Western Standard - CMS： Alberta’s recall process is a waste of time

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00:00:30.000 Oh, I am indeed Corey Morgan. I'm back from my breakdown South. I'm rested. I'm full of piss

00:00:52.180 and vinegar. I'm ready to rant, rave, share opinions, interview people, do all that good

00:00:56.840 stuff that I do on this show every week at Wednesdays at this time or at different times

00:01:02.260 in the evenings on the Cowboy Network and some of your other favorite cable channels out there.

00:01:06.780 So I do want to start by thanking James Finkbeiner for holding down the fort for the last few weeks

00:01:11.440 while I was hiding out in the desert there. I appreciate it. He did a great job. And of course,

00:01:16.980 Nico was supporting him well there as well. So a packed show today as always. I've got

00:01:22.780 Dan McTeague coming on from Canadians for affordable energy. We're going to talk about

00:01:27.640 energy. There's lots to talk about all the time. Again, I mean, Alberta's energy rich yet. We

00:01:32.380 seem to have energy shortages. Alberta's energy rich yet. I paid far less for my fuel while I was

00:01:37.920 driving through the States, even after exchange was put into account. Then I pay in Alberta.

00:01:42.620 Just talk about some of these things because I don't think we're doing a real good job with

00:01:45.520 energy up here. Of course, I'll have my news check-ins and other things going as well. So I

00:01:50.260 see some of the commenters there, Tom Hamilton already in there saying, we're going to talk

00:01:53.700 about the recall process. And he's saying it was written by politicians for politicians

00:01:57.160 to give the appearance of accountability. And he's right. And I agree. And I'm going to talk

00:02:02.600 about that a little more in just a moment here. And E-Sharp there throwing a comment in.

00:02:06.220 So for those following the show live, yes, throw those comments in there, questions. I see them

00:02:09.680 all. I won't necessarily read them all out, but I appreciate them. Just keep things civil.

00:02:14.040 So let's talk about recall because it's come up in news in Alberta, quite a bit in Calgary due

00:02:20.140 to a new petition to recall Mayor Gondek. I've always been a strong supporter of direct democracy

00:02:27.640 through citizens-initiated referenda and accountability through citizen-led recall

00:02:32.280 initiatives. Calgary Mayor Jody Gondek is the worst mayor in living memory. She's only halfway 0.97

00:02:38.200 for her first term in office, and she's that bad. She's a prime candidate for recall. As voters have

00:02:43.800 realized, Gondek wasn't who she purported to be when she ran for the job. We're seeing massive

00:02:48.720 buyer's remorse as Gondek lurches from one disaster to another, offending people left and

00:02:53.420 right while taxes continue to rise. Polls are reflecting a very strong majority of Calgarians

00:02:58.600 want the chance to fire Gondek as soon as possible. But with all that said, the current

00:03:03.980 recall initiative launched against Jody Gondek is doomed to fail and may actually, unintentionally,

00:03:10.520 even help her. I mean, to begin with, the bar to recall a civic politician is impossibly high.

00:03:16.820 You need over 514,000 signatures from eligible Calgarian voters and they need to be collected

00:03:22.360 in 60 days to invoke the recall. Anybody who actually thinks this is possible has never

00:03:26.840 actually done real petitioning. It's a slow process and takes a lot of work. To garner

00:03:32.140 half a million signatures in two months would take a massive organizational machine that just

00:03:37.180 doesn't exist out there. You've got to remember these signatures required aren't digital. They

00:03:40.900 have to be handwritten and witnessed on an official petition sheet with a name, address,

00:03:45.900 and phone number of the person signing so the signature can be verified later. A lot of people

00:03:51.040 aren't going to be comfortable sharing that information with a petitioner, even if they

00:03:53.920 support the cause. Many signatures garnered as well are going to be rejected later because

00:03:57.800 the name or the address might not be legible or the person's residency couldn't be confirmed with

00:04:02.220 the electors lists. The petitions you see are checked when they're submitted. That means the

00:04:05.800 real number required, if you were going to be realistic, would actually be more like 550, 560,000

00:04:10.300 signatures. Now, a hardworking, effective petitioner going door to door, a really good

00:04:15.860 one, could get perhaps 100 signatures a day. So think about it. It would take nearly 100 people

00:04:20.820 working full-time hours seven days a week for two months, assuming all those 500 and some thousand

00:04:26.120 are existing out there, to round up the required signatures in time. Coordinating that many workers

00:04:31.320 would require management personnel, transportation, some kind of office to ensure they aren't

00:04:35.040 overlapping territory. They'd need to track where they've been to do second and third rounds in

00:04:40.280 neighborhoods to catch the people who weren't home the first time. Petitioning in public places like

00:04:44.460 malls, events, transit stations, it can be effective, but it won't be enough. It has to be

00:04:47.780 door-to-door. So to put it in perspective, only 390,000 people even bothered to vote

00:04:52.520 in the last mayoral race. Even if 100% of those people were now opposed to Gondek,

00:04:59.640 you'd still need more than 100,000 on top of all that to sign the petition

00:05:04.260 and you've got to find them to make the recall work.

00:05:07.820 The legislation guiding citizen-initiated referenda isn't much better.

00:05:12.300 The creation of the Recall Act was the final straw, actually, for me

00:05:14.680 when it came to supporting former Premier Jason Kenney.

00:05:16.740 I used to be a strong supporter of his,

00:05:18.140 but that was a cynical nod to those who voted for him

00:05:21.880 based on his campaign of accountability and citizen empowerment.

00:05:24.620 Kenney promised recall and referendum legislation to Albertans,

00:05:27.820 and he purposely crafted the legislation to make it useless

00:05:31.620 and impossible to invoke, as we're seeing today.

00:05:34.260 He misled people when he promised that legislation.

00:05:36.940 He had no interest in letting citizens hold their elected officials to account.

00:05:40.820 But he didn't hesitate to promise that to win the votes in the first place.

00:05:44.340 I just, I despise that kind of bait and switch type of politics.

00:05:47.060 Either support citizens' referenda or don't. 0.92

00:05:49.400 But to give this garbage legislation to us was a slap in the face of the supporters.

00:05:53.520 So the people behind the petition to recall Gondek, I mean, they're well-meaning, 0.93

00:05:57.320 that fellow who's gotten that going.

00:05:59.160 And I don't doubt I agree with him on almost everything, probably.

