Western Standard - AB REPORT： Smith promises mandatory treatment for addicts

00:00:00.000 G'day, it's May 16th, 2023. I'm Derek Fildebrandt, publisher of the Western Standard, and you're

00:00:16.780 watching the Alberta Report, our daily election updates here. We're going to be talking about

00:00:22.620 big promises from the campaigns today. Smith promising mandatory treatment for addicts,

00:00:27.580 Rachel Notley promising to kill the small business tax, and massive contradictions in the polls,

00:00:32.640 depending on who you're listening to. Anyone's winning. We've got the Western Standard's news

00:00:39.200 editor, Dave Naylor, here. Western Standard business reporter, Sean Polzer, here. And we're

00:00:45.780 going to be joined in a few moments by one of our Calgary reporters, Jonathan Bradley. Before we

00:00:50.920 get going, though, I want you to give us a quick update on what's going on with the wildfires in

00:00:55.100 the north. An evacuation of sorts of progress. Yeah, Operation Move. That was my line. Operation

00:01:01.600 Move. You stole my line. I'm sorry. They're evacuating livestock up in some of the northern areas.

00:01:10.960 There's twice as many cattle as there are people in this province, and they have whole emergency

00:01:17.560 management plans for moving farm animals and livestock. So I'm going to be following up on

00:01:23.620 that today. All right. Things are bad up there. No doubt about it. Time to move on. All right.

00:01:33.140 Sean, you were at the UCP Daniel Smith, UCP leader Daniel Smith's press conference yesterday.

00:01:42.460 She was promising a compassionate intervention act that would see

00:01:48.260 addicts who pose a danger to themselves or to others forced into mandatory treatment. It's a

00:01:57.600 controversial proposal, but tell us about it. Yeah, it is controversial. She had mentioned it

00:02:03.600 before. This was the first time that she said that they were actually going to introduce legislation.

00:02:08.120 There's some question over the constitutionality of it, but she thinks that under Section 7 guaranteed

00:02:17.580 security of the person and freedom and pursuit of happiness and that, that they are justified in

00:02:25.100 taking this. Pursuit of happiness is an American declaration of independence. I'm trying to think of what the

00:02:30.980 exact word was. Peace order and good government? No, that's the case. Section 7, it was about the security

00:02:36.640 of the person. Okay. Well-being and security of the person. Yeah. So she figures that it will be able to

00:02:43.680 withstand a court challenge on constitutional grounds. It definitely will face a court challenge.

00:02:51.060 Well, to be clear, this is going on as we speak with you minors. As an adult, you can make an appearance

00:02:58.660 before a court and a judge can, can put an addict into mandatory treatment. So what they would be

00:03:03.840 doing is extending it into adults, not just children. And you would have to appear before a

00:03:09.580 non-criminal judge, make your application, and then the judge would, would have the final say. And then

00:03:15.020 you'd be, if, if the judge agrees, yeah, then you go into a forced treatment plan. These applications,

00:03:20.160 I believe, could be put forward by family, police, and... Family doctors, psychologists. Yeah.

00:03:27.000 I mean, I'm a little leery on it. I'm open to it. I'm a little leery on it, though. You know, you're,

00:03:33.340 it's, it's forcing someone to do things. You'd think all the people who believed in mandatory

00:03:39.260 vaccination for adults who are not addicts and do have control over their faculties should be 0.99

00:03:45.800 supportive of this. I'm not, not sure where they generally stand, but I'm open to it because these are

00:03:52.260 not adults in control of themselves. Addicts have lost control. They're not consented. They're no

00:03:59.320 longer able to consent to anything. Um, they're, they're not in control of themselves. Uh, well,

00:04:06.000 you know, Smith is a libertarian, though. So how did she kind of square, square those two that might come

00:04:11.840 into... That exact, that exact point, that, uh, these people, they've lost control of their faculties

00:04:15.840 and that they aren't able to make these rational kinds of decisions to basically take care of

00:04:21.500 themselves. And they're not only a danger to themselves, they're a danger to others.

