Western Standard - The Pipeline - Smith fires Hinshaw

00:00:00.000 Good evening, I'm Derek Villibrad, publisher of the Western Standard.

00:00:23.000 Today is November 16th, 2022, and you're watching The Pipeline.

00:00:27.340 Thank you very much for joining us.

00:00:29.460 I love that intro music.

00:00:30.600 It always psychs me up, gets me going.

00:00:33.320 How about you, Nigel?

00:00:34.060 Does that get you pumped up?

00:00:35.680 Just feeling the adrenaline pulsing through my veins as you speak.

00:00:40.100 Play it again.

00:00:41.040 We're going to talk about that.

00:00:42.220 Play it, boys.

00:00:42.940 No, no, don't do it.

00:00:44.680 Also, we got with us a little less enthused by the music, I think.

00:00:48.400 Corey, does it not work for you?

00:00:50.440 Well, I only have one pose.

00:00:52.460 You have one pose.

00:00:53.220 That's it.

00:00:54.140 Okay.

00:00:54.600 He's got his own music.

00:00:55.500 It's inside.

00:00:56.020 We got a great show today. Danielle Smith, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith fires Dina Hinshaw, Alberta's chief medical officer. Gaster, she's gone. Big, bold move, one that's been expected for some time. A lot of the media just can't believe she actually did what she said she was going to do here.

00:01:16.880 We've also got, I'm sure you've seen it in all the legacy media, a lot of the lefty politicians and journalists all pushing, not just for a return of masking, but to make masking permanent and mandatory at least half of the year, if not all year round.

00:01:36.020 what the hell is driving this? They seem to really miss COVID. They really just miss the

00:01:43.240 good old days when we're all in this together. And they want to make us all in this together

00:01:47.640 with mandatory masking again. We're going to talk about what the hell is behind the big push by the

00:01:52.300 media and the political side of them to make masking mandatory at least half of the year

00:01:58.080 on a permanent basis. And Justin Trudeau is overseas for the G20 meeting.

00:02:03.540 And, you know, he had a little run-in with Chinese Premier Xi Jinping.

00:02:09.520 Oh, I think I said that right, didn't I?

00:02:11.080 I can't get that one.

00:02:12.120 Is it Xi Jinping? I kind of make it all one word.

00:02:15.400 I'm going with it. Take the wind while I can. Move on.

00:02:18.660 He had a little run-in with him, and then he was asked by the press later if the Chinese genocide of the Uyghur Muslim people is genocide.

00:02:28.120 And he said, no, not in so few words, but in a very Justin Trudeau navel gazing way. He said, no, no, China is not genocidal. But you know who is genocidal? Canada. Canada is the genocidal ones.

00:02:44.320 uh i'm unaware of the death camps that are being operated uh maybe somewhere up in athabaska

00:02:51.120 but uh yeah quite just a typical justin trudeau way of representing canada on the international

00:02:57.860 stage going around making excuses for the chinese communist party and blaming canada for much worse

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00:04:28.180 Okay, let's get into it. Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, when she was running for the leadership of

00:04:34.000 the United Conservative Party a few months ago,

00:04:36.700 she really made Alberta Health Services, 1.00

00:04:40.340 AHS one of the whipping boys of her campaign.

00:04:43.840 The media focused mostly on Sovereignty Act,

00:04:48.680 but I think in tandem with that was stuff around

00:04:52.440 the mismanagement of healthcare in the province,

00:04:55.540 not just around COVID itself,

00:04:56.840 but the fact that you've still got to

00:04:59.200 wait bizarre amounts of time for specialists that we'd

00:05:02.120 spend incredible amounts of money on health care in Alberta and get pretty damn subpar outcomes, as most provinces do,

00:05:08.120 but we're even worse than some terms of how much money we spend for the results.

00:05:12.040 And but Dina Hinshaw is an AHSR itself, but closely related.

