Western Standard - Mass migration chaos, identity politics and BC conservative circus

00:00:00.000 Good day and welcome to The Pipeline. I'm Derek Fildebrandt, publisher of The Western Standard.

00:00:29.100 Today is December 17th, 2025, our last episode before we get right up to Christmas.

00:00:37.100 We'll be taking a little break over the holidays, unless all hell breaks loose.

00:00:43.020 We had to be in kind of last year because Justin Trudeau's leadership was about to go down,

00:00:48.620 so it was a less quiet Christmas than usual.

00:00:51.360 I'm not expecting anything like that, but we got a good likely last show of the year

00:00:57.680 for you here today um we're gonna be talking about the circus of bc conservative politics both

00:01:04.500 the bc conservative party and one bc both parties have decapitated their leaders uh one with the

00:01:12.300 majority of the caucus voting to overthrow them and the party board backing them up and then one

00:01:16.360 bc a two-member caucus which apparently was too big to hold together that's too big a coalition

00:01:21.620 to hold together uh one one of the the one who's not the leader voting against the other one and

00:01:26.860 on the party board just total damned mess uh so we're gonna be trying to carve apart what's

00:01:33.120 happening in lotus land skate canada is demanding the men get to compete against women in their 0.73

00:01:40.960 events and if not they're not holding any events in alberta alberta doesn't get any skate canada

00:01:47.120 events because alberta had the temerity to say that men don't compete against women boys don't

00:01:53.200 compete against girls.

00:01:55.660 I guess we're not past all the

00:01:57.240 madness yet. I thought we had more or less

00:01:59.380 won this battle. Seems we won it

00:02:01.320 in Alberta, the rest of Canada. 0.99

00:02:03.320 You're still crazy. 0.99

00:02:05.540 But first, 1.00

00:02:07.160 mass migration kills.

00:02:11.100 Everyone already knows what happened in

00:02:13.380 if I'm pronouncing it right, Bondi or Bondi?

00:02:17.140 Bondi Beach.

00:02:17.700 Bondi Beach in Australia.

00:02:20.420 First day of Hanukkah.

00:02:21.620 we don't know everything yet

00:02:24.800 but it would seem two

00:02:26.340 radical Islamists

00:02:29.100 opened fire 1.00

00:02:30.940 and killed

00:02:33.180 I think 10

00:02:34.460 that we know of

00:02:35.400 15

00:02:37.340 35

00:02:38.460 still more injured

00:02:40.680 maybe the death toll could still climb

00:02:43.880 hope not

00:02:44.400 but you know just a massacre 0.98

00:02:47.820 in that country of Jewish people

00:02:49.940 at the opening of Hanukkah.

00:02:55.180 And I'm dismayed

00:02:56.820 by

00:02:58.320 the reaction.

00:03:01.880 There's the usual

00:03:02.460 hopes and prayers.

00:03:05.320 Thoughts and prayers.

00:03:06.920 Which is fine.

00:03:08.400 When something bad happens, it's an appropriate

00:03:10.260 thing to do.

00:03:11.880 But the reaction of

00:03:14.200 many, I think

00:03:16.620 is

00:03:17.280 insulting our intelligence, what we just know

00:03:21.000 to be true. I think

00:03:23.020 to a

00:03:24.200 guest column penned by Erwin

00:03:26.860 Kotler in the Golden Mail

00:03:28.360 yesterday, he is a Jewish

00:03:31.040 former cabinet, liberal

00:03:32.720 cabinet minister federally, and

00:03:34.880 you know, he's... Solicitor general for quite

00:03:36.980 a while. Yeah. You know, a generally

00:03:38.660 respected guy, thoughtful,

00:03:41.160 and you know, often

00:03:42.820 looked to as a fairly public spokesman of

00:03:44.860 the Jewish community in Canada,

00:03:45.820 and he couldn't have got it more wrong.

00:03:51.380 His point was,

00:03:53.100 we need more education and training around anti-Semitism,

00:03:58.720 we need harder hate speech laws,

00:04:01.460 so taking away freedoms,

00:04:03.220 and more control on guns,

00:04:06.680 more gun control,

00:04:07.920 more taking away freedoms.

00:04:09.760 Not once did he mention

00:04:12.260 that Australia and us and the rest of the West

00:04:15.640 have opened up our borders and brought in a virtually unlimited pipeline of migrants, 0.97

00:04:23.280 many of which are carrying hateful ideologies wanting to do this.

00:04:29.160 Radical Islam being the overwhelmingly biggest culprit of that. 1.00

00:04:34.980 No mention that perhaps we should stand back and think that

00:04:40.900 importing hundreds of thousands or millions a year, depending on which country,

00:04:48.020 of people, a large proportion, what portion I can't say exactly, no one can,

00:04:53.820 a large proportion of which wish to do violence against Jewish people.

00:05:01.880 No mention that perhaps that is the culprit for this.

00:05:06.700 Instead, the action is to take away more freedom of speech and more gun rights from Australians who already don't have a lot of freedom of speech and don't have a lot of gun rights.

00:05:16.620 I'm picking on Erwin Kotler here just because this is a prominent Canadian example.

00:05:20.460 But this was essentially the reaction of the Australian Prime Minister and many other leaders across the West, across the world.

00:05:30.500 This is the response, not end mass migration, of which includes many people who are predisposed to want to do this.

00:05:39.360 Sorry to hurt your feelings, guys.

00:05:41.060 Obviously not everyone from the Muslim community is like that.

00:05:44.040 Not at all. Not even close.

00:05:45.820 But a large proportion is.

00:05:46.980 They got a big problem there, and no one wants to talk about it, and no one wants to address it.

00:05:51.020 The answer is not that.

00:05:52.040 The answer is, take away the freedoms of Australians. 0.99

00:05:56.040 and i feel like that's not only going to not stop the problem that's actually going to create

00:06:03.800 anti-semitism well they're certainly not going to gain votes for that particular prime minister

00:06:09.940 elbanese it's uh to you of course uh still on my parting shot here but i was going to point out

00:06:16.240 that within hours minutes even of this incident and when you call the death of 15 people

00:06:24.100 an incident you're kind of uh damning with think with uh with faint praise that's a terrible

00:06:32.000 bloody thing that happened there and he comes out and he says well you know i'm gonna have to have

00:06:36.820 tighter gun controls as if it was the gun that was the problem and not the two men with guns

00:06:43.760 who decided that day to go out and kill people you know it's such a cliche guns don't kill people

00:06:49.400 people kill people well actually they do and here is it but it's actually worse it's worse even than

00:06:55.400 that because what you're seeing in australia is what we see in canada all the time is an attempt

00:07:02.360 to deny that there is a problem and if you say there isn't a problem then you don't have to do

00:07:07.720 anything and if you don't have to do anything you don't have to offend the the certain ethnic

