Western Standard senior editor Dave Naylor fills in for the absent Nigel Hannaford (who's off on some other business) as well as co-hosts Derek Soldebrand ( ) and Corey Morgan ( ) join the show to talk about the Kamloops fraud, the Trump administration's first week in office, and whether or not Canada should be the 51st state in the USA.
00:01:51.480It's actually got the money. So we're going to talk about that and also just the flurry of activity coming out of the Trump administration in its first week here.
00:02:01.720Speaking of activity, NDP leader Jagmeet Singh has opened the door, a crack or quite a bit now, to weaseling out of his commitment to bring down the liberals at the first opportunity in a non-confidence vote, regardless of who their leader is.
00:02:20.040can he be bought off uh yes yes it can it seems and um well you know we all know the uh the mass
00:02:29.320graves from the uh industrial genocide uh at cam loops uh well that went from a uh reported as a
00:02:38.680certainty by much of the media in canada to a theory to a hoax to now a downright fraud new
00:02:45.680documents that have been uh uncovered through access information requests uh have found that
00:02:53.120the i i can't pronounce it i'll try to pronounce it but uh the first nation uh responsible or kind
00:02:59.160of in the area overseeing this have received 12 million dollars of taxpayers money to uh get to
00:03:05.160the bottom of uh these mass graves uh of children and um well not a dollar seems to have actually
00:03:14.040spent on getting any evidence. It's gone to consultants, communications, speaking fees,
00:03:20.680all sorts of things, everything but actually getting a shred of evidence about what's taken
00:03:26.320place there. So we're going to talk about the Kamloops fraud that is underway right now with
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00:04:12.200Okay, so we've, I mean, I think it's been two out of every three weeks on the pipeline since pretty soon after Trump was re-elected in November.
00:04:25.280We've been talking about his jokings, then musings, then threats about annexing Canada as the 51st state.
00:04:35.620Now, the term 51st state, I always thought it was a bit funny because there's no way Canada would be a single state.
00:04:40.760It's bigger than the rest of the United States combined.
00:04:43.980It would obviously be more than one state, but that's neither here nor there.
00:04:49.780And it actually turns up, in my thinking, maybe it is one state, but it's not Canada as the 51st state.
00:04:56.640if the United States took in the whole of Canada it would massively upset the electoral balance
00:05:05.040the balance of power between the Democrats and the Republicans that's why Puerto Rico doesn't
00:05:10.540get to come in as a state because it would create a permanent democratic at least advantage in the
00:05:16.940Senate with another two blue senators if you took in Canada with ostensibly I don't know between
00:05:24.380seven and ten new states, the Democrats would rule for the very foreseeable future in the
00:05:30.600United States, because most Canadian states, I mean, that's a weird thing to say, most Canadian
00:05:35.860states would probably elect Democratic senators. It would upset the Electoral College significantly.
00:05:43.280But I think Trump actually really wants all of Canada. I'm getting the idea that he's making
00:05:51.700going to play for Alberta. And I know it sounds crazy. The whole topic is crazy. I have to pinch
00:05:56.680myself every time I'm talking about it. But this is a real topic. And he's got some kind of play.
00:06:02.580We don't know exactly what it is. But I'm coming around to the theory that he wants Alberta. He
00:06:08.400gets the second, third, depending on how you measure it, the second, the third largest proven
00:06:13.280oil reserve on the planet. The single largest private oil reserve on the planet. You'd get
00:06:21.680We would be amongst the wealthiest of states, whereas most Canadian provinces would significantly lower the average GDP of the United States
00:06:28.180and would require significant equalization, for lack of a better term, for a significant time before they're brought up to be more closer to the American average.
00:06:38.200Alberta would actually increase the American average GDP per capita.
00:06:41.500um and you know if he did take alberta it would probably fatally weaken canada economically
00:06:50.720politically and geographically so that he could take the rest of canada uh thereafter canada
00:06:56.540can't survive without alberta's money being pilfered from it every year um i can see a
00:07:03.080circumstance here where he's going to impose his tariffs in a few days from now and ottawa
00:07:08.520you know as we've discussed before would oppose an exit tax on alberta oil or something triggering
00:07:15.140a national unity crisis um at which time trump could come to alberta and make a deal that's a
00:07:22.240lot better than anything the rest of canada could offer you know dollar for dollar uh exchange rate
00:07:28.560for our canadian pesos uh unlimited market access to alberta oil uh total end of all equalization
00:07:36.340payments, probably money flowing actually into
00:14:23.660It's when Mulroney waited an extra year and a half
00:14:25.680before getting rid of the national energy program when he came in.
00:14:28.160It's when he canceled the, or gave the contracts to Quebec over Winnipeg for aerospace things.
00:14:35.520And if Polyev doesn't do a bloody thing about things like equalization, you know, the misbalance of power and things like that, which he probably won't, that's when you see the slow burn that'll grow.
00:14:45.860I mean, I see more of that bringing it about, though, than what Trump is doing right now.
00:14:49.020Well, I generally agree. It happens when, you know, because we all, Albertans, Westerners, pin their hopes on the Conservatives.
00:14:55.820normally falsely the conservatives make it a bit better but they don't they're less bad they're
00:15:01.020less bad they you know they screw us less than the other guys and i think that would be the case with
00:15:06.180polyev um i still think polyev is very likely to win the next election but there are signs of life
00:15:13.300that maybe a new coat of paint on the liberals with the new leader who knows what they do out
00:15:19.860east maybe it was just trudeau and not necessarily just the liberals and liberalism they were sick
00:22:04.760Like, it was just sad, you know, that he was going to ask the question,
00:22:06.820so you've got to vote against the government.
