Western Standard - The Pipeline： Gun grab backfires on Liberals

00:00:00.000 Good evening, I'm Derek Fildebrandt, publisher of the Western Standard, and you're watching

00:00:23.300 the pipeline. Today is December 7th, 2022. I'm joined, as always, by Nigel Hanford. Nigel.

00:00:32.120 Good to be here again. Thank you. And joined by the always warm and cuddly

00:00:36.860 Corey Starfish Morgan. How are you doing? Oh, good. I'm into the holiday spirit.

00:00:41.700 Are you excited for the Starfish Awards coming up this weekend? Well, you know,

00:00:45.000 I don't know if I could win it two years in a row, but I've still got time to do something.

00:00:49.020 Do you think you're on the list? I don't think so, actually.

00:00:52.480 Just so you know, so it's not too insider, we've got a number of awards that recognize the best of the best of the Western Standard at the end of the year.

00:01:01.580 We always do it at our annual Christmas party.

00:01:03.620 And one such award, my favorite award, is the Starfish.

00:01:07.080 And this is awarded to the Western Standard employee or senior contractor who has the biggest screw up of the year.

00:01:13.880 And the award is actually named in honor of Corey Morgan.

00:01:16.900 It really is the Corey Morgan Award.

00:01:18.360 It's called the starfish for Corey Morgan's notorious itchy starfish comments on the air last year.

00:01:26.100 Well, I got to the point. There's worse terms I could use for a starfish.

00:01:30.820 Well, you know, if any of you are wondering what the starfish is referring to, just ask in the comments and maybe Corey will go on later.

00:01:41.020 Urban Dictionary Helper.

00:01:42.020 Just go on to Urban Dictionary for itchy starfish.

00:01:45.980 And we're going to end that part of the conversation there

00:01:48.440 because it got you an award created in your honor last year.

00:01:52.120 It's well worth it.

00:01:53.320 We've got some great nominations this year.

00:01:55.220 Unfortunately for all of you, you will not see us.

00:01:58.000 This is really R-rated Western standard behind closed doors.

00:02:02.280 It's not family friendly.

00:02:05.300 Okay, let's get into it.

00:02:07.260 Well, actually, before we get into it, a message from my favorite sponsor, Corey.

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00:02:51.620 Yeah, absolutely.

00:02:52.620 Actually, that reminds me, I forgot to mention our topics off the top.

00:02:55.840 We're going to be talking about the latest Liberal gun grab being massively expanded with an amendment to the bill

00:03:02.700 and really backfiring on them.

00:03:05.940 They can't pretend not to be taking away regular hunting rifles anymore. They nakedly are now. We'll get into that in a bit.

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00:04:30.460 Okay, so let's get into it. 0.65

00:04:33.680 The liberals have been trying to turn gun control, they've always tried to make gun control a wedge issue.

00:04:40.420 But for the most part, with the exception of the gun registry, it had become temporarily somewhat depoliticized in Canada.

00:04:48.960 There was what was generally considered a consensus policy that we're going to classify firearms by functionality, not by the way they look, but by what they can do.

00:04:59.760 There was unrestricted firearms for which you still need a license and background checks, but that's small guns like .22s, gopher guns, most rifles and shotguns that are obviously not fully automatic.

00:05:16.380 Then you had restricted, pretty much all handguns, a few select rifles or shotguns.

00:05:23.860 And then you had prohibited, which is essentially automatic weapons and rocket launchers, really cool stuff I wish I could get.

00:05:32.460 But, alas, I can't.

00:05:34.260 Those are just really, for certain families, certain people have, say, World War I and II heirlooms, be able to keep it in the family.

00:05:43.460 and essentially you're not allowed to use them.

00:05:45.740 They have to be under lock and key 24 hours a day.

00:05:47.840 But the Liberals have really started to see this as a good political issue

00:05:50.920 and try to use it as a wedge with the Conservatives.

00:05:54.740 And, you know, too many Canadians, particularly in big cities,

00:05:58.280 not exclusively, but particularly in big cities, just don't understand guns.

00:06:02.480 They think it's a weird thing.

00:06:03.940 If you have guns, there's just something weird about it.

00:06:06.980 They don't understand, and they don't take a laissez-faire view of it.

00:06:10.020 They say, well, you don't need it.

00:06:11.260 You don't need a gun, so therefore you shouldn't have it.

00:06:13.460 And so they've been introducing bill after bill making, banning more guns unreasonably. You know, we have the famous ban of the buying and selling of handguns in Canada. So now you can only buy them if you're a criminal. But then this latest bill came tightening up a few things further.

00:06:30.140 But then the liberals introduced at the committee stage an amendment to the bill, which wildly expanded the scope and scale of what it's trying to do.

00:06:40.140 And it is banning about half the hunting rifles out there.

00:06:46.820 If it is a semi-automatic rifle with a detachable magazine, it is now going to be illegal.

00:06:53.480 And that is, I gather, maybe a third of the hunting rifles out there.

00:06:58.700 But you know why people like detachable magazines on guns?

00:07:03.280 They don't shoot yourself getting in and out of a tree.

00:07:05.600 One of the first things they teach you when you're learning firearm safety in a course is if you're climbing in and out of a tree or you're going over a fence or something, you're doing something, you know, a bit weird, you're supposed to make sure your gun is unloaded.

00:07:18.940 Nothing in the chamber, no cartridges in the gun.

00:07:23.220 And without a detachable magazine, like a .30-30 Marlin I've got, they go in the gun itself.

