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00:00:00.000 Good day.

00:00:29.880 Hey, welcome to The Cory Morgan Show, my weekly opportunity to go through some news stories,

00:00:35.080 interview some people, and get whatever's annoying me off my chest so poor Jane doesn't

00:00:39.400 have to suffer through it.

00:00:41.100 The show is live.

00:00:42.200 I see it's already lively in the comments section there, guys, or at least for those who are

00:00:45.600 watching it live.

00:00:46.760 Hey, get in there, chat with each other, send me questions, comments.

00:00:49.400 I don't necessarily read them all out, but I do see them all there.

00:00:51.300 So good to see you, Phil and Dwayne and who I am today, whoever that may be, and Jake.

00:00:55.760 Hey, guys, keep it going.

00:00:57.180 Just, of course, keep it civil.

00:00:59.880 We want to really get fighting at each other and calling each other names.

00:01:02.600 Get on X.

00:01:03.200 That's what that place is for.

00:01:04.620 We can cover a little more productive ground on here.

00:01:07.440 I got a good one today.

00:01:08.220 Lindsay Wilson's going to be on.

00:01:09.520 She's been involved in a number of things politically in Alberta over the years, and

00:01:13.080 she's with Link Strategies now, and she's organizing the Doing It Right Women's Conference.

00:01:18.720 I know we hear about women's conferences and politics all the time, but it's usually some 1.00

00:01:22.340 kooky left-wing group.

00:01:24.200 Lindsay's not kooky or left-wing. 0.99

00:01:25.940 Well, she might be a little nuts. 1.00

00:01:26.820 We'll see.

00:01:27.100 I'll talk to her about it, and then we'll check in with Dave on some news things in

00:01:30.900 a moment.

00:01:31.160 But I've got to get my rant of the day out of the way.

00:01:33.340 It's familiar turf for you guys, but something's kind of changed because we've taken a provincial

00:01:37.500 approach to it, and it's Canada's Soviet supply management system on dairy, poultry, and

00:01:42.820 eggs.

00:01:43.080 It's been screwing citizens for decades with higher food prices.

00:01:46.800 It's been shrinking family farms, and it's disrupted international trade deals.

00:01:50.580 The dairy cartels are deeply entrenched in Canada, and they've effectively cowed every

00:01:55.660 federal political party, including the Conservatives.

00:01:58.460 No major federal leader is going to dare question supply management for fear of upsetting the

00:02:02.500 precious souls in Quebec, which benefits, of course, disproportionately from the program.

00:02:07.700 So the standoff on this terrible policy robs Canadian consumers of billions of dollars.

00:02:13.020 Now Premier Daniel Smith might actually prove to be the catalyst that finally breaks this

00:02:17.020 system.

00:02:18.120 I mean, supply management serves Alberta poorly, and she can make a solid case as to why the 0.95

00:02:22.320 province should exit the system.

00:02:24.240 Smith has nothing to fear with the wrath of Quebec.

00:02:26.100 If anything, pissing off, Quebec only bolsters her support back home.

00:02:30.020 Alberta has some of the richest agricultural land in North America.

00:02:32.680 We also have some of the most experienced and successful farmers and ranchers.

00:02:36.100 If they can be freed from the shackles of Canada's supply management system, we could look

00:02:40.180 forward to a more diverse, value-added agricultural industry, benefiting all Albertans, producers,

00:02:45.740 and consumers.

00:02:47.120 Currently, the dairy quotas predominantly go to Quebec producers.

00:02:50.340 It's $25,000 a cow for a quota in Quebec, and as much as $50,000 in Alberta.

00:02:55.100 It's illegal to produce eggs, milk, chickens, or turkeys without that government-issued quota. 0.87

00:02:59.660 It's ridiculous.

00:03:00.620 An Alberta farmer was recently jailed for the crime of selling his own eggs. 0.92

00:03:03.820 The system is obscene in its control and infringement upon free markets.

00:03:08.640 Albertans pay inflated prices for food products due to the purposeful strangulation of supply

00:03:13.500 due to this system.

00:03:14.880 In any other industry, this sort of price-fixing would be illegal.

00:03:18.180 Canadian dairy producers have literally dumped over 6 billion litres of milk down the drain

00:03:22.620 over the last few years because it would be illegal for them to sell it or even give

00:03:25.860 it away.

00:03:26.680 Isn't that nice for families struggling to pay the food bills?

00:03:29.180 The system's led to Canada having fewer dairy farmers in larger concentrations in Quebec,

00:03:33.440 of course.

00:03:34.220 When supply management was first imposed upon farmers, there were 140,000 dairy farms.

00:03:37.880 Now there's only about 9,000 and that number's dropping because only large corporate operations

00:03:42.760 can afford those quotas and they've squeezed out the small producers.

00:03:46.140 New Zealand and Australia had supply management systems in the 70s, but they wisely got out

00:03:50.040 of those in the 80s.

00:03:51.380 Because they got rid of it, their dairy industries have flourished and both countries have turned

00:03:54.780 into very successful exporters of agricultural products.

00:03:58.380 Alberta could do the same.

00:04:00.260 Defenders of dairy cartels try to claim that if we got rid of the wretched quota system,

00:04:04.040 we'd suddenly be flooded with dairy products without regulations. 0.95

00:04:06.320 That's a ridiculous and outright lie.

00:04:09.520 Quality control standards have nothing to do with the price-fixing scheme and the standards 0.76

00:04:13.000 won't change when the racket's dismantled.

00:04:15.380 They also claim we'd be flooded with allegedly inferior American products if we got rid of

00:04:19.260 the quota system.

00:04:20.240 Again, it's a load of BS.

00:04:21.800 The tariff system blocking American dairy goods has nothing to do with quotas.

00:04:25.680 America's dairy products are neither inferior or dangerous, but if you really don't want

00:04:29.820 them, just don't buy them.

00:04:31.120 If we have a strong domestic dairy industry unbound by supply management, we won't need to import

00:04:35.280 dairy products anyways.

00:04:36.720 We can be exporters of everything from powdered milk to cheese to ice cream.

00:04:40.060 We can compete.

00:04:41.540 Supply management defenders are making the case that Canadian producers are so incompetent

00:04:45.220 that if we got rid of the quota system, they'd go broke.

00:04:47.880 Well, maybe some of them are.

00:04:49.220 Let them go then.

00:04:50.380 The strong will survive just as they do in every other industry.

00:04:53.760 And no, we couldn't get rid of the system overnight.

00:04:55.700 An addict has to be weaned from their drug of their choice.

00:04:58.060 It might die in withdrawal.

00:04:59.240 The system must be dismantled, though, over some years and in stages, and a degree of

00:05:03.980 compensation must go to quota holders.

00:05:06.820 There's no better time to start that process than now.

00:05:09.380 Supply management benefits Quebec, thus no federal party will dare question it.

00:05:13.380 If we want to break free, it has to be a provincial initiative, and we can't initiate

00:05:16.540 it soon enough.

00:05:17.400 So much like the pension plan, the RCMP collecting our own taxes, supply management's another

00:05:21.520 policy where Alberta can step up and take control for itself.

00:05:24.440 And with all those policies, when the federalists complain about Alberta standing up for itself,

00:05:29.560 our response should be the same.

00:05:31.100 What are you going to do about it?

00:05:32.380 I mean, what are they going to do?

00:05:33.380 Stop buying our milk?

00:05:34.640 They already don't.

00:05:35.660 Stop buying our oil?

00:05:36.880 They already don't.

00:05:38.120 Punish us with regional-based pet taxes?

00:05:40.280 They already do.

00:05:41.740 If Premier Daniel Smith breaks the dairy cartel in Alberta, it'll lead to the end of it across

00:05:46.220 Canada, and everybody will benefit.

00:05:48.400 But it has to begin with putting Albertans first.

00:05:51.060 That's what I got on supply management.

