(Suddenly) on Guard for Thee
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In this episode of The Pipeline, we talk about the shift in the polls, the growing scandal in the Globe and Mail, and the sudden demand for Canadian pride from those who have had so little of it for so long.
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publisher of the western standard and you're watching the pipeline today on february 12th
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2025 i'm joined as usual by western standard senior columnist cory morgan always a pleasure
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and uh western standard senior editor dave nailer good to be here darry nagel is the way
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on some well-deserved rnr so we're happy happy fill in in our reoriented studio uh we've decided
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to move away a bit from the green screen that you guys have been used to. We just literally
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turned the studio in 90 degrees, so we've got the newsroom in the background, which
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is actually what we built this thing for to begin with. So, you know, we're going to see
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how it goes. The best part, a producer, come to camera one for me for a second, something
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I want to do. I just want you to know that there's Jen in the background right in there.
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She's trying to hide behind me. I just want you to know that she's there. She might be
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picking her nose or eating a sandwich or something so you guys might see
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something in the background at some point you know we saw Elon Musk's kid
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picking his nose while in the office let's be realistic even grown-ups pick
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their nose so you might see something in the background but just don't hold it
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against us we're humans and it's just people going about doing their job in
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the background there but let us know what you see let us know what you see
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Okay, she's covered behind me on this camera angle.
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You know, there's a lot of people who have been rigging Canada through the mud,
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saying this is an imperialistic, genocidal, blood-soaked nation built on stolen land.
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we should lower it for six months, sit in sackcloth and ashes, wear a hair shirt,
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and all of a sudden, demanding we man the ramparts, build a hundred thousand man army to resist the orange tyrant.
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No, they're not talking about Nahidenshi. They're talking about Donald Trump.
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You know, demanding that we wave the Canadian flag, that we be proud of this country.
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hate Canada for the last 10 years, and so it's a bit jarring to see now.
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So we're going to be talking about the sudden demand for patriotism from those who have
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There's been some trends, different degrees of it we're seeing, but we're seeing a definite
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just begin to assume that it's going to be Mark Carney.
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I still don't think most Canadians know who Mark Carney
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So we're going to talk about the shift in the polls,
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And we're going to talk about a growing maybe scandal,
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taking place in alberta health services it's a fairly layered and complicated issue i'm not sure
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we can call it a scandal yet but maybe it will become one maybe not but we're going to unpack
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decade but very fashionable uh for our left city councils to cancel canada day celebrations no
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fireworks to celebrate this colonial genocidal state uh it's been fashionable uh to lower the
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canadian flag at half mast um in a natural ritualistic shaming of the nation this blood
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stone uh soaked flag needs to be lowered for six months it only went back up i think um
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When it came to Remembrance Day, and they're like, well, this would be awkward to bring it down to half-mast to honor the veterans of Canada.
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And so I guess we're going to put it back up just so we can bring it back down.
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You know, a Liberal and NDP bill, which thankfully killed in prorogation here, but a Liberal and NDP private members bill in Parliament that sought to criminalize questioning if Canada is a genocidal state.
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Um, toppling of statues of Queen Victoria, the monarch at Canada's founding, toppling
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of statues of Sir John and Macdonald, Canada's founding prime minister, toppling of statues
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of, uh, all sorts of important figures in Canadian history.
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But I mean, it's none of them were, uh, none of them rose to the level of Saddam Hussein
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or, or Joseph Stalin, uh, I think deserving having a, uh, a statue toppled.
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But it's been very fashionable in certain fashionable circles to denigrate Canada for quite some time now.
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Justin Trudeau's prime minister made it official federal government policy to do so.
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But this has a cultural loop that's been going on for much longer.
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All of a sudden, the bad orange man putting on some tariffs, threatening other tariffs,
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and uh and and demanding slash strongly recommending and arm twisting that canada join the united
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states and uh all of a sudden these people are uh demanding that we raise the flag
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raise the flag and stand on guard for the uh show pride in canada talk about how great canada is
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by Canadian. When they talk about by Canadian, they don't seem to really mean Canadian oil and
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gas. I think they mean Canadian widgets manufactured in Ontario and Quebec, but
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that seems to really apply to products coming from the prairies very much.
