Western Standard - Tim Hortons betrayed Canada

00:00:00.000 G'day, welcome.

00:00:27.740 Today's June 18th, 2026. I'm Derek Fildebrandt, publisher of the Western Standard.

00:00:34.140 Normally, you've got Marty up north for your Thursday live call-in show.

00:00:39.320 Marty is attending to other obligations right now, so I figured, what the hell?

00:00:44.200 I've got nothing better to do. I'll fill in.

00:00:46.400 So, we're live now, 1 o'clock, mountain time.

00:00:51.840 Not really used to this format, so we'll see how it goes.

00:00:54.800 normally i just do the pipeline with other staff in here and you know if we screw up too badly uh

00:01:00.780 you know we can you know i'm on a 10 second delay like don cherry was you could just bleep me out

00:01:05.700 but this is live so if i say something particularly outrageous it's uh it's on the record for all time

00:01:10.960 uh a few things uh i'd like to talk about actually first uh we'll just give you the call in uh the

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00:02:00.200 can interact with the show you can chat more or less about whatever you want um but some of the

00:02:06.120 things, you know, my office is beside a newsroom, so we're going to chat about what's in the news

00:02:12.680 today. I want to chat about the gang rape report out of the United Kingdom, the fantastic findings

00:02:22.280 that have come out of that. I want to talk about some of the fallout of it, the way the press has

00:02:27.160 responded to it or not responded to it. We'll talk about the Danny Dollars, Danielle Dollars in

00:02:32.480 alberta uh like a hundred bucks uh for at least most albertans under a certain income limit uh

00:02:41.080 free money i think this is probably not the smartest way to spend taxpayers money but you

00:02:48.760 know on on some in some debate i had yesterday on the pipeline with nigel hannaford uh i've come to

00:02:54.800 the conclusion that i mean if the government's going to waste money this is probably one of the

00:02:58.300 more efficient ways to waste money i don't know if that counts as faint faint praise or a uh

00:03:04.760 backhanded compliment uh choose your metaphor but i i don't know i want to hear your thoughts

00:03:11.620 on uh the danny danielle dollars giveaway the alberta government's conducting here

00:03:16.300 chat about the iran war uh i know i'm offside with uh you know a lot of my colleagues at the

00:03:24.640 Western Standard here, who were enthusiastic supporters of both the first and second Iran

00:03:29.780 wars launched by Israel and supported by the United States.

00:03:36.080 I've been a pretty outspoken critic of both of these wars.

00:03:39.360 I've never thought these are America's wars, that this was clearly not in America's interest,

00:03:48.000 not in the West's interest. 0.82

00:03:49.260 This was a parochial dispute between two Middle Eastern powers, and it should be left to a

00:03:54.120 parochial dispute between two Middle Eastern powers, the peace deal, more or less, MOU, 0.79

00:03:59.060 whatever you want to call it, has been signed, and it is a decisive loss for America, a decisive

00:04:05.000 loss. And I know I'm probably offside, maybe even with a majority of you watching, I don't know,

00:04:11.040 probably offside with a lot of the older right-leaning people watching this. I imagine a lot

00:04:17.620 of younger right-leaning people are, maybe I'd say in aggregate, probably a little closer to where

00:04:22.260 i met but i want to hear your thoughts on it and of course and this is not really in the news just

00:04:28.100 today this is just kind of an ongoing piece um uh tim hortons uh it's betrayal of canada we all

00:04:36.680 know about that uh but the weakness that it's left itself open up opened itself up to it has

00:04:42.360 coasted on the fumes of the goodwill and canada of canadian patriotism for decades it has been

00:04:49.160 uh had a virtual monopoly monopoly as a as a kind of a lower cost coffee shop or donut shop

00:04:56.040 even though i guess donuts aren't really the main thing there anymore uh and uh it has taken

00:05:00.640 canadians for granted so terribly that now duncan donuts has set its site set its sights on canada

00:05:07.060 um and all of a sudden it's panicking acting like oh we're gonna hire canadians that's a novel

00:05:13.520 thought that'll make us patriotic uh hey john on production um see if you can find it well i want

00:05:18.980 to play this in a bit see if you can find this video a lot of people have seen it um it's kind

00:05:24.120 of these propaganda videos that tim hortons is putting out i'm not sure they're formal commercials

00:05:27.800 but they might just be from local franchises on behalf of the corporation but uh it's just

00:05:33.740 these commercials showing all these canadians working at tim hortons like this was 1997 and

00:05:40.500 i'm in high school still uh see if you can find these these videos i'm not sure they're formal

00:05:44.920 commercials. But these videos being put out by

00:05:47.100 Tim Horton showing, like, look at all

00:05:48.960 the Canadians working here.

00:05:51.200 We're not hiring cheap

00:05:53.060 foreign labor undercutting Canadians'

00:05:55.020 wages and jobs. 1.00

00:05:57.440 See if you can find it, because

00:05:58.860 that'll be...

00:06:00.340 I think that'll be very

00:06:02.860 interesting for the conversation.

00:06:05.260 First off, we got...

00:06:06.960 I'm not going to say your username

00:06:09.020 if it's a bunch of letters and numbers.

00:06:11.620 It looks like a heap.

00:06:14.920 oh we got a call oh i don't know what that sound was okay but uh jw says uh iran's been funding

00:06:24.180 terrorism and should have been handled by the entire world world 47 years ago okay uh lc says

00:06:32.460 it's a banker's war we don't want wars we just want to be left alone without invaders so uh and

00:06:41.560 Dawes. It says, them Danny

00:06:43.520 dollars are nothing but a slap in the

00:06:45.580 face to me as an Albertan. A hundred bucks

00:06:47.360 in the words of Austin Powers.

00:06:49.260 Whippity-doo, Basil.

00:06:51.460 One tank of gas.

00:06:54.180 Not even

00:06:54.880 for some people.

00:06:57.220 It's, I don't know, those of us who

00:06:59.440 drive a truck, it's not even close to a tank of

00:07:01.460 gas. I'm pushing nearly 200.

00:07:03.740 And I've got a mid-size

00:07:05.060 truck. It's not even a particularly big truck.

00:07:07.620 I've got a mid-size truck.

