Western Standard - The Rant with Cory Morgan. October 5, 2020

00:00:00.000 Thank you.

00:00:30.000 Thank you.

00:01:00.000 Welcome. I'm having internet issues tonight so I'm sure they'll dog us as we go through my cursing. One of the things I'll bitch about quickly is rural internet challenges. I have some difficulty with it out here. Hopefully we get a good live stream though. I got a lot of things to go on and rant about this week.

00:01:16.000 Let me know what you think in the comments and I'll let you know what I think about you. I'll also let you know what to think about the news.

00:02:22.000 They're saying they got no room to save money. They're as lean as they can get. There's no way they can cut the budget. But Justin can hire a personal storyteller. That's rather telling on how responsibly they're looking at our money right now.

00:02:36.080 But on beyond that. So our means to make money. Something we celebrated a lot was this announcement from Trump that he was supporting that concept of the Alaska to Alberta railway. I mean this is this was fantastic.

00:02:47.160 This could be something that Alberta and the whole West could ship goods whether it's potash or grain lumber coal you name it to the coast up to Alaska to a deep water port and access markets in Asia Russia India all the way across that ocean there. It's fantastic. It would have been great for economic development.

00:03:05.160 Good for tourism maybe. They could do a passenger train up there. Who doesn't want to see Alaska? It'd be a beautiful route. And it looked like this thing might be coming along.

00:03:14.420 Well Trudeau decided to open his big mouth. Said no. No. You might not want to put money into this right now because it might not pass the requirements in C-69 which is the pipeline killing bill for those not familiar with it.

00:03:28.640 Just in saying that he pretty much killed this project. They need to raise billions of dollars to get this railway through.

00:03:34.960 And with our example of Canada of screwing investors when they try to get a project going and follow the rules. Nobody in their right mind is going to put a nickel into this thing.

00:03:42.760 When Trudeau is already saying that it might not pass his special C-69. It might not have what enough gender parity and equity in the planning or might not be able to account for how that potash is used downstream when it gets across the ocean.

00:03:55.960 And that railway unless he comes out right and says he's going to support it and he says that it's going to pass this assessment. It's dead. It's dead.

00:04:03.640 It's dead. So put that dream aside. The West is not allowed to diversify its economy. It's not allowed to diversify its markets without central Canada's permission and it looks like Trudeau does not want to give it.

00:04:15.740 So getting stateside though, I suffered through, and I'll say suffered, the debate. The American presidential debate. And that was horrible. An hour and a half of my life that I will not get back. I will not be talked into watching the next two debates.

00:04:31.760 But I'm going to play a bit of a mashup of that debate for you. Just so you can get a feel of how it was. Somebody put this together. Have a listen.

00:05:01.760 California's burning. We closed it down and now we're reopening. California's burning. California's burning. And this is all about trying to dissuade people from voting. California's burning. California's burning. California's burning. A thousand people there.

00:05:14.560 Alright, that's enough of that. Either way, what it was, was a crazy old man yelling insults at a man with dementia being moderated by another older man who felt like intervening and interrupting all the time. 0.77

00:05:29.780 Although they were all interrupting. It was just a gong show. There was no good policy debates. I feel for Americans who have to try and choose between those two people for their president. 0.93

00:05:39.140 This is the most powerful country in the world. It's got, what, 350, 400 million people, whatever it is. And those are the best two you guys could come up with? I mean, it's just, it was too much.

00:05:50.080 I mean, I like how Trump shakes things up. I like the memes. I like how he entertains me. But, oh my lord, that was just awful.

00:05:56.480 It was an insult fest. I mean, he went after the other guys. Kids, and just, just no. You know, do better, you guys. Please.

00:06:03.360 Because we've got to live next door to you. And I've just got to hope for something more down there.

00:06:08.420 So let's get to our domestic politicians. Though we've had one step in it.

00:06:12.080 Everybody knows he's white. 0.76

00:06:14.620 He's an MLA up in Laxane. His name is eluding me right at the moment.

00:06:18.900 But he was caught on a video that the NDP shared where he said some Serb recipients are sitting around watching cartoons and eating cheesies.

00:06:28.520 Well, it's one way to put it. I mean, when you're doing a town hall, you're talking to people, you use analogies and things like that.

00:06:33.400 Cheesies are Canadian, so it's not that harmful.

00:06:35.640 But here it is, the video that the NDP released. Their scandal of the week.

00:06:39.400 You know, since they didn't have all the students dying they were hoping for.

00:06:42.740 So let's have a look and see what he had to say here.

