Western Standard - Alberta’s humiliating negotiations with Carney have gone on long enough

00:00:00.000 Good day.

00:00:29.360 welcome to the cory morgan show getting into mid-may now big uh get ready for the snow this

00:00:35.600 weekend as you celebrate the dead queen's birthday yeah usual weather but the weather maps have been

00:00:41.360 showing flowing glowing lava for the rest of alberta today and tomorrow i think because it's

00:00:45.520 going to get over 20 degrees so uh pick and choose i guess which way you're gonna die due to

00:00:51.200 climate change this week anyway lots of stuff going on the news lots of stuff breaking as usual

00:00:56.960 Well, in a little while, I'm going to have Chris Scott on.

00:00:59.000 He was the owner of the Whistle Stop Cafe.

00:01:02.180 He's also been outspoken as an independence advocate.

00:01:05.160 He's been holding a tour around Alberta and speaking to people,

00:01:08.440 having a good interactive conversation.

00:01:09.880 So that'll be a good chat.

00:01:11.660 And, yeah, we'll be discussing lots of other things,

00:01:13.920 checking in on some news items in a bit.

00:01:16.500 I'm going to start, though, with, yeah,

00:01:18.960 I just get tired of these victory laps being done when there's no victory.

00:01:22.000 So, I mean, among politicians in the Federation,

00:01:25.200 only Alberta must go through the humiliating ritual

00:01:27.860 of groveling and negotiating with the federal government

00:01:30.540 to develop its industries and export its products.

00:01:33.600 Ontario's premier doesn't have to beg for permission

00:01:35.660 to expand automotive manufacturing,

00:01:37.720 and Quebec doesn't have to snivel if it wants to expand

00:01:40.400 a maple syrup plantation.

00:01:42.840 Alberta, though, is reduced to having to offer concessions

00:01:45.860 to be allowed to do what every other oil-producing jurisdiction

00:01:49.460 on the planet does, and they don't hesitate.

00:01:53.220 There's little indication the federal government has any interest in allowing Alberta to expand its resource production and export infrastructure.

00:02:00.400 Kearney has talked and talked and talked.

00:02:02.740 For over a year now, we aren't an inch closer to getting something done than we were a year ago.

00:02:07.400 Premier Daniel Smith keeps setting deadlines and they keep passing.

00:02:11.060 Now Smith's celebrating that her and Kearney had more officially entrenched the MOU they created long ago.

00:02:16.440 But what does that mean?

00:02:17.780 Has Kearney repealed the No More Pipelines Act, which has stalled development in Alberta for years?

00:02:22.500 Has Carney repealed the tanker ban on the West Coast, despite tankers constantly docking in

00:02:27.860 eastern Canadian ports? Has Carney retracted his assertion that Indigenous consent is going to be

00:02:33.060 required to get projects constructed? Has Carney retracted his assertion that provincial

00:02:39.380 permission must be attained by BC or Quebec to get pipelines constructed? Unless all of these

00:02:44.340 things have been done, nothing of note is going to be expanding in Alberta. Canada is uncompetitive

00:02:49.660 on the world market and is going to remain so until the government chooses to get out of the 0.99

00:02:52.840 damn way. No pipeline has ever been talked into the ground, but Carney and Smith appeared 0.76

00:02:57.440 determined to try that method. Albertans have had enough as private investors, as have private

00:03:04.160 investors. I mean, according to an RBC report, over a trillion dollars in potential investment

00:03:08.860 has already fled Canada in the last decade, and most of that was oil and gas. The conditions

00:03:14.180 causing that capital flight haven't been addressed. Thus, that capital flight is just going to

00:03:18.500 continue. If Mark Carney truly wants to see these projects done, he can say so at any time. He can

00:03:24.460 declare these projects to be in the national interest and that he'll use his constitutional

00:03:28.480 authority to get them done. He won't do that, though. He just offers more mealy-mouthed promises

00:03:33.500 and more negotiations. His major projects office, remember that thing? It was created almost a year

00:03:39.320 ago with the ostensible goal of fast-tracking approvals. So far, it hasn't approved a single

00:03:43.480 one. I think we can safely call that initiative a failure. It's an office of false hopes and

00:03:49.240 continued deferral. Nothing more. It appears to be that way by design. Carney pretends the holdup

00:03:54.660 is with a lack of interest from private investors, and that's just an outright lie. Private companies

00:03:58.920 desperately want to produce and export more oil and gas while world energy prices are spiking.

00:04:04.400 They've made it no secret, though, of what's holding them up. Sonova CEO John McKenzie called

00:04:09.000 Canada's energy policies myopically focused on the climate agenda, arguing they've made resource

00:04:14.860 development and investment in the country uncompetitive with the rest of the world.

00:04:20.200 Canadian Natural Resources Limited CEO Scott Stouth argued that companies investing in

00:04:25.020 carbon capture and storage shouldn't face an additional industrial carbon tax on top of

00:04:30.920 those costs, calling the policy an economic burden that undermines long-term growth.

00:04:35.760 The Oil Sands Alliance, all the heavyweights, they released a statement saying because of

00:04:39.000 complex regulatory processes uncompetitive carbon frameworks and fiscal systems that don't incent

00:04:44.680 growth there's not been a major new greenfield oil sands project sanctioning canada since 2013

00:04:50.280 an investment has dramatically declined premier smith i guess she was obligated to show she was

00:04:56.700 willing to deal with the federal government in good faith but the time for playing nice is done

00:05:00.220 she needs to approach these negotiations now with teeth and scheduling a referendum on

00:05:05.440 independents will do that. No more pussyfooting around. Just announce it's going to be held 1.00

00:05:09.280 and that it's going to be asking the constitutional question, not Lukasik's status quo version.

00:05:14.300 Albertans have had enough waiting. Things are stalled. Quit putting out these press releases

00:05:18.880 and false victories shaking hands. Premier Smith must start the referendum clock ticking,

00:05:23.300 and it must make it clear that Carney's inaction is going to increase support for the S side.

00:05:27.800 If she doesn't schedule the vote, not only is she setting herself up for more embarrassment

00:05:31.320 as Kearney plays with her, 0.91

00:05:33.380 but she will be opening up her right flank

00:05:35.380 for a party split as independent supporters 0.91

00:05:37.580 start to put real pressure on her. 0.83

00:05:39.320 Nothing shy of a project scheduled with dirt

00:05:41.460 anticipated to move soon

00:05:43.080 is going to satisfy Albertans now.

