In this episode of the Cory Morgan Show, Cory talks about the results of the American election, the Alberta Conservative Party's AGM, and what it means for the future of the party. He's joined by strategist and pundit, Elise Mills.
00:02:40.340I saw Alberta Conservatives at both their best and at their worst.
00:02:44.600Going back in 2009, I was VP policy of a party, the Wild Rose Party,
00:02:49.300and I organized the AGM that year at a recreation center in northwest Calgary.
00:02:53.400So with about 300 people in attendance,
00:02:54.960we deliberated policy and elected a board with the sound of basketballs pounding behind a thin
00:03:00.060wall divider separating us from a gymnasium. And we felt the election and the event went
00:03:04.660excellently. We were certain we were on the path to dislodge the progressive conservatives from
00:03:08.940their 38-year reign in Alberta. We're particularly buoyed by a young lady named Daniel Smith who
00:03:13.720announced that day she's going to pursue the leadership of our little party. The events held
00:03:17.980in that hall did indeed lead to the end of the PC dynasty and Daniel Smith did eventually become
00:03:22.680Alberta's premier, though the path was wilder and more convoluted than any of us could ever
00:03:27.240have imagined at that time. We also never imagined we'd seen AGM with over 6,000 members participating
00:03:32.680as happened with the UCP and Red Deer last weekend. It was amazing to observe actually
00:03:37.320the organizational talent applied to hosting thousands of delegates and it went so smoothly.
00:03:42.460Just feeding the few hundred people at the 2009 event took weeks of preparation and was a workout
00:03:47.660for our volunteers. In Red Deer, everything from the registrations to the meals went incredibly
00:03:52.380smoothly at the UCP gathering. And more impressive than that logistical feat, though, was that
00:03:56.900massive turnout. I've attended dozens of conventions, special meetings, leadership events over the
00:04:01.380years. There's a core of party stalwarts who parentally attend to these events, and they're
00:04:05.900important, and you become accustomed to seeing their faces at these. They're the folks who hold
00:04:10.080things together during the tougher times in politics. But what was most striking to me
00:04:13.880last weekend was the number of new faces. Thousands of people who have never attended a political
00:04:18.920event in their lives chose to spend hundreds of dollars of their hard-earned money and dedicate
00:04:22.860a weekend to taking part in the AGM. And despite the wishful thinking of opponents of the party and
00:04:28.100the massive turnout of new people to the convention, it wasn't inspired by negativity
00:04:32.040or an intent to oppose the leader. Those folks came out to be supportive of the leader and take
00:04:36.820part in molding the party. By the way, lots of people came to greet us at the Western Standard
00:04:42.120Broadcast booth on the convention floor. It was great to see them. One who stood out to me was a
00:04:45.760gentleman who was perhaps in his early 60s. He came to chat with me for a bit. He was visibly
00:04:49.740excited, almost giddy as he explained how he never realized before how he could take part in things
00:04:53.840like this, and he was ecstatic about being able to contribute. This guy's now going to be surely
00:04:58.780a political junkie for life, and I suspect I'll see him attending future events. And the hospitality
00:05:03.680events, you know, suites at these events, they're nothing new, but they usually used to be comprised
00:05:08.320of a pair of adjoining hotel rooms with bathtubs packed with ice and beer. The suites on Friday
00:05:12.720night were incredible. Delegates traveled from room to room and enjoyed free eats and drinks
00:05:17.080from numerous organizations, including, of course, the Western Standard. It was quite a room.
00:05:21.220Delegates, they mingled, networked, and bonded. And in these suites' first-time convention,
00:05:25.260attendees discovered that actually politics can be fun at times, too. So a lot of them are going
00:05:29.480to be back, and it's great development. Now, unfortunately, last weekend, delegates got to
00:05:33.620see the uglier side of partisan politics, too. Factions, predominantly driven by chronically
00:05:38.320malcontent fringe operators worked their hardest to sow dissent among the membership. They
00:05:43.140distributed fake brochures implying Daniel Smith was taking part in some Islamic-inspired
00:05:48.260conspiracy, and they managed to get the phone numbers of delegates and harassed them in the
00:05:52.520night with phone calls claiming to be part of, you know, Smith's Islamic conspiracy. Brochures
00:05:57.520were put on windshields every hotel in town, claiming Smith was actually being supported by
00:06:02.800the NDP. And ridiculous report cards were handed out, giving Smith a failing grade as a leader.
00:06:07.540All the attempts to undermine Smith still failed dismally, as she garnered 91.5% support from the memberships in that leadership review.
00:06:15.860Members saw through the sleazy tactics and chose to support the leader.
00:06:20.040Legacy media pundits hoping for internal party division, well, they left disappointed.
00:06:24.840And Alberta's NDP are disappointed as well.
00:06:26.700Smith has a very solid mandate from her members.
00:06:28.940You see opponents are dismissing the turnout of the AGM as being a tiny minority of Albertans.
00:06:33.840Has any other party managed such a feat?
