Western Standard - Alberta healthcare scandal can’t be allowed to fester

00:00:00.000 Good day and welcome

00:00:29.580 to the show on what i think i hope i pray is the last of these god-awful terrible winter days going

00:00:36.620 on out there ah i can't stand it at least out west and out east they're buried in snow i don't care

00:00:41.900 what people think being in a winter country sucks uh you know today i'm gonna have a guest on his

00:00:47.180 his name is paul mcgregory's of the america fund he's one of those fellows pushing and promoting

00:00:52.220 for the america 51st thing i mean the merger might help economically but i don't know if

00:00:55.820 and be able to do anything with our climate.

00:00:57.740 At least I wouldn't have to cross a border to try and escape somewhere warmer.

00:01:00.780 So maybe that's one of the aspects in the plus side of the checkoff box on things.

00:01:06.100 Lots of other things going on today too.

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00:01:51.760 if you want to hedge against the dollar that's the way to go all right let me bring things a

00:01:56.920 little closer to home and talk about something going on in alberta you know it's been kind of

00:02:01.480 overshadowed a bit but it's getting ready to blow up further so i mean despite the

00:02:05.140 best efforts of unions legacy media and activist groups over nearly two years now to chip away at

00:02:11.100 support for danielle smith's premiership they haven't really been able to crack her support

00:02:14.780 in alberta the coronation of the head nenshi as ndp leader garnered them no new traction and i

00:02:20.200 Meanwhile, Smith's government hasn't been surging in the polls.

00:02:22.560 They haven't had much to fear from the moribund NDP.

00:02:25.340 But that might all change in fast.

00:02:27.360 We've got a recipe for a perfect storm coming together,

00:02:29.720 and if it blows up, it could spell the demise of the Smith government.

00:02:33.520 Alberta's legacy media outlets and the NDP, they're salivating right now.

00:02:36.940 This story is one of possible corruption within the ranks of the provincial cabinet.

00:02:41.600 Procurements and contracts may have been improperly awarded,

00:02:44.320 and senior bureaucrats might have been pressured and even fired for resisting pressure

00:02:47.560 to direct funds towards certain service providers.

00:02:50.200 I mean, that story on its own sounds bad enough.

00:02:52.840 And with the issue emanating from the health department, it becomes a potential catastrophe.

00:02:58.120 I mean, citizens hate seeing public funds being misappropriated.

00:03:00.660 You would think they'd be getting used to seeing it in Canada.

00:03:03.100 But they hate it even more when the misdoings appear to be happening in the sacred health care file.

00:03:07.880 This is the sort of thing that can lead to a collapse in public support for a party, and fast.

00:03:13.200 The affair, the affair, that's a tongue twister, appears.

00:03:18.360 I've got to write things differently.

00:03:19.420 You know, it'll be more of a he said, she said state right now.

00:03:22.580 The recently fired CEO of Alberta Health Services has filed a lawsuit for wrongful dismissal

00:03:27.480 and is packed with troubling allegations.

00:03:29.640 She's seeking $1.7 million and she's pretty strongly motivated to take a run at the government to get it. 0.99

00:03:35.220 Is it a case of a bureaucrat scorned taking it out on the government

00:03:38.320 or is she a whistleblower exposing deep rot in government practices? 0.52

00:03:41.900 I mean, for right now, anyways, what's lacking is solid evidence.

00:03:45.260 Anybody can make allegations in a lawsuit.

00:03:46.960 Until they're proven in court, though, they are nothing more than allegations.

00:03:50.220 Still, this file has been passed to the Auditor General, the Ethics Commissioner, and the RCMP.

00:03:54.080 So far, the RCMP hasn't indicated they've seen any criminal wrongdoing yet.

00:03:57.400 That might change. I don't know. We need evidence.

00:03:59.920 Now, Head Nenshi, of course, is trying his hardest to make hay from this issue.

00:04:02.440 He ridiculously and prematurely demanded the resignation of the Premier.

00:04:05.680 And in his zeal, he's already kind of undermined his own credibility on the affair.

00:04:09.640 That doesn't mean there's nothing there, though.

00:04:11.280 And if Nenshi manages to get his hands on some solid evidence,

00:04:13.720 people might start nodding their heads in agreement when he starts calling for a resignation.

00:04:17.760 Premier Smith must get on top of this issue as soon as possible.

00:04:21.420 It took precious days before she even addressed it at all when it broke,

00:04:24.700 and she's really kind of avoided commenting in depth on it when possible.

00:04:28.040 I mean, on a weekend radio show, she reiterated that she welcomes an investigation by the Auditor General,

00:04:32.680 but that just won't be enough, obviously, at this point.

00:04:35.540 The UCP government can't try to rag the puck on this issue and hope it fades over time.

00:04:40.000 That tactic works well with federal scandals, but it won't cut it in Alberta.

00:04:43.540 The issue is only going to grow, and internal party dissent is going to start growing.

00:04:47.400 That's always the biggest risk for conservatives.

00:04:49.620 It's believable that the allegations were made more from spite than fact,

00:04:54.180 but Smith has been trying to reform the bloated health care bureaucracy in Alberta,

00:04:57.420 and many insiders are eager to derail her efforts.

00:05:00.860 If that's the case, though, it must be fought, not deferred.

00:05:04.060 Premier Smith must come out swinging rather than trying to stay in the background.

00:05:07.960 The pending trade war and tariff issues have granted the UCP some cover on this issue.

00:05:11.880 A scandal at the top levels of health care management would typically be at the top of the headlines for weeks,

00:05:16.220 but it's struggling for notice as national issues overshadow it.

00:05:19.700 The scandal won't go away, though. It's just festering in the background.

00:05:23.020 Alberta's health care system needs serious reforms.

00:05:25.400 It would be tragic if Smith backed off from battling that monster due to a potential scandal as today.

00:05:30.040 She's backed off on a provincial police force and a provincial pension plan.

00:05:33.080 If she shies away from health care reform, she won't have accomplished a heck of a lot of substance in her first term as premier, 1.00

00:05:37.920 despite coming in with high aspirations.

00:05:40.160 Albertans must see some decisive action from the Premier.

00:05:43.340 We need transparency to expose exactly what has happened,

00:05:46.320 and some heads must roll, indeed, if there was malfeasance.

