Western Standard - Cory Morgan Show： How much longer can Singh prop up Trudeau？

00:00:00.000 Thank you.

00:00:30.000 Good day. Welcome to the Corey Morgan Show. I am Corey Morgan. This is my weekly playground to get out there to rant, rave, talk about federal issues, provincial issues, mostly political stuff, though I bounce around and kind of cover whatever's on my mind at any given time or any given week. Lots to cover this week as usual.

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00:01:18.580 So, yes, today I'm going to have a guest on a little later, Vitor Marciano. He's a strategist. He's been involved in a lot of federal and provincial campaigns over the years, particularly in conservative circles.

00:01:29.940 We're going to get a bit of a rundown on everything that's gone on on the Alberta election this time around.

00:01:34.660 Boy, it's been a long three and a half weeks so far. Only a few days left, and Alberta's going to have, well, either a UCP government again or an NDP government again.

00:01:44.580 There's no third party really to speak of in this one. Maybe we'll talk a little bit about that as well.

00:01:49.180 On the federal front, boy, you know, we kind of expected it, but still, it's just maddening when we see it.

00:01:54.880 So, I mean, let's talk about that with this special rapporteur.

00:01:58.540 Some people were kind of surprised with the appointment of David Johnston as the special rapporteur to investigate the ongoing, and it's ongoing, Chinese Communist Party interference scandal.

00:02:09.840 I mean, the boldness of Trudeau in appointing somebody as clearly personally compromised as Johnson to the position caught even the most cynical of people off guard.

00:02:18.840 It wasn't surprising, I guess, that Trudeau would appoint a close friend to the position.

00:02:22.140 But still, it was unexpected to see a statesman as experienced as Johnston jumping into such a clear conflict of interest.

00:02:30.880 I mean, Johnston's been more of an uncle-type figure for Trudeau than a political colleague,

00:02:34.940 and he's indicated as much in multiple interviews where he waxes on about his fond family ski trips with their Trudeau family and other gatherings.

00:02:43.540 And, of course, most damning of all, Johnston was a board member with the Trudeau Foundation,

00:02:47.940 which has been embroiled in this whole mess, it seems, every time something comes up with the CCP interference.

00:02:52.680 Look at this, like, former Trudeau Foundation head Morris Rosenberg, he was tasked with checking for election interference in the 2019 and 2021 elections,

00:03:01.380 and unsurprisingly, Rosenberg found no issues.

00:03:05.280 Though we know CSIS had been raising flags about Chinese Communist Party interference in those elections,

00:03:10.400 somehow Rosenberg didn't see it.

00:03:12.200 Of course, Rosenberg was also the head of the Trudeau Foundation when it was happily receiving donations from Beijing.

00:03:17.200 I guess perhaps signing checks can cause selective hearing or seeing.

00:03:23.700 Still, one would have hoped that Johnston could retain a sense of principle.

00:03:27.380 Perhaps he'd keep his name in the clear and call for an independent public inquiry into the CCP election interference scandals.

00:03:32.940 Maybe he would have said, well, that's just my job, whether I'm a tight buddy with the Trudeau family or not.

00:03:38.100 I mean, come on, we've seen sitting MPs with their family in Hong Kong being threatened by the CCP.

00:03:43.360 We have Chinese police stations set up in Canada, you know, Communist Party police stations intimidating Canadian citizens over here.

00:03:50.700 Who could possibly look at all that evidence and say we don't need an inquiry?

00:03:54.460 Well, David Johnston is who, actually.

00:03:56.440 So after decades of building a respectable reputation in public service,

00:04:00.320 Johnston has thrown it all away with his absurd report on the interference scandal.

00:04:04.400 I mean, an inquiry is going to happen on this eventually, one way or another.

00:04:07.120 And Johnston now is going to be remembered and disgraced as a man who tried to whitewash on behalf of Justin Trudeau,

00:04:13.540 rather than, you know, honored for his years of prior service as governor general, among other roles.

00:04:18.640 Johnston now is rightly under fire for his terrible report.

00:04:22.160 And he's trying to shoot the messenger, you know, with CSIS and undercutting Canada's security agency

00:04:27.080 as he's trying to provide cover for the Trudeau government.

00:04:30.200 Now, it appears Johnston wanted to ensure Canadians knew just how tone-deaf he was

00:04:35.140 when he doubled down and used former Supreme Court Justice Frank Iacobucci.

00:04:40.760 Iacobucci? I'm terrible with Italian names.

00:04:42.920 But Frank has a character reference.

00:04:45.980 The problem is Frank Iacobucci is on the board of the bloody Trudeau Foundation.

00:04:52.360 All roads keep leading back to that foundation.

00:04:55.360 While the foundation is supposed to be separate from Trudeau himself,

00:04:57.420 the list of members is packed with his closest friends, including his brother and his half-sister.

00:05:02.660 Alexander Trudeau, Justin's little brother, was involved in garnering the scandalous $140,000 donation

00:05:08.460 to the foundation from Beijing.

00:05:11.020 This is a pretty short arm if we're going to say it's an arm's-length foundation.

00:05:14.760 The Trudeau Foundation doesn't actually appear to do a lot of charitable work,

00:05:17.980 but it sure keeps a lot of liberal friends gainfully employed

00:05:20.600 while taking in money from the Chinese Communist Party.

00:05:23.040 So why is the CCP so obsessed with funding the Trudeau Foundation

00:05:26.220 if not to curry favor with the Prime Minister?

00:05:29.020 I mean, rest assured, Beijing doesn't pour money into other Canadian charities.

00:05:32.060 I haven't heard of the Chinese Communist Party's sponsorship of the Canadian Special Olympics

00:05:37.500 or, you know, putting any money into any cancer funds.

00:05:40.800 No, they just put money into the Trudeau Foundation for some reason.

00:05:44.060 Interesting philanthropists.

00:05:45.660 Johnson's report isn't worth the paper it's written on.

00:05:48.480 Now the burden of responsibility lands on the shoulders of NDP leader Jagmeet Singh.

00:05:53.780 I mean, Singh's been talking tough for months on the interference scandal,

00:05:56.840 but he won't threaten his cozy agreement with Trudeau by doing anything about it.

00:06:00.500 It's time for Singh to act.

00:06:02.420 How much longer can he keep propping up this corrupted mess?

00:06:05.400 Does he really think Trudeau would go to the polls

00:06:08.100 rather than face an independent inquiry on the issue?

00:06:10.420 I mean, if he pushed it, if Singh pushed it,

00:06:12.540 and Trudeau made it a confidence vote, I just doubt it.

00:06:14.680 I mean, if Trudeau went to the polls on that, it would be political suicide.

00:06:17.340 I can't think of a worse political campaign platform than

00:06:19.700 I feel so strongly that the interference should not be investigated

00:06:23.280 that I've decided to call an early election.

00:06:25.260 That would be the end of Trudeau, finally.

00:06:27.800 Singh's NDP pace.

00:06:28.980 They must be tired of his constant capitulation to Trudeau.

00:06:32.020 I mean, cooperative agreements are one thing,

00:06:33.440 but propping up a government with strong whiffs of corruption emanating from it is another.

