Mass migration chaos, identity politics and BC conservative circus
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Derek Fildebrandt, publisher of The Western Standard and host of The Pipeline, joins me to talk about the latest mass shooting in Australia, and the reaction of Western leaders to the news of it, as well as to the mass shooting at the opening of Hanukkah in Australia.
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Good day and welcome to The Pipeline. I'm Derek Fildebrandt, publisher of The Western Standard.
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Today is December 17th, 2025, our last episode before we get right up to Christmas.
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We'll be taking a little break over the holidays, unless all hell breaks loose.
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We had to be in kind of last year because Justin Trudeau's leadership was about to go down,
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I'm not expecting anything like that, but we got a good likely last show of the year
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for you here today um we're gonna be talking about the circus of bc conservative politics both
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the bc conservative party and one bc both parties have decapitated their leaders uh one with the
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majority of the caucus voting to overthrow them and the party board backing them up and then one
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bc a two-member caucus which apparently was too big to hold together that's too big a coalition
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to hold together uh one one of the the one who's not the leader voting against the other one and
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on the party board just total damned mess uh so we're gonna be trying to carve apart what's
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happening in lotus land skate canada is demanding the men get to compete against women in their
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events and if not they're not holding any events in alberta alberta doesn't get any skate canada
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events because alberta had the temerity to say that men don't compete against women boys don't
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When something bad happens, it's an appropriate
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we need more education and training around anti-Semitism,
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have opened up our borders and brought in a virtually unlimited pipeline of migrants,
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many of which are carrying hateful ideologies wanting to do this.
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Radical Islam being the overwhelmingly biggest culprit of that.
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No mention that perhaps we should stand back and think that
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importing hundreds of thousands or millions a year, depending on which country,
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of people, a large proportion, what portion I can't say exactly, no one can,
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a large proportion of which wish to do violence against Jewish people.
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No mention that perhaps that is the culprit for this.
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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.
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I'm picking on Erwin Kotler here just because this is a prominent Canadian example.
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But this was essentially the reaction of the Australian Prime Minister and many other leaders across the West, across the world.
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This is the response, not end mass migration, of which includes many people who are predisposed to want to do this.
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Obviously not everyone from the Muslim community is like that.
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They got a big problem there, and no one wants to talk about it, and no one wants to address it.
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The answer is, take away the freedoms of Australians.
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and i feel like that's not only going to not stop the problem that's actually going to create
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anti-semitism well they're certainly not going to gain votes for that particular prime minister
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elbanese it's uh to you of course uh still on my parting shot here but i was going to point out
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that within hours minutes even of this incident and when you call the death of 15 people
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an incident you're kind of uh damning with think with uh with faint praise that's a terrible
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bloody thing that happened there and he comes out and he says well you know i'm gonna have to have
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tighter gun controls as if it was the gun that was the problem and not the two men with guns
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who decided that day to go out and kill people you know it's such a cliche guns don't kill people
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people kill people well actually they do and here is it but it's actually worse it's worse even than
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that because what you're seeing in australia is what we see in canada all the time is an attempt
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to deny that there is a problem and if you say there isn't a problem then you don't have to do
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anything and if you don't have to do anything you don't have to offend the the certain ethnic
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communities and let's call the ones where you know the ones who came here as refugees from gaza the
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ones who were already here who sympathize with them you don't have to call them out and say you
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guys did this instead you say well as the australian prime minister did we need to be on the watch out
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for right-wing extremist groups who are white you know it it is an exercise in denial
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and it is utterly shameful and it seems to be all the major countries of the anglosphere won't
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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
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much of a supporter of israel until october the 7th but my word if you were going to go around
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the world and pick people off at brown university or some other american university that came up in
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connecticut recently it's going to go to have activists in australia go out one day to shoot
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shoot 15 people dead if you're going to go to a german small town and try and ram a car into
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their christmas uh fair and kill people that way there is something going on and it is utterly
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foolish to deny it but that's what these people do that is the discouraging message i take away
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you know, he says, we've got to be able to look for
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and instead say, we need to crack down on free speech, and we need to crack down on guns.
