Western Standard - August 13, 2026


The WNBA has become the prime battleground in the culture wars

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wildfire management in BC scrutinizing election process in Alberta
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Sophie Cunningham Randy Royer Gladue Corey Tyler Robinson Royce White Pierre Trudeau Jamie Edward Meads Kathy Engelbert Nigel Hannaford Caitlin Clark Raymond Gagne Charlie Kirk Will Vassar Jeff Rath Carrington Jacqueline Lukasik Haida
The vote Canadians never got on Trudeau’s Constitution Can Ottawa strike a tariff deal in time？

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00:00:00 Good day.
00:00:29 welcome to the cory morgan show looks like the peak of summer is past it's cold and rainy and
00:00:35 miserable out there ah well things are getting a little too dry and brown down here in calgary
00:00:39 anyways and it's getting tired listening to the wife complain about me being too cheap to get
00:00:42 central air conditioning so we'll get some cooler nights and uh relax a little more as we go into
00:00:48 these dog days of summer there's probably still some more heat coming as we get closer to harvest
00:00:53 and uh that's alberta you know give it a few hours so we got lots to cover today as usual the news
00:00:59 hasn't been slowing down or stopping this summer much at all and i got a guest i've been looking
00:01:04 forward to you guys have probably already seen some of those podcasts dropping it's randy royer
00:01:08 started the nation of people uh podcast and uh a lot of interesting stuff and talking about things
00:01:14 such as uh old pierre trudeau's constitution and things that he dropped on us that we're enjoying
00:01:20 still to this day. So we're going to have a conversation about that, and I'm quite looking
00:01:25 forward to it. But let's get on to what I'm ranting and raving about today a little bit to start
00:01:29 things off. I've never really paid close attention to the NBA or WNBA. I mean, watching basketball
00:01:35 has never really been my thing. I'm more of an NFL guy, and I certainly hadn't tracked the growth of
00:01:39 the WNBA, which is the Women's League for those that don't watch that, as a professional league.
00:01:44 Though I have peripherally noted they've been getting more and more popular over the years,
00:01:48 and they have some colorful sports personalities emerging from within there.
00:01:52 Suddenly, though, I'm watching the WNBA like a hawk 0.72
00:01:55 because it's become ground zero in the battleground
00:01:57 between extreme trans activists and common sense.
00:02:01 I mean, basketball's a physical sport.
00:02:04 You know, it's involving direct contact between participants
00:02:06 that often becomes rough.
00:02:08 And the size and strength of the athletes are critical components
00:02:11 for the competitiveness.
00:02:12 The smaller players, they're going to get shoved aside,
00:02:15 or the gameplay will literally go over their heads,
00:02:17 which is why players at the professional level are all large. 0.93
00:02:21 The statistics kept in professional leagues help illustrate the vast physiological differences between male and female players.
00:02:28 The average height of a player in the NBA is 6'7", and the average weight of one of those players is 216 pounds.
00:02:35 Now compare with the Women's League, the average height of a player there is 6'1", and the average weight is 170 pounds.
00:02:41 The difference is pretty stark. 0.54
00:02:43 Only in the imaginary utopia of trans ideology can be conceived that physiological men wouldn't have a distinct advantage when playing in a woman's league. 0.68
00:02:51 Yet that's exactly the narrative trans activists are putting out there. 0.53
00:02:54 Could you imagine a game where even three men of NBA proportions were playing on a team within the WNBA? 0.54
00:02:59 The game wouldn't even be close, and the possibility of a woman being seriously injured would be actually quite high.
00:03:06 All a man has to do these days, though, to be considered a woman by trans activists is to state that he's a woman.
00:03:10 There's no need for surgery, treatments, or even shaving off a beard for that matter. 0.93
00:03:15 If a person identifies as a woman, their declaration is to be considered inviolate, despite the biological reality. 0.98
00:03:22 The follow the science crowd really falls off the rails when it comes to this issue. 0.85
00:03:26 While individuals may choose to indulge the declaration of womanhood from a man as they please,
00:03:32 it becomes problematic when sports or institutions offer recognition to self-declared women.
00:03:36 That's how men entered sexual assault centers for women and impregnated women in prisons. 1.00
00:03:42 This is how women's sports now are being destroyed.
00:03:45 Now, two former NBA players have decided to put the absurdity to the test. 0.70
00:03:49 Inez Cantor Freedom and Royce White have both publicly declared they now identify as women and will stand for the WNBA draft in 2027.
00:03:57 By the definition set out by the woke, it would be a human rights crime to deny White and Freedom their right to play within the league.
00:04:03 Who are they to say these aspiring athletes aren't women? 1.00
00:04:06 Now, while your average two-year-old can tell the difference between a man and a woman, the question has flummoxed the WNBA administration.
00:04:13 League Commissioner Kathy Engelbert sent a memo to teams stating that a task force now of presidents and general managers is going to have to get together and discuss transgender participation.
00:04:25 The league expressly says only women may play within it, but they neglected to define what a woman is.
00:04:30 Even if the league finds common sense and tries to ban men from participation,
00:04:33 any formal changes are going to require collective bargaining from the Players Association. 0.70
00:04:38 And many women within the Players Association are hyper-woke and practice what God's side says is suicidal empathy.
00:04:45 They'd rather destroy their league than admit that men aren't women.
00:04:48 The debate has been playing out on the court as well.
00:04:51 Sophie Cunningham, a star player and fan favorite with the Indiana Fever.