00:07:14.120 communities and let's call the ones where you know the ones who came here as refugees from gaza the

00:07:20.120 ones who were already here who sympathize with them you don't have to call them out and say you

00:07:25.880 guys did this instead you say well as the australian prime minister did we need to be on the watch out

00:07:31.880 for right-wing extremist groups who are white you know it it is an exercise in denial

00:07:40.120 and it is utterly shameful and it seems to be all the major countries of the anglosphere won't

00:07:46.200 actually step up and call it what it is it is a war on jews and i'm not you know i i didn't become

00:07:55.960 much of a supporter of israel until october the 7th but my word if you were going to go around 0.89

00:08:00.760 the world and pick people off at brown university or some other american university that came up in

00:08:06.760 connecticut recently it's going to go to have activists in australia go out one day to shoot 0.89

00:08:12.200 shoot 15 people dead if you're going to go to a german small town and try and ram a car into 0.98

00:08:19.000 their christmas uh fair and kill people that way there is something going on and it is utterly 1.00

00:08:27.320 foolish to deny it but that's what these people do that is the discouraging message i take away 0.95

00:08:33.000 from the events of Bondi Beach. 0.98

00:08:34.920 So, the Australian Prime Minister,

00:08:37.520 Corey,

00:08:39.280 you know, he says, we've got to be able to look for

00:08:40.840 right-wing terrorism here, of which

00:08:42.960 this obviously is not.

00:08:45.600 But his reaction is

00:08:46.920 not to address the very

00:08:49.040 obvious source of the problem,

00:08:51.120 mass migration from the Islamic

00:08:52.880 world, which has at least

00:08:55.080 a significant portion, again,

00:08:56.900 portion, don't know, but a significant

00:08:58.660 and critical mass proportion

00:09:00.700 that are willing to do this kind of thing,

00:09:03.000 and instead say, we need to crack down on free speech, and we need to crack down on guns.

00:09:09.560 And by the way, anyone who doesn't know, they've already taken all the guns in Australia.

00:09:13.080 It's a dystopian place for people's gun rights.

00:09:16.480 We're really bad in Canada, but we're practically Texas compared to Australia, where they've taken everyone's guns away.

00:09:22.380 So the reaction isn't to deal with the actual culprits of the problem and the source of the problem, mass migration,

00:09:28.520 is to take away the freedoms of Australians.

00:09:34.280 I would posit that while I don't think

00:09:36.300 they have a right-wing terrorism problem right now,

00:09:39.780 that's how you create one.

00:09:41.700 Yeah, and then there's...

00:09:43.400 I'm paraphrasing probably with Penn Jillette,

00:09:46.020 who said a great thing some years ago.

00:09:47.400 He said, whenever something horrific happens,

00:09:49.180 somebody does something terrible,

00:09:50.640 governments step in to take rights away from good people.

00:09:53.480 And that's what we're seeing in Australia. 1.00

00:09:55.240 They're cowardly. 0.97

00:09:56.320 They won't target the root of the problem, and it runs deeper than just an anti-Jewish thing. 0.98

00:10:01.460 As Nigel touched upon, though, they're going after Christmas markets. 0.92

00:10:04.620 The radical Islamists hate everybody.

00:10:08.860 I mean, you know, one of their targets are Jews, but when they rammed into the World Trade Center, 0.97

00:10:13.680 it wasn't an anti-Jew thing.

00:10:14.940 It was an anti-Western, anti-humanity, and that had nothing to do with firearms either.

00:10:19.960 So you can take away all you like.

00:10:22.180 They're ramming vans through people.

00:10:23.560 They're stabbing people. 0.70

00:10:24.700 They're blowing people up.

00:10:25.740 the Boston terrorists, what kind of guns did they use again? So you have to stop the killers,

00:10:32.620 not the tools that they're using. We can't ban airplanes to stop another 9-1-1 from happening. 0.81

00:10:37.860 And we have to start holding, and that's where they're terrified, the groups and the countries

00:10:43.500 and the imams and some of the people responsible for the radicalization. You know, I'm going to 0.98

00:10:48.260 use with probably a terrible analogy, but let's say I had my big dog ranch out in Prittis and I

00:10:52.240 had 5,000 dogs, but most of them were really well behaved. But every once in a while, five or six

00:10:57.820 of them would escape and it turns out they're vicious and they would attack a few people before

00:11:00.640 their shot put down. And I'll say, yeah, but it's a tiny minority of my dogs. Would that get me off

00:11:05.980 the hook? You know, we've got to start. I don't care how tiny a minority it is. No other identifiable

00:11:12.420 faith or group is spawning so many radicals as we're seeing out of radical Islam, as we have 0.98

00:11:18.620 seen for the last 80 years it's time to start blunt speaking about it and i know that can lead

00:11:23.660 to prejudices against many many peace-loving muslim people it was actually a muslim man who

00:11:28.540 intervened yeah that's an incredible hero i mean he had courage that i don't know if we could all

00:11:33.200 claim to step in on and ironically he got shot by the australian police with their keystone

00:11:37.680 cop routine that's how he got shot he wasn't shot by the terrorist he was shot by the cops because

00:11:43.160 they saw a brown guy with a rifle and they shot him they shot the wrong one and saw the cops from

00:11:48.420 What I could tell actually even hid and weren't doing their job.

00:11:51.100 Because they didn't know guns.

00:11:52.560 I didn't expect guns to be part of my job.

00:11:55.340 It's just brutal.

00:11:56.580 You wouldn't have.

00:11:57.380 It would all be banned, would you?

00:11:58.580 Well, exactly.

00:11:59.540 There is no gun.

00:12:00.460 Yeah, right.

00:12:02.920 One thing, can I say, Derek, about the, you know, there's always a minority.

00:12:09.300 We're not condemning everybody.

00:12:10.300 One of the things that sociologists pointed out years ago was that in any sort of mass national psychosis, there is usually only a very few people who are prepared to act, but there are 10 who will give them money so that they can act, and there are 90 who will read about it in the paper and nod their heads approvingly.

00:12:37.560 And I think that's kind of, I wouldn't want to be hung up on the exact numbers, but I think with the Muslim population in Canada, most of them will never attack you.

00:12:50.360 but some will certainly support people who do the attacking and if our reports

00:12:59.840 are to be believed the others will quietly nod with satisfaction and look

00:13:06.260 forward to the day when Canada is a Muslim country and we'll just get there 1.00

00:13:09.760 in the end that's the way this is breaking down so yeah man and it's tough

00:13:15.140 I mean we're talking immigration is part of the root of it yeah

00:13:17.900 Mass immigration, but I do admit part of it's difficult.

00:13:22.780 I mean, how do you separate the fly poop from the pepper?

