Western Standard - Where the f＊＊＊ is Nenshi’s NDP？!

00:00:00.000 Good day, today is August 27th,

00:00:29.200 2025 I'm Derek Fildebrand publisher of the Western Standard and you're

00:00:34.060 watching the pipeline I'm joined by my usual buddies here former Western

00:00:39.800 Standard opinion editor and Nigel Hannaford here I am again and Western

00:00:44.560 Standard senior Alberta columnist Cory Morgan always a pleasure having

00:00:48.700 internet trouble so she may or may not join us from Vancouver is the always

00:00:52.780 lovely Elise Mills we'll see we'll see if she makes it on if so we'll put a 0.62

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00:01:26.480 All right.

00:01:27.460 Well, we're going to be talking about...

00:01:29.360 It's the end of August.

00:01:31.740 So, you know, it can be a little troublesome sometimes.

00:01:34.860 What are we going to talk about?

00:01:36.080 Some things were easier than others.

00:01:37.860 We were stuck for kind of a third one today.

00:01:41.500 And I thought, well, what's something that's not in the news?

00:01:45.120 Nenshi

00:01:47.000 and the Alberta NDP. Where

00:01:49.080 the

00:01:51.120 F word are they?

00:01:53.040 They're just gone.

00:01:55.520 So we're going to have a discussion about

00:01:57.380 the

00:01:59.320 very low profile the Alberta NDP

00:02:01.180 has had.

00:02:03.000 Trouble it's had punching through in the polls.

00:02:05.140 Despite what a lot of pundits say,

00:02:07.220 the huge opportunities they should have with

00:02:09.080 the UCP.

00:02:13.480 Light sentencing for

00:02:14.860 migrants has become 1.00

00:02:17.000 a pretty big

00:02:18.920 issue, or migration in overall

00:02:20.760 has become a big issue, and it's got a lot of different facets.

00:02:24.020 The

00:02:24.580 Conservative parties, Michelle Rempel

00:02:27.000 and Pierre Polyev

00:02:27.880 have put forward

00:02:31.060 a private member's bill to

00:02:33.000 prohibit judges

00:02:34.540 from giving intentionally lighter sentences

00:02:36.980 to migrants

00:02:38.280 in cases where that might jeopardize

00:02:40.860 their ability to get citizenship.

00:02:42.040 uh seems like it should should be an uncontroversial thing the only controversy should

00:02:47.840 be why the hell are we doing that to begin with uh so we'll talk we'll chat about that bill

00:02:52.500 and issue but we're going to start first with i love this headline uh queers for palestine 0.86

00:02:58.140 versus palestine for queers um the uh well i'll let you set it up cory um this is a controversy

00:03:07.760 that's gone on for a number of years

00:03:09.900 now

00:03:10.260 and in Ottawa

00:03:13.520 during the Pride Parade, it seemed

00:03:15.800 an unstoppable

00:03:18.120 woke force

00:03:19.780 met an immovable, politically

00:03:21.800 correct object. Yeah, I mean

00:03:23.980 I guess they're trying to outwoke each other or

00:03:25.840 something, but I mean it gets into the realm

00:03:28.020 of just absurdity. I mean

00:03:29.800 the whole queers for Palestine 1.00

00:03:31.380 concept. So it was the Ottawa

00:03:33.720 Pride Parade, one of the big ones. It's kind of the

00:03:35.560 the tri-actor of Pride parades in Canada, you've got Ottawa, Montreal, and Toronto. I guess

00:03:41.560 Vancouver's another brute, so maybe there's a fourth. They were going to have their big march,

00:03:46.260 and Queers for Palestine basically set up and blockaded them, stopped the parade in its tracks.

00:03:53.580 They negotiated, it was a bunch of ridiculous demands, I guess, of the Pride marchers, which,

00:03:59.520 again, how Pride marchers could do anything with Palestine or anything of the sort, who knows.

00:04:03.520 And it came to an impasse.

00:04:04.620 And in the end, the organizers of Ottawa Pride canceled the parade.

00:04:07.480 Said, well, that's it.

00:04:08.020 We're not going further.

00:04:10.080 It's just the levels of weirdness and extremism and ridiculousness of this whole thing on so many levels. 0.73

00:04:19.680 Again, Queers for Palestine, everybody was like, you guys are, you know, I think the best meme is the one saying, you know, chickens for KFC. 0.99

00:04:25.880 You guys are supporting a group that wants to kill you. 0.99

00:04:30.140 If you go to Palestine, they will kill you. 1.00

00:04:31.960 They will throw you off buildings. 0.99

00:04:35.180 That's just the nature of it.

00:04:36.440 They're not hiding it.

00:04:37.020 The only ones that deny that are Western liberals.

00:04:40.720 Meanwhile, the pride organizers for the rest of the parade,

00:04:45.520 it just shows the weakness of them too, though.

00:04:47.880 They don't know what to do.

00:04:49.320 I mean, in pretty much anything else,

00:04:50.540 if you've got a tiny minority blocking your own parade,

00:04:53.000 you'd maybe kind of just shove them aside and say,

00:04:54.660 that's enough out of you guys and whatever the gender may be of the bunch 0.53

00:04:58.860 and just move on.

00:05:01.480 But they just, they capitulated.

00:05:03.100 They said, well, we don't know what to do.

00:05:04.500 BLM did this to them years ago, too. 0.99

00:05:06.060 That was funny.

00:05:06.920 We got, you know, the hierarchy of victimhood

00:05:09.240 and minorities and the wokeness 0.85

00:05:10.700 and Black Lives Matters.

00:05:12.260 Again, they were terrified.

00:05:13.000 What do we do now?

00:05:14.160 Are we, you know, is queer more important

00:05:16.440 or BLM or whatnot?

00:05:17.740 And they ended up letting their parades

00:05:18.940 get derailed there.

00:05:20.080 This could be the beginning

00:05:20.840 of the end of Pride Parade, though.

00:05:22.160 And if they're going to let the fringe groups

00:05:23.500 just take them over every time.

00:05:25.420 Nigel, who outranks who?

00:05:27.700 LGTBQ+, 2SI, XYZ, Palestine, or Black Lives Matter? 0.54

00:05:35.660 Which one gets the most points?

00:05:39.160 I know you can mix and match.

00:05:40.540 You're asking me the distinction between a gnat and a louse, really, aren't you?

00:05:48.720 There's another one that you could have thrown into the mix there.

00:05:51.880 a few years ago when it turned out

00:05:54.400 that there were sex-selective

00:05:56.420 abortions being

00:05:57.460 taking place at the expense of women, 0.95

00:06:00.780 you'd have thought the feminist groups 1.00

00:06:02.240 would have been saying, what are they doing? 1.00

00:06:04.280 They're killing women before they're born. 1.00

00:06:06.300 That was an old Western Standard print magazine 0.99

00:06:08.680 thing.

