Western Standard - CMS： How much longer can Jagmeet Singh prop up Trudeau’s corrupted regime？

00:00:00.000 Thank you.

00:00:30.000 Good day. Welcome to the Corey Morgan Show. I am Corey Morgan. This is my weekly playground to get out there to rant, rave, talk about federal issues, provincial issues, mostly political stuff, though I bounce around and kind of cover whatever's on my mind at any given time or any given week.

00:00:47.300 Lots to cover this week as usual. For those who are joining us live today, be sure to use that comment scroll. I like it. I like seeing the interaction. I like seeing you guys chat with each other, throw questions my way, my guests' way.

00:01:00.000 uh i see them all i don't necessarily read them all out or put them to the guests but

00:01:04.420 i really like seeing it used used but again keep things civil and folks if you're watching us on

00:01:10.340 the cowboy network or rfd tv and some of those things i'm afraid uh yeah the comments won't

00:01:16.440 work there but i will reference them when they come up so yes today i'm gonna have a guest on

00:01:20.780 a little later vitor marciano he's a strategist he's been involved in a lot of federal and

00:01:26.240 provincial campaigns over the years, particularly in conservative circles. We're going to get a bit

00:01:31.420 of a rundown on everything that's gone on on the Alberta election this time around. Boy, it's been

00:01:35.080 a long three and a half weeks so far. Only a few days left, and Alberta's going to have,

00:01:41.040 well, either a UCP government again or an NDP government again. There's no third party,

00:01:45.580 really, to speak of in this one. Maybe we'll talk a little bit about that as well.

00:01:49.240 On the federal front, boy, you know, we kind of expected it, but still, it's just maddening when

00:01:53.880 we see it. So, I mean, let's talk about that with this special

00:01:57.860 rapporteur. Some people were kind of surprised with the appointment

00:02:01.980 of David Johnston as the special rapporteur to investigate the ongoing

00:02:06.140 and its ongoing Chinese Communist Party interference scandal.

00:02:09.920 I mean, the boldness of Trudeau in appointing somebody who's clearly

00:02:13.480 personally compromised as Johnson to the position caught even the most cynical

00:02:17.700 of people off guard. It wasn't surprising, I guess, that Trudeau would appoint a close friend to the

00:02:21.860 position, but still it was unexpected to see a statesman as experienced as Johnston jumping

00:02:27.940 into such a clear conflict of interest. I mean, Johnston's been more of an uncle-type figure for

00:02:33.300 Trudeau than a political colleague, and he's indicated as much in multiple interviews where

00:02:37.140 he waxes on about his fond family ski trips with their Trudeau family and other gatherings. And

00:02:43.680 of course, most damning of all, Johnston was a board member with the Trudeau Foundation,

00:02:47.680 which has been embroiled in this whole mess, it seems, every time something comes up with

00:02:51.460 the CCP interference. Look at this, like former Trudeau Foundation head Morris Rosenberg. He was

00:02:57.500 tasked with checking for election interference in the 2019 and 2021 elections, and unsurprisingly,

00:03:03.320 Rosenberg found no issues. Though we know CSIS had been raising flags about Chinese Communist

00:03:09.100 Party interference in those elections, somehow Rosenberg didn't see it. Of course, Rosenberg

00:03:12.860 was also the head of the Trudeau Foundation when it was happily receiving donations from Beijing.

00:03:17.960 I guess perhaps signing checks can cause selective hearing or seeing.

00:03:23.720 Still, one would have hoped that Johnson could retain a sense of principle.

00:03:27.420 Perhaps he'd keep his name in the clear and call for an independent public inquiry into the CCP election interference scandals.

00:03:32.920 Maybe he would have said, well, that's just my job, whether I'm a tight buddy with the Trudeau family or not.

00:03:38.140 I mean, come on. We've seen sitting MPs with their family in Hong Kong being threatened by the CCP.

00:03:43.700 We have Chinese police stations set up in Canada.

00:03:47.260 You know, Communist Party police stations

00:03:48.820 intimidating Canadian citizens over here. 0.51

00:03:50.820 Who could possibly look at all that evidence

00:03:52.540 and say we don't need an inquiry?

00:03:54.520 Well, David Johnston is who, actually.

00:03:56.500 So after decades of building a respectable reputation

00:03:59.560 in public service, Johnston has thrown it all away

00:04:01.620 with his absurd report on the interference scandal.

00:04:04.460 I mean, an inquiry is going to happen on this eventually,

00:04:06.540 one way or another.

00:04:07.620 And Johnston now is going to be remembered and disgraced

00:04:09.700 as a man who tried to whitewash on behalf of Justin Trudeau

00:04:13.440 rather than, you know, honoured for his years of prior service

00:04:16.420 as governor general among other roles johnson now is johnston is rightly under fire for his

00:04:21.440 terrible report and he's trying to shoot the messenger you know with cesus and undercutting

00:04:25.960 canada's security agency as he's trying to provide government for the true cover for the

00:04:29.780 trudeau government now it appears johnston wanted to ensure canadians knew just how tone-deaf he was

00:04:35.180 when he doubled down and used former supreme court justice frank iacobuchi iacobuchi i'm terrible

00:04:42.040 both Italian names, but Frank has a character reference. The problem is, Frank Iacobucci is

00:04:49.440 on the board of the Bloody Trudeau Foundation. All roads keep leading back to that foundation.

00:04:55.420 While the foundation is supposed to be separate from Trudeau himself, the list of members is

00:04:58.780 packed with his closest friends, including his brother and his half-sister. Alexander Trudeau,

00:05:03.720 Justin's little brother, was involved in garnering the scandalous $140,000 donation

00:05:08.520 to the foundation from Beijing.

00:05:11.020 This is a pretty short arm

00:05:12.260 if we're going to say it's an arm's length foundation.

00:05:14.820 The Trudeau Foundation doesn't actually appear

00:05:16.420 to do a lot of charitable work,

00:05:18.000 but it sure keeps a lot of liberal friends

00:05:19.560 gainfully employed while taking in money

00:05:21.840 from the Chinese Communist Party.

00:05:23.640 So why is the CCP so obsessed

00:05:25.240 with funding the Trudeau Foundation

00:05:26.360 if not to curry favor with the Prime Minister?

00:05:29.000 I mean, rest assured, Beijing doesn't pour money

00:05:30.820 into other Canadian charities.

00:05:31.960 I haven't heard of the Chinese Communist Party's

00:05:34.960 sponsorship of the Canadian Special Olympics

00:05:37.540 or, you know, putting any money into any cancer funds.

00:05:40.840 No, they just put money into the Trudeau Foundation for some reason.

00:05:44.100 Interesting philanthropists.

