Western Standard - A referendum on a referendum： Danielle Smith’s political tightrope

00:00:00.000 Happy May 28th, everyone.

00:00:29.200 What a gorgeous day here in Calgary.

00:00:31.500 I hope it's a gorgeous day wherever you are.

00:00:33.880 Actually, I think across the province, across the prairies,

00:00:36.300 I think right now is pretty nice weather,

00:00:39.780 except maybe eastern Saskatchewan and western Manitoba.

00:00:45.580 I guess you guys are sort of entering a bit of a hot streak right now,

00:00:50.700 but here in Calgary, absolutely gorgeous.

00:00:53.960 So much so that I might get the old paddleboard out tomorrow

00:00:57.960 and go get on the bow river i haven't seen anybody on the bow river yet every year i always talk

00:01:03.660 about doing this i've never done it but you know just when the ice is breaking up on the bow river

00:01:07.660 i want to get my kayak or one of my canoes and go on the river when there's still a little bit

00:01:12.640 of ice and maybe become the subject of uh of somebody else's uh photo essay you know crazy

00:01:19.140 canuck goes out on the bow river i know that the fire department's out there practicing so they're

00:01:25.180 getting ready for a busy season uh lots to talk about today oh check it out before i get into it

00:01:32.140 look who's over my shoulder this shoulder do you guys recognize him just sort of behind the western

00:01:38.860 standard logo there well if you don't that's uh steven gilbeau so we'll talk about gilbo today

00:01:44.860 one of the reasons i'm so happy right now um and and the main topic though today well of course

00:01:51.180 the show is all about you guys right the show's about you guys um it's we're doing a call-in talk

00:01:56.780 show so it really is dependent on you guys and gals calling in and making the topics about things

00:02:04.060 that you guys want to talk about and gals um and as i've said before if you call please leave your

00:02:11.100 name and uh tell us where you're calling from and then what you want to talk about and don't be shy

00:02:16.940 um things i want to talk about today i'll do a little bit of a monologue to start it off you

00:02:21.900 know i want to the title today is i don't know if you guys can see the title i always provide

00:02:25.980 a title sort of to to john maybe the title shows up on the youtube and on wherever platforms it

00:02:32.300 doesn't show up directly on the screen but the title today of course is a referendum on a referendum

00:02:37.420 you know danielle smith walking the tightrope uh i'll give my thoughts on that but other things

00:02:43.180 definitely on uh on the topic hopefully today uh the jason kenney versus uh keith wilson debate was

00:02:50.220 on monday that was a big event uh it's the five-year anniversary i think yesterday or the

00:02:55.020 day before five-year anniversary of the cam loops residential school ground penetrating survey

00:03:00.460 radar survey uh gilbo resigning other people potentially resigning the western premier's

00:03:06.780 meeting in canaanaskis and a few other stories so all right so i have so uh subsequent to the

00:03:12.940 show last week danielle smith had her press release and made a pre-recorded press release

00:03:19.100 she didn't change it i thought she might change a few things in light of court rulings and uh and

00:03:25.580 ministers resigning but no she had her press release and and she talked about exactly what

00:03:31.660 she talked about what we thought she was going to talk about which is a question

00:03:34.700 on independence on the referendum but she caught us off guard with the wording of that question

00:03:40.060 right so danielle is committed to um she's committed to democracy okay so she's a libertarian

00:03:48.400 she's committed to democracy and giving the citizens of alberta better tools so kenny's

00:03:54.120 the one who gave us the the um citizens initiative act initially and then uh danielle refined it so

00:04:01.420 the you know she's in favor of giving albertans a voice uh the voice that the attempt at first

00:04:08.460 didn't work out too good uh court uh struck down the current petition and but danielle said that's

00:04:16.860 not uh gonna stop the mock the will of the people right she recognizes that all toll there's about

00:04:23.740 seven hundred thousand people who voice their opinion one way or another on on different

00:04:28.300 petitions and want a referendum on independence so she's kind of compromising and she's giving us

00:04:36.220 a reference she's going to give us a question and the question basically asks i don't know john if

00:04:41.820 you can find the question the question asks uh the wording along the question is should we start

00:04:47.420 the process of uh holding a referendum on independence so a referendum question on whether

00:04:54.940 or not to hold a referendum i'll come back to that i i wanted to finish my little monologue

00:05:00.620 but let's go because i already got a call on the line maybe we're going to have a busy day so go

00:05:04.380 ahead caller where are you calling from and what's your name please wait are you able to hear me yeah

00:05:09.820 absolutely okay so i'm actually in north idaho and i guess my question is that and i know that

00:05:15.740 canadians are kind of world famous for holding meetings about future meetings to consolidate and

00:05:21.900 maybe get consultations from endless groups to hold future meetings yeah is alberta really going

00:05:28.400 to get played by i guess smith's base i guess i i see smith at least from an american point of view 0.99

00:05:34.820 as kind of a gal who's going to rug pull you guys every time you guys get close to sniffing 1.00

00:05:38.920 freedom or any form of independence especially since didn't she run on all kinds of stuff that 0.54

00:05:44.140 should have already been done to make you guys more independent from ottawa uh 100 i mean no i

00:05:51.520 Thanks for the question and the comments.

00:05:53.420 Stay on the line because I got questions for you.

00:05:55.300 But yeah, it's a combination.

00:05:58.100 I mean, yeah, it depends on the day you ask me the question.

00:06:01.040 Someday when you ask me that exact question, I'd say, no, she's going to pull the rug on us.

00:06:04.940 And other days I'd say, no, she's truly on board with providing as much of a democratic process as possible.

00:06:12.740 this week i'd say uh if i finished my monologue i was going to say i was i'm leaning more towards

00:06:19.880 she's naive and she's uh going down a very um naive path and she's almost interfering so um

00:06:27.500 i mean it's a loaded question but but from so what's your what's your take from north idaho

00:06:33.080 i'm i'm always interested so what what do americans think of what's going on in alberta

00:06:37.880 specifically right now well because because we're right because we were

00:06:42.680 we're right there at the border about 70 miles away and Albertans and then

00:06:47.200 there's a there's a swat of British Columbians and Saskatchewans I guess but

00:06:52.880 where they're normal they're regular people they work hard and I guess they 1.00

00:06:58.160 kind of basically fund the rest of the country it's just kind of those things

00:07:01.880 where you're kind of like one of those you just kind of view it like yeah these

00:07:04.620 people didn't have a choice to become a province they're ran or they're

00:07:09.360 absolutely full with conservative citizens yes their government never do

00:07:14.740 anything to break any kind of independence from even smaller things

00:07:18.480 it's almost like it's almost like the provinces all have to follow kind of

00:07:21.940 like okay here you're gonna do your schooling this way okay you're gonna

00:07:24.660 flood your area with a whole bunch of replacement pop you know you're gonna 0.94

00:07:27.480 do all these things it's like our province is not allowed any kind of

00:07:31.800 freedom in running their own their own retirement fund running their own schools