00:13:25.920 How do you find the radical immigrant versus the genuine one who just wants to find a job? 1.00

00:13:30.420 You're getting into thought crime territory.

00:13:32.120 Well, that's why we don't sift through it.

00:13:34.640 We just stop taking them from that part of the world.

00:13:37.080 Oh, I'm okay with that.

00:13:38.240 I'm just trying to...

00:13:39.260 I've been going off the deep end on this stuff lately.

00:13:42.020 I've gone from very reasonable and moderate on immigration to pretty hardcore.

00:13:46.900 It's, you know what?

00:13:47.900 It's not our job to sort it through.

00:13:49.380 It's your job to sort it through in your own countries.

00:13:51.820 And when you guys figure that out, then we can talk.

00:13:54.440 We're not giving any tariffs. 0.99

00:13:55.260 It's not up to us to sort through your shit. 1.00

00:13:58.860 You sort it out in your own countries. 1.00

00:14:00.300 And when you sort it out, they'll come to us.

00:14:03.320 In the meantime, it shouldn't be our problem.

00:14:05.620 But we're importing problems.

00:14:06.960 Yeah.

00:14:09.820 By the way, we imported a bunch of problems 30 years ago.

00:14:13.880 remember the still the largest terrorist incident in canada was the air india bombing i think it's

00:14:21.720 something like 300 people went down with that plane that was not planned by anybody but people

00:14:27.500 who had immigrated from india uh one wonders whether for the express purpose of doing something

00:14:32.840 like that and that in that case it was not muslims this was that was a radical she can calistani uh

00:14:38.880 issue put it in it is reporting from bringing in all the problem people in well here's some of the

00:14:44.720 challenges though again i mean boy we're talking though the the radical uh calistani movement is

00:14:50.240 very very dangerous uh yet at the same time you know we have a massive amount of indian immigrants 1.00

00:14:54.800 into canada never really had a problem with the hindu element coming in but that's where you're

00:15:00.480 starting to sift through the immigrant well yeah you know within the sea community they terrorize 1.00

00:15:05.040 other members who are more moderate within the Sikh community

00:15:07.320 who are just not, they're like, yeah, I'm in Canada

00:15:09.360 now. It's not, I'm not dealing

00:15:11.320 with this. And I'm not altogether

00:15:12.960 unsympathetic with Kalistan. A lot of people did come here 0.99

00:15:15.180 to get away from that crap. Yeah, I'm not all 0.98

00:15:17.260 even untogether unsympathetic for those who want

00:15:19.240 independent Kalistan. People who

00:15:21.280 want their own country. It's self-determination.

00:15:23.820 Okay, I'm not

00:15:25.120 altogether opposed to the principle of it.

00:15:26.940 But don't do this as a staging area.

00:15:29.160 Over in Kalistan. You want to fight 0.99

00:15:31.160 about Kalistan? Do it in Kalistan.

00:15:32.980 not here

00:15:34.320 we've seen radio hosts attacked

00:15:36.960 in northeast Calgary over that

00:15:38.760 Rishi, we know him, we know Rishi

00:15:40.720 like

00:15:41.420 but like

00:15:45.280 the first step though is

00:15:46.960 talking openly about it, bluntly

00:15:48.960 and we're starting in here

00:15:51.060 take your dog ranch

00:15:52.700 analogy, imperfect as it is

00:15:54.980 even further, so I'm going to stretch the metaphor

00:15:56.820 you know, this would be like

00:15:59.140 you know, okay, so you've got some ones that are

00:16:01.220 you know, bad and running around

00:16:02.980 Um, this would be like you now saying, okay, to, to fix the problem of my dogs here, uh,

00:16:08.140 I'm going to require everyone else in the neighborhood to register their cats.

00:16:11.140 Yeah.

00:16:12.040 You know, we're going to have to spay your cats now. 0.98

00:16:14.560 We're going to spay everyone's cats.

00:16:15.900 Well, the cats had nothing to do with it.

00:16:18.820 Homegrown regular Australians had nothing to do with this. 0.88

00:16:21.780 You don't need to take away more of their freedom of speech, more of, they don't need

00:16:26.520 have any gun rights, but whatever

00:16:28.520 piddly, measly

00:16:30.620 access they have to legitimate

00:16:32.520 use of firearms, take that away.

00:16:34.320 No, we're going to spay the cats because we have a couple

00:16:36.580 of rabid dogs from Cory's ranch.

00:16:39.640 That's

00:16:40.080 what they're doing. Because they're afraid to deal

00:16:42.460 with Cory. They're chickens. 0.97

00:16:44.300 That's the real problem, too. 0.89

00:16:46.660 Just to say, you know what, we're going to put a big wall around 1.00

00:16:48.420 your ranch until you can get your crap and dogs 1.00

00:16:50.380 under control. None of them are leaving your ranch. 1.00

00:16:52.400 Yeah, that's the answer.

00:16:55.220 Alright.

00:16:55.660 Right. Well, we're going to stick with mass migration, but we're going to bring it all the way home here, where at least one politician in Canada is proposing to do something sane about it.

00:17:09.040 So, Don Braid, because I'm not Don Braid, Rick Bell and the Calgary Sun, Harold, it's all the same thing now, had a good scoop today and last night.

00:17:20.100 um the danielle smith is floating the idea now and i can tell you a matter of factly

00:17:26.400 pretty serious about it of um essentially alberta bringing in kind of parallel to the

00:17:35.120 federal immigration system a requirement that uh everyone would have to be working here for

00:17:40.520 roughly at least 10 years or so paying into the system before you're actually able to take

00:17:46.140 anything out of it, which I think makes a lot of sense. I think she needs to expand it beyond just

00:17:51.540 welfare and whatnot. It needs to be applied to maybe even education and whatnot. The idea being

00:17:56.200 that Alberta gets to say, here's immigrants that we approve of. These ones look like they're of 1.00

00:18:01.440 value to us because it's not supposed to be a one-way street. It's supposed to be a two-way

00:18:04.340 street here. If you don't have it, we're going to deny you social services. So no welfare.

00:18:11.680 They haven't fleshed the whole thing out, but I think it should be extended to education. No,

00:18:14.560 your kids are not getting educated on the

00:18:16.680 taxpayer's dime in Alberta, you can put them in a private

00:18:18.700 school if you want, without

00:18:20.560 the public support for that section of

00:18:22.700 you in the private school

00:18:23.680 we shouldn't even issue you a driver's

00:18:26.920 license, we should make it

00:18:28.180 virtually impossible to legally live here

00:18:30.920 unless you've

00:18:32.840 met Alberta's criteria

00:18:34.260 and she wants to also

00:18:36.640 like Quebec, take more control over 0.77

00:18:38.720 selecting immigrants, her cultural

00:18:40.720 compatibility and what not, Quebec does that

00:18:42.560 really heavy for language but you know we've got whole sections of calgary here now where

00:18:47.360 schools half the kids more don't even speak functional english as a second language and so

00:18:55.700 no one's learning anything the kids in the class who speak english they're not learning anything 0.98

00:19:00.440 because the teachers try they have there's little schools and neighborhoods in calgary

00:19:04.780 where they have translators.

