Western Standard - February 07, 2024


Cory Morgan Show： Alberta's recall process is a waste of time.


Episode Stats

Length

47 minutes

Words per Minute

188.82823

Word Count

9,063

Sentence Count

657

Misogynist Sentences

7

Hate Speech Sentences

11


Summary

A new petition to recall Calgary Mayor Jody Gondek has been launched, but it's unlikely to get enough signatures to get her on the ballot. What will it take to invoke the Recall Act? And will it be enough?


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Thank you.
00:00:30.000 Thank you.
00:01:00.000 Thank you.
00:01:30.400 Again, I mean, Alberta's energy rich, yet we seem to have energy shortages.
00:01:34.460 Alberta's energy rich, yet I paid far less for my fuel while I was driving through the states, even after exchange was put into account, than I pay in Alberta.
00:01:42.160 I should talk about some of these things, because I don't think we're doing a real good job with energy up here.
00:01:46.800 Of course, I'll have my news check-ins and other things going as well.
00:01:50.100 So I see some of the commenters there, Tom Hamilton already in there saying, we're going to talk about the recall process.
00:01:55.080 And he's saying it was written by politicians for politicians to give the appearance of, you know, accountability.
00:02:00.680 And he's right.
00:02:01.440 And I agree.
00:02:01.960 And I'm going to talk about that a little more in just a moment here.
00:02:04.340 And E Sharp there, throwing a comment in.
00:02:06.280 So for those following the show live, yes, throw those comments in there, questions.
00:02:09.360 I see them all.
00:02:09.940 I won't necessarily read them all out, but I appreciate them.
00:02:12.380 Just keep things civil.
00:02:13.380 So let's talk about recall, because it's come up in news in Alberta, quite a bit in Calgary, due to a new petition to recall Mayor Gondek.
00:02:24.840 I've always been a strong supporter of direct democracy through citizens-initiated referenda and accountability through citizen-led recall initiatives.
00:02:33.420 And Calgary Mayor Jody Gondek is the worst mayor in living memory.
00:02:37.540 She's only halfway through her first term in office, and she's that bad.
00:02:40.940 She's a prime candidate for recall.
00:02:42.700 As voters have realized, Gondek wasn't who she purported to be when she ran for the job.
00:02:47.740 And we're seeing massive buyer's remorse as Gondek lurches from one disaster to another, offending people left and right, while taxes continue to rise.
00:02:56.100 Polls are reflecting a very strong majority of Calgarians want the chance to fire Gondek as soon as possible.
00:03:02.120 But with all that said, the current recall initiative launched against Jody Gondek is doomed to fail and may actually, unintentionally, even help her.
00:03:11.260 I mean, to begin with, the bar to recall a civic politician is impossibly high.
00:03:16.900 You need over 514,000 signatures from eligible Calgarian voters, and they need to be collected in 60 days to invoke the recall.
00:03:24.840 Anybody who actually thinks this is possible has never actually done real petitioning.
00:03:29.120 It's a slow process and takes a lot of work.
00:03:31.820 To garner half a million signatures in two months would take a massive organizational machine that just doesn't exist out there.
00:03:38.740 You've got to remember, these signatures required aren't digital.
00:03:40.840 They have to be handwritten and witnessed on an official petition sheet with a name, address, and phone number of the person signing so the signature can be verified later.
00:03:49.860 A lot of people aren't going to be comfortable sharing that information with a petitioner, even if they support the cause.
00:03:55.360 Many signatures garnered as well are going to be rejected later because the name or the address might not be legible or the person's residency couldn't be confirmed with the electors' lists.
00:04:03.780 The petitions you see are checked when they're submitted.
00:04:05.440 That means the real number required, if you were going to be realistic, would actually be more like 550, 560,000 signatures.
00:04:10.740 Now, a hardworking, effective petitioner going door-to-door, a really good one, could get perhaps 100 signatures a day.
00:04:18.860 So think about it.
00:04:19.560 It would take nearly 100 people working full-time hours, seven days a week for two months, assuming all those 500 and some thousand are existing out there, to round up the required signatures in time.
00:04:30.080 Coordinating that many workers would require management personnel, transportation, some kind of office to ensure they aren't overlapping territory.
00:04:35.960 They'd need to track where they've been to do second and third rounds in neighborhoods to catch the people who weren't home the first time.
00:04:43.140 Petitioning in public places like malls, events, transit stations, it could be effective, but it won't be enough.
00:04:47.420 It has to be door-to-door.
00:04:48.980 So to put it in perspective, only 390,000 people even bothered to vote in the last mayoral race.
00:04:54.500 Even if 100% of those people were now opposed to Gondek, you'd still need more than 100,000 on top of all that to sign the petition, and you've got to find them to make the recall work.
00:05:07.840 The legislation guiding citizen-initiated referenda isn't much better.
00:05:12.340 The creation of the Recall Act was the final straw, actually, for me when it came to supporting former Premier Jason Kenney.
00:05:16.740 I used to be a strong supporter of his, but that was a cynical nod to those who voted for him based on his campaign of accountability and citizen empowerment.
00:05:24.940 Kenney promised recall and referendum legislation to Albertans, and he purposely crafted the legislation to make it useless and impossible to invoke, as we're seeing today.
00:05:34.380 He misled people when he promised that legislation.
00:05:36.980 He had no interest in letting citizens hold their elected officials to account, but he didn't hesitate to promise that to win the votes in the first place.
00:05:44.300 I just, I despise that kind of bait-and-switch type of politics.
00:05:47.100 Either support citizens' referenda or don't, but to give this garbage legislation to us was a slap in the face of the supporters.
00:05:53.580 So the people behind the petition to recall Gondek, I mean, they're well-meaning, that fellow who's gotten that going, and I don't doubt I agree with them on almost everything, probably.
00:06:02.600 But the efforts would be better spent putting pressure on UCP MLAs to fix the broken recall legislation.
00:06:07.540 They're the only ones who can do it.
00:06:09.000 Once that's done, then they can get to work on a recall.
00:06:11.960 Otherwise, they're pissing in the wind.
00:06:13.680 Guys, you're wasting time and energy.
00:06:16.100 Further, when the petition fails, and it will, Gondek and her few supporters are going to claim it's because Calgarians actually support her.
00:06:23.060 It'll be actually a public relations win for the mayor, who really hasn't earned a win in her entire time in office.
00:06:29.320 Also, those who signed or worked on gathering the signatures for the petition, they're going to have built up cynicism and apathy, and it's going to entrench it more.
