Western Standard

00:00:00.000 G'day and welcome to The Pipeline.

00:00:28.100 Today is August 13th, 2025.

00:00:31.320 I'm Derek Fildebrandt, publisher of the Western Standard, and you're watching The Pipeline.

00:00:36.360 I'm joined, as usual, by Western Standard senior Alberta columnist, Corey Morgan.

00:00:41.700 And already back out of retirement is former Western Standard opinion editor, Nigel Hannaford.

00:00:47.800 Just couldn't stay away, Derek.

00:00:49.080 No, we had your retirement party on Friday.

00:00:53.640 It's Wednesday, and you're back already.

00:00:55.380 So, you just kind of had a long weekend, and you're already out of retirement.

00:00:59.700 Well, it's going to be a lot of long weekends, isn't it?

00:01:02.280 Because I'm just coming in to do Pipeline every now and then, so every week, actually.

00:01:06.780 Yeah.

00:01:07.220 Conspirate the odd article.

00:01:08.740 So, good to be back.

00:01:09.980 We couldn't let you go completely.

00:01:11.760 So, yeah, you're going to be back, still doing The Pipeline with us.

00:01:14.620 Your show, Hannaford, is going to continue on.

00:01:16.980 And your passionate pen will continue to grace our pages with your column at least once a week here.

00:01:23.860 Since we're talking about the passionate pen and the column, don't forget to check in with Hannaford tomorrow.

00:01:30.280 And we've got Yaroslav Baran explaining some of the nonsense in Eastern Canada.

00:01:35.300 Well, there's always a lot of material there.

00:01:37.640 Never fails.

00:01:38.200 Well, we're going to be talking about why the People's Party of Canada, note the last part of the name on that party,

00:01:48.200 the People's Party of Canada, has endorsed the yes side in the expected upcoming, at some point, not yet set, Alberta referendum on independence.

00:01:58.380 So, why is a federal political party, ostensibly dedicated to Canada, supporting a referendum on a part of that country, leaving it?

00:02:10.560 It's a head-scratcher.

00:02:11.440 We'll talk about it.

00:02:13.780 Everyone already knows, I'm sure, everyone listening, watching knows, about Nova Scotia's ban on walking in the forest or going fishing.

00:02:26.220 But there's been a new development on that front.

00:02:30.680 The ban on hiking and fishing, because fishing on the water might create a forest fire.

00:02:40.680 That ban no longer applies, as long as they ask first, to First Nations natives. 1.00

00:02:48.740 So, now, I guess, the ban on fishing and hiking in Nova Scotia is going to be racially based.

00:02:54.800 We'll talk about it.

00:02:56.220 But first, we're going to start with mass migration mania.

00:03:03.240 The floodgates of mass migration have been thrown wide open in Canada over the last five years.

00:03:10.820 We already had mass migration for a long time before it.

00:03:16.300 But then the gates were just thrown completely open five, six years ago.

00:03:20.520 Mark Carney, as a part of his campaign to reassure the Canadian people, said that he is not Justin Trudeau, said he's going to bring those numbers down.

00:03:31.680 We have a report from Blacklock's reporters on our pages today that the cap he has put in is, well, they're not really living up to the cap.

00:03:43.860 The borders continue to be porous.

00:03:46.740 Mass migration continues unabated, Nigel.

00:03:49.140 They don't even know how many people they've got in.

00:03:51.460 You know, a lot of people have just sort of, you just intuitively know that immigration is taking off like a rocket.

00:03:58.640 Or what's the sense of that?

00:04:00.200 There was a time when you had to be highly qualified to come to Canada at all.

00:04:03.960 Well, that's 50 years ago.

00:04:06.680 25 years ago, we've got a lot of family reunification.

00:04:10.000 Again, you could see why.

00:04:11.540 You could make the case.

00:04:13.040 Somebody wants to bring members of their family in so they can enjoy the benefits they've been experiencing themselves in Canada.

00:04:19.900 All of those things made sense.

00:04:22.240 And around about 200,000 people a year would come in.

00:04:25.840 Then it just took off.

00:04:27.680 And I think after a lot of years, when it was 400,000 and 500,000 during the first years of Mr. Trudeau's reign, we hit a million new people in Canada.

00:04:40.380 Not a million new Canadians who had all gone through the sausage machine, but just people here. 0.99

00:04:46.200 They were either students on working visas or people brought in to work. 0.62

00:04:51.920 And the numbers just shot up.

00:04:54.800 And you think, well, why would they do that?

00:04:55.980 But the answer is that nothing else that Mr. Trudeau was doing economically was working.

00:05:04.040 But having all these people coming in, finding a place to live, buying food, buying cars, buying gas, gave the false impression of a prosperous growth within Canada.

00:05:17.000 But, of course, the downside of it, as we all know, hit the housing market first, the rental market.

00:05:23.400 And people started asking questions.

00:05:27.040 Now, Mr. Carney was asked a question during his campaign.

00:05:30.360 He said, look, we've got to get a grip on this thing.

00:05:32.580 But the story this morning is we haven't got a grip on it.

00:05:35.640 I'll just read you what we said.

00:05:37.100 The immigration levels in the first third of the year, this year, outpaced Prime Minister Mark Carney's promised cap on quotas.

00:05:46.880 Figures released by the Department of Immigration for the first 120 days of this year indicate that we will exceed 400,000 immigrants in 2025.

00:05:58.940 That's more than Mr. Carney promised.

00:06:02.740 So the system is not working.

00:06:04.520 And the why of it, I don't think it's changed.

00:06:08.540 I think it gives the federal government the illusion of prosperity and busyness.

00:06:13.680 They like that.

00:06:14.680 Corey, I partially agree with Nigel on the why.

00:06:19.720 Partially.

00:06:20.280 But I think it's, and we see this in Western countries everywhere, I think it's more than just trying to juice the overall gross national product, gross national product here.

00:06:37.280 I think it's, I think it's trying to stack the electorate because, you know, the progress of this worldview is that so-called old stock Canadians are reactionary.

00:06:48.320 They're not sufficiently progressive.

00:06:51.220 You know, they're racist, gun owning, vaccine hesitant, except, you know, add whatever epithets you want to it.

00:06:58.240 But I think it's, in their view, a way of also, in the long term, intentionally changing the demographic and therefore electoral makeup of the country.

00:07:10.820 I mean, that's a bit more taboo to get into, but hell, for at least just standard, we can say what we want here.

00:07:18.140 I think it's both.

00:07:19.600 I don't think it's just artificially juicing the GDP numbers.

00:07:23.760 It's, I think it's an intentional, uh, intention, policy, intentioned and designed to change the makeup of Canada.

00:07:32.700 No, I agree.

00:07:33.780 It's both.

00:07:34.300 I think, I'm thinking this began more, though, is that juicing of the economy.

00:07:38.400 It's a lazy way to do it.

00:07:39.740 I mean, they, they only ever had one economic measure they could keep pointing to.

