardé wasn't an honest man, but he wasn't a stupid man. 0.94
00:04:29.700 He knew the gig was up. 0.96
00:04:31.380 It's still terrible that he chose to end his own life at 41 rather than live with the consequences of his actions,
00:04:35.840 but that doesn't undo his actions.
00:04:37.840 If any blame for our day's situation is to land beyond his own actions,
00:04:41.020 it's with the academic institutions that facilitated his falsehoods.
00:04:44.140 In their zeal to raise a black man to the highest levels of academia,
00:04:47.540 universities barely offered cursory examination of his credentials.
00:04:51.680 By elevating him so rapidly and so publicly,
00:04:54.320 Cambridge and the broader academic culture that celebrated the hire
00:04:57.320 created the conditions for the later scrutiny.
00:05:00.460 If media could so quickly cut through the web of lies our day had spun,
00:05:03.880 Cambridge should have been able to do so long ago as well.
00:05:06.040 But they purposely blinded themselves for putting DEI goals ahead of scrutiny of credentials.
00:05:11.040 They put Arday into a position where his fall would be inevitable, and it didn't take long before it happened.
00:05:15.380 A quieter career at a less visible institution might never have attracted the same level of attention.
00:05:21.420 Arday was skilled in the art of BS, and he could have probably found tenure in a different university until he retired, but his ambition surpassed his sense.
00:05:29.140 The media in the UK did its job.
00:05:30.780 They investigated and exposed a man who was improperly placed into a high role in one of the most prominent universities in the world.
00:05:37.720 Was media supposed to ignore this because he happened to be black?
00:05:40.720 Some activists seem to think so.
00:05:42.540 In fact, there's even a petition calling for the government of the UK to impose a law limiting how many articles the media might be allowed to write on any one individual over a period of time.
00:05:50.260 The petition's absurd, but then so is the premise of most DEI-inspired policies, and that hasn't stopped the proliferation of them.
00:05:56.560 There are many figures who have overcome challenges and who are worthy of the admiration of citizens.
00:06:01.660 Their accomplishment should be celebrated and should be used to inspire others in difficult situations.
00:06:06.440 But R.D. was not one of those figures.
00:06:08.400 And the efforts to posthumously turn him into a victim don't do him or anybody else any favors.
00:06:14.980 So, hey, guys, this is one time.
00:06:16.540 Lay off the media.
00:06:17.600 They didn't do anything wrong.
00:06:19.820 You know anything wrong in media lately, Dave?
00:06:21.700 Not that I'm aware of.
00:06:22.860 Oh, okay.
00:06:23.280 Well, that's good.
00:06:23.680 So is R.D.'s Tombstone going to read Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire? 0.84
00:06:27.360 It'll probably be misspelled if it's left to his compatriots to do it.
00:06:30.840 I think one of his claims was he ran six marathons and six days with broken legs.
00:06:36.360 Just all sorts of, I mean, again, it is sad that the man died.
00:06:41.580 I mean, he had mental health issues, obviously, but, you know, for them to turn this around,
00:06:46.260 the protests that are happening and the visuals, the man was a con artist. 0.95
00:06:49.580 He was an insult to all, actually, of the minorities who really did work their asses off.
00:06:53.680 to get into positions like that we've talked a lot about dei in the canadian universities 0.99
00:06:58.960 and some of the messes that they're creating but you know to think that it would happen at such an
00:07:03.120 institute like cambridge cambridge yeah it's not reddier college no no exactly i think a lot of
00:07:08.240 blame lies with them and you're right they were in such a hurry to promote this guy and say hey
00:07:13.600 look at what we're doing we're getting to have a black professor that they just lost lost common 0.85
00:07:19.280 sense and it's also that that racism of low expectations eventually i'm certain a black 0.78
00:07:25.200 individual man or woman is going to rise to that role but people will look at it
00:07:29.280 you know wondering well was it dei or was this person genuinely qualified to go where they would
00:07:34.480 i mean i would hope cambridge learned from this but it's as i said it causes damage to the people
00:07:39.240 who really did work their butts off for their positions oxford is way better because my son
00:07:44.080 went there so i'm not well that's worthy of bragging about without no kidding uh so the news
00:07:51.040 today cory we've been uh plowing through uh the uh alberta prosperity projects uh draft constitution
00:07:58.020 our legislature reporter will vassar he's come up with some interesting stuff on how the government
00:08:04.560 would work in a independent alberta uh they would base their president in calgary that could be you
00:08:12.800 I'm not applying for the job, but who knows?
00:08:15.220 Vice President, also in Calgary.
00:08:18.140 Senators, which is more kind of a job that you would like because you don't have to do anything.
00:08:23.260 Yeah, just kind of show around.
00:08:24.900 But, yeah, that's in Red Deer.
00:08:27.200 So, I mean, what do you do?
00:08:29.000 It's a pretty big sacrifice.
00:08:30.140 I mean, it's Red Deer.
00:08:30.960 You got that donut thing on the highway, though.
00:08:34.540 Oh, yeah, the mill there on Gasoline Alley.
00:08:36.800 I mean, that's a draw.
00:08:37.700 I know you don't have a legal background, but you could be appointed to the Supreme Court.
00:08:43.640 But then you'd have to live in Grand Prairie, because that's where it's going to be based.
