Western Standard - UCP members saw through the lowbrow tactics at the AGM

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00:00:30.000 good day welcome to the cory morgan show what a night we had last night i'm a little groggy today

00:00:52.920 i got up early we didn't get out of here until a little after midnight though i guess one upside

00:00:57.140 is the downtown traffic isn't too bad at all at midnight, though.

00:01:00.360 I got to admit in getting older, I get a little more creeped out

00:01:02.620 walking to the car in the dark out there downtown,

00:01:05.100 but everything went well.

00:01:06.840 You know, we actually had a conclusion we could settle on

00:01:11.300 by the time we left.

00:01:12.160 I was, you know, I really wasn't willing to make a good guess

00:01:15.760 as to how things were going to turn out.

00:01:17.520 The only thing I felt confident about in the American election last night

00:01:20.280 was that we wouldn't have any results we could talk about.

00:01:23.400 We'd end up leaving here and saying,

00:01:24.680 well, we'll update you as it comes along.

00:01:26.760 But no, we found out who the president was going to be by the end of the night.

00:01:31.440 And, well, now we have all day in the next few weeks and months and years to see what that means and discuss it.

00:01:37.700 Before I get more on, you know, with the American election, we still do have things happening around here.

00:01:42.240 I got a guest who will be coming in.

00:01:43.820 We'll cover more of the American stuff with a strategist and pundit, Elise Mills.

00:01:47.880 And we'll break down kind of what happened in the election and what it's going to mean to us in Canada.

00:01:52.900 Of course, we always got to apply our lens to it.

00:01:56.020 I mean, the American election affects us, but it's still their election, not ours. 0.66

00:02:01.400 So if you listen to CTV and CBC and such, you wouldn't know it.

00:02:05.520 All right.

00:02:06.020 So, yes, use that comment scroll, guys.

00:02:08.060 Good to see all Paradoxie.

00:02:09.220 Hey, good meeting you last weekend.

00:02:10.700 I'm going to talk a little about the AGM in a moment here.

00:02:14.020 Mr. Stanley, Canada RV, lots of folks jumping in there.

00:02:16.920 Use that comment scroll if you're on live, guys.

00:02:19.120 I appreciate it.

00:02:20.000 And we can have a conversation.

00:02:21.800 I don't necessarily read them all out.

00:02:23.740 I do see them all, and it does help the show along.

00:02:25.780 It reminds me that there are people on the other side of the camera.

00:02:28.580 So yeah, last weekend as well.

00:02:30.320 It's kind of overshadowed by the American election,

00:02:32.340 but the largest political convention in Canadian history was held.

00:02:37.220 So I was at the 2024 UCP AGM.

00:02:40.340 I saw Alberta Conservatives at both their best and at their worst.

00:02:44.600 Going back in 2009, I was VP policy of a party, the Wild Rose Party,

00:02:49.300 and I organized the AGM that year at a recreation center in northwest Calgary.

00:02:53.400 So with about 300 people in attendance,

00:02:54.960 we deliberated policy and elected a board with the sound of basketballs pounding behind a thin

00:03:00.060 wall divider separating us from a gymnasium. And we felt the election and the event went

00:03:04.660 excellently. We were certain we were on the path to dislodge the progressive conservatives from

00:03:08.940 their 38-year reign in Alberta. We're particularly buoyed by a young lady named Daniel Smith who

00:03:13.720 announced that day she's going to pursue the leadership of our little party. The events held

00:03:17.980 in that hall did indeed lead to the end of the PC dynasty and Daniel Smith did eventually become

00:03:22.680 Alberta's premier, though the path was wilder and more convoluted than any of us could ever

00:03:27.240 have imagined at that time. We also never imagined we'd seen AGM with over 6,000 members participating

00:03:32.680 as happened with the UCP and Red Deer last weekend. It was amazing to observe actually

00:03:37.320 the organizational talent applied to hosting thousands of delegates and it went so smoothly.

00:03:42.460 Just feeding the few hundred people at the 2009 event took weeks of preparation and was a workout

00:03:47.660 for our volunteers. In Red Deer, everything from the registrations to the meals went incredibly

00:03:52.380 smoothly at the UCP gathering. And more impressive than that logistical feat, though, was that

00:03:56.900 massive turnout. I've attended dozens of conventions, special meetings, leadership events over the

00:04:01.380 years. There's a core of party stalwarts who parentally attend to these events, and they're

00:04:05.900 important, and you become accustomed to seeing their faces at these. They're the folks who hold

00:04:10.080 things together during the tougher times in politics. But what was most striking to me

00:04:13.880 last weekend was the number of new faces. Thousands of people who have never attended a political

00:04:18.920 event in their lives chose to spend hundreds of dollars of their hard-earned money and dedicate

00:04:22.860 a weekend to taking part in the AGM. And despite the wishful thinking of opponents of the party and

00:04:28.100 the massive turnout of new people to the convention, it wasn't inspired by negativity

00:04:32.040 or an intent to oppose the leader. Those folks came out to be supportive of the leader and take

00:04:36.820 part in molding the party. By the way, lots of people came to greet us at the Western Standard

00:04:42.120 Broadcast booth on the convention floor. It was great to see them. One who stood out to me was a

00:04:45.760 gentleman who was perhaps in his early 60s. He came to chat with me for a bit. He was visibly

00:04:49.740 excited, almost giddy as he explained how he never realized before how he could take part in things

00:04:53.840 like this, and he was ecstatic about being able to contribute. This guy's now going to be surely

00:04:58.780 a political junkie for life, and I suspect I'll see him attending future events. And the hospitality

00:05:03.680 events, you know, suites at these events, they're nothing new, but they usually used to be comprised

00:05:08.320 of a pair of adjoining hotel rooms with bathtubs packed with ice and beer. The suites on Friday

00:05:12.720 night were incredible. Delegates traveled from room to room and enjoyed free eats and drinks

00:05:17.080 from numerous organizations, including, of course, the Western Standard. It was quite a room.

