Western Standard - The Carney government floundering

00:00:00.000 Good day.

00:00:29.520 welcome to the cory morgan show last one of september already man it's whizzing by the

00:00:33.880 bloody snow is going to be flying soon either way the weather's good for now and lots is going on

00:00:39.260 a nice weird news week everything from uh ostriches to gun bans to cabinet ministers caught on tape

00:00:47.160 to you name it keeps us with lots to rant about but it gets a little depressing at the same time

00:00:52.560 i guess coming on a little while is a fellow named leo knight you might know him online

00:00:56.640 his primetime crime. He's a former police officer. He's talked a lot on justice issues. I believe he

00:01:01.800 had a radio show in the past. And we'll talk about some of those things going on, your rights to

00:01:06.040 self-defense, your rights or not rights to have a firearm, and just what the heck we're supposed to

00:01:10.340 do with the crime rates these days. Let's see. Otherwise, yes, the show's live. I see Jordan

00:01:17.420 there commenting already. Use that scroll. Send those comments my way, my guest's way. I see them

00:01:22.780 all. I don't necessarily read them all out, but I appreciate them. It keeps things flowing and

00:01:27.440 active. So let's talk about some federal stuff to kick it off. It's been half a year now under

00:01:34.060 Mark Carney's grand leadership. The liberal government is directionless and as inept as it 0.99

00:01:39.200 ever was under Trudeau's guidance. I mean, liberal strategists, they successfully convinced Canadians 0.91

00:01:44.280 that the trade war with the U.S. was such an urgent issue, it can only be managed under the

00:01:48.940 brilliant guidance of the economic wizard Mark Carney. Voters in eastern Canada forgot about the

00:01:54.220 decade of ineptitude under the Trudeau regime and kept the Liberals in power.

00:01:58.700 To say Carney's underperformed is an understatement. Carney's tactics on the trade

00:02:03.080 war have been hopelessly weak and ineffective. Despite campaigning on being a tough-talking,

00:02:07.320 elbows-up sort of leader, Carney's offered nothing but capitulation while

00:02:11.380 Trump imposes and removes tariffs upon Canada at will. The Canadian counter-tariffs were

00:02:17.120 dropped, and Carney's been reduced to begging for Trump's goodwill while the Canadian industries

00:02:22.420 suffer. Carney's failures in economic diplomacy aren't just limited to the U.S. Canola farmers

00:02:28.000 are taking a $2 billion hit in Canada due to liberal tariffs on Chinese cars to protect the

00:02:33.240 Canadian-made EV industry that doesn't exist. While Carney insists he wants to facilitate the

00:02:39.180 development of Canadian resource industries, he refuses to remove the legislation choking those

00:02:43.860 sectors. The tanker ban, the no more pipelines bill, they're still in place. And Carney pretends

00:02:48.660 to be mystified as to why no private investors have been willing to step up and build pipelines

00:02:53.040 in the country. Energy sector investment in general has been chilled due to the looming

00:02:57.640 emissions cap. Why invest in an industry when the government plans to make it illegal to produce

00:03:01.740 over a certain amount of the product? And Carney's hinted at reconsidering the cap, but his senior

00:03:06.540 bureaucrats are making the case to keep it. And the liberals just voted down a motion to remove

00:03:10.620 the cap. This mixed messaging fosters instability and rattles investor confidence in every industry.

00:03:17.040 Does Carney have control of this issue and does he have a plan or not? Crime's been a growing

00:03:22.060 concern for Canadians for years and the Carney government's been paying lip service to it

00:03:25.260 while doing nothing. The Attorney General embarrassed himself when he told Canadians

00:03:30.480 they don't have the right to defend themselves just before a crime wave hit which left a man

00:03:34.280 dead and a child molested in two separate home invasions. The Liberals then voted down a motion

00:03:38.840 to crack down on violent repeat offenders. On the unity front, the Liberals have inexplicably

00:03:43.800 opened the door to a possible constitutional crisis when they asked the courts to put limits

00:03:48.580 on the use of the notwithstanding clause. If the courts comply, Quebec nationalists are going to

00:03:52.600 go ballistic, as will the independence movements in Alberta and Saskatchewan. Well, that might not

00:03:57.720 be a bad development in the long run. Why on earth is Carmine inflaming it? He's also insisting on

00:04:03.220 maintaining Trudeau's attempted gun ban, despite the policy being an utter failure since it was

00:04:07.900 first announced. The government continues to kick the ball down the field, you know, extend the

00:04:12.280 deadline, while the public safety minister has admitted that the gun grab is unenforceable.

