Western Standard - Corus moves news production out of Alberta

00:00:00.000 was very happy to be able to put him in touch with her staff and he got to attend one of her

00:00:07.080 recent town hall meetings in June and he presented the book to her so thanks for joining in Spencer

00:00:12.520 and others so because it's a call-in show I do chat I want to chat with you guys but I'm going

00:00:19.640 to give you the quick rundown of the topics that are on my list right now and maybe actually I'll

00:00:24.720 give you another reason why you should call me I'll give you another really really good reason

00:00:28.240 why you should call me it was my birthday on tuesday yeah i turned 59 on tuesday and here i

00:00:34.560 am in the studio now uh doing this so call and wish me a happy birthday if that's all you get to

00:00:40.300 do but here's the topics we got right so other than the the main one that the producer put up

00:00:45.240 on the screen there we'll talk a little bit about chorus um corporation shutting down their

00:00:51.200 operations here in alberta they're uh they're a mainstream media as far as i'm concerned i want

00:00:56.560 to talk about the bank of canada's interest rate announcement uh carney appointing a coo

00:01:02.400 uh justin trudeau's tick tocks last week the one where he's bouncing around like a 0.57

00:01:07.480 like a silly bunny on his girlfriend's uh recent video um jeff rath's assets being frozen by the

00:01:15.720 courts um uh tim houston the premier of nova scotia being quote unquote attack so so those 0.78

00:01:23.320 are some of the kinds of things i want to talk so again the phone number is down there on the screen

00:01:27.820 479-9378 extension 711 and then uh john will put you on hold and and um and then we'll have a chat

00:01:38.300 when when the time presents itself all right so let's talk oh actually and i wanted to talk about

00:01:43.640 um the fact that ontario it's ontario's turn this year to burn and uh alberta right now is relatively

00:01:51.420 smoke-free so is bc and uh it's ontario there's the one and there's some crazy videos coming out

00:01:56.940 of ontario all right so let's lead off with uh chorus and uh another great example of uh the

00:02:05.980 fact that the mainstream media is not figuring out how to pivot and how to uh stay relevant

00:02:14.540 in these changing times right so chorus is the home of global news and they just announced this

00:02:23.260 week actually they didn't announce it that's an example of the competition between the mainstream

00:02:28.940 media and the private sector western standard broke a story about this before anybody else

00:02:35.820 and and the story is that chorus whose stock has been absolutely taking a nosedive in recent years

00:02:43.340 and uh finally and is having to constantly uh lay off staff shut down smaller shows within their

00:02:51.740 corporation and then uh and what they announced yesterday is that they're shutting down

00:02:56.700 the remaining offices that they had here in alberta in edmonton and calgary so they had offices

00:03:02.780 they still had a little bit of staff that were covering stories but now any uh if you go to

00:03:07.820 i guess global next in the coming months and you click on let's say an alberta story regarding

00:03:15.220 danielle smith or whatever that story will have been researched by somebody in toronto and so

00:03:21.120 again expect the content regarding alberta to deteriorate and then there'll be you know there'll

00:03:26.900 be global will be just focused on ontario and quebec and and out east and so it's um and and

00:03:33.860 And the staff at Global found out about their layoffs by reading the story by the Western

00:03:40.940 standards.

00:03:41.940 So how would that make you feel if you're a mainstream media person and you're finding

00:03:45.760 out about the loss of your employment through a third party?

00:03:51.240 Not a third party, an independent party, right?

00:03:54.280 And I see somebody in the comments, somebody made a sort of a semi-joking comment saying

00:04:00.140 that um you know it's that many less uh federally subsidized employees here in alberta as a result

00:04:07.740 of that i mean i'm not happy like i'm not celebrating that somebody lost their job

00:04:12.140 although i kind of say if you work for the government are you really contributing you know

00:04:17.500 to the to society yeah i'm gonna take for that one that's fine but but you know the the fact

00:04:24.220 remains that the government of canada the federal government subsidizes mainstream media a lot right

00:04:31.020 like the cbc gets something like 1.6 billion dollars a year in direct subsidies because it's

00:04:37.580 a crown corporation right the cbc is owned by the government by the taxpayers but in addition um the

00:04:44.380 the federal government subsidizes global and ctv and others to the tune of about 600 million dollars

00:04:52.220 per year actually i wish i'd kind of prepared for this one but i didn't um it reminds me it

00:04:57.820 always reminds me of a clip it's i think it might be hard to find so don't don't try and find it

00:05:03.980 john but there there used to be a clip there was a clip years ago it was filmed at uh it was

00:05:09.900 recorded at the press gallery dinner right so ottawa washington all the all the governments

00:05:16.140 do this right they they hold an annual press gallery dinner and at those dinners it's an

00:05:22.860 opportunity usually for the prime minister or the president to poke fun at the press gallery

00:05:29.460 and and the premise of that is that in the good old days our institutions like our media would

00:05:35.980 really hold governments accountable hold them so accountable that it made life tough for the

00:05:41.360 politicians because they're under constant scrutiny so once a year they had the opportunity

00:05:45.280 to turn the spotlight against their um critics and make fun of their critics a little bit

00:05:52.400 and in this clip from a few years ago i'll never forget it because trudeau makes a joke about

00:05:58.360 shining or or uh favorable headlines and he and he says you know favorable headlines don't come

00:06:06.600 cheaply they come at the cost of 600 million dollars and and it it it wasn't a joke he was

00:06:14.220 telling the truth and in fact he wasn't poking fun in that moment i think he truly was reminding

00:06:20.460 the people in the room the mainstream journalists that he pays their salary and that's always been

00:06:27.400 an issue of mine and that's why you know uh i'll repeat this actually wow you guys got me thinking

00:06:33.300 now i didn't think i'd be able to talk about chorus for so long but i let me you know this

00:06:39.300 is my theory this is sort of one of my thoughts in life that there are five pillars in a democracy

00:06:44.420 like ours right we live in an in a democracy and the first pillar is the vote um and the vote relies

00:06:51.100 on uh somebody on people being educated so the second pillar of the of our democracy is the

00:06:58.740 government the the party that the side of the house of commons that forms government the third

00:07:03.400 pillar is the side of the house of commons that forms the opposition so the government makes

00:07:07.660 policies the voters vote elect the government the government makes policies the opposition

00:07:13.900 holds the government accountable then you're supposed to have the mainstream media or the

00:07:17.980 media let's just call them the media historically you have the media the fifth estate that reports

00:07:23.020 on what's happening helps educate the voters and helps balance everything out and then the fifth

00:07:29.100 pillar used to be the the expert class you know the the lawyers the engineers the academics who

00:07:36.620 advise government and or and also provided a criticism for policies and in the last you know

00:07:42.860 two three decades that that pillar that media pillar uh has completely failed us because

00:07:52.140 they've stopped being um impartial i mean it's okay it's okay for a media organization to have

00:07:59.100 a bias everybody has a bias right for a media organization to maybe lean a little bit to the

00:08:03.500 left or to the right or something like that it's okay to have a bias but when a media organization

00:08:08.700 is directly paid by the government that's pat that's no longer a bias that's a conflict of

00:08:14.860 interest that's the definition of conflict of interest in the private sector and in a lot of

00:08:19.340 industries right so what somebody when somebody pays you you are loyal to that person and you're

00:08:24.780 not going to be able to adequately fulfill your obligation of holding them accountable and so

00:08:30.220 So that's been a problem in the last several decades in this country, that you have medias like Global and CTV that are getting huge amounts of money from the government, which I think puts them in a conflict of interest with the government.

