Corus moves news production out of Alberta
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In this episode of the call-in show, I chat about a variety of topics, including the news that Global is shutting down operations here in Alberta, the Bank of Canada's interest rate announcement, and the Prime Minister's tick-tocks.
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was very happy to be able to put him in touch with her staff and he got to attend one of her
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recent town hall meetings in June and he presented the book to her so thanks for joining in Spencer
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and others so because it's a call-in show I do chat I want to chat with you guys but I'm going
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to give you the quick rundown of the topics that are on my list right now and maybe actually I'll
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give you another reason why you should call me I'll give you another really really good reason
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why you should call me it was my birthday on tuesday yeah i turned 59 on tuesday and here i
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am in the studio now uh doing this so call and wish me a happy birthday if that's all you get to
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do but here's the topics we got right so other than the the main one that the producer put up
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on the screen there we'll talk a little bit about chorus um corporation shutting down their
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operations here in alberta they're uh they're a mainstream media as far as i'm concerned i want
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to talk about the bank of canada's interest rate announcement uh carney appointing a coo
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uh justin trudeau's tick tocks last week the one where he's bouncing around like a
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like a silly bunny on his girlfriend's uh recent video um jeff rath's assets being frozen by the
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courts um uh tim houston the premier of nova scotia being quote unquote attack so so those
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are some of the kinds of things i want to talk so again the phone number is down there on the screen
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479-9378 extension 711 and then uh john will put you on hold and and um and then we'll have a chat
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when when the time presents itself all right so let's talk oh actually and i wanted to talk about
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um the fact that ontario it's ontario's turn this year to burn and uh alberta right now is relatively
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smoke-free so is bc and uh it's ontario there's the one and there's some crazy videos coming out
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of ontario all right so let's lead off with uh chorus and uh another great example of uh the
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fact that the mainstream media is not figuring out how to pivot and how to uh stay relevant
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in these changing times right so chorus is the home of global news and they just announced this
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week actually they didn't announce it that's an example of the competition between the mainstream
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media and the private sector western standard broke a story about this before anybody else
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and and the story is that chorus whose stock has been absolutely taking a nosedive in recent years
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and uh finally and is having to constantly uh lay off staff shut down smaller shows within their
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corporation and then uh and what they announced yesterday is that they're shutting down
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the remaining offices that they had here in alberta in edmonton and calgary so they had offices
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they still had a little bit of staff that were covering stories but now any uh if you go to
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i guess global next in the coming months and you click on let's say an alberta story regarding
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danielle smith or whatever that story will have been researched by somebody in toronto and so
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again expect the content regarding alberta to deteriorate and then there'll be you know there'll
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be global will be just focused on ontario and quebec and and out east and so it's um and and
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And the staff at Global found out about their layoffs by reading the story by the Western
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So how would that make you feel if you're a mainstream media person and you're finding
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out about the loss of your employment through a third party?
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Not a third party, an independent party, right?
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And I see somebody in the comments, somebody made a sort of a semi-joking comment saying
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that um you know it's that many less uh federally subsidized employees here in alberta as a result
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of that i mean i'm not happy like i'm not celebrating that somebody lost their job
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although i kind of say if you work for the government are you really contributing you know
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to the to society yeah i'm gonna take for that one that's fine but but you know the the fact
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remains that the government of canada the federal government subsidizes mainstream media a lot right
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like the cbc gets something like 1.6 billion dollars a year in direct subsidies because it's
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a crown corporation right the cbc is owned by the government by the taxpayers but in addition um the
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the federal government subsidizes global and ctv and others to the tune of about 600 million dollars
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per year actually i wish i'd kind of prepared for this one but i didn't um it reminds me it
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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
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john but there there used to be a clip there was a clip years ago it was filmed at uh it was
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recorded at the press gallery dinner right so ottawa washington all the all the governments
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do this right they they hold an annual press gallery dinner and at those dinners it's an
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opportunity usually for the prime minister or the president to poke fun at the press gallery
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and and the premise of that is that in the good old days our institutions like our media would
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really hold governments accountable hold them so accountable that it made life tough for the
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politicians because they're under constant scrutiny so once a year they had the opportunity
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to turn the spotlight against their um critics and make fun of their critics a little bit
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and in this clip from a few years ago i'll never forget it because trudeau makes a joke about
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shining or or uh favorable headlines and he and he says you know favorable headlines don't come
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cheaply they come at the cost of 600 million dollars and and it it it wasn't a joke he was