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But a real chest thumping here. As someone who's not the most guilty, but probably a little guilty
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of this, would be Calgary Herald columnist Don Braid. I mean, he's an interesting read. Some
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days you're like yeah you're nodding Wong yeah he really hit it to me on the head the next day
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you're like the guy's out to lunch but uh yeah Don Braid was saying that Canada should raise a
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100,000 man uh army uh in terms of actual battlefield capable troops we have right now
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I would doubt we could probably put together a brigade of 5,000 at this point so that's a
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significant increase 5,000 to 100,000 if we're talking actual battlefield ready troops uh that
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We should raise it as the Grand Army of Canada to resist the potential American invasion.
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I mean, if the Americans wanted to come this way, we could raise a million-man army.
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But here, we're going to put this tweet up on the screen.
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And a certain multicolored flag and the Ukrainian flag.
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but uh let's see um i think he is uh he's tweeting in uh uh this is just uh two two and a half years
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ago on this candidate i can't help but think perhaps we need a new flag or refer or refreshed
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flag because canada and arguably our flag was tarnished long before the convoy with centuries
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of blood and genocide genocidal murder of indigenous nations we need to reset a new
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simple now just to point out for the sake of uh the historical record here uh the canine flag has
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not been around for centuries it's been around since the 1960s uh before that we had the red
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ensign which served us quite well before that just the union jack uh and then yesterday mr mike
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gerald gibbs uh he him in case you didn't know mike uh no it's not big mike this is mike gibbs
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This man is standing on guard for thee right now
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Yeah, I see they've gotten left behind in the wash.
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I mean, hypocrisy is just striking out of them.
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I mean, a person's allowed to change their mind.
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But the extent with which these guys denigrated any form of patriotism in Canada,
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I mean, every event we go to, we listen to a land acknowledgement.
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One of the things I asked online recently, you know, well, apparently I'm a settler,
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so why should i care about canada's sovereignty i'm just another rider on this this genocidal
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train anyways uh they've done quite the about face but it's because i i think
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some of them are realizing the foolishness of what they've built here i mean we've also had
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a country that's you know getting more beyond the patriotism but it is stunting our ability
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to stand up to a hostile nation whether it's a lack of military a lack of broadened trade
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ability due to the lack of pipelines or even good ports and these guys they're embracing jingoism
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which it just rings shallow though if it's suddenly overnight this isn't some deep abiding
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love of canada it's at best it's just a large hate of the united states and that's not the right
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reason to get on board but i i think it's great uh you know we've always been very uh weirded out by
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the patriotism in the united states and and how they seem to go way over the top and oh we would
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never do that we would never do that in canada oh well why not there's nothing wrong with proudly
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singing your national anthem there's nothing wrong with flying the canadian flag uh there's nothing
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wrong with you know singing god saved the king before before class and that you know that's the
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type of stuff we need to get back to instead of you know as derek has uh summarized there's 10
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years of naval gazing and land acknowledgements before every press conference reminding you what
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you've done to the you know the how you genocided the uh indigenous population so i like it um and
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it's all obviously to do with the big orange man uh but uh you know and obviously the military
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stuff is ludicrous you know this is a government that wants to take away our guns and then we're
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expected to fight we've got we've got 55 tanks the canadian armed forces has 55 tanks the united
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states has 5 500. uh if they wanted to they could overtake the entire country in a weekend
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uh you know and what are you going to do you see a platoon of marines coming your way in prittis
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you're going to take your little gun and head for the hills and form your resistance no there's
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nothing we could do about it so so yeah let's be proud about canada because you know what once we
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get our stuff figured out we're going to be a damn good place to live again you know there's a quote
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that comes to mind here uh from samuel johnson uh patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel
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and that is you know that that the quote has been misconstrued misconstrued sometimes to say
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patriotism is a bad thing no but it's patriotism is abused by governments on left and right and
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And throughout all of history, it's been abused and weaponized sometimes to cover up its own failings.
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When all else has failed, you know, you want to have an external enemy or something.
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Now, I don't think Prudhoe created the external enemy of Trump.
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Trump is just Trump and he's going to Trump is going to do Trump.
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But they are using it as the last refuge of the scoundrel here.