00:08:48.020 So, yeah, that's one of the breaking stories this week.

00:08:52.020 Chorus Media is going to be moving out of Alberta.

00:08:57.020 We'll see what that leads to.

00:09:00.620 let me scroll through a couple of comments people saying happy birthday marty ctb ctv will be next

00:09:06.940 cbc will get there yeah ctv's got um from a from a financial point of view ctv's on a bit of a

00:09:15.580 better footing um you know i i think they're they're going to be able to stay in business for

00:09:23.500 a little bit longer cbc cbc is already there right if you if cbc was a private corporation and you

00:09:30.460 looked at their financial assets they've they've lost they're losing money year after year they're

00:09:34.780 an absolute money losing business and so ctv would would would have gone bankrupt a long time if it

00:09:41.340 wasn't a crown corporation i'm i i remember that poiliev made that a campaign promise i i hope he

00:09:48.700 follows up on that i i think cbc should be um should be sold i don't think we should have a

00:09:54.380 national broadcaster in this day and age um all right any other comments alberta won't

00:10:02.540 how do you inform liberal voters no offense but they are watching

00:10:06.780 they aren't watching conservative shows yeah that's um

00:10:11.740 that's an interesting point but it's not it's not a valid reason to uh actually if if if a

00:10:18.300 if liberal voters were it's an oxymoron i mean and i think an informed liberal liberal voter

00:10:24.860 is perhaps an oxymoron i don't think there is such a thing and even if there is an informed

00:10:29.180 liberal voter i find most liberals to be really die hard uh set in their ways and constantly vote

00:10:36.060 liberals i i'm i've i'm proud of the fact that i've changed who i vote for over the years and

00:10:42.540 i'm also capable of admitting when there were liberal governments that were good and and

00:10:47.980 conservative governments that were bad right like i've often said that uh i didn't entirely mind

00:10:55.500 the cretchen liberals because um you know cretchen was a bit of a statesman he was moving the country

00:11:02.380 forward at a decent pace but more importantly cretchen had a really solid um finance minister

00:11:08.540 and paul martin so i'll admit that i did well and that i approve of the christian liberals and i'll

00:11:15.980 also admit that not everything about the harper era was peachy rosy uh harper i worked in the oil

00:11:21.820 patch and harper's uh finance minister back to finance ministers was uh jim flaherty and jim

00:11:27.900 flaherty is the one who put an end to energy trust which had a huge negative impact for our for the

00:11:34.540 for the primary industry here in this province so i think that's what sets a lot of conservative

00:11:40.060 conservative or maybe not conservative but that's something that sets a lot of albertans

00:11:44.540 and independent-minded people aside from others is that we're able to look at issues critically

00:11:51.100 and uh and and offer credit where credit is due and criticism where criticism is due so um that

00:11:58.940 that's what i'll that's where we'll stay all right don't be shy folks give me a call uh i've said

00:12:06.340 this before like i actually if you could see me right now if you could see me right now i'm

00:12:11.180 wearing uh i'm wearing this golf shirt uh you probably see me wear it on the show in the past

00:12:16.620 i'm not one of those guys who has an endless closet i don't have staff you know you're not

00:12:21.480 going to see uh something at the bottom screen saying wardrobe marty's wardrobe provided by

00:12:26.660 whatever the bay another great institution that stopped existing so i don't have a wardrobe

00:12:32.180 budget derek's not that generous and uh i don't think anybody here has a wardrobe budget so you'll

00:12:37.820 see me wearing the same clothes once in a while but but just to point out that i'm an average joe

00:12:42.580 i'm wearing a golf shirt right now and i'm wearing shorts in the studio and a pair of running shoes

00:12:47.040 because it is extremely hot out there today um not as hot though as it is in ontario so i guess it

00:12:56.960 is ontario's turn to have major forest fires and um i'm gonna and you know this is how do i start

00:13:07.440 on this one i'm i i think most of you who live in alberta have like okay let me compare it to

00:13:14.640 to alberta right so alberta right now a couple years ago we were we we had our major forest fires

00:13:20.680 we had the one in jasper which was an absolute disaster and then years earlier we had the one

00:13:26.360 in fort mcmurray and then the one in slave lake and in and i'll i'll go on a limb and i'll make

00:13:32.700 this bet this wager with anybody who's watching there won't be another major forest fire around

00:13:39.380 the jasper area in the next 35 years and i think i'm going to win that wager and i can make that

00:13:46.020 wager confidently because once there's a forest fire the forest burns and then it takes 30 years

00:13:51.780 for it to come back up before we have that next fire so um and and i think most of the no i don't

00:13:59.300 think i've had some guests uh on other shows talk about this especially in in uh in the aftermath of

00:14:06.580 jasper jasper was a pure example of a mismanaged forest and it was just a problem waiting to happen

00:14:14.260 in fact it had been written and talked about in numerous reports but i'll come back to that

00:14:18.660 we got a caller on the line so again please share your name and where you're calling from and what's

00:14:23.380 on your mind hi good afternoon marty my name is gordon i'm calling from edmonton hey gordon you've

00:14:31.540 called before i think haven't you i sure have yes i have cool what's on your mind comment you know

00:14:38.260 what's going on well i just want to comment on what's going on you know uh it's beginning the

00:14:45.140 scrutiny is beginning now you know i don't know how serious is the full extent of it but now

00:14:50.340 it's coming live about jeff and his problems now they're starting to talk about scrutinizing mitch

00:14:56.340 dr mudry you know all the prominent people who are working hard on the independent uh

00:15:02.260 independence uh uh issue they're all gonna get the hammer and this is this is orchestrated

00:15:08.820 uh and um there's no other way to look at it and we we who know better we just gotta stick to our

00:15:13.940 guns and not be swayed by this because it's coming and this should be no surprise to anyone

00:15:20.180 yeah stay on the line so uh that was something yeah yeah i mentioned it that's something i wanted

00:15:26.420 to talk about um let's give let me let me give a quick comment on jeff right so the the story about

00:15:34.260 jeff i think it falls in the category that you just described it to me it's law fair it's an

00:15:39.620 they're going after jeff right stories are going to break um to me what's happening to jeff right

00:15:44.980 now is pretty much a nothing burger in in a nutshell he helped the first nation win a big case

00:15:51.060 he's a lawyer on retainer and when uh and this is common so when your client wins a big case

00:15:56.100 the lawyer on retainer gets a share and pre-trial jeff had uh quoted you know my my cut will be 20

00:16:04.980 of whatever i win for you guys and then in in after winning the case the the the party he

00:16:10.820 represents said uh 20 is too much and now they're fighting with him and it's another and now they're

00:16:16.500 in court so so this is a this is a purely civil matter between two parties that are disagreeing

00:16:22.260 on the fee right and so and and but to your point why does a story like that and stories like this

00:16:29.780 go on all the time all the time all the time why is it breaking now when it relates to jeff it's

00:16:35.700 It's a rhetorical question, but you know the answer, Gord, right?

