Alberta Independence petition smashes threshold
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Summary
In this episode of The Pipeline, Senior Alberta Columnist Corey Morgan and News Editor Dave Naylor discuss the recent appointment of Canada's next Governor General, the alleged leak of Alberta's voter list to a group called the Centurion Project, and the impact on the pending Alberta independence referendum.
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Good day. Today is May 6, 2026. I'm Derek Fildebrandt, publisher of the Western Standard,
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former Western Senate Opinion Editor Nigel Hannaford.
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All right, well, we're going to be talking about
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the appointment of Canada's next Governor General.
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I think she's not the Governor General quite yet,
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Um, the, uh, the usual suspects in the, uh, Laurentian media are hailing her as, as perfect.
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I said, you know, that's not a knock against her, but, uh, just saying she is absolutely
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I've never seen someone, uh, so hailed as perfect person for the job since they hailed
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I couldn't come up with a better name for this scandal.
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So when we're in the newsroom, Dave, and we just, there's a controversy, some kind of scandal.
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But the alleged leaking of the Alberta list of electors through the Republican Party of Alberta to a group called the Centurion Project, and that the Centurion Project posted this, made it available online, a huge data breach.
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We'll talk a bit about the substance of it, but also what are the political consequences of it?
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The opponents of Alberta independence have certainly seized upon this to try to discredit the independence movement.
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They've tried to affiliate the entire movement with those who are alleged to have been behind the data breach.
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Is this going to potentially derail the pending Alberta independence referendum that supposedly is supposed to come this fall?
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uh but i guess the good news for the independence uh movement before that cory uh just uh was it
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monday monday um the uh state free alberta the registered uh organization that was collecting
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the signatures to for a citizens initiative referendum on alberta independence they officially
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my earlier show with these petitions and things, the Elections Alberta, when they, if it gets to
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the point of them going through them, scrutinizing, I guess that depends on the courts, but
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they tend to look in and find an error rate, you know, bad addresses, duplicate names, things like
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that. Even those of us who ran for office, when you get that little petition to hand in as your
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nomination, often they'll cut out, you know, 10% of your names. Lukasik's petition, about 13% got
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cut out. This one, I think it'll be a much smaller number because they were so meticulous on this.
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They demanded ID of every individual who signed.
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I know people are trying to, you know, all opponents always will.
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But 300 and some thousand signatures garnered with such precision and care with the addresses and the works over the winter months is not to be dismissed.
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You know, that's one of the things that makes it a little bitter that you've got this other issue to deal with.
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Yeah. And it is an unfortunate cloud hanging over it. But I mean, we'll get into that because we've all got a lot to say about that. But we should, you know, just give that credit where it's due. History has been made. The bar for invoking a referendum under as far as the current legislation goes is clearly been surpassed by this group. It should be triggered if one believes that legislation is valid. And yeah, it was just a piece of history kind of being made. They really made a mark that day.
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Yeah, and this was done over the winter months.
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Now, I don't want to take away from, even though I'm not on their side,
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I don't want to take away from the Forever Canada ones who did theirs.
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They collected an even larger number, but not enough to take away from it,
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I remember I'd be driving home, it would be a beautiful day.
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They'd go to festivals where large groups of people were...
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Yeah, but the State Free Alberta petition, pro-independence,
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they did this during the most bitter cold months of the year.
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They did it with constant attacks from Elections Alberta, ones that I do not think were justified.
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They did it with court injunctions against it, like, hey, am I standing out here freezing my nuts off for nothing?
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And so despite all of that, they more, I think, roughly, nearly double the number of signatures required.
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um but david still is not yet a a sure thing this is going to happen in uh on october 19th when
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there's some certain referenda already scheduled to take place uh i mean this has still got some
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strange core challenges from some indigenous groups in alberta uh that are claiming that
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they have a veto on this to not just stop independence but to even stop the question
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from being asked yeah and that's that's the next key step in this whole process the uh the justice
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who uh put in the interim uh block uh i believe said she was going to rule in may so it should be
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in the next couple weeks that we'll we'll have a decision uh from what i can gather in the courtroom
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the judge wasn't overly impressed with some of the uh the indigenous arguments so i would think
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that the she'll put she'll throw out her injunction and uh and both petitions will uh
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will go forward and be ratified and then at that point smith has no uh no choice but to call for
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the uh referendum in october guess just whose question will they ask well and they are different
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questions uh i mean the thomas lukazic question uh the pro-federalist side nigel it's bizarre uh
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We've talked about this before, but he uses the citizen's initiative process and then says, oh, but we don't want a referendum.
