Western Standard - August 29, 2025


CORY MORGAN SHOW： Canada must close the immigration floodgates now!


Episode Stats

Length

46 minutes

Words per Minute

182.77039

Word Count

8,463

Sentence Count

719

Misogynist Sentences

4

Hate Speech Sentences

31


Summary

In this episode of the Western Standard, Corey rants about the impact of mass immigration on Canada's economy and society, and the hypocrisy behind the Trudeau government's decision to allow it. Plus, we have a news check-in with the original Dave.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Good day, welcome to the Corey Morgan Show.
00:00:30.660 Last one of August.
00:00:32.020 Ah, summer's coming to an end already.
00:00:34.200 Matt, what are you going to do?
00:00:34.960 Seasons come, seasons go.
00:00:36.180 At least our legislature and parliament will be in session soon,
00:00:39.480 so political junkies and nerds like me can enjoy watching them all scream at each other and get nothing done.
00:00:45.100 The show is live.
00:00:46.340 I see Jordan already in the comment scroll.
00:00:48.300 Hey guys, you know, send your comments, questions, ideas my way.
00:00:51.320 I see them all.
00:00:52.180 I don't necessarily read them all out, but I appreciate them.
00:00:54.440 I'm just trying to keep it civil.
00:00:56.860 I got Drew Barnes coming on in a little while.
00:00:59.520 He's running for mayor of Medicine Hat.
00:01:01.200 You might remember he was a MLA with the Wildrose Party.
00:01:03.960 He was one of the loyalists who didn't cross when Daniel Smith did her ill-advised floor crossing there.
00:01:10.520 Plus, we're going to have a news check-in again with the original Dave.
00:01:15.460 He's back.
00:01:16.700 And I want some other news and good stuff and stuff for me to go on about.
00:01:20.420 I'm tired and crabby today, so I'll have some good ranting on why that is a little later.
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00:02:10.800 All right, now what I'm going to get on about here.
00:02:13.320 Let's talk immigration.
00:02:14.480 Yes, common subject.
00:02:15.600 I mean, controlled immigration.
00:02:17.000 You know, managed immigration.
00:02:18.040 It's a good thing for an economy and a society.
00:02:21.140 Mass immigration, which is different, leads to socioeconomic disaster.
00:02:26.080 Canada has been suffering from the effects of mass immigration for years.
00:02:29.520 The Trudeau government opened the floodgates and used mass immigration to shield the results of its economic incompetence.
00:02:34.940 Pouring people into the country offers a meager and short-term economic boost.
00:02:39.060 It keeps the national GDP growing so they could point to one positive economic indicator.
00:02:43.540 Well, unfortunately, while mass immigration gives us a larger economic pie, it splits that pie among more people.
00:02:50.440 Thus, our GDP per capita has been falling behind other developed nations.
00:02:54.040 In other words, we're becoming poorer and fast.
00:02:56.940 The usual suspects in academia, political circles, and legacy media spent years attacking, labeling anybody who dared to question the mass immigration levels as being bigots and rednecks.
00:03:04.640 Even the CPC didn't dare question the immigration floods for fear of progressive backlash.
00:03:10.680 In fact, they're still really not speaking up on it now as they should.
00:03:13.760 As the damage from mass immigration continues to mount, conversations did begin in hushed tones that we might need to tap those brakes.
00:03:21.240 Canada's already failing healthcare system has been reaching collapse as demand is overwhelming our ability to access services.
00:03:27.140 Undaunted, the fools in power said we must treat this problem through increasing immigration to fill staffing levels.
00:03:33.820 But the problem is few of the new immigrants brought medical skills with them, however.
00:03:37.640 We didn't need more Uber drivers.
00:03:38.760 We need more doctors.
00:03:40.160 Just more ailments came in to burden the system with.
00:03:43.140 The situation with housing is the same.
00:03:44.820 Housing growth couldn't keep up with the floods of new citizens.
00:03:47.300 Existing citizens were being priced out of housing markets,
00:03:49.580 while immigrants were housed in hotels at a cost we've now discovered is over a billion dollars.
00:03:54.000 Urban settings with cheap housing are becoming outright ghettos as immigrants overload and overwhelm rental housing units.
00:04:01.300 While Trudeau made it a hill to die upon, Carney hasn't been afraid to reverse course with some of Trudeau's policies, such as the carbon tax.
00:04:07.780 Now, Carney's hinted that immigration's levels should be curtailed.
00:04:10.680 And when he did, he was applauded by the same academics, of course, and media figures as a pragmatic visionary
00:04:16.120 for saying what they accused others of intolerance for saying only a year ago.
00:04:19.760 At this point, though, who cares about the hypocrisy with the about-face on the immigration policies?
00:04:24.300 Just do something.
00:04:25.500 We must stop this mass influx of bodies, and it really doesn't matter who's doing it.
00:04:29.180 We can go down the road of, I told you so later.
00:04:31.800 The problem is, Carney's well over half a year into his tenure on the prime ministerial throne,
00:04:37.120 and we're starting to see that he's incapable of follow-through.
00:04:39.240 He's all talk and no action.
00:04:40.780 He's another Mr. Dithers.
00:04:42.400 We're seeing that with his constant capitulation on trade issues, and now we're seeing it with immigration.
00:04:47.140 The Liberals have tried to hide and cover up the numbers, actually, and we're withholding figures for immigration.
00:04:53.680 Canada, think about this, was bringing in 260,000 permanent immigrants per year in 2014, just before Trudeau got in.
00:05:00.360 Now, we're on track to have 422,000, despite Carney's vow to reuse it to 395.
00:05:06.920 How hard is it just to say bloody no?
00:05:09.240 Temporary foreign workers are still flowing in as are refugees and potential permanent citizens.
00:05:13.480 Hundreds of thousands of people with expired visas.
00:05:16.000 They've been misplaced.
00:05:17.540 And we can't even seem to manage to deport the child sex offenders we get in our courts from other countries.
00:05:23.040 With temporary immigrants added to the total, whether on a student or work visa,
00:05:26.340 Canada's had an annual population increase, sitting at a staggering 900,000 per year.
00:05:30.440 We can't sustain this.
00:05:32.200 Asylum seekers have been put up in hotels.
00:05:33.940 I mentioned that earlier.
00:05:35.180 It's absurd, though, when we have a housing crisis impacting many Canadians.
00:05:38.380 The Liberal government invited recent immigrants to bring in their parents and grandparents now.