00:05:45.320 No more paper, guys. Smith must demand

00:05:47.340 nothing less and must give Albertans

00:05:49.280 the democratic means to express their thoughts

00:05:51.140 on the Federation through a referendum.

00:05:53.620 Talk is cheap, and we've had enough.

00:05:56.700 All right.

00:05:57.800 Here's what I'm pissing him on about today.

00:05:59.200 How's it going, Dave? It's going okay.

00:06:00.420 Okay, I have to protest the way you characterize this glorious long weekend as some dead queen's birthday. 0.72

00:06:07.760 Well, she is dead.

00:06:08.580 She is dead, but Victoria Day long weekend after the glorious queen, Victoria, you know, was in power a long time in England when England had a true empire.

00:06:21.100 You know, not the state that the country is in now, but, you know, just be grateful you get an extra day off.

00:06:26.800 Well, certainly I enjoyed the weekend, and at least I referenced it.

00:06:30.820 I mean, you know, it's really turned into the May-long weekend for a lot of people.

00:06:33.640 They barely even remember it.

00:06:34.520 They don't even know what it is.

00:06:36.120 No, so I guess it shouldn't be reframed, the dead queen weekend.

00:06:40.200 But at least I did reference it.

00:06:42.740 So, you know, happy belated birthday or upcoming birthday, Queen Victoria.

00:06:47.240 There you go.

00:06:47.960 Posthumous.

00:06:48.500 Thank you.

00:06:48.960 I appreciate the talk there.

00:06:50.900 What do you, you correctly predicted it's going to be miserable weather.

00:06:54.760 Yes.

00:06:55.020 It's going to rain like hell all weekend.

00:06:57.880 I don't know why people bother going out camping on the weekend.

00:07:00.660 What are you going to do?

00:07:02.440 Probably be hanging around the house writing stuff to infuriate people

00:07:06.040 and I guess just complaining about the weather.

00:07:09.000 I mean, there's not much you can do.

00:07:10.360 No.

00:07:10.620 It's supposed to snow.

00:07:11.840 I'm not driving.

00:07:12.500 I was thinking driving to Canmore to visit Dad, but not if it's another snowstorm.

00:07:16.040 No.

00:07:16.560 Oh, well.

00:07:17.740 So I've got some updates for you on your pipeline rant.

00:07:21.440 Some more.

00:07:21.960 uh there is uh reports all sorts of reports coming out of ottawa today that uh alberta and

00:07:30.680 canada smith and carney will sign another memorandum of understanding on uh on friday

00:07:36.440 in calgary that will agree to set the carbon tax at 130 a ton by 2040. alberta wanted to

00:07:46.840 not bring that in until 2050 so they seem to have capitulated a bit on that we're

00:07:51.960 castrating ourselves more slowly i don't know if that makes it nicer or worse well actually doing

00:07:56.360 quicker um but a significant note apparently mark carney is going to declare it a project

00:08:03.880 of national interest which means that we don't have to worry about indigenous consultation what

00:08:09.960 we would have to worry about is indigenous roadblocks and all that sort of stuff because

00:08:14.760 you know some hereditary chiefs won't be happy oh yeah there's always going to be some degree

00:08:20.000 of opposition that's fine i'm throwing down my gauntlet i don't believe it for a second anymore

00:08:24.060 not until i see dirt move it's just more talk but well we'll see you know what it seems to be a step

00:08:29.520 forward yeah but we'll see these are such baby steps we're gonna have the flux capacitor invented

00:08:35.460 by the time we ever actually get our oil yeah our favorite state broadcaster is under fire they seem

00:08:41.300 be funding some weird attacks on activists. Frances Whittleson, they invited her to do an 0.89

00:08:50.660 interview and she thought it was all on the straight and narrow. And then when she shows up,

00:08:55.460 they're dumping shoes on her desk. And they've done it to a couple of people. And it all seems

00:08:59.860 to be funded by APTN, the Aboriginal People's Television Network and CBC. So MPs are starting

00:09:08.100 to ask questions about how our taxpayer dollar is being used to fund anti-canadian stuff crap yeah

00:09:15.780 i think it was actually an american production company it sounds like it was up but taking the

00:09:19.460 canadian tax dollars it went if and i think we kind of agree we shouldn't be pouring that money

00:09:24.420 into the cbc and aptn anyway but if the intent is to create canadian jobs and content why did you

00:09:30.580 have to contract somebody from south of the border exactly speaking of temporary foreign workers

00:09:36.500 uh dunkin donuts coming back to canada after uh absence of many years uh they think they can take 0.84

00:09:42.980 on uh tim hortons and kick their butt uh you know as you know the reputation of timmy's has gone

00:09:49.620 downhill rapidly in the last year or so uh so they're planning on opening hundreds of stores 0.70

00:09:55.140 across canada so be interesting we'll see how it goes you know i i i went to dunkin donuts quite a

00:10:00.100 few times when i used to work in the states and the coffee a little on the watery side but they're

00:10:04.740 okay but i gotta i can't take the lineups of tim hortons anymore so if there's another one on the

00:10:09.540 block you know i'm gonna go for it i don't have that brand loyalty so it'll be interesting to see

00:10:13.140 exactly there'd be another choice for consumers um retired uh supreme court justice jack major

00:10:19.940 who is a calgarian he wrote a paper who's 95 wrote a paper for the mcdonald laurie institute

00:10:26.180 saying we are now in an era of judicial overreach and he's sort of uh slamming the way canadian

00:10:32.500 courts are ruling these days. So a bit of common sense into the debate. And did you see the video

00:10:40.400 of that red deer swarming? You know what? I was going to talk about it, but I haven't clicked on

00:10:44.780 it. I saw the pictures. I've read the story. I just, I have a hard time with that kind of

00:10:48.660 violence. The video is just sickening, Corey. Yeah. For those who haven't watched it yet,

00:10:53.420 please go take a look at it on our website. It's a poor teenage girl in Red Deer,

00:10:59.040 a local green space she was just beaten up swarmed uh girls are kicking her in the head 0.90

00:11:06.140 they're doing like wwe elbows to the head um she suffered her you know terrible terrible injuries

00:11:13.720 was taken to hospital you know but and the disturbing thing is kids are videoing it and

00:11:19.080 they're doing nothing to stop it all right and it's when you watch the video you do get a sickening

00:11:25.000 feeling in your stomach. Yeah, like I said, I doubt I'm going to click through on it, to be honest.