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I mean, Thomas Lukasik is not my cup of tea, but I don't know how you start a citizen's initiative or referendum process to stop a referendum from taking place.
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But if the courts refuse to allow the independence one to take place,
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the Thomas Lukasik one is redundant because even if Canadians voted,
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Albertans voted negative to it, so kind of pro-independence,
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but, you know, we don't support staying in Canada.
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I'm not a judge, but I'm pretty sure that does not constitute a clear question
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on independence because it's asking it in the negative.
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You know, should Alberta remain a province of Canada?
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Well, if people voted no to that, does that mean, well, they want statehood or something like that, which is not really in any kind of mainstream consideration? That would be a total waste of everyone's time, I think. Let's just get on with the independence question. If you oppose it, you oppose it. It's fine.
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And there's plenty of reasonable people who don't support independence, but voting to not stay a part of Canada doesn't trigger the Clarity Act necessary.
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It would be divisive without accomplishing anything, one way or another, regardless of what the result is.
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You have to put the Stay Free Alberta question on, which does meet the requirements of the Clarity Act.
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Well, that's right, Derek. I mean, it's like sort of, if you want yes, vote no.
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it's uh it's that kind of a people are going to be yeah i mean you've explained it pretty well
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there i give anybody who's paying attention can get it but at the same time how many people are
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really going to be paying that much attention especially when they have voices from the other
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sides oh no no you need you need to do this i would be i would be uh frankly a little surprised
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if uh if it was a that one was allowed to go forward if it's got to be just one of the other
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The Kazakh motion doesn't provide that, whereas the other one does.
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So maybe, just maybe, Mr. Lukasiak's motion will go forward, and then I guess...
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But he bizarrely says he doesn't want his motion to go forward.
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I mean, maybe it will, and then to that, by totally confusing the issue and ending up with a stay in Canada, vote, he'll claim victory.
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Unless something will change based on the question asked, it's just a pull.
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You know, it doesn't matter what the results are.
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Nothing changes whatsoever based on his question, which makes it utterly pointless.
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It was like the daylight savings question we had back in like 2023 or 2022 or whatever.
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Even then, if people had taken one side definitively, something would have changed.
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What it is, is saying, okay, do you want to vote?
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Okay, if the yes side wins that, everything stays the same.
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If the no side wins it, everything stays the same.
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Because it's still not a constitutionally valid question through that process on it.
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So, you know, as we said, no matter what side of it you're on, that won't settle it, that won't have this issue out.
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This needs to be, I think, if we really want to put this to bed one way or another, it has to be the valid question with constitutional teeth.
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Well, even if the courts do disallow the Citizens Initiative question from State Free Alberta, the one asking Alberta should be an independent country, but Thomas Lukasics is for some reason allowed to go ahead, even though it's ostensibly kind of the same thing, but not.
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The way the legislation is set up is that then the question is reviewed by the legislature and the cabinet, and they have the opportunity to amend it.
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Now, it's important that that power should not be abused.
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But, I mean, you know, say someone put forward a Susan's Initiative question here, but the question was not fair or neutral.
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That is one of the draws on direct democracy is you can't have loaded questions.
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You know, do you support the government's policy of rainbows and puppies?
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That's obviously not a very fair, neutral question.
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So even if Lukasik's question is the only one allowed to go forward,
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the legislature and the cabinet can then amend it
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into something that is fair and neutral and ask,
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and actually, I don't even think it should be yes and no.
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the option should be remain a province of Canada
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or become an independent country, not yes and no.
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Because there's a perception of perhaps the positive, the yes.
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I'd see a clarity challenge as soon as we hit that.
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remain a province of Canada or become an independent
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I know, I know it sounds foolish and pedantic, but
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There it's a debate, but here, no one's talking
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it's pretty clear in the Alberta context, perhaps not
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Well, Lukasik is now saying he just really wants a vote in the legislature.
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So is it possible that both petitions could go forward?
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Lukasik gets his vote and there's a sovereignty referendum?
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Technically, his could get a vote in the legislature,
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and then the state-free Alberta pro-independence one then goes to a referendum.
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and I don't expect this because this would really muddy the waters.
