The Carney government floundering
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In this episode of The Corrie Morgan Show, host Corrie Morgan is joined by Leo Knight, a former police officer and host of the show's primetime crime talk show, to talk about a variety of topics, including gun control, anti-crime policies, and much, much more.
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welcome to the cory morgan show last one of september already man it's whizzing by the
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bloody snow is going to be flying soon either way the weather's good for now and lots is going on
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a nice weird news week everything from uh ostriches to gun bans to cabinet ministers caught on tape
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to you name it keeps us with lots to rant about but it gets a little depressing at the same time
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i guess coming on a little while is a fellow named leo knight you might know him online
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his primetime crime. He's a former police officer. He's talked a lot on justice issues. I believe he
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had a radio show in the past. And we'll talk about some of those things going on, your rights to
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self-defense, your rights or not rights to have a firearm, and just what the heck we're supposed to
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do with the crime rates these days. Let's see. Otherwise, yes, the show's live. I see Jordan
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there commenting already. Use that scroll. Send those comments my way, my guest's way. I see them
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all. I don't necessarily read them all out, but I appreciate them. It keeps things flowing and
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active. So let's talk about some federal stuff to kick it off. It's been half a year now under
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Mark Carney's grand leadership. The liberal government is directionless and as inept as it
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ever was under Trudeau's guidance. I mean, liberal strategists, they successfully convinced Canadians
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that the trade war with the U.S. was such an urgent issue, it can only be managed under the
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brilliant guidance of the economic wizard Mark Carney. Voters in eastern Canada forgot about the
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decade of ineptitude under the Trudeau regime and kept the Liberals in power.
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To say Carney's underperformed is an understatement. Carney's tactics on the trade
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war have been hopelessly weak and ineffective. Despite campaigning on being a tough-talking,
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elbows-up sort of leader, Carney's offered nothing but capitulation while
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Trump imposes and removes tariffs upon Canada at will. The Canadian counter-tariffs were
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dropped, and Carney's been reduced to begging for Trump's goodwill while the Canadian industries
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suffer. Carney's failures in economic diplomacy aren't just limited to the U.S. Canola farmers
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are taking a $2 billion hit in Canada due to liberal tariffs on Chinese cars to protect the
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Canadian-made EV industry that doesn't exist. While Carney insists he wants to facilitate the
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development of Canadian resource industries, he refuses to remove the legislation choking those
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sectors. The tanker ban, the no more pipelines bill, they're still in place. And Carney pretends
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to be mystified as to why no private investors have been willing to step up and build pipelines
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in the country. Energy sector investment in general has been chilled due to the looming
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emissions cap. Why invest in an industry when the government plans to make it illegal to produce
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over a certain amount of the product? And Carney's hinted at reconsidering the cap, but his senior
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bureaucrats are making the case to keep it. And the liberals just voted down a motion to remove
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the cap. This mixed messaging fosters instability and rattles investor confidence in every industry.
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Does Carney have control of this issue and does he have a plan or not? Crime's been a growing
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concern for Canadians for years and the Carney government's been paying lip service to it
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while doing nothing. The Attorney General embarrassed himself when he told Canadians
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they don't have the right to defend themselves just before a crime wave hit which left a man
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dead and a child molested in two separate home invasions. The Liberals then voted down a motion
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to crack down on violent repeat offenders. On the unity front, the Liberals have inexplicably
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opened the door to a possible constitutional crisis when they asked the courts to put limits
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on the use of the notwithstanding clause. If the courts comply, Quebec nationalists are going to
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go ballistic, as will the independence movements in Alberta and Saskatchewan. Well, that might not
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be a bad development in the long run. Why on earth is Carmine inflaming it? He's also insisting on
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maintaining Trudeau's attempted gun ban, despite the policy being an utter failure since it was
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first announced. The government continues to kick the ball down the field, you know, extend the
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deadline, while the public safety minister has admitted that the gun grab is unenforceable.
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Total embarrassment. At the end of July, here's Carney again showing his strength of will. He
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indicated he would recognize Palestinian statehood under the preconditions, preconditions, that Hamas
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released the hostages, disarmed themselves, and removed themselves from power. Hamas did none of
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those things, so Carney simply shrugged and recognized their statehood anyways. What a wimp.
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He's established a pattern of making strong policy statements,
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only to jump backwards as soon as he experiences pressure.
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A sudden flurry of resignations from senior Liberal MPs
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gives the impression that they see a bleak outlook coming here.
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Clearly, Carney hasn't instilled confidence in the Liberal ranks,
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and the rats are starting to flee while they can.
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Even Trudeau managed to keep his members loyal to them.
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I suspect the looming disaster scaring those liberal loyalists away is the budget deficit,
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which is expected to near or possibly surpass $100 billion.
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It's a staggering number and indicating gross fiscal mismanagement.
