00:02:19.380Because so tomorrow is the 25th anniversary of that event, which like I was thinking about that the other day.
00:02:26.240like 25 years ago and not perfectly statistical but 25 years kind of means that like there's a
00:02:35.460big chunk of the country like there's probably 20 or 30 percent of the people that are living in
00:02:41.420canada today or around the world that were not born in 2001 you know what i mean so for for for
00:02:48.120a large percentage of people this has become history now you know 9-11 is something that
00:02:54.780they learn in school. It's one of those big moments in life. And that I live through, you
00:03:00.440know, I can think of several big moments that I've lived through in life. I lived through the fall of
00:03:04.060the Berlin Wall. I lived through 9-11 and the shuttle disaster and, you know, COVID and things
00:03:11.100like that. I did not live through, you know, World War II or other events in life. Actually, and so
00:03:18.820So 9-11 is moving into that category now.
00:03:22.600It's moving into that category of history for so many people.
00:03:27.140And I want to talk about 9-11 a little bit, and I want to remember it today,
00:03:32.480but I don't want to politicize 9-11 like exactly why it happened and who caused it, right?
00:03:38.040That's not what remembrances are, right?
00:03:39.820When we remember, for instance, when we have November 11th and we remember Fallen,
00:03:44.960we don't focus on that day on why they went to fight and and so forth we focus on the fallen
00:03:51.460and so for 9-11 today I just want to focus quickly on um the the victims and the the heroes that the
00:03:59.720rescuers and and some of that right and so and let me and and and then I will bring it back to
00:04:05.960something else that's happening today Mark Carney's in in Banff and I think Mark is missing
00:04:12.480an opportunity by not being in New York tomorrow. So I'll bring it to that and I'll share a sort of
00:04:17.800my personal story about 9-11. But so what happened on 9-11, in case you don't remember, right?
00:04:23.980So on 9-11, you know, September 11th, 2001, I was waking up in the morning and I watched the news
00:04:33.140and I hear that a plane had hit the World Trade Center. And I left and I went to go to work.
00:04:39.020and then, you know, thinking that it was just a small plane.
00:04:42.440And then when we get to work half an hour later and I'm listening on the radio
00:04:46.160and you find out that, no, it wasn't a small plane, it was a big plane.
00:04:50.560And then I thought, okay, well, that's an unfortunate coincidence.
00:04:54.020And then there was a second plane and then we knew something was happening.
00:04:57.880And it caused, you know, it was devastating.
00:05:02.500I mean, two towers in New York collapsed
00:05:04.580And over 3,000 Americans that were in those buildings died that day, including a lot of people, like a lot of people from the New York Fire Department and police who had rushed in.
00:05:15.280When others were evacuating, others were rushing in to do their job, right?
00:05:20.520And the towers collapsed and killed over 3,000 Americans.
00:05:23.340And it killed also, you know, 24 Canadians that day.
00:05:27.920and and and but what i want to and when i remember what i want to remember and what i want to focus
00:05:34.220on for just for today for tomorrow is is is what happened between our two countries that day right
00:05:40.680we came like we were the first people to offer assistance to the americans like and i've said
00:05:48.380this all along right in light of like this insanity that's going on temporarily in our
00:05:52.860country with this trade war and everything else we like let's remind ourselves like we live
00:05:58.220we're next door to americans that are fundament like that are almost identical to us culturally
00:06:03.660like to to to we we have to go out of our way you know if you're traveling in europe and you speak
00:06:10.120somebody will say are you an amer like are you a canadian are you an american we have to distinguish
00:06:14.260ourselves we're almost indistinguishable to the rest of the world it's the longest undefended
00:06:19.080border. We've been neighbors forever. We fought side by side. We fought each other early, early
00:06:24.520on, like, you know, in the 1700s and the in the 1800s, we had some skirmishes between our two
00:06:29.480sides, but mostly, mostly it was the British and the French and, and, and, and that happened on
00:06:35.520this territory. But fundamentally, since the existence of the US and the proper existence of
00:06:40.700Canada, since 1867, we, since the two have been full nations, we've never fought each other.
00:06:48.100You know, we were side-by-side in World War I.
00:06:50.700We were side-by-side in World War II, side-by-side in Korea.
00:06:54.780An incredible number of us actually went and fought alongside them in Vietnam and 9-11, right?
