Western Standard - Why is Pride so gay？

00:00:00.000 Good day and welcome to The Pipeline. I'm Derek Fildebrandt, publisher of the Western Standard.

00:00:29.120 Today is June 30th, 2026.

00:00:32.420 I've only got one of our usual friends on the pipeline today, senior Alberta columnist Corey Morgan.

00:00:38.580 But we've got in filling for Dave Naylor is mini Dave, David Veitschnik.

00:00:44.040 Thanks for having me.

00:00:45.040 Running the newsroom for us while Dave D1 is on vacation.

00:00:51.480 And filling in for Nigel is our director of operations, Josh Andrus.

00:00:56.620 Some of you have seen him filling in on other shows, too.

00:00:59.120 uh we have been without a human rights complaint for a few weeks now um and it's not that's not

00:01:09.680 your guys fault um i'm not even sure it's the fault of easily offended lefties i think it's

00:01:17.280 my fault for not being offensive enough so uh like one of the topics is why is pride so gay

00:01:24.720 We're going to try and see if we can get another human rights complaint talking about this today. 0.92

00:01:29.620 Pride parades taking place, most notably the Toronto Pride.

00:01:33.660 Very weird stuff.

00:01:35.780 Some of it almost certainly warranting criminal charges for pedophilia and public exposure.

00:01:43.560 But the controversy around politicians attending or not attending Pride parades of this kind.

00:01:51.360 We're going to talk about it. 0.97

00:01:52.280 I don't think Pride always was this gay. 1.00

00:01:55.240 It seems gayer. 1.00

00:01:56.460 Not in the actual gay way, but in the gay way. 0.95

00:01:59.680 You know what I mean? 0.72

00:02:00.960 You know what I mean?

00:02:02.040 All right.

00:02:03.680 Josh can't hold himself.

00:02:07.100 As Polly have lost his mojo, I mean, it's been over a year since the federal election

00:02:12.340 that the conservatives, which were widely expected to win, obviously lost.

00:02:17.180 He seems to have lost his mojo.

00:02:18.860 He's reshuffled his shadow cabinet just now, a bit of a change-up in his front-line bench.

00:02:26.580 We're going to talk about that.

00:02:28.100 But we're going to begin, Corey, with a court victory for the independence movement.

00:02:34.100 I guess in short, it is not a violation of Indigenous treaty rights to count the signatures of people who wanted an independence referendum, it seems.

00:02:44.740 Yeah, I mean, it's bizarre that that even, you know, welcome to our courts, right? So it was, I guess, the first part of a bunch of appeals that are going through over the whole ruling from Justice Leonard. It shut down the petitioning just after it had 300 and some thousand signatures had been presented to Elections Alberta.

00:03:03.460 So then the boxes were sealed.

00:03:05.740 Elections Alberta couldn't start the process of counting them or verifying them.

00:03:10.380 Everything was kind of put on hold.

00:03:12.300 So the recent ruling was a stay of that portion of the other ruling saying Elections Alberta is allowed to count and verify these signatures now.

00:03:22.760 Because how on earth does that violate a treaty right, my lord?

00:03:26.800 They've gotten into some detail and reading into things, treaty rights.

00:03:29.800 But the rest of the injunction still kind of stands.

00:03:32.800 The Premier can't schedule a referendum based on that question at this point, or Elections Alberta can't present the Premier with a suggestion to hold a referendum.

00:03:40.740 That's still going through the appeals court, but it still is a big victory in a sense that a lot of questions have swirled around,

00:03:46.880 whether the signatures are legitimate, whether improper use of electors' lists have been contributing to the signatures.

00:03:54.600 So Elections Alberta can now start that process of vetting and checking and establishing whether those are valid.

00:04:00.920 which will be a it's a big step forward uh josh the uh you know nenshi and some of uh i think

00:04:09.240 kenny uh have more one way or another been going around saying uh you know hey well this whole

00:04:16.600 independence thing is clearly uh legally fraught because it's um uh you know violating treaty

00:04:23.320 rights that you've seen that more from the hard left side like nenshi and the ndp uh some federal

00:04:29.400 liberal MPs um saying that uh you know right off the gate this is illegitimate because the courts

00:04:36.440 say this violates First Nations rights that was always a bullshit uh line of argument but now that

00:04:44.320 the courts have taken that away and it was always gonna take that away this is low-hanging fruit 0.68

00:04:48.540 um you think this has but you know the referendum is already scheduled now which is this a government

00:04:54.100 one it's effectively the citizen combination of the two citizens initiative uh referendum questions

00:04:58.980 just combining them. That was going to happen, I think, one way or another anyway,

00:05:02.540 but it's not technically citizens initiative. Referendum is happening anyway. But do you think

00:05:06.560 this court ruling is going to have any measurable impact on the campaign for independence or

00:05:12.540 federalism one way or another? Well, I think when it comes to the discussion, it's important to note

00:05:16.380 that, you know, you want to see, especially on the independent side, the brakes moving your way.

00:05:22.320 And I think this is a break in the right direction. I think once they actually start

00:05:26.000 getting into the signatures and start verifying them if they find out that this is a legitimate

00:05:30.740 process. This sounds like an ESPN answer. Thank you. You know, you got to get pucks on net.

