Western Standard - November 05, 2026


Alberta’s campus neutrality legislation needs teeth

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00:00:00.000 Good day.
00:00:28.440 welcome to the cory morgan show i hope you all survived the time change oh yeah it didn't change
00:00:34.240 i never heard so much pissing and moaning about oh my lord my outlook calendar doesn't match my 0.98
00:00:39.600 apple watch doesn't match my car clock oh get over it guys come on see that's the stupidity 0.97
00:00:45.800 of changing it twice a year it's over it's finished i know everybody somebody's going
00:00:48.960 to complain about which side of it or the other we stuck to and uh the sporting games don't match
00:00:54.160 the old ones that they used to in the times of day, it'll be okay.
00:00:57.920 We'll get over it.
00:00:58.620 The world didn't end. 0.97
00:00:59.260 We got through Y2K. 0.88
00:01:00.820 We can get through these time changes.
00:01:02.720 Either way, lots to cover.
00:01:04.040 Be sure to use that comment scroll.
00:01:05.980 It is a live show.
00:01:07.020 I like seeing that discourse.
00:01:08.380 I don't necessarily read them all out, but I do see them there,
00:01:10.760 and it helps keep me rolling along.
00:01:13.100 There's a lot to cover today, as usual.
00:01:15.320 Lots going on.
00:01:15.780 Oh, yeah, the Americans had a midterm election last weekend, didn't they?
00:01:19.120 Probably a bit of stuff to talk about that last weekend.
00:01:21.360 What am I saying?
00:01:21.760 Yesterday, I've got a guest coming on, Lindsay Wilson.
00:01:24.160 and she's been on before. She does a lot of advocacy and different things. There's a conference
00:01:27.560 coming up for women called Doing It Right Women's Conference. We're going to discuss a little bit
00:01:32.160 of that and women politics and things such as that. Those are those foreign creatures that I 1.00
00:01:35.740 don't have much understanding about. So Lindsay can certainly shed more light on those issues
00:01:39.980 than I will. But all right, let's talk about something that was good news. I think it's a
00:01:43.900 policy that's probably good coming out of the Alberta government, but needs a little more room
00:01:47.760 for fixing. Universities and neutralities. I mean, universities, they're supposed to be the
00:01:53.040 one place in our society where every idea can be put on the table and examined, argued over,
00:01:58.860 well, even torn apart. But that's the whole point, right? A university isn't a church. It's not a
00:02:03.920 political party. And it shouldn't be an activist group. It's an arena. And it only works if the
00:02:08.620 people running it, though, don't pick one of the teams. And that's why I think Bill 38 is a good
00:02:13.780 thing. It was tabled by the Advanced Education Minister, Miles McDougall. And this Advanced
00:02:20.260 Education Statutes Amendment Act, boy, they love their words, would require, though, every
00:02:24.340 post-secondary institution in Alberta to adopt an institutional neutrality policy and freedom
00:02:30.400 of expression policy. So to put it straight forward, the institution itself has to stop
00:02:35.420 taking official positions on political and social issues that have nothing to do with its academic
00:02:39.580 mission. Professors can still say what they want, students can still protest what they like, but the
00:02:44.300 president's office has to stop speaking for everybody. Why does this matter? Well, because
00:02:49.320 when a university takes an official position, it tells every student and every faculty member
00:02:53.520 which side is the safe side. And we've seen in Alberta what happens to people who end up on the
00:02:57.740 unsafe side. Look at Frances Widdowson. Mount Royal University fired her in 2021 after a big 0.99
00:03:04.620 controversy over her comments on residential schools and Black Lives Matters. You don't
00:03:09.720 have to agree with everything she says, but a tenured academic losing her job over views should
00:03:15.600 make everybody who values open inquiry nervous and it got worse in early 2023 a philosophy
00:03:21.340 professor at university of lethbridge invited widowson to give a talk titled how woke ism
00:03:25.960 threatens academic freedom kind of ironic considering what happened at first the university
00:03:30.920 actually said the talk would go ahead under its free expression policy but made a point of saying
00:03:35.000 her views conflicted with the university's own commitments whatever that is then after there
00:03:39.100 was petitions and pressure they said no you know what we're not going to have you here
00:03:42.560 Well, being Frances Widdowson, she just showed up anyway. 1.00
00:03:45.700 Hundreds of protesters packed the atrium, chanted, screamed, almost rioted, and drowned her out. 0.83
00:03:51.660 Security then removed Widdowson, and she ended up giving her talk over Zoom.
00:03:55.920 And what did the university president say that night?
00:03:58.140 He thanked the crowd for conducting themselves, in his words, a peaceful and powerful manner,
00:04:03.720 and said the evening was a reflection of the values of the University of Lethbridge.
00:04:06.940 Think about that.
00:04:07.620 a lecture on academic freedom was shut down by a mob and the institution's official response was to
00:04:12.660 applaud the mob that's not neutrality that's an institution picking a side and then cheering when
00:04:17.080 the other side silenced and that's what bill 38 is supposed to end a neutral university doesn't
00:04:23.340 issue statements that put the whole institution beside one side of a political debate and a
00:04:28.600 neutral university doesn't cancel the room when the pressure gets hot the job is to keep the room
00:04:34.360 open and keep the rooms doors secured if you have to that's part of your role let people hear what
00:04:38.880 they came to hear while the protesters can protest outside but without shutting it down it's not too
00:04:43.660 much to ask from institutions that live largely on taxpayer money now the problem i have with the
00:04:48.700 bill though is it doesn't have teeth i was on the phone at the minister's press conference on tuesday
00:04:53.900 and asked directly if an institution breaks its neutrality policy will there be consequences like
00:04:58.700 funding holdbacks or is this just a set of suggested guidelines well his answer to me was
00:05:03.340 there have to be some consequences if you don't follow the rules and the law.
00:05:07.080 Well, good. So what are they?
00:05:08.900 Well, he wouldn't say.
00:05:10.640 Penalties, he said, will be done by regulation,
00:05:12.800 worked out with the post-secondary stakeholders to figure out what would be reasonable.
00:05:17.720 Well, the stakeholders, in other words, are the very administrations that created this problem,
00:05:21.700 and they get to help decide how much they're going to be punished for it.
00:05:24.420 So I asked a follow-up.
00:05:26.100 They said, you know, what about the tricks the universities use already,
00:05:28.620 like hitting controversial speakers with security fees
00:05:32.460 or cancelling events over threatened protests,
00:05:35.460 you know, letting protesters shut down a lawful event.
00:05:37.920 Would that be an offence?
00:05:39.260 He didn't say yes.
00:05:40.440 He said the expectation is institutions would provide a neutral environment
00:05:43.620 and we'll leave it up to the institutions to manage that.
00:05:47.320 We'll leave it up to the institutions.
