Western Standard - November 07, 2026


CORY MORGAN SHOW： Alberta’s campus neutrality legislation needs teeth

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00:00:00.000 Good day, welcome to the Corey Morgan Show.
00:00:29.160 i hope you all survive the time change oh yeah it didn't change i never heard so much pissing
00:00:34.760 and moaning about oh my lord my outlook calendar doesn't match my apple watch doesn't match my car 0.93
00:00:41.320 clock oh get over it guys come on see that's the stupidity of changing it twice a year it's over 0.97
00:00:46.440 it's finished i know everybody somebody's gonna complain about which side of it or the other we 0.74
00:00:49.960 stuck to and uh the sporting games don't match the old ones that they used to in the times of day 0.74
00:00:55.720 it'll be okay we'll get over it the world didn't end we got through y2k we can get through these
00:01:00.600 time changes either way lots to cover be sure to use that comment scroll it is a live show i like
00:01:06.120 seeing that discourse i don't necessarily read them all out but i do see them there and it
00:01:10.600 helps keep me rolling along there's a lot to cover today as usual lots going on oh yeah the americans
00:01:15.480 had a midterm election last weekend didn't they probably a bit of stuff to talk about that last 0.99
00:01:19.880 weekend what am i saying yesterday i got a guest coming on lindsey wilson she's been on before she 1.00
00:01:24.040 she does a lot of advocacy and different things. There's a conference coming up for women 1.00
00:01:27.300 called Doing It Right Women's Conference. We're going to discuss a little bit of that and women
00:01:31.880 politics and things such as that, those foreign creatures that I don't have much understanding 1.00
00:01:35.700 about. So Lindsay can certainly shed more light on those issues than I will. But all right,
00:01:40.400 let's talk about something that was a good news. I think it's a policy that's probably good coming
00:01:44.400 out of the Alberta government, but needs a little more room for fixing. Universities and neutralities.
00:01:50.440 I mean, universities, they're supposed to be the one place in our society where every idea can be put on the table and examined, argued over, well, even torn apart.
00:01:59.900 Well, that's the whole point, right?
00:02:01.000 A university isn't a church.
00:02:02.540 It's not a political party.
00:02:04.020 And it shouldn't be an activist group.
00:02:05.340 It's an arena.
00:02:06.200 And it only works if the people running it, though, don't pick one of the teams.
00:02:10.680 And that's why I think Bill 38 is a good thing.
00:02:13.160 It was tabled by the advanced education minister, Miles McDougall.
00:02:17.360 And this Advanced Education Statutes Amendment Act, boy, they love their words,
00:02:22.360 would require, though, every post-secondary institution in Alberta
00:02:24.800 to adopt an institutional neutrality policy and freedom of expression policy.
00:02:30.640 So to put it straightforward, the institution itself has to stop taking official positions
00:02:35.460 on political and social issues that have nothing to do with its academic mission.
00:02:39.500 Professors can still say what they want, students can still protest what they like,
00:02:43.020 but the president's office has to stop speaking for everybody.
00:02:46.660 why does this matter well because when a university takes an official position it tells
00:02:50.580 every student and every faculty member which side is the safe side and we've seen in alberta what
00:02:54.980 happens to people who end up on the unsafe side look at francis widdowson mount royal university
00:03:00.900 fired her in 2021 after a big controversy over her comments on residential schools and black lives
00:03:07.380 matters you don't have to agree with everything she says but a tenured academic losing her job
00:03:13.700 overviews should make everybody who values open inquiry nervous and it got worse in early 2023
00:03:19.620 a philosophy professor at university of lethbridge invited widowson to give a talk
00:03:23.540 titled how wokeism threatens academic freedom kind of ironic considering what happened at first
00:03:29.300 the university actually said the talk would go ahead under its free expression policy
00:03:32.820 but made a point of saying her views conflicted with the university's own commitments whatever
00:03:36.660 that is then after there was petitions and pressure they said no you know what we're not
00:03:40.260 going to have you here well being francis widows and she just showed up anyway hundreds of 1.00
00:03:45.060 protesters packed the atrium chanted screamed almost rioted and drowned her out security then 0.91
00:03:51.380 removed widows and she ended up giving her talk over zoom and what did the university president
00:03:56.340 say that night he thanked the crowd for conducting themselves in his words a peaceful and powerful
00:04:01.780 manner and said the evening was a reflection of the values of the university of lethbridge think
00:04:06.020 about that a lecture on academic freedom was shut down by a mob and the institution's official
00:04:10.820 response was to applaud the mob that's not neutrality that's an institution picking a
00:04:15.060 side and then cheering when the other side silenced and that's what bill 38 is supposed to end a
00:04:20.660 neutral university doesn't issue statements that put the whole institution beside one side of a
00:04:25.780 political debate and a neutral university doesn't cancel the room when the pressure gets hot
00:04:32.180 the job is to keep the room open and keep the rooms doors secured if you have to that's part
00:04:36.500 of your role let people hear what they came to hear while the protesters can protest outside
00:04:40.260 but without shutting it down it's not too much to ask from institutions that live largely on
00:04:44.580 taxpayer money now the problem i have with the bill though is it doesn't have teeth i was on
00:04:50.660 the phone at the minister's press conference on tuesday and asked directly if an institution
00:04:54.820 breaks its neutrality policy will there be consequences like funding holdbacks or is
00:04:58.740 it's just a set of suggested guidelines. Well, his answer to me was, there have to be some
00:05:03.220 consequences if you don't follow the rules and the law. Well, good. So what are they? Well,
00:05:08.000 he wouldn't say. Penalties, he said, will be done by regulation worked out with the post-secondary
00:05:13.180 stakeholders to figure out what would be reasonable. Well, the stakeholders, in other
00:05:17.880 words, are the very administrations that created this problem, and they get to help decide how
00:05:21.720 much they're going to be punished for it. So I asked a follow-up. They said, you know,
00:05:25.500 what about the tricks the universities use already, like hitting controversial speakers
00:05:30.520 with security fees or cancelling events over threatened protests? You know, letting protesters
00:05:35.440 shut down a lawful event. Would that be an offence? He didn't say yes. He said the expectation is
00:05:40.580 institutions would provide a neutral environment, and we'll leave it up to the institutions to
00:05:45.000 manage that. We'll leave it up to the institutions. That's how we got the Lethbridge incident, isn't
00:05:49.160 it? A law without consequences is just a press release, guys. If Bill 38 is going to mean anything,
00:05:54.560 the penalties need to be written down and clear before this passes, not left to closed-door
00:05:58.560 regulations later. Tie compliance to funding. Give students and faculty who were silenced a way to
00:06:04.960 appeal outside of their own institution. How about this? If you fine a university and cancel some of
00:06:09.420 their funding, give it to the group that was kicked out. That'll make them wake up, wouldn't it?
