Canada needs a DOGE!
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Corey rants about Canada's bloated, inefficient civil service, the Green Line, and why the Canadian government needs to cut back on the size of its bloated bureaucracy. Plus, a look at why gold and silver are the only precious metals that have held their value for thousands of years.
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Welcome to the Corey Morgan Show. I'm back and full of piss, vinegar, vitriol, ranting, information, news, all that good stuff.
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It's all pent up and built up. Did I miss anything the last few weeks?
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You know, you do try to schedule a vacation for a time when things are slow in business or whatnot,
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but I couldn't change my, or wouldn't change my vacation schedule to suit the crazy politics going on in Canada and the United States.
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So I just had to sit on my vacation and kind of watch from the sidelines until I could come back and rant and rave.
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hard to cover all of everything that's been going on out there. So those of you watching live,
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yeah, Paradoxy, others check in on there, use that comment, scroll, send me questions, comments,
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notions, ideas. I don't necessarily read them all out, but I do see them all on there and it helps
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to move things along. I got Mike Thomas coming on in a little while as a guest. He's going to talk
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about, for those outside of Calgary, we've got a thing called the Green Line. It's just been an
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ongoing white elephant of a behemoth of a light rail transit expansion. It's just a gong show
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And the price keeps going up and no track ends up going down.
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So we'll discuss that a little bit because Mike's got a bit of a different take.
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We're not very nice to Gondek around here, typically, Mayor Gondek of Calgary.
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But in this case, Mike says, actually, she's right.
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Boy, we wouldn't expect those words around here.
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But, you know, even a broken clock's right twice a day, right?
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on a number of platforms. Let me talk about some of the stuff that's got me going. The Conservative
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Party of Canada, they're muted on the issue. Oh, they're starting to drop hints. The Liberals won't
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even talk about it. Legacy media sure won't. What is it? Canada's bloated, inefficient civil service.
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it must be cut. Not tuned up, not examined. No new committee needs to be formed, and we can't
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afford some cowardly plan of job attrition to let the size of the bureaucracy shrink over time.
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There must be cuts, and they must be deep. Since becoming Prime Minister, Trudeau has grown the
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Canadian civil service by 42%. Over 61% of the federal budget is spent on wages and compensation.
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The wages are high, the holidays are extended, the benefits are huge, and the pensions are
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fantastic. Many of them work from home and unsurprisingly, government services have become
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slower and more inefficient despite constantly adding staff and pumping up the budgets. Simply
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renewing a passport has turned into an odyssey for people who find themselves mired in an inefficient
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time-consuming mess. The immigration department has more than doubled its staff yet it takes over
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24 months for those baboons to process a refugee application. Those trying to diligently pay their
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taxes, the ones trying to play by the rules, they struggle to get a straighter timely answer from
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the Canadian Revenue Agency, despite the agency employing 59,000 people. But for comparison,
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the American Revenue Service employs 93,000 people to deal with a population eight times
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Canada's size. No nation can enjoy general prosperity when sustaining such a large government.
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The pool of productive people working in value-added industries is shrinking relative to
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the people working in government sectors. Bureaucrats, they don't just cost dollars,
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they add roadblocks to every aspect of private enterprise and often individual freedoms as they
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instinctively add regulations on top of licenses, on top of inspections. The bureaucracy has become
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a self-serving monster, and it's only going to be tamed through a strong-willed government with a
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mandate to cut it down. If the path to freedom and prosperity was through big government,
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Venezuelans would be living the good life, and the Soviet Union would have turned into an economic
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powerhouse. And its productivity and GDP per capita have been in decline for years. Both will
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climb. We've seen it in Argentina fast enough if the burden of government can be lifted from the
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shoulders of citizens. Tax cuts can ease the cost of living and encourage investment. Regulation cuts
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will speed everything from the construction of homes and spurring enterprise in other industries.