00:07:38.160 the way that they want you know removing so it's just kind of weird that you've

00:07:42.180 got so many salt-of-the-earth kind of people I mean they're also kind of they

00:07:45.560 also they also not a party but salt-of-the-earth kind of people yet

00:07:49.040 there they allow themselves to be kind of ran by pretty pretty I don't know

00:07:54.480 what yeah like round here we call them rhinos but pretty weak it's almost like

00:07:58.080 we're going to pass a new tax on you but here let's pray first yeah no listen boy we could you

00:08:03.580 and i could probably have a long chat so i'll i appreciate the call i'll i'll let you go and but

00:08:08.620 i'll keep answering well stay on the line i'll just answer a couple things back to your original

00:08:12.740 question to your original question uh nobody's going to let us go easily it doesn't matter right

00:08:18.480 so alberta is not going to be let go easily and danielle is playing this tightrope line of helping 0.66

00:08:24.300 but not necessarily helping i mean we all recognize she's a politician she fundamentally

00:08:28.400 took an oath to the king who's our sovereign leader and so she can't be bluntly openly

00:08:35.080 separatist so so i think at the end of the day she's going to oppose more than help that's that's

00:08:41.100 my thoughts um agree agree um to the other part we in canada we're different than you guys in the

00:08:47.740 u.s i mean we're that's why alberta's fighting alberta's trying to fight we don't want to become

00:08:51.940 an american state but we want to be kind of like you guys are and the way we were designed to be

00:08:57.360 our original confederation was that each province was supposed to be as you describe uh its own

00:09:03.720 health care its own republic it's a mini republic and then and confederation is just a collaboration

00:09:09.880 but all ottawa has been overreaching and taking power over time and we're not we're a bunch of

00:09:15.440 nice people who give up that power easily that's that's the answer so tonight yeah too nice yeah

00:09:21.320 too compliant i and i don't know how you instill non-compliance we didn't fight the way you guys

00:09:26.900 did you guys have a different start to history you fought for your independence from the king

00:09:31.300 and after the king of england saw what you guys did the king said oh i better give the canadians

00:09:37.120 a little bit of something but make sure they never do what the americans did so we were given a bit

00:09:42.140 of freedom uh we didn't fight for it we didn't earn it and we certainly don't appreciate it the

00:09:46.780 way you guys appreciate it that's my thoughts i appreciate the call man thanks for calling you're

00:09:50.420 think you're my first american to call cheers i appreciate it keep up the great work all right

00:09:55.620 thank you so uh wow great start so just to finish on the thoughts right and it his question do wrap

00:10:02.660 into what i was going to say so danielle is offering um her her explanation is i got to keep

00:10:08.260 the democratic process going the uh the albertans have a large percentage of albertan you know let's

00:10:14.980 let's call it a third of the province is talking about independence and she can't allow the courts

00:10:19.860 to just block that even though the courts have blocked it she will she will appeal it and uh

00:10:25.540 and but she recognizes that could that the clock is going to run out for a referendum this year

00:10:30.100 so she's giving us an alternative which is a referendum on a referendum i personally don't

00:10:35.140 like that because now we have to win two referendums we have to win this one and if we don't win this

00:10:40.340 one we're done and if we win this one then we get a referendum on independence and then we have to

00:10:44.660 win that one so we have to win two in a row and that gives the other side two opportunities to 0.62

00:10:48.980 knock us off and when i think about it at a high level i see danielle being a politician and playing 0.96

00:10:56.900 um you know trying to please everybody trying to please the separatists trying to please 0.98

00:11:03.140 the separatist side of her party trying to make sure nenshi doesn't get into power trying to appease 0.86

00:11:09.380 um uh government workers who are worried about independence she's trying to work with ottawa

00:11:16.260 and try it you know what i mean so she's to me she's walking a tightrope and it's it's too tight

00:11:22.900 it's too risky and i think it's gonna she's i think she just made a misstep because if you

00:11:28.580 look at what has happened to her this week her her claim like she the fact that she's helped

00:11:36.500 that she's being democratic nobody's hearing that nobody nobody hears that all they hear

00:11:42.020 or all they want to hear is that danielle is a separatist even though she keeps saying over and

00:11:47.140 over and over and over that she's going to be on the stay side doesn't matter uh the mainstream 0.94

00:11:53.700 media went all in on uh labeling her as a separatist and as pandering to a certain group

00:12:00.580 right the separatist group so i so i i don't know i i see the events of thursday last week

00:12:06.500 kind of backfiring on her but time will tell i mean luckily uh the alberta legislature is in

00:12:14.500 recess right now until after the referendum until after october so we'll see what happens

00:12:20.420 but on the same side um i see one of the people she's trying and leave that question up there

00:12:25.860 john i'll get to it in a second but um part of the tightrope that also uh worries me is that she's

00:12:34.100 keeps saying over and over right she that she's confident that she can get us a better deal

00:12:40.420 within confederation right she's always said that she references the mou and stuff like that

00:12:45.780 but on on the other side i don't think i think she's naive and thinking she can make the changes

00:12:54.020 and i think she won't be and on the other side carney won't be able to make the changes we've

00:12:58.660 seen it already this week right the moment he starts offering nice things to albertans like

00:13:06.180 an mou with a potential pipeline the moment he starts the moment we are perceived as getting

00:13:11.140 something nice the rest of the country the east gets upset we're not allowed to have nice things

00:13:16.020 which is why that guy over my shoulder resigned yesterday he had quit um not the caucus but he had

00:13:25.060 he had resigned as a minister last year when carney announced the mou that upset him that

00:13:31.860 upset gilbo and now he's so upset that he actually quit he literally said i cannot stand by carney

00:13:40.820 as he reverses all these policies whoa okay um i'll get back i'll get back to the question that's

00:13:48.660 on the on the screen let's go to the caller because i don't want to lose callers online

00:13:53.460 So go ahead, name. Where are you calling from, please?

00:13:58.380 Hi, I'm Sue. I'm from rural Beaver County.

00:14:02.240 Nice to have you on the show. Sue, what's on your mind?

00:14:07.940 I just noticed on the mainstream media lately, the separatists are being called irritated or frustrated.

00:14:16.820 That's the names I can kind of remember, which seems kind of mild.

00:14:20.740 And I thought that our side of the fence should start telling them how we really feel, that we're really mad, not irritated or frustrated.

00:14:31.700 And with that in mind, I think we should also change the rhetoric that we say what's bothering us are the threats from Ottawa.

00:14:43.520 things like i heard from jason kenney uh the other day about oh these separatists will lose

00:14:51.340 their passport um yeah that's what they're going to lose um but i think we should uh emphasize

00:14:58.340 more what's really going on and what we really feel about the censorship coming to us from bills

00:15:04.260 in parliament that are going to uh clamp down on what we can say and what we can do um making

00:15:12.180 snowbirds that cross the border

00:15:14.740 that are holding their

00:15:16.740 guns. What's going to happen

00:15:18.680 to those people that decide to leave

00:15:20.820 in October or November of this year

00:15:22.680 to head south for the winter

00:15:24.480 since they

00:15:26.800 haven't handed their guns in? Are they going to

00:15:28.760 be loaded up and put

00:15:30.680 in jail when they arrive at the border?

