Western Standard - THE PIPELINE： Censoring Alberta independence

00:00:00.000 Good day. Today is June 17th, 2026. I am Derek Fildebrandt, publisher of the Western

00:00:29.520 Standard, and you're watching The Pipeline, I've got our usual crew here, former Western

00:00:35.480 Standard opinion editor, Nigel Hannaford.

00:00:38.060 Good evening.

00:00:39.080 Senior Alberta columnist, Corey Morgan.

00:00:41.540 Always a pleasure.

00:00:42.540 And our senior news editor, Dave Naylor.

00:00:45.180 Are we the new knights of the roundtable?

00:00:47.500 It would appear so.

00:00:48.800 All for one, one for all. 0.87

00:00:50.820 That's the wrong thing.

00:00:52.100 We're just missing swords.

00:00:53.780 Yeah.

00:00:54.740 Okay.

00:00:55.260 Well, we're going to talk about the rape of Britain, the long-awaited inquiry into rape gangs in Britain has been released, and it's come out with a conspicuous silence in the mainstream legacy media in Britain.

00:01:15.200 some pick up, but most of the attention coming around the world. Its findings are, even for

00:01:21.980 those of us who are very concerned and cynical about what's happening there, it's even more

00:01:28.800 extreme, its findings, than even I suspected. I would imagine many of you suspected. We're going

00:01:35.160 to talk about it because it's got major implications for what's happening in all

00:01:40.280 Western countries, including right here. We're going to talk about the Danny dollars coming.

00:01:46.700 Albertans, at least under a certain income, can expect some free money from Alberta Premier

00:01:52.860 Danielle Smith, but it seems probably not the tax cut on fuel that we are hoping. But first,

00:02:00.560 we're going to start with censoring Alberta independence. Two very recent flare-ups on the

00:02:10.600 independence campaign taking place right now. The town of Sundry in western central Alberta

00:02:20.020 denied the right for independence activists to have a float in their annual rodeo parade.

00:02:28.680 it's created a big hubbub

00:02:30.620 and they just cancelled the parade

00:02:32.660 outright

00:02:33.280 it might be kind of a rogue

00:02:35.620 unregistered parade taking place in its place

00:02:38.400 and all

00:02:40.420 of this takes place

00:02:41.720 our own Corey Morgan who is a freelancer

00:02:44.680 so he is therefore more free

00:02:46.540 to do things, he's not

00:02:48.340 full time here so he just kind of goes off

00:02:50.540 and does crazy stuff on his own

00:02:52.180 like start his own

00:02:53.600 campaign organization on independence

00:02:55.860 I just woke up one morning

00:02:58.360 and looked at Twitter, and I was like, oh, okay, that's what Corey's doing.

00:03:02.020 Corey, you put up some, paid to put up some billboards in the town of Tabor,

00:03:07.680 and the town of Tabor, very unhappy about that, demanded you take it down.

00:03:14.940 I don't know, maybe just kind of set the table a bit more for those who don't know

00:03:18.780 about what's going on in both Tabor with yourself and with the parade in Sundry.

00:03:23.640 Sure, yeah, my goofy ventures catch a lot of people off guard.

00:03:26.260 Jane was out of town when I pulled that off and all of a sudden her phone was

00:03:28.980 exploded because of all these donors because, oh, you know, Corey had all this

00:03:32.100 free time. He decided to start a whole new organization. But as a, you know,

00:03:36.280 long-time independence activist, I've always still promoted that and I was

00:03:40.360 frustrated with the petitioning having ended, you know, nearly a month ago and

00:03:44.720 no campaign going, nobody's doing anything and nothing's happening. So I

00:03:47.600 thought, well, I'll start a little thing, get some signs in the ground, raise a

00:03:51.100 few dollars and just start some awareness until the other bigger groups get

00:03:55.560 moving on the campaign. One of the fastest ways to do it, because people ask, why did you target

00:03:59.580 Tabor? Well, it's because it was there and it was available and it was a good price. Somebody hooked

00:04:03.720 me up with a gentleman and said, I could put signs up on a billboard, a digital one in Tabor. It's

00:04:07.820 fast. You could just email your file. And I had a simple sign that said, send a message to Ottawa.

00:04:13.560 Yeah, let's put the image up, the Alberta flag, and then choose Alberta. Nice and positive. And

00:04:18.620 then some identifying things. It's a legal third-party advertising organization. I have to

00:04:22.380 how that contacted me. Didn't think much of it. I thought, you know, it's just getting things on

00:04:25.860 the ground rolling. But within a day or two, some woke folks, I guess, emailed the town council and

00:04:31.900 said, hey, you know, in the town administration, we don't accept this. We don't want to see the

00:04:36.420 sign in our town. And they sent the city administration, put a posting up on Facebook,

00:04:41.980 saying they're concerned about it, and sent a letter to the billboard owner who I'd booked it

00:04:45.960 with, demanding he remove it within 10 days and threatening his license to operate within the town.

00:04:52.380 which since then that made national news when I told them to get stuffed and I put two more

00:04:56.500 billboards up in their town and raised a great deal more money thanks to their obstinance and

00:05:03.780 the billboard still hasn't come down today. So that's kind of where it's sitting right now.

00:05:08.760 Yeah. Yeah, I know. I talked to the billboard owner. He's just a small business guy getting

00:05:15.220 caught in the middle of this big national news story and controversy. It does seem though that

00:05:21.420 the town of Tabor has eventually backed

00:05:23.400 off. I think they eventually consulted a lawyer

00:05:25.120 and it seems that

00:05:27.300 they know they're on

00:05:29.440 wildly unconstitutional grounds

00:05:31.560 to be meddling

00:05:33.080 in free expression on

00:05:35.360 this. There's no nudity on this billboard.

00:05:37.680 There's no profanity.

00:05:39.460 There's nothing that would normally not be. You know how tasteless I can

00:05:41.480 get. If I really wanted to offend the town. I wouldn't put

00:05:43.460 a pasty to put up a nude billboard with 0.97

00:05:45.420 profanity. Nude picture of Cory. 0.95

00:05:47.340 Yeah, me and my Alberta Speedo or something

00:05:49.560 like that. Can't be much more profan than that.