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Canada's blessed with an abundance of natural resources, a skilled workforce, and a peaceful
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environment, and we're right next door to the biggest consumer market on the planet. The yoke
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of big government, though, on citizens is driving the nation down. Now, in the United States, Elon
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Musk is tasked with heading up the new Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE for short. Musk
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proved how useless bureaucracies can be and how bad managerial bloke can get when he laid off 85%
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of the staff at Twitter and it didn't even adversely impact services. Obviously they weren't
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doing a hell of a lot. They'll be proving it further when he begins cutting the size of the
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government in the USA and the impact is going to be quick. Canada's already struggling to be
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competitive on the world market and with the USA streamlining its government burden, Canada's
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competitiveness is going to become even worse and our productivity is going to suffer. Investment
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and skilled personnel are going to be drawn south while a smaller pool up here tries to feed the
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ever-hungry Canadian bureaucracy. It's a recipe for economic disaster, no less acute than that's
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being threatened with Trump's tariffs. Just servicing Canada's national debt now costs the
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government as much as it takes in from GST. The issue in Canada is not a revenue problem,
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it's a spending problem, and there's few worse ways to spend money than on the interest payments
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for a debt. The reasons to cut the size of the government are clear. Are they enough though to
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inspire the next prime minister to do what must be done? It won't be easy to make the cuts. The
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unions are going to go wild. Legacy media is going to flood the airwaves of scenes of single mothers
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being evicted from homes and pouring onto the streets with broods of hungry children due to
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having been laid off from a government position. The prime minister is going to have to remain
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strong. Canada's bloated government costs far more jobs in the private sector and lowers the
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standard of living more than any round of public sector layoffs are going to do. What's the role
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of a government job anyway? Is it not to provide a service? If the only service in providing
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employment for a government employee is a work for welfare program, like if that's the only point
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of the service. It would be cheaper just to pay them to stay at home. In fact, that's what many
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of them are doing right now. With the shackles of taxes and regulations removed, Canada would
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experience an employment boom as investment enters the country. Wages climb and new enterprise is
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open. Canada could finally reverse that decline in GDP per capita as industry growth overtakes
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government growth. The opportunity to make heavy cuts doesn't come often though. In the early 90s,
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it was spurred by double-digit interest rates. Currently, it's because our neighbor and largest
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trading partner is poised to make cuts. We got to get on board. Hesitation will lead to delays
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without apology to bring the government down to size.
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We need voices to encourage and support him or her
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On that subject, before I go to a news check with Dave,
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and through that government efficiency department,
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is offering 2 million civil servants in the United States,
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And that gives them at least a transition allowance
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They aren't straight out cutting, but it's huge.
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Take that five to eight months, retrain, search,
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He plans on cutting the size of that government.
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And if we don't do it, we're going to fall behind badly.
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So you stayed in the world's largest trailer park, I understand.
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Tens of thousands of RVs out in the desert enjoying the southern sun and barren wilderness.
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There are a lot of hippies, but I can look the other way.
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I was thinking to you yesterday when I put up a story on a female rap star out of Detroit
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who weighs 500 pounds and she's suing Lyft because the Lyft driver refused to take her
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because he was worried she might flatten his tires and I know you've said before you're
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an Uber driver that's right how would you handle that situation well you know I saw
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the videos of her I do drive Uber this is no secret I've talked about that on here I like
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that as a side thing it gets me out it gets me talking to people makes a few bucks I drive a
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little Hyundai venue. I don't think even if I was willing to put her in the car, if she would
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fit through that door, I'd have to get people like, you know, the Japanese train style to push
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her through. And then how the hell would I get her out? Exactly. Or through some chocolate bars
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on the other side, she might dive after. But I mean, yeah, I mean, seriously, that could damage
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a vehicle. It's 500 pounds. It's like putting a steer in your backseat. Exactly. So weird, weird,
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weird. Yeah. You've missed a little bit of news. The whirlwind of Donald Trump's first week
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continued uh last night he signed into law uh banning uh child sex changes uh one of the things
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he ran on in the campaign so uh as daniel smith likes to say a promise made promise kept no more
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child sex changes in the states i know a story close to your heart uh corey is the uh uh alleged
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graves in uh at the residential school in uh in uh kamloops it's been revealed this week 12 million
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dollars that went there was not spent trying to locate bodies it was spent on publicists and
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administration costs and various things like that so our columnist hyby rubinstein takes a
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deep dive into that and he's a bit of an expert as you know um burger king launching a new uh
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i don't even know if i can call it a burger it's a slab of meat inside a donut and so just picture
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of this it's 800 calories it's only 800 calories and i'm sure it probably tastes real good it
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doesn't look great but right now it's only being a test test driven in ecuador so if you want to
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get one you got to go i go on a bit of a plane ride so rfk doesn't need to worry about it coming
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to the states for a little bit yet quebec minister came out this week and said multiculturalism
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a big press conference this afternoon. Daniel Smith,
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going to talk about the Heritage Savings Trust Fund.