00:04:55 She's been an outspoken person, though, saying that biological men should not compete in women's
00:05:01 sports. In recent comments, she said she wants to protect young girls in a locker room or young
00:05:05 girls in a sport that shouldn't have to go against biological men. Cunningham's statements of simple
00:05:10 truth have put a target on her back on the court from woke players. On August 8th, during a Fever
00:05:14 versus Chicago Sky game, Sky guard Carrington viciously assaulted Cunningham in front of the
00:05:21 net, causing a minor injury. Carrington was ejected from the game for the assault and she 0.99
00:05:25 quickly posted on X that she'd been ejected due to white privilege. The usual case to be made by
00:05:30 the woke and the weak. Hard to swallow considering over 80% of the league is made up of women of 1.00
00:05:35 color. Sports Illustrated reported on the assault with a vile headline saying Cunningham was a 1.00
00:05:39 victim of karma. In other words, they said she was asking for it due to reviews that men shouldn't
00:05:44 play in women's sports. Amateur sports have been slowly but surely banning men from participating
00:05:48 in the women's categories now the issues in the hands of the professional leagues will common 0.99
00:05:53 sense win the day with the wnba or will they tear down that league that they've built on an absurd
00:05:58 point of principle either way whatever the outcome it's finally made women's basketball interesting
00:06:03 to watch i'll be tuning in in future days all right well that's what's got me started today
00:06:08 we're gonna get a news check in and see what else is going on with dave winnick from the newsroom
00:06:11 how's it going not too bad cory how are you doing i'm all right actually sounds good so speaking of
00:06:15 of sports when are you going to be signing up for the wnba oh listen i'm under no delusions that i
00:06:21 could compete with the women in that league they would still mop the floor handily with me 0.99
00:06:25 i'd be lucky to take on a high school uh women's league at this point oh yeah well the only reason 1.00
00:06:30 i bring that up is qr 77 i don't know if you heard this just landed the uh broadcast rights for the
00:06:34 flames games yeah i think it's a five-year deal they haven't said how much it's going to be yet
00:06:38 now they've kind of taken over the slack since uh sportsnet 960's gone off the air i was just
00:06:42 wondering were you ever a fan of sports nine sports at 960 and whatnot or listening to flame
00:06:46 games on the radio it's been a long time since i have not too much i i remember listening to them
00:06:50 many years ago when i used to make bets on the nfl games actually and i was surveying so i could
00:06:54 listen to it from the truck you know on the am radio and find out how terribly my choices were
00:06:58 made on those tickets but i wasn't a big follower but i know it's big news for sports watchers who
00:07:03 like uh radio i guess oh yeah definitely i used to be a big fan but i don't know i've spent years
00:07:06 not many people listen anymore yeah i found that hey i guess somebody does though anyway
00:07:10 Yeah, I saw something, actually, this is interesting, just came up.
00:07:13 Apparently, the lawyers in the Charlie Kirk assassination case, Tyler Robinson,
00:07:17 apparently they're claiming now that Robinson shouldn't be challenging the death penalty
00:07:20 because the shooting didn't endanger anyone else at the event, and he hit his target.
00:07:25 How exactly did they figure that?
00:07:26 I mean, talking about absurd, really.
00:07:28 Well, yeah, I guess they've got to try and make whatever little case they can.
00:07:31 We'll see if that gets accepted.
00:07:33 Yeah.
00:07:33 It's going to be a difficulty.
00:07:35 Yeah, I have no idea.
00:07:36 Oh, man.
00:07:37 And also, as well, Jeff Rath is apparently getting his assets frozen by, I'm just looking here, the Sturgeon Lake Cree Nations accusing him of misusing their trust funds as well.
00:07:46 I think that's the second one now, after, I think it was the Tall Creek First Nation were the first ones that accused him of that.
00:07:51 He obviously denies it, but, I mean, there's two now.
00:07:53 Do you think there's going to maybe be, if this is, like, more to come or what exactly?
00:07:56 I don't know, but, I mean, can they freeze?
00:07:57 He's already been frozen with what he had.
00:07:59 Are they just refreezing what he's got?
00:08:01 I don't really know exactly.
00:08:02 I think they're looking into, like, trying to, so I don't know how much assets he has.
00:08:05 But, I mean, like $42.4 million, I mean, that's an absurd amount.
00:08:09 I think the first, what was it, $8 million?
00:08:11 I think the first band was going after them for an asset.
00:08:13 $8 or $12 or something like that.
00:08:15 I think so, somewhere in that range.
00:08:15 So, yeah, we'll be following that one.
00:08:17 That's another thing.
00:08:18 If you froze my account, all they get is, you know, $2,000 in some bottle caps or something.
00:08:22 Yeah, I was just going to say as well, Air Canada is also selling off a 25% stake in their aeroplane for $2.5 billion.
00:08:27 So, now the loyalty program is being valued, I think, at $10 billion.
00:08:31 So, I guess maybe that's good news.
00:08:32 I guess there's been a lot of bad sort of wraps for airlines recently with WestJet strikes and everything.
