00:00:49.100We're going to be talking about the invasion of Spain.
00:00:52.600We don't need to describe it. You've all seen the video. If you haven't been slipping under a rock, you've seen the viral videos of 50,000 Arab Moroccans invading. What's the city name called?
00:01:08.840CUTA. CUTA. C-E-U-T-E-A. Yeah, I'm just going to say CUDA. Yeah, CUDA. You've seen the invasion of this, and we're going to talk about the repercussions of this, not necessarily about the situation itself, but the repercussions for migration policy, for national survival policy in European countries, in North America, and what impact that incident might have in Canada.
00:01:38.180We're going to talk about Alberta Premier Daniel Smith's position, or evolving position, on equalization,
00:01:46.060but also how that might tie into the broader issues of rumblings in the United Conservative Party in Alberta.
00:01:54.780It's an unruly bunch at the calmest of times, and we are in anything but a calm time.
00:01:59.880But first, we're going to start with the Edmonton Police Department's hate snitch line.
00:02:09.120A lot of people have heard about this, but Dave, maybe just sum up.
00:02:12.380What is the Edmonton Police's hate snitch line?
00:02:15.280Well, if somebody tells a joke that offends you, you call a snitch line and turn them in.
00:02:22.040It's actually a policy that's been going for two years now in Edmonton.
00:02:25.920just sort of gain social media fame on the weekend.
00:02:31.780But, yeah, Snitchline is exactly what it is.
00:03:50.840I know in Britain where this was tried, there were so many people arrested, in fact,
00:03:55.920they actually had to clear out the jails.
00:03:57.740They did early release for murderers, rapists, thieves.
00:04:04.240They let real criminals out so that they could put, you know,
00:04:08.300Margaret, who said, send them back on Twitter in jail,
00:04:11.520or, you know, Bob, who said, England for the English.
00:04:15.120things like that or jokes um i don't think it's as extreme as britain although it's very much on
00:04:22.380the way to where it got in the uk in the uk people would be uh arrested charged arrested
00:04:28.380uh and jailed for this i think this is the idea because these are not yet criminal code offenses
00:04:36.000uh the idea would be that the edmonton police would go and have a stern talking to you maybe
00:04:40.500imply that yeah we might do something else the c9 some of that might be very quickly you could start
00:04:46.260to see some of that already in c9 something that's different this time is how aggressively they're
00:04:49.780soliciting the complaints though they've wrapped city buses with this initiative of their saying
00:04:55.380you know get on there call us out they're not waiting until somebody's been terribly offended
00:04:58.980they're asking does somebody say something yeah yeah the government's jumped in daniel smith
00:05:03.940tweeted that she'll defend free speech. Mike Ellis was pretty strong on that too.
00:05:10.820Mike Ellis, the public security minister, put out a statement. He was very strong on it.
00:05:16.020He's going to write to all the justices and whatnot. Well, I think, Dave, when the minister
00:05:23.780and the premier step in, the political direction is very strong, and this will put a stop to it,
00:05:30.420as long as the minister and the premier are there to quarterback it.
00:05:36.080I mean, the police respond to what the politicians tell them to.
00:05:39.460If they're upset about drunk driving, suddenly there are check stops everywhere.
00:05:43.580If they're worried about homeless people causing a disturbance on the Calgary Sea Train,
00:05:49.940all of a sudden you've got a police cruiser on every block of the downtown core.
00:05:55.820Like magic, the problem just becomes much more manageable.
00:05:58.940So I think now that they've had a sharp flee in the ear from the premier and from Minister Ellis, they'll say, all right, just play it down.
00:06:09.740Just go for the real stuff, you know, and I don't, Mike, I'd be very interested to hear from our listeners in Edmonton if this carries, if people are still getting called by the police for saying something that shouldn't be an offense.
00:06:21.220One of the best parts of this, I don't know, maybe we can even insert a little clip of it, but there was the hate crimes unit at the Edmonton Police.0.74
00:07:47.400You know, like the way the EPS is structured, somebody's at the top.
00:07:51.180Is it from that desk or was it from the police commission?
00:07:54.300And then, and then you, well, you look at the mayor and council, cause
00:07:56.900that is a municipal force and, and mayor NAC is quite progressive to be polite.
