Western Standard - Lest we forget Palestine？

00:00:00.000 good day and welcome i'm derek phildebrand publisher of the western standard and you're

00:00:29.280 watching The Pipeline today on

00:00:31.300 October 12th, 2025.

00:00:34.520 I'm joined by

00:00:35.540 some of the regular crew

00:00:37.500 here, former Western Standard

00:00:39.400 opinionator Nigel Hannaford.

00:00:41.500 That would be me. How are you doing today?

00:00:43.800 I just ate a Schwein

00:00:45.420 Haksa. I can hardly move. 0.93

00:00:47.080 I knew you did. That's why I asked.

00:00:49.240 I have to unbutton myself

00:00:51.420 here.

00:00:53.780 Western Standard

00:00:54.820 Senior Alberta Colvis, Corey Morgan.

00:00:56.960 Less bloated today than sitting on the end, yes.

00:00:59.280 Very good. Well, I guess speaking of not kosher, we're introducing today for the first time on The Pipeline, although he's on your show earlier today, Corey, our new Western Standard Parliament Hill correspondent, William Barkley. Welcome, William.

00:01:21.300 Hey, thank you so much for having me on the show today. It's a pleasure to be here with you all. Happy to be here.

00:01:25.500 well let's see how you do

00:01:27.500 we're gonna get 0.99

00:01:29.620 into some serious shit 0.99

00:01:30.740 alright 1.00

00:01:32.020 well

00:01:34.340 a lot of media are talking about

00:01:37.020 Firpoliev's upcoming leadership

00:01:39.600 review, I don't think even

00:01:41.560 legacy media people are expecting he's gonna

00:01:43.560 have a particularly hard run

00:01:44.980 they, you know, they

00:01:46.560 make a talent, they're trying to gin something

00:01:49.540 up about controversy, I don't think there's too much

00:01:51.700 but, you know, who really wants

00:01:53.580 this guy gone

00:01:54.380 he's gonna pass pretty solidly

00:01:57.560 but there's been some tripping here and there

00:01:59.520 is it all just media or is there something

00:02:01.580 to it we're gonna talk about it

00:02:04.020 um

00:02:04.680 hilarious hilarious story

00:02:07.860 coming right after Remembrance Day

00:02:10.020 the Liberals plan

00:02:11.640 for increasing

00:02:12.720 the sextupling

00:02:15.500 of the Canadian Reserve Forces

00:02:17.140 apparently is gonna rely very

00:02:19.740 strongly on making

00:02:21.880 weekend warriors out of

00:02:23.720 unionized federal bureaucrats so you know you can go to your cup w union meeting uh sharing your

00:02:31.300 pronouns monday to friday and on the weekend you go out and they're going to put you in a green

00:02:35.940 jacket and hand you a gun and you can file a human rights complaint for having your uh dignity

00:02:41.120 i don't know uh but yeah they're going to make an army out of bureaucrats we're going to talk

00:02:45.060 about the crazy plan uh here to have 300 000 researchers like it's never ever gonna have it

00:02:52.380 just never gonna yeah and you know and we'll kind of get into some of the overall dilapidated state

00:02:56.880 of the military i had uh if i might toot my own horn a bit i think i had a very fun column over

00:03:03.400 the weekend uh spoiler we have two generals for every tank every tank we've got two generals in

00:03:11.700 canada uh one can drive one can man the gun we our command structure is that efficient in canada

00:03:18.580 the general's orders are obeyed immediately

00:03:20.520 because the only one to obey his orders are

00:03:22.520 himself. So,

00:03:24.660 that's the state of the Canadian military.

00:03:27.980 Adjacent to

00:03:28.560 that, though, we're going to begin with

00:03:30.520 you know, we're a day

00:03:31.780 past Remembrance Day here.

00:03:35.460 Normally, you know,

00:03:36.280 I grew up in military towns,

00:03:37.980 so for me, you know, this was always a very big deal.

00:03:40.660 I was a cadet, so I was always in parades for

00:03:42.560 it.

00:03:44.600 I'd have the school assembly part, you know,

00:03:46.460 a day before or something, and then Remembrance Day,

00:03:48.300 I'd go out and do the parades and do the whole thing.

00:03:51.420 And in military towns, it was always a very big, very solemn thing.

00:03:56.260 Very big deal for me.

00:03:59.820 And, you know, but there's been some controversy around this one.

00:04:04.760 Remembrance Day is normally not a particularly controversial day.

00:04:09.380 Some people have at times accused it of glorifying war.

00:04:12.020 I have found it generally does not.

00:04:14.440 It's about honoring the sacrifice of those who have served.

00:04:16.960 if you agreed with the wars or

00:04:19.020 not. And I can go for either

00:04:21.080 the World Wars, Korea, or more controversial

00:04:23.220 wars afterwards, like

00:04:25.060 Afghanistan, that did not 1.00

00:04:26.960 necessarily have unanimous support. It wasn't about

00:04:29.040 the wars. It wasn't about glorifying war

00:04:30.980 or even militarism. It was about

00:04:32.980 honoring those who have served and died.

00:04:35.920 But

00:04:36.380 like everything, everything is political

00:04:38.860 now. And we've now

00:04:41.020 got some controversy around Remembrance Day.

00:04:43.140 We're finally there. I guess there was the white puppy

00:04:45.020 thing. Whatever.

00:04:46.960 But, you know, now we got a bit more. So the University of Calgary has got this kind of famous rock, big rock, and people can paint whatever, people paint the rock. There's probably 30,000 layers of paint on this thing at this point.

00:05:02.980 very often it's the political clubs

00:05:05.460 you know the conservatives paint blue and the liberals

00:05:07.380 go over the weekend paint red

00:05:09.060 and then your democrats come paint it orange

00:05:11.320 you can put things on it or it can be different

00:05:13.380 causes for roughly the last

00:05:15.560 year or so it's been painted

00:05:17.400 and the colors of the palestinian flag

00:05:19.400 you got various palestinian things on it

00:05:20.980 okay cool but it's been there for like a year

00:05:23.500 as far as i know it's

00:05:24.760 rarely retains its paint

00:05:27.400 on it for a week or more

00:05:28.700 this thing has been the colors of this

00:05:30.940 for a year

00:05:33.020 Now, the campus conservative club, the University of Calgary, has gone and painted it as a Canadian flag on Remembrance Day.

00:05:43.340 They painted a Canadian flag.

00:05:45.860 I mean, being a bit more appropriate, probably should have been done as a red ensign, the flag that most people fought on.

00:05:50.220 Harder to paint.

00:05:50.960 Yeah, that's it.

00:05:52.300 I mean, you can pick it all red, just a shield, but yeah, it's not as neat to paint.

00:05:56.580 So whatever, they painted a Canadian flag.