00:05:52.580 Hey, keep on it, Danielle. 1.00

00:05:53.720 Get them.

00:05:54.980 All right, let's check in with our news editor, Dave Naylor, and see what's happening.

00:05:57.260 You're growing a beard?

00:05:58.840 No, just too lazy to shave this week.

00:06:00.820 Oh, yeah, I understand.

00:06:01.300 Too lazy to shave.

00:06:02.160 I was in BC on the weekend, didn't get back until Monday, and by then, you know, the week's

00:06:06.760 halftime, no point.

00:06:07.940 Yeah, I guess.

00:06:08.860 You know, you can make it a weekend task now.

00:06:10.520 Exactly, exactly.

00:06:11.700 So I hear I might be getting some honey tomorrow.

00:06:14.300 Or next time you're in.

00:06:15.360 Getting it tomorrow, but yeah, we're doing the big harvest tomorrow.

00:06:18.000 So, boy, they've been packing it away.

00:06:19.940 This rain, as miserable as it's been, it's been great for the wildflowers and everything

00:06:23.700 in the area.

00:06:24.060 So my bees are going quite bananas.

00:06:26.160 So, yeah.

00:06:27.120 This year's harvest.

00:06:27.660 Lots of honey.

00:06:28.860 Hope so.

00:06:29.740 And hopefully fewer stings.

00:06:30.840 I got zapped four times in the last harvest.

00:06:33.080 Do you wear a suit, don't you?

00:06:34.480 I do.

00:06:34.920 But when they get mad enough, they can defeat the suit.

00:06:36.960 And when you're stealing all their honey, they get mad.

00:06:39.160 I'll make sure Jane is videoing it.

00:06:40.740 Oh, yeah.

00:06:41.240 She likes to cover my furlough. 1.00

00:06:42.380 Have some fun next week.

00:06:43.240 Running across the yard as the bees let me know that stuff.

00:06:46.980 Well, you'll have to excuse my voice.

00:06:48.540 I am recovering from a little bit of an infection.

00:06:51.380 But some big news, breaking news out of B.C.

00:06:54.540 Three miners are trapped in a northern B.C. mine after some sort of incident.

00:07:00.620 Premier Eby says they're alive and okay and in a safety room.

00:07:04.720 And now rescue efforts are underway.

00:07:07.500 Kind of reminds me of those Chilean miners. 0.99

00:07:09.240 How long were they underground for?

00:07:10.400 It was a terribly long time.

00:07:11.580 They were underground for months and months.

00:07:12.900 That sort of thing.

00:07:13.840 I mean, even just as you survive it doesn't mean you're not going to be traumatized.

00:07:17.060 I hope to get those poor guys out as soon as possible.

00:07:18.660 Yeah, so are Jared Yuggers staying on top of that one.

00:07:21.720 But interesting story on the number of firearms.

00:07:24.280 The number of firearms licenses in Canada the next year hit a record high.

00:07:29.160 Led by Alberta's increasing 3.3%.

00:07:32.120 So, you know, that's just more guns for the Liberals to try and grab.

00:07:35.680 Good luck to them.

00:07:36.020 Happy to lead the pack.

00:07:37.180 You know, it's funny because they're trying to make firearms so unpopular.

00:07:40.400 But it does seem to be having the opposite effect.

00:07:42.380 Indeed.

00:07:42.740 Well, people want to buy them before they become completely illegal, I guess.

00:07:46.440 It's the registering they live a hard time.

00:07:47.720 Yeah.

00:07:48.660 There's a provincial government report, an Alberta government report today, into Medicine Hat

00:07:53.920 and how their mayor and council are operating.

00:07:56.340 And it basically says it's a mess and basically they need to clean house.

00:08:00.720 I'm sure James will have a few words.

00:08:01.980 Yeah, or James Finkbeiner, I'm sure, will be tripping in on Twitter on that one.

00:08:07.480 Asylum seekers in Canada are now costing us $2 billion a year. 1.00

00:08:12.180 And obviously that's only going to go up.

00:08:13.640 And sort of the number one story on the site this morning is, you know, Parks Canada decision

00:08:19.180 to cancel a concert in Halifax by a Christian musician.

00:08:26.180 People were angry at him because he's a Donald Trump supporter, I guess.

00:08:30.560 And they didn't want that.

00:08:32.020 And Parks Canada has deemed it could be unsafe.

00:08:35.600 You know, when those wild Christians get together, you know, 1.00

00:08:38.740 it could be looting and rioting in the streets. 0.98

00:08:40.800 They'll knock the buildings down or something.

00:08:43.080 So, yeah, it's more of Parks Canada getting more ideologically involved in our lives, I guess.

00:08:49.120 It's, I mean, it's federal property.

00:08:51.560 All or nothing.

00:08:52.920 The woke infection is really getting everywhere, isn't it? 0.99

00:08:56.240 It is.

00:08:56.780 You know, it's, I think the tide is finally turning a little bit,

00:09:00.760 but it's an ongoing battle, especially with the feds.

00:09:04.360 Well, I've heard that they did find a new venue anyways.

00:09:07.000 They said that Christian rock thing doesn't do it for me,

00:09:08.860 but hey, to each their own, you know, I mean.

00:09:11.580 Yeah, I thought we had free speech in this country.

00:09:13.440 Yeah, I mean, Jan Arden, you know, can't stand her political stances. 1.00

00:09:16.260 You know, I don't mind taking it.

00:09:17.020 It's not that hard.

00:09:17.900 I don't want her canceled.

00:09:18.680 I just don't care.

00:09:19.540 Yeah, exactly.

00:09:20.340 If you don't want to go see her, don't go see her.

00:09:22.040 Yeah, it's not that hard.

00:09:23.020 Well, she's hard to miss if she's wandering around. 0.56

00:09:24.800 No, no, no, no.

00:09:25.880 Oh, yeah. 1.00

00:09:26.260 Well, I still got to be a bit of a jerk. 1.00

00:09:27.540 There you go. 1.00

00:09:28.140 That's your nature.

00:09:29.760 All right.

00:09:30.380 Well, I see you've got a really packed newsroom.

00:09:31.880 A lot of people working in here.

00:09:32.780 Yeah, we've had some new hirings, and, yeah, things are going great.

00:09:38.180 Oh, he's sort of hiding over me.

00:09:39.800 Oh, there he is.

00:09:40.300 Yeah, he's a big head.

00:09:41.120 Dave's big head right there.

00:09:42.760 It's David Weinig.

00:09:44.020 Shanghai noodles and broccoli.

00:09:46.340 He's a good wilder.

00:09:47.280 Behind him is Nigel.

00:09:48.420 It's his birthday today.

00:09:49.460 Yes.

00:09:49.960 So we've been indulging in birthday cake all morning.

00:09:52.520 Right on.

00:09:53.200 Well, I'll let you back to trying to keep all the chickens in line back there 1.00

00:09:56.840 and consuming the birthday cake inside.

00:10:00.020 All right, and good luck with the honey tomorrow.

00:10:01.440 Great.

00:10:01.760 Thanks, Dave.

00:10:02.420 You bet.

00:10:02.880 All right.

00:10:03.960 So, yes, there is lots on the go.

00:10:05.460 Lots breaking, Izzy here. 0.98

00:10:06.620 You know, we're constantly putting the news up as it breaks.

00:10:08.680 Lots of columns, information.

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00:10:37.540 Come on.

00:10:38.600 This is how we do it.

00:10:39.300 We take care of things ourselves.

00:10:40.620 I'm just looking through some of the comments.

00:10:42.480 Yeah.

00:10:42.860 Yep.

00:10:43.180 You know, Soviet style, and I know people get upset when I say that all the time

00:10:46.800 about supply management on X and areas like that.

00:10:51.280 But there really is nothing more Soviet than that. 0.90

00:10:56.140 It's pure government control.

