00:00:00.000Good evening, I'm Derek Fildebrandt, publisher of the Western Standard, and you're watching
00:00:23.300the pipeline. Today is December 7th, 2022. I'm joined, as always, by Nigel Hanford. Nigel.
00:00:32.120Good to be here again. Thank you. And joined by the always warm and cuddly
00:00:36.860Corey Starfish Morgan. How are you doing? Oh, good. I'm into the holiday spirit.
00:00:41.700Are you excited for the Starfish Awards coming up this weekend? Well, you know,
00:00:45.000I don't know if I could win it two years in a row, but I've still got time to do something.
00:00:49.020Do you think you're on the list? I don't think so, actually.
00:00:52.480Just 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.
00:01:01.580We always do it at our annual Christmas party.
00:01:03.620And one such award, my favorite award, is the Starfish.
00:01:07.080And this is awarded to the Western Standard employee or senior contractor who has the biggest screw up of the year.
00:01:13.880And the award is actually named in honor of Corey Morgan.
00:03:05.940They can't pretend not to be taking away regular hunting rifles anymore. They nakedly are now. We'll get into that in a bit.
00:03:15.500The Press Gallery, the Canadian Parliamentary Press Gallery, has expelled Black Locks reporter.
00:03:20.180I'm sure regular listeners, watchers, and readers of the Western Standard will see it.
00:03:26.220They were a great news service, the Western Standard Contracts, doing a lot of the work we do on Parliament Hill,
00:03:31.500expelled by the Parliamentary Press Gallery from the Parliament Hill facilities.
00:03:34.840And the University of Calgary's racist hiring policies. Absolutely insane, no pun intended, black and white racism coming in the hiring policies of the University of Calgary. The Western Standard's done a lot of digging into this, coverage of this, and we're going to get skinny on it.
00:03:55.480Okay, before we get going, though, I want to remind you all that if you're not yet a member of the Western Standard, shame on you.
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00:04:33.680The liberals have been trying to turn gun control, they've always tried to make gun control a wedge issue.
00:04:40.420But for the most part, with the exception of the gun registry, it had become temporarily somewhat depoliticized in Canada.
00:04:48.960There 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.
00:04:59.760There 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.
00:05:16.380Then you had restricted, pretty much all handguns, a few select rifles or shotguns.
00:05:23.860And then you had prohibited, which is essentially automatic weapons and rocket launchers, really cool stuff I wish I could get.
00:06:11.260You don't need a gun, so therefore you shouldn't have it.
00:06:13.460And 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.
00:06:30.140But 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.
00:06:40.140And it is banning about half the hunting rifles out there.
00:06:46.820If it is a semi-automatic rifle with a detachable magazine, it is now going to be illegal.
00:06:53.480And that is, I gather, maybe a third of the hunting rifles out there.
00:06:58.700But you know why people like detachable magazines on guns?
00:07:03.280They don't shoot yourself getting in and out of a tree.
00:07:05.600One 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.
00:07:18.940Nothing in the chamber, no cartridges in the gun.
00:07:23.220And without a detachable magazine, like a .30-30 Marlin I've got, they go in the gun itself.
00:07:28.140and you have to cycle the thing. It's a pain in the ass, and if it's cold, you don't sometimes
00:07:32.380do it. It's dangerous. Magazine, pop it out, get in the tree. It's a safe
00:07:36.400thing to do. That's why hunters like it. But banned now.
00:08:18.320ideologically driven, though. I mean, their agenda
00:08:20.300is to take them all. They want to go incrementally.
00:08:22.860They're just going to keep recategorizing
00:08:24.540and recategorizing and taking bigger and bigger bites on what's allowed. And even until eventually
00:08:29.760nobody owns a firearm whatsoever. There's no doubt that's where they want to go. And they're doing it
00:08:34.160piece by piece. The only question right now is whether they bit off a little too much in this
00:08:37.940increment and went too far because they so loudly claimed, oh, we're not going after hunting rifles.
