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00:00:00.000 G'day and welcome to The Pipeline.

00:00:28.260 Today is August 20th, 2024.

00:00:31.640 I'm Derek Fildebrandt, publisher of the Western Standard.

00:00:35.320 I'm joined by my two usual friends here, former Western Standard opinion editor and now just

00:00:41.540 honored columnist, Nigel Hannaford.

00:00:46.360 Occasional guest, opinion editor, Emeritus, whatever you want to say.

00:00:50.560 Nice title.

00:00:51.560 That's got a nice title.

00:00:52.360 Pro Tempore.

00:00:53.540 Pro Temp, yeah.

00:00:54.600 And Western Standard senior Alberta columnist, Corey Morgan.

00:00:58.820 Always a pleasure.

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00:01:32.420 All right.

00:01:34.740 So, more mass graves have still probably not been found at another reserve in Canada.

00:01:46.380 Will the moral panic reignite?

00:01:50.720 Well, certainly some churches will probably reignite.

00:01:54.760 See what I did there?

00:01:56.160 Yeah.

00:01:57.060 Probably not funny, but yes.

00:01:59.820 Dark humor.

00:02:00.580 That's what we do around here.

00:02:03.600 I'm going with that.

00:02:04.580 Yeah.

00:02:05.140 So, apparently more suspected mass graves.

00:02:09.700 We're on Sportsline.

00:02:11.840 We're going to start.

00:02:13.460 We should start a bet on if any actually get found.

00:02:17.320 Oh, boy.

00:02:17.940 We'll have to give pretty good odds because I bet you if we go to whoever is the guy actually

00:02:24.360 claiming this, I bet you he's going to require odds that they actually find some bodies.

00:02:29.000 You would think.

00:02:29.800 Yeah.

00:02:30.580 Although, that doesn't mean they won't eventually find some.

00:02:35.500 But, I mean, so far, they're about 10,000 and all.

00:02:39.580 The trick is you have to look.

00:02:42.360 Yeah.

00:02:43.240 Yeah.

00:02:43.660 They don't seem to want to do that.

00:02:45.140 No.

00:02:45.480 Okay.

00:02:47.680 Guess who's back?

00:02:49.480 Pierre Polyev is back.

00:02:51.180 The Conservative Party's leader winning, smashing a by-election in Battle River Crowfoot constituency along central eastern Alberta.

00:03:02.980 Headed back into the House of Commons.

00:03:04.720 We're going to talk about the by-election itself.

00:03:06.840 We'll kind of read the on-trails of it, how it went, and where things are next for the Conservative leader and the Conservative Party.

00:03:14.440 But first, a heinous crime.

00:03:19.100 Really, no words to describe how terrible this man is.

00:03:25.440 There in Lindsay, Ontario, someone broke into a well-known criminal who's broken into many homes and committed other armed robberies.

00:03:36.600 He breaks into someone's house, and that man, the man who owns the home, apparently produced a firearm of some kind and defended his home.

00:03:47.580 And that bad man has been charged.

00:03:51.580 Justice will be done.

00:03:54.080 That bad man is, of course, the homeowner who defended his property.

00:03:58.140 Of course, you knew that, right?

00:03:59.620 You know that's where I was going with this.

00:04:00.880 It's that the guy who was at home, we think, sleeping and minding his business, did not do his duty to society by letting this robber into his house, steal his things, and threaten himself and his family.

00:04:17.600 And so the Lindsay, Ontario, police have charged him with, what are some of the charges?

00:04:23.180 It's dangerous use of a firearm.

00:04:25.440 That was one.

00:04:26.180 Dangerous use of firearm.

00:04:27.820 Aggravated assault.

00:04:29.140 Aggravated assault, yeah.

00:04:29.940 That's a big one, actually.

00:04:31.260 Oh, yeah.

00:04:31.640 Yeah.

00:04:32.180 Yeah.

00:04:33.380 Yeah.

00:04:34.780 He's in big trouble.

00:04:37.020 So obviously, this is lit off a firestorm. 0.87

00:04:41.280 Because even the biggest soft-on-crime, you know, progressivist, you know, rehabilitate-em-all kind of liberal, everyone realizes how ridiculous this is.

00:04:55.820 I really don't think there's anyone really defending the police here, at least openly, quietly.

00:05:05.100 This, I think, lines up with a very long-standing direction in law enforcement and justice in Canada, whereby if you have a problem, you're supposed to rely on the police.

00:05:19.800 You never, ever take the matter into your own hands.

00:05:22.960 It doesn't matter if it's going to take half an hour for the police to arrive over here in a rural area, maybe a couple of hours.

00:05:29.580 It doesn't matter.

00:05:30.280 You're supposed to let the justice system do the justice and not yourself.

00:05:36.680 And so this guy, this guy's now facing huge charges.

00:05:41.280 There's a long history of this in Canada, a very close, you know, to where you're from, Corey.

00:05:47.760 We have Eddie Maurice of Okotoks a couple of years ago.

00:05:52.820 Similar-ish circumstances.

00:05:55.560 And he faced huge charges.

00:05:58.780 Ultimately, were they dropped or dismissed?

00:06:01.040 They were dismissed.

00:06:02.260 I mean, I could expand on that.

00:06:03.660 Eddie had known for some time, and I followed that pretty closely.

00:06:06.580 But they put him through the ringer, boy.

00:06:08.140 Yeah, so, I mean, in these things, you know, we don't have a strict castle doctrine enshrined in law in Canada, the criminal code.

00:06:15.680 But we have a long history of common law, which is you are allowed to defend yourself.

00:06:19.320 You are allowed to defend your property.

00:06:20.940 This comes from our ancient English common law.

00:06:24.320 But the application of this by the police and by prosecutors does not seem to recognize that.

00:06:30.220 When these things go to a jury trial, juries in Canada, the vast majority of the time say, no, this was justified.

00:06:38.860 Get out of here.

00:06:39.840 So you are allowed to defend yourself in Canada.

00:06:42.280 But you have to have the ability to take out a second mortgage on your house to afford the lawyers to get some justice done here.

00:06:53.640 So, I don't know.

00:06:55.280 Well, you know, I was very surprised to hear Doug Ford, Premier of Ontario, coming out and actually saying a helpful word here.

00:07:03.660 I'm not surprised because it's a popular thing to say.

00:07:06.040 If it's popular, he'll say it.

00:07:07.140 Well, if it's a popular thing to say, maybe it'll be a popular thing for the Kawartha Lakes Police Department to hear.

00:07:16.240 Like, this is a hint from the Premier saying, you should be able to protect your family and someone's going in there to harm your family and your kids.

00:07:24.160 You should use all resources you possibly can to protect your family.

00:07:28.660 And maybe these criminals will think twice about breaking into someone's home.

00:07:32.400 You know, I've never taken Doug Ford as being particularly strong on anything except, well, things that might get him votes.

00:07:42.000 But if it's popular, he'll be in a position.

