Western Standard - Trudeau’s mass immigration policies are crushing Canada

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00:00:30.000 Thank you.

00:01:00.000 good day welcome to the cory morgan show hey we're almost in june already you know we might

00:01:20.000 have some some things to look forward to this time of year politics can often get even screwier and

00:01:25.040 crazier than it normally does because we're getting near the end of the sessions alberta's

00:01:29.720 legislative session is ending today so the last final shots the opposition wants to get in are

00:01:34.940 going to come in and the last bills that the government wants to stuff through they're going

00:01:37.760 to stuff them through federally we're going to see that thing pretty soon too and then they'll

00:01:41.620 all settle into their you know rubber chicken circuit as they say pat bouncing around pancake

00:01:46.660 breakfast ribbon cuttings and things for the summer or their own vacations so keep an eye

00:01:50.580 close on the news in this next few weeks so this is like i said when they try to throw a lot of

00:01:55.020 stuff through also you see when the government wants to drop something really bad sometimes

00:01:58.780 particularly federally, do it just before summer and hope that over the course of, you know,

00:02:04.740 summer holidays and everything, the public tends to forget it and we'll give them a pass in fall

00:02:08.720 and when things all start opening up again. Either way, for the time being, we've got a lot to cover.

00:02:12.760 We've got a good show today. I've got Andrew Lawton. You probably know who he is. He's with

00:02:18.040 True North Media. He has this show and he's an author of multiple books. And his latest book

00:02:23.800 has come out called Pierre Polyev, A Political Life. He's in studio or he's going to be in a

00:02:28.360 little while. And we're going to talk about that book and learn a little more about the man who

00:02:32.420 very possibly could be our next prime minister. It's going to be a good conversation. All right,

00:02:38.120 well, let's get on what's got me going today. And this is a subject that just keeps going on and on,

00:02:43.140 but it keeps getting worse and worse. And it's worth revisiting, I'm afraid. I mean,

00:02:47.140 right now, Canada, I mean, we're facing social and economic challenges on every front. And let's just

00:02:52.700 say it outright. Mass immigration is one of the prime culprits behind it. People try to 1.00

00:02:57.000 obfuscate and everything and say, oh no, but that's just one thing. There's many others. Yes,

00:03:00.160 there are. But the big one, the big one right now is mass immigration. We have 1.3 million people

00:03:06.360 entered Canada just in 2023. Let's say, you know, access to housing has hit crisis levels. Healthcare

00:03:13.320 and educational institutions are bursting at the seams. Inflation, it's slamming every type of

00:03:18.060 consumer good. And we've got ethnic-based divisions and conflicts on the rise throughout the country.

00:03:22.580 You don't need to be an economist or a sociologist to realize that, sure, there's no magic bullet to address these challenges,

00:03:30.640 but we can ease the immediate pressures by tapping the brakes on mass immigration.

00:03:34.580 This isn't a matter of selfishness or intolerance. It's logistics.

00:03:38.120 We just can't sustain these numbers.

00:03:40.720 Unfortunately, the Trudeau government has no interest in curbing these immigration levels, much less cutting them.

00:03:47.300 In fact, they keep doubling down.

00:03:48.980 Minister of Immigration Mark Miller, he just announced a plan to quintuple.

00:03:52.580 The number of Gazan immigrants coming into Canada, yeah, five times as many.

00:03:58.060 In fact, he's going to say that they could bring the family, so it could be even higher than that.

00:04:01.720 Now, we've got protests and anti-Semitic violence erupting around the nation.

00:04:05.740 Why on earth do we want to import thousands more people from the world's biggest hotbed of violent anti-Jewish hatred?

00:04:12.920 There's several Arab nations right near Gaza that could take in Gazan refugees if they wanted to,

00:04:18.300 where they presumably would be able to culturally integrate more comfortably than they do within

00:04:22.520 Canada. Is it unreasonable to politely ask those nations to step up instead of Canada?

00:04:27.840 The Liberal government is now pushing legislation that's going to allow expats to automatically

00:04:32.480 pass on their citizenship to children, even if the kids have never set foot in Canada.

00:04:38.020 Now, you might remember the Lebanese issue years ago, maybe not, but Canada had a problem with

00:04:41.980 citizens of convenience. They live abroad, but just pop back occasionally to drain the country 0.90

00:04:46.500 of health care services and other such things, or if war breaks out, they'll come here and hide,

00:04:50.780 but then they go back. It's something of a parasitic approach to citizenship, and that

00:04:54.780 policy hole was closed years ago, while the Trudeau government wants to open it back up.

00:04:58.880 So just think how easy it'll be to find a doctor, it's so easy already, when the Canadian system is

00:05:03.860 now on the hook to provide free care for thousands and thousands more kids born overseas who've never

00:05:08.440 even been in Canada. Then we've got activists pushing for a misguided open border policy,

00:05:13.040 and they've been openly demanding, not asking, demanding that Canada starts giving permanent

00:05:18.040 resident status to illegal immigrants. Not talking about all immigrants, illegal immigrants.

00:05:22.900 Apparently they don't think the 1.3 million who did legally enter a year are enough.

00:05:27.760 These activists feel emboldened enough through the years of Trudeau's permissive

00:05:30.860 immigration policies. They think they're going to get away with it. We can't dismiss their demands. 0.99

00:05:35.320 It's as ridiculous as they sound. The Liberals might consider acquiescing to them. 0.98

00:05:39.800 And just think of the volume and quality of new Canadians that we could gain once word gets out

00:05:43.840 that all they have to do is step foot in the country, whether legally or not, 0.59

00:05:46.780 and they'll just get full permanent resident status.

00:05:50.000 It's abundantly clear that the Trudeau Liberals are desperately putting their political well-being

00:05:54.460 ahead of the needs of Canadians.

00:05:56.260 The only positive economic indicator the government can point to right now

00:05:59.820 is the growth in the gross GDP.

00:06:02.700 And that's how they can claim the nation hasn't officially hit a recession.

00:06:05.340 The only reason the GDP, though, has been growing is due to mass immigration.

00:06:09.160 which creates activity and causes a housing boom.

00:06:11.820 But the GDP per capita for Canadians has been plummeting due to this.

00:06:15.780 The entire country is getting poorer by the day

00:06:18.120 as more people are splitting an economic pie

00:06:20.420 that isn't growing as fast as the population is.

00:06:23.160 Of even more concern, though, and this is the bigger one,

00:06:25.820 than the liberal obsession with mass immigration,

00:06:27.880 is the deftly silence from Conservatives on the issue.

00:06:30.600 If there's going to be any relief for Canadians to look forward to

00:06:33.180 from this current terrible policies,

00:06:34.540 it's expected to come from an incoming Conservative government.

00:06:37.540 But if the Conservatives won't even talk about the issue today,

00:06:40.120 will they find the courage to tackle the issue tomorrow?

00:06:43.000 I mean, every elected Conservative politician lives in dread of being called a racist.

00:06:46.980 Critical discussion of immigration issues is sure to draw that label,

00:06:50.140 even if race has nothing to do with it.