00:05:48.460 That's how we got the Lethbridge incident, isn't it?
00:05:50.860 A law without consequences is just a press release, guys.
00:05:53.980 If Bill 38 is going to mean anything,
00:05:55.600 the penalties need to be written down and clear before this passed.
00:05:58.320 It's not left to closed-door regulations later.
00:06:01.000 Tie compliance to funding.
00:06:02.940 Give students and faculty who were silenced a way to appeal outside of their own institution.
00:06:07.500 How about this?
00:06:08.280 If you find a university and cancel some of their funding, give it to the group that was kicked out.
00:06:12.560 That'll make them wake up, wouldn't it?
00:06:14.240 Make it plain that shutting down a lawful speaker isn't a peaceful and powerful display of values.
00:06:19.140 It's a failure.
00:06:20.280 It has a cost.
00:06:21.480 The government has the principal right, but now it needs to show it's serious.
00:06:24.680 Because neutrality you can't enforce is just one more thing for university administrators to ignore.
00:06:30.640 Either way, good and bad out of that bill.
00:06:32.460 Let's hope they tune it up.
00:06:34.080 All right, Dave, how's it going?
00:06:34.780 It's going okay.
00:06:35.420 How are you?
00:06:35.860 Good.
00:06:36.400 You're happy with not changing your clock?
00:06:38.500 I am. 1.00
00:06:39.080 I always thought it was stupid. 0.99
00:06:40.540 It was, but whoa. 1.00
00:06:43.200 You got that for the blooper tape, John? 0.93
00:06:44.800 I didn't get enough sleep, you know, because of that darn clock change, so I knocked my computer around.
00:06:49.420 The only problem I have with it is sporting events. 0.84
00:06:53.140 Like the Flames game tonight is not starting until 9 p.m., right?
00:06:57.080 I mean, can't stay away for the end of that.
00:07:00.460 Well, I'd imagine if you're in the East.
00:07:01.740 I understand.
00:07:02.460 But you know what? The leagues have got to adjust to the changing in North America, not us.
00:07:07.980 I think we might be talking about impossibilities.
00:07:11.720 I also can't get over where we're only one hour behind Toronto or ahead of Toronto, whichever way it goes.
00:07:17.640 Yeah.
00:07:18.320 My entire life has been two hours.
00:07:20.580 It's a lot of miles.
00:07:21.780 Now all of a sudden it's one hour.
00:07:23.140 Now what are we still two or three and a half hours?
00:07:25.300 Newfoundland always has to be Newfoundland and just be different.
00:07:27.320 Yeah, they've got to be different.
00:07:27.880 Did you watch the Democratic thrashings last night?
00:07:34.520 No, I go to bed too early for those things.
00:07:36.280 But, I mean, I got up early in the morning to see what happened.
00:07:39.160 It was a debacle for the Republicans, wasn't it?
00:07:41.580 It is not a good showing for them.
00:07:42.900 No, historic, historic losses.
00:07:46.280 President Trump is blaming the war in Iran as the reason he lost.
00:07:51.880 And also the fact he wasn't running.
00:07:53.980 He said if he was running, he would have won.
00:07:55.780 But it looks like the rumor now is he's going to make Hegseth, the defense secretary, a fall guy and get rid of him.
00:08:06.240 Doug Ford is happier than a pig in you know what, because he doesn't like Trump and says he can't trust Trump.
00:08:13.280 But he's glad that he took a big loss. 0.83
00:08:16.040 And excuse me, he's going to send his ministers to Washington to talk to all these new people and try and get a trade deal done.
00:08:23.940 We have breaking news out of McKenzie, British Columbia, which is in the middle of nowhere, 180 kilometers north of Prince George.
00:08:34.180 A bus has gone off the highway and crashed.
00:08:36.940 Multiple injuries.
00:08:38.280 We've got multiple ambulances, multiple helicopter medical air vacs headed to the scene.
00:08:45.500 So we'll be keeping an eye out on that for the next hour or so.
00:08:49.540 But it doesn't sound good.
00:08:50.880 Edmonton police released their budget.
00:08:54.260 They're looking for an extra $183 million over the next couple of years to try and help fight crime.
00:09:02.480 And, yeah, it's bad.
00:09:04.020 Their downtown is about as bad as our downtown.
00:09:06.000 It's worse.
00:09:06.940 If anybody's been to Edmonton lately, actually, yeah, I mean, it's bad in Calgary, but it's worse in Edmonton.
00:09:11.500 They've got to do something. 0.96
00:09:12.180 Got to do something, you know, and all this defund the police stuff is rubbish.
00:09:15.820 You've got to give the police enough boots on the ground to deal with it.
00:09:20.880 A poll out today by Think HQ, that's our friend Mark Henry, who runs that, a very reputable company,
00:09:28.220 showing provincial support for Danielle Smith is down to 39%.
00:09:34.000 He, neck and neck, running with the NDP overall.
00:09:39.240 But the interesting thing is that she's still got high support within the UCP,
00:09:44.500 which is showing how ludicrous this Jeff Rath-led, you know, attempt to get rid of Smith.
00:09:51.940 It's not going to work.
00:09:52.980 The AGM's coming up at the end of the month.
00:09:57.320 I'm sure Jeff will try and cause some trouble,
00:09:59.960 even though he's had his invitation revoked and his party membership torn up.
00:10:04.980 But she's still got the support of most of the party members.
00:10:09.680 I think, I mean, my view on it is, you know, we're going to get through the AGM.
00:10:12.920 There's going to be more of the turmoil.
00:10:13.900 Everybody's going to be watching it in the noise.
00:10:15.540 Then Christmas is going to come and go,
00:10:17.080 and I think the referendum year is going to be put in the past for most people.
00:10:21.300 I mean, you know, there's independent support looking farther ahead,
00:10:23.820 but this year it's done.
00:10:25.080 It's been covered, I think, because that's what the lodestone is.
00:10:28.480 I mean, it really has been hard on her party and her support.
00:10:31.260 Exactly. 0.92
00:10:32.360 The eye surgeons of Alberta are revolting.
00:10:36.000 You remember last week the province gave optometrists power,
00:10:39.880 or limited power to do eye surgeries and stuff like that.
00:10:44.160 And the guys who do it for a living are throwing up warning flags, safety issues, all that sort of good stuff.
00:10:51.240 So trying to get reaction from the provincial government on that.
00:10:54.980 Well, we'll see if they respond.
00:10:56.400 I mean, I like it.
00:10:57.740 There's other countries, I looked into that this morning, that have already been doing it with optometrists.
00:11:01.340 They're not having safety issues.
00:11:02.480 They're not having problems.
00:11:03.240 I think I just see perhaps some doctors who have a cornered market for themselves who don't like competition.