00:19:08.140 Translators! 1.00

00:19:10.280 This is not

00:19:11.160 good for us.

00:19:13.800 And the real

00:19:15.920 reforms need to happen at the federal level, Corey, but

00:19:17.840 I don't know. I think this is a huge

00:19:19.900 first step for any province

00:19:21.780 stepping up to

00:19:23.860 trying to wrangle this issue.

00:19:25.180 This is a great way for a province to try and take control

00:19:27.740 of an issue that is a federal mismanagement

00:19:30.080 issue, because we're limited. You can't

00:19:31.960 under the rules of the Federation stop

00:19:33.920 inter-provincial migration. I mean, it would be

00:19:35.900 not viable to be able to do that

00:19:38.020 as somebody who's moving from Toronto or Saskatchewan or

00:19:39.900 BC to Alberta. But you

00:19:41.940 can make this an unpleasant destination

00:19:44.060 for the kind of immigrants you don't want. 1.00

00:19:46.600 And that's, if

00:19:47.920 they're actually shopping for provinces based

00:19:50.020 on who's got the best social services for

00:19:51.940 me, well, we're not going to be high

00:19:53.900 on their list as a destination spot to land.

00:19:56.240 In fact, some of the ones who are

00:19:57.920 already here and strongly partaking

00:20:00.260 in the social services might reconsider

00:20:02.040 or where they're living and move elsewhere.

00:20:04.320 This is going to turn to something much bigger as it goes

00:20:07.860 because then some of the other provinces saying,

00:20:10.180 well, come one, come all,

00:20:11.260 take advantage of our welfare and our school

00:20:13.400 and everything are suddenly going to find themselves

00:20:14.900 overwhelmed by the welfare shoppers.

00:20:16.500 It goes a little farther back almost to Ralph Klein

00:20:18.820 when he was giving bus tickets to undesirables

00:20:21.720 to move to other provinces.

00:20:23.000 It wasn't immigrant-based.

00:20:24.300 It was just saying the ones collecting welfare,

00:20:26.240 if you really want to move to a province

00:20:27.540 with better welfare, we'll help you out.

00:20:30.080 Yeah, or even worse,

00:20:31.760 the Castro getting rid of is 0.87

00:20:33.680 undesirable, saying, well, if the states are taking them all

00:20:35.820 and giving them impunity, let's empty our mental

00:20:37.660 institutions and our prisons and send them all over there. 0.55

00:20:39.780 You can have them.

00:20:41.440 Though I must be a little too rude in our immigrants or not 1.00

00:20:43.740 necessarily about those and lunatics, but 0.98

00:20:45.420 I get it. It's a strategy of

00:20:47.840 just saying, we're not going to make

00:20:49.780 it as nice here for you.

00:20:51.240 The incentives matter.

00:20:52.620 I mean, I've got all kinds of sympathy

00:20:54.600 for people on age, but

00:20:56.540 we pay more to people on age in

00:20:58.600 Alberta than they do in B.C., Saskatchewan

00:21:00.540 than most other places so guess what if you've got nothing else tying you to manitoba come to

00:21:05.980 alberta better deal um so using that uh extending that metaphor the idea of how did you put it 1.00

00:21:15.260 making it just a little less comfortable you know it has the one thing where i'm not quite sure how

00:21:21.260 this works out is that if if the family moves into alberta and they have children and the children

00:21:29.260 don't get to go to school well what happens you raise a generation of driven all delinquents

00:21:37.260 so there are there are there has got to be some uh other way of discouraging immigration i'm not

00:21:45.180 sure they mentioned in uh education i think they should include it but we have to make it very

00:21:50.380 appetizing them for them to leave like you don't get a driver's license and okay you're gonna get

00:21:55.660 arrested then like you're going to end up facing the legal system by not being in compliance with

00:21:59.660 other sections of alberta law if we have not approved you being here well just to play that

00:22:03.820 devil's advocate and unintended consequences though if new immigrants are having difficulty

00:22:07.660 getting driver's licenses here it's going to be harder for them to find jobs here which is

00:22:10.540 the intent we want them working and contributing yeah uh but you have to be approved to be here

00:22:15.660 first like you have to be someone who's met alberta's criteria for cultural compatibility

00:22:21.100 could speak at least a little bit of english yeah you don't have to come here quoting shakespeare

00:22:27.020 fresh off the boat but you've got to be able to function before you land on our soil okay so just

00:22:33.100 let's say he's a fellow who's coming in from another province another country he's going to

00:22:37.500 take 150 000 a year job which he is uniquely qualified and he gets here he's told he can't

00:22:44.540 drive the car now that is going to well if he's if he's landing 150 000 a year job there's a very

00:22:50.860 good chance the alberta government will say ah that's the kind of guy we want he's got some

00:22:54.700 unique skills that can't be done but we won't take the we won't take the because we need the

00:23:01.500 day laborers how are we going to make that you know no i don't think we need the day laborers 0.99

00:23:05.660 actually we've created an underclass here where we've now made people born here unemployable here

00:23:11.740 we've cut them out of the bottom of the labor market kids can't get their first jobs nearly as

00:23:17.580 as easily as when i was a teenager or little alone when you old guys were i'm old now too i guess but

00:23:23.420 like i was around when my labor as a 14 a 16 year old was in demand it's not in demand now if you

00:23:31.660 know if we were making fries here instead of news i'm offered a 25 year old person who maybe doesn't

00:23:38.920 be very good english whatnot but a 25 year old person who i'm gonna pay 15 minimum a very high

00:23:44.100 a $50 minimum wage to, or the 14-year-old offered a $50 minimum wage to, I'm probably

00:23:49.800 going to go with the 25-year-old.

00:23:50.980 You're more likely to show up on time, have a little discipline at the job.

00:23:54.760 But we've created an underclass here where unskilled labor of people born here is now 0.57

00:24:00.140 completely wiped out of the labor market.

00:24:02.080 They don't have the skills to be high enough, but they're also out-competed at the bottom.

00:24:10.320 There's a little more going on here than we're betting.

00:24:12.820 If you go to your fast food restaurant, you're going to find that the servers are almost 100% working for minimum wage and coming from places where minimum wage looks pretty good.

00:24:26.000 So, and they're probably here on student visas, but not going to school.

00:24:32.400 So maybe we start there and just say, all right, we've had enough of that.

00:24:36.020 It's time for some people to go home.

00:24:37.640 It's time to put the gate up against others.