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And by the way, anyone who doesn't know, they've already taken all the guns in Australia.
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It's a dystopian place for people's gun rights.
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We're really bad in Canada, but we're practically Texas compared to Australia, where they've taken everyone's guns away.
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So the reaction isn't to deal with the actual culprits of the problem and the source of the problem, mass migration,
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they have a right-wing terrorism problem right now,
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governments step in to take rights away from good people.
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And that's what we're seeing in Australia.
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They won't target the root of the problem, and it runs deeper than just an anti-Jewish thing.
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As Nigel touched upon, though, they're going after Christmas markets.
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I mean, you know, one of their targets are Jews, but when they rammed into the World Trade Center,
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It was an anti-Western, anti-humanity, and that had nothing to do with firearms either.
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the Boston terrorists, what kind of guns did they use again? So you have to stop the killers,
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not the tools that they're using. We can't ban airplanes to stop another 9-1-1 from happening.
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And we have to start holding, and that's where they're terrified, the groups and the countries
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and the imams and some of the people responsible for the radicalization. You know, I'm going to
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use with probably a terrible analogy, but let's say I had my big dog ranch out in Prittis and I
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had 5,000 dogs, but most of them were really well behaved. But every once in a while, five or six
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of them would escape and it turns out they're vicious and they would attack a few people before
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their shot put down. And I'll say, yeah, but it's a tiny minority of my dogs. Would that get me off
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the hook? You know, we've got to start. I don't care how tiny a minority it is. No other identifiable
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faith or group is spawning so many radicals as we're seeing out of radical Islam, as we have
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seen for the last 80 years it's time to start blunt speaking about it and i know that can lead
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to prejudices against many many peace-loving muslim people it was actually a muslim man who
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intervened yeah that's an incredible hero i mean he had courage that i don't know if we could all
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claim to step in on and ironically he got shot by the australian police with their keystone
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cop routine that's how he got shot he wasn't shot by the terrorist he was shot by the cops because
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they saw a brown guy with a rifle and they shot him they shot the wrong one and saw the cops from
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What I could tell actually even hid and weren't doing their job.
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One thing, can I say, Derek, about the, you know, there's always a minority.
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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.
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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.
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but some will certainly support people who do the attacking and if our reports
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are to be believed the others will quietly nod with satisfaction and look
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forward to the day when Canada is a Muslim country and we'll just get there
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in the end that's the way this is breaking down so yeah man and it's tough
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I mean we're talking immigration is part of the root of it yeah
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Mass immigration, but I do admit part of it's difficult.
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I mean, how do you separate the fly poop from the pepper?
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How do you find the radical immigrant versus the genuine one who just wants to find a job?
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We just stop taking them from that part of the world.
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I've been going off the deep end on this stuff lately.
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I've gone from very reasonable and moderate on immigration to pretty hardcore.
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It's your job to sort it through in your own countries.
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And when you guys figure that out, then we can talk.
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It's not up to us to sort through your shit.
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By the way, we imported a bunch of problems 30 years ago.
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remember the still the largest terrorist incident in canada was the air india bombing i think it's
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something like 300 people went down with that plane that was not planned by anybody but people
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who had immigrated from india uh one wonders whether for the express purpose of doing something
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like that and that in that case it was not muslims this was that was a radical she can calistani uh
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issue put it in it is reporting from bringing in all the problem people in well here's some of the
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challenges though again i mean boy we're talking though the the radical uh calistani movement is
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very very dangerous uh yet at the same time you know we have a massive amount of indian immigrants
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into canada never really had a problem with the hindu element coming in but that's where you're
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starting to sift through the immigrant well yeah you know within the sea community they terrorize
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other members who are more moderate within the Sikh community
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who are just not, they're like, yeah, I'm in Canada
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unsympathetic with Kalistan. A lot of people did come here
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to get away from that crap. Yeah, I'm not all
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even untogether unsympathetic for those who want
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want their own country. It's self-determination.
