Western Standard - Race based policies are sinking Canada

00:00:00.000 Good day

00:00:29.980 Hey, welcome to the Cory Morgan Show.

00:00:32.680 We're creeping up on Christmas now.

00:00:35.720 I don't know if you, I think you can kind of see it through the windows behind me.

00:00:38.380 It looks like winter's returning with a vengeance.

00:00:40.040 It's supposed to get pretty harsh way out there on the prairies,

00:00:42.440 and we're getting a little bit of it over here in the foothills.

00:00:45.320 I despise this season, but there's no avoiding it.

00:00:48.720 What are we going to do?

00:00:49.440 Maybe when we separate and we promote enough climate change,

00:00:52.360 we'll warm things up and Alberta can have a tropical winter. 1.00

00:00:54.560 Until then, we just have to suck it up and endure it.

00:00:57.800 All right, let's see what we've got coming up.

00:01:00.200 Lise Merle is going to be coming on in a little while. 1.00

00:01:02.000 She's the author of the best-selling children's book, Buck the Rainbow Unicorn.

00:01:08.040 If you wonder why the hell I'm interviewing a children's book author, well, actually,

00:01:11.700 Lise does work with Rebel Media as well, and it is a great children's book, but it's got

00:01:16.380 some messaging in it that I guess you would call atypical, considered what's supposed

00:01:21.980 to be politically correct these days and whatnot.

00:01:24.720 So we'll have a good conversation with her.

00:01:26.540 The show is live.

00:01:27.360 make sure to get those comments questions in there and I see them all I don't necessarily

00:01:31.560 read them all out discuss things with each other keeps things lively just keep things

00:01:36.100 somewhat civil leave the rudeness to me I'm good at it all right let me start with some of that

00:01:41.000 I'll start on a light issue let's talk about racial policies let me list some proposed national

00:01:47.620 policies and just think of how Canada would be if these were imposed okay so imagine if we abolished

00:01:52.520 the Indian Act and removed special legal status for Indigenous people, and then terminated existing

00:01:58.240 treaties and transferred federal responsibility for Indigenous affairs to provinces? What if we

00:02:03.000 eliminated what's called Indian status and assimilated Indigenous people in a mainstream

00:02:07.160 Canadian society as equal citizens? How about if we converted reserve land by turning reserve land

00:02:13.140 into private property that could be sold? And then we could dissolve what was called the Indian 1.00

00:02:17.620 Affairs Department and close all federal departments responsible for Indigenous issues.

00:02:21.040 Do these proposals sound extreme or unreasonable or unworkable?

00:02:25.840 I dug every one of those out from a policy document called the White Paper,

00:02:29.640 created in 1969 by none other than Pierre Trudeau and Jean Chrétien.

00:02:34.020 Unfortunately, while Trudeau stood strong with most of his terrible policies he imposed upon Canada,

00:02:39.300 he folded like a cheap suit with the White Paper, and now we're all paying the price.

00:02:43.800 Look, if those policies proposed in the White Paper had been implemented 56 years ago,

00:02:48.120 Canada would be a stronger, more united country.

00:02:50.280 Instead, Indigenous people live in misery on reserves in a form of racial apartheid 0.98

00:02:55.160 while constant pandering to the Indigenous industry is cratering the Canadian economy.

00:03:00.600 To be a truly modern democratic nation is to eschew all race-based policies forever.

00:03:07.720 We must take a step back and look at the primitive absurdity of thinking we can have a functional nation

00:03:12.480 when we have different sets of laws and policies that apply to different people based on the colour of their skin.

00:03:17.880 Nations have fought wars to end race-based policies, yet Canada is entrenching them further

00:03:22.480 and decries opponents of racial policies as being racist.

00:03:26.080 It's a rather gross irony. 0.78

00:03:27.800 How far must we go with this ludicrous system before admitting it can never succeed?

00:03:33.180 We've got to start measuring policies by outcome rather than intent,

00:03:36.060 and the outcomes of every race-based policy in Canada are failing.

00:03:41.120 Canada set up separate sentencing guidelines for Indigenous offenders,

00:03:44.500 along with alternative means of incarceration. What do they get as a result? Crime rates among

00:03:49.140 the Indigenous have skyrocketed and the number of Indigenous victims of crime have skyrocketed. 0.90

00:03:54.100 Funds have been poured into Indigenous business ventures. As a result, Indigenous businesses have

00:03:58.660 a terrible success rate and those that do succeed usually only do so because they specialize in

00:04:03.380 government contracts. We've set up separate educational systems and set up different bars

00:04:08.420 for Indigenous people to acquire degrees and diplomas. As a result, the education level of

00:04:12.260 of Indigenous people lags well below non-Indigenous and is sinking. Extra funding has been poured into

00:04:17.320 health care measures for Indigenous people. As a result, they suffer from more chronic health

00:04:21.420 issues than anybody else and die younger than non-Indigenous people on average. In Alberta,

00:04:25.460 for example, Indigenous men die 19 years younger. I'm not misspeaking. 19 years younger than non-Indigenous 1.00

00:04:31.080 men. That stat alone should make people understand how broken the system is. Grants have been given

00:04:35.960 to reserves to take care of child services. Well, foster and emergency child care services are

00:04:40.100 disproportionately populated by Indigenous kids to the point of crisis. Countless programs in both 1.00

00:04:45.380 the public and private sectors have been formed to offer preferential hiring to Indigenous people.

00:04:50.820 Despite this, they're among the most chronically unemployed people in Canada.