00:06:36.680 They're going to be tired.
00:06:37.640 They're going to feel like it was a wasted effort.
00:06:39.100 And they're going to be less inclined to participate in democratic exercises in the future, even if the legislation gets fixed.
00:06:45.420 Look, I hate crapping on good grassroots efforts made by citizens.
00:06:48.820 We need to see more of it, and I admire the gumption among those who have gotten the petition to recall Gondek going.
00:06:53.720 I've got to call it as I see it, however, and it's an initiative that won't lead to a productive outcome.
00:06:58.900 I hope the folks involved redirect their efforts to helping Albertans get the legislation they need.
00:07:03.680 Then they can, and I can, get fully behind those recall efforts against those politicians that have earned those efforts.
00:07:09.680 Until then, though, they're just wasting good shoe leather going out there getting signatures for something that's just not going to change.
00:07:16.000 So, either way, sorry to, you know, poop on the parade, guys, but it's just not going to go anywhere.
00:07:21.700 All right, let's see what else is going on out there and check in with Mr. Naylor in the newsroom.
00:07:25.660 Hey, Dave, how's it going?
00:07:26.740 Hey, Corey.
00:07:27.420 Good.
00:07:27.640 Welcome back.
00:07:28.580 Oh, thanks.
00:07:29.640 Thanks.
00:07:29.820 You know what?
00:07:30.280 That young Finkbiner guy, he did a pretty good job.
00:07:32.800 I think we had a young star in the making there.
00:07:34.980 Yeah, I think so.
00:07:35.640 No, I was watching it from down south.
00:07:37.260 I can only vacation so much.
00:07:38.440 I still got to see what's going on up here.
00:07:39.760 No, James did great.
00:07:41.140 Yeah, absolutely.
00:07:41.720 I am a bit perturbed that you abandoned Duke the Wonder Dog and you didn't take him on holiday with you.
00:07:48.980 I did.
00:07:49.480 I mean, we were in a fifth wheel for 25 days.
00:07:51.660 It's a wonder that Jane didn't strangle me over the course of that time with that much proximity to each other and a big lazy bulldog.
00:07:58.040 If we had that screwy 130-pound Duke in there, it would have been disastrous, I'm afraid.
00:08:03.340 Oh, man.
00:08:04.900 I don't know if he'll ever forgive you.
00:08:06.780 He seems to have gotten over it.
00:08:07.960 I gave him some cookies when I got home and he forgot about everything.
00:08:10.300 Oh, yeah, you're the best man.
00:08:11.940 So, you know what?
00:08:12.840 We've had a really busy morning out here in the newsroom, Corey.
00:08:15.620 We've got probably about 15 news stories up already.
00:08:19.540 Right now we're leading off with a reaction on Conservative leader Pierre Polyev has finally commented on the transgender policy that Alberta is bringing in.
00:08:30.360 And he says he is also against giving puberty blockers to children, says they should wait until they're adults.
00:08:38.400 We got some more facts and figures from StatsCan on just the massive number of people moving to Alberta, mainly from Ontario and B.C. to escape their tax regimes.
00:08:49.640 45,000 people have moved to Alberta recently.
00:08:53.640 So the province is booming.
00:08:56.740 Lots of other stuff.
00:08:57.900 Corey, we've got Conservatives trying to fight back against a government increase of $450 a month for Canadian military members.
00:09:07.000 And you know what, Corey?
00:09:08.120 They don't get paid a lot to begin with.
00:09:09.640 A $450 a month rent increase is a horrible thing to put them through.
00:09:16.240 We've got our columnist Jaime Rubenstein talking about the ousted B.C. Cabinet Minister who was forced to quit this week.
00:09:25.560 And we've got a Liberal MP, the Justice Minister, the Federal Justice Minister, apologised for calling Pierre Polyev a very, very bad word in the House of Commons.
00:09:38.720 We've got that you can check out.
00:09:41.560 And we've got my two favourite stories of the day are already being punched down the list a bit because of all the other stuff.
00:09:48.940 All those killer whales trapped in the ice in Japan, there was about 12 or 13 of them.
00:09:54.680 Some heartbreaking footage yesterday of them all trying to squeeze in this little maybe 10-foot square hole in the ice.
00:10:01.780 But it turns out they have managed to escape and now appear to be swimming free.
00:10:08.100 And the Criminal Genius of the Year award goes to an alleged Calgary drug dealer who was handing out his business cards with free little baggies of cocaine attached.
00:10:20.740 Free samples of cocaine for whoever wanted it.
00:10:25.000 Needless to say, it didn't take Calgary police long to investigate and find him with a whole bunch of drugs.
00:10:31.420 And he now got a laundry list of charges.
00:10:34.840 So criminal minds at their best there, Corey.
00:10:38.100 Yeah, who'd have seen that coming?
00:10:39.660 Well, I mean, you know, points for ambition, I guess.
00:10:43.220 I guess, you know, everybody's got to start somewhere.
00:10:45.640 Yeah.
00:10:46.060 You know, handing out, you know, at least better, better.
00:10:48.860 He was doing it at a casino, downtown casino.
00:10:51.340 So I guess better a casino than a school.
00:10:54.160 Yes.
00:10:54.460 And just, I guess, a final little bit of news.
00:10:56.160 It looks like Jonathan Bradley might be moving along somewhere else.
00:11:00.220 Yes, Jonathan Bradley, our crack young reporter.
00:11:03.920 He's being promoted to our legislature bureau.
00:11:06.780 So he's all excited about that.
00:11:09.600 And he'll be up there for the start of the session on February 28th, holding the government's feet to the fire.
00:11:17.120 So he's looking forward to it.
00:11:18.900 And I'm looking forward to it.
00:11:20.180 And he's going to do a great job.
00:11:21.760 Excellent.
00:11:22.260 I'm sure he will.
00:11:23.020 All right.
00:11:23.280 Thanks, Dave.
00:11:23.960 I'll talk to you after the show.
00:11:25.880 Thanks, Corey.
00:11:27.180 So, yeah, that is our news editor, Dave Naylor.
00:11:30.940 I see lots of stories always breaking.
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00:12:02.900 And, yes, it's going to be good to have feet on the ground in Edmonton at the legislature.
00:12:06.660 We've got an office actually in there.
00:12:08.280 We are, you know, an accredited outlet.
00:12:10.160 Arthur Green used to be up there, but he got snatched away.
00:12:13.040 And Jonathan's going to be up there.
00:12:14.440 Boy, he's prolific.
00:12:15.480 So there's going to be a lot of fantastic legislative coverage coming out of Edmonton, plus our reporters all over the country and columnists.
00:12:23.880 So, yeah, quite a bit on the go, guys, and lots to keep me busy.
00:12:28.520 So just to get back a bit to that recall again.
00:12:31.580 Yeah, the fellow, and I want to give him credit.
00:12:33.100 You know, he's been out there.
00:12:33.940 He's been talking to the news.
00:12:35.060 His name is Landon Johnston.
00:12:36.420 He sounds very genuine.
00:12:38.340 He's, you know, upset with Gondek, as pretty much most Calgarians are.
00:12:43.200 And he's making his effort, you know.
