Western Standard - Canada can’t afford free housing

00:00:00.000 Good day.

00:00:28.880 Hey, welcome to the Cory Morgan Show. It's my weekly opportunity to get everything off my chest,

00:00:33.660 cover a few of what I feel are the top stories of the day, interview some interesting people,

00:00:37.480 and solve the world's problems. We pack that all into 45 minutes. Thanks for tuning in. It's a

00:00:42.720 beautiful fall day out there for folks in Alberta, maybe everywhere. I don't know. We didn't get much

00:00:47.000 of a summer, but I can't complain about the September so far. I mean, I'll complain about

00:00:50.140 all sorts of things, but I won't hit on the weather today anyways. Another good show coming

00:00:54.280 up here in a bit. My guest coming on is school board trustee candidate Jennifer Stewart. And I

00:01:01.440 know people say, oh, school board trustees. Well, look what's been going on, guys. We've got porn

00:01:06.800 showing up in school libraries. We've got a school board and open rebellion up in Edmonton. And whose

00:01:11.900 fault's all that? Well, actually, it's ours because we never pay attention to those school

00:01:15.800 board trustee elections and let the nutcases get into power. So Jennifer's going to share a lot 1.00

00:01:20.880 with us and how that works and what's going on, what her campaign's on, and maybe, you know,

00:01:24.480 encourage more folks to seek it out so perhaps we can get a better crop of trustees in there.

00:01:29.280 We'll see. All right, let's get started on a policy thing and what's got me wound up right now.

00:01:34.300 Mark Carney, you know, was announced with Big Fanfare, his $13 billion housing initiative,

00:01:38.500 and it highlights everything that's wrong with the Canadian system and why things aren't going

00:01:42.800 to be improving under the Carney government. I mean, to begin with, it proves Carney's claims

00:01:47.140 that he's going to streamline the government and reduce the bureaucracy to be hollow. The Trudeau

00:01:51.880 government nearly doubled the civil service over 10 years. Carney implied the growth was

00:01:55.880 unsustainable and he's going to get the bloat under control. But then he announces a new agency

00:02:00.580 was going to employ hundreds, if not thousands more civil servants, not one of which will swing

00:02:04.840 a hammer to actually help build a home. Speaking of efficiency, the estimated cost per unit under

00:02:10.160 Carney's plan is going to be over $3 million each. Affordable indeed. Carney dared to use the term

00:02:15.520 austerity when referring to his upcoming budget. But he keeps spawning new spending initiatives

00:02:20.180 of the scope like the housing plan. If he keeps doing that, he's going to blow by that record

00:02:24.620 $100 billion deficit that some people are predicting already. He's making Trudeau look

00:02:28.760 miserly in comparison. Now, the housing initiative lands 100% outside of federal jurisdiction.

00:02:35.560 It's not the role of the federal government to build homes. It never has been, nor should it

00:02:40.400 ever be. The provinces are responsible for housing, and even then the government should

00:02:44.080 only be creating the environment to facilitate home construction, not building houses directly.

00:02:49.180 The federal government's pushing ever more deeply into jurisdictions where it doesn't belong, and

00:02:53.220 it only creates more regional conflicts and inefficiency in program delivery. The federal

00:02:58.040 government spent over $6 billion to develop a website to make government services easier to

00:03:03.220 access. This is how good they are. They've been trying to build this site for eight years now

00:03:06.840 and estimate it might be fully available by 2030. The same government took a pipeline that should

00:03:13.000 have cost $4.5 billion to build and ballooned the cost of $34 billion while delaying the

00:03:17.120 construction for years. Do you really want them to take over housing too? You know, I recently

00:03:21.980 posted an image of a sea of decrepit housing projects from the Soviet era on X along with a

00:03:27.560 comment on how this is what's putting, this is what putting the state in charge of housing is

00:03:31.380 going to lead to. I was kind of distressed by how many young fools got upset and made the case that 0.96

00:03:36.320 such housing was wonderful and how the communists ended homelessness. They also ended over 100 0.97

00:03:40.880 million lives, but who's counting? If they're dead, you don't need to house them. It's frightening

00:03:44.980 to think we have an up-and-coming generation who are truly clueless about the horrors of communism

00:03:49.340 and think the trade-off between general prosperity and freedom is worth it if it came with what they

00:03:54.160 think is free housing in a concrete block and slum. Also lost upon them is the rationing and

00:03:59.940 misery that came with state housing. Waiting lists were part of the game in getting a home and to get

00:04:04.900 repairs. Bribery was usually the order of the day. These modern-day Marxists kept making the case

00:04:09.880 that government-built ghettos are still superior to the tent cities that grace every city in North 1.00

00:04:14.420 America. Look, people risk their lives to escape the hell of communist nations, but that's been

00:04:19.080 forgotten. If it was so damn great, communist countries wouldn't have had to lock their citizens

00:04:23.340 in. Also ignored is that those tent cities are due to leftist policies that led to the closure of

00:04:28.540 mental health asylums and permissive drug use enablement policies that fed an opioid addiction

00:04:33.160 epidemic. If we took all those people from tent encampments and put them into housing without 0.99

00:04:36.960 treatment. Those housing complexes would become drug dens and crime hubs. Kawartha Lakes in

00:04:43.040 Ontario, and boy they keep coming up, proved with a catastrophic experiment when they put a bunch

00:04:47.420 of addicts into subsidized housing. Look that one up guys, they tore it to shreds. And it's not to

00:04:51.920 say that people on the streets don't need housing, but we can't pretend the lack of housing is what

00:04:55.660 put them there. Most of them are addicts and have mental health issues which need treatment in

00:04:59.580 secured facilities. There folks who just fell through the cracks and missed a couple rent

00:05:04.460 payments. They're screwed up. North American projects weren't much better. They're crime 0.99

00:05:08.400 ridden slums, which can be seen today in most major cities. The creeping communism is just as

00:05:13.180 insidious and damaging as the communism that came quick, communism that came quickly through

00:05:16.620 revolutions. If we let the government incrementally take control of housing as it has with health

00:05:21.180 care, we can look forward to the rationed substandard delivery of housing we already

00:05:26.000 enjoy with hospitals. We mustn't let the government get there. We need smaller government, 0.74

00:05:30.160 lower taxes and fewer regulations if we want affordable housing we let the governments take

00:05:34.920 over we're trying to cure the disease with what caused it in the first place if looking back on