00:15:32.800 I'm really concerned about that one.

00:15:34.900 I mean, I don't

00:15:36.940 I'm not in that boat

00:15:38.820 but I'm really worried about that.

00:15:40.620 Stay on the line, Sue. Lots to unpack there. You brought up about three or four points and I'll try and, you know, maybe we'll have a back and forth. So you watched it. Did you watch the debate between Kenny and Keith? Or you just saw clips of it?

00:15:57.060 yes i did okay um no i watched okay good um you know i i i i think there's going to be rhetoric

00:16:07.540 on both sides for for a while i mean that's that's how unfortunately that's just the reality of the

00:16:13.620 world but i also do think that um we're entering a new phase right during during there there was

00:16:19.380 the re there was the petition collecting signatures and stuff like that and then there was the defeat

00:16:23.700 by the courts and i think there's been a realization by the separatist movement that

00:16:28.580 we can't be about rhetoric we need to start getting organized and and really building a

00:16:34.740 case of why we're to your words we're we're frustrated we're mad right we're pissed off

00:16:40.020 and and uh and i think we have valid reasons to be so and and i and when we i we're going to start

00:16:47.140 raising the the reasons why it's not just pipelines right we're underrepresented in the

00:16:52.580 house of commons we're underrepresented in the senate and even if we had the proportionate

00:16:57.220 representation we're going to get overruled because there's 30 million people in that

00:17:01.460 little triangle between you know ottawa toronto and montreal versus five of us here so um i i

00:17:07.700 think the the tone of the debate might change but on the other hand you're right you got the other

00:17:14.820 side that keeps throwing this really nasty um you know almost lies like you mentioned you know people

00:17:23.220 are saying oh you're going to lose your passports and stuff like that which we know is not true

00:17:27.620 so i i don't know how to exactly address i i think we will address that in the coming

00:17:32.740 you know three four months we're gonna we're gonna tone down the rhetoric and get more to

00:17:37.380 facts does that make sense or yes um i wasn't quite so worried about the passport thing i knew

00:17:45.620 that was a lie as as that's really i feel what's going on here is lying but i'm i'm kind of more

00:17:54.020 worried about these bills that they keep pushing through i know some of the stuff will be eliminated

00:17:59.860 from the bills they'll tear them down to something more manageable but uh the loss of cash and the

00:18:06.180 the loss of use of our gas-powered vehicles.

00:18:09.240 Those are two huge things that I really, really am worried about,

00:18:14.660 and we just have to push harder.

00:18:16.800 We've got to show people really what the threats are.

00:18:20.260 The threat isn't of us separating from Canada.

00:18:23.480 The threat is what's going to happen to us when we stay under Ottawa's rule.

00:18:28.320 Yeah, I mean, I think you're preaching to the choir here.

00:18:32.760 Almost everybody that's listening is on board with what you're saying, Sue.

00:18:35.980 I mean, we get it. We just got to convince a handful, maybe a million of our fellow Albertans in particular.

00:18:44.180 We don't even need to worry about the rhetoric that's coming from, let's say, Ottawa or whatever.

00:18:48.260 Well, we do need to worry about it because it does sway some people. 0.97

00:18:51.160 But more importantly, just focus on your, you know, your unconverted neighbors and convert them over to our system.

00:18:57.080 Our movement is the best thing you can do.

00:19:01.040 Just before you go, we haven't talked about the gun grab in a while.

00:19:05.980 and it's not even on the news, and you bring up a great point.

00:19:08.740 Like in October, if the Liberals don't extend the amnesty,

00:19:12.860 a whole bunch of us, like I'm predicting, you know,

00:19:15.040 two, three hundred thousand Albertans will become criminal in the eyes of the law

00:19:18.620 because they will be in noncompliance and they'll have banned firearms.

00:19:23.880 That's something that the Liberals are absolutely going to have to address. 0.72

00:19:27.660 And we've been critical of Danielle on that one, too,

00:19:29.820 because she promised us something like an Alberta gun permit.

00:19:32.800 She thinks she has an idea to address it,

00:19:35.500 but she hasn't addressed it.

00:19:36.620 I'm in that boat.

00:19:37.320 I'm in that boat.

00:19:37.980 I'll admit it.

00:19:39.000 I have banned firearms that I'm holding on to.

00:19:41.920 And for me, it's a line in the sand.

00:19:46.000 I'm not turning them in.

00:19:48.940 Appreciate the call, Sue.

00:19:50.080 Thank you.

00:19:50.620 Right.

00:19:51.720 I think...

00:19:52.920 Go ahead.

00:19:53.860 Sure, thanks.

00:19:55.460 Oh, okay.

00:19:57.180 I really think that our side of the fence should spread this...

00:20:03.920 play the same game

00:20:06.060 that they're playing, use the fear

00:20:08.020 card. I think

00:20:09.460 if we're not playing their game, we're

00:20:12.040 not going to win. Fair enough.

00:20:14.160 All right. Appreciate the call. Thanks, too.

00:20:16.480 John, bring up those two

00:20:17.880 quick ones on the screen there.

00:20:21.040 These are called Super

00:20:22.060 Chats, folks. I'm sure some of you know these.

00:20:24.740 People pay a few bucks

00:20:26.080 and then their chat gets promoted

00:20:28.220 up on the screen. So I'm going to read that one from

00:20:30.280 Dirt McFerguson.

00:20:32.080 ferguson and i know that gentleman he's made comments on some of my other shows derp says

00:20:37.180 smith can use the referendum ambiguity as a political versus ottawa she has no reason to

00:20:42.260 resolve it lukazic's referendum isn't blocked and is useful let's let's support l's lukazic's to be

00:20:51.400 on the ballot and push for no yeah i i think that sail that ship has sailed unfortunately derp i

00:20:57.960 I think Danielle has told us what she's doing, and we're going to have a referendum on whether or not to have a referendum.

00:21:03.320 John, while you leave that one up there, maybe find the question that Danielle proposed.

00:21:08.640 And I'll read this one from R.C. Lamour for $20.

00:21:11.740 Oh, thank you.

00:21:13.160 Canadians will soon have to decide whether to stay together in the new Republic of Canada or go independent province by province with arrests looming in the federal and provisional governments.