00:05:49.240 If the government tries to hunker down and let this blow over,

00:05:51.620 it's going to lead to a rot which may return the NDP to power in two more years.

00:05:55.760 This is the biggest challenge Premier Smith has faced since assuming the leadership.

00:05:59.500 Let's hope she doesn't let it become the one that brings her down.

00:06:02.840 Now, of course, since I wrote that monologue,

00:06:04.160 I found out there's going to be a press conference coming up this afternoon

00:06:06.800 where Premier Smith's going to address this very thing.

00:06:08.580 So hopefully she responds to a lot of the questions I've put out there.

00:06:11.860 But we'll find out more on what's going on in the news and things out there with our news editor, Dave Naylor.

00:06:16.040 Dave, how's it going today?

00:06:16.680 Yeah, it's going okay, Corey.

00:06:18.040 So tell me, would you prefer the bitterly cold temperatures of Alberta or the waist-high snow of Ontario?

00:06:27.760 It's tough.

00:06:28.440 Because you've got a long driveway.

00:06:29.820 Yeah, I do. That's true, actually, come to think of it.

00:06:32.340 Yeah, I guess I could deal with the cold temperatures better, but I don't like either. I really don't.

00:06:35.800 I mean, fortunately, we just have to go from our warm house to our warm car, from the warm car to the warm work newsroom,

00:06:43.040 and we don't have to spend any time out there shoveling, so there is that.

00:06:47.100 Well, the car I've got right now is the very first car I've ever had that had command start, and I tell you, once you've had that, it's hard to go back.

00:06:53.260 I mean, boy, having your morning coffee and just fire that thing up and let it warm up, it's a godsend.

00:06:57.360 A buddy of mine has a Jeep, and it wouldn't start because of the cold, and so the tow truck came over and gave it a boost this morning.

00:07:05.800 To get a remote starter put in, they want $1,500.

00:07:09.520 Yeah, see, that's probably why I haven't had one before.

00:07:11.360 It came with the car.

00:07:12.360 Yeah, exactly.

00:07:13.360 If you're living in Alberta, you better make sure you get an electronic starter.

00:07:17.080 Yeah, sure is a nice thing.

00:07:18.280 Anyways, another crazy news day.

00:07:20.040 Folks at Democracy Watch, who do good work, have announced they're initiating a private prosecution of Justin Trudeau in the SNC-Lavalin affair.

00:07:31.240 So that's good news and may hopefully finally get some answers.

00:07:34.540 A whole bunch of Quebec and environmental people got together, including the wonderful folks at the David Suzuki Foundation, and said these revived pipelines, revived interest in Quebec pipelines and Canada or Energy East, it's just a mirage, and it'll never happen until we get some social accountability.

00:07:54.760 And that comes with polls showing that the majority of Quebecers want these energy products.

00:08:00.860 speaking of projects the Prime Minister who's only got two weeks left three weeks left has

00:08:09.020 announced a multi-kazillion dollar deal to build high-speed rail from Toronto to Quebec traveling

00:08:15.440 at 300 kilometers an hour I mean they've been talking about this for since you know we were

00:08:22.580 young lads and it will never be done will it it's been billions studying billions study it I bet

00:08:29.300 Which Quebec contractor is going to get it?

00:08:31.040 You think?

00:08:32.420 I mean, and how does he have, he has no moral authority to do this because he's an outgoing prime minister.

00:08:38.420 He's a resigned prime minister.

00:08:40.260 You know, if Mark Carney wants to make himself look good, maybe he'll cancel it on day one.

00:08:46.080 So we've got another airplane falling out of the sky, this time in Tempe.

00:08:51.600 A small aircraft this time that sent up huge plumes of black smoke.

00:08:56.320 And unfortunately, it looks like there's one person killed there.

00:09:00.640 There's a CBC host, Corey, called Travis Danradge, and he's missing.

00:09:06.060 He's missing in action.

00:09:07.260 People have noticed that he hasn't been on his usual spot on CBC.

00:09:11.480 And his lawyer put out a statement saying, yes, he's been put on leave.

00:09:16.980 And everybody's sort of theorizing that he was too equal in his coverage.

00:09:23.960 He wasn't focusing on liberals and NDPs.

00:09:27.240 He was giving equal voice to conservative voices, and that's what got him pulled off.

00:09:32.120 Blasphemy in the state broadcaster.

00:09:33.840 He's got Catherine Marshall on their case now.

00:09:35.660 Yes, yes, so we know she's a good lawyer. 0.99

00:09:38.580 We contacted CBC.

00:09:40.180 They said we don't discuss this sort of stuff.

00:09:42.700 We can only tell you he's still on the payroll, but he's on leave.

00:09:48.800 One of the leaders of Freedom Convoy, Pat King, got three months, basically house arrest in his sentencing today. 0.91

00:09:57.700 The Crown wanted 10 years, so that just shows you how ridiculous they are. 0.60

00:10:01.240 And thank goodness the judge took it the right way.

00:10:04.720 And our favorite friend, Robbie Starbuck, announced this week he's got Coca-Cola in his sights.

00:10:10.240 And they will be the next target of his anti-DEI work coming up later on this week.

00:10:16.220 So I look forward to that.

00:10:18.600 And, yes, you mentioned the Smith press conference on the health care scandal.

00:10:22.840 Our alleged reporter, James Snell, will be all over that like a wet blanket.

00:10:27.220 Right on.

00:10:27.860 So big news.

00:10:28.460 That's at 2 o'clock.

00:10:29.380 Lots on the go.

00:10:30.180 I mean, we don't have to sweat finding things to write about.

00:10:32.640 No, no, there's never a shortage as there are these days.

00:10:36.140 All right.

00:10:36.540 Well, I'll let you get back at it, and I'll see you after the show.

00:10:39.780 Thanks, Ray.

00:10:40.360 Thanks.

00:10:40.940 Yes, as you can see, lots of stories breaking, constantly developing, moving.

00:10:45.140 I can't even keep my monologues up with them.

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00:11:25.820 It's interesting seeing Robbie Starbuck and people who aren't familiar with him, it gets confusing.

00:11:30.380 I mean, the irony of his name, you know, with Starbucks being such a woke business to begin with and such.

00:11:35.500 But his name is Starbuck.

00:11:36.660 He's an activist in the United States.