00:04:17.160 Total embarrassment. At the end of July, here's Carney again showing his strength of will. He

00:04:22.500 indicated he would recognize Palestinian statehood under the preconditions, preconditions, that Hamas

00:04:28.180 released the hostages, disarmed themselves, and removed themselves from power. Hamas did none of

00:04:32.880 those things, so Carney simply shrugged and recognized their statehood anyways. What a wimp. 0.98

00:04:37.380 He hasn't been proving himself to be a leader. 1.00

00:04:40.200 He's proving himself to be a feckless wimp.

00:04:42.480 He's established a pattern of making strong policy statements, 0.65

00:04:45.160 drawing lines in the sand,

00:04:46.180 only to jump backwards as soon as he experiences pressure.

00:04:49.220 A sudden flurry of resignations from senior Liberal MPs

00:04:52.680 and somebody from his own office

00:04:53.860 gives the impression that they see a bleak outlook coming here.

00:04:57.400 Clearly, Carney hasn't instilled confidence in the Liberal ranks, 0.90

00:05:00.260 and the rats are starting to flee while they can.

00:05:02.940 Even Trudeau managed to keep his members loyal to them.

00:05:05.240 I suspect the looming disaster scaring those liberal loyalists away is the budget deficit,

00:05:10.220 which is expected to near or possibly surpass $100 billion.

00:05:14.080 It's a staggering number and indicating gross fiscal mismanagement.

00:05:18.360 While Carney has used the word austerity when speaking to the budget,

00:05:21.760 he's done nothing but cut checks from the taxpayers' accounts since he assumed power.

00:05:25.840 It's the lazy way to try and govern, and it's going to lead to an economic crash.

00:05:29.980 Even Trudeau never imagined running a deficit anywhere nearly as high

00:05:32.880 as what Carney has managed to do in six months.

00:05:35.240 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.

00:05:42.220 Just imagine the damage he's going to manage to cause with a few more years to fumble around.

00:05:46.680 Canada is broken and probably beyond repair.

00:05:49.400 And as this becomes more evidence to Canadians, we can expect independence movements in the provinces to keep growing.

00:05:56.180 We can't save it all. Maybe we could save parts of it. Elbows up indeed.

00:06:00.760 All right. Enough on the federal front. What else is going on out there, Dave?

00:06:03.740 Bites your tongue about snow flying.

00:06:06.640 Let's just enjoy this First Nations summer that we're having.

00:06:09.580 It's beautiful.

00:06:10.380 First Nations summer.

00:06:11.320 That just doesn't sound right.

00:06:12.840 Doesn't sound right, but it's the politically correct way to go.

00:06:15.740 Well, we do try our hardest to be politically correct.

00:06:17.920 Yeah, I want to thank you for letting me sort of enter the glow of the Morgan shadow on Friday night.

00:06:25.220 It was amazing to see.

00:06:26.740 We're at the JCCF gala dinner at Carriage House,

00:06:32.200 and you and I were standing there at a table having a drink

00:06:35.000 and it was just one woman after another coming up to shake your hand.

00:06:39.000 It was unbelievable.

00:06:40.320 They like the news content.

00:06:42.400 And they were like mothers bringing their daughters up to meet you

00:06:45.880 and leaving disappointed when they find out that you're already married and stuff.

00:06:50.460 It was a sight to see, so thank you.

00:06:53.580 Quite the exaggeration on it.

00:06:55.940 No, not at all.

00:06:57.640 Not at all.

00:06:58.180 It was a good night.

00:06:58.840 The JCCF is a great organization.

00:07:01.680 And I was sitting with Nigel and we had lots of people come up to us too and say thanks

00:07:06.280 for doing a great job.

