Alberta could crash Canada’s dairy supply management system
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In this episode of The Cory Morgan Show, I interview Lindsay Wilson, a woman who has been involved in a number of things politically in Alberta over the years. She's organized the "Do It Right Women's Conference" and she wants to get rid of supply management in Canada.
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welcome to the cory morgan show my weekly opportunity to go through some news stories
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interview some people and get whatever's annoying me off my chest so poor jane doesn't have to suffer
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through it the show is live i see it's already lively in the comments section there guys or at
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least for those who are watching it live hey get in there chat with each other send me questions
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comments i don't necessarily read them all out but i do see them all there so good to see a phil and
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duane and uh who i am today whoever that may be in jk guys keep it going just of course keep it
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Civil. We want to really get fighting at each other and calling each other names. Get on X.
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That's what that place is for. We can cover a little more productive ground on here. I got a
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good one today. Lindsay Wilson's going to be on. She's been involved in a number of things
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politically in Alberta over the years, and she's with Link Strategies now, and she's organizing the
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Doing It Right Women's Conference. I know we hear about women's conferences and politics all the
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time, but it's usually some kooky left-wing group. Lindsay's not kooky or left-wing. Well,
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might be a little nuts we'll see i'll talk to her about it uh and then we'll check in with dave on
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some news things in a moment but i gotta get my rant of the day out of the way it's familiar turf
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for you guys but something's kind of changed because we've taken a provincial approach to it
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and it's canada's soviet supply management system on dairy poultry and eggs it's been screwing
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citizens for decades with higher food prices it's been shrinking family farms and it's disrupted
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international trade deals the dairy cartels are deeply deeply entrenched in canada and they've
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effectively cowed every federal political party, including the Conservatives. No major federal
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leader is going to dare question supply management for fear of upsetting the precious souls in Quebec,
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which benefits, of course, disproportionately from the program. So the standoff on this terrible
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policy robs Canadian consumers of billions of dollars. Now Premier Daniel Smith might actually
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prove to be the catalyst that finally breaks this system. I mean, supply management serves Alberta
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poorly and she can make a solid case as to why the province should exit the system. Smith has
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nothing to fear with the wrath of Quebec. If anything, pissing off Quebec only bolsters her
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support back home. Alberta has some of the richest agricultural land in North America. We also have
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some of the most experienced and successful farmers and ranchers. If they can be freed from
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the shackles of Canada's supply management system, we could look forward to a more diverse value-added
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agricultural industry benefiting all Albertans, producers and consumers. Currently, the dairy
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quotas predominantly go to Quebec producers. It's $25,000 a cow for a quota in Quebec and as much
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as $50,000 in Alberta. It's illegal to produce eggs, milk, chickens, or turkeys without that
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government-issued quota. It's ridiculous. An Alberta farmer was recently jailed for the crime
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of selling his own eggs. The system is obscene in its control and infringement upon free markets.
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Albertans pay inflated prices for food products due to the purposeful strangulation of supply
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due to this system. In any other industry, this sort of price fixing would be illegal.
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Canadian dairy producers have literally dumped over 6 billion litres of milk down the drain over the last few years
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because it would be illegal for them to sell it or even give it away.
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Isn't that nice for families struggling to pay the food bills?
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The systems led to Canada having fewer dairy farmers in larger concentrations in Quebec, of course.
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When supply management was first imposed upon farmers, there were 140,000 dairy farms.
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Now there's only about 9,000 and that number is dropping because only large corporate operations can afford those quotas
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New Zealand and Australia had supply management systems in the 70s,
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Because they got rid of it, their dairy industries have flourished,
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and both countries have turned into very successful exporters of agricultural products.
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Defenders of dairy cartels try to claim that if we got rid of the wretched quota system,
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we'd suddenly be flooded with dairy products without regulations.
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Quality control standards have nothing to do with the price-fixing scheme,
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and the standards won't change when the racket's dismantled.
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They also claim we'd be flooded with allegedly inferior American products if we got rid of the quota system.
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The tariff system blocking American dairy goods has nothing to do with quotas.
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America's dairy products are neither inferior or dangerous, but if you really don't want them, just don't buy them.
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If we have a strong domestic dairy industry unbound by supply management, we won't need to import dairy products anyways.
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We can be exporters of everything from powdered milk to cheese to ice cream.
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Supply management defenders are making the case that Canadian producers are so incompetent
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that if we got rid of the quota system, they'd go broke.
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The strong will survive just as they do in every other industry.
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And no, we couldn't get rid of the system overnight.
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An addict has to be weaned from their drug of their choice.
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The system must be dismantled, though, over some years and in stages.
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And a degree of compensation must go to quota holders.
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There's no better time to start that process than now.
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Supply management benefits Quebec, thus no federal party will dare question it.