00:05:36.360 You got to get the brakes going your way. If you're watching TSN, I'm available. But yeah,

00:05:43.080 no, it opens the door to dealing with what has been, I don't want to call it a damaging

00:05:48.620 argument. I've always thought it was BS anyways, but to have the ability for the courts to verify

00:05:55.480 these signatures and if once hopefully they get them verified i mean 300 000 signatures is quite

00:06:01.560 a bit and and it'll strengthen the hand of the independence crowd and i think that's like i mean

00:06:06.500 it's one of those things where in in moving forward and getting these votes you need to

00:06:10.800 eliminate as many of these you know attacks as you can and and it is it's the fact that they're

00:06:17.320 going around claiming that this is illegitimate because the courts have ruled that they can't

00:06:21.080 even count or verify I think is is a little bit of a stretch like and again it begs the question

00:06:27.640 and this is a serious constitutional conversation about how far the duty to consult goes is it you

00:06:34.940 know like is it up to the proponents I noticed Corb Lund I don't think uh explicitly uh ever

00:06:40.700 answered us with our questions about whether he got his uh stop the coal petition there or uh

00:06:47.360 consulted with indigenous on that so pretty sure he did no yeah so i mean it it how far does this

00:06:54.720 go is it directed at one um i would have liked to see the lucasic petition also go through the court

00:07:00.780 process um i'd like to see if the standard would have applied to that as well i mean it's it's the

00:07:05.960 same concept right i mean it's a question you know it's an independence question at the end of the

00:07:10.140 day so yeah I think but uh at the end of the day when it comes to uh four guys like Corey uh for

00:07:18.460 Keith Wilson and let Alberta decide and other groups I think it's it's a good step in the

00:07:22.960 right direction I just hope it it comes out clean I hope that none of the salted names from the

00:07:28.200 elections Alberta list end up uh on the petition list I know elections Alberta is going to be

00:07:33.660 looking for that uh so I don't I'm hoping that that isn't the case but that's where I want to go

00:07:38.640 yeah my question to david um so the uh one of the bizarre lines of attack against the independence

00:07:49.360 campaign uh from some of the federalists has been um well this centurion project david parker thing

00:07:56.920 that is alleged uh you know not proven but is alleged to have used uh you know improperly

00:08:05.340 obtain lists from Elections Alberta, and they knew that because, yeah, there was these salted

00:08:08.940 names on it. If that's true or not, they have been alleging, I think, much less credibly that,

00:08:18.040 you know, the Centurion Project was just taking those names and somehow putting them on to

00:08:24.260 the Independence Citizens Initiative petition. Now that we're going to get the signatures

00:08:33.320 verified. And it's kind of a moot point because we're just having the referendum anyway. Although

00:08:38.280 it's semi-moot point because it's a different referendum question. It's a clear, cleaner

00:08:42.060 question. But those names and signatures are now going to be verified by Elections Alberta

00:08:47.740 rigorously. You can bet they're not going to give it a pass. You know, this now means very likely

00:08:55.700 Elections Alberta is going to go through these and likely conclude that, yes, these are legitimate

00:09:02.380 bonafide signatures this is valid has legal standing and no this was not the centurion project

00:09:09.240 copying and pasting from the electors list to it uh that is likely i think to take away that line

00:09:17.320 of argument from the other side that literally everything is a conspiracy from the centurion

00:09:21.820 project well that's what i was wondering because that was kind of my thing just my conspiracy

00:09:25.180 theory mind because i was mitch sylvester said they had nothing to do with the centurion project

00:09:29.840 for the most part and they've talked about all the stuff they had to do for the signatures for

00:09:34.240 them like i think they had to give what like ads or physical addresses etc etc had to have like

00:09:38.120 photo id so i think that maybe in stay free alberta's mind and mitch's mind all well maybe

00:09:44.220 not all 300 000 signatures they have arvel but i was just wondering what would happen

00:09:48.100 if they had nothing to do with centurion project and they somehow out of the 3 000 that they say

00:09:54.620 are verified signatures they got less than 178 000 this is just my conspiracy theory mind going

00:09:59.660 on here what do you think would happen then because if they had no part of the centurion

00:10:03.200 project the way you think there might be some sort of shenanigans from somebody shall we say

00:10:07.860 about them maybe getting less than the needed ballots if they're verified i so i i think you

00:10:12.360 know the general agree the general uh the um the common answer is generally you need a 10 percent

00:10:20.960 buffer at least yeah i think it was 178 000 or something yeah but you should generally have a

00:10:24.240 10 percent buffer uh for any of these things if you're trying to run as a candidate in an alberto

00:10:29.100 a federal election you need you know like 100 signatures for people in the constituency so you

00:10:32.780 get 110 because some of them yeah the address is going to be wrong or it's illegible or you know

00:10:37.740 various reasons to not count that signature so you need a buffer of 10 to be safe yeah uh i was gonna

00:10:43.580 say even if they got 200 000 that are verified it's still still i mean you would complain that

00:10:48.780 there's like well we say we had 300 000 so what happened to maybe another 50 000 that we think

00:10:53.340 should have been verified do you think there's going to be any controversy with that i don't

00:10:56.140 think so like people are forgetting the lucasics petition about 30 000 were taken off of his after

00:11:01.660 he submitted for those sorts of reasons that people ill uh you can read it or it was out of

00:11:05.500 profits it's par for the course to have something removed and just so people know like the process

00:11:11.340 how elections alberta does they're not going to check all 300 000 what they'll do is a a large

00:11:16.460 sampling they'll phone some people say do you think they will for this ground though no they

00:11:20.860 already say that it's a process of uh i mean a significant sampling unless they see more

00:11:27.180 issues to make them go deeper but if they're going to take say 10 which is still massive

00:11:30.380 we're talking 30 000 yeah and you start calling some people you compare them with lists you look

00:11:35.020 for duplicates you uh of course they're going to look for the salted names that'll be a quick

00:11:41.580 but and they'll try to check them all for that but i'm talking the degree of of uh you know

00:11:46.060 following up and checking on these. And then if they find an error rate that is disproportionate

00:11:52.100 or too far, like typically they will apply the error rate they found to the rest of the signatures.

00:11:56.680 If they find a bunch of duplicates though, or if they've called a number of people who said,

00:12:00.740 I never signed that or things like that, then they're going to investigate further. But

00:12:04.620 having seen the petitioning gone out to some of those stations, as you said,

00:12:08.560 they were demanding people bring identification. They were sending people home if they had just

00:12:14.100 box numbers a lot of rural people do saying you got to get a phone bill like they were being

00:12:17.400 meticulous i i just find it very hard to believe that volunteers that were trying that hard and

00:12:22.100 working that hard would have falsified yeah i i saw these people it was yeah it was uh not just

00:12:28.900 sign here and move on no no it was meticulous and i think we saw that from both the referendum

00:12:34.420 petitions the the forever canada one and the state free alberta one both of them were doing that so

00:12:40.160 So I imagine it's going to go forward.

