Western Standard - THE PIPELINE： Why is Pride so gay？

00:00:00.000 Good day and welcome to The Pipeline. I'm Derek Fildebrandt, publisher of The Western Standard.

00:00:29.100 Today is June 30th, 2026.

00:00:32.400 I've only got one of our usual friends on the pipeline today, senior Alberta columnist Corey Morgan.

00:00:38.560 But we've got in filling for Dave Naylor is mini Dave, David Veitschnik.

00:00:44.040 Thanks for having me.

00:00:45.020 Running the newsroom for us while Dave D1 is on vacation.

00:00:51.480 And filling in for Nigel is our director of operations, Josh Andrus.

00:00:56.600 Some of you have seen him filling in on other shows, too.

00:00:59.100 uh we have been without a human rights complaint for a few weeks now um and it's not that's not

00:01:09.680 your guys fault um i'm not even sure it's the fault of easily offended lefties i think it's

00:01:17.280 my fault for not being offensive enough so uh like one of the topics is why is pride so gay

00:01:24.700 we're gonna try and get a see if we get another human rights complaint uh talking about this

00:01:29.040 today. Pride parades taking place, most notably the Toronto Pride. Very weird stuff. Some of it

00:01:36.280 almost certainly warranting criminal charges for pedophilia and public exposure. But the

00:01:44.260 controversy around politicians attending or not attending Pride parades of this kind. We're going

00:01:51.700 to talk about it. I don't think Pride always was this gay. It seems gayer. Not in the actual gay 1.00

00:01:58.140 way, but in the gay way. You know what I mean? You know what I mean? All right. Josh can't hold 0.74

00:02:04.620 himself. As Paulie have lost his mojo. I mean, it's been over a year since the federal election

00:02:12.320 that the conservatives, which were widely expected to win, obviously lost. He seems to have lost his

00:02:18.480 mojo. He's reshuffled his shadow cabinet just now. A bit of a change up in his frontline bench.

00:02:26.220 We're going to talk about that. But we're going to begin, Corey, with a court victory for the independence movement.

00:02:34.100 I guess in short, it is not a violation of Indigenous treaty rights to count the signatures of people who wanted an independence referendum, it seems.

00:02:45.320 Yeah, I mean, it's bizarre that that even, you know, welcome to our courts, right?

00:02:48.920 So it was, I guess, the first part of a bunch of appeals that are going through over the whole ruling from Justice Leonard.

00:02:56.300 It shut down the petitioning just after it had 300 and some thousand signatures had been presented to Elections Alberta.

00:03:03.200 So then the boxes were sealed.

00:03:05.700 Elections Alberta couldn't start the process of counting them or verifying them.

00:03:10.360 Everything was kind of put on hold.

00:03:11.760 So the recent ruling was a stay of that portion of the other ruling saying Elections Alberta is allowed to count and verify these signatures now because how on earth does that violate a treaty right, my lord?

00:03:26.780 They've gotten into some detail and reading into things, treaty rights.

00:03:29.800 But the rest of the injunction still kind of stands.

00:03:32.940 The premier can't schedule a referendum based on that question at this point or Elections Alberta can't present the premier with a suggestion to hold a referendum.

00:03:40.520 that's still going through the appeals court, but it still is a big victory in a sense that

00:03:45.240 a lot of questions have swirled around whether the signatures are legitimate, whether

00:03:49.080 improper use of electors lists have been contributing to the signatures. So Elections

00:03:55.640 Alberta can now start that process of vetting and checking and establishing whether those are valid,

00:04:00.840 which will be a, it's a big step forward. Josh, the, you know, Nenshi and some of,

00:04:08.040 I think Kenny have one way or another been going around saying, you know, hey, this whole independence thing is clearly legally fraught because it's, you know, violating treaty rights.

00:04:23.640 You see that more from the hard left side, like Nenshi and the NDP, some federal liberal MPs saying that, you know, right off the gate, this is illegitimate because the courts say this violates First Nations rights. 0.96

00:04:39.000 That was always a bullshit line of argument.

00:04:43.560 But now that the courts have taken that away and it was always going to take that away. 0.99

00:04:47.720 This is low hanging fruit.

00:04:48.540 Do you think this has, you know, the referendum is already scheduled now, which is a government one. It's effectively the combination of the two citizens initiative referendum questions, just combining them. That was going to happen, I think, one way or another anyway. But it's not technically citizens initiative. Referendums happening anyway. But do you think this court ruling is going to have any measurable impact on the campaign for independence or federalism one way or another?

00:05:13.480 Well, I think when it comes to discussion, it's important to note that, you know, you want to see, especially on the independent side, the brakes moving your way.

00:05:22.320 And I think this is a break in the right direction.

00:05:24.440 I think once they actually start getting into the signatures and start verifying them, if they find out that this is a legitimate process, go ahead.

00:05:31.680 This sounds like an ESPN answer.

00:05:33.600 Thank you.

00:05:34.480 You know, you got to get pucks on net.

00:05:36.500 You got to get the brakes going your way.

00:05:37.980 Hey, Andre, if you're watching, TSN, I'm available.

00:05:42.500 But, yeah, no, it opens the door to dealing with what has been,

00:05:47.260 I don't want to call it a damaging argument.

00:05:49.800 I've always thought it was BS anyways.

00:05:51.300 But to have the ability for the courts to verify these signatures,

00:05:56.400 and if once, hopefully, they get them verified.

00:05:58.780 I mean, 300,000 signatures is quite a bit,

00:06:02.120 and it'll strengthen the hand of the independents crowd.

00:06:04.780 And I think that's like I mean, it's one of those things where in moving forward and getting these votes, you need to eliminate as many of these, you know, attacks as you can.

00:06:15.300 And it is it's the fact that they're going around claiming that this is illegitimate because the courts have ruled that they can't even count or verify, I think, is is a little bit of a stretch.

