Western Standard - October 01, 2026


Cory Morgan： Alberta referendum fight is eroding public trust

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Thomas Lukasik Keith Ellison
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00:00:00.000 So there's going to be a winner and there's going to be a loser in the upcoming referendum.
00:00:05.800 One sure loser that's already lost are Alberta's public institutions because citizens are losing
00:00:13.720 trust in them. And this can't be expressed seriously enough. The double standards of
00:00:20.640 elections Alberta, with their absurd refusal to call Thomas Lukasik's campaign a campaign,
00:00:27.200 I mean, this is the electoral authority.
00:00:30.720 This is the one institution really, really needs public trust.
00:00:34.520 But then further, getting on to the municipalities, not even just the twits,
00:00:39.540 but the town administration, the Tabor, my billboard and stuff like that.
00:00:42.980 But the city of Calgary, stealing signs, and I'll call it that.
00:00:46.940 They're picked up and it was caught on video,
00:00:49.380 four by eight signs from Keith Wilson's Lead Alberta Decide group,
00:00:53.200 legally placed on roads.
00:00:55.680 and now the city says oh sorry about that it was a mistake a mistake meanwhile red signs from the
00:01:03.960 other campaigns remained on the road their mistake only targeted blue signs you know my campaign had
00:01:11.940 a few signs disappear too now I have to wonder if it wasn't the city of Calgary that stole those as
00:01:16.220 well or was it a vandal I don't know I don't trust them they made a mistake that was infringing on
00:01:23.380 legal election advertising. The only reason they admitted this mistake was that somebody caught it
00:01:30.580 on video. They caught a city worker doing more work than your average city worker ever does
00:01:34.820 as he took down a 4x8 sign, put on a stand over by Confederation Park. Get your crap together, 0.99
00:01:42.640 you guys. I don't know if you understand. I understand you've got your biases. You don't 1.00
00:01:48.200 support the independence i would ever fine but you don't show it you're not in that position
00:01:53.880 you're there as a public service and you're losing trust from the public and it's unacceptable
00:02:00.080 get it together farkas i know you didn't order it i'm not with the uh the conspiracy types who 0.74
00:02:06.280 think it came from you but mayor farkas you are the one at the top of the pile and maybe the word 1.00
00:02:12.920 should be coming down city workers whatever level that this came from whether it was one rogue idiot 1.00
00:02:19.880 or whether this came from above somewhere no more you stay utterly impartial in this thing 0.99
00:02:27.720 with your actions as i said the big loser so far in this referendum has been public trust