00:06:10.320 I've been a subscriber for a long time.

00:06:12.200 Andrea Morosik did it back in the day.

00:06:14.100 I remember it was when I was in a university case.

00:06:16.320 It was feminism, like defending 1.00

00:06:18.180 the lives of girls versus abortion.

00:06:20.260 It was a conundrum.

00:06:22.020 But remember, the way the thing ended up, in the end, the feminists decided it was 1.00

00:06:26.020 more important that they should have their right to abortion than that they should defend the 0.98

00:06:30.180 lives of unborn women. So I thought that was a crazy thing. Actually, I didn't see that coming. 1.00

00:06:36.580 I thought, oh, there you go. That's going to really punch a hole in the side of the abortion 1.00

00:06:40.980 movement. Well, now we come to Queers for Palestine that wants to uphold the 0.87

00:06:49.540 state of palestine which as you said would be distinctly unfriendly to people of their

00:06:54.100 persuasion friendly against israel quite way of putting it yeah well i mean we try to be polite

00:07:01.620 but uh we come to against israel which it's very tolerant of that point of view so uh-huh

00:07:10.580 i i take cory's point obviously there is a moral weakness gosh how are we talking about morality

00:07:16.900 here there's a moral weakness in the leadership a lack of intestinal fortitude that would just say

00:07:22.260 as you said get get out of the way we've got a point to make and it's not yours go well and

00:07:26.980 they've lost the whole narrative of rights for lg tbq people i think maybe that's part of the

00:07:32.100 problem is they've won every battle in canada you've got marriage you've got human rights

00:07:35.780 protection you've got everything else but instead of looking outwards to where those battles still

00:07:42.260 should actually be fought like where they're executing gay people you're instead introverting

00:07:47.780 into this bizarro world of of queers for palestine i just uh it's it's serious to them but i'm gonna 0.99

00:07:53.860 laugh at you guys get your crap i think it's because these movements don't tend to stop of 0.97

00:07:58.740 their own volition they stop when they run out of steam or are set back um you know uh you know 0.99

00:08:06.180 the movement coming out of the the civil rights movement united states for equality for black

00:08:10.820 people, etc. That started as a reasonable proposition, and then it turned into affirmative

00:08:16.000 action, and then it turned into DEI, it turned into segregated college graduations. So we'd

00:08:25.180 like me, they got right back to segregation. These movements don't often, I can't think

00:08:31.020 of many examples, nothing. Think of the anti-smoking movement. They beat mainstream smoking, and

00:08:36.320 and then they go after vaping, which is what's getting people off the few remaining people who

00:08:42.220 are smoking. Vaping gets them off of that. The anti-smoking movement can't stop. Literally no

00:08:46.980 movement stops. I used to think, I used to use the example when I was working at the Canadian

00:08:51.360 Taxpayers Federation back in the day, that if we had succeeded in abolishing taxes, abolishing debt,

00:08:56.760 and abolishing the government, we'd have to invent something else because, well, this is our careers,

00:09:02.480 This is our movement. This is what we believe in.

00:09:04.880 And so, you know, what started

00:09:06.440 as the gay rights movement, and then

00:09:08.340 bi's and lesbians, etc.

00:09:10.660 They kept on attaching letters to it.

00:09:12.820 They got more and more extreme. They achieved

00:09:14.600 all of their reasonable,

00:09:16.460 logical, small

00:09:18.360 illiberal goals. And then

00:09:20.640 there was just no way to stop.

00:09:22.740 They became hungry. They were salivating

00:09:24.560 for it. And that's why

00:09:26.460 the movement's overreached. And you have

00:09:28.580 a pushback on the extreme

00:09:30.640 radical trans stuff.

00:09:32.480 and it keeps on subdividing and subdividing

00:09:36.200 and subdividing, it's almost like a Protestant church

00:09:38.120 at this point

00:09:38.680 and

00:09:39.700 now you've got queers 1.00

00:09:44.180 from Palestine, which is one of the most

00:09:46.100 oxymoronic

00:09:47.380 movements or groups

00:09:49.700 I can imagine 1.00

00:09:51.360 or just plain moronic 1.00

00:09:53.460 you know, you touched on something there 1.00

00:09:55.980 a moment ago about the

00:09:57.500 when you were talking about the smoking

00:09:59.380 and how it just keeps on, you're like

00:10:00.840 Well, you realize, of course, that in that particular instance, there is a lot of government money that goes into the anti-smoking movement.

00:10:09.180 There is for this, too.

00:10:10.260 And I just come back.

00:10:12.860 I want to follow the money.

00:10:14.300 Who's paying queers for Palestine? 1.00

00:10:17.400 I ask.

00:10:18.760 Well, that's a separate issue, but there have been some groups funding.

00:10:22.100 Obviously, somebody is behind this and keeping them going.

00:10:26.200 and

00:10:27.080 it doesn't matter to these people

00:10:30.460 that it's oxymoronic

00:10:31.920 it's publicity, it's putting a name

00:10:34.420 out in front, is there a

00:10:36.200 hierarchy

00:10:36.740 people would

00:10:40.440 have their own ideas about who was on the top

00:10:42.520 oh boy

00:10:43.280 was that a joke

00:10:45.100 I don't know if it was intentional

00:10:48.300 I don't know if it was intentional

00:10:49.540 but you know

00:10:51.340 yeah

00:10:51.780 I mean, I'm hesitant to discuss this logically because it's not very logical.

00:11:00.320 I mean, you can, I mean, I've got some sympathy for the situation of Palestinian civilians.

00:11:08.020 I mean, you're fighting this kind of guerrilla war, terrorist organization.

00:11:12.060 The line does get fuzzy between civilian and combatant, obviously.

00:11:16.600 uh but you know i a reasonable person left or right can have sympathy for the situation and

00:11:24.720 whatnot but then to frame it as as you put it cory you know chickens for kfc i mean you could

00:11:31.980 just say i'm for palestine and i happen to be gay but like yeah it's leading those two things

00:11:36.960 together you could talk about all the other things i want to see a two-state solution i i don't like

00:11:41.300 the alleged overreaction to Israel.

00:11:43.480 All sorts of things. Fine. That's not a problem.

00:11:46.040 But to try

00:11:46.720 and claim that this is a...

00:11:50.040 What happens

00:11:51.360 when you fit everything into identity politics?

00:11:53.520 Yeah, and it's not...

00:11:54.940 The only ones denying the attitude

00:11:56.900 of Islamists towards

00:11:59.400 LGBTQ, Emerson,

00:12:01.660 dollar sign, whatever it is this week,

00:12:03.540 the only

00:12:04.800 people denying that they have a problem with that

00:12:06.940 are Western liberals. They make no secret

00:12:08.920 of how they feel about...