00:07:28.140 and you have to cycle the thing. It's a pain in the ass, and if it's cold, you don't sometimes 0.98

00:07:32.380 do it. It's dangerous. Magazine, pop it out, get in the tree. It's a safe 0.99

00:07:36.400 thing to do. That's why hunters like it. But banned now.

00:07:41.280 Corey, you're a bit of a gun guy.

00:07:44.320 Do you think the liberals understood what they were doing

00:07:48.480 when they introduced this? That they knew this was just going to ban a ton of

00:07:52.240 regular, run-of-the-mill, grandpa-style hunting

00:07:56.360 rifles? Do you think they knew it because they

00:07:58.360 want to take those guns out of circulation?

00:08:00.800 Or do you think it was maybe

00:08:02.280 a fact, more

00:08:04.380 a matter of the liberals just

00:08:05.940 know so little about guns

00:08:08.460 that this was an accident and they're just trying

00:08:10.380 to play catch up?

00:08:12.360 Well, a little bit of both. I mean, I don't think it's an

00:08:14.360 accident, but they definitely know very little

00:08:16.340 about firearms. And they're

00:08:18.320 ideologically driven, though. I mean, their agenda

00:08:20.300 is to take them all. They want to go incrementally.

00:08:22.860 They're just going to keep recategorizing

00:08:24.540 and recategorizing and taking bigger and bigger bites on what's allowed. And even until eventually

00:08:29.760 nobody owns a firearm whatsoever. There's no doubt that's where they want to go. And they're doing it

00:08:34.160 piece by piece. The only question right now is whether they bit off a little too much in this

00:08:37.940 increment and went too far because they so loudly claimed, oh, we're not going after hunting rifles.

00:08:43.420 Well, clearly they are. There's no doubt about it. These are distinctly hunting firearms they're

00:08:48.300 hitting. So whether it was their own ignorance of what is a hunting rifle or what isn't, or their

00:08:53.140 zeal and just trying to get as many as they can with this particular amendment in 21. But it's

00:09:00.680 again, nobody can keep a straight face and say this has anything to do with public safety at

00:09:04.580 this point. So men, am I saying that right? Mendoncino? He's saying we're not banning

00:09:11.940 hunting rifles. But even those who support banning guns are more or less saying, well,

00:09:19.780 yeah it is like these are simple hunting rifles these aren't the really cool stuff this isn't

00:09:27.140 these aren't even like more advanced tactical sport shooting guns these are run-of-the-mill

00:09:32.900 regular hunting rifles uh you know there's a tendency in politics to for those we oppose

00:09:41.060 or disagree with to always attribute malice to things that could be explained by incompetence

00:09:48.100 And I'm not sure. What do you think? Was this a case of incompetence that the liberals, because I'm willing to bet that there's not a single liberal member of parliament that is a gun owner. Many of them are protected by people who are heavily armed at all times. But I'd be willing to bet there's probably not a single gun owner in the entire liberal caucus right now in the House of Commons.

00:10:10.560 would you chalk it up more to just they're ignorant of guns and didn't know and this was

00:10:16.320 maybe an error on their part or that this is them active they know what they're doing they

00:10:23.940 know they're banning a huge number of hunting rifles and this is intentionally what they're

00:10:28.160 doing a couple of things they can't not know the difference between something that they have

00:10:34.940 already identified as in their in their minds as an assault weapon and what you have referred to

00:10:42.820 just now as grandpa's hunting rifle but they've never defined what an assault weapon is no they

00:10:47.420 haven't and they can't but they like they have a picture in their mind of what they're what

00:10:52.340 they're talking about so they can't not know that they have now put the spotlight on an entirely

00:10:59.580 different kind of firearm. So is it incompetence? No. I think it is actually poor judgment because

00:11:10.160 some of the people who they would expect to applaud this are actually saying, you know,

00:11:14.580 this isn't what we had in mind at all. I just caught something in the National Post this

00:11:21.300 morning in which the uh woman writer was was saying what the fact is that men kill women 1.00

00:11:31.000 this is and she had statistics to make her point she said this is not helping

00:11:37.620 instead of considering concrete solutions to stop gender-based violence so many canadians

00:11:47.000 attention is swept up debating hunting rifles that are rarely used in murder so that's somebody

00:11:56.760 who should have been on their side who isn't so in in the messaging there is certainly incompetence

00:12:03.720 as for malice you know i do think i could be wrong but i do think that there is something

00:12:13.420 sort of a little boyish tendency in that party to do things that irritate and provoke people

00:12:21.180 who don't agree with them. Well, we all kind of do that because it's fun.

00:12:28.460 How often do we like to own the lips? It's a childish instinct in all of us to goad the other

00:12:35.180 side to make them upset. Okay, well, it's one thing for us to sit here among the three of us

00:12:38.380 and goad the other side. But when you're playing serious politics, and you want to get reelected

00:12:42.460 in three years time it actually pays to to not pick the low-hanging fruit and throw it on the

00:12:50.140 ground there are liberals in alberta for example who would be prepared to assist the party

00:12:58.060 financially and vote for it not that it will do them much good but they do have friends in alberta

00:13:05.740 saskatchewan parts of bc this sort of thing irritates people because it seems like we just

00:13:12.060 want to stick it to you because you're in the West. Well, there's a few things here. You know,

00:13:16.700 there are, you know, there's fairly small minority voters, but they're here, you know, liberal and

00:13:21.100 even NDP voters in Alberta. But I bet you even they do, even though they're in Alberta and