00:08:43.420Well, clearly they are. There's no doubt about it. These are distinctly hunting firearms they're
00:08:48.300hitting. So whether it was their own ignorance of what is a hunting rifle or what isn't, or their
00:08:53.140zeal and just trying to get as many as they can with this particular amendment in 21. But it's
00:09:00.680again, nobody can keep a straight face and say this has anything to do with public safety at
00:09:04.580this point. So men, am I saying that right? Mendoncino? He's saying we're not banning
00:09:11.940hunting rifles. But even those who support banning guns are more or less saying, well,
00:09:19.780yeah it is like these are simple hunting rifles these aren't the really cool stuff this isn't
00:09:27.140these aren't even like more advanced tactical sport shooting guns these are run-of-the-mill
00:09:32.900regular hunting rifles uh you know there's a tendency in politics to for those we oppose
00:09:41.060or disagree with to always attribute malice to things that could be explained by incompetence
00:09:48.100And 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.
00:10:10.560would you chalk it up more to just they're ignorant of guns and didn't know and this was
00:10:16.320maybe an error on their part or that this is them active they know what they're doing they
00:10:23.940know they're banning a huge number of hunting rifles and this is intentionally what they're
00:10:28.160doing a couple of things they can't not know the difference between something that they have
00:10:34.940already identified as in their in their minds as an assault weapon and what you have referred to
00:10:42.820just now as grandpa's hunting rifle but they've never defined what an assault weapon is no they
00:10:47.420haven't and they can't but they like they have a picture in their mind of what they're what
00:10:52.340they're talking about so they can't not know that they have now put the spotlight on an entirely
00:10:59.580different kind of firearm. So is it incompetence? No. I think it is actually poor judgment because
00:11:10.160some of the people who they would expect to applaud this are actually saying, you know,
00:11:14.580this isn't what we had in mind at all. I just caught something in the National Post this
00:11:21.300morning in which the uh woman writer was was saying what the fact is that men kill women
00:11:31.000this is and she had statistics to make her point she said this is not helping
00:11:37.620instead of considering concrete solutions to stop gender-based violence so many canadians
00:11:47.000attention is swept up debating hunting rifles that are rarely used in murder so that's somebody
00:11:56.760who should have been on their side who isn't so in in the messaging there is certainly incompetence
00:12:03.720as for malice you know i do think i could be wrong but i do think that there is something
00:12:13.420sort of a little boyish tendency in that party to do things that irritate and provoke people
00:12:21.180who don't agree with them. Well, we all kind of do that because it's fun.
00:12:28.460How often do we like to own the lips? It's a childish instinct in all of us to goad the other
00:12:35.180side to make them upset. Okay, well, it's one thing for us to sit here among the three of us
00:12:38.380and goad the other side. But when you're playing serious politics, and you want to get reelected
00:12:42.460in three years time it actually pays to to not pick the low-hanging fruit and throw it on the
00:12:50.140ground there are liberals in alberta for example who would be prepared to assist the party
00:12:58.060financially and vote for it not that it will do them much good but they do have friends in alberta
00:13:05.740saskatchewan parts of bc this sort of thing irritates people because it seems like we just
00:13:12.060want to stick it to you because you're in the West. Well, there's a few things here. You know,
00:13:16.700there are, you know, there's fairly small minority voters, but they're here, you know, liberal and
00:13:21.100even NDP voters in Alberta. But I bet you even they do, even though they're in Alberta and
00:13:27.260Saskatchewan, they're not, they're overwhelmingly not gun owners. You could do this in the United
00:13:33.020States, and I bet it would work almost as well in Canada. The number one determinant of how
00:13:38.220someone will vote in the United States you just do the data is are they a legal gun owner and if
00:13:45.260the answer is yes there is a almost 100% chance they're voting Republican or for a smaller right
00:13:51.980wing party like the libertarians or something or in heart you know Ted Nugent if he's running as
00:13:56.460an independent or something gun owners in Canada at least outside of First Nations as a rule do not
00:14:05.180vote 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
00:14:35.160pistol 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
00:15:05.140to finally define what the assault style weapons are and they bungled it because there is no such
00:15:11.300thing it's not based on functionality and the way they defined it was well a few things you know
00:15:17.620bore you know bore discharge and semi-automatic rifles with detachable magazines there's a bunch
00:15:26.900of other things too but yeah so that's them trying to define it but that is such a wild
00:15:33.460overreach. Because previous attempts by the liberals to vaguely define assault style was,
00:15:38.340well, it's got a black carbonite stock, and it looks scary, therefore it's assault style.
