Western Standard - Year end roundup

00:00:00.000 good day and happy new year welcome to a special episode of the cory morgan show

00:00:28.880 so yeah it's been quite a year and you know what it's worth kind of reviewing it and going over

00:00:34.540 it and just chewing on what's been a strange and unusual time in canadian politics in the world so

00:00:41.660 who better to sit down and go over all this with today than the western standards news editor who's

00:00:46.480 been trying to keep up and cover all this dave naylor welcome to a full show i can babble at you

00:00:51.080 happy new year to you and uh jane yeah it's uh full of success for thanks and to you and yours

00:00:56.980 and uh do you know what it is in terms of the year of the chinese zodiac the year of the i have no

00:01:02.000 idea some animal or another i mean whatever it is i'm sure they eat it yeah you know it's been a

00:01:07.840 absolutely crazy news year uh from you know politics to sports uh uh you know it's just

00:01:14.740 one day after another there's just never a slow news day and stories take twists and turns and

00:01:20.880 it's been a lot of fun and a tip of the hat to uh to my news crew across western canada i think

00:01:26.760 they've done a great job this year oh yeah that's it i mean it's you know the standards been doing

00:01:31.000 well i mean lots of news is actually good fodder for us even if a lot of it's horrible news but

00:01:35.780 a great crew lined up saskatchewan bc uh out here yeah yeah it's all good and uh onwards uh in the future

00:01:43.740 for 2025 yeah so we'll we'll deal with 2025 uh in the coming shows in weeks and months uh to go here

00:01:51.540 uh let's let's look at 2024 and uh how crazy it was i guess maybe you know this was trying to guess

00:01:58.220 which one was the top story or whatnot but one that has to head it off was the american election i mean

00:02:02.340 it impacts the world it impacts canada donald trump is back donald trump is back bigger and badder than

00:02:09.040 than ever yeah it was uh worldwide uh implications with the the war in the middle east and then the

00:02:15.800 war in the ukraine so uh it's going to be a very interesting presidency starting january 20th and

00:02:21.260 let's be honest cory he's already basically acting president you know world leaders are going to him

00:02:25.880 they're not going to joe biden uh even when he's still the president they're going to him so it's gonna

00:02:31.540 be fun yeah well and biden yeah he's disappeared i mean biden disappeared at the first debate last

00:02:36.120 year i i mean he's just not cognitively there they're kind of going through the motions we'll

00:02:41.680 keep him in until the inauguration nobody's really seen much of him no i think the democrats have a lot

00:02:47.780 to to answer for for that because they hid that they hid his how bad his mental state is from the

00:02:54.140 american uh the american people uh and until it was too late until trump crushed them in that that

00:03:01.240 debate and they realized that okay he had to go and uh i guess kamal is uh our choice and didn't work

00:03:08.580 out well for him no so now we got the orange man and he's got to be at least the most unpredictable we

00:03:14.800 don't know what he's really going to do i mean he says what he's going to do but then other people

00:03:19.000 dismiss it as trolling and it is trolling but sometimes he does follow through on what he's going

00:03:23.040 to do i mean the biggest fear is the tariffs i mean that would cripple canada do we think it's going to

00:03:28.980 happen yes i mean the last time he was in he put tariffs uh tariffs in and uh slowly had to be

00:03:39.320 worked through to be to be lowered uh i think since day one albert is i think kind of lobbying for a

00:03:45.820 special deal uh you know they immediately reacted to his border thing with uh daniel smith sent the

00:03:51.900 sheriffs down to the border and they're going to be patrolling it because i mean america does not

00:03:57.300 want to tariff the oil exports coming out of out of canada obviously because that's going to mean

00:04:02.680 higher gas uh production for them uh but you know lumber car manufacturing stuff like that i'm pretty

00:04:10.800 sure it's coming um he yeah he trolls and trolls but he's not one for idle threats uh you know he says

00:04:19.600 he'll settle uh the ukraine war on day one i wouldn't put him past it uh you know i mean uh he

00:04:27.760 says if hamas hasn't released the hostages in the gaza strip uh he's going to be held to pay and

00:04:33.260 probably will be uh but you know how he does it i guess is going to be all part of the fun and games

00:04:39.540 going forward well yeah and and how if anything can we do something about i mean one of the things

00:04:46.140 out of him too is he does i mean some people say he responds to strength or at least he respects it

00:04:51.640 and and it's clear he doesn't hold canadian leadership in in any regard whatsoever i mean

00:04:56.940 people again they dismiss the trolling well wait a minute this is a a world leader openly mocking

00:05:02.000 another world leader like this is not a healthy relationship and dynamic building up no and it's

00:05:07.420 not like we're a you know a third world country we're a fellow g7 country and as you mentioned uh you

00:05:13.380 know trump's got an intense dislike for for trudeau most of us do most of us do i guess so uh yeah and

00:05:19.700 and you remember uh trudeau got uh at a g7 meeting he got caught bad-mouthing trump uh trump doesn't

00:05:26.080 forget that kind of stuff uh and trump takes great delight in calling trudeau governor of the 51st state

00:05:33.680 you know any any time he can uh so yeah i mean can you imagine those two going into into a room

00:05:40.000 trudeau's got no no strength you know he can't even can't even control his own party his own

00:05:47.040 caucus how is he gonna how's he gonna stand up to the the force that is one donald trump

00:05:51.820 well let's segue into that then you know the the kind of the bombshell that hit with with uh

00:05:57.100 christia freeland you know there's another big story right at the end of the year

