Race based policies are sinking Canada
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In this episode of The Cory Morgan Show, host Cory Morgan talks with author Lise Merle about her new book, Buck the Rainbow Unicorn. They discuss race-based policies in Canada and how they affect Indigenous people.
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I don't know if you, I think you can kind of see it through the windows behind me.
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It looks like winter's returning with a vengeance.
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It's supposed to get pretty harsh way out there on the prairies,
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and we're getting a little bit of it over here in the foothills.
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I despise this season, but there's no avoiding it.
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Maybe when we separate and we promote enough climate change,
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we'll warm things up and Alberta can have a tropical winter.
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Until then, we just have to suck it up and endure it.
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Lise Merle is going to be coming on in a little while.
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She's the author of the best-selling children's book, Buck the Rainbow Unicorn.
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If you wonder why the hell I'm interviewing a children's book author, well, actually,
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Lise does work with Rebel Media as well, and it is a great children's book, but it's got
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some messaging in it that I guess you would call atypical, considered what's supposed
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to be politically correct these days and whatnot.
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make sure to get those comments questions in there and I see them all I don't necessarily
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read them all out discuss things with each other keeps things lively just keep things
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somewhat civil leave the rudeness to me I'm good at it all right let me start with some of that
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I'll start on a light issue let's talk about racial policies let me list some proposed national
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policies and just think of how Canada would be if these were imposed okay so imagine if we abolished
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the Indian Act and removed special legal status for Indigenous people, and then terminated existing
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treaties and transferred federal responsibility for Indigenous affairs to provinces? What if we
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eliminated what's called Indian status and assimilated Indigenous people in a mainstream
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Canadian society as equal citizens? How about if we converted reserve land by turning reserve land
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into private property that could be sold? And then we could dissolve what was called the Indian
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Affairs Department and close all federal departments responsible for Indigenous issues.
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Do these proposals sound extreme or unreasonable or unworkable?
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I dug every one of those out from a policy document called the White Paper,
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created in 1969 by none other than Pierre Trudeau and Jean Chrétien.
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Unfortunately, while Trudeau stood strong with most of his terrible policies he imposed upon Canada,
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he folded like a cheap suit with the White Paper, and now we're all paying the price.
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Look, if those policies proposed in the White Paper had been implemented 56 years ago,
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Canada would be a stronger, more united country.
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Instead, Indigenous people live in misery on reserves in a form of racial apartheid
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while constant pandering to the Indigenous industry is cratering the Canadian economy.
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To be a truly modern democratic nation is to eschew all race-based policies forever.
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We must take a step back and look at the primitive absurdity of thinking we can have a functional nation
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when we have different sets of laws and policies that apply to different people based on the colour of their skin.
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Nations have fought wars to end race-based policies, yet Canada is entrenching them further
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and decries opponents of racial policies as being racist.
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How far must we go with this ludicrous system before admitting it can never succeed?
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We've got to start measuring policies by outcome rather than intent,
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and the outcomes of every race-based policy in Canada are failing.
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Canada set up separate sentencing guidelines for Indigenous offenders,
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along with alternative means of incarceration. What do they get as a result? Crime rates among
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the Indigenous have skyrocketed and the number of Indigenous victims of crime have skyrocketed.
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Funds have been poured into Indigenous business ventures. As a result, Indigenous businesses have
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a terrible success rate and those that do succeed usually only do so because they specialize in
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government contracts. We've set up separate educational systems and set up different bars
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for Indigenous people to acquire degrees and diplomas. As a result, the education level of
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of Indigenous people lags well below non-Indigenous and is sinking. Extra funding has been poured into
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health care measures for Indigenous people. As a result, they suffer from more chronic health
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issues than anybody else and die younger than non-Indigenous people on average. In Alberta,
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for example, Indigenous men die 19 years younger. I'm not misspeaking. 19 years younger than non-Indigenous
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men. That stat alone should make people understand how broken the system is. Grants have been given
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to reserves to take care of child services. Well, foster and emergency child care services are
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disproportionately populated by Indigenous kids to the point of crisis. Countless programs in both
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the public and private sectors have been formed to offer preferential hiring to Indigenous people.
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Despite this, they're among the most chronically unemployed people in Canada.
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There's not enough government jobs to really cut into that number. Due to there being no written
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language for Indigenous people, the courts have enshrined oral history as being credible when it
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is anything but. This has led to some of the insane rulings on land claims and fostered the Kamloops
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residential school child burial hoax that led to burning and vandalism over 100 churches.
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Canada is now fast becoming a total economic basket case as the eastern manufacturing industries are
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collapsing if they don't get massive subsidies and the resource-based industries that used to
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pay all those subsidies for them are hamstrung by false veto authority held by Indigenous bands.
