Budget Voteļ¼ The secret LiberalāConservative coalitionļ¼
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William Barclay and Nigel Hannaford join us to talk about the Alberta Teachers Union strike, the use of the notwithstanding clause, and the controversy surrounding gender identity and sexual identity politics in Canada's largest media outlets.
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I'm Derek Fulibrand, publisher of the Western Standard, and you're watching The Pipeline.
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We've got our usual lineup in the Calgary newsroom here.
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Western Standard, former opinion editor, Nigel Hannaford.
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And Western Standard, senior Alberta columnist, Corey Morgan.
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Back by popular demand, we have our new Western Standard Parliament Hill correspondent, William Barclay.
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all right uh well we got some fun stuff from both ottawa and alberta where we're at here
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um the secret liberal conservative coalition uh i think i'm probably overstating it a little bit
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when i say that but uh the federal budget passed with i think it was just some the theater around
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it it passed with the conservatives voting against it but really wanting it to pass so
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healthcare revolution, the Global Mail reporting,
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comment from the government yet, but in Alberta,
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the public and private systems which i think would constitute a pretty big breach of the
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canada health act which i think is awesome because ottawa has no damned business uh telling doctors
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what they can do in provinces because health care is under strict provincial jurisdiction
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uh so that that's big news and the usual suspects their heads are blowing up right now it's glorious
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to watch. But first, we'll start something also closer to home here in Alberta. The notwithstanding
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clause was used just the other week to legislate the Alberta Teachers Union back to work. They were
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being obstinate, just not even negotiating. They were offered massive raises. So that, nope, not
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good. We're not even talking. It looked like this was a strike. They could have drawn out forever.
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I think they actually wanted to be legislated back to work.
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I just don't think they expected the government to invoke the notwithstanding clause to do it.
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Now we find out that the notwithstanding clause is going to be invoked to protect three pieces of legislation
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that passed last spring around legislation that involves trans issues,
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around keeping biological males out of biological female sports,
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restrictions on stopping people who are minors from transitioning
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and banning schools from hiding the fact that their child might be using different pronouns
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and going by a different gender than the one that they were born with
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Those pieces of legislation have already passed in a normal, civilized country.
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That legislation, Corey, would easily withstand a charter challenge, but in this country, with these judges, with their rather liberal view of the charter, you never really know.
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It would not be beyond the pale for them to say that, no, it is a violation of your, you know, your equality rights under the Charter to not be allowed to, you know, wrestle against little girls when you're born a man or born a male.
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So preemptively protecting these pieces of legislation from Charter Challenge, I saw a bunch of weepy people on the CBC.
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But I'm not working for the national broadcaster, as they call themselves, the state broadcaster.
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You know, they're interviewing some woman who claims that I think her boy is a girl.
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Mathematically, it's probably just not actually the case.
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You know, it's a nosering, usual, what is it, reverse Munchausen-looking person.
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But I can't say, I don't know the details of that case.
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But most of these cases, it's bullshit. It's made up.
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The CBC is running the normal propaganda line on this,
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even though the overwhelming majority of Albertans support this legislation,
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keeping biological males out of female sports,
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stopping minors from transitioning, that kind of thing.
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But, yeah, it's the usual suspects lining up on it.
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But, I don't know, Alberta had not used the notwithstanding clause ever
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well, if there was eight in the chamber, we only got four left.
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Yeah, they didn't hesitate, and it's not just the CBC.
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I torment myself with some conventional talk radio
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And they were interviewing a similar Munchausen by proxy mother
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who now is just going to be devastated and ruined
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because apparently they weren't allowed to interfere
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European countries have brought in similar legislation.
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in the world of progressiveness that, you know,
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Let's quit pretending that interfering with a natural body's progression from childhood to adulthood, which is called puberty, isn't a radical intervention, isn't potentially dangerous, you know, will not lead to permanent consequences.
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Let's quit pretending that boys can compete in girls' sports and not cause risk and damage and things.