00:05:18.620 Dina Hinshaw, though, next to Jason Kenney, the face of the government's COVID response.

00:05:23.740 She was saying she's not interested in taking advice from her, not going to listen to her when she was elected premier.

00:05:30.780 She says she's going to be firing her. And she actually did it. I know we're not surprised,

00:05:39.020 but I think the reaction from a lot of people does seem to be almost a bit of surprise.

00:05:45.720 Nigel, should people be surprised? Because this is a big move. I don't think any of the

00:05:51.220 chief medical officers in Canada have been fired, especially so summarily. And what message does

00:05:57.120 a set. Well, you see, you'd say, Derek, people are surprised. That is because they do not know

00:06:03.740 Danielle Smith, and they do know a whole raft of politicians, including some conservative

00:06:09.120 politicians, who have said one thing on the campaign trail, and then as soon as they get

00:06:13.440 a chance to do something about it, it just gets quietly dropped. I think that you are going to

00:06:20.460 see a lot from danielle smith uh think about the things that she did campaign upon think about the

00:06:27.580 things that she has already said the positions that she's taken i am not surprised i don't think

00:06:33.440 deep down i'll let you speak for yourself but i suspect that maybe you're not as surprised

00:06:37.780 no right okay i don't think cory is as surprised but um you know she talked about

00:06:45.300 get it relieving miss hinshaw of her responsibilities and putting in

00:06:51.540 somebody else well she did it and that is i think

00:06:58.920 i i am hoping i am really hoping that this government moves to take control of its health

00:07:09.300 Ministry, which is $22 billion, is the Ministry of Health in this province, out of a total budget

00:07:16.720 of $50 billion. So we're getting on for nearly half, and it's just been sort of done by remote

00:07:22.700 control. And, you know, an example of something I would like to, I hope that the Smith government

00:07:31.920 takes this on a group of bureaucrats made the decision that if you were not vaccinated there

00:07:41.240 were certain types of medical procedure for which you were just automatically disqualified

00:07:45.820 now there's a particular case in point that i'm thinking of i was writing about it the other day

00:07:51.240 um i can't i'm not a medical person so i can't adjudicate whether individual a or individual

00:07:58.740 will be should receive a procedure. But I can say as a journalist that it is totally unfair and

00:08:08.200 unjust and morally indefensible that something like that should be grounds of discrimination

00:08:15.820 and a provincial government not act upon it. It is, I am so hoping that they take that particular

00:08:23.540 issue on. So I want to bring it back to Hinshaw here. Yeah, I don't think any of us are surprised,

00:08:29.560 but I think there is a, even though I'm not surprised, I am kind of like, she actually did

00:08:35.120 it. So there's even a part of me that's like, sometimes you might just want to avoid the trouble

00:08:39.600 and just put it off perhaps. But as Nigel saying, Danielle's acting on what she'd said she'd do.

00:08:44.500 And I mean, I'll play a bit of devil's advocate. I feel a little, I don't know as far as feeling

00:08:48.200 sorry, because I don't feel a lot of things, but still Hinshaw was in a difficult, untenable

00:08:52.220 position for a long time i mean she'd catch the flack when anything went wrong and uh you know

00:08:58.380 likewise if things went well the government would take the credit yeah and if things went well it

00:09:03.180 was that it was her yeah she was always put for you know and no matter what decision came if they

00:09:07.660 were lightening up on restrictions then the pro restriction people would be all going oh she's 0.72

00:09:11.260 just a patsy for the crazed premier and whatnot or if she cracked down on restrictions then of

00:09:16.700 course the anti-restriction people so she said i think she's probably breathing a bit of relief

00:09:21.500 after all of this uh whether she did well or didn't do well she did become that symbol though

00:09:27.660 like you said of the head of the the restrictions and what was going on and if you want to put that

00:09:32.540 behind us we want to put covet in the rearview mirror part of that is putting hinshaw in the