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The nation is becoming an investment pariah while British Columbia is castrating its real
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estate industry through potentially violating property rights with land settlements offered
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to Indigenous bands. In short, nobody's winning. Indigenous people are being held back and
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infantilized with Canada's race-based system. It's taken great people and led them into a
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socioeconomic catastrophe of dependency and dysfunction. Meanwhile, those who have to pay
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all the bills are running out of ways to make money to do it. The solution is actually simple,
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yet difficult to implement. All race-based policies must end. No modern nation can function
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effectively when people hold different statuses under the law due to their bloodlines.
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And how bad will things become before finally we're forced to realize that race-based policies are always wrong and must end?
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But let's follow Pierre Trudeau's advice and make everybody equal under the law at last.
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oh well sorry about that or see right see right through you as the as the case may be it's nasty
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outside that's gross i'm supposed to speak at an event in vulcan tonight but we'll see my daughter
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lives in that area the roads are supposed to be pretty bad yeah prairie areas you know i mean they
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you know love them but boy when the wind blows the snow across them they can be a little orphan
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highways we'll see it's gonna be tough on jane when she has to go to the creek to pick up water
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tonight i know i know i haven't got an update on her yeah just for those who don't know my
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water system failed we live rurally and and uh i got up this morning to no water in the taps
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uh brushing my teeth with water out of the coffee maker i thought there was a weird smell
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jane is tasked with trying to figure out what's going on so we can uh you know have things like
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toilets and such when i get home or maybe vulcan might look more appealing yeah there you go
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there you go does the star trek museum did they have do they have a bathroom or i don't assume
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so it'll probably be closed by the time you get there i'll bring a treat to vulcan there you go
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well but you know i don't want to sound like a parrot but it's another busy news day today where
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we're leading off with a column from chris old corn on some immigration proposals being put
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forward by premier daniel smith the the main one being that unless you're an immigrant that's
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wanted by alberta like alberta has can bring in their own immigrants but they get dumped a lot on
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by the feds that unless you unless you're approved by the alberta government you will get no
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welfare services no health services no education services basically making it impossible for
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non-improved immigrants to move here non-working non-working immigrants the condition of approval
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is is typically employment and so yeah you have to be a contributing member of society and then
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society looks after you come on in if you want to work seems to make sense doesn't it you don't
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want to go to quebec i mean that's where our equalization goes anyway yeah we've got a quebec
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story out also on the a and w and w franchisees down there are saying unless they get an increase
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in temporary foreign workers they're gonna have to shut down restaurants uh basically they say
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the kids young adults they don't want to work in the fast food industry anymore and they need
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temporary foreign workers yeah you know i don't know how much it comes to the policy or what's
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best or worst but i know from all the pub and restaurant the next generation does not want to
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work in the kitchens for yet at the same time people don't want to reach into their wallets
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and pay for the living wage it would take to drag people out there so i think some people have to
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reevaluate what you want i mean you sure anw could hire all canadian you know some people
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are screaming we'll just let them hire canadian okay if you're ready to pay ten dollars for that
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little cheeseburger yep that's the route to go so uh it's interesting just you know remind people
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there's there's cause and effect if you cut the tfws some prices are going to go up that's right
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uh this may come as a shock to you corey but we've got a story about corruption in quebec
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oh no yeah no shocking uh and involving the elite the newly appointed leader of the quebec
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liberal party pablo rodriguez used to be a member of the trudeau cabinet and stepped
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down to run for the job and win just six months ago but the party's been embroiled in a corruption
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scandal that that saw basically members paid to to vote which is somewhat illegal so he is
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apparently stepping down this afternoon. We've got a story on Kelowna MLA Gavin
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Dew. He was sort of thought that he might take a run at the BC conservative
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leadership vacated by John Rustad but he says that would take him away from his
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family too much so he is not going to run. The Liberal government's Islamophobia
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advisor, secretly gave an $80,000 grant to a university's pro-Palestine group.
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This came about through access to information records dug up by our friends, a
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Blacklock's reporter, and she had initially died, or denied, not died, sorry.
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Died of shame, maybe. She repeatedly denied ever doing this, and now she's been
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proven to be not quite telling the truth and interesting story out of Great
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Britain Bournemouth actually where lots of my family lives a guy who posted two
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tweets I guess X's now or whatever you want to call them slamming immigration
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this was after terrorist or there was a would-be terrorist that killed the six
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people in at the Christmas market he tweeted against immigration twice they
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reviewed by a total of 33 people and he got thrown in the slammer for 18 months so i wonder if premier
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smith would get thrown in jail for some of the stuff she said about immigration here in alberta
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no i don't think so but uh things are way out of control in uh in great britain they're uh they're
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throwing everybody who tweets uh in the slammer well you get locked up for tweeting about it but
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i mean if you go and do an illegal protest you're fine yes yes exactly exactly or or wear a mask on
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in England just to get all the tweeters in there.