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but I don't think it's so obvious to many in Canada
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I think what really set me off was the brag column
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right now you know they'd have to bring back conscription you would never get it you would
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never get 100 000 no no um yeah there was a time probably when we could have 100 000 man army
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without conscription i grew up in army and air force towns it had always been my dream to be a
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submarine boat captain uh until it dawned on me that canada didn't have functional submarines we
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still don't so thank god i did not go into a naval career in canada because i'd i'd be uh the captain
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of a stone frigate i'd you know i think i'd have the title of a captain or something but no actual
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ship to sail um and as it was in hindsight perhaps it wasn't such a great idea to use the war measures
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or emergencies act against the kind of people you would need to fight for a country's independence
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perhaps demonizing poor young rural white men as inherently racist privileged yokels wasn't such a
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great idea when you need them to fill the ranks of your suddenly patriotic army maybe replacing
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merit and martial culture with DEI hires in the military wasn't such a bright idea when you wake
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up one day and realize that a functional military requires merit and martial culture. It may have
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been ill-advised to propagandize patriotic young Canadians that their country is an evil,
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illegitimate, genocidal state on stolen land when you all of a sudden ask them to sign off and
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spill their blood to defend said state and land. If you want Canadians to sacrifice it with a flag,
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consider not lowering it to half-mast for six months
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If you want Canada to be an independent country
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um he is yeah rural white patriotic kind of people who used to fill out most of the canadian armed
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forces uh but the kind of person who found himself being told he's evil just for who he is where he's
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born how he's born um and that they're more important things than um the ability to defend
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to canada with military might and that was diversity equity and inclusion and he just got
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sick of it and quit and i know a lot of people who uh you know i came through i live in military
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towns i know tons of people who serve uh some who served in combat in afghanistan they're done with
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it they just don't want anything to do with this we i don't think this can be rebuilt in just a few
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years with a new conservative polyev government martial culture takes generations to build it
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can be destroyed very quickly, but it takes generations to build. I don't think this is
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going to be turned around with a bi-Canadian campaign and demanding we fly the flag without
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shame for once here. It takes generations to fix this kind of cultural rot. Well, and they're on
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the cusp of a good idea, though. One of the points, again, Trump was correct about, and again,
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I mean, I get into enough battles with my own followers online, I'm not a big Trump fan, but
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he's correct about some things, he's wrong about others, is Canada has been riding on the coattails
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of the American military system for a long, long time, and it's allowed Canada to under-invest
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in its military. We should be investing in it. We should be expanding it. Don't worry about tampons
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in the men's room. Equip them properly. Spend the money on it, but not with some ludicrous notion
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that you're going to defend yourself against the United States, but just to reach that 2% bar we
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committed to decades ago and never met, and just participating as an international citizen
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I think he maybe just had a bad day or something
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But this idea that we can raise a defensive force
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What we have to do is what Trump has done in the States.
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We have to put a warrior in charge as the chief of defense staff.
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We need to take tampon machines out of the bathrooms.
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They can stay in the women's bathrooms, obviously.
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And get rid of all the DEI culture in the military.
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But you look at the, in December, January, the United States military had their best recruiting month in years.
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And that was because people want to protect the United States.
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If we can get somebody who's, you know, that sort of charismatic, you know, running the military, you'll get people to sign up.
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And you'll get the DEI people that are going to get shuffled out.
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I mean, I think it's wild seeing also the self-righteousness of these suddenly patriotic people.
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You know, it's not just that they're, you know, they haven't apologized or acknowledged the damage that they've been doing.
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It's only the last decade that it was the federal government itself actively participating in this.
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But, you know, but as a cultural progressivist movement, they haven't acknowledged that maybe, maybe we went a little far, maybe we did real damage to the social fabric and cohesion of Canada with what we've done. They haven't acknowledged that. And then it's accusatory. It's everyone else who doesn't stand with your version of suddenly patriarchal.
