Keeping (taxpayer-funded) porn out of schools
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Summary
In Alberta schools, the government is trying to ban pornography from being taught in public schools. It s being portrayed as book-burning or banning by the usual suspects, but there s more to it than that. This week on The Pipeline, we talk about why porn is being kept out of school libraries, and why it s a bad idea.
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G'day, I'm Derek Fildebrandt, publisher of the Western Standard,
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And you're watching The Pipeline today on September 3rd, 2025.
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I'm joined by the usual crew here, former Western Standard opinion editor, Nigel Hennifert.
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And Western Standard senior Alberta columnist, Corey Morgan.
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And one of our BC columnists, Elise Mills, coming to us from West Coast.
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Thank you so much for having me. It's great to be back.
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So we're going to be talking about the Bible taking place in Alberta right now, keeping pornographic material out of school libraries.
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And when I say pornographic, I mean like full-blown, weird, graphic porn, pretty much, that has been in the school libraries.
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This is being portrayed as book-burning or banning by the usual suspects.
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So we're going to talk about what happened there.
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The never-ending land grabs of governments granting race-based use of public lands to indigenous bands,
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saying only people of certain races can go in a park at this time.
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And then it's just taken the cats kind of out of the bag in Manitoba, with one band just declaring its effective ownership over a large piece of land, declaring non-Native people are not allowed to go there anymore.
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All right, we're going to start off with what's taking place in Alberta schools, Corey.
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you know parents and parental rights organizations
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on some of the very weird stuff that's ended up in
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they certainly dodged the actual books that started
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How did those things even get there in the first place?
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One of the most odious, you know, and that picture's gone around the net if people want to Google it.
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And it shows a couple of men performing oral sex upon each other.
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Maybe we could show a blur out version on the screen.
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Well, and there's some of the irony because Daniel Smith, Premier Smith, responded at a press conference.
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And saying, well, if they can't understand the difference between this and what's appropriate matter for schools.
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and she had it on monitors behind them at the press conference, you know, we're there to hold
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their hand. I mean, this battle is getting heated. But the TV's channels wouldn't show that. They
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just reported on book banning. The reason they wouldn't show it is because the books are too
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graphic to show on television. So apparently you can show them to our children, but you can't put
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it on TV. But because of this happening, the Smith government came up with a ministerial order
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laying out some guidelines on what's appropriate to go in school libraries. The Edmonton Public
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school board did a vicious compliance just took it to the t and eliminated over 200 books and the
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timing has been astounding on how they did the release on this they said it's leaked books like
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the great gatsby of course they they picked out margaret atwood's stuff which is good and nicely
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she made sure to juice that whole book ban thing as well and they had 200 books which they banned
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because they said that's what smith demanded they do that it's just absurd the nuance between again
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graphic depictions of men performing oral sex on each other, and it was going into
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novels that reference sex now and then. They're not there to discuss, but I think
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something that not many people have been mentioning, too, is the timing of it happening right when the
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Alberta schoolteachers turned down a 17% raise and are threatening a strike.
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So I think they're looking for a battle with Smith, and they got it.
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You know, Nigel, this doesn't surprise me, coming from the Alberta Teachers Association, which
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defended keeping pedos in schools, continuing to teach after they've been successfully prosecuted
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and convicted. These guys are on a cultural jihad here. I mean, I used to dismiss this as,
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you know, it's a couple of flaky blue hairs around. This is pretty systemic coming from
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the entire education bureaucracy, teachers, principals, the union, the bureaucrats within
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the education department in some cases um you know this this is full-blown pornography and
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and what you know i it's an interesting tactic that they've taken at the uh edmonton school board
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where uh you know corey used the term uh vicious compliance i use the term malicious compliance
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um you know this the government didn't say here's a list of my books they said like oh here's some
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that this is age-appropriate for someone in the third grade
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in at least one school somewhere it's a hard read but um you know this was i think the equivalent of
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someone seeing a you know the speed limit sign on the side of the highway says 100 says well
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to make sure i don't go 100 i'll go over the speed limit i'm just going to do 10 down the qe2
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um i'm not going over the speed limit hope you like that i comply with the law
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that's that's what they're doing here they're driving 10 in 100 zone to say that they're
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complying with the new rules here um what kind of cultural rot would drive people to fight this
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hard to keep pornography not not risque not something that's you know a little bit spicily
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ridden uh a little tantalizing no this full-blown sick pornography being pushed on children why would
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they fight this hard to keep it in the classroom it's a it's a good question and there is a good
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answer it's a whole part of the culture war that we find ourselves engaged in and you know we do
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sound like a grumpy old man when we start talking about the cultural war but it's real it exists and
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there are people who want our children to grow up and think very different things to what we
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ourselves think. There's a whole layer of understanding of this that we haven't talked
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about yet and that is the part of the federal government in this. Astonishingly you can trace