00:06:02.060 But the efforts would be better spent putting pressure on UCP MLAs to fix the broken recall legislation.

00:06:07.520 They're the only ones who can do it.

00:06:08.960 Once that's done, then they can get to work on a recall.

00:06:11.920 Otherwise, they're pissing in the wind, guys.

00:06:13.960 You're wasting time and energy.

00:06:16.080 Further, when the petition fails, and it will, Gondek and her few supporters are going to claim it's because Calgarians actually support her.

00:06:23.020 It'll be actually a public relations win for the mayor who really hasn't earned a win in her entire time in office. 0.74

00:06:29.280 Also, those who signed or worked on gathering the signatures for the petition,

00:06:32.720 they're going to have built up cynicism and apathy, and it's going to entrench it more.

00:06:36.620 They're going to be tired.

00:06:37.600 They're going to feel like it was a wasted effort,

00:06:39.380 and they're going to be less inclined to participate in democratic exercises in the future,

00:06:42.940 even if the legislation gets fixed.

00:06:45.380 Look, I hate crapping on good grassroots efforts made by citizens.

00:06:48.780 We need to see more of it, and I admire the gumption among those

00:06:51.320 who have gotten the petition to recall Gondek going.

00:06:54.180 I've got to call it as I see it, however,

00:06:55.820 and it's an initiative that won't lead to a productive outcome.

00:06:58.880 I hope the folks involved redirect their efforts to helping Albertans get the legislation they

00:07:03.260 need. Then they can, and I can, get fully behind those recall efforts against those politicians

00:07:08.160 that have earned those efforts. Until then, though, they're just wasting good shoe leather

00:07:12.420 going out there getting signatures for something that's just not going to change. So either way,

00:07:17.540 sorry to poop on the parade, guys, but it's just not going to go anywhere. All right, let's see

00:07:22.200 what else is going on out there and check in with Mr. Naylor in the newsroom. Hey, Dave, how's it

00:07:26.040 going hey cory good welcome back oh thanks thanks you know what that young thinkbinder guy he did 0.99

00:07:31.840 a pretty good job i think we had a young star in the making there yeah i think so no i was watching

00:07:36.340 it from down south i can only vacation so much i still got to see what's going on up here no james

00:07:40.060 did great yeah absolutely um i am a bit perturbed that you uh you abandoned duke the wonder dog

00:07:46.660 and you didn't take him on holiday with you i did i mean we were in a fifth wheel for for 25 days

00:07:51.620 it's a wonder that jane didn't strangle me over the course of that time with that much proximity 1.00

00:07:55.620 to each other and a big lazy bulldog if we had that screwy 130 pound duke in there 1.00

00:08:01.220 it would have been disastrous i'm afraid oh man i don't know if he'll ever forgive you he seems 0.85

00:08:07.060 to have gotten over it i gave him some cookies when i got home and he forgot about everything

00:08:10.580 oh yeah you're the best man so you know what we've had a really busy uh morning out here in

00:08:14.660 the newsroom cory we got probably about 15 new stories up uh already right now we're leading

00:08:20.340 off with the reaction on the conservative leader pierre poliev has finally commented on the

00:08:27.060 transgender policy that alberta is bringing in and he says he is also against giving puberty blockers

00:08:33.940 to uh to children says they should wait until they're adults we got some more facts and figures

00:08:40.420 from stats can on just the the massive number of people moving to alberta mainly from ontario and

00:08:46.420 BC to escape their tax regimes. 45,000 people have moved to Alberta recently. So the province

00:08:55.060 is booming. Lots of other stuff. Corey, we've got conservatives trying to fight back against

00:09:01.280 a government increase of $450 a month for Canadian military members. And you know what,

00:09:07.920 Corey, they don't get paid a lot to begin with. $450 a month rent increase is a horrible thing

00:09:14.480 to put them through. We've got our columnist Jaime Rubenstein talking about the ousted

00:09:20.880 BC cabinet minister who was forced to quit this week. And we've got a liberal MP, the

00:09:29.140 justice minister, a federal justice minister, apologized for calling Pierre Polyev a very,

00:09:35.900 very bad word in the House of Commons. We've got that you can check out. And we've got

00:09:41.820 But my two favorite stories of the day are already being punched down the list a bit because of all the other stuff.

00:09:49.240 All those killer whales trapped in the ice in Japan.

00:09:52.080 There was about 12 or 13 of them.

00:09:54.640 Some heartbreaking footage yesterday of them all trying to squeeze in this little maybe 10-foot square hole in the ice.

00:10:01.740 But it turns out they've managed to escape and now appear to be swimming free.

00:10:08.040 And the criminal genius of the year award goes to an alleged Calgary drug dealer who was handing out his business cards with free little baggies of cocaine attached, free samples of cocaine for whoever wanted it.

00:10:24.940 Needless to say, it didn't take Calgary police long to investigate and find him with a whole bunch of drugs.

00:10:31.300 And he now got a laundry list of charges.

00:10:34.800 So criminal minds at their best there, Corey.

00:10:38.040 Yeah, who'd have seen that coming? Well, I mean, you know, points for ambition, I guess.

00:10:43.160 I guess, you know, everybody's got to start somewhere.

00:10:45.540 Yeah.

00:10:46.000 You know, handing out, you know, at least better, he was doing it at a casino, downtown casino.

00:10:51.300 So I guess better a casino than a school.

00:10:54.080 Yes, and just, I guess, a final little bit of news.

00:10:56.120 It looks like Jonathan Bradley might be moving along somewhere else.

00:10:59.940 Yes, Jonathan Bradley, our crack young reporter, he's being promoted to our legislature bureau.

00:11:07.380 So he's all excited about that, and he'll be up there for the start of the session on February 28th,

00:11:14.140 holding the government's feet to the fire.

00:11:17.040 So he's looking forward to it, and I'm looking forward to it, and he's going to do a great job.

00:11:21.700 Excellent. I'm sure he will.

00:11:22.960 All right, thanks, Dave. I'll talk to you after the show.

00:11:25.820 Thanks, Corey.

00:11:27.100 So, yeah, that is our news editor, Dave Naylor.

00:11:30.800 I see lots of stories always breaking.