00:07:42.900 Look how our GDP is growing.

00:07:44.260 Never GDP per capita.

00:07:45.240 Not GDP per capita, because, yeah, your pie is growing, but the people eating it are outpacing the growth of the pie.

00:07:50.960 Uh, but the political ramifications, absolutely.

00:07:54.880 I mean, we look at a recent thing, too, where the government put out a big invitation when he's saying he's going to be controlling this.

00:08:00.280 And he's saying, oh, by the way, everybody invite your grandparents and your parents to come over now.

00:08:04.420 We know what kind of economic benefit is that?

00:08:06.420 That's going to pressure the health care system further. 0.99

00:08:08.500 That's going to, you know, all of our systems are housing the rest. 1.00

00:08:11.260 But what it will do is make some of those new Canadians very happy.

00:08:15.480 They're reunited with their family, and they're hoping, anyways, that gratitude is going to be expressed at the ballot box.

00:08:21.040 So I think there's very much a political element to it.

00:08:24.100 I mean, the new Canadians coming over might not have citizenship and time to vote, but the families they're reuniting with will, and they want to keep that block. 0.72

00:08:34.300 I mean, they were pretty blunt about that.

00:08:36.760 I can't remember which minister it was or which liberal it was when they were asked about, why are you taking this particular stance on, again, one of the things in the Middle East?

00:08:43.440 This is, well, you know, how many Jews there are in my riding versus how many Muslims are in my riding?

00:08:47.640 How many Jews are there?

00:08:48.720 Yeah, you know, so unfortunately, it ties very much into their electability and building the demographic they think they need to build to win.

00:08:57.180 Well, as you're saying, I mean, like now, Canada's foreign policy is not dictated by what is in the Canadian national interest.

00:09:05.080 It is, and foreign policy in all democratic countries has to keep an eye on domestic opinion.

00:09:10.860 But domestic opinion is changing with mass migrate, unrestricted mass migration from around the world.

00:09:16.380 And that means even more so than in a normal country, you know, our foreign policy is dictated by, you know, which diaspora population are we able to please or not aggravate, etc. 0.54

00:09:34.140 A diaspora politics is in large, pretty much runs our foreign policy at this point.

00:09:40.920 But it has nothing to do at this point with what's in the national interest now.

00:09:46.880 Yeah, I think that's a fair comment.

00:09:48.640 And I think that's been going along for a long time.

00:09:50.960 To your point about bringing in people who can be relied upon to vote liberal, that is probably what the liberals are thinking.

00:10:02.020 Because the liberals like to work through community organizers.

00:10:05.660 They talk to one person, and he goes in and tells the community, which doesn't speak English very well, these are the people you need to vote for.

00:10:13.620 The liberals like to do it that way.

00:10:14.960 I don't think of these people in the center.

00:10:16.420 The conservatives play that game, too.

00:10:17.780 All parties do.

00:10:18.860 But, and here's the thing.

00:10:20.980 During the Harper years, what we discovered was that a lot of immigrants come from socially conservative countries.

00:10:29.420 The Philippines, Pakistan, India.

00:10:33.900 And they're not coming here because they like the social policies that the liberals are pushing.

00:10:39.840 Well, that's very much the business of white atheists to promote those policies. 0.95

00:10:44.760 If they vote liberal, it's in spite of those policies, not because of them.

00:10:48.640 What they're coming here for is a better life.

00:10:50.940 And the fact that they can bring their parents.

00:10:53.000 So, it's not quite as impenetrable as I had assumed before I went to Ottawa.

00:10:59.120 I mean, it's...

00:11:01.000 Jason Kenney did very well at what you're calling diaspora politics.

00:11:06.540 Well, there really was that one election with the Harper majority in 2011 where they were successful in diaspora politics.

00:11:15.760 At least in negating the liberal advantage in it.

00:11:18.500 But they had to do a lot for it.

00:11:20.120 But that was kind of a one-off.

00:11:22.700 In general, it does trend towards progressivist, leftist parties.

00:11:29.200 And I think, you know, a big part is, you know, they're relying on leftist identity politics, victim hierarchies.

00:11:38.100 Saying, okay, well, you might come from country XYZ where you may have a more traditional view of the family unit, etc.

00:11:44.560 But here in Canada, you're a victim.

00:11:49.220 And here's, you know, add up your different...

00:11:51.860 Here's your point system, add up your victim level.

00:11:55.300 And therefore, you belong with us.

00:11:57.660 And, I mean, it doesn't work on all, obviously.

00:12:00.480 There's not always...

00:12:02.040 We sell French fries, isn't it?

00:12:03.040 Yeah, but it does work to a pretty extensive degree, especially beyond just the social policies.

00:12:10.500 You know, if you have a traditional view of family, etc.

00:12:13.580 It, you know, diaspora politics is also money.

00:12:17.800 We're going to give, you know, some money for you to help build XYZ cultural center for your people.

00:12:23.380 And that has created a bidding war in all of the parties on the left and the right.

00:12:28.520 The right does this too now because they have to, politically, to be competitive at all in many constituencies, in Alberta, and anywhere in Canada.

00:12:36.700 To be competitive, you have to engage in this bidding war of diaspora politics.

00:12:40.580 You've got to show up and eat the food, do the dance, bow to the right thing.

00:12:45.580 It's a dangerous dance too, though.

00:12:47.320 You know, and we're starting to see that now that we're hitting a tipping point of such large segments of these populations.

00:12:53.040 Diaspora, again, yeah, they're escaping those areas. 1.00

00:12:55.580 But look at the Kalistani Hindu mess going on. 1.00

00:13:00.520 And there are very large, significant, politically active populations on both sides of that issue.

00:13:06.600 And it's very politically dangerous waters to wade into.

00:13:11.000 And the liberals have been good at kind of playing both sides.

00:13:13.400 But it can blow up really badly on you with that.

00:13:16.100 So it dictates our foreign politics, our foreign policy.

00:13:19.340 Like our entire relationship with India has very little to do with what's in our national interest on trade, on security, etc.

00:13:26.200 It has to do with diaspora politics between the Sikhs and the Hindus.

00:13:30.580 That's the whole thing.

00:13:31.620 Like, you know, giving a cold shoulder to Modi.

00:13:34.260 This is a massive trading partner for us.

00:13:36.660 This is a great new developing market.

00:13:38.960 The liberals have come to the realization that within Canada, the Sikh voter base is significantly more important than the Hindu voter base.

00:13:49.360 Therefore, you're going to take shots at Modi, who's a Hinduist, you know, not perceived as that friendly towards the Sikhs.

00:13:55.700 And meanwhile, we lose out on potentially billions in trade.

00:13:59.500 They're sacrificing our economic well-being for their bloody partisanship.

00:14:02.860 I mean, that's it's...

00:14:04.420 Meanwhile, we don't actually know with any certainty how many immigrants we have in Canada and what their status is.

