CORY MORGAN SHOW: Alberta healthcare scandal can’t be allowed to fester
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In this episode of the I talk about the scandal that has rocked the Alberta government, the scandal involving the former head of the Alberta Health Services and her allegations of corruption within the ranks of the premier s administration.
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to the show on what I think I hope I pray is the last of these god-awful terrible winter days
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going on out there I can't stand it at least out west and out east they're buried in snow
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I don't care what people think being in a winter country sucks uh you know today I'm gonna have a
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guest on is his name is uh Paul McGregory's of the America Fund he's one of those fellows pushing
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and promoting for the America 51st thing I mean the merger might help economically but I don't know
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be able to do anything with our climate but at least I wouldn't have to cross a border to try
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and escape somewhere warmer so maybe that's one of the aspects in the the plus side of the checkoff
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box on things uh lots of other things going on today too news updates and uh well rants and more
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all right let me bring things a little closer to home and uh talk about something going on in
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Alberta you know it's been kind of uh overshadowed a bit but it's getting ready to blow up for us I
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mean despite the best efforts of unions legacy media and activist groups over nearly two years now to
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chip away its support for Daniel Smith's premiership they haven't really been able to crack her support
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in Alberta the coronation of the head and inchie as NDP leader garnered them no new traction and I mean
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while Smith's government hasn't been surging in the polls they haven't had much to fear from the
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morbid NDP but that might all change and fast I mean we got a recipe for a perfect storm coming
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together and if it blows up it could spell the demise of the Smith government Alberta's legacy
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media outlets and NDP they're salivating right now this story is one of possible corruption within
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the ranks of the provincial cabinet procurements and contracts may have been improperly awarded and
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senior bureaucrats might have been pressured and even fired for resisting pressure to direct funds
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towards certain service providers I mean that story on its own sounds bad enough and with the issue
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emanating from the health department it becomes a potential catastrophe I mean citizens hate seeing
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public funds being misappropriated they you would think they'd be getting used to seeing it in Canada
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but they hate even more when the misdoings appear to be happening in the sacred health care file
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this is the sort of thing that can lead to a collapse in public support for a party and fast
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the the affair affair the affair that's a tongue twister appears I gotta write things differently
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you know it'd be more of a he said she said state right now the recently fired CEO of Alberta Health
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Services has fired filed a lawsuit for wrongful dismissal and is packed with troubling allegations
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she's seeking 1.7 million dollars and she's pretty strongly motivated to take a run at the government to
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get it is it a case of a bureaucrat scorned taking it out on the government or is she a whistleblower
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exposing deep rot in government practices I mean for what right now anyways was lacking is solid
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evidence anybody can make allegations in a lawsuit until they're proven in court though they are
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nothing more than allegations still this file has been passed to the auditor general the ethics
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commissioner and the RCMP so far the RCMP hasn't indicated they seen any criminal wrongdoing yet that
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might change I don't know we need evidence the head and entry of course is trying his hardest to
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make hay from this issue he ridiculously and prematurely demanded the resignation of the premier
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and in his zeal he's already kind of undermined his own credibility on the affair
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that doesn't mean there's nothing there though and if an issue manages to get his hands on some
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solid evidence people might start nodding their heads in agreement when he starts calling for
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resignations premier smith must get on top of this issue as soon as possible it took precious days
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before she even addressed it at all when it broke and she's really kind of avoided commenting in depth
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on it when possible I mean on a weekend radio show she reiterated that she welcomes an investigation
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by the auditor general but that just won't be enough obviously at this point the UCP government
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can't try to rag the puck on this issue and hope it fades over time that tactic works well with federal
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scandals but it won't cut it in Alberta the issue is only going to grow and internal party dissent is
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going to start growing that's always the biggest risk for conservatives it's believable that the
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allegations made from uh were made from more from spite than fact but smith has been trying to reform the
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bloated health care bureaucracy in Alberta many insiders are eager to derail her efforts if that's the
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case though it must be fought not deferred premier smith must come out swinging rather than trying
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to stay in the background the pending trade war and tariff issues have granted the UCP some cover
