Western Standard - August 14, 2026


Can Ottawa strike a tariff deal in time？

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trade war
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Donald Trump Mark Carney Robert F. Kennedy Chris Scott Doug Ford Connie Marty Up North Steven Guilbeault Bill C-63 Edson John
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00:00:00 all right welcome back
00:00:28 happy thursday what is today the 13th holy smokes august 13th what does that mean about another
00:00:35 another two like it feels like just yesterday i was talking about stampede which to me is kind
00:00:40 of like the start of summer and now i'm already thinking about the fact that kids are going back
00:00:46 to school in a couple of weeks i mean my kids are all grown up but uh wow it's no joke right i mean
00:00:51 summer in alberta can last about a month and a half some years and i think this is one of those
00:00:56 year something something tells me we're going to have a nasty winter just my thought it's raining
00:01:03 today I think hopefully a lot of people are happy about that I know there's lots of smoke in the air
00:01:09 recently good to clear the air yesterday we had some sun you know thoughts out to the people in
00:01:16 BC that are affected by these fires and I'm going to come back to this right I mean I think I'm going
00:01:22 to talk a little bit about forest mismanagement today um but but before we get too deep in the
00:01:28 show uh reminder right we're trying to turn this into a call-in talk show i got a list of topics
00:01:34 maybe i'll i'll quickly give you the topics i'd kind of like to talk about today but really the
00:01:39 show's a success when you guys call in john's got the number there on the screen and i think
00:01:44 maybe maybe today because it's raining here in calgary and most of the province maybe you guys
00:01:49 are stuck indoors at your lunch hour instead of going out for a nice walk so maybe it'll
00:01:53 be an opportunity to call me so um what do i want to talk about today you know i'll do my usual
00:02:00 little monologue actually it's gonna be monologue bordering on a rant and uh but i want to talk
00:02:07 about uh you know the looming uh american tariffs we had another liberal mp uh resign
00:02:16 interesting circumstances there perhaps um we got uh we we got a couple by elections three
00:02:23 by elections coming up uh later this month uh in uh across canada there on uh i think it's august
00:02:30 29th is when uh those are happening uh we had a spy in a canadian spy in europe uh and if and a
00:02:37 a few other stories the the foreign students protesting here um and and so forth so uh where
00:02:45 to start um let me start with uh let me start with telling you where i went last week because it it
00:02:51 helps with uh i i discovered a couple of things right you guys know i love to uh leave and go out
00:02:58 in the wilderness the name marty up north is not a coincidence right it's a it's a moniker that i
00:03:03 acquired in my years gone by you know I started my oil and gas career living in Fox Creek Alberta
00:03:11 so I lived in Fox Creek for about six or seven years if you don't know where Fox Creek is you
00:03:17 know it's kind of like on the highway between Edmonton and Grand Prairie middle of nowhere
00:03:22 and then I did a stint in uh in Slave Lake Fort Saskatchewan I lived in Burstall for a while so
00:03:30 In fact, I'd go from the south and then the company, because I worked in the oil patch, it transferred me down south and back up north.
00:03:36 But the bulk of my career up north in towns like Grand Prairie, Edson, and Fox Creek, that's where I cut my teeth in the oil patch, spent about 20 years there.
00:03:47 That's where I acquired the name Marty Up North, and that's where I discovered my passion for the outdoors.
00:03:52 and to this day i love to uh just disconnect bugger off and go on long hikes in the wilderness
00:04:01 and that's what i did last week so and and and there's a two-parter to this so the first thing
00:04:08 i did last week is uh i went back to my hunting camp my hunting camp is up around grand cache
00:04:13 and uh i told you guys i i set up the hunting camp me i've been hunting in this area for 35 years
00:04:20 with the same six or seven guys and nowadays we set up our hunting camp in july so that people
00:04:27 family friends can enjoy it over and over throughout the summer and then we go in there
00:04:32 finally in september and hunt and the area has been um the target of we we've been really affected by
00:04:43 the caribou management plan so in alberta alberta is forced to address caribou management and to
00:04:51 try and protect the caribou and i'll and i say alberta is forced to do this because caribou
00:04:56 protection really is animal protection really is a federal jurisdiction it's one of those things
00:05:01 right so ottawa has a has signed on to protect caribou and and consequently ottawa pushes that
00:05:09 down onto the provinces and then in here in alberta they almost hold us hostage with this
00:05:16 thing right protect the caribou do certain things or risk uh us coming in us being ottawa and
00:05:23 designated large tracts of land as national parks and things like that right and and you saw carney
00:05:28 this week announce more of that funny that carney's able to announce these things while he's
00:05:32 in italy right so he announced he announced more protected lands it's it's it's something called
00:05:37 you know, 30% in 2030. They want to protect 30% more lands, make them federal parks as part of
00:05:46 this global agenda. And so Alberta has been trying to comply with this and I'm hunting in an area
00:05:52 that's affected dramatically by this. And they've been in our area rolling over cut lines. So cut
00:05:59 lines were lines that were cut a long, long time ago by the oil companies. They were cut, they were
00:06:03 used to do some seismic some of these lines still exist because they're used to access sites they're
00:06:08 they're they they become temporary winter roads um some of the cut lines were used for pipelines and
00:06:15 so forth and so forth and in the area where i hunt the government estimates is there's a handful of
00:06:19 caribou like about 140 caribou and they're using our area as a test to um they've been testing for
00:06:29 for 40 years now they've been testing all these different methods of protecting the caribou right
00:06:34 they've gone from like let's shoot all the wolves from the air to hey let's let the wolves prosper
00:06:40 but let's take away the wolves favorite food so let's kill all the moose because if you know if 0.99
00:06:45 the moot if the if the wolves are gone the caribou will do good that didn't work uh well let's kill
00:06:50 their favorite food so if we kill the their favorite food the wolves will leave on their own
00:06:54 because and they even considered building a pen around this thing like putting a hundred kilometer
00:06:59 by a hundred kilometer fence and and capturing the caribou holding him in an area anyways they've