00:05:41.940 It's as if they're going out of their way to bring as many people who will be dependent upon the state as possible.
00:05:45.940 Think about that, though.
00:05:47.560 State dependents tend to vote liberal, don't they?
00:05:49.840 Social disorders on the rise in some areas.
00:05:51.720 Check out Brampton sometime if you want to see something special.
00:05:54.600 As immigrant populations rise and are introverting rather than adapting to Western values.
00:05:59.700 Communities are ghettoizing in crimes committed by immigrants holding cultural values that don't gel with Western values while they're growing.
00:06:05.040 With so many issues pressuring the nation, it can be tough to prioritize.
00:06:09.720 Sometimes this one shouldn't be tough, though.
00:06:11.240 We've got to stem the tide and get our country in order.
00:06:14.840 Stopping all immigration isn't reasonable, but we can and must cut it dramatically.
00:06:18.820 The current levels are pressuring all Canadians, and it isn't fair to immigrants or citizens alike.
00:06:24.420 The Liberals finally admitted the numbers are too high but lack the balls to do anything about it.
00:06:28.200 They must be pressured, and people must continue to demand that the immigration be brought under control.
00:06:33.400 I'm going to talk a little about the UK as to what happens when you don't.
00:06:36.920 It's already going to take years to catch up in the mess as it is.
00:06:39.400 All right, that's what I wanted to start my rant about anyways.
00:06:41.960 But let's get on to our news editor, Dave Naylor.
00:06:45.220 Original Dave, back.
00:06:47.420 Bigger and better than ever.
00:06:48.560 From grand parenthood out in BC.
00:06:50.660 Yeah.
00:06:51.560 Unbeknownst to either of us, we were in the same small BC area.
00:06:55.460 Yeah.
00:06:55.660 I have to say, we're in beautiful Yale.
00:06:57.340 It is beautiful down there.
00:06:58.280 Now, you were gold prospecting.
00:07:00.380 Yes.
00:07:01.040 And you're still here.
00:07:02.440 So I take it you didn't find the mother load.
00:07:04.340 No, no, no.
00:07:05.240 No mother load.
00:07:05.980 Enough to keep me happy, you know, washing gravel and then with that weird little hobby.
00:07:10.060 But it was fun.
00:07:10.800 It was good.
00:07:11.500 And you're in a tie again.
00:07:13.020 I am.
00:07:13.960 But that's just today.
00:07:15.600 As I said, the color on this shirt's unusual.
00:07:17.820 It doesn't sit right.
00:07:18.680 It sits all around.
00:07:19.240 I mean, hardly a fashion maven anyways.
00:07:20.740 But, ah, fine.
00:07:21.780 I'll put a tie on it.
00:07:22.760 Don't get used to it.
00:07:23.600 No, I was telling you yesterday, do you want to talk about your drive home now or are you saving that for later?
00:07:28.460 I'm going to save that for later because I've got quite a bit to say about that one.
00:07:30.780 Oh, cool.
00:07:31.060 But my drive home yesterday, yes, what should have been a six-hour drive turned closer to, what, a 15-hour drive or so thanks to our…
00:07:41.220 Trucking industry.
00:07:42.340 Yes, and our RCMP and our road clearance and a lot of issues that I want to get on that beauty.
00:07:49.400 I'm going to have to run back to my desk then and listen.
00:07:51.900 Yeah, I'll go on a little later about it.
00:07:54.020 Yeah, we've got a horrible story leading off the website at the moment.
00:07:57.940 Another school shooting in the States.
00:08:00.360 First week of classes down there in Minneapolis at a Catholic church and all the students…
00:08:06.280 Sorry, at a Catholic school.
00:08:07.600 And all the students were inside this Catholic church when a scumbag opened fire through the windows.
00:08:13.740 He was armed with a rifle, a shotgun, and a pistol.
00:08:18.440 So he fired estimates of 50, 100 rounds.
00:08:22.880 Cops confirmed dozens.
00:08:24.620 Killed an 8-year-old and a 10-year-old as they prayed in their pews.
00:08:29.140 Just a horrible story.
00:08:31.440 The guy, the killer, has been identified and he changed his name a little while ago into a woman's name.
00:08:37.500 So he was a Robert, now he's a Robin.
00:08:39.980 And his picture is on our website if you want to go check it out.
00:08:45.340 And apparently his mother worked at the school.
00:08:48.380 So there you go.
00:08:50.760 We're waiting for more details on that.
00:08:54.600 I apologize now because if anybody's eating, I'm going to ruin their lunch.
00:08:58.900 A Calgary pizzeria called Famoso Neapolitan Pizza has been shut down by Alberta Health Services for massive rodent infestation.
00:09:11.100 Mouse crap everywhere.
00:09:13.300 Fruit flies.
00:09:15.380 You know, you name it.
00:09:16.360 If it was vermin, it was in this place.
00:09:18.720 And they've got a long list of things that they have to clean up before they can open again.
00:09:22.980 Interesting story from our friends at Blacklock's reporter today.
00:09:28.820 They're dealing with a case of a CRA manager, a tax man, who was fired for watching TV in his office.
00:09:37.140 World Cup.
00:09:38.200 I mean, come on.
00:09:39.160 It's the World Cup.
00:09:39.840 You've got to be able to watch it, right?
00:09:41.720 But these differences, these people are paid on taxpayers' dime.
00:09:45.500 And his firing was overturned because apparently this is routine at CRA.
00:09:51.300 And even the managers do it for, you know, big sporting events like the Olympics and the World Cup and hockey.
00:09:59.360 And, you know, everybody gathers around and they take turns from harassing citizens like you and I.
00:10:04.080 And they watch hockey for a couple hours.
00:10:06.300 Wonderful.
00:10:06.860 You know, when you get a six-figure income, you go on the strike every few years.
00:10:10.340 You have, you know, probably four weeks paid vacation a year, a massive pension plan.
00:10:14.060 And, yes, they crack down on us because they might be $50 short on the tax return.
00:10:17.880 And you watch TV while you're there rather than you're doing your damn job.
00:10:21.440 Nice work if you can get it.
00:10:22.640 Boy, it sure is.
00:10:23.480 We went up the road.
00:10:24.320 It's too bad I hate math.
00:10:25.620 Yeah, it's too bad I hate civil servants.
00:10:27.580 I mean, it won't even apply there.
00:10:29.200 I don't think it would work well.
00:10:30.460 And speaking of going on strike, Canada Post's quarterly results out yesterday.
00:10:37.100 Only $450 million loss this time.
00:10:40.160 They had a big Buy Canadian sort of advertising campaign and it obviously didn't work.
00:10:48.480 And they're going to lose more than a billion dollars this year and they're going to go on strike.
00:10:53.020 And Posties probably watch a lot of daytime TV too.
00:10:57.360 Well, yeah, they get a little upset when I call them male monkeys online, but I'm getting sick to death.
00:11:00.460 You know, they used to use that excuse that, hey, don't worry, you don't have to pay for it.