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this back to Heritage Canada. We did a column on this a couple of months ago, but I'm just
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going to quote freely from it. But federal and provincial governments have paid substantial
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grant monies to advocacy organizations that are seeking to normalize sexual and gender
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minorities. Now, we can talk about who these organizations are, but that does leave us
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with the question of why would the federal government have an interest in promoting this
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through Heritage Canada? Well, frankly, after 10 years of Mr. Trudeau, I really don't have any
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answers as to why anymore, but the policy has survived his departure. So here in Alberta,
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the Alberta Teachers Association is encouraging teachers to form DEI committees and those are
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expected to press for inclusive materials including the books that we're talking about,
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which are every bit as bad as what Corey there was talking about. So the fact is there are no
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gatekeepers on this except your own provincial government and it's your federal government and
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your unions that are part of the problem last point on this mr trudeau appointed to the senate
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a man by the name of chris wells he was he's an academic he's from edmonton he's an outspoken
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advocate for queer values if you can call them that we described him as a prominent advocate
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for sexual and gender minorities he was appointed last fall to the senate and he keeps coming back
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I can't elaborate too far on my thoughts with Senator Wells.
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But at least I am guessing that on the left coast, you've probably got the same kinds of things in libraries.
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I guess the difference is there that you don't have a British Columbia government that is determined to rectify this a bit.
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You know, these guys have been caught, no pun intended, with their pants down here, pushing.
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And, you know, I think what they're doing is they're trying to frame this as kind of footloose, stodgy, you know, anyone who's opposed to this educational material in schools is opposed to even any sexual education.
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You know, these people belong in another century kind of deal.
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I think that's the message they're trying to push.
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But anytime anyone points out and says, okay, well, you know, here's an example of the pornography available in this school, this school, this school, and this school, and that's clearly not age appropriate for someone in the second, third, fourth grade.
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They never actually address what is being removed from these libraries.
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You know, you're the old studs from Footloose here.
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um i just have a hard time other than the regular you know our our team gets to the point their team
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gets a point other than that what could possibly drive them to continue fighting at this point
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uh where they go into malicious over compliance and something like this fighting so hard to keep
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porn in front of little kids exactly when you're speaking to somebody that has as as i in british
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columbia i'm a well-known conservative uh former spokesperson analyst my child was on the receiving
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end of crippling abuse from her teachers uh and to the point where one teacher had actually locked
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my child in a classroom while i happened to be on an on-site at a school meeting and so i really
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had to fight i've been doxed by teachers my daughter has been harassed by creepy older male
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teachers and then at the same time on the flip side of this we are ground zero here for soji
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one two three i don't know if either any of you remember soji it was it is all about um the very
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arguments that we're having today and the parents in certain communities that were pushing back on
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soji which was about uh non-binary gender fluidity trans rights all the whole spectrum of sexuality
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was captured in this and it was a mandated curriculum for the classrooms of british columbia
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parrots fought back very very hard and the argument that we were you know banning literature
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or banning uh you know the you know the right to for children to have a education in sexual
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health for example was absolutely backwards i actually equate it to alcohol age requirements
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in some provinces is 18, others it's 19. I would say there's a good reason why we're whipping away
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vapes from young kids. There's a good reason why we stop alcohol or do our best to stop the process
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of the exchange of alcohol to younger people in Canada. It is because you are not able and ready
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physically and mentally to manage the consequences of that. I would suggest the same as here.
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um and so i really understand the fight that albertans have there this is to the common
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sense canadian i think we're all really exhausted being dragged from you know post public in these
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culture wars that are what i would consider tradecraft by the left i wouldn't even say
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progressive this this is not progressive stuff this is the endorsement of i think uh
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i i actually don't know if i should say this on air but i i feel it's the endorsement of
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some extremely um what i would consider unbelievably pornographic images and when you
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actually see and i'm very glad that your minister of education and the premier released the books
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because if you google any of those books there's some of them have websites and videos on youtube
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associated with them and that will make your script your skin crawl so coming from a province
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that has had many of these battles continues to have these battles look what's happening
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um in the argument of you know the transgender movement and the indoctrination of children in
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british columbia there so this is all very familiar to me but i would say my argument about
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what the what the school board did was that it was very calculated and contrived i would
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not put it past them to have contacted atwood margaret atwood prior to them
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pulling those books off the shelves all of these movements require some version of a celebrity
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endorsement and so i think you're i think we're underestimating uh their abilities and their
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commitment to a very long culture war in your province i think to that to that point at least
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the alberta teachers association actually has written and published a guide to teachers
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on how to deal with sexual matters from the perspective that we're objecting to here today.