00:04:54.040 There's not enough government jobs to really cut into that number. Due to there being no written

00:04:58.400 language for Indigenous people, the courts have enshrined oral history as being credible when it

00:05:02.140 is anything but. This has led to some of the insane rulings on land claims and fostered the Kamloops

00:05:07.600 residential school child burial hoax that led to burning and vandalism over 100 churches.

00:05:12.800 Canada is now fast becoming a total economic basket case as the eastern manufacturing industries are

00:05:17.700 collapsing if they don't get massive subsidies and the resource-based industries that used to

00:05:21.780 pay all those subsidies for them are hamstrung by false veto authority held by Indigenous bands.

00:05:26.160 The nation is becoming an investment pariah while British Columbia is castrating its real

00:05:31.080 estate industry through potentially violating property rights with land settlements offered

00:05:35.080 to Indigenous bands. In short, nobody's winning. Indigenous people are being held back and

00:05:39.640 infantilized with Canada's race-based system. It's taken great people and led them into a

00:05:44.900 socioeconomic catastrophe of dependency and dysfunction. Meanwhile, those who have to pay

00:05:49.440 all the bills are running out of ways to make money to do it. The solution is actually simple,

00:05:54.080 yet difficult to implement. All race-based policies must end. No modern nation can function 1.00

00:05:59.420 effectively when people hold different statuses under the law due to their bloodlines.

00:06:03.380 The only question is time.

00:06:05.100 How long will Canada wait?

00:06:06.700 And how bad will things become before finally we're forced to realize that race-based policies are always wrong and must end?

00:06:13.620 So you won't hear this often, not to me, guys.

00:06:15.540 But let's follow Pierre Trudeau's advice and make everybody equal under the law at last. 0.98

00:06:20.880 Because right now it's crap. 0.98

00:06:22.280 All right. 0.99

00:06:22.860 Well, that's what's got me started today.

00:06:24.420 Let's see what else is happening in the news.

00:06:26.140 Dave, what's up with your glasses?

00:06:28.040 I got myself new glasses last night.

00:06:30.760 I can finally see you.

00:06:32.120 oh well sorry about that or see right see right through you as the as the case may be it's nasty

00:06:37.880 outside that's gross i'm supposed to speak at an event in vulcan tonight but we'll see my daughter

00:06:44.840 lives in that area the roads are supposed to be pretty bad yeah prairie areas you know i mean they

00:06:49.160 you know love them but boy when the wind blows the snow across them they can be a little orphan

00:06:52.280 highways we'll see it's gonna be tough on jane when she has to go to the creek to pick up water 1.00

00:06:56.840 tonight i know i know i haven't got an update on her yeah just for those who don't know my

00:07:01.240 water system failed we live rurally and and uh i got up this morning to no water in the taps

00:07:06.680 uh brushing my teeth with water out of the coffee maker i thought there was a weird smell

00:07:12.600 jane is tasked with trying to figure out what's going on so we can uh you know have things like

00:07:16.120 toilets and such when i get home or maybe vulcan might look more appealing yeah there you go

00:07:20.200 there you go does the star trek museum did they have do they have a bathroom or i don't assume

00:07:26.120 so it'll probably be closed by the time you get there i'll bring a treat to vulcan there you go

00:07:30.680 well but you know i don't want to sound like a parrot but it's another busy news day today where

00:07:35.960 we're leading off with a column from chris old corn on some immigration proposals being put

00:07:41.480 forward by premier daniel smith the the main one being that unless you're an immigrant that's

00:07:48.040 wanted by alberta like alberta has can bring in their own immigrants but they get dumped a lot on

00:07:53.720 by the feds that unless you unless you're approved by the alberta government you will get no

00:07:59.400 welfare services no health services no education services basically making it impossible for

00:08:06.840 non-improved immigrants to move here non-working non-working immigrants the condition of approval 0.99

00:08:13.960 is is typically employment and so yeah you have to be a contributing member of society and then

00:08:18.520 society looks after you come on in if you want to work seems to make sense doesn't it you don't

00:08:23.400 want to go to quebec i mean that's where our equalization goes anyway yeah we've got a quebec

00:08:27.720 story out also on the a and w and w franchisees down there are saying unless they get an increase

00:08:34.840 in temporary foreign workers they're gonna have to shut down restaurants uh basically they say

00:08:39.480 the kids young adults they don't want to work in the fast food industry anymore and they need

00:08:43.880 temporary foreign workers yeah you know i don't know how much it comes to the policy or what's

00:08:48.040 best or worst but i know from all the pub and restaurant the next generation does not want to

00:08:52.280 work in the kitchens for yet at the same time people don't want to reach into their wallets

00:08:56.200 and pay for the living wage it would take to drag people out there so i think some people have to

00:09:00.920 reevaluate what you want i mean you sure anw could hire all canadian you know some people

00:09:05.320 are screaming we'll just let them hire canadian okay if you're ready to pay ten dollars for that

00:09:08.440 little cheeseburger yep that's the route to go so uh it's interesting just you know remind people

00:09:13.960 there's there's cause and effect if you cut the tfws some prices are going to go up that's right

00:09:18.920 uh this may come as a shock to you corey but we've got a story about corruption in quebec

00:09:24.120 oh no yeah no shocking uh and involving the elite the newly appointed leader of the quebec

00:09:29.800 liberal party pablo rodriguez used to be a member of the trudeau cabinet and stepped

00:09:35.320 down to run for the job and win just six months ago but the party's been embroiled in a corruption

00:09:41.000 scandal that that saw basically members paid to to vote which is somewhat illegal so he is

00:09:47.880 apparently stepping down this afternoon. We've got a story on Kelowna MLA Gavin

00:09:53.720 Dew. He was sort of thought that he might take a run at the BC conservative

00:09:59.120 leadership vacated by John Rustad but he says that would take him away from his

00:10:04.940 family too much so he is not going to run. The Liberal government's Islamophobia

00:10:11.340 advisor, secretly gave an $80,000 grant to a university's pro-Palestine group.

