CORY MORGAN SHOW： Consultation has broken Canada
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In this episode of the Global Energy Show, Cory Morgan rants about the lack of consultation with Indigenous peoples, and the court system's lack of regard for First Nations concerns, and why it's time to ramp things up the civility.
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welcome to the cory morgan show back in our new background studio from the global energy show last
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week on the floor getting kind of closer to normal now i guess uh lots to cover today lots going on
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the news things in the independence front things internationally you name it it's all over i'm
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gonna have michelle sterling on a little while she was with friends of science for a long time
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it also has been very prolific on a number of issues and we're gonna talk yeah some first
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nation stuff i'm always covering that she's got more to speak of be sure this is live guys use the
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comment scroll there put your questions comments ideas notions towards me i appreciate it it keeps
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things rolling and uh you know also if you have some discussions with each other just make sure
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to keep it a little civil with each other we've had a lot of uh non-civil stuff going on lately
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with some stuff in politics and maybe it's time to ramp things down and get a little more rational
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with things. But either way, we can rant and rave without being bound by too much civility. So
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I'm going to go on on the latest thing. You can catch this story in the Western Standard from
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last week. It just still floored me. So I mean, you might student not even be able to erect a
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garden shed in your backyard without getting consent of indigenous people, perhaps hundreds
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of kilometers away. And I mean, does that sound ridiculous? Well, it's no less absurd than any
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other consultation requirements imposed by activist judge recently. I mean, in BC, it's
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illegal to enter certain provincial parks at certain times of the year if you're of the wrong
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race. Nothing's off the table now. Democracy itself is now secondary to Indigenous consultation.
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It doesn't matter if hundreds of thousands of citizens call for a referendum on an issue,
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they're not allowed to even ask the questions in a democratic exercise without somehow gaining
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unanimous consent from Indigenous chiefs. And I say unanimous because it appears that if even a few
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complain about the Democratic vote, as was the case with Alberta's proposed referendum,
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a Liberal-appointed judge will quickly shut down the process, despite the efforts of hundreds of
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thousands of citizens, just due to the complaints of a handful. It was the chiefs, not the Indigenous
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people at large who took issue with allowing Albertans to vote on an issue. And who's a chief
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anyway? An activist judge in BC just shut down a $1.5 billion gold mining project due to a
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complaint from a self-appointed hereditary chief only represents a few dozen people at best. One
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doesn't need to be elected by indigenous people as a representative. One doesn't need to have an
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actual historic claim or right to any land. One only needs to claim they're a hereditary chief
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of a fictional band and they're bestowed with blanket veto authority over any project. Not
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enough people are covering this, guys, and what this means. The alleged nation that objected to
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the province isn't recognized by governments on any level. So how on earth is a company
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or government supposed to identify, find, and consult adequately with these groups as they
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spawn like dandelions in spring? The answer is that they can't. It really has become impossible
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to reach the invisible bar of consultation required to do anything of significance in Canada.
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It's not that the consultation hasn't been done. There's a whole sub-industry worth billions of
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dollars that's developed over the years specializing in consultation. Companies are willing to meet
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with every Indigenous person within 200 miles of a project and have spent enough consultation over
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the years to have done so. The problem, though, is as long as one Indigenous person remains
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unsatisfied, an activist judge is going to say there wasn't enough consultation and they will
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shut things down. A reminder, Section 35 of the Canadian Constitution doesn't call for
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constitution. It sure as hell doesn't call for consent from Indigenous people. The duty to
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consult was read into the Constitution in 2004 by Supreme Court justices. And even then, the judges
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made it clear this didn't offer veto authority to Indigenous bands. Unfortunately, when judges
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refuse to recognize what the bar for adequate consultation is, though, the duty to consult
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has become a de facto veto authority. Not only for Indigenous bands, but for small groups that
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identify now as bands under the leadership of self-appointed hereditary chiefs. No government
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nor court has the balls to finally say enough is enough and push back against this creeping
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regulatory mire, and it hasn't served anybody. No matter how much they're indulged, these
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Indigenous activists and chiefs are only becoming more indignant, more belligerent. Pandering to
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their insatiable appetite for pursuing authority over all things has only made them hungrier.
