Western Standard - CORY MORGAN SHOW： Premier Smith is flirting with political suicide

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

00:00:29.240 as you can see we've got a spiffy new background in the studio now looking all professional like

00:00:34.600 and everything still haven't changed my wardrobe or uh makeup or budget still limited on these

00:00:39.800 things but you know we'll pretty myself up as much as we can good to see some of you lori gene

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00:00:54.200 productions going and spreading out to other people so we can bypass that nasty old legacy

00:00:59.240 media and get straight to you lots going on as always this week uh hard to tell where to begin

00:01:07.080 well of course i know where to begin i've got a ranting monologue i'm going to start into

00:01:10.800 momentarily so uh let's see uh oh well rcb fixes all says i ran the 400 billion through ai and

00:01:19.180 everything i could think of and what ai suggested came out at 10 billion max okay that's a good

00:01:23.220 Today's discussion is about what I'm going to start talking about in just a moment.

00:01:27.940 And yes, it is related to Premier Daniel Smith getting up and saying that becoming independent would cost $400 billion.

00:01:35.200 So, I mean, Premier Daniel Smith, she's been maintaining something of a delicate balancing act

00:01:39.460 between satisfying the provincial sovereigntist element within her party base

00:01:43.660 and most Albertans at large who lean towards the Federalist side.

00:01:47.480 Of late, though, the Premier's decided to fall solidly onto one side of the debate,

00:01:51.040 and it may lead to some pretty dire consequences for the UCP in the future.

00:01:55.020 And it can be understood why the premier is maintaining a stance on the federalist side of the debate.

00:02:00.040 She never claimed to be a supporter of Alberta independence

00:02:02.360 and she didn't campaign on a platform supporting it.

00:02:05.380 She certainly has the right to express where she stands on the issue too. 1.00

00:02:09.020 But when she went into a tirade with hyperbolic economic assumptions

00:02:12.820 claiming that the transitional cost of independence would be over $400 billion,

00:02:16.900 she sounded much like former premier Jason Kenney has lately

00:02:20.400 since he donned the cloak of being Captain Canada.

00:02:23.300 Premier Smith would be well served to remember why the word former is used

00:02:26.380 when speaking of Jason Kenney's premiership.

00:02:28.700 While some of the leading figures in the independence movement

00:02:31.480 have always had that chip on their shoulders with the premier,

00:02:34.300 they were tempered by the majority of independent supporters

00:02:36.500 who accepted her federalism as long as they could get a referendum out of the deal.

00:02:40.480 With the courts blocking the ability for citizens to initiate a referendum on sovereignty,

00:02:44.800 independent supporters became a little more upset with the status quo,

00:02:47.620 but many still grudgingly accepted the watered-down word salad of a referendum question the Premier added to the ballot for this fall.

00:02:54.640 They took the Premier at her word that this was the only option available for people to express themselves on a referendum right now.

00:03:01.140 With the Premier now in an open campaign, though, against the option number two on the question,

00:03:06.060 independent supporters are going to be sorely tempted to give up on the referendum and direct their resources and energy into unseeing the Premier.

00:03:13.080 And this is not a threat to be dismissed.

00:03:15.380 No conservative premier has managed to remain in power beyond a single term since Ralph Klein,

00:03:19.780 and it's tended to be party members who take them down, not the electorate.

00:03:23.660 In needlessly provoking a segment to the UCP member base, who number in the thousands,

00:03:28.000 Smith could start a chain of events leading to her political career, 0.92

00:03:31.560 meaning the same nasty ending her predecessors enjoyed.

00:03:35.320 Rather than going to war against the independent supporters,

00:03:37.440 the premier should be focusing on accomplishments that may undercut the strength of the independence campaign.

00:03:42.420 Where did that plan for a provincial pension plan go?

00:03:44.840 When are we going to formally announce an end to the RCMP contract plan with a full police, you know, provincial police force?

00:03:51.220 How about bringing home the collection of provincial taxes and keeping energy royalties within provincial institutions rather than using eastern-based banks?

00:03:58.480 With three years in office, Premier Smith has talked a really good game when it comes to provincial sovereignty initiatives, but her delivery has been terrible.

00:04:05.360 If the intention is to make Alberta more sovereign within Canada, it would be refreshing to see a tangible indication of it.

00:04:11.020 Smith's ongoing negotiations with Mark Carney appear to have involved a lot of capitulations from Alberta on carbon taxes

00:04:16.100 and questionable carbon tax initiatives, with no concrete commitments from the government to approve projects.

00:04:22.700 She set multiple deadlines with the Prime Minister since he was elected,

00:04:25.660 only to do nothing when the deadlines were ignored.

00:04:27.760 Remember that Grey Cup deadline? Yeah, that was a long time ago since the Grey Cup.

00:04:31.420 The Premier is appearing weak on Ottawa and harsh against Alberta regionalists. 0.99

00:04:35.800 This is creating an ugly formula, which will lead to a populist uprising against her, and no amount of threats that it's going to lead to another term of the NDP might cool that.

00:04:44.600 A referendum is on the horizon that presents independent supporters with half a loaf to be satisfied with.

00:04:50.060 Premier Smith should stay clear of the campaign and let citizens deal with it from here on in.

00:04:54.340 She made her federalist inclination clear and doesn't need to keep pressing it.

00:04:58.060 It's changing the sentiment among independent supporters from frustration with the Premier to rage.

00:05:03.020 The 7,000 people who sat through blizzards and endured abuse from Federalists last winter to get the referendum signatures are dedicated, hardworking Albertans.

00:05:11.480 The Premier really doesn't want to have them dedicate their hard work towards removing her from power.

00:05:16.600 Nobody expects the Premier to adopt a pro-independence stance.

00:05:19.620 She doesn't need to go on a campaign against independent supporters either. 0.91

00:05:23.760 Like you see, media and Eastern elites are going to label her a separatist anyways. 0.95

00:05:27.360 We've been seeing that. It doesn't matter what she does. 1.00

00:05:28.820 What Smith must do is show some victories for Alberta within the Federation, and she's running out of time to do that.

