00:09:41.880prod Kearney into withholding health care payments as a punishment for Alberta's B-11,
00:09:49.660Bill 11. And Jay Hill, his column is up now, and I'm sure he's going to be talking to you about
00:09:55.320that. We will chat about it shortly. And a big new section opened up today at the Calgary Zoo,
00:09:59.860an Asian section, featuring all sorts of wonderful, some cuddly, some not so cuddly
00:10:06.800animals and Leah Mushut was down there and we'll be filing a video report on it.
00:10:11.600Right on, what you said Leah. I mean I know that was kind of one of your earliest
00:10:14.600media things was getting over to see the pandas in China. Oh yeah, there's nothing
00:10:18.320and you know what they are not cute and cuddly, they're vicious little rats.1.00
00:10:22.160Rather dumb. Rather dumb and all their fur is very very coarse, it's like a1.00
00:10:27.380Brillo pad or something like that. Just the airport stuffies are probably the0.99
00:10:31.020better version than the real ones. Yes, exactly. I look forward to seeing Leah's
00:10:35.180pictures and everything going up and uh i'll let you back in there i know you're balancing between
00:10:39.260the newsroom and your uh football uh go england go is all i can say so okay if you hear yelling
00:10:45.580that might be me yeah well since derek's out of town that's all it could be at this point exactly
00:10:49.740good point all right thanks dave we'll see you in a bit there's our news editor dave naylor with yes
00:10:56.300lots going on lots being covered and uh lots happening uh yeah so you see i mean i just
00:11:02.060see this data center, people are going so wild over this. And again, so much misinformation.
00:11:08.660Look, Alberta first. Okay, fair enough. You know, you're commenting and you're speaking. You said0.86
00:11:11.560our water infrastructure and electrical grid are stretched to the breaking point. I don't know if
00:11:15.140you listened to my commentary. It's a closed loop thing. It's using no water. And our electrical grid,
00:11:21.280it has nothing to do with it because they're generating their own electricity. In fact,
00:11:25.480they're buying the gas from our local producers to do so. They don't ruin your crops. They don't
00:11:33.100ruin the environment. They're just generating plants, guys. You have them all around you
00:11:36.760already. I liked one person's comment saying, imagine typing on a YouTube chat channel and
00:11:41.120saying data centers are bad. These have to happen somewhere. And that's the thing. They're going to
00:11:46.420happen, whether you like them or you don't like them. And the issues are going to come with AI
00:11:51.840and all of those, again, they might be bad issues, but stopping data centers in Alberta isn't going
00:11:56.220to change that. It's not going to stop it. In fact, they'll open in Montana. They'll open in
00:12:00.540China. They'll open in India. We're safer having them here. And, uh, you know, Alberta first saying
00:12:06.400more than 30,000 people arrested for their posts on Facebook. Uh, what the hell does that have to
00:12:10.660do with data centers in Alberta? Or do we want to ban the internet? Is that what we want to get to?
00:12:14.980Guys, technology is moving whether you want it to or not. We need to look at it pragmatically
00:12:20.780and these are generating computer centers. That's all they are. I mean, how they can be abused,
00:12:27.540how data can be abused, how AI can be abused, all very valid. Absolutely. There's concerns and we
00:12:32.620should have those conversations. We should watch how it's going to impact the economy.
00:12:36.820We've always got to watch how authoritarians are going to use technology and means to step on us.
00:12:43.900They always want to, and this will provide them some. There's no doubt about that too,
00:12:47.080But the tech is moving ahead and we can be part of it, or we can still have all of the bad sides
00:12:55.960that may come with it and lose what benefits we can. As I said, there's a reason they chose
00:13:02.320Alberta for these things. And it's not a conspiracy-ish thing or anything like that.
00:13:06.740It's just that we've got the right climate, we've got the right workplace, and we've got
00:13:10.860the energy and things around. But it'll be an ongoing discussion. We'll see where it goes.