00:16:38.940 What's your thought?

00:16:41.880 Well, it's the beginning of the smear campaign, as I mentioned.

00:16:48.680 There's Jeff and there's the whole list of others who are going to start having this happen to them.

00:16:54.500 Absolutely.

00:16:55.660 Absolutely.

00:16:56.500 It's just part of the smear campaign.

00:16:58.240 It's part of the smear campaign, and it brings back to a point that I've talked about in the past,

00:17:02.760 and I'll ask you your opinion on this.

00:17:05.700 do you think are you okay do you let me word this properly do you think that the independence

00:17:12.260 movement needs a single point of of a single leader like some people propose or are you in

00:17:18.780 the camp that thinks that we should have uh keep it as grassroots as possible without quote-unquote

00:17:23.780 official leaders where do you stand on that i stand this way as it sits right now until we have

00:17:31.600 the vote we need to be we will probably continue to be grassroots but when we have the referendum

00:17:38.180 and if the vote says go ahead you have your cause you have the numbers go ahead to uh go ahead with

00:17:46.720 your cause then i do believe we need to have some front people who are much more leading the charge

00:17:53.820 i think might be a little bit early for that right now we're on the same page then you and i are on

00:18:00.140 the same page because uh and and and and i predicted this right i said that one of the reasons um

00:18:06.760 grassroot is good because it doesn't give a single target and i was always worried about that that if

00:18:11.860 there was a single person identified as the leader the attacks on that person would be relentless

00:18:16.500 because i mean look at like you said they're going they're going sporadically right then maybe not

00:18:22.240 completely orchestrated but they're going after mitch they're going after jeff they've come after

00:18:26.100 me a little bit they're going after david parker they go after chris scott tamara lich they go

00:18:30.660 after everybody everybody sort of takes their turn and uh imagine if there was only one person

00:18:37.380 i so i yeah so i i i semi um semi joke about this this week is jeff's turn right jeff he'll take it

00:18:45.060 on the chin jeff's a big boy literally speaking and pragmatically speaking and metaphorically

00:18:50.100 speaking he's been in battles his whole life this is no big deal for jeff he can handle himself but

00:18:55.060 But it's still sad.

00:18:56.220 What's saddest to see about all this, though, is not the attacks that come from the media or the other side.

00:19:03.140 It's the attacks that come from within.

00:19:04.660 Have you witnessed any people attacking Jeff in particular?

00:19:08.620 And you don't need to give names, but do you know what I'm talking about?

00:19:14.520 Well, no, I haven't really anybody in particular.

00:19:19.540 Okay.

00:19:19.840 But, you know, it's just coming.

00:19:22.600 We just know that it's coming.

00:19:24.040 And, you know, and I also wonder why do they have the opportunity

00:19:29.860 to always be attacking, but we always play so nice.

00:19:33.540 We don't attack back.

00:19:34.660 Like, how come we can't get Lukasik to answer some of the questions

00:19:38.600 as to where his funding is coming from?

00:19:41.000 Fair enough.

00:19:41.400 I'm sure he's not pocketing this initiative.

00:19:44.040 Yeah, yeah, fair enough, Gord.

00:19:45.220 Listen, I'll let you go in case there's somebody else on the line.

00:19:47.840 Appreciate the call.

00:19:48.880 I'll follow up a little bit on your comments, but thanks for calling today.

00:19:51.840 you bet thanks again for taking my call see you later you bet happy birthday thank you um yeah he

00:19:59.420 actually brings up several good points uh so he okay so first of all he gourd says he didn't

00:20:05.880 witness any attacks that's cool i'm glad uh me i might have a larger social media presence so

00:20:11.560 i saw i saw a little bit of you know people using this story about jeff's ass as being frozen and

00:20:20.120 trying and and making it bigger than it actually is and trying to use it as a bit of an opportunity

00:20:25.320 to discredit jeff and i didn't like that i don't like that so um you know i i'm on the record as

00:20:32.220 saying yes jeff is not everybody's cup of tea i get that he's a little bit you know he he's

00:20:37.820 opinionated and he's very fast on his feet he's been a lawyer his whole life so he can think

00:20:43.100 like that right and and i've and i've had i've had conversations with people who just don't like

00:20:49.760 jeff and i've said that's great but not great that's fine i respect that but trust me there

00:20:54.380 are i've seen jeff at events like in cremona or in water valley or in okotoks with a crowd that's

00:21:01.500 a little bit different and i see him in his element and people like him so anyways i i think

00:21:06.080 the bigger the bigger story here is uh as gore brought up be you know the coincidence of these

00:21:12.420 events there's no such thing when when when i mean the fact that a story like this breaks which

00:21:17.480 normally would never break and and then and then he brought up another point um it the our side

00:21:25.480 the independent side is being definitely held to a higher level of accountability and is under more

00:21:31.240 scrutiny from groups like elections alberta and the media than the other side is i you know there's

00:21:37.540 been huge efforts this past month to uh to scrutinize uh thomas lukasic's finances and

00:21:46.480 who's backing him like if if if uh you know pick a pick a group uh if if if um if cory morgan okay

00:21:55.440 if cory morgan here cory morgan set up a third party advertising and group and he's collecting

00:22:01.840 money and he's being super transparent about it he's filing his weekly report weekly weekly he's

00:22:08.160 filing a report with elections alberta showing all the money he's getting uh and then anybody

00:22:14.400 that's doing donations over a certain threshold i think it's 250 they're listed on there and

00:22:18.960 cory has to set up systems in place to refuse money that doesn't come from alberta so if some

00:22:24.480 if some fan of this channel from saskatchewan went to cory's website and tried to donate twenty

00:22:30.640 dollars cory has to refuse that 20 bucks so so cory and and cory cory will subject himself to

00:22:37.200 the scrutiny and he's okay with it but i'm just saying that he is under a lot of scrutiny

00:22:41.280 and the same scrutiny is not um reciprocated to the lucasics because we've off we've exposed this

00:22:48.640 past couple of weeks many people have looked at lucasics reports online and going you know there's

00:22:53.120 a lot of uh a lot of missing information there a lot of extra funds you don't seem to be reporting

00:22:58.240 where you're blah blah blah you know what i mean so it's it's a double double standard uh go ahead

00:23:02.800 caller where are you calling from name please my name is david and i'm calling from cochran hey

00:23:09.200 Hey, Cochran, right around the corner.