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even further, so I'm going to stretch the metaphor
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you know, okay, so you've got some ones that are
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Um, this would be like you now saying, okay, to, to fix the problem of my dogs here, uh,
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I'm going to require everyone else in the neighborhood to register their cats.
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You know, we're going to have to spay your cats now.
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Homegrown regular Australians had nothing to do with this.
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You don't need to take away more of their freedom of speech, more of, they don't need
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No, we're going to spay the cats because we have a couple
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what they're doing. Because they're afraid to deal
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Just to say, you know what, we're going to put a big wall around
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your ranch until you can get your crap and dogs
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under control. None of them are leaving your ranch.
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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.
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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.
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um the danielle smith is floating the idea now and i can tell you a matter of factly
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pretty serious about it of um essentially alberta bringing in kind of parallel to the
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federal immigration system a requirement that uh everyone would have to be working here for
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roughly at least 10 years or so paying into the system before you're actually able to take
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anything out of it, which I think makes a lot of sense. I think she needs to expand it beyond just
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welfare and whatnot. It needs to be applied to maybe even education and whatnot. The idea being
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that Alberta gets to say, here's immigrants that we approve of. These ones look like they're of
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value to us because it's not supposed to be a one-way street. It's supposed to be a two-way
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street here. If you don't have it, we're going to deny you social services. So no welfare.
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They haven't fleshed the whole thing out, but I think it should be extended to education. No,
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taxpayer's dime in Alberta, you can put them in a private
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really heavy for language but you know we've got whole sections of calgary here now where
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schools half the kids more don't even speak functional english as a second language and so
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no one's learning anything the kids in the class who speak english they're not learning anything
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because the teachers try they have there's little schools and neighborhoods in calgary
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reforms need to happen at the federal level, Corey, but
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This is a great way for a province to try and take control
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inter-provincial migration. I mean, it would be
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as somebody who's moving from Toronto or Saskatchewan or
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for the kind of immigrants you don't want.
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This is going to turn to something much bigger as it goes
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because then some of the other provinces saying,
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and everything are suddenly going to find themselves
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It goes a little farther back almost to Ralph Klein
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It was just saying the ones collecting welfare,
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undesirable, saying, well, if the states are taking them all
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and giving them impunity, let's empty our mental
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institutions and our prisons and send them all over there.
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Though I must be a little too rude in our immigrants or not
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than most other places so guess what if you've got nothing else tying you to manitoba come to
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alberta better deal um so using that uh extending that metaphor the idea of how did you put it
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making it just a little less comfortable you know it has the one thing where i'm not quite sure how
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this works out is that if if the family moves into alberta and they have children and the children
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don't get to go to school well what happens you raise a generation of driven all delinquents
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so there are there are there has got to be some uh other way of discouraging immigration i'm not
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sure they mentioned in uh education i think they should include it but we have to make it very
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appetizing them for them to leave like you don't get a driver's license and okay you're gonna get
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arrested then like you're going to end up facing the legal system by not being in compliance with
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other sections of alberta law if we have not approved you being here well just to play that
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devil's advocate and unintended consequences though if new immigrants are having difficulty
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getting driver's licenses here it's going to be harder for them to find jobs here which is
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the intent we want them working and contributing yeah uh but you have to be approved to be here
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first like you have to be someone who's met alberta's criteria for cultural compatibility
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could speak at least a little bit of english yeah you don't have to come here quoting shakespeare
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fresh off the boat but you've got to be able to function before you land on our soil okay so just
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let's say he's a fellow who's coming in from another province another country he's going to
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take 150 000 a year job which he is uniquely qualified and he gets here he's told he can't
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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
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good chance the alberta government will say ah that's the kind of guy we want he's got some
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unique skills that can't be done but we won't take the we won't take the because we need the
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day laborers how are we going to make that you know no i don't think we need the day laborers
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actually we've created an underclass here where we've now made people born here unemployable here
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we've cut them out of the bottom of the labor market kids can't get their first jobs nearly as
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as easily as when i was a teenager or little alone when you old guys were i'm old now too i guess but
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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
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know if we were making fries here instead of news i'm offered a 25 year old person who maybe doesn't
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be very good english whatnot but a 25 year old person who i'm gonna pay 15 minimum a very high
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a $50 minimum wage to, or the 14-year-old offered a $50 minimum wage to, I'm probably
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You're more likely to show up on time, have a little discipline at the job.