00:06:01.060 she was getting ready to deliver uh what everybody knew was going to be a terrible fiscal update they

00:06:07.120 deferred it for months i mean this was supposed to happen in fall and then trudeau

00:06:12.380 i just shot himself in the foot and and and bizarrely fired her yeah and you know i think

00:06:19.380 you said before we went on the air that he's delusional he he calls up freeland on a zoom meeting

00:06:25.740 and says hey okay you're gonna deliver this really bag of steaming you know what uh to the canadian

00:06:32.420 people 62 billion dollar deficit and now guess what i'm gonna fire you and mark carney is gonna

00:06:38.240 come in and take your take your place so you know freeland thought about it uh over the weekend and

00:06:44.820 decided to give a big middle finger to her uh really a boss who she was really loyal to right even in the 0.58

00:06:51.500 weeks uh you know the gst holiday just a couple weeks ago she was at his side pitching how wonderful

00:06:57.840 it is and then she's you know criticizing it in her resignation letter but yeah the the day that the

00:07:04.100 uh the economic statement was to be delivered she she quit and uh it was panic stations on the liberal

00:07:11.420 side they they went through uh uh i guess mark carney said no he didn't want the job uh so i don't know

00:07:18.840 where trudeau got that from and they went through uh i guess uh next in line was uh francois philippe

00:07:25.620 champagne and he said no and and the two randys and i guess they both said no so they ended up just

00:07:31.400 walking it into the house of god i was laying it on the table okay there it is we're not even gonna

00:07:34.980 you know we're not even gonna read it so uh yeah it really was and uh it's uh how does he go from

00:07:45.540 here how does he survive i guess that's going to be part of the fun watching in the days ahead but

00:07:49.780 uh what a what a mess well it's really exposed his nature a lot i mean talk about the the arrogance

00:07:56.460 you know he taking freeland for granted and again hey i'm not a big fan of her either she rode this 0.93

00:08:03.120 ship all the way up to where it is but still she was loyally bobbling her head behind him at every

00:08:08.200 conference she ate a lot of poop on his behalf you know whenever there were bad times actually he would

00:08:12.680 often throw her into the fire rather than taking it on himself but then just to think that okay you

00:08:18.600 know she is so loyal she loves me so much that she will take this she will take a zoom meeting firing

00:08:23.920 and uh still work for me you know three days from now and deliver this thing like

00:08:29.000 just so arrogant and vain we already knew he was that way but this was beyond the pale

00:08:35.760 i mean you always think that trudeau can't surprise you anymore and then he always does

00:08:41.660 but why wouldn't he have mark carney signed sealed and delivered why wouldn't he say okay this is what's

00:08:47.420 going to happen and mark you're going to be finance minister friday friday afternoon and carney agree with

00:08:53.380 it but apparently that didn't happen and then the pmo was saying well you know we never told we never

00:09:00.660 told uh freeland that carney was going to replace her well they did and then they lied about it they

00:09:05.840 did and you know i think i agree with you that some people are making freeland out to be some sort

00:09:11.260 of hero for for standing up to trudeau and i think you're right i mean she was the captain of the the

00:09:16.340 bus that steered a lot of this huge deficit and she was right along there you know with trudeau

00:09:21.840 shoveling out the money so oh good for her for finally finding some backbone but uh she's partly

00:09:27.520 responsible for the fiscal mess we're in well and he's shattered what little support and trust he had

00:09:34.220 in his caucus and cabinet now i mean if he would throw freeland under the bus like that you know

00:09:39.260 every cabinet member and mp is thinking boy he wouldn't think twice about uh you know just ending

00:09:45.320 my career as well like he he really i don't know if he realizes how badly he's hurt himself no and then

00:09:51.300 he basically ignored it the first night and then joked about it the second night we saw you know all

00:09:56.220 families fight well yeah i mean but this is like taking knives out of people's backs for type

00:10:02.020 uh type of fight so yeah it's uh it was really machiavellian uh of them to to think that well

00:10:12.460 but poorly executed you know that that implies smart planning and that's where we get into i'm

00:10:19.000 honestly starting to question a little bit of his family i mean did did he really believe and i think

00:10:26.460 that's the case maybe he believed when he told her on the zoom meeting this is starting to leak out

00:10:30.480 that carney was coming in i think he really thought it was going to happen but anybody standing on the

00:10:34.380 outside looking well carney never said he was coming why would you think he was coming in yeah i think

00:10:39.800 it's you know any sane person any sane leader would six seven months ago taking a look at the polls

00:10:47.220 and had a moment of reflection and done what's best for his party and he is just in such a bubble of

00:10:54.760 narcissism and uh uh you know what you know i'll even give you maybe a little bit of mental illness

00:11:02.420 and stuff like that insanity but he just cannot see the writing on the wall i mean the last polls

00:11:09.180 of the year had the liberals being wiped out to just 10 seats and poly of like 25 points ahead in

00:11:16.540 the polls uh so why does he want to hang around to to be crushed is does he want to tie you know

00:11:25.460 tie harper or beat harper for length of term in office that may be part of it uh but

00:11:32.340 yeah who knows no you know we're not we need to be psychiatrists and what's going on and all the

00:11:38.880 the guessing yeah you know that was coming up i mean the uh some cancellation of every year-end

00:11:44.800 interview you know if you're going to hang on want those interviews if you want to get out you want

00:11:51.000 to come out firing and you know full steam ahead and sort of rally the troops and he also left

00:11:57.240 himself open for more charges of uh misogyny right firing another cabinet minister to bring in a man