00:07:06 been uh we we we were consulted and we had they promised us that they weren't doing this to keep
00:07:13 us out that they were doing this to protect the caribou i disagree fundamentally i think their
00:07:19 method is flawed but they promised in consultation with us because we've been hunting there a long
00:07:24 time and some of my buddies that hunt with us are our treaty indians and our metis and so they were
00:07:31 consulted and they promised that they would leave us some cut lines unaffected or what they called
00:07:36 a modified treatment and that we'd still be able to use those cut lines to access our hunting grounds
00:07:41 well i'll tell you real quick uh i do have my own youtube channel called marty up north it's
00:07:47 just one word marty up north so i encourage you to go look at a video that i posted because while
00:07:51 i was up there we finally got to go see the these these cut lines and what they did during the
00:07:57 winter and i was i was shocked i i i don't know how else to say it it's if they consulted with us
00:08:05 and if they had they they they their execution was flawed because the cut lines that were supposed
00:08:11 to be left open for us are almost inaccessible me and my buddies we spent hours trying to
00:08:16 clear one of these cut lines that were supposedly still left open for us and it took us hours
00:08:23 of chainsaw work just to advance a couple of kilometers so um you know it's it's for me
00:08:29 it's an example of uh and by the way the government of alberta is spending 55 million dollars to do
00:08:37 this 55 million bucks to reclaim old cut lines i'm going to stop now because it's it's going to
00:08:44 make me mad to think about it so just go and look at that and and you'll see it's an example of
00:08:50 absolute uh unnecessary work mismanagement i think this is my prediction that i made in my video
00:08:57 my prediction is that when they when they do the next survey of caribou in that area the population
00:09:03 will go down and i'll finish it with this in all my years of hunting caribou in that part of the
00:09:08 world i would see caribou a couple of times a year usually in the back country so when i'm deep and
00:09:14 hunting for moose or i'm scouting i'd see the odd caribou once in a while last year when they
00:09:20 started doing this this reclamation to protect the caribou they confused the caribou and now
00:09:26 all of a sudden last year i was we were seeing caribou i won't say everywhere but i saw more
00:09:30 caribou last year than i've seen in a long time but the reason i saw more caribou than i've seen
00:09:34 in a long time is because they confused the caribou by destroying these ancestral cut lines
00:09:40 and the caribous are now traveling along the dirt roads and the main pipelines they need to get from
00:09:45 their feeding ground to their breeding ground to their to their wintering ground they need to
00:09:50 transit they need to move around these lines were part of their landscape right to you and me a cut
00:09:56 line might be might look man-made but to a caribou who's the sixth or seventh or eighth generation
00:10:02 of an animal that you know these cut lines go back to the 1950s and 60s to to a fifth generation
00:10:08 caribou if there's such a thing these cut lines are part of their environment and so uh my prediction
00:10:14 now and when the animals like this are suddenly on the dirt roads and places like that they're
00:10:17 gonna get hunted they're gonna get slaughtered accidentally intentionally and my my prediction
00:10:23 is that um that will backfire on them so uh that's my first rant my second quick little rant is that
00:10:32 i uh because i was up north and uh after i went and visited the camp i decided to sneak in to
00:10:39 uh jasper national park i love you know that's one of the things i love the most is i love hiking
00:10:45 and so i uh i went down the old coal spur head down towards uh you know you go to hinton you go
00:10:51 to cadaman then you go to mountain park if you can ever tour that part of the world i encourage you
00:10:55 to do it the old coal branch it's called like there's a lot of history there a lot of really
00:11:00 formidable history of of like that explains the province right um when the railroads were being
00:11:06 built it was important to have supplies of coal for the railroad and so these all these little
00:11:12 towns existed in the 1930s and 40s just to mine coal and it's like it's a part of our heritage
00:11:18 right coal mining is truly a part of of alberta's heritage in fact when you go past cadaman the next
00:11:25 abandoned town is called um mountain park it doesn't exist anymore but as you go by mountain
00:11:31 park there's an old cemetery there very well kept very well kept because um because people
00:11:39 people who lived there in the 1930s and 40s that are dying today still request to be buried in
00:11:45 mountain park i follow some some groups on facebook and ever so often you see a story about a really
00:11:52 old guy or gal uh passing away and requesting to be buried there so when i drive by there i do my
00:11:59 pilgrimage go visit the cemetery but but the point of my story is i snuck into the park and i went into
00:12:05 uh jasper and um again when the when i when i go to a place like like that and i see that all these
00:12:16 amazing places all these amazing trails that we used to have in the back country
00:12:21 are becoming inaccessible these are trails that i've been trying that i've been walking on for
00:12:27 uh for a long time you know 25 30 years i've been hiking in this region i get a craving for it
00:12:34 and i'll head over the cardinal divide and head into uh you know into the cairn pass area and
00:12:39 stuff like that which is what i did last week and it's becoming almost impossible to enter that part
00:12:45 the world because parks canada is not maintaining any kind of trails they're just letting everything
00:12:53 uh grow in and become inaccessible for us and and i think that's a shame and um and again
00:13:03 i'll say one thing apparently they don't have my i i posted this on x apparently they don't
00:13:08 have money to maintain the trails and they make us pay like nine bucks i'm supposed to pay nine
00:13:13 bucks for a permit to go stay overnight in the backcountry so they collect money from me but
00:13:18 they don't have any money to uh maintain the trails but lo and behold i show up at one of
00:13:24 these remote backcountry sites and it happened twice there was a sign that had been nailed to
00:13:30 one of the trees an official parks canada sign that had been nailed to one of the trees
00:13:34 and it said boil water advisory i i i i was like wow they got no money but they got enough money
00:13:42 to fly somebody by helicopter to come and put a boil water advisory at these campsites i i would
00:13:47 again i'm almost at a loss for words i have no idea why they would do something that silly sometimes
00:13:53 i think they do it simply to antagonize people like me and some of us um who you know i i quite