00:21:25.560 we are embarking on a new canada oof um yeah well that's what this summer is going to be about it's

00:21:34.100 going to be an interesting summer um we're gonna the first part of your question i agree with

00:21:41.340 this thing i guess i'm not aware of arrests looming in the federal and provincial government

00:21:46.580 i guess uh well i've always hoped for arrests i really would like how many times have we said

00:21:52.320 that right politicians break our laws and and there are no consequences i mean once in the last

00:21:57.120 time a politician in this country actually faced some serious consequences for breaking a law um

00:22:03.500 been a long time so there's the question that danielle is proposing to add to the october 19th

00:22:10.060 referendum should alberta remain a province of canada or should the government of alberta

00:22:15.080 commence the legal process required under the canadian constitution to hold a binding

00:22:19.620 provincial referendum on whether or not alberta should separate from canada to me that's too

00:22:23.860 complicated and that's two questions so um it remains to be seen if that's exactly the way it

00:22:31.280 goes on the ballot if it does i think that's confusing and it opens another possibility for

00:22:36.940 a court injunction or an appeal or somebody to make a claim that the question is too complicated

00:22:42.880 we'll see we'll see um all right so i was uh so we were talking about uh smith so i think smith

00:22:51.760 is walking a tightrope um that that and she's making promises that potentially she can't deliver

00:22:59.980 on we'll see oh i don't even okay i love a day like this i'm not gonna i i this is all about

00:23:06.260 you guys so i'm immediately going to the callers let's go to the caller what's your name where

00:23:10.140 you calling from please? Hi, it's Mark calling from Calgary. Hey, Mark, how are you? Well, pretty

00:23:19.020 good, thanks. Yeah, I just I just wanted to call, you know, call about, you know, your headlining

00:23:25.040 at Daniel Smith's political payroll. Indeed, I totally agree that she's walking a pretty fine

00:23:32.360 line, trying to plead a lot of people. We all know what happens when Christ pleases everyone.

00:23:36.660 But I look at Mark Carney right now, and if you have 14 Liberals signing a document saying they are not happy with the signing of these memorandums regarding pipelines, I think that is just an absolute gift for the Sovereign Just Movement.

00:23:59.120 It just goes to show that Mark Carney has problems in his own party where he is going to have to make a choice.

00:24:08.860 And the reason I think it's a gift, it exposes the hypocrisy of what's happened for all these years of Alberta complaining against Ottawa, doing this, you know, da-da-da, and people saying, oh, just keep quiet, keep quiet.

00:24:26.940 And now we find out that it's probably majority Quebec Liberals.

00:24:32.080 I'm sure there's some BC Liberals in there.

00:24:34.480 But I'm no strategist, but I think now we can pose the whole thing, bring it to the surface.

00:24:42.480 This isn't Alberta against Ottawa.

00:24:44.940 This is Alberta against Quebec.

00:24:47.320 I completely agree, Mark. 0.60

00:24:49.260 Stay on the line.

00:24:49.820 I actually had this down here.

00:24:52.100 As part of Gilboa resigning, I had a question about who else is going to resign.

00:24:55.860 and the 14 disgruntled mps he's hint he's talked about it i i wonder if gilbo i don't think gilbo

00:25:02.020 is going to go away quietly right i think he will talk about who these 14 mps are but to your point

00:25:08.180 i don't think it's i i wouldn't label it as hypocrisy i would label it as we're actually

00:25:13.460 seeing the truth right i i used to wonder if um if if these mps that believed in climate

00:25:19.220 change were only doing it you know to to line their own pockets but we're beginning to see that

00:25:24.500 some of them are truly truly truly believe that um that that alberta is is destroying the planet

00:25:32.260 that oil and gas has to be eliminated like we're seeing that right it's not hypocrisy they're

00:25:36.820 showing us their true colors and we need to appreciate that they're they think differently

00:25:40.900 than we do but so they're activists yes yes yeah so gilbo's not alone i agree like who i mean and

00:25:50.020 And then did you see the, like, oh, my God, it was a weird press conference.

00:25:54.100 But Elizabeth May praising Gilboa almost to the point of being in tears.

00:26:00.020 So I'll ask you, do you think Gilboa will go away quietly?

00:26:04.400 Or do you think he's – is he going to reappear somewhere?

00:26:06.800 Or is he going to rock the boat and sort of attack and be mean to Kearney?

00:26:11.520 What's your thoughts?

00:26:13.460 Oh, I think he's definitely going to reappear somewhere.

00:26:16.220 And by him saying that, you know, there's potentially others to come, I don't know whether it's a new party or whatever, but you are going to see some level of activism from him.

00:26:27.740 I mean, the guy was, what, scaling the CN Tower or doing something.

00:26:31.340 I mean, this guy is still in the Save the Whale, you know, mode.

00:26:37.640 He's just showing the disdain he has for what we're trying to do out in Western Canada.

00:26:43.260 And, again, you know, another thing, how's he going to get, you know, the media support?

00:26:50.540 Because if he attacked Carney, now that's going to be a problem, again, for Carney.

00:26:56.500 Because Carney has to keep those people that signed that letter happy.

00:27:03.120 Because Carney's painted into that corner.

00:27:05.740 He will choose those people rather than Alberta.

00:27:09.060 We know that.

00:27:10.360 MOUs are just lip service.

00:27:12.260 yeah yeah no i appreciate that mark uh great great comments um i i you know gilbo is a true radical

00:27:20.500 and there are others like him perhaps he's 14 and then it's not just environmental radicals right we

00:27:26.180 we talked earlier in the show about the gun grab like that that lady um from uh paulisa suvian who

00:27:32.260 became a minister she's a radical like these people are are downright radical and have entered 0.99

00:27:37.620 politics as a way to put uh to advance their own personal agendas it has nothing to do with making

00:27:43.460 the country better so um yeah appreciate the call thank you so much hey john could i just go ahead

00:27:50.020 oh sorry i'm i'm just gonna sneak in one little thing about uh saying oh sorry no no go ahead go

00:27:57.860 ahead uh mark go ahead oh yeah i was just gonna say have you uh you know i've worked in the oil

00:28:03.140 patch 40 years um you you've got a little bit of gray hair around you working in in the oil patch

00:28:08.980 do you ever remember us supplying oil to that strategic reserve that nobody ever has called

00:28:14.660 out carny or that champagne about where is that no where is it marty yeah where is it we talked

00:28:21.620 about that in the show about a month or two months ago yeah canada has no strategy canada has no

00:28:27.460 strategic reserves and the mainstream media when he mentioned that failed at their job you're that's

00:28:31.780 what you're hinting at right they should have pointed that out absolutely uh the americans have

00:28:35.780 a strategic yeah yeah thank you mark take care um john perfect segue because we talked so much

00:28:42.580 about gilbo so uh you guys know that this week uh the western standard finally started doing what a

00:28:50.020 lot of other channels and businesses do started offering merchandise and um so there's uh what's

00:28:57.540 the link if you know how to get to the western standard uh website you'll find the merch store

00:29:03.140 right there on the uh on the website but um and and then the merchandise yeah visit western

00:29:10.100 standard store dot news and so some of the merchandise is your typical stuff right the

00:29:15.700 hats like this everybody loves hats i mean this is the new logo and then you got hats with the old

00:29:21.140 logo um you got stuff like this right hoodies with uh with the alberta the the what do you

00:29:28.560 call this one the weathered the monochromatic alberta uh emblem a shield but uh and and then

00:29:36.860 if you go to the website there's more than that there's coffee mugs and stuff like that but it's