00:07:01.5209-11, we offered all the assistance we could on that day.
00:07:05.240And then there was this other really wonderful story that happened on 9-11, right?
00:07:09.620Because two planes crashed into the World Trade Center.
00:07:13.160So then the Americans who control their airspace said, holy smokes, we got to shut down our airspace.
00:10:17.220the first ones that come to mind is probably World War II
00:10:20.480and World War I and Korea is forgotten.
00:10:23.820But Afghanistan has the distinction of actually being our longest war.
00:10:29.360We were in Afghanistan for 13 years, officially in a combat role in a war.
00:10:34.340And so alongside the Americans, and we took it on the chin there, like so many others.
00:10:39.640I mean, we had 158 Canadian Armed Forces casualties in Afghanistan during those 13 years.
00:10:45.920So, and so I really wish, and then today, so today, this week, again, you know, we'll talk a little bit about the ongoing trade war saga, which we're losing, by the way.
00:11:01.240Let me take a quick chat here, take a sip here.
00:11:04.500It doesn't take long to get a dry mouth when you do all the talking.
00:11:09.620Like, please, like I said, call in and tell me your 9-11 story.
00:11:14.540And I'll tell you a good 9-11, my 9-11 story.
00:11:17.780But, you know, today Carney is in Alberta.
00:11:23.480So he flew in here yesterday with his cabinet
00:11:27.280and they're on their way to do their annual or their fall retreat in Banff.
00:11:32.380And I'm sure he'll make a statement from Banff tomorrow, you know, commemorating 9-11.
00:11:37.680But I kind of wish that instead of doing that tomorrow, I kind of wish he was in New York.
00:11:41.900And if he didn't want to be in New York because he can't set aside his differences, he could have at least gone to Gander or someplace like that.
00:11:48.880So I just find that Carney's misreading the room this week with what's going on in, you know, in the bigger context.
00:12:01.960Just a quick story about myself in Afghanistan, you know, or not Afghanistan.
00:12:08.080then just 9-11 I you know how when you belong to social media like Facebook and stuff like that
00:12:14.200these old stories pop up well I had an old story pop up on my Facebook and it was a weird reminder
00:12:19.300so I was working in 2001 I was a young engineer living in Edson Alberta working for Talisman
00:12:27.000Energy and my family was growing my I had two kids at that point Karen my wife was pregnant
00:12:32.740with our third. And I was looking for new opportunities. And I got a job offer from
00:12:38.980Saudi Aramco. I applied for a job as an expat in Saudi Arabia. And I got a job offer from
00:12:45.720Saudi Aramco on September 1, 2011. And I accepted the offer on September 2, 2011. So I accepted an
00:12:55.400offer. So I was on my way. I was leaving Canada and I was going to go work in Saudi Arabia.
00:13:01.060And as part of that, I was getting ready for some onboarding.
00:13:06.400So Saudi Aramco had scheduled me and my wife for what they called an in-country orientation, but in Houston, Texas.
00:13:20.060So I was supposed to fly to Houston, Texas on September 14, 2011.
00:13:25.720And the reason I was going to use them with my wife is we were going to meet representatives from Saudi Aramco, go through some cultural orientation and preparation and stuff like that for the eventual move.
00:13:37.100Well, needless to say, on September 11th, when I wake up and I see the two planes hitting the world trade, and then within a day or two, we start mentioning the words terrorism and the links to the Middle East and everything else.
00:13:49.840my wife and i can't just blame this on my wife myself included decided yeah i'm not doing this
00:13:56.640i'm not up uplift you know i'm not um disrupting my family to move to saudi arabia with this
00:14:03.040happening so i reneged on the offer i called saudi aramco and i reneged i said i'm not coming
00:14:08.960and i'll never forget the lady on the phone literally said to me you'll probably be safer
00:14:18.180here meaning saudi arabia than there and i don't know if that was a freudian slip on her part or
00:14:24.380whatever but uh that sent a bit of a chill down my spine and i'm like oh so i'm glad i and and the
00:14:31.820reason i bring up that story is because uh i've brought up that story with a couple of people
00:14:35.760the company i went to work for a company instead of going to saudi aramco i still left talisman
00:14:41.120and then i went to work for a company called prime west which is you know one of the best
00:14:44.720companies i ever worked for and i made some really great lifelong friends after working at
00:14:48.800at uh at prime west and a lot of people who who saw my story on facebook in the last couple of
00:14:58.180days made some really cool comment you know they didn't know about what had happened what that i
00:15:03.840you know turned down the offer but they they reminded me that it was a you know that it
00:15:08.800turned out for the better that we became friends so i like that way of thinking right that that
00:15:12.880One tragedy made me reconsider, but we should never dwell on the past too long
00:20:07.000It's the fact that, we can't zoom the camera,
00:20:10.000but right here, written on here, trust me,
00:20:12.220it says proudly made in Canada by L&D Tool & Dye, okay?