00:05:58.040 and uh

00:06:00.180 Alberta Premier Daniel Smith

00:06:02.080 kind of shared the tweet and said like

00:06:04.220 you know hey great honor conservatives

00:06:06.180 doing this and then you had

00:06:08.460 the likes of Thomas Lukasik saying this is

00:06:10.400 anti-Palestinian racism

00:06:12.080 I mean the guy says a lot of 1.00

00:06:16.320 dumb shit he says a lot of 1.00

00:06:18.440 dumb shit but it actually took me a while 1.00

00:06:20.320 I don't understand I actually didn't get what 1.00

00:06:22.360 he's getting at

00:06:23.020 so when someone inevitably paints over the Canadian

00:06:26.380 flag if they haven't already

00:06:27.580 is that could be anti-Canadian

00:06:30.900 racism? I don't know.

00:06:33.340 It's

00:06:33.520 it was just

00:06:36.680 mind-numbing. And you saw all the usual characters

00:06:38.680 saying this is racist.

00:06:41.240 First of all, Palafine's not a race.

00:06:43.540 It's a

00:06:44.000 some argue it's a nation.

00:06:46.820 Maybe. But yeah, arguably

00:06:48.500 arguably maybe it's a nation. Maybe.

00:06:50.600 But it's not a race. Mr. Carney

00:06:52.440 thinks it's a nation.

00:06:54.260 You know, I think

00:06:55.740 nationhood can be

00:06:57.740 developed or undeveloped

00:06:59.740 in time. Nations fall and rise 0.98

00:07:01.600 and it's an organic

00:07:03.540 thing. So, I arguably think

00:07:05.480 maybe it constitutes a nation, but it certainly does

00:07:07.640 not constitute a race. We know it does 0.98

00:07:09.660 not constitute a race. And then

00:07:11.560 at the same time,

00:07:12.880 we've got some stories up on this.

00:07:18.060 During Remembrance Day

00:07:19.600 ceremonies, and particularly the one that's

00:07:21.300 gotten the most

00:07:23.340 play here, was in Toronto,

00:07:25.300 I guess at Old City Hall, there's a cenotaph.

00:07:28.000 And they called up some

00:07:29.240 poor cadets. They put these poor

00:07:31.300 cadets up to do it. I think they were maybe air cadets

00:07:33.340 or air cadet and army cadet.

00:07:35.320 So kids, like teenagers.

00:07:37.280 And they have one read

00:07:39.120 a land acknowledgement

00:07:40.680 and the other one do an 0.97

00:07:43.180 ancestry...

00:07:44.960 I don't know what they call it. Ancestral acknowledgement

00:07:47.400 or something. Whereas essentially, we apologize

00:07:49.100 for being white and that there was ever slavery

00:07:51.080 in Canada. Technically, there was never

00:07:53.080 slavery in the modern state of Canada.

00:07:54.740 long long pre-confederation

00:07:57.740 there was technically slavery

00:07:58.940 but Canada actually was one of the first places on the planet

00:08:01.420 even predating the British Empire

00:08:03.480 which predates America

00:08:05.660 which predates most of the rest of the world

00:08:07.520 and getting rid of slavery

00:08:08.400 Canada was the first part of the British Empire

00:08:10.800 to outlaw slavery

00:08:12.520 but we have to have these acknowledgements

00:08:14.380 just about how sinful

00:08:15.740 Canada is born in sin

00:08:19.280 that it ever had slavery

00:08:21.380 yeah

00:08:21.920 of course slavery is bad 1.00

00:08:25.660 we know it, you don't have to say that crap 0.99

00:08:27.820 we just know that, it's self-evident 0.99

00:08:29.900 but we've now

00:08:31.660 drenched Remembrance Day

00:08:34.000 in ritual

00:08:36.180 shame and

00:08:37.800 self-loathing

00:08:39.320 I

00:08:41.580 can't imagine

00:08:43.340 there as many veterans

00:08:44.700 present or past

00:08:47.480 would imagine this is the kind

00:08:49.940 of Canada they fought for

00:08:51.320 and this is the kind of recognition they would get for their service and sacrifice i don't think

00:08:56.600 there would have been you know one of the remarkable things about the canada is the

00:09:01.560 number of people who actually put on uniform in 1939 this was just a country of about 11 million

00:09:09.480 people 900 000 men and women put on uniform 900 000 out of a out of a population of 11 million

00:09:19.720 and they were not fighting for anything but freedom and an end to fascism and what we're

00:09:30.600 looking at now with this kind of thing that you've just described so eloquently derek is a new kind

00:09:37.640 of fascism except that this time it's directed at people like us by the kind of people who benefited

00:09:45.800 most from canada's war effort it is uh it's a shame it's a disgrace and uh uh we'll probably

00:09:53.320 see more of it before we see less of it the only reason i even raise the possibility of seeing less

00:09:58.760 of it is that if you've noticed the shibboleths are starting to fall you know we have uh bill

00:10:05.320 gates coming out and say well maybe global warming isn't the most important thing in the world

00:10:09.400 and some of the government offices backing off

00:10:15.700 on the indigenous claims that seem to require the most proof.

00:10:23.340 I think in the end, oh, and as for trans, 1.00

00:10:26.780 people are starting to say, yeah, maybe not so much.

00:10:31.040 I think these things come,

00:10:33.780 and they're used politically to embarrass the conservative side.

00:10:38.320 or they're tempting

00:10:40.380 but this too will pass

00:10:43.420 meanwhile there's a shocking

00:10:45.320 and sad development

00:10:46.560 I'm not sure how far

00:10:49.120 to take this sentiment

00:10:50.940 but I don't know Corey if you saw it

00:10:52.660 there was a

00:10:53.940 it was on Good Morning Britain or it was a British

00:10:56.640 news show and they had this very

00:10:58.980 very old veteran on

00:11:00.580 I mean there's not a lot of second world war

00:11:02.820 veterans laugh but they had

00:11:04.860 they had this veteran on

00:11:06.460 Do you know the clip I'm talking about?

00:11:07.640 No, I'm not sure, actually.

00:11:08.740 Okay, so I don't want to...

00:11:11.080 Okay, you haven't seen it.

00:11:12.540 I don't want to get too far out.

00:11:13.840 But he more or less said...

00:11:16.280 I don't want to put words in the man's mouth, but...

00:11:21.280 William, you saw this?

00:11:22.880 Yeah, I'm pretty sure he said it wasn't worth it.

00:11:24.360 Oh, okay.

00:11:25.260 I don't want to put words in this man's mouth,

00:11:27.400 but, I mean, he was very old.

00:11:28.840 He had some difficulty articulating himself.

00:11:31.320 But I think it was fair to say, more or less,

00:11:33.580 I don't think I would have fought

00:11:35.740 if this is the country I knew we were going to get at the end.