00:14:13.480 How many have come in on the way to...

00:14:15.420 We know how many have come in, but we have no idea if they're still here.

00:14:20.060 There they are.

00:14:20.700 And once they're here, there's the honor system when it's, oh, your visa's up.

00:14:23.640 We expect you just purchased a ticket and went home, right?

00:14:26.160 Yeah.

00:14:27.160 Don't think many do.

00:14:28.680 No, it's not looking that way.

00:14:30.620 And that's part of the problem when you have insular communities like that, actually, when it comes based on that. 1.00

00:14:38.080 Yeah, because that's how undocumented or people who aren't legal can manage to maintain within a country, because if they stay in the tight community, you can find ways to keep working.

00:14:46.400 I mean, it's complicated, but...

00:14:48.100 So we've put this cap on, or Carney's put this cap on, which was still an extraordinarily high cap.

00:14:53.760 I mean, to be fair, Player Polyev in the election called for a cap as well, lowering our cap.

00:15:02.700 But it was still also extraordinarily high.

00:15:07.320 Neither party seemed particularly interested, probably for reasons of diaspora politics, to get serious about controlling mass, unrestricted mass migration.

00:15:17.560 Well, to be fair...

00:15:18.540 But we've now missed even the cap.

00:15:20.340 There's one other area, though, and there are elements of the business community, particularly, say, in the service area and such, where they wanted temporary foreign workers, because they've been having a difficult time finding affordable local labor.

00:15:32.200 Big business loves this.

00:15:33.440 It drives down on the cost of labor, you know, below levels that, you know, otherwise lower-income, working-class Canadians are willing to do.

00:15:42.640 You're going to bring in people who are happy to work at that level, and it undercuts our lower working-class. 0.82

00:15:47.260 And that's another...

00:15:48.060 This loves it.

00:15:49.000 It's another aspect of the incentives for the liberals to continue to talk big but do nothing when it comes to this.

00:15:55.240 You know, there's more to be said on that subject.

00:15:58.600 People say, well, you know, they take the immigrants because the immigrants have a higher work ethic than, you know, the Canadian-born kids or whatever race they may come from.

00:16:09.160 And there's some truth to that.

00:16:10.700 However, there is also a very strong ethnic preference in hiring.

00:16:17.140 So, if you have somebody from this community who's got a business, he tends to look for people of his own kind for them to work.

00:16:25.620 And it is resulting in Canadian young people born in Canada having much more difficulty in finding part-time work, summer jobs, and things like that.

00:16:36.340 Because the jobs are all going to, like, little hiring halls that are ethically based.

00:16:42.020 Well, and I can understand that.

00:16:44.200 I mean, you're, you know, you're, you know, say new or relatively new to here.

00:16:48.140 You establish a business, part of your social support network.

00:16:53.340 Maybe, yeah, there's government stuff, but no one cares about that.

00:16:55.720 That's, you, you're, you know, you're doing a favor to your friend.

00:17:01.040 You hired his kids.

00:17:02.340 You've now built, you know, you've put some mortar in between the bricks of your social structure there.

00:17:08.440 It's holding that community together.

00:17:10.000 And so, that's a perfectly natural and normal thing to do.

00:17:13.300 That's always understandable, and there's not helping with people who are already here who are supposed to be benefiting from immigration. 0.52

00:17:18.640 There is a wider thing with, I guess, spoiled Western work ethic, in my view.

00:17:23.120 Like, owning a pub, service industry, I would try to hire local kids, but, boy, they don't show up on time.

00:17:29.260 They don't care.

00:17:30.040 I mean, not for everyone.

00:17:30.900 There's exceptions.

00:17:31.760 But I tell you, and when you start that route, and I started getting Filipino workers in my kitchen.

00:17:36.320 They were fantastic.

00:17:37.120 They would reach out to the community to find other people who wanted to work in there.

00:17:40.960 They were never late.

00:17:41.860 They didn't complain.

00:17:42.900 And they were just made fantastic staff.

00:17:44.840 So, it's hard to, and, you know, this isn't a guy starting as a Filipino employer.

00:17:50.040 That's just the way it worked.

00:17:51.560 So, whose fault is that?

00:17:53.420 The reason for our show is Filipino, and I'm convinced they're a work ethic.

00:17:56.020 The guy running the show right there, John Filipino, and arguably the hardest working guy here.

00:18:01.060 But either way, you know, I just always get a laugh out of some of the people.

00:18:04.960 They're coming to take our jobs.

00:18:05.800 Well, did you apply for any of those jobs?

00:18:09.200 Where I want to know, I want to know is, where are the unions?

00:18:13.340 Unions, which are supposed to, in theory, represent the interests of the organized labor working class.

00:18:21.500 Now, most unions now tend to be the government sector, working in very often white-collar office jobs.

00:18:30.300 But, you know, even the private sector unions, you know, where you're supposed to be able to go get a job,

00:18:36.640 not have to necessarily have a bunch of post-secondary degrees to do it,

00:18:40.460 and support the broader interests of the working class.

00:18:44.460 The single, you know, working class voters are voting more on the right now.

00:18:48.540 Working class voters are very conscious of the problems around mass migration.

00:18:52.820 But the union leaderships themselves are definitely silent on mass migration,

00:19:01.120 which brings in people willing to work cheaper than someone who's maybe grown up in Canada,

00:19:08.060 and undercuts their wages.

00:19:10.680 It's the single biggest threat to the working class in Canada, and they're utterly silent.

00:19:17.240 You know, I never thought I'd hear Derek saying, where the hell are the unions?

00:19:22.020 Well, the unions have changed you.

00:19:24.960 The unions have changed, though.

00:19:26.400 I mean, it used to be the lunchbox carry-and-trade unions.

00:19:29.240 Now it's the teacher's lounge unionists.

00:19:31.900 It's the, like, they're the ones dominating the political class anyways. 0.98

00:19:36.020 You know, they've gone more into the woke politics.

00:19:38.880 The Gill McGowans even aren't as big on the old school, you know,

00:19:42.340 we're going to stand up for the worker thing.

00:19:43.760 They're tying themselves into woke causes instead.

00:19:46.520 I think that union block's still there, but nobody's speaking for them right now.

00:19:52.120 We need better unions.

00:19:54.920 If we're going to have them.

00:19:56.320 If we're going to have bloody unions,

00:19:58.280 you get ones that at least speak to the single biggest issue facing the working class.

00:20:04.480 I was going to get, actually, I'll ask Gil McGowan to call it a Hannaford show.

00:20:07.540 What do you think about that?

00:20:08.320 Uh, yeah, I mean, if it's in person, we'll probably have to bring security in for it.

00:20:14.340 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:20:14.980 So I know it won't come to mind.

00:20:17.160 All right.

00:20:18.940 But, you know, you should invite them.

00:20:20.700 I think that'd be great.

00:20:22.340 I'd like to see what, you know, the union bosses have to say on these issues.