00:20:17.460So I got a hold of the people who own this company,
00:20:22.460lovely lady named Lucy I won't give her last name and I talked to Lucy on the phone yesterday
00:20:27.800about the impacts of a tariff and I thought I was pretty smart on tariffs and and Lucy gave me a
00:20:36.300a really amazing lesson and maybe I'll bring her on the show in the coming days or coming weeks or
00:20:42.100something like that but she so they're in Nova Scotia they they have a patent for this thing
00:20:49.600they had to source somebody to make a mold making a mold is not easy anymore nobody makes molds it's
00:20:55.400not like you just show up and get somebody to make a mold they got somebody to make the mold
00:20:58.640and found somebody who still had the technology to inject this thing and so they they they make
00:21:04.080the this this this object this this thing and um 90 of their market is in the u.s okay and that's
00:21:15.380just a reality in Canada. So she's a small business in Canada. She's got a product and her
00:21:21.060product sells okay in Canada, but the market is small. And plus people don't clean their gutters1.00
00:21:27.180in this country for call it a seven months out of the year, eight months, nine months out of the
00:21:32.760year. So, you know, you buy one of these and it's okay. But if, but in the U S there's places that
00:21:38.160have a year round need for these things. And she sells 90% of her product in the U S well, the,1.00
00:21:44.860The tariffs have demolished her business because I don't want to get into it too, too much.
00:21:51.380It's but the 50 percent tariff that she that the U.S. imposed on her means that her supplier, let's call it, let's say let's say Home Depot USA used to buy a thousand of these from her every month.
00:22:04.620Now Home Depot has to pay 50% more for these things.
00:22:10.740Home Depot is not willing to order them in advance and pay 50% and risk being stuck with the stock.
00:22:18.020So now Home Depot will say, well, maybe I'll do 10 or 20 or something like that.
00:26:40.240and folks, like, park the rhetoric for a while
00:26:43.940and ignore what carnies and others are doing
00:26:47.500and and do pay attention to this like don't don't don't fall for all this noise don't change your
00:26:55.020don't change your behavior because there are unintended consequences this by canadian sounds
00:27:01.620good but it's not it's not always good it's not always practical and there's a lot of really good
00:27:07.920reasons to keep supporting people who do business with the americans and supporting our american
00:27:13.580neighbors and person to person let's let's not let's continue the relationships we have person
00:27:20.140to person and let's not get wrapped up in what the politicians are doing that's kind of that's
00:27:24.960kind of my plea on that one so um all right folks come on 479-9378 i got my usual guys that usually
00:27:34.560call just from uh from grand prairie and uh and uh spencer and others but uh maybe you guys just
00:27:42.020want to hear me talk, I'm happy to keep talking. All right. Where do I go from here? Do I talk
00:27:50.020about Zelensky or do I talk about, let me talk about, okay, let me, let me, let me talk about,
00:27:57.040let me talk about the meeting with Danielle Smith on, on Tuesday, because it was a good meeting.
00:28:04.800It was a good meeting. So it's summer, right? And Danielle Smith goes around and does her
00:28:09.520town hall meetings uh across the province and uh first of all kudos for her doing that okay
00:28:17.900politicians are elected to be our representatives and a lot of them say that they talk to canadians
00:28:27.920you hear that all the time right and then she was like i talked to canadians and this is what
00:28:31.200they've told me but i've never seen him in an event where he's actually talking to people
00:28:35.200And so when Danielle says, I talked to Albertans, she does. Okay. So on Tuesday, she's in Cochrane and small meeting, like about 120 constituents, UCP members. And it was by invitation only, though, although it's by invitation only, the invitation can leak out. Right. So I get a I get an email as a UCP member in that constituency association. So Marty, come on out for that. But these things aren't secret.