00:11:37.920 I wouldn't have taken up arms.

00:11:39.980 I don't know. Am I reading

00:11:40.980 too much into that?

00:11:44.180 No, absolutely not.

00:11:45.660 I don't think so.

00:11:48.300 I think the only thing we're seeing with regards

00:11:49.780 to kind of the rock in Canada at least

00:11:51.640 is the erasure in real time of Canada's

00:11:53.640 national identity, what it means to be Canadian,

00:11:56.260 Canada's foundational values and ideology,

00:11:58.340 and specifically in order to make

00:11:59.840 space for alternative ideologies

00:12:01.700 and diverse cultures, and again, at the

00:12:03.860 expense of Canada's own national identity.

00:12:07.100 Yeah.

00:12:08.760 It kind of reminded

00:12:09.880 me of...

00:12:10.980 This was a British veteran. It wasn't Canadian, but obviously

00:12:13.900 very akin.

00:12:16.000 There was a funny

00:12:17.980 slash terribly sad AI

00:12:19.760 video made, and it was

00:12:21.320 I guess Operation Sea Lion, 1940.

00:12:24.640 These German soldiers

00:12:26.100 and one guy

00:12:27.980 burst into the headquarters and says, I know how

00:12:29.940 we're going to invade Britain, and then just shows 0.91

00:12:32.080 them on blow-up rubber dinghies

00:12:33.860 going across the channel.

00:12:35.820 It's amazing! They just let us right in!

00:12:41.260 It made the point in a very dark, but

00:12:43.860 kind of funny way, about

00:12:45.920 what's happened. And that's just Britain, but

00:12:47.780 Britain is just kind of a symbol of what's happened

00:12:50.060 to all of us here.

00:12:53.140 But yeah, we

00:12:53.980 take even Remembrance Days

00:12:56.180 and drench them, Corey,

00:12:57.740 in this ritualistic self-hatred, self-loathing

00:13:03.000 that might go fine at a, you know,

00:13:07.100 federal Cup W union meeting

00:13:09.440 where everyone's got pronouns and a bio.

00:13:12.460 And this is just kind of usual par for the course.

00:13:15.000 But Remembrance Day isn't about those people.

00:13:17.400 At least it's not yet

00:13:18.100 until we declare all of them veterans all of a sudden

00:13:20.220 when they do weekend training once a year.

00:13:21.940 But, you know, we're now infesting

00:13:25.900 even Remembrance Day

00:13:28.060 with this stuff. We have an

00:13:29.960 ideology sweeping across this

00:13:31.980 country in a culture where there's some people better

00:13:33.780 start paying bloody attention to.

00:13:35.940 That rock, for example, at UFC

00:13:37.840 was a beautiful tradition. It was

00:13:39.700 perfect. It was a democratic spot

00:13:41.740 and that was the place to have your passive-aggressive

00:13:43.980 battle. Paint your little flag,

00:13:45.760 the next group will paint it, the next group will paint it.

00:13:47.640 But this group, the woke world,

00:13:50.140 painted it green, white, and such

00:13:51.820 years ago.

00:13:53.740 This was actually a couple years ago when they did the

00:13:55.500 occupation, their short-lived camp on the

00:13:57.580 university, they painted that rock. And they

00:13:59.440 basically let everybody there know it's sacred. You do

00:14:01.580 not dare paint over it again. The tradition is finished.

00:14:04.140 And today, finally,

00:14:05.760 you know, with, I may

00:14:07.580 believe, a flag being put on it. And

00:14:09.380 allegedly, that's controversial. The one place.

00:14:12.220 I mean, I don't fault if somebody

00:14:13.620 came tomorrow and painted the Palestinian

00:14:15.600 flag. That's the place. You're going to do it.

00:14:17.380 That's what it's supposed to be for. So they've

00:14:19.580 said, we can't do it at the place where we're supposed

00:14:21.680 to do it. And then they're bringing their

00:14:23.600 crap into the other areas where you weren't supposed to bring the politicization in, which 0.97

00:14:27.480 is Remembrance Day. And I sadly, I think part of why they're getting away with it, if they'd done 0.97

00:14:31.360 it 20 years ago, when you're at a ceremony and there were still a hundred or 200 actual veterans

00:14:37.700 from World War II who could still get around without a walker and such, whoever was stating

00:14:42.520 the land acknowledgements and saying everybody should look at their shoes and everybody should

00:14:45.540 be ashamed of being Canadian would have been pelted by rocks from the veterans in the background. 0.99

00:14:49.240 I said, we're not going to put up with that crap on our day. 0.99

00:14:52.420 But we need somebody to stand up and say, do not do that on their day. 0.98

00:14:55.900 They're not here anymore. 0.98

00:14:57.100 So those of us who didn't serve now got to get up and say, that crap's got to end. 0.96

00:15:00.700 Because it's degrading such a critical, critical ceremony that just had none of that crap has any place going into it. 0.97

00:15:07.080 You know, and on Remembrance Day, so correct me if I'm wrong, but I think it was yesterday. 0.75

00:15:13.640 Toronto Mayor

00:15:15.000 Chairman Chow

00:15:17.140 announced that they're going to be

00:15:20.020 raising the flag at the Toronto City

00:15:22.120 Hall. No, they didn't

00:15:23.940 raise it on Remembrance Day.

00:15:26.080 I think that might be a bridge too far even for

00:15:28.100 the nuttiest nuts so far.

00:15:29.800 They're probably going to want to get there.

00:15:31.980 But on Remembrance Day, she announced that they will be

00:15:34.040 raising the Palestinian

00:15:35.860 flag at the Toronto City Hall.

00:15:38.080 We also just got word now

00:15:39.740 the same thing is going to happen

00:15:41.780 And Calgary, Calgary City Hall is going to raise the Palestinian flag.

00:15:46.520 I mean, it's particularly provocative, but I think it, I want to pull it back, William, to maybe broader topic of corrupting our public spaces, institutions with things, ideological causes that have nothing to do with us.

00:16:04.800 Palestine is a different 0.96

00:16:07.440 people on a different continent

00:16:09.460 that frankly should have

00:16:11.420 nothing to do with us

00:16:12.640 they want to raise the Palestinian flag

00:16:15.020 raise it in Palestine

00:16:16.880 good for Palestine 0.98

00:16:18.700 raise it at home or wherever

00:16:20.000 raise it on your project property

00:16:21.780 I don't want to be accused of double standards here

00:16:25.280 I'd say

00:16:26.300 we should also then not raise the Israeli flag

00:16:29.520 at City Hall

00:16:30.400 what does City Hall have to do with Israel

00:16:32.500 or Palestine 0.51

00:16:33.660 what does it have to do with your sexual orientation we we should be scrapping this

00:16:39.520 like we've just got an endless now uh ream of applications in for declarative days today's 1.00

00:16:48.180 gay day today's palestine day today's today's israel day uh it's time we shut this shit down 1.00

00:16:56.620 it's time we just draw the line say city hall can have three flags canada alberta calgary 1.00

00:17:04.020 That's it.

