00:03:50.280Well, the RCMP have not said, therefore, there is no news until they say.
00:03:56.380That sounds like the opposite of what a reporter's job is to do.
00:04:00.540It's to verify what official sources say.
00:04:04.080And then when you suspect that there's more to the story, go out and find it and corroborate it with multiple sources, multiple different facts.
00:04:13.000But the media have just been totally silent and just said, it's not our job to actually find anything out.
00:04:18.500Our job is to passively pass on what the RCMP tell us.
00:04:22.300And the RCMP have said very little, beginning with the identity of the shooter yesterday.
00:11:57.720Most of these, I don't mean to be disrespectful or, you know, I'm not trying to have a hot take here.
00:12:02.360But most of these people are not very convincing.
00:12:05.580So if I'm looking for a woman in a dress, this is not what I am seeing, at least in most of these cases.
00:12:12.240I don't know what the person looks like.
00:12:13.180We'll have to wait for video footage to come out.
00:12:15.040That arguably put people's lives at risk, and then later on they're inventing terms like gun person. They don't proactively disclose it. We've been asking them for a day here nearly. They're not telling us. Why the hell would the RCMP go to such lengths to protect this person's mental illness delusions, even after they're dead?
00:12:41.180Yeah, well, they're terrified. They really are. The media, the legacy media, the RCMP, they're terrified. They're terrified of being labeled anything but what the woke standard is, even when relaying outright facts upon things.
00:12:55.800And that's what's happened with, you know, decades of DEI hires, people getting into senior bureaucratic positions within police forces, you know, the communications positions, people getting into those positions in legacy media.
00:13:08.600We've seen some pretty senior legacy media members canceled over what, stepping over the wrong line.
00:13:21.140So there's a culture of terror where they would set aside facts rather than take a chance on accurately reporting on something if it involves anything in those hot-button areas, particularly trans.
00:13:33.400And as you said, when it was breaking, that's when facts have to matter.
00:13:38.260We saw that not too long ago with a sex offender in Edmonton who'd been released, and the Edmonton Police Service issued a warning saying this person's a high risk to re-offend, this woman is a high risk to re-offend.
00:13:49.100and it had a woman's name and unless you clicked on the article and you opened it up and saw the
00:13:53.540man there with five o'clock shadow who was a repeat sex offender you would actually be looking
00:13:58.920for a woman well you're not making anybody safer by lying to them and saying otherwise but again
00:14:04.660they feel that if a person identifies as such as contrary to reality as that may be we must refer
00:14:10.440to them as such and it's doing a disservice to everybody uh as you said too when you put it out
00:14:17.940the statistics i mean it's it's a microscopic thankfully amount of people who decide to take
00:14:23.800up a gun and start shooting others but we want to look for precursors and what may be somebody a
00:14:29.080little more likely than others to be you know have that inclination inclination and clearly there's
00:14:34.960there's some mental instability with trans males to a degree that makes them more inclined which
00:14:41.340again still puts them perhaps at one in a thousand versus one in 55 000 for everybody else but if
00:14:46.640we're going to actually think about trying to prevent these things, then we have to look at
00:14:50.780things without political correctness, with an unvarnished view, and see what the heck led up
00:14:56.340to this. And as long as legacy media and the police are going to wrap themselves around hiding
00:15:00.180facts through political correctness, we aren't going to get real answers. Nigel, I mean, I guess
00:15:05.240that's why we should ban hunting rifles, right? Yeah, or shotguns. This is a shotgun. They said
00:15:10.300long gun. It's unclear. It was a hunting rifle or a hunting shotgun. Hard to say. Yeah, that
00:15:16.620would make a difference uh look um to your point corey about how these things why these things
00:15:22.460happen earlier this morning i was chatting with somebody i worked with in ottawa all those years
00:15:27.780ago and we were talking about the dei culture in the canadian armed forces and i was hoping that
00:15:36.200maybe there would be a change of heart within the armed forces now that mr carney has made it very
00:15:42.480clear that he cares about military matters. I mean, Mr. Trudeau did not, said he didn't.