00:11:30.100 I've heard enough in the descriptions. I mean, I'm still traumatized by the video I saw in Israel.

00:11:35.900 Yeah. I'm trying to process that. So I think I could speak to the subject without watching,

00:11:41.360 though I understand if others feel compelled, it's up there.

00:11:45.080 Yep. There's a couple of GoFundMes that have been set up that are in our latest story,

00:11:49.940 if you want to donate.

00:11:52.120 And Linda Slobodian's written a column on it

00:11:54.640 on how Canada has to do a better job 1.00

00:11:58.160 of dealing with these teenage miscreants.

00:12:00.860 I mean, there's certainly enough evidence from the video

00:12:02.880 for, you know, assault-causing bodily harm charges

00:12:05.200 or aggravated assault.

00:12:06.220 Oh, yes, it's been clear.

00:12:07.300 And Red Deer RCMP are going to be under pressure to...

00:12:10.860 I mean, social media has already identified the culprits,

00:12:14.140 so I'm sure even the Mounties can figure this one out.

00:12:17.120 They should.

00:12:18.220 Knock on wood.

00:12:18.920 though yes knock on wood all right well again hopefully yeah you know some people pay a price

00:12:25.120 for it and hopefully there's some more self-examination i mean it is an indication of a real

00:12:29.080 social ill i mean this is this is really uh troublesome yep you know you see it happening

00:12:35.380 in other cities but this one's hitting close to home it's just up the road yeah well and i saw

00:12:39.460 that update in the news too the the girl is recovering anyways and doing well so that much

00:12:43.260 is good there's no permanent damage or at least physically anyways apparently one of her attackers

00:12:48.680 has kept her glasses as a trophy yeah that's awful on that happy note i shall leave you and

00:12:54.820 go back to the news all right thanks for leaving me on an upbeat note i was already in such a fine

00:12:58.480 mood today there you go we'll see you on the pipeline i appreciate it thanks dave you bet

00:13:01.860 all right that is our news editor dave naylor and yes lots on the go not every story is bright and

00:13:07.360 fluffy as you heard but they're all important and we do report on a lot of positive things too

00:13:13.040 uh the reason we could do that the reason we're able to and we cover those issues when others 0.56

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00:13:36.240 been uh I know I was listening in the newsroom reaching out on you know you don't get newsrooms

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00:14:03.160 get on there. But yeah, I got to admit, see, I'm a grumpy guy. I'm a tough talker, everything else.

00:14:10.220 You know, but when it comes to video images of real violence, I'm not one who likes watching it.

00:14:17.760 I think most people don't like watching it, but I just have a really hard time with it.

00:14:20.720 So I haven't watched that one with that young girl getting beaten because, you know, you're reading up descriptions and I just can't imagine.

00:14:26.740 I think there's enough, at least for me, to get the gist of the problem with that story and things.

00:14:31.040 We'll talk a little bit about that after my guest segment, I think, as well, without me watching it.

00:14:35.240 But it is available online. It's available on the Western Standard site.

00:14:38.400 and it is a serious issue we really got to be discussing we really do I think you know there's

00:14:42.980 been violence and there's things that happened in the 50s 60s and so on in schools and such as well

00:14:47.680 there's a nature I think of kids and so on but it doesn't mean we have to ignore it we better look

00:14:52.600 at this and see what the heck happened all right let's bring in Christopher Scott he is most of

00:14:57.520 you already know him the owner of the whistle stop cafe a source of fantastic food east of

00:15:02.820 red deer it really is and uh also a good outspoken advocate for independence and just good laws and

00:15:09.460 things in general and he's come on to talk to us today about his uh let's talk Alberta initiative

00:15:14.920 hey Chris thanks for coming on hey Corey yeah thanks for uh thanks for having me I I did watch

00:15:20.440 that video that you mentioned and that's a that's a real heartbreaker it really is yeah no it's uh

00:15:26.820 I I guess I could look on the bright side with something that terrible when it's documented at

00:15:31.960 least to drive home to people just how big the issue is or how big the problem is uh rather than

00:15:37.220 just the written word it sometimes makes the message you know sink in a little more i really

00:15:41.080 hope somehow something positive comes out of the discussion and examination of what happens here

00:15:45.440 absolutely yep definitely so getting on to something positive and something you've been

00:15:50.480 working on uh the the let's talk alberta initiative you know you've been bouncing all

00:15:55.220 over the province i've seen you as as far north as uh i saw you in peace river and uh down south

00:16:00.880 uh did you come out to hilda yes you did so uh what's going on there well um i i should let you

00:16:08.880 know next month we're actually going to be up in indian cabins too so when i say every corner of

00:16:13.440 alberta i re i really mean it like we're going all the way north all the way south and then

00:16:18.000 both east and west too so we're all over the place um that's just north of high level yeah

00:16:24.480 yeah i think i think it's like 30 minutes from the border or something like that i don't know

00:16:27.840 know it's it's yeah it's way far up there yeah way far so yeah the the idea with let's talk alberta

00:16:33.640 is just that um we want uh we want albertans to start talking with each other about important

00:16:40.660 issues that they're going to be deciding on in the fall um i say this at our at our meetings

00:16:46.560 you know albertans are going to be asked probably the most important and consequential question

00:16:51.660 in their lifetimes about the future of uh of alberta and going into something like that

00:17:00.620 it is absolutely critical that people know what they're you know they know what they're

00:17:06.680 i guess voting for they know what they're choosing you have to be informed when you

00:17:10.820 make these types of decisions if you're not well um yeah we the outcome wouldn't be wouldn't be

00:17:18.500 the best so uh yeah that's our goal just to talk to albertans about these issues find out where

00:17:23.860 people are at have the discussions and uh you know and see and see how it goes yeah the turnouts have

00:17:30.900 been really good and and the discussion has been really good i mean the just to let people know

00:17:34.880 it's been a very you know i've attended a number of these i've spoken at them a very interactive

00:17:39.760 exercise it's really asking people and inviting people even if they differ with it if they're

00:17:44.440 undecided or even opposed, come on in and let's talk. I mean, it's the name of it. And I've really

00:17:50.280 enjoyed the Q&A parts. You know, I think we blather a little too long in the opening sometimes.

