Western Standard - Can Ottawa strike a tariff deal in time？

00:00:00.000 all right welcome back

00:00:28.060 happy thursday what is today the 13th holy smokes august 13th what does that mean about another

00:00:35.740 another two like it feels like just yesterday i was talking about stampede which to me is kind

00:00:40.960 of like the start of summer and now i'm already thinking about the fact that kids are going back

00:00:46.280 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

00:00:51.680 summer in alberta can last about a month and a half some years and i think this is one of those

00:00:56.560 year something something tells me we're going to have a nasty winter just my thought it's raining

00:01:03.540 today I think hopefully a lot of people are happy about that I know there's lots of smoke in the air

00:01:09.000 recently good to clear the air yesterday we had some sun you know thoughts out to the people in

00:01:16.540 BC that are affected by these fires and I'm going to come back to this right I mean I think I'm going

00:01:22.460 to talk a little bit about forest mismanagement today um but but before we get too deep in the

00:01:28.020 show uh reminder right we're trying to turn this into a call-in talk show i got a list of topics

00:01:34.580 maybe i'll i'll quickly give you the topics i'd kind of like to talk about today but really the

00:01:39.860 show's a success when you guys call in john's got the number there on the screen and i think

00:01:44.740 maybe maybe today because it's raining here in calgary and most of the province maybe you guys

00:01:49.880 are stuck indoors at your lunch hour instead of going out for a nice walk so maybe it'll

00:01:53.720 be an opportunity to call me so um what do i want to talk about today you know i'll do my usual

00:02:00.680 little monologue actually it's gonna be monologue bordering on a rant and uh but i want to talk

00:02:07.400 about uh you know the looming uh american tariffs we had another liberal mp uh resign

00:02:16.360 interesting circumstances there perhaps um we got uh we we got a couple by elections three

00:02:23.000 by elections coming up uh later this month uh in uh across canada there on uh i think it's august

00:02:30.440 29th is when uh those are happening uh we had a spy in a canadian spy in europe uh and if and a

00:02:37.960 a few other stories the the foreign students protesting here um and and so forth so uh where

00:02:45.480 to start um let me start with uh let me start with telling you where i went last week because it it

00:02:51.800 helps with uh i i discovered a couple of things right you guys know i love to uh leave and go out

00:02:58.040 in the wilderness the name marty up north is not a coincidence right it's a it's a moniker that i

00:03:03.480 acquired in my years gone by you know I started my oil and gas career living in Fox Creek Alberta

00:03:11.640 so I lived in Fox Creek for about six or seven years if you don't know where Fox Creek is you

00:03:17.020 know it's kind of like on the highway between Edmonton and Grand Prairie middle of nowhere

00:03:22.300 and then I did a stint in uh in Slave Lake Fort Saskatchewan I lived in Burstall for a while so

00:03:30.660 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.

00:03:36.980 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.

00:03:47.800 That's where I acquired the name Marty Up North, and that's where I discovered my passion for the outdoors.

00:03:52.440 and to this day i love to uh just disconnect bugger off and go on long hikes in the wilderness

00:04:01.560 and that's what i did last week so and and and there's a two-parter to this so the first thing

00:04:08.300 i did last week is uh i went back to my hunting camp my hunting camp is up around grand cache

00:04:13.600 and uh i told you guys i i set up the hunting camp me i've been hunting in this area for 35 years

00:04:20.300 with the same six or seven guys and nowadays we set up our hunting camp in july so that people

00:04:27.980 family friends can enjoy it over and over throughout the summer and then we go in there

00:04:32.700 finally in september and hunt and the area has been um the target of we we've been really affected by

00:04:43.100 the caribou management plan so in alberta alberta is forced to address caribou management and to

00:04:51.820 try and protect the caribou and i'll and i say alberta is forced to do this because caribou

00:04:56.780 protection really is animal protection really is a federal jurisdiction it's one of those things

00:05:01.900 right so ottawa has a has signed on to protect caribou and and consequently ottawa pushes that

00:05:09.900 down onto the provinces and then in here in alberta they almost hold us hostage with this

00:05:16.200 thing right protect the caribou do certain things or risk uh us coming in us being ottawa and

00:05:23.460 designated large tracts of land as national parks and things like that right and and you saw carney

00:05:28.380 this week announce more of that funny that carney's able to announce these things while he's

00:05:32.660 in italy right so he announced he announced more protected lands it's it's it's something called

00:05:37.500 you know, 30% in 2030. They want to protect 30% more lands, make them federal parks as part of

00:05:46.620 this global agenda. And so Alberta has been trying to comply with this and I'm hunting in an area

00:05:52.440 that's affected dramatically by this. And they've been in our area rolling over cut lines. So cut

00:05:59.240 lines were lines that were cut a long, long time ago by the oil companies. They were cut, they were

00:06:03.620 used to do some seismic some of these lines still exist because they're used to access sites they're

00:06:08.900 they're they they become temporary winter roads um some of the cut lines were used for pipelines and

00:06:15.060 so forth and so forth and in the area where i hunt the government estimates is there's a handful of

00:06:19.540 caribou like about 140 caribou and they're using our area as a test to um they've been testing for

00:06:29.220 for 40 years now they've been testing all these different methods of protecting the caribou right

00:06:34.420 they've gone from like let's shoot all the wolves from the air to hey let's let the wolves prosper

00:06:40.500 but let's take away the wolves favorite food so let's kill all the moose because if you know if 0.99

00:06:45.140 the moot if the if the wolves are gone the caribou will do good that didn't work uh well let's kill

00:06:50.420 their favorite food so if we kill the their favorite food the wolves will leave on their own

00:06:54.900 because and they even considered building a pen around this thing like putting a hundred kilometer

00:06:59.540 by a hundred kilometer fence and and capturing the caribou holding him in an area anyways they've

00:07:06.420 been uh we we we were consulted and we had they promised us that they weren't doing this to keep

00:07:13.380 us out that they were doing this to protect the caribou i disagree fundamentally i think their

00:07:19.380 method is flawed but they promised in consultation with us because we've been hunting there a long

00:07:24.740 time and some of my buddies that hunt with us are our treaty indians and our metis and so they were

00:07:31.220 consulted and they promised that they would leave us some cut lines unaffected or what they called

00:07:36.180 a modified treatment and that we'd still be able to use those cut lines to access our hunting grounds

00:07:41.860 well i'll tell you real quick uh i do have my own youtube channel called marty up north it's

00:07:47.620 just one word marty up north so i encourage you to go look at a video that i posted because while

00:07:51.700 i was up there we finally got to go see the these these cut lines and what they did during the

00:07:57.540 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

00:08:05.220 and if they had they they they their execution was flawed because the cut lines that were supposed