00:12:44.380 But I think this will take an important talking point away

00:12:48.000 from the Federalists that, no, this was legitimate.

00:12:53.560 This was bona fide.

00:12:54.320 These are real people eligible to vote.

00:12:55.900 This is a lot about, and you know,

00:12:57.160 if they can rub it in Ninchy's face,

00:12:58.620 because that BS out of him, which is typical Ninchy,

00:13:00.960 but seriously, when he was literally calling

00:13:03.580 for the entire petition to be thrown out,

00:13:05.640 he wanted it burned.

00:13:06.480 He wanted it trashed, even before verifying, 0.83

00:13:09.000 checking, or counting.

00:13:10.160 And that is just completely grossly unfair, at least to have it counted.

00:13:15.300 I mean, if there was something in there, we'll all be critical of it.

00:13:17.880 But to try and call for that to be chucked out before even checking on it.

00:13:21.920 So if this comes out clean, I mean, not that Nishi will care, 0.51

00:13:24.740 but they've got a very much in-your-face Nishi sort of thing.

00:13:27.100 Yeah, and from my standpoint, too, and going back, if TSN is watching,

00:13:31.660 I'm about to make a sports analogy, but it's the equivalent of getting

00:13:34.900 an injured player back middle of the season, right?

00:13:37.280 Like you've got, you know, it's, you've got a situation where a big aspect of this movement was the signature collection process and building that grassroots movement, which, you know, powers that be have decided to, you know, use the courts and so on and so forth to try and minimize that.

00:13:55.620 and what you'll get it once they're verified is you get that back right you get like a whole bunch

00:14:01.900 of people that probably felt as if their their work was not worth anything that might be reactivated

00:14:09.080 into this movement a lot of people that when the story broke about the centurion project that

00:14:13.640 walked away might come back right so it to me like i said it's the equivalent of getting an

00:14:18.140 injured player back middle of the middle of the season and also let's remember uh i i can't say

00:14:23.980 is definitively on the Federalist Lukasik side,

00:14:28.060 but on the Alberta Nationalist side,

00:14:31.540 it's very decentralized.

00:14:33.480 These are pretty independent teams.

00:14:35.480 It's not implausible that, you know,

00:14:37.660 there was an individual here or there

00:14:39.400 that played funny business on both sides.

00:14:42.800 The numbers for both sides were so large

00:14:44.840 that it should not materially impact,

00:14:46.900 you know, the count at the end of the day.

00:14:50.980 But, you know, it's not inconceivable

00:14:53.060 that, you know, out of, you know,

00:14:54.920 a thousand petitioners,

00:14:57.120 you know, you got a half dozen who

00:14:58.600 played fast and loose here and there. It is good and trackable

00:15:01.140 too. Like, every one of those sheets are individually

00:15:02.840 numbered. Yeah, they'll know who it was. The person who is the

00:15:05.020 petitioner responsible for it signs them

00:15:07.020 out, signs them back in. Like, they

00:15:09.060 do have some good checks and balances,

00:15:10.920 so if somebody was foolishly doing something

00:15:13.140 untoward, it will be tracked

00:15:14.860 to the individual or individuals who are responsible

00:15:17.120 for it too, so. Yeah.

00:15:19.160 Okay, um,

00:15:21.620 so, well, that was about getting

00:15:22.880 the movement's mojo back, maybe, but

00:15:25.000 Pierre Polyev. It's been

00:15:27.100 a bit over a year since the last

00:15:31.120 federal election.

00:15:34.560 Polyev,

00:15:35.380 you know, he almost lost his mojo

00:15:37.180 really as when Trudeau went down.

00:15:39.440 You know, he was the perfect foil for Trudeau.

00:15:41.860 But, you know, enough 1.00

00:15:43.180 people, you know, largely boomers

00:15:45.460 and in eastern Canada, thought he

00:15:47.260 was not the man to meet the moment of the bogeyman

00:15:49.380 of Trump, etc.

00:15:51.420 But he lost his mojo.

00:15:52.880 You know, that excitement that he had been really able to build from his leadership campaign on, really until the resignation of Justin Trudeau, he lost it.

00:16:03.040 And he's not been able, he was criticized for not being able to pivot from affordability issues towards the boogeyman of Trump.

00:16:10.620 And I know whatever you think of the seriousness of the boogeyman of Trump, it had the concern of enough voters that it obviously mattered for the election materially, was not able to pivot into that.

00:16:19.720 But the issues have continued to evolve. Now you've got mass migration as front and center for huge numbers of people. You've got culture of Canada itself at risk, all of these things. And he seems to still be on the affordability issue.

00:16:41.540 Not that affordability has gone away as an issue, it continues to get worse.

00:16:44.720 But he reshuffled his cabinet, his shadow cabinet, you know, the main front line of critics on his front bench today, yesterday.

00:16:54.520 And he says, this is the, this new shadow cabinet is the affordability shadow cabinet.

00:16:58.840 Its priorities are affordability, affordability, affordability.

00:17:02.480 Okay, it's a big issue, but it's really missing a lot of the elephant in the room.

00:17:08.800 I still don't think he's found his mojo data.

