Krampus, the good cop, bad cop, naughty and nice demon? Who is he and why is he on The Pipeline? Plus, a look at how Hamas supporters are trying to disrupt Christmas shopping in malls across the country.
00:03:40.640Speaking of Hamas supporters in our streets, Scotiabank says, quote, excessive immigration is driving inflation in Canada. That's coming from their VP, head of capital markets.
00:03:57.840So, not usual to see that coming from kind of an establishment figure, but a recognition that these incredible excessive immigration numbers, you know, you don't have to be anti-immigration here, but these are eye-watering immigration numbers that we're taking in, many of which are probably supporting Hamas now in our family, in our community malls, is driving inflation.0.77
00:04:23.040But Ottawa promising essentially to ban non-electric vehicles within a few years,
00:04:30.540mandating that you can only buy electric cars.
00:10:19.940All right, so you can see there a guy doing his best impression, his best kind of cosplay Osama bin Laden, threatening to kill people feet away from police officers.0.65
00:10:46.580You can see police officers in this video and they're just standing there. Now, I've heard some explanations while they're trying to de-escalate. So I can perhaps see not arresting him on the spot immediately right there because his fellow Hamas supporters could very easily turn violent.0.94
00:11:01.900These are obviously violent people. They're advocating for violence. They're threatening violence. So I don't know. There's some police judgment to take place, although advocating violence exactly right there on the spot in front of police normally would warrant a police response at that exact moment.
00:11:21.940Although, if I was the cop side, maybe let him talk. Let him finish saying what he's saying to gather the evidence and then arrest.
00:11:29.420But they didn't wait till he was done for the evidence to be accumulated.
00:11:34.520They didn't wait just till the protest was done to not spark it, turning explicitly violent, not just calling for violence and genocide there.
00:11:41.820They just didn't place charges, period.
00:11:45.100Their excuse was that it was not against the police, it was against an individual.
00:11:48.940the individual just didn't want charges and create a fuss but that's not the way charges
00:11:53.500work in Canada the police do not need your permission to place charges they might listen
00:11:58.700to you a bit but if it's clear and you someone's committed a crime uh like if someone chopped my
00:12:03.580left arm off and I said I don't want to press charges the police are still going to press
00:12:07.180charges for chopping my left arm off they didn't do anything so maybe we'll start with the police
00:12:13.900response, Nigel, what do you think can justify the police doing absolutely nothing to open
00:12:21.760terrorism supporters and genocide supporters threatening violence right in front of them
00:12:27.680with clear evidence and doing absolutely nothing? I think it's terrible. I mean, to your point about
00:12:33.280it's a dumb public relations move for Hamas supporters to go after Christmas, they just did0.95
00:12:40.580and they just got away with it and the message that that takes is hey what does it take come on
00:12:46.660boys let's go and do it somewhere else there was video there you'll probably pick it out at a
00:12:52.120minute you hear the the man threatening a police officer to say i'll put you six feet under
00:12:56.640like there is i understand that they don't want a fight they don't want an insurrection they don't
00:13:06.960want an armed rebellion that they have to put down in the middle of a shopping mall i do get that
00:13:12.400but what exactly if you're not going to say no to that what are you going to say no to
00:13:17.160and the answer is we don't know yet because nobody has yet said no to this kind of behavior
00:13:24.120i think it's absolutely asking for more trouble i understand that the i think the word went out
00:13:29.960well let's let's hit the shopping on december the 23rd yes we'll see what happens on the 23rd but
00:13:35.040But if there are outrageous scenes, it's going to be because they didn't stop it at this particular incident here.
00:13:44.620You know, Corey, we haven't seen vigilante responses to anything yet.
00:13:51.360But when the police do nothing in the face of this, it both justifies and incentivizes vigilante responses.
00:14:01.240You know, I'll consider you that that's going to be the inevitable result here. If the police do absolutely nothing, that Jewish people or people who simply are opposed to genocide of the Jewish people and who are opposed to Hamas and other radical Islamist organizations like this, that they're just simply going, OK, these guys say they're going to crash malls again on the 23rd, that they're going to see a bunch of people show up and take matters into their own hands if the police do nothing.
00:14:28.780There's a very high risk of that. And, you know, when you see more and more disorder, you see less separating it and people becoming more and more offended, more and more concerned, there is a high potential for somebody saying, well, that's it, I'm going to get up and deal with this myself, which will be far worse than having the police involved.
00:14:47.440I mean, there's a much lesser chance of some self-control or properly even, you know, vigilanteism, I mean, has its appeal in some senses, but they can often target the wrong people.