00:24:39.860 So the people who are born here, and it's not just white people,

00:24:43.520 it's also everybody else who was born here,

00:24:46.480 can actually have a fair chance at a job.

00:24:48.700 I mean, I don't know what it must be like to run a fast food restaurant.

00:24:53.500 You're probably dealing with irresponsible staff who don't show off on time.

00:24:58.880 It's tough, and it's very tempting when you get into a mother load of dependable employees,

00:25:03.540 just keep bringing them from there.

00:25:05.960 But there are other objectives in our community in which we live

00:25:08.980 than just getting an hamburger.

00:25:11.200 I can speak as a guy who owned a food service industry business

00:25:13.640 with those microscopic margins.

00:25:15.800 And I had a couple of excellent young workers

00:25:18.780 who were from the community.

00:25:19.920 You know, there were students, kids who would work weekends and evenings.

00:25:22.860 And I was very happy to have them.

00:25:24.500 They're from nearby and, you know, the community enjoys that too and everything.

00:25:28.300 But for the bulk of my steady workers, I tell you what,

00:25:30.380 I put a job posting up.

00:25:32.540 They aren't applying.

00:25:33.840 I'm not even getting applicants from the younger community

00:25:37.300 who want full-time work.

00:25:38.980 or making, you know, jobs in that, and it's a high turnover, unreliable industry as it is,

00:25:45.120 and yeah, truthfully, new Canadians were typically my best workers. They would show up on time,

00:25:51.000 put in a fantastic day, you know. We've also, we've completely distorted our labor market here,

00:25:56.420 where we've got to have, so it's not just kids doing part-time now, but unskilled,

00:26:02.040 blue-collar workers, you know, people who are going to work at the lower end,

00:26:05.760 They don't have the education.

00:26:07.420 You know, maybe they don't have the privilege, whatever.

00:26:10.220 But there's nowhere for them to go right now.

00:26:12.380 There's nowhere for them to go.

00:26:13.580 We've completely cut them out of the labor market in their own country. 0.99

00:26:16.520 It's their inheritance, and it's gone.

00:26:19.040 I mean, the bottom line is, yeah, I mean, it's going to be complicated,

00:26:22.180 but something's going to change.

00:26:23.100 There's no doubt that something's going to give.

00:26:24.300 And I love where the premier is going, though.

00:26:25.820 This is where we're exercising ourselves as a province to say,

00:26:28.580 well, look, we're going to work with our demographic to change it,

00:26:32.200 These are the tools at our disposal to be able to modify.

00:26:35.560 Ideally, we wouldn't bring someone here who, you know, isn't feeling a niche labor need, you know, legitimate need to bring in people to work here.

00:26:46.460 Ideally, we're not going to bring someone here and then say, well, we're not giving you a driver's license and education and social services, etc.

00:26:54.260 We would be able to determine that before they hit our shores.

00:26:57.020 we'd figure that out if we had a sane

00:26:59.100 national immigration

00:27:01.100 policy, which we do not have

00:27:02.840 which means that Alberta has to do it

00:27:05.200 themselves, and who knows

00:27:06.920 maybe this creates a template

00:27:08.960 and we're going to see others follow it, we'll see

00:27:11.000 I just borrowed Quebec's 1.00

00:27:13.100 template, they take a big interest

00:27:14.740 there, they do

00:27:16.220 I think they overweight

00:27:18.660 French, it's French over 1.00

00:27:20.880 everything for them, but language

00:27:22.620 definitely matters

00:27:23.840 I don't think

00:27:27.140 one place we're going to see this

00:27:29.200 with a conservative premier is Ontario 1.00

00:27:30.860 because the bugger who is 1.00

00:27:33.320 after Justin Trudeau 1.00

00:27:35.080 the most responsible for the destruction

00:27:37.240 of our immigration policy

00:27:39.060 and no one seems to really know it

00:27:41.380 broadly is Doug Ford

00:27:43.040 Doug Ford was demanding this

00:27:45.200 of the feds every single day

00:27:47.300 more TFWs

00:27:49.020 more family reunification, more everything

00:27:51.460 he was the one demanding this

00:27:52.840 because Ontario Diploma Mills were getting rich.

00:27:56.660 And those guys are deeply connected to Doug Ford and the Ontario PC party.

00:28:01.900 He is amongst the most guilty culprits in Canada for this.

00:28:06.300 And he just kind of skated off easy because he didn't technically make the decision.

00:28:10.460 He was just kind of lobbying for it.

00:28:13.080 So I don't think we're going to see Ontario crack down any time.

00:28:16.660 Well, a neat thing just is, you know, sort of the independent active type I am and everything.

00:28:21.160 And part of what I like seeing what's happening.

00:28:22.840 And where Premier Smith's coming from, and I've written about that here in the Standard in the past, the demographic shift for interprovincial, along with from the states, you're really seeing interstate migration.

00:28:32.460 Now in the long term, this kind of can get scary and troublesome, but when you look, Texas is growing, Tennessee is growing, Arizona is growing, Florida is growing, New York is shriveling, California is shriveling.

00:28:43.340 I mean, they're bringing outside immigrants into these states, but the domestic migration is going to those other states.

00:28:49.680 And that imbalance is growing.

00:28:52.660 And actually, it makes me fear in one more generation from now what might be happening down there.

00:28:57.060 But Premier Smith is going to kind of change that interprovincial migration formula happening in Canada.

00:29:01.920 This is the place to come to work to make a living.

00:29:04.320 But it also means the riffraff are going to end up going to the other ones. 0.97

00:29:06.940 And that imbalance is different.

00:29:07.860 Carrots and sticks.

00:29:09.400 Biobics sticks against people who are not needed.

00:29:11.820 I'm sorry, that sounds insensitive.

00:29:13.340 of i'm pissed off about it so sticks for people who are not needed we've got too many here

00:29:19.260 but carrots for those we do want you're coming to canada and you've got some capital you want 0.57

00:29:23.580 a business well we are going to make this the best damn place to do it so you know we've got

00:29:29.340 and we've already in some large majority i want to go back to the conservative governments of the

00:29:34.220 1980s because our you know we had our our immigration system worked out very well in the

00:29:41.500 1950s and 60s where you have to qualify on a number of points you didn't just get to come

00:29:47.980 here on student visa and start work and never go home you had to do you know you needed your degree

00:29:53.580 you needed english or french you needed support somebody in the family had a guarantee that you

00:29:58.140 would you wouldn't be a burden to the states but then they said oh well that's kind of a bit unfair

00:30:02.380 we'll get more votes if we do family reunification and after family reunion that was mentioning in

00:30:07.420 the end right there yeah and it was conservative government that did it yeah um and after that it

00:30:13.660 was well he got lots of money you want to start a business here and in the end come me one come

00:30:18.460 me all and by the way if you happen to want to exterminate jews that's not a really a big problem

00:30:25.180 we can work with you yeah well when my family came they had to be sponsored they were sponsored by

00:30:30.700 back when the United Church was a church

00:30:32.240 and theoretically believed in the existence of God

00:30:34.920 and things like that,

00:30:36.380 they were sponsored

00:30:38.920 by church.