00:30:53.660Yeah, I do remember. I was working for an American company down there, and there were Americans and Canadians working for the same company, and we were right away aware, and we had the feeling that things were never going to be the same in the world.
00:31:18.800Yeah, yeah. Oh, well. Okay, well, great. So, are you doing anything specific tomorrow to remember, or are you just like most people? I mean, you'll pay attention to it, but do you have a tradition on that day, or it's just another day?
00:31:32.400no we don't it's not just another day it's just uh it is a day it is a day to remember
00:31:39.740but uh you know living up here in alberta we have to keep plugging away you know
00:31:45.500the receiver general keeps wanting our money to send it away excellent okay well thanks for calling
00:31:52.740uh chris thanks for calling cheers my carnage should be down there yeah i agree all right
00:32:00.640have a great day you as well thank you yeah i had a just just back to 9-11 i had a buddy uh
00:32:09.260where at the where i was working at that time i had a fellow engineer who was a canadian citizen
00:32:15.700with a german passport and a um uh an arab last name because his his father was arabic and his
00:32:27.680mother was German. And boy, in the years after 9-11, his life, you know, he told me horror
00:32:36.080stories. I mean, going through the border after that with, like I said, Canadian dual0.98
00:32:39.860citizenship, passport, German, Arabic, all those things. Poor guy. Going through customs
00:32:45.000was a nightmare for him. So back to the town hall, Daniel Smith and the MLA for Airdrie.
00:32:54.400I'm having a memory blank, but just two people.
00:32:57.880And the reason the MLA for Airdrie was there,
00:33:00.960because Cochrane right now does not have a UCP MLA.
00:33:05.460The MLA for Cochrane is Peter Guthrie.
00:33:50.060talked about some of the progress, some of the changes she's made on on on recent bills, like Bill 25, taking politics out of the school, some progress that they've made on infrastructure, the fact that there's so many schools being built and stuff like that.
00:34:06.220So she gave it. And then she highlighted statistics like most of the jobs created in Canada in the last year are in Alberta.
00:34:14.860We lead the country in GDP per capita, GDP traded to the U.S., stuff like that.
00:34:20.740So very, very high level, good stuff. And I agree with all of it. It's all stuff I've commented on many times.
00:34:27.700And then she opened up the floor to questions and it was such a small crowd.
00:34:32.560And I managed to go right to the front and be the first person to ask her a question.0.97
00:34:37.800She's got her PR team standing there.0.95
00:35:02.160I don't care if you're political stripes, just because you're conservative, you don't get a break from me.
00:35:07.040I'm critical of everyone, but at the same time, I'm also willing to give credit when credit is due.
00:35:13.280So that's what I said to her. I said, credit, you're taking the province in the right direction, and I applaud you for that.
00:35:19.560And then I joked, I said, I wish you were moving faster.
00:35:23.680And then and then I joked one last joke and I said, I wish you were more on board with us as a as an independent, as a separatist.
00:35:32.760And then I asked her a real question. And my question had to do with something I've talked on here earlier this year about our our tax bills that came in last year and how the bills had gone up and specifically the education component of our tax bill of our municipal tax bill.
00:35:48.820So I get a municipal tax bill, but it's gone up. And when I look at it closely, it's not the city or the county that's that's increasing costs. It was the province passing on this school levy to the cities and making them take the public relations hit.
00:36:07.880So I brought that up. She gave me a satisfactory answer. She said that the formula is kind of flawed. They had held it steady for years. Yeah, that's exactly. Thanks, John. That's the picture. I'm probably right off the corner somewhere there. Who's the MLA? I don't know who the other lady is that she's with her. And and I should because I'm a political commentator, but I'm having a real memory blank right now.
00:36:32.660And so she gave me a satisfactory answer to that. And then other people had questions. People brought up almost everybody who stood up made a statement and a question. And the statements all that was a like that was a pro independence crowd kind of surprised me with a very pro independence crowd.
00:36:53.660There was an independence component in every question or in every statement, but the questions were good.
00:37:00.520People brought up things like, you know, our roads are still dangerous and trucks, you know, moving at 130 kilometers an hour, big trucks, how we need to sort of curtail that and bring that under control.