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telling the truth and in fact he wasn't poking fun in that moment i think he truly was reminding
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the people in the room the mainstream journalists that he pays their salary and that's always been
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an issue of mine and that's why you know uh i'll repeat this actually wow you guys got me thinking
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now i didn't think i'd be able to talk about chorus for so long but i let me you know this
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is my theory this is sort of one of my thoughts in life that there are five pillars in a democracy
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like ours right we live in an in a democracy and the first pillar is the vote um and the vote relies
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on uh somebody on people being educated so the second pillar of the of our democracy is the
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government the the party that the side of the house of commons that forms government the third
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pillar is the side of the house of commons that forms the opposition so the government makes
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policies the voters vote elect the government the government makes policies the opposition
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holds the government accountable then you're supposed to have the mainstream media or the
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media let's just call them the media historically you have the media the fifth estate that reports
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on what's happening helps educate the voters and helps balance everything out and then the fifth
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pillar used to be the the expert class you know the the lawyers the engineers the academics who
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advise government and or and also provided a criticism for policies and in the last you know
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two three decades that that pillar that media pillar uh has completely failed us because
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they've stopped being um impartial i mean it's okay it's okay for a media organization to have
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a bias everybody has a bias right for a media organization to maybe lean a little bit to the
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left or to the right or something like that it's okay to have a bias but when a media organization
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is directly paid by the government that's pat that's no longer a bias that's a conflict of
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interest that's the definition of conflict of interest in the private sector and in a lot of
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industries right so what somebody when somebody pays you you are loyal to that person and you're
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not going to be able to adequately fulfill your obligation of holding them accountable and so
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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.
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So, yeah, that's one of the breaking stories this week.
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Chorus Media is going to be moving out of Alberta.
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let me scroll through a couple of comments people saying happy birthday marty ctb ctv will be next
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cbc will get there yeah ctv's got um from a from a financial point of view ctv's on a bit of a
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better footing um you know i i think they're they're going to be able to stay in business for
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a little bit longer cbc cbc is already there right if you if cbc was a private corporation and you
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looked at their financial assets they've they've lost they're losing money year after year they're
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an absolute money losing business and so ctv would would would have gone bankrupt a long time if it
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wasn't a crown corporation i'm i i remember that poiliev made that a campaign promise i i hope he
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follows up on that i i think cbc should be um should be sold i don't think we should have a
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national broadcaster in this day and age um all right any other comments alberta won't
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how do you inform liberal voters no offense but they are watching
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they aren't watching conservative shows yeah that's um
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that's an interesting point but it's not it's not a valid reason to uh actually if if if a
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if liberal voters were it's an oxymoron i mean and i think an informed liberal liberal voter
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is perhaps an oxymoron i don't think there is such a thing and even if there is an informed
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liberal voter i find most liberals to be really die hard uh set in their ways and constantly vote
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liberals i i'm i've i'm proud of the fact that i've changed who i vote for over the years and
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i'm also capable of admitting when there were liberal governments that were good and and
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conservative governments that were bad right like i've often said that uh i didn't entirely mind
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the cretchen liberals because um you know cretchen was a bit of a statesman he was moving the country
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forward at a decent pace but more importantly cretchen had a really solid um finance minister
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and paul martin so i'll admit that i did well and that i approve of the christian liberals and i'll
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also admit that not everything about the harper era was peachy rosy uh harper i worked in the oil
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patch and harper's uh finance minister back to finance ministers was uh jim flaherty and jim
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flaherty is the one who put an end to energy trust which had a huge negative impact for our for the
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for the primary industry here in this province so i think that's what sets a lot of conservative
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conservative or maybe not conservative but that's something that sets a lot of albertans
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and independent-minded people aside from others is that we're able to look at issues critically
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and uh and and offer credit where credit is due and criticism where criticism is due so um that
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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
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this before like i actually if you could see me right now if you could see me right now i'm
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wearing uh i'm wearing this golf shirt uh you probably see me wear it on the show in the past
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i'm not one of those guys who has an endless closet i don't have staff you know you're not
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going to see uh something at the bottom screen saying wardrobe marty's wardrobe provided by
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whatever the bay another great institution that stopped existing so i don't have a wardrobe
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budget derek's not that generous and uh i don't think anybody here has a wardrobe budget so you'll