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and everything anyway, so if you really want boring
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prison movies and stories, you don't have a bunch of the
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online geeks filling all those cells rather than
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the nice hardened criminals we're supposed to enjoy
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well anything else up uh you know christmas plans this year yeah i'm gonna head out uh
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to the lower mainland on my grandson's first christmas so very excited about that uh but you
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know weather floods getting through the coca hauler getting through uh highway one through hope to uh
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to the lower mainland could be a bit of a difficulty so i need a vehicle to get all my
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christmas presents back right because i wouldn't yeah i'm anticipating it's a great whole grandchild
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yeah yeah but i need room to bring all my presents back oh well yeah no no my mom likes to you know
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down you know load me down with things like toilet paper for the year that sort of stuff
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important stuff important stuff learning about the absence of proper sanitary facilities today
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there you go yeah you've been sort of living in the washroom here at the western standard
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uh yeah i had to make use of the public so i don't do that
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i'll be in the woods tonight oh you and the bears yes all right well thank you very much for the
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updates and i offered more updates than you needed but that's the nature of this show
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thanks gory i'll see you after the show all right that is our news editor dave nailer and yes
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covering lots of stuff the good bad and then i mentioned the ugly but uh the reason we can do
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that that's why i gotta remind folks is because you have subscribed so be sure to get on there
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off. I believe there's a special going on right now
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Check things out. Deals on the Western Standard
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Saying the biggest race-based issue right now is the
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of, of, uh, equality and justice. Uh, for those unfamiliar with that, I wrote on it recently,
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actually in a different publication. Uh, but it was a ruling that came through that basically
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forces judges to take into account the race of the offender and to apply lighter sentences
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whenever possible to them, specifically indigenous ones, uh, not anybody else. And,
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and again, you know what, if it worked, if it worked and there were very few indigenous people
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going to jail, very few reoffending, you know, I'd be all for it. I want what works.
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But it doesn't work. Since those principles came in, crime rates have gone up.
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The incarceration rates for Indigenous people have gone up.
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And we're talking 25 years since those things came about, or 30 years, I think.
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How long do we have to wait to admit, geez, maybe it doesn't friggin' work?
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I don't know. This is Canada. We could be waiting a long time.
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I'm not going to hold my breath waiting for common sense. I'll turn way too purple.
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I'll just let the usual high blood pressure take care of that for me.
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So let's get on to something lighter, not so much lighter. This is great.
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I've been looking forward to this. I've been a guest on a show for her a couple of times,
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but I've never had her on our show. Lise Merle, a bestselling author of a children's book,
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Buck the Rainbow Unicorn. Yeah, it's taken things by storm and right up there in the Amazon
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bestseller. So let's bring Lise in and chat about this. There you are. Hey, Merry Christmas, Lise.
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Welcome to the show. Well, hello, my darling Corey Morgan and Merry Christmas to you from a
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number one Amazon best-selling author? I mean, I couldn't be more surprised if I tried.
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Couldn't be more surprised if I tried. You sort of teased on the book, but let's talk about it,
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Corey Morgan. Yeah, well, absolutely. I mean, there are, you know, many, many children's books
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out there. I mean, lots of people really dream of writing a children's book, and there's some
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great ones out there that just didn't quite break out of the pack necessarily and turn into number
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one on the Amazon list, for crying out loud. What is it that distinguishes Buck the Rainbow
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Unicorn from the other children's books? Well, Buck the Rainbow Unicorn is truly a tale and fable
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for our time at this moment in time. Because if we think about what our children have been exposed
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to, whether it be in public education, whether it be from public institutions, whether it be from
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government of Canada they have been told an egregious lie as it pertains to gender ideology
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and this book confronts that in a way that is age appropriate for little ones in a way that allows
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parents to have conversations with their children about these things and in a way in a way sort of
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takes things back for us the common sense rational conservative parents who have just
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all acknowledged at the same time that this is not something that we are ever going to support
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as it pertains to our children. Yeah, I see from the live comments, Sheila Gunn-Reed is in there
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watching and has kindly gifted us for Christmas there as well. Thank you, Sheila. And here to
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cheer on her best friend, the acclaimed LGBTQ2SAI+. She forgot the ambersand, so clearly Sheila is
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intolerant but uh he's offering support either way that that is fantastic and and i did read it
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you know and you've written it at a level where even i can take this in it's a brilliant book
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and despite there being you know realistically there's a little bit of a i guess you could say
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a political undertone but it's positive messaging it's the kind of messaging we should have in
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children's books it's saying embrace who you are be real be realistic about it talk with your parents
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don't let peer pressure push you the wrong way. That's right. And just to really put a fine
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point on the fact that family is everything. Family is really everything, especially to
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conservatives. This is the foundation of our civilization. And to encourage parents to bring
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their children nearer, to have critical conversations with little ones when they're
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in a really formative part of their development. This book enables all of that. And I've been
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I've been receiving the most incredible feedback on the book from parents who have been really negatively impacted by this in their lives.