00:07:07.280 So it was very good.

00:07:08.280 The standard in general, it was nice to get to those events though and see, yeah, people

00:07:12.400 are really, we're making an impact on them.

00:07:15.500 People are reading and you know what they're reading?

00:07:18.000 Ostriches.

00:07:19.000 Yes.

00:07:20.000 How can you pass up on ostriches?

00:07:21.000 The great ostrich crisis is over for now.

00:07:25.000 See what I did there, hostages and ostriches. 0.99

00:07:28.520 The Supreme Court says they are going to hear the case and have ordered the looming execution

00:07:35.100 halted so there is much celebration out at the ostrich farm.

00:07:43.620 They thought they were almost turned into a Waco when all the hay caught on fire last

00:07:48.300 night that were surrounding the ostriches.

00:07:51.340 So right now they are safe and safe for the time being until the Supreme Court rules.

00:07:57.500 they can always rule saying that they they must be destroyed so it's uh it's a reprieve for now

00:08:03.340 hopefully uh goes on yeah we'll see uh again a weird one to look at in the the new scroll to

00:08:08.860 try and predict for the year we were going to have a major standoff leading to the point of

00:08:12.540 the supreme court over the disposition of the ostriches yes yes it's it's amazing what uh

00:08:17.740 attracts people's attention uh i've got an interesting story on a uh 23 year old i guess

00:08:25.420 bank teller at the royal bank uh decides he's going to go and have a look how much money mark

00:08:30.380 carney's got in his personal account and calls it up and uh uh led to a chain of events where

00:08:38.940 rcmp were called in and the guy was charged with fraud for having to look see what mr

00:08:43.500 carney's got in his bank and i bet you cory it's more than you and i combined oh that's a pretty

00:08:48.380 easy bet to win there's some modest accounts but you know and i'm no carny fan but he the man as 0.97

00:08:55.580 far as on that level has as much right to privacy as anybody else a pretty stupid move on that part 0.86

00:08:59.900 of that uh yeah and that teller is no longer employed with the uh the bank so he can't call 0.93

00:09:05.740 up your account uh see how much money you've got show those uh double digits parents across alberta

00:09:12.220 breathing a sigh of relief as a looming teacher strike appears to be averted the government in

00:09:17.980 the alberta teachers association have reached a tentative agreement that will now be voted on

00:09:23.820 by the teachers a good story from our friends at the canadian taxpayers federation they discovered

00:09:30.060 a receipt from bc finance minister brenda bailey she went down to boston for a four-day conference

00:09:38.380 and expensed six thousand six hundred dollars on limo rides luxury limo rides to various

00:09:45.420 steakhouses the the local aquarium 6 600 i mean you're an uber driver how much would it have cost

00:09:53.260 to an uber a couple hundred well for a whole weekend well for a day yeah i mean it was pretty

00:09:58.860 cost effective i said that as much on x about that too with uh even nenshi that was in boston with

00:10:04.380 he took lift i mean he was a sitting mayor at the time whatever with nenshi he wasn't bad for

00:10:09.260 personally blowing tax dollars i think his spending initiatives were nuts

00:10:12.540 but it's not that unreasonable to ask it's just that's resignation level i think yeah and it's

00:10:18.300 the finance minister so you know why bc's finances are in the toilet uh at the moment another mass

00:10:24.860 shooting in the states this time at an ice facility in dallas uh gunman opened fire from a

00:10:33.100 rooftop as a ice van sort of drove into the the front entrance of their building uh killing two

00:10:38.940 detainees inside. No ICE agents were injured and then the gunman took his own life. The

00:10:46.060 gunman called up his Facebook page and it's littered with Antifa and communist propaganda.

00:10:54.060 So no surprise there. And I don't think this is going to be the last shooting in the States.

00:10:58.300 No. And with those ones, I just wish they'd use their last bullet first. 0.61

00:11:01.740 You know, if you want to take yourself, I'll go, just, why do you got to take out a bunch

00:11:06.140 of people layer at it. I don't know. It's not the last we're going to see, but there's big

00:11:11.580 discussions on that. I mean, I enjoy owning a firearm or two. I'm not fanatical about it,

00:11:16.860 but I feel it should be right. But there is a cultural difference. There's something going on

00:11:21.420 down there. I mean, we don't see that happening up here as much or like that. I mean, Canada is a

00:11:26.140 very well armed nation. In reality, there's a lot more firearms than people realize, but

00:11:30.060 we just don't seem to have the propensity to pick them up and go nuts like that.