00:14:02 honestly sometimes i imagine that it's a civil servant uh from uh from ottawa who's been transferred
00:14:07 to alberta who's managing the parks and he's doing these things by the way actually just just the last
00:14:13 thing on that topic all those cut lines i talked about earlier in my hunting area that they damaged
00:14:18 uh again just to add insult to injury they did put same thing you can see them along the highway
00:14:25 where the cut lines start they put signs that say dangerous or sorry warning uneven terrain ahead
00:14:32 like uh add insult to injury insult to injury all right i'll leave it at that happy to be back
00:14:38 it is still as it's too bad that some of my trips end up frustrating me a little bit but i'd say
00:14:44 overwhelmingly i still prefer to go out in the wilderness uh it's rejuvenating for me it makes
00:14:50 me feel good and i do realize when i'm doing it that that is one of the agendas they do not want
00:14:56 us in the wilderness they will um they will put aside more land and they'll designate it as parks
00:15:03 and they'll make it hard for us to get into those parks because they want us in the cities in their
00:15:08 15-minute cities where they can control us and uh where we become dependent on the states where we
00:15:15 will live in apartments instead of living on land you you've heard this story before and i don't
00:15:20 think it's a it's a conspiracy all right so uh come on guys give me a give me a buzz here
00:15:27 eight eight or eight six six four seven nine nine three seven eight i mean i know you know i can do
00:15:32 this i can talk for an hour uh in fact i practice some of my monologues when i'm walking in the
00:15:37 wilderness and uh you know i gotta make noise because that's you know if if you don't make
00:15:44 noise one of the dangers i get asked this all the time are you afraid of bears no i'm not afraid of
00:15:48 bears i take precautions like i bring a bear spray and i and i know the environment i look for signs
00:15:53 and stuff like that but a bear encounter is a reality and the most likely bear encounter for me
00:15:58 in the back country is just the accidental come around the corner on the trail and there's the
00:16:04 bear right you just accidentally come around the corner there's noise the bear's eating the water's
00:16:08 making noise neither the bear i hear each other and there could be a startling moment i've had
00:16:14 many of those over the years they've always turned out okay in every circumstance the bear spooked and
00:16:19 turned around i've never had one charge me even though i startled them but uh a good defense i
00:16:25 remind myself several times a day a day several times an hour when i'm walking in the wilderness
00:16:29 you'll hear me just yell out loud to myself hey bear otherwise i have these monologues sort of
00:16:35 like this i talk to myself out loud and i practice ideas it's a it's a crazy thing uh john any any
00:16:43 store any i'm just scrolling through anything uh somebody said i saw your video it made me angry
00:16:49 and i agree thank you um uh any other good comments here building pipelines my whole life
00:16:56 seen lots of caribou yeah they do exist right and and that's the other thing they exist and i don't
00:17:02 see what they're not an endangered species i mean the herd in northwest territories seems to be like
00:17:08 hundreds of thousands of individuals strong uh carney can take his 30 land grab and shove it
00:17:15 you know where yeah we're not gonna go there i i tend to agree with that uh okay let's move on so
00:17:21 i come back out of the wilderness and uh take a day to catch up do my lawn check my tomatoes
00:17:27 and then finally i log on to the internet and what are some of the couple of things that
00:17:33 show up right away well the title here is uh can ottawa um i'm having a hard time here john said
00:17:41 can ottawa strike a tariff deal on time and all right so let's step back you've heard this story
00:17:47 before but i'll repeat it right uh donald trump gets elected and donald trump has his own very
00:17:53 simple agenda he's gonna do what's good for americans and donald trump has a couple of beefs
00:17:59 against canada very reasonable beefs when he gets elected um he does he he doesn't like the trade
00:18:07 imbalance which which i donald i'm going to disagree with you on that one i think the trade
00:18:11 imbalance is just a fact of life i mean your country is 13 times bigger than ours in terms
00:18:16 of an economy so donald has said you know he's equated the trade imbalance as less as us abusing
00:18:22 it perhaps i'm sure we've taken advantage of the americans more than they've taken advantage of us
00:18:28 but but he's upset about the trade imbalance he's definitely upset about uh canada and many other
00:18:34 nations not spending their share on nato defense or u.n spendings or costs like that right so he
00:18:41 wants he he he accuses us of taking advantage of him of him and just uh enjoying the protection
00:18:48 provided by the americans which i think is legit right what kind of protections do americans
00:18:52 provide i mean if the russians that tried to come over the top of us through the north pole uh donald
00:18:58 trump would have stopped them uh on a routine basis any canadian ship that's traveling across
00:19:04 the atlantic or across the pacific you know you cross a ship a ship in distress in the middle of
00:19:09 the ocean a canadian ship coming back from japan or china bringing goods back to canada gets in
00:19:14 distress who's going to respond it's the americans right they they they are they they do that as a
00:19:20 favor and once in a while i guess donald was just saying like hey pay back once in a while so he's
00:19:25 upset about the imbalance uh us not meeting our two percent gd or gdp on defense and he's upset
00:19:32 about one of the things that was really uh bugged him a lot was the um the the the dairy cartel and
00:19:40 the poultry cartel so donald trump gets elected starts imposing tariffs start bringing he wants
00:19:46 to bring jobs back to uh to the us he's protecting his own interests he's doing what he said he would
00:19:53 do and then we we being canadians in general but the liberals are like hey he's attacking us and
00:19:59 i've said this before he wasn't attacking us he was doing what's good for them but we got caught
00:20:03 off guard and it looked like an attack but in reality it was just a wake-up call and um all
00:20:10 All right. I got a call on the line, so I'll finish my story after.
00:20:15 As usual, when you call me, please name, where are you calling from?
00:20:19 What do you want to talk about? Stay on the line a little bit,
00:20:22 but sometimes I'll ask you to hang up so we can, because we only have one line.
00:20:24 So go ahead. Where are you calling from?
00:20:28 Good afternoon. My name's Connie, and I'm calling from Leduc.
00:20:31 Hi, Connie. How are you?
00:20:34 Pretty good. I enjoy listening to you and your shows every week.