00:09:36.540 rearview mirror and i think that's a lot of the reasons the symbolism even more than her actions

00:09:40.140 i think so you you got into this a bit nigel um smith has promised everybody promises to fix

00:09:50.460 health care. I have never seen a politician in Canada for any party at any level of government

00:09:56.300 who has a promise to fix health care. If we elected dog catchers in Alberta, I'm sure everyone 1.00

00:10:01.260 running for dog catcher would still promise to fix health care. But Smith, I rather more,

00:10:08.620 she actually had some meat on the bones of what she was going to do in her leadership campaign. 0.97

00:10:13.340 And it begins with some demolition, not the physical, not physical demolition of blowing up

00:10:19.580 hospitals but a demolition of the structure of AHS. Let me talk a bit about what she was talking

00:10:26.940 about in healthcare in the campaign and you know where's it gone so far? What are we expecting to

00:10:31.900 see with her reform of AHS? Well one of the things that one of the things that she was campaigning 1.00

00:10:36.700 on you may recall was a health voucher for those expenses that aren't normally covered by the

00:10:43.900 system. So that's one thing that now that we've seen what she's done I have some confidence that

00:10:48.700 that will come along next.

00:10:51.180 Jill's taken a very strong position on the masking.

00:10:55.740 A lot of people who voted for Daniel Smith

00:10:57.900 didn't want to see the government come in with a heavy...

00:11:01.340 A bit ahead of us, masking is next.

00:11:02.860 All right, masking will come to masking, won't we?

00:11:06.940 So, yeah, I think the...

00:11:12.100 Whatever she campaigned on, I think you're going to see.

00:11:15.000 So look for that, and look for, I think...

00:11:18.700 So the government of Alberta taking control of this ministry, whatever that looks like, it is just too big to hand off to the bureaucrats.

00:11:33.160 The elected people have to be responsible for it and not just say, well, you know, we give them money and they do their best with it.

00:11:42.960 Well, actually, I'm not skipping court, but I'm going to give Corey the first dig at the next part.

00:11:46.980 So let's go to masking.

00:11:48.700 So that's obviously pretty tightly tied in with all of this stuff. I think everyone's noticed over the last week, this quick, out of nowhere, the volume turned up on the maskers. They're back. I thought we beat them. They're gone. No, no, they haven't given up.

00:12:09.440 um there's you're seeing uh twitter profiles pop back up wearing masks covid uh is in existence

00:12:17.340 there still is covid but it's not a pandemic anymore it's an endemic um and it's the fall

00:12:23.540 we've there is respiratory illnesses in the fall as there always is have you noticed how they've

00:12:29.600 rebranded that by the way they don't talk about covid anymore they talk about yeah viral respiratory

00:12:34.940 They're kind of trying to make it a part of a suite of other things that have always been with

00:12:40.300 us. And the media, unions whose members would benefit from not having to go to work or something

00:12:48.620 if we could get back to lockdowns, they've been ratcheting up calls for permanent masking.

00:12:55.420 I'll draw attention in particular to one column. Do you have the name of that columnist from the

00:12:59.420 the Globe and Mail? Maybe not. Not off the top of my head. There's a staff columnist for the Globe and Mail based in Vancouver. Marsha. Marsha. Marsha. I don't know. But she wrote a piece calling for permanent mandatory masking every fall and winter. She said something along the lines of, well, you know, this time of year, we put away our sandals and bathing suits and we bring out our parkas and boots.

00:13:29.400 our masks. It's just a part of the way it should be. And anyone who is opposed to that doesn't care about the lives of the children and is a sociopath. Well, that's going to soften people up. That's going to get people on site saying everyone who disagrees.