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Canada's already lost a trillion dollars in potential investment over the last decade due
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to the terrible regulatory environment it's under. This trend is only going to become worse
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as layer after layer of consultation requirements are dumped on governments and companies by
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appointed judges. Who in their right mind is going to invest in a major project in Canada right now
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when the rug can be pulled out at any moment due to a complaint from a self-styled chief
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along with a ruling by a judge who wants to make their mark on the judicial system? Getting major
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projects completed has gone from difficult to impossible in Canada. The blame lands on the
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governments and the justices who are too cowardly to do what's right and just finally say no to
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Indigenous activists for a change. This will do nothing for that other impossible goal set for
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reconciliation. Canadians have accepted that some poor practices were done in past centuries, but
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they're becoming exhausted with being told to apologize for it and endlessly being forced to
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compensate the descendants of the descendants of the aggrieved as the economy falters further due
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to these consultation requirements. As democracy is denied by consultation requirements and as
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people could lose their property due to rulings from activist judges in bc the attitudes of
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canadians is going to change and it's not going to be for the better guys with regards to
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indigenous relations the only question is how bad is it going to have to get before the legislature
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legislators find the courage to do what must be done i'm afraid it's going to get a lot worse
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before it gets better all right well that's kind of what's got me starting today anyways let's
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check in and see what else is going on with our news editor dave nailer how's it going it's going
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well how are you i'm all right you got the football fever no i don't watch that stuff
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Do you realize that right now, sitting in here with you,
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I am missing Portugal versus the Democratic Republic of Congo?
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Good heavens, you really have sacrificed for my show.
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Well, you know, just at halftime, the Congo scored a goal,
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and it was their first goal they've ever scored in the World Cup.
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There was, I got to admit, there was another underdog story just the other day,
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There were only 600,000 people there, but they managed to tie one of the greatest teams in the world, Spain.
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Because you were cheering for the underdogs, and every time they made a diving play, you know, you got excited.
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Well, I understand and appreciate that underdog, you know, mentality in watching those things.
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I mean, I know there's basketball where that gets boring because they're scoring every five seconds or so.
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I'm happy for all of those who enjoy it, though.
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It's the greatest time when you've got four matches a day, and it's great.
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And you see streets of Toronto alive, streets of Vancouver.
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There's actually people out downtown Vancouver at 9 o'clock at night now.
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We have the tourists and whatnot that are in town stepping over the dead people.
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uh why don't we start with a soccer story a football sure let's go there you know we were
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just sort of joking about the tragedy of drugs and overdoses in in uh in Vancouver bad bad batches
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of fentanyl and whatnot so FIFA who organizes the world cup they they really don't want tourists
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dying so they put out a how-to guide on how to use illegal drugs if you're visiting Vancouver
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If you're going to visit the east side of Vancouver, I mean,
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if you really want to experience the city, you should try a little fentanyl
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Treaty chiefs issued a call today for the RCMP to investigate Daniel Smith
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Is treason still a firing squad offense in Canada?
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I don't think so, but it's got some pretty serious penalties as far
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Personally, I think these chiefs are insane.
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But chances of the RCMP even launching that investigation is slim to none.
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We've got a story that a lot of the mainstream media is not covering.
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This was a report done several hundred pages on the problems with immigrant, mainly Pakistani, rape gangs.
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Throughout England, a lot in northern England, they found that 250,000 white girls had been raped.
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And the government, I mean, people have been caught and they've been sent, you know, sent to jail.
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And there's not a single mainstream British media outlet that has covered this report yet.
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You know the citizens on the ground are aware of this.
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I think that's probably what the media is concerned about is they don't want to stoke, you know, they don't want to poke the bear.
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and they don't want to be responsible for the...
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The federal government report on MAID is coming out later on today.
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We've got some details at the moment that they are going to recommend
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that MAID is not extended to mentally ill people.
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But there are a couple of senators that will apparently be issuing
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a scathing dissenting report that they should be.
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Our friends at Second Street have got a really interesting story out today.
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They're looking at problem visitors with the health care system.
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Incredibly, 26,000 Albertans last year visited a doctor more than 50 times.
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9,300 Albertans visited a doctor 100 times last year.
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So you've got a very small number of patients taking up a lot of doctor time.
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Meanwhile, people can't get a doctor themselves.
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I'm glad Second Street, you know, Colin there has been doing great work poking into those things everybody's scared to talk about.
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I'm sure there's some people with chronic conditions that need to see a doctor that often, but we know there's going to be some hypochondriacs or lonely people or whatever else that are just taking advantage of the system.
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Okay, so those are some of the stories we've got up.
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I'll talk quickly about some of the stories that are coming.
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Danielle Smith holding a press conference at 2 p.m.
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Really, really bad timing because it's just at the kickoff of the England game,
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They're going to be announcing our legislature reporter, Will Vassar,
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crunched the math last weekend, and we will be getting the fuel tax savings.