00:06:44.800 They can't hire people. And I'm going, well, why not? Well, because they make more on Serb, eating cheesies and watching cartoons, I guess.

00:06:50.780 You had calls from my friend John out in Vernon. The same thing. They have drug addiction issues.

00:06:57.820 So people that were getting $700 a month, now we're getting $2,000 a month.

00:07:01.320 We're concerned about the same thing here because now all of a sudden you've got that population that has all this extra cash.

00:07:06.300 And now their addiction levels are going through the roof.

00:07:08.700 And then what? The funny money runs out?

00:07:10.240 Yeah, so really, is this worth lighting their hair on fire? 0.98

00:07:14.820 Of course, they're demanding apologies, resignations, usual crap. 0.86

00:07:17.560 Hopefully, Premier Kennedy ignores them, as does Mr. Getz in there.

00:07:21.520 But the point he's hitting on, and he didn't say it, and pretty much nobody's saying it.

00:07:26.220 Not everybody on Serb is a lazy bum who's taking advantage of it.

00:07:29.660 In fact, the vast majority are people who got hooked.

00:07:31.680 The government shut down their lines of work.

00:07:33.240 They had to do something to get these people to make their rent, to pay their mortgages, put food on their table, literally.

00:07:39.860 So yes, there had to be a program with no questions asked to get money in people's hands.

00:07:43.760 We could question whether or not we had to shut down in the first place.

00:07:45.760 That's a separate discussion.

00:07:47.420 But let's not pretend, either, that there's a segment of the population that's going to take advantage of it.

00:07:52.340 I mean, come on, we know them.

00:07:54.460 I'm going to give one of my past stories.

00:07:56.120 Because I had a period of time, right at the start of my 20s, I needed a place to live.

00:08:00.140 I was between relationships, suddenly, you know, sort of suitcase, sort of situation.

00:08:04.020 People say, well, Alex is looking for a roommate.

00:08:05.740 Oh, boy.

00:08:06.700 So he had a place he was renting right in Forest Lawn in an area full of four plexes.

00:08:11.080 And what a five months that was.

00:08:13.000 But it was an eye-opener.

00:08:13.860 So as a 20, 21-year-old, for those five months, it was a party in there every night.

00:08:18.080 Because Alex personified the kind of person who would take advantage of things like CERB.

00:08:22.280 He knew every program, every in and out, every minimal amount of work to get a little bit of money.

00:08:26.940 He liked holding the parties because that way he could drink every night.

00:08:29.400 Because people will bring booze and he'll drink the excess.

00:08:31.200 And then on the big night that when there was enough empties, you know, once a month to take him in, he'd buy his own booze for a night.

00:08:36.360 It was, and I got to meet the neighbors.

00:08:38.440 So, you know, the single mom next door with three kids from three dads who was always making it clear she's taking applications for the fourth father. 0.61

00:08:46.260 Other individuals from all over the place.

00:08:48.120 I mean, there's a sub-class of people. 0.99

00:08:50.460 You know, we call them white trash. 1.00

00:08:51.720 They're not always white. 0.99

00:08:52.900 Things like that.

00:08:53.460 And we can't deny that they're there.

00:08:54.760 We can't deny that these people will take advantage of these programs.

00:08:58.460 They will sit on the couch and smoke weed, watch cartoons and eat cheesies.

00:09:03.680 You haven't been out very much.

00:09:04.840 Perhaps you've lived a coddled enough life that you've never actually encountered people like this.

00:09:08.300 Well, they exist.

00:09:09.220 And they're out there.

00:09:10.040 And we do have to put controls into programs to stop these people from taking full advantage of them all the time.

00:09:16.500 I mean, we're running out of money.

00:09:18.700 This pandemic has knocked us down.

00:09:20.300 You go to Walmart, we'll see them.

00:09:21.500 They aren't starving to death and they, well, just, you know them when you see them.

00:09:27.580 These are special sorts of folks.

00:09:29.520 And again, I mean, we have this politically correct thing.

00:09:32.240 We're supposed to pretend, man, that's a set, isn't it?

00:09:35.560 Pretend that these people aren't out there.

00:09:37.780 We can't.

00:09:38.340 I know it seems insensitive, but we've got to filter the bums out because there are bums. 1.00

00:09:42.620 There are lazy people. 0.93

00:09:43.420 They actually don't.

00:09:44.060 It seems inconceivable.

00:09:44.900 They have no ambition.

00:09:46.180 They have no vision for the future.

00:09:47.740 They don't want to go anywhere.

00:09:48.720 And if you give them a program, they're going to get on it.