00:08:48.180 And the Auditor General and the Attorney General, I think we can rule you out of those two.
00:08:53.140 They're going to be based in Lloyd Minster, but on the Alberta side.
00:08:57.800 So they're spreading this all around, right?
00:08:59.680 It's kind of creative, you know.
00:09:00.760 It sounds a little odd when you first hear it, but I don't know if it's necessarily bad.
00:09:04.160 But, you know, having a government all centered in one spot, look at Edmonton.
00:09:08.340 I mean, part of the reason also that Edmonton is, you know, unionized and so left-wing
00:09:13.960 is because all our civil servants are packed into that one spot.
00:09:17.420 Maybe sprinkling them around a little more would reduce those concentrations that cause problems.
00:09:21.640 Yeah, apparently the only other country that does this is South Africa.
00:09:25.780 So I'm not sure that's...
00:09:26.580 They've always liked separating in South Africa, but not necessarily in the best ways.
00:09:30.380 And necklacing and stuff like that.
00:09:31.700 So, you know, it might not be a good thing to follow, a good model to follow.
00:09:37.540 Well, I haven't seen them collecting tires yet, so that's a good thing.
00:09:40.960 We've got Premier Daniel Smith saying if the referendum, if the question of do you want to have a referendum to have a referendum, if it passes, then she's aiming at spring of 2027 to hold the binding referendum.
00:09:56.860 She wants it over and done with before the next election.
00:09:59.900 So that would be a quick turnaround, wouldn't it?
00:10:05.720 Alex, our BC reporter, has got part two of the British Columbia Teachers Association racism training.
00:10:13.480 Yeah, very well worth reading.
00:10:15.020 Very well worth reading.
00:10:16.500 He went undercover posing as a teacher and took the course.
00:10:22.020 And what they're telling these teachers is just shocking, really shocking.
00:10:25.780 He's taking one for the team, too.
00:10:27.300 It must have been agonizing sitting through that.
00:10:29.080 I got put through an aboriginal cross-cultural communication course many, many years ago for two days over an episode I had.
00:10:37.620 But either way, I mean, I almost cried sometimes with the political correctness jammed down your throat.
00:10:42.800 And that was decades ago. It must be worse.
00:10:44.440 Yeah, that's got to be worse.
00:10:45.540 Kids in B.C. have no chance if their teachers are following this crap. 1.00
00:10:48.960 No. 0.99
00:10:49.540 I guess we've got to talk the trade deal.
00:10:51.700 Trump came out last night and put a pause on the 50% tariffs
00:10:56.480 and hinted that Keystone Pipeline is back, baby.
00:11:00.900 I think he's got a special personal interest in this
00:11:04.620 because you remember Joe Biden's first day in office.
00:11:07.560 He killed Keystone.
00:11:09.040 So I think Trump is sitting there,
00:11:10.360 oh, Biden killed it, I'm going to resurrect it and save America.
00:11:14.800 Pipelines sure turned into a ping-pong ball of just abuse.
00:11:21.460 I mean, the other thing that people have already asked on that,
00:11:23.320 well, where's the proponent?
00:11:24.280 Because, I mean, American side or Canadian, if you can't feel secure.
00:11:27.820 There is a Calgary company who said they would do it,
00:11:31.020 but, you know, until they get it all figured out
00:11:33.440 and, you know, all the T's cross and the, you know, we don't know.
00:11:38.260 But, you know what, if they get a West,
00:11:40.360 I know you're very hesitant to agree,
00:11:42.620 but if they get a West Coast pipeline and they get a pipeline going south,
00:11:46.240 that's a big blow to the, to not only the Tory party,
00:11:50.340 but the independence party right because the liberals have got all this done not conservatives
00:11:54.380 possibly i guess i mean if that's all it would take to make albertans happy screw freedoms as
00:11:59.460 long as we get a nationalized pipeline or two there you go you're so bitter i know uh and
00:12:05.160 finally a story to get you angry we got a guy in windsor uh who has been arrested for sexually
00:12:11.320 assaulting a couple of kids now the infuriating thing is this he he was released on bail and that
00:12:17.000 was the third time he was on bail and and every time he went on bail he sexually assaulted other
00:12:22.680 kids and he gets arrested and locked up again and freed and uh the same thing happens i mean come on
00:12:28.760 i know i i have that one in my notes i mean the only difference of this one is i'm i imagine
00:12:32.520 there's no deportation talk so he's a citizen you don't know that it's a funny name well it
00:12:38.840 is a name funny name yes but uh just again i mean how many kids have they got molested for maybe
00:12:44.920 Stop letting them out.
00:12:45.860 Is it that bloody complicated?
00:12:47.640 Jails aren't that overcrowded from what I understand.
00:12:49.840 No, actually, I've heard that the federal ones have space.
00:12:52.980 So let's lock them up.
00:12:54.860 Don't hear any disagreement out of me.
00:12:56.440 All right, that's it for me.
00:12:57.800 That's it.
00:12:58.460 All right, well, I'll let you back to that newsroom
00:13:01.520 to cover all these hot and heavy events, and we'll see you on the pipeline
00:13:04.760 when we all crowd around this tiny table. 0.58
00:13:07.140 Yes, you know, get your legs in order for all of us to give our cuddle
00:13:10.580 and talk about the events in the group.