00:05:51.420 No, but no, it was nothing of that sort.

00:05:54.320 And as I said, the town, I think, realizes they misstepped, overstepped, and made a mistake.

00:06:00.020 But they still won't let themselves put out anything in writing saying we're withdrawing that request to bring the sign up.

00:06:05.120 Yeah, I think they've more or less just said they're quietly let it be known.

00:06:08.940 Well, they're not pursuing it any further because they have 100% chance of losing in court, essentially.

00:06:13.360 Pretty much.

00:06:14.260 It's beyond the pale, but I'm not letting it go.

00:06:16.580 So, yes, the lawyers of the Democracy Fund have been talking to me, and we're going to follow through until it's time.

00:06:20.940 And we've got Sundry, the Sundry Rodeo Parade.

00:06:24.780 So that one, yes, that's a little bit different

00:06:27.780 because it's not a level of government shutting something down.

00:06:30.420 But they have a rodeo in Sundry every year.

00:06:33.160 It's a big one.

00:06:33.740 It's a classic Alberta foothills town.

00:06:37.160 Now it's had a parade associated with it.

00:06:38.760 You kick it off, you know, like every small town parade,

00:06:40.660 it really looks forward to it.

00:06:42.480 I guess a float had been entered that was covered in Alberta flags.

00:06:46.720 And they felt that was too politicized and rejected the float.

00:06:50.940 It's this committee, not the town officials necessarily, but the committee.

00:06:55.120 So the float wasn't saying free Alberta.

00:06:57.280 I don't believe so.

00:06:58.640 It was just loads of Alberta flags.

00:06:59.860 And that has become a symbol.

00:07:00.960 People do realize if you see a car covered in Alberta flags, chances are they're independent supporters, but still it was as innocuous as the flag itself.

00:07:07.680 But the other mistake they made was there was Thomas Lukasik's freedom bus or whatever covered in Canadian flags.

00:07:14.140 That went in with no problem.

00:07:16.060 You know, if they'd have banned both, perhaps people would have been more accepting, but they cherry picked, well, this one's okay.

00:07:20.940 that one's too political it led to public you know exposure a lot of uh heated discussion and

00:07:28.380 i can believe it i guess they got some very rough vitriolic feedback from some people probably on

00:07:32.960 both sides of the issue because they tried reversing it and allowing the float but by then

00:07:36.060 it was too late and then they started getting bad feedback from federalists saying well you can't

00:07:39.940 let that float in so they took the most cowardly route they could find in the end of it all and

00:07:44.120 just canceled the parade altogether and now the the people who spent months building floats for

00:07:49.360 this parade and the kids who were looking forward to it don't get it because this cowardly committee

00:07:53.140 stepped in it and just decided to pull the pin rather than face the mess they made yeah you know

00:07:58.000 dave you you spent a long part of your career as city hall reporter at calgary city hall i don't

00:08:02.620 know if you ever got around to ever covering any of these small city halls but you know uh it was

00:08:08.460 a real wake-up moment for me uh with the time i spent in politics dealing with small town uh halls

00:08:16.080 uh you know brooks strathmore and even even sometimes smaller ones into the villages and

00:08:20.860 the counties that the people who not obviously all but uh disproportionately tend to fill the

00:08:27.400 ranks of the councillors and the mayors they tend to be despite representing very conservative

00:08:32.960 uh polities they tend to be overwhelmingly kind of left-wing busybodies um who in many ways

00:08:42.680 resemble the con your local condo board uh you know i've i've had townhouses in a condo before

00:08:48.580 and they're just the most maddening people you that have ever existed on earth and this is just

00:08:53.660 kind of like the the pro league condo board for these guys and and they tend to do this kind of

00:08:59.400 thing and but taber and sundry are not known as hotbeds of pro ottawa sentiment they're we are

00:09:06.480 probably going to see pretty good numbers on the independent side in the referendum however that

00:09:11.020 turns out um but the town's going this way anyways um what do you think would cause town councils to

00:09:20.620 i i guess in the case of sundry that's not actually the council that's probably a committee

00:09:25.340 of the egg society or something is my best guess but at least in taber that was that was council

00:09:31.660 why would this who would get the brainwave this is a good idea in taber i think it's in in terms

00:09:40.060 of both both instances i think we're looking at the power of the uh the uh warrior on the keyboard

00:09:47.180 keyboard warriors and they sit there in their basement the mother's house and they can send

00:09:51.980 out the most vile threatening uh emails and you can see it on both sides you know how dare you 0.57

00:09:58.620 let this alberta feel you know you're gonna ruin your town and i'm never gonna go there and then

00:10:04.220 same on both sides but it just shows you that the intimidated intimidation factor

00:10:09.340 that they've got, that these keyboard warriors can sway town councils and make the decisions for them.

00:10:17.020 There's also, I think, Dave, the type of people who tend to get involved in local politics

00:10:22.460 in the first place. Conservatives just want to be left alone to do their own thing.

00:10:28.140 We take that attitude to our own cost, frankly, because when we don't step up other people who

00:10:35.180 love to interfere and play golf with other people's lives step forward so if you don't want to do it

00:10:39.820 pick me and so those are the kinds who are more likely to have that kind of soft left disposition

00:10:47.500 thinking they're doing a good thing yeah sundry had the big pro or the big controversy last year

00:10:53.420 you remember there was a float in the sundry parade of uh of trudeau in blackface was

00:10:57.900 and the proverbial crap hit the fan over that one so i think they were they didn't want to 0.83

00:11:07.180 make the same mistake twice they were cognizant of the mistake they made last year was it a 0.97

00:11:11.740 mistake to allow it well it was an accurate representation of how the prime minister has

00:11:16.940 looked on quite a few occasions yeah i mean everybody around this table loved it uh you know

00:11:24.780 but as of course says the parade's not supposed to be political is it justin trudeau in blackface

00:11:29.260 is about as political as you get they always have been though i mean you've always seen every

00:11:33.500 aspiring politician will make sure to get into those parades the local mla i'm here there the

00:11:37.820 council but of course they'll just ride on their own thing maybe not necessarily put out a statement

00:11:41.980 like justin in blackface i i guess you know it distracts potentially from you know throwing candy

00:11:48.060 to kids and talking about rodeo and having fun though we laughed our heads off okay i can see

00:11:51.980 see why they want to just

00:11:53.940 avoid the distraction. Yeah. But this was

00:11:55.940 Alberta flags, not Justin

00:11:57.640 prancing around in black.