00:12:03.580 that's the other party it was a third time it's really turning into a pattern and uh there's

00:12:10.120 philpot wilson raybold and there's that one member of parliament too who said he screamed at her uh

00:12:17.240 i think she was a secretary of but he's had a bad relationship with women in parliament i mean 0.97

00:12:22.320 it's brought a lot of that discussion about the self-styled male feminists boy they tend to 0.91

00:12:25.740 actually have a pretty bad uh ever since he was groping women at uh you know at a ski festival

00:12:31.480 it's you know it's been a pattern of being a definite pattern so and uh yeah he's just he's

00:12:37.280 ignored now by other world leaders he's a laughing stock yeah and uh as pauliev said uh you know

00:12:44.080 before christmas he's an he's a he's an international embarrassment to this country yeah and that's the

00:12:49.680 thing it's not just that he's a laughing stock we all get to wear it as well so hopefully some

00:12:53.620 things get remedied in 2025 again we're obviously looking forward to a very tumultuous year no matter

00:12:58.480 what happens no matter what happens it's going to be a roller coaster so let's get on to another

00:13:02.900 i mean this has been going on for years but it's still a story it's happening right now

00:13:07.120 the releases come out and people are almost ignoring them but the residential school issue

00:13:12.260 it's not resolved in fact they're they're starting to talk about making it illegal to discuss it any

00:13:16.860 longer yeah i mean it it kind of boiled over earlier this year when it was uh when we reported

00:13:24.340 that eight million dollars had been given to to the band out in cam loops uh to i guess research and

00:13:32.220 whatever they wanted to do to try and try and figure out the issue and uh they won't talk about

00:13:38.140 what they've done with the money they refuse to say uh we do know that there's been no digging

00:13:42.940 there's been no graves uh found there so i i think the backlash is has begun uh you know we canada

00:13:53.980 went through like a period of national shame because of that the flags were lowered uh for for forever

00:14:01.580 six months it's never in canadian history is that they were they were raised uh november first only to

00:14:07.340 be lowered and then stay lowered uh we got a new holiday out of it surfing holiday um it was it was

00:14:15.980 a huge thing it was an international story right uh all over the world you know canadian canadian kids

00:14:22.300 murdered at residential schools and it's there's not a single scintilla of proof yet what are we three

00:14:29.420 years on uh and i think people the backlash is starting especially when the the liberals want to

00:14:37.180 bring into law to make it illegal to deny the horrors of residential schools uh so you know 0.90

00:14:44.620 you're on record as claiming it's you're now considering a hoax yeah that could be illegal in

00:14:50.540 next year and you could be cut enough to jail for saying that as i said take me to court on that one

00:14:55.740 because you know the first thing we'd have to do is discovery then so let's get a shovel

00:14:59.980 and dig six feet and we'll know within half an hour you know that that's what's getting so

00:15:05.020 frustrating with this we're not talking about a a complicated process we can understand that the

00:15:09.420 need for sensitivity doing it carefully yes you don't want to just jump out there with a couple

00:15:14.220 of clowns and start opening a hole i mean if there's remains down there it's a forensic site

00:15:17.900 you want to be very careful but you don't need three years to deal with this this could have been done

00:15:23.260 and should have been done a long time ago long long time ago and the story is picking up uh also

00:15:29.900 around the world that you know three years later nothing's been found or was it really as bad as

00:15:34.140 everybody says but if one of the things that frustrates me is the mainstream media uh are still saying

00:15:42.300 you know the bodies of 215 children the graves of 215 children even though it's it's not true

00:15:50.300 but they they continue to to spread the the myth the hoax uh so you know i agree with you it's quite

00:15:57.900 easily solved um with sensitivity and with the proper uh with the proper equipment but they don't

00:16:05.180 want to solve it i don't think the band well they don't want it's pretty lucrative to keep this mystery

00:16:09.580 going sure they don't want to lose that money and it's now an industry in itself across canada uh you

00:16:14.540 know the search for residential graves well i'm getting tired of seeing it i think just a couple weeks

00:16:18.940 ago another one came out look we found a bunch of unmarked graves oh dear we're in a cemetery yeah well

00:16:24.940 yeah yeah that's what's going to happen when you do that because it's a lot of the the graves are

00:16:29.820 just marked with simple wooden crosses that over the decades get blown away they erode of course they're

00:16:35.260 not going to be marked yeah uh but every time they find some we need money to invest yeah can we

00:16:41.500 uh investigate this yeah it's uh it's uh it's a growing cottage industry well it's causing more and

00:16:48.140 more hurt i mean the people who actually believe this i mean the stories were absurd but some people

00:16:53.340 believe it they really believe babies were strung on hooks children who were awakened in the night

00:16:57.500 and taken out to bury their murdered compatriots in the field like this should be resolved well and

00:17:03.980 i mean if it's true they're claiming this was happening into the 60s well the perpetrators might

00:17:08.460 still be out there it's a woman calling the rcnt there's no doubt children died at residential schools

00:17:14.460 uh but it was mainly from tuberculosis disease uh there was not there was not a systemic genocide

00:17:25.980 of aboriginal children by missionaries and nuns just didn't happen well let's speak about genocide

00:17:34.460 then we'll move into the next one with this i mean that's a term that's really getting abused and you

00:17:39.340 know everything from pita saying there's a genocide of chickens and in uh uh you know from kfc which i

00:17:46.540 fully support yes to uh of course now it's residential schools and on to the middle east uh apparently