00:13:27.260 Saskatchewan, they're not, they're overwhelmingly not gun owners. You could do this in the United

00:13:33.020 States, and I bet it would work almost as well in Canada. The number one determinant of how

00:13:38.220 someone will vote in the United States you just do the data is are they a legal gun owner and if

00:13:45.260 the answer is yes there is a almost 100% chance they're voting Republican or for a smaller right

00:13:51.980 wing party like the libertarians or something or in heart you know Ted Nugent if he's running as

00:13:56.460 an independent or something gun owners in Canada at least outside of First Nations as a rule do not

00:14:05.180 vote liberal, do not vote NDP. It's, at least on the federal level, it's extremely rare. So, you know, are there really votes to lose here? I think the only votes maybe to lose is that hunters have a unique sympathy as a part of the Canadian myth is, you know, the man of the wilderness. We, you know, so people who don't hunt still kind of idolize the hunter. For some reason, there's not much sympathy for the sport shooter who likes to take a

00:14:35.160 pistol or an AR and murder some innocent paper. But the hunter is kind of a part of the Canadian myth. It's like the lumberjack and the Mountie, the hunter, we kind of idolize to an extent. And so by picking on the hunter, well, the hunters might not vote liberal. But Canadians, I think, have a broad sympathy, not always, but broad sympathy with the hunter. And that might hurt them politically. But, you know, you were talking about this, you know, they defined an assault weapon and then made a mistake. The problem is actually this bill was designed

00:15:05.140 to finally define what the assault style weapons are and they bungled it because there is no such

00:15:11.300 thing it's not based on functionality and the way they defined it was well a few things you know

00:15:17.620 bore you know bore discharge and semi-automatic rifles with detachable magazines there's a bunch

00:15:26.900 of other things too but yeah so that's them trying to define it but that is such a wild

00:15:33.460 overreach. Because previous attempts by the liberals to vaguely define assault style was,

00:15:38.340 well, it's got a black carbonite stock, and it looks scary, therefore it's assault style.

00:15:43.860 To their credit, the liberals finally tried to actually come up with a functional

00:15:46.880 definition of assault style. But that definition was clearly insane. It made no sense. So again,

00:15:54.360 I'll put to either of you, is this incompetence? Or is this malice? I'm having a hard time

00:16:02.140 figuring it out. Well, a little bit of both. You know, we had, I can't recall his name,

00:16:10.500 a big measure of incompetence, actually, but there is malice. There could be both. It's

00:16:15.960 definitely driven by ideology and political benefit, trying to wedge the conservatives,

00:16:21.080 because most Canadians aren't gun owners. You know, if the liberals can make the election between gun

00:16:26.880 owners and non-gun owners, well, the non-gun owners are going to win every time. There's just 0.62

00:16:29.980 more of them. Even in Alberta, the majority of people don't own guns. We have a high proportion

00:16:34.820 here. But, you know, we had, let's turn this maybe to something a bit more sensitive for the

00:16:39.800 liberals. You have the goaltender of the Habs, I can't recall his name.

00:16:43.480 Corey Price.

00:16:44.680 Gary, are you speaking?

00:16:45.480 Gary Price.

00:16:46.000 Gary Price.

00:16:46.420 Yes. Goaltender for the Habs. He put on TikTok or something or Instagram something, a picture

00:16:54.280 of him and his hunting gear, holding a rifle, very standard, non, you know, non-controversial,

00:17:01.800 otherwise non-controversial hunting rifle that would now be banned. And he's saying,

00:17:06.280 I'm not a criminal. I hunt. I care about my community and my family. Opposing a liberal

00:17:11.260 ban on a huge number of hunting rifles here. You know, the mainstream media can still sometimes

00:17:18.980 shocked me. The mainstream media went nuts saying, oh, how dare he does this? And then they had the

00:17:24.900 Habs management groveling, apologizing. He didn't know about the Polytechnic shooting back in the

00:17:32.260 early 90s. I don't know, comments. I've got no question about it because I just don't understand

00:17:42.580 that there was a shooting by a madman in the early 90s. Therefore, a hockey player in 2022

00:17:48.180 has to apologize for saying he should keep his hunting tools well first of all i'm glad that he

00:17:55.060 chose hunting season to put it out there rather than non-hunting season that would may not have

00:18:01.460 been a good pr move on his part if he had done it the other way around you know i understand the

00:18:08.420 i understand the sensitivities that that surround the eco polytechnic but there is no question that

00:18:16.420 That particular 100% evil, wicked murder that took place has since then been leveraged to the max.

00:18:32.660 And it's not just about guns, it's also about gender violence.

00:18:38.380 When I'm old school, I feel men shouldn't hit women.

00:18:43.980 That's kind of where it's coming from.

00:18:46.000 But this has now become a left-wing talking point.

00:18:50.220 And although I can be very respectful of sensitivities,

00:18:56.320 it's something wicked that was done.

00:18:58.380 I don't know that I'm so sensitive about just the timing of Price's picture.

00:19:05.220 He's got a right to his opinion.

00:19:06.760 He's got a right to express it at any time.

00:19:09.220 It's kind of sad to see people groveling.

00:19:11.640 And he didn't, by the way.

00:19:12.860 He said, look, my opinions haven't changed.

00:19:15.600 Good for him.

00:19:16.040 There may have been one little piece to it, though, because, you know, in his, you know, with his picture he had on the text, he also said he supports the CCFR, the Canadian Coalition for Firearms Rights.