00:06:52.120 Thus, I think, part of the reluctance on the part of Polyam's government to talk about it.

00:06:55.420 But I got some bad news for the Conservative Party of Canada, though.

00:06:58.460 They're going to be called racist no matter what they do.

00:07:00.860 The Trudeau government is cornered and desperate.

00:07:02.640 They'll play the race card without basis or hesitation,

00:07:05.520 even when they got a comfortable lead.

00:07:08.060 What makes the CPC think that staying silent on political issues

00:07:10.860 will keep the Liberals from accusing them of racism?

00:07:13.080 Guess what? The Liberals are also going to accuse them of wanting to ban abortion,

00:07:16.220 wanting to roll back marriage rights for LGBTQ people, 1.00

00:07:19.020 and wanting to steal candy from babies. 0.99

00:07:20.920 That's the bedrock of every contemporary Liberal campaign technique.

00:07:25.040 Don't worry about trying to pressure Liberal MPs to see reason on the immigration issue.

00:07:28.520 They never will. That ship sailed.

00:07:30.840 Citizens, though, must put pressure on the Conservatives on this issue,

00:07:34.000 and the sooner the better.

00:07:34.860 If they keep taking the path of what they see as the least resistance when it comes to immigration,

00:07:39.480 the mass influx of people coming into Canada will continue unabated, even if we change governments.

00:07:44.460 And at the rate it's going, it's going to crush this nation for generations to come.

00:07:48.440 Clock's ticking, folks.

00:07:50.080 Again, just, you know, we want to support the Conservatives, but don't be afraid to be critical of them, too.

00:07:54.640 I mean, they can make mistakes as well.

00:07:57.220 And if we don't speak up, they're going to do that.

00:08:00.300 All right, let's see what else is going on out there and check in with our news editor, Dave Naylor.

00:08:03.460 Hey, Dave, how's it going?

00:08:04.060 Well, I'm enjoying the sunshine, Corey, after what seems like weeks of nothing but rain.

00:08:10.240 It's nice to have some sun for a while.

00:08:14.720 Yeah, I actually mowed the lawn the other day for the first time, you know, this season.

00:08:18.120 It was already getting near knee-deep in spots.

00:08:19.820 It's quite a workout when you let it get that long.

00:08:22.100 Yeah, everybody I know is complaining they haven't been able to cut their grass.

00:08:26.000 And as you say, it's getting knee-deep.

00:08:28.700 Anyways, if Nico, the producer, could just put up a photo I sent to him.

00:08:35.580 You tweeted this out a couple of days ago, Corey, and I find it absolutely fascinating.

00:08:40.560 Can you just explain what we're looking at here?

00:08:43.080 Sure, actually.

00:08:43.880 Yeah, that fellow on the left, his name is A.W. Stewart.

00:08:46.840 He built, on the exact same spot that my house is, a little shack that was given to him.

00:08:52.440 The land was given by Charlie Prittis, the founder of Prittis, where I live.

00:08:56.140 and he had a little general store and post office there and he lived in it. And that's him with his

00:09:03.060 horse down by the creek just down towards the end of my property there. So Jane and I rode for a walk

00:09:08.120 and that was from 1905 or so. And we went to that same spot and you can tell by the cliff, though

00:09:12.640 it's hard to tell with the black and white and the angle, the water was too high to get down to it.

00:09:15.820 But that same spot hasn't changed too much, except of course the trees. They've really grown since

00:09:20.240 then because back then they used to cut down everything for fence posts and firewood. And

00:09:24.440 And now it's all grown, nice big old growth, which is why I get all those crazy critters in my backyard all the time.

00:09:29.960 Oh, that's very cool, Corey.

00:09:31.460 Yeah, it immediately grabbed my attention when you tweeted it.

00:09:35.060 Yeah, very cool.

00:09:36.180 A tip I would offer to anybody, go to the Glenbow archives online.

00:09:39.160 There's actually a lot of cool pictures of every neighborhood, parts of Alberta, and it's all public access.

00:09:43.780 It's quite good.

00:09:44.860 Yeah, awesome.

00:09:45.780 Anyways, we've had a really busy morning today, Corey, and lots of weird and wonderful and wacky stories to entertain readers.

00:09:53.260 As you know, yesterday was Menstrual Health Day, Hygiene Day across the world, and the Trudeau Liberals celebrated it in style, all wearing menstrual bracelets and whatnot.

00:10:09.520 And it was met with some scorn, including Laureen Harper, Prime Minister Stephen Harper's wife, and some funny Twitter comments there.

00:10:21.440 uh also out of ottawa we have a story about an ndp mp uh breaking down in tears in the commons as

00:10:29.840 she said climate change is not general neutral it affects women uh way more than uh than men

00:10:36.880 edmonton city council has opened up a three-day hearing on their plans for uh 15-minute cities

00:10:42.640 and they're getting uh tons and tons of feedback there uh controversy in the ndp leadership race

00:10:49.600 where Nahid Nenshi and Sarah Hoffman have been accused of lying

00:10:54.080 about visiting the Midfield Trailer Park in Calgary

00:10:57.560 during the time it was being evicted.

00:10:59.660 So that's a good story there.

00:11:01.460 And it looks like Nenshi is sticking by his comments.

00:11:06.320 Charges against PGA star Scotty Scheffler have been dropped.

00:11:10.380 He had to run in with a police officer at the PGA tournament a week or so ago.

00:11:15.680 Well, fun story of the morning is apparently North Korea has unleashed a literal, I can't even say it, feces bomb on the poor people in the south. 0.80

00:11:30.140 They're loading up balloons filled with feces and floating them over Seoul and exploding them.

00:11:36.520 So the people of Seoul aren't very happy about that.

00:11:39.380 A couple of Kamloops stories on the unmarked alleged grave sites today.

00:11:45.680 We've got a local Indigenous leader saying that the missionaries just took the bodies and disposed of them away from the residential schools.

00:11:55.580 And that's why there have been no bodies found so far.

00:12:00.140 And City TV in Vancouver had to withdraw a story in which they claimed that there were graves found.

00:12:08.300 And your outrageous federal story of the day, Corey, is you remember they sold all those ventilators for scrap metal.

00:12:16.440 So access to information documents show they sold $22,000 ventilators for only 21 bucks so they could, quote, better understand the recycling industry.

00:12:27.380 So you just got to shake your head.

00:12:29.840 That's all you can do.

00:12:31.060 Yeah, you're going to try and laugh to avoid crying.

00:12:33.140 I mean, that's why I couldn't help but chuckle.

00:12:34.420 As horrific it must be if you were living in Seoul and a balloon full of poop blew up and splattered you and your household.

00:12:41.340 But I guess, hey, if we're going to have disputes between two neighboring countries, I can think of worse things they lob at each other than balloons full of feces.

00:12:50.460 So maybe if it just sticks to that, it could be worse.

00:12:53.920 Absolutely.

00:12:55.220 All right.

00:12:55.780 Well, thanks for the update.

00:12:57.160 I'll let you get back to hammering away on that and hopefully less fecal related matter for the rest of your day.