00:10:19.100 This came about through access to information records dug up by our friends, a

00:10:24.460 Blacklock's reporter, and she had initially died, or denied, not died, sorry.

00:10:30.660 Died of shame, maybe. She repeatedly denied ever doing this, and now she's been

00:10:36.820 proven to be not quite telling the truth and interesting story out of Great

00:10:42.320 Britain Bournemouth actually where lots of my family lives a guy who posted two

00:10:48.580 tweets I guess X's now or whatever you want to call them slamming immigration 1.00

00:10:54.160 this was after terrorist or there was a would-be terrorist that killed the six

00:10:59.740 people in at the Christmas market he tweeted against immigration twice they

00:11:05.200 reviewed by a total of 33 people and he got thrown in the slammer for 18 months so i wonder if premier

00:11:11.200 smith would get thrown in jail for some of the stuff she said about immigration here in alberta

00:11:16.640 no i don't think so but uh things are way out of control in uh in great britain they're uh they're

00:11:22.160 throwing everybody who tweets uh in the slammer well you get locked up for tweeting about it but

00:11:26.320 i mean if you go and do an illegal protest you're fine yes yes exactly exactly or or wear a mask on

00:11:32.480 on the street and call for 0.98

00:11:34.480 the death of Jews, you're okay. 1.00

00:11:37.620 Priorities. 0.99

00:11:39.180 They've got to free criminals

00:11:40.420 in England just to get all the tweeters in there.

00:11:44.060 Make room for them.

00:11:46.380 Most of the guys I know, I'm an example of it.

00:11:48.620 We're just all dorks who play on X

00:11:50.300 and everything anyway, so if you really want boring

00:11:52.200 prison movies and stories, you don't have a bunch of the

00:11:54.200 online geeks filling all those cells rather than

00:11:56.320 the nice hardened criminals we're supposed to enjoy

00:11:58.440 watching. Exactly. Things are a bit

00:12:00.360 broken. Yes, they are.

00:12:02.480 well anything else up uh you know christmas plans this year yeah i'm gonna head out uh

00:12:07.360 to the lower mainland on my grandson's first christmas so very excited about that uh but you

00:12:13.920 know weather floods getting through the coca hauler getting through uh highway one through hope to uh

00:12:21.760 to the lower mainland could be a bit of a difficulty so i need a vehicle to get all my

00:12:27.280 christmas presents back right because i wouldn't yeah i'm anticipating it's a great whole grandchild

00:12:33.680 yeah yeah but i need room to bring all my presents back oh well yeah no no my mom likes to you know

00:12:40.640 down you know load me down with things like toilet paper for the year that sort of stuff

00:12:45.360 important stuff important stuff learning about the absence of proper sanitary facilities today

00:12:49.920 there you go yeah you've been sort of living in the washroom here at the western standard

00:12:54.400 uh yeah i had to make use of the public so i don't do that

00:12:59.760 i'll be in the woods tonight oh you and the bears yes all right well thank you very much for the

00:13:04.720 updates and i offered more updates than you needed but that's the nature of this show

00:13:09.200 thanks gory i'll see you after the show all right that is our news editor dave nailer and yes

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00:13:37.940 Mavros Whistle, a commenter, fired

00:13:39.760 $10 our way. Well, I really appreciate

00:13:42.040 that.

00:13:43.600 Saying the biggest race-based issue right now is the

00:13:45.880 Gladue Principles. Merry

00:13:47.840 Christmas, Corey and WS. Thank you. It is

00:13:49.820 a huge one. The Gladue

00:13:51.100 Principles are a gross violation

00:13:53.540 of, of, uh, equality and justice. Uh, for those unfamiliar with that, I wrote on it recently,

00:13:57.820 actually in a different publication. Uh, but it was a ruling that came through that basically

00:14:02.920 forces judges to take into account the race of the offender and to apply lighter sentences

00:14:09.280 whenever possible to them, specifically indigenous ones, uh, not anybody else. And,

00:14:14.200 and again, you know what, if it worked, if it worked and there were very few indigenous people

00:14:19.520 going to jail, very few reoffending, you know, I'd be all for it. I want what works.

00:14:23.540 But it doesn't work. Since those principles came in, crime rates have gone up.

00:14:27.820 The incarceration rates for Indigenous people have gone up.

00:14:31.180 And we're talking 25 years since those things came about, or 30 years, I think.

00:14:34.740 How long do we have to wait to admit, geez, maybe it doesn't friggin' work?

00:14:37.920 I don't know. This is Canada. We could be waiting a long time.

00:14:40.620 I'm not going to hold my breath waiting for common sense. I'll turn way too purple.

00:14:44.260 I'll just let the usual high blood pressure take care of that for me.

00:14:47.720 So let's get on to something lighter, not so much lighter. This is great.

00:14:51.340 I've been looking forward to this. I've been a guest on a show for her a couple of times,

00:14:55.820 but I've never had her on our show. Lise Merle, a bestselling author of a children's book,

00:15:01.000 Buck the Rainbow Unicorn. Yeah, it's taken things by storm and right up there in the Amazon

00:15:06.980 bestseller. So let's bring Lise in and chat about this. There you are. Hey, Merry Christmas, Lise.