00:05:39.380 communism is it doesn't offer stark enough example of what happens when government takes control of

00:05:43.140 housing check out an Indian reserve they offer a contemporary example right in our own country

00:05:48.360 look if you want good quality affordable housing in Canada the housing must be kept as far from the 1.00

00:05:54.020 government control as possible all right well that's what's got me pissing on today how's it

00:05:58.820 going, Dave? Going well, Corey. You've got the commies all upset at you. I do. Boy,

00:06:02.700 have they ever flattened my timeline on X over that. They don't like that. Yeah, you were telling

00:06:06.160 me some incredible numbers you're getting on X. Yeah, it's like four million impressions in the

00:06:10.260 last couple days on that one post alone. They're very upset at my exposing their ugly concrete

00:06:16.460 jungle housing as a failure. They're saying it's one of the beautiful things that Soviet Union did. 1.00

00:06:21.360 Of course, none of these guys, I think, actually lived in them. No, I don't think so. Hopefully,

00:06:24.840 the commies keep going and make some money on X for a month. There's some of the irony. I make

00:06:27.980 money off of x yes so as these guys keep pumping it up under this wonderful capitalist system of

00:06:33.100 x run by musk they're just sending me more money so keep it up guys look guys bring the hate on

00:06:37.660 hey i got you a present oh yes oh no i gotta i can only look at this look at this thing of beauty

00:06:46.160 sea chickens thing of beauty yeah now just for those who may have missed it why don't you sort

00:06:52.480 to remind everybody what happened on the weekend well my Steelers played your Seahawks on the 0.94

00:06:58.820 weekend at the Steelers stadium and the Steelers had their asses roundly handed to them um I won't 0.67

00:07:06.100 make any excuses you know you try to say oh well at least uh there was this shining aspect of it 0.98

00:07:10.020 no the Steelers stunk on every level the defense stunk the offense stunk and the special teams did

00:07:14.840 a real special stinker there so yes yes your Seahawks soundly defeated the Steelers last

00:07:22.160 weekend nice i will i will spare you the shame of forcing you to wear it during your show oh thank

00:07:28.800 you i appreciate that i mean i got my hair's all actually terrible oh whatever there you go so uh

00:07:34.240 i knew i had to eat some go seahawks go seahawk or something don't need a seahawk uh busy day in the

00:07:41.600 news we got a uh bc teacher suspended he got involved uh with a female student ended up

00:07:48.240 sending her over 1 000 i guess they had 1 000 phone calls in just a year uh so uh he's been

00:07:56.160 suspended for 15 years uh good riddance uh to him uh city of calgary budget details uh released

00:08:03.360 today cory is not going to shock you to find out you're going to have to pay more pretty well not

00:08:08.240 so you don't have to pay at all do you you're imprentice but i'm going to feel for you guys

00:08:11.840 yeah so i have to pay more 5.6 percent on the property taxes and you know all sorts of other

00:08:18.240 charges going up and up and up and it's going to be an expensive place to live uh we've got a story

00:08:24.400 on the uh the federal dental care plan uh it's already a boondoggle they spent uh 500 million

00:08:31.520 dollars just setting it up 500 million just to set the thing up and the bureaucrats who are setting 0.98

00:08:37.360 it all up you know they have full dental coverage and won't have to use that program to go get their

00:08:41.040 fixed. No, no kidding. And I wonder what sort of IT contracts they've been using.

00:08:46.800 It ties back all into that same thing. Like I was talking with government housing,

00:08:49.720 you can't let them run this stuff. It only makes bureaucrats rich. You don't get anything in the 0.99

00:08:54.180 end. And speaking of IT, it's now being revealed there are nine, count them, nine RCMP probes

00:09:00.160 into IT procurement at the federal level, all basically coming out of the Arrive Can scandal

00:09:08.920 and the gc strategies so so there's probably going to be some criminal charges laid uh

00:09:14.120 eventually i'm tired of getting robbed how much uh do you spend a year on shoes

00:09:18.680 me yeah not much maybe uh oh this is me i'm pretty cheap 150 bucks 200 bucks maybe

00:09:24.520 what about jane last kind of female she's pretty modest when it comes to that you know maybe maybe 1.00

00:09:29.160 a few hundred i guess well if you're the governor general you can spend 1100 on shoes

00:09:35.080 uh i got a story out today about her her regal spending shall we say and it's uh it's quite

00:09:41.480 outrageous uh and the bank of canada today cut interest rates by a quarter down to 2.5 percent

00:09:48.440 so let's keep that downward trajectory going for when i have to renew my mortgage next year

00:09:55.800 then they can well yeah they can do whatever they want and there's going to be big news at

00:09:59.720 one o'clock today out of calgary police headquarters our david winnick will be there

00:10:04.760 they're touting perhaps the largest drug bust in alberta history and it's all sort of seems like

00:10:10.200 all across north america and the united states we've got uh uh people here from the dea toronto

00:10:17.720 police so it's uh should be a big press conference and then we'll have all the details oh yeah i

00:10:22.840 heard you sending dave out to check that out in there i didn't know what that was about so uh

00:10:27.160 Yeah, should be good.

00:10:29.380 And who do your Steelers lose to this weekend?

00:10:32.720 They will be playing the Patriots this weekend.

00:10:35.660 And the Patriots stink these days, too.

00:10:38.640 So I'm hoping that Tomlin is whipping a beating at least into –

00:10:42.580 and, again, I'm ticked.

00:10:43.560 I'm not going to try and sugarcoat things for this year.

00:10:45.180 They've got the most highly paid defense in the entire league,

00:10:48.880 and they look like high school football players last weekend.

00:10:51.460 I think I picked them in the pub pool for this week.

00:10:54.680 So, yeah, I think, you know, maybe Tomlin's good for that.

00:10:56.900 He'll lay a beating into them, and maybe they'll perform.

00:10:58.880 If it cheers you up, I was one yard away from winning the pub pool and $400,

00:11:04.440 but Houston could not score from the one-yard line.

00:11:08.380 So it took a bit of sting out of these celebrations.

00:11:12.700 That doesn't cheer me.

00:11:13.880 I'd rather you'd still had your year funds.

00:11:16.420 So, you know, I wouldn't feel as bad when I mock you when the team turns around.

00:11:20.060 Well, when you're sitting in your laser boy watching the game,

00:11:22.300 feel free to wear the Seahawks hat.