00:06:13.220 Make it plain that shutting down a lawful speaker isn't a peaceful and powerful display of values,
00:06:18.060 it's a failure, and it is a cost. The government has the principal right, but now it needs to show
00:06:22.700 it's serious because neutrality you can't enforce is just one more thing for university administrators
00:06:28.380 to ignore either way good and bad out of that bill let's hope they tune it up all right dave
00:06:33.360 how's it going it's going okay how are you good you're happy with not changing your clock i am 0.96
00:06:37.940 i always thought it was stupid it was but whoa hey you got that for the blooper tape i didn't 0.96
00:06:44.040 get enough sleep you know so i have because that darn clock changed so i've knocked my computer 0.97
00:06:47.820 around the only problem i have with it is uh sporting events like the flames game tonight is
00:06:53.660 not starting until 9 p.m right i mean you can't stay away for the end for the end of that well
00:06:59.500 imagine if you're in the east i i understand but you know what the leagues have got to adjust to
00:07:03.500 the changing in north america not uh us i think we might be talking about uh impossibilities there
00:07:10.700 i also can't get over we're only one hour behind toronto or ahead of toronto whichever way it goes
00:07:16.460 yeah my entire life has been two hours it's a lot of miles now all of a sudden it's one
00:07:21.660 hour and now what are we still two or three and a half hours newfoundland always has to
00:07:24.940 be newfoundland yeah they've got to be different did you watch the uh democratic uh thrashings
00:07:32.860 last night no i go to bed too early for those things but i mean i got up early in the morning
00:07:36.620 to see what uh what happened it was a debacle for the republicans wasn't it it is not a good
00:07:41.180 shilling for them no uh historic historic losses uh president trump is blaming the the war in iran
00:07:48.700 as uh the reason he lost and also the fact he wasn't running yeah he said if he was running
00:07:53.980 he would have won uh that looks like uh the uh the rumor now is he's going to make hegseth the 0.96
00:08:00.060 defense secretary a fall guy and and get rid of him doug ford is happier than a pig in you know
00:08:08.140 what because he doesn't like trump and says he can't trust trump but he's glad that he took a 0.79
00:08:14.140 big loss and excuse me he's going to send his ministers to washington to to talk to all these
00:08:19.820 new people and and try and get a trade deal done uh we have breaking news out of mckenzie british
00:08:26.540 columbia which is middle of nowhere 180 kilometers north of prince george uh bus has gone off the
00:08:34.300 the highway and crashed. Multiple injuries. We've got multiple ambulances, multiple helicopter
00:08:41.920 medical air vacs headed to the scene. So we'll be keeping an eye out on that for the next
00:08:47.080 hour or so. But it doesn't sound good. Edmonton police released their budget. They're looking
00:08:53.700 for an extra $183 million over the next couple of years to try and help fight crime. And
00:09:01.460 Um, yeah, it's bad, you know, their downtown is about as bad as our downtown.
00:09:05.160 It's worse.
00:09:06.160 If anybody's been to Edmonton lately, actually, uh, yeah, I mean, it's bad in Calgary, but
00:09:09.700 it's worse than Edmonton.
00:09:10.700 They gotta do something. 0.99
00:09:11.700 Gotta do something, you know, and, you know, all this defund the police stuff is rubbish.
00:09:14.980 You gotta give the police, uh, enough, uh, boots on the ground to, to deal with it.
00:09:19.700 Uh, a poll out today by Think HQ, that's, uh, our friend, uh, Mark Henry, who runs that
00:09:25.380 very reputable company, uh, showing provincial support for Danielle Smith.
00:09:31.100 down to 39%. He neck and neck running with the NDP overall. But the interesting thing
00:09:39.820 is that she's still got high support within the UCP, which is showing how ludicrous this
00:09:46.500 Jeff Rath led attempt to get rid of Smith. It's not going to work. The AGM is coming
00:09:52.700 up at the end of the month. I'm sure Jeff will try and cause some trouble, even though
00:09:59.280 has had his invitation revoked and his party membership, uh, torn up.
00:10:03.280 So, uh, but she's still got the support of, uh, of most of the party members.
00:10:08.280 So yeah, I think, I mean, my view on it is, you know, we're going to get through
00:10:11.280 the AGM, there's going to be more of the turmoil.
00:10:12.920 Everybody's going to be watching it in the noise.
00:10:14.420 Then Christmas is going to come and go.
00:10:15.920 And, uh, I think the referendum year is going to be put in the past for most people.
00:10:20.180 I mean, you know, there's independent support looking farther ahead, but this
00:10:23.060 year it's done, it's, it's, it's been covered.
00:10:24.940 I think, cause that's what the lodestone is.
00:10:27.360 I mean, it really has been hard on her party and her support.
00:10:30.300 Exactly. 0.92
00:10:31.240 The eye surgeons of Alberta are revolting.
00:10:34.940 You remember last week the province gave optometrists
00:10:37.640 limited power to do eye surgeries and stuff like that.
00:10:43.100 And the guys who do it for a living are throwing up warning flags,
00:10:47.800 safety issues, all that sort of good stuff.
00:10:50.200 So trying to get reaction from the provincial government on that.
00:10:53.900 Well, we'll see if they respond.
00:10:55.340 I mean, I like it.
00:10:56.120 there's other countries, I looked into that this morning,
00:10:58.660 that have already been doing it with optometrists.
00:11:00.300 They're not having safety issues, they're not having problems.
00:11:02.280 I think I just see perhaps some doctors
00:11:04.080 who have a cornered market for themselves
00:11:05.400 and don't like competition.
00:11:06.740 You think?
00:11:07.240 That could be.
00:11:08.820 Watch it.
00:11:09.300 I'm hoping to save in my nickels so eventually I could get it.
00:11:11.560 I don't want to piss off whatever doctor I could do.
00:11:13.020 Yeah, I'm thinking about doing it next year,
00:11:15.140 so we'll have to see.
00:11:17.220 Yeah.
00:11:17.960 As long as it drops prices.
00:11:19.560 Well, and availability.
00:11:20.600 I mean, again, safety is a concern.
00:11:22.540 I mean, if you go in and you come out with only one eye, 1.00
00:11:24.140 Oh, shit. 0.99
00:11:24.580 Well, I saved $100, but it was good. 1.00
00:11:27.220 There you go.