00:17:05.160 Okay, fine, if we lose a bet, like say we lost

00:17:07.380 the game to the Oilers, we have to

00:17:09.420 raise, you know, the Oilers flag.

00:17:11.740 Okay, I guess we need a little

00:17:13.540 bit of wiggle room.

00:17:15.340 Give them an inch. 0.91

00:17:16.960 You know what, I'd rather there just be no wiggle room at all

00:17:19.540 rather than this constant

00:17:21.240 pandering to every little

00:17:23.540 group that claims grief or victimhood

00:17:25.760 because many of them are

00:17:26.960 generally fine causes that I

00:17:29.560 don't, at least on the surface, have any problem with.

00:17:31.960 But I'm sick of it. 0.99

00:17:32.600 I'm sick of it, William, and I'm going to go crazy if I see one more frigging flag that's not Canada, Alberta, or Calgary in my bloody city hall. 0.99

00:17:42.100 No, I got you. 0.98

00:17:43.220 I think maybe in the past, maybe there's a place for it upon the canvas of Canadian society.

00:17:47.240 But that's really the thing.

00:17:48.300 We need to reestablish Canada's identity.

00:17:50.720 We need to really reestablish a canvas because it's being rent asunder.

00:17:54.100 I think it's 43% of Canada's youth are actually in favor now of becoming part of the United States of America.

00:18:00.100 And so that's essentially half of Canada's future is essentially, well, they see no future in Canada.

00:18:07.100 They want to go to the States. 0.91

00:18:08.560 And that's because in a lot of ways, we very much sacrificed our own spirit, values, ethos, in order to make space for the culture and pride of others.

00:18:16.400 I think in a lot of ways, the modern advent of identity politics has transformed the pursuit of diversity into an instrument of oppression

00:18:22.800 and very much a political mechanism that leftists everywhere now routinely leverage in order to legitimize

00:18:28.320 and very much encourage the persecution of any sufficiently undiverse or white person.

00:18:32.620 And we see that in America.

00:18:33.860 We see that in Canada.

00:18:35.200 I think in a lot of ways, even the overt abuse of white people has become legitimized based

00:18:41.160 on kind of this advent of identity politics.

00:18:43.000 In a way, you have to even beg the ability to suffer, the ability to have a legitimate

00:18:47.260 perspective now within your own nation.

00:18:51.040 All right.

00:18:52.000 Well, this we're in it slightly behind.

00:18:57.360 Maybe I ranted too much, but it segues real nicely into our next topic here.

00:19:04.360 Bureaucrats at arms.

00:19:05.980 So, Nigel, the federal budget, I was kind of pilloring this.

00:19:12.320 You know, the feds have this plan to increase our reserve forces to 400,000.

00:19:19.620 We're at 25,000 to 26,000 right now, so 16-fold increase.

00:19:25.280 there is a zero percent chance like you you would have to pay reservists a hundred thousand dollars

00:19:32.100 a year to go on a couple weekends to get up there without conscription just no way you're ever going

00:19:37.500 to get even vaguely close to it we've had the a 30 000 target for eight years seven eight years now

00:19:45.480 we haven't closed it by one soldier essentially we've not gotten anywhere also people come in

00:19:52.160 they realize how crappy it is in our forces now you got tampons in the men's room uh it's not 0.94

00:19:58.480 yes sir or men it's yes they them kind of crap there's no esprit de corps anymore our military 0.76

00:20:03.560 has been shredded from its martial spirit it's a esprit de corps um but the plan now is uh at 0.97

00:20:10.980 least for 300 000 of this massive new people's army in canada uh is reclassifying bureaucrats

00:20:20.940 So, you know, first of all, I want to point the listener to an excellent column in the Western Standard from John Thompson,

00:20:28.660 who often writes on military matters, and he writes with some authority because he was in the forces himself.

00:20:36.500 I must confess, when I read this, I didn't know whether we should be taking this seriously or whether we should play it for laughs 0.98

00:20:42.300 because the whole idea is outrageously stupid from the very start. 0.96

00:20:48.380 But you never know with Mr. Carney whether even something ridiculous actually meets an undisclosed government motive. 0.98

00:20:58.120 I really have to think, well, he's made various promises about spending more money on the Canadian military.

00:21:04.860 Well, here's a way to do it, that he's going to expand the forces.

00:21:09.020 Well, if it's just numbers that you're thinking about, here's a way that you can fool people.

00:21:14.120 If we're going to go to the numbers game, let's just look at a couple of things here.

00:21:18.380 There are approximately 400,000 Canadian civil servants,

00:21:23.020 and there will still be 400,000 plus after Mr. Carney has completed his budget cuts.

00:21:30.880 Of that number, 58% are women.

00:21:36.000 That's not to say women can't be part-time soldiers, 1.00

00:21:39.520 but the other thing is more than half are over the age of 40,

00:21:46.860 and more than a third are over the age of 59 now basically that's not your traditional

00:21:56.180 recruiting pool okay and what do they get old cat ladies working in offices they get one week's 1.00

00:22:03.960 training they get shown their shooter gun to fly a drone and this is obviously something that's

00:22:12.380 going to have to be procured because we don't actually have a hell of a lot of these things

00:22:16.360 and

00:22:18.100 I have to wonder

00:22:20.980 what it is that Mr. Carney

00:22:23.140 and those advising him

00:22:25.000 are imagining

00:22:26.060 this is the sort of army that

00:22:28.840 defends, well you would understand this

00:22:31.140 this is the army that defends

00:22:32.880 Berlin in March, April

00:22:34.680 1945

00:22:35.580 yeah, you're not, it's not the criminal crop

00:22:38.040 it is the army that

00:22:40.540 why do I understand that

00:22:42.760 well the stereotypes

00:22:44.660 racism

00:22:46.040 That's racist.

00:22:47.000 Right in your own shot, Derek.

00:22:49.120 Anyway, so, you know, this is the sort of army that Britain would put together.

00:22:54.640 They called them the Home Guard.

00:22:56.380 They had pitchforks, shovels, and one gun between three.

00:23:00.300 You know, and if the juries had ever landed, they'd have had a rough time with it.

00:23:04.300 But this kind of, these are not Minutemen.

00:23:10.480 To use an American analogy, our civil servants are not.