00:05:36.280 That's what's got me going these days.

00:05:38.000 All right.

00:05:39.180 Hey, Dave, welcome to the new studio.

00:05:40.520 Well, isn't this cozy?

00:05:41.980 Yeah.

00:05:43.340 It's not so bad.

00:05:44.360 It's not so bad.

00:05:45.100 Looks nice.

00:05:45.660 Explain to me how we're going to get us two and Nigel and Derek all around this little table.

00:05:50.460 Well, that's a good segue for our viewers just to watch.

00:05:52.920 We will see something interesting as the pipeline, our next show that we do does put four or five of us in a row.

00:05:59.500 We'll see how that works.

00:06:00.720 John is going to have to get creative.

00:06:02.040 Yeah, it's not our responsibility.

00:06:03.500 Maybe there's something coming like a celebrity squares where we'll be, you know, stacked on top of each other.

00:06:09.300 So I'm seeing your name on all sorts of billboards across Alberta these days.

00:06:13.880 What's going on?

00:06:14.940 Yeah, well, I got kind of frustrated waiting for some of the, you know, independence groups to get things moving and everything.

00:06:20.640 The petitioning period ended weeks ago and Stay Free Alberta and the Alberta Prosperity Project seemed to have vanished.

00:06:26.800 So in a fit of foolishness and insanity, I started a third-party advertising group and thought we'd raise a few dollars.

00:06:35.620 And yeah, it exploded and we raised well over $30,000 and now have billboards out and signs going on people's lawns with my name attached just because that's the website that's going on.

00:06:44.420 I'm not promoting me. I'm just being cheap and using the court.

00:06:47.020 Why don't you just announce you're going to run for leader?

00:06:49.360 and no way no i'm nuts but i'm not that nuts the movement deserves better than that

00:06:56.640 well i know yeah they deserve something but either i have no comments on that i'm not going there

00:07:01.520 but yeah it's been it's been an interesting five days already and i'm sure jane again as usual

00:07:05.600 wondering oh what kind of nutcase have i married uh you know when am i going to get some rest

00:07:09.760 exactly so have you been following the henry nowak case in england that's awful it is it is just 0.95

00:07:16.240 horrible. It's being described as Britain's George Floyd moment. This was an 18-year-old

00:07:22.400 university student walking home, came across a Sikh guy who was wearing his kirpan, ceremonial

00:07:30.900 knife, and there was a dispute and the kid got stabbed four or five times, slashed in the face

00:07:38.800 and back by the ceremonial dagger.

00:07:42.040 And when police arrived, the killer said, oh, no, it was him.

00:07:46.340 He acted racism towards me and tried to knock my turban off.

00:07:51.060 So they handcuffed this poor kid who's bleeding out in the street.

00:07:54.960 He's saying, I can't breathe, I can't breathe.

00:07:57.180 He says, I've been stabbed.

00:07:58.840 And the cop says, don't think so, mate.

00:08:01.680 And he ends up bleeding out on the street, and it's ugly.

00:08:05.440 The killer got sentenced to 21 years yesterday.

00:08:08.800 And the people down in Southampton on the lovely southern English coastline weren't too happy when the video was released and did a bit of writing last night.

00:08:17.080 So it's ugly.

00:08:18.740 There's a powder keg going on over there, you know, with this.

00:08:21.880 It's a much bigger story.

00:08:23.520 I mean, the tensions built, mass immigration issues.

00:08:26.020 I see a lot of precursors to things that might happen in Canada if they don't understand when you overload with too much of one culture that can't integrate.

00:08:34.160 Well, you know what?

00:08:35.120 It's one of the things we're going to talk about on the pipeline tonight.

00:08:38.820 So guess how many stories are in the mainstream Canadian media on Mr. Noah?

00:08:43.740 Let me guess they're not touching it with a 10-foot pole.

00:08:45.660 CBC has done one small story, focusing on the violence and the far right.

00:08:50.500 Oh, on the reaction to this rather than the fact.

00:08:52.920 I mean, to be fair, there's part of where they, you know, when they bottle this up, and it's so wrong.

00:08:59.100 You know, far most Sikh people never use that ceremonial dagger for anything dangerous or wrong.

00:09:04.620 It really is ceremonial. 0.66

00:09:05.500 And this is what does create backlash towards innocent Sikh people, but when they try to cover up the bad elements and the problems and the issues with the integration, it just ends poorly for everybody. Have the open discussion.

00:09:17.920 It does. Premier Daniel Smith announced today that Alberta is going ahead with their new ID card starting July 2nd. It'll have all your health information numbers and your citizenship. So if you're a Canadian citizenship, that's noted.

00:09:32.240 permanent resident not disnoted uh uh immigrant you know it's it's gonna be interesting yeah 0.99

00:09:39.080 uh red deer rcmp are warning about a release of a scumbag child sex offender they say he's going 0.99

00:09:46.200 to re-offend he's going to hurt another child so question is why is he out on the streets 0.98

00:09:51.960 yeah well that's a question we keep asking over and over and you know recidivism rates for those

00:09:57.120 kinds of monsters the stats are there they're terrible the chances of the guys like him of

00:10:02.140 re-offending are yeah very high why our system can't keep them behind bars with i mean this is

00:10:08.200 something that crosses political lines left wing right wing i mean almost everybody is disgusted

00:10:12.640 with child molesters yet yeah and you've covered it extensively some of these people get out and 0.99

00:10:17.580 go into murder yeah you know it only gets worse only gets worse speaking of scumbags uh the alert 0.99

00:10:23.960 team has arrested a guy in Okotoks with one of the largest troves of child porn in Alberta 0.99

00:10:30.700 history. 500,000 individual pictures of child porn. To put it into perspective, last year in

00:10:38.460 all their seizures, they only see 600,000. And this one Okotoks scumbag has got 500,000. 0.96

00:10:44.940 Again, you know, there's one of those precursors where we should have some judicial 0.98

00:10:47.820 room to say this guy is clearly if he hasn't already molested kids is going to move on to it

00:10:54.460 let's just put him away for you know we'll be fair a century yeah exactly guess what though

00:10:59.160 he's out on bail oh of course of course uh mr trump went a bit crazy again last night and put

00:11:07.060 10 tariffs on about 60 countries including canada who uh import goods used made by uh slave labor

00:11:15.700 So that'll be fun and games. And the Liberals have removed the recent CRTC decision to have Canadian broadcasters contribute more money to a Canadian fund to produce Canadian stuff. So they're going to repeal that, but they're going to give them 600 million to help to hurt.