00:17:11.540 i yeah you know i i think we've been saying this for a while i mean after trudeau was gone what

00:17:17.440 did he really have to be honest because when carney comes in carney can basically maybe just

00:17:21.000 take some of the stuff he's talked about like you know what why do we do some of that and then

00:17:24.120 everyone just praises carney i just you know they've been going down in the polls a bit and

00:17:28.860 i've always said and i've said this before i think it has to do with a lot of people don't like

00:17:32.540 pauliev personally there's some seems to be something from a lot of people i've talked to

00:17:36.340 not even conservatives but liberals as well that they just seem to not there's something about him

00:17:40.900 they don't like person they might agree like yeah affordability is an issue but like you said he's

00:17:44.600 never talking about the elephant in the room which we've said in the past I think is immigration

00:17:47.940 because that goes to a lot of things housing crime affordability etc that he does not want to touch

00:17:53.240 and I just don't really see a path forward for him to be honest with you but then I'm thinking

00:17:59.260 the conservatives are probably looking at and going well if we get rid of him who are we going

00:18:02.680 to replace him with and just you know how many months ago was the conservative convention in

00:18:06.420 calgary the national one yeah yeah he got like what and what was it 80 was it 86 or 87 percent

00:18:14.340 approval rate so there's still a fair amount of the party that's behind him but i mean just going

00:18:18.780 forward and getting voters i don't have a clue how he's going to do that even going forward because

00:18:22.600 now if he switches over to immigration or starts talking about that more well i think there's some

00:18:26.700 people are going to be saying well where have you been for the last like six months to a year

00:18:29.700 and then again like i said if carney decides to be like well we're going to start reshuffling our

00:18:33.480 immigration policy then what's he gonna do you know so i think it might be a little too little

00:18:37.160 too late for paulia as a whole but i don't see how his numbers are going to go back up unless

00:18:40.640 carney totally bottles it somehow well the conservatives cory have been afraid of their

00:18:46.200 shadow on immigration forever i mean it was traditionally it was a shield issue there was

00:18:51.100 a defensive issue for conservatives because oh we don't want to get called racists and all of this

00:18:55.760 and that's been the case really in most western democratic countries for a very long time

00:19:01.640 But in every country in the West where the right is ascendant, it is due in at least very large measure or primarily due to them seizing the immigration question.

00:19:17.680 You have Reform UK and possibly to an extent Restore UK as well.

00:19:23.180 You've got AFD in Germany.

00:19:25.240 You've got National Rally in France.

00:19:27.260 uh trump republicans although they've got softer in the last six months or so but uh but at least

00:19:34.020 rhetorically they're still strong on it um everywhere now all what what all of those

00:19:39.240 have in common is that they're new insurgent parties and in the case of the republicans you

00:19:43.940 know it's an insurgent president who took over the establishment but in the uk and germany and

00:19:48.200 france these are all insert they're not the traditional conservative center-right parties

00:19:53.000 These are insurgent, new disruptor parties that have taken over.

00:19:59.760 And Canada is an outlier in that there is no major party talking about migration, at least in a big way.

00:20:08.360 It's a topic now, and the Conservatives and even the Liberals are more comfortable talking about restrictions on this more than they were, you know, say two years ago, obviously.

00:20:17.700 The Overton window is moving faster and anyone can chase it.

00:20:20.800 But none of the parties have gotten anywhere close to the Overdome window.

00:20:24.380 And I think this is a real risk for Polyev that he is still very much afraid of this issue.

00:20:31.300 He's touching it now, but he's just poking it.

00:20:35.440 I think sometimes they've got to find out and realize, guess what?

00:20:38.140 They're going to call him a racist anyway.

00:20:39.780 It doesn't matter.

00:20:41.580 You've got to start just leaning into it.

00:20:43.800 Quit running away from it because it's like a dog that's barking and chasing you.

00:20:48.700 What happens if you run away?

00:20:50.120 it's going to chase you harder you got to stand up to it eventually and just say that's enough

00:20:54.460 you know and that's I think what's happening overseas and you don't have to tie it to I mean

00:20:59.260 you can make the point the point isn't a race it's uncontrolled mass immigration not just

00:21:05.380 immigration itself and it's come with a whole pile of consequences start focusing on those

00:21:10.020 consequences we're allowed to point at that let's point out how many new Canadians tend to pack the

00:21:15.100 emergency room of a major city hospital when you go into one let's get real about that because

00:21:18.840 everybody sees it, including new Canadians. Uh, you know, they, they talk about, uh, classroom

00:21:24.180 challenges, complication, complicated teaching. They talk in circles around it. It's because none

00:21:29.300 of the kids can speak English. Let's be blunt about it. And doesn't mean that you have to

00:21:34.080 ostracize the children or do things, but let's talk about these challenges that are coming

00:21:37.840 because we didn't have the ability to cope with it. Housing, same thing, but point to the issues

00:21:44.380 because they're hitting everybody, no matter what color you are in Canada, you're having trouble

00:21:47.580 with your kids in school you're having trouble getting health care you're having trouble getting 0.99

00:21:50.860 into school and all of those things to a degree can be attributed to immigration he's got to find 0.63

00:21:55.500 some courage he's at this point too as we're watching him sliding if he won't solidly own an

00:22:00.380 issue he's just going to die a weak death of not standing on any of them i would i don't know push

00:22:06.600 back is the right term but challenge you have one part uh maybe not race but nationality does

00:22:12.820 matter there's some cultural challenges to speak to that are a little more delicate i mean i feel

00:22:17.560 like we're at the point where we can say out loud that migrants from some countries work out better

00:22:23.720 than migrants from others and it's not binary there's a long spectrum i'm not going to say

00:22:28.680 which ones are at the bottom uh we know we have a pretty good idea is our first complaint 0.99

00:22:37.960 i did just cough the country you want there there's only so many that tend to manage grooming

00:22:45.160 and rape gangs we'll just kind of narrow it to those ones and like to to jump on that like there's 0.86

00:22:50.680 video in edmonton of a bunch of i'm assuming yeah a bunch of immigrants driving around trying to

00:22:58.040 pick up young girls on the strata street in a minivan in edmonton like this isn't happening

00:23:02.920 you know like you almost expect it in toronto as sad as it is to say and it's still not culturally

00:23:07.800 acceptable or wasn't no it's not yeah and this is like conservatives are not able to come out they've

00:23:15.160 frame this in purely economic terms, purely economic terms. It's, oh, this is too much