00:11:07.840 You think?
00:11:08.280 That could be.
00:11:09.500 I can watch it.
00:11:10.360 I'm hoping to save in my nickels so eventually I can get it.
00:11:12.620 I don't want to piss off whatever doctor might be doing.
00:11:14.060 Yeah, I'm thinking about doing it next year, so we'll have to see.
00:11:18.280 Yeah.
00:11:18.960 As long as it drops prices.
00:11:20.600 Well, and availability.
00:11:22.020 I mean, again, safety is a concern.
00:11:23.580 I mean, if you go in and you come out with only one eye, 0.98
00:11:25.280 I was, shit, well, I saved $100, but it was good. 0.99
00:11:28.240 There you go. 0.99
00:11:28.800 Yeah, no, you don't want to mess around with your eyesight.
00:11:30.640 No.
00:11:31.520 Okay, well.
00:11:32.440 That's it, that's all.
00:11:33.340 Right on.
00:11:33.980 Thanks for the updates, and we'll see you on the pipeline a little while.
00:11:37.120 See you on the pipeline.
00:11:37.820 Right on.
00:11:38.160 that is our news editor dave naylor lots of stories always on the go breaking us with that
00:11:43.120 horrible incident in northern bc or the stuff that's been the day before and stuff that's coming
00:11:48.700 up right so the reason we've got dave here the reason we got the reporters out there in the
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00:12:15.160 have, thank you very much. We really, really appreciate it. So it'll be interesting to see,
00:12:22.220 though, that fallout from the midterms in the states there. I mean, you can't avoid it.
00:12:27.400 There's no other way to polish it, though, guys. It was a trouncing, and it was a rough one.
00:12:31.820 uh a number of senators look at texas for crying out loud they've now got a democrat governor they
00:12:39.860 got a democrat senator the republicans are going to reevaluate themselves whatever you might think
00:12:46.560 if you're one of those people who likes trump and i don't know how you do but whatever it's each
00:12:49.920 their own he's not doing any favors for the conservative minded in general and if they
00:12:58.800 don't want a massive democrat majority in two years from now when the time comes they've got
00:13:04.460 to really examine who's going to lead their party and in which direction and maybe trump got some
00:13:08.340 things accomplished and whatnot changed the tone fair enough but obviously at this point most
00:13:14.760 americans have had enough of them and he is weighing things down he can blame it on everybody
00:13:19.440 else the irony of it saying oh if he was on the ticket they would have won all of those come on 0.76
00:13:24.760 guys. Let's get a little serious now. Whatever. That's the Americans thing to deal with.
00:13:29.640 It's up to them. It's up to their voters. How that impacts us up here, I don't know. I mean,
00:13:33.920 how do you predict anything Donald Trump does? Now he's got two more years. He's still got
00:13:38.760 executive authority on trade and a whole number of things, and he's going to be crankier and
00:13:43.680 probably more volatile than he's ever been. So I don't know if that's going to bode well for us
00:13:48.960 going forward or not. I know Carney's really trying to say that they're making progress with
00:13:53.240 their talks and such. Maybe they are. I hope so. This trade thing is just not good for anybody on
00:13:59.060 either side of the border. It really isn't. We've got to remember, we get Democrats in. They aren't
00:14:04.020 necessarily free traders either. It was the senior George Bush who brought in free trade in the past
00:14:10.020 and it was President Biden who shut down the Keystone Line. So I don't think we're going to
00:14:16.260 get our problems all solved just once Trump's gone. We've got some other issues to deal with
00:14:20.080 and hopefully we get some actual capitalists in for a change.
00:14:24.040 That would be nice to understand that you can't tax your way to prosperity
00:14:26.780 and expanding trade actually helps both sides.
00:14:30.500 But maybe that's just a dream.
00:14:31.880 We'll see.
00:14:32.480 All right, let's get on with my guest here. 0.93
00:14:34.320 Lindsay Wilson is in studio. 0.97
00:14:36.200 We don't get guests in studio that often anymore.
00:14:38.580 You've come in regularly,
00:14:39.620 but it seems you're heading a different initiative every time I have you in.
00:14:43.240 I know.
00:14:43.540 I've got a lot on the go, that's for sure.
00:14:45.020 But this is a project that's close to my heart.
00:14:47.540 Yeah, so you've got a conference coming up. 0.99
00:14:49.100 The Doing It Right Women's Conference, well, lay it out.
00:14:52.640 What the hell is it about?
00:14:53.560 Okay, so Doing It Right Women's Initiative is our nonprofit, myself and my business partner, Christy.
00:14:59.480 And we just, you know, I've worked in the conservative movement for a really long time,
00:15:03.340 done a lot of different things, worked in advocacy, think tanks, campaigns, all sorts of different things.
00:15:07.960 And before that, I was, of course, a reporter.
00:15:10.540 And just Christy and I have noticed from going to a lot of different conferences
00:15:13.380 that women weren't always necessarily featured in them,
00:15:17.720 or we felt that they were really hyper-focused on certain issues,
00:15:22.100 whether that's energy or just conservative politics. 0.81
00:15:25.120 And we thought, you know, women do best and respond best in political spaces 0.71
00:15:28.360 when they feel that all perspectives are welcomed.
00:15:31.720 And we saw that there was really an appetite to do something that's multi-partisan,
00:15:35.340 which I assure you is always a little bit of a challenge
00:15:37.380 when you yourself have your own political ideologies,
00:15:39.720 but I like to challenge myself.
00:15:41.640 And so we came up with the Doin' It Right Women's Initiative,
00:15:44.300 and through that we have the annual Doin' It Right Women's Conference.
00:15:46.940 So this is our second annual conference, and we're back on Friday, November 13th at the Doubletree by Calgary Hilton.
00:15:54.360 It's an awkward name, but that's where we are.
00:15:57.600 And, yeah, we're back, and we're doing it right all over again.
00:16:01.240 Right on.
00:16:02.020 Well, I mean, I saw this has been talked about for years, and it's not a left-right thing. 1.00
00:16:06.240 Women are typically underrepresented in politics. 1.00
00:16:13.500 We saw that in British Columbia, for example. 0.97
00:16:15.080 Of course, they always bemoan it when an election comes, and look at that, there's a tiny minority of women who are in the elected roles versus men.
00:16:22.220 But, I mean, that happens when an NDP government comes in as well. 0.72
00:16:25.860 So I imagine that's part of what you're addressing, the wire woman, because part of it is they're not drawn to the political sphere as much as men are.
00:16:31.240 Well, they're not, Corey, because it's so divisive.
00:16:33.220 The problem is politics, as we've seen, and we're on the heels the morning after midterm elections, and we've seen that people respond because they're angry.