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I mean, as you said, the majority of people looking at that know that this is not, it's absurd that we even had to legislate to stop these things.
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but it also shows us as you said that the lack of trust in the courts we don't expect common
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sense from our courts anymore do we want to have to waste the time of having all the hearings from
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these lunatics from the activists from the weepy swords from the ninchies uh only to have some
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crazy court rule against it perhaps and then you have to invoke the notwithstanding clause then so
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let's just do it right now get it out of the way and we're done but uh boy you know the reaction
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in canada when alberta uses the notwithstanding clause as compared to quebec using the laws no
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I mean, this is kind of the legislative nuclear option.
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But I don't want us to be over-trigger happy about use of the notwithstanding clause.
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I think it's been a very weird constitutional ingredient into a Westminster Parliament.
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where normally Parliament is supreme and not a written constitution.
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That's an American import into our system, but it's there,
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and it has sometimes been beneficial, sometimes not.
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But, I mean, the courts have done themselves no favors here.
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You know, when they argue in the court's rule that,
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yeah, we're going to give this guy a lighter sentence
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so that we don't compromise his ability to stay in Canada
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that no reasonable person, I think, would support.
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I mean, it'd be a very small percentage of the population
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They're supposed to be above the sentiments of the mob
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preemptively use the notwithstanding clause here,
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is it does that run the risk of making the charter meaningless making judicial independence
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meaningless your thoughts uh so for me first of all i think it's crazy when we're talking about
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the charter of right and charter and this kind of stuff like that it's crazy when the liberal
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government was busy literally violating the canadian charter of rights and freedoms invoking
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the emergencies act uh using the law canada's democratic processes illegally and unreasonably
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it's not just me saying that's a federal court uh no one on the left had anything to say in fact
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they defended those actions right but now when we have the law right and canada's fundamental
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democratic purposes they're being used legally like the way that they're intended to be used
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right um albeit in a way the left isn't like they're they're up in arms and i think that
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speech volumes has never been about human rights it's always been about imposing your beliefs on
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others and for their own good no left and i think less and i think that's the modern left for you
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i think that actually like one of the things that's kind of funny to me is that we've heard
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this talk about this uneasy alliance between like let's say islamic extremists and left-wing radicals
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not a communist, right? But I don't think it's an uneasy or tense alliance at all. It's really
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quite an intimate relationship. And they share a ton of ideological similarities. They're more
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similar, I think, in fact, than not. They both espouse a rigid gender ideology and impose it on
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all and sundry. They both think that fundamental human rights, like free speech and freedom of
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belief, mean nothing. And violence to them is ultimately the answer to any disagreement with
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their dogma i guess the same same to you nigel i i would i support the use here these are common
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sense pieces of legislation overwhelmingly supported by most albertans the ndp of you know
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this is one of those it's not even a 70 30 issue it's an 80 20 like overwhelmingly people are on
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side with this kind of stuff the ndp is is captured by the hard end of its base that happens to
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parties sometimes uh i maybe have been a part of it myself but uh they've taken the 20 side of an
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There'll be a couple of columnists who dissent here and there.
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political pressures. Well I don't know that that's
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because, you know, Canada's national semi-official news agency
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and Heritage Canada definitely has a point of view on these things.
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You might recall that when we were speaking with John Hilton O'Brien
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he was explaining how some of the gay sex books
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Actually, the plan originates, it's funded through Heritage Canada.
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You know, I honestly don't know, but they clearly do.
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Put that together with the fact that women tend to be empathetic more than men do.
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and will see perhaps the painful dilemma that some poor kids going through puberty all mixed up to hell
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and just say, well, totally unwise, but say, well, let them change.
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Danielle Speth, to her credit, is a little bit more hard-nosed than that.
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She realizes that with parental support and good counsel, they'll get through it.