00:08:11.140 to be left open for us are almost inaccessible me and my buddies we spent hours trying to

00:08:16.980 clear one of these cut lines that were supposedly still left open for us and it took us hours

00:08:23.120 of chainsaw work just to advance a couple of kilometers so um you know it's it's for me

00:08:29.520 it's an example of uh and by the way the government of alberta is spending 55 million dollars to do

00:08:37.960 this 55 million bucks to reclaim old cut lines i'm going to stop now because it's it's going to

00:08:44.800 make me mad to think about it so just go and look at that and and you'll see it's an example of

00:08:50.380 absolute uh unnecessary work mismanagement i think this is my prediction that i made in my video

00:08:57.240 my prediction is that when they when they do the next survey of caribou in that area the population

00:09:03.780 will go down and i'll finish it with this in all my years of hunting caribou in that part of the

00:09:08.440 world i would see caribou a couple of times a year usually in the back country so when i'm deep and

00:09:14.140 hunting for moose or i'm scouting i'd see the odd caribou once in a while last year when they

00:09:20.220 started doing this this reclamation to protect the caribou they confused the caribou and now

00:09:26.380 all of a sudden last year i was we were seeing caribou i won't say everywhere but i saw more

00:09:30.460 caribou last year than i've seen in a long time but the reason i saw more caribou than i've seen

00:09:34.860 in a long time is because they confused the caribou by destroying these ancestral cut lines

00:09:40.060 and the caribous are now traveling along the dirt roads and the main pipelines they need to get from

00:09:45.820 their feeding ground to their breeding ground to their to their wintering ground they need to

00:09:50.860 transit they need to move around these lines were part of their landscape right to you and me a cut

00:09:56.060 line might be might look man-made but to a caribou who's the sixth or seventh or eighth generation

00:10:02.060 of an animal that you know these cut lines go back to the 1950s and 60s to to a fifth generation

00:10:08.380 caribou if there's such a thing these cut lines are part of their environment and so uh my prediction

00:10:14.300 now and when the animals like this are suddenly on the dirt roads and places like that they're

00:10:17.980 gonna get hunted they're gonna get slaughtered accidentally intentionally and my my prediction

00:10:23.100 is that um that will backfire on them so uh that's my first rant my second quick little rant is that

00:10:32.620 i uh because i was up north and uh after i went and visited the camp i decided to sneak in to

00:10:39.580 uh jasper national park i love you know that's one of the things i love the most is i love hiking

00:10:45.020 and so i uh i went down the old coal spur head down towards uh you know you go to hinton you go

00:10:51.740 to cadaman then you go to mountain park if you can ever tour that part of the world i encourage you

00:10:55.740 to do it the old coal branch it's called like there's a lot of history there a lot of really

00:11:00.300 formidable history of of like that explains the province right um when the railroads were being

00:11:06.780 built it was important to have supplies of coal for the railroad and so these all these little

00:11:12.700 towns existed in the 1930s and 40s just to mine coal and it's like it's a part of our heritage

00:11:18.780 right coal mining is truly a part of of alberta's heritage in fact when you go past cadaman the next

00:11:25.980 abandoned town is called um mountain park it doesn't exist anymore but as you go by mountain

00:11:31.820 park there's an old cemetery there very well kept very well kept because um because people

00:11:39.980 people who lived there in the 1930s and 40s that are dying today still request to be buried in

00:11:45.900 mountain park i follow some some groups on facebook and ever so often you see a story about a really

00:11:52.620 old guy or gal uh passing away and requesting to be buried there so when i drive by there i do my

00:11:59.020 pilgrimage go visit the cemetery but but the point of my story is i snuck into the park and i went into

00:12:05.020 uh jasper and um again when the when i when i go to a place like like that and i see that all these

00:12:16.620 amazing places all these amazing trails that we used to have in the back country

00:12:21.020 are becoming inaccessible these are trails that i've been trying that i've been walking on for

00:12:27.860 uh for a long time you know 25 30 years i've been hiking in this region i get a craving for it

00:12:34.040 and i'll head over the cardinal divide and head into uh you know into the cairn pass area and

00:12:39.720 stuff like that which is what i did last week and it's becoming almost impossible to enter that part

00:12:45.660 the world because parks canada is not maintaining any kind of trails they're just letting everything

00:12:53.900 uh grow in and become inaccessible for us and and i think that's a shame and um and again

00:13:03.020 i'll say one thing apparently they don't have my i i posted this on x apparently they don't

00:13:08.380 have money to maintain the trails and they make us pay like nine bucks i'm supposed to pay nine

00:13:13.180 bucks for a permit to go stay overnight in the backcountry so they collect money from me but

00:13:18.300 they don't have any money to uh maintain the trails but lo and behold i show up at one of

00:13:24.460 these remote backcountry sites and it happened twice there was a sign that had been nailed to

00:13:30.060 one of the trees an official parks canada sign that had been nailed to one of the trees

00:13:34.460 and it said boil water advisory i i i i was like wow they got no money but they got enough money

00:13:42.060 to fly somebody by helicopter to come and put a boil water advisory at these campsites i i would

00:13:47.900 again i'm almost at a loss for words i have no idea why they would do something that silly sometimes

00:13:53.420 i think they do it simply to antagonize people like me and some of us um who you know i i quite

00:14:02.140 honestly sometimes i imagine that it's a civil servant uh from uh from ottawa who's been transferred

00:14:07.500 to alberta who's managing the parks and he's doing these things by the way actually just just the last

00:14:13.180 thing on that topic all those cut lines i talked about earlier in my hunting area that they damaged

00:14:18.940 uh again just to add insult to injury they did put same thing you can see them along the highway

00:14:25.580 where the cut lines start they put signs that say dangerous or sorry warning uneven terrain ahead

00:14:32.300 like uh add insult to injury insult to injury all right i'll leave it at that happy to be back

00:14:38.460 it is still as it's too bad that some of my trips end up frustrating me a little bit but i'd say

00:14:44.540 overwhelmingly i still prefer to go out in the wilderness uh it's rejuvenating for me it makes

00:14:50.540 me feel good and i do realize when i'm doing it that that is one of the agendas they do not want

00:14:56.460 us in the wilderness they will um they will put aside more land and they'll designate it as parks

00:15:03.500 and they'll make it hard for us to get into those parks because they want us in the cities in their

00:15:08.940 15-minute cities where they can control us and uh where we become dependent on the states where we

00:15:15.420 will live in apartments instead of living on land you you've heard this story before and i don't

00:15:20.860 think it's a it's a conspiracy all right so uh come on guys give me a give me a buzz here

00:15:27.500 eight eight or eight six six four seven nine nine three seven eight i mean i know you know i can do

