Western Standard Opinion Editor Nigel Hannaford and Senior Columnist Cory Morgan join me on The Pipeline to talk about the latest in Canadian politics, including a woman who was sentenced to eight years in prison for her part in the murder of a Jewish woman, and a man who was given seven years in jail for his part in a plan to rape a teenage girl.
00:05:17.280Jessica Yanif, many of you will recall, I'm glad we have a Vancouverite on the panel today.
00:05:22.660Jessica Yanef is the very beautiful woman who took some, I think, Vietnamese ladies to human rights commissions or tribunals for the right to force them to wax her balls.1.00
00:05:45.660She took some beauty pageant in Ontario to a Human Rights Commission because they denied him the right to participate in this woman's beauty pageant.0.99
00:05:58.180The beauty pageant said, this pageant is for, I guess they probably have broadly two categories.
00:06:07.500And two, you must be arguably beautiful.
00:06:11.040you know beauty might be in the eyes of the beholder but sometimes you can draw a pretty
00:06:18.040freaking clear line i think it's pretty obvious uh but you know canadian courts i don't have a
00:06:24.800respect for them they get a they do a lot of dumb shit but uh you know uh maybe it's small
00:06:32.520sign of the times that we're returning to uh a little bit of normalcy that
00:06:37.420sanity is perhaps returning to things that, because I would imagine, actually it's not even
00:06:42.160a court, it's Human Rights Commission. These are the worst of the worst. I'm actually a bit surprised
00:06:47.400the Human Rights Commission ruled that this ugly, particularly ugly man, is not entitled, in fact,
00:06:55.380to participate in a woman's beauty pageant. And there's no appeal except on process, which I'm
00:07:00.780sure they follow scrupulously. Yeah, you know, every now and then you get surprised, and generally
00:07:05.840speaking i've not been a big fan of human rights questions but this one they got it right so uh1.00
00:07:11.360good for them but it's this whole uh war on beauty i mean maybe you mean to get to this later but the
00:07:17.600reaction from the left on that that whole advertising campaign from american eagle
00:07:24.880we're going to transition we're going to transition to that okay well i'll save my thoughts for that
00:07:28.320If I can speak to Jessica's illustrious career as an agitator, potster, I think the process that that person has is, or the objective is always to weaken our society, weaken our values, weaken what is truthful and trade it out for what is not fact.
00:07:56.580If I am correct, I believe that Jessica has had not one, not two, not three, but four Human Rights Commission complaints or what went forward to the Human Rights complaints.
00:08:10.240And if I'm not mistaken, our colleague Ezra Levent wrote a great book called Shakedown.
00:08:16.320It's about a decade or so old, and it talks about the Human Rights Commission and specifically the gamesmanship that went on with certain groups in Vancouver.
00:08:25.180and how that commission has had its own illustrious career
00:08:46.340There's a turnstile, especially in Vancouver.
00:08:49.300Women are being attacked on a pretty regular basis in Vancouver.
00:08:53.280I can't speak to other parts of the country, but I can tell you I've never felt less safe.
00:08:58.880And knowing that no matter what the police commissions are saying, no matter what those leaderships are demanding of the federal government,
00:09:08.300including my own attorney general in British Columbia, has demanded that the tomfoolery around, you know,
00:09:15.700pedophilia and women's rights and sort of the reduction of women's rights must be addressed
00:09:22.200immediately by the Justice Minister as soon as possible. But getting back to Jessica,
00:09:29.040this is not a person that has anything else going on other than looking to make money off of these,
00:09:37.780I would say, quite insidious and also ludicrous claims that she's trying or they are trying
00:09:45.640to make um and i would say it's a great offense to us women that have that to to feminism to women1.00
00:09:53.240that are dealing with serious problems that i've just outlined um and we need to be talking about
00:09:58.920the respect of women in this country um but jessica has quite a career and i would suggest that our0.59
00:10:05.240you know our viewers today take a pick up ezra levent's book shakedown it's one of the best
00:10:10.040books i've read around the human rights commission and the egregious uh behaviors that happened there
00:10:16.100but also i think it's important people get really tuned in to what people like jessica are doing
00:10:20.760uh to this country and the waste of time in our justice system so actually uh that book shaked
00:10:26.480down by ezra that that was from ezra's time as publisher of the western standard uh in his day
00:10:32.420when the standard was a print magazine and coming from uh the decision of ezra and the standard at
00:10:39.800the time to run the famous or infamous danish muhammad cartoons which were the biggest story
00:10:46.340in the world at that time when uh radical islamists were lynching people burning down
00:10:52.960buildings rioting doing all sorts of stuff and uh attempt to enforce their sense of blasphemy
00:10:59.200on the west saying you're not allowed to have cartoons of the prophet muhammad uh everyone
00:11:03.420was talking about it writing about it reporting on it but no one in canada had actually published
00:11:08.420well, what are the cartoons that these people are so angry about?