00:12:46.980 And, hey, you know what, if he proves me wrong and gets hundreds of thousands of signatures and even manages to, you know, come close to invoking the referendum, I'll eat the words.
00:12:57.500 But, you know, there's things we could be doing if you want to change things in the meantime.
00:13:02.980 I mean, that legislation needs to be fixed.
00:13:04.400 I think email, phone, nag your MLA and Premier Smith.
00:13:08.480 I mean, she's got a lot on her plate.
00:13:09.600 But just get her to get out there and fix that legislation because there are formulas that are reasonable for recall.
00:13:21.800 Because, you know, you want a balance.
00:13:23.860 You don't want it too easy.
00:13:24.900 That's fair.
00:13:25.280 You don't want the second election is finished, somebody starting a recall initiative and constantly going after whoever won.
00:13:30.780 You don't want it to be constantly on the go.
00:13:33.700 You want it to be in exceptional circumstances when a leader is exceptionally bad, a politician is exceptionally bad.
00:13:38.980 And rest assured, as we see from that headline there, too, yeah, with Jody Gondek, she is outstandingly terrible.
00:13:44.740 But the legislation makes it impossible to utilize to recall her.
00:13:50.600 But in the meantime as well, because Mr. Johnston has been saying he's had, you know, a lot of volunteers contacting him.
00:13:56.120 And I don't doubt it.
00:13:56.940 And people are going to go out.
00:13:59.280 Should be.
00:14:00.440 What you want to do, what you could do then if you've got those volunteers, get out there and do voter ID.
00:14:05.700 Go door to door and find out who is really strongly determined to replace Jody Gondek and get that and list it and database it.
00:14:13.760 You see, the recall petition, you can't use that for anything else.
00:14:17.680 You can't take those names and numbers.
00:14:19.100 And that's what Gondek's already implying.
00:14:20.620 She's implying that the data is going to be shared because that will make people scared to sign as well, scared to commit their name to this initiative and things like that.
00:14:28.260 And, you know, and you're not supposed to use it for anything else, which is fair, right?
00:14:32.280 A person didn't sign to be spammed by other initiatives or things like that.
00:14:36.500 They signed that petition with the intent of getting a recall on the go.
00:14:40.120 But you can go, nothing is stopping you from going door to door and doing voter ID.
00:14:45.580 As Daryl, one of the commenters saying, voter turnout is barely breaking 30 to 50% of eligible voters.
00:14:49.600 Yes, so it's unreasonable.
00:14:50.620 Not only that, though, it shows how important voter ID is.
00:14:53.820 So if you've gone out and you've gotten thousands and thousands of names of identified anti-Gondek voters,
00:15:01.060 you could share that list with a future person who's running against Gondek in the next election.
00:15:06.700 It's less than two years away now anyway, and that gives them a good base to start with,
00:15:11.700 to get out there and get signs on the ground, to get donations, to get, again, just to get out to vote, to encourage them.
00:15:18.660 It's one thing for them to say when somebody's coming door to door that they're going to vote for a different mayor.
00:15:24.640 It's another for them to actually get around to doing it.
00:15:27.520 So that's where, again, you know, these efforts could be much better directed.
00:15:33.720 Some people are saying, and I saw a commenter on my column.
00:15:36.200 I wrote the column, which is my monologue, you know, saying that the same sort of thing.
00:15:39.160 Well, I support it, and, you know, there's nothing being lost in doing this.
00:15:44.640 But that's not true.
00:15:45.720 It's energy.
00:15:46.680 It's time.
00:15:47.780 And if it's not going to accomplish the goal, it's being utilized poorly, which could have had a better effect.
00:15:54.060 Either way, we could talk about that a lot more, and I'm certain we will.
00:15:56.400 I see my guest has popped into the lobby, and I've been looking forward to it.
00:15:59.400 I haven't had him on in a while, and we've got a lot to cover.
00:16:02.540 So let's welcome back to the show Mr. Dan McTeague of Canadians for Affordable Energy.
00:16:07.760 Hi, Dan.
00:16:08.080 How are you doing?
00:16:08.920 I'm doing fine, Corey.
00:16:09.860 Good to talk to you, and thanks for having me here.
00:16:12.040 Oh, I'm always glad to have you on.
00:16:13.600 And I just like that reminder as we're getting a little grayer and, you know, longer in tooth.
00:16:18.520 But there was a time when Liberal members of Parliament were something that could be considered sane, and you were of that era.
00:16:24.940 And, you know, maybe we could get back to a balanced Parliament again one day.
00:16:29.060 I would still vote Conservative, but perhaps I could respect those Liberals over there again.
00:16:32.880 And we could respect Conservatives on the other side.
00:16:35.260 I think those days will come back, but it requires a lot of people to get back to basics and reality
00:16:41.440 and move away from the utopian fantasies we've been entertaining, especially here in eastern Canada.
00:16:47.040 Yeah, well, I love you calling them out on social media on X and other areas as well.
00:16:52.020 You say it like it is.
00:16:53.520 But your specialty is energy issues, and boy, you know, there's a lot of them going on.
00:16:58.180 I just came back from about 25 days down stateside.
00:17:02.420 I was traveling through Idaho, Arizona, Texas, New Mexico, quite a bit around.
00:17:07.740 And just to tie this in up here, something that's interesting maybe you could help a little with.
00:17:12.940 Down there, I saw the most, in the energy-producing states, I saw the most windmills.
00:17:18.120 I saw the most solar farms.
00:17:19.320 Just like when I'm in Alberta, I see the most windmills and solar farms,
00:17:22.860 even though there's the abundance of natural resources.
00:17:25.020 Yet both Texas and Alberta have been stricken by energy shortages when push comes to shove.
00:17:31.620 How is it that these jurisdictions are the ones that seem to be the most vulnerable
00:17:35.700 when it comes to needed electricity and power when they should be the least?
00:17:41.280 Well, it's ironic that you have a country and a region of the world, both Texas and the United States,
00:17:47.420 which are the flagships of energy reliability and energy development resource and output and exports.
00:17:56.500 And yet both have found themselves over the years, Alberta very recently, last month,
00:18:02.100 Texas two, three years ago, when putting all your eggs in one renewable basket
00:18:07.280 doesn't necessarily cut the mustard when you put these things to the test.
00:18:12.980 And they were tested in Alberta's case,
00:18:15.160 had it not been for the ability for the province to secure natural gas and to a lesser extent coal,
00:18:22.240 a good number of people would have been adversely affected, minus 40 or more degree temperatures.
00:18:27.280 In the United States, we do know that there were injuries and potentially fatalities in Texas,
00:18:33.120 but those areas that were served by natural gas backups,
00:18:36.580 where wind power was simply not available, not reliable,