00:06:36.420A precedent's been set, and the UCP offered a demonstration of strength unlike any other party has.
00:06:41.580They not only have a massive membership base, but they have an active one.
00:06:44.740The members are willing to participate rather than just talk.
00:06:47.340So think about it. These are the donors, the door knockers, and the voters who are going to ensure the UCP wins the next election.
00:06:53.400We don't want to presume yet, but it's a pretty darn good start, and it's pretty foolhardy to dismiss them.
00:06:58.400So meanwhile, some of the first-time delegates had a bad taste left in their mouths from the campaign of weasels trying to unseat the leader,
00:07:04.560most still left the convention feeling optimistic and will remain involved.
00:07:09.280The UCP isn't just in power right now, it's growing.
00:07:12.360And no matter what party stripe one has,
00:07:14.440they should be impressed and encouraged when grassroots members get up and take part in the process.
00:07:18.740So rather than ignoring the momentum of the UCP and its members,
00:07:21.580other parties should be studying and learning to emulate them.
00:07:24.660Last weekend's event was a victory for democracy in Alberta.
00:07:27.540And I know, I'm really banging the UCP drum.
00:07:30.260It's fine, I'm not a member, I certainly see them as the best party for Alberta as it sits.
00:07:33.320that could change in the course of a few years. But what I'm excited about was seeing thousands
00:07:37.800of people getting together, taking part. That's how it's done. That's how things get better,
00:07:42.180no matter what stripe you're at. So last weekend, hey, it was a success and hats off to the UCP
00:07:47.080organizers and the leader. And of course, the people who got up and went and took part. I look
00:07:51.080forward to seeing him in Edmonton next year as we observe that one. And well, we'll see what
00:07:54.840is coming up in the party front from then. All right, well, let's get on to the news. There's
00:07:59.160some other stuff happened besides the UCP convention. We got our news editor, Dave Naylor,
00:08:02.420in. You had a nice late night too, Dave. I did, but most importantly, Peanut and his raccoon friend
00:08:07.760have been avenged. They certainly have. It's the wrath of Peanut. Right, you know, who would have
00:08:14.280thought in this day and age that the killing of a squirrel, we don't know, but it may have had some
00:08:20.040sort of impact. I think it had a little bit of impact. You know, you and I actually predicted
00:08:23.020it last week, so we were ahead of the trend. Our Linda Slobodian predicted it a few months ago,
00:08:28.980and she's got a column up there today big winners obviously elon musk he made 15 billion dollars
00:08:35.540overnight uh when with the shares in tesla going up he's going to get a big job in the administration
00:08:42.100and and cut trillions out of the budget rfk is actually going to get a real job and and make
00:08:49.220america healthy again big losers hollywood people obviously don't care what celebrities have to tell
00:08:56.420them. They don't care about J-Lo and Ofra and stuff like that. So the Canadian real estate
00:09:04.660market is going to be red hot with all the celebrities moving up here who have vowed to
00:09:09.620leave America. Yeah, I will see if that actually happens. It's interesting to watch these though.
00:09:14.900Yes. I mean, J-Lo is known for her oversized butt, not her oversized brain, and maybe she1.00
00:09:19.140should stick to jiggling the part that makes her money rather than trying to pretend to have one1.00
00:09:22.740Exactly. And as people said, J-Lo should have been warning people about Diddy instead of Trump.
00:11:15.040And I know Trump was no better four years ago.
00:11:16.980You know, when you've had a crowd of volunteers, supporters, donors, all gathered in a room, you could still address them, thank them, you know.
00:11:25.820You don't even have to concede at that time.
00:11:27.340You could say, you know, we're still waiting on things, but tonight, guys, thank you for coming out.
00:12:12.000well thanks for the update i'll let you back into i think i'll go have a nap on derek's leather
00:12:16.960futon yeah yeah he'll be in doing the pipeline it's a good time to sneak into his office yeah
00:12:20.960i got 45 minutes right all right thanks dave all right that is our news editor dave naylor and yes
00:12:26.560of course american election news dominating lots of other stuff coming up on the site and yes the
00:12:31.760wise linda slobodian beat us all uh out of the gates but i mean linda's brilliant she knows her0.99
00:12:37.200stuff check that stuff out guys it's on the westernstandard.news and take out a subscription
00:12:42.160that's why we stay independent we aren't among the legacy media losers actually last night
00:12:47.160we're the ones who gave you things straight as we saw them and the reason we can do it is because
00:12:52.960you subscribe 9.99 a month 100 bucks a year guys well worth it it keeps us rolling keeps our
00:12:58.200reporters out there keeps us doing those broadcasts so they could buy pizza and the rest for us to0.71
00:13:03.500hang around here till midnight last night and bring those election results to you as they came
00:13:08.660down. And you know, one thing I'm really happy about, I really am. I mean, as a conservative,
00:13:13.380I'm certainly happy. And again, I've said it before. I'll say it again. I'm not a big fan
00:13:17.080of Trump himself. I do not think he's a good person. But if I was an American, I would still
00:13:23.420hold my nose and would have voted for him. And, you know, there's going to be better policies
00:13:28.200coming from him than would have come from Kamala Harris had she won things down there. Better for
00:13:32.960the United States and probably better for Canada, though there's some protectionist elements that
00:13:36.980perhaps we'll discuss with Elise Mills shortly on that sort of thing. But the main thing I'm happy
00:13:41.620about is that it wasn't close. That's what really leads to the insanity. That's what leads to the
00:13:48.200division. It really does. It really heats things up. That was a real problem in 2020. That was a
00:13:52.980problem back with Gore and Bush as well. When you don't have a definitive winner on one side or
00:13:59.000another. Then you get into that limbo. You get into the court challenges. You get into people
00:14:05.340wondering whether there was funny businesses in polling stations. You get into mistrust.