00:07:08.920 I can't even approach filling

00:07:11.360 up my truck for for 100 bucks right now um i don't know and you know on this kind of this kind

00:07:19.220 of cash giveaway uh you just remember that in uh kind of the last few months i think it was

00:07:27.600 last month last half year of the trudeau government the federal trudeau government

00:07:32.320 they did a giveaway now they had no surplus of money they were borrowing money it was all

00:07:37.480 borrow money they gave away but it was some kind of affordability payment to canadians but it was

00:07:43.580 free money it was clearly vote buying and remember that all you conservatives every single last one 1.00

00:07:50.680 that i can recall 100 100 of conservatives opposed it and said this is stupid this is socialism this 0.99

00:07:58.460 is redistribution it's free money from some taxpayers being given to others now the danielle 0.99

00:08:05.520 dollars it's different you know in detail uh but first of all it's less money uh second

00:08:13.880 the alberta government is expected to run a temporary non-structural surplus uh due to the

00:08:20.420 high high price of oil bringing in more royalties for the alberta government so it's not being it's

00:08:25.080 not board money being given away but but the principle is still the same it's it's free money

00:08:29.440 it's not going to really make a big difference in anyone's life huge a big proportion of it is

00:08:34.140 going to be eaten up in administration costs and uh you know like so you get a hundred

00:08:40.940 you want to be johnny did you find that video i heard kept on here in the back of my ear

00:08:48.360 did you find the video john okay all right stand by for it we'll go come to it in a bit

00:08:53.920 but just you know you get a hundred bucks in your pocket but it's not a hundred dollars of

00:08:59.020 taxpayers money that was spent it's going to be more because there's significant administration

00:09:02.180 costs. This stuff has got to go through the Canada Revenue Agency because they've got to figure out

00:09:06.100 how much you earned in your tax slip last year, all of these

00:09:10.260 things. So if you opposed it when Justin Trudeau did it, you should probably oppose

00:09:14.340 it when Danielle Smith does it. They're not complete apples to apples,

00:09:19.020 but it's like they're different. One's an ambrosia, one's a granny

00:09:22.140 Smith. They're apples, but they're different kinds of apples. So I know they're not exactly

00:09:26.160 the same situation, but they're close enough that if you opposed one, you should

00:09:30.140 probably oppose the other um uh jacqueline says uh energy rebate replaces fuel tax program

00:09:41.420 find daniel i find daniel smith's reasoning to be a bit disingenuous rural residents spend way

00:09:47.020 more on fuel uh than average than her averages um yeah i mean a really good point here is this

00:09:55.700 is being tied to the price of gas at the pump i drive a truck uh at least when the weather's not

00:10:04.440 nice i drive my truck uh and all winter i drive my truck um oh uh and um and i would get the same

00:10:13.080 rebate as someone who takes the bus and no problem with anyone takes the bus but the bus or the c

00:10:18.340 train uh these things are already subsidized by the taxpayer um and the price of a bus ticket does

00:10:25.100 not go up or down with the price of gas it's pretty baked in and it's subsidized by the taxpayer

00:10:30.340 but they're still getting a fuel rebate even though it's you know it affects them a little

00:10:35.220 bit uh with say the price of groceries grocery costs are affected by the price of gas but

00:10:39.540 it's the same amount going to everyone uh just a reminder to everyone uh you can join the

00:10:44.980 conversation call in at 866-479-9378 extension 711 uh call in and join the conversation

00:10:54.260 um jw says he opposed it when ralph did it that's that's important remember you know ralph bucks

00:11:03.040 uh geez i would have been uh i think i was i was in high school when that happened

00:11:07.780 it was circa 2005 2006 era uh right right at the end of ralph klein uh before uh before

00:11:14.540 ed stelmack became premier um and adjusted for inflation that was a lot more that was a lot more

00:11:20.740 and i think it was a bad idea then but it was probably a little more justifiable alberta had

00:11:26.600 no debt zero we had remember ralph klein holding that big sign paid in full alberta had no debt

00:11:32.040 it had saved a bunch of money in the heritage fund and something that's called the sustainability

00:11:35.940 fund the sustainability fund is long gone now that was spent down by a combination of eds del

00:11:40.800 mac and allison redford uh jim printis tried to spend it but he was not there long enough

00:11:46.520 Rachel Notley finished the very last of it off

00:11:49.460 And we've been going into debt

00:11:51.300 Really ever since

00:11:52.300 Okay

00:11:55.500 I know we've got some comments on

00:11:57.120 We'll read this comment on Tim Hortons

00:11:58.860 And then we're going to play that video from Tim Hortons

00:12:00.640 Freedom Train says

00:12:02.580 The federal government betrayed Canadians

00:12:04.160 Tim Hortons took advantage of it

00:12:05.740 Canadian taxpayers are forced to subsidize their wages

00:12:08.580 Housing and healthcare

00:12:09.440 Won't stop until the subsidies end

00:12:11.600 Okay, so

00:12:13.360 Tim Hortons

00:12:15.780 you know when i i i grew up with tim hortons um you know all of us did um and it always had this

00:12:25.040 warm fuzzy canadian feeling uh i remember i'd go to you know as a kid my dad would take me in there

00:12:30.480 was i i remember when they it was it was very controversial it was no longer you couldn't

00:12:35.960 smoke everywhere anymore and my dad was a smoker and so he uh he they had this partition section

00:12:42.200 a big glass partition and we'd go and sit in the the section partition by glass and it was

00:12:46.900 the most wildly ventilated area ever um you know so people would smoke in there but like you couldn't

00:12:54.160 see a trace of smoke because you know the vents are are sucking it up and i heard uh and my dad

00:12:59.200 would read the sun you know i'd maybe try not to get noticed taking a peek at the sunshine girl

00:13:04.140 back when that was a thing um you know it was we all have these tim hortons experiences growing up

00:13:10.060 a lot of my friends worked at tim hortons going through high school uh i didn't work at tim

00:13:14.840 hortons i i had other you know kind of teenage jobs but some of my friends worked at tim hortons

00:13:20.060 um you know we all have these very fond memories and tim hortons you know for all of us growing up

00:13:27.380 there was kind of there was two if you're going to kind of stereotype who worked at tim hortons

00:13:31.320 it was kids in high school and it was old ladies old ladies uh like the kind of lady you'd see at

00:13:37.480 the legion making triangle egg salad sandwiches for remembrance day or battle of the atlantic day

00:13:42.860 and things like that um that's who worked at tim hortons and it felt like the community you knew

00:13:48.820 these people and they certainly spoke english um well i don't know when exactly that changed and

00:13:56.700 it didn't start just a few years ago it's been on this way for a while but it got really extreme

00:14:02.760 where it's it's just temporary foreign workers um i don't mind people with an accent that's fine

00:14:09.760 but i it's very noticeable when there's not a single person working at this great canadian

00:14:16.580 patriotic franchise where not a single person doesn't have an accent and where they don't

00:14:23.020 at least very often you'd think they'd prioritize putting a good english speaker at the drive-in

00:14:28.360 window or at the counter you know in the back where people are just making making food less

00:14:33.860 important there but at least when you're interacting with the customers we have i don't need to really

00:14:38.500 go on about this we all know it tons of us have stopped going to tim horton's because it's it's

00:14:44.820 it's maddening and it's just sad it's if we it feels like a canadian institution it's owned by

00:14:51.040 a brazilian multinational corporation it's not even canadian owned anymore um some of the franchises

