Western Standard - CORY MORGAN SHOW： Nationalizing oil pipelines isn’t a victory for any but socialists

00:00:00.000 Good day, welcome to the Corey Morgan Show.

00:00:29.680 I'm coming live today from the Sonalta Community Hub down in Calgary's Beltline, just south of downtown.

00:00:36.980 As you can tell by my awkwardly worn cosplay costume, it is Stampede Week, and we're holding our Western Standard barbecue down here.

00:00:45.920 There's going to be burgers and weenies and water balloons, and you can hit a weenie with water balloons, and all sorts of things are going to be happening.

00:00:53.600 That all begins at 1 o'clock, not too long from now, and it will be a good time.

00:00:57.680 If you can make it down, get down there, look up the Sonalta Community Center in Calgary and take part.

00:01:03.960 Have a burger.

00:01:05.260 You don't get much out of Derek too often.

00:01:06.840 If you can get a bite of something, you're doing well, man.

00:01:09.420 All right.

00:01:10.100 So, yes, some of that noise in the background of the staff busily scurrying and getting this all up and rolling.

00:01:17.360 It should be a really good time.

00:01:19.220 All right.

00:01:19.640 Well, let's get on with me and what I'm going to be pissing and moaning about today.

00:01:23.220 And it is the pipeline announcement from Premier Smith.

00:01:26.800 not the second one with her and Doug Ford holding hands.

00:01:30.460 This is the first one that came out.

00:01:32.980 So, I mean, in 2018, let's get a little history here.

00:01:36.200 When the Trudeau government painted itself into a corner

00:01:38.460 leading to the purchase of the Trans Mountain Pipeline by taxpayers,

00:01:42.100 Daniel Smith's commentary on the issue was critical and uncompromising.

00:01:46.200 In an article she wrote for Global News, she said,

00:01:48.580 I hope I'm wrong, but we may be witnessing the biggest boondoggle in Canadian history.

00:01:53.760 And at that time, the estimate for the expansion of that pipeline was that it would cost $7.4 billion on top of the $4.5 billion spent to purchase the existing pipeline.

00:02:04.180 Smith estimated that the government delays and general ineptitude would lead to the pipeline costing it maybe as much as $20 billion.

00:02:12.060 Well, the future premier might have thought she was being cruel in her pessimism, but it turns out her prognostication was incorrect.

00:02:19.580 the final tally for the pipeline was $34 billion to tax dollars. It came in years late. Smith was

00:02:25.940 right. It was a boondoggle. Now, some things have changed in years since Daniel Smith wrote that

00:02:30.600 article. She's now Alberta's premier rather than a radio host, and she has different obligations

00:02:35.520 and has learned more about how the gears of government turn from the inside. It's understandable

00:02:41.140 how reviews might have been tempered a bit more by pragmatism, but to embrace an even larger

00:02:46.820 internationalization of a pipeline today, though, isn't a pragmatic shift in ideals. It's a full

00:02:52.140 betrayal of conservatism and fiscal responsibility. Smith's role may have changed, but the logistics

00:02:57.700 of getting a pipeline built in Canada haven't. The mountains are in the same places. The streams

00:03:02.700 haven't shifted. The residents living near the proposed new pipeline are still there with the

00:03:07.100 same concerns. The only additional cost to building a pipeline should be due to inflation.

00:03:12.300 If anything, with modern technology, it's easier to safely and efficiently build pipelines than

00:03:16.440 ever before. To handicap the pipeline, the handicap the pipeline construction was and has

00:03:23.460 remains governments at all levels. Municipal governments attach layer after layer of redundant

00:03:29.920 and pointless licensing requirements to all aspects of construction. In BC, the provincial

00:03:34.120 government has made itself a hindrance in every way possible for political reasons. On the federal

00:03:38.760 level, callow leadership has led to policies of permissiveness and indulgence with anti-pipel

00:03:46.420 activists rather than working to use constitutional authority to get the job

00:03:49.720 done. Even if it means offering a reality check to indigenous activists and

00:03:54.160 reminding them they don't have veto authority. The true experts in the field

00:03:59.140 are in the energy sector and they never made any bones about why they refused to

00:04:03.100 invest in new pipelines. It has nothing to do with the world market or demand

00:04:06.520 for oil and gas. They know the world wants Canada's oil. It has nothing to do

00:04:10.880 with the mountains or risks of leaks or accidents in constructing a pipeline.

00:04:13.900 And they built a major line through the Rocky Mountains over 70 years ago,

00:04:17.260 and it's been operating safely ever since.

00:04:19.560 They know how to get the job done.

00:04:21.200 And it's not for lack of capital.

00:04:22.700 The oil and gas sector has funds from existing operations within and outside of Canada

00:04:26.460 that can be invested in a new infrastructure.

00:04:28.440 In fact, they're doing it all over the world, except in Canada.

00:04:31.660 Energy companies have been screwed by Canada too many times now.

00:04:34.840 They aren't willing to spend billions more only to have the government pull the rug out from under them,

00:04:39.580 as happened with the Northern Gateway Project,

00:04:41.180 or to have pipelines regulated to death as happened with Energy East and the Mackenzie

00:04:44.840 Valley Pipeline Project. A head of Synovus made it clear last month when he said

00:04:49.060 Canadian pipelines are unfinanceable and he laid the blame squarely at the feet of the government

00:04:54.640 where it belongs. Courageous government leaders would work to strip away these self-imposed

00:04:59.280 roadblocks, even though it might be tough. Cowardly government leaders toss tax dollars

00:05:03.480 at the issue and hope it solves itself. It's the same approach with healthcare and we see

00:05:07.960 how that's turning out. Smith and Kearney took the chicken-hearted path, and we're all going to

00:05:13.080 dearly pay for it. If the governments don't have the guts to strip some current regulations,

00:05:17.780 will they have the courage to stand up to the inevitable protesters and activists who are going

00:05:21.560 to try and delay the construction of a new line? Will they tell the regulators who are going to

00:05:24.760 add layer after layer of regulations for more licenses and more studies that there's been

00:05:28.820 enough? Will they lay down the law with indigenous activists who have an insatiable appetite for 1.00

00:05:33.600 consultation? Of course they won't. Smith predicted the biggest boondoggle in Canadian history nearly 1.00

00:05:38.840 10 years ago, and now is a key participant in what's surely to be even a bigger boondoggle.