00:06:37.460 This sort of cover-up is an issue so serious

00:06:39.520 it never should have happened with a majority government.

00:06:41.800 Never mind a minority one. 1.00

00:06:43.820 If Singh doesn't step up to do his job and force an independent inquiry,

00:06:47.600 his character is clearly as corrupted as Trudeau's is.

00:06:50.420 Enough is enough, Jagmeet. 1.00

00:06:51.840 Get off your butt. 1.00

00:06:53.260 Quit being the yappy, toothless chihuahua. 1.00

00:06:55.600 And actually do your job.

00:06:58.040 Well, that's what's got me going on that today, guys.

00:07:00.160 Yeah, who knows?

00:07:00.900 You know, Singh is talking, oh, this is bad.

00:07:03.660 We need an inquiry.

00:07:04.520 We need an inquiry.

00:07:05.180 Well, guess what?

00:07:05.560 You're standing there.

00:07:06.220 You've got your hand on the handle to force an inquiry, Jagmeet.

00:07:10.060 You're the only one who can do it.

00:07:11.560 So, enough talk.

00:07:13.420 Either call it or just admit that you're just Trudeau's little boy.

00:07:16.340 All right.

00:07:16.880 Well, let's talk some other news and bring somebody in who has to cover this all the time.

00:07:20.540 That's our news editor, Dave Naylor.

00:07:21.860 We'll check in and see else what's going on in that big, bad world.

00:07:24.240 Hey, how's it going, Dave?

00:07:25.400 Good, Corey.

00:07:26.060 Good to see you with an election haircut.

00:07:28.220 Getting ready for the big day.

00:07:29.740 I'm good for another few months now.

00:07:31.920 Hey, so I need to know, am I going to get some fresh honey this year or what?

00:07:35.540 We'll see.

00:07:36.120 That's up to that bloody bear.

00:07:37.480 But I tell you, these are really good bees.

00:07:38.760 I inspected them last weekend and they're settling in really well.

00:07:41.580 I'm really happy with them.

00:07:42.620 So, and I put a lot of electric fencing up.

00:07:44.880 So, I'll give it good odds that you're going to get some honey this year.

00:07:47.760 Awesome.

00:07:48.220 Be looking forward to it.

00:07:49.900 Yeah, we've had to have a busy morning already election-wise.

00:07:53.900 UCP leader Danielle Smith just wrapped up a press conference about 15 minutes ago

00:07:59.300 where she said basically, read my lips, no new taxes.

00:08:03.480 She said her first job, if she gets elected, is to put in Bill 1,

00:08:08.980 the Taxpayer Protection Act, which would prevent future tax increases without a referendum.

00:08:15.840 Interesting story on the NDP candidate in Airdrie.

00:08:20.460 It turns out he actually argued in front of the Supreme Court of Canada

00:08:25.380 against the, or for, excuse me, for, in support of the No More Pipelines Act.

00:08:31.440 So, that probably isn't sitting well to many of his potential constituents.

00:08:39.480 The big fireworks controversy in Calgary, Corey,

00:08:43.000 which I think you basically broke the story with a column.

00:08:46.400 It's still gathering steam.

00:08:49.480 People are very angry.

00:08:50.600 More than 10,000 people have now signed a petition demanding that the fireworks be returned.

00:08:57.680 They were canceled as part of Truth and Reconciliation.

00:09:01.920 And Toronto has canceled their fireworks in front of Nathan Phillips Square.

00:09:06.160 So, that seems to be the thing to do for Canada Day across the country this year.

00:09:11.700 And we've got two men up in way up in northern Alberta charged with burning down a historic Catholic church this week.

00:09:21.240 A church built in 1901 near high level, I believe it is, burnt to the ground.

00:09:27.760 And they've been charged.

00:09:29.520 And we've got our real estate expert, Mike Thomas, with a column on the Bank of Canada.

00:09:35.740 You know, the story being, is it going to increase rates again in its next June update or keep them the same?

00:09:42.660 So, a really busy morning, Corey.

00:09:45.140 And I'm sure it's going to keep going because the news never stops.

00:09:48.920 It certainly doesn't, especially during election times.

00:09:51.260 Well, I'll let you get back at it, Dave.

00:09:53.440 And thanks for the update.

00:09:54.880 You bet, Corey. Thanks.

00:09:56.440 That is our news editor, Dave Naylor.

00:09:58.120 As you can see, the stories are coming hard and fast and quickly.

00:10:01.140 And yes, for some folks, you might realize that some of the stories at the westernstandard.news are behind a paywall.

00:10:06.540 That's because we don't take any government funding, not at all.

00:10:10.060 We rely on you guys.

00:10:11.220 That's why we put out stories that reflect what you guys want to see.

00:10:13.920 Yeah, not necessarily.

00:10:14.860 Sometimes you see stories that just take you off.

00:10:16.380 But we put out the stories and we put out the news and we put out the truth.

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00:10:25.780 And you get past that paywall and you can see all of that stuff.

00:10:28.760 And I tell you, the stories are just constantly breaking and coming out.

00:10:31.780 It's hard to keep up with.

00:10:33.280 So, yeah, let's look at some of the comments here.

00:10:35.780 You know, Paradoxie saying, yeah, you know, anybody with their eyes on the Trudeau Foundation knew this was coming.

00:10:41.380 Like, that foundation is just something else, right?

00:10:43.700 Like, you know, the name is right in it.

00:10:48.260 You can't hide from it.

00:10:49.560 And they keep saying it's just a charity.

00:10:51.040 It's just a charity.

00:10:51.620 I believe, now I don't have the numbers in front of me, but it was a few years in a row, it didn't, like, to remain charitable status, to retain it, you have to spend a certain percentage.

00:11:00.280 Like, it's not a lot, like 4% or 5% of your capital on the actual charity it's supposed to do.

00:11:05.560 And the foundation hasn't made it 3 out of 4 in the past years, I believe.

00:11:09.220 Where's all this money going?

00:11:10.080 It was given $125 million tax dollars to start up, and it's getting other donations and other Chinese money and who knows what.

00:11:16.860 Well, again, when you look at that giant list of directors, look at them all, a who's who of liberal Canada, of the Laurentian elite.

00:11:23.860 They're all on these directorships.

00:11:26.200 I don't know what they get paid.

00:11:28.420 I don't know what benefits they get from that.

00:11:30.380 But I suspect that that gives a bit of an answer to where all that money just keeps going.

00:11:36.000 So, if you want to keep the liberal elite in Canada happy, if you want to get in their good books, if you want to make them smile at you, what's the best place to toss a few bucks to make the most bang for your buck?

00:11:46.520 Well, that foundation's a good start, isn't it?

00:11:48.180 So, yeah, Marilyn, you know, so she's a commenter. 0.99

00:11:53.980 Marilyn Wall says, Danielle avoided a question.

00:11:55.920 It's Danielle Smith at a press conference today on the fireworks just now.

00:11:58.720 I believe it was Western Standard asked it.

00:12:00.360 Do you think she should avoid talking about it right now?

00:12:02.820 Yeah, I do think she should from a political point of view.