00:13:45.400 agrees. Oh, I've been having those discussions. I want to kill children, apparently, according to

00:13:49.400 the people. Oh, yeah, I want my kids all that. Now. It's, but it's really ramped up. You've got 1.00

00:13:58.600 chief medical officer in Ontario recommending masks, I think Quebec just did too. Here in

00:14:03.800 Alberta, well, we don't care about our chief medical officer anymore. But the Premier Smith

00:14:08.840 said hard, no, but you got the unions banging the drums calling for this stuff. And it's all

00:14:14.760 all ironic because now they're trying to cloak it in the kids because the number of kids being

00:14:19.160 admitted right now with respiratory illnesses, seasonal respiratory illnesses, is up very

00:14:24.300 significantly. Why is that? Why would it be right now that now that COVID is pretty much in the

00:14:30.940 review mirror, why would kids be in with respiratory illnesses? You know why it is? It's because we've

00:14:37.340 locked them down for two years and kids who would normally be slobbering over each other, sharing

00:14:41.680 each other's germs getting gross but natural immunities didn't get them and that's why they're

00:14:47.680 sick they're sick because we locked our kids down deprived them of two years of schooling

00:14:51.940 and they don't have the immunity necessary so now they're getting sick so what's the answer

00:14:55.900 masks and of course you know right behind that will be more lockdowns um i'm going to give you

00:15:02.940 the first shot of this cory why the hell would the with the unions and large segments of the

00:15:08.480 legacy media be pushing so hard for mandatory masks when they know, follow the science. They

00:15:13.740 know what the science says, and the reason for these kids getting sick is the lockdowns that

00:15:17.020 they themselves supported. Yeah, and the ability of masks to stop this is negligible at best. We

00:15:21.020 have the numbers. If you look... Oh, just in case YouTube's watching, masks are wonderful.

00:15:26.340 Masks are great. Masks will save you from everything. In fact, masks stop me from getting

00:15:30.940 cancer. Just in case you're watching YouTube censors. But if you look at it, you search the

00:15:37.060 headlines. 2011, hospitals overwhelmed by flu outbreak, children's wards full. 2013, hospitals

00:15:43.260 overwhelmed by flu outbreak. 2017, hospitals overwhelmed by flu. This happens every three

00:15:48.560 years. And even if the lockdowns had nothing to do with it, it's a cycle that comes. And masking

00:15:54.300 didn't make a difference with it coming or going. It runs its course and it goes on. And it doesn't

00:15:58.440 cause, yes, some vulnerable children. It's dangerous. I mean, we can't understate that.

00:16:02.400 But the masking thing, I see a lot of it as a political trap, because you lay that trap, especially here in Alberta, for example, where the unions and Gil McCown dearly want to get Daniel Smith to lose the next election.

00:16:14.540 They will lay every adverse outcome on Smith and say, it's because we didn't mask.

00:16:20.400 Even if there's no basis for it, it doesn't matter.

00:16:22.060 That's what they'll do.

00:16:23.500 And they're pushing it as hard as they can for that reason.

00:16:26.940 And the same thing with Doug Ford, every other part where they want to push this because it's a political move.

00:16:33.560 And the other part is, for governments who do impose the masking, it looks like you're doing something.

00:16:39.040 People can see it.

00:16:39.700 Look at all those nice, pretty masked faces.

00:16:41.620 Even if it isn't doing something, it looks like you're doing something.

00:16:44.720 So they like that.

00:16:45.740 It looks like visibly, see, I care.

00:16:47.620 I'm saving your children and your grandma and whatever else out there.

00:16:50.560 But it's a whole political push.

00:16:52.520 It has nothing to do with the science.

00:16:53.660 Yeah, I think there's kind of two real reasons they want to wear it. One is mass hypochondria. We've now got a whole society of hypochondriacs. The unions wanted it maybe for a few reasons. One is just the pure partisan political parts of it.

00:17:11.600 You know, Gil McGowan, Alberta Federation of Labor, the government unions, they want to at least say they have it so that they can lay any adverse effects at the feet of the government here. 0.99

00:17:23.940 Another is fear, because when you see masks, it means, oh, shit, something has gone down. 0.99

00:17:29.280 Things are bad again. 0.99

00:17:30.800 Things are bad.