00:13:17.000There's lots to cover, lots to talk about. I just, before I bring Jay on, I want to laugh. I think I
00:13:22.900just want to look at it as the hypocrite award of the week. You know, I'm not going to start a0.94
00:13:28.180regular one. There's just too many contenders for it. But the winner this week is our Prime Minister,
00:13:33.560Mark Carney. In hiring an operative from the Democrat Party of the United States as his chief
00:13:41.360operating officer in the Prime Minister's office, the man who gave us the whole elbows up, the man
00:13:45.660who told us to buy Canadian, the man who said we have to ensure everything stays here, we don't0.99
00:13:50.280support those big bad Americans south of the border, has hired an American into a senior position0.95
00:13:56.780within his office. Apparently, among the other 40 million Canadians or so, nobody was as well
00:14:02.180qualified as this American that he hired. But he's telling you to put your elbows up and not buy
00:14:10.120anything from the United States. Shocker, a liberal hypocrite. How unusual. All right. Well,1.00
00:14:16.200let's see what else is going on. We got our guest here, Jay Hill. It's been about time. It's been
00:14:20.920a while since we've had you in. It's been a while. It's always a privilege. As you can see, the
00:14:25.420studio has changed somewhat. Same place, a better look. John's improved things around here. Yeah,
00:14:31.720looks very, very professional. Yeah. So your column has just kind of gone live. Maybe kind
00:14:38.800Just to start with, and by the way, as I said at the start of the show, you have a long political history, a long time as a member of parliament, the house leader under the Harper government, and a lot of experience to land with us here.
00:14:53.240Well, not surprisingly, Corey, I put my thoughts to this whole issue of the independence, or at least the referendum about an independence vote that's going to be held on October 19th.
00:15:08.460And I wrote about that in the sense that it came to me that whether it was intentional or an unintentional consequence of the way the court forced our premier to word the question number 10,
00:15:24.880it came to me that the unintended consequence could very well be that a lot of people that
00:15:32.720are undecided about supporting independence may come to the realization and certainly I'm
00:15:38.980encouraging them to do that the realization that they can vote for option two for independence
00:15:46.000for pursuing independence because it's a safe vote and it does send as you've said and many
00:15:54.960others have said sends a message to ottawa that although i might not be convinced that independence
00:16:01.000is definitely the way to go i am convinced that ottawa is doing us no favors uh the west has
00:16:09.260legitimate long-term grievances and they need to be addressed. In other words, say no to the status
00:16:16.040quo and vote for option two. And that's what my column's about. Right on. Yeah. And I mean,
00:16:21.120I appreciate that. And I felt kind of the same way. I mean, I'm of the maybe 30%. I want to go.
00:16:25.940I want out. I made my mind up. Yes, no question. I'm voting for the yes to leave. And that's not
00:16:31.860going to change. I like to think and believe in a majority of Albertans will hit that tipping
00:16:37.360point at one day, but I don't feel confident actually that we were there yet. I don't know
00:16:41.020if we were ready for that yes, no question yet this fall. Now, and that would have been a hard
00:16:46.380cap of maybe 30, 35% if we'd have gone towards such a vote. Maybe not, I could be wrong. Maybe
00:16:50.840we wouldn't have hit 150. But with this, this broadens the amount of people who can
00:16:55.080take that risk-free, you know, one last shot, perhaps they're sitting on the fence
00:16:59.940and say, I am sending a message. I'm telling them it's beyond, unless something radically changes,
00:17:05.040we're ready to roll yeah yeah well as i point out in the column is that they don't ever have to get
00:17:11.180to the point where that they become uh you know died in the world die hard separatists i want to
00:17:17.500bring them there yeah so do i so do i uh like you and i have come to that realization uh that if
00:17:24.280there isn't constitutional change in canada to treat the west fairly then we never will be treated
00:17:30.920fairly and there's no appetite for constitutional change in the rest of Canada and so this does
00:17:37.880give all of those people in the middle right they're not on the extreme you know I'm a Canadian
00:17:44.860patriot and I'm going to vote to remain in Canada no matter what and they're not on our end of the
00:17:50.120spectrum where they say look we've been doing this for 150 years or whatever it is and the fact of
00:17:57.580matter is is that it's never going to change and we've come to that realization so we're going to
00:18:03.660vote for independence no matter what and then you take i don't know what the 50 in the middle you got
00:18:09.50025 on each end and the 50 in the middle that says i'm unhappy with what's happened i'm unhappy
00:18:17.500that our standard of living is going in the toilet i'm unhappy that i can't afford groceries and heat
00:18:23.260for my home at the same time. I'm unhappy about the corruption and the scandals that continue to
00:18:31.340plague our federal government. I'm unhappy that, you know, the so-called climate change laws,
00:18:37.800which I don't believe do anything to protect us from climate change, these taxes, carbon taxes,
00:18:44.900are still being imposed by the federal government on Alberta's primary industry. I'm unhappy about
00:18:51.920all of this and much more the wide open immigration that's creating all sorts of problems for our1.00
00:18:58.560schools for our health care for our housing i'm unhappy about all of that and so i have the0.76
00:19:06.240opportunity on october 19th to vote my unhappiness by voting for option two on question 10. so do you
00:19:16.480think if say 60% of people chose option two, I mean, then there's going to be the discussion of
00:19:21.920holding a binding referendum later and starting that process. But do you think that might be
00:19:25.800enough to encourage the rest of the country to realize it's time to open the constitution? I
00:19:30.480mean, I'm not convinced it would be enough, but perhaps for those who want to take that last stab
00:19:35.960at another Meech Lake or Charlottetown. Well, I think it would certainly be conducive to the rest
00:19:42.120to Canada and especially to Ottawa and the liberal party of Canada who fashions
00:19:46.440themselves as the, the everlasting ruling party of Canada.