00:13:12.060 You bet.
00:13:12.480 Right on.
00:13:12.820 Thanks, Dave.
00:13:13.200 says our news editor dave naylor and this is where i do like to remind you all the reason
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00:14:18.380 you know top issue certainly for the western standard and has been for a long time is western
00:14:23.900 issues western alienation we're facing a referendum in a couple of months now and um i'm seeing a lot
00:14:31.540 of deja vu in a sense as i i gotta say i i said that in an earlier show i did today with uh western
00:14:38.240 alienations on a high we just finished a term of a trudeau and uh preston manning has taken part
00:14:44.840 in an assembly to look at different means on how to address it well here we are again and
00:14:49.080 and preston manning is is back up and he's got an assembly scheduled uh this fall that sounds
00:14:54.520 very interesting in september uh 19th and 20th and he's he's given us some time to come on and
00:14:59.060 discuss it with us so uh thank you very much for for joining us today mr manning and uh
00:15:05.100 Well, it's interesting times.
00:15:07.400 Well, that's true.
00:15:10.240 Some of these issues have been around for a long time,
00:15:12.720 but this is another kick at the can, so we shall see.
00:15:16.760 We shall see.
00:15:18.480 Well, and, you know, just for those of the younger audience, I guess,
00:15:22.320 you know, the assembly in 1987 in Vancouver,
00:15:25.560 I mean, that led to the formation of the Reform Party,
00:15:27.580 and I'm certain you're not looking to fire up any new political vehicles
00:15:31.600 or parties this time.
00:15:32.800 I mean, it'll be more of an educational format, I gather.
00:15:35.520 Yeah, the idea, Corey, is say it's on September 19 to 20, and it's a virtual assembly.
00:15:43.720 People can participate by it'll be live streamed to be some delegates to cross examine people making presentations.
00:15:52.140 But the main idea is to put forward these various options that face the West for dealing with its current concerns and aspirations.
00:16:01.580 And we'll have a presentation on the secession option.
00:16:06.800 We'll have a presentation on this sovereign province within the federation, which has been the premier's position, the Alberta government's position.
00:16:16.900 There'll be a look at, there's been these letters sent to Kearney over the last year.
00:16:21.900 There's about 25 items. We call it the list option where people are the premiers and some of the business executives said, if you did this or if you did that, it would alleviate some of the tensions.
00:16:35.260 And then there's the remain or stay option. And we're asking the obvious question there, remain and then stay and do what?
00:16:42.700 So the idea is to have these presentations, have some cross-examination of them, and let people, hopefully it will inform their discretion with respect to the referendum.
00:16:55.260 Okay, so there is then, it's an open discussion by the sounds of it.
00:16:59.440 It's not necessarily the event in itself taking one side or another.
00:17:03.960 Oh, in fact, we're trying to be very careful on that, Corey.
00:17:06.820 If it seemed to be slanted or pitching one approach to the other, then, of course, the other people won't participate.
00:17:13.800 So we're trying to keep it as objective as we can.
00:17:18.660 Absolutely. And then it's not just centered on Alberta.
00:17:22.080 You have former Premier Gordon Campbell on co-hosting that with you as well.
00:17:26.360 Well, yes, because a lot of these concerns, the systemic constitutional unfairness, the federal intrusions in the areas of provincial jurisdiction, particularly natural resources, these concerns are shared much broader than Alberta.
00:17:43.320 The worry about this is just as strong, according to the pollsters in Saskatchewan and in much of British Columbia and in rural Manitoba.
00:17:52.520 So we have delegates, people that are going to do some of the cross-examining from each of those provinces, although the majority will be from Alberta because, as you said, in Alberta's case, there's going to be this referendum on October the 19th.
00:18:07.520 Yeah, well, and we have nine questions along with the 10th, which is the one asking about moving further towards a Clarity Act compliant referendum.
00:18:19.440 A lot of those nine questions, though, as you've mentioned, we've got constitutional problems.
00:18:24.680 This is a hang up that's been going on since, you know, talking about a Triple E Senate in the past, being able to move those things forward.
00:18:32.000 And there's a regional interest in eastern Canada to maintain the status quo.
00:18:37.100 I mean, it serves them better Senate-wise anyways.
00:18:41.420 The final question, I guess, question 10, it offers an opportunity for leverage even if people aren't necessarily looking to go yet.
00:18:49.240 I mean, I understand you don't necessarily take a side, but it's something for people to consider.
00:18:55.300 Well, yeah, it's one of the options out there.
00:18:59.560 And there'll be questions and discussion on suppose some province did get a clear majority on a clear question to secede.
00:19:09.840 That's most likely to occur in Quebec before whatever happened in Alberta.
00:19:13.720 Of course, Quebec's got a provincial election prior to October the 5th where this is going to be the whole debate.
00:19:20.820 Should it be a sovereign country outside the Federation or should it be a sovereign province within the Federation?
00:19:26.140 But that'll be certainly one of the issues, and it'll get into what exactly happens if some province did get a clear majority on a clear question.
00:19:37.660 And that's where the Clarity Act comes into focus.
00:19:41.680 One of the people on our little organizing committee is Jack Major, who was on the Supreme Court at the time it ruled on the Clarity Act.