00:18:40.700 we saw that they were far more successful in certain areas.
00:18:43.980 And it's become very clear through analysis in the Texas case,
00:18:49.240 I think it was Texas Railroad Commission at the time said,
00:18:52.580 you know, without natural gas backup, the idea of windmills are fanciful and dangerous.
00:18:58.680 And I think that's where we're leading today,
00:19:00.040 because I think a lot of the policies promoted by governments on both sides of the border
00:19:04.280 are leading us to really what I consider the net zero collision course,
00:19:09.580 in which reality is going to finally hit Canadians and Americans over the head,
00:19:14.380 that these things are not ready for prime time.
00:19:16.940 Well, and it does get dangerous and frustrating.
00:19:18.880 I watched some of the conversation while Alberta was getting hit so hard,
00:19:22.260 that was just as I was kind of heading down south.
00:19:24.420 And, you know, we're worried when it's minus 30 and you get a power failure.
00:19:27.560 I mean, people could be terribly, terribly harmed.
00:19:29.500 But what I'm hearing from the advocates is saying this is an indication on why we need
00:19:33.240 more renewables, because we need to bring more power into the grid.
00:19:36.540 Like they double down, they won't face the reality that we still need this conventional energy base.
00:19:42.600 Well, look, you have no wind and it's freezing outside.
00:19:45.920 You have one windmill or 10 million windmills are still not going to work if there's no wind.
00:19:51.140 And if you think your economy can be subject to the vagaries of weather and wind,
00:19:55.260 and, you know, whether you have enough sun in the winter, which of course is not the case
00:19:59.400 in northern parts of this country, you're delusional.
00:20:02.740 And I think it's pretty clear that we have to be able to call these folks out,
00:20:05.880 because after billions of dollars, not just in Canada, but in Europe, billions of dollars
00:20:10.720 of investments, billions of dollars of walking away and shutting down nuclear plants,
00:20:15.620 shutting down natural gas, turning your back on your ability to frack your own
00:20:19.820 and provide your own, you know, energy, you have to really ask the question,
00:20:26.240 now that these things have failed, now that Germany is opening up coal plants,
00:20:30.100 now that Britain is going back to opening up the North Sea for natural gas,
00:20:33.560 now that Italy is going to Libya's doorstep and asking for more oil.
00:20:38.140 If this has been an abject failure, and it's very clear that they are walking away
00:20:42.660 from net zero in Europe as we speak, you'll only have to look at the another dimension
00:20:46.980 of the protests, that's what farmers are doing in most of the European nations
00:20:51.880 across a significant swath.
00:20:55.440 If we don't recognize what's happened in Europe, and we continue to ignore
00:21:00.020 at our peril that wind and factors such as extreme weather make renewables unreliable,
00:21:08.200 then I think we are definitely courting disaster.
00:21:11.020 And it's irresponsible for politicians to go out there and say we can do that
00:21:14.800 and replace hydrocarbons.
00:21:17.140 The fact is, most of these renewables are complementary.
00:21:20.800 They complement the existing menu of energies you have.
00:21:24.140 They're not there to substitute or replace.
00:21:26.920 Nothing short of that will, I think, convince people that the law of thermodynamics,
00:21:31.240 and as you said before, physics must apply here.
00:21:33.800 And it's the great corrector in all this, Corey.
00:21:36.200 We need to see our legislators and those who are making decisions on behalf of the country
00:21:42.340 to get with the program and realize these mandates, EV mandates, clean energy regulations,
00:21:49.180 carbon taxes, what's the other one, the EV availability standard.
00:21:53.760 All of these things are wonderful, utopic ideas.
00:21:58.520 But when subject to reality, the harsh reality of the climate which we live in,
00:22:04.580 they're not ready and they're fundamentally dangerous to our existence in a very cold and very prohibitive country.
00:22:11.300 Yeah, well, we've got an ideologically driven government.
00:22:14.400 I mean, they just won't seem to face reality.
00:22:16.700 And when it comes to some of the things in trying to force people to convert away from conventional energy sources,
00:22:22.220 I see on Black Knocks reporter today, and they're fantastic, of course.
00:22:26.160 They broke with, you know, we saw the carbon tax exemption that the liberals carved out for the Maritimes
00:22:31.520 because they realized they were dropping in support over there.
00:22:34.080 But they said, this is because we're going to switch everybody to heat pumps, though.
00:22:37.040 We just need to move them over.
00:22:39.080 And they brought in this incentive of a grant of up to $15,000 to move to a heat pump.
00:22:44.040 But the numbers came out, and this has been almost a year since they brought in those grants.
00:22:48.160 There have been 80 oil furnaces replaced.
00:22:50.780 80.
00:22:51.780 I mean, it's absurd.
00:22:53.860 But they won't back off.
00:22:55.220 No, they won't back off because it is not something they really care about
00:22:59.420 because no one's holding their feet to the fire as far as finances and scrutiny.
00:23:03.660 And you're looking at, look, Cape Breton buried in 100 centimeters of snow.
00:23:08.400 Many of those heat pumps do not work in that kind of circumstance.
00:23:10.900 I'm not going to dump on people heat pumps, especially if they're, you know,
00:23:14.420 they got them for a reason because they thought it was free or the government's out there.
00:23:17.360 But it's irresponsible, to say the least, to assume that you can put those heat pumps in and have a great life.
00:23:25.620 The reality is that, don't take my word for it, no insurance company in this country is going to give you coverage
00:23:31.080 if you only have a heat pump as a means of keeping your home warm.
00:23:35.140 You have to have an alternative source rather than worrying about the alternative,
00:23:39.980 rather than trying to be cute and trendy.
00:23:42.060 Maybe we stick with what works, continue to improve that.
00:23:45.100 We've done so in the case of heating.
00:23:46.800 We've done so in the case of automotive efficiencies.
00:23:50.700 I mean, the internal combustion engine mated with a hybrid, mated with, you know,
00:23:55.040 taking away real pollution as we did 50 years ago with the use of catalysts on vehicles,
00:24:02.660 catalytic converters, these are technologies that are game changers,
00:24:06.220 but they will continue to allow us to recognize that fossil fuels are going to be here for a very long time,
00:24:11.580 well past our existence for all of us who are here today and born as of this day forward.
00:24:16.040 Oh, yeah.
00:24:16.340 I mean, the Hyundai I drive today, I mean, the mileage it gets compared to the old Cutlass
00:24:19.840 I used to drive around at the end of the 80s.
00:24:21.880 I mean, you can't even compare the two of them anymore, but it still needs gasoline.
00:24:25.880 I'm not getting around that.