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If we want to break free, it has to be a provincial initiative, and we can't initiate it soon enough.
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So much like the pension plan, the RCMP collecting our own taxes,
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supply management is another policy where Alberta can step up and take control for itself.
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And with all those policies, when the federalists complain about Alberta standing up for itself,
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punish us with regional-based pet taxes? They already do. If Premier Daniel Smith breaks the
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dairy cartel in Alberta, it'll lead to the end of it across Canada, and everybody will benefit.
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But it has to begin with putting Albertans first. That's what I got on supply management. Hey,
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keep on it, Daniel. Get them. All right, let's check in with our news editor Dave Naylor and
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see what's happening. Did you grow a beard? No, just too lazy to shave this week. Too lazy to
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shave. I was in BC on the weekend, didn't get back until Monday, and by then, you know, the week's
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have done no point yeah i guess you can make it a weekend task exactly exactly so i hear i might
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be getting some honey tomorrow or next time you're in getting it tomorrow but yeah we're doing the
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big harvest tomorrow so uh and boy they've been packing it away this rain as miserable as it's
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been it's been great for the wildflowers and everything in the area so my bees are going
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quite bananas so yeah this year's harvest lots of honey hope so and hopefully fewer stings i
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got zapped four times in the last harvest do you wear a suit don't you i do but when they get mad
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enough they can defeat the suit when you're stealing all their honey they get mad i'll make
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sure jane is videoing it oh yes she likes to have some fun running across the yard as the bees
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well you have to excuse my voice i am recovering from a little bit of an infection but uh some big
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news breaking news out of bc uh three miners are trapped uh in a northern bc mine after some sort
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of incident uh premier eb says they're they're alive and okay and in a safety room and now
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rescue efforts uh are underway kind of reminds me of those chilean miners how long were they
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underground for it was a terribly long time months and months that sort of thing i mean even just
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because you survive it doesn't mean you're not going to be traumatized i hope they get those
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four guys ever since yeah so are jared yoggers staying on top of that one but interesting story
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on the number of firearms number of firearms licenses in uh in canada the next year hit a
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record high uh led by alberta's increasing 3.3 percent so you know that's just more guns for
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the liberals to try and grab good luck to them happy to leave the pack you know they're trying
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to make firearms so unpopular but it does seem to be having the opposite effect indeed well
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people want to buy them before they become completely illegal i guess it's the registering
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they'll have a hard time yeah uh there's a provincial government report an alberta government
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report today into uh medicine hat and how their mayor and council are operating and
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it basically says it's a mess and basically needs to they need to clean house i'm sure james will
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Yeah, or James Finkbeiner, I'm sure we'll be tripping in on Twitter on that one.
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Asylum seekers in Canada are now costing us $2 billion a year, and obviously that's only going to go up.
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And sort of the number one story on the site this morning is Parks Canada decision to cancel a concert in Halifax by a Christian musician.
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and people were angry at him because he's a Donald Trump supporter, I guess,
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and they didn't want that, and Parks Canada has deemed it could be unsafe
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It could be looting and rioting in the streets.
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So, yeah, it's more of Parks Canada getting more ideologically involved in our lives, I guess.
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The woke infection is really getting everywhere, isn't it?
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I think the tide is finally turning a little bit, but it's an ongoing battle, especially with the feds.
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Well, I've heard that they did find a new venue anyways.
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They said that Christian Rock thing doesn't do it for me, but hey, to each their own.
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Yeah, I thought we had free speech in this country.
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Yeah, I mean, Jan Arden, you know, can't stand her political stances.
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If you don't want to go see her, don't go see her.
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yeah it's not that hard well she's hard to miss and she's wandering around no no no no oh yeah
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well i still gotta be a bit of a jerk there you go that's your nature all right well i see you
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got a really packed newsroom a lot of people working yeah we've had some uh some new hirings
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and uh yeah things are going great uh uh oh he's sort of hiding over me oh there he is
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dave's big head right there it's uh david whining shanghai noodles and broccoli behind him is nigel
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it's his birthday today yes so we've been indulging in birthday cake all morning so right on well i'll
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let you back to trying to keep all the the chickens in line back there and then uh consuming the
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birthday cake all right and good luck with the honey tomorrow great thanks steve you bet all
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right so yes there is lots on the go lots breaking is he here you know we're constantly putting the
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And I know people get upset when I say that all the time about supply management on X in areas like that.
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But there really is nothing more Soviet than that.
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If you, there's one of the areas of conservative hypocrisy, and there's a lot of it in that.
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Oh, but supply management, well, that's different.