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And there is some rumblings that we've made so much money in the last couple of months with the Iran war that maybe she's going to send out a check to individual Albertans.
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We used to have Ralph Bucks, but this could be Danny Bucks.
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Well, it's amazing how fast our money comes back to us when the party in power slips a little in the polls.
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But it looks like we could be turning around a potential $8 billion deficit into a $9 billion surplus.
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So there you go. We've got an exclusive story from our Leah Mushet that's going to be going up on a Calgary teacher who was forced by her school to visit Hindu temples and and seek religious places in order to to, I guess, understand where their their children's or their students are coming from.
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Uh, some kids, uh, apparently are at this school as more than 50%, uh, uh, immigrant population.
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Uh, so they're, they're told that you can't wish them a Merry Christmas or anything like that, but you can't say happy, happy Eid.
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And I guess they're, they're being forced to tour these places, uh, uh, to see how the, uh, the other half, uh, praise.
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And a story you're familiar with, Corey, Sundry.
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Earlier this week, the Sundry Rodeo Parade was canceled.
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And there was all sorts of argy, bargy, and eventually they just canceled the whole thing.
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Saturday, a whole group of independence people,
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They're going to get in their pickup trucks and wave flags
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and take over downtown Sundry and have their own parade.
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It's going to be a lively weekend out in Sundry.
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I got things I have to do that day, but it'll be, you know,
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So we'll be, our Dave Winnick will be on the scene on Saturday.
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Well, it's a beautiful time to get out to the foothills in Sundry anyway.
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I'll let you back to catch up on your football scores.
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All right, guys, that is our news editor, Dave Naylor.
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When he's not watching football, he is covering all sorts of stories,
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domestic and abroad, and wrangling all those reporters,
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Just before I get to my guest, I just like to remind everybody
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the reason we can cover all these things between football games
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Westernstandard.newslash subscription keeps us rolling,
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just like a newspaper subscription. It's not too much. So I got Michelle Sterling in. I know
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she's got a busy day, so I'll bring her in right away so she could talk, because I really did want
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to discuss this from a column she'd provided us at the Western Standard recently. So thank you
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very much for joining us today, Michelle. It's been a while. My pleasure. Thanks, Corey. Yeah,
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it has been. And you cover a lot, and I know your most recent piece for the Standard is on solar
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power and things which is also a fantastic read uh but also you discuss the indigenous file a lot
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as do i and uh this latest group i hadn't even heard of them permanent people's tribunal what
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that on earth is this well this is an organization that was set up in around 1967 based on the
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Algeria Human Rights People's Declaration, which is different than the Universal Declaration of
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Human Rights, which was done in 1948. And so they are an opinion tribunal, but they make rather
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sweeping generalizations and condemnations like they condemned Canada of continuing genocide
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and human rights violations after four days of hearings in Montreal, and the thing that
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I think Canadians should be concerned about is who funded this group, who brought this
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group here? Is our own government funding these kinds of people? And of course, our government
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never sent any comment or representative to defend the country. So you have this flock of
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self-appointed tribunalists, experts, few of whom are even lawyers, decide to condemn an entire
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country. And I think the key point is that people have to realize there's a whole stack of these
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human rights reports stacking up at the UN. And the day after UNDRIP received royal assent
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on June 22nd, China of 2021, China and all of its despot allies, Russia, Iran, North Korea,
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Venezuela, they all went before the Human Rights Commission in Geneva, the UN panel
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on human rights, and they condemned Canada of human rights crimes, citing the Kamloops 215.
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So this becomes very pivotal. And to my mind, it's very curious that this coalition was so
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quickly gathered together immediately on the passing of UNDRIP. And of course UNDRIP is the
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lever that's now being used in many of these land back claims. And as you pointed out,
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a lot of these tribes are, I think there's, you know, 150 tribes who have fewer than 100 people,
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something like that 63 that are fewer than 500 so of the 650 tribes first nations in Canada
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a lot of them have almost no people you know they're not actually a nation they don't fit
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the definition of a nation so my concern is that our new strategic partner is China is also the
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leader of a group of despot nations that's accused us of genocide and human rights crimes at the UN
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And I see this whole Permanent People's Tribunal as setting a trap for us geopolitically.
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And we're just sailing along, not even paying any attention.
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Well, that's, I mean, yeah, this slid right under the radar.