00:23:21.600 for us to integrate into the labor market, or it's inflating the housing market. Everything

00:23:26.480 is followed by the term market. It's in purely economic terms. And that is real. Those are real

00:23:32.440 world consequences. But what's really pissing people off, now he's always framing it as

00:23:36.920 affordability. But what's got people cheese now is this is a cultural problem as well. This is a

00:23:42.060 crime problem as well. It's a language problem as well. And I have not heard a single elected

00:23:49.600 conservative come out and say, you know what, perhaps it's time we restored some country of

00:23:55.240 origin quotas here. People from country A here require virtually no assimilation. That'd be 0.70

00:24:01.640 like Americans. They don't even have an accent, you know, and real close, that would be Britain. 0.89

00:24:05.900 They got a fancier, they're fancy Canadians. They got an accent. Okay. And then there's a

00:24:10.040 there's a continuum all the way along to not going to say it so you know no conservatives 0.75

00:24:17.120 have had the balls to come out and say yeah you know what I think it's time we've restored some

00:24:21.360 country of origin quotas here let alone actually probably just a full-on moratorium for a decade 0.60

00:24:25.500 or two because even in that time we're still not going to actually assimilate because we've created 0.96

00:24:29.580 these ghettos that are so large there's no incentive to to assimilate we actually consider

00:24:34.280 assimilation still to be a bad word Mark Carney was saying the other day we're not a melting pot 1.00

00:24:37.780 we are uh uh we're a mosaic that canadian bromide um but there's just there's they say nothing about

00:24:46.260 a moratorium they don't even talk about country of origin quotas which i think at this point

00:24:52.660 we know we need or maybe even pointing at some examples we're seeing overseas we got some

00:24:56.100 bellwethers in europe that we can be looking at we know darn well that's just what i mean i i saw a

00:25:00.900 nice brightening eye-opener just as a you know anecdotal thing with my daughter who after

00:25:05.700 graduating went on a trip through Europe as a lot of young women do. Naively went to Paris and found

00:25:10.740 a hostel she booked herself into. The Uber driver dropping her, you sure you want to get out around

00:25:15.860 here? Why would there be a problem? She made it about 50 feet to the door and then actually

00:25:20.980 somebody came and said you really shouldn't be around here because this was the wrong part of 1.00

00:25:24.340 town for a lone white girl to be in and she was going to get a dire amount of trouble. 1.00

00:25:28.660 Uh thankfully she was wise enough to realize okay I was naive, back into the Uber, spend some extra 0.95

00:25:34.900 money go to a different part of town but you've got no-go zones in cities that were considered

00:25:41.220 safe jules for a decade stockholm paris berlin london it's not unique to paris that's just one

00:25:47.300 of the reasons yeah this is something that maybe should be pointed out because we do have some

00:25:52.660 young people who don't realize how bad it's gotten or some older people who don't realize it

00:25:56.980 maybe start pointing out some of those negative consequences in reality i think this is just a

00:26:00.820 a problem with the conservative party like it feels like they're constantly on the defensive

00:26:04.660 like i when pierre was doing well he was he was the aggressive attack dog he was on he was after

00:26:11.140 like every liberal policy and and the liberals have not seemed to adjust like i mean they've

00:26:18.420 slowed down the the levels but we've imported a lot of problems and and those are going to continue

00:26:24.000 to grow as people get away with their actions right like i mean if they're like we have a

00:26:30.760 revolving door bail system that the liberals have implemented we have like all of these issues with

00:26:36.840 the culture but i think i think the reason the conservatives are having trouble getting a

00:26:40.680 foothold is because polyev you said he's lost his mojo like he's i think he's lost his mojo because

00:26:46.000 carney adopted at least the nice easy popular parts of his economic platform at least rhetorically

00:26:54.560 and theoretically possibly we're building pipelines i mean maybe we'll find more on that

00:26:58.980 tomorrow. I mean, that is, I think to the average Canadian voter, it sounds like we're building

00:27:03.100 pipelines. It's to be determined if we actually will. I don't know. I'm very skeptical. But to

00:27:08.800 the average Canadian who's not in this room 24-7, it sounds like we're building pipelines. That's

00:27:14.400 what it sounds like to them. The consumer carbon tax is gone. Industrial carbon tax is still there,

00:27:18.880 but people don't see that directly. These are, so these economic populist items that were front

00:27:28.360 center for polyev in his time as leader against against trudeau it looks like to the average

00:27:33.620 person carney's just taken them and it's okay good enough and to a lot of people carney is

00:27:39.120 the more mature the more professionally accomplished version of polyev and you know

00:27:44.140 doesn't have whatever that grading bit is about polyev that bugs some people so he's lost his

00:27:49.560 mojo because carney's taken those issues guess what there's a whole other set of issues that

00:27:53.660 are dominating now and he's afraid to go hard on them but it's the defensiveness is why i think

00:28:00.420 people have lost like i mean if he was going on hard on the immigration file if he was going hard

00:28:07.640 on the cultural aspects i think at least it would look like he was standing for something now it

00:28:12.040 looks like he's afraid to put anything forward in case carney rips him off and i i think that's

00:28:16.760 it's it's unless you change back to what got you where you are you're not going to be successful

00:28:25.080 and now he's going to come out here and spend the next couple months parading around trying

00:28:30.060 to convince us to stay in the country because like i mean but he's not going to address the

00:28:34.340 real issues like i mean it's just this softball type of stuff that's coming out of the federal

00:28:38.160 conservatives i i'm worried that it might be moving into the united conservative party as well

00:28:43.000 as staff move back like i mean there's some issues there where we're you know it's this softball

00:28:48.920 defensive you know like we're not proud to be free market conservatives we're not proud of to be

00:28:56.360 you know of our culture like it's very much this wishy-washy sort of conservative more progressive

00:29:05.400 like not sure where you stand while carney gets all the glory for you know well at least appearing