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see me wearing the same clothes once in a while but but just to point out that i'm an average joe
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i'm wearing a golf shirt right now and i'm wearing shorts in the studio and a pair of running shoes
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because it is extremely hot out there today um not as hot though as it is in ontario so i guess it
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is ontario's turn to have major forest fires and um i'm gonna and you know this is how do i start
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on this one i'm i i think most of you who live in alberta have like okay let me compare it to
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to alberta right so alberta right now a couple years ago we were we we had our major forest fires
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we had the one in jasper which was an absolute disaster and then years earlier we had the one
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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
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this bet this wager with anybody who's watching there won't be another major forest fire around
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the jasper area in the next 35 years and i think i'm going to win that wager and i can make that
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wager confidently because once there's a forest fire the forest burns and then it takes 30 years
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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
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think i've had some guests uh on other shows talk about this especially in in uh in the aftermath of
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jasper jasper was a pure example of a mismanaged forest and it was just a problem waiting to happen
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in fact it had been written and talked about in numerous reports but i'll come back to that
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we got a caller on the line so again please share your name and where you're calling from and what's
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on your mind hi good afternoon marty my name is gordon i'm calling from edmonton hey gordon you've
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called before i think haven't you i sure have yes i have cool what's on your mind comment you know
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what's going on well i just want to comment on what's going on you know uh it's beginning the
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scrutiny is beginning now you know i don't know how serious is the full extent of it but now
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it's coming live about jeff and his problems now they're starting to talk about scrutinizing mitch
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dr mudry you know all the prominent people who are working hard on the independent uh
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independence uh uh issue they're all gonna get the hammer and this is this is orchestrated
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uh and um there's no other way to look at it and we we who know better we just gotta stick to our
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guns and not be swayed by this because it's coming and this should be no surprise to anyone
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yeah stay on the line so uh that was something yeah yeah i mentioned it that's something i wanted
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to talk about um let's give let me let me give a quick comment on jeff right so the the story about
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jeff i think it falls in the category that you just described it to me it's law fair it's an
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they're going after jeff right stories are going to break um to me what's happening to jeff right
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now is pretty much a nothing burger in in a nutshell he helped the first nation win a big case
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he's a lawyer on retainer and when uh and this is common so when your client wins a big case
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the lawyer on retainer gets a share and pre-trial jeff had uh quoted you know my my cut will be 20
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of whatever i win for you guys and then in in after winning the case the the the party he
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represents said uh 20 is too much and now they're fighting with him and it's another and now they're
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in court so so this is a this is a purely civil matter between two parties that are disagreeing
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on the fee right and so and and but to your point why does a story like that and stories like this
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go on all the time all the time all the time why is it breaking now when it relates to jeff it's
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It's a rhetorical question, but you know the answer, Gord, right?
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Well, it's the beginning of the smear campaign, as I mentioned.
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There's Jeff and there's the whole list of others who are going to start having this happen to them.
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It's part of the smear campaign, and it brings back to a point that I've talked about in the past,
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do you think are you okay do you let me word this properly do you think that the independence
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movement needs a single point of of a single leader like some people propose or are you in
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the camp that thinks that we should have uh keep it as grassroots as possible without quote-unquote
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official leaders where do you stand on that i stand this way as it sits right now until we have
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the vote we need to be we will probably continue to be grassroots but when we have the referendum
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and if the vote says go ahead you have your cause you have the numbers go ahead to uh go ahead with
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your cause then i do believe we need to have some front people who are much more leading the charge
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i think might be a little bit early for that right now we're on the same page then you and i are on
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the same page because uh and and and and i predicted this right i said that one of the reasons um
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grassroot is good because it doesn't give a single target and i was always worried about that that if
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there was a single person identified as the leader the attacks on that person would be relentless
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because i mean look at like you said they're going they're going sporadically right then maybe not
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completely orchestrated but they're going after mitch they're going after jeff they've come after
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me a little bit they're going after david parker they go after chris scott tamara lich they go
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after everybody everybody sort of takes their turn and uh imagine if there was only one person
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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
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on the chin jeff's a big boy literally speaking and pragmatically speaking and metaphorically
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speaking he's been in battles his whole life this is no big deal for jeff he can handle himself but
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What's saddest to see about all this, though, is not the attacks that come from the media or the other side.