00:14:56.760 i'm sure canadian owned probably i would imagine the vast majority of them are uh that's just a

00:15:02.280 guess but the corporation itself this is all under a brazilian dominated multinational um

00:15:08.540 it feels like something's been lost and they've been able to just coast on the good warm feelings 0.99

00:15:17.600 and canadian canadiana nostalgia for a long time now where the quality is just it's dog shit like 0.99

00:15:25.500 if you've ordered like the ham and cheese sandwich now it's dog shit they stopped making fresh 0.98

00:15:31.700 donuts there a very long time ago you can't blame that on uh you know temporary foreign workers or 0.98

00:15:36.480 anything you can't blame that on the government that's that's just them lowering their standards

00:15:41.060 lowering their quality it's been going downhill for a very very long time um i i i avoid tim

00:15:50.020 wharton's like the plague now but i was coming back from montana a couple weeks ago and i stopped

00:15:54.300 inferney um inferney is kind of the middle of nowhere beautiful town but out out in the rocky

00:16:00.200 mountains in british columbia and uh i figured well i mean i need something quick along the way

00:16:06.540 need a little quick pit stop get some donuts to bring back to the kids too so i i i stopped at

00:16:11.720 the ferney uh tim hortons there wasn't a single canadian working there in ferney in the middle

00:16:17.280 of nowhere i figured out here hours from the closest large city and i was probably still at

00:16:26.140 least at least three probably more three four hours from calgary i forget exactly but it's

00:16:31.240 still a long ways away from any major city like calgary this is going to be staffed by canadians

00:16:36.560 not not one not one out in fernie so they've just done this everywhere and canadians are

00:16:45.560 taking to social media in big numbers

00:16:47.500 complaining about it, and all of a sudden

00:16:49.880 Dunkin' Donuts

00:16:51.200 some of us remember that

00:16:53.580 you know, I'm a

00:16:55.620 millennial I guess, and so

00:16:56.840 from our younger years we remember

00:16:59.540 things, Baker's Dozen and

00:17:01.480 Dunkin' Donuts, some of these other chains

00:17:03.480 they were just finishing dying

00:17:05.520 around then, oh Robbins Donuts

00:17:07.740 I remember Robbins

00:17:08.840 I grew up in a lot of military towns and one of them had

00:17:11.480 a Robbins, another had a

00:17:13.460 Baker's Dozen, Dunkin' Donuts 0.76

00:17:15.480 Dunkin' Donuts, I think, was more in the States, though, but Dunkin' Donuts has realized Canadians were pissed. Canadians like their coffee and donut shop. It's an institution. But the particular institution has lost, we've fallen out of love with it because it's a bad marriage and we're just taken for granted.

00:17:34.120 So Dunkin' Donuts has announced it wants to open, it's either one or two hundred locations in Canada. I forget the exact number, but start with a significant beachhead. And that has scared the piss out of Tim Hortons. And all of a sudden, we get these great, I mean, maybe I'm being unfair to call it propaganda. Every commercial is propaganda in one form or another.

00:18:01.320 It's messaging trying to get you to do something

00:18:04.020 It's got an ask

00:18:04.720 So maybe I'm being unkind

00:18:07.100 Maybe I'm being uncharitable and calling it propaganda

00:18:09.340 But let's just call these

00:18:12.240 Informational videos

00:18:16.500 So let's play this piece

00:18:18.440 Put out by Tim Hortons

00:18:20.020 That comes out

00:18:22.100 As soon as Dunkin' Donuts

00:18:24.420 Announces it's coming to Canada

00:18:25.420 Let's roll this

00:18:26.320 Hi, I'm Bill

00:18:28.200 Hi, I'm Kim

00:18:29.220 Come meet our team

00:18:31.320 We've been Tim Hortons restaurant owners for 21 years.

00:18:35.300 When we're hiring team members, we look for people that just love people.

00:18:40.340 My name is Deb, and I've worked at Tim Hortons for 34 years.

00:18:43.860 So I choose to keep coming back to Tim's because of the people, staff, and customers,

00:18:48.560 people I see daily, and the new people that come in the doors every day.

00:18:52.260 My name is Lauren, and I've worked at Tim Hortons for five years.

00:18:55.180 My favorite thing would be the co-workers and the co-workers relationships as well as the customers.

00:19:00.160 My name is Stacey and I've been working for Tim Hortons for almost 40 years. One thing I wish

00:19:04.400 people knew about working at Tim Hortons is the opportunities that we have to offer. You can be

00:19:09.280 multi-trained in every area, every aspect of the business. I wish people knew about the Tim Hortons

00:19:15.200 Scholarship Program. I got the opportunity to apply and receive it in 2025 and put it towards

00:19:20.480 my university studies. If I could give one piece of advice, it would be, don't let the nerves get

00:19:25.280 to you and just take it one day at a time welcome to dance

00:19:33.400 well well isn't that just some nostalgic canadiana there where did they find this place

00:19:44.460 where did they find this place it's that yeah well they got five people up there maybe there's

00:19:50.380 wouldn't it be funny if they had a bunch of temporary foreign workers working there 0.65

00:19:58.960 but they're like get in the back we're making a video the canadians are pissed the canadians 0.99

00:20:05.540 are pissed and we got to show them that there's canadians working here so uh all the tfws go 0.72

00:20:10.840 hide in the go hide in the the walk-in fridge and take a break or go go take a smoke out by the by 0.74

00:20:18.460 the drive by the homeless guys at the drive-thru get out of here we're making a video uh i don't

00:20:24.800 know i don't know where that location is uh i don't know i haven't seen a tim hortons that

00:20:34.280 looks like that in long over a decade maybe two maybe two decades uh you know two decades ago

00:20:42.620 like who cared hey maybe we do need some people and i i like newcomers this is a good thing

00:20:47.800 uh but you know now it's only it is exclusively so um so this is clearly a very panicky video

00:20:58.740 uh if anyone knows where that was actually shot like where that location is let me know in the

00:21:03.500 comments uh like as i said i was in fernie bc it's it's a gorgeous little community but it's

00:21:10.200 it is in the middle of nowhere i don't mean that as an insult i i tend to grow up in places that

00:21:13.700 We're largely in the middle of nowhere.

00:21:15.480 But Fernie's really far away from a major population center. 0.99

00:21:19.840 And it's Tim Hortons where all workers were all at least appeared to be TFWs. 0.53

00:21:26.020 I don't know.

00:21:26.280 Maybe some were permanent residents.

00:21:27.780 I don't know.

00:21:29.320 But where did they find these guys?

00:21:33.120 And did they have any temporary foreign workers and just put them in the back while they shot this video?

00:21:38.640 I don't know. 0.95

00:21:40.180 I don't know.

00:21:40.660 But it's clearly coming from the very clear falling out of love the Canadians have had with Tim Hortons, which is sad.