00:05:45.720 Johnson's report isn't worth the paper it's written on.

00:05:48.440 Now the burden of responsibility lands on the shoulders of NDP leader Jagmeet Singh.

00:05:53.820 I mean, Singh's been talking tough for months on the interference scandal,

00:05:56.860 but he won't threaten his cozy agreement with Trudeau by doing anything about it.

00:06:00.500 It's time for Singh to act.

00:06:02.120 How much longer can he keep propping up this corrupted mess?

00:06:05.460 Does he really think Trudeau would go to the polls rather than face an independent inquiry on the issue?

00:06:10.480 I mean, if he pushed it, if Singh pushed it, and Trudeau made it a confidence vote, I just doubt it.

00:06:14.940 I mean, if Trudeau went to the polls on that, it would be political suicide.

00:06:17.080 I can't think of a worse political campaign platform than, I feel so strongly that the interference should not be investigated that I've decided to call an early election.

00:06:25.460 That would be the end of Trudeau, finally.

00:06:27.920 Singh's NDP-based, they must be tired of his constant capitulation to Trudeau.

00:06:31.380 I mean, cooperative agreements are one thing, but propping up a government with strong whiffs of corruption emanating from it is another.

00:06:37.520 This sort of cover-up is an issue so serious it never should have happened with a majority government, never mind a minority one.

00:06:44.460 If Singh doesn't step up to do his job and force an independent inquiry, his character is clearly as corrupted as Trudeau's is.

00:06:50.440 Enough is enough, Jagmeet. Get off your butt, quit being the yappy, toothless chihuahua, and actually do your job. 1.00

00:06:58.160 Well, that's what's got me going on that today, guys. 1.00

00:07:00.200 Yeah, who knows?

00:07:00.960 You know, seeing his talk and, oh, this is bad.

00:07:03.720 We need an inquiry.

00:07:04.580 We need an inquiry.

00:07:05.220 Well, guess what?

00:07:05.620 You're standing there.

00:07:06.280 You've got your hand on the handle to force an inquiry, Jagmeet.

00:07:10.120 You're the only one who can do it.

00:07:12.160 So enough talk.

00:07:13.440 Either call it or just admit that you're just Trudeau's little boy.

00:07:16.460 All right.

00:07:16.920 Well, let's talk some other news and bring somebody in who has to cover this all the time.

00:07:20.580 That's our news editor, Dave Naylor.

00:07:21.800 We'll check in and see else what's going on in that big, bad world.

00:07:24.280 Hey, how's it going, Dave?

00:07:25.460 Good, Corey.

00:07:26.000 good to see you with an election haircut getting ready for the big day i'm good for another few

00:07:30.720 months now hey so i need to know am i going to get some fresh honey this year or what we'll see

00:07:36.100 that's up to that bloody bear but i tell you these are really good bees i inspected them last weekend

00:07:40.060 and they're settling in really well i'm really happy with them so uh and i put a lot of electric

00:07:44.340 fencing up so i'll give it good odds that you're going to get some honey this year awesome be

00:07:48.400 looking forward to it uh yeah we've had to have a busy morning already election wise uh ucp leader

00:07:54.840 Danielle Smith, just wrapped up a press conference about 15 minutes ago where she said, basically, read my lips, no new taxes.

00:08:03.520 She said her first job, if she gets elected, is to put in Bill 1, the Taxpayer Protection Act, which would prevent future tax increases without a referendum.

00:08:15.900 Interesting story on the NDP candidate in Airdrie.

00:08:20.520 It turns out he actually argued in front of the Supreme Court of Canada against the, or for, excuse me, for, in support of the No More Pipelines Act.

00:08:31.500 So that probably isn't sitting well to many of his potential constituents.

00:08:39.520 The big fireworks controversy in Calgary, Corey, which I think you basically broke the story with a column.

00:08:46.860 It's still gathering steam.

00:08:49.080 People are very angry. More than 10,000 people have now signed a petition demanding that the fireworks be returned.

00:08:57.740 They were cancelled as part of Truth and Reconciliation.

00:09:01.980 And Toronto has cancelled their fireworks in front of Nathan Phillips Square.

00:09:06.680 So that seems to be the thing to do for Canada Day across the country this year.

00:09:11.120 And we've got two men way up in northern Alberta charged with burning down a historic Catholic church this week, a church built in 1901 near high level, I believe it is, burnt to the ground, and they've been charged.

00:09:29.560 And we've got our real estate expert, Mike Thomas, with a column on the Bank of Canada.

00:09:35.780 You know, the story being, is it going to increase rates again in its next June update or keep them the same?

00:09:42.700 So a really busy morning, Corey, and I'm sure it's going to keep going because the news never stops.

00:09:48.960 It certainly doesn't, especially during election times.

00:09:51.300 Well, I'll let you get back at it, Dave, and thanks for the update.

00:09:54.900 You bet, Corey. Thanks.

00:09:56.480 That is our news editor, Dave Naylor.

00:09:58.160 As you can see, the stories are coming hard and fast and quickly.

00:10:01.200 And yes, for some folks, you might realize that some of the stories at the westernstandard.news

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00:10:10.120 We rely on you guys.

00:10:11.260 That's why we put out stories that reflect what you guys want to see.

00:10:13.960 Yeah, not necessarily.

00:10:14.900 Sometimes you see stories that just tick you off, but we put out the stories and we put

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00:10:25.820 and you get past that paywall and you can see all of that stuff. And I tell you, the stories

00:10:29.580 are just constantly breaking and coming out. It's hard to keep up with. So yeah, let's look at some

00:10:33.980 of the comments here. You know, Paradoxie saying, yeah, you know, anybody with their eyes on the

00:10:39.960 Trudeau Foundation knew this was coming. Like that foundation is just something else, right? Like,

00:10:44.640 you know, the name is right in it. You can't hide from it. And they keep saying it's just a charity.