00:11:39.060 he has uh really been taking down he's targeted dei corporations that really over embrace the

00:11:47.160 dei and just makes it backfire on him you know the only you only all robbie starbuck does

00:11:51.380 is expose it he's just pointing it out it's all there it's always been there and uh now he's

00:12:00.420 targeting coke but he's gone after some like john deere and harley davidson it's gonna be 0.89

00:12:05.940 interesting with what he finds at Coca-Cola and you know I'm liking this trend I mean people

00:12:10.280 weren't paying attention to DEI before your average citizen wasn't paying attention to DEI

00:12:14.580 we're seeing at least Elon Musk and President Trump taking on DEI now because it's diversity

00:12:19.200 equity inclusion hey all nice fluffy statements and that's fine you know what I'd love a diverse

00:12:23.940 equitable and inclusive world as well but I also believe in merit which I think Trump's all bloody

00:12:29.460 three of those things there are diverse people who have excellent merit and they rise to great

00:12:35.840 positions in what they do. Leave it alone. Don't try to force it and the cream will rise to the

00:12:41.060 top. There's fantastic people out there. We don't need these stupid DEI policies and they've been

00:12:45.660 harming businesses when, I mean, it's really a simple rule when running a business, running a 0.99

00:12:49.540 government, running anything. You want to get the best people possible into the roles to do them.

00:12:54.700 It doesn't matter who they are and when you come into it, I mean, hey, let's face it. Okay, fair

00:12:59.700 enough. Things were wrong a long time ago and there's, I'm sure there's some individual businesses

00:13:04.480 it still do it there's some stupid business owners will say i won't hire that person because they're 1.00

00:13:08.640 black and i don't want them in my business well that's a dumb business owner because they're 1.00

00:13:11.200 narrowing their labor market i mean aside from the gross racism of it they're just being stupid 1.00

00:13:15.840 but likewise when you come in and set a quota the other way and start to look for other categories 0.98

00:13:20.240 other than competency and merit you're making your business worse you're making it worse for

00:13:25.520 people you're making it worse for your own shareholders and for yourself your own work

00:13:29.360 environment and it's kind of come up and it seems to be peaking and it's declining you know this

00:13:34.000 this thing's always a cycle. I mean, if you remember in the past, if you're kind of grayer 0.72

00:13:36.920 like I am, it used to be affirmative action. That was big. That was kind of huge. And I think the

00:13:40.960 late eighties, early nineties, it was the same thing. And because it stunk, because it led to

00:13:46.020 people getting into positions they shouldn't be in or worse, some people who were really,

00:13:49.940 really well qualified for positions they were in. But because of these programs, people would look

00:13:54.520 and say, oh, that's a tokenism. That's a hire that they just brought in for that, which is really

00:13:58.840 unfair for the people who work their butts off to get to those spots. If they happen to be

00:14:02.400 minorities it's just a bad ill-conceived wrong concept and it's fading and it's dying so you

00:14:08.300 know when I rant and get on things and moan about a lot of negative things that's one positive

00:14:12.680 development that's starting to rise we're kind of getting to the crest of that cycle again on one

00:14:16.160 of these bad trends this foolish trends of DEI happening out there people like Robbie Starbuck

00:14:20.860 people like Trump and hopefully then it inspires some of the leaders in Canada to find the courage 0.99

00:14:25.600 to take on these ridiculous programs these idealistic idiocy notions and just get back 0.99

00:14:32.220 some common sense in our governance and in our business world all right well speaking of the 0.97

00:14:37.260 americans we got our guest in studio i like it when guests are in studio we were talking a bit

00:14:41.340 about that before it makes the conversation easier this is paul mcgregor of america fund and you're

00:14:47.100 you're going to talk a bit about your organization and the concept you know as you said 15 minutes

00:14:51.180 isn't long enough but we're gonna we're gonna cover a bit of this in the america 51st so

00:14:55.020 welcome to the studio and thanks for joining us today well thank you cory i appreciate you having

00:14:59.100 us on so uh yeah we did talk a little bit before so um to explain a little bit about america fund

00:15:05.980 and and some of the the the history and and the kind of the group so it is a group of small

00:15:11.180 businessmen who've gotten together and said look uh we want to take a look at this issue of

00:15:18.700 statehood uh from a professional point of view right and get and and and bring in lawyers and

00:15:25.260 bring in you know all of the specialists to look at this type of stuff um so you know there's a

00:15:31.420 little bit of history with of course uh the two spokespeople at this point in time is myself uh

00:15:37.020 and and i am and was the uh president of uh ab51 project which was a few years ago and that the

00:15:46.700 primary uh focus of ab51 project was to look at the constitution for alberta right give us some

00:15:55.260 Give us some real details about what it could be and what it should be.

00:15:59.560 And we brought in a whole group of people and a lot of very, very intelligent and well-educated people to look at that.

00:16:09.020 So we've already got the basis for that.

00:16:12.040 America Fund, of course, the other spokesperson is Peter Downing.

00:16:15.600 So, Peter and I, a little while back, and some other businessmen as well, we came together and partnered with America Fund as the mechanism by which we could fund, do the things that need to be done for AB51 as a concept, right?

00:16:36.840 Now, so that's a little bit about the group, and its focus is to educate people and say, look, there is a path, this is a good thing for Alberta.

00:16:51.960 Financially, economically, for our children, our grandchildren, this is a good thing.

00:16:56.300 And really, in our view, really the only way to go forward, considering current geopolitical and geoeconomical circumstances, that, look, we need to have a path to protect Albertans and Western Canadians as a whole and give us something solid that we can actually, that's been well thought out, let's put it that way.

00:17:21.180 This concept's been around for quite a while. We were talking earlier, I was working with Patrick Beauchamp over 25 years ago, and he was trying to promote it. It was difficult to get that concept out there, and that's where you're saying it's an educational concept, but it really has re-emerged on the scene. I don't know if it's taking widespread support on the ground, but people are talking about it more than ever thanks to President Trump repeatedly mentioning that, though he's been talking about the whole country as a 51.

00:17:48.580 so so we don't we've been looking at this a long time we don't see it as a whole country thing

00:17:54.580 okay economically canada's got a problem its governance is a problem everybody knows this i

00:18:00.980 mean the canadian system is broken it's not fixable a new leader goes in same problems

00:18:06.740 it's already and we were talking about this senate's already predetermined judiciaries are all

00:18:11.460 predetermined a bill of rights ain't worth the paper it's written on trucker convoy proved that

00:18:17.140 So the system's got a problem, and we need to really change that.