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if you're such a crappy dairy farmer that you need to have your competition illegalized you
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don't deserve to be in the business I should have every right to go out buy a couple cows
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milk those suckers and sell it to whoever I please for as much as I feel I might be able to get for
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it that's how I do it with my bees and my honey actually I mean there's some health standards
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sure that's fine but we don't need a quota system to have that do we uh it's just such a stupid
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system. I mean, that came up recently with that egg farmer in Alberta. The man actually had five
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RCMP cruisers show up on his doorstep for the crime of having over 300 chickens. And then some
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people claim to be conservative and say that system is okay. Come on, guys, you can't pretend
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it's okay. Just because the federal conservatives are totally terrified of the dairy cartels
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doesn't mean you have to walk the line along with them and pretend that this Soviet-style system is
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worth defending. It's not. But either way, I'm glad to see we won't have the federal politicians
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taking it on. We were never going to. And I get annoyed with it. As I said on the pipeline when
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I was talking about that, I hit Pierre Polyev with that when he was on my show one time. And boy,
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he didn't like talking about the subject because it is contrary to conservative values. And they
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just rather pretend it isn't there. But his role is to win federal elections. And if he takes a
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stance on that, where you're going to tick off Quebec, I mean, you don't take it personally.
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it's just political strategy and reality. He can't do that. But the province can. What does
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Daniel care if Quebec's upset? Who cares? They're always upset. Make them more upset.
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Another thing that's been hitting the news, and The Standard covered that too. We cover our kind
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of story as it happened yesterday. You know, Ozzy Osbourne passed away as a kid who grew up in the
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80s, you know, with my mullet and the rest of the outfit. I mean, Ozzy was certainly a part of my
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life back then even prior to that in the 70s and black sabbath for the older crowds i mean
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there's only so many musicians that really are you know sort of that one of a kind that really
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stand out and change the whole genre and i mean he really broadened it you know it really was just
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the the realm of the the weird headbangers in the 80s until the 90s when he got into that reality
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show and you got to see him as a person and what a bizarre and interesting and fun and weird person
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he was so he really made his mark he had his final concert only a few weeks ago and uh yeah
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parkinson's was really running him down and uh yeah only made it a few weeks past that but it
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was a passing of an icon there's no doubt about it whether he liked his music or didn't like his
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music uh it's undeniable that he he was just one of those huge influential players in the whole
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thing he's going to be missed by a lot of people just as a personality and as a musician i mean you
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look at every from the glam rock to the other heavy metal types and musician out there paying
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tribute he influenced them all and of all guys I gotta admit I would have thought he would have
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been dead back in the 80s with the amount of cocaine that man consumed uh you would have
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thought a heart attack or something would have taken him earlier but somehow he got through it
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and passed a Parkinson's at 76 so uh well farewell Ozzy I'm sure you're uh rocking it if there is
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something on the other side with old randy roads there and thank you for for uh you know allowing
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me to really enjoy your music through the 80s and still on into today all right enough of that
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let's get on to some stuff and talk with our guest here we got lindsey wilson of link strategies
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talking about a woman's conference yeah how's it going well pretty good cory you know i'm sitting
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here and i'm just really trying to number one picture you tending to your backyard hens and
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then also picture you with your mullet in the 80s listening to aussie osborne i really like both of
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those things on you i think you could rock both of those i let that mullet picture go out once in a
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while on social media it's out there but with the cigarette in the hand and the black t-shirt and
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the rest yeah the chickens we got rid of it's the bees i keep now but uh yeah i'm almost a farmer
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you know in a real light you might need a chicken or two i'm a big fan of hens yeah we did the
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chicken thing it was too much work and they stink well it is and you really cannot forget to lock
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them up every night or the coyote is going to get oh yeah in our area we got lots of critters but
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great eggs you can't uh you can't deny that but yeah i don't think you know i could grow the
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skeleton now it just wouldn't quite work there's nothing wrong with having a mullet back in the
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80s even to the early 90s if you still got it today though you might want to re-evaluate whether
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you've moved forward in life much yet but that's true i mean mind you if you still play hockey i
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think you can get pull it off well sure but i can't play hockey i've got a number of tattoos
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hidden up either way to show permanent marks of my uh history oh from that era for sure yeah when
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i finally quit i'll do one show shirtless and show people just how stupid i've been over the
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years. I love that. I look forward to that episode. All right. So a woman's conference.
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We hear about those all the time. We hear about getting women involved in politics. There is a
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not as many women choose to get involved in the political spectrum as others.
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Something that's different this time around. I think all the reasons are the same though,
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is this isn't at least a bunch of woke women getting together and trying to push those
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policies. You've got something coming together for common women to get involved with, I guess.
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Absolutely. So this is the Do Not Right Women's Conference. It's the first one,
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And we're going to be having it on Friday, September 12th at the Deerfoot Inn and Casino right here in Calgary.
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We're very specific in picking a venue where we could have great food because you cannot host an event for women if you do not have great food.
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But women, you definitely want a nice, beautiful space, welcoming space, ample parking, easy to access and great food.