00:23:15.480 the people you want if you have a citizen army and they certainly aren't the people who are going to

00:23:21.280 rise to the occasion with one week's training so obviously this is a big uh rubbish story

00:23:27.540 i can't help thinking that this is all about uh giving the government cover to go back and say

00:23:34.140 they've done something when in actual fact they've done nothing funny historical just note there uh

00:23:40.660 one of the last organized divisions

00:23:42.320 in Berlin, May, May 1945.

00:23:45.240 Hitler, England.

00:23:46.180 No, it was a French

00:23:47.880 SS division, Charlemagne.

00:23:50.760 It was actually French.

00:23:52.360 The French defended Berlin to the end, maybe not Paris.

00:23:55.460 The French defended Berlin 0.86

00:23:56.800 to the end.

00:23:59.940 That's every

00:24:00.660 show.

00:24:02.000 William, I mean,

00:24:03.860 a year ago, the Liberals were saying

00:24:06.500 we're going to confiscate

00:24:08.960 all these military assault rifles from canadian hunters and we're going to give it to ukraine 0.94

00:24:13.360 that's my parting shot oh you didn't tell me yeah well they're they were going to give these

00:24:19.660 guns to ukraine uh turned out ukraine didn't want them because none of them are actually

00:24:24.000 military rifles they're they're just hunting and sport shooting rifles uh so the ukrainians

00:24:28.860 disagreed that these are actually assault rifles but this sounds just about as crazy that we're

00:24:33.000 going to arm the ukrainians with our hunting rifles uh now we're going to make a mass people's 0.97

00:24:38.080 army out of bureaucrats yeah that's how do you how often do you think they are you're in ottawa

00:24:44.740 well so here's the funny thing i've been trying to turn this on as i had to make sense of it and

00:24:48.920 i wonder if really the goal isn't necessarily uh physical let's say but ideological kind of

00:24:54.540 to reconstitute the ideology of the canadian armed forces when we already know that they're

00:24:59.420 doing everything they can not to recruit from people on the right um because the the canadian

00:25:03.920 armed forces like the RCMP has equated traditional values squarely with extremism, right? And so what

00:25:09.400 else would kind of swelling its ranks by so many public servants do, but essentially inject a huge 0.93

00:25:14.740 amount of, like you said yourself, hyper leftist ideology directly into the ranks of the Canadian

00:25:19.460 armed forces. And I wonder if maybe that's really the goal, not combat readiness, not the ability

00:25:24.400 to do anything militarily, to reestablish our martial spirit, but to change the ideological

00:25:30.620 constitutional constitution decisively of the Canadian Armed Forces. To me, that's really the

00:25:35.340 only thing that makes sense. And in a way, it's almost the most nefarious of possibilities.

00:25:39.700 I think there's a good point to that. I think there is also,

00:25:44.020 Carney does need to be able to show Trump and to a lesser extent, NATO more broadly that,

00:25:48.560 hey, look, Canada's got this, we have an actual army now. So on paper, you can show that you've

00:25:53.260 got more. I think that is one goal. But on the other, I think that is a not unreasonable suspicion

00:25:59.240 that will these serve as ready-made commissars

00:26:02.340 to ensure that the military is ideologically reliable.

00:26:06.060 They've already done this at the upper end of the Forces Corps.

00:26:10.400 You remember, it was just the last week or something,

00:26:13.580 the Chief of Defense Staff, what's her notes?

00:26:16.260 I'm kidding, no?

00:26:17.440 Yeah, yeah.

00:26:18.360 She gave this weepy, teary apology

00:26:21.720 for systemic discrimination in the Forces.

00:26:26.000 You know what?

00:26:26.900 Yeah, like everything, it's not always had a perfect politically correct record.

00:26:31.480 But for God's sakes, the purpose of the military was never inclusion and diversity.

00:26:36.480 It was war fighting.

00:26:38.080 That's what it does.

00:26:39.160 It defends the country and it attacks others.

00:26:41.900 It's pretty simple.

00:26:44.780 But those with a taste for adventure should turn and tune in to Fox News tonight.

00:26:49.680 They are going to have a riot with this.

00:26:52.180 Oh, absolutely.

00:26:52.640 I need to get it up.

00:26:53.560 They're going to, Pete Hexeth will be there laughing at it.

00:26:56.080 Trump will be laughing.

00:26:57.380 Yeah, I was going to say it makes us look worse to Trump.

00:27:00.540 I think that, to be honest, like all this talk of a 51st state is squarely the result of our weak leadership.

00:27:06.740 I think that, let's say you have Harper in there and Trump makes the same crack, the same joke about a 51st state.

00:27:11.900 And it stays just that because you had a strong leader in office.

00:27:15.820 And so I think that in a weird way, like adding all these public servants, it makes us worse in the eyes of Trump.

00:27:21.520 It makes us look even more limp-wristed, let's say, effete, and almost incapable of anything internationally.

00:27:28.300 Yeah.

00:27:29.880 Well, you know, maybe this will make the lower ranks, you know, more ideologically reliable, perhaps.

00:27:38.920 But they've already done this with the upper ranks.

00:27:41.560 Promotion now, I'm sure merit still plays some role in the forces, but it is very clearly not the most important thing.

00:27:50.440 uh you know they're not putting a hoser like randy illier from newfoundland in anymore 0.83

00:27:55.920 that kind of guy is not gonna we're not gonna see him as chief of defense staff anytime soon

00:28:01.260 um you know they've got these dei hires who are clearly there just for photo op it looks

00:28:08.200 good on paper to these kinds of people um but yeah i i wrote a column we published just over

00:28:14.060 the weekend. You know, I was thinking

00:28:16.180 so the Royal Canadian Navy

00:28:18.180 Corey tweeted

00:28:20.120 that the HMCS

00:28:22.120 Cornerbrook

00:28:22.780 was

00:28:24.880 refitted and is back in service

00:28:27.860 and they said it is, quote, the most advanced submarine

00:28:30.220 in the Canadian fleet.

00:28:31.840 Now, my dream as a kid

00:28:34.140 was to be in the Canadian Navy.

00:28:35.920 I wanted to command a submarine, so I pay

00:28:37.980 attention to this stuff. And I scratched my head

00:28:39.960 and I thought, it's the most advanced

00:28:42.200 submarine in the Canadian fleet.

00:28:44.060 I'm pretty sure it's the only submarine in the Canadian fleet.

00:28:48.820 Looked it up.

00:28:49.480 Yes, it is.

00:28:50.220 We have, on paper, three submarines built in the 80s,

00:28:53.440 which have been out of service virtually the entire time since Canada bought them used.

00:28:57.440 And these are diesel submarines.

00:29:00.560 They've never really been in active service.

00:29:02.680 They killed a couple of sailors when they brought them over.

00:29:06.780 They've been getting refitted the entire time we've had them.

00:29:09.960 So we have three sitting around, one now, I guess, in service.