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Have you witnessed any people attacking Jeff in particular?
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And you don't need to give names, but do you know what I'm talking about?
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Well, no, I haven't really anybody in particular.
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And, you know, and I also wonder why do they have the opportunity
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to always be attacking, but we always play so nice.
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Like, how come we can't get Lukasik to answer some of the questions
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Listen, I'll let you go in case there's somebody else on the line.
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I'll follow up a little bit on your comments, but thanks for calling today.
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you bet thanks again for taking my call see you later you bet happy birthday thank you um yeah he
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actually brings up several good points uh so he okay so first of all he gourd says he didn't
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witness any attacks that's cool i'm glad uh me i might have a larger social media presence so
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i saw i saw a little bit of you know people using this story about jeff's ass as being frozen and
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trying and and making it bigger than it actually is and trying to use it as a bit of an opportunity
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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
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saying yes jeff is not everybody's cup of tea i get that he's a little bit you know he he's
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opinionated and he's very fast on his feet he's been a lawyer his whole life so he can think
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like that right and and i've and i've had i've had conversations with people who just don't like
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jeff and i've said that's great but not great that's fine i respect that but trust me there
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are i've seen jeff at events like in cremona or in water valley or in okotoks with a crowd that's
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a little bit different and i see him in his element and people like him so anyways i i think
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the bigger the bigger story here is uh as gore brought up be you know the coincidence of these
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events there's no such thing when when when i mean the fact that a story like this breaks which
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normally would never break and and then and then he brought up another point um it the our side
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the independent side is being definitely held to a higher level of accountability and is under more
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scrutiny from groups like elections alberta and the media than the other side is i you know there's
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been huge efforts this past month to uh to scrutinize uh thomas lukasic's finances and
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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
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if cory morgan here cory morgan set up a third party advertising and group and he's collecting
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money and he's being super transparent about it he's filing his weekly report weekly weekly he's
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filing a report with elections alberta showing all the money he's getting uh and then anybody
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that's doing donations over a certain threshold i think it's 250 they're listed on there and
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cory has to set up systems in place to refuse money that doesn't come from alberta so if some
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if some fan of this channel from saskatchewan went to cory's website and tried to donate twenty
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dollars cory has to refuse that 20 bucks so so cory and and cory cory will subject himself to
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the scrutiny and he's okay with it but i'm just saying that he is under a lot of scrutiny
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and the same scrutiny is not um reciprocated to the lucasics because we've off we've exposed this
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past couple of weeks many people have looked at lucasics reports online and going you know there's
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a lot of uh a lot of missing information there a lot of extra funds you don't seem to be reporting
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where you're blah blah blah you know what i mean so it's it's a double double standard uh go ahead
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caller where are you calling from name please my name is david and i'm calling from cochran hey
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I've been following the independence movement for a long time,
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I have lived both north and south of the border.
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and I'm looking at the timeline and the horizon
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and i'm weighing the future of my son who's preaching and looking do i just move or and
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the work versus the benefit is going to be worth the outcome for my son if i stay here versus if i
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take the time and go through the process and move south for better currently better pay better
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opportunities i'm not negating the opportunity caucus available here through independence
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it's just a personal personal thought process i've been struggling with yeah um i
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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
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basically in the same boat uh i take it your son is in his mid-20s kind of thing like starting out
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his career no preaching well oh okay okay well you got oh okay different different story because
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i mean in my situation i've actually told my sons bluntly you should start looking for work
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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
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fight for alberta independence uh if the vote doesn't go my way it doesn't stop my battle i'm
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going to keep fighting but uh and i'm also older i'm basically retired now so my financial situation
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is different than my kids but me personally when i look i i've been looking at the data forever
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and ever and ever and the country is on a terrible terrible terrible trajectory
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and and i am advising some people who have the possibility of doing it to move out of this
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country uh like and and or to put the ball in motion and move out stay if we're if we become
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independent but uh but to be prepared to move does that does that answer a bit is that your
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am i reading this correctly or what what's your thoughts further on that
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or is it are you just making a comment in general
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I, I, well, as, like, I've always been, I moved back to Canada and joined the Army.