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But we've created an underclass here where unskilled labor of people born here is now
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They don't have the skills to be high enough, but they're also out-competed at the bottom.
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There's a little more going on here than we're betting.
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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.
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So, and they're probably here on student visas, but not going to school.
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So maybe we start there and just say, all right, we've had enough of that.
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So the people who are born here, and it's not just white people,
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I mean, I don't know what it must be like to run a fast food restaurant.
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You're probably dealing with irresponsible staff who don't show off on time.
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It's tough, and it's very tempting when you get into a mother load of dependable employees,
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But there are other objectives in our community in which we live
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I can speak as a guy who owned a food service industry business
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You know, there were students, kids who would work weekends and evenings.
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They're from nearby and, you know, the community enjoys that too and everything.
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But for the bulk of my steady workers, I tell you what,
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I'm not even getting applicants from the younger community
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or making, you know, jobs in that, and it's a high turnover, unreliable industry as it is,
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and yeah, truthfully, new Canadians were typically my best workers. They would show up on time,
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put in a fantastic day, you know. We've also, we've completely distorted our labor market here,
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where we've got to have, so it's not just kids doing part-time now, but unskilled,
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blue-collar workers, you know, people who are going to work at the lower end,
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You know, maybe they don't have the privilege, whatever.
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We've completely cut them out of the labor market in their own country.
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I mean, the bottom line is, yeah, I mean, it's going to be complicated,
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There's no doubt that something's going to give.
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This is where we're exercising ourselves as a province to say,
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well, look, we're going to work with our demographic to change it,
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These are the tools at our disposal to be able to modify.
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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.
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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.
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We would be able to determine that before they hit our shores.
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and we're going to see others follow it, we'll see
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because Ontario Diploma Mills were getting rich.
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And those guys are deeply connected to Doug Ford and the Ontario PC party.
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He is amongst the most guilty culprits in Canada for this.
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And he just kind of skated off easy because he didn't technically make the decision.
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So I don't think we're going to see Ontario crack down any time.
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Well, a neat thing just is, you know, sort of the independent active type I am and everything.
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And part of what I like seeing what's happening.
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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.
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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.
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I mean, they're bringing outside immigrants into these states, but the domestic migration is going to those other states.
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And actually, it makes me fear in one more generation from now what might be happening down there.
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But Premier Smith is going to kind of change that interprovincial migration formula happening in Canada.
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This is the place to come to work to make a living.
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But it also means the riffraff are going to end up going to the other ones.
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Biobics sticks against people who are not needed.
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of i'm pissed off about it so sticks for people who are not needed we've got too many here
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but carrots for those we do want you're coming to canada and you've got some capital you want
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a business well we are going to make this the best damn place to do it so you know we've got
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and we've already in some large majority i want to go back to the conservative governments of the
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1980s because our you know we had our our immigration system worked out very well in the
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1950s and 60s where you have to qualify on a number of points you didn't just get to come
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here on student visa and start work and never go home you had to do you know you needed your degree
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you needed english or french you needed support somebody in the family had a guarantee that you
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would you wouldn't be a burden to the states but then they said oh well that's kind of a bit unfair
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we'll get more votes if we do family reunification and after family reunion that was mentioning in
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the end right there yeah and it was conservative government that did it yeah um and after that it
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was well he got lots of money you want to start a business here and in the end come me one come
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me all and by the way if you happen to want to exterminate jews that's not a really a big problem
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we can work with you yeah well when my family came they had to be sponsored they were sponsored by
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and theoretically believed in the existence of God
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to support themselves and needed social services,
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kind of two in there. It's a big subject. That was a double
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in general, but it was really kind of a double.