00:19:51.560I think it would be conducive to forcing them to the realization that
00:19:56.760enough Albertans do recognize the historic grievances and they're real.
00:20:22.460Now, whether it actually, as you suggest, whether it actually accomplished the goal of forcing the rest of the country to seriously consider changes to our constitution.
00:20:32.760As you well know, when I led on an interim basis, the Maverick Party of Western Canada, we put forward two tracks, one of which was constitutional change.
00:20:43.740In other words, what would it take to address the historic grievances of Western Canada in the way of constitutional change?
00:20:52.860And we put forward five amendments that were well thought out, easily communicated, and there was absolutely no pickup.
00:21:00.480So that was our sort of option one or option a, and then option B was to support outright independence.
00:21:07.680And I, and most other Mavericks, I would suggest came to the realization, um, belatedly for some of us, uh, that there is no other option.
00:21:19.380Well, a lot of those options in the rest of the referendum questions that are kind of being overshadowed by the question 10, all of those, almost all those would call for constitutional change to actually have them happen.
00:21:29.680And they're similar to what former Premier Kenney did with the equalization one.
00:21:33.540We can all vote 60% or more on saying we want to change it, but it doesn't do a darn thing unless the rest of the country is willing to start discussing it.
00:21:42.040But again, maybe it was unintentional, but it seems to kind of work for some people who are still maintaining that optimism.
00:21:46.740Okay, I voted yes on all nine of those because I think we can make a bunch of changes.
00:21:52.000And I'm voting yes, or I'm voting option two on question 10, as awkward as that is to say, fix these first nine.
00:21:59.680And we're starting the process towards the other part if you don't fix them.
00:22:03.160So, you know, you can kind of, it's risk-free.
00:22:25.840They have the alternative to do that when the real referendum on independence comes along, whenever that might be, a year or two from now.
00:22:35.300So this is, by my definition, a free vote in the sense that you can vote how you feel.
00:22:43.720And it's the only time in my lifetime that we have this opportunity.
00:22:48.720And Alberta's given us that opportunity.
00:22:51.540And every Albertan should take advantage of it.
00:22:54.120And in my mind, every Albertan other than the sort of the diehard, maple leaf center eyes, Captain Canada envisioning Albertan should vote for option two and give our Alberta government the power to continue serious negotiations with the federal government because they won't have that power if this referendum is voted down.
00:23:22.740So that, again, whether it's unintentional or whatnot, that question that happened, I mean, giving the benefit of the doubt to Premier Smith, she was cornered, couldn't do an up or down question.
00:23:33.320You know, as I've been a part of a TPA and we're putting signs out and everything, for a referendum, normally you'd make it pretty simple, yes or no, show a check mark.
00:23:41.000But option one, option two, and I got to remind everybody, by the way, that's of question 10, it makes it difficult to campaign on that.
00:24:08.440But it's not that complicated in all seriousness because people are paying attention, at least those that are.
00:24:16.420And in my column, I write about three people that I bumped into by happenstance when I attended a doctor's office.