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While Carney has used the word austerity when speaking to the budget,
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he's done nothing but cut checks from the taxpayers' accounts since he assumed power.
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It's the lazy way to try and govern, and it's going to lead to an economic crash.
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Even Trudeau never imagined running a deficit anywhere nearly as high
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as what Carney has managed to do in six months.
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The real frightening part is it's likely going to be years before Canada can free itself from the yoke of Kearney's callow and limp governance.
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Just imagine the damage he's going to manage to cause with a few more years to fumble around.
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And as this becomes more evidence to Canadians, we can expect independence movements in the provinces to keep growing.
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We can't save it all. Maybe we could save parts of it. Elbows up indeed.
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All right. Enough on the federal front. What else is going on out there, Dave?
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Let's just enjoy this First Nations summer that we're having.
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Doesn't sound right, but it's the politically correct way to go.
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Well, we do try our hardest to be politically correct.
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Yeah, I want to thank you for letting me sort of enter the glow of the Morgan shadow on Friday night.
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We're at the JCCF gala dinner at Carriage House,
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and you and I were standing there at a table having a drink
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and it was just one woman after another coming up to shake your hand.
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And they were like mothers bringing their daughters up to meet you
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and leaving disappointed when they find out that you're already married and stuff.
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And I was sitting with Nigel and we had lots of people come up to us too and say thanks
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The standard in general, it was nice to get to those events though and see, yeah, people
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People are reading and you know what they're reading?
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The Supreme Court says they are going to hear the case and have ordered the looming execution
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halted so there is much celebration out at the ostrich farm.
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They thought they were almost turned into a Waco when all the hay caught on fire last
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So right now they are safe and safe for the time being until the Supreme Court rules.
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they can always rule saying that they they must be destroyed so it's uh it's a reprieve for now
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hopefully uh goes on yeah we'll see uh again a weird one to look at in the the new scroll to
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try and predict for the year we were going to have a major standoff leading to the point of
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the supreme court over the disposition of the ostriches yes yes it's it's amazing what uh
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attracts people's attention uh i've got an interesting story on a uh 23 year old i guess
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bank teller at the royal bank uh decides he's going to go and have a look how much money mark
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carney's got in his personal account and calls it up and uh uh led to a chain of events where
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rcmp were called in and the guy was charged with fraud for having to look see what mr
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carney's got in his bank and i bet you cory it's more than you and i combined oh that's a pretty
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easy bet to win there's some modest accounts but you know and i'm no carny fan but he the man as
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far as on that level has as much right to privacy as anybody else a pretty stupid move on that part
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of that uh yeah and that teller is no longer employed with the uh the bank so he can't call
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up your account uh see how much money you've got show those uh double digits parents across alberta
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breathing a sigh of relief as a looming teacher strike appears to be averted the government in
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the alberta teachers association have reached a tentative agreement that will now be voted on
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by the teachers a good story from our friends at the canadian taxpayers federation they discovered
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a receipt from bc finance minister brenda bailey she went down to boston for a four-day conference
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and expensed six thousand six hundred dollars on limo rides luxury limo rides to various
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steakhouses the the local aquarium 6 600 i mean you're an uber driver how much would it have cost
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to an uber a couple hundred well for a whole weekend well for a day yeah i mean it was pretty
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cost effective i said that as much on x about that too with uh even nenshi that was in boston with
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he took lift i mean he was a sitting mayor at the time whatever with nenshi he wasn't bad for
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personally blowing tax dollars i think his spending initiatives were nuts
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but it's not that unreasonable to ask it's just that's resignation level i think yeah and it's
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the finance minister so you know why bc's finances are in the toilet uh at the moment another mass
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shooting in the states this time at an ice facility in dallas uh gunman opened fire from a
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rooftop as a ice van sort of drove into the the front entrance of their building uh killing two
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detainees inside. No ICE agents were injured and then the gunman took his own life. The
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gunman called up his Facebook page and it's littered with Antifa and communist propaganda.
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So no surprise there. And I don't think this is going to be the last shooting in the States.
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No. And with those ones, I just wish they'd use their last bullet first.
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You know, if you want to take yourself, I'll go, just, why do you got to take out a bunch
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of people layer at it. I don't know. It's not the last we're going to see, but there's big
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discussions on that. I mean, I enjoy owning a firearm or two. I'm not fanatical about it,
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but I feel it should be right. But there is a cultural difference. There's something going on
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down there. I mean, we don't see that happening up here as much or like that. I mean, Canada is a
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very well armed nation. In reality, there's a lot more firearms than people realize, but
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we just don't seem to have the propensity to pick them up and go nuts like that.