00:08:35 so something positive for the airline world would be good uh you know what is it with airlines
00:08:41 lately though there's no such thing as a negotiated agreement anymore it's just basically
00:08:45 an automated automatic strike whenever it was mechanics uh pilots or or uh flight attendants
00:08:51 i still try to call them stewardesses but yeah i kind of do that i'm just bad no it just annoys
00:08:55 me too because they go on strike like west jet and then the day after it's like oh everything's
00:08:59 cleared up and it's like they've already messed up like who knows how many like flights the chain
00:09:02 reaction disruption though is massive in a day or so yeah i know it's just ridiculous to me but
00:09:07 yeah i know and also obviously one of the big ones as well as the fires in bc and apparently
00:09:10 the calls are growing for the uh fire uh what is it the uh forest minister um rabbi i think
00:09:15 he pronounced his name parmar to resign over mill closures and obviously wildfire management and
00:09:19 he's made some remarks like dismissing um conservative criticism but obviously evie's
00:09:23 been standing by but what's your whole take on the whole wildfire situation in bc because again
00:09:27 it's probably like all over canada years of wildfire enforcement management really has caused
00:09:31 a lot of this i would say yeah i mean everybody of course opposition is always going to hold the
00:09:35 the feet to the fire i guess you could say of the government we saw that in alberta when the fires
00:09:39 were happening here i mean there have been a lot of things we aren't doing uh the spacing with some
00:09:43 communities uh we haven't been logging like we have in past times to clear this out i mean that's
00:09:48 some of the discussion is if forests don't get taken down one way or another fire is going to do
00:09:54 it i'm just like curious what you would think how they would like go about that going forward with
00:09:58 like managing forestry do you think there needs to be like more i don't know controlled burns
00:10:02 everyone talks about but i mean i i don't want to delve too far outside of my own expertise i'm
00:10:06 a guy who worked in the bush a lot i i do know areas i've worked it's the one that scares me
00:10:10 i'll talk about it you know out in uh wipers area and in the foot hills there i did a lot
00:10:15 of heli portable survey out that way years gone by and it was so choked with dead underbrush and
00:10:21 and and such in that area we could barely crawl through that area if it ever lit up it's such a
00:10:26 a tinderbox there'd be no way of fighting that and the fire would be massive and part of the
00:10:31 reason it's built up so much is because it's near populated areas we've fought those spot fires for
00:10:35 so many years it hasn't been able to clear itself out but i don't have a solution necessarily i mean
00:10:40 the amount of resources to actually clear an area like that would be massive environmentalists would
00:10:45 go nuts if they saw clear-cut logging in an area that visible yeah and uh to have a controlled burn
00:10:50 the chances of going out of control would be huge i'm just saying anyways i wouldn't buy a cabin out
00:10:55 that way right now that's for sure i don't blame it well that's about all i have for the time being
00:10:59 cory so we kind of a slow morning but hopefully it's going to be picking up here later oh i'm
00:11:02 sure something stupid will happen for you guys to be scrambling in the newsroom hope so well right
00:11:06 on well thanks for the update appreciate it and i guess i'll be seeing you on the pipeline i guess
00:11:10 that's an hour or two yeah right on sounds good all right thanks all right and yes it was the
00:11:16 substitute dave he does a great job though isn't he and uh yeah the reason we've got all that going
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00:11:48 already subscribed. Thank you very much, guys. I really do appreciate it. So, you know, there is
00:11:55 a lot happening out there as always. Let's just have a quick peek. A couple of the folks in the
00:12:01 comments scroll. Good to see Paradoxy, Jacqueline and LZ and GP folks coming from Northern Alberta.
00:12:08 Those areas, you know, again, where you get some of that fire risk and forest management things,
00:12:11 things we got to look at. You know, it's difficult to come up with solutions. And hey,
00:12:15 things are getting drier they are getting hotter I mean we got a much larger debate about how much
00:12:22 degree humans are causing that to happen or how much of it might be natural cycles or whatnot but
00:12:27 come on you know I'm getting a little long in the tooth and I do remember as a kid who grew up in
00:12:32 Banff and a guy who spent 20 years surveying in the bush we didn't see burns going on 20 30 years
00:12:38 ago like we're seeing today and there could be a number of factors these are things we should be
00:12:42 talk about as dave was saying some of it is how much is is have we dropped the ball on management
00:12:46 how much have we let tinder build up in in these forested areas but there's a little more going on
00:12:51 too and it's that hot and dry consistently it makes for for uh much more problematic issues
00:12:56 of these things getting lit in the first place and trying to fight them once they do get rolling so
00:13:01 uh we'll be watching let's just hope they get things under control in bc i mean it's been
00:13:05 terrible over there uh some of the awful awful scenes there was a one on the western standard
00:13:10 showing a video clip, though, of some cattle that thankfully did escape the fire and narrowly got
00:13:15 out of it. Check it out of the Western Standard for that. But, you know, wildlife and a lot of
00:13:20 things suffer really terribly in these fires, and it's awful. So we'll see what we can do about it.
00:13:27 Speaking of stability, yes, Canada is more unstable than ever, and that kind of leads into the guest
00:13:31 I'll be speaking to in a moment. I just wanted to note one thing I saw in a poll as a, well,
00:13:36 a person like me who likes to stir up the federalism pot. The Parti Quebecois is poised
00:13:42 now, as far as polling is concerned, to win a majority in this fall's election. I mean,
00:13:46 it was looking like a minority for a while, but they're still gaining. They changed leadership
00:13:49 in Quebec with others, thought maybe they were looking at a minority position. The PQ now is
00:13:55 looking to potentially win this fall in Quebec, and their mandate's to hold a referendum again.
00:14:01 something's got to change in Canada. What's fundamentally wrong with it? Why are provinces
00:14:06 tearing themselves apart from every direction? Maybe Mr. Randy Royer has some answers on some
00:14:11 of that. Hey, thanks for joining us in studio today. Nice to see you, Corey. Thanks for having
00:14:14 me. Yeah. So, I mean, maybe just kind of introduce yourself. You've written some guest columns.
00:14:19 People are familiar with you, but you know, who are you? Who am I? So I'm raised, I'm born in
00:14:26 actually raised in uh raised in lesbridge and uh and i've kind of long been possessed by the
00:14:33 concept of western alienation and spent much of my adult life trying to figure it out and i got
00:14:38 involved with national politics and uh and have got lots of lots of uh views and lots of perspectives
00:14:46 that are somewhat unique because uh because of my political aspect you know political work and
00:14:53 And I've written three books on the subject over the years, starting in 2007, actually predicted what was going to happen with the progressive conservatives, that they were going to lose to a third party, which ended up actually happening.
00:15:07 And then another book that was, I think, the top 10 reasons why Alberta doesn't fit in this Canada.
00:15:12 And then the most recent one is Alberta should lead, not leave, which is a phrase quoted many times by politicians, which I'm happy to see.
00:15:21 It has been quite popularized now. Yes. So your new podcast, Getting It Out There,
00:15:27 and that gets to the fundamentals of, you know, because we're kind of seeing, I think,
00:15:30 a national crisis emerging in different parts of the country. And you delve into with your
00:15:35 Nation of People podcast, sort of the history, the more recent history and what's pulled us
00:15:40 together. What's it all about? Well, the podcast is fundamentally about empowering people.
