Western Standard - THE PIPELINE： You don’t hate the mainstream media enough

00:00:00.000 G'day, welcome. I'm Derek Fildebrandt, publisher of the Western Standard. Today is February 26th.

00:00:30.000 Uh, 2026. And you're watching the pipeline. Um, be a bit more somber than usual. Uh, at least for our first, uh, first segment. Probably gonna take twice the regular time for it. Uh, coming on the heels of the mass shooting in, uh, Tumblr, British Columbia. Uh, we've been on it since, uh, word first started to come out of Tumblr last night.

00:01:00.000 Uh, we've had reporters doing really, really great work. I've been extremely proud of what they've done. Um, but there has been a lot of obfuscation, deliberate, I would think, in many of the cases in this, from both the RCMP and the legacy mainstream media.

00:01:20.360 Um, and this was really a time for independent media like the Western Standard to shine. Um, I guess it was a lonely job. Uh, not many outlets, uh, out there doing it.

00:01:32.120 A few of our independent competitors doing their jobs, but none of the legacy guys. We're, we're gonna be talking less about the substance of the issue. I already covered, covered that in a hour long, uh, live stream earlier this morning.

00:01:43.580 Um, but I wanna, well, I think we're gonna talk more about how, uh, the media of this and the RCMP's handling of this in the media.

00:01:52.960 Uh, we're also gonna take some time, uh, or chipper note, uh, marking the 20, 20th anniversary of Stephen Harper's first election victory in, I think it was January 2000 and, uh...

00:02:06.800 2006.

00:02:07.460 2006.

00:02:08.120 Yes.

00:02:08.520 I remember it. I was a young lad. Um, uh, we're gonna talk about that. Nigel Hannaford, uh, worked with Stephen Harper. You were his chief speechwriter for many years.

00:02:20.040 And, uh, you were in Ottawa, uh, for the celebrations of that. So we'll get to that after. Um, but we've...

00:02:26.740 Still coming down.

00:02:28.000 Yeah. Still coming down from the, from the wild party.

00:02:30.920 Yeah.

00:02:31.260 Yeah. Um, traditional. Yeah. Um, and we've got, uh, Dave.

00:02:36.800 Dave is gonna be tired. Up late last night, coordinating our news team on, uh, mass shooting in, uh, Tumblr. Uh, but, yeah. Thanks for, thanks for the work you've done.

00:02:49.040 No worries. Tumblr Ridge.

00:02:50.520 Tumblr Ridge. Did I say that?

00:02:52.020 Tumblr.

00:02:52.540 Tumblr. Yeah, okay. Tumblr Ridge.

00:02:54.400 And, uh, coming to us from an undisclosed location, uh, we have, uh, Jeffrey Epstein returning to us.

00:03:01.240 Uh, no, he looks a little, a little less.

00:03:04.020 Still hiding in the desert. Uh, I, I believe, uh, playing Fortnite. You're in between the game of Fortnite. Right? Yeah.

00:03:10.560 That's right.

00:03:11.460 Yeah. Okay.

00:03:12.900 Secretly controlling the world.

00:03:14.940 Yeah. I, uh, it's, that's less crazy than it sounded not long ago.

00:03:20.700 That's less crazy.

00:03:22.200 Less crazy.

00:03:22.880 Okay. Um, uh, okay. So I, I don't want to talk, really spend much time on, uh, really what everybody knows, but I guess, Dave, maybe just set up, I guess, uh, Western Standard and a few of the other independent media, uh, really, really all, zero legacy media have done anything here.

00:03:47.840 Um, their excuse has been, well, the RCMP have not said, therefore, there is no news until they say.

00:03:56.380 That sounds like the opposite of what a reporter's job is to do. It's to verify what official sources say, and then when you suspect that there's more to the story, go out and find it and corroborate it with multiple sources, multiple, uh, different facts.

00:04:12.380 But the media have just been totally silent and just said, it's not our job to actually find anything out.

00:04:18.580 Our job is to passively pass on what the RCMP tell us.

00:04:22.320 So the RCMP have said very little, uh, beginning with the identity of the shooter yesterday.

00:04:28.660 Yes.

00:04:29.200 It's been, uh, it's been a strange, uh, 24 hours, uh, right from the start, the RCMP, uh, some strange, some strange language.

00:04:38.120 Uh, they initially said the suspect was a, uh, uh, uh, woman in a dress, and then they, they referred to, uh, as a, uh, a gun person.

00:04:47.980 I've never heard gun person.

00:04:49.600 I don't think you have any.

00:04:50.540 It's a new, new word.

00:04:51.380 New word, right?

00:04:51.980 A gun person.

00:04:53.280 Uh, so obviously the, the, uh, the red flags were for raising, were raising.

00:04:58.440 And, uh, uh, we did as we're, our job is to do is to dig into it.

00:05:03.000 Uh, we found the identity of the shooter.

00:05:05.940 We confirmed it, uh, with several sources and, uh, it turned out that, uh, uh, the 18 year old, uh, had been, uh, transgendered.

00:05:16.320 Uh, he was, uh, uh, RCMP confirmed today that he was born a male and started to become transgendered about six years ago.

00:05:24.100 And they referred to him as she throughout the press conference.

00:05:27.880 Always she, she did this, she did that.

00:05:30.960 They didn't want to dead name the shooter.

00:05:32.760 No.

00:05:33.540 And, uh, they were asked about it at the press conference and they said, well, that's what the shooter was.

00:05:39.700 That's what the shooter identified as, as a, as a, as a woman. 0.98

00:05:43.800 So, uh, you, you, you eloquently put it in your rant, uh, all the, uh, the, uh, statistics for a trans shooting. 0.71

00:05:53.080 And, uh, they're quite extraordinary.

00:05:55.800 And, uh, yeah, you know, you're right about the, uh, the, uh, the, uh, if the mainstream media had wanted,

00:06:02.760 wanted to do it, they could have done it quite easily, but this story's confused them and scared the hell out of them.

00:06:08.400 And they basically, they just didn't know how to handle it.

00:06:10.680 So they didn't, they just left it, uh, left it until the RCMP finally came out and said it.

00:06:16.680 And they didn't, and they didn't say it in the release, they had to be questioned about it.

00:06:22.320 So, yeah, Nigel, um, when, when this happened last night, I mean, they, they said it was a woman in a dress and then the RCMP, that was in the alert that went out on people's phones.

00:06:32.640 And then the RCMP said in kind of a brief little, in a little kind of press conference, they said, uh, it was a gun person and immediately suspicious minds say, this is a bit odd.

00:06:45.660 Uh, I didn't know the stats at the time, but like, I've pretty much never heard of a female mass school shooter.

00:06:52.000 However, it happens, but it is exceedingly rare.

00:06:56.520 Yeah.

00:06:56.660 Well, there was one case in the United States two years ago.

00:06:59.080 Yeah.

00:06:59.280 But I recall, it pretty much doesn't happen.