00:29:13.460 and I thought, you know, okay,

00:29:15.700 I wonder how many admirals we've got

00:29:17.080 for our submarines.

00:29:18.740 I thought about this and I started correcting the numbers.

00:29:22.400 We have got

00:29:22.940 three admirals.

00:29:25.440 We've got 145 flag

00:29:27.100 officers. That's generals and admirals

00:29:29.440 combined. There's different levels of generals and admirals.

00:29:33.200 But we've got 145

00:29:34.940 excluding

00:29:36.440 joint commands, like chief of defense

00:29:39.160 staff, people in NORAD, NATO, stuff like that.

00:29:42.660 We have

00:29:43.400 So excluding a significant number of those generals and admirals in joint commands and organizations,

00:29:48.240 we have three admirals per active duty or combat-ready warship in Canada.

00:29:55.080 Three admirals.

00:29:56.380 So, like, one admiral can literally run the end room.

00:29:58.360 I don't know what the captain does in the Navy anymore.

00:30:00.380 We've got two generals per combat-ready tank.

00:30:03.820 One can drive, one can man the gun.

00:30:06.180 And we've got nearly one Air Force general per active fighter jet.

00:30:12.180 Now, I know that's a very oversimplifying metric, but I think it should put things in perspective.

00:30:17.640 We don't have a Navy. We don't have an Army. We don't have an Air Force.

00:30:22.160 We've got paper organizations that are just led by people in uniform who are no longer even led, at least at the high levels, based on anything involving a meritocracy.

00:30:34.400 For all intents and purposes, Canada doesn't just have an underfunded, undermanned military.

00:30:38.540 We don't have a military.

00:30:40.920 We've got two tanks per general.

00:30:42.320 Well, in this latest embarrassing brainstorm, which people will see through immediately.

00:30:47.860 And NATO and so on aren't going to say, oh, great, Canada's met its 2%.

00:30:50.620 No, they haven't said, keep them there.

00:30:52.140 We don't need more body bags.

00:30:53.460 I mean, we can't take these reservists and stick them in a real combat situation.

00:30:57.680 It would be inhumane.

00:30:59.240 I mean, I had the opportunity.

00:31:01.200 I've just returned from a country actually with some of the most active reservists on

00:31:04.660 earth, which is Israel.

00:31:06.380 And you'd see them on the streets.

00:31:07.680 You go to Tel Aviv at night, and they're going to the nightclubs, and you see a couple of good-looking girls walk, and you realize they have M4s hanging over their back. 0.94

00:31:14.020 And you see off-duty reservists.

00:31:15.360 You can be careful around them.

00:31:16.040 Oh, yeah.

00:31:16.960 But you see off-duty reservists and people around.

00:31:19.920 They aren't fat, later middle-aged, old bureaucrats, or even old journalists like myself who would be unfit for that duty.

00:31:26.440 These are conscripts, but they're young because they really want them to serve a purpose.

00:31:31.680 They're in shape.

00:31:32.720 They've clearly been trained.

00:31:33.700 That's why you can have them walking around in public with firearms.

00:31:36.680 and because you know unfortunately because there's a very dire need for it over there

00:31:41.400 they're in the middle of a war but I mean there's loads of examples around the world

00:31:45.420 of how to put together functional reserves functional militaries the only reason the

00:31:50.200 current government is doing this is that they don't want us to have one it's as simple as that

00:31:53.380 if they wanted one they'd have a model that would start because they're not afraid to spend money

00:31:57.040 they want to keep it just a woke extension of the bureaucratic nightmare that we're already living

00:32:02.080 And every single last one of the successful reserve army models in the world relies on young men of your biggest demographic in your nation. And I mean, did I not just describe the danger group? Young white men, that's, that is enemy number one of the Canadian government. They're like, oh, they're radical. They're extreme. Well, you're making them radical real fast. You're making them extreme real fast by treating them like second class citizens in their own country.

00:32:31.140 but I mean you're not gonna have a military of any kind big medium small effective or not

00:32:37.560 unless you've got young men who like guns and stuff that's who wants to join up and they don't 0.88

00:32:44.680 want to join up at significant numbers right now because they're treated like crap well again I

00:32:50.760 mean the example if you want to see of any specialized force or something they could

00:32:53.980 garner respect it'd be small and well trained the closest thing we got to Canada and that is GTF2

00:32:58.480 these are bearded, manly

00:33:01.080 looking, tough men and I imagine if there

00:33:02.980 was ever a recording of their, let's just call

00:33:05.060 it locker room talk

00:33:06.180 they're not talking about sharing man ponds

00:33:08.920 they are

00:33:09.900 not politically correct, they are aware

00:33:13.040 of their role. They'd be fired in an instant

00:33:14.900 I'm sure if we got a recording of what they say

00:33:16.700 and that's the closest we have to such

00:33:18.940 if we really want a functional force, you want to

00:33:20.700 temper them down fine, but

00:33:22.720 expand that category

00:33:24.420 and they're not interested in doing that

00:33:26.740 as you said, that's the ones they want to sideline

00:33:28.480 Yeah.

00:33:30.500 All right.

00:33:31.640 It's like April the 1st, but

00:33:33.140 it's real.

00:33:35.840 This stuff should not be

00:33:37.680 a joke, but I mean,

00:33:39.780 we've been a joke of a country with a joke

00:33:41.880 of a military for

00:33:42.820 generations now.

00:33:45.420 Well, I think that's part of maybe the saddest part.

00:33:47.800 I mean, long before we were a

00:33:49.800 peacekeeper and kind of seen as a steward for other

00:33:51.820 nations, we were very much a peacemaker,

00:33:53.720 and we were renowned as one of the international community's

00:33:55.920 most spectacular merchants

00:33:57.700 of violence you know we have a storied history not just of kind of helping people and keeping

00:34:01.900 people safe but very much advancing our own national interests and doing damage

00:34:04.820 all right um i guess okay i won't get as worked up on the next topic

00:34:12.140 uh all right who wants pierre gone um so there was polo just the other day saying

00:34:19.880 you know just nearly half i think it was like 47 or so but you know essentially half of right

00:34:26.460 leaning canadians want uh new leadership for the conservative party um so here pauliev i think is

00:34:35.300 it february it's coming up in the convention january january uh they're having their uh

00:34:40.480 biannual convention right here in calgary um i mean facing a leadership review is probably

00:34:46.600 smart strategically to go to a friendly area each constituency is only allowed to send you know a

00:34:52.680 dozen or whatever it is, but an equal number

00:34:54.740 of people. But you're going to get more from

00:34:56.720 there when you have smaller travel costs, etc.

00:34:58.740 So it's generally friendly turf.

00:35:01.640 Calgary, pretty friendly

00:35:02.580 for PolyEF, obviously. So he's got

00:35:04.720 his leadership review coming up.