00:24:25.200And I raised this issue with them and in only in about five minutes of conversation, convinced them to rather than a reluctant remain or stay vote, in other words, option one of question 10.
00:24:39.840I convinced them that they are quite capable and should vote for option two.
00:24:46.420for the independent side of the question. So, but of course, how do you reach each person to
00:24:51.980have that five minute conversation? That's the challenge. Well, that's part of it because it's
00:24:56.440not a simple conversation. I mean, if you got to discuss it, you're losing. That's one of the
00:25:00.120campaign rules quite often, but that's why we got to take this all three months to really have a lot
00:25:03.840of conversations. And that's why in, in my column, I encourage them, the reader, because there's not
00:25:10.880enough of them, obviously. I mean, Western Standard wishes there was more readers. I certainly wish
00:25:15.820there was more readers for my columns. But that's why I encourage the reader to think
00:25:22.940about this. I provided a checklist in the column to say, okay, when you're talking to
00:25:28.740your son or daughter that's of voting age, if you're a grandparent, if you're talking
00:25:34.300to your grandchild or a friend or a coworker or just somebody standing in a line, here's
00:25:41.040a checklist and just go down it. And one of the questions that you want to ask is,
00:25:45.540are you happy with the direction that Canada is going and if the answer is absolutely not which
00:25:51.600it is for most Canadians not just Albertans then I say okay well then you must vote option two
00:25:58.900well and we've never seen this much discussion on unity Alberta's place in the federation I don't
00:26:05.300even think in the early 80s in the WCC times I mean there was some big discussion but for it's
00:26:10.360been sustained it's been more than a year we've been on this and it will be all the way into
00:26:14.280October. I mean, it's interesting to see where things are going to move. People are thinking
00:26:19.780about this and talking about this more than they ever have. And I think that's part of what's got
00:26:23.320some federalists pretty nervous. Because they realize the conclusions once people start talking
00:26:27.100about it, realize, well, wait a minute, the status quo isn't worth a crap. That's right.0.97
00:26:30.860That's right. And thank goodness that people seem to be taking it more and more seriously. And a
00:26:36.840wider breadth of the Alberta population is seriously considering this opportunity they've
00:26:42.460been given uh you and i know it's our the one opportunity in our lifetime chances are it's
00:26:48.540going to be the last one unless it goes the right way and we actually get an a real vote on
00:26:54.240independence but uh you know we certainly want people to consider the options carefully uh we
00:27:00.540don't want to attack people just because they hold a different opinion we want to persuade them just
00:27:04.800as i did at the doctor's office that's what i like to remind people of we're albertans even the ones
00:27:09.160who aren't ready to vote for option two yet and if right if an alberton's sitting on a fence we
00:27:13.200know what's happened somebody gets in your face and yells at you yeah i'm gonna push back and go
00:27:16.780the other way yeah so you know show the respectful conversation and you can bring people over and
00:27:22.540that goes for both sides because we've seen instances on both sides where people have lost
00:27:27.940their patience expressed their frustration and uh so it's just a reminder to everybody involved in
00:27:35.180the debate to be respectful. So something I wanted to hit on, I mean, the time goes too quick when
00:27:39.620we're here already, but you talked about the Maverick and the federal involvement and just
00:27:43.400something that's been coming into my mind more. I mean, there's some very good people within the
00:27:48.000Conservative Party of Canada. I think Pierre is a good guy. There's a lot of great members of
00:27:53.000Parliament, but let's be frank, they're impotent. Nothing's getting accomplished. The Prime
00:27:59.320Minister's mopping the floor with them. Their base of support is increasingly just ending up out here.