00:19:26.840 And the CCFR had run a campaign, some kind of promotion, where the promotional word you put in was poly, which I think was alluding to polytechnic.

00:19:37.360 Polytechnic, yeah.

00:19:37.700 And I do not mean to beat up on CCFR just because they're not our sponsor and the Canadian Shooting Sports Association is.

00:19:46.900 I don't mean to beat up on them.

00:19:48.000 I actually really like the CCFR.

00:19:49.460 There's great folks working there.

00:19:50.820 I've got friends there.

00:19:52.640 I support them too.

00:19:54.620 But it did seem weird.

00:19:56.240 I think they were trying to make a point about stop using a shooting roughly 30 years ago to try and disarm innocent law-abiding people today.

00:20:07.180 I think that was their point, but it seemed like a poor way to make the point.

00:20:12.660 It was poor, but, I mean, it's getting to the point now.

00:20:14.900 It's that same thing.

00:20:15.940 It's the swarm.

00:20:16.980 It's the swarm of the legacy media.

00:20:18.660 It's the swarm of the Twitterati.

00:20:19.920 It's the swarm of the social media.

00:20:22.380 And, again, Price, he just said he liked the CCFR.

00:20:26.280 Now, by extension, not even him, but mentioning a group that perhaps caused offense,

00:20:31.940 and this didn't happen on the anniversary.

00:20:34.340 That was yesterday.

00:20:35.100 This happened near the anniversary.

00:20:37.440 We've got an unwritten rule that apparently you can't demonstrate an affection for firearms within a week of the anniversary of the horrific, you know, Mark Lapine's sick, sick act.

00:20:50.000 It's absurd.

00:20:51.240 But again, it shows the mentality online.

00:20:54.180 They will shout you down.

00:20:55.300 They will make you ashamed of being who you are. 1.00

00:20:57.360 And as you can see with the Habs, they're groveling and apologizing, and it works. 1.00

00:21:01.020 But as you said, too, legacy media never ceases to surprise with jumping on like that. 0.98

00:21:05.880 You know, we were talking about this earlier today.

00:21:07.980 If you actually could ever get the statistics that would reveal how much criminality can be attributed to legal firearms owners,

00:21:17.020 you would probably be utterly amazed how very, very little.

00:21:21.440 The only data we have is from Toronto, because Toronto is the only city that started keeping track of crime guns.

00:21:27.720 That is firearms used in the commission of a crime.

00:21:31.020 And I don't have the numbers in front of me, but we've covered this story before, and the chief of the Toronto Police Service said it was something like 99 or 98% of the guns used in the Commission of Crime in Toronto are smuggled from outside Canada.

00:21:46.220 Legally obtained Canadian firearms almost never make their way into crime.

00:21:52.500 And frankly, I think the government seizing guns inappropriately like this is going to probably increase the number of Canadian guns that get into illegal circulation.

00:22:05.880 Because, I don't know, I'd rather give my gun to a thug on the street than a thug in a parliament.

00:22:15.100 Well, I don't know about that.

00:22:18.120 I don't see one as being much better than the other.

00:22:21.080 Don't want to give it a thugs in parliament. No argument. Yeah. At least one will probably pay

00:22:28.140 fair market value. I hear your phone ringing. Actually, this isn't on the agenda, but I'm

00:22:40.820 going to add it in unilaterally right now. The Saskatchewan Firearms Act. My God, what an inspired

00:22:48.880 piece of legislation. So the Saskatchewan Firearms Act, I could be wrong, but this might be one of

00:22:54.880 the... Quebec has had certain firearms legislation trying to make it more restrictive, essentially

00:22:58.960 trying to keep the long gun registry. But Saskatchewan has brought in an incredible

00:23:04.560 piece of legislation here. It will more or less make it illegal for the police and fish cops

00:23:12.080 to seize firearms that falls under the duty of a confiscation officer and to be become a confiscation firearms confiscation officer in Saskatchewan.

00:23:26.080 You've essentially got to sacrifice your firstborn child and put up a billion dollar bond or something. They make it damn near impossible.

00:23:35.080 They also create a parallel provincial statutory offense, which is a non-criminal offense.

00:23:40.040 So provincial offenses, for those following at home, are not criminal.

00:23:45.360 Criminal Code of Canada is federal and generally much more serious than provincial offenses.

00:23:49.800 Provincial offenses are like traffic tickets, speeding tickets, things like that.

00:23:54.300 So if you get found with a otherwise reasonable hunting rifle by the fish cops,

00:24:00.280 Sorry, conservation officers. And they have right now they have an option to seize your firearm and criminally charge you for illegal firearms possession.

00:24:11.240 Now they have the option of just give you a hundred dollar ticket. Go about your day.

00:24:17.920 And there's a few other pieces of it, but it's a it's a it's an incredible bill that it passed.

00:24:24.900 I want to get your feedback, maybe starting with you, Corey, on, you know, what effect is this going to have on the ability of Ottawa to impose its will on firearms owners in places like this?

00:24:37.740 Oh, it's going to be very difficult.

00:24:39.300 I mean, there's going to be a degree of firearm owners, okay, they just follow the law, they'll grudgingly and they'll loathe it and whatever.

00:24:45.840 But if suddenly the law comes out and says this, this, and this are now illegal in my firearms cabinet, they'll say, well, I hate this, but I'm going to take them in and turn them into the RCMP and get my piddly little check and move on.

00:24:56.340 But there's going to be, and there's going to be a whole lot who are going to say to hell with you.