00:12:05.420 I'm going to talk about a little more after the guest because I got a lot of ranting to do on that one.

00:12:09.600 But politically, it's a municipal issue in the city of Calgary, and she's four days from voting day.

00:12:15.080 I believe it was wise on Smith's part to stay out of that issue.

00:12:22.340 She's got enough issues and things to juggle as it stands right now. 1.00

00:12:26.180 And I understand it was the Western Standard to throw that question out there.

00:12:28.760 But why take on more than you need to?

00:12:31.420 It is an enraging municipal issue, and I'm going to go on about it.

00:12:34.900 But for Premier Smith to wade into it at this point would have just been asking for more trouble than was worth.

00:12:42.440 So she sort of, you know, the question was asked in two parts.

00:12:45.700 There were two questions.

00:12:46.380 She answered one of the questions and sort of, you know, just didn't answer anything at all when it came to the fireworks one.

00:12:52.860 I can understand why.

00:12:54.340 And, you know, we can leave the ranting about that sort of thing to me.

00:12:56.900 As I said, when I'm finished with our guest, I'm going to rant a bit more on that whole Canada Day issue.

00:13:01.080 But I can understand why the provincial campaigners just don't want to touch that.

00:13:05.380 They've got enough on the go as it is rather than go wading into what's happening on the municipal front.

00:13:12.220 And I mean, municipal politics, as crazy as our provincial ones look, they make provincial politics look sane.

00:13:19.020 At least we'll have two more years before we have to deal with that election.

00:13:23.600 Verna commenter, Lowen, pointing out the church burn was near High Prairie.

00:13:27.220 Yeah, heartbreaking.

00:13:29.360 It was a Catholic church.

00:13:30.280 I think it was Gruard was the community it was near.

00:13:32.220 I used to do some work up in the oil field up that way, and it was a historical church.

00:13:36.560 And it's a terrible, terrible waste.

00:13:38.160 This division that some people have felt incensed to do these sorts of things has been terribly destructive.

00:13:44.680 I'm glad they at least have caught, well, theoretically, the people involved in it, and they can be brought to justice.

00:13:51.080 It's not the way to deal with issues, guys.

00:13:54.160 You know, burning things.

00:13:55.020 I mean, you put first responders at risk.

00:13:57.020 You harm historical properties.

00:13:58.700 And it's just this country is just in a terrible, divided state sometimes.

00:14:03.040 But we'll see if that unfolds.

00:14:04.400 And, of course, we'll be reporting on that as we get more information and news with what's going on to it.

00:14:08.860 So, again, as I said earlier, it looks like he's on deck.

00:14:11.520 We're going to bring in our guest, Vidor Marciano.

00:14:13.480 As I said, he's been involved in politics for quite some time, federally and provincially, predominantly in conservative circles.

00:14:20.480 And we just want to get a rundown of this whole provincial campaign now that we're in week three.

00:14:24.980 So, hi there, Vidor.

00:14:26.040 Thanks for joining us today.

00:14:28.540 Thank you for having me, Corey.

00:14:29.840 It's my pleasure to be here.

00:14:31.400 Yeah.

00:14:31.800 So, I mean, I know at least it's probably for you and definitely for me.

00:14:35.420 I'm really looking forward to a few days from now because this campaign has already just been so exhausting.

00:14:42.700 These things are long.

00:14:43.860 I mean, it's, you know, at least it's a provincial one.

00:14:46.220 It's only 28 days, not the federal 35 day one.

00:14:49.560 I have to admit, I've been going hard at it since a little bit before day one.

00:14:52.860 And I'm a little fatigued, but also a little excited about the opportunities.

00:14:58.580 Well, that's true.

00:14:59.160 I mean, that's kind of what, you know, politicals live for.

00:15:01.100 This is like the Super Bowl when you're getting to it.

00:15:02.700 You've been prepping and prepping for a long time, and this is the big culmination.

00:15:05.640 So, there's a lot of excitement going in at this point.

00:15:09.300 So, something that's been – is it a perception thing or not, I guess you could say?

00:15:12.400 A lot of people, including myself, kind of got a feel that this one was more vitriolic than usual, a little more personal than usual.

00:15:20.020 But, I mean, we always say that every election.

00:15:21.760 Is it a perception or is it really getting worse every time?

00:15:24.400 Oh, no, it's pretty intense.

00:15:26.800 The partisans on both sides are pretty ramped up.

00:15:32.100 They view the stakes as pretty high.

00:15:33.400 And so, there's a – you know, if you're a left-wing activist, it's something you've been working on for four years, and they're really lit up and ready to go.

00:15:43.280 There's an awful lot of people sort of who are new to politics, who are voting UCP, who are kind of new to the entire process.

00:15:50.800 And they got lit up and worked up by the pandemic.

00:15:54.320 So, they're really keen to go.

00:15:57.380 There's been, you know, there's been fewer voices in the middle.

00:16:00.700 The other thing that's happened in Alberta is that literally, you know, we've become a two-party state.

00:16:05.720 So, there isn't a middle party that's sitting in the middle shooting at both sides.

00:16:09.760 So, the edges become a little bit more frayed.

00:16:13.840 Yeah, and I wanted to get to that.

00:16:15.380 You know, this is the first time in a long, long time we've really actually had a two-party election.

00:16:20.820 There's always been a third party, maybe never a – you know, rarely a contender for winning the election,

00:16:24.820 but definitely a contender for a number of seats and possibly determining the outcome, if only as a spoiler.

00:16:30.880 And this time, there's just two.

00:16:32.480 So, I mean, people talk about the polarity, but when you only have two large options, polarity is inevitable almost.

00:16:37.960 It really is.

00:16:38.840 And frankly, the Liberal Party of Alberta has ceased to exist as a meaningful entity.

00:16:43.440 The Alberta Party remains some sort of weird debating society that can't find candidates.

00:16:48.260 You know, the fringe parties have become fringier and fringier and fringier and now, you know, fight each other out for weird things.

00:16:58.640 Like, there's so many of them, and it's like they can't assemble enough people to get along with each other,

00:17:08.220 let alone be a legitimate force in the election.

00:17:10.900 So, basically, it is the center-right party and the center-left party.

00:17:16.280 And as these things play out, you know, the activists are always on the left and the right rather than the center part of those two parties.

00:17:24.820 So, it's been a pretty intense campaign.

00:17:27.800 Yeah.

00:17:28.340 So, something I kind of worry about, I guess, is a consequence, and there's nothing that parties and activists can kind of do about it.

00:17:34.040 But what I see growing, when I talk to non-political people, and it's something I really hate to hear from apathy,

00:17:38.940 I don't like hearing from people in general, but what I'm hearing now is cynicism.

00:17:42.660 And, boy, that's a dangerous attitude to see growing.

00:17:45.360 It's not good for any of us when people become sour on the entire process like this.

00:17:49.360 I hope we don't cause more damage than good in this election.

00:17:53.080 Listen, I mean, this election is going to be what it's going to be.

00:17:55.840 There is some value to, after the election, you know, the side that wins, and I honestly believe it's going to be our side.

00:18:05.260 We have to do a little bit of reaching out.

