On this episode of The Pipeline, The Standard's own editor Nigel Hannaford and Publisher Derek Fildebrandt discuss the latest in the mysterious case of the missing bodies found in a remote rural area of Alberta. Plus, a by-election victory for the Conservative Party of Canada, and more.
00:03:59.620You know that's where I was going with this.
00:04:00.880It'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.
00:04:17.600And so the Lindsay, Ontario, police have charged him with, what are some of the charges?
00:04:37.020So obviously, this is lit off a firestorm.
00:04:41.280Because even the biggest soft-on-crime, you know, progressivist, you know, rehabilitate-em-all kind of liberal, everyone realizes how ridiculous this is.
00:04:55.820I really don't think there's anyone really defending the police here, at least openly, quietly.
00:05:05.100This, 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.
00:05:19.800You never, ever take the matter into your own hands.
00:05:22.960It 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.
00:07:07.140Well, if it's a popular thing to say, maybe it'll be a popular thing for the Kawartha Lakes Police Department to hear.
00:07:16.240Like, 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.
00:07:24.160You should use all resources you possibly can to protect your family.
00:07:28.660And maybe these criminals will think twice about breaking into someone's home.
00:07:32.400You know, I've never taken Doug Ford as being particularly strong on anything except, well, things that might get him votes.
00:07:42.000But if it's popular, he'll be in a position.
00:08:38.060A 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.
00:09:00.800And importantly, a disarmed, a disarmed populace.
00:09:08.520And Canada is disarmed relative to the United States, but in other parts of the world, not as much.
00:09:13.600But 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.
00:11:02.200It is a cowardly police, and it is a disarmed populace.
00:11:05.360And this is just the regime continuing to push these cases where someone heroically defends their home, their family, their property with a firearm.
00:11:17.360It's bad propaganda for the regime because it says this is why you should be allowed to have a gun.
00:11:23.580I'd be a bit more sympathetic to the police than you are.
00:11:57.280These cops were individually responsible.
00:11:59.960They should have their badges stripped.
00:12:01.240They should be allowed to look at them all.
00:12:02.380You're not going to get the local alderman or councillor placing the charge, but it's those people that the police answer to.
00:12:09.000So, 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.
00:12:16.360I was under orders is not always a good excuse.
00:13:03.400You 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.
00:13:11.940So, the police are, you know, doing what they do under some difficulties.
00:13:23.660Though, some people tried bringing it up.
00:13:24.860No, those were both white bread meth heads who broke off.
00:13:28.180You're thinking of the Colton Boushey case, which is another one in Saskatchewan, which had some...
00:13:32.400At the police one, there was nothing of that there.
00:13:34.720No, though some people tried to bring it in because they went under the assumption, which is another area of racism, actually, that's...
00:13:41.420I misspoke on the rebel den earlier today.
00:13:43.660I guess this will have to do with my correction.
00:13:45.080Yeah, well, those were kind of happening at the same time.
00:13:47.060So, 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...
00:13:58.080One of them, unfortunately, I mean, still is unfortunate, but got killed in that one.
00:14:01.400Eddie Maurice, though the charges were laid on him, for those who don't remember it, he was alone at home late at night.
00:14:08.680He 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.
00:14:18.020Uh, if the intent was to kill the guy, Eddie most definitely could have perforated him a heck of a lot more than that.
00:14:26.200Either way, they put him through the wringer, they ran him through it.
00:14:28.900And 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.
00:14:36.800And there was a lot of town hall meetings held by the RCMP to try and calm the public.
00:14:42.680So the one at Prentice right by my place.
00:14:44.840And 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.
00:14:55.880You got five cops in a huge area, but then he says, so what you must do.
00:15:00.020And that's what I labeled it as when I wrote the column on it and came to the mic was call, cower and pray.
00:15:05.080You'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.
00:15:12.260Cause you're, they were telling us, do not defend yourself.
00:15:15.500Everything a person brought up because people were bringing up, what if I shot him with a paint gun?
00:15:18.840He said, you'd be charged with discharging a firearm at them.
00:15:32.560Everything they told us was call, cower and pray.
00:15:35.960And 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.
00:15:39.960We're defending our homes and our parsons and our property.
00:15:43.180The police are disconnected from the reality of the homeowners.
00:15:46.460Now, not every individual officer, I'm certain many are very understanding that they would do the same thing if they were in their home.
00:15:53.600And there is a political pressure going on, but it has gotten down into a culture among the police too.
00:15:58.280And they jealously guard that ability, feeling you, it's our role.
00:16:01.740And we're just, even if you were put at risk waiting for us, you must wait for us.
00:16:05.480And that's got to change because these shootings are going to keep happening.
00:16:08.380I 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.
00:16:16.940We've got to get realistic on these laws.
