The Alberta Roundup with Isaac Lamoureux - May 27, 2023


What's your prediction for the election?


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Summary

Join me for the final edition of the roundup in which I am joined by three wonderful panelists to break down the campaign events of the week. In this special edition of , I am once again joined by Evan Menzies at Crestview Strategies, Erica Baroudi s on the UCP campaign, and Chris Sims at the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 hey everyone welcome back to the alberta roundup i'm your host rachel emanuel i hope that you guys
00:00:18.260 are having a great week so far thank you for joining me for the final episode of election
00:00:23.900 watch that's our special edition of the alberta roundup in which i am joined by three wonderful
00:00:29.280 panelists to break down the campaign events of the week we're going to head to them now i am once
00:00:34.260 again joined by evan menzies at crestview strategies erica baroudi's on the ucp campaign
00:00:40.360 and chris sims she's the alberta director of the canadian taxpayers federation we'll head to them
00:00:45.180 now hey everyone welcome back to the show and to the final edition of election watch it's certainly
00:00:50.200 been very fun having you all here with me one thing i wanted to start off if i felt like the last week
00:00:55.540 of the campaign has been a little bit quiet erica i know i've talked to some people on the ucp campaign
00:01:00.620 who said it was intentional that they tried not to over announce not to over promise during the
00:01:06.060 election campaign do you think this perhaps quiet week has been a symptom of that absolutely you know
00:01:12.560 we're looking at a lot of people paid attention to the debate a lot of stuff early on that showcases you
00:01:18.420 know the things that you've heard from the ucp the entire time economy affordability public safety and
00:01:25.020 so you know we've also seen the the turning of tides i guess or as i like to call the tsn turning
00:01:31.260 point which is when the um ndp brought in their you know business tax and we really saw people getting
00:01:38.860 angry um really mad and pushing back so we kind of just let it let that happen and focused on again
00:01:45.020 being positive for the remainder of of the campaign i mean i wouldn't say quiet was yesterday's rally but
00:01:50.840 i think we'll be talking about that too when we talk about a turning point in the campaign i know
00:01:56.360 last week we talked about how danielle smith had a very strong debate performance there was a huge
00:02:01.820 ucp rally in calgary yesterday we'll get to that a little bit later on but some of the people i've
00:02:07.220 talked to have said they really felt like that debate performance was a turning point for the party
00:02:12.020 at that point the mood really changed at the doors and just among people who are working on the
00:02:16.180 campaign evan do you think that is really a response to the fact that danielle smith did have a strong
00:02:20.520 performance and did kind of exactly what she needed to do by staying positive and delivering her message
00:02:25.100 during last week's debate yeah listen she she crushed it she did exactly what she needed to do
00:02:30.980 i think it's worth taking just a minute here to sort of reflect about where the ucp has been over the
00:02:36.880 last few years the party's been fractured there's been a lot of contentious debates uh premier danielle
00:02:42.640 smith has only been premier for seven months uh there's been a need to sort of consolidate uh the
00:02:48.320 conservative vote in the province uh i'm i'm i'm definitely hopeful and thinking that that is
00:02:54.080 occurring and with the performance uh danielle had at the debate last week it sent the signal that uh
00:03:00.080 conservatives let's get this done uh let's all come home together and we've seen that this week as
00:03:04.800 well we saw some endorsements of course from uh federal leader pierre polyev steven harper has been
00:03:11.280 on the campaign trail as well and i think this is sending the signal conservatives let's come together
00:03:16.480 let's uh repair any of the wounds from the battles from the last couple years and let's get this done
00:03:21.680 uh on election day on monday sure and when we talk about that endorsement from pierre polyev as you
00:03:27.280 mentioned we did also have one from steven harper i felt that polyevs was a little bit stronger he did
00:03:32.320 mentioned daniel smith by name his was a little bit longer more specific as to what a ucp government
00:03:37.920 would mean for canada and for the province and a lot of people say oh well you know of course a
00:03:42.160 conservative is going to endorse another conservative well not always conservatives
00:03:46.000 across canada have often not been united it's actually a really rare sign to see them unite in
00:03:51.200 this way because there's so many fractures within the party and within the movement at times
00:03:56.080 one of the other things that i would say is that i don't think polyev would have given
00:04:00.640 this endorsement if he wasn't pretty sure that daniel smith is going to form government on monday