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you're a traitor now yeah you're a traitor now um okay well who was the traitor i don't know
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six months ago when you were saying canada was a genocidal state without a shred of evidence
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these people have not acknowledged it and they're accusatory they've got a almost um you know uh
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mccarthyist uh oh it's it's got viable online and some of the others too again who are usually a
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a little more contained, but it's the Trump derangement syndrome. It really is in some of
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those things. Warren Kinsella runs a little poll on X, you know, but he's got quite a following
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on there, and he's been an established strategist and columnist for a long time,
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saying, would you be willing to take up arms and fight against, you know, defend Canada against
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this? Warren, you were Chrétien's advisor when you were trying to register and steal our firearms
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in the 90s you were calling us traitors for wanting to hang on to those you were calling us
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traitors for being regional and trying to defend our property rights out here and now you're
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telling us we should be willing to take up these arms that you didn't manage to steal back then
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and defend the nation that stepped on us kiss my butt warren where's this this complete but is he
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not listening to himself he's not a stupid man but it's bizarre it was just mere months ago that
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justin trudeau and the liberal uh government was saying they're going to steal the guns of
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otherwise law-bying canadians to give them to ukraine well oh yo well maybe all of a sudden
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we could use no matter what i mean my hunting rifle is not going to do much if the united states
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uh marine corps or army started decides to roll through calgary it's not going to be of any use
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whatsoever but i mean this is pretty fast if you wanted to measure it's a real way to it's
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suicide by army yeah uh could you see trudeau going to zelinski uh please sir can we have our
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guns back be sure we never unwrap them you idiot they were 22s yeah uh i mean hey
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it just boggles the mind it it boggles the mind that so many canadians are willing to bring this
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stuff enough that's all right uh well speaking of well that's a good segue you thought you were
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going purposely into that yes yes that was an intentional so anyway um a lot of people a lot
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of canadians uh particularly in the east probably a few out here but mostly in the east are buying it
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they're drinking it um i mean the idea of a carbon tax election that's does seem to be out
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the window there are bigger issues now uh i mean somewhat bigger because the liberals have at least
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the leading candidates for the liberal leadership have all said they're going to get rid of the
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carbon tax which is not true they're going to get rid of one third of the carbon tax the consumer
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portion they're going to leave in place two-thirds the industrial portion which is actually what
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makes us economically uncompetitive especially as the united states ribs up the paris climate
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accord and things like that uh but they're going to replace it with other uh other measures on
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okay, so there's not going to be a carbon tax election.
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I eventually said, I don't think Trump is entirely
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it's pretty clear at this point he's not it's if you actually think it's going to happen or not
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is a different question but this is not just trolling this this is something now um and i
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think it's um i think it's been a political boon to the liberals who have seen a rally in the polls
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that does not mean they're going to win or be spared the just desserts of what they've got
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coming maybe. Recall that even in the first week of the 1993 election, remember the election
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where the progressive conservatives went from a majority government to two seats. They got
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utterly annihilated. The biggest defeat in the history of the democratic world ever.
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The first week of that campaign, they were tied with the liberals at like 37%.
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So this could just be a blip and then yeah, Canadians see Mark Carney and they're like,
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But for now, at least, a lot of Canadians are going right back to the mothership.
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A poll out yesterday showing with Carney as the leader, the Liberals are actually tied with the Conservatives.
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And it wasn't more than a month ago that the Tories had the 20-point lead.
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So it's a considerable increase for Carney, obviously, in Ontario.
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So my message to Ontarians is, where have you been the last four years?
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He still doesn't have much of a public profile.
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He's getting spoon-fed by the mainstream media, especially CBC, who will show an entire Carney event and then cut Polyev off after a few minutes.
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So, you know, I would like to think when it gets down to a battle, if it does and it's looking likely between Carney and Polyev,
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And Carney will come across as the sort of dull dude that he is.
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I mean, what we're seeing, too, for those, you know, it's not even that long ago, Ignatie of Part II.
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I mean, this was the intellectual, the fixer, the person who's going to come in, who's going to, you know, revitalize the Liberal Party.
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They really thought that's what was going to happen.
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But as people actually got to know him, you know, he was more of the same.
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I mean, you know, the campaign against him, you're only visiting.
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I mean, Carney, as people get to know him, oh, wait a minute, this man's barely been in Canada.
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Yeah, and when you're talking on an election run on jingoism, that's not a good sign.
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You know, how's your New York penthouse doing as you're trying to say you're going to defend us from the evil Americans?