00:11:33.000 This is what I like to remind and nag everybody the reason we can do it, 1.00

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00:11:56.660 paywall and allows us to keep producing these shows and writing those stories that we know the

00:12:00.740 legacy media isn't going to give them to you. And yes, it's going to be good to have feet on the

00:12:04.940 ground in Edmonton at the legislature. We've got an office actually in there. We are an accredited

00:12:09.460 outlet. Arthur Green used to be up there, but he got snatched away. And Jonathan's going to be up

00:12:14.220 there. Boy, he's prolific. So there's going to be a lot of fantastic legislative coverage coming out

00:12:20.220 of Edmonton, plus our reporters all over the country and columnists. So yeah, quite a bit on

00:12:26.340 the go, guys, and lots to keep me busy. So just to get back a bit to that recall again. Yeah,

00:12:31.700 the fellow, and I want to give him credit, you know, he's been out there, he's been talking to

00:12:34.720 the news, his name's Landon Johnston, and he sounds very genuine, he's, you know, upset with

00:12:40.140 Gondek, as pretty much most Calgarians are, and he's making his effort, you know, and hey, you know

00:12:47.560 what, if he proves me wrong, and gets hundreds of thousands of signatures, and even manages to,

00:12:53.040 you know, come close to invoking the referendum, I'll eat the words, but, you know, there's things

00:12:59.340 we could be doing if you want to change things in the meantime. I mean, that legislation needs

00:13:03.860 to be fixed. I think email, phone, nag your MLA and Premier Smith, and she's got a lot on her

00:13:09.260 plate, but just get her to get out there and fix that legislation because there are formulas that 1.00

00:13:16.860 are reasonable for recall. Because, you know, you want a balance. You don't want it too easy.

00:13:24.860 That's fair. You don't want the second election is finished. Somebody starting a recall initiative

00:13:28.620 and constantly going after whoever won.

00:13:30.740 You don't want it to be constantly on the go.

00:13:33.640 You want it to be in exceptional circumstances

00:13:35.320 when a leader is exceptionally bad,

00:13:37.620 a politician is exceptionally bad.

00:13:38.920 And rest assured, as we see from that headline there too,

00:13:40.860 yeah, with Jodi Gondek,

00:13:42.080 she is outstandingly terrible. 0.59

00:13:45.220 But the legislation makes it impossible

00:13:48.040 to utilize to recall her.

00:13:50.520 But in the meantime as well,

00:13:52.420 because Mr. Johnston's been saying

00:13:54.200 he's had a lot of volunteers contacting him

00:13:56.060 and I don't doubt it.

00:13:56.960 And people are going to go out.

00:13:58.620 should be what you want to do what you could do then if you've got those volunteers get out there

00:14:03.860 and do voter ID go door to door and find out who is really strongly determined to replace Jodi Gondek

00:14:11.520 and get that and list it and database it you see the recall petition you can't use that for anything

00:14:17.320 else you can't take those names and numbers that's what Gondek's already implying she's implying that

00:14:21.300 the data is going to be shared because that'll make people scared to sign as well scared to

00:14:25.480 commit their name to this initiative and things like that. And, uh, you know, and you're not

00:14:30.280 supposed to use it for anything else, which is fair, right? A person didn't sign to be spammed

00:14:34.300 by other initiatives or things like that. They, they signed that petition with the intent of

00:14:38.820 getting a recall on the go, but you can go, nothing is stopping you from going door to door

00:14:43.520 and doing voter ID. As Daryl, one of the commenters saying voter turnout is barely breaking 30 to 50

00:14:48.460 percent of eligible voters. Yes. So it's unreasonable. Not only that though, it shows

00:14:52.360 how important voter ID is. So if you've gone out and you've gotten thousands and thousands of names

00:14:56.840 of identified anti-Gondek voters, you could share that list with a future person who's running

00:15:05.260 against Gondek in the next election. It's less than two years away now anyway. And that gives

00:15:09.280 them a good base to start with, to get out there and get signs on the ground, to get donations,

00:15:15.620 to get, again, just to get out to vote, to encourage them. It's one thing for them to say

00:15:20.600 when somebody's coming door to door that they're going to vote for a different mayor. It's another

00:15:25.180 for them to actually get around to doing it. So that's where, again, you know, these efforts

00:15:30.780 could be much better directed. Some people are saying, and I saw a comment around my column,

00:15:36.140 I wrote the column, which is my monologue, you know, saying that same sort of thing. Well,

00:15:39.380 I support it. And, and, you know, there's, there's nothing being lost in doing this,

00:15:44.360 but that's not true. It's energy, it's time. And if it's not going to accomplish the goal,

00:15:49.840 it's being utilized poorly, which could have had a better effect. Either way, we could talk about

00:15:54.860 that a lot more, and I'm certain we will. I see my guest has popped into the lobby, and I've been

00:15:58.780 looking forward to it. I haven't had him on in a while, and we've got a lot to cover. So let's

00:16:03.140 welcome back to the show Mr. Dan McTeague of Canadians for Affordable Energy. Hi, Dan, how you

00:16:08.240 doing? I'm doing fine, Corey. Good to talk to you, and thanks for having me here. Oh, I'm always glad

00:16:12.860 to have you on. I just like that reminder as we're getting a little grayer and, you know, longer in

00:16:18.060 tooth. But there was a time when Liberal members of Parliament were something that could be

00:16:22.460 considered sane, and you were of that era. And, you know, maybe we could get back to a balanced

00:16:27.860 Parliament again one day. I would still vote Conservative, but perhaps I could respect those

00:16:31.600 Liberals over there again. And we could respect Conservatives on the other side. I think those

00:16:36.120 days can and will come back, but it requires a lot of people to get back to basics and reality and

00:16:41.740 move away from the utopian fantasies we've been entertaining, especially here in Eastern Canada.

00:16:46.420 Yeah, well, I love you calling them out on social media on X and other areas as well.

00:16:52.020 You say it like it is, but your specialty is energy issues.

00:16:55.460 And boy, you know, there's a lot of them going on.

00:16:58.080 I just came back from about 25 days down stateside.

00:17:02.460 I was traveling through Idaho, Arizona, Texas, New Mexico, quite a bit around.

00:17:07.680 And just to tie this in up here, something that's interesting, maybe you could help a little with.