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on this issue a scandal at the top levels of health care management would typically be at the top of
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the headlines for weeks but it's struggling for notice as national issues overshadow it the scandal
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won't go away though it's just festering in the background Alberta's health care system needs
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serious reforms it would be tragic if smith backed off from battling that monster due to a potential
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scandal is today she's backed off on a provincial police force and a provincial pension plan if she
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shies away from health care reform she won't have accomplished a heck of a lot of substance in her
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first term as premier despite coming in with high aspirations a Burtons must see some decisive action
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from the premier we need transparency to expose exactly what has happened and some heads must roll
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indeed if there was malfeasance if the government tries to hunker down and let this blow over it's going
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to lead to a rot which may return the NDP to power in two more years this is the biggest challenge
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premier smith has faced since assuming the leadership let's hope she doesn't let it become
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the one that brings her down now of course since i wrote that monologue i found out there's going to
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be a press conference coming up this afternoon where premier smith's going to address this very
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thing so hopefully she responds to a lot of the questions i've put out there but we'll find out more
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what's going on in the news and things out there with our news editor dave nailer dave how's it going
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today yeah it's going okay cory yeah so tell me would you prefer the bitterly cold temperatures
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of alberta or the waist-high snow of ontario it's tough you've got a long driveway yeah i do that's
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true i actually come to think of it yeah i guess i could deal with the cold temperatures better but i
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don't like either i really don't i mean fortunately we just have to go from our warm house to our warm
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car from the warm car to the warm work newsroom and we don't have to spend any time out there
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shoveling so there is uh well the car i've got right now is the very first car i've ever had that
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command start and i tell you once you've had that oh it's beautiful it's hard to go back i mean boy
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you know having your morning coffee and just fire that thing up and let it warm up it's it's a
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buddy of mine has a has a jeep and it wouldn't start because of the cold and so i tow truck came
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over and gave it a boost this morning to get a remote starter put in they want 1500 bucks
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yeah see that's part of why i haven't had one before we came with the car yeah exactly if you're
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living in alberta you better make sure you get a electronic starter sure is a nice thing anyways
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another crazy news day uh folks at democracy watch who do do good work of announcer uh initiating a
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private prosecution of justin trudeau in the snc lavalon affair uh so that's uh good news and may
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hopefully finally get some answers a whole bunch of uh quebec and environmental people got together
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including the wonderful folks at the david suzuki foundation and said these revived pipelines
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revived interest in quebec pipelines and canada or energy east it's just a mirage and it'll never
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happen until we get some social accountability and that comes with polls showing that uh majority
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of quebecers want these energy uh energy projects uh speaking of projects uh the prime minister who's
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only got two weeks left three weeks left has announced a multi-kazillion dollar deal to build
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high-speed rail from toronto to quebec traveling at 300 kilometers an hour i mean they've been talking
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about this for since you know we were young lads and it will never be done will it no but it's been
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billions studying it's been a billion study i bet you a quebec contractor is going to get it you think
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i mean and how does he have he has no moral authority to do this because he's he's an outgoing prime
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minister he's a resigned prime minister you know mark carney wants to make himself uh uh look good
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maybe he'll cancel it on day one so uh we got another airplane falling out of the sky uh this time in
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tempe uh small aircraft this time that sent up huge plumes of black smoke and unfortunately it looks like
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there's one person killed there uh there's a cbc host cory called travis danraj and he's missing
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he's missing in action people have noticed that he hasn't been on his usual spot on cbc and his lawyer
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put out a statement saying yes he's been put on leave and everybody's sort of theorizing that he was too
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uh equal in his coverage he wasn't focusing on liberals and ndps he was giving equal voice to
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conservative voices and that's what got him pulled off blasphemy in the state broadcaster oh they're
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taft and marshall on their case yeah yeah so uh we know she's a good lawyer uh we contacted cbc they
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said we don't discuss this sort of stuff uh we can only tell you uh he's still on the payroll so but
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he's on leave uh one of the leaders of uh freedom convoy pat king got three months uh basically house