00:19:49.960 Basically, what it says, if someone ever got to that position, say it's more likely to be Quebec, the federal government is under an obligation, according to the court, to negotiate in good faith with that province.
00:20:04.380 That would then require some constitutional amendments, which requires seven of the provinces with 50% of the population.
00:20:10.420 In other words, if somebody ever got to that, it would blow up the current constitution, maybe create the opportunity for a reconstitution.
00:20:18.780 who knows but uh they'll be attempting to make some of that clear because i think some people
00:20:25.360 feel if you if somebody did get a clear majority on a question that you could just waltz off into
00:20:31.340 independence land unfortunately it's it's not quite that simple no it is a complicated process
00:20:38.380 uh but so is is trying to fix things from within the system one of the commenters uh asked a very
00:20:44.680 good question uh saying how does alberta's sovereign jurisdiction uh while still within
00:20:50.400 canada work you know i mean that's that's been talked about for a long time but we haven't seen
00:20:56.360 a lot of actions moving towards it actually things like a pension plan or things that quebec has done
00:21:00.580 police well except cory quebec has spent millions of dollars on this and hours and hours that is
00:21:07.580 they're a lot further along this route than us but the previous been fairly clear enough on a few of
00:21:13.060 the things that that means. First of all, I believe it means increasing and strengthening
00:21:19.520 the activity of the province in every area that the current constitution assigns to the provinces.
00:21:25.160 Secondly, it involves pushing the envelope in these joint jurisdiction areas, which are
00:21:30.680 agriculture, environment, and immigration. That's why I think the first five questions on that
00:21:36.160 referendum ballot are dealing with should the province do more in the area of this joint
00:21:41.780 jurisdiction of immigration. And then a third area, and here's where you're right, that has
00:21:46.440 not been talked about much, it ought to be talked about more by the federal people, is the federal
00:21:52.920 government, there are federal statutes which authorize the federal intrusion in areas of
00:21:58.180 provincial responsibility. The Impact Assessment Act is the federal statute that authorizes the
00:22:04.220 federal government to get into natural resources. The Canada Health Act is the act that
00:22:10.340 authorizes federal intrusion in the health jurisdiction, which is a provincial jurisdiction.
00:22:15.960 The Canada Infrastructure Bank Act and the National Housing Act are the federal statutes
00:22:21.800 that authorize federal intrusion in the area of municipal governance, which is a provincial area.
00:22:27.720 And one of the suggestions is that if the federal government is serious, if the Carney government
00:22:31.860 is serious in reducing this tension with the provinces, one of the things it could do is
00:22:37.640 amend those statutes either to repeal them or to reduce their intrusiveness so there's about three
00:22:44.100 aspects all of this involves strengthening the sovereignty of the provinces within the
00:22:48.820 federation it'd be interesting to see whether the federal government has anything to say on
00:22:52.920 with respect to being being receptive to that kind of change yeah so so back to the assembly uh
00:23:01.200 there's going to be a number of other speakers presenters on different things have you nailed
00:23:05.220 some down yet or you're still in that process we're in the course of invitations but we're
00:23:10.720 pretty sure that there'll be a presentation on the sovereign province within the federation
00:23:16.220 there's two of the the secessionist groups that we're virtually certain will be willing to make
00:23:22.200 presentations we're still trying to nail down the the remain and stay option because the question
00:23:29.900 there isn't just remain or stay it's remain and stay and do what and there's a number of groups
00:23:34.640 advocating in that area, and we're trying to sort that out.
00:23:37.480 But the important thing, I think, for your listeners and your viewers
00:23:41.660 is this thing will be live streamed, and if you put those dates down,
00:23:47.020 September 1920, there's a website that explains all of this,
00:23:50.840 AlbertaAndTheWestAssembly.ca, and people can tune in to this thing,
00:24:02.260 and they'll be surveying done of the people that are live streaming
00:24:05.360 so that they'll get a chance not only to ask questions
00:24:07.740 but to express their opinion on the various subjects that are being brought up.
00:24:14.040 Great. I was going to ask about that, the interactivity of it.
00:24:16.860 I mean, some of this modern technology makes this sort of thing.
00:24:21.220 It's not like a giant convention booking a hall,
00:24:23.780 getting people there monitoring microphones.
00:24:26.220 There's a real opportunity actually to solicit questions from viewers and so on
00:24:30.880 and get through quite a few.
00:24:32.260 and have a truly interactive event.
00:24:36.220 Well, yeah, and we're hoping, Corey, and I'm sure you share this,
00:24:40.080 I worry about the younger people opting out of this democratic process.
00:24:45.600 There was a poll done the other day, I forget,
00:24:48.640 I think by abacus that indicated 47% or 49% of young people
00:24:54.040 kind of questioned what's the merit and what's the point of having these elections
00:24:58.120 and having a parliament.
00:24:59.520 Would it be better to have a strong person that just went ahead with the decision?
00:25:04.020 And I'm hopeful that this technology,
00:25:07.140 in which the younger people are a lot more familiar with than I am for communication,
00:25:11.480 this is using the technology that they are very familiar with
00:25:14.860 and using it to engage in the democratic procedure.