00:17:12.480 down there I saw the most in the energy producing states I saw the most windmills I saw the most

00:17:18.580 solar farms just like when I know I'm in Alberta I see the most windmills and solar farms even

00:17:22.960 though there's the abundance of natural resources yet both Texas and Alberta have been stricken by

00:17:28.800 energy shortages when push comes to shove how is it that these jurisdictions are the ones that

00:17:34.320 seem to be the most vulnerable when when it comes to needed electricity and power when they should

00:17:39.980 be the least. Well, it's ironic that you have a country in a region of the world, both Texas and

00:17:46.860 the United States, which are the prowess, the flagships of energy reliability and energy

00:17:52.760 development, resource and output and exports. And yet both have found themselves over the years,

00:17:59.780 Alberta very recently, last month, Texas two, three years ago, when putting all your eggs in

00:18:05.580 one renewable basket doesn't necessarily cut the mustard when you put these things to the test.

00:18:12.940 And they were tested. In Alberta's case, had it not been for the ability for the province to secure

00:18:19.620 natural gas and to a lesser extent coal, a good number of people would have been adversely affected

00:18:24.360 minus 40 or more degree temperatures. In the United States, we do know that there were injuries

00:18:30.600 and potentially fatalities in Texas, but those areas that were served by natural gas backups

00:18:36.280 where wind power was simply not available, not reliable, we saw that they were far more

00:18:42.780 successful in certain areas.

00:18:43.960 And it's become very clear through analysis in the Texas case, I think it was Texas Railroad

00:18:50.340 Commission at the time said, you know, without natural gas backup, the idea of windmills

00:18:57.140 are fanciful and dangerous.

00:18:58.520 And I think that's where we're leading today, because I think a lot of the policies promoted by governments on both sides of the border are leading us to really what I consider the net zero collusion course, in which reality is going to finally hit Canadians and Americans over the head that these things are not ready for prime time.

00:19:16.120 Well, and it does get dangerous and frustrating. I watched some of the conversation while Alberta was getting hit so hard. That was just as I was kind of heading down south. And, you know, we're worried when it's minus 30 and you get a power failure. I mean, people could be terribly, terribly harmed. But what I'm hearing from the advocates is saying this is an indication on why we need more renewables because we need to bring more power into the grid. Like they double down. They won't face the reality that we still need this conventional energy base.

00:19:42.360 Well, look, you have no wind and it's freezing outside.

00:19:45.880 You have one windmill or 10 million windmills.

00:19:48.600 They're still not going to work if there's no wind.

00:19:51.080 And if you think your economy can be subject to the vagaries of weather and wind and, you know, whether you have enough sun in the winter,

00:19:58.040 which, of course, is not the case in northern parts of this country, you're delusional.

00:20:02.700 And I think it's pretty clear that we have to be able to call these folks out because after billions of dollars,

00:20:07.940 not just in canada but in europe billions of dollars of investments billions of dollars of

00:20:12.980 walking away and shutting down nuclear plants shutting down natural gas turning your back on

00:20:18.020 your ability to frack your own and provide your own uh you know uh energy you have to really ask

00:20:25.140 the question now that these things have failed now that germany is opening up coal plants now

00:20:30.100 that britain is going back to opening up the north sea for natural gas now that italy is going to

00:20:35.140 libya's doorstep and asking for more oil if if this has been an abject failure and it's very

00:20:41.220 clear that they are walking away from net zero in europe as we speak you'll only have to look at

00:20:46.020 the another dimension of the protest that's what farmers are doing and most of the european

00:20:51.380 nations across a significant swath if we don't recognize what's happened in europe and we

00:20:58.820 continue to ignore at our peril that wind and factors such as extreme weather make

00:21:05.340 renewables unreliable, then I think we are definitely courting disaster. And it's irresponsible

00:21:11.800 for politicians to go out there and say we can do that and replace hydrocarbons. The fact is

00:21:17.740 most of these renewables are complementary. They complement the existing menu of energies you have.

00:21:23.860 They're not there to substitute or replace. Nothing short of that will, I think, convince people that the law of thermodynamics, and as you said before, physics must apply here. And it's the great corrector in all this, Corey.

00:21:36.020 We need to see our legislators and those who are making decisions on behalf of the country to get with the program and realize these mandates, EV mandates, clean energy regulations, carbon taxes, what's the other one?

00:21:51.500 the EV availability standard, all of these things are, you know, wonderful, utopic ideas,

00:21:58.480 but when subject to reality, the harsh reality of the climate which we live in, they're not ready,

00:22:05.460 and they're fundamentally dangerous to our existence in a very cold and very prohibitive

00:22:10.020 country. Yeah, well, we've got an ideologically driven government. I mean, they just won't seem

00:22:15.400 to face reality. And when it comes to some of the things in trying to force people to convert

00:22:20.000 away from conventional energy sources. I see on Black Knocks reporter today, and they're fantastic.

00:22:25.800 Of course, they broke with, you know, we saw the carbon tax exemption that the liberals carved out

00:22:30.720 for the Maritimes because they realized they were dropping in support over there. But they said,

00:22:34.580 this is because we're going to switch everybody to heat pumps, though. We just need to move them

00:22:38.400 over. And they brought in this incentive of a grant of up to $15,000 to move to a heat pump.

00:22:44.120 But the numbers came out, and this has been almost a year since they brought in those grants.

00:22:47.800 There have been 80 oil furnaces replaced, 80.

00:22:51.700 I mean, it's absurd, but they won't back off.

00:22:55.460 No, they won't back off because it is not something that they really care about because no one's holding their feet to the fire as far as finances and scrutiny.

00:23:03.620 And you're looking at, look, Cape Breton buried in 100 centimeters of snow.

00:23:08.360 Many of those heat pumps do not work in that kind of circumstance.

00:23:11.180 I'm not going to dump on people heat pumps, especially if they're, you know, they got them for a reason because they thought it was freer.