00:17:53.940 Let's just get to asking people, you know, what they want to find out about. It's been a nice

00:17:59.020 format. And that's the goal here. It's less, you know, of course, I'm going to share my opinions

00:18:04.620 and our presenters will share their personal opinions about what they want the future of

00:18:09.040 Alberta to look like. And that's a charter protected right to be able to express yourself

00:18:14.040 like that. And then we try and spend less time doing that and more time with the Q&A, more time

00:18:20.060 engaging with the people that come. If I could wave a magic wand and get anything I want with

00:18:25.500 Let's Talk Alberta, I would have those rooms at least 50%, 60%, 70% filled with people who did

00:18:32.680 not share my views, who didn't want a sovereign Alberta. And I would love to talk to them about

00:18:38.140 the reasons why. And that's really what's different with Let's Talk Alberta than some of the other

00:18:43.000 initiatives is we are more focused on listening to the concerns or the opposition points that

00:18:49.180 people have with Alberta taking control of their future through sovereignty. That's more important

00:18:59.400 to us than just talking at people for 45 minutes or an hour and telling them why they need to be

00:19:05.200 on our side. You've got a wide panel of people who have come out and volunteered to speak at

00:19:10.640 these events and talk all sorts of folks uh I don't know what your full list is but you know

00:19:15.000 over a dozen or so I think I've seen people who show up and what I I've also found in in being

00:19:19.920 one of those on some of those panels people will always throw something at me I never even thought

00:19:24.960 of like we come away from those the speakers come away from those as better educated advocates than

00:19:30.920 they were when they walked in like like we can't think of everything and people will come up with

00:19:35.520 something that holy cow I never even thought about that for a second but it's an excellent question

00:19:39.700 or statement uh it's just such a productive exercise yeah and and that stuff is so it's

00:19:46.160 it's critical because you know i i'm obviously i'm a personally i'm an advocate for an independent

00:19:51.960 alberta i want to see an independent republic of alberta that's my my personal viewpoint um

00:19:57.360 and you know i'm going to work to achieve that as best i can through through engaging with

00:20:02.380 albertans if we're going to have an independent alberta those of us who are advocating for it

00:20:08.580 or have the opinion that we need to go down that path.

00:20:11.660 We need to hear those things.

00:20:12.900 We need to think about those things.

00:20:14.240 We need to, you know, not just the reasons why we want to be independent,

00:20:17.800 but what are other people's concerns that we can start internalizing

00:20:23.820 and then create a plan going forward?

00:20:26.920 Because that's the other part of it, right?

00:20:28.380 After the referendum, we're either going to, it'll be successful or not.

00:20:31.800 And if it's successful, then we have a lot of work to do.

00:20:34.080 And we need to know what people's concerns are.

00:20:36.400 and we need to be aware of things that need to be dealt with

00:20:39.320 so we can start, we can hit the ground running

00:20:41.640 and get to work doing it.

00:20:43.480 Yeah, so I see we got a super chat from R.C. Lemieux

00:20:46.060 and just so folks know, you can kind of pitch in a few bucks

00:20:49.100 on the live chats and things like that

00:20:50.620 and it highlights your comment and gets a question up there

00:20:53.200 and his comment's an interesting one

00:20:54.800 because I think it talks to a lot of things

00:20:56.100 when it comes to trust and such. 0.57

00:20:57.860 He says, foolishness reigns in all political.

00:21:00.620 What we're experiencing in Canada 0.98

00:21:01.800 is nothing but lies everywhere.

00:21:03.620 You know, there's some of that cynicism people have. 0.97

00:21:05.120 politician and bureaucratic gangster terrorist

00:21:07.480 cartel has even 0.93

00:21:08.980 infiltrated the Alberta independence movement.

00:21:12.120 I don't know. I mean,

00:21:13.000 there's some strong words, but there's truth to it

00:21:15.340 just in that, unfortunately, politics

00:21:17.520 can really bring in some ugly elements and

00:21:19.280 we can be self-defeating and it can happen

00:21:21.440 all over the place.

00:21:24.140 That's where I like these events

00:21:25.720 though. It's nice, honest conversation.

00:21:27.580 It's not a gimmick. It's not

00:21:29.520 anything strange. It's

00:21:31.480 just getting people into a room.

00:21:33.180 If you've got a problem with one of the people speaking there, that's the ideal time to come up and ask about it.

00:21:38.620 This is how we can cut through things, I think, face-to-face.

00:21:40.920 There's not been enough of that anymore.

00:21:43.160 Yeah, the face-to-face is critical in a world where we don't know what's even real on the Internet anymore.

00:21:48.600 We watch a video and we don't know if it's AI.

00:21:50.600 It could be some Dutch kid sitting in his basement making fake videos about Alberta independence using AI. 0.85

00:21:57.020 We don't know. 0.70

00:21:57.620 But if someone comes to one of our Let's Talk Alberta events, they can see us.

00:22:01.980 They know that we're real.

00:22:03.180 And, you know, I got to point out, this isn't a political thing. This is a grassroots thing. This is I'm just an average guy. I'm a business owner. I'm a father. I'm an Albertan. I'm not a politician. We don't have politicians running the show. This is all run by everyday average Albertans.

00:22:20.000 And so, you know, I understand that people are aware that politics has become or always has been this kind of swamp, so to speak.

00:22:30.320 But this isn't that. This is something different.

00:22:32.400 This is the people finally, for the first time, actually getting together and deciding, hey, this is what we're going to allow the politicians to do.

00:22:40.000 And that's really the difference between Let's Talk Alberta and, you know, a different kind of political event.

00:22:46.220 Yeah, and for those, you know, interested in wanting to pursue independence or curious about pursuing independence and so on, we're kind of in a in-between point right now.

00:22:54.880 You know, the petition really gave everybody something to sink their teeth into and focus on, and they did an incredible job with it all over the province.

00:23:02.100 But that's finished.

00:23:03.620 There hasn't been a referendum scheduled yet.

00:23:05.640 I keep saying confidently I feel there will be one, but I could be wrong.

00:23:08.440 We'll see.

00:23:09.340 But for the time being, we need to keep active.