00:12:10.360 Yeah, Hamas is not finding how they feel about this.

00:12:12.460 We saw videos of that in the early protests as well

00:12:15.500 when some fellow showed up flamboyantly running around at one with a rainbow flag

00:12:19.600 and the other Palestinian punch jumped out and grabbed his flag

00:12:23.000 and threw it on the ground and kicked him out.

00:12:24.500 You're not with us, dude.

00:12:27.000 The intolerance towards that community is horrific,

00:12:30.280 but they've got this purposeful blindness towards reality again

00:12:35.640 that is just astounding.

00:12:37.440 But it's discrediting the entire thing.

00:12:39.200 As you said, it's come full circle.

00:12:40.360 So, as I said before, too, I think it could be the beginning of the end of the pride parades. 0.82

00:12:44.820 Like, they've run their course.

00:12:46.480 It's getting to such absurdity that I think rational LGBTQ people, and there's many of them, 1.00

00:12:51.900 they're just not going to come out to this crap anymore. 0.99

00:12:54.220 They don't have time for it. 0.98

00:12:55.700 Slight change of the topic, but still pretty close, I think.

00:12:59.500 Because for, you know, you were here in Alberta, you know, is Daniel Smith going to attend the pride parade?

00:13:08.580 That was a big thing during Wild Rose.

00:13:11.220 Then it was, will J.C.

00:13:12.540 Kenny go? And then Pride Parades

00:13:14.380 would ban conservative politicians for going,

00:13:16.300 even those who were openly

00:13:17.460 very much on side with their issues.

00:13:21.420 The Wild Rose was banned

00:13:22.500 from it regularly. The UCP was banned

00:13:24.360 from it.

00:13:26.340 You and I were chatting offline about this, Corey,

00:13:28.660 that you had gone to some

00:13:30.380 of the early Pride Parades. Yeah, back in the 90s.

00:13:32.540 Not corporately sponsored.

00:13:35.180 That

00:13:35.580 arguably had

00:13:37.680 good cause um i'm i didn't go to them but uh i guess but um you know they they were fighting

00:13:47.880 for something and they weren't these ostentatious um overly uh overly sexualized public displays

00:14:00.140 of something that's very personal they were they were for a cause it made sense uh but for a lot

00:14:05.900 That has not been the case with Pride for a long time.

00:14:08.780 They're not all the same, to the credit of Calgary's.

00:14:12.800 Yeah, it's pretty sexualized, but it's not in the same category as, say, Toronto, 0.91

00:14:17.240 where you have a bunch of pedos walking naked down the street, 0.99

00:14:21.640 displaying their genitals in front of little kids, 0.99

00:14:23.840 which confounds me that these people aren't arrested

00:14:27.540 and doing serious time in prison for what they're doing.

00:14:29.980 Sorry, the pedos or the parents who bring the kids?

00:14:32.140 You know, there's a bit of both going on.

00:14:33.900 Anyone who knowingly bring their kids to it.

00:14:35.900 So, but, you know, it's a ritual that politicians have to attend pride or you're labeled every time pride comes to the city every year, you're labeled a bigot.

00:14:45.340 I mean, are we at the point where it's where pride has jumped the shark so terribly when you go the queers for Palestine thing? 1.00

00:14:52.700 You've got extreme transgender ideology preying on children in this where it's affiliated itself with a bunch of other stuff that most gay people I know want nothing to do with. 0.99

00:15:05.900 Has it jumped the shark to the point where a politician can safely say, you know what?

00:15:10.960 I'm not going, and I'm proud.

00:15:13.400 I've cried in not going, and here's why.

00:15:15.560 Yeah, I think they've given them a safe out.

00:15:17.880 They'll say, you know, I support that cause, but I'm not going to be seen there because of this, this, or this.

00:15:22.740 There's so many more reasons that they're giving them.

00:15:24.740 As I said, those 90s gatherings, and I was a nervous young guy, gay people, geez, whatever, I was dragged here by a girlfriend. 1.00

00:15:32.240 And I think it served its purpose.

00:15:33.860 They were flamboyantly, unapologetically gay people in a big park after a parade, not in thongs and sexualized and everything else, but just making no bones about it, saying, hey, we're here, we're queer, the old thing, you know, just we're allowed to be. 0.99

00:15:47.920 And I think it was productive.

00:15:51.100 You know, people who were interested anyways got together and realized, you know, they don't bite well unless you ask them to or something, you know, but it's just a gathering of people and realizing your neighbors are people you can get along with.

00:16:03.640 but it's just they overshot those goalposts.

00:16:05.640 They've gone so far beyond that 0.91

00:16:06.840 that it's just gone into ridiculousness

00:16:09.600 and it's run its course.

00:16:12.300 Okay.

00:16:13.380 Well, speaking of reasonable things

00:16:15.540 that have jumped the shark

00:16:16.820 and gone into the unreasonable,

00:16:19.040 let's talk about

00:16:21.500 one aspect of the migrant crisis now.

00:16:28.760 You know, there was a case very recently

00:16:31.420 where a judge

00:16:33.280 I forget what the crime was

00:16:36.100 but the guy was found guilty, a migrant 1.00

00:16:37.860 he solicited a 15 year old

00:16:40.100 for sex 0.97

00:16:40.840 like this wasn't 0.89

00:16:42.660 you know, name it

00:16:45.140 almost any other crime

00:16:46.700 soliciting a 15 year old little girl 0.96

00:16:49.660 for sex 0.95

00:16:51.180 pretty heinous 0.95

00:16:54.600 and the judge

00:16:58.040 lessened his sentence

00:16:59.480 because if he went over a certain number of days

00:17:02.440 he served in prison

00:17:03.040 this would hamper

00:17:06.440 his ability to get

00:17:08.280 citizenship status

00:17:09.240 a reasonable person says

00:17:12.280 well of course we don't want that guy

00:17:14.600 to have citizenship status

00:17:15.860 he should serve some serious time in prison

00:17:17.940 and then the day he's released

00:17:19.860 be put on a little

00:17:22.600 wooden dinghy back to wherever the hell he's from 0.89

00:17:24.460 that's I think

00:17:26.900 what most reasonable people think

00:17:28.420 um the conservatives uh so michelle remple i think has led the charge on this one

00:17:34.220 uh have put forward a bill to prohibit judges from including someone's immigration status

00:17:41.340 um in consideration for sentencing um the toronto i think it was the toronto star had a

00:17:50.560 just wild uh editorial or comment on this saying oh that's not true um this is

00:17:57.400 uh you know yeah it's not true the conservatives are making this up and then in the in their

00:18:03.860 headline and then their main piece in the lead but then you go further into it and it said uh

00:18:08.860 well actually they do but it's a good thing it's a good thing uh so they're kind of arguing out

00:18:14.580 out of both sides here um but i i feel like we're just absolutely bonkers that there's anyone in

00:18:20.720 this country, Nigel, who is going to stand up and defend giving lighter sentencing to sexual

00:18:27.380 predators on children because it could harm their ability to stay here even longer and have even

00:18:33.760 more rights in our system. Yeah, well, there's really nothing to argue about here to the point

00:18:38.460 of the case that Michelle Rumpel was talking about and that we ran yesterday, I think. The

00:18:48.460 The offender had stabbed his victim in the arm and stomach, leaving him with 18 stitches and 50 staples.