00:23:16.420 the government's out there but it's irresponsible to say the least to to assume that uh you can uh

00:23:22.340 you can put those heat pumps in and uh and have a great life the reality is that don't take my

00:23:27.060 word for it no insurance company in this country is going to give you uh coverage if you only have

00:23:31.780 a heat pump as a means of keeping your home more warm you have to have an alternative source

00:23:37.620 rather than worrying about the alternative rather than trying to be cute and trendy maybe we stick

00:23:42.500 with what works continually improve that we've done so in the case of heating we've done so in

00:23:47.360 the case of automotive uh efficiencies i mean the internal combustion engine made it with a hybrid

00:23:53.220 made it with uh uh you know taking away real pollutions we did 50 years ago with the uh with

00:23:59.240 the use of uh uh catalysts on on vehicles catalytic converters these are technologies that are game

00:24:05.620 changers but they will continue to allow us to recognize that fossil fuels are going to be here

00:24:10.060 for a very long time, well past our existence for all of us who are here today and born

00:24:14.200 as of this day forward. Oh, yeah. I mean, the Hyundai I drive today, I mean, the mileage it

00:24:18.480 gets compared to the old Cutlass I used to drive around at the end of the 80s. I mean,

00:24:22.080 you can't even compare the two of them anymore, but it still needs gasoline. I'm not getting

00:24:26.540 around that. It's the most efficient means for me. Kind of getting, bringing things back to a

00:24:30.920 little more. I mean, something you've been helpful with too, and a lot of you did in the past though,

00:24:34.060 So in the short game, I mean, we've had very volatile energy prices in Calgary for whatever reason.

00:24:40.560 I guess just last night, gasoline prices went up 12 cents a liter.

00:24:44.760 It pays for people to shop around, though, and watch for these things.

00:24:48.260 I mean, if you saw that coming, perhaps you could have filled the car up yesterday before this hit.

00:24:52.380 What are the reasons for these spikes going on?

00:24:55.300 Well, look, I tweeted that on Friday.

00:24:57.660 I said, folks, get ready.

00:24:58.880 It's going to go up 10 cents a litre plus, more or less, because I can't determine how much a gas retailer is going to charge as far as their margin is concerned.

00:25:07.280 But I warn people. I also put it up on gaswizard.ca, the site I operate, and no takers.

00:25:13.480 No, certainly none of the mainstream media took interest in it until it actually happened, at which point I got one and you're the second media that's actually called me on it.

00:25:21.420 I suspect that they probably don't want to hear the fact is that we're paying a lot more than we ought to because the federal government has destroyed the, in many respects, scuppered the value of the Canadian dollar.

00:25:31.460 That's adding 20 cents to a litre of gasoline.

00:25:33.760 Of course, the carbon tax at 14.31 cents a litre.

00:25:36.840 So between the two of them, that's an extra 30, 35 cents a litre.

00:25:39.620 I don't think a lot of people would be complaining if we're paying a buck a litre.

00:25:42.600 But the reason is simple.

00:25:44.100 One of the refineries, the biggest one in the U.S. Midwest, the BP winning plant in Indiana went down with a power failure.

00:25:50.620 They didn't have backup, so they relied on the grid.

00:25:54.980 Electricity went down, caused some damage, and that caused a short temporary supply problem, if you will, on the gasoline side.

00:26:04.080 We're still going to see another $0.02 wholesale price increase come tomorrow.

00:26:07.980 Diesel, we're still not out of the woods yet.

00:26:09.820 That jumped $0.05 a litre, which you'll see at most gas stations, eventually passed on, whether you're in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, or BC's interior.

00:26:18.920 Well, there you go.

00:26:19.920 so I mean there's that good sense just to let all you viewers and listeners remember you see Dan

00:26:24.280 told you so so keep an eye on him I mean you can't predict everything you can't stop everything but

00:26:29.360 sometimes you can see that coming down the pipe and maybe you can kind of stock up a little and

00:26:32.980 save a few bucks because budgets are tight right now for most people I mean these are not the best

00:26:37.500 of times and that was something frustrating when I crossed the border into the states as well I mean

00:26:42.300 I was driving through Arizona that you know has next to nothing for for oil and gas resources

00:26:49.600 Yet when I even with the bad Canadian dollar, when I would do the conversion, I was still paying a good 20 to 30 cents a liter less for fuel there than I do in Alberta when I can see an oil pump every time I look to the left or the right.

00:27:01.080 Yeah, look, a couple of things to keep in mind, and that's the big one.

00:27:04.620 Because as a country, we've accepted the blocking of pipelines as policies and frustrating our resources from getting to the market.

00:27:11.400 No one wants to buy Canadian dollars, nothing to trade with.

00:27:15.540 We're not an interesting company.

00:27:16.720 of course we're talking about housing and we know that there's a lot of questions now we're

00:27:20.560 emerging as to how the housing bubble occurred but beyond that the real danger in canada is the

00:27:25.120 fact that uh we don't have a lot of uh interest in our in what we have and therefore currency

00:27:30.160 takes a beating 135 pennies to buy us dollar corey i don't want to just talk about gasoline

00:27:35.280 let's talk about every commodity that we use in this country is priced in us dollars whether it's

00:27:41.360 made here or not so when people go around scratching your head saying oh food prices

00:27:45.520 are up or the cost of housing and cut materials up but you know there's a good reason for that

00:27:50.640 it's because by blocking pipelines and making canada an uninteresting place to invest in

00:27:54.880 particular you have a weak canadian dollar then of course you have a carbon tax on top of that

00:27:59.520 and you have other taxes federal and provincial but that makes up the main difference between

00:28:04.240 ourselves the united states and uh very frustrating and to to talk about it my previous job working a

00:28:09.440 few years in the united states with gas buddy i saw the americans building out their pipelines

00:28:13.680 pushing their their their energy sector under the previous administration while canada sat back and

00:28:19.440 allowed a group of international fanatics to basically hogtie our resources and as a result

00:28:24.560 you and i everybody who's complaining about inflation today have really no one to blame but

00:28:29.600 those who thought it was cool and acceptable there is a cost for these things and if people don't

00:28:33.360 want to smarten up well they're going to wind up with uh having to make some choices about whether

00:28:37.840 it's going to be able to eat or heat be able to afford your mortgage much less your rent

00:28:43.680 Well, I mean, it's going to feel like forever, but eventually somehow Justin Trudeau and his

00:28:49.200 henchman Gilbo will be replaced. Either it'll be a new liberal leader in power or a new government

00:28:55.140 with a new party in power. What will that new administration have to do to try and shore up

00:29:01.340 this trend of just high expenses, even though we're a high resource producer?