00:07:00.860 I, I, I, I ran some numbers on it.

00:07:03.120 I want to fine tune a bit more, but the number is, I, I, I was able to come up with is in the last decade for mass school shootings.

00:07:10.340 You know, so there's different ways you can wait to bring there's around this exercise, but, um, you know, I had, uh, had it run, ran the numbers on likeliness of committing.

00:07:22.000 Uh, relative to their size of the population of committing a mass school shooting.

00:07:27.160 Um, for males, uh, they are 1.4 times more likely than the average student to commit a school shooting, mass school shooting.

00:07:35.860 Females are 0.1 times more likely, which means much less likely than the average person.

00:07:41.200 So credit to ladies, uh, females who identify as males are 18 times more likely to commit a mass school shooting. 0.99

00:07:52.000 And males who identify as females are, I think it's, uh, if I remember correctly, 54 or 58, 54, 58 times more likely.

00:08:02.580 So, you know, we're, we're seeing as I, I talked to, you know, we, we'd all gone home with this blind eye bike.

00:08:07.260 I'll tell you if I said 20 bucks, this is not a one.

00:08:11.520 Like it's, it's just, they did not take me up on the bat.

00:08:14.340 Uh, you know, uh, it would have been throw good money after that, but we knew.

00:08:18.800 And so we, we got our team on us.

00:08:21.200 We had Jared Yager in BC.

00:08:22.460 We dragooned, uh, some others from Calgary and Saskatchewan onto the story.

00:08:26.240 And we pretty quickly found from multiple sources that, uh, that we got the name of this person.

00:08:33.080 It goes by Jesse Strang.

00:08:35.300 Uh, the RCP today said it's Jesse Van Rootselaar.

00:08:39.520 Um, there's some confusion about is maybe using a maiden name of a mother or a father.

00:08:45.180 There's, there's, there's some confusion around the legality of it, but this person seems to go by Jesse Strang.

00:08:50.420 Um, we were able to get the name and we were able to, uh, confirm that, no, this was not a woman in address.

00:08:57.080 That was misinformation from the RCMP.

00:09:00.080 They deliberately obfuscated around this and they didn't mention the real sex of this person until asked about it at the press conference.

00:09:08.140 They didn't even proactively say it.

00:09:09.740 They really downplayed it.

00:09:11.200 But the media, like the CBC has a $1.4 billion budget, roughly.

00:09:15.780 They have helicopters.

00:09:16.820 They break their on the ground there first.

00:09:18.800 There was no curiosity.

00:09:21.000 Around finding this at all.

00:09:21.940 They should have beat us to the punch.

00:09:23.860 They're reporting it now that the RCP have said so 15 hours later.

00:09:27.780 Well, you know, you see, there's no curiosity.

00:09:29.820 I'll bet there actually was.

00:09:31.100 It's just that that particular organization is so deeply steeped in DEI.

00:09:36.060 And that comes from the top down.

00:09:37.920 Well, to be fair, CBC wasn't just the CBC.

00:09:40.040 It was CTV.

00:09:40.840 It was global.

00:09:41.440 It was post media.

00:09:42.560 All of them.

00:09:43.660 All of them.

00:09:44.700 I mean, remember that hassle I had a couple of years ago with the prayer breakfast?

00:09:48.200 That wasn't, that was global.

00:09:49.660 They all have this fixation about trans and this is the thing they care about. 0.95

00:09:55.620 And, you know, what's really going on is sort of secondary.

00:10:00.120 You know, first I heard was a woman in a dress. 1.00

00:10:03.360 And I thought, what is this sort of Oscar night for mass murderers?

00:10:07.220 And, of course, the first thing I thought of was exactly what you two came up with.

00:10:13.080 And congratulations on the story, by the way.

00:10:15.420 And so here we are, you know, if a favored category of humanity does something dastardly, you're supposed to go really easy on it.

00:10:28.220 Not, you know, don't make too much of it because it might mess things up for the rest, you know, the rest of the category.

00:10:34.960 That's outrageous.

00:10:35.660 But anyway, here we are.

00:10:37.720 Question's standard.

00:10:38.520 You got it.

00:10:41.080 Corey, what do you think, you know, the media, I mean, we can attribute agenda to them.

00:10:49.560 They could have gotten this before us.

00:10:52.580 I mean, like we were working with contacts in the area.

00:10:55.180 We were actually able to get some people working for us on the ground in Tublar Ridge.

00:11:01.500 You know, we've actually got some of our regular full-time reporters on the ground now there.

00:11:06.880 I think they've just arrived in the last couple of hours.

00:11:10.940 You know, but like CTV, Global, CBC, these guys have helicopters.

00:11:17.200 You know how much I want a helicopter?

00:11:18.900 If nothing else in the pure ego aggrandizement alone, let alone what we can do with it for work.

00:11:24.140 If we hadn't had a helicopter, we would have said someone there.

00:11:27.000 We did the best we could, and we're still probably amongst the first there.

00:11:30.840 But these guys seem to have put no effort into finding this out.

00:11:34.940 Legacy Media did not ask any questions about this.

00:11:37.420 This came from questions from independent media at the press conference.

00:11:40.720 Zero disclosure of it.

00:11:42.100 Why do you think it was that the RCMP was playing along with this?

00:11:47.060 Like, they arguably, I can't say for sure, but they arguably put people's lives at risk by being politically correct here.

00:11:52.440 When the warning that came out on the phone was a woman in a dress. 1.00

00:11:56.500 I don't know.

00:11:57.740 Most of these people, I don't mean to be disrespectful or, you know, I'm not trying to have a hot take here, but most of these people are not very convincing.

00:12:05.600 So, if I'm looking for a woman in a dress, this is not what I am seeing, at least in most of these cases.

00:12:12.260 I don't know what the person looks like.

00:12:13.200 We'll have to wait for video footage to come out.

00:12:15.060 That arguably put people's lives at risk.

00:12:18.740 And then later on, they're inventing terms like gun person.

00:12:22.100 They don't proactively disclose it.

00:12:24.100 We've been asking them for a day here nearly.

00:12:26.720 They're not telling us.

00:12:28.220 Why the hell would the RCMP go to such lengths to protect this person's mental illness delusions, even after they're dead?

00:12:41.180 Yeah, well, they're terrified.

00:12:44.460 They really are.

00:12:45.340 The media, the legacy media, the RCMP, they're terrified.

00:12:48.520 They're terrified of being labeled anything but what the woke standard is, even when relaying outright facts upon things.

00:12:55.800 And that's what's happened with, you know, decades of DEI hires, people getting into senior bureaucratic positions within police forces, you know, the communications positions, people getting into those positions in legacy media.

00:13:08.620 We've seen some pretty senior legacy media members canceled over what, stepping over the wrong line.

00:13:15.100 Look at Wendy Messley from the CBC.

00:13:16.880 I mean, you'd think somebody as established as her would be cancel proof. 0.99

00:13:20.240 She was ruined.