00:10:57.880 Think of how absurd it really is. 0.80

00:11:00.440 There's one of the areas of conservative hypocrisy, and there's a lot of it in that. 0.52

00:11:06.700 In that, oh, I'm a capitalist.

00:11:08.420 I'm free market.

00:11:09.120 Oh, but supply management, well, that's different.

00:11:10.440 No, it's not. 0.89

00:11:11.380 If you're such a crappy dairy farmer that you need to have your competition illegalized, 0.99

00:11:17.220 you don't deserve to be in the business. 0.99

00:11:20.220 I should have every right to go out, buy a couple cows, milk those suckers, and sell it 1.00

00:11:26.320 to whoever I please for as much as I feel I might be able to get for it.

00:11:30.040 That's how I do it with my bees and my honey, actually.

00:11:32.480 I mean, there's some health standards.

00:11:33.780 Sure, that's fine.

00:11:34.820 But we don't need a quota system to have that, do we? 1.00

00:11:39.120 It's just such a stupid system. 1.00

00:11:40.720 I mean, that came up, you know, recently with that egg farmer in Alberta. 1.00

00:11:45.980 The man actually had five RCMP cruisers show up on his doorstep for the crime of having

00:11:51.400 over 300 chickens.

00:11:54.180 And then some people claim to be conservative and say that system is okay.

00:11:58.000 Come on, guys.

00:11:58.680 You can't pretend it's okay.

00:12:00.180 Just because the federal conservatives are totally terrified of the dairy cartels doesn't mean you have

00:12:05.440 to walk the line along with them and pretend that this Soviet-style system is worth defending.

00:12:10.460 It's not.

00:12:11.800 But either way, I'm glad to see we won't have the federal politicians taking it on.

00:12:16.440 We were never going to.

00:12:17.540 And I get annoyed with it.

00:12:19.440 As I said on the pipeline when I was talking about that, I hit Pierre Polyev with that when

00:12:23.080 he was on my show one time, and boy, he didn't like talking about the subject because it is

00:12:27.000 contrary to conservative values.

00:12:28.100 And they'd just rather pretend it isn't there.

00:12:30.140 But his role is to win federal elections.

00:12:33.200 And if he takes a stance on that where you're going to tick off Quebec, I mean, you don't

00:12:37.700 take it personally.

00:12:38.360 It's just political strategy and reality.

00:12:40.640 He can't do that.

00:12:41.720 But the province can.

00:12:44.220 What does Danielle care if Quebec's upset? 1.00

00:12:47.440 Who cares?

00:12:48.160 They're always upset.

00:12:49.560 Make them more upset.

00:12:51.440 Another thing that's been hitting the news, and The Standard covered that too.

00:12:54.160 We cover our kind of story as it happened yesterday.

00:12:56.640 You know, Ozzy Osbourne passed away as a kid who grew up in the 80s, you know, with my

00:13:01.460 mullet and the rest of the outfit.

00:13:04.540 I mean, Ozzy was certainly a part of my life back then.

00:13:06.820 Even prior to that, in the 70s, a Black Sabbath for the older crowds.

00:13:09.960 I mean, there's only so many musicians that really are, you know, sort of that one of

00:13:13.760 a kind that really stand out and change the whole genre.

00:13:18.440 And I mean, he really broadened it, you know.

00:13:19.900 It really was just the realm of the weird headbangers in the 80s until the 90s when he

00:13:24.880 got into that reality show and you got to see him as a person.

00:13:27.800 And what a bizarre and interesting and fun and weird person he was.

00:13:32.400 So he really made his mark.

00:13:34.060 He had his final concert only a few weeks ago.

00:13:37.240 And yeah, Parkinson's was really running him down.

00:13:40.440 And yeah, only made it a few weeks past that.

00:13:42.700 But it was a passing of an icon.

00:13:44.540 There's no doubt about it.

00:13:45.300 Whether he liked his music or didn't like his music, it's undeniable that he was just

00:13:50.920 one of those huge influential players in the whole thing.

00:13:53.480 He's going to be missed by a lot of people.

00:13:54.800 This is a personality and as a musician.

00:13:58.000 I mean, you look at every from the glam rock to the other heavy metal types and musician

00:14:02.460 out there paying tribute.

00:14:03.400 He influenced them all.

00:14:05.020 And of all guys, I got to admit, I would have thought he would have been dead back in the

00:14:09.840 80s with the amount of cocaine that man consumed.

00:14:12.660 You would have thought a heart attack or something would have taken him earlier.

00:14:15.460 But somehow he got through it and passed up Parkinson's at 76.

00:14:20.160 So farewell, Ozzy.

00:14:22.480 I'm sure you're rocking it if there is something on the other side with old Randy Rhodes there.

00:14:26.640 And thank you for, you know, allowing me to really enjoy your music through the 80s and

00:14:32.380 still on into today.

00:14:33.660 All right.

00:14:34.580 Enough of that.

00:14:35.320 Let's get on to some stuff and talk with our guests here.

00:14:37.280 We got Lindsay Wilson of Link Strategies talking about a woman's conference.

00:14:40.980 Yeah.

00:14:41.360 How's it going?

00:14:41.960 Well, pretty good, Corey.

00:14:43.100 You know, I'm sitting here and I'm just really trying to, number one, picture you tending to

00:14:46.720 your backyard hens.

00:14:48.160 And then also picture you with your mullet in the 80s listening to Ozzy Osbourne.

00:14:52.140 I really like both of those things on you.

00:14:53.780 I think you could rock both of those.

00:14:54.920 Yeah, I let that mullet picture go out once in a while on social media.

00:14:58.500 It's out there.

00:14:59.200 But with the cigarette in the hand and the black t-shirt and the rest.

00:15:02.260 Yeah, the chickens I got rid of.

00:15:03.060 It's the bees I keep now.

00:15:04.280 But yeah, I'm almost a farmer, you know, in a real light way.

00:15:07.280 You might need a chicken or two.

00:15:08.560 I'm a big fan of hens.

00:15:10.160 Yeah, we did the chicken thing.

00:15:11.520 It was too much work and they stink.

00:15:13.100 Well, it is.

00:15:13.760 And you really cannot forget to lock them up every night or the coyote is going to get

00:15:17.240 them.

00:15:17.340 Oh, yeah.

00:15:17.680 In our area, we got lots of critters.

00:15:19.160 But anyway, great eggs.

00:15:19.880 You can't deny that.

00:15:21.820 But yeah, I don't think, you know, I could grow the steleet now.

00:15:23.720 It just wouldn't quite work.

00:15:24.960 There's nothing wrong with having a mullet back in the 80s, even to the early 90s.

00:15:28.140 If you still got it today, though, you might want to reevaluate whether you move forward

00:15:31.120 in life much yet.

00:15:32.160 Well, that's true.

00:15:32.880 I mean, mind you, if you still play hockey, I think you can pull it off.

00:15:35.760 Well, sure, but I can't play hockey.

00:15:37.360 I've got a number of tattoos hidden up either way to show permanent marks of my history.

00:15:42.560 Oh, awesome.

00:15:43.360 From that era, for sure. 0.99

00:15:44.280 Yeah, when I finally quit, I'll do one show shirtless and show people just how stupid I've 0.99

00:15:47.760 been over the years. 0.99

00:15:48.720 I love that.

00:15:49.280 I look forward to that episode.

00:15:50.580 All right.

00:15:51.020 So, a woman's conference. 0.96

00:15:52.420 We hear about those all the time.

00:15:53.300 When we hear about getting women involved in politics, there is not as many women choose 1.00

00:15:58.600 to get involved in the political spectrum as others.

00:16:01.620 Something that's different this time around, I think all the reasons are the same, though,

00:16:04.280 is this isn't at least a bunch of woke women getting together and trying to push those policies. 1.00

00:16:08.820 You've got something coming together for common women to get involved with, I guess. 0.98

00:16:13.180 Absolutely.