00:24:27.020 It's the most efficient means for me.
00:24:29.340 Kind of getting, bringing things back to a little more.
00:24:31.240 I mean, something you've been helpful with, too, and a lot of you did in the past, though,
00:24:34.560 in the short game, I mean, we've had very volatile energy prices in Calgary for whatever reason.
00:24:40.600 I guess just last night, gasoline prices went up 12 cents a liter.
00:24:44.820 It pays for people to shop around, though, and watch for these things.
00:24:48.300 I mean, if you saw that coming, perhaps you could have filled the car up yesterday before this hit.
00:24:52.420 What are the reasons for these spikes going on?
00:24:55.340 Well, look, I tweeted that on Friday.
00:24:57.720 I said, folks, get ready.
00:24:59.020 It's going to go up 10 cents a liter plus, more or less, because I can't determine how much a gas retailer is going to charge as far as their margin is concerned.
00:25:07.340 But I warned people.
00:25:08.240 I also put it up on gaswizard.ca, the site I operate.
00:25:12.080 And no takers.
00:25:13.520 No, certainly none of the mainstream media took interest in it until it actually happened, at which point I got one, and you're the second media that's actually called me on it.
00:25:21.460 And I suspect that they probably don't want to hear the fact is that we're paying a lot more than we ought to because the federal government has destroyed the, in many respects, scuppered the value of the Canadian dollar.
00:25:31.500 That's adding 20 cents a liter of gasoline.
00:25:33.800 Of course, the carbon tax at 14.31 cents a liter.
00:25:36.880 So between the two of them, that's an extra 30, 35 cents a liter.
00:25:39.660 I don't think a lot of people would be complaining if we're paying a buck a liter.
00:25:42.480 But the reason is simple.
00:25:44.240 One of the refineries, the biggest one in the U.S. Midwest, the BP Whitting Plant in Indiana went down with a power failure.
00:25:50.800 There's a irony.
00:25:51.880 They didn't have a backup.
00:25:53.060 So they relied on the grid.
00:25:55.020 Electricity went down, caused some damage, and that caused a short temporary supply problem, if you will, on the gasoline side.
00:26:04.100 We're still going to see another 2 cent wholesale price increase come tomorrow.
00:26:08.040 Diesel, we're still not out of the woods yet.
00:26:09.740 That jumped 5 cents a liter, which you'll see at most gas stations, eventually passed on, whether you're in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, or B.C.'s interior.
00:26:19.220 Well, there you go.
00:26:20.060 So, I mean, there's that good sense.
00:26:21.460 Just to let all you viewers and listeners remember, you see, Dan told you so.
00:26:25.460 So keep an eye on them.
00:26:26.680 I mean, you can't predict everything.
00:26:28.320 You can't stop everything.
00:26:29.300 But sometimes you can see that coming down the pipe, and maybe you can kind of stock up a little and save a few bucks because budgets are tight right now for most people.
00:26:36.200 I mean, these are not the best of times.
00:26:38.000 And that was something frustrating when I crossed the border into the States as well.
00:26:42.140 I mean, I was driving through Arizona that, you know, has next to nothing for oil and gas resources.
00:26:49.840 Yet, even with the bad Canadian dollar, when I would do the conversion, I was still paying a good 20 to 30 cents a liter less for fuel there than I do in Alberta when I can see an oil pump every time I look to the left or the right.
00:27:00.200 Yeah, look, a couple of things to keep in mind, and that's the big one, because as a country, we've accepted the blocking of pipelines as policies and frustrating our resources from getting to the market.
00:27:10.760 No one wants to buy Canadian dollars, nothing to trade with.
00:27:15.600 We're not an interesting company.
00:27:16.840 Of course, we're talking about housing, and we know that there's a lot of questions now emerging as to how the housing bubble occurred.
00:27:22.500 But beyond that, the real danger in Canada is the fact that we don't have a lot of interest in what we have, and therefore currency takes a beating.
00:27:30.840 135 pennies to buy a U.S. dollar.
00:27:33.320 Corey, I don't want to just talk about gasoline.
00:27:35.460 Let's talk about every commodity that we use in this country is priced in U.S. dollars, whether it's made here or not.
00:27:42.940 So when people go around scratching your head saying, oh, food prices are up or the cost of housing and cut materials up.
00:27:49.040 Well, you know, there's a good reason for that.
00:27:50.740 It's because by blocking pipelines and making Canada an uninteresting place to invest in particular, you have a weak Canadian dollar.
00:27:56.960 Then, of course, you have a carbon tax on top of that, and you have other taxes, federal and provincial.
00:28:02.220 But that makes up the main difference between ourselves in the United States.
00:28:05.480 And very frustrating, and to talk about it, my previous job working a few years in the United States with GasBuddy,
00:28:11.580 I saw the Americans building out their pipelines, pushing their energy sector under the previous administration,
00:28:18.140 while Canada sat back and allowed a group of international fanatics to basically hogtie our resources.
00:28:23.580 And as a result, you and I and everybody who's complaining about inflation today have really no one to blame,
00:28:29.600 but those who thought it was cool and acceptable.
00:28:31.600 There is a cost for these things, and if people don't want to smarten up,
00:28:34.960 well, they're going to wind up with having to make some choices about whether it's going to be able to eat or heat,
00:28:40.920 or be able to afford your mortgage, much less your rent.
00:28:43.840 Well, I mean, it's going to feel like forever, but eventually, somehow,
00:28:47.580 Justin Trudeau and his henchman, Gilboa, will be replaced.
00:28:51.780 Either it'll be a new liberal leader in power, or a new government with a new party in power.
00:28:57.000 What will that new administration have to do to try and shore up this trend of just high expenses,
00:29:03.440 even though we're a high-resource producer?
00:29:05.560 Well, we have to stop spending in certain areas.
00:29:08.740 I mean, gifting and grifting all of these climate organizations that get 30, 50 million bucks,
00:29:14.060 the Climate Institute, the Canadian Climate Institute, 30 million, got 20 million a few years ago.
00:29:18.360 They don't raise a lot of money.
00:29:20.000 Their work is to advocate their stuff, which is basically go around to governments,
00:29:23.260 tell them how to give them more money, print more money, and give us more money,
00:29:26.360 so that we can go and advocate even more damage to the Canadian economy
00:29:29.620 without an iota of change to the so-called climate.
00:29:33.580 We have to look at the reality that net zero, and all of its outshoots,
00:29:40.100 its policies, is likely to lead to significant deterioration in our economic outlook.
00:29:48.760 If we don't address that, and I'm not talking about delaying EV mandates,
00:29:52.620 and delaying carbon taxes, and delaying the clean fuel standard,
00:29:55.440 and delaying a cap on only oil and gas, which we know is discriminatory,