00:11:36.860 Yeah, I saw that. I mean, I read the first part of it. Oh, they did something right. They did

00:11:39.980 something good. And then they get down to the second paragraph. Oh, but we're going to soak

00:11:42.620 taxpayers for 600 million and toss it out to them. Oh, you just can't do it.

00:11:45.900 Can't wait for losing with this government.

00:11:47.260 No, no. Well, they started on the right track. That's a rarity, I guess, in itself.

00:11:51.820 Yeah. You're a bit of a flip-flop to this government.

00:11:55.100 Yes. Oh, well, flip-flops. It's been an issue with a lot of things lately.

00:11:59.100 It is. That's it. That's all. See you in the pipeline.

00:12:01.980 Well, thanks for breaking in the new studio this morning and all those news updates. I'll let you

00:12:06.060 you get back to the room to carry on with all your reporters back there who now no longer have

00:12:11.460 we can't see them they could have all left for lunch by now we can't yeah they could hide back

00:12:15.980 there oh well oh well all right thanks dave you bet all right it is our news editor dave naylor 0.93

00:12:21.400 and as you see lots on the go that's where i like to remind you i mean look at that crap from

00:12:25.420 legacy media right as he said nobody else reported on that incident in uh the uk which is awful it

00:12:32.180 really it's just horrific i mean the the imagery of this you could tell these these blood-covered

00:12:38.900 fingers of a kid handcuffed from behind the cops holding him down who died and uh legacy media

00:12:46.900 didn't touch it they didn't cover it we need to cover these things they are important so this

00:12:51.220 is where i do the ask it's really go to westernstandard.news membership the reason we

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00:13:20.860 You know, Tim Burns saying that cops should be in prison.

00:13:23.620 Yeah, I know.

00:13:24.400 We seem to get everything backwards, right?

00:13:26.120 And those horrific, horrific stories with these ones, these, these, why?

00:13:30.460 Why can we not keep, of all things, chronic child abusers behind bars?

00:13:38.620 Yet here we are.

00:13:39.620 Here we are.

00:13:40.320 And the police know it.

00:13:41.200 They know the risk.

00:13:41.840 They know the hazard.

00:13:43.140 And that's why they warn us when they release them among the public.

00:13:46.440 But warning isn't enough.

00:13:49.840 We're going to lead on to possibly dangerous actions from people who fear for the safety of their children if we keep this up.

00:13:55.580 We've got to find a mechanism when the police, when corrections have identified.

00:13:59.500 I mean, they talk about dangerous offenders, status, things such as that.

00:14:04.640 Well, then use it. Use it.

00:14:07.560 But it seems, you know, we're far more inclined to, you know, just get people.

00:14:11.880 Tax evasion, they'll keep you behind bars for a long time on that one.

00:14:15.720 Abusing a child, not so much.

00:14:17.040 Okay, let's get to my guest because I know he's got a meeting he's got to go to right after this.

00:14:20.640 And I've been looking forward to it.

00:14:22.640 Dan's been on before, but it's been a long time.

00:14:24.660 This is city councillor Dan McLean, and he is doing a political shift.

00:14:30.060 So thanks for coming on to talk to us today, Dan.

00:14:33.040 Thank you for having me, Corey. Good afternoon.

00:14:36.260 So, I mean, I'll get right to the point.

00:14:39.020 I've been enjoying your time as a city councillor.

00:14:41.880 You've been outspoken.

00:14:42.860 You've been on the right side of pretty much all issues.

00:14:45.520 But it looks like you're doing that migration and making a run towards provincial politics.

00:14:51.480 What's happening?

00:14:51.980 yeah you know i it was always in the plans cory i was always the plan was to serve on the

00:14:59.020 municipal level do what i can to try to turn things around the city hall which was obviously

00:15:04.620 with nancy and god deck going in a totally far left direction and then uh look at a potential

00:15:11.580 provincial run but it did kind of uh it was unexpected rebecca schultz your friend i've

00:15:18.300 known her since the beginning when she resigned in uh november i guess it was six seven months ago

00:15:24.300 she uh called me immediately and said would you consider running she says i think uh you know the

00:15:29.020 area we're good friends we have this a lot of the same ideals and same uh ideas that uh you know

00:15:34.780 conservative values uh and so i put that into uh give you some time let me see what i can do at

00:15:41.020 city hall we've just got a new council a new mayor and so as many know the first thing i did was sit

00:15:46.700 down with Mayor Farkas and say, here's my priorities. We need some more. We've got to

00:15:51.140 crack down on trying to social disorder. We need to repeal blanket rezoning. We need to bring in

00:15:56.120 a better budget. Those are my three main priorities, which we've done. Since then, we've let go of two

00:16:02.260 of our top city administrators, which again, I think that was necessary for change at the top.