00:10:51.100 It's just a charity. I believe, now I don't have the numbers in front of me, but it was a few years

00:10:55.200 in a row it didn't like it's a remain charitable status to retain it you have to spend a certain

00:10:59.580 percentage like it's not a lot like four or five percent of your capital on the actual charity it's

00:11:05.020 supposed to do and the foundation hasn't made it three out of four of the past years i believe

00:11:08.380 where's all this money going it was given 125 million tax dollars to start up and it's getting

00:11:13.820 other donations and other chinese money and who knows what well again when you look at that giant 0.56

00:11:18.720 list of directors look at them all a who's who of liberal canada of the laurentian elite they're all

00:11:24.320 on these directorships. I don't know what they get paid. I don't know what benefits they get from

00:11:30.080 that, but, uh, I suspect that, uh, that gives a bit of an answer to where all that money just

00:11:35.200 keeps going. So if you want to keep the liberal elite in Canada happy, if you want to get in their

00:11:40.280 good books, if you want to make them smile at you, what's the best place to toss a few bucks to make

00:11:44.500 the most bang for your buck? Well, that foundation's a good start, isn't it? So, um, yeah, Marilyn,

00:11:52.280 you know so she's a commenter Marilyn Wall says Danielle avoided a question it's Danielle Smith

00:11:56.480 at a press conference today on the fireworks just now I believe it was Western Standard asked it

00:12:00.060 do you think she should avoid talking about it right now uh yeah I do think she should from a

00:12:04.520 political point of view I'm going to talk about a little more after the guest because I got a lot

00:12:08.240 of ranting to do on that one but uh politically it's a municipal issue in the city of Calgary

00:12:13.200 and she's four days from voting day uh I believe it was wise on uh Smith's part to stay out of that

00:12:21.940 issue. She's got enough issues and things to juggle as it stands right now. And I have a

00:12:26.680 question out there, but why take on more than you need to? It is an enraging municipal issue,

00:12:31.860 and I'm going to go on about it. But for Premier Smith to wade into it at this point would have

00:12:37.940 just been asking for more trouble than was worth. So she sort of, you know, the question was asked

00:12:43.740 in two parts. There were two questions. She answered one of the questions and sort of, you

00:12:47.800 know, just didn't answer anything at all when it came to the fireworks one. I can understand why.

00:12:52.920 And, you know, we leave the ranting about that sort of thing to me. As I said, when I'm finished

00:12:56.520 with our guest, I'm going to rant a bit more on that whole Canada Day issue. But I can understand

00:13:01.580 why the provincial campaigners just don't want to touch that. They've got enough on the go as it is

00:13:06.420 rather than go wading into what's happening on the municipal front. I mean, municipal politics,

00:13:12.100 as crazy as our provincial ones look, they make provincial politics look sane.

00:13:17.800 At least we'll have two more years before we have to deal with that election.

00:13:22.160 Verna commenter, Lowen, pointing out the church burn was near High Prairie.

00:13:25.780 Yeah, heartbreaking.

00:13:27.940 It was a Catholic church.

00:13:28.840 I think it was Gruard was the community it was near.

00:13:30.860 I used to do some work up in the oil field up that way.

00:13:33.060 And it was a historical church.

00:13:35.020 And it's a terrible, terrible waste.

00:13:36.560 This division that some people have felt incensed to do these sorts of things has been terribly destructive.

00:13:43.240 I'm glad they at least have caught, well, theoretically, the people involved in it.

00:13:47.440 and they can be brought to justice.

00:13:49.640 It's not the way to deal with issues, guys.

00:13:52.720 You know, burning things, I mean, you put first responders at risk,

00:13:55.580 you harm historical properties, and it's just this country

00:13:58.720 is just in a terrible divided state sometimes.

00:14:01.700 But we'll see if that unfolds, and of course we'll be reporting on that

00:14:04.220 as we get more information and news with what's going on to it.

00:14:07.420 So again, as I said earlier, it looks like he's on deck.

00:14:10.080 We're going to bring in our guest, Vidor Marciano.

00:14:11.920 As I said, he's been involved in politics for quite some time,

00:14:15.660 federally and provincially.

00:14:17.440 predominantly in conservative circles.

00:14:19.120 And we just want to get a rundown of this whole provincial campaign now that we're in week three.

00:14:23.440 So hi there, Vitor. Thanks for joining us today.

00:14:27.080 Thank you for having me, Corey. It's my pleasure to be here.

00:14:30.000 Yeah. So, I mean, I know at least it's probably for you and definitely for me.

00:14:33.980 I'm really looking forward to a few days from now because this campaign has already just been so exhausting.

00:14:41.280 These things are long. I mean, it's, you know, at least it's a provincial one.

00:14:44.780 it's only 28 days, not the federal 35 day one. I have to admit, I've been going hard at it since

00:14:50.080 a little bit before day one. And I'm a little fatigued, but also a little excited about the

00:14:56.000 opportunities. Well, that's true. I mean, that's kind of what, you know, politicals live for.

00:14:59.660 This is like the Super Bowl when you're getting to it. You've been prepping and prepping for a

00:15:02.460 long time. And this is the big culmination. So there's a lot of excitement going in at this

00:15:06.460 point. So something that's been, is it a perception thing or not? I guess you could say a lot of

00:15:11.760 people, and including myself, kind of got a feel that this one was more vitriolic than usual,

00:15:16.900 a little more personal than usual. But I mean, we always say that every election. Is it a perception

00:15:20.960 or is it really getting worse every time? Oh, no, it's pretty intense. The partisans on both

00:15:28.660 sides are pretty ramped up. They view the stakes as pretty high. And so there's, you know, if you're

00:15:35.540 a left-wing activist, it's something you've been working on for four years and they're really lit

00:15:40.120 up and ready to go um there's an awful lot of people sort of who are new to politics uh uh who

00:15:46.500 are voting ucp who are kind of new to the entire process and they got lit up and worked up uh by

00:15:52.160 the pandemic so they're really keen to go um there's been you know there's been fewer voices

00:15:58.800 in the middle the other thing that's happened in alberta is that literally you know we've become

00:16:02.900 a two-party state so there isn't a middle party that's sitting in the middle shooting at both

00:16:07.700 sides so the uh the edges become a little bit more frayed yeah and i wanted to get to that you know

00:16:14.080 this is the first time in a long long time we've really actually had a a two-party election there's

00:16:19.500 always been a third party maybe never a you know rarely a contender for winning the election but

00:16:23.600 definitely a contender for a number of seats and and possibly determining uh the outcome if only

00:16:28.180 as a spoiler and this time there's just two so i mean people talk about the polarity but when you

00:16:32.740 only have two large options uh polarity is inevitable almost it really is and frankly the

00:16:38.400 the liberal party of alberta has ceased to exist as a meaningful entity the alberta party remains

00:16:43.240 some sort of weird debating society that can't find candidates um you know uh the the the fringe

00:16:50.560 parties have become fringier and fringier and fringier and now you know fight each other out

00:16:55.280 for weird things like there's uh uh there's so many of them and it's like they can't they can't

00:17:03.220 assemble enough people to to to get along with each other let alone be a legitimate force in

00:17:08.700 the election so basically it is the center right party and the center left party and uh as these

00:17:17.080 things play out uh you know the activists are always on the left and the right rather than the

00:17:22.000 center part of those two parties so it's been it's been a pretty intense campaign yeah so something

00:17:27.420 i kind of worry about i guess is a consequence and there's nothing that parties connectives can

00:17:31.680 kind of do about it but what i see growing when i talked to non-political people and it's something

00:17:35.840 i really hate to hear from apathy i don't like hearing from people in general but what i'm

00:17:39.780 hearing now is cynicism and boy that's a dangerous attitude to to see growing it's not good for any

00:17:44.740 of us when when people become sour on the entire process like this i hope we don't cause more

00:17:49.500 damage than good in this election? Listen, I mean, this election is going to be what it's going to

00:17:53.620 be. There is some value to after the election, you know, the side that wins. And I honestly

00:18:02.520 believe it's going to be our side. We have to do a little bit of reaching out. You know, there are

00:18:07.040 people on the center left who aren't too far from the people who are on the center part of the

00:18:10.840 center right. And we have to be a government for all Albertans. You know, in the long run,

00:18:17.920 There's no value in antagonizing your opponents to the level that that they'll walk across broken glass to fight you.