00:23:11.460 We need to keep on something.

00:23:12.540 We need to keep being productive.

00:23:13.680 And I think that's something that's being offered with these events as well.

00:23:18.140 I mean, you can get out there and keep promoting things or learning things or feeling like you're still engaged.

00:23:24.380 Like it's important to make sure there's events all the way through until October 19th.

00:23:29.080 Yeah. And even past that, I have a vision that Let's Talk Alberta isn't going to be just a one and done for this thing.

00:23:36.080 That's not it at all. The overarching idea here is that people don't talk enough. 0.71

00:23:40.500 we we go into making decisions in the political sphere uh ill-informed and the outcome shows like

00:23:48.960 it shows our lack of or it shows how confused we are about these issues so you know while this

00:23:54.060 issue is a big one this alberta sovereignty is a really big one to talk about so it requires a lot

00:23:58.620 of work and a lot of time and a lot of meetings after that there's always going to be things

00:24:02.400 there's going to be laws that politicians want to pass that need to be talked about there's going to

00:24:06.400 be initiatives that people are doing that need to be talked about and if we have this network in

00:24:11.060 place if we have this structure where we can mobilize people who care about making the world

00:24:15.780 a better place we can get these conversations to as many people as we can and we can come to the

00:24:21.800 best best outcomes you think about the last 20 years our country has been like all but hijacked

00:24:29.420 by NGOs that come in with self-serving interests

00:24:33.860 and they confuse the populace

00:24:36.620 and they convince them to vote for things

00:24:39.040 that are either not beneficial for them

00:24:41.100 or they're detrimental for them

00:24:42.820 while lining the pockets of those NGO puppet masters.

00:24:46.800 You know, we've been seeing this for years.

00:24:49.120 If we have a network where we can start talking

00:24:50.980 about these things and expose the truth behind them,

00:24:53.900 we have a much better chance of preventing

00:24:55.640 that sort of thing from occurring in the future.

00:24:57.800 absolutely no we can only do better with an engaged population you know get up stay involved

00:25:04.020 pay attention and network you know that's part of it i i like the social aspect of what's happening

00:25:09.320 too i mean we've had this risk of a introverted social media society where we're spending our

00:25:13.860 time sitting at home watching videos and hey like i like to think we make productive videos for

00:25:17.360 people anyways but getting off their butts and chatting face to face not even with the speakers

00:25:23.120 and presenters at these events like you and I, but they're talking with each other. There's one,

00:25:28.220 you know, I will make sure to plug, you know, in Okotok's happening tonight, but this is one of

00:25:32.660 those ones, not all of them have that. You're even offering people pierogies, aren't you?

00:25:37.120 Yeah. You know, we're, we're cooking dinner so we can first enjoy a meal together like human

00:25:42.200 beings are supposed to have some, you know, fellowship with each other. And then we can

00:25:46.060 get into conversations about things that are important to all of us. Yeah. And I mean,

00:25:50.460 just that across the table chat with some of your neighbors, folks you might not have seen before

00:25:55.880 and so on. I mean, people can develop relationships with these things. I'm not talking about it being

00:25:59.380 a singles network, but hey, you never know, hey, if something works for you, good for you.

00:26:02.960 But it's something that we see more in small towns than cities. And I felt that when I left

00:26:09.900 Calgary 14 years ago, I lived there. I knew the neighbors on two sides of me in one house I was

00:26:16.400 in for four or five years and nobody any farther out from that uh now i'm living rural and i i

00:26:23.340 know everybody within two miles of my place you know uh either passingly or quite well there's

00:26:28.520 more of an attitude seems to get up and get to know people i mean part of the reason i knew that

00:26:31.760 is i go to things at our community hall i i go to events in our area this is the kind of event that

00:26:37.300 people can come out to like i said it bonds your neighborhood even if again you might have some

00:26:42.640 political differences yeah it's a good time i uh we did an event in um i want to say brooks or

00:26:50.860 medicine hat one of the two around there uh but but anyway uh a fellow that uh him and i have

00:26:57.340 been chirping back and forth at each other on social media for quite some time which is easy

00:27:01.200 to do when you're not face to face right we're been kind of rude to each other it's the mcbrides

00:27:05.280 bakery guy you know he became pretty famous on social media he's against most things that i am

00:27:11.260 but he came to one of my events and I met him and shook his hand and we talked to each other

00:27:16.580 like human beings beforehand. Then he respectfully asked some questions. I answered them and it was

00:27:21.760 all good. You know, and that doesn't happen on social media. It's so much easier just to

00:27:25.780 chirp and beak at each other than to actually, you know, engage and talk about what's concerning

00:27:31.580 to both of you. And that's what happens at the face-to-face thing. Yeah, no, and I'm certainly

00:27:36.100 is guilty of getting on the phone and belting out things more easily than maybe if I'm face-to-face

00:27:42.180 I'm pretty inclined to be a crabby face-to-face if I feel the need to be as well but I'm more

00:27:48.080 inclined to wait five seconds before saying something that maybe just didn't need to be said

00:27:52.160 that way and I think that's something that happens to all of us so where do people find out about

00:27:57.340 these meetings you know because I know they're kind of a quick turnover so it's not like you

00:28:01.780 have them showing six weeks out or anything like that, but they're traveling all over. What's the

00:28:06.900 place to keep up with it? So we are working on that. The website's letstalkalberta.com. So you

00:28:12.860 can find our upcoming events. I just built a really cool chat bot. You can go in there and

00:28:17.560 you can ask it any question you want about Alberta independence, about where our next meetings are,

00:28:21.620 what is Let's Talk Alberta, any of those things, and it will give you the information. If it can't,

00:28:25.900 it's going to get you in touch with me so that I can get you the information. And of course,

00:28:29.620 its AI so they can make mistakes and stuff. So don't take that as gospel truth. Always check

00:28:35.160 the resources. But yeah, letstalkalberta.com. And as for booking in advance, we've been working

00:28:41.240 pretty hard on fundraising and building a little bit of a nest egg so that we can book these things

00:28:47.040 in advance. I want to have things booked two months out. That's really important to me so

00:28:51.140 that people can plan to be there and they can see what's coming so they can make their choices.

00:28:56.580 but that does require a very significant nest egg.

00:29:00.340 These events, they're running an average

00:29:01.980 of about 2,000 bucks a piece.