00:13:21.140 So there's a culture of terror where they would set aside facts rather than take a chance on accurately reporting on something if it involves anything in those hot button areas, particularly trans.

00:13:33.440 And as you said, when it was breaking, that's when facts have to matter.

00:13:38.280 We saw that not too long ago with a sex offender in Edmonton who'd been released.

00:13:42.620 And the Edmonton Police Service issued a warning saying this person's a high risk to re-offend.

00:13:46.800 And this, this woman is a high risk to re-offend and it had a woman's name and unless you clicked on the article and you opened it up and saw the man there with five o'clock shadow, who was a repeat sex offender, you would actually be looking for a woman.

00:13:59.940 Well, you're not making anybody safer by lying to them and saying otherwise.

00:14:04.180 But again, they feel that if a person identifies as such, as contrary to reality as that may be, we must refer to them as such.

00:14:12.120 And it's doing a disservice to everybody.

00:14:16.440 As you said, too, when you pointed out the statistics, I mean, it's, it's a microscopic, thankfully, amount of people who decide to take up a gun and start shooting others.

00:14:25.880 But we want to look for precursors and what may make somebody a little more likely than others to be, you know, have that inclination, inclination.

00:14:33.960 And clearly there's, there's some mental instability with trans males to a degree that makes them more inclined, which again, still puts them perhaps at one in a thousand versus one in 55,000 for everybody else. 0.82

00:14:45.680 But if we're going to actually think about trying to prevent these things, then we have to look at things without political correctness, with an unvarnished view and see what the heck led up to this.

00:14:56.680 And as long as legacy media and the police are going to wrap themselves around hiding facts through political correctness, we aren't going to get real answers.

00:15:04.540 Nigel, I guess that's why we should ban hunting rifles, right?

00:15:07.260 Yeah, or shotguns.

00:15:08.560 This is a shotgun, yeah.

00:15:09.700 They said long gun.

00:15:10.940 It's unclear.

00:15:11.820 Well, it's unclear.

00:15:12.700 It was a hunting rifle or a hunting shotgun.

00:15:14.840 Hard to say.

00:15:15.300 Hard to say.

00:15:15.900 Yeah, that would make a difference.

00:15:18.480 Look, to your point, Corey, about how these things, why these things happen.

00:15:23.380 Earlier this morning, I was chatting with somebody I worked with in Ottawa all those years ago, and we were talking about the DEI culture in the Canadian Armed Forces.

00:15:35.360 And I was hoping that maybe there would be a change of heart within the Armed Forces.

00:15:40.100 Now that Mr. Carney has made it very clear that he cares about military matters.

00:15:45.900 I mean, Mr. Trudeau did not, said he didn't.

00:15:48.960 Mr. Carney's message is that he does.

00:15:51.700 So what about the warrior culture?

00:15:53.660 Are we going to get that back?

00:15:55.480 And my friend, who you can see on the Hannaford show tomorrow night, said, look, this stuff is at the top.

00:16:04.080 It comes down from cabinet.

00:16:06.020 It goes into the senior levels of the bureaucracy that looks after the military.

00:16:10.860 And by the way, bureaucracy is the work.

00:16:13.600 I look after the RCMP as well.

00:16:15.400 And they are committed to it.

00:16:17.460 They didn't get the top job by saying that they disagreed with this stuff, so they own it and they will see that it is enforced.

00:16:24.340 That's why the RCMP won't come right out and say, what every one of us now knows, a troubled young man.

00:16:31.500 And by the way, I have all kinds of sympathy for people who have to deal with this particular persuasion.

00:16:41.660 But that's why they won't come right out and say, look, we had somebody who went off the deep end here, terribly sorry, that was a young man, he wanted to be a woman, and he went out and shot people.

00:16:56.400 There's the story.

00:16:57.620 Now, I want to know, obviously mentally challenged or mentally disturbed, RCMP said they'd been to his house many times, including on firearm complaints.

00:17:07.700 They've seized the firearms.

00:17:08.260 They've seized firearms before.

00:17:10.240 They've taken him away and locked him up under the BC Mental Health Act.

00:17:15.520 Obviously, they knew he was problematic.

00:17:19.080 So how did Jesse get his guns?

00:17:23.800 You know, I'm sure that's going to be part of the investigation.

00:17:27.320 He apparently had a license, but it expired in 2024.

00:17:31.340 So here we have a young, mentally disturbed man able to get guns. 0.59

00:17:35.840 Yeah.

00:17:36.540 And you know that the government is going to draw.

00:17:38.360 Well, the only obvious conclusion is that firearms should all be confiscated.

00:17:43.640 Every time.

00:17:45.200 The flags are already hauled down to half-mast in Ottawa.

00:17:48.860 And like I said, I feel sorry for the people involved here, but this is not really our thing, our problem.

00:17:56.120 Somebody's got to get a hold of this.

00:17:58.460 The rest of the world goes on.

00:18:00.760 I want to talk about some of the reactions here.

00:18:03.520 For the most part, at least that I've seen, official reactions, you know, politicians, etc.

00:18:08.160 have been kind of thoughts and prayers, stock stuff, you know, liberals, conservatives, EB, everybody.

00:18:14.720 What you would expect.

00:18:17.800 Let's go through some of the hot takes.

00:18:19.720 Let's go through Corey's favorite here, Rachel Gilmore.

00:18:25.780 That's always a fun one to pick on.

00:18:28.100 She says, you effing ghouls out here layering hate onto tragedy for your own disgusting political purposes.

00:18:34.280 The shooter's gender identity does not effing matter.

00:18:37.300 It only matters to sick Fs trying to exploit a mass strategy to drive an agenda out of hate that will kill more kids.

00:18:44.380 Monsters, all of you.

00:18:47.780 Clearly, Rachel would never, you know, just group together white straight men as a group to make a political point. 0.97

00:18:56.460 No.

00:18:57.420 I mean, she misses the point here entirely.

00:19:00.060 No, like, trans people as a group are not responsible for this at all.

00:19:04.620 There's one person responsible for it, and that's Jesse Strang or Van Resseler, depending which name this person's going by.

00:19:12.800 That person's responsible.

00:19:13.820 But it is clearly statistically significant when males, biological males who identify as females, are 54, 58 times more likely to do this kind of thing than the average student.

00:19:27.300 It's clearly statistically relevant.

00:19:29.640 So, but, you know, of course, everybody says don't make a political point.

00:19:32.140 These things are kind of inherently political.

00:19:34.080 It's inevitable they're going to get politicized to some degree.

00:19:37.960 I, I, and both sides are going to do it.

00:19:40.320 So, I mean, it's impossible to not happen.

00:19:42.480 So I would just say that we should operate with trying to understand the other side.

00:19:47.520 At least the truth, understand them, operate within some facts, and not be hypocrites about it.

00:19:53.580 My favorite, though, comes from this guy.

00:19:56.360 John, let's put it up on the screen.