00:11:59.520 Yes. Yeah.

00:12:02.580 In the case of

00:12:03.900 Tabor, I know we saw a bunch of 0.65

00:12:05.820 Federalists

00:12:06.540 saying, I'm going to boycott Tabor

00:12:09.760 corn until the town

00:12:11.560 has this taken down.

00:12:13.940 Like, okay. 0.98

00:12:15.380 So many levels of dumb there. There's idiots 1.00

00:12:17.260 on all sides. 1.00

00:12:19.280 Both sides have got their idiots. Both sides 1.00

00:12:21.400 you've got, they're more intelligent, thoughtful people, but you know, it would, it would just

00:12:26.340 never cross my mind to, and even, and even the crazy people on the independent side, I don't

00:12:32.300 think it would cross their mind to boycott Tabor Korn until a pro Ottawa Federalist billboard

00:12:39.720 would be taken down. Like it just, you wouldn't fathom it. It's just a crazy thing to do. It's

00:12:46.500 a private billboard leased from the town, but the town is not supposed to be into the business of

00:12:51.340 Well, you know, this town likes A&W and not McDonald's, so no McDonald's signs.

00:12:59.560 No, it's a private business, and as long as he's following some very basic rules of decorum, no nudity or expletives, you know, it's a pretty basic common sense stuff.

00:13:11.740 It's just their own business.

00:13:13.000 But yet, all these people, the Forever Canada crowd, etc., saying, yeah, we're going to boycott Tabor.

00:13:18.860 I don't know how much Tabor gets

00:13:20.720 in tourism

00:13:22.020 I don't know

00:13:24.760 they're known for corn anyways

00:13:26.120 they're known for corn 0.85

00:13:28.560 and their footloose laws of a few

00:13:30.880 years ago with a band

00:13:32.000 swearing

00:13:32.500 you might remember I went out to their town

00:13:36.060 that was 10 or 11 years ago

00:13:37.820 and did my very first YouTube selfie video

00:13:40.540 where I can't say exactly

00:13:42.540 what I said on this show but I tested

00:13:44.460 their swearing law

00:13:45.380 were you arrested? no

00:13:47.420 find no it was buried in my youtube videos like that was from it was 11 years ago it was apparently

00:13:52.440 a weird thing kind of around trying to target the mexican mennonites yeah it's an unusual town

00:13:58.300 there's a balance going on you have the mormon population you have a lot of descendants from

00:14:03.240 the japanese internment camps that live out there uh all kinds of things it's always been an unusual

00:14:08.800 town it is but still the boycotting corn i mean come on you guys but i think it shows that that's

00:14:14.420 their attitude, their mentality, things that have been successful for them. They think if they can

00:14:18.040 get their way with their cancelability is to scare private enterprises. It's why independence

00:14:23.660 meetings that have been held at hotels or rallies constantly get chased out and canceled because

00:14:27.520 they call and they threaten the hotels with boycotts or they'll threaten local restaurants

00:14:31.440 with boycotts and businesses. The reality is though, I mean, I understand the reactiveness

00:14:36.240 of these businesses. As Dave said, these are seller dwelling pinheads who usually probably

00:14:41.600 don't even live in the town the amount of impact they would have on these businesses with their

00:14:45.760 alleged boycott is probably next to none yeah but the businesses retract in fear and there's where

00:14:50.480 they go but i i doubt these guys even well the court doesn't even come out for a couple of months

00:14:54.720 i mean come on guys how are you gonna boycott it okay uh so kind of a uh a disclaimer here we're

00:15:03.520 pre-recording this episode so we're operating without most of the details about the danny

00:15:09.680 dollars that are being announced pretty much as soon as we're done pre-recording the timing is

00:15:15.840 pretty uh pretty piss poor but um you know uh gas prices have been through the roof uh because of

00:15:22.720 the brilliant war with iran uh oh yeah and the peace deal signed today i just want to take this

00:15:28.080 opportunity again and say i told you so you guys were wrong anyone want to dispute that that this

00:15:34.000 this war was a success by any metric?

00:15:36.520 Oh, God.

00:15:37.080 Anyone?

00:15:37.720 Do we have an hour?

00:15:39.440 Okay.

00:15:39.940 We'll take this offline.

00:15:41.420 I will accept your apology eventually.

00:15:44.360 But, I mean, this has been...

00:15:45.600 We're going to get Danny dollars out of it?

00:15:48.360 Who knows?

00:15:49.560 Who knows?

00:15:51.000 I mean, for Alberta, because world oil prices have been high, it's been good for Alberta.

00:15:55.500 But I don't think Donald Trump was thinking about Alberta's provincial government coffers

00:15:59.840 when he agreed to go to war, Iran.

00:16:02.680 So there's been that nice effect for us, but it is damned expensive.

00:16:07.680 When I fill up my truck, I want to cry.

00:16:11.440 I'm only, it's only offset.

00:16:14.360 The sadness is offset a little bit, just knowing that Alberta's got more money coming in.

00:16:18.960 Derek, it's where you can ride your bike.

00:16:21.560 I've been trying to, but it's been raining a lot lately.

00:16:24.240 So anyway, so for relief at the pumps, it does not seem, well, Dave,

00:16:30.860 tell tell them what we know okay well as as derek mentioned the money has been raining into the

00:16:38.580 coffers we were eight or nine billion dollars in in the red we're now going to be in the black

00:16:45.220 so when governments get money that exceeds they're going to spend it and our legislature reporter

00:16:51.880 will vassar did some mathematics last week and looked at the oil prices since the war started

00:16:57.780 And we have reached the plateau now where the provincial government should be removing their provincial fuel tax, $0.12, $0.13.

