Western Standard - December 21, 2025


THE PIPELINE： Mass migration chaos, identity politics and BC conservative circus


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48 minutes

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175.76611

Word Count

8,439

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686

Misogynist Sentences

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Hate Speech Sentences

46


Summary


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Good day and welcome to The Pipeline. I'm Derek Fildebrandt, publisher of The Western Standard.
00:00:29.120 Today is December 17th, 2025. Our last episode before we get right up to Christmas. We'll be taking a little break over the holidays.
00:00:41.020 Unless all hell breaks loose. We had to be in kind of last year because Justin Trudeau's leadership was about to go down, so it was a less quiet Christmas than usual.
00:00:51.040 I'm not expecting anything like that, but we got a good likely last show of the year for you here today.
00:01:00.160 We're going to be talking about the circus of BC Conservative politics, both the BC Conservative Party and 1BC.
00:01:07.180 Both parties have decapitated their leaders. One with the majority of the caucus voting to overthrow them and the party board backing them up.
00:01:15.620 And then 1BC, a two-member caucus, which apparently was too big to hold together. That's too big a coalition to hold together.
00:01:22.940 One who's not the leader voting against the other one and then the party board. Just total damned mess.
00:01:30.240 So, we're going to be trying to carve apart what's happening in Lotusland.
00:01:35.520 Skate Canada is demanding that men get to compete against women in their events.
00:01:41.780 And if not, they're not holding any events in Alberta. Alberta doesn't get any Skate Canada events.
00:01:48.240 Because Alberta had the temerity to say that men don't compete against women, boys don't compete against girls.
00:01:54.760 I guess we're not past all the madness yet. I thought we had more or less won this battle.
00:02:00.720 Seems we won it in Alberta, the rest of Canada. You're still crazy.
00:02:05.540 But first, mass migration kills.
00:02:11.200 Everyone already knows what happened in, if I'm pronouncing it right, Bondi or Bondi?
00:02:17.160 Bondi Beach.
00:02:17.780 Bondi Beach in Australia. First day of Hanukkah.
00:02:21.640 Hanukkah. We don't know everything yet, but it would seem two radical Islamists opened fire and killed, I think, 10 that we know of.
00:02:36.100 No.
00:02:36.580 15, isn't it?
00:02:37.880 15, not 35.
00:02:39.100 Still more injured, so maybe the death toll could still climb.
00:02:44.000 Hope not.
00:02:44.360 But, you know, just a massacre in that country of Jewish people at the opening of Hanukkah.
00:02:53.360 And I'm dismayed by the reaction.
00:03:01.840 There's the usual hopes and prayers, thoughts and prayers, which is fine.
00:03:08.000 I mean, when something bad happens, it's an appropriate thing to do.
00:03:11.600 But, you know, the reaction of many, I think, is insulting our intelligence, what we just know to be true.
00:03:22.280 I think to a guest column penned by Erwin Kotler in the Golden Mail yesterday,
00:03:29.560 he is a Jewish former cabinet liberal, cabinet minister federally.
00:03:33.880 And, you know, he's...
00:03:35.880 Solicitor general for quite a while.
00:03:37.440 Yeah.
00:03:38.080 You know, a generally respected guy, thoughtful, and, you know, often looked to as a fairly public spokesman of the Jewish community in Canada.
00:03:45.820 And he couldn't have got it more wrong.
00:03:51.380 His point was, um, we need more education and training around anti-Semitism.
00:03:58.740 We need harder hate speech laws.
00:04:01.500 So, taking away freedoms.
00:04:03.460 And more control on guns.
00:04:06.700 More gun control.
00:04:07.960 More taking away freedoms.
00:04:09.060 Not once did he mention that Australia and us and the rest of the West have opened up our borders
00:04:18.280 and brought in a virtually unlimited pipeline of migrants,
00:04:23.660 many of which are carrying hateful ideologies wanting to do this.
00:04:29.180 Radical Islam being the overwhelmingly biggest culprit of that.
00:04:33.840 No mention that perhaps we should stand back and think that importing hundreds of thousands or millions a year,
00:04:45.960 depending on which country, of people,
00:04:49.760 a large proportion...
00:04:51.840 What proportion? I can't say exactly. No one can.
00:04:54.300 A large proportion of which wish to do violence against Jewish people.
00:05:01.120 No mention that perhaps that is the culprit for this.
00:05:06.720 Instead, the action is to take away more freedom of speech and more gun rights from Australians
00:05:11.540 who already don't have a lot of freedom of speech and don't have a lot of gun rights.
00:05:16.600 I'm picking on Erwin Kotler here just because this is a prominent Canadian example.
00:05:20.980 But this was essentially the reaction of the Australian Prime Minister
00:05:24.600 and many other leaders across the West, across the world.
00:05:30.500 This is the response, not end mass migration,
00:05:35.260 of which includes many people who are predisposed to want to do this.
00:05:39.380 Sorry to hurt your feelings, guys.
00:05:41.100 Obviously not everyone from the Muslim community is like that.
00:05:44.080 Not at all. Not even close.
00:05:45.840 But a large proportion is.
00:05:47.000 They got a big problem there and no one wants to talk about it.
00:05:49.560 No one wants to address it.
00:05:51.060 The answer is not that.
00:05:52.060 The answer is take away the freedoms of Australians.
00:05:56.060 And I feel like that's not only going to not stop the problem,
00:06:02.480 that's actually going to create anti-Semitism.
00:06:05.040 Well, they're certainly not going to gain votes for that particular Prime Minister,
00:06:10.160 Albanese.
00:06:11.800 You, of course, are still on my parting shot here,
00:06:15.260 but I was going to point out that within hours, minutes even,
00:06:19.600 of this incident,
00:06:21.700 when you call the death of 15 people an incident,
00:06:26.280 you're kind of damning with faint praise.
00:06:30.940 That's a terrible bloody thing that happened there.
00:06:33.780 And he comes out and he says,
00:06:35.040 well, you know,
00:06:36.060 I'm going to have to have tighter gun controls
00:06:37.860 as if it was the gun that was the problem
00:06:41.080 and not the two men with guns
00:06:43.780 who decided that day to go out and kill people.
00:06:47.320 You know, it's such a cliche.
00:06:48.520 Guns don't kill people.
00:06:49.500 People kill people.
00:06:50.380 Well, actually, they do.
00:06:51.360 But it's actually worse.
00:06:54.320 It's worse even than that
00:06:55.760 because what you're seeing in Australia
00:06:58.440 is what we see in Canada all the time
00:07:00.540 is an attempt to deny that there is a problem.
00:07:05.240 And if you say there isn't a problem,
00:07:06.620 then you don't have to do anything.
00:07:08.720 And if you don't have to do anything,
00:07:10.140 you don't have to offend the certain ethnic communities
00:07:14.760 and let's call the ones who came here as refugees from Gaza,
00:07:19.920 the ones who were already here,
00:07:21.660 who sympathize with them.
00:07:22.980 You don't have to call them out
00:07:24.380 and say, you guys did this.
00:07:27.540 Instead, you say, well,
00:07:28.720 as the Australian prime minister did,
00:07:30.700 we need to be on the watch out
00:07:31.940 for right-wing extremist groups who are white.
00:07:35.160 You know, it is an exercise in denial
00:07:39.420 and it is utterly shameful
00:07:41.640 and it seems to be all the major countries
00:07:44.720 of the Anglosphere won't actually step up
00:07:47.300 and call it what it is.
00:07:49.220 It is a war on Jews.
00:07:52.300 And I'm not, you know,
00:07:54.080 I didn't become much of a supporter of Israel
00:07:57.360 until October the 7th,
00:07:58.720 but my word,
00:07:59.820 if you were going to go around the world
00:08:01.220 and pick people off at Brown University
00:08:04.120 or some other American university
00:08:06.000 that came up in Connecticut recently,
00:08:08.260 it's going to go to have activists in Australia
00:08:10.780 one day to shoot 15 people dead.
00:08:13.480 If you were going to go to a German small town
00:08:16.560 and try and ram a car into their Christmas fair
00:08:21.100 and kill people that way,
00:08:23.340 there is something going on
00:08:26.200 and it is utterly foolish to deny it.
00:08:28.680 But that's what these people do.
00:08:30.440 That is the discouraging message
00:08:32.420 I take away from the events of Bondi Beach.
00:08:35.020 So the Australian Prime Minister,
00:08:37.540 Corey,
00:08:38.120 you know,
00:08:39.560 he says,
00:08:39.920 we've got to be able to look for right-wing terrorism here,
00:08:42.440 of which this obviously is not.
00:08:44.060 But his reaction is
00:08:46.920 not to address
00:08:48.240 the very obvious source of the problem,
00:08:51.020 mass migration from the Islamic world,
00:08:54.020 which has at least a significant portion,
00:08:56.600 again, what portion?
00:08:57.460 Don't know,
00:08:57.880 but a significant and critical mass proportion
00:09:00.720 that are willing to do this kind of thing,
00:09:03.180 and instead say,
00:09:05.100 we need to crack down on free speech
00:09:07.440 and we need to crack down on guns.
00:09:09.580 And by the way,
00:09:10.080 anyone who doesn't know,
00:09:11.260 they've already taken all the guns in Australia.
00:09:12.860 It's a dystopian place
00:09:15.140 for people with gun rights.
00:09:16.500 We're really bad in Canada,
00:09:18.160 but we're practically Texas
00:09:19.460 compared to Australia,
00:09:20.900 where they've taken everyone's guns away.
00:09:22.400 So the reaction isn't to deal
00:09:24.080 with the actual culprits of the problem
00:09:26.160 and the source of the problem,
00:09:27.840 mass migration,
00:09:28.840 is to take away
00:09:30.580 the freedoms of Australians.
00:09:34.300 I would posit that
00:09:35.420 while I don't think
00:09:36.320 they have a right-wing terrorism problem right now,
00:09:39.340 that's how you create one.
00:09:41.720 Oh yeah,
00:09:42.140 and then there's,
00:09:43.380 I'm paraphrasing probably
00:09:45.140 with Penn Jillette,
00:09:46.040 who said a great thing some years ago.
00:09:47.420 He said,
00:09:47.600 whenever something horrific happens,
00:09:49.200 somebody does something terrible,
00:09:50.660 governments step in
00:09:51.460 to take rights away from good people.
00:09:53.460 And that's what we're seeing in Australia.
00:09:55.300 They're cowardly.
00:09:56.480 They won't target
00:09:57.140 the root of the problem.