00:25:00.800 There's no way I am turning those in.

00:25:02.820 And if the government wants their legislation to be effective, if they want it to actually work, that means they have to get them.

00:25:08.080 So they have to find them somehow, which is going to take a lot of investigation.

00:25:12.160 And then the ones that they know of, they have to take.

00:25:15.640 And if they don't have people on the ground to take them, how are you going to do it?

00:25:18.720 They'll have, what are you going to do?

00:25:20.720 You can't, so we can see battles coming, though.

00:25:22.960 This talks about the things like the Saskatchewan First Act or the Sovereignty Act in Alberta.

00:25:27.100 We're anticipating it because if the government starts coming and says, we're going to direct the RCMP, well, we're going to have some big issues then.

00:25:33.320 And so it's interesting seeing the battle lines being drawn.

00:25:36.380 We've got some interesting years ahead of us.

00:25:38.360 So this is in Alberta, not what that particular act is in Saskatchewan.

00:25:42.840 The Saskatchewan Firearms Act.

00:25:43.860 But Alberta is also, we're not cooperating with it.

00:25:46.660 Well, they said they're not cooperating.

00:25:47.800 Alberta hasn't passed a bill adding provincial statute to it.

00:25:52.300 But I think it'd be fair to call this essentially the Saskatchewan Firearms Sovereignty Act.

00:25:57.660 This is a total defiance of federal orders.

00:26:01.500 And it's not just enforcing federal orders.

00:26:03.420 It's building parallel provincial law in direct contradiction to Ottawa,

00:26:08.600 but using it within provincial jurisdiction to make it extraordinarily difficult for Ottawa to impose its will here.

00:26:16.460 And that pushback is in Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, I believe, and New Brunswick.

00:26:26.900 Some of it.

00:26:27.820 That is quite an accomplishment.

00:26:31.440 UConn.

00:26:31.960 UConn.

00:26:33.180 To have so much of the government strongly pushing back against federal policy,

00:26:39.320 that takes us in a whole different direction about division as a political weapon

00:26:45.020 as used by the Liberal Party.

00:26:47.880 But that is quite an accomplishment by the Liberals,

00:26:50.360 to get so many people so mad to push back against them.

00:26:53.780 Gives me hope.

00:26:54.280 I've got to admit, firearms I may or may not own that may or may not become illegal under these bills.

00:27:02.820 I may or may not enjoy them significantly more knowing that I can only have them in Alberta and Saskatchewan.

00:27:09.240 They'll just seem so much more dear, theoretically, if I were to own any of them.

00:27:13.180 Yeah, Derek, you would feel better about living in Alberta or Saskatchewan anyway, wouldn't you?

00:27:19.260 Oh, yeah.

00:27:19.740 Of course you would.

00:27:20.200 Yeah. You know, one of our reporters, Jonathan Bradley, he was talking about building a poll, you know, our daily poll on the site.

00:27:29.040 And he said, here's an idea. You know, if the Alberta NDP won the next election, would you stay in Alberta, leave Alberta or go to Ontario?

00:27:41.880 And I said, do we not have made in there as an option? I thought that was a different day.

00:27:47.260 Different poll. No, no, there's an option. Yeah, that might be a, that might be a usable, might be reasonable.

00:27:57.640 Like I said, Ontario, Alberta under socialists here is still better than the socialists who call them conservatives in Ontario.

00:28:06.800 So I don't think so. Okay, well, we spent more time on guns than I expected because I took this down to Saskatchewan Firearms Act rabbit hole here.

00:28:13.520 But more funny business in Ottawa, this time, not from the government itself, but by the government funded media cartel, the Canadian parliamentary press gallery expelling Black Locks Reporter.

00:28:27.980 So for those of you who don't know, Block Locks Reporter is one of the extraordinarily vanishingly small number of independent, non-government-funded media in Canada.

00:28:40.900 And they do work for the Western Standard and several other media outlets, essentially almost like a news service, where they provide us information, good core information for a story, and then we write the story from there.

00:28:52.160 But they do a ton of heavy lifting on investigative journalism, and they break so many great stories that we're able to use at the Western Standard in our content.

00:29:03.600 It is a huge addition to the coverage we're able to provide with Matthew Horwood, our Parliamentary Bureau Chief.

00:29:10.400 And they break stories, and they're so small.

00:29:14.040 It's really, it's a husband and wife operation.

00:29:16.320 And they break more stories than post-media, at least on Parliament Hill.

00:29:20.500 They put so much of the mainstream media to shame. And they have now expelled Black Locks Reporter from the press gallery. Now, they claim, and it's because there was complaints, that Tom Korski, the editor of Black Locks Reporter, was listening to videos or audio files without headphones on, you know, disturbing people in common work areas.

00:29:42.900 He was telling them to F off and being a generally unpleasant guy.

00:29:51.100 They've not provided a shred of evidence to this.

00:29:53.280 I wrote a formal letter of protest yesterday.

00:29:55.600 You know, Western Standard has press gallery access.

00:29:58.240 I sent a formal letter of protest about this saying, look, either restore him or give him due process.

00:30:02.840 And they said, well, we had a process.

00:30:03.900 I said, fine, release the process and show us all the evidence.

00:30:07.540 Because this is not a private club.

00:30:08.520 This is the Parliamentary Press Gallery, and you guys cannot be seen as being unreasonably gatekeepers.

00:30:14.120 I suppose you can't let every blogger in.

00:30:16.060 It's got some little gatekeeping, but it's got to be reasonable.