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main thing on the agenda but obviously she'll be asked about trump uh there was a first minister's
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conference call today with uh with the prime minister and uh it's getting close uh you know
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saturday's only a day or two away when the uh tariffs are supposedly coming so down the hatches
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yeah well we'll see what happens i mean either is believable right you know saturday could come and
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there'd be no tariffs that wouldn't be shocking but him laying them on there on saturday would
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it's just as likely. Yeah, it could be at like 2 a.m. or he's on the golf course. He's gloriously
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unpredictable. Be that he is. Well, as an anarchistic type, I kind of like it, but I'm
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kind of terrified of his time. Exactly. All right. Well, thanks, Dave. I'll let you get back
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into that newsroom and hammering on all those stories and see you after the show. Thanks for
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that. That is our news editor, Dave Naylor. And this one, I'd like to remind everybody the reason
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anymore. So thanks, Josh. I'll see you back in this chair maybe in about 11 and a half months.
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all right yeah so all this news it's it's just where do you where do you stop right so let's talk
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about the woke and the insane this one came up recently it was brought up by jk rowling online
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this is a uh an albertan issue that got international coverage and it should a man
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and this is a man there's no doubt about it was put into a woman's shelter this pervert and he
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what did he do well he assaulted the women in the woman's shelter in Edmonton this this guy he
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doesn't look even a little bit like a woman it's not like a trans person where you you might have
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mistaken them for a woman uh we should have a picture there he is really so this person
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identified as a woman and they said let's put this guy into a shelter full of women who were
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trying to hide from men who assaulted them and then they got put in with this guy and he assaulted
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them. It's insane. It's insane. This is beyond the pale. And how does this happen? Well, it happens
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because DEI woke morons who come out with a degree in gender ideology, which ironically teaches them
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that there's more than two genders and there aren't, get over it. These are the ones that are
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also feminists at the same time, and they understand, and there is a need for women's
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shelters. There's abusive spouses, monsters, animals out there, and women and family need a
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place to transition and hide and get themselves together. And the safe space we put, we set aside
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for these women, and instead they stuck this pervert in with them. And these women who had
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already been abused once, frightened once, dealt with this, had to deal with it again in a safe
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space. They're never going to feel safe for the rest of their lives. This is unforgivable. And
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you know it was some self-styled feminist moonbat idiot who said, well, we have to let him in
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because he said he identifies as a woman. He's got a deck and knackers, guys. That's all the
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tests you need. It really is. This doesn't have to be complicated. If they got the plumbing of a
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man, they don't go into a woman's shelter. Yet we haven't figured that out. And this is Alberta.
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I thought we were supposed to be one of the brighter ones in Canada, but apparently no,
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we actually stick sex offenders into women's shelters. I just, you know, again, I'd say it
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leaves me lost for words but as you can see now I got plenty of words it makes it hard for me to
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hold back the expletives I really want to use on this one either way let's get on with that let's
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talk about some other things big government big waste big confusion it's the big green line and
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we got Mike Thomas in studio to talk about it and uh it's been big news you know I'll kind of frame
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it a little bit I mean for people outside of Alberta though it seems like Ottawa I think
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Montreal Edmonton there's big transit projects Vancouver happening all over they're trying to
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these train projects going and they're almost invariably turned into boondoggles uh calgary
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has the green line and this has been going and going going and now we've kind of culminated with
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a weird vote yesterday on a provincial version of it yeah it's uh they should call it the yellow
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line because it's turned into a lemon cory um council voted reluctantly calgary city council
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voted i think reluctantly in favor of the alberta government's revision to the line
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which has drawn gotten people up in arms because it is elevated through the downtown core
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over top of 10th avenue in calgary if you're not familiar with that it's a very busy uh main road
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that runs east and west and and has a lot a lot of buildings uh businesses sorry including hotels
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and restaurants and things like that, running along the street.
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Now they're going to have a train running over top of them.
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And the Alberta government is of the mind, well, that won't affect the business.
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If anybody's been to Chicago and seen underneath how nice that part of town is
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where all the elevated train lines are, you build insta-slums kind of.