00:18:26.080 And so these are the things that that, you know, that will be part of what Premier Daniel Smith will have to do starting, you know, May 31st or May 30th.

00:18:35.920 Yeah, and the days are approaching quickly. So I imagine as far as the campaign goes, we saw another press conference today with a vow from Premier Smith to not raise any taxes with anything shy of a referendum. But I don't anticipate there's going to be a lot of big promises or developments in the campaign at this point. I mean, it's kind of into a maintenance mode, hoping there's no any explosions or things blowing up until voting day and focusing on the get out the vote campaigns.

00:19:02.860 Well, there's a lot of get out the boat activity happening already. There'll be lots of reinforcing of messages talking about things that matter. You know, I know that we're going to keep talking about the fact that the massive NDP tax hike is an investment killer. It's investment that has turned the Alberta economy around, money coming in from other parts of the world, global companies choosing to expand in Alberta. We can't lose that.

00:19:29.400 So we'll be talking about those things.

00:19:31.940 There'll be lots of sort of reinforcement of message, a lot of get out the vote effort.

00:19:36.220 I mean, we saw it yesterday, literally, you know, an all time record for the first day

00:19:40.240 of advanced polls in voting.

00:19:42.380 I can tell you that they're going strong already today.

00:19:45.720 You know, I can also tell you that we're pretty happy with our results.

00:19:48.480 A disproportionate number of those people who voted early are people that we know have

00:19:53.580 been supporters of the party over the course of their lifetime.

00:19:56.260 So we're feeling good about that.

00:19:58.680 Great.

00:19:59.080 And I mean, it's been kind of slowly building and developing, but the advanced voting is getting bigger and bigger as a factor in elections.

00:20:06.180 I mean, now it's more of an election week rather than election day with an exception prior to it.

00:20:10.440 I think it's really aiding with turnout, though.

00:20:12.580 I mean, if it's impractical on one day for a person to vote, they could vote on another.

00:20:16.560 You know, turnouts have always been sort of slowly dropping over the years.

00:20:19.080 But now this advanced sort of thing has really turned that over.

00:20:22.500 I think it's a great development.

00:20:23.740 I think it's it's an interesting way to get people to pay more attention, to be more respectful of their time and their attention.

00:20:32.620 It also has the effect of changing the nature of the campaign.

00:20:36.100 You don't get late election surprises anymore because, frankly, by this weekend, a significant proportion of the ballots will already be in the box.

00:20:45.600 Yeah. So one of the things that we see it, you hear it on social media.

00:20:49.680 Unfortunately, I mean, it can be a breeding ground for misinformation.

00:20:52.860 We're well aware of that. I've participated in a lot of elections. I like our system, the ability to have scrutineers, things like that. There's no evidence that anything is going to be untoward in this so far. I mean, people can trust the results.

00:21:07.040 It's going to be fine. The number one thing that people need to understand that we don't have the American problem. All of our votes are happening on paper. There's an actual physical paper trail that you can check. And we're just not going to have that problem.

00:21:22.420 Uh, we've, we've got a reasonably good system. We haven't had a long tradition of voter fraud.

00:21:30.880 I mean, in the States, there are literally places in the United States where everybody

00:21:35.060 knows that voter fraud happens. It's expected, you know, lots of the major cities, uh, some of

00:21:40.100 them that have been run by one party for 80, a hundred years, uh, that that's not how we do

00:21:45.960 elections. We have an independent agency. We use paper, we have scrutineers. Um, you can have a

00:21:52.120 high degree of confidence that the vast vast majority of the election fights will be completely

00:21:57.640 legit is there always somebody trying to cheat a little bit yeah you know maybe one vote out of

00:22:04.400 every 10 000 on average is dubious but it's a rare election where one vote out of 10 000 matters

00:22:10.140 yeah that's it i just want to reassure like i said my fear is cynicism and and i just like to

00:22:14.820 let people know if they haven't participated in these things haven't dealt with elections

00:22:17.680 alberta i mean of all bureaucracies ones i've always found to be pretty good and impartial

00:22:21.200 actually is elections. Alberta, they take it very seriously and they're very careful with it.

00:22:25.660 We've seen people try to meddle with the system, but it's a very difficult system to

00:22:29.440 mess with. Even if you tried, there's so many checks and balances. I mean,

00:22:34.080 to make a significant dent would be very tough. Totally. And it's one system. It's not like the

00:22:38.700 U.S. where it's, you know, thousands of county systems. This is one ballot. Everybody gets to

00:22:44.180 see, you know, everybody in every riding gets a ballot that looks just like everybody else's

00:22:47.900 ballot. It's a very straightforward process. Honestly, people should not have worries about

00:22:52.340 that. My biggest worry is that people are, like, taking the election for granted. Get out and vote.

00:22:57.500 Make your voice count. If you didn't vote, you don't get to bitch for the next four years. 1.00

00:23:03.260 That's the part that I worry about, is just making sure that, you know, everybody who's

00:23:07.000 interested in voting votes, and we're working really hard to make sure that anybody who's

00:23:11.060 told us they're a conservative supporter gets out and votes. Yeah, and so you spoke of whoever

00:23:15.720 gets in and you're pretty confident, you know, that it'll be the Conservative Party or the UCP.

00:23:20.760 We do have a very regional divided province more so than we've ever seen before, too, though. I mean,

00:23:26.720 Edmonton, if things go the way they look, may be completely shut out from government seats,

00:23:32.200 or at least we'll have very few, whereas the rural areas will dominate that. It's a bad

00:23:38.240 position for Edmonton citizens to be in. So, I mean, the government really is going to have to

00:23:42.580 do some outreach to make sure that citizens up there feel confident they're represented.

00:23:45.720 You know, it's one of these things where, you know, I haven't given up hope on winning lots of seats in Edmonton and the area.