00:11:23.720 Yeah, I'll keep that right on.

00:11:25.580 Thanks, Dave.

00:11:26.100 You bet.

00:11:26.900 All right. That is our news editor, Dave Naylor. Bad taste in football, but an excellent nose for

00:11:31.840 news guys. And the reason we've got Dave and Dave, the other Dave down there at the police

00:11:36.360 conference and those reporters you see scurrying around behind me in the newsroom back there

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00:12:03.800 know, I really appreciate it. Thank you very much. And if you haven't yet, get on there, take one out.

00:12:09.560 Let's see. Just check some of the comments here. I see Debbie from Tabor and, you know, Jacqueline

00:12:16.640 saying, why would anybody believe Carney would cut anything? I know, but Eastern Canada seemed

00:12:20.000 to believe what Carney was going to do. Uh, the state of Alberta person saying what, you know,

00:12:26.280 wouldn't houses if given be given to whoever are sober people who didn't commit a crime. Well,

00:12:30.880 I doubt it. And they tend to make these, uh, you know, programs and they're broad and they're not

00:12:35.460 focused and they're not targeted. And that's the discussion. People are looking for simplex,

00:12:40.980 simplistic solutions for complicated problems. I've talked about that on here a lot. We have a

00:12:46.660 huge addiction epidemic. We have a huge problem of people with serious untreated mental health

00:12:52.820 issues who are on the streets. But if people think that just building houses is what's going

00:12:58.500 to take care of that. I mean houses are needed but the issue is treatment. These guys need to

00:13:04.740 be taken off the streets. They need to be brought into a secure treatment center and hopefully

00:13:09.060 successfully become ready to move into housing because they aren't right now. People are being

00:13:14.180 naive. Go to a tent city. Because I know 1.00

00:13:16.180 you listen to some apologists. They say, oh, they're people

00:13:18.100 who just couldn't make the rent or high costs of housing

00:13:20.100 or couldn't find a job. No, guys, they're junkies.

00:13:22.620 Let's just not beat around the bush.

00:13:24.740 And if you just took them and stick them

00:13:26.100 into a house, all they're going to do is turn it into a drug den,

00:13:28.520 strip the copper wire out, sell

00:13:30.040 that, probably burn the place to the ground, and end up

00:13:32.160 back in their tent city within a month if they survive.

00:13:35.680 I'm not 0.91

00:13:36.220 saying it like they're animals and awful people. 0.85

00:13:38.000 They need help. But we're being stupid 1.00

00:13:40.020 if we think the reason they're on the street is for 0.99

00:13:42.000 lack of government building housing.

00:13:44.180 we do want to make housing more affordable and i'll tell you the last way to make it affordable

00:13:48.900 is to get the government building it it's like dave brought up we've got a dental program that's

00:13:53.780 supposed to give everybody free dental guess what who can afford that because no dentists are

00:13:57.940 offering it with that program and they've already spent 500 million dollars though in the

00:14:01.620 administration paperwork paperwork won't fill your tooth guys you need a dentist to do that

00:14:07.940 but you're not going to get one if the government has it's just like the government has the monopoly

00:14:11.060 on healthcare. How's that all working out for you? Great, as long as you can survive long enough to

00:14:15.920 get through the waiting lines. Look, we got to learn. And these issues, they take a little more

00:14:22.420 in-depth looking than rather than just saying, well, let's just get the government to fix it. 0.82

00:14:26.520 That's usually the last solution. Well, the problem is it's not a solution. All right. Well,

00:14:32.340 let's talk about solving other things. This is our chance to impact the government. We got a

00:14:35.160 municipal election coming up in Alberta, and that means we're voting for our county Reeves, in my

00:14:39.500 case and councillors and uh mayors and uh councillors in other towns and the other one that's

00:14:45.140 always forgotten or shouldn't be is our school board trustees and god guys the school boards

00:14:51.120 are going nuts in some places some of the stuff going on Ontario is hair raising and I think it's

00:14:56.100 because we haven't been paying attention so I'm happy that we've got a Jennifer Stewart is running 1.00

00:14:59.680 for uh ward six and seven in Calgary for the Calgary school board to put your your hat for

00:15:05.260 Actually, I'm going to get this thing off the counter.

00:15:07.080 Jeez.

00:15:08.740 Thanks so much for having me.

00:15:09.980 I appreciate you coming in.

00:15:11.440 And I know, unfortunately, with a lot of people,

00:15:14.860 this school board comes up, it's a school board.

00:15:16.820 But then everybody gets outraged when the school boards do something poorly

00:15:20.600 or don't do something at all.

00:15:22.960 And, well, whose fault is that but our own?

00:15:25.600 So I appreciate you stepping up.

00:15:28.160 I mean, this is not some high-profile, high-paying political sort of role

00:15:31.820 or job or something.

00:15:32.780 the only reason a person would run for a school board is they have goals in mind that they want

00:15:36.680 for the schools. So thank you for doing it. Yeah, thank you. Thank you so much for having me on and

00:15:43.660 talking about it because you're definitely right. It's definitely not given enough attention and

00:15:48.000 also people really aren't sure what a school board trustee does. No, and that's what I wanted to ask

00:15:54.540 you first. So maybe if you could kind of break that down, what is the responsibility of a trustee

00:15:58.460 and the role. Yes, absolutely. So in Alberta, a public school board trustee is an elected official

00:16:04.940 that is really there to govern the school division. They don't run the day-to-day

00:16:12.580 operations of schools. That's up to the superintendent and the people that work

00:16:15.980 under the superintendent, but they govern the school system to make sure that it's

00:16:20.780 serving students efficiently and effectively. Yeah, and it's kind of the conduit, I guess,

00:16:24.820 between the, you know, parents and citizens and the administration who really run the nuts and

00:16:29.080 bolts, right? Yes, absolutely. So the school board, it does quite a few things. And then there's also

00:16:34.860 things that it can't do publicly. That's part of the, you know, what the province sets or also

00:16:42.800 up to the individual schools and teachers and the superintendent. So they set policy for the school

00:16:48.580 division. They make sure that it aligns with provincial legislation. They also establish

00:16:54.780 the mission, the vision, and also the priorities for the education of students. Probably the

00:17:02.100 biggest thing that they do is they oversee the budget. So for example, this year for

00:17:05.880 the 2025-2026 school season, it's a $1.67 billion budget for 146,000 students in over

00:17:16.620 250 schools. So that's a really big part of their job, is making sure that they approve the

00:17:22.220 division's budget and make sure that the funding is allocated responsibly for students and schools.