00:11:27.760 Yeah, no, you don't want to mess around with your eyesight.
00:11:29.620 No.
00:11:30.480 Okay, well.
00:11:31.420 That's it.
00:11:31.900 That's all.
00:11:32.340 Right on.
00:11:32.920 Thanks for the updates, and, well, see you on the pipeline a little while.
00:11:36.060 See you on the pipeline.
00:11:36.760 Right on.
00:11:37.840 That is our news editor, Dave Naylor.
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00:12:19.100 So it'll be interesting to see, though,
00:12:21.280 that fallout from the midterms in the states there. I mean, you can't avoid it. There's no
00:12:26.880 other way to polish it though, guys. It was a trouncing and it was a rough one. A number of
00:12:33.460 senators. Look at Texas for crying out loud. They've now got a Democrat governor. They got a 0.66
00:12:39.040 Democrat senator. The Republicans have got to reevaluate themselves. Whatever you might think.
00:12:45.560 If you're one of those people who likes Trump and I don't know how you do, but whatever,
00:12:48.380 each their own. He's not doing any favors for the conservative minded in general. And if they don't
00:12:58.100 want a massive Democrat majority in two years from now when the time comes, they've got to really
00:13:03.800 examine who's going to lead their party and in which direction. And maybe Trump got some things
00:13:07.580 accomplished and whatnot, changed the tone. Fair enough. But obviously at this point, most Americans
00:13:14.120 have had enough of him and he is weighing things down he could blame it on everybody else the
00:13:18.760 irony of it saying oh if he was on the ticket they would have won all of those come on guys
00:13:23.800 let's get a little serious now whatever that's the americans thing to deal with
00:13:28.680 it's up to them it's up to their voters how that impacts us up here i don't know i mean how do you
00:13:33.000 predict anything donald trump does now he's got two more years he's still got executive authority
00:13:39.560 on trade and a whole number of things, and he's going to be crankier and probably more
00:13:43.700 volatile than he's ever been. So I don't know if that's going to bode well for us going forward
00:13:48.580 or not. I know Carney's really trying to say that they're making progress with their talks and such.
00:13:54.040 Maybe they are. I hope so. This trade thing is just not good for anybody on either side of the
00:13:58.620 border. It really isn't. We've got to remember, we get Democrats in. They aren't necessarily
00:14:03.620 free traders either. It was the senior George Bush who brought in free trade in the past,
00:14:08.960 And it was President Biden who shut down the Keystone Line.
00:14:14.520 So I don't think we're going to get our problems all solved just once Trump's gone.
00:14:17.480 We've got some other issues to deal with.
00:14:19.640 And hopefully we get some actual capitalists in for a change.
00:14:22.980 That would be nice.
00:14:23.540 We understand that you can't tax your way to prosperity.
00:14:26.500 And expanding trade actually helps both sides.
00:14:29.440 But maybe that's just a dream.
00:14:30.780 We'll see.
00:14:31.420 All right, let's get on with my guest here. 0.93
00:14:33.280 Lindsay Wilson is in studio. 0.97
00:14:35.160 We don't get guests in studio that often anymore.
00:14:37.040 or you've come in regularly,
00:14:38.700 but it seems you're heading a different initiative
00:14:40.660 every time I have you in.
00:14:42.200 I know, I've got a lot on the go, that's for sure.
00:14:44.000 But this is a project that's close to my heart.
00:14:46.520 Yeah, so you've got a conference coming up, 0.83
00:14:48.120 the Doing It Right Women's Conference.
00:14:51.180 Well, lay it out, what the hell's it about?
00:14:52.600 Okay, so Doing It Right Women's Initiative
00:14:55.900 is our nonprofit, myself and my business partner, Christy.
00:14:58.360 And we just, you know, I've worked in the conservative
00:15:01.020 movement for a really long time,
00:15:02.340 done a lot of different things, worked in advocacy,
00:15:04.340 think tanks, campaigns, all sorts of different things.
00:15:07.040 And before that, I was, of course, a reporter.
00:15:09.500 And just, Kristi and I have noticed from going to a lot of different conferences that women
00:15:13.800 weren't always necessarily featured in them, or we felt that they were really hyper-focused
00:15:20.060 on certain issues, whether that's energy or just conservative politics. 0.95
00:15:23.920 And we thought, you know, women do best and respond best in political spaces when they
00:15:27.700 feel that all perspectives are welcomed.
00:15:30.480 And we saw that there was really an appetite to do something that's multi-partisan, which
00:15:34.580 I assure you is always a little bit of a challenge when you yourself have your
00:15:37.340 own political ideologies, but I'd like to challenge myself.
00:15:40.480 And so we came up with the Doing It Right Women's Initiative and through that
00:15:43.880 we have the annual Doing It Right Women's Conference.
00:15:46.040 So this is our second annual conference and we're back on Friday, November 13th
00:15:51.060 at the DoubleTree by Calgary Hilton.
00:15:53.560 It's an awkward name, but that's where we are.
00:15:56.400 And yeah, we're back and we're doing it right all over again.
00:16:00.160 Right on.
00:16:00.920 Well, I mean, something that's been talked about for years and it's, it's
00:16:03.440 not a left-right thing.
00:16:05.040 Women are typically underrepresented, I'm not underrepresented, underrepresented in 1.00
00:16:10.160 politics, so that in British Columbia, for example, and of course they always bemoan 1.00
00:16:15.120 it when an election comes and look at that, there's a tiny minority of women who are 1.00
00:16:18.680 in the elected roles versus men. 0.99
00:16:21.180 But I mean, that happens when an NDP government comes in as well. 0.88
00:16:24.760 So I imagine that's part of what you're addressing, the wire woman, because part 0.95
00:16:27.720 of it's they're not drawn to the political sphere as much as men are.
00:16:30.180 Well, they're not, Corey, because it's so divisive.
00:16:31.940 The problem is, is politics, as we've seen, and we just we're on the heels the morning after a midterm elections, and we've seen that people respond because they're angry and politics has become so ultra hyper partisan. And people just want to kind of get a little bit back more to the center. And that's why we've opened this up to women on the left, women on the right and women in different business sectors that are really quite apolitical. But a lot of people, a lot of women as a as a woman, as a mom myself, women come to me and they talk to me about politics because they know I work in it.