00:11:33.100 yeah well i think you know the united states is in a huge mental crisis at the moment with

00:11:37.740 everything that's going on so uh did you stay up late and watch jimmy kimmel last night his

00:11:42.620 return to the airwaves no but i mean i didn't watch him before he was gone i liked him when

00:11:46.460 he was on the man show in the 90s you know i got some good laughs out of that but not too interesting

00:11:50.700 yeah no he's not a funny guy in my opinion but uh we've got a story on the website when you're

00:11:55.980 done here you can come out and read it and find out what kimmel said oh well i'll have to do that

00:12:01.020 as soon as i get off there but again you know interesting more stuff to be discussed on whether

00:12:06.460 it's a free speech issue or not i mean something was a bit of concern it sounds like there might

00:12:09.740 have been some pressure from the federal government on the networks to push him off now that's not

00:12:13.500 good you know i mean it should just be bad viewership at least which he's got yes and

00:12:19.100 yeah sounds like trump could end up suing abc over it so yeah he seems to win every case you

00:12:25.900 know he's got 15 million from here and there and all sorts of other outlets so not that he needs

00:12:31.500 the money no but well he certainly keeps things interesting for us he certainly does right on

00:12:37.580 that's all you got isn't that enough i think that's enough those are just the top those are

00:12:42.380 just the top five stories cory there's a lot of smart stuff i know municipal provincial we got

00:12:46.540 all kinds of things that was busy right on well i'll let you get back there to that room full of

00:12:50.540 of reporters and keep cranking those stories out i will do so thank you thanks dave it is our

00:12:56.540 news editor dave naylor and yes by the way it was a diet coke i was having whilst we were standing

00:13:02.240 having a drink the other night i don't want anybody to misinterpret with that but lots of

00:13:06.060 stories good stories busy stories going on out there and the reason we can do that is because

00:13:11.360 you guys have been subscribing we're uh you know independent media we really appreciate your

00:13:16.540 support is $10 a month, $100 for a year, and you get full access to all those stories, get past

00:13:22.500 that pesky paywall, and then we can keep getting that stuff out there as it breaks. We did cover

00:13:27.740 that ostrich. What a bizarre story, and a big one. As soon as it happened, when the reprieve came

00:13:34.640 for those ostriches at the last minute, I mean, we're getting to the point where the standoff

00:13:40.260 was coming. Maybe I'll talk a little more on that after I speak about our guest, because I think

00:13:46.460 it's a weird story, but it represents a bigger issue. Again, with that mistrust between citizens

00:13:52.360 and government with just how fierce the government can get when it wants to stand on a point of

00:13:58.880 principle and enforce its will on something. So we've come to a point of a small ostrich farm in

00:14:05.040 British Columbia where it's coming to a head with standoffs and fires and bales built up and now

00:14:11.560 Supreme Court challenge over the possibility of killing 400 ostriches, which may or may not have

00:14:18.040 avian flu. Yeah, not one on the bingo card for the year to figure out. All right, so we're going to

00:14:25.180 have Leo Knight coming up here and chatting. I've been looking forward to this, you know,

00:14:28.480 justice issues. I talk about them a lot and that's his specialty and we just kind of wonder

00:14:32.840 where the heck are we going and how can we do this better? Mr. Knight's a former police officer

00:14:37.740 and expert in all these things. So let's bring him on and have a conversation. Hi, Leo, how are you

00:14:43.120 doing? I'm doing well, Corey. How are you? Good, good. Thanks. I appreciate you taking the time

00:14:49.040 to come on and chat with us today. There's plenty of stuff to go on about. There always is.