00:23:53.280 There's four or five, six seats in the Edmonton area where we're competitive enough to keep the NDP at home working hard on their seats.

00:24:02.840 We're feeling quite good about the seats in what's called the donut, the writings that surround Edmonton.

00:24:06.940 We're doing quite well in that.

00:24:07.960 But yeah, I mean, ultimately, one of the things that we need to, as a government, you know, starting at the end of May after the election is work on rebuilding our approach and our conversations with Edmonton.

00:24:22.060 I mean, in many ways, this government's been very fair to Edmonton, but we haven't been particularly good at selling that. And, you know, Edmonton's gotten their fair share of capital financing. Edmonton's gotten their fair share of activities.

00:24:37.260 is in all honesty we've treated public better than the NDP yeah it's just that perception if

00:24:45.740 you don't have those UCP government than before so there's all of these things that we need to

00:24:50.120 do a better job of selling stuff a lot of this is just attitude and messaging and you know there's

00:24:56.280 room for improvement on that side yeah there's going to be I guess a lot of correcting the

00:25:01.540 record I mean the amount of of just stuff has just been thrown out thrown out thrown out

00:25:06.860 the first period for the new government is just going to have to be clarifying. I mean, all of

00:25:13.040 this, this mud that's been thrown in this last month, I mean, citizens aren't going to really

00:25:16.560 know what they're in for until they've seen it in action. I mean, ultimately, I think citizens need

00:25:21.300 to understand that most elections result in most things staying the same. On about 94, 95% of the

00:25:32.040 activities of government, there isn't much difference between the parties. On the remaining

00:25:36.080 four or five percent, six percent. Yeah, there's a difference, but usually it's a difference in

00:25:40.500 style and approach rather than a significant difference in substance. You know, do these

00:25:46.380 things matter over 20 years, 30 years? You know, having a pro-development, pro-business,

00:25:52.680 pro-economic growth, conservative party win, election after election changes Alberta in the

00:25:57.600 long run. But one election changing things dramatically overnight, that just never happens.

00:26:04.180 And and so much of what the NDP is out there selling is just this crazy scaremongering.

00:26:09.200 It's like, no, you're not going to have to pay for health care.

00:26:13.580 No, no hospitals are getting sold.

00:26:15.840 Daniel Smith never actually said that, you know, no, nothing's going to change on your

00:26:20.720 pensions without you being dramatically consulted at length and actually getting to vote on

00:26:25.700 it.

00:26:26.940 All of these things are are are things that, you know, this election's been sort of weird.

00:26:31.500 You know, the NDP tells big lies and they don't get fact checked. And the UCP puts out a number and there's 47 people fact checking whether or not the exact nuances of the number are correct when, you know, even directionally the number is accurate.

00:26:47.900 Symbolically the number is accurate. As how people felt things, the number is accurate. So it's one of those things that we'll have to keep working on.

00:26:54.560 it's been a frustration like the hospital sales thing for example i mean it was a short video clip

00:26:59.380 i watched it and i i listened to it at worst and it was very clear when she said in it we're

00:27:05.140 talking about possibly privatizing the management at most if that's what she was even talking about

00:27:09.800 and that's not in the campaign platform anyway nobody was talking about selling hospitals yet

00:27:13.940 the press repeated that as if that was a i mean it's kind of an embarrassment on the part of the

00:27:19.320 media it's uh you know one of the things that started to happen and i'm kind of a rare

00:27:25.220 conservative on this front i'm really worried about the fact that we have less and less and

00:27:28.840 less media because when we have less and less and less media uh there's less competition between

00:27:35.440 the media and therefore um reporters editors publishers get to feel like they can play games

00:27:44.800 and you know there's been a little bit of that happening in this election we've seen

00:27:48.040 national players put their thumb on the scale and, you know, offer up opportunities for criticism of

00:27:54.400 our government that have never been offered up before. You know, I've never seen an opponent

00:27:59.120 getting, you know, get to write a column on ctv.ca nationally about the Alberta election.

00:28:06.080 That's a brand new one that happened this time. There's a couple of places where things have been

00:28:10.160 a little odd and we'll have to keep working on it. You know, we need to return to an environment

00:28:15.640 where there's lots of media, successful media, competing with each other

00:28:20.760 so that voters get a chance to actually hear the truth

00:28:23.820 because they get to see the competition between the different people

00:28:26.840 who are trying to set the agendas.

00:28:28.360 It is unfortunate.

00:28:29.480 And the media outlets have become almost as polarized as the two parties

00:28:32.100 we have running in things.

00:28:33.200 And the more the better.

00:28:35.940 We don't have any 500-person newsrooms any longer

00:28:38.360 where you can afford to keep a whole diverse number of people to cover a bunch.

00:28:41.900 So hopefully information evolves to get to a better place

00:28:44.660 and it's better in the down the road, you know, we're just in a period of transition, I think,

00:28:48.600 right now. But okay, well, great. I really appreciate just bringing us up to date. I know

00:28:52.960 you guys have got a whole whack to do yet in this next few days. Is there anything else you'd like

00:28:57.220 to let us know before we let you go, Vidor? Leave the central message to everybody. We believe that

00:29:03.080 you can't afford the NDP. You can't afford them economically. You can't afford them in terms of

00:29:07.220 protecting public safety. You can't afford them in terms of making the right decisions that will

00:29:12.880 keep Alberta prosperous for the long run. So we're going to ask everybody who agrees with that,

00:29:18.380 who thinks it's important to have a good economy, who thinks it's important to have safe streets,

00:29:21.940 who thinks it's important to have a prosperous future for their children and grandchildren,

00:29:25.380 to get out and vote. That's the most important thing they can do. Thanks for having me on,

00:29:28.940 Corey. All right. Thanks, Vidor. We'll see what's up on Monday. Sounds good.

00:29:33.000 Okay. So that was Vidor Marciano. And yes, he's been working with the UCP, as you could gather,

00:29:37.820 and he's worked in politics for a long time. I just wanted to get a good rundown from somebody

00:29:41.900 on the strategies and what's been happening out there

00:29:43.960 not too long now. And as he

00:29:46.020 said, you know, this is something when you look at the federal

00:29:47.900 front, this Alberta election, I think to a degree, has

00:29:49.940 become a proxy for the national

00:29:52.040 thing. We've had national columnists really

00:29:54.140 jumping in, Andrew Coyne

00:29:56.000 and others. This is a provincial election. Why are you so

00:29:57.860 interested? Well, it's because Alberta is

00:29:59.860 sort of, to a degree, the last bastion

00:30:02.060 of small-c conservatism left

00:30:03.920 in Canada. I mean, actually, Saskatchewan's

00:30:05.980 doing pretty good with Scott Moe,

00:30:08.140 you know, but I mean, Ontario,

00:30:09.220 the conservatives there are really starting to become conservative in name only.