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It's called the PRISM kit. Everybody's encouraged to go and get it.
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So there's a lot of leadership from the top that is being directed against parents and children on this issue.
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I haven't seen that, Nigel, but I will say that British Columbia is sort of the handbook,
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uh the the this the tale of how every left-leaning extremist group should function and i know we're
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going to get into this later in the show but in indigenous truth and reconciliation is a great
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example land grabs are a great example this all starts always in british columbia and it is
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embarrassing and it completely is counterintuitive to the judiciary and to our regulatory system and
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democratic process and parents still outrank teachers i don't care what they think and this
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is the argument that british columbia parents have had as well so that handbook or that guide
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to indoctrination as i as i call it nigel that has probably roots to the bctf um and some of the
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school boards here and uh we're every fall every semester there's one teacher that's fired here or
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one school board trustee that seems to be canceled it's an ongoing problem and i'm and i'm happy to
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see parents holding the line i think it's very important that we do that well that's this is a
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good segue uh to where we're going now so uh it's a little background uh i was at the labor day
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classic uh where calgary smashed edmonton pretty well on monday labor day and a guy also sits near
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me in the epic man stadium there told me about something that's going on at uh at a high school
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in sylvan lake sylvan lake alberta a small town just west of red deer where a volunteer high
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school football coach he's coached this team for 10 years um he had posted a video on tiktok
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um where uh you know he he said that you know trans ideology is being pushed on children
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aggressively and as a cure-all for anything you have. I mean, no one's come through high school
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and not been a little bit off. You know, you might be depressed. You're unusual. You're changing.
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You're going through puberty. All these is a weird time in your life. And the trans ideology
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or just gender ideology more broadly is being pushed on children as a cure-all.
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And, you know, he made the link that, you know, this messes up a lot of kids. And in some cases,
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what he said was factually correct, I think it's within
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captured organization like the Alberta Teachers
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our last segment, has defended the right of a pedophile to continue teaching in Alberta schools.
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That turned out to be probably a bit of a tactical error for them.
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But he was, no pun intended, sacked from his job as one of the assistant coaches,
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the defensive coordinator, and this has resulted in a huge backlash.
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I've spoken to a ton of those students who are outraged by this.
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kind of socially conservative views, even if you
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call that socially conservative. I think it's pretty damn
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gotten the courage to speak back up against this
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I talked to the principal last night, and she said, I can't comment on this because the investigation's ongoing.
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To which I said, you mean you fired him before you investigated?
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To which she says, I can't talk at all. Goodbye.
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I think she realized she stepped a bit on that one.
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A guy who dedicates his time to help these kids.
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I can't believe how these kids talk about this guy.
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uh i've had some great coaches in my life but i i've never looked up to one the way these kids
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look up to this guy this guy's a role model he sees it as his job to mold young boys uh sorry
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boys into young men um and and then you've got he says this far left crazy woke high school
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principal alex lambert is her name uh in sylvan lake who's done this and it's just created this
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this total uproar um and and none of this was done on school property none of this is most
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the kids didn't even know he talks about this kind of thing on his own time um it's it's total
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madness poisoning our schools and i i guess comes back to the theme of what we were just talking
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about i i don't understand why these people are so they're not subtly pushing things anymore
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And they didn't get the memo, 2025, you can't silence us.
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You can't bully people into silence the way they have been for the last nearly decade of silencing people just by saying, you know, you're a racist, you're a sexist, you're a homophobe, you're a transphobe.
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Well, I think in the end he'll be vindicated because everything that has been declared
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to be wrong in the last five years was actually declared, has been the common understanding
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of humanity through all races, all religions, for however many thousand years you want to
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But this is the only society, this one that we're living in right now, this is the only
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one that has ever suggested that large numbers of young people are born in the wrongs in the wrong
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body and ought to have been born something other than what they were and that the right thing to
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do is uh is surgery to to correct what nature clearly got wrong so you know it may take a few
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more years yet but eventually and it's i don't mean eventually in the distant future i expect
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to live to see it, that people say, I can't believe that we ever thought these things.