00:04:25.640 Absolutely. Because they're the ones that are downtown. They're the ones that are, uh,

00:04:29.300 resorting to crime to feed their drug habits. They're the ones that are, you know, hanging out

00:04:34.200 at the LRT stations, causing all sorts of havoc. Uh, so it's not just, it's not just the addict. It's the,

00:04:39.900 you know, society around them. So I know the, the threshold they said they're going to set in a

00:04:45.620 compassionate intervention act if they're reelected and pass this, is that they have to

00:04:50.200 pose a danger to themselves or to others. Uh, I suppose there probably would be some addicts who

00:04:56.040 don't fit either, who, some addicts who probably scrape by without too much threat to themselves

00:05:02.980 or a threat to others. But I know in most cases there, there will be at least a threat to themselves,

00:05:08.260 if, if, if not others. Um, any reaction from the NDP or, uh, other organizations to this?

00:05:16.700 Um, well, they, uh, so, so part of it was, uh, the safe supply that, um, um, Smith said there is

00:05:26.060 no such thing as a safe supply that, uh, the Alberta government will never hand out free drugs to the, 0.95

00:05:30.800 so the difference between, um, harm mitigation and, uh, and intervention.

00:05:38.260 Right. And so.

00:05:40.400 I, I, I think I saw NDP leader Rachel Notley say something to the effect of, uh, well,

00:05:46.440 there's elements we can support, like, uh, increased treatment. There's all, uh, this comes with also,

00:05:50.840 uh, what, a thousand new treatment beds.

00:05:53.120 Ten thousand fully funded.

00:05:54.700 Jeez.

00:05:55.320 No, it can't be ten thousand.

00:05:56.860 That's a wild number.

00:05:58.700 She said, well, she says she's added and then they're gonna.

00:06:01.200 Um, there's treatment beds.

00:06:03.340 Anyway, not least she would support increased beds and whatnot, but I think, uh, she shied 1.00

00:06:08.160 away from directly condemning mandatory treatment for addicts, didn't support it, but I think

00:06:14.660 she just kind of took a wobbly position, Dave, right?

00:06:16.900 Well, I think this is a, one of the, the few things where there's a clear black and white.

00:06:21.080 Uh, NDP supports safe consumption sites.

00:06:24.280 And we know what that has done traditionally to neighborhoods around the belt line that

00:06:27.920 has turned it into a bit of a zombie zone too.

00:06:30.880 Uh, Nolly denied that they would, they're in favor of a safe supply of drugs.

00:06:36.740 She denied she's, she's, uh, into that, but yeah, she, she basically said, uh, uh, intervention

00:06:43.800 doesn't work.

00:06:44.740 Uh, you need, uh, you know, the sort of, and, and she, she equated it to like 40 or 50 hardcore

00:06:50.080 drug addicts and you have to give those people all the, you know, safe drugs or the safe

00:06:56.120 consumption sites, uh, that they need.

00:06:58.740 So it's two very, uh, contradictory, uh, platforms.

00:07:02.960 I mean, we've tried more on drug strategies since say the sixties, where we tried jailing

00:07:09.560 people who do drugs, not just the dealers, the pushers, drug lords, but users that clearly

00:07:14.920 does not work.

00:07:15.820 You're more likely to get even further addicted to drugs once you're in prison.

00:07:20.080 So that, that doesn't work.

00:07:21.540 Uh, we've tried the safe supply, safe consumption.

00:07:24.940 Well, we just have to look, you know, a hundred meters in every direction around the current

00:07:28.740 building here to see what the results of that have been.

00:07:32.540 This might work, but I, I'm also hesitant though.

00:07:35.560 I mean, if it's hard to help someone who doesn't want to be helped, that's, that's the problem.

00:07:41.260 Like you, I mean, uh, you know, an alcoholic is not going to get on the wagon unless they

00:07:47.860 want to get on the wagon.

00:07:49.340 Generally it's, uh, unless they're forced to, right.

00:07:52.140 And this is what this program does.

00:07:54.100 It takes someone who's not willing to take that first step and it forces them to take

00:07:58.820 that first step.

00:07:59.600 I was going to say with alcoholism that, you know, that is the first step is to actually

00:08:04.420 seek help.

00:08:05.440 To seek help, but that, that, that requires someone to want it.

00:08:08.120 Uh, this might, it might work.

00:08:11.400 Um, I think it's worth trying.

00:08:13.400 Cause nothing else has worked.