00:07:44.040 Yeah.

00:07:44.360 So if I were the police department, I'd say, oh, so the Premier's not really with me on this one.

00:07:50.720 Let's go.

00:07:51.460 Let's take it a little bit easy.

00:07:52.880 I think Doug Ford is, he's a populist in the worst sense of the word.

00:08:02.060 He just does whatever is popular and that some of the time means he does good things and much of the time he does bad things.

00:08:09.400 You know, democracy is unfortunately two foxes in a hand voting on what to have for dinner much of the time.

00:08:14.260 And so he goes with the foxes.

00:08:16.600 But, you know, but he wasn't wrong.

00:08:21.280 You know, I was discussing this on a show with the rebel earlier today.

00:08:26.780 And I said, I think there's four things driving this kind of crime.

00:08:33.460 Mass migration.

00:08:36.140 Drugs, particularly fentanyl.

00:08:38.060 A feckless and cowardly police culture that they have, you know, between BLM and long predating BLM, that kind of culture coming down, trying to make police politically correct peacekeepers instead of police.

00:09:00.800 And importantly, a disarmed, a disarmed populace.

00:09:08.520 And Canada is disarmed relative to the United States, but in other parts of the world, not as much.

00:09:13.600 But just like just yesterday, we have a story about the federal government, Corey, trying again, I think a third or fourth time now on their so-called buyback program.

00:09:25.140 That's their confiscation program.

00:09:26.360 I'm like, they say buyback, but they're not buying it.

00:09:29.180 They're confiscating it and handing you a small amount of money.

00:09:31.780 And it's not back because they never had it to begin with.

00:09:34.020 This is confiscation.

00:09:35.820 They are renewing their push to confiscate lawful weapons from lawful and law-upholding gun owners just as this kind of thing happens.

00:09:45.100 And they prosecute the home and gun owner.

00:09:49.460 Here's a statistic.

00:09:50.420 So these 2023 numbers, the most recent available, the armed robbery rate in Canada is 59 per 100,000.

00:10:03.740 So, Montana, just south of us here, 24 per 100,000.

00:10:09.340 Now, I'm not cherry picking.

00:10:10.340 I didn't go through a bunch of different states.

00:10:12.300 There's way more variation in the states than within Canada on these kinds of things.

00:10:15.880 I would hazard a guess that, you know, the robbery rates in California are probably comparable to Canada.

00:10:26.260 You know, similar political culture, similar levels of legal gun ownership, but higher levels of illegal gun ownership.

00:10:32.840 Montana, extremely high levels of civilian legal gun ownership.

00:10:37.420 If you break into someone's house in Montana, I'm willing to bet they're going to try and shoot you.

00:10:44.120 It's just not worth the risk.

00:10:45.500 Yeah, maybe the house won't have a gun. 0.54

00:10:47.580 There's a damn good chance they do. 0.71

00:10:49.020 And they're allowed to use it. 0.92

00:10:50.920 They have castle doctrine in Montana.

00:10:52.840 So, I think those are the four big things.

00:10:55.420 It's just mass migration.

00:10:58.400 It is the drug and fentanyl problem.

00:11:02.200 It is a cowardly police, and it is a disarmed populace.

00:11:05.360 And this is just the regime continuing to push these cases where someone heroically defends their home, their family, their property with a firearm.

00:11:17.360 It's bad propaganda for the regime because it says this is why you should be allowed to have a gun.

00:11:23.580 I'd be a bit more sympathetic to the police than you are.

00:11:27.680 It's not that they're cowardly.

00:11:28.760 It's just that when they do the right thing, they're not supported by politicians.

00:11:32.060 I'm not very sympathetic with what they did with me.

00:11:34.140 I waved a cane at vandals, and they charged me.

00:11:36.940 I have no sympathy for a lot. 0.78

00:11:38.180 There's a lot of good cops, but tons of them are cowardly, and they're just towing a political line.

00:11:42.900 I have no sympathy.

00:11:43.620 So, if they're towing a political line, then there's a politician who I would like to go after before I went after the police.

00:11:52.600 Tell these people...

00:11:53.540 This is the discretion of the police.

00:11:55.100 The police placed this charge.

00:11:57.280 These cops were individually responsible.

00:11:59.960 They should have their badges stripped.

00:12:01.240 They should be allowed to look at them all.

00:12:02.380 You're not going to get the local alderman or councillor placing the charge, but it's those people that the police answer to.

00:12:09.000 So, if they're not doing the job the way they should be doing it, you've got to go back to the people who pay their wages and say, we need more and better.

00:12:16.360 I was under orders is not always a good excuse.

00:12:20.480 These guys, it is their discretion.

00:12:22.840 The local alderman, the local mayor, does not say you're going to charge here and not charge here.

00:12:27.460 They're setting the political tone and these things.

00:12:29.780 But, those police made the decision.

00:12:32.980 They have the discretion themselves and they consult with prosecutions on this.

00:12:36.700 They made this decision.

00:12:38.580 The police and potentially the prosecution, if they consulted with the Crown Prosecutor, they are directly responsible for this.

00:12:45.780 And they should be stripped of their badges.

00:12:46.840 We don't actually know who the intruder was yet, I don't believe.

00:12:51.320 We do.

00:12:51.860 He's an offender who was wanted on charges with a history of this and he had a weapon.

00:12:55.840 Okay, so is there a racial overtone?

00:12:59.080 That's an interesting question.

00:12:59.960 We don't know yet?

00:13:00.760 That's what we have.

00:13:01.940 Extra points if there are.

00:13:03.400 You know, the thing is, if you have somebody of the wrong complexion and you don't charge them, well, you've got a racist police department.

00:13:11.940 So, the police are, you know, doing what they do under some difficulties.

00:13:16.460 It comes from both sides.

00:13:17.440 But, as we mentioned earlier, the Eddie Maurice case, which was in Alberta in Foothills County where I lived.

00:13:22.820 There weren't, actually.

00:13:23.660 Though, some people tried bringing it up. 0.54

00:13:24.860 No, those were both white bread meth heads who broke off. 0.93

00:13:28.180 You're thinking of the Colton Boushey case, which is another one in Saskatchewan, which had some...

00:13:32.400 At the police one, there was nothing of that there.

00:13:34.720 No, though some people tried to bring it in because they went under the assumption, which is another area of racism, actually, that's...

00:13:41.420 I misspoke on the rebel den earlier today.

00:13:43.660 I guess this will have to do with my correction.

00:13:45.080 Yeah, well, those were kind of happening at the same time.

00:13:47.060 So, part of it was political timing because Stanley just got exonerated on the Colton Boushey case, which was a bunch of indigenous armed kids on an impaired rampage who... 0.82

00:13:58.080 One of them, unfortunately, I mean, still is unfortunate, but got killed in that one.

00:14:01.400 Eddie Maurice, though the charges were laid on him, for those who don't remember it, he was alone at home late at night.