00:20:26.520 Oh, this is you.

00:20:27.080 This would be the question.

00:20:27.720 Well, you know, they'd probably disagree on everything,

00:20:29.240 but they should theoretically agree with us on this.

00:20:31.480 This is, as we were saying, big business is the ones that like cheap, unrestricted mass migration.

00:20:39.520 They get to completely flood out, you know, the wage force, you know.

00:20:45.980 I mean, that's one of the reasons why unions like minimum wages applied even outside them is it sets a floor.

00:20:53.060 Yeah, it still pushes all the way.

00:20:55.040 It creates general pressure.

00:20:56.860 That creates upward pressure.

00:20:58.200 It still messes with the market.

00:20:59.980 It's probably a bad idea, but it is technically upward pressure.

00:21:03.160 Some people who aren't worth the minimum wage, well, then they just fall on social assistance.

00:21:07.420 And you can argue about how good a trade-off that is or not.

00:21:11.080 But okay.

00:21:11.980 But this creates downward pressure on wages, massive downward pressure.

00:21:17.500 And people doing pretty well, they're not all that affected by it because it's at the lower levels where this pushes down.

00:21:25.000 The entry-level jobs, low skill.

00:21:28.200 You know, that kind of thing.

00:21:30.460 The ones are going to lose out to artificial intelligence.

00:21:33.200 What?

00:21:34.160 Artificial intelligence is going to kill upper-class jobs. 0.87

00:21:36.720 Yeah.

00:21:37.180 It's artificial intelligence that won't unplug my toilet.

00:21:40.380 Yeah.

00:21:41.540 Not yet.

00:21:42.980 Skills.

00:21:43.660 Blue-coloured skill labor.

00:21:45.560 The only people with jobs are going to be left with jobs soon.

00:21:48.060 Yeah.

00:21:48.320 So, okay.

00:21:52.420 Let's move on to the wildfires in Nova Scotia.

00:21:55.700 So, this has got everyone on both sides in a tizzy.

00:22:00.660 You know, I saw Steve Marr.

00:22:03.840 No.

00:22:04.800 No.

00:22:05.420 Was it Steve Marr?

00:22:06.320 The Golden Mail columnist?

00:22:08.080 Yeah.

00:22:08.500 Steve Marr.

00:22:09.140 Yeah.

00:22:09.200 You know, you've seen him kind of defending this.

00:22:14.680 I'm not going to explain the situation itself.

00:22:17.080 Everyone already knows about it.

00:22:19.360 But, you know, he was defending it saying, well, you know, most of the critics of this,

00:22:23.080 they're all coming from points west, as he put it.

00:22:26.660 These Westerners. 0.99

00:22:28.480 I don't think he actually put it very rudely.

00:22:29.920 I don't think he's actually incorrect when he says, you know, these Westerners are more 0.97

00:22:33.640 libertarian and, you know, they're, and I don't like it when he's sort of piping

00:22:38.120 about how we're doing our business.

00:22:39.620 So, okay.

00:22:41.220 It goes both ways.

00:22:42.140 I get it.

00:22:43.140 But he's saying, you know, we're more communitarian out here.

00:22:45.360 I take issue with that.

00:22:46.420 I think, actually, in many ways, we're more communitarian.

00:22:48.980 We just rely less on the state to do it.

00:22:51.520 I cooperate.

00:22:52.320 I'm, I'm building a, I'm building stuff around my property with my neighbors, doing things

00:22:57.840 that are kind of almost quasi-municipal, but we don't bother asking a government.

00:23:00.980 We just come together, pool our resources, pool our labor, do it ourselves.

00:23:04.880 We're communitarian, just on a more private, voluntary level.

00:23:08.740 But, okay, I guess what he's saying is, the more communitarian may be on the state level,

00:23:12.380 state enforcing it.

00:23:13.280 But, um, so, if, um, you know, and everyone's admitted, including the government officials,

00:23:23.020 that, yes, walking in the forest or going fishing isn't going to create a fire, but some other

00:23:27.340 people will go there and do some dumb things, so we have to do this.

00:23:29.980 And I'm, I'm willing to actually grant the theoretical possibility they could be correct.

00:23:35.320 In an emergency, rights do get curtailed.

00:23:38.320 All governments do is curtail rights, and sometimes that can be justified.

00:23:43.220 But I'd say, after the last decade we've had, there's very little reservoir of goodwill

00:23:49.740 that we trust the government to know where to draw the line in the curtailment of rights

00:23:53.920 in an emergency.

00:23:55.280 We went through COVID, where rights were stripped away without any evidence, or often in the face

00:24:00.340 of contrary evidence, um, where people were legitimately oppressed and discriminated against

00:24:07.720 for no discernible, uh, actual public good outcomes.

00:24:12.860 So, yeah, we, we don't have a lot, a very big reserve of goodwill to trust the state on these things.

00:24:19.480 Um, okay, so that's, that's the argument going on there.

00:24:22.640 But what really just made this chef's kiss for me was when the Nova Scotia government

00:24:27.300 created an exemption for First Nations.

00:24:29.700 So, uh, you know, going for a hike in the forest, uh, going fishing, these things could

00:24:36.840 inadvertently start a forest fire.

00:24:40.540 But, if you happen to belong to a First Nation, um, then the risk might not be so great.

00:24:47.680 Um, I don't know, uh, is this the difference, I'm gonna get in trouble on this one.

00:24:52.720 Is this the difference between an Indian fire and a White Planned fire? 0.94

00:24:55.320 All right, John, I don't know where to go with the answer with that one.

00:24:58.980 But, I mean, they're inviting this kind of discussion because the absurdity of this.

00:25:02.520 They're just getting so bold and blatant and showing that this has absolutely nothing to

00:25:06.960 do with the fire risk.

00:25:08.500 Uh...

00:25:08.820 Like, what's it about?

00:25:09.480 What is it about, then?

00:25:10.240 I don't understand.

00:25:11.420 Because it's clearly not a fire risk, uh, about fire risk now.

00:25:13.460 It's control.

00:25:14.420 I mean, I, I, I brought many, many safety guys to tears during my 20 years in the oil field.

00:25:19.520 As you know, I...

00:25:20.140 You were the safety guy?

00:25:20.780 No, I was the surveyor who defied the safety guy who undercut, who fought with the safety

00:25:25.840 guy, who would, uh, battle with him.

00:25:28.120 I like smart safety policies.

00:25:31.080 I like to see the guy who shows up in his pickup truck drunk, fired.

00:25:34.840 I like to see the guy who's blasting down the cut line on a quad with no helmet on and jumping

00:25:39.160 off the stumps disciplined. 1.00

00:25:40.880 I don't like the twits and morons though, who start imposing stuff where there really 1.00

00:25:46.600 wasn't a risk to begin with. 0.99

00:25:48.480 Like, for example, they started with ATV bans in the woods and things like that.