00:18:06.980 You know, there are people on the center-left who aren't too far from the people who are on the center part of the center-right.

00:18:12.700 And we have to be a government for all Albertans.

00:18:18.020 You know, in the long run, there's no value in antagonizing your opponents to the level that they'll walk across broken glass to fight you.

00:18:27.060 And so these are the things that, you know, that they'll be part of what Premier Daniel Smith will have to do starting, you know, May 31st or May 30th.

00:18:37.360 Yeah, and the days are approaching quickly.

00:18:40.420 So I imagine as far as the campaign goes, we saw another press conference today with a vow from Premier Smith to, you know, not raise any taxes with anything shy of a referendum.

00:18:50.840 But I don't anticipate there's going to be a lot of big promises or developments in the campaign at this point.

00:18:57.000 I mean, it's kind of into a maintenance mode, hoping there's no any explosions or things blowing up until voting day and focusing on the get-out-the-vote campaigns.

00:19:04.420 Well, there's a lot of get-out-the-vote activity happening already.

00:19:07.860 There'll be lots of reinforcing of messages talking about things that matter.

00:19:12.380 You know, I know that we're going to keep talking about the fact that the massive NDP tax hike is an investment killer.

00:19:19.540 It's investment that has turned the Alberta economy around, money coming in from other parts of the world, global companies choosing to expand in Alberta.

00:19:29.740 We can't lose that.

00:19:30.920 So we'll be talking about those things.

00:19:33.360 There'll be lots of sort of reinforcement of message, a lot of get-out-the-vote effort.

00:19:37.660 I mean, we saw it yesterday.

00:19:39.500 Literally, you know, an all-time record for the first day of advanced polls in voting.

00:19:43.740 I can tell you that they're going strong already today.

00:19:46.940 You know, I can also tell you that we're pretty happy with our results.

00:19:49.420 A disproportionate number of those people who have voted early are people that we know have been supporters of the party over the course of their lifetime.

00:19:57.720 So we're feeling good about that.

00:20:00.200 Great.

00:20:00.600 And I mean, it's been kind of slowly building and developing, but the advanced voting is getting bigger and bigger as a factor in elections.

00:20:07.600 I mean, now it's more of an election week rather than election day with an exception prior to it.

00:20:11.840 I think it's really aiding with turnout, though.

00:20:14.000 I mean, if it's impractical on one day for a person to vote, they could vote on another.

00:20:17.980 You know, turnouts have always been sort of slowly dropping over the years.

00:20:20.520 But now this advanced sort of thing has really turned that over.

00:20:23.940 I think it's a great development.

00:20:25.180 I think it's an interesting way to get people to pay more attention, to be more respectful of their time and their attention.

00:20:34.180 It also has the effect of changing the nature of the campaigning.

00:20:37.640 You don't get late election surprises anymore because, frankly, by this weekend, a significant proportion of the ballots will already be in the box.

00:20:47.340 Yeah.

00:20:47.700 So one of the things that we see it, you hear it on social media.

00:20:51.120 Unfortunately, I mean, it can be a breeding ground for misinformation.

00:20:54.300 We're well aware of that.

00:20:56.840 I've participated in a lot of elections.

00:20:58.720 I like our system, the ability to have scrutineers, things like that.

00:21:03.760 There's no evidence that anything is going to be untoward in this so far.

00:21:07.340 I mean, people can trust the results.

00:21:08.600 It's going to be fine.

00:21:09.840 The number one thing that people need to understand, that we don't have the American problem.

00:21:14.880 All of our votes are happening on paper.

00:21:17.480 There's an actual physical paper trail that you can check.

00:21:20.900 And we're just not going to have that problem.

00:21:24.300 We've got a reasonably good system.

00:21:27.640 We haven't had a long tradition of voter fraud.

00:21:32.320 I mean, in the States, there are literally places in the United States where everybody knows that voter fraud happens.

00:21:38.060 It's expected.

00:21:39.220 You know, lots of the major cities, some of them that have been run by one party for 80, 100 years.

00:21:44.740 That's not how we do elections. 1.00

00:21:47.920 We have an independent agency.

00:21:49.320 We use paper.

00:21:50.600 We have scrutineers.

00:21:51.540 You can have a high degree of confidence that the vast, vast majority of the election fights will be completely legit.

00:21:59.500 But is there always somebody trying to cheat a little bit?

00:22:02.600 Yeah.

00:22:03.520 You know, maybe one vote out of every 10,000 on average is dubious.

00:22:08.740 But it's a rare election where one vote out of 10,000 matters.

00:22:12.040 Yeah, that's it.

00:22:12.540 And I just want to reassure, like I said, my fear is cynicism.

00:22:14.760 And I just like to let people know if they haven't participated in these things, haven't dealt with elections in Alberta.

00:22:19.560 I mean, of all bureaucracies, ones I've always found to be pretty good and impartial, actually, is elections in Alberta.

00:22:24.320 They take it very seriously.

00:22:25.560 They're very careful with it.

00:22:26.580 And we've seen people try to meddle with the system, but it's a very difficult system to mess with, even if you tried.

00:22:33.740 There's so many checks and balances.

00:22:35.280 I mean, to make a significant dent would be very tough.

00:22:38.100 Totally.

00:22:38.260 And it's one system.

00:22:39.380 It's not like the U.S. where it's, you know, thousands of county systems.

00:22:43.220 This is one ballot.

00:22:44.840 Everybody gets to see, you know, everybody in every riding gets a ballot that looks just like everybody else's ballot.

00:22:50.020 It's a very straightforward process.

00:22:51.900 Honestly, people should not have worries about that.

00:22:54.040 My biggest worry is that people are, like, taking the election for granted.

00:22:57.820 Get out and vote.

00:22:58.940 Make your voice count. 0.70

00:23:00.140 If you didn't vote, you don't get to bitch for the next four years. 1.00

00:23:04.680 That's the part that I worry about, is just making sure that, you know, everybody who's interested in voting votes.

00:23:09.720 And we're working really hard to make sure that anybody who's told us they're a conservative supporter gets out and votes.

00:23:15.320 Yeah.

00:23:15.880 And so you spoke of whoever gets in.

00:23:17.680 You're pretty confident, you know, that it'll be the Conservative Party or the UCP.

00:23:21.340 We do have a very regional divided province, more so than we've ever seen before, too, though.

00:23:27.500 I mean, Edmonton, if things go the way they look, may be completely shut out from government seats, or at least we'll have very few, whereas the rural areas will dominate that.

00:23:38.520 But it's a bad position for Edmonton citizens to be in.

00:23:41.900 So, I mean, the government really is going to have to do some outreach to make sure that citizens up there feel confident they're represented.

00:23:47.520 You know, it's one of these things where, you know, I haven't given up hope on winning lots of seats in Edmonton and the area.

00:23:54.600 There's four or five, six seats in the Edmonton area where we're competitive enough to keep the NDP at home working hard on their seats.

00:24:04.300 We're feeling quite good about the seats in what's called the donut, the writings that surround Edmonton.

00:24:08.360 We're doing quite well in that.