00:29:12.200 to steal your best policies okay that's a good pivot now uh i think to our next segment 0.98

00:29:29.880 why are you gay why are you gay so josh why are you 0.99

00:29:35.560 you i'm just taking the piss uh we're trying to get we're just trying to get another human rights 0.99

00:29:42.580 complaints here uh so i was gonna say we're not trying to offend anybody we're trying to offend 0.79

00:29:46.840 some people but not most well there's one person we have in mind um jessica and eva if you're

00:29:51.960 watching we'll get into you in a bit if you need more human rights commit uh uh complaint forms

00:29:57.080 just just let me know we will fedex you some complaint for yeah i think we're at six or seven

00:30:01.920 now so uh yeah anymore rookie numbers you got the clips ready i'd like to kind of go

00:30:09.360 so okay so the reason i think this is a good pivot is uh at a press conference uh

00:30:15.520 peer polio was asked uh if he's gonna go to the toronto uh pride parade and he he said uh

00:30:22.800 well here let's just play his answer yeah will you be attending any pride parades this year

00:30:27.360 I'm not planning to.

00:30:28.800 No, why not?

00:30:30.540 It's just not on my plan.

00:30:33.160 I mean, he could have gone harder and said, you know what? 0.99

00:30:35.820 I'm not going to go to an event that's got fully grown men exposing their penises in front of little children. 0.95

00:30:43.700 Because in the criminal code, we call that pedophilia and indecent exposure. 0.99

00:30:49.180 You know, he didn't need to go as far as I would say and that they should be tased in the dick. 0.95

00:30:53.200 but i i think that's an appropriate uh that that's not the sentence but that's how they could be 0.98

00:30:58.500 that's just getting that's that's a part of arresting them you got to tase them right in

00:31:03.500 the johnson um just a wooden spoon swat yeah you want to get that close you don't take our

00:31:09.880 you can end up getting the kearney effect

00:31:13.620 and splat since cory went there okay we're just going to do kind of best hits best hits of uh

00:31:23.700 of this thing all right let's let's show carney getting um splat on

00:31:36.100 okay uh well that's interesting um peter north would have been proud

00:31:40.180 he's a canadian icon i don't know who that is from the maritimes he had a you know he had a gift

00:31:49.360 no i just did research i grew up in the 80s and 90s he's retired now don't act like you don't

00:31:57.880 know josh i always figured he's the next governor general but that's a separate mission i didn't

00:32:03.380 know he was canadian yeah yeah okay okay well i'm trying to keep this on track although i admit i'm

00:32:08.740 probably a bit at fault. Yeah, we had Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow. She is known for publicly

00:32:17.400 indulging on the sauce while, you know, doing public duties as mayor. Well, this time, she 1.00

00:32:24.960 She could barely walk.

00:32:38.520 You know, for legal reasons, we can't say she was definitely drunk because we have not 0.99

00:32:42.900 she was not given a breathalyzer, but I think we can fairly say she looks hammered, hammered. 1.00

00:32:52.160 i'm a good i guess uh good for you madam mayor having fun i don't know i don't presume her

00:32:56.880 gender it's not like toronto mayors are known for indulging yeah exactly okay touche okay there's

00:33:03.520 there's a bit of victory right here she did a drug test olivia double check she's not every

00:33:08.960 toronto mayor needs to get tested daily twice daily every drug test like they're checking for

00:33:15.200 steroids but it's crack okay um look i think pauliev could have gone harder but i don't be

00:33:22.660 too critical of him here because he did what is very rare for a conservative politician to do

00:33:27.480 and i'll be like no i'm not going um and people could read into it uh some of the usual uh critics

00:33:33.080 on the left lost their mind how dare he not go to uh this parade that's got a bunch of open

00:33:39.580 pedophiles exposing themselves 0.97

00:33:41.700 to little children. 0.98

00:33:43.440 How dare they?

00:33:45.880 But,

00:33:46.700 you know, Carney's there, doing what he's thinking.

00:33:50.000 To Carney's credit, he looked really uncomfortable

00:33:51.700 getting splat on.

00:33:53.660 I would be too, to be honest.

00:33:55.720 You gotta work your way and say

00:33:57.320 how to...

00:33:57.880 You've been there before, but...

00:34:00.860 It's your first time

00:34:02.440 at a ditty freak-off.

00:34:07.260 That baby

00:34:08.280 else hey for the record there is a photo of him and epstein i'm just getting some college

00:34:13.400 flashbacks you know he thought it was a regular party honest

00:34:20.760 i was only the ditty party for the buffet it was a hollywood buffet yeah pizza okay well i'm trying 0.84

00:34:28.600 to keep this pg yeah this is again my fault i mean it is a symptom of just how extreme and ridiculous

00:34:34.360 and obscene these parades have gotten that it lends itself to all of this to be honest if it was 0.91

00:34:40.040 a pride event of the 90s when it was just gay people out you know being a bit flamboyant but 0.68

00:34:46.520 certainly not perverse like that and everything they didn't have to be nude and everything then 0.90

00:34:50.900 it would be pretty rude to crack down and expand on it but if it's going to be the fetishists of

00:34:55.580 the weirdos yeah of the fringe sorry you're open game and i don't think anybody should and to be 0.97

00:35:01.320 serious for a second like this is a like these types of events are should be considered a black

00:35:06.080 mark for the entire community like i if i was like if i was in the community and i was being

00:35:13.380 and i was being you know like that membership never inspires i hope yeah josh you do it once

00:35:21.100 you're always there never never once in college no josh will try anything once

00:35:27.780 but like it's just one of those things where it makes it difficult for them to advance their own

00:35:34.740 cause when like i mean ctv news which never covers the worst parts of it like the only clip of the

00:35:41.480 naked guy and i'm sure we'll see it that was accidental it was accidental like some guy

00:35:45.280 walking through and i in production uh josh's request uh show the pedophiles flashing their 0.96

00:35:51.060 junk yeah i need a spotlight on myself too yeah uh yeah i mean you know you used the word community 0.99