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Tickets are on sale for $45, and we have all of our speaker announcements coming out.
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Yes, well, I mean, and I understand, I mean, that the political realm, particularly now
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with social media, though it's always been that way, is an abusive realm, and there does
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I was called some wonderful things on X just this morning, but it's easier for a guy to
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shrug off some of those things than, I think, the personal nature of some of the attacks
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They often seem to go to appearance or getting personal or even threatening.
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How, I guess, can then women prepare themselves?
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You can't stop that sort of abuse, but you can hopefully learn to shield yourself from it.
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Well, I think so. I think that's really behind why we wanted to do this conference.
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You know, we we get very divisive in politics. Right.
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But really, most of us are here, what I call the V.
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Most of us are somewhere hovering around the center with most of our most of our ideals.
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And so some of us are center right, some of us are center left.
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And then we go through, you know, pandemics, we go through these things and it drives people more to the other extremes.
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And we're sort of there right now with politics, right?
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We've kind of become more of an American style of politicking, whether, you know, maybe that engages more people in the long run.
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But we wanted a space where women could get together, where we could bring together nonpolitical women and political women,
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women from a variety of different industries and multi-partisan uh women from the whole
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kind of spectrum of the political political spectrum so we wanted to bring them together
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in one space for one day and say you know what talk about whatever you want to talk about connect
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with other cool women and get encouraged get uh find out the different positions you can run for
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find out the different jobs you can work for in the political space and just don't be afraid to
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embrace who you are to talk about your values and to know that this is a space where you can do it
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we're staying away from all the woke dei stuff we don't want anything to do with that
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and i feel like women's conferences have largely been kind of dominated that way they're either
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hyper focused on one topic on just on energy or just on wellness or they've become very radicalized
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often by the radical left but sometimes on the other extreme right wing as well and we just
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wanted a space where women didn't have to feel apprehensive to attend or that they would be
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labeled to attend it this is really for all the ladies from the left to the right yeah and there's
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a group forgetting the name and i don't want to knock them much but i hear them on the radio
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regularly and they're trying to get women inspired or involved in politics but the reality is as well
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whenever i hear them as a guest is cool they're pushing the right things but they're far far left
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so if you're a conservative-minded woman you might not necessarily want to gel with that group
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uh in in a room even if you know that supposedly the intent is a broad spectrum of uh of involvement
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from women they want a certain type of woman um there's the recognition of difference between
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women and men i mean that that's part of it they're trying to blur the lines with the woke
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oh it's just a construct no it's not uh i think one of the things i think is unfair to women i
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guess in some ways i don't have to endure uh but you know if a man is is outspoken and assertive
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and speaks out, he's, you know, that's a leader, that's a strong person. And if a woman does that
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quite often, that's a bitch. You know, it's just a societal thing. It's an instinct. It's
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unfortunate. How do you deal with that, though? It's a double standard that's unfair, but you
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can't move forward in politics without being assertive and taking strong stances on things.
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Absolutely. That's why I think we need to do events like this where we need to, you know,
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attract the spectrum of women into a room and we don't have to radicalize things. Women have to be
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asked four or five, six, eight, 10 times to run for office.
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They, they, it's, we talk about having this network for women, but is there really one?
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Because I talked to a lot of women who are currently elected officials, who've run for
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campaigns, who work in political strategy, and they don't necessarily feel that there's
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So you've already got a few speakers lined up though.
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So we have the girls from the discourse, which is a very popular podcast.
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And that's Cheryl Oates and Erica Barutas.
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So they both bring kind of the more conservative
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I encourage you to follow them and listen to them.
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So they'll be moderating one of our political panels
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We've got Tashina Jackson to talk about blockchain
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and how we can utilize that to transform voting
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where my partner Christy will be hosting a one-on-one with her to talk about how we
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utilize this technology to engage young people and young voters. We've got some political
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strategists. We've got a keynote that we're very close to announcing. We've got Melissa Mumbarkey.
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She's an incredible energy advocate. We've got Heidi McKillop from Alberta Proud. We've got
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Deidre Garrick. We've got Mark McQuaig-Boyd, Rachel Notley's former energy minister. So we've
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got a really good spectrum of ladies, Lindsay Montella, the interim Alberta party leader.