00:09:58.920 And it runs deeper
00:09:59.940 than just an anti-Jewish thing.
00:10:01.460 As Nigel touched upon,
00:10:02.480 though,
00:10:02.560 they're going after Christmas markets.
00:10:04.620 The radical Islamists
00:10:06.900 hate everybody.
00:10:08.880 I mean,
00:10:09.140 you know,
00:10:09.580 one of their targets
00:10:10.280 are Jews,
00:10:10.880 but when they rammed
00:10:11.880 into the World Trade Center,
00:10:13.680 it wasn't an anti-Jew thing.
00:10:14.960 It was an anti-Western,
00:10:16.100 anti-humanity,
00:10:17.300 and that had nothing to do
00:10:18.260 with firearms either.
00:10:19.960 So you can take away
00:10:21.500 all you like.
00:10:22.200 They're ramming vans
00:10:23.000 through people.
00:10:23.560 They're stabbing people.
00:10:24.640 They're blowing people up.
00:10:25.900 The Boston terrorists,
00:10:27.060 what kind of guns
00:10:27.620 did they use again?
00:10:28.440 So you have to stop
00:10:31.320 the killers,
00:10:32.640 not the tools
00:10:33.460 that they're using.
00:10:34.180 We can't ban airplanes
00:10:35.260 to stop another 911
00:10:36.420 from happening.
00:10:37.920 And we have to start holding,
00:10:40.380 and that's where
00:10:40.880 they're terrified,
00:10:41.780 the groups
00:10:42.380 and the countries
00:10:43.500 and the imams
00:10:44.780 and some of the people
00:10:45.560 responsible for the radicalization.
00:10:47.640 You know,
00:10:47.880 I'm going to use
00:10:48.400 with probably a terrible analogy,
00:10:49.720 but let's say I had my
00:10:50.300 big dog ranch
00:10:51.540 out in Prittis
00:10:52.040 and I had 5,000 dogs,
00:10:53.720 but most of them
00:10:55.280 were really well behaved,
00:10:56.380 but every once in a while,
00:10:57.240 five or six of them
00:10:58.000 would escape
00:10:58.400 and it turns out
00:10:58.900 they're vicious
00:10:59.300 and they would attack
00:10:59.940 a few people
00:11:00.400 before they're shot put down.
00:11:02.200 And I'll say,
00:11:02.680 yeah, but it's a tiny minority
00:11:03.720 of my dogs.
00:11:04.860 Would that get me off the hook?
00:11:07.060 You know,
00:11:07.480 we've got to start,
00:11:09.020 I don't care how tiny
00:11:10.160 a minority it is,
00:11:11.180 no other identifiable faith
00:11:12.960 or group
00:11:14.140 is spawning
00:11:14.960 so many radicals
00:11:16.440 as we're seeing
00:11:17.160 out of radical Islam,
00:11:18.000 as we have seen
00:11:18.880 for the last 80 years.
00:11:20.680 It's time to start
00:11:21.620 blunt speaking about it.
00:11:22.700 And I know
00:11:23.140 that can lead to prejudices
00:11:24.380 against many,
00:11:25.640 many peace-loving
00:11:26.400 Muslim people.
00:11:27.000 It was actually
00:11:27.780 a Muslim man
00:11:28.420 who intervened.
00:11:28.920 Yeah, that's important.
00:11:29.880 An incredible hero.
00:11:31.260 I mean,
00:11:31.680 he had courage
00:11:32.340 that I don't know
00:11:32.760 if we could all claim
00:11:33.460 to step in on.
00:11:34.620 And ironically,
00:11:35.380 he got shot
00:11:35.920 by the Australian police
00:11:36.940 with their Keystone
00:11:37.680 cop routine.
00:11:39.500 That's how he got shot.
00:11:40.840 He wasn't shot
00:11:41.660 by the terrorists,
00:11:42.300 he was shot by the cops
00:11:43.020 because they saw
00:11:43.460 a brown guy
00:11:43.880 with a rifle
00:11:44.320 and they shot him.
00:11:45.520 They shot the wrong one.
00:11:47.440 And so the cops,
00:11:48.240 from what I could tell,
00:11:48.960 actually even hid
00:11:49.680 and weren't doing their job.
00:11:51.040 Because this man,
00:11:51.580 because they didn't know
00:11:52.120 guns,
00:11:52.500 I didn't expect guns
00:11:53.340 to be part of my job.
00:11:55.320 It's just brutal.
00:11:56.580 And you wouldn't have
00:11:57.320 if we'd all been banned,
00:11:58.300 would you?
00:11:58.600 Well, exactly.
00:11:59.540 There is no gun.
00:12:00.460 One thing,
00:12:03.860 can I say,
00:12:04.580 I don't know,
00:12:05.220 Derek,
00:12:06.180 about the,
00:12:07.540 you know,
00:12:07.900 there's always a minority,
00:12:09.260 we're not condemning everybody.
00:12:11.020 One of the things
00:12:12.980 that sociologists
00:12:13.940 pointed out years ago
00:12:15.460 was that
00:12:17.520 in any sort of
00:12:18.460 mass national psychosis,
00:12:22.060 there is usually
00:12:23.860 only a very few people
00:12:26.960 who are prepared to act.
00:12:29.000 But there are 10
00:12:30.340 who will give them money
00:12:32.020 so that they can act.
00:12:33.640 And there are 90
00:12:34.580 who will read about it
00:12:35.620 in the paper
00:12:36.160 and nod their heads
00:12:36.920 approvingly.
00:12:37.900 And I think that's kind of,
00:12:39.460 I wouldn't want to be
00:12:40.420 hung up on the exact numbers,
00:12:42.320 but I think with,
00:12:43.480 with the Muslim population
00:12:45.440 in Canada,
00:12:47.260 most of them
00:12:48.080 will never attack you.
00:12:51.120 But,
00:12:52.580 some will certainly
00:12:54.760 support people
00:12:55.920 who do the attacking.
00:12:57.860 And if our reports
00:12:59.840 wants it to be believed,
00:13:01.120 the others
00:13:01.840 will quietly
00:13:03.180 nod with satisfaction
00:13:05.380 and look forward
00:13:06.520 to the day
00:13:07.020 when Canada
00:13:07.660 is a Muslim country
00:13:08.700 and we'll just get there
00:13:09.840 in the end.
00:13:10.560 That's the way
00:13:11.500 this is breaking down.
00:13:13.900 So...
00:13:14.200 Yeah,
00:13:14.380 and it's tough.
00:13:15.300 I mean,
00:13:15.480 we're talking,
00:13:16.340 immigration is part
00:13:17.060 of the root of it.
00:13:17.600 Mass immigration
00:13:19.600 and,
00:13:20.680 but I do admit
00:13:21.700 part of it's difficult.
00:13:22.780 I mean,
00:13:22.980 how do you separate
00:13:24.460 the fly poop
00:13:25.280 from the pepper?
00:13:25.940 How do you find
00:13:27.040 the radical immigrant
00:13:27.960 versus the genuine one
00:13:29.380 who just wants
00:13:29.840 to find a job?
00:13:30.440 You're getting into
00:13:30.880 thought crime territory.
00:13:32.140 Well,
00:13:32.320 that's why we don't
00:13:33.720 sift through it.
00:13:34.660 We just stop taking them
00:13:35.940 from that part of the world.
00:13:37.140 Oh,
00:13:37.320 I'm okay with that.
00:13:38.260 I'm just trying to...
00:13:39.280 I've been going off
00:13:40.800 the deep end
00:13:41.280 on this stuff lately.
00:13:42.160 I've gone from
00:13:42.640 very reasonable
00:13:43.620 and moderate
00:13:44.060 on immigration
00:13:44.880 should do
00:13:45.140 pretty hardcore.
00:13:47.200 You know what?
00:13:47.920 It's not our job
00:13:48.640 to sort it through.
00:13:49.380 It's your job
00:13:50.260 to sort it through
00:13:50.820 in your own countries
00:13:51.700 and when you guys
00:13:52.380 figure that out,
00:13:53.640 then we can talk.
00:13:54.460 We're not getting
00:13:54.820 any terrorists.
00:13:55.280 It's not up to us
00:13:57.100 to sort through
00:13:57.980 your shit.
00:13:58.880 You sort it out
00:13:59.440 in your own countries
00:14:00.260 and when you sort it out,
00:14:02.040 they'll come to us.
00:14:03.320 I mean,
00:14:03.560 it shouldn't be
00:14:04.520 our problem,
00:14:05.360 but we're
00:14:06.160 importing problems.
00:14:07.260 Yeah.
00:14:10.040 By the way,
00:14:11.000 we imported
00:14:11.680 a bunch of problems
00:14:12.640 30 years ago.
00:14:14.100 I remember
00:14:14.440 still the largest
00:14:15.640 terrorist incident
00:14:16.900 in Canada
00:14:18.220 was the Air India
00:14:20.040 bombing.
00:14:21.420 I think it was
00:14:21.720 something like
00:14:22.100 300 people
00:14:22.880 went down
00:14:23.580 with that plane.
00:14:24.540 That was not
00:14:25.520 planned by anybody
00:14:26.980 but people
00:14:27.520 who had immigrated
00:14:28.300 from India.
00:14:30.200 One wonders
00:14:30.780 whether for the
00:14:31.280 express purpose
00:14:31.980 of doing something
00:14:32.860 like that.
00:14:34.380 In that case,
00:14:35.000 it was not Muslims.
00:14:35.740 That was a radical
00:14:36.840 Shikin,
00:14:37.620 Kowalistani issue.
00:14:40.140 Put it in.
00:14:40.540 It is importing
00:14:41.380 from an extreme...
00:14:41.900 It's not bringing
00:14:42.280 all the problem people
00:14:43.560 in.
00:14:43.820 Well,
00:14:44.260 here's some
00:14:44.660 of the challenge
00:14:45.080 though.
00:14:45.300 Again,
00:14:45.560 I mean,
00:14:45.860 boy,
00:14:46.160 we're talking
00:14:46.760 about the radical
00:14:48.780 Kalistani movement
00:14:50.060 is very,
00:14:50.600 very dangerous.
00:14:52.100 Yet,
00:14:52.500 at the same time,
00:14:53.000 we have a massive
00:14:53.860 amount of Indian
00:14:54.500 immigrants into Canada
00:14:55.380 who never really
00:14:56.620 had a problem
00:14:56.920 with the Hindu
00:14:57.460 element coming in.
00:14:59.860 But that's where
00:15:00.500 you're starting to
00:15:00.940 sift through
00:15:01.800 the immigrant...