00:05:21.220 Delegates, they mingled, networked, and bonded. And in these suites' first-time convention,

00:05:25.260 attendees discovered that actually politics can be fun at times, too. So a lot of them are going

00:05:29.480 to be back, and it's great development. Now, unfortunately, last weekend, delegates got to

00:05:33.620 see the uglier side of partisan politics, too. Factions, predominantly driven by chronically

00:05:38.320 malcontent fringe operators worked their hardest to sow dissent among the membership. They

00:05:43.140 distributed fake brochures implying Daniel Smith was taking part in some Islamic-inspired

00:05:48.260 conspiracy, and they managed to get the phone numbers of delegates and harassed them in the

00:05:52.520 night with phone calls claiming to be part of, you know, Smith's Islamic conspiracy. Brochures

00:05:57.520 were put on windshields every hotel in town, claiming Smith was actually being supported by

00:06:02.800 the NDP. And ridiculous report cards were handed out, giving Smith a failing grade as a leader.

00:06:07.540 All the attempts to undermine Smith still failed dismally, as she garnered 91.5% support from the memberships in that leadership review.

00:06:15.860 Members saw through the sleazy tactics and chose to support the leader.

00:06:20.040 Legacy media pundits hoping for internal party division, well, they left disappointed.

00:06:24.840 And Alberta's NDP are disappointed as well.

00:06:26.700 Smith has a very solid mandate from her members.

00:06:28.940 You see opponents are dismissing the turnout of the AGM as being a tiny minority of Albertans.

00:06:33.840 Has any other party managed such a feat?

00:06:36.420 A precedent's been set, and the UCP offered a demonstration of strength unlike any other party has.

00:06:41.580 They not only have a massive membership base, but they have an active one.

00:06:44.740 The members are willing to participate rather than just talk.

00:06:47.340 So think about it. These are the donors, the door knockers, and the voters who are going to ensure the UCP wins the next election.

00:06:53.400 We don't want to presume yet, but it's a pretty darn good start, and it's pretty foolhardy to dismiss them.

00:06:58.400 So 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,

00:07:04.560 most still left the convention feeling optimistic and will remain involved.

00:07:09.280 The UCP isn't just in power right now, it's growing.

00:07:12.360 And no matter what party stripe one has,

00:07:14.440 they should be impressed and encouraged when grassroots members get up and take part in the process.

00:07:18.740 So rather than ignoring the momentum of the UCP and its members,

00:07:21.580 other parties should be studying and learning to emulate them.

00:07:24.660 Last weekend's event was a victory for democracy in Alberta.

00:07:27.540 And I know, I'm really banging the UCP drum.

00:07:30.260 It's fine, I'm not a member, I certainly see them as the best party for Alberta as it sits.

00:07:33.320 that could change in the course of a few years. But what I'm excited about was seeing thousands

00:07:37.800 of people getting together, taking part. That's how it's done. That's how things get better,

00:07:42.180 no matter what stripe you're at. So last weekend, hey, it was a success and hats off to the UCP

00:07:47.080 organizers and the leader. And of course, the people who got up and went and took part. I look

00:07:51.080 forward to seeing him in Edmonton next year as we observe that one. And well, we'll see what

00:07:54.840 is coming up in the party front from then. All right, well, let's get on to the news. There's

00:07:59.160 some other stuff happened besides the UCP convention. We got our news editor, Dave Naylor,

00:08:02.420 in. You had a nice late night too, Dave. I did, but most importantly, Peanut and his raccoon friend

00:08:07.760 have been avenged. They certainly have. It's the wrath of Peanut. Right, you know, who would have

00:08:14.280 thought in this day and age that the killing of a squirrel, we don't know, but it may have had some

00:08:20.040 sort of impact. I think it had a little bit of impact. You know, you and I actually predicted

00:08:23.020 it last week, so we were ahead of the trend. Our Linda Slobodian predicted it a few months ago,

00:08:28.980 and she's got a column up there today big winners obviously elon musk he made 15 billion dollars

00:08:35.540 overnight uh when with the shares in tesla going up he's going to get a big job in the administration

00:08:42.100 and and cut trillions out of the budget rfk is actually going to get a real job and and make

00:08:49.220 america healthy again big losers hollywood people obviously don't care what celebrities have to tell

00:08:56.420 them. They don't care about J-Lo and Ofra and stuff like that. So the Canadian real estate 0.96

00:09:04.660 market is going to be red hot with all the celebrities moving up here who have vowed to

00:09:09.620 leave America. Yeah, I will see if that actually happens. It's interesting to watch these though.

00:09:14.900 Yes. I mean, J-Lo is known for her oversized butt, not her oversized brain, and maybe she 1.00

00:09:19.140 should stick to jiggling the part that makes her money rather than trying to pretend to have one 1.00

00:09:22.740 Exactly. And as people said, J-Lo should have been warning people about Diddy instead of Trump.

00:09:29.580 Yeah, she didn't do any favors. 1.00

00:09:30.860 No. And obviously the fallout is the main stuff on the website.

00:09:34.100 We've got reaction from all over the world, including Canada.

00:09:38.120 Justin Singh says Canadians are afraid.

00:09:40.600 Justin Singh?

00:09:41.320 Justin, I'm sorry, Justin Singh.

00:09:42.800 No, that works.

00:09:43.040 It was a late night, but I guess it does work.

00:09:46.220 Jagmeet Singh says Canadians are afraid.

00:09:48.300 I don't think that's the case.

00:09:50.780 Trump was congratulated by Trudeau and also Paul Yevon and Daniel Smith.

00:09:56.820 And, of course, the big questions for Alberta is the Keystone Pipeline.

00:10:01.320 Trump has vowed to drill, baby, drill, and it'll be interesting.

00:10:05.360 And we're going to try and get a hold of the Premier today to see if there's any interest in bringing it back.

00:10:11.840 Now, we call Trump the winner about the same time as Fox, about 11 o'clock.

00:10:18.260 But CNN wouldn't.

00:10:20.100 You know, NBC called it for Trump.

00:10:23.720 CNN wouldn't.

00:10:24.820 So I was able to watch it till 3 a.m., and CNN still hadn't called it for Trump,

00:10:30.620 even though it was so obvious.

00:10:32.680 And neither had CBC.