00:25:52.760 Chainsaws. 0.98

00:25:53.160 Okay.

00:25:53.600 Those are hot items that could start a fire and there could be a problem.

00:25:58.400 No problem.

00:25:59.380 But when you start to ban hikers, that safety guy's gone wild, where they just go to the

00:26:04.420 length of the absurd.

00:26:06.320 And then it also shows that they tend to be also the ones who are woke to the max as well.

00:26:11.540 Well, oh dear, we've got a first nations play that's coming up and they're going to be very

00:26:15.720 upset if we cancel this.

00:26:17.520 If it had been any other play or heaven forbid, a Christian singer. 0.99

00:26:21.340 It was Shakespeare.

00:26:21.940 Which I think is cultural appropriation.

00:26:29.580 It is.

00:26:30.180 In the extreme.

00:26:31.080 Which I think most of us don't mind or care, but it is.

00:26:33.740 The irony is hilarious though.

00:26:35.720 And they're just scared of canceling that to upset them.

00:26:37.960 It's that bizarre double standard.

00:26:40.060 There's no race less likely to light a fire than another. 1.00

00:26:44.040 Or if we wanted to dig down into some stats, we might find some stuff they really don't

00:26:47.620 want to find out.

00:26:48.320 Oh, we're going to have to cap our spiciness right there. 0.99

00:26:50.860 Yeah.

00:26:51.940 But it's just bureaucrats gone wild and they've got the authority. 0.95

00:26:56.960 They enjoy using it and it's ridiculous. 1.00

00:26:59.860 And I'm glad this happened with this because it exposed just how stupid it is. 1.00

00:27:04.660 One more thing about that story. 1.00

00:27:06.440 There is now a snitch line.

00:27:08.360 Oh, yes.

00:27:09.020 Now, snitch line, that takes us back to COVID.

00:27:12.700 Yep.

00:27:13.580 And to your point about control.

00:27:19.580 There is the thing that locks that into place.

00:27:24.300 It's when governments don't have any imagination.

00:27:26.640 Then they start restricting people.

00:27:30.520 It's simplistic.

00:27:31.640 They won't do the hard work of enforcement.

00:27:33.920 And it is hard work.

00:27:35.840 But they want you to become a partner with them in enforcement.

00:27:41.300 And it's not a way to build a society.

00:27:44.180 And I'm just amazed that people will even tolerate it for a moment.

00:27:47.760 Well, and real safety is difficult, but bans are easy.

00:27:50.960 Yeah.

00:27:51.160 You know, if, but it's funny that most often, at least we could do a bit of a cost benefit.

00:27:55.180 I mean, how many children die in swimming pools every year across the country?

00:27:57.860 A handful.

00:27:58.180 If we wanted to reduce it to zero, there's only one way.

00:28:01.920 You'd have to ban every swimming pool.

00:28:03.540 You'd make reasonable mitigations like white garden.

00:28:06.080 Fencing around the pools, training, lots of things.

00:28:08.880 Trade-offs.

00:28:09.200 But you do have, we have accepted that as it sits right now, a number of children are going

00:28:14.780 to die in those swimming pools.

00:28:17.220 To be honest, I won't be shocked if it gets to a point where they start banning the bloody

00:28:20.660 things.

00:28:20.920 If you're going to ban people from walking in the woods, because that's the only way they 0.96

00:28:23.900 think they can reduce the human ability to light a fire to zero, as ridiculous as that

00:28:29.320 sounded 10 years ago today, apparently it's just a shrug of the shoulders.

00:28:32.060 Well, it'd be the same with the only way to eliminate auto accidents, just the ban.

00:28:36.800 And of course, we've decided that that is not reasonable.

00:28:41.740 There's things we can do to mitigate things, but people are still dying every single day

00:28:46.760 in auto crashes.

00:28:48.520 I think this is actually, this kind of government overreach actually creates danger.

00:28:55.300 You know, I remember saying during COVID that I hope to God we don't actually get the big

00:29:01.660 one.

00:29:02.540 Like if we, a real bug, we're, you know, like one of, you know, one of these movies

00:29:06.500 where it's like, it's the black death and it's a genuine crisis, you know, I mean, a 1.00

00:29:14.780 restriction of your freedoms can in some circumstances be justified if the trade-offs are

00:29:22.460 appropriate, if you're not going intentionally too far.

00:29:26.940 There is a circumstance under which lockdowns could make sense, theoretically.

00:29:34.940 But the abuse of government power by virtually nearly every government around the world, and

00:29:43.940 especially in Canada, during COVID, made sure that it destroyed our trust in institutions.

00:29:50.900 It destroyed social trust to the point where if we got the big one, if we got, you know, Black 1.00

00:29:57.600 Plague coming, so many people, if it happens within, I think, 15 years of COVID here, people

00:30:05.980 are going to say, ah, you got us last time.

00:30:09.100 Yeah, we've been through this.

00:30:10.040 I'm not going.

00:30:10.640 Yeah, people are, people will not follow reasonable recommendations or reasonable restrictions.

00:30:18.260 You know, you do have to curtail some activities during a forest, a high risk of forest fire,

00:30:23.900 like, I rigged my quad every single day around my own land here, but if we were under a fire

00:30:29.000 watch, I understand that, okay, maybe that could create a grass fire on my land.

00:30:32.980 Yeah, you got a manifold outside, tall dry grass, okay, we'll wait.

00:30:35.980 It can happen.

00:30:36.580 It doesn't happen a lot, but it happens.

00:30:37.940 That would be a reasonable restriction, but if the government's always, and if the government's

00:30:41.920 going around banning me from hiking or fishing, clearly things that have no impact whatsoever,

00:30:47.800 I'm less likely to trust the more reasonable restriction that, hey, right now, you probably

00:30:53.140 shouldn't ride your quad because it could cause a spark.

00:30:55.420 Well, the measles resurgence, I'm blaming to a degree, total overplay of the COVID vaccines

00:31:00.920 when they got in people's faces.

00:31:02.200 That's a perfect example.

00:31:02.800 That is trust.

00:31:03.740 We had everybody, you know, a tipping point of people taking up the measles vaccine for

00:31:08.480 decades and we've virtually eliminated.

00:31:10.840 And suddenly now there's people are saying, I don't trust vaccines for measles and I'm not

00:31:14.360 going to have my children vaccinated.

00:31:15.720 Look what happened.

00:31:17.120 Now we're seeing measles popping up on the scene again.

00:31:19.400 Yeah.

00:31:19.540 That was the fault of them breaking the trust with COVID.

00:31:25.540 Yeah.

00:31:25.820 You know, it's as old as history itself.

00:31:28.440 The governments always try to gather power and it's sort of the unique achievement of

00:31:34.020 the governments of the Anglosphere in the last couple of hundred years, inspired by liberty-minded

00:31:39.520 philosophers who actually step back and say, no, people should be free to do what people can

00:31:45.660 do safely, but now we're seeing what we're seeing the kind of overreach you're seeing in

00:31:53.180 Nova Scotia and in New Brunswick and in Newfoundland and people have lost confidence in the old liberty

00:32:01.160 idea and I say, yeah, sure, here's my wrist, put the handcuffs on or just make me safe.