00:16:40.760 and politics has become so ultra hyper partisan and people just want to kind of get a little bit
00:16:46.620 back more to the center and and that's why we've opened this up to women on the left women on the
00:16:50.880 right and women in different business sectors that are really quite apolitical but a lot of people a 1.00
00:16:55.520 lot of women as a as a woman as a mom myself women come to me and they talk to me about politics 1.00
00:17:00.180 because they know I work in it and they're apprehensive I find women have to be compelled 0.99
00:17:06.320 It has to be very issues based for them to want to come out and join a campaign, doorknock, volunteer, deliver literature, go to events.
00:17:14.980 And further to that, women have to be usually asked multiple times to run for office or work in political spaces compared to men.
00:17:22.460 So we just want to let all the girls know out there, you know, no matter what your opinions are, you might come in and you might have opinions on this side. 0.99
00:17:29.620 And then you might leave our room with opinions that are more dialed over to this side. 0.83
00:17:33.380 And that's just great.
00:17:34.380 We're hoping, we're not trying to convince you of anything, but we sure hope that our panelists do and our speakers do.
00:17:39.400 Yeah, well, something that I don't know if you're going to address or whatnot, but I mean, I'm certain it's part of it.
00:17:43.620 I mean, it's the vitriolic atmosphere of politics and the personal atmosphere of it.
00:17:48.460 And I think social media has really amplified that.
00:17:51.500 I think maybe as men, it's easier for us.
00:17:53.280 I mean, some will get up and say, well, look at this said about men and to men and everything else. 1.00
00:17:56.620 And it's true.
00:17:57.160 Yeah, they're pretty nasty online.
00:17:58.900 Some of my inbox things are pretty brutal.
00:18:01.640 But I think it's easier for us to shed those things off.
00:18:03.940 I mean, whatever. We got more of the shoe leather skin and it gets a lot more personal and kind of nasty with women quite often with the tone.
00:18:12.220 But unfortunately, it's a reality that anybody entering the public sphere is going to have to deal with.
00:18:16.380 So, I mean, is there going to be, I guess, discussion on how to deal with that inevitable atmosphere you're going to be entering if you enter the political realm?
00:18:23.180 Yeah, absolutely. I mean, let's let's be honest. Women are women are just judged more more partially than men are.
00:18:29.260 we're judged more for our physical appearance women who run for public office they're judged 0.97
00:18:33.400 if they're overweight they're judged by what they dress by their hair far more to a far heavier
00:18:38.000 degree i think than men are i think we can probably all agree on that particularly probably 0.64
00:18:42.140 conservative women have a bit more of a even a double standard i think than even women on the
00:18:45.880 left when it comes to their physical appearance so i think that that's something that some of 1.00
00:18:49.440 our speakers are certainly going to bring up like we have a number of panels we have some women who
00:18:53.620 are experienced campaigners who run for office who are current elected officials that will talk
00:18:59.380 about their own experience and we we have a range of different things where we have a human
00:19:06.100 trafficking panel we have free trade we have labor unions that'll be a really interesting one
00:19:12.200 i mean if you want to hear about the libertarian case for private sector unions please come on down
00:19:16.640 and then we're going to do a panel as well on how do we heal after the referendum as well we're
00:19:21.580 going to have women who work in non-profit sector speaking as well so we've got like kind of a little
00:19:26.160 something for everybody but i certainly expect that our women who are going to be there talking
00:19:31.520 about specifically campaigning what it's like their experiences working for working in government 0.97
00:19:37.840 working on campaigns what those expectations are like for women and the vitriol that exists in
00:19:42.720 political spaces particularly with social media yeah well and and it's good to point out i mean
00:19:48.680 And we were thinking, or I was bringing up initially, the front line, whether it's somebody running for council or MLA or MP.
00:19:53.400 But there's many more areas where somebody's involved, whether you're a campaign manager, a communications person, or advocacy groups heading those sorts of things.
00:20:01.980 You're still in the public eye, and you still get, I guess, some of that pushback with that.
00:20:07.440 There's more roles in politics than just being up front.
00:20:10.640 Absolutely.
00:20:11.500 And so we keep our ticket prices very reasonable.
00:20:15.040 We don't want finances to be a barrier.
00:20:17.220 and we recognize that most comparable conferences
00:20:19.100 are run $150 to $300 a ticket.
00:20:22.800 We keep ours to $49.99 a ticket
00:20:24.720 and it's free for students to come.
00:20:26.700 We cannot stress that enough.
00:20:27.780 We really want young women to come.
00:20:30.200 It's very important to us.
00:20:31.260 So we have a promo code, studenttix26
00:20:33.300 and we really hope that a lot of young women
00:20:37.160 and men come.
00:20:38.140 Men are more than welcome.
00:20:39.200 Some of my very best friends in this movement are men
00:20:41.900 and really some of our sponsors and big supporters
00:20:44.380 are some of the best men that we have in our lives and we want everybody to come, but it'll
00:20:49.700 just be women on the stage. Well, so something that's in the unusual atmosphere of today's world, 1.00
00:20:56.120 you're acknowledging that women are different. You know, you're being open about it and just
00:21:01.140 pointing out women communicate differently, they feel things differently, they act differently upon 0.97
00:21:06.140 policy issues or the way they present and so on and have to navigate things differently. 0.71
00:21:14.100 We've gotten into this strange place where we're not allowed to acknowledge that,
00:21:17.260 and we're supposed to act as if there aren't actually just some differences inherent.
00:21:20.500 I mean, I understand there's exceptions all over, but between women and men.
00:21:24.420 A hot-button issue lately, though.
00:21:25.860 What about trans women? 1.00
00:21:27.500 That's certainly... 1.00
00:21:29.580 No, let's go there.
00:21:30.380 That's fine. 0.99
00:21:32.000 Trans women are trans women, just that.
00:21:34.220 And I have some friends who are trans women in the conservative movement,
00:21:37.940 and I know some of my friends on the left are always puzzled by that,
00:21:40.820 But yes, we have some really great outspoken trans trans women in the conservative movement.
00:21:46.440 And I, you know, in my conversations with them, they acknowledge they don't want to be recognized as men, but that they're not women.
00:21:54.260 They're trans women.
00:21:56.020 Yeah. Well, and understanding that, you know, but I guess if we'd follow that hard line of the gender ideologues and basically saying it's all just a construct, it's it's just society.
00:22:09.600 I mean, that approach, which I know is not what you're taking, well, what the message to the conference should be is just be more like men. 0.96
00:22:16.740 Just stop being women, and then you'll be okay. 1.00
00:22:19.240 It's a construct. 1.00
00:22:20.340 You're just acting the wrong way.
00:22:21.560 I mean, acknowledging there's a difference, I think, is very important.
00:22:24.040 We are different.
00:22:24.880 Women and men are fundamentally different, and I think that's okay.