00:06:24.640 like and again it begs the question and this is a serious constitutional conversation about how far

00:06:31.600 the duty to consult goes is it you know like is it up to the proponents i noticed core blonde i don't

00:06:38.080 think uh explicitly uh ever answered us with our questions about whether he got his uh stop the coal

00:06:45.280 petition there or uh consulted with indigenous on that so pretty sure he did no yeah so i mean

00:06:53.200 it's it how far does this go is it directed at one um i would have liked to see the lucasic petition

00:06:59.680 also go through the court process um i'd like to see if the standard would have applied to that as

00:07:04.640 well i mean it's it's the same concept right i mean it's a question you know it's an independence

00:07:09.200 question at the end of the day so yeah i think but uh at the end of the day when it comes to

00:07:15.120 uh four guys like cory uh for keith wilson and let albert decide and other groups i think it's

00:07:21.600 it's a good step in the right direction I just hope it it comes out clean I hope that none of

00:07:26.860 the salted names from the elections Alberta list end up uh on the petition list I know elections

00:07:32.960 Alberta is going to be looking for that uh so I don't I'm hoping that that isn't the case but

00:07:37.700 that's where I want to go yeah my question to David um so the uh one of the bizarre lines of

00:07:47.820 attack against the independence campaign uh from some of the federalists has been um well this

00:07:54.320 centurion project david parker thing that is alleged uh you know not proven but is alleged

00:08:01.880 to have used uh you know improperly obtained lists from elections alberta and they knew that because

00:08:08.060 yeah there was these salted names on it um if that's true or not they have been alleging i think

00:08:16.000 much less credibly that the Centurion Project was just taking those names and somehow putting

00:08:23.420 them on to the Independence Citizens Initiative petition. Now that we're going to get the

00:08:32.960 signatures verified, and it's kind of a moot point because we're just having the referendum

00:08:36.260 anyway, although it's a semi-moot point because it's a different referendum question. It's a

00:08:41.200 clearer, cleaner question. But those names and signatures are now going to be verified by

00:08:46.960 Elections Alberta rigorously. You can bet they're not going to give it a pass.

00:08:53.080 You know, this now means very likely Elections Alberta is going to go through these and likely

00:08:59.960 conclude that, yes, these are legitimate bona fide signatures. This is valid, has legal standing.

00:09:06.340 and no this was not the centurion project copying and pasting from the electors list to it uh

00:09:13.840 that is likely i think to take away that line of argument from the other side that

00:09:18.460 literally everything is a conspiracy from the centurion project well that's what i was wondering

00:09:23.100 because that was kind of my thing just my conspiracy theory mind because i was mitch

00:09:27.280 sylvester said they had nothing to do with the centurion project for the most part and they

00:09:31.060 talked about all the stuff they had to do for the signatures for them like i think they had to give

00:09:35.280 what, like physical addresses, et cetera, et cetera, had to have like photo ID.

00:09:39.260 So I think that maybe in Stay Free Alberta's mind, in Mitch's mind, all, well, maybe not

00:09:44.380 all 300,000 signatures they have are valid, but I was just wondering what would happen

00:09:48.100 if they had nothing to do with Centurion Project and they somehow, out of the 3,000 that they

00:09:54.380 say are verified signatures, they got less than 178,000.

00:09:57.900 This is just my conspiracy theory mind going on here.

00:10:00.280 What do you think would happen then?

00:10:01.280 Because if they had no part of the Centurion Project, then why do you think there might

00:10:05.040 be some sort of shenanigans from somebody shall we say about them maybe getting less than the

00:10:09.300 needed ballots if they're verified i so i i think you know the general agree the general uh

00:10:14.720 the um the common answer is generally you need a 10 buffer at least yeah i think it was 178 000

00:10:23.180 or something yeah but you should generally have a 10 buffer uh for any of these things see if

00:10:27.400 you're trying to run as a candidate in an alberto or federal election you need you know like 100

00:10:30.860 signatures for people in the constituency so you get 110 because some of them yeah the address is

00:10:34.980 going to be wrong or it's illegible or you know various reasons to not count that signature so

00:10:39.840 you need a buffer of 10% to be safe yeah uh I was gonna say even if they got 200,000 they're

00:10:45.280 verified it's still that you would complain that there's like well we say we had 300,000 so what

00:10:50.840 happened to maybe another 50,000 vows that we think should have been verified do you think

00:10:54.580 there's gonna be any controversy with that I don't think so like people are forgetting the

00:10:57.580 Lukasik's petition about 30,000 were taken off of his after he submitted for those sorts of reasons

00:11:03.180 the people you can read it or it was out of profits it's par for the course to have some

00:11:08.700 removed and just so people know like the process how elections alberta does they're not going to

00:11:12.860 check all 300 000 what they'll do is a a large sampling they'll phone some people say did you

00:11:18.780 think they well for this ground though no they already say that it's a process of uh i mean a

00:11:23.900 significant sampling unless they see more issues to make them go deeper but if they're going to take

00:11:29.100 say 10 which is still massive we're talking 30 000 yeah and you start calling some people you

00:11:33.580 compare them with lists you look for duplicates you uh of course they're going to look for the

00:11:38.220 salted names that'll be a quick yeah but and they'll try to check them all for that but i'm

00:11:43.580 talking the degree of of uh you know following up and checking on these and then if they find

00:11:49.420 an error rate that is disproportionate or too far like typically they will apply the error rate they

00:11:54.460 found to the rest of the signatures if they find a bunch of duplicates though or if they've called

00:11:59.660 a number of people who said i never signed that or things like that then they're going to

00:12:03.100 investigate further but having seen the petitioning gone out to some of those stations as you said

00:12:08.540 they were demanding people bring identification they were sending people home if they had just

00:12:13.980 a box numbers a lot of rural people do saying you got to get a phone bill like they were being

00:12:17.260 meticulous i i just find it very hard to believe that volunteers that were trying that hard and

00:12:21.980 working that hard would have falsified yeah i i saw these people it was yeah it was uh not just

00:12:28.900 sign here and move on no it was meticulous i mean i think we saw that from both the referendum