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arrest in his sentencing today uh the crown wanted 10 years so that just shows you how ridiculous they
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are and and thank goodness the judge uh took it the right way and our favorite friend robbie starbuck
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announced this week he's got coca-cola in his sights and they will be the next target of his anti-dei
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work uh coming up later on this week so i look forward to to that and yes you mentioned this
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smith press conference on the uh healthcare scandal uh our ledge reporter james snell will be up all
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over that like a wet blanket right now so big news that's at two o'clock lots on the go i mean we
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don't have to sweat finding things to write about no no there's never uh never shortages there in these
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days all right well i'll let you get back at it and i'll see you after the show thanks right
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thanks yes as you can see lots of stories breaking constantly developing moving i can't even keep my
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monologues up with them hey the reason we got the staff people like that the reason dave can get this
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interesting seeing robbie starbuck and if people weren't familiar with him it gets confusing i mean
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the irony of his name you know with starbucks being such a woke business to begin with and such
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but his name is starbuck he's a an activist in the united states he has uh really been taking down
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he's targeted dei corporations that really over embrace the dei and just makes it backfire on him
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you know the only you know all robbie starbuck does is expose it he's just pointing it out it's all
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there it's always been there and uh now he's targeting coke but he's gone after some like
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john deere and harley davidson it's gonna be interesting with what he finds at coca-cola and
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you know i'm liking this trend i mean people weren't paying attention to dei before your
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average citizen wasn't paying attention to dei we're seeing at least elon musk and president
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trump taking on dei now because it's diversity equity inclusion hey all nice fluffy statements
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that's fine you know what i'd love a diverse equitable and inclusive world as well but i also
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believe in merit which i think trump's all bloody three of those things there are diverse people
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who have excellent merit and they rise to great positions in what they do leave it alone don't
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try to force it and the cream will rise to the top there's fantastic people out there we don't need
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these stupid dei policies and they've been harming businesses when i mean it's really a simple rule
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in running a business running a government running anything you want to get the best people possible
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into the roles to do them it doesn't matter who they are and when you come into it i mean hey let's
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face it okay fair enough things were wrong a long time ago and there's i'm sure there's some
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individual businesses that still do it there's some stupid business owners will say i won't hire
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that person because they're black and i don't want them in my business well that's a dumb business
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owner because they're narrowing their labor market i mean aside from the gross racism of it
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they're just being stupid but likewise when you come in and set a quota the other way and start to look
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for other categories other than competency and merit you're making your business worse you're making it
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worse for people you're making it worse for your own shareholders and for yourself your own work
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environment and it's kind of come up and it seems to be peaking and it's declining you know this
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thing's always a cycle i mean if you remember in the past if you're kind of grayer like i am
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used to be affirmative action that was big that was kind of huge and i think the late 80s early 90s
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it was the same thing and because it stunk because it led to people getting into positions they
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shouldn't be in or worse some people who were really really well qualified for positions they were in
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but because of these programs people would look and say oh that's a tokenism that's a hire that
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they just brought in for that which is really unfair for the people who work their butts off to get to
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those spots if they happen to be minorities it's just a bad ill-conceived wrong concept and it's
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fading and it's dying so you know when i rant and get on things and moan about a lot of negative things
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that's one positive development is starting to rise we're kind of getting to the crest of that cycle
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again on one of these bad trends this foolish trends of dei happening out there people like robbie
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starbuck people like trump and hopefully then it inspires some of the leaders in canada to find
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the courage to take on these ridiculous programs these idealistic idiocy uh notions and just get
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back to some common sense in our governance and in our business world all right well speaking of the
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americans we got our guest in studio i like it when guests are in studio we were talking a bit about
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that before it makes the conversation easier this is paul mcgregor of america fund and you're going to
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talk a bit about your organization and the concept you know as you said 15 minutes isn't long enough
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but we're gonna we're gonna cover a bit of this in the america 51st so welcome to the studio and