00:15:32.540 this i can talk for an hour uh in fact i practice some of my monologues when i'm walking in the

00:15:37.740 wilderness and uh you know i gotta make noise because that's you know if if you don't make

00:15:44.140 noise one of the dangers i get asked this all the time are you afraid of bears no i'm not afraid of

00:15:48.540 bears i take precautions like i bring a bear spray and i and i know the environment i look for signs

00:15:53.420 and stuff like that but a bear encounter is a reality and the most likely bear encounter for me

00:15:58.940 in the back country is just the accidental come around the corner on the trail and there's the

00:16:04.460 bear right you just accidentally come around the corner there's noise the bear's eating the water's

00:16:08.860 making noise neither the bear i hear each other and there could be a startling moment i've had

00:16:14.140 many of those over the years they've always turned out okay in every circumstance the bear spooked and

00:16:19.260 turned around i've never had one charge me even though i startled them but uh a good defense i

00:16:25.020 remind myself several times a day a day several times an hour when i'm walking in the wilderness

00:16:29.980 you'll hear me just yell out loud to myself hey bear otherwise i have these monologues sort of

00:16:35.740 like this i talk to myself out loud and i practice ideas it's a it's a crazy thing uh john any any

00:16:43.020 store any i'm just scrolling through anything uh somebody said i saw your video it made me angry

00:16:49.580 and i agree thank you um uh any other good comments here building pipelines my whole life

00:16:56.940 seen lots of caribou yeah they do exist right and and that's the other thing they exist and i don't

00:17:02.380 see what they're not an endangered species i mean the herd in northwest territories seems to be like

00:17:08.540 hundreds of thousands of individuals strong uh carney can take his 30 land grab and shove it

00:17:15.500 you know where yeah we're not gonna go there i i tend to agree with that uh okay let's move on so

00:17:21.660 i come back out of the wilderness and uh take a day to catch up do my lawn check my tomatoes

00:17:27.660 and then finally i log on to the internet and what are some of the couple of things that

00:17:33.820 show up right away well the title here is uh can ottawa um i'm having a hard time here john said

00:17:41.100 can ottawa strike a tariff deal on time and all right so let's step back you've heard this story

00:17:47.580 before but i'll repeat it right uh donald trump gets elected and donald trump has his own very

00:17:53.660 simple agenda he's gonna do what's good for americans and donald trump has a couple of beefs

00:17:59.500 against canada very reasonable beefs when he gets elected um he does he he doesn't like the trade

00:18:07.100 imbalance which which i donald i'm going to disagree with you on that one i think the trade

00:18:11.500 imbalance is just a fact of life i mean your country is 13 times bigger than ours in terms

00:18:16.540 of an economy so donald has said you know he's equated the trade imbalance as less as us abusing

00:18:22.700 it perhaps i'm sure we've taken advantage of the americans more than they've taken advantage of us

00:18:28.060 but but he's upset about the trade imbalance he's definitely upset about uh canada and many other

00:18:34.460 nations not spending their share on nato defense or u.n spendings or costs like that right so he

00:18:41.500 wants he he he accuses us of taking advantage of him of him and just uh enjoying the protection

00:18:48.460 provided by the americans which i think is legit right what kind of protections do americans

00:18:52.700 provide i mean if the russians that tried to come over the top of us through the north pole uh donald

00:18:58.860 trump would have stopped them uh on a routine basis any canadian ship that's traveling across

00:19:04.220 the atlantic or across the pacific you know you cross a ship a ship in distress in the middle of

00:19:09.340 the ocean a canadian ship coming back from japan or china bringing goods back to canada gets in

00:19:14.300 distress who's going to respond it's the americans right they they they are they they do that as a

00:19:20.220 favor and once in a while i guess donald was just saying like hey pay back once in a while so he's

00:19:25.100 upset about the imbalance uh us not meeting our two percent gd or gdp on defense and he's upset

00:19:32.700 about one of the things that was really uh bugged him a lot was the um the the the dairy cartel and

00:19:40.860 the poultry cartel so donald trump gets elected starts imposing tariffs start bringing he wants

00:19:46.780 to bring jobs back to uh to the us he's protecting his own interests he's doing what he said he would

00:19:53.500 do and then we we being canadians in general but the liberals are like hey he's attacking us and

00:19:59.500 i've said this before he wasn't attacking us he was doing what's good for them but we got caught

00:20:03.820 off guard and it looked like an attack but in reality it was just a wake-up call and um all

00:20:10.380 All right. I got a call on the line, so I'll finish my story after.

00:20:15.960 As usual, when you call me, please name, where are you calling from?

00:20:19.420 What do you want to talk about? Stay on the line a little bit,

00:20:22.000 but sometimes I'll ask you to hang up so we can, because we only have one line.

00:20:24.980 So go ahead. Where are you calling from?

00:20:28.520 Good afternoon. My name's Connie, and I'm calling from Leduc.

00:20:31.820 Hi, Connie. How are you?

00:20:34.500 Pretty good. I enjoy listening to you and your shows every week.

00:20:38.560 but i just wanted to talk about something a little bit different okay and it's on the carbon capture

00:20:44.700 okay and i had listened to a video that was done about two years ago

00:20:49.460 by robert kennedy on pipeline deception and i just thought you might want to take a listen to it one

00:20:57.440 day on robert kennedy on what what was the topic that robert kennedy robert kennedy on pipeline

00:21:06.360 deception okay and it has to do with carbon capture and when things go wrong what can happen

00:21:13.960 where deaths can occur and everything like that it goes back to october of 2024 okay um and i just

00:21:21.880 wanted to bring it to your attention and if you wanted to research it a little bit more and listen

00:21:25.880 to that video that's on youtube and it's very enlightening and i'm just not really for this

00:21:31.000 carbon captured i think it's a waste of money oh it's and i just yeah yeah no uh well if you want

00:21:38.200 to stay on the line stay on the line if not thanks for calling bonnie but no i uh carbon capture is uh

00:21:44.760 you know back to me walking in the forest right i mean when i'm walking in in canadian forest

00:21:50.760 like in northern alberta like most people have no idea just how vast the boreal forest of north

00:21:58.440 america is and most of it is in canada like it's huge and and you go around and you see all this

00:22:04.100 growth and all these trees and what are those trees doing they're capturing carbon and so for

00:22:09.380 for humanity to think for for a small little group of humans to think that we can uh build a facility

00:22:16.220 i don't know where fort saskatchewan or somewhere like that and grab a little bit of carbon that

00:22:20.260 comes off the exhaust of a couple of plants and plants by that i mean manufacturing plants oil

00:22:25.380 plants and then injected in the ground your bonnie if she's still online is absolutely right