00:13:03.200 Thanks, Corey.

00:13:03.840 All right. Thanks, Dave. That is our news editor, Dave Naylor. And as you can hear, yes, we, lots of stories breaking all the time, covering things from the light to the serious. And, and, uh, the reason we do it, this is where I do my nag is because you guys have subscribed. You know, we don't take tax dollars. We don't want to take, we won't take it. We stay independent. And the way we do is because you guys have stepped up and you have subscribed. So get on there, westernstandard.news slash subscription, $9.99 a month, a hundred bucks for a year, guys, just like an old newspaper subscription. It's well worth it. And you will get right

00:13:33.840 past that annoying paywall and be able to get straight to all of those important stories.

00:13:38.100 Important stories like that. Yeah. Like I said, we could cover the light stuff too. This is kind

00:13:42.580 of light and heavy mix at the same time as Dave mentioned. If you don't punish yourself by going

00:13:47.060 on X and things like that, you might not have noticed it. But the big virtue signaling issue

00:13:51.920 of the day yesterday for liberal members of parliament was to walk around with these little

00:13:55.180 bracelets with the red part in the middle, which I guess was to symbolize their unity with people

00:14:01.620 who menstruate. We used to call them women, but now I guess you have to break that down and specify

00:14:06.920 it. Part of what's so frustrating with this sort of stuff from the woke is that, you know, the

00:14:13.380 identity of women themselves, this is supposed to be a virtue signaling exercise in support of women, 0.98

00:14:18.660 but these are the same people also who completely undercut women all the time when saying, yes,

00:14:23.340 but as long as that person over there wants to change their personal identity, they can compete

00:14:27.440 sports. And they're supposed to be considered a woman as well. But guess what, guys? They don't

00:14:32.400 menstruate. Either way, do we really need to discuss it? I don't think there's really been

00:14:35.880 that much oppression of menstruators in North America these days. We understand it's a regular 1.00

00:14:41.080 bodily function. It's just what we do. I don't think we tend to shame people for it. I mean,

00:14:45.560 everybody has a lot of bodily functions we don't tend to discuss at length. We don't have to wear

00:14:49.880 bracelets to celebrate them all the time. But this is what our elected officials get up to. Either

00:14:54.360 way it gives us something lighter to report on it can't all be Israel and Gaza and horrific stuff 1.00

00:14:58.280 we could talk about period bracelets now and then for a change as well all right well let's get back

00:15:02.160 to the domestic front and speak with our guests I really been looking forward to this we've got

00:15:06.560 in studio author uh show host uh writer with true north uh boy a long description Andrew Lawton

00:15:13.840 in studio and you've just released yet another book Andrew thanks for coming in and talk to us

00:15:18.080 yes happy to be here I'm sorry I forgot my menstruation bracelet I didn't know that was

00:15:21.880 the fashion of the day.

00:15:23.080 If you get a red Sharpie, you could make one.

00:15:25.340 Yeah, yeah, just my Apple Watch, I could just like color over.

00:15:27.880 And it's actually, this is my diarrhea bracelet.

00:15:30.260 You said we need to celebrate every bodily function.

00:15:32.700 Well, I put one on X.

00:15:34.260 If you're familiar with my account, I'm a little tasteless.

00:15:36.160 I had a candy corn bracelet that I put on.

00:15:38.200 I said for the day of recognition of pooping. 0.83

00:15:40.340 Yeah, there you go.

00:15:41.100 It got mixed reviews.

00:15:43.300 Well, like I said, we got to laugh now and then.

00:15:44.800 As serious as these issues are, you know,

00:15:47.540 it's got to lighten up a little bit.

00:15:49.380 So you wrote on Pierre Polyev, you know, A Political Life.

00:15:53.600 So a biography kind of of Mr. Polyev up till now.

00:15:56.820 I mean, this is a story that's probably only halfway written.

00:16:00.300 Yeah, there's always a challenge in writing about something that is so contemporary.

00:16:04.380 So my first book was on the Freedom Convoy and I wrote it after the convoy had ended.

00:16:08.100 So it was more retrospective, whereas here it's a point in time.

00:16:12.540 And well, you know, likely you could make another book in four years or eight years or 12 years,

00:16:17.320 depending on how the election goes.

00:16:18.820 I am also convinced that it was important to have a documented record of his life to this point, how he got to where he is, which for Canadians who are deciding how to vote for, or Canadians that are just observers of politics, I think can be a really useful tool.

00:16:33.140 Yeah, well, and finding out who Mr. Polyaev is, I mean, he's an outspoken, extroverted man, yet at the same time, he's very private about himself. You don't get to know a lot about him. We've had him here a couple of times, seated where you are for interviews, and great, fantastic talks about what he wants to do with the party.

00:16:48.820 but you don't get much more else out of him.

00:16:51.500 So, I mean, as an author, it must have been challenging me

00:16:53.020 because you want to write a bit about him as well.

00:16:55.280 I mean, you know, the personal aspects.

00:16:56.880 I mean, not getting, you know, exposing or embarrassing,

00:16:59.740 but just like what makes this man tick.

00:17:01.820 Yeah, no, I would have totally been all on the exposing and embarrassing stuff if I got it.

00:17:05.560 No, you're right.

00:17:07.160 And when he talks about his personal life,

00:17:08.860 usually it's in a very curated way to make a point.

00:17:11.620 So he's talked about, you know, the upbringing of his parents,

00:17:14.860 school teachers from Calgary, the adoption he went through.

00:17:17.400 He's talked about his parents having to downsize because of interest rates back a few decades ago.

00:17:23.180 So there are little glimpses of this you get through.

00:17:25.680 But the one thing for me, though, in writing this was that I was talking to a lot of the people around him,

00:17:29.980 and they were a lot looser with their lips than he might have been.

00:17:33.200 So I still think I got a relatively good picture of his life, you know, going back to his youth in Calgary,

00:17:38.460 his adolescence, getting involved in politics, and a little bit of that personal stuff does shine through.

00:17:43.420 Oh, definitely. I mean, and there's some interesting things with his history.

00:17:46.660 I mean, his father came out of the closet late in life.

00:17:52.400 He was a gay man and, you know, it was a split family.

00:17:55.540 But it sounds like Mr. Polyev is very well comfortably reconciled with that.

00:17:59.140 But these are formative things with people on their way growing.

00:18:01.940 And I find some of that more fascinating to know those things, I guess, than just the policy statements that we tend to get.

00:18:08.180 Yeah, I mean, no one exists in isolation from their experiences and their stories.

00:18:12.160 So even if people know him in a political context, there's still a human experience that has led to that moment.

00:18:18.400 And, you know, how much it has led to it, who knows?

00:18:21.400 One example that comes out in the book and has not been reported elsewhere is that his daughter has quite a severe case of autism.

00:18:28.940 And that's something that he as a father has had to grapple with while working in politics.

00:18:33.240 So that's the type of experience that could very easily shape your outlook to certain issues as a parliamentarian.

00:18:40.360 Well, absolutely.

