The LONG ballot - I LOVE IT! It's just what we needed
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Summary
In this episode of The Big Blue Mug of Coffee, John talks about the upcoming Battle River-Crowfoot by-election, and why he thinks it's a joke. He also talks about how the electoral system is a joke and how we should be mocking it.
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Hi, it's John and welcome to the channel, 657 a.m. Saturday, July the 19th with the
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Big Blue Mug of Coffee. I hope you're having a great start to your weekend. I surely am.
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I appreciate you being here. By the way, if you are here and have subscribed, thank you.
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If you haven't subscribed, please click on subscribe. Thank you so much. So today I have,
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I believe, an unpopular opinion, contrary to a lot of conservatives. Liberals love this. The
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conservatives are hating it. And it's regarding the upcoming by-election in Battle River Crowfoot
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here in Alberta. Now, Polyev is running on this to get his seat back. And you know what I'm talking
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about. This right here, more than a hundred candidates, most in Canadian history to run
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against Polyev in by-election. So far, registered 108. Here's the list, the latest I could find
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from Elections Canada. I mean, it's just unbelievable. But I'm fine with this. I have
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no problem with this at all. Now, there are a lot of people who think this is a mockery of the system.
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Here's Mark Nixon, who I follow. Mark Nixon, fantastic, doing great work. Follow Mark on X,
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follow him on YouTube, give him hits, give him lots of likes. But he's wrong on this. Mark,
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get on my side. This is perfectly fine. 200 name ballot incoming. Battle River Crowfoot
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becomes a phone book. This isn't democracy. It's mockery. Elections Canada fix the rules.
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This is a scam. Polyev wants rules changed to stop long ballot protests. I'm perfectly fine with this.
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If we look over here, first of all, I don't understand what the purpose of this is.
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And I've got some very unpopular comments coming up you're not going to like. But I don't understand
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what the purpose of this is. Is this somehow going to hurt pure Polyev by having more people
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on the ballot? It certainly becomes inconvenient for somebody who's voting. But unless you're an
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absolute idiot, you can probably find Polyev on the ballot. Now, if you are an idiot and you're
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voting in Battle River Crowfoot, here's how you spell pure Polyev. Comes after O and before Q in the
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alphabet. Okay. But it's not going to hurt Polyev from that standpoint. So what is the purpose behind
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this? Now, I found this article right here at iPolitics and they suggest, well, this isn't a
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legitimate protest. It's manufacturing chaos. And this is trying to force the government to adopt
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proportional representation. That's never going to happen. It's not going to happen. There's been
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lots of opportunities for governments to introduce proportional representation. It gets thrown out all the
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time. I've heard it dozens of times over the years. In fact, there was a guy on January 6th. His name
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was Justin Trudeau, who on January 6th resigned as prime minister. And this is what he said was one of
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his big regrets. If I have one regret, particularly as we approach this election, well, there are probably
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many regrets that I will think of. But I do wish that we'd been able to change the way we elect
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our governments in this country so that people could simply choose a second choice or a third
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choice on the same ballot. Trudeau had an opportunity to change the system, but he really
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doesn't want to do that. It benefits the liberals. It always does. I think this longest ballot thing
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just points out how stupid the electoral system here is in Canada. That's one of the reasons why I'm
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fine with it. Because I think the electoral system mocks itself. I mean, if you look at this map right
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here, why would Trudeau want to change anything? And it's why he didn't. I mean, northern Manitoba,
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where nobody lives, didn't vote conservative. And this small little section down here in southwest
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British Columbia didn't vote conservative. The rest of the West is blue, folks. And it meant nothing.
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This is what we should be mocking. Albertans, well, you know, we're underrepresentative when it comes
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to our population, when it comes to the House of Commons. We say every election, what does it matter
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how I vote? It'll be people out east who will determine what party wins. This is the real joke
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and what we should be mocking here. Now, as far as a solution to this longest ballot thing,
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what's the solution? Keeping people off the ballot who don't live in the riding? Maybe?
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Well, wouldn't that include Pierre Polyev? I don't even know if he's been to Battle River Crowfoot.
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Well, maybe somebody who's an MP. Well, he isn't an MP. He's just a private citizen. Yeah,
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he's the figurehead for the Conservative Party of Canada, and he's a Conservative Party member.
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But who's to say somebody running in Ontario isn't a Conservative Party member and is serious
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about running in Battle River Crowfoot? And how do you determine if that's the truth or not?
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They probably filled out the paperwork, had to pay a fee, and got the number of signatures they needed
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to run in the riding. And whether they're making a mockery of the system or not, they have as much
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right as Pierre Polyev, who doesn't have any relationship to Battle River Crowfoot, that I can
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I don't even know if he's been there before. I don't think he should be able to do that. I think
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that's wrong. Maybe that's an unpopular opinion, but it's wrong. And I'd be damn pissed if I voted
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for Damian Keurig, the guy who won in Battle River Crowfoot, and within days, he stepped down.
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I voted for that guy. I think that's wrong as well. I also have a problem with people who haven't lived
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in the country for more than a decade to parachute into the country and become Prime Minister of the
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country. I also have a problem with that person who has business connections and conflicts like
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Mark Carney, and he should have have to have declared them before he even ran for the Liberal
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leadership. We don't do that. That needs to be reformed as well. I also have a problem with
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somebody who lied, blatantly lied regarding those conflicts. Being the Prime Minister right now,
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I think he should have to resign. All these things need to be changed. I think that your long list
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and this long list of candidates is just pointing out how stupid our system is.
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There could be more than 200 people on this ballot. Good. But what's the solution?
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Well, you know what the solution is? You know, I think this bodes well for the Alberta independence
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movement, pointing how stupid the system is. We know how stupid it is. We always end up on the
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back foot. We never get a fair shake because of the electoral system in this country. Proportional
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representation won't change that either. And that's another reason why we need to get out.
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And I think we can just hold up this long list, which is probably going to be 10 feet long and say,
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look how stupid this country is that it can allow this kind of thing to happen. Good for the long
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list of candidates. Oh, and by the way, here's the guy I am now going to endorse in the
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election in Battle River Crowfoot. Here is Dylan Anderson. He signed up. He's on the list and he
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is from Calendar, Ontario. And here it is, folks, for those people who've never been to Calendar and
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I have, it's on Lake Nipissing. And if you go just down the road over here a little bit,
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you get to the place that rules over your lives, Ottawa. Let me know what you think in the comments.
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