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And I think the only reason the Conservatives haven't taken those shots at him yet is they're keeping their powder dry for the election.
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The thing I'm more worried about is when are we going to bloody get it?
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And the photo this week of Carney playing net, you know, he looked like a complete dweeb in his $2,000 footwear.
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You know, he's not even got a catcher's mitt on, you know, to catch the ball.
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I'm sure there wasn't a hockey ball anywhere near that ball.
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it was ice which further defies explanation of why he's wearing his two thousand dollar loafers
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instead of uh skates but he looked uncomfortable yeah right it was don't try to be what you want
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it just comes off as fake like you know i actually think within canada there is a very significant
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political market for an elitist the philosopher king um an ignatiev type figure maybe it's one
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Yeah, I do. You know why? Because I am smarter.
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don't you want a leader who is smarter than you who does know better trust me uh i mean to an
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extent trump does that and he embraces it he's like i'm better at business than you guys i'm
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better at money trust me to do it i've got the personality i've got the skills you're losers
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what and and he and he does brash and open about it i think carney would at least have a better
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chance if he just ran ask cardi instead he's like gotta hold us try to close every lot like
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can he's like hello hello blue collar workers this is like gets off you're a highly accomplished man
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you're a highly accomplished man embrace it uh and and run on that i i think that's i'm still
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not voting for him because i disagree with his ideology but as a personality running i think
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that's a much more compelling figure than this phony guy and don't see or estimate how devastating
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awkward optics can be going all the way back behind that stanfield with the football football
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i was going to mention that the devastation campaign just one simple option and those are
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the days before internet these are days before things could really go viral or a little later
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the howard dean scream this was a man on the way up one awkward weird scream during a a rally and
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And I mean, there was probably, he probably wasn't going to get there.
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But it's when you're trying to be what you aren't.
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When you're comfortable just being yourself, doing what you are, you reduce the chances of getting into that awkward, unusual situation that was outside of your own element.
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I mean, if he got nailed in the knackers without a can on, then we'd see just how fake that went.
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that picture look make him look stupid yes as you would have been better with
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nothing yeah so somebody in that campaign Justin Trudeau holding a hammer
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backwards don't pretend to be a contractor Justin being cosplay
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contractor yeah no one expects that you do that there's no expectation do it
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every time he puts on a hard hat to tour a factory he's mocked yeah and then
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there was you know Gretchen had that military helmet on backwards that one
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gentlemen again that was just an honest mistake we'll step on the hairnets just just be careful
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guys but whatever i mean you know polio could screw up as well but yeah but uh yeah you can't
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pick curry as an everyman he won't fit that way he's not you don't have to run i think it's i think
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we are we are we're in a populist moment but it's still popped you know the liberals can get elected
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with 32 of the vote with the minority government here the liberals can get 32 that that is doable
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to do uh but they're just intent on not running carny as carny they're afraid um you know you
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remember michael ignatiev and he was just like uh remember that bizarre speech he gave towards the
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end of the campaign it was uh rise up rise up he was trying to like he was he was doing like
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a grave heart impression rise up and it was just it was a bizarre and awkward and off-putting
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to get people together under existing leadership, no matter who it might be.
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But when the question comes up, OK, now is the coin toss.
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Now is when you're really looking at who's going to lead after this.
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I suspect a lot of Canadians are going to reevaluate
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Keep in mind, the pollsters are liberal favorites anyways, right?
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you're seeing the like frank graves i don't have access to the guy's uh medical records or anything
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but he's clearly not well he's he's challenged like he he's uh about as stable as kanye
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they need to lock him and andrew queen up in the room and get them medicated
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other bolsters are showing it now frank graves is showing it the hardest uh you know i think
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He's shown some movement, but it's a small movement, but it's still way back.
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And something interesting with the big one that showed them tied, if you break that one
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down in their regionals, they also said Alberta would come out of that election with three
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Liberal seats, which we know our local turf well enough to know that Randy, Randy, Randy
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The porch pirate in Northeast Calgary, very unlikely to get reelected.
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And where's this third Liberal going to come out?
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But maybe one Randy loses a seat, but the other one keeps it.