00:14:54.620 So I guess, you know, you've got a long experience in this. I kind of want to start the gun

00:15:01.340 gun grab or whatever we want to call it you know with legal firearm owners uh that's been making

00:15:08.480 the news because the minister sort of stepped in it but they're starting to actually now try and

00:15:12.760 bring this about even though trudeau started this five six years ago uh in your law enforcement time

00:15:19.480 how much of an issue i guess was it with law-abiding firearm owners you know the the ones who

00:15:24.460 that are being targeted right now is it a risk no in fact uh in my career and certainly

00:15:31.320 I speak with a lot of police officers all the time, both serving and retired, Corey,

00:15:37.160 and I don't know of anybody who's had an issue with legal firearms. The firearm crimes we do see,

00:15:44.760 whether in the urban cities, the gang areas and whatnot that we frequently see in Toronto and

00:15:56.680 Vancouver and Calgary and Edmonton, I should add, those things are typically illegal firearms are

00:16:04.680 smuggled into Canada, primarily through the States and primarily through reserves where the RCMP and

00:16:14.200 the Canadian border services do not have any presence. And I'm glad you brought that up. I

00:16:21.320 was going to go there actually, because it's an area we do realize that most of the illegal

00:16:25.880 firearms are coming in from south of the border. And the most porous spot is the Akwesasne

00:16:32.600 Reserve and some of those areas where, or the Mohawk Reserve, where it's just a river crossing

00:16:36.640 from the states. And to be honest, I mean, our government tends to be terrified when it comes

00:16:40.440 to First Nations issues. So it's like they don't almost want to look to a different area rather

00:16:45.440 than deal with the difficult task of dealing with the organized crime that's coming out of that spot.

00:16:51.020 Well, absolutely. And if you mentioned off necessity, I mean, this is a reserve that

00:16:57.060 actually straddles the border between the United States and Canada. For them, there's

00:17:04.140 no issue with trying to bring anything across the border, because as far as they're concerned,

00:17:08.200 the border doesn't exist. That's a problem. The other problem, as you mentioned, as illustrated,

00:17:14.940 I might add by the whole ostrich farm thing, is that as soon as First Nations group got 0.91

00:17:20.120 involved, the government backed off. Nothing that occurred prior to that from the owners of the farm

00:17:27.860 or protesters or various groups with an interest seemed to move the immovable bureaucracy of the

00:17:36.700 CFIA until First Nations got involved. So to your point, when you look at places like

00:17:44.180 and other reserves, too. That's not the only one. But because it straddles the border and the

00:17:50.400 police, I mean, they can assert jurisdiction, but they really have no presence. And CBSA has

00:17:56.160 absolutely zero presence on that reserve. They do what they want. And part of what they want

00:18:02.520 is to assist organized crime groups in smuggling weapons from the United States.

00:18:07.540 Well, and a lot of things tie together. It's funny. I've been hearing on the news,

00:18:12.160 there's been anti-firearm advocacy groups yelling that SKS should be on the banned list.

00:18:18.860 They haven't been added.

00:18:19.600 They're a popular, inexpensive, semi-automatic carbine,

00:18:23.580 but they're kind of utilitary and rifle.

00:18:26.400 And the reason the government won't touch that with a 10-foot pole

00:18:29.740 is that there's tens of thousands of them out there,

00:18:32.100 and they're mostly owned by First Nations people who use them for hunting.

00:18:35.960 So even though that particular firearm actually has been utilized

00:18:39.660 in a couple of bad crimes in the past,

00:18:42.160 The government won't touch it because they don't want to get into the battle with the First Nations people again. 0.97

00:18:46.440 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.

00:18:57.700 We're not talking about First Nations.

00:19:00.400 That's a separate entity altogether.