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But his is a policy question and the other one's a constitutional one.
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It's going to have to clarify one way or another.
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Part of the legislation, actually, though, does require that the legislature and the cabinet are supposed to make sure we don't have redundant questions.
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You know, like imagine if, you know, everyone was really hopped up on, say, daylight savings time.
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And you had like, you know, different versions of the question, kind of more somewhat asking the same thing.
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And then you would daylight savings time was kind of a confusing thing to me.
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I actually don't think it should have been put to a referendum there.
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There was I was like, no, experts make a decision.
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But, you know, if you had the contradictory questions, the legislation says that the legislature and the cabinet are supposed to sort it out so that we don't have a bunch of redundant or contradictory questions.
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has to get sorted out so the question to ask is the one that at least gives clear lead and everybody
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needs to know that whatever the result on this it doesn't if it is a pro-independence voice
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there's a whole new cycle uh process that begins so this is just the start
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i i you know i was driving up to red deer on monday and we're past a
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Carol Kay, the vehicles with the Alberta flags at the back.
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They were just there, the lights flashing, and the flags up,
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Well, flowing very neatly from this is our very lazily titled
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case, we really didn't have much time, I guess.
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level, they can be provided to local candidates running.
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Now, there is some stuff around third-party vendors
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and the United Conservative Party and things like this
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list of electors of Alberta, including their personal information, their address, all of this.
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And, you know, some people have tried to play this down. It's not a big deal. In one sense,
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I get that. Been around politics. These lists do get around. They're not as confidential as you
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think. But generally, people who are playing around these lists don't post it online for
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the world to see and and that's really where they they appear to have lost the plot here um
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i guess we'll talk about the political fallout of this for the independence movement
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uh in a moment but cory first uh you know your thoughts on the credibility of the accusations
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um you know and how serious an issue is this sure and i think yeah nigel's going to break
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down a little more about the legislation on the act and so on uh just to point out one thing i
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like people wondering though if it's you know questionable evidence or things like that and
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everything and i know we can't fully condemn until things have been investigated but i just want to
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quickly explain salted lists because non-political people i don't think most people get that what
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that is so when they give those lists out to different parties and individuals they will
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throw a few identifiers in there usually false names people that don't exist whatever and it'll
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be unique to each list that's given out so that way two things can happen with fake phone numbers
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and fake emails. Yeah. So if those names pop anywhere, they're unique. You know where it came
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from. The second thing is if they pop anywhere, whoever has it, even if it wasn't from the original
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source, you know that this source has accessed an electoral list. So it's pretty cut and dry by the
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looks of things with what they presented to get the injunction. Elections Alberta went in and
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checked it. They concluded it's an electoral list that's in the Centurion project, which there's
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two problems there. One, they shouldn't have even have it in the first place. Two, they sure as
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heck shouldn't have it so that others can access it. So we've got two problems there, and they did
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conclude it came from the Republican Party. Now there's a whole lot of explaining to do, I guess,
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on the part of Davies and Parker as to how this all happened. That'll be the part of the
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investigation, but it's looking pretty darn clear that this happened. The problem now, the political
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problem is people don't, at large, don't see the six or seven different independence groups and
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actions and things that are moving around out there they just see an independence movement
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and they're seeing that this breach came from this movement may have endangered people legacy
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media is jumping all over it the the best example i saw already they were reporting on apparently a
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a woman who was afraid of uh an ex who was a spousal abuser who tried to keep her
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location discreet now fears so badly that her ex maybe had accessed the list through that
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whatever, but it does actually still illustrate
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with people getting signatures, but it was not affiliated
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different third parties, there's third party advertisers,
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But as Corey said, Nigel, people just see the independence guys.
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They don't understand who's who and what's what.
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And again, these are allegations at this point.