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And these are very serious accusations that we're talking to the United Nations, that
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we're talking about an international house where I understand, you know, some activists
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have spread the definition of genocide to everything from chicken farms to you name
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but we know realistically, those of us with some sense that there's been some horrible acts of
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humanity done over the last century that certainly qualify as a genocide. And it insults people to
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call some of these other, you know, issues with calling Canada a genocidal country is just beyond
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the pale. And then not to have Canada have anybody on the ground to at least defend us over this.
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Right. And in fact, they should never have passed judgment because according to the
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Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which was written and codified in 1948. I believe it was,
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you know, it's fundamental that a person has an absolute right, and a country I foresee as a
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person as well, an entity, right, has a right to a free and fair trial with all proper defense
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and a presumption of innocence. A presumption of innocence is a fundamental element of rule of law.
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So you can find it in section 11 of the charter. It's a fundamental to British law for centuries.
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You know, you may be accused, but you are to be presumed innocent until proven in a court of law
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with evidence. So, you know, these guys just had a bunch of activists there. One of the main
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star witnesses was Kimberly Murray, and some people will be familiar with her name.
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She was the special interlocutor for unmarked burials and missing children related to Indian
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residential schools. So she had a two and a half year stint at that where she visited all these
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sharing circles. Well the group that hosted this permanent people's tribunal also hosted one of
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her sharing circles and also a little tiny non-profit in Montreal got a million dollars
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from I believe it was from the Department of Justice to do that. So you know this little group
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it's a non-profit or a charity, sorry charity, it doesn't represent 41 million Canadians.
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It represents a very small group and they had Kimberly Murray who had also declared that she
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wrote the reports for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. So we have this continuum of a one
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woman show condemning Canada and all of her reports escalated you know it initially began with like
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we think some kids are missing and I'm Mark Graves should be discovered and marked and family members
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should be notified when files are available you know then it grew from that to her final report
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as special interlocutor that the government had disappeared people as if we were in Guatemala or
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Argentina where you know during military coups the government literally did disappear people
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but in Canada these alleged disappeared people have no names and they also have no family members
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standing there with a picture saying this is my brother he went missing under the military coup
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on this date and we don't know where he is you know we don't have anyone like that we don't have
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any list of names of children alleged to be missing and now we even have the globe and mail
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stepping back and saying oh by the way we didn't really research that story about the
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you know 215 in kamloops sorry yeah well and i'm glad that the globe at least kind of admitted
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that okay it was a we looks like we reported on a hoax there's not any children buried at the
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kamloops residential school sorry about that no harm no foul they're moving on uh but we need
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something more than that as you're saying these activists these groups are going to international
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events and using that to cite bad canadian behavior they're promoting a hoax and calling
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us genocidal over it how on earth are we ever going to rectify i mean we know what has to be
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done we've got to get a shovel but well and not only a shovel but you know what are we doing to
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little children. You know all of our children at school have been told and they've had to
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participate in various kinds of rituals to you know tie orange ribbons, 215 orange ribbons to
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the school fence and wear an orange hair shirt and beat themselves with a cat or nine tails for
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being descended from people who built a beautiful country. You know how are we going to ever reshape
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their minds. It's really a travesty. Can I put in a quick plug? Of course. I'm going to be talking
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with Tanya Gaw on Action for Canada about the Globe and Mail apology. And you know, when you said
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no harm, sorry, no harm done. Well, 100 churches were burnt or vandalized and two people died in
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one of those fires. So this misreporting by the Globe and Mail had very serious consequences,
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Not to mention, I'm sure that China and its buddies will be citing Globe and Mail stories, all 63 of them or 61 of them with mass grave.
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They will be citing them as, as if fact, right?
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Oh, yeah. And I didn't mean that there was no harm, no foul in what was done, just some of the attitude from them.
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Okay, we did a retraction, we'll just let it go.
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So, but, you know, some of the problems is, as you kind of pointed out, this self-loathing
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that they're trying to instill in school children.
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And even with some of the, I mean, some of the bad things happened in points in history
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farther back, you know, the Kamloops thing is extremely questionable, but there's things
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But I look at, you know, a relatively contemporary example of real genocide with what happened
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and uh germany you know has certainly accepted and owned uh you know the the bad doings of the time
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but they're they're not shaming young german children coming up through school now because
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of what happened back in the in the 30s and 40s uh you know i think as a nation they've accepted
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that it was dead wrong and they've certainly paid everybody paid a horrible price for it
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but there's not this perpetual ongoing multi-generational shaming that's happening
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in Germany that we're seeing with this indigenous state that we have in Canada, where, I don't know,
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my great-grandchildren might have to do land acknowledgements and say that they're genocidal
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settlers. I mean, this is a reprogramming that we've got to push back against.