00:14:08.680 He was the one person and his toddler was in the house and he fired one shot, which ended up hitting one of the meth heads in the elbow. 0.52

00:14:15.620 And I've been to his house.

00:14:16.760 This was from like 12 feet away.

00:14:18.020 Uh, if the intent was to kill the guy, Eddie most definitely could have perforated him a heck of a lot more than that.

00:14:26.200 Either way, they put him through the wringer, they ran him through it.

00:14:28.900 And it was, uh, we were furious in our part of the world because this was our neighbors, you know, I mean, yeah, it's a 40 minute drive from me, but Foothills County, its neighbors were rural.

00:14:36.800 And there was a lot of town hall meetings held by the RCMP to try and calm the public.

00:14:41.540 And it didn't work.

00:14:42.680 So the one at Prentice right by my place.

00:14:44.840 And when I was in it and that cop got heckled a lot, they started the meeting by pointing out, yes, our average response time is 40 minutes in our area.

00:14:53.560 So he's admitting that fair enough.

00:14:54.780 Cause they got limited resources.

00:14:55.880 You got five cops in a huge area, but then he says, so what you must do.

00:15:00.020 And that's what I labeled it as when I wrote the column on it and came to the mic was call, cower and pray.

00:15:05.080 You're saying if somebody is breaking into my house, this was to call you, find a corner of the house and cower and pray that this person doesn't get in and doesn't want to do me harm.

00:15:12.260 Cause you're, they were telling us, do not defend yourself.

00:15:15.500 Everything a person brought up because people were bringing up, what if I shot him with a paint gun?

00:15:18.840 He said, you'd be charged with discharging a firearm at them.

00:15:21.140 It's not a firearm.

00:15:21.800 It's a paintball gun.

00:15:22.480 If they think it's a firearm, we will charge you as if it was a firearm.

00:15:26.500 This is the way their laws go.

00:15:27.600 What if I stick my dog on him?

00:15:28.620 We will charge you with assault.

00:15:29.660 What if I pepper spray him?

00:15:30.920 We will charge you with assault.

00:15:32.560 Everything they told us was call, cower and pray. 1.00

00:15:35.960 And you could tell by the whole room, they were saying, even if it was you breaking in, we're going to blow your brains out.

00:15:39.960 We're defending our homes and our parsons and our property.

00:15:43.180 The police are disconnected from the reality of the homeowners.

00:15:46.460 Now, not every individual officer, I'm certain many are very understanding that they would do the same thing if they were in their home.

00:15:53.600 And there is a political pressure going on, but it has gotten down into a culture among the police too.

00:15:58.280 And they jealously guard that ability, feeling you, it's our role.

00:16:01.740 And we're just, even if you were put at risk waiting for us, you must wait for us.

00:16:05.480 And that's got to change because these shootings are going to keep happening.

00:16:08.380 I know that in my household, I mean, if I can get the combo to the firearms safe fast enough and so on, it's going to bode very poorly for the intruder.

00:16:16.940 We've got to get realistic on these laws.

00:16:19.900 Well, I mean, to Derek's point, much as I do defend the police if I think that there's political pressure on them to go easy on certain types of crime.

00:16:32.380 The one that got me angry a year ago was the fellow in Ontario who said, look, there's a lot of carjackings.

00:16:39.840 Just leave the keys handy where the thief could get it.

00:16:43.140 And, you know, nobody has hurt and there's less trouble.

00:16:46.540 That is not a policing attitude.

00:16:48.680 And then this morning when I was looking up the background of these incidents, I came across, it's a pretty well, it's easy to find, but there's this video of an American police officer.

00:17:01.060 I think it's in Santa Clara County and he says, well, you know, people are talking about whether they should shoot an intruder if they come in.

00:17:08.540 We kind of prefer it if you do.

00:17:11.360 It's a lot lost paperwork.

00:17:15.000 I think the chief of police down there just didn't notice because it came up on news searches and everything.

00:17:20.600 His name is Corey Morgan.

00:17:22.600 What?

00:17:23.520 I believe in Santa Clara.

00:17:24.760 Santa Clara, Santa Barbara, one of those two anyways.

00:17:26.640 Yeah, because he ran for the opposition because you have to run for chief.

00:17:30.320 Oh, so he's like the elected sheriff.

00:17:31.840 It was popping up in the scroll for this political Corey Morgan.

00:17:34.200 That's not me, but it looks like a good conservative, bro.

00:17:36.660 I guess. 0.98

00:17:38.600 Corey Morgan tells everyone to shoot the intruder. 0.96

00:17:42.160 Careful, which one? 0.89

00:17:43.000 I'm not far off from him.

00:17:44.280 I mean, so where discretion, like the police are supposed to use their discretion here.

00:17:48.780 The discretion should be, was your force proportional to the threat?

00:17:53.420 So, you know, if it was just a kid on the lawn and you came out and blew him away with a shotgun, that's not proportional.

00:18:02.680 You should be charged in it.

00:18:03.780 That's not defending your property.

00:18:05.000 Someone knocking on your door asking directions or whatever.

00:18:07.500 No, you can't do that.

00:18:08.300 Yes, quite different from somebody in your house at two in the morning.

00:18:10.800 Yeah, and there's a lot of gray area, and that's where discretion needs to come in.

00:18:14.760 But, you know, this kind of thing, an armed intruder comes into your house to rob you, potentially to do you harm.

00:18:22.920 As soon as he sets foot inside the threshold of the house, he has surrendered his right to be protected by the state.

00:18:31.500 His life now belongs to you.

00:18:34.940 It belongs to the property owner, and they get to decide what's reasonable or not at that point.

00:18:40.300 At that point, there should be no more discretion.

00:18:42.380 And as you said, when this goes to jury, and they always do, they almost always are acquitted.

00:18:47.420 The Bushi case, even going all the way back to Kessler, who was a drugstore owner in Calgary.

00:18:50.980 Some people might remember that was an 80s case because he shot, he'd been robbed so many times, and he shot the guy while he was fleeing.

00:18:57.360 And still the jury acquitted him.

00:18:58.760 So, I mean, our courts aren't up on what the public feels in this case.

00:19:03.360 That's why jury systems are so important, because it's supposed to reflect your peers, not what some ivory tower academic activist judge might think in the end of things.

00:19:10.620 Yeah, we really have lots of threat on this thing.

00:19:12.800 There's only two reasons that really justify paying taxes.

00:19:16.040 One is protection against external threats.

00:19:18.600 The other is protection against internal threats.

00:19:21.320 Law and order.

00:19:22.420 And you get neither in Canada.

00:19:23.400 And you get neither in Canada.

00:19:24.380 So what do you expect?

00:19:25.200 People are going to take it on themselves?

00:19:27.620 One in Canada.

00:19:28.760 The federal government is the threat.

00:19:30.180 Yeah, well, we'll be watching this one closely, that's for sure.

00:19:32.460 Yeah, we're not letting this go.

00:19:34.800 This one just, as soon as I saw this one, this is one that's going to be with us for some time.