00:17:31.660 And if you're afraid, then you're more likely to accept a lockdown.

00:17:37.160 And you know who really loves lockdowns?

00:17:39.580 People who don't have to work anymore.

00:17:41.600 And that is people working for the government,

00:17:43.740 people working on white collar government jobs

00:17:46.020 who don't have to go through the pain

00:17:47.880 of going to the office anymore.

00:17:49.900 Although the biggest reason I think,

00:17:51.420 and you touched on it, I think is social solidarity.

00:17:54.600 It's a sign, it's almost a badge, it's an amulet.

00:17:58.620 And it shows you that you're a part of this.

00:18:02.300 People wore masks willfully,

00:18:04.320 even though they were like,

00:18:05.140 yeah, I know this little thing does,

00:18:07.760 masks are wonderful, they don't do anything wrong.

00:18:10.260 They save you from everything.

00:18:11.760 But people who need not believe that, though, they still wore them because it was a show that I'm doing my part.

00:18:19.080 You know, it was it's the equivalent of putting a ribbon on your Twitter profile.

00:18:22.700 You know, something goes wrong and I stand with extra, you know, it's like a hashtag.

00:18:27.960 The mask became a hashtag.

00:18:30.820 I want to ask maybe you more about the media specifically.

00:18:33.980 Why do you think so much of the media is just out of nowhere jumped on this bandwagon?

00:18:39.380 We went straight from, you know, all the other issues of the world to all of a sudden masking.

00:18:47.620 It's back.

00:18:48.600 Well, it's a process story, isn't it?

00:18:50.320 I mean, it's something that everybody thinks they understand.

00:18:55.200 Certainly, just about everybody has an opinion on.

00:18:57.700 So it's red meat for journalists who perhaps find it rather difficult to make an interesting story about some of the things that actually happen in government.

00:19:05.880 But this Globe and Mail columnist, I don't know.

00:19:10.460 She seemed pretty out of it.

00:19:11.580 I feel like she believes in it.

00:19:13.420 I don't doubt her sincerity that she believes that we're sociopaths if we don't wear masks.

00:19:18.040 If you're prepared to write that people who won't mask up are sociopaths, yeah, you're a true believer.

00:19:23.960 And there are people and plenty of people in the media drinking each other's bath water.

00:19:30.500 There's also a way that journalists enter into the profession that sort of comes through woke journalism schools into woke newsrooms.

00:19:41.500 And there's an awful lot of peer pressure to conform to what seems to be the general consensus. 0.98

00:19:47.940 But look, she's already a lefty. She's old. She's not a J school grad. She's old. 1.00

00:19:52.520 Well, it's been going on since for a very long time.

00:19:55.360 yes she can be uh but what i'm trying to get is what spurred the sudden obsession

00:20:01.520 in newsrooms with columnists and reporters what spurred the sudden obsession with oh 0.98

00:20:06.880 shit i forgot about masking yes everybody get behind masks you just came out of nowhere yeah 0.90

00:20:11.360 well i mean part of it is that you get uh it's an easy it's an easy story it's a process story 0.99

00:20:17.040 you've got somebody prominent like the uh chief medical officer of health in ontario saying this

00:20:22.480 everybody thinks they understand it so everybody wants to write about and comment on it

00:20:26.560 um you know when we talk about diversity in the media they never think about diversity of opinion

00:20:33.600 and these newsrooms have and these opinion pages have been self-selected for decades

00:20:38.400 to just put a certain point of view in like i think i can't speak for you gentlemen i can speak

00:20:44.880 for myself i said i got no problem with somebody who wants to wear a mask it's a free world it's

00:20:49.280 their choice if that makes them feel better do it just don't ask me and don't try to tell me that