00:20:38 but i just wanted to talk about something a little bit different okay and it's on the carbon capture
00:20:44 okay and i had listened to a video that was done about two years ago
00:20:49 by robert kennedy on pipeline deception and i just thought you might want to take a listen to it one
00:20:57 day on robert kennedy on what what was the topic that robert kennedy robert kennedy on pipeline
00:21:06 deception okay and it has to do with carbon capture and when things go wrong what can happen
00:21:13 where deaths can occur and everything like that it goes back to october of 2024 okay um and i just
00:21:21 wanted to bring it to your attention and if you wanted to research it a little bit more and listen
00:21:25 to that video that's on youtube and it's very enlightening and i'm just not really for this
00:21:31 carbon captured i think it's a waste of money oh it's and i just yeah yeah no uh well if you want
00:21:38 to stay on the line stay on the line if not thanks for calling bonnie but no i uh carbon capture is uh
00:21:44 you know back to me walking in the forest right i mean when i'm walking in in canadian forest
00:21:50 like in northern alberta like most people have no idea just how vast the boreal forest of north
00:21:58 america is and most of it is in canada like it's huge and and you go around and you see all this
00:22:04 growth and all these trees and what are those trees doing they're capturing carbon and so for
00:22:09 for humanity to think for for a small little group of humans to think that we can uh build a facility
00:22:16 i don't know where fort saskatchewan or somewhere like that and grab a little bit of carbon that
00:22:20 comes off the exhaust of a couple of plants and plants by that i mean manufacturing plants oil
00:22:25 plants and then injected in the ground your bonnie if she's still online is absolutely right
00:22:30 it's a monumental waste of money actually i am still on the line but i just wanted you to watch
00:22:37 this video it's not very long yeah and it talks about it happened in iowa where some of this
00:22:42 carbon capture got released and people died oh for sure for sure and and vehicles stopped moving
00:22:49 yeah yeah because they'd be asphyxiated right i mean if if you when you get asphyxiated if i remove
00:22:56 the air in the room you'll be asphyxiated but if instead of removing the air i fill it with carbon
00:23:01 dioxide it's the same thing it'd be like uh it'd be like putting that turning on your car exhaust
00:23:06 in your garage with the door closed you'll asphyxiate yourself in no time so a release
00:23:11 from a carbon capture facility could be absolutely devastating anyways it's about a 26 minute video
00:23:18 and we watched it and i passed it on to a bunch of friends and i just thought if i brought it to
00:23:22 your attention maybe some of your viewers can listen to it and it's it's actually quite
00:23:28 enlightening and i just wanted to say i really enjoy your show and keep up the good work thanks
00:23:32 for calling bonnie you betcha um bye-bye all right bye-bye um yeah well i'll uh i'll go take a look
00:23:40 at it and um you know that's what this is all about that's the thing we want to do we want to
00:23:44 to have that dialogue between people and we've talked a lot about carbon capture in Alberta here
00:23:51 the big carbon capture project is called the Pathways Alliance and it's one of those things
00:23:56 again where actually today it wasn't really on my agenda today I'll save that one for another day I
00:24:01 wasn't going to go hard on Danielle Smith Danielle's been kind of quiet there's in there's plenty of
00:24:05 other politicians to to sort of mock this week but let's go back just to the tariff story so
00:24:11 so uh trump got elected and then the liberals turned him into a boogeyman and and and promoted
00:24:19 mark carney as the option the best option um to protect canada against carney and some of 0.89
00:24:26 against trump and carney's initial promises remember how ridiculous they were like he was
00:24:32 going to make canada uh the best performing economy in the g7 uh we were going to be sort 0.77
00:24:39 the leaders of a new world order he's going to put us in bed with uh china he's going to double down
00:24:44 on the alliance with europe blah blah blah blah blah and uh trump is just sitting there going
00:24:49 all right go ahead keep doing what you want to do and i'll uh i'll do what i'm doing and so initially
00:24:55 trump was limited trump made his beefs known he made his beefs known oh and there was one other
00:25:02 big beef at the beginning right um it was also the fentanyl crisis right let's not re
00:25:08 let's not forget that trump was upset that a lot of fentanyl was coming over the border from canada
00:25:14 even that one surprised me you know when you look into that one i was like that seems a little
00:25:19 extreme i had a hard time wrapping my head around the fact that more fentanyl was going into can
00:25:23 into the u.s from canada than in mexico but it turns out that that's the fact our border is like
00:25:28 wide open so uh press forward and and and the those kinds of menaces like trump's beefs were
00:25:37 big with canada of course because canada is the us's biggest trading partner so of course he's
00:25:42 got a big beef with us but he had similar beefs with other countries and most other countries
00:25:47 saw what was happening heard the wake-up call dealt with it but not canada and not uh not not
00:25:57 china right and canada in particular we double down we like we'll we'll do our own tariffs we'll
00:26:02 We'll take American booze off the table.
00:26:04 We'll do this. 0.92
00:26:05 We'll do that.
00:26:05 Right.
00:26:06 Who can forget the Doug Ford pouring, you know, Crown Royal on the ground and so forth.
00:26:13 And so and and then what were we told by the liberals and the people who elected Mark Carney?
00:26:19 We were told that Donald Trump is the biggest existential threat to our existence in like 100 years.
00:26:27 right not world war ii not uh the economic crisis of 2007 or four or all the other crisis not
00:26:35 covid none of those things the biggest threat to canada's uh sovereignty ever is donald trump
00:26:43 so on a threat like that you think well it should be all hands on board and let's be let's put aside
00:26:48 partisan politics and let's form a special committee and let's deal with trump but nope 0.99
00:26:54 uh canada doubles downs does a couple of stupid things and so it's a back and forth we go into a 0.99
00:26:59 fallout trade war and predictably we're not going to win a trade war okay we're not going to win a 0.99
00:27:05 trade war against the u.s and the latest salvo from donald trump is that on august 19th a new
00:27:11 round of tariffs he was limited on the tariffs he could impose on us by the way and i'm i know
00:27:17 and because of kuzma because of the free trade deal and whatnot right he couldn't impose too
00:27:22 many tariffs there was already a lot of deals you know um 70 of the trade we do with the u.s was
00:27:28 protected by by the free trade agreement so his ability to impose tariffs was pretty limited and
00:27:34 i remember like uh like i'm not saying i told you so you know many of us have said the same thing but
00:27:39 i remember saying just don't retaliate man because an american tariff is not a hit on us it's just
00:27:46 going to force us to be more efficient anyways he's hitting us next week with uh a 50 tariff now
00:27:54 on an additional 20 billion dollars worth of trade so he's hitting things that weren't in there
00:28:00 and like he's really squeezing us supposedly this is existential and where's carny like if it's
00:28:07 existential with this threat looming you'd think carny would be all over this but carny right now
00:28:13 is in italy relaxing and uh he's got his best lieutenants on this i don't know who his best
00:28:19 lieutenant is on this can you guys tell me who uh carney's second in command is because i
00:28:24 like nobody nobody comes to mind so we got um so so i some people are saying that we're
00:28:30 capitulating we're not capitulating we're facing reality and and i think the reality is
00:28:38 that we better start removing some of the we better start doing some of the things that trump
00:28:42 wants us to do in fact we don't have to and they're simple right fix the border stop the the
00:28:49 fentanyl going across there's been efforts to do that but um you know i haven't heard too much
00:28:54 lately i mean there was a sort of a lot of announcements at the beginning right we had
00:28:57 the fentanyl czar we bought a couple of black hawk helicopters but i think donald wants something
00:29:03 concrete uh increased military spending from two percent to five percent gdp i'm in favor of that
00:29:10 i i love our canadian military it used to be a proud institution it's been kind of beat up after
00:29:16 afghanistan and they needed some rebuilding and the rebuilding to me that was a no-brainer right
00:29:22 um we we needed the equipment we needed to buy it what should we have done we should have just
00:29:27 gone told somebody in canada here here's uh you know here's 20 billion dollars go on a shopping
00:29:33 trip head on down to vegas go to the next defense show in vegas buy buy 20 off the shelf f-16s by
00:29:41 60 000 new rifles by two frigates by um i don't know ten thousand a thousand humvees or whatever
00:29:50 the heck it is buy a whole bunch of stuff off the shelf from the u.s quickly make them happy but
00:29:55 instead we're increasing our spending the way we've our military spending the way we've always done it
00:30:01 which is we study it, study it, study it, study it,
00:30:05 bid it out, bid it out, bid it out,
00:30:06 like, you know, and then cancel stuff. 1.00
00:30:09 Cancel the F-35s.