00:25:19.000 I'm hoping this thing can kind of demonstrate the applicability of that technology,
00:25:23.600 and it could be used to deal with other issues,
00:25:25.400 particularly to try to pull younger people into this is their future that's being decided not not
00:25:31.280 mine yeah so will there be an admission price or registration uh how are the means that somebody
00:25:35.940 well if they go to that website they can register and what the registration does is means
00:25:40.300 they'll keep getting notices yeah september 19th 20th this is what it's about please tune in
00:25:46.620 but there's no there's no charge or anything like that yeah which is another great advantage of this
00:25:52.160 new technology because i mean to offer free admission for thousands of people at a open
00:25:56.620 event would cost a small fortune and you have another event you were going to be looking at
00:26:01.800 scheduling after the referendum as well so well after we're going to wait until after the referendum
00:26:07.840 itself because whatever that decision is another big input into this decision what's the best path
00:26:13.560 forward for the west so we'll have one more session of this assembly after october 19th we
00:26:18.840 haven't set the date yet and put forward propositions okay based on all this input from
00:26:26.440 this assembly and from the referendum and the question will be to the delegates if you had to
00:26:31.640 make a recommendation today to your provincial legislature on the best path forward given all
00:26:38.000 this options and information what would that be and that'll be the aim of that last session and
00:26:45.540 then the recommendations that come out of that will go to the the provincial legislatures and
00:26:51.260 the provincial government so i i know you're trying to stay carefully non-partisan with this
00:26:56.460 uh but will there be any participation with elected people whether in government or in
00:27:01.400 opposition things well we have yeah we discussed that core we we haven't got any elected people
00:27:06.880 among these delegates but but all the output of this will actually go to the legislatures and
00:27:12.780 And we've been saying to elected people, you'll get a kick at the can after we've got all this input put together.
00:27:19.840 But it'll occur in your legislature, not in this assembly, partly because we're trying to keep the political polarization that happens so easily once you get a room full of elected people or even former elected people like me.
00:27:38.840 Well, we're both familiar with rooms full of politicians.
00:27:42.780 They're a necessary evil, but it can also take things off the rails pretty quickly.
00:27:49.160 So can open events, though?
00:27:50.420 I imagine there'll be some degree of controls over the discourse or ways that, you know, questions get through and they can be efficient and such in the process.
00:27:57.940 Yes, Gordon, it's almost like an assembly, like an elected assembly.
00:28:02.960 Gordon Campbell and I are the co-chairs, so we'll be like the speaker and the delegates will be like the members.
00:28:09.820 And, of course, one of the controls the Speaker has in the House of Commons
00:28:13.840 or the legislature, he can cut you off if he decides you're making a speech
00:28:20.340 instead of asking a question.
00:28:22.020 So Gordon and I will try to diplomatically exercise that function.
00:28:27.280 Excellent.
00:28:27.880 Well, I'm really looking forward to it.
00:28:29.820 It's an interesting exercise and, of course, very timely with everything
00:28:33.320 that's going on.
00:28:34.200 And you can certainly lend, you know, I wasn't saying the sense of deja vu
00:28:37.640 in a bad way in a fully anyways there's a lot of experience that's been gained you've been
00:28:42.600 fighting this battle for for some years now anyways and uh uh you know i i guess just this
00:28:49.540 this trying to find a different path rather than hitting our heads against the wall over and over
00:28:54.240 again is what people really want to do yeah that that'll be the big question it'll be the question
00:28:59.020 these presenters if your option was accepted exactly what has to happen to move it beyond
00:29:07.820 talk and and studies and recommendations and reports what what a lot of westerners are
00:29:14.500 impatient with these issues are well defined there's even solutions defined but the roadblock
00:29:21.620 particularly if it involves constitutional amendments that that is the roadblock what
00:29:26.800 One other encouraging thing on this, as you know, to amend our Constitution, you need at least seven provinces with 50 percent of the population from the provincial side to push an amendment.
00:29:37.340 You've still got to get it through the parliament.
00:29:40.020 And right now, among these provincial premiers, Wacom, this new premier in Newfoundland, Premier Frechette in Quebec, or even if there's a new PQ premier, they're all in favor of decentralization.
00:29:54.800 Premier Smith and Premier Moe, you've got four strong premiers that are in favor of at least
00:30:00.220 trying to get the federal government out of this intrusive role. You could probably pull along
00:30:04.960 Houston from Nova Scotia and maybe Doug Ford from Ontario, depending on what kind of day it was.
00:30:11.220 But now you're starting to get up to this six or seven premiers who, whatever else they disagree
00:30:18.420 on agree on a more decentralized federation and that that has not happened in the past so that's
00:30:26.820 one encouraging route towards constitutional amendment well we'll certainly wait and see
00:30:33.380 this could be a step that starts moving us towards it so i guess before i let you go one more time
00:30:38.620 where can people find information on this assembly uh so that they can take part or observe it yes
00:30:44.640 That albertaandthewest.ca, that website, will give people the information on it
00:30:51.800 and say they can register there to get reminded that this thing is going to be on on September 19 and 20.
00:30:58.980 Excellent.
00:30:59.660 Well, thank you for putting all that together and taking some time to explain it to us today.
00:31:03.920 I'll certainly be tuning in and watching it with great interest,
00:31:08.000 and hopefully it has some productive outcomes for us.
00:31:11.720 Okay, we shall wait and see.
00:31:14.180 Great. Thank you. Great talk to you.
00:31:15.420 Thank you, Kurt.