00:23:10.540 What's on your mind?

00:23:14.300 I've been following the independence movement for a long time,

00:23:18.420 and I am very pro-independence.

00:23:21.480 But I'm waiting the options for my family.

00:23:24.880 I have lived both north and south of the border.

00:23:28.160 I grew up my formative years in the U.S.,

00:23:32.100 and I'm looking at the timeline and the horizon

00:23:35.500 and the work that it's going to take,

00:23:36.840 and i'm weighing the future of my son who's preaching and looking do i just move or and

00:23:46.380 the work versus the benefit is going to be worth the outcome for my son if i stay here versus if i

00:23:55.460 take the time and go through the process and move south for better currently better pay better

00:24:01.220 opportunities i'm not negating the opportunity caucus available here through independence

00:24:08.340 it's just a personal personal thought process i've been struggling with yeah um i

00:24:21.060 let me address it i mean you know we each do our own thing but i i'm in the same boat right i'm

00:24:26.660 basically in the same boat uh i take it your son is in his mid-20s kind of thing like starting out

00:24:32.580 his career no preaching well oh okay okay well you got oh okay different different story because

00:24:42.340 i mean in my situation i've actually told my sons bluntly you should start looking for work

00:24:47.380 in the u.s because i you know i'm i'm gonna me personally i'm staying here i'm fighting i'm gonna

00:24:54.180 fight for alberta independence uh if the vote doesn't go my way it doesn't stop my battle i'm

00:24:59.060 going to keep fighting but uh and i'm also older i'm basically retired now so my financial situation

00:25:05.860 is different than my kids but me personally when i look i i've been looking at the data forever

00:25:10.740 and ever and ever and the country is on a terrible terrible terrible trajectory

00:25:15.700 and and i am advising some people who have the possibility of doing it to move out of this

00:25:21.060 country uh like and and or to put the ball in motion and move out stay if we're if we become

00:25:27.860 independent but uh but to be prepared to move does that does that answer a bit is that your

00:25:35.220 am i reading this correctly or what what's your thoughts further on that

00:25:39.940 or is it are you just making a comment in general

00:25:42.180 I, I, well, as, like, I've always been, I moved back to Canada and joined the Army.

00:25:50.820 I've, I've always been a patriotic person.

00:25:53.580 But when I was discussing it with ex-military friends of mine who were out east, like, in

00:26:00.380 very prime conversations, it was, this is not the country that I came back to defend

00:26:04.680 and fight for.

00:26:05.640 Right.

00:26:06.660 And even family members who are from out east, they don't see it.

00:26:13.540 They don't understand it.

00:26:15.060 No matter the logical conversation I try and have,

00:26:18.740 but then my family members who do live in the U.S.,

00:26:22.040 they're looking at me going, like, how are you still there?

00:26:25.220 Right.

00:26:25.820 But because I'm not a U.S. citizen, I don't have a direct,

00:26:28.700 very quick and easy way to go.

00:26:30.320 so it it becomes a question of time and effort like i don't care what it costs me it's more

00:26:40.180 about what's it going to cost my plans if i stay versus what's it going to benefit in if i go

00:26:46.800 and i that's been something i've been struggling with because alberta is at the precipice of that

00:26:52.760 opportunity where we absolutely can make a magnificent country i can take all the information

00:27:01.080 from all the different governments around the world and go okay this is what is going to form

00:27:05.800 the best country in the world yeah no i i um thanks for the comment i mean it you know my

00:27:12.760 my final thought on it is it it is you're you're you're not alone in sharing those thoughts and

00:27:19.480 feelings you're not alone in expressing the fact that you know you're basically saying what i just

00:27:24.040 said which is the country's going in the wrong direction and it's terrible that so many of us

00:27:28.040 have said this over and over and over and it's getting to this point right it's getting to this

00:27:33.320 point like i i don't think these are conversations my father would have had 50 years ago right people

00:27:38.840 weren't talking about oh the country's falling apart and we need to move they they were coming

00:27:43.720 here in droves and and and the the country offered a bright future and it's sad that within a

00:27:49.240 generation the the future doesn't look so bright uh thanks for the call i mean i uh you know i'm

00:27:55.000 sure upon reflection you'll do the right thing i'm sure of it all right thank you very much sir thank

00:28:01.800 you um yeah what uh you know i i actually i gotta go i i had a friend uh you guys i think you guys

00:28:11.240 know this i mean i do a weekly podcast with uh with a guy named clyde do something so clyde has

00:28:17.240 his own youtube channel and and i'm a guest on this show every wednesday and clyde's been in

00:28:22.360 the us now he's a he's a dual citizenship it took him a year to do the paperwork but he finally

00:28:26.840 moved down to the us and and it's been uh our second week now of him broadcasting from the us

00:28:33.720 and he's pumped i mean he's happy and and he is described and i and he's in the austin area he's

00:28:40.600 in texas which is uh culturally very similar to what alberta used to be and uh he's he's he's

00:28:47.560 encouraged he's he's already living in a better place his cost of living's already gone down and

00:28:52.840 now he's living his dream which is um he's a mechanic he was a full-time mechanic an automotive

00:29:00.840 mechanic but because of the convoy he started a career of podcasting and and super independent

00:29:07.960 like the classic independent you know uh social media uh content creator and he grew his presence

00:29:15.400 but but then here in canada he was he's being uh you know uh hamstrung his his hands are tied i

00:29:23.480 mean the the the censorship on the platforms uh the the threat of bill c9 and c22 and things like

00:29:29.640 that so he saw the writing on the wall and and he moved to the u.s i'll continue to do the weekly

00:29:34.360 show with clyde and then you know i'll bring you some uh time to time updates but for him it was

00:29:39.640 the right thing and i think it is the right thing it's actually um it is it is a it is a reality

00:29:45.640 right the population of i report on this on x and i i wasn't prepared to talk about this but i'll

00:29:51.000 give you some broad numbers canada's population has declined three quarters in a row now

00:29:56.440 so you know all a year basically it's declined and it is sure it's temporary foreign workers

00:30:02.280 that are not returning so even so we put an end to the temporary foreign worker program and they're

00:30:06.840 not returning but hidden in the data you can see that the number of canadian citizens leaving was