00:17:27.580 Great. And then the other part is, I mean, as an advocate and a local representative,

00:17:31.940 the needs in school divisions are different from division to division. I mean, you know,

00:17:37.020 you get into a higher new Canadian part of the city, they're going to be different challenges 1.00

00:17:41.300 with ESL and things such as that. Or inner city, you have some schools that are underpopulated,

00:17:45.540 new suburbs, you've got schools that don't have enough space. So I think it's important to have

00:17:51.780 representatives from those different areas rather than a central person to speak up.

00:17:55.060 It is for sure. And it's actually in the Education Act, the elected school board

00:18:01.380 trustees do have to think they're an advocate for all of the students and the community members,

00:18:06.500 parents, and community stakeholders, but they do advocate for all the students across the board in

00:18:12.420 in the division as well yes you have to look at the broad thing but at the same time it's

00:18:17.860 an advocate for your local area that might be underrepresented or different needs or views

00:18:21.940 yeah and school boards should really be engaging with the community especially

00:18:25.540 especially with their constituents um community engagement is really important so part of the

00:18:30.180 trustee's job is to go into schools when they're invited um and go uh you know meet with parents

00:18:35.860 and and stakeholders and engage the community great before i get more specific into your

00:18:40.420 platform which i want to get into uh but i mean we see issues with the system the trustee system

00:18:46.180 all together and it seems to be coming to a peak in ontario where they're actually talking about

00:18:49.540 eliminating the role of school board trustees which i think would be a bad approach it'd be

00:18:54.420 a loss of a means of accountability but when you look at some of the i mean ontario there's been

00:18:59.220 some crazy things that come out of some of their school boards out there which you can understand

00:19:03.140 why the provincial government maybe is saying you know we've had enough with it what can and should

00:19:06.980 we be doing provincially to make sure our school boards as a whole are effective and a worthwhile

00:19:11.860 endeavor for people yeah and that's a great question i think i mean i i there is a lot of

00:19:18.020 value in having a local school board level i mean they're they're closest to the students they're

00:19:22.100 closest to the community and they should be advocating for for what the community needs

00:19:26.100 because the community needs in calgary may not be the same as edmonton's it's not going to be the

00:19:30.580 same as rural communities so you do need people at the local level who who know what's going on

00:19:35.540 in the community, engaging with the community and knowing what the community needs in order

00:19:40.420 to advocate for them effectively. And I'm not sure that somebody at the provincial level,

00:19:47.620 most definitely not at the federal level is going to know what's best for students in Southwest

00:19:52.980 Calgary. Absolutely not. So getting onto your campaign. So what's driven you? I mean,

00:20:00.420 a person usually will have a reason. What is it that you want to bring to the table then to

00:20:04.260 change or adjust or impact within the school board? Yeah, absolutely. So I, my student, my kids

00:20:12.140 aren't in the school system yet, but they will be soon. And they're, they're my primary motivation

00:20:15.860 for running. I, I, I'm not happy with what's happening in public schools right now. And the

00:20:20.980 status quo is not working. The other thing that kind of pushed me towards running was I, when I

00:20:26.360 had my, my first kids, I had twins first. I joined a mom group and I'm very lucky to still be close

00:20:34.060 with this mom group today, but there's, they're all CBE teachers. I'm not, I'm a small business

00:20:38.520 owner. But I've spent the last, last few years listening to them on the teacher side. I've

00:20:44.640 always been interested in the policy side, but you know, I, now that I've been hearing the teacher

00:20:48.960 side, there's a lot more going on in schools that really needs to be addressed, in particular by

00:20:55.820 the board. And it's, it's just not happening. Teachers are not happy. I mean, everyone can

00:20:59.620 see that already with the strike happening, but there's a lot more to it, I think. And I think

00:21:05.040 the school boards haven't been supporting teachers the way that they should be, and that needs to

00:21:09.660 change. So again, in supporting the students, then in which way do you feel that the board

00:21:16.620 needs to be doing such? Well, there's quite a few different things that the board can do. So the

00:21:22.360 board can't implement curriculum that's set by the province, but the board can help implement a

00:21:29.620 different ways about how the curriculum is is taught. For

00:21:32.680 example, the number one issue that I hear from teachers is

00:21:35.900 about classroom complexity. And, and that's something that the

00:21:39.200 board can address based literally just by funding,

00:21:42.220 right? The, the, the current funding model where the students

00:21:46.840 with complex needs have to be assessed in the classroom, and

00:21:52.240 have their their needs assessed and what what kind of stuff

00:21:54.760 they're going to need for the year by September 30. And then

00:21:57.500 the province provides the funding. But if anything happens after September 30th, those students are

00:22:02.260 not supported because the funding has already been allocated. And to me, that's an immediate

00:22:06.320 failure to any student that's moving around after September 30th. They're not going to have the

00:22:10.400 supports and stuff that they need. And besides that, there's not enough supports going into the

00:22:14.420 classroom right now. The money really needs to follow the students. And I think right now it's

00:22:19.660 not doing that. Yeah. I mean, union negotiations and such are outside of the purview of a school

00:22:25.840 board though you're speaking of things as a whole I mean it's been some of the battle people say okay

00:22:29.300 we need more resources in the class but if you give a certain amount to the teachers there's not

00:22:34.860 going to be much resources left any longer we can only spend so much well and exactly and also it

00:22:41.280 doesn't I mean of course of of course you know there's many things that need more money but it

00:22:46.220 doesn't matter how much money you throw at a problem if that money is mismanaged there's no

00:22:50.360 point. Yeah. So what about some of the diversity of school provision? That's been a kind of a

00:22:56.000 battle going on. Different students respond better in different environments sometimes. Sometimes

00:23:00.600 you're not just special needs within the same school, but maybe a different school that can

00:23:04.900 offer different programs can be effective. Oh, without a doubt. And the school board sets those

00:23:09.140 programs. There's also the whole point of, yeah, the school board is in charge of the programs and

00:23:15.620 adding more and making more choices available for parents. And that's obviously something

00:23:20.220 that works we need to make sure parents are aware of those programs and that there's also not huge

00:23:24.860 lineups waiting to get into those those programs for parents um the other thing that school boards

00:23:29.900 could be doing that they're not doing right now is you know there's a lot of charter schools um

00:23:35.660 that are doing really well and are doing things really well and that's the whole point of having

00:23:39.820 a charter school is you know to to pick something niche and do it really well and then that model

00:23:45.340 can be brought back to the CBE and the CBE can implement it. And that's not happening. We need

00:23:49.800 to, we don't have to re reinvent the wheel or rewrite the whole thing. We can look at what's

00:23:53.660 happening in other jurisdictions, what's working and what, what they're doing super well and apply

00:23:58.560 it to the CBE. Yeah. So does the CBE have any kind of authority over charter schools or are

00:24:02.820 they totally separate? Totally separate. Yeah. Charter schools are their own. Which again,

00:24:06.520 as you said, that doesn't mean you can't learn from them or look at them as something complimentary.

