Western Standard - AB REPORT： Smith-Notley debate tonight

00:00:00.000 Good day, I'm Derek Fildebrand, publisher of the Western Standard. Today is May 18th,

00:00:15.120 2023, and you're watching the Alberta Report, our daily updates from the campaign trail.

00:00:21.220 I'm joined today by Western Standard opinion editor, Nigel Hannaford.

00:00:25.040 Good to be here.

00:00:25.960 And Western Standard news editor, Dave Naylor.

00:00:28.380 Hello, Derek.

00:00:28.880 We're also going to have our Alberta legislative reporter in Edmonton, Arthur Green, joining

00:00:35.280 us, as well as one of our Calgary reporters, Jonathan Bradley, joining us in a moment.

00:00:39.680 We're going to be talking about the big debate coming up tonight, but also news that came

00:00:46.340 out yesterday afternoon, NDP claiming that one of the UCB candidates is transphobic.

00:00:52.720 That was definitely on my bingo card for this election.

00:00:55.660 The ethics commissioner has finally come out with her report released just moments ago that

00:01:03.500 slapped Smith on the wrist a bit for talking to Tyler Shandro about pardons for people convicted

00:01:11.900 of non-violent COVID charges during lockdowns, etc., but also clearing her entirely of anything

00:01:20.220 appropriate with prosecutors, as was alleged by the NDP and the CBC.

00:01:24.800 And surprise, definitely on my election bingo card, a fourth NDP candidate, exposed now with links to communism, sharing pro-communist materials, etc.

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00:02:10.140 Okay, we're going to start with the big debate.

00:02:13.400 We talked about this yesterday, but this is such a pivotal moment normally in every campaign.

00:02:19.780 At least we look towards it.

00:02:21.520 Sometimes it's of consequence.

00:02:23.340 Most of the time, let's say two out of three debates, not much really happens.

00:02:29.960 Dave, what are we expecting today?

00:02:31.680 I think there might be some fireworks.

00:02:33.800 These are two leaders that do not like each other.

00:02:37.280 You've seen Danielle Smith trot out one of her lines that she'll be using tonight already, 0.99

00:02:44.060 that Rachel Notley was the worst premier in Alberta history,

00:02:48.120 and the NDP's got some fresh ammunition from the ethics commissioner.

00:02:53.640 So it'll be a good one, I hope.

00:02:56.240 Nigel, what do you think are the main points that Notley is going to try and score?

00:03:01.280 She's probably going to bring up the ethics thing because that was just today.

00:03:04.880 Although we're going to get into that in a bit, so we're not getting into the substance of it,

00:03:09.080 but she'll probably throw that up, but a number of other things as well.

00:03:12.480 Well, the whole NDP campaign has not been based on policy.

00:03:17.240 It's been based on attempting to undermine the character and the competence of Danielle Smith to be premier of the province. 0.81

00:03:25.300 So, yes, absolutely, they'll start off with the ethics commissioner.

00:03:30.800 They're going to go back over things that she has said in 17 years, 20 years of public punditry when she was thinking aloud,

00:03:39.620 and say, look, never mind what she says now.

00:03:42.700 This is what she really thinks, and you should be very, very worried about this.

00:03:48.140 So I would expect there'll be new material for sure.

00:03:51.780 You can bet that they will try and trot out something that the UCP hasn't had time to just say,

00:03:57.360 well, what would we say to that?

00:03:58.440 But I do suspect that the premier is pretty quick on her feet as a general rule and probably handle those things. 1.00

00:04:07.580 Dave, what do you think the main points Smith is going to get across,

00:04:11.280 both in terms of promoting herself and trying to take Notley down a peg?

00:04:15.360 Well, I think she'll talk about how well Alberta is doing right now, economically speaking,

00:04:21.720 leading the nation again in growth.

00:04:24.480 She'll talk about the jobs created, and she'll basically say, look, we're on a good path.

00:04:30.640 Do you want to go back to what she will call the horrible policies of Rachel Notley,

00:04:35.620 where she'll say hundreds of thousands of jobs were lost?

00:04:38.960 So she'll predict a good future or a dark path under Notley.

00:04:45.020 Shocker on Shock Street.

00:04:46.220 I will do a better job than the other guy.

00:04:48.380 Exactly.

00:04:49.080 All right, well, we're going to have live coverage of the debate tonight starting at 540.

00:04:53.360 We're going to have our own panel just in a very quick lead up to it.

