Who's the dastardly person keeping Justin Trudeau in power that Jagmeet Singh is so upset about? Who could it be? Who's destroying the country? We're going to get to the bottom of it.
00:00:00.000Good day. Today is August 21st, 2024. I'm Derek Fildebrandt, publisher of the Western Standard, and you're watching The Pipeline. I'm joined, as always, by Western Standard opinion editor, Nigel Henniford.
00:00:15.580Good evening, Derek. So much to say, so little time, eh?
00:00:34.620Jagmeet Singh complains about Jagmeet Singh.
00:00:39.840Jagmeet Singh is very upset that somebody, someone, has been propping up Justin Trudeau and keeping him in power, destroying quality of life in Canada.
00:00:50.340We're going to discuss who that dastardly person keeping Justin Trudeau in power that Jagmeet Singh is so upset about, who could it be?
00:01:02.600Who could it be? Who could it be the one who's keeping this guy in power who's destroying the country?
00:01:23.020This is a person who, well, people mortgage their houses to send their kids to go listen to this person.
00:01:30.660This person is quoted by the Supreme Court and under former Premier, Alberta Premier Richard Notley, even had some government gigs.
00:01:37.000This is someone who thinks that checking out touring small towns in Alberta is, you may as well just start burning crosses and walking around in pee-stained bedsheets.
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00:02:17.660Just as Indian, which I proudly ride, announced that they were never going to go woke.
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00:02:25.860They were coming under huge pressure, and they've abandoned it.
00:02:31.380They're the latest major North American corporation to refocus business, to focus on, I don't know, business.
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00:05:38.620Well, what is keeping Justin Trudeau in power?
00:05:44.140It would be something they called a supply and, or it's a confidence and supply agreement, which formed an effect of coalition between the liberals and NDP.
00:05:55.040There's one man who, right now, could snap his fingers and trigger an election, which would almost certainly remove said Justin Trudeau, who's making things worse here, according to Singh, from power.
00:06:11.560Do you think it even dawns on Singh that he is a part of the problem here, that he is, after Justin Trudeau, the most important person in the federal government at this point?
00:06:27.880But he's also very aware that there are a number of members of his party that need to go to October of next year in order for their pensions to vest.
00:06:38.120There are, in fact, a number of them, I think there's as many as 80 out of a parliament of 338, who are in the same situation of having to fill in a full six years.
00:06:51.320But a lot of them, obviously, are NDP and liberal.
00:06:55.000They even delayed the date of the election, which was to be the 21st of October, but which is now the 28th of October,
00:07:03.180said it was so that it didn't clash with a religious holiday, but, in fact, put those 80 MPs over the line.
00:07:13.820Those who lose will maintain their pensions.
00:07:18.200So this is very typical politician talk.
00:07:23.120He knows darn well that he could bring the prime minister down in a morning by simply saying,
00:07:28.940we're not doing this anymore, and, by the way, restore his reputation as a politician and a statesman in doing so.
00:20:54.840You know, racist professor in Alberta says blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
00:20:59.200As far as I can tell, the Western Senate is the only publication in Canada or media of any kind that has even mentioned that this has happened.
00:21:09.420Nigel, I know our own reporter, Alberta legislative reporter, Jonathan Bradley, asked Daniel Smith about this today.
00:21:15.480She had, I think she was fairly less aggressive than one would expect in her response.
00:21:55.040In fact, just as a matter of fact, let the record show that although Premier Smith was in those two very much cowboy country, oil rig, rig country whistle stops there during the weekend,
00:22:11.800where you would expect to see people in cowboy hats, mostly of the white complexion,
00:22:20.060if you go through her Twitter feed, you will see picture after picture after picture after picture of the Premier interacting with ethnic communities all through Alberta.
00:22:31.940I mean, if there is not one, there are dozens.
00:22:36.380So we published some, as a matter of fact, in the article we did on this.
00:22:42.600But they were just three out of a much larger number.
00:22:46.040So in as much as the attack on her by Professor Gautel was incorrect, clearly she doesn't just do white Alberta.
00:23:00.360The other question that I keep coming back to is what possesses a person in a senior, well-paid university position whose works are favorably mentioned even in the Supreme Court of Canada
00:23:17.420because she happens to fit that particular political philosophy that is invested in the Supreme Court at the moment.
00:23:25.500Somebody of great power and influence starts to call people names like kids in a schoolyard.
00:23:34.240What exactly are we paying for with people who do that kind of thing?
00:23:40.500You would expect, frankly, more maturity, even if you didn't expect more kindness and consideration.
00:23:50.200Corey, one of the things that, building on what Nigel said here, I think, you know, nowhere more than academia do you see unserious people in serious positions of power and influence.
00:24:03.540They are shaping the minds of young adult students who are going to university, which gives you a privileged position in society.
00:24:16.120So these are people who are going to go out and ostensibly, some of them will do something with their degrees.
00:24:20.740If they're taking gender and women's studies classes, they're probably only going to become gender and women's studies professors.
00:24:26.980That's generally about as far as that kind of profession goes.
00:24:29.820And also be civil servants, unfortunately.
00:24:31.580Yes, yes, you can do DEI studies in government.
00:24:35.880And until recently in most corporations, that seems to be coming to a crashing end, thankfully.
00:24:41.400But, you know, unserious people in serious positions and who have the ear of very serious positions like Supreme Court justices.
00:24:50.580You know, it kind of reminds me a bit of, let's throw her up on the screen.
00:24:58.100Ray Gunn, the world-famous Italian, sorry, Italy.