00:18:41.340 And I mean, it'll give, I guess, more of a direct sense of things when it comes to the

00:18:45.840 challenges parents with kids with special needs have, especially as a parliamentarian.

00:18:49.840 We're in a job when you're flying and bouncing around with a child that needs a lot of stability

00:18:53.120 and attention.

00:18:54.760 It's a very challenging role, which also shows, I mean, that was a large part of why

00:18:59.720 Mr. Paulyov didn't run in the last leadership because that was just coming out at that time.

00:19:04.360 But now he's gone for such, he's a driven man.

00:19:08.220 And I mean, something that was clear in the book, too, though, you know, there's there's people who did other careers and then fell into politics later.

00:19:13.640 But it sounds like Mr. Poliova has always had a razor focus on the political life.

00:19:18.180 Yeah. The subtitle of the book is A Political Life for a Reason, because his life has been politics.

00:19:22.580 Politics has been his life. And even the people around him have been, I don't want to say unchanged.

00:19:26.860 He certainly met people over the last 20 years. But a lot of the relationships that he forged when he was first getting involved in politics are relationships that are still very valuable to him today.

00:19:36.180 I mean, he interned with people that are now members of parliament with him.

00:19:39.520 He volunteered on campaigns with people who are now working on his campaign.

00:19:43.320 The internship coordinator when he interned for Jason Kenney was Jenny Byrne that he had a 12-year relationship with and is now his chief advisor.

00:19:51.360 So all of these connections, again, many of which forged right here in Calgary or certainly in Alberta, have really followed him throughout his entire life.

00:19:59.620 Well, for people who work in politics, I mean, the network is really important.

00:20:02.620 I mean, some come from outside and jump in, but if you're immersed within it, I mean, your social network is there, as we saw with Jenny Byrne.

00:20:09.860 It's interesting that he can, you know, it's difficult in life to reconcile that and keep a professional relationship later on because they're both very interested, conservative people, whilst, you know, no longer being a couple.

00:20:23.140 Yeah, and I think that the one thing that came out, and Jenny Byrne did actually speak about her relationship on the record, is that they were friends first and are friends since.

00:20:31.820 That's the way that relationship is framed. And they've always had a tremendous amount of trust

00:20:36.580 for each other. And I think the fact that, you know, Pierre Pauliev has now made her

00:20:40.140 the person that really, I don't even think it was a pool of people that auditioned for it. I think

00:20:45.220 it was just a given that she would be the one in the driver's seat on his leadership campaign. And

00:20:49.400 now what he's doing as a leader. Yeah, well, and trust is integrals. As you get to those higher

00:20:53.820 levels, you just really want somebody that you can feel comfortable in speaking with. So he's

00:20:58.460 he's considered that very important for himself. So being his, you know, I mean, some of what you

00:21:04.080 wrote about too, I mean, his early essay that won him a prize, the things that got him in, but

00:21:08.300 is he an ideologue? Would you say that? Very much so. He's also quite practical though. And I think

00:21:15.840 that there's this dilemma in politics where you have people that are all about electability and

00:21:20.360 people who are all about, you know, the purity of ideology. And there's often the belief that

00:21:26.240 there's no middle ground. And I think, well, I've never heard of him using it. I think Poliev

00:21:30.100 really took a cue from the old William F. Buckley Jr. rule of, you know, support the most electable,

00:21:35.920 most conservative candidate. You have to look at that intersection of practicality and

00:21:40.880 pragmatism and of, you know, that philosophical purity. And when you talk about that essay,

00:21:47.220 a lot of what he advocates for has remained unchanged over the last two decades. He's still,

00:21:52.540 he's always been committed to you know classical liberal principles freedom of speech the idea of

00:21:58.420 the free market the idea of getting government out of the way and a lot of the messaging that

00:22:02.520 he used in that essay almost identical to what he's campaigning on in the leadership race and

00:22:07.800 since becoming leader yeah and then i mean it's it's picking you don't want to die on an ideological

00:22:12.780 hill because it can be a waste of a party or a campaign or anything sometimes it's time to back

00:22:17.080 off of it though i mean for say and it's easier for me to do as somebody commenting from the sides

00:22:21.440 to get on their case when they back off on other things. But a frustrating thing that I hit every

00:22:25.720 time, and they didn't like that when he came in, a pet issue of mine, supply management drives me

00:22:30.260 bananas. As a conservative, as a classical liberal, it's just as, you know, antithetical

00:22:35.420 to the entire ideology. And I've asked him point blank, would you get rid of it? He's been honest.

00:22:39.720 He said, no, he wouldn't. Okay. So he's, he knows that on principle, he doesn't feel it's a good

00:22:46.000 policy. But if you're looking to elect a government across this country, you just don't want to pick

00:22:50.760 war with Quebec dairy farmers. Yeah, I mean, and this was the case with Andrew Scheer in 2019 as

00:22:55.700 well. I'm convinced that if you were to be behind closed doors with Andrew Scheer, having a few

00:22:59.700 drinks and just, you know, chatting about politics and policy, he's probably against supply management.

00:23:05.500 But at its core in politics, that's the issue that seems to just be the weird one that convinces

00:23:10.900 everyone to go against their ideological instinct, including people that, by the way, had no

00:23:15.220 tolerance for the wheat board monopoly but when it comes to when it comes to the dairy uh the

00:23:20.340 dairy industry it's a different calculation well that's just what i guess as a as a western pundit

00:23:25.640 sort of gets a guy a little nervous if you wonder how far does the pragmatism go because we know

00:23:29.580 the quebec tail tends to wag the canadian dog a lot how far would it get perhaps with a prime

00:23:36.020 minister and polyev before he might put his foot down with some yeah well there's a little bit of

00:23:40.720 history in the book that i think is quite interesting in that regard so when when stephen

00:23:44.420 Harper became prime minister in 2006, the Quebec caucus was very influential. And part of that was

00:23:50.700 because they wouldn't stop putting their agenda forward. And Stephen Harper had said what a couple

00:23:57.740 of MPs thought they had to read between the lines on was, you know, when these guys come in here and

00:24:02.200 they make these asks and there's no one on the other side to push back against it, I have limited

00:24:05.840 options. So there was this group that formed within the conservative caucus, which called

00:24:10.720 themselves the Khmer Bleu after the Khmer Rouge. And Pierre Polyev was a member of this. And they

00:24:15.900 were the conservative members of the conservative caucus. And their goal was to meet every day,

00:24:20.160 every week before the caucus meeting and say, how can we push conservatism within our party?

00:24:25.420 How can we push the government towards a conservative agenda? So I think Polyev does

00:24:29.860 have a track record of trying to keep the party accountable to the right. Now, the question that

00:24:33.920 raises, will there be a Khmer Bleu in a Polyev government? Will there be a contingent in that

00:24:39.340 caucus that says, okay, we need to make sure that our conservative principles are not left behind.