00:29:40.580 also broken down into sort of uh categories and one of the more popular categories right now

00:29:45.320 show the uh gilbo category so uh well there's stephen gilbo in his famous jumpsuit right

00:29:51.580 gilbo before entering politics was a radical uh activist i mean known for having climbed i think

00:29:58.060 that's the jumpsuit he was wearing when he got arrested after climbing the cn tower i think he

00:30:05.020 uh did he once somebody correct me on this but i think he once even protested in front of ralph

00:30:10.880 client's home i'm pretty sure that but uh maybe show john can you show yeah there you go so there's

00:30:17.040 uh those are two of the best sellers right now that mug the stephen gilbo mug is a best seller

00:30:23.040 and i don't know if you can see the back side of the mug but the back side of the mug says i love

00:30:27.120 oil and gas so uh get yourself one of those and uh if you use i don't know where it is i think

00:30:34.800 it's going to be underneath the in the description of this video there'll be a discount code so if

00:30:40.160 you're using it's probably going to be marty 10 or something like that you get a 10 discount code

00:30:45.200 for ordering some stuff on there um awesome awesome awesome uh just staying on that subject

00:30:51.600 real quick so yeah um gilbo resigned now of course he's going to stay on and milk it for as long as

00:30:58.240 possible uh parliament uh alberta's in recess but the federal parliament is still going until june

00:31:07.120 20th so about another month and then it recesses from june 21st until september 14th so gilbo is

00:31:14.160 going to stay on i suspect until about june 21st and but once he leaves the majority still exists

00:31:22.960 i think for an exact majority you need 174 uh seats with uh gilbo going the liberals will have 173

00:31:31.680 to the other parties 172 but um there's also it's not a rumor um minister wilkinson uh he will also

00:31:43.680 be resigning shortly because it's been announced that he is being appointed as canada's ambassador

00:31:50.000 to the european union so he's gone and then there are a few rumors of others that uh like we've

00:31:58.480 mentioned in in recent weeks the the ontario liberals are holding their leadership race in

00:32:04.720 the near future and so some federal liberals might leave all to say that it's likely that sometime

00:32:12.160 that by the end of june when parliament recesses carney will have lost his majority now he can re

00:32:19.520 re-win it by having some uh by elections but then most play most uh by elections never occur in the

00:32:26.320 the middle of summer so you know it'd wait until september for his by elections and and what that

00:32:32.180 means is in the next four weeks the liberals have a very weak majority like a two vote majority

00:32:38.700 which gives them a little bit of wiggle room to try and pass a couple of laws but i don't think

00:32:43.460 they'll succeed in doing anything i went and watched uh i went and looked at the at the website

00:32:48.380 to see what bills are being worked on we we keep hearing about bill c22 and some of the other ones

00:32:53.140 are getting a lot of resistance and beyond that there's nothing really impressive in the list of

00:32:58.580 bills so carney knows that he's not risking anything right now he's not putting forth

00:33:03.700 anything too too controversial and he's doing the same thing as danielle smith he's navigating his

00:33:09.780 own party um as the previous caller said like he's on the on the verge of losing it because

00:33:16.100 he's got some crazy radicals and he's moved some of those radicals out of the way and i

00:33:20.420 and i think he's probably identified them and he needs to get rid of a few more

00:33:24.260 so it's going to be maybe a quiet summer uh go ahead on the line where are you calling from and

00:33:29.940 name please hey marty how are you good good it's diane from devon hey diane how are you what's on

00:33:40.900 on your mind I'm good um the question Daniel's question is a riddle inside of a riddle that's

00:33:51.200 what I would liken it to and um what I think we need to realize and this is what I really come to

00:34:01.660 terms with is that um this is agenda 2030 this is global and everything they're trying to implement

00:34:10.700 in Canada is all the Western countries.

00:34:15.880 I mean, we've discussed this before.

00:34:18.560 It's European, it's Australia,

00:34:20.840 it's the digital ID, it's the gun grab.

00:34:24.940 And that is what we're fighting against,

00:34:29.140 a massive cabal.

00:34:31.060 It's not just we're fighting against Carney,

00:34:35.260 but he's a huge part of it

00:34:36.900 because that is where he came from.

00:34:39.760 that is that is those are his peers that is where he has come from he just got parachuted

00:34:46.840 into canada he's never held an elected office before and that's what we're up against and i

00:34:53.760 don't know how can we really fight that even with our constitution or um our uh what do you call it

00:35:04.020 our um charter of rights or not our constitution but the charter whatever's in the charter

00:35:11.780 can we actually fight this massive dark cloud with what we have and i know it's grassroots and i know

00:35:20.740 it's people that are fighting for their hearts for not for canada anymore they're fighting for

00:35:27.060 the future of our children and our grandchildren but can we can we really fight that now

00:35:34.020 short answer is we have no choice right uh diane we have to i i i tend to agree with you it's um

00:35:41.700 um there are big powers that be i agree that carney was uh placed right trudeau was screwing

00:35:49.140 it up and then uh and then they had to replace trudeau and bring in carney and now i think

00:35:52.980 carney's had this real realization after a year that like oh it really was screwed up and he's

00:35:59.620 trying to he's trying to clean it up by by uh bringing the agenda back but he knows he can't

00:36:05.780 do it quickly right he knows that the cleanup getting rid of people who were incompetent and

00:36:10.260 other things is is uh is problematic for him i mean yeah yeah he has real problems he's trying

00:36:16.180 to clean it up and for for his handlers i agree on that i agree on that and and uh we have no choice

00:36:22.660 we have to keep fighting him um oh you you made me think of something but i i lost my thoughts um

00:36:31.860 ah yeah i appreciate the call diane i'm sorry i i lost my thought and anything else you want to add

00:36:37.940 or uh so so how's the sentiment how's the sentiment in devon how are people around you like when you

00:36:44.100 oh i know what i was going to say so um yeah so you and i are on the same page we meet a lot of

00:36:50.740 people that are on the same page so get it my my frustration and maybe it's yours too is how do you

00:36:56.180 explain people that can't see it and want to like how do we explain the in canada group like who's

00:37:02.500 gonna vote no to this referendum do you know what i mean like how how could people not see what's

00:37:07.700 going on do you do you meet people like that that are just blissfully ignorant yes yes yes and i'm

00:37:14.340 65 years old so that my demographic a lot of the people i like i'm amazed what comes out of their

00:37:23.860 mouth um they just i think part of it is they just want to ignore it and pretend everything in

00:37:33.600 canada the downfall of canada everything that we've talked about repeatedly they just want to

00:37:39.720 pretend it's not happening right and then there's people like me who are saying kids grandkids we

00:37:47.680 are looking we are seeing what the future is going to hold for our families but the rest of those

00:37:54.380 people they're just like checked out they just and to try to explain it to them not fight with

00:38:00.840 them but just even try to talk to them in a civil manner and explain it to them they just start

00:38:07.360 pulling all these crazy things out of the air and like honestly sometimes i just walk away i'm like