00:10:34.700 CBC were too busy having their panelists complain that Trump was Hitler.

00:10:41.260 So there's a lot of complaining and whining at the mainstream media, 0.99

00:10:47.760 and they were one of the big losers last night. 0.99

00:10:49.720 They were a huge loser last night, absolutely. 0.98

00:10:52.560 So, yeah, it was fun and games. 0.84

00:10:54.860 And Harris has already called Trump a few minutes ago to concede.

00:11:01.780 And she's going to be speaking to her supporters at 2 o'clock Mountain Standard Time.

00:11:06.660 And the Western Standard will be streaming it live.

00:11:09.520 Okay, well, we can see Harris.

00:11:11.080 I mean, hopefully she maintains a bit of dignity.

00:11:13.100 I really, again, thought that was...

00:11:15.040 And I know Trump was no better four years ago.

00:11:16.980 You 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.

00:11:25.820 You don't even have to concede at that time.

00:11:27.340 You could say, you know, we're still waiting on things, but tonight, guys, thank you for coming out.

00:11:30.560 I love you, blah, blah, blah.

00:11:31.240 The usual stuff.

00:11:32.040 We can write those speeches.

00:11:33.200 And she didn't have the class to even appear.

00:11:35.240 I saw the imagery of them walking out of that center, you know, dejected.

00:11:40.300 It's just, it's sad that the tone has gotten that way.

00:11:43.320 If you remember, Hillary did the same thing when Trump beat her. 0.93

00:11:48.020 Interestingly, in the phone call today, Harris says it's very important to have a peaceful and organized transition.

00:11:56.060 So it looks by the initial phone call today that she's taking it to game with class.

00:12:01.280 Well, she should.

00:12:02.120 Well, that's good. Better late than never.

00:12:04.620 Let's face it. It wasn't close.

00:12:06.820 No.

00:12:07.600 There's no court challenges are going to change this or anything like that.

00:12:10.700 All right.

00:12:12.000 well thanks for the update i'll let you back into i think i'll go have a nap on derek's leather

00:12:16.960 futon yeah yeah he'll be in doing the pipeline it's a good time to sneak into his office yeah

00:12:20.960 i got 45 minutes right all right thanks dave all right that is our news editor dave naylor and yes

00:12:26.560 of course american election news dominating lots of other stuff coming up on the site and yes the

00:12:31.760 wise linda slobodian beat us all uh out of the gates but i mean linda's brilliant she knows her 0.99

00:12:37.200 stuff check that stuff out guys it's on the westernstandard.news and take out a subscription

00:12:42.160 that's why we stay independent we aren't among the legacy media losers actually last night

00:12:47.160 we're the ones who gave you things straight as we saw them and the reason we can do it is because

00:12:52.960 you subscribe 9.99 a month 100 bucks a year guys well worth it it keeps us rolling keeps our

00:12:58.200 reporters out there keeps us doing those broadcasts so they could buy pizza and the rest for us to 0.71

00:13:03.500 hang around here till midnight last night and bring those election results to you as they came

00:13:08.660 down. And you know, one thing I'm really happy about, I really am. I mean, as a conservative,

00:13:13.380 I'm certainly happy. And again, I've said it before. I'll say it again. I'm not a big fan

00:13:17.080 of Trump himself. I do not think he's a good person. But if I was an American, I would still

00:13:23.420 hold my nose and would have voted for him. And, you know, there's going to be better policies

00:13:28.200 coming from him than would have come from Kamala Harris had she won things down there. Better for

00:13:32.960 the United States and probably better for Canada, though there's some protectionist elements that

00:13:36.980 perhaps we'll discuss with Elise Mills shortly on that sort of thing. But the main thing I'm happy

00:13:41.620 about is that it wasn't close. That's what really leads to the insanity. That's what leads to the

00:13:48.200 division. It really does. It really heats things up. That was a real problem in 2020. That was a

00:13:52.980 problem back with Gore and Bush as well. When you don't have a definitive winner on one side or

00:13:59.000 another. Then you get into that limbo. You get into the court challenges. You get into people

00:14:05.340 wondering whether there was funny businesses in polling stations. You get into mistrust.

00:14:10.340 And of course, at its worst, you can get into what happened on January 6th, the other year.

00:14:15.000 And we're not going to see that this time around. That is good. They can focus. I mean,

00:14:19.120 you can still focus your political battles. You can still snipe at each other and they surely will.

00:14:23.340 but it won't be as loopy and as insane as it was before uh even if and i mean it didn't happen and

00:14:30.200 i'm happy for that had harris won i would have hoped then that it would have been a definitive

00:14:35.340 win so that we don't go into again all of those battles and fights and wondering whether it was

00:14:39.180 rigged though some people will always think so that's the way it goes but uh as it is uh she

00:14:44.660 has conceded and and we're going to see a president trump coming in uh next january all right so let's

00:14:49.940 break it down a little more with somebody who spent a great deal of time actually working south

00:14:53.580 of the border, a political watcher, pundit, strategist. She knows all this stuff inside out.

00:14:57.860 Elise Mills is joining me today. Hi, Elise. How's it going? That's great. I'm extremely happy. It's

00:15:03.720 an exciting day. Back to business we go, Corey. Yes, absolutely. And there's a lot of business

00:15:11.040 to cover. You know, I mean, maybe I'll kind of start. We're still into a strange kind of limbo

00:15:15.940 in a way, though, you know, the formal transition to power won't happen until January.