00:20:04.880So Derek Holt, he is vice president, head of capital markets at Scotiabank, saying something that you don't expect to hear from a Scotiabank VP type.
00:20:18.320It says, immigration is excessive, full stop. Canada just added about 431,000 people in Q3 alone here. That's like, presto, here's a new city of London, Ontario, created in one quarter, or almost a new city of Hamilton, a 1.1%, quarter over quarter, non-annualized increase in population of one quarter.
00:20:41.360StatsCan noted that even just in the first nine months of this year exceeded population growth for any other year since Confederation in 1867.
00:20:56.360So, I mean, you don't have to be a shut the borders, build a wall, anti-immigration type to think that 400,000 people a quarter is maybe a bit excessive for a country, Canada's size and population, particularly when Canada is facing a massive housing shortage when we still have areas of significant unemployment in the country.
00:21:21.360This is entirely a way outside of the cultural or religious arguments and some groups probably assimilate a bit easier than others. I'd argue that Hamas lovers are not going to be an easy integration into Canada.0.97
00:21:35.960But we'll start with you, Corey, about, you know, do you think something like, so Holt here is not, you know, he's not Bob from Red Deer who, you know, people expect have a problem with immigration.
00:21:55.600Do you think this is going to have any impact on Ottawa's policies at all?
00:21:59.000I hope so. Like if it's the beginning of some, you know, respectable people in high positions coming out and saying the emperor has no clothes, saying the numbers that other people and pundits have been saying now for quite some time, just that these numbers right now are unsustainable.
00:22:14.280We can't manage this. We don't have enough houses. We don't have enough health care facilities. We don't have the ability to do that.
00:22:19.860So it might embolden others in his sort of position in the business community, maybe the political community, to be able to come out and say what I think everybody's already been thinking, that we just can't do this.
00:22:31.060The problem is bringing in these immigrants is pumping up our GDP, and it's keeping us from going into a technical recession.1.00
00:22:41.820But the reality is the GDP per capita is sliding into the toilet.
00:22:45.760And, you know, people with any economic knowledge, such as the gentleman from Scotia, know this and understand this.
00:22:52.520And I don't see too many more standing by and allowing the federal government to basically crater Canada's economy just to try and avoid a recession that might be politically unpopular.
00:23:03.500I think there's also an element of these, I think there's an expectation within the Trudeau liberals that these are people who are going to vote for them.
00:23:12.420Now, strictly speaking, they can't vote until they've been here three years.
00:23:16.820Well, it's an assembly line of voters.
00:23:18.560It's an assembly line of voters who are going to be sympathetically disposed.
00:23:22.620This whole thing is so counter other elements of federal policy.
00:23:28.200For example, you're trying to cut carbon dioxide emissions.
00:26:59.340Now then, I'll be critical about that.
00:27:02.480It was your colonies at the time perhaps, yeah.
00:27:07.380But you know, you have to bring in reasonable numbers
00:27:10.700people and you you need to make sure they can reasonably adapt and assimilate now assimilation0.89
00:27:15.740is a bad thing apparently in canada they're not supposed to assimilate at all but we don't even
00:27:19.980seem to care about the numbers so we're supposed to pay lip service on the supply side for housing
00:27:25.180but we just bring in a tsunami of people driving up demand uh and let's talk about the conservatives
00:27:31.900here because the conservatives are so terrified talking about immigration they won't touch this
00:27:36.300Yeah, and Polyev is bolder than previous conservative leaders on a lot of topics, but he's afraid on this one because conservatives, if they even talk reasonably and moderately about immigration, even a moderate center left, just not towing the line of the extreme open borders, unlimited immigration line, they get tart as racist and xenophobic and anti-immigration.
00:28:00.800Is there any hope here that the Conservatives are going to be able to grow a pair here?
00:28:06.300Because they're rightfully afraid of it.
00:28:08.020Conservatives get tarred with it so damn easily.
00:28:10.260Are they right to stay silent and probably do nothing about it?
00:30:19.380It's a whole nother discussion when they're coming south to north.
00:30:22.860But the problem is it's the world's largest undefended border, and we want it to stay an undefended border, open border.
00:30:32.580That is a good open border, free flow of goods, people and services.
00:30:37.360But if it becomes a serious security concern for the United States, it's going to become a little less free because it's easy to cross.0.95
00:30:45.680I crossed it once in a farmer's field outside of Coutts, I don't know, probably a decade ago, just for fun.
00:30:52.860I just saw the Milk River, it's just a barbed wire fence.