00:16:19.900Well, 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.
00:16:32.380The one that got me angry a year ago was the fellow in Ontario who said, look, there's a lot of carjackings.
00:16:39.840Just leave the keys handy where the thief could get it.
00:16:43.140And, you know, nobody has hurt and there's less trouble.
00:16:48.680And 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.
00:17:01.060I 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.
00:18:58.760So, I mean, our courts aren't up on what the public feels in this case.
00:19:03.360That'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.
00:19:10.620Yeah, we really have lots of threat on this thing.
00:19:12.800There's only two reasons that really justify paying taxes.
00:19:16.040One is protection against external threats.
00:19:18.600The other is protection against internal threats.
00:19:53.900Nigel, we had Pierre Polyev's by-election in Battle River Crowfoot.
00:20:03.040Everyone already knows what happened, but a lot of the major segments, I should say, of the legacy media tried to play the expectations game.
00:20:14.080Like, he doesn't get, because he was, oh, of course he was going to win, he was going to win big.
00:20:35.540Yeah, 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.
00:20:43.840But the expectations game, Pierre Polyev has at least met that.
00:20:50.880It was an embarrassing, the whole thing has been embarrassing for him.
00:20:53.820I mean, it's bad enough with your party and your caucus to lose the election.
00:21:46.880And there was one fellow saying he should actually step aside because nobody likes him and he'll never get elected.
00:21:52.300Well, you know, I don't hear, that's the media line, I don't hear conservatives saying that.
00:22:02.500And 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.
00:22:17.920You know, I don't necessarily want to like my surgeon or my airline pilot.
00:22:25.820I do want them to be competent and do the job properly.
00:22:29.800And that is the measure of who you should select for a prime minister.
00:22:33.320Now, obviously, Mr. Poyev didn't get that.
00:22:37.400But when you go deeper into the numbers, you find that there's a certain stereotype that rejects him.
00:22:52.180That is not the measure of who you want as a prime minister.
00:22:55.900So anyway, he's got that to look forward into in the new year.
00:23:00.000Well, what I'm actually expecting is that come September the 15th, he's going to be back in the House.
00:23:05.940He's going to be challenging Prime Minister Carney, who is not brilliant on crime and immigration, particularly.
00:23:13.960But 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.
00:23:22.200So you don't get good performance, but you always have a reason, always have a good excuse.
00:23:26.960And Poyev is not going to let him get away with that.
00:23:28.920He is going to hold his feet to the fire, as they say.
00:23:33.060And I think the longer it goes on, the more obvious it will be.
00:23:37.000Even to those precious souls who find that Pierre is a bit abrasive, he's actually the one who should be running things.
00:23:43.240Everything he ever recommended doing, Carney is doing.
00:23:45.880Well, let the guy who thought of it take it.
00:26:03.920But 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.
00:26:19.280We might have mass migration pouring through our airports on a daily basis.
00:26:23.880We might have crime running over our streets.
00:26:25.720But 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.
00:26:44.560And we've got to, we're going to have this for at least four years.
00:26:48.400I'm not confident that the creature comforts are going to be that solid for four years, though.
00:26:52.860We'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.
00:27:04.140And he hasn't done a damn thing, except talk.
00:27:06.040But the boomer block, and I don't, I'm sorry for all that boomers watch.
00:27:10.120I know we've got a lot of boomers who watch.
00:27:38.480How 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.
00:29:20.560Oh, and I'm already well at work on that contingency from the West, I understand.
00:29:24.680And 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.
00:29:37.140Well, the reality of federal politics is Polyev isn't going to change much substantially if he becomes prime minister either.
00:30:01.300I 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.
00:30:13.440Or the National Observer even putting out, Polyev might fear for his seat in this run.
00:32:51.740And I remember I gave some speech in the House just chatting to them about how the NDP are the 1%.
00:32:57.840They were beaten by the Christian Heritage Party.
00:33:00.780Nearly beaten even by the Rhinoceros Party, which I really want to see them run more.
00:33:05.800At least they've got a sense of humor.
00:33:07.140If 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.
00:33:12.780Then let's get the Rhinos back on the ballot.
00:34:14.720Again, 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.
00:43:52.860I'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.
00:44:05.900Do 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,
00:44:17.760but 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.
00:45:07.660Those of you not from southern Alberta, Sutina is a reserve that is immediately abutting against the city of Congaree in the southwest.
00:45:19.860Our ring road even goes through part of it.
00:45:21.460So it's practically, at least parts of it are practically a part of metro Calgary area.
00:45:29.880Generally, one of the better reserves around.
00:45:33.260They've got some business sense, but not without their problems.
00:45:35.720Just 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.
00:46:58.780That gives me a convenient excuse to do it.
00:47:00.800So 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.