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They've been a partner on the thing all along with them and the feds
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and then of course city calgary government but they came in uh late last year with a revision
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to the plan which shortened the green line which was supposed to be running from all the way in
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northwest calgary from 160th avenue if you're not familiar with calgary that's way up north
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and then running down to the southeast part of the city uh to an area called shepherd um
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and the alberta government said nah you don't need that let's just go from shepherd we'll take it
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into downtown and we can both stop in downtown initially and we'll see what happens after that
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and so that goes against the the plans the the green line was uh part of uh former mayor
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had nenshi's uh plans and that in those days a huge huge thing like i say wipe the northwest
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down in the southeast but it's now been narrowed down to what i just mentioned at the cost of 6.23
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billion dollars that is shared between the city at 47 percent the province 26 percent and the feds
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27 percent so that's basically where we stand right now and um we were talking earlier and
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i was at council last night watching all this happen and i'll be very honest it's not very
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often i i agree with with the mayor but uh mayor gondack uh out of the meeting the private meeting
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they had and just ripped the province apart it's in an article i wrote that's up on the website
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now i think um and i was shocked i was absolutely shocked that she would do that
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and i was even more shocked that i agreed with her because i don't like i say i don't very often
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agree with her but she's absolutely right the contention being that the part going over 10th
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avenue and then elevated again into downtown is going to be very very disruptive yeah well the
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the construction alone. I mean, we know these things don't happen fast and there's a lot of
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businesses under there. They're going to be decimated. But some people will say you have
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to break some eggs to make an omelet, blah, blah, blah. But they don't take into account the impacts
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really, it seems. But I mean, this is kind of a pissing match that's been going on for quite a
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while. I mean, some of the language that was interesting out of it from the province, and I
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got to admit, sounded pretty heavy handed from above when we're supposed to be a decentralized
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model, saying that the city is going to get the liability and they're going to deal with the
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construction, they're going to deal with the debt and everything else, but you're going to do our
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plan. Yes. And that's, that's good that you mentioned that because the, when the province
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came back with their revision to the plan, they said, well, this, that, and that, and that's going
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to add, the C looked at it and went, well, it's going to add $1.3 billion to the cost. And there
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are all kinds of liabilities involved in this thing, obviously. And this province says, no,
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that's on you but you're right uh the city's got to do it the alberto government way or no way and
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if there's any problems liabilities um it's on the city um interesting last night a condo complex in
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eau claire burned down the ironic timing it's like well whoa where did that come from but this condo
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complex was expropriated by the city to the tune of pretty close to 21 million dollars to get the
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owners out um it was being demolished it was scheduled to be demolished because there was
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going to be a green line station at that point um so it was like i say it was being demolished
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and then last night after this the vote said yeah okay i guess we got to go with with the
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province. It burned down. And I don't know. I'm not going to suggest that. Just that region's
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full of irony anyways. And for those of us old enough to remember, I mean, it used to be a
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horrible area with the old bus barns and Greyhound station a long time back. The city planners
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changed it to Eau Claire. It was going to be the Granville Island of Calgary. This was going to be
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a brilliant area. And it sort of failed catastrophically over the years. And now they're
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tearing that mess down and they've put in a well now a fictional lrt station it's going to be a
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dead zone again actually the lrt isn't going to go anywhere near there no not with the latest plan
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but i mean who would invest in anything there right now because you don't know what it's going
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to be next month no i exactly i mean it the it never really took off the way they thought it
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was going to and now it has no chance of taking off at all it's kind of in flux so i mean getting
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into the bigger issue, as I said, other cities, everybody deals with this. What I see part
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of the problem of getting anything done is you've got three levels of government in this
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ideal world. Okay, everybody's pitching in, but they all come with strings attached. They
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all want to make their mark. And it's bad enough getting one government managing to
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get something done. When you got three, two of which put strings attached typically to
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the funding, you end up with this. Yeah, or you'll never get anything done with three
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And they pretty much have stayed out of it. It's the Alberta
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the recent release, this kind of made it all hit the fan
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and wanted to tack on another $1.5 billion in the price.
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Should they just be left alone to say, yeah, we'll go with that?
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Well, I think I'm not a big fan of government involvement in anything,
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but I think probably, I mean, it's easy to look back at something like that
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But all levels of the government should have gone.
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there are construction associations and companies in the city who do these things it's their job
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and they should have said we want to train to go from here down to there bring us a plan but they
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didn't the city bureaucracy did it in-house and that's a mistake i mean you don't go to a radiator
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mechanic to get your teeth fixed you know and that's pretty much what a bureaucracy is about
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so what's the solution do you think this train line is ever going to get done
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i think eventually um now that the because it's always been about the money and and you
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i mean they've done some things but now that the money is pretty much guaranteed
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uh they can start putting shovels in the ground and um i don't know if you're going to start
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downtown or if you're going to start in in uh shepherd if they're going to build it from shepherd
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I saw this interesting, it seemed a bit strategic.