00:19:42.860 So.

00:19:44.320 Well, we're going to have to get a reporter stationed in Lindsay or wherever this guy's trial is going to be.

00:19:49.440 It's going to be delicious.

00:19:51.120 Okay.

00:19:53.900 Nigel, we had Pierre Polyev's by-election in Battle River Crowfoot.

00:20:03.040 Everyone already knows what happened, but a lot of the major segments, I should say, of the legacy media tried to play the expectations game.

00:20:14.080 Like, he doesn't get, because he was, oh, of course he was going to win, he was going to win big.

00:20:17.020 But was he going to win big enough?

00:20:18.880 I think if there was a fair measure, it'd be, well, could he match what Damian Couric, who resigned for him, got?

00:20:24.820 And that is a crazy high bar to hit it.

00:20:26.460 It was like 83%.

00:20:27.380 And he did hit it.

00:20:28.540 It was, he's at 83, 85, somewhere in that neighborhood.

00:20:31.000 Just over 80.

00:20:31.880 Yeah.

00:20:32.760 Close enough.

00:20:33.440 Yeah.

00:20:33.640 Within the margin of error.

00:20:34.800 We're talking about him.

00:20:35.540 Yeah, I do love that there's literally dozens and dozens and dozens of candidates who got zero votes, because they've never even set foot in their riding.

00:20:43.840 But the expectations game, Pierre Polyev has at least met that.

00:20:50.880 It was an embarrassing, the whole thing has been embarrassing for him.

00:20:53.820 I mean, it's bad enough with your party and your caucus to lose the election.

00:20:58.420 Really, really bad to lose your seat.

00:21:00.640 But he seems to have had enough horsepower still within the party to continue on.

00:21:04.200 This has damaged him within the party, I think.

00:21:06.840 But he'll be now back in the House of Commons, which really is, you know, he's like a fish in water there.

00:21:12.820 He's a really strong performer in Parliament.

00:21:16.900 I, you know, let you take it from there.

00:21:19.160 Well, you know, like you say, it was really no surprise that the Eastern media said, well, of course he would win in a riding like that.

00:21:27.800 But, you know, they've never met a conservative they liked anyway.

00:21:30.700 So, of course, they were going to look for a negative angle.

00:21:33.460 And the narrative that was taking shape, that was, you know, so he's won, but he's got a leadership review.

00:21:41.300 Then we'll have some blood.

00:21:42.400 Then we'll be able to write nasty stories about him.

00:21:45.100 It's coming up next year.

00:21:46.880 And there was one fellow saying he should actually step aside because nobody likes him and he'll never get elected.

00:21:52.300 Well, you know, I don't hear, that's the media line, I don't hear conservatives saying that. 0.99

00:22:02.500 And by the way, I don't expect, let's just say he does have a, let's say he does have an abrasive side to his personality as when he takes a stupid reporter asking stupid questions and tears him down a peg or two, which he's done more than once. 0.97

00:22:17.920 You know, I don't necessarily want to like my surgeon or my airline pilot. 0.98

00:22:25.820 I do want them to be competent and do the job properly.

00:22:29.800 And that is the measure of who you should select for a prime minister.

00:22:33.320 Now, obviously, Mr. Poyev didn't get that.

00:22:37.400 But when you go deeper into the numbers, you find that there's a certain stereotype that rejects him.

00:22:45.080 Young guys like him.

00:22:47.780 Older women don't. 1.00

00:22:49.220 Well, he's sassy.

00:22:50.360 He's not nice.

00:22:52.180 That is not the measure of who you want as a prime minister.

00:22:55.900 So anyway, he's got that to look forward into in the new year.

00:23:00.000 Well, what I'm actually expecting is that come September the 15th, he's going to be back in the House.

00:23:05.940 He's going to be challenging Prime Minister Carney, who is not brilliant on crime and immigration, particularly.

00:23:13.960 But frankly, on what I think is the whole bill of goods that Mr. Carney has passed off on us, making promises, making the promises conditional.

00:23:22.200 So you don't get good performance, but you always have a reason, always have a good excuse.

00:23:26.960 And Poyev is not going to let him get away with that.

00:23:28.920 He is going to hold his feet to the fire, as they say.

00:23:33.060 And I think the longer it goes on, the more obvious it will be.

00:23:37.000 Even to those precious souls who find that Pierre is a bit abrasive, he's actually the one who should be running things.

00:23:43.240 Everything he ever recommended doing, Carney is doing.

00:23:45.880 Well, let the guy who thought of it take it.

00:23:49.640 I'd like to agree with you.

00:23:51.600 I'm not sure I can.

00:23:52.680 You know, those who are saying he'll never get elected.

00:23:56.900 They might be true. 0.97

00:23:57.800 They might be correct.

00:24:00.400 Carney has probably got four years ahead of him here.

00:24:02.720 Now, he might call an early election to try to secure a formal and larger majority than he has, but he effectively has a majority.

00:24:08.620 They're like, what, like a seat or two short.

00:24:11.020 The NDP is in a shambles.

00:24:12.460 You can buy them off, no problem.

00:24:14.700 He's got an effective majority.

00:24:16.900 For all intents and purposes, this is a majority government.

00:24:18.860 It's a really slim one.

00:24:20.080 Maybe he calls an early election.

00:24:22.940 And as far as the boomers that broadly voted for him and the East that broadly voted for him are concerned, this is a new government.

00:24:34.740 This is not just a continuation of Trudeau.

00:24:36.520 This is a new government.

00:24:37.960 The caucus might be pretty much just the same.

00:24:40.100 The cabinet might be mostly the same.

00:24:41.500 The staffers might be exactly the same.

00:24:43.220 The guy in charge is different, and he's the daddy CEO prime minister.

00:24:49.140 We got rid of the annoying guy who was here for a decade.

00:24:51.860 This is a new government.

00:24:54.420 And so, at best, I think we've got, we're stuck with him for four years here.

00:24:59.820 And, you know, there was the poly-up moment.

00:25:03.420 It looked like that was supposed to happen, and that went on for some time.

00:25:08.440 But people got feckless because they were feared of Trump.

00:25:10.860 And, you know, at some point, Carney has to produce something.

00:25:16.120 No!

00:25:17.200 Trudeau could govern vapidly for a decade.

00:25:19.280 And people still voted for him until he finally gave up.

00:25:23.080 People have a long, it takes people a while to really tire.

00:25:28.280 People are giving him a chance right now, and he's going to eventually make some fun.

00:25:30.920 Well, you know, anybody deserves a chance for six months.

00:25:33.580 But, you know, once Parliament resumes, once you've been there for a while, well, you said pipelines would be built.

00:25:40.480 There aren't any pipeline.

00:25:41.840 Well, you know, I have my, I have my excuses for that.

00:25:45.600 Yeah.

00:25:45.860 But you can drag that out for quite a while.

00:25:48.700 Are you sure Albertans will get pissed off?