00:30:40.940 And it meant that if

00:30:42.860 my family, they came here

00:30:44.920 with virtually nothing, and

00:30:46.940 if they were unable

00:30:49.000 to support themselves and needed social services,

00:30:51.700 the church had

00:30:52.540 they were legally responsible, and they had

00:30:54.820 two choices. They could

00:30:56.780 pay for it themselves and help them out,

00:30:58.500 or they would pay for the next ticket

00:31:00.680 on the Queen Elizabeth, and you send them

00:31:02.880 straight back across the Atlantic.

00:31:05.760 Yeah, neither of those things

00:31:06.920 happened, but that was the deal. The taxpayer

00:31:08.920 would never be responsible.

00:31:12.720 Those deals only ever last six months.

00:31:15.220 That's, yeah.

00:31:16.720 Yeah.

00:31:18.160 All right.

00:31:19.500 All right, well, we've gone

00:31:21.000 way over time on that one, but we had

00:31:22.960 kind of two in there. It's a big subject. That was a double

00:31:24.860 header one. It was mass migration

00:31:26.760 in general, but it was really kind of a double.

00:31:28.960 So we'll have to, let's go real short on the next one here.

00:31:33.160 Because I'm tired of talking about chicks with chicks. 0.83

00:31:36.440 Like, we already won the argument.

00:31:38.520 We won the argument. 1.00

00:31:39.880 Everybody understands this is stupid. 0.99

00:31:42.120 And although I think Alberta and two of significantly lesser Saskatchewan 0.99

00:31:46.420 are the only provinces that have actually made substantive legislative change around it.

00:31:52.680 But, you know, Alberta, fast legislation are a suite of things.

00:31:56.560 You can't train your kids.

00:31:58.960 Teachers have to tell the parents if they're changing their pronouns.

00:32:03.980 Pretty common stuff.

00:32:05.180 And very controversially, for the NDP and the usual suspects,

00:32:09.660 boys don't get to play against girls in sports,

00:32:12.380 and men don't get to play against women. 0.99

00:32:15.020 You know, maybe shuffleboard or something like that,

00:32:17.440 or if we're playing a game of table pool, it's okay.

00:32:19.900 But in general, no.

00:32:22.520 We got men, and we got women.

00:32:25.280 And it is more nuanced than that.

00:32:26.740 It was actually a very thoughtful policy in trying to, you know, accommodate for those who were confused and have gender dysphoria, et cetera.

00:32:33.820 But then Skate Canada comes out today, says, that's racist.

00:32:39.920 Or that's this-ism. 0.88

00:32:42.060 It's that phobish. 0.96

00:32:43.600 Whatever.

00:32:45.320 There'll be no Skate Canada events in Alberta, you bunch of bigots.

00:32:49.660 Oh, super.

00:32:50.200 That's just the price we pay.

00:32:51.600 Great deal.

00:32:52.340 You know, sometimes you have to pay the price for being right.

00:32:55.420 I mean, quite apart from whether it's fair and are we being respectful for people with trans issues, the simple fact is men are bigger, stronger, faster than women on average.

00:33:15.000 That's racist.

00:33:16.160 I exclude myself from any comparison with my granddaughter, you know, run up the street faster than I can, that's for sure.

00:33:23.480 But, you know, it's not about equality.

00:33:27.820 It's about the simple fact that men are always going to outperform women, 1.00

00:33:32.380 even in wussy sports like skating.

00:33:36.300 Oh, okay.

00:33:37.460 Now you've pissed people off. 0.98

00:33:39.300 You could go after trans. 1.00

00:33:40.820 You could go after women. 0.99

00:33:42.460 You could go after all these groups.

00:33:45.320 Now you went after skating.

00:33:47.420 Now you've lit up the Tom and Sashow.

00:33:49.960 Oh, there it goes.

00:33:51.780 the best. Oh, anyway, if you're a good skater, good for you. But the fact of your matter is that

00:33:57.580 it's just not a fair contest. Alberta had the sense to say it's not a fair contest. We're not

00:34:03.500 going to allow it. Skate Canada will be proved wrong in the fullness of time. Alberta will be

00:34:09.660 proved right. Skate Canada has lost the narrative. The rest of the world's already changing. Even the

00:34:13.820 IOC is realizing this and they're backing off. No more men in women's sports. And when it comes

00:34:19.240 down to viewership and paying your bills those who do like watching the skating aren't going to want

00:34:23.640 to see some brute doing the leg up spinning and his knackers fly out into the breeze it's uh you

00:34:29.960 know going to lead circus levels of what that uh demonstration is it undercuts the entire sport

00:34:37.880 and uh because it is a sport that's respected and enjoyed by a lot of people and allowing this

00:34:41.720 ridiculousness is actually going to ruin the sport they're purporting it's a wussy sport so 1.00

00:34:45.880 I'm not sure you're entirely 0.82

00:34:48.280 correct. I don't watch a lot

00:34:50.280 of Summer Olympics. The only Summer

00:34:52.220 Olympics I watched was where dudes were

00:34:54.100 beating up the women. Because it was a 1.00

00:34:56.260 novelty. It was a circus and it's unfortunate

00:34:58.080 because there are some great athletes actually

00:35:00.220 in the women's and in the men's who 0.67

00:35:02.120 figure skate and all of that. 0.99

00:35:03.640 And this idiocy is going to come to an end. 0.99

00:35:06.400 Thanks again to Premier Smith because she's just 1.00

00:35:08.180 not having any of it. She actually demanded they 0.84

00:35:10.020 apologize.

00:35:12.160 Amen. Preach it.

00:35:14.000 Okay, we're moving through

00:35:16.140 quick to try and get back on

00:35:18.800 Oh, actually

00:35:20.620 we're not as bad as I thought

00:35:22.340 Okay, okay, we're good

00:35:24.020 We're good

00:35:24.920 Our friends in British Columbia

00:35:29.240 Let me just have a moment

00:35:32.800 with the camera, let me talk to you

00:35:34.280 just alone for a moment, my BC

00:35:36.580 conservative friends

00:35:37.520 You need to take a Valium

00:35:40.920 You guys are 1.00

00:35:42.120 completely lost your shit 1.00

00:35:44.500 at this point 1.00

00:35:45.520 you've got two conservative parties

00:35:48.680 which is

00:35:49.220 I mean there is a time for breakaways

00:35:52.400 I was a wild roser, Cora was a wild roser

00:35:54.380 Nigel, I think you had reform history

00:35:56.660 I do

00:35:57.200 we're all breakaways at some point

00:36:00.300 we're Albertans, we create new conservative parties

00:36:02.920 it's our national pastime

00:36:05.040 but there's a time and a place

00:36:07.060 for it, you already split into two parties

00:36:09.240 uh

00:36:12.120 I get the fight you had with John Rustad.