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well it could be you know you've got to defeat a lot of randy's to get that seat but i mean it just
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shows though that there's some regional disparity in what they're trying to claim i mean those of
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us with a political ear on the ground know that a lot of things change and we're in a wild world
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but the world where alberta would actually increase a liberal presence right now in this climate yeah
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come on you there's something wrong with that hole and at least one of the randy's is going to be in
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trouble because they came out and supported freeland today so he's already going to be in
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carney's bad books oh she'll lock up the the focahontas folk yes well we got to give some
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credit here uh andrew shea the former conservative federal conservative leader and he's a house
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leader for polio now uh he he had a pretty great quip on this uh when he's you know replying to
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christia freeland when uh randy plazano endorsed uh hurry says well that's two votes i mean uh i
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think you heard me i just spilled my coffee and guffawed from my office i love uh i love the
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the headline sheer devastation that's uh courtesy james snow good good okay uh well let's bring a
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little closer to home here um so last week uh carrie tate reporter at the globe mail
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um put out a story that's been making some waves uh it's there's a lot of layers and i i don't want
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and there was a turnover as, uh, the head of, uh,
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Auburn Health Services and things like that. Uh, this woman,
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I can't pronounce her name. Can you pronounce her name? No. Okay.
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A woman, let's call her the head, the head, former head, former, former head.
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and she claims to the golden mail that she was to meet with the auditor
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general three days before she was let go, where she was going to bring to light,
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uh problematic or bad not sure how you want to describe it but questionable contracts uh given
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to uh private medical companies with connections to the conservative government uh is that i think
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that's a fair summary yeah um i mean okay there's smoke it's worth looking at i think something
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like this there's uh there's smoke doesn't mean there's fire maybe there is um but it's i mean
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she was not the first to be canned they've canned a lot of heads with the chest lately possible she
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was just getting canned anyway and that's when it was uh you know we've all fired people before
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and they normally have things to do before you let them go but doesn't it's not a good look so
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which i think this has to be looked into um you know uh so was she being let go because of that
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that's one question two was uh was there anything problematic with these contracts
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we don't know maybe there was uh were these contracts given because they were just connected
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to the government again we should find out so uh smith has put this to the auditor general
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So, I don't know, Dave, is it too early to use the term scandal yet?
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You know, he's been screaming for a week now and continued again this morning in Edmonton,
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Interestingly, she has said that she knew nothing about it,
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So she's already put out that potential lawsuit.
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So it's not like he can make the accusation in the legislature yet.
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But she campaigned on the promise that she was going to dismantle the AHS, and that's what she's doing.
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So this will be the first in many, many leaks from disgruntled AHS workers who are going to get canned to the media about how terrible things are.
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Well, yeah, things are terrible within Alberta Health, and that's what the Premier is trying to do, is to fix them.
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But as you say, Derek, worth investigating, and Premier Smith has asked for an expedited investigation, so it'll be quick.
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So just to what you said, Dave, on Nenshi, you know, Nenshi is saying Daniel Smith and the House Minister, LaGrange,
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need to step aside while the investigation takes place.
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Now, Nenshi has been a politician for going on.
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He's been a politician longer than Justin Trudeau has been Prime Minister.
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lingo so how many times did uh nahi benchi say that justin trudeau needs to step down as prime
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minister whenever there's an investigation into this guy uh zero none none ever including uh god
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knows how many times where he was found to have violated the conflict of interest act he's never
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said that uh but i mean it's opposition politics that's you know take it for what it is um
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Um, let's look at, yes, Smith did say she's going to dismantle AHS.
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I actually don't think there's any way to fix health care in Canada, unless you get rid of the Canada Health Act,
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unless you just do away with the Canada Health Act and allow a private parallel system.
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You can put all the money in the world in there.
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so fine um she said she was going to do that but and that might be what's angering and motivating
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some bureaucrats in here but the allegation is at least strongly implied that that this person was
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fired to stop wrongdoing from being exposed it's not that contract things are being contracted out
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i think that's a perfectly reasonable thing to do question is is it being contracted out
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to friends of government without reasonable competition.
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Not everything can be put out to competition, but most things can.
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Well, the allegation is serious, but again, we need an investigation.