00:16:13.580 So, this is the Doing It Right Women's Conference. 0.93

00:16:16.660 It's the first one, and we're going to be having it on Friday, September 12th at the

00:16:20.860 Deerfoot Inn and Casino right here in Calgary.

00:16:23.220 So, we're really excited.

00:16:24.380 We're very specific in picking a venue where we could have great food because you cannot

00:16:27.860 host an event for women if you do not have great food.

00:16:30.760 For people in general, I mean...

00:16:32.620 I think so too, right?

00:16:33.760 But women, you definitely want a nice, beautiful space, welcoming space, ample parking, easy 1.00

00:16:39.460 to access, and great food.

00:16:41.720 So, we're really looking forward to it.

00:16:43.380 And we're moving full steam ahead.

00:16:44.820 We've announced early bird ticket sales.

00:16:47.000 Tickets are on sale for $45.

00:16:48.680 And we have all of our speaker announcements coming out.

00:16:51.600 So, why are we doing this?

00:16:52.780 You're wondering why we're doing this.

00:16:53.940 Yes, well, I mean, and I understand, I mean, that the political realm, particularly now

00:16:58.880 with social media, though it's always been that way, is an abusive realm.

00:17:03.240 And there does seem to be more...

00:17:05.140 I mean, everybody gets it.

00:17:05.980 I was called some wonderful things on X just this morning, but it's easier for a guy to

00:17:10.100 shrug off some of those things than, I think, the personal nature of some of the attacks

00:17:14.140 that go towards women. 1.00

00:17:16.140 They often seem to go to appearance or getting personal or even threatening.

00:17:19.180 How, I guess, can then women prepare themselves? 0.99

00:17:24.260 You can't stop that sort of abuse, but you can hopefully learn to shield yourself from it?

00:17:28.300 Well, I think so.

00:17:29.340 I think that's really behind why we wanted to do this conference.

00:17:32.640 You know, we get very divisive in politics, right?

00:17:35.600 But really, most of us are here, what I call the V.

00:17:37.480 Most of us are somewhere hovering around the center with most of our ideals, right?

00:17:42.920 And most of our political preferences.

00:17:46.000 And so, some of us are center right.

00:17:47.520 Some of us are center left.

00:17:49.180 And then we go through, you know, pandemics.

00:17:51.980 We go through these things, and it drives people more to the other extremes.

00:17:54.920 And it becomes a very divisive space.

00:17:56.820 And we're sort of there right now with politics, right?

00:17:59.020 We've kind of become more of an American style of politicking.

00:18:02.440 Whether, you know, maybe that engages more people in the long run, I don't know.

00:18:06.060 We will see.

00:18:06.960 But we wanted a space where women could get together, where we could bring together 1.00

00:18:11.180 non-political women and political women. 0.99

00:18:13.220 Women from a variety of different industries and multi-partisan women from the whole kind 1.00

00:18:19.560 of spectrum of the political spectrum.

00:18:22.360 So, we wanted to bring them together in one space for one day and say, you know what?

00:18:26.760 Talk about whatever you want to talk about.

00:18:28.260 Connect with other cool women and get encouraged.

00:18:32.360 Find out the different positions you can run for.

00:18:34.780 Find out the different jobs you can work for in the political space.

00:18:38.960 And just don't be afraid to embrace who you are, to talk about your values, and to know

00:18:42.840 that this is a space where you can do it.

00:18:44.500 We're staying away from all the woke DEI stuff. 0.74

00:18:47.140 We don't want anything to do with that.

00:18:48.700 And I feel like women's conferences have largely been kind of dominated that way.

00:18:53.700 They're either hyper-focused on one topic, on just on energy, or just on wellness, or

00:18:59.040 they've become very radicalized, often by the radical left, but sometimes on the other

00:19:04.240 extreme right wing as well.

00:19:06.620 And we just wanted a space where women didn't have to feel apprehensive to attend, or that

00:19:10.320 they would be labeled to attend it.

00:19:12.200 This is really for all the ladies from the left to the right. 0.97

00:19:14.960 Yeah.

00:19:15.440 And there's a group, I'm forgetting the name, and I don't want to knock them much, but

00:19:18.540 I hear them on the radio regularly, and they're trying to get women inspired or involved

00:19:21.700 in politics.

00:19:22.220 But the reality is, as well, whenever I hear them as a guest, it's cool, they're pushing

00:19:26.100 the right things, but they're far, far left.

00:19:28.160 So if you're a conservative-minded woman, you might not necessarily want to gel with that

00:19:32.720 group in a room, even if supposedly the intent is a broad spectrum of involvement from women.

00:19:40.300 They want a certain type of woman. 1.00

00:19:43.140 There's the recognition of difference between women and men.

00:19:46.000 I mean, that's part of it.

00:19:46.800 They're trying to blur the lines with the woke.

00:19:48.460 Oh, it's just a construct.

00:19:49.660 No, it's not.

00:19:52.020 One of the things I think is unfair to women, I guess, in some ways, I don't have to endure. 1.00

00:19:57.860 But if a man is outspoken and assertive and speaks out, he's, you know, that's a leader,

00:20:04.220 that's a strong person. 1.00

00:20:05.240 And if a woman does that quite often, oh, that's a bitch. 1.00

00:20:07.660 You know, it's just a societal thing. 0.99

00:20:11.700 It's an instinct.

00:20:12.440 It's unfortunate.

00:20:13.300 How do you deal with that, though?

00:20:15.420 It's a double standard that's unfair, but you can't move forward in politics without being

00:20:18.860 assertive and taking strong stances on things.

00:20:21.080 Absolutely.

00:20:21.780 That's why I think we need to do events like this where we need to, you know, attract the

00:20:25.980 spectrum of women into a room and we don't have to radicalize things. 1.00

00:20:29.480 Women have to be asked four, five, six, eight, ten times to run for office. 1.00

00:20:33.400 We talk about having this network for women, but is there really one?

00:20:39.360 Because I talk to a lot of women who are currently elected officials, who've run for 0.99

00:20:43.780 campaigns, who work in political strategy, and they don't necessarily feel that there's

00:20:47.900 a big, warm, welcoming space for them.

00:20:50.780 So you've already got a few speakers lined up, though.

00:20:53.320 Who have you got coming in so far?

00:20:55.320 Yeah.

00:20:55.720 So we have the Girls from the Discourse, which is a very popular podcast, and that's

00:20:59.260 Cheryl Oates and Erica Barutas.

00:21:01.380 So they both bring kind of the more conservative and the more left-leaning perspective, and

00:21:05.620 they host a really fantastic podcast.

00:21:07.320 I encourage you to follow them and listen to them.

00:21:09.460 So they'll be moderating one of our political panels in the afternoon.

00:21:14.300 We've got some women in business. 1.00

00:21:16.380 We've got Tashina Jackson to talk about blockchain and how we can utilize that to transform voting

00:21:23.920 in the future.

00:21:24.600 That's going to be a very exciting panel where my partner, Christy, will be hosting a one-on-one

00:21:29.740 with her to talk about how we utilize this technology to engage young people and young

00:21:34.860 voters.

00:21:35.980 We've got some political strategists.

00:21:37.680 We've got a keynote that we're very close to announcing.

00:21:40.300 We've got Melissa Mumbarkey. 0.99

00:21:42.900 She's an incredible energy advocate. 0.95

00:21:45.000 We've got Heidi McKillop from Alberta Proud.

00:21:47.200 We've got Deidre Garrick.

00:21:49.540 We've got Mark McQuaig-Boyd, Rachel Notley's former energy minister.

00:21:54.380 So we've got a really good spectrum of ladies. 1.00

00:21:57.320 Lindsay Montea, the interim Alberta party leader.