00:18:22.960 But what we're interested in is dealing with Western Canada as a group.

00:18:28.280 And like you've said, Corey, this separation thing is nothing new.

00:18:32.700 It's just, you know, which direction do we go kind of deal, right?

00:18:37.100 So right now what happens is in crisis, people change.

00:18:42.340 People want change.

00:18:43.700 We're very excited.

00:18:44.800 We see the best is yet to come, to be honest.

00:18:49.320 There's two ways to look at a crisis, and anybody who's ever been successful in business or in investments, you look at a crisis, you can be scared, you can run, you can get out, and of course you lose, right?

00:19:02.560 Or you can see it as an opportunity, and this is an opportunity for Alberta and Albertans to take control of their own governance and their future for themselves and their children.

00:19:13.420 So with this, I mean, that's part of it.

00:19:15.060 Right now is at the educational point.

00:19:16.680 You're kind of taking advantage of that.

00:19:18.400 You've been at it for a long time, but now it's in the scroll.

00:19:20.680 It's in the news.

00:19:21.220 People are looking at it.

00:19:22.340 So you want to now, I mean, your perspective is you want them to come out of it with a positive view on the concept.

00:19:27.240 Yes.

00:19:28.040 What kind of steps do you start working from there when you go beyond the educational?

00:19:31.940 Like what are the mechanisms?

00:19:33.100 That's where it gets a little.

00:19:34.380 It does.

00:19:35.060 And there's a lot of moving parts to that, as I said earlier.

00:19:39.520 There's a lot of moving parts.

00:19:40.880 Obviously, we need to look at, and we are working in this in the background, we need to look at the partnerships with businesses, Congress, Senate in the U.S.

00:19:52.900 We need to look at the Constitution for Alberta and come up with something that is a viable path to be able to do this.

00:20:03.020 Now, before, as you said, this has been talked about, but there was no path.

00:20:07.400 Everybody's like, well, you know, that's great, Paul, you know, or whoever the spokesperson was at the time.

00:20:13.460 But how do we actually do this?

00:20:15.880 I mean, Clarity Act, forget about it, right?

00:20:18.040 You've got 51%.

00:20:19.240 It's got to go to the parliament.

00:20:22.420 Three quarters of the parliament have to agree.

00:20:24.500 It's never going to happen.

00:20:25.840 It's set up for a failure.

00:20:28.700 But now that we have an American protectorate and an offer that says, okay, you know what, guys?

00:20:34.760 You can come in to the mansion at this point in time.

00:20:38.440 We have a lot going on economically in Canada and with foreign nations and foreign interference.

00:20:45.980 That's all over the news.

00:20:46.920 We won't get into the weeds of that, but, I mean, really just look at what's going on.

00:20:52.260 So having that offer and the ability to work with these people.

00:20:56.460 So in the background, to answer your question, we're working with individuals at high levels to be able to work out the details.

00:21:06.860 We've got a constitutional basis.

00:21:08.900 We're going to be releasing all that information.

00:21:11.860 And what's interesting about that, Corey, is it gives Western provinces the chance to have a say in how that looks.

00:21:20.060 There's so many wonderful constitutions out there.

00:21:22.780 And we talk, I mean, I'm treaty Indian as well.

00:21:26.060 So when we talk about for Indian nations, I mean, they're going to have way more than they would in Canada, 100% resource ownership.

00:21:35.980 And it's the same thing with the state.

00:21:37.920 The state has that.

00:21:39.740 The government can't dictate your economic decisions.

00:21:44.500 We can't have a Japan losing a trillion dollar deal on LNG and Alberta because the eastern Canada, the Laurentian elites say,

00:21:53.920 no no no we don't want you to have that over there and so guess who's getting it now the u.s

00:21:58.560 right they're looking at it what could that have done for for our people right so those are the

00:22:04.460 things we're looking at yeah well the economic case is very solid though it still needs to be

00:22:07.900 expanded and made to people because you know they don't necessarily understand that yeah at some

00:22:12.480 point they have to approach the the political class like we we have a broken system but we

00:22:16.580 have a mechanism we are within and people will expect that we're going to need some elected

00:22:21.380 support at some point so now we start talking to you looking at should federal parties become

00:22:27.240 engaged provincial parties uh so so existing personally i don't believe the federal option

00:22:34.440 is an option because you're working in a system that's already broken to begin with so how do you

00:22:40.280 do that i think more on the provincial side and working with uh like premiers and so on and so

00:22:47.740 forth that will look at this the people need the option right now we have this excuse me

00:22:55.500 for saying fake team canada thing that really is not is not looking at the at the uh the interest

00:23:02.460 of individual provinces they're looking at a governmental system and maintaining that

00:23:07.100 we have we have uh pierre polavir and former steven harper love these guys okay that's not

00:23:13.260 the issue there but you know there there are their response was that canadian should uh have

00:23:20.940 any amount of suffering to maintain the name this is just a fake line where that that that creates

00:23:29.180 this whole country and what we need to do is look at our own areas and our own people

00:23:35.500 and and have our leaders uh like premier smith and and so on and so forth and realize that

00:23:42.140 You know, they have their own supporters and their own viewpoints, so on and so forth.

00:23:46.860 But people need to have it as an option, Corey, that they say, look, here's the option.

00:23:53.220 Here's Canada.

00:23:54.240 Here's the, it's like I was saying when my kids were young and they needed to make a big decision.

00:23:59.680 I'd say, look, get out of the emotions.

00:24:02.780 Let's put the pros and cons down, right?

00:24:05.540 And let's see what's good for our future.

00:24:09.260 It's not about how I feel about it particularly.

00:24:11.620 And I'm not ignoring or, you know, throwing out the emotions.

00:24:16.060 There is an emotional sense to this.

00:24:18.040 But for us, we're Albertans first.

00:24:20.560 We're Westerners first.

00:24:22.080 And because that's our home, that's our backyard, that's my living room we're talking about here.

00:24:26.620 And so that's what's important.

00:24:28.560 And I think the governments, yes, we have to approach them.

00:24:31.520 And I think we're ready to talk to them and to say, look, guys, you need to present an option to the people and stop the fear mongering.