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But as Corey explained with the salted lists, you know, when someone at Elections Alberta gets an email saying,
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do you think there's been significant damage done
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and they state that what they're trying to do is get people organized so that they were effective
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campaigners in the fight for alberta independence and come to our come to our meetings come to our
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classes and it's uh that you can you can see but then you find that they have they are alleged
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to have done something underhanded and everybody who is sort of on the on the edge not another die
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hearts the die hearts on either side are not affected by this but people are making up their
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mind what do i feel that i sure don't like ottawa i don't like the values that they are pushing on
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us through their legislation i don't like their the way they interfere with our economy maybe
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it is time to look at this oh wait a minute if it's going to be people like this and they're
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they're not even charged and and convicted yet but it just seems like a bit of a groucho marks show
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and what would it does do damage now they're the victims being examined uh there may be charges
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in my i had to have an office bet i'd say there will be charges uh and then we'll see what the
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courts make of what has happened here but if we first of all have this ridiculous uh breach and
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then on top of that somebody gets put in jail for a year for a year and ends up with a hundred
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thousand dollar fine which is what the legislation provides for it's going to be a black mark for the
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whole well by the time they actually would go to a court i imagine that would be well after a
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referendum actually takes place maybe derek but then after the referendum takes place if i shot
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you right now. I'm still not in court for a year.
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So it is possible. I would not be surprised to see charges.
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these guys are being charged. And that's what they want to do?
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ousting Jason Kenney from the leadership of the UCP and therefore
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as Premier. So obviously there's some hurt feelings
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I think there. It's probably a fair assumption to make.
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and they were explaining different things and they were going
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for voters information, they pulled up Jason Kenney's
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for the single biggest data breach in Alberta's
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I don't care if he was a murderer. It still doesn't
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What I'm saying is it's wrong. What I'm saying is it's rich
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a data breach because he's imposed data breaches on every single person in alberta
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it still doesn't make them accessing his personal information right and he's probably going to have
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a pretty reasonable case to a fairly decent case to make in a civil claims court here because his
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data his his data was breached what i'm saying is it's a bit rich for him after he expects people
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required people by law to give out their personal medical information when they go to a restaurant
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to buy a cup of coffee don't buy it sorry it's just when you don't know i'm i i i don't like
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the comparison you know jason kenny was not putting people's home addresses up for other
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people to see other people to search through right there's dangerous lunatics out there who now know
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where jason kenny lives and uh you know i wouldn't be surprised to see a police car parked out there
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him for a while well i mean kenny put that out and again whether you like him or don't
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you've really armed him he's a political master they're not getting around that and there goes
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art paulowski with a good dose of crazy jumping in there yeah and putting a thing up saying jason
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kenny's gonna burn in hell and a whole bunch of stuff and everything else and kenny quote tweeted
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him and said this is the kind of lunatic my dad i just got exposed to and he and yes so what's
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And I don't want these people knowing where I live.
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The problem is when some of the conversation, though,
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I guess what Dave and I are kind of chipping to, when people say
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done to kenny was wrong but well there doesn't need to be a button in this conversation right
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no i've got that that's just kind of almost trying to undersell the the problem not just
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jason kenny's that it was it was leaked oh yeah yours mine dave nigel's everyone watching here
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threats might have been logged into centurion and found our home addresses and it's a real concern
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yeah and the other thing i've got hands jason kenny a cudgel it also hands him a loud speaker
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He's going off to Ryerson University to what do they call it now?
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Toronto Metropolitan, big event there about disinformation.
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This isn't disinformation, but he can certainly talk about it there to a national audience.
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You know, we've got people in Alberta, this is the kind of thing they do.
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I suspect that that might, I mean, he couldn't have orchestrated this,
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but he's certainly going to use it in my opinion as a mr kenney would like to return to politics
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and if he does so it's going to have to be elsewhere than in alberta and so in the national
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stage this just fits the plot he's it was a good day for him yeah i'm sure he's just a bad one
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perhaps a bit nerve-wracked i mean you still wonder about who may show up or whatnot but
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he recognizes a political gift when it was handed and you can't blame him for taking advantage of
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it of course he's going to take it and people of the independence movement are getting upset with
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me calling this out and everything but most of what i'm at least telling them guys don't give
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your opponents ammunition i mean you gave kenny a nuclear bomb i mean i know the average independent
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supporter did not do that this was the actions of a small group but when you try to look like
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you're defending the actions of that small group you're only helping him so yeah i think part of
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the problem or the one of the overall problems is this is the independence is still a group lacking