00:25:50.500 Now, will we get pissed off enough to actually throw off the federal government itself, not just vote everyone?

00:25:55.540 That's a whole other subject.

00:25:56.720 That is.

00:25:57.080 I recommend to the reader, my great call on that this morning.

00:26:01.780 But I think the Canadians... 0.99

00:26:02.480 Maybe we should know in Alberta.

00:26:03.920 But outside of Alberta, Saskatchewan, pockets of BC, and some pockets of rural Ontario, most Canadians, they just, as long as we're still comfortable, our money might be being debased on a daily basis.

00:26:19.280 We might have mass migration pouring through our airports on a daily basis.

00:26:23.880 We might have crime running over our streets.

00:26:25.720 But as long as your broad creature comforts are still there, as long as the boomers have still got a house, as long as, you know, steak might be a luxury item now, but as long as I can still afford it, they're going to continue to vote for the status quo. 0.97

00:26:44.560 And we've got to, we're going to have this for at least four years.

00:26:48.400 I'm not confident that the creature comforts are going to be that solid for four years, though.

00:26:52.860 We've got an economic freight train speeding towards us, and a guy who's looking a lot like Mr. Dithers from 10 years ago, or 15 years ago, people are expecting something out of Carney now.

00:27:04.140 And he hasn't done a damn thing, except talk.

00:27:06.040 But the boomer block, and I don't, I'm sorry for all that boomers watch. 0.96

00:27:10.120 I know we've got a lot of boomers who watch.

00:27:11.460 I'm picking on them.

00:27:13.420 This is less applicable to Alberta boomers, but particularly eastern boomers and Vancouver boomers.

00:27:20.180 They're the most prosperous generation in the history of the world.

00:27:24.220 And their children and their grandchildren are not anywhere close to as prosperous as they are, and they have no prospect of being so.

00:27:30.580 So, four years from now, the math inevitably shifts a bit.

00:27:34.520 But the country is already in the dump.

00:27:37.380 You can't.

00:27:38.480 How do you, unless someone's going to propose mass remigration, unless we're going to propose going to the gold standard, like, unless we're talking absolutely radical solutions, none of this is ever going to get fixed.

00:27:50.260 The cat's out of the bay.

00:27:51.340 Well, again, I mean, how long is he going to defend this?

00:27:54.060 He said, we're going to listen to people and tamp down on immigration.

00:27:57.220 Turns out, no, the floodgates are still wide open.

00:27:59.120 And even the bovers are recognizing, this is why I can't get into a hospital in time.

00:28:03.200 This is why my kids can't afford rent on their place.

00:28:05.760 This is why I feel scared going to drive up the real estate business.

00:28:08.280 How about transit?

00:28:08.900 That's good for them.

00:28:09.440 Well, there's that.

00:28:10.960 You can find a buyer.

00:28:12.280 Right.

00:28:13.180 It's just, I don't know how long Carney can hold that balancing act.

00:28:17.000 I mean, his first session of parliament, probably well enough.

00:28:19.860 But we're talking, as you said, four years.

00:28:22.060 And by year three, he's going to have to show something.

00:28:26.880 He sure is.

00:28:27.440 You know, they've got a huge problem with the debt.

00:28:31.780 And you can do one of two things.

00:28:33.280 You can raise taxes.

00:28:35.280 You can cut expenditures.

00:28:36.900 Or you can let inflation rip.

00:28:38.740 There's only three things.

00:28:40.100 There's only three things.

00:28:40.720 And which one do you think the banker's going to pick?

00:28:42.280 Well, and guess what?

00:28:43.740 The, you know, taxes are bad for raising taxes.

00:28:46.460 You can't do that.

00:28:47.120 People won't vote for you.

00:28:48.540 Cutting services.

00:28:50.000 You just talked a lot about the boomer generation.

00:28:52.920 Who are the biggest users of services?

00:28:55.080 It's the boomer generation. 0.95

00:28:56.100 He's not going to cut services.

00:28:57.420 He's going to print money and he's going to issue debt.

00:28:59.600 He's the banker.

00:29:00.520 Those are the obvious things he's going to do.

00:29:02.260 All those things that you're saying are going to make boomers comfortable are going to be taken away from them.

00:29:06.480 Because the value of the money that they hold in their rifts is going to be diminished.

00:29:12.740 It already is.

00:29:14.100 I mean, it's very difficult.

00:29:14.940 In four years, this country is not going to have anything worth saving at this point.

00:29:19.140 Like, it's already almost gone.

00:29:20.560 Oh, and I'm already well at work on that contingency from the West, I understand.

00:29:24.680 And the other thing that becomes more defeatist, I think, is if in three years the public in the East has finally realized that, you know, Carney isn't the savior and they decide to go with Polyev.

00:29:37.140 Well, the reality of federal politics is Polyev isn't going to change much substantially if he becomes prime minister either.

00:29:42.420 He'll be less bad than Carney.

00:29:44.140 That's all.

00:29:44.680 I mean, we've got a broken system.

00:29:45.980 That's the bigger conversation.

00:29:47.840 But either way, I mean...

00:29:48.680 A broken system or a broken people?

00:29:50.540 A bit of both, I guess.

00:29:51.640 You get the government you deserve.

00:29:54.020 But no, we get the government that Ontario deserves.

00:29:56.520 And that's where the process is going.

00:29:58.980 But I mean, back to the by-election.

00:30:01.300 I mean, it was predictable as it is, but it also really showed, too, that Polyev is not going to get even an inch from the legacy media, from the establishment, from the usual people who tried to prop up Bonnie Critchley as if she was a contender and she wasn't.

00:30:13.440 Or the National Observer even putting out, Polyev might fear for his seat in this run.

00:30:17.660 That was absolutely mental.

00:30:19.520 This guy did better than Kim Jong-un and Kim Jong-un. 0.59

00:30:22.860 Yeah.

00:30:23.240 But he's not going to get a break from legacy media all the way to the end.

00:30:27.820 As you said, now they're saying, well, the leadership review, he might be in trouble.

00:30:30.320 No, he's not. 0.96

00:30:31.160 You're the same clowns who said Daniel Smith was at risk in her leadership. 0.98

00:30:34.100 What was it? 0.98

00:30:34.560 94% she got.

00:30:36.640 But he's going to deal with that.

00:30:38.340 He's going to be swimming upstream for this whole four years or whatever it might be for an election.

00:30:43.120 You know, Corey, tell me what you think of this.

00:30:46.960 They were saying that Pierre's election was a setback for the Western independence movement.

00:30:53.940 I can't put that together.

00:30:55.400 There was no independence party on the ballot.

00:30:57.480 Yeah, that's part of what they're trying to say because Bernier went with his bizarre, oh, suddenly I support Western independence thing.

00:31:03.660 And his candidate got 0.3%.

00:31:05.260 That's just because the PPC is really becoming a running joke.

00:31:08.640 And that weird Canada unity party, is it?

00:31:12.340 Or whatever that they call themselves a United Canada party.