00:30:14.140 And they really want to see the conservatives knock down a peg

00:30:18.040 by having Alberta get an NDP government again.

00:30:20.480 And they've pulled out the stops.

00:30:22.240 As Wendy commented, yeah, the legacy media has just been so one-sided

00:30:26.980 throughout the course of this campaign and not doing their fact-checking.

00:30:30.680 And, you know, there has been some BSing going on.

00:30:33.380 Sure, there has.

00:30:34.460 But, I mean, it's been happening on both sides,

00:30:36.980 yet they are constantly on the case of the UCP.

00:30:40.240 I like to mention, I torture myself.

00:30:42.360 I listen to talk radio when I'm on my home.

00:30:44.280 I just need to keep up with some degree of news.

00:30:45.900 And the other day, I listened to one host

00:30:47.600 and he's talking to some guy

00:30:49.100 about how he did all this fact-checking on the debate

00:30:51.180 and this and that.

00:30:51.560 Who is this guy?

00:30:52.980 Oh, he's a Twitter personality.

00:30:54.920 A Twitter personality.

00:30:56.740 And you're having him on radio

00:30:57.860 to talk about what he felt were facts and what weren't.

00:30:59.940 And this guy even went on to, of course,

00:31:01.740 bring it up and compare Daniel Smith to Trump.

00:31:04.200 So you're just picking out random tweeters you like now, guys?

00:31:06.980 and bringing them on as your radio guests?

00:31:09.520 You want a Twitter personality?

00:31:10.900 Get me.

00:31:11.300 I got 40,000 followers. 0.99

00:31:12.700 This ass clown had about 2,000. 0.99

00:31:14.940 I mean, if you're going to weigh it that way, 0.99

00:31:17.180 I mean, this is what they're bringing on.

00:31:18.720 These are the experts they got. 0.95

00:31:20.560 They brought on that clown, Markham Hislop, as well. 0.86

00:31:22.820 He calls himself an energy expert. 0.80

00:31:24.300 He lives out in BC and writes his little thing

00:31:27.180 from McDonald's, guys.

00:31:28.240 He doesn't know anything about energy,

00:31:30.040 but he gives the messaging they like to hear.

00:31:32.020 So they put them on, on legacy media outlets.

00:31:35.160 That's enough.

00:31:35.880 another thing that came on i listened a little while back and they had press progress and one

00:31:40.580 of their reporters on it if you're wondering what press progress is it's a branch of the

00:31:45.140 broadband institute the broadband institute is a a branch of the ndp so this isn't a media 0.97

00:31:50.500 organization they make themselves sound like a media organization they're getting the crap suit

00:31:54.400 out of them right now by the way by kaylin ford and uh i attended uh the other night uh her

00:31:59.580 documentary oh what was it called again when the mob comes i believe but she was a person who

00:32:04.700 suffered from cancel culture and character assassination a couple of years ago in ways

00:32:09.820 that, uh, you know, were unimaginable. And, uh, she's made a documentary showing what she went

00:32:15.960 through and what happened and humanized it. But press progress was one of the main ones behind

00:32:19.840 that. These guys have no credibility. They're just union hacks. Yeah. What do we see? I hear

00:32:24.240 them bring brought on as guests on legacy media. Uh, so let's see. Uh, it's fair enough from Lucy

00:32:32.440 love lock so many ndp voters claim this was fact checked and that but who checks the fact checkers

00:32:36.080 and as you say cory what quantifies a fact checker anyway yeah or me as much i mean part of it lands

00:32:40.620 on us we have to and it's kind of what vitor said we need more media you need to hear it from a

00:32:45.280 number of areas if you're hearing a bunch of media sounding different from each other putting out

00:32:50.580 different opinions different fact then you might start saying one of them's obviously wrong and

00:32:54.780 maybe some of them will start correcting their own stuff but when none of them for example would

00:32:58.940 correct themselves on that baloney that Daniel Smith said she was going to sell hospitals,

00:33:03.000 for example, because it was such an easy, clear one to correct. This wasn't, you know, there was

00:33:08.000 no ambiguity about what she said. It was a video right there. You just had to watch it. But they

00:33:11.380 didn't care. They wanted the inflammatory thing, threatening people, scaring people, she's going to 1.00

00:33:15.460 sell her hospitals. It was absurd. But they didn't bother to take the two minutes, I think that's all

00:33:20.800 the video clip was, to say, no, no, that's not quite what she said. And we see it on the federal

00:33:25.840 Front as well. And that's where I get, you know, back to, I'll just hit Singh. And I do want to

00:33:31.720 talk about this fireworks thing that Dave referenced, because I don't know everybody's

00:33:33.840 around Calgary or Alberta. It's just something else. But yeah, Singh, you know, speaking of

00:33:38.320 political cowardice, right? This is his quote saying, I disagree with the finding when he's

00:33:41.640 talking with Mr. Johnston with the ruling. Mr. Johnston was wrong. I respect his work, but he's

00:33:45.700 wrong not to declare a public inquiry. I'll let the prime minister know we've got the tools and

00:33:49.920 we're going to use all those tools at our disposal to continue to push for an inquiry.

00:33:52.800 and no you won't because you've got the tools that part you're right Mr. Singh but the tool

00:34:00.860 is to say call an inquiry or we're going to the polls that's your two options Justin that's all

00:34:05.940 you've got and he won't do that you won't do that it's a toothless tiger he's all talk so uh no

00:34:13.920 Jagmeet don't try and talk tough it looks poorly on you so let's talk about this fireworks thing 1.00

00:34:17.860 this is something yeah Dave said I kind of broke I or not so much it was in the paper but it was

00:34:21.840 just kind of in the back it was a little article again i'm a dork i'm always reading all these

00:34:24.960 things but i saw that in calgary where they you know most cities they hold big firework displays

00:34:30.040 on canada day and it's always been a fun one in calgary i remember that from when my kids were

00:34:33.980 little it was a cheap thing to go out and drive and park on scotsman hill if you're a family that

00:34:38.520 doesn't have much for bucks but you want a nice night out and you watch the fireworks on the hill

00:34:42.380 you know for canada day it's a good time out with the city's canceling them well why though that's

00:34:47.880 the bigger issue is the why? Well, because they decided it would be culturally insensitive

00:34:53.500 because there were 215 radar anomalies found in Kamloops at the former site of a residential

00:35:00.120 school. So as well, a hundred years ago, there was a law that targeted Chinese immigrants and

00:35:07.840 was very hard on them. So it'd be insensitive to celebrate Canada in light of all that. That's

00:35:12.080 really what they're saying. They're saying Canada is such an odious, shameful, nasty nation that 1.00

00:35:17.440 having fireworks and showing an actual one day out of 365 days to say, we're going to celebrate 0.93

00:35:22.680 this nation. We're going to get together and be happy about what Canada has done right. Yes,

00:35:27.980 Canada has done some things wrong, but can they not have one day to say, we love what Canada did

00:35:32.880 right? And no, the woke say no. They said in the fireworks, we're going to hold this little

00:35:39.540 sound and light show down there. You have to go in in person and we'll hold land acknowledgements.