00:22:01.420 And we're just kind of in talks with a couple of current elected officials.

00:22:04.600 So we're rolling out these speaker announcements.

00:22:07.600 We started last week and we'll continue in the coming weeks, but I think people will find

00:22:12.560 that we're hitting kind of all the notes and yeah, it's just going to be such a great day.

00:22:17.920 Yeah.

00:22:18.180 Well, and it's interesting that McQuaig-Boyd and Oates, yeah, they're not people you, if

00:22:22.960 you know them, think conservative at heart.

00:22:25.520 I mean, Oates was involved with the Redford government.

00:22:27.120 So maybe a Red Tory and McQuaig-Boyd was outright NDP.

00:22:29.740 Though she was a pragmatic one in the energy file, I found a little more than some of the

00:22:33.840 others that, you know, in every party, you get some that are on different ends of the

00:22:37.060 spectrum as they come out.

00:22:38.060 So she should offer some interesting perspective.

00:22:40.700 Yeah, I think so.

00:22:41.280 I think, I think women like to see balance. 1.00

00:22:42.940 Women don't want to have things force fed down their throat. 1.00

00:22:44.980 They want to have balance.

00:22:45.860 So we're making sure that we kind of cover, we, we make sure we have a good depth, a good

00:22:50.560 range of thought on these panels and we're keeping these panels.

00:22:53.280 So there's only two or three people plus a moderator on a panel.

00:22:56.080 I find when I go to a lot of these conferences that we'll have five or six people on a panel and

00:23:00.840 nobody gets any airtime.

00:23:01.980 We really want these women who are speaking to have their actual turn to speak. 1.00

00:23:06.000 Cause I find when, you know, when we go to a lot of these conferences, we talk to women

00:23:10.580 and they don't feel comfortable maybe putting their opinion out there, or they feel that

00:23:14.180 they're going to be judged.

00:23:15.320 They just don't feel like they get kind of the airtime and this is a chance to do it.

00:23:19.760 But I do want to add that men are welcome to come.

00:23:21.760 You do not have to put a wig on Corey.

00:23:23.640 You can come.

00:23:24.500 You are more than welcome to attend the conference.

00:23:26.500 Oh, I don't know if I get the deposit back on my drag outfit for that.

00:23:29.820 Well, see, I mean, it's good to hear with it, you know, good planning and things like that

00:23:34.440 for conferences.

00:23:35.420 Yeah.

00:23:35.620 I mean, large panels are fantastic in their way.

00:23:38.420 I guess if you have a weird, quick moving, it depends on what you're doing.

00:23:40.920 But if you're trying to talk about bigger issues, it's just too much to digest if the

00:23:45.100 moderator is working through five different voices and trying to cover it when a smaller

00:23:49.380 group could probably be more effective with that.

00:23:51.540 I think so.

00:23:52.420 I've moderated and emceed a lot of events.

00:23:54.260 I've done a lot of panels.

00:23:55.180 I did a lot of that when I worked for Alberta Proud for years, and I just find it's more

00:24:00.280 conducive to a good listening room and to people actually telling their stories when

00:24:06.220 you have a smaller panel.

00:24:07.720 I think it works better.

00:24:08.860 Otherwise, people are just fighting for their turn at the mic, and it takes them too long

00:24:11.840 to finish what they're saying, and somebody's waiting for their turn to speak, and it's

00:24:15.240 a little bit more awkward.

00:24:16.720 And another thing I really wanted to highlight is we're reaching out to the universities,

00:24:21.360 different groups.

00:24:21.980 We really, really want young people to come to this.

00:24:25.580 We think that this type of speakers that we're having really attracts younger women.

00:24:30.860 We need to start bringing more younger women into the political movement. 1.00

00:24:34.880 I think the problem we're having is that women are entering politics at a young age, and they're 1.00

00:24:41.400 veering super hard left, and men are entering politics and veering super hard right. 1.00

00:24:45.580 How do we kind of course correct that and bring people a little bit more to the center?

00:24:48.720 Yeah, well, it's one of the problems facing us right now.

00:24:52.480 I mean, participatory democracy means we've got to participate.

00:24:55.280 You get up there, a lot of people don't realize how actually relatively easy it is to get involved

00:25:00.640 in political campaigns, whether it's a candidate, a volunteer, any of those things.

00:25:03.680 But where do you start?

00:25:04.980 If you've never done it, where do you begin?

00:25:07.040 Who do you network with?

00:25:07.900 Or where do you even apply?

00:25:09.360 I mean, getting in a room full of other people like that could help, I guess, for younger

00:25:12.940 people and so on realize that it is achievable.

00:25:15.120 You don't have to be a crazy political nut to get involved in the process.

00:25:18.780 Absolutely.

00:25:19.340 And I think we need to send young women a message too.

00:25:21.600 If you are conservative, if you have conservative values, that can mean a whole lot of things.

00:25:25.600 And you don't have to apologize for that.

00:25:27.100 Be who you are.

00:25:28.020 Know that we're working out here.

00:25:30.000 We're building a network of women who just support one another. 1.00

00:25:33.260 Sometimes you may have these tendencies or these ideals, and they may align a little bit

00:25:38.740 more on one side of the spectrum.

00:25:39.700 And that doesn't mean that you're not a conservative anymore or that you're not whatever you are.

00:25:44.520 Right?

00:25:44.840 We're just, we don't need to be so polarizing with this stuff.

00:25:47.840 Let's see.

00:25:48.240 And we want people to use the process. 0.99

00:25:50.540 There's, you know, just a kind of sidetrack of that stupid long ballot protest that's going 0.99

00:25:54.900 on right now. 0.99

00:25:55.520 There's some clowns who've put 150, 180 people on the by-election ballot protesting for the 0.96

00:26:00.840 sake of protesting. 0.92

00:26:01.840 What kind of annoys me with that, because some people say, well, what do you care?

00:26:04.800 Because I've said, you know, it doesn't matter to the candidate.

00:26:06.420 It's just an annoyance, but it frustrates people from taking part in the process at all, whether

00:26:12.380 it's another candidate, whether it's even a voter who wants to look at that, or people

00:26:15.740 scrutineering, or people working in the elections area.

00:26:19.940 These sorts of things discourage participation, and that really hurts the whole process. 0.99

00:26:24.880 So just to say, you know, we got those actions from one group of idiots, but other actions 0.99

00:26:29.940 that can encourage people to take part is kind of what you guys are up to. 1.00

00:26:32.900 Yeah, absolutely.

00:26:33.480 And I wish I could tap into the energy that people put into these kind of things and put

00:26:38.580 it to a better cause.

00:26:39.880 I really do.

00:26:40.660 But I think in Alberta here, we're dealing with a lot of election fatigue from the federal

00:26:45.500 election, no matter what your views are.

00:26:46.960 I think largely most Albertans were fairly disappointed with the last results of the

00:26:52.700 last federal election.

00:26:54.160 And I think, you know, it speaks to electoral reform, and you and I could do a whole other

00:26:58.500 show on that.

00:26:59.140 And you talked about that a lot for sure.

00:27:00.720 But yeah, you're right, when we make the process difficult, when we don't make things

00:27:05.260 easy for people, it doesn't encourage them.

00:27:07.500 And young people, they want simplicity.

00:27:10.000 They want it streamlined.

00:27:11.400 Again, going back to how do we improve the process for them through technology and really

00:27:15.340 tapping into technology and, you know, obviously making it secure.

00:27:19.340 Young people don't want to walk down and cast a ballot and stand in line. 1.00

00:27:22.720 They just don't do that.

00:27:24.620 And we have to tap into these people.

00:27:26.660 Or at least encourage them to make them legalize.

00:27:28.220 It's worth it.

00:27:28.780 I mean, it's not that hard, but it's a world of distractions right now and easy to get

00:27:36.160 sidetracked or find yourself too busy.