00:15:22.440 Theoretically, Joe Biden is going to govern for the next month and a half, but he's kind of a

00:15:27.720 non-factor anymore. It's not like you have a very active, sitting and outgoing president at this

00:15:33.520 time. Well, the Democratic leadership is completely broken. There is no leader of the

00:15:38.320 Democratic Party anymore, you know, by de facto. The idea that Ms. Harris wouldn't even show up 0.92

00:15:45.180 to thank her supporters and literally left them in the dark and the cold last night,

00:15:49.780 as your previous guest was talking about, a la Hillary Clinton. That tells me, and she's only 0.95

00:15:55.480 just conceded to Trump like 15, 20 minutes ago as well. And actually, there's lots of breaking

00:16:01.740 news. Michigan is solidly and decidedly Trump. And that leaves a few other states to go that

00:16:08.760 will probably also go red. And the special prosecutor is looking at unwinding a lot of

00:16:17.440 what's happened with Trump's legal cases too. They have no intention of putting this man in jail or

00:16:23.280 continuing this anymore. So the skies are opening for Trump. But I do agree with you. I have myself

00:16:33.520 some issues with Donald Trump, but what I'm excited about, and I know this to be very true

00:16:38.040 because I worked in the States during the Trump years and I've worked in the States subsequent to

00:16:42.600 that during the Biden years, that people were so much worse off, Corey. It was pretty grim

00:16:49.420 in the rural states for Americans. And I was in North Carolina. I was, of course, in D.C.

00:16:55.460 North Carolina, very proud of them last night making the right decision, especially women of 1.00

00:16:59.820 all colors and religions got out there and supported Trump. But it's so sad to see what's

00:17:06.320 happened to really hardworking Americans. And, you know, you come back and you see how much even

00:17:11.740 worse it is for Canadians here. And it just sort of gives you this general malaise. I'm excited to

00:17:16.720 see Americans get going again. And I think, you know, tech giants, investors, I think they're

00:17:22.320 all going to be ready to go down there. And that's exciting for us as well.

00:17:26.340 Yeah, some optimism, some people can really use it. I mean, I think that's a lot of what backfired

00:17:31.000 south of the border. And it's kind of what's backfiring up here right now. If people have

00:17:34.500 traveled the rust belt and seen how it is out there even pre-Trump it's they're having a hard

00:17:40.020 time they've been having a hard time for a long time with the coal mines are shutting down

00:17:43.340 manufacturing is hurting and uh the Democrats were busy running off on woke tirades or calling

00:17:49.680 people racists and onto that well the the people living in in Michigan and Wisconsin and Ohio

00:17:55.460 they don't care they want jobs and they want safety and uh the Democrats weren't offering that 0.57

00:18:01.440 Well, Michigan folding to Trump is a is a whopper for the for the Democratic establishment.

00:18:07.080 And the thing is, the Democrats have become the party for the elite and the Republicans are the party for the regular average person.

00:18:15.100 And, you know, that we haven't seen the flip of the script like that since Ronald Reagan, 1980.

00:18:19.660 And and, you know, actually, I just see so many parallels.

00:18:23.340 I mean, I was just a little tyke at the time, but, you know, being an avid political watcher, you know,

00:18:28.600 Reagan came out in that election and said, are you better off? And that was all that had to be

00:18:35.580 said. You know, there was Morning in America, that incredible ad that went out there. Trump

00:18:41.840 really followed that footprint this time. And Kamala Harris just ran from the question. She 0.97

00:18:48.160 was all smiles and giggles. And what gets me, if this guy's Hitler, which I find completely 0.77

00:18:53.780 offensive and all the jewish community must find that offensive um then and he's so evil and he's 0.99

00:19:00.820 such a threat to democracy is your response smiles and giggles and going on saturday night live but

00:19:06.580 you refuse to be able to answer on the view which is your home turf what you would have done

00:19:12.660 differently and what your plans are for americans she never all she said was women be scared that's 0.99

00:19:18.820 pretty much what she said and smiles and giggles shouldn't be the response if he's this incredibly

00:19:24.340 you know intense threat to democracy i found it outrageous and women showed up last night 1.00

00:19:29.620 and said you know what i don't vote on gender i vote on what my family needs what i need and

00:19:35.380 there's more single female parents in that country today than there were in 2020 and i can tell you 0.98

00:19:41.860 they're having a tough time you travel anywhere like kentucky corey you see poverty like i haven't

00:19:47.620 seen in my entire life. And the Fourth Reich isn't building despite the fear mongering. And,

00:19:53.460 and, you know, it's not going to happen. There's no troops massing on the Polish border at this

00:19:58.180 time. But the Republicans do have power like they haven't had in a long, long time. And we're seeing

00:20:04.260 now they've got the presidency, they've got the House, they've got the Senate, and they've got

00:20:08.180 the Supreme Court. I imagine, you know, despite what the fear mongers are saying, we're still

00:20:14.660 going to see some big changes. If there's an opportunity to really shift things, whether it's

00:20:19.640 dealing with the civil service, foreign affairs, the next two years of the time that President

00:20:24.900 Trump is kind of going to have free reign to do what he pleases. So I certainly hope it's a

00:20:29.900 positive change. He's got four years to hustle. He's got to get right out of the gate. This

00:20:34.280 trifecta might not happen again for God knows how long. So he's going to be able to do things

00:20:41.200 like appoint the head of ICE, so Homeland Security. These types of appointments are going

00:20:47.240 to be important and precious to the Trump administration. And from what I know from

00:20:53.220 inside the, you know, around Washington today, he's not making the same mistake he did on those

00:20:59.540 he had hired for his team beforehand. So he's taking a much more direct approach. He's also

00:21:04.300 reaching into the private sector as well. I know he's reaching in for those who understand Canada.

00:21:10.120 So 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.

00:21:30.160 Trump is a deal maker he's a negotiator I've met with him before he's not he if there he can easily

00:21:37.760 be talked around and come to an agreement it's not inevitable that there's going to be a 20%

00:21:44.800 tariff uh for Canadians but if you sit on your duff and you don't act like a serious figure

00:21:50.380 then we're going to be in a whole lot of trouble so um I want to just dispel that because it drives

00:21:55.520 me nuts to see that, that we're just going to lay down, oh, it's inevitable. Poor leadership leads

00:22:01.380 to trade conflicts, you know, tariffs. But here's the thing, Tori, I also want to say, because we

00:22:08.480 won't step up and do what's right by NATO, we are actually getting a thrashing and a shellacking on

00:22:15.720 other trade deals from other countries. Canadians aren't even aware of that, neither is the legacy

00:22:20.120 media. No, and we can hope for some nuanced trade. Unfortunately, we look at Team Canada

00:22:27.020 right now, and I don't hold a lot of optimism of strength on our side. But I look at things