00:30:00.200 and a cap on production, we need to look at net zero,
00:30:03.700 line it up on the 30-yard line, and punt it right through the end zone,
00:30:07.460 because we don't do it.
00:30:09.040 Then Canadians are going to have to make a decision about the quality of life that they want.
00:30:12.080 If anybody believes for a moment that we can do without oil and gas physically,
00:30:16.280 and hydrocarbons, good luck with that.
00:30:18.860 There isn't a single thing that we use or consume that doesn't have a component of that within it.
00:30:22.920 And if we think we can do without 20 to 30 billion bucks in revenues,
00:30:26.600 the federal, provincial, and municipal governments,
00:30:29.180 yes, the municipal governments cash in on that as well.
00:30:31.720 You're dreaming technicolor.
00:30:32.980 And the last thing people like that should be is in politics.
00:30:35.660 They shouldn't be in the House of Commons.
00:30:37.160 We need reality back into politics.
00:30:39.020 And I'm hoping that at least one leader seems to be showing promise in that area.
00:30:42.960 I still have to prod him.
00:30:44.320 But I think here probably I will make an excellent prime minister.
00:30:46.540 But I can tell you to undo the damage that's been done by the coterie of fanatics
00:30:51.660 who've been in there for a long time won't happen overnight.
00:30:55.200 No, it is going to take some time.
00:30:56.480 Well, all we can do is keep pushing and studying and trying to inform people
00:31:01.040 and then hope we can turn that tide.
00:31:02.840 And that's what you've been doing a lot of.
00:31:04.080 So before I let you go, where can people find what you've been doing, Dan,
00:31:07.460 and what you put out there?
00:31:09.260 Yeah.
00:31:09.420 The work that I'm doing can always be found at affordableenergy.ca.
00:31:13.880 That's really the best place to sign up if you can.
00:31:16.340 And I appreciate you asking that.
00:31:17.900 As for gas price predictions, gas price wizard.
00:31:20.560 And, of course, if you have some opinions, I don't mind sharing them with you on X.
00:31:23.900 And we may agree or disagree, as long as, of course,
00:31:26.680 you're prepared to tell me who you are.
00:31:27.960 You're not a troll.
00:31:29.020 But I'll give you the benefit of the doubt.
00:31:30.740 But for those out there who want to get in a bit of a battle, no problem.
00:31:34.360 I'll do it up to a point.
00:31:36.260 Excellent.
00:31:36.580 Well, I appreciate the work you do, Dan.
00:31:38.240 And I appreciate you coming on to talk to us again.
00:31:41.240 Keep up the good work.
00:31:42.240 And I hope we get to talk again soon.
00:31:43.880 My pleasure.
00:31:44.560 Looking forward to that, Corey.
00:31:45.560 Take care.
00:31:46.280 Thanks, Dan.
00:31:47.200 So this is Dan McTeague of Canadians for Affordable Energy.
00:31:50.060 And as I said, he's a great resource online.
00:31:52.080 And he likes to debate.
00:31:53.020 He's fun on X.
00:31:55.140 It's not necessarily big, deep policy discussions on there.
00:31:57.720 But you can interact and cover some ground.
00:32:01.000 I mean, it's not necessarily a waste when you're on there.
00:32:06.080 You know, so something we talked about, and it's a column I'm going to have coming out
00:32:09.180 a little later in this week.
00:32:10.160 I talked about, you know, observational things I see, stuff I saw when I was traveling.
00:32:15.020 And when Dan sort of touched on it, he talked about how the Americans have, you know, developed
00:32:21.440 their oil.
00:32:21.980 They've expanded it.
00:32:22.860 While we're in Canada, we're kicking ourselves in the knackers collectively and shutting in
00:32:27.120 our resources, which costs us on every level.
00:32:30.320 It costs on resources for governments at every level.
00:32:33.740 And it costs economically.
00:32:36.340 And the number I looked up just to double check.
00:32:38.480 So when you look at the, and there's a lot of things that contribute to that, but a real
00:32:43.480 measure of a national wealth is the GDP per capita, gross domestic product per capita.
00:32:49.220 You know, how much product, how much activity, what is happening economically per person in
00:32:53.680 that country.
00:32:55.220 And in the United States, the GDP per capita is over $70,000 American.
00:33:01.240 It doesn't mean the average income is that.
00:33:02.700 It just means that as much, you know, economic generation.
00:33:05.320 In Canada, that number is 52,000 per person American, way lower, considerably lower.
00:33:14.700 Meanwhile, you can buy a big fine house in an economic powerhouse city like Houston for
00:33:22.620 two or $300,000.
00:33:24.200 In Canada, in any major city, you can't get anything under 600,000.
00:33:29.100 Or if you're going to be in Toronto or Vancouver, you're looking over a million.
00:33:31.740 So you're getting less money with more expensive consumer products.
00:33:36.540 Likewise with the fuel, right?
00:33:37.960 We're paying more for the fuel, but we have less in our pockets to do so.
00:33:44.040 The difference is just so stark.
00:33:45.900 And it's a difference in attitude.
00:33:47.160 It's a difference in culture.
00:33:48.920 And what I wrote about was what I saw.
00:33:52.260 I mean, I put on 4,000 miles.
00:33:54.640 I can still use miles with Jane while we traveled in the fifth wheel.
00:33:58.260 I like driving.
00:33:59.240 I do my long road trips.
00:34:00.320 It's my old oil field past.
00:34:01.640 I don't mind doing it.
00:34:02.620 And I did a lot of American work in the past.
00:34:04.480 And we went all the way down through Northern Idaho and then Utah and Arizona, New Mexico,
00:34:09.940 Texas, all the way back up through Colorado.
00:34:12.400 We covered 10 states in the last few weeks.
00:34:15.580 And we were mostly on interstate highways.
00:34:18.640 The interstate system, I just see it as a symbol of efficient, can-do capitalism on the
00:34:27.180 part, even though it's, you see, we're talking capitalism.
00:34:29.140 We're talking government-built infrastructure, but it's government-built infrastructure to
00:34:34.700 facilitate the trade of goods and services and the movement of private individual people.
00:34:42.200 So Eisenhower had a lot of foresight.
00:34:44.140 I'll give them that.
00:34:44.760 Post-World War II, they had a lot of soldiers.
00:34:46.480 They needed something to do.
00:34:47.640 They built that system throughout the United States.
00:34:50.440 And it's amazing.
00:34:51.780 I mean, you've got divided highway where you can go as fast as 85 miles an hour in some
00:34:55.620 areas.
00:34:55.880 I couldn't with the fifth wheel, but I mean, if you had a car, you could.
00:34:58.240 And it's the rest stops.
00:35:01.340 You know, again, you drive to Alberta, you go to a rest drop.
00:35:03.800 It's a garbage can on the side of the highway where four people can park.
00:35:06.740 I went to a rest stop in New Mexico, and it was a tourist destination almost with modern
00:35:11.400 sculptures, heated washrooms, spotless, lots of parking, a dog park, you name it.
00:35:18.020 And it's typical because they want to encourage people to travel.
00:35:22.680 They want to encourage and make it easy and cost-effective to move around that country.