00:24:43.900 Well, there's no doubt, though, that the influences of Prime Minister Harper on him

00:24:46.980 will be very strong and felt. I mean, he cut his teeth in government under Harper's leadership,

00:24:53.700 and I would imagine, hopefully, he's picked the best and worst of that. I mean, there was good

00:24:58.120 and bad to come from the Harper. How would you see him differing from Harper if he became Prime

00:25:02.500 Minister? The one area that was raised by a number of people I spoke to is Harper's incrementalism.

00:25:08.520 Now, to give Harper a little bit of a pass on this, he was elected with a minority government, and then he was reelected with a minority government. He didn't get his majority until five years later in 2011. But by that time, there had been this commitment to this path of having to build consensus, work across the aisle. So that really aggressive, bold agenda, the radical agenda didn't really happen.

00:25:31.140 I mean, it was funny when when the left and the media were accusing Harper of being this like, you know, radical draconian leader.

00:25:36.660 A lot of conservatives were like, I wish I where where is that Harper?

00:25:39.960 So I think Paul Yev has learned a little bit from that.

00:25:42.280 And I also think if you look at the poll numbers, he is likely at this point anyway to be entering with a really decisive majority.

00:25:48.760 So he has a latitude that Harper never had in his first term if this pans out.

00:25:54.320 And I think he's going to use it. I don't think he wants to squander that leverage that he'll have.

00:25:59.280 Now, the challenge is, and this I know will be of interest to people in the West, is the Senate. Stephen Harper left 22 vacancies in the Senate when he left office. Those were filled by Justin Trudeau. Justin Trudeau has had 10 years of appointing senators. Will the Senate become an impediment to Pierre Polyev's agenda as prime minister? I don't know. It's a possibility, though.

00:26:20.160 Well, if you get those big standoffs, I mean, the supposedly independent senators of Trudeau.

00:26:24.240 Yeah, the nonpartisan senators, I think, will very quickly show themselves to be anything but.

00:26:29.280 And so, I mean, that could be, I guess, a check that would hold him a bit because I said, I mean, if the polls hold it, he could have a supermajority, unlike anything we've seen since the 80s among conservatives.

00:26:39.180 What do you think, though, that he would take on?

00:26:41.120 I mean, if you've got that opportunity, we know how the politics works.

00:26:43.380 You're going to hit it hard in the first year or two and then kind of ease off when you're moving towards re-election.

00:26:47.460 So what tough ones do you think he would bite his teeth into in that first year or two if he got that majority?

00:26:52.140 Well, I mean, look, he's been a very, very strong fiscal hawk.

00:26:56.560 And I know that he's being left a mess by the Liberal government, but he also has to prove that he's making pretty real steps towards balancing the budget.

00:27:04.120 So that's going to be a challenge that he has to take up or show really good progress on.

00:27:08.620 He's got to defund the CBC.

00:27:10.320 I mean, this is not the number one issue for a lot of people, but it's an important issue and it matters to his base.

00:27:15.600 And he has not left himself any wiggle room to get out of that.

00:27:18.300 So if that doesn't come within the first hundred days, there's something wrong.

00:27:21.320 Well, if it doesn't come in the first hundred days, you know, I'll be among the people.

00:27:23.740 Yeah, as will I.

00:27:24.680 I'm not saying turn them out of office, but hey, get a role in here.

00:27:28.200 You know, we can't feel that bad.

00:27:29.640 Yeah, well, you guys will have some new, you can move into the CBC headquarters in Calgary, expand a bit.

00:27:34.760 Yeah, it would need to be sanitized.

00:27:37.980 We could do so.

00:27:39.380 He's got his work cut out, though.

00:27:40.840 What sort of pitfalls?

00:27:42.220 I mean, you see, we got, what, 16 months until the anticipated next election.

00:27:46.760 If Trudeau was really crazy and intransigent, he could actually stretch it for another year beyond that.

00:27:51.100 Some people might not realize that.

00:27:52.260 Yeah.

00:27:52.420 they're kind of, I think, in desperation and just hoping that almost the Conservatives trip

00:27:56.380 themselves up. What sort of minefield do you think is ahead of Mr. Polio? I mean, you know,

00:28:01.460 it's a dangerous course to hold the power. Some people say you peak too early with the polls,

00:28:05.440 you're really at a risk of a hard fall. Yeah, there's always the X factor. I mean,

00:28:09.380 not to, you know, get all conspiratorial, but a pandemic. I mean, if there's some event like that,

00:28:15.860 some national crisis of sorts that gives Trudeau the opportunity to be the daddy again, to be in

00:28:21.800 the driver's seat, to be the unifying figure that he pretended he was. That's obviously an issue

00:28:26.080 that could harm conservatives. Although I think that in general, when you look economically at

00:28:30.560 where things are, the deck is stacked against Justin Trudeau. People's mortgages are coming up

00:28:34.660 for renewal. Interest rates are going up. All of the issues we see with cost of living and housing

00:28:38.980 are going to get worse in the next two years. So I do think that there is an incentive for Trudeau

00:28:43.680 to, like, if he goes to the polls now, it's not going to work out well for him. So I think that

00:28:47.580 He wants to wait and see if something, something puts the voters a little bit more in his corner.

00:28:53.300 But again, I have a hard time seeing what that path would be.

00:28:56.380 Well, that's it.

00:28:56.860 I mean, they're praying for the usual issues.

00:28:58.560 They're throwing it out there, trying to keep abortion alive. 1.00

00:28:59.900 Yeah, it's going to be abortion and assault rifles.

00:29:02.420 Anytime they're saying abortion and assault rifles, it's because nothing else is working.

00:29:05.280 There's been too many conservative governments in a row that never acted on abortions.

00:29:08.360 I think that that assault rifle is not loaded.

00:29:11.740 But the liberals can never be discounted.

00:29:13.540 I mean, they are an established, even if Trudeau might be less than competent in some ways,

00:29:17.720 they've got some very strong minds and well-organized people back there.

00:29:21.380 Probably I was just aware of this as anybody.

00:29:23.040 Yeah, and when you have nothing to lose, I mean, it's the caged animal approach.

00:29:27.280 When you're backed into a corner, to use all the cliches here,

00:29:29.720 that's when people come out swinging and swing for the fences.

00:29:32.160 And look, I'm of the mind that Justin Trudeau is a burn it all down with him kind of guy.

00:29:36.100 I actually don't think he cares what he leaves behind. 0.75

00:29:38.800 I think that he will go nasty, he'll go dirty, he'll go low.

00:29:43.000 And if the whole party crumbles, it doesn't really matter to him.

00:29:47.460 Yeah. And it's, you know, I wrote that in a recent column.

00:29:50.760 I ended, you know, it's misattributed to Sun Tzu, but something along the lines of, you know,

00:29:53.980 an unprincipled leader will burn down the nation and rule over the ashes.

00:29:57.740 And Trudeau has a bit of that in him, I'm afraid.

00:29:59.800 Yeah.

00:30:00.020 But, well, time will tell.

00:30:02.280 So before I let you go, today, for those watching live right now, you've got a book kickoff going on in Calgary, an event.

00:30:09.300 Where's that at? What time?