00:15:14.060 Welcome to the show. Well, hello, my darling Corey Morgan and Merry Christmas to you from a

00:15:20.520 number one Amazon best-selling author? I mean, I couldn't be more surprised if I tried.

00:15:29.880 Couldn't be more surprised if I tried. You sort of teased on the book, but let's talk about it,

00:15:34.740 Corey Morgan. Yeah, well, absolutely. I mean, there are, you know, many, many children's books

00:15:41.400 out there. I mean, lots of people really dream of writing a children's book, and there's some

00:15:44.720 great ones out there that just didn't quite break out of the pack necessarily and turn into number

00:15:50.100 one on the Amazon list, for crying out loud. What is it that distinguishes Buck the Rainbow

00:15:54.880 Unicorn from the other children's books? Well, Buck the Rainbow Unicorn is truly a tale and fable

00:16:01.880 for our time at this moment in time. Because if we think about what our children have been exposed

00:16:10.160 to, whether it be in public education, whether it be from public institutions, whether it be from

00:16:15.660 government of Canada they have been told an egregious lie as it pertains to gender ideology

00:16:21.580 and this book confronts that in a way that is age appropriate for little ones in a way that allows

00:16:28.540 parents to have conversations with their children about these things and in a way in a way sort of

00:16:34.380 takes things back for us the common sense rational conservative parents who have just

00:16:41.740 all acknowledged at the same time that this is not something that we are ever going to support

00:16:47.160 as it pertains to our children. Yeah, I see from the live comments, Sheila Gunn-Reed is in there 1.00

00:16:52.780 watching and has kindly gifted us for Christmas there as well. Thank you, Sheila. And here to

00:16:58.780 cheer on her best friend, the acclaimed LGBTQ2SAI+. She forgot the ambersand, so clearly Sheila is

00:17:08.560 intolerant but uh he's offering support either way that that is fantastic and and i did read it

00:17:14.380 you know and you've written it at a level where even i can take this in it's a brilliant book

00:17:18.140 and despite there being you know realistically there's a little bit of a i guess you could say

00:17:23.160 a political undertone but it's positive messaging it's the kind of messaging we should have in

00:17:26.880 children's books it's saying embrace who you are be real be realistic about it talk with your parents

00:17:32.760 don't let peer pressure push you the wrong way. That's right. And just to really put a fine

00:17:39.840 point on the fact that family is everything. Family is really everything, especially to

00:17:45.400 conservatives. This is the foundation of our civilization. And to encourage parents to bring 0.53

00:17:50.700 their children nearer, to have critical conversations with little ones when they're

00:17:55.940 in a really formative part of their development. This book enables all of that. And I've been

00:18:01.400 I've been receiving the most incredible feedback on the book from parents who have been really negatively impacted by this in their lives.

00:18:10.460 Their children have fallen victim to this really caustic, toxic and damaging ideology.

00:18:17.180 And those parents are hyping the book.

00:18:18.740 Regular parents are hyping the book.

00:18:20.240 Grandparents are sending the book.

00:18:22.460 And the funny thing is, Corey, you will love this detail.

00:18:25.340 So in the book, Corey read the book, and the book was actually written on a typewriter, you guys, from 1948, okay, in 2023.

00:18:34.640 And I just happened to be parked on the TransCanada Highway when I did it.

00:18:39.260 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.

00:18:47.580 Amazon is going to make it number one in the LGBTQIA list.

00:18:52.180 So thanks so much for that, Amazon.

00:18:54.440 and also we're number one okay get this you guys we are number one globally for amazon hot new

00:19:02.240 releases um this is this is incredible every single author you have ever heard of is underneath

00:19:07.720 buck the rainbow unicorn on amazon right now which like makes my day but we're also number

00:19:13.140 we're a number one bestseller on amazon for children's books about self-esteem and self-respect

00:19:19.120 And so I ask you guys, are we raising our children to have self-esteem and have self-respect?

00:19:25.280 Respect for themselves, respect for their families, respect for our values and beliefs?

00:19:31.380 And if the answer to that is yes, well, then Buck the Rainbow Unicorn is for you.

00:19:36.800 Yeah, well, and parenting, I mean, it's tough.

00:19:39.400 It's complicated.

00:19:40.960 It's especially when we get issues like this.

00:19:43.520 And what do you do if your child has come home?

00:19:45.720 And let's face it, there's some activist teachers out there. 1.00

00:19:48.320 there's other individuals and your child's confused by some of the messaging but they're not

00:19:52.000 adults to sit at the dinner table and break down and discuss something like this when they're still

00:19:57.020 in a formative place what better way to sit down with a children's book at night and just kind of

00:20:02.040 lay out page by page and then you can expand perhaps a little bit of what it's talking about

00:20:06.080 it it's a great way to communicate it on the child's level because they're not going to listen

00:20:09.780 to a long political diatribe my kids got sick of that when they were six with me this this is

00:20:14.600 exactly right because what what children are told is you must be kind you absolutely must be kind you

00:20:19.960 have no choice you must be kind and there is you know transphobia is not allowed here and homophobia

00:20:26.040 is not allowed here and you know bigotry is not allowed here and they're told these messages

00:20:30.200 that have no factual basis in reality when when family is the heart of your life like it is for

00:20:38.920 mine is a mother of six from Saskatchewan. Nothing in this book is controversial. This book really

00:20:46.100 promotes the idea that family loves you best and knows you best. And this is a way for us to,

00:20:53.680 again, just take back our children who have been told are a really, really egregious fib.