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And we're just kind of in talks with a couple of current elected officials. So we're rolling out
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these speaker announcements. We started last week and we'll continue in the coming weeks, but I think
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people will find that we're hitting kind of all the notes and yeah, it's just going to be such
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a great day. Yeah. Well, and it's interesting that Craig Boyd and Oates, yeah, they're not people
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you, if you know them, think conservative at heart. I mean, Oates was involved with the Redford
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government, so maybe a red Tory, and McQuaid Boyd was outright NDP, though she was a pragmatic one
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in the energy file, I found, a little more than some of the others that, you know, in every party
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you get some that are on different ends of the spectrum as they come out, so she should offer
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some interesting perspective. Yeah, I think so. I think women like to see balance. Women don't
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want to have things force-fed down their throat. They want to have balance, so we're making sure
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that we kind of cover, we, we make sure we have a good depth, a good range of thought on these
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panels. And we're keeping these panels. So there's only two or three people plus a moderator on a
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panel, I find when I go to a lot of these conferences, that we'll have five or six people
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on a panel, and nobody gets any airtime, we really want these women who are speaking to have their
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actual turn to speak, because I find when, you know, when we go to a lot of these conferences,
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we talk to women, and they don't feel comfortable maybe putting their opinion out there, or they
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feel that they're going to be judged they just don't feel like they get kind of the air time and
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this is a chance to do it but i do want to add that men are welcome to come you do not have to
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put a wig on cory you can come you are more than welcome to attend the conference oh i don't know
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if i get the deposit back on my drag outfit for that we'll see i mean it's good to hear with you
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know good planning and things like that for conferences so yeah i mean large panels are
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fantastic in their way i guess if you have a weird quick moving it depends on what you're doing but
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you're trying to talk about bigger issues it's just too much to digest if the moderators working
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through five different voices and trying to cover it uh when a smaller group could probably be more
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effective with that i think so i've moderated and emceed a lot of events i've done a lot of panels
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i did a lot of that when i uh worked for alberta proud for years and i just find it's more it's
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more conducive to a good listening room and to people actually telling their stories when you
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have a smaller panel i think it works better otherwise people are just fighting for their
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turn at the mic and it takes them too long to finish what they're saying and somebody's waiting
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for their turn to speak and it's a little bit more awkward so and another thing i really wanted to
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highlight is we're reaching out to the universities different groups we really really want young
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people to come to this we we think that this type of speakers that we're having really attracts
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younger women we need to start bringing more younger women into the political movement
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And it's I think the problem we're having is that women are entering politics at a young age and they're veering super hard left and men are entering politics and veering super hard right.
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How do we kind of course correct that and bring people a little bit more to the center?
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Yeah, well, it's one of the problems facing us right now.
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I mean, participatory democracy means we got to participate.
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You get up there, a lot of people don't realize how actually relatively easy it is to get involved in political campaigns or as a candidate, a volunteer, any of those things.
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But where do you start if you've never done it? Where do you begin? Who do you network with? Or where do you even apply? I mean, you know, getting in a room full of other people like that could help, I guess, for younger people and so on realize that it is achievable. You don't have to be a crazed political nut to get involved in the process.
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absolutely and I think we need to send young women a message too if you are conservative if
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you have conservative values that can mean a whole lot of things and you don't have to apologize for
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that be who you are know that they're we're working out here we're building a network of
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women who just support one another sometimes you may you're you may have you have these tendencies
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or these ideals and they may align a little bit more on one side of the spectrum and that doesn't
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mean that you're not a conservative anymore or that you're not whatever you are right we're just
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We don't need to be so polarizing with this stuff.
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There's, you know, just a kind of sidetrack of that stupid long ballot protest that's going on right now.
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Some clowns who put 150, 180 people on the by-election ballot protesting for the sake of protesting.
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What kind of annoys me with that, because some people say, well, what do you care?
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Because I've said, you know, it doesn't matter to the candidate.
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But it frustrates people from taking part in the process at all.
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whether it's another candidate, whether it's even a voter who wants to look at that or people
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scrutineering or people working in the elections area. These sorts of things discourage participation
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and that's really hurts the whole process. So just to say, you know, we got those actions from
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one group of idiots, but other actions that can encourage people to take part is kind of what you
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guys are up to. Yeah, absolutely. And I wish I could tap into the energy that people put into
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these kind of things and and and put it to a better cause i really do but i think in alberta
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here we're dealing with a lot of election fatigue from the from the federal election no matter what
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your views are i think largely um most albertans were fairly disappointed with the last results of
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the last federal election and and i think you know it speaks to electoral reform and you and i could
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do a whole another show on that and you talked about that a lot for sure but yeah you're right
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when we make the process difficult, when we don't make things easy for people, it doesn't encourage
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them. And young people, they want simplicity. They want it streamlined. Again, going back to how do
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we improve the process for them through technology and really tapping into technology and, you know,
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obviously making it secure. Young people don't want to walk down and cast a ballot and stand in