00:05:43.800 Instead of making demands of the federal government, she offered concessions. She 0.98

00:05:46.860 rolled over and showed her underbelly. The token involvement of Pemina pipelines, who have a 10%

00:05:52.100 stake with a clear escape clause, is an insult to common sense. Just dump them and admit the

00:05:57.080 entire project's going to be nationalized. Smith said in a past interview it would be considered

00:06:01.860 a failure if public dollars had to fund pipelines. She's managed to be right in her interviews and

00:06:07.260 dead wrong in her actions. What she may feel is the easiest path to getting a pipeline done is

00:06:11.640 simply charting a path to nowhere. If the only way to get things done in Canada is to nationalize

00:06:16.800 them, then Canada truly is broken. There's only one place where that path ends. That's my thoughts

00:06:23.100 on the great and trumpeted pipeline recently. Terribly disappointed. Well, lots of other

00:06:29.300 things going on in the news let's check in with mr nailer our news editor who's hiding out in the

00:06:33.420 newsroom and doesn't get to play down here at the barbecue how's it going dave hey i'm coming to the 0.97

00:06:37.700 barbecue right after this oh are you right on you bet okay who do you think looks stupider in a 0.54

00:06:43.000 cowboy hat me or you probably me i am not a cowboy hat person as as can be seen but you know i i got

00:06:49.980 to follow tradition i'll throw it on my bean for uh a week yeah the uh environment canada has just

00:06:56.000 issued a severe thunderstorm watch so the mother nature mother nature must have known that uh

00:07:03.760 you were having a barbecue well there's a little bit of room inside and it doesn't look too bad

00:07:08.480 outside yet no it looks so cool right now but keep our fingers crossed so so we got a lot of busy

00:07:13.920 news morning um we've got a follow-up to you probably remember a month or so ago uh or leah

00:07:19.680 Lea Mushit had an exclusive from the town of Rockyford, northeast of Calgary,

00:07:25.000 that the town council had sold the school to a group of Sikhs,

00:07:31.080 and the Sikhs were going to be opening up a cultural center.

00:07:35.280 Now, the town of Rockyford has exactly zero Sikhs living in it.

00:07:39.940 It's only a town of about 500.

00:07:42.200 And Lea's got a follow-up today.

00:07:44.080 It turns out they really didn't even consult anybody in town.

00:07:47.340 We've got some angry residents who are trying to find answers and are being stonewalled at every opportunity.

00:07:56.000 So that's a good story.

00:07:58.800 The Western Standard's best friend, Gil McGowan of the Alberta Federation of Labour,

00:08:04.420 was filmed ambushing Daniel Smith at her premier's breakfast on Monday, just down the road from here.

00:08:11.980 So we've got a story on that.

00:08:14.300 The government of British Columbia has released their reports on MAID in 2024, saying there were thousands of errors out of, I think there was like 5,000 some MAID cases and thousands of errors they found.

00:08:30.080 So that's not a good sign.

00:08:33.380 Got a story out of the Calgary Police Service where a eight-year-old boy was involved in a family distraction theft.

00:08:41.800 The family went into a jeweler's at Market Mall.

00:08:46.240 They got the cashier's or the salesperson's attention.

00:08:53.120 And then the 8-year-old and 16-year-old sister stole a whole bunch of jewelry.

00:08:57.880 So they were arrested shortly afterwards.

00:09:00.840 And it's pretty disturbing to see 8-year-olds involved.

00:09:06.220 Shocking video out of Halifax today, Corey,

00:09:09.980 where a man became enraged at the number of migrants

00:09:14.140 that were in the Halifax Costco,

00:09:17.180 and he let loose and told them what they think,

00:09:19.840 and then he ended up assaulting one of the people that was filming him.

00:09:24.440 So Halifax police are on the lookout for him,

00:09:27.900 and it looks like we're basically back to war with Iran. 1.00

00:09:31.980 Trump has realized finally that he's being played for as a fool, 1.00

00:09:36.600 and it's called the leadership of Iran scum, 1.00

00:09:39.520 and it's going to heat up over there very quickly. 1.00

00:09:44.000 Bombing starts tonight.

00:09:46.100 I guess everybody better fill up their cars and trucks right now.

00:09:48.380 You know what's going to happen with the oil prices now that the war is back on.

00:09:51.400 Yeah, it was down to 70 bucks yesterday,

00:09:53.560 so I'm sure the coffers of Alberta would appreciate a little bit of the bomb.

00:09:59.680 Some bright side, I guess, 0.82

00:10:01.000 and I imagine the orange man wants a little something

00:10:03.080 before the midterms come up in a couple of months,

00:10:04.920 so maybe a little wartime stuff will help him out.

00:10:07.620 Yeah, a little war is always good for a politician's numbers, that's for sure.

00:10:12.260 Sadly so.

00:10:13.500 All right, well, I'll leave you back to the ruined newsroom,

00:10:15.700 and I look forward to you coming down here. 0.83

00:10:17.440 Are you going to be taking up a water balloon or two to send some love to our publisher?

00:10:21.740 I don't know about that.

00:10:25.300 Derek can hold grudges.

00:10:27.520 So we'll see.

00:10:28.780 I'm bringing the entire team down from the Calgary newsroom.

00:10:33.640 We've even got Will down from Edmonton for the big show.

00:10:37.900 So we'll all be down there barbecuing.

00:10:40.280 And so, yeah, stop by and say hi.

00:10:42.500 Right on.

00:10:43.240 Okay, well, thanks, Dave.

00:10:44.240 And we'll see you in a little while.

00:10:46.100 You bet.

00:10:46.480 Take care.

00:10:47.680 So that is our news editor, Dave Naylor, busy down there.

00:10:51.280 Lots of stories happening, lots of stories breaking.

00:10:53.180 And, yeah, we even brought Will down from Edmonton right on.

00:10:55.320 It'd be good to see him.

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00:11:33.640 And as soon as you do that, get down here to the barbecue.

00:11:37.380 So I might as well get to my guest, who's already sitting next to me here,

00:11:41.040 Mr. Josh Andrus from the office, coordinating all of this affair.

00:11:45.360 How's it going?

00:11:46.040 It's good.

00:11:46.660 I'd like to take the coordination,

00:11:49.120 but I got to give credit to our administrative manager,

00:11:53.020 Jessica Arnfried, who has done all of the ordering, organizing,

00:11:57.920 and we were joking about it in the car

00:11:59.980 because I was trying to take credit for it,

00:12:01.880 but I don't think I get any credit for this.