00:11:06.140 It's self-funding.
00:11:06.660 No, it's not.
00:11:07.220 Now the bailouts are coming in the billions.
00:11:09.060 It's coming out of my pocket for you guys to sit around and deliver junk mail once a week.
00:11:12.880 You know, the whole time I've been in Prittis, been there 12 years now, I've never gotten a letter on Friday.
00:11:19.760 Oh.
00:11:20.260 Amazing.
00:11:20.780 That's interesting.
00:11:21.520 Nobody ever mails me something on Friday.
00:11:22.980 Have you gone to check out the Prittis golf course to see if there's like mail trucks lined up as they play around?
00:11:30.500 Yeah.
00:11:30.940 You know, and when I lived in Calgary, I rarely got mail on Friday too.
00:11:34.240 It was just strange, you know, though it was apparently a bit to live for five days a week, but mails are mostly catapults.
00:11:41.280 Speaking of dinosaurs and people get paid too much for too little.
00:11:44.040 No, I mean, if you want to save money, all carny can do is just chop it.
00:11:47.700 All right.
00:11:48.360 That's not.
00:11:49.180 Mail once a week.
00:11:49.960 Hey, holy cow, look at that.
00:11:51.420 Exactly.
00:11:51.780 Bring all the bills at once.
00:11:53.100 Yeah.
00:11:53.560 Not on a Friday, though.
00:11:54.680 No.
00:11:55.400 Not Fridays.
00:11:55.960 All right.
00:11:56.660 All right.
00:11:57.120 Well, that's it.
00:11:57.580 I'm going to rush back to my desk and listen to your tale of woe.
00:12:00.480 All right.
00:12:01.200 Well, I'll let you go.
00:12:02.460 Thank you for the update.
00:12:03.640 And then I'll start pissing and moaning about the state of British Columbia Highways.
00:12:06.860 All right.
00:12:07.160 Can you give me 30 seconds?
00:12:08.500 Sure.
00:12:10.580 And yes, that is our news editor, Dave Naylor.
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00:12:43.860 So, yes, I might as well go on about what happened yesterday.
00:12:46.560 So, I was driving back.
00:12:47.320 I was on vacation for a little bit in BC there.
00:12:49.980 We were driving back.
00:12:50.580 For people unfamiliar with it, you got Rogers Pass.
00:12:53.320 It's a stretch of the Trans-Canada Highway.
00:12:56.260 It's probably one of the most isolated stretches of Main Highway in all of Canada.
00:13:00.760 There's no, it's in the tallest of the Rocky Mountains.
00:13:04.420 There's no possible detour you can take if there's an accident on it.
00:13:09.660 A trucker managed to crash in one of the tunnels.
00:13:13.300 It turns out there were minor injuries.
00:13:14.600 I've double-checked, I've triple-checked.
00:13:16.000 It was only minor injuries.
00:13:17.100 But he plugged the whole tunnel solid as he crashed his truck there.
00:13:21.080 Now, we had the poor fortune of just getting there just before the accident happened, Jane and I.
00:13:27.740 And we sat on the highway in 25-degree weather, no cell coverage, middle of nowhere, for eight hours.
00:13:36.440 A police officer did roll by at about hour number two and told us all that the accident should be cleared in an hour to an hour and a half.
00:13:44.640 It took eight hours with no injuries.
00:13:48.340 What the hell are they doing?
00:13:50.260 And the other part that gets me is the communication.
00:13:52.640 There were families in those cars roasting.
00:13:55.340 There were senior citizens.
00:13:56.980 There were people running out of gas.
00:13:58.460 People finally U-turned.
00:14:00.200 Just communicate.
00:14:01.500 You know, one of my biggest beefs with the RCMP in general, they hate communicating.
00:14:05.980 They feel that every little bit of information has to be kept from us.
00:14:09.780 Just come out and tell us.
00:14:11.260 Tell people, hey, we've got a truck sitting there and for some reason we're incapable of moving it.
00:14:17.260 And you should perhaps turn around and head back to Revelstoke or on the other side to Golden.
00:14:23.220 6,000 cars a day go through that pass.
00:14:26.080 So I would estimate after eight hours there were, what, 4,000 or so during the day, all backed up sitting there and they wouldn't tell us a bloody thing.
00:14:36.180 You know, when I worked in the States, I remember working around Pittsburgh, and you'd go in rush hour and they'd have tow trucks stacked up and down the roads for every rush hour.
00:14:44.300 Because when there's an accident, they prioritize getting traffic flowing.
00:14:47.400 If somebody's injured, they get them the heck out of there, and then they scrape that road clean and get the bloody traffic going again.
00:14:52.700 When we took the biggest highway in Canada and corked it up for eight hours for a non-injury accident, having thousands of people sitting out in the hot pavement, and you couldn't even have the courtesy to come down and tell us what the hell is happening.
00:15:04.480 Yeah, a pretty big fail on the part of the RCMP.
00:15:07.680 I know they do a lot of good work, but communication is not their forte, and they've got to get on with it.
00:15:11.940 All right, let's communicate with my guest.
00:15:14.080 I've been looking forward to it.
00:15:14.920 I haven't talked to Drew in quite a while.
00:15:16.440 Now, it's Drew Barnes, as I mentioned earlier, Albertans will remember him from the Wildrose Party.
00:15:21.300 He was one of the great loyalists who didn't do the foolish floor crossing, and now he's actually a glutton for punishment running there in Medicine Hat.
00:15:30.620 Hey, Drew, how are you doing?
00:15:31.680 Oh, Corey, I'm great.
00:15:32.820 Great.
00:15:33.180 Thanks for talking to me today.
00:15:35.000 Oh, I appreciate you being able to come on.
00:15:37.360 We're coming up to an election, a civic one, of course, and it's always been one of my big gripes is not enough people are paying close enough attention.
00:15:46.440 To these issues, that's your closest politicians to you, actually, and there's a lot of big issues going on.
00:15:51.600 And so I'm happy you've taken that up.
00:15:54.460 So I guess we'll start with, you know, what inspired you to kind of jump back into public life and head for the mayor's chair?
00:16:01.700 Well, Medicine Hat is, you know, a great place to live.
00:16:05.560 I'm proud to be from the economic engine of Alberta and from Alberta being the economic engine of Canada.
00:16:12.400 But we haven't grown in many, many years.
00:16:15.140 Our current city council is in chaos.
00:16:17.880 So I'm running on the idea of refocusing council, refocusing Medicine Hat on fiscal responsibility, fiscal discipline.
00:16:26.200 I'm committed to not increasing taxes for three years.
00:16:29.320 I'm committed to the idea of growth, reasonable, manageable growth for Medicine Hat.
00:16:34.560 And because of the chaos and the dysfunction that's currently going on in council, Corey, I must have had 100 Medicine Hatters in the last year asked me to consider doing this.