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yeah well i think you know the united states is in a huge mental crisis at the moment with
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everything that's going on so uh did you stay up late and watch jimmy kimmel last night his
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return to the airwaves no but i mean i didn't watch him before he was gone i liked him when
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he was on the man show in the 90s you know i got some good laughs out of that but not too interesting
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yeah no he's not a funny guy in my opinion but uh we've got a story on the website when you're
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done here you can come out and read it and find out what kimmel said oh well i'll have to do that
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as soon as i get off there but again you know interesting more stuff to be discussed on whether
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it's a free speech issue or not i mean something was a bit of concern it sounds like there might
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have been some pressure from the federal government on the networks to push him off now that's not
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good you know i mean it should just be bad viewership at least which he's got yes and
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yeah sounds like trump could end up suing abc over it so yeah he seems to win every case you
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know he's got 15 million from here and there and all sorts of other outlets so not that he needs
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the money no but well he certainly keeps things interesting for us he certainly does right on
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that's all you got isn't that enough i think that's enough those are just the top those are
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just the top five stories cory there's a lot of smart stuff i know municipal provincial we got
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all kinds of things that was busy right on well i'll let you get back there to that room full of
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of reporters and keep cranking those stories out i will do so thank you thanks dave it is our
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news editor dave naylor and yes by the way it was a diet coke i was having whilst we were standing
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having a drink the other night i don't want anybody to misinterpret with that but lots of
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stories good stories busy stories going on out there and the reason we can do that is because
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you guys have been subscribing we're uh you know independent media we really appreciate your
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that pesky paywall, and then we can keep getting that stuff out there as it breaks. We did cover
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that ostrich. What a bizarre story, and a big one. As soon as it happened, when the reprieve came
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for those ostriches at the last minute, I mean, we're getting to the point where the standoff
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was coming. Maybe I'll talk a little more on that after I speak about our guest, because I think
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it's a weird story, but it represents a bigger issue. Again, with that mistrust between citizens
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and government with just how fierce the government can get when it wants to stand on a point of
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principle and enforce its will on something. So we've come to a point of a small ostrich farm in
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British Columbia where it's coming to a head with standoffs and fires and bales built up and now
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Supreme Court challenge over the possibility of killing 400 ostriches, which may or may not have
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avian flu. Yeah, not one on the bingo card for the year to figure out. All right, so we're going to
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have Leo Knight coming up here and chatting. I've been looking forward to this, you know,
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justice issues. I talk about them a lot and that's his specialty and we just kind of wonder
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where the heck are we going and how can we do this better? Mr. Knight's a former police officer
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and expert in all these things. So let's bring him on and have a conversation. Hi, Leo, how are you
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doing? I'm doing well, Corey. How are you? Good, good. Thanks. I appreciate you taking the time
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to come on and chat with us today. There's plenty of stuff to go on about. There always is.
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So I guess, you know, you've got a long experience in this. I kind of want to start the gun
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gun grab or whatever we want to call it you know with legal firearm owners uh that's been making
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the news because the minister sort of stepped in it but they're starting to actually now try and
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bring this about even though trudeau started this five six years ago uh in your law enforcement time
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how much of an issue i guess was it with law-abiding firearm owners you know the the ones who
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that are being targeted right now is it a risk no in fact uh in my career and certainly
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I speak with a lot of police officers all the time, both serving and retired, Corey,
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and I don't know of anybody who's had an issue with legal firearms. The firearm crimes we do see,
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whether in the urban cities, the gang areas and whatnot that we frequently see in Toronto and
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Vancouver and Calgary and Edmonton, I should add, those things are typically illegal firearms are
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smuggled into Canada, primarily through the States and primarily through reserves where the RCMP and
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the Canadian border services do not have any presence. And I'm glad you brought that up. I
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was going to go there actually, because it's an area we do realize that most of the illegal
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firearms are coming in from south of the border. And the most porous spot is the Akwesasne
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Reserve and some of those areas where, or the Mohawk Reserve, where it's just a river crossing
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from the states. And to be honest, I mean, our government tends to be terrified when it comes
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to First Nations issues. So it's like they don't almost want to look to a different area rather
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than deal with the difficult task of dealing with the organized crime that's coming out of that spot.
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Well, absolutely. And if you mentioned off necessity, I mean, this is a reserve that
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actually straddles the border between the United States and Canada. For them, there's
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no issue with trying to bring anything across the border, because as far as they're concerned,
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the border doesn't exist. That's a problem. The other problem, as you mentioned, as illustrated,
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I might add by the whole ostrich farm thing, is that as soon as First Nations group got
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involved, the government backed off. Nothing that occurred prior to that from the owners of the farm
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or protesters or various groups with an interest seemed to move the immovable bureaucracy of the
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CFIA until First Nations got involved. So to your point, when you look at places like
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and other reserves, too. That's not the only one. But because it straddles the border and the
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police, I mean, they can assert jurisdiction, but they really have no presence. And CBSA has
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absolutely zero presence on that reserve. They do what they want. And part of what they want
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is to assist organized crime groups in smuggling weapons from the United States.