00:20:56.960 that should be my choice if i don't agree that's not the way your typical newspaper reporter media

00:21:04.960 columnist tv anchor thinks about these things because they have been telling each other that

00:21:10.960 masks are good for so long they don't know other way to do it it is just a it's a consensus that

00:21:17.440 they've come up with um i think they just got lonely for the mask yeah it's like a teddy bear

00:21:23.360 there's still some adults asleep with a teddy bear it makes them feel safe and cozy and i think

00:21:28.560 we're a diving bell on your head for all i care right just leave me alone you want a face tattoo

00:21:33.760 get a face tattoo just i don't want to wear a face tattoo no i'd actually i'd almost rather

00:21:39.040 tattoo a mask on me than wear one at least that'd be a hell of a face tattoo you'd never have to

00:21:44.320 have to worry about sitting next to anybody on a bus ever again too. There you go. That'll just

00:21:48.720 help with social distancing. Don't make eye contact. That's right. Okay. A little switch

00:21:55.820 gears a bit here. So Justin Trudeau in Cambodia, are they in? Phnom Penh. Yeah, Cambodia. So he had

00:22:05.300 a little run in. So he had a side meeting with Chinese Premier Xi Jinping. And you know, I don't

00:22:13.440 I don't think any of us are great fans of Xi Jinping. He's in our cup, not our communist cup of tea. But it was a one on one. And I think it appears that this was supposed to be a closed door meeting. I mean, Reagan met with Gorbachev and Kennedy met with Brezhnev. But they would, you know, there's there's a confidence to these meetings. And if something is allowed out, it's agreed in advance. Otherwise, you can't do diplomacy. Even with enemies, you have to maintain confidence to be in

00:22:43.420 able to do diplomacy. And Trudeau and his office apparently leaked this whole damn meeting, resulting in a bit of a blow up Xi Jinping corners Trudeau and gives him what what I couldn't really tell from the tone of his voice because I can't understand Chinese Mandarin, but that's not a here nor there. But Trudeau was holding a press conference. And one of the journalists said, you know, asked him for his opinions on the genocide of the Muslim

00:23:13.420 Uyghur people, people who are rounded up into concentration, re-education camps, I think the

00:23:19.580 Chinese communists call them, ask them, you know, would you call that a genocide?

00:23:23.500 Would you call them residential schools, perhaps? 0.66

00:23:28.060 Trudeau might call them residential schools.

00:23:30.060 Well, then he would call it genocide. 0.94

00:23:31.980 Yeah, yeah, if the Chinese call them the residential school, then they might 0.97

00:23:34.780 finally call them genocide. You know, I think we're going to need, actually, let's play the video. 0.99

00:23:41.500 Everything we discuss is then leaked to the paper. That's not appropriate. And that's not how the way the conversation was conducted.

00:23:51.500 If there is sincerity from your part, free and open and frank dialogue and that is what we will continue to have. We will continue to work constructively together.

00:24:10.500 constructively together, but there will be things we will disagree on, and we will have

00:24:13.880 to continue.

00:24:14.880 Let's create the conditions first.

00:24:25.880 Well, that's the prime minister having a very serious

00:24:40.300 and important talk about the weaker people. So you've got these people rounded up into concentration camps, mass murder against these people from a totalitarian communist regime, and Trudeau cannot bring himself to use the G word, but he has no problem throwing around in Canada, where, you know, very bad things in many

00:25:10.240 cases took place to indigenous people a long time ago, but in some cases not as long ago, but very bad things that I don't think a reasonable person would call genocide. I think we would, there'd be other terms for it as a, that's a particularly loaded term.

00:25:27.980 Well, if you're gonna call that genocide, what are you gonna call the Holocaust? You gotta come up with a new word.

00:25:32.500 Sure.

00:25:32.920 Yeah, it's like when you say, if we're far right, if we're fascists, well, then you need a whole new word for fascists and far right.