00:15:48.980Mr. Carney's message is that he does. So what about the warrior culture? Are we going to get
00:15:54.940that back? And my friend, who you can see on the Hannaford show tomorrow night, says, look,
00:16:01.620this stuff is at the top. It comes down from cabinet. It goes into the senior levels of the
00:16:08.780bureaucracy then looks after the military and by the way bureaucracy is the work i look after the
00:16:14.220rcmp as well and they are committed to it they didn't get the top job by saying that they
00:16:19.900disagree with this stuff so they own it and they will see that it is enforced that's why the rcmp
00:16:26.300won't come right out and say what every one of us now knows a troubled young man and by the way
00:16:31.900off so i have all kinds of sympathy for people who have to deal with this particular uh persuasion
00:16:42.700but that's why they won't come right out and say look we had somebody who went off the deep end
00:16:49.020here terribly sorry there was a young man he wanted to be a woman and he went out and shot
00:16:55.580people there's a story now i want to know obviously mentally challenged or mentally disturbed rcmp said
00:17:03.820they've been to his house many times including on firearm complaints they've seized the fire
00:17:08.220they've seized firearms before they've taken them away and locked them up under the bc uh mental
00:17:14.220health act obviously they knew he was uh problematic so how did uh how did uh jesse get get his guns
00:17:22.940uh you know i'm sure that's going to be part of the uh the investigation he apparently had a
00:17:28.220license but it expired in 2024. uh so here we have a young mentally disturbed man able to get guns
00:17:36.060yeah and you know that the government is going to draw the only obvious conclusion that firearms
00:17:40.780should all be confiscated you know every every time the flags are already hauled down to half
00:17:47.660masked in ottawa and like i said i feel sorry for the people involved here but this is not really
00:17:54.220our thing our problem if somebody's got to get a hold of this the rest of the world goes on
00:18:00.940i want to talk about some of the reactions here uh for the most part at least that i've seen
00:18:05.580uh official reactions you know politicians etc have been kind of thoughts and prayers stock
00:18:11.660stuff you know liberals conservatives eb everybody what you would expect um let's go through some of
00:18:18.900the hot takes uh let's go through um cory's uh favorite here uh rachel gilmore that's always a
00:18:26.220fun one to pick on she says you effing ghouls out here layering hate onto tragedy for your own
00:18:32.420disgusting political purposes the shooter's gender identity does not effing matter it only matters to
00:25:37.980any excuse for gun grab gary and i'm not even going to try and say his last name but any excuse
00:25:44.000that they can use to uh take guns they will you know that's that's the bottom line uh so uh yeah
00:25:51.700i would think in a couple of weeks they'll be announcing some sort of new crackdown
00:25:54.540yeah well i mean they're the the line you always use on the conservative side you know where you
00:26:01.200who are you going after uh gangs with illegal weapons or law-abiding duck hunters with their
00:26:07.080shotguns well you know if it turns out to be a shotgun there goes that that mean that used to
00:26:12.040be a pretty easy throwaway line and now well you've got to go back and say look it's not the
00:26:17.500gun it's the guy who pulled the trigger you about to yeah and that's what you're going to say i mean
00:26:22.560i mean in this case gosh how many times did they go to the house yeah several times okay there's a
00:26:27.980failure of law enforcement here how much of it like again we don't know enough on this side yet
00:26:32.540And we're not going to do as the entire legacy media and CBC, they do and say, well, we're just going, we have to wait until the RCMP tells us what is the story.
00:26:41.400After Vancouver, sorry, after Halifax, I think that RCMP has lost all credibility on being a reliable source in reporting on these kinds of things.
00:26:50.580And that's the real danger of when the ideology takes over from the top and makes, you know, these guys aren't stupid and they're decent, they're decent people.
00:27:00.400but it makes them afraid to do the job the way the job needs to be done.
00:27:04.640That's where we're losing in this country.
00:27:06.780It was just a few months ago, the RCMP said, I'm paraphrasing here,
00:27:12.620but the RCMP said, you know, signs that someone you know might be getting radicalized
00:27:18.360is maybe they believed in gender equality and they don't anymore,
00:27:23.020and maybe they all of a sudden believe in traditional family values.
00:27:25.960Yes, they are the people who are at risk of committing acts of terror and mass murder, not people with a rap sheet who have regular police visits to their house, clear mental health issues, firearms violations.
00:27:41.900Still confirming this, but it appears to be a pretty long track record online of dreaming of violent acts.
00:27:50.020When you're talking about a senior official, Derek, it shouldn't be an act of courage to identify somebody who has just shot umpteen people as a gunman rather than as a gun person.
00:28:07.840It shouldn't be an act of courage to say a gunman in a dress.
00:32:15.140This was the week of Harper, and the media suddenly discovered the man that they had,
00:32:20.540they ride it, mocked, and unappreciated when he was actually in power to do something about it.
00:32:25.260So, it started off with the unveiling of the official portrait, which is, you know, it's a very nice bit of work, and there's been lots of, but Harper obviously made a speech of that, and he took the opportunity to point out that the preservation of Connitor's existence must be our highest objective.