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Well, and a lot of things tie together. It's funny. I've been hearing on the news,
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there's been anti-firearm advocacy groups yelling that SKS should be on the banned list.
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They're a popular, inexpensive, semi-automatic carbine,
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And the reason the government won't touch that with a 10-foot pole
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is that there's tens of thousands of them out there,
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and they're mostly owned by First Nations people who use them for hunting.
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So even though that particular firearm actually has been utilized
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The government won't touch it because they don't want to get into the battle with the First Nations people again.
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Well, again, you have to separate when we're talking about legal firearm owners who are registered with the government and have gone through and got their PAL certificate, etc.
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while they are technically under federal law the same as you and I are the reality is they just do
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what they want. Yeah so going beyond that you know we had a recent case since we're kind of on that
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subject I just wanted to keep it open with you I know there's so much broad areas to discuss with
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when it comes to crime and that's your area of expertise and I'm not trying to beat on First
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Nations but we're kind of starting on that theme which is an important one I mean there's a lot of
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social distress and problems, which is a much bigger, broader issue as to why so many people
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of First Nations descent, unfortunately, just get into a lot of trouble and often are committing
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crimes. Part of the response to it, though, has been the GLADU principles and giving lesser
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sentences to people of Indigenous background to try and reduce the, I guess, the over-representation
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in jail, but it hasn't worked. It hasn't worked at all. And how do we deal with, I mean, we see
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a segment, a social segment, an ethnic statement where we are getting more crime and difficulty
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than others. We don't want to unfairly target them, but we also have to target where these
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things are really happening. How does law enforcement deal with that dicey issue?
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Well, frankly, Corey, it's not a law enforcement issue per se.
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Law enforcement investigates crimes and arrests offenders and put them before the courts.
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When you're talking about the Gladue Principles, you're essentially saying that in front of the courts, an indigenous offender will get a lesser sentence than you or I would for the same crime.
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uh i mean clearly it's wrong you know it goes back to the principle to keep it really simple
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um you know you have a dog don't you corey or you know a number of them no that's true
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you probably do uh another wildlife too i believe uh but no when you're training a dog
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not to pee on your carpet the dog has to see a consequence for a bad action uh when the dog pees
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your carpet you scold it it sees a bad consequence you take it out you show them where to pee properly
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and you praise it when it does it right uh you know it's it's the same basic principle with human
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beings uh if they see a consequence for their action they'll they'll either learn or they won't
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but they'll see further consequences but to to give them no consequences for a bad action just
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invites further bad bad action so that's just reality i'm sorry to keep it really simple with
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that but you know that's it's the reality of well that's it i mean it's supposed to be a corrections
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based system but it's failing in the corrections because the offenders when they're released
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unfortunately the recidivism rates are terrible and and that's not an issue for law enforcement
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that's downstream kind of as you were saying i mean law enforcement just gets stuck with having
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to investigate and try and catch the people when the crimes are committed and it's got to be
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frustrated, frustrating when you do the same people over and over again.
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Well, more on that point, just the Vancouver police released some,
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I think it was last week or the week before where they said that 62 offenders
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are responsible for over 6,000 crimes this year alone.
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You're talking about people that see no consequence, are constantly released into society,
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and time over time over time again, they just commit more offenses.
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The court gives them conditions on probation, and they get probation on top of probation
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for breaching probation, and on it goes ad infinitum, you know, until that's dealt with.
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And, you know, I heard Sean Fraser talking, was it yesterday morning or this morning,
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talking about how he's mad at conservatives because they're not doing anything to help
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the inner city crime problems. Well, you know, I mean, the ridiculous thing is that's all
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liberal legislation that essentially are where we are right now. And only the liberals who are
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in government have the ability to bring forth legislation to try and fix the problems. But
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they don't want to, they just don't seem to want to fix the problems.