00:20:59.600 Yeah, well, you've kind of been well trained in the family lessons in life. What I caught

00:21:03.360 in that as well is you've been quite prolific in your life and in having children. You were

00:21:08.280 a solitary child growing up. So it takes different communication, smaller families,

00:21:14.100 bigger families, and things like these books are a great way to bring that across.

00:21:18.680 Yes. And this book is actually, you know, in addition to parents and grandparents gobbling

00:21:23.880 up this book, telling me that it's necessary that this is, you know, to continue on this work that

00:21:28.860 I'm doing. Counselors in schools are also buying this book, Corey. Daycares are buying this book.

00:21:35.780 Educators are buying this book.

00:21:37.240 Homeschoolers are buying this book.

00:21:38.880 So that just tells me that there is a real, real need to have truthful conversations with

00:21:43.280 children.

00:21:43.660 And this book allows you to do that.

00:21:45.520 Yesterday, I got a text from a daycare provider who read it cold.

00:21:48.720 Okay.

00:21:48.880 Hadn't read it before in her life, received the book, sat down in front of her kids.

00:21:52.960 And she said, at first, the boys were like, oh, a rainbow unicorn.

00:21:58.000 I don't want to listen to a book.

00:21:59.600 But there's a plot twist in the book.

00:22:01.700 Okay, guys, there is a plot twist in the book.

00:22:03.720 and when the boys uh when when the plot twist was revealed to the boys they were out of their

00:22:10.260 minds excited about the book okay so these are little boys that are like that are like you know

00:22:15.800 they see the cover and they're like I don't want another girl book and then they realize that that 1.00

00:22:21.120 there's a message in there for them so that that's just making my life buddy it's just making my life

00:22:25.840 that kids are loving it that senior citizens are loving it the parents are loving it and the

00:22:30.180 families are loving it I mean I just couldn't be happier yeah well and what I liked about it I mean

00:22:34.880 again you you've packed a metaphor of a political message into a book in a sense but it's all

00:22:40.580 positive the whole book is positive it's not saying reject somebody or be mean to somebody

00:22:45.880 or anything of this sort it's just talking about embracing who you are I mean the messaging is

00:22:51.780 positive from start to end which is great thank you yes I agree and to think that that whole entire

00:22:56.900 book came out of a 20 second excuse me a 20 minute session on the side of the trans canada highway

00:23:03.140 um was incredible like one page it took one page it was about 200 words it was it was messy in its

00:23:08.660 writing a little bit right like it's not there are not proper poetry stanzas in the story but the

00:23:15.540 story is just so good and delicious and i read it like cory i've been reading this story on a piece

00:23:19.940 of paper for two years and thinking every time i read it it just gets better and better like i like

00:23:24.420 it more and more so to see the world responding to it with such positivity is just so gratifying

00:23:30.660 for me like especially you know coming from you it's a pretty big oops it's a pretty big compliment

00:23:36.340 well you brought it down to my level so i could uh consume it properly uh but uh so the

00:23:42.660 illustrations i mean that that's the other aspect you had the 200 words for quite some time uh the

00:23:47.140 illustrations are great and that helps with kids as well i mean you know you want to be able to

00:23:50.660 point to things look to things uh they're eye-catching and and uh fantastic uh how did

00:23:56.020 you have those uh created well let me tell you cory morgan um the book is based on like it is

00:24:02.100 so saskatchewan and alberta coded in the illustrations like there's wild roses for

00:24:06.580 alberta and there are prairie lilies for saskatchewan and the setting of the book

00:24:11.540 is actually my grandma's farm from 1937 in halbright so i had this old grainy

00:24:17.140 black and white photo that we then transformed using ai to illustrate the settings of of the

00:24:24.180 book so what you're actually looking at is my grandma's farm halbrite saskatchewan circa 1937

00:24:31.940 and there's a you know there's a couple other settings there's a couple other settings in

00:24:35.940 the book that you'll see as you sort of travel along the story in the book um one of them is

00:24:40.820 a small town rodeo in saskatchewan the arcola rodeo one of them is uh is you know another another

00:24:47.940 farm setting but all of the characters and all of the development were done using ai which i think

00:24:54.020 is a really happy marriage considering the poem was written on a typewriter which was state of

00:24:58.820 the art in 1948 when it was built like typewriters were created out of a after the war there was a

00:25:05.860 a whole bunch of steel products right like we had this we had this market for steel and they started

00:25:11.440 making typewriters out of it so my stuff my that story came off a machine that was made out of the

00:25:16.820 same stuff as battleships okay so that's on one side and then on the other side we have all of

00:25:21.340 the imagery in the book that was created from ai but from vintage sources so it's just super like

00:25:28.080 it's super cool for me to be able to explain to you guys in that way but i'm delighted that you

00:25:33.340 like the illustrations, Corey. I'm just delighted. Absolutely. I mean, I know the attention span of

00:25:38.760 kids. It can be difficult. I tried to read them Atlas Shrugged and they just jumped away from

00:25:43.680 the bed as far as they possibly could. You need to have great things like illustrations to go

00:25:49.760 with the words to keep it interesting and exciting. And I'm still chasing them around

00:25:54.120 with the fountainhead now, but all the same, it's just a great children's book. I mean,

00:25:59.120 you didn't just slap something together to make a point or something like that this is a functional

00:26:03.500 good fun you know large format so you could sit there at bedtime or whenever and and read through

00:26:09.060 that that's exactly what we want to happen we want kids to have this right beside their bed so that

00:26:14.100 every night before bed you touch on you touch on this um to you know we all had that favorite book

00:26:19.720 growing up that you read so often that the pages got dog-eared and the spine ripped a little bit

00:26:25.840 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.