00:15:43.860To their credit, the liberals finally tried to actually come up with a functional
00:15:46.880definition of assault style. But that definition was clearly insane. It made no sense. So again,
00:15:54.360I'll put to either of you, is this incompetence? Or is this malice? I'm having a hard time
00:16:02.140figuring it out. Well, a little bit of both. You know, we had, I can't recall his name,
00:16:10.500a big measure of incompetence, actually, but there is malice. There could be both. It's
00:16:15.960definitely driven by ideology and political benefit, trying to wedge the conservatives,
00:16:21.080because most Canadians aren't gun owners. You know, if the liberals can make the election between gun
00:16:26.880owners and non-gun owners, well, the non-gun owners are going to win every time. There's just
00:16:29.980more of them. Even in Alberta, the majority of people don't own guns. We have a high proportion
00:16:34.820here. But, you know, we had, let's turn this maybe to something a bit more sensitive for the
00:16:39.800liberals. You have the goaltender of the Habs, I can't recall his name.
00:19:16.040There 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.
00:19:26.840And 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.
00:19:56.240I 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.
00:20:07.180I think that was their point, but it seemed like a poor way to make the point.
00:20:12.660It was poor, but, I mean, it's getting to the point now.
00:20:37.440We'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.
00:20:55.300They will make you ashamed of being who you are.
00:20:57.360And as you can see with the Habs, they're groveling and apologizing, and it works.
00:21:01.020But as you said, too, legacy media never ceases to surprise with jumping on like that.
00:21:05.880You know, we were talking about this earlier today.
00:21:07.980If you actually could ever get the statistics that would reveal how much criminality can be attributed to legal firearms owners,
00:21:17.020you would probably be utterly amazed how very, very little.
00:21:21.440The only data we have is from Toronto, because Toronto is the only city that started keeping track of crime guns.
00:21:27.720That is firearms used in the commission of a crime.
00:21:31.020And 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.
00:21:46.220Legally obtained Canadian firearms almost never make their way into crime.
00:21:52.500And 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.
00:22:05.880Because, I don't know, I'd rather give my gun to a thug on the street than a thug in a parliament.
00:22:18.120I don't see one as being much better than the other.
00:22:21.080Don't want to give it a thugs in parliament. No argument. Yeah. At least one will probably pay
00:22:28.140fair market value. I hear your phone ringing. Actually, this isn't on the agenda, but I'm
00:22:40.820going to add it in unilaterally right now. The Saskatchewan Firearms Act. My God, what an inspired
00:22:48.880piece of legislation. So the Saskatchewan Firearms Act, I could be wrong, but this might be one of
00:22:54.880the... Quebec has had certain firearms legislation trying to make it more restrictive, essentially
00:22:58.960trying to keep the long gun registry. But Saskatchewan has brought in an incredible
00:23:04.560piece of legislation here. It will more or less make it illegal for the police and fish cops
00:23:12.080to seize firearms that falls under the duty of a confiscation officer and to be become a confiscation firearms confiscation officer in Saskatchewan.
00:23:26.080You've essentially got to sacrifice your firstborn child and put up a billion dollar bond or something. They make it damn near impossible.
00:23:35.080They also create a parallel provincial statutory offense, which is a non-criminal offense.
00:23:40.040So provincial offenses, for those following at home, are not criminal.
00:23:45.360Criminal Code of Canada is federal and generally much more serious than provincial offenses.
00:23:49.800Provincial offenses are like traffic tickets, speeding tickets, things like that.
00:23:54.300So if you get found with a otherwise reasonable hunting rifle by the fish cops,
00:24:00.280Sorry, conservation officers. And they have right now they have an option to seize your firearm and criminally charge you for illegal firearms possession.
00:24:11.240Now they have the option of just give you a hundred dollar ticket. Go about your day.
00:24:17.920And there's a few other pieces of it, but it's a it's a it's an incredible bill that it passed.
00:24:24.900I 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?
00:24:39.300I 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.
00:24:45.840But 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.
00:24:56.340But there's going to be, and there's going to be a whole lot who are going to say to hell with you.
00:25:02.820And if the government wants their legislation to be effective, if they want it to actually work, that means they have to get them.
00:25:08.080So they have to find them somehow, which is going to take a lot of investigation.
00:25:12.160And then the ones that they know of, they have to take.
00:25:15.640And if they don't have people on the ground to take them, how are you going to do it?
00:25:18.720They'll have, what are you going to do?