00:22:32.060 such as energy, and I would hope pragmatists within at least advisors with President Trump,

00:22:36.360 he's talked about tariffs on energy imports, but the reality is if he wants to provide

00:22:40.880 inexpensive energy to Americans, he has to look north of the border and facilitate our providing

00:22:46.040 supply. He knows enough that that's your supply and demand. If you're going to provide it

00:22:49.420 inexpensively, you've got to bring in that local supply. People talk about Keystone, but it's not

00:22:54.660 like just flipping a switch and saying, well, we can finish that little portion and get it across

00:22:58.320 the border. Trans-Canada Energy burned badly. Their investors burned badly. Just because you

00:23:03.680 have four years of a supportive president doesn't mean they want to open their wallets and take a

00:23:08.600 gamble again. The next Democrat could end up shutting it down like Biden did. So, I mean,

00:23:13.160 there's still a lot of work to be done if we're going to finish that pipeline, for example.

00:23:17.240 Well, 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.

00:23:43.120 but we've just our environmental or environment minister and our prime minister has just

00:23:50.120 inherently shut down extraction in this country I mean just in Atlantic Canada alone that's 7

00:23:56.280 billion in GDP that's over 150,000 jobs just in Atlantic Canada so it's extraction and how are we

00:24:04.460 going to get around that I don't understand that you can't be an honest broker in the energy

00:24:11.440 security relationship between U.S. and Canada if you cannot create policies that are realistic

00:24:18.640 and pragmatic, as you said. Well, the only worry I get, and I'm seeing some folks popping out and

00:24:24.780 seeing that stuff too, is that Trudeau and his government are going to try and use the Trump

00:24:31.020 administration as a foil. They're going to try and actually personify them as bad as evil,

00:24:36.460 would already fail south of the border electorally, hopefully to win his support here in Canada,

00:24:42.640 you know, as a protector of Canada against the big bad Trump regime, which really concerns me.

00:24:48.280 As you said, trade is so critical and important, and antagonizing Trump right now is one of the 0.98

00:24:53.880 dumbest things you could do. But unfortunately, Prime Minister Trudeau is not really known for 0.95

00:24:57.000 doing smart things. Well, we're also a security threat. I mean, let's just be honest. I can't

00:25:02.960 believe I'm saying this about my country and my parents arrived here and were so grateful to be

00:25:09.580 here. They felt it was a privilege, not a right to be Canadian. And that was how I was raised. I

00:25:14.220 question being Canadian almost every day right now because there's such a malaise and such a lack of

00:25:19.920 hope in this country. But then you also see the very concerning stories. I mean, the Chinese 1.00

00:25:26.940 doctor using our labs here and and how the rcmp had warned about her being a security threat people

00:25:33.420 lying the screen slush fund um you know and then all the other security issues we have we i i'm not

00:25:40.540 so sure like so we have to really think about what is our plan what are we going to bring to trump

00:25:46.860 and his administration um in a surety um because when he actually does do what he says he's going

00:25:53.660 going to do, which is deport hundreds of thousands of people out of the United States. And remember,

00:25:59.060 he's got the power now to fill all those positions to be able to deploy not only personnel, but

00:26:05.700 policy to get that done now with very little check and balance on that. Are these people coming to

00:26:12.620 Canada? We also, yeah, there's huge disagreements between the US and actually the Five Eyes about

00:26:19.200 how canada's approached even the uh palestinian refugee uh question as well and what our commitment

00:26:25.120 i think it was 10 000 we were bringing in uh so under the surface it's us is not you know us was

00:26:33.040 ticked off with canada way before trump showed up um and trump is just going to be very verbal and

00:26:40.400 use a lot of vernacular around you know where our sore spots are and we better be prepared to hear

00:26:45.760 the hard truth. It's going to be a lot of home truths that come to us, Corey. Yeah. And I put

00:26:50.520 that out on X earlier that I was only mixed. I was only half joking with it when saying, well,

00:26:55.380 if he's going to be deporting hundreds of thousands, I hope he's sending them south 1.00

00:26:58.760 rather than north. And then I said, I'm sorry, Mexico, my apologies, but it's just self-interest.

00:27:04.040 I mean, Canada, we've already got, you know, a prime minister who finally admitted we're taking

00:27:09.300 in too many immigrants as it is and taking in hundreds of thousands who were declared illegals

00:27:15.300 in the United States is not going to do our economy or our public safety any favors. He should

00:27:21.240 be talking on the phone and, you know, hopefully saying, well, let's talk about this, where we're

00:27:26.020 going to send the people you're moving out of your country. Well, and I mean, last night's

00:27:29.880 election results, which, you know, I think if the left really, or the progressives, as they call

00:27:35.340 themselves, which I don't think they are, they're not progressive, you know, it was a lot of

00:27:41.700 Hispanic men and women that overwhelmingly voted for Trump last night. And here's the deal. And

00:27:48.280 Canadian, new Canadians and Canadians like myself, where I'm technically first generation,

00:27:54.980 respect the right way of coming into a country because people like my parents had to work so

00:28:01.080 hard to get here. And I think we saw that. So if anyone thinks he's going to have a lot of pushback,

00:28:07.520 but you're right is are they the problem is is it's places like El Salvador for example it's

00:28:14.380 not just Mexico it's other places that Canadians don't really think about that the Americans are

00:28:20.480 really battling with and we saw some of that on the Quebec border you know and I've forgotten the

00:28:26.520 road now but yeah we were seeing them from Nigeria Syria El Salvador places that we as Canadians

00:28:34.640 don't normally think as being a place of huge immigration for us. That's where these refugee 1.00

00:28:39.800 claims are coming from. So it's going to be interesting. A cold wind has whipped through

00:28:48.120 Ottawa today. And hopefully it's enough of a shock to their system that they realize they can't be

00:28:55.040 lazy. They can't lie. They can't abuse any more taxpayers' dollars. It is time to smarten up and

00:29:00.960 get with the program. But quite frankly, Trump knows that Trudeau is a lame duck and he knows 0.99

00:29:06.200 that the Liberal government is in complete disarray right now. And any sort of platitudes 0.81