00:19:58.080 You remember this guy, Mark Slapansky.

00:20:03.280 This guy, I just said, let's be respectful, but I can't help it on this one.

00:20:06.720 This guy's a douchebag.

00:20:09.160 He kind of fashions himself as the most influential conservative guy online in Canada.

00:20:13.260 I hardly ever seen this guy.

00:20:15.680 I have no idea who he is.

00:20:16.360 Hey, who is this?

00:20:17.300 Mark Slapansky.

00:20:18.820 Okay.

00:20:19.020 And he, he fashions himself a conservative, but I think he has the dumbest.

00:20:22.860 I think, Mark, you beat Rachel Gilmore for dumbest take.

00:20:27.180 You beat Rachel Gilmore for dumbest take on this. 1.00

00:20:30.080 Do you know how, what kind of an achievement that is?

00:20:32.460 He says, let's put it on the screen.

00:20:34.580 If the shooter of today's mass shooting in Canada turns out to be trans, I blame Maple Mega. 1.00

00:20:40.780 These people have promoted hatred against this tiny minority of people, pushing them to their breaking point.

00:20:44.760 Okay, so he's correct that trans people more broadly are not responsible for the actions of this one trans shooter.

00:20:51.380 But who is responsible is right-wing populist conservatives.

00:20:55.220 They're responsible for the actions of this madman.

00:21:02.000 It's the internet.

00:21:03.220 People are gonna say dumb things.

00:21:06.100 But like, I don't know, just let's all do ourselves a favor and just take five minutes before we hit send on things at this time, you know?

00:21:14.160 Yeah, really.

00:21:14.760 Yeah, that's, I'm afraid that, do you think, do you think anybody would read Ms. Gilmore if she didn't utter profanities?

00:21:25.960 Because when you take the F-words out of it, there's not really much there.

00:21:29.160 Well, fuck you.

00:21:30.240 Yeah.

00:21:31.660 I mean, okay, I mean, well, okay, when you're upset, sometimes you drop an F-bomb.

00:21:36.060 I mean, she has three in one tweet.

00:21:37.740 But it's, it's a lot of fucking fucks.

00:21:42.740 Category of people like her, uh, Nora Loretto is another one. 0.93

00:21:47.260 She was dancing on the grave of the Humboldt, uh, hockey players when they, they got killed.

00:21:52.000 Uh, and that Slipansky guy or, or whatever.

00:21:54.660 They, well, with Nora and that Slipansky guy, I think they do it purposely to get clicks. 0.92

00:22:00.420 I think Rachel's actually kind of just special, but she doesn't learn. 0.90

00:22:04.100 She's incapable of learning. 0.98

00:22:05.100 She doesn't seem to care what the pushback she gets.

00:22:07.280 And she inflames things and actually causes the problem she says she's trying to prevent. 1.00

00:22:11.800 Uh, and we might, you know, might as well.

00:22:14.560 I mean, it was like a month or two ago when she falsely accused me of driving a trans person to suicide.

00:22:19.500 Turned out never actually happened.

00:22:21.280 Of course, there was no retraction apology or anything of that sort out of her.

00:22:24.540 But she did use that term to call me a monster.

00:22:26.940 Uh, I may be a monster overeating that Kit Kat bar like I did the other day, but she's got no principles, no guile. 0.98

00:22:33.780 And we have to remember in this modern world though, between those three accounts, there are a couple hundred thousand followers.

00:22:39.340 So they do have an influence and an impact.

00:22:41.440 And that's frustrating.

00:22:42.880 People say we should ignore them.

00:22:44.180 I wish we could, but when they spread stuff like that to such a large audience, we do have to pay attention to them.

00:22:49.960 If only to just remind people not to listen to them.

00:22:53.880 Yeah.

00:22:54.800 Um, and you are a monster, Corey.

00:22:57.420 Why would you eat a Kit Kat that way?

00:23:00.060 It just called out to me.

00:23:01.420 Um, I'm seeing a therapist for that.

00:23:03.980 Jeffrey Epstein is a monster.

00:23:05.140 Check his, uh, check his Facebook feed for it.

00:23:07.700 Uh, okay, well, let's turn a bit more towards what's inevitably coming here.

00:23:12.440 Uh, you're already seeing it from some of the usual suspects online, but we're going to see it real soon.

00:23:19.080 Um, you know, never let a good crisis go to waste.

00:23:23.480 And this is going to be used not to, uh, reassess, hey, perhaps we should not, as official government policy, require that people buy into the, you know, gender dysphoria delusions of mentally unwell people who need our help.

00:23:41.740 Uh, instead, they're going to take the lesson, well, now we need to ban more guns. 1.00

00:23:46.380 Now, we, it's not yet totally sure what guns were, were used here.

00:23:51.280 Uh, some are saying a shotgun.

00:23:53.500 I mean, and that would be odd weapon of choice, uh, for this, but okay.

00:23:58.580 Um, perhaps a rifle.

00:24:01.080 All they've said is long gun from the RCMP.

00:24:03.040 We're, we're hearing a modified handgun.

00:24:04.880 A modified handgun.

00:24:05.800 Again, I'm not sure what that means.

00:24:07.480 So, uh, so it's, it's, it's unknown.

00:24:10.640 Um, but what we do know is, uh, you know, every shooting in the past has been used to try to, um, seize the guns of lawful gun owners.

00:24:23.040 Polytechnic was, uh, used for it with the gun, uh, long gun registry.

00:24:26.860 Um, the, uh, Dartmouth, Vancouver area mass shooting was used.

00:24:33.080 Banning guns the guy did not use, and every one of the guns that guy used were illegally brought into Canada from the United States.

00:24:40.280 Probably with the wink, wink, nudge, nudge of the RCMP, because that was a, there's a lot of dirty pool on what went on there that has been totally swept under the rug.

00:24:49.680 Um, here, uh, we don't know enough of the circumstances of the guns themselves, but there's been pictures of what is alleged to be the gun locker.

00:24:57.100 All pretty basic stuff.

00:24:59.240 Nothing, nothing I'd show my, show off to my buddies if I'm showing them my gun locker.

00:25:04.680 Um, they're going to use this.

00:25:08.020 It's, it's, it's their playbook.

00:25:09.100 They're going to use this not to have a serious discussion.

00:25:11.620 Like, I'm not proposing to ban trans people.

00:25:13.660 That's a stupid idea.

00:25:15.060 That doesn't fix anything.

00:25:16.260 Like, we should be, have a realistic discussion about it.

00:25:18.440 We should not ban psychologists from having them ask real questions of their patients.

00:25:24.100 Like, are you sure you're really a woman?

00:25:28.120 Um, that's what I'm proposing there.

00:25:30.160 But they're going to take it completely on the opposite side.

00:25:32.720 Dave, they're going to, uh, they're going to use this to come after guns again.

00:25:36.620 Oh, any excuse, any excuse for gun grab, Gary, and I'm not even going to try and say his last name, but any excuse that they can use to, uh, take guns, they will, you know, and that's, that's the bottom line.