00:16:07.820 Repealed the climate change emergency just last week, which was good. Focusing on infrastructure,

00:16:13.440 things are going in the right direction and so I feel now is the time that I can make this jump

00:16:18.880 to go to provincial politics and hopefully serve and do the same thing I've done at City Hall just

00:16:24.440 work even harder just at the provincial level now. Okay well so just for those who aren't you know

00:16:30.380 as politically involved and so on how the process works you're at this point running for the

00:16:35.900 nomination to be able to run in the by-election for Calgary Shaw that's right? Yeah yeah the

00:16:41.620 nomination got announced about a month ago so i've been juggling now for the last month i city

00:16:48.160 hall is a demanding job i put in a good 60 hours plus a week there but the evenings and then

00:16:52.720 weekends i've been at the doors with my volunteers talking to hundreds and hundreds of people

00:16:59.200 great support fantastic support again it's the same area a lot of calvary shaw the provincial

00:17:05.260 writing of rebecca schultz overlaps word 13 in a very large way so i know these doors i know

00:17:11.540 these people uh and uh yeah i'm hearing a lot of really good things and a lot of support so um

00:17:17.380 that'll go for another month and then there will be a nomination vote on june 24

00:17:21.940 at cardell rec center in southwest calgary great so when that happens just so people know it's a

00:17:28.020 nomination so it's only party members in that constituency who will vote on that you get to

00:17:32.660 choose your your local uh representative and and candidate there what sort of timelines are there

00:17:38.500 and cut off and so on for people if they're they're looking to take part in the nomination

00:17:42.020 well so today is the very last day to buy a ucp a conservative party membership

00:17:48.180 they're ten dollars you can go online thanks for asking the question because today's your last day

00:17:53.620 you have to have a membership to participate and make your voice heard and you have to live in

00:17:58.900 then calvary shaw which is going to be legacy walden chaparral and then all the way from

00:18:05.060 Somerset, Shaughnessy, Silverado, Belmont, just that southwest corner of Calgary.

00:18:11.460 If you live in one of those areas and you have an expired membership, please renew it. If you

00:18:15.300 want to get a new membership, renew it. Then there will be three weeks of more campaigning,

00:18:21.380 two memberships ideally, and the vote will be, like I said, on 3 to 8 p.m. on June 24th.

00:18:28.260 All right. So presuming you go through the process, you get elected in the by-election,

00:18:33.140 you end up as a member of the united conservative party caucus what are your priorities going to be

00:18:38.180 as a member what do you want to bring to the table uh provincially well if i'm successful

00:18:44.580 and again i've learned a thing or two about campaigning and people in my area

00:18:48.900 uh i do have brought uh you know seem to uh like my platforms after that cory then the

00:18:54.260 nomination contest if i'm successful there then there will be a by-election and then you'll the

00:18:58.340 The NDP will have to put up their candidate, and then I'll have to go through that election.

00:19:03.620 And hopefully that's sooner than later so that I can get into legislation.

00:19:07.540 And then my priorities, of course, would be Alberta First, Calgary, Southwest Calgary.

00:19:15.780 These are close and near and dear to my heart.

00:19:19.040 And my priorities are going to be the same.

00:19:20.860 We've really got to crack down on the crime and socialist order, just not in the big cities, but it's spreading out everywhere.

00:19:26.540 um and then just then just the affordability what i'm hearing at the doors is the same as we hear

00:19:32.740 more and more it's just the cost of living their taxes are too high i don't care what level it is

00:19:37.920 you know all levels of governments need to shrink down what we're spending on our bureaucracies

00:19:42.280 and quit down too much on the average taxpayer that's you know that's the big focus so i mean

00:19:48.820 some some experience you'll bring to the table from calgary city hall uh you know the relationship

00:19:53.360 between calgary city hall and the provincial government has been strained many times over

00:19:58.160 the years i think it's gotten better under under mayor farkas but there's there's still differences

00:20:02.480 of opinion uh would you be able to bring some perspective i guess into the provincial caucus to

00:20:07.680 maybe you know help things working together that way yeah exactly i really hope so and i'm

00:20:12.560 encouraged by i think the mayor and current council they're very supportive of uh of you making this

00:20:17.680 move and they are hopeful as well that i will be able to advocate you your business leaders your

00:20:22.160 residents uh the arjun community everybody wants to see a better relationship with the uh cities

00:20:29.760 the big cities and the province and i did have a conversation with uh the premier at a small event

00:20:35.360 in my ward just last week and i'd mentioned that as well i said i've talked with the mayor

00:20:40.480 far because i really want to see us talking together getting along and you know what she

00:20:44.800 had said she said interestingly enough she edmonton and uh the province has sometimes had a

00:20:52.240 better relationship with uh the city with the province and cowrie does because edmonton asks

00:20:58.480 for usually one big thing at a time whereas the city sometimes with underneath gondek and then

00:21:03.120 she did put a laundry list of i want this i want this i want that and letters saying

00:21:08.240 you know chastising the province and all over the map and so i think what i heard there is the focus

00:21:13.760 is nail it down to one or two you know big priorities that we need right now help with the

00:21:19.360 prop from the province bring it to us and let's solve them one at a time and so that's what i

00:21:23.980 think i you know right now we have a as the city has a big infrastructure deficit the water pipes

00:21:28.880 and you know there's we could certainly use some help there so maybe we start there and maybe take

00:21:33.380 a i hate to see edmonton beat us at anything but that sounds like probably the right path forward

00:21:39.480 let's just narrow it down don't bitch and complain all the time figure out something tangible that 0.95

00:21:43.740 we can work on and let's fix it so you would be uh you know presumably one mla among a caucus of 0.93

00:21:49.660 many but i'll still throw something at you something an area where i have been you know a

00:21:53.580 little critical of the ucp as as you've seen in city hall sometimes the temptation is just there

00:21:58.180 to just keep spending rather than uh you know taking some of the more difficult decisions

00:22:03.280 we we haven't had a balanced budget for some time on the provincial end of things though

00:22:07.680 high oil prices might change that but we still should always assume we need to be tight you've

00:22:11.680 always been excellent in calling out bad spending and and getting the budget in order in city hall

00:22:16.880 what could you see provincially that could be an area where they could scale back some spending

00:22:21.840 like you'll show some uh some more responsibility because i think there's a few areas hiding in