00:12:34.400 petitions to the uh forever canada one and the state free alberta one both of them were doing

00:12:39.140 that so i uh i really i imagine it's going to go forward but i i think that this will take an

00:12:46.660 important talking point away from the federalists that no this is not a this was this was legitimate

00:12:53.400 this was bona fide these are real people eligible to vote there's a lot about and you know if they

00:12:57.340 can rub it in ninchy's face because that bs out of him which is typical ninchy but seriously when

00:13:01.900 he was he was literally calling for the entire petition to be thrown out he wanted it burned he

00:13:06.540 wanted it trashed even before verifying checking or counting and that is just completely grossly

00:13:13.180 unfair at least have it counted i mean if there was something in there we'll all be critical of

00:13:17.420 it but yeah to try and call for that to be chucked out before even checking on it uh so if this comes

00:13:22.700 out clean i mean not that then she'll care but they've got a very much in your face and she sort

00:13:26.700 of yeah and and from my standpoint too and going back uh if tsn is watching i'm about to make a

00:13:32.140 sports analogy but it's the equivalent of getting an injured player back middle of the season right

00:13:37.260 Like you've got, you know, it's, you've got a situation where a big aspect of this movement was the signature collection process and building that grassroots movement, which, you know, powers that be have decided to, you know, use the courts and so on and so forth to try and minimize that.

00:13:55.620 and what you'll get it once they're verified is you get that back right you get like a whole bunch

00:14:01.880 of people that probably felt as if their their work was not worth anything that might be reactivated

00:14:09.060 into this movement a lot of people that when the story broke about the century and project that

00:14:13.620 walked away might come back right so it to me like i said it's the equivalent of getting an

00:14:18.120 injured player back middle of the middle of the season and also let's remember uh i i can't say

00:14:23.980 is definitively on the Federalist Lukasik side,

00:14:28.040 but on the Alberta Nationalist side,

00:14:31.520 it's very decentralized.

00:14:33.460 These are pretty independent teams.

00:14:35.460 It's not implausible that, you know,

00:14:37.640 there was an individual here or there

00:14:39.380 that played funny business on both sides.

00:14:42.800 The numbers for both sides were so large

00:14:44.820 that it should not materially impact,

00:14:47.000 you know, the count at the end of the day.

00:14:50.980 But, you know, it's not inconceivable

00:14:53.060 that, you know, out of, you know,

00:14:54.880 a thousand petitioners,

00:14:57.120 you know, you got a half dozen who

00:14:58.600 played fast and loose here and there. It is good and trackable

00:15:01.120 too. Like, every one of those sheets are individually

00:15:02.840 numbered. Yeah, they'll know who it was. The person who is

00:15:04.820 the petitioner responsible for it signs

00:15:06.800 them out, signs them back in. Like,

00:15:08.880 they do have some good checks and balances.

00:15:11.080 So, if somebody was foolishly doing something

00:15:13.140 untoward, it will be tracked

00:15:14.840 to the individual or individuals who are

00:15:16.680 responsible for it too. Yeah.

00:15:19.160 Okay.

00:15:21.460 So, that was about getting

00:15:22.860 the movement's mojo back, maybe, but

00:15:24.980 Pierre Polyev. It's been

00:15:27.100 a bit over a year since the last

00:15:31.100 federal election.

00:15:34.540 Polyev,

00:15:35.380 you know, he almost lost his mojo

00:15:37.180 really as when Trudeau went down.

00:15:39.420 You know, he was the perfect foil for Trudeau.

00:15:41.860 But, you know, enough 1.00

00:15:43.180 people, you know, largely boomers

00:15:45.440 and in eastern Canada, thought he

00:15:47.260 was not the man to meet the moment of the boogeyman

00:15:49.360 of Trump, etc.

00:15:51.420 But he lost his mojo.

00:15:52.860 You know, that excitement that he had been really able to build from his leadership campaign on, really until the resignation of Justin Trudeau, he lost it.

00:16:03.020 And he's not been able, he was criticized for not being able to pivot from affordability issues towards the boogeyman of Trump.

00:16:10.620 And I know whatever you think of the seriousness of the boogeyman of Trump, it had the concern of enough voters that it obviously mattered for the election materially.

00:16:18.200 Was not able to pivot into that.

00:16:19.720 But the issues have continued to evolve. Now you've got mass migration as front and center for huge numbers of people. You've got culture of Canada itself at risk, all of these things. And he seems to still be on the affordability issue. Not that affordability has gone away as an issue, it continues to get worse.

00:16:44.620 But he reshuffled his cabinet, his shadow cabinet, you know, the main front line of critics on his front bench today, yesterday.

00:16:54.500 And he says, this is the this new shadow cabinet is the affordability shadow cabinet.

00:16:58.740 Its priorities are affordability, affordability, affordability.

00:17:02.460 OK, it's a big issue, but it's really missing a lot of the elephant in the room.

00:17:08.340 I still don't think he's found his mojo, Dave.

00:17:11.260 i yeah you know i i think we've been saying this for a while i mean after trudeau was gone what

00:17:17.420 did he really have to be honest because when carney comes in carney can basically maybe just

00:17:20.980 take some of the stuff he's talked about like you know what why do we do some of that and then

00:17:24.120 everyone just praises carney i just you know they've been going down in the polls a bit and

00:17:28.840 i've always said and i've said this before i think it has to do with a lot of people don't like

00:17:32.540 poliev personally there's some seems to be something from a lot of people i've talked to

00:17:36.320 not even conservatives but liberals as well that they just seem to not there's something about him

00:17:40.880 they don't like person they might agree like yeah affordability is an issue but like you said he's

00:17:44.580 never talking about the elephant in the room which we've said in the past i think is immigration

00:17:47.920 because that goes to a lot of things housing crime affordability etc that he does not want to touch

00:17:53.220 and i just don't really see a path forward for him to be honest with you but then i'm thinking

00:17:59.240 the conservatives are probably looking at and going well if we get rid of him who are we going