00:12:04.600 But yeah, no, it's going to be a fantastic event today down here.

00:12:09.500 My life's not working.

00:12:11.280 Okay.

00:12:12.160 Well, for those who are hearing him faintly talking,

00:12:14.140 we'll just pass this along and let Josh start again

00:12:17.920 and discuss that on this microphone.

00:12:19.660 Here we go.

00:12:20.500 Have a chat, Josh.

00:12:21.220 Yeah, so we're down here at the Western Standard Calvary Stampede Barbecue.

00:12:25.780 We're getting started at 1 o'clock, so come on down.

00:12:30.060 It's going to be a fantastic event.

00:12:31.740 I'd like to take credit for organizing it, 0.52

00:12:33.920 but that was all our administrative manager, Jessica.

00:12:38.480 Our social media and digital marketing manager, Will, did a lot as well.

00:12:43.940 So, you know, it would be poor of me to take credit for this.

00:12:48.000 It's going to be an exciting event, though.

00:12:49.620 We've got lots of hot dogs for people.

00:12:52.620 We've got pops, waters.

00:12:54.480 It's going to be a lot of fun.

00:12:55.640 And then the kicker is obviously the fact that we are going to be throwing

00:12:59.160 water balloons at the publisher, president, and CEO, Derek Fildebrandt.

00:13:03.980 Those will be on sale.

00:13:05.260 So come on down.

00:13:07.100 Yeah, but we don't want to take up too much time talking about the barbecue

00:13:11.120 because you've got a big show today.

00:13:12.920 We've got lots.

00:13:13.460 We've got a debate coming up.

00:13:14.800 We've got a debate coming up tomorrow.

00:13:17.020 I mean, we've got a live show.

00:13:17.980 We should be plugging all these Western Standard things.

00:13:20.640 I got you here.

00:13:21.260 You're again in charge of all these extra news sort of items and things like that.

00:13:26.220 What's going on tomorrow night?

00:13:28.040 So tomorrow night, doors open at 5.30 at the Glenmore Inn and Conference Centre in, well, southeast Calgary, I think, just off of Deerfoot there.

00:13:37.880 So lots of parking.

00:13:39.660 We have sold quite a few tickets.

00:13:42.420 We're not quite sold out.

00:13:43.880 So if you want to go to our Twitter account or check us out online, you can find links to that.

00:13:50.220 Yeah, it'll be a good event.

00:13:52.300 Again, Derek Fildebrandt will be debating

00:13:55.120 Mount Royal University political science professor

00:13:58.120 Dwayne Bratt.

00:13:59.920 It should be a good event.

00:14:01.400 It's being moderated by National Post columnist,

00:14:04.320 former Alberta Cabinet Minister Donna Kennedy-Glans,

00:14:06.620 who also sat on the Fair Deal panel.

00:14:08.360 So she, I think, is going to bring a fantastic perspective

00:14:12.240 to this in terms of keeping things fair,

00:14:15.000 which is what we want.

00:14:15.780 We want a fair debate.

00:14:16.740 We don't want it to be one-sided

00:14:19.000 and we want to have, you know, a good conversation.

00:14:22.180 So that's tomorrow night, 5.30.

00:14:24.200 Go to our website.

00:14:25.480 Click on one of the ads.

00:14:26.800 It'll take you right to the link.

00:14:29.360 So we look forward to seeing you there.

00:14:31.840 And, no, it should be good.

00:14:33.020 Obviously, independence is one of the biggest topics going on right now.

00:14:36.580 I heard you kind of going on about, you know,

00:14:38.800 how difficult it is for us to get a single pipeline

00:14:41.300 and we have to have a memorandum of understanding

00:14:44.280 in which we have to have multiple little agreements.

00:14:49.000 in order to get one so if this is kind of how the premier is trying to convince us that Canada is

00:14:54.520 working uh we'll see uh tomorrow night will be a good uh good good good feel from the crowd as to

00:15:01.240 how how this MOU is going over all right well among your other initiatives aside from uh getting

00:15:07.880 people wet uh Rachel Gilmore references well she she did uh quite a uh little uh appearance online

00:15:15.880 i don't know if you saw that you know all drenched from the rainstorm had to do her picture and said

00:15:19.800 it was caused by climate change and meanwhile the premier is discussing pipelines either way uh the

00:15:26.040 the wetness you're spreading will be a little different than hers i imagine water balloons

00:15:29.720 water balloons okay let's be clear about that right of course i'm always nothing if not clear

00:15:35.560 i mean you know but i mean making the world a wetter place can be a benefit at times

00:15:39.560 but beyond that let's talk about another initiative and that's merch i see we got

00:15:43.560 Mr. Gilbo over my shoulder with a, you can't quite see his head in the shot, but we can see a

00:15:47.480 beautiful t-shirt. What else have you guys got on the go? Didn't realize we cut his head off in the

00:15:52.880 shot. I don't think anybody's complaining at home. But we have, yeah, we just launched

00:15:57.540 westernstandardstore.news. You can check that out. It's a fantastic little store. We obviously have

00:16:03.600 our Stephen Gibo mugshot. We threw that on a t-shirt. And one of the hottest items, we sold

00:16:09.100 out of them in store but we have uh put his mug shot on a coffee mug it's a great gift for uh you

00:16:15.760 know that family member that particularly didn't like uh steven gibbault as environment minister

00:16:20.200 so uh yeah that's good we've got some ralph klein merchandise uh you know with the uh it's it's a 0.98

00:16:26.620 misattributed quote but it's often attributed to them that's you know let the eastern bastards

00:16:32.060 freeze in the dark so that's a good one and no it's going to be a uh we we've got lots of 0.95

00:16:37.900 merchandise in there it's a great store uh one of my favorite i just got a new hoodie out of it it's

00:16:43.040 just got the alberta crest it's a rugged alberta collection fantastic look it's it's one of my

00:16:48.500 favorite uh items i have now so yeah no we've got a lot of good initiatives that we're working on

00:16:53.660 the store is a big one so yeah no this is just these are just a few things we've been doing i

00:16:58.180 am getting to the point now where i'm starting to wonder what we're going to do next so uh if

00:17:02.000 anybody has any ideas drop it in the comments right on well i know you got a lot of setup to

00:17:07.560 do and a lot of things to cover is there more you wanted to add before i let you go there and