00:15:45 And so, you know, my personal belief is that democracy is about people empowerment, that the government should work for them, not the other way around.
00:15:55 And and so what we're trying to do is we're trying to give people an education.
00:15:57 So we're you know, we refer back to history, how we got to where we are and we will be in the future episodes.
00:16:06 We're inviting people on and we'll get their perspectives.
00:16:08 and then what we're doing in this it's a 20 episode podcast and and we're taking kind of a
00:16:14 business plan approach to what should Alberta do and so we're looking at the foundations of you
00:16:20 know what got it like I said what got us here but the idea is that we will look at the options
00:16:26 we will game out those options kind of model out what happens if we do A B C or D and and my
00:16:33 personal uh opinion is that with what's happening in quebec and what's happening here in alberta
00:16:39 the country's either going to go one of two ways it'll either fall apart and balkanize or it could
00:16:46 potentially be a cathartic moment where we actually get our act together and grow up well we'll see
00:16:51 it certainly i think we're at a turning point i think everybody's kind of feeling that things
00:16:55 have come to a head uh so your first couple of episodes and you were talking a lot about the 1982
00:17:00 you know, repatriation of the Constitution, and Pierre Trudeau's, you know, part in all of that.
00:17:10 What did you go into with those episodes?
00:17:12 Well, first of all, you know, I contest the word repatriation, because we didn't have a codified
00:17:17 constitution before. It was a British parliamentary, we had a British parliamentary system,
00:17:22 which drives you to common sense and compromise versus a codified constitution,
00:17:31 which is an American concept, which we imported.
00:17:35 And that drives you to litigation and adversarial approach. 0.98
00:17:39 So talking about the, I'm going to dive into this, but talking about the WNBA.
00:17:46 Yes.
00:17:46 And what a crapshow that has turned into, you know, the translation.
00:17:51 It reminds me of a story about, and this was years ago, that a female reporter, it happened in two places, Boston and Winnipeg.
00:18:00 And in Boston, the female reporter wanted to get into the change room.
00:18:05 And this is, you know, years ago.
00:18:06 And she couldn't, wouldn't let in, the team wouldn't let her in because she was a female and it was a men's sport.
00:18:12 And so she took it to court and it became this big constitutional issue.
00:18:16 There's all this huge litigation.
00:18:18 it got all over the all over the place and it would just become a mess and finally you know
00:18:23 the judge decided one side of the other i don't remember what happened as opposed to in winnipeg
00:18:29 same thing happened that a female reporter wanted to get into the the men's locker room and it goes 0.98
00:18:35 in front of the judge and the judge said this is stupid it shouldn't be in court you guys go and 0.96
00:18:40 figure out something reasonable and get out of my face that was pre-1982 constitution so that was 0.98
00:18:47 canada that had common sense and mates and and had logic and it let people find compromise
00:18:54 versus when we adopted the american system that's all gone and that's what i'm trying to point out
00:18:59 in in our discussion about uh about the about in the podcast yeah well things going so much
00:19:06 into the courts now being litigated uh not only you know i mean there's many questionable rulings
00:19:12 i think that are coming from it but the time frame we can't address issues in a timely manner
00:19:18 anymore these things take years to get through the system when again we just don't seem to have
00:19:23 the capability of a judge to put his or her foot down and say come on get out of my courtroom you're
00:19:26 wasting my time or at least you know let's get this done fast well the instructions to the judges
00:19:32 changed in 1982. suddenly they had this constitution that they had to refer to and you know there's
00:19:38 different ways they could approach it you know it's called originalism what did the what did
00:19:41 the authors think or it's called they call it the living tree i call it the judicial advocacy
00:19:46 but they can kind of make up their own story and and things like you know bike lanes that are now
00:19:52 becoming constitutional charter rights uh and you know in british columbia one judge said that
00:19:58 uh it was a constitutional right to do hard drugs in playgrounds you know like crazy stuff that and
00:20:04 then it and then as you said it takes years to actually for the supreme court to decide whether
00:20:09 they agree with the lower courts or not. And so we get stuck in this mess. One of the problems is
00:20:14 the Canadian judicial system was never built for this kind of adversarial approach. And it was
00:20:22 never built to be the supreme position in our democracy. And so it's never caught up. Whereas
00:20:29 in the US, you go to court and you're in and out within six months to a year. In Canada, it's two,
00:20:35 three years. Well and then this living tree though just seems to be growing like a weed in a lot of
00:20:40 bad ways. It was at the 2004 Haida decision. I mean people assume that consultation for example
00:20:45 is entrenched in the constitution when it comes to indigenous people and no it's not actually.