00:15:02.400 Well, yeah,
00:15:02.760 within the Sikh
00:15:03.940 community,
00:15:04.420 they terrorize
00:15:05.120 other members
00:15:05.740 who are more
00:15:06.200 moderate.
00:15:06.720 Within the Sikh
00:15:07.100 community,
00:15:07.420 they're like,
00:15:08.600 yeah,
00:15:08.820 I'm in Canada
00:15:09.360 now.
00:15:10.240 It's not...
00:15:10.780 I'm not dealing
00:15:11.340 with this.
00:15:12.140 And I'm not
00:15:12.520 altogether unsympathetic
00:15:14.040 with the Kalistani movement.
00:15:14.260 A lot of you did come here
00:15:15.200 to get away from that crap.
00:15:16.520 I'm not all even
00:15:17.460 untogether unsympathetic
00:15:18.660 for those who want
00:15:19.260 independent Kalistan.
00:15:20.720 People who want
00:15:21.440 their own country.
00:15:22.040 It's self-determination.
00:15:23.800 Okay,
00:15:24.380 I'm not altogether
00:15:25.600 opposed to the principle
00:15:26.500 of it.
00:15:26.960 But don't do this
00:15:27.700 as a staging area.
00:15:29.180 Over in Kalistan.
00:15:30.560 You want to fight
00:15:31.180 about Kalistan?
00:15:31.940 Do it in Kalistan.
00:15:33.740 Not here.
00:15:34.720 Absolutely.
00:15:35.820 We've seen radio hosts
00:15:36.580 attacked in northeast
00:15:37.520 Calgary over that...
00:15:38.840 Rishi.
00:15:39.380 We know him.
00:15:39.900 We know Rishi.
00:15:42.520 Like...
00:15:43.040 But, like...
00:15:45.720 Well, the first step, though,
00:15:46.820 is talking openly
00:15:48.020 about it.
00:15:48.600 Vluntly.
00:15:49.200 You know,
00:15:49.660 and we're starting
00:15:50.680 in here...
00:15:51.220 Take your dog ranch
00:15:52.720 analogy,
00:15:54.320 imperfect as it is,
00:15:55.060 even further.
00:15:55.700 So I'm going to
00:15:56.040 stretch the metaphor.
00:15:58.120 You know,
00:15:58.380 this would be like,
00:15:59.280 you know,
00:15:59.560 okay,
00:15:59.760 so you've got some ones
00:16:00.800 that are, you know,
00:16:01.640 bad and running around.
00:16:03.740 This would be like
00:16:04.540 you now saying,
00:16:05.200 okay,
00:16:05.680 to fix the problem
00:16:06.600 of my dogs here,
00:16:07.820 I'm going to require
00:16:08.860 everyone else in the
00:16:09.540 neighborhood to register
00:16:10.440 their cats.
00:16:11.120 Yeah.
00:16:12.100 You know,
00:16:12.720 we're going to have
00:16:13.380 to spay your cats now.
00:16:14.600 We're going to
00:16:14.780 spay everyone's cats.
00:16:16.100 Well, the cats
00:16:16.480 had nothing to do
00:16:17.100 with it.
00:16:18.820 Homegrown regular
00:16:19.620 Australians had
00:16:20.360 nothing to do
00:16:21.380 with this.
00:16:21.800 You don't need to
00:16:22.260 take away more
00:16:22.940 of their freedom
00:16:23.500 of speech,
00:16:24.460 more of...
00:16:25.740 They don't need to
00:16:26.620 have any gun rights,
00:16:27.900 but whatever
00:16:28.520 piddly,
00:16:30.120 measly access
00:16:31.480 they have to
00:16:32.220 legitimate use
00:16:32.780 of firearms,
00:16:33.260 take that away.
00:16:34.340 No,
00:16:34.680 we're going to
00:16:35.080 spay the cats
00:16:35.720 because we have
00:16:36.300 a couple of
00:16:36.800 rabid dogs
00:16:37.480 from Corey's
00:16:38.020 ranch.
00:16:39.660 That's what
00:16:41.060 they're doing.
00:16:41.500 Because they're
00:16:41.760 afraid to deal
00:16:42.480 with Corey.
00:16:43.440 They're chickens.
00:16:43.880 That's the real
00:16:45.940 problem, too.
00:16:46.640 Just to say,
00:16:47.100 you know what,
00:16:47.320 we're going to put
00:16:47.740 a big wall
00:16:48.180 around your
00:16:48.600 ranch until you
00:16:49.200 can get your
00:16:49.700 crap and dogs
00:16:50.400 under control.
00:16:50.800 None of them
00:16:51.500 are leaving
00:16:51.800 your ranch.
00:16:52.420 Yeah,
00:16:52.740 that's the answer.
00:16:53.840 All right.
00:16:56.240 Well,
00:16:56.680 we're going to
00:16:56.920 stick with
00:16:57.540 mass migration,
00:16:58.760 but we're going
00:16:58.980 to bring it
00:16:59.420 all the way
00:17:00.080 home here
00:17:00.680 where at least
00:17:03.140 one politician
00:17:03.940 in Canada
00:17:05.080 is proposing
00:17:05.880 to do something
00:17:06.440 sane about it.
00:17:09.420 So,
00:17:09.780 Don Braid,
00:17:11.160 because I'm not
00:17:11.540 Don Braid,
00:17:12.380 Rick Bell
00:17:12.920 and the Calgary
00:17:14.140 Sun,
00:17:14.560 Harold,
00:17:14.980 it's all the
00:17:15.300 same thing now,
00:17:16.320 had a good
00:17:17.180 scoop today
00:17:19.300 and last night.
00:17:20.100 Daniel Smith
00:17:23.260 is floating
00:17:23.900 the idea now
00:17:24.680 and I can tell
00:17:25.440 you a matter
00:17:25.880 of fact,
00:17:26.340 lead a pretty
00:17:26.740 serious about
00:17:27.380 it,
00:17:28.120 of essentially
00:17:30.680 Alberta
00:17:31.400 bringing in
00:17:33.440 kind of parallel
00:17:34.840 to the federal
00:17:35.300 immigration system
00:17:36.220 a requirement
00:17:37.220 that everyone
00:17:38.900 would have to
00:17:39.740 be working here
00:17:40.320 for roughly
00:17:41.400 at least 10
00:17:42.120 years or so
00:17:42.840 paying into
00:17:44.360 the system
00:17:44.880 before you're
00:17:45.420 actually able
00:17:45.820 to take
00:17:46.160 anything out
00:17:46.660 of it,
00:17:47.300 which I think
00:17:48.960 makes a lot
00:17:49.340 of sense.
00:17:49.660 I think
00:17:50.100 she needs to
00:17:50.560 expand it
00:17:50.980 beyond just
00:17:51.540 welfare and
00:17:52.320 whatnot.
00:17:52.600 It needs to
00:17:52.800 be applied
00:17:53.120 to maybe
00:17:53.440 even education
00:17:54.080 and whatnot.
00:17:55.260 The idea
00:17:56.020 being that
00:17:56.380 Alberta gets
00:17:56.860 to say,
00:17:57.440 here's immigrants
00:17:59.100 that we
00:17:59.700 approve of.
00:18:00.340 These ones
00:18:00.700 look like
00:18:01.060 they're of
00:18:01.460 value to us
00:18:02.360 because it's
00:18:02.720 not supposed
00:18:03.040 to be a
00:18:03.240 one-way street.
00:18:03.740 It's supposed
00:18:03.860 to be a
00:18:04.040 two-way street
00:18:04.600 here.
00:18:06.160 If you don't
00:18:06.940 have it,
00:18:07.720 we're going
00:18:08.080 to deny
00:18:08.460 you social
00:18:08.820 services.
00:18:09.800 So,
00:18:10.200 no welfare.
00:18:11.700 They haven't
00:18:12.220 fleshed the
00:18:12.540 whole thing
00:18:12.800 out,
00:18:12.920 but I think
00:18:13.180 it should
00:18:13.360 be extended
00:18:13.740 to education.
00:18:14.420 No,
00:18:14.720 your kids
00:18:15.480 are not
00:18:15.700 getting educated
00:18:20.100 without the
00:18:21.420 public support
00:18:21.920 for that
00:18:22.320 section of
00:18:22.720 you in the
00:18:23.200 private school.
00:18:24.740 We shouldn't
00:18:26.040 even issue
00:18:26.380 you a
00:18:26.560 driver's license.
00:18:27.560 We should
00:18:27.780 make it
00:18:28.200 virtually
00:18:29.260 impossible to
00:18:30.060 legally live
00:18:30.660 here unless
00:18:31.800 you've met
00:18:33.240 Alberta's
00:18:33.800 criteria.
00:18:35.560 And she
00:18:36.200 wants to
00:18:36.460 also,
00:18:36.920 like Quebec,
00:18:37.880 take more
00:18:38.300 control over
00:18:38.740 selecting
00:18:39.200 immigrants,
00:18:40.260 her cultural
00:18:40.720 compatibility and
00:18:41.660 whatnot.
00:18:42.140 Quebec does
00:18:42.460 that really
00:18:42.800 heavy for
00:18:43.220 language,
00:18:43.640 but we've
00:18:44.600 got whole
00:18:45.880 sections of
00:18:46.400 Calgary here
00:18:46.920 now where
00:18:47.360 schools,
00:18:48.480 half the
00:18:49.700 kids more
00:18:50.260 don't even
00:18:52.420 speak functional
00:18:53.180 English as
00:18:54.000 a second
00:18:54.400 language.
00:18:55.540 And so no
00:18:55.920 one's learning
00:18:56.340 anything.
00:18:57.020 The kids in
00:18:57.420 the class who
00:18:57.840 speak English,
00:18:58.680 they're not
00:18:59.260 learning anything
00:19:00.480 because the
00:19:01.080 teachers try to
00:19:01.940 have,
00:19:02.460 there's literal
00:19:02.740 schools and
00:19:03.660 neighborhoods in
00:19:04.460 Calgary where
00:19:06.360 they have
00:19:06.600 translators,
00:19:08.120 translators.
00:19:10.260 This is not,
00:19:11.360 this is not
00:19:12.400 good for us,
00:19:13.180 but it,
00:19:15.080 and the real
00:19:15.920 reforms need to
00:19:16.460 happen at the
00:19:16.840 federal level,
00:19:17.380 Corey,
00:19:17.560 but I don't
00:19:18.580 know,
00:19:18.700 I think this
00:19:19.080 is a huge
00:19:19.900 first step
00:19:20.480 for any
00:19:21.360 province
00:19:21.800 stepping up
00:19:23.760 trying to
00:19:24.080 wrangle this
00:19:24.580 issue.
