Western Standard - November 03, 2026


One Country, One Set of Rights? Brian Giesbrecht Makes His Case

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1 minute

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137.64

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142

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6

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00:00:00.000 So is this why so many conservatives want to see the end of the status system?
00:00:06.880 Yes, I think so. I think a conservative thinker wants a country where everybody has
00:00:13.200 exactly the same rights and that's what Canada was supposed to be. So what we have now is
00:00:21.840 a person can come in from India or China or Africa or something and they become a Canadian citizen 0.99
00:00:29.520 with exactly the same rights as everybody else, but we have this one group that is status Indians
00:00:35.840 who, for historical reasons, have an entirely different set of rights. So I think a conservative 0.97
00:00:43.940 says, no, that's not the way it should be. And we see what's playing out in BC as pretty strong
00:00:53.060 evidence that that having a one racial group with different rights is definitely not good for the 0.99
00:01:00.900 the country. 0.99