00:19:00.120 Instead of jail, the man received a conditional sentence of two years less a day to help him avoid removal from Canada.

00:19:08.360 So this isn't just one.

00:19:11.020 Not a one-off.

00:19:11.720 No, it's a regular thing.

00:19:13.080 Like, there's something going on here.

00:19:14.940 And, you know, we do know that the Canadian judiciary has already been instructed to apply justice unequally.

00:19:23.720 I'm speaking here of the Gladube decision, which is a few years old now, but the basic gist of it is that you treat people of indigenous extraction differently to everybody else in recognition of the peculiar cultural circumstances under which they labor.

00:19:41.140 so we don't have equality under the law with indigenous people now apparently we don't have

00:19:48.840 equality under the law not merely with people who do this kind of thing they're not even bloody

00:19:54.760 citizens you know like be a non-citizen you'll get off more likely uh that if you're a canadian 0.90

00:20:00.800 citizen and stab somebody in the arm and stomach and put a bunch of stitches in them this is crazy

00:20:06.640 Well, Najee, you mentioned differences in sentencing, which we would have for a long time with Indigenous versus non-Indigenous Canadians. You know, you're from England. Maybe it's worth bringing up then that there is differences for sentencing or the justice system for Indigenous Britons versus non-Indigenous Britons, except it goes the other way around. Indigenous Britons get thrown in prison for memes. 0.95

00:20:32.400 Bacon talk.

00:20:33.080 talking about if you like bacon

00:20:36.060 and on the other hand

00:20:38.280 the government actively and in a

00:20:39.960 coordinated fashion ignores 0.97

00:20:42.120 migrant rape gangs

00:20:44.240 so this is not just 1.00

00:20:46.080 a Canadian thing, this is a disease 1.00

00:20:47.960 that has spread throughout our entire

00:20:50.280 civilization and it's

00:20:52.120 just been normalized

00:20:53.100 at least in

00:20:55.540 large, very large segments

00:20:58.080 of

00:20:58.980 the leadership classes of our society

00:21:01.620 among our politicians, our bureaucrats, our business leaders, our judges, our prosecutors.

00:21:07.220 It's not just here.

00:21:09.020 No, it certainly isn't.

00:21:10.700 And, you know, I do think that there's some truth in that old saying 1.00

00:21:16.140 that those whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad,

00:21:19.280 because this is madness, and it is destroying us.

00:21:24.720 There just isn't an argument that would impress me to say that somebody who's not a citizen

00:21:31.440 should be treated more leniently than somebody who is. 0.99

00:21:34.920 If you're going to have equal justice under the law,

00:21:37.540 it's got to be the same for everybody.

00:21:39.200 And that's what we've always thought that we had in Canada.

00:21:43.820 And now we find we don't.

00:21:45.740 So why do they do it?

00:21:47.060 I think they actually want to feel they did something good.

00:21:50.500 But they were, you know, when they could have been mean,

00:21:53.840 they were gentle.

00:21:54.880 When they gave somebody a second chance,

00:21:57.760 it's all about the gratification of the feelings of the judges

00:22:01.180 and the people in it, because there's no other explanation

00:22:04.180 that I can think of that would make some sense.

00:22:07.020 I just don't see it.

00:22:08.120 Unless you have such an overwhelming conspiracy theory,

00:22:12.100 but in which case I'm listening.

00:22:14.800 No, I don't know.

00:22:16.460 Yeah, I don't know.

00:22:17.340 I can't figure out the grand conspiracy to explain this one.

00:22:19.880 And just I see what you'd think would be a simple route out of this.

00:22:24.400 They aren't citizens.

00:22:25.400 Fair enough.

00:22:26.560 And you've got a conviction of a serious crime.

00:22:29.780 I don't even talk about, you know, putting him in prison

00:22:31.480 for a couple years and then deporting him. Why should we spend

00:22:33.480 that money? You're their problem. 0.96

00:22:34.980 We need to punish them first. They need to be punished. 0.99

00:22:38.260 You know what? Hey, such

00:22:39.580 and such host entry, this person's

00:22:41.500 your problem. If you want to punish them, deal with them. They've been

00:22:43.360 convicted here on that, but we just don't want them.

00:22:45.500 They're gone. They're never set in foot here again.

00:22:48.980 I don't know.

00:22:49.800 Well, what if they killed someone?

00:22:51.600 Like, where are we going?

00:22:53.080 Yeah, I know some of the difficulties.

00:22:54.820 I get what you're saying, but I mean,

00:22:57.240 they should be gone.

00:22:58.940 Either way, we've got to get rid of it.

00:23:00.340 They should never set a foot on free Canadian soil again.

00:23:03.160 I agree with that.

00:23:04.260 But if they commit a serious crime, I feel like we need to, yes, at our costs, we need to punish them here first.

00:23:11.520 Because there's a good chance that where they're going back to, they're not doing any time.

00:23:15.600 It's possible.

00:23:16.560 I mean, the main thing is getting rid of them.

00:23:18.900 What is something else I get a little concerned with is when politicians get a little too prescriptive onto judicial discretion.

00:23:24.000 and this is kind of

00:23:26.360 and I know I don't like where the

00:23:28.120 judicial discretion is going, I don't like

00:23:30.180 where their choices are going

00:23:31.480 but I don't like seeing politicians handcuffing

00:23:34.100 them on particular decisions on cases

00:23:35.920 as well. It's a dicey

00:23:38.080 area, it's not necessarily as cut and dry as some people

00:23:39.960 like. Yeah, but who's running the

00:23:41.420 country, the politicians we elect or the

00:23:44.120 judges? The judges are there to

00:23:46.060 interpret and apply the law

00:23:47.920 Well, that's what we think. Well, that's what

00:23:50.060 they're supposed to do, they sometimes make

00:23:52.000 law, arguably, maybe

00:23:53.420 although it depends if you like their decisions or not

00:23:56.160 but you know

00:23:57.880 but Corey's got a point

00:24:00.100 the judges are supposed

00:24:02.280 to be honored people

00:24:04.180 in society that we trust that we give

00:24:06.160 very significant authority

00:24:08.120 and power to

00:24:09.420 of course

00:24:11.720 their handcuffs are the law

00:24:13.860 but the law

00:24:14.380 if it's overly prescriptive

00:24:17.520 you know what if you have a weird case

00:24:20.200 there's differences

00:24:21.820 differences in the thing, for example.