00:17:11.500 hang out i think we got enough volunteers oh you're just looking for an excuse not to to be

00:17:15.660 up there any longer no comment well okay well we might have a second microphone in a moment we'll

00:17:22.580 see i know john is busily working on it see if people ever wonder if these are really live or

00:17:27.220 not it most definitely is and you can tell that we're downtown because the ambulances have been

00:17:31.340 going back and forth i was also greeted by uh uh a couple of fine crackheads over on the corner

00:17:36.980 having a great discussion yeah there was a nice pair of jeans they left outside there oh there

00:17:41.060 you go folks get down fast you might get them soon oh okay your mic still doesn't work my mic

00:17:47.440 still doesn't work okay um yeah so uh it's it is a downtown event uh but no it's you know what it's

00:17:55.580 a really great area like sun alta the train station's right there so if you want to take

00:18:00.140 the train down uh we got a nice little green space outside um yeah it's it's going to be a great

00:18:05.280 event um yeah what do you want to talk about i heard uh you want to talk about the mou what do

00:18:09.860 you want to sure what are your thoughts on that pipeline well i mean i said it already i think

00:18:14.520 that you know it's ridiculous that we have to jump through so many hoops to get a single pipeline

00:18:19.800 built not to mention the fact that the very it was either the same day or the day after uh the

00:18:26.180 premier and the prime minister announced the mou uh bc premier david eby and and mark carney

00:18:33.380 house of the tanker ban in northern British Columbia was still going to be in effect, which

00:18:37.560 is one of the quote-unquote nine bad laws that Premier Smith demanded be removed. So

00:18:44.040 it is incredibly disappointing to see the government give up so much ground for a single

00:18:50.020 pipeline. And then they had the deal that them and, was it Saskatchewan, Premier Scott Moffa

00:18:57.380 struck a deal for a pipeline out to Sarnia from the Energy Alberta, I think it's Fort

00:19:02.540 out to sarnia or something like that and uh manitoba's not on board with that so you know

00:19:08.720 again it's it's one of those things where you have a fractious public debate going on in this

00:19:14.500 province and a and a premier that seems to be desperately trying to prove to everybody

00:19:19.040 that this country is fixable but every time she does an announcement on the mou the situation

00:19:24.200 continues to deteriorate it's almost i don't think it's a winnable position for her i i do

00:19:30.220 think it's causing her damage in the uh in in the eyes of the general public and and i think uh

00:19:37.000 you know i think you were talking about it earlier like i i've noticed a lot more liberals around

00:19:41.640 at the corporate stampede functions i've been at so it does beg a question about what decisions

00:19:49.700 the leadership uh whether that be in cabinet obviously uh minister of energy brian gene has

00:19:55.060 been one of the most foremost, uh, proponents of the memorandum of understanding. So, uh, again,

00:20:00.800 I don't know if this is a cabinet type of a decision or if this is the premier's office

00:20:05.060 making these calls, but at some point they're going to have to realize that, you know, this

00:20:09.760 isn't working and they're losing credibility at a very, very fast pace. Well, I think Albertans

00:20:15.360 are tired of announcements. I mean, Carney has done announcements. How many announcements have

00:20:18.460 he done since becoming prime minister, but he really hasn't done a damn thing. Actually,

00:20:21.700 Kuzma's done. You know, there's been no major projects going. They started the office. They

00:20:26.800 just keep talking. They keep announcing. Nothing seems to happen. I think, I mean, part of why

00:20:31.380 we're seeing liberals, it's interesting. We're seeing though that the independence movement

00:20:34.080 being taken, I think quite seriously with what's going on with the upcoming referenda.

00:20:37.480 A lot of people wanting to come up and at least make their case as to why Alberta should vote,

00:20:41.640 you know, with Lukasik's little question about saying we should stay or be happy with things

00:20:46.120 as they are. There's no pending referendum to bring us to the point of actually leaving,

00:20:51.240 but there is a big question facing us.

00:20:53.520 Do you think that's had an impact though

00:20:54.900 on them trying to show that they're making

00:20:56.220 some sort of progress,

00:20:57.120 putting that rock up a hill with pipeline construction?

00:21:00.940 Well, I think the issue that they have

00:21:02.960 is a lack of passion amongst their supporters.

00:21:06.620 I mean, yeah, I see a lot of people

00:21:07.940 walking around with signs,

00:21:09.160 but you try and get them on camera

00:21:10.760 to talk about why they think Canada

00:21:13.260 is such a great country.

00:21:14.820 In a lot of ways, they decline.

00:21:16.680 And so I think if you look at

00:21:20.280 like the fundraising numbers out of uh i think let you get uh what's your group again pathway

00:21:26.240 to independence and then uh let alberta decide with keith wilson i think jason levine's got one

00:21:31.500 too like their fundraising numbers have you know widely outstripped the fundraising numbers of

00:21:37.460 the the uh the the federalist side and i think the federalist side i think that they're dealing

00:21:44.520 with a lack of complacency and and yeah the announcement after announcement after announcement

00:21:49.100 Like, I mean, I think they have another major investment in Alberta coming and you're going to see that.

00:21:55.640 But when you have this, the proponents for remaining in the country constantly attacking the provincial government on having the referendum in the first place on the guise of economic disaster, if you even put this on the table, every single one of these announcements takes a little bit of wind out of their sails.

00:22:13.500 Because now, I mean, everybody knows that if you're an economic prognosticator and you're constantly wrong, like the Calgary Chamber of Commerce is, you know, people just start kind of ignoring what you have to say.

00:22:24.640 So I think the lack of passion on the stay in Canada side is going to, like the momentum appears to be at the backs of, you know, Pathway to Independence and Let Alberta Decide and these other organizations.

00:22:39.860 And it does, in my opinion, draw a lot of parallels to Brexit, where a lot of people, like, as you get closer to the vote, oh, hey, you know, like, we're voting on this, and economic activity in Alberta is at an all-time high.

00:22:53.740 Meanwhile, the rest of the country is mired in a recession.

00:22:56.920 I think that it's going to be difficult for them.

00:23:00.540 And I've gone, you know, about six months ago, I didn't think this was a winnable referendum for the Leave side.

00:23:07.420 I've changed my tone on that.

00:23:09.120 I think it's very winnable. I think this feels like Brexit all over again, where you have politicians, the political elites that don't have answers for the structural issues like equalization, even a lack of representation in parliament where they're just kind of dodging questions.