00:35:44.900 and, I don't know, perhaps some aboriginal chanting and things,

00:35:48.160 but we're supposed to hang our heads in shame.

00:35:50.360 We're not allowed to celebrate Canada Day.

00:35:53.700 And it's not just hyperbole on my part saying that,

00:35:56.340 because once this became an issue, yeah, the column I wrote went viral and it took off.

00:36:00.660 Now there's been a petition within two days.

00:36:03.420 A group is holding a petition, as we can see on that,

00:36:05.820 has received close to 10,000 signatures.

00:36:07.640 That's just in a couple days saying, hey, bring the bloody fireworks back. 0.68

00:36:11.940 That's enough.

00:36:12.840 and uh you know if you're going to make the case for the environment for the noise for the expense

00:36:19.980 all those things it's arguable fair enough you know the smoke the terrorizing of dogs okay

00:36:24.340 but this cultural sensitivity and two counselors they're the two courtneys calgary ha it wasn't

00:36:29.920 creative enough to get uh you know 14 counselors with different first names we got two courtneys 0.95

00:36:33.920 and they're both nuts they're both crazy they're both woke way off the chart and uh both of the 0.60

00:36:40.260 Courtney's have basically said, not even basically, I'll quote one of them. I've got that from her 1.00

00:36:44.800 here. One's a her and one's a he. But it basically said, we're a bunch of racists. If you want to

00:36:49.380 support having these fireworks back, that's where they are going with this. Where I'm just trying

00:36:56.280 to find that quote, but she said, Courtney Penner, the one, and the other one's Courtney Walcott,

00:37:00.880 that, yes, reversing this decision would be upholding colonialism and racism.

00:37:09.300 Yes, if Calgary holds fireworks on Canada Day,

00:37:14.540 they'd be upholding colonialism and racism.

00:37:17.620 You know who we can't find who's complaining about the fireworks?

00:37:21.440 Chinese people.

00:37:23.520 First Nations people.

00:37:25.360 It wasn't them who ever complained.

00:37:27.180 It wasn't them who wanted them gone. 0.99

00:37:29.520 It's bloody, woke, white, middle-class, overweight women in administration. 1.00

00:37:34.920 And some men, I'm sure. 0.98

00:37:36.380 Maybe there's some skinny ones.

00:37:37.520 Okay, I don't want to get too specific on who's in there.

00:37:40.020 And it wasn't, to be fair, when it comes to Courtley Penner.

00:37:43.920 It wasn't her decision.

00:37:45.820 She's just one councillor. 0.90

00:37:47.680 In fact, it didn't even go through council.

00:37:49.120 But she took it upon herself, though, to say, because it is in the hands of council,

00:37:52.380 they can overturn these sorts of things, to say that, no, this is important.

00:37:57.720 And again, to reverse, it would be upholding colonialism and racism.

00:38:02.280 And you've got to remember the reason Calgary City Council is so woke, the reason it's so dysfunctional, the reason they're so crappy, not just council, but administration, is 12 years of woke city councils and mayors.

00:38:15.760 It started with Ninchy. 0.98

00:38:17.180 Now, over the years, they keep stacking city managers, city administrators, senior positions with all of these loony left clowns. 0.89

00:38:26.040 so of course we get policies like this of course we get policies like i talked about they're 0.87

00:38:30.360 spending a hundred thousand a month to try and keep two crappers in calgary clean yeah washroom 0.65

00:38:36.020 attendance a hundred thousand a month for two washrooms nice work if you can get it actually

00:38:40.400 not that nice of work even for a hundred grand a month but still for a hundred grand a month hey

00:38:43.660 there's a lot of things i'll do for a hundred grand a month wiping some pee off a toilet seat

00:38:47.240 and calling in if a fanatic's passed out in the bathroom i'll do that for a hundred grand a month

00:38:51.420 either way that's what this fireworks controversy is right now and uh we're seeing more and more

00:38:58.660 of that sort of thing so yes premier smith was asked about that by western standard reporter

00:39:02.540 she she chose to dodge the answer i don't blame her it would have been nice to get an answer but

00:39:07.000 you know does she want to dive into this if she wasn't three days for an election i suspect uh 1.00

00:39:11.920 she would uh voice an opinion on the matter but right now it's just taking on one more issue

00:39:17.300 when you've got a very, very full plate as a provincial leader.

00:39:23.260 Let's look at some other news items as we get towards the end of things.

00:39:26.060 This is some of the beauty, again, of the efficiency of our government

00:39:28.800 and so on federally, everywhere, every level.

00:39:31.820 As I said, the city level is horrible and the provincial level is terrible

00:39:35.460 and the federal level is the federal level.

00:39:38.300 The Treasury Board confirmed it doesn't know how many federal employees work from home.

00:39:44.200 In fact, they said it's not possible to find out.

00:39:47.300 we are paying literally billions of dollars for tens of thousands of federal workers.

00:39:53.100 In fact, a whole whack of them went on strike recently to demand more money from us,

00:39:57.060 even though they never missed a single day of work through the pandemic.

00:40:00.100 And then we look at how well these guys are managed.

00:40:02.420 They don't even know how many are working from home.

00:40:05.140 That was one of the demands of these workers.

00:40:06.720 We want more time at home.

00:40:08.160 I mean, you got to look at the lineups outside of Passport Office

00:40:10.220 to realize they sure as hell aren't working there.

00:40:12.700 Well, I don't know what they're doing at home, but it's not very productive.