00:12:03.740Yeah. And the Human Rights Commissions essentially are applying the charter. The charter should only apply to government institutions. It should not apply to private institutions, businesses, not-for-profits, etc. Unless you're essentially a quasi-government institution, no, government rules should not apply to you. The charter applies to restrained government, not individuals.
00:12:23.080and the Human Rights Commission is essentially applying
00:19:17.880I think I pulled vaguely around the office, I think one person in our newsroom at the Western Standard knew who these guys were.
00:19:24.880They were not well known. Now they're well known right across the country from anyone watching the news as they've been just banned everywhere they're going,
00:19:33.040except for the Alberta legislature grounds, which kind of makes me a bit proud.
00:19:36.960Elise, why don't you just kind of I guess people people probably know about it, but maybe just kind of dig a bit into, you know,
00:19:43.380what is it governments between the federal government municipalities have been
00:19:46.880doing, uh, to try and keep, you know, these, uh,
00:19:50.360these evil people with good genes out of Canada?
00:20:05.220but for those who may have been on vacation somewhere, the,
00:20:09.660The main issue here is that a Christian rocker who, as you said, Derek, really didn't have much of a following in Canada or pretty much anywhere else, he was sort of a secondary act, has suddenly burst onto stage as a very prominent, loud, pro-charter of rights American.
00:20:33.600And he's making hand over fist money doing so.
00:20:36.940And it's all thanks to all our levels of government, from municipalities to provincial legislatures to federal members of parliament, trying to manipulate the reasons as to why he should not be allowed in Canada, number one.
00:20:54.420And number two, why he should not be allowed in their communities and provinces or within private settings like churches, which, by the way, are covered under religious freedoms, under the Religious Freedoms Act in Canada.
00:21:07.640And I find it ironic that there is so little information or understanding, even by senators and non-elected senators in this country, around what freedom of expression really involves.
00:21:23.120And to see our leadership, Derek, go out there and talk about how we don't have free speech, we don't have freedom around religious rights, I was absolutely dumbfounded.
00:21:35.320Within freedom of expression is freedom of speech.
00:21:38.820And there's a shield there, but it's not a muzzle.
00:21:42.200And I was shocked to see certain ministers and certain members of parliament, even my own premier, David Eby, making very false comments about what Mr. Sean Krauss was doing, what he was singing about and why he had so many issues with him.
00:21:58.860David Eby even remarked that this guy was singing hate songs, that he was, that lyrics were hateful towards the LGBTQI community, to trans people, to certain religions, that's simply not true.
00:22:54.160And I believe that there are groups out there that are financially benefiting from weakening our society, spreading misinformation, disinformation about what our charter and our constitution and our rights actually are.
00:23:09.300And I will just say this, I particularly like Mr. John the Singer, but it doesn't mean that I don't think he should be here.
00:23:20.080I also want to say to the politicians that were spreading false information that he had a criminal record.
00:36:40.300Well, she's got a very limited vocabulary, and so it's going to be my job to keep it up here because she has she does not have the ability to to challenge me to meaningful debate.
00:36:57.540And I will say, if she's so worried about coming to our clubhouse, I would remind her that I did a decade on CBC across all the CBC affiliates, but most importantly, a decade with Rosie Barton as the, as at that time, one of the only real conservatives that were not a bobblehead of a conservative, but one that had an opinion and was forceful.
00:37:21.700And I was treated to misogyny, threats of my, you know, my family, my life.
00:37:27.020But I felt it was important to hold the line and hold that chair.
00:37:32.480And I've spent well over a decade comfortable, but as a conservative, I do not give up my space.
00:37:41.720And I would advise Ms. Gilmore to grow up and to watch her step.