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line. They just don't do that. And we have to tap into these people. Or at least encourage them to
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make them realize it's worth it. I mean, it's not that hard, but it's a world of distractions right
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now and easy to get sidetracked or find yourself too busy. I mean, it just seems the more that we
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do to make it easier to vote, the less people continue to vote. I mean, advanced voting is
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the opportunities now compared to 20 years ago. You know, you got so many extra days,
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you've got special ballots, you've got mail-in ballots, you've got all of these different,
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and the turnouts don't prove. Yeah, I don't know. Like, do we really move towards a system where we
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make it illegal to not vote i mean there's all that's a whole thing too right i don't know
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i know what you're saying some people make that case like in australia you could take a hit on
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your tax return if you don't get up and vote but absolutely i just think i i guess maybe it's the
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idealist in me a person should just want to because they want to make their mark to try
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and move things in the way that they would i get that but it's like people just don't feel the
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urgency and and it is urgent i mean you know if i may october 20th we have a civic election like
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civic elections across this province and we see the least amount of turnout at the civic at the
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municipal level when really this is the level of politics that affects you the most this is the
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stuff this is fixing your potholes this is taking care of your garbage it's removing your snow
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but people don't care in rural towns we get 20 30 turnouts i mean we have to turn this around
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we have to make people understand and i don't know that's the work for people like you and i
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I who work in this business. Right. So I think, you know, that's one thing that we're doing with
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doing it right. Women's conference that if we can just kind of attract what I call the normal people,
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the average everyday people, which by the way, Corey, you and I are not normal. We're in the
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bubble. No, exactly. And we live, eat and breathe politics. But when I talk to the women that I drop
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off my kids at school with, and you know, the 40 year old moms who, you know, have been successful
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in their own rights, but they're looking to get involved, but they're intimidated. They have
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these conversations with me and they feel scared they feel um unwelcome they feel like they're
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inadequate and I just wanted to create something that listen ladies that you your voice matters
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here's a way for you to get involved to meet other really cool women who are just like you
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this is not intimidating and get involved and the networking is super important and it's very
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timely for us with doing this conference it's going to be on Friday September 12th at the
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deer foot in a casino. And that happens to be six weeks, five, six weeks before the October 20th
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election. So if you want to connect with candidates, if you want to volunteer, if you want to get
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involved with some campaigns, this is a really great opportunity to come out and meet some
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like-minded people who just want to make their communities better places. And how long is this
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event? It's a one-day event. Yeah, it's a full day. I mean, it's a lot packed in for that price,
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so that's pretty good. I mean, you know, a movie with popcorn, you're already beyond that price
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point so uh i think so i mean the parking is going to be free so if you can come in for the day and
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it's you know it's 45 for you to have a catered lunch refreshments all day and end the day in a
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networking reception and we're going to have some really cool door prizes i think that's tremendous
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value when you compare it to other conferences but again we just really want people to show up
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we really want people to get out there so get your tickets now while you can right on and we're
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confined before i let you go where people find tickets for it if they're looking to get them
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yeah we're on all our social media channels under the doing it right women's conference
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and womendoingitright.ca if you click onto that website you can sign up for updates and you'll
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be on our emailing list and find out about all our speakers rolling out and again we're on LinkedIn
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we're on Facebook we're on Instagram so you can get us there too well thank you very much for
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putting it together and coming in to talk to us today about it I hope it goes off great I mean
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again the idealist in me who just wants to see more people just encouraged to take part
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and then we can all fight it out over who's right or wrong well I can't I can't wait to see you
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there, Corey. And, you know, you can choose whether you want to wear the drag
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outfit or the, in honor of the late Aussie Osborne, you could go back to the
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mullet days too. I mean, we'd welcome you in any way you want to show up.
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All right. So check it out guys. Again, that is doing it right.
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Women's conference. It's easy to find on Google and grab a ticket, get out there,
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get involved. I mean, that's, it's, it's hard to pull people in if you aren't used
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to it. Part of the inspiration for me, you know, self-serving plug I'll put for writing that book,
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The Sovereignist's Handbook, was that I wanted to empower people to realize how to get involved
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in politics and how easy it is because actually it's not that hard, but they don't teach that in
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school. They don't teach you what a party membership even is or what that entitles you to
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or how you get your name on a ballot if you're looking to run in an election or all those
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processes. They aren't actually, they're there if you dig for them, but it's kind of intimidating
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if you haven't been involved at all. So events like this are a good opportunity because it's
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not like going to a party full of veterans of the politics and everything too, and get together
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with others and more casually chat about getting into it. And yeah, I don't know if I'm going to
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get up and drag and head on down there, but it's, it sounds like a good event. Let's see,
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You know, paradoxically saying, yeah, they don't want the plebs to know.
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I mean, you know, there are, there's truth to it.
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The municipal front, those ones, as Lindsay pointed out, it's where we're most apathetic.
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We've had turnouts down in Calgary, up the 20-some percent in the election.
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You wonder why they have crappy public art, why they overtax everybody.