00:30:10 Oh, no, they're back on.
00:30:11 Cancel them.
00:30:12 So we study it to death.
00:30:14 We make it ridiculously difficult to bid for the jobs.
00:30:17 And then when it's time to pick a company,
00:30:20 we do like we just recently did with the submarines
00:30:22 and we go buy submarines from Germany.
00:30:25 We don't need submarines.
00:30:27 Or if we needed submarines, 0.99
00:30:28 we should have bought them from the Americans.
00:30:29 fix the bid so that the americans can win it right so so we're not doing the things that
00:30:34 donald wants and we're and and then the last one to me i talked about this last week it is such an
00:30:39 easy one we should have lifted the the we should have unprotected the dairy cartel we should have
00:30:46 said yeah you're right donald um our our our tariffs on milk and and poultry in your country
00:30:53 are ridiculous because they're as high as 400 right the other way around and and i think we've
00:30:58 protecting the dairy cartels in this country and i think they would do just fine on their own
00:31:04 without protection but again i'll encourage you to go look at this what was the first what was
00:31:10 one of the first bills passed by uh the liberals when they got elected right so they got elected
00:31:17 in april of 2029 and the first bill that they passed wasn't even in the fit like the bills
00:31:23 bills usually go like when the government presents a bill it goes with a c and a single digit c1 c2
00:31:29 c3 c4 c1's always reserved for just it's just sort of a courtesy bill saying kind of like
00:31:36 we're opening parliament so then c2 should be the first official bill wasn't c2 that was passed it
00:31:42 wasn't a single digit bill the first bill that was passed in the house of commons in the after
00:31:49 in the days following uh the election of the liberals was bill c202 which is a members bill
00:31:57 which usually gets a lower priority but c202 is the first one that passed and c202 is was a bill
00:32:06 that literally said anybody who negotiates on behalf of canada with the us or with any country
00:32:13 cannot give any concessions that involve the dairy cartel so right off the bat anyways a long story
00:32:21 short um so here we are existential threat uh coming down the pipe and um carney is nowhere
00:32:30 to be seen and i haven't heard anything that's meaningful except a whole bunch of ranting uh
00:32:37 doug ford is still looking like a lunatic i think it's only a matter of time now actually what's
00:32:42 going to be what's going to be really interesting here is some of my prediction we will concede we 0.85
00:32:48 have no choice we will reverse some of these bad ideas we will put american booze back on the table
00:32:55 it's it's back on the shelves and liquor stores that's common sense what's going to be really
00:32:59 really interesting is watching the mainstream media and the pundits and the and the and the
00:33:05 politicians do all sorts of back flips as to why they they won't say they won't say that they failed
00:33:12 they'll just they'll just make an excuse and my prediction this is my weird prediction but
00:33:16 i haven't you know how donald trump or donald trump how doug ford was pouring whiskey on the
00:33:21 on the ground which was a bizarre move i have a feeling donald or donald i gotta stop saying that
00:33:27 i have a feeling doug ford we're gonna see doug ford in the next month pouring himself an american
00:33:33 bourbon on stage and promoting the americans that's my prediction that's that's that's how far
00:33:38 crazy we're getting um just staying quickly so come on guys like it it's a rainy day i know you
00:33:47 have a day off or not a day off it's lunchtime no it's past lunchtime give me a call folks don't
00:33:54 make me do all the talking give me a call eight eight eight six six four seven nine nine three
00:34:00 seven eight uh before i keep going let me go let me go check uh
00:34:04 Uh, any, any comments there, John?
00:34:08 Actually, I got a bunch of, I got to remove things.
00:34:10 I got too many.
00:34:12 Uh, oh, I don't want to do that.
00:34:18 All right.
00:34:19 Good afternoon from Tabor.
00:34:21 Oh, hey, before I go, um, I forgot about this.
00:34:24 I started the show, uh, something about Tabor just made me think about this.
00:34:28 uh a couple of big events coming up in calgary today and this weekend tonight if you can tonight
00:34:37 uh big news uh take uh no the alberta prosperity project right so the alberta prosperity project
00:34:44 the original group that uh that's been around for five years they're the ones who really started
00:34:50 promoting alberta independence alberta prosperity project is the uh education arm take or um stay
00:34:59 free alberta became the the execution arm there that was the the the website that collected the
00:35:07 signatures now that the signatures are collected and counted um stay free alberta still exists but
00:35:14 it went radio silent and now the alberta prosperity project is back as the educational arm
00:35:20 and so uh and and that is mitch sylvester and uh jeff rath and several others they're going to be
00:35:28 in airdrie tonight i believe it's at 7 p.m i don't know where um easy to find right go on the
00:35:35 internet and look up alberta prosperity project and look up events on the tab or go on it's being
00:35:41 talked about you shouldn't have a hard time finding it and um so mitch is going to be in
00:35:46 Airdrie tonight at 7 p.m. and he's unveiling the um the proposed constitution what their idea right
00:35:56 this is not the constitution actually I shouldn't even say the proposed constitution it's one
00:36:03 proposed constitution right because at this point um you know 30 percent of the people are determined
00:36:09 they want out I'm one of those guys I want out I don't care I don't need to know all the details
00:36:13 i just want out and i'll figure out the details later 30 of albertans will never leave there
00:36:18 they they want to stay in canada this failed experiment and the 30 in the middle want more
00:36:22 details tonight is an example of details and there's a second event but before i go to the
00:36:26 second event go ahead caller where are you calling from and what's on your mind
00:36:30 uh hi marty um i'm calling from texas usa wow howdy how are you how y'all doing i'm doing good
00:36:42 um i just got a quick question and then i'll hang up and listen what exactly does the united states
00:36:50 actually gain from any negotiations with canada as far as trade what do we gain
00:36:57 um yeah well okay stay on the line i mean it's like we we
00:37:07 you what you guys generally buy from us is a bunch of materials you buy materials
00:37:19 and and that and the materials you want you want those materials you want uh you want potash you
00:37:26 want uh our oil and our minerals and things like that and in return we we we buy from you guys
00:37:34 finished goods that's always been the relationship and and what happened i think in the last many
00:37:41 years is that we started competing against you unfairly or taking advantage of you and so we
00:37:47 We started having car plants.