00:14:10.340And of course, at its worst, you can get into what happened on January 6th, the other year.
00:14:15.000And we're not going to see that this time around. That is good. They can focus. I mean,
00:14:19.120you can still focus your political battles. You can still snipe at each other and they surely will.
00:14:23.340but it won't be as loopy and as insane as it was before uh even if and i mean it didn't happen and
00:14:30.200i'm happy for that had harris won i would have hoped then that it would have been a definitive
00:14:35.340win so that we don't go into again all of those battles and fights and wondering whether it was
00:14:39.180rigged though some people will always think so that's the way it goes but uh as it is uh she
00:14:44.660has conceded and and we're going to see a president trump coming in uh next january all right so let's
00:14:49.940break it down a little more with somebody who spent a great deal of time actually working south
00:14:53.580of the border, a political watcher, pundit, strategist. She knows all this stuff inside out.
00:14:57.860Elise Mills is joining me today. Hi, Elise. How's it going? That's great. I'm extremely happy. It's
00:15:03.720an exciting day. Back to business we go, Corey. Yes, absolutely. And there's a lot of business
00:15:11.040to cover. You know, I mean, maybe I'll kind of start. We're still into a strange kind of limbo
00:15:15.940in a way, though, you know, the formal transition to power won't happen until January.
00:15:22.440Theoretically, Joe Biden is going to govern for the next month and a half, but he's kind of a
00:15:27.720non-factor anymore. It's not like you have a very active, sitting and outgoing president at this
00:15:33.520time. Well, the Democratic leadership is completely broken. There is no leader of the
00:15:38.320Democratic Party anymore, you know, by de facto. The idea that Ms. Harris wouldn't even show up0.92
00:15:45.180to thank her supporters and literally left them in the dark and the cold last night,
00:15:49.780as your previous guest was talking about, a la Hillary Clinton. That tells me, and she's only0.95
00:15:55.480just conceded to Trump like 15, 20 minutes ago as well. And actually, there's lots of breaking
00:16:01.740news. Michigan is solidly and decidedly Trump. And that leaves a few other states to go that
00:16:08.760will probably also go red. And the special prosecutor is looking at unwinding a lot of
00:16:17.440what's happened with Trump's legal cases too. They have no intention of putting this man in jail or
00:16:23.280continuing this anymore. So the skies are opening for Trump. But I do agree with you. I have myself
00:16:33.520some issues with Donald Trump, but what I'm excited about, and I know this to be very true
00:16:38.040because I worked in the States during the Trump years and I've worked in the States subsequent to
00:16:42.600that during the Biden years, that people were so much worse off, Corey. It was pretty grim
00:16:49.420in the rural states for Americans. And I was in North Carolina. I was, of course, in D.C.
00:16:55.460North Carolina, very proud of them last night making the right decision, especially women of1.00
00:16:59.820all colors and religions got out there and supported Trump. But it's so sad to see what's
00:17:06.320happened to really hardworking Americans. And, you know, you come back and you see how much even
00:17:11.740worse it is for Canadians here. And it just sort of gives you this general malaise. I'm excited to
00:17:16.720see Americans get going again. And I think, you know, tech giants, investors, I think they're
00:17:22.320all going to be ready to go down there. And that's exciting for us as well.
00:17:26.340Yeah, some optimism, some people can really use it. I mean, I think that's a lot of what backfired
00:17:31.000south of the border. And it's kind of what's backfiring up here right now. If people have
00:17:34.500traveled the rust belt and seen how it is out there even pre-Trump it's they're having a hard
00:17:40.020time they've been having a hard time for a long time with the coal mines are shutting down
00:17:43.340manufacturing is hurting and uh the Democrats were busy running off on woke tirades or calling
00:17:49.680people racists and onto that well the the people living in in Michigan and Wisconsin and Ohio
00:17:55.460they don't care they want jobs and they want safety and uh the Democrats weren't offering that0.57
00:18:01.440Well, Michigan folding to Trump is a is a whopper for the for the Democratic establishment.
00:18:07.080And the thing is, the Democrats have become the party for the elite and the Republicans are the party for the regular average person.