00:09:50.660 And, you know, we've made parodies of them with trailer park boys, again. 0.99

00:09:55.600 But the reason it was funny is because everybody could laugh because they could see they've

00:09:58.600 known people like that.

00:09:59.420 They've seen things like that.

00:10:00.240 Again, it's not saying every person in a mobile home park is a bum, but mobile home parks have

00:10:04.980 a hell of a lot of bums at them. 0.90

00:10:06.280 And it's one scheme and scam after another to take advantage of these things. 0.99

00:10:09.520 And down stateside, shameless.

00:10:10.980 I recommend that to anybody who likes kind of a dark, twisted humor.

00:10:14.560 Frank, the main character on there.

00:10:16.220 Oh, yeah, he would have loved Serb.

00:10:17.920 He probably would have created five different identities and collected on all five.

00:10:21.160 And then, of course, just vanished whenever we come to try and pick up the bill.

00:10:24.760 So either way, as we go through this, we've got to have discussions.

00:10:27.420 Perhaps we don't have to be as insensitive as to talk about cheesies and cartoons.

00:10:30.240 But I will because I'm not a sensitive guy.

00:10:32.620 But there are people who are going to take advantage of this program.

00:10:34.320 And they should not be shouted down or told to resign because they've pointed out the

00:10:38.000 people who will.

00:10:39.560 Now, an incident that happened this week.

00:10:42.420 So a young fella, Mr. Dodging Horse.

00:10:45.060 We had the Calgary Ring Road got completed.

00:10:47.220 There was the big ceremonial opening.

00:10:49.220 All our politicians came out.

00:10:50.520 The big ribbon cutting.

00:10:52.060 There was Ninchy. 0.69

00:10:52.880 There was Jason Kenney.

00:10:55.440 Even Kent Hare because he was an MP.

00:10:57.240 I mean, because this thing was in the works for so long.

00:10:59.240 And they were, you know, the chief of the Sutina Reserve.

00:11:01.520 And they were all going to pat themselves on the back over this great project that just

00:11:05.340 got completed.

00:11:06.800 And this young fella comes up, takes the microphone, and gives a little story about how it displaced

00:11:11.020 his mother from her home.

00:11:12.260 And he was disgusted with the whole affair.

00:11:13.720 And he cut off his braids and threw them on the road in protest and disgust.

00:11:17.520 It was a great protest.

00:11:18.460 It caught the eyes of the whole country.

00:11:20.780 And, you know, it really stole the show from all of those politicians who were standing there.

00:11:25.300 So, you know, good work, kid, as far as that's concerned.

00:11:28.440 But then, of course, the usual haywire suspects who don't know what they're doing.

00:11:31.520 They don't know a thing about what's going on, what's happened there, what's happening

00:11:35.180 on reserves in general, start speaking up. 0.99

00:11:38.580 And the bullshit starts coming up. 0.99

00:11:40.020 And that's when I get annoyed. 0.99

00:11:41.680 So, you know, here comes some of the tweets from these people.

00:11:45.100 Like, here's one.

00:11:46.220 This is so sad.

00:11:46.960 They took his homeland without permission, without any amends. 0.97

00:11:50.480 He thanked because they allowed him to speak on his home violation.

00:11:54.280 Okay.

00:11:54.900 They didn't take his homeland.

00:11:56.640 And they didn't do it without permission.

00:11:57.900 And they didn't do it without amends.

00:11:59.260 So, people not familiar with the Ring Road Project, this thing was in the works for 70

00:12:03.160 years.

00:12:04.240 70 years they've been talking about this thing.

00:12:06.520 This went back and forth, every kind of a negotiation imaginable.

00:12:10.180 And they put it to the entire band, democratically, in a referendum.

00:12:13.220 Two referendums, actually.

00:12:14.540 So, the first deal that they offered them, the band members looked and said, no, it's not

00:12:17.920 good enough.

00:12:18.300 And they said, take it or we won't do it.

00:12:20.740 Fair enough.

00:12:21.260 So, then the road was put on hold again.

00:12:24.160 The government had to come up with new offers, new concessions.

00:12:27.500 And they made another offer.

00:12:28.760 Well, that offer was accepted by over 80% of the band members in a vote.

00:12:33.340 It was well discussed.

00:12:34.460 Oh, boy, there was consultation.

00:12:35.820 70 years worth, and particularly in that last five years.

00:12:38.060 So, every band member, each and every one of them, got $61,000 cash in hand in their pocket.

00:12:44.240 Right off the bat.

00:12:45.600 The band also got a multi-hundred million dollar trust fund that would pay off for them for

00:12:50.040 a long time.