00:38:14.960 where where the heck did that even come from like it's it's it's beyond my logic and my rationale

00:38:21.360 that i i just don't understand it well thanks for the call don't give up you're you're you're in the

00:38:26.800 right group you're talking to the people you're you're part of a a movement that sees what's

00:38:32.480 happening and then don't lose hope there's a lot of us right there's there's 300 000 people that

00:38:37.760 signed that petition and i think there's uh at least as many who didn't sign it but have the

00:38:43.340 same sentiment so uh thanks for thanks for the call have a great weekend i i'm not gonna i'm not

00:38:49.520 gonna lose hope i'm gonna fight but i'm just saying i i'm i'm in reality and that's what i see

00:38:56.420 that's all i said thank you excellent all right have a great weekend yeah um yeah i'm gonna go

00:39:03.200 and speed up on some of my topics i had a lot of topics i want to talk about this is great this is

00:39:08.220 how i want this show to go right like comments john bring up that last uh we had one quick super

00:39:14.200 chat there that we missed on the way by i don't have my tablet in front of me there you go that

00:39:18.040 one uh the mask will soon come off many politicians yeah maybe uh no pun intended but it's a good

00:39:27.400 segue too which is weird there's a lot of masks reappearing right like it just goes to show

00:39:32.280 how fear is so powerful like how who's seen people every day now i see people with masks

00:39:38.120 back on while driving while doing things right like the antivirus and the monkey pox and what's

00:39:44.120 the other one the ebola uh and now they're they're they're um they're prepping us you can tell they're

00:39:50.120 prepping us right it's the fifa the soccer world cup is going to be hosted between canada mexico and

00:39:56.280 and uh and the us this summer in the coming months and now they're preparing us for the fact that

00:40:02.360 there might be some uh some extra measures um uh i wanted to talk about the premieres uh the western

00:40:10.680 premiers in canadasis but i got a call and i'm going to take the call so go ahead call

00:40:14.120 her where are you calling from name please hello hello yeah yeah go ahead

00:40:26.040 hi i'm calling i'm curious to know how it is the prime minister is sending all of our money to

00:40:31.400 ukraine yet all of a sudden we're in bed with china and china supplies russia with 60 of its

00:40:37.320 drone capacity which side are we supporting could you clear that up for me a little please marty

00:40:42.900 i can't that's uh i'm i'm i'm with you i think we're on the wrong side it's uh what what did

00:40:48.960 we spend a year or we spend a generation being told that china was the enemy the u.s were allies

00:40:55.440 and russia was the uh uh one of the bad guys and suddenly yeah we're in bed now with uh china i i 0.59

00:41:02.660 can't explain it i have no way of explaining it and it worries me because i i don't want to be 0.61

00:41:06.600 on the wrong side i don't want to be on team china man i want to be on team usa

00:41:10.460 yeah i agree with that 100 percent uh i just there's so much that this gentleman is conflicted 0.90

00:41:21.180 on and i don't get how it is people can't see how conflicted and what a liar he is

00:41:26.060 oh i i agree i mean and look at what he did this week right he's he's he's he's we've talked about

00:41:31.920 this a lot i mean he's it's served having a boogeyman having trump next door helps him right

00:41:37.980 i mean he people don't like trump trump derangement syndrome is real and so carney capitalized on that

00:41:44.200 to get elected but i think he's taken it too far like uh this week we had an opportunity again to

00:41:49.300 what do the americans want from us they just want that trade imbalance to be smaller they they want

00:41:56.220 some appreciation for the fact that they've been protecting us for all these years and what do we

00:42:00.360 keep doing aggravating them we had the opportunity to buy we talked about it

00:42:04.240 last week buying some snowbirds the new jets they could have gone to the US they

00:42:08.360 haven't done that we needed to buy some new advanced warning radar planes like

00:42:13.740 that and then we chose a European competitor instead of a instead of an 0.89

00:42:18.280 American one we're antagonizing the US and getting in bed with the Chinese I 1.00

00:42:22.440 didn't vote for that I am so amazed that we as Canadians are allowing him to 0.98

00:42:29.140 destroy 75% of our exchange with the Americans.

00:42:34.280 They are our friend, ally, and best business partner. 0.98

00:42:37.700 What are we doing?

00:42:39.860 Great question.

00:42:40.780 Thanks for the call.

00:42:41.520 I don't know the answer.

00:42:42.900 Yeah, I appreciate it.

00:42:44.640 Bye now.

00:42:45.280 Take care.

00:42:45.740 Thanks.

00:42:46.320 Where was that $2 chat there, John?

00:42:48.420 Did you bring it up?

00:42:49.140 Oh, yeah.

00:42:49.360 You brought that one up, I think, right?

00:42:51.460 That was the one.

00:42:53.580 Okay.

00:42:55.460 West.

00:42:56.340 Okay, cool.

00:42:56.920 so wow what a great show uh thanks everyone see see how easy it is all you do is pick up the phone

00:43:03.000 call us at 866 479 west whatever west stands for and uh and then uh chat with me i'm i'm i'm not a

00:43:12.200 i don't bite i'm just an average joe i got a bunch of things i want to talk about i got i got another

00:43:17.480 15 minutes we're good um i i was going to talk about the i was going to talk about the premier's

00:43:26.040 meeting in Kananaskis, nothing really significant came out of that one, except one thing, right?

00:43:32.820 I'll just wrap it up into this real quick. There is tension between the premiers, the Western

00:43:39.280 premiers. Sorry, this was a Western premiers, right? So Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, BC,

00:43:43.680 and the territories were all there. Wob Canoe sort of took a jab at Premier Smith about whether,

00:43:51.640 you know about the referendum question and consulting and then and then you got uh eb

00:43:57.000 who still continues to say there won't be any pipelines going across right and so it goes back

00:44:03.240 to the earlier theme where um where uh carney and is making some promises that he's kicking he's

00:44:12.680 passing the buck right he's like yeah i'll give you the pipeline but he's but he's ignoring the

00:44:17.960 fact that he's not going to impose on bc he's going to give bc the veto so he's going to let

00:44:23.720 bc be the the the bad guys in these discussions or maybe even manitoba right you see what carney's

00:44:29.240 doing and so you see it in these meetings right like these two eb and and wob canoe were um there

00:44:37.240 was tension let's just put it that way there was tension uh smith looked a little bit uncomfortable

00:44:41.400 poor danielle i mean um i'll cut her a bit of slack enjoy the summer danielle there's a recess

00:44:47.720 coming on but i i i mean i i want to cut you some slack but at the same time i also want to be

00:44:53.880 critical of a bunch of things i i won't even get around to it today but i i got my tax bill this

00:44:59.640 week my municipal tax bill all you guys got your tax bill this week and you probably saw a big jump

00:45:06.120 right and i saw the big jump compared to last year it's about for me it was about an eight percent

00:45:11.320 jump in my tax bill i think some of you folks are going to get 10 12 but when you look at that jump

00:45:15.800 in your tax bill my municipality i live in rocky view you know here let me okay let's talk about