00:04:06.000 erica what's your take well i definitely love to see you know former leader um ronna ambrose
00:04:13.040 steven harper pierre polyev come out supporting us um i don't know if it's out yet but there might be
00:04:18.720 another one coming from steven harper that gives a little bit more uh clarification on exactly what
00:04:23.440 that means both for canada and um alberta um you know everyone's kind of talking about how we've
00:04:30.400 seen this shift you know we still will work hard act like you're four votes behind but um having an
00:04:36.400 endorsement from pierre you're right i think a lot of us live through pc and wild rose days where um
00:04:41.840 we we were fractured within our federal uh family and i think that it is impactful to have pierre come
00:04:48.400 out i think it's definitely a sign that you know we are performing and the momentum is there we just
00:04:54.240 have to get this across the finish line and and be a re-elected government so i quickly wanted to
00:04:59.760 move to one of the announcements the ucp did make this week daniel smith made this announcement on
00:05:04.160 wednesday in calgary she said that a re-elected united conservative party government would force a
00:05:09.200 referendum on a future government that tried to increase personal taxes or taxes on job creators
00:05:15.840 i did try to get her to commit to adding the carbon tax to this referendum she didn't commit
00:05:21.120 to that seems like it could have been an easy win chris what's your take yeah that's our take exactly
00:05:27.040 so just to back up for people who don't know what this is the taxpayer protection act has been in place
00:05:32.000 now here in alberta for years it's one of the strongest laws protecting taxpayers in all of north
00:05:36.880 america if you enjoy not paying a pst it's because of the taxpayer protection act because any politician
00:05:43.520 that wanted to put through a provincial sales tax would have to win a referendum here first
00:05:48.640 good luck with that and so what's really great about this promise from the ucp is that they're
00:05:53.760 saying okay let's expand it so that any increase to personal income taxes or increase to business
00:05:59.680 taxes also has to win a referendum like that's a game changer for taxpayers so we're super happy about
00:06:05.840 that and what we're urging them to do is to say hey who knows what the future is going to hold
00:06:11.200 someday trudeau's carbon tax could be gone at the federal level let's shield albertans in perpetuity
00:06:18.800 from another provincial carbon tax let's just write that in there because we know what's happened before
00:06:23.840 rachel notley with her ndp government surprised albertans with one in 2015 it cost people more
00:06:29.280 than a billion dollars per year and she had never campaigned on the thing so we think it's a really
00:06:34.480 smart thing to put inside the taxpayer protection act i do have to say that i wonder if one of the
00:06:40.160 reasons they're not including this in bill one the proposed bill one which would be their first piece
00:06:44.400 of legislation if they are re-elected is because they're planning another challenge to the carbon tax
00:06:49.760 i guess we'll have to wait a little bit longer to hear about that in future days if they are in fact
00:06:54.160 re-elected on monday now i want to move to the campaign rally i would say this was the biggest moment
00:06:59.280 of the week this was on thursday night so many people came out the crowd was about 1100 people from
00:07:04.080 what i heard we're just going to play our viewers a little video for our viewers who weren't able to
00:07:08.240 make it just so you could see a bit of the crowd size and the energy as well in the room
00:07:31.280 a ucp spokesperson also told me that they had planned to hold the event inside but too many
00:07:36.480 people showed up so they had to move it outside to that tent there you know these types of things
00:07:40.320 are always really funny because i attend these events i'm just trying to post some information
00:07:44.240 online to make people aware and you get of course the stupidest attacks people just get so angry
00:07:48.640 about stuff like this oh the crowd is really not that big oh the crowd's so white oh they all look
00:07:53.760 so old it really is so silly and just unbelievably frustrating when you're just trying to do your job
00:07:58.960 but erica maybe you can speak to why this type of rally was important i know i talked to some
00:08:02.720 people who said oh i really feel like we should be out at the doors right now there was about 35 mlas
00:08:07.760 when they were first announced i think a couple came late and of course all the staffers were there
00:08:11.920 as well so they weren't doing a lot of active campaigning on the doors but i think sometimes
00:08:16.320 it can speak to just rallying the energy and getting people excited for monday's vote maybe you can speak
00:08:21.040 to that erica yeah so vitro and i had to stick back to do our broadcast so we we missed going down
00:08:27.120 and usually i'm the first person to say no rallies hit the doors to exactly what you're talking about
00:08:32.400 and i had fomo last night i i wish that i could have seen seen that crowd um it is coming back to