00:22:27.360 And I think we should stop beating around the bush about it and stop pretending that we're something we're not.
00:22:30.920 I'm not a man.
00:22:31.900 I can be tough like one sometimes, but, you know, I'm not a man. 1.00
00:22:36.240 You're not a woman.
00:22:37.500 There's no confusion here.
00:22:38.560 There are two genders and, you know, sexual identity, I think, is evolving and that can be very fluid, but I don't believe that gender identity is fluid.
00:22:48.300 Yeah, and this is, so women speaking with other women supporting each other more, as you said, men are welcome at this, but this isn't asking men to react differently to women.
00:22:56.440 This is women talking with each other on how they can better adapt and work within the political sphere.
00:23:02.000 Absolutely. And embrace the men around you like women need to. 1.00
00:23:05.520 Men are not our enemy. Men are our best friends.
00:23:08.020 There are husbands or spouses. There are supporters.
00:23:10.640 There are brothers or uncles or fathers. There are business partners.
00:23:13.120 And some of my favorite people in conservative politics are the men who are around me and support me there.
00:23:18.900 And they're big fans of me and the work I do.
00:23:22.500 But we just need to learn to work with them.
00:23:25.160 And that being said, I'm all for meritocracy.
00:23:27.760 And our conference isn't advocating that we should get special treatment because we're women.
00:23:32.000 The most qualified candidate for the job, the best person for the job should win.
00:23:36.780 I really believe in those things.
00:23:38.140 I'm a big supporter of the elimination of DEI that the current government has done.
00:23:43.900 I think that that's really important to take that out of public institutions and to go back to a meritocracy.
00:23:50.080 I think that's very key.
00:23:51.640 But, yeah, we can celebrate our differences and we can also see what we can be doing.
00:23:55.200 and the men around us, what they can learn to make pathways more sustainable
00:23:59.860 for women to want to get into civic life
00:24:02.180 so that they don't feel like they're entering hostile enemy territory, so to speak. 1.00
00:24:07.520 Well, yeah, I know there's double standards.
00:24:09.120 When a man's tough and outspoken and so on,
00:24:11.860 people say, that's a man sounding like a leader. 0.97
00:24:13.520 And then a woman's acting just the same way, 1.00
00:24:15.340 and then they say, well, she's being bitchy. 1.00
00:24:16.960 I mean, it happens. 1.00
00:24:18.400 There's a big line between assertive and aggressive for a woman,
00:24:21.360 whereas for a man, you're just tougher, tougher. 0.99
00:24:23.640 Yeah, so I've been talking with women to try and find that balance, I guess. 1.00
00:24:27.220 I mean, you're still going to get some unfair pushback. 0.99
00:24:29.260 I guess that's part of it, just understanding it's not fair,
00:24:31.680 but you're going to get some of it.
00:24:33.720 It perhaps helps people cope with it when they get in and they know it's coming.
00:24:37.460 Well, you might be really interested in one of our panels on feminism and family formation,
00:24:41.500 and we're going to have one of our good friends, Kate Marland,
00:24:44.660 is going to be talking about that as a modern woman living in this day and age
00:24:48.620 and what that looks like for women in 2026.
00:24:51.940 Well, and that's other things as well, juggling family and so on.
00:24:54.880 There's different, you know, again, we're not the same.
00:24:57.600 There's different expectations for a mother versus a father, typically.
00:25:00.780 I mean, there's responsibilities that are shared and it's important,
00:25:03.820 but often family is going to have a much bigger impact on a woman's ability to go full time into a career,
00:25:09.640 perhaps depending on what age the children are, managing and balancing those things.
00:25:14.820 Is that part of what's going to be discussed?
00:25:16.640 I think so. I think Kate would probably speak to that on her fireside chat.
00:25:21.160 But I think all of us can relate to that.
00:25:23.100 I, as a working mom myself with three kids, I've had to, my kids are getting older now, still have to juggle it.
00:25:28.340 But certainly I'm very empathetic to what it's like to be a young working mom with kids at home that you're having to juggle and face, you know, all the different scheduling and childcare expenses that you have to be when you're trying to get your, that you have to encounter when you're trying to run a home, which women are primarily usually, you know, the backbone of a home. 0.97
00:25:50.100 It doesn't have to be, but usually women kind of run a household.
00:25:54.600 I know that's always been my experience and most of the women around me, but it is a juggling act for sure. 0.93
00:26:00.240 But I think if we make it less of a toxic space, if we let women know, no matter what your political perspective is,
00:26:06.660 we welcome your voice to sit together at a table, figure out what should be influencing policy,
00:26:12.060 dial things a little bit more to the centre when they get too far to the extremes on either end.
00:26:16.960 I think then we're creating we're fixing things at the root cultural level and women are going to be more encouraged to get involved in campaigns or public policy or or whatever have whatever topic of the day at a younger age.
00:26:32.020 And so we're not just trying to get them into it when they're of a certain demographic. 1.00
00:26:35.700 We want young women involved in politics. 0.99
00:26:37.680 We want them and we don't want them necessarily radicalized to one extreme or another.
00:26:42.000 speaking as a conservative woman, I find that we're seeing a lot of young women very much
00:26:47.320 radicalized to the very far left, as well as like, just like you're seeing a lot of
00:26:52.080 young men radicalized to the far, far right. And I'm talking about the extremes. I'm not talking
00:26:56.680 about, you know, in that space. And so what do we do to kind of course correct that?
00:27:01.700 So this is your second one of these. So presumably the first one was a success or you wouldn't have
00:27:06.360 done another one. Are there plans to expand a little further though? I mean, you're trying
00:27:10.060 to get access as you said you know the costs are difficult uh you're that's why you're bringing
00:27:13.680 young students in for free and so on but uh this is just one spot in calgary i mean there's major
00:27:19.700 centers there's other provinces are you guys looking perhaps to expand this organization in
00:27:22.940 the future i love that you've brought that up because yes we are uh we tentatively have a date
00:27:27.960 picked for next fall i believe we're doing it october 1st next year but i don't want christy
00:27:32.760 to kill me if i'm wrong with that date so we'll be announcing that after this conference we will
00:27:37.280 do another one in calgary but we're looking actually to expand out to bc next year so we
00:27:42.200 actually had some plans for some of them some some people to come out from bc to participate in this
00:27:47.860 conference but then of course there was this whole snap election and things got a little bit muddy out
00:27:52.260 there and for conservatives it certainly was a victory but a couple of guests that we had planned
00:27:56.620 to have out here weren't able to make it of course because they're unable to do out of province travel
00:28:01.240 a couple weeks into their new job well yeah bc's a whole other ball of wax but it could certainly
00:28:06.540 then use some some help with people organizing and getting involved anyway so if you want a
00:28:10.580 political uh fire pit to learn how to operate that's certainly a promise to do it yeah and i
00:28:15.200 just don't think that we can replace in-person events i think i mean we're we're going to be
00:28:19.160 recording this and put lots of stuff out on social media not live streaming it but we'll have
00:28:23.300 lots of clips to share with uh our growing audience afterwards but um you can't replace
00:28:30.060 these in-person networking events i mean they're so valuable so we encourage people again it's not
00:28:35.480 a barrier to come if you want to come and you're you're an adult and you're not a student and you
00:28:39.080 don't have 50 for a ticket just send us a message and we'll get you in the door and come for the
00:28:43.560 morning come for the afternoon our schedule will be released in the next two days here and so you'll
00:28:47.840 you'll find there's something there for everybody oh yeah well it's i don't miss smoking but the one
00:28:52.680 thing i miss from the old political events actually some of the best networking i would have is
00:28:56.760 outside the smoke doors there's just that face-to-face that's so important i have a chat
00:28:59.620 during the break uh you know getting around in person with somebody and conversing so it's
00:29:05.060 great that you're pulling them together like that.