00:33:13.160they were just going to get a few people together
00:33:15.120who were in on it and I bought my ticket
00:33:17.620like four or five months ago and well actually if you still want a ticket you can get one
00:33:22.900if well it's going to be 500 people there now then it was 800 then it was a thousand in the
00:33:28.020end there were 1200 people packed into the rogers center there and and uh it was a whooping and
00:33:33.620hollering and a happy time for for conservatives generally and uh you know harper made a very
00:33:40.340interesting speech that i had nothing to do with it by the way he had he wrote a very it was good
00:33:46.420speech in the sense that he criticized the liberal government, not by saying they have done anything
00:33:53.060particularly wrong, but pointing to what the conservative government did right in the 10
00:33:59.060years that it had power. And just having something like, well, crime in our time fell down to 30%
00:34:09.060of what it was when we took office. And then people who are very aware of crime around them,
00:34:13.860they're saying, well, wouldn't mind a bit of that. We lowered taxes. Sheepers. Imagine a government
00:34:20.100lowering taxes. And as he went through the list of our accomplishments, there, I'm going to own it,
00:34:27.940along with 1,200 other people, you know, you couldn't help but say, well, actually,
00:34:34.260that was a pretty good government. And he never had to say, and it was followed by a really lousy
00:34:39.540government it was just obvious so and then finally there was i'll let you get in here
00:34:47.140one more thing that was great about that whole week but all right i don't keep going on the
00:34:53.620finally the archives okay how boring are archives but there's an event at the at the archives you
00:35:02.180lost every one of the word archives yeah 390 wellington street and they had something like
00:35:08.3406 000 boxes of paper records in addition to the electronic file which was you know
00:35:17.140four gigabytes than we'll use in 10 years if that government was meticulous in writing down
00:35:25.220everything that it did even small purchases small decisions were reported as a consequence um
00:35:33.380And Harper's record in government is going to be one of taking government seriously, that if you do it, it matters, and you keep a record of it, and it helps.
00:35:48.280It's a model of managing a large organization, and he was the manager.
00:35:54.040I'm going to have to take a little exception with that last part.
00:35:56.6402006 i was a wee intern working on parliament hill he brought the interns in to the prime
00:36:03.560minister's office we're all in awe of this building the langevin block and i i forget who
00:36:08.860was i wouldn't say their name if it was it's kind of the kind of chat a mouse rules on this thing
00:36:12.780the first thing we were taught the very first day was if you don't want to see it on the front of
00:36:16.640the global mail don't write it down it was the first lesson on the first day and i'm sure you
00:36:21.360were taught that you were actually right about that and that was part of the narrative i didn't
00:36:24.900want to get too lost in the weeds with it but there was a time about 18 months into the uh
00:36:31.740into the administration for the ministry as we should properly say in canada uh where this isn't
00:36:38.200working guys and there was a change in uh chief of staff and after that the situation that i
00:36:43.960described came in okay so all right you're you're you're you're actually right yeah on that okay so
00:36:50.040So, I mean, the reputations of leaders very often, probably most of the time, improves and softens with time.
00:37:00.020Brian Mulroney is a pretty big example of that.
00:37:02.700Utterly despised and almost universally hated by everyone but his caucus, at least, when his prime ministership came to an enemy left office.
00:37:11.880With a lot of hindsight, people have a much kinder view of him.
00:38:44.620firing the top five levels of management, putting our people in. These institutions all stayed
00:38:51.300effectively the same at the end of a decade of conservative rule. And so when that rule
00:38:57.520inevitably came to an end at some point, it was completely washed away. So my, I think my view of
00:39:04.060the time of the Harper government, however well-intentioned it was, I think it's gotten
00:39:07.560worse over time. I don't know. Am I just being crotchety-er and more cynical than even you?
00:39:12.720Well, maybe a little. And I think part of it, maybe the Harper administration had some optimism. I mean, they didn't have a crystal ball to realize after they're finished, it would be 11 possible. Who knows if we're ever going to get another conservative government back in again? I mean, it's been over a decade and, you know, we got the most woke and, you know, terrible of leaders to follow up with them.
00:39:36.300if they'd have known that and had a crystal ball it would have been more like well let's get in
00:39:40.140and get everything done while we can before uh we get thrown out so that uh it is more difficult
00:39:45.660for them to pull that loose but they thought incrementalism will will get them there and they
00:39:50.760just didn't have the time to follow through long enough to to make those changes a little uh more
00:39:54.820entrenched i mean part of it was too i remember you know the lost elections and things like that
00:40:00.180it was that incremental drift towards the left what brought them within electoral viability
00:40:05.720within central Canada. Those are the factors that lead me into being the independent supporter I am.
00:40:11.240The futility of trying to get responsible government in this country, and the efforts
00:40:15.840that the Harper government had to do to get there, and then couldn't follow through once they got
00:40:20.060there. So I don't fully fault them for it, but when you look at it with hindsight, and I'm pretty sure
00:40:25.580Mr. Harper, if he'd known he was only going to get that one shot, probably would have thrown in some
00:40:30.880bigger changes before he left, but they were