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Their children have fallen victim to this really caustic, toxic and damaging ideology.
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And the funny thing is, Corey, you will love this detail.
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So in the book, Corey read the book, and the book was actually written on a typewriter, you guys, from 1948, okay, in 2023.
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And I just happened to be parked on the TransCanada Highway when I did it.
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Well, if you put trans in your book, then it will soar to the – and put a rainbow on the cover, okay, a rainbow unicorn on the cover.
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Amazon is going to make it number one in the LGBTQIA list.
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and also we're number one okay get this you guys we are number one globally for amazon hot new
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releases um this is this is incredible every single author you have ever heard of is underneath
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buck the rainbow unicorn on amazon right now which like makes my day but we're also number
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we're a number one bestseller on amazon for children's books about self-esteem and self-respect
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And so I ask you guys, are we raising our children to have self-esteem and have self-respect?
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Respect for themselves, respect for their families, respect for our values and beliefs?
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And if the answer to that is yes, well, then Buck the Rainbow Unicorn is for you.
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And what do you do if your child has come home?
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And let's face it, there's some activist teachers out there.
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there's other individuals and your child's confused by some of the messaging but they're not
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adults to sit at the dinner table and break down and discuss something like this when they're still
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in a formative place what better way to sit down with a children's book at night and just kind of
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lay out page by page and then you can expand perhaps a little bit of what it's talking about
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it it's a great way to communicate it on the child's level because they're not going to listen
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to a long political diatribe my kids got sick of that when they were six with me this this is
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exactly right because what what children are told is you must be kind you absolutely must be kind you
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have no choice you must be kind and there is you know transphobia is not allowed here and homophobia
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is not allowed here and you know bigotry is not allowed here and they're told these messages
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that have no factual basis in reality when when family is the heart of your life like it is for
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mine is a mother of six from Saskatchewan. Nothing in this book is controversial. This book really
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promotes the idea that family loves you best and knows you best. And this is a way for us to,
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again, just take back our children who have been told are a really, really egregious fib.
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Yeah, well, you've kind of been well trained in the family lessons in life. What I caught
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in that as well is you've been quite prolific in your life and in having children. You were
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a solitary child growing up. So it takes different communication, smaller families,
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bigger families, and things like these books are a great way to bring that across.
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Yes. And this book is actually, you know, in addition to parents and grandparents gobbling
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up this book, telling me that it's necessary that this is, you know, to continue on this work that
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I'm doing. Counselors in schools are also buying this book, Corey. Daycares are buying this book.
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So that just tells me that there is a real, real need to have truthful conversations with
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Yesterday, I got a text from a daycare provider who read it cold.
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Hadn't read it before in her life, received the book, sat down in front of her kids.
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And she said, at first, the boys were like, oh, a rainbow unicorn.