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thanks for joining us today well thank you cory i appreciate you having us on so uh yeah we did talk
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a little bit before so um to explain a little bit about america fund and and some of the the the history
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and and the kind of the group so it is a group of small businessmen who've gotten together and said
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look uh we want to take a look at this issue of statehood uh from a professional point of view
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right and get and and and bring in lawyers and bring in you know all of the specialists to look at this
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type of stuff um so you know there's a little bit of history with of course uh the two spokespeople
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at this point in time is myself uh and and i am and and was the uh president of uh ab 51 project
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which was a few years ago and that the primary uh focus of ab 51 project was to look at the
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constitution for alberta right give us some give us some real details about what it could be and what
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it should be and we brought in a whole group of people and a lot of uh a lot of very very uh
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intelligent and and well-educated people to to look at that so we've already got the basis for that
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uh america fund of course the other spokesperson is peter downing so uh peter and i a little while
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back and some other businessmen as well we uh we came together as then and partnered with america fund
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as the mechanism by which we could fund uh do the things that need to be done for ab 51 as a concept
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right now um so that's a little bit about the group and um and and and its focus is to educate
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people and say look there is a there is a path there is this is a good thing for alberta the
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financially economically for our children our grandchildren this is a good thing and really
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in our view really the only way to go forward considering current geopolitical and and geoeconomical
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circumstances that look we need to have a path to protect uh albertans uh and western canadians as a
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whole um and and give us uh something solid that we can we can actually uh that's been well thought
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let's put it that way yeah so this concept's been around for for quite a while we were talking
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earlier i was working with patrick beauchamp uh you know over 25 years ago and he was trying to
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promote it it was difficult to get that that concept out there and that's what you're saying
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it's an educational concept but it really has a re-emerged on the scene i don't know if it's
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taking widespread support on the ground but people are talking about it more than ever thanks to
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president trump uh repeatedly uh mentioning that oh he's been talking about the whole country
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as a 51 so so we don't we've been looking at this a long time we don't see it as a whole country
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thing okay economically canada's got a problem its governance is a problem everybody knows this i mean
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the canadian system is broken it's not fixable a new leader goes in same problems it's already and
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we were talking about this senate's already predetermined judiciaries are all predetermined
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a bill of rights ain't worth the paper it's written on trucker convoy prove that um so so the system's
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got a problem and we need to really change that but at but what we're interested in is dealing with
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western canada as a group and like you've said cory this the separation thing is not nothing new
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it's just you know which direction do we go kind of deal right um so so um right now what happens is
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in crisis people change people want change we're very excited we see the best is yet to come to be
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honest we we there's two ways to look at a crisis and anybody who's uh ever been successful in business
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um or in investments you look at a crisis you can be scared you can run you can get out and of course
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you lose right or you can see it as an opportunity and this is an opportunity for alberta and albertans
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to take control of their own governance and their future for themselves and their children
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so with this i mean that's part of it right now is at the educational point you're kind of taking
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taking advantage that you've been at it for a long time but no it's it's in the scroll it's in the
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news people are looking at it so you want to now i mean your perspective is you want them to come out
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of it with a positive view on the concept yes what kind of steps do you start working from there when
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you go beyond the educational like what are the mechanisms that's where it gets a little uh
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and it does and and and there's a lot of moving parts to that as as i said earlier uh there's a
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lot of moving parts obviously we need to look at um and and we we are working in this in the background
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we need to look at the partnerships with businesses congress senate uh in the u.s we need to look at um
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the constitution for alberta and come up with something that is a a viable path to be able to do this
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now uh before as you said this has been talked about but there was no path everybody's like well
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you know that's great paul you know or or whoever the the spokesperson was at the time and but but how
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do we actually do this i mean clarity act forget about it right you got 51 percent it's got to go to