00:37:15.140People with inside knowledge of Alberta Health are talking about how there's Angela Pitt.
00:40:57.420Again, this show some days goes by so fast.
00:40:59.780So I just I got to. All right. Sorry if I rush it. So Danielle opened up the floor. Tons of people brought up questions, issues, great things. She wrote them all down. But the topic of independence kept coming up, coming up, coming up, coming up.
00:41:14.500And this is where, for me, it got really interesting because as she was responding to concerns, other people in the crowd were speaking up.
00:41:23.600And then all of a sudden it started to look almost like a little bit of a dialogue back and forth, which is so rare.
00:41:30.800And it was a real insight into Danielle.
00:41:33.660And now I'm starting to really – so she brought up – I'm going to paraphrase and I'm going to simplify it.
00:41:39.520But she basically, in her mind, she is actually she she she pleaded with everyone, please vote.
00:41:47.020OK, please vote in the upcoming referendum.
00:41:48.900And she's basically saying vote yes to the first nine questions and vote no to the last one.
00:41:56.140And in her mind, if we vote yes to the first nine, that gives us the leverage to negotiate with Ottawa.
00:42:04.940And we don't need the last one. And I'm like, wow, no, it's the other way around.
00:42:08.760I mean, voting, voting that, hey, we want to open the discussions on immigration.
00:42:13.580That's not leverage. OK, that's not leverage. Voting that we want to leave.
00:42:18.740That's leverage. That's a real message to to to Ottawa.
00:42:23.020So I thought I thought clearly I thought that that was a paradox or she was misreading that, like her telling us to vote for the first nine.
00:42:30.360Yes and no on independence. I thought, no, you got it around backwards.
00:42:33.760backwards if you want leverage don't worry about the other things vote for independence and then
00:42:40.380and then the the discussion came around she she talked about how in her mind uh she's voting to
00:42:47.820stay she repeated that she believes in a stronger alberta a sovereign alberta within a united canada
00:42:54.380she repeated that and i've often thought that she was naive on that but she gave she really talked
00:43:00.060about her reasons. I mean, she said that in her opinion, there's only two options, Alberta within
00:43:07.260Canada or Alberta within the United States. Like she's just said that the sphere of influence of
00:43:12.400the two countries are too big and Alberta is like orbiting one or the other. And she said that she
00:43:18.780thinks that Alberta within Canada is better than Alberta within the United States. And then she
00:43:25.960gave the example that confederation has worked in the last 159 years confederation has worked
00:43:34.720when conservatives were in power i had the opportunity to say my god conservatives have
00:43:40.540been in power for what like 30 percent of the last hundred uh of of the of the time so we have
00:43:47.400a system that only works 30 percent of the time when one group is in power and then it doesn't
00:43:52.380work the other 70 percent of the time i'm like and she specifically mentioned you know mulrooney
00:43:57.120and harper saying the confederation worked for them i'm like wow so like that's a pretty flawed
00:44:02.980system if it only works 30 percent of the time and on top of that i don't think conservatives
00:44:07.460will ever run rule in ottawa ever again so on that theory she's off and then and then she repeated
00:44:15.420that she doesn't think that an independent alberta has its chance on its own and again0.76
00:44:21.300almost the boos and the and the pushback from the crowd like i was trying to watch her body language
00:44:26.720and and she got an earful right like people said what about norway what about the fact you know
00:44:31.740she's like well you we're landlocked and everybody like three people yelled so are 50 percent of the
00:44:36.980countries in europe and she's you know oh yeah but they have different cultures and they
00:44:41.640corroborate with each other i'm like okay so her her arguments fall on their face all the time and
00:44:49.520And but I don't I mean, that that's that's interesting in and of itself.
00:44:53.060But for me, it was an eye opener. It was an eye opener.
00:44:55.320She really believes that that that Confederation can be fixed.
00:45:00.900She brought up the example of Carney, you know, saying like that, that the last the 10 years under Trudor were terrible and that there's been some noticeable improvements under Carney.
00:45:12.100And even when she mentions that and when she says there's been an improvement under Carney, she gets like a boo, like the whole crowd goes boo.