00:32:06.420 You have written in the past, Corey Morgan, that there's a war on motorcars.

00:32:15.900 The secret plan is to have a lot less motorcars and people to be a lot less mobile.

00:32:23.120 Keep them in 15-minute seats and if they have to go somewhere, let them rent a golf cart.

00:32:27.760 Well, or if it's public transit, then boy, it's much easier to kind of...

00:32:31.420 Yeah, but then you kind of got people literally where you want them and I would make this proposition

00:32:38.760 to you and it sort of relates back to the forests.

00:32:43.420 The ability to go where you go is the true definition of freedom.

00:32:47.640 It's more important than having a vote.

00:32:49.640 If you can go where you want to go and you don't have to get your sign off or a permit from

00:32:55.100 a government department first, that's reason.

00:32:57.720 Absolutely.

00:32:58.060 But they don't like that.

00:33:01.420 Yeah, it's, well, we've, and this can, it can lead us to conspiracy, seeing conspiracies

00:33:09.180 and sometimes we'll see them because they, maybe they are there, but it'll also lead us

00:33:13.460 to see things that are not there because our, our trust in institutions, our formerly high

00:33:19.020 trust society is no longer a high trust society.

00:33:21.640 Um, and so we, we've lost, um, and this might rub off on otherwise, uh, institutions that

00:33:29.140 otherwise still actually do a good job.

00:33:31.760 Um, I generally trust my doctor generally.

00:33:37.920 Um, but I'm probably just naturally more suspicious of, you know, the medical institutions in general

00:33:44.700 because they threw their lot in and got political.

00:33:47.540 Uh, I mean, you can't trust some wings of, of even the scientific community now because

00:33:53.060 they've made themselves explicitly political, be it on global warming, uh, on vaccines.

00:33:58.600 Uh, and so, but this is going to rub off then on people who have not violated our trust.

00:34:04.560 Um, yeah.

00:34:06.760 So to your point about the scientists, many fit the description that you've given them,

00:34:12.900 but here's another illustration of where the central government moves in and creates the

00:34:18.380 opinions that it wants because scientists need money to do research.

00:34:23.640 They don't much care what the research is, but they do need the money.

00:34:27.660 That's what pays the bill.

00:34:28.980 So the government sets up the guidelines for giving grants that you have to think certain

00:34:36.000 things.

00:34:37.140 So try and get, prove the point, try and get a grant as a climate scientist that says,

00:34:44.200 no, all this stuff about global warming is way, way overrated.

00:34:48.380 You will not get the grant.

00:34:50.460 It just won't happen.

00:34:51.760 But if you take the other view, then you will, uh, much, have less better chance anyway.

00:34:57.960 So again, yes, some of our, some of our friends have let us down, but you can see why.

00:35:04.760 And it's at the behest of the government.

00:35:07.300 So just, uh, just, just giving a pat on the back to the honest scientist.

00:35:13.140 Yep.

00:35:14.040 Okay.

00:35:14.900 Well, let's, we'll switch gears a little here.

00:35:17.060 Um, Corey, I'll let you set it up.

00:35:20.620 Um, but, uh, Maxime Bernier did a live stream the other day.

00:35:25.120 Uh, we covered it.

00:35:27.500 Um, as both of us, as, uh, people who have led small fringy parties before, both on the

00:35:37.260 independence issue, we both, I think are particularly well, uh, uh, positioned to be able to speak

00:35:43.040 to this, uh, small parties have to do bold, sometimes even outrageous things to get attention,

00:35:48.920 to get, to get some traction.

00:35:51.080 Um, but the People's Party of Canada, a populist right-wing, um, but ostensibly still Canadian

00:36:01.080 Nationalist and Federalist Party, has now endorsed the yes side of the likely still-coming referendum

00:36:08.600 at some point on Alberta independence.

00:36:13.720 Curious.

00:36:14.280 Well, speaking of putting party interest ahead of national interest, here's a fine example

00:36:19.400 of it on a more micro level, I think.

00:36:21.960 I mean, the, the, the PPC under Maxime Bernier sort of has a, uh, a base of support that's

00:36:28.200 very small.

00:36:28.760 It hasn't grown, but it hasn't really shrunk either.

00:36:31.060 It shrunk from the high point they hadn't called it.

00:36:33.220 Oh, yeah.

00:36:33.620 From back then.

00:36:34.380 I'm just saying, speaking more in the last couple of years, uh, but they need money.

00:36:38.240 They need a degree of support.

00:36:40.160 And I'm only guessing, but I would bet a bulk of their supporters are concentrated in Alberta.

00:36:44.760 And of all parties where the bulk of the supporters would be independence-minded supporters, his

00:36:49.140 Alberta members are probably 90% independence.

00:36:51.960 I would imagine, yeah.

00:36:53.360 And he's donors.

00:36:54.640 He, he wants to keep them happy.

00:36:57.340 Let's put that out there because it is counterintuitive to a federal party.

00:37:01.060 I mean, he did put out other things talking about reducing, you know, federal incursions

00:37:04.800 into provincial jurisdiction and, and other policy moves.

00:37:07.740 But to be a, an ostensibly federal party to say that you support the dissolution of the

00:37:13.740 federation through a vote in another province, it's just bizarre.

00:37:17.780 I mean, seeing the block do so.

00:37:18.680 I mean, we'll take all the help we can get.

00:37:19.960 Oh, sure.

00:37:20.540 I, I mean, we, we sort of have been saying it for quite some time to 30.

00:37:23.660 I mean, I just, I think his motivations are just purely driven on, on trying to keep that

00:37:28.740 base inflamed and happy and donating.

00:37:30.700 Uh, I mean, is he going to gain any of his support in Ontario or Quebec or anywhere else?

00:37:36.540 But he's not looking there.

00:37:37.700 He's just looking to pay the bills.

00:37:39.520 Um, fortunately, I think you're right.

00:37:42.060 But you know, he could use this excuse if he wanted to.

00:37:46.360 Let's get a strong pro-independence vote in Alberta.

00:37:50.700 And then we can maybe extract a better deal out of the federal government, which I still

00:37:55.080 support.

00:37:55.740 That is what he's argued here.

00:37:57.200 Uh, and he said, like in the 1995 Quebec referendum on independence, he voted yes, uh, because

00:38:02.780 he felt that, you know, after Charlottetown and Meech Lake, things have been frozen.

00:38:06.640 The ambitions of Quebec nationalists had been thwarted.

00:38:09.200 That was the only way to obtain reform.

00:38:12.620 I think most people who voted for independence in the Quebec, well, whatever they were voting

00:38:16.480 on was convoluted question.