00:30:10.320 Yeah. Well, Pierre Polyev's life started in Calgary. So we thought it was fitting for

00:30:14.500 the book about Pierre Polyev to launch in Calgary. I love this city. We're going to be at the

00:30:18.360 Ranchman's Club at four o'clock. Okay. And just so folks know, we've got the Ranchman's Bar

00:30:22.740 that's down on McLeod. That's not what you're talking about. You're talking about the Ranchman

00:30:25.820 Club, which is the outline. But people do get that mixed up. It's a really cool old club,

00:30:29.760 actually. It's really nice. Aside from coming to see your book. I've never been. So yeah,

00:30:34.120 tickets are available at modernmiraclenetwork.org slash lot. Okay, excellent. And where else can

00:30:39.160 people find your book? Well, everywhere. It's on Amazon, it's on Indigo, and you can always support

00:30:43.780 independent publishing by going to Sutherland House, which is the publisher, and they have it

00:30:47.820 available directly. Excellent. Well, thanks for writing the book, and well, multiple books. I

00:30:52.680 mean, you've got a few out there. I recommend folks get out there and grab a few copies out

00:30:56.500 there, but this is the latest one with Pierre Polyev, A Political Life, and yeah, thank you

00:31:01.780 for doing it, and I'm sure it'll sell well, and people will appreciate your documenting the first

00:31:07.120 half of Pierre Polioff's life. Anyways, it'll be interesting

00:31:09.120 right in the second half when he's done with politics.

00:31:10.980 Thanks a lot, Corey. All right. Thank you, Andrew.

00:31:13.880 Yes, as I said, that was

00:31:15.180 Andrew Lawton. Yeah, the Ranchman Club. It is

00:31:17.140 in the Beltline. It is a neat spot.

00:31:19.200 You can get there for the book

00:31:20.940 launch in person. Meet Andrew.

00:31:23.780 Grab your copy, guys.

00:31:25.160 Get on down there if you're in the Calgary area office.

00:31:27.240 And of course, if you're not, I mean, search it out.

00:31:29.060 I said that book's available on pretty much

00:31:30.940 every platform. Support local media,

00:31:33.280 support local publishers. Get your

00:31:35.120 copy. It's cool stuff. I mean, we want to know.

00:31:37.120 This is kind of your head start on who the next prime minister might be, you know.

00:31:42.060 And, well, it's looking very likely to be.

00:31:45.520 And I'm kind of interested.

00:31:46.900 You know, we want to look at these things.

00:31:48.120 As I said before, when Pauliev's been on the show a couple times, he's just, he says the right things.

00:31:52.480 He's a smart man.

00:31:53.260 I think he's principled.

00:31:54.200 But he is also, he's always very controlled.

00:31:56.480 He's tight.

00:31:56.940 He sticks to what, you know, is careful territory, which is kind of a good and a bad thing.

00:32:03.820 I mean, it's quite different, say, than Premier Daniel Smith.

00:32:07.640 Daniel Smith, I think her greatest strength and her greatest weakness is that she's impulsive. 0.98

00:32:11.420 She'll just go with it.

00:32:12.940 She jumps right out there and does things. 1.00

00:32:15.500 Sometimes it's for the better.

00:32:17.140 Sometimes she gets herself in the soup. 0.89

00:32:19.260 I don't think we're going to see that with Polyev.

00:32:20.900 He just works so carefully and controlled with things that, you know, it's always going to be planned.

00:32:26.720 So, I mean, hey, not everything always goes to plan.

00:32:28.680 So it'll be interesting to see what happens in the months to come with him.

00:32:32.620 So, you know, a story that's been going for a little bit, and it's something I talk about a lot.

00:32:36.580 You know, we'll kind of turn a little bit here.

00:32:38.820 Dave mentioned it on the news update.

00:32:40.440 It's just everything's coming to a head again.

00:32:42.440 So it's, what was it, on the 27th was the three-year anniversary of when the anomalies were found at the Kamloops former residential school site.

00:32:51.120 I mean, that, we've never seen anything like it in the country.

00:32:53.660 The whole nation, I mean, it made international news.

00:32:56.680 The headlines were insane.

00:32:57.760 they were talking about mass graves, mass murders, priests forcing children to go out in the night

00:33:03.740 and bury bodies in an apple orchard. This is how crazy and extreme the rhetoric was getting around

00:33:10.940 this. You know, the Pope himself came over and apologized. Trudeau created a holiday. The flags

00:33:18.580 were kept at half-mast for six months. It's never been done in Canadian history. All over this

00:33:24.660 alleged if 215, it began with bodies outside of the Kamloosh residential school. I got to admit,

00:33:31.640 part of why I'm as grumpy on this issue and stuck on it too, is that at first I fell for it too.

00:33:37.400 When I first read the headlines that they've, because the headlines said they've found the

00:33:41.620 bodies, the graves of 215 children. I was aghast. Like, oh my God, it was way worse than I ever

00:33:47.240 imagined. I mean, I was familiar with residential schools and the issues, but holy cow, this is

00:33:51.400 terrible. I can't imagine it. Let's get on this. Let's get excavating. Let's find the families of

00:33:56.600 these children. Let's find these perpetrators if they're still alive. I mean, the stories

00:34:00.900 that this was apparently happening in the 50s or 60s, they should still be there. Well,

00:34:04.680 it's three years later. No bodies. No bodies. 100 churches in Canada got vandalized. Some

00:34:13.400 burnt right to the ground over this. No bodies. The band was given $8 million almost three years

00:34:22.460 ago to investigate this, to follow up on this. No bodies. Why? Because there aren't any. I'm going

00:34:31.400 to come out right and say it. I believe to the core of my soul. I could be wrong. I will admit

00:34:37.720 that I could be wrong. But you know what? There's only one way to prove me wrong at this point.

00:34:41.360 get a shovel, get out there, dig a hole, and find a body. This is ridiculous. This is absurd. This is 0.99

00:34:50.220 such a serious, serious issue. It's been so socially divisive for people, for the people

00:34:55.260 who really do believe that hundreds of children had been murdered and secretly buried in this

00:35:00.860 field. I can't imagine. I can understand the rage of First Nations people or even non-First Nations 1.00

00:35:06.000 people if you're believing that story, of course. But now the rage, because it's untrue. I mean,

00:35:10.620 I'm happy that there weren't 200 and some children murdered and buried in there. Absolutely I'm happy

00:35:15.140 about that, but I'm furious that we swallowed this hoax, hook, line, and sinker, without putting

00:35:21.680 forward the same sort of demands for evidence that we would have with anybody else. With anybody else.

00:35:27.460 I own a little acreage. What if I had gone to the press and the public and said the prior owner of

00:35:33.300 my acreage murdered and buried 50 kids in the trees behind my house? I did a little radar

00:35:40.520 study. And I think I found the evidence of all those 50 graves back there. Oh, no, no, no, no,

00:35:46.020 no, no, no police, no investigation, no digging. Just take my word for it. Oh, you're going to give

00:35:50.880 me some millions of dollars to follow up. Okay. Three years later, I still haven't even dug a hole.