00:22:30.000 it's a monumental waste of money actually i am still on the line but i just wanted you to watch

00:22:37.560 this video it's not very long yeah and it talks about it happened in iowa where some of this

00:22:42.400 carbon capture got released and people died oh for sure for sure and and vehicles stopped moving

00:22:49.940 yeah yeah because they'd be asphyxiated right i mean if if you when you get asphyxiated if i remove

00:22:56.420 the air in the room you'll be asphyxiated but if instead of removing the air i fill it with carbon

00:23:01.140 dioxide it's the same thing it'd be like uh it'd be like putting that turning on your car exhaust

00:23:06.660 in your garage with the door closed you'll asphyxiate yourself in no time so a release

00:23:11.060 from a carbon capture facility could be absolutely devastating anyways it's about a 26 minute video

00:23:18.900 and we watched it and i passed it on to a bunch of friends and i just thought if i brought it to

00:23:22.980 your attention maybe some of your viewers can listen to it and it's it's actually quite

00:23:28.180 enlightening and i just wanted to say i really enjoy your show and keep up the good work thanks

00:23:32.660 for calling bonnie you betcha um bye-bye all right bye-bye um yeah well i'll uh i'll go take a look

00:23:40.420 at it and um you know that's what this is all about that's the thing we want to do we want to

00:23:44.820 to have that dialogue between people and we've talked a lot about carbon capture in Alberta here

00:23:51.520 the big carbon capture project is called the Pathways Alliance and it's one of those things

00:23:56.080 again where actually today it wasn't really on my agenda today I'll save that one for another day I

00:24:01.340 wasn't going to go hard on Danielle Smith Danielle's been kind of quiet there's in there's plenty of

00:24:05.960 other politicians to to sort of mock this week but let's go back just to the tariff story so

00:24:11.640 so uh trump got elected and then the liberals turned him into a boogeyman and and and promoted

00:24:19.400 mark carney as the option the best option um to protect canada against carney and some of 0.89

00:24:26.520 against trump and carney's initial promises remember how ridiculous they were like he was

00:24:32.320 going to make canada uh the best performing economy in the g7 uh we were going to be sort 0.77

00:24:39.280 the leaders of a new world order he's going to put us in bed with uh china he's going to double down

00:24:44.880 on the alliance with europe blah blah blah blah blah and uh trump is just sitting there going

00:24:49.680 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

00:24:55.440 trump was limited trump made his beefs known he made his beefs known oh and there was one other

00:25:02.000 big beef at the beginning right um it was also the fentanyl crisis right let's not re

00:25:08.800 let's not forget that trump was upset that a lot of fentanyl was coming over the border from canada

00:25:14.880 even that one surprised me you know when you look into that one i was like that seems a little

00:25:19.040 extreme i had a hard time wrapping my head around the fact that more fentanyl was going into can

00:25:23.920 into the u.s from canada than in mexico but it turns out that that's the fact our border is like

00:25:28.720 wide open so uh press forward and and and the those kinds of menaces like trump's beefs were

00:25:37.360 big with canada of course because canada is the us's biggest trading partner so of course he's

00:25:42.400 got a big beef with us but he had similar beefs with other countries and most other countries

00:25:47.840 saw what was happening heard the wake-up call dealt with it but not canada and not uh not not

00:25:57.520 china right and canada in particular we double down we like we'll we'll do our own tariffs we'll

00:26:02.720 We'll take American booze off the table.

00:26:04.720 We'll do this. 0.92

00:26:05.300 We'll do that.

00:26:05.860 Right.

00:26:06.020 Who can forget the Doug Ford pouring, you know, Crown Royal on the ground and so forth.

00:26:13.940 And so and and then what were we told by the liberals and the people who elected Mark Carney?

00:26:19.800 We were told that Donald Trump is the biggest existential threat to our existence in like 100 years.

00:26:27.000 right not world war ii not uh the economic crisis of 2007 or four or all the other crisis not

00:26:35.560 covid none of those things the biggest threat to canada's uh sovereignty ever is donald trump

00:26:43.240 so on a threat like that you think well it should be all hands on board and let's be let's put aside

00:26:48.840 partisan politics and let's form a special committee and let's deal with trump but nope 0.99

00:26:54.040 uh canada doubles downs does a couple of stupid things and so it's a back and forth we go into a 0.99

00:26:59.780 fallout trade war and predictably we're not going to win a trade war okay we're not going to win a 0.99

00:27:05.060 trade war against the u.s and the latest salvo from donald trump is that on august 19th a new

00:27:11.840 round of tariffs he was limited on the tariffs he could impose on us by the way and i'm i know

00:27:17.780 and because of kuzma because of the free trade deal and whatnot right he couldn't impose too

00:27:22.580 many tariffs there was already a lot of deals you know um 70 of the trade we do with the u.s was

00:27:28.260 protected by by the free trade agreement so his ability to impose tariffs was pretty limited and

00:27:34.560 i remember like uh like i'm not saying i told you so you know many of us have said the same thing but

00:27:39.940 i remember saying just don't retaliate man because an american tariff is not a hit on us it's just

00:27:46.860 going to force us to be more efficient anyways he's hitting us next week with uh a 50 tariff now

00:27:54.780 on an additional 20 billion dollars worth of trade so he's hitting things that weren't in there

00:28:00.220 and like he's really squeezing us supposedly this is existential and where's carny like if it's

00:28:07.980 existential with this threat looming you'd think carny would be all over this but carny right now

00:28:13.580 is in italy relaxing and uh he's got his best lieutenants on this i don't know who his best

00:28:19.660 lieutenant is on this can you guys tell me who uh carney's second in command is because i

00:28:24.140 like nobody nobody comes to mind so we got um so so i some people are saying that we're

00:28:30.940 capitulating we're not capitulating we're facing reality and and i think the reality is

00:28:38.060 that we better start removing some of the we better start doing some of the things that trump

00:28:42.860 wants us to do in fact we don't have to and they're simple right fix the border stop the the

00:28:49.180 fentanyl going across there's been efforts to do that but um you know i haven't heard too much

00:28:54.380 lately i mean there was a sort of a lot of announcements at the beginning right we had

00:28:57.660 the fentanyl czar we bought a couple of black hawk helicopters but i think donald wants something

00:29:03.180 concrete uh increased military spending from two percent to five percent gdp i'm in favor of that

00:29:10.220 i i love our canadian military it used to be a proud institution it's been kind of beat up after

00:29:16.220 afghanistan and they needed some rebuilding and the rebuilding to me that was a no-brainer right

00:29:22.300 um we we needed the equipment we needed to buy it what should we have done we should have just

00:29:27.900 gone told somebody in canada here here's uh you know here's 20 billion dollars go on a shopping

00:29:33.420 trip head on down to vegas go to the next defense show in vegas buy buy 20 off the shelf f-16s by

00:29:41.740 60 000 new rifles by two frigates by um i don't know ten thousand a thousand humvees or whatever

00:29:50.300 the heck it is buy a whole bunch of stuff off the shelf from the u.s quickly make them happy but

00:29:55.980 instead we're increasing our spending the way we've our military spending the way we've always done it

00:30:01.500 which is we study it, study it, study it, study it,

00:30:05.120 bid it out, bid it out, bid it out,

00:30:06.840 like, you know, and then cancel stuff. 1.00

00:30:09.620 Cancel the F-35s.