00:27:38.300 I mean, it just seems the more that we do to make it easier to vote, the less people continue

00:27:42.420 to vote.

00:27:42.820 I mean, advanced voting is the opportunities now compared to 20 years ago.

00:27:46.760 You know, you've got so many extra days, you've got special ballots, you've got mail-in ballots,

00:27:50.260 you've got all of these different, and the turnouts don't prove.

00:27:53.600 Yeah.

00:27:53.800 I don't know.

00:27:54.160 Like, do we really move towards a system where we make it illegal to not vote?

00:27:57.660 I mean, there's a whole, that's a whole thing too, right?

00:27:59.780 I don't know.

00:28:00.520 I don't want to catch that.

00:28:00.740 No, I'm not saying that.

00:28:01.740 If a person doesn't want to take advantage, I know what you're saying that some people

00:28:03.640 make that case, like in Australia, you could take a hit on your tax return if you don't

00:28:07.320 get up and vote, but I just think, I guess maybe it's the idealist in me.

00:28:11.520 A person should just want to, because they want to make their mark to try and move

00:28:14.800 things in a way that they would-

00:28:16.800 I get that, but it's like, people just don't feel the urgency and it is urgent.

00:28:20.480 I mean, you know, if I may, October 20th, we have a civic election, like civic elections

00:28:24.700 across this province, and we see the least amount of turnout at the civic, at the municipal

00:28:31.020 level, when really, this is the level of politics that affects you the most.

00:28:35.400 This is the stuff, this is fixing your potholes, this is taking care of your garbage, it's removing

00:28:39.720 your snow, but people don't care.

00:28:41.820 In rural towns, we get 20, 30% turnouts.

00:28:44.180 I mean, we have to turn this around.

00:28:46.240 We have to make people understand, and I don't know, that's the work for people like you

00:28:49.640 and I, who work in this business, right?

00:28:51.780 So I think, you know, that's one thing that we're doing, what's doing at Right Women's

00:28:54.640 Conference, that if we can just kind of attract what I call the normal people, the average

00:28:59.340 everyday people, which by the way, Corey, you and I are not normal.

00:29:02.120 No, no.

00:29:03.120 We're in the bubble.

00:29:04.120 I've never been accused of such.

00:29:05.120 I've never pretended.

00:29:06.120 No, exactly.

00:29:07.120 And we live, eat and breathe politics.

00:29:08.120 And I talk to the women that I drop off my kids at school with and, you know, the 40 0.99

00:29:12.340 year old moms who, you know, have been successful in their own rights, but they're looking to

00:29:16.560 get involved.

00:29:17.560 But they're intimidated.

00:29:18.560 They have these conversations with me and they feel scared.

00:29:21.940 They feel unwelcome.

00:29:24.240 They feel like they're inadequate.

00:29:27.100 And I just wanted to create something that, listen, ladies, that you, your voice matters.

00:29:31.900 Here's a way for you to get involved, to meet other really cool women who are just like you. 1.00

00:29:35.620 This is not intimidating and the networking is super important and it's very timely for

00:29:40.940 us with doing this conference.

00:29:42.200 It's going to be on Friday, September 12th at the Deerfoot in a casino.

00:29:45.420 And that happens to be six weeks, five, six weeks before the October 20th election.

00:29:50.760 So if you want to connect with candidates, if you want to volunteer, if you want to get

00:29:54.400 involved with some campaigns, this is a really great opportunity to come out and meet some

00:29:58.740 like-minded people who just want to make their communities better places.

00:30:01.240 Yeah.

00:30:02.240 And how long is this event?

00:30:03.240 It's a one day event.

00:30:04.240 It's a full day.

00:30:05.240 Yeah.

00:30:06.240 It's a full day.

00:30:07.240 I mean, it's a lot packed in for that price.

00:30:08.240 So that's pretty good.

00:30:09.240 I mean, you know, moving with popcorn, you're already beyond that price point.

00:30:11.240 So.

00:30:12.240 I think so.

00:30:13.240 I mean, the parking is going to be free.

00:30:14.240 So if you can come in for the day and it's, you know, it's $45 for you to have a catered

00:30:17.380 lunch refreshments all day and end the day in a networking reception.

00:30:20.520 And we're going to have some really cool door prizes.

00:30:22.180 I think that's tremendous value when you compare it to other conferences.

00:30:24.820 But again, we just really want people to show up.

00:30:27.200 We really want people to get out there.

00:30:28.620 So get your tickets now while you can.

00:30:31.200 Right on.

00:30:31.640 And we're going to find out before I let you go, where can people find tickets for it

00:30:34.060 if they're looking to get them?

00:30:34.860 Yeah.

00:30:35.060 We're on all our social media channels under the Doing It Right Women's Conference

00:30:38.440 and at womendoingitright.ca.

00:30:40.380 If you click onto that website, you can sign up for updates and you'll be on our emailing list

00:30:45.440 and find out about all our speakers rolling out.

00:30:47.400 And again, we're on LinkedIn, we're on Facebook, we're on Instagram.

00:30:51.740 So you can get us there too.

00:30:52.820 Well, thank you very much for putting it together and coming in to talk to us today about it.

00:30:56.580 I hope it goes off great.

00:30:59.160 I mean, again, the idealist in me who just wants to see more people just encouraged to take part

00:31:03.700 and then we can all fight it out over who's right or wrong.

00:31:05.660 Well, I can't, I can't wait to see you there, Corey.

00:31:07.760 And, you know, you can choose whether you want to wear the drag outfit or the, in honor of the late

00:31:12.760 Aussie Osborne, you could go back to the mullet days too. 0.94

00:31:15.300 I mean, we'd welcome you in any way you want to show up.

00:31:17.600 I'll see what I can pull off anyways.

00:31:19.300 I'll be right on.

00:31:20.500 Thank you so much.

00:31:21.100 All right.

00:31:21.280 Thank you.

00:31:21.900 Thank you.

00:31:22.240 See you again soon.

00:31:22.840 You bet.

00:31:23.240 All right.

00:31:24.240 So check it out guys.

00:31:25.240 Again, that is Doing It Right Women's Conference. 1.00

00:31:28.040 It's easy to find on Google and grab a ticket, get out there, get involved.

00:31:32.360 I mean, that's, it's, it's hard to pull people in if you aren't used to it.

00:31:37.760 Um, part of, uh, the inspiration for me, you know, self-serving plug I'll put for writing

00:31:43.120 that book, the, the, the Sovereignist's Handbook was that I wanted to empower people to realize

00:31:48.620 how to get involved in politics and how easy it is.

00:31:51.700 Cause actually it's, it's not that hard, but they don't teach that in school.

00:31:55.920 They don't teach you what a party membership even is, or what that entitles you to, or how

00:32:00.280 you get your name on a ballot.

00:32:01.480 If you're looking to run in an election or all those processes, they aren't actually there

00:32:06.520 if you dig for them, but it's kind of intimidating if you haven't been involved at all.

00:32:10.660 So events like this are good opportunity because it's not like going to a party full of veterans

00:32:15.040 of the politics and everything to get together with others and more casually chat about getting

00:32:20.460 into it.

00:32:21.600 And, uh, yeah, I don't know if I'm going to get up and drag and head on down there,

00:32:24.980 but, uh, it's, uh, it sounds like a good event.

00:32:30.420 Uh, let's see, you know, paradoxically saying, yeah, they don't want the plebs to know. 0.99

00:32:33.460 I mean, you know, there, there, there are, there's truth to it.

00:32:36.420 The establishment thrives on apathy, right?

00:32:39.380 They thrive on that indifference.

00:32:40.560 They thrive on people, not paying attention.

00:32:42.760 The municipal front, those ones, as Lindsay pointed out, it's where we're our most apathetic.

00:32:48.280 We've had turnouts down in Calgary up the 20 some percent in the election.