00:20:49 That work doesn't appear anywhere there but the justice ruling in 2004 brought in the obligation
00:20:55 to consult based on you know respecting treaties. That was read in though. That wasn't part of the
00:21:00 constitution but now it becomes considered a constitutional right that's right and now that
00:21:05 that's starting to evolve into consent rather than consultation and we have this animal that
00:21:11 just makes things more and more difficult to deal with uh but also we can't seem to reform our
00:21:17 constitution in any other sort of way either so how do we deal with the impasses that we come
00:21:21 well two quick things one is you talked about the forest fires well the simple reality is the
00:21:26 forest fires have been hit by two things one is the tariffs to the u.s when trump was complaining
00:21:31 about the uh for the the the smoke coming down i thought to myself you know what why don't we cut
00:21:37 our trees down sell them to the united states without tariffs bring down your housing costs
00:21:42 and we'll be able to manage our forests again anyway he didn't want to do that um but the
00:21:48 other thing is that the uh the duty to consult has really become you know i want to call it
00:21:54 kind of legalized blackmail that we know because the court insisted on something and then the
00:22:00 governments have not set parameters around it it's really a negotiation and so when when one
00:22:06 side has the government support of the you know requirements I mean it's undefined so they can
00:22:13 kind of you know it's it's it's common almost like constitutional blackmail and I don't mean
00:22:20 in a negative way but uh and i don't mean that they shouldn't be consulted but it needs a frame
00:22:26 a framework and the and governments haven't done that and so what's ended up happening is it has
00:22:30 devastated the forest industry and the and the um forest management was largely conducted by the
00:22:36 forest companies and they've frankly most of them have moved to the united states now and so that's
00:22:41 one problem the uh the second part of your question was uh amending the constitution is
00:22:48 a non-starter we tried in 2021 we're going to try it again here with the upcoming referendum the
00:22:54 first nine questions uh but you know in 2021 the equalization question was just basically
00:23:01 disregarded and so my view of it is we have to break the egg and that means that i think we
00:23:07 should have had a referendum in 1982 to get the citizens approval we didn't do that i think that
00:23:14 obligation still exists and i think we should have a referendum on do we accept or reject the 1982
00:23:21 constitution well that's part of uh the basis of one of your your podcasts that have already dropped
00:23:26 is that you know we never really had the consent of canadian people on a document so important as
00:23:30 the constitution and the charter of rights it was all done by a small group essentially of of
00:23:36 elites absolutely i mean as my personal opinion being there at the time and i i think in the
00:23:42 second episode i divulged that i actually voted against it um because i didn't want us to become
00:23:48 american and which i think arguably we have uh you know even we uh anyway the uh my argument is
00:23:57 that that you know the government promised they wouldn't take away rights uh and they did that
00:24:02 and uh and and they didn't do it with our informed consent no and then but the and there's rights
00:24:07 that never went into the charter in the first place too that are in question i mean property
00:24:12 is a big one uh we we do have property rights but they aren't entrenched in the charter and
00:24:18 constitution so if there's an infringement on it you don't have a really solid basis to defend
00:24:22 yourself whether it's expropriation or or in the case of title being given to a indigenous band
00:24:29 you're kind of out of luck well look at the cowichan decision that's what i'm saying yeah
00:24:33 i mean the cowichan decision the judge virtually said what was i to do in the constitution
00:24:38 indigenous have land rights in section 35 3 and there are no land rights for the general population
00:24:44 so what am i to do and and she makes a good point that the instructions from the constitution are
00:24:50 indigenous have land rights that are recognized and protected the general population doesn't
00:24:56 and um and and then when uh i don't know if you noticed but recently one of the land owners it
00:25:02 was a company that was developing warehouse uh warehousing they wanted to continue on their
00:25:07 program and they can't get financing because lenders won't give them the money because they
00:25:12 don't own the land and say they tried to intercede in the court case and for a bunch of reasons the
00:25:18 judge said you know it's too late you don't have standing and just basically punted them out and so
00:25:25 the the fundamental problem and bc doesn't get this because they just they regard in bc they
00:25:32 They tend to regard Ottawa as something very distant and not involved in their lives.
00:25:37 We view it as something that's attacking us.
00:25:40 They view it as something different. 0.98
00:25:42 I call them the orphan of Confederation.
00:25:44 We're the abused child.
00:25:45 They're the orphan child.
00:25:47 And so they're looking at DRIPA as their problem.
00:25:51 But it's actually founded in the Constitution, just as you said.
00:25:55 Well, I mean, using the family analogy, we've got the drunk uncle in Quebec,
00:25:58 and we've got the uh you know neglectful father in ontario so getting on to changing the charter
00:26:05 constitution as you said perhaps through a referenda or something like that uh how do we
00:26:09 get the federal will though to want to make those kinds of changes there's part of the problem we
00:26:13 have yeah i mean part of the problem is is the federal the federal entity that the federal
00:26:20 government has a veto on any changes any changes what they don't have is the will of the people
00:26:26 And so what we need to do is, and this is the Alberta should lead, not lead part.
00:26:33 If we lead the rest of the country to say, break the egg, 82 constitution doesn't work.
00:26:39 We need a people's driven constitution and then possibly get British Columbia on side because of their land issues and some other things.
00:26:48 Hopefully get Saskatchewan on side.
00:26:50 if we were to have that and Quebec is already outside of the constitution we would have more
00:26:55 than 50 percent of the population outside of the of the constitution it cannot stand it's an
00:27:01 interesting way I go about it I mean I'm of a similar uh mindset and I feel the egg needs to
00:27:05 be broken so we can uh you know re-evaluate it though I take more of the secessionist approach
00:27:09 as opposed to trying through a more general uh referendum I guess I mean the bottom line is
00:27:16 we seem to be in a pressure cooker though if we don't change something substantially this country
00:27:20 is going to shatter one way or another oh absolutely we we've you know we we gave away
00:27:26 our economy uh in under nafta and we're realizing that that was a mistake uh at least i'm realizing
00:27:32 it was a mistake because we have no control over our economy now we we we ceded it to the united
00:27:37 states we then we we got rid of our british parliamentary system and decided to to duplicate
00:27:45 the American system which is judicial and it's judicial supremacy and and all that stuff and so
00:27:52 when do we actually turn and say who are we as Canadians or who are we as Albertans or Western
00:27:59 Canadians and start to drive towards who we are and I think I think this might be the point where
00:28:06 you know Alberta separatism is the catalyst for us actually thinking those things through and
00:28:12 you know who knows what happens at the end my aspiration and this is why we call it the nation
00:28:19 of people my aspiration is that the people will be in charge and we'll tell the government what
00:28:24 to do rather than the other way around that would be really refreshing that's absolutely yeah
00:28:29 well I mean the time went quickly I knew it would so before I let you go though I mean you've had a
00:28:33 couple episodes dropped as you said there's a whole bunch of them coming really looking forward
00:28:36 to it's a conversation we need to have and very timely as we are really in national flux as I
00:28:41 mentioned Quebec's really kind of getting on the edge now too uh what can people look forward to
00:28:45 in these coming episodes uh and where can they find them I know western standards carrying them
00:28:49 I guess is pretty straightforward yes yeah so we're going to talk about vision of Canada
00:28:53 and uh you know in one of the next episodes um I think the uh we're actually going to talk about
00:28:59 the character uh in the next the next episode and that how the character in western Canada is
00:29:05 different than the colonial character in the east and we're going to talk about where that
00:29:11 came from the history behind it and why we're different and uh and then we're going to talk
00:29:15 about there's three different visions of canada and none of the three want to talk to each other
00:29:19 and we admit the other two exist and then after that we're going to talk about um about the social
00:29:25 contract and so this is all very foundational stuff later on we're going to bring in some
00:29:30 guests and and get their views on on you know what their their perspectives are and and ultimately
00:29:37 we're going to our intention is to drive that uh taking kind of a business plan and look at it
00:29:41 what are our strengths and weaknesses outside um outside environment like you know the for example
00:29:49 the president of the united states has said that he wants to annex us well what pressures does that
00:29:53 put us under and then we're hopefully kind of come up with a recommendation great well i appreciate
00:29:59 you taking the time to come and talk on the show today i'm looking forward to those episodes as
00:30:02 they drop and uh it looks like it's going to be a fascinating conversation super i look forward to
00:30:06 And I do hope people get engaged and informed.