00:31:14.420 United Canada.

00:31:15.140 So the United Canada, but apparently they were an independence candidate.

00:31:19.380 Worst independence party name ever, if it was.

00:31:22.080 It's not an independence party.

00:31:23.220 I don't understand.

00:31:24.220 And independence wasn't even on the local ballot anyway.

00:31:26.440 But, I mean, they'll do whatever they can to frame this as they can. 0.89

00:31:29.740 You know, Lukasik should have run that and show how well the elbows up clowns would do in this. 0.83

00:31:34.880 Well, let's talk about how well the elbows up clowns did.

00:31:37.520 So the PPC, I mean, got an irrelevant 0.3-ish.

00:31:43.220 So Crombie got just under 10 or so, which is actually very good for an independent.

00:31:49.100 Independents do not do well in Canada with very few.

00:31:52.760 There's some extreme exceptions, but the 10% is actually very respectful for an independent.

00:31:58.360 The Liberals, 4.

00:32:00.600 4%.

00:32:01.080 The NDP, 2.

00:32:04.520 Jeez, and the head can't be.

00:32:05.540 These parties, like, the NDP was much closer.

00:32:11.240 The Liberals and the NDP were much closer in their vote count to the PPC than the Liberals were to the Conservatives.

00:32:18.020 Can we agree that in rural Alberta, the Liberals and NDP are fringe parties?

00:32:23.060 They're total fringe parties.

00:32:24.900 Yes.

00:32:25.700 I mean, it's a secret ballot.

00:32:27.380 It's not like there's even a bunch of closet NDP and liberal people in rural that, you know, would come out and make a mark.

00:32:31.700 They don't.

00:32:32.060 They aren't there.

00:32:32.580 I do remember there was a by-election.

00:32:37.740 The federal MP in Medicine Hat had died in office and there was a by-election.

00:32:43.940 And the NDP in Alberta had come to power.

00:32:45.600 It was within a year or so of that happening.

00:32:49.080 And the NDP federally scored 1%.

00:32:51.740 And I remember I gave some speech in the House just chatting to them about how the NDP are the 1%.

00:32:57.840 They were beaten by the Christian Heritage Party.

00:33:00.780 Nearly beaten even by the Rhinoceros Party, which I really want to see them run more.

00:33:05.800 At least they've got a sense of humor.

00:33:07.140 If you're going to run Joe candidates, don't do this thing, you know, where you flood the ballot with, like, 100, 200 people doing nothing.

00:33:12.780 Then let's get the Rhinos back on the ballot. 1.00

00:33:15.500 That adds a little...

00:33:18.720 Democracy is a serious business, but it shouldn't be that serious.

00:33:21.660 Well, certainly room for one.

00:33:23.720 Yeah.

00:33:24.000 Well, let it be them.

00:33:26.160 Okay.

00:33:26.620 I agree.

00:33:27.880 All right.

00:33:28.240 Well, something less funny.

00:33:32.640 We'll switch it up to the latest incidents of suspected mass graves.

00:33:38.560 So, Corey, there's another one.

00:33:40.300 I think also in BC, is it?

00:33:41.800 Yes.

00:33:42.080 Yeah, it's in BC.

00:33:43.140 Yeah, they found a pit where residential school non-survivors have been lined up and shot into an open pit, right?

00:33:51.840 That's what they found?

00:33:52.680 Well, that's to the point of almost what they're alleging, I guess.

00:33:55.900 I mean, it's just...

00:33:56.520 That's pretty much the way the headline implies.

00:33:58.560 Well, you know, and if you go farther back into this one and what their background is on it.

00:34:03.140 So, the two areas of evidence of what they got going on.

00:34:05.980 And this is a...

00:34:06.780 Sorry, Sechelt is the name of it?

00:34:08.100 Sechelt.

00:34:08.420 It's just north of Vancouver.

00:34:09.520 And it's an indigenous band.

00:34:11.220 It's an old residential school site.

00:34:12.980 They rely on oral history.

00:34:14.720 Again, so some people have claimed that children were led off into the woods by school staff and priests and nuns and just never came back.

00:34:23.820 They're alleging murder.

00:34:24.600 I mean, that's the other thing people...

00:34:26.000 They're claiming murder.

00:34:27.640 If this was murder, there should be a forensic...

00:34:29.120 That's murder.

00:34:29.400 There should be a forensic investigation, which means you actually have to dig a hole.

00:34:33.060 But they will not, as with Kamloops.

00:34:35.460 So, they've done ground penetrating radar studies which show anomalies.

00:34:40.160 They've announced...

00:34:40.660 Now, there's 81 of them on this site.

00:34:42.520 Nobody's reported missing.

00:34:44.980 Nobody is close.

00:34:46.520 But...

00:34:46.840 So, this was reported, though, just to remind folks, by the CBC as graves.

00:34:51.640 Not even alleged graves.

00:34:53.200 Not suspected graves.

00:34:55.360 Graves.

00:34:56.240 And...

00:34:56.760 They've already been slapped for this by the Robinsman.

00:34:58.480 Oh, yeah.

00:34:58.760 She got slapped.

00:34:59.800 That reporter, Alana, again, I should have written her last name down. 1.00

00:35:02.440 I can't remember.

00:35:02.920 But she posted that out.

00:35:04.260 The reporter on it on X and just got so roundly pummeled and community noted that she actually 0.99

00:35:09.820 locked down her X account so that people can't communicate with her anymore.

00:35:15.500 Which CBC reporter recently reported that there were mass graves discovered in British

00:35:21.220 Columbia?

00:35:22.160 Okay, that'll take us a moment.

00:35:24.160 But you know what?

00:35:26.020 She deserves credit for her journalism. 0.64

00:35:28.680 We should use her name.

00:35:30.060 Well, one promising thing out of this is that CBC is really the only ones who gave this any

00:35:34.420 ink.

00:35:34.800 It's not like before with Kamloops when it made international news or anything.

00:35:39.180 This has just been a blip.

00:35:41.400 And there's a coast reporter called it Unmarked Graves, too, I see.

00:35:47.420 Unless you found even a single body, you got to quit calling these graves.

00:35:52.060 I mean, I'm not trying to be cold and nasty, though.

00:35:54.960 That's my nature.

00:35:56.760 Yeah.

00:35:57.140 But...

00:35:57.560 I mean, these were generally...

00:35:59.860 These are understood to be generally unpleasant places.

00:36:03.400 You know, not the brightest spot on Canadian history.

00:36:07.140 You know, don't want you to underplay it.

00:36:10.480 But don't chronically overplay it.

00:36:13.680 Because you discredit everything.

00:36:16.160 The reality...

00:36:16.800 If you're caught lying about major aspects of this story, it then calls into question

00:36:21.700 the whole story.

00:36:23.120 Not that it's going to cause any justice.

00:36:24.560 They're removing the ability to prove their lie out now.