00:37:46.600And if she is so emboldened to make such outrageously incorrect claims like that, I would say if she really believes in them, I'm rolling out the pink carpet for you because, well, she seems to like the color pink in her bubble pot commentary.
00:38:02.580But I agree with you, and I think it's going to be great.
00:38:05.940Well, because she seems to think it's biologically possible, I think maybe she should grow a pair.
00:39:09.740just to spoil everybody's summer and make things that little bit worse.
00:39:14.540Now, you know, I honestly doubt that they will get seven years because I truly believe that even Canadians who didn't care much for the convoy and the people driving the trucks and those in particular who were inconvenienced by the trucks being parked in a couple of blocks in the middle of Ottawa, that's really worth that many people.
00:39:42.160Even those people, however, would think that seven years for mischief, which is basically kicking over dustbins in back alleys, is excessive.
00:39:53.240And the court would not wish to bestow martyrdom on Tamara Leach and Chris Barber in that style.
00:40:01.600They have got enough time behind bars already.
00:40:05.580I think she's done in like 50 odd days already, before being convicted of anything.
00:40:10.460So I actually don't see it happening, but the symbolism of this is that the state has decided to come back and try to intimidate all Canadians through the way they treat these two people who, when all is said and done, basically were free speech advocates.
00:40:31.800Yeah, I think Nadja's right, Corey, that they're not going to get seven and eight years.
00:40:36.580I mean, it's kind of like a bidding war, you know, the defense bids low, the prosecution bids high, and maybe the judge goes somewhere in the middle.
00:42:25.240is the public serve by putting them behind bars further are they protecting us from any risk by
00:42:30.780putting behind bars further and I think most people even the government wants this one though
00:42:35.640they want to make an example of them but they also want this issue to go into the books of history I
00:42:40.100mean if he if he gives them a long sentence you can be assured there's going to be appeals
00:42:43.680there's going to be more protests there's going to be issues it won't be putting it to bed it'll
00:42:48.920actually be just dragging it on further not just for them but for everybody else so
00:42:52.560it's a vindictive state that wants to really make an example and say, don't you dare speak up or
00:42:58.560you're going to get it. But at the same time, I don't think they're, I could be wrong, but I don't
00:43:02.000think they're going to give them a long decision. Suggesting that a judge might take political
00:43:05.600considerations into account when making his decision? Well, I'm saying actually when it
00:43:10.840comes to preventing that sort of incident from happening again, which is the goal,
00:43:15.720is he going to do so? Okay. I can't even go back to Elise on this one because we're out of time.
00:43:22.560We've got to go to our parting shots, but because I couldn't put you in there, Elise, you get, this is your first parting, your first time on the show.
00:43:31.640So you get first crack at your parting shot.
00:43:38.160Okay, so for me, I think one of the most under-read, unnoticed stories of the week was the fact that Canadian Border Services has lost almost 599 illegal immigrants in our system, and out of that, 401 have been convicted on serious criminal offenses, including sexual assault.
00:44:03.040This was a story that was actually published by the Globe and Mail yesterday, but it's stemming from a report that CBSA actually released themselves.
00:44:13.180And in a larger context, there's about 1,650 people here that have either served time or they have failed to meet the standard for staying that will be deported.
00:44:30.940But unfortunately, 600 of those people, CBS, they cannot find.
00:44:37.100And the concern is the level of criminality of 400 and something of them.
00:44:42.040And the other, you know, 200, give or take, they themselves have certain levels of crime,
00:44:50.240although not such serious offenses like the violent crime the 401 individuals have.
00:44:57.280Okay, sorry, Elise, your signal's a little weak coming to us
00:45:04.000from your remote, undisclosed location
00:45:57.260Women's workout routines that devolve into anti-government rhetoric, makeup tutorials with anti-feminist commentary, personal finance videos that blame immigrants for stealing jobs.
00:46:08.480According to a Canadian government intelligence report, the extremist movements are weaponizing femininity on social media to track more women into their ranks.
00:46:17.080um well i know we've all uh probably all four of us here have been on a list for some time
00:46:23.700but uh ladies uh given makeup tutorials uh people with good genes uh you're now on the list too
00:46:31.700welcome to the club all right uh that's it for today gentlemen thank you lady thank you for
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