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So this gentleman will have, if not a laugh, he'll have the last word and will be vindicated.
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But it goes to show the force and the incredible viciousness of people who,
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saying that they want to be kind to kids who are going through a difficult stage
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actually use it as an excuse to sexualize them and presumably in the
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years to come who knows what but at any rate they're not doing the kids any
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favor this gentleman is and in the end he will be vindicated as well the rest of
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us who've taken this point of view and this is the culture war we refer to in the first part of this
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program at least uh you know when i called uh the principal and i called the superintendent
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they were totally unprepared which leads me to believe that they didn't think this would be a
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controversy that this this is just totally fine we got you you said something that doesn't tow the
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But even though most people in their hearts knew this was madness, that this was child abuse, that were harming children here.
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Everybody knew it or most people knew it, but everyone was afraid.
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The kids have have been taken aside and told not to speak up.
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Leave this to the to the teachers and the school board and the superintendent.
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it. This is not for you. They've been told to shut up
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Students are calling for the firing of the principal now.
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shut it down absolutely and i every and i watched your interview with him derek and i thought it was
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a really interesting uh perspective because he he made it very clear he's not political
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he wasn't trying to be hateful and i i did watch the original tiktok video and thankfully you put
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some of it up there because it's now a video that's gone most people won't be able to see
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the original um but what i what wasn't lost on me was everything he was saying in that regular
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good guy way was what the scientists in europe and the medical doctors are saying about the the
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rush to the you know the transgender ideology and this assumption that if a child and there's still
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a child you know 13 14 15 their front lobe is engorged we should we need to remember that they're
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like drunk drivers at that age you need to take the keys away there's a reason again we don't
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allow them to gamble and we definitely don't want them vaping and we don't want them smoking and we
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don't want them drinking um in bc we obviously still give them street drugs but it's sanctioned
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by the government so it's okay um but i just had to throw that in because bc is upside down land
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but everything he was saying was regular normal common sense canadian way of really in his
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interpretation whether he understood this or not is what europe and the uk have put forward which
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is something canada is not doing which is a in in simple terms that the hay slow down step back
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we are not mutilating nine-year-olds you can't identify as one gender or another when you're 10.
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we are going to reset the rules we're going to be brave i and i was quite surprised surprised when
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the uk made that shift but the courts had sort of backed the uk into this as well so politically i
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I don't think they had another exit strategy, but the EU has taken that direction as well.
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A lot of what we see with preteen and teenage kids, especially for girls, and I'm a girl mom,
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is their, their front lobe is actually engorged with blood. I'm not joking when I say it's like
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them being tipsy, like a drunk driver. And there is a constant stream of emotions and what they
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like on a Monday, they won't like on a Tuesday. So I agree with what he's saying. And if you have
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a depressed girl and girls, I hate to say this, I'm not sure if you gentlemen know this, but
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teenage or preteen girls are most targeted to the gender ideology or those gender or sorry,
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trans activists those are the trans activists are targeting preteen and teenage girls that is the
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majority of the group they're looking to and so we are once again not only having to deal with men
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in our washrooms and men in our sports and men in our spaces but we actually have activists that are
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actively targeting uh young women who are expressing or young girls who are expressing
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depression and certain other feelings and that is not because they don't identify as being a woman
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it is not because they're transgender it's because they are teen age girls and this world is a i hate
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to say it is a pretty awful world right now limited um you know social interactions are
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contributing to this so i think he's fantastic yay for coach um and and i agree with you the
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problem that you have in alberta which is what the bctf has realized here in school birds have
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realized here is the alarm gets rung very quickly now if they start firing or canceling people
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and they can you know edmonton school board or sorry the edmonton or other teachers in alberta
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other school boards they are playing these games that the bctf was playing maybe five six years ago
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uh derek and i would recommend that they you know kind of get to the end of the book and see how
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it's worked for the bctf how it's worked for the teachers so i wish this guy all the best i hope
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that he continues on his campaign to speak for freedom of speech you know cory i i think the
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libertarian me has died i i i used to agree that i will defend to the death your right to say
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something if i disagree with it it's only one side playing by those rules and if it's only
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agree to sign the Geneva Convention here. We need to
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shoot some of their prisoners. We're going to cancel some
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left-wing concerts just to show them we can do it too um they cancel volunteers for expressing a
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pretty non-controversial opinion that just doesn't line up with their doctrine here
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i i i think we have to take the gloves off here i think we need to purge our schools we don't just