00:26:32.740 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.

00:26:42.280 And they're worth it. They're worth it.

00:26:44.540 So, you know, I do have to ask about some of the negative in a sense.

00:26:48.640 We know it's the world of social media.

00:26:50.140 It's a world of hysterics and, you know, accusatory things.

00:26:54.440 So which bad feedback have you been getting?

00:26:57.460 I mean, it sounds like for the most part, it's been fantastic and positive, but I imagine

00:27:00.540 you've had some, some nutters coming at you on this.

00:27:02.620 Yeah.

00:27:02.960 Yeah.

00:27:03.300 They're leaving, you know, the worst of the worst are leaving poor Amazon reviews, calling

00:27:08.940 it all, I mean, all of the predictable names, it's hateful, it's anti-2SLGBTQIA, it's bigoted,

00:27:16.360 it's all of the things, but the overwhelming, overwhelming majority of reviews are positive

00:27:21.840 reviews from people just like you and i who believe that children deserve to be told the

00:27:27.120 truth and children deserve to be honored in this way and so it's great uh it's great for families

00:27:33.680 it's great for anybody that knows a little one and i even had a guy reach out and tell me that he

00:27:38.320 bought 10 to put in a little free libraries so we're actually like gorilla marketing this into

00:27:44.720 the atmosphere so that people just in in the wild can experience this book too because because it is

00:27:51.120 it is a really special story like it is a really special story and one that's really really

00:27:56.480 important for this moment in time absolutely and it's fun i mean you can read through it part of

00:28:01.520 it's just you know it's engaging it's not just rattle through it with the kid read it see if

00:28:05.440 they've got questions chat back and forth process it or i said get dog-eared and apply it over time

00:28:10.560 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

00:28:22.240 a little bit that we have a hot hit on our hands and i like as a literary icon cory morgan you can

00:28:30.240 claim to to have known me before i was a literary icon but i thought that you know spending 12 bucks

00:28:35.040 on a little piece of decoration wasn't outside the norm for this situation well it complements

00:28:41.600 everything fantastically and i mean amazon is getting to the modern from typewriter to ai

00:28:47.120 to amazon i mean the days are gone where you have to get in through uh the old publishing houses to

00:28:51.680 manage to break through into the big bookstores and chapters or coals if we want to go way back

00:28:57.440 this way you can really get to everybody fast efficiently at a good price it's brilliant

00:29:03.280 uh so before i let you go i mean that that's the main place to get a copy or 10 right

00:29:07.120 to amazon yes amazon uh you can go to bucktherainbowunicorn.com that's going to direct

00:29:14.000 you straight to amazon uh it is on sale buck the rainbow unicorn right now is on sale on amazon for

00:29:21.600 eighteen dollars so for eighteen dollars you hit click buy and amazon immediately immediately sets

00:29:28.880 to printing the book and shipping it and it will be at your house within um two days in canada so

00:29:35.600 it they've made it so easy and it's really like like talk about the german printing press like

00:29:40.400 this is the next level of the german printing press what they're doing on the amazon side is

00:29:44.480 kind of spectacular um in the way that we can get information to people but it's super easy to buy

00:29:50.320 18 bucks delivered to your door and um a little one or little ones in your life will have a really

00:29:56.160 really great story to read yeah well i i yeah i don't think gutenberg envisioned this coming to

00:30:01.760 and then eventually with publishing but it's great to see real books too that's the final

00:30:05.680 thing i want to say as a book where i'm a lover of them yes and fighting with the digital world

00:30:10.000 boy get some paper books in some kids hands and maybe pass on some of that love of books that's

00:30:15.040 being kind of lost by a lot these days there's something there's something about holding something

00:30:20.160 tangible in your hands it is real when it exists in your hands so i absolutely agree i thought what

00:30:25.760 we can all agree children need more good books and they should read more good books where they're

00:30:30.960 being inundated inundated with social media and algorithms and their little brains are being

00:30:36.640 molded in ways that we can't even envision okay this book is the counter to that so uh yeah let's

00:30:43.520 all let's all read some books together and hey corey you have a book you have a book on amazon

00:30:48.720 we should just talk about that real quick oh i talk about that one plenty but yes that's the

00:30:53.600 sovereignty's handbook i i got up to a number 11 at one point actually last uh spring but oh boy

00:30:58.880 you've eclipsed me by a long shot so uh and uh i i do encourage children to read it once they turn

00:31:04.880 18 stick to buck the rainbow unicorn and some enjoyable uh books until you uh hit adulthood

00:31:11.600 and then we can bore you and inflame your your uh political minds with my sort of pap but uh great

00:31:18.000 well thank you for the the throwing the the plug back my way and i know sheila's been a fantastic

00:31:21.920 advocate of my book probably a better marketer than i am with it oh she sells that she loves

00:31:26.800 selling your book cory morgan like nothing gives her more pleasure yeah i'll have to get another

00:31:31.920 case of beer the next time we're at a common function so thank you very much for uh for

00:31:38.560 writing the book for coming on to talk about it and good you answered the other question so folks

00:31:42.480 get out there it's still there in time for uh christmas you can get one get it there a stocking

00:31:47.760 stuffer or wherever for a christmas gift no better time to get it and uh uh see one of the commenters

00:31:53.440 Here's Mavro saying Buck the Sovereignist might be the sequel to this coming up down the road.

00:31:58.560 That might be our next collab.

00:32:00.540 Cory Morgan is a children's book for little separatists.

00:32:03.900 I kind of love this idea.

00:32:06.180 Inspiration can come from anywhere.

00:32:08.060 All right.