00:24:25.000 Let's talk about, say, for example,

00:24:26.220 a crime of passion. Okay, you come in,

00:24:28.520 somebody's got your wife in 1.00

00:24:29.960 an uncomfortable position, even if she's

00:24:32.080 willing, and you've gone mad, and you've beaten that man

00:24:34.080 really thoroughly

00:24:34.880 before you got regained control of your senses.

00:24:38.820 Now, that's...

00:24:39.240 Exactly, so it's still a crime,

00:24:42.000 you should still be charged with assault, but maybe you're taking this

00:24:44.080 into consideration when the sentencing comes.

00:24:46.560 How much risk is this man to society?

00:24:48.140 Well, it depends on how many people his wife beds, 1.00

00:24:50.020 or whatever, but...

00:24:51.640 You know what I mean? It is quite different than, yeah, somebody randomly said, you know, I'm just going to walk by and beat the heck out of somebody on the sidewalk. That's a much more dangerous person than one who's provoked. Now, no law can prescribe to cover those exact situations. That's where a judge has to sit and weigh those circumstances and come up with a determination. And likewise, perhaps in an immigrant case, depends on the crime. It depends on the history. 0.71

00:25:14.740 I mean, I just, and I know, I know they're doing terribly when, when we're keeping 15 year old, you know, sex offenders with 15 year old girls or people who stab people. I do not want to see lighter sentences for those people. I just worry when we start to get reactive and politicians start writing in and pulling away that discretion on the judges.

00:25:32.880 That is, I think, a very fair and reasonable cautionary concern for this.

00:25:38.800 Mandatory minimums are...

00:25:40.440 I don't like those for the same reason.

00:25:42.840 Yeah, I mean, or if they're going to be there, they got to be pretty damn careful how they're applied.

00:25:47.380 I think the Conservatives, when they were, you know, during the Harper government, applied it appropriately sometimes.

00:25:53.080 But sometimes I think that it got a little to trigger happy with them.

00:25:57.340 uh and and so we should be cautious when we get into the business of uh you know the political

00:26:03.220 side parliament prescribing uh you know more specifically how judges interpret and apply the

00:26:09.780 law it's i think it's a fair concern but i think uh in this case the judges have been found at

00:26:15.880 least enough judges have been found to have completely abused and disregarded that discretion

00:26:21.700 for whatever is motivating

00:26:24.260 this, if it's some misplaced

00:26:26.060 sense of liberal naivete

00:26:27.560 or if it's ideological, I don't

00:26:30.200 know, but it has

00:26:32.220 been abused, and so some

00:26:34.220 legislative remedy, I think,

00:26:36.120 is required here.

00:26:38.000 I'm re-evaluating how we're appointing our judges.

00:26:40.600 That gets into a bigger issue.

00:26:42.280 Even if we

00:26:44.140 started appointing only great judges

00:26:46.200 today, it'll take decades before the

00:26:48.220 system is flushed out.

00:26:49.440 yeah on that point the application form for judges because you can if you want to be a judge you can

00:26:58.720 you can put your application form and makes it very clear who the government is and is not

00:27:04.640 looking for so you have to tick the boxes that you are a member of a vulnerable group or you're a

00:27:10.480 woman or your gabe or whatever dei yeah basically uh you know people like us shouldn't bother

00:27:20.000 finishing the application so that's one there's a very active attempt on the part of this

00:27:25.360 government nice so i'm treating carney and trust in druder was one continuous government it's our

00:27:31.440 new government yeah didn't you see the memos well i saw the memos and didn't believe them and neither

00:27:36.080 did you derek so uh this is the same old crowd and this is what they have been trying to do and have

00:27:43.120 been very successful that's one thing the second thing that goes with it is that every several

00:27:48.960 months the judges are gathered up they ship them out to banff or some other regional center according

00:27:55.120 to where they're operating and they physically they actually indoctrinate them and they tell

00:27:59.840 them the kind of way they are supposed to interpret the law and i find this an outrageous thing

00:28:08.240 because it but they the government is very specific in telling judges but these are the

00:28:14.400 kinds of judgments we these are the considerations you need to have this is comes back to indigenous

00:28:20.160 and glad you quite often but there are other things too so actually the government is perhaps

00:28:27.920 a little more involved in this

00:28:29.820 than I had intimated

00:28:32.340 in my earlier remarks.

00:28:34.600 We need a new government.

00:28:36.600 Well, it's a minimum

00:28:38.040 of four years. And even then,

00:28:40.200 you know, maybe we get a better government,

00:28:42.180 but

00:28:42.300 we are in such a

00:28:46.080 hole on so many

00:28:48.020 fronts. I don't think anyone

00:28:49.920 can dig us out. I think this country has already

00:28:51.820 passed the point of no return.

00:28:53.720 Well, you don't have to convince me of that.

00:28:56.080 But anyway, it's like, oh, let's fix Canada.

00:28:57.700 You can't. It's already fundamentally

00:28:59.940 shattered. You can't put it back together

00:29:02.060 at this point.

00:29:03.580 I guess some of the cyclical nature of a democracy

00:29:06.180 and late stage,

00:29:07.960 I guess you could say. I mean, it begins properly

00:29:09.800 and with good intent, with freedoms, but eventually

00:29:12.020 devolve... Late stage democracy.

00:29:13.800 ...into the mess that it is.

00:29:15.740 Yeah.

00:29:17.560 I think Plato had something to say about the

00:29:19.680 cycle and...

00:29:21.340 A few philosophers have hit that.

00:29:23.960 It needs a reset.

00:29:25.920 And unfortunately, those resets can be pretty ugly sometimes.

00:29:28.780 Yeah, I'm not really looking forward to the reset.

00:29:31.740 But I'm not really enjoying what we're doing now either.

00:29:34.220 No.

00:29:35.980 Okay.

00:29:38.160 Pretty closer to home here.

00:29:42.300 When I mentioned this to you as a topic when you came in the newsroom today, Nigel, you said,

00:29:46.460 well, why would we talk about Menchie and NDP?

00:29:50.900 I guess is there anything in the news that brought them up?

00:29:52.360 And I said no, which is why we should talk about them.

00:29:55.920 The Alberta NDP is a pretty large opposition party.