00:04:57.320 Not very much time spent on that.

00:04:59.000 We'll go to the debate starting at 540 here.

00:05:01.580 And, of course, us sitting around prognosticating and analyzing and giving our two cents after the debate,

00:05:11.160 if people care to hear what we have to say.

00:05:14.560 Maybe they do.

00:05:15.140 Maybe they don't.

00:05:15.660 But at the very least, make sure you tune in, 540 Mountain Standard Time.

00:05:19.620 Watching the big leaders debate tonight with the race so close.

00:05:24.340 Even just a few points that move from this debate really could decide who's going to be government on May 29th.

00:05:31.620 All right.

00:05:32.240 Well, we're going to bring in Western Standard, Alberta legislative reporter, Arthur Green, into the mix now.

00:05:39.700 Yesterday, the NDP released, did another oppo drop.

00:05:44.080 It's fairly frequent they're doing these oppo drops.

00:05:46.720 The media do pay attention when information comes out about UCP candidates from their controversial pasts.

00:05:55.160 Not so much if they happen to be, I don't know, Maoists or communists.

00:05:59.460 Not a word there.

00:06:00.660 And we'll get to that in a bit.

00:06:01.600 But the media do pay attention if there's something that comes out about UCP candidates.

00:06:07.300 And, Arthur, the NDP came up with a claim, maybe a recording or at least a transcript of a recording,

00:06:14.680 that they say proves the UCP candidate in Lacombe-Pinocca is transphobic.

00:06:20.440 The Alberta NDP is actually calling for Jennifer Johnson to resign.

00:06:25.020 It released an audio recording from last fall when the NDP claims that Johnson is heard making these transphobic comments.

00:06:34.500 The comments were, it does not matter that we're in the top 3% of the world.

00:06:38.700 Who cares that they got 89% in Chemistry 30?

00:06:42.500 Who cares that they're entering post-secondary if they're chemically castrated?

00:06:46.540 Johnson said in the recording while implying that grades don't matter if children are mutilated. 0.90

00:06:53.060 The NDP then claimed Johnson was talking about Alberta's high test scores, how they don't matter because students are transgender.

00:07:03.540 In the conversation, she says, enjoy the cookies.

00:07:07.060 I only put a teaspoon of poop in them, but it doesn't matter because it's only a teaspoon in the whole batch. 0.94

00:07:13.320 The NDP claimed Johnson said this, which is comparing trans people to mixing a teaspoon of feces into a batched baked of goods. 0.61

00:07:24.340 The comments were made by Johnson at a Western Unity group forum last September.

00:07:31.860 Okay, so what I'm trying to get a sense of, I think what you were saying, at least in the first part, the way I'm reading this, Nigel, is that she, I think, is trying to make the point, probably pretty clumsily,

00:07:48.140 but trying to make the point that someone can be performing well in school, but, you know, if ideology, you know, gender ideology is leading them to go down the road of transition, we're screwing the kid up.

00:08:03.900 I think that's what she was saying.

00:08:06.120 I think that's what she's trying to say.

00:08:07.440 Where do you get into the mixing flux of pooping?

00:08:11.560 I confess, I don't get that.

00:08:14.120 I don't get that.

00:08:15.220 But I do think that, you know, what she was saying, she's speaking for a lot of people when she says, it doesn't matter how good your education system is in turning out people with qualifications.

00:08:27.200 If, at the same time, you're turning them out to be unsure of themselves, to the point that you would, that they would be wanting puberty blockers, like this is not doing kids a service.

00:08:44.000 If adults want to change sex when they're old enough, that's a different discussion.

00:08:48.660 But the education system should not be proud of the fact that it is counseling children, some as young as eight or nine, I'm told, but certainly in their teens, are they sure they're the right sex?

00:09:04.780 We can help you, you know.

00:09:06.240 If she is reacting to that, I think she is speaking for a vast majority of people.

00:09:10.380 So, Nigel, she is a little clear on that part, but when you get her comments about pooping the cookie batter, at an absolute bare minimum, a weird, clumsy way of making a point.

00:09:25.320 This has been interpreted by the Calgary Herald, the NDP, CBC, as meaning that if you have transgender kids in a school,

00:09:36.740 it's essentially tainting the school, tainting their test results, I don't think that's what she was saying.

00:09:43.800 I think she was talking about the gender ideology of things, tainting the outcomes of education. 0.93

00:09:52.300 But maybe I'm wrong, because it's very confusing.