00:17:00.320 and they're apprehensive. I find women have to be compelled. It has to be very 0.99
00:17:06.200 issues-based for them to want to come out and join a campaign, doorknock,
00:17:10.000 volunteer, deliver literature, go to events. And further to that, women have
00:17:15.440 to be usually asked multiple times to run for office or work in political 0.98
00:17:19.680 spaces compared to men. So we just want to let all the girls know out there you 1.00
00:17:23.560 know no matter what your opinions are you might come in and you might have 0.95
00:17:27.200 opinions on this side, and then you might leave our room with opinions
00:17:30.740 that are more dialed over to this side.
00:17:32.300 And that's just great.
00:17:33.380 We're hoping, we're not trying to convince you of anything, but we
00:17:35.840 sure hope that our panelists do and our speakers do.
00:17:38.160 Yeah.
00:17:38.380 Well, it's something that I don't know if you're going to address or
00:17:40.760 whatnot, but I mean, I'm certain it's part of it.
00:17:42.520 I mean, it's the vitriolic atmosphere of politics and the personal atmosphere of it.
00:17:47.440 And I think social media has really amplified that.
00:17:50.700 I think maybe it's, man, it's easier for us.
00:17:52.160 I mean, some will get up and say, well, look at this said about men and
00:17:54.680 to men and everything else. 1.00
00:17:55.600 And it's true.
00:17:56.060 Yeah, they're pretty nasty online.
00:17:57.820 Some of my inbox things are pretty brutal, but I think it's easier for us to shed those things off.
00:18:02.920 I mean, whatever, we got more of the shoe leather skin and it gets a lot more personal and kind of nasty with women quite often with the tone.
00:18:11.400 But unfortunately it's a reality that anybody entering the public sphere is going to have to deal with.
00:18:15.220 So, I mean, is there going to be, I guess, discussion on how to deal with that inevitable atmosphere you're going to be entering if you enter the political realm?
00:18:22.040 Yeah, absolutely.
00:18:22.800 I mean, let's, let's be honest. 0.99
00:18:23.840 women are just judged more, more partially than men are. 1.00
00:18:28.520 We're judged more for our physical appearance. 1.00
00:18:30.480 Women who run for public office, they're judged if they're overweight, 1.00
00:18:33.240 they're judged by what they dress, by their hair. 0.61
00:18:35.320 Far more, to a far heavier degree, I think, than men are.
00:18:38.060 I think we can probably all agree on that. 1.00
00:18:40.020 Particularly, probably conservative women have a bit more of even a double standard, 1.00
00:18:43.760 I think, than even women on the left when it comes to their physical appearance.
00:18:47.020 So I think that that's something that some of our speakers are certainly going to bring up. 0.66
00:18:50.000 Like, we have a number of panels.
00:18:51.160 We have some women who are experienced campaigners, who've run for office, who are current elected officials that will talk about their own experience.
00:18:59.260 And we have a range of different things.
00:19:04.100 We have a human trafficking panel.
00:19:06.180 We have free trade.
00:19:08.060 We have labor unions.
00:19:09.700 That'll be a really interesting one.
00:19:11.360 I mean, if you want to hear about the libertarian case for private sector unions, please come on down.
00:19:16.200 And then we're going to do a panel as well on how do we heal after the referendum as well.
00:19:20.380 We're going to have women who work in nonprofit sector speaking as well.
00:19:23.780 So we've got like kind of a little something for everybody, but I certainly expect that our women who are going to be there talking about specifically campaigning, what it's like, their experiences working for working in government, working on campaigns, what those expectations are like for women and the vitriol that exists in political spaces, particularly with social media.
00:19:45.300 Yeah, well, and it's good to point out.
00:19:47.400 I mean, we're thinking or I was bringing up initially the front line, whether somebody running for council or MLA or MP.
00:19:52.340 But there's many more areas where somebody is involved, whether you're a campaign manager, a communications person or advocacy groups heading those sorts of things.
00:20:00.940 You're still in the public eye and you still get, I guess, some of that pushback with that.
00:20:06.400 There's more roles in politics than just being up front.
00:20:09.580 Absolutely. And so so we keep we keep our ticket prices very reasonable.
00:20:14.000 We don't want finances to be a barrier, and we recognize that most comparable conferences run $150 to $300 a ticket.
00:20:21.680 We keep ours to $49.99 a ticket, and it's free for students to come.
00:20:25.640 We cannot stress that enough.
00:20:26.720 We really want young women to come.
00:20:29.140 It's very important to us that we have a promo code, StudentTix26, and we really hope that a lot of young women and men come.
00:20:37.080 Men are more than welcome.
00:20:38.020 Some of my very best friends in this movement are men and really some of our
00:20:42.100 sponsors and big supporters are, are some of the best men that we have in our 1.00
00:20:46.340 lives and we want everybody to come, but it'll just be women on the stage. 1.00
00:20:50.300 Well, so something that in the unusual atmosphere of today's world, you're 0.99
00:20:55.700 acknowledging that women are different, you know, you're, you're being open about
00:20:59.620 it and just pointing out women communicate differently. 0.83
00:21:02.460 They feel things differently. 0.97
00:21:03.760 They act differently upon, uh, policy issues or the way they present and so on
00:21:09.880 and have to navigate things differently.
00:21:13.120 We've gotten into this strange place where we're not allowed to acknowledge
00:21:15.940 that and we're supposed to act as if there aren't actually just some
00:21:18.340 differences inherent.
00:21:19.400 I mean, I understand there's exceptions all over, but between women and men,
00:21:22.900 uh, a hot button issue lately though.
00:21:24.760 What about trans women? 1.00
00:21:26.240 That's, that's certainly.
00:21:28.480 No, let's go there.
00:21:29.280 That's fine. 0.80
00:21:29.980 Um, trans women are trans women, just that.
00:21:33.200 And I have some friends who are trans women in the conservative movement.
00:21:37.460 And I know some of my friends on the left are always puzzled by that, but yes, we
00:21:40.260 have some really great outspoken, uh, trans trans women, uh, in the conservative
00:21:44.980 movement and I, you know, in my conversations with them, uh, they acknowledge
00:21:50.200 they don't want to be recognized as men, but that they're not women.
00:21:53.220 They're trans women.
00:21:55.220 Yeah. 1.00
00:21:55.560 Well, and understanding that, you know, but, uh, I guess if we'd follow that
00:22:00.720 hard line of the gender ideologues and basically saying it's all just a construct. 0.98
00:22:06.360 It's, it's just a society.
00:22:09.100 I mean, that approach, which I know is not what you're taking. 1.00
00:22:11.820 Well, what the message to the conference should be is just, just be more like men, 1.00
00:22:15.660 just stop being women and then you'll be okay. 1.00
00:22:17.640 Hey, it's, it's, it's a construct. 1.00
00:22:19.260 You're just acting the wrong way.