00:30:01.040 It's got foreign opposition. 0.64

00:30:02.400 I think it's actually the biggest opposition in Alberta's history.

00:30:04.900 It's pretty large.

00:30:06.160 They kept the UCP to not a narrow majority, but a smaller majority.

00:30:12.500 EBE pulled pretty respectively in the last Alberta election.

00:30:18.960 But Netshi's finally got his seat.

00:30:21.280 But he's been the leader of the NDP for, you mentioned how long,

00:30:24.840 but it's well over a year now.

00:30:26.860 And the NDP is weaker than it's been at any time,

00:30:30.560 I think, since they were first elected to government in 2015.

00:30:34.980 Their fundraising is not great.

00:30:36.900 Their polling is not abysmal, but it's pretty far behind.

00:30:40.640 It's 54 conservative, 40 NDP, and six other.

00:30:46.620 They're not doing too strongly.

00:30:49.620 Where, the F word, is Netshi's NDP right now?

00:30:53.120 Well, I think, okay, let's start by saying they are nowhere, and then see if there is

00:31:00.180 anything that we can concede as being a reasonable explanation for that that could change.

00:31:06.500 You could say it's summer.

00:31:08.000 Nobody's interested.

00:31:09.000 Well, that's largely true.

00:31:11.680 The legislature doesn't sit.

00:31:13.240 It hasn't sat since May.

00:31:14.560 It won't sit until October the 27th.

00:31:16.340 And by the way, that's a good thing.

00:31:18.340 legislature in session they're spending your money best of these best of they not uh not show up but

00:31:24.260 it does not give the leader of the opposition a chance to grandstand and make speeches and show

00:31:29.700 off and occupy uh the the tv channels now you made the point that they've got no money it's actually

00:31:36.900 quite bad um i won't bore you with the details unless you want me to but uh

00:31:41.620 they're having trouble the ucp is not vastly out out um raising them when it comes to money and you

00:31:50.440 could say mr mr nancy is just uh keeping his powder dry waiting for the right opportunity

00:31:57.200 right now smith is riding high in the polls and making good headlines you're not going to punch

00:32:03.100 through on that but the thing is he's actually uh i don't think he's got a hell of a lot of powder

00:32:09.680 and what he has been trying to do hasn't worked.

00:32:12.720 Here's six things.

00:32:13.700 He thought UCB voters would divide on

00:32:15.700 independence. So he got

00:32:17.800 to get his own Better Together

00:32:19.860 tour. Nobody

00:32:21.800 goes to it, but you do.

00:32:23.540 I've registered. No one's even heard of it.

00:32:25.600 I've forgotten about it.

00:32:27.700 Thomas Lukasik's getting more people.

00:32:30.640 So, and if you go to the

00:32:31.760 NDP website, you look it up, it says

00:32:33.820 register here. Well, you know,

00:32:35.680 if you want to go to one of Daniel Smith's

00:32:38.500 Alberta next, pal,

00:32:39.680 you just show up you know there's no question of it uh being closed off in that way so that's

00:32:46.880 that's not going too well the next thing is that uh where a couple weeks ago there was a silly

00:32:54.560 story about uh the ucp keeping receipts hidden i don't think that came from the top i think

00:33:02.000 i don't know how that well smith denied that she knew anything about it uh it's a it's a bit

00:33:06.800 odd but some direct in the direct it was a misstep though there's no doubt about it

00:33:11.040 it was certainly and then she questioned it and daniel just said well all right we'll put them

00:33:16.240 we'll make them available get their fixed done so where does that go nowhere uh we talked about

00:33:22.240 the fundraising i mean that's certainly a barometer of uh of how badly they're doing in the um what

00:33:29.280 have i got here the um the ucp strong fundraising into early 2024 2.6 million and quarter one the

00:33:38.800 ndp only a million you know people don't believe in it enough to give them their money fourth thing

00:33:43.680 we came when the chinese applied uh tariffs on canola you tried to blame daniel smith well

00:33:50.240 actually you can blame somebody that would be ottawa because of the territory so like you take

00:33:57.760 you dart and then you throw it at the wrong target so that was uh just a the the attack on smith

00:34:04.720 over the jasper wildfire is just fizzled that was that uh it wasn't it wasn't credible that uh her

00:34:15.200 attempts to control the situation would have been resented by the towns and the town of jasper and

00:34:20.720 it wasn't that came out and then of course there was that um healthcare scandal as they like to

00:34:26.640 call it where the issue was who got us who got hockey tickets somewhere else and you know they

00:34:33.360 just couldn't tell that story it wasn't that it was such a great thing for for the ucp but that

00:34:38.800 fizzled as well so every time he's put something out there it's just gonna like that so smith

00:34:45.920 basically is just doing doing too well using up all the oxygen uh then she thought that he would

00:34:53.440 split the party over

00:34:55.000 independence.

00:34:57.560 Well, if it's going to happen,

00:34:59.580 it hasn't happened yet.

00:35:01.140 So nothing seems to work

00:35:03.360 for them. Yeah, well, it's not just things

00:35:05.260 not seeming well to work, but yeah, they aren't working.

00:35:08.160 They seem to be incapable of figuring

00:35:09.500 how to do it because she's given,

00:35:11.420 or the UCP has given them some gifts.

00:35:13.140 I mean, you can't beat a healthcare scandal.

00:35:15.260 You know, as far as... It's Alberta. There's going to be one at least

00:35:17.300 every few years. Yeah, getting people worked up and worried

00:35:19.560 and, you know, you could start the fear-mongering

00:35:21.480 or the risks of your universal care

00:35:23.280 and the corporate and I mean there was a golden story basically dropped in his lap with it and

00:35:29.760 he couldn't seem to keep that thing with legs it has still hasn't been resolved but they can't make

00:35:35.080 hay of it and it's it's a weakness I I sort of it's a speculation I think but I've always said

00:35:41.980 that about him and she's not a team player he never was whilst mayor that's why there was the

00:35:48.220 fighting in City Hall. He's always

00:35:50.400 been the quite arrogant, smartest 0.94

00:35:52.340 man in the room. I don't 0.84

00:35:54.420 think he's got his team behind his

00:35:56.300 back very well. He's trying to operate on his own.

00:35:58.640 Let's get the psychiatrist back. 0.90

00:36:00.180 Yeah, there we go. And they're not

00:36:02.120 infighting necessarily, but he's not drawing their

00:36:04.160 loyalty. He wanted to make a one-man show

00:36:06.300 and it's turned out he's on his own.

00:36:07.880 So, you know, one of the points

00:36:09.340 Nigel mentioned was that

00:36:12.340 he hasn't had his debut in the legislature

00:36:14.480 yet. It took him a long time to get a seat.