00:09:55.000 No, I think you're right.

00:09:56.440 Keep in mind, she says she was talking about American kids.

00:10:01.220 But even if...

00:10:01.940 That's what she says.

00:10:02.620 Yeah, that's what she says.

00:10:03.580 But even if she wasn't, you know, I think, you know, as you and Nigel Boe say, you know, she probably makes a decent point.

00:10:11.080 I think, obviously, the NDP are going to put their spin on it.

00:10:14.400 Is it a big deal in the election?

00:10:16.100 No, it's not.

00:10:16.800 It's not going to change anybody's vote.

00:10:19.780 I'm not sure, though, because, I mean, you're not...

00:10:24.720 You're almost...

00:10:25.440 A conservative is not going to get the most charitable reading of their comment.

00:10:28.440 And because their comment is so muddled and confused, they're definitely not going to get the most charitable reading of it.

00:10:35.760 I think they're clearly getting the least possible charitable read of it. 1.00

00:10:39.620 I know Calgary Herald columnist Don Braid, I think his reading of it was that she's saying transgendered students are, you know, are shit. 1.00

00:10:53.160 That they are feces and are tainting our schools. 1.00

00:10:57.840 I don't think that's what this person was saying.

00:11:00.320 If they were saying that, that would clearly be hateful and, you know, certainly a fireable offense.

00:11:06.600 I don't think that's what they were saying.

00:11:07.680 But that's the way the media is taking...

00:11:10.040 That was certainly the NDP's spin they were putting on it.

00:11:12.580 And that's certainly the way the media is taking it up.

00:11:15.460 So, I don't know.

00:11:16.300 Arthur, any sign that this is having any impact on the campaign trail?

00:11:21.460 I wouldn't believe that it would affect the campaign trail, Derek.

00:11:26.260 I mean, I spoke with the United Conservative Party yesterday and they told me that she already addressed the issue about the NDP claims.

00:11:35.660 You know, Johnson did tell me that the comments she made were last year and were based on what she saw parents experiencing in the United States, not Alberta classrooms.

00:11:48.380 She said the situation in Alberta is quite different.

00:11:51.420 For example, if parents are concerned about content in classrooms, there is a process that can be followed with the school division.

00:11:58.680 And ultimately could go to the teaching profession commissioner if there was a serious issue.

00:12:04.200 So, Johnson, you know, she says that she's talking about the U.S. and not Alberta classrooms. 0.89

00:12:14.100 I'm willing to give a grant a charitable reading that she was not comparing trans kids to feces.

00:12:21.280 Although I'm not really buying that she was talking about the United States.

00:12:24.880 There clearly are these issues in Alberta and Canadian schools.

00:12:29.780 They're different flavors.

00:12:31.740 And, you know, some of the information we've received about this stuff has turned out to not be true.

00:12:35.020 Some of this is just alarmist and kind of just the telephone game.

00:12:38.460 But I'm not really believing that this was about the United States part.

00:12:41.920 But I'm also not going to take the other side. 0.99

00:12:45.500 She was saying trans kids are feces. 0.99

00:12:47.740 I think that was a bit off. 0.99

00:12:49.200 Arthur, not long ago, the ethics commissioner released her report into complaints made by the NDP against UCP leader Danielle Smith,

00:12:59.560 alleging that it was inappropriate for her to speak to Justice Minister Tyler Shandrow,

00:13:05.320 but also repeating the claims made by the CBC that Danielle Smith had directly interfered with Justice by contacting Crown prosecutors trying to get them to drop cases against nonviolent charges relating to people breaking, you know, mandates and lockdowns and things like that.

00:13:27.820 Tell us what the report says.

00:13:28.820 Basically, the report says that Premier Smith contravened in the Conflicts of Interest Act in her interaction with the Justice Minister.

00:13:39.520 Also, Smith says that the report actually confirms that CBC and the NDP lied in regarding to Crown Prosecutor contact.

00:13:50.280 You know, Smith was basically cleared of all the allegations made by the CBC and the NDP.

00:13:58.480 And, you know, her office contacted the Crowns about the case, but there was no recommendations made with respect to sanctions against the Premier.

00:14:09.020 But, you know, the ethics commissioner says she reserves the right to make recommendations to the Legislative Assembly once it's back in session.

00:14:17.740 So, Dave, it's a hot, cold story.