00:18:02.660 to replace him with and just you know how many months ago was the conservative convention in

00:18:06.400 calgary the national one yeah yeah he got like what and what was it 80 was it 86 or 87 percent

00:18:14.340 approval rate so there's still a fair amount of the party that's behind him but i mean just going

00:18:18.760 forward and getting voters i don't have a clue how he's going to do that even going forward because

00:18:22.580 now if he switches over to immigration or starts talking about that more well i think there's some

00:18:26.680 people are going to be saying well where have you been for the last like six months to a year

00:18:29.700 and then again like i said if carney decides to be like well we're going to start reshuffling our

00:18:33.460 immigration policy then what's he going to do you know so i think it might be a little too little

00:18:37.140 too late for paulia as a whole but i don't see how his numbers are going to go back up unless

00:18:40.640 carney totally bottles it somehow well the conservatives cory have been afraid of their

00:18:46.200 shadow on immigration forever i mean it was traditionally it was a shield issue it was a

00:18:51.200 defensive issue for conservatives because oh we don't want to get called racists and all of this

00:18:55.740 and that's been the case really in most western democratic countries for a very long time

00:19:01.620 But in every country in the West where the right is ascendant, it is due in at least very large measure or primarily due to them seizing the immigration question.

00:19:17.660 You have Reform UK, and possibly to an extent, Restore UK as well.

00:19:23.180 You've got AFD in Germany.

00:19:25.220 You've got National Rally in France.

00:19:28.820 Trump Republicans, although they've gotten softer in the last six months or so, but at least rhetorically, they're still strong on it.

00:19:36.520 Everywhere.

00:19:37.420 Now, what all of those have in common is that they're new insurgent parties.

00:19:42.660 And in the case of the Republicans, you know, it's an insurgent president who took over the establishment.

00:19:46.460 But in the UK and Germany and France, these are all, they're not the traditional conservative center-right parties.

00:19:52.980 These are insurgent, new disruptor parties that have taken over.

00:19:59.760 And Canada is an outlier in that there is no major party talking about migration, at least in a big way.

00:20:08.360 It's a topic now, and the conservatives, and even the liberals are more comfortable talking about restrictions on this more than they were, you know, say,

00:20:16.460 Two years ago, obviously, the Overton window was moving faster than anyone can chase it.

00:20:21.020 But none of the parties have gotten anywhere close to the Overton window.

00:20:24.360 And I think this is a real risk for Polyev that he is still very much afraid of this issue.

00:20:31.300 He's touching it now, but he's just poking it.

00:20:35.020 I think sometimes they've got to find out and realize, guess what?

00:20:38.140 They're going to call him a racist anyway.

00:20:39.820 It doesn't matter.

00:20:41.600 You've got to start just leaning into it.

00:20:43.660 quit running away from it because it's it's like a dog that's barking and chasing you

00:20:48.860 what happens if you run away it's going to chase you harder you got to stand up to it eventually

00:20:53.420 and just say that's enough you know and that's i think what's happening overseas and you don't

00:20:57.900 have to tie it to i mean you can make the point the point isn't a race it's uncontrolled mass

00:21:04.380 immigration not just immigration itself and it's come with a whole pile of consequences start

00:21:09.180 focusing on those consequences. We're allowed to point at that. Let's point out how many new

00:21:13.720 Canadians tend to pack the emergency room of a major city hospital when you go into one. Let's 0.93

00:21:17.860 get real about that because everybody sees it, including new Canadians. They talk about

00:21:22.860 classroom challenges, complicated teaching. They talk in circles around it. It's because none of

00:21:29.360 the kids can speak English. Let's be blunt about it. And it doesn't mean that you have to ostracize

00:21:34.680 the children or do things, but let's talk about these challenges that are coming because we didn't

00:21:38.960 have the ability to cope with it. Housing, same thing, but point to the issues because they're

00:21:44.700 hitting everybody. No matter what color you are in Canada, you're having trouble with your kids

00:21:48.080 in school. You're having trouble getting healthcare. You're having trouble getting

00:21:50.840 into school. And all of those things to a degree can be attributed to immigration. He's got to find

00:21:55.500 some courage. He's at this point too, as we're watching him sliding, if he won't solidly own

00:22:00.180 an issue, he's just going to die a weak death of not standing on any of them. I would, I don't know

00:22:06.340 pushback is the right term but challenge you on one part uh maybe not race but nationality

00:22:12.160 does matter there's some and cultural challenges to speak to that are a little more delicate i mean

00:22:16.900 i feel like we're at the point where we can say out loud that migrants from some countries work

00:22:23.220 out better than migrants from others and it's not binary there is a long spectrum i'm not going to

00:22:28.640 say which ones are at the bottom uh we know we have a pretty good idea it's our first good 1.00

00:22:33.980 i did just cough the country you want there there's only so many that tend to manage grooming

00:22:45.180 and rape gangs we'll just kind of narrow it to those ones and like to to jump on that like there's 0.92

00:22:50.700 video in edmonton of a bunch of i'm assuming yeah a bunch of immigrants driving around trying to pick

00:22:58.220 up young girls on the strata street in a minivan in edmonton like this isn't happening you know

00:23:03.260 like you almost expect it in toronto as that as it is to say and it's still not culturally

00:23:07.820 acceptable or wasn't no it's not yeah and this is like the conservatives are not able to come out

00:23:13.820 they've they've framed this in purely economic terms purely economic terms it's oh uh this is

00:23:21.020 too much for us to integrate into the labor market or it's inflating the housing market everything

00:23:26.940 is followed by the term market it's in purely economic terms and that is real those are real

00:23:32.380 world consequences but what's really pissing people off now he's always familiar as affordability

00:23:37.660 but what's got people cheese now is this is a cultural problem as well this is a crime problem

00:23:43.500 as well it's a language problem as well and i have not heard a single elected conservative

00:23:50.700 come out and say you know what perhaps it's time we restored some country of origin quotas here