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Yeah, well, and it has very many Maoist characteristics to it. I did an article a
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while ago on my substack about George Manuel. You maybe heard that the RCMP files revealed that they
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been secretly surveilling him. Well, and good thing that they did because the early Red Power
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movement across North America was quite connected to the Black Panthers and also to Maoist, Leninist
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ideology. And it's funny, you know, back in the day, well, what is now the AFN? I guess it was
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and National Indian Brotherhood then, they presented a model of how they thought land
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back and such like should be. And it was Jean Chrétien and Len Marchand who said,
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gee, you know, people might wake up in BC one day and find out they don't live in Canada anymore.
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That was like 30 years ago. That was all related to this kind of Maoist movement. And people don't
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realize that there was a contingent of Aboriginal people from Canada who went on a state-sponsored
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trip to China back in 1975, I think it was. And they now have developed a First Nations critical
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minerals strategy, a BC First Nations China enterprise strategy. So they are taking it
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upon themselves to act as if they are nations these little tiny groups and exploit whatever
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resources they have access to with directly with another nation uh and i don't think canadians are
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aware that this is happening yeah well all we can do is keep trying to bring awareness to it i'll
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let you go i know you got to get running so with your sub stack and other areas where can people
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find more of your your work in your writing michelle well i have a blog michellesterling.com
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that's with an i in sterling and my sub stack michelle sterling and i'm also on medium and
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youtube and you can also see my mini documentary rebutting the film sugarcane it's called the
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bitter roots of sugarcane you can see that on rumble so there's a few spots all right well
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thank you very much uh you know we just got to keep talking about these things and pushing and
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hopefully some common sense will eventually sink in, but boy, what a crazy environment we're
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living in right now. So thank you again. And I hope we get to talk again soon. I won't have such
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a gap between our interviews this time. Okay. Thank you. See ya. Thanks, Michelle.
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So you guys, if you even want to look it up on both, you know, sustainability, environmental
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issues, Michelle's been fantastic with that and prolific and on this, this ongoing indigenous
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ridiculousness that's going on. It's good to see somebody stepped up in the comment area to show
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the misinformation about what a genocide is. Brett Boyle keeps talking about the genocide in Palestine
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and it's been going on for decades. That's just either a complete misunderstanding on what's
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happening over there or outright misinformation. Actually, I was there a few months ago. It's
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pretty terrible what's happening in Israel and Gaza and areas such as that. It is, and it's a
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war and there's been bad things done by both sides, but it's not genocide, dude. Populations
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don't grow when they're suffering under genocide for decades. I believe the Jewish population still
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hasn't quite caught up to where it was back in the 40s yet. That's genocide. Check out Rwanda.
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That's genocide. A bunch of aggrieved Islamic extremists who FAFO'd themselves
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and got the consequences of it. Tragic, messy, ugly, but it's not genocide. Quit calling every
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little issue you don't like, genocide, because that's not what it is. And it undercuts the real
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genocides that are happening over there in the world in general. And they tell you, if Israel
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wanted to wipe out every person in Gaza, they could have done it within hours of October 7th.
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They had the ability. So either way, that's where these discussions go, right? You know,
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the people with the baloney about whether Canada committed genocide or others and things such as
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that. It's destructive, it's divisive, and it's not doing anybody any favors or solving any
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problems. It's just mostly people with an extreme leftist agenda that try to use extreme buzzwords
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to make a point. All right, let's see what else we've got going on. I'll bring things a little
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lighter. Interesting. Dave brought it up, and there's going to be a press conference this
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afternoon with Premier Smith talking about, and there's been pressure on that. I think I wrote a
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column on that getting on her case a bit. We were supposed to at least cut the amount of gas tax
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that we're paying in Alberta if the oil prices get high enough, and they never quite got around to
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that. It sounds like that might be coming. And then as Dave said, yes, the Danny bucks could
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be coming along right away, which, you know, why is it done? As it works. This is a response of
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Premier Smith seeing a slump in the polls, you know, she's been, I think in general,
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and I get, uh, you know, flack for that, but I think in general, she's been pretty good,
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but she's prone to being reactive prone to, I think a little bit of panic when things slip a
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little bit, that's part of the, the bizarre, uh, uh, release, you know, that she put out or
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statement she put out when she was going on about that $400 billion, uh, you know, cost of transition
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if Alberta became independent and stuff like that, that was a response to slipping in the
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polls and then they get afraid and think that, and then they overcorrect. Either way, you know,
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putting money back in the pockets of Albertans doesn't harm that much, but it does reduce
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credibility. Are we conservatives or not? The deficit when the oil prices were low was way
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too high for a province that's ostensibly fiscally responsible. We should be taking the windfall
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from the high energy prices and eliminating the debt. Get rid of it. Go back to net zero where
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Ralph Klein brought us. Then we can start talking about handing money out. But the reason is it
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works. Ralph Klein did that a long time ago when his support was starting to slide a bit too.