00:24:39.800 because the fear-mongering isn't going to do anything but make everybody weak.

00:24:44.260 And that's a problem.

00:24:45.540 So the discussion's been brought out for President Trump.

00:24:48.220 He's brought a lot of discussions out.

00:24:50.120 I wonder how much necessarily it's interesting to watch.

00:24:54.420 I mean, I've been observing.

00:24:55.560 So to some degree, I think it's kind of galvanized a sense of patriotism among Albertans, even within Canada.

00:25:00.400 As you said, there's some of that team candidate, whether it's misgiven.

00:25:02.960 I mean, I think some of it, as you say, it's strategic on Trump's part.

00:25:06.460 Yes.

00:25:06.740 But when you, one analogy I use in a sense is, you know, Alberta and the rest of Canada or Alberta, Eastern Canada have been licking a domestic dispute and squabbling for a long time.

00:25:15.260 But you got to watch it when you step in between a couple that's having a domestic dispute because you could find both of them turning on you.

00:25:20.700 Yeah.

00:25:21.260 And, you know, say, hey, yeah, I can't stand that one, but this isn't your business.

00:25:26.040 Let us sort this out and then we'll talk with you.

00:25:28.740 I'm just saying that, you know, it's brought the discussion up, but I think it might have made some people dig their heels in.

00:25:32.780 Sure.

00:25:33.140 And you know what? Look, controversy brings a conversation. We were saying that at least the conversation is happening.

00:25:39.980 And once we get once all the emotions settle down and and the crises builds, unfortunately, what's happened with the Team Canada approach is to counter tariff.

00:25:53.420 You know, and I said this before, you know, everybody talks about, oh, Trump came in and just tariffed us and it's a terrible thing that he's done.

00:25:59.740 Well, wait a second. We've been tariffing the U.S. for years.

00:26:03.140 And forget about 25 percent, 200, 250 percent, you can't even buy cheese and get across the

00:26:10.140 border without having a massive tariff.

00:26:13.920 I had one border agency and I have wide latitude, I can charge up to 400 percent tariffs on

00:26:19.220 it.

00:26:20.220 None of that's been mentioned.

00:26:21.820 It's all like a military takeover in the sense of that's the emotion.

00:26:26.880 But what are we protecting?

00:26:28.320 We're protecting carbon tax, we're protecting this relationship that has basically set

00:26:33.140 Alberta has only one purpose, which is since its inception, Clifford Sifton said the purpose

00:26:43.240 of the West was to enrich Canada, and at that time, Canada was upper and lower Canada, as

00:26:49.120 you know, and that was its purpose.

00:26:52.260 Nothing's changed.

00:26:53.600 1980s, we had the National Energy, you know, now we've got Trudeau, we have a system that

00:26:59.380 says you're not equal.

00:27:01.080 So how long, it's like the Declaration of Independence said, how long do we need to, and I'm beating this up and paraphrasing it, I could look at it, but how long do those ties have to last forever and ever?

00:27:16.340 Or do we look at it at the situation right now and as parents, as grandparents, make the choice, business people make the choice and say, hey, we've got to look at the pros and cons in this.

00:27:27.640 And I think as a government, governing people, not ruling them, saying, listen, this is the only option.

00:27:33.160 And if you don't do this, the whole world is going to fall apart.

00:27:35.640 This little chicken little thing that the media paid for by Trudeau, by the way.

00:27:41.100 Right.

00:27:41.420 So, I mean, you know, it's laughable.

00:27:43.740 everything that there so we were we canada as a as a group could have existed but the trucker

00:27:52.780 convoy i think was was the end of that basically it was alienate everybody else we're the ruling

00:28:00.200 class this is a neo-feudal system you are subjects you will comply we'll take your your we'll put

00:28:07.520 you in jail we'll take your your money we'll freeze your accounts peaceful canadians wanted 1.00

00:28:14.060 to say we wanted to say you do not have a say we never have had a say so uh we need to say right

00:28:20.900 now we need we need the premiers of of the western provinces to say okay guys there is two options to

00:28:27.840 this and and let people present let's have that conversation get away from the fear mongering yeah

00:28:32.360 well we knew the conversation would go fast so before i start rapping with you is that all we're

00:28:36.660 Not out yet, but before I let you go, are there plans maybe for events or gatherings or things like that?

00:28:42.200 Yeah, so we are planning constitutional events.

00:28:48.940 The summertime is better for that kind of stuff.

00:28:51.400 Of course, you know, in the wintertime it's a bit tough.

00:28:54.320 There's nothing right now as in a date made up.

00:28:59.240 Again, a lot of this is funding stuff and so on and so forth, right?

00:29:04.180 so we're working through the details and and peter and the group have have have had those

00:29:09.780 conversations so that we can present this information so yes and that will come out

00:29:14.540 and we'll release it as we go cory on on the x uh sites and websites and tiktok and that could

00:29:21.940 that kind of thing great well and before i let you go and so if people want to get involved or

00:29:26.240 if they want to find out more as we just kind of scratched the tip of the iceberg of the concept

00:29:29.820 here today where can they find more information well right now uh the websites need some work

00:29:35.580 i'll admit that okay but as far as the best places i think john is going to put them up

00:29:41.580 has put them up already there is uh x um and and the the main site you're going to find the

00:29:49.020 information is real america fund there's a real america fund.ca which is the web at real america

00:29:55.740 fund on x um there's at at alberta projects uh on x and on tick tock at alberta uh 51 project i

00:30:05.400 believe uh he's got up there i can't even remember it myself i wrote it down earlier so that's the

00:30:10.000 primary places right now great an easiest spot typically for people to find things now anyways

00:30:13.880 just google real america fund and i'm sure it's going to point to that absolutely we can find

00:30:17.860 more well thanks for coming in and talk to us about it and yeah you got your work cut out but

00:30:21.440 We're in for some really interesting and tumultuous times.

00:30:25.820 There's no better time to start discussing these things than now.

00:30:28.660 If nothing else, it's the conversation of the day.

00:30:31.480 So I appreciate you sharing it with us.

00:30:33.580 And we'll be watching closely to see how it goes.

00:30:35.600 Thank you.

00:30:35.980 And the best is yet to come.

00:30:37.660 Thanks, Paul.

00:30:38.800 Thank you.