00:32:53.580 Then you wonder why they're horrific.

00:32:55.300 You wonder why they have crappy public art, why they overtax everybody while they're in Calgary

00:33:00.280 actually has potholes that caused accidents yesterday.

00:33:03.540 That's how bad they are.

00:33:04.800 People are hitting these potholes so deep that it's knocking the tires off their cars.

00:33:10.860 And meanwhile, Yoni Gondek says they're broke, but they had a 200 and some million dollar

00:33:16.460 surplus.

00:33:17.440 They have money to change the name of Fort Calgary to a new woke name.

00:33:21.780 They have money for ugly public art. 0.74

00:33:24.100 So you can money to give artists and I'll say it in quotes where you can phone and listen

00:33:28.840 to the sound of the bow river.

00:33:31.080 Why do they get away with this? 1.00

00:33:32.540 Because we don't get off our asses and vote them out. 0.99

00:33:34.800 That's why pay attention, get in there, kick them out or, uh, you know, run yourself. 0.99

00:33:43.080 That's what these kinds of things would teach a person.

00:33:44.960 You don't have to be on the sidelines.

00:33:46.760 Uh, Mary Ann's drink water saying, uh, yeah, you'd definitely be there to see Corey Ozzy

00:33:52.580 ask.

00:33:52.960 Yeah.

00:33:53.380 Those days are gone.

00:33:54.560 Uh, look on X, you know, I'll throw it up sometime.

00:33:57.160 That old picture of me with the mullet.

00:33:58.840 I, Hey, it served me well and it's time, but, uh, those days are well behind me.

00:34:03.300 And I think the world's a better place for that.

00:34:05.040 Uh, you know, old guys with mullets is just kind of a sad thing to see, unless you're again, 1.00

00:34:09.140 some sort of icon like Ozzy, you know, getting back to some of the, the, uh, uh, celebrity

00:34:16.920 news in a way, I, I, you know, it's funny.

00:34:18.760 It seems often when a very major celebrity passes or something happens, somebody gets

00:34:24.160 overshadowed out of it or a lesser one.

00:34:26.940 I remember when, for example, you know, mother Teresa died, it was a rate about at the same

00:34:32.320 time that, that, uh, lady Diana died.

00:34:35.140 So, uh, you know, one kind of overshadowed the other.

00:34:37.500 They were both very, uh, significant people.

00:34:39.580 Just, uh, the other thing in the news and, uh, uh, Malcolm Jamal Warner for some of the

00:34:43.320 people who grew up in the eighties, he was, uh, uh, played one of the kids on the, the

00:34:46.740 Huxtable family back then.

00:34:48.440 He was only 54, got caught by a rib, top riptide and drowned the other day.

00:34:53.640 Uh, sad, you know, he's certainly not at the iconic status of, of Ozzy, but unfortunately,

00:34:58.740 you know, if nobody's going to remember this guy's passing because Ozzy sort of covered

00:35:03.120 it all in the news.

00:35:04.720 Uh, what else we got?

00:35:06.480 Oh yeah.

00:35:06.680 This is something else.

00:35:07.440 If we're talking about voter engagement.

00:35:08.860 So here's where people maybe they can argue and differ with me, but there's a push from

00:35:13.560 the liberals in the Senate, uh, to lower the voting age to 16 as they've done in the UK.

00:35:19.440 Now, these pushes always come from the left.

00:35:22.820 I really, really strongly oppose this.

00:35:26.880 It's not that I don't want younger people engaged, but I don't think, you know, in Canada,

00:35:31.980 you can't be bound by a contract until you're 18 by law because you're a minor.

00:35:37.380 It's been determined that you're just not, and I know it varies kid by kid.

00:35:41.700 There's probably some 16 year olds who were far more mature and advanced and think of

00:35:45.700 things better than a lot of 40 year olds.

00:35:47.280 And, uh, but there's also some 16 year olds who, you know, for a while they were snorting

00:35:51.860 condoms because of tick tock trends, they can wait two more years to vote.

00:35:58.340 And there's the saying, and I think it's been attributed to a few, but I think it's

00:36:02.280 Churchill who said, but if at 20, you're not a socialist, you have no heart.

00:36:07.980 If at 30, you're still a socialist, you have no brain. 0.92

00:36:11.900 Socialists understand this and they need more people with no brains to be able to vote and 0.98

00:36:15.820 put socialists back in.

00:36:17.300 And that's why they want to lower the age to 16.

00:36:21.060 I just put a backstory on myself.

00:36:22.900 I moved.

00:36:24.100 It shows a bit of the dorkiness of what I am too.

00:36:26.660 I moved to Calgary from Banff when I was 17, finished school and just got, got out.

00:36:30.860 I was eager to start on my own, got an apartment with a roommate and, uh, the landlady, just

00:36:36.720 because we were living on our own, had an apartment.

00:36:38.440 I actually just assumed I was a voting age.

00:36:40.300 So when I was out working and the, uh, enumerators came around, there was a hero.

00:36:45.380 Lo and behold, I got home and there was a voter's card back in the 88 election for me to vote.

00:36:52.240 Wow.

00:36:52.660 I was thrilled.

00:36:53.320 What a geek, 17 years old.

00:36:55.120 So I was enumerated underage.

00:36:56.820 So I proudly marched down and cast my ballot for the NDP.

00:37:02.500 Yeah.

00:37:03.100 The one and only vote I gave to the NDP.

00:37:05.680 Why did I vote for the NDP?

00:37:07.440 A politically engaged guy more so than your average kid at 17 and so on.

00:37:11.820 Because I didn't, I had, I was politically inclined.

00:37:15.420 I felt I wanted to be involved.

00:37:17.020 I felt I wanted to cast a ballot, but I really hadn't studied politics well enough yet to make

00:37:22.700 a good decision on who I'm going to.

00:37:24.960 And I know there's older people who still vote for socialists. 0.99

00:37:26.900 That's because some people stay stupid until the grave, but most people grow out of it. 0.96

00:37:31.760 So why do hard left parties want to lower the age to 16? 0.99

00:37:35.000 It's simple as that.

00:37:36.040 They want the people who don't understand the problems with a high taxation system.

00:37:43.100 They aren't ready to grasp that everything comes with a price.

00:37:47.860 That takes time in the working world.

00:37:49.940 That takes the reality check of having to pay your bills, of personal responsibility.

00:37:55.440 And most people between 16 and 18 haven't reached that point yet.

00:37:58.880 So no, most of them aren't going to give an informed vote.

00:38:04.120 I want more voters.

00:38:05.540 I want more participation, but I want an informed participation.

00:38:09.680 That's where I kind of differed with Lindsay when she talked about, you know, having mandatory

00:38:14.360 voting like in Australia.

00:38:16.440 I want people to choose to get up and vote, even if they vote left wing or choose a vote 0.99

00:38:22.280 that I think is dumb. 0.97

00:38:23.140 But I want them to get up and feel it's their bloody duty. 0.99

00:38:27.140 I want them to feel it's serving themselves. 0.96

00:38:29.160 I don't want them to do it because they have a gun to their head.

00:38:32.540 If you're too lazy, too indifferent to get up and vote, then don't vote.

00:38:37.560 I don't want you voting.

00:38:39.220 I want more people voting, but I want them to do it because they choose to.

00:38:42.860 That's the only way to have a proper democracy.

00:38:45.660 And yes, it's failing.

00:38:46.860 More and more people are becoming apathetic, indifferent, and it's not good for us.

00:38:52.120 But with the Liberals pushing to lower the voting age, we're already locked in with a

00:38:56.800 terrible Liberal Party.

00:38:58.120 We're already locked in with a myopic public. 0.66

00:39:02.180 How?

00:39:02.920 I'm still astounded with.