00:31:17.520 So there you go, guys. Set those dates aside.
00:31:20.060 You know, September 19th and 20th, it is an opportunity.
00:31:23.140 And I know, and as Mr. Manning stated, we're getting impatient.
00:31:26.960 I'm one of them.
00:31:28.000 I know a story I like to tell.
00:31:29.820 It's from way back.
00:31:30.920 As the political junkie I am,
00:31:33.340 I bought my very first political membership from this man I figured was ancient
00:31:38.140 at a Calgary Stampede event who actually took some time to speak to me.
00:31:41.960 I think I was 18 or 19 years old.
00:31:43.580 it was the end of the 80s. And it turned out that was actually Preston Manning working to get the
00:31:48.220 Reform Party going. And I was so thrilled with that little card I ended up putting in my wallet.
00:31:52.380 Wow, I'm participating in politics. And look at the lunatic it turned me into after this much time. 0.85
00:31:58.260 But, you know, it also illustrates how long this has all been going on. We've been at this for
00:32:05.040 decades. That assembly he held, we're coming up on the 40th anniversary of that one that was held
00:32:10.540 in vancouver that formed the reform party so he's not trying the exact same thing and and he's not
00:32:16.840 taking the independence option off the table in this gathering you know there's going to be people
00:32:23.640 presenting and proposing that side of it it says i feel i i mean i'm an independent supporter i'm
00:32:30.740 unabashed about it and there's no getting around that but i i do believe there's an opportunity in
00:32:35.820 those people then who just want to send a message, those people who want, you know, to shake things
00:32:43.500 up and rattle them. Well, this is the opportunity coming this fall. And there's one of the things I
00:32:48.320 think, unfortunately, and tactically, it depends on which way people look at stuff. When Premier
00:32:53.360 Smith is saying, because she's been a federalist, she's made no bones about that. It's mostly just
00:33:01.400 that I get annoyed when she starts leaping into the discussion a little too heavily.
00:33:05.260 But with saying that she would schedule the referendum, if we got over 50% this October,
00:33:12.640 she would schedule it to try and get it held this spring. I personally, I'm just guessing from a
00:33:17.940 tactical level, and I could be wrong, but I think the reason she's stating that is because it will
00:33:23.260 turn away the people who are saying they, you know, who were campaigning towards to send a
00:33:27.100 message to shake things up, to stir them up, because it puts the definitive referendum so
00:33:32.000 much closer after that. It starts to turn this one this fall into the big one and muddies those
00:33:38.140 waters between them and would make people shy away because they wouldn't want to have the real
00:33:42.260 referendum only a few months later. I think that might be some of the tactics on what's going on
00:33:46.920 there. There really are only two ways that would have to go, though, if there was a big vote to
00:33:54.020 move forward with the process with a clarity act uh compliant question after a referendum this fall
00:34:01.160 it would have to be either yeah spring in just a few months or probably at least more than a year
00:34:06.920 farther ahead to get uh past the general election that's scheduled you know a year after that
00:34:14.200 they're not going to have the referendum and a general election happening at the same time just
00:34:17.680 would be politically difficult to say the least.
00:34:22.960 You know, getting back to that justice issue,
00:34:24.880 this is one that never hits politics enough.
00:34:31.940 We talk about it.
00:34:32.600 We get mad during news stories.
00:34:33.940 We go on about these things.
00:34:35.600 Politicians talk about them, and nothing ever changes.
00:34:38.200 This I do not understand.
00:34:39.560 Dave mentioned that in the news check-in.
00:34:41.540 I'll give the details of this man, this guy.
00:34:44.060 So he's a 22-year-old Windsor man,
00:34:46.220 already facing multiple child sex charges. 1.00
00:34:51.160 He's a child rapist. 1.00
00:34:52.840 Let's just put it for what it is. 1.00
00:34:54.060 He's a pedophile. 1.00
00:34:55.100 He's dangerous. 1.00
00:34:56.060 He harms children. 1.00
00:34:57.220 He's one of the worst possible people
00:34:59.060 we could ever have on the loose.
00:35:00.200 And somehow, we can't keep him behind bars.
00:35:04.300 He sexually assaulted two boys
00:35:05.780 while free on bail prior. 0.91
00:35:09.520 And then a third time.
00:35:11.440 And they put him on bail again.
00:35:13.120 And guess what?
00:35:13.600 He molested another kid.
00:35:15.140 How much does it take to make this a pattern?
00:35:17.820 How hard does this have to get?
00:35:19.340 You know what I think should happen?
00:35:21.240 I think the committees who determine bail or the judges who determine bail
00:35:24.500 should have to keep these offenders in their own household for two days after they give them bail.
00:35:29.180 If you think they're safe enough to release among us and our children,
00:35:33.120 then you should have no qualms about having these perverts in your home with you, should you?
00:35:37.620 Seriously.
00:35:38.320 How are you letting these guys out among us?
00:35:40.280 What is the matter with you?
00:35:41.280 Whoever let him out on bail should be disbarred, removed from the bench.
00:35:46.500 It's absurd.
00:35:47.540 I don't care.
00:35:48.220 We don't need legislative changes to change the bail requirements. 0.96
00:35:53.040 That's the reason we have a judge.