00:32:08.840 I'll let you go.

00:32:09.900 I hope you guys survive that horrible weather.

00:32:12.420 It sounds like it's coming out Saskatchewan's way for the next day or two.

00:32:15.140 Meh.

00:32:15.560 It's fine.

00:32:16.420 We're used to it.

00:32:17.400 We're made of tough stuff.

00:32:18.520 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.

00:32:28.440 Well, thank you very much. And again, back at you guys at Rebel and everything.

00:32:32.640 Our friendly competitors, we're more than happy to collaborate with whatever possible.

00:32:37.880 Yeah. All right. Well, thank you again. And we'll talk again soon.

00:32:41.200 Thanks, kids. Thanks for having me.

00:32:42.700 all right so just one more time guys lease merle and uh yes buck the rainbow unicorn very easy to

00:32:49.300 find online it's just taken off brilliantly we need something positive now and then and that's

00:32:53.920 what this is is positive i'm here for the crabby negative that's my job once in a while let's break

00:32:59.000 it up the kids don't need my sour face for this sort of thing but boy a really good read get buck

00:33:04.560 the man the rainbow uniform rainbow uniform boy too many words coming out today rainbow unicorn

00:33:10.400 and grab a copy, have some fun and explore those messages with your kids. Because again, I like to

00:33:17.920 think I was a decent parent, but as you can imagine, I'm not one of the great ones to talk

00:33:22.040 to on that one-on-one kid level. I wasn't the great dad that way and things like that. Children's

00:33:25.720 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

00:33:35.940 not just hearing from you. They're hearing from activists in schools, the teachers, the teacher's

00:33:40.800 assistants, or maybe even other students who just have gotten missed messaging. And you want to

00:33:48.020 correct that at home. That's the role of the home. That's part of the sad politics that's been going

00:33:52.580 on. Teachers unions, others that want to get between parents and their kids. They don't believe

00:33:57.460 the parents should be communicating with the kids. That's part of the battle in Alberta.

00:34:00.240 as part of what's been going on with premier smith with them saying well we can't force the

00:34:06.120 schools to communicate issues that are going on with the children to their parents well why the

00:34:09.340 hell not it's their parents the family is paramount the parents are the final authority

00:34:14.800 they must be it's it's it's how we've evolved not teachers unions and i can hear from people

00:34:22.280 not every parent is is accepting not every parent you know there's bad parents i understand that

00:34:27.940 But the vast, vast majority of parents, vast majority, want what is best for their children.

00:34:33.080 Nobody will want what is best for their children more than a parent.

00:34:36.820 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.

00:34:46.540 We entrust them to you. 0.92

00:34:48.520 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. 0.98

00:34:56.420 it's just wrong. And we can't eliminate all of it overnight. Not everybody can afford 0.99

00:35:02.600 to put their kids into private schools or has the resources to be able to homeschool. So they have

00:35:07.640 to counter what their children have been getting in the public schools. And books like this are a

00:35:12.660 fantastic way to do it. A great way to communicate directly with the smaller kids because it's a big

00:35:16.980 message. It's a complicated message when you really drill down into it. But this way it

00:35:21.960 simplifies it and starts the conversation. And it's the same sort of fable that we've seen in

00:35:27.120 many other books. Anyways, they've always just celebrated. Be you, be you. Don't worry about

00:35:32.260 what somebody else is telling you to be. Talk to your parents about who you are. Think to yourself

00:35:37.800 about who you are. Don't worry about what's considered trendy or what might garner attention

00:35:42.860 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 1.00

00:35:56.560 confusion lunacy that's been going on. Let's just have those conversations early because kids are

00:36:01.700 impressionable. They're learning. They're being introduced to the world. And it's our job to make

00:36:06.100 sure they have as much good information on their way in as we can possibly give them. And children's

00:36:11.900 books are a great way to do it. And as I said, I'm just a book geek. The kids who start with books

00:36:16.440 like this, there's a much better chance they'll eventually get onto Atlas Shrugged and then the

00:36:20.420 Sovereign's Handbook when they get a little older. So this is a gateway drug into literacy. So get

00:36:27.040 your kid addicted early with a copy of Buck the Rainbow Unicorn. All right, let's get back to some

00:36:33.140 of the serious stuff. I have to, you know, going on into actually, you know, modern journalism,

00:36:39.320 modern coverage of things. And it ties a little bit into what I was talking about before with

00:36:45.360 race-based policies and things such as that. There's a gal I met her a number of times at

00:36:49.640 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

00:37:00.740 just been, as a citizen journalist, it's Angelica Ullinova. I'm probably mispronouncing it. You

00:37:07.260 know, I'm terrible with reading out those names. But look up Okotoks Observer. She's been doing

00:37:11.920 FOIPs, you know, Freedom of Information Requests. And it turns out in Okotoks, this small

00:37:17.980 bedroom community next to South Calgary, that has nearly no Indigenous population, very, very few

00:37:25.160 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.

00:37:40.820 Indigenous consultant.

00:37:42.500 In a whole year for $115,000,

00:37:45.720 this consultant was asked through what she found.

00:37:49.300 She defended the mayor against one crazy person 0.56

00:37:51.700 who accused her of being a racist, apparently. 0.96

00:37:53.920 She arranged a meeting between the town of Okotoks administration

00:37:57.700 and his own grandparents

00:37:58.940 and organized a teepee transfer ceremony.