00:29:03.900 So if you think about booking 30 events in advance,

00:29:06.900 well, that's $60,000.

00:29:08.060 And we run this just out of our own bank accounts for now.

00:29:10.900 It's all us doing it

00:29:12.000 and then people chipping in when they do it.

00:29:14.220 So once we get a little bit more established

00:29:16.680 and we have that nest egg,

00:29:18.440 we'll be able to book a lot further out.

00:29:20.760 Yeah, and then folks have been very supportive.

00:29:22.900 As I know going there and the other speakers,

00:29:25.560 I mean, we'll get a few bucks for gas, a buck it'll get handed around, and some of us sell merch or I flog books.

00:29:31.280 One more thing I'll let people know, though.

00:29:32.680 I mean, it's important.

00:29:33.520 You know, you sell a lot of great stuff, and that's what helps fund this.

00:29:36.200 Like, it's not a membership thing or so on.

00:29:39.080 At your sake, the Whistle Stop, some great swag and some great independent stuff.

00:29:42.300 Before I let you go, where can people get to that sort of thing?

00:29:46.080 So Whistle Stop stuff, like what I'm wearing, this Republic of Alberta hat, this cool free Alberta shirt,

00:29:51.400 but you can't see, well, you can't really see because it's framing my face.

00:29:55.560 But it's all at whistlestoptruckstop.ca.

00:29:58.780 There's quite a bit of stuff there.

00:30:00.020 And the reason we do that, number one, I'm a business.

00:30:02.220 I have employees.

00:30:03.020 I like to pay them well, as well as I can in this industry.

00:30:06.500 And we need to support that way.

00:30:08.060 But also, I love when we go out and we see people wearing their opinions, wearing their stance, wearing their Alberta stuff.

00:30:14.780 We go to an event and there's a sea of blue and blue hats.

00:30:18.200 And it's just really cool to see this, that we're not this small group.

00:30:23.260 And it's a real legitimate movement and the people are showing up for it.

00:30:29.200 Right on.

00:30:30.080 Well, I'll let you go.

00:30:31.280 I know you got a lot of prep.

00:30:32.180 It's a busy day, especially when you're doing those meal ones.

00:30:34.620 So I'll see you tonight in Okatooks and maybe a few of our viewers will pop out and we'll

00:30:38.140 see some of them there too.

00:30:39.220 So thanks for what you're doing and thanks for the time.

00:30:41.780 And we'll talk again very soon.

00:30:44.880 My pleasure.

00:30:45.440 And thank you, Corey.

00:30:46.320 And you mentioned your book.

00:30:47.460 that is one of the best books uh summarizing the independence movement and then the path forward

00:30:53.140 i've seen so i hope lots of people buy it thanks i appreciate that all right well that guys that

00:30:59.840 was uh chris scott from the whistle stop cafe and as you can see an active albertan out there

00:31:05.420 getting stuff done on the ground check it out let's talk alberta the name basically says it

00:31:10.500 and uh yeah okotoks tonight and events going on all over the province i don't know if i'll make

00:31:15.960 into that Indian cabins one, but you never know. I did one on LaCrete a little while back and

00:31:20.020 that's not too far from there actually. So these discussions, I mean, and we can see some of the

00:31:25.280 discussion in the comments. It's a complicated issue with a lot of questions, some good.

00:31:32.300 Eh, not every question is always good, but there's some better than others. R.C. LeMoureux is saying,

00:31:38.120 you know, who's going to hire the bureaucrats that run an independent Alberta? Yeah, bureaucrats are

00:31:42.420 one of those evils in life, you know, necessary evils. You can't get away from them, but you really

00:31:48.100 want to try and minimize them. I know that there's a risk inherent that an independent Alberta could 0.97

00:31:53.160 slap in a system that's just as bad as the one that left or, you know, leaves bureaucratic control 0.90

00:31:58.620 rather than individual control. And that's where I'm talking about us wanting to be as informed as

00:32:03.800 we possibly can going into this. Voting, if things became independent, make sure that we're taking

00:32:10.300 part in the Constitutional Convention to entrench a system as good as possible. My thoughts are,

00:32:17.000 I think most things are cyclical. It's kind of like your phone or your computer. If you leave

00:32:21.740 it too long running without a reboot, it gets too bunged up, it slows down, there's way too much

00:32:27.200 crap running in the background, and your unit becomes useless. I feel a democracy is pretty

00:32:32.340 similar. When you get that bureaucratic bloat that doesn't allow you to move or flex or be

00:32:38.240 functional any longer, but we don't have an on-off button. The thing I can see is a reset

00:32:43.880 switch actually is an independent phone. Break out, break the system, but rebuild it. It's not like

00:32:49.740 that's part of it. You can reboot a computer. I'm not talking about taking a hammer to it and then

00:32:53.440 not having a spare computer. Then you're going to be in trouble. Somebody, Wayne, asking about the

00:32:59.260 address in Okotoks. I think it's at the Viking Center. People in Okotoks will know that, Viking

00:33:03.140 rental center and it's going to be somewhere in there uh you know and rc feels without a miracle

00:33:10.120 uh we've lost our land to invaders uh in independent alberta not well i don't know

00:33:13.880 i don't give up i mean i i rest assured i'm cynical and i know things are tough and they're

00:33:18.140 going to be hard and they won't necessarily go easily but uh i'm still optimistic we just keep

00:33:24.520 at it i mean i think things will improve it's just a matter how bad it has to get before people

00:33:28.200 ready to do it. And I fear for how bad it will get before it reaches that point, right? Then

00:33:34.820 you've got a lot to fix at that point. But the conversations are out there. We've never seen

00:33:40.540 anything like this before. We've never moved towards a referendum before. And it's hard to

00:33:48.940 say where it's going to go. The support is stronger than ever, but it's also not been growing much

00:33:53.640 lately there's still a massive undecided amount out there that if it's going to happen they're

00:33:59.160 going to have to be one um an interesting exchange in the house of commons the other day when there's

00:34:04.720 been a lot of debate on whether 50 plus one or wouldn't would be enough or not and the federal

00:34:09.400 government liberal member of parliament repeatedly under questioning from the bloc said 50 plus one

00:34:14.800 is enough that's interesting it's very rarely when they've actually already said and clarified that

00:34:20.060 Now, honestly, if Alberta voted with 50% plus one on October 19th to go, I don't think it would be enough to get out just in the fact that it would turn into a nightmare of protests and challenges and fights.