00:22:25.760 there well i agree i agree and i think it's uh the feds the province the municipal levels

00:22:31.520 there's way too much spending on uh you know maybe we could call them the non-profits or the

00:22:37.280 non-governmental organizations i think we really need to dig into that i mean we saw this you know

00:22:42.320 in the states where they had a doge department what i did at city hall the last budget review

00:22:46.720 is i put forth a notice of motion that was calling for a zero-based budgeting because they got

00:22:51.040 audit a forensic external audit to go through every city department from from an outside source kpmg

00:22:58.240 to go through and find the savings and efficiencies so this is what we're now going through with at

00:23:02.720 the city that i hope will result in tens of millions in savings and there's a lot of jobs

00:23:07.840 out there i mean nobody wants to fire people but the the bureaucracies are bloated at city hall we

00:23:13.840 hired 2 000 people just in the last few years the province is the same thing a ton of employees the

00:23:19.600 federal government is the largest employer in the whole country we have to we can't have these big

00:23:24.560 big load of bureaucracies. That's where we start paring down and getting more efficient and

00:23:28.740 streamlining just that type of personnel costs. Okay. So going in, I mean, with the regional

00:23:36.040 representation, I know it's limited when you get into a caucus because then you're speaking with

00:23:40.240 the whole government, but still the intent and I imagine some of the outcome is that you'll bring

00:23:44.960 those local concerns though to the provincial government. What sort of Calgary Shaw specific

00:23:51.900 issues do you think uh you could be bringing forward uh to to make sure are represented there

00:23:56.380 things that are kind of particular to that end of the city well the big one is interchanges we've

00:24:01.940 had extreme growth in the southwest there's 194th ave and 210th ave they're two places that are

00:24:09.800 just uh they need interchanges at those two crossings there's between both sides of the

00:24:14.640 cloud trail going south towards okotoks there's probably 40 000 people that have moved in there

00:24:19.620 in the last 10 years interchanges that need to be built that the city does collect levies from the

00:24:25.000 developers to pay for these things as well as tax dollars but sometimes the province can chip in

00:24:30.300 they have in the past you know helped them with infrastructure so i'd advocate for that type of

00:24:34.880 help uh and then um you know for those infrastructure things maybe some more funding in

00:24:40.400 recreation everybody like i think all over cities and and it's not just calgary i mean i think if

00:24:45.800 give something to one place you have to give them all i mean that's where the province works and i

00:24:50.040 recognize that so we can't be picking winners and losers but i will remind the premier that this

00:24:57.240 election i think is going to hinge on southwest calgary that's where things are won and lost

00:25:01.480 sometimes that's where uh you know those seats down there sometimes are what bring you across

00:25:07.000 the finish line so hopefully that a lot of just bread and butter issues cory just at the end of

00:25:13.560 of the day just you if you can lower the taxes your uh your your portion of the taxes that you

00:25:19.400 collect from the cities i'll be happy with that as well great well and like i said i know you're

00:25:25.160 on a tight schedule i appreciate that you're burning the candle on both ends still being a

00:25:28.840 councillor while running in a nomination uh so before i let you go where can people again just

00:25:34.520 one more time find information on you on this last day to get a membership uh or support your

00:25:39.480 campaign in any other way or give you a blast if they're not too happy with what you've done

00:25:43.160 how do the people find you? Fair enough, danmcclain.ca

00:25:46.800 just as simple as that

00:25:49.080 go on there

00:25:49.800 yes, get a membership is the big thing right now

00:25:53.140 too, and if you want to give me a blast

00:25:55.100 that's fine, but buy a membership

00:25:56.500 Well, you've been a counsellor for a while, that's why

00:25:59.180 I put out the invitation, I know you've already heard

00:26:01.040 plenty of feedback, you're not afraid

00:26:03.160 of it, it's not always

00:26:05.220 the nicest, but sometimes the good critique can be good

00:26:07.280 Yeah, you bet. Alright, well

00:26:09.260 thank you again for coming on, good luck

00:26:11.100 with the nomination we'll be watching it really closely and uh perhaps the next time we talk 1.00

00:26:15.120 you'll you'll be an mla and then i'll really blast you for your lack of performance on the

00:26:18.620 provincial front i appreciate that thanks so much for having me on cory great thank you dan have a

00:26:23.540 good day thanks so one more time guys dan mcclain.ca and yes it's a nomination thing if we want to get

00:26:29.580 the good folks in there in those spots you got to participate that's the way it works get a

00:26:34.980 membership make up your mind make your choice and uh select who you want to be your mla i mean it

00:26:40.780 is Calgary Shaw there's no guarantees you know a by-election can go any way but I think it's it's

00:26:45.200 one of the more safe UCP seats so who you choose there is most likely going to be the next uh MLA

00:26:51.040 so a lot of provincial debate and discussion going on I see Vant Fashions talking and and others and

00:26:56.780 yeah this is something we see what I'm worried about uh as I was saying with my monologue I you

00:27:03.340 know as I made it pretty clear I'm not too thrilled with Premier Smith taking such an active role in

00:27:10.240 this referenda campaign. I mean, as I said, I don't expect her to take an independence

00:27:17.040 supporting role. I never wanted her to. I think it would be death for the party to take on an

00:27:22.260 overtly independence stance. But at the same time, to say that she's going to just campaign her butt 0.99

00:27:29.400 off over this next four months on one side of it, she's going to inflame the base, the workers.

00:27:38.020 I mean, people who work in politics know this as well. I mean, so what I'm saying, part of why I'm

00:27:42.740 as crabby with Smith right now is I've been one of her most ardent defenders. I mean, Lord knows

00:27:47.480 I've been called everything in the book by some of the people who support tearing her out of power.