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we don't we don't uh we don't accept that okay well you know we're gonna limit it to
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fine left-wing teachers can't show porn to kids i think we got to go a lot further i think we
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have to purge our schools of these people when the other people are in power they do it to our
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people i think we have to fight back just as hard and when we say cultural war i'm not me and the
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war the word war very lightly i think this this we're now fighting for the soul of western
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civilization and we can't control everything everywhere but we can control it here at home
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in alberta people in bc could fight in bc scatchewan and saskatchewan i think we need to
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damn right purge our schools this principle needs to be fired but then we need to start
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proactively going after the others because they proactively come after our people and we're the
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only ones fighting by the rules of war here and if only one side's fighting about it you're gonna
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lose yeah well and i appreciate that you brought up the name of the principle some of the people
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are going to be held responsible for this because what we need to do is turn the camera back towards
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the mob and the pitchforks because we always keep the camera on the victim and who they're chasing
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and even if the person gets away that they were chasing the mob has gotten away with impunity
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and they need to be exposed for who they are and what they've done. They need to stand up then and
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defend or try to, and I don't think they can, what they've been doing because they've gotten
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away with it. They just make the accusation, the person disappears, and they move on. So no,
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the principal should be named. The principal should be shamed. The school board of Edmonton
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in this coming election in two months from now, I hope there's candidates running against them
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with brochures saying this one supported this material in our schools. I don't. Turn the camera
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back to them because right now it's always on defense. It's always the person who's been accused
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and they have to defend themselves. But we forget who's the one accusing, who's the one with the
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finger pointing, who's the one holding the torch in the pitchfork. In this case, it was that
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principal. In this case, it's that school board in Edmonton. And yes, we have to push back. Not
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cancelling, even it's still democratic. Enough parents phone up and say, look, I don't want that
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person entrusted with my children in that school because she's got a vendetta against free speech
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she gets fired that's the way it goes school board it's an elected position that's where some of the
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people got to get off their own butts but yeah you know what those school board members all signed
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off i'm canceling all those books banning those books and maintaining porn in alberta libraries
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exposed them for it turn the camera back at them i bet you they didn't run on the basis that this
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is what they would do if the issue no so let's make them run on it this time i think that would
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There was one person today who discussed the idea of having principals and assistants or vice principals as an elected position.
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If the left is going to hijack education and trying to indoctrinate our kids prior to even grade one, then what is the answer going to be?
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Because parents are feeling like they're losing control.
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and a very legitimate person I was speaking to today said, you know, brought up the idea of
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electing principals and vice principals. And I initially was hesitant to jump on that.
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But the more that's marinated, you know, in my brain throughout the day, the more I think that
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might be something places like Alberta and Saskatchewan look at. Saskatchewan has a very
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similar problem with the types of books that Alberta has, the minister has asked to be removed.
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I mean, they actually might even have it a little worse. So, you know, we need to be looking to the story and chasing the story to Saskatchewan. I suspect something will be bubbling up in the next few days there as well.
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Our Saskatchewan reporter, Chris Oldcorn, exposed some of the very, very sick things that have been peddled in schools in Saskatchewan to very young kids.
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I think the answer is actually to abolish our public school systems and convert every single school into a charter school.
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The board then elects the superintendent or chooses the superintendent and the principal, etc.
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I don't think as a parent I actually have the qualifications to probably figure out who the principal is.
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I'm willing to grant that to a board, but each individual school has its own board.
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And you limit the voting, here's the big kicker, to just the parents at the school.
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not everyone around so that the union which is the only organized entity that's where the unions
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win these school board elections almost every single time it's because they're organized they
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have a uh they have a vested conflict of interest in electing friendly boards themselves you you
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limit the franchise purely to the mother and the father of the children going to that school they
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and they said it and i bet you real quick you're going to get better outcomes you're going to get
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Going to get rid of the teachers who are trying to hold parents hostage by threatening a strike just as school comes back.
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Not holding their strike in the middle of the summer when they're getting paid to sit around doing nothing.
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I suspect as the weeks go on, Derek, there'll be part two, part three, part four, et cetera.
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Because I think this is an issue that's really resonating with Canadians, not just parents.
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BC has been doing quite a brisk business as of late in just handing land over to different First Nations bands.
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You know, in some cases, there might be legitimate disputes to title.
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BC did not have nice, neat treaties the way we did in Alberta.
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Mm-hmm. You know, there is a bigger picture that is starting to emerge from the mist and the shadows here, and that is that when we hear about, for example, the graves story, children were murdered, give us money, we'll go and look for it.