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No, I mean, they just shot down a motion to try and move towards maybe a three strikes law or
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something, just something to start addressing these crimes. I'd be happy with 33 strikes in
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Europe. Yeah, when it gets to that level, absolutely. When do we get to a point of just
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saying, look, we can't fix this one. They've got to go in. So getting back to the ground level,
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then public safety, I mean, a new factor, relatively new, we didn't deal with in our
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younger years was it's the addiction though this fentanyl the meth the I mean the the devastation
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on the streets and the disorder and crime that comes with it uh public safety in general how
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can law enforcement deal with a lot we can't arrest and lock up every addict who's out there
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but at the same time they are causing property damage they're intimidating people and sometimes
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harming people what role can law enforcement do well they've got to I have to be careful how I
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phrase this um the vancouver police currently have something going called operation barrage
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which is uh essentially a team of people who are um i don't want to say infiltrating that's not the
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right word but they're all over the place in the downtown east side which has got a proliferation
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of crime and it's been well publicized uh and what they've done is they're just going and they're
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staying right on top of all of the people who commit crimes, many of whom are drug dealers
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and many of whom are drug users. So that's one issue. Basically, it's a version, if you
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will, of Rudy Giuliano's broken windows policing, where they're staying on top of everything
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and bringing them before the courts. The problem you then run into is the Crown prosecutors
00:25:06.540
start refusing to take cases where they get frustrated. They say, well, nothing's going
00:25:11.960
happen why should i bring the case before a judge uh the police are then trying to argue uh the
00:25:18.120
point uh and then if it does get before a judge as we've already discussed virtually nothing
00:25:24.520
happens to these people interesting enough i have a friend of mine who i've known since he was a
00:25:29.720
a baby prosecutor uh way back when in the midst of time he's uh he became a judge and i was having
00:25:37.800
lunch with him. And we were talking about exactly this. And he said, you know, it's funny, but for
00:25:44.420
cases brought before me, he says, in the most basic cases, I can give them nothing. In the more
00:25:50.560
serious cases, I can give them nothing. And in the most serious cases, I can give them nothing.
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That was his view as a judge. And I worry about just again, as I said, how it exhausts and
00:26:03.440
frustrates the front line, the people who see the damage. I heard a stat recently that apparently,
00:26:08.240
I think it's in Alberta, 20% of the police officers right now are either on leave or on
00:26:14.360
some sort of modified duty due to stresses and other issues going on. So when you get,
00:26:19.460
you know, one in five not even be able to operate out on the streets where they need to be on that
00:26:24.900
front line, it really leaves an even bigger gap for public safety.
00:26:31.580
Well, I probably show my age when we get into this sort of line of discussion, Corey.
00:26:37.780
But, you know, there was never any such thing as stress leave and all of that stuff back
00:26:49.420
But you get, you know, it's created and cultivated by the feel-good, touchy-feely, woke nonsense that permeates our police forces these days.
00:27:02.180
You know, you get a situation, for example, in the RCMP currently, they're trained and taught that if they're responding to a, quote, dangerous situation, unquote, they can, quote, opt out, unquote.
00:27:19.140
Now, what that means is if they're going and they perceive danger going to a call,
00:27:24.020
they have the ability to tell the dispatcher that they're going to opt out, that they're not going to go.
00:27:32.560
If you're a police officer, the whole object of the job is to help people.
00:27:38.620
And by doing that, you often have to run to danger.
00:27:48.520
Well, and that leads to another issue that's been coming up then. If our law enforcement
00:27:54.960
authorities won't protect us, we should be allowed to protect ourselves. But boy, the law enforcement
00:28:01.200
seems to crack down pretty quickly and pretty hard in situations where people take up force
00:28:06.140
to protect themselves of their property. I mean, it comes back to policy area, but
00:28:11.500
if we could entrench those a little more, I think it would maybe even take a little pressure off
00:28:16.800
law enforcement if people are just defending themselves. We could probably do a whole show,
00:28:21.840
Corey, between you and I talking about the self-defense laws in this country,
00:28:26.200
why they exist the way they do and what needs to be done so that you and I have the ability
00:28:32.540
under law to defend ourselves and our family. It's long been a bugaboo for me. I absolutely
00:28:41.420
abhor the criminal code self-defense legislation as it is currently written you know it almost
00:28:50.400
requires you to have a law degree before you can decide whether you use force to for a guy that's
00:28:56.740
breaking in through your window it's it's absolutely ridiculous whether whether we need to go to some
00:29:03.240
sort of castle law or castle doctrine you know that's that's where the debate perhaps can start
00:29:09.900
but at least that debate should occur. But the status quo, in my view, is just totally unacceptable.
00:29:16.960
Yeah, well, it's a huge issue in general and law enforcement and crime, and it's broad.
00:29:22.080
And I knew it was a lot to bite off, but the time went fast. So I appreciate you coming on to talk
00:29:27.820
about it. Maybe I hope I can get you on to talk a little more on things a little more specifically.
00:29:32.640
But before I let you go, then, I mean, if you could point at one area, I know there's 100
00:29:36.400
things we need to do. What's one area policy-wise we should be doing to try and reduce crime or keep
00:29:43.680
the public more safe? Oh, God, there's a subject. I think the police need to be empowered to actually
00:29:53.860
do their job. There are too many restrictions on what the police can and cannot do now
00:29:59.340
in order to protect the public. And I'm not saying that the police should be able to run amok. I'm
00:30:05.260
not saying that at all uh the police are held to a higher standard and i think that is that is
00:30:10.800
rightly so but uh they must be allowed to do their job uh you know we can get into talking about
00:30:18.040
things like stop and frisk uh policies uh and stuff like that but again you go back to uh the
00:30:27.000
broken windows uh theory of policing is that you you take everything no matter how minor the crime
00:30:34.360
to a charge level so that there are consequences for actions. And the more you do that, the more
00:30:40.560
consequences people face, the more likely they'll be treated more severely by the courts. Now I say
00:30:47.520
that understanding the reality of the court situation today. And that needs to change too.