00:25:49.800 Uh, so, uh, yeah, I would think in a couple of weeks, they'll be announcing some sort of new crackdown.

00:25:54.520 Yeah, well, I mean, the, the, the, the line you always use on the conservative side, you know, where are you, who are you going after, uh, gangs with illegal weapons or law-abiding duck hunters with their shotguns?

00:26:07.520 Well, you know, if it turns out to be a shotgun, there goes that, I mean, that used to be a pretty easy throwaway line, and now, well, you've got to go back and say, look, it's not the gun, it's the guy who pulled the trigger you brought to, and that's what you're going to say.

00:26:21.760 Yeah, I mean, some, I mean, in this case, gosh, how many times did they go to the house?

00:26:26.280 Yeah, several times.

00:26:27.420 Okay, there's a failure of law enforcement here.

00:26:29.360 How much of it, like, again, we don't know enough on this side yet, and we're not going to do as the entire legacy media and CBC, they do and say, well, we're just going, we have to wait until the RCMP tells us what is the story.

00:26:41.560 After Vancouver, sorry, after Halifax, uh, I think that RCMP has lost all credibility on being a reliable source in reporting on these kinds of things.

00:26:49.560 Uh, and that's the real danger of when the ideology takes over from the top and makes, you know, these guys aren't stupid and they're decent, they're decent people, but they makes them afraid to do the job the way the job needs to be done.

00:27:04.360 Now, that's where, that's where we're losing in this country.

00:27:06.780 If you remember, it was just, uh, what was it, just a few months ago, uh, the RCMP said, uh, I'm paraphrasing here, but the RCMP said, um, you know, uh, signs that your, uh, someone you know might be getting radicalized is, uh, they, uh, maybe they believed in gender equality and they don't anymore.

00:27:22.820 And maybe they all of a sudden believe in traditional family values.

00:27:26.280 Yes.

00:27:26.500 They are the people who are at risk of committing acts of terror and mass murder.

00:27:31.560 Not people with a rap sheet who, uh, have regular police visits to their house, uh, clear mental health issues, firearms violations.

00:27:41.020 Uh, still confirming this, but it appears to be a pretty long track record online of dreaming of violent acts.

00:27:50.020 Uh, when you're talking about a senior official, Derek, it shouldn't be an act of courage to identify somebody who has just shot umpteen people as a gun man, you should, rather than as a gun person.

00:28:07.700 It shouldn't be an act of courage to say.

00:28:09.680 To say a gunman in a dress.

00:28:11.280 That would have been perfectly fine.

00:28:13.260 And you're not necessarily trying to be insensitive.

00:28:16.380 You know, you're not being like, oh, we're politically incorrect.

00:28:18.420 We're based.

00:28:18.900 No, it's a gunman in a dress.

00:28:21.280 Yeah.

00:28:21.540 Look, I've been covering school shootings for four decades now.

00:28:25.280 Uh, first one that comes to mind is Tabor.

00:28:27.500 Little Tabor, a lot of bird at a school shooting.

00:28:30.000 Uh, Justin Lang was the kid's name.

00:28:32.140 Uh, he was shot to death in the school hallway from Columbine.

00:28:37.320 Uh, that was sort of the big, the big first one.

00:28:39.920 And now they're, they're a weekly occurrence in the United States.

00:28:42.840 We never think that they're going to happen here.

00:28:44.900 But in every single case, it goes back to the mental health of the shooter and the mental health of the young people involved.

00:28:53.240 And there's usually some signs of it.

00:28:55.820 And, uh, whether it's parents not picking it up or classmates not picking it up, teachers not picking it up, police not picking it up.

00:29:02.840 Uh, no one picks it up until it's too late.

00:29:05.600 Is it that they don't pick it up or that they're frightened to death of being labeled a racist, a misogynist, all the other nasty words?

00:29:13.520 Could be it, could be it, could be it.

00:29:14.480 Yeah, could be it.

00:29:15.320 Tell me he's got a problem.

00:29:16.260 Yep.

00:29:16.700 Could be that, you know, I mean, it's, uh, some of the stuff that we found that we haven't confirmed is his yet is very, very disturbing and obvious cries for help.

00:29:29.080 And the kid was locked away for goodness sake.

00:29:31.960 And he was, he was let out and he still had guns.

00:29:35.560 Right.

00:29:35.760 I mean, it's, it's whether you're trans or not or whatever, it all goes back to mental health and it goes back to the disgraceful lack of funding that all levels of government have put into mental health, uh, since, uh, uh, since I was born.

00:29:51.380 Yeah.

00:29:51.600 And the willingness to do something about it when you identify it.

00:29:54.420 Yeah.

00:29:54.840 Yeah.

00:29:55.480 That's along with the money, that's a problem.

00:29:58.300 All of these people, even the guy who, uh, allegedly shot Charlie Kirk known to authorities, mental health issues.

00:30:06.360 Again, some alignment.

00:30:07.980 He had a trans boyfriend who identified as a girl, I guess.

00:30:11.220 So he thought that made him straight.

00:30:12.440 Uh, and, uh, hard to keep straight now.

00:30:15.040 Unintended.

00:30:15.520 But, uh, there's so many common threads.

00:30:18.900 It's always, these people are known to authorities and I don't weigh too hard on authorities because, you know, just because someone's on your notice list doesn't mean we could just walk you up in case you might be a mass casualty shooter.

00:30:31.820 That's also not a reasonable way to deal with this.

00:30:34.660 But what we're doing is clearly not working.

00:30:37.540 Uh, you know, when you used to, you know, take your crazy aunt Martha and just drop her off at, uh, Panoka, those days are over.

00:30:44.840 You can't just commit someone easily, but maybe we're not committing people easily enough at this point.

00:30:50.140 Maybe, like, there's dangerous, disturbed people out there that we're not getting off the street.

00:30:56.440 Uh, I'm not sure what the balance is to strike, to, to, to minimize abuse of that system the way, you know, it used to be.

00:31:02.400 But, uh, this is clearly not working.

00:31:04.720 There's crazy people known to authorities that we allow to have guns.

00:31:09.000 We've got to take our guns away.

00:31:10.460 But they're allowed to have guns.

00:31:12.060 This is clearly madness.

00:31:13.440 They probably have cars as well.

00:31:15.040 So, if you take the guns away, there's always a, you know, a drive into a crowd or something.

00:31:19.500 I can do the old-fashioned London mass stabbing.

00:31:21.500 Yeah.

00:31:21.680 You know.

00:31:23.060 Okay.

00:31:25.240 Uh, there's so much more that we can sit on that, but I, I already spent an hour ranting about it this morning.

00:31:29.620 I was ranting about it to my wife.

00:31:31.220 I was actually thinking that after the hour, you just, how bad, though?

00:31:34.660 Oh, I, I, I am, I actually got the worst of it out of my system.