00:27:52.000 You know, I've taken my share of flack on that, but I'll always be, I'm critical of her. I have

00:27:56.440 been when it came to the budget in the past and things like that. In this case, I'm critical and

00:28:00.620 I'm worried. I'm genuinely worried because I don't want to see the party go into a round of ripping

00:28:06.040 a leader out, tearing itself apart over this. She's not winning the support and love of the

00:28:13.120 Federalists. As I said, legacy media, the personalities, the other politicians, they're

00:28:16.720 still all calling her separatist. Anyway, just stick to some of the other things. If she really,

00:28:22.660 really wants to stop the independence vote, as I said during my monologue, then do some things,

00:28:30.060 do some things, get some stuff done. You get a provincial pension plan in place, or it looks

00:28:35.340 like it's well on its way, like it's real, I bet you you'll see support for the independent side

00:28:40.380 drop by 10%. But do something, because right now it has been a lot of talk, and that's just not

00:28:47.860 good. You know, and a commenter said that user FP07 saying, Smith is pretty great, all things

00:28:53.100 considered. This seems like an attempt to split the vote. Remember what happened the last time

00:28:56.040 we did that? The NDP would destroy the province. Yeah. So let's not split the party. You can't 0.92

00:29:01.800 always just blame the people coming up who are upset. You've got to look at the leadership

00:29:05.560 that has allowed the party to become split. Why is there a split? And address it. When you fall

00:29:12.480 too far to one side or the other, guess what happens? You will split the party. Just as if

00:29:17.220 Smith came around with a strong independence support, that would also split the party. So

00:29:23.420 don't. Stick to being a premier. Stick to saying, as she did, as she has every right, that she is a

00:29:29.540 federalist, but quit getting on the pulpit and hammering at the independent side because you

00:29:36.740 are infuriating them. And as I said, if you've been involved in politics, you know that

00:29:39.960 a small minority of people do the vast majority of the work, you know, anything. It's not even

00:29:45.500 just politics. If a soccer committee, you know, you're working on or any volunteer group, but

00:29:50.640 it's just the nature of things. The independent side galvanized 7,000 people who are very

00:29:58.220 predominantly conservative to actually go out and petition all year, you know, this last few

00:30:03.620 months through the winter. These are the workers. These are the volunteers. These are the hardcores.

00:30:08.460 So it's not just upsetting, you know, a group of people. It's upsetting the most activated,

00:30:15.300 effective people in your party base of support who may turn on you. And I do not want to see that.

00:30:21.980 We know that one of the main people in the Alberta Prosperity Project has been screaming

00:30:25.920 and howling and having tantrums and calling for the end of Premier Smith's leadership for a long,

00:30:30.920 long time. Most of the group has ignored him to this point on that front. But if she keeps

00:30:36.340 inflaming the base, they're going to start saying, maybe he has a point. And I don't want to see that.

00:30:42.860 So change the text. By the way, there was a super chat put in by Jay Mitchell saying,

00:30:47.420 end federalism. I appreciate that. I'm fully on board. I mean, I've unapologetically been an

00:30:53.360 independent supporter, well, for decades now. And we're coming up on an interesting turning point

00:30:59.820 in Alberta. We're having this referendum, imperfect as it is. And I don't like the

00:31:08.220 question. I've been clear on that. But we've got to work with what we've got. We've got to do

00:31:14.560 what we can. And putting a solid vote on option two, it's turned into a de facto poll, but a very

00:31:22.500 serious one where the whole province is going to be pulled. They're basically talking about it.

00:31:26.380 It is an independence vote, even though it won't be binding at this time. We've got to take it

00:31:30.120 seriously because I guess what, if we sit back and say, well, I'm not participating because I

00:31:33.300 don't like the question. And then we allow Lukasik's side to get a 70% victory on that.

00:31:38.500 The independence movement is really going to be quiet for a long, long time. So take this,

00:31:43.920 run with it, get as much as we can out of this. Milo Nexus with a $7 super chat, which again,

00:31:51.420 to appreciate. It really helps as well. It says, I think Smith's point is to not let people's votes

00:31:57.400 get crushed. It's not about independence. So, I mean, it's her point as well. I mean,

00:32:06.880 she's given the referendum. She could have backed off. She didn't have to appeal the decision of the

00:32:11.960 judge. There's a lot of things she could have done. I think she wanted as much hands off as

00:32:16.240 she could. That's why she wanted this thing to be citizens initiated rather than her putting it in. 0.99

00:32:20.360 but now we've got this mushy mess and uh you know uh john i won't read the full name says

00:32:27.480 why does infighting always happen are they planted by the rcmp or c says no i don't think so

00:32:31.520 i don't think so i this has happened i've been involved in politics and small groups

00:32:35.520 uh infighting has been the nature of it since the beginning of politics unfortunately a bunch

00:32:40.640 of opinionated people trying to work together will eventually start fight uh vamp fashion saying

00:32:46.680 cory we aren't going to win this time we need to let that happen but then also focus on building

00:32:49.880 instructors, banks, police, military pensions. Perhaps. I'm not going to give up on saying

00:32:53.720 we aren't going to win this time. Not at this point. You know, this referendum won't lead to

00:32:59.620 anything binding. So, you know, there's not going to be a win no matter how you look at it. I think

00:33:04.840 very, very possibly we get over 50%. That's part of why, yes, I started a third-party advertising.

00:33:10.300 I put out billboards, digital billboards. People have probably seen them going around the internet

00:33:14.520 because they've been hugely well-received, and it just says, send Ottawa a message, choose Alberta.