00:22:20.420 I mean, acknowledging there's a difference, I think it's very important.
00:22:22.960 We are different.
00:22:23.720 Women and men are fundamentally different and I think that's okay. 0.99
00:22:26.280 And I think we should stop beating around the bush about it and stop
00:22:28.560 pretending that we're something we're not.
00:22:29.740 I'm not a man. I can be tough like one sometimes, but I'm not a man. You're not a woman. There's
00:22:36.640 no confusion here. There are two genders and sexual identity, I think, is evolving and that
00:22:43.140 can be very fluid, but I don't believe that gender identity is fluid.
00:22:47.260 Yeah. And this is, so women speaking with other women, supporting each other more,
00:22:51.420 as you said, men are welcome at this, but this isn't asking men to react differently to women.
00:22:55.340 And this is women talking with each other on how they can better adapt and work within the political sphere.
00:23:01.240 Absolutely. 0.97
00:23:01.740 And embrace the men around you.
00:23:03.280 Women need to, men are not our enemy.
00:23:05.600 Men are our best friends. 1.00
00:23:06.980 They're our husbands.
00:23:08.280 They're our spouses.
00:23:08.920 They're our supporters.
00:23:09.600 They're our brothers or uncles or fathers.
00:23:11.200 They're our business partners.
00:23:12.060 And some of my favorite people in conservative politics are the men who are around me and support me.
00:23:17.640 They're big fans of me and the work I do.
00:23:21.460 But we just need to learn to work with them.
00:23:23.840 And that being said, I'm all for meritocracy, and our conference isn't advocating that we should get special treatment because we're women.
00:23:31.380 The most qualified candidate for the job, the best person for the job should win.
00:23:35.700 I really believe in those things.
00:23:37.100 I'm a big supporter of the elimination of DEI that the current government has done.
00:23:42.840 I think that that's really important to take that out of public institutions and to go back to a meritocracy.
00:23:49.020 I think that's very key.
00:23:50.400 But, yeah, we can celebrate our differences and we can also see what we can be doing and the men around us, what they can learn to make, you know, pathways more sustainable for women to want to get into civic life so that they don't feel like they're entering, you know, hostile enemy territory, so to speak.
00:24:06.480 Well, yeah, I know there's double standards.
00:24:08.020 You know, when a man's tough and outspoken and so on, people say, that's a man sounding like a leader. 0.92
00:24:12.340 And then a woman's acting just the same way. 1.00
00:24:14.280 And then they say, well, she'd be bitchy. 1.00
00:24:15.820 I mean, it happens. 1.00
00:24:17.200 There's a big line between assertive and aggressive for a woman.
00:24:20.400 Whereas for a man, you're just tougher, tougher. 1.00
00:24:22.480 Yeah. 0.98
00:24:22.940 So I've been talking with women to try and find that balance, I guess. 1.00
00:24:26.140 I mean, you're, you're still going to get some unfair pushback. 0.99
00:24:28.180 I guess that's part of it.
00:24:28.920 Just understanding it's not fair, but you're going to get some of it.
00:24:32.520 It perhaps helps people cope with it when they get in and they know it's coming.
00:24:36.400 Well, you might be really interested in one of our panels on feminism and
00:24:39.240 family formation, and we're going to have one of our good friends, Kate Marland is
00:24:43.780 going to be talking about that and as a modern woman living in this day and age
00:24:47.620 and, and what that looks like for women in 2026.
00:24:50.180 So, well, that's other things as well, juggling family and so on.
00:24:53.800 There's different, you know, again, we're not the same, there's different
00:24:57.020 expectations for a mother versus a father typically.
00:24:59.680 I mean, there's responsibilities that are shared and it's important, but often
00:25:04.380 family is going to have a much bigger impact on a woman's ability to go full 0.93
00:25:07.480 time into a career, perhaps, depending on how age the children are, managing 1.00
00:25:12.560 and balancing those things.
00:25:13.640 Is that part of what's going to be discussed, I guess?
00:25:15.680 I think so.
00:25:16.260 I think Kate would probably speak to that on, on, on her fireside chat.
00:25:20.120 But I think all of us can relate to that.
00:25:21.960 I, as a working mom myself with three kids, I've had to, my kids are getting older now,
00:25:26.320 still have to juggle it, but certainly I'm very empathetic to what it's like to be
00:25:29.820 a young working mom with, uh, with kids at home that you're having to juggle and face,
00:25:36.040 you know, all the different scheduling and, uh, childcare expenses that you have to be
00:25:40.640 when you're trying to get your, that you have to, um, encounter when you're trying to run a home, 1.00
00:25:45.600 which women are primarily usually, you know, the backbone of a home. 1.00
00:25:48.900 I mean, it doesn't have to be, but usually women kind of run a household.
00:25:53.500 I know that's always been my experience and most of the women around me, but it is a juggling 1.00
00:25:58.160 act for sure.
00:25:59.180 But I think if we make it less of a toxic space, if we let women know, no matter what
00:26:04.120 your political perspective is, we welcome your voice to sit together at a table, figure
00:26:08.120 out what should be influencing policy, dial things a little bit more to the center when
00:26:13.280 they get too far to the extremes on either end.
00:26:15.920 I think then we're creating, we're fixing things at the root cultural level, and women are going to be more encouraged to get involved in campaigns or public policy or whatever topic of the day at a younger age. 0.67
00:26:30.900 And so we're not just trying to get them into it when they're of a certain demographic. 0.99
00:26:34.820 We want young women involved in politics. 1.00
00:26:36.920 We want them. 1.00
00:26:37.640 And we don't want them necessarily radicalized to one extreme or another. 0.65
00:26:41.320 Speaking as a conservative woman, I find that we're seeing a lot of young women.
00:26:45.760 very much radicalized to the very far left, as well as like, just like you're seeing a lot of
00:26:51.200 young men radicalized to the far, far right. And I'm talking about the extremes. I'm not talking
00:26:55.600 about, you know, in that space. And so what do we do to kind of course correct that?
00:26:59.920 So this is your second one of these. So presumably the first one was a success or
00:27:04.800 you wouldn't have done another one. Are there plans to expand a little further though? I mean,
00:27:08.560 you're trying to get access, as you said, you know, the costs are difficult. That's why
00:27:12.240 why you're bringing young students in for free and so on.
00:27:15.000 But this is just one spot in Calgary.
00:27:18.000 I mean, there's major centres, there's other provinces.
00:27:19.840 Are you guys looking perhaps to expand this
00:27:21.240 organisation in the future?
00:27:22.560 I love that you've brought that up because yes, we are.