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I think it was Evan Spencer, one of the counselors,
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talking about just saying, well, we've got to push,
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Now the tracks are on the ground, even if only a couple
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We could fight about downtown over the next five years
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while they build it to the... Well, it's, yeah,
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going to get done. How long it's going to take is
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going to be other problems that get in the way? Oh, yeah,
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where it turns to go west after running north ramsey englewood for the people who don't know
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are probably the oldest neighborhoods in calgary and i'm guaranteeing you that most people living
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there right now have no clue that this thing is coming to their neighborhood and it's going to
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disrupt things like crazy oh yeah there's some of the irony again going back 30 years when i moved
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to calgary you didn't want to go into england it was rough the old national hotel the the prostitutes
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it was just a bad bad end of town and to their credit i mean i didn't believe it when the city
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back then said you know we're going to fix this area up and they did they turned it around it's
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a trendy area nice shops expensive condos you go blasting an lrt line through there you're going to
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send it back into being a ghetto well yeah uh it's just people are going to wake up one day and see
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all this stuff going on in front of their houses people digging ditches and laying down track and
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they're going to go what happened but you know that's it brings me to another point it's an
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election year in calgary and um calgarians are notoriously bad when it comes to showing up at
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the polls and so there are going to be people who who wake up one morning to the lrt in their
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or past their front windows and they're going to say what the heck where did this come from
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but uh calgarians really got to get off their butts um and and participate in the election
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this year is it's vital it's absolutely important um to get and there's like 100 000 new calgarians
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in the city this year i think something like that and and they've got to get to the polls
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they got to pay attention to what's going on so that we don't they don't wake up and are surprised
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by an lrt going by yeah well it's like the old statement it's a true one in democracy you get
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the government you deserve i'm going to talk a little after this about how messed up our democracy
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is trying to get the government reserve federally but at least municipally i mean that's government
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close to you that's government that impacts you more than you imagine and most people i hate to
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say it but couldn't name their local counselor they wouldn't even know who it is and paying
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attention because this is yeah when you express shock when that rail lines across the street
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well i think you know it's something happened in the city last year but i think people don't think
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they can fight city hall and and city hall proved you shouldn't when they did the up zoning uh
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blanket up zoning thing last year and 70 of the calgarians at a public hearing said no we don't
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want it yet council went ahead and did it um well you just got to get out and fight but it's it was
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good to see that many people come out and and take up the fight even if they lost it they at least
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they got out there well that's it the opportunity is coming this fall i mean this is the crabbiest
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I think I've seen in general with people with it.
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It's not surprising to see some like Mian,
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I believe, already announced she's not going to run again.
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I think they already read the writing on the wall.
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I think they're probably another four, maybe five.
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So, I mean, they've had one taste in their salmon.
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Look, you know, I've been hanging around City Hall
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you need danger pay it is something else and you know before i let you go i mean just remind people
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because that's what we need more of to the other part not just taking part in elections but
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there's one of the differences with press evolution we don't have the coverage of city
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halls like we used to i mean used to have a whole lineup of reporters in the gallery for every boring
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meeting just in case something of importance came out now not many people are you're thankfully you
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know donning the hat and going down there and watching that uh you know so this is kind of
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the final plug you write regularly and you're going to continue watching this
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on our behalf oh yeah yeah I think the Green Line's probably off my agenda for
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a while but we'll do more especially as an election year unfolds yeah yeah all
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right well thanks for keeping an eye on thank you Cory I appreciate it a summary
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of it for us and yeah I look forward to more of the coverage as it unfolds all
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right all right thanks have a good day you do it
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hey that was Mike Thomas yes he covers any many things as you can tell a
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a journalistic veteran still at it here for us. And, you know, it's a problem, as I said,
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for people across the country. Every city hall has this issue going on. A lot of it is our own
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bloody fault due to apathy. We have the means to get out, fire these guys. We have the means to
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pay a little bit of attention if only once every four years and realize, my Lord, this person's a
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twit. Vote for somebody else. But we don't do it. Turnouts and civic elections are horrible in
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Calgary, I think I've seen them as low as 20% over the years. Getting back to, you know, there's
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something, I've been very much a fan of the UCP in Alberta and Daniel Smith and a lot of the things
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she's doing and a lot of the things she's done. I'm concerned about others. When I talk about the
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size of government, I talked about spending and things like that. Well, they haven't cut spending
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and I'd like to see that, you know, we're supposed to be conservative. That's staying up there. We're
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not cutting our civil service. We should be. Alberta is actually pretty bad for that. We got
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a pretty bloated one ourselves. So, I mean, I'm not just going to beak at the federal government
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for not finding the courage to do it. The provincial government needs to as well, and the
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city. I see some of the discussion from others in the comments, girl, Wildrose, Angry Canadian,
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talking about independence and whether, you know, we're looking at 51st state stuff or Alberta
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moving along, which is, of course, very familiar turf with me. One of the things I've always said,
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and I said it, you know, making my own plug in my own book when I wrote The Sovereign's Handbook.