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and they'll come out at the end of it the other side with a perfectly normal disposition you just
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have to stop them from doing something that's going to ruin them for life when they're 13 years
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old what knows we don't let them drive why would we let them make a decision like you're not allowed
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to get a tattoo you shouldn't allow it to be uh you mess it with your kids uh yeah that's a pieces
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another analogy i mean the chemicals used to stunt puberty are the same used for chemical
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castration in places where they do that with sex offenders and that was found to be inhumane for
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sex offenders but we're talking about putting it into 13 14 year old kids i mean this is just such
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a bizarre it's all the intent doesn't it but anyway the point is she used the she she knows
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what the voters want the thing that the charter cost us is the as uh represented the representational
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democracy basically if you have a problem you get a lawyer and go to court you don't go to see your
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I'm going to go on the basis that it is, because I hope very much that this is true.
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You know, during the UCP leadership, I moderated a debate between herself and two of the other
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leading candidates, and I asked them all, including Smith, you know, everyone talks
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about, oh, I'm going to fix health care, and I'm going to tinker here, and I'm going to
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And, you know, it's been 54 years, and the system is worse than ever.
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I mean, you've had 54 years to make single-payer government monopoly healthcare work, and it has failed.
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And I asked them, you know, are you willing to break the Canada Health Act?
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And all of them either said no, or variations of dancing around the question to more or less say no without saying it explicitly.
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So the Globe is reporting that they're going to allow doctors to practice in both the public and the private system.
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Now, I mean, pearl-clutching types in Canada are going to say, oh my god, this means two-tier health care.
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The extremely wealthy, I know a couple of them, they just go to the United States.
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get an MRI. They get cancer screening. They get this stuff done. I pay out of pocket. They could
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do that by allowing it to Canada, allowing private insurance. That's going to be what we now need is
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private insurance for primary care, not just secondary care and bells and whistles, if I can
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call it that. But this is a big, big step that would be a direct violation of the Canada Health
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bound by the Canada Health Act, because that is
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person looking at the Constitution would say, that's
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because it's just giving money around. It's not telling them
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uh this is a ballsy one um like this is the this has been the third rail of canadian politics
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uh for my entire life proceeding even out a bit uh to the point where even stockwell they had to
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hold up a sign during a national leaders debate when he was a leader of the alliance saying no
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two-tier health care uh is the taboo broken i hope so i assure your sentiments entirely when
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were pounding the desk there a moment this i mean this is a very old daniel smith idea from way back
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when she was in the calgary herald editorial board shoes and saying you know one of many things that
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we can do to get the system moving is let doctors pick up work on the side i think she probably
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phrased it a little more elegantly than that but that was the essence of it um you know what's the
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point of having medical facilities ready to go but you're not allowed to use them because there
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isn't a budget for them here you are you're waiting for a medical procedure there is the
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operating theater there is the empty slab there is the doctor who's reading a book why because
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the government doesn't have the funds to put him to work all right hey what i got funds fix me
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why would you not do that why would the government and this is true of governments right across
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calendar they'll let you spend your money on all kinds of things that are bad for you but you try
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and spend your money on something that's good for you like getting a i mean it's illegal uh
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can't have that you know uh i mean what's the matter with these people this is absolute common
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sense i i hope like you i haven't seen any documentation i haven't seen a i haven't seen
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the draft i haven't seen the leaked document uh i've only got the globe and mail to go on and
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usually the bloke has got something before they go to press so i'm inclined to think that this is a
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real story i haven't denied it so well no they haven't denied it so let's hope it's going to
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happen now the question is when uh when rolf klein years and years ago you'll remember this
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he had a plan to try and take care of the problem in waiting rooms where people were frankly abusing
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the system uh showing up on a sunday night with a sniffle they could have come in on friday they
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I could have, you know, like people who didn't need to be in emergency,
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I said, all right, we'll charge you $10 just for coming in for a visit.
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Just a little bit of money out of pocket, people adjust their behavior.
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We're going to withhold the CHST, as it was called in those days,
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And, well, I mean, I don't know whether anybody would have done any different,
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but Mr. Klein said, all right, and that was that.