00:30:10.840 Oh, no, they're back on.

00:30:11.840 Cancel them.

00:30:12.660 So we study it to death.

00:30:14.220 We make it ridiculously difficult to bid for the jobs.

00:30:17.860 And then when it's time to pick a company,

00:30:20.400 we do like we just recently did with the submarines

00:30:22.580 and we go buy submarines from Germany.

00:30:25.680 We don't need submarines.

00:30:27.180 Or if we needed submarines, 0.99

00:30:28.240 we should have bought them from the Americans.

00:30:29.580 fix the bid so that the americans can win it right so so we're not doing the things that

00:30:34.680 donald wants and we're and and then the last one to me i talked about this last week it is such an

00:30:39.420 easy one we should have lifted the the we should have unprotected the dairy cartel we should have

00:30:46.900 said yeah you're right donald um our our our tariffs on milk and and poultry in your country

00:30:53.380 are ridiculous because they're as high as 400 right the other way around and and i think we've

00:30:58.640 protecting the dairy cartels in this country and i think they would do just fine on their own

00:31:04.400 without protection but again i'll encourage you to go look at this what was the first what was

00:31:10.320 one of the first bills passed by uh the liberals when they got elected right so they got elected

00:31:17.040 in april of 2029 and the first bill that they passed wasn't even in the fit like the bills

00:31:23.040 bills usually go like when the government presents a bill it goes with a c and a single digit c1 c2

00:31:29.840 c3 c4 c1's always reserved for just it's just sort of a courtesy bill saying kind of like

00:31:36.640 we're opening parliament so then c2 should be the first official bill wasn't c2 that was passed it

00:31:42.800 wasn't a single digit bill the first bill that was passed in the house of commons in the after

00:31:49.200 in the days following uh the election of the liberals was bill c202 which is a members bill

00:31:57.840 which usually gets a lower priority but c202 is the first one that passed and c202 is was a bill

00:32:06.320 that literally said anybody who negotiates on behalf of canada with the us or with any country

00:32:13.600 cannot give any concessions that involve the dairy cartel so right off the bat anyways a long story

00:32:21.040 short um so here we are existential threat uh coming down the pipe and um carney is nowhere

00:32:30.480 to be seen and i haven't heard anything that's meaningful except a whole bunch of ranting uh

00:32:37.680 doug ford is still looking like a lunatic i think it's only a matter of time now actually what's

00:32:42.880 going to be what's going to be really interesting here is some of my prediction we will concede we 0.85

00:32:48.160 have no choice we will reverse some of these bad ideas we will put american booze back on the table

00:32:55.040 it's it's back on the shelves and liquor stores that's common sense what's going to be really

00:32:59.920 really interesting is watching the mainstream media and the pundits and the and the and the

00:33:05.680 politicians do all sorts of back flips as to why they they won't say they won't say that they failed

00:33:12.640 they'll just they'll just make an excuse and my prediction this is my weird prediction but

00:33:16.640 i haven't you know how donald trump or donald trump how doug ford was pouring whiskey on the

00:33:21.440 on the ground which was a bizarre move i have a feeling donald or donald i gotta stop saying that

00:33:27.200 i have a feeling doug ford we're gonna see doug ford in the next month pouring himself an american

00:33:33.040 bourbon on stage and promoting the americans that's my prediction that's that's that's how far

00:33:38.960 crazy we're getting um just staying quickly so come on guys like it it's a rainy day i know you

00:33:47.920 have a day off or not a day off it's lunchtime no it's past lunchtime give me a call folks don't

00:33:54.240 make me do all the talking give me a call eight eight eight six six four seven nine nine three

00:34:00.400 seven eight uh before i keep going let me go let me go check uh

00:34:04.320 Uh, any, any comments there, John?

00:34:08.180 Actually, I got a bunch of, I got to remove things.

00:34:10.660 I got too many.

00:34:12.700 Uh, oh, I don't want to do that.

00:34:18.960 All right.

00:34:19.680 Good afternoon from Tabor.

00:34:21.840 Oh, hey, before I go, um, I forgot about this.

00:34:24.500 I started the show, uh, something about Tabor just made me think about this.

00:34:28.240 uh a couple of big events coming up in calgary today and this weekend tonight if you can tonight

00:34:37.400 uh big news uh take uh no the alberta prosperity project right so the alberta prosperity project

00:34:44.660 the original group that uh that's been around for five years they're the ones who really started

00:34:50.540 promoting alberta independence alberta prosperity project is the uh education arm take or um stay

00:34:59.580 free alberta became the the execution arm there that was the the the website that collected the

00:35:07.740 signatures now that the signatures are collected and counted um stay free alberta still exists but

00:35:14.940 it went radio silent and now the alberta prosperity project is back as the educational arm

00:35:20.540 and so uh and and that is mitch sylvester and uh jeff rath and several others they're going to be

00:35:28.120 in airdrie tonight i believe it's at 7 p.m i don't know where um easy to find right go on the

00:35:35.520 internet and look up alberta prosperity project and look up events on the tab or go on it's being

00:35:41.740 talked about you shouldn't have a hard time finding it and um so mitch is going to be in

00:35:46.980 Airdrie tonight at 7 p.m. and he's unveiling the um the proposed constitution what their idea right

00:35:56.460 this is not the constitution actually I shouldn't even say the proposed constitution it's one

00:36:03.100 proposed constitution right because at this point um you know 30 percent of the people are determined

00:36:09.000 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

00:36:13.140 i just want out and i'll figure out the details later 30 of albertans will never leave there

00:36:18.420 they they want to stay in canada this failed experiment and the 30 in the middle want more

00:36:22.900 details tonight is an example of details and there's a second event but before i go to the

00:36:26.740 second event go ahead caller where are you calling from and what's on your mind

00:36:30.580 uh hi marty um i'm calling from texas usa wow howdy how are you how y'all doing i'm doing good

00:36:42.320 um i just got a quick question and then i'll hang up and listen what exactly does the united states

00:36:50.340 actually gain from any negotiations with canada as far as trade what do we gain

00:36:57.360 um yeah well okay stay on the line i mean it's like we we

00:37:07.380 you what you guys generally buy from us is a bunch of materials you buy materials

00:37:19.320 and and that and the materials you want you want those materials you want uh you want potash you

00:37:26.160 want uh our oil and our minerals and things like that and in return we we we buy from you guys

00:37:34.960 finished goods that's always been the relationship and and what happened i think in the last many

00:37:41.920 years is that we started competing against you unfairly or taking advantage of you and so we

00:37:47.920 We started having car plants.