00:16:43.160 So I'm grateful that they have the trust in me and I'm happy to give it a try.
00:16:47.040 Yeah, and none of you might be familiar with it, but you've had kind of some bizarre stuff going on in the Medicine Hat, mayoral chair and council lately.
00:16:56.620 Is there going to be a move for a number of new councillors to kind of come in and try and sort all that out or what's going on?
00:17:02.180 Yeah, absolutely.
00:17:03.460 Eight positions, 23 have already signed up for councillor, including four that are working with me as we support each other.
00:17:11.940 And that's none of the incumbents.
00:17:13.880 So 23 brand new faces, there's some real good fiscal responsibility, budget responsibility people in there and that care about the growth of Medicine Hat and care about, you know, making our streets safe again, making our downtown core safe again.
00:17:31.280 You know, Corey, we've had some crazy boondoggles here where our city has made busy streets tremendously narrow and for putting in wide bike trails and that kind of thing.
00:17:42.640 They've made the city, you know, unsafe in some respects, looking to please a small group.
00:17:49.940 Yeah, those municipal issues are kind of the same everywhere we go.
00:17:52.920 And so not everybody's necessarily familiar with Medicine Hat.
00:17:55.440 It's actually one of the more sizable little cities in Alberta.
00:17:59.280 And it's been a city that initially had a heck of a lot of local wealth.
00:18:03.680 I mean, Medicine Hat had its own gas company.
00:18:05.720 I don't know if it still does or not, but you built some fantastic infrastructure there, the Esplanade, things like that.
00:18:11.320 They're magnificent.
00:18:13.100 But I guess no amount of revenue can keep up with mismanagement if it's been poorly kept.
00:18:18.820 Yeah, Corey, that's exactly it.
00:18:20.600 Our Esplanade, our big marble leisure center, our new arena for the Tigers are fantastic facilities.
00:18:27.080 We were blessed.
00:18:27.960 We used to make, you know, tens and tens of millions in oil and gas exploration.
00:18:32.200 We're the gas city.
00:18:33.200 But through that field depleting, through mismanagement, that gas department is now a liability.
00:18:39.940 I understand the city has it for sale and is accepting bids on it.
00:18:44.040 I'm hearing that the bids that are coming in are actually negative bids, which speaks to how badly they've managed it.
00:18:50.200 But, Corey, we do have an opportunity.
00:18:52.000 We have kept our license to generate electricity and sell electricity to all Albertans onto the grid.
00:19:00.260 My goodness, two winters ago, Alberta really needed us when we almost had to, you know, have a blackout or at least a brownout.
00:19:08.180 And Medicine Hat was able to step it up with our natural gas peakers and sell electricity to all of Alberta.
00:19:13.680 So there is some opportunity.
00:19:14.920 We just need to focus on the proper things, and that's keeping government small, keeping taxes low, focusing on growth for Medicine Hat.
00:19:24.380 And as I've been saying, refocus city council away from this chaos and infighting.
00:19:28.980 Yeah, you're definitely due for a fresh start out there, I think.
00:19:32.060 I saw some of the things, they almost reminded me of the old Dar Hetherington stuff in Lethbridge from long ago.
00:19:37.100 For those who've been in Alberta long enough to remember, sometimes it just needs a reset.
00:19:41.460 Another issue that's been big and happening, I've had some misgivings a little, is the relationship, though, between the municipalities and the provincial government.
00:19:50.960 You know, it's similar to the provincial government and the federal government.
00:19:53.640 It's just like politicians can't resist reaching into the jurisdiction of others.
00:19:57.460 You've got to work closely and hopefully cooperatively with the provincial government.
00:20:01.740 But there's also times to tell the provincial government, hey, hands off, right?
00:20:04.760 Yeah, absolutely, especially when it comes to enforcing things like, you know, money for, you know, road narrowing and stuff where it's not going to be permissible.
00:20:15.860 It's not going to be safe.
00:20:17.600 Also, you know, our homelessness and our crime problem has increased dramatically.
00:20:23.920 Mostly a federal government program with judges that aren't holding people accountable and responsible, but also our province can help us put some adequate supports in.
00:20:35.060 Our province can help us put some adequate responsibility in for when people do break crimes with break and enter and theft.
00:20:42.720 There's some areas where we need them, but for the most part, things have run better when decision making is local.
00:20:49.360 Things run better when government is small and taxes are low, and that's why I'm running on a three-year property tax increase freeze.
00:20:56.700 Medicine Hat, if we're the only municipality of size that does that, what a shot in the arm that'll be for our residents, our business, and for our tracking growth.
00:21:08.980 Right on.
00:21:09.680 So, when it comes to the crime and homelessness, it seems I remember, maybe I could be off a few years ago, when Medicine Hat Mayor had announced that they'd ended homelessness out there or managed to.
00:21:20.020 I take it that was only a temporary situation then?
00:21:23.780 It's become acute again?
00:21:25.280 Yes, exactly.
00:21:26.220 It's like so many other places, it's become acute.
00:21:28.360 And it's time for us to put in the proper supports for those suffering from homelessness and vagrancy.
00:21:34.340 But, Corey, it's also time for us to hold accountable and responsible those that break crimes, break and enter, theft, you know, break our laws, rather.
00:21:42.940 You know, we have the situation where, you know, our good police are frustrated because of such a catch-and-release situation.
00:21:51.460 But still, as mayor, I'm going to insist that those that break our laws are held responsible.
00:21:56.960 Does Medicine Hat have a municipal police force or is it still RCMP there, actually?
00:22:04.220 Because that can make a difference on how much the municipal government can have a say in prioritization of police services.
00:22:09.600 Yeah, exactly.
00:22:10.480 We have a great local police force.
00:22:12.800 We have a local police commission.
00:22:15.360 And we do have, and city council will have some influence.
00:22:18.480 Great.
00:22:19.080 Yeah, because, I mean, that's been an issue in Calgary.
00:22:22.200 It's been interesting to watch, actually, some of the back and forth between the municipal and provincial.
00:22:28.080 I mean, the provincial government sort of shoved sheriffs in because the municipal government here in Calgary didn't want to prioritize keeping the transit system safe.
00:22:36.060 And it sort of kicked their butts in gear.