00:30:14.440 something like a hundred thousand in the last three quarters a hundred thousand canadians

00:30:19.160 leaving and that's a record number like sure it's a record number because the population

00:30:24.200 is growing but even as a percentage it's a huge number so there is an a a de facto there is a real

00:30:30.600 brain drain there are there are people with skills and the means leaving the country and

00:30:37.080 going elsewhere mostly to the u.s statistically but uh but that's real um so where was i so i was

00:30:43.240 yeah so i was talking about the forest fires and my prediction that there won't be a forest fire

00:30:47.560 in um in jasper we know jasper was mismanaged i can't talk about ontario uh i don't have the

00:30:55.080 expertise to speak about ontario i don't know what the ontario forest management looks like

00:30:59.640 but i'm going to go out on a limb and predict that they're they that they're in a similar situation

00:31:05.640 that the forests were mismanaged and now you have uh these major fires and and i love i i just love

00:31:14.920 people who immediately claim that this is you know climate change climate change climate change folks

00:31:20.520 uh even in alberta here we publish fantastic statistics right like 50 of the fires uh that

00:31:27.560 happen in a given year are started by uh by people and by that i mean it's not necessarily arson it's

00:31:35.400 people that are careless with uh with their atvs and no spark arrest are on their atv or it's a

00:31:42.040 if a transformer blows for whatever reason that's considered a man-made fire and so 50

00:31:47.880 of the fires are are man-made and i suspect that within that there's a huge portion that are

00:31:52.600 actually arson and then the other 50 of the fires are almost all lightning strikes and the number of

00:31:59.240 lightning strikes like there's no correlation between the number of lightning strikes and

00:32:03.160 anything else okay people say our climate's getting worse and there's more lightning strike

00:32:06.780 there isn't it's just there's a constant number of lightning strikes in a given year i walk through

00:32:12.260 the woods all the time and i see when i'm walking through the woods an individual tree that's been

00:32:16.740 hit by lightning and you'll see it is burnt on one side most fires start that way lightning will

00:32:22.320 hit a tree there'll be a little bit of fire and then it extinguishes itself quickly if the forest

00:32:27.280 is damp uh if it's been raining uh or it's cold or whatever in fact it's uh try starting a fire

00:32:34.640 um most people have a hard it's crazy most people have a hard time starting a fire with

00:32:39.480 proper tools like if i give you a a lighter and some newspaper and a few things most people will

00:32:45.800 actually have a hard time starting a fire so fires are actually it's not like there's a lightning

00:32:50.940 strike and everything goes but um when there's a lightning strike and one tree goes but the forest

00:32:56.860 has been mismanaged because there's dead trees everywhere and there's uh underbrush and then

00:33:01.980 and and it hasn't been logged in you know it's past its prime that's when they're ripe for fires

00:33:07.660 and that's when you know one lightning strike will will will spread quickly in a healthy forest

00:33:13.900 lightning strikes can happen and and uh fires don't immediately spread and become huge and by

00:33:20.620 the way that's another thing i always like to talk about uh when i'm on this topic right we the the

00:33:26.860 the mainstream has created all these weird narratives that make no sense and one of my

00:33:32.220 favorite weird narratives is the the people's love for what they call old growth force right

00:33:38.220 oh we love old growth force forests are like are a biological entity they start young and they grow

00:33:45.820 and they get to an age and then they die off that's just it right a forest will always die off

00:33:51.660 and when you're looking at an old growth forest you are literally i don't know why people would

00:33:55.580 romanticize that you're looking at a force of old trees that are nearly dead that should be harvested

00:34:01.580 because they are a renewable resource but if you don't harvest them you're going to let them die

00:34:05.740 and then they'll just burn and i always compare it to this like you would never go on the beach and

00:34:10.780 if the beach was full of 75 year old guys and gals you would never say oh my god what a great

00:34:17.100 old growth beach right so an old growth forest is nothing sexy it's a dead it's a forest that's 0.99

00:34:24.220 near death but we've romanticized it and we will be critical of uh that's one thing i'll uh kudos to

00:34:31.820 the when i went to bc last week and i did that hike they were in the area where i was in they

00:34:36.780 we're doing some um some selective logging of bigger trees and i think that's the way to do it

00:34:42.460 i'll have to bring in a guest one day i met a guy named liam parfit in uh in the aftermath of the

00:34:47.740 jasper fire i'll bring liam on the show and we'll talk more about this but uh yeah good luck ontario

00:34:54.680 um you're experiencing something that we've experienced in the past we've had some mismanagement

00:35:00.640 this year right now i checked just before the show started there's only five active fires in

00:35:06.200 all of alberta and they're all listed as under control it's amazing what a little bit of active

00:35:11.560 management will do and it's amazing what having uh firefighters on standby uh dealing with this

00:35:19.080 and what uh having a handful of water bombers does right and uh ontario is like us they've

00:35:24.840 been promised water bombers for a long time but they uh they don't seem to be coming um

00:35:30.040 um john ah no i was going to put john on the spot just for your own information go look up that

00:35:36.240 video there was a train in ontario in northern ontario a locomotive that somehow or other ended

00:35:41.360 up in the middle of the of one of the forest fires and the two guys inside there are videotaping and

00:35:47.420 literally the flames are all around that train i i hope that worked out good for those guys but just

00:35:52.140 to see that um it was uh super scary uh just put a question up there on uh on the screen i think it

00:36:01.260 disappeared here uh let me let me read it off oh there it is please explain to me how he's going

00:36:08.380 to finish the environmental assessment and negotiate with the natives again before next year

00:36:14.700 um okay we're jumping ahead on the topic that i had on my list i will um

00:36:20.860 it's a it's in reference to carney um this week carney had a meeting with he came to

00:36:28.860 alberta again at the end of stampede he got booed at stampede by the way i don't know if you saw

00:36:33.260 that online but uh he came on uh sunday he got booed at stampede and then and then immediately

00:36:39.740 after that he had a meeting with uh some first nations here and then and then the first nations

00:36:45.380 took off and went at their meeting in ottawa right now the assembly of first nations is meeting in

00:36:49.940 ottawa and doing their big annual uh meeting and already they're coming out now the chief of the

00:36:57.300 assembly of first nation basically came out and said uh-uh what carney's proposing all this

00:37:02.500 fast tracking of projects ain't gonna happen uh they're already uh crying that it's uh it's a

00:37:09.720 violation of the treaty rights and so forth and so forth so this story is going to play out over

00:37:15.000 and over and over and over and i've said this right um carney carney is has been sort of trying

00:37:23.320 to claim that he's gonna fast track projects i'm on the record as saying we none of these projects

00:37:30.920 they're just smoke and mirrors they're the the the infrastructure the the precedents the veto

00:37:36.680 powers to the first nations is still there carney's done nothing to change that and the way