00:14:22.860 Good news, bad news.

00:14:24.100 Bad news.

00:14:25.100 She has been kind of slapped on the wrist for talking to the Justice Minister, Tyler Shandrow, about this.

00:14:32.480 That was maybe kind of leaning on, that could be perceived at least as putting pressure on him to do this because he's also the Attorney General.

00:14:40.680 That's an important role that in Alberta at least is combined with Justice Minister.

00:14:45.240 But then exonerating Smith from the CBC's allegations, which she has filed a notice of defamation for, or at least warned that she'll go to take them to court over, that she had directly contacted Crown prosecutors to lean on them.

00:15:04.000 I think that was definitely the more serious of the charges.

00:15:06.940 That would be direct intervention, interference in the justice system. 0.91

00:15:11.720 On balance, though, the way this will play out in the media, the way it will play out in the campaign trail, is this a good news or bad news report?

00:15:18.420 A bit of both.

00:15:18.980 The bad news is she has been found guilty of contravating the act.

00:15:22.360 You know, as she points out, well, how is a premier supposed to get legal knowledge from the justice minister if you can't ask him about it?

00:15:32.860 So she's had her hand slapped about that, has, you know, admitted it, but basically says, you know, what am I supposed to do?

00:15:41.580 Could the ethics commissioner give us some advice as to how a premier can get some information?

00:15:46.140 That Smith is going to claim a huge win on the CBC and the NDP, and it is.

00:15:52.680 They went for weeks with damaging headlines saying that Smith had directly tried to intervene.

00:16:00.200 She's been cleared.

00:16:01.500 She's demanded an immediate retraction and apology.

00:16:05.060 She will continue on with the case if that's what her counsel wants.

00:16:09.460 So I think it's a minor loss and a bigger victory.

00:16:12.460 Nigel, it's, um, she had never denied meeting or speaking with Tyler Shandro, the justice minister and attorney general about this.

00:16:21.180 Right.

00:16:21.460 So I suppose it's just a judgment that the ethics commissioner says that was inappropriate.

00:16:28.000 Okay.

00:16:28.980 But that's not new information that we've learned.

00:16:31.920 And I guess what we have learned is that, at least in the ethics commissioner's opinion from the investigation, that she did not directly contact and lean on the Crown prosecutors.

00:16:42.820 And that was definitely, I think, the bigger one.

00:16:45.820 We already knew.

00:16:46.340 She already said, yeah, of course I talked to Tyler Shandro.

00:16:48.160 That was very open.

00:16:51.040 But then there's the Crown prosecutors one.

00:16:52.820 Do you think with this, now this doesn't mean definitively that she didn't, but it means that the investigation found that she didn't.

00:17:02.500 Well, I think we'll have to sort of go with what the investigation says.

00:17:05.800 So do you, I mean, Smith is claiming victory here.

00:17:08.740 Of course, like everyone's always going to put the most positive spin on things possible.

00:17:13.340 If it's about you, if it's about your opponent, you're always going to put the most negative spin on things possible.

00:17:19.440 How do you think this is going to impact the campaign, especially considering the debate is this evening?

00:17:24.560 Oh, I think it'll be a factor in the debate this evening, absolutely, because it's so fresh off the pot and most people haven't had a chance to consider it.

00:17:31.760 In the end, if the UCP plays its hand right, this is kind of inside baseball stuff.

00:17:41.780 These kinds of scandals haven't hurt the prime minister.

00:17:44.760 Lord knows, what is he, up to six ethical violations now?

00:17:48.120 And I don't think in the long term it's going to hurt Smith, especially when she can say, look, I have a justice minister to get advice from.

00:17:56.060 I went to him to get advice.

00:17:58.180 What did I do wrong?

00:17:59.160 That's going to be a fairly convincing, for most people who aren't into this in a serious way.

00:18:04.480 So the issues that she's got to sell are a strong economy, jobs, prosperity, freedom. 1.00

00:18:12.100 And that's what's going to get her elected. 0.98

00:18:15.180 The NDP will obviously try to represent this as a terrible lapse of character and judgment.

00:18:21.300 Well, good luck.

00:18:22.260 They will do that.

00:18:23.220 But I don't think the public in the end is going to care about this nearly as much as what are you going to do for me if we re-elect you.

00:18:32.840 Okay.

00:18:33.340 Thank you for joining us, Arthur.

00:18:34.240 We're going to turn now towards our latest installment of NDP communist or communist affiliated candidates.