00:35:55.080 That's the reason a person sits there and looks at it and listens to the evidence and says,
00:36:00.860 this person is a risk to society, thus must be held until the full trial is done,
00:36:06.540 or this person is not a high risk.
00:36:10.200 we can allow them back out say if it was a shoplifter or uh you know other things that
00:36:15.840 aren't as dangerous to society or didn't have a long long history so okay post bail and we'll
00:36:20.640 move on with the trial but we won't spend all the expense of keeping you locked up and let you get 0.85
00:36:24.140 on with the world but this guy this pervert with multiple child sexual assaults released again
00:36:33.260 among the public and he's clearly not learning so you know either are our authorities though 0.78
00:36:41.920 what does it take i really feel for the police i do how many times they got to arrest this guy
00:36:46.500 see the victim see what they've done and realize that we're just arresting him putting him in and
00:36:51.600 some liberal judge is going to throw him back out to molest more kids this guy's name is kasim
00:36:56.860 Sabi, 22 years old with that many child molestation charges under his belt. This is a broken
00:37:05.500 individual who should never be loose again, much less constantly put out on bail. You know what?
00:37:10.720 Every week I seem to be going into one of these stories. Every bloody week. What does it take?
00:37:15.700 What's the point of a justice system? And you know, the prisons aren't full. Dave mentioned that.
00:37:21.000 They aren't full. Our remand centers have been overcrowded, but the prisons aren't.
00:37:24.880 put them away
00:37:26.840 either way, I had to get on
00:37:30.040 on that, it's just insane
00:37:31.360 let's turn the page on to the
00:37:33.680 trade, a nice easy
00:37:36.140 subject, what's going on with President
00:37:38.180 Trump, with Carney who's hiding out
00:37:40.100 in Italy, with Kuzma that's
00:37:42.080 on again, off again, on again, off again
00:37:43.660 Trump made it right until two hours
00:37:45.800 before the deadline on the latest
00:37:48.040 threat of putting heavy
00:37:50.000 tariffs on Canadian things, and then
00:37:51.960 bought another three more days and said
00:37:53.460 Nah, maybe we'll hang on. We've got a good deal that's coming.
00:37:56.440 One of the things I read out of that, though, that's interesting.
00:37:58.540 It's hard to read anything into Trump. I mean, come on.
00:38:00.260 He's the most unpredictable president in history.
00:38:03.320 But he mentioned that he'd emphasized that American farmers are going to benefit from this,
00:38:11.340 whatever agreement he's talking about,
00:38:13.320 and that it would expand access for some products in Canada.
00:38:17.340 But is a deal finally coming to get rid of bloody supply management, dairy supply management?
00:38:25.500 Is he finally, because, you know, Canadian consumers should have gotten this pushed out.
00:38:29.520 It robs Canadians.
00:38:30.660 Families are spending hundreds and hundreds every year extra because of this supply management
00:38:34.920 that protects the Quebec dairy industry predominantly
00:38:37.240 and artificially keeps the prices of all dairy products higher.
00:38:40.920 We keep talking about food inflation.
00:38:42.300 Well, if you want to fight food inflation, get rid of supply management, but they won't do it.
00:38:47.340 But, I mean, it took President Trump, maybe, strong-arming, twisting,
00:38:52.980 and I'm not a fan of his negotiation tactics.
00:38:55.780 I don't like how he's shoving us around on these trade deals.
00:38:58.500 But if one of the things comes with a good outcome, 0.99
00:39:01.000 in that this federal government is finally forced to admit that supply management is crap 0.82
00:39:04.780 and that they get rid of it, we're all going to win. 0.90
00:39:07.400 It's not going to be a victory just for American producers.
00:39:09.680 It's a victory for us as Canadian consumers.
00:39:11.840 the ridiculousness in that we have dumped and the food professor you know uh uh charlie boy i've had
00:39:19.920 on my show multiple times billions over the years billions of liters of milk have literally been
00:39:27.220 dumped down the drain because canada's supply management cartel system makes it illegal for
00:39:33.440 them to sell it they purposely strangle the supply so that the price stays high they will throw it in
00:39:41.300 the ditch, literally, rather than let you get a break at the grocery store. It's a sick system 0.82
00:39:47.620 that is a slap in the face to agricultural producers in every other area that work on proper
00:39:53.860 manners of competitiveness and building better things. So you know what? If anything comes out
00:40:02.360 of this and the supply management is gotten rid of and we start phasing it out, and I know you
00:40:07.220 can't get rid of it overnight. You got to buy out the quotas. We can't bankrupt our farmers. I know
00:40:10.480 that but get rid of it it's done it's a garbage soviet style system of quotas it's embarrassing
00:40:15.400 and it's also on poultry uh just so you know and eggs we had in alberta a guy literally got arrested
00:40:23.280 a couple of years ago on his farm bunch of rcmp cars showed up because he'd been selling eggs
00:40:28.620 outside of the cartel yeah canada's not as free as some people might think though i think most
00:40:34.760 people who follow my show know that there's not much freedom in Canada in a lot of ways.
00:40:43.240 Commenter James saying the dairy cartels, again, part of the Liberal Party. Well, you know what?