00:24:10.000 But, yeah, I mean, ultimately, one of the things that we need to, as a government, you know, starting at the end of May after the election,

00:24:17.480 is work on rebuilding our approach and our conversations with Edmonton.

00:24:23.900 I mean, in many ways, this government's been very fair to Edmonton, but we haven't been particularly good at selling that.

00:24:30.820 And, you know, Edmonton's gotten their fair share of capital financing.

00:24:36.520 Edmonton's gotten their fair share of activities.

00:24:39.300 I mean, in all honesty, we've treated public service better than the NDP.

00:24:43.620 Yeah, it's just that perception if you don't have the UCP government than before.

00:24:49.460 So there's all of these things that we need to do a better job of selling stuff.

00:24:53.860 A lot of this is just attitude and messaging.

00:24:56.800 And, you know, there's room for improvement on that side.

00:24:59.400 Yeah, there's going to be, I guess, a lot of correcting the record.

00:25:03.500 I mean, the amount of just stuff has just been thrown out, thrown out, thrown out.

00:25:08.300 And the first period for the new government is just going to have to be clarifying, I mean, all of this, this mud that's been thrown in this last month.

00:25:17.080 I mean, citizens aren't going to really know what they're in for until they've seen it in action.

00:25:20.460 I mean, ultimately, I think citizens need to understand that most elections result in most things staying the same.

00:25:30.440 On about 94, 95 percent of the activities of government, there isn't much difference between the parties.

00:25:36.840 On the remaining four or five percent, six percent, yeah, there's a difference.

00:25:40.800 But usually it's a difference in style and approach rather than a significant difference in substance.

00:25:46.580 You know, do these things matter over 20 years, 30 years?

00:25:50.240 You know, having a pro-development, pro-business, pro-economic growth, conservative party win, election after election, changes Alberta in the long run.

00:26:00.100 But one election changing things dramatically overnight, that just never happens.

00:26:06.060 And so much of what the NDP is out there selling is just this crazy scaremongering.

00:26:10.640 It's like, no, you're not going to have to pay for health care.

00:26:15.080 No hospitals are getting sold.

00:26:17.140 Daniel Smith never actually said that.

00:26:18.980 You know, no, nothing's going to change on your pensions without you being dramatically consulted at length and actually getting to vote on it.

00:26:28.360 All of these things are things that, you know, this election's been sort of weird.

00:26:33.120 It's, you know, the NDP tells big lies and they don't get fact checked.

00:26:37.240 And the UCP puts out a number and there's 47 people fact checking whether or not the exact nuances of the number are correct.

00:26:45.040 When, you know, even the directionally, the number is accurate, symbolically, the number is accurate as how people felt things, the number is accurate.

00:26:53.280 So it's one of those things that we'll have to keep working on.

00:26:56.000 It's been a frustration, like the hospital sales thing, for example.

00:26:59.340 I mean, it was a short video clip.

00:27:01.020 I watched it and I listened to it at worst.

00:27:04.240 And it was very clear when she said in it, we're talking about possibly privatizing the management at most, if that's what she was even talking about.

00:27:11.300 And that's not in the campaign platform anyway.

00:27:13.300 Nobody was talking about selling hospitals.

00:27:15.200 Yet the press repeated that as if that was a, I mean, it's kind of an embarrassment on the part of the media.

00:27:21.800 It's, you know, one of the things that started to happen, and I'm kind of a rare conservative on this front.

00:27:27.860 I'm really worried about the fact that we have less and less and less media.

00:27:30.740 Because when we have less and less and less media, there's less competition between the media.

00:27:38.160 And therefore, reporters, editors, publishers get to feel like they can play games.

00:27:46.560 And, you know, there's been a little bit of that happening in this election.

00:27:49.060 We've seen national players put their thumb on the scale and, you know, offer up opportunities for criticism of our government that have never been offered up before.

00:27:57.620 You know, I've never seen an opponent getting, you know, get to write a column on ctv.ca nationally about the Alberta election.

00:28:07.500 That's a brand new one that happened this time.

00:28:09.600 There's a couple of places where things have been a little odd, and we'll have to keep working on it.

00:28:14.540 You know, we need to return to an environment where there's lots of media, successful media, competing with each other so that voters get a chance to actually hear the truth

00:28:25.240 because they get to see the competition between the different people who are trying to set the agendas.

00:28:29.900 It is unfortunate.

00:28:30.900 And the media outlets have become almost as polarized as the two parties we have running in things.

00:28:35.040 And, you know, the more the better.

00:28:37.380 We don't have any 500-person newsrooms any longer where you can afford to keep a whole diverse number of people to cover a bunch.

00:28:43.340 So hopefully information evolves to get to a better place and it's better down the road.

00:28:48.160 You know, we're just in a period of transition, I think, right now.

00:28:50.440 But, okay, well, great.

00:28:52.420 I really appreciate just bringing us up to date.

00:28:54.240 I know you guys have got a whole whack to do yet in this next few days.

00:28:57.400 Is there anything else you'd like to let us know before we let you go, Vidor?

00:29:00.820 Leave the central message to everybody.

00:29:03.680 We believe that you can't afford the NDP.

00:29:05.960 You can't afford them economically.

00:29:07.440 You can't afford them in terms of protecting public safety.

00:29:10.140 You can't afford them in terms of making the right decisions that will keep Alberta prosperous for the long run.

00:29:16.160 So we're going to ask everybody who agrees with that, who thinks it's important to have a good economy,

00:29:21.620 who thinks it's important to have safe streets,

00:29:23.380 who thinks it's important to have a prosperous future for their children and grandchildren,

00:29:26.820 to get out and vote.

00:29:27.700 That's the most important thing they can do.

00:29:29.580 Thanks for having me on, Corey.

00:29:30.780 All right.

00:29:31.060 Thanks, Vidor.

00:29:31.600 We'll see what's up on Monday.

00:29:33.440 Sounds good.

00:29:34.420 Okay.

00:29:35.120 So that was Vidor Marciano.

00:29:36.520 And, yes, he's been working with the UCP, as you could gather.

00:29:39.260 And he's worked in politics for a long time.

00:29:40.580 I just wanted to get a good rundown from somebody on the strategies and what's been happening out there not too long now.

00:29:46.940 And as he said, you know, this is something when you look at the federal front,

00:29:49.720 this Alberta election, I think, to a degree, has become a proxy for the national thing.

00:29:53.740 We've had national columnists really jumping in, Andrew Coyne and others.

00:29:57.780 This is a provincial election.

00:29:58.840 Why are you so interested?

00:30:00.040 Well, it's because Alberta is sort of, to a degree, the last bastion of small-c conservatism left in Canada.

00:30:06.280 I mean, actually, Saskatchewan's doing pretty good with Scott Moe.

00:30:08.660 But, you know, but, I mean, Ontario, the conservatives there are really starting to become conservative in name only.

00:30:15.520 And they really want to see the conservatives knock down a peg by having Alberta get an NDP government again.

00:30:21.900 And they've pulled out the stops, as Wendy commented.

00:30:24.900 Yeah, the legacy media has just been so one-sided throughout the course of this campaign and not doing their fact-checking.

00:30:32.120 And, you know, there has been some BSing going on.