00:37:50.220 We started subsidizing and using our tax dollars to attract manufacturers to Canada to compete against you.

00:38:02.920 And that didn't make sense.

00:38:04.800 I didn't think it made sense.

00:38:05.880 And it obviously doesn't make sense.

00:38:07.440 And it aggravated your current president.

00:38:10.540 So we started competing against you unfairly in a sense.

00:38:14.780 and and so that's where the trade agreements are important right like if we have truly free trade

00:38:21.520 one of the things we would do is not subsidize our industries directly to compete against you so

00:38:27.580 i i don't know if that answers it but i mean you know we shouldn't be fighting each other

00:38:32.520 we should be complementing each other and and and uh but unfortunately some of them go ahead

00:38:40.060 you know you're right but you know when you listed those things of what we could get from

00:38:47.520 canada that we want from canada the minerals and stuff those are the oil well it comes from

00:38:55.580 alberta yeah the potash the uranium it comes from saskatchewan largely yep

00:39:01.680 what i mean you know nickel or whatever we might get from ontario or quebec or something like that

00:39:11.120 but i mean other than that kind of things what do we really we get from you we can get nickel

00:39:20.840 from other sources there are other sources of the nickel yeah yeah you're speaking my language i

00:39:25.740 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

00:39:37.780 would almost only trade with alberta and saskatchewan and have almost no trade with the

00:39:41.840 other provinces but unfortunately because of the way we're structured as a confederation

00:39:46.520 ottawa forces limits on us they literally hold out back alberta and saskatchewan and limit us

00:39:55.020 how much trade we can do with the americans in order to force some trade with the other provinces

00:39:59.820 if that makes sense so um it's all convoluted what's that yeah absolutely it's it's the it's

00:40:08.860 the things that can't move from say alberta or saskatchewan you know the minerals but everything

00:40:17.580 else if it's manufacturing we don't need it nope we can do that here 100 no no we should

00:40:26.540 if if rt why ontario is is is such a huff yeah yeah if our two countries were uh more mine if

00:40:35.260 my country was managed by reasonable people because the other thing we've been hit by a

00:40:40.140 dose of ideology we've had we've had lots of people that you know they convince they convince

00:40:45.180 themselves especially out east that what we were good at like producing oil cutting trees they

00:40:51.420 somehow or other convince themselves that those were bad right those are bad and we need to do

00:40:56.860 green stuff better stuff you know what i mean so so we convince ourselves that what we were good at

00:41:03.700 was a bad thing and and and reality is hitting right and so and we were managed by immature

00:41:11.060 people in in in immature politicians who drove their agendas versus dealing with reality reality

00:41:18.200 is we have an amazing partner next door a huge market and you guys want raw goods and we should

00:41:24.620 buy finished goods from you guys and if we if we were if the two sides were managed by really

00:41:29.460 um good people we would all benefit you guys luckily continue to benefit because you're so big

00:41:36.920 we shot ourselves in the foot yeah yeah but you know let's say in an independent Alberta

00:41:44.440 if they if it were independent um all it would really need to do to to sell its resources

00:41:53.140 elsewhere is the refineries do we find it directly there in Alberta you can refine it there yeah

00:42:02.600 there's pros and cons i mean how many refineries how many refineries does alberta or canada have

00:42:10.700 for that matter as a whole not very many it's got to be sent here before it's got to be sent here

00:42:16.980 pretty much to be refined and sent back no no no no uh no we we have enough refinery to make to

00:42:24.520 refine what we need like you know we make we make a lot of oil by the way right texas makes about

00:42:29.160 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

00:42:36.960 500 000 barrels here that we turn into gasoline for our own consumption and then we just export

00:42:41.480 oil you're talking about should we export gasoline that'd be a great market but we just don't at this

00:42:46.160 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

00:42:53.280 wanted to become an independent country it could instead of just exporting you know uh

00:43:01.440 you know because you your oil and whatnot took for refining yeah no no we're on the same page

00:43:14.880 yeah no where i i'm in agreement but at this point i'm just trying to

00:43:19.040 you know one uh oil is is the building a refinery that's a longer term thing i mean

00:43:25.120 will the refineries are very big very complicated i mean i can get i can barely get a you know a

00:43:31.760 a simple thing built here i'm not even trying to get a refinery built that would be that would make

00:43:36.160 head spin you know you know what i mean like it takes 10 years to get a permit to build something

00:43:40.320 simple so refineries are off the chart but in the future yes but the data center but data centers

00:43:48.560 those are simple things yes yes yeah thanks for the call hope uh hope things are good in texas

00:43:54.640 there cheers no okay take care marty take care thank you um hey that's i think the first call

00:44:01.600 i got from the us that's awesome uh where was i just oh finishing so that so tonight uh mitch

00:44:08.160 sylvester will be in airdrie unveiling his idea stay free albertas or not stay free alberta

00:44:14.800 alberta prosperity projects idea for a a constitution for an independent alberta i'll

00:44:21.600 be there tonight because i'm honestly i'm i'm very curious to see what kind of uh document

00:44:27.120 he's proposing uh mitch if you're listening i only have one real big hope i hope that the first three

00:44:33.120 words of your document are we the people i don't think we need to overthink this one just look to

00:44:39.120 the u.s look at the american constitution uh look at the amendments that they've added to it and i

00:44:44.960 think it's a pretty solid document it's one of the better i can't think of a better constitution in

00:44:50.400 the world than the american one so um if you somehow or other think you can improve on that

00:44:55.280 one kudos but i hope it starts with we the people and then the second event uh along those lines

00:45:02.000 maybe let not not so much along those lines more more fun is uh the whistle stop cafe um chris scott

00:45:09.040 who has uh uh let's talk alberta hit that's his um his uh third party advertiser uh chris scott

00:45:18.000 again if you don't know i'm sure you know who chris scott is right just uh like mitch sylvester

00:45:24.480 a pretty solid businessman who just wanted to be left alone wanted to run his with his little

00:45:30.720 restaurant and gas station out in amir alberta and got uh got all screwed over by our governments

00:45:38.240 uh during covet and then turned him into a bit of a uh an activist and a person who wants to