00:36:27.160 Because they're all now, once they find it, they lock down and say, we're not going to

00:36:30.860 excavate further.

00:36:31.640 We're going to call it a sacred site.

00:36:33.120 By the way, give us some more millions of dollars, like in Kamloops, where they already

00:36:35.820 got $8 million, couldn't buy a $30 shovel.

00:36:39.000 And they want four more million dollars to follow up on this thing further.

00:36:45.020 This is enough.

00:36:46.120 This is a racket.

00:36:47.300 Well, it is a racket.

00:36:49.780 $704 million has actually been asked for.

00:36:52.660 Yeah.

00:36:53.400 $246 million paid out so far.

00:36:55.360 Yeah.

00:36:56.080 I think there was something.

00:36:57.180 Courtney Dickinson.

00:36:58.140 Is that it?

00:36:58.880 It was Atlanta something, actually.

00:37:00.440 Oh, well, Grok is saying the August 15th story on Shalisha Nation.

00:37:07.420 Salish.

00:37:08.480 Salish? 0.72

00:37:09.020 I think it's Salish, yeah.

00:37:10.100 Oh.

00:37:10.540 Either way.

00:37:12.440 It's saying Courtney Dickinson.

00:37:14.340 And she'd had a, it was Atlanta something or other, and she'd had an exchange with Jonathan

00:37:18.660 Kaye, if you follow X closely and so on.

00:37:21.260 And again, she'd locked down her account.

00:37:23.920 And, but either way, it showed people are willing to call it out.

00:37:28.660 I mean, when this first happened with Kamloops, this was sacred.

00:37:30.980 People don't even dare question.

00:37:32.520 Oh, Lord.

00:37:33.340 There's 215,000.

00:37:35.480 So there she is.

00:37:36.120 Alanna Kelly.

00:37:37.900 Alanna Kelly.

00:37:38.780 Sea to Sky region.

00:37:39.580 I know that'd be the area.

00:37:40.880 Yeah.

00:37:41.160 Squamish area.

00:37:41.780 There she is.

00:37:42.220 Okay.

00:37:42.840 So she locked down her X account.

00:37:45.140 Let's put her, put her face and name up on the screen. 0.77

00:37:48.120 And she didn't retract or anything to my knowledge.

00:37:50.600 She just, oh boy, I'm really taking a beating.

00:37:52.540 I'm just going to pull my account.

00:37:53.480 Well, I wonder if it's possible the story's been updated because it's clearly factually

00:37:57.160 incorrect.

00:37:57.920 It's not even a matter of interpretation.

00:37:59.380 You can't call it graves unless you have a body.

00:38:01.740 And she called it graves.

00:38:02.680 You got to have at least two bodies to say graves, plural.

00:38:06.220 You got to have one body to say a grave.

00:38:08.260 Yeah.

00:38:08.460 I mean, in a...

00:38:09.140 A friend to the standard, Peter Manzies, he really has been beating on the ground.

00:38:12.520 That one as well.

00:38:13.280 But, you know, because again, he's, he's very much on responsible journalism and it

00:38:17.200 was very irresponsible on her part to try and allege that these were graves.

00:38:22.100 But this story is getting old.

00:38:23.440 It's getting tiresome and it's not stopping.

00:38:25.720 Well, that's maybe why it had the CBC and then some, some extreme, like really like mark

00:38:31.460 explicitly Marxist, uh, small online publications.

00:38:36.500 It didn't have the big frontline moral panic that we saw in previous cases where this, because

00:38:42.040 it's now embarrassing, because it's breaking the narrative that these places were death

00:38:46.940 factors.

00:38:47.320 And the racket's going on, like in Gruard, I wrote that in a column that'll be coming

00:38:51.000 out soon.

00:38:51.720 That's in Northern Alberta.

00:38:52.940 There was a big announcement in 2022.

00:38:54.760 Oh Lord, they found dozens of them here and everything.

00:38:57.200 And then of course you look further into it.

00:38:59.100 They were doing their survey in the known church cemetery.

00:39:02.460 So these were, yes, they were burials and yes, they had wooden crosses, 80, 90, 70, even

00:39:08.280 50 years ago, a wooden cross typically is going to fall down.

00:39:11.680 Everybody was outraged.

00:39:12.700 That church in Gruard was a big, beautiful brick one too.

00:39:14.680 They burned it to the ground.

00:39:16.320 Uh, this is not harmless.

00:39:18.440 I'm sure they were looking for the arsonist.

00:39:19.940 Yes.

00:39:20.360 Yes.

00:39:21.160 This is not harmless.

00:39:22.420 The other thing is, are these, are there Indian children, indigenous children who are not

00:39:28.940 unaccounted for?

00:39:29.720 No, I believe there are not.

00:39:33.260 Or, or if there are, I mean, it would not be anywhere in these numbers.

00:39:37.380 I'm sure, as I said, you know, they're not great places.

00:39:40.760 There probably are some unaccounted for.

00:39:43.100 Oh, sure.

00:39:44.360 And I'm certain there were abusers in these schools.

00:39:47.780 But the other part is, if you believe the narrative, if you believe these were children

00:39:52.000 buried there, you should be eager to have them exhumed so we can reunite them with the

00:39:55.960 family, have closure, have them interred properly, and an investigation to find out what happened.

00:40:01.360 We dug up a whole Winnipeg landfill to reunite families with the remains of two murdered women 0.99

00:40:05.260 there.

00:40:05.700 Did they find them?

00:40:06.440 Yes, they did, actually.

00:40:07.620 At a cost of tens of millions.

00:40:09.320 Yes.

00:40:09.780 Again, this was real.

00:40:10.780 Fine.

00:40:11.060 If it's that sacred.

00:40:12.320 There's obviously the double standard.

00:40:13.760 So it's so sacred that we will spend tens of millions of dollars to dig up a landfill to

00:40:17.300 find a couple of bodies.

00:40:18.500 Okay.

00:40:19.220 But these are not sacred.

00:40:21.040 Hundreds of bodies are not.

00:40:21.600 Or thousands of bodies are not sacred.

00:40:22.640 Like when we know within apparently a couple of feet of where they are, not as they're

00:40:26.280 talking about excavating a whole landfill and we won't dig six feet, that's a hoax.

00:40:31.360 And that's why I keep calling it.

00:40:32.640 I know it makes them bristle.

00:40:33.620 It drives them nuts, but you want to shut me up?

00:40:35.900 Get a shovel. 0.53

00:40:38.580 Simple.

00:40:39.260 Yeah.

00:40:39.820 Yeah.

00:40:40.300 So I think it is that simple.

00:40:43.240 I think there's something bigger going on here.

00:40:46.500 If this narrative that the colonialists murdered indigenous children, it puts such a burden

00:40:53.880 of guilt on the descendants of the colonialists that whatever the Canada's indigenous peoples

00:41:02.300 asked for, they ought to be given, including control over massive amounts of land and money.

00:41:08.460 It is meant to demoralize us.

00:41:11.240 It is made to illegitimize us.