00:37:42.120 it stands right now first nations in this country have the ability to veto just about any project

00:37:47.720 and i think to me that's a that's something i'd like i think we need to address this i think this

00:37:53.000 is a a problem that's almost 200 years old the problem of of the treaties and and the department

00:37:59.320 of indian affairs and other things and i i think you know for uh for me we have created uh a two

00:38:07.400 tier society uh between natives and non-natives especially those who live on reserves and i think

00:38:14.200 it's uh it's a long problem that needs a real solution at some point the way we're going on 0.55

00:38:20.440 this one is not um just putting our head in the sand and hoping it goes away it's not going to go

00:38:27.160 away so i think i think that's part of the comment that was there um all right where do i go down

00:38:34.360 from there um actually i wanted to uh yeah this one let me let me bring up this this quick uh

00:38:43.000 interesting tidbit right so uh we spoke a couple of weeks ago july 1st actually to be exact uh 0.97

00:38:49.640 danielle smith uh no longer than back in june danielle smith announced a a hundred dollar 1.00

00:38:59.320 energy rebate she called it she you know she made the argument that because of the

00:39:05.080 war in uh between the u.s and iran the price of oil had gone up and then here locally in alberta

00:39:10.120 we got we benefited from slightly higher prices and therefore we had a surplus and she announced

00:39:16.040 this now in hindsight um i would have preferred that in that she if we had a surplus that she

00:39:23.320 would have just put it against the dead or something else i at first thought that this

00:39:27.960 100 rebate was just vote buying later on i went and looked closely at the 100 rebate i went to

00:39:36.040 see the process of applying for it because they just didn't send it to us automatically sorry my

00:39:41.080 microphone here so so it turned out we had to apply for it and when i went through the

00:39:45.480 first steps of applying for it i realized oh i don't like this right so to get the hundred

00:39:50.840 dollar rebate uh an alberton had to um set up a my alberta account provide if you're married uh

00:40:00.200 provide your spouse's social insurance number uh do a bunch of things make sure your address was

00:40:07.480 current that the address you use on your tax return was the same as your address on your

00:40:12.040 driver's license and then also provide some banking information because they couldn't just

00:40:16.840 simply write you a check right so i i said no i'm not doing it and then i saw the i saw that as

00:40:25.080 not merely an attempt at buying votes by giving everybody 100 bucks but i saw it more as an

00:40:30.200 attempt to move us more to uh to social uh or to um digital ids and and uh digital currency and one

00:40:39.160 step closer to that right also doesn't help that right now there's this big push right uh advertising

00:40:45.280 hey come on in and renew your driver's license and add your health number on there and your

00:40:49.980 passport and so forth so i i gave up trying to do it i decided that it wasn't worth a hundred bucks

00:40:55.840 to give up all that information we talked about this last week i had people say marty you're

00:40:59.920 already there i get it i get it we're already going down that path but i don't need to make it

00:41:05.040 more or make it easier and i guess i'm not the only one who feels that way because a statistic

00:41:10.880 came out this morning when danielle first announced this rebate she said there was something like 4.3

00:41:16.560 million albertans qualified for the rebate right out of the 5 million albertans like 4 4 million

00:41:22.400 qualified as long as you were over the age of 18 had previously filed a tax return and didn't make

00:41:27.680 more than 250 000 you qualified for this rebate and uh yesterday there's an article that broke

00:41:33.840 and uh i don't have the number i thought i wrote down the number on here but something like less

00:41:39.120 than 15 percent of eligible albertans have applied for the rebate even though the the period's been

00:41:44.960 open for two weeks so i think i think i'm happy about that i think that shows a couple of things

00:41:50.320 well maybe it shows more than a couple of things hopefully it shows that albertans uh saw beyond

00:41:55.760 that and they're not just going to be bought by uh by a hundred dollars that hopefully that's what it

00:42:00.560 is um some of it i think is people got frustrated with the process and just gave up on it that's

00:42:06.960 fine um but i'll i'll go with and some of it is just because people weren't really aware of it

00:42:13.040 but it it's it turned out to be a bad process a bad idea and uh i hope that danielle will

00:42:20.000 reconsider what she was trying to do there instead of uh um instead of trying to do these hundred

00:42:26.880 dollar rebates why don't you just put it towards the debt and uh and and and let that be um am i

00:42:34.960 the only one who feels that way that uh giving all that information to the government's maybe

00:42:39.040 a little bit of overreach let me let me pause here and see what the comments are looking like

00:42:44.000 yeah ralph did the same thing i i see that comment yeah ralph ralph klein did the same thing under

00:42:54.200 almost similar conditions right ralph klein near the end of his last term uh was feeling a bit of

00:43:00.920 political pressure and he gave us the ralph bucks his were his were like uh no conditions tied i

00:43:09.200 think if i remember correctly everybody got them including the kids like you know if i was a father

00:43:14.560 with a family of two kids i got like a check for 1200 bucks or whatever and all no questions asked

00:43:19.760 so um but but even at the time of ralph it was considered a bit of a political stunt to uh

00:43:26.320 to go out and do that um all right other stories that i had i had i had a couple of serious uh

00:43:34.160 serious stories um one you know it's our job here to talk about the like i said it's our job here

00:43:41.200 to talk about the things that uh the mainstream media won't talk about uh caller on the line go

00:43:45.920 ahead uh hello marty mark from college calling how you doing today good mark how are you good

00:43:54.080 i know you try to remain positive because you cover cover a lot of a lot of topics that don't

00:44:00.320 necessarily make a lot of burdens feel great all the time but a few hours ago headline from

00:44:07.520 of all places the toronto star op-ed on this race it's clear that mark carney is no gordy

00:44:20.720 give the context because i think i think by the sort of the bit of laughter and you're

00:44:27.440 It's a play on word, but do you want to give the context of the story?

00:44:32.120 Well, yeah, sure.

00:44:33.660 Just briefly, Canada built this bridge going to Windsor, or from Windsor to Detroit.

00:44:42.940 Gordie, how great, great name for the British, iconic guy, Detroit Red Wing, Canadian, beautiful name, everything.

00:44:51.720 and Donald Trump has put impediments into this bridge opening.

00:44:58.500 It's built. It's ready to go.

00:45:00.700 And so now they've announced toll structures and everything.

00:45:05.560 And basically, Canada should have been receiving 100% of the tolls

00:45:09.260 for the bridge that they built, and we will be receiving 50% of those tolls.

00:45:14.800 Isn't that a typical?

00:45:15.740 Yeah, yeah, no, it's typical, right?