00:29:12.140 that are coming from Melanie Jolie or Trudeau today are complete falsehoods. I think they're

00:29:17.620 much more concerned. I think many things are intersecting for them right now, Corey. And I

00:29:23.020 think this is a scary time to be working for the Liberal government. It's also a scary time for us

00:29:28.800 Canadians that don't want them there anymore. Yeah. Again, the immigration question and things 0.95

00:29:34.740 is going to be a big one. And there's a good point with the Hispanic population is that it's 1.00

00:29:39.960 much more diverse than just saying Mexicans or Puerto Ricans or anything of the sort necessarily

00:29:45.480 or Cubans. And there's a lot of well-established people of Hispanic descent that are second 0.99

00:29:51.540 generation, third generation, or even first generation, but they came up and they're working

00:29:54.820 and they're established, and they're feeling the pressures too. They want to pay their bills as

00:29:59.380 well. They want to buy homes, raise families like everybody else. They don't want to be in crime

00:30:03.180 ridden neighborhoods. That's what they fled. And, you know, they're still playing the identity 0.98

00:30:08.300 politics. I'm seeing some embittered left Democrats down there actually calling Hispanic people white

00:30:15.940 nationalists. It's bizarre what they're doing because the Hispanic vote, the identified,

00:30:22.080 the citizens or the people who could vote in the states rejected the democrats this time around

00:30:26.880 i mean they'll have more time to have some introspection and think about things but

00:30:30.640 alienating the uh established working people from the from the hispanic nations is is not going to

00:30:36.640 be a smart course on their part well i would suggest that the hispanic population or immigrants 0.99

00:30:42.800 that come into the united states i would say would be similar to where we've seen our ukrainian

00:30:49.040 uh new new canadians from ukraine very hard working i'm always impressed to see what they're

00:30:56.160 able to achieve i'm not just saying that uh i think the democrats have somehow weirdly

00:31:02.160 flipped the script almost to a racist anti-hispanic conversation like they in the way of

00:31:10.160 maternalizing them or paternalizing them that they they need some sort of special treatment and

00:31:16.080 you know a safety jacket to to get through this they are some of the hardest working people in

00:31:21.040 the world um much like those who have arrived here in canada from the ukraine i don't know

00:31:26.800 one person that i've interacted with either hispanic or from ukraine that haven't started

00:31:31.040 a new business or haven't hustled and immediately been employed i am very happy to have any of those

00:31:36.800 workers here we need them the americans recognize that as well the problems that they have mexico

00:31:42.400 is a separate situation because of the just the stronghold the cartels have there el salvador has

00:31:50.080 some of that as well um but you know i would also be very concerned about some of the african

00:31:55.760 nationals coming in as well you've got isis rolling through there we don't talk about that 0.98

00:32:00.000 very often um actually the more i think about this trump's plate is going to be very full

00:32:05.200 because the u.s needs to step forward versus stepping back the way that the uk and the u.s

00:32:10.480 have done under their previous administrations. And I'm worried about Starmer as well. So

00:32:15.480 there's a lot going on. But I would say this. It is absolutely stunning to me that the Democrats

00:32:20.720 have not only lost Hispanic women and men, the entire Jewish community. I mean, that is

00:32:26.380 unbelievable. The Democratic Party was the home to the Jews. It really, really was, especially 1.00

00:32:31.880 places like New York. It just hasn't been that way. They have alienated white women. They've 1.00

00:32:37.720 alienated black men. I saw tweets today coming from Republican black males that said, don't ever 0.90

00:32:44.000 tell a black man how to vote. It would be similar to how I feel as a woman, don't tell me how to 0.99

00:32:49.200 vote. The abortion issue just never landed. There were so many other issues. And I mean, that can

00:32:55.600 get into some of the crises that they do have around their employment sector. They have 3

00:33:02.940 million what we would call white collar jobs so whether that's stem or that's legal services etc

00:33:09.500 etc that they cannot fill and they haven't been able to fill for three and a half years

00:33:14.860 that's why you're seeing 150 000 canadians spread into places like houston or where i went to north

00:33:20.620 carolina i saw more canadians in houston than i see on a regular basis here in canada so you know

00:33:27.260 it's it's it's going to be interesting they've got their economy is all fired up but there's

00:33:33.980 things that need to be put into place for it to be completely solid and a strong foundation

00:33:39.020 the flip side to that is that they have their closest neighbor an ally canada who is has a

00:33:44.380 broken supply chain uh a really low product production rate around manufacturing we're

00:33:51.260 losing manufacture especially in the sme market we don't really have mining in british columbia

00:33:56.300 anymore. We have now caps on energy. We need to figure out what makes us valuable to the

00:34:03.400 Americans. And number one, it's being a good security partner that you can trust us, which

00:34:08.100 you can't do right now. Number two, we need energy security in North America. The world is a mess,

00:34:15.440 and we need to be prepared for the worst case scenario. So these are the two things I think

00:34:19.780 Canada should really be focused in on. Well, we'll know a lot more in the next couple of months,

00:34:25.060 I guess, as Trump starts appointing and moving, you know, speaking of the directions he's going

00:34:30.820 to be going to, we'll be watching it very closely. I hope I'll get you back and we can start to

00:34:34.640 dissect, you know, Canada's reaction and Trump's settling in there. So before I let you go,

00:34:39.600 where can people find your commentary and what you're up to these days, Elisa?

00:34:42.700 So first of all, I want to say is I am a subscriber to Western Standard. $10 a month

00:34:47.520 is nothing. And I check my email every morning. So I want to encourage all the viewers and listeners

00:34:52.420 to, please subscribe. It's so important that you do so. You can find me on Twitter at Diary of a

00:34:59.460 Fixer. And you can find me on LinkedIn. But I'm mainly on Twitter pretty much all the time right

00:35:07.720 now, Corey. Great. Well, I got to love it when the guest gives our publication a plug while she's

00:35:12.140 at it. So thanks for coming on to talk to us today. I mean, there's only so much you can cover in this

00:35:16.820 time. We'll have to have you back. And yeah, well, I look forward to talking to you again soon.