00:31:37.680 I, uh, I, that's why I'm being a little forgiving of Rachel Gilmore's F-bombs. 0.99

00:31:40.800 I think I dropped a couple this morning.

00:31:42.760 So.

00:31:43.280 Oh, okay.

00:31:44.280 Oh.

00:31:45.040 Nothing like a guilty conscience to keep you straight.

00:31:46.920 Yeah.

00:31:47.540 Yeah.

00:31:47.960 Okay.

00:31:48.840 Um.

00:31:49.300 Kind of.

00:31:49.560 Uh, all right.

00:31:52.620 Uh, so.

00:31:54.520 Hear about Mr. Harper?

00:31:55.500 Yeah.

00:31:55.960 20 years.

00:31:56.880 Uh, I, I remember I was a young university student when it happened, uh, actually going to, going to university in Ottawa.

00:32:02.560 So it was, it was a big to do.

00:32:04.600 Uh, but you know, yeah, you were his chief speech writer for many of those years involved at kind of in the heart of the government.

00:32:10.080 And you were in Ottawa for the celebrations of the 20th anniversary.

00:32:13.640 And what celebrations they were.

00:32:15.140 Uh, this was the week of, um, Harper and the media suddenly discovered the man that they, uh, derided, mocked, and unappreciated when he was actually in power to do something about it.

00:32:25.260 Uh, so, uh, it started off with the, uh, unveiling of the official portrait, which is, uh, you know, it's a very, it's a very nice bit of work.

00:32:32.780 And, uh, there's been lots of, but Harper obviously made a speech of that.

00:32:37.780 And he took the opportunity to, to, uh, point out that the preservation of Conater's existence must be our highest objective.

00:32:47.800 Uh, he was totally sincere about that.

00:32:50.300 And I'm looking back on those years that Harper was always, um, a hundred percent Canadian patriot.

00:32:57.380 Uh, so he came through and then I guess now the media likes to hear that.

00:33:01.980 So he, he obliged in space.

00:33:04.800 Uh, then the second thing was the, the, the party that was, uh, everybody.

00:33:10.900 It started off as a very small thing.

00:33:13.260 They were just going to get a few people together who were in on it.

00:33:16.360 And I bought my ticket like four or five months ago.

00:33:19.800 And, uh, well, actually, if you still want a ticket, you can get one.

00:33:23.080 If, well, it's going to be 500 people there now.

00:33:25.520 Then it was 800.

00:33:27.000 Then it was a thousand.

00:33:27.860 In the end, there were 1200 people packed into the Rogers center there.

00:33:31.500 And, and, uh, it was a whooping and hollering and a happy time for, for conservatives generally.

00:33:36.860 And, uh, you know, Harper made a very interesting speech that I had nothing to do with it. 1.00

00:33:43.580 By the way, he had, he wrote a very, it was good speech in the sense that he criticized

00:33:48.620 the liberal government, not by saying they have done anything particularly wrong, but pointing

00:33:55.060 to what the conservative government did right in the 10 years that it had power and just

00:34:01.380 having, you know, something like, uh, well, crime, crime in our time fell down to 30% of

00:34:09.300 what it was when we took office.

00:34:11.280 And then people who are very aware of crime around them, they're saying, well, wouldn't

00:34:15.280 buy the bit of that.

00:34:16.680 We lowered taxes.

00:34:18.200 Sheepers.

00:34:19.240 Imagine the government lowering taxes.

00:34:21.400 And as he went through the list of the, uh, of our accomplishments there, I'm going to

00:34:26.100 own it, uh, along with 1200 other people, you know, you couldn't help, but say, well,

00:34:33.880 actually that was a pretty good government.

00:34:35.420 And he never had to say, and it was followed by a really lousy government.

00:34:40.520 It was just obvious.

00:34:43.020 So, uh, and then finally there was, uh, I'll let you get in here.

00:34:47.000 Like one more thing that was great about that, uh, whole week, but, uh, all right.

00:34:52.460 I don't keep going on the, finally, uh, the archives, okay.

00:34:57.740 How, how boring are archives?

00:34:59.480 But there's an event at the, at the archives.

00:35:02.160 You lost every one of the word archives.

00:35:03.920 Yeah.

00:35:04.280 390 Wellington street.

00:35:05.920 And they had something like 6,000 boxes of paper records.

00:35:12.160 In addition to the electronic file, which was, you know, four gigabytes than we'll use

00:35:18.800 in 10 years.

00:35:19.460 If that government was meticulous in writing down everything that it did, even small purchases,

00:35:28.520 small decisions were reported as a consequence.

00:35:32.880 Um, Harper's record in government is going to be one of taking government seriously, that

00:35:41.740 if you do it, it matters and you keep a record of it and it helps you.

00:35:47.340 It helps, it's a model of managing a large organization and he was a manager.

00:35:53.940 I'm going to have to take a little exception with that last part.

00:35:56.760 Um, 2006, I was a wee intern working on Parliament Hill.

00:36:01.140 We brought the interns in to the prime minister's office.

00:36:04.260 We're all in awe of this building, the Langevin block.

00:36:07.400 And I, I forget who it was, I wouldn't say their name if it was, it's kind of, but kind

00:36:11.300 of chat a mouse rules on this thing.

00:36:12.740 The first thing we were taught, the very first day was, if you don't want to see it on the

00:36:16.160 front of the global mail, don't write it down.

00:36:17.900 It was the first lesson on the first day.

00:36:20.540 And I'm sure you were taught that.

00:36:21.820 We were actually right about that.

00:36:23.160 And that was part of the narrative.

00:36:24.700 I didn't want to get too lost in the weeds with it.

00:36:27.000 But there was a time about 18 months into the, uh, into the administration or the ministry,

00:36:33.820 as we should properly say in Canada, uh, where this isn't working guys.

00:36:39.600 And there was a change in, uh, chief of staff.

00:36:42.480 And after that, the situation that I described came in, so you're, you're, you're, you're,

00:36:47.360 you're actually right on that.

00:36:49.040 Okay.

00:36:50.040 So, um, I mean, uh, the reputations of leaders very often, probably most of the time, improves

00:36:57.920 and softens with time.

00:36:59.240 Uh, Brian Mulroney is a pretty big example of that, utterly despised and almost universally

00:37:05.760 hated by everyone, but his caucus, at least when his prime ministership came to an enemy

00:37:10.460 left office with a lot of hindsight, uh, people have a much kinder view of him.

00:37:16.780 Uh, I'm not sure I'm one of them.

00:37:19.800 I, I, I think he screwed the West and the party got what it deserved for it, but I, I

00:37:25.440 can at least appreciate the statesmanship of the man and, and he tried to do big things,

00:37:29.360 even if he failed.

00:37:30.700 And I don't necessarily even agree with the big things he was trying to do.

00:37:33.060 Oh, that was a big thing.

00:37:34.320 That was, oh, yes.

00:37:35.400 Made a lot of people.

00:37:36.600 Yeah.