00:25:20.720You can't, so we can see battles coming, though.
00:25:22.960This talks about the things like the Saskatchewan First Act or the Sovereignty Act in Alberta.
00:25:27.100We'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.
00:25:33.320And so it's interesting seeing the battle lines being drawn.
00:25:36.380We've got some interesting years ahead of us.
00:25:38.360So this is in Alberta, not what that particular act is in Saskatchewan.
00:27:20.200Yeah. You know, one of our reporters, Jonathan Bradley, he was talking about building a poll, you know, our daily poll on the site.
00:27:29.040And 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?
00:27:41.880And I said, do we not have made in there as an option? I thought that was a different day.
00:27:47.260Different poll. No, no, there's an option. Yeah, that might be a, that might be a usable, might be reasonable.
00:27:57.640Like I said, Ontario, Alberta under socialists here is still better than the socialists who call them conservatives in Ontario.
00:28:06.800So 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.
00:28:13.520But 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.
00:28:27.980So 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.
00:28:40.900And 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.
00:28:52.160But 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.
00:29:03.600It is a huge addition to the coverage we're able to provide with Matthew Horwood, our Parliamentary Bureau Chief.
00:29:10.400And they break stories, and they're so small.
00:29:14.040It's really, it's a husband and wife operation.
00:29:16.320And they break more stories than post-media, at least on Parliament Hill.
00:29:20.500They 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.
00:29:42.900He was telling them to F off and being a generally unpleasant guy.
00:29:51.100They've not provided a shred of evidence to this.
00:29:53.280I wrote a formal letter of protest yesterday.
00:29:55.600You know, Western Standard has press gallery access.
00:29:58.240I sent a formal letter of protest about this saying, look, either restore him or give him due process.
00:30:02.840And they said, well, we had a process.
00:30:03.900I said, fine, release the process and show us all the evidence.
00:33:03.140But, 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.
00:33:12.920There wouldn't be a good press system if we did.
00:33:14.700There's an unfortunate need for some sort of credentialing.
00:33:20.240But, you know, with black locks out, I'm not positive because there are some other independent, non-government funded media in Canada.
00:33:27.480I'm not sure if any of them have accreditation of Parliament Hill or not, so I can't say.
00:33:31.240But it is possible this would leave us as the only media left physically in the press gallery that doesn't take government funding.
00:33:39.040And 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.
00:33:52.280How worried should we be? Or do you think this really is that Tom Korski was being a jerk?
00:33:55.940and oh we should be worried i mean it's a small closed club and they don't like the up-and-comers
00:34:01.620to a degree and i think one of the sins that black locks did though if they do like we are prone to
00:34:06.660doing like twisting the knife saying hey we don't take tax dollars we we rub that in all the time
00:34:10.980and we poke i never order people around here to rub that and it uh it bothers them it bugs them i
00:34:17.540i believe that's a part of it and as nigel said also they've been showing them up a fair amount
00:34:21.940in there they read gazette they go into that dull stuff and they're getting these stories that are
00:34:25.860hard-working press will do. It's concerning because we don't want government managing,
00:34:29.300as you said, there has to be some degree of access management. Don't want government doing it. You
00:34:33.060want press organizations doing it, but they're becoming an introverted group. Like something
00:34:37.140that's telling, because I searched it just to see if there was anything new before we started this
00:34:40.660show. And they googled it because he was taken out by police. This was not minor. Police escorted
00:34:45.940him out of there. Not a single legacy media outlet covered. Not a thing. There's nothing in CBC,
00:34:52.020cctv global post media nothing it just the tnc western standard rebel media the the independent
00:35:00.300outlets covered it those guys closed ranks and it shows the tight introverted club they're becoming
00:35:06.600and that makes me worried it really does because i mean they should be i know it's easier said
00:35:11.960than done but should be trying to change themselves as an institution with a changing world rather
00:35:17.400than closing it off thinking they can save you know an industry that's just not the way it used
00:35:21.520to be. It's, it's scary stuff. Well, let's talk about another closed little club here at the
00:35:28.380University, University of Calgary. Nigel, you've kind of led the crusade of the Western standard
00:35:36.200here on this file. University of Calgary has got some new hiring policies that are,
00:35:43.340I can't think of any other word other than just blatantly racist, I suppose also sexist and
00:35:48.600other things but give us the lowdown I just tell us about this damn thing okay
00:35:54.480so here it is the the universe the university has made a decision to hire
00:36:02.98045 new professors and they are the positions are all to go to what they
00:36:10.320define as equity deserving individuals that's the quote-unquote that's the
00:36:17.280that's the words they use and so now we have now we're seeing ads and go to our website and and
00:36:26.000look at the there's two articles you should look at if this is your issue one is by ted morton
00:36:31.200who of course is a tenured professor there as well as being a former cabinet minister in previous
00:36:39.040this government of Alberta's progressive conservative governments.