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weather in Calgary actually has potholes that caused accidents yesterday that's how bad they
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are people are hitting these potholes so deep that it's knocking the tires off their cars
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and meanwhile Yodi Gondek says they're broke but they had a 200 and some million dollar surplus
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they have money to change the name of Fort Calgary to a new woke name they have money for
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ugly public art so you can money to give artists and I'll say it in quotes where you can phone and
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listen to the sound of the bow river why do they get away with this because we don't get off our
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asses and vote them out that's why pay attention get in there kick them out or uh you know run
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yourself that's these kinds of things to teach a person you don't have to be on the sidelines
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uh mary ann's drink water saying uh yeah you definitely be there to see cory oz yes yeah
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those days are gone uh look on x you know yeah i'll throw it up sometime that old picture of me
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with the mullet i hey it served me well and it's time but uh those days are well behind me and i
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think the world's a better place for that uh you know old guys with mullets is just kind of a sad
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thing to see unless you're again some sort of icon like ozzy you know getting back to some of the
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the uh celebrity news in a way i i you know it's funny it seems often when a very major celebrity
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passes or something happens, somebody gets overshadowed out of it or a lesser one. I remember
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when, for example, you know, Mother Teresa died. It was right about at the same time that Lady Diana
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died. So, you know, one kind of overshadowed the other. They were both very significant people.
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Just the other thing in the news, Malcolm Jamal Warner, for some of the people who grew up in the
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80s, he played one of the kids in the Huxtable family back then. He was only 54, got caught by
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riptide and drowned the other day. Uh, sad, you know, he's certainly not at the iconic status of,
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of Aussie, but unfortunately, you know, somebody's going to remember this guy's passing because
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Aussie sort of covered it all in the news. Uh, what else we got? Oh yeah, this is something
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else. If we're talking about voter engagement. So here's where people maybe can argue and differ
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with me. There's a push from the liberals in the Senate, uh, to lower the voting age to 16
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as they've done in the UK. Now, these pushes always come from the left. I really, really
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strongly oppose this. It's not that I don't want younger people engaged, but I don't think,
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you know, in Canada, you can't be bound by a contract until you're 18, by law, because you're
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a minor. It's been determined that you're just not, and I know it varies kid by kid. There's
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probably some 16-year-olds who are far more mature and advanced and think of things better than a lot
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40 year olds and but there's also some 16 year olds who you know for a while they were snorting
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condoms because of tick tock trends they can wait two more years to vote and there's the saying and
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i think it's been attributed to a few but i think it's churchill who said but if at 20 you're not a
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socialist you have no heart if at 30 you're still a socialist you have no brain socialists understand
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this and they need more people with no brains to be able to vote and put socialists back in.
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That's why they want to lower the age to 16. Just a bit of backstory on myself. I moved,
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it shows a bit of the dorkiness of what I am too. I moved to Calgary from Banff when I was 17,
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finished school and just got out. I was eager to start on my own, got an apartment with a roommate
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and the landlady, just because we were living on our own, had an apartment, actually just assumed
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I was a voting age. So when I was out working and the enumerators came around, there was a
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here and lo and behold, I got home and there was a voter's card back in the 88 election for me to
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vote. Wow. I was thrilled. What a geek, 17 years old. So I was enumerated underage. So I proudly
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marched down and cast my ballot for the NDP. The one and only vote I gave to the NDP. Why did I
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vote for the NDP, a politically engaged guy more so than your average kid at 17 and so on. Because
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I didn't, I was politically inclined. I felt I wanted to be involved. I felt I wanted to cast
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a ballot, but I really hadn't studied politics well enough yet to make a good decision on who
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I'm going to. And I know there's older people who still vote for socialists. That's because some
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people stay stupid until the grave, but most people grow out of it. So why do hard left parties
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want to lower the age to 16? It's simple as that. They want the people who don't understand the
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problems with a high taxation system. They aren't ready to grasp that everything comes with a price
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that takes time in the working world. That takes the reality check of having to pay your bills of
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personal responsibility. And most people between 16 and 18 haven't reached that point yet.
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So no, most of them aren't going to give an informed vote.
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I want more participation, but I want an informed participation.
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That's where I kind of differed with Lindsay when she talked about, you know, having mandatory voting like in Australia.
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I want people to choose to get up and vote, even if they vote left wing or choose a vote that I think is dumb.
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But I want them to get up and feel it's their bloody duty.
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I want them to feel it's serving themselves. I don't want them to do it because they have a gun
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to their head. If you're too lazy, too indifferent to get up and vote, then don't vote. I don't want
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you voting. I want more people voting, but I want them to do it because they choose to. That's the
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only way to have a proper democracy. And yes, it's failing. More and more people are becoming
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apathetic, indifferent, and it's not good for us. But with the liberals pushing to lower the voting
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age, we're already locked in with a terrible liberal party. We're already locked in with a
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myopic public. How? I'm still astounded with. We went from Justin Trudeau, who managed to lower
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support for the liberals to historic lows, like 17%. And all they had to do was flip out that
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moron of a leader and stick somebody else in. And Eastern Canada said, yeah, you know what?