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and uh it worked it brought his support numbers up everybody got a check in their hands i think
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for 400 bucks and that was you know 20 some years ago that's a lot of money uh in the hands of of
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you know people at that time and it made them more endeared to the government and it kept
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client in power but it's not responsible policy it's it's not good policy but i don't expect it
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to stop. This is the, uh, uh, nature of politics and it's the nature of our own
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I guess you could say by a few bucks in hand, uh, rather than looking at the big
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picture, one of the things that really helped Alberta through some of the tougher
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times, because we don't get equalization, no matter how bad the oil prices get.
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But remember 2008, when things crashed all over North America and including
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It was tough to get any kind of work in the energy sector, but part of why it
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wasn't so bad was that at least Ralph Klein and the Albertans in the 90s who tightened their belt
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had knocked off the debt so we didn't have massive debt servicing charges to pay for. I mean the debt
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was already starting to grow again by then but it wasn't massive. Now we've been bloating it for
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years and I understand that there's going to be surplus territory and I'm sure that Premier Smith
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is going to announce some of it's going to go towards the debt but realistically a responsible
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conservative should be saying we're going to put every extra dollar in the surplus towards the
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debt until the debt is gone. Because one of the worst things to waste your money on in the world,
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everybody knowing it from their household budget, one of the most painful things is interest.
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It's just burned money. If you don't have to carry the credit card debt, don't. If you could buy a
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house for cash, Lord knows I can't, but it would certainly be a nice way. I mean, look at the
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amount when you, over the course of paying a mortgage off that you've paid an interest.
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And that's what we're paying on this, this provincial debt is, is, is a, you know, a pile
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of interest that we don't have to be. And meanwhile, the dollars are coming out to try and keep
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Albertans happy. So, you know, another interesting discussion, this is where I differ with some of
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the, um, you know, followers and so on on this with me, medical assistance and dying. I did have
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some time back, uh, one of the lawyers from Sue Rodriguez's case, they used to call it assisted
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suicide back then where somebody was really, um, terminal in a bad way and so on and looking for
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help on coming out. They didn't anticipate it was going to come into this stuff and go as badly as
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it would to the point where we're talking about offering it to people with mental health issues.
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It's just beyond the pale. I'm glad that even, um, even a federal committee is realizing they've
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overstepped for the most part. As Dave said, some senators are going to come out and talk about how
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horrific it is to deny people with mental health issues. It's, it's, it's, it's absurd, but I, you
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know, there's some people on the other side, so there should just never be made under any
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circumstance. It shouldn't be offered. It shouldn't be a consideration in the system. I don't agree
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with them there either though. It's easy to say that that shouldn't be an option if you're not
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the one suffering in an agonizing condition with a terminal diagnosis and then you have two options
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for what might be a few months of existence, which would be either being in agonizing pain
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or drugged to the point of not really being coherent for those last months. And some people
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for religious reasons or whatever else might feel that's still the way to go, hang on right to the
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end. But you know what? I will not put myself in the shoes of somebody who's in that kind of
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condition who says, you know what? I just want to bring this to an end now and let them make that
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choice. But you have to set a bar. And some of those bars are pretty straightforward. I think
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they were kind of in the right place before. You know, you had to have multiple doctors on it. You
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had to be terminal, not a case of ongoing and bad. It had to be terminal. There's no curing it. You
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know that you're reaching towards the end and has to be debilitating.
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I think a lot of people have terminal, uh, diagnosis on things.
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I mean, if they can still maintain a little bit of a standard of living and
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you know, they'll want to hang on as long as they can, but now you get into
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mental health, which is a disease and people suffer and people with mental
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health issues are having a terrible time, but these are the exact people who can't
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make an informed judgment about whether or not they should be alive.
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offering made for that is just going way too far. I'm sorry, I'm just watching the moron in the
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commenter there, Brett. He's like, I'm more interested in Corey openly admitting he was
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just in Israel. Yes, I traveled to Israel. You know there's a war over there? Journalists cover
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that. Openly admitting it was never a secret, peckerhead. And so I was there. You were just a
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YouTube commenter who is thankfully demonstrating the foolishness of this extreme leftist crap that
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goes, you know, puts out completely ignorant statements with no clue on what's happening
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in the Middle East. So please, Brett, explain further for the rest of the commenters on there.