00:25:40.240 You know, so yeah, if the residential schools are genocide, then we need a whole new term for, well, what we've traditionally considered genocide.

00:25:50.260 Good point, but what the hell do you think he's trying to do, threading the needle here, that Canada's a genocidal state, but communist China's mass murder of the Uyghur people is not?

00:26:01.480 Is he trying to make a case here that it's bad, but it's not genocide?

00:26:06.480 Well, I mean, we all know what's really up here.

00:26:11.060 China is a superpower.

00:26:12.380 It has become one in the last 20 years. 0.76

00:26:17.940 If you irritate the Chinese, it's going to have a consequence.

00:26:21.640 He doesn't want to irritate the Chinese.

00:26:23.560 He doesn't mind irritating people here in Canada who still have some affection for language

00:26:29.020 and meaning, but to actually call the Chinese government out and say, what you're doing

00:26:35.920 is genocide, that's

00:26:37.740 a step he's just not

00:26:39.900 prepared to take. Good lord, 80%

00:26:41.940 of the shelf space in the large retail stores 1.00

00:26:44.100 is stuff that's made in China.

00:26:45.780 The economic implications

00:26:47.820 of the relationship between the two

00:26:50.020 countries are just enormous.

00:26:52.760 He's afraid of them.

00:26:54.080 Maybe he should be.

00:26:55.700 If he wasn't before, he will be now.

00:26:57.640 Actually, that might be the best

00:26:59.980 point. If there is a reason

00:27:01.820 for him threatening the needle like that,

00:27:04.600 I think maybe that's it. Maybe he was

00:27:05.880 just trying to be diplomatic, because, you know, he, by leaking his conversation with Xi Jinping,

00:27:10.740 he torpedoed, blew that, blew that pretty bad. That's, I mean, we've all had, you know,

00:27:19.460 we're in journalism, we've had meetings in confidence with people we don't like,

00:27:24.000 but you don't break confidence, because, you know, you break confidence on one,

00:27:27.040 you burn a source, well, no one talks to you again. That's right. You're sure you get one

00:27:31.500 good hurrah out of it, but that's, that's kind of the end of the road of anyone's willingness

00:27:34.700 to talk to you. Do you think they're actually, I think Nigel actually maybe raises an interesting

00:27:40.520 point that he will not call it genocide because it would just be bad diplomacy with China. 0.75

00:27:48.420 Of course, this is a longstanding thing. If you look, Parliament did a motion on declaring that

00:27:53.640 a genocide. Every Liberal member voted in favor of declaring it except for the Cabinet and the

00:27:59.640 Prime Minister abstained, or they were absent. Yeah, but there was 260 some MPs, which included a whole pile of Liberal MPs as well said yes, but Trudeau and the cabinet excuse themselves so that they wouldn't have to address it. So they've hidden from this for some time. But there's a couple of issues going on. We kind of understand why he dodged it. But this is what graded me. This is our leader. This is a national leader. And to be so gobsmacked. I mean, that video is you saw like he was a deer in the headlights.

00:28:29.380 He was terrified. Oh, my Lord, somebody hasn't written me talking points. What on earth am I

00:28:34.300 going to do? This man is incapable of thinking on his feet. And that scares me as a person who is 0.98

00:28:39.480 being managed by him as our leader, as well with the breach of diplomacy. The other thing that he

00:28:45.380 did, if you want to weaken yourself, no other leader is going to talk to that man in confidence

00:28:49.260 again. You don't know what he's going to leak. I mean, I don't think they took him very seriously

00:28:53.440 to begin with. But as per usual, with his international trip, he has managed to embarrass

00:28:58.660 us and reduce our status on the world stage yet again and a lot of it could have been very easily

00:29:03.700 avoided with some diplomacy and thought but he seems incapable of either you know i i couldn't

00:29:08.660 help but think of zoolander when i saw him speaking here i don't know did you ever see zoolander no i