00:08:38.000 what we were talking about about momentum right this is danielle smith being able to speak to our
00:08:43.520 supporters show the volume of our supporters i mean the traffic was backed up down the highway it started
00:08:50.720 30 40 minutes late uh because they wanted to make sure that everyone could get in um you know i hate
00:08:57.200 i hate social media and i hate how people tried to depict it it's i mean it just shows that it worked
00:09:02.400 it got people out it got people motivated and what the goal from the campaign is is that we'll transition
00:09:07.840 to people getting to advance polls people being able to then volunteer on on e-day so that we can really
00:09:13.360 push this over over the edge so i usually am anti uh rally and i think last night was a good tone to
00:09:20.480 set for for internal morale but also to get some more resources on e-day yeah absolutely evan i know
00:09:26.960 that i saw you in the crowd what was your takeaway from the event personally i felt like danielle smith's
00:09:31.520 public speaking while already good has improved strongly during the campaign it was a strong event
00:09:36.160 again yesterday and i think she delivered a positive message for for voters but what was your takeaway
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00:09:54.640 your coupon yeah no for uh definitely i i think one thing that's important to remember too in the
00:10:03.520 discussion about why why rallying event like this matters is the ndp and uh and their their pundits
00:10:10.640 on on the left they're really pushing hard trying to suppress turnout uh this week trying to present
00:10:16.080 this idea in this image that uh no no conservatives uh are coming our direction and i think this event
00:10:23.280 showed quite clearly that there is a um definite energy for conservative supporters in the city uh that
00:10:30.160 yeah premier danielle smith has been on our a-game this entire election uh whether it's been taking questions
00:10:36.320 from the media meeting with uh volunteers uh uh campaign pit stops of course we mentioned the debate
00:10:42.560 already and i thought her message was pitch perfect last night uh talking about notley's record in office
00:10:49.040 albertans don't want to go back the threat of the sing trudeau notley coalition uh it was uh yeah pitch
00:10:55.680 perfect for the audience i think everyone left that feeling good i i do think uh listen the ndp had a
00:11:01.760 uh a rally in calgary acadia in a room that had a capacity of 400 people they tried saying it was a
00:11:08.800 thousand uh the ucp had their rally and it was outside because they went over capacity inside uh i i
00:11:18.080 you know they had there was a giant lineup of cars outside folks who were feeling jazzed so i think it
00:11:23.360 was an important event and i think it will bear good fruits for the uh uh the last sort of couple
00:11:28.160 days of advanced polls and into election day sure so i guess if we're using the ndp standards to
00:11:34.000 measure thursday night's crowd size we would peg it at maybe like a hundred thousand people i think
00:11:38.320 i have that correct um i know that we've covered public safety a lot on this show for my viewers
00:11:44.560 danielle smith did speak to that yesterday she said we are running on public safety and talked about
00:11:48.960 some of the rising criminal activity and how that was unacceptable we're going to play a clip for
00:11:52.880 for you guys right now on that public safety because albertans need to feel safe in their homes
00:11:58.320 and on transit and in their communities we know that calgarians and edmontonians want to be able
00:12:03.520 to enjoy a game or a meal or have their kids go downtown without worrying that they're going to be
00:12:08.560 randomly insulted or stabbed or have to walk past an open doorway and be exposed to secondhand crystal
00:12:15.040 meth smoke it's totally unacceptable
00:12:24.480 so just a small segment of her speech yesterday of course if you're interested in hearing more
00:12:28.240 of it you can definitely find that on my social media but now i want to move to the advanced polls
00:12:33.360 that began this week on tuesday and is running till saturday as of the time as filming we have about
00:12:38.480 470 000 votes cast in the advanced polls now in 2019 we saw just under 700 000 votes cast in the
00:12:47.440 advanced polls in total that was record-breaking numbers so i don't think we're seeing the same
00:12:52.160 turnout i think we can expect to see these numbers jump by maybe 100 150 000 before the advanced polls
00:12:57.200 close i'm sure a lot of people myself included wait till the absolutely last possible second but evan
00:13:03.120 what is your read on these votes does this mean that people aren't excited about a daniel smith
00:13:07.200 government does it mean that they're thinking the ucp will stay in government and aren't feeling the
00:13:10.640 need to turn out and vote another option is also that some people are really skeptical of the
00:13:15.360 tabulators being used the tabulators are being used to count the advanced polls so that there's not a
00:13:20.080 delay and people who are typically more conservative would be a little bit nervous of that type of