00:30:10 That's our aspiration.
00:30:11 Well, that's it.
00:30:11 And actually, if people have feedback, since you're still airing these and shooting these,
00:30:15 how can they get a hold of you, actually, if they wanted to?
00:30:17 Go to our website, nationofpeople.com, and just info at nationofpeople.com, and they
00:30:23 can catch me.
00:30:24 Excellent.
00:30:24 Great.
00:30:24 Thank you again.
00:30:25 Thanks, Corey.
00:30:25 I'm sure we'll talk again soon.
00:30:26 Yeah, look forward to it.
00:30:27 Right on.
00:30:28 So check it out, guys, nationofpeople.com.
00:30:30 And that's Randy Royer.
00:30:31 I mean, it looks like it's going to be a fascinating and important series on the go.
00:30:34 So, you know, we're all kind of reevaluating where we are, what we're doing, where we're heading, and it's coming towards a breaking point.
00:30:43 Maybe it's imagined. I don't know. I mean, in 95, everybody thought the nation was at a breaking point.
00:30:48 Well, it narrowly escaped that. We've gone on for another 30 years.
00:30:52 But here we are asking all of those same questions again.
00:30:55 I will back up a little quickly, too. I mean, just I see Will Vassar pointed out, he said, you know, back to the WNBA thing.
00:31:02 So I just want to get on that because that's where I started things.
00:31:04 because he's a better watcher than I am.
00:31:08 And there's nuances to the league that I didn't cover in my monologue.
00:31:10 As he pointed out, an added layer to the debate is the Fever,
00:31:12 the most polarizing team in the league.
00:31:14 They have Kaitlin Clark, which you can see even as a non-viewer myself, 1.00
00:31:18 I've heard the name, you know, who brings the WNBA massive attention. 1.00
00:31:22 Other teams want to take cheap shots at them. 1.00
00:31:25 Yeah, the motivation is to some of the physical attacks, I guess,
00:31:27 on that particular team.
00:31:29 You know, there's a lot of intricacies that go on in professional sports
00:31:32 and things that stand out.
00:31:33 But the league has been growing. It's been catching interest. It's been getting there. I mean, they've been struggling for a long time, I think, for the WNBA to kind of try and get into the massive viewer base for the NBA. But now we've got this whole woke fiasco kind of coming in.
00:31:47 You know, I think, this is just my view, as I've demonstrated, I'm certainly not a WNBA expert, but all of this attention being drawn on the league and some of the characters within it, the players within it, and things like that, this ridiculousness of, you know, the potential men coming into the draft or playing in the league and so on, I hope they just rule with common sense and say, that's enough.
00:32:10 You're born with these chromosomes.
00:32:11 You do not play in the league.
00:32:12 Simple as that.
00:32:13 That's the way it goes.
00:32:14 Let's move on with life.
00:32:15 but that whole discussion has shown such a spotlight on it that you know there's that many
00:32:20 more new viewers and this league can continue to grow and be entertaining and good for people 1.00
00:32:25 but if they go the wrong way if they really are that woke they really are that stupid and I'm 1.00
00:32:29 afraid you know we can't underestimate the stupidity of people anymore it'll be the end of 1.00
00:32:35 the league it'll be the end of the league I mean really you know I wasn't kidding around that much 0.99
00:32:39 about you know what would it look like if a couple of those guys these former NBA players
00:32:45 who were jokingly putting their names forward into the draft?
00:32:48 What if one of these team owners says,
00:32:49 you know what, yeah, I'm going to draft one or both of them. 1.00
00:32:52 And they get out on the court and the floor with these women. 1.00
00:32:55 They're going to knock them around like, you know,
00:32:57 I'm not saying these men are necessarily violent or anything,
00:32:59 but you can't play around that discrepancy between them.
00:33:02 It would turn into a novelty sideshow for, what,
00:33:08 a few games into the season,
00:33:09 and that would probably be the end of the league.
00:33:11 So I hope they're thinking harder. 1.00
00:33:13 but it's really brought not just the league into the spotlight, but the utter stupidity 1.00
00:33:18 of the trans ideology and what it's got to at this point. I mean, come on. You know, 1.00
00:33:24 an individual wants to identify as another gender, you know, dress up, get surgery, do the works, 0.99
00:33:30 marry somebody. Fine. I don't care. By all means, I hope it makes you happy. I hope it's 0.98
00:33:34 good and you can lead as functional a life as possible. If a person comes up, presents as a, 0.80
00:33:40 You know, a female, a male prefers to be called that out of respect.
00:33:44 I typically will.
00:33:46 The gender ID you want to give.
00:33:48 But we still have to put limitations on things to reflect reality.
00:33:52 As I mentioned in the monologue, there was an American prison where a number of prisoners got pregnant.
00:33:58 In other words, the man they put in with the women prisoners wasn't just, you know,
00:34:02 this wasn't somebody who had surgery and had the nuts and berries cut off or anything like that.