00:35:22.420 So nice to see you again, Corey. You take good care of yourself. Okay.

00:35:25.520 Great. Thanks. You too. All right. So there's Elyse Mills. And as you can see, yes, lots to

00:35:30.140 share. I mean, 15 minutes just isn't enough to pack it in. There's so many issues, so much

00:35:33.840 nuance, so much going on. So yeah, look her up. Diary of a fixer on X. And you know, I can use

00:35:39.560 it as a segue to talk about one of the aspects of this election was this, you know, as people

00:35:44.360 have been pointing out, one of the big losers was legacy media. They really are because south of

00:35:51.740 the border. Every major media outlet was just grossly pro-Democrat. I mean, leanings in media

00:35:59.620 were nothing new. This happened since the very first newsletter was graven onto a rock and spread.

00:36:06.760 I'm sure another neighbor put a different opinion and carved it onto a rock and threw it at his

00:36:10.620 other neighbor's head. That's just the way it goes. But the slant, the bias, the tilt has just

00:36:16.600 gone so far, gotten so bad, so blatant that it backfired. It really did. People tuned them out.

00:36:25.080 And what's happened? What are some of the things that impacted this election? Elon Musk's influence

00:36:31.120 on it was incredible. I'm not talking about the million dollar grants going to people and things

00:36:34.500 like that. But yes, turning X into, you know, Twitter, turning it into a new hub of open

00:36:41.860 information, turning it into a spot where anybody can get on and broadcast and move things out.

00:36:45.580 And 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.

00:37:04.380 we're talking an election that was decided in a lot of states, you know, by tens of thousands or

00:37:09.860 hundreds of thousands of people. When I drove back from Fort McMurray, Jane and I tuned in,

00:37:15.340 we listened to the Joe Rogan podcast, so we can listen to three hours of Trump. It still didn't

00:37:19.840 really endear me to the man too much, but I felt at the end of that three hours, I knew a heck of

00:37:24.100 a lot more about him than I did before I started listening. And have we had those kinds of

00:37:29.400 opportunities to hear from political leaders like that before. No, we didn't. And this is where it's

00:37:34.380 turning into a go-to. People are going to the alternative media because they don't trust the

00:37:38.980 legacy media. Look at the polls. People are rejecting legacy media. They're sick of them.

00:37:43.840 The CBC is just repugnant in Canada and down in the States, MSNBC and the rest of them, you know, 0.94

00:37:50.040 sobbing, crying at the end of the elections. Well, try to show a little balance, guys, a little,

00:37:57.360 because nobody trusts you anymore. So we get that and it starts turning things. And we were

00:38:03.660 joking about, you know, peanut, the squirrel and the raccoon. But look at the things that

00:38:08.400 influence opinion. Talk about a symbol, you know, that came out to show the dangers of

00:38:15.480 authoritarianism, the dangers of control. This was a guy who people haven't been watching that,

00:38:20.120 but who had a squirrel and had a huge Twitter or I think a TikTok following, you know, but he'd

00:38:26.440 adopted it since it was a little baby squirrel and turned it into a house pet and he had it

00:38:30.280 dressed up in little outfits and it would jump on a command to hang on his bathrobe while he

00:38:34.860 walked around the house and he'd feed it and things like it was very cute, very fun. But

00:38:38.640 apparently it ran afoul of the rules in New York and the authorities came and they came, they

00:38:44.120 busted into the house, a group of them, 10, 11 people to seize this illegal squirrel. And they

00:38:52.460 didn't just seize it. They killed it. They got it into custody, and then they killed it. They 0.86

00:38:57.660 killed it because they said they needed to do a rabies test. So an innocuous, harmless, little

00:39:03.800 cute house pet squirrel that was harming nobody, and the state seized and killed it. And it went

00:39:11.260 viral. It went all over the internet, through X, through TikTok, through YouTube, you name it.

00:39:19.320 People were horrified. People were disgusted. And it became, you know, an analogy. It became,

00:39:26.340 you know, a story of how bad authoritarianism has gotten, how bad the big state has gotten,

00:39:33.300 how bad control has gotten, how little respect they have for you, your life, your private

00:39:38.600 abilities. They think they won't think twice of kicking your door in and killing your pet. 0.59

00:39:43.860 And yes, I think that had a bit of an impact on the election. That shows the power

00:39:48.760 of alternative media the differences you wouldn't have seen this 20 years ago you might have seen 1.00

00:39:53.100 some idiotic overpowered bureaucratic jerks getting in and killing somebody's house pet you can't put 1.00

00:39:58.340 the the you know between authoritarians you can't deny what they want to do with things 1.00

00:40:02.360 but it wouldn't have spread virally like that and imprinted on people's minds and which of the two

00:40:07.340 parties when you're looking at the american election was looking more authoritarian which

00:40:11.800 of the parties was valuing individual freedom more than the other. Well, certainly not the woke

00:40:18.620 ones, which is speaking of backfiring, right? No, the Democrats were the authoritarians. They were

00:40:25.000 the establishment. So young people, disgusted people, things like that were turned off of it.

00:40:32.420 Mr. Stanley saying, was peanut a false flag? Oh, come on. Not everything's a conspiracy. Sometimes,

00:40:36.860 In 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. 0.99

00:40:47.380 But I bet you, that very, you know, we'll never be able to measure it. 0.89

00:40:51.800 But 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.

00:40:58.500 Not vengefully, but just being people saying, wow, it's getting pretty scary.

00:41:01.820 because peanut came along after the whole COVID thing, but people were still on edge. We were

00:41:07.820 forced into masks. We were forced out of work. We were forced not to be allowed to travel. We were

00:41:12.880 banned from going to weddings and funerals for loved ones. And a lot of people were coerced into

00:41:17.860 getting a vaccination they didn't want to get. And when you see peanut, when you see the state

00:41:25.100 still feeling so entitled that they can burst into your home and kill your pet, they realize,

00:41:29.960 wow, I'm just one outbreak away from being locked down again. Nobody has learned anything.