00:38:17.820 Uh, but most people voted yes, I should say, voted for independence, but a sizable minority

00:38:22.920 of them wanted to push, to use this as a gun to the head of Canada to obtain reforms.

00:38:29.340 Uh, but I mean, if we got a yes vote on independence in Alberta, like our, our proposed question is

00:38:36.000 not ambiguous.

00:38:36.640 It's not the Quebec one where it's, what does yes mean?

00:38:40.600 Yeah.

00:38:41.320 Yeah.

00:38:41.680 Uh, it's not ambiguous.

00:38:42.740 It's clear.

00:38:43.300 If we get a yes vote, we expect independence.

00:38:47.120 The time for reform is before that vote.

00:38:50.000 It's not after that vote.

00:38:51.120 After that vote, the only discussion needs to be, okay, uh, I'll take the kids, uh, Monday

00:38:57.420 to Friday.

00:38:58.020 You take them on the weekend and who you get the house.

00:39:00.580 I get the car.

00:39:01.600 That's the discussion.

00:39:02.780 Who gets Quebec? 0.93

00:39:05.140 Well, they get Quebec.

00:39:06.560 They can have it.

00:39:07.540 And we're not paying child support anymore.

00:39:09.440 This is about ending child support.

00:39:11.140 Um, so I get what he's saying, but perhaps he's approaching this from the view of a Quebec,

00:39:17.080 uh, of at least many Quebecers who saw a yes vote for independence in, uh, in Quebec as

00:39:23.040 a way of extracting more from the federal government, getting more decentralization in the kind that

00:39:26.900 they want or asymmetrical deal, et cetera.

00:39:29.360 Many Quebecers do view the independence movement as a way to do that.

00:39:34.100 And I'm sure some Albertans do, but not many.

00:39:37.780 Something Ted Byfield mentioned a couple of times.

00:39:40.340 I remember back when I was leading the AIP too, though, was it was refederation and it

00:39:45.240 was more along the premise almost though, that, yeah, I guess if, if, if the federation

00:39:49.120 fell apart, we could redraft it with a new contract and, uh, province leaving could be

00:39:54.660 the catalyst that leads to that.

00:39:56.600 So the negotiations begin, but now we're at the beginning of the negotiations as independent

00:40:00.120 nations, and we're going to try to come together under a new agreement.

00:40:04.000 Well, I've, I've argued before, like, like sometimes I've asked people the question rhetorically,

00:40:08.100 if Alberta was an independent country right now, would we join Canada?

00:40:12.280 Yeah.

00:40:12.540 Under these terms.

00:40:13.300 Under these terms.

00:40:14.320 Yeah.

00:40:14.500 No one, no one would ever, even the most hardcore federalists, they have to admit,

00:40:20.380 no, I probably would not.

00:40:22.400 Um, but you know, we've, you know, Alberta independence has thought up with the other

00:40:25.680 question of broader Western independence.

00:40:27.500 If Alberta went, there's a very good chance Saskatchewan would follow, probably start a 0.84

00:40:31.900 domino effect.

00:40:32.540 Quebec is then gone because Quebec would have to pay into Canada.

00:40:34.820 They'll never do that.

00:40:35.520 And that means at that point, then BC, maybe Manitoba and territories come along.

00:40:39.460 And then it rates the question, would Canada just be refounded?

00:40:42.860 Under the new constitution.

00:40:45.760 Because I fundamentally, uh, you know, I didn't grow up not liking Canada.

00:40:51.680 I grew up as a passionate Canadian nationalist.

00:40:53.640 And I, if it was possible to save Canada, that would be my preference.

00:40:57.120 I think it's the preference of most even hardline Alberta nationalists.

00:41:00.300 I no longer want to be outvoted by the East all the time because they have crazy ideas. 0.83

00:41:04.260 I think we just have very separate conceptions of the role of government, how we want to

00:41:08.940 govern ourselves.

00:41:09.620 Um, but yeah, I, I, I, so I think that's kind of what Bernier is arguing, not to actually

00:41:16.280 recreate the country again, but that it would, it would create, uh, a political circumstance,

00:41:21.400 political facts on the ground that would lead to broader reform of Canada.

00:41:26.220 Fine.

00:41:26.720 But I, I, that's not what would happen if we got a yes vote.

00:41:29.260 We got a yes vote.

00:41:30.760 It's done.

00:41:31.360 Yeah.

00:41:32.220 Or at least then it, that's pulled the string, a string on the sweater that made it unravel.

00:41:36.120 And, you know, whatever happens after that, I, I think if any one province leaves the

00:41:40.180 Federation, the Federation's done, whether it's Quebec or Alberta or Saskatchewan.

00:41:43.920 No, no, no.

00:41:44.680 I think Quebec could leave and everything.

00:41:46.720 I, our reason for leaving would more or less go away, not entirely, but we could then probably

00:41:52.240 change, reform the constitution.

00:41:54.240 We could probably make Canada work without Quebec. 0.99

00:41:56.280 Well, perhaps.

00:41:57.240 Leaving with strength.

00:41:58.380 That, that chunk, the problem with Quebec is, well, we're getting, we're going to

00:42:01.340 going down a rabbit hole, you know, but it is a geographic problem.

00:42:04.860 We have an interest when, when you free trade, but the country such, uh, when the

00:42:08.400 maritimes are subtly isolated and, uh, then we've got some other issues to deal with.

00:42:12.600 Yeah, but they're not exactly going to be a Danzig corridor.

00:42:15.100 Like, I doubt they're going to arm it.

00:42:16.840 No.

00:42:17.500 To stop us from rolling through.

00:42:19.340 And Nufi's are rolling up from that. 1.00

00:42:21.940 The Nufi's coming from East Russia. 1.00

00:42:23.380 Yeah.

00:42:23.580 Uh, no, I think they, it would be in everyone's interest if Quebec left.

00:42:28.140 Like, Quebec needs to trade with Canada.

00:42:29.900 Uh, I think we'd probably come to some kind of, uh, anything other than pipelines we could

00:42:34.180 probably get through.

00:42:34.960 Yeah.

00:42:35.980 Actually, we might have more leverage to get pipelines through Quebec at that point.

00:42:38.980 You won't hear an argument out of me.

00:42:40.040 I mean, we're pretty soon to convert it on this at the general.

00:42:43.380 Yeah.

00:42:43.780 Yeah.

00:42:44.040 You know, you know, the question is whether we should even waste much time talking about

00:42:47.540 the people's party.

00:42:48.960 I mean, a lot of people like Bernie.

00:42:50.640 He's charming as old get up, charming old wallpaper off the walls.

00:42:55.120 But, um, you know, he, nobody's voting for him.

00:42:58.000 Was it less than 1% in the, uh, in the federal election?

00:43:01.840 Yeah.

00:43:02.340 I mean, like they had their high point, uh, during COVID.

00:43:05.280 During COVID.