00:23:56.220 people from country a here are require virtually no assimilation i'll be like americans you can't

00:24:02.520 they don't even have an accent you know and real close that would be britain they got a fancier

00:24:06.720 they're fancy canadians they got an accent okay and then there's a there's a continuum all the 0.96

00:24:11.440 way along to not gonna say it so you know no conservatives have had the balls to come out

00:24:18.660 and say yeah you know what i think it's time we've restored some country of origin quotas here

00:24:22.680 let alone probably just a full-on moratorium for a decade or two because even in that time we're 0.83

00:24:27.580 still not going to actually assimilate because we've created these ghettos that are so large 0.96

00:24:31.300 there's no incentive to to assimilate we actually consider assimilation still to be a bad word

00:24:35.780 Mark Carney was saying the other day we're not a melting pot we are uh uh we're a mosaic that 0.93

00:24:40.080 bullshit Canadian bromide um but there's just there's they say nothing about a moratorium 0.80

00:24:46.980 them, but they don't even talk about country of origin quotas, which I think at this point 0.99

00:24:51.860 we know we need. Or maybe even pointing at some examples we're seeing overseas. We got some

00:24:56.180 bellwethers in Europe that we can be looking at. We know darn well that's just where, I mean, I saw

00:25:00.840 a nice frightening eye-opener just as a, you know, anecdotal thing with my daughter who after

00:25:05.760 graduating went on a trip through Europe as a lot of young women do. Naively went to Paris and found

00:25:10.820 a hostel she booked herself into. The Uber driver dropping, are you sure you want to get out around

00:25:15.860 here why would there be a problem she made it about 50 feet to the door and then actually

00:25:21.060 somebody came and said you really shouldn't be around here because this was the wrong part of 1.00

00:25:24.340 town for a lone white girl to be in and she was going to get a dire amount of trouble uh thankfully 1.00

00:25:29.460 she was wise enough to realize okay i was naive back into the uber spend some extra money go to 0.61

00:25:35.300 a different part of town but you've got no-go zones in cities that were considered safe jewels

00:25:42.180 democratic for a decade stockholm paris berlin london it's not unique to paris that's just one

00:25:47.300 of the reasons this is something that maybe should be pointed out because we do have some

00:25:52.660 young people who don't realize how bad it's gotten or some older people who don't realize it

00:25:56.980 maybe start pointing out some of those negative consequences in reality i think this is just a

00:26:00.820 problem with the conservative party like it feels like they're constantly on the defensive like i

00:26:05.300 when pierre was doing well he was he was the aggressive attack dog he was on he was after

00:26:11.460 like every liberal policy and and the liberals have not seemed to adjust like i mean they've

00:26:18.340 slowed down the the levels but we've imported a lot of problems and and those are going to continue

00:26:24.100 to grow as people get away with their actions right like i mean if they're like we have a

00:26:31.060 revolving door bail system that the liberal liberals have implemented we have like all of

00:26:35.860 these issues with the culture but i think i think the reason the conservatives are having trouble

00:26:40.260 getting a foothold is because polyev you said he's lost his mojo like he's i think he's lost

00:26:45.060 his mojo because carney adopted at least the nice easy popular parts of his economic platform

00:26:53.220 at least rhetorically and theoretically possibly we're building pipelines i mean maybe we find

00:26:58.580 more on that tomorrow i mean that is i think to the average canadian voter it sounds like we're

00:27:02.820 building pipelines i it's to be determined if we actually will i don't know i'm very skeptical

00:27:08.420 But to the average Canadian who's not in this room 24-7, it sounds like we're building pipelines.

00:27:14.100 That's what it sounds like to them. The consumer carbon tax is gone. Industrial carbon tax is

00:27:18.340 still there, but people don't see that directly. These economic populist items that were front

00:27:28.260 center for Polyev in his time as leader against Trudeau, it looks like to the average person,

00:27:34.340 carney's just taken them and it's okay good enough and to a lot of people carney is the

00:27:39.220 more mature the more professionally accomplished version of polyev and you know doesn't have

00:27:44.820 whatever that greeting bit is about poly that bugs some people so he's lost his mojo because

00:27:50.180 carney's taken those issues guess what there's a whole other set of issues that are dominating now

00:27:55.300 and he's afraid to go hard on them but it's the defensiveness is why i think people have

00:28:01.220 lost like i mean if he was going on hard on the immigration file if he was going hard on the

00:28:07.860 cultural aspects i think at least it would look like he was standing for something now it looks

00:28:12.180 like he's afraid to put anything forward in case carney rips him off and i i think that's it's

00:28:17.800 unless you change back to what got you where you are you're not going to be successful and now he's

00:28:25.880 going to come out here and spend the next couple months parading around trying to convince us to

00:28:30.860 stay in the country because like i mean but he's not going to address the real issues like i mean

00:28:35.180 it's just this softball type of stuff that's coming out of the federal conservatives i i'm

00:28:39.480 worried that it might be moving into the united conservative party as well as staff move back

00:28:44.240 like i mean there's some issues there where we're you know it's this softball defensive

00:28:49.560 you know like we're not proud to be free market conservatives we're not proud of to be you know

00:28:56.880 of our culture like it's very much this wishy-washy sort of conservative more progressive

00:29:04.860 like not sure where you stand while carny gets all the glory for you know well at least appearing

00:29:12.060 to steal your best policies okay that's a good pivot now uh i think to our next segment 0.98

00:29:20.240 why are you gay why are you gay so josh why are you 0.99

00:29:38.240 i'm just taking the piss uh we're trying we're trying to get we're just trying to get another 0.99

00:29:42.000 human rights complaints here uh so i was gonna say we're not trying to offend anybody we're 0.70

00:29:46.400 trying to offend some people but not most well there's one person we have in mind um jessica

00:29:51.200 and eve if you're watching we'll get into you in a bit if you need more human rights commit uh

00:29:56.160 uh complaint forms just just let me know we will fedex you some complaint forms yeah i think we're