00:21:50.460 Coming from Freedom Train here said, if Smith wants to help Albertans, she needs to stop forcing Albertans to subsidize foreign workers.

00:21:56.060 We're financing our own replacement in the workforce.

00:21:59.900 I mean, there are a lot of people completely buried in the news with the Alberta independence referendum is that there's nine other questions.

00:22:06.980 Roughly half of them are to do with proposed constitutional amendments.

00:22:10.660 that have a virtually 0% chance of being adopted by the rest of Canada

00:22:14.020 and therefore becoming a part of the Constitution.

00:22:16.200 The other half have to do mostly with issues around migration

00:22:19.940 and voter ID and things like that.

00:22:22.480 One of the proposals in that referendum is

00:22:25.500 that the Alberta government would be able to certify

00:22:31.700 which migrants we want, which ones we don't.

00:22:35.580 And if you're not certified by the Alberta government,

00:22:37.620 you're not eligible for social services schooling health care welfare all of these things uh so i

00:22:44.000 think that is a good step forward i don't know why she's putting that to a referendum that's

00:22:47.860 clearly got overwhelming majority support in alberta uh you'd have to go you'd have to go to

00:22:55.380 um like a university campus faculty or the calgary chamber of commerce to find people

00:23:01.200 naive enough to not support something like that so i don't know why she doesn't just do that but

00:23:06.920 That is a policy that's on the table

00:23:08.540 and seems very likely the Alberta government

00:23:10.680 will drive forward.

00:23:20.880 Bit off topic, but related.

00:23:22.320 I think Giordano said,

00:23:28.300 one less commonly mentioned reason

00:23:29.560 for Alberta independence is protection of English. 0.85

00:23:31.600 The majority of our immigrants don't speak English

00:23:33.400 as their first language.

00:23:34.320 French is overly subsidized.

00:23:36.920 I mean, I have mentioned this a little bit before, but it's not commonly talked about.

00:23:42.320 I mean, Quebec independence is driven in large measure by language politics, by protecting the Quebec culture, the Quebec ethnicity or ethnos.

00:23:54.660 You know, so language plays a huge role in the Quebec independence and nationalist movement.

00:23:58.220 you know the Alberta independence movement is never until very recently not never surpassed

00:24:06.260 Quebec in its level of support and it fairly regularly not always but fairly regularly does

00:24:11.960 pass Quebec in support for independence now and it's traditionally been driven by economics and

00:24:16.840 fiscal policy feelings of democratic exclusion that kind of stuff language has never played a

00:24:23.160 big role in it until extremely recently with a massive influx of uh of migrants at levels of 1.00

00:24:30.480 which we cannot absorb at a reasonable at a reasonable pace um it's impossible to so i mean 0.99

00:24:38.000 i i have no fear that uh english will disappear from alberta but it is a very real thing that

00:24:47.160 it is no longer the you know you can go everywhere and speak english we do have pockets in alberta

00:24:54.240 now where um you might not be able to uh to get away with english i mean it's not a lot

00:25:01.340 but it's it's not just language it's just overall culture is our dominant anglo-canadian culture

00:25:07.820 unquestioningly supreme in alberta which is founded as an anglo-canadian land uh if that

00:25:17.060 not just by anglo-canadians it had ukrainians germans french scots uh bit irish um uh you know 0.99

00:25:26.180 some dutch and norwegians swedes um you know so it has non-anglo peoples but they all very quickly

00:25:33.320 assimilated into the dominant anglo-canadian culture of alberta and that is no longer above

00:25:43.500 question. It is no longer hyper-dominant. It's still the biggest, but it's no longer the

00:25:48.580 hyper-dominant question. So culture very much has become a part of the conversation now around

00:25:54.520 Alberta nationalism. There's a lot of complaining about Tim Hortons. I get it.

00:26:06.720 uh brett boyle says tim hortons uh tfw temporary foreign worker program tim hortons was ramped up

00:26:17.340 with the harper kennedy uh kenny cons i know because kenny was my mp at the time and i was

00:26:22.620 freaking out about wage drops housing shortages etc where were you then um so uh oh well that was

00:26:33.020 an interesting uh i don't know what that uh that image was on there but um yeah uh yeah we we have

00:26:43.260 seen a lot of temporary you know we we this was driven in large measure at least by corporations

00:26:51.820 that claimed uh there was a a labor shortage and at times that's been the case particularly in

00:26:59.020 alberta where we have a booming expanding economy we want to bring more people in uh and and so

00:27:05.140 sometimes that's been a legitimate excuse um there used to be more safeguards around making you know

00:27:12.540 something called labor market analysis and uh a corporation that wanted to bring people in

00:27:18.560 as temporary foreign workers had to show that they have made a good faith and serious effort

00:27:23.780 to find canadians to fill the job and that they cannot find people with appropriate skills to do

00:27:28.140 it but that got bent and it got bent and i got bent and the numbers got ramped up at what point

00:27:34.060 did it become unreasonable i don't know but the numbers did very much uh get pretty damn high

00:27:40.960 uh well jason kenny was the immigration and citizenship minister under stephen harper

00:27:45.860 it's certainly i think it would be very unfair uh to him to say that uh to to equip make it

00:27:53.720 equivalent to what happened under justin trudeau where they just threw open the barn doors and

00:28:00.080 said anyone can come in uh enjoy yourselves no restrictions and and numbers came into the

00:28:06.620 millions um so they're they're not comparable in in in the sheer scale but it is fair to make

00:28:14.460 some comparisons there it was too much certainly in hindsight some said so at the time but not

00:28:21.000 not many. And I'm not sure I could even really credit myself of saying so at the time. I mean,

00:28:26.240 immigration just wasn't a very major interest of mine at that time. I saw it was a major problem 1.00

00:28:31.380 in Europe. I saw what was happening there. But in Canada and in Alberta, it seemed to be

00:28:39.720 chugging along more or less fine. We didn't really have these big, major problems and social

00:28:45.000 disruptions and economic

00:28:47.020 chaos created by it, housing

00:28:49.080 shortages. These things

00:28:51.040 were there, but they were not acute.

00:28:52.880 I admit I wasn't paying attention to it in a major

00:28:55.060 way at the time, but these things

00:28:57.100 were taking place under the Harper government.

00:28:59.200 Well, Kenny was the immigration minister,

00:29:01.340 but it went to a whole

00:29:03.140 other scale of magnitude

00:29:04.520 under the Trudeau government.

00:29:10.940 ...