00:08:03.140Uh, as are a number of members of their council, similar to Calgary that way.
00:08:06.140It seems we, you know, they, they really like to vote left on, on council.
00:08:09.620And at least some of the, I'm guessing they're like the Calgary Police Commission, though, they're going to be different people serving from all different roles that would guide in some degree of direction.
00:08:18.220But where specifically this came from, it would have to be approved by the chief.
00:08:22.780Well, I want to talk about the NDPs on this.
00:08:26.100So, look, as someone who served in the opposition, the gut instinct of the opposition is to oppose whatever the government's doing.
00:08:33.440And then you had David Shepard. He's the NDP MLA Edmonton Centre, I think. And he came out, released a video, and he went after Smith and Ellis for telling them to stop going after these non-crime, non-criminal hate incidents is I think how they're calling it.
00:08:55.900and he went after that essentially defending the Edmonton police's snitch line and spending the
00:09:01.740resources on this. I know the instinct in politics is to oppose the other side but sometimes you
00:09:10.560should just shut the f up. It's not always a hill to die on. I tried to respond to Mr. Shepard's
00:09:15.180post on Expo but it turns out he has me blocked which it's fine. I must have said something
00:09:19.800you defended him. You see that's fine. Hit the block button. Get over it. I don't think they're
00:09:25.040allowed to do that public officials did that thing and pushed through i'm not gonna i i don't agree
00:09:30.540with him on that one i i do think actually in my view x isn't a right and if a politician wants to
00:09:35.480block i mean we're going down a rabbit hole now but i just think the irony of him well utilizing
00:09:39.940the tools to be able to stop hearing adverse speech why doesn't he counsel people well if
00:09:44.740you see hateful stuff block them don't try or mute them or at least just you don't have to expose
00:09:50.160there's lots of stuff i don't like uh you know and i hit mute sometimes block but normally just
00:09:54.120simply just mute them uh although i i mostly retweet insults against myself and the more vile
00:10:00.040the better um but this is uh you know we i think we at least we saw a good strong reaction from
00:10:06.520the alberta government here um but we have this in cities right across canada this is it's not0.99
00:10:11.240just edmonton this is just this became uh cause celebra now because the edmund the some idiot0.98
00:10:19.880run in a social media account for the edmonton police put out a really dumb tweet as like uh0.88
00:10:25.400uh well i forgot what it is but let's let's put that tweet up from the edmonton police
00:10:29.800um so they just kind of drew attention to it themselves thinking this is still 2022 and we're
00:10:37.160going to arrest you for not using the right pronouns or something people have moved past
00:10:41.880that the pendulum has swung the other way um you know racist and sexist jokes are back in style
00:10:50.360everyone loves them again uh no one stopped liking them but you're allowed to do them again
00:10:54.920sorry guys um but i i don't know uh well i'll tell you what the other thing that we're forgetting
00:11:02.360here is we've also got a human rights commission if you think it's that bad file a complaint well
00:21:59.900but the political problem she faces is that most alberta conservatives don't want diplomacy
00:22:07.480they want war some to the to the extent where they want independence not everybody but a large
00:22:14.280portion um and so you know when people are voting for independence they're probably going to be
00:22:19.200leery of playing nice diplomacy with the ultimate laurentian globalist liberal mark carney
00:22:27.780um but you know maybe she's right maybe she's right cory and uh she's just wheeling and dealing
00:22:35.880and this is what's best and we're not seeing it she's gonna have to show some wins really soon
00:22:40.200because the base is crabby she's riding a hornet's nest and we know that we know the nature of0.87
00:22:44.720conservatives we're among them where i'm one of the crabby voices picking at her from underneath
00:22:49.560when she shows compromise with carney and i do understand i mean you don't march right in and
00:22:54.640give them the finger. The second you meet the prime minister, you have some degree, but I think a lot
00:22:59.500of her base expects an adversarial relationship. Maybe you're going to compromise or try to come
00:23:06.700to agreements, but you're coming from a understanding that this isn't a person working
00:23:10.840in your favor. It's a person you're negotiating against. So you don't count a billion dollars for
00:23:16.740housing from the feds a win? No, I see that as a giant intrusion in our local jurisdiction.
00:23:22.880That should have nothing to do with housing.