00:24:09.420 Absolutely. Because it's almost an adversarial aspect,

00:24:11.620 the attitude I'm held by some that charter schools are undercutting public education.

00:24:16.860 And I find that problematic.

00:24:20.200 I mean, there's some people who feel we should just box it all into one centralized type of system.

00:24:24.580 Yeah, I personally would disagree with that.

00:24:27.120 I think I'm all for choice for parents to choose where their kids go to school and the different types of programs and different things that their kids can be a part of, which will help shape their education better.

00:24:40.880 So you're in Ward 6 and 7.

00:24:43.680 Yeah, that's where I'm running in Ward 6 and 7.

00:24:45.620 So which part of the city is that?

00:24:47.120 People should know their ward, but as I said,

00:24:48.640 there's a lot of people who don't pay enough attention.

00:24:50.460 Yeah, definitely.

00:24:51.540 And it's hard with school boards too, because it's two wards, right?

00:24:54.400 Counsellors just have the one wards.

00:24:55.960 So it's actually quite a lot of ground to cover

00:24:57.800 and a lot of neighbourhoods and communities.

00:24:59.280 So Ward 6 in particular is in the southwest,

00:25:02.520 basically from like Glamorgan, Discovery, Signal Hill,

00:25:05.300 all the way across over to Cougar Ridge, right by COP.

00:25:07.700 and all the kind of communities in between. Ward 7 is kind of a funny ward. I always joke with

00:25:13.220 people about Ward 7 because I think it's like they drew all the other wards and everything

00:25:19.080 that was left over in the middle is Ward 7 because it's a little bit of a little bit of

00:25:23.760 the southwest, a little bit of the northwest, and then also the northeast as well. Kind of from,

00:25:30.120 yeah, so it's a lot kind of in the middle. There's maybe demographic changes. I mean,

00:25:33.300 there's not many kids, I think, in Kensington. It's not really a young family type area.

00:25:37.380 There isn't. Yeah. The amount of households in that particular part of Ward 7 is very low.

00:25:44.340 Not a lot of kids in the household there, as opposed to Ward 6 where they have a lot of kids

00:25:49.640 in the household. But to vote on the trustee thing, you don't have to have kids in the system.

00:25:53.520 Absolutely not. Yeah. And I always, people, that's the number one thing I get door knocking

00:25:57.720 is people say, oh, my kids are grown. They're not in a system. I don't have kids. I have grandkids.

00:26:03.180 but you know everyone your taxes still go there you're still a community stakeholder and you know

00:26:08.660 these children are the next workforce it does it does matter um and everyone should be a part of

00:26:14.860 everyone should have a voice in shaping public education i mean those are the kids that are

00:26:18.340 going to be filling government and filling the places that are taking care of you when you're

00:26:21.240 in your role as a senior and so on and if you haven't taken care of them now you might be in

00:26:24.940 for a rough retirement later it's in our interest to be engaged even if your kids aren't there i

00:26:29.940 wanted to clarify that because some people feel well again as you said oh my kids aren't in it

00:26:33.700 it doesn't matter well it does yeah and actually another thing at the doors too is people are

00:26:37.860 asking like is it is it on the ballot is it separate so when you get your ballot uh when

00:26:41.700 you go to vote in the election um you get your your mayor candidates your counselors and then

00:26:46.980 they ask you uh public or separate or catholic right and then so when when you let's say

00:26:53.780 say presumably you win your seat on the board, I guess what sort of approach you can be bringing

00:27:00.040 to it? One of the problems we've seen before of all, you know, if people might not know Alberta

00:27:03.120 history, Danielle Smith got her first electoral start as a school board member in Calgary.

00:27:06.920 Yes, I didn't know that.

00:27:07.940 That was such a disaster that the province ended up stepping in and dissolving that particular

00:27:12.940 school board because they were all at each other's throats and fighting the whole time. And to this

00:27:16.880 day, I think they're still all pointing fingers at each other as a loose fault that was. But it

00:27:22.080 really takes a different kind of patience and working as a group if you want to get anything

00:27:26.460 done. Absolutely. And that's the whole point of a governing board is you're all there to represent

00:27:31.520 all the different students. And yeah, the board would need to work together to bring about actual

00:27:35.700 change. So when you're campaigning, what's the thing you're hearing the most at the doors and

00:27:41.620 with people with concerns for the system right now? People are really worried about teachers.

00:27:46.960 I've also met a lot of teachers at the door and when every single time that I

00:27:51.460 talked to a teacher they don't they don't say pay is their number one what

00:27:56.560 their number one thing that the teachers are telling me in particular is

00:28:00.060 classroom complexity needs to be dealt with they're not being supported in the

00:28:04.420 classroom for all of the different complex needs that come up right they

00:28:07.820 don't have enough EAs there's there's not enough of them to go around

00:28:10.600 classroom sizes is obviously at the top of everyone's list and now most recent

00:28:16.960 lots of parents are obviously worried about the strike. Yeah, well, it's an inconvenience to say

00:28:23.080 the least. I mean, I know people say, well, school isn't supposed to be your babysitters. Well,

00:28:26.420 yes and no. We pay a lot of money and they're supposed to be entrusted to where we could count

00:28:30.100 on them managing our children for a certain amount of hours every week. And it can be very disruptive

00:28:35.580 for people on a fixed income to suddenly have... Of course. And there hasn't been a strike since

00:28:41.280 2001. So no one's actually dealt with it at this level, right? The closest thing to that would be

00:28:46.100 COVID when students are at home. But yeah, no, a strike, it is a big deal. And I think for the

00:28:50.240 teachers to have got to this point that they're ready to strike, like I said before, there's a