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So we'll have to, let's go real short on the next one here.
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Because I'm tired of talking about chicks with chicks.
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And although I think Alberta and two of significantly lesser Saskatchewan
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are the only provinces that have actually made substantive legislative change around it.
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But, you know, Alberta, fast legislation are a suite of things.
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Teachers have to tell the parents if they're changing their pronouns.
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And very controversially, for the NDP and the usual suspects,
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boys don't get to play against girls in sports,
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You know, maybe shuffleboard or something like that,
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or if we're playing a game of table pool, it's okay.
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It was actually a very thoughtful policy in trying to, you know, accommodate for those who were confused and have gender dysphoria, et cetera.
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But then Skate Canada comes out today, says, that's racist.
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There'll be no Skate Canada events in Alberta, you bunch of bigots.
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You know, sometimes you have to pay the price for being right.
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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.
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I exclude myself from any comparison with my granddaughter, you know, run up the street faster than I can, that's for sure.
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It's about the simple fact that men are always going to outperform women,
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the best. Oh, anyway, if you're a good skater, good for you. But the fact of your matter is that
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it's just not a fair contest. Alberta had the sense to say it's not a fair contest. We're not
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going to allow it. Skate Canada will be proved wrong in the fullness of time. Alberta will be
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proved right. Skate Canada has lost the narrative. The rest of the world's already changing. Even the
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IOC is realizing this and they're backing off. No more men in women's sports. And when it comes
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down to viewership and paying your bills those who do like watching the skating aren't going to want
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to see some brute doing the leg up spinning and his knackers fly out into the breeze it's uh you
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know going to lead circus levels of what that uh demonstration is it undercuts the entire sport
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and uh because it is a sport that's respected and enjoyed by a lot of people and allowing this
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ridiculousness is actually going to ruin the sport they're purporting it's a wussy sport so
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And this idiocy is going to come to an end.
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Thanks again to Premier Smith because she's just
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not having any of it. She actually demanded they
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we're Albertans, we create new conservative parties
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That was a needlessly disgustingly brutal fight.
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And it really hurt me to see John Rustad not show the grace.
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I think he had in him and did not show the grace to...
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But there's a time when there's a cause greater than yourself
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And then you've got 1BC, the Breakaway Conservative Party,
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which I think, with Rustad gone, should come back home.
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And I'm saying that all three of us have been on the Breakaway right-wing parties.
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And we hate each other often, but we try to make it work.
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And if you have to break apart, sometimes you've got to break apart.
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I don't think you guys were at that level yet, at least with John Rustad gone.
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It's worth trying to get the band, at least try to get the band back together.
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I mean, and I don't know who's right or wrong there.
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He's actually interviewing Dallas Brody about this today.
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former you're not you nearly did it you nearly pulled it off last year uh one two seats short
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were they in there something like i think three but all they're showing is those who were hesitant
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and didn't end up voting for them they're saying they're confirming that oh i was right not to vote
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yeah you don't you're not you weren't ready for prime time we dodged a bullet and that's what
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you're confirming and david eby is ostensibly one of the worst premiers in a generation going on
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out there and he's getting a pass and it's scary because you know what if he called a snap election
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right now he might get the majority at once uh thankfully perhaps he's just not politically
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astute enough even to realize that because otherwise he's too incompetent uh as a premier
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to withstand the only hope is that he doesn't do something like that the conservatives you guys
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have got a couple of years to get your crap together maybe and boy you've really got a lot
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He would have been in by far the best position to do it
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because he thought he had swallowed the Wild Rose hole
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Wild Rose coming back a second, and the NDP going from a distant, hyper-distant fourth to first.
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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.
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He'd try to engineer some reason other than that my opponents are poising the legislation to force a downfall.