00:34:06 This was a fully functional man with all the parts.
00:34:09 and clearly a straight one.
00:34:12 Likewise, a battle in British Columbia
00:34:14 over a women's shelter.
00:34:16 Women's shelter, women who had been assaulted 0.96
00:34:18 by presumably a man most often
00:34:21 and they're trying to feel somewhere safe
00:34:23 to recover, to rebuild, to get on with life. 0.96
00:34:26 And these woke arseholes put men in with them, 0.98
00:34:30 put men in with them 0.98
00:34:31 and made it a legal battle
00:34:33 to put men in with these vulnerable, 1.00
00:34:36 already victimized women. 0.72
00:34:37 That's how sick the woke ideology is. 1.00
00:34:41 So if the prisons and women's shelters weren't enough to bring common sense in,
00:34:47 well, it's sad that that wasn't enough. 0.98
00:34:49 But maybe the WNBA will be what it takes to make people realize this is getting ridiculous. 1.00
00:34:57 All right, let's have a look into how well our federal government is spending our money.
00:35:02 Let's just pivot a little bit, you know, some happy news.
00:35:04 This one's in the Western Standard.
00:35:06 The Senate Speaker, her name is Raymond Gagne, I don't know, I can't pronounce some French
00:35:13 names, you know, says so much.
00:35:16 Who knew what the name of the Speaker was in the first place?
00:35:20 Nobody, because it's the Senate. 0.84
00:35:21 They don't do anything. 1.00
00:35:22 They're useless. 1.00
00:35:23 It's a patronage pit. 1.00
00:35:24 It's just somewhere you stick people because you owe them a political favor.
00:35:29 They get a good pension and don't have to work very hard and get a massive salary.
00:35:32 Well, she has billed taxpayers for $875,000 for international travel.
00:35:40 The Taxpayers Federation found this since she was appointed three years ago.
00:35:45 $300,000 in travel.
00:35:47 I mean, this is on top of all the hundreds of thousands they take out of us and everything else.
00:35:51 $300,000 in three years for a person that nobody in Canada has ever heard of, much less anybody overseas.
00:35:58 What purpose do we have to send a senator out of Canada, the Speaker of the Senate?
00:36:06 None.
00:36:07 This is just more of the gravy train for them.
00:36:09 And how on earth, what sort of five-star hotels and platinum treatment are you getting to run up a bill like that?
00:36:16 And you know what the consequences are going to be for her for that?
00:36:19 None.
00:36:20 Nothing.
00:36:21 We're continuing to take it up the keister, guys.
00:36:24 This country is ripping you off.
00:36:26 your work, your taxes, the stuff you see coming out, this is what it goes towards.
00:36:31 This is what it goes towards. You know, even the prime minister, when he has what,
00:36:33 single flights where there's a hundred and some thousand just in food costs, so he can treat all
00:36:38 his friends to the most expensive of possible foods. But at least I understand why a prime
00:36:45 minister has to travel. I understand why a prime minister can't fly coach. I understand why it'll
00:36:50 cost more than your typical flight, though that's still above and beyond, and it's ridiculous.
00:36:54 but I can understand that there's no damn reason the Speaker of the Senate should be costing over
00:37:00 300,000 or just under 300,000 a year for travel expenses come on for international travel that's 1.00
00:37:08 not just flying back and forth to the Senate because she represents somewhere else no this
00:37:11 is just international travel alone but nothing will happen nothing will come of it speaking
00:37:17 of nothing happened we're getting a little darker here and speaking of our bad courts and and our
00:37:22 ridiculous rulings from them. The Edmonton Police Service, they've warned us that Jamie Edward Meads,
00:37:29 he's 38, he's considered a significant risk of harm to the community. Yeah, he should be because
00:37:35 he's got a 20-year history of rape and assault. He's had eight known victims identified during
00:37:43 that period. He was convicted of assault by bodily harm when he choked, suffocated, strangled,
00:37:48 and aggravated assault, forcible confinement, intimidation, all against a woman last year,
00:37:54 2025. Just a little over a year ago, he's loose again. Do you think he might re-offend?
00:38:02 And you see, this isn't a shoplifter. This isn't somebody who's going to do minor harm. This isn't
00:38:06 a car thief. He's a rapist and a woman beater. So why do they keep releasing him? Because he's 1.00
00:38:13 Indigenous. Look into it. He's a Gladue case. What's a Gladue case? That's the geniuses in 1.00
00:38:20 our court system. They ruled in the Gladue ruling who I believe she was with the Niska or Cowichan 0.79
00:38:26 or one of those bands. Either way, whereas Indigenous offenders must, the judges have to 1.00
00:38:35 take their race into account and give them reduced sentences whenever possible. In this case, it 1.00
00:38:40 Should he be possible?
00:38:41 A judge should be able to say, I don't care about the Gladue principles.
00:38:44 This man is a hazard to society. 0.99
00:38:47 He should die of old age in prison. 1.00
00:38:49 So he doesn't rape another, a ninth woman and beat them. 1.00
00:38:53 But nope, he's loose again.
00:38:55 All the Edmonton police can do is warn us, hey, this guy's on the loose again. 0.60
00:39:01 Try not to be the one that he's going to assault and rape this time.
00:39:04 But there's going to be another one. 0.75
00:39:05 We know it.
00:39:06 We can't protect our citizens.
00:39:08 The state is failing us.
00:39:10 What is the point of the state?
00:39:12 What is the point of the government?
00:39:14 One of the few things, the most basic principles of a government is to keep the citizenry safe.
00:39:20 To keep us to do what it can to prevent monsters like this man from harming us and harming our women, harming our daughters and children.
00:39:29 And it's failed.
00:39:31 It's failed and it continues to fail. 0.99
00:39:33 This state isn't worth a crap. 1.00
00:39:35 Canada is broken. 0.98
00:39:36 People wonder why I support independence.