00:17:08.240 So that looks like it's a definite going to come off for three months.

00:17:13.360 But it also looks like we may be getting cash in hand.

00:17:17.300 You remember the Ralph Bucks?

00:17:18.420 How much did we get?

00:17:19.700 $250?

00:17:20.380 Yeah, something about that.

00:17:21.200 $250.

00:17:22.180 And that was in the 90s or early 2000s.

00:17:23.780 Yeah, that was a fair amount of money back in the day.

00:17:25.620 It was nice. 1.00

00:17:26.140 You'd go out for a good meal in a bender on that back then. 1.00

00:17:28.800 Yeah, yeah.

00:17:29.880 So there's rumors.

00:17:30.420 Go to the bar in Tabor.

00:17:31.900 Eat some corn.

00:17:33.400 There's rumors that we're going to get Danny dollars, not Ralph Bucks, but Danny dollars.

00:17:38.360 The amount remains to be seen.

00:17:41.020 But, yeah, I mean, it's from going into a huge debt deficit only months ago into, you know, now we're making money.

00:17:51.460 That's absolutely stunningly huge for Alberta. 1.00

00:17:54.180 man i i'm not a fan of these danny doll you know take the fuel tax off when it gets to a certain 1.00

00:17:59.760 point uh that's nice you know and i agree it should be tied to the price of gas uh you know 1.00

00:18:05.180 so it's on when they're when prices are more reasonable when prices are high tax comes off

00:18:10.240 okay that's nice uh but the danny dollars thing i mean it's what kind of dividend is this because

00:18:16.760 it's it's income tested so we don't know above what what income but above certain incomes you

00:18:21.960 don't get it. So the people who are actually paying the most tax in Alberta and creating

00:18:26.360 jobs do not get any of this. Not that it would make a big difference to them anyway, because

00:18:29.560 they're high income people, but it's kind of the point of it. But how is this any kind

00:18:34.700 of fuel relief? Is this going to go to everyone? So when Ralph Klein did this kind of thing

00:18:41.900 before, we went to drivers, people had a vehicle registered to them or something. If you take

00:18:46.660 the bus every day and don't pay the price of fuel uh you still get it um if you are uh it's going

00:18:56.060 to essentially everyone below uh below certain incomes everybody who's filed an income tax

00:19:01.560 yeah from 2025 yeah so i mean uh you could take uh the seed train or ride the bus or whatever

00:19:07.240 your transportation is already subsidized by taxpayers from the province and from the city

00:19:12.540 itself that's subsidizing your transit already and your cost of transit does not go up or down

00:19:18.220 at all with the cost of fuel yet they're going to get a check but uh it's not just filling up

00:19:24.760 the gas tank though right it's everything has gone up in cost because of the the iran war the

00:19:30.040 the trucking costs the grocery costs uh they've all gone up fair enough yeah you do pay more in

00:19:35.140 grocery prices etc because all that stuff is reflected down down the supply chain but the

00:19:39.440 biggest the biggest area is at the gas tank at the pump and people are going to be getting the same

00:19:44.720 amount someone who walks to work is going to get the same uh check from the government as someone

00:19:51.980 who fills up an f-350 and drives into the patch every day it just seems gimmicky well it is i mean

00:19:59.080 this is a symptom of a government that just showed their internals dropping this is what we're seeing

00:20:03.320 yeah and it works it worked for ralph klein when he did it too people complained at that time come

00:20:07.900 on. You're just cutting checks. You can cut taxes. Yeah. But we don't see that extra few dollars

00:20:12.220 you're saving on every fill up and not every person who has a vehicle or people who don't

00:20:16.340 won't see it. If you're looking to buy political love, you want to make sure that those dollars

00:20:20.620 get into as many hands as you can. I mean, it was shallow. It was clear. It was transparent

00:20:25.740 when the Ralph bucks came out, but you know what? They worked like a darn. Everybody who had them 0.98

00:20:29.360 was thrilled. Restaurants, bars, pubs, because for a short time, well, this was considered kind

00:20:33.860 you know unexpected money and people go out and spend and it puts everybody in a good mood

00:20:38.340 or put it in the put it against their mortgage which is what i was doing at the time well you're

00:20:43.700 a bit more responsible than cory probably more responsible than premier smith we've still got

00:20:48.340 a debt i get less headlines and i would rather see this surplus knock the debt down then you

00:20:52.900 can start talking about it yeah we've been running up debt essentially well we spent down our savings

00:20:58.580 beginning under Ed Stelmac, and that ran out and ran out, and we went into debt beginning

00:21:03.840 mostly in Redford, and it's ramped up, and it's never really gone away. We've paid down a tiny

00:21:09.120 bit, but there's no prospect of paying it back right now. In the last election, though, Nigel,

00:21:13.200 one of Danielle Smith's signature promises was a significant personal income tax cut.

00:21:20.900 We haven't got that, which was promised and could be funded out of this kind of revenue,

00:21:26.340 although keeping in mind this is a temporary boon in revenue it's not necessarily reliable but

00:21:32.180 but spending is high and there and there's reasons for that some legitimate some not

00:21:37.540 um but spending is high uh when can we do you think we can expect our income tax cut are we

00:21:42.580 just going to get this kind of give away and we're told to be happy there's a structure on

00:21:48.260 structural imbalance in albertus funds we all know that and we go up and down with the oil patch so

00:21:54.020 You asked when we're going to get an income tax cut.

00:21:56.860 The only time I can think of it would be right before an election.

00:21:59.760 Well, that's just the way it is.

00:22:00.740 What I will say about this particular issue, without knowing all the details of how much money is actually out there,

00:22:08.740 how much she might have decided to put into the Heritage Fund,

00:22:12.360 which is what I would have thought would have been the first place she would have directed it.

00:22:15.480 That would make more sense.