00:30:00.720 at six or seven now so uh yeah anymore rookie numbers you got the clips ready i'd like to kind

00:30:08.240 of go you know a little so okay so the reason i think this is a good pivot is uh at a press

00:30:14.240 conference uh peer polio was asked uh if he's gonna go to the toronto uh pride parade and he

00:30:22.000 he said uh well here let's just play his answer yeah will you be attending any pride parades this

00:30:26.720 year i'm not planning to i do no why not it's just not on my uh my plan i mean he could have gone

00:30:34.000 harder and said you know what i'm not gonna go to an event that's got uh fully grown men exposing 0.67

00:30:40.640 their penises in front of little children because in the criminal code we call that pedophilia 0.61

00:30:46.400 and indecent exposure um you know he didn't need to go as far as i would say and that they should 0.99

00:30:52.080 be tased in the dick but i i think that's an appropriate uh that that's not the sentence but 0.98

00:30:57.760 that's how they could be that's just getting it that's that's a part of arresting them you gotta 0.99

00:31:02.720 tase him right in the johnson um just a wooden spoon swat you want to get that close you don't

00:31:11.120 yeah i guess you could end up getting the kearney effect in the splat

00:31:19.360 since cory went there okay we're just going to do kind of

00:31:21.520 best hits best hits of uh of this thing all right let's let's show carney getting um splat on

00:31:32.720 okay uh well that's interesting um peter north would have been proud okay he's the canadian icon

00:31:44.400 i don't know who that is from the maritimes he had a you know he had a gift

00:31:52.400 in the 80s and 90s he's retired now don't act like you don't know josh i always figured he

00:31:59.680 be our next governor general but that's a separate mission i didn't know he was canadian yeah yeah

00:32:05.280 okay okay well i'm trying to keep this on track although i admit i'm probably a bit at fault um 0.97

00:32:11.360 uh yeah we had then we had toronto mayor olivia chow she is known for publicly indulging on the 1.00

00:32:18.400 sauce while uh you know doing public duties as mayor well this time i she could barely walk 1.00

00:32:29.680 you know for legal reasons we can't say she was definitely drunk because we have not she was not 1.00

00:32:44.020 given a breath wiser but I think we can fairly say she looks hammered hammered I mean I guess

00:32:53.220 good for you madam mayor having fun I don't know I don't know I presume her gender it's not like 1.00

00:32:57.520 Toronto mayors are known for indulging.

00:32:59.440 Yeah, exactly.

00:33:02.500 Touche.

00:33:03.120 Okay, there's a bit of history. 1.00

00:33:04.640 Maybe she did a drug test. 1.00

00:33:06.700 Olivia, double check she's not a... 1.00

00:33:08.820 Every Toronto mayor needs to get tested.

00:33:11.600 Daily.

00:33:12.760 Twice daily.

00:33:13.540 Drug tests, like, they're checking for steroids, but it's crack.

00:33:18.580 Okay.

00:33:20.320 Look, I think Paulie could have gone harder, but I don't want to be too critical of him here.

00:33:23.440 because he did what is very rare for a conservative politician to do and i'd be like no i'm not going

00:33:28.680 um and people could read into it uh some of the usual uh critics on the left lost their mind how

00:33:34.580 dare he not go to uh this parade that's got a bunch of open pedophiles exposing themselves

00:33:41.680 to little children how dare they uh they they but uh you know carney's there do what he's

00:33:49.240 think, to Carney's credit, he looked really

00:33:51.180 uncomfortable getting splat on.

00:33:53.680 I would be too, to be honest.

00:33:55.440 You gotta work your way.

00:33:58.120 Probably, you've been there

00:33:59.060 before, but...

00:34:00.840 It's your first time

00:34:02.420 at a

00:34:05.460 ditty freak-off.

00:34:07.260 That baby else.

00:34:09.460 Hey, for the record, there is a photo

00:34:11.100 of him in Epstein, I'm just saying.

00:34:12.400 He's getting some college flashbacks, you know.

00:34:16.600 He thought it was a regular party, honest.

00:34:19.240 i was only the ditty party for the buffet it was a hollywood buffet yeah um pizza okay well i'm

00:34:28.300 trying to keep this pg yeah this is in my fault i mean it is a symptom of just how extreme and

00:34:33.620 ridiculous yeah and obscene these parades have gotten that it lends itself to all of this to be 0.84

00:34:39.300 honest if it was a pride event of the 90s when it was just gay people out you know being a bit 0.98

00:34:45.760 flamboyant but certainly not perverse like that and everything yeah they didn't have to be nude 0.88

00:34:50.320 and everything then it would be pretty rude to crack down and expand on it but if it's going to

00:34:54.320 be the fetishists of the weirdos yeah of the fringe sorry you're open game and i don't think

00:34:59.180 anybody should and to be serious for a second like this is a like these types of events are

00:35:04.780 should be considered a black mark for the entire community like i if i was like if i was in the

00:35:10.800 community and i was being and i was being you know like that membership never inspired i hope

00:35:18.920 yeah josh you do it once you're you're always there never never once in college nope josh

00:35:26.980 try anything once but like it's just one of those things where it makes it difficult for them to

00:35:34.040 advance their own cause when like i mean ctv news which never covers the worst parts of it like the

00:35:40.460 only clip of the naked guy i mean i'm sure we'll see it that was accidental it was accidental like

00:35:44.780 some guy walking through and i in production uh josh's request uh show the pedophiles flashing 0.94

00:35:50.860 their junk yeah i need a spotlight on myself too yeah uh yeah i mean you know you used the word 0.99

00:35:57.180 community i don't think it is a community because you talk to like just gay dudes or lesbians 0.98

00:36:04.300 overwhelming they're like yeah we want nothing to do with the furries and people uh with gender

00:36:11.340 dysmorphia like these are whole other things so i don't mean to be pedantic with you but like 0.84

00:36:17.180 it's not a community anymore it's most like normal gay people i know they don't like a lot of them 0.52