00:13:24.480 technology being used in an election they might wait to show up till election day to vote when their
00:13:29.120 ballots are going to be hand counted evan what's your take yeah first of all i tell any conservatives
00:13:34.720 worried about that not to worry uh their vote will be counted and they should definitely show up in
00:13:39.600 at advanced polls it's traditionally been an advantage for conservatives in this province
00:13:43.680 that we show up at advanced polls and i think we are showing up at advanced polls this election
00:13:48.080 um but you know as far as uh reading into um what does this all mean on turnout so far i'd expect that
00:13:55.520 the turnout might be a little larger than it was last election on the advanced poll count but it's it's
00:13:59.920 really hard to read on what it all means i think in the ontario recent ontario election they had
00:14:04.720 increased advanced voter turnout voters have just become more comfortable as this this as being the
00:14:09.600 format that they uh they used to uh show up with their ballot uh you know in advance of election day
00:14:16.000 so uh it's hard hard to say what exactly it all means uh other than at least for me just that people
00:14:22.880 are more comfortable with the format but yeah i i would definitely for uh eric you could speak to this too
00:14:27.680 but for campaigns every time a conservative voter gets their vote in before election day that just
00:14:33.120 means that they've got more resources to uh on election day to get those last people out that
00:14:38.880 they need to make sure that the victory happens so if you're still waiting to get your vote out uh
00:14:43.840 you know advanced votes uh polls close on saturday so definitely take advantage of it if you can
00:14:49.280 yeah that's an interesting perspective i actually hadn't considered that erica you're in
00:14:52.800 the war room what are you guys looking for when you're taking a look at these advanced polling numbers
00:14:57.680 yeah so i first want to come back to to the tabulator real quick uh if i can because i think
00:15:01.920 last week during the show i was at a very robust demonstration of the tabulators and to evan's
00:15:08.160 point um they you know i completely have trust and confidence in their process so if that is what's
00:15:13.760 holding you back um take my word i guess uh and just realize that that there is quite a robust process
00:15:20.080 um and that you know everything we saw was smooth as can be so um but coming back to what we're seeing
00:15:27.840 so from from the inside look especially in our target ridings um in calgary in the donut we are
00:15:34.640 seeing a large portion of our when we're going doing gotv for advanced polls large portion people being
00:15:40.640 like i already voted i already voted which is such a great thing to hear because to evan's point it
00:15:45.360 you know relieves you from doing the large outreach on election day um and then you can really focus
00:15:52.400 on on getting the folks you need uh for those numbers to get to the door so we have seen a very
00:15:56.560 positive uptake i do agree that we'll probably be just slightly under where we were last time in
00:16:01.680 advanced polls but if i can reach voters in any way i would say vote as early and as soon as possible
00:16:07.440 it does help us from a local campaign perspective it also helps us kind of be able to put our resources
00:16:12.960 where we need to on election day yeah and thanks for that bit about the tabulators for my viewers
00:16:17.840 who do remain concerned about them i have covered it extensively you can certainly go back and find
00:16:22.080 my work on that i know that premier smith has said she feels comfortable with them because the paper
00:16:26.560 ballots are going to be retained in case a recount is necessary unlike what we've seen in some other
00:16:31.840 elections where the ballots are actually destroyed and a recount is not possible that will not be
00:16:36.000 happening in this case now we've talked about the advanced polls i want to move to the polling these
00:16:41.200 numbers have been so crazy and so all over the place i don't think anyone knows what's going
00:16:45.280 to happen in the election except for of course a main street research ceo keto maggie he is calling
00:16:50.000 for an ndp government on monday he said i believe on twitter that he would eat two hats if there's an
00:16:54.560 ndp if there's a ucp government rather on monday so he's feeling pretty confident in his numbers
00:16:59.600 then we know that i think hq poll for calgary came out showing that the ndp were six points ahead
00:17:05.600 again that was just in calgary but then just friday morning we got another poll from the janet brown
00:17:11.040 pollster we've talked about on the show before how she's very well respected in this province
00:17:15.280 and she's showing a ucp government on monday with 52 points for the ucp and 44 for the ndp
00:17:22.640 chris these numbers are so all over the place what's your take uh polling is really difficult to trust
00:17:29.520 because of course everybody is obsessed with watching them because there's so much of their lives