00:28:05.180is it time to start looking at another reform type option or is that productive or you know well i
00:28:12.140you know i it's a matter of timing as you and i have discussed it obviously it wasn't the right
00:28:17.500time for for myself and a small group of friends and supporters to take over the old wexit party
00:28:24.140and and morph it into maverick with uh with our sort of two-track approach to confederation uh
00:28:31.820back in 2020 it was at the height of covid we couldn't hold little town hall meetings like
00:28:36.940like you've been speaking at corey so there was a lot going against maverick at that time
00:28:43.100i think the policies that we developed and the strategy we developed in trying to organize a
00:28:51.500sort of a western block quebecois members of parliament that would belong to a party
00:28:57.740in western canada that would only be in western canada and would only vote for what's best for
00:29:04.300their constituents so we get away from this system of federalism which certainly hamstrung myself
00:29:13.580and continues to the existing conservative party that even though people with the best of intentions
00:29:19.980vote for the conservative party federally in western canada and it's not only alberta
00:29:26.540big time saskatchewan uh my riding old riding in northeastern british columbia is always voted
00:29:32.460conservative with one exception way back in pierre trudeau's time that you know almost 100 years ago
00:29:38.760it seems like uh but um i think it's time that we had that option for westerners that they could
00:29:46.700vote for as quebecers have vote for a voice that would represent their interests in parliament
00:29:54.740rather than having to water everything down in order to try to appeal to where the majority of
00:30:00.140the votes are, which is in Quebec and Ontario. Yeah. And I mean, right now, Albertans have
00:30:05.460enough to do getting ready for a referendum in a few months and everything. So I just wanted to
00:30:08.920talk about the broader game because I think historically looking back, some of the most
00:30:13.640conservative government we actually ever had, or at least economically, was Chrétien with you guys
00:30:19.360breathing down his neck from the reform side of the house. Like we can actually get good policy
00:30:23.760without being in power, a minority government, a piece of parliament.
00:30:28.700I mean, look at the unprecedented influence Jagmeet Singh had,
00:30:33.500as unpopular as he was because he was a kingmaker in a minority government.
00:30:53.260And, you know, that's just one of the ways our parliament works or doesn't work.
00:30:58.660But as you point out that you can imagine, and I used to make this argument as interim leader of Maverick, that you can imagine what would be the case if we had 40 or 50 Western members of parliament belonging to Maverick in there every day, raising concerns for themselves.
00:31:18.080And actually, that brings me into a letter that I saw made public yesterday by the Buffalo Project here in Alberta and Saskatchewan that they had sent under the signature of quite a number of very prominent.
00:31:36.340Well, there's quite a few business people, more importantly than politicians, that sent this joint letter to Scott Moe and Daniel Smith saying, look, you guys, get down to Washington and represent the interests and the issues and the resources of Western Canada, specifically Saskatchewan and Alberta.
00:31:58.160because clearly Carney and his government are not they're not in Washington and when they are there
00:32:05.140they're not there to represent western issues and we need you down there you know and it's just
00:32:12.380another instance where confederation doesn't work thank goodness the men and women of Buffalo
00:32:18.820project recognized and they dug in their jeans and and put money into the pot and they've now
00:32:26.260uh composed and sent this letter to both premiers saying it's way past time to lead a trade mission
00:32:32.640to washington yeah there's no sense waiting for currently he's busy hiring democrat advisors for
00:32:37.200his well exactly and when he does go down there you know he's focused on the auto industry or the
00:32:43.580quebec dairy industry uh he's certainly not focused on promoting our oil and gas and our uranium and
00:32:50.540our potash and go down the long list our wood canola yeah canola yeah well we'll see what we
00:32:58.120can do it's always great to get you nj uh as i said it's been overdue and i appreciate the column
00:33:04.100and the insight you know we're in a pivotal time no matter how we look at it so it's if we can get
00:33:08.700our crap together in the west i mean on a few fronts i think partisan and referendum wise we
00:33:13.420can maybe make some positive change for the first time in a long time well thank you it's always a0.96
00:33:18.080Pleasure. I always feel that I need to speak out because there isn't very many that at one point in time we're sitting at the cabinet table with Stephen Harper that have come to the realization that myself and a few MP colleagues like Leon Benoit and Alan Kerpen in Saskatchewan and most importantly, Val Meredith, now Fraser, here in Calgary, these three other MPs and myself have sort of stuck our neck.