00:27:25.560 We tentatively have a date picked for next fall.
00:27:28.240 I believe we're doing it October 1st next year, but I don't want
00:27:31.400 Christie to kill me if I'm wrong with that date.
00:27:33.240 So we'll be announcing that after this conference, we will do
00:27:36.600 another one in Calgary, but we're looking actually to expand
00:27:39.360 out to BC next year.
00:27:40.680 So we actually had some plans for some people to come out from BC to participate in this conference, but then of course there was this whole snap election and things got a little bit muddy out there.
00:27:51.480 And for conservatives, it certainly was a victory, but a couple of guests that we had planned to have out here weren't able to make it, of course, because they're unable to do out of province travel a couple of weeks into their new job.
00:28:02.260 Well, yeah, BC is a whole other ball of wax, but it can certainly then use some help with people organizing and getting involved.
00:28:08.580 Anyway, so if you want a political fire pit to learn how to operate, that's certainly a promise to do it.
00:28:13.840 Yeah, and I just don't think that we can replace in-person events.
00:28:16.480 I think, I mean, we're going to be recording this and put lots of stuff out on social media, not live streaming it, but we'll have lots of clips to share with our growing audience afterwards.
00:28:26.400 But you can't replace these in-person networking events.
00:28:31.300 I mean, they're so valuable.
00:28:32.660 So we encourage people, again, it's not a barrier to come.
00:28:35.120 If you want to come and you're an adult and you're not a student and you don't have $50 for a ticket, just send us a message and we'll get you in the door and come for the morning, come for the afternoon.
00:28:44.000 Our schedule will be released in the next two days here.
00:28:46.240 And so you'll find there's something there for everybody.
00:28:49.020 Oh, yeah.
00:28:49.380 Well, I don't miss smoking, but the one thing I miss from the old political events, actually, some of the best networking I would have is outside the smoke doors.
00:28:56.540 There's just that face-to-face that's so important to have a chat during the break, you know, getting around in person with somebody and conversing.
00:29:03.500 So it's great that you're pulling them together like that.
00:29:06.180 Well, okay.
00:29:06.600 Before I let you go, I mean, just one more time, where can people find out about this
00:29:10.880 and sign up and take part?
00:29:12.440 Totally.
00:29:12.800 We're on all social media.
00:29:13.880 We're on Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn, and it's womendoingitright.ca.
00:29:18.680 That is our website.
00:29:20.720 And you can go there.
00:29:21.400 We have an Eventbrite ticket link right on there.
00:29:23.720 And again, we're on all the social media pages.
00:29:25.620 So please check us out or put something in the comments here.
00:29:28.280 And like, we'd love to hear from you.
00:29:29.480 We'd love to see you.
00:29:30.080 And if you have any ideas for topics next year, we like to get a little bit spicy and we like to stay pretty current and on top of issues that people really care about, we want to be relevant to what people want to talk about.
00:29:41.060 Well, right on.
00:29:41.560 Well, thanks for putting it together and coming in today to let us know about it.
00:29:45.480 I hope the conference goes off excellently.
00:29:47.780 Well, feel free to stop by.
00:29:48.940 We'd love to have you anytime, Corey.
00:29:50.300 We'll see.
00:29:52.220 I'm so conferenced out from the last few months, but no, we'll get the chance.
00:29:56.600 Who knows?
00:29:56.820 It could be very interesting.
00:29:57.860 For sure.
00:29:58.140 Thanks so much.
00:29:58.900 All right.
00:29:59.060 Thanks.
00:30:00.080 So yeah, guys, one more time. That is Lindsay Wilson. And yes, it's the Women Doing It Right conference coming up. Look it up. Check it out. And as I said, you know, don't let cost be a barrier and proximity. It's here in a major center at a hotel. 1.00
00:30:12.820 and yeah i i don't uh i don't know how some some women manage it i i see it it's not just women
00:30:20.840 it's men i mean the social media environment is awful uh the things that people
00:30:28.500 say to people nowadays on there and and threaten or uh just call people i mean there's always been
00:30:38.440 nastiness. That's nothing new. That's nothing new in politics. But the ability now for somebody to
00:30:43.600 hide in anonymity and share something online and really rip into somebody is a whole new level of
00:30:49.720 things. I've gotten used to it and I don't let it get to me. But for men or women, if you enter the
00:30:56.720 public sphere and some of the stuff that you're going to get called and some of the threats you're
00:31:00.720 going to get and some of those things, I could see why so many, it's not just women, but young
00:31:05.540 people or people considering public life would reconsider and move in the other direction. And
00:31:09.820 that's wrong. It's one of the things where we want the more, the better. It really is. You know,
00:31:13.860 participatory democracy, I'm having a heck of a time with words today,
00:31:18.160 only works if you participate. You got to get in, you got to work on it. So, you know, if your
00:31:23.660 women have seen this and you're considering it, you know, check it out and see if you can't make
00:31:28.660 things a little better. We're in leadership positions. So as I said with David, we'll see. 1.00
00:31:36.520 We'll see what happens with Premier Smith. She's bouncing all over the place. Personally, I think 0.99
00:31:40.420 one of her problems is she's just too reactive, worries too much about the polls, pushes too far
00:31:45.100 this way, pushes too far that way. And the polls, though, aren't looking very good right now.
00:31:50.340 I think personally, again, there's a lot of exhaustion going on in the province. People
00:31:55.040 are just tired of what turned out to be a five and a half month campaign and uh they just got
00:32:03.040 tired of the issue and we can debate you know how why it was 25 75 and so on and everything
00:32:09.100 but realistically then three quarters of the province wasn't you know they'd had enough of it
00:32:16.060 and they weren't wanting to move in that direction i think the ucp will have the opportunity as i
00:32:20.520 said after the AGM to kind of reset the clock, get back onto policy issues, get back onto cost
00:32:25.960 of living issues and start getting ready for the next fall election and establishing themselves
00:32:31.000 and figuring out what they're going to do. It doesn't mean by the way, and I've had these
00:32:35.040 blast backs and everything. I'm an independent supporter and that hasn't changed and that's not
00:32:38.320 going away. And I'm going to still continue to look for and find ways for us to become independent
00:32:44.080 in Alberta. Not a little bit independent, a lot independent. But in the meantime, that's been
00:32:50.700 debated to death for five months. It's not on the table right now. Let's see what is. And some of
00:32:58.060 these things, I mean, she's giving some red meat sort of conservative type issues right now. Bills, 0.98
00:33:06.080 as I said earlier, this one going after the post-secondary institutions, those universities,
00:33:11.000 those colleges that have their double standards, that censor other speakers, that actually kick
00:33:16.700 out professors who, you know, don't think the way they feel they should, that's, she's, they're
00:33:23.480 going to get blowback over this. The academics are going to be pretty pissy and upset, but I'm glad
00:33:28.380 they're doing it. Look at the indoctrination going on with students. Speaking of fear and
00:33:33.360 intimidation, right? You don't want to be on the wrong side in there because you know the university
00:33:37.740 won't have your back. They won't protect you if you speak up and you are conservative. That's the
00:33:44.560 bottom line. They'll let the mob come after you. They'll do nothing about it. What was it when 0.83
00:33:50.200 you saw the scene when the glass of water was tipped on, you know, Professor Tom Flanagan's
00:33:55.440 head because he came and spoke at University of Calgary? Yeah, and it's an assault. But why did
00:34:02.560 the university even let it turn into such a gong show? Why are there not protected spaces?