00:28:54.340 lot of failures on different levels and teachers aren't feeling heard. And yeah, they need to be

00:28:59.920 heard. They need to be supported in the classroom. Well, let's hope it's averted. I mean, again,

00:29:03.480 if, you know, a break in the, as we saw with COVID, a break in the schooling for the kids

00:29:06.380 just doesn't do them any good at all. No, it doesn't. And I really do hope they come to

00:29:10.580 agreement, but yeah, October 6th is coming up pretty quickly. It is. And then October 6th,

00:29:15.900 I mean, that might lead it to, just to remind everybody, the voting day is October 20th,

00:29:19.400 advanced polling. Starts October 6th as well. Yeah. So this election is coming up fast and

00:29:25.020 that might be a prime issue in this election is a strike going on at that time. But I mean,

00:29:32.740 we have to do our part for it. So before I let you go, how do people find your campaign to help

00:29:37.700 out or ask more questions? Yeah, absolutely. So they can visit my website. It's jenniferstewartfortrustee.com.

00:29:44.120 I have a number of different engagements. I'm out in the community. I'm out every weekend. I'm out

00:29:48.500 multiple times a week, different areas around Ward 6 and 7. If you see me, come say hi.

00:29:53.420 But yeah, jenniferstewartfortrustee.com. I'd love to hear from you. I love hearing different ideas

00:29:58.960 and hearing what issues and concerns are facing constituents in schools at the local level.

00:30:04.200 Excellent. Well, this is your opportunity to get out and hear people on the ground. That's what just politicians have to remember for that other four years once they get in what they heard during that. So that was a critical period.

00:30:14.940 yeah that and i think the most important thing once you once you get in is to stay uh engaged

00:30:20.540 and and stay engaged and in contact with the community because they are the people that you

00:30:25.140 represent and one of the things that i really don't like about um right now with the school board

00:30:29.940 with the school board in general is trustees actually aren't allowed to go into schools

00:30:33.840 without being invited so they can't just go into a school and talk to parents and teachers and

00:30:38.640 community members they have to be invited to school council meetings um and that to me just

00:30:42.420 seems a little bit backwards, you know, especially when trustees are supposed to

00:30:46.440 be representing, representing the community at large.

00:30:49.680 Yeah. Getting a filtered version perhaps and missing some of this stuff.

00:30:53.220 That's interesting to hear. I didn't know that.

00:30:55.300 Yeah.

00:30:55.920 All right. Well, thank you very much for coming in to explain.

00:30:58.620 And thank you very much for having me.

00:31:00.540 I wish you the best on the campaign. Well, time's quick and fast on it.

00:31:04.380 Yeah. It's going to come up really soon. Thanks again.

00:31:06.180 Thank you. All right, guys. So yes, Jennifer Stewart, Ward 6 and 7.

00:31:11.460 you look it up you know google that name and you will find her campaign site and you can reach out

00:31:16.360 to her uh there's somebody saying vote Jen in the comments already there you've gained one at least 0.99

00:31:20.340 already so it's a good start uh but it's every level of our democracy is underrated we don't

00:31:27.000 take part in it enough it's one thing I admire though I understand the headaches of it in the

00:31:32.420 U.S. you know whenever I travel down my mother's American I go to the states a lot and it seems

00:31:37.180 there's always an election going on you know there's some corners in some towns that's just

00:31:40.760 always decorated with signs because they're electing everything from their county coroner

00:31:45.340 to the county clerk to the sheriff to we don't elect nearly as many positions up here in Canada

00:31:51.360 and if we want to elect more of those maybe people don't I don't know but if we do we got

00:31:57.380 to be taking advantage of the ones we're allowed to vote for now and uh trustees it's just one and

00:32:03.280 I gotta admit I'm guilty of it too I have no idea who the trustee is down in my area I'm gonna have

00:32:07.580 look into it before voting time comes and try and make a decision but as we discussed as well it

00:32:13.420 does impact you guys because yeah those kids coming up and through there they're the ones

00:32:18.780 we're going to be relying on later it's pretty important and that teacher strike coming in

00:32:22.380 alberta it's looming fast and boy it's getting pretty um heated between the smith government

00:32:27.820 and the union which is not unusual uh listening to to jennifer she's saying the the bigger issue

00:32:35.660 with teachers is class sizes and the ability to deal with different needs of kids. But often

00:32:44.540 these unions, the teachers might say that one-on-one, but the union always just says we want more

00:32:47.820 salary, we want more pension, we want more money for the teachers. Some of the impasse coming is

00:32:53.180 the Smith government said, look, we offered you guys 12% and a commitment to hire 3,000 more

00:32:57.340 teachers and you told us to get stuffed. How much more do you want? And the union won't give the

00:33:04.540 answer. So it seems to be an impasse. We're going to see what happens, but keep an eye on it.

00:33:12.220 As well, you know, the rest of the municipal election. Watch it, guys. Look at the lunatics

00:33:16.380 we got, right? These city councils, this stuff. I mean, Gondek, Dave mentioned the budget and the 0.99

00:33:20.460 tax increases that are hitting in the city of Calgary. These things are important everywhere.

00:33:25.580 I'm down in the MDF foothills. It sounds like a couple of the council seats actually are getting

00:33:30.620 some strong contention going on down there pay attention it can only do you good and if they

00:33:35.580 don't these elected representatives don't represent you later fire them because they get away with

00:33:39.740 murder if we don't know who they are and unfortunately i gotta take a shot at how

00:33:44.220 horrible our media is our legacy media just to show on how you can't trust them how bad it's

00:33:50.140 gotten uh not just the self-serving part because we're independent we we don't do this sort of

00:33:54.620 thing but just it makes it difficult for elections and things like that to figure out what's what's

00:33:58.860 right and what's wrong here's a beautiful example from CTV on a headline this came up on x last

00:34:05.180 night and I was just in shock when I read it this was the headline black student found hanging from

00:34:11.820 a tree in Mississippi whoa no whoa okay so we've gone out of our way to determine the race of this

00:34:20.940 person and that it's a student and he was hanging from a tree and in Mississippi of all states

00:34:25.740 reeks of a lynching, doesn't it? Memories of Mississippi burning in the movie and in the

00:34:31.180 whole works. Holy cow, what's going on here? Well, I read the story and it still didn't say a heck

00:34:37.020 of a lot except that the black guy was found hanging in a tree in a college campus down in

00:34:40.680 Mississippi. I searched further and I get to, of all things, People Magazine, which had a larger

00:34:45.480 version of this entire story in it. And the black student was, the coroner has determined that it

00:34:52.380 was suicide, and that the police have said there's no foul play and nobody is at risk.