00:30:39.420 All right.

00:30:40.080 So, yeah, one more time.

00:30:40.980 That was Paul McGregor of the America Fund, or as we said, look for realamericafund.ca,

00:30:47.060 and you'll be able to find them and get some more information.

00:30:50.440 It's kind of an irony that there's a .ca on it, isn't it?

00:30:53.140 But, I mean, that's part of getting your websites and SEO things.

00:30:57.580 And, yeah, as I said, you know, this has been around a long time.

00:31:01.300 Pat Beauchamp and I worked on stuff, you know, working on that concept 25 years ago.

00:31:06.620 It hasn't gained a lot of traction, but the discussion sure has fallen onto our lap now regardless, hasn't it?

00:31:14.220 And people are discussing it.

00:31:15.340 People are considering it.

00:31:16.420 But I see some of the commenters saying, yeah, you know, they prefer the independence option and just, you know, absolutely.

00:31:23.920 I mean, that's kind of where I sit with it, but the discussion's there.

00:31:26.760 And maybe farther down, I mean, who knows, or prior to independence, maybe it's straight to the states.

00:31:32.240 But we have hit a turning point, I think, as a nation.

00:31:37.820 It's a mess.

00:31:39.220 And it's ironic.

00:31:41.460 I think whether it was intentional or not,

00:31:43.940 one of the things that Pierre Polyev was saying a lot,

00:31:46.660 pre-campaigning, I guess, and over the time,

00:31:49.620 was that Canada is broken.

00:31:50.760 It was a statement he used a lot.

00:31:51.820 Canada is broken, Canada is broken.

00:31:53.580 Watch, he's going to stop using that.

00:31:55.140 He already has stopped using that.

00:31:56.360 In fact, the legacy media and the usual suspects in Eastern Canada

00:32:00.440 are pressuring and watching for whenever he says,

00:32:03.200 you're a disloyal man saying that.

00:32:05.420 Well, no, it doesn't matter.

00:32:06.540 If it's broken, it's not a matter of loyalty to point out it's broken.

00:32:09.260 but he's going to back off on that that's some of the um i think unintended consequences i don't

00:32:15.680 know nobody can read trump's mind i'm not sure if trump could read trump's mind but it's hard to

00:32:19.540 tell where he's coming from but what i see to a degree again you see is it actually tamped down

00:32:24.160 a bit of discussions now and now it is this this team canada thing so it's actually united a lot

00:32:29.520 of people more though others like paul and and other independence minded people it's brought

00:32:34.680 the conversation into the forefront where now they're starting to scratch their heads well

00:32:38.320 let's talk about this a little bit. We weren't even talking about it before. You've got to start

00:32:42.220 discussing it. I mean, there are a lot of valid points to be made. If you're going to compare

00:32:46.520 constitutions, if you want to compare GDP per capita, you want to compare the tax base, you want

00:32:53.340 to compare the market access, well, there's a heck of a big case to be made that Alberta would look 0.96

00:32:58.980 a lot better as a state than as a province. Now, whether it's an independent province would be

00:33:06.420 better worse again it's a long huge discussion the other bigger aspect as we said so paul was

00:33:12.100 saying yeah he's just looking at alberta and maybe saskatchewan in the 51 but when you talk about the

00:33:16.960 whole canada is a 51 and that's trump really poking things there's really no interest across

00:33:21.460 the country for that and there's a question of how much interest there is on the americans part

00:33:25.200 for that particularly republican ones let's face it even if alberta which is the most conservative

00:33:30.800 province in the country for the most part though saskatchewan is fewer liberal mps right now

00:33:34.720 But even if Alberta joined the United States, I could see Alberta being a swing province.

00:33:39.740 It could be a Democrat province.

00:33:42.880 And suddenly they've got an electoral college that's changed,

00:33:45.900 and now you're starting to see more Democrat governments coming in.

00:33:49.380 I'm not sure every Republican wants to see that.

00:33:52.000 Either way, the discussion's there, and discussion is always good.

00:33:55.800 I do like seeing things stirred up.

00:33:58.000 I mean, we can stir things up and come out worse than we went in,

00:34:00.480 or we can come out with something better, and we'll see if something better comes out of this.

00:34:04.720 So let's get on to some other federal things, you know, as things move along.

00:34:09.740 The electric car program.

00:34:13.160 The federal government's softening on that. 1.00

00:34:14.640 Speaking of Canada being broken, speaking of Canada being stupid. 1.00

00:34:17.700 Yeah, the federal cabinet minister's saying, well, they may adjust the electric car plan. 1.00

00:34:22.400 Guys, it's collapsing. 0.94

00:34:24.040 It's screwed. 0.92

00:34:25.120 Speaking of tariffs, they just went and, you know, this was a while back, 0.97

00:34:29.520 they put a massive tariff on Chinese electric vehicles

00:34:32.460 to try and promote and force people to domestically buy 0.98

00:34:36.020 because nobody wants the damn things. 0.99

00:34:37.440 Let's face it, they're a niche market. 0.99

00:34:39.160 They've been shoving them down our throat for like 10 years now

00:34:41.280 and they still make up a tiny, tiny market share.

00:34:43.940 And then they've discovered the closest thing,

00:34:45.680 the only one who's building a market share successfully to a degree is,

00:34:48.960 oh no, it's the evil Elon Musk and Tesla.

00:34:52.140 So, and it appears it actually sails, again,

00:34:55.160 because of the conflict with the United States for now for Tesla in Canada

00:34:58.380 It's not a good time to be a Tesla salesman in Canada right now in a lot of places.

00:35:02.740 So we've put tens of billions of dollars, thanks to that dingbat Trudeau,

00:35:09.040 tossing subsidies, remember, always into Quebec and Ontario companies, of course,

00:35:11.960 to manufacture batteries for this great electric vehicle wave that hasn't come, that isn't coming.

00:35:17.800 He's banned. I mean, think about market disruption.

00:35:20.680 The dolt has banned the manufacturing of real combustion engine cars

00:35:25.820 within the next, what, 10 years now is it getting up to that deadline?

00:35:29.320 Yep, they're just not going to be, they're going to be illegal.