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But when I was discussing it with ex-military friends of mine who were out east, like, in
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very prime conversations, it was, this is not the country that I came back to defend
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And even family members who are from out east, they don't see it.
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No matter the logical conversation I try and have,
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but then my family members who do live in the U.S.,
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they're looking at me going, like, how are you still there?
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But because I'm not a U.S. citizen, I don't have a direct,
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so it it becomes a question of time and effort like i don't care what it costs me it's more
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about what's it going to cost my plans if i stay versus what's it going to benefit in if i go
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and i that's been something i've been struggling with because alberta is at the precipice of that
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opportunity where we absolutely can make a magnificent country i can take all the information
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from all the different governments around the world and go okay this is what is going to form
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the best country in the world yeah no i i um thanks for the comment i mean it you know my
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my final thought on it is it it is you're you're you're not alone in sharing those thoughts and
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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
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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
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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
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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?
00:44:33.660
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.
00:45:00.700
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.
00:45:18.940
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?
00:47:29.240
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
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gasoline versus what you're paying for groceries insurance housing transportation vacations and
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everything else right so to so inflation in this country is pretty high and to try and blame all
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of inflation on oil is uh is pretty telling so i'll ask them the question is oil important or not
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because if it's not important as you seem to claim right that we that we're moving on from oil then
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why are you blaming it on the inflation on oil otherwise if if oil is still important and and
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you're blaming inflation on oil well you know what the solution is to that change the regulations and
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allow us to produce more oil because if we produce more oil in this country guess what will happen
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the price of oil will go down so i find i find all these debates very interesting because it
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puts the government in uh in uh in a bit of a paradox uh what have i got john for a couple i
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i got a couple of minutes i'd sure like it i mean somebody you got i got chance for one more call
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maybe somebody else give a give a call i got about five more minutes here if not um i will move on to
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uh i got two other stories i had on here i'll go all right let's go with this one um mark carney
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appointed a coo so mark carney has on his staff usually mark carney in the prime minister's
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office has a chief of staff uh chief secretary then he has all his senior ministers and so forth
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like the the prime minister's office is a huge organization and the chief of staff usually plays
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a pretty important role in that and mark carney went and appointed a chief operating officer
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um in and of itself a bit of an unusual move no prime minister in canada's history has ever had
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a chief operating officer before but but carney okay comes maybe more from the private sector
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than any other group so he saw you know in the private sector it's common to have the president
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and then uh the chief executive officer the chief financial officer and the chief operating officer
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as the you know as the four heads of the organization with executive powers so i guess
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carney's sort of structuring himself that way i mean i would have thought that the chief operating
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officer at this point would be um the second in command like the deputy prime minister the most
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important you know and like uh he used to be freeland or somebody else he already had that
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so the appointing somebody in that role is interesting but what's really interesting is
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is that he appointed an american named maya johnson an almost complete unknown nobody knows
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anything about her except again the western standard here broke the story we finally saw
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who she is there's very little known about her other than she worked with carney in the past
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she's an american she's not bilingual remember the chief uh the ceo of air canada basically had
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to quit because he wasn't bilingual so um maybe we'll talk more about that story because we're
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We're running out of time, and I want to take this last call.
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My message is that Canada should be concentrating on getting rid of the government.
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But they keep on telling us that it's because of the oil and this and that and this and that.
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We have a government that, you know, is not a democracy.
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We have a monarchy, a monarchy that is run by the British king.
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Okay, and we have a monarchy that is disguised as a democracy, but it isn't.
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Every time that people go to vote, it's nonsense.
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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.
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Because with the government, we won't, we will still continue in the same vicious cycle.
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yeah um you know what i wish you'd call a little bit earlier we could have had a good chat on that
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i'm unfortunately so sorry i'm out of time i appreciate your comment is spot on and resonates
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with me maybe call next week because we're on the same page on this one uh i might not say zero
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government but i will call next week excellent okay well have a great day thanks for calling
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okay uh sorry wow get a great i mean that one was uh ripe for for a good discussion there uh
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i mean would i go with zero government no you know i think but i i'm i'm definitely in favor
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of minimal government uh the smaller the better and and then and then not only small but structured
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more as a republic like the americans you know i always say the american constitution we the people
00:58:30.560
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00:58:35.840
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00:58:41.040
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calling we'll see you same time next week 1 p.m here on the western standard cheers folks