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And then he doubled down and introduced Bill 11 to actually outlaw private hospitals in Alberta,
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I'd like to see Bill 11 abolished, and maybe we put some hospitals in Alberta
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and go looking for business outside of Alberta,
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bring the cost of procedures down through competition
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Okay, yeah, over 20 years ago, we had the Sheoli decision, found it was, I forget the exact one, but it was found that access to a waiting list does not cost you access to health care, and banning people from then going and paying for their own health care was therefore a violation of security of the person, your right to liberty and life, and as I write to life and all that.
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But Quebec has had this for a long time, but no one likes to talk about it.
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So the fact that Quebec's been doing this for 20 years, I don't know.
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Do you think this gives Alberta some cover from reprisal from Ottawa?
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That if Alberta goes for this, they can't turn around and penalize Alberta
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if it's already been allowed in Quebec for over 20 years?
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You know, it should, but, you know, Quebec is treated very uniquely.
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I think the other thing is that Alberta is being rendered kind of synonymous with the
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In fact, the strongest, the best health care systems in the world in Japan and Europe use
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I'm in America a fair bit, and I'm plugged into a lot of conversations and you hear it
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Amongst the socialists, our Canada's public health care system is so great.
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everybody gets to see the doctor not just a rich and it's simply not true nobody gets to see the
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doctors here i think that's the problem rich poor no one uh they're years long waiting lists for
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even urgent operations and people routinely die on the waitlist without getting to see their doctors
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and it's so bad they're offering just to they were offering to kill people ourselves now with
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maid right uh because uh and our most vulnerable populations at that i thought that we're trying to
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be the most european of nations you know why the opposition it's just weird to me maybe the
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weirdest thing is that it's alberta that's suddenly so progressive uh you know but you hit it on the
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through the globe because it's carrie tate in the globe i'm guessing this is not a strategic leak
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this was not intentional someone in the government i don't know it could be a political staffer could
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be a member of the legislature could be a bureaucrat uh someone who doesn't like it
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probably gave it i think this was intended to be a negative story but i i'm i'm like oh well
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this is some of the best news we've gotten more of this um but i mean it's it's not going to be
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and I was in really serious, critical condition,
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and I needed to start learning to walk again,
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turned to crap, and I just went to private.
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I've sat in an emergency room bleeding out,
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Do you think we're at the time where this is now entered the politically possible, or is this still just too much of a sacred cow?
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I hope that, you know, the thing that has to be done is we've got to chip away at the orthodoxy.
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And maybe the next generation hasn't been as trained, at least, as we were when we were younger.
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It was always Canada has the best system in the world.
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It's not by any measure any longer, not even close.
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uh we want to we've got to become to use the leftist term non-binary let's bring this discussion
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people even non-binary yeah let's bring it out of the there's just the american and canadian
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systems because that's the narrative they've put together and in reality there's dozens and
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dozens of universal systems all over the world many if not most of which are outperforming us
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but we've got to start looking at them i mean we've got to bring that discussion to that why
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can't we look at the netherlands why can't we look at france why can't we look at singapore
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We can't wait to look at any other system on the planet other than North Korea and Cuba, which are the only other two that ban private health care.
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Exactly. But we need to change that narrative for this to get through so it won't be as controversial.
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We need to have that rational discussion without the screaming of the unions and the rest to say, look, let's emulate what's working best and bring it here.
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That's a rational discussion. You've been around long enough.
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I'm asking for a lot long enough. That's not going to happen.
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Well, and the punitive aspect from the feds, we should turn that around and at least point
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at, yes, the Canada Health Act says this, but it also initially said the feds were going
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to cover 50% of our healthcare and they only cover about 20, which is not insignificant.
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If they cut that out of a transfer, it's going to hurt the province dearly in health provision
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if this came to that kind of battle, but the feds aren't holding up their side of it either.
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If they think it's affordable for us to maintain this system, then they should think they should
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be able to afford to fund 50% of it and they aren't even close.
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It starts at the same time that it looks like the provincial government might have messed up the laboratory contracts and things such as that, which reduces trust when it comes to these things.
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But as I said, we welcome the discussion, but that's us.