00:35:54.780 Like that's the analogy of what we going on. The Picton farm, you know, the RCMP went through the

00:36:02.340 dirt to find bones, to get DNA evidence, to find the victims of that monster. Yet nobody has moved

00:36:09.420 a teaspoon of dirt at the Kamloops site. Why? Because there's no bodies. The myth will be gone.

00:36:16.280 The $8 million. And where did the $8 million go? They haven't spent it excavating. They haven't

00:36:21.240 spent it researching. Where did it go? That's another big question. Thanks to Justin Trudeau,

00:36:27.480 we're not allowed to audit these bans anymore. Did some people on the reserve get some new

00:36:32.080 SUVs, perhaps? Some nicer vacations? I don't know. If you want to end the speculation,

00:36:37.660 Show us the books.

00:36:39.420 Show us.

00:36:40.020 You want to end the denialism.

00:36:41.880 The denialism, that's what they call it.

00:36:43.320 That's what started coming up.

00:36:44.260 There was even a liberal coming up and saying,

00:36:45.560 we should make it illegal for people to criticize any of the given story,

00:36:51.300 the rhetoric on the residential schools.

00:36:53.020 They wanted to make it illegal to talk about that.

00:36:55.140 So this conversation I'm having right now,

00:36:57.420 if they had it their way, would be even illegal for me to say this.

00:37:00.620 Why?

00:37:01.980 Why?

00:37:02.860 Prove me wrong.

00:37:03.880 If you want to shut down this quote-unquote denialism,

00:37:06.620 What better way than having a forensic investigation of this alleged mass grave and say, see, there's the bodies of the children?

00:37:16.340 But you see, the thing is, too, that people have been finding is that there was very good record keeping.

00:37:22.360 At these residential schools, even though they were not nice places, there were abuses.

00:37:26.680 So let's not beat around the bush there.

00:37:29.360 It was a failed policy.

00:37:30.920 It was a bad idea.

00:37:32.240 I won't deny any of that.

00:37:33.660 There just wasn't hundreds of children murdered and buried in the orchard.

00:37:37.040 That's what I'm denying.

00:37:38.760 And with those records, when kids died, it was documented.

00:37:42.960 Because that's how the schools got paid.

00:37:45.660 They had to document the students, how long they were there,

00:37:48.080 and they had to invoice the government to get their bit of money.

00:37:50.500 These kids didn't vanish.

00:37:51.740 And that's the other thing that's missing from this whole equation.

00:37:53.620 Where's the reports of these missing children?

00:37:55.240 Where did they come from?

00:37:56.040 How did they find 215 children and manage to squirrel them away and bury them

00:38:00.480 and not have a single aunt, uncle, cousin, brother, sister?

00:38:02.980 say that these kids vanished.

00:38:07.180 The hypocrisy goes further.

00:38:09.540 We've had noise going on in Winnipeg for a while 0.99

00:38:12.140 because it sounds like a sick man

00:38:14.680 who's probably a serial killer, he's in jail. 0.57

00:38:17.540 They suspect that he disposed of the bodies

00:38:19.820 of two indigenous women in the Winnipeg garbage dump.

00:38:22.540 Now to excavate and find bodies in a garbage dump

00:38:25.480 in a city of hundreds and hundreds of thousands of people,

00:38:27.520 we're talking about a dangerous activity

00:38:31.520 activity that would take years assuming the bodies are in there and cost hundreds of millions yet

00:38:36.360 it looks like their governments could be willing to spend that kind of money and do that and why

00:38:40.280 because they're saying it's so sacred to find the bodies so that they can be returned to the family

00:38:44.960 and properly interred properly buried okay so why is it you're willing to spend hundreds of millions

00:38:50.260 and overturn an entire garbage dump in Winnipeg because it's so sacred yet you don't want to move

00:38:55.580 a shovel full of earth in Kamloops, where apparently you have 200 to 215 children buried

00:39:01.740 there, and you actually even know where all the plots are. It stinks. And then some people are 0.62

00:39:07.440 starting to realize it, because even the Kamloops band has changed their language. They've been

00:39:12.520 calling it unmarked graves for years now. They've been calling it that. Suddenly their language

00:39:19.360 changed. Now they're calling it anomalies. Anomalies. And they might even say it's suspected

00:39:24.860 of being graves. That's a big leap, you guys. That's a pretty big leap. Why are you backpedaling?

00:39:30.580 Oh, yeah, because there's no bodies. But then we get the other ones, the kooks, the crazed ones.

00:39:35.740 So there's a chief comes forward, and the head of the British Columbia Assembly of First Nations,

00:39:41.660 and he does an interview the other day, says, well, the reason the bodies of the residential

00:39:44.900 school victims may never be found is because they're incinerated. You see those nasty

00:39:48.820 priests, they built giant crematoriums, and they burned the bodies to ashes, and I guess they must 0.82

00:39:53.360 have taken the crematoriums down and hid those two because nobody can find them. But this guy

00:39:58.000 went on the news and he put out this crap. He's lying. He's lying through his teeth. He's making 1.00

00:40:01.700 excuses. The bottom line is because there's no bodies. So now they're making excuses for no

00:40:05.260 bodies. Rather than accepting that there was a hoax, do you really want the truth? They talk

00:40:08.860 about truth and reconciliation commission. The word's right in it. Anybody who really cares

00:40:13.920 about this, you should start with the truth. Instead, they're doubling down on lies.

00:40:17.800 Why?

00:40:19.200 Oh yeah, $8 million to investigate nothing.

00:40:21.840 That's why.

00:40:22.840 And that's just one reserve that got that.

00:40:24.800 This is a money train for a whole lot of people.

00:40:27.120 But this money train isn't just stealing from the taxpayers.

00:40:30.140 It's dividing the country.

00:40:31.700 It's making people feel victimized intergenerationally

00:40:34.920 even more than they have been for no good reason,

00:40:38.200 but greed on the part of some of these people

00:40:41.160 who want to perpetuate this hoax, this myth.

00:40:43.760 So now he's saying that they were incinerated.

00:40:46.480 But what gets me, if it had been anybody else to say that sort of thing on the news,

00:40:51.320 they would have been called out and say, wait a minute, where did you get that from?

00:40:53.360 Show me some evidence.

00:40:54.240 Back that up.

00:40:54.860 What are you doing?

00:40:55.940 Because this was a First Nations chief?

00:40:58.220 Nah, they just ran it and let it go.

00:41:00.300 Let him spread his baloney and very divisive, dangerous baloney without calling him out.

00:41:06.260 I'm calling him out on it.

00:41:07.500 He's not going to come on my show. 0.97

00:41:09.140 But I mean, it's just ridiculous.

00:41:10.280 So even if they were somehow incinerated then, what's with the anomalies?

00:41:18.100 Are there graves or not?

00:41:20.580 And again, we don't know because nobody will dig them.

00:41:23.860 He also said that we don't know the exact number of victims because of lack of proper record keeping.

00:41:27.560 Again, that's a lie.

00:41:28.940 The records are actually quite clear.

00:41:30.780 They're out there.