00:17:54.540 genocide in gaza this is just going on and on again the israel conflict it's it's been a year of uh a year

00:18:03.740 of tragedy and warfare uh you know going back it's more than a year now i guess last october 2023 when

00:18:11.180 hamas made the i guess tactical error to go in and kill 1200 israelis uh the israeli military response

00:18:20.700 has turned gaza into dust rubble uh there are hostages still being held somewhere in tunnels uh that uh

00:18:30.620 talks are have been going on to get them out at one point they offered the terrorists a million

00:18:34.860 dollars for each hostage and and they got to go free uh and then the the problems escalated with

00:18:42.060 with hezbollah lobbying in shells so israel invades southern lebanon and then they invade syria when

00:18:48.380 when assad leaves so you know little israel's fighting on on three separate fronts and doing a

00:18:53.500 hell of a job i might add as well you know this has been going on since 48 this is the part that

00:18:58.780 does and i love to rub it in with these arabs you guys do nothing but lose you suck this is a you've 1.00

00:19:03.980 got hundreds of times the population the resources of this tiny little state of israel and they kick 0.97

00:19:08.700 your asses every time but unfortunately it does make a subset of the more bloodthirsty more

00:19:13.580 horrible and they pull off stunts like they did with the october 7th you know attacking a music

00:19:17.980 festival how courageous yeah but getting further to that the domestic the exposure of the domestic

00:19:23.740 extremists whether it's the purple-headed idiots coming out of our universities or the domestic 1.00

00:19:29.500 islamic extremists but uh jared yeager covered it quite well and in vancouver to really expose

00:19:34.940 they really did support this terrorism they support these acts this is sick they did and it's it's

00:19:42.220 frightening to watch the almost weekly protests in toronto where you can wave a hamas flag and be all

00:19:49.420 masked up and chanting death to the jews and police officers are watching you from the side of the

00:19:54.780 street not taking any action uh synagogues have been firebombed uh jewish schools have been shot at

00:20:03.420 uh you know the one good move the canadian government did made was because of jared

00:20:08.700 he got some video of uh what's what's the name of the samadu samadu uh rally in uh in vancouver waving

00:20:16.060 their flag and and chanting and jared's video went viral every mainstream media in the country picked

00:20:23.180 it up and uh the next week the government put him on the terror list so you know good for jerry good

00:20:29.100 for the power of the western standard to do that but uh countries you know i don't see it getting any

00:20:35.580 better until the you know the war is over well that's another question too so that was right around

00:20:39.740 october 7th when all the pro-terrorists and i gotta say there were pro-terrorist savages going on the

00:20:44.220 streets to celebrate that slaughter of women at a music festival we knew it was coming we knew that

00:20:49.180 these pro-terror protests were going to be there why was the western standard the only one on the

00:20:53.980 ground in vancouver to cover that cbc when it was happening outside literally outside their building

00:20:59.420 outside the cbc building and they didn't cover ctv global i think it's a case of they're so regular now

00:21:06.540 that the media just doesn't cover them they don't think well just another march right but it's you know

00:21:12.300 these jokers they they pick a jewish neighborhood and they terrorize they set up shopping in the in 0.70

00:21:19.180 the in the jewish neighborhood and terrorize the poor people there until the police start cracking 1.00

00:21:26.300 down cracking heads and making some arrests it's just going to continue because there's no there's

00:21:31.260 no reason to stop uh you know when uh let's face it they're gonna the israelis are gonna win the war

00:21:39.100 it's just a matter of time israel is not going away israel is not going away and they've shown

00:21:43.900 that israel has come out of it stronger uh and safer uh so you know protest all you want but you're

00:21:51.900 not going to change anything you know lock down schools and trying to you know intimidate professors

00:21:57.660 and uh and do all you want but nothing's gonna change for the sake of our own citizens and they keep

00:22:02.620 escalating it that's the thing these extremists aren't going to stop until we stop them exactly and i was

00:22:08.780 watching just another video in toronto the other night so now they've gone beyond blocking roads

00:22:12.460 into jewish neighborhoods and protesting outside of synagogues and and uh cafes let's quit pretending 0.80

00:22:16.860 it's not anti-jew anymore guys but they're actually in the jewish neighborhood they have long flags on

00:22:21.020 sticks so they're at the back fences of the houses and waving them over the back fence to intimidate the

00:22:25.660 people in the houses and literally there's the police all standing by letting them do it yeah i mean if

00:22:32.780 these were klansmen in a black neighborhood waving you know burning crosses over the backs of fences 0.75

00:22:39.100 rightly so the police would immediately grab them and and but this way they're bringing

00:22:43.740 them coffee and donuts still what the hell is going on it's crazy you know credit to calgary police and

00:22:47.820 edmonton police when uh the protesters tried it at the u of a in the u of c they were quickly marched

00:22:54.860 frog marched out with uh you know some pepper spray and paintball gun uh wounds yeah good for them they 1.00

00:23:00.540 have not been back have they no well and those idiots tried it down on a main street calgary one 0.75

00:23:05.580 rush hour or two and then the police pulled them over there they were they were done quickly so it is

00:23:10.780 a uh a policing failure in toronto is the big problem we've got right now uh and i think it comes

00:23:17.660 probably from the toronto mayor i mean she's a wingnut and the toronto police chief is is just weak and

00:23:23.580 and ineffective you talk to the average toronto cop and i'm sure they'll tell you they want to get in

00:23:28.460 there and bust these guys heads open but they can't because they haven't got the orders yet