00:29:15.000 all right okay guys i get it i get it you guys are really angry at tim morton's i get it i'm

00:29:25.560 trying to i'm trying to whip you up but i guess it's working um but yeah uh lots of hate on lots

00:29:34.920 of hate on for tim morton's um but yeah i uh i love that um little kind of propaganda video put

00:29:44.640 out by that tim hortons franchise um i i can't say but i would speculate that it seems very

00:29:53.940 plausible to me that someone at corporate headquarters or at the very least regional

00:29:58.880 headquarters was like okay guys we got an image problem everyone people are pardon the slur but

00:30:07.060 you know people are saying things like sing hortons uh people are angry at us they feel

00:30:13.820 like we've you know we've sold out this great canadian brand and they only ever see tfw's here

00:30:21.260 so let's find one local franchise that's got some canadians working at it there's five people in

00:30:27.420 those video in that video i think i counted maybe i'm wrong but i counted five um who do not appear

00:30:33.460 to be temporary foreign workers uh and i know there's a lot more there they are five uh there's

00:30:39.800 more than five people who work at a Tim Hortons

00:30:41.640 on any given shift, generally

00:30:43.720 in the middle of the day. So I feel

00:30:45.760 like there's probably more people actually working at

00:30:47.660 Tim Hortons when this photo is taken.

00:30:51.080 I'm not

00:30:51.740 saying some people

00:30:53.780 were told to

00:30:54.560 excuse themselves while they film this video

00:30:57.560 and take a picture. I'm not saying that happened.

00:31:00.480 But I'm saying it's

00:31:01.760 it seems pretty

00:31:05.540 plausible. So they found one

00:31:07.560 branch that's actually got some Canadians going for it.

00:31:09.800 congratulations but yeah tim hortons you know i really uh tim hortons is panicking

00:31:15.260 but you know i hope this is good i mean they're a big faceless corporation they are required by

00:31:24.040 law to only really care about money so whatever but when when their reputation is hurting their

00:31:31.840 ability to make money maybe maybe they will care so i you know hopefully the backlash does force

00:31:36.960 some changes they start to actually hire some canadians uh they put they they drape themselves

00:31:42.740 in the flag more than like bud light with america like the tim hortons cup it's red and it's white 0.86

00:31:48.460 and the lid is literally a freaking maple leaf like you're you're drinking sir john a black

00:31:55.440 today like it's they really lean into the canadian brand on this stuff and uh but then

00:32:04.280 pay it no substance it's it's it's it's pure publicity it's it's just such a brand and and

00:32:10.780 i'm fine you want to wrap yourself in the flag the canadian flag the alberta flag the quebec flag

00:32:15.320 i mean i feel like uh what's that chicken place in quebec oh i love it a saint hubert chicken

00:32:20.360 um you eat saint hubert chicken with the sauce you vote for quebec independence overnight oh

00:32:27.080 and if they want to wrap if saint hubert chicken wants to wrap their uh themselves in the fleur-de-lis

00:32:31.640 Good for you

00:32:33.160 As long as you're doing tribute to your people

00:32:35.940 You know

00:32:36.960 As long as 0.99

00:32:37.880 St. Hubert is actually hiring Quebecers 0.99

00:32:42.020 To work there

00:32:42.680 I haven't been at St. Hubert

00:32:43.660 Probably well over a decade

00:32:46.740 So I don't know who actually works there anymore

00:32:48.700 But if you're going to wrap yourself in your flag

00:32:50.060 Whatever your flag is 0.99

00:32:51.180 You better hire people

00:32:52.320 Who love that flag

00:32:54.200 And who are citizens of that flag

00:32:58.380 So

00:32:59.480 So, all right, I'll move on a bit.

00:33:02.380 I'll move on from Tim Hortons a bit.

00:33:06.760 I want to talk about the Iran War a little bit.

00:33:08.500 I know that's not a good pivot, but the Iran War.

00:33:15.800 So this MOU Memorandum of Understanding was signed between the United States and Iran.

00:33:24.360 Very tense language that's taking place.

00:33:28.420 Not between the United States and Iran right now, but between Israel and the United States.

00:33:34.400 Members of Benjamin Netanyahu's cabinet, not Bibi himself, but members of his cabinet, and that's a coalition of parties, as is always the case in Israeli governments from the Knesset, openly criticizing Donald Trump.

00:33:53.300 And J.D. Vance had some words today, you know, hitting back at that, saying, like, Donald Trump is your only ally right now.

00:34:02.220 He's the only leader in the world who's actually positively disposed towards Israel at this moment.

00:34:11.880 In case you haven't checked the poll numbers, you're not very popular anywhere in the world, even in America.

00:34:17.300 But despite American polls, Trump is still backing them.

00:34:21.320 Um, and so, because, because the Israeli government is very upset that the war ended, uh, without achieving any, a single one of, uh, their war objectives, such as they are, because we, the war objectives were never well defined.

00:34:38.860 it was about destroying weapons of mass destruction and then in the next breath you know the question

00:34:44.940 is well you said you destroyed their nuclear weapons program six months ago in the first

00:34:49.220 iranian war uh or nine months ago whenever that was uh so how can you have destroyed their how

00:34:55.240 are you destroying their nuclear program right now if you destroyed it six or nine months ago when

00:35:00.020 you said you completely obliterated it so that question never held uh never stood up to scrutiny

00:35:05.200 and then it was well uh we're gonna liberate the people uh the Iranian government cracked down on

00:35:10.160 these protests and killed uh killed a bunch of people and we're gonna liberate them and the

00:35:14.720 question was okay so you're gonna launch a ground invasion you're gonna work that would require a

00:35:20.500 force of probably realistically speaking at least a million American personnel on the ground a

00:35:27.900 million would be the biggest american military action since uh at least korea or perhaps vietnam

00:35:35.800 if you added it all up but it would be uh this would be a lot harder than vietnam probably

00:35:40.760 harder than korea this is an immensely larger and more powerful country than vietnam or or

00:35:45.780 north korea ever were uh so that that never held up um and then the war objectives became reopening

00:35:53.000 the Strait of Hormuz. That doesn't hold up

00:35:55.060 well because it's like

00:35:55.860 the Strait of Hormuz was open before you launched

00:35:59.100 this war.

00:36:00.800 So you're fighting the war

00:36:03.020 to achieve what you had before the war.

00:36:05.660 And then once we had the ceasefire, 0.99

00:36:08.020 the Iranians demonstrated 0.99

00:36:09.220 their ability to keep the Strait closed. 1.00

00:36:11.220 That's driven oil prices

00:36:12.840 through the roof. 1.00

00:36:14.820 That's been good for Alberta.

00:36:16.520 Some good from the war. 0.88

00:36:18.700 Alberta's made some money.