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Anyone from the premier or health minister's office watching, you should have just leaked it to us.
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a fair piece, I know some of you are going to hate on me
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Right. I think, too, like you guys have all hit on a very important point.
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Maybe a long time ago in Canada, far, far away, like one that wasn't crippled by a crumbling economy, rampant crime and unbridled, unregulated international migration.
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Maybe there and then a completely public health care system worked, but it hasn't worked in this Canada, our Canada for quite some time.
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You know, never mind what happened during COVID.
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I think that's the other kind of lurking ghoul in all this, right?
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COVID, the pandemic has eroded the public's trust in the state health care apparatus collectively.
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I mean, I don't think there's really any going back from that.
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Also, you've got to remember, we've imported a ridiculous number of people into this country lately,
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and they have not been propagandized that Canada has the great...
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The federal government actually is advertising that Canada has free health care to migrate.
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They're like, come here, work for not a lot of money, so you're also not paying a lot of taxes,
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they haven't spent their life being propagandized
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a group of people with shared myths and stories
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we don't have peace and order in our streets
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free grade health care and public order in the streets because yeah that's that's what we're
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getting in this country right now well i don't think anybody would be able to really define what
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it means to be canadian right now outside of without using not american in some way i think
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you went to the average canadian on the street all the pillars would have meant to be canadian
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have eroded and collapsed spectacularly right um i think that one of the best points is all of our
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doctors are actually leaving to go to these other health care systems they've lost faith in canada
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systems uh in our political apparatus as a whole i think it's half of canadian youth uh they were
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in favor of becoming america's 51st state at the at the close of the last election i think that's
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telling that's their entire future half of our future please no future in canada okay well i'm
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gonna come come to you first on the next one william uh the secret liberal conservative
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coalition i i say that a little tongue-in-cheek you know the conservatives were always talking
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about the the liberal NDP coalition that was a it was strictly speaking a coalition government in
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the old sense but it was a formal working agreement that I think you could say fairly
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constitute a coalition of a kind uh the conservatives can do not want to be seen
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as the successors to the NDP in that coalition we saw how well that worked for the NDP in the
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last election when they were utterly obliterated didn't even get official party status and had the
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CCF, what they're, you know, kind of the odd little
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want to be seen to be propping up the Liberals.
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want an election right now. The polls are not great.
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a lot of votes. Their vote went up, but obviously
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whips will coordinate and say fine we have someone who has a very serious medical issue
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then you pair off someone on your side i mean that that's the way these things have gone on for
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over a hundred years the liberals did not have a similar abstention on their side and i'm not
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aware of the conservatives making any effort to get one uh but i've not talked to shannon phillips
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no idea about the actual circumstance but that's that's what's been said the other one was matt
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was he was going to cross the floor to the liberals
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made heads or tails of it, but the thing smells.
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resigned. He is still sitting as a conservative
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And then, adding to this, the conservative, I think, Andrew Shearer's house leader, right?
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That's the guy responsible, along with the whip, for making sure everything going on in the house goes according to plan and everyone's there on time, etc.
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defeat the budget and therefore trigger an election,
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I know the conservatives don't like the budget.
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It does cut taxes, doesn't really cut spending.
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Am I just too much of a bloody conspiracy theorist here?
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Or did the conservatives intentionally not defeat the budget?
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I think that this is exactly why Trump and draining the swamp,
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what people call populism nowadays, which is really just a democracy relabeled,
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why it all became so popular a decade ago. Corruption abounds. There appear to be no
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real alternatives. And let's be clear here, it wasn't just the Conservatives. Every party
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participated in the subversion of Canada's democracy, the NDP, the Green Party, everybody
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was party to the plot. And you could even say that this kind of corrupt undemocratic garbage,
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because that is what it is, let's call a spade a spade, is what underlies the current incredible
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popularity of the secessionist movement in Alberta. I mean, even Quebec, if I understand
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correctly, rumblings are starting. And the big problem, the major problem is that Pierre
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Belyab is either party to it all or powerless against it, or at least that's how it looks
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to everyone in Canada. And I think the budget passing and not having an election is ultimately
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going to be framed or justified as something not good for Canada. But what are we really
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talking about here? Is the Liberal government good for Canada? No, not at all. And so to
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me, I think the really only recourse is to have the election. I mean, I know that we
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don't want it. It isn't the right moment. But then we turn around, we start complaining
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about how bad things are in Canada. The only way to fix
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it, the only way to get through it, is through an election.