00:22:17.100 You know, and maybe she means to do that.

00:22:19.820 But at least on a matter of principle, she recognized that this money actually belongs in the pockets of Albertans, not in the pockets of the government's favorite people, which is what you would have expected from another government.

00:22:38.540 They would have made sure their interest groups were looked after.

00:22:43.060 More money for this group, more money for that group, wages, salaries, conditions, and so on.

00:22:48.160 And we would have been locked in to a permanent raise forever.

00:22:53.140 In this case, the money comes in, the money goes out.

00:22:57.400 You don't even need a sunset clause because when it's gone, it's gone.

00:23:00.760 You know, that's probably the best argument I've heard for it.

00:23:02.580 We're wasting it in the most efficient way possible.

00:23:06.020 Well, so I don't know.

00:23:06.920 You know, I mean, that's a good way

00:23:08.800 of putting it in some ways, but

00:23:10.980 certainly there are some

00:23:13.000 governments who would definitely have just taken that,

00:23:15.160 locked it in. Yeah, it's a sweetheart deal for some

00:23:17.000 of the government unions or something.

00:23:18.860 Yeah, fair enough.

00:23:21.760 You know, I'm with you.

00:23:22.960 I don't have a 350, but I

00:23:24.520 certainly would appreciate some relief.

00:23:26.920 I don't have a 350. I have a 150.

00:23:29.260 It's a poser truck, but, you know,

00:23:31.360 it gets the job done.

00:23:33.780 Yeah. All right.

00:23:34.800 uh well i want to save a little extra time we've got two britons here we've been talking about

00:23:40.600 britain a lot lately uh you know there was the newick uh video released where the police

00:23:48.280 cuffed him and let him bleed out because his murderer accused him of racism um you know we

00:23:54.000 had belfast uh some other significant uh but less high profile uh migrant murders and attempted

00:24:02.920 murders and rapes in between

00:24:05.080 all of that and it's just kind of getting

00:24:06.820 lost in it

00:24:07.600 but I think it was just yesterday

00:24:10.880 we had the release

00:24:11.720 of

00:24:13.520 what's his last

00:24:16.960 name? Lowe

00:24:18.180 Lowe's

00:24:19.540 inquiry on

00:24:22.920 gang rapes in the UK

00:24:24.480 Nigel

00:24:26.960 maybe you want to just give the

00:24:28.160 everyone should go look at at least the

00:24:30.700 it's a big report you don't have to read it but

00:24:32.540 But people should go read the highlights for themselves.

00:24:34.320 Let me just give us a call.

00:24:35.640 Well, you know, the very high level stuff is that this is an independent citizens report,

00:24:41.200 privately funded, led by British MP, Rupert Lowe.

00:24:48.020 And it addresses a problem that goes back 30 years, which is the startling accusations

00:24:56.620 of gang rapes of white British girls by Pakistani gangs.

00:25:02.540 Uh, the report alleges something in the order of 250,000.

00:25:11.140 My own internet researches, um, you know, imprecise as they perhaps are, cannot round

00:25:19.320 up more than a few hundred men who have actually been convicted, tried convicted and sentenced.

00:25:27.220 And there is this sense in Great Britain that a whole part of their population has been

00:25:33.860 allowed to suffer, allowed to be preyed upon, because the politicians who lead the country

00:25:41.660 don't have the courage to address what is going on.

00:25:48.460 What is going on? 0.73

00:25:49.880 The first thing that people will say, well, it may be Pakistani men who are doing this, 1.00

00:25:54.220 But that doesn't mean that all Pakistani men are evil, and that would be a true statement.

00:26:01.380 But what it says to me is that then you need to go after the people who are responsible,

00:26:09.860 and if there have been 250,000 cases of rape, and only a few hundred have actually been

00:26:16.820 apprehended and faced the charges, there has a hell of a lot of personal accountability

00:26:23.360 that remains to be seen and done, and that our governments, I say our day, recognizing

00:26:30.520 the enormous Union Jack over your desk as the team goes out to play, you know, the British

00:26:38.120 soccer team, for the record.

00:26:40.120 No, it's in England, but anyway, what we're really getting at here is that the British

00:26:47.300 ruling classes ignored this because they didn't want to be called racists.

00:26:51.100 You couldn't say, well, look, all the victims were white and all the assailants were from Pakistan.

00:26:56.700 Yeah, but that doesn't mean, you know, and you can do that for a while.

00:27:02.100 That's been going on for 30 years and people are mad.

00:27:04.880 I won't say this other thing, too.

00:27:06.280 We had a citizen's inquiry a few years ago over COVID.

00:27:10.260 Why do we need a citizen's inquiry? 0.99

00:27:12.760 Well, it's because the damn government won't do it. 0.99

00:27:16.340 So now, you know, the reaction to this, first of all, is the mainstream media has been, 0.99

00:27:21.040 well, you know, this is just Rupert Lowe.

00:27:23.000 You know what he's like.

00:27:23.800 Anything that bears his name, it's kind of weird.

00:27:26.240 We can't touch that.

00:27:27.580 It's probably grossly unreliable.

00:27:29.680 Yeah, they would say that.

00:27:31.060 But they've never investigated themselves either.

00:27:33.260 And the second thing is that if you do not, if governments will not act, eventually people will.

00:27:42.460 Lowe's report is explosive.

00:27:44.020 If he's only half right, it's still explosive.

00:27:48.360 It's still going to take down a city block.

00:27:51.760 And this is an intolerable situation. 0.96

00:27:55.240 The British have not looked after their own women.

00:27:59.820 That is appalling.

00:28:02.500 So, you know, you said, you know, it was the British politicians and establishment.

00:28:07.320 But I think the establishment of it goes all the way through.

00:28:11.680 You know, just as we saw in the Newick case where the police believed the murderer who says, oh, he attacked me and said racist things when that was obviously quite not true.

00:28:24.860 And they handcuffed him and let him bleed out to death because of their incredible fear of being called racist or being perceived as racist or anything.