00:34:58.200 You know, typically, media doesn't report on suicides. I don't know if people know that in

00:35:02.460 general. It's kind of an unwritten rule. You just don't report on suicides at all, unless it's

00:35:07.360 something outstanding, a celebrity or an unusual circumstance of it. Otherwise, they don't want to

00:35:12.800 publicize suicides, and they don't. But CTV felt compelled. Now, to be fair, CNN put the same

00:35:20.900 crappy headline out. So they use the same newswire, but I mean, every outlet can change the headlines

00:35:24.780 when you're taking stuff off a wire and stuff like that, guys. What a torqued, divisive, rotten

00:35:31.040 headline to put out there. They didn't, and I had an idiot on X, and there's no shortage of those, 1.00

00:35:37.540 debating me on that. Well, what did you want them to write on it? Nothing. Nothing. This was not 0.95

00:35:43.560 reportable, particularly with a Canadian outlet. This was a tragedy. This was a student that got

00:35:50.080 into a terribly bad place and committed suicide by hanging himself on a tree branch. But CTV

00:35:55.940 wants to go out and make it look like the southern states are lynching young black men. 0.85

00:36:01.260 That's exactly what their headline is talking about. I mean, why else? Let's just say they felt 0.92

00:36:06.860 it was worth reporting on in general. Why did they even have to say black? Why did the race matter?

00:36:14.080 It's just a student found hanging from a tree. But no, they had to go out of their way.

00:36:17.100 black student found hanging from a tree in Mississippi. Now, how many people didn't read

00:36:22.220 further? How many people didn't look a little farther to see the context and what was happening

00:36:27.240 behind that story? Instead, they were just mortified, thinking, again, we've got that

00:36:32.320 racial hornet's nest going on in the southern states, and they're lynching black people again. 0.80

00:36:36.440 Look, I spent a lot of time working south of the border, all over the place. I spent a lot, 0.98

00:36:42.260 some of the, yeah, there's racial issues going on down there that we don't see

00:36:45.860 in Canada. And there's some divisions and there's a lot of big problems. And you see that when it

00:36:52.040 explodes and things like some of the riots that look, you know, when things come to a head and

00:36:56.180 pop. When I worked upstate New York, some of the crackers up there and the guys I had to deal with,

00:37:01.180 and I can understand why some black people are pretty bloody frustrated with trying to integrate

00:37:06.580 into society with a lot of the folks up there. Hey, some great people up there too. It's not 0.85

00:37:10.220 just the south is part of what i'm saying uh but the south has its issues as well but it doesn't

00:37:16.440 help when legacy media torques headlines like this think of how that must feel then again if

00:37:22.680 you were a young black person who read that and didn't look further thought oh my they are lynching

00:37:28.080 people like me because of my color in mississippi because you didn't get to see the rest of it why

00:37:35.260 because CTV wanted to get clicks and maybe just CTV has gotten so bad they've been worse than

00:37:40.420 than CBC lately. An ideological agenda, an anti-American agenda that's been big with them

00:37:47.520 and a kissing of the liberal butts who really want to keep the division alive. It was the division

00:37:52.400 between Canada and the United States that got Carney elected. I know some of my viewers and

00:37:57.940 followers who disagree. I know I believe it was Trump's fault for his bloody approach to trade

00:38:04.060 and the turd he threw into our electoral punch bowl up here 0.97

00:38:07.700 with his ridiculous tariffs and all that that led to that. 0.92

00:38:10.580 But Carney took full advantage of that

00:38:12.200 and won an election based on it

00:38:14.460 that he went into with a minuscule amount of support.

00:38:17.980 And now he subsidizes the major legacy media outlets

00:38:21.320 and those legacy media outlets want to keep him happy.

00:38:24.000 Well, how do they keep him happy?

00:38:25.140 Well, let's keep the division up

00:38:26.320 between the United States and Canada 0.97

00:38:27.820 and let's just keep making the US look like some crazed hellhole 1.00

00:38:31.280 where they're lynching black people. 0.99

00:38:32.380 So some clown at CTV, and went through probably a few layers before that went out to the full headline, said, yeah, this sounds like a good idea. 0.98

00:38:38.780 We'll put that out there.

00:38:40.640 Cyril Arnold, one of the commenters, saying the headline is enough to trigger outrage so the facts of the incidents are lost.

00:38:45.820 That's it.

00:38:46.240 You know, your vein pops and you see that and you don't necessarily look farther into it.

00:38:55.840 But this is bad.

00:38:57.860 This isn't some backwater website or some individual's tweet or anything.

00:39:01.380 This is CTV, one of the biggest media outlets in Canada. 0.98

00:39:06.440 And that's the trash they're putting out. 0.96

00:39:08.620 And they didn't even bury the lead. 0.77

00:39:10.160 They didn't have that somewhere farther in the story that was suicide.

00:39:12.520 They didn't even put that part in their story. 0.99

00:39:15.480 It's an organization I think is unfit to be in business any longer if they're going to pull crap like that. 0.97

00:39:20.540 I mean, hey, we're encouraged in media to grab hold of people's eyeballs with the headlines. 0.98

00:39:26.640 The standard does it.

00:39:27.460 We don't do anything like that.

00:39:28.460 but sure we'll put headlines to be catchy and try to pull people in hoping they'll click through

00:39:33.520 and read this story but this is grossly divisive and irresponsible and misrepresenting it is just

00:39:40.920 an affront to responsible journalism and and just i would have expected better i would have

00:39:47.500 maybe i don't anymore i don't know uh let's see here's a big one that came up in the globe and

00:39:55.280 mail and it's been kind of their CTV. Palestinian visa applications for Canadian asylum blocked

00:40:00.080 without explanation, lawyer says. I thought, how am I going to respond to that? Good. We don't need

00:40:06.620 them. You know, there's a whole Middle East that loves their values. Let them take them in. We've

00:40:13.540 got enough. We do not need to dip into that terrorist hornet's nest and bring them here. 0.99

00:40:18.460 Canada has mass immigration problems already. We need to be carrying on with immigration being a 1.00

00:40:24.860 heck of a lot more selective with who and what trades and things like that. And once people come

00:40:31.440 here and fit in and do well, and I tell you what, Palestinians don't fit in well anywhere. We don't 1.00

00:40:34.880 need them. There's issues going on over there, but we don't need to take it in. Here's something on

00:40:39.940 the good news front, kind of in a funny way. Thomas Lukasik, he's been doing his little petition in

00:40:45.600 Alberta. He's the disgraced former Alberta MLA for people who don't remember him. He was deputy

00:40:51.200 premier for Alison Redford, you know, kind of a token position. He's the one who billed Albertans

00:40:55.700 for $20,000 for his personal phone bill when he was overseas on a trip to Poland. But he's been

00:41:02.620 doing that Canada Forever petition for a while now. And I don't know, it's not looking very good.