00:19:25.160 This is a
00:19:25.540 great way for
00:19:26.280 a province to
00:19:27.000 try and take
00:19:27.460 control of an
00:19:27.980 issue that is
00:19:28.560 a federal
00:19:29.420 mismanagement
00:19:30.080 issue because
00:19:30.660 we're limited.
00:19:31.440 You can't,
00:19:32.140 under the rules
00:19:32.940 of the
00:19:33.140 federation,
00:19:33.680 stop
00:19:33.940 interprovincial
00:19:34.500 migration.
00:19:35.200 I mean,
00:19:35.420 it would be
00:19:35.920 not viable to
00:19:37.340 be able to
00:19:37.760 do that,
00:19:38.080 somebody who's
00:19:38.420 living from
00:19:38.840 Toronto or
00:19:39.340 Saskatchewan or
00:19:39.920 BC to
00:19:40.720 Alberta,
00:19:41.180 but you can
00:19:42.160 make this an
00:19:43.200 unpleasant
00:19:43.560 destination for
00:19:44.420 the kind of
00:19:44.880 immigrants you
00:19:45.300 don't want.
00:19:45.700 And if
00:19:47.920 they're actually
00:19:48.480 shopping for
00:19:49.200 provinces based
00:19:50.040 on who's got
00:19:50.620 the best social
00:19:51.220 services for
00:19:51.960 me, well,
00:19:53.020 we're not going
00:19:53.580 to be high on
00:19:54.120 their list as a
00:19:54.800 destination spot.
00:19:55.720 In fact,
00:19:57.260 some of the
00:19:57.560 ones who are
00:19:57.920 already here and
00:19:58.740 strongly partaking
00:20:00.300 in the social
00:20:00.860 services might
00:20:01.560 reconsider where
00:20:02.360 they're living
00:20:02.720 and move
00:20:03.600 elsewhere.
00:20:04.120 this is going
00:20:05.080 to turn to
00:20:05.680 something much
00:20:06.160 bigger as it
00:20:07.620 goes because
00:20:08.140 then some
00:20:08.820 of the other
00:20:09.180 provinces saying,
00:20:10.200 well,
00:20:10.300 come one,
00:20:10.840 come all,
00:20:11.280 take advantage
00:20:11.740 of our
00:20:12.080 welfare and
00:20:13.040 our school
00:20:13.420 and everything
00:20:13.740 are suddenly
00:20:14.080 going to find
00:20:14.540 themselves
00:20:14.920 overwhelmed by
00:20:15.540 the welfare
00:20:15.940 shoppers.
00:20:16.520 It goes a
00:20:17.340 little farther
00:20:17.640 back almost
00:20:18.220 to Ralph
00:20:18.540 Klein when
00:20:19.080 he was giving
00:20:20.300 bus tickets
00:20:20.920 to undesirables
00:20:21.760 to move
00:20:22.120 to other
00:20:22.420 provinces.
00:20:23.040 It wasn't
00:20:23.600 immigrant-based,
00:20:24.300 it was just
00:20:24.620 saying the
00:20:24.860 ones collecting
00:20:25.320 welfare,
00:20:26.260 if you really
00:20:26.760 want to move
00:20:27.140 to a province
00:20:27.560 with better
00:20:27.860 welfare,
00:20:28.260 we'll help
00:20:28.680 you out.
00:20:29.060 Or even
00:20:31.440 worse,
00:20:31.940 Castro getting
00:20:33.340 rid of his
00:20:33.700 undesirables,
00:20:34.460 saying,
00:20:34.720 well,
00:20:34.800 if the states
00:20:35.200 are taking
00:20:35.560 them all
00:20:35.840 and giving
00:20:36.100 them impunity,
00:20:37.000 let's empty
00:20:37.360 our mental
00:20:37.680 institutions
00:20:38.160 and our
00:20:38.440 prisons
00:20:38.680 and send
00:20:39.100 them all
00:20:39.420 over there.
00:20:39.800 You can
00:20:40.120 have them.
00:20:41.480 Though I,
00:20:41.860 that's being
00:20:42.380 a little too
00:20:42.700 rude in our
00:20:43.060 immigrants
00:20:43.460 or not
00:20:43.760 necessarily
00:20:44.000 about those
00:20:44.580 and lunatics,
00:20:45.260 but I get it.
00:20:46.280 It's a strategy
00:20:47.400 of just saying
00:20:48.460 we're not going
00:20:49.540 to make it
00:20:49.920 as nice
00:20:50.640 here for you.
00:20:51.280 The incentives
00:20:52.120 matter.
00:20:52.840 I mean,
00:20:53.580 I don't know
00:20:54.000 kinds of sympathy
00:20:54.620 for people
00:20:55.160 on age,
00:20:56.140 but we pay
00:20:56.960 more to people
00:20:57.800 on age
00:20:58.340 in Alberta
00:20:58.960 than they do
00:20:59.480 in B.C.,
00:21:00.000 Saskatchewan
00:21:00.560 and most
00:21:01.000 other places.
00:21:02.060 So guess what?
00:21:02.740 If you've got
00:21:03.200 nothing else
00:21:03.760 tying you
00:21:04.500 to Manitoba,
00:21:05.640 come to Alberta.
00:21:06.660 Better deal.
00:21:08.540 So using that,
00:21:10.440 extending that
00:21:11.900 metaphor,
00:21:13.000 the idea of,
00:21:14.620 how did you put it,
00:21:15.400 making it just
00:21:15.960 a little less
00:21:16.480 comfortable?
00:21:17.840 The one thing
00:21:20.260 where I'm not
00:21:20.760 quite sure
00:21:21.180 how this works
00:21:21.840 out is that
00:21:22.520 if a family
00:21:24.460 moves into
00:21:25.040 Alberta
00:21:25.420 and they have
00:21:27.600 children
00:21:27.940 and the
00:21:28.720 children
00:21:28.980 don't get
00:21:29.800 to go
00:21:30.040 to school,
00:21:31.520 what happens?
00:21:32.740 You raise
00:21:33.400 a generation
00:21:34.040 that's proven
00:21:34.460 all delinquents.
00:21:36.280 So there
00:21:37.720 has got to
00:21:39.080 be some
00:21:40.060 other way
00:21:42.720 of discouraging
00:21:43.720 immigration.
00:21:45.000 I'm not sure
00:21:45.500 they mentioned
00:21:46.000 education.
00:21:47.020 I think they
00:21:47.560 should include it,
00:21:48.460 but we have
00:21:48.920 to make it
00:21:50.060 very appetizing
00:21:51.040 for them to leave.
00:21:52.220 You don't get
00:21:52.660 a driver's license
00:21:53.740 and, okay,
00:21:54.960 you're going
00:21:55.200 to get arrested
00:21:56.120 then.
00:21:56.560 You're going
00:21:56.940 to end up
00:21:57.380 facing the
00:21:57.800 legal system
00:21:58.360 by not being
00:21:59.120 in compliance
00:21:59.580 with other
00:21:59.960 sections of
00:22:00.420 Alberta law
00:22:01.000 if we have
00:22:01.640 not approved
00:22:02.060 you being here.
00:22:02.760 Well, just to
00:22:03.480 play that devil's
00:22:04.240 advocate and
00:22:04.900 unintended
00:22:05.340 consequences,
00:22:06.260 though, if new
00:22:06.880 immigrants are
00:22:07.280 having difficulty
00:22:07.680 getting driver's
00:22:08.320 licenses here,
00:22:08.880 it's going to be
00:22:09.200 harder for them
00:22:09.580 to find jobs
00:22:10.200 here, which is
00:22:10.660 the intent.
00:22:11.220 We want them
00:22:11.620 working and
00:22:12.260 contributing.
00:22:13.160 Yeah.
00:22:13.840 But you have
00:22:14.480 to be approved
00:22:15.000 to be here
00:22:15.660 first.
00:22:16.640 You have to be
00:22:17.960 someone who's
00:22:18.380 met Alberta's
00:22:18.980 criteria for
00:22:19.760 cultural compatibility,
00:22:21.280 can speak at
00:22:22.240 least a little
00:22:23.380 bit of English.
00:22:24.300 You don't have
00:22:25.280 to come here
00:22:25.900 quoting Shakespeare
00:22:26.940 fresh off the
00:22:27.660 boat, but you've
00:22:28.820 got to be able
00:22:29.220 to function before
00:22:30.740 you land on our
00:22:31.980 soil.
00:22:32.260 Okay, so let's
00:22:33.460 say a fellow
00:22:34.460 is coming in
00:22:35.100 from another
00:22:35.580 province, another
00:22:36.280 country, he's
00:22:37.280 going to take
00:22:37.780 a $150,000 a
00:22:39.280 year job, which
00:22:40.460 he is uniquely
00:22:41.340 qualified, and he
00:22:43.300 gets here and he's
00:22:44.240 told he can't
00:22:44.700 drive the car.
00:22:45.540 Now that is
00:22:46.200 going to...
00:22:46.900 Well, if he's
00:22:47.740 landing a $150,000
00:22:48.940 a year job, there's
00:22:50.760 a very good chance
00:22:51.380 the Alberta
00:22:51.680 government will
00:22:52.300 say, ah, that's
00:22:53.260 the kind of guy
00:22:53.660 we want.
00:22:54.320 He's got some
00:22:54.820 unique skills that
00:22:56.180 can't be...
00:22:56.520 We won't take
00:22:58.080 the...
00:23:00.920 We need the
00:23:01.640 day laborers.
00:23:02.420 How are we
00:23:02.860 going to make
00:23:03.160 that...
00:23:03.300 You know, no, I
00:23:04.420 don't think we
00:23:04.800 need the day
00:23:05.220 laborers, actually.
00:23:06.240 We've created an
00:23:07.020 underclass here where
00:23:07.960 we've now made
00:23:08.700 people born here
00:23:10.580 unemployable here.
00:23:11.920 We've cut them out
00:23:12.600 of the bottom of
00:23:13.220 the labor market.
00:23:14.600 Kids can't get
00:23:15.400 their first jobs
00:23:16.320 nearly as easily as
00:23:18.140 when I was a
00:23:18.680 teenager or little
00:23:19.640 alone when you
00:23:20.440 old guys were.
00:23:22.000 I'm old now, too,
00:23:22.980 I guess.