00:39:05.420 We went from Justin Trudeau, who managed to lower support for the Liberals to historic

00:39:11.820 lows, like 17%. 0.99

00:39:13.840 And all they had to do was flip out that moron of a leader and stick somebody else in. 1.00

00:39:21.340 And Eastern Canada said, yeah, you know what? 1.00

00:39:24.320 It's refreshed.

00:39:25.220 I'll cast my vote for them and put them in.

00:39:27.260 Wow.

00:39:28.380 It's frustrating.

00:39:29.800 But it is democracy.

00:39:32.520 It doesn't always break the way you want it to.

00:39:34.340 So that's part of why we have regional differences in this country.

00:39:38.660 And that's a whole separate rant, you know, as to why I think independence is going to be

00:39:43.220 the path to getting towards there.

00:39:46.320 Another big thing in the news right now, Tamara Leach, Chris Barber.

00:39:50.420 Let's get on to that.

00:39:51.240 The sentencing is coming up on the longest trial, longest mischief trial in Canadian history.

00:39:59.720 Mischief.

00:40:01.140 And the prosecutors are asking for seven years for Tamara Leach and eight years for Chris Barber

00:40:08.320 for mischief.

00:40:10.340 Why?

00:40:10.880 Because they pissed off the government.

00:40:12.780 This is where we get into political prisoners rather than people who committed crimes.

00:40:19.020 The crime was embarrassing the state.

00:40:22.380 Yes, fine.

00:40:23.380 We can see.

00:40:24.300 And I was getting to that point towards the end of the convoy protest where I felt it's

00:40:30.760 time for them to leave.

00:40:33.000 They've made their point.

00:40:34.260 You can't stay perpetually.

00:40:35.740 I don't care how upset you are.

00:40:37.500 I do believe it led to the point of eventually the government was going to have to intervene

00:40:42.060 and move them out of there if they wouldn't move on their own.

00:40:45.400 Every protest has to have a point and it has to have an exit strategy.

00:40:50.660 Those are two elements of a successful protest if you're going to have it.

00:40:53.740 I've done protests, but you've got to have a reason.

00:40:56.680 You can't just stay or you force the hand.

00:40:59.240 But they overreacted with Stompy the Horse, with the Emergencies Act, and all of those

00:41:06.020 things.

00:41:06.740 Now, if it went into the point of going to court and they still feel, I mean, that's

00:41:11.000 for the lawyers to talk about, the Leach and Barber still encourage things to the point

00:41:16.060 of illegality and mischief.

00:41:17.820 Okay, whatever.

00:41:19.780 However, what level of penalty is appropriate?

00:41:23.660 Well, they both spent combined months in custody without bail.

00:41:29.640 That's a lot of time in jail already for mischief.

00:41:33.100 What's being served by giving them seven or eight more years in jail?

00:41:36.380 Well, I mentioned it on the pipeline because we talked about that today when we taped that

00:41:41.780 show.

00:41:42.960 But there's a horrible case in Calgary.

00:41:45.380 And this is where we're talking about priorities of justice, right?

00:41:48.740 A mother and father, and they're at the sentencing stage right now, tortured their 18-month-old

00:41:54.540 child to death.

00:41:55.360 The prosecutor's asking for eight years.

00:42:01.520 Our federal prosecutors see that crime as being on par with Chris Barber's mischief.

00:42:08.580 Guys, something's terribly broken here.

00:42:10.560 Will we be more peaceful if Barber and Leach get long prison sentences?

00:42:20.800 Will it actually prevent more protests?

00:42:22.780 Like, the judge has to take these things into account, too, when choosing your sentence.

00:42:26.240 Is it making us a safer society, a better society?

00:42:29.260 I think the behavior of Chris and Tamara over the last few years, where they've been out

00:42:35.640 on bail as the courts move as grossly slowly as they do for years, have they been trying

00:42:41.880 to organize more protests?

00:42:44.320 Have they been trying to clog up the streets?

00:42:46.280 Have they been trying to re-offend?

00:42:47.860 That's the main point, right?

00:42:49.140 Are they presenting a danger?

00:42:50.680 If they were standing out there with bullhorn saying, let's go clog up the streets with another

00:42:55.380 convoy in Ottawa tomorrow, okay, I can see a problem.

00:42:57.660 And I can see where they're going to say, we've got, you guys haven't learned yet.

00:43:01.700 You're going to have to spend some more time to figure that out.

00:43:04.840 But they're not doing that.

00:43:06.200 They aren't pushing for those sorts of things.

00:43:11.460 They're not looking to re-offend.

00:43:12.640 So what are we getting out of jailing them?

00:43:16.260 Well, I know what it is.

00:43:17.080 It's vengeance.

00:43:17.760 And the justice system shouldn't be based on vengeance.

00:43:21.820 It really shouldn't.

00:43:22.940 I mean, people talk about a punitive aspect to it, too.

00:43:25.320 No, I don't think, for one, punishment doesn't seem to work that well.

00:43:30.120 I mean, incarceration alone is enough to do so typically.

00:43:34.480 But, you know, I don't believe in beating prisoners or keeping them in cold concrete cells.

00:43:39.200 I don't believe they should be in luxury circumstances either.

00:43:42.920 But what you're also going to do is martyr them.

00:43:49.380 You're going to inflame the activists who support them.

00:43:53.580 And there are some who tend to, some are way over on the fringe.

00:43:58.680 Fair enough.

00:43:59.260 The left has them.

00:43:59.980 The right has them.

00:44:00.820 And if you go and make an example of Chris and Tamara and put them in for extended periods in jail, what do you think the harder activists are going to do?

00:44:12.040 Do you think they're going to be more calm?

00:44:13.140 Do you think they're going to be less inclined to hold big protests, to clog things up?

00:44:18.840 You're not doing any favors.

00:44:19.980 Look, they've been convicted.

00:44:22.980 Now, throwing my guess out, Nigel felt the same way when we talked about that in the show, Nigel Hannaford.

00:44:27.920 I think, you know, despite what the prosecutor's asking for, what's probably going to happen, the judge, they've already been found guilty, will offer a sentence of a couple of years each and then suspend the sentence to say, you know, don't do it again.

00:44:42.840 You've technically been sentenced to that.

00:44:44.680 You've served this much time and it's finished.

00:44:49.360 But if they give them a long sentence, well, for one, you know, it's going to be appealed.

00:44:53.580 It's going to keep it in the news.

00:44:55.220 It's going to inflame the activists.

00:44:57.080 Nothing will be served aside from a vengeful punishment of people who have committed the crime of embarrassing that dingbat of a leader that we had for almost 10 years named Justin Trudeau,

00:45:06.560 who really took what was a peaceful and controllable protest and managed to inflame it into an absolute gong show.

00:45:15.580 And all he really had to do was come out and listen to him a couple of times.

00:45:18.060 No, they wouldn't have broken up if he came out and listened a couple of times.

00:45:20.040 I understand that.

00:45:21.300 But at least go through the motions of saying, I understand your concerns.

00:45:24.060 Now it's done.

00:45:24.760 Now you've got to move on. 1.00

00:45:25.520 But instead, he went straight to the Emergency Act because he's a weak-willed, wimp, authoritarian piece of garbage who history will not smile upon. 1.00

00:45:33.060 So, I guess all we can do is hope. 0.99

00:45:38.820 You know, Leach and Barber are not criminals who are going to put our country at harm.

00:45:43.120 And let's just hope that the judge shows some wisdom when it comes to the sentencing in the next few days.

00:45:48.200 Probably have a sentence by the time I do the next show and we can talk about that.

00:45:51.620 All right, guys.

00:45:52.540 Thank you very much for tuning in today.

00:45:55.660 It was a good show.

00:45:56.540 Lots to cover.

00:45:57.360 Lots of guests.

00:45:58.100 Be sure to watch for the pipeline tonight.

00:46:00.040 It will be airing.

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00:46:10.440 We've got a lot of stuff constantly going on and news on the break.

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