00:45:19.520like we don't see it that way danielle we don't see it that way premier like an mou and a promise
00:45:24.640to build a pipeline that's nothing that that that you know and even today carney threw another
00:45:29.840carrot our way right like he he modified uh bill c69 is a really annoying piece of legislation
00:45:36.000right that's the one we call the no new pipelines act that came in under trudeau and today or
00:45:41.440yesterday carney said that um he he's limiting the scope of bill c69 and and bill c69 won't apply to
00:45:49.520uh heavy oil projects and won't apply to uh power plants in alberta in the heavy oil sector okay so
00:45:56.860a very narrow reduction of the scope of bill c69 but i mean you still got carney is still got the
00:46:05.980tanker ban he still has uh emission caps he still has uh carbon taxes he's still pushing net zero
00:46:14.060and he still has this ace up his sleeve he doesn't have to kill a pipeline or anything else carney
00:46:19.160He can be the good guy and say, look, I tried my best to have it happen, but he can let the First Nations take it on the chin because he's still granting them basic veto powers over all these projects.
00:46:30.600So to me, that was a fascinating town hall. And that's what I, you know, I've been I've been trying all along to decide whether Danielle was really just, you know, a lot of people said, give her the benefit of the doubt.
00:46:44.280She's just checking off every box so that nobody can ever say you didn't try this and you didn't try that.
00:46:51.280Right. You didn't try like I, you know, I even had a chance to say to her, like, we've been trying what you're proposing for 60 years and it doesn't work.
00:46:58.800so i i think i i got some clarity i i'm i'm she is uh she is truly a federalist who thinks that
00:47:10.900she's the person who's going to keep alberta within confederation and get us a better deal0.69
00:47:15.940and i think that's absolutely naive but she's going to go down that path fighting unless
00:47:22.120something dramatic unless carney does something to really betray her uh go ahead call her name
00:47:28.220and where are you calling from and what's on your mind?
00:47:31.720Hey, Marty, this is Timothy calling from Edmonton here.
00:48:24.840like can can the audience hear more okay audience can is this tom is this tom who was sitting beside
00:48:31.100behind me uh this is timothy calling here oh okay i just took off uh took off my earbuds there you
00:48:38.380go okay um yeah so what am i so are you reading it the same way i'm reading it
00:48:47.580well i didn't quite catch the last minute there i was on hold when you were chatting there so
00:48:54.820So, yeah, I just am struggling to understand what her reasoning is, how she can claim ignorance of history of Canada and Alberta within Canada and how we've been repeatedly ignored on the federal front.
00:49:08.440Like, yeah, most recently with the equalization referendum, we sent a signal that we wanted equalization abolished, actually, not even just reformed, but abolished, and was completely ignored at every level of government, both by the premiers and by the federal government.
00:49:23.840And now she's claiming that some additional referendum questions similar to that one would actually make a difference.
00:49:30.060Like, why would she think that these questions would result in anything different than the last one?
00:50:05.800I think that's a strong possibility, yeah, that she's playing dumb in order to try to gin up, you know, federalist support,
00:50:12.820kind of maintain her connections federally, you know, potentially for some sort of federal role in the future0.54
00:50:18.820once she's finished as Premier of Alberta.
00:50:20.780I think there's a strong chance of that because if you listen to the way that she talked when she was a talk show host, you know, even at Western Standard before becoming premier, she knew all this history.
00:50:32.960She knew how futile Alberta's attempts have been to reform things within Canada.
00:50:39.140And yet now she's pretending as if she doesn't know that or pretending as if, yeah, like you said, getting a conservative government in Ottawa would make all the difference when clearly we know that's not the case.
00:50:48.780OK, so now. All right. Well, thanks for doing that. So I thought I had clarity this morning. Now I'm back to being confused.
00:50:57.660I didn't mean to make it difficult for you. But, you know, like on the federal side, like she claims that Mulroney or Stephen Harper are cases in point of Canada working.
00:51:07.360Well, does she realize that that was only what two majority governments, for example, in my lifetime?
00:51:43.040i want to cover a couple more stories so have a great day bud oh good yeah have a good day
00:51:48.280okay well i have about two stories that i wanted to cover one caller uh chris or james touched on
00:51:55.880one right the conservative mps uh last week the alberta conservative mps so i don't know how many
00:52:02.840there are i think there's 21 conservative mps in alberta maybe more maybe 34 something like that
00:52:07.700So the Alberta Conservative MPs federally formed their own little group last week and call Conservatives for Canada, calling for a stronger Alberta within a united Canada.