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a leader right and you've got this clown show as as nigel aptly described it operating on on the
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sidelines but they're all part of the movement right somebody has to step forward and say enough
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david parker cam davies you're out we want nothing to do with you anything you say from now on is
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not associated with the independence movement uh you know but who's going to do that i'm not sure
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sure anyone has the uh the moral authority to the closest might be mitch sylvester at this time just
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as the most dominant figure of the largest group uh that represents it but then that group itself
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has multiple people who kind of speak publicly for it and they're giving different messages yeah
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so that makes it difficult as well i mean if somebody's going to take that role i i've said
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it kind of on my show mitch because i think for the most part you've done great and you've been
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respectable and good and haven't said anything crazy but you got to kind of lay down the law
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say you know what i'm now the one who speaks for this group i'm the one who goes to cbc as opposed
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to somebody else who recently did i'm the one who does the large media quotes because it's like that
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corpulent guy you were talking about yes you know good luck yeah i know he's hurting cats and uh the
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same kids who heard it mr kenny out of office yeah but it was named it and y'all if they had the
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chance but if they want to try and mitigate things because we got five and a half months to go and
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there's going to be more issues hopefully nothing as big as this but there's going to be more
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somebody has to, you know, as I put online too, if you don't take control of the messaging,
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your opponents will. And the other side is going to be more or less united. I think what's shaping
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up is you're going to have, broadly speaking, maybe even it's one organization, but you're
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going to have two main spokesmen or two and a half spokesmen on the Federalist side. You're
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going to have Jason Kenney, who's trying to appeal to conservatives who are flirting with the idea,
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on their side, but trying to at least pump up their numbers,
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side is going to be pretty united, because they have
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this is unprecedented we haven't had an organic kind of decentralized movement like this do
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something like this before so where do you find the rule book on how to pull it together now that
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you're getting into a campaign mode for a referendum there's an area actually i don't
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have an answer for a loud mouth that i normally you don't have a good but you could you think
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you maybe point to quebec which is that two referendums but there it's different they were
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not citizens initiative referendums you had a you had an independence or sovereigntyist party
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whatever you want to call it, you know, the PQ, and then you had a Federalist Party in the Liberals.
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And so it was clear, OK, the Premier of the Governing Party to call the election is the head of the yes side
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and the leader of the opposition, the Liberal Party in Quebec's case, is the head of the no side.
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And it's set. Now, in 95, they kind of swapped in Lucien Bouchard, the leader of the bloc, to come in.
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But he was not still technically the leader of the yes side. He was made chief negotiator, so head spokesman, essentially.
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And as governor general, she also leads the Canadian Armed Forces in a symbolic role.
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If you take a look, take a bit of a deeper dive into her career.
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She's said a lot of stuff that should be concerning to us all.
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She has spoken out on migration and is all for mass migration into the country.
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She's spoken out against the military, which she now supposedly has.
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Says the armed forces are just a bunch of white guys who like to shoot off guns.
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And the Jewish groups aren't happy because she's made a lot of anti-Israeli comments.
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So, I mean, that's just in a small dive in 24 hours.
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So there's lots of stuff to be concerned about.
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But hey, she does speak French, and isn't that all that matters?
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You know, I did a little bit of looking up as well.
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she is not governing but she is advising when you look at some of the positions that she's taking
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you know this is not a person who should be advising the prime minister of canada i mean
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it's just just a couple just to amuse you uh back around the turn of the century there was a right
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to welfare case in quebec the gossela case it got turned down there was no right to welfare but
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she was one of the minority you thought that there was a right to welfare um you know she
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you mentioned the refugees uh this this one might cheer you up a little bit she participated in a
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monk debate monk is a is a you know monk uh anyway this was back in 2016 concerning what was being
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called a global refugee crisis at the time you know you remember people getting washed up on
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Mediterranean Nihilist. So it was a valid thing. And she said then that Western nations have a
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moral imperative to accept a large influx of refugees. Ended up we did anyway. But in this
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debate, she began the evening with 77% of those in the room in favor of her liberalist position.
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And she went up against Mark Stein and Nigel Farage. And at the end of the night, only 22%
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Well, I'm not sure we should be too worried about her convincing anyone of anything,
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Well, you see, Mr. Carney, I expect it to be one of the 22%.
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So, he does get, he carries, well, the whole thing with the International Criminal Court,
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I could go on, like, I've got about a dozen things on the rap sheet here.
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I will say when it comes to the Governor-General, there's not a lot of jobs I think you probably should speak French, or at least need to speak French for.
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No, because otherwise it disqualifies Westerners, even most Ontarians.
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The Governor-General is a ceremonial role, and that includes in Quebec.
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You know, French probably should be something for the Governor-General.