00:23:23.340 But, like, I was
00:23:24.540 around when my
00:23:26.240 labor as a 14, a
00:23:27.760 16-year-old was
00:23:28.760 in demand.
00:23:29.400 It's not in demand
00:23:30.260 now.
00:23:31.260 If, you know, if
00:23:32.480 we were making
00:23:32.980 fries here instead
00:23:33.920 of news, I'm
00:23:35.360 offered a 25-year-old
00:23:37.860 person who maybe
00:23:38.760 doesn't speak very
00:23:39.200 good English or
00:23:39.740 whatnot, but a 25-year-old
00:23:40.820 person who I'm
00:23:42.060 going to pay $15
00:23:42.960 minimum, a very high
00:23:44.120 $15 minimum wage to,
00:23:45.740 or the 14-year-old
00:23:46.700 offered a, you know,
00:23:48.580 $15 minimum wage to,
00:23:49.500 I'm probably going to
00:23:49.960 go with a 25-year-old.
00:23:51.000 You're more likely to
00:23:51.600 show up on time, have
00:23:52.800 a little discipline at
00:23:53.740 the job, but we've
00:23:55.100 created an underclass
00:23:56.040 here where unskilled
00:23:57.200 labor of people born
00:23:58.980 here is now completely
00:24:00.660 wiped out of the
00:24:01.540 labor market.
00:24:02.500 They don't have the
00:24:03.420 skills to be high
00:24:04.620 enough, but they're
00:24:07.240 also out-competed at
00:24:09.640 the bottom.
00:24:10.340 There's a little more
00:24:10.940 going on here than
00:24:11.820 we're betting.
00:24:13.280 If you go to your
00:24:14.160 fast food restaurant,
00:24:15.060 you're going to find
00:24:15.740 that the servers
00:24:17.060 are almost 100%
00:24:19.560 working for minimum
00:24:21.340 wage and coming from
00:24:22.740 places where minimum
00:24:24.160 wage looks pretty good.
00:24:26.020 So, and they're
00:24:28.200 probably here on
00:24:29.060 student visas, but
00:24:31.280 not going to school.
00:24:32.400 So maybe we start
00:24:33.460 there and just say,
00:24:34.440 all right, we've had
00:24:34.860 enough of that.
00:24:36.020 It's time for some
00:24:36.820 people to go home.
00:24:37.660 It's time to put the
00:24:38.420 gate up against others.
00:24:39.760 So the people who are
00:24:40.900 born here, and it's
00:24:42.360 not just white people,
00:24:43.520 it's also everybody
00:24:44.660 else who was born
00:24:45.640 here, you can actually
00:24:47.200 have a fair chance
00:24:48.260 at a job.
00:24:49.000 I mean, I know what
00:24:49.820 it must be like to
00:24:51.680 run a fast food
00:24:53.040 restaurant.
00:24:53.520 You're probably dealing
00:24:54.120 with irresponsible
00:24:54.940 staff who don't show
00:24:56.800 off on time.
00:24:58.360 That's, it's tough,
00:24:59.800 and it's very tempting
00:25:00.560 when you get into a
00:25:01.900 mother load of
00:25:02.580 dependable employees,
00:25:03.580 just keep bringing
00:25:04.520 them from there.
00:25:05.980 But there are other
00:25:06.820 objectives in our
00:25:07.820 community in which we
00:25:08.720 live than just getting
00:25:10.360 a hamburger.
00:25:11.220 And I can speak as a
00:25:12.040 guy who owned a food
00:25:12.720 service industry business
00:25:13.660 with those microscopic
00:25:14.680 margins.
00:25:15.800 And I had a couple
00:25:17.460 of excellent young
00:25:18.460 workers who were
00:25:19.160 from the community.
00:25:19.920 You know, there were
00:25:20.280 students, kids who
00:25:21.000 would work weekends
00:25:21.720 and evenings, and I
00:25:23.420 was very happy to have
00:25:24.380 them.
00:25:24.520 They're from nearby and
00:25:25.440 you know, the community
00:25:26.540 enjoys that too and
00:25:27.600 everything.
00:25:28.320 But for the bulk of my
00:25:29.180 steady workers, I tell
00:25:30.080 you what, I put a job
00:25:31.020 posting up, they aren't
00:25:33.160 applying.
00:25:33.880 I'm not even getting
00:25:34.800 applicants from the
00:25:36.820 younger community who
00:25:37.460 want full-time work or
00:25:39.360 making jobs in that.
00:25:41.280 And it's a high
00:25:43.180 turnover, unreliable
00:25:44.220 industry as it is.
00:25:45.200 And yeah, truth
00:25:45.920 really, new Canadians
00:25:47.960 were typically my best
00:25:48.840 workers.
00:25:49.280 They would show up on
00:25:50.720 time, put in a
00:25:51.380 fantastic day.
00:25:53.300 We've also, we've
00:25:54.020 completely distorted our
00:25:55.200 labor market here where
00:25:56.620 we've got to have, so
00:25:58.520 it's not just kids doing
00:25:59.280 part-time now, but
00:26:00.580 unskilled blue-collar
00:26:02.800 workers.
00:26:03.680 You know, people who
00:26:04.120 are going to work at the
00:26:04.820 lower end.
00:26:05.600 They don't have the
00:26:06.460 education.
00:26:07.460 You know, maybe they
00:26:08.200 don't have the privilege,
00:26:08.940 whatever.
00:26:10.260 But there's nowhere for
00:26:11.060 them to go right now.
00:26:12.420 There's nowhere for them
00:26:13.260 to go.
00:26:13.600 We've completely cut them
00:26:14.800 out of the labor market
00:26:15.540 in their own country.
00:26:16.540 It's their inheritance
00:26:17.200 and it's gone.
00:26:19.060 I mean, the bottom line
00:26:20.140 is, yeah, I mean, it's
00:26:20.720 going to be complicated,
00:26:21.940 but something's going to
00:26:22.800 change.
00:26:23.140 There's no doubt that
00:26:23.640 something's going to give.
00:26:24.340 And I love where the
00:26:25.100 premier's going, though.
00:26:25.820 This is where we're
00:26:26.620 exercising ourselves as a
00:26:27.940 province to say, well,
00:26:28.780 look, we're going to work
00:26:30.800 with our demographic to
00:26:31.860 change it.
00:26:32.260 And these are the tools at
00:26:32.940 our disposal to be able to
00:26:34.360 modify.
00:26:35.400 Ideally, we wouldn't bring
00:26:36.520 someone here who, you
00:26:38.580 know, isn't feeling a
00:26:39.360 niche labor need, you
00:26:41.920 know, legitimate need to
00:26:43.580 bring in people to work
00:26:44.740 here.
00:26:46.460 Ideally, we're not going to
00:26:47.860 bring someone here and
00:26:48.860 then say, well, we're not
00:26:49.820 giving you a driver's
00:26:50.480 license and education and
00:26:51.760 social services, et cetera.
00:26:54.260 We would be able to
00:26:55.380 determine that before they
00:26:56.380 hit our shores.
00:26:57.200 We'd figure that out if we
00:26:58.240 had a sane national
00:27:00.340 immigration policy, which we
00:27:02.120 do not have, which means
00:27:03.860 that Alberta has to do it
00:27:05.220 themselves.
00:27:06.060 And who knows?
00:27:07.020 Maybe this, maybe this
00:27:08.300 creates a template and
00:27:09.460 we're going to see others
00:27:10.040 follow it.
00:27:10.560 We'll see.
00:27:11.980 I just borrowed Quebec's
00:27:13.120 template.
00:27:13.720 They take a big interest
00:27:14.760 in who enters their
00:27:15.680 problems.
00:27:15.880 They do.
00:27:17.000 They do.
00:27:17.340 Now, I think they
00:27:18.100 overweight French.
00:27:19.840 It's French over
00:27:20.900 everything for them.
00:27:21.980 But language definitely
00:27:23.340 matters.
00:27:25.100 You know, I don't think
00:27:27.180 one way, a place we're
00:27:28.860 going to see this with a
00:27:29.520 conservative premier is
00:27:30.420 Ontario.
00:27:31.400 Because the bugger who
00:27:33.060 is, after Justin
00:27:34.800 Trudeau, the most
00:27:35.580 responsible for the
00:27:36.700 destruction of our
00:27:38.120 immigration policy, and
00:27:39.980 no one seems to really
00:27:41.120 know it broadly, is Doug
00:27:42.520 Ford.
00:27:43.600 Doug Ford was demanding
00:27:44.940 this of the feds every
00:27:46.520 single day.
00:27:47.720 More TFWs, more family
00:27:50.020 reunification, more
00:27:50.960 everything.
00:27:51.600 He was the one demanding
00:27:52.540 this because Ontario
00:27:54.000 diploma mills were
00:27:55.280 getting rich.
00:27:56.340 And those guys are
00:27:57.620 deeply connected to Doug
00:27:59.700 Ford and the Ontario
00:28:00.880 PC party.
00:28:01.600 He is amongst the most
00:28:04.100 guilty culprits in Canada
00:28:05.420 for this.
00:28:06.640 And he just kind of
00:28:07.280 skated off easy because
00:28:08.280 he didn't technically
00:28:09.640 make the decision.
00:28:10.480 He was just kind of
00:28:10.960 lobbying for it.
00:28:13.240 So I don't think we're
00:28:14.760 going to see Ontario
00:28:15.480 crack down any time.
00:28:16.760 Well, a neat thing just
00:28:18.220 is, you know, sort of the
00:28:19.120 independence active type I
00:28:20.440 am and everything and
00:28:21.240 part of what I like seeing
00:28:22.120 what's happening and
00:28:23.260 where Premier Smith's
00:28:23.980 coming from.
00:28:24.440 And I've written about
00:28:25.320 that here in Standard in
00:28:26.140 the past.
00:28:27.000 The demographic shift for
00:28:28.120 interprovincial, along with
00:28:30.180 from the states, you're
00:28:30.940 really seeing interstate
00:28:31.960 migration and in the long
00:28:33.040 term, this kind of can get
00:28:33.880 scary and troublesome, but
00:28:34.840 when you look, Texas is
00:28:36.800 growing, Tennessee is
00:28:37.900 growing, Arizona is
00:28:38.780 growing, Florida is
00:28:39.900 growing, New York is
00:28:41.500 shriveling, California is
00:28:42.940 shriveling.
00:28:43.420 I mean, they're bringing
00:28:44.020 outside immigrants into
00:28:45.100 these states, but the
00:28:46.600 domestic migration is going
00:28:48.780 to those other states and
00:28:49.860 that imbalance is growing.