00:37:50 We started subsidizing and using our tax dollars to attract manufacturers to Canada to compete against you.
00:38:02 And that didn't make sense.
00:38:04 I didn't think it made sense.
00:38:05 And it obviously doesn't make sense.
00:38:07 And it aggravated your current president.
00:38:10 So we started competing against you unfairly in a sense.
00:38:14 and and so that's where the trade agreements are important right like if we have truly free trade
00:38:21 one of the things we would do is not subsidize our industries directly to compete against you so
00:38:27 i i don't know if that answers it but i mean you know we shouldn't be fighting each other
00:38:32 we should be complementing each other and and and uh but unfortunately some of them go ahead
00:38:40 you know you're right but you know when you listed those things of what we could get from
00:38:47 canada that we want from canada the minerals and stuff those are the oil well it comes from
00:38:55 alberta yeah the potash the uranium it comes from saskatchewan largely yep
00:39:01 what i mean you know nickel or whatever we might get from ontario or quebec or something like that
00:39:11 but i mean other than that kind of things what do we really we get from you we can get nickel
00:39:20 from other sources there are other sources of the nickel yeah yeah you're speaking my language i
00:39:25 mean uh you're spot on so that's why um if if if alberta the u.s in what you're saying the u.s
00:39:37 would almost only trade with alberta and saskatchewan and have almost no trade with the
00:39:41 other provinces but unfortunately because of the way we're structured as a confederation
00:39:46 ottawa forces limits on us they literally hold out back alberta and saskatchewan and limit us
00:39:55 how much trade we can do with the americans in order to force some trade with the other provinces
00:39:59 if that makes sense so um it's all convoluted what's that yeah absolutely it's it's the it's
00:40:08 the things that can't move from say alberta or saskatchewan you know the minerals but everything
00:40:17 else if it's manufacturing we don't need it nope we can do that here 100 no no we should
00:40:26 if if rt why ontario is is is such a huff yeah yeah if our two countries were uh more mine if
00:40:35 my country was managed by reasonable people because the other thing we've been hit by a
00:40:40 dose of ideology we've had we've had lots of people that you know they convince they convince
00:40:45 themselves especially out east that what we were good at like producing oil cutting trees they
00:40:51 somehow or other convince themselves that those were bad right those are bad and we need to do
00:40:56 green stuff better stuff you know what i mean so so we convince ourselves that what we were good at
00:41:03 was a bad thing and and and reality is hitting right and so and we were managed by immature
00:41:11 people in in in immature politicians who drove their agendas versus dealing with reality reality
00:41:18 is we have an amazing partner next door a huge market and you guys want raw goods and we should
00:41:24 buy finished goods from you guys and if we if we were if the two sides were managed by really
00:41:29 um good people we would all benefit you guys luckily continue to benefit because you're so big
00:41:36 we shot ourselves in the foot yeah yeah but you know let's say in an independent Alberta
00:41:44 if they if it were independent um all it would really need to do to to sell its resources
00:41:53 elsewhere is the refineries do we find it directly there in Alberta you can refine it there yeah
00:42:02 there's pros and cons i mean how many refineries how many refineries does alberta or canada have
00:42:10 for that matter as a whole not very many it's got to be sent here before it's got to be sent here
00:42:16 pretty much to be refined and sent back no no no no uh no we we have enough refinery to make to
00:42:24 refine what we need like you know we make we make a lot of oil by the way right texas makes about
00:42:29 two and a half million barrels a day we make four so we make a lot of oil and um we we we keep about
00:42:36 500 000 barrels here that we turn into gasoline for our own consumption and then we just export
00:42:41 oil you're talking about should we export gasoline that'd be a great market but we just don't at this
00:42:46 point i mean i'm i'm trying to but i'm just yeah i'm just saying like in alberta if it you know
00:42:53 wanted to become an independent country it could instead of just exporting you know uh
00:43:01 you know because you your oil and whatnot took for refining yeah no no we're on the same page
00:43:14 yeah no where i i'm in agreement but at this point i'm just trying to
00:43:19 you know one uh oil is is the building a refinery that's a longer term thing i mean
00:43:25 will the refineries are very big very complicated i mean i can get i can barely get a you know a
00:43:31 a simple thing built here i'm not even trying to get a refinery built that would be that would make
00:43:36 head spin you know you know what i mean like it takes 10 years to get a permit to build something
00:43:40 simple so refineries are off the chart but in the future yes but the data center but data centers
00:43:48 those are simple things yes yes yeah thanks for the call hope uh hope things are good in texas
00:43:54 there cheers no okay take care marty take care thank you um hey that's i think the first call
00:44:01 i got from the us that's awesome uh where was i just oh finishing so that so tonight uh mitch
00:44:08 sylvester will be in airdrie unveiling his idea stay free albertas or not stay free alberta
00:44:14 alberta prosperity projects idea for a a constitution for an independent alberta i'll
00:44:21 be there tonight because i'm honestly i'm i'm very curious to see what kind of uh document
00:44:27 he's proposing uh mitch if you're listening i only have one real big hope i hope that the first three
00:44:33 words of your document are we the people i don't think we need to overthink this one just look to
00:44:39 the u.s look at the american constitution uh look at the amendments that they've added to it and i
00:44:44 think it's a pretty solid document it's one of the better i can't think of a better constitution in
00:44:50 the world than the american one so um if you somehow or other think you can improve on that
00:44:55 one kudos but i hope it starts with we the people and then the second event uh along those lines
00:45:02 maybe let not not so much along those lines more more fun is uh the whistle stop cafe um chris scott
00:45:09 who has uh uh let's talk alberta hit that's his um his uh third party advertiser uh chris scott
00:45:18 again if you don't know i'm sure you know who chris scott is right just uh like mitch sylvester