00:45:18.940 i mean and again at the beginning of the show i said i can be critical of of different parties

00:45:24.780 the bridge was started the whole concept of the bridge was started under the harper era and um

00:45:31.180 so somebody along the way unfortunately somebody along the way didn't negotiate a very good deal

00:45:36.220 for us and and and we're getting played a little bit or is that how you see it or do you see it a

00:45:42.380 little bit differently well well i do know that there is uh i'm not sure if you know i'm not from

00:45:48.380 that part of the country but there's also that is it the mackinac that's or there no it's the

00:45:54.340 ambassador bridge the ambassador bridge and that is privately owned as well the fellow the american

00:46:01.020 that owns that paid mr donald trump uh a visit a few months ago and handed him a check i'm sure

00:46:08.760 to stop competition right coming across the border right and and and so donald trump played you know

00:46:16.880 I mean, he's the president of the United States, you know, not immune to, to, to things like that.

00:46:23.200 And, and so he just said, I can, I can do whatever I want against Canada, you know, and he'll get away with it.

00:46:30.380 Yeah. Yeah. That's why, thank you. Thanks Mark. That's why the headline's funny. Right.

00:46:33.740 So our producer just put the, the, the headline on there.

00:46:37.020 So if we've said this over and over Carney got elected because he said, I'm the guy who can stand up to Trump, you know,

00:46:44.540 and he used the elbows up analogy meaning i can fight dirty kind of thing and i'll get us the

00:46:50.460 wins and and this is just another example i mean he he he inherited something bad but he didn't he

00:46:58.480 didn't he didn't he definitely didn't pull a win out of that i mean it it it's a loss for us and

00:47:03.540 it's a loss under his helm and i think the headline's appropriate absolutely i'm not happy

00:47:09.580 I mean, I wish he had negotiated a better deal for us, but at the same time, I also like seeing Kearney fail.

00:47:17.620 Yep, and as I say, from Toronto Star of all places, and just one final thing, what was Gordie Howe known for?

00:47:25.540 He was actually the original Mr. Elbows Up.

00:47:28.840 Absolutely.

00:47:29.240 right you know so anyway thanks a lot great show as always uh we appreciate your uh um everything

00:47:37.160 you do for for independence and you know all right thanks for calling mark yeah gordy how

00:47:43.000 uh number nine uh you know now i got a bit of goosebumps thinking about it so gordy how

00:47:49.080 he didn't invent the the the term elbows up he played with his elbows up so gordy like that's

00:47:54.840 a penalty that's a dirty move in hockey but gordy how was subtle he'd go in the corners or whatever

00:48:00.920 and then he'd have his elbow up and hit the guys today that's a that's a back then it probably

00:48:07.560 wasn't as a penalty it was part of hockey subsequently it became a pretty significant

00:48:12.760 penalty you you you elbow somebody in hockey today it's a penalty it's it's it's it's uh

00:48:18.680 equivalent to hitting from behind or whatever it's just something we don't do which is why i even as

00:48:24.600 a former hockey coach and player i found that analogy the fact that the carney would choose

00:48:31.480 elbows up as sort of a battle cry to be really bad because that's so nostalgic that's so old and

00:48:38.360 even when it was happening in the gordy howe era nobody really applauded it i mean gordy was

00:48:43.000 considered a bit of a dirty player definitely in the modern era of hockey if somebody was

00:48:48.680 promoting an elbows up attitude like if my kids if i had a kid on my team that played and and got

00:48:54.200 repeatedly got elbows up penalties i would sit that kid and say no no no that's not how you win

00:48:59.400 in this game okay you win by putting points up on the scoreboard you want to impress me puts points

00:49:04.440 up on the scoreboard and so that's an example a perfect example of that mark carney you want to

00:49:09.160 impress me you should have perhaps you inherited a bad deal from your predecessor the bill the

00:49:15.000 bridge was already built somebody had a bad deal and uh and and trump squeezed you but you got you

00:49:21.800 you didn't manage to fight us fight back and get us anything better and so the bridge is going to

00:49:26.680 open we paid for it and somehow or other we're not getting all the tolls back like that's that's a

00:49:32.920 really bad deal uh we're gonna run out of time but i'm gonna you know i was gonna bring up another

00:49:39.480 sort of uh i guess it ties into this yesterday the bank of canada announced that they're keeping

00:49:45.160 their interest rate uh fixed at 2.25 so it's been fixed at 2.25 now since october of last year

00:49:52.600 um you know the the bank the bank of canada had lowered interest rates like next to next to zero

00:49:58.280 during covid then they came back up after covid all the way up into the five six percent range

00:50:04.840 and then they've been trying to bring them down i'm an i'm a i'm a pro actually before i give

00:50:11.080 too much of my opinion um no i'll give my opinion i think bank i think interest rates need to go up

00:50:17.960 okay i need i think interest rates need to go up because part of the problem that we have in

00:50:22.120 the country right now is that there's too much money supply and and that's creating inflation

00:50:28.840 and that's devaluing uh what we can buy with our money and and higher interest or lower interest

00:50:36.840 rate doesn't necessarily equate to more money but it makes it easier for people to borrow money

00:50:42.760 and and and when you borrow money you're basically adding money to the supply to the demand side

00:50:50.040 and uh taken away from the supply side so i'm in favor of i i think interest rates should come up

00:50:56.280 and and the other reason i mentioned this is there's parallels between what's happening now

00:51:00.520 and the last time we had low interest rates in the 1980s after the first trudeau right and in

00:51:05.720 the 1980s the economy did the same thing interest rates went up and they brought them down and

00:51:10.200 everybody's like oh everything's under control and then there was a second wave of inflation that hit

00:51:14.440 that was brutal so the second wave of inflation in the 80s was brutal and and i think we're kind

00:51:20.040 of almost on the verge of that because um last month inflation in canada month over month was

00:51:27.080 3.2 and remember the bank of canada tiff macklin's trying to keep interest rates between one and three

00:51:32.200 like that's his that's his target range and it's at 3.2 and and it's persistently high and it's

00:51:40.160 persistently high and he was in a press conference yesterday and i could tell that he was unhappy

00:51:44.640 that he looked like he's stuck between a rock and a hard place somebody is asking him to keep

00:51:49.560 interest rates low i know who that is right i mean it's the it's it's mark carney can you imagine the

00:51:55.480 the conversations between tiff macklin and mark carney they're supposed to be at arm's length

00:51:59.840 from each other right mark carney is the prime minister and tiff macklin is the governor of the

00:52:04.040 bank of canada and tiff is supposed to act independently but now he's got a a counterparty

00:52:11.380 he acts independently but they kind of have to dance together the ballet because if if if tiff

00:52:16.640 does something like lower the interest rate then diminish the money supply but carney on the other

00:52:22.040 side keeps his spending out of control then they they're not they're not working together and then

00:52:26.500 they they can um make problems worse and i think uh the the governor working with trudeau was bad

00:52:35.200 enough i get it i got the sense in watching the press conference yesterday that the governor