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and when the boys uh when when the plot twist was revealed to the boys they were out of their
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minds excited about the book okay so these are little boys that are like that are like you know
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they see the cover and they're like I don't want another girl book and then they realize that that
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there's a message in there for them so that that's just making my life buddy it's just making my life
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that kids are loving it that senior citizens are loving it the parents are loving it and the
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families are loving it I mean I just couldn't be happier yeah well and what I liked about it I mean
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again you you've packed a metaphor of a political message into a book in a sense but it's all
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positive the whole book is positive it's not saying reject somebody or be mean to somebody
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or anything of this sort it's just talking about embracing who you are I mean the messaging is
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positive from start to end which is great thank you yes I agree and to think that that whole entire
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book came out of a 20 second excuse me a 20 minute session on the side of the trans canada highway
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um was incredible like one page it took one page it was about 200 words it was it was messy in its
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writing a little bit right like it's not there are not proper poetry stanzas in the story but the
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story is just so good and delicious and i read it like cory i've been reading this story on a piece
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of paper for two years and thinking every time i read it it just gets better and better like i like
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it more and more so to see the world responding to it with such positivity is just so gratifying
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for me like especially you know coming from you it's a pretty big oops it's a pretty big compliment
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well you brought it down to my level so i could uh consume it properly uh but uh so the
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illustrations i mean that that's the other aspect you had the 200 words for quite some time uh the
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illustrations are great and that helps with kids as well i mean you know you want to be able to
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point to things look to things uh they're eye-catching and and uh fantastic uh how did
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you have those uh created well let me tell you cory morgan um the book is based on like it is
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so saskatchewan and alberta coded in the illustrations like there's wild roses for
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alberta and there are prairie lilies for saskatchewan and the setting of the book
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is actually my grandma's farm from 1937 in halbright so i had this old grainy
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black and white photo that we then transformed using ai to illustrate the settings of of the
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book so what you're actually looking at is my grandma's farm halbrite saskatchewan circa 1937
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and there's a you know there's a couple other settings there's a couple other settings in
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the book that you'll see as you sort of travel along the story in the book um one of them is
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a small town rodeo in saskatchewan the arcola rodeo one of them is uh is you know another another
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farm setting but all of the characters and all of the development were done using ai which i think
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is a really happy marriage considering the poem was written on a typewriter which was state of
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the art in 1948 when it was built like typewriters were created out of a after the war there was a
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a whole bunch of steel products right like we had this we had this market for steel and they started
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making typewriters out of it so my stuff my that story came off a machine that was made out of the
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same stuff as battleships okay so that's on one side and then on the other side we have all of
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the imagery in the book that was created from ai but from vintage sources so it's just super like
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it's super cool for me to be able to explain to you guys in that way but i'm delighted that you
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like the illustrations, Corey. I'm just delighted. Absolutely. I mean, I know the attention span of
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kids. It can be difficult. I tried to read them Atlas Shrugged and they just jumped away from
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the bed as far as they possibly could. You need to have great things like illustrations to go
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with the words to keep it interesting and exciting. And I'm still chasing them around
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with the fountainhead now, but all the same, it's just a great children's book. I mean,
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you didn't just slap something together to make a point or something like that this is a functional
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good fun you know large format so you could sit there at bedtime or whenever and and read through
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that that's exactly what we want to happen we want kids to have this right beside their bed so that
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every night before bed you touch on you touch on this um to you know we all had that favorite book
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growing up that you read so often that the pages got dog-eared and the spine ripped a little bit
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And, you know, it was just so well-loved and well-worn that you didn't even have to read the words to tell the story because it became so familiar.
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And that's really what I hope for with this book is that people read it and that it resonates with them and that it's loved by little children because it's so dearly needed.
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So, you know, I do have to ask about some of the negative in a sense.
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It's a world of hysterics and, you know, accusatory things.
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I mean, it sounds like for the most part, it's been fantastic and positive, but I imagine
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you've had some, some nutters coming at you on this.
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They're leaving, you know, the worst of the worst are leaving poor Amazon reviews, calling
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it all, I mean, all of the predictable names, it's hateful, it's anti-2SLGBTQIA, it's bigoted,
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it's all of the things, but the overwhelming, overwhelming majority of reviews are positive
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reviews from people just like you and i who believe that children deserve to be told the
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truth and children deserve to be honored in this way and so it's great uh it's great for families
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it's great for anybody that knows a little one and i even had a guy reach out and tell me that he
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bought 10 to put in a little free libraries so we're actually like gorilla marketing this into
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the atmosphere so that people just in in the wild can experience this book too because because it is
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it is a really special story like it is a really special story and one that's really really
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important for this moment in time absolutely and it's fun i mean you can read through it part of
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it's just you know it's engaging it's not just rattle through it with the kid read it see if
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they've got questions chat back and forth process it or i said get dog-eared and apply it over time
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as well is that some kind of rainbow unicorn in your background i see back there right you're this
00:28:15.840
guy that is a that is a rainbow unicorn i got myself a special balloon to um to just celebrate
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a little bit that we have a hot hit on our hands and i like as a literary icon cory morgan you can