00:28:52.560 And actually it makes me
00:28:54.080 fear in one more
00:28:54.800 generation from now what
00:28:55.700 might be happening down
00:28:56.680 there.
00:28:56.860 But yeah, Premier Smith is
00:28:58.420 going to kind of change
00:28:59.080 that interprovincial
00:28:59.760 migration formula happening
00:29:01.120 in Canada.
00:29:01.960 This is the place to come
00:29:03.020 to work to make a living.
00:29:04.360 But it also means the
00:29:05.080 riffraff are going to end
00:29:05.780 up going to the other
00:29:06.640 ones and that imbalance is
00:29:07.720 different.
00:29:07.900 Carrots and sticks.
00:29:09.160 By having sticks against
00:29:10.520 people who are not needed.
00:29:11.800 I'm sorry if that sounds
00:29:12.900 insensitive.
00:29:14.200 I'm pissed off about it.
00:29:15.440 So sticks for people who
00:29:17.300 are not needed.
00:29:17.880 We've got too many here, but
00:29:19.520 carrots for those we do
00:29:20.580 want.
00:29:21.220 You're coming to Canada and
00:29:22.480 you've got some capital, you
00:29:23.520 want a business.
00:29:24.340 Well, we are going to make
00:29:25.280 this the best damn place to
00:29:27.140 do it.
00:29:28.260 So, you know, we've got
00:29:29.280 and we've already in some
00:29:30.700 large majority.
00:29:31.620 I want to go back to the
00:29:32.780 conservative governments of
00:29:34.220 the 1980s because, you
00:29:36.780 know, we had our our
00:29:38.660 immigration system worked
00:29:40.440 out very well in the 1950s
00:29:42.380 and 60s where you have to
00:29:44.840 qualify on a number of
00:29:46.160 points.
00:29:46.720 You didn't just get to come
00:29:48.120 here on student visa and
00:29:49.580 start work and never go
00:29:50.540 home.
00:29:51.420 You had to do, you know,
00:29:52.840 you needed your degree, you
00:29:53.860 needed English or French, you
00:29:55.000 needed support.
00:29:56.320 Somebody in the family had
00:29:57.380 a guarantee that you would
00:29:58.420 you wouldn't be a burden to
00:29:59.820 the states.
00:30:00.600 And then they said, oh, well,
00:30:01.360 that's kind of a bit unfair.
00:30:02.600 We'll get more votes if we do
00:30:03.960 family reunification.
00:30:05.780 And after family reunification,
00:30:06.840 that was the ending in the end
00:30:07.740 right there.
00:30:08.300 Yeah.
00:30:08.680 And it was conservative
00:30:09.620 government that did it.
00:30:10.620 Yeah.
00:30:11.700 And after that, it was, well,
00:30:14.100 you've got lots of money.
00:30:14.960 You want to start a business
00:30:16.120 here?
00:30:16.640 And in the end, come ye one,
00:30:18.380 come ye all.
00:30:19.040 And by the way, if you happen
00:30:20.800 to want to exterminate Jews,
00:30:23.020 that's not really a big
00:30:24.180 problem.
00:30:25.140 We can work with you.
00:30:26.780 Well, when my family came,
00:30:28.480 they had to be sponsored.
00:30:29.780 They were sponsored by,
00:30:30.860 back when the United
00:30:31.340 Church was a church and
00:30:32.480 theoretically believed in the
00:30:34.160 existence of God and things
00:30:35.300 like that.
00:30:35.900 they, they were sponsored by
00:30:39.560 church and it meant that if my
00:30:43.160 family, they, they came here
00:30:44.940 with virtually nothing.
00:30:46.500 And if, if they were unable to
00:30:49.200 support themselves and needed
00:30:50.160 social services, the church had
00:30:52.560 two, they were legally
00:30:54.060 responsible and they had two
00:30:55.040 choices.
00:30:56.200 They could pay for it themselves
00:30:57.560 and help them out.
00:30:58.720 Or they would pay for the next
00:31:00.340 ticket on the Queen Elizabeth
00:31:02.040 and you send them straight back
00:31:03.500 across the Atlantic.
00:31:04.400 Now, neither of those things
00:31:06.920 happened, but that was the
00:31:08.020 deal.
00:31:08.420 The taxpayer would never be
00:31:10.160 responsible.
00:31:12.740 Those deals only ever last six
00:31:14.420 months.
00:31:15.200 That's, yeah.
00:31:16.760 Yeah.
00:31:18.220 All right.
00:31:19.380 All right.
00:31:19.900 Well, we've got way over time
00:31:21.760 on that one, but I was, we
00:31:22.860 had kind of two in there.
00:31:23.920 It's a big subject.
00:31:24.440 That was a double header one.
00:31:25.360 We had, it was mass migration
00:31:26.780 in general, but it was really
00:31:28.440 kind of a double.
00:31:29.300 So we'll have to, let's go real
00:31:31.460 short on the next one here.
00:31:32.480 Because I'm tired of talking
00:31:35.080 about chicks with chicks.
00:31:36.480 Like we already won the
00:31:37.500 argument.
00:31:38.520 We won the argument.
00:31:39.900 Everybody understands this is
00:31:41.100 stupid.
00:31:42.160 And although I think Alberta and
00:31:43.880 two of significantly lesser
00:31:45.680 Saskatchewan are the only
00:31:47.800 provinces that have actually
00:31:49.040 made substantive legislative
00:31:51.040 change around it.
00:31:52.740 But, you know, Alberta,
00:31:54.360 mass legislation are a suite of
00:31:56.200 things.
00:31:56.900 You can't train your kids.
00:31:58.060 Teachers have to tell the
00:32:00.640 parents if they're changing
00:32:02.600 their pronouns.
00:32:04.000 Pretty common stuff.
00:32:05.220 And very controversially, for the
00:32:07.600 NDP and the usual suspects,
00:32:09.680 boys don't get to play against
00:32:11.140 girls in sports and men don't get
00:32:13.380 to play against women.
00:32:15.040 You know, maybe shuffleboard or
00:32:16.740 something like that.
00:32:17.460 Or if we're playing the game of
00:32:18.360 table pool, it's okay.
00:32:19.920 But in general, no.
00:32:22.560 We got men and we got women.
00:32:24.200 And it is more nuanced than
00:32:26.680 that.
00:32:26.820 It was actually a very thoughtful
00:32:27.900 policy in trying to, you know,
00:32:30.580 accommodate for those who were
00:32:31.460 confused and have gender
00:32:32.400 dysphoria, etc.
00:32:33.620 But then Skate Canada comes out
00:32:35.720 today and says, that's racist.
00:32:39.960 Or that's this-ism.
00:32:42.080 It's that phobish.
00:32:43.600 Whatever.
00:32:45.320 There will be no Skate Canada
00:32:46.840 events in Alberta, you bunch of
00:32:49.080 bigots.
00:32:49.680 Oh, super.
00:32:50.220 That's just the price we pay.
00:32:51.640 Great deal.
00:32:52.120 You know, sometimes you have to
00:32:54.360 pay the price for being right.
00:32:56.040 I mean, it's quite apart from
00:32:59.240 the, whether it's fair and are we
00:33:03.360 being respectful for people with
00:33:04.920 trans issues.
00:33:07.560 The simple fact is men are bigger,
00:33:10.860 stronger, faster than women on
00:33:14.000 average.
00:33:15.000 That's racist.
00:33:16.540 I exclude myself from any
00:33:18.180 comparison with my granddaughter.
00:33:19.540 You know, run up the street faster
00:33:22.260 than I can, that's for sure.
00:33:23.660 But, you know, it's not about
00:33:26.420 equality.
00:33:27.460 It's about the simple fact that
00:33:29.920 men are always going to outperform
00:33:31.780 women, even in wussy sports like
00:33:34.880 skating.
00:33:36.280 So...
00:33:36.660 Oh, okay.
00:33:37.460 Now you've pissed people off.
00:33:39.240 You could go after trans.
00:33:40.840 You could go after women.
00:33:42.480 You could go after all these groups.
00:33:45.340 Now you went after skating.
00:33:46.760 Now you've lit up the Tom and
00:33:49.460 Sarsha.
00:33:50.040 Now we're either way.
00:33:51.220 Oh, there it goes.
00:33:51.960 Best.
00:33:52.660 Oh, anyway.
00:33:53.760 If you're a good skater, good for
00:33:54.980 you.
00:33:55.380 But the fact of your matter is that
00:33:57.600 it's just not a fair contest.
00:34:00.900 Alberta had the sense to say it's
00:34:02.280 not a fair contest.
00:34:03.300 We're not going to allow it.
00:34:04.680 Skate Canada will be proved wrong
00:34:06.820 in the fullness of time.
00:34:08.840 Alberta will be proved right.
00:34:10.260 Skate Canada has lost the
00:34:11.760 narrative.
00:34:12.160 The rest of the world's already
00:34:13.000 changing.
00:34:13.540 Even the IOC is realizing this and
00:34:16.020 they're backing off.
00:34:16.840 No more men in women's sports.
00:34:18.460 And when it comes down to
00:34:19.620 viewership and paying your bills,
00:34:21.320 those who do like watching the
00:34:22.800 skating aren't going to want to
00:34:23.780 see some brute doing the leg up
00:34:25.280 spinning and his knackers fly out
00:34:27.180 into the breeze.
00:34:28.680 It's, you know, going to lead
00:34:31.220 circus levels of what that
00:34:32.940 demonstration is.
00:34:34.740 It undercuts the entire sport.
00:34:36.040 Put that one there.
00:34:36.940 And because it is a sport that's
00:34:39.560 respected and enjoyed by a lot of
00:34:40.860 people and allowing this
00:34:41.840 ridiculousness is actually going
00:34:43.100 to ruin the sport they're
00:34:44.080 purporting.
00:34:44.620 It's a wussy sport.
00:34:46.900 I'm not sure you're entirely
00:34:48.300 correct.
00:34:49.420 I don't watch a lot of summer
00:34:50.660 Olympics.
00:34:51.380 The only summer Olympics I
00:34:52.780 watched was where dudes were
00:34:54.100 beating up the women because it
00:34:56.060 was a novelty.
00:34:56.840 It was a circus and it's
00:34:57.680 unfortunate because there are
00:34:58.780 some great athletes actually in
00:35:00.440 the women's and in the men's
00:35:01.660 who figure skate and all of that.
00:35:03.680 And this idiocy is going to
00:35:05.980 come to an end.