00:18:44.060 We're going to bring in Western Standard Calgary reporter Jonathan Bradley here.

00:18:49.200 Jonathan, you've just been busy over the last week and a half or so, looking under every bed for a red.

00:18:56.800 And we're, you know, we've had one who marched at the head of a Communist Party of Canada parade.

00:19:03.920 Others who've shared material from Chairman Mao, whose death toll is charitably probably 40 million murdered one way or another.

00:19:14.880 Others sharing other things.

00:19:16.160 But you've now got, let's turn now, what's behind door number, NDP candidate number four, Jonathan?

00:19:23.620 What's behind red door number four is Alberta NDP candidate Jodi Callahoo-Stonehouse. 1.00

00:19:28.560 And she's running it in Edmonton, Rutherford.

00:19:31.160 And Callahoo-Stonehouse linked to a statement on Facebook about communism being on the horizon and queer indigenous feminism being the way. 0.86

00:19:38.500 Okay, so I just did the math in the back of my head.

00:19:46.480 I think we're day number 18 of the campaign.

00:19:49.900 That's foreign communists. 0.89

00:19:50.900 So we're averaging a new communist every 4.5 days.

00:19:55.220 So it's not every week, but not every day.

00:19:57.240 Somewhere between there.

00:19:58.340 Every 4.5 days, we have a new communist coming up from the NDP ranks.

00:20:06.760 Dave, this is bizarre.

00:20:08.740 So Jonathan, can you repeat the quote again?

00:20:12.920 So Jodi Callahoo-Stonehouse, who's running in Edmonton, Rutherford, shared a statement on Facebook about communism being on the horizon and queer indigenous feminism being the way.

00:20:23.620 And the statement involves the Red Nation, which is the group that put up this statement, declaring that they stand with and move people as they move with the earth.

00:20:32.460 And they talk about the masses and how we're uniting with the masses.

00:20:35.460 And they mention how they're going to go to the streets carrying the torch as the revolutionary moment flares.

00:20:45.520 And they speak about imperialism and how it's bad and how they're going to change society.

00:20:50.180 This is bizarre on a few levels.

00:20:53.860 One, yes, NDP candidate sharing pro-communist material.

00:20:58.080 But it actually reads like something the alt-right would say.

00:21:01.800 This sounds like something a really genuine right-wing extremist.

00:21:05.120 And I'm not saying right-wing extremist the way the media flippantly throw around the term far-right. 0.94

00:21:09.740 I mean real far-right, where they think that gay people are going to make us communist. 0.97

00:21:16.080 You know, if we have gays, if we have indigenous people, if we have these minorities, we're going to turn into gays. 0.99

00:21:23.000 Can you tell my Alex Jones sounding? 1.00

00:21:27.020 Like, turn on the friggin' frogs gay, you know? 1.00

00:21:29.420 It sounds like a conspiracy theorist from a genuinely far-right person who says, if we have gays, we're going to turn communist. 0.99

00:21:38.240 And bizarrely, I guess this is not meant as a right-wing thing.

00:21:44.380 This is the left saying, we're going to have these groups here and that will lead us to communism. 0.56

00:21:51.260 What the hell, Dave? 0.74

00:21:52.700 It's wacky world. 0.92

00:21:54.400 It sounds like this world of tiki torches and them marching over the hill.

00:21:59.380 Except it's the other guy.

00:22:00.680 It's the other guy.

00:22:01.240 Saying the same thing.

00:22:02.200 Exactly.

00:22:03.160 I don't know.

00:22:03.620 The highest point in Calgary knows Hill.

00:22:05.360 If you look over it, you can't see any communism coming in this province. 1.00

00:22:09.860 It's a stupid thing to say. 1.00

00:22:11.900 It's a stupid thing to retweet. 1.00

00:22:14.440 But yeah, I mean, this time next week, we're going to need two hands to count the number of communist NDP candidates. 0.99

00:22:20.420 Yeah, right there.

00:22:20.840 I mean, just, you know, it wasn't one every four and a half days.

00:22:23.820 Nigel, do gays and indigenous people lead to communism?

00:22:29.820 Communist dialectics, Derek, as you well know, says that you use whatever is to hand if it makes the point that you want to make and moves people in the direction.

00:22:38.080 So they can probably make that work if they want to.

00:22:40.480 But as soon as they got where they want, they'll dump that, like, very quickly.