00:34:06.340 The university's role is also to secure these spots for debate and discourse.
00:34:14.980 And I'll tell you what, it's 99% of the time loony leftists.
00:34:19.440 But it's because you let them get away with it.
00:34:21.820 I've seen whether they're in the hallways and somebody's trying to speak in a conference room
00:34:25.480 and they're blasting air horns, they're banging on drums, they're kicking the doors.
00:34:29.620 Well, you know what you do? 0.97
00:34:30.820 You friggin' arrest them. 0.99
00:34:33.020 You eject them. 1.00
00:34:34.660 You charge them.
00:34:36.340 You expel them if they're students, because this isn't appropriate behavior. 0.99
00:34:43.120 This is just training these jerks to realize if you have public temper tantrums, the establishment will indulge you. 0.99
00:34:51.240 Why? Because the university management supports the extreme leftist cause that these nutcases outside of conferences are pushing on. 0.99
00:35:02.120 So, yeah, you know what? Hit them where it hurts. 0.97
00:35:05.400 That's why I was questioning it with the minister when I was on the phone with the conference yesterday. 0.71
00:35:11.220 What's the penalty going to be?
00:35:12.660 And the easiest penalty is simple.
00:35:14.020 Fine.
00:35:15.080 Find them.
00:35:16.160 And you don't have to collect.
00:35:17.540 All you have to do is say, okay, well, you know what?
00:35:19.200 You blew it here.
00:35:20.180 You blew the policies.
00:35:21.240 We're cutting this much from your transfer.
00:35:23.620 Too bad.
00:35:24.380 Lay off another professor, I guess.
00:35:25.780 Do something.
00:35:26.260 You're going to have to make up the cost some other way.
00:35:28.000 But we're not going to give you tax dollars if you are not going to behave as an institution that allows discourse.
00:35:35.400 You want to have your specialized institution that doesn't support free speech, free conversation, free debate.
00:35:41.880 Fine. 0.98
00:35:42.260 Open a private one, raise your own damn money and do it. 0.98
00:35:46.380 But they haven't had the courage to say yet what those penalties would be. 0.98
00:35:49.180 And that's what I'm worried about.
00:35:50.660 You've got to hold them to account.
00:35:52.280 Just wagging your finger at them isn't going to be enough.
00:35:55.980 You're going to have to get on their case.
00:35:59.280 And speaking of tantrums and protests and inability to debate, look at the pipeline.
00:36:07.380 Here's where I think Premier Smith's really going to, probably going to eat a whole pile of crow 1.00
00:36:11.880 and it could cost her the election. We'll see. 1.00
00:36:14.140 But you know, she's really staked her future on being hand in hand with Mark Carney.
00:36:19.220 She's really tried this cooperative approach.
00:36:21.800 We think that Mark Carney's actually just spiffy and he's got the same interests as Alberta
00:36:26.780 and he's going to help us and he's going to get things done.
00:36:29.260 And a lot of the cynics like myself saying,
00:36:30.740 yeah, right, I'll believe it, want to see it.
00:36:32.800 Well, now we're seeing, now there's 10 of them, I believe,
00:36:35.500 indigenous bands lining up, going into the courts,
00:36:38.220 trying to hold this up and saying they're going to protest,
00:36:39.920 saying they're going to stop this.
00:36:42.740 Smith has basically come close to promising
00:36:45.180 there's going to be dirt moving on this pipeline
00:36:47.320 by September next year.
00:36:48.520 That's just a month before the election.
00:36:51.940 What if it's not happening by then,
00:36:53.920 which I'm pretty confident won't be happening by then. 0.95
00:36:56.780 And there's not much Smith can do about it because she partners herself with a coward who does nothing but talk and never actually acts. 0.98
00:37:01.920 That coward is Mark Carney. Talk, talk, talk, talk, talk. More MOUs, more agreements, more bureaucracy, more meetings, more MOUs. 0.98
00:37:10.340 None of those get a pipe into the ground. 0.99
00:37:12.780 What he does have to do is stand up and tell those chiefs to blow it out their asses. 1.00
00:37:16.740 That's the truth of it. I mean, I understand he would say it more diplomatically than I do. 0.99
00:37:22.260 But they don't have the authority to stop this.
00:37:25.140 the only person who has the authority to give the thumbs up and thumbs down really is the prime
00:37:30.460 minister he could get this is why private companies won't come out even though he's saying
00:37:36.420 it's promising they won't touch it why because they know it won't get done because the prime
00:37:40.160 minister has no cojones he won't say this is getting done no more questions we will consult
00:37:48.900 but let's please understand we're consulting on the basis of this is going to happen whether you 0.94
00:37:54.280 like it or not. So how can we accommodate you a little better as it happens, but he won't do that.
00:38:01.480 So Premier Smith is going to have a lot of questions to answer a month before her
00:38:06.140 general election faces her as to why did we waste this much time trying the non-adversarial way to
00:38:14.520 deal with this government when clearly the adversarial way to go is where we're at. I'm
00:38:18.880 hoping to get a chance maybe in a question or a conference or something in the future too. Another
00:38:21.960 thing I'm concerned about with Premier Smith. She didn't, she didn't get elected on an independence 0.97
00:38:28.520 platform. That's true. And I think the people trying to push her in an independent stance are 0.99
00:38:32.300 wrong thinking and pushing her the wrong way. But she did most definitely get elected in the 0.98
00:38:39.640 leadership and in general on this sovereign Alberta, even if within a United Canada. Well,
00:38:45.980 now she's not saying sovereign anymore. And I'm really kind of concerned about that.
00:38:49.660 She's saying a strong Alberta.