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claim to to have known me before i was a literary icon but i thought that you know spending 12 bucks
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on a little piece of decoration wasn't outside the norm for this situation well it complements
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everything fantastically and i mean amazon is getting to the modern from typewriter to ai
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to amazon i mean the days are gone where you have to get in through uh the old publishing houses to
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manage to break through into the big bookstores and chapters or coals if we want to go way back
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this way you can really get to everybody fast efficiently at a good price it's brilliant
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uh so before i let you go i mean that that's the main place to get a copy or 10 right
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to amazon yes amazon uh you can go to bucktherainbowunicorn.com that's going to direct
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you straight to amazon uh it is on sale buck the rainbow unicorn right now is on sale on amazon for
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eighteen dollars so for eighteen dollars you hit click buy and amazon immediately immediately sets
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to printing the book and shipping it and it will be at your house within um two days in canada so
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it they've made it so easy and it's really like like talk about the german printing press like
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this is the next level of the german printing press what they're doing on the amazon side is
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kind of spectacular um in the way that we can get information to people but it's super easy to buy
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18 bucks delivered to your door and um a little one or little ones in your life will have a really
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really great story to read yeah well i i yeah i don't think gutenberg envisioned this coming to
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and then eventually with publishing but it's great to see real books too that's the final
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thing i want to say as a book where i'm a lover of them yes and fighting with the digital world
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boy get some paper books in some kids hands and maybe pass on some of that love of books that's
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being kind of lost by a lot these days there's something there's something about holding something
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tangible in your hands it is real when it exists in your hands so i absolutely agree i thought what
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we can all agree children need more good books and they should read more good books where they're
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being inundated inundated with social media and algorithms and their little brains are being
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molded in ways that we can't even envision okay this book is the counter to that so uh yeah let's
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all let's all read some books together and hey corey you have a book you have a book on amazon
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we should just talk about that real quick oh i talk about that one plenty but yes that's the
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sovereignty's handbook i i got up to a number 11 at one point actually last uh spring but oh boy
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you've eclipsed me by a long shot so uh and uh i i do encourage children to read it once they turn
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18 stick to buck the rainbow unicorn and some enjoyable uh books until you uh hit adulthood
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and then we can bore you and inflame your your uh political minds with my sort of pap but uh great
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well thank you for the the throwing the the plug back my way and i know sheila's been a fantastic
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advocate of my book probably a better marketer than i am with it oh she sells that she loves
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selling your book cory morgan like nothing gives her more pleasure yeah i'll have to get another
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case of beer the next time we're at a common function so thank you very much for uh for
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writing the book for coming on to talk about it and good you answered the other question so folks
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get out there it's still there in time for uh christmas you can get one get it there a stocking
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stuffer or wherever for a christmas gift no better time to get it and uh uh see one of the commenters
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Here's Mavro saying Buck the Sovereignist might be the sequel to this coming up down the road.
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Cory Morgan is a children's book for little separatists.
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It sounds like it's coming out Saskatchewan's way for the next day or two.
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And for everybody at the Western Standard and all Western Standard viewers, have a very, very Merry Christmas and wishing you health, wealth and happiness in 2026.
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Well, thank you very much. And again, back at you guys at Rebel and everything.
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Our friendly competitors, we're more than happy to collaborate with whatever possible.
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Yeah. All right. Well, thank you again. And we'll talk again soon.
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all right so just one more time guys lease merle and uh yes buck the rainbow unicorn very easy to
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find online it's just taken off brilliantly we need something positive now and then and that's
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what this is is positive i'm here for the crabby negative that's my job once in a while let's break
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it up the kids don't need my sour face for this sort of thing but boy a really good read get buck
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the man the rainbow uniform rainbow uniform boy too many words coming out today rainbow unicorn
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and grab a copy, have some fun and explore those messages with your kids. Because again, I like to
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think I was a decent parent, but as you can imagine, I'm not one of the great ones to talk
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to on that one-on-one kid level. I wasn't the great dad that way and things like that. Children's
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books really help. They help. So somebody who's better at communicating that way, and then you
00:33:30.260
can read them together, get through those things because they're getting mixed messaging. They're
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not just hearing from you. They're hearing from activists in schools, the teachers, the teacher's
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assistants, or maybe even other students who just have gotten missed messaging. And you want to
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correct that at home. That's the role of the home. That's part of the sad politics that's been going
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on. Teachers unions, others that want to get between parents and their kids. They don't believe
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the parents should be communicating with the kids. That's part of the battle in Alberta.
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as part of what's been going on with premier smith with them saying well we can't force the
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schools to communicate issues that are going on with the children to their parents well why the
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hell not it's their parents the family is paramount the parents are the final authority
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they must be it's it's it's how we've evolved not teachers unions and i can hear from people
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not every parent is is accepting not every parent you know there's bad parents i understand that
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But the vast, vast majority of parents, vast majority, want what is best for their children.
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Nobody will want what is best for their children more than a parent.
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And there's nothing more abhorrent than seeing teachers unions who are entrusted with the care of our children for so many hours a week, so many months a year.
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And you put your political crap into our children and then tell us we don't have the right as parents to communicate with our children for it.