00:22:46.540 You know, the stunning thing about this is people are always going around looking up what you said on Facebook 10 years ago, what you tweeted out in the middle of the night once when you were angry.

00:22:57.940 And say, ah, there, there, you see.

00:22:59.680 Well, I don't honestly say that because somebody puts up a picture of Karl Marx, that he's actually a communist, a card carrying communist.

00:23:11.760 But you do tend to put up what you identify with.

00:23:15.580 And why would you want to identify with a movement that in the 20th century killed probably 100 million people in Russia and in China and in various other places?

00:23:27.380 Like, what is the sentimental appeal?

00:23:29.720 Well, if you actually are attracted to that and you are also a candidate for a political party, I'm not voting for you.

00:23:38.640 And I don't know why anybody would.

00:23:40.560 That's where these people have gone around the bend.

00:23:42.880 Yeah, we're not talking.

00:23:44.340 Certainly the Russia and the China stuff is history now. 0.98

00:23:47.160 But look at Venezuela.

00:23:48.780 That's modern times.

00:23:50.400 And their country went from being OK to being in the toilet because of calling them communism.

00:23:56.040 But these NDP candidates, it doesn't seem to faze them.

00:23:58.980 Rod Loyola, you know, we've said here several times, you know, had a weird kind of communist prayer made to Hugo Chavez after he died.

00:24:10.240 You know, it's a fair point, a very good point, Nigel, that, you know, just because someone said something on their social media history shouldn't necessarily define them.

00:24:20.220 Both sides are going to try and dig around for stuff.

00:24:22.860 I won't belabor the point, but, you know, the NDP can release an audio recording of a UCP candidate having a fart in a public washroom 10 years ago.

00:24:33.060 And that makes front page news.

00:24:36.040 But this stuff never makes any.

00:24:40.720 But, you know, even if it did become a big deal, I think it'd be fine. 0.98

00:24:44.560 You just have to say, look, I was dumb. 0.99

00:24:47.640 I had some dumb ideas. 0.99

00:24:49.320 That was a while ago. 0.98

00:24:50.360 You know, I've moved on.

00:24:52.240 I denounce this ideology, which murdered 100 million, approximately 100 million people in the last century.

00:24:59.880 And I'd say, OK.

00:25:02.500 I mean, I'd be still a little suspicious of anyone who ever supported communism at any time.

00:25:07.740 But I could move on from that.

00:25:10.020 That'd be OK.

00:25:10.880 At least denounce it and move on.

00:25:13.100 But we haven't had a single denunciation from either of these four candidates or by the NDP itself to say, I am not a communist.

00:25:21.900 And I denounce communism.

00:25:25.660 Yeah.

00:25:26.520 We keep putting, again, you can't tell everything from the wristwatch that a person wears.

00:25:32.920 But if you wear a Che Guevara wristwatch, what are you actually saying?

00:25:37.840 I guess I like Che Guevara.

00:25:39.940 That could be the only interpretation they've got.

00:25:44.260 I'll admit.

00:25:45.020 Rachel Notley's got one.

00:25:46.280 I admit I listen to Rage Against the Machine from time to time, but it does not make me a communist.

00:25:50.740 But wearing the watch or sharing it, right, communist material is probably a step above.

00:25:57.120 OK, well, we're going to wrap it up there.

00:25:58.420 Thank you, Jonathan, for joining us, Nigel, Dave.

00:26:01.560 And thank all of you for joining us today.

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00:26:19.660 The current Lethbridge feed grain prices are as follows.

00:26:22.620 Cash parties at $405.

00:26:24.180 Feed wheat's also at $405.

00:26:25.840 And corn's unchanged at $3.88 per metric ton.

00:26:29.200 In the milling wheat markets, July Minneapolis futures lost $0.2975 at $8.30, with local hard red spring bids for May movement at $10.30 per bushel.

00:26:39.380 In the oil seeds, nearby canola futures are down $5.80 at $7.0830 per ton, with delivered values for May movement at $16.06 per bushel.

00:26:49.040 In the pulse markets, nearby red lentils are trading at $0.34 a pound, and yellow peas are holding at $11.25 per bushel.

00:26:56.540 In the cattle markets, June live cattle are off $0.17 at $1.6465 per 100 weight.

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00:27:08.520 I'm Sean Smith for Marketplace Commodities, accurate real-time marketing information and pricing options.

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Western Standard - May 19, 2023

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