00:36:16.920 I think that was

00:36:17.980 we've discussed this before, I thought it was a little

00:36:20.380 unclassy of the UCP not to just

00:36:22.400 call the by-election once

00:36:23.540 it made Carney look good. Yeah,

00:36:26.460 Carney called it pretty much the first

00:36:28.180 available opportunity so that Pollyup could get in 0.99

00:36:30.140 as leader of the opposition. That looked good

00:36:32.300 and magnanimous on Carney.

00:36:34.100 Smith and the UCP did not do that

00:36:36.440 once Richard Notley designed her seat so that

00:36:38.460 so that Nenshi could

00:36:40.280 get in. So yeah, that's

00:36:42.140 delayed things.

00:36:44.340 It looked petty.

00:36:46.360 but uh then she hasn't been in the legislature yet does it matter yeah but then she's already

00:36:54.620 a known quantity in alberta it's not like he's you know uh like when rachel notley became ndp

00:37:01.360 leader she would definitely if she needed to have a seat she had a seat but she needed it because 0.97

00:37:05.580 she was not a household name in alberta no one very few people outside of some hardcore government 1.00

00:37:10.940 union circles knew who rachel notley was um everyone already knows who nenshi is um i don't

00:37:18.540 think on your feet debating is necessarily his strongest point i'm not sure how weak he is or not

00:37:23.340 yeah but uh you know his big thing is you know he could do little video clips and he already does

00:37:28.500 that but nothing seems to be punching through um so i'll talk to either of you like you know

00:37:34.700 if you think there's going to be a significant difference once he's in the legislature in his

00:37:39.600 Is he leading the opposition in the House or not?

00:37:42.920 You know, he made his reputation in 2013 during the floods in Calgary.

00:37:49.960 What he did, he very small, he put himself out there in his anorak,

00:37:54.040 got film saying, we're doing, everybody stay calm.

00:37:56.880 We're doing what we need to do.

00:37:58.320 Things are moving here and there.

00:38:00.420 I think, oh, that's real leadership.

00:38:02.200 And, you know, as a mayor in a city that's facing a disaster,

00:38:07.180 he did a pretty good job at that time two things though one is that's like 12 years ago and secondly

00:38:15.500 that's something that means something in calgary and edmonton they don't even know we had a flood

00:38:20.380 they had their own stuff but they didn't you know so that's not really building his his reputation

00:38:26.840 and he may be thinking that he's got a more of a reputation than he really has

00:38:31.100 the other part i mean is to whether or not the legislature will help him with that now

00:38:35.660 it remains to be seen but i i know speaking for myself watching city hall meetings and so on and

00:38:43.200 how he presents himself in that room i don't know if he's going to be endearing when he's in the

00:38:49.480 legislature i mean when he closes the eyes and puts the head up and does he's never done well

00:38:54.440 when he's challenged you ever just how sensitive absolutely so premier smith is firing back and

00:38:59.780 you get the opposition leader losing his cool that doesn't help in the legislature we'll see

00:39:05.280 I mean, he's training up. He's not a he's not a dumb man, you know, but I don't know if that legislative time is going to be what gets him to, as we're saying, kind of punch through or bring himself in anywhere.

00:39:18.060 I mean, they're laying their hope on that, I think. But I don't know if he has the personality to do that.

00:39:23.340 Rachel Notley was actually charismatic. She could handle herself well, you know, opposition and kind of smile and poke at them.

00:39:30.140 But I don't know if my head's going to do that effectively.

00:39:32.720 Every time I see him, I think of Gilmore Gowen and what we've lost.

00:39:36.860 They're not moving the polls.

00:39:38.200 The NDP are at 40%.

00:39:39.700 That's down roughly, I think, five-ish or so from the election.

00:39:45.120 UCP at 54, up roughly four points.

00:39:49.280 There's been a few points shed to other.

00:39:53.480 There's more like about half a dozen seats if it sort of translates.

00:39:57.640 Yeah, so the NDP would lose seats today.

00:40:00.240 The NDP vote was very efficient for its vote.

00:40:02.780 The NDP outperformed generally what they should do,

00:40:05.900 but they unified the left pretty hard behind them.

00:40:08.480 But the NDP is now back in Calgary.

00:40:12.720 In Calgary, the UCP is leading by four.

00:40:16.420 In Edmonton, the two parties are statistically tied.

00:40:19.560 The NDP has won every single seat in Edmonton since 2015.

00:40:25.260 Ten years. It's been a decade, and they've held every single seat.

00:40:27.820 Right now, they're statistically tied.

00:40:29.720 Now, again, you have to look. How's that going to break down in actual seats? Hard to say.

00:40:33.200 But it means they're probably going to lose a couple Edmonton seats.

00:40:35.840 And the NDP are 34 points behind outside the two big cities.

00:40:40.940 And the NDP simply cannot win unless it starts winning some of the small cities that they won in 25th.

00:40:48.100 Small cities and some kind of northern rural ridings that they won in 2015 due to so-called boat splits.

00:40:55.640 Without opening that can't works too much.

00:40:57.380 um that's 34 points behind outside the two big cities they have no chance of picking up any of

00:41:03.960 those there's just no right now there's no mathematical path to victory still two years

00:41:08.520 to go until the next election campaigns matter people pay more attention all sorts of things

00:41:12.840 can happen uh but you know if there was one area of vulnerability and nigel you touched on this 1.00

00:41:20.160 it was perhaps around independence independence is supported depends on the poll roughly

00:41:27.340 one-third of Albertans, up to 40%.

00:41:29.880 45 is

00:41:31.500 the very highest we've ever seen it in some polls.

00:41:35.360 But among UCP supporters,

00:41:37.640 66%. Two-thirds of

00:41:39.500 UCP supporters support independents.

00:41:41.440 One-third are opposed to it. Whereas NDP

00:41:43.420 voters are about

00:41:45.220 98% unconditional

00:41:47.640 federalists against independents.

00:41:49.960 Full stop. So

00:41:51.220 as an issue, that's

00:41:53.420 actually, in pure partisanship,

00:41:55.760 That's a good issue for the NDP. They're on the side of majority support. The other side can't be on the side of majority support because it'll split the party. Two thirds of the UCP's voters support independence, probably even probably significantly higher among party members.

00:42:12.920 That should be good for the NDP. But ever since independence has flared back up again, the NDP has actually dropped in the polls. Explain the math of that to me, Corey.

00:42:24.300 I'm not quite sure because it would be a good wedge.

00:42:27.480 I mean, that's one of those things that's a deal breaker for a lot of people.

00:42:29.820 That's not a fuzzy one.

00:42:31.580 You're often either in or out, and he's not capitalizing well on it.