00:23:28.700 And that goes for Pierre, that goes for the Premier, that goes for Jason Kenney even and these organizations.

00:23:36.620 You have structural issues people are frustrated about.

00:23:39.260 You have a referendum coming up.

00:23:40.720 And I think that the pathway is there to win this one.

00:23:47.300 And I do think the question, the way it's worded, where it's a vote to have a vote kind of removes a lot of pressure.

00:23:52.340 from so like for example if if you're maybe not 100 convinced on independence but you're mad about

00:23:59.120 the status quo you might just go vote to send a message right you might go vote to say hey let's

00:24:04.620 start the process and see because i think in terms of getting a fair deal for even the fair

00:24:08.940 deal supporters you need as much leverage as you can get so um i think it's one of those things

00:24:14.160 where yeah there is a pathway here the storm like the thunderclouds seem to be over the stay in

00:24:22.540 canada side and this mou is is absolute dog's breakfast every time the premier talks about

00:24:27.800 every time brian gene talks about it i want to throw well you know it doesn't make water but i

00:24:33.060 want to throw water balloons at them uh which their security would never allow and they're

00:24:37.200 honestly uh i don't think the premier would let us throw water balloons at her jeremy farkas might

00:24:42.380 But I don't think the premier will. So I think there's just it's it's it's all these vanity projects that I think are going to be detrimental to running the government from Edmonton moving forward.

00:24:55.220 and a lot of political science professors and federal leaders and former politicians. Part of

00:25:04.200 what's going on is, as you said, it's like Brexit. The old establishment is all talking about

00:25:08.840 don't do, don't do this, but they really are overlooking the people on the ground. I mean,

00:25:12.960 we see the legacy media too. They make the accusations, oh, the independent side's

00:25:15.860 foreign funded. Well, no, we disclose all our numbers. It's been interesting actually because

00:25:20.900 yeah my group has raised over a hundred thousand dollars now people are saying well well the site

00:25:26.720 online only shows 80 000 yeah that's because anything under 50 we still report it as a whole

00:25:31.100 to elections alberta but it doesn't go up these are hundreds and hundreds of small donors who

00:25:35.260 are funding this these are people on the ground i look at the few federalist groups who are even

00:25:39.240 reporting when fabio's isn't for some reason but that's a separate issue uh those are often 5 000

00:25:44.780 from this union 5 000 from that group 5 000 you know they're maxed out a few but they're not

00:25:48.560 getting grass roots i think that early indication is that they might be underestimating a groundswell

00:25:54.000 getting going here 100 absolutely the groundswell i we can feel it i mean every time like you talk

00:26:04.140 about the mou or a politician talks about the mou you go into the comments and and you can see

00:26:09.580 there's this like if this is how canada works where we in order to get a single pipeline we

00:26:16.000 have to jump through 50 000 hoops to get there i i just i don't think that's a sales pitch that

00:26:21.180 people are going to buy and another point that i want to make is uh the alberta government's 400

00:26:25.800 billion dollar price tag on independence they're counting and the biggest portion of that 400

00:26:31.500 billion is the 150 billion they're saying that's our share of the federal debt like if you're

00:26:36.360 making that argument as a reason to stay i would probably point at the federal government's most

00:26:42.860 recent budget where they're running another massive if not record-breaking deficit so yeah

00:26:48.460 it's it's 150 billion today if we wait 10 years it could be 600 billion 700 billion just for the

00:26:54.880 debt share so i mean it almost makes sense to cut your losses and and go so yeah no i but it does

00:27:01.840 feel like a groundswell and i think the establishment is also dealing with the fact that

00:27:06.060 you have most of the most rat like i don't want to call them radical elements but we'll we'll just

00:27:11.260 For the strongest, most patriotic Canadians, most of them are liberals.

00:27:19.900 And so it kind of begs the question of, in terms of internal party dynamics for the Alberta MPs and the Federal Conservative Party, as well as the provincial UCP, how are they going to combat the groundswell?

00:27:35.220 I mean, we know it's there.

00:27:36.440 Are they going to be recruiting liberals?

00:27:39.200 Which I think is really their only option.

00:27:41.260 Like if you're outnumbered in your own membership base, you know, whether it be 55, 45 or 75, 25, the only way you can combat that is to literally sell memberships to liberals.

00:27:52.720 So I think the entire exercise is going to end up effectively coding Canada as a left wing country, which I think if you're in the premier's office and you're making the, the full throated defense of national unity is a huge barrier for you moving forward.

00:28:10.100 And I've said it before, I think they need to rip up the MOU and start, you know, standing up to the federal government.

00:28:18.500 The tanker ban is an absolute slight.

00:28:21.300 I'm offended when I saw that.

00:28:23.380 I mean, like, yeah, what are we calling it now?

00:28:25.260 The eight bad laws?

00:28:26.380 Like, I'd like to see what the premier's communication office does with that.

00:28:30.300 But it is incredibly frustrating to watch.

00:28:33.860 Then again, as a former staffer, this all, you know, makes sense to me, if that makes sense.

00:28:40.100 Well, it's funny when you talk about, you know, the liberals and so on, like I dating myself, you know, you'll be too young for that to remember it. But the last time the federal conservatives tried to out liberal the liberals, the Reform Party got created. The last time the provincial conservatives tried to out liberal the liberals, the Wildrose split the vote. We ended up with, unfortunately, Premier Notley.

00:29:02.220 But the bottom line is conservatives have got to stay true to themselves or they're going to get blown out of the water.

00:29:06.900 We've seen that over and over again, but they're trying to get in bed with liberals and man, they've lost a sight of recent history, I think.

00:29:15.100 Well, and the one person that should know better than anybody about that is Danielle Smith.

00:29:19.700 You know, I mean, we saw this 11 years ago in December, 2014, she packed up, I think it was nine Wildrose MLAs and crossed the floor to the progressive conservatives.

00:29:31.280 So we've seen her, you know, sacrifice her philosophical positions in order to seek more power. And I think the issue that they have, yeah, is the fact that they are cavorting with liberals.

00:29:49.420 And for the federal MPs, you know, as well, the ones from Alberta, like what happens if, let's say hypothetically, Pierre Polyev is no longer the leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, who is now represents Battle River Crowfoot, one of the strongest conservative ridings in the province, in the country, even if he's out, who replaces him?

00:30:13.760 And I think that really becomes the conversation of, do you end up with an Eastern Canadian leader that doesn't understand the nature of Alberta?