00:29:14.980 didn't okay it's a 90s classic so i'm a 90s kid i remember growing up with this cory knows that i

00:29:21.300 guess here and it's funny because there it takes place in a very similar part of the world i think

00:29:26.020 malaysia or at least the end of it takes place in malaysia and you know so there's a bunch of guys

00:29:31.060 very similar kind of national costumes in malaysia around uh and there's like world leaders at this 0.96

00:29:36.420 thing and he's been he's like this male model what inexplicably dumb male model 0.96

00:29:44.340 and when he talks it just sounds like zoolander um 0.90

00:29:50.100 At this point, I actually kind of like Trudeau's International Visits because they're funny.

00:29:56.660 Like, I want more costumes.

00:29:58.440 I want more, you know, pious bows.

00:30:01.480 I want more of this stuff.

00:30:02.920 I used to be embarrassed by it, but at this point, I like it.

00:30:06.260 It's funny.

00:30:07.320 If it didn't hurt us on something that's so damn important, it would be good dark comedy.

00:30:11.860 But the reality is it does have some serious consequences if we want to actually be a figure in the world stage.

00:30:18.260 You know what?

00:30:19.040 I'm not sure it matters.

00:30:20.100 no one cares about Canada Canada is obsessed with what the world thinks about Canada but you know

00:30:27.340 how much the rest of the world thinks about Canada about as often as we think of Denmark

00:30:31.020 we know it's there we have some kind of preconceptions about it but it's not terribly

00:30:36.720 important and I hate to break it everybody Canada's just not that important and it's unfortunate but

00:30:43.200 we're obsessed with what the world thinks about us but I'm not sure they really think much about us

00:30:47.220 Unfortunately, when they do think about us now, they see Prime Minister Zoolander, so...

00:30:51.720 It doesn't help, at least he didn't dress like Aladdin, not this time, so I think they locked his tickle trunk before he could come out of it.

00:31:02.720 That's another Cory Morgan classic right there, Cory Morgan's tickle trunk.

00:31:10.720 Well, you know, as long as he doesn't go to the World Cup in Dubai, because there he might bring out the Aladdin.

00:31:16.720 Okay, any predictions for World Cup? 0.98

00:31:23.520 I predict...

00:31:24.160 Let me guess, England.

00:31:25.640 England for the Cup.

00:31:26.600 We say it every time.

00:31:28.680 One day it'll be true.

00:31:30.600 I always support England.

00:31:32.920 I just never bet on England. 0.85

00:31:37.780 I've got the advantage of being able to support and bet on Germany. 0.68

00:31:41.020 On Germany. 0.58

00:31:41.700 Yeah.

00:31:42.300 Corey?

00:31:42.840 I'm unfortunately indifferent and still watching the NFL season.

00:31:46.720 You're not even going to fake it with us, eh?

00:31:48.080 No, I won't.

00:31:48.740 I'm sorry.

00:31:49.060 I won't insult you with that.

00:31:50.920 I have to fake it for some things.

00:31:52.980 Honestly, I don't watch hockey outside of playoffs.

00:31:56.260 I don't even fake it.

00:31:57.900 I'm just like, I don't know anything until you're in playoffs.

00:32:02.640 I don't know anything that's going on.

00:32:04.340 So there's no office pool on this one.

00:32:07.120 Oh, actually, we did the office pool on EuroCup.

00:32:10.820 So, and much to my shame, England won that one.

00:32:13.260 So, I think we're going to need a World Cup pool.

00:32:23.140 I think we'll do it.

00:32:24.740 Well, at least I know there'll be two guys.

00:32:26.720 Better administration.

00:32:27.720 But you're going to have to share an England prize if it was to ever somehow come true with Dave, I'm sure. 1.00

00:32:34.800 I'd be a split of women. 0.99

00:32:36.820 Okay.

00:32:37.180 Well, thank you, gentlemen, for joining me.

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