00:19:02.840 while they are technically under federal law the same as you and I are the reality is they just do

00:19:12.480 what they want. Yeah so going beyond that you know we had a recent case since we're kind of on that

00:19:19.320 subject I just wanted to keep it open with you I know there's so much broad areas to discuss with

00:19:22.580 when it comes to crime and that's your area of expertise and I'm not trying to beat on First

00:19:27.200 Nations but we're kind of starting on that theme which is an important one I mean there's a lot of

00:19:31.740 social distress and problems, which is a much bigger, broader issue as to why so many people

00:19:36.520 of First Nations descent, unfortunately, just get into a lot of trouble and often are committing

00:19:41.400 crimes. Part of the response to it, though, has been the GLADU principles and giving lesser

00:19:46.640 sentences to people of Indigenous background to try and reduce the, I guess, the over-representation

00:19:53.760 in jail, but it hasn't worked. It hasn't worked at all. And how do we deal with, I mean, we see

00:20:02.520 a segment, a social segment, an ethnic statement where we are getting more crime and difficulty 0.98

00:20:07.660 than others. We don't want to unfairly target them, but we also have to target where these

00:20:12.740 things are really happening. How does law enforcement deal with that dicey issue?

00:20:18.620 Well, frankly, Corey, it's not a law enforcement issue per se.

00:20:25.120 Law enforcement investigates crimes and arrests offenders and put them before the courts.

00:20:32.020 And that's where the problem comes in.

00:20:34.520 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.

00:20:46.760 That's wrong.

00:20:47.800 uh i mean clearly it's wrong you know it goes back to the principle to keep it really simple

00:20:53.320 um you know you have a dog don't you corey or you know a number of them no that's true

00:21:00.360 you probably do uh another wildlife too i believe uh but no when you're training a dog

00:21:06.600 not to pee on your carpet the dog has to see a consequence for a bad action uh when the dog pees

00:21:13.000 your carpet you scold it it sees a bad consequence you take it out you show them where to pee properly 1.00

00:21:19.160 and you praise it when it does it right uh you know it's it's the same basic principle with human

00:21:25.800 beings uh if they see a consequence for their action they'll they'll either learn or they won't

00:21:31.240 but they'll see further consequences but to to give them no consequences for a bad action just

00:21:37.560 invites further bad bad action so that's just reality i'm sorry to keep it really simple with

00:21:43.880 that but you know that's it's the reality of well that's it i mean it's supposed to be a corrections

00:21:49.600 based system but it's failing in the corrections because the offenders when they're released

00:21:53.360 unfortunately the recidivism rates are terrible and and that's not an issue for law enforcement

00:21:58.440 that's downstream kind of as you were saying i mean law enforcement just gets stuck with having

00:22:02.480 to investigate and try and catch the people when the crimes are committed and it's got to be

00:22:06.320 frustrated, frustrating when you do the same people over and over again.

00:22:11.240 Well, more on that point, just the Vancouver police released some,

00:22:15.480 some interesting numbers.

00:22:17.600 I think it was last week or the week before where they said that 62 offenders

00:22:21.860 are responsible for over 6,000 crimes this year alone.

00:22:27.040 I mean, you think about that.

00:22:27.880 You're talking about perpetual criminals.

00:22:31.120 You're talking about people that see no consequence, are constantly released into society,

00:22:37.040 and time over time over time again, they just commit more offenses.

00:22:41.560 The court gives them conditions on probation, and they get probation on top of probation

00:22:46.380 for breaching probation, and on it goes ad infinitum, you know, until that's dealt with.

00:22:53.860 And, you know, I heard Sean Fraser talking, was it yesterday morning or this morning,

00:22:58.480 talking about how he's mad at conservatives because they're not doing anything to help

00:23:04.720 the inner city crime problems. Well, you know, I mean, the ridiculous thing is that's all

00:23:09.640 liberal legislation that essentially are where we are right now. And only the liberals who are

00:23:16.080 in government have the ability to bring forth legislation to try and fix the problems. But

00:23:21.460 they don't want to, they just don't seem to want to fix the problems.

00:23:25.260 No, I mean, they just shot down a motion to try and move towards maybe a three strikes law or

00:23:30.160 something, just something to start addressing these crimes. I'd be happy with 33 strikes in

00:23:34.200 Europe. Yeah, when it gets to that level, absolutely. When do we get to a point of just

00:23:39.220 saying, look, we can't fix this one. They've got to go in. So getting back to the ground level,

00:23:44.120 then public safety, I mean, a new factor, relatively new, we didn't deal with in our

00:23:49.040 younger years was it's the addiction though this fentanyl the meth the I mean the the devastation

00:23:54.620 on the streets and the disorder and crime that comes with it uh public safety in general how