00:29:07.220 Well, okay, before I let you go, I mean, just one
00:29:09.180 more time, where can people find
00:29:11.220 out about this and sign up and take part?
00:29:13.480 Totally. We're on all social media. We're on
00:29:15.160 Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn, and it's
00:29:17.580 womendoingitright.ca
00:29:19.500 That is our
00:29:20.700 website, and you can go there. We have an Eventbrite
00:29:23.360 ticket link right on there, and again, we're
00:29:25.240 on all the social media pages, so
00:29:26.780 please check us out or put something in the comments here
00:29:29.280 and we'd love to hear from you. We'd love to see you.
00:29:31.140 And if you have any ideas for topics next year,
00:29:33.240 We like to get a little bit spicy, and we like to stay pretty current.
00:29:36.780 And on top of issues that people really care about, we want to be relevant to what people want to talk about.
00:29:42.120 Well, right on.
00:29:42.620 Well, thanks for putting it together and coming in today to let us know about it.
00:29:46.520 I hope the conference goes off excellently.
00:29:48.820 Well, feel free to stop by.
00:29:50.000 We'd love to have you any time, Corey.
00:29:51.360 We'll see.
00:29:53.260 I'm so conferenced out from the last few months, but no, I've got the chance.
00:29:57.600 Who knows?
00:29:57.860 It could be very interesting.
00:29:58.880 For sure.
00:29:59.320 Thanks so much.
00:29:59.940 All right.
00:30:00.100 Thanks.
00:30:01.360 So, yeah, guys, one more time. 0.85
00:30:02.600 And that is Lindsay Wilson. 0.92
00:30:03.920 And yes, it's the Women Doing It Right conference coming up. 1.00
00:30:07.500 Look it up. 1.00
00:30:08.000 Check it out.
00:30:08.500 And as I said, don't let cost be a barrier and proximity.
00:30:11.600 It's here in a major center at a hotel. 1.00
00:30:15.140 And yeah, I don't know how some women manage it. 1.00
00:30:20.800 I can see it. 1.00
00:30:21.220 It's not just women. 0.74
00:30:22.120 It's men.
00:30:22.880 I mean, the social media environment is awful.
00:30:28.020 The things that people say to people nowadays on there and threaten or just call people.
00:30:38.500 I mean, there's always been nastiness.
00:30:40.420 That's nothing new.
00:30:41.200 That's nothing new in politics.
00:30:42.340 But the ability now for somebody to hide in anonymity and share something online and really rip into somebody is a whole new level of things.
00:30:51.340 I've gotten used to it.
00:30:52.960 And I don't let it get to me.
00:30:54.760 But for men or women, if you enter the public sphere and some of the stuff that you're going to get called and some of the threats you're going to get and some of those things, I can see why so many, it's not just women, but young people or people considering public life would reconsider and move in the other direction.
00:31:10.800 And that's wrong.
00:31:11.500 It's one of the things where we want the more, the better.
00:31:13.500 It really is.
00:31:14.120 You know, participatory democracy, I'm having a heck of a time with words today, only works if you participate.
00:31:20.820 You've got to get in.
00:31:21.880 You've got to work on it.
00:31:23.380 So, you know, if you're women who've seen this and you're considering it, you know, check it out and see if you can't make things a little better. 1.00
00:31:32.180 Speaking of women in leadership positions.
00:31:34.500 So, as I said with David, we'll see.
00:31:37.480 We'll see what happens with Premier Smith. 0.98
00:31:38.940 She's bouncing all over the place. 0.99
00:31:40.760 Personally, I think one of her problems is she's just too reactive, worries too much about the polls, pushes too far this way, pushes too far that way.
00:31:48.120 And the polls, though, aren't looking very good right now.
00:31:51.320 I think personally, again, there's a lot of exhaustion going on in the province.
00:31:55.900 People are just tired of what turned out to be a five-and-a-half-month campaign.
00:32:01.340 And they just got tired of the issue.
00:32:05.280 And we can debate, you know, why it was 25%, 75%, and so on and everything.
00:32:11.060 But realistically then, three-quarters of the province wasn't, you know, they'd had enough of it.
00:32:17.100 And they weren't wanting to move in that direction.
00:32:19.200 I think the UCP will have the opportunity, as I said, after the AGM, to kind of reset the clock, get back on to policy issues, get back on to cost of living issues, and start getting ready for the next fall election and establishing themselves and figuring out what they're going to do.
00:32:34.320 It doesn't mean, by the way, and I've had these blast backs and everything, I'm an independent supporter and that hasn't changed and that's not going away.
00:32:40.240 And I'm going to still continue to look for and find ways for us to become independent in Alberta.
00:32:45.500 Not a little bit independent, a lot independent.
00:32:48.700 But in the meantime, that's been debated to death for five months.
00:32:53.860 It's not on the table right now.
00:32:56.240 Let's see what is. 1.00
00:32:58.340 And some of these things, I mean, she's giving some red meat sort of conservative type issues right now.
00:33:06.160 Bills, as I said earlier, this one going after the post-secondary institutions, 0.51
00:33:11.440 those universities, those colleges that have their double standards,
00:33:14.180 that censor other speakers, that actually kick out professors who, you know, don't think the way
00:33:21.060 they feel they should, that's, she's, they're going to get blowback over this. The academics
00:33:26.760 are going to be pretty pissy and upset, but I'm glad they're doing it. Look at the indoctrination
00:33:32.000 going on with students. Speaking of fear and intimidation, right? You don't want to be on
00:33:36.820 the wrong side in there because you know the university won't have your back. They won't
00:33:41.340 protect you if you speak up and you are conservative. That's the bottom line. They'll
00:33:46.860 let the mob come after you. They'll do nothing about it. What was it when you saw the scene
00:33:52.920 when the glass of water was tipped on Professor Tom Flanagan's head because he came and spoke
00:33:58.460 at University of Calgary? Yeah, and it's an assault. But why did the university even let
00:34:04.540 it turn into such a gong show? Why are there not protected spaces? The university's role
00:34:09.960 is also to secure these spots for debate and discourse.