00:28:33.300 um many of the examples cited in uh the low report here uh said there were very young girls

00:28:43.940 like not young women these were girls uh who were victims of not it wasn't just rape just

00:28:51.100 mutilation of the most horrific kind um they would come in and tell the police what's happened

00:28:58.560 and uh the police would essentially shoo them away on the grounds that you don't be racist 0.72

00:29:04.940 you know say there's a group of pakistani men gang rape mean to say don't be racist

00:29:09.440 and they would shoo her on and then she ends up right back in and they end up going into 0.98

00:29:14.860 prostitution more mutilation and beatings and rape and goes on and on and on so it's not just

00:29:21.760 the politicians it's it's the police and the director of public prosecutions who is now

00:29:29.140 prime minister keir starmer and i think they found the report says that somewhere 13 to 15

00:29:35.220 000 cases that came before his desk he just simply sent the the alleged rapists a warning

00:29:43.040 uh prosecuting very very few of them uh because he didn't want to be perceived as a racist it

00:29:51.200 it gets even worse than that actually i mean that's pretty bad but and there was one particular

00:29:56.080 city where this investigation did takes root and that was rotsdale and in rotsdale there were there

00:30:03.360 were about 60 convictions well what we discovered while that case was unfolding was that not only

00:30:11.440 were the police not acting for these young girls even the social services would rather not know

00:30:18.160 about it and washed their hands of it and told them to run along so this is you know it's great

00:30:24.800 to pick on keir starmer and and i do and i join you but every other prime minister we've had for

00:30:31.280 the last 30 years could have dealt with this none of them did every mp politician every chief of

00:30:37.920 police could have dealt with this because this is right across the country but they didn't and even

00:30:44.880 the people who actually are engaged and employed by the state to see that children are cared for,

00:30:52.160 just wouldn't want to touch it. Same thing, didn't want to appear racist. We've got to go back and

00:30:59.680 say, I don't care whether we feel racist or not, but you, sir, are accused of doing something,

00:31:05.200 and you must answer for it. If we are going to say, look, you can't blame the whole population

00:31:11.600 of pakistani men because of the actions of some well then the some must answer for their own 0.63

00:31:18.320 reputations although it's honorate the rest although it does seem there are there are some

00:31:24.400 cultural aspects yeah it's not to be unfair to you it's not some certainly not all pakistani men in

00:31:30.160 britain but it's a bit out of proportion you gotta take the race out of this equation and have a frank

00:31:36.000 world discussion it's islam let's just say it it's a culture and it's a religious basis to it not

00:31:42.800 every muslim is practicing i understand but facets of that islam we don't have chinese rape gangs 0.95

00:31:47.760 there aren't any mexican rape gangs there aren't any japanese rape gangs there aren't any hindu 0.97

00:31:52.240 ones or buddhist ones it's islamics and i mean if you start to get into that root of a culture that 0.96

00:31:59.200 sees women as subhuman that sees their prophet who had nine year old wife you've got some people who

00:32:05.440 who have a misguided view on the value of women in a society and how they can be treated.

00:32:11.100 And if we keep shutting the discussion down, but for fear of the race aspect, and I don't like

00:32:15.700 racism. You don't choose a race. You're born whatever color you have, but you do have a choice

00:32:20.200 on the cultural practices you adhere to and the religious practices that you follow. And I don't 0.95

00:32:25.600 think it should be outside of fair critique to be able to finally start calling it out and saying

00:32:30.100 there's some serious inherent problems with that faith.

00:32:34.240 Not every person who practices it.

00:32:35.780 I know we still have to couch it with that,

00:32:37.460 but look at the names of the perpetrators in this every time.

00:32:41.340 And it's not...

00:32:42.180 So I want to agree, but push back a little bit.

00:32:45.880 Obviously, the Pakistani men are very likely universally Muslims.

00:32:52.680 But it was out of proportion...

00:32:54.220 Now, Pakistanis are a particularly large group in Britain,

00:32:56.980 um but it was out of proportion to people from other islamic background uh groups so there does

00:33:06.100 seem to be i would say probably a confluence of religious but also more parochial cultural uh

00:33:13.520 it's it's this the commonality with the syrians and the german uh new year's eve uh rape fest

00:33:18.240 that went quite well as well this wasn't anywhere near pakistan but what was the common denominator

00:33:22.300 Yes. And that's far out of proportion to the indigenous German population with the Syrian rapes. But it would appear to me that the Pakistani Muslims were engaging in this at a higher rate than the Syrian Muslims. And the Syrian Muslims were obviously at a higher rate than indigenous Europeans.

00:33:41.180 There's nuance within the community, I understand. 1.00

00:33:43.700 What I'm saying is some are worse than others.

00:33:45.180 Yes. 1.00

00:33:45.800 And the Pakistani community, or large proportions of it, you know, I've got a lot to have those discussions on then, how we can segment and identify those portions of that community. 1.00

00:34:01.020 Because it is outstanding and causing incredible damage. 1.00

00:34:04.360 If we can't have that frank discussion, we won't solve it.

00:34:06.360 Well, here's the toughest part of the conversation, Dave.

00:34:08.940 I think everyone agrees, at least in principle, that we should not allow violent medieval rapists into one's country, although we still do.