00:52:21.880And their pitch is Alberta's problem is Ottawa policy, not Canada itself.
00:52:27.980And again, so here's a group saying here's a group basically saying Canada will work if the Conservatives are elected.
00:52:36.220okay and that's like excuse me but i don't want a solution that depends on who's elected i want a
00:52:45.260solution that that works regardless and so i i do think that to me canada's broken in a very
00:52:52.100fundamental way which is even if you balance the seats it doesn't matter the country is just too
00:52:57.400big and and ottawa is interfering too much in jurisdiction outside of its affairs like look
00:53:04.920at what happened in Edmonton this week or last week, right?
00:53:08.840Ottawa is sending us a check for housing.
00:53:12.880They sent the first two or three installments,
00:53:15.000and then they sent a letter to Jeremy Farkas and saying,
00:53:18.940hey, if you don't adjust the zoning, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah,
00:53:21.900and reverse what just happened, you're not getting the check.
00:53:25.720So money from Ottawa comes with strings attached in an area
00:53:28.940that's not part of their jurisdiction, out of their mandate.
00:53:33.000So I and so this this this group of conservatives banding together, a first of all, what they're proposing is bizarre.
00:53:40.560But secondly, like the caller said, it does show they're supposed to represent us.
00:53:46.260And I don't have my conservative MP then come and ask me, like, how do you feel about independence and this and this and that?
00:53:52.440He just jumped on this bandwagon and his and he published a letter alongside everybody else saying,
00:53:57.800i'm a federal conservative mp and i'm in favor of alberta staying uh in confederation so when i
00:54:05.560see that i see that as self-serving i see that as just representing the party lines and i see that
00:54:11.880as really self-serving because conservatives federally know this if alberta leaves there
00:54:17.540will never be a federal government in ottawa ever again so anyways i'll maybe i'll maybe we'll have
00:54:22.160more to chat on that unfortunately i'm running out of time i really wanted to talk about the
00:54:26.060allison inquiry i'll talk about that next week but i'll just you guys know what's going on right
00:54:30.400oh the clock's running five minutes fast sorry john okay all right so i can slow down i don't
00:54:35.260need to rush um okay let me slow down so let's talk about the allison inquiry which is an amazing
00:54:42.360thing happening in ottawa so allison inquiry uh allison is dean allison is an mp and um he called
00:54:51.800an inquiry now it's not formal uh i think it's being called an inquiry but i'd you know it's
00:54:57.800not really technically an inquiry what dean has done which is great is he's given people who were
00:55:04.300negatively affected by covid and the mandates and specifically the vaccine he's giving them
00:55:11.060an opportunity to come to something like a committee uh you know a house of commons committee
00:55:16.380and they can tell their story and their story is on record right that's one of the wonderful things
00:55:21.420I mean, when you go to court and you tell your story, when you go to a committee in Parliament or in the House of Commons or a commission and things like that, your words are recorded.
00:55:33.560So even though the testimony and things like that, it's structured as a testimony, it's structured as a committee with somebody asking questions and witnesses being invited to speak, I don't think it has teeth.
00:55:47.660I might be wrong. If it has teeth, it might not have teeth in the legal sense, but it'll certainly have teeth in the social sense and then in the community sense.
00:55:59.880But more importantly, people are invited to talk and they can share their stories.
00:56:03.860And I knew some of these stories. I mean, I've been following Kerry Sakamoto and others, you know, and I thought I knew their stories.
00:56:11.620But when you listen here and you and I was intimate with COVID, I mean, I talked that length of about COVID, you know, during 2020, 21, 22.
00:56:22.720And and I'm one of those people who thinks that it was that COVID was a gross injustice in our lives.
00:56:30.600and that some of the people who perpetrated those injustices
00:56:36.120who imposed these draconian mandates, who trampled our rights,
00:56:40.020I think some of these people need to be held accountable
00:56:42.320for what they did someday, and I don't think they will.
00:57:38.960I don't think some of these people, I don't think anybody who was in power or in power.
00:57:44.200I don't think anybody who was a sitting MP during COVID would have the courage to come and sit down and watch this because it would be kind of an admission or they'd have to hear their victims.