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Well, nobody has turned up and nobody has even done the excavations, but the stigma of the allegation that children were murdered remains and it is used as a moral weapon to lever us, everybody who is not indigenous, into granting more and more privilege in the name of reconciliation.
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Because everybody's in favor of reconciliation, even if they're not quite sure what they're reconciling for.
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Well, what we're seeing now is a very, we're seeing a start of a land-back movement where land is returned full title to indigenous peoples.
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And I think that this present government that we have is wholly in favor of it.
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Eric just mentioned a moment ago that there was a land deal that has to be tested in court,
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but a court rule that land in Richmond needed to be returned to the people who are traditional to that area.
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Then you had Mr. Eby giving special privileges to the indigenous peoples
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you have something called an indigenous protected and conserved area.
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And this is a federal idea, but B.C. has bought right into it,
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You can't do any serious exploration or development without the whole,
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You can't, the indigenous peoples of that area have control.
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Long Beach, don't go there if you're white.
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Derek raised that question right at the start of this program.
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They said, look, this is not the government saying, it's just saying the local band there is declaring it, and nobody's objecting.
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But if you're not indigenous, then you don't get to hunt in that part of Manitoba.
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So what you're seeing here, what the developing picture is, is more and more demands that are not resisted.
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And you have to ask, well, where does it end, and where do you think indigenous people think it's going to end?
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What does our federal government think about it?
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So that brings me to my question for you, Elise.
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We seem to be, our governments, our betters seem to be willing and able partners in this.
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they put up no resistance why don't we fight back this is the billion dollar question multi-billion
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dollar question so just to provide a little bit more context um and and to expand on what nigel
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was talking about this actually this land creep began very quietly almost a year ago and it wasn't
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just it wasn't long beach it actually began in some parks uh outside of metro vancouver i would
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say uh just to sort of you know give a good geographical sense but nobody knew about it
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this ironically was traveling down the political highway at the same speed that the eb government
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was putting forward their own bill c5 which is uh to rush projects forward to move without much
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consent even the business community was against it because it had a lot of regulatory issues
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but it passed no matter what imagine the the the the juxtaposition of that you've got
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here you can have all the land you want we're not going to say anything and some of it's private
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some that's public uh it's definitely unceded territory and at the same time we passed this
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legislation it is a political and regulatory chaotic hot dumpster fire in british columbia
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businesses if you look basie's in a recession there's a good reason why and it's because some
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of these stories now i'll get back to the land grab uh we've had land grabs in very prominent
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very like high public use parks the the beach and tofino took grabbed national interest because i
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think it was most recognizable to those that are outside of british columbia but this land creep
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uh has actually or these land grabs have actually are more numerous and even recently over the past
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weekend another uh first nations band or a group came together and refused to reopen access to the
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public and that was specifically in metro vancouver and as you might know we're reaching 37 38 even 40
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degrees today on the west coast which is breaking all sorts of records and these are places that
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families need to go because we don't have air conditioning here that there's kids that are
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want to have access to these parks and these pools and these lakes and they can't have access to it
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the eb government is politically spineless they're also uh schizophrenic and in most of their
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approaches and unfortunately i don't think our opposition uh led by john rustad uh has has been
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strong enough or loud enough or at least presented what i would consider to be a legal path forward
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uh he has made some comments about the richmond land grab and and and and yes and what and what
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they their ideas are around it but what we really need in this province is a group of legal experts
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to come forward and tell us what the options are because you can see where this is going all right
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I hate to put a pin in there, but we're out of time.
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We have to do a truncated version of parting shots.
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I'm going to give the first one to Corey, since I didn't let you have lost word on that segment.
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The civic election is lining up in Alberta, and Calgary Gondek is in the lead.
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You can't put her back in after that performance.
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And people on the non-socialist side should probably figure out and get behind one candidate.
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Yep. So it's pretty clear what the federal government's approach to unemployment is.
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Oh, there you go. That'll solve the unemployment crisis.
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Canada is now officially in a technical recession.
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I call it a recession. The storm clouds are coming.
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If you think it's bad now, I think we wait for the worst and God help Ontario and their subnational debt.
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All right. And I want to give a tip of the hat to Juno News, our friendly competitor.
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They had a great story just the other day that, you know, we have to bring in temporary foreign workers because there's just not enough Canadians working.
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that could stop you from reading the good work that
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our reporters and the newsroom behind me here are
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doing. Thank you very much for joining us today