00:30:26.500 And I think a lot of the federal staff don't either.

00:30:29.620 I think that's a part of the problem in Ottawa, whether it be conservative or liberal, is they're trying to find ways to win nationally.

00:30:35.940 If you're doing that and you're coming at it from a, you know, we'll call it a Laurentian viewpoint

00:30:43.560 I think it creates incredible challenges for the Conservative Party MPs

00:30:48.900 And it could lead to a revolt party, like an Alberta party federally

00:30:53.180 That is there to stand up for Alberta

00:30:56.040 Would still vote with the Conservatives on 90% of the issues

00:30:59.260 But I, I think that just all of these ingredients in, in the, uh, in the cauldron of Confederation are all potential explosives that could like Pierre, if Pierre doesn't make it till October, I can imagine a groundswell, um, of support for independence from there.

00:31:19.240 So it'll be interesting.

00:31:21.100 There's a lot of different things that are, uh, are going on right now,

00:31:24.700 but, uh, we've, at the Western standard, we're keeping an eye on all of it

00:31:28.240 and we will report them, all of these, uh, potential events to you as they happen.

00:31:34.180 Right on.

00:31:34.500 Well, yeah, we're definitely in a turning point year.

00:31:36.280 I think it's going to be something else this next four or five months

00:31:38.560 to see what happens and then the months following that.

00:31:40.980 So yeah, we'll be covering it all.

00:31:42.540 I saw a reflection in the window behind me, some guy in a leather vest 1.00

00:31:46.240 pacing weirdly and I thought, oh boy, we got another one of those refugees 1.00

00:31:49.240 from the Sheldon Tumor Center, but no, it's our publisher 1.00

00:31:51.180 Derek getting ready for

00:31:53.180 his water balloon. I don't

00:31:55.240 think he was on camera, but I could see him in those glass windows

00:31:57.340 over there. Like I said, in the reflection, it was faint, but

00:31:59.160 I saw somebody pacing, but it was him

00:32:01.300 talking on the phone. So maybe I'll let

00:32:03.280 you get on to your duties around here, and I'll

00:32:05.320 wrap up the show. So thanks for your time, Josh,

00:32:07.240 and we'll talk again later. Always happy to

00:32:09.260 do this, and yeah, again,

00:32:11.000 www.westernstandardstore.news

00:32:13.300 and you can get a coffee

00:32:15.320 mug or a t-shirt with his name on it.

00:32:16.940 please order because we ordered too many so we are uh yeah we're we're looking to sell them so

00:32:22.080 thank you right on that is josh anderson adding his thoughts on the issues and yeah get that

00:32:29.020 merch out of there because i know they're just going to take over my desk because i'm like the

00:32:31.680 once a week guy so everything just lands on my desk and i get pushed aside but yeah this really

00:32:37.100 is live as you can tell from some of the stuff that's going back and forth over there um you

00:32:43.680 know, Rubicon saying, I'm not sure I'd vote conservative federally anymore. They're not

00:32:46.580 tainted with the federal liberals. I don't know. I mean, there's some good MPs. We know that.

00:32:50.700 There always are. But the problem is always that temptation of, well, we just have to move into

00:32:55.520 their territory to win this. And it doesn't seem to work. Old reformers remember that. But it seems

00:33:00.580 some people are ready to repeat that lesson. Speaking of lessons, let's talk about one. I

00:33:04.800 got to cover this today because I had to take a year of humiliation over this. There's another

00:33:09.640 beekeeper in alberta name of mike he goes with the freedom honey beekeeping and we've had a

00:33:16.900 competition going for a while last summer in what i still think was a questionable outcome with a

00:33:21.260 taste test with a number of judges they did find three to nothing that his honey was better than

00:33:27.220 mine that was in the summer of 2025 but we had a rematch in mirror on alberton's day on july 1st

00:33:33.900 and with a unanimous decision three to nothing the prettiest gold from my beehives talking to

00:33:40.860 my bees paid off we are the better honey in alberta it's one one we'll have to rectify this next year

00:33:46.740 but i'm going to remind the second place man mr freedom honey regularly you're not number one

00:33:55.180 anymore we got better honey than you all right let's get into a little more politics and some

00:33:59.980 things, talking about local, you know, I just wanted to bring up this analogy for people,

00:34:04.920 if you're familiar with Southern Alberta, kind of where I grew up into politics. Funny,

00:34:09.480 there's a bunch of people from this class of 71 of politics who were born in 71 and are involved

00:34:14.120 in things now, including Daniel Smith, actually, and Justin Trudeau, and yes, myself. And we got

00:34:21.280 into the 90s and we saw the tail end of really what was some bad policies from the provincial

00:34:26.360 progressive conservative government. And one of which that came out through the Getty years and

00:34:31.140 a bit of Lougheed was them thinking the government should get into business, thinking the government

00:34:36.280 should subsidize and buy into businesses. There was a company named Novotel that manufactured

00:34:42.160 cellular phones. They put, I don't know what it was, a billion into it, which in the start of the

00:34:47.160 90s, that's a lot of money. Somehow manufacturing cell phones in the 90s and the company went broke.

00:34:52.980 How could that happen? It's the biggest boon coming in the world at the time because it was

00:34:57.360 government. Government can't run businesses. We know that. Another big one at that time,

00:35:04.780 and there was gainers and there were a few other things going on, was a company called MagCan.

00:35:09.520 And it was supposed to do some sort of products with magnesium or something. They built a large

00:35:15.020 specialized plant for it just north of High River. And I think it's a really ironic place to have it.

00:35:21.220 So anybody who's driven south of Calgary on highway two, and you've ever looked to the right

00:35:25.120 and you see this big giant orange brick building just north of high river, it's just sitting there.

00:35:29.880 It's been sitting there for 30 some years because MagCan went broke just months after opening up 0.73

00:35:36.660 because it was a garbage concept. It wasn't based on business reality. It was government subsidized 0.70

00:35:42.200 and Albert got robbed on it. And because it was such a specialized building, they haven't been

00:35:46.060 able to do a damn thing with it ever since. We've spent money having security around that building

00:35:49.940 to sit there for decades and decades and decades.

00:35:52.000 I think it might have been used for a movie set

00:35:53.240 or something once or twice.

00:35:54.800 Now they've surrounded it with solar panels.

00:35:58.320 Premier Smith lives in High River. 0.98

00:36:00.700 She's driven by that building

00:36:02.700 hundreds and hundreds of times.