00:08:16.560 Uh, you know, the war on drugs has totally failed and coddling and almost aiding and abetting,

00:08:22.780 uh, addiction has not worked.

00:08:26.080 So I don't know.

00:08:27.200 I think one of the things that struck me and I'm sure it did you, Sean, was the, uh, uh,

00:08:31.340 the emotions shown at this press conference.

00:08:33.820 There were people crying at one point, uh, uh, the premier had tissues handed to her.

00:08:38.900 Some very, very powerful stories of what addiction had done to families and how the, the, you know,

00:08:46.000 individual teenagers and families were saved because of, uh, mandatory, uh, treatment.

00:08:51.500 And also first nations, um, blood reserve had April 23rd declared a local state of emergency

00:08:57.980 because of, uh, the drug problems that were happening on the reserve.

00:09:00.920 If you've got around some of our reserves, you've seen it's, uh, geez, the zombie land

00:09:05.280 we've got around downtown Calgary here is nothing.

00:09:07.800 Yeah.

00:09:08.280 And there were four, four chiefs, uh, there yesterday.

00:09:11.120 And they're supporting it.

00:09:12.400 They're, they're totally on board with this.

00:09:14.460 Yeah.

00:09:14.780 Um, one thing that I was going to note is, uh, note it was, um, under Notley, apparently,

00:09:19.480 um, addicts had to pay $40 a day out of pocket to, uh, get treatment beds, which I thought

00:09:25.600 was a little bit at odds with her.

00:09:27.260 I can, $40.

00:09:28.560 I can imagine addicts want to spend $40 a day on something other than treatment.

00:09:32.460 Probably.

00:09:33.280 But it also seems at odds with, uh, her promise that people aren't going to pay out of pocket

00:09:37.560 for healthcare.

00:09:38.020 So is, is mental health not healthcare?

00:09:41.160 Yeah.

00:09:41.740 Yeah.

00:09:42.380 Okay.

00:09:43.420 Uh, we're going to move on here.

00:09:44.720 We're going to bring in, uh, one of our Calgary reporters, Jonathan Bradley here.

00:09:48.440 Jonathan was at, uh, NDP leader, Rachel Notley's press conference at a place called, funny

00:09:55.920 enough, Madam Premier, uh, which was not meant, I think, in the, uh, political sense of the

00:10:02.300 word, but, uh, Premier isn't like showing something you're premiering something.

00:10:07.420 Uh, Jonathan, uh, you were, uh, at, uh, Notley's press conference where she promised to eliminate

00:10:13.080 the small business tax, uh, that takes, so the way the small business tax works in Alberta,

00:10:18.060 is businesses pay 2% tax, uh, to the province.

00:10:22.980 This is in addition to the federal business tax.

00:10:25.340 Yep.

00:10:25.540 You pay 2% on the first $500,000 of your net income or profit, after which the regular business

00:10:31.920 tax or corporate tax kicks in, which is normally about 8%.

00:10:35.300 Uh, Jonathan, uh, tell us, uh, flesh out this, uh, promise made by Notley a bit for us.

00:10:41.820 So Notley said that she would be eliminating the small business tax for 100,000 small businesses.

00:10:47.160 And these include industries such as retail establishments, restaurants, mechanic shops,

00:10:52.660 family farms, and others.

00:10:54.380 It's expected to save small businesses $10,000 per year.

00:10:58.080 Um, the tax rate will be reduced from 2% to zero.

00:11:01.840 And she said she would be doing this measure to help out struggling small businesses recover

00:11:06.700 from the COVID-19 pandemic.

00:11:08.560 She acknowledged that this will be for certain industries and other ones, such as professional

00:11:13.240 associations, such as lawyers and accountants wouldn't be eligible.

00:11:16.900 So what she would do with them is she would bring back this STEP program and the STEP program

00:11:21.260 would allow, uh, certain businesses to receive a wage subsidy for employing students in their

00:11:26.360 chosen field of study.

00:11:27.220 Uh, Dave, it's not usual to see an NDP leader propose to do anything to a tax other than increase

00:11:36.760 it.

00:11:37.540 Uh, probably smart politics though.

00:11:40.900 I mean, uh, Notley to win cannot win with just unionized government employees in Edmonton.