00:45:45.120 make change i love when that happens i love when that happens i love when people get uh royally

00:45:51.360 pissed off i'm on that fence i'm on that fence right people saw the video of me getting pissed

00:45:55.600 off at um at the cut lines and stuff and people keep saying like marty when are you going to run

00:46:00.240 for politics i'm on that fence and um so at the whistle stop on saturday more of a thank you

00:46:07.600 not a campaign event but more of a thank you an afternoon of uh barbecues and uh drinking pop

00:46:15.200 and maybe a couple of beers i don't know and some concert and sort of a thank you for people in the

00:46:20.880 movement uh people thank you for volunteers canvassers and things like that and i'm going

00:46:25.760 to be at that event as well so two two fun events coming uh i just thought i'd mention that um

00:46:33.040 all right well i got the hour just goes by so fast and i have stories here i have so many stories

00:46:38.400 i'm trying to figure out which one i want to do next i'm going to hit them in super rapid succession

00:46:43.280 i guess and see if they pique anybody's interest so the other news this week i come out of the

00:46:48.160 wood and the other news that was interesting is there was a liberal mp from scarborough ontario

00:46:55.120 named sean chen who resigned and uh interestingly enough you know last uh last mp that resigned was

00:47:06.160 a conservative and when uh when that was the seventh one in the last sort of year and everybody

00:47:12.640 was like oh um uh poiliev is losing uh control of his party blah blah blah well uh guess what sean

00:47:21.440 chen resigning is the seventh mp since um carney came into power so they're tied

00:47:28.560 seven seven and i think carney's had some pretty spectacular departures like stephen gilbeau

00:47:34.880 and uh this one was interesting for several reasons the first one is that nobody had ever

00:47:41.760 heard of sean his pictures on the screen there i could put sean you could have put sean in a

00:47:46.240 in a police lineup and nobody would have pointed him out including other mps there was mps on the

00:47:52.320 record saying i've been in the house of commons for years and i've never seen this guy and um

00:47:59.360 11 years okay 11 years sean was in the house of commons representing scarborough in and people

00:48:06.400 you can go and see like sort of the voting patterns and bills that they've introduced

00:48:10.880 and how many times they've spoken in the house comment that's all public data like easy easy

00:48:14.800 easy to find this guy has never introduced a bill in the house of commons hardly ever showed up for

00:48:20.640 work in the house of commons spoke once in recent years um so basically kind of like a nobody and

00:48:29.840 then he gives this excuse that uh it's not an excuse i think there's some validity to it he

00:48:34.720 says i got in his departure letter he's he says i got injured in a car accident a year ago and it's

00:48:40.960 increasingly difficult for me to travel from scarborough which is like toronto to ottawa

00:48:46.400 you could drive there in about four hours five hours right you don't need to fly

00:48:50.480 and uh so he resigns but then people get suspicious of that including our very own

00:48:56.320 uh andy lee sa very own she's not western standard but andy lee's a darling of the alberta um

00:49:02.960 independent media scene andy does some phenomenal investigation into um chinese interference in

00:49:11.680 canadian politics and so andy starts just revealing like video after video after video

00:49:18.400 and story after story after story from china and it's like it's like this guy is almost uh

00:49:23.920 it's like this guy's almost an mp in china like he does more promotion for chinese the chinese

00:49:29.200 communist party than he does for his constituents in ontario and so the the rumor now is or not the

00:49:37.040 rumor the prevailing theory is that this guy was one of those um uh people identified in the

00:49:45.120 ensacop report a couple years ago he has been compromised by the chinese he is uh maybe

00:49:52.400 overly compromised and and the theory is that ceases finally you know called an emergency 0.91

00:50:00.720 meeting with the prime minister and said mr carney this guy is a is a big risk uh he's on the list

00:50:08.160 and you need to get rid of him or something else and so that's the deal the deal was that he was

00:50:14.560 given an exit strategy and he announced his departure i think there's more to the story

00:50:20.000 we'll see more the reaction of the uh some of the liberal pundits defending him seemed over the top

00:50:28.480 you know what i mean and when when somebody goes over the top like when somebody when andy when

00:50:34.080 others said you know he looks suspicious and people go over the top and say oh no no he's clean

00:50:39.200 he's a really really good guy yeah i get suspicious so uh more there but the interesting thing is

00:50:45.680 again this frees up another seat in the house of commons so the the juggling is going on right we

00:50:52.620 have three by-elections coming up on august um when are the three elections august 31st end of

00:50:59.140 this month right we're two weeks away from three by-elections one in uh beaches east york and one

00:51:05.420 in north vancouver those two are currently liberal they'll stay liberal i'm pretty sure

00:51:09.500 and then the one in shikudami is the one where there's going to be some lots of fighting it's

00:51:13.880 currently a uh a block seat and uh maybe the block want to give it up and let the conservatives win

00:51:21.420 there we'll see then uh i so that wouldn't be enough to change um the balance of power but

00:51:28.520 then there's also one seat vacant here in calgary shaw that hasn't uh the by-election hasn't been

00:51:34.820 declared and then now we'll have this one in scarborough so a lot of uh i think carney's

00:51:40.320 minority government might stay a minority for a while longer now along those lines the other

00:51:47.280 interesting story that broke last week and and nobody's talking about this one online or sorry

00:51:53.440 on the mainstream media we're talking about it i think the western standard talked about it

00:51:58.240 specifically there was a uh canadian intern somebody um and an intern can be almost anything

00:52:08.320 Right. An intern is somebody who's who's generally younger working inside one of the departments, not in an official role.

00:52:16.480 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.

00:52:25.380 Well, there's a whole bunch of staff there that are interns.

00:52:27.860 those are people that are working sort of accumulating hours hoping to get an official

00:52:33.140 role but most of their role on the day-to-day basis is just is being secretaries to to other

00:52:39.700 staff so a canadian intern of chinese origin identified as uh by way zhang also known as claire

00:52:47.780 z was arrested uh end of july 2026 by belgian authorities on suspicion of spying for a third

00:52:54.580 country i wonder which third country that might be while working at nato's supreme headquarters

00:52:59.700 allied powers in europe uh in mons so that's big news man that's uh that's basically somebody

00:53:07.140 being arrested and and being um charged as a spy and uh there's the picture on the screen

00:53:15.780 uh doesn't uh doesn't make the news okay so that yeah john confirms the western standard did break

00:53:21.620 that story sorry if i to my colleagues uh i missed a few stories last week usually by the way like

00:53:29.140 you know i usually say it at the end of the show but i'll say it right now like you gotta get you

00:53:32.900 like you will not beat the kinds of stories that these even i'm impressed by the my by my colleagues