00:33:47.180those articles yeah stuck our neck out and uh and said you know what uh we've been there we worked
00:33:53.360hard for a number of years in parliament and the system is stacked against us it does not work
00:34:00.060and i just wish more of the mps uh both former and current uh would speak out because they know
00:34:08.980the system isn't working well that's it and that's the bottom of it all kind of leave it off at that
00:34:13.260yeah people realize it's the system so you can tinker with the party all you like but as long as
00:34:17.660the system's the same your outcome is pretty much going to be the same yeah it's uh insanity right
00:34:23.100doing the same thing over and over elect conservative mps and get the same result
00:34:28.620thanks very much cory thank you pleasure yeah it was good seeing you we'll talk again soon
00:34:34.060all right you guys yeah one more time that is jay hill always great when he comes in be sure
00:34:38.060to catch his column and he's been writing them regularly as well yeah watch those news stories
00:34:42.540I saw him and Val Meredith and the rest, all those pictures popping up in my social media scroll.
00:34:46.900What are they doing in their back blast from the past?
00:34:49.800But they're also bringing a blast of wisdom and experience to things.
00:35:40.700There's no sense pretending any longer.
00:35:43.720You know, for those of us old enough, and yeah, it's starting to show how great we're getting, the old Reform Party, it was actually pretty effective.0.98
00:35:50.800When Reform ended, when they decided, you know what, we've got to go for the brass ring, we've got to start operating into Ontario and going east, then the party just went to crap, to be honest.
00:36:00.460Again, there are very many good members and people could say that is the process that eventually led to the election of Stephen Harper, whereas we had a federal government that was less bad to Alberta than one had been for a while, but nothing changed systematically, right?
00:36:15.520Jay, who was just here, was the government house leader in that government.
00:36:20.340You know, he was right next to Stephen Harper, one of the most powerful people in the country, and they achieved what change they could while they were in.
00:36:28.040but eventually Ontario said okay that's enough of you guys and put the liberals back in gave us 10
00:36:32.220years of Trudeau now gave us Carney and nothing within the system got changed. Why did nothing
00:36:38.640get changed when you had people like Jay Hill in the federal government? Well it's because you can't
00:36:44.300change the system. They also knew that the second you try changing the system you're going to get
00:36:49.240thrown out of office by central Canada. Trudeau or some other liberal would have gotten in even
00:36:54.640faster even earlier that's the same reason that polyevs government voted you know a bunch of them
00:37:01.180abstained a bunch of them hid and and some voted in favor on ending rep by pop in quebec when
00:37:07.880quebec's population didn't warrant they were actually going to lose a seat in the house of
00:37:11.500commons that was a very telling moment that not a lot of canadians paid attention to it's a few
00:37:14.580years ago so when rebalancing based on population in the house of commons i mean we get screwed
00:37:19.760badly enough in the senate we already know but quebec was supposed to lose a seat so quebec went
00:37:24.280bananas. And as usual, Canada bent over backwards to accommodate them, including the Conservative
00:37:29.540Party. He said, well, despite the fact that you guys aren't reproducing effectively enough
00:37:33.760to warrant keeping that parliamentary seat, we will put a motion forward to make sure that you
00:37:38.720maintain a certain amount of seats no matter what. If there are only 20 Quebecers left in all of
00:37:43.380Quebec, every one of them will be a member of Parliament because they have a guaranteed number
00:37:47.360of seats, no matter what. And conservatives voted for that. That's an embarrassment. A handful voted
00:37:55.060against, a whole whack of them abstained, including Polly. I'm just, we won't show ourselves to vote
00:37:59.040one way or another on it. But why? Because they didn't want to upset la belle province because
00:38:03.520they're trying to win the federal government. So we got to change things. Had it been a reform party
00:38:09.300in there, they wouldn't have cared. We're voting against that. Would it have changed anything? No,
00:38:13.180but at least they would have made a principled stand and also demonstrated again the futility
00:38:17.540of changing things so we got a lot of things to work on but one of the more immediate ones is
00:38:22.240definitely the the referenda that we've got to work on let's look at some other news items here's a
00:38:26.880big one that's been uh in the western standard and everywhere else this was the i think the new
00:38:29.780york times that reported it or the post of the truth he's just a 33 year old canadian woman
00:38:34.520real pride to the country i tell you she was on the jersey shore boardwalk and she uh confronted
00:38:40.140over and over and harassed and then finally assaulted a teenage girl for wearing sweatpants0.95
00:38:45.220that said Trump and ice on them. She fled, but you know, well, surveillance footage,
00:38:51.540talk about those things. The cameras are everywhere, guys, including in people's hands
00:38:55.220and up on the sides and everything. You don't get away with too many things anymore. She was found
00:38:58.620and because of that, she turned herself in a few days ago. She was charged with assault,
00:39:04.240endangering the welfare of a child because he was a minor. She, you know, assaulted and harassment
00:39:09.960and obstruction. But now she's in ICE custody and her husband has literally been crying. Oh,
00:39:16.320terrible tears. They're going to deport my wife. They're going to deport my wife.