00:11:48.060 She's got to get middle-class people, at least a portion of small business owners on side. 1.00

00:11:54.240 Uh, I think it's a winner for sure.

00:11:58.020 Anytime you promise to cut somebody's tax and leave more money in their trousers, that's

00:12:02.740 got to be a winner, right?

00:12:04.660 Yeah.

00:12:05.540 I would think so.

00:12:06.460 And it's a fairly modest amount really in the scheme of things.

00:12:10.140 It's tens of millions.

00:12:11.600 It's not hundreds of millions.

00:12:13.580 Yeah.

00:12:13.900 I mean, yeah, it's 2% on the first 500,000.

00:12:16.280 Uh, bigger businesses are going to obviously be bringing in more than 500,000.

00:12:21.240 They're going to be paying the full rate already.

00:12:23.460 So it's not, it's not a, it's not going to be a big hit to the treasury here.

00:12:27.560 Um, I have to think though, Jonathan, that, uh, the value in this might not, some small

00:12:33.400 business owners, uh, not to be too flippant about it, but, uh, you know, uh, brew pub or,

00:12:41.600 uh, I don't know, uh, a Birkenstock, uh, distributor, they, they, small business owners

00:12:47.400 of that kind, you know, like we just saw it as lefty businesses might vote for, but it's

00:12:53.060 not a ton, but I, I would think the political effect of this is going to be more symbolic

00:12:58.020 that Rachel Donnelly is not against small businesses, uh, a label that she pro she largely

00:13:04.600 wore in her four years as premier. 0.69

00:13:07.320 Yes.

00:13:07.760 Well, with her, she talked about how she's going to support small businesses and how the

00:13:13.060 Alberta United Conservative Party has failed them.

00:13:16.200 And she spoke about how this goes along with her commitment to not raise income taxes or

00:13:20.800 bring in a sales tax.

00:13:23.100 But she has said she is going to raise the business tax.

00:13:27.120 Uh, yes.

00:13:28.320 She, she has.

00:13:29.520 Yeah.

00:13:30.180 Uh, well, I just generally refer to it as business tax.

00:13:32.540 If you're a business and you have more than $500,000 profit in a year, you're regardless

00:13:37.760 of how big you are, you might be a big company only eking out that.

00:13:41.240 Uh, so it might be a lot if you're a business of one person or two people, but it might be

00:13:45.920 very little if you're a business of a hundred or two hundred.

00:13:48.620 Um, but, uh, Sean, uh, has she said by what amount she'll raise the business tax by yet?

00:13:55.340 Other than that, that she will raise it.

00:13:57.500 I have not actually heard of it.

00:13:59.080 The only thing I've heard her say is that she's not going to raise taxes.

00:14:01.960 So I don't know if that's just personal taxes or I wouldn't know what the number was in

00:14:07.740 this.

00:14:08.400 Yeah.

00:14:08.600 I certainly haven't heard a number that, uh, she had been.

00:14:11.120 Yeah.

00:14:11.740 She's been just kind of cagey around it.

00:14:13.840 She, you know, asked about taxes.

00:14:15.020 She says, I will not raise your income taxes, which is fair enough because income taxes are

00:14:20.240 pretty much the level they were at when she left the premier's office.

00:14:23.680 Jason Kenney, Jason Kenney actually raised personal income taxes by a little bit with bracket

00:14:27.840 creep, uh, but they're almost the same relatively as when Richard Notley left office.

00:14:33.620 But, uh, but she's been kind of cagey, more or less implying she will probably raise business

00:14:40.160 taxes, but it hasn't really said how much.

00:14:42.740 No, no sales tax.

00:14:44.300 She's pretty emphatic about that.

00:14:46.120 And that's kind of probably a political death sentence as soon as you order those words.

00:14:51.100 Uh, well, so it was a carbon tax in Alberta.

00:14:53.680 Yes.

00:14:54.760 I guess we didn't campaign on the carbon tax.

00:14:57.080 Yes.

00:14:57.780 Um, true.

00:14:59.840 Yeah.

00:15:00.300 Although Rachel Notley's, uh, retort to that was yes, but I didn't say I wouldn't bring

00:15:04.940 in a carbon tax.

00:15:06.500 So if you don't explicitly say you won't do something, it's just not talked about, then

00:15:11.540 it's implied in your mandate.