00:12:51.260 They got, for 400 hectares of land for this road, they got 1,400 or 1,500 new hectares

00:12:59.300 of land just on the west side over by Brad Creek.

00:13:01.640 I rest assured, they got a really good deal.

00:13:03.860 Triple the amount of land back that was used in the first place.

00:13:06.440 And they still have access to all that land as well.

00:13:08.580 Some homes were moved.

00:13:09.660 That's life.

00:13:10.220 You know, they get expropriated whether you're on native land or not.

00:13:12.460 And there's $65 million set aside just to move those homes and move this.

00:13:16.000 So, his mom wasn't left homeless.

00:13:17.560 She was just moved to a new home, which, to be honest, was newer and probably better than

00:13:20.740 the last one.

00:13:21.540 So, you know, but these people speaking up, they look at the image of the kid cutting

00:13:25.740 off his braids and they go back to that, oh, we took their homeland.

00:13:28.280 Well, no, that's not the case at all. 0.99

00:13:30.260 And, of course, it set off the bullshit meter. 0.63

00:13:32.660 You know, please. 0.99

00:13:34.360 We've got some sensitive issues, but let's stay out of the outright bullshit because there's 0.67

00:13:38.040 way too much when it comes to First Nations and the troubles they're going through and 0.91

00:13:42.260 the troubles we're all going through and trying to figure out how to cope with it.

00:13:45.040 A further tweet.

00:13:45.740 And, I mean, these are all in response to another guy's tweet who had something like

00:13:48.620 97,000 likes on it.

00:13:50.500 Like, this thing went viral.

00:13:51.880 And this guy says, 1.00

00:13:52.880 Well, again, that's bullshit. 1.00

00:14:05.680 This is an 11 kilometer road. 0.99

00:14:07.820 It's on the boundary of the city of Calgary.

00:14:09.940 Nothing was migrating through there.

00:14:12.100 I mean, people were migrating through to go to the 7-Eleven or Superstore and then back

00:14:15.740 to their homes.

00:14:16.860 The animals have long left that area.

00:14:19.640 But, again, that doesn't stop somebody from tweeting that out.

00:14:22.000 And the person doesn't know the road, doesn't know the area, thinks,

00:14:23.940 Oh, my God, they've cut off this migratory path in the middle of a native reserve and didn't 1.00

00:14:27.740 compensate anybody and they're going to make things extinct. 0.94

00:14:30.100 And, oh, wow, it just goes unchecked.

00:14:32.160 So, you know, I'm not going to let it go unchecked.

00:14:33.720 I'm going to go on and I'm going to rant about this and I'm going to call these people out on

00:14:36.720 this sort of thing.

00:14:38.120 And then this guy, sad how settlers, colonizers are still oppressing natives who have a right

00:14:42.160 to the land. 1.00

00:14:42.740 Well, it's still their land, you dumb asshole. 1.00

00:14:44.680 And I'm not a settler. 1.00

00:14:45.820 And my grandparents were born here.

00:14:47.200 My parents were born here.

00:14:48.320 I was born here.

00:14:48.960 What am I supposed to do?

00:14:49.880 Am I supposed to get back on a boat and go home?

00:14:52.140 And, you know, that's some of the attitude they talk about.

00:14:53.580 We're settlers and you should go home.

00:14:55.100 Why is that acceptable in this context?

00:14:57.780 It sure as hell isn't when it comes to any racial minority who's recently immigrated here.

00:15:02.300 And it shouldn't be.

00:15:03.380 And it shouldn't be acceptable for you pricks to call us settlers when we've been born and

00:15:09.420 raised here. 0.98

00:15:09.920 That's a load of crap and I'm getting tired of that attitude while we're at it. 0.99

00:15:14.180 Then this one. 0.99

00:15:14.920 Oh, it's going to apologize on his behalf of his country or her or whatever the hell this

00:15:19.060 person is.

00:15:20.240 They didn't deserve this.

00:15:21.040 Nobody deserves this.

00:15:21.680 Breaks your heart for this.

00:15:22.660 I deeply apologize. 1.00

00:15:23.580 Kiss my ass. 1.00

00:15:24.740 Do not apologize on my behalf. 1.00

00:15:26.040 If I'm sorry about something, I'll say sorry, but you don't apologize for me because

00:15:29.080 I'm not sorry.

00:15:29.800 I didn't do anything wrong.

00:15:31.140 I didn't displace anybody.

00:15:33.880 Don't speak for me.

00:15:36.020 And you certainly don't.

00:15:36.980 And here's another one.