00:43:06.280 Because it was a very real reason for it.

00:43:09.000 They were the only party.

00:43:10.360 Yeah.

00:43:10.540 Not even on vaccine passports.

00:43:12.040 Like Aaron O'Toole ran on pro vaccine passport, pro carbon tax, all of these things.

00:43:18.020 There was a real purpose for the PPC then, uh, Polly have largely changed that, but I

00:43:23.760 think the big risk for the federal conservative party now is on immigration and their language

00:43:30.000 is tight and is getting tougher on it.

00:43:32.380 But I, I think people are, I think the Canadian public in general and conservative voters in

00:43:37.600 particular are well to the right of the conservative party on immigration right now.

00:43:42.000 I think if the PPC is to get traction on any major issue and try to have some life come

00:43:47.580 back into it, it's going to be on that.

00:43:49.980 It could be one for them to own.

00:43:51.240 Yeah.

00:43:51.680 Yeah.

00:43:52.420 Okay.

00:43:52.920 Well, let's put a pin in it and, uh, go to our parting shots.

00:43:56.200 Start with Corey today.

00:43:57.900 Sure.

00:43:58.100 The Toronto International Film Festival.

00:43:59.660 And it's a big one.

00:44:00.660 That's a worldwide known with, uh, all those movies coming out, but they had a documentary

00:44:04.580 that, uh, well, documented, uh, an Israeli man saving his family from Hamas on October

00:44:10.540 7th.

00:44:10.980 And they've booted that documentary from the festival.

00:44:13.780 Of course they won't show it, but the weakness of their excuse and kicking that out is that

00:44:19.380 it used a bunch of the footage that Hamas had taken, you know, with their body cams while

00:44:23.360 they were on their orgy of murder and rape.

00:44:25.540 And the documentarian hadn't gotten permission from Hamas to use the foot. 0.63

00:44:29.900 Oh, so it was copyright.

00:44:31.060 Yeah.

00:44:32.320 I wish I was making this up.

00:44:36.200 You, you gotta be, I didn't see that.

00:44:38.200 So that's when their excuse has been.

00:44:41.120 So, I mean, you know, we, though, the reality, they didn't want to show it in Israel sympathetic

00:44:44.940 documentary, but that was the best excuse they could find for kicking it out is the terrorist

00:44:49.020 group didn't give us permission to use the footage they took while they were committing

00:44:52.780 terrorism and shared on social media.

00:44:54.740 Well, at least they didn't say it was a safety issue.

00:44:57.360 No, no.

00:44:57.840 Good.

00:44:58.120 Fair enough.

00:44:58.940 So they changed the narrative.

00:45:00.300 That, that is gloriously Canadian.

00:45:04.400 They're gloriously Canadian.

00:45:06.200 They didn't get copyright from Hamas.

00:45:09.200 Yeah.

00:45:10.220 I'll top that.

00:45:11.320 I'll do all I can't.

00:45:12.320 I mean, that's, I assume that you, you dug that one out and brought a cord.

00:45:17.000 I did think, though, it was very significant what Parks Canada did this week.

00:45:23.020 A couple of weeks ago, they kicked Sean Foote, the American Christian rocker, off a, off a

00:45:29.520 Parks Canada site saying that he didn't conform to their values.

00:45:33.460 They had values, you know, and, well, wasn't that nice?

00:45:37.500 Well, last, yesterday, I think it was, there was the unveiling of a plaque in a Manitoba

00:45:44.720 residential school.

00:45:47.280 And Parks Canada, in pursuit of its values, has been very strong and saying, oh, you know,

00:45:52.360 residential school system was cultural genocide.

00:45:55.900 And they would put that on the plaques when they were designating some of these schools

00:45:59.600 as historic sites.

00:46:00.660 Well, let's just say that they really do have values.

00:46:05.060 What are we to make of the fact that on this one, there was no reference to cultural genocide?

00:46:11.360 Is Parks Canada, which takes its marching orders directly from the federal government,

00:46:17.460 starting to go, I think, a more moderate view of what the residential school were about?

00:46:24.760 And could it be anything to do with the fact that Mr. Carney's father actually ran a residential

00:46:31.280 school in the North Estates?

00:46:32.900 There is no evidence that he was a genocidal man.

00:46:35.180 No, no.

00:46:35.640 There's no evidence that he was a very reputable public administrator.

00:46:39.720 I love the idea that maybe some truth will start sneaking back into that story.

00:46:44.960 Here's to hope.

00:46:45.660 But Parks Canada, whoa!

00:46:47.440 Yeah, all right.

00:46:51.200 Well, I want to give a tip of the hat, wake of the finger here for China. 1.00

00:47:00.620 China, not a state which I'm normally sympathetic with, but they did what you would naturally expect. 0.97

00:47:10.120 There was already a big tariff on Canadian canola in retaliation for Canadian tariffs against

00:47:17.360 Chinese-made electric vehicles.

00:47:19.680 This was designed to artificially prop up Ontario's mega-subsidized EV industry and get it going.

00:47:29.060 Kind of like what Trump's doing for the American oil industry.

00:47:31.920 Yes.

00:47:32.540 But ever since Trump pulled the EV mandates and subsidies in the States,

00:47:36.760 it has pretty much flat-lined the whole industry.

00:47:40.640 Because very few people actually want EVs, unless you have small little drives around

00:47:46.280 a city or something.

00:47:47.560 Maybe then.

00:47:48.400 But for huge portions of people who live in a place like North America, it's wildly impractical.

00:47:53.080 Especially in Canada, where it's cold.

00:47:54.780 Batteries don't do too well.

00:47:56.380 The whole industry is cratering anyway.

00:47:58.880 The liberals have stood by their EV tariffs on Chinese vehicles.

00:48:02.300 And the Chinese have just increased by 76%, 78%.

00:48:07.080 76%, yeah.

00:48:08.060 76%, on top of the 100% that was already there, against Canadian canola.

00:48:13.140 So, and who does that primarily affect?

00:48:17.460 I don't think EV manufacturers in Ontario are also in the canola business.

00:48:21.720 It affects primarily Western farmers in Alberta and Saskatchewan and Manitoba,

00:48:27.940 who have one of the biggest market in the world, effectively completely closed to them now.

00:48:36.420 And that's all done to prop up Ontario's, I can't even say zombie,

00:48:40.980 because zombie implies it was actually alive at some point.

00:48:43.360 It's never been alive.

00:48:44.320 It never will be alive.

00:48:46.020 Propping up Ontario's Frankenstein, that's probably a better analogy, Frankenstein EV industry.

00:48:53.920 So, I'm just glad that we could do our part for Ontario's subsidized EV industry.

00:49:01.280 Quite so.

00:49:01.740 We're just doing our part for the country, because we never do.

00:49:04.920 All right, Corey, Nigel, thank you very much.

00:49:09.280 Always a pleasure.

00:49:09.920 Hopefully we have Erica back next week. 0.99

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