00:18:15.100And, you know, that we haven't seen the flip of the script like that since Ronald Reagan, 1980.
00:18:19.660And and, you know, actually, I just see so many parallels.
00:18:23.340I mean, I was just a little tyke at the time, but, you know, being an avid political watcher, you know,
00:18:28.600Reagan came out in that election and said, are you better off? And that was all that had to be
00:18:35.580said. You know, there was Morning in America, that incredible ad that went out there. Trump
00:18:41.840really followed that footprint this time. And Kamala Harris just ran from the question. She0.97
00:18:48.160was all smiles and giggles. And what gets me, if this guy's Hitler, which I find completely0.77
00:18:53.780offensive and all the jewish community must find that offensive um then and he's so evil and he's0.99
00:19:00.820such a threat to democracy is your response smiles and giggles and going on saturday night live but
00:19:06.580you refuse to be able to answer on the view which is your home turf what you would have done
00:19:12.660differently and what your plans are for americans she never all she said was women be scared that's0.99
00:19:18.820pretty much what she said and smiles and giggles shouldn't be the response if he's this incredibly
00:19:24.340you know intense threat to democracy i found it outrageous and women showed up last night1.00
00:19:29.620and said you know what i don't vote on gender i vote on what my family needs what i need and
00:19:35.380there's more single female parents in that country today than there were in 2020 and i can tell you0.98
00:19:41.860they're having a tough time you travel anywhere like kentucky corey you see poverty like i haven't
00:19:47.620seen in my entire life. And the Fourth Reich isn't building despite the fear mongering. And,
00:19:53.460and, you know, it's not going to happen. There's no troops massing on the Polish border at this
00:19:58.180time. But the Republicans do have power like they haven't had in a long, long time. And we're seeing
00:20:04.260now they've got the presidency, they've got the House, they've got the Senate, and they've got
00:20:08.180the Supreme Court. I imagine, you know, despite what the fear mongers are saying, we're still
00:20:14.660going to see some big changes. If there's an opportunity to really shift things, whether it's
00:20:19.640dealing with the civil service, foreign affairs, the next two years of the time that President
00:20:24.900Trump is kind of going to have free reign to do what he pleases. So I certainly hope it's a
00:20:29.900positive change. He's got four years to hustle. He's got to get right out of the gate. This
00:20:34.280trifecta might not happen again for God knows how long. So he's going to be able to do things
00:20:41.200like appoint the head of ICE, so Homeland Security. These types of appointments are going
00:20:47.240to be important and precious to the Trump administration. And from what I know from
00:20:53.220inside the, you know, around Washington today, he's not making the same mistake he did on those
00:20:59.540he had hired for his team beforehand. So he's taking a much more direct approach. He's also
00:21:04.300reaching into the private sector as well. I know he's reaching in for those who understand Canada.
00:21:10.120So I also want to say something. I want to dispel this myth that the legacy media spreading on Twitter, that tariffs are inevitable with Trump. That is simply not true. What is inevitable is bad trade deals when your country hasn't put out a proper economic plan, hasn't put out policies or is inconsistent in its approach.
00:21:30.160Trump is a deal maker he's a negotiator I've met with him before he's not he if there he can easily
00:21:37.760be talked around and come to an agreement it's not inevitable that there's going to be a 20%
00:21:44.800tariff uh for Canadians but if you sit on your duff and you don't act like a serious figure
00:21:50.380then we're going to be in a whole lot of trouble so um I want to just dispel that because it drives
00:21:55.520me nuts to see that, that we're just going to lay down, oh, it's inevitable. Poor leadership leads
00:22:01.380to trade conflicts, you know, tariffs. But here's the thing, Tori, I also want to say, because we
00:22:08.480won't step up and do what's right by NATO, we are actually getting a thrashing and a shellacking on
00:22:15.720other trade deals from other countries. Canadians aren't even aware of that, neither is the legacy
00:22:20.120media. No, and we can hope for some nuanced trade. Unfortunately, we look at Team Canada
00:22:27.020right now, and I don't hold a lot of optimism of strength on our side. But I look at things
00:22:32.060such as energy, and I would hope pragmatists within at least advisors with President Trump,
00:22:36.360he's talked about tariffs on energy imports, but the reality is if he wants to provide
00:22:40.880inexpensive energy to Americans, he has to look north of the border and facilitate our providing
00:22:46.040supply. He knows enough that that's your supply and demand. If you're going to provide it
00:22:49.420inexpensively, you've got to bring in that local supply. People talk about Keystone, but it's not
00:22:54.660like just flipping a switch and saying, well, we can finish that little portion and get it across
00:22:58.320the border. Trans-Canada Energy burned badly. Their investors burned badly. Just because you
00:23:03.680have four years of a supportive president doesn't mean they want to open their wallets and take a
00:23:08.600gamble again. The next Democrat could end up shutting it down like Biden did. So, I mean,
00:23:13.160there's still a lot of work to be done if we're going to finish that pipeline, for example.