00:22:08.080Well, as you know, I've ripped up the agreement.
00:22:10.360Okay, well, you ripped up the agreement.
00:22:11.600There's nothing going to vote against them.
00:22:12.680Well, you know, I told you, I've ripped it up.
00:22:15.660And he had to get cornered and cornered.
00:22:17.360It just went on for months, and eventually Trudeau resigns,
00:22:19.480And he says, yes, we're, well, we ripped it up.
00:22:23.620And that means, as I've said the whole time, we're going to vote to bring down the government, trigger an election, no matter who the next liberal leader is.
00:22:30.840First, as soon as Parliament's back from being prorogued, we're bringing it down, we're having an election.
00:22:36.800Well, seem, you know, life finds a way.
00:22:44.940Let's play this clip from Jagmeet Singh asked a question about just this.
00:22:49.860If there's a way for him and the NDP to be bought off to support keeping the liberals in power a little longer.
00:22:56.620Think about the analysis that's out there.
00:22:58.800If those Trump tariffs come in place, there are hundreds and thousands of Canadian jobs at risk.
00:23:05.080Think about what that means for those workers, hundreds of thousands of workers, for their families, for those communities.
00:23:11.220This could be devastating for our country.
00:23:14.180So we do need to have a plan in place to support those that are impacted, those businesses, those workers, most importantly.
00:23:21.140I have not had any conversations with other opposition leaders.
00:23:24.480I think we need to come together to have a discussion about what is the best way forward.
00:23:27.880I've not had any discussions with the government related to this.
00:23:31.600If there is any desire to move forward, the government should call us together, like we did during COVID, and discuss a plan that supports workers.
00:23:39.200okay so yeah uh where there's a will to cling to power there's a way um the ndp still don't have
00:23:51.920the money for an election they would have to borrow for this one as they did in the last one
00:23:55.260they finally just paid off the debt from the last election they don't have war chest to go into a
00:23:59.300new campaign uh they're pretty weak in the polls normally when the liberals collapse two-thirds of
00:24:05.180the vote goes to the Conservatives. A third goes to the Liberals. It's just all gone to the
00:24:12.100Conservatives. The NDP have not picked up anything because the Conservatives are so strong. The NDP
00:24:17.280stance actually potentially lose several seats to the Conservatives. They're afraid of an election.
00:24:22.680Everybody knows Canada needs an election. This country needs an enema. We need to clear out our
00:24:28.280system. We need to get healthy, to be able to have any fighting chance whatsoever in dealing
00:24:35.020with Trump. Like him or not, he's acting like a madman. And the example of Columbia is anything.
00:24:43.000Doug Ford can put on whatever hat he wants. He can, you know, Doug Ford called, broke his own
00:24:48.200election laws, calls an early election because he's going to send a message to Donald Trump.
00:24:53.180Donald Trump isn't even going to know there was an election in Ontario. It doesn't matter if
00:24:56.720Doug Ford wins zero seats or all the seats in the Ontario legislature or provincial parliament, as they say.
00:25:04.440This country is just pretty hopelessly screwed right now, unless we have a federal election with a government with some kind of legitimate democratic mandate to represent the country.
00:25:14.940Jake Mead Singh, though, open to being bought off with just more free money to go around.
00:26:19.820I don't think it's going to work. You know, you had Chrystia Freeland and Justin Trudeau's big money giveaway and the GST debacle in the lead up to Christmas that actually didn't end up happening in the end.
00:26:31.520That didn't move their popularity. It's just another gimmick.
00:26:34.080But it looks like Jameet Singh is going to be willing to, at least quite possibly, keep the Liberals in power for a few more months, maybe all the way to October in exchange for some free checks.
00:29:27.260You know what would be nice? Actual third world corruption instead of whatever this is.
00:29:32.140I'd much prefer a system where Jagmeet Singh props up the new liberal government because they gave him a new car instead of another multi-billion dollar handout that accomplishes nothing.
00:29:41.480I mean, it'd be cheaper. I mean, let's just bring the corruption and deal making right in.
00:29:47.140Just do it old school. Give him another shiny watch. Give him another Maserati or up his pension.
00:29:53.380I mean, I actually don't, I think it's, we need to actually get, I know this is going to sound bad, because no one likes MP pensions, we should not make them wait six years to be able to qualify for it, they should just qualify for it on the first day, because as nasty as that pension can be, this is, you know, having them make decisions that affect the whole country so they can get their pension is much worse and more destructive on the large scale.
00:30:20.100We should just give them their damn pension on the first friggin' day.1.00
00:30:23.420And it gets bigger the longer they're there.
00:30:24.800But they shouldn't have to wait six years to invest for it.
00:31:16.940He would love to have three, four, five months to start campaigning, establishing himself, building his team, whoever's going to be running for election.
00:41:18.040I mean, already limited credibility with that entire party as it stands.
00:41:22.160How much credibility can you give to the leader now when you're disqualifying contenders who were good enough to be a member of parliament, but now can't run for the leadership?
00:41:29.320So this race that was already bad is now just a joke.1.00
00:41:31.840Well, if he's not allowed to run for leader, maybe he shouldn't be allowed to run for an MP.
00:41:34.740He's clearly got something wrong with him.