00:23:34.220 right and uh uh it really is a sad situation and i i would not want to be a jewish person in toronto

00:23:43.020 at the moment it's scary oh it just keeps coming up all right well let's get on to something a little

00:23:49.980 more odd but it was an olympic year i'm in uh uh europe and uh lo and behold you know one of the

00:23:57.660 things i dug up was i used to love national lampoon fantastic magazine you know and you had pj o'rourke

00:24:03.420 and others writing great stuff in it and also of course you had topless women in the black and white 1.00

00:24:07.420 photo funnies but the covers were always awesome yes and there's an old cover from them showing the

00:24:13.180 cccp and uh a person standing there for the olympics in the 80s and there's this giant bulge in her 0.99

00:24:19.980 shorts and it was a joke at that time now right i mean you should look at the uh the uh east german

00:24:28.780 women's weightlifting yes come on there guys come on you're not fooling anybody uh but again it was

00:24:36.380 great olympics canada did did excellent but it was highlighted overshadowed by gender identity when

00:24:43.980 you've got a a boxer with male hormones eating the living crap out of his female compatriots and uh and 0.95

00:24:54.460 winning the gold medal and uh it sparked outrage uh the one of the boxing women who said no i'm not

00:25:03.100 gonna fight her uh him her uh was was called you know you're discriminating i'm not just i just i

00:25:10.380 don't want to get into a ring with a man and get the crap beat out of me it's not discrimination it's

00:25:15.580 the way the ioc supported the the uh the he boxer yeah i get confused here yes supported the the uh the

00:25:26.060 male boxer and the women's thing is just uh uh told you how corrupt and how bad the ioc is being 0.59

00:25:31.820 you know all the way back to 1988 in in calgary uh but it you know it did spark a backlash and

00:25:38.300 there's been uh lots of uh boarding associations that have now come out and banned uh you know you've

00:25:49.260 got to be born female to compete in female sports if you're born a male or you have you can't compete and 1.00

00:25:55.660 and i think that's really good and it's obviously led to the political changes that have swept well motor

00:26:00.300 well and seeing some of that and coming in albert i mean that i think that's where they're finally

00:26:04.380 pushing it way beyond the goal line with this people are being asked to deny what they can see

00:26:08.700 with their own two eyes and this is another one of those situations is actually pretty easy to solve

00:26:14.300 we've got the technology are your chromosomes this or are they this if you got this you compete in

00:26:20.780 that category if you've got that you compete in that category they tried to fuzzy the line because

00:26:25.660 they knew that this guy had and i'll say a guy had male chromosomes but they said oh it's an unusual

00:26:29.980 case and it's different no it's not he's a freaking man it turned out we found later after they forced

00:26:34.860 that poor italian boxer to apologize this guy even had nuts they were internal and apparently had a

00:26:41.180 microtrode but he's a man yeah hey you just you just have to look at him standing by these poor women

00:26:49.180 he was about to beat up but uh you know and before even before the olympics had started with with

00:26:55.820 countries in europe like uh uh you know sweden and uh finland and and great britain they banned puberty

00:27:02.620 blockers uh for kids and uh there was the usual you know left-wing outrage and uh they presented

00:27:11.580 pretty compelling scientific evidence as to why you don't want to be putting 13 14 year old uh boys or

00:27:18.300 girls on on puberty blockers and uh premier higgs in in newfoundland stood up and and said well yeah

00:27:27.660 i kind of agree and we're going to bring in a you know if a policy where if kid wants to change his

00:27:33.420 gender then the parents have to be known and then it came to alberta uh where daniel smith brought in

00:27:39.500 new laws uh preventing males from competing in uh female sports and preventing uh surgery for uh

00:27:49.420 for minors and and gender blockers for minors uh and the left wing lost their collective mind and

00:27:56.700 said smith is murdering trans children uh scott mo picked it up uh for his election last year but

00:28:04.780 family didn't quite follow through as strongly as as alberta did but alberta is just following

00:28:11.820 the the trend among civilized countries you know northern european countries uh who have been studying

00:28:19.020 medicine for a lot longer than we have we've all changed it and alberta's changed it too

00:28:23.260 uh but it's uh it caused just caused a bit of a disturbance in the in the force well you know i

00:28:28.860 think the underlying bigger part of the debate that it comes down to who is responsible for

00:28:34.140 the children the state of the parents the left wants to get in between they want to say those

00:28:38.060 union teachers are more responsible in raising these children than the parents are and that's 0.57

00:28:43.420 where i think they they're again passing those goal posts even leftist parents realize no wait a

00:28:48.140 minute what's happening between my child and eyes is supposed to be between me and i'll not the

00:28:52.220 government you know they shouldn't be putting a wall up between me and my child i know there's abusive

00:28:57.180 parents but the reality is the default has to be the parental authority and that's what these

00:29:01.340 battles are really about and the the vast majority of the public agree that it should be the parents

00:29:07.180 right and it's it's all part of this whole woke ideology that is finally starting to swing back to

00:29:14.940 normal uh there's a guy in the united states called robbie starbuck who launched a campaign against

00:29:21.820 corporations who are just have crazy dei policies and he got uh he got john deere things of theirs and

00:29:29.980 tractor land and uh uh toyota harley davidson uh the bourbon guys they all they all stopped uh just

00:29:40.940 before christmas american airlines said they were abandoning their their dei policy uh so i think that's

00:29:47.580 going to in the coming year you're going to see more and more corporations do that problem where

00:29:52.780 it's not changing is universities and i don't know how you get the dei out of there because they're all