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No, then they're going to see we pre-report it.
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earlier in the day, or at least for our Alberta watchers.
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You know, so it's not like the NDP who stood up voting that, you know, Jake Meatsing would stand up and be like, this government has failed Canadians, it sucks, it deserves to go.
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And then he stands up and votes, yes, I'm keeping them in power, yes, I'm voting for the budget.
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They voted against the budget, they spoke against the budget, but they allowed the budget to pass.
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But for the average, I think the average person, is this going to get through the average Canadian voter that the Conservatives let it?
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No, I think your average Canadian doesn't really watch how parliamentary sausage gets made.
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As I said, I think the term used to be the parliamentary flu.
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They come along, and as you said, the whip or the House leader is going to be watching.
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Normally the House leader is more than halfway behind the curtain.
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So usually a little more discretion, but then suddenly a couple of members get the Hershey squirts and vanish until they can't pass that vote possibly under any other circumstance.
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And then they get a full recovery and come back.
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But this can't go on too, too long, or they will suffer the fate of Jagmeet Singh.
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You know, you can kick that can down the road because you aren't in a position to hit an election, you know, and play both sides.
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Say that you oppose the budget yet, make sure it kind of passes.
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but they will have to try and find themselves or they will get weakened every time this happens so
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I mean you can't rail and say we're going to bring the government down then carefully make sure that
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you don't actually do it too many times before you've cried wolf too many times you just look
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too weak and people will say the same thing they did with the NDP well if the NDP is just going to
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be liberal I might as well just vote for the liberals and it'll happen that way with the
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conservatives I think what the conservatives would have to worry about is weakening themselves
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and go to the polls and really nail them when they
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really don't want to go. That's what I wanted to ask you,
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speculation the liberals would have been just happy
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They're only two seats away from a majority right now
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because there was one conservative across the floor
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and, you know, you have one grumpy member of caucus,
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If you have an actual majority with some space,
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okay, yeah, well, yeah, go ahead and vote against the budget.
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They don't really have that kind of leverage right now.
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How much do you think the Liberals would have been just fine
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Oh, I think, yeah, they would have come through on it all right.
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The polls seem to indicate that they would have had a good start.
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But don't, everybody gets very focused on this majority.
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Well, you've got one, or maybe you've got a majority of two or whatever.
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Stephen Harper governed from 2006 to 2011 from a minority position.
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everyone wants a majority everybody wants a majority obviously but you're constantly wheeling
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and dealing and making arrangements here and in some ways that's kind of good for democracy
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and you know if you actually have to work things out with the other side
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the result is not always bad so carney with or without a majority well he did obviously the
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government will fall on all his budget but if he's in a minority position should somebody change
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their mind you know he can he can still get things done it's been done before many times so um what i
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do uh deeply deplore is why conservatives are allowing any kind of discussion over the leadership
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of the peer polyev uh the i mean there's one thing to do it behind closed doors but it's constant
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sort of jockeying and showing polls and people going on the tellers as well you know he's a i
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like him but he's actually i don't like him he shouldn't be leader anymore he's had his chance
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you're going to work with a guy this is why they're down in the polls is they're not presenting
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a united front i don't know i it's natural they lost the election they blew a gigantic lead
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uh i'd say the dissension is pretty mild compared to previous what leaders have faced after previous
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We're not talking about John Rustack, but you know,
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There, they're just ripping themselves apart, and that is affecting the polls.
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I think Polly Ebb is probably the best guy to lead them right now.
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I think conservative members would be well advised to vote to renew his leadership.