00:38:51.380 That's not a mistake, and that's not a minor change in language.
00:38:55.200 We want, at the very least, the Alberta agenda getting moving.
00:38:59.940 That means things like a provincial pension plan, provincial police.
00:39:02.680 That means we want to assert ourselves as a sovereign province.
00:39:07.560 And you're dropping that language.
00:39:09.200 That's a concern.
00:39:10.580 That's a big one.
00:39:12.700 And backtracking, I don't know how wise that is.
00:39:15.920 Now, they're trying to find that balance.
00:39:19.000 You know, Jeff Rath has been ejected. But again, there are two very avowed separatists running for board seats within the party. So it's not a case of every person who supports Independence for Alberta is being purged from the party. But haywire ones like Jeff are. Yes. Because how long will any party allow a guy to continually just keep attacking and battering and beating?
00:39:45.440 and let's face it, Jeff's spreading a bunch of BS. He is. He's gone off the handle. For his own
00:39:51.800 sake, I think he should take a break. I mean, really read his social media scroll, guys. I
00:39:56.220 mean, this is not a rational person. Though you're allowed to be irrational, but to the point where
00:40:00.660 he's going to come and disrupt the meeting. Fine. But watch that balance. Inviting them to go find
00:40:05.660 another party? Maybe. We'll see. But yeah, it doesn't take a large swing to move the UCP into
00:40:14.460 unelectable status as well, if there's another party chewing into that vote. Looking into the
00:40:19.960 alternative parties, though, that Republican Party of Alberta, Cam Davies' little creation,
00:40:24.580 which is under so many investigations now, much like Mr. Rath, we'll see what comes of it. Cam
00:40:30.320 has fled for the hills. He's resigned as the leader. He even claimed there's 30,000 members
00:40:34.800 of this little Republican Party of his. Really? Come on now. But it was the source of where the
00:40:41.480 members lists, not members lists, electors lists, which really discredited the whole movement came
00:40:48.540 out. Cam, the Weasel Davies. Yeah, I'll say it outright. There's part of this independence
00:40:53.960 movement. They got to do some introspection rather than screaming at the UCP. What are some
00:40:57.940 of the reasons people didn't trust the independence movement? Why did they not want to embrace it?
00:41:02.600 Well, the behavior of some of these activists has been a large part of why people said, I don't
00:41:11.120 want that. They've got to be thinking the day after. You know, a commenter, Jacqueline, fair
00:41:14.300 enough, saying, I like Jeff, blunt and to the point. Yeah, but Jeff's full of crap. That's part 1.00
00:41:17.880 of the problem. Jeff makes up things. And Jeff, I appreciate that some of the people within the
00:41:25.460 movement might like him. But when you're campaigning on something, you need to remember,
00:41:29.060 you need to win the majority of people. And most people don't like him. And he has the right to be
00:41:35.600 abrasive so do i and i take advantage of it pretty generously myself but when jeff goes back and forth
00:41:42.480 and he did that throughout the campaign i'm not the leader of it oh okay but you're going to do
00:41:45.760 five different press interviews a day presenting yourself as if you were the leader of it and then
00:41:51.360 your words do reflect on the rest of the movement we've got to win everybody not just our own inner
00:41:59.040 circles so we got to think a little harder about it but let's let jeff take over the republican
00:42:03.440 Party. Apparently it's got 30,000 members. Maybe he can really teach everyone a lesson. We'll see.
00:42:10.020 But it's a gamble. I mean, if he came in and pulled 5% in the cities, that would be enough
00:42:13.920 to put the NDP in. That would do it. So we'll see what happens. Either way, lots of other things.
00:42:20.980 You know, I want to see some stuff on the healthcare front. This is, you know, as we were
00:42:27.200 talking with Dave a bit, optometrists now being able to do some surgeries, some, and of course,
00:42:31.640 the ophthalmological society is very upset about this because it's cutting in on them something
00:42:36.920 i found in the cbc of all things you know the state broadcaster and they actually did a pretty
00:42:41.880 good article showing knee surgeries in germany and how quickly they're getting done they interviewed
00:42:49.960 a canadian expat who'd moved to germany knee and hip surgeries and sir in germany you get them done
00:42:55.400 within a couple of months after asking even from four weeks to a few months that's the wait for a
00:43:02.120 new knee in germany i had a family member waiting on hip replacements two years being crippled
00:43:10.040 immobile unable to work in in dire discomfort two years for the first hip we'll see how long
00:43:17.160 before the second one actually that surgery is coming up in a few weeks why though and cbc was
00:43:23.000 actually a little open up about that. Why are they getting them done so fast in Germany and
00:43:27.040 a universal system? It's not like the big bad American system, universal. And they say it right
00:43:32.180 in there because there's competition because they've opened it up and they've made it. So
00:43:37.000 hospitals actually make money from these surgeries and doctors are encouraged to pull people in and
00:43:40.740 do them. And there's some privatization. They even actually pointed out in the article, some
00:43:44.240 hospitals in Germany have actually gone broke. So if they're poorly managed, they will go down,
00:43:48.660 but it's competitive. We don't have that in our system. So whether it's the eye surgeries,
00:43:54.460 the knee surgeries, the hip surgeries, even the little cracks in the good old CBC are finally
00:43:59.440 realizing we need some competition in our system or we're going to die on the waiting lists in
00:44:05.080 Canada. It's not just money. And speaking of money, trillion dollars, the budget's coming out
00:44:10.040 right away federally. And yeah, look forward to having a trillion in debt and polls showing that
00:44:14.820 most Canadians are okay with that. That's frightening. Pay attention to how much a
00:44:18.920 trillion dollars is. I know it's unimaginable, but that's the debt being dumped on the next
00:44:24.640 generation. And, uh, that's unforgivable on our part, not just Gen X like me or boomers.
00:44:31.920 If you're an adult today and you're accepting dumping a trillion dollars in debt in the next
00:44:36.360 generation, if you think that's okay, you think that's not a problem. You truly are a very selfish, 0.97
00:44:41.420 nasty soul. You know, putting that into the credit cards and leaving it onto the next ones. 1.00
00:44:48.220 Unforgivable. Well, lots is going to be happening, guys. That convention, the AGM's coming up in a
00:44:53.060 few weeks. If you're looking to register, it's going to be probably the largest political
00:44:57.060 convention in Canadian history. Check them out at the UCP if you're members. I'll be there in a
00:45:01.380 media capacity, of course. I'm not a member. I have my views. I don't hide those, but I'm still
00:45:07.380 not on the inside. So check it out. Take part, participate, do what you feel you must. All right.
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