00:34:15.920 And I'll tell you what, it's 99% of the time loony leftists.
00:34:20.580 But it's because you let them get away with it.
00:34:22.840 I've seen whether they're in the hallways
00:34:24.460 and somebody's trying to speak in a conference room
00:34:26.520 and they're blasting air horns, they're banging on drums,
00:34:29.720 they're kicking the doors.
00:34:30.660 Well, you know what you do? 0.98
00:34:31.880 You friggin' arrest them. 0.99
00:34:34.100 You eject them. 1.00
00:34:35.780 You charge them.
00:34:37.020 You expel them if they're students.
00:34:41.080 Because this isn't appropriate behavior. 0.99
00:34:44.340 This is just training these jerks to realize if you have public temper tantrums, 0.99
00:34:49.680 the establishment will indulge you. 1.00
00:34:52.300 Why? Because the university management supports the extreme leftist cause
00:34:57.620 that these nutcases outside of conferences are pushing on.
00:35:03.020 So yeah, you know what? Hit them where it hurts. 0.99
00:35:06.440 That's why I was questioning it with the minister when I was on the phone with the conference yesterday. 0.71
00:35:12.260 What's the penalty going to be?
00:35:13.700 And the easiest penalty is simple.
00:35:15.060 Fine.
00:35:16.120 Fine them.
00:35:17.200 And you don't have to collect.
00:35:18.600 All you have to do is say, okay, well, you know what?
00:35:20.240 You blew it here.
00:35:21.220 You blew the policies.
00:35:22.280 We're cutting this much from your transfer.
00:35:24.680 Too bad.
00:35:25.440 Lay off another professor, I guess.
00:35:26.820 Do something.
00:35:27.300 You're going to have to make up the cost some other way.
00:35:29.040 But we're not going to give you tax dollars if you are not going to behave as an institution that allows discourse. 0.97
00:35:36.440 You want to have your specialized institution that doesn't support free speech, free conversation, free debate, fine, open a private one, raise your own damn money, and do it.
00:35:47.460 But they haven't had the courage to say yet what those penalties would be, and that's what I'm worried about.
00:35:51.740 You've got to hold them to account.
00:35:53.320 Just wagging your finger at them isn't going to be enough.
00:35:57.060 You're going to have to get on their case.
00:36:00.340 And speaking of tantrums and protests and inability to debate, look at the pipeline.
00:36:08.420 Here's where I think Premier Smith's really going to, probably going to eat a whole pile of crow 1.00
00:36:12.920 and it could cost her the election. We'll see. 1.00
00:36:15.160 But you know, she's really staked her future on being hand in hand with Mark Carney.
00:36:20.260 She's really tried this cooperative approach.
00:36:22.840 We think that Mark Carney's actually just spiffy and he's got the same interests as Alberta
00:36:27.820 and he's going to help us and he's going to get things done.
00:36:30.300 And a lot of the cynics like myself saying, yeah, right, I'll believe it when I see it.
00:36:33.840 Well, now we're seeing that just now there's 10 of them, I believe,
00:36:36.560 indigenous bands lining up, going into the courts, trying to hold this up
00:36:40.020 and saying they're going to protest, saying they're going to stop this.
00:36:43.880 Smith has basically come close to promising there's going to be dirt moving on this pipeline
00:36:48.380 by September next year.
00:36:49.560 That's just a month before the election.
00:36:53.060 What if it's not happening by then, which I'm pretty confident won't be happening by then? 0.99
00:36:57.820 And there's not much Smith can do about it because she partners herself with a coward who does nothing but talk and never actually acts. 0.94
00:37:02.960 That coward is Mark Carney. Talk, talk, talk, talk, talk. 0.98
00:37:06.380 More MOUs, more agreements, more bureaucracy, more meetings, more MOUs.
00:37:11.380 None of those get a pipe into the ground. 0.99
00:37:13.820 What he does have to do is stand up and tell those chiefs to blow it out their asses. 1.00
00:37:17.820 That's the truth of it. I mean, I understand he would say it more diplomatically than I do. 0.99
00:37:23.280 But they don't have the authority to stop this.
00:37:26.180 the only person who has the authority to give the thumbs up and thumbs down really is the
00:37:31.300 prime minister he could get this is why private companies won't come out even though he's saying
00:37:37.460 it's promising they won't touch it why because they know it won't get done because the prime
00:37:41.200 minister has no cojones he won't say this is getting done no more questions we will consult
00:37:49.940 but let's please understand we're consulting on the basis of this is going to happen whether you 0.94
00:37:55.320 like it or not. So how can we accommodate you a little better as it happens? But he won't do that.
00:38:02.520 So Premier Smith is going to have a lot of questions to answer a month before her
00:38:07.180 general election faces her as to why did we waste this much time trying the non-adversarial way to
00:38:15.560 deal with this government when clearly the adversarial way to go is where we're at. I'm
00:38:19.940 hoping to get a chance maybe in a question or a conference or something in the future too. Another
00:38:23.020 thing i'm concerned about with premier smith she didn't she didn't get elected on an independence
00:38:29.580 platform that's true and and i think the people trying to push her in an independent stance are
00:38:33.360 wrong thinking and pushing her the wrong way but she did most definitely get elected in the
00:38:40.680 leadership and in general on this sovereign alberta even if within a united canada well
00:38:46.980 now she's not saying sovereign anymore and i'm really kind of concerned about that
00:38:50.720 She's saying a strong Alberta.
00:38:52.400 That's not a mistake, and that's not a minor change in language.
00:38:56.240 We want, at the very least, the Alberta agenda getting moving.
00:39:00.980 That means things like a provincial pension plan, provincial police.
00:39:03.560 That means we want to assert ourselves as a sovereign province.
00:39:08.700 And you're dropping that language.
00:39:10.260 That's a concern.
00:39:11.840 That's a big one.
00:39:13.820 And backtracking, I don't know how wise that is.
00:39:17.200 Now, they're trying to find that balance.
00:39:20.100 You know, Jeff Rath has been ejected.
00:39:23.120 But again, there are two very avowed separatists running for board seats within the party.
00:39:30.860 So it's not a case of every person who supports Independence for Alberta is being purged from the party.
00:39:37.260 But haywire ones like Jeff are, yes.
00:39:39.740 Because how long will any party allow a guy to continually just keep attacking and battering and beating?
00:39:46.480 And let's face it, Jeff's spreading a bunch of BS.