00:15:12.620 You can, you can do that thing then.

00:15:15.080 Okay, Jonathan, thank you for joining us.

00:15:17.220 Um, we're going to switch it up to more dueling polls.

00:15:20.380 Yesterday, we were talking dueling polls as well.

00:15:22.800 There's a big rash of polls.

00:15:25.540 Well, there's more.

00:15:26.760 So yesterday, I'd say there was kind of two big polls.

00:15:30.580 Uh, the Western Standard, uh, had provided exclusively to us a poll from Sovereign North

00:15:36.060 Research.

00:15:37.260 Um, it's a new polling, a pretty relatively new polling forum, but, uh, a lot of the

00:15:42.440 pollsters behind it are very experienced.

00:15:44.060 It's pretty good work.

00:15:44.960 Um, they had, um,

00:15:49.000 Um, the NDP at, uh, 50% and the UCP at 45.

00:15:55.780 Now that would be by far the high watermark for the NDP in Alberta's history.

00:16:00.600 When they formed government in 2015, it was 40, maximum 41%, somewhere right around there.

00:16:07.180 But that was in a multi-party system.

00:16:09.100 You had, uh, competitive progressive conservatives, competitive wild rows.

00:16:13.540 You had Alberta party playing in there.

00:16:16.240 You had the liberals playing in there.

00:16:18.400 Um, so, you know, it takes less of the vote to win a majority government if you have a

00:16:22.200 multi-party system.

00:16:23.000 In a strict two-party system, which we seem to be in now, you need almost approaching 50%

00:16:29.280 of the vote.

00:16:29.720 But this, this would be 10% more than they've ever had.

00:16:33.080 It was a 3% lead in Calgary.

00:16:36.460 Uh, but then by contrast, we have Janet Brown. 1.00

00:16:40.340 Now, Janet Brown, these polls are not normally very public because these are private polls

00:16:43.700 she does for her clients.

00:16:45.300 But this was leaked.

00:16:46.940 And this happens to her polls every once in a while when there's a result that someone

00:16:50.020 wants to get out there.

00:16:51.300 I think someone in the UCP looked at that and said, well, that'll give our troops a shot

00:16:56.080 in the arm.

00:16:56.500 Let's leak this.

00:16:57.240 So I'm gonna, without any evidence, but significant hard circumstantial evidence, the UCP, or someone

00:17:04.300 in the UCP probably put this out there.

00:17:06.540 And that has, uh, not just the UCP in the lead, but the UCP in a strong lead, 50% to 40%,

00:17:13.240 including a lead in Calgary, 51 to 39.

00:17:16.120 And if that's true, the, if that's true, and that holds up, like the election would

00:17:21.220 be over.

00:17:21.960 I mean, that's a crushing UCP majority right there.

00:17:25.000 Uh, Dave, what the hell do you think explains all these contradiction in polls?

00:17:29.380 I have no idea.

00:17:30.100 I just know on, uh, May 30th, somebody is going to wake up with eggs on their face.

00:17:34.200 Uh, one of these, these companies, uh, the sovereign poll is interesting in that it's

00:17:39.280 got a large, uh, huge sample size, 2,900, which is huge, huge for polling.

00:17:44.980 So that's the biggest Alberta poll I've ever seen.

00:17:47.000 Yeah.

00:17:47.080 But on the other hand, Janet Brown, very, very respected and just nailed the last election, 0.99

00:17:52.280 you know, to the letter.

00:17:53.860 So if you're asking me to explain it, I can't, maybe they're just getting different people

00:17:58.400 on different days.

00:17:59.300 And, you know, I'm sure by the time we get out of this broadcast, uh, today, there'll

00:18:03.820 be two more polls on my desk and they'll both say the exact opposite thing.

00:18:07.180 Well, I'm not sure there'll be egg on their face yet.

00:18:08.820 Cause the only one that'll count will be your last one before election day.

00:18:12.300 So the election's on the 29th and if someone releases a poll on the 28th, that's the one

00:18:17.740 that's going to get measured against it.

00:18:19.180 Cause, cause the polls go up and down during campaigns.

00:18:22.280 The problem is, I mean, there's, there's a 10 point spread between these two polls.