00:53:40.580 by the staff here at the stories that they managed to break like it's so awesome and you won't get

00:53:47.940 that you won't get these these kinds of uh investigative stories from just the cbc or ctv

00:53:54.580 or global in fact they poach stories from the western standard so get your subscription it's

00:54:01.700 ten dollars a month um you know and or a hundred dollars a year john will put it on the screen

00:54:08.500 again i usually use that as a closing i'm not ready to close yet but but that story was interesting

00:54:13.140 listen i gotta rush through the last couple of stories i think i got about uh what have i got

00:54:17.620 about uh seven eight nine minutes something like that a couple of things going on um

00:54:25.060 all right i'll go with the that i mentioned at the beginning of the you know at the beginning

00:54:29.460 of the day i mentioned um that uh my wishes were going out to the people in uh in bc looks like

00:54:37.620 it's their turn to face the forest fires right we had them last year this year terrible fires in bc

00:54:44.180 20 000 people evacuated out of uh penticton this or the penticton area this week and uh

00:54:51.860 but meanwhile you go across the border and uh you can go look this up you the alberta government

00:54:57.620 has an amazing website just google just search you know um alberta uh fire uh wildfire um

00:55:07.140 just that word and the monitoring site will come up you can go to a government of alberta website

00:55:11.780 where all the stats are there and everything that's going on guess how many fires are going

00:55:15.540 on in alberta right now three there's three active forest fires in alberta and they're all under

00:55:22.420 control meaning they're all miniature it's crazy what uh i'd say alberta really improved it's

00:55:28.580 it's uh not it's forest management we're still lagging on forest management i don't like the

00:55:34.100 forest management that's going on but at least we're compensating by bringing back some good

00:55:39.540 uh firefighting capabilities right we're reactivating the helicopter guys the first

00:55:45.320 attack guys we're putting people back into the uh fire lookout towers like we have a whole network

00:55:51.140 of fire lookout towers across the province across the north and they were all empty now there's guys

00:55:58.000 in them again uh i just happened to be by the by the way i was by the huckleberry tower

00:56:03.200 fire lookout uh a couple of two last week when i was visiting my hunting camp

00:56:09.180 and uh ross if uh some guy some guy was broken down on his truck happened upon that guy and gave

00:56:16.800 him a boost i think he was so happy to see somebody on one of these weird backcountry roads

00:56:21.320 he was out there scouting for uh for elk anyways when i take off my helmet he's like holy shit it's

00:56:27.420 marty so uh ross i never got your name or how you got to know me but uh find me and say hi

00:56:35.180 somehow or other i just want to make sure you got out okay um so all right forest fires going through

00:56:42.660 the stories real quick uh back to school next week and something really cool happening back

00:56:48.500 to school next week or a couple of weeks from now i think the kids go around september 5th or

00:56:53.200 whatever and here in alberta that is when bill 25 goes into effect so very proud of that bill

00:56:59.760 that's the one called an act to remove politics and ideology from classrooms and amend the

00:57:04.880 education act so that was a bill passed a little while ago and by the smith government and that's

00:57:14.000 the act that brings back a sort of neutrality in the schools right so schools should be focused on

00:57:22.000 um the math curriculum and some history and and science and things like that in literature

00:57:29.440 but it shouldn't be focused on uh it shouldn't be overly focused on sexuality and stuff like

00:57:35.760 that and then absolutely should avoid ideology so you can debate stuff but you can't present

00:57:43.040 some things as facts when they're you know and so one of the things no more pride flags in the

00:57:48.960 the schools no more um whatever it's it's schools now are all about uh the alberta flag the canadian

00:57:56.520 flags you can put other flags if you're talking about you know flags of the world somebody said

00:58:01.940 what about hockey teams i don't think we're that ridiculous right i think if you're at a school in

00:58:06.760 northern alberta and it's hockey playoffs and the oilers are doing okay i'm pretty sure nobody's

00:58:12.100 going to get uh bent out of shape for an oilers flag but hey if if we want to be absolutely across

00:58:18.960 the board then i'm then i'm fine with that i mean then keep it to very very pragmatically speaking

00:58:24.160 the alberta flag the canadian flag and whatever town you're in if i'm okay with just three flags

00:58:30.120 in the school room i don't need other flags and so that act goes into uh goes into effect the next

00:58:36.560 week and um and then i want to bring up this one uh because i got a couple of minutes um right now

00:58:44.640 because it's summer uh the carney liberals have given us a break oh and they took away the gasoline

00:58:52.880 excise tax right so back in uh june they announced this so like starting the end of june until about

00:58:59.280 september 5th um the the carny liberals brought the excise tax on gasoline down to zero it used

00:59:07.360 to be 10 cents a liter but it's set to go back to 10 cents a liter on september 5th so imagine that

00:59:14.960 right now i think gasoline today was like a buck 80 so without that with that tax it would be right

00:59:20.400 back up to a buck 90. so it goes up quickly a survey was done a couple of weeks ago saying

00:59:26.080 are you in favor of of the liberals permanently removing this tax and i was shocked 39 percent

00:59:33.360 of canadians want the tax to come back i'm like why would you want that tax to come back and the

00:59:40.080 number one reason people want that tax to come back is because people still think that money's

00:59:46.480 from certain places like money from gasoline people still think that money from the gasoline

00:59:52.000 tax tax goes into a special pool and it gets used only to uh fix roads or do something like that if

01:00:00.560 that's your reason for wanting to keep that tax that's interesting i'd still rather there were

01:00:05.200 less tax but let me tell you something there aren't separate buckets when our governments

01:00:10.160 collect money it all goes into one big giant pool and then it gets used for whatever projects they

01:00:15.440 want so as far as i'm concerned this tax should just remain off the books all the time because

01:00:22.880 it's uh it's just it's just an added cost that contributes to inflation and other things taxing

01:00:29.200 the gasoline that's used to transport goods plus personally right for leisure and stuff like that

01:00:35.760 so i anyways i just wanted to put that out there i was shocked that people still want to be taxed

01:00:40.560 listen we're running out of time a show went by super quick you guys made me talk too much

01:00:46.320 please let's like do i need to change the time to a different time to accommodate more

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01:01:08.960 do me a quick personal favor go check out marty up north on youtube i have my own channel i haven't

01:01:14.240 been very active on it lately but i'm trying to become a little more active uh go see that video

01:01:20.080 where i was uh not happy about the um the cut lines and uh i'll see you hopefully i'll see

01:01:26.640 some of you tonight in airdrie some of you this weekend on saturday in mirror if not

01:01:31.360 I'll see you back here on Thursday next week. Cheers, folks.

01:02:01.360 Thank you.

Western Standard - August 14, 2026

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