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to um to the parliament three quarters of parliament have to agree it's never going to happen it's set up
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for for a failure um but now that we have an american protectorate and an offer that says
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okay you know what guys you can come in uh to the mansion at this point in time we have a lot going
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on economically in in in canada um and and and with foreign nations and foreign interference that's all
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over the news we won't get into the weeds of that but i mean really just look at what's going on
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so having that offer and the ability to work with these people so in the background to answer
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your question we're we're working with individuals at high levels to be able to work out the details
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we've got a constitutional basis we're going to be releasing all that information and what's
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interesting about that cory is it gives the western uh provinces uh the chance to have a say in how that
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looks there's so many wonderful uh constitutions out there and and we talk i mean i'm treaty indian
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as as well so when we talk about uh for indian nations i mean they're going to have way more than
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they would in canada a hundred percent resource ownership and it's the same thing with the state
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the state has that the government can't dictate your economic uh decisions we can't have a japan losing
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a trillion dollar deal on lng and alberta because the eastern canada the laurentian elites say no no
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no we don't want you to have that over there and so guess who's getting an l the u.s right they're
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looking at it what could that have done for for our people right so those are the things we're looking
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at yeah well the economic case is very solid though it's still east be expanded and made to people
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because you know they don't necessarily understand that uh at some point they have to approach the the
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political class like we we have a broken system but we have a mechanism we are within and people
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will expect that we're going to need some elected uh support at some point so now we start talking to
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you looking at should federal parties become engaged provincial parties uh so or so existing
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personally i don't believe the federal option is an option because you're working in a system that's
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already broken to begin with so how do you do that i think more on the provincial side
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and working with uh like uh premiers and so on and so forth that will look at this the people need
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the option right now we have this excuse me for saying fake team canada thing that really is not
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is not looking at the at the uh the interests of individual provinces they're looking at a
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governmental system and maintaining that we have we have uh pierre polivier a former steven harper love
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these guys okay that that's not the issue there but you know their their are their response was that
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canadians should uh have any amount of suffering to maintain the name this is just a fake line
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where that that that creates this whole country and what we need to do is look at our own areas and
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our own people and and have our leaders uh like premier smith and and so on and so forth and i
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realize that you know they they have their own supporters and their own viewpoints so on and so
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forth but people need to have it as an option cory that they say look here's the option here's canada
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here's the it's like i was saying when my kids were young and they needed to make a big a big decision
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i'd say look we get out of the emotions let's put the pros and cons down right and let's see what's
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good for our future it's not about how i feel about a particular and and i'm not ignoring or or or or
00:24:14.060
you know to throwing out the emotions there is an emotional sense to this but as but for us we're
00:24:19.660
albertans first we're westerners first and and because that's our home that's our backyard that's my
00:24:24.720
living room we're talking about here and so that's what's important and i think the governments uh
00:24:30.240
yes we have to approach them and i think we're ready and uh to talk to them and to say look guys
00:24:36.320
you need to present an option to the people and stop the fear-mongering because the fear-mongering
00:24:41.440
isn't going to do anything but make everybody weak and that's a problem so the discussion's been
00:24:46.480
brought out for president trump for a lot of these questions out i i wonder how much uh necessarily
00:24:52.960
it's interesting to watch i mean i've been observing so yeah to some degree i think it's
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kind of galvanized a sense of patriotism among albertans even within canada as you said there's
00:25:00.840
some of that team canada where it's misgiven i mean i think some of you as you say it's strategic
00:25:05.260
on trump's part yes but when you one of an analogy i use in a sense is you know alberta and the rest
00:25:11.480
of canada already eastern canada been like in a domestic dispute and squabbling for a long time
00:25:15.100
but you got to watch it when you step in between a couple of seven domestic dispute because you
00:25:19.160
could find both of them turning on you and uh you know say hey we're yeah i can't stand that
00:25:24.200
will be this isn't your business let us sort this out and then we'll talk with you i'm just saying
00:25:29.400
it you know it's brought the discussion up but i think it might have made some people dig their heels
00:25:32.600
in sure and you know what look controversy brings a conversation we were saying that at least the
00:25:38.520
conversation's happening and once we get once all the emotions settle down and and the crises builds
00:25:45.100
unfortunately what's happened with the team canada uh approach is um uh to to counter tariff you know
00:25:53.580
and and and i said this before you know everybody talks about oh trump came in and just tariffed us