00:34:32.520 For this to work, it has to be at least a few percent past 50%.

00:34:36.560 That's my view.

00:34:37.540 But technically, the House of Commons has now said 50% plus one.

00:34:42.660 There's part of why I don't feel, and it showed that, the federal government, people say they'll never allow it to happen in Alberta.

00:34:49.200 they'll never allow the process to go or they'll never allow a referendum or whatever if the

00:34:53.140 government says that they can't to alberta they are by default saying that quebec can't either

00:34:59.460 and they won't do that we saw that with the house of commons discussion if it was just about alberta

00:35:04.500 they would have said we want 65 in a referendum but they were terrified of quebec they don't care

00:35:08.900 about alberta they don't respect alberta we've established that but they are their testes pop

00:35:15.940 up pretty fast when it comes to negotiating with Quebec. They get totally afraid. So they're not

00:35:20.160 going to shut down Alberta. They'll do everything they can to fight us though. And we'll see our

00:35:24.100 tax dollars coming against us. I kind of segue that into, Dave mentioned that in the news story.

00:35:28.140 The CBC funded this bizarre company to run these attack interviews. And it was through APT and the

00:35:41.040 aboriginal network and then yeah they brought up american producers and i suggest if you're online

00:35:46.360 look up the video from francis widowson because they didn't realize what they were getting into

00:35:50.800 when they went after her so they they've been trying to frame themselves as a modern or a

00:35:56.160 canadian borat you know where where if you remember his films he would get people up and and he would

00:36:01.420 fool them into interviews and and make things foolish but this was not as nuanced or as good

00:36:06.660 as that so i guess you know again francis widowson's been a professor who's been very

00:36:10.080 outspoken on the hoax with the Kamloops

00:36:12.160 residential school graves and such

00:36:14.080 and they want to push back. 0.82

00:36:16.020 So they set her up with an interview. This is the

00:36:18.140 extent of it though. I mean they flew

00:36:20.040 her from Calgary to wherever that interview was.

00:36:21.980 I don't know if it was Vancouver or Toronto or whatever.

00:36:24.480 Huge studio.

00:36:26.220 Had to be a dozen people in there all lit

00:36:28.020 and then they

00:36:29.200 it was a hoax.

00:36:32.080 They brought in activists who dumped a bunch of shoes 0.99

00:36:34.060 on the table in front of her and everything. But a whole 1.00

00:36:36.040 bunch of people

00:36:36.800 most people, maybe I would have done the 1.00

00:36:39.980 same thing which is when you realize like this is a setup just get up and walk out but she actually 1.00

00:36:45.960 know Francis is a tough tough woman she just turned on her phone and turned the whole thing 0.78

00:36:51.300 around and you can see the awkwardness and embarrassment of this this goofball he was an 1.00

00:36:57.280 American import I believe who was the host of this affair in the studio when when she started 1.00

00:37:03.580 questioning him I mean he she called him Mr. Smarmy because he had his little smirk and 0.95

00:37:06.860 everything, but he was crapping himself. Like, what do we do now? I didn't expect anybody to

00:37:10.660 push back. I didn't expect anybody to question me. And it turns out now that they'd done a setup

00:37:15.740 with Lindsay Shepard as well. She'd wrote, written a children's book, you know, uh, positive about

00:37:21.540 Sir John A. Macdonald. And of course the woke world hates Sir John A. Macdonald. They hate

00:37:26.660 Canadian identity. They hate Canadian history. So they set her up for one of these. I guess they

00:37:32.040 tried to get Jonathan Kay as well. And, uh, uh, this is where our tax dollars are going. This is

00:37:41.080 the, the cultural battle, the social battle that we've got going on right now out there when they 0.99

00:37:48.300 will fund crap like this. I don't, after this blow up, I got a feeling cause even some pretty 0.79

00:37:54.040 left of center, uh, media members and others are already crapping all over this. Like, what are

00:37:58.040 you guys doing? I think it's never going to get broadcast, you know, but they don't care because

00:38:02.700 the six figures or more, maybe seven figures, who knows how much got tossed at them to make this 0.94

00:38:07.280 garbage. They'll just fill their pockets and go home. They don't need to put it on the air. It 0.97

00:38:18.540 doesn't matter at that point to them. Here's a comment, you know, Lee Mary Harder, WS, maybe

00:38:21.980 make the article free if you're going to offer help with sharing a GFP. I'm not sure about what

00:38:27.360 you mean with the GFP? But look, guys, we can't make things for free. We've got a studio. We've

00:38:32.540 got a producer. I got reporters. We've got costs. You know, you used to have to buy a newspaper,

00:38:41.860 even if it was only 25 cents or 50 cents. You used to have to subscribe if you wanted to deliver to

00:38:47.560 your home. And it wasn't a lot. A newspaper subscription for those who used to get them

00:38:52.880 we're what 10 bucks a month, 12 bucks a month. Well, that's what we're asking now. And it

00:38:57.920 accounted for inflation. You're getting a really good deal. Uh, so, I mean, I know we, we, we do

00:39:04.560 broadcast for free. You can see this, you can hear us here. There's all sorts of content we put out,

00:39:08.580 but I'm afraid we, we can't go totally for free. We, we started our model five, six years ago with

00:39:13.060 the Western standard, just based on advertising. We really did. Anybody could get in. There was no

00:39:16.860 paywall and, uh, and you can see it, but eventually we grew and which was great. But to the point

00:39:22.740 that if we wanted to grow further, we had to move to a subscription model. There was just no other

00:39:27.620 way to pay the bills. And it caused a lot of readership when we switched over to that. And we

00:39:33.700 offer a lot of specials if you want to watch those things and so on. You can get some good deals on

00:39:37.500 subscriptions and so on. But we just had to move over. And it's been a success, though I understand

00:39:41.720 that it'd be nice if we could just, you know, have that out there for everybody to see. I really do

00:39:46.680 wish that was the case. We just can't afford to do it that way. And that's why, again, I really do

00:39:51.840 appreciate those who do subscribe though. And I understand that not everybody can afford to

00:39:56.360 subscribe to every publication. And I'm sorry about that. I really am. But we do the things.