00:36:14.760 That was a needlessly disgustingly brutal fight.

00:36:19.560 And it really hurt me to see John Rustad not show the grace.

00:36:23.860 I think he had in him and did not show the grace to...

00:36:28.440 I mean, it sucks to lose.

00:36:30.380 It really sucks to lose.

00:36:32.140 But there's a time when there's a cause greater than yourself

00:36:35.220 that you got fallen sword for.

00:36:37.120 And he didn't do it.

00:36:38.520 And it was brutal.

00:36:40.160 And then you've got 1BC, the Breakaway Conservative Party,

00:36:42.400 which I think, with Rustad gone, should come back home.

00:36:46.540 There's time to try and make that work.

00:36:48.860 It's not time to break it apart yet.

00:36:51.160 And I'm saying that all three of us have been on the Breakaway right-wing parties.

00:36:54.140 It's what we do. I love it.

00:36:56.300 We can form governments from time to time.

00:36:59.040 Yeah.

00:36:59.920 And we can stay in the same room together.

00:37:01.760 Yeah.

00:37:02.820 And we hate each other often, but we try to make it work.

00:37:06.160 And if you have to break apart, sometimes you've got to break apart.

00:37:10.120 I don't think you guys were at that level yet, at least with John Rustad gone.

00:37:13.680 It's worth trying to get the band, at least try to get the band back together.

00:37:18.060 And then 1BC, a caucus of two MLAs.

00:37:21.960 They couldn't hold it together.

00:37:23.720 I mean, and I don't know who's right or wrong there.

00:37:27.140 Jared Yager's done some great work on it.

00:37:28.540 He's actually interviewing Dallas Brody about this today.

00:37:32.020 There's a lot of he said, she said.

00:37:33.380 I don't know.

00:37:34.520 Maybe she's wrong.

00:37:35.540 Maybe the other one's wrong

00:37:37.340 I don't know

00:37:38.860 Honestly, I don't even care

00:37:40.360 I don't even care 1.00

00:37:41.880 Get your shit together, BC conservatives 1.00

00:37:43.900 You'll look like clowns 1.00

00:37:46.520 You know, it's like that old joke 0.99

00:37:48.480 About two people wrecked on a desert island

00:37:50.620 And you end up with three churches

00:37:52.300 You know, that's

00:37:53.600 The way things are going in

00:37:55.720 British Columbia right now, it's just sad

00:37:57.920 Do you want power, or do you want to be

00:38:00.280 Forever carpet on the outside

00:38:02.020 Get it together

00:38:03.180 former you're not you nearly did it you nearly pulled it off last year uh one two seats short

00:38:10.940 were they in there something like i think three but all they're showing is those who were hesitant

00:38:15.420 and didn't end up voting for them they're saying they're confirming that oh i was right not to vote

00:38:20.520 yeah you don't you're not you weren't ready for prime time we dodged a bullet and that's what

00:38:25.660 you're confirming and david eby is ostensibly one of the worst premiers in a generation going on

00:38:30.480 out there and he's getting a pass and it's scary because you know what if he called a snap election

00:38:35.860 right now he might get the majority at once uh thankfully perhaps he's just not politically

00:38:41.660 astute enough even to realize that because otherwise he's too incompetent uh as a premier

00:38:46.640 to withstand the only hope is that he doesn't do something like that the conservatives you guys 0.98

00:38:51.420 have got a couple of years to get your crap together maybe and boy you've really got a lot 0.99

00:38:55.460 of crap I get together. Well actually 0.99

00:38:57.500 there was a lot of

00:38:59.580 credible sources of BC saying that

00:39:01.200 EB was

00:39:01.940 calling us an ample election

00:39:04.700 it's tougher than it sounds.

00:39:07.300 He would have been in by far the best position to do it

00:39:09.640 but it also would have looked

00:39:11.300 overly opportunistic.

00:39:13.440 It can backfire. Jim Prentice

00:39:15.760 opportunistically called an early election

00:39:17.640 because he thought he had swallowed the Wild Rose hole

00:39:19.280 and all that result was the PCs getting

00:39:21.680 annihilated down to a distant third place

00:39:23.560 Wild Rose coming back a second, and the NDP going from a distant, hyper-distant fourth to first.

00:39:29.680 So you don't want to look overly opportunistic, but there's a lot of credible reports that he was planning for a spring election.

00:39:35.880 He'd try to engineer some reason other than that my opponents are poising the legislation to force a downfall.

00:39:43.500 Maybe he's going to have to think twice about that now, because now the BC Conservatives are going to have a leadership race.

00:39:48.240 Maybe they still end up having that spring election, but they'll be a little more solved.

00:39:51.480 but god bc like i thought we were bad you know i i i when i'm at events they got people from

00:39:59.760 around the country and there's bc conservatives there and they're you know sometimes distraught 0.68

00:40:03.860 about the shit show that's going on i take them aside i'm like it's okay you know you guys are 0.90

00:40:09.980 relatively bloodless in terms of the conservative civil war you had there you didn't even fight one 0.98

00:40:14.860 election against bc united liberals you got them to collapse and fold their tent before it happened

00:40:19.840 good on you guys it's a lot less bloody than what we went through in alberta or what what happened

00:40:24.540 nationally with the performance pcs i was like good on you guys you know don't beat yourself up

00:40:30.240 too much now it's time to start beating yourself up you guys look like monkeys yeah well part of

00:40:36.300 the issue too bc's got you know we've got an urban rural split that's happening everywhere

00:40:40.940 generally with conservatives and liberal we see it in alberta between calgary edmonton

00:40:44.700 and rural. But B.C. has it too. Interior B.C., Northern B.C. has some of the most strong

00:40:50.120 conservative country in the country.

00:40:52.000 They have a couple of monkeys on the line, by the way.

00:40:54.260 Oh, they don't like being compared to conservatives.

00:40:57.320 Oh, yes. And then you get Victoria and parts of Vancouver and some of the most hyper

00:41:02.660 left leaning in the entire country as well. And Vancouver actually has more swing to it

00:41:08.980 than some people give it credit for. I mean, we've seen some strong reform members of

00:41:12.440 parliament come from urban vancouver areas it's been a while vancouver's a different city it is

00:41:17.040 but there's literally different populations still some potential uh going on in the the metro area

00:41:22.400 anyways but it makes it a very difficult balancing act for a conservative party to be able to garner

00:41:27.300 those high population area votes and still maintain i mean it's a nightmare i don't envy

00:41:32.280 whoever's going to try and pull it together but as we're kind of saying here whatever the formula

00:41:36.200 is guys you've got to do it you got to find it you got to find it before spring you know just

00:41:40.900 The first thing is, the Conservatives, John Rustad did finally fall on a sword.