00:29:59.900 anything government's funded basically as well i mean you know civil service we got some bigger issues

00:30:05.340 i mean the difference with where starbucks been going is they also have to answer to shareholders and

00:30:09.100 the bottom line of the shareholders they want to see a return and they don't care if it's a transsexual 1.00

00:30:14.220 maori one-legged you know uh lesbian that is in a position of authority they just want to see a 1.00

00:30:21.660 bottom line show and some profit and uh they're tired of that and they're pushing back but if

00:30:26.700 universities don't care about a profit uh civil services don't care about a profit so they don't

00:30:31.500 have that pressure coming out of the managers it's going to be interesting because you've obviously got

00:30:35.900 in north america two governments that promoted that with with biden and trudeau uh biden will be gone

00:30:44.540 in uh 20 days uh and uh well who knows when trudeau will be gone but he will be gone and paulia will

00:30:51.980 become prime minister uh you know so it's going to it's going to bring the change even more back but

00:30:58.220 again you've still got the universities uh universities to deal with yeah well and again just to kind of go a

00:31:04.940 little more over this has been the year provincial elections in canada i was just looking so we had

00:31:08.540 bc saskatchewan nova scotia and new brunswick had elections this year um kind of different outcomes

00:31:14.540 bc we saw quite a variety to me bc was the most exciting you had a bc conservative party rise from

00:31:21.100 the ashes uh you know uh folding in or trying to fold in with the bc united probably didn't go as

00:31:28.700 smoothly as they were as they would hope but they came within a whisper of forming government

00:31:33.820 uh from being an upstart party to to forming government uh if i was a bc voter i don't know

00:31:41.100 why i would vote for david eby but uh it was funny you put it on a map and the vast majority of

00:31:48.460 the land in bc voted for conservative and it's just the tiny enclaves that give uh the ndp enough power

00:31:54.940 uh so to me that was a fun election uh obviously mo uh uh was re-elected uh no big no big surprise

00:32:04.140 there uh conservatives maintain power and in nova scotia and i think upcoming in this year 2025 i think

00:32:11.980 we're going to have an ontario election i think the polls are uh uh favorable for premier ford at the

00:32:17.740 moment so i think he's likely to call an early one so going forward he's an interesting creature

00:32:23.580 that guy is conservative or a liberal depends on the which way the wind's blowing i mean i guess

00:32:29.180 some people would say that's a post-ideological stance and an admirable one i i mean i'm not a

00:32:34.220 fan of his but well he's not married to one side or another he'll go with uh i think it's more personal

00:32:40.620 convenience than perhaps the benefit of the problem we both love him because he's canceling bike lanes and

00:32:45.100 even the most are giving cars room to breathe again but uh but then at the same time he's hand

00:32:50.780 in hand with trudeau with massive subsidies into uh ontario industries yeah as you're right i guess

00:32:57.420 it's uh it's whatever way the wind uh the wind is blowing but you know you could see uh you know bc had

00:33:06.540 to the bc government had to elect a speaker from their their ranks so there's not a you know and then

00:33:12.300 you've got two two green party uh winners so it's not inconceivable the eb government falls at some

00:33:18.700 point uh and then they go back to the polls uh i think we're okay in alberta right i don't have to

00:33:25.100 worry about an alberta election for a while i sure hope not i mean the the parallels actually with the bc

00:33:31.100 set up right now and and with where horgan was sitting with the greens holding a balance of power

00:33:35.420 for a little bit there too they managed to cling in there for a bit but it was tenuous yeah and uh yeah

00:33:40.060 horgan that was one of the passings this year actually he'd been battling cancer on and off

00:33:43.580 for a few years but it finally caught up with him well look how long trudeau's minority government has

00:33:49.580 stayed in and and the those those two green party members have signed a confidence agreement with the

00:33:55.260 ndp just like the ndp federally did uh with trudeau to keep them in power so yeah you know what as we

00:34:03.420 just found out uh in the month of december every day is different in politics and you just never know

00:34:08.460 what to expect well yeah this wasn't on the list but speaking of losers from 2024 jagmeet singh

00:34:13.260 isn't faring any better than justin trudeau right no i mean how badly does he want and he's already

00:34:18.140 rich right he he drives a 150 000 maserati but it's not his i'm not going to tell us who owns it but

00:34:25.340 it's not his he's got your ten thousand dollar rolex watch so he's got he's got money you know he's got

00:34:31.420 a pension but he doesn't have the gold-plated one yet and that's what he's hanging on for but he's he's

00:34:36.940 you're right he's come across he stands up you know justin trudeau you're the worst prime minister

00:34:43.420 in history and then that afternoon you know i'll vote for the biggest hypocrite in canadian political

00:34:49.820 history without a doubt well in just week i mean i i know that and it gets under his skin they keep

00:34:55.100 twisting the pension knife i don't know maybe for some of his members that's a concern i don't know

00:34:58.940 if it's that much of a concern for him because as you said he's already pretty well off he doesn't

00:35:02.460 have to worry about lining his pockets more i mean i'm sure he wouldn't say no to it but i don't think

00:35:06.540 that's the main motivating factor for the humiliating constant support of trudeau but the other thing is

00:35:11.820 his party's broke exactly they got no money in the bank they can't run an election no uh and they're

00:35:17.580 gonna be way in debt after the next election because they don't have any you know and how do you fundraise

00:35:23.100 with jagmeet as a leader right i mean uh he you're sitting there over the the coffee table uh you