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For those who want more, you know, reasonable discussions on things, we'll just carry on with
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that. I'll leave his comments alone. Man, he's a winner. All right. The other thing, you know,
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that I really, I was hoping to get Colin Craig on.
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He runs that group and they do dig into the healthcare things excellently and exposing
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some of those things with the inefficiencies of ours.
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Because people come to that conclusion a lot when we're talking about thousands of Canadians
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making over a hundred doctor visits a year in their report.
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We've got a whole lot of people we know who are, as I said to Dave, hypochondriacs or lonely or
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have mental health issues, bringing in their kids every time the kid gets the sniffles when you
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didn't need to see a doctor for it, you know, every time you stubbed a toe. A lot of those
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people, if it was even $10 or $20 a visit, might suddenly reconsider how often they're going. But
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we do have a universal system. We have to find a way to distinguish, you know, somebody who might
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be very sick with a chronic condition who has to see a doctor once a week, twice a week, if they're
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that sick. And we don't want to punish them and bankrupt them because they have a user fee each
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time. But I think we can find those levels. You know, we can find things for people under a certain
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degree of income. Don't want somebody who's really sick not to go to a doctor because they couldn't
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afford $20 or something. But I think it's not unfair for most of us who have jobs who are
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relatively healthy to think, yeah, you know what? I can cough up 20 bucks when I go to the doctor
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to see them about something. It's not that hard. And I suspect it would reduce a whole heck of a
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lot of it. Roseanne Hutchins saying, didn't we have user fees in the early eighties? I don't
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think so. I would have been a kid at that point, I guess. But we did have the Alberta healthcare
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premiums, which I don't think was necessarily the best thing around either. Part of the point of
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that was that people just can't, it was just a tax. I mean, when a government takes it, they call it
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a premium, but it's a tax. And we used to have to pay a monthly thing for healthcare. That stopped
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sometime, I think what, in the late nineties or so, but it gave a misimpression to some people
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that they were paying the full amount of their healthcare costs or things like that. I remember
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online discussions with, uh, you know, uh, again, a misinformed leftist from back then. He was
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saying, you know, the healthcare over here is so far more expensive. It costs this much in this
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country and that much in that country as he defended the status quo. And here it only costs
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me 400 a year. Well, no, your healthcare premiums cost you 400 a year, but the healthcare coverage,
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for you cost about $8,000 to $10,000 back in those days per year. It gives a false impression
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of how much the healthcare actually costs when you add it all up for provision across a province.
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Just call it a tax then. If you want more tax for more universal coverage in an inefficient system
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that's collapsing on itself and people dying on waiting lists, then maybe premiums are the way
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to go with it. But if we actually wanted to do something as, you know, again, just to slow it
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down a bit, at least make it a little more efficient. Yeah. I think a user fee for seeing
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a doctor isn't necessarily a bad thing, but we really need to reform that system altogether.
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I mean, Canada's system is, is truly, truly, uh, collapsing. We're seeing that in every province.
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It's funny watching the games. It's usually unions. They're at the root of a lot of it.
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You know, they blame every year. Oh, it's the conservatives did this. The conservatives did
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that. Well, guess what? It's collapsing in the NDP BC. It's collapsing in NDP Manitoba. It's
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collapsing in Quebec. It's collapsing in Newfoundland. We've got the exact same thing
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happening everywhere. We're running out of doctors, running out of space, and people are running out
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of time waiting to get care. We have to re-evaluate that whole system. And oh no, I'm not looking to
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Americanize it. I'm sure I'll see that coming from someone soon. Guess what? There are dozens and
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dozens of systems around the world that provide universal care, which means you don't need a
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credit card to go in and get care. But they do offer more private options. And guess what? They're
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outperforming the heck out of us. So why don't we start looking at them and quit the union crap
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on holding onto this broken system that's really making people suffer and dragging everybody down
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to a lowest common denominator. And the reality is too, the politics of envy are a huge part of it.
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Oh, that rich guy will be able to get in there faster than me. That'd be unfair.
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Guess what? If somebody really is that well off, they're going to jump the lines. It's just that
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they're going to leave the country to do it. They'll go to Vietnam. They'll go to the United
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States. They'll go where they can pay to get the care. So you're not stopping them with your
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politics of envy, but you are driving their dollars out of the country. Why not have those
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dollars? Stay here, pay specialists here, fund facilities here. So all of the rest of us can
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enjoy it. Just get over the envy. Yeah. He might get a little ahead of you. Oh, well get over it.