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it's just wrong. And we can't eliminate all of it overnight. Not everybody can afford
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to put their kids into private schools or has the resources to be able to homeschool. So they have
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to counter what their children have been getting in the public schools. And books like this are a
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fantastic way to do it. A great way to communicate directly with the smaller kids because it's a big
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message. It's a complicated message when you really drill down into it. But this way it
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simplifies it and starts the conversation. And it's the same sort of fable that we've seen in
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many other books. Anyways, they've always just celebrated. Be you, be you. Don't worry about
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what somebody else is telling you to be. Talk to your parents about who you are. Think to yourself
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about who you are. Don't worry about what's considered trendy or what might garner attention
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and things like that. It's just, and it's, you know, pressing. It's a good time to have this
00:35:49.120
discussion because the world's gone batty. I mean, really, it has. You know, we just did this gender
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confusion lunacy that's been going on. Let's just have those conversations early because kids are
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impressionable. They're learning. They're being introduced to the world. And it's our job to make
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sure they have as much good information on their way in as we can possibly give them. And children's
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books are a great way to do it. And as I said, I'm just a book geek. The kids who start with books
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like this, there's a much better chance they'll eventually get onto Atlas Shrugged and then the
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Sovereign's Handbook when they get a little older. So this is a gateway drug into literacy. So get
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your kid addicted early with a copy of Buck the Rainbow Unicorn. All right, let's get back to some
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of the serious stuff. I have to, you know, going on into actually, you know, modern journalism,
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modern coverage of things. And it ties a little bit into what I was talking about before with
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race-based policies and things such as that. There's a gal I met her a number of times at
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events. She's been doing great work down in Okotoks, which is a kind of a satellite community
00:36:54.260
south of Calgary. And she's got an online, if you look it up, the Okotoks Observer. And she's
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just been, as a citizen journalist, it's Angelica Ullinova. I'm probably mispronouncing it. You
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know, I'm terrible with reading out those names. But look up Okotoks Observer. She's been doing
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FOIPs, you know, Freedom of Information Requests. And it turns out in Okotoks, this small
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bedroom community next to South Calgary, that has nearly no Indigenous population, very, very few
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Indigenous people there. Though I've heard a rumor that the chief of the Siksika Reserve has a house
00:37:30.040
there. I don't know. That's a separate issue. But she found that there's an Indigenous consultant
00:37:35.760
that this small community is paying $115,000 a year for.
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this consultant was asked through what she found.
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She defended the mayor against one crazy person
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who accused her of being a racist, apparently.
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She arranged a meeting between the town of Okotoks administration
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and there were no chiefs at the event or something. Just bizarre. But you see, you've got to think of
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this. This is a small community of taxpayers with limited funds, $115,000 a year. That's a lot of
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money to any of us. I despise when I see people saying, oh, that's just peanuts or this or that
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when it comes to tax expenditures. No, it's our money and it's all important to us. And when you
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think this is just one community in Canada out of thousands, when we want to talk about what I
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talked earlier about the indigenous industry. Here's an example of it. How many thousands of
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these consultants exist out there sucking six figure salaries out of taxpayers for stupid
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crap like this? This is just one of those drops in a giant bucket of drops in this broken system
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we have in Canada. And you know, you try to get rid of these and guess what you're going to be
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called. You're going to be all of those other things. Either way, just check it out. If you
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live in the MDF or county of Foothills, they change names. This is another way of wasting
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taxpayers money. I live in the county of Foothills. Okotoks is a town in it. And if you're curious
00:39:07.200
about what your council and mayor have been doing down there, check out the Okotoks Observer.
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She covers other things besides just the indigenous stuff. But it just, it put a point on,
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you know, how bad and entrenched in the mess. Because I'm not exaggerating. I'm really not
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when I talk about race-based policy sinking the country. Because it applies on so many levels in
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so many places we don't see. That's not even the federal spending. That's not even the provincial
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spending. It's not even big cities like Calgary spending. It's not high indigenous cities like
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Battleford's or Winnipeg. It's Okotoks. And they're spending and that guides the actions
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of that council. We are really messing ourselves up. Let's look at some of the other news that's
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been interesting. Skate Canada, you've probably heard about it. You know, Dave mentioned it.
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So Skate Canada won't come to Alberta for events anymore. They're the ones that run
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figure skating events. And they won't come because Daniel Smith won't allow men to participate in
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girls' sports, won't allow men to wave their schwanzas about in change rooms, as has happened
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with swimmers in the States and other things, because we're supposed to look at men and pretend
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they're women. And Daniel Smith has said, no, we're not allowing that anymore. So they said, fine,
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we're not going to come to your province. You know what? Stay out then. This is happening all over
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the world. It's going the other way. Skate Canada is on the wrong side of history here. The pushback
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is finally coming. The Olympics are already talking and they're saying no more of this. No more
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men pretending to be women to gain an athletic advantage in sports. It's sad that we had to
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ruin the athletic and sporting experience for so many women for so many years over this idiocy.