00:31:15.900So Ottawa is very open, you know, about letting in anyone who thinks they might even vaguely want to come here, but very restrictive about products that can make your life better in some ways, like, I don't know, the ability to drink a iced cappuccino with Tim Hortons without your straw turning to mush before your eyes.
00:31:39.760So, you know, for some time Ottawa's had, it's been on single-use plastics, including plastic straws and even compostable plastic style grocery bags, absolutely moronic stuff.
00:31:53.340I just buy a bunch of plastic straws on Amazon and keep it in my truck.
00:31:59.260About a week ago, I was with my daughter to Tim Hortons, and I ran out of my big plastic straws for a nice cappuccino.
00:32:05.960And I was like, oh, crap, I have to use what they have.
00:32:07.840So I just ask for five, ask for five straws, and as soon as it gets limp, you throw it away, you know.
00:32:15.180I don't know how this is saving the environment.
00:32:17.380I go through half a tree just to drink one iced cappuccino at this point.
00:32:20.960But to my surprise, Ottawa lost in court on this one.
00:32:27.120This, you know, is unconstitutional, ultra-virus outside of Ottawa's jurisdiction.
00:32:33.780And the federal government's fighting it.
00:32:35.680They've now, Environment Minister Stephen Gilbeau, to no one's surprise, announced that, no, Ottawa was going to press forward and appeal the court's decision that said that this ban was unconstitutional.
00:32:49.740And, yeah, and Alberta saying it's going to get intervener status and go to fight it.
00:32:57.980Where does the fight go from here, Nigel?
00:33:01.440One is that as Premier Smith said this morning in the interview that we had, which will be up later today when it's been processed, the environment minister is 99 percent ideologue.
00:34:18.940It is fresh out of the packet, and it is sterile, pure, and not toxic.
00:34:22.440And yet, the environment minister will stand there, and in the one breath, say that carbon dioxide,
00:34:28.380which is plant food is pollution and in the next breath say that this thing is going to kill you
00:34:33.780it's toxic so there is some very there is some very serious you need to follow the science
00:34:40.720nigel oh i tell you then it goes on but you ask what's what's what's this about um the problem
00:34:49.700you know the smith government is going to fight it they will probably win it because it's
00:34:56.020self-evidently obvious. I don't know. Now goes to Supreme Court, which is pretty stacked by Trudeau.
00:35:01.000I mean, but it's made some decisions recently that surprised me. It has surprised me. They gave you C-69. They may too. Don't forget, these people are political in a different way. And they can see that the liberal government is actually not commanding the support of the people.
00:35:19.400polls continue to plunge and when they're deciding things they're supposed to be looking for
00:35:26.100what is the consensus of the Canadian public it's right there in the in the Constitution Act so
00:35:33.380I think they may take the view most people don't think plastic is toxic otherwise they wouldn't
00:35:40.640put it anywhere near their lips mouths or eyes so I wouldn't count on them winning that but I also
00:35:47.880It wouldn't count on the federal government respecting their judgment when they lose.
00:35:53.100I suppose that's where the Sovereignty Act comes in, Corey, that, you know, I mean, the Sovereignty Act seems to be, it was weaker than the original proposed version during Smith's leadership campaign.
00:36:03.980But the version we have in legislation now more or less just puts the onus on Ottawa to sue Alberta to stop rather than the other way around.
00:36:13.420Because, you know, traditionally, Alberta sues Ottawa. And even if you know, we have to wait years for a judgment, even if we win, Ottawa disregards it doesn't do it anyway. So Alberta is just going to go ahead and do its own thing. And Ottawa is going to have to come in and stop and stop us themselves. So, I don't know, maybe talk about how the Sovereignty Act.
00:36:34.260Well, it's difficult. I'm not sure if it can. I mean, it's already act as I've seen it just keeps clarifying things and gives us a basis to go in with legally. And as you said, sort of makes forces them on the defensive to have to come in and justify things to us. But Ottawa, this particular government has made every policy a hill to die on, no matter how many court losses, public opinion losses, legislative losses, anything that happens, they will fight it to the bitter end. They won't just say, okay, that kind of failed. We'll just kind of let it
00:37:04.240die by the wayside, move on with the rest of our agenda. No, they're going to appeal it to the
00:37:07.520Supreme Court. And if the Supreme Court says it's unconstitutional, I got a feeling like with other
00:37:11.820things in this night, so they're just going to power ahead. And what can we do provincially to
00:37:16.700stop them? I mean, we can say we aren't going to comply. But the problem is, it's a private business
00:37:20.420that orders these products from over the border, which is federally controlled. And you start into
00:37:25.740a whole, ironically, I mean, we've got straw bans that might threaten the actual unity of the
00:37:31.560country, because if the government isn't abiding by Supreme Court rulings on the Constitution,
00:37:35.400we don't have a country. There's a great straw breaking the cannon's back reference in there.