00:22:37.680 But it really should be better to see initiatives like that coming from the bottom up rather than the province, again, stepping in to take care of those things, right?
00:22:43.780 Yeah, yeah, essentially, like the police, the main job of the police is to ensure that your community is a safe place to conduct commerce and recreation and business.
00:22:53.140 And all through Canada, that has diminished, that has failed.
00:22:57.960 I mean, in Calgary, you know, the problem is acute.
00:23:00.880 One of my sons in Calgary, him and his girlfriend refused to ride the train, even though it went stop to stop because they didn't feel safe.
00:23:07.040 And that's ridiculous.
00:23:09.020 And it's ridiculous to let harmful lawbreakers continue to influence the 99% of us that are good, outstanding citizens.
00:23:18.160 So what about other areas such as safe consumption sites and those sorts of harm mitigation facilities?
00:23:25.320 It's been another blurry area whether the municipalities should be dealing with that or the province.
00:23:31.220 Is there a facility like that in Medicine Hat?
00:23:33.980 No, there's not.
00:23:36.140 The NDP tried to open one when Rachel Notley was premier.
00:23:40.260 I was grateful to be MLA then and fight it.
00:23:42.520 I was grateful that the City of Medicine Hat and it was stopped by the UCP government.
00:23:47.300 So it actually never opened, although the building still sits vacant today after considerable government cost.
00:23:53.640 And, Corey, we've seen it.
00:23:55.420 Free housing, free drugs, free food doesn't solve the problem.
00:23:58.320 It only makes it worse.
00:23:59.600 So we're not going to go down that road.
00:24:01.580 And I've talked to many Medicine Haters knocking on the door.
00:24:04.660 And the number that, like Premier Daniel Smith's plan to force three-time offenders into some kind of a rehabilitation is quite popular.
00:24:14.620 I just hope to see it accelerate.
00:24:16.840 Yeah, we certainly need to see more treatment.
00:24:19.740 I mean, the people on the streets are still suffering.
00:24:22.020 I mean, they can be dangerous.
00:24:23.340 They can be problematic.
00:24:24.000 But we do have to remember that they are somebody's kids if we could just get them into treatment.
00:24:27.860 Easier said than done.
00:24:29.040 But it's better than enabling, I guess, as we've seen in so many other jurisdictions.
00:24:33.140 So natural gas is still an industry.
00:24:36.180 Like, what other industries are core to Medicine Hat today?
00:24:39.960 Like, what sort of industries are you maintaining or what are you hoping to develop?
00:24:43.340 Well, we still have a lot of oil and gas, thank goodness, because we developed the British military training base next door way back 60 or 70 years ago.
00:24:53.340 We have a lot of expertise in the city when it comes to oil and gas.
00:24:56.580 And we have a lot of hardworking risk takers.
00:24:58.680 Agriculture, of course, we're big, big on ranching, and we have a lot of grain farmers.
00:25:02.940 And even as you go 10 or 15 miles west towards Seven Persons, there's all kinds of irrigated land where people are growing potatoes and peas and seed canola and canola.
00:25:12.300 So a huge amount of agriculture.
00:25:14.380 Corey, lots of natural gas industry still, whether it's Goodyear making tires, Methanex making methanol, Canadian fertilizers.
00:25:23.220 Cancarb makes catalyst recovery, which is like in your tires and many, many things.
00:25:27.380 We have many, many plants like that.
00:25:30.480 And we have a good, strong local small business community, too.
00:25:34.620 Unfortunately, too many of the small ones are telling me, though, that the property tax increases the last few years have been a burden and a hardship.
00:25:41.940 Many are still having difficulty getting out from under the COVID losses and the COVID restrictions.
00:25:47.000 And they're just looking to fire up and get going.
00:25:48.940 So as mayor and a proud, proud medicine hatter, a proud, proud Albertan, I'm going to do everything I can to get taxes low, permits and development quick, and get out of their way so they can prosper.
00:26:01.460 Great.
00:26:02.040 And how about housing?
00:26:03.580 Has it been keeping up out there?
00:26:05.720 It's been a challenge in some areas and costs have been getting high.
00:26:08.940 Development can be mired in red tape and things such as that.
00:26:11.480 I know from your political thinking, red tape is going to be something you're going to want to slice through.
00:26:15.360 But how has it been in Medicine Hat?
00:26:17.880 Is there lots of available housing or are you still trying to construct more?
00:26:23.000 Yeah, thanks for that question.
00:26:24.120 No, it's a problem.
00:26:26.360 We haven't grown much in the last few years, hardly at all.
00:26:31.060 But we haven't built a thing.
00:26:32.060 I think housing starts in Medicine Hat last year was like 11, only 11 housing starts.
00:26:37.340 So there's a shortage of revenue property.
00:26:40.100 There's a shortage of affordable homes for people to buy.
00:26:43.220 But one of the good things about my campaign so far is that I've been talking to some of the builders and developers who have great plans for attainable housing initiatives and affordable housing for those that want to rent.
00:26:54.340 So we're on track to ensure that Medicine Hat has a very, very good supply of attainable and affordable housing.
00:27:00.680 And that will attract young people.
00:27:02.600 That will attract employees for people to bring their investment and their businesses here.
00:27:07.320 And red tape has, of course, been a problem too.
00:27:11.220 But the plan is to streamline City Hall.
00:27:14.480 Instead of saying no, we want the answer to become here's how you get to yes.
00:27:19.760 Right on.
00:27:20.280 Yeah.
00:27:20.480 And I mean, I just want to make a plug for your city in general.
00:27:22.760 Well, you know, Medicine Hat's really an underrated little city.
00:27:25.600 It's so beautiful down in the River Valley with that downtown.
00:27:28.040 If you just blast by it on the highway and don't take a moment to go in and actually have a look at it, you don't realize what a nice little gem is hiding out there in southwest Alberta.
00:27:37.440 As people are kind of leaving the major cities, they're learning they can work from home.
00:27:40.500 You know, destinations like Medicine Hat could turn into a place.
00:27:43.280 Are you looking to draw in new citizens, perhaps?
00:27:46.660 Oh, absolutely.
00:27:47.760 The goal is $2,500 a year.
00:27:50.340 So we have some reasonable, manageable growth.
00:27:53.100 So we maintain our easy, quality lifestyle now.
00:27:56.540 But, Corey, you're exactly right.
00:27:57.760 We're still quite affordable compared to big cities.
00:28:00.960 We're still quite affordable to the rest of Canada.
00:28:03.800 And that has attracted some people for sure.