00:36:05.560 It's a trophy to the failure of government

00:36:08.840 going into business.

00:36:10.260 Now, Premier Smith went through

00:36:12.140 the same political education I did in Alberta

00:36:14.000 in the early 90s, seeing the failure

00:36:16.040 of government investments into business.

00:36:17.900 Premier Smith lives just south of Calgary like I do and sees that big, ugly red building sitting there slowly falling apart as a reminder of how foolish it is for governments to try and pick and choose winners going into business. 0.68

00:36:31.860 And what did she do? 1.00

00:36:33.160 She's sinking tens of billions of dollars into nationalized pipelines.

00:36:37.040 She's talking about doing the same thing with Doug Ford.

00:36:39.400 Is that where it's going to go next?

00:36:41.400 What if the oil sands, if they actually do manage to soak past taxpayers and put us more hundreds of billions into debt, 1.00

00:36:47.480 and they actually get these pipelines built in 20, 30 years, whatever it'll take with these idiots? 0.99

00:36:51.840 Well, now we've got to fill it. 0.99

00:36:53.560 Well, no oil companies are expanding the oil sands right now.

00:36:56.040 Why? Because the same stinking regulations are there.

00:36:58.240 Are they going to pursue the same solution and say, well, we'll just nationalize that too?

00:37:02.880 Worked out brilliant for Venezuela, didn't it?

00:37:05.780 Guys, this is wrong, and that's where I'm still so floored, of all people.

00:37:10.960 Premier Smith, what are you doing? I understand as a Premier, you want to try. You've got to try and negotiate. You've got to try and get the deal. You don't sit down with the Prime Minister and give him the finger immediately. You try to find a proper, balanced, middle ground, something profitable out of it. But to roll over on this is just brutal.

00:37:30.880 But it looks like I've got a guest popping in out of the blue unexpectedly.

00:37:34.420 And it is our publisher, the maniac I saw pacing outside, Derek Fildebrand.

00:37:38.780 So I'll give him the mic and see what the hell he wants to say as he interrupts my show so rudely.

00:37:42.820 Thanks, Corey.

00:37:44.280 I've been told Josh came in and kind of hinted at some things, but it's confirmed.

00:37:48.380 We're going to have Calgary Mayor Jeremy Farkas here at the barbecue.

00:37:52.520 In addition to buying water balloons to throw at me, you're going to be able to buy water balloons to throw at Calgary Mayor.

00:38:00.280 Jeremy Farkas, $5 a shot.

00:38:02.280 Or actually, we got better deals if you buy multiple balloons.

00:38:04.620 And those water balloon sales will go to charity.

00:38:08.440 So, you know, we've known Jeremy a long time.

00:38:11.400 Whatever you think of his politics, he's a good sport.

00:38:13.940 He's a good sport.

00:38:15.000 He's coming down.

00:38:16.300 Actually, I thought this is a great way.

00:38:17.720 How much would you pay for a water balloon to throw at this guy?

00:38:20.460 Oh, God, if he was really...

00:38:21.560 You'd fund his campaign.

00:38:23.380 It's brilliant campaign fundraising.

00:38:25.080 I think you could fund a whole campaign if you're hated enough by your opposition.

00:38:28.400 um but yeah uh calgary mayor jerry mefarkas is going to be down here today at the western

00:38:33.520 standard barbecue the barbecue is free we got uh the meat's already on the grill right now

00:38:40.480 but uh you can come down i was actually a big fan of this because i think it means i'm going to get

00:38:45.160 less water balloons i think the staff are going to want to get me more than anyone else but anyone

00:38:49.320 can buy water balloons to throw at me but you can also buy uh water balloons to go to charity

00:38:53.240 charity to throw at the mayor.

00:38:55.740 I think it's going to be a good time.

00:38:56.980 Right on.

00:38:58.420 All right.

00:38:58.860 I'm going to go eat some barbecue before anyone gets here.

00:39:01.040 All right. 1.00

00:39:02.240 Better get fed up and get ready for getting pelted with all those water balloons.

00:39:05.780 It was good to see that confirmed.

00:39:06.840 We'd heard about that.

00:39:07.720 And as Derek said, you know, and yeah, I've been questioning a lot of the judgment of

00:39:12.240 Mayor Farkas these days, too, with some of the things he's taken in policy stances.

00:39:16.160 But he is a good guy.

00:39:17.280 I see some water balloons are already flying outside.

00:39:20.560 Jeremy is a good guy and he is a good sport.

00:39:23.620 And hey, that takes, you know, coming on down, taking some water balloons and raising some money for charity this way.

00:39:29.940 So come on down, guys.

00:39:31.000 Senalta Community Centre in Beltline, Calgary.

00:39:33.400 I got to admit that parking's a little rough around here, but if you drive around enough, you'll find a spot.

00:39:36.980 And it's not that far to walk.

00:39:38.240 The weather's been good.

00:39:39.140 And you can pelt Derek Fildebrandt and Mayor Jeremy Farkas with some water balloons.

00:39:46.100 You got to like it when somebody at least has that kind of courage to go on.

00:39:49.860 Oh, Sandy was talking about Derek taking on Dwayne Bratt.

00:39:51.880 Just a reminder.

00:39:52.560 Yes, tomorrow night will be the debate.

00:39:53.840 There won't be water balloons for that.

00:39:55.820 But, you know, it'll be an interesting thing.

00:39:58.800 We got a lot of events going on.

00:40:00.060 The Western Standard is really expanding into more things like events like this

00:40:03.700 and not just news copy and coverage, which we've done, I think, really, really well

00:40:07.740 for quite some time.

00:40:10.480 All right, let's see what else is going on out there.

00:40:12.820 I just wanted to point out, it is, you know, it's not too bad.

00:40:15.780 But, yeah, we saw a little of the same.

00:40:16.960 Everybody sees it.

00:40:17.600 It's not just downtown anymore.

00:40:19.220 It's in every part of the city.

00:40:20.120 But the Sheldon Schumer Center did shut down in Calgary a little while ago.

00:40:23.620 Now, for those unfamiliar, that is where the safe consumption, if you want to call it that, of drugs was done.

00:40:29.660 That's where the center was.