00:24:01.340 can law enforcement deal with a lot we can't arrest and lock up every addict who's out there

00:24:05.620 but at the same time they are causing property damage they're intimidating people and sometimes

00:24:09.340 harming people what role can law enforcement do well they've got to I have to be careful how I

00:24:17.240 phrase this um the vancouver police currently have something going called operation barrage

00:24:22.720 which is uh essentially a team of people who are um i don't want to say infiltrating that's not the

00:24:31.300 right word but they're all over the place in the downtown east side which has got a proliferation

00:24:36.780 of crime and it's been well publicized uh and what they've done is they're just going and they're

00:24:42.900 staying right on top of all of the people who commit crimes, many of whom are drug dealers

00:24:48.040 and many of whom are drug users. So that's one issue. Basically, it's a version, if you

00:24:56.080 will, of Rudy Giuliano's broken windows policing, where they're staying on top of everything

00:25:01.340 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.

00:25:56.840 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

00:26:46.060 in the day.

00:26:47.420 Those are modern time things.

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.

00:27:30.000 I don't even understand that mentality.

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.

00:27:42.400 You can't opt out.

00:27:44.560 Opting out means get out of the job.

00:27:46.460 Go do something else.

00:27:47.420 Go be a bank teller.

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,

00:31:16.400 where he says,

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

00:32:12.480 crime infested nightmare.

00:32:13.780 Oh, it was a hellhole. Yeah.

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

00:33:20.080 knows he's been checked in a particular area.

00:33:22.940 It helps follow-up investigators.

00:33:25.120 It helps a whole manner of things.

00:33:26.680 But in some cities, Toronto is an example,

00:33:28.960 they're no longer allowed to do that.

00:33:30.800 They're handcuffing police from doing their job,

00:33:34.220 and that is a huge issue in my view.

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

00:33:42.200 that it's Daniel Smith promoting racism,

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 1.00

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 1.00

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 0.95

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, 0.76

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 1.00

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 0.73

00:38:44.560 these ostriches so that COVID keeps existing. I think we're starting to get a little moon 0.82

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. 1.00

00:40:17.280 This is insane. But the liberal fart catchers were out there. They were all over me on X and 1.00

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 0.99

00:40:37.700 is it any shock that he's getting pushed around like a 98 pound weakling on the trade deal 0.98

00:40:43.380 with the united states because carney he put those demands on hamas hamas ignored him and 0.99

00:40:50.820 he rewarded them anyway so what do you expect to happen he's pathetic he really is and it's 0.99

00:40:58.980 It's an embarrassment. 0.99

00:41:00.500 Mavris Whistle saying, is this a vote grab from Muslim Canadians, again, to avoid non-confidence?

00:41:05.040 I don't know.

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, 0.90

00:41:14.700 well, they hate Jews. 0.97

00:41:15.500 Come on, let's just face it. 0.99

00:41:16.460 Let's say it like it is.

00:41:17.580 They'd love to see Israel stop existing. 1.00

00:41:19.640 And the front line for that is the West Bank and Gaza, where they've been spending decades, 0.99

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 0.86

00:41:32.120 hostages. So pandering to that group means supporting a continued state of Palestine next 0.97

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, 0.90

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. 0.74

00:42:49.440 Carney's eyes are all EU.

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.

00:42:59.500 And he's calling it a giant victory.

00:43:01.320 Like, who cares?

00:43:02.620 It's a drop in the bucket.

00:43:03.860 Meanwhile, our biggest trading partner is, you know, in virtual war with us.

00:43:09.060 But this country's a mess.

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.

00:43:35.320 You can't negotiate anything.

00:43:37.220 You've just lost all credibility.

00:43:39.640 Nobody will take your word for anything, and nor should we.

00:43:43.640 Liberals, as usual.

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 0.96

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 0.96

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.

00:45:21.120 This is where we're moving towards, guys.

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.

00:45:28.320 Either way, thank you for tuning in.

00:45:30.220 Watch for the pipeline.

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 up on our channel from our great reporters and that. So like, subscribe, do all that stuff,

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Western Standard - September 25, 2025

The Carney government floundering

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