00:45:23.720 it real quick when municipalities collect money for themselves but they also collect education

00:45:30.040 money so when you look at your typical tax bill municipal tax bill about half of it is money that

00:45:35.240 goes to the municipality and then the other half goes right back to edmonton so municipalities

00:45:39.720 collect money on behalf of edmonton the the education portion so my tax bill goes up nine

00:45:45.640 percent and i'm like oh that looks pretty steep but then when i look i live in rocky view and i go oh

00:45:50.600 the portion collected by rocky view is fairly consistent compared to last year it's like

00:45:55.400 you know it went up three or four percent i'm okay with that but then when i look at the education

00:45:59.800 component of my tax bill it went up by like 16 well that's all danielle smith man that's all

00:46:06.280 nate horner her former minister that's all we'll talk about this one next week there's a big jump 1.00

00:46:11.800 in our tax bills and i think smith is using the municipalities to do some of her dirty work and 1.00

00:46:18.600 this huge increase in educational uh levies that's all about out of control immigration that that's a

00:46:24.760 topic in and of itself so we'll talk about that next week but uh yeah so the the premier's meeting

00:46:30.040 in kananaskis a lot of tension there and again it just shows that um there's some there's some real

00:46:38.040 um flaws in confederation i i i think that's the core message for us alberta separatists

00:46:45.400 okay it's nothing personal it's nothing personal but confederation the way it was designed alberta

00:46:51.880 came into confederation in 1905 almost kicking and screaming and after 100 years plus it's not

00:46:58.200 working for us okay that's as simple as that it's not working we don't get proportionate representation

00:47:03.400 in the senate the house of commons or in the courts and we're outnumbered and the people out

00:47:08.120 east think differently than they than we do they they they truly bought into climate change and

00:47:13.960 totally bought into woke ideologies and and all sorts of bizarre things and um and they they're

00:47:21.960 they're showing that that's just not a fad for them it's how they think they think differently

00:47:26.680 than we do and and therefore this agreement doesn't work so we came into it we tried it

00:47:33.240 we don't like it we want to go our own separate ways and i can make a lot of arguments as to why

00:47:38.920 we need to leave and i haven't heard too many arguments on the other side as to why we should

00:47:43.400 stay so let's just that's how we got to promote the uh the movement in the coming uh in the coming

00:47:50.360 months um all right right right at the top of my list and i skipped over it and we never talked

00:47:57.320 about it and i don't know if other people talked about it on the show this week john maybe give me

00:48:00.920 a thumbs up but um yesterday or the day before was the five year anniversary of the cam loops

00:48:08.760 residential school uh ground penetrating survey okay so the survey had been done and so all

00:48:16.600 all that this is it was five years ago on this week that there was a press conference where

00:48:21.640 somebody said hey uh we use this ground penetrating radar we scan the area uh near the school where

00:48:29.820 somebody thought that there had been a cemetery at one point and we saw some anomalies okay they

00:48:36.720 went as far as saying that they thought those 200 and whatever 15 anomalies were little graves and

00:48:43.440 it's been five years of talking about these things and i've heard every imaginable theory i mean

00:48:48.720 there's people who say that um maybe there were graves and and were they mass graves because of

00:48:55.680 atrocities some people say no it's simply a reality that in the 1800s when people died they

00:49:01.600 were buried in a little impromptu cemetery somewhere and there might have been a cross

00:49:05.760 at one point made out of wood but the cross is gone right so there's that theory there's the

00:49:11.680 The other theory that no, there were, that the cemetery is not that big.

00:49:15.520 There were people who died in school, that it was the 1800s.

00:49:19.060 You had whatever, diseases were rampant and life were tough.

00:49:25.460 And unfortunately, some people died, children died.

00:49:28.840 Was it malicious?

00:49:29.780 Who knows?

00:49:30.840 We'll never know.

00:49:31.760 But in this instance, a lot of us are asking something very simple.

00:49:36.520 If you think there's a cemetery there, then just do a little archaeological dig.

00:49:41.980 We do archaeological digs all the time.

00:49:45.220 I mean, in Europe, they still find bodies from the wars and things like that, and they'll dig them up.

00:49:51.300 They'll identify.

00:49:52.040 They did it this week, actually.

00:49:53.200 They identified the remains of a Canadian dead in the First World War.

00:49:57.120 so why why such resistance to just digging up a small teeny wean little section of this supposed

00:50:05.620 cemetery and look it up if there's bones it'll be settled once and for all if there's no bones

00:50:10.520 it'll be settled i mean to me that's the frustration it's been five years lots of money

00:50:15.880 spent on this and uh and we're not allowed to ask questions we're not allowed to uh you know

00:50:21.660 we're supposed to believe their what do they call it the the first nations have their truth keepers

00:50:27.260 they call it like nah i i'm a little more pragmatic that way i want some real evidence i'm not just

00:50:34.220 going to believe somebody's word take somebody's word and you know that there's something there

00:50:39.420 i want proof so it's been five years and a lot of frustration over that and i think it's actually

00:50:46.300 setting us back right i mean this whole idea of truth and reconciliation in order to have

00:50:52.060 reconciliation we need truth and the truth comes from putting shovels in the ground and digging

00:50:57.020 in that area i got another super chat there john if you could please bring it up

00:51:04.700 rc lemmer again there's another team playing against america american and canadian business

00:51:11.180 they're the government politicians and bureaucrats tied by nefarious mean all you have to do is look

00:51:16.780 up how russia got uranium okay i'll take your word for it rc a lot to unpack there um i think it's

00:51:27.420 you're bringing it back to something a lot of us are starting to realize i don't even want i actually

00:51:33.740 careful i have to be careful i don't want to go down this path too much you know in um in social

00:51:38.860 networks we call it being blue-pilled red-pilled you know have you uh like some of the callers are

00:51:43.900 like have you awakened i think i'm awake i've awakened to a lot of things that are going i'm

00:51:50.140 red-pilled but now i'm dangerously close to being black-pilled and i think some of the people have

00:51:54.540 called are dangerously close to being black-pilled black-pilled means you've actually witnessed

00:52:00.060 what's going on but now you've also resolved yourself to the fact that it's unchangeable

00:52:03.980 because there's these huge powers that be which rc brings up right like um and lots of people talk

00:52:10.380 about this and and um i'm i'm trying hard on many days not to get blackpilled and to to be like

00:52:17.100 diane and some of the other callers still hopeful that we can control our own destiny and and that

00:52:24.140 that i'm not just a real sheep in the global scheme if that makes sense uh caller on the line go ahead

00:52:31.420 please all right Marty yep doctor from Cal Mart Alberta go ahead how are you I

00:52:40.960 just wanted to make I'm good thanks I just wanted to talk about their

00:52:45.640 reference you have to know what friend the question on the restaurant the 0.76

00:52:48.880 question yeah but considering all those lawsuits and stuff Danielle Smith just

00:52:55.100 about had to do what she's done with the question on the question yeah and the way the way i look at 1.00