00:35:06.420 Thanks again to Premier Smith
00:35:07.660 because she's just not having
00:35:08.640 any of it.
00:35:09.140 She actually demanded they
00:35:10.040 apologize.
00:35:10.560 Yeah.
00:35:12.220 Amen.
00:35:13.460 Preach it.
00:35:14.580 Preach it.
00:35:15.040 Okay.
00:35:15.340 We're moving through quick to
00:35:17.220 try and get back on.
00:35:19.780 Oh, actually, we're not as bad
00:35:21.900 as I thought.
00:35:22.500 Okay.
00:35:22.880 Okay.
00:35:23.160 No, we're good.
00:35:24.540 We're good.
00:35:26.940 Our friends in British
00:35:28.760 Columbia.
00:35:31.780 Let me just have a moment with
00:35:32.980 the camera.
00:35:33.560 Let me talk to you just alone for
00:35:35.200 a moment.
00:35:36.220 My BC conservative friends.
00:35:37.540 You need, you need to take a
00:35:40.540 Valium.
00:35:41.360 You guys are completely lost
00:35:43.940 your shit at this point.
00:35:46.740 You've got two conservative
00:35:48.200 parties, which is, I mean,
00:35:51.200 there is a time for breakaways.
00:35:52.500 I was a wild roser.
00:35:53.340 Cora was a wild roser.
00:35:54.780 Nigel, you had reform history in
00:35:56.820 you.
00:35:56.960 I do.
00:35:57.320 Yeah.
00:35:57.620 Reform history.
00:35:58.620 We're all breakaways at some
00:36:00.020 point.
00:36:00.460 You know, we're Albertans.
00:36:01.260 We create new conservative
00:36:02.580 parties.
00:36:03.080 It's our national pastime.
00:36:05.740 But there's a time and a place
00:36:07.080 for it.
00:36:07.440 You already split into two
00:36:08.740 parties.
00:36:11.860 I get the fight you had with
00:36:13.440 John Rustad.
00:36:14.760 That was a needlessly
00:36:16.820 disgustingly brutal fight.
00:36:19.340 And it really hurt me to see
00:36:21.340 John Rustad not show the grace
00:36:23.220 I think he had in him and did
00:36:26.420 not show the grace to, I mean,
00:36:28.820 it sucks to lose.
00:36:30.180 It really sucks to lose.
00:36:32.140 But there's a time when there's
00:36:33.800 a cause greater than yourself
00:36:35.240 that you got to fall on the
00:36:36.360 sword for.
00:36:37.120 And he didn't do it.
00:36:38.440 And I was, it was brutal.
00:36:39.900 And then you got one BC, the
00:36:41.400 breakaway conservative party,
00:36:42.420 which I think with Rustad gone
00:36:43.940 should come back home.
00:36:45.940 Like there's time to try and
00:36:47.540 make that work.
00:36:48.860 It's not, it's not time to
00:36:50.160 break it apart yet.
00:36:51.160 And I'm saying that, you
00:36:51.840 know, all three of us have
00:36:52.540 been on the breakaway right
00:36:53.400 wing parties.
00:36:54.080 It's what we do.
00:36:54.860 I love it.
00:36:55.700 But there's time, there's,
00:36:56.440 there's a, we can form
00:36:57.380 governments from time to
00:36:58.500 time.
00:36:59.060 Yeah.
00:36:59.980 And we can stay in the same
00:37:01.300 room together.
00:37:01.900 Yeah.
00:37:02.280 Yeah.
00:37:02.980 And you know, we hate each
00:37:04.080 other often, but we try to
00:37:05.720 make it work.
00:37:06.180 And if you have to break
00:37:07.580 apart, sometimes you got to
00:37:09.200 break apart.
00:37:09.960 I don't think you guys were at
00:37:11.400 that level yet.
00:37:11.980 At least with John Rustad gone,
00:37:13.640 it's, it's worth trying to
00:37:14.800 get the band, at least try to
00:37:16.620 get the band back to
00:37:17.540 gather.
00:37:18.060 And then one BC, a caucus of
00:37:20.300 two MLAs.
00:37:21.980 They couldn't hold it
00:37:22.840 together.
00:37:23.660 I mean, I don't, and I don't
00:37:26.080 know who's right or wrong
00:37:26.880 there.
00:37:27.160 Jared Yager's done some great
00:37:28.180 work on it.
00:37:28.560 He's actually interviewing
00:37:29.460 Dallas Brody about this
00:37:30.780 today.
00:37:31.820 There's a lot of, he said,
00:37:33.040 she said, I don't know.
00:37:34.540 Maybe she's wrong.
00:37:35.940 Maybe the other one's
00:37:37.040 wrong.
00:37:38.040 I don't know.
00:37:38.980 Honestly, I don't even care.
00:37:41.160 I don't even care.
00:37:42.120 Get your shit together, BC
00:37:43.340 conservatives.
00:37:44.400 You look like clowns.
00:37:46.500 You know, it's like that old
00:37:48.240 joke about two people wrecked on
00:37:49.840 the desert island and you end up
00:37:51.580 with three churches.
00:37:52.800 You know, that's the way things
00:37:55.040 are going in, in British Columbia
00:37:56.760 right now.
00:37:57.320 It's just sad.
00:37:58.560 Do you want power or do you want to
00:38:00.140 be forever carpent on the outside?
00:38:02.380 Get it together.
00:38:04.220 Former United, you nearly did it.
00:38:06.340 You nearly pulled it off last year.
00:38:08.240 One, two seats short were they in
00:38:11.380 then?
00:38:11.620 Something like, I think three.
00:38:13.020 But all they're showing is those
00:38:14.840 who were hesitant and didn't end up
00:38:16.400 voting for them, they're saying,
00:38:17.480 they're confirming that, oh, I was
00:38:19.840 right not to vote.
00:38:20.660 You don't, you're not, you weren't
00:38:22.440 ready for prontine.
00:38:23.480 We dodged a bullet.
00:38:25.020 And that's what you're confirming.
00:38:26.260 And David Eby is ostensibly one of the
00:38:28.120 worst premiers in a generation going
00:38:30.240 on out there and he's getting a pass.
00:38:32.260 And it's scary because you know
00:38:33.640 what, if he called a snap election
00:38:35.880 right now, he might get the majority
00:38:38.100 he wants.
00:38:39.020 Thankfully, perhaps he's just not
00:38:40.960 politically astute enough even to
00:38:42.840 realize that because otherwise he's
00:38:44.880 too incompetent as a premier to
00:38:47.060 withstand.
00:38:48.460 The only hope is that he doesn't do
00:38:49.900 something like that.
00:38:50.560 The conservatives, you guys have got
00:38:51.680 a couple of years to get your crap
00:38:52.920 together.
00:38:53.440 Maybe.
00:38:53.960 And boy, you've really got a lot of
00:38:55.580 crap to get together.
00:38:57.000 Well, actually, there was a lot of
00:38:59.720 credible sources of BC saying that
00:39:01.200 Eby was, I mean, calling us an
00:39:04.240 ample action, it's tougher than it
00:39:06.580 sounds.
00:39:07.320 He would have been in by far the best
00:39:08.820 position to do it, but it also would
00:39:10.980 have looked overly opportunistic.
00:39:13.340 Yeah.
00:39:13.740 I mean, it can backfire.
00:39:14.880 Jim Prentice opportunistically called
00:39:17.020 an early election because he thought
00:39:18.100 he had swallowed the Wild Rose hole
00:39:19.300 and all that result was the PCs getting
00:39:21.700 annihilated down to a distant third
00:39:23.220 place, Wild Rose coming back a second
00:39:24.940 and the NDP going from a distant,
00:39:27.480 hyper distant fourth to first.
00:39:29.120 So you don't want to look overly
00:39:31.400 opportunistic, but he, there's a lot
00:39:32.980 of credible reports that he was
00:39:34.580 planning for a spring election.
00:39:35.900 He'd try to engineer some reason
00:39:37.640 other than that my opponents are
00:39:39.180 are poisoned to legislation to force
00:39:41.380 a downfall.
00:39:42.340 Yeah.
00:39:43.580 Maybe he's going to have to think
00:39:44.600 about twice about that now because
00:39:45.960 now the BC conservatives are going to
00:39:47.020 have a leadership race.
00:39:48.280 Maybe they still end up having that
00:39:49.640 spring election.
00:39:50.240 They'll be a little more solved, but
00:39:51.780 God, BC.
00:39:54.120 Like, I thought we were bad.
00:39:56.020 You know, I, I, I, I, when I, I'm at
00:39:58.600 events, they got people from around
00:39:59.880 the country and there's BC conservatives
00:40:01.360 there and they're, you know, sometimes
00:40:03.340 distraught about the shit show that's
00:40:05.000 going on.
00:40:05.440 I take them aside.
00:40:06.140 I'm like, it's okay.
00:40:07.460 You know, you guys are relatively
00:40:10.460 bloodless in terms of the conservative
00:40:13.300 civil war you had there.
00:40:14.140 You didn't even fight one election
00:40:15.160 against BC United liberals.
00:40:17.040 You got them to collapse and fold
00:40:18.680 their tent before it happened.
00:40:20.140 Good on you guys.
00:40:21.060 It's a lot less bloody than what we
00:40:22.560 went through in Alberta or what, what
00:40:24.320 happened nationally, but the
00:40:25.420 performance PCs, I was like, good
00:40:27.720 on you guys.
00:40:28.340 You know, don't, don't beat yourself
00:40:30.080 up too much.
00:40:31.580 Now it's time to start beating
00:40:32.960 yourself up.
00:40:33.680 You guys look like monkeys.
00:40:35.500 Yeah.
00:40:35.900 Well, part of the issue too, I mean,
00:40:37.540 BC's got, you know, we've got an
00:40:39.100 urban rural split that's happening
00:40:40.660 everywhere, generally with
00:40:41.580 conservatives and liberal.
00:40:42.800 And we see it in Alberta, between
00:40:43.820 Calgary, Edmonton and rural, but BC
00:40:46.580 has it to interior BC, Northern BC
00:40:48.920 has some of the most strong
00:40:50.140 conservative country in the country.
00:40:52.020 I got a couple of monkeys along
00:40:53.120 the line, by the way.
00:40:54.460 Oh, they don't like being compared
00:40:56.560 to conservatives.
00:40:57.320 Oh, yes.
00:40:59.020 And then, and then you get the
00:41:00.240 Victoria and parts of Vancouver and
00:41:01.920 some of the most hyper left leaning
00:41:04.420 in the entire country as well.