00:15:37.620 And this is where we get to the loaded words. 0.99

00:15:39.060 This is where we get to the deeper bullshit. 0.99

00:15:41.840 And Trudeau used this word when talking about Aboriginal things too. 1.00

00:15:44.600 Colonizing and genocide. 0.86

00:15:45.800 They're using the term genocide.

00:15:48.040 That's infuriating.

00:15:49.360 The world, the modern world, has seen genocide.

00:15:52.140 And it's not what's been happening with First Nations in Canada.

00:15:56.560 Not even close.

00:15:57.500 So let's have some pictures to remind people what genocide really looks like.

00:16:00.560 This is genocide, you guys.

00:16:02.280 Millions of people slaughtered.

00:16:04.660 Buried in mass pits.

00:16:06.780 That's genocide.

00:16:08.080 This is another picture of that genocide.

00:16:09.960 Forests full of bodies.

00:16:11.960 People executed.

00:16:13.160 Slaughtered.

00:16:13.640 What did we do?

00:16:14.960 We gave them a casino and a road.

00:16:17.000 That's not genocide.

00:16:19.060 In Rwanda, same thing.

00:16:21.060 Slaughter of people.

00:16:21.940 Trying to wipe them out literally. 0.99

00:16:23.720 Through murder.

00:16:24.780 Not through a residential school system.

00:16:26.880 And by the way, residential schools didn't look like this.

00:16:29.420 This is what genocide looks like, you guys.

00:16:32.080 And in First Nations, there's concerns.

00:16:34.940 But genocide isn't the word for it.

00:16:37.220 I do want to talk about the reserve problem, though.

00:16:39.200 Because that's what gets me with these people, too.

00:16:40.520 They're usually urban dwellers.

00:16:42.060 They've never actually been to a reserve.

00:16:44.400 Maybe they've gone to a powwow once, you know, and got to see some entertainment.

00:16:47.480 That's great.

00:16:47.860 It's a fun time.

00:16:48.460 You meet some people.

00:16:49.660 I spent 20 years in the oil field.

00:16:51.480 I spent time on isolated reserves all over the place.

00:16:54.940 I watched them decline in quality of life.

00:16:57.440 And they weren't that good to begin with.

00:16:58.560 Because you've got an isolated population of people with no industry.

00:17:01.720 Nothing going on.

00:17:03.280 What are you expecting to happen?

00:17:05.560 Like, this is what stumps me with these people.

00:17:07.700 What's your end game?

00:17:08.800 What do you want to see?

00:17:10.520 Because you oppose that.

00:17:11.680 That's one of the things with this ring road.

00:17:12.900 They're opposing.

00:17:13.200 Oh, it's going to give more access into the reserve.

00:17:14.900 And it's going to cause bad things to happen.

00:17:16.760 So you want them cut off from the modern world.

00:17:19.000 You don't want them to have access to it.

00:17:21.120 Shopping.

00:17:21.920 Jobs.

00:17:22.860 Education.

00:17:23.560 Because that's the only thing that's going to pull them out of the rut that they're in.

00:17:26.520 Right now, particularly in isolated reserves, there are no job opportunities.

00:17:31.320 There's nothing up there.

00:17:32.700 If the resources aren't being developed right nearby, the only employer tends to be the native band itself.

00:17:38.380 Which usually means you're only going to get a job if you've got a good relationship with the chief and his or her family.

00:17:44.400 And you just get the rest of the socioeconomic disaster following.

00:17:49.000 And that's what we've got on reserves on every level.

00:17:50.980 The reserve system has failed.

00:17:53.220 It's failed.

00:17:53.720 And it's failing and it's going to continue to fail.

00:17:55.940 And we've got to start openly talking about that and looking for solutions to getting out.

00:18:00.080 Because we can't fix this.

00:18:01.400 Putting more money in to keep people racially segregated.

00:18:04.400 And that's what it is.

00:18:05.140 It's apartheid. 0.83

00:18:06.360 We couldn't accept it in South Africa.

00:18:07.880 Yet we accept it in Canada.

00:18:10.120 So here's some pictures from housing.

00:18:11.380 People, again, are always horrified.

00:18:12.420 Oh my God, look at the houses they're living in.

00:18:13.820 Yeah.

00:18:14.720 But those houses were built.

00:18:17.740 They were ruined.

00:18:18.600 And, again, it's because they are, unfortunately, socially dysfunctional people.

00:18:21.880 And they don't own those houses.

00:18:23.640 The person upset, actually, about Mr. Dodging Horse losing, his mother losing her house.

00:18:28.840 Welcome to socialized housing.

00:18:31.420 Because the reserve owns all the houses.