00:30:53.940
And that will only change when you get the type of government in place who actually sees crime
00:31:00.760
as a significant problem and wants to protect victims and the public as they properly should.
00:31:08.040
I'll remind you of, there's a Latin saying, it was written by Cicero many, many centuries ago,
00:31:17.000
pardon my Latin pronunciation, I'm long, many years removed from my Latin education.
00:31:24.500
But essentially it says, the welfare of the people shall prevail in law.
00:31:28.260
And that point, which has been, you know, around for centuries, as I said, written by Cicero, seems to be lost today with our governments. They don't seem to feel that the welfare of the population is their priority.
00:31:46.620
They only want to take or make a priority, a very small percentage of the population, you know, and that small percentage are the ones that are committing crimes against the rest of us.
00:31:58.260
Yeah, well, and I'm glad you brought up, you know, it's an area that municipal governments
00:32:03.320
and others could work on that broken windows principle. And for those who aren't familiar
00:32:08.320
with it, I'd suggest they look it up. I mean, New York in the 70s and 80s was known as a
00:32:15.220
And they astoundingly turned it around, not by crazy crackdowns and beating heads or anything,
00:32:21.780
but just really responding quickly to crime and just not letting the disorder spread.
00:32:26.120
They went from 3,000 murders a year, Corey, to less than 200.
00:32:33.700
I mean, that's an astounding reduction in violent crime.
00:32:37.640
And they did that essentially using the broken windows theory of policing.
00:32:41.700
But it's more than just broken windows, as it were, which tends to be defined as small mischief cases and whatnot.
00:32:50.820
it's it's things like allowing the police to in some cities it's called carding as you may have
00:32:58.680
heard which is in some cities the police are no longer allowed to do that and carding is just
00:33:04.680
simply a street check where you stop somebody you say hey what are you doing here who are you and
00:33:09.760
whatnot you fill out an information card and that's filed and entered into a computer system
00:33:15.680
so that later on, a police officer who comes across that same person
00:33:30.800
They're handcuffing police from doing their job,
00:33:37.420
Yeah, and they stopped it in Alberta, and they've just brought it back, actually.
00:33:40.440
And, of course, the usual suspects are all screaming
00:33:43.980
but that's a whole separate discussion all together. Well, thank you very much for taking
00:33:49.880
some time with us. I know you're out there on X speaking to this a lot at Primetime Crime and
00:33:55.820
you have a website as well, right? Well, actually, I'm sort of pretty much retired now. I helped
00:34:03.520
get True North started a number of years ago with Candace Malcolm and Andrew Lawton and a few others.
00:34:12.760
and I did that and it really turned into a full-time job and I was already retired when
00:34:18.660
I started that and then I had my own website so about two years ago I just finally said enough's
00:34:24.120
enough I'm retired I'm old enough now it's time to stop working so apart from you know
00:34:30.580
appearing on a few tv and radio shows and and providing my comments on x I'm pretty much
00:34:37.360
retired now okay all right on well thanks for taking some of your time out of retirement to
00:34:41.720
talk to us today Leo and I hope we get to talk again soon. Anytime Corey. Great thanks so one
00:34:48.760
more time folks yeah it's Leo Knight and you know just getting a voice from people on the ground
00:34:53.540
people who've been on the ground and have some you know experience to add to the issue it's easy to
00:34:58.260
sit on the sidelines hey that's my job I write columns I talk on the sidelines but I've never
00:35:02.520
worked as a police officer or things like that I like to think I can apply some common sense to
00:35:09.280
these issues, but still I like to speak to experts and not the self-styled experts we tend to hear
00:35:15.220
from much of our academia and things like that, though they have stuff to offer, but the experts
00:35:20.020
who actually had to be out there and dealing with it. And yeah, I really think it's time for people
00:35:26.720
to revisit and look back. And I'm really glad he brought up that broken windows thing. I really
00:35:31.580
strongly suggest people look into it because it's a principle thing. It can be applied anywhere and
00:35:37.600
you start on the ground with the smaller stuff. It's basically saying you can't deal with the
00:35:41.320
bigger stuff until you clean up the smaller stuff. When you've got all that disorder going on,
00:35:44.860
a feeling of lawlessness, a feeling of things being out of control, it just spreads from there
00:35:50.580
and it leads to the more violent and dangerous things. And it was tremendously successful when
00:35:54.820
they did that in New York. And now it's sliding back down again. So speaking of disorder and
00:35:59.240
weirdness and everything else, let's get back to that ostrich story because it's just, it's been
00:36:03.280
our top story for a bit. I'll give some people some background for some of the viewers who might
00:36:08.020
not be familiar with this. There's an ostrich farm in BC, I believe it was about nine months ago.