00:41:13.920 It is made to make us lose any sense of consciousness of our own history, our own traditions, our own

00:41:20.700 institutions, things that we have a right to be proud of.

00:41:23.740 It is very, I think, deliberately designed to do that.

00:41:27.240 And it has been remarkably successful.

00:41:29.720 You have still got the so-called national broadcaster reporting this kind of propaganda as if it's

00:41:34.860 fact.

00:41:35.240 It's been remarkably successful.

00:41:36.680 And when they do correct, as they sometimes do, it's buried.

00:41:41.260 Oh, yeah.

00:41:42.020 That's a footnote.

00:41:43.020 Well, that was not a bad pun.

00:41:44.500 I'm sorry about that.

00:41:45.360 Oh, I didn't catch it.

00:41:47.560 Yeah, yeah.

00:41:48.300 That's it.

00:41:48.800 I mean, they don't play it up.

00:41:50.800 They don't talk about it.

00:41:51.820 It's, oh, yeah, sorry, you made a mistake there.

00:41:53.580 You know, and then life goes on.

00:41:56.200 But meanwhile, the reputation of the people who colonized Canada, the people who arrived from

00:42:04.460 other countries came in, developed what we have today, the cities, the railways, the industries.

00:42:11.140 You know, I could go on about the history of the wars that we, you know, the First World War and the Second World War.

00:42:18.280 Canada is an amazing country.

00:42:19.820 But you would never know it if all you got was what the CBC reports.

00:42:26.580 And that's the purpose of this thing, I'm sure.

00:42:30.040 It is delegitimization.

00:42:31.380 Could we just imagine if this was an untamed wilderness today and there was only the First Nation?

00:42:38.840 It was as they found it.

00:42:41.340 Or we would just go back in time.

00:42:44.040 And we had to settle this place with the cultural Marxists who lay claim to cultural and political leadership today.

00:42:51.060 Could you imagine these people trying to hack civilization out of the prairie?

00:42:56.480 They'd be dead in a week. 0.93

00:42:57.840 I'd be dead in two weeks. 0.98

00:43:01.860 I'd laugh a little longer.

00:43:04.560 It's too tough even for me.

00:43:05.760 I think I'd laugh a little longer, but I don't think I'd make it either.

00:43:08.320 It's just because you'd eat a couple woke ones before you.

00:43:10.380 Yeah.

00:43:12.240 I'd make a jacket out of their pelts.

00:43:17.220 Okay.

00:43:18.860 All right.

00:43:19.920 We're going to wrap that there and go to our parting shots.

00:43:24.880 Corey.

00:43:25.660 Let's be quick.

00:43:26.380 I mean, we see all the strikes, the Air Canada attendance, posties are talking yet again.

00:43:32.320 Last year was CRA workers, the rest. 0.97

00:43:34.680 Just don't forget, guys, the reason this is happening, a large part of it, and we're going to see more of it,

00:43:39.500 is because they legalized the use of replacement workers in federal regulated industries.

00:43:43.780 So get used to it, every one of these industries.

00:43:46.880 The unions now have everybody by the short and curlies, and they're just going to keep pressing.

00:43:52.420 Michael.

00:43:52.860 I'm still chaplain over the fact that Melanie Jolie's department paid $2,000 an hour to a consultant to learn how to talk to Americans.

00:44:05.900 Do you mean that these people have nobody that they know south of the border, that they don't ever switch on Fox News and just see what the kind of general tenor of the conversation is,

00:44:17.760 but they had somebody come in from a PR company, sit down with them for three hours, give them a bill for $6,000, and now we know how to talk to Americans.

00:44:26.980 These people are unbelievable.

00:44:28.500 It's only $6,000.

00:44:30.180 But if that's the mentality that pervades all of it, you know it's all going to end badly.

00:44:37.140 The only time you're ever going to hear me say it, perhaps we need to bring back a segment of the CBC that we don't have anymore.

00:44:44.260 This hour is 22 minutes in the 90s with talking to Americans.

00:44:47.340 Yeah.

00:44:47.660 That was a solid segment.

00:44:51.380 Rick Mercer talking to Americans.

00:44:52.780 Rick Mercer became kind of unlistenable later on as it became a little too self-pious.

00:44:57.680 But in his day, talking to Americans, that was top shelf.

00:45:03.140 All right.

00:45:03.580 Mine is the Sutina Media Ban.

00:45:07.660 Those of you not from southern Alberta, Sutina is a reserve that is immediately abutting against the city of Congaree in the southwest.

00:45:19.860 Our ring road even goes through part of it.

00:45:21.460 So it's practically, at least parts of it are practically a part of metro Calgary area.

00:45:29.880 Generally, one of the better reserves around.

00:45:33.260 They've got some business sense, but not without their problems.

00:45:35.720 Just yesterday, they put out notice saying that there was an operation to nab some child sex traffickers at the Grey Eagle Hotel and Casino, which is on the reserve, but feels like it's in Calgary.

00:45:53.060 It's like I drive by it every day.

00:45:54.340 The people who are charged are not from Sutina.

00:46:00.360 So at least from what we know about that case so far, which is not a ton, no one's Sutina's the bad guys there.

00:46:05.680 But they imposed a media ban.

00:46:07.620 Media are not allowed to come to the reserve to talk to anyone.

00:46:10.780 I thought that's weird.

00:46:12.100 Like, none of your guys, you guys aren't at risk.

00:46:15.260 It's not like Sutina is actually wrapped up to the bad guys here.

00:46:19.160 You guys actually helped in getting these guys.

00:46:22.300 So why would you do this?

00:46:24.760 Well, it turns out two weeks earlier, the chief of Sutina was charged with sexually assaulting men, maybe boys.

00:46:33.860 I'm not sure.

00:46:34.340 I think they're men.

00:46:35.480 Yeah.

00:46:35.880 Okay.

00:46:36.260 Anyway, but sexual assault of some guys.

00:46:37.920 Young men, but yeah. 0.68

00:46:38.620 Yeah. 0.95

00:46:39.040 Sexually assaulting some guys.

00:46:41.020 Unproven.

00:46:41.740 Alleged.

00:46:42.880 Disclaimer here.

00:46:43.700 Yeah.

00:46:45.520 If I was him, and again, unproven, maybe did, maybe didn't, I would not like the media creeping around.

00:46:51.420 But I can't just, you know, I'm tired of a sexual assault.

00:46:54.000 I can't just declare a media ban on everywhere I would go.

00:46:57.000 But this happens two weeks later.

00:46:58.780 That gives me a convenient excuse to do it.

00:47:00.800 So I'm putting on a mild tinfoil hat here thinking perhaps the excuse of this set of charges here is just being applied to it to protect the chief.

00:47:12.080 It's, it smells, it smells bad.

00:47:16.260 So, all right.

00:47:18.400 That's it for today.

00:47:19.440 Corey, Nigel, thank you very much.

00:47:22.540 It was fun.

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