00:40:00.420 So here's, again, somebody kicking in, which I appreciate. FHawk595 with a super chat with $20.

00:40:08.860 I appreciate that. It does add up. And he says, hi, Corey, thank you for your hard work. We need

00:40:11.840 to answer the question of what's going to happen to the RRSP funds and retirement funds. How are

00:40:16.400 people going to be taxed? This could be a showstopper for some. That's a fantastic question

00:40:22.000 and it's a real concern for people. Now, RRSPs, investments, things like that, those sorts of

00:40:30.120 tools, whether it's mutual funds, everything else, they're transferable. It doesn't matter

00:40:34.580 country to country. That's your fund. That's your asset. It will go with you. The harder question

00:40:41.720 is the tax deferral. So you might, let's say, for example, Alberta becomes independent.

00:40:50.500 You have a bunch of crude in your RRSP account, but the way the nature of those accounts work is

00:40:56.920 you owe some back taxes when you cash those to the federal government.

00:41:01.640 And that's been a neat, sticky one, but basically it can be accounted for. The reality is say we

00:41:08.480 become independent, you cash that RRSP, yet you still end up basically having to send a chunk

00:41:12.540 to the federal government. It's no different than if you didn't become independent. It's just a debt

00:41:16.040 owed to them. That's kind of between you and them because it's a private RRSP. Now pension funds

00:41:21.460 are different. And again, that's something that's owed to the person who's eligible to get that

00:41:27.820 pension. So if some of the people saying the federal government will cut off your pension

00:41:32.780 payments if you become independent, well, I don't think they will. I think they're lying. I think

00:41:38.000 they're fear-mongering? On that whole hypothetical assuming we get to a yes vote, it means negotiations

00:41:45.580 begin. And one of those negotiations, they're going to want Alberta to take a piece of the debt.

00:41:52.060 And if they expect us to take a piece of the debt, part of the negotiations as per the Supreme Court

00:41:57.180 ruling in the Clarity Act has to be in good faith. And if you cut off Albertans who are entitled to

00:42:02.200 a pension payment because of a yes vote, you're not negotiating in good faith. So we'll tell you

00:42:06.680 guys to take your debt and stick it up somewhere dark because we can afford to cover the pension

00:42:11.300 obligations for Albertans anyways if we're out, especially if we don't take on that debt. So

00:42:16.180 that's kind of how the back and forth negotiations would go. The pension payments will continue to

00:42:23.480 Alberta seniors and it's worth talking about because it's very important because people are

00:42:26.820 worried. A crappy pension plan is better than no pension plan and people are concerned. It's

00:42:36.400 sad that we have so many Albertans that are one pension payment away from perhaps insolvency or

00:42:41.360 having a really hard time because it's only 800, 900, 1200 a month at the top. And that kind of

00:42:47.000 shows you, you worked a whole lifetime and that's what you get for it in the end. So that's why we

00:42:50.960 do want to move towards a provincial one. But as advocates for independence, you always have to

00:42:54.360 make very clear for people that their RRSP will be safe. Look, you can move to Germany and retire

00:42:59.500 there. You will still get your CPP payment. Those things move with you. They are transferable.

00:43:04.020 The thing I would worry about, and we've got to be realistic with some people with concerns and things, is that with a yes vote in independence, the dollar will take a tumble for a bit.

00:43:12.900 There's no doubt about that.

00:43:14.100 And that will impact the savings that are in Canadian dollars and the obligations that are coming in Canadian dollars.

00:43:19.280 We don't want to lie to people about some of the pain that will have to come before the game.

00:43:23.880 and that's why as Albertans we got to make sure our seniors are covered right after the day after

00:43:28.140 and all the way through so that we aren't hurting ourselves you know needlessly as we move towards

00:43:33.800 an independent state. Another quick comment from F Hawk who put up another super chat and appreciates

00:43:38.340 that independence is more than pipelines it's a way of life and I like to be able to close on that

00:43:42.820 because it's a really good statement because we talk about pipes my rant was about pipes

00:43:47.100 and so many other things but even if the pipe was approved and built tomorrow I would be just as

00:43:53.240 much an independent advocate as I am today. Because it's more than that. It's a broken system.

00:44:00.600 We need to, the pipe is just a good example of how stupid and broken our system is. 0.99

00:44:06.520 But it's much more, it's personal freedoms. It's, you know, having a system that's accountable to 0.99

00:44:12.300 us. As I said, it's the one that needs that reboot, because it's a pipe that's clogged with

00:44:16.120 a bunch of trash that needs to be flushed out if we want it to be functional. Here's Cyril saying

00:44:24.660 an independent Alberta could open an investment fund that outperforms the others and pay any share

00:44:28.240 of national debt owed. We can make money on it. Yeah, I think if we do things right, we could do

00:44:32.320 much, much better. We can also do them worse. So that's why we got to be careful. That's why we

00:44:36.340 got to have those talks. That's why I flogged things like that just talk. It is important.

00:44:41.500 So I'm going to close up.

00:44:42.540 I didn't talk much more about that swarming.

00:44:44.820 Check out Linda Slobodian's column.

00:44:46.720 Check out all of Linda Slobodian's columns.

00:44:48.620 They're always fantastic.

00:44:50.020 And she breaks those things down

00:44:51.400 because that swarming still is a sign of a bigger social ill,

00:44:56.140 a sign of seriousness with our young people.

00:44:59.200 It's awful.

00:45:00.320 And we don't want to see more of it. 1.00

00:45:02.160 And, you know, I don't want to see a bunch of girls 1.00

00:45:04.120 thrown in jail for 20 years. 0.99

00:45:06.220 They better, all of those who participated

00:45:08.080 should be paying some penalties in price for this

00:45:10.280 without doubt but let's this is one of the things we want to look at and say what the heck happened

00:45:15.280 here that led to that awful awful thing we're better and we can be better let's keep things

00:45:22.120 optimistic alberta is the best place on earth guys we've got so much potential we got so many great

00:45:27.200 people we will fix things we got the means at our fingertips all right i'll leave it to that tune

00:45:32.360 into the pipeline tonight there will be a panel we're going to talk about a few more of these

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00:45:49.700 So thank you very much for tuning in today.

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Western Standard - May 13, 2026

Alberta’s humiliating negotiations with Carney have gone on long enough

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