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At least the Olympics are getting there. Other sport organizations are getting there, but leave
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get to good old Canada to have Skate Canada still standing up and boycotting Alberta for it.
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This is nuts. It's stupid. Yeah, if you want to see a tweet I made about it and nuts and figure
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skating, you might want to have a look at that on X, but I won't bother going into that on here.
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Smith is really lighting things up, though. Boy, as the year comes to a close here.
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On the Independence front, of course, Bill 14 went through and every push is showing there's
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going to be a referendum next year. There's no getting around it. It's not saying Smith supports
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a yes vote, but boy, it's clear her government wants that vote to happen, wants that campaign
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to happen. The petitioning is going to start soon. How it's going to end? I don't know. Six
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months, eight months of solid talking about what the advantages are to staying in Canada for
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Alberta. And it's a difficult discussion for pro-Canadian people, pro-federalists. It might
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change a lot of minds before that vote comes we'll see but she's talking about other things
00:41:55.200
immigration this one is something else Dave talked about that so with with new immigrants
00:41:59.840
if they aren't employed if they don't qualify we'll see if people are going to go wild over
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this they won't qualify for a whole bunch of the services that are provided in Alberta
00:42:08.500
and some of the conversation was pretty straightforward pursue your permanent
00:42:13.580
resident status pursue your citizenship we just this is targeting the well I'll still use the
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term for now. Canadians are convenient. It's the ones who come just to milk things out and don't
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contribute. Because immigration, and I know some people argue with me on this on the conservative
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front, that's fine, but I do think it makes us stronger. It makes us much better. People bring
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skill sets, values, that's a harder one to determine, but there's some great values
00:42:36.240
and contribute and come into Alberta, whether from other countries, other parts of the country,
00:42:43.080
wherever. But there's a whole lot that don't. There's a whole lot that bring a lot of cultural
00:42:48.080
intolerant baggage let's uh you know you get to know who populates our pro-palestine process for
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example aside from the blue-haired locally grown hammerheads uh taking a stance because the province
00:43:00.760
can't control immigration directly quebec you know they have some degree of say in it but the reality
00:43:04.840
is people land in canada they can re-migrate to wherever they please from there and that's true
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but the province controls who gets access to which programs where so if those programs aren't
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available for these uh Canadians of convenience in Alberta I guess they'll settle somewhere else
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that's fine right if it's a bad move on Alberta's part then I guess it'll be to the benefit of
00:43:27.540
Toronto Montreal uh have at it guys but you know the backlash is going to be something else that
00:43:34.520
she's really poking into it with this because that's what we're going to talk about where
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allegedly it's going to be a right for people to show up and and begin consuming the local services
00:43:42.780
on what's happening here and uh it's a conversation a lot of people gotta have because when we're
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running short on access to health care educational seats housing things like that the real number is
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the volume well then we've got to find a way to reduce the demand and i think she's found an
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interesting way to want to do it and the other part is uh not that anybody should be able to
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vote in a referendum if they weren't permanent citizens or at least actually actual citizens
00:44:08.420
uh some of the people who'd be difficult to determine if they were citizens or not are not
00:44:12.560
going to be here anymore because they will move to where the social services are better.
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It really kind of helps Alberta along that way too if we're looking at an independence-minded
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sort of thing. I'll leave off on one more note. You know, keep watching our Jared Yeager. He's
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fantastic. He's our BC guy covering out in the West Coast there because, boy, speaking of
00:44:29.960
conservatives shooting themselves in the feet, the gong show going on and the conservative movement
00:44:33.720
in BC is just, it's a dark, dark comedy to watch. So the Party of Two, which they called One BC,
00:44:41.880
is split into two, two MLAs anyways. And then, you know, the BC Conservative Party has punted
00:44:50.360
Rustad. They're going into a leadership race. It's just a hot mess, unfortunately, because
00:44:56.160
BC really actually has some great Conservatives in the interior, BC in the North and in Vancouver,
00:45:00.800
Lower Mainland. They used to put some great Reform Party MPs in from there. But as Conservatives,
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boy, the only people we like fighting more than Liberals are ourselves. Hopefully BC can get it
00:45:10.560
together because uh it is a great province and they got a lot to offer if they could just get
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their uh affairs in order so thank you all for tuning in there's gonna be kind of a christmas
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special coming out next week it'll be recorded but it'll have some newer stuff on the regular
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schedule as we get through the holidays watch for the pipeline tonight we're gonna break down
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some more issues and again like share do all that good stuff with our channel so we can spread this
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