00:30:34.820 Sure, there has.

00:30:35.900 But, I mean, it's been happening on both sides.

00:30:38.400 Yet, they are constantly on the case of the UCP.

00:30:41.660 I like to mention, I torture myself.

00:30:43.800 I listen to talk radio when I'm on my way home.

00:30:45.720 I just need to keep up with some degree of news.

00:30:47.340 And the other day, I listened to one host.

00:30:49.280 And he's talking to some guy about how he did all this fact-checking on the debate.

00:30:52.720 And who is this guy?

00:30:54.400 Oh, he's a Twitter personality.

00:30:56.300 A Twitter personality.

00:30:58.160 And you're having him on radio to talk about what he felt were facts and what weren't.

00:31:01.220 And this guy even went on to, of course, bring it up and compare Daniel Smith to Trump.

00:31:05.480 So you're just picking out random tweeters you like now, guys, and bringing them on as your radio guests?

00:31:10.940 You want a Twitter personality?

00:31:12.320 Get me.

00:31:12.740 I got 40,000 followers. 0.99

00:31:14.140 This ass clown had about 2,000. 0.99

00:31:16.380 I mean, if you're going to weigh it that way. 0.99

00:31:18.600 I mean, this is what they're bringing on.

00:31:20.160 These are the experts they got. 0.95

00:31:22.000 They brought on that clown, Markham Hislop, as well. 0.86

00:31:24.260 He calls himself an energy expert. 0.88

00:31:25.640 He lives out in B.C. and writes his little thing from McDonald's, guys.

00:31:29.700 He doesn't know anything about energy.

00:31:31.480 But he gives the messaging they like to hear.

00:31:33.720 So they put them on, on legacy media outlets.

00:31:36.620 That's enough.

00:31:38.140 Another thing that came on, I listened a little while back and they had Press Progress and one of their reporters on it.

00:31:43.140 If you're wondering what Press Progress is, it's a branch of the Broadband Institute.

00:31:47.500 The Broadband Institute is a branch of the NDP.

00:31:50.920 So this isn't a media organization.

00:31:52.380 They make themselves sound like a media organization.

00:31:54.680 They're getting the crapsuit out of them right now, by the way, by Cailin Ford.

00:31:58.480 And I attended the other night her documentary.

00:32:02.660 Oh, what was it called again?

00:32:03.600 When the Mob Comes, I believe.

00:32:04.820 But she was a person who suffered from cancel culture and character assassination a couple of years ago in ways that, you know, were unimaginable.

00:32:14.740 And she's made a documentary showing what she went through and what happened and humanized it.

00:32:19.140 But Press Progress was one of the main ones behind that.

00:32:21.640 These guys have no credibility.

00:32:22.840 They're just union hacks.

00:32:24.840 Yeah, what do we see?

00:32:25.460 I hear them brought on as guests on legacy media.

00:32:27.840 So let's see.

00:32:33.060 Fair enough from Lucy Lovelock.

00:32:34.280 So many NDP voters claim this was fact-checked and that, but who checks the fact-checkers?

00:32:37.540 And as you say, Corey, what quantifies a fact-checker anyway?

00:32:39.960 Yeah, or me as much.

00:32:40.940 I mean, part of it, it lands on us.

00:32:42.580 We have to, and it's kind of what Vidor said.

00:32:44.420 We need more media.

00:32:45.640 You need to hear it from a number of areas.

00:32:47.220 If you're hearing a bunch of media sounding different from each other, putting out different opinions, different facts, then you might start saying, well, one of them is obviously wrong.

00:32:55.900 And maybe some of them will start correcting their own stuff.

00:32:58.420 But when none of them, for example, would correct themselves on that baloney that Daniel Smith said she was going to sell hospitals, for example, because it was such an easy, clear one to correct.

00:33:07.420 This wasn't, you know, there was no ambiguity about what she said.

00:33:10.680 It was a video right there.

00:33:11.400 You just had to watch it.

00:33:12.580 But they didn't care.

00:33:13.600 They wanted the inflammatory thing, threatening people, scaring people.

00:33:16.480 She's going to sell our hospitals. 1.00

00:33:18.280 It was absurd.

00:33:19.600 But they didn't bother to take the two minutes, I think that's all the video clip was, to say, no, no, that's not quite what she said.

00:33:26.300 And we see it on the federal front as well.

00:33:28.840 And that's where I get, you know, back to, I'll just hit sing.

00:33:32.660 And I do want to talk about this fireworks thing that Dave referenced, because I don't know everybody's around Calgary or Alberta.

00:33:36.560 It's just something else.

00:33:38.240 But, yeah, Singh, you know, speaking of political cowardice, right, this is his quote, saying, I disagree with the finding when he's talking about Mr.

00:33:43.540 You know, Johnston with the ruling.

00:33:45.220 Mr. Johnston was wrong.

00:33:46.280 I respect his work, but he's wrong not to declare a public inquiry.

00:33:49.640 I'll let the prime minister know we've got the tools and we're going to use all those tools at our disposal to continue to push for an inquiry.

00:33:55.760 And no, you won't, because you've got the tools.

00:33:59.280 That part, you're right, Mr. Singh.

00:34:01.520 But the tool is to say, call an inquiry or we're going to the polls.

00:34:05.640 That's your two options, Justin.

00:34:06.840 That's all you've got.

00:34:08.320 And he won't do that.

00:34:10.180 You won't do that.

00:34:11.620 It's a toothless tiger.

00:34:12.900 He's all talk.

00:34:14.400 So, no, Jagmeet, don't try and talk tough.

00:34:17.020 It looks poorly on you.

00:34:18.000 So let's talk about this fireworks thing.

00:34:19.600 This is something, yeah, Dave said, I kind of broke.

00:34:21.180 It was, or not so much.

00:34:22.340 It was in the paper, but it was just kind of in the back.

00:34:24.100 It was a little article. 0.85

00:34:24.940 Again, I'm a dork.

00:34:25.660 I'm always reading all these things.

00:34:27.400 But I saw that in Calgary where they, you know, most cities, they hold big firework displays on Canada Day.

00:34:32.240 And it's always been a fun one in Calgary.

00:34:33.540 I remember that from when my kids were little.

00:34:35.780 It was a cheap thing to go out and drive and park on Scotsman Hill.

00:34:38.640 If you're a family that doesn't have much for bucks, but you want a nice night out and you watch the fireworks on the hill, you know, for Canada Day, it's a good time out.

00:34:46.300 Well, the city's canceling them.

00:34:48.100 Well, why, though?

00:34:48.940 That's the bigger issue is the why.

00:34:51.820 Well, because they decided it would be culturally insensitive.

00:34:55.860 Because there were 215 radar anomalies found in Kamloops at the former site of a residential school.

00:35:01.860 So, as well, 100 years ago, there was a law that targeted Chinese immigrants and was very hard on them.

00:35:10.620 So it would be insensitive to celebrate Canada in light of all that.

00:35:13.380 That's really what they're saying.

00:35:14.400 They're saying Canada is such an odious, shameful, nasty nation that having fireworks and showing an actual one day out of 365 days to say we're going to celebrate this nation.