00:25:58.200
and it's a terrible thing that he's done well wait a second we've been tariffing the u.s for years
00:26:02.840
and forget about 25 percent 200 250 percent you you can't even buy cheese and get across the border
00:26:10.560
you know without without having a massive tariff i had one border agency and i have wide latitude i
00:26:17.060
can charge up to 400 percent tariffs on it none of that's been mentioned it's all like a military
00:26:23.880
takeover in the sense of that's the emotion but what are we protecting we're protecting carbon tax
00:26:29.600
we're protecting this relationship that has uh basically said alberta is is has only one purpose
00:26:36.660
which is since its inception clifton's uh clifford sifton said the the purpose of the west was to
00:26:44.860
enrich canada and at that time canada was upper and lower canada as you know and and and that was
00:26:51.420
its purpose nothing's changed 1980s we had the national energy what you know now we've got trudeau we
00:26:58.220
have a system that says you're not equal so how long it's like the decoration of independence said
00:27:04.520
how long do we need to and i'm beating this up and paraphrasing it i i could look at it but how long
00:27:13.320
do those ties have to last forever and ever or do we look at it at the situation right now
00:27:19.040
and as parents as grandparents make the choice business people make the choice and say hey
00:27:25.060
we got to look at the pros and cons in this and i think as a government governing people not ruling
00:27:31.260
them saying listen this is the only option and if you don't do this the whole world's going to fall
00:27:35.280
apart this little chicken little thing that that the the media that paid for by trudeau by the way
00:27:40.840
right so i mean you know it's laughable everything that there's a we were we canada as a as a group
00:27:49.900
could have existed but the trucker convoy i think was was the end of that basically it was alienate
00:27:57.920
everybody else we're the ruling class this is a neo-feudal system you are subjects you will comply
00:28:05.460
we'll take your your we'll put you in jail we'll take your your money we'll freeze your accounts
00:28:10.940
peaceful canadians wanted to say we wanted to say you do not have a say we never have had a say
00:28:18.460
so uh we need to say right now we need we need the premiers of of the western provinces to say okay
00:28:25.740
guys there is two options to this and and let people present let's have that conversation get
00:28:31.200
away from the fear mongering yeah well we knew the conversation would go fast so the first start
00:28:34.740
rapping with you is is it we're not out yet before i let you go and are there things plans maybe for
00:28:40.060
events or gatherings or things like that yeah so so so we are planning so we are planning uh
00:28:46.600
constitutional events but the summertime is better for that kind of stuff of course you know in the
00:28:52.340
wintertime it's a bit tough um there's nothing right now as in a date made up um again a lot of
00:29:00.960
this is funding stuff and so on and so forth right so we're working through the details and and peter and
00:29:08.020
the group have have have had those conversations so that we can present this information so yes and
00:29:13.680
that will come out and we'll release it as we go cory on on the x uh sites and websites and tiktok
00:29:21.440
and that could that kind of thing great well and before i let you go then so if people want to get
00:29:25.720
involved or if they want to find out more as we just kind of scratched the tip of the iceberg of the
00:29:29.440
concept here today where can they find more information well right now uh the websites need
00:29:35.020
some work i'll admit that okay but as far as the best places i think john is going to put them up it has
00:29:41.920
put them up already there is uh x um and and the the main site you're going to find the information
00:29:49.740
is real america fund there's a real america fund.ca which is the web at real america fund on x um on
00:29:57.880
there's at at alberta projects uh on x and on tiktok at alberta uh 51 project i believe uh he's got up
00:30:06.880
there i can't even remember it myself i wrote it down earlier so that's the primary places right now
00:30:11.440
great an easiest spot typically for people to find things now anyways just google real america
00:30:15.060
fund it sir it's going to point to that site we can find out more well thanks for coming to talk
00:30:19.260
to us about it and yeah you got your work cut out but we're in for some really interesting and
00:30:24.040
and as i said tumultuous times yeah there's no better time to start discussing these things than
00:30:28.180
now if nothing else it's it's the conversation of the day so i appreciate you sharing it with us and
00:30:33.620
uh we'll be watching closely to see how it goes thank you and the best is here to come
00:30:37.200
thank you all right so yeah one more time that was paul mcgregor of uh the america fund or as we
00:30:44.200
said look for real america fund dot ca and uh you'll be able to find them and get some more information
00:30:50.480
it's kind of an irony there's a dot ca on it isn't it but i mean that's part of getting your
00:30:54.100
your websites and seo things uh and yeah as i said you know this has been around a long time
00:31:00.340
uh pat beauchamp and i worked on stuff you know working on that concept 25 years ago it hasn't
00:31:07.340
gained a lot of traction but the discussion sure has fallen onto our lap now regardless hasn't it
00:31:14.060
and people are discussing and people are considering it i i see some of the commenters saying yeah you
00:31:18.780
know they prefer the the independence option and just you know uh absolutely i mean that's kind of
00:31:24.440
where i sit with it but the discussion's there and maybe farther down i mean uh who knows or prior
00:31:30.800
to independence maybe straight to the states but we have hit a a turning point i think as a nation
00:31:37.260
it's it's it's a mess and uh it's ironic i i think whether it was intentional or not
00:31:43.580
one of the things that pierre polyev was saying a lot is you know pre-campaigning i guess and over
00:31:48.520
the time was that canada is broken it was a statement he used a lot canada is broken canada is broken
00:31:53.060
watch he's going to stop using that he already has stopped using that in fact the legacy media
00:31:58.260
and the usual suspects in the industry canada are pressuring and watching for whenever he says
00:32:03.140
this you're a disloyal man saying that you know well no it doesn't matter if it's broken it's not
00:32:07.540
a matter of loyalty to point out it's broken but he's going to back off on that that's some of the
00:32:12.920
um i think unintended consequences i don't know nobody can read trump's mind i'm not sure if trump
00:32:17.960
can read trump's mind but it's hard to tell where he's coming from but what i see to a degree again
00:32:22.580
sees it actually tamped down a bit of discussions now and now it is this this teen canada thing so
00:32:28.280
it's actually united a lot of people more though others like paul and and other independence-minded
00:32:33.180
people it's brought the conversation into the forefront where now they're starting to scratch
00:32:37.600
their heads well let's talk about this a little bit we weren't even talking about it before you
00:32:41.620
got start discussing it i mean there are a lot of valid points to be made if you're going to compare
00:32:46.500