00:23:17.240Well, and also, I mean, the big question is, you're right. And I'm glad you brought this up, Corey, because this is also another infuriating topic for me. Everybody thinks it's just going to magically go. And I was tapped by the first Trump administration before his inauguration to give them a summary breakdown on the Canadian relations as it related to energy, specifically Keystone, because he wanted to do that the first day after the inauguration. And he did do that.
00:23:43.120but we've just our environmental or environment minister and our prime minister has just
00:23:50.120inherently shut down extraction in this country I mean just in Atlantic Canada alone that's 7
00:23:56.280billion in GDP that's over 150,000 jobs just in Atlantic Canada so it's extraction and how are we
00:24:04.460going to get around that I don't understand that you can't be an honest broker in the energy
00:24:11.440security relationship between U.S. and Canada if you cannot create policies that are realistic
00:24:18.640and pragmatic, as you said. Well, the only worry I get, and I'm seeing some folks popping out and
00:24:24.780seeing that stuff too, is that Trudeau and his government are going to try and use the Trump
00:24:31.020administration as a foil. They're going to try and actually personify them as bad as evil,
00:24:36.460would already fail south of the border electorally, hopefully to win his support here in Canada,
00:24:42.640you know, as a protector of Canada against the big bad Trump regime, which really concerns me.
00:24:48.280As you said, trade is so critical and important, and antagonizing Trump right now is one of the
00:24:53.880dumbest things you could do. But unfortunately, Prime Minister Trudeau is not really known for
00:24:57.000doing smart things. Well, we're also a security threat. I mean, let's just be honest. I can't
00:25:02.960believe I'm saying this about my country and my parents arrived here and were so grateful to be
00:25:09.580here. They felt it was a privilege, not a right to be Canadian. And that was how I was raised. I
00:25:14.220question being Canadian almost every day right now because there's such a malaise and such a lack of
00:25:19.920hope in this country. But then you also see the very concerning stories. I mean, the Chinese1.00
00:25:26.940doctor using our labs here and and how the rcmp had warned about her being a security threat people
00:25:33.420lying the screen slush fund um you know and then all the other security issues we have we i i'm not
00:25:40.540so sure like so we have to really think about what is our plan what are we going to bring to trump
00:25:46.860and his administration um in a surety um because when he actually does do what he says he's going
00:25:53.660going to do, which is deport hundreds of thousands of people out of the United States. And remember,
00:25:59.060he's got the power now to fill all those positions to be able to deploy not only personnel, but
00:26:05.700policy to get that done now with very little check and balance on that. Are these people coming to
00:26:12.620Canada? We also, yeah, there's huge disagreements between the US and actually the Five Eyes about
00:26:19.200how canada's approached even the uh palestinian refugee uh question as well and what our commitment
00:26:25.120i think it was 10 000 we were bringing in uh so under the surface it's us is not you know us was
00:26:33.040ticked off with canada way before trump showed up um and trump is just going to be very verbal and
00:26:40.400use a lot of vernacular around you know where our sore spots are and we better be prepared to hear
00:26:45.760the hard truth. It's going to be a lot of home truths that come to us, Corey. Yeah. And I put
00:26:50.520that out on X earlier that I was only mixed. I was only half joking with it when saying, well,
00:26:55.380if he's going to be deporting hundreds of thousands, I hope he's sending them south1.00
00:26:58.760rather than north. And then I said, I'm sorry, Mexico, my apologies, but it's just self-interest.
00:27:04.040I mean, Canada, we've already got, you know, a prime minister who finally admitted we're taking
00:27:09.300in too many immigrants as it is and taking in hundreds of thousands who were declared illegals
00:27:15.300in the United States is not going to do our economy or our public safety any favors. He should
00:27:21.240be talking on the phone and, you know, hopefully saying, well, let's talk about this, where we're
00:27:26.020going to send the people you're moving out of your country. Well, and I mean, last night's
00:27:29.880election results, which, you know, I think if the left really, or the progressives, as they call
00:27:35.340themselves, which I don't think they are, they're not progressive, you know, it was a lot of
00:27:41.700Hispanic men and women that overwhelmingly voted for Trump last night. And here's the deal. And
00:27:48.280Canadian, new Canadians and Canadians like myself, where I'm technically first generation,
00:27:54.980respect the right way of coming into a country because people like my parents had to work so
00:28:01.080hard to get here. And I think we saw that. So if anyone thinks he's going to have a lot of pushback,
00:28:07.520but you're right is are they the problem is is it's places like El Salvador for example it's
00:28:14.380not just Mexico it's other places that Canadians don't really think about that the Americans are
00:28:20.480really battling with and we saw some of that on the Quebec border you know and I've forgotten the
00:28:26.520road now but yeah we were seeing them from Nigeria Syria El Salvador places that we as Canadians
00:28:34.640don't normally think as being a place of huge immigration for us. That's where these refugee1.00
00:28:39.800claims are coming from. So it's going to be interesting. A cold wind has whipped through
00:28:48.120Ottawa today. And hopefully it's enough of a shock to their system that they realize they can't be
00:28:55.040lazy. They can't lie. They can't abuse any more taxpayers' dollars. It is time to smarten up and
00:29:00.960get with the program. But quite frankly, Trump knows that Trudeau is a lame duck and he knows
00:29:06.200that the Liberal government is in complete disarray right now. And any sort of platitudes