00:29:06.120 Well, we have to stop spending in certain areas. I mean, gifting and grifting all of these climate

00:29:11.280 organizations that get 30 50 million bucks as the climate institute the canadian climate institute

00:29:16.160 30 million got 20 million a few years ago they don't raise a lot of money their work is to

00:29:20.560 advocate their stuff which is basically go around to governments tell them how to give them more

00:29:24.240 money print more money and give us more money so that we can go and advocate even more damage to

00:29:28.640 the canadian economy without an iota of change to the so-called climate we have to look at the

00:29:34.720 reality that net zero and all of its outshoots, its policies is likely to lead to significant

00:29:45.440 deterioration in our economic outlook. If we don't address that, and I'm not talking about

00:29:51.200 delaying EV mandates and delaying carbon taxes and delaying the clean fuel standard and delaying

00:29:56.480 a cap on only oil and gas, which we know is discriminatory and a cap on production,

00:30:01.120 we need to look at net zero line it up on the 30 yard line and punt it right through the end zone

00:30:07.280 because we don't do it then Canadians are going to have to make a decision about the quality of

00:30:11.040 life that they want if anybody believes for a moment that we can do without oil and gas

00:30:14.780 physically uh and and hydrocarbons good luck with that there isn't a single thing that we use or

00:30:20.400 consume that doesn't have a component of that within it and if we think we can do without 20

00:30:24.460 to 30 billion bucks in revenues for the federal provincial and municipal governments yes the

00:30:29.500 municipal governments cash in on that as well you're dreaming technicolor and the last thing

00:30:33.600 people like that should be is in politics they shouldn't be in the house of commons we need

00:30:37.460 reality back into politics and i'm hoping that at least one leader seems to be showing promise in

00:30:42.300 that area i still have to prod him but i think paul here probably i will make an excellent prime

00:30:46.200 minister but i can tell you to undo the damage that's been done by uh by the cautery of fanatics

00:30:51.620 who've been in there for a long time won't uh won't happen overnight no it is going to take

00:30:55.960 some time. Well, all we can do is keep pushing and studying and trying to inform people and hope

00:31:01.480 we can turn that tide. And that's what you've been doing a lot of. So before I let you go,

00:31:05.400 where can people find what you've been doing, Dan, and what you put out there?

00:31:09.220 Yeah, the work that I'm doing can always be found at affordableenergy.ca. That's really

00:31:14.380 the best place to sign up if you can. And I appreciate you asking that. As for gas price

00:31:18.600 predictions, gas price wizard. And of course, if you have some opinions, I don't mind sharing

00:31:22.920 them with UNX, and we may agree or disagree, as long as, of course, you're prepared to tell me

00:31:27.400 who you are, you're not a troll, but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt, but for those out there

00:31:31.940 who want to get in a bit of a battle, no problem, I'll do it, up to a point. Excellent, well, I

00:31:36.900 appreciate the work you do, Dan, and I appreciate you coming on to talk to us again, keep up the

00:31:41.760 good work, and I hope we get to talk again soon. My pleasure, looking forward to that, Corey, take

00:31:45.700 care. Great, thanks, Dan. So, yeah, this is Dan McTeague of Canadians for Affordable Energy, and

00:31:50.120 said, he's a great resource online and he likes to debate. He's fun on X. It's not necessarily

00:31:55.900 big, deep policy discussions on there, but you can interact and cover some ground. I mean,

00:32:01.100 it's not necessarily a waste when you're on there. So something we talked about, and it's a column

00:32:08.300 I'm going to have coming out a little later in this week. I talked about observational things

00:32:11.900 I see, stuff I saw when I was traveling. And when Dan sort of touched on it, he talked about how

00:32:18.900 the Americans have developed their oil. They've expanded it. While we're in Canada, we're kicking

00:32:24.160 ourselves in the knackers collectively and shutting in our resources, which costs us on

00:32:29.540 every level. It costs on resources for governments at every level. And it costs economically.

00:32:36.520 And the number I looked up just to double check. So when you look at the, and there's a lot of

00:32:40.260 things that contribute to that, but a real measure of a national wealth is the GDP per capita,

00:32:47.140 gross domestic product per capita. You know, how much product, how much activity, what is happening

00:32:51.800 economically per person in that country. And in the United States, the GDP per capita is over $70,000

00:33:00.240 American. It doesn't mean the average income is that. It just means that much, you know, economic

00:33:04.260 generation. In Canada, that number is $52,000 per person American. Way lower, considerably lower.

00:33:14.640 Meanwhile, you can buy a big fine house in an economic powerhouse city like Houston for $200,000 or $300,000.

00:33:24.160 In Canada, in any major city, you can't get anything under $600,000.

00:33:29.060 Or if you're going to be in Toronto or Vancouver, you're looking over a million.

00:33:31.700 So you're getting less money with more expensive consumer products.

00:33:36.520 Likewise with the fuel, right?

00:33:37.820 We're paying more for the fuel, but we have less in our pockets to do so.

00:33:43.880 The difference is just so stark and it's a difference in attitude. It's a difference

00:33:47.720 in culture. And what I wrote about was what I saw. I mean, I put on 4,000 miles. I can still use

00:33:55.140 miles with Jane while we traveled in the fifth wheel. I like driving. I do my long road trips.

00:34:00.280 It's my old oil field past. I don't mind doing it. And I did a lot of American work in the past.

00:34:04.660 And we went all the way down through Northern Idaho and then Utah and Arizona, New Mexico,

00:34:09.660 Texas, all the way back up to Colorado. We covered 10 states in the last few weeks.

00:34:15.620 And we're mostly on interstate highways. The interstate system, I just see it as a symbol

00:34:21.220 of efficient, can-do capitalism on the part, even though it's CCU, we're talking capitalism,

00:34:29.280 we're talking government-built infrastructure, but it's government-built infrastructure

00:34:33.420 to facilitate the trade of goods and services and the movement of private individual people.