00:45:24 a pretty solid businessman who just wanted to be left alone wanted to run his with his little
00:45:30 restaurant and gas station out in amir alberta and got uh got all screwed over by our governments
00:45:38 uh during covet and then turned him into a bit of a uh an activist and a person who wants to
00:45:45 make change i love when that happens i love when that happens i love when people get uh royally
00:45:51 pissed off i'm on that fence i'm on that fence right people saw the video of me getting pissed
00:45:55 off at um at the cut lines and stuff and people keep saying like marty when are you going to run
00:46:00 for politics i'm on that fence and um so at the whistle stop on saturday more of a thank you
00:46:07 not a campaign event but more of a thank you an afternoon of uh barbecues and uh drinking pop
00:46:15 and maybe a couple of beers i don't know and some concert and sort of a thank you for people in the
00:46:20 movement uh people thank you for volunteers canvassers and things like that and i'm going
00:46:25 to be at that event as well so two two fun events coming uh i just thought i'd mention that um
00:46:33 all right well i got the hour just goes by so fast and i have stories here i have so many stories
00:46:38 i'm trying to figure out which one i want to do next i'm going to hit them in super rapid succession
00:46:43 i guess and see if they pique anybody's interest so the other news this week i come out of the
00:46:48 wood and the other news that was interesting is there was a liberal mp from scarborough ontario
00:46:55 named sean chen who resigned and uh interestingly enough you know last uh last mp that resigned was
00:47:06 a conservative and when uh when that was the seventh one in the last sort of year and everybody
00:47:12 was like oh um uh poiliev is losing uh control of his party blah blah blah well uh guess what sean
00:47:21 chen resigning is the seventh mp since um carney came into power so they're tied
00:47:28 seven seven and i think carney's had some pretty spectacular departures like stephen gilbeau
00:47:34 and uh this one was interesting for several reasons the first one is that nobody had ever
00:47:41 heard of sean his pictures on the screen there i could put sean you could have put sean in a
00:47:46 in a police lineup and nobody would have pointed him out including other mps there was mps on the
00:47:52 record saying i've been in the house of commons for years and i've never seen this guy and um
00:47:59 11 years okay 11 years sean was in the house of commons representing scarborough in and people
00:48:06 you can go and see like sort of the voting patterns and bills that they've introduced
00:48:10 and how many times they've spoken in the house comment that's all public data like easy easy
00:48:14 easy to find this guy has never introduced a bill in the house of commons hardly ever showed up for
00:48:20 work in the house of commons spoke once in recent years um so basically kind of like a nobody and
00:48:29 then he gives this excuse that uh it's not an excuse i think there's some validity to it he
00:48:34 says i got in his departure letter he's he says i got injured in a car accident a year ago and it's
00:48:40 increasingly difficult for me to travel from scarborough which is like toronto to ottawa
00:48:46 you could drive there in about four hours five hours right you don't need to fly
00:48:50 and uh so he resigns but then people get suspicious of that including our very own
00:48:56 uh andy lee sa very own she's not western standard but andy lee's a darling of the alberta um
00:49:02 independent media scene andy does some phenomenal investigation into um chinese interference in
00:49:11 canadian politics and so andy starts just revealing like video after video after video
00:49:18 and story after story after story from china and it's like it's like this guy is almost uh
00:49:23 it's like this guy's almost an mp in china like he does more promotion for chinese the chinese
00:49:29 communist party than he does for his constituents in ontario and so the the rumor now is or not the
00:49:37 rumor the prevailing theory is that this guy was one of those um uh people identified in the
00:49:45 ensacop report a couple years ago he has been compromised by the chinese he is uh maybe
00:49:52 overly compromised and and the theory is that ceases finally you know called an emergency 0.91
00:50:00 meeting with the prime minister and said mr carney this guy is a is a big risk uh he's on the list
00:50:08 and you need to get rid of him or something else and so that's the deal the deal was that he was
00:50:14 given an exit strategy and he announced his departure i think there's more to the story
00:50:20 we'll see more the reaction of the uh some of the liberal pundits defending him seemed over the top
00:50:28 you know what i mean and when when somebody goes over the top like when somebody when andy when
00:50:34 others said you know he looks suspicious and people go over the top and say oh no no he's clean
00:50:39 he's a really really good guy yeah i get suspicious so uh more there but the interesting thing is
00:50:45 again this frees up another seat in the house of commons so the the juggling is going on right we
00:50:52 have three by-elections coming up on august um when are the three elections august 31st end of
00:50:59 this month right we're two weeks away from three by-elections one in uh beaches east york and one
00:51:05 in north vancouver those two are currently liberal they'll stay liberal i'm pretty sure
00:51:09 and then the one in shikudami is the one where there's going to be some lots of fighting it's
00:51:13 currently a uh a block seat and uh maybe the block want to give it up and let the conservatives win
00:51:21 there we'll see then uh i so that wouldn't be enough to change um the balance of power but
00:51:28 then there's also one seat vacant here in calgary shaw that hasn't uh the by-election hasn't been
00:51:34 declared and then now we'll have this one in scarborough so a lot of uh i think carney's
00:51:40 minority government might stay a minority for a while longer now along those lines the other
00:51:47 interesting story that broke last week and and nobody's talking about this one online or sorry
00:51:53 on the mainstream media we're talking about it i think the western standard talked about it
00:51:58 specifically there was a uh canadian intern somebody um and an intern can be almost anything
00:52:08 Right. An intern is somebody who's who's generally younger working inside one of the departments, not in an official role.
00:52:16 So let's say you're you're a diplomat at at you're a Canadian diplomat and you work and, you know, you're in the Swiss embassy.
00:52:25 Well, there's a whole bunch of staff there that are interns.