constitutions if you want to compare gdp per capita you want to compare the tax base you want
00:32:53.380
to compare the market access well there's a heck of a big case to be made that alberta would look a
00:32:59.120
lot better as a state than uh as a province now whether it's a independent province would be better
00:33:06.640
worse again it's a long huge discussion the other bigger aspect as we said so paul was saying yeah he's
00:33:12.600
looking at alberta and maybe saskatchewan in the 51 but when you talk about the whole canada is a 51
00:33:18.540
and that's trump really poking things there's really no interest across the country for that
00:33:22.180
and there's a question of how much interest there is on the americans part for that particularly
00:33:25.880
republican ones let's face it even if alberta which is the most conservative province in the country for
00:33:31.780
the most part well saskatchewan has fewer liberal mps right now but even if alberta joined the united
00:33:36.940
states i could see alberta being a swing province it it could be a democrat province and suddenly
00:33:43.400
they've got an electoral college that's changed and now you you're starting to see more democrat
00:33:48.720
governments coming in i'm not sure every republican wants to see that either way the discussion's there
00:33:53.180
and uh you know discussion is always good i i do like seeing things stirred up i mean we can stir
00:33:58.980
things up and come out worse than we went in or we can come out with something better and uh we'll see
00:34:03.340
something better comes out of this this is so let's get on to some other federal things you know
00:34:07.700
as things move along uh the electric uh car program the federal government softening on that speaking
00:34:14.820
to canada being broken speaking to canada being stupid uh yeah the federal cabinet minister saying
00:34:19.820
now they may adjust the electric car plan guys it's collapsing it's screwed speaking of tariffs
00:34:26.160
they just went and uh you know this was a while back but they put a massive tariff on chinese
00:34:31.700
electric vehicles to try and promote and force people to domestically buy because nobody wants
00:34:36.660
the damn things let's face it they're a niche market they've been shoving them down our throat
00:34:40.380
for like 10 years now and they still make up a tiny tiny market share and then they've discovered
00:34:44.800
the closest thing the only one who's building a market share successfully to a degree is oh no
00:34:49.480
it's the evil elon musk and tesla so and uh it appears actually sales would be again because of
00:34:55.560
the conflict with the united states right now for tesla in canada are not exactly it's not a good time
00:34:59.880
to be a tesla salesman in canada right now in a lot of places so we've put tens of billions of
00:35:06.840
dollars thanks to that dingbat trudeau tossing subsidies remember always into quebec and ontario
00:35:11.100
companies of course to manufacture batteries for this great electric vehicle wave that hasn't come
00:35:16.420
that isn't coming he's banned i mean think about market disruption the the dolt has banned the
00:35:22.660
manufacturing of real combustion engine cars uh within the next what 10 years now is it getting up to
00:35:28.520
that deadline yep there's not going to be they're going to be illegal you know that's obviously
00:35:33.180
going to get repealed because the electric vehicles the grid the works it's totally unfeasible just
00:35:38.600
idiotic idiotic promise the problem is when you look at manufacturing when you look at planning when
00:35:44.320
you look at businesses they're not going to invest here on those things because you just don't know
00:35:48.360
when is he going to reverse that or maybe we will be stupid enough in canada quebec and toronto
00:35:52.920
we'll put more liberals in and these idiots will still keep trying to shove this down our throats
00:35:56.940
and uh automobile automobiles combustion engines being manufactured are illegal in 10 years well who's
00:36:02.240
going to maintain a business like that who's going to put money into it so he's disrupting the market
00:36:06.300
already i mean we're going to talk about it a bit on the pipeline a little later uh that's another
00:36:13.020
show that'll come on this evening uh with a panel i don't know if people have been watching the polls
00:36:18.120
lately but there's some really strange polls going on out there we we've got uh david coletto with i
00:36:24.520
believe it's abacus he's showing that yeah the liberals have had a little bit of a bump you know
00:36:28.420
now that trudeau stepped kind of a bit away from the leadership but still the conservatives are far
00:36:32.860
far ahead but there's a couple of others he goes well that's frank graves he's crazy uh but some of the
00:36:39.140
others are showing that the liberals might even beat the conservatives now other pollsters really
00:36:44.140
really people you forget that's all it took was just pulling down trudeau all the rest of the
00:36:51.240
trash and garbage underneath him was fine all the idiotic policies all of the debt all of the
00:36:56.620
inflation the housing crisis the mass immigration that's all okay just as long as we put carny in
00:37:01.860
who had his finger in trudeau's pie for quite some time while trudeau was in there you're not
00:37:07.660
getting rid of anybody you're just slapping a new coat of paint on it in fact you're bringing
00:37:12.440
somebody in who's just the same kind of ideologue as trudeau only frighteningly he's a little bit
00:37:16.680
smart which makes it much more scary actually trudeau at least is an idiot he just parrots and says what
00:37:21.300
he what he's told carny can think but he's also a person who can think who's driven by hardcore
00:37:29.000
ideology is canada really really considering putting them back in i i tell you what i'm not saying
00:37:37.940
he's a threat i'm just saying he's a reality if the liberals win this next election even with a
00:37:44.700
minority you're gonna see an independence movement blossom in western canada like you've never seen
00:37:51.660
before i mean it won't be just a bit hot it's going to explode because it will feel hopeless i mean the
00:37:59.020
corruption the foreign interference the debt the mismanagement the bullying the imbalance all of that
00:38:06.720
yet still central canada because let's face it they're the only ones who can and we'll put them
00:38:11.280
back central eastern canada says that's fine we still want more of that well then that that last
00:38:19.840
hope of making change within our existing system is gone and it's all they know how to do is tax spend
00:38:27.040
and borrow i mean lockdowns this is some numbers that just came out that uh businesses small and medium
00:38:33.680
sized businesses from the lockdowns the covid response and i know canada wasn't alone in
00:38:37.560
having stupid covid responses no countries all around the world did it it was a worldwide period
00:38:42.600
of insanity over a flu but the lockdowns cost canadian businesses about 60 billion dollars a year just the
00:38:49.960
small and medium sized ones because the travel bans because the lockdowns because the restrictions and
00:38:55.120
all that so what did trudeau do well he gave out massive loans and he gave out serb and paid people
00:39:03.020
to sit at home he basically created a ubi program what did that lead to mass inflation that's what
00:39:09.580
happens that's what happens when a government prints money this is economics 101 this isn't theory
00:39:13.960