00:37:36.940 That one was pretty universally considered.

00:37:38.360 And the GSD was hated for, uh, within two years, everyone accepted it and it's kind

00:37:41.880 of baked in.

00:37:42.580 Okay.

00:37:43.560 Um, I'm trying to think about how I think of Harvard.

00:37:46.860 I think I was more kind towards Harper as prime minister, as he was prime minister than

00:37:53.160 I think I am now.

00:37:54.560 Not because he did something necessarily wrong.

00:37:58.020 I mean, he did some things wrong, but he, you know, he got a lot of big things right.

00:38:01.360 But Corey, uh, my, my view of the Harper government, I think has gotten a bit worse with time because

00:38:09.000 it, it was always, it seemed to be focused on short-term incrementalism being the term

00:38:15.480 of the time, incrementalism gains, all of which, or nearly all of which were completely

00:38:21.960 undone in the first six months after, uh, Trudeau defeated the conservatives to form

00:38:26.520 government, become prime minister, because the, the Harper government didn't seem to focus

00:38:30.200 on, for lack of a better term, the meta-politics changing the overall political culture, dismantling

00:38:36.500 leftist institutions, you know, going into the universities, cleaning out the rot, putting

00:38:41.940 our people in, going into the CBC, firing the top five levels of management, putting

00:38:47.520 our people in.

00:38:48.740 These institutions all stayed effectively the same at the end of, uh, a decade of conservative

00:38:55.360 rule.

00:38:55.920 And so when that rule inevitably came to an end at some point, it was completely washed

00:39:01.020 away.

00:39:01.300 So my, I think my view of the time of the Harper government, however well-intentioned

00:39:05.940 it was, I think it's gotten worse over time.

00:39:09.300 Uh, I don't know.

00:39:10.160 Am I just being crotchety-er and more cynical than even you, or I don't know?

00:39:14.140 Well, maybe a little.

00:39:15.200 And I, I think part of it, maybe the Harper administration had some optimism.

00:39:18.980 I mean, they didn't have a crystal ball to realize, uh, after they're finished, it would

00:39:23.680 be 11 possible, who knows if we're ever going to get another conservative government back in

00:39:29.120 again, I mean, it's been over a decade and, uh, uh, you know, we got the most woke and,

00:39:33.220 uh, you know, terrible of leaders to follow up with them.

00:39:36.500 If they'd have known that and had a crystal ball, it would have been more like, well, let's

00:39:39.760 get in and get everything done while we can before, uh, we get thrown out so that, uh,

00:39:44.920 it is more difficult for them to pull that loose.

00:39:46.700 But they thought incrementalism will, will get them there.

00:39:50.260 And they just didn't have the time to follow through long enough to, to make those changes

00:39:53.940 a little, uh, more entrenched.

00:39:55.680 I mean, part of it was too, I remember, you know, the lost elections and things like that.

00:40:00.740 It was that incremental drift towards the left, what brought them within electoral viability

00:40:05.720 within central Canada.

00:40:06.860 Those are the factors that lead me into being the independent supporter I am.

00:40:11.180 The futility of trying to get responsible government in this country and, uh, the efforts

00:40:15.840 that the Harper government had to do to get there and then couldn't follow through once

00:40:19.640 they got there.

00:40:20.300 So I, I don't fully fault them for it, but when you look at it with hindsight, and I'm

00:40:25.060 pretty sure, you know, uh, Mr. Harper, if he'd known he was only going to get that one

00:40:29.560 shot, probably would have thrown in some bigger changes before he left, but, uh, they were

00:40:32.880 hoping for more.

00:40:34.120 Yeah.

00:40:34.560 I think this is the problem with every politician.

00:40:37.020 They kind of assume for the most part that they're never going to lose, that they're,

00:40:42.020 that's why no one actually knows really when to, Radwall is maybe one rare, rare example

00:40:46.500 of knowing when to leave, like, you know, you're leave on a high note.

00:40:49.180 No, no one does the George Costanza and leaves while everyone's applauding and laughing.

00:40:53.060 Everyone, everyone waits too late.

00:40:54.220 It's, it's almost universal, but they seem to, everyone seems to, and I remember the

00:40:59.740 attitude in that government.

00:41:00.560 It was, uh, Justin Trudeau is a joke.

00:41:02.800 Of course we all thought he's a joke, but they thought we're never going to lose.

00:41:06.700 We're going to govern forever.

00:41:07.720 So we'll just continue the small, slow incrementalism.

00:41:11.720 And we'll, and we'll just continue that for all time.

00:41:13.220 We're the, we're the new, the, the feeling was we are the new natural governing party of

00:41:17.040 Canada.

00:41:18.520 Well, you know, there's a certain amount of truth to that.

00:41:20.860 And, uh, let's face it in 2015 and for the 10 years that followed, Mr. Trudeau actually

00:41:28.960 was a joke.

00:41:30.180 It's not that we underestimated or misestimated him.

00:41:33.220 It's just that we underestimated the willingness of Eastern Canada to vote for a joke.

00:41:38.800 To your point about the incrementalism, though, I also have to say there were limits to what

00:41:42.860 could be done in a minority.

00:41:44.360 Uh, you know, the kind of slash and burn that you're talking about there, we all wanted to

00:41:49.260 do it, but you had a minority government.

00:41:51.680 But then they got majority.

00:41:53.460 Well, there I'm with you.

00:41:54.960 I, I, I'd bit my tongue for years voting for them when they had a majority say, just

00:41:58.920 wait till we get our majority.

00:42:00.080 They got the majority.

00:42:01.140 Then not much changed with the majority.

00:42:03.520 I just, I felt like they just wasted it.

00:42:05.520 Well, here's, if I'm, if I may indulge a very brief anecdote, maybe at the expense of

00:42:09.340 my parting shot, I had a conversation with Mr. Harper in 2001 when he was,

00:42:14.360 contemplating going to the, you're going for the leadership of the new entity, the

00:42:18.220 Reform Canadian Alliance.

00:42:20.000 And I said, why would you do that?

00:42:21.200 You're in the National Citizens Coalition, you've done a great job.

00:42:24.060 Everybody respects you, listens to what you say.

00:42:26.260 He says, I want to beat this country and I want to see if good government is possible.

00:42:31.840 And I would put it to you both that he demonstrated between 2006 and 2015 that good

00:42:39.280 government was possible.

00:42:40.720 Lowering taxes, stimulating industry, fighting crime, all those things.

00:42:45.300 The Northern, this was good government and it just wasn't exciting enough for the Canadian

00:42:50.720 people.

00:42:51.420 And then we lost.

00:42:52.640 Okay.

00:42:53.260 I don't think we'd be having the tariff troubles that we're having now if Harper was still in

00:42:57.840 power.

00:42:57.980 I don't think there'd be two major independence movements pulling this country in three

00:43:02.860 different directions right now.

00:43:04.140 That, that, that much I could say with relative certainty.

00:43:07.180 Okay.