00:52:27 those are people that are working sort of accumulating hours hoping to get an official
00:52:33 role but most of their role on the day-to-day basis is just is being secretaries to to other
00:52:39 staff so a canadian intern of chinese origin identified as uh by way zhang also known as claire
00:52:47 z was arrested uh end of july 2026 by belgian authorities on suspicion of spying for a third
00:52:54 country i wonder which third country that might be while working at nato's supreme headquarters
00:52:59 allied powers in europe uh in mons so that's big news man that's uh that's basically somebody
00:53:07 being arrested and and being um charged as a spy and uh there's the picture on the screen
00:53:15 uh doesn't uh doesn't make the news okay so that yeah john confirms the western standard did break
00:53:21 that story sorry if i to my colleagues uh i missed a few stories last week usually by the way like
00:53:29 you know i usually say it at the end of the show but i'll say it right now like you gotta get you
00:53:32 like you will not beat the kinds of stories that these even i'm impressed by the my by my colleagues
00:53:40 by the staff here at the stories that they managed to break like it's so awesome and you won't get
00:53:47 that you won't get these these kinds of uh investigative stories from just the cbc or ctv
00:53:54 or global in fact they poach stories from the western standard so get your subscription it's
00:54:01 ten dollars a month um you know and or a hundred dollars a year john will put it on the screen
00:54:08 again i usually use that as a closing i'm not ready to close yet but but that story was interesting
00:54:13 listen i gotta rush through the last couple of stories i think i got about uh what have i got
00:54:17 about uh seven eight nine minutes something like that a couple of things going on um
00:54:25 all right i'll go with the that i mentioned at the beginning of the you know at the beginning
00:54:29 of the day i mentioned um that uh my wishes were going out to the people in uh in bc looks like
00:54:37 it's their turn to face the forest fires right we had them last year this year terrible fires in bc
00:54:44 20 000 people evacuated out of uh penticton this or the penticton area this week and uh
00:54:51 but meanwhile you go across the border and uh you can go look this up you the alberta government
00:54:57 has an amazing website just google just search you know um alberta uh fire uh wildfire um
00:55:07 just that word and the monitoring site will come up you can go to a government of alberta website
00:55:11 where all the stats are there and everything that's going on guess how many fires are going
00:55:15 on in alberta right now three there's three active forest fires in alberta and they're all under
00:55:22 control meaning they're all miniature it's crazy what uh i'd say alberta really improved it's
00:55:28 it's uh not it's forest management we're still lagging on forest management i don't like the
00:55:34 forest management that's going on but at least we're compensating by bringing back some good
00:55:39 uh firefighting capabilities right we're reactivating the helicopter guys the first
00:55:45 attack guys we're putting people back into the uh fire lookout towers like we have a whole network
00:55:51 of fire lookout towers across the province across the north and they were all empty now there's guys
00:55:58 in them again uh i just happened to be by the by the way i was by the huckleberry tower
00:56:03 fire lookout uh a couple of two last week when i was visiting my hunting camp
00:56:09 and uh ross if uh some guy some guy was broken down on his truck happened upon that guy and gave
00:56:16 him a boost i think he was so happy to see somebody on one of these weird backcountry roads
00:56:21 he was out there scouting for uh for elk anyways when i take off my helmet he's like holy shit it's
00:56:27 marty so uh ross i never got your name or how you got to know me but uh find me and say hi
00:56:35 somehow or other i just want to make sure you got out okay um so all right forest fires going through
00:56:42 the stories real quick uh back to school next week and something really cool happening back
00:56:48 to school next week or a couple of weeks from now i think the kids go around september 5th or
00:56:53 whatever and here in alberta that is when bill 25 goes into effect so very proud of that bill
00:56:59 that's the one called an act to remove politics and ideology from classrooms and amend the
00:57:04 education act so that was a bill passed a little while ago and by the smith government and that's
00:57:14 the act that brings back a sort of neutrality in the schools right so schools should be focused on
00:57:22 um the math curriculum and some history and and science and things like that in literature
00:57:29 but it shouldn't be focused on uh it shouldn't be overly focused on sexuality and stuff like
00:57:35 that and then absolutely should avoid ideology so you can debate stuff but you can't present
00:57:43 some things as facts when they're you know and so one of the things no more pride flags in the
00:57:48 the schools no more um whatever it's it's schools now are all about uh the alberta flag the canadian
00:57:56 flags you can put other flags if you're talking about you know flags of the world somebody said
00:58:01 what about hockey teams i don't think we're that ridiculous right i think if you're at a school in
00:58:06 northern alberta and it's hockey playoffs and the oilers are doing okay i'm pretty sure nobody's
00:58:12 going to get uh bent out of shape for an oilers flag but hey if if we want to be absolutely across
00:58:18 the board then i'm then i'm fine with that i mean then keep it to very very pragmatically speaking
00:58:24 the alberta flag the canadian flag and whatever town you're in if i'm okay with just three flags
00:58:30 in the school room i don't need other flags and so that act goes into uh goes into effect the next
00:58:36 week and um and then i want to bring up this one uh because i got a couple of minutes um right now
00:58:44 because it's summer uh the carney liberals have given us a break oh and they took away the gasoline
00:58:52 excise tax right so back in uh june they announced this so like starting the end of june until about
00:58:59 september 5th um the the carny liberals brought the excise tax on gasoline down to zero it used
00:59:07 to be 10 cents a liter but it's set to go back to 10 cents a liter on september 5th so imagine that
00:59:14 right now i think gasoline today was like a buck 80 so without that with that tax it would be right
00:59:20 back up to a buck 90. so it goes up quickly a survey was done a couple of weeks ago saying
00:59:26 are you in favor of of the liberals permanently removing this tax and i was shocked 39 percent
00:59:33 of canadians want the tax to come back i'm like why would you want that tax to come back and the
00:59:40 number one reason people want that tax to come back is because people still think that money's
00:59:46 from certain places like money from gasoline people still think that money from the gasoline
00:59:52 tax tax goes into a special pool and it gets used only to uh fix roads or do something like that if
01:00:00 that's your reason for wanting to keep that tax that's interesting i'd still rather there were
01:00:05 less tax but let me tell you something there aren't separate buckets when our governments
01:00:10 collect money it all goes into one big giant pool and then it gets used for whatever projects they
01:00:15 want so as far as i'm concerned this tax should just remain off the books all the time because
01:00:22 it's uh it's just it's just an added cost that contributes to inflation and other things taxing
01:00:29 the gasoline that's used to transport goods plus personally right for leisure and stuff like that
01:00:35 so i anyways i just wanted to put that out there i was shocked that people still want to be taxed
01:00:40 listen we're running out of time a show went by super quick you guys made me talk too much
01:00:46 please let's like do i need to change the time to a different time to accommodate more
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01:01:14 been very active on it lately but i'm trying to become a little more active uh go see that video
01:01:20 where i was uh not happy about the um the cut lines and uh i'll see you hopefully i'll see
01:01:26 some of you tonight in airdrie some of you this weekend on saturday in mirror if not
01:01:31 I'll see you back here on Thursday next week. Cheers, folks.
01:02:01 Thank you.