00:34:19.120 But in principle, pretty much everyone agrees with that point. 0.89

00:34:23.400 But if people are coming from one particular national or religious origin, and there is a very large disproportionate number of people who come from that, 0.96

00:34:36.060 is it really on the host country then to let everyone in anyway and then just throw out the 0.86

00:34:41.880 bad ones or is it more responsible for the people of that country the indigenous people of that

00:34:48.160 country to just say you know what we're sorry i'm sure there's many good people in your group

00:34:53.240 but it's not worth the risk to us we're just not taking any no i mean that would be the easy way

00:34:59.000 to stop it uh but the thing in now in england is a large chunk of the country is controlled 0.99

00:35:05.380 by Muslims. Entire cities are run by Muslim councils. So it goes back to what everybody 0.85

00:35:14.500 was talking about earlier. The worst thing you can do is be called a racist. That's what people

00:35:19.300 are thinking. If you're called a racist as a politician, your career is over, even though

00:35:23.740 there may not be any truth to it. A cop doesn't want to be called a racist and a social worker

00:35:28.940 doesn't want to be called a rapist. So it's all swept under the cover. The only way it's going

00:35:34.600 change is with a new new government uh the next election the labor party will be destroyed

00:35:41.000 and the conservatives too probably and the conservatives even worse they deserve it so

00:35:46.120 right now it's shaving up to a fight between nadir farage and reform and rupert lowe uh

00:35:51.880 and the restore uk uh party that's a shift in the overton window yeah but then of course you're

00:35:57.720 facing the the danger of us vote splitting and you know the labor government surviving anyways but

00:36:04.280 you know you need a politician to stand up and say enough of this enough call me a racist all

00:36:10.200 you want but i'm going to start deportations i'm going to start blocking boats from coming in on

00:36:15.400 the english channel i'm going to send warships and blow them out of the water if you need to

00:36:20.360 that'll stop them immediately one boat blown out of the water and then it'll stop them and it's all

00:36:25.560 middle it's all uh fighting age men that are coming in another interesting point they wouldn't

00:36:32.840 be sticking boats with women and children no exactly all fighting age men coming in uh most

00:36:37.880 of them go immediately on to uh the dole and get benefits and and they don't work right so they've 0.98

00:36:44.920 got time on their hands what are they going to do great rape white girls apparently you know dave 0.97

00:36:50.840 let me ask you a question i am racking my own brains here and i can't i can't think of the 0.99

00:36:54.840 answer has canada ever voted on immigration has anybody ever said you know we need to bring a

00:37:02.520 a whole lot more people and we want to take them from the following places. If you like that idea,

00:37:06.660 vote for me. And if you don't, vote for somebody else. I don't think that's ever

00:37:10.440 happening. You know, after the Syrian Civil War

00:37:14.580 So how does this happen? Well, you know, we actually kind of did get a bit of one.

00:37:18.820 You know, after the Syrian Civil War broke out, largely

00:37:22.380 due to Western actions, and Merkel just opened

00:37:26.520 the door to Europe, you know, there was this famous

00:37:30.360 photo of

00:37:32.520 a Syrian refugee girl

00:37:34.340 who died in the Mediterranean on a boat

00:37:36.020 and virtually washed up in the shores of Anatolia

00:37:38.600 or something, and that was a very

00:37:40.360 impactful picture, and it started

00:37:42.300 this kind of bidding war, because

00:37:44.260 remember, the Canadian federal election, the 2015 election

00:37:46.580 was going on at this time

00:37:48.060 and Harper proposed bringing in quite

00:37:50.540 a few, and

00:37:52.240 this was just a bidding war, and then

00:37:54.240 Thomas Mulcair of the NDP said, well, I'm

00:37:56.440 going to beat you, here's my number, and then

00:37:58.220 Justin Trudeau said, yeah, well

00:38:00.040 hold my beer and and they were just picking numbers out of out of thin air and probably a

00:38:06.260 combination of compassion and wanting to appear compassionate and so we did have an election there

00:38:12.160 where all parties were bidding on having the highest number of refugees because that photo

00:38:18.000 was a trigger issue though for the 15th election there were other no it wasn't it wasn't the

00:38:22.520 decisive issue but it was a significant part of that election and and and trudeau used this to

00:38:27.900 frame Harper as cold and uncaring and uncompassionate because he only would allow, I forget the actual

00:38:35.280 numbers everyone was bidding on, but they were all big numbers. The Trudeau number was just insane,

00:38:39.480 but they were playing to Canadian a sense of compassion and worldliness. Canadians have never

00:38:47.660 voted as a major issue in an election for long-term sustained mass migration, but 2015,

00:38:53.840 I mean, you know, I think people's compassion got the better of them.

00:38:58.320 And all the major parties ended up in a bidding war over it.

00:39:01.580 You know, we recently had a human trafficking ring busted in Ontario.

00:39:06.900 Every single person who was arrested, I think there were eight of them, were Pakistani men.

00:39:11.700 So I think Canadian lawmakers had best take a look at what's happening in England. 0.99

00:39:16.800 Because it's on its way here.

00:39:18.400 It's already established.

00:39:20.080 And it's only going to get worse.

00:39:21.080 It's a bellwether.

00:39:22.300 I mean, we're seeing our future.

00:39:24.280 So when they were, what kind of sentences were they handed out?

00:39:28.820 In England, some of them got large sentences.

00:39:30.760 Oh, here in the...

00:39:31.720 Oh, I don't think they were just charged.

00:39:34.080 Some of the people in England got more than 20 years.

00:39:36.620 So you've got to start the deportations.

00:39:39.060 You know, instead of sentencing somebody to a year in jail,

00:39:41.660 say, all right, you're on the next plane now.

00:39:43.560 Well, Rupert Lowe has said he wants to bring back the death penalty for this.

00:39:47.300 Now, in common law, you can't, you know, change the sentence after the fact, really.

00:39:55.120 But most of these people haven't been charged yet.

00:39:57.000 So I suppose you could reintroduce the death penalty and then start the trial.

00:40:00.740 Because most of these guys have not been put through a trial and found innocent or something.

00:40:04.320 They just weren't prosecuted because the prosecutors and the police and everybody else was afraid of being called a racist.

00:40:10.340 Now, most of these people are just going to get away with it no matter what.

00:40:13.380 Rupert Lowe has called for the death penalty of not just the rapist, but also every public official who was complicit in it, which I don't know if I'm reading too much into it, but was he essentially calling for the death penalty for Keir Starmer?

00:40:30.660 Am I reading too much into that, or was that more or less what he was saying?

00:40:34.140 Why don't you save that for your parting shots?

00:40:37.400 Well, that's my parting shot in the segment. We're out of time for the segment.

00:40:40.760 Okay, parting shots. Dave?

00:40:42.300 I want to give a shout out to the people of High River, not High River, Fort McMurray, who fed up with the state of their roads, Highway 63, potholes particularly bad, no level of government would fill them in, so they went and did it themselves, put up some barricades and filled it in, so good for them.