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If Alberta seriously wants to go independent, though, they've got to clean up their own
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backyard first. If you want to convince voters in Alberta to take a referendum vote and leave
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or change the situation in the federation or anything, you have to prove that wouldn't be
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any better. If it's still big government, if it's still not democratic, if it's still not
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serving the people right, why would you think that you'd be doing any better in a smaller version of
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it? So we've got to pay attention to the municipal politics. We've got to get on the case of our
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provincial leaders. And as I said, something that got me increasingly just uncomfortable
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with the Smith government. And again, for the most part, I think, you know, Premier Smith's
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doing great, but they really are top down. It's ironic when they complain as much about the
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federal government pushing into the jurisdiction of the provincial government, and rightly so,
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but they have been very heavy handed when it comes into the jurisdiction of the municipal governments
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and pressuring them and putting strings onto the transfers
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and things that would manage municipal politics.
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That's where I get a little more uncomfortable.
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Isn't the principle supposed to be the same all the way along?
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True, they might be terrible, but whose fault is that?
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to step in and deal with that, or should we be doing it as electors? And I mean, I won't go down
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the rabbit hole or recall, but that's one way between elections to do it. But we do get the
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chance every election and we don't take advantage of it. Got to start firing these guys. Got to start
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putting better ones in. We shouldn't be counting on a higher level of government to intervene. I
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mean, going further along in that sense, that's like saying we should have Trudeau intervene
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and overrun our premier, Daniel Smith, when she's doing something here. That's not the way to do it.
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We should be bringing government, the ability to control government closer to home.
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So just before I left for my vacation, Justin Trudeau announced his intention to resign.
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So the city's going to, after, and I'll go a little more into that in a moment, you know, a robust leadership election process.
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I drove all the way, pulled a fifth wheel with Jane all the way down to Arizona and back.
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I make poor Jane endure a whole lot of podcasts and such.
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I like listening to Joe Rogan, but I don't often have the three hours to set aside to listen to him.
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and it's funny because he broke down something finally kind of defined something about Justin
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Trudeau I hadn't thought of but it makes sense it's like you know just that that weird
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creepy breathy performative way that Justin Trudeau speaks you know any conference anything
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he's at it's just that bizarre speech inflection he has that way of putting himself and Rogan said
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it's because it's performative it's because he's acting he's always acting and yet we always kind
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of knew Trudeau was fake. We always knew he was acting, but you see the way Rogan broke it down,
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he's right. If you ever watch old, old movies, acting evolved. You know, if you look back
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all the way, you know, to when it was just stage and theater, a person on a stage really had to
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exaggerate, be performative, really reach the audience with an exaggeration of emotion and
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statements. And then it moved on to movies and it was silent movies. So you still, you expressed
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yourself bodily greatly with that. And then the first actors, those old ones, they didn't, they
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didn't talk anything like we talked today. The first radio hosts didn't talk like anybody does
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today. They had that weird inflection. You didn't see anybody on Earth, and frankly, I don't give a
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damn it, any of that sort of stuff. That was just the way they spoke back then. It was bad acting,
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actually. It was acting that needed to evolve into today. You look at movies of today, the intent of
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the actors is to seem at least as human as possible, so it seems like you're watching a real
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scene. Trudeau is a bad actor. He's not just an actor. He's a bad one. And not an endearing one.
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You know, William Shatner is a terrible actor, but at least he made a character out of it. We
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can kind of enjoy him. Trudeau is a terrible one. And yes, as others have said, you know,
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Wildrose, when Trudeau speaks, I need a shower. Yeah, I know. It just grates. It's going to be
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finally to see that guy in the rearview mirror is going to be such a good thing, but it's
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going to be a while yet. A good commenter saying, Lone Warrior says, how do you convince good
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people to run for office though. It's tough. It's tough. You know, you're asking a lot. I mean,
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people talk about cutting political pay and salary down to the bone. That's fine. But boy,
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you know, some of the people you might want getting in, I mean, there's some great people
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working in the low income. They might be very smart and dedicated who make great politicians
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too. But a lot of people, you're asking them to take a heck of a wage cut to go into office then,
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especially if you reduce those amounts. And I know it sounds frightening when you're talking
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about politicians already making six figures, but you can only cut it so far. So you got to make
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sure they're well compensated, not overcompensated, absolutely. But they got to be well compensated.