00:36:25.260 used to like it yes but like it's weird yeah fetishists i mean the straight community has

00:36:31.980 fetishes too i mean you know if there was some parade and some straight guys running around and

00:36:35.900 nipple clamps and other weird bizarre stuff it's not representative of the rest of the straight

00:36:40.700 people around it's the fringe but that's what's happened with this parade yeah and it's got to be

00:36:45.980 embarrassing i think that's what i was gonna say too like it's just peak degeneracy now you're

00:36:49.740 saying about the 90s remember like back in the 90s there was all those christian groups and the

00:36:53.180 soccer moms are like oh it's a slippery slope they were kind of right about that in hindsight

00:36:57.980 they didn't seem very cool at the time but in hindsight it's like like maybe some of this was

00:37:03.420 okay but it's one thing to you know tolerance of people being themselves is one thing but now we

00:37:11.180 need to celebrate the weirdest fetish you could possibly have publicly like yeah whatever happened

00:37:18.220 you know like you know it used to be we don't care about what you do behind closed doors between

00:37:22.460 consenting adults they open the doors but now we voyeurism now if you're a public official and you

00:37:27.500 you don't actively celebrate someone's niche degenerate fetish and i believe in your right

00:37:33.540 to have a niche degenerate fetish as long as it's consensual it doesn't involve kids

00:37:36.780 but now you you are required now to celebrate someone's niche degenerate fetish and i'm all

00:37:44.120 for degeneracy uh of various kinds but like uh but things are changing the pendulum is swinging

00:37:52.060 um sometimes possibly sometimes not i mean support for same-sex marriage is down very

00:37:57.140 significantly in canada states much of western and central europe it's down and i don't think

00:38:02.740 it's because people no longer think gay people should be allowed to get married i think it's

00:38:06.460 very broadly accepted it's that these other weird groups have attached themselves to mainstream just 0.63

00:38:13.080 gay and lesbian or bi people you can't even keep up with the letters of all the fetishes now what

00:38:16.980 they are anymore what's the acronym i don't i'm not i won't try ten dollars if any of you can just 0.58

00:38:21.760 do it right now and then oh g actually i think he missed the two i think it starts yeah guys 0.58

00:38:29.600 who lgbtq a couple of i's and s's and plus a s let's do the spelling bee josh is racist

00:38:37.160 wait yeah i guess

00:38:40.420 um yeah i mean it's this it's it's it's brought down support overall but you know the positive

00:38:50.480 side is this would have been a national scandal for polio to not go march with pedophiles um

00:38:58.320 uh just a few years ago and today he's like no and i know doug ford was still there because

00:39:05.120 that's just what doug ford does if there's a vote to be had he'll go for it no matter what

00:39:08.420 um but probably just not going he didn't really give his reasons just said not part of my plans

00:39:13.760 i'd like more but you know good enough i mean that is uh i think uh uh jamil uh uh javani

00:39:21.920 javani um he um oh just put put his tweet up no canadian politician would have said that three 0.97

00:39:29.520 years ago no uh so that you know and everyone's like racist sexist homosexual transphobe to his 0.99

00:39:35.840 credit he seems not to give a shit so the world is i mean it's on fire but there's there's green 0.99

00:39:42.320 shoots that it's healing that people have been pushed way too far this stuff is extreme it's 0.98

00:39:47.480 very clear that there's no end point where we can say okay this group this group is now treated

00:39:52.180 with respect and is treated fairly and this is fine and let's put a bow on it move on it is never

00:39:58.200 enough but the fact that that like the pride organizers which are the just we'll just say the

00:40:03.300 elites within the community don't see this as a problem i think is emblem emblematic of like

00:40:09.060 issues within the community a lack of good judgment on what will it's self-aware it's

00:40:14.980 family friendly because they've been bailing i mean they were 700 000 short the corporate spots

00:40:22.180 like we're not giving into this just a few years ago every corporation was falling over itself to 0.82

00:40:29.060 paint itself in the new trans colors change their logo every year like your bank needed to be gay 0.87

00:40:35.540 if your bank wasn't gay it was racist you know everyone was falling over each over themselves 0.97

00:40:41.780 and there's just been this cultural backlash and it's not against gay people no no one gives a 0.99

00:40:45.860 it's against the guys walking around naked at a parade that children are at and the fact the

00:40:51.140 media mainstream media is not reporting on it the fact that people are seeing this stuff on their

00:40:55.860 social media feed thinking i'm glad i wasn't there you know like it's it's it is a i don't

00:41:03.060 want to call it a difficult position but it's it's damaging to the entire movement and i can

00:41:10.000 imagine a lot of people that are within the community that are upstanding respectful citizens

00:41:14.100 they don't like seeing it but they're the ones that have to stand up and stop it like they're

00:41:18.740 the ones that have to say this is hurting me in the community you know this this really reminds me

00:41:24.200 talked to a gay friend of mine today, said essentially that. And I talked to, at least you

00:41:32.120 two know who this person is. This is an Indian friend of mine. I haven't seen this person in a

00:41:35.960 couple of years, but I just, I was riding through a part of downtown Calgary on my motorbike and

00:41:40.260 saw this person. Stopped. This person is Indian, but born in Canada. Assimilated is not even a

00:41:47.740 right term. This person is super Albertan, but this person is of Indian descent. And this person

00:41:53.680 says i'm actually leaving canada in a few weeks just gonna move the states caribbean move around

00:41:58.960 and stuff and the biggest reason this person said was indian immigration

00:42:06.560 yeah she says it's making us look bad like we're hyper hyper integrated and successful

00:42:12.800 and have contributed to canada contributed to alberta and this is making us look bad

00:42:18.080 i don't like what they're doing and i don't like also the blowback i'm getting and i'm

00:42:22.240 even i'm not angry at the people giving me the blowback i'm not angry i have to get it because 0.97

00:42:26.480 of this crap's going on uh normal gay people normal well assimilated migrants both of them 0.96

00:42:34.240 are getting now from things going too far extreme in these ways yeah it hurts the people like i mean 0.99

00:42:41.040 a lot of my friends are either first or second generation canadians that came here like lethbridge

00:42:46.240 i've got a lot of friends down there that you know came they assimilated they started businesses

00:42:50.400 Loughbridge Dutch don't count. 0.78

00:42:51.900 No, they're, I think, Lebanese.