00:30:20.720 And they have not provided a shred of evidence that any of this was true.

00:30:24.680 And maybe it is.

00:30:25.680 I don't know.

00:30:26.220 I don't work on it.

00:30:26.960 You know, even if it was, these guys never been in a serious newsroom.

00:30:31.160 Like, if you want to hear, you know, a marketplace noise level, then...

00:30:37.300 Come here!

00:30:37.700 A busy newsroom is a good place.

00:30:41.260 People effing and blinding and throwing typewriters at each other.

00:30:44.800 That's how it was.

00:30:46.000 So, I mean, there's a prissiness about this that is a little,

00:30:50.720 oh, it's a little too precious for words.

00:30:53.420 But, you know, the thing about, and I think you've hit on it,

00:30:59.280 Black Locks is showing them up.

00:31:00.940 Black Locks would actually go to a committee hearing.

00:31:03.820 They would actually look at the transcripts. 0.76

00:31:06.980 They would go to a government website and get the actual numbers.

00:31:11.960 Now you say, well, doesn't the press gallery do that?

00:31:14.540 Well, not much.

00:31:17.320 What happens with the press gallery, and it's not a formal process,

00:31:22.580 but they get together and they sort of decide what the story is going to be

00:31:26.320 and who the good guys are going to be and who the bad guys are going to be.

00:31:30.040 And we used to find, and I'm sort of drawing on memories of a different incarnation here,

00:31:35.360 but when they get to a meeting

00:31:40.460 they have their questions primed

00:31:42.700 about what they want to write about

00:31:44.120 not what a politician

00:31:46.540 who has called the press conference

00:31:48.640 wants to talk about

00:31:49.920 so they listen politely

00:31:50.960 when he starts to speak

00:31:54.220 they put down their pens

00:31:55.440 and when he has finished

00:31:58.780 they pick the pen up

00:32:00.120 and now they have their questions

00:32:03.280 which is about something completely different

00:32:05.100 Well, I don't think there's necessarily anything wrong with that.

00:32:08.080 I mean, because politicians often want to talk about what's convenient.

00:32:10.800 They don't want to answer the tough questions.

00:32:11.880 It's got to be both ways.

00:32:13.060 I rarely have seen a politician say, okay, I screwed the pooch, and the Auditor General says I lost $20 billion in vaccines,

00:32:23.300 so let's have a press conference and ask me questions about why I'm a screw-up.

00:32:26.540 They don't do that.

00:32:27.520 So it is the press's question to ask tough questions, not necessarily what they want to talk about.

00:32:33.140 But the problem is, I think it's kind of going the other way around right now.

00:32:38.140 The press is mostly talking about what the politicians want to talk about in Ottawa.

00:32:41.900 They're not doing tough investigative work into stuff they don't want to talk about.

00:32:45.420 And that's what Black Locks has been doing and embarrassing them over.

00:32:50.000 That's certainly been the way since COVID came along.

00:32:52.300 Where's our press release?

00:32:53.440 Now we have our story.

00:32:56.000 So, Corey, I think there is a balance here.

00:32:59.080 I think there is a role for a press gallery.

00:33:01.420 Some people might disagree.

00:33:02.560 Fine.

00:33:03.140 But, I mean, we're not going to allow anyone with a blog read by, you know, a guy and his mom into Parliament with unfettered access.

00:33:12.920 There wouldn't be a good press system if we did.

00:33:14.700 There's an unfortunate need for some sort of credentialing.

00:33:20.240 But, you know, with black locks out, I'm not positive because there are some other independent, non-government funded media in Canada.

00:33:27.480 I'm not sure if any of them have accreditation of Parliament Hill or not, so I can't say.

00:33:31.240 But it is possible this would leave us as the only media left physically in the press gallery that doesn't take government funding.

00:33:39.040 And this is one of the worries I expressed in my letter to the press gallery president was this makes me worried that we're going to be next, that you've taken out one of the last and now we might be the last.

00:33:52.280 How worried should we be? Or do you think this really is that Tom Korski was being a jerk? 0.99

00:33:55.940 and oh we should be worried i mean it's a small closed club and they don't like the up-and-comers 0.98

00:34:01.620 to a degree and i think one of the sins that black locks did though if they do like we are prone to 0.94

00:34:06.660 doing like twisting the knife saying hey we don't take tax dollars we we rub that in all the time 0.96

00:34:10.980 and we poke i never order people around here to rub that and it uh it bothers them it bugs them i

00:34:17.540 i believe that's a part of it and as nigel said also they've been showing them up a fair amount

00:34:21.940 in there they read gazette they go into that dull stuff and they're getting these stories that are

00:34:25.860 hard-working press will do. It's concerning because we don't want government managing,

00:34:29.300 as you said, there has to be some degree of access management. Don't want government doing it. You

00:34:33.060 want press organizations doing it, but they're becoming an introverted group. Like something

00:34:37.140 that's telling, because I searched it just to see if there was anything new before we started this

00:34:40.660 show. And they googled it because he was taken out by police. This was not minor. Police escorted

00:34:45.940 him out of there. Not a single legacy media outlet covered. Not a thing. There's nothing in CBC,

00:34:52.020 cctv global post media nothing it just the tnc western standard rebel media the the independent

00:35:00.300 outlets covered it those guys closed ranks and it shows the tight introverted club they're becoming

00:35:06.600 and that makes me worried it really does because i mean they should be i know it's easier said

00:35:11.960 than done but should be trying to change themselves as an institution with a changing world rather