00:29:12.140that are coming from Melanie Jolie or Trudeau today are complete falsehoods. I think they're
00:29:17.620much more concerned. I think many things are intersecting for them right now, Corey. And I
00:29:23.020think this is a scary time to be working for the Liberal government. It's also a scary time for us
00:29:28.800Canadians that don't want them there anymore. Yeah. Again, the immigration question and things0.95
00:29:34.740is going to be a big one. And there's a good point with the Hispanic population is that it's1.00
00:29:39.960much more diverse than just saying Mexicans or Puerto Ricans or anything of the sort necessarily
00:29:45.480or Cubans. And there's a lot of well-established people of Hispanic descent that are second0.99
00:29:51.540generation, third generation, or even first generation, but they came up and they're working
00:29:54.820and they're established, and they're feeling the pressures too. They want to pay their bills as
00:29:59.380well. They want to buy homes, raise families like everybody else. They don't want to be in crime
00:30:03.180ridden neighborhoods. That's what they fled. And, you know, they're still playing the identity0.98
00:30:08.300politics. I'm seeing some embittered left Democrats down there actually calling Hispanic people white
00:30:15.940nationalists. It's bizarre what they're doing because the Hispanic vote, the identified,
00:30:22.080the citizens or the people who could vote in the states rejected the democrats this time around
00:30:26.880i mean they'll have more time to have some introspection and think about things but
00:30:30.640alienating the uh established working people from the from the hispanic nations is is not going to
00:30:36.640be a smart course on their part well i would suggest that the hispanic population or immigrants0.99
00:30:42.800that come into the united states i would say would be similar to where we've seen our ukrainian
00:30:49.040uh new new canadians from ukraine very hard working i'm always impressed to see what they're
00:30:56.160able to achieve i'm not just saying that uh i think the democrats have somehow weirdly
00:31:02.160flipped the script almost to a racist anti-hispanic conversation like they in the way of
00:31:10.160maternalizing them or paternalizing them that they they need some sort of special treatment and
00:31:16.080you know a safety jacket to to get through this they are some of the hardest working people in
00:31:21.040the world um much like those who have arrived here in canada from the ukraine i don't know
00:31:26.800one person that i've interacted with either hispanic or from ukraine that haven't started
00:31:31.040a new business or haven't hustled and immediately been employed i am very happy to have any of those
00:31:36.800workers here we need them the americans recognize that as well the problems that they have mexico
00:31:42.400is a separate situation because of the just the stronghold the cartels have there el salvador has
00:31:50.080some of that as well um but you know i would also be very concerned about some of the african
00:31:55.760nationals coming in as well you've got isis rolling through there we don't talk about that0.98
00:32:00.000very often um actually the more i think about this trump's plate is going to be very full
00:32:05.200because the u.s needs to step forward versus stepping back the way that the uk and the u.s
00:32:10.480have done under their previous administrations. And I'm worried about Starmer as well. So
00:32:15.480there's a lot going on. But I would say this. It is absolutely stunning to me that the Democrats
00:32:20.720have not only lost Hispanic women and men, the entire Jewish community. I mean, that is
00:32:26.380unbelievable. The Democratic Party was the home to the Jews. It really, really was, especially1.00
00:32:31.880places like New York. It just hasn't been that way. They have alienated white women. They've1.00
00:32:37.720alienated black men. I saw tweets today coming from Republican black males that said, don't ever
00:32:44.000tell a black man how to vote. It would be similar to how I feel as a woman, don't tell me how to0.99
00:32:49.200vote. The abortion issue just never landed. There were so many other issues. And I mean, that can
00:32:55.600get into some of the crises that they do have around their employment sector. They have 3
00:33:02.940million what we would call white collar jobs so whether that's stem or that's legal services etc
00:33:09.500etc that they cannot fill and they haven't been able to fill for three and a half years
00:33:14.860that's why you're seeing 150 000 canadians spread into places like houston or where i went to north
00:33:20.620carolina i saw more canadians in houston than i see on a regular basis here in canada so you know
00:33:27.260it's it's it's going to be interesting they've got their economy is all fired up but there's
00:33:33.980things that need to be put into place for it to be completely solid and a strong foundation
00:33:39.020the flip side to that is that they have their closest neighbor an ally canada who is has a
00:33:44.380broken supply chain uh a really low product production rate around manufacturing we're
00:33:51.260losing manufacture especially in the sme market we don't really have mining in british columbia
00:33:56.300anymore. We have now caps on energy. We need to figure out what makes us valuable to the
00:34:03.400Americans. And number one, it's being a good security partner that you can trust us, which
00:34:08.100you can't do right now. Number two, we need energy security in North America. The world is a mess,
00:34:15.440and we need to be prepared for the worst case scenario. So these are the two things I think
00:34:19.780Canada should really be focused in on. Well, we'll know a lot more in the next couple of months,
00:34:25.060I guess, as Trump starts appointing and moving, you know, speaking of the directions he's going
00:34:30.820to be going to, we'll be watching it very closely. I hope I'll get you back and we can start to
00:34:34.640dissect, you know, Canada's reaction and Trump's settling in there. So before I let you go,
00:34:39.600where can people find your commentary and what you're up to these days, Elisa?