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Probably has a bigger house than you. Probably has a nicer car than you. Probably eats better
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meals than you, has better clothing, and maybe Shtip's a better looking woman than you. Get over
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it. Either bring yourself better in life and try and rise in the scrotum pole of humanity,
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or get over it. Envy doesn't help anybody. But until then, we'll see this system continue to
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collapse in among itself anyways. And Alberta has been exceptional for the people abusing it,
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apparently across the, uh, uh, other, uh, I'm sorry. I just have to laugh. See, Brett is
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outstanding. You would think I'd put this guy in on purpose. Look at that. He, he came right out.
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I guess he's not listening to me, trying to Americanize our healthcare. You know, there we
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go. Right to it, right. Right to the stock lines, man, guys, you gotta get a new playbook. Carry on
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Brett. You're making my case for me. All right. Some of the current events though. Yes. Sundry.
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Let's talk about Sundry. That was the whole thing that had happened. There was a parade coming for
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rodeo. It's been happening for a long time. There was a group that wanted to put a float in that
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had Alberta flags on it. Nothing else, just Alberta flags. But apparently they decided that
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was too politicized. A committee, a committee of fools. And the idiots went and blocked that float
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whilst allowing Thomas Lukasik's little Forever Canada float. So the double standard enraged a
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lot of people. They got a lot of blowback. And then it turned out that they reversed their decision,
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said they will allow the Alberta float in. But by then it was too late. The toothpaste was out of
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the tube. And that also brought even more blowback from the crazy federalists. Now, one thing I'm
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kind of annoyed with, and I can believe it, there was probably some horrific messaging, emails,
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phone calls, you name it, that went to them from both sides. And, you know, these committee members
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shouldn't have to be exposed to being that rude to them. I wish people would calm down. Most people
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are. It's usually just a few keyboard hammerheads just throwing out belligerence in general on both
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sides on the fringes, the ends of things, but still they canceled the rodeo. That was the,
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the, the, the parade, pure cowardice rather than dealing with it anymore. They canceled the whole
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thing. So what's happening now? An independence, uh, supporting group is going to be bringing a
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parade to Sundry this Saturday. Anyways, they're getting together. There's going to be a parade
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and basically saying to Sundry, what are you going to do about it? It's going to be a positive
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thing from what I've seen. It should be a good time. They should have, uh, a lot of fun at this
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thing. I like seeing this pushback from people on the ground, citizens saying, you know what,
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we don't have to wait for you. We aren't waiting for your permission to do this. We're Albertans.
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We're not going to let a committee of wimps stop what was an annual tradition for generations in
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the town. They're going to go out and they're going to drive on those streets and they're
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going to have a good time. The Western standard is going to have somebody out there covering it
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in person. And, um, uh, well, I just think it's purely Alberta. Uh, just a comment there,
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Brett Gelley, another, Brett, not the same one. Treason is no longer a capital offense punished
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by death by military law. Yeah, that's right. We don't have capital punishment in Canada
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longer. It's still a very serious offense, but, uh, uh, nobody is committing it in Canada. People
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can look up the definitions of it too. Holding a legal referenda actually is not treason.
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And Daniel Smith certainly hasn't committed treason, but it really shows the idiocy and hysteria coming from the indigenous, I'll put it in quotes, leadership.
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The corruption on those reserves, guys, is overwhelming.
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And these chiefs, they don't represent the people on the ground.
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The people on the ground, the indigenous reserves are suffering and they're miserable.
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That's why there are actually 46% of them in a huge, large poll of 3,000 respondents.
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And it was found 46% of indigenous people on the ground support independence.
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So, but the chiefs, the chiefs are lining their pockets and calling for treason charges against
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the premier. You think people are going to take you seriously? Well, the CBC does, but eventually
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things are going to be had out and these chiefs get beyond reasonable and it's just going to get
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worse. Uh, Valerie's saying what time does the sundry roll begin? I don't know. I think they're
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going to converge on sundry about, uh, 10 o'clock in the morning. Just search things out on Facebook.
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Uh, I think it's like the independence cruise and things like that, or cruise to independence.
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you'll find the details it's going to be all over it's going to be a very interesting weekend all
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right guys that's the time i've got for today thank you for tuning in even brett boyle to show
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just how stupid the left is it's good to see working examples in the wild i'm going to be
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back next week at this time the pipeline is going to be on tonight we'll break down some more issues
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with a panel and uh be sure to like share and all that good stuff so we can keep bypassing
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the old legacy media gatekeepers of information.