00:35:26.980 So those interstates crisscross the country all over the place.
00:35:30.380 You don't hit stoplights.
00:35:31.860 I came in from the south on I-15, finally, back into Alberta at Kootz.
00:35:37.500 And the difference was just stark.
00:35:40.240 I'm still on a divided highway, but then I go into Lethbridge, and I got a bunch of traffic
00:35:42.860 lights, and I'm going 50 kilometers an hour, and the truckers are all backed up.
00:35:45.940 There's no truck stocks, no gas stations.
00:35:47.440 It's garbage.
00:35:47.980 And it's like that everywhere.
00:35:51.360 But that's because we don't value commerce.
00:35:54.320 We don't look at that.
00:35:55.160 We don't look at that long term as to why we should be developing our country.
00:35:59.180 A lot of goods and services goods, anyways, are transported.
00:36:02.480 Truckers actually travel on the interstate south of the border to get across the continent.
00:36:07.260 You know, it could be a Canadian delivery.
00:36:08.820 It could hit Vancouver, go south, drive through the states, and then come back up and deliver
00:36:12.500 in Toronto because it's not worth driving that crappy Trans-Canada highway.
00:36:15.920 And it is crappy, guys, when you compare it to an American interstate.
00:36:19.420 There's some nice stretches of the highway, but you still get stuck in Regina, driving
00:36:23.580 through a business district and slowing down and stopping.
00:36:27.260 It doesn't have those restaurants.
00:36:28.480 It doesn't have the truck stops.
00:36:29.720 I mean, there was a truck stop we hit in Wyoming that it was like a resort.
00:36:35.220 It had leather chairs with a fireplace where you could sit and drink your coffee, and there
00:36:39.940 were like five different businesses serving food and coffee in this stop.
00:36:43.380 But the Americans just have a much better attitude with these things.
00:36:48.880 In Canada, we seem to love mediocrity.
00:36:51.500 Oh, we wouldn't want to do that.
00:36:52.700 We wouldn't want to divide it.
00:36:53.280 Then more people would drive.
00:36:54.940 Yes.
00:36:55.760 You know what they would drive besides their vehicles?
00:36:57.400 They would drive the economy.
00:36:59.260 And you would get tourists, more tourists, because people don't want to endure the slow
00:37:03.280 stop and start expensive travel that we have right now.
00:37:07.120 But if it was nice and smooth like that, yeah, they'd be more inclined to do it.
00:37:10.400 More truckers would be inclined to stay up here.
00:37:12.440 The goods and services would move faster.
00:37:14.440 They would burn less fuel.
00:37:16.880 Your costs of those goods and services would go down.
00:37:20.580 We can't do that here.
00:37:21.700 That's not the Canadian way.
00:37:22.900 We spend our money instead on social justice initiatives and giving money to other countries
00:37:29.460 and things like that.
00:37:30.760 LC saying no more foreigners.
00:37:32.380 You know, that's getting a little too broad.
00:37:33.700 I understand that we do have another issue that's going on in Canada.
00:37:37.460 It's a big one and not enough people to talk about, but some are starting.
00:37:40.000 We are bringing in way too many immigrants.
00:37:43.740 Now, going to zero, that's just stupid.
00:37:45.180 If you want to castrate the economy and really harm Canada, drop immigration to zero.
00:37:51.920 That's not reasonable.
00:37:53.040 It's not smart.
00:37:53.980 And it's not a good idea.
00:37:56.240 But we also don't want to be bringing in over a million people a year the way we are as
00:38:00.120 it is.
00:38:00.500 But as you know, said, yes, you know, way too many.
00:38:03.960 We've got to get it down to a reasonable level.
00:38:05.760 When you get back to that GDP per capita I was talking about, that's part of why we are
00:38:10.500 falling in that.
00:38:11.300 Even though the Americans, again, they got a lot of challenges.
00:38:13.780 It's not a perfect country by any means.
00:38:15.400 And they've got masses of illegal immigrants coming, of course, across the Mexican border.
00:38:19.940 But even then, their GDP per capita is far outpacing ours.
00:38:24.480 And as we bring more people in, we split the resources we have among more people.
00:38:30.480 I mean, and they contribute.
00:38:32.120 Immigrants contribute.
00:38:33.020 They work.
00:38:33.600 They come in.
00:38:34.140 They bring funds with them.
00:38:35.320 They aren't all coming in broke.
00:38:36.740 They bring in education.
00:38:38.260 They bring in skilled labor.
00:38:39.640 It's good for the country.
00:38:40.680 But you can only bring them in at a speed with which you can absorb and integrate properly.
00:38:45.840 And we're not doing that.
00:38:46.580 We've gone beyond that.
00:38:47.620 We don't have enough health care access right now.
00:38:50.460 We don't have enough housing, of course, right now.
00:38:53.880 And finally, some people are just facing that reality to start talking about at least
00:38:58.480 tapping the brakes.
00:38:59.520 We're not talking about ending immigration or coming down on those who are coming here.
00:39:03.720 Hey, good for them.
00:39:04.600 I appreciate it.
00:39:05.540 They're coming here to work.
00:39:06.760 They're doing us a lot of good.
00:39:09.160 But we've got to get the numbers into reality.
00:39:11.980 And reality just doesn't seem to be a priority of this government.
00:39:14.200 It just has not been.
00:39:15.260 And that's what Dan was talking about.
00:39:16.460 And it's going to take, even if we change the government, and even if Polyev turns out
00:39:20.760 to be as good as we all hope he is, it's going to take him some time to undo the terrible
00:39:25.720 damage that years of this ideologically driven government have done.
00:39:30.060 And yeah, I mean, Polyev, you know, speaking of watching him battling with the media again
00:39:34.900 today, they're screaming at him and getting on his case because, yeah, he was being a bit
00:39:39.100 belligerent and answering their questions with questions because, of course, they're always
00:39:41.620 trying to play gotcha with him.
00:39:42.900 The legacy media outlets are activist media outlets because they're all beholden on government
00:39:48.200 dollars.
00:39:48.740 Trudeau bought the media.
00:39:50.860 Let's just face it.
00:39:52.180 They're also subsidy dependent that they want to do the bidding of the prime minister so
00:40:00.020 they can keep getting those dollars, even if unconsciously.
00:40:03.380 So they're on Polyev's case.
00:40:05.140 It's funny when they get upset with Polyev because he'll eat an apple when somebody's trying
00:40:09.740 a loaded, stupid question at him, or he'll call out at a reporter when they throw a loaded,
00:40:14.920 stupid question at him, and they do all the time.
00:40:17.440 Do they ever call out Justin when he feeds them word salad?
00:40:21.480 When they ask a direct question and he gives platitudes?
00:40:25.720 When the prime minister is asked about something straightforward that just needed a yes or no,
00:40:29.900 and he answers with something that isn't even related to what they ask, but they don't
00:40:33.160 get on his case like they do with Polyev.
00:40:36.760 You know, there's an irony.