00:38:03.740 and there were no chiefs at the event or something. Just bizarre. But you see, you've got to think of

00:38:11.340 this. This is a small community of taxpayers with limited funds, $115,000 a year. That's a lot of

00:38:16.300 money to any of us. I despise when I see people saying, oh, that's just peanuts or this or that

00:38:20.520 when it comes to tax expenditures. No, it's our money and it's all important to us. And when you

00:38:27.400 think this is just one community in Canada out of thousands, when we want to talk about what I

00:38:32.580 talked earlier about the indigenous industry. Here's an example of it. How many thousands of

00:38:37.960 these consultants exist out there sucking six figure salaries out of taxpayers for stupid 1.00

00:38:44.480 crap like this? This is just one of those drops in a giant bucket of drops in this broken system 1.00

00:38:50.640 we have in Canada. And you know, you try to get rid of these and guess what you're going to be

00:38:55.080 called. You're going to be all of those other things. Either way, just check it out. If you

00:38:58.320 live in the MDF or county of Foothills, they change names. This is another way of wasting

00:39:01.900 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.

00:39:12.240 She covers other things besides just the indigenous stuff. But it just, it put a point on,

00:39:17.360 you know, how bad and entrenched in the mess. Because I'm not exaggerating. I'm really not

00:39:23.680 when I talk about race-based policy sinking the country. Because it applies on so many levels in 0.86

00:39:28.680 so many places we don't see. That's not even the federal spending. That's not even the provincial

00:39:31.780 spending. It's not even big cities like Calgary spending. It's not high indigenous cities like 1.00

00:39:37.080 Battleford's or Winnipeg. It's Okotoks. And they're spending and that guides the actions

00:39:44.560 of that council. We are really messing ourselves up. Let's look at some of the other news that's

00:39:50.380 been interesting. Skate Canada, you've probably heard about it. You know, Dave mentioned it.

00:39:55.580 So Skate Canada won't come to Alberta for events anymore. They're the ones that run

00:39:59.380 figure skating events. And they won't come because Daniel Smith won't allow men to participate in

00:40:05.240 girls' sports, won't allow men to wave their schwanzas about in change rooms, as has happened 0.99

00:40:11.000 with swimmers in the States and other things, because we're supposed to look at men and pretend 0.88

00:40:14.980 they're women. And Daniel Smith has said, no, we're not allowing that anymore. So they said, fine, 1.00

00:40:21.420 we're not going to come to your province. You know what? Stay out then. This is happening all over

00:40:25.980 the world. It's going the other way. Skate Canada is on the wrong side of history here. The pushback

00:40:32.000 is finally coming. The Olympics are already talking and they're saying no more of this. No more

00:40:36.520 men pretending to be women to gain an athletic advantage in sports. It's sad that we had to

00:40:41.620 ruin the athletic and sporting experience for so many women for so many years over this idiocy. 0.99

00:40:49.180 At least the Olympics are getting there. Other sport organizations are getting there, but leave 0.98

00:40:54.020 get to good old Canada to have Skate Canada still standing up and boycotting Alberta for it.

00:41:00.660 This is nuts. It's stupid. Yeah, if you want to see a tweet I made about it and nuts and figure 1.00

00:41:06.480 skating, you might want to have a look at that on X, but I won't bother going into that on here.

00:41:10.400 Smith is really lighting things up, though. Boy, as the year comes to a close here.

00:41:16.520 On the Independence front, of course, Bill 14 went through and every push is showing there's

00:41:21.300 going to be a referendum next year. There's no getting around it. It's not saying Smith supports

00:41:26.840 a yes vote, but boy, it's clear her government wants that vote to happen, wants that campaign 1.00

00:41:31.780 to happen. The petitioning is going to start soon. How it's going to end? I don't know. Six

00:41:39.540 months, eight months of solid talking about what the advantages are to staying in Canada for

00:41:44.980 Alberta. And it's a difficult discussion for pro-Canadian people, pro-federalists. It might

00:41:51.000 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

00:42:05.360 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

00:42:20.640 term for now. Canadians are convenient. It's the ones who come just to milk things out and don't 1.00

00:42:23.920 contribute. Because immigration, and I know some people argue with me on this on the conservative

00:42:28.800 front, that's fine, but I do think it makes us stronger. It makes us much better. People bring

00:42:32.080 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

00:42:53.880 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 0.98

00:43:09.720 but the province controls who gets access to which programs where so if those programs aren't

00:43:17.620 available for these uh Canadians of convenience in Alberta I guess they'll settle somewhere else 1.00

00:43:22.480 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

00:43:37.060 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

00:43:48.740 running short on access to health care educational seats housing things like that the real number is

00:43:55.520 the volume well then we've got to find a way to reduce the demand and i think she's found an

00:44:00.500 interesting way to want to do it and the other part is uh not that anybody should be able to

00:44:04.540 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.

00:44:16.300 It really kind of helps Alberta along that way too if we're looking at an independence-minded

00:44:19.460 sort of thing. I'll leave off on one more note. You know, keep watching our Jared Yeager. He's

00:44:25.360 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,

00:45:05.740 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

00:45:14.640 their uh affairs in order so thank you all for tuning in there's gonna be kind of a christmas

00:45:19.140 special coming out next week it'll be recorded but it'll have some newer stuff on the regular

00:45:24.940 schedule as we get through the holidays watch for the pipeline tonight we're gonna break down

00:45:28.820 some more issues and again like share do all that good stuff with our channel so we can spread this

00:45:34.900 great western standard word farther and uh make sure to get buck the rainbow unicorn while you're

00:45:40.540 getting your subscription to the Western Standard. Thank you very much. Merry Christmas, and we'll see you on the next one.

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Western Standard - December 18, 2025

Race based policies are sinking Canada

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