00:41:06.900 And Vancouver actually has more swing
00:41:08.680 to it than some people give it
00:41:09.720 credit for.
00:41:10.260 I mean, we've seen some strong
00:41:11.560 reform members of parliament come
00:41:12.860 from urban Vancouver areas.
00:41:14.380 It's been a while.
00:41:15.420 Vancouver's a different city.
00:41:16.460 It is, but there's literally
00:41:17.880 different populations.
00:41:18.800 Still some potential going on in
00:41:21.200 the metro area anyways, but it
00:41:24.260 makes it a very difficult
00:41:25.200 balancing act for a conservative
00:41:26.260 party to be able to garner those
00:41:27.680 high population area votes and
00:41:29.140 still maintain.
00:41:30.600 I mean, it's a nightmare.
00:41:31.760 I don't envy whoever's going to
00:41:32.980 try and pull it together.
00:41:33.860 But as we're kind of saying here,
00:41:35.580 whatever the formula is, guys, you've
00:41:37.220 got to do it.
00:41:37.760 You got to find it.
00:41:38.840 You got to find it before spring.
00:41:40.620 You know, just the first thing is
00:41:42.280 the conservatives, John Rustad did
00:41:44.760 finally fall on a sword.
00:41:46.060 They're going to have their
00:41:46.580 leadership race.
00:41:47.680 Those are always divisive, but maybe
00:41:49.600 they come out in the end.
00:41:50.260 But to the one BC guys in particular,
00:41:53.100 the party, it's over.
00:41:55.300 You guys got a lot of traction with
00:41:57.020 this little party.
00:41:57.840 I mean, it didn't do great in the
00:41:59.240 poll, but it takes time.
00:42:00.120 And I'm relatively impressed with how
00:42:02.060 they made a name for themselves,
00:42:03.700 picking hard wedge issues and
00:42:06.240 leveraging them right, forcing the
00:42:08.820 conservatives who are getting pretty
00:42:10.460 soft on some issues, forcing them
00:42:11.900 into the right way to go.
00:42:13.440 But you blew it up.
00:42:15.560 Get back all in the same Kent.
00:42:17.500 Dallas Brody.
00:42:18.360 You can run for BC conservative
00:42:19.880 leader.
00:42:20.240 I think you'd actually have a shot.
00:42:22.500 From my side of the Rockies here,
00:42:24.180 you've made some good waves.
00:42:27.640 Get back in there.
00:42:28.760 Do it together.
00:42:29.820 The BC and DP are too damn
00:42:31.580 dangerous to be left to chance.
00:42:34.540 So, all right.
00:42:38.140 Party shots.
00:42:39.440 Who wants up first?
00:42:41.160 I'll just hit it fast.
00:42:42.040 It kind of segues in just that there
00:42:43.360 is a parallel two-person caucus trying
00:42:45.260 to make a name for itself here in
00:42:46.580 Alberta with Pete Guthrie and Scott
00:42:49.100 Sinclair.
00:42:50.700 Part of the issue that might be the
00:42:51.900 case two in BC with their one BC of
00:42:54.220 two that split into two.
00:42:56.600 Two BC.
00:42:57.600 Yes.
00:42:58.940 But they're prickly individuals have
00:43:00.460 difficulty working on a team as well.
00:43:02.200 I mean, Pete Guthrie had a hard time
00:43:03.260 in the Kenny government.
00:43:04.220 He's had a hard time.
00:43:05.540 They aren't necessarily, it might not
00:43:06.640 even be an ideology thing.
00:43:07.800 It could be a personal personality
00:43:09.680 thing where they just can't work
00:43:11.220 with others.
00:43:12.200 It'll be interesting to watch that
00:43:13.380 micro experiment develop in Alberta
00:43:14.800 over there as well.
00:43:15.540 Interesting.
00:43:16.720 You know, that's good.
00:43:17.880 We have to save that one.
00:43:18.980 We're going to call
00:43:19.580 1 BC, 2 BC now.
00:43:23.400 Yeah.
00:43:24.320 Boom, boom, boom.
00:43:25.340 That's good material.
00:43:26.640 Editorial decision just made.
00:43:28.060 All right, Nigel, you're up.
00:43:29.040 Yes, and so we have fun today.
00:43:31.780 We've got a lot of fooling around
00:43:34.200 on Pipeline, but Hannaford show
00:43:37.080 tomorrow is serious stuff.
00:43:39.320 And Canada's ambassador during the
00:43:41.800 Harper days was Vivian McCovey, and
00:43:45.360 she will be my guest on Hannaford at
00:43:48.200 seven o'clock tomorrow night.
00:43:49.980 She is talking about the plight of
00:43:52.100 Canada's Jews, and she is comparing
00:43:56.060 it to 1938 in Germany when people
00:43:59.860 are smart, sell their property, and
00:44:02.560 get out.
00:44:03.980 It's getting that bad to be Jewish
00:44:06.200 in Canada, in her opinion.
00:44:08.760 I will ask you why she thinks so.
00:44:11.080 All right.
00:44:11.660 Hannaford, seven o'clock tomorrow.
00:44:14.460 A little less weighty as mine, but
00:44:16.560 today I want to note the resignation
00:44:18.480 of Pablo Rodriguez.
00:44:19.760 Yes.
00:44:21.160 Those who have been around a while
00:44:22.460 remember Pablo, he was a long-time
00:44:26.100 Liberal member of Parliament
00:44:27.120 federally, and he was a Cabinet
00:44:28.600 Minister under Justin Trudeau.
00:44:30.580 Church.
00:44:31.380 Yeah, yeah.
00:44:32.620 One of the main censorship ministers,
00:44:34.920 just total.
00:44:36.180 A guy who's cost this company a lot of
00:44:38.400 employees and money.
00:44:39.540 He was one of the guys responsible
00:44:41.060 for the Online News Act.
00:44:43.460 Anyway, he became, when it looked like
00:44:46.480 Justin Trudeau and the Liberals in
00:44:47.820 federally were going to go down before
00:44:48.800 Mark Carney, it looked like they were
00:44:50.160 going to go down, he hopped over, became
00:44:51.920 leader of the Quebec Liberals.
00:44:56.080 I don't know all the details of it, but
00:44:57.880 his leadership race has a lot of
00:44:59.820 serious corruption allegations.
00:45:02.280 I don't think anything's proven yet,
00:45:03.760 but there's a lot of damning evidence
00:45:05.640 around some untoward funding and
00:45:08.300 potential corruption.
00:45:09.560 They brought in the anti-corruption
00:45:10.580 unit in Quebec.
00:45:12.200 And he finally went down today.
00:45:14.320 Resigned as leader.
00:45:15.780 They have an election coming up very
00:45:17.520 soon, likely in Quebec.
00:45:18.740 Quebec, the CAC, the Coalition
00:45:21.700 Quebec or whatever, headed for a
00:45:24.960 historic annihilation right now, going
00:45:27.460 down.
00:45:28.420 First place in the polls is the
00:45:30.360 Parti Québécois, promising a third
00:45:32.460 referendum on independence.
00:45:33.720 Oh, you can see that glint in
00:45:35.300 Corey's eyes here.
00:45:37.000 But, you know, running a respectable
00:45:38.240 second is, because they've been
00:45:40.540 beaten down for quite a bit in Quebec,
00:45:42.140 making a moderate resurgence as the
00:45:43.840 Quebec Liberals had a shot of maybe
00:45:46.000 winning, but that's over for Pablo
00:45:47.720 here.
00:45:50.740 Yeah.
00:45:51.580 I mean, couldn't have happened to an
00:45:52.800 ice guy.
00:45:53.860 Adios.
00:45:54.560 Yeah.
00:45:55.040 Adios, Pablo.
00:45:56.060 Hasta la vista, is that what you
00:45:57.260 said?
00:45:57.540 Hasta la vista, Pablo.
00:45:59.440 Yeah.
00:46:00.160 Okay.
00:46:01.020 Well, gentlemen, thank you.
00:46:02.580 Thanks for John on production.
00:46:04.860 Also, just everyone watching and
00:46:07.320 listening, take special note of
00:46:08.960 John.
00:46:09.260 John's really brought a lot of
00:46:10.720 additional quality to the show here.
00:46:13.040 He's just been really great.
00:46:13.880 He's the man behind the scenes, so he
00:46:15.000 doesn't get any of the glory, but he's
00:46:16.780 got, uh, but he's got at least half the
00:46:18.440 guts and there's four guys in the room.
00:46:19.960 So, um, Merry Christmas.
00:46:23.300 Merry Christmas.
00:46:23.880 Gentlemen.
00:46:24.700 Merry Christmas.
00:46:26.860 And, uh, Merry Christmas to all you.
00:46:29.600 God bless.
00:46:30.240 Uh, we'll see you again in the new year.
00:46:32.980 I'll miss you all very dearly.
00:46:34.640 Have a good time with your families.
00:46:36.000 Remember, if you're not yet subscribed to
00:46:37.260 the Western Standard, $10 a month, $100 a
00:46:39.620 year for unlimited access.
00:46:41.160 Uh, and we're growing.
00:46:42.560 We've got full-time offices in BC, Regina,
00:46:46.100 Edmonton, and we are, uh, we are working
00:46:49.640 real hard.
00:46:50.200 I haven't mentioned much of this.
00:46:51.400 We want to get someone full-time at
00:46:53.000 Queen's Park, holding the Ontario
00:46:54.760 government's feet to the fire.
00:46:56.240 Uh, that is one out-of-control government
00:46:58.360 that's just not getting any accountability.
00:47:00.780 Uh, you know, no, if you're a
00:47:02.920 conservative voter in Ontario, you
00:47:04.040 don't care if the Toronto Star comes
00:47:05.200 at Doug Ford.
00:47:06.680 You need someone who can speak their
00:47:08.220 language, who understand.
00:47:11.980 I'm not going to get too far into it.
00:47:13.540 My point is, not everyone in Ontario
00:47:14.840 sucks.
00:47:15.320 There's a lot of good people there, and
00:47:16.820 they deserve some Western Standard.
00:47:18.640 For once, it won't be the Eastern
00:47:19.880 media coming out to the West.
00:47:21.500 We're going to take some Western media
00:47:22.920 and we're going to put it in the East
00:47:24.260 and see how they like it.
00:47:25.620 I have a feeling they're going to
00:47:26.660 like it.
00:47:27.020 I think they're going to like it.
00:47:28.780 Alright, thank you very much for
00:47:30.620 joining us.
00:47:31.400 Merry Christmas, and God bless.
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