00:18:28.500 There's a, I mean, one is the NDP winning a majority, not crushing, but winning a majority

00:18:34.960 government.

00:18:35.280 The other one is the UCP crushing the NDP in a historical and spectacular fashion.

00:18:41.840 Uh, I mean, the one from Sovereign North, uh, that we released is more consistent with

00:18:47.440 the other polls, Sean, but, uh, Jenna Brown is a incredibly respected pollster. 0.85

00:18:52.640 Uh, people pay good money for her data.

00:18:55.280 Uh, your thoughts.

00:18:56.900 I think you have to cancel out the high and the low.

00:18:59.860 You have to take, uh, the lowest one out and the highest one out and then go with the

00:19:04.400 reversion to the mean on, on the rest of them that are in the middle.

00:19:07.400 I, I, I can't explain the difference either, other than some kind of methodology.

00:19:14.140 Well, I think it also, some of it might just be the timing.

00:19:17.100 Um, the Sovereign North poll was a, is a rolling poll over, I think a longer period of

00:19:22.400 time.

00:19:22.700 Um, yeah, I think the Janet Brown poll is more, more recent.

00:19:27.920 Uh, but I would have thought more recent one, like the NDP appeared to have more momentum.

00:19:31.800 So I think the more recent the poll is stronger, that would favor the NDP here.

00:19:37.100 But, but who says they have momentum?

00:19:39.320 The other polls, right?

00:19:41.180 I don't know whether those polls were.

00:19:42.780 But there's also the, uh, the je ne sais quoi of, of campaign momentum is just how it

00:19:47.380 feels.

00:19:47.940 And Daniel Smith has had a rough go of it the last week, week and a half.

00:19:52.360 Um, you know, videos of past statements that have been controversial that she's apologized

00:19:57.380 for.

00:19:58.140 And these things just kind of, you know, you talk to guys on the doorsteps in the UCP campaigns

00:20:04.100 right now.

00:20:04.800 Some of them are not feeling terribly spirited.

00:20:07.600 But she's been very defensive.

00:20:09.520 I have to agree that she's kind of been put on a back foot, uh, not just because of these

00:20:15.040 videos and, and whatever else and, and having to backtrack, but also because of the fires.

00:20:20.880 Yeah.

00:20:21.320 She's, she's not able to devote her full attention to campaigning.

00:20:24.980 She's spending half her time being premier. 0.99

00:20:26.740 Well, I think, uh, we'll get a better sense of things, uh, with the debate coming up.

00:20:33.640 That is not tomorrow, but the day after the 18th, we're going to have live coverage of

00:20:38.620 the debate.

00:20:39.160 Uh, we'll be carrying the debate live here on the Western standard, but we'll also, uh,

00:20:43.660 be sticking around later for our thoughts.

00:20:45.360 If anyone really cares what we have to say.

00:20:47.680 My mom does.

00:20:48.700 Well, Mama Naylor is, uh, one of our most loyal watchers from the beginning.

00:20:52.560 All right, Dave, Sean, thank you very much for joining and thank you, thank all of you

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00:21:10.840 Well, it's a little bit of a smoky day out there today, and it seems to have smoked out

00:21:15.120 the bulls out of this market as well, with markets starting to settle down a little

00:21:18.720 bit after a couple of strong days.

00:21:20.380 And we got cash barley holding steady at $4.07 a metric, feed wheat's holding at $4.08 a

00:21:25.640 metric, and corn's actually down to $3.90 per metric.

00:21:28.960 Taking a look at the milling wheat markets, July Minneapolis futures slid $2 cents to $8.71

00:21:33.620 per bushel, with local hard red spring bid for May movement at $10.30 per bushel delivered.

00:21:39.260 Moving over to the oil seeds, nearby canola futures slid $0.70 to $730 per metric tonne, with

00:21:46.400 delivered values for May movement at $16.35 per bushel.

00:21:50.380 Continuing on to the pulse markets, nearby red lentil prices are trading at $0.34 per

00:21:55.640 cents per pound, and yellow peas remain at $11.50 per bushel.

00:22:00.900 Finishing up with the cattle markets, June life cattle are down $0.42.5 to $1.63.90 per

00:22:06.520 hundredweight.

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Western Standard - May 17, 2023

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