00:41:08.220 He keeps dodging and deking and hiding and squirming whenever somebody asks him how many

00:41:12.800 signatures he's got. But now he's coming up and even saying, well, you know what? People are afraid

00:41:19.360 to sign. Some people are afraid to sign. They're afraid to be seen signing this thing. Oh, what a

00:41:23.940 load of crap. For one, Fabio, you are the guardian of those signatures, are you not? These are just 0.99

00:41:30.700 only supposed to be going to Elections Alberta. It's not the government they don't trust then,

00:41:35.320 Fabio, it's you. They aren't afraid. What, for repercussions they think they're going to get

00:41:39.980 for signing a petition? Spare me. No, he's making his excuses because the petition's going to fail.

00:41:45.960 He's not going to get his 300,000 signatures.

00:41:47.840 He's got less than a month and a half to get it done now.

00:41:51.420 And obviously the numbers aren't coming in.

00:41:52.760 If the numbers were coming in, he'd be whooping and flagging and standing on rooftops and

00:41:57.500 yelling about how brilliant he is and how great his petition is doing.

00:42:00.120 One thing I wouldn't trust in giving some of the information to some of that, and I

00:42:02.720 hope they don't do such, but you got to remember, he's obviously still has a political future

00:42:06.980 in mind going on.

00:42:08.100 And boy, what a database he's sure building for his own little political future, isn't

00:42:11.640 he?

00:42:11.760 I expect a lot of the people who took part and supported that group and signed petitions and such are going to suddenly find themselves contacted for fundraising and voting and all sorts of other things that they didn't realize that were going to come with that.

00:42:24.920 Either way, it'll be interesting to see whenever, you know, in November probably when the courts are done and the petitioning begins on the real independence question coming for a referendum in Alberta and seeing how well the APP or how poorly they do in petitioning.

00:42:46.400 This should be a warning to some of them, guys.

00:42:47.820 It's not going to be easy.

00:42:49.580 You're better organized than Thomas Lukasik's little group is.

00:42:53.680 And you have a longer timeline.

00:42:55.220 You have fewer signatures.

00:42:56.600 But I tell you what, a couple hundred thousand signatures in four months is a huge task.

00:43:00.260 It's a big one.

00:43:00.860 So you guys, it better be remaining prepared and ready for it.

00:43:04.520 Tyler Volstad saying, the Forever Canada people were hounding me the other day to try to get me to sign.

00:43:08.140 I'd heard from Clayton, a friend of mine down in our area.

00:43:14.360 And I guess he checked out one of the Forever Canada ones down.

00:43:17.920 I think it was Black Diamond.

00:43:18.800 He said they parked with his wife and they just kind of watched for a bit.

00:43:21.440 And what they did was held everybody up before they allowed them to sign

00:43:25.160 because they put the word out to everybody, come on out, come on out to sign.

00:43:27.720 So they had about 30, 40 people in line.

00:43:29.540 Held them all up and let them sign so that they could take a picture

00:43:31.380 showing a big line up.

00:43:33.100 And then other than that, there really wasn't anything there.

00:43:35.860 Again, welcome to media and how you don't get the whole picture.

00:43:39.500 Wildrow saying, Corey, how soon do you think we'll get a referendum?

00:43:41.980 them. I still think it's going to happen in 2026, maybe by June. It's just a matter how we're going

00:43:46.440 to get to it. I think if the court shuts it down, I got a feeling that the Smith government's still

00:43:50.680 going to allow it to happen one way or another because she's kind of painted into a corner on

00:43:54.240 it. Here's a CBC story. Let's close things off again with our state broadcaster,

00:44:02.040 which we expect very little of. So they're worse than CTV, of course, and we get to pay

00:44:08.180 one and a half billion for these guys. Here's the headline. I study climate change. This summer,

00:44:13.640 it got too hot for me to do my field work. Yeah, this is a whole story about this poor

00:44:20.100 young lady studying climate change. It got hot out. So I got over 30 degrees. She couldn't do 0.95

00:44:24.580 it. She couldn't make it. She was going to bake like a potato. What a wimp. What a bunch of crap. 1.00

00:44:30.240 Look, I'm not saying that climate change isn't necessarily happening and things are not necessarily 0.99

00:44:33.060 getting warmer, but spare me. Hot weather is nothing new. You can work in it, you overpaid

00:44:38.680 government simp. I worked on the Texas-Mexico border in July and August when I was a surveyor

00:44:44.860 in the past. Man, I got a hell of a tan while I was down there. It's hot. Your average every day

00:44:49.800 is over 40, and it's humid down there. You drink a load of water, you take a lot of breaks, and you

00:44:55.720 get through it. Most of the world deals with that kind of heat on a regular basis. They don't shut

00:45:00.760 down. What I see is another lazy, entitled student with their degree that came out, taught that

00:45:07.740 climate change is going to fry us all and is just making excuses not to get to work. I don't doubt

00:45:13.000 she invoiced and got paid for it all. All right. Well, that's enough out of me for today, guys.

00:45:17.820 Thank you very much for tuning in. The pipeline is going to be on tonight. Be sure to tune into

00:45:22.040 that. We'll have a panel breaking down a bunch more of the issues going on out there. Keep an

00:45:26.440 eye on all these channels, like them, share them. John's been working great in production. We got

00:45:30.220 all sorts of new stuff. Leah has been putting interviews out. Watch the Western Standard. We're

00:45:34.880 breaking the news out here. We've got a newsroom covering these things and keep tuning in. I'll see

00:45:39.240 you next week at this time.

00:46:00.220 We'll be right back.

Western Standard - September 18, 2025

Canada can’t afford free housing

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