00:36:12.760
Some of the ostriches had been, they'd come down with the avian flu. I believe they died,
00:36:18.920
but there's still 400 healthy ostriches. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has demanded
00:36:24.520
that all 400 ostriches be destroyed, be killed, and they've been fighting it tooth and nail for
00:36:30.560
months, the farmers and now activists and people on the ground. So it's been back and forth. And
00:36:37.380
boy, the government is just insistent on killing these ostriches. It's been nine months. None of
00:36:43.180
them are getting sick anymore. You know, this is where we start to get that overkill, that over
00:36:47.400
safety. I mean, if these are communicable, if they're causing problems, if there are, you know,
00:36:53.260
ostriches dropping dead, if there's neighboring birds getting sick, then maybe we better rush on
00:36:57.360
this. I do believe in containing disease outbreaks when we can, but they're hung up on these things.
00:37:02.900
And now I think it's become a point of principle for the government. They just don't like being
00:37:06.320
snubbed. So darn it, they're going to kill those ostriches no matter what. And it got right to the
00:37:12.040
deadline. They were actually putting up walls of hay bales around where the ostriches are. So they
00:37:17.760
pushed back the protesters. They arrested the homeowners of the farmers and took them out of
00:37:22.140
the area. And the bottom line is they're building this wall of hay bales. So nobody, they didn't
00:37:26.160
want the imagery to be seen by the public of 400 ostriches being slaughtered. And at the last
00:37:32.300
minute, so today it looked like they were going to be killing all those ostriches. The Supreme
00:37:38.640
Court intervened or there's going to be a Supreme Court hearing on it now. And there's been a stay
00:37:43.540
of execution. And the funny thing is, it's because a First Nations band spoke up on behalf of the
00:37:49.500
ostriches. Suddenly the government gets scared when it's First Nations, when it was anybody else,
00:37:53.860
they were ready to come in for the kill. So we'll see what's going on with it. I mean, part of what's
00:38:00.380
interesting, and as other people were demanding, you know, test these things. Let's get in there
00:38:07.060
and test them. Then do they still carry the virus? Are they still communicable? The government's been
00:38:12.020
fighting that. They were just saying, no, we just have to kill them, kill them, kill them. Well, hang
00:38:15.380
on. And you know what? If they do test them and find that they are still carrying this and they
00:38:19.780
could be spreading it, then I guess maybe a cowl is necessary, but why so fixated on bringing them
00:38:25.320
down? Jacqueline Littler mentioning his big pharma lobbying the government about the ostriches. Okay,
00:38:30.760
there's another theory about them. I'm not, I'm not, I don't put much stock into this one,
00:38:34.980
but some people feel that these ostriches were carrying some sort of antibody that would cure
00:38:39.940
COVID and big pharma and the government wants to keep COVID alive. And so they want to kill
00:38:44.560
these ostriches so that COVID keeps existing. I think we're starting to get a little moon
00:38:48.240
baddie there guys. I got a feeling though it is a matter of just government pushing its weight
00:38:55.180
around. It gets more and more furious when people dare to stand up to the bed even when it comes
00:39:00.500
down to regulatory things like this. So they were just bound and determined to get these things
00:39:04.300
but now the First Nations got in and they have backed off for the time being. So we'll follow
00:39:11.660
this and see what happens with it. What I want to see, test them. Just test them. Let's see
00:39:17.900
what's going on with those things. All right. So, you know, a big one that broke on Sunday,
00:39:25.360
it really shows the weak, pathetic nature of Mark Carney's government. That's why I kind of,
00:39:31.500
I started my monologue on that. Yeah. Mark Carney got up there and declared that he's
00:39:36.700
going to recognize the state of Palestine. Now people have different views on that among my
00:39:41.640
my viewers and that's fine. You know, I've got strong views on it for sure on one side of that
00:39:46.980
issue. But the thing was Carney said just less than two months ago, he made it really clear and
00:39:53.360
he stirred people up at the time. He said, we will recognize the state of Palestine. But then he put
00:39:58.780
preconditions. He said, if, if the hostage is a release, if Hamas gives up its arms and, you know,
00:40:06.440
disarms itself. And if Hamas is no matter, no longer in power. And at that time, myself and
00:40:13.420
others were like, come on, you can't give statehood to this bunch of terrorists and jerks.
00:40:17.280
This is insane. But the liberal fart catchers were out there. They were all over me on X and
00:40:20.740
all the others. Don't, didn't you see the conditions? Don't worry. He's not going to
00:40:23.620
give it to them unless they follow through on those conditions. Well, guess what? They didn't
00:40:27.180
even glance at the conditions. And then Carney said, yeah, what the hell? We'll give you statehood
00:40:32.020
anyways because you know you're just raping terrorists right his word is worth nothing
00:40:37.700
is it any shock that he's getting pushed around like a 98 pound weakling on the trade deal
00:40:43.380
with the united states because carney he put those demands on hamas hamas ignored him and
00:40:50.820
he rewarded them anyway so what do you expect to happen he's pathetic he really is and it's
00:41:00.500
Mavris Whistle saying, is this a vote grab from Muslim Canadians, again, to avoid non-confidence?