00:28:05.820 The fact that we own our own electricity company and our own ability to generate electricity is a huge opportunity to help our citizens.
00:28:13.760 The fact that we're on two major highways, Highway 1 and Highway 3 to Lethbridge and the Crowsnest Pass.
00:28:19.580 Great, great opportunity for warehousing and businesses.
00:28:22.800 The fact that we are an electric generator in a world of data centers and a growing demand for electricity needed for technology really poises Medicine Hat exceptionally well.
00:28:33.740 It just goes back to the chaos that our council has been in the last four years.
00:28:39.160 Infighting, lawsuits, calling the province in to do an investigation report.
00:28:44.180 Corey, I am asking the people of Medicine Hat to support me and refocus on putting Medicine Hat first and the needs of Medicine Hatters first.
00:28:53.020 Great.
00:28:53.540 Well, before I let you go, then, where can people find more information on your campaign, whether they want to make their mind up whether or not to vote or whether or not to support and take part in your campaign?
00:29:03.280 Okay, thank you, Corey.
00:29:04.900 DrewBarnes.ca.
00:29:06.100 It's on Facebook, Instagram, and X.
00:29:09.020 I've opened a campaign office right beside McDonald's on Dunmore Road here in Medicine Hat.
00:29:13.440 We're going to full hours on Tuesday right after Labor Day.
00:29:17.200 So, to all the citizens and voters of Medicine Hat and to all my friends around Alberta, please continue to reach out to us.
00:29:23.700 Please continue to support us and help us refocus Medicine Hat.
00:29:27.800 All right on.
00:29:28.580 Well, thanks for making your run and coming on to talk to us about it today, Drew.
00:29:31.860 We'll be watching the races it develops with interest.
00:29:35.580 Corey, thank you very much.
00:29:36.600 Keep going.
00:29:37.640 Great.
00:29:37.920 Thanks.
00:29:38.560 So, one more time, folks, if you want more information, yeah, it's DrewBarnes.ca.
00:29:42.160 Nice and easy to find and remember.
00:29:44.480 And, again, these elections are so important.
00:29:47.800 And, you know, I don't know the other candidates or what's going on, but I will make as close as I can, in a sense, to a plug.
00:29:52.880 Drew is a good stand-up guy, solid, common-sense conservative.
00:29:56.220 So, if that's the sort of thing you're looking for, check his campaign out.
00:30:00.020 And I promise, we're not paid or anything like that.
00:30:02.000 I just, going by experience, knowing Drew for quite some time.
00:30:06.300 And that medicine hat, I really do.
00:30:08.160 I've always kind of loved that little city hiding out there, people.
00:30:10.520 It's a hidden gem in Alberta.
00:30:13.300 All right.
00:30:13.800 So, let's move on to a little bit more of the other stuff going on here.
00:30:17.680 This one's been quite something that came up for folks watching.
00:30:21.420 And it kind of ties in with what I was talking about with immigration things.
00:30:23.760 So, Samadun, I could be mispronouncing it.
00:30:26.080 I don't really care.
00:30:27.300 It's a group of terrorist supporters in Canada.
00:30:30.840 They're mostly Vancouver-based, but they are outright Hamas supporters.
00:30:34.220 They were designated a terrorist organization in Canada.
00:30:39.120 This is where I'm talking about, again, this country saying the right things,
00:30:42.820 but not having the nuts to do anything about it.
00:30:45.660 So, this group is a terrorist organization.
00:30:48.140 And it was just revealed that they're still registered as a not-for-profit corporation in Canada.
00:30:54.080 We have a registered terrorist organization as a not-for-profit corporation in Canada.
00:31:01.700 And our government is too stupid, incompetent, and incapable of actually shutting that down.
00:31:07.640 Hey, we don't know how to fight terrorism.
00:31:10.180 Well, for starters, why don't we shut down their corporations?
00:31:12.640 Has that occurred to you, Mark?
00:31:14.260 You peckerhead.
00:31:15.400 It's unbelievable.
00:31:17.820 It's criminal to take part in this organization.
00:31:22.180 It's against the law.
00:31:23.060 It's a terrorist group within Canada.
00:31:26.880 And it's virtually got a charity status.
00:31:31.680 This country's a mess.
00:31:33.620 And this is one of the areas where the conservatives are missing out.
00:31:37.760 And the Western Standard actually has posted a couple of memes showing that, you know,
00:31:41.040 showed a meme with a road saying, you know,
00:31:43.200 should we continue with this axe-to-tax idea or talk about immigration?
00:31:47.560 And they're going towards the axe-to-tax.
00:31:49.540 Guys, you just lost an election on that.
00:31:50.960 We've got some serious, serious problems going on.
00:31:55.120 And this is happening all around the world.
00:31:58.300 And we've got to get realistic about it.
00:31:59.760 We've got to talk frankly about it.
00:32:01.120 We've got time bombs going on.
00:32:02.960 We were talking a little bit about that at a planning meeting I was at earlier here today in the Standard.
00:32:06.460 With the issues in the UK and people have been seeing that circumstance in Scotland with a girl holding a hatchet and a knife and telling men who were filming her who were speaking some sort of Arabic or something to stay away.
00:32:20.240 They're defending themselves.
00:32:22.240 And it turned around and the girl has been charged for brandishing a knife.
00:32:27.760 What cultural circumstance are we getting to where children are feeling that frightened and victimized?
00:32:36.400 The UK has seen some of the sickest stuff.
00:32:39.840 And let's just quit beating around the damn bush.
00:32:42.960 These are Middle Eastern countries that for whatever reason do not share a value on the integrity of women.
00:32:49.380 And that's why in the UK, and they covered it up through political correctness and fear of offending Islamists.
00:32:57.280 And I know not every Muslim takes part in that, but there's a whole whack of these Islamists that were running rape gangs, literal, grooming children.
00:33:06.180 The police were covering it up again because they fear the racist backlash.
00:33:08.880 But you know what you're doing?
00:33:10.020 You're capping a kettle with these incompatible cultures.
00:33:15.940 And it's going to get violent.
00:33:17.400 It's going to get really, really bad soon.
00:33:22.700 We need integration.
00:33:24.600 We need to slow down.
00:33:27.240 We need to get things together and stop pouring this in.
00:33:32.620 And in countries like the UK and that, I tell you what, I'll make my prediction right now.
00:33:37.360 And I hope to be wrong with it, but I got a feeling it won't.
00:33:40.380 There's going to be a horrific case pretty soon over there somewhere in a major city in the UK.
00:33:44.440 And some young girl is going to be brutalized.