00:35:06.700 I haven't seen any

00:35:09.020 pundits predicting

00:35:10.960 that he might lose.

00:35:13.560 Leadership reviews in Canada

00:35:14.900 are almost always a foregone

00:35:16.780 conclusion. The only question is how strong

00:35:18.940 is the support? It is extremely

00:35:21.040 Rare for incumbent party

00:35:23.240 Leaders to come anywhere close

00:35:25.080 To actually losing

00:35:26.160 In Canadian history you can

00:35:29.020 Count them almost on one

00:35:31.140 Hand the first leadership

00:35:32.920 Review the whole process was created

00:35:35.000 I think in the 60s

00:35:37.080 To oust John Diefenbaker he had

00:35:38.860 He had overstayed his welcome as

00:35:41.080 The leader of the party and

00:35:42.580 Don camp and all that

00:35:44.280 So they created this process

00:35:46.460 And he lost it was literally created to get

00:35:49.060 Rid of him so okay John Diefenbaker lost

00:35:50.720 after that the next one comes up

00:35:55.860 there's Joe Clark who

00:35:56.920 got like 66% or something

00:35:59.860 and he said well that's not strong enough

00:36:01.440 so he resigned and then ran again

00:36:03.300 obviously did not win again to Brian Mulroney

00:36:05.220 that's kind of been the bar

00:36:07.360 you gotta get over 66%

00:36:09.020 bare bare minimum

00:36:10.400 to stay on

00:36:12.340 I know a lot of the media were saying

00:36:14.080 oh is Danielle Smith gonna win her leadership review

00:36:16.180 she got like 97 or

00:36:18.440 something

00:36:19.640 she was in like North Korea 0.97

00:36:22.220 territory strong

00:36:24.480 Thomas Mulcair lost

00:36:27.900 normally when a leader is going to lose

00:36:29.680 they can read the room first and they say

00:36:32.200 alright guys, before you even get 0.54

00:36:34.200 to the convention, they've got

00:36:35.800 good feelers out there, you're not going to win

00:36:37.920 Jason Kenney did not read

00:36:40.140 the room

00:36:40.560 after rescheduling it a bunch of times

00:36:43.720 and rigging the rules, he got like 51%

00:36:46.080 obviously couldn't stay, had to go

00:36:47.660 but he would have gotten much less if they had not

00:36:49.640 rigged it. But normally a leader reads the room. Pierre Polyev

00:36:53.580 is going to win. The media are hedging their bets.

00:36:57.300 I think he's going to get pretty strong. But William,

00:37:01.560 I don't know. You just started,

00:37:05.520 but we've kind of thrown you into the lion's den and the press gallery there.

00:37:11.060 Who's taking this seriously, that Pierre Polyev's

00:37:13.680 leadership's actually in any jeopardy? I think the media and liberal

00:37:17.440 politicians are the ones who are really taking it seriously. I think they've essentially constructed

00:37:21.840 this narrative, I think essentially post-election, that Pierre Poilievre is not doing too well,

00:37:26.420 he's not enjoying support, the Conservative Party is kind of in decline. And I think that now

00:37:30.440 certain Conservative politicians are becoming beholden to this narrative and kind of bullied

00:37:34.780 into fulfilling its prophecies. I think it's part of this greater attempted narrative push that

00:37:39.760 we've all seen kind of over the past few years, this attempt to convince everyone that right-wing

00:37:44.020 values conservatism religion even are all dying out it's simply not true i think especially amongst

00:37:49.060 canada's youth uh youth sorry which is for all intents and purposes uh canada's future data

00:37:54.660 indicates for instance that if the last election were to have been decided entirely by canada's

00:37:59.540 youth uh we'd actually been blessed with a conservative government um and i think that's

00:38:03.460 something we need to keep in mind uh that conservatism is firmly on the upswing it's it's

00:38:07.700 strong it's it's doing great in canada especially amongst the youth in our future and i think that

00:38:11.780 do we risk almost uh let's say speaking something into existence that we don't want to do right

00:38:16.700 um and that's this narrative that conservatism is in decline and we really need to be worried

00:38:21.180 and careful of not speaking that into into existence because we're doing great right now

00:38:25.660 and i think that uh the only people who think we're doing badly uh kind of peer polyev's uh

00:38:30.640 leadership is suffering are again the liberal media and liberal politicians i think they're

00:38:34.340 the ones who have really constructed this narrative to be honest if there's any fracturing

00:38:37.960 going on because of the budget or let's say uh polyevs uh well not polyevs leadership but if

00:38:42.840 there's any fracturing going on uh anywhere uh we can look to the liberal party uh to take it in

00:38:47.960 um carney very recently i think he's actually been forced to keep his ev mandate uh to keep

00:38:52.840 people like gobo happy um and that one liberal mp uh erskine smith i think it is is openly and

00:38:58.600 viciously criticized the liberal uh liberal and carney budget right and so if we want to look for

00:39:03.000 any real explicit signs of a party

00:39:05.220 fracturing, we've got 0.78

00:39:07.260 that all in the Liberal Party. And we look

00:39:09.160 to the Conservative Party, really the only signs

00:39:11.200 of this fracture are kind of reports from

00:39:13.240 the Liberal Party and their

00:39:14.960 partisan media that we can't really give any

00:39:17.000 real credence.

00:39:19.260 Well, I don't

00:39:21.120 think the Conservatives are totally united.

00:39:23.140 I think their voters

00:39:25.140 and especially the members are

00:39:27.060 broadly united behind

00:39:29.320 Polyev right now.

00:39:31.160 I think the caucus may be a little less so.

00:39:34.940 Caucus tends to be more upper crust.

00:39:37.880 It's wealthier.

00:39:39.380 They have ambitions.

00:39:41.880 They have ambitions.

00:39:42.800 Everyone wants to be a cabinet minister.

00:39:44.680 They're now looking at likely four years in opposition.

00:39:48.100 Four years, and you don't even have a theoretical chance of being a cabinet minister unless you cross the floor.

00:39:56.580 Interpersonal, factional fighting.

00:39:58.940 power, nothing unites

00:40:01.080 like power. Harper kept

00:40:03.220 his guys together, but he

00:40:05.120 was power. In opposition, he had a

00:40:07.120 much, much harder time. You had Belinda Stronick

00:40:09.320 famously cross the floor.

00:40:11.540 Opposition, you just don't have

00:40:13.040 as many carrots, and you just don't have

00:40:15.100 as many sticks.

00:40:17.200 So, I'm not surprised to see

00:40:19.280 some, you know, we had the floor crossing

00:40:21.240 there. Then you had Matt Jenneru

00:40:22.680 resign

00:40:25.200 in very

00:40:27.100 weird circumstances. It then

00:40:29.120 has like a hostage video put out later

00:40:31.260 like, I swear to God, I was not thinking

00:40:33.140 of joining the Liberals. I'm resigning, but

00:40:35.160 not immediately. I'm doing it in the funeral.