00:41:06.320
I mean, there's definitely, you know, when it comes to support, if you're going to do
00:41:10.140
polling among ethnic groups and cultures, the Islamic vote, I mean, is mostly very,
00:41:19.640
And the front line for that is the West Bank and Gaza, where they've been spending decades,
00:41:24.400
you know, launching rockets over the wall and committing terrorist acts, and then finally
00:41:28.680
went and raided a music festival and raped a bunch of young ladies and took a couple hundred
00:41:32.120
hostages. So pandering to that group means supporting a continued state of Palestine next
00:41:41.680
door. But how much difference does that make to winning or losing the vote overall? I don't know.
00:41:46.820
I don't know how much, you know, in reality, that's what politics always comes to, though,
00:41:51.120
is saving your own butt and your own seat. But is the Islamic vote really that strong? I don't know.
00:41:57.240
It seems to be, though. I think part of it also is Carney really, really is pushing to try and
00:42:05.300
turn Canada into the EU. He doesn't want to have any connections with the United States. You know,
00:42:12.160
just in logistics, even if you don't like Trump, it's our neighbors, it's our friends,
00:42:19.320
it's our cousins, it's culturally the closest country to us in the world by a long shot.
00:42:23.880
And of course, it's a massive trading partner for us. It's right there. I understand we're having
00:42:30.000
a feud with them right now, and I understand we should be diversifying our markets, things like
00:42:36.620
that, absolutely. But to want to try and join the EU, which is a basket case that doesn't have the
00:42:42.560
resources and proximity to offer us very much, is ridiculous. But that's what he's hung up on.
00:42:52.020
You know, they're talking about some deal he cut with some country that we trade, you know, like 100 million a year with or something.
00:43:03.860
Meanwhile, our biggest trading partner is, you know, in virtual war with us.
00:43:10.580
And Carney is really worse, much, much worse than ever imagined.
00:43:15.620
But I really want to keep rubbing his nose in it.
00:43:18.820
Yeah, you can hear the hostility with me on my thoughts on the situation with Israel and Palestine.
00:43:24.680
But again, if you're going to put conditions on something, if you're going to say, we're going to do this, if you do that,
00:43:30.180
and then you don't even try to follow through, weakness, complete weakness.
00:43:39.640
Nobody will take your word for anything, and nor should we.
00:43:44.880
He seems in some senses to even be worse than Trudeau.
00:43:47.240
I didn't think that was going to be possible. But in six months, he is coming close to pull it off.
00:43:52.660
But then let's get on to NDP, socialists in general. This is one of those great examples
00:43:59.160
of it, right? The Canadian Taxpayers Federation, Dave mentioned that earlier. So BC's finance
00:44:02.960
minister, the one in charge of the purse strings in BC, Brenda Bailey went to Boston. I could see
00:44:07.440
some parody songs coming out of that. But yeah, blue, 6,600 tax dollars on limousine service.
00:44:13.160
What a classic socialist she is. What a classic NDP person this is. The one that wants to steal
00:44:19.800
the money out of everybody else for taxes in the name of equality. So we all live equally in a
00:44:24.580
standardized level of poverty and misery. Oh, except for us, except for us, we're going to
00:44:30.600
take limo service. We're going to eat caviar. We're going to drink champagne. Socialism to a
00:44:35.720
T. It happens that way every time, guys. You know, I was fighting with some folks on X because I
00:44:41.820
showed a picture of the old Soviet row housing and talked about this is what happens when the
00:44:45.080
government gets into housing and oh a bunch of socialists gather all pissy with me but it's the
00:44:49.500
truth and I've mentioned it before on here a couple times I went to I got to tour the Soviet
00:44:53.900
Union back when I was 17 years old and I went through Moscow and and what was called Leningrad
00:44:58.760
at the time and I got to see a lot of things but something was interesting all those rotten oil
00:45:03.140
burning lottas all over the place and crappy cars and crappy houses and everything else
00:45:07.800
But you got along the Kremlin area, suddenly it's BMWs and Mercedes, because the senior bureaucrats and the politicians, those socialists, they live high on the hog while sucking it all out of you and making it illegal to grow.
00:45:23.100
This is what Carney's bringing us to, free the West, because I don't think we can save the rest.
00:45:32.020
We're going to be having a good panel covering a few of those stories on that.
00:45:34.780
Nigel Hannaford. He's recorded another great interview and all the rest of the stuff popping
00:45:38.640
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