00:41:35.300 Things haven't gotten better. I'm going to vote against the lockdown party. And that was the

00:41:39.580 Democrats. So that was another factor in it. It certainly was. And again, you know, a victory for 0.91

00:41:46.580 alternative media that's growing. Certainly there's a lot of misinformation in independent

00:41:51.060 media. Absolutely. And it's up to us. It takes personal responsibility to sift through it and

00:41:54.780 find out what's real, what's not. It's hard. It's hard. I mean, there's a lot of deep, fake,

00:41:58.820 crazy stuff going on out there. But I would rather be barraged with too much information

00:42:03.820 than having the state controlling my information. That's what we've got going on in Canada, right?

00:42:09.360 That's what we've got with Bill C-60, 63 or 68, I can't keep up with them anymore. C-18, C-11,

00:42:16.640 you know, those are all modeled to hurt independent media, have government control media. I can't wait

00:42:21.940 for that wretched old institution, the CBC, to be defunded, presuming Pierre Polyev follows through 0.51

00:42:28.620 and does with his promise and gets rid of it.

00:42:33.220 So the other part was the backfire of the woke, though.

00:42:36.000 The lecturing, the elitists.

00:42:37.540 The elitists really got knocked down.

00:42:39.660 Elise talked about that.

00:42:40.560 Dave talked about that.

00:42:41.420 That's some of the truth.

00:42:42.520 Look at the states that flipped.

00:42:43.940 They're working people.

00:42:46.080 And they're tired of being talked down to.

00:42:49.320 They're tired of being called every name in the book 0.92

00:42:52.620 for questioning some of the ridiculousness 0.93

00:42:55.900 coming out of our highly educated people there was a man with a full-out bulge in his bathing suit 0.81

00:43:05.120 fully intact twigging berries winning swim meets bullying women uh reports you know from the other

00:43:15.120 swimmers of yes him changing they have to change in the change room and there's the old uh nuts

00:43:20.260 and berries dangling in their ears and we're told we're intolerant for questioning that

00:43:24.900 We're being unreasonable for saying that, hey, maybe that guy should compete with guys.

00:43:32.820 The elites didn't realize, but the people at large said, this is nuts. 1.00

00:43:37.320 This is stupid. 1.00

00:43:38.160 Yes, the nuts thing. 1.00

00:43:39.340 That covers both the squirrel and this guy swimming with the girls.

00:43:42.820 And 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.

00:43:52.080 Apparently he had a microchode, but it's still a male piece of anatomy, and his testes were internal.

00:43:59.220 It doesn't matter. It was a man, and he beat up women. 0.99

00:44:02.520 And you were called a bigot if you questioned that. 0.52

00:44:05.080 You were called intolerant if you questioned that.

00:44:07.500 Well, you know what? The majority are smarter than the elites.

00:44:11.460 So take your stupid post-secondary crap and that list of letters next to your name. 1.00

00:44:16.860 You're trying to tell people that a man is a woman when they aren't. 1.00

00:44:20.720 And it doesn't mean people are intolerant of trans rights.

00:44:23.800 You see, that's the problem.

00:44:24.640 That's where they found the line and they just went way past it.

00:44:28.220 Most people don't care.

00:44:29.460 If it's an adult, identifies as a woman, dresses and wants to live that way, 1.00

00:44:33.860 most people absolutely respect that.

00:44:35.960 Live your life, do what you can, be happy, have relationships, that's no problem.

00:44:40.360 But don't ask us to suspend reality and say that a man is a woman,

00:44:45.600 particularly in sports when we're talking about these things,

00:44:48.740 Or now that we're getting into, always, it's always pushing on the children.

00:44:52.680 I'm not saying most trans people are pushing that.

00:44:54.340 They aren't.

00:44:54.680 It's the activists.

00:44:55.480 It's the elites.

00:44:56.080 It's the nutcases there.

00:44:57.740 And the voters in the states, particularly the blue-collar voters, they said that's enough.

00:45:01.900 You've got to remember the old base of support for the Democrats up there used to be the unions.

00:45:05.380 Okay, that's fine.

00:45:06.700 But those were lunchbox-carrying, working people. 0.97

00:45:10.520 Not these flaky nutcases with their woke ideology.

00:45:15.120 They'd had enough. 0.93

00:45:16.160 And they pushed back.

00:45:17.580 They just want to be safe, and they want to have jobs.

00:45:22.460 They want economic security and to feel safe sending their children to school.

00:45:26.820 It's really as simple as that. 0.99

00:45:29.020 And to have these tall foreheads constantly telling them they're fools, 1.00

00:45:32.400 that they're rednecks, that they're bigots, well, look how that all turned out. 1.00

00:45:38.380 It cost you clowns an election. 0.98

00:45:40.620 And they got four years to think about it. 0.95

00:45:43.240 We'll see if they've learned.

00:45:43.960 I 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.

00:45:51.180 Though, again, it's good to see Kamala, you know, conceding and talking about a smooth transition.

00:45:56.360 That's good on her part. Appreciate it.

00:45:58.280 Again, I think it was one of the worst things that Trump did was making a mess and denying the last election.

00:46:04.000 I'm sorry, I know some people disagree. I don't care.

00:46:05.760 That election wasn't stolen. Trump lost it.

00:46:08.200 But now he won this one.

00:46:09.960 And he's there. He's there for four years.

00:46:11.960 And a lot of it, you should have been easy to beat, guys, 1.00

00:46:15.080 if you weren't being so woke, so elitist, and so stupid. 1.00

00:46:18.460 So I'm hoping, all I can hope for now is a whole lot of positive change coming from Trump. 1.00

00:46:22.700 I hope our dingbat in Ottawa deals with the new administration somewhat wisely,

00:46:27.920 or some people at least grab him by the ear and make him deal with it a little wisely,

00:46:31.480 because it's so important.

00:46:32.740 They're our top trading partner.

00:46:33.880 They're our top ally.

00:46:35.020 Things that happen down there impact us, whether we like it or not.

00:46:37.980 Let's have a good relationship with them.

00:46:39.360 Either way, an exciting and interesting night, an exciting and interesting day.

00:46:43.420 We're in an exciting and interesting year.

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Western Standard - November 07, 2024

UCP members saw through the lowbrow tactics at the AGM

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