00:39:48.720 Alas, he is.
00:39:50.720 He's gone off the handle.
00:39:52.360 For his own sake, I think he should take a break.
00:39:54.860 I mean, really, read his social media scroll, guys.
00:39:57.220 I mean, this is not a rational person.
00:39:59.260 Though you're allowed to be irrational.
00:40:00.820 But to the point where he's going to come and disrupt the meeting.
00:40:02.900 Fine.
00:40:03.320 But watch that balance.
00:40:05.800 Inviting them to go find another party?
00:40:08.500 Maybe.
00:40:09.120 We'll see.
00:40:10.040 But yeah, it doesn't take a large swing to move the UCP into unelectable status as well.
00:40:18.160 if there's another party chewing into that vote.
00:40:20.440 Looking into the alternative parties, though,
00:40:21.960 that Republican Party of Alberta, Cam Davies' little creation,
00:40:25.640 which is under so many investigations now, much like Mr. Rath,
00:40:29.060 we'll see what comes of it.
00:40:31.140 Cam has fled for the hills.
00:40:32.620 He's resigned as the leader.
00:40:34.000 He even claimed there's 30,000 members of this little Republican Party of his.
00:40:38.180 Really? Come on now.
00:40:40.460 But it was the source of where the members' lists,
00:40:44.480 not members' lists, electors' lists,
00:40:46.680 which really discredited the whole movement
00:40:49.280 came out, Cam the Weasel Davies
00:40:51.700 yeah, I'll say it outright
00:40:53.160 there's part of this independence movement
00:40:55.200 they've got to do some introspection rather than screaming at the UCP
00:40:57.720 what are some of the reasons
00:40:59.340 people didn't trust the independence movement
00:41:01.660 why did they not want to embrace it
00:41:03.640 well the behavior of
00:41:05.560 some of these
00:41:06.820 activists
00:41:08.520 has been a large part of why people
00:41:11.560 said I don't want that, they've got to be thinking the day after
00:41:13.740 you know, a commenter, Jacqueline Fair enough
00:41:15.520 saying, I like Jeff, blunt and to the point. Yeah, but Jeff's full of crap. That's part of the 1.00
00:41:19.080 problem. Jeff makes up things. And Jeff, I appreciate that some of the people within the
00:41:26.500 movement might like him. But when you're campaigning on something, you need to remember,
00:41:30.120 you need to win the majority of people. And most people don't like him. And he has the right to be
00:41:36.600 abrasive. So do I. And I take advantage of it pretty generously myself. But when Jeff goes
00:41:43.000 back and forth. And he did that throughout the campaign. I'm not the leader of it. Oh, okay.
00:41:46.260 But you're going to do five different press interviews a day, presenting yourself as if
00:41:50.760 you were the leader of it. And then your words do reflect on the rest of the movement. We've got to
00:41:56.300 win everybody, not just our own inner circles. So we've got to think a little harder about it.
00:42:03.000 But let's let Jeff take over the Republican party. Apparently it's got 30,000 members.
00:42:08.060 Maybe he can really teach everyone a lesson. We'll see. But it's a gamble. I mean, if he came in and
00:42:12.980 and pulled 5% in the cities, that would be enough to put the NDP in.
00:42:16.000 That would do it.
00:42:17.380 So we'll see what happens.
00:42:20.500 Either way, lots of other things.
00:42:22.020 You know, I want to see some stuff on the health care front.
00:42:25.740 This is, you know, as we were talking with Dave a bit,
00:42:29.220 optometrists now being able to do some surgeries, some,
00:42:32.180 and, of course, the Ophthalmological Society is very upset about this
00:42:36.280 because it's cutting in on them.
00:42:37.620 Something I found in the CBC of all things, you know, the state broadcaster,
00:42:41.540 And they actually did a pretty good article showing knee surgeries in Germany and how quickly they're getting done.
00:42:50.600 They interviewed a Canadian expat who'd moved to Germany.
00:42:53.520 Knee and hip surgeries in Germany, you get them done within a couple of months after asking.
00:43:00.620 Even from four weeks to a few months, that's the wait for a new knee in Germany.
00:43:05.020 I had a family member waiting on hip replacements.
00:43:07.080 two years being crippled immobile unable to work in in dire discomfort two years for the first hip
00:43:16.860 we'll see how long before the second one actually that surgery is coming up in a few weeks
00:43:21.200 why though and cbc was actually a little open up about that why are they getting them done so fast
00:43:27.440 in germany and a universal system it's not like the big bad american system universal and they
00:43:32.820 say it right in there because there's competition because they've opened it up and they've made it
00:43:37.840 so hospitals actually make money from these surgeries and doctors are encouraged to pull
00:43:41.240 people in and do them. And there's some privatization. They even actually pointed out
00:43:44.740 in the article, some hospitals in Germany have actually gone broke. So if they're poorly managed,
00:43:49.180 they will go down, but it's competitive. We don't have that in our system. So whether it's the eye
00:43:54.600 surgeries, the knee surgeries, the hip surgeries, even the little cracks in the good old CBC are
00:44:00.220 finally realizing we need some competition in our system, or we're going to die on the waiting
00:44:05.680 lists in Canada. It's not just money. And speaking of money, trillion dollars, the budget's coming
00:44:10.780 out right away federally. And yeah, look forward to having a trillion in debt. And polls showing
00:44:15.700 that most Canadians are okay with that. That's frightening. Pay attention to how much a trillion
00:44:20.180 dollars is. I know it's unimaginable, but that's the debt being dumped on the next generation.
00:44:27.200 And that's unforgivable on our part.
00:44:30.200 Not just Gen X like me or boomers.
00:44:33.040 If you're an adult today and you're accepting dumping a trillion dollars in debt in the next generation,
00:44:38.220 if you think that's okay, you think that's not a problem, 1.00
00:44:40.540 you truly are a very selfish, nasty soul. 0.99
00:44:44.180 You know, putting that into the credit cards and leaving it on to the next ones. 1.00
00:44:49.180 Unforgivable.
00:44:50.420 Well, lots is going to be happening, guys.
00:44:52.280 That convention, the AGM is coming up in a few weeks.
00:44:54.480 If you're looking to register, it's going to be probably the largest political convention in Canadian history.
00:44:59.680 Check them out at the UCP if you're members.
00:45:01.500 I'll be there in a media capacity, of course.
00:45:03.600 I'm not a member.
00:45:04.240 I have my views.
00:45:05.060 I don't hide those.
00:45:07.380 But I'm still not on the inside.
00:45:10.000 So check it out.
00:45:12.020 Take part.
00:45:12.720 Participate.
00:45:13.180 Do what you feel you must.
00:45:14.440 All right.
00:45:14.700 Thanks for tuning in today, guys.
00:45:16.280 We covered quite a bit.
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