00:42:34.860 But I think Smith has been very effectively straddling the line in keeping her party members happy with it,

00:42:42.260 but not taking an overtly independent stance because then that would be the deal breaker for a whole lot of Albertans.

00:42:48.160 It's kind of along the lines of even we'll respect the right to hold a referendum.

00:42:51.660 but no we're not an independence party

00:42:54.640 and you know if 30% of people voted

00:42:56.460 or 40% to go into a referendum I think it would leave

00:42:58.360 Smith very very strong saying

00:42:59.840 we've got a really big growing problem

00:43:02.580 here and we will fix it so that

00:43:04.320 40 doesn't turn to 60

00:43:05.560 which I know enrages some of the

00:43:08.440 hardcore independence money when they say things

00:43:10.520 like that but it's worked well for her to kind of

00:43:12.480 sit on both sides of it and not letting

00:43:14.360 she turn it into a wedge. She keeps

00:43:16.620 the regionalists happy

00:43:18.300 but doesn't fully go over towards an

00:43:20.460 a penance stance, which would cost her dearly. 0.87

00:43:22.540 They've tried to paint her. They've called her that

00:43:24.260 in multiple videos, and then she's

00:43:26.460 put out saying she's a separatist and her party separatist

00:43:28.340 is not grabbing, because

00:43:30.520 they aren't. Well, the party members are.

00:43:32.660 Well, some of them are, yeah. Most of them.

00:43:34.220 But either way, it's not

00:43:36.060 worked. Okay. We ought to put

00:43:38.420 a penance out there, because we're almost out of time.

00:43:41.060 Our party shots. We'll start

00:43:42.420 with you today, Nigel. Okay.

00:43:44.460 So, you know, we all remember how a few years

00:43:46.420 ago, the German Chancellor

00:43:48.280 visited Canada,

00:43:49.880 visited with Mr. Trudeau,

00:43:51.880 said we really want to buy some natural gas.

00:43:54.660 Mr. Trudeau walked into the end

00:43:56.080 of the dog, faced the cameras, and said

00:43:57.980 there isn't a business case for it.

00:43:59.880 Yesterday,

00:44:01.620 and we were scandalized,

00:44:03.680 yesterday, Prime Minister Mark Carney

00:44:05.960 says upgrades to ports in Montreal

00:44:08.240 and Churchill, Manitoba

00:44:09.860 could be on the list of

00:44:11.340 major infrastructure projects

00:44:14.280 fast-tracked by the federal government

00:44:16.280 as it aims to strengthen

00:44:18.240 Canada's economy

00:44:19.340 port expansions would enable

00:44:21.920 shipments of liquefied

00:44:23.540 natural gas out of Canada

00:44:26.040 who knew there really was

00:44:28.080 a business case and Mr. Carney

00:44:29.840 is the central banker

00:44:31.520 has drafted

00:44:32.460 the Polish ambassador was on the CBC

00:44:35.500 and he was asked

00:44:37.680 the CBC reporter, what do you think about buying

00:44:39.740 Canadian liquefied natural gas

00:44:41.660 he says, oh you already are, just from the Americans

00:44:43.540 at a markup

00:44:44.240 well there's a business piece

00:44:47.560 like for god's sake why did i think of that first we don't deserve this piece of land

00:44:52.840 i'll tell you fourth it's the quick shot at canada's silent service the rcmp whereas i was

00:45:00.300 driving back from bc yesterday an accident on the rogers pass on the trans canada highway corked it

00:45:05.460 up solid whereas so as many as probably because there's 6 000 vehicles a day use that route

00:45:10.860 uh it was corked for eight hours we were stuck sitting in hot weather on the

00:45:14.900 no cell coverage on that highway

00:45:17.060 and the police could not give us an update

00:45:19.440 would not tell anybody what is going on

00:45:21.340 how much longer it might be

00:45:22.960 part of their bloody job is communication

00:45:25.380 and I don't know why the RCMP just feels like

00:45:27.320 everything is a need to know with Canadians 0.68

00:45:28.980 even down to that

00:45:30.380 well they didn't even tell when there was a mass shooting going on

00:45:33.400 in Nova Scotia

00:45:34.000 or in Strathmore when there was a guy shot two people

00:45:37.420 and a truck was rampaging and running around

00:45:39.240 the RCMP wouldn't tell us

00:45:40.360 it's just par for them and it's tiresome

00:45:42.960 send a car to drive down the thousands

00:45:45.660 of people baking on that highway

00:45:47.480 on each side of that, just to let us

00:45:49.640 bloody know what's going on.

00:45:51.320 Oh, it was long. Eight hours?

00:45:53.480 That is bonkers. It tested Jane and I's

00:45:55.660 relationship, I'll tell you that.

00:45:57.120 If you made it through that, you'll make it through anything.

00:45:59.160 Well, she didn't kill me, so it was a plus.

00:46:01.900 Maybe then the RCMP shows up.

00:46:03.220 Yeah. Okay.

00:46:05.120 I want to point out

00:46:06.480 my new

00:46:09.240 favorite internet sensation,

00:46:10.980 This 12-year-old girl from Scotland.

00:46:14.480 Let's throw the original image up first before we put up that AI image.

00:46:20.440 Many of you have already seen it.

00:46:21.880 I just got to point it out.

00:46:24.560 We were kind of talking about some of the madness in the UK.

00:46:26.980 People arrested for yelling, I love bacon.

00:46:29.360 People going to jail for memes.

00:46:32.580 The UK's police willfully ignored migrant grooming rape gangs.

00:46:40.980 Um, rape for all countries in Europe that have high migration rates is way up, up, up, up.

00:46:48.980 No, people don't want to talk about it, but it's a real issue.

00:46:51.800 Can't be ignored.

00:46:52.640 Everybody knows about it now.

00:46:53.840 And a little 12-year-old girl, maybe overzealously, I don't know.

00:46:57.640 I don't know the circumstances, uh, armed herself with some blades, uh, because she's 1.00

00:47:02.640 worried about these migrant rape gangs going around in Scotland.

00:47:06.680 And she got arrested, a little 12-year-old girl.

00:47:08.880 So let's show the picture there.

00:47:10.980 I mean, she looks like Bill the Butcher from Kings of New York, or some of said Braveheart.

00:47:18.880 Let's put the AI image up.

00:47:22.180 Yeah, kind of capturing the spirit of Scottish resistance to the madness that is consuming Scotland, the UK, Europe, and all Western civilization right now.

00:47:36.680 So tip of that to her, at least based on what we know so far.

00:47:40.980 All right, Corey, Nigel, thank you.

00:47:44.340 John, right in the studio, thank you.

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Western Standard - August 28, 2025

Where the f＊＊＊ is Nenshi’s NDP？!

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