00:40:36.960 It was weird. It was

00:40:39.140 a weird thing. I think

00:40:40.480 I can't say for sure, but I smell

00:40:43.100 something was there. What exactly?

00:40:45.300 Can't say. But

00:40:46.640 I think there's divisions in caucus

00:40:49.160 and from

00:40:51.080 some of the provincial parties, particularly in the

00:40:53.120 East, and in particular

00:40:55.160 Doug Ford's government. They've scheduled their

00:40:57.180 convention for the same

00:40:58.280 day. I think that's because

00:41:00.720 if it wasn't the same day, people would be expecting

00:41:02.800 if Doug Ford is this great political organizer

00:41:05.140 for us, he should be able to knock

00:41:07.320 Pierre Paul Yev out. By having

00:41:09.280 his convention the same day, he can say, yeah, I'm busy,

00:41:11.200 I don't care. I

00:41:13.000 think that's where the division is. There's

00:41:14.520 some, maybe not a ton, but some in the

00:41:17.140 caucus, and certainly a lot on some of the

00:41:19.160 provincial PC parties. You know, there

00:41:21.080 really isn't a person that I can

00:41:23.160 think of who would be

00:41:25.140 a natural fit

00:41:26.740 somebody who's in waiting

00:41:29.340 as it were and that's part of

00:41:30.980 part of Pierre

00:41:32.740 Troye's success

00:41:35.220 is that he's managed to keep

00:41:37.300 those any possible rivals

00:41:39.200 in the sort of the unknown

00:41:40.940 in the caucus but there are two people already trying to fashion

00:41:43.240 themselves Doug Ford and I think Jason

00:41:45.300 Kenny try to fashion themselves as successors

00:41:47.220 one is loyal successor

00:41:48.360 I was going to bring up the matter

00:41:51.140 that Doug Ford having his convention

00:41:53.300 on the same weekend.

00:41:55.740 Obviously, I don't see that his people

00:41:58.620 are doing anything at the moment.

00:42:00.100 They're laying the seed.

00:42:01.080 There's all they can.

00:42:02.620 So as for Mr. Kenny, well, I can't see it.

00:42:09.880 But anyway, that's just because I'm a little blind in one eye.

00:42:15.180 The question on that poll should not have been

00:42:19.860 do you want a new leader?

00:42:21.360 Because people will say yes.

00:42:22.600 The question is, what would you want a new leader to do that's different to what the one you have has done?

00:42:30.400 Because Poliarev has actually accomplished a little miracle here in bringing the Conservative Party up to the point in January, February of this year where it was the recognized option.

00:42:43.420 And this is the thing we've got to remember.

00:42:44.760 A lot can happen in a short time.

00:42:46.460 So right now he's on the outs, but he could be back in a flash with a change in circumstances that right now nobody's even prepared to contemplate.

00:42:57.620 I know what you're saying, but that's kind of said every time a leadership comes up, people would say, ah, but who could possibly succeed?

00:43:04.780 People said the same thing when Kenny was going down.

00:43:07.820 People said the same Stockwell Day went down.

00:43:10.560 Well, and you said the same thing when the last time I brought this up.

00:43:13.580 So I remember the occasion.

00:43:14.680 And people said the same thing when Trudeau was going down.

00:43:18.000 Who could possibly succeed him?

00:43:19.560 And, I mean, from a liberal perspective,

00:43:22.740 Carmi's worked out pretty good.

00:43:24.640 I mean, so this is kind of said every time.

00:43:27.040 These are jobs that people want,

00:43:28.740 and people come out of the woodwork for it.

00:43:30.320 Well, the problem is with Pierre,

00:43:32.480 and it's with the Conservative Party,

00:43:34.680 this is actually a media event.

00:43:36.420 The reason that the media are on it

00:43:38.060 is the Conservatives do not talk to the media.

00:43:43.400 What Conservatives are you?

00:43:44.520 You've got to feed the goat, and the media is a goat,

00:43:50.500 and if you don't give them something to chew on,

00:43:53.140 they will go somewhere else and get it, and what do they do?

00:43:56.060 They go to the liberals and the malcontents of the people who do polls.

00:44:01.040 They are trying to get anything out of a conservative MP.

00:44:08.360 They've been told to shut up and not hug her about with the messaging.

00:44:11.220 all right uh cory we don't have enough time for you here but i'm gonna we don't have enough time

00:44:16.780 overall so i don't even get a parting shot so you're just gonna get the parting shot time and

00:44:21.380 you're up first i'll do a quick one just a gentle reminder to some folks a great cup is this weekend

00:44:26.120 and i couldn't care less about the canadian football league i know but there are were nine

00:44:31.340 big lines drawn in the sand by somebody in alberta saying great cup weekend was the deadline for all

00:44:36.240 those lines and i don't see any of them having been released uh premier premier smith uh has

00:44:42.800 has made it pretty clear that there was a whole bunch of demands she expected carney to meet by

00:44:46.580 then and that deadline's fast approaching i don't think a memorandum of understanding covers it i

00:44:51.960 really hope she's got something in mind for the or else part of her threats because otherwise

00:44:58.400 they're just hollow i think it's a very uh that's a good point nagel well you'd be you'd grab line 0.94

00:45:04.160 about the stolen parting shot look the one thing i want to mention is uh i see that uh under the

00:45:10.680 new deal that tesla mr mr musk is going to be the world's first trillionaire um i'm not jealous

00:45:18.060 good luck to him but it just needs to show what you can do when you give people what they want

00:45:22.180 at a price they can afford well i don't want a tesla nor can i afford one but i take your point

00:45:28.980 All right.

00:45:29.880 William, final parting shot to you.

00:45:33.920 Maybe I'll touch on what we were talking a little bit earlier about anti-Palestinian racism.

00:45:38.440 I think one of the things we struggle with is kind of the difference between anti-Palestinian racism and Islamophobia.

00:45:43.320 And the difference is actually something striking.

00:45:46.680 Anti-Palestinian racism is predicated on this idea that you can't criticize the Palestinian cultural narrative.

00:45:52.360 And that's simply anti-Canadian.

00:45:55.100 It's against everything.

00:45:55.980 It means to be a democratic nation.

00:45:57.300 And it's indicative of exactly the main problem with adopting anti-Palestinian racism

00:46:03.000 is anything salient in Canadian society.

00:46:06.620 All right.

00:46:07.920 All right, that's it.

00:46:09.620 Corey, Nigel, William, and John running the studio here.

00:46:13.860 Thank you very much.

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Western Standard - November 13, 2025

Lest we forget Palestine？

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