00:35:30.540 know who are we gonna we can't donate to jack maybe he's he's embarrassing us uh and it's uh yeah

00:35:37.180 they're they're gonna be how are they how do they get more money it's it's gonna be a tough fight for

00:35:41.820 them i mean they peaked with jack layton and they just can't seem to i mean sing is just a weak

00:35:47.660 weak leader there's no yes and again why hasn't the ndp caucus figured that out and uh and and removed

00:35:55.900 him well there's the issues though they're socialists i mean if they were of the old school

00:35:59.660 socialists in russia and thankfully they aren't you know when you're done with your leader some

00:36:03.500 ricin or something you know they have an accident and it goes away that all out of a window seems to

00:36:08.540 be the most popular way now thankfully in canada we're not that uncivilized but they have that

00:36:14.220 loyalty to the leader mindset with socialists too they don't take them out through democratic means

00:36:19.980 so they're stuck with them and you've got the thing is their party is not going up in the polls

00:36:24.540 judo's decimated but they're not they're not taking they're not benefit betting from angry 0.98

00:36:29.740 liberals or angry liberals are all going to the conservative and that's it what an opportunity i

00:36:33.500 mean if they had a moderate bright respectable leader of the ndp they could actually be capitalizing

00:36:37.900 very much on the decline of the liberals but they haven't been able to they're falling with him

00:36:42.940 and and right now because of that we're going to have uh probably the bloc quebecois the official

00:36:47.580 opposition yeah i'm okay with that yeah you know of all things he's he's one of the brighter

00:36:52.060 yeah i quite enjoy consistent leaders in the house of commons i mean he makes no bones about

00:36:56.700 it he's infuriating sometimes but blanchet says quebec is first that's what i'm here for i don't care

00:37:02.380 about the rest i don't dislike it i just don't care i'm here for he's been hired to do that job

00:37:06.220 and he's doing it quite well yeah he's uh i remember during the debates and one of the election

00:37:10.380 studios you're the strongest debater there i mean you're only running in a little portion of the

00:37:14.060 country but you got to respect the guy you don't have to like him no or agree with him absolutely

00:37:19.980 yeah and he's he's kind of eager for election because they're doing pretty good out there

00:37:22.700 actually and he'll probably be sitting well yeah so you could have uh you know

00:37:30.460 the you know if they get elected as the as the the provincial government too the first thing

00:37:34.300 they're going to do is call a referendum and uh that's i hope it's not as tight as the last one

00:37:40.140 no i hope they win and leave this time oh yeah i don't know i i want to see confederation redrawn

00:37:46.620 but uh yeah that's a longer discussion uh yeah i don't think we've got an hour and a half no no i

00:37:53.340 want to see canada stay together people are curious i'll do that self-serving plug i did write a book on it

00:37:57.820 and they can uh search that out if they'd like to see where i'm yeah perfect gift for next christmas

00:38:02.780 2025. there we go but another thing to look forward to in politics well and let's look forward to

00:38:07.180 me yeah if we have another quebec referendum boy what a uh big event i mean this oh yeah especially

00:38:13.660 with trudeau as prime minister well even without yeah it's this country isn't very unified

00:38:18.540 we have uh uh but you know again it's it's another show yes another show all right uh so

00:38:29.660 let's see here we got to jasper we had the fires i mean it's just been fires every summer every year

00:38:34.460 we're going to talk to the climate change people uh you know there's lots of discussions on whether

00:38:38.700 it's forest management or a drought period that's coming or going or things or whatever but there's

00:38:42.540 no doubt there have been some pretty bad bloody fires and boy jasper i mean talk about a gem

00:38:47.500 yeah maybe you know just absolutely a terrible story uh a third of the town destroyed i think

00:38:53.980 if i remember correctly hundreds of homes gone uh and it became after the fire was put out it became

00:39:02.460 a political story about forest management and and how the delay of getting rid of that all that deadwood

00:39:09.100 on the bottom and you know came back to roost for our friend stephen gilbo that it was

00:39:14.140 his department that kept kept putting it off and putting it off but it should be a lesson for for

00:39:20.060 every and we have a lot of them in canada as you know especially out west towns in wooded heavily

00:39:25.180 wooded areas like you know fort mcmurray's doing huge work in terms of getting defensive lines built and

00:39:32.460 and uh you know towns need to learn the lesson from that and get it done and the federal government needs

00:39:37.900 to uh uh spend some money and getting it getting it done for these places and they need to work on

00:39:44.300 their their response i mean there were stories about you know fire trucks on the outskirts of jasper

00:39:49.740 uh being told they couldn't go in because they weren't parks canada right and they've got to get

00:39:54.700 that bureaucracy figured out that if it happens again the response is it's all hands on deck

00:40:00.300 streamless it's all hands on deck and and you know we'll worry about who pays for what afterwards let's

00:40:05.980 just uh let's just get the fire out hopefully it was uh once in a generational type thing and we don't

00:40:12.060 have to see it uh sure i'll tell you as a guy who spends a lot of time in the bush it's not

00:40:16.860 and there's some very vulnerable areas i've seen it was actually a youtube video i did a few years back

00:40:21.180 because a lot of people understand you know i used to i used to be a surveyor working in the

00:40:25.100 foothills and i tell you the amount of choked debris and deadfall you can barely walk through

00:40:30.780 some areas of the eastern slopes right now because we've been fighting fires so the fires normally

00:40:36.220 would sweep through 80 years or so and kind of burn everything down and everything grows back up and