00:18:33.320 So the only one who could kick her out of her house in the location it was in was the band itself.

00:18:38.020 Because you don't own them.

00:18:38.900 So, no, of course they don't improve their homes or fix them up.

00:18:41.400 Because you could lose your home at the whim of the chief and council.

00:18:44.500 And it's of no value to you.

00:18:46.060 You can't sell it.

00:18:47.060 It's not an asset.

00:18:49.560 It's just something you live in that was given to you, good or bad.

00:18:53.480 So, of course, it goes into disrepair.

00:18:55.300 There's no reason to fix it up.

00:18:57.760 So property rights has been one of the things long talked about as a way to work towards getting people off those reserves.

00:19:02.700 Build some assets.

00:19:03.620 Build some equity.

00:19:04.800 But right now, this system does not allow that.

00:19:07.740 And now, here's their income levels.

00:19:09.440 You know, 80% of the reserves have a median income below the poverty line.

00:19:12.880 Below it.

00:19:13.560 And then those who are making income, again, for the most part, are social services or working for government in one way or another.

00:19:19.580 Is this working?

00:19:20.540 Is this getting worse every year, too?

00:19:22.180 And that's why I keep asking the end game.

00:19:23.580 Because how do you see with these isolated reserves 30 years from now, this getting any better?

00:19:28.920 Do you see them suddenly just saying, we're going to stop abusing substances.

00:19:32.340 We're all going to be happy to just live in these social houses and collect social services and not work for a living?

00:19:38.080 It just doesn't work, guys.

00:19:40.880 And they're not, you know, living in some traditional little thing.

00:19:43.600 I think there's some Toronto and downtown Calgary people even who think that they live an old native life.

00:19:47.840 So, I mean, yeah, they practice a lot of great traditional things.

00:19:50.640 But at the same time, they're in the modern world.

00:19:52.520 They've got satellite dishes, TV, snowmobiles, trucks, heat.

00:19:56.280 They like that.

00:19:56.900 And they should.

00:19:57.480 But it's not enough.

00:20:00.660 Here's their average lifespan.

00:20:01.780 15 years less than other Canadians.

00:20:04.220 I mean, they're dying.

00:20:05.760 That's, what, 18% of the average life lost if you're a native in Canada?

00:20:10.160 Basically, chances are you're going to die early.

00:20:12.340 This is not winning.

00:20:13.320 And it's not getting better.

00:20:14.380 That's what I've got to keep driving home.

00:20:16.200 It's not getting better.

00:20:17.980 And it's heavy drinking, of course.

00:20:20.220 Here's the numbers.

00:20:20.960 The dark blue on the left.

00:20:21.940 The light blue on the right.

00:20:23.420 Natives versus non-natives. 0.99

00:20:25.340 Drinking.

00:20:25.840 And, of course, other drugs and substance abuse.

00:20:27.600 But what do you expect with people who are stuck sitting on these spots?

00:20:32.920 I mean, they don't feel a sense of purpose.

00:20:35.820 They don't feel a future.

00:20:37.060 It's depressing.

00:20:37.880 And this has nothing to do with race.

00:20:39.060 There's the thing.

00:20:39.460 I'm sure somebody's going to come out and say I'm a racist.

00:20:40.960 Look, if you took any race and you stick them aside from everyone else 0.95

00:20:44.360 and have them grow up in this dependent state on an isolated reserve like that,

00:20:49.420 you're going to be messed up.

00:20:50.620 It doesn't matter what race you are. 0.63

00:20:52.340 So, no, if you really hate natives, you'll want them to stay on these reserves 1.00

00:20:56.440 because this is the worst possible thing you could do is keep them up there.

00:21:00.100 And look at all these numbers.

00:21:01.080 How long are we going to ignore these things?

00:21:04.500 This is the educational attainment.

00:21:06.020 You know, because if you're hoping that to get off,

00:21:07.780 and some higher education is certainly a better way to get about it,

00:21:10.560 especially if you're going to try perhaps for a virtual economy or something else.

00:21:12.800 But, I mean, 48% of the natives right now aren't even completing high school.

00:21:18.060 University degrees, you know, it's just not in the cards.

00:21:23.700 Education is failing.

00:21:25.180 Every measure, you know, the homicide rate is a crime because, again,

00:21:28.120 they're living miserably.

00:21:29.600 Look at how more likely a native is to be murdered than a non-native. 1.00

00:21:35.160 I mean, we've got the missing women in an aboriginal tribunal.