00:35:17.400 than closing it off thinking they can save you know an industry that's just not the way it used

00:35:21.520 to be. It's, it's scary stuff. Well, let's talk about another closed little club here at the

00:35:28.380 University, University of Calgary. Nigel, you've kind of led the crusade of the Western standard

00:35:36.200 here on this file. University of Calgary has got some new hiring policies that are,

00:35:43.340 I can't think of any other word other than just blatantly racist, I suppose also sexist and 0.98

00:35:48.600 other things but give us the lowdown I just tell us about this damn thing okay 0.96

00:35:54.480 so here it is the the universe the university has made a decision to hire 0.94

00:36:02.980 45 new professors and they are the positions are all to go to what they

00:36:10.320 define as equity deserving individuals that's the quote-unquote that's the

00:36:17.280 that's the words they use and so now we have now we're seeing ads and go to our website and and

00:36:26.000 look at the there's two articles you should look at if this is your issue one is by ted morton

00:36:31.200 who of course is a tenured professor there as well as being a former cabinet minister in previous

00:36:39.040 this government of Alberta's progressive conservative governments.

00:36:45.880 And he shows, he leads you to, and so do I, because I've grabbed it from his article,

00:36:52.360 the actual job applicants, which will say something like,

00:36:55.920 this is for a black, we want a black economics professor. 1.00

00:37:03.140 Or we are hiring an indigenous woman for this position. 1.00

00:37:07.220 or it's a business professor at Haskane will be awarded to a woman.

00:37:16.260 You know, going back to the black one, it's not a question of white men need not apply. 0.94

00:37:20.400 You better not be Asian or Latin American either because you're not getting it. 0.93

00:37:24.400 They have nominated the race of the individual. 0.99

00:37:30.000 Now, I understand, having done further research since I wrote the article,

00:37:35.260 I gather that something rather strange happened here.

00:37:38.500 There's a thing called the General Faculties Council,

00:37:41.540 which operates kind of at sub-board level in the university.

00:37:46.540 And they approved this new diversity hiring initiative in August.

00:37:51.080 But they didn't actually bring it to the board right away.

00:37:53.380 So the board kind of found out about it after the fact as well.

00:37:57.280 So I'm saying the board should be fired.

00:37:59.500 Maybe I should be a little more generous about that

00:38:03.500 because they didn't know so the board didn't know knew how could they do this without the board

00:38:08.620 knowing well i'm sure the board is asking that very question at this very moment so uh

00:38:15.500 fire everyone involved well that that would be a good way to start now there is one other thing

00:38:21.820 that we have to know because you we all grew up thinking that um non-discrimination was the way

00:38:29.420 to go that's not true i don't like english people well we don't forget that we win the matches that

00:38:36.460 matter so the uh too many men on the field anyway look the thing is this there's a lot of government

00:38:48.620 money involved in research and if the university doesn't have these kinds of policies in place

00:38:53.660 they will not get federal money to fund federal research everything the federal government does

00:39:01.100 when it's giving out money is aimed at producing a certain opinion and elevating that you you want

00:39:08.000 to research climate change and you don't have the right goal in mind you will not get funded

00:39:12.720 and so in this case it's become a federal policy that they need to bring in these uh what they

00:39:19.420 would call affirmative action hires, what we would call racist, if you don't have the right set of

00:39:27.080 rules in place, your university people will not get funded. So this is the kind of racket is much

00:39:34.280 bigger than the University of Calvary. It goes all the way back up to Ottawa.

00:39:38.060 So let's get into it. And just so you know, everyone, I only hired Corey because he's a

00:39:44.480 bacon eating Jew. Yes. Yeah. We do have a quota for, we have lots of quotas here. I hear everyone on quotas. We actually, we're over our Englishman quota here. We're in a couple of those. Yeah, we got a lot of English here. Okay. What are our hiring principles at the Western Standard? Do we have them written down there? Did you? I didn't print that one off. Yeah, I bet you know. You know, so we've got this Bible I've built this dry, fairly 1.00

00:40:14.120 bureaucratic piece called policies and procedures manual. We've got a section on it. You know,

00:40:20.180 I was going through when the company was kind of growing, we built this thing. I found some

00:40:24.180 templates. A lot of companies have their diversity, inclusion and equity section came to mine and

00:40:31.240 there was a recommended text and I just highlighted and deleted the entire thing. And I just

00:40:36.860 replaced it and said, everyone is hired, fired, promoted or demoted on the basis of merit and merit alone. And the company will never have, does not have and will never have an affirmative action program under the current management of this company. Period. If anyone doesn't like it, they should quit immediately. That's it. Because here, we have only ever hired people or let them go on the basis of merit and merit alone.

00:41:05.040 And of course, we don't get government money.

00:41:07.740 No, no.

00:41:09.560 I would imagine if we did, they'd have some problems with our policies.

00:41:16.620 Okay, Corey.

00:41:18.440 So universities fall under exclusive provincial jurisdiction, but the federal government does provide a lot of funding.

00:41:24.800 They try to attach strings to it.

00:41:26.400 This is kind of one of the issues the Sovereignty Act should ostensibly be tackling is federal meddling in clear areas of provincial jurisdiction here.

00:41:32.500 But most of the money comes from the province. What would be the correct response here? Because we know the federal government doesn't care about this. They probably boost their funding if they have quotas for people in blackface. But what's the appropriate response for the province here?

00:41:54.580 That's tough, you know, because you want to maintain a degree of independence

00:41:57.740 of the universities is supposed to be important.