00:17:33.440 invested right no matter which party you're in uh you've been eating and sleeping in that war room
00:17:38.240 now for probably the last six weeks i know what that feels like and so you're always looking for
00:17:43.520 indicators what we would say from a taxpayer's perspective at the ctf is we don't endorse a
00:17:48.720 party what we do push for our policies and from our people there's thousands of them in alberta
00:17:55.120 we keep hearing about lower taxes no carbon tax balanced budgets taxpayer protections so to
00:18:02.160 everybody listening right now i would give the same advice that i always do to our people at the ctf
00:18:07.600 you already know what you want to do you're already informed tell 10 friends tell 10 friends if you're
00:18:14.800 already listening to this podcast you're engaged you're active you know what you want out of this
00:18:18.960 province they've got you so to speak tell 10 friends of what you think is important if you're
00:18:25.120 opposed to the carbon tax if you think balanced budgets are important if you think fiscal restraint is
00:18:29.920 important so that we actually have money to save for a rainy day to pay for things like emergencies
00:18:34.640 and schools and hospitals and all those things that people like and we don't want to see massive
00:18:38.880 debt piled up and we don't want to see credit downgrades tell 10 friends well i dare say that
00:18:45.600 was chris's final pitch for voters before they head to the polls this weekend and on monday evan maybe
00:18:51.280 you can give us your take on the polls are you reading a lot into them what's your take some say the
00:18:56.560 bubbles in an arrow truffle piece can take 34 seconds to melt in your mouth sometimes the very
00:19:01.840 amount you're stuck at the same red light rich creamy chocolatey arrow truffle feel the arrow bubbles melt
00:19:09.200 it's mind bubbling yeah i mean i would tell conservative voters that uh you know keto's had a couple misses
00:19:16.240 uh before measuring calgary and alberta audiences so if you wanted to see want to see him uh eat two hats
00:19:22.720 show up and vote uh go help a campaign out uh they need all hands on deck here and uh i i wouldn't
00:19:31.680 i was involved in the 2012 wild rose election campaign and we had good polls right up until
00:19:37.360 the day before and you can't um you can't take anything for granted so i i would say that there's
00:19:43.440 some good trend lines for the ucp i would say both from a quantitative talking about these polls but also a
00:19:48.080 qualitative perspective i've been talking to people at the doors that that there is a real sort of
00:19:52.880 stern backbone to the conservative vote and i i would expect strong turnout i would expect the
00:19:58.800 conservative vote to outperform uh some of these polls that we've been seeing but uh it's just
00:20:03.920 absolutely crucial this weekend that you show up and vote the alberta ndp and it's not talked about
00:20:08.720 nearly often enough but they've effectively consolidated and sucked in the entire left-wing
00:20:12.720 vote in alberta alberta is um a conservative province and how it thinks and and views issues
00:20:19.280 and and uh obviously how it views its relationship with ottawa but it's uh the left-wing's always had
00:20:25.200 a 35 to 45 percent vote coalition in the province and they're fully united so you can't take anything
00:20:32.560 for granted you got to show up and vote you got to help out uh wherever you can if you want to see
00:20:36.960 a ucp government on monday okay guys before i let you go everyone has to give their election
00:20:42.800 prediction what do you think is going to happen on monday and what do you think the seat count is
00:20:46.720 going to be erica i'm going to go to you first you were going to do that um no i well i'm feeling
00:20:51.760 optimistic i think um both chris and evan spoke to it the doors are getting warmer the doors are the
00:20:57.120 undecideds are are folding to to conservatives because of the record versus disastrous record um so
00:21:04.080 i'm obviously given a ucp win um i don't know if i can should say this i think that i'm going to give
00:21:11.120 a range because i'm going to cop out on this uh probably 48 to 52 seats for the ucp well you're
00:21:17.680 allowed to cop out because you're on the campaign but the rest of you aren't going to be so lucky
00:21:23.840 uh chris what's your prediction i'm pretty terrible at predictions to be honest i think it's going to be
00:21:30.000 a very late night and then it's going to be close but i think ultimately i'll put it this way i think
00:21:35.920 people vote uh based on their priorities and so far the main priorities that i've heard from ctf people
00:21:42.160 are balanced budgets low taxes and fighting the carbon tax so i think it's going to tip that way
00:21:47.760 chris you're a number expert more than i did yeah i am a numbers expert but i'm bad at predicting so i
00:21:54.720 don't want to go out on a limb or jinx anything so we'll see i hope i'm wrong and it's way higher
00:21:58.560 okay evan how about you yeah i uh i i'm pegging it at 50 um they it could be less could be more but
00:22:08.160 i think 50 is a safe spot i you we mentioned janet brown's pull earlier she pegged it at 51.