00:36:21.020 That's not how I want us making money. 1.00

00:36:23.000 It's blood money 1.00

00:36:24.480 Alberta's not responsible for it

00:36:26.520 So that's unfair to call it blood money 0.69

00:36:28.300 But it's not the reason we want oil prices to be high

00:36:31.860 We don't want it to be high because

00:36:33.740 People are dying, people are being bombed

00:36:36.520 We want it to be high because

00:36:38.780 People just want what we got

00:36:40.940 And we've got access to world markets for it

00:36:43.200 So we have more or less the peace deal now

00:36:48.980 Iran has said

00:36:51.160 it will continue

00:36:52.420 to not have a nuclear program

00:36:55.100 that's funny language

00:36:57.180 because it's kind of the United States

00:36:59.300 more or less agreeing that they didn't have one

00:37:01.500 they did have one

00:37:02.760 a nuclear weapons program I should say

00:37:04.940 they do have a nuclear program

00:37:06.200 they've denied having a nuclear weapons program

00:37:08.940 and that's up for debate

00:37:10.160 but I've always been very hesitant 0.93

00:37:13.180 with the American and Israeli

00:37:14.800 accusations about

00:37:16.220 secret nuclear weapons programs

00:37:18.520 after Iraq. And with Iraq, at least they provided some half-ass 0.98

00:37:22.420 fake evidence. With Iran in both wars, they provided 0.95

00:37:26.640 zero evidence. They just said, you're going to have to trust us on this one. And I'm sorry, 0.98

00:37:30.280 if you like Donald Trump or not, never trust

00:37:33.820 people in power to just take your word for it. Especially when we're talking

00:37:38.200 about, you know, this isn't some Danielle dollars. This is

00:37:42.360 war. This is people's lives. This is the global economy.

00:37:46.000 this is the world order so no you don't take the word for it so the war has been a disaster

00:37:52.040 from top to bottom america's prestige in the region is destroyed um uh i think um

00:38:01.640 the iranian regime has been deeply entrenched it's now more radical than ever

00:38:07.100 if they weren't building nuclear weapons before they're definitely building them now they've been

00:38:13.380 attacked by the u.s and israel twice in a year um while they were at the negotiating table

00:38:20.160 and so from their perspective and i know it's it's hard to think of the perspective 0.96

00:38:24.260 of people so very different from us and these people are very different they're nuts you know 0.92

00:38:30.440 i'm not i'm not an apologist for you know these ayatollahs nutters um but you have to try and 0.89

00:38:36.460 think from their perspective from their perspective the way the united states and israel's just

00:38:42.260 attacked them twice from their perspective at least unprovoked by choice uh while they were

00:38:48.580 in active negotiations um they killed the ayatollah his son has been installed and so they're they're

00:38:55.940 still entrenched they're more radical than ever uh and so if they weren't building nuclear weapons

00:39:01.980 and it's i don't know no way to tell if they were or not but if they weren't building them before 0.53

00:39:06.240 they're definitely building them now there is iran would be crazy not to build nuclear weapons

00:39:13.380 because nuclear weapons are the one thing that stops a major conventional military strike or war

00:39:20.440 against you if you have the ability to incinerate uh your enemies or your opponent's biggest cities

00:39:28.600 that guy is very unlikely to launch a major strike against you so from iran's perspective

00:39:35.220 they need nukes now so i'm not convinced we were on track for a nuclear iran before i think we

00:39:42.980 probably are on track for a nuclear iran now at some point at some point they're going to get the

00:39:47.380 bomb uh but guess what we can't can't believe the united states benjamin netanyahu said uh has been

00:39:54.560 saying that uh israel has been sorry that iran has been on the verge of obtaining a nuclear weapon

00:40:00.520 in just a few weeks and he's been saying it since i was like a toddler i was a little kid uh at least

00:40:09.680 it goes back until i was in elementary school like in the fifth grade he's said this stuff forever so

00:40:15.080 you know it's it's it's chicken little it's the boy who cried wolf so it's it's impossible to

00:40:19.960 believe this man when he says it um but he wanted this war for other purposes and he got it twice

00:40:27.280 but he and his cabinet are extremely upset that it's ended from their perspective prematurely

00:40:34.160 it's ended without the complete destruction of the iranian regime and that was never going to

00:40:39.340 happen uh they they had these crazy um these crazy ideas just like they had you know with

00:40:46.660 many of the other uh uh wars in the middle east you know just knock on the door on a rock and

00:40:53.640 the people will greet us as liberators. It'll be easy. The people will throw off the regime

00:40:57.880 themselves. We'll barely have to do anything. Syria, you know, if we destabilize the Assad

00:41:04.040 regime, it'll be this wonderful liberal democracy. Well, now it's governed by Al-Qaeda or ISIS.

00:41:10.860 Take your pick which flavor. This guy's been involved. The new president there has been

00:41:14.600 involved with both. Libya, Egypt, none of these things have turned out well. None of them. And

00:41:21.360 yet it was supposed to turn out well with Iran and the people would just overthrow the government. 0.78

00:41:27.560 There was no prospect of that happening without the United States going in with a million man

00:41:32.380 plus military force. It was never going to happen. But I believe that that is what the Netanyahu

00:41:39.800 government was hoping for. And that was just never in the cards. I guess the idea was to get the

00:41:44.700 United States in, in for a penny, in for a pound, continually escalate the war. And the United

00:41:50.040 states would just be eventually drawn into it you know vietnam did not start big most wars don't

00:41:54.980 actually start big but uh trump's popularity at home has taken a shellacking from this the economy

00:42:01.920 tanking with the street of hormuz closed the war itself is unpopular it's it's unpopular democrats

00:42:08.000 and it's also unpopular with a lot of republicans especially america first megatypes you know trump

00:42:15.080 campaign is the guy who's against these kinds of pointless middle east forever wars he was against

00:42:20.320 this kind of stuff until he all of a sudden seemed to be for it one day and just watches two of these

00:42:24.940 wars out of nowhere um and so this was unpopular with a lot of republicans and so trump eventually

00:42:31.860 put the brakes on it de-escalated the war and none of the united states's objectives however

00:42:38.440 very fluid those are defined uh have been achieved and certainly not netanyahu's war

00:42:44.600 objectives which is regime change

00:42:46.600 so

00:42:47.680 I know

00:42:52.560 I keep it an eye

00:42:54.340 I know some of you guys very much do not agree with

00:42:56.520 me didn't didn't expect

00:42:58.220 I expected a lot of you not to

00:43:09.280 um

00:43:14.600 okay

00:43:17.080 William

00:43:20.220 Robel says it was never about

00:43:22.800 keeping the Strait of Hormuz open

00:43:24.080 it was a geopolitical play

00:43:26.160 it still is

00:43:27.180 well it became about

00:43:29.480 and then he says

00:43:31.680 Iran attempted to close the Strait of Hormuz

00:43:33.640 following the flare up of hostilities

00:43:35.000 yeah well it wasn't about the Strait of Hormuz

00:43:38.260 until the war got going and Iran

00:43:39.920 then closed the Strait of Hormuz

00:43:41.600 you know so it's

00:43:43.220 it became a war objective after

00:43:49.140 to restore the

00:43:50.900 pre-war status quo ante

00:43:59.340 that we're just trying to achieve

00:44:01.200 what we had before we started this war.