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You got to convince the people running for office, they can get something done.
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You want people running on an ideal to make things better. That's the reason a person does
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it, a professional or whether it's a person who works in a restaurant, but just manages to run
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into fine, but they want to actually be making a good change. And if they don't feel they can make
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that change, they don't feel that it's actually doable. And they don't feel that putting their
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life on the line, going out there, becoming an elected official, spending four years doesn't
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actually accomplish something, then why are they running? Well, then they are running for a better
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job or to line their pockets or something that's not a good person. So I don't know if we need to
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improve this system, right? We need to make sure that people feel like it works, not just the
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voters, but the people running for office. They want to know they're getting into something that
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will be functional. Right now we are very, very dysfunctional. And it's difficult. You know,
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We kind of expected Trudeau was finally going to give it up and leave.
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Grudgingly, Trudeau announces his intention to resign.
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The liberals have to rush it in a process that they usually spend six months to do for a leadership race.
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but now they've turned it into a coronation and it's ridiculous uh plus their standards
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of of how and and what you do to lay me right see back in 2014 or whenever they did it last
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they allowed people to become members for free nice idealistic blah blah blah all you had to do
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is fill out a form online it's a nice way to actually just kind of get out of mind you know
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bring in more people in there because those are the people you'll hit up later for donations and
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participation in elections, things like that. In political parties, when we used to do mail out
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everything, $10 a year for membership fee would be just about enough to cover the amount of mailing
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and dealing with the members. And then you want to reach further to hopefully bring them and get
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them engaged or get further contributions from them. So they said, screw it, let's go free.
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Everything's digital. We can do that. Now everybody can sign up for a leadership race for free online.
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You know what? In the last leadership race, it didn't really improve the amount of people coming
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out to take part in it. But people have learned a whole heck of a lot about digital campaigning
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and getting people involved. So now, even though the membership window for the liberal leadership
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was open and closed quickly, many, many, many people were signing up for free to vote in that
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race. And I'm forgetting his name now, you know, Arya or Chandra, there was a liberal member of
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parliament, he was a backbencher, he'd been there forever, but he'd been there for three terms.
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And he started to run, and he put a campaign together, and he was hammering hard. And thousands
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and thousands of people were signing up with those free memberships to vote for him. But they want
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Carney. It became clear. And he scared them. And you can tell he scared them because they kicked
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him out of the race. They still, the Liberal Party hasn't given a reason why they kicked him out of
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the race. He was good enough to be a member of parliament for them for almost 12 years. But
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suddenly he's not good enough to be in the race. It's rigged. It's rigged. It's a Carney coronation.
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And yes, sure, this gentleman was probably playing the ethnic vote and doing other things, but he did it fast enough that it looked like, oh, wow, this could really disrupt our coronation of Carney.
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But getting back to the earlier question, how do you get good people to run for office?
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I said, do all that and jump into a rigged game.
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Because a good person doesn't want to go into a rigged game.
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I see Gord Tulk commenting, and he's been fair enough online, because when that happened, I mean,
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I like doing my online trolling and poking and stirring things up, and I have been encouraging
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people to get on there and vote for Ruby with the Liberals. Sign up, take out that free membership,
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and throw a vote for her now. Since the Liberals have basically discredited their entire race,
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let's just jump onto the next one and put another scare into it. It looks like she, as a candidate,
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and she's kind of a fringe candidate, an interesting character, has embraced that.
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she's taken on a hyper conservative role and is running on that and it's it's just interesting to
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watch it's basically just throwing a wrench into a a liberal political process and uh gordon pointed
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out it's just not really a principal thing to do if you're just trying to screw with somebody else's
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party rather than you know build your own fair enough it's fair comment absolutely uh you know
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because others have said and the liberals even said you know what if you fraudulently take out
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a liberal membership you could be fined up ten thousand dollars oh whatever look that's like an
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Impark fine, you know, think of it this way. Yes, there's a little thing that says you're not a
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member of another federal party when you sign up to join the Liberal Party. And you have to say that
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you weren't a member of another federal party. Okay. If you fraudulently were a member of a
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federal party, if the Liberals somehow even found out and could prove that, how they could without
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getting the membership list of the other party, then they could come after you, I guess, and say
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you fraudulently signed up. But then as a defense, you say, oh, well, I didn't realize I was still a
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member, lots of little defenses like that, even if they judge, because they'd have to take you to
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court. They don't have the ability to fine you, not directly fine you. So the judge would say,
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well, okay, we could live a fine equal to the offense. Well, you paid zero to get in.