00:33:48.580 And it's going to lead to a backlash and a riot.
00:33:51.500 And then there's really going to, we're talking stuff that we haven't seen in, you know, Europe.
00:33:58.820 And because the citizens have had enough, as much as Starmer's trying to suppress this and they're trying to ban bad Facebook comments, it's as much as a guy got arrested for saying, I love bacon.
00:34:08.300 That's how insane they are trying to cover this up.
00:34:10.260 All you're doing is putting a cork on the kettle and it's going to blow up.
00:34:15.420 And innocent people are going to be hurt.
00:34:17.520 When you get race riots, and that is what it'll be, then unfortunate innocent people, people of color who might be on the street at the wrong time, who never did anything wrong.
00:34:28.740 But because this has now gone and erupted into a riot situation, they're going to be attacked too.
00:34:36.020 Their homes perhaps will get torched.
00:34:38.400 Their businesses will get attacked.
00:34:41.760 We've seen this enough times over generations in humanity.
00:34:47.420 It's a sad thing with humans, but whatever.
00:34:49.160 We've got different cultures.
00:34:50.160 They clash.
00:34:50.860 It takes time.
00:34:51.920 It takes a lot of effort for different cultures to overlap and get along with each other.
00:34:56.840 It's a tribal nature that maybe instinctively was good for us.
00:35:00.820 You know, 10,000 years ago, I'll stick with mine.
00:35:03.480 They stick with theirs.
00:35:04.220 And we'll fight with each other if we get too close to each other.
00:35:07.140 And now we still have a bit of that tribalism going on.
00:35:09.180 So we have to overcome it.
00:35:11.980 When it comes to this, that instinct is really, as I talked about in immigration in Canada, I don't think we're as bad yet, but we're moving towards it.
00:35:20.560 That ghettoization.
00:35:22.580 That introversion.
00:35:24.160 These communities.
00:35:25.940 And this cowardice on the part of the Western world to call it out.
00:35:32.140 I mean, just think some years back when it was the big Syrian refugee thing.
00:35:36.240 And a whole pile of them sexually assaulted.
00:35:39.880 Dozens and dozens of women at a New Year's Eve celebration in Germany.
00:35:44.340 And still the government just bent over backwards to make excuses for these perverts.
00:35:48.100 For these guys from a Stone Age culture that don't feel that women have rights.
00:35:53.800 And it's not my opinion.
00:35:58.240 This is stats, guys.
00:35:59.280 Look at the Middle East.
00:36:00.980 It's a crap hole.
00:36:03.320 Name any Middle Eastern country, aside from Israel.
00:36:05.840 That's a democracy.
00:36:07.460 Name a single Middle Eastern country that respects women's rights.
00:36:11.420 Name a single Middle Eastern country that respects human rights in general.
00:36:16.240 Or LGBTQ rights.
00:36:19.960 None.
00:36:20.660 Not a single one.
00:36:22.340 Guys, there's a problem.
00:36:23.700 Let's quit indulging this.
00:36:24.920 This is a faith that hasn't hit a reformation.
00:36:29.180 That hasn't caught up from the medieval times.
00:36:32.060 And we've got to call it out.
00:36:34.360 Because as these clashes build, as this incompatibility, this oil and water continues to build,
00:36:41.720 we're going to see a terrible situation.
00:36:43.420 As I said, and I don't want to see riots.
00:36:45.740 I don't want to see the explosion that's going to come.
00:36:48.380 Because innocent people on every side, when society goes that bad, lose.
00:36:52.540 Now is the time to start talking frankly on some of these things.
00:36:57.820 And fix them before it gets worse.
00:37:00.560 So, who knows with that situation with the girl in Scotland with a knife.
00:37:04.800 But it's an indicator.
00:37:06.660 It's a hint that things are tense.
00:37:09.800 And they're rough.
00:37:12.140 And this refusal to accept modern reality.
00:37:17.600 It's this thing that we all have to apologize for flourishing.
00:37:20.360 We have to constantly say that we're wrong for doing okay for ourselves.
00:37:24.420 Or for having developed or moved forward.
00:37:27.080 Our own Mike Thomas with the Western Standard wrote a fantastic piece, by the way.
00:37:30.920 I'm coming a little closer to home with this.
00:37:32.320 Because it shows, again, this is woke DEI absurdity and ridiculousness that goes on.
00:37:37.740 Because we've got the 150th celebrations of Calgary here.
00:37:42.500 And Fort Calgary, which was what, yes, the name of the entire city, 1.6, 1.7 million people who are here now, it was Fort Calgary.
00:37:51.380 No, they had to change it to the confluence.
00:37:52.960 Because it's too insensitive to the First Nations populations.
00:37:56.420 Oh, kiss my ass.
00:37:57.720 So they changed the name of Fort Calgary even to the confluence.
00:38:01.480 And this whole thing, this whole 150-year celebration is going to be about nothing but this theme of reconciliation.
00:38:11.800 How long?
00:38:12.620 When?
00:38:13.160 Is it ever done?
00:38:14.780 No, it's not.
00:38:16.360 Who are we reconciling with?
00:38:18.620 We've got Gondek, who just proudly announced something, $30 million or something, a whole whack of tax dollars to fund race-based housing in Calgary.
00:38:27.780 Yeah, housing that we're going to build just for Indigenous people out of a municipal budget, totally outside of their jurisdiction.
00:38:34.180 I understand we've got Indigenous people in dire straits, poor, having all sorts of issues.
00:38:40.760 That's because we're maintaining a stupid, broken racial apartheid system called the reserve system.
00:38:45.540 And the overflow is coming over into the cities.
00:38:47.380 But building race-based housing isn't going to make it better.
00:38:50.560 And it's not your jurisdiction.
00:38:53.260 But again, it's dividing more, isn't it?
00:38:54.840 This is that we're going to have little enclaves now of Indigenous districts.
00:38:58.780 Is that what it's actually going to be?
00:39:00.980 Oh, look at this, three square blocks.
00:39:03.020 Yeah, that's just for Indigenous people.
00:39:04.740 Good, good.
00:39:05.440 That'll help us all get together, won't it?
00:39:09.520 We try to turn the clock back with this.
00:39:12.460 It's ludicrous.
00:39:14.980 We've gone so full circle from where we were supposed to in the past.
00:39:19.580 I remember some years ago, that some academics and others, I'm sure the school is still going out in Toronto.
00:39:25.800 They were proudly celebrating an all-Black school.
00:39:31.980 Just Black people.
00:39:35.040 Martin Luther King didn't get assassinated, didn't stand up, didn't do all that fighting, show all that courage.
00:39:42.000 All those people who fought, the ones to try and move themselves up, you know, in the seats in the bus, didn't do so to come full circle.
00:39:52.260 So suddenly we're separating each other all over the place by race again.