00:35:24.760 We're going to get together and be happy about what Canada has done right.

00:35:28.600 Yes, Canada has done some things wrong, but can they not have one day to say we love what Canada did right?

00:35:34.880 And no, the woke say no.

00:35:37.960 They said in the fireworks, we're going to hold this little sound and light show down there.

00:35:43.140 You have to go in in person and we'll hold land acknowledgements and, I don't know, perhaps some aboriginal chanting and things.

00:35:49.600 But we're supposed to hang our heads in shame.

00:35:51.800 We're not allowed to celebrate Canada Day.

00:35:54.240 And it's not just hyperbole on my part saying that, because once this became an issue, yeah, the column I wrote went viral and it took off.

00:36:02.040 Now there's been a petition within two days.

00:36:04.820 A group is holding a petition, as we can see on that, has received close to 10,000 signatures.

00:36:09.160 That's just in a couple of days saying, hey, bring the bloody fireworks back. 0.84

00:36:13.420 That's enough.

00:36:14.280 And, you know, if you're going to make the case for the environment, for the noise, for the expense, all of those things, it's arguable.

00:36:22.580 Fair enough.

00:36:23.160 You know, the smoke, the terrorizing of dogs, okay.

00:36:26.200 But this cultural sensitivity and two counselors, they're the two Courtney's.

00:36:30.280 Calgary wasn't creative enough to get, you know, 14 counselors with different first names. 0.98

00:36:34.680 We got two Courtney's and they're both nuts. 0.99

00:36:36.960 They're both crazy. 1.00

00:36:37.700 They're both woke way off the chart. 0.99

00:36:39.640 And both of the Courtney's have basically said, not even basically, I'll quote one of them.

00:36:45.500 I've got that from her here.

00:36:46.540 One's a her and one's a he. 0.99

00:36:48.460 But it basically said, we're a bunch of racists.

00:36:50.300 If you want to support having these fireworks back, that's where they are going with this.

00:36:56.960 I'm just trying to find that quote.

00:36:58.320 But she said, Courtney Penner, the one, and the other one's Courtney Walcott, that, yes, reversing this decision would be upholding colonialism and racism.

00:37:10.640 Yes.

00:37:11.620 If Calgary holds fireworks on Canada Day, they'd be upholding colonialism and racism.

00:37:19.200 You know who we can't find who's complaining about the fireworks?

00:37:23.060 Chinese people.

00:37:24.960 First Nations people.

00:37:26.780 It wasn't them who ever complained.

00:37:28.620 It wasn't them who wanted them gone. 0.94

00:37:31.000 It's bloody woke, white, middle class, overweight women in administration and some men, I'm sure. 0.96

00:37:37.820 Maybe there's some skinny ones. 0.94

00:37:38.980 Okay, I don't want to get too specific on who's in there.

00:37:41.460 And it wasn't, to be fair, when it comes to Courtney Penner.

00:37:45.360 It wasn't her decision.

00:37:47.240 She's just one councillor. 0.90

00:37:49.120 In fact, it didn't even go through council.

00:37:50.480 But she took it upon herself, though, to say, because it is in the hands of council, they can overturn these sorts of things.

00:37:55.520 To say that, no, this is important, and again, to reverse it, would be upholding colonialism and racism.

00:38:03.620 And you've got to remember, the reason Calgary's city council is so woke, the reason it's so dysfunctional, the reason they're so crappy, not just council, but administration, is 12 years of woke city councils and mayors.

00:38:16.980 It started with an inchie. 0.98

00:38:18.620 Now, over the years, they keep stacking city managers, city administrators, senior positions with all of these loony left clowns. 0.97

00:38:27.960 So, of course, we get policies like this. 0.95

00:38:29.940 Of course, we get policies like I talked about.

00:38:31.660 They're spending $100,000 a month to try and keep two crappers in Calgary clean. 1.00

00:38:36.560 Yeah, washroom attendance, $100,000 a month for two washrooms.

00:38:40.720 Nice work if you can get it.

00:38:41.580 Ah, it's not that nice of work, even for $100,000 a month.

00:38:43.900 But still, for $100,000 a month, hey, there's a lot of things I'll do for $100,000 a month.

00:38:47.260 Wiping some pee off a toilet seat and calling in if a fanatic's passed out in the bathroom, I'll do that for $100,000 a month.

00:38:53.900 Either way, that's what this fireworks controversy is right now.

00:38:57.560 And we're seeing more and more of that sort of thing.

00:39:01.100 So, yes, Premier Smith was asked about that by a Western Standard reporter.

00:39:04.100 She chose to dodge the answer.

00:39:06.300 Ah, I don't blame her.

00:39:07.240 It would have been nice to get an answer, but, you know, does she want to dive into this? 0.57

00:39:10.140 If she wasn't three days for an election, I suspect she would voice an opinion on the matter.

00:39:16.280 But right now, it's just taking on one more issue when you've got a very, very full plate as a, you know, provincial leader.

00:39:24.720 Let's look at some other news items as we get towards the end of things.

00:39:27.500 This is some of the beauty, again, of the efficiency of our government and so on federally everywhere.

00:39:32.700 Every level.

00:39:33.180 Well, as I said, the city level is horrible and the provincial level is terrible and the federal level is the federal level.

00:39:39.980 The Treasury Board confirmed it doesn't know how many federal employees work from home.

00:39:45.640 In fact, they said it's not possible to find out.

00:39:48.180 We are paying literally billions of dollars for tens of thousands of federal workers.

00:39:54.540 In fact, a whole whack of them went on strike recently to demand more money from us, even though they never missed a single day of work through the pandemic.

00:40:01.540 And then we look at how well these guys are managed.

00:40:03.920 They don't even know how many are working from home.

00:40:06.560 That was one of the demands of these workers.

00:40:08.160 We want more time at home.

00:40:09.600 I mean, you've got to look at the lineup.

00:40:10.620 So I said a passport office to realize they sure as hell aren't working there.

00:40:13.220 Well, I don't know what they're doing at home, but it's not very productive.

00:40:17.500 And now we find that they don't even know how many are working from home.

00:40:21.460 Yes, this is your tax dollars at work.

00:40:23.180 I wonder why it's going up all the time.

00:40:26.740 Speaking of working and not knowing things, something we have found out recently is China.

00:40:30.960 Let's get back to that.

00:40:31.980 Let's pull circle again and into the Chinese interference thing, because this is interesting.

00:40:35.900 China has more diplomats.

00:40:37.860 And it's in quotes in this story.

00:40:39.300 China has more diplomats assigned to Montreal.

00:40:41.880 Montreal, just Montreal, than any other country in the world, including France.

00:40:48.420 According to figures from the Department of Foreign Affairs, the House Affairs Committee

00:40:52.780 has been told the number of Chinese envoys in Canada is suspiciously high.

00:40:56.000 You think?

00:40:57.740 Why on earth does Montreal have more Chinese diplomats than any country on the planet?

00:41:04.960 What do they do in there?

00:41:06.980 There's not even a high Chinese population in Montreal.

00:41:09.220 I mean, there's many, many people of Chinese descent in Montreal, but I believe some of

00:41:12.460 the higher percentages tend to be in Vancouver or Toronto.