00:52:40.260 uh working with carney is no piece of cake because carney fancies himself a real economist because

00:52:45.740 he you know he'll be like well i was the governor of the bank of canada i had your job then i was

00:52:49.680 governor of the of the royal banks or the bank of england so um interesting move inflation is coming

00:52:57.760 out uh in a couple of days we're gonna find or next week we're gonna find out what june inflation

00:53:02.480 was like i suspect it's going a little bit higher and then the other thing that's completely

00:53:06.880 interesting about this is that they're blaming oil for uh high inflation and sure it has an impact

00:53:15.920 but we all know right like how much of the money out of your wallet every month are you paying on

00:53:20.400 gasoline versus what you're paying for groceries insurance housing transportation vacations and

00:53:25.280 everything else right so to so inflation in this country is pretty high and to try and blame all

00:53:30.240 of inflation on oil is uh is pretty telling so i'll ask them the question is oil important or not

00:53:38.480 because if it's not important as you seem to claim right that we that we're moving on from oil then

00:53:43.920 why are you blaming it on the inflation on oil otherwise if if oil is still important and and

00:53:50.880 you're blaming inflation on oil well you know what the solution is to that change the regulations and

00:53:55.920 allow us to produce more oil because if we produce more oil in this country guess what will happen

00:54:00.080 the price of oil will go down so i find i find all these debates very interesting because it

00:54:04.560 puts the government in uh in uh in a bit of a paradox uh what have i got john for a couple i

00:54:11.520 i got a couple of minutes i'd sure like it i mean somebody you got i got chance for one more call

00:54:15.760 maybe somebody else give a give a call i got about five more minutes here if not um i will move on to

00:54:22.880 uh i got two other stories i had on here i'll go all right let's go with this one um mark carney

00:54:32.240 appointed a coo so mark carney has on his staff usually mark carney in the prime minister's

00:54:41.440 office has a chief of staff uh chief secretary then he has all his senior ministers and so forth

00:54:49.600 like the the prime minister's office is a huge organization and the chief of staff usually plays

00:54:54.640 a pretty important role in that and mark carney went and appointed a chief operating officer

00:55:00.880 um in and of itself a bit of an unusual move no prime minister in canada's history has ever had

00:55:06.960 a chief operating officer before but but carney okay comes maybe more from the private sector

00:55:14.240 than any other group so he saw you know in the private sector it's common to have the president

00:55:19.600 and then uh the chief executive officer the chief financial officer and the chief operating officer

00:55:25.680 as the you know as the four heads of the organization with executive powers so i guess

00:55:30.400 carney's sort of structuring himself that way i mean i would have thought that the chief operating

00:55:34.080 officer at this point would be um the second in command like the deputy prime minister the most

00:55:39.840 important you know and like uh he used to be freeland or somebody else he already had that

00:55:45.680 so the appointing somebody in that role is interesting but what's really interesting is

00:55:49.920 is that he appointed an american named maya johnson an almost complete unknown nobody knows

00:55:55.600 anything about her except again the western standard here broke the story we finally saw

00:56:00.400 who she is there's very little known about her other than she worked with carney in the past

00:56:06.240 she's an american she's not bilingual remember the chief uh the ceo of air canada basically had

00:56:11.760 to quit because he wasn't bilingual so um maybe we'll talk more about that story because we're

00:56:16.880 We're running out of time, and I want to take this last call.

00:56:18.880 Go ahead, caller.

00:56:21.920 Hello.

00:56:22.620 How are you?

00:56:23.460 Good, good.

00:56:23.880 How are you?

00:56:24.700 This is Slavika.

00:56:26.420 Yes.

00:56:27.360 Okay.

00:56:27.780 So my message is very brief and to the point.

00:56:33.620 My message is that Canada should be concentrating on getting rid of the government.

00:56:39.000 All government.

00:56:40.600 Liberal, all of them are the same.

00:56:42.680 Okay. 0.99

00:56:43.280 Alberta is on the right path.

00:56:45.220 They want independence.

00:56:46.880 But they keep on telling us that it's because of the oil and this and that and this and that.

00:56:52.440 What it is, is our constitution.

00:56:54.900 We have a government that, you know, is not a democracy.

00:57:02.860 We have a monarchy, a monarchy that is run by the British king.

00:57:09.520 Okay, and we have a monarchy that is disguised as a democracy, but it isn't.

00:57:14.360 We have no democracy.

00:57:16.360 Every time that people go to vote, it's nonsense.

00:57:19.540 It's a waste of time.

00:57:21.580 Okay?

00:57:21.820 So we need to get rid of the government and to, you know, for all of us to get together on this, the entire Canada, and to keep on, you know, giving the message to Canadians, forget about the government.

00:57:35.160 Because with the government, we won't, we will still continue in the same vicious cycle.

00:57:41.820 Year after year after year.

00:57:43.600 yeah um you know what i wish you'd call a little bit earlier we could have had a good chat on that

00:57:49.680 i'm unfortunately so sorry i'm out of time i appreciate your comment is spot on and resonates

00:57:54.320 with me maybe call next week because we're on the same page on this one uh i might not say zero

00:58:01.040 government but i will call next week excellent okay well have a great day thanks for calling

00:58:05.600 okay uh sorry wow get a great i mean that one was uh ripe for for a good discussion there uh

00:58:14.880 i mean would i go with zero government no you know i think but i i'm i'm definitely in favor

00:58:20.000 of minimal government uh the smaller the better and and then and then not only small but structured

00:58:25.760 more as a republic like the americans you know i always say the american constitution we the people

00:58:30.560 what a great start to a document listen this i i was i was honestly a little nervous coming in here

00:58:35.840 today because i was out hunting or not hunting i went out to set up the hunting camp i came out

00:58:41.040 kind of uh not completely up to speed on events but uh it was a great show um again consider

00:58:49.360 getting a membership i've explained numerous time why it's so important to support independent

00:58:54.240 medias like this and uh it's um it's ten dollars a month the the link is on the screen right there

00:59:00.720 westernstandard.news subscription or or a hundred dollars a year it goes a long way i mean i'm so

00:59:08.880 proud of the staff here like this week in particular has been a phenomenal week i could i

00:59:13.760 could break and talk a lot more stories the but the group here keeps breaking big stories

00:59:20.240 and they're stories that the mainstream media will not bring to you so if you really want

00:59:25.520 to know what's going on you have to come to an organization like the western standard

00:59:31.120 or a little shout out to some of the you know some of our competitors rebel news or whatever

00:59:35.680 but you you this is where you come to get the real stories appreciate your time folks uh thanks for

00:59:41.120 calling we'll see you same time next week 1 p.m here on the western standard cheers folks

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Western Standard - July 16, 2026

Corus moves news production out of Alberta

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