00:35:57.680 i don't think it is a community because like you talk to like just gay dudes or lesbians

00:36:03.500 overwhelming they're like yeah we don't have to do with the families and people uh with gender

00:36:11.460 dysmorphia like these are whole other things so i don't mean to be pedantic with you but like 0.77

00:36:16.640 it's not a community anymore it's most like normal gay people i know they don't like a lot of them 0.52

00:36:25.320 used to like it yes but like it's weird yeah fetishists i mean the straight community has

00:36:32.040 fetishists too i mean you know if there was some parade and some straight guys running around and

00:36:35.880 nipple clamps and other weird bizarre stuff it's not representative of the rest of the straight

00:36:40.680 people around it's the fringe but that's what's happened with this parade yeah and it's got to be

00:36:46.040 embarrassing i think that's what i was gonna say too like it's just peak degeneracy now you're

00:36:49.800 saying about the 90s remember like back in the 90s there was all those christian groups and the

00:36:53.160 the soccer moms are like oh it's a slippery slope they were kind of right about that in hindsight

00:36:57.780 and they didn't seem very cool at the time but in hindsight it's like like they were kind of

00:37:02.640 maybe some of this was okay but it's one thing to you know tolerance of people being themselves

00:37:09.240 is one thing but now we need to celebrate the weirdest fetish you could possibly have publicly

00:37:17.000 like yeah whatever happened you know you know like you know it used to be we don't care about

00:37:21.000 what you do behind closed doors between consenting adults they open the doors but now we voyagerism

00:37:25.520 now if you're a public official and you don't actively celebrate someone's niche degenerate

00:37:31.840 fetish and i believe in your right to have a niche degenerate fetish as long as it's consensual

00:37:35.920 it doesn't involve kids but now you you are required now to celebrate someone's niche

00:37:41.540 degenerate fetish i don't know for degeneracy uh of various kinds but like uh but things are

00:37:50.400 changing the pendulum is swinging um sometimes possibly sometimes not i mean support for same

00:37:55.680 sex marriage is down very significantly in canada states much of western and central europe

00:38:01.200 it's down and i don't think it's because people no longer think gay people should be allowed to

00:38:05.600 get married i think it's very broadly accepted it's that these other weird groups have attached

00:38:11.440 themselves to mainstream just gay and lesbian or bi people keep up with the letters of all the

00:38:16.080 the fetishes now what they are and what's the acronym I don't I'm not I won't try $10 if any 0.94

00:38:21.260 of you can just do it right now M-M-O-G actually I think he missed the two I think it starts yeah

00:38:29.120 a couple of I's and S's plus a spelling bee Josh is racist wait yeah I guess

00:38:40.440 um yeah i mean it's this it's it's it's brought down support overall but you know the positive

00:38:50.500 side is this would have been a national scandal for polio to not go march with pedophiles um

00:38:58.340 uh just a few years ago and today he's like no and i know doug ford was still there because

00:39:05.100 that's just what doug ford does if there's a vote to be had he'll go for it no matter what

00:39:08.440 um but probably was just not going he didn't really give his reasons just said not part of

00:39:13.300 my plans i'd like more but you know good enough i mean that is uh you know i think uh uh jamil

00:39:20.280 uh javani javani um he um here oh just put put his tweet up no canadian politician would have 0.95

00:39:28.900 said that three years ago no uh so that you know and everyone's like racist sexist homosexual 0.99

00:39:34.600 to his credit he seems not to give a shit so the world is i mean it's on fire but there's there's 0.99

00:39:42.120 green shoots that it's healing that people have been pushed way too far this stuff is extreme 0.98

00:39:46.680 it's very clear that there's no end point where we can say okay this group this group is now

00:39:51.980 treated with respect and is treated fairly and this is fine and let's put a bow on it move on

00:39:57.100 it is never enough but the fact that that like the pride organizers which are the just we'll just say

00:40:03.140 the elites within the community don't see this as a problem i think is emblem emblematic of like

00:40:09.060 issues within the community a lack of good judgment on what's the self-awareness family

00:40:16.900 because they've been bailing i mean they were 700 000 short the corporate spots

00:40:22.180 like we're not giving into this just a few years ago every corporation was falling over itself to

00:40:29.060 paint itself in the nude trans colors and change their logo every year like your bank needed to be 0.94

00:40:35.300 gay if your bank wasn't gay it was racist you know everyone was falling over each over themselves 0.98

00:40:41.780 and there's just been this cultural backlash and it's not against gay people no no one gives a 0.99

00:40:45.940 it's against the guys walking around naked at a parade that children are at and the fact the

00:40:51.140 media mainstream media is not reporting on it the fact that people are seeing this stuff on their

00:40:55.860 social media feed thinking i'm glad i wasn't there you know like it's it's it it is a i don't want

00:41:03.060 to call it a difficult position but it's it it's damaging to the entire movement and i can imagine

00:41:10.340 a lot of people that are within the community that are upstanding respectful citizens they

00:41:14.820 don't like seeing it but they're the ones that have to stand up and stop it like they're the

00:41:18.740 ones that have to say this is hurting me in the community you know this this really reminds me um

00:41:24.340 I talked to a gay friend of mine today, said essentially that, and I talked to, at least you two know who this person is, this is an Indian friend of mine, I haven't seen this person in a couple years, but I just, I was riding through a part of downtown Calgary on my motorbike, and just saw this person, stopped, this person is Indian, but born in Canada, assimilated is not even a right term, this person is super Albertan, but this person is of Indian descent, and this person says,

00:41:54.340 i'm actually leaving canada in a few weeks just gonna move the states caribbean move around and

00:41:59.140 stuff and the biggest reason this person said was indian immigration

00:42:04.400 she says it's making us look bad like we're hyper hyper integrated and successful and have

00:42:13.100 contributed to canada contributed to alberta and this is making us look bad i don't like what