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But I think it's healthy for a party to air this in a civil way after a defeat.
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i i with a uh with the leadership review coming up in january there's too many people look like
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they're trying to position themselves for something ah that such is the nature of the
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politics but yeah okay well what depending on that go to our parting shots first parting shot
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to cory sure i'll start with one just something that surprised me on x it's something i railed
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about before but i i reminded people that jody gondek and her council of clowns there had it
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renamed Fort Calgary into the confluence a year and some ago.
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What, I mean, people were upset with that, which is fine.
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But what surprised me was how many people said I didn't realize she'd done that.
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Uh, so I've written a, you know, some self-serving things.
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I've written a column in the standard that came out today on that.
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This would be a good start for this council to reverse that ridiculous thing.
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Even if it's costly, we can't let this erasure of history keep happening.
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the new mayor and council have a chance to do that and set an example for these self-serving
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ones who have their vanity work project. You're going to have it reversed if you push it through.
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So just stick to council business and quit renaming it. I actually asked
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Jeremy Farkas about that in an interview very soon before the election
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and he didn't say no, but he definitely didn't say yes either
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saying, you know, that some of the chiefs in the area would consider it a declaration
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But, I mean, Mayor Farkas, new council, show some balls.
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Fort Calgary is pretty important to the history of Calgary,
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and that's what it's always been until a couple of jackasses came around
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There's no statue of General Lee there, like, for God's sakes.
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If you're ready to change that, the next step will be changing the actual name of the city.
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see the spelling element it'll be a vancouver street yeah yeah yeah okay uh william parting
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shot cool so as y'all know i was recently invited to speak and present my essay uh canada's right
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wing response to a decade of liberal oppression at the toronto democracy forum confronts what
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everyone in canada the right wing of the political spectrum conservatives in canada been going
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through over the past decade um we should have the but as i understand on the western standard
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website sometime soon um and or y'all can head over to my twitter x to check it out my handle
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is will barclay pcbg um please do give it a read um it's being well received so i hope you guys
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enjoy it nodule yeah yeah so i keep i keep tabs on the bc news and there's bc human rights chief
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one of these empathetic ladies that i was talking about earlier declares that it's colonialist to
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stigmatized drug use drug use is i guess so legitimate anyway look at it it's just crazy
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in bc it's not the drugs that are dangerous only the people who notice that they're dangerous are
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wicked colonialists you know what a weird world the british empire fought several opium wars
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to make the chinese do drugs we the empire fought wars to make sure people are doing their drugs and
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be addicted to drugs and have a productive life.
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I feel like we're just never actually going to get it.
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The Democrats did not give a crap about Jeffrey...
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Actually, no, they probably did give a crap.
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of Jeffrey Epstein for four years while Biden's in.
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They were silent about it when Trump was in the first time.
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including when they had majority control of congress um then all of a sudden they got religion
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and they wanted out because they saw it was a big defied within the republicans the harder uh you
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know the more mega side of the republican party wanted this out trump had been campaigning hard
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i'm gonna release it you know this is a part of draining the swamp we're gonna release the epstein
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files everyone's gonna get to see everything and me wins and then we got this dog you know this
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dog and pony show of fake release of files that were already released and don't show very much
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and then there are no files and then uh maybe there's files but if you want the files you're
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a traitor to me and traitor mega and i don't want your support and then you had a couple of brave
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republican members of the house break away to side with the democrats because it's a pretty
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thin majority they used their leverage they made a power play um and then it started an avalanche
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And Trump was saying, this is just one where he's just dead wrong.
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And for what reason he's doing this, I don't know.
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And he was saying, you know, to his closest allies like Massey and Marjorie Taylor Greene,
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like the people who would take a bullet for Trump, say they're traitors.
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Not a bad nickname, but very imprecise, I think, in this case.
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And we started an avalanche where you then had more than 100 Republican defectors
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where they were able to force it to a vote on the floor.
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some guy, it's one lone Republican down in Louisiana
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And then it's expected to get unanimous support
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