00:40:37.920 Talk about the media, if it's going to take on some role, some ideological role as reporters,
00:40:43.280 not necessarily take on a bias, but a mandate to feel like you're holding the government
00:40:48.820 or elected officials accountable.
00:40:50.680 That's what a lot of reporters pride themselves.
00:40:52.720 That's what I'm doing.
00:40:53.500 I'm holding these public officials accountable.
00:40:56.620 Well, right now, they seem to be all focused on holding the official opposition accountable
00:41:01.600 and giving a pass to the prime minister, Dingbat, who has a lot of things he needs to be held
00:41:09.280 accountable for.
00:41:10.060 Yesterday, he only made it 11 minutes in the House of Commons before he scrambled out of
00:41:14.460 there fast as hell because the questions were getting too hot for him because he can't
00:41:18.620 think on his feet.
00:41:19.380 We know that.
00:41:20.060 He's not exactly a luminary, guys.
00:41:22.640 He's got nice hair.
00:41:23.420 So, the media should try and hold him accountable.
00:41:26.880 They don't.
00:41:27.720 They don't.
00:41:29.080 And why did he go running, hightailing out of the parliament?
00:41:33.200 Well, because the questions were coming around about, yes, we're getting all the way back
00:41:36.040 to last fall's brilliant, international, embarrassing Canadian issue where those peckerheads brought
00:41:41.960 a literal Nazi.
00:41:43.260 A literal Nazi.
00:41:44.400 Everybody calls everybody a Nazi all the time all over the place.
00:41:46.560 No, this was a guy who served in the Waffen-SS with Ukraine and welcomed him to the House
00:41:52.520 of Commons applauded him, an SS member.
00:41:57.200 And then they threw the speaker under the bus when it was discovered.
00:42:01.100 You know, of course, because we look like fools.
00:42:03.980 So, the speaker lost his job.
00:42:05.620 He's out.
00:42:06.220 But now the news just broke.
00:42:07.760 Well, no.
00:42:09.900 Actually, it was the prime minister's office was very tied into this whole thing.
00:42:13.780 Uh, Justin doesn't want to answer those questions.
00:42:17.700 And you know what?
00:42:18.600 No, I doubt Trudeau himself invited that Nazi, though who knows?
00:42:22.800 Who knows?
00:42:23.740 If he did, the thing is, I could give him the credit of the ignorance because we know, again,
00:42:28.920 he's not the sharpest knife in the drawer.
00:42:30.840 Unless World War II was laid out in a pop-up coloring book, he wouldn't have the intellectual
00:42:35.920 depth and knowledge of history to know that if somebody was fighting in the war in Ukraine
00:42:43.600 in that time period against the Soviets, because that's what they knew, it's a Nazi.
00:42:51.440 Hey, Justin didn't know that.
00:42:54.160 But, I mean, it doesn't matter.
00:42:54.980 He's in charge, right?
00:42:55.820 When it says PMO, and I know they're just pushing the blame all over the place, that's
00:42:59.380 prime minister's office.
00:43:01.260 Even if he was ignorant of what the office did, the buck should stop with him.
00:43:05.880 But nobody holds him accountable.
00:43:07.180 He runs away.
00:43:07.940 Yesterday, he ran away.
00:43:09.040 It was cowardly looking.
00:43:10.320 As some others have pointed out, yeah, he seems stunned.
00:43:12.160 He's been bizarre lately, more bizarre than usual.
00:43:16.120 And he just doesn't seem with it.
00:43:18.640 And he was never all that with it to start with.
00:43:20.400 So why are the media silent on that?
00:43:22.740 Again, well, who's paying a lot of their bills, right?
00:43:25.740 We'll call them out, that's for sure.
00:43:27.460 So again, yeah, getting back to that.
00:43:28.660 So, I mean, let's talk about the temperature.
00:43:30.360 Dave mentioned this, too.
00:43:31.840 In Parliament, things are getting heated.
00:43:33.300 I guess that frustration going back and forth.
00:43:34.900 Attorney General Arif Varani apologized, I guess, because he shouted things in the House
00:43:42.080 of Commons with some swears.
00:43:44.600 I think he called Poly of an effing tool.
00:43:47.720 You know, I don't know.
00:43:49.220 I, it's unparliamentary, it's not dignified.
00:43:55.440 It's not a good example of presenting yourself in a legislature or House of Commons.
00:44:01.660 That's not the end of the world, either.
00:44:03.180 This stuff's been going on.
00:44:04.320 You know, people always talk about, oh, this is the worst ever.
00:44:06.380 Oh, it's so adversarial.
00:44:07.260 Guys, it's always been that way.
00:44:09.720 Always read your history.
00:44:10.820 Look at even some of the exchanges from Sir John A. MacDonald.
00:44:13.660 You know, you can look up some of those things.
00:44:16.240 He was drunk half the time, not saying that we should always give a pass to vulgarity and
00:44:20.940 things like that.
00:44:21.280 He's not doing himself any favors this minister when he did that, and he had to apologize.
00:44:25.780 But I mean, I can't get on a high horse.
00:44:27.580 Anybody who reads my Twitter feed knows that I'm far from avoiding expletives to drive my
00:44:33.720 points home on a regular basis.
00:44:35.140 This isn't the biggest story of the year, but it's still worth noting and I guess almost
00:44:38.520 laughing about in a sense.
00:44:42.460 But it's, you know, just another thing going on.
00:44:46.220 If you remember back when Ralph Klein was in office in Alberta, the parliament was full
00:44:51.900 of fireworks all the time, and it was back when Kretchen and Mulroney were going to.
00:44:55.860 It was never civil.
00:44:57.240 That's why these places, I mean, it's an adversarial environment.
00:45:00.320 They're facing each other.
00:45:01.240 They're across from each other.
00:45:02.280 They get lathered and worked up.
00:45:03.980 And the irony is, if you actually get to one of these legislatures, after all that performance
00:45:07.580 and theater, they'll often share the same tables at the cafeteria and chat with each
00:45:11.440 other.
00:45:11.780 Often they are also at each other's throats as much as it would sound like.
00:45:15.340 But it's not the biggest, you know, affair of the year.
00:45:20.440 And yeah, finally, you know, speaking of capitalism, I said that guy walking around Calgary at a casino
00:45:24.600 giving out samples of his cocaine.
00:45:25.880 You know, funny, I just started watching a series, I think it was Griselda, talk, you know, and
00:45:30.000 it shows it's about a Coke dealer way back in the late 70s, early 80s, who was starting to break
00:45:35.300 into the market of the rich by getting, giving them all free, free Coke, getting them to learn
00:45:39.060 to like it and then becoming good customers later.
00:45:40.740 I'm wondering if that's what happened to inspire this dingbat.
00:45:43.520 But don't get too wound up and watching Netflix, Hammerhead, it's still illegal to distribute
00:45:49.300 cocaine.
00:45:50.300 And when you're giving it out for free, people will catch up and get you.
00:45:53.920 But whatever, at least, you know, criminals don't tend to be the smartest ones.
00:45:59.040 That's why they end up getting elected office instead.
00:46:01.500 All right, well, that's what I've got for this week, guys.
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