00:41:31.660 They're all over the place.

00:41:33.300 And, you know, it just doesn't stop you guys.

00:41:37.520 But we've got to call it out, and we've got to get courageous politicians and media start calling it out.

00:41:43.980 We've got to question the lies.

00:41:45.560 We've got to call them liars when they're lying. 0.90

00:41:48.060 I don't care if they happen to be First Nations liars. 0.98

00:41:51.060 A lie is a lie. 0.95

00:41:52.360 It doesn't matter.

00:41:53.780 City News, a mainstream, and you'll find this on, yeah, you know, the westernstandard.news.

00:41:59.040 We covered it.

00:41:59.920 City News Vancouver put out a tweet with a headline saying this is the anniversary of the 215 unmarked graves.

00:42:07.380 That was the term they used, the language.

00:42:10.280 This is a mainstream media network.

00:42:13.660 No, there's no graves.

00:42:15.660 If it's not a body inside it, it's not a grave.

00:42:18.580 Even the Kamloops band is now seeing anomalies, at least, but not City News.

00:42:24.280 But they got stung pretty hard when they put it out there.

00:42:27.080 As you say, City News quietly backpedaling on the unmarked graves thing

00:42:29.840 because people just roasted them. 0.91

00:42:32.100 People have had enough.

00:42:33.220 And you know something that's pretty interesting because, as I said,

00:42:35.280 it was probably two or three months into the whole thing years ago when I finally started

00:42:38.600 questioning it. Like I said, at first I fell for it a bit. Sure. I thought this really happened.

00:42:42.600 And then as we start seeing more and more evidence, this is starting to stink. You know,

00:42:45.640 by the time I got to maybe a year ago, I was like, nah, there's no bodies in there.

00:42:49.000 But I used to get lots of pushback on social media online when I'd write columns about that,

00:42:54.280 or when I'd talk on my show about that, or when I'd tweet about that, people would get furious

00:42:58.020 with me, of course. And they would attack me and they would swing at me. You know what?

00:43:01.020 I've been ripping into this for the last three days online. And sure, there's always a handful

00:43:04.600 couple of kooks coming after me. But for the most part, the usual suspects, the left, the rest in

00:43:08.340 the past, silence. They disappeared. You know, Derek, we were talking about that earlier in the

00:43:14.700 opposite. It's like the Homer Simpson thing where he just kind of slides back in the hedge. Even

00:43:19.520 left-wing activists are kind of realizing that, ooh, geez, I guess there weren't bodies. So they're

00:43:26.800 kind of distancing themselves, getting themselves out of there. City News overstepped. They won't

00:43:32.860 do that again anytime soon, but I don't want this to be something we just quietly don't talk about

00:43:38.220 anymore and sink back into the bush. I want this exposed. I want the fraud exposed. Even if it was

00:43:43.700 not purposeful fraud, it was fraud. The person who did this ground penetrating radar study

00:43:49.920 was an activist. She saw what she wanted to see out of the anomalies. It doesn't mean she wanted

00:43:56.420 to create a hoax, but either way, her blinded ideological push did create the hoax. I want to

00:44:01.920 find out who is blocking the further investigation of this hoax. How and why are they stopping the

00:44:08.880 excavation of these alleged graves? By the way, there's been other spots where they did dig, not

00:44:13.920 at Kamloops. That's a large part of the reason they don't want to dig in Kamloops too. Got to

00:44:17.600 admit it. Up in Edmonton, old hospital site, GPR, they were confident they were buried native

00:44:22.740 remains because there was, you know, oral history. Yeah, it's always that oral history. So they were

00:44:27.780 down there. So this company that wanted to develop, so they hired native elders. They were there with

00:44:32.820 the sweetgrass smoke and the chanting and the whole works while they carefully excavated so

00:44:37.220 they could find these remains. And guess what? 31 different spots, no bodies. Manitoba, church

00:44:43.920 basement, similar situation, stories and stories and stories of priests burying bodies in the

00:44:48.880 basement. Oh my God. And GPR found anomalies. So, oh boy, we'll better get in there. And they get

00:44:54.900 the elders and the religious people in and get ready in the excavated. And guess what?

00:44:58.820 Nothing there. So yeah, you can see why I suspect some of the people in Kamloops,

00:45:04.480 in the positions of authority in the band, don't really actually want to dig.

00:45:09.680 But where'd the $8 million go? I mean, this is a slap in the face to the people who are living in

00:45:15.600 poverty on the reserves. So the people that do have social challenges on the reserves that could

00:45:19.460 have used that money for a heck of a lot of other things then. But I don't think it was spent on any

00:45:24.060 of those, but it wasn't spent. And that's what it was earmarked for, of course, was to find out what

00:45:28.780 was buried on this reserve, if anything. And it wasn't used for that. Why isn't there follow-up?

00:45:33.180 If this was done by anybody else, if this was somebody with a private consulting business,

00:45:36.940 oh, wait, they did do that with the Rive Can app. Yeah, this is done in other areas, but at least

00:45:41.760 there is some investigation. They're trying. You know, they won't even question the Kamloops ban.

00:45:46.520 In fact, I wouldn't be shocked if they tossed them more money after this, because if you can keep

00:45:52.320 this hoax going. This is a government that just prefers to throw money at things rather than take

00:45:56.140 them on for real. Problematic. The story is not going away. I'm not going to let it go away

00:46:01.540 until we get answers on this. And there's others. There's more voices that are starting to speak up

00:46:06.100 on this now, even if others are just going silent. But at least they're not continuing to claim this

00:46:11.160 ridiculous hoax that 200 children were murdered and buried at the Kamloops site. Speaking of

00:46:17.960 hoaxes, here's another fun one. We'll see. This one I might eat my words with yet, but some people

00:46:21.520 got mad at me because I said the drought was over. And in fact, a hydrologist came on the radio the

00:46:25.040 other day and said the drought was over in Southern Alberta anyway. And I showed the weather network

00:46:29.040 was predicting in January, we're going to be in for hot, hot, dry summer. The drought's going to

00:46:33.120 just be terrible when Calgary is going to be like a desert and oh, it's over and the reservoirs are

00:46:37.480 full and everything else. Well, the weather network is still doubling down predicting now,

00:46:40.860 though it's going to be above normal temperatures, hot, dry all summer. So let's see how it looks by

00:46:45.400 September. I hope they're wrong, but I don't know. I think they're guessing. If it's more than two or

00:46:50.740 three weeks out, it's just a guess. All right. Either way, that's the time I've got for today,

00:46:55.520 guys. Like I said, remember, don't forget to get out there, get Andrew Lawton's book.

00:46:59.020 It'll be a great read and tell you a lot more about Mr. Polyev. Be sure to get your subscription

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00:47:13.880 later tonight. We'll cover a few more of those issues and tune in again next week at this time,

00:47:18.240 and we'll have another great conversation.

00:47:20.420 Thanks.

00:47:20.820 We'll see you then.

00:47:48.240 Thank you.

Western Standard - May 30, 2024

Trudeau’s mass immigration policies are crushing Canada

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