00:39:20.380What the hell did she expect? When you go to somebody else's country, and I don't care if
00:39:26.120she married an American, obviously ICE doesn't care either. You don't go assaulting minors,
00:39:30.540you know? Unfortunately, this idiot's going to be sent back to Canada. We don't want her,1.00
00:39:35.680but they will put her here but this story when it first came out was on the sob story and oh my lord0.70
00:39:42.540see it's not just mexicans and illegals and everything ice has taken custody of this canadian0.98
00:39:46.820woman yeah this canadian woman's a psychopath who assaulted a minor on a boardwalk she embarrassed0.99
00:39:52.720canada unfortunately we'll have to take her back like the brady child kicked out of a restaurant1.00
00:39:57.480or something. Welcome to Canada. She thinks she is. It's ugly, but it's a story that's getting a1.00
00:40:06.780lot of attention. It'll be interesting to see what happens. Her husband's pleading. I don't think in
00:40:10.400the world of Trump that they're going to turn around and say, no, you know, her husband cried
00:40:13.600enough crocodile tears. We'll allow her to stay because we want this violent woman to stay with1.00
00:40:18.860us. Unfortunately, she will be back here. Let's talk about some of the futility of change and bad1.00
00:40:25.940policies. It's not just the federal government, though the feds are behind a lot of it. B.C.,
00:40:29.360look at them for self-destructive economy, screwing themselves, property that they're giving away,
00:40:35.020you know, race-based access to provincial parks, all the wonderful things. They're killing their
00:40:40.520forestry industry. That's been happening for a while. So now, unfortunately, a large pulp mill
00:40:46.120in Prince George is going to be shut down permanently. 300 jobs are going to be lost there.
00:40:50.880and uh they're not coming back and what's going on that i guess their forestry minister
00:40:56.660does nothing but tiktok videos over there and things like that but never actually did anything
00:41:00.740with the forestry area but they've been making it pretty clear from the opposition and it's the
00:41:04.880truth this is like the energy industry and everything else the government is regulating
00:41:09.160ourselves out of business it's you know as a the opposition member said this has been crippled by
00:41:16.660soaring log costs, excessive regulation, permitting delays, and growing competition
00:41:21.380from overseas. Well, there's not many things. Competition from overseas is going to happen
00:41:28.840anyways. So that means you've got to make yourself more efficient and compete. It wasn't caused by
00:41:33.860tariffs. It was bad governance. You see, here's another one. I got to hit the commenters. Okay,
00:41:37.920here we go. No matter how many times I say it over and over again, if people aren't listening,
00:41:41.200these surveillance control centers handle Medicare, the commenter saying, we use tons of
00:41:45.320for cooling the meta center won't use any water let me say it one more time it will not use any
00:41:49.640water you said no one mentions it yeah no one mentions it because it will not use any water
00:41:53.880why are we in the conspiracy theories with these things guys they're computing centers they aren't
00:41:57.480surveillance control centers i saw a commenter talking about how meta is going to surveil and
00:42:02.120watch and keep our data and everything that person commented from a facebook account
00:42:05.400Think harder. It's here. They're just data centers. The fact that you're watching this digital
00:42:17.320broadcast rather than having a TV antenna on your roof anymore is because of data centers.
00:42:23.000They're going to be somewhere. They have to process the data. We send it out. It gets processed. It
00:42:28.440gets sent back to you. When you type something in to ask advice on how long to boil an egg at the
00:42:33.380elevation you're at and you get an AI answer back to you, that's because that question was
00:42:37.560processed in a data center and sent back to you. They're already here. If your issue is surveillance,
00:42:44.440then we got to talk about legislation. We've got to talk about privacy rights. We've got to talk
00:42:50.660about keeping government in check. I fully agree with all of those things, but to try and say
00:42:55.460you're a Luddite who wants to try and stop data processing in your province and thinking that
00:43:01.020that's gonna have any impact whatsoever