00:34:42.160 So Eisenhower had a lot of foresight. I'll give them that post-World War II. They had a lot of

00:34:46.100 soldiers. They needed something to do. They built that system throughout the United States. And it's

00:34:50.620 amazing. I mean, you've got divided highway where you can go as fast as 85 miles an hour in some

00:34:55.580 areas. I couldn't with the fifth wheel, but I mean, if you had a car, you could. It's the rest

00:35:00.300 rest stops, you know, again, you drive to Alberta, you go to a rest drop, it's a garbage can on the

00:35:04.860 side of the highway where four people can park. I went to a rest stop in New Mexico and it was a

00:35:09.520 tourist destination almost with modern sculptures, heated washrooms, spotless, lots of parking,

00:35:16.200 a dog park, you name it. And it's typical because they want to encourage people to travel. They want

00:35:22.860 to encourage and make it easy and cost effective to move around that country. So those interstates

00:35:28.420 crisscross the country all over the place. You don't hit stoplights. I came in from the south

00:35:33.140 on I-15, finally back into Alberta at Coots. And the difference was just stark. I'm still on a

00:35:40.680 divided highway, but then I go into Lethbridge and I got a bunch of traffic lights and I'm going 50

00:35:43.800 kilometers an hour and the truckers are all backed up. There's no truck stocks, no gas stations. It's

00:35:47.600 garbage. And it's like that everywhere. But that's because we don't value commerce. We don't look at 1.00

00:35:54.940 that. We don't look at that long-term as to why we should be developing our country. A lot of goods

00:36:00.140 and services, goods anyways, are transported. Truckers actually travel on the interstate

00:36:05.060 south of the border to get across the continent. You know, it could be a Canadian delivery,

00:36:08.760 could hit Vancouver, go south, drive through the states, and then come back up and deliver in

00:36:12.600 Toronto because it's not worth driving that crappy Trans-Canada highway. And it is crappy, guys,

00:36:17.700 when you compare it to an American interstate. There's some nice stretches of the highway,

00:36:20.560 but you're still get stuck in Regina, driving through a business district and go slowing down

00:36:26.520 and stopping. It doesn't have those restaurants. It doesn't have the truck stops. I mean,

00:36:29.800 there was a truck stop we hit in Wyoming that it was like a resort. It had leather chairs with a

00:36:36.920 fireplace where you could sit and drink your coffee. And there were like five different

00:36:40.720 businesses serving food and coffee in this stop. The Americans just have a much better attitude

00:36:47.720 with these things. In Canada, we seem to love mediocrity. Oh, we wouldn't want to do that.

00:36:52.660 We wouldn't want to divide it. Then more people would drive. Yes. You know what they would drive

00:36:56.460 besides their vehicles? They would drive the economy. And we would get tourists, more tourists

00:37:01.720 because people don't want to endure the slow stop and start expensive travel that we have right now.

00:37:07.220 But if it was nice and smooth like that, yeah, they'd be more inclined to do it. More truckers

00:37:10.920 would be inclined to stay up here. The goods and services would move faster. They would burn

00:37:15.020 less fuel. Your costs of those goods and services would go down. We can't do that here. That's not

00:37:21.940 the Canadian way. We spend our money instead on, you know, social justice initiatives and

00:37:27.260 giving money to other countries and things like that. LC saying no more foreigners, you know,

00:37:32.520 that's getting a little too broad. I understand it. So we do have another issue that's going on

00:37:36.980 in Canada. It's a big one and not enough people are talking about, but some are starting. We are

00:37:40.400 bringing in way too many immigrants. Now, going to zero, that's just stupid. If you want to castrate 1.00

00:37:45.840 the economy and really harm Canada, drop immigration to zero. That's not reasonable,

00:37:52.980 it's not smart, and it's not a good idea. But we also don't want to be bringing in over a million

00:37:58.440 people a year the way we are as it is. As, you know, said, yes, you know, way too many. We've

00:38:04.060 got to get it down to a reasonable level. When you get back to that GDP per capita I was talking

00:38:08.280 about. That's part of why we are falling in that. Even though the Americans, again, they've got a

00:38:13.160 lot of challenges. It's not a perfect country by any means. And they've got masses of illegal 1.00

00:38:17.400 immigrants coming, of course, across the Mexican border. But even then, their GDP per capita is

00:38:22.440 far outpacing ours. And as we bring more people in, we split the resources we have among more

00:38:29.740 people. I mean, and they contribute. Immigrants contribute. They work. They come in. They bring

00:38:34.480 funds with them. They aren't all coming in broke. They bring in education. They bring in skilled

00:38:38.840 labor. It's good for the country, but you can only bring them in at a speed with which you can absorb

00:38:43.860 and integrate properly. And we're not doing that. We've gone beyond that. We don't have enough

00:38:48.460 healthcare access right now. We don't have enough housing, of course, right now. And finally,

00:38:54.620 some people are just facing that reality to start talking about at least tapping the brakes. We're

00:38:59.540 not talking about ending immigration or coming down on those who are coming here. Hey, good for 1.00

00:39:04.260 them. I appreciate it. They're coming here to work, and they're doing us a lot of good, but we've got

00:39:09.600 to get the numbers into reality, and reality just doesn't seem to be a priority of this government.

00:39:14.160 It just has not been, and that's what Dan was talking about. And it's going to take, even if

00:39:18.460 we change the government, and even if Polyev turns out to be as good as we all hope he is,

00:39:22.340 it's going to take him some time to undo the terrible damage that years of this ideologically

00:39:27.780 driven government have done. And yeah, I mean, Polyev, you know, speaking of watching him

00:39:33.440 battling with the media. Again, today they're screaming at him and getting on his case because

00:39:37.660 yeah, he was being a bit belligerent and answering their questions with questions because of course

00:39:41.240 they're always trying to play gotcha with him. The legacy media outlets are activist media outlets

00:39:46.320 because they're all beholden on government dollars. Trudeau bought the media. Let's just face it.

00:39:52.120 They're all so subsidy dependent that they want to do the bidding of the prime minister so they

00:40:00.120 can keep getting those dollars, even if unconsciously. So they're on Polyev's case.

00:40:05.100 It's funny, when they get upset with Polyev because he'll eat an apple when somebody's 0.99

00:40:09.440 trying a loaded, stupid question at him, or he'll call out at a reporter when they throw 1.00

00:40:13.840 a loaded, stupid question at him, and they do all the time. Do they ever call out Justin 1.00

00:40:18.960 when he feeds them word salad? When they ask a direct question and he gives platitudes?

00:40:25.680 When the prime minister is asked about something straightforward that just needed a yes or no,

00:40:29.740 and he answers with something that isn't even related to what they ask,

00:40:32.760 but they don't get on his case like they do with Polly F.

00:40:36.720 You know, there's an irony.

00:40:37.860 Talk about the media, if it's going to take on some role,

00:40:40.640 some ideological role as reporters, not necessarily take on a bias,

00:40:45.480 but a mandate to feel like you're holding the government

00:40:48.760 or elected officials accountable.

00:40:50.640 That's what a lot of reporters pride themselves.

00:40:52.660 That's what I'm doing.

00:40:53.480 I'm holding these public officials accountable.