00:23:24.600Now I see we got a bunch of strings and then we have even more federal things that happen because the province has to submit applications for federal approval to get that money, which means Ottawa now controls our planning on infrastructure for municipalities.
00:23:37.720So no, that's not something to be celebrating at all.
00:23:40.160You don't count the West Coast Pipeline being sent to the major projects office?
00:23:45.080National Pipelines, no, I don't see that as a good program.
00:31:50.740Yeah, really kind of, they date really from the period of the Reconquesta.
00:31:55.640So, you know, for people following along at home who don't know what the Reconquesta was,
00:31:59.500the Reconquesta was the Spanish and Portuguese reconquest of Iberia from the Muslim occupiers,
00:32:09.260the Islamic occupiers who had been there, who had conquered it under the Moors,
00:32:12.880you know, during the early, relatively early Islamic invasions that stopped at the Battle of Tours.
00:32:18.560I'll stop the history lesson largely there, but the reconquest was the reconquest of Iberia, you know, Spain and Portugal, that ended kind of at the beginning of the Spanish Golden Age.
00:32:33.700So that's what the term means, it's taking your country back, and the term is actually kind of applied by a lot of the, you know, re-migration folks across Europe.
00:32:43.520It's a reconquest of taking your country back from a foreign occupation.
00:32:48.560So Spain has now been invaded. Anyone who saw these videos, let's show some on the side here. Everyone's already seen this stuff. You couldn't count a single woman or child in there. It was all uniformly military age men.
00:33:09.880And if that is not an invasion, I don't know what an invasion is.1.00
00:33:17.520Spain has got an insane government that is essentially refugees welcome.0.99
00:33:24.520They're kind of advertising that they can do this.1.00
00:33:27.800There may have been some other geopolitical factors involved that I don't want to get into.
00:33:33.660But the fact was that Spain was invaded.
00:33:38.240They've claimed now that, ah, they've all gone home,
00:33:41.520but I haven't seen any video of these mass grind-ups.
00:33:50.120And, you know, we've seen where they've literally went in,
00:33:52.400they ransacked stores in people's homes,
00:33:54.540and police are pushing them out of homes,
00:33:56.040but they're just pushing back onto the streets.
00:33:57.660They're just getting them out of someone's home that they're squatting in.
00:34:01.040And this has now had huge repercussions across Europe.
00:34:04.460I don't know, Nigel, is this finally the point where there's been such a visual shock of an invasion that cannot be ignored, that finally wakes Europe from its slumber?
00:34:18.700Well, you kind of hope so, but it's been going on for 10 years, isn't it?
00:34:22.820Arguably 360, but really bad in the last time.
00:34:25.160You know, really bad in the last time, ever since Angela Merkel decided to open up the borders in Germany.
00:34:31.100And, you know, the trouble is, maybe it's not a trouble, maybe it's a wonderful thing in our society that we are compassionate, we're empathetic, we see people starving, we see people, you know, just looking for a better way in life and say, yeah, sure, come on in.
00:34:45.920And then they come and then more come and so all of a sudden you find that you're supporting, as is the case in Great Britain at the moment, you're supporting a population of people who are there for the benefits but not to do the work.
00:34:56.760Now, here in Spain, I understand that there are 40,000 places ready to, you know, refugee tickets, if you want to call them that.
00:35:53.800There was a bunch of illegal city in the country who just popped out and, and they're doing it now to all Europe because when you're given Spanish citizenship, you know, that automatically means you get European citizenship.
00:36:05.080It's, uh, one thing it has done is it's caused some European countries to question whether Spain should be checked out of the EU passport system.
00:36:14.940Uh, cause they don't have any idea who these people are.
00:36:17.620They don't know where, what they've done in the past.
00:36:20.180As Derek said, you look hard in these reels and there is not a single woman there.
00:36:25.820Not that we want women and children as well, but.
00:36:28.520But I mean, is the news narrative enough that people are making, like realizing what this is about?0.89
00:36:34.140I mean, I watch, again, social media, which is torqued and slanted, but I watched an idiotic exchange between a left wing journalist of some sort in North America saying, well, if people would just stop bombing those countries, they'd stop coming in.
00:36:46.700And somebody shut it down quick enough with a repo saying, who's bombing Morocco?0.95