00:25:03.640You don't want to take credit for her.
00:25:05.420Italy's not the least serious country anymore.
00:25:20.960But people who never left the academy, who stayed in the academy and never got exposed to the real world are able to live in this bubble that is just totally disconnected from reality.
00:25:36.800Do you think, is there anything we can do to rid our universities of this without intruding into academic freedom or as essentially if we're going to have to treat one or the other?
00:25:45.920Maybe if we had more private universities out there, you know, well, they're private in a sense, but they're very government dependent.
00:25:53.540There might be some that, I guess you could say in the alternative school with classical education that Ford is working on, you know, options where they're going to say, we just aren't going to immerse your children.
00:26:10.940But, you know, you pointed out the bigger and frightening issue with these unserious people in these serious positions because, yes, they're creating more.
00:26:20.680Gad said, covered it fantastically in his book, The Parasitic Mind, you know, of how our academic institutions have just become infiltrated with this trash and it spreads.
00:26:30.680Because you're saying, what do you do with a gender studies degree?
00:26:35.200It's as Nigel said, you can end up in the civil service and we see how good our civil service has become.
00:26:39.280Or the other one, which is very frightening, if you come out with a liberal arts degree that's typically useless in the workplace, you've eventually gotten tired of making happy faces and lattes and you want to get a pension but a relatively, you know, job with a lot of holidays, what do you do?
00:26:53.020You go back to school, get a teaching certificate, and you work in the public education system.
00:26:57.560And then they spread that garbage to even younger, you know, people.
00:27:01.520The people in the STEM departments of the universities go on into the working world and they're out there.
00:27:07.460But the ones educating our children, unfortunately, we're not skimming the cream to educate our children.
00:27:12.200We're actually starting to compile the stuff from the bottom.
00:27:15.260STEM, science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
00:27:18.520So it's a big, this professor has exposed herself for, you know, kind of the whack job she is, but she's just one of many, many, many others.
00:27:29.380Just some perhaps are discreet enough to keep their mouths shut.
00:27:32.080You did make a statement about 20 seconds ago that it had to do with academic freedom.
00:27:41.060What I mean is, if we're to clean up our universities from this garbage, how do we clean up this garbage from our universities without having the government itself come in and say, you can have this professor, not that professor?
00:27:56.300That's why I'd like to see more alternatives, not government interface.
00:27:58.760Yeah, because I'm, you know, I try to talk about consistency.
00:28:02.460I don't like it when the left comes in and intrudes into the freedom of different other organizations, and I'm hesitant to see it from a side with a perspective I would be more likely to agree with.
00:28:13.540So I don't like the idea of, you know, the province saying, well, we fund the university, so, you know, we're going to cut your funding unless you get rid of this professor, this professor, this professor.
00:28:23.460But at the same time, I'm not comfortable with my tax dollars going to that professor, that professor, that professor.
00:28:28.520And that professor, that professor, and that professor get together and exclude other people who have a different point of view.
00:28:36.380The University of Calgary, for example, their politics department was at one time considered to be the, you know, the nest of the young Stephen Harper.
00:28:52.720There are a lot of people who went through it, and when there was, there was a number of professors who were very much of the conservative disposition.
00:29:00.860They were not the only professors that you could take classes from, but that point of view, the conservative point of view, was very well represented.
00:29:11.580As the old guys have been retiring and doing less, they've come on with a new generation, which is much more in line with the way that this woman thinks.
00:29:25.040So, you know, you don't want to interfere with academic freedom, but there is no academic freedom.
00:29:31.560If you are a conservative professor, they will undermine you, undercut you, do everything they can to get rid of you, and they certainly won't replace you.
00:29:39.780And, yeah, like the concept of tenure is important.
00:29:43.840You know, you've gotten in, and the reason for that is so you can be controversial without fear for your job, whether it's left or right.
00:29:51.560But that protection has gotten weakened.
00:29:56.940Yeah, found themselves on the outs because they, you know, so there's a double standard when it comes to applying that tenure.
00:30:04.060And I don't believe in two wrongs making a right.
00:30:05.760So, no, I don't want to see this gender studies nut bar thrown out because of her views.
00:30:11.440I would like to see alternatives so kids don't have to be exposed to it.
00:30:15.380But they have a double standard because if she was exposing crazy views that are considered conservative, she'd already be on the carpet, probably out the door with it.
00:30:24.220Well, and, of course, then there's, I think, Professor Pinder at the University of British Columbia who cheered for the assassination of Donald Trump.
00:32:35.780I don't, I can't wrap my mind around that mindset.
00:32:39.660They see some sort of virtue in self, you know, abasement, in saying that I'm bad.
00:32:46.680I mean, it's a form of flagellation, like the, you know, Christian lunatics used to do in the past, whipping themselves, walking down the street.
00:38:15.000The trend of the last 10, 15 years has had every major corporation in North America and Europe adopt these DEI, diversity, equity, inclusion policies,
00:38:27.840doing away with merit-based hiring based more on diversity, equity, inclusion-based hiring.
00:38:35.660Um, and sometimes do great disastrous effect for these companies, some, some worse than others.
00:38:42.540But what's happening now is they're not just paying the price by not necessarily having the best people in the jobs,
00:38:48.180but instead of hiring based on quotas and what feels good.
00:38:50.620Now there's an outright, genuine consumer backlash that is taking hold.
00:38:57.360Uh, you know, most recently, uh, there's an activist in the States who's, who's kind of really pushing this, uh, do you recall his name?