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But also, you know, one of the arguments against it was if you require that they speak English and French, that does virtually disqualify nearly all indigenous Canadians, because they might speak, you know, I don't know how many people growing up on Siksika Reserve are going to be learning French.
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So it's like, OK, if we're required, they speak French and English. I would chance to guess that that would probably put future Indigenous candidates for the job of Governor General.
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I'm just going to guess and say it's less than one percent of Indigenous people would be even eligible for it.
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I don't know. It's what I was blown away by, though, was the and I shouldn't be.
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I've got to stop picking up Charlie Brown's football here,
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but was the virtually unanimous and unqualified endorsement
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Maybe we'll pull up some pieces from this Colton Miller article here,
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but paraphrasing it, it said she is essentially perfect.
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and that bypasses mute buttons i'm afraid it's just a test they announced that was coming a while ago
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i shouldn't do that okay so everybody out there yes where's our fire warden
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come on in the studio bring in the western standard fire warden
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bring him in boy he was on the ball yeah so ladies and gentlemen uh i want to introduce
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the dwight shrewd of the western center calgary office
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if I were to escape, and then maybe strangle him.
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Yeah, we're accusing everyone else of being a circus.
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they highlighted how great and supportive she is of the military,
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unless it's white guys with guns, which, I don't know,
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made up uh you know there would have been some non i guess white people it would have definitely
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certainly been indigenous canadians but like not overwhelmingly all our veterans who fought in both
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world wars and in korea uh i i guess they're just not up it's not for her i don't know uh but for
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them to even highlight how great and supportive she is of the military with you know with those
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kinds of comments um it's like the global mail's endorsement of her was written in the prime
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minister's office it was just so over the top no one's perfect for a job i i'm perfect for
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governor general and they would never find anything on me but uh i i don't know it was
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just over the top and it wasn't just them the cbc coverage was over the top too it went on for hours
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I haven't seen wall-to-wall coverage like that since 9-11.
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Last best governor general Canada's had, David Johnson.
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And unfortunately, he soured it later, after the fact,
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by associating with Prime Minister farther down.
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And because of part of what he did, like I said,
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and his name escapes me, as embarrassing as it is. He wrote
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a book though on Governors General. If you look it up, it was
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cut the ribbons hand out the awards you can get through it and have respectability within the job
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so all i'm saying is let's just hope the next one does no damage and uh sits from there cut
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cut back a bit on your in-flight food yes and you know things will go well all right we're gonna
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put a plug we're a little short on time because uh the fire that broke out in the in our office
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here uh so let's put a plug in there go to our parting shots i am gonna break tradition and take
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first parting shot because I think it flows well
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kind of assumed that Alberta, if it's independent,
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want to put out maybe a little food for thought
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of an alternative. It would be easier to maintain
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if we kept in place our constitutional structure,
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you know it hit him on saint helen at the end it just i'm not a frenchman but it makes you
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hugs in your heart like oh 205 years ago today he done 205 years ago today today he done it's fate
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we're bringing back the house of napoleon alberta not an empire not a commonwealth but
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uh so not a king and not a not a not a republic not a commonwealth the empire of alberta this
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the independence movement wasn't enough if we didn't make it crazy enough here we go let's
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it's paulian for emperor of alberta so you're going to learn french and go for the job of
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governor general i am i don't know derek listen you're too young i just was looking it up while
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you were talking there that uh you realize that no less than uh six of i'm sorry five of the last
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governors general are still alive like this is crazy having five ex-kings ex-queens floating
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around that's why we should just have our own monarch well and they all get two hundred thousand
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dollars a year on expenses permanent expenses you know julie i mean for people who don't believe me
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just uh mary simon julie payette david johnson michaela jean adrian clarkson so you know uh
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romeo blabond is not uh died a few years ago yeah uh one of the things about um and i don't mean
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this unkindly but i'm sure it was in the back of somebody's mind she is already 79 there won't be
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one more in all likelihood or if there is there won't be for very long i'd say one two three four
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five yeah all right we we're we gotta move that's good oh we're short on time because of the fire
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alarm cory i'll just be quick the major projects office to fast track projects is almost a year
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old now hasn't approved a single one i think we can call it a failure uh honda sounds like they're
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pulling out of a 15 billion dollar plant down in uh ontario uh just wonder how much the liberals
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have sunk of taxpayers money into the whole fail failing ev industry it's got to be tens and tens
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of billions of dollars don't let doug ford off the hook for this stuff too he has been all over it
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