00:41:01.540 They didn't get much thanks for it, though, did they?

00:41:03.320 Didn't get much whatsoever?

00:41:04.180 They didn't get much thanks from the local officials.

00:41:06.560 No, the RCMP was warning that they would all be arrested.

00:41:09.980 How dare you help yourself?

00:41:11.280 This is so very Canadian. 0.99

00:41:13.040 So very Canadian.

00:41:14.860 Corey?

00:41:15.380 I'll just tack on further to what we just talked about.

00:41:17.560 Just somebody to watch on, well, I think for a lot of things in general,

00:41:21.360 but on X and so on, it's been indicative of the discussion in the UK

00:41:25.840 and how it's crossed the tipping point.

00:41:27.120 And that's John Cleese, who's always been actually quite a leftist

00:41:29.320 and a very progressive man.

00:41:30.820 But something clicked in him this last eight months or so.

00:41:34.420 And if you want to see somebody speaking...

00:41:35.880 I think it started during COVID with him. 0.70

00:41:37.280 Well, more so with Islam, though, is this issue. 0.70

00:41:39.640 And he's being very frank in calling out again, not races and so on, but saying that's enough.

00:41:45.260 This has got some serious issues, even though I'm still a progressive man. 1.00

00:41:48.940 We've got some problems with Islam we've got to start talking about. 0.98

00:41:52.420 So my thought from the papers this morning was there was one story that reported that since October the 7th, 2023,

00:42:01.360 when the people of Hamas swarmed into Israel and started killing people and killed more than a thousand,

00:42:09.640 there has been a 50% reduction among Canadians,

00:42:16.260 according to polls, in support for Israel.

00:42:19.860 I just cannot think how this country actually manages to put facts together. 0.53

00:42:25.660 If when a group of people swarms another country,

00:42:29.020 murders 1,000 people,

00:42:30.820 then it's actually the country that's just been sworn that you must condemn. 0.99

00:42:35.600 We are so screwed up in this country.

00:42:38.560 Well, I think it is more than just the conflict in Gaza there. 0.99

00:42:42.200 They've been ethnically cleansing Christians, as I saw firsthand. 0.52

00:42:46.280 Started a war with Iran. 0.64

00:42:48.760 There's a lot of, I think there's a lot of things driving. 0.68

00:42:50.860 There's a lot going on.

00:42:52.120 I have a strong sense that this poll is based on people's reactions.

00:42:58.640 They're not thinking about ethnically cleansed Christians,

00:43:01.400 because only you know about that, people who listen to this program.

00:43:07.440 But, you know, we have a very poor record in this country of connecting cause and effect and what our own best interest is.

00:43:14.180 Very quickly, the UN charity, UNRWA, was proven to be infiltrated with Hamas terrorists.

00:43:21.400 And this week, Canada gave them millions and millions and millions of dollars.

00:43:24.620 A million, yeah.

00:43:25.280 A million more.

00:43:25.880 Really nice new rockets and titles with that.

00:43:27.680 Lots of bullets.

00:43:28.440 And they don't even make a pretense about getting accountability.

00:43:31.440 It's just, there you go, spend it as best you can.

00:43:33.520 To be fair, that's what Canada does with all the money that they spend.

00:43:36.280 They don't request accountability on any of the money they throw out.

00:43:40.220 So that's standard operating procedure for giving it to the Arrive Can app or to Hamas. 0.70

00:43:46.060 So that's just how we operate here, I guess. 0.92

00:43:49.060 I rest my case. 0.97

00:43:50.280 We're screwed up. 0.98

00:43:51.260 Yeah. 0.96

00:43:52.060 Okay.

00:43:53.400 Mine, speaking of genocide, us genociders, settlers on the stolen land,

00:43:58.720 um the uh three treaty chiefs in alberta today issued a call for danielle smith and the ucp to

00:44:06.580 be investigated for treason the headline on this one has got to be off the reservation

00:44:11.640 uh these look i get i get it guys these chiefs they they really don't like independence they're

00:44:19.860 allowed to speak out each of you got one vote each that's three votes you can try to convince

00:44:23.760 your communities, everyone within there, and you can even try to convince Albertans at large.

00:44:28.000 That's fine. But they've gone out of their way to not even allow the referendum to take place

00:44:33.760 with court injunctions, and the courts made some very bad decisions that'll probably get overturned

00:44:39.460 in time at appeal. But they've gone out of their way to not allow the vote. And now they're calling

00:44:46.240 this treason for allowing, essentially, the government is saying, fine, this is a citizen's

00:44:51.580 initiative referendum. The courts are messed up in the meantime, we're just going to put it on.

00:44:55.860 They're calling this treason. Even if the government was openly pro-independence, which it's

00:45:00.040 not, but this is just madness. I get chasing headlines. I spent, you know, the first two

00:45:08.460 thirds of my career in the Canadian Taxpayers Federation and in politics, you chase headlines.

00:45:13.720 I get it. And sometimes, yeah, you got to say something a little outrageous to try and get

00:45:17.480 that headline i get it but this is batshit crazy the chiefs are not you're not doing 0.95

00:45:25.480 your communities any favor you're making yourselves look crazy um you know and threatening

00:45:32.140 essentially violence if you know if this referendum goes forward or or or passes you

00:45:37.220 know it's um this is not the way a civilized democracy behaves when there's an issue we

00:45:42.840 disagree on. We're going to vote on it. And I don't agree

00:45:46.880 every voter is of the same intelligence, but we all still get one vote anyway.

00:45:51.020 That's just, better or worse, that's just the way the system works. So get out there and campaign.

00:45:55.740 Buy some billboards like Corey. Put a billboard in Tabor.

00:45:59.460 That's how you can show yourself here. Not calling for people

00:46:02.780 being investigated for treason for simply allowing a vote to go for it. It's just madness.

00:46:07.600 Okay. Corey, Dave, Nigel.

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THE PIPELINE： Censoring Alberta independence

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