00:34:42.700So first of all, I want to say is I am a subscriber to Western Standard. $10 a month
00:34:47.520is nothing. And I check my email every morning. So I want to encourage all the viewers and listeners
00:34:52.420to, please subscribe. It's so important that you do so. You can find me on Twitter at Diary of a
00:34:59.460Fixer. And you can find me on LinkedIn. But I'm mainly on Twitter pretty much all the time right
00:35:07.720now, Corey. Great. Well, I got to love it when the guest gives our publication a plug while she's
00:35:12.140at it. So thanks for coming on to talk to us today. I mean, there's only so much you can cover in this
00:35:16.820time. We'll have to have you back. And yeah, well, I look forward to talking to you again soon.
00:35:22.420So nice to see you again, Corey. You take good care of yourself. Okay.
00:35:25.520Great. Thanks. You too. All right. So there's Elyse Mills. And as you can see, yes, lots to
00:35:30.140share. I mean, 15 minutes just isn't enough to pack it in. There's so many issues, so much
00:35:33.840nuance, so much going on. So yeah, look her up. Diary of a fixer on X. And you know, I can use
00:35:39.560it as a segue to talk about one of the aspects of this election was this, you know, as people
00:35:44.360have been pointing out, one of the big losers was legacy media. They really are because south of
00:35:51.740the border. Every major media outlet was just grossly pro-Democrat. I mean, leanings in media
00:35:59.620were nothing new. This happened since the very first newsletter was graven onto a rock and spread.
00:36:06.760I'm sure another neighbor put a different opinion and carved it onto a rock and threw it at his
00:36:10.620other neighbor's head. That's just the way it goes. But the slant, the bias, the tilt has just
00:36:16.600gone so far, gotten so bad, so blatant that it backfired. It really did. People tuned them out.
00:36:25.080And what's happened? What are some of the things that impacted this election? Elon Musk's influence
00:36:31.120on it was incredible. I'm not talking about the million dollar grants going to people and things
00:36:34.500like that. But yes, turning X into, you know, Twitter, turning it into a new hub of open
00:36:41.860information, turning it into a spot where anybody can get on and broadcast and move things out.
00:36:45.580And that gave a platform to people like Joe Rogan. If you like or don't like Rogan, it doesn't really matter. You can't deny the influence people like him have now. 40 million people tuned in to that three-hour interview with Donald Trump that he had. 40 million people.
00:37:04.380we're talking an election that was decided in a lot of states, you know, by tens of thousands or
00:37:09.860hundreds of thousands of people. When I drove back from Fort McMurray, Jane and I tuned in,
00:37:15.340we listened to the Joe Rogan podcast, so we can listen to three hours of Trump. It still didn't
00:37:19.840really endear me to the man too much, but I felt at the end of that three hours, I knew a heck of
00:37:24.100a lot more about him than I did before I started listening. And have we had those kinds of
00:37:29.400opportunities to hear from political leaders like that before. No, we didn't. And this is where it's
00:37:34.380turning into a go-to. People are going to the alternative media because they don't trust the
00:37:38.980legacy media. Look at the polls. People are rejecting legacy media. They're sick of them.
00:37:43.840The CBC is just repugnant in Canada and down in the States, MSNBC and the rest of them, you know,
00:37:50.040sobbing, crying at the end of the elections. Well, try to show a little balance, guys, a little,
00:37:57.360because nobody trusts you anymore. So we get that and it starts turning things. And we were
00:38:03.660joking about, you know, peanut, the squirrel and the raccoon. But look at the things that
00:38:08.400influence opinion. Talk about a symbol, you know, that came out to show the dangers of
00:38:15.480authoritarianism, the dangers of control. This was a guy who people haven't been watching that,
00:38:20.120but who had a squirrel and had a huge Twitter or I think a TikTok following, you know, but he'd
00:38:26.440adopted it since it was a little baby squirrel and turned it into a house pet and he had it
00:38:30.280dressed up in little outfits and it would jump on a command to hang on his bathrobe while he
00:38:34.860walked around the house and he'd feed it and things like it was very cute, very fun. But
00:38:38.640apparently it ran afoul of the rules in New York and the authorities came and they came, they
00:38:44.120busted into the house, a group of them, 10, 11 people to seize this illegal squirrel. And they
00:38:52.460didn't just seize it. They killed it. They got it into custody, and then they killed it. They
00:38:57.660killed it because they said they needed to do a rabies test. So an innocuous, harmless, little
00:39:03.800cute house pet squirrel that was harming nobody, and the state seized and killed it. And it went
00:39:11.260viral. It went all over the internet, through X, through TikTok, through YouTube, you name it.