00:21:38.560 Yes, there's something there, but it's not some systemic racism. 0.99

00:21:41.340 It's not some conspiracy of white guys out there stealing women and killing them 1.00

00:21:44.260 and burying them in the woods or something. 1.00

00:21:45.880 Some of that happened with that lunatic Picton. 0.92

00:21:48.100 But they are vulnerable people, the native women.

00:21:50.960 I mean, if they leave the reserve, unfortunately, they're also very dysfunctional.

00:21:53.320 I'm not talking about just kicking people off and dumping them in the city.

00:21:55.580 We see those people quite often homeless, too.

00:21:57.840 They aren't prepared for that world, either.

00:21:59.480 Like, we've really got to look seriously at getting these people off these reserves

00:22:03.200 and transitioning them to a non-reserve life because they aren't winning, guys.

00:22:07.160 They aren't.

00:22:07.740 I mean, they should have some land.

00:22:08.880 Let's break it up.

00:22:09.560 Give them assets.

00:22:10.820 But, no.

00:22:12.500 And, yes, you know, so Susan Susie Sue is speaking up.

00:22:15.700 Yes, hired many people of different ethnicities with no more expectations 1.00

00:22:19.440 than a competency to do the job.

00:22:21.180 Of course. 0.97

00:22:21.620 And that's how most people are, despite everybody acting as if Canada's some giant racist cesspool. 0.88

00:22:26.760 It's not.

00:22:27.400 I mean, we're a very tolerant nation. 0.66

00:22:29.080 And we're killing these guys with, I think, what some people feel as kindness.

00:22:32.700 And, again, I think it should be almost mandatory for everybody to go out and visit a reserve in person.

00:22:37.000 See the wild dogs.

00:22:38.000 See the houses falling apart.

00:22:39.860 See the people passed out in the streets.

00:22:41.380 See the kids running around barefoot.

00:22:42.700 Because they really do.

00:22:43.260 You feel like you're in a third-world country.

00:22:44.640 Go to standoff in mid-summer.

00:22:45.960 You'd think you're somewhere in central Mexico.

00:22:48.320 It's dusty, dirty, and it's just horrific.

00:22:53.580 And, again, these people, that's the thing, too.

00:22:56.020 So this is showing that who gets accused of the homicides.

00:22:58.240 Because, again, it's not some conspiracy of non-aboriginals killing Native people.

00:23:01.680 They're killing each other.

00:23:02.920 And it's because they're in a huge socially dysfunctional mess of a state,

00:23:07.300 which is going to continue as long as we have a reserve system going.

00:23:11.220 And this is the, I don't know what happened with that little flatlocking for a few years there.

00:23:14.760 But this is the incarceration trends for Natives.

00:23:17.460 And, again, people keep speaking, oh, that's because of the racist system,

00:23:20.600 you know, over-representation in jail.

00:23:22.220 Well, no, it's because they're committing all the bloody crimes.

00:23:23.760 And we've got to get lower into this issue, deeper into this issue,

00:23:27.300 and find out why.

00:23:28.540 Why are they so dysfunctional that they are so prone and inclined to get into trouble with crimes?

00:23:33.460 Because you can't just not sentence them because they do commit more crimes,

00:23:37.900 and it becomes more dangerous.

00:23:38.920 There is a justice system for a reason.

00:23:40.840 So let's look deeper.

00:23:42.080 This is Davis Inlet.

00:23:43.060 I mean, here's a great example.

00:23:44.040 For those of us who can date myself a bit, remember the 90s.

00:23:46.580 That was up on Labrador there.

00:23:48.400 These were an Inuit population.

00:23:49.700 And the whole world was horrified when an expose showed the housing conditions they were living in up there.

00:23:54.640 And kids were huffing gasoline out of bags.

00:23:57.540 It was awful.

00:23:58.500 And they saw just how deplorable the conditions were for all those people up in this isolated area of the coastline.

00:24:03.600 So what are we going to do?

00:24:04.440 This is awful.

00:24:05.480 So we spent, I believe it was like a couple hundred thousand an individual.

00:24:08.800 But they actually picked up the entire town and they moved it like 20 kilometers down the coast.

00:24:12.780 They moved every one of them.

00:24:14.560 Said, we can't even fix this town.

00:24:16.140 We just got to rebuild it and start from scratch with new housing, new programs, and all of that.

00:24:21.660 Well, when you follow up, it's the same thing.

00:24:24.540 There's garbage everywhere.

00:24:25.660 The kids are still huffing gas.

00:24:27.720 You know, there's wild dogs.

00:24:29.280 There's high suicide rates.

00:24:30.780 It's awful.

00:24:31.720 It's misery.

00:24:32.360 Because the problem isn't whether it's new housing or things like that.