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Maybe he's going to have to think twice about that now, because now the BC Conservatives are going to have a leadership race.
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Maybe they still end up having that spring election, but they'll be a little more solved.
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but god bc like i thought we were bad you know i i i when i'm at events they got people from
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around the country and there's bc conservatives there and they're you know sometimes distraught
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about the shit show that's going on i take them aside i'm like it's okay you know you guys are
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relatively bloodless in terms of the conservative civil war you had there you didn't even fight one
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election against bc united liberals you got them to collapse and fold their tent before it happened
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good on you guys it's a lot less bloody than what we went through in alberta or what what happened
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nationally with the performance pcs i was like good on you guys you know don't beat yourself up
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too much now it's time to start beating yourself up you guys look like monkeys yeah well part of
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the issue too bc's got you know we've got an urban rural split that's happening everywhere
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generally with conservatives and liberal we see it in alberta between calgary edmonton
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and rural. But B.C. has it too. Interior B.C., Northern B.C. has some of the most strong
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They have a couple of monkeys on the line, by the way.
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Oh, they don't like being compared to conservatives.
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Oh, yes. And then you get Victoria and parts of Vancouver and some of the most hyper
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left leaning in the entire country as well. And Vancouver actually has more swing to it
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than some people give it credit for. I mean, we've seen some strong reform members of
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parliament come from urban vancouver areas it's been a while vancouver's a different city it is
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but there's literally different populations still some potential uh going on in the the metro area
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anyways but it makes it a very difficult balancing act for a conservative party to be able to garner
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those high population area votes and still maintain i mean it's a nightmare i don't envy
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whoever's going to try and pull it together but as we're kind of saying here whatever the formula
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is guys you've got to do it you got to find it you got to find it before spring you know just
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The first thing is, the Conservatives, John Rustad did finally fall on a sword.
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Those are always divisive, but maybe they come out in the end.
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But to the 1BC guys in particular, the party, it's over.
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You guys got a lot of traction with this little party.
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I mean, it didn't do great in the polls, but it takes time.
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And I'm relatively impressed with how they made a name for themselves,
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picking hard wedge issues and leveraging them right,
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conservative leader, I think you'd actually have a shot
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party shots who wants up first oh just hit it fast it kind of segues in just that there is a
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parallel two-person caucus trying to make a name for itself here in alberta with uh pete guthrie
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and and scott sinclair uh part of the issue that might be the case too in bc with their one bc of
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two that split into two two bc yes uh but they're prickly individuals have difficulty working on a
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team as well i mean pete guthrie had a hard time in the kenny government he's had a hard time
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It'll be interesting to watch that micro experiment
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And Canada's ambassador during the Harper days was Vivian McCovey,
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and she will be my guest on Hannaford at 7 o'clock tomorrow night.
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She is talking about the plight of Canada's Jews,
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when people are smart, sell their property, and get out.
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is getting that bad to be jewish in canada in her opinion i will ask you why she thinks so
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all right hanaford seven o'clock tomorrow a little less weighty as mine uh but today
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i want to note the resignation of pablo rodriguez those have been around a while remember pablo
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he was a long-time liberal member of parliament federally and he was a cabinet minister under
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Liberals and Federally were going to go down before Mark Carney
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he hopped over and became leader of the Quebec Liberals
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corruption. They brought in the anti-corruption unit
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yeah okay well gentlemen thank you thanks john on production uh also just uh everyone watching
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and listening uh take special note of john john's really uh brought a lot of additional quality to
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the show here he's just been really great he's the man behind the scenes so he doesn't get any
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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
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We've got full-time offices in B.C., Regina, Edmonton
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working real hard, haven't mentioned much of this
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if you're a conservative voter in Ontario, you don't care if the Toronto Star
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my point is, not everyone in Ontario sucks
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and they deserve some western standard for once it won't be the eastern media coming out to the
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west we're gonna take some western media and we're gonna put it in the east and see how they
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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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very much for joining us merry christmas and god bless