00:40:41.260 it regenerates and we have hindered it we've stopped spot fires when they come up things like that

00:40:46.780 but also at the same time the best substitute we have is logging we stop that because we don't

00:40:52.060 want to see that on our eastern slopes but guys there's a tinder box out there waiting and if we

00:40:57.260 don't do something about it again we can fight about climate change and everything else it doesn't matter

00:41:01.100 the situation is there and if we don't start cutting that stuff out it is going to burn and we're not

00:41:07.420 going to be able to fight it they talk about the intensity of the fires too sure but that's because

00:41:10.460 you have all of that dead stuff there's a gasoline yeah you know if i was in a town like uh even like

00:41:17.740 there was a fire that threatened bamf uh you know when the you know all those female firefighters did 1.00

00:41:22.860 a good old burn did a controlled burn and it got out of the hand and uh yeah or linda sliboti had 0.99

00:41:29.660 some fun with uh with that one yeah that was a tough story you know and there's there's always seems to

00:41:34.060 to be now forest fires along the trans canada highway you know 20 30 hectares there 20 40 hectares

00:41:42.300 there uh but yeah i i share your concern uh what the solution is i don't know you got one no we just

00:41:49.500 have to get more realistic and proactive with management i mean there's there's no cure i mean

00:41:54.460 to try and clear out the amount of deadwood around every community and populated area

00:41:58.620 the cost is well even if you got over the environmentalist road bumps and the and the the

00:42:03.420 nimby's it's not easy no i mean it's a lot of bush yeah every every town has got to defend get their

00:42:10.140 defenses in place yeah and spend the money to get their defenses in place and then when the fire starts

00:42:15.660 there's less worry uh yeah we can mitigate yeah you know let the fire do its work and uh do mother

00:42:22.380 nature's work and the town should be fairly safe let's get into an american one this was an unusual story

00:42:30.220 but it kind of you know broke recently but the united healthcare ceo brian thompson gun down the

00:42:34.860 street on camera you know it's horrifying this is the world now where we get to see everything

00:42:39.260 you know the the amount of violence we can see on the internet with that luigi

00:42:42.380 mangani yeah what got me is the response from some people to this oh yeah the left uh michael moore and

00:42:52.300 you know oh yeah we we don't like murder but in this case uh crazy crazy response and the response

00:43:00.540 from women uh fawning over this guy and getting his face tattooed on their bodies

00:43:08.060 taylor lorenz she was always nuts but at the same time i mean it appears morgan there was an interview 0.96

00:43:11.900 and he called her out but she would refuse to condemn the match basically saying this murder on

00:43:16.140 the street was a good idea because you don't like private health insurance ceos it's insane yeah i mean

00:43:21.660 this guy's got a family and uh uh he was heading to work and shot in the back with a with a homemade

00:43:27.740 gun uh by a guy who was upset because he uh uh couldn't have sex anymore because he had a back

00:43:34.940 injury and the the surgery screwed it up yeah the guy's a nut he's a nuts and he stopped i mean this

00:43:40.860 wasn't random or anything he planned this and he stalked him and he knew where he was going to be

00:43:46.620 and uh covered his tracks quite well uh except when he pushed his mask down to flirt with the uh

00:43:54.780 the check-in girl at the hostel where you could see his face and then you know continued to munch away

00:44:00.540 with his mask halfway down at mcdonald's and an alert citizen spotted him and he was turned you know

00:44:06.380 but he hadn't got rid of the gun he hadn't got rid of any of the evidence and these lunatics even

00:44:10.460 boycotted the mcdonald's because somebody at the mcdonald's reported this murderer and he got caught

00:44:16.460 because of it like people have a look in the mirror a bit i mean you know come on and everybody's

00:44:21.900 going down the uh conspiracy rabbit hole well why was he found just happened to be found with a gun

00:44:27.420 just happened to be found with a manifesto just happened to be found with the bullets because he's a

00:44:32.220 fruit loop because he's a nut case and he got caught and you know they're all saying that was

00:44:37.260 planted and stuff like this but uh you know i i couldn't imagine if my wife came home with a

00:44:45.420 luke whatever his name tattoo on her what are you thinking woman i mean tramp stamps were bad enough 1.00

00:44:51.900 back in the day but what are you thinking honestly it's just a bizarre world i mean i i get pretty worked

00:44:58.300 up with leftist leaders and ones i can step but i would never even for a second think i want to live

00:45:02.460 in a world where the solution is to go out and gun them down no just no yet that is kind of what this

00:45:08.300 underlying from and not a tiny fringe surprising amount of people i think this this murderer this

00:45:13.820 nut case is a hero no and if somebody guns down uh poly of god forbid they'll be the same reaction

00:45:21.100 well and again same thing i wouldn't want to see trudeau gun down he's no i want to see him out of

00:45:24.940 office i want to see him gone i wouldn't mind seeing some of the if maybe he might warrant some

00:45:29.740 charges but uh never never violence us we're better well exactly just because you and i are

00:45:33.980 civilized it's unusual eh yes usually we're the most uncivilized in the room in many ways all right

00:45:40.220 well that ran out there the time on us there's still more stories to cover yeah we didn't even

00:45:44.540 cover them all well there's only one left and that was an issue in the ndp and we'll report on that all

00:45:50.860 year anyways this seatless call me when he gets in sheet yes all right well thank you dave for all the

00:45:56.460 coverage in the last year and my pleasure i know you've got a heck of a lot more to deal with in

00:46:00.940 the year to come and a great team to do it we do have that folks again thanks for joining in and

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