00:22:14.400 uh i do take that uh that read with a high level of credibility so yeah we'll wait and see i uh
00:22:22.000 it uh elections come down to turnout and uh yeah if conservatives show up uh
00:22:27.760 they can expect a good night on election night and i think 50 is a realistic number if folks show up
00:22:32.240 and i know a lot of uh ucp candidates have been working hard on the doors i know they've got a
00:22:37.360 lot of their folks out to vote already so um yeah i think 50 is uh my magic number great well i'm glad
00:22:43.680 that i was able to get a straight answer out of at least one of you so there you guys have it evan
00:22:47.600 menzies crestview strategies pegging it at 50. we will know on monday okay guys thank you so much for
00:22:52.880 tuning in today i know that my audience has really appreciated your insight over the last
00:22:56.560 four weeks i'm hoping that i will be able to catch some of you on monday night for a live hit
00:23:01.600 for our audience we are doing a live show down in calgary at the ucp campaign event so you will
00:23:06.320 definitely want to tune into that you won't want to miss it to hear everyone's wonderful insight thank
00:23:10.800 you so much you guys have a great weekend okay guys and before i let you go i'm going to quickly do
00:23:15.200 my weekly comment roundup you guys know that i appreciate your comments so much and there were so
00:23:19.600 many under last week's episode so let's take a look at a few of those now brian sen said you guys
00:23:24.880 rock the house and thanks for giving us hope thank you brian i'm sure we all really appreciate that
00:23:30.000 compliment user glittle said the funniest and saddest thing i've seen in this election cycle is the fact
00:23:35.520 that all ndp channels i've been on has the comments turned off so strong and concrete in their position
00:23:41.120 that they can't take comments lmao it's sort of like how they won't take questions from reporters
00:23:46.400 they don't like there seems to be a theme here wild bill says rachel i don't think you know how
00:23:52.560 much we albertans and westerners appreciate your presence and sincerity with your move west don't
00:23:58.480 worry you will fit right in and albertans will always show you hospitality keep on keeping on
00:24:03.760 thank you wild bill i've seen a bunch of your comments under my show and i appreciate that you
00:24:08.080 seem to be a weekly or at least somewhat regular listener and people here in alberta certainly have been
00:24:13.520 very friendly and finally user beau ottenbrait i apologize if i butchered the pronunciation of your
00:24:18.720 name said this video was a stroke fest it's hard to pretend the ucp message is anything like it should
00:24:24.240 be sure there are way better than the ndp but there are easily versions of the smith led ucp right now
00:24:30.000 that would be much much better when our number one issue should be securing rights and freedoms
00:24:34.400 a focus on mostly urban issue is really poor form when the number one push should be for economy
00:24:39.760 and quality of life the focus instead is on health care and education the playthings of the ndp both
00:24:45.440 horribly flawed systems i do have to say that i disagree the ucp has been focusing quite a bit on
00:24:51.280 jobs in the economy during the election i think they're hoping that that's going to be the ballot
00:24:55.600 box question i don't think that it is but most of their announcements have been about tax cuts for
00:25:00.480 the general population and about building a strong economy i do agree with you however that the focus
00:25:05.680 has mostly been urban issues i'm sure some of you in rural alberta are feeling a little bit left out
00:25:10.640 but i would say the ucp really needs to appeal to moderates in calgary to win this election and so i
00:25:15.680 think they're doing what they need to do to form government on monday whether you like that or not
00:25:21.840 you can have that opinion but i would say they are probably doing exactly what they need to do to
00:25:25.920 give them the best chance to win government okay guys that's all i have for you today a friendly
00:25:29.840 reminder as i mentioned on the panel you can watch our live show covering the election results
00:25:34.640 on monday night i will be joined by my colleagues andrew lawton and william mcbeth
00:25:40.080 so i'll see you guys on monday night enjoy the rest of your weekend and god bless