00:41:15.640 But you know what's in Montreal?

00:41:17.960 Ah, the core of the liberal power base.

00:41:20.520 That's what's in Montreal.

00:41:21.480 All the power brokers, the Laurentian elite, the ones who run this country.

00:41:29.340 So, of course, they're going to target their diplomats to a city that isn't even a national

00:41:35.040 capital.

00:41:37.080 Again, alarm bells.

00:41:38.360 Now, we're not going to learn anything about it right away, because, again, David Johnston,

00:41:42.580 that grand old man, you know, doddering uncle of Justin in a way, has said, we don't need

00:41:51.200 an investigation.

00:41:52.120 There's nothing wrong.

00:41:53.120 There's nothing to see here.

00:41:55.420 You know, it just keeps coming and coming.

00:41:57.180 What I do think we're going to see, I'm guessing, they're trying their hardest to find whoever

00:42:01.120 the whistleblower, and I'll tell you, the whistleblower is a hero, whoever it is, in

00:42:04.840 CSIS, who keeps letting the information out, that keeps embarrassing the government, showing

00:42:08.920 that they've been intimidating our elected officials, that they've been intimidating people

00:42:13.180 of Chinese descent within Canada.

00:42:14.880 This is outrageous.

00:42:16.620 Every one of our citizens should feel safe in Canada.

00:42:19.620 They shouldn't feel like they're being threatened by a foreign communist party across the ocean.

00:42:25.860 They should feel that this country is going to do all it can to protect them, that this

00:42:29.040 is a safe haven, this is where they move to be safe.

00:42:31.680 And they can't feel confident in that, because Prime Minister Trudeau won't do a damn thing

00:42:35.680 about clear, over-the-top Chinese interference within our country. 0.97

00:42:40.500 What an embarrassment.

00:42:42.220 Some of these people of Chinese descent would probably safer back in Beijing, where they 1.00

00:42:45.260 can hide out, rather than here in Canada, where they're vulnerable targets, and a government

00:42:49.960 that won't stand up or protect them, or their families back home, because that's how

00:42:53.360 Chinese and other communists always liked to work.

00:42:56.400 That's how Russia, when it was the Soviet Union, used to keep athletes from defecting when

00:43:01.620 they'd go overseas.

00:43:02.140 They'd remind them, yeah, you could defect when you're overseas, but you know that your

00:43:06.280 mother and father and cousins are all going to be thrown out of their homes and shipped

00:43:09.880 to Siberia if you do it.

00:43:11.580 They threaten the family back at home, and that's what China's been doing with people 1.00

00:43:15.980 of Chinese descent here.

00:43:17.420 We should be furious.

00:43:18.440 Well, we are furious, but our federal government doesn't seem to care.

00:43:22.200 What are they doing?

00:43:23.020 Well, Governor General Mary Simon, yes, yes, she got a raise, just to remind everybody of

00:43:27.120 it, she got a raise, another $9,500 a year for cutting ribbons, and again, nice work if 0.99

00:43:33.240 you can get it, $351,600 per year is what she makes, and it's all money straight in the 1.00

00:43:39.340 bank, because her house, her driver, her food, even her clothing is all paid for by the taxpayers. 0.98

00:43:45.180 To cut ribbons and fly around and eat lobster.

00:43:48.600 Nice work if you can get it.

00:43:49.640 Let's just go to one thing and finish things up.

00:43:52.380 Yes, in the private sector, Bud Light, it just can't seem to get out of trouble after

00:43:56.140 that whole Dylan Mulvaney thing.

00:43:58.520 Don't, you know, this goes back to the lessons of go woke, go broke.

00:44:02.240 Well, here's a grand example of it, and now they're actually, their distributors are having

00:44:07.180 trouble selling the beer.

00:44:08.560 That's how fast the sales have dropped, how severely the sales have dropped.

00:44:12.060 It's not an organized boycott.

00:44:13.460 You know what?

00:44:13.760 Organized boycotts almost always fail.

00:44:16.440 No, what they've done is poisoned their own brand.

00:44:20.200 They've made their brand so toxic, so embarrassing to the target market they had, that people

00:44:26.140 just aren't buying it.

00:44:27.060 They've moved on.

00:44:27.900 When you get that many competitors in that many years, so they've actually got to the

00:44:31.320 point where distributors, their beer stocks are expiring.

00:44:35.160 Yeah, they're expiring.

00:44:36.800 So they're having to take it off the shelves.

00:44:38.940 So at least the head office is saying, well, we'll buy back that expired beer because, you

00:44:44.580 know, we're sorry about that.

00:44:46.280 God, guys, what an awful, awful marketing decision.

00:44:50.460 Whatever they made.

00:44:51.840 I'll leave you all with one final thing.

00:44:53.900 Check out cbc.news if you really want to be galled because there's a headline there

00:44:58.160 that says, can the Great Reset really create a gentler, more equitable capitalism?

00:45:02.680 And guess what?

00:45:03.180 They think it will.

00:45:04.320 The Great Reset, the conspiracy theory, the thing that doesn't exist.

00:45:07.180 Well, our state broadcaster is talking about how it would be a fantastic thing for us and

00:45:11.500 it'll make a better capitalism.

00:45:13.360 Right.

00:45:14.020 All right.

00:45:14.420 I think that's kind of filled it up this week, guys.

00:45:16.460 Lots of ranting, raving.

00:45:17.500 Be sure to go to westernstandard.news, take out a membership, support us.

00:45:21.420 The pipeline will be on a little later, guys.

00:45:23.820 As well, of course, there's going to be a lot of election specials when I see you next

00:45:27.040 week.

00:45:27.340 We will have a whole brand spanking new government here in Alberta, whether UCP or NDP.

00:45:32.420 And of course, I will rant, rage, piss and moan about that, however it may be when the

00:45:36.660 time comes.

00:45:37.340 Thanks for tuning in today, guys, and I'll see you then.

00:45:39.260 Here's an update on commodity prices in Lethbridge for today.

00:45:43.860 Cash barley is steady at $4.05, feed wheat remains at $4.04, and corn increased $2 at

00:45:49.800 $3.92 per metric tonne.

00:45:51.880 In the milling wheat markets, July Minneapolis futures dropped $0.21.5 at $7.99.25 per bushel,

00:45:57.980 with local heart rate spring bid for main movement at $10.48.

00:46:02.340 Looking at canola, nearby futures slipped $3 at $6.98.60 per tonne, with delivered values

00:46:08.840 for June movement at $10.50 per bushel.

00:46:11.700 In the pulse markets, nearby red lentil prices are higher at 0.5 a cent at $0.33.5 per pound,

00:46:17.300 and yellow peas are holding at $11.25 per bushel.

00:46:20.960 And in the cattle markets, June live cattle climbed $1.95 to $1.66.22.5 per hundredweight.

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00:47:04.260 Thank you.

00:47:07.660 Just it.

00:47:15.980 Good night.

00:47:20.000 Absolutely.

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Western Standard - May 24, 2023

Cory Morgan Show： How much longer can Singh prop up Trudeau？

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