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I mean, also what Premier Smith's taking on is a behemoth of an entrenched bunch
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of entitled bureaucrats who are going to throw every wrench into every effort
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I mean, of course, the media trotted out the usual friends of Medicare.
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They should put that quote underneath Union Group.
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I mean, you know, these are self-interested people.
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I fired a server from the coffee shop we own in Prittis one time,
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and lo and behold, she put up a bunch of reviews on Google saying we had mice in the kitchen and serve people moldy sandwiches.
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Well, you've just sold them all the sandwiches.
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But, you know, I'm saying when a person's nose is out of joint after being canned, you have to take that with a grain of salt.
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But, I mean, Nietzsche, and I understand, he smells blood in the water and by all means pounce.
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And he's getting to the point of absurdity when he's immediately demanding the premier resign over this.
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All we're at right now is a letter from a person who just got fired.
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We need a little more meat on the bone before we start talking about having a premier resign.
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And if this turns out to be a nothing burger, then she's going to look less credible when he actually had a really good opportunity to make reasonable hay out of this thing.
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And I mean, hey, if it turns out that Marshall Smith really did have some arm twisting going on and they have evidence of it and that was Smith Daniels, his chief of staff, our relations, just for people listening, then we got something serious because we don't want to see that in government.
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We want to make sure we're getting the best person for the job, not the best connected person.
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But the overreaction is not helping the credibility of Alberta's opposition right now.
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Well, we're going to wrap our show up with our parting shots.
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Well, again, you know, I give the good and I give the bad with President Trump.
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But he has changed the world map more ways since Magellan.
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If you go on Google Maps, it's now listed as Gulf of America.
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Even Apple Maps, which, you know, kind of dug your heels in, is a bit of a woke company.
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It is Gulf of America as far as the maps are concerned.
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I'm sure it's not that as far as the Mexicans are concerned.
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He's changing the definitions of what some international pieces of territory are called.
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Don't deadname it and call it the Gulf of Mexico.
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The Associated Press White House reporter refused admittance to the Oval Office yesterday because his company's style guide has not changed.
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Yeah, he's not just, you know, making a statement.
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He's actually really putting the push on with it.
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It's an editorial decision and they don't have to follow the dictates of a government.
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Either way, he's made his mark on the world already.
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Best news story of the year yesterday was Elon Musk screaming up to the sidewalk,
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jumping out in a tuxedo and saying the name's Balls, Harry Balls.
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And watching the faces of the female CNN journalists.
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uh anchor women saying uh elon musk who is now identifying as harry balls
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is truly an unforgettable historical moment america might be screwing with us right now
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but i'm kind of jealous of being in america like the americans are just having fun right
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now it's a fun time in america what they're doing with canada it's not cool it's not so fun
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but for those who are invited to the party it's a pretty good time right now
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um speaking of invited to the party so uh and elon musk and doge um so they're going after
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doge is going after usaid exposing all sorts of hilariously contemptible uh programs that
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they're spending american taxpayers money on uh just wild stuff and that really quickly got a
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bunch of people in Canada's ears to pop up saying, well, what's our equivalent doing at Global
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Affairs Canada? What are they spending money on for foreign aid? People look at the big numbers,
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like how much are we spending on foreign aid? But we don't tend to really look into what are
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we spending it on? Are we, you know, doing, are we funding sex change operations for iguanas in
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Ecuador? That's the kind of thing they're finding, you know, jokingly speaking, but it's wacky stuff
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like that. Really quickly, as soon as this started to become a huge issue in the United
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States with USAID getting ripped apart by Doge, Global Affairs Canada's foreign aid
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website, well, it just went dark. It went down. Now, they didn't claim it was some kind
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of technical issue or maintenance. No way. No. Now, it became a news story that it was
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down, so it was actually more damaging than any information that would actually get found
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there so they put it back up and uh we've had some reporters crawl through it dave yeah jen did a
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good job uh all sorts of weird stuff that just makes as you say oh let's go do it too angry
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um yeah so yeah be sure to check out what's what's the name of the headline on that story
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Well, hey, we've got it up on the standard there.
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But I thought it was just quite convenient timing that it just disappears off the Government of Canada's website
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in time for Canadian taxpayers to not be able to go and see what kind of iguana sex change operations in Ecuador were funding or something like that.
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