00:43:08.400 Um, so we'll put a plug in the main ones. 0.53

00:43:11.940 We'll do our, our parting shots.

00:43:13.920 Uh, Dave, you actually didn't get in on the last segment.

00:43:16.080 So you get the first parting shot.

00:43:17.820 Got to give a shout out to the world's best football team, Seattle Seahawks.

00:43:22.220 A massive crushing victory over the New England Patriots on Sunday.

00:43:26.980 And, uh, the building of a, uh, potential dynasty there.

00:43:30.940 That game sucked.

00:43:33.060 They, the right team won.

00:43:34.100 So all that matters.

00:43:35.040 I didn't really have a dog in the fight.

00:43:37.160 I, I, I technically rooted for them because I had to pick someone and I was like, yeah,

00:43:40.800 it's popular.

00:43:41.340 I hate the Patriots.

00:43:42.000 I hate the Patriots.

00:43:43.240 But what a, just a bad game.

00:43:45.120 That's defense. 0.73

00:43:46.320 Stifling defense.

00:43:47.620 It was like World War I and everyone just sat in a trench.

00:43:50.100 No one scored any goals on the other side.

00:43:52.180 It was just like, it was the battle of Verdun.

00:43:54.200 Defense wins.

00:43:54.720 Terrible.

00:43:55.380 Defense wins championship.

00:43:56.700 Terrible game.

00:43:58.240 Okay.

00:43:58.920 Uh, Corey.

00:44:00.460 Uh, just to rub it in a little more and reiterate the direct democracy legislation is working

00:44:05.420 as reported in the Western Standard.

00:44:07.660 The petition to end funding for private schools in Alberta failed dismally.

00:44:11.840 Another union initiative abusing the system.

00:44:15.080 Petitions that have general popular support will get through, but the union led whimsical

00:44:20.140 crap is falling by the wayside.

00:44:21.460 Just reminding them this, uh, the legislation is good.

00:44:24.280 I actually am kind of coming to like these guys abusing the system because they get failures.

00:44:30.320 Like when they tried to recall half the UCP caucus, every single one failed.

00:44:34.620 And so we get to just celebrate their failures.

00:44:37.540 So go ahead and keep abusing the system, guys.

00:44:40.500 It's, it's, yeah, it costs a little bit of money from the taxpayer, but it's worth the lulls.

00:44:45.720 Yeah.

00:44:46.540 Uh, Nigel.

00:44:47.160 So, you know, I'm really puzzled as to why Jason Kenney would insert himself into the debate

00:44:52.820 over whether Bad Bunny was a good halftime show in the, like, I mean, whatever you think

00:44:59.400 about whether it was or it wasn't, what's the upside for Mr. Kenney to, uh, to get involved

00:45:04.760 at all.

00:45:05.340 So, and if he feels that there is an upside, why on God's green earth would he ever say

00:45:10.400 something like that?

00:45:11.280 This was the best ever.

00:45:12.580 If you go to the English translation of that, it, it's not the best ever.

00:45:16.620 It's not even close.

00:45:18.180 Yeah.

00:45:18.440 I, I'm not going to pile into the culture war or anything on it.

00:45:21.400 Like I thought it was stupid, but I think that the last few are stupid because they're

00:45:25.340 not actually concerts.

00:45:26.180 They're kind of live action music videos at this point.

00:45:28.660 It's meant for right close up, uh, faces, uh, on, on the camera.

00:45:32.680 It's not really, uh, if I, if I had paid for a Superbowl ticket, I'd be upset because

00:45:36.940 I don't, I'd be an American and they're not speaking America's main language.

00:45:40.960 Uh, okay, whatever.

00:45:42.800 It's, but it's the best.

00:45:44.820 No one besides Bad Bunny thought it was the best.

00:45:47.660 Well, actually, if you read the translation, Rachel Gilmore would probably agree with you.

00:45:53.420 You'd agree with me?

00:45:54.860 That, that it was, uh, the, oh, sorry, with Kenny.

00:45:57.420 That, that it was the best.

00:45:59.140 It's full of expletives.

00:46:00.280 Yeah.

00:46:00.720 Yeah.

00:46:01.180 Yeah.

00:46:01.440 I, uh, yeah.

00:46:04.260 Okay.

00:46:05.180 Well, yeah, that's forgotten.

00:46:06.660 Yeah.

00:46:06.960 Uh, and, uh, I'll, I'll, I'll finish off.

00:46:09.320 Um, I don't know if Dave has a story out yet or not.

00:46:12.440 Maybe we're still working on it in the newsroom.

00:46:14.260 Um, the, uh, it's now been confirmed that there was a data leak from the national gun, uh,

00:46:21.240 owners database.

00:46:22.060 The, uh, federal government, uh, leaked or had hacked the, uh, the identities, uh, of

00:46:30.960 like millions of Canadian gun owners.

00:46:34.960 So I don't know.

00:46:36.420 Criminals can do one of two things with that information.

00:46:38.380 They could say, okay, now we can go target these people to steal our guns.

00:46:41.500 Or they might say, those are the wrong houses to rob.

00:46:45.460 Either way.

00:46:46.880 Um, we can't trust these people with, with absolutely anything.

00:46:52.760 If they, they can't keep the identities of, uh, registered gun owners in Canada.

00:46:57.500 Yeah.

00:46:57.940 Yeah.

00:46:58.160 I don't think we should give them any more powers on this.

00:47:01.240 In fact, if you don't store your, uh, your firearms exactly according to regulations,

00:47:05.420 and for the most part, they're reasonable, but it depends.

00:47:07.680 In some circumstances, it's not, but for the most part, it's fine.

00:47:10.320 But you get charged if you don't store your firearms appropriately.

00:47:13.500 And they're pretty serious charges.

00:47:15.300 Um, I think the federal government should be charged with, uh, unsafe storage of firearms

00:47:18.980 data.

00:47:20.140 Amen.

00:47:21.080 Charge them.

00:47:21.900 Okay.

00:47:23.000 Dave.

00:47:23.780 Nigel.

00:47:24.520 What's up?

00:47:25.440 Corey.

00:47:26.900 Uh, thank you very much.

00:47:27.840 And, uh, John on production.

00:47:29.380 Thank all of you for joining us on the pipeline today.

00:47:32.640 Uh, kind of a tough one to go through at some parts, but, uh, we're, we're going to be living

00:47:37.300 with this story for, for a while.

00:47:39.240 Um, and you know what?

00:47:40.400 We're all probably going to move on from it way sooner than we should, because we're all

00:47:44.060 just totally desensitized and living in a 24 hour, 24 seven news cycle.

00:47:49.500 Uh, that's, that's the sad reality of it.

00:47:51.140 We're all going to move on to something shiny soon.

00:47:55.080 And, uh, and that's, that's bad.

00:47:57.200 But anyway, thank all of you for joining us today.

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Western Standard - February 17, 2026

THE PIPELINE： You don’t hate the mainstream media enough

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