00:44:04.080 So, yeah.

00:44:07.040 Although I'm not sure what

00:44:08.460 William's saying I'm wrong about here.

00:44:10.280 He says I'm 100% wrong.

00:44:12.180 Yeah, entirely possible.

00:44:13.220 But I'm not sure what he's saying I'm wrong about here

00:44:16.200 Woken promises

00:44:28.020 A couple of questions, Derek

00:44:29.480 What do you think this failure says about the U.S. military's capability

00:44:32.940 And what do you think Israel will do militarily going forward?

00:44:39.780 I mean, the United States still has

00:44:41.480 a tremendous military capability.

00:44:44.940 Theoretically,

00:44:45.700 America could do it. 1.00

00:44:47.440 They could conscript 0.98

00:44:48.640 everyone between 18 and 30 0.97

00:44:51.000 and build a

00:44:52.920 many-million-man military

00:44:55.500 and send people over

00:44:58.160 in giant converted transport ships 0.96

00:45:00.220 and invade it

00:45:01.040 as if this was the First or Second World War. 0.54

00:45:03.960 America could do that,

00:45:05.860 but a part of any military calculation

00:45:08.220 is also the political calculation.

00:45:09.740 There would be no appetite

00:45:11.300 for that uh americans are not convinced they have a dog in the fight americans aren't generally

00:45:17.360 enthralled with the iranian government nor should they be but most americans do not believe

00:45:23.640 this is their war it's not their war and uh you know i'll be damned if i have to go fight or you

00:45:31.980 know my son's too young but if he was older if i had to go send my son to go fight and die for

00:45:36.940 not my country it was just it was never explained really why this was in america's interest why this

00:45:44.840 was america's war i mean the result america kind of won like they sunk the iranian navy

00:45:52.740 it's gone um they destroyed a bunch of iranian military installation installations fine but the

00:46:00.680 regime is still there it's more entrenched than it's ever been it's more radical than it's ever

00:46:04.460 been it's more likely now to want to build a nuclear weapon than it's ever been um and

00:46:11.540 uh the strength of american alliances in the region are degraded so how has this been a part

00:46:19.920 of america's interest the american military functions spectacularly well for what it does

00:46:25.080 it's american military is not geared towards multi-million man invasion forces it it can

00:46:33.960 bring itself up to something from time to time i mean the the invasion of iraq was was big i forget

00:46:39.360 how many but it was i was a it was a significant force but it wouldn't be nearly enough to take

00:46:45.240 on a country three times the size and much more mountainous uh like iran um the american military

00:46:52.100 functioned well and no one else can do what they do um but even that was beyond its capabilities

00:46:58.420 unless it was in a kind of a total war situation.

00:47:02.880 And there just was no political will for it.

00:47:07.640 Second part of his question is,

00:47:08.700 what do I think Israel will do militarily going forward? 0.71

00:47:12.480 Well, we see right now that Israel is still,

00:47:17.180 has not removed its invasion force from southern Lebanon,

00:47:20.840 where they say they're there to clear out Hezbollah.

00:47:24.060 um that is perhaps at least partially true uh but it's certainly not entirely true they've

00:47:31.580 uh more than a million people have been ethnically cleansed by the idf there a very large number of

00:47:38.300 which are christians there's a lot of christian towns and villages in southern lebanon and they've

00:47:42.940 been completely uh driven out and last i checked there are no christians in hezbollah hezbollah

00:47:51.820 as a radical Shiite Islamist militia.

00:47:57.040 It doesn't have Christian members.

00:47:59.320 They're not allowed to be members, 1.00

00:48:01.160 and I doubt any Christians would want to be members. 0.99

00:48:04.480 Yet entire Christian villages have been ethnically cleansed. 0.93

00:48:08.900 Because what Israel is trying to do is essentially try to,

00:48:12.540 I think, turn southern Lebanon into a form of the West Bank,

00:48:15.420 where it's not perhaps formally annexed, 0.99

00:48:17.420 but you can drive out the local population,

00:48:19.280 And then you set up settlements, kind of armed, fortified settlements.

00:48:23.880 I think that's their play there.

00:48:26.040 And that is disrupting the peace deal.

00:48:29.120 Because Iran is saying, Iran and the United States' agreement says that Israel has to stop its invasion and occupation of southern Lebanon.

00:48:39.360 And Israel's saying, no, we don't.

00:48:42.900 But then Iran says, if Israel doesn't stop, then that invalidates the whole agreement, including with the United States.

00:48:48.320 And so you're seeing real tension right now between the Trump administration and the Bibi administration.

00:48:55.120 They are, for the first time, and I think in a real way, publicly, really at loggerheads.

00:49:01.860 The United States wants this war over.

00:49:04.740 The Trump administration has never and will never admit that this was a mistake.

00:49:09.120 But they know that it is not in America's interest to continue the war.

00:49:13.320 They want to open the strait.

00:49:14.360 They want to get back to normalcy.

00:49:15.520 They want to restore international trade for him of the seas. Israel's interests are about regime change in Iran and about territorial expansion in northern Lebanon. So they have very different interests at play here.

00:49:30.240 and uh that's why you're seeing some very strong attacks coming from uh again not bb himself but

00:49:39.160 members of his cabinet against trump and the administration and and the uh then jd vance

00:49:47.180 hitting back against uh against members of uh bb's coalition cabinet it's uh it's tense i've

00:49:53.700 never seen this much daylight between the trump and uh bb governments as as we have right now

00:49:59.040 all right um

00:50:06.140 so uh just we'll switch gears here something a little lighter let's talk about the gang

00:50:13.120 rape report in the UK um so Rupert Lowe he is a member of parliament I think he was originally

00:50:20.420 elected as uh part of the reform party in the UK Nigel Farage's insurgent party on the right

00:50:26.220 Nigel Farage expelled him

00:50:28.340 for being

00:50:29.200 I guess too hardcore

00:50:31.840 radical I'm not sure if he used the words

00:50:33.960 I can't say for sure but I think he called him a racist

00:50:36.340 and xenophobe and things like that

00:50:37.960 you know those usual buzzwords

00:50:39.640 because while

00:50:41.940 Reform UK wants to crack

00:50:44.280 down on immigration

00:50:45.180 Robert Lowe

00:50:48.620 wants to end it

00:50:49.820 he wants remigration 1.00

00:50:51.760 in significant numbers

00:50:52.960 so being expelled from reform

00:50:55.740 He started Restore UK to the right of reform in the UK.

00:51:02.940 And just for context, those of you who don't follow British politics, the Labour Party, the traditional two big parties in Britain, Labour and the Conservatives, have both cratered into like fourth and fifth place.