00:35:31.700 You know, that's obviously going to get repealed

00:35:33.920 because the electric vehicles, the grid, the works, 1.00

00:35:36.500 it's totally unfeasible, just idiotic, idiotic promise. 1.00

00:35:40.120 The problem is when you look at manufacturing, 1.00

00:35:42.760 when you look at planning, when you look at businesses,

00:35:45.240 they're not going to invest here on those things

00:35:47.460 because you just don't know when is he going to reverse that. 0.98

00:35:49.820 Or maybe we will be stupid enough in Canada, Quebec and Toronto, 0.99

00:35:53.040 we'll put more liberals in, 1.00

00:35:54.140 And these idiots will still keep trying to shove this down our throats. 1.00

00:35:58.080 And automobiles, combustion engines being manufactured are illegal in 10 years. 1.00

00:36:01.940 Well, who's going to maintain a business like that?

00:36:03.820 Who's going to put money into it?

00:36:04.900 So he's disrupting the market already.

00:36:08.860 I mean, we're going to talk about it a bit on the pipeline a little later.

00:36:12.580 That's another show that will come on this evening with a panel.

00:36:16.520 I don't know if people have been watching the polls lately.

00:36:19.660 But there's some really strange polls going on out there.

00:36:22.640 We've got David Coletto with, I believe it's Abacus.

00:36:25.420 He's showing that the liberals have had a little bit of a bump,

00:36:28.180 you know, now that Trudeau stepped kind of a bit away from the leadership.

00:36:31.320 But still, the conservatives are far, far ahead.

00:36:33.600 But there's a couple of others.

00:36:35.160 Ecos, well, that's Frank Graves. He's crazy. 0.98

00:36:38.380 But some of the others are showing that the liberals might even beat the conservatives now. 0.88

00:36:42.480 Other pollsters.

00:36:43.840 Really?

00:36:45.420 Really?

00:36:47.040 People? You forget that?

00:36:48.140 That's all it took, was just pulling down Trudeau? 1.00

00:36:50.320 all the rest of the trash and garbage underneath him was fine all the idiotic policies all of the 1.00

00:36:54.900 debt all of the inflation the housing crisis the mass immigration that's all okay just as long as 1.00

00:37:00.800 we put carney in who had his finger in trudeau's pie for quite some time while trudeau was in there

00:37:07.340 you're not getting rid of anybody you're just slapping a new coat of paint on it in fact you're

00:37:12.240 bringing somebody in who's just the same kind of ideologue as trudeau only frighteningly he's a

00:37:16.360 little bit smart, which makes it much more scary, actually. Trudeau, at least, is an idiot. He just 1.00

00:37:20.440 parrots and says what he's told. Carney can think, but he's also a person who can think who's

00:37:27.420 driven by hardcore ideology. Is Canada really, really considering putting them back in? I tell

00:37:36.580 you what, I'm not saying it as a threat. I'm just saying it as a reality. If the Liberals win this

00:37:43.000 next election, even with a minority, you're going to see an independence movement blossom in Western

00:37:49.720 Canada like you've never seen before. I mean, it won't be just a bit hot. It's going to explode

00:37:55.200 because it will feel hopeless. I mean, the corruption, the foreign interference, the debt, 0.59

00:38:02.480 the mismanagement, the bullying, the imbalance, all of that, yet still Central Canada, because

00:38:09.400 let's face it, they're the only ones who can and will put them back. Central and Eastern Canada. 0.91

00:38:13.000 He says, that's fine, we still want more of that.

00:38:16.980 Well, then that last hope of making change within our existing system is gone.

00:38:25.040 And it's all they know how to do is tax, spend, and borrow.

00:38:28.720 I mean, lockdowns, this is some numbers that just came out,

00:38:31.320 that businesses, small and medium-sized businesses,

00:38:34.580 from the lockdowns, the COVID response, 1.00

00:38:36.380 and I know Canada wasn't alone in having stupid COVID responses. 1.00

00:38:39.300 No, countries all around the world did it. 1.00

00:38:40.540 It was a worldwide period of insanity over a flu.

00:38:45.020 But the lockdowns cost Canadian businesses about $60 billion a year,

00:38:49.560 just the small and medium-sized ones because of the travel bans,

00:38:53.380 because of the lockdowns, because of the restrictions and all that.

00:38:56.460 So what did Trudeau do?

00:38:58.200 Well, he gave out massive loans, and he gave out CERB,

00:39:02.400 and he paid people to sit at home.

00:39:03.740 He basically created a UBI program.

00:39:06.280 What did that lead to?

00:39:07.880 Mass inflation.

00:39:08.920 That's what happens.

00:39:09.960 That's what happens when a government prints money.

00:39:11.780 This is economics 101.

00:39:13.000 This isn't theory.

00:39:14.200 This is as solid as the law of gravity.

00:39:16.220 You pump currency, you pump money, fiat money into the supply,

00:39:20.700 your money becomes devalued and inflation happens.

00:39:23.280 And we just went through it.

00:39:25.840 So now with this tariff thing coming along, we're being warned.

00:39:28.460 If 25% tariffs get applied to all Canadian products, this is being threatened,

00:39:33.680 we can be driven right into a recession.

00:39:36.180 Trudeau's first response was, and he even used the parallel,

00:39:38.680 He said we would bring in a COVID-level type of package, a spending package, to help Canadians through it.

00:39:46.740 That's the best he could come up with, is that we're going to live on the credit cards until we get through the storm.

00:39:53.580 That means more mass inflation.

00:39:55.660 That means more pressure on the entire country.

00:39:59.840 And, of course, when we're choking off our producing provinces, like Alberta, B.C., when we block oil and gas projects, where is this going to come from?

00:40:06.860 We are really up the creek, guys.

00:40:09.260 And hey, Trudeau isn't alone in bad economic policy.

00:40:12.560 We're in bizarro world.

00:40:14.300 People celebrate Trump as a business genius.

00:40:16.800 Okay, well, I don't know about some of that.

00:40:19.120 Tariffs. Tariffs are stupid policy. 1.00

00:40:21.680 They're stupid. They're bad policy. 1.00

00:40:23.720 They always have been.

00:40:25.040 They tend to harm your country.

00:40:26.340 If another country wants to sell you a cheap product, let them.

00:40:30.640 Let them. It's saving your citizens money.

00:40:34.240 Upgrade it. Make your own product better or competitive.

00:40:36.460 or if those products are coming to you from out there at a better price than here,

00:40:40.840 something they're not dumping, and that's not what the case is,

00:40:42.920 which means you're selling below value, let them send it in.