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You have a bit of a defense in saying you may, perhaps you didn't even remember you're a member
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of the other party. I'm just saying as the legalities go, it's just a hollow threat on
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the part of liberals. But is it nice, is it principled to jump in and screw with another
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process? No, probably not. I didn't feel badly about it. Just because I guess, you know, some
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people can say two wrongs don't make a right fine. But I just say that they already completely
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discredited their process when they kicked one of the candidates out in favor of another one.
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I mean, you kick a candidate out. If there is a reason for it, you've got to have something to
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state and they won't even state it. They don't respect the voters, the liberals, anybody enough.
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They want to put Carney in. The other scary part is Carney is short on time. He's desperate.
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So Carney gets in, he wins this thing. He's got maybe two weeks as prime minister before he's
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into an election, the way things were lining up. Maybe. It's not enough time to turn things around.
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The liberals, I mean, despite crazy Frank Graves poll, they are in the toilet. Their chances of
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winning the next election are extremely, extremely slim. If they really hope, if Carney does dream
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that he could turn this around, he needs time. He would need to get in. He would need to bring
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in some policies. He'd need to build a team. He needs to do many, many, many things. But he will
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only have two weeks. And his paradox, he just pointed out, Singh will prop them up for as long
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as he can. And that's what happened. Yesterday, Singh was already hinting, well, you know what,
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because even though Singh said over and over, this government is coming down, first possible
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opportunity. I'm going to take this government down, no matter who's leading it. He lied. He
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lied. Singh's a liar. Socialists are a liar. Get used to it. That's their nature. He's a self-serving
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wimp, is all he is. Singh is a sad specimen of a politician. So yeah, he flip-flopped again.
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He will keep Kearney in, but as I said, he's self-serving. He will keep him in at a price.
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Trudeau talked about recently already saying, well, we could bring in an aid package on the
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level of the COVID-19 package to deal with the tariffs. The tariffs aren't even in yet.
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This is Singh's demand. That's what's happening behind closed doors. This is a UBI program. This
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is a massive, massive social welfare program. This would be talking about tens of billions
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of dollars when we're already tens of billions of dollars in the hole. You thought inflation
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was bad before? It will get a heck of a lot worse. But that's Singh's demand. Singh's saying,
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bring this in, this giant spending program, this giant throwing, living on the credit cards of
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taxpayers. And I'll support you. And maybe I'll buy you that six months in power that you can
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hopefully have a chance. Some people think, and there's the other thing to remind you,
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just to keep you from getting a good sleep tonight. Constitutionally, the liberals don't
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have to go to an election until October 2026. I think it's very unlikely they'll push it that far.
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But the Election Act is just an act. It can be changed by the government any time. They can
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change that date. The only time they're fully outright forced is five years after the last
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election. And, uh, you know, I think it was Wildrose that said, does any of this actually
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surprise you? I still, I managed to get surprised now and then I do. I still try to maintain some
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optimism, uh, but they still managed to surprise me. But I, I mean, I get a sour view of it too.
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We're seeing some of the worst, ugliest power play of politics that we possibly can. Canada's
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system is hopelessly broken. It makes it nearly impossible to hold these people to account between
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elections. And we're seeing that with this prorogation, with these deals being cut in the
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minority government, with these things happening, when the majority of the country clearly does not
00:44:29.540
want this, and there's not a single bloody thing they can do about it. We are being held hostage.
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Alberta is in an abusive relationship. If anything does come into tariff war, rest assured, Alberta
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in the West will be thrown under the bus as a sacrificial lamb to try futilely to fight against
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Trudeau's, or Trudeau's, Trump's tariffs. I'll leave with one commenter from Lynn Myers saying
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Carney's even more dangerous than, turd face was the term he used, but Trudeau. And there's truth
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to it because Trudeau, whatever he was, an ideologue, he's also an idiot. He has a sweater
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on backwards the other day. I mean, this man gets his shoes wrong on the wrong feet every second
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a day. Carney is just as much an ideologue as Justin Trudeau is, but he's smart. And that's a
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hell of a lot scarier than the fool we're getting rid of. Let's just hope we get an election sometime
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soon. All right, guys, like, share, do all that great stuff for us. Come on, let's make this
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channel great again. Let's get it out there. And thank you all for tuning in this week. Tune into
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the pipeline tonight. We're breaking a bunch of that down with a panel. And yes, I will see you
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next week with a new guest, a new lineup, and we'll discuss what's broken in the next week.
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Who knows? It's crazy news. So thank you again. It's great to be back