this is as solid as the law of gravity you pump currency you pump money fiat money into the supply
00:39:20.480
your money becomes devalued and inflation happens and we just went through it so now with this tariff
00:39:27.120
thing coming along we're being warned if 25 tariffs get applied to all canadian products this is being
00:39:32.540
threatened we can be driven right into a recession trudeau's first response was and he even used the
00:39:38.400
parallel he said we would bring in a covid level type of package a spending package to help canadians
00:39:45.400
through it that's the best he can come up with is that we're gonna live on the credit cards till we
00:39:51.060
get through the storm that means more mass inflation that means more pressure on the entire country and
00:39:59.940
of course when we're choking off our producing provinces like alberta bc when we block oil and gas
00:40:04.840
projects where is this going to come from we are really up the creek guys but hey trudeau isn't alone
00:40:10.720
in bad economic policy we're we're in bizarro world and people celebrate trump as a business
00:40:16.200
genius okay well i don't know about some of that tariffs tariffs are stupid policy they're stupid
00:40:22.320
they're bad policy they always have been they tend to harm your country if another country wants to sell
00:40:27.800
you a cheap product let them let them it's saving your citizens money upgrade it make your own product
00:40:35.840
better or competitive or if those products are coming to you from out there at a better price than
00:40:40.620
here something they're not dumping and that's not what the case is which means you're selling below
00:40:43.780
value let them send it in keep your cost of living low then you can focus your resources on what you
00:40:49.660
have within your country using tariffs to force everything inward just rises the cost to everybody
00:40:56.440
and the inefficiency but then i saw the doge idea which is great department of government efficiency
00:41:01.880
they got musk in it and they've been cutting and they're cutting and it's fantastic
00:41:05.060
and now though they're talking saying we already see some of the the benefits of this and what we're
00:41:11.520
talking about doing is putting out a one-time five thousand dollar per person doge payout because
00:41:17.680
we've saved so much well how much is your doge saved about 700 bucks a person so far well
00:41:22.740
are you lying or stupid elon's not stupid so why are you saying this crap because if you go cutting a
00:41:34.060
check for five thousand dollars to every american you know what that's going to do to inflation you
00:41:38.520
know that's what that's going to do to your currency why why are we i mean so quit canonizing these guys
00:41:45.940
that they're doing politics through platitudes and they're playing to the lowest common denominator
00:41:50.720
i know economics is boring i know not everybody wants to read the road to serfdom but read a little
00:41:57.440
bit of hayek you know check out the austrian school and some of the intellectual economists
00:42:04.140
who've pointed this stuff out this is not ground that hasn't been trodden before we we know these
00:42:09.520
things don't work yet we keep going into it why why we keep kicking ourselves so we're coming into an
00:42:18.600
election period and something i'll give a heads up on we're going to be expanding our content by the way
00:42:22.420
so starting in march i'm going to be doing a second show through the week it's going to be a longer
00:42:26.020
more extended one it's going to have very much of an election focus because the election period is
00:42:30.380
going to go for months i mean let's look at our timeline right now assuming we get a spring election
00:42:34.400
who knows god there's so many variables going on it's pretty safe bet mark carney's going to win the
00:42:39.880
leadership in a few weeks and then he's going to have two weeks to get his feet under him or so
00:42:45.000
before there's just no avoiding going to parliament now here's where one of the bigger variables comes
00:42:52.460
along too will he cut a deal with jagmeet singh to extend parliament into fall i wouldn't be shocked
00:43:01.900
if he does but chances are pretty good i think that a confidence vote is going to come we're going to
00:43:07.680
have a spring election we're going to have a lot to cover it's going to be a very very important
00:43:13.400
election a big one look at this mess that we are in and then hopefully getting into june or late may
00:43:20.520
we're going to have a new prime minister elected by canadians whatever way this thing's going to
00:43:25.520
come out so because of all of that happening for a few months i'm going to come in another day a week
00:43:29.840
we're going to cover more of that we're really going to focus on it's going to be a longer more
00:43:32.980
extended show and i will have a variety of guests i mean we're going to talk about other issues and
00:43:37.180
everything else on the show as well but that's something else we're going to be doing we're expanding
00:43:40.800
our digital and broadcast content here at the western standard so be sure to watch all our channels
00:43:45.240
and share them with others guys because this is how we'll do it legacy media isn't going to cover
00:43:50.320
this that's another part of this election one of the things pierre polyev has definitely been strong
00:43:55.440
on it's a promise i hope if he wins that he follows through on is defunding that repugnant dinosaur of a
00:44:02.800
state broadcaster the cbc and he's also talking about cutting subsidies to the rest of the bloated
00:44:08.480
out-of-date legacy media dinosaurs that are all going broke out there too but they're so dependent on
00:44:13.960
the government bailing them out they are you thought you saw media bias before you watch this
00:44:18.880
election because they're fighting for their own lives right now they're praying the liberals get
00:44:24.680
back in because that's the only way they're going to manage to keep going look at chorus entertainment
00:44:28.740
stock it's still sitting around 10 9 cents they're laying people off all over that's who runs global
00:44:32.880
a bunch of radio stations all of the major newspapers almost all of them anyways are going broke
00:44:37.740
they're gonna rally around the liberals because that's the only hope for subsidies but it's pretty sick
00:44:43.500
that that's why independent media is so critical guys it's so critical you got to get media that
00:44:49.860
relies on subscriptions that relies on readership that relies on advertising doesn't mean there's zero
00:44:54.100
bias but there's far less and it's not beholden to the government that's why i even know i like
00:44:59.800
daniel smith i'm still critical of her when she screws up and i will be because our publication doesn't
00:45:05.860
rely on ucp for its funding or rely on the government and it's got to stay that way we don't take tax
00:45:12.840
dollars we won't but we're gonna have a whole bunch of those guys who do take tax dollars covering the
00:45:17.380
next election so watch for it so guys again a little self-serving but share the links share the word
00:45:22.500
get it out there keep tuning into this broadcast i really appreciate you coming in get those
00:45:27.000
subscriptions and uh keep sending me feedback follow me cory b morgan on x and uh let's keep
00:45:33.400
this conversation going we're in a very important period of canadian history and uh hopefully we can come
00:45:38.240
out of it better all right that's what i got for today guys thank you for tuning in and i will see