00:37:40.100Yeah, well, it's all about optics, right? That's why they didn't want to see the co-op bags. I mean,
00:37:45.760even if they were compostable, because you can see the bag, you look at it, it looks like plastic.
00:37:50.360That bugs them more than the reality of the plastic. I mean, I know there's real issues.
00:37:54.560You know, my property bounds on Fish Creek, and in 10 years, I haven't seen a porpoise in there yet,
00:37:58.460And it's probably due to the straws that have gone into the water.
00:38:01.320But we've got to find better ways to cope with it.
00:38:03.560But like I said, it's a game of optics.
00:41:29.760So if you can't subsidize them, they're just going to mandate them.
00:41:35.260You're going to have to, though, buy them.
00:41:36.700You want to take more than the bus anywhere?
00:41:38.800Well, you're going to have to buy an e-vehicle.
00:41:41.940This is obviously going to create an absolute crisis in the vehicle market because it'll create scarcity.
00:41:48.620So actually, your used vehicle, hang on to, if it's gas.
00:41:51.700Oh, it's going to be worth a lot of money.
00:41:52.680You know, it's going to be worth a lot more money than before, because I'll buy a 20-year-old gas-powered vehicle over a brand new electric vehicle, because I just depend on it more.
00:42:04.780Let's pretend the Liberals stay in power here.
00:42:07.620Highly doubtful the Liberals are going to be in power by 2035, I think.
00:42:12.180Maybe they'll be back in power by then.
00:42:13.740Alberta will be on its own by then, if that's the case.
00:45:10.260Yeah, you turn 16, you get on the waiting list to get your, you know, little Soviet jalopy in 20 years or something, you know, maybe, maybe we'll, maybe we'll just go the route of Cuba that like, we'll have just, you know, 20 30 years from now, we'll just have all these classic cars on the road, we'll start fixing our cars, they're not going to physically, at this point, at least physically seize our combustion engine, combustion combustion engine.
00:45:40.260vehicles. They're just not going to allow new ones to be sold. So like in that case, I'm just
00:45:46.640keeping my truck forever. My truck's good for a while longer, but eventually I would probably get
00:45:50.840a new one. Maybe I won't. Maybe I'll just drive my F-150 until the day I die. Punishing extra
00:45:56.480gasoline tax. We know he's not going to achieve these goals, but he can do a terrific amount of
00:46:01.720damage trying. That's the problem, you know? And again, with these poor auto dealers, what the
00:46:08.580heck are they supposed to do when they're caught in the middle like this is basically gilbo admitting
00:46:12.740a policy failure he's saying we don't know how to make everybody else buy these things so we're
00:46:17.380gonna find the heck out of you if you don't find a way to make everybody buy these things
00:46:21.460and it's out of our hands and uh it's it's irresponsible and it's it's frightening i think
00:46:26.100was reagan who said if it uh if it moves tax it if it still moves regulate it if it when it stops
00:46:34.100moving nationalize it so okay vehicles were going well tax carbon tax still
00:46:41.480moving we wanted to stop so now they're gonna directly regulate it they're gonna
00:46:45.800regulate what vehicles you can buy so eventually they'll probably killed the
00:46:50.660auto industry and that's Ontario's problem so okay but it'll become a
00:46:55.040Canadian problem because we can't get the cars we want so then we'll end up0.90
00:46:58.640nationalizing it which actually Stephen Harper partially
00:47:34.900And eventually the federal government might end up opening dealerships because no one's going to want to sell it because no one's going to buy these cars.
00:48:00.020Well, people are just scared that they're not going to have the electricity available to charge.
00:48:03.960Well, of course, we think that's what we don't have the we don't have the generating capability to begin with, especially with the federal right new regulations.
00:48:13.220They're trying to impose on the provinces for generation, especially in places like Alberta.
00:48:16.680We're clearly not going to have the generation. And also just are we going to have a charging station every few kilometers the way we do gasoline?
00:48:24.380And who's willing to sit around and wait a few hours for your vehicle to charge?
00:48:47.480I'm sure there's probably, I'm sure there's an EV in my neighborhood somewhere.
00:48:51.220But I don't recall ever seeing one other than an Uber that came in with a fake Mustang symbol.
00:48:57.480on it because I guess that's what Ford does they take their EVs and call them Mustangs
00:49:01.840all right anyway uh we're gonna we're out of time we're gonna wrap it up there thank you
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