00:36:45.880And he shows, he leads you to, and so do I, because I've grabbed it from his article,
00:36:52.360the actual job applicants, which will say something like,
00:36:55.920this is for a black, we want a black economics professor.
00:37:03.140Or we are hiring an indigenous woman for this position.
00:37:07.220or it's a business professor at Haskane will be awarded to a woman.
00:37:16.260You know, going back to the black one, it's not a question of white men need not apply.
00:37:20.400You better not be Asian or Latin American either because you're not getting it.
00:37:24.400They have nominated the race of the individual.
00:37:30.000Now, I understand, having done further research since I wrote the article,
00:37:35.260I gather that something rather strange happened here.
00:37:38.500There's a thing called the General Faculties Council,
00:37:41.540which operates kind of at sub-board level in the university.
00:37:46.540And they approved this new diversity hiring initiative in August.
00:37:51.080But they didn't actually bring it to the board right away.
00:37:53.380So the board kind of found out about it after the fact as well.
00:37:57.280So I'm saying the board should be fired.
00:37:59.500Maybe I should be a little more generous about that
00:38:03.500because they didn't know so the board didn't know knew how could they do this without the board
00:38:08.620knowing well i'm sure the board is asking that very question at this very moment so uh
00:38:15.500fire everyone involved well that that would be a good way to start now there is one other thing
00:38:21.820that we have to know because you we all grew up thinking that um non-discrimination was the way
00:38:29.420to go that's not true i don't like english people well we don't forget that we win the matches that
00:38:36.460matter so the uh too many men on the field anyway look the thing is this there's a lot of government
00:38:48.620money involved in research and if the university doesn't have these kinds of policies in place
00:38:53.660they will not get federal money to fund federal research everything the federal government does
00:39:01.100when it's giving out money is aimed at producing a certain opinion and elevating that you you want
00:39:08.000to research climate change and you don't have the right goal in mind you will not get funded
00:39:12.720and so in this case it's become a federal policy that they need to bring in these uh what they
00:39:19.420would call affirmative action hires, what we would call racist, if you don't have the right set of
00:39:27.080rules in place, your university people will not get funded. So this is the kind of racket is much
00:39:34.280bigger than the University of Calvary. It goes all the way back up to Ottawa.
00:39:38.060So let's get into it. And just so you know, everyone, I only hired Corey because he's a
00:39:44.480bacon 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
00:40:14.120bureaucratic piece called policies and procedures manual. We've got a section on it. You know,
00:40:20.180I was going through when the company was kind of growing, we built this thing. I found some
00:40:24.180templates. A lot of companies have their diversity, inclusion and equity section came to mine and
00:40:31.240there was a recommended text and I just highlighted and deleted the entire thing. And I just
00:40:36.860replaced 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.
00:41:05.040And of course, we don't get government money.
00:41:26.400This is kind of one of the issues the Sovereignty Act should ostensibly be tackling is federal meddling in clear areas of provincial jurisdiction here.
00:41:32.500But 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?
00:41:54.580That's tough, you know, because you want to maintain a degree of independence
00:41:57.740of the universities is supposed to be important.
00:41:59.500And I know that's not real, as we're seeing the way Ottawa does guide
00:42:03.140and direct them for dangling the purse strings.
00:42:06.060And if you get the province, particularly right now, I mean,
00:42:08.640we're going to just say with the state of Alberta and where it is,
00:42:11.140I don't think Premier Smith needs to dive into this issue
00:42:14.340and seem to be getting prescriptive with university hiring policies.
00:42:17.680They get provincial money and they have a blatantly racist hiring program.
00:42:23.900So let's just say they were willing and ready to take it on.
00:42:27.380Then they should be saying we need to have a truly inclusive hiring policy in your place or we won't fund you.