00:39:19.320People were horrified. People were disgusted. And it became, you know, an analogy. It became,
00:39:26.340you know, a story of how bad authoritarianism has gotten, how bad the big state has gotten,
00:39:33.300how bad control has gotten, how little respect they have for you, your life, your private
00:39:38.600abilities. They think they won't think twice of kicking your door in and killing your pet.
00:39:43.860And yes, I think that had a bit of an impact on the election. That shows the power
00:39:48.760of alternative media the differences you wouldn't have seen this 20 years ago you might have seen
00:39:53.100some idiotic overpowered bureaucratic jerks getting in and killing somebody's house pet you can't put0.92
00:39:58.340the the you know between authoritarians you can't deny what they want to do with things
00:40:02.360but it wouldn't have spread virally like that and imprinted on people's minds and which of the two
00:40:07.340parties when you're looking at the american election was looking more authoritarian which
00:40:11.800of the parties was valuing individual freedom more than the other. Well, certainly not the woke
00:40:18.620ones, which is speaking of backfiring, right? No, the Democrats were the authoritarians. They were
00:40:25.000the establishment. So young people, disgusted people, things like that were turned off of it.
00:40:32.420Mr. Stanley saying, was peanut a false flag? Oh, come on. Not everything's a conspiracy. Sometimes,
00:40:36.860In fact, most things, when it comes to bureaucratic overreach, isn't a conspiracy, it's incompetence, it's stupidity, and that's what happened to poor Peanut.
00:40:47.380But I bet you, that very, you know, we'll never be able to measure it.
00:40:51.800But I bet with a lot of people who are sitting on the fence, that's where you start to see a half percent roll just due to Peanut.
00:40:58.500Not vengefully, but just being people saying, wow, it's getting pretty scary.
00:41:01.820because peanut came along after the whole COVID thing, but people were still on edge. We were
00:41:07.820forced into masks. We were forced out of work. We were forced not to be allowed to travel. We were
00:41:12.880banned from going to weddings and funerals for loved ones. And a lot of people were coerced into
00:41:17.860getting a vaccination they didn't want to get. And when you see peanut, when you see the state
00:41:25.100still feeling so entitled that they can burst into your home and kill your pet, they realize,
00:41:29.960wow, I'm just one outbreak away from being locked down again. Nobody has learned anything.
00:41:35.300Things haven't gotten better. I'm going to vote against the lockdown party. And that was the
00:41:39.580Democrats. So that was another factor in it. It certainly was. And again, you know, a victory for0.91
00:41:46.580alternative media that's growing. Certainly there's a lot of misinformation in independent
00:41:51.060media. Absolutely. And it's up to us. It takes personal responsibility to sift through it and
00:41:54.780find out what's real, what's not. It's hard. It's hard. I mean, there's a lot of deep, fake,
00:41:58.820crazy stuff going on out there. But I would rather be barraged with too much information
00:42:03.820than having the state controlling my information. That's what we've got going on in Canada, right?
00:42:09.360That's what we've got with Bill C-60, 63 or 68, I can't keep up with them anymore. C-18, C-11,
00:42:16.640you know, those are all modeled to hurt independent media, have government control media. I can't wait
00:42:21.940for that wretched old institution, the CBC, to be defunded, presuming Pierre Polyev follows through
00:42:28.620and does with his promise and gets rid of it.
00:42:33.220So the other part was the backfire of the woke, though.
00:43:39.340That covers both the squirrel and this guy swimming with the girls.
00:43:42.820And either way, and then, yeah, just in time, we find out that the boxer who was beating the hell out of women at the last Olympics, turns out it was a man as well.
00:43:52.080Apparently he had a microchode, but it's still a male piece of anatomy, and his testes were internal.
00:43:59.220It doesn't matter. It was a man, and he beat up women.0.99
00:44:02.520And you were called a bigot if you questioned that.
00:44:05.080You were called intolerant if you questioned that.
00:44:07.500Well, you know what? The majority are smarter than the elites.
00:44:11.460So take your stupid post-secondary crap and that list of letters next to your name.
00:44:16.860You're trying to tell people that a man is a woman when they aren't.
00:44:20.720And it doesn't mean people are intolerant of trans rights.
00:45:43.960I mean, I'm seeing from the embittered supporters right now of the Democrats online, looks like none of the vocal ones learned anything right now.
00:45:51.180Though, again, it's good to see Kamala, you know, conceding and talking about a smooth transition.
00:45:56.360That's good on her part. Appreciate it.
00:45:58.280Again, I think it was one of the worst things that Trump did was making a mess and denying the last election.
00:46:04.000I'm sorry, I know some people disagree. I don't care.
00:46:05.760That election wasn't stolen. Trump lost it.