00:39:40 It's, oh, how could you possibly want to bust up this beautiful state? 1.00
00:39:42 Because the state's crap. 1.00
00:39:44 It's releasing guys like this to come out and rape people. 1.00
00:39:46 That's why. 1.00
00:39:47 And here's another one.
00:39:49 Mendehany Johans, not a Canadian, by the way.
00:39:52 He came as a refugee.
00:39:54 He's had two convictions for sexual assaults on strangers, too.
00:39:59 Not accusations, convictions. 0.93
00:40:02 He's repeatedly breached his court orders because they keep letting him out to rape more women.
00:40:07 He's been described by police as high risk.
00:40:10 and can't deport him. They won't deport him. He's not even a citizen. Why the hell is this rapist
00:40:18 here? Why is this rapist here? The immigration minister repeatedly in parliament keeps telling us 1.00
00:40:24 that inadmissible people don't get to stay. Well, what does it take to become inadmissible?
00:40:30 Half a dozen rapes? A dozen rapes? Why is this so hard? 0.97
00:40:37 you know a lot of things in politics are complicated a lot of things are nuanced a
00:40:43 lot of things take some thought and discussion getting rid of rapists shouldn't take a lot of
00:40:49 discussion keeping them in jail shouldn't uh be something that uh does such uh Canadian
00:40:59 Spider-Man says uh sorry Corey I have to hard disagree on the state being responsible for our
00:41:02 safety that gives them the power over our independence takes away individual accountability
00:41:04 which is wrong. Well, I'm not 100% libertarian in an anarchist world. I do believe, though, I agree,
00:41:10 I think we got some area of agreement that we should have more ability to protect ourselves,
00:41:14 period, anyways. That right should be paramount in the first place. I fully agree there. I believe
00:41:20 in castle law and those sorts of principles. But still, in an organized society, the state
00:41:26 should have a degree of policing and law enforcement. And not everybody is capable or
00:41:32 willing, you know, to have the firearms required or ability to fully protect their household or
00:41:37 themselves. And that's where as a society, I think we should try and manage to, again, protect those
00:41:45 liberties of people as much as humanly possible. But one of the obligations of the state, though,
00:41:50 is that management of those things. We can't go into a full free-for-all either. You know, I do,
00:41:57 as I said, I'm quite libertarian, but at the same time, we do need to grieve it. Either way,
00:42:02 the state's failing on that end and that's part of it too is as long as the state is failing we
00:42:07 should be opening up more ability to take the law into our own hands if the state won't do it if the
00:42:13 state's failing i think it's our obligation to citizens to take care of ourselves and take care
00:42:18 of our neighbors that's the anarchy it's going to lead to and uh you know i see a commenter lzgp
00:42:25 laying out all the things yeah just one after another justice system's a mess health care
00:42:29 system's a mess. The border system's a mess. Yes, everything's a mess. Yet I get called every name 0.90
00:42:34 in the book for pointing out, well, the only way I can think of to try and solve this is through
00:42:39 independence. I'll leave that with one more mess that's going on. I've been talking about that.
00:42:43 Elections Alberta is a mess. As we're going into this referenda, I say referenda, it gets confusing.
00:42:49 Referenda is the plural for referendum. Referendum is just one of them. Either way, as we're going
00:42:53 into a bunch of them being held this fall. Elections Alberta is just a gong show. They
00:42:58 won't, again, with Lukasik, who is clearly campaigning, won't deal with applying equal
00:43:04 scrutiny and obligations upon his campaign whilst following the other ones with a fine-tooth comb.
00:43:10 And now with the scrutineering, the biggest step in holding them, you know, that we can hold
00:43:15 elections accountable, having people there in person to watch the vote, watch the count,
00:43:19 watch the process. Well, it turns out for the first time ever, there's a two month
00:43:23 cutoff before voting date for scrutineers. What this means is we can't get scrutineers anywhere
00:43:30 after August 24th. What the hell? And they certainly haven't been expressly talking about
00:43:36 that. It has been available on the website, but they haven't really been letting us know. I run
00:43:39 a third party advertising group and they won't tell us the process on how you can get people
00:43:44 appointed between now and the 24th. So they're telling us I must get this done by the 24th,
00:43:49 but we're not going to tell you how to get it done.
00:43:51 And then once the deadline passes, 0.98
00:43:52 well, you're up shit creek. 0.97
00:43:53 You can't have a scrutineer. 0.99
00:43:55 This is Elections Alberta.
00:43:56 We contacted them a couple of days ago.
00:43:58 Still waiting on a response. 0.99
00:44:01 What are you clowns doing? 0.98
00:44:04 Just make an application for them. 0.98
00:44:06 That's why we're even asking at this point,
00:44:08 but apparently Microsoft Word eludes them.
00:44:13 This is the top authority of elections in Alberta
00:44:15 as they keep screwing this stuff up.
00:44:19 the integrity of the entire process is going to be questioned no matter which side loses in this
00:44:24 they're not going to take the outcome seriously because the electoral authority is either
00:44:30 incompetent or has been corrupted somehow not good not good at all if you can't have
00:44:38 a clean democratic action your democracy isn't working it isn't working so i mean i don't know
00:44:47 I don't know how much more pressure can be put on elections.
00:44:49 People said the premier should step in.
00:44:51 I like to remind people that's not a precedent we want to see.
00:44:55 We don't want to see the premier poking into the electoral thing.
00:44:57 It should be an all party committee.
00:44:59 It might even have to come to a judge,
00:45:00 but somebody has got to intervene because that electoral officer is,
00:45:04 I don't know what the hell his interest is,
00:45:05 but it doesn't seem to be in democracy and protecting those rights.
00:45:09 Well, I'll leave it at that guys. Hey, make sure to tune in to the pipeline tonight.
00:45:13 We're going to have a kind of a different panel lined up due to some people not
00:45:16 necessarily being available today but we're going to cover some issues that'll be really important
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00:45:26 lots of news updates as they come up not to mention Nigel Hannaford's fantastic social show so thanks
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00:45:46 We'll be right back.