00:51:14.600 They're going to get annihilated in the next election.

00:51:17.820 The Reform Party leads in the UK and followed sometimes by like the Lib Dems and stuff like that.

00:51:22.880 And then Restore UK, this guy's party, has been really coming up on the further right flank.

00:51:30.860 Anyway, he had been demanding for years an inquiry into these rape gangs in the UK that are a huge problem.

00:51:40.220 And successive governments have refused to call it.

00:51:46.520 He was elected at the time as Keir Starmer's labor government.

00:51:49.820 Keir Starmer refused to call a public inquiry on it,

00:51:53.580 so he had his own independent inquiry.

00:51:57.460 A proper inquiry with all parties and an independent commission

00:52:01.720 and whatnot would have been best, but the government refused to do it.

00:52:05.520 And when you really read this report, you can see why they refused to do it.

00:52:09.920 It is damning is too cliche, not nearly strong enough of words.

00:52:16.520 this should be like a storming of the Bastille moment.

00:52:25.180 Members of the UK establishment

00:52:27.260 should be getting thrown in wood chippers

00:52:30.440 in Piccadilly Square for this.

00:52:35.360 It is...

00:52:37.640 The report claims that

00:52:40.020 approximately a quarter million

00:52:42.800 indigenous British girls

00:52:45.960 have been victims of these gang 0.98

00:52:48.820 rapes. Overwhelmingly

00:52:50.820 something 95% in that

00:52:52.920 area by Pakistani 0.99

00:52:54.480 rape gangs. 1.00

00:52:57.680 So 0.75

00:52:57.800 details here showing

00:53:02.360 people throughout the system

00:53:04.400 police,

00:53:06.720 prosecutors,

00:53:08.600 doctors, teachers,

00:53:09.980 social workers,

00:53:11.980 all the way through

00:53:13.720 young

00:53:14.800 girls victims uh would come to them seeking help and they'd be told not to be racist and just

00:53:23.000 forget about it and some cases sent back to uh the rapists these gang rapers sent back to them

00:53:33.260 um horrifying stuff uh and it says keir starmer who was a director of public prosecutions at the

00:53:43.700 time i'm not sure if i'm getting that title 100 correctly but i think that's it he apparently let

00:53:50.180 it alleges he let off 13 or 15 000 gang rapists with warnings naughty naughty don't be raping 0.88

00:54:00.480 very naughty this is england please try not to rape while you're here um 0.74

00:54:07.720 it's uh it's wild stuff uh you know some of the usual characters have come out

00:54:14.320 and tried to uh pour cold water on it uh i don't know i'm sure there's going to be

00:54:21.900 legitimate criticism criticism criticisms of it i'm sure but uh it's uh if you've got if the

00:54:32.740 government has criticisms of it, the government

00:54:34.780 should call its own inquiry

00:54:36.120 with the full resources of the

00:54:38.660 state. You know, if Keir

00:54:40.660 Starmer doesn't like this inquiry,

00:54:42.920 he should call his own inquiry.

00:54:45.420 Have an independent commissioner

00:54:46.860 go out

00:54:47.720 and get the facts. Let's see if

00:54:50.540 Rupert Lowe is wrong.

00:54:52.500 That's fine.

00:54:54.800 And I don't know why we're not doing this

00:54:56.740 here. I don't think

00:54:58.240 the problem is as acute here

00:55:00.780 as is in the UK.

00:55:02.740 Um, there's versions of this problem across Europe. Um, you know, when Angela Merkel opened up the floodgates, uh, to so-called refugees, uh, during the Iranian civil, uh, sorry, the Syrian civil war, uh, millions came to Europe, not just Germany. She, she destroyed not just Germany. She destroyed Europe.

00:55:23.300 um she wasn't she didn't begin the process but she really accelerated it um and then soon after 0.98

00:55:31.020 you know we had uh in the city of cologne uh rape gangs roaming the streets uh raping german girls 0.86

00:55:38.460 um those were not pakistanis those were syrians afghans and whatnot but you know there's a common

00:55:46.300 denominator here they're not they're not generally born and raised where this is happening they're

00:55:52.720 doing it and where they're

00:55:54.700 a guest in another land.

00:55:58.040 So

00:55:58.480 I want to hear from you. Should we have

00:56:00.760 an inquiry

00:56:02.000 of something like this? At the very least,

00:56:05.140 I know the United Kingdom needs

00:56:06.760 a formal inquiry called by

00:56:08.680 the government. Germany

00:56:10.760 needs it. France needs it.

00:56:12.820 Poland and Hungary don't seem to need it.

00:56:16.000 I wonder why that

00:56:16.840 is. 1.00

00:56:18.700 Anyone want to take a wild guess why Poland and

00:56:20.720 Hungary don't seem to

00:56:21.860 of a big gang rape problem i don't know maybe it's the food maybe it's the climate i don't know

00:56:30.560 that's just me um i don't think the problem is as um

00:56:37.180 as acute here but i it probably is a thing uh let's see valerie jordan ab says they caught

00:56:46.160 another pakistani man trying to kidnap a child this week he claimed there are no age restrictions

00:56:50.760 in Islam and he didn't understand British

00:56:52.740 tradition.

00:56:54.200 I can't verify that. I think I saw that

00:56:56.680 but I can't verify it.

00:57:00.420 Yeah.

00:57:05.100 It's a thing.

00:57:07.980 It's a thing.

00:57:11.160 I don't know.

00:57:12.300 It makes me

00:57:12.740 upset. And I'm going to be over in Europe

00:57:16.680 I think a few weeks

00:57:18.620 from now.

00:57:20.760 and i used to love going i used to love germany austria the netherlands england

00:57:31.160 belgium but they're not germany austria netherlands belgium england anymore they're gone

00:57:41.320 last time i was there was 2017 and i was after england merkel opened up the floodgates

00:57:45.720 and a city I've got a lot of family roots in

00:57:51.460 and a lot of history in myself, Munich.

00:57:53.760 Even Munich wasn't Munich anymore.

00:57:55.680 It was gone.

00:57:57.540 I don't think my children will never see Munich again.

00:58:00.400 It doesn't exist.

00:58:02.640 And there's a lot of cities that are a lot worse off than Munich.

00:58:06.380 Berlin, Brussels, London.

00:58:11.160 So take your kids now

00:58:14.020 because these things are practically already gone there won't be any semblance of them left soon

00:58:19.200 all right well i i gotta get i'm filling in for marty up north so i have to get back to my uh

00:58:24.320 my real job now uh trying to bring order to the chaos around the newsroom here uh so i'm

00:58:29.620 going to sign off now thank you everybody who participated we had a good chat in the comments

00:58:33.540 here uh let me know how you liked it i don't know maybe we'll do this uh semi-regularly

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Western Standard - June 18, 2026

Tim Hortons betrayed Canada

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