00:40:47.720 One thing I'll say, actually, the dairy cartels have got their claws into every party. They got
00:40:52.940 the Conservatives as well. They are incredible lobbyists. They spend millions and millions of
00:40:58.680 dollars to make sure that political parties, both the Conservatives and the Liberals, are terrified
00:41:02.220 of taking them on. And they won't. And it cost a leadership for Maxime Bernier. That really was
00:41:09.580 what it was. He was the only candidate proposing. He would have won the conservative leadership.
00:41:14.820 Except the dairy cartels funded his opponent heavily because Bernier was opposed to supply
00:41:22.840 management. They are powerful. But the government in power can get rid of it. There is a way to do
00:41:30.020 it, and it's time that we did. It's past time that we did. God, I get tired of reading these
00:41:34.940 constant articles whining about the higher cost of groceries. Yes, they are higher, and they're
00:41:39.660 pressuring everybody, but the most obvious and easy ability to change that is right in front of
00:41:44.860 us by getting our supply management, and our government doesn't have the courage to do it.
00:41:49.160 Let's see, we got some news in Alberta. This will be somewhat interesting. Calgary-Shaw has a
00:41:54.760 by-election it was you know vacated uh unexpectedly there was a an interesting uh nomination race and
00:42:01.800 and uh mike dairy i believe was the name of the gentleman who won the conservative yes mike dairy
00:42:05.560 uh for the united conservative party the ndp's got some guy named kyle campbell look it's a pretty
00:42:10.000 safe ucp seat it should stay there but the alberta liberal party leader uh yeah they still exist uh
00:42:16.580 john uh you know i i interact with him a lot on x but i never actually mention his say his name so
00:42:22.340 sorry, Mr. Roggenveen. I got a Dutch wife. I should be able to pronounce that. But he is
00:42:29.640 actually running in it. Good on him. I think he's going to get annihilated, but at least he's putting
00:42:34.240 his name on there. And a fourth candidate is, here we go with the Kyle Joseph. Yeah, grade six
00:42:44.680 social studies teacher. He's running for the progressive Tory party of Alberta. That's
00:42:50.580 Peter Guthrie's little party there, he left the UCP in a huff. They had internal battles and
00:42:57.900 fights, and he started his own little party. He wants to start basically the Progressive
00:43:01.360 Conservatives all over again. He couldn't use the name Conservative, so he used Progressive
00:43:05.080 Tory. Basically, he's the Liberals. You know, that's the Liberals with a new coat of paint.
00:43:10.640 I'm kind of hoping he gains some ground here. I really am. Because those of us old enough to
00:43:16.120 remember the 90s and so on, how did the left get annihilated in so many Alberta elections? Well,
00:43:20.740 you want to know why? Because the NDP and the Liberals split that left-wing vote. It was the
00:43:24.500 progressive conservatives finally got pushed too far from not having a good conservative opposition
00:43:28.140 and went too far left and a whole bunch of other things happened. But if this United Progressive
00:43:34.040 Tory party comes together, they're not going to pull support from the UCP. They're going to pull
00:43:39.580 it from Nenshi and the NDP. So I don't think, well, they'll be lucky. Here, I'll put in my
00:43:46.000 guess right now on this by-election in Shaw. I think their candidate's going to get 4%.
00:43:51.660 And I think the Liberal is going to get 0.8%. That's how hard it is for outside parties to
00:43:59.080 break through in Alberta. It really is. But I predict that's what's going to be happening.
00:44:02.780 But still, I would like to see them get a toehold in there and pull in some of that
00:44:06.780 school teacher liberal vote in Calgary and break it away.
00:44:12.420 Finally, it's on the Western Standard site.
00:44:15.220 This is bizarre. 1.00
00:44:15.800 Getting back to the idiotic, endless accusations of racism. 1.00
00:44:18.700 That sugar mill worker who put out a video walking barefoot through sugar. 1.00
00:44:23.260 I mean, it's gross.
00:44:23.940 Come on.
00:44:24.440 This was stuff that was going to be packaged and sold to us,
00:44:26.480 and we're going to eat and consume it.
00:44:27.820 We don't want to lick that man's feet or anything that came off it.
00:44:30.960 and he said he was doing it uh uh what do you say to assert his dominance putting his feet on our 0.99
00:44:40.200 food his dirty filthy feet on our food and he posted a video maybe it was just somebody looking 0.77
00:44:44.380 to get clicks probably was so but of course it got a big bad pushback because people are disgusted 0.97
00:44:49.840 but lo and behold prabdeet singh now is claiming the backlash was due to racism
00:44:57.420 Piss off.
00:44:58.160 I'm tired of that. 0.99
00:44:59.040 I'm sick of that. 0.95
00:45:00.180 I don't care what the race is. 0.98
00:45:02.280 I don't want anybody's feet going into the food items that I plan to consume.
00:45:06.800 It had nothing to do with racism. 0.95
00:45:09.140 It had to do with you being a pig and looking to be violating the food that people in public are going to be consuming so you could get clicks on your YouTube video. 0.97
00:45:19.020 So the backlash you got was well-earned, well-deserved, had nothing to do with your race. 1.00
00:45:24.220 Kiss my ass. 1.00
00:45:25.360 Go away. 1.00
00:45:26.440 man, it's gross. Either way, leave it on that. A lot of positive things to cover too. That's the 0.90
00:45:32.180 end of the time I've got for now. Be sure to like, subscribe, all of those good things. Tune into the
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