00:33:21.320 I mean, it's a great risk-free warning shot you can put over the bow for people who maybe are still

00:33:26.540 on the fence on the independence thing, who are saying, I want to kind of give the middle finger

00:33:29.920 to Ottawa because I am pretty upset about things so far, and you know what, you can safely vote

00:33:33.860 for option two, and yeah, things will keep moving, but I mean, you know, you'll have the other chance

00:33:39.240 potentially in another referendum down the road. In the meantime, as Vamp Fashion says, which I

00:33:43.560 fully agree with we got to get the the the police in place the pensions all of that stuff we should

00:33:48.220 be doing it anyway we should have done that yesterday um you know we we've got as well

00:33:55.580 here we go with uh for for e canadian it's forever canadian i believe i've seen you in my

00:33:59.640 my scroll on on my live feeds when i do my other ones on my own channel uh premier smith is flirting 0.65

00:34:04.240 with political suicide more and more of us do not care as we want her defeated as well as you i don't

00:34:08.180 want her defeated actually and uh i do think a lot of people are enjoying the the push to have

00:34:14.660 her defeated from within people who would never support the ucp in the first place uh john bolton

00:34:19.700 you know again excellent voice out there check it out if you aren't subscribed to his youtube

00:34:23.460 channel already get on there guys he's brilliant and uh you'll get your your morning dose of common

00:34:28.100 sense and politics every day just there's my plug for john but it's well worth it i would not direct

00:34:32.160 you guys to a channel that's not worth watching just don't set aside your time watching my channel

00:34:36.200 first. I'm saying UCPM, AGM, November 22nd, tickets available now. Yeah, if people want to

00:34:42.080 express discontent with UCP, that's one of the times you can do it. In fact, it's a prime time

00:34:48.380 to do it. I just think don't express it prior to October 19th. We got something else to focus on.

00:34:54.100 We got a big one. And I think we can really, really make a mark with this. We can really

00:34:58.480 do something with it. We just got to think strategically, tactically, work with what we've

00:35:05.620 got, we're not going to win every battle. We're not going to get things our way every time. In

00:35:11.740 fact, often we don't, but we keep moving the ball in the right direction. And speaking as a, you

00:35:18.200 know, a frustrated independent supporter has been at it for decades. We're closer to it than we've

00:35:23.780 ever been before. And Keith Wilson, he's got things going. Jason Levine, by the way, lots of

00:35:30.960 other TPAs, things are getting moving. They're getting moving on the ground. And I like the way

00:35:36.980 Keith Wilson put it anyways, because there's some truth to it. And I didn't really want to say that

00:35:39.820 during the petitioning point, but the needle of truly dedicated independent supporters hasn't

00:35:44.200 been moving much. It's been stubbornly hanging around that 30, 35%, which is not something to

00:35:48.680 be dismissed. That's one in three people in this province are saying they've had it. That's a huge

00:35:52.680 amount of support, but it's not the 50% in some that we would need to become independent. This

00:35:58.300 gives us some breathing space. This gives us some room. This gives us time for campaign practice,

00:36:03.620 time for more networking, time for more discussion on all these issues, and moving towards what would

00:36:08.820 be a binding referendum later. Because if we lose the, if we had a binding one coming this fall,

00:36:13.900 we'd probably have lost it, to be honest. We've got to be honest about this. I mean, look at it.

00:36:17.440 Look at the disarray of the APP and State Free Canada or State Free Alberta, whatever the heck

00:36:22.860 they're doing. I don't know. They keep assuring me, we've got a plan. We've got something coming.

00:36:27.040 We've got a campaign coming. Where the hell is it? They got thousands of volunteers. I don't know

00:36:32.480 how many dollars they've brought in. Why on earth have we had virtual silence from them three weeks

00:36:38.140 after the petitioning period ended? Where are they? What if they'd gotten the question? What

00:36:42.340 if the binding question was held this fall? Would these guys still be sitting in the starting blocks

00:36:47.140 right now while Thomas Lukasik is getting a thousand signs in the ground? We weren't ready

00:36:51.480 for this so i you know a non-binding one might be a blessing in some ways uh let's see uh you know

00:37:01.340 uh francois lori jean you know referring to francois levine we've had tried for 30 years

00:37:05.400 to have a federalist uh you know independence party but all of us always shut them down ask

00:37:09.140 courier mitch uh yeah the party front just hasn't worked for this in general we are we've got a lot

00:37:14.800 in common with quebec but we got a lot of differences too and quebec the party version

00:37:18.820 seems to work, but not always, you know, that's why we're in advocacy groups and so on. But it's

00:37:27.980 going to be interesting. It's going to be interesting. You know, part of what got me

00:37:30.960 worked up, and I do things for albertafactcheck.com too, if you check it out, when Premier

00:37:35.640 Smith got up and said, it's going to cost $400 billion, you know, in transitional expenses for

00:37:42.540 Alberta to become independent. Well, hang on. I mean, she started right off and then she started

00:37:46.520 listing things. This was a prepared statement. Obviously, she was ready for this issue to come

00:37:50.160 up. It said $170 billion of that is the debt we would have to take from Canada. I'm not even going 0.57

00:37:56.980 to go down the rabbit hole of how much debt Alberta would or would not take in an independent

00:37:59.700 situation. That's all the presumption that we aren't on the hook for the debt already. There's 0.97

00:38:04.420 where Smith was already BSing. And that really ticked me off because I know Danielle, I know

00:38:08.240 she's smart. She knows all this. So why did you do that stunt, that crap? Because it was crap.

00:38:12.980 We owe that $170 billion, whether we're within the Federation or we're out of the Federation. 0.98

00:38:19.260 This is not a new expense as she's framing it, as are a whole bunch of the other, you know, expenses she listed, things that are on there.

00:38:29.460 It's all stuff we're already paying for.

00:38:31.760 So this is not a new embracing of expense.

00:38:35.940 It's fair enough to point out it would come with expense.