00:41:59.500 And I know that's not real, as we're seeing the way Ottawa does guide

00:42:03.140 and direct them for dangling the purse strings.

00:42:06.060 And if you get the province, particularly right now, I mean,

00:42:08.640 we're going to just say with the state of Alberta and where it is,

00:42:11.140 I don't think Premier Smith needs to dive into this issue

00:42:14.340 and seem to be getting prescriptive with university hiring policies.

00:42:17.680 They get provincial money and they have a blatantly racist hiring program.

00:42:23.900 So let's just say they were willing and ready to take it on.

00:42:27.380 Then they should be saying we need to have a truly inclusive hiring policy in your place or we won't fund you.

00:42:33.840 It gets as simple as that.

00:42:35.200 They may as well be that blunt.

00:42:36.340 I can't see them doing it.

00:42:37.260 The problems can fire the board, though.

00:42:38.200 They can, and I just can't see them doing it.

00:42:41.020 Why?

00:42:41.840 This seems actually like a winner to me.

00:42:43.720 I mean, I don't know anyone who would vote UCP who would support this kind of stuff.

00:42:48.820 This is the most extreme fringe kind of woke.

00:42:51.980 because you can see where the battles will go in putting the premier on the defensive.

00:42:56.420 So they do that, and we can see question period already. 0.81

00:42:59.440 Leader of the opposition, Madam Premier, why do you not want black people to get good jobs? 0.98

00:43:04.340 Then Premier Smith has to explain why that's ludicrous. 0.99

00:43:07.960 Why do you not want women to get jobs? 1.00

00:43:09.820 I mean, they're just going to play it and beat it and hammer it, 1.00

00:43:12.740 and it doesn't matter if it's a fact, and it's frustrating.

00:43:15.560 Now, I'm just saying if the government was in a stronger position right now,

00:43:18.800 maybe they can take on that war, because this is absurd. I mean, we're supposed to be inclusive,

00:43:24.040 and this is the complete opposite of it. Every one of those things, when you categorize a very

00:43:27.900 specific gender or race, it means you're excluding everybody else, and two wrongs don't make a right.

00:43:33.360 Well, and worse, I'd say, because what you do, when you have a quota system like this,

00:43:40.200 you denigrate and take away from the accomplishments of people who might fall

00:43:45.580 into some of these minority categories. I don't I don't know why we call women minorities. They're

00:43:50.060 actually about 51% of the population. But we take away equity seeking groups, we take away from the

00:43:59.420 accomplishments of these people. If there is a person in equity deserving group category C,

00:44:09.020 and they earned the job on merit, they were the best person, the hardest working person,

00:44:13.900 And most of them there did at this point, yeah.

00:44:17.200 No, you can't then look at this person and then wonder in the back of your mind,

00:44:20.820 does this person deserve the job?

00:44:21.980 You take away from those who are actually earning it from those groups.

00:44:26.240 I'll take it one step further, just going back.

00:44:28.660 I remember it can harm students when you get these sorts of things, too, though.

00:44:32.220 I remember years ago, they changed the curriculum for the law program for indigenous students,

00:44:36.540 so they could take a whole bunch of different electives and still get a law degree,

00:44:39.200 so they could take Cree 101, a whole bunch of things.

00:44:41.520 Now, I'm sure there's some fantastic First Nations lawyers who are out there.

00:44:47.080 But if you're shopping on something as important as a lawyer and you're looking and you realize this person's First Nations,

00:44:51.740 did that person pass and become a good lawyer because of their excellent work ethic and strength?

00:44:57.860 Or did they kind of fast track it through those side courses that were offered to them?

00:45:02.100 And it harms the Indigenous lawyers who work their asses off and are probably very good lawyers.

00:45:07.360 like it's the wrong effect and it's hurting them the people who need ostensibly the help

00:45:14.000 you know what's really sad about this the people who uh will will say well if you don't support

00:45:20.640 affirmative action if you don't support racial discrimination in hiring you're racist yeah okay

00:45:29.040 that is becomes becomes racist to object to racist hiring policies so i i get what you're

00:45:34.960 saying, Corey, that, I mean, it's just that it'd be another, like, there's enough controversies

00:45:38.960 going on in this government. I agree. And there's a lot of big fights they're having. But I think

00:45:43.520 this one's a winner. Yes, Notley will say that. Yes, the NDP will say that and the array of

00:45:48.800 garden variety lefty groups. But I think most Albertans, I think this is a winner with a clear

00:45:54.560 majority of Albertans who see this kind of thing. And they say, it goes too far.

00:45:59.120 I think maybe if they can take it on in June, perhaps if they have a majority, then you can

00:46:03.120 can fight it out for a year and not get into the weeds. I think it's a good election issue. I think

00:46:07.220 they should stick it to them. We'll see. Fire them all right now. Lock, stock, and barrel. Anyone who

00:46:12.280 was within a mile of this decision and didn't publicly speak out should get shit-canned right 0.99

00:46:17.100 now. Well, it would certainly stir the pot, that's for sure. Also, it's my favorite thing to do, 0.98

00:46:22.360 firing government employees. It's just great. Yeah, I like that. Like Elon Musk at Twitter.

00:46:27.820 Put Elon Musk into the government going around with a paintball gun. Everyone of you guys got

00:46:31.160 paint on their shirts fired. Okay, everyone. Thank you, gentlemen, for your time today. I think

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The Pipeline： Gun grab backfires on Liberals

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