00:40:57.560 Well, right now, they seem to be all focused on holding the official opposition accountable

00:41:01.540 and giving a pass to the Prime Minister Dingbat,

00:41:06.900 who has a lot of things he needs to be held accountable for.

00:41:10.020 Yesterday, he only made it 11 minutes in the House of Commons

00:41:13.180 before he scrambled out of there fast as hell 0.78

00:41:15.400 because the questions were getting too hot for him.

00:41:18.120 Because he can't think on his feet. We know that.

00:41:20.000 He's not exactly a luminary, guys. He's got nice hair.

00:41:24.240 So the media should try and hold him accountable.

00:41:26.820 They don't.

00:41:27.660 They don't.

00:41:29.020 And why did he go running, hightailing out of the parliament?

00:41:33.140 Well, because the questions were coming around about, yes, we're getting all the way back

00:41:36.000 to last fall's brilliant, international, embarrassing Canadian issue where those pecker 0.99

00:41:41.300 heads brought a literal Nazi, a literal Nazi. 0.75

00:41:44.360 Everybody calls everybody a Nazi all the time all over the place.

00:41:46.520 No, this was a guy who served in the Waffen-SS with Ukraine and welcomed him to the House

00:41:52.480 of Commons applauded him, an SS member. And then they threw the speaker under the bus when it was 0.93

00:41:59.640 discovered. You know, of course, because we look like fools. So the speaker lost his job. He's out. 1.00

00:42:06.180 But now the news just broke. Well, no. Actually, it was the prime minister's office was very tied

00:42:12.640 into this whole thing. Justin doesn't want to answer those questions. And you know what? No,

00:42:18.780 I doubt Trudeau himself invited that Nazi, though who knows, who knows if he did. 0.93

00:42:24.280 The thing is, I could give him the credit of the ignorance because we know, again, he's not the sharpest knife in the drawer.

00:42:30.900 Unless World War II was laid out in a pop-up coloring book, he wouldn't have the intellectual depth and knowledge of history to know that if somebody was fighting in the war in Ukraine in that time period against the Soviets,

00:42:48.220 because that's what they knew.

00:42:50.660 It's a Nazi. 0.71

00:42:52.660 Justin didn't know that.

00:42:54.120 But I mean, it doesn't matter.

00:42:54.940 He's in charge, right?

00:42:55.780 When it says PMO,

00:42:57.020 and I know they're just pushing the blame

00:42:58.420 all over the place,

00:42:59.100 that's prime minister's office.

00:43:01.200 Even if he was ignorant of what the office did,

00:43:04.020 the buck should stop with him.

00:43:05.840 But nobody holds him accountable.

00:43:07.120 He runs away.

00:43:07.900 Yesterday, he ran away. 0.78

00:43:08.980 It was cowardly looking.

00:43:10.100 As some others have pointed out,

00:43:11.280 yeah, he seems stunned.

00:43:12.140 He's been bizarre lately,

00:43:13.920 more bizarre than usual.

00:43:16.020 And he just doesn't seem with it.

00:43:18.220 and he was never all out with it to start with.

00:43:21.000 So why are the media silent on that?

00:43:22.680 Again, well, who's paying a lot of their bills, right?

00:43:25.700 We'll call them out, that's for sure.

00:43:27.420 So again, yeah, getting back to that.

00:43:28.620 So, I mean, let's talk about the temperature.

00:43:30.300 Dave mentioned this, too.

00:43:31.780 In Parliament, things are getting heated.

00:43:33.260 I guess that frustration going back and forth.

00:43:34.840 Attorney General Arif Varani apologized, I guess,

00:43:38.680 because he shouted things in the House of Commons with some swears.

00:43:44.560 I think he called Polly have an effing tool. 1.00

00:43:46.640 you know i don't know i i it's unparliamentary parliamentarian it's it's it's not dignified

00:43:55.220 it's not a good uh example of presenting yourself in the in a legislature or house of commons

00:44:00.440 that's not the end of the world either this stuff's been going on you know people always

00:44:04.840 talk about oh this is the worst ever oh it's so adversarial guys it's always been that way

00:44:09.460 always read your history look at even some of the exchanges from sir john a mcdonald uh you know you

00:44:14.880 can look up some of those things. He was drunk half the time, not saying that we should always

00:44:18.980 give a pass to vulgarity and things like that. He's not doing himself any favors this minister

00:44:23.700 when he did that, and he had to apologize. But I mean, I can't get on a high horse. Anybody who

00:44:27.920 reads my Twitter feed knows that I'm far from avoiding expletives to drive my points home on

00:44:34.300 a regular basis. This isn't the biggest story of the year, but it's still worth noting and I guess

00:44:38.280 someone's laughing about in a sense. But it's, you know, just another thing going on. If you

00:44:46.680 remember back when Ralph Klein was in office in Alberta, the parliament was full of fireworks all

00:44:52.700 the time. And it was back when Kretchen and Mulroney were going to. It was never civil.

00:44:57.200 That's why these places, I mean, it's an adversarial environment. They're facing each

00:45:00.980 other. They're across from each other. They get lathered and worked up. And the irony is,

00:45:04.680 if you actually get to one of these legislatures, after all that performance and theater,

00:45:08.280 they'll often share the same tables at the cafeteria and chat with each other.

00:45:11.760 Often they are also at each other's throats as much as it would sound like,

00:45:15.280 but it's not the biggest, you know, affair of the year.

00:45:20.380 And yeah, finally, you know, speaking of capitalism,

00:45:22.740 I said that guy walking around Calgary at a casino giving out samples of his cocaine.

00:45:25.820 You know what, funny, I just started watching a series, I think it was Griselda,

00:45:28.960 talk, you know, and it shows it's about a Coke dealer way back in the late 70s, early 80s,

00:45:34.060 who was starting to break into the market of the rich by getting,

00:45:36.520 giving them all free, free Coke, getting them to learn to like it and then becoming good customers

00:45:40.420 later. I'm wondering if that's what happened to inspire this dingbat. Uh, don't, uh, get too wound

00:45:45.580 up and watching Netflix. Hammerhead, uh, it's still illegal to distribute cocaine. And, uh,

00:45:51.560 when you're giving it out for free, people will catch up and get you, but whatever,

00:45:54.720 at least, you know, criminals don't tend to be the smartest ones. That's why they end up getting

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Western Standard - February 08, 2024

CMS： Alberta’s recall process is a waste of time

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