00:39:55.160 Their goal and their intent was that we're supposed to all be together.
00:39:58.220 And the woke morons have split it all apart again.
00:40:02.700 Where now we're separating schools, we're separating districts, we're separating areas, race-based policy all over the place.
00:40:09.440 Guess what?
00:40:11.640 Race-based policy is wrong.
00:40:14.020 It's always wrong.
00:40:15.880 You can't undo the damage of past race-based policy by imposing more.
00:40:23.320 Yet that's what they're trying to do.
00:40:25.000 And the irony of it all is when you call it out, you get called intolerant.
00:40:30.660 You know, we don't get intolerant until we get older.
00:40:35.900 That's the stuff that the woke and the foolish should do later.
00:40:38.560 I remember just a memory of my own, you know, it's anecdotal.
00:40:41.680 But when I was younger, my son was born.
00:40:45.400 I lived in Northeast Calgary.
00:40:46.640 It was affordable.
00:40:47.900 And, of course, when my kids started in school and most of the class were new Canadians or children of new Canadians.
00:40:54.400 And there was a, like a kindergarten graduation thing where, you know, it was just something they do at the school.
00:41:01.220 It was for fun or whatever.
00:41:02.080 And all the kids were dressed up in a bunch in their traditionally family garb and kids in, you know, silks and Indian outfits.
00:41:09.280 It was really cool.
00:41:10.960 And none of the kids cared.
00:41:12.780 They were all just kids in the same class.
00:41:14.400 Some kids liked the other kids.
00:41:15.500 Some kids didn't.
00:41:16.200 And so on.
00:41:18.120 The race part didn't matter to them at that point.
00:41:21.340 But somehow later on, grow into the division, unfortunately.
00:41:27.260 I used to be James Fowler High School.
00:41:30.960 I lived up there for a little while.
00:41:32.200 And it'd be sad when you drive by, again, a very ethnically diverse school.
00:41:36.360 And you see the schoolyard and you see all the kids at lunchtime.
00:41:39.120 Of course, you're dodging kids, you know, outside of any high school on the roads because they're, you know, walking as kids do.
00:41:45.360 And they're concerned with everything else rather than watching out for a car, you know, to knock them over.
00:41:49.120 But now you see a cluster of kids of Indian origin and a cluster of kids of black origin and a cluster of kids of white origin and a cluster of kids of Chinese origin.
00:42:01.000 And they're not mixed up as they were when they were in elementary school.
00:42:05.040 Somehow they spread apart again.
00:42:06.460 And it's not good, guys.
00:42:08.500 We're not going the right direction.
00:42:10.800 It's just, and I don't know.
00:42:13.200 It's a taut thing.
00:42:14.160 The whole world's trying to deal with it.
00:42:16.640 But for starters, we kind of ease into some things.
00:42:21.140 Something that doesn't help is, you know, I'll go on to this one.
00:42:23.580 This is beautiful with our state broadcaster.
00:42:25.840 Our woke garbage.
00:42:27.080 The bad information.
00:42:28.860 Reminding you why you've got to subscribe to the Western Standard Independent Outlets.
00:42:32.560 With the CBC getting their $1.4 billion a year, you know, plus stealing money from the advertising market.
00:42:38.360 And I call it stealing because if they're selling advertising when they're getting all those subsidies, it's stealing it from other outlets that are trying to compete.
00:42:45.880 On top of it, they've got their gem service.
00:42:48.520 That's their streaming service.
00:42:50.120 Yeah, you might not have heard of it because most people don't because they don't care.
00:42:52.980 It's crap.
00:42:53.840 Nobody's paying extra on top to watch CBC streaming garbage.
00:42:59.120 I don't even know what they run on it.
00:43:00.160 What, old reruns of the Beachcombers or something the last time they made a good show?
00:43:03.520 But now, they're refusing to disclose the subscriber numbers for that service.
00:43:10.340 They're refusing.
00:43:10.820 They're actually going to court because the information commissioner has ordered the state broadcaster to tell Canadians how many people have actually paid to subscribe to Gem.
00:43:20.960 And CBC is so embarrassed of it, they're going to court to try and block that.
00:43:26.760 We aren't supposed to be allowed to know how much our tax-funded state propaganda-loaded broadcaster is making out of this streaming service.
00:43:35.120 It's got to be bad.
00:43:36.760 I mean, trying to find anybody who's ever actually paid to stream Gem.
00:43:40.440 I mean, this is something we've got to follow up on.
00:43:43.740 I mean, it's not a world-shaking political issue, but it indicates just how sick the CBC is, how much money they're taking from us.
00:43:53.120 And then, of course, their woke, vile coverage of virtually everything.
00:43:59.740 See, in other news, the Conservatives, Abacus showed another poll that apparently they're climbing in the polls federally again.
00:44:06.460 They might have crept just past the Liberals again.
00:44:09.160 Don't celebrate too much, guys.
00:44:10.460 You know, I mean, the Liberals are down to 17%, and they must have turned around.
00:44:15.460 Eastern Canada happily put them back in.
00:44:17.140 They've just got to put the elbows up, right?
00:44:20.220 But it's a good direction, I guess.
00:44:22.220 We'll see what happens when Parliament resumes this fall.
00:44:25.280 Provincially, too.
00:44:25.980 We've got that coming up.
00:44:27.520 And that's going to be interesting.
00:44:29.060 You know, that was mentioned at our meeting this morning, too.
00:44:31.300 Where's Nenshi?
00:44:32.340 I don't know if anybody really misses him that much.
00:44:34.280 But she's like, where is he?
00:44:35.620 You know, where's the NDP?
00:44:37.160 The media, the legacy media, is really taking on the full role of being the official opposition leader and constantly critiquing Premier Smith and the UCP and everything they do.
00:44:51.120 But the actual official opposition has been virtually invisible.
00:44:54.600 What is Nahed doing?
00:44:56.380 Who is Nahed?
00:44:57.380 He better, really better hit the ground running when the legislature sits.
00:45:04.120 And I don't know.
00:45:05.240 I mean, I'm biased.
00:45:06.220 Okay, fine.
00:45:06.900 Because his voice just drives me bananas.
00:45:08.440 And I got a feeling he's not going to endure that many more people with his snotty sort of approach to things.
00:45:13.960 If it's similar to as he was mayor in City Hall, he's not going to endear himself further to Albertans if he takes that attitude in the legislature.
00:45:20.040 But I'm looking forward to watching in a morbid sort of way as a political geek.
00:45:24.220 All right.
00:45:24.680 But that's the time I got for today, guys.
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