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

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. 0.99

00:01:30.240 So, we're going to be trying to carve apart what's happening in Lotusland. 0.98

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. 0.99

00:02:05.540 But first, mass migration kills. 0.98

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. 0.89

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. 0.51

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. 1.00

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. 0.99

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. 0.61

00:06:48.520 Guns don't kill people. 1.00

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 0.94

00:07:31.940 for right-wing extremist groups who are white. 0.94

00:07:35.160 You know, it is an exercise in denial 0.98

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. 0.98

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 0.99

00:08:10.780 one day to shoot 15 people dead. 0.96

00:08:13.480 If you were going to go to a German small town 1.00

00:08:16.560 and try and ram a car into their Christmas fair 0.99

00:08:21.100 and kill people that way, 0.99

00:08:23.340 there is something going on 1.00

00:08:26.200 and it is utterly foolish to deny it. 0.77

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. 0.99

00:09:55.300 They're cowardly. 0.99

00:09:56.480 They won't target 0.99

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 0.99

00:10:06.900 hate everybody. 0.92

00:10:08.880 I mean,

00:10:09.140 you know,

00:10:09.580 one of their targets 0.86

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. 0.63

00:10:23.560 They're stabbing people. 0.93

00:10:24.640 They're blowing people up. 0.98

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 0.93

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 0.98

00:10:59.940 a few people 0.99

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 0.78

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 1.00

00:13:57.980 your shit. 1.00

00:13:58.880 You sort it out 1.00

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 0.80

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, 0.96

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 0.87

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 0.99

00:15:15.200 to get away from that crap. 0.98

00:15:16.520 I'm not all even 0.99

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. 0.73

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 0.99

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. 0.97

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 0.99

00:16:49.700 crap and dogs 1.00

00:16:50.400 under control. 1.00

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 0.98

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 0.57

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, 0.50

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 0.94

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 0.58

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 0.92

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 0.98

00:20:44.580 and lunatics, 0.94

00:20:45.260 but I get it. 0.94

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 0.99

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 0.98

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 1.00

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 1.00

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. 1.00

00:27:31.400 Because the bugger who 1.00

00:27:33.060 is, after Justin 1.00

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 0.96

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 0.98

00:28:45.100 these states, but the

00:28:46.600 domestic migration is going 0.74

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 0.99

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 1.00

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 0.97

00:29:25.280 this the best damn place to 0.97

00:29:27.140 do it. 0.98

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 0.99

00:30:20.800 to want to exterminate Jews, 0.98

00:30:23.020 that's not really a big 0.94

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 0.85

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 0.99

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 1.00

00:31:41.100 stupid. 1.00

00:31:42.160 And although I think Alberta and 1.00

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 1.00

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. 0.96

00:32:42.080 It's that phobish. 0.96

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, 0.72

00:33:10.860 stronger, faster than women on 1.00

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 1.00

00:33:34.880 skating. 0.93

00:33:36.280 So...

00:33:36.660 Oh, okay.

00:33:37.460 Now you've pissed people off. 0.98

00:33:39.240 You could go after trans. 1.00

00:33:40.840 You could go after women. 0.99

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. 1.00

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 0.99

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 0.67

00:34:43.100 to ruin the sport they're 0.98

00:34:44.080 purporting.

00:34:44.620 It's a wussy sport. 0.94

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 0.99

00:34:56.060 was a novelty. 0.89

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. 1.00

00:35:03.680 And this idiocy is going to 1.00

00:35:05.980 come to an end. 1.00

00:35:06.420 Thanks again to Premier Smith

00:35:07.660 because she's just not having 0.96

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 1.00

00:35:43.940 your shit at this point. 1.00

00:35:46.740 You've got two conservative 1.00

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. 0.96

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. 0.93

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. 1.00

00:37:42.120 Get your shit together, BC 1.00

00:37:43.340 conservatives. 1.00

00:37:44.400 You look like clowns. 1.00

00:37:46.500 You know, it's like that old 0.99

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. 0.72

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 1.00

00:38:51.680 a couple of years to get your crap 1.00

00:38:52.920 together. 0.99

00:38:53.440 Maybe.

00:38:53.960 And boy, you've really got a lot of 0.99

00:38:55.580 crap to get together. 0.99

00:38:57.000 Well, actually, there was a lot of 0.99

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 0.99

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 1.00

00:40:03.340 distraught about the shit show that's 0.99

00:40:05.000 going on. 1.00

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. 0.99

00:40:33.680 You guys look like monkeys. 0.99

00:40:35.500 Yeah. 0.91

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 0.53

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. 0.98

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 0.60

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 0.96

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 1.00

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

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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 1.00

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 0.99

00:47:14.840 sucks. 0.97

00:47:15.320 There's a lot of good people there, and 0.98

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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Western Standard - December 21, 2025

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

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