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it's refreshed. I'll cast my votes for them and put them in. Wow. It's frustrating, but
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it is democracy. It doesn't always break the way you want it to.
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That's part of why we have regional differences in this country. And that's a whole separate rant,
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you know, as to why I think independence is going to be the path to getting towards there.
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Another big thing in the news right now, Tamara Leach, Chris Barber, let's get onto that.
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The sentencing is coming up on the longest trial, longest mischief trial in Canadian history.
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And the prosecutors are asking for seven years for Tamara Leach and eight years for Chris Barber for mischief.
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This is where we get into political prisoners rather than people who committed crimes.
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The crime was embarrassing the state. Yes, fine. We can see. And I was getting to that point towards the end of the convoy protest where I felt it's time for them to leave. They've made their point. You can't stay perpetually. I don't care how upset you are. I do believe it led to the point of eventually the government was going to have to intervene and move them out of there if they wouldn't move on their own.
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every protest has to have a point and it has to have an exit strategy those are two elements of
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a successful protest if you're going to have it I've done protests but you got to have a reason
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you can't just stay or you force the hand but they overreacted with stompy the horse with the
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emergencies act and all of those things now if it went into the point of going to court and they
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still feel, I mean, that's for the lawyers to talk about, the leech and barber still encourage
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things to the point of illegality and mischief. Okay, whatever. What level of penalty is appropriate?
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Well, they both spent combined months in custody without bail. That's a lot of time in jail already
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for mischief. What's being served by giving them seven or eight more years in jail? I mentioned it
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on the pipeline, because we talked about that today when we taped that show. But there's a
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horrible case in Calgary. And this is where we're talking about priorities of justice, right?
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A mother and father, and they're at the sentencing stage right now,
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tortured their 18-month-old child to death. The prosecutor's asking for eight years.
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Our federal prosecutors see that crime as being on par with Chris Barber's mischief.
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Will we be more peaceful if Barber and Leach get long prison sentences?
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Like the judge has to take these things into account too when choosing your sentence.
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Is it making us a safer society, a better society?
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I think the behavior of Chris and Tamara over the last few years where they've been out on bail
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as the courts move as grossly slowly as they do for years? Have they been trying to organize more
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protests? Have they been trying to clog up the streets? Have they been trying to re-offend?
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That's the main point, right? Are they presenting a danger? If they were standing out there with
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bullhorn saying, let's go clog up the streets with another convoy in Ottawa tomorrow. Okay,
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I can see a problem. I can see where they're going to say, we've got, you guys haven't learned yet.
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You're going to have to spend some more time to figure that out. But they're not doing that.
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And the justice system shouldn't be based on vengeance.
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I mean, people talk about a punitive aspect to it too.
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No, I don't think, for one, punishment doesn't seem to work that well.
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I mean, incarceration alone is enough to do so typically.
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But, you know, I don't believe in beating prisoners or keeping them in cold concrete cells.
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I don't believe they should be in luxury circumstances either.
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But what you're also going to do is martyr them.
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You're going to inflame the activists who support them.
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And there are some who tend to, some are way over on the fringe.
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And if you go and make an example of Chris and Tamara
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what do you think the harder activists are going to do?
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Nigel felt the same way when we talked about that
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I think, you know, despite what the prosecutor's asking for, what's probably going to happen,
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the judge, they've already been found guilty, will offer a sentence of a couple of years each
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and then suspend the sentence to say, you know, don't do it again. You've technically been
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sentenced to that. You've served this much time and it's finished. But if they give them a long
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sentence, well, for one, you know, it's going to be appealed. It's going to keep it in the news.
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it's going to inflame the activists nothing will be served aside from a vengeful punishment of
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people who had committed the crime of embarrassing that dingbat of a leader that we had for almost
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10 years named Justin Trudeau who really took what was a peaceful and controllable protest and
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managed to inflame it into an absolute gong show and all he really had to do was come out and
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listen to him a couple times no they wouldn't have broken up if he came out and listened a
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couple times I understand that but at least go through the motions saying I understand your
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concerns. Now it's done. Now you got to move on. But instead he went straight to the emergency act
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because he's a weak-willed, wimp, authoritarian piece of garbage who history will not smile upon.
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So I guess all we can do is hope. You know, Leach and Barber are not criminals who are going to put
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our country at harm. And let's just hope that the judge shows some wisdom when it comes to the
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sentencing in the next few days. Probably have a sentence by the time I do the next show and we
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can talk about that. All right, guys, thank you very much for tuning in today. It was a good show.
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Lots to cover, lots of guests. Be sure to watch for the pipeline tonight. It will be airing and
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tune in next week. I will be back again for another episode of this show with a new guest
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of stuff constantly going on and news on the break. Thank you again. See you next week.