00:42:53.780 But, you know, like, it was just like, it's one of those things where there's so many, like, Alberta, throughout our history, we've had large segments of immigrants coming here seeking opportunity and the opportunities that this province can provide. 1.00

00:43:06.220 And when you get immigration levels and the type of imports that we're getting, it damages, you know, it damages them in the community a bit. 1.00

00:43:15.920 So, yeah. 1.00

00:43:16.840 All right.

00:43:17.660 All right.

00:43:18.180 We're time for time.

00:43:18.760 We've got to go to parting shots.

00:43:19.800 we're going to be real quick here uh you're a veteran you go first i'll just make a quick plug

00:43:23.300 then i mean we got a barbecue and some other stuff coming up this week uh and a debate which i'll let

00:43:28.660 derrick expand on and tomorrow i'll be in mirror at alberton's day uh the whistle stop if people

00:43:33.620 are looking for something to do on july 1st all right david this is really a parting shop and i'm

00:43:39.240 really curious to see what the pipeline proposal is going to be uh daniel smith is going to be

00:43:43.020 making an announcement on thursday i'm just curious to see what route they're going to be choosing

00:43:46.400 as well i mean there's still the oil tanker ban there's still the whole thing with the pathways

00:43:51.000 project and there's still no private proponents so it's going to be very interesting to see what

00:43:54.240 happens from here all right josh all right uh yeah like uh cory was saying we have the western

00:43:58.920 standard barbecue coming up uh if you want to show up and buy water balloons you can throw them at

00:44:03.480 derrick i am i've already bought a few so uh they're on pre-sale and uh yeah we're gonna have

00:44:08.740 a special guest we can't announce it quite yet we're gonna have a very special guest you could

00:44:13.380 I need you all to buy water balloons right now

00:44:15.780 before we announce a special guest

00:44:17.340 so that we sell as many as we can

00:44:18.880 so that we can hit him with as many.

00:44:20.100 The price will go up.

00:44:21.500 This is...

00:44:22.460 I did not agree.

00:44:23.180 Even if you want to throw a water balloon at me,

00:44:25.240 I imagine a lot of you are going to want to throw them

00:44:27.380 at this special guest,

00:44:28.480 which we can't announce yet.

00:44:30.040 It's going to be great.

00:44:31.220 But yeah, what details of the barbecue?

00:44:33.320 Yeah, July 8th, 1-4 at Sunelta Community Hall.

00:44:36.660 Yeah, we'll look forward to seeing you.

00:44:38.460 Yeah.

00:44:39.840 All right.

00:44:40.360 On top of that, we've got...

00:44:43.380 Independence debate. I'm going to be debating Mount Royal University Professor Dwayne Bratt on independence. Former Alberta Cabinet Minister and National Post columnist Donna Kennedy Glanz is going to moderate it. It's going to be at the Glenmore Inn and Conference Center at 530 the next day after the barbecue, July 9th. The Stampede Showdown. It's going to be great. Tickets are cheap, cheap, cheap. Ten bucks a piece. It's just to cover the basic costs of the event.

00:45:12.400 Where can people get the tickets?

00:45:15.200 Can we get a QR code up?

00:45:16.960 Okay, put a QR code up.

00:45:18.340 There we go.

00:45:18.880 That's a good idea.

00:45:19.580 Scan your screen.

00:45:21.760 But my parting shot, actually, this is just...

00:45:25.260 Corey found this less funny than me, but I think it was good.

00:45:28.320 You can see my notes.

00:45:29.840 This is reported out of the New York Post.

00:45:32.800 Some high school yearbook in New Jersey.

00:45:37.360 This show is so wrong.

00:45:39.960 uh the high school yearbook uh in new jersey had to be recalled uh because i guess they had a

00:45:46.180 section where the graduating class put in baby pictures of themselves well someone uh i guess

00:45:51.620 didn't follow the rules totally accurately and they put in a picture of baby hitler didn't follow

00:45:56.540 baby hitler on the screen uh yeah so uh fuzzy little furor uh you know um and it got printed

00:46:05.500 yeah so everyone got i i guess it got through like the yearbook committee and maybe was a math

00:46:10.720 teacher overseeing it not a history teacher and i i guess this went home probably like a history

00:46:16.440 buff dad looked at and he's like this is not jeremy so yeah uh i i think it's pretty funny

00:46:28.840 I think it's funny.

00:46:29.500 Corey thinks it's less funny than me.

00:46:30.940 It's funny.

00:46:31.560 It's just a poor taste.

00:46:32.880 Too soon?

00:46:36.340 Okay.

00:46:37.120 Okay, that's it.

00:46:38.440 Thank you, Corey, David, Josh, and John on production.

00:46:44.760 Thank all of you for joining us on the pipeline today.

00:46:47.180 Remember, get your tickets.

00:46:48.440 Two events coming up.

00:46:49.320 If you're in the Calgary area during Stampede, come to our free Stampede barbecue, 1 to 4 o'clock.

00:46:55.740 You can throw water balloons at me and a special guest.

00:47:00.080 I know you're going to want to throw.

00:47:02.540 I like the guy personally, but I think you're going to want to throw balloons at this guy.

00:47:06.760 It's going to be great.

00:47:07.700 Get your tickets for that or just RSVP for that.

00:47:10.500 That's there's no tickets, but also definitely get your tickets for the independence debate coming up between me and Professor Dwayne Bradt the next day on July 9th.

00:47:19.440 Thank you very much for joining us today and God bless.

00:47:25.740 We'll be right back.

Western Standard - July 04, 2026

THE PIPELINE： Why is Pride so gay？

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