00:40:45.740 Keep your cost of living low.

00:40:47.700 Then you can focus your resources on what you have within your country.

00:40:51.460 Using tariffs to force everything inward just rises the cost to everybody

00:40:56.420 and the inefficiency.

00:40:57.280 But then I saw the Doge idea, which is great.

00:41:00.480 Department of Government Efficiency, they've got Musk in there,

00:41:02.780 and they've been cutting, and they're cutting, and it's fantastic.

00:41:06.460 And now, though, they're talking, saying, we already see some of the benefits of this.

00:41:11.000 And what we're talking about doing is putting out a one-time $5,000 per person Doge payout because we've saved so much.

00:41:18.560 Well, how much has your Doge saved?

00:41:19.900 About $700 a person so far. 1.00

00:41:22.160 Well, are you lying or stupid? 1.00

00:41:28.380 Elon's not stupid. 1.00

00:41:30.300 So why are you saying this crap? 1.00

00:41:32.900 Because if you go cutting a check for $5,000 to every American, 0.99

00:41:36.360 you know what that's going to do to inflation.

00:41:38.420 You know that's what that's going to do to your currency.

00:41:41.440 Why?

00:41:42.360 Why are we...

00:41:43.820 I mean, quit canonizing these guys.

00:41:46.380 They're doing politics through platitudes,

00:41:49.020 and they're playing to the lowest common denominator.

00:41:50.920 I know economics is boring.

00:41:53.260 I know not everybody wants to read The Road to Serfdom.

00:41:56.360 But read a little bit of Hayek.

00:41:58.860 You know, check out the Austrian school and some of the intellectual economists who have pointed this stuff out.

00:42:05.200 This is not ground that hasn't been trodden before.

00:42:08.540 We know these things don't work.

00:42:11.180 Yet we keep going into it.

00:42:13.620 Why?

00:42:14.260 Why?

00:42:14.700 We keep kicking ourselves.

00:42:16.760 So we're coming into an election period.

00:42:19.460 And so I won't give a heads up on.

00:42:20.600 We're going to be expanding our content, by the way.

00:42:22.380 So starting in March, I'm going to be doing a second show through the week.

00:42:25.100 And it's going to be a longer, more extended one.

00:42:26.640 it's going to have very much of an election focus because the election period is going to go for

00:42:30.800 months i mean let's look at our timeline right now assuming we get a spring election who knows

00:42:34.880 god there's so many variables going on it's pretty safe bet mark carney's going to win the leadership

00:42:40.160 in a few weeks then he's going to have two weeks to get his feet under him or so before there's just

00:42:46.240 no avoiding going to parliament now here's where one of the bigger variables comes along too

00:42:53.640 Will he cut a deal with Jagmeet Singh to extend Parliament into fall?

00:43:01.040 I wouldn't be shocked if he does.

00:43:02.440 But chances are pretty good, I think, that a confidence vote is going to come.

00:43:07.280 We're going to have a spring election.

00:43:09.880 We're going to have a lot to cover.

00:43:11.360 It's going to be a very, very important election.

00:43:14.180 A big one.

00:43:14.820 Look at this mess that we are in.

00:43:16.820 And then, hopefully, getting into June or late May, we're going to have a new Prime Minister.

00:43:22.640 are elected by Canadians, whatever way this thing's going to come out.

00:43:25.760 So because of all of that happening for a few months, I'm going to come in another day

00:43:29.500 a week.

00:43:29.920 We're going to cover more of that.

00:43:31.060 We're really going to focus on it.

00:43:32.060 It's going to be a longer, more extended show, and I will have a variety of guests.

00:43:36.100 I mean, we're going to talk about other issues and everything else on the show as well, but

00:43:38.960 that's something else we're going to be doing.

00:43:40.220 We're expanding our digital and broadcast content here at the Western Standard.

00:43:43.920 So be sure to watch all our channels and share them with others, guys, because this is how

00:43:47.500 we'll do it.

00:43:48.060 Legacy Media isn't going to cover this.

00:43:51.240 It's another part of this election.

00:43:52.640 One of the things Pierre Polyev has definitely been strong on,

00:43:55.660 it's a promise I hope if he wins, that he follows through on,

00:43:58.960 is defunding that repugnant dinosaur of a state broadcaster, the CBC.

00:44:04.620 And he's also talking about cutting subsidies to the rest of the bloated,

00:44:08.660 out-of-date legacy media dinosaurs that are all going broke out there too.

00:44:12.520 But they're so dependent on the government bailing them out.

00:44:15.240 They are, you thought you saw media bias before, you watch this election.

00:44:19.360 Because they're fighting for their own lives right now.

00:44:22.160 they're praying the liberals get back in because that's the only way they're going to manage to

00:44:27.200 keep going look at chorus entertainment stock it's still sitting around 10 9 cents they're

00:44:31.100 laying people off all over that's who runs global a bunch of radio stations all of the major

00:44:35.560 newspapers almost all of them anyways are going broke they're gonna rally around the liberals

00:44:41.040 because that's the only hope for subsidies but it's pretty sick that that's why independent

00:44:45.900 media is so critical guys it's so critical you got to get media that relies on subscriptions

00:44:50.680 that relies on readership that relies on advertising doesn't mean there's zero bias

00:44:54.520 but there's far less and it's not beholden to the government that's why even now i like daniel smith

00:45:00.220 i'm still critical of her when she screws up and i will be our publication doesn't rely on ucp for

00:45:08.500 its funding or rely on the government and it's got to stay that way we don't take tax dollars we

00:45:13.320 won't but we're going to have a whole bunch of those guys who do take tax dollars covering the

00:45:17.340 next election so watch for it so guys again a little self-serving but share the links share

00:45:22.020 the word get it out there keep tuning into this broadcast i really appreciate you coming in

00:45:26.260 get those subscriptions and keep sending me feedback follow me cory b morgan on x and let's

00:45:33.200 keep this conversation going we're in a very important period of canadian history and

00:45:36.920 hopefully we can come out of it better all right that's what i got for today guys thank

00:45:41.020 you for tuning in and i will see you all again next week at this time

00:45:47.340 We'll be right back.

Western Standard - February 20, 2025

Alberta healthcare scandal can’t be allowed to fester

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