00:41:46.140 They're going to have their leadership race.

00:41:47.780 Those are always divisive, but maybe they come out in the end.

00:41:51.100 But to the 1BC guys in particular, the party, it's over.

00:41:55.260 You guys got a lot of traction with this little party.

00:41:57.820 I mean, it didn't do great in the polls, but it takes time.

00:42:00.120 And I'm relatively impressed with how they made a name for themselves,

00:42:03.680 picking hard wedge issues and leveraging them right,

00:42:07.460 forcing the conservatives

00:42:09.280 who are getting pretty soft on some issues

00:42:11.240 forcing them into the right way to go

00:42:12.760 but you blew it up

00:42:14.420 get back all in the same tent

00:42:17.080 Dallas Brody, you can run for BC

00:42:19.400 conservative leader, I think you'd actually have a shot

00:42:21.820 from my side of the Rockies

00:42:23.860 here, you've made

00:42:24.760 some good waves

00:42:26.800 get back in there, do it together 0.98

00:42:29.340 the BC NDP are too damn

00:42:31.560 dangerous to be left to chance 0.93

00:42:33.440 so

00:42:34.520 alright

00:42:36.800 party shots who wants up first oh just hit it fast it kind of segues in just that there is a

00:42:43.620 parallel two-person caucus trying to make a name for itself here in alberta with uh pete guthrie

00:42:48.280 and and scott sinclair uh part of the issue that might be the case too in bc with their one bc of

00:42:54.200 two that split into two two bc yes uh but they're prickly individuals have difficulty working on a

00:43:01.400 team as well i mean pete guthrie had a hard time in the kenny government he's had a hard time

00:43:05.400 It might not even be an ideology thing.

00:43:07.800 It could be a personal personality thing

00:43:10.200 where they just can't work with others.

00:43:12.240 It'll be interesting to watch that micro experiment

00:43:13.980 develop in Alberta over there as well.

00:43:15.880 Interesting.

00:43:17.120 That's good.

00:43:17.860 We have to save that one.

00:43:18.940 We're going to call 1BC, 2BC now.

00:43:25.140 That's good material.

00:43:26.680 Editorial decision just made.

00:43:28.040 All right, Nigel, you're up.

00:43:29.360 Yes, and so we have fun today.

00:43:31.520 We've got a lot of fooling around on Pipeline,

00:43:34.980 But Hannaford show tomorrow is serious stuff.

00:43:39.300 And Canada's ambassador during the Harper days was Vivian McCovey,

00:43:44.740 and she will be my guest on Hannaford at 7 o'clock tomorrow night.

00:43:50.260 She is talking about the plight of Canada's Jews,

00:43:53.600 and she is comparing it to 1938 in Germany

00:43:59.120 when people are smart, sell their property, and get out.

00:44:03.000 is getting that bad to be jewish in canada in her opinion i will ask you why she thinks so

00:44:10.380 all right hanaford seven o'clock tomorrow a little less weighty as mine uh but today

00:44:16.940 i want to note the resignation of pablo rodriguez those have been around a while remember pablo

00:44:23.440 he was a long-time liberal member of parliament federally and he was a cabinet minister under

00:44:29.340 Justin Trudeau

00:44:30.220 one of the main

00:44:33.560 censorship ministers

00:44:34.700 a guy who's cost this

00:44:37.560 company a lot of employees and money

00:44:39.220 he was one of the guys responsible for the

00:44:41.320 Online News Act

00:44:42.240 anyway he became

00:44:44.400 when it looked like Justin Trudeau and the

00:44:47.360 Liberals and Federally were going to go down before Mark Carney

00:44:49.220 looked like they were going to go down

00:44:50.740 he hopped over and became leader of the Quebec Liberals

00:44:53.440 I don't know all the details of it

00:44:57.580 but his leadership race

00:44:58.880 has a lot of serious corruption

00:45:00.780 allegations. I don't think

00:45:02.860 anything's proven yet, but there's a lot of

00:45:04.880 damning evidence around some

00:45:06.680 untoward funding and potential

00:45:08.920 corruption. They brought in the anti-corruption unit

00:45:10.860 in Quebec. And he finally

00:45:12.920 went down today. Resigned as

00:45:14.820 leader. They have an election coming

00:45:16.840 up very soon, likely in Quebec.

00:45:19.860 The CAC,

00:45:20.740 the Coalition of Quebec

00:45:22.940 or whatever, headed for a

00:45:24.940 historic annihilation right now

00:45:27.020 going down. First place

00:45:29.040 in the polls is the Parti Quebecois

00:45:31.060 promising a third referendum

00:45:33.000 on independence. Oh, you can see that glint

00:45:35.100 in Corey's eyes here.

00:45:37.100 But running a respectable second is

00:45:39.080 because they've been beaten down

00:45:41.060 for quite a bit in Quebec, making a moderate

00:45:42.980 resurgence as the Quebec Liberals

00:45:44.500 had a shot of maybe winning, but that's

00:45:47.060 over for Pablo here.

00:45:50.860 I mean, couldn't have happened to an

00:45:52.780 nice guy. Adios.

00:45:54.860 Adios, Pablo.

00:45:55.680 yeah okay well gentlemen thank you thanks john on production uh also just uh everyone watching

00:46:07.140 and listening uh take special note of john john's really uh brought a lot of additional quality to

00:46:12.440 the show here he's just been really great he's the man behind the scenes so he doesn't get any

00:46:15.460 of the glory but he's got uh but he's got at least half the guts and there's four guys in the room so

00:46:20.060 Merry Christmas

00:46:22.860 Merry Christmas

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00:46:55.880 that is one out of control government

00:46:58.340 that's just not getting any accountability

00:47:00.160 you know

00:47:01.240 if you're a conservative voter in Ontario, you don't care if the Toronto Star

00:47:04.940 comes in Doug Ford

00:47:05.800 you need someone who can speak their language

00:47:08.740 who understand

00:47:09.780 I can't get too far into it 0.99

00:47:13.260 my point is, not everyone in Ontario sucks 0.92

00:47:15.220 there's a lot of good people there

00:47:16.500 and they deserve some western standard for once it won't be the eastern media coming out to the

00:47:20.920 west we're gonna take some western media and we're gonna put it in the east and see how they

00:47:24.920 like it i have a feeling they're gonna like it i think they're gonna like it all right thank you

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Western Standard - December 18, 2025

Mass migration chaos, identity politics and BC conservative circus

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