00:40:31.080 And it's formally done, I guess, we've heard all the predictions of gloom and doom. 0.99

00:40:36.600 You know, that this is going to lead to mass overdoses and everything else, which is a load of crap. 0.95

00:40:40.880 You know, the overdoses are due to the addiction epidemic with incredibly powerful fentanyl just eating these poor people alive. 0.95

00:40:46.740 and it's awful and there is no safe consumption of these things what these centers do end up doing

00:40:51.660 though is creating hubs and hangouts for the addicted and it just terrorizes and makes a

00:40:58.600 horrible mass of neighborhoods so yeah i think i guess a side effect we'll also see is the groups

00:41:03.360 of addicts will kind of spread out and disperse a little more which isn't a solution isn't

00:41:06.980 necessarily a better thing but we'll kind of see how that develops through the belt line and over

00:41:10.660 the next year and some uh premium smith has carried on one of the things that jason kenny did that

00:41:15.500 was very well. We're very critical of Kenny quite often, but it's expanding treatment options,

00:41:21.400 expanding treatment facilities. I'll give credit where due. It's not just a matter of shutting

00:41:25.340 down the safe consumption science. We do need to get the people who are addicted

00:41:28.060 so that they can get into treatment as fast as possible when they're ready for it. I had a family

00:41:33.260 member who needed treatment a while back. The fastest we could get that person into a center,

00:41:37.700 the fastest was, yeah, 30 days. Person's ready to go now. Yep. We'll have you there in 30 days.

00:41:42.140 Well, that's a long time for an addict to try and stay clean to get to the end of.

00:41:46.720 They need to go in the second they're ready.

00:41:48.340 So that's one area where things I think are moving in the right direction.

00:41:51.780 We just can't necessarily build those centers fast enough to keep up with the demand.

00:41:56.920 Let's see. 0.94

00:41:58.880 Looking federally, we want to see how corrupt and broken Canada is.

00:42:02.200 There's a great example recently with that condo bailout, you know, a bunch of condominium

00:42:05.780 construction buildings made.

00:42:09.340 They went, they couldn't sell them.

00:42:10.940 million-dollar condos, apartments. So the federal government stepped in and bailed them out. But now

00:42:15.020 the real stink starts coming in. And this is from Gabriel Hardy. He's a conservative member of

00:42:19.020 parliament from Quebec. He said, concert properties, this just before they shut down the committee,

00:42:23.320 by the way, the liberals shut down the committee on the discussion of this because they didn't want

00:42:25.540 to hear more about it. Concert properties who created a partnership with Brookfield. Go figure.

00:42:30.680 15 days before the announcement where the developers got the bailout from our tax dollars

00:42:35.620 will be among the developers whom the government will be purchasing these condos from. These are

00:42:40.040 just facts. They're not presumptions. They're not accusations. We want to know whether or not they

00:42:43.220 will be among those who will see their condos bought. Coincidence. And shortly after that,

00:42:48.860 the committee was shut down by the liberal majority on it. But I mean, come on, guys. So

00:42:55.240 yes, some insiders connected with, I mean, all roads just keep seeming to lead to Brookfield

00:43:00.200 happened to coincidentally get in on this 15 days before the government buyout. You know,

00:43:06.960 that would be insider trading that would get somebody into jail any other time. But when

00:43:11.620 government does it, apparently it's all right. Another thing to watch on the Western Standard

00:43:15.800 site, if you want to see pathetic and you want to see attention seeking, uh, old Gil McGowan,

00:43:20.520 you know, he, he had his terrible failed day of action. He was going to bring Alberta to a 0.86

00:43:24.420 standstill with his, uh, uh, big general strike a month ago. Nobody noticed because it didn't

00:43:29.600 really go anywhere. He also was part of the spearhead of all of the recalls. They were

00:43:33.580 going to recall all the uh conservative you know united conservative party mlas that failed

00:43:38.720 absolutely brutally that none of them even came vaguely close all the unions horses all the unions

00:43:44.080 men couldn't do a thing well his next big trick was waiting in line for a long long time at the

00:43:49.660 premier's pancake breakfast to try and ambush her and uh question her about the chamber of commerce

00:43:56.460 and how they uh claim that independence is bad for business it was just bizarre and weird to be 0.78

00:44:01.820 honest and it flopped terribly and just made old gill look all the more pathetic but you know the

00:44:07.540 video is available at western standard online you can see it just turned into one long awkward

00:44:11.880 moment not a gotcha moment whatever gill might have thought and wanted he's going to get out of

00:44:16.660 it um let's see uh j smoke saying i'm sure cbc and msm will report on that i don't know if you're

00:44:23.020 talking about that committee thing with uh brookfield and the rest yeah you know they'll

00:44:26.120 be dead silent on all of that um it's it's going to uh not go anywhere we're getting robbed guys

00:44:32.760 the bottom line is we're getting robbed and uh i don't know how the heck we are gonna get out of

00:44:38.240 it uh one other thing with the independence movement and everything else the vandalism and

00:44:42.520 so on sad that it's getting to this but it's another story on the western standard safeway

00:44:47.700 outlets you know they've always had they've had this for over a year this turned into an issue a

00:44:51.080 year ago it's happening again they had alberta flags decorating areas where there's alberta

00:44:55.760 product. It's a buy local thing. That's been happening forever. Co-ops used to do it. Everything

00:44:59.980 else. Well, now Thomas Lukasik's little forever Canadian purring people are complaining and

00:45:05.920 demanding safely remove those Alberta flags from their displays. They're attacking our flag. That's

00:45:11.180 how pathetic they are. Hey, attack me. I'm an independence leader. That's fine. Attack my, 1.00

00:45:16.440 well, don't physically attack them, but complain about my independent signs. Fine. You have that

00:45:21.240 right but don't go after our flag you guys are pathetic you're sad you're fearful you're angry 0.99

00:45:27.100 and you're gonna lose all right guys that's it for me today get down here to senalta if you can 0.99

00:45:32.280 throw a water balloon at derek eat a weenie have a good time stampede's going for a few more days

00:45:37.940 and uh this sunday i'll be flipping pancakes at ranchman's at a stampede breakfast i believe

00:45:42.700 uh yeah sunday at nine in the morning i think i'll double check that so thanks for tuning in

00:45:48.000 today guys for this live run even with a few of the the bugs that's just part of the fun of being

00:45:52.560 live and we will catch you all on the next show at this time next week

00:46:18.000 We'll be right back.

Western Standard - July 14, 2026

CORY MORGAN SHOW： Nationalizing oil pipelines isn’t a victory for any but socialists

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