00:53:03.020 it that's just you know considering all the world blocks that's a pure form of democracy

00:53:11.100 yeah no you know just ask the public

00:53:16.860 no no i agree i i mean uh she's doing something right if she hadn't done what if she hadn't done

00:53:22.140 this the clock was really running out we wouldn't have a referendum this year but but let me ask you

00:53:27.820 this what do you are you okay with this or would you have rather taken a chance and not have a

00:53:31.680 referendum this year and maybe wait two years for a proper referendum no i'm uh i'm okay with what

00:53:39.220 she's doing right now but uh if we get a yes on the first question should we have a referendum

00:53:44.780 you should do it before the end of the year have a real referendum

00:53:50.960 well yeah i i see so you're saying if we get a yes on october 19th

00:53:58.620 then hold another referendum let's say october november december 19th two months later something

00:54:03.480 like that sure and we can have it all settled and have it all do all the paperwork everybody's

00:54:11.120 negotiations everything and but next spring we're we're out of here yeah no interesting uh i i think

00:54:19.040 you're overly optimistic there i mean if if we're yes on the first question in october then she'd

00:54:24.240 have to start consulting with the first nations and doing a bunch of other things and i i think

00:54:28.840 we would need more than two months to have it on the next referendum but uh hey quick question

00:54:33.820 where's calmar i i'm trying i'm racking my head uh 15 clicks west of the duke oh yeah

00:54:44.140 um now i know why it rings a bell i was there this winter playing i i curled there in a in a

00:54:49.900 little fun bond spiel you guys got a really cool little uh curling hall we had some uh we bond

00:54:54.700 spiel there and you had the fluorescent uh fluorescent curling that was awesome thank you

00:55:01.180 yeah yeah that's all sort of poverty too right oh okay cool awesome all right thanks for calling

00:55:07.900 okay have a good day you too um hey john just uh just on the subject of small towns uh can you

00:55:14.220 find the the lundbeck uh video because we've been talking about albertans and i want to show

00:55:19.580 you guys have seen this video right the albertans are just built a little bit different

00:55:23.980 and uh this week uh a video again similar to the guy who went over the cliff uh snowmobiling

00:55:30.460 uh this winter here's another crazy guy so uh the lundbeck falls are down by pincher creek

00:55:36.780 if you're ever down in pincher creek you have to do a little side trip there's kind of a provincial

00:55:40.540 park and there's these beautiful falls they're about 60 feet high and some crazy albertan on

00:55:46.620 a jet boat uh went over the falls earlier this week check out this video

00:56:04.620 here he comes look at the boat

00:56:06.380 oh that guy like i don't know how he hung on there when that boat hit i'm surprised he didn't

00:56:19.320 submarine that boat completely um that's just crazy i i don't know what was going through his

00:56:25.060 mind why he wanted to attempt that but uh he did so yes albertans are just built a little differently

00:56:31.380 all right we got time for a couple of other uh quick uh comment quick things um maybe this one

00:56:39.880 will be more i'm surprised this story didn't make the news more and maybe we'll talk about it more

00:56:45.080 next week but i'm just going to read the headline right so you guys remember the tragedy that

00:56:49.960 happened uh in march 2023 in edmonton um the police got called to a house and when the two

00:56:58.500 younger officers showed up on on um what's the word the unprovoked whatever the guy opened the

00:57:06.840 door and shot the two officers like boom and killed two officers and then turned the gun against

00:57:11.420 himself like a real tragedy right in edmonton three years ago well this week i'll just read

00:57:17.700 the headline a 21 year old edmonton man has been found guilty of three counts of manslaughter for

00:57:22.340 selling a semi-automatic rifle to a teenager who later used a weapon to kill the two officers and

00:57:27.140 himself and on on on first reading that i'm my gut goes what a nasty nasty like that that makes

00:57:35.940 me a little nervous that's precedent right um so maybe maybe maybe so the guy sold the gun illegally

00:57:42.020 get it the guy's son sold the gun illegally that's a crime there's definitely punishment for that but

00:57:47.140 the fact that he sold the gun illegally and then then he's held uh liable for how that gun was used

00:57:53.940 and and and the guy who's he didn't pull the trigger he just sold a gun and now he's been

00:57:59.040 found guilty on three counts of manslaughter i mean what if you uh sell a car to a 16 year old

00:58:05.900 kid who then goes on a drinking and driving and kills a pedestrian are you liable for having sold

00:58:12.380 that car i know there's already some liability if you're a bartender and you let somebody out

00:58:16.860 of the bar and they kill somebody because they were drunk there's liability there but

00:58:20.500 you know what i mean like this one makes me worried uh but then i'll throw it back at the

00:58:25.360 judges right what about the judge what about you guys the judges if you're watching this what about

00:58:30.260 the judge who releases somebody on bail a criminal on bail and then that criminal re-offends and

00:58:36.520 commits a crime shouldn't the judge then based on this ruling be held liable in part for what

00:58:42.080 happened so i mean the event was a tragedy um i just don't like this ruling i just don't like

00:58:49.200 this ruling because we live in a country based on precedence. And even though it doesn't really

00:58:55.200 affect me, and I don't think it will ever affect me, I'm capable of seeing how some rulings in

00:58:59.860 this country are cans of worms. And I don't like that. Running out of time, want to make one last

00:59:07.400 quick, I guess we'll talk about airport drugs next week. But just a personal note, just a personal

00:59:13.440 note, my little sister is retiring tomorrow. Okay. And I want to congratulate my sister. She

00:59:20.800 worked at one of the famous hospitals. She worked at a children's hospital and public relations her

00:59:25.520 whole career. And so I'm getting goosebumps. I'm proud of my sister for, for having, even though

00:59:31.220 she's a civil servant, she did a great job and she's retiring. Retirements don't happen very

00:59:36.960 often in this day and age. People get fired before they ever have a chance to retire. So I hope she

00:59:41.760 has a nice retirement. But I also want to throw out this one little thing about my sister. So as

00:59:46.780 a public relations officer for this big children's hospital throughout her life, her career, one of

00:59:53.740 her job was to organize and have celebrities come to the hospital. You know how celebrities come and

00:59:57.980 they meet with the children, right? Whether it's hockey teams or anybody that comes through town

01:00:02.380 and is doing a concert or whatever. And so my sister had almost like hundreds of NHL players

01:00:08.340 come through her office hundreds of celebrities american canadians singers country singers actors 0.99

01:00:15.140 all sorts of people it's incredible who she had in her office and she could have a wall of selfies

01:00:21.700 with all these celebrities she has zero none because she made a conscious decision a long

01:00:29.300 long time ago that her job was about the children and not about the people that she was inviting

01:00:35.380 and she never was opportunistic about all the people that came into her office and i just think

01:00:40.900 that for for for that is absolutely amazing that she did that just wanted to throw that out there

01:00:45.780 so congratulations marie um all right now i guess that brings the show to uh to the to the end uh

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Western Standard - May 28, 2026

A referendum on a referendum： Danielle Smith’s political tightrope

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