00:42:18.960 they're doing and i don't like also the blowback i'm getting and i'm even i'm not angry at the 0.58

00:42:23.640 people giving me the blowback i'm just angry i have to get it because of this crap's going on 0.99

00:42:27.420 uh normal gay people normal well assimilated migrants both of them are getting shit now 0.99

00:42:35.500 from things going too far extreme in these ways yeah it hurts the people like i mean a lot of my 0.98

00:42:41.680 friends are either first or second generation canadians that came here like lethbridge i've

00:42:46.580 got a lot of friends down there that you know came they assimilated they started businesses

00:42:50.440 left bridge dutch don't count no they're uh i think lebanese but uh you know like it was just

00:42:55.160 like it's one of those things where there's so many like alberta throughout our history we've had

00:43:00.680 large segments of immigrants coming here seeking opportunity and the opportunities

00:43:04.680 that this province can provide and and when you get immigration levels and the type of 1.00

00:43:09.800 imports that we're getting it it damages you know it damages them in the community a bit so yeah 1.00

00:43:16.840 all right uh all right we're time for time we got to go to parting shots we're going to be

00:43:20.120 real quick here uh you're a veteran you go first i'll just make a quick plug then i mean we got a

00:43:24.140 barbecue and some other stuff coming up this week uh and a debate which i'll let derek expand on

00:43:29.540 and tomorrow i'll be in mirror at alberton's day uh the whistle stop if people are looking for

00:43:34.040 something to do on july 1st all right david this is really a parting shop and i'm really curious

00:43:40.020 to see what the pipeline proposal is going to be uh daniel smith is going to be making an

00:43:43.380 announcement on thursday i'm just curious to see what route they're going to be choosing as well

00:43:46.960 i mean there's still the oil tanker ban there's still the whole thing with the pathways project

00:43:51.540 and there's still no private proponents so it's going to be very interesting to see what happens

00:43:54.520 from here all right josh all right uh yeah like uh cory was saying we have the western standard

00:43:59.360 barbecue coming up uh if you want to show up and buy water balloons you can throw them at derrick

00:44:03.880 i am i've already bought a few so uh they're on pre-sale and uh yeah we're gonna have a special

00:44:09.180 guest we can't announce it quite yet we've got a very special guest water balloons right now

00:44:15.740 before we announce a special guest so that we sell as many as we can so that we can hit him

00:44:19.580 with his money the price will go up this is i did not agree even if you want to throw a water

00:44:24.620 balloon at me i imagine a lot of you are going to want to throw them at this special guest which we

00:44:28.700 can't announce yet it's going to be great but yeah what details of the barbecue yeah july 8 14

00:44:34.460 at Sunelta Community Hall.

00:44:36.840 Yeah, we'll look forward to seeing you.

00:44:38.520 Yeah.

00:44:39.760 All right.

00:44:40.620 On top of that, we've got independence debate.

00:44:44.640 I'm going to be debating Mount Royal University

00:44:46.980 Professor Dwayne Bratt on independence,

00:44:49.920 former Alberta Cabinet Minister

00:44:51.280 and National Post columnist Donna Kennedy Glanz

00:44:55.060 is going to moderate it.

00:44:56.500 It's going to be at the Glenmore Inn

00:44:58.680 and Conference Centre at 5.30,

00:45:02.080 the next day after the barbecue,

00:45:03.300 July 9th. The Stampede

00:45:05.140 Showdown. It's going to be great. Tickets are

00:45:06.900 cheap, cheap, cheap. $10 a piece.

00:45:09.200 It's just to cover the basic costs of

00:45:11.080 the event. Where can people

00:45:13.060 get the tickets?

00:45:15.220 Can we get a QR code up?

00:45:17.000 Okay, put a QR code up. There we go. That's

00:45:19.060 a good idea. Scan your screen.

00:45:21.780 But my parting shot, actually,

00:45:23.780 this is just...

00:45:25.360 Corey found this less funny than me, but

00:45:27.020 I think it was good. You can see my notice.

00:45:29.860 This is reported out of

00:45:31.160 the New York Post. Some

00:45:33.100 high school yearbook in new jersey this show is gonna this show is so wrong uh the high school

00:45:41.460 yearbook uh in new jersey had to be recalled uh because i guess they had a section where

00:45:46.800 the graduating class put in baby pictures of themselves well someone uh i guess didn't follow

00:45:51.960 the rules totally accurately and they put in a picture of baby hitler didn't follow the baby

00:45:57.420 hitler on the screen uh yeah so uh fuzzy little furor uh you know um and it got printed yep so

00:46:06.940 everyone got i i guess it got through like the yearbook committee and maybe was a math teacher

00:46:11.100 overseeing it not a history teacher and i i guess this went home probably like a history buff dad

00:46:16.980 looked at it and he's like

00:46:18.020 this is not

00:46:20.980 Jeremy

00:46:22.160 so yeah

00:46:25.020 I think it's pretty funny

00:46:28.860 I think it's funny

00:46:29.400 it's funny it's just

00:46:31.800 too soon

00:46:34.140 okay

00:46:36.700 okay that's it

00:46:37.920 thank Corey, David, Josh

00:46:41.360 and

00:46:42.360 John on production

00:46:44.640 thank all of you for joining us on the pipeline today

00:46:46.940 remember get your tickets two events coming up if you're in the calgary area during stampede

00:46:51.620 come to our free stampede barbecue one to four o'clock you can throw water balloons at me uh

00:46:58.400 and a special guest i know you're gonna want to throw i like the guy personally but i think you're

00:47:05.060 gonna want to throw balloons at this guy it's gonna be great get your tickets for that uh or

00:47:09.560 just rsvp for that that's there's no tickets but also definitely get your tickets for the

00:47:12.880 independence debate coming up between me and Professor Dwayne Bratt the next day on July 9th.

00:47:19.340 Thank you very much for joining us today, and God bless.

00:47:42.880 Thank you.

Western Standard - July 02, 2026

Why is Pride so gay？

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