00:24:36.800 They've just got nothing to do.

00:24:37.920 You've stuck them there.

00:24:39.920 What are you anticipating happening?

00:24:42.320 Really?

00:24:43.020 I mean, it's just awful.

00:24:45.080 And they're having a lot of kids.

00:24:46.500 So this is going to be growing and growing.

00:24:48.060 So we've got to start looking at an exit plan, guys. 0.97

00:24:50.860 And shouting people down in the bullshit we see whenever some native speaks up, like young Mr. Dodging Horse. 0.99

00:24:56.100 Well, let's respond to Mr. Dodging Horse with facts. 0.99

00:24:58.920 Not a bunch of, oh, we're calling us settlers and bullshit and apologizing on my behalf. 0.94

00:25:02.140 Because no, that's not productive. 0.94

00:25:03.540 It's not getting us anywhere.

00:25:04.740 And it's only hurting people like him, actually, in the end.

00:25:06.660 But either way, I'll get on to something of the chode of the week.

00:25:12.120 A worthy winner this time.

00:25:13.680 It's old Gil McGowan.

00:25:15.340 Gil is a real special sort of fella.

00:25:17.880 Not terribly bright, to be honest.

00:25:19.540 But somehow he did get himself to head the Alberta Federation of Labor.

00:25:23.600 Which is, this is a group by, so it's a labor group.

00:25:26.920 It represents a whole bunch of unions.

00:25:28.220 But people have got to keep in mind that that union is, that group, is actually a branch of the provincial NDP.

00:25:36.060 If you read the provincial NDP constitution, it is mandatory for members of the Alberta Federation of Labor to be on their party executive.

00:25:43.700 Those two organizations are integrated. 0.97

00:25:46.700 So whenever Gil pulls off some crap, Notley has to wear that too. 0.99

00:25:50.600 Because they are of the same group. 0.99

00:25:53.600 They are linked.

00:25:54.800 And what did old Gil do this time? 0.99

00:25:56.480 I mean, he usually does, you know, stupid stunts of, you know, just soft speaking or supporting union thuggery and that sort of thing. 0.98

00:26:03.660 And I guess this is a sense of it. 0.98

00:26:04.780 What the Alberta Federation of Labor did was built a website with pro-UCP businesses.

00:26:11.380 The businesses they determined were supportive of the UCP and listed them all with their addresses and just talked about you should boycott them.

00:26:19.900 And of course, that's the usual union thuggery way too. 0.54

00:26:22.320 They're also saying perhaps, you know, read into it.

00:26:25.120 We just want you to boycott them. 0.99

00:26:26.400 If a brick flies through a window, you know, well, shit happens, I guess, you know. 0.99

00:26:30.060 Or if somebody gets hassled coming out the door or things like that. 0.67

00:26:33.380 Because some of these businesses that are in that list, and I'm not going to give the link to it even if you really want to look it up.

00:26:38.500 But I don't want to give these guys more credit than they need.

00:26:41.300 They're small, you know, little tailor shops, little outfits.

00:26:45.140 They supported the UCP.

00:26:46.260 That's our right as a, you know, in a democratic society.

00:26:49.740 Some were family farms and they've given the addresses of these places.

00:26:53.260 And Gil's pointing at them.

00:26:54.400 It's just another example of thuggery, bullying, pushing around, saying,

00:26:58.160 If you support that party, we're going to shame you and we're going to try and put you out of business.

00:27:02.100 These businesses employ thousands and thousands of Albertans.

00:27:06.420 You know, they pay billions in taxes.

00:27:10.120 And Gil wants them shut down.

00:27:12.680 He wants them boycotted because they supported a party that wasn't the party that his organization is tied at the hip to.

00:27:18.760 Well, that makes you a chode, Gil. 0.90

00:27:20.700 The chode.

00:27:21.440 The chode of the week. 1.00

00:27:22.900 You're a prick. 1.00

00:27:24.100 You deserve the award. 1.00

00:27:25.440 You'll probably get it again.

00:27:26.620 And, well, that's enough ranting for this week.

00:27:28.700 So, thanks for listening in.

00:27:29.760 I feel better for myself.

00:27:31.020 I don't know if you feel any better.

00:27:32.920 But, I will see you next week.

00:27:34.740 This Wednesday as well.

00:27:35.940 We're going to have the Western Standard News Roundup around midday.

00:27:40.360 That's not as ranty as this.

00:27:41.720 It'll be much more rationed and reasonable.

00:27:43.960 And we can discuss some issues there.

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Western Standard - October 06, 2020

The Rant with Cory Morgan. October 5, 2020

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