00:40:15.160 and now we find that they don't even know how many are working from home yes this is your tax

00:40:21.040 dollars at work i wonder why it's going up all the time but speaking of working and not knowing

00:40:26.800 things something we have found out recently is china let's get back to that let's pull circle

00:40:31.200 again and into the chinese interference thing because this is interesting china has more

00:40:35.220 diplomats and it's in quotes in this story china has more diplomats assigned to montreal

00:40:40.560 just Montreal than any other country in the world including France according to figures from the

00:40:47.980 Department of Foreign Affairs the the House Affairs Committee has been told the number of

00:40:52.120 Chinese envoys in Canada is suspiciously high you think why on earth does Montreal have more

00:40:59.300 Chinese diplomats than any country on the planet what do they do in there there's not even a high 0.99

00:41:06.320 Chinese population in Montreal I mean there's many many people of Chinese descent in Montreal

00:41:09.780 but I believe some of the higher percentages tend to be in Vancouver or Toronto, but you know what's

00:41:14.940 in Montreal? Ah, the core of the liberal power base. That's what's in Montreal. The, the, the

00:41:21.800 power brokers, the Laurentian elite, the ones who run this country. So of course they're going to

00:41:29.240 target their diplomats to a city that isn't even a national capital. Again, alarm bells. Now we're

00:41:37.120 not going to learn anything about it right away because, again, David Johnston, that grand old

00:41:43.320 man, you know, doddering uncle of Justin in a way, has said, we don't need an investigation.

00:41:50.680 There's nothing wrong. There's nothing to see here. You know, it just keeps coming and coming.

00:41:55.740 What I do think we're going to see, I'm guessing, they're trying their hardest to find whoever the

00:41:59.860 whistleblower, and I'll tell you, the whistleblower is a hero, whoever it is, in CSIS, who keeps

00:42:04.120 letting the information out that keeps embarrassing the government, showing that they've been

00:42:08.200 intimidating our elected officials, that they've been intimidating people of Chinese descent within

00:42:12.900 Canada. This is outrageous. Every one of our citizens should feel safe in Canada. They shouldn't

00:42:18.640 feel like they're being threatened by a foreign communist party across the ocean. They should 0.93

00:42:24.740 feel that this country is going to do all it can to protect them, that this is a safe haven, this is

00:42:28.640 where they move to be safe. And they can't feel confident in that because Prime Minister Trudeau

00:42:33.200 won't do a damn thing about clear, over-the-top Chinese interference within our country. 0.98

00:42:39.060 What an embarrassment. Some of these people of Chinese descent would probably say for back in 1.00

00:42:43.160 Beijing where they can hide out rather than here in Canada where they're vulnerable targets and a

00:42:48.320 government that won't stand up or protect them or their families back home because that's how

00:42:51.920 Chinese and other communists always liked to work. That's how Russia, when it was the Soviet Union, 0.95

00:42:57.340 used to keep athletes from defecting when they go overseas. They'd remind them, yeah, you could

00:43:02.560 defect when you're overseas, but you know that your mother and father and cousins are all going

00:43:07.100 to be thrown out of their homes and shipped to Siberia if you do it. They threaten the family 0.80

00:43:11.340 back at home, and that's what China's been doing with people of Chinese descent here. We should be 1.00

00:43:16.620 furious. Well, we are furious, but our federal government doesn't seem to care. What are they

00:43:21.120 doing? Well, Governor General Mary Simon, yes, yes, she got a raise, just to remind everybody of it,

00:43:26.140 she got a raise, another $9,500 a year for cutting ribbons. Again, nice work if you can get it. 0.99

00:43:32.320 $351,600 per year is what she makes. 1.00

00:43:36.980 And it's all money straight in the bank

00:43:38.040 because her house, her driver, her food,

00:43:39.820 even her clothing is all paid for by the taxpayers

00:43:42.840 to cut ribbons and fly around and eat lobster.

00:43:47.140 Nice work if you can get it.

00:43:48.200 Let's just go to one thing and finish things up.

00:43:51.020 Yes, in the private sector, Bud Light,

00:43:52.880 it just can't seem to get out of trouble

00:43:54.460 after that whole Dylan Mulvaney thing.

00:43:57.080 Don't, you know, this goes back to the lessons of

00:43:58.980 go woke, go broke.

00:44:00.680 well, here's a grand example of it. And now they're actually, their distributors are having

00:44:05.760 trouble selling the beer. That's how fast the sales have dropped, how severely the sales have

00:44:10.120 dropped. It's not an organized boycott. You know what? Organized boycotts almost always fail. No,

00:44:15.180 what they've done is poisoned their own brand. They've made their brand so toxic, so embarrassing

00:44:22.200 to the target market they had that people just aren't buying it. They've moved on when you get

00:44:26.680 that many competitors in that many years. So they've actually got to the point where

00:44:30.240 distributors, their beer stocks are expiring. Yeah, they're expiring. So they're having to

00:44:36.260 take it off the shelves. So at least the head office is saying, well, we'll buy back that

00:44:40.400 expired beer because, you know, we're sorry about that. God, guys, what an awful, awful

00:44:47.840 marketing decision, whatever they made. I'll leave you all with one final thing. Check out

00:44:52.840 cbc.news if you really want to be galled because there's a headline there says can the great reset

00:44:57.840 really create a gentler more equitable capitalism and guess what they think it will the great reset

00:45:03.600 the conspiracy theory the thing that doesn't exist well our state broadcaster is talking

00:45:07.740 about how it'd be a fantastic thing for us and it'll make a better capitalism right all right

00:45:12.980 i think that's kind of filled it up this week guys lots of ranting raving be sure to go to

00:45:16.820 westernstandard.news take out a membership support us the pipeline will be on a little later guys

00:45:22.140 As well, of course, there's going to be a lot of election specials when I see you next week.

00:45:25.920 We will have a whole brand spanking new government here in Alberta, whether UCP or NDP.

00:45:31.020 And of course, I will rant, rage, piss and moan about that, however it may be when the time comes.

00:45:35.900 Thanks for tuning in today, you guys, and I'll see you then.

00:45:39.180 Here's an update on commodity prices in Lethbridge for today.

00:45:42.440 Cash barley is steady at $4.05, feed wheat remains at $4.04, and corn increased $2 at $3.92 per metric ton.

00:45:49.700 In the milling wheat markets, July Minneapolis futures dropped 21.5 cents at $7.99.25 per bushel, with local hard red spring bid for May movement at $10.48.

00:46:00.880 Looking at canola, nearby futures slipped $3 at $6.98.60 per ton, with delivered values for June movement at $10.50 per bushel.

00:46:10.240 In the pulse markets, nearby red lentil prices are higher 0.5 cent at $0.33.5 cents per pound, and yellow peas are holding at $11.25 per bushel.

00:46:18.780 And in the cattle markets, June live cattle climbed $1.95 to $1.66.22.5 per 100 weight.

00:46:26.680 For more information on pricing or picked up options, give me a call at 403-394-1711.

00:46:33.620 I'm Matt Musicum at Marketplace Commodities.

00:46:36.160 Accurate real-time marketing information and pricing options.

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00:46:45.960 these guys are on the front lines, helping to draft smart and intelligent firearms regulations

00:46:51.880 and legislation in Canada, and more importantly, educating the public about how we keep guns out

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00:47:15.960 We'll be right back.

Western Standard - May 25, 2023

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