00:38:38.500 it's fair enough to point out that there would be uh there would be a hit to the economy if there

00:38:45.020 was a yes vote for a little while until things get stabilized fair enough to vote that we might

00:38:49.380 not negotiate the best things as it goes along but to make up things like saying you know that

00:38:54.300 as if we wouldn't have that uh debt or stuff like that if we stayed in canada that's just

00:39:01.300 being disingenuous and i expected better uh you know uh bmc television saying can we still trust

00:39:07.080 Danielle I'd like to I'd like to now isn't the time to take her out it isn't the time to take

00:39:12.840 her down and uh you know but still that does mean that if she doesn't get it together there's going

00:39:19.860 to have to be some sort of moves to make her accountable and wait until after this referendum 0.99

00:39:25.440 but right now that's where I'm just saying look cut it out quit doing this sort of garbage you 0.92

00:39:31.440 know disingenuously uh laying out what things would happen with an independence thing again 0.93

00:39:35.800 you can oppose it, but you don't have to take, we've got Jason Kenney and Thomas Lukasik already

00:39:41.160 out there to give that bad case against it. This is just infuriating people. All right. I'm going

00:39:48.300 to turn out a couple of the other news stories. You know, if you want a more independence talk,

00:39:51.900 I'll do a self-serving plug just once. I really do it on here, but if you follow Corey Morgan on

00:39:55.840 YouTube, you can search it out and we can talk a lot more about these things in particular and so

00:40:00.100 on. Cause here I want to talk about a lot of other stuff. Uh, that, that, that thing with

00:40:05.060 the driver's license changed? You know, when this was first proposed, I think, and here's where it's

00:40:08.860 controversial. I think it was a good idea on Premier Smith's part. I like this idea for a

00:40:13.620 couple of reasons. And people's digital ID, digital ID, guys, the world's got your ID already. It

00:40:18.960 hasn't changed. Putting it all onto one card is only common sense. Look at that piece of toilet

00:40:24.380 paper they print out and give you for an Alberta healthcare card. You know, that falls apart,

00:40:28.820 goes through the laundry once you can't read it. You can't do anything without it. It's so ridiculous.

00:40:32.660 I remember going in to get a driver's license, a physical, you got to pay for that out of pocket. 0.91

00:40:40.180 And even then I still couldn't do anything in the clinic unless I had my, this, this beat up old

00:40:44.720 healthcare card. It's stupid. And it's ridiculous. Having it packed onto one card is good. And 1.00

00:40:49.900 having citizenship on that card is good. One of the things we worry about is people, non-citizens 1.00

00:40:56.200 voting or things like that. Well, this will have a marker on that card, which helps put it together. 1.00

00:41:02.660 And, you know, people saying digital ID, digital ID, get over it, guys, get over it. Your information

00:41:09.920 is in the digital world all over the place already. We need to protect our individual freedoms

00:41:16.040 and make sure that we can protect those. Because I know what people are talking about. You'll have

00:41:20.760 this one card where you can't go into certain areas and things like that. And all of the things

00:41:24.500 that an authoritarian government would want to do and having it all together in one spot

00:41:28.600 uh makes that easier but that's a matter of personal freedoms the digital boat sailed a

00:41:33.820 long time ago if you don't think it has you're you're really really behind on the times um

00:41:39.640 susan uh within the missus i would never support uh cory morgan well i'm not running for anything

00:41:45.620 so you don't have to support me uh if you mean you know you never support me so that's fine but

00:41:50.460 you're supporting my viewing and i appreciate that you know come on uh make comments on the

00:41:54.360 channel and let's have the discussion. But you don't have to worry. I'm not running for office.

00:41:58.860 I never will again. That's not where I'm going with that thing. Either way, this having things

00:42:04.380 together on one card, getting rid of that stupid healthcare thing was one good thing. Here's one 0.99

00:42:10.640 that broke through the week too. We are in a recession. We're in a recession and it's not

00:42:14.740 a question of a little bit of recession or a big recession. There's just either recession or not

00:42:20.120 recession. It's like being half pregnant. It doesn't work that way. But look at how legacy 0.73

00:42:24.820 media bent right over backwards to polish that turd on behalf of Mark Carney, because they all

00:42:33.340 reported, as some economists put it out, we're in a technical recession. Because you see, the numbers

00:42:38.240 show if your economic growth is under a certain amount over a period of time, that's where the

00:42:42.080 definition of a recession comes. Well, then it's a recession. Why do you stick technical in front

00:42:47.160 of it. Why do you make it sound as if it's not really in a recession? It is a recession. Canada's

00:42:51.800 in a recession. It's in a recession because of the crap liberal leadership over the last decade 0.99

00:42:56.020 and change. By the way, my super chat before my time runs out, my little nexus, thank you again 0.93

00:43:01.180 for another $7. Oh, trying to move things up, saying, I'm from BC, would much rather UCP than

00:43:09.080 NDP. The NDP have lost the plot of the key points of democracy, woke, crept as socialism outside

00:43:14.880 government. Yeah, well, we don't want to risk the NDP. We know that. We've been through it.

00:43:18.880 R.C. Lamoureux put in $2.00 says, you're a great guy, but completely blind. I don't know. I see

00:43:23.440 fairly well, though. I got glasses these days, but I am almost deaf in my right ear. But yeah,

00:43:29.240 I'm not worried about my healthcare number being on a driver's license. Back to the recession,

00:43:33.680 though. Carney has blamed that on the reduction of immigration. Now, here's another one of these

00:43:39.340 half-truths, right? So they've got the mainstream media out there trying to tell Canadians that

00:43:42.900 this recession isn't really a recession. It's just a technical recession. Right, right. Like

00:43:46.880 you said, the pregnancy comparison works well. You're technically pregnant, then you're pregnant. 0.71

00:43:52.300 We're in a recession, guys. The states are booming economically. We're in a recession,

00:43:57.300 thanks to bad government. The reason the immigration, now that's half true, was that 1.00

00:44:02.760 they used it to pump the numbers, but with mass immigration. And I've always said this over and

00:44:06.620 over. Immigration is good. Mass immigration is bad. During the 30 years, they pumped up the

00:44:11.280 immigration numbers because that brings your GDP up, which holds it from declining and helps you

00:44:17.380 hide from being in a recession. But the problem is you get more people there, but the economic pie

00:44:22.780 hasn't gotten much bigger. So the GDP per capita went in the toilet. So yeah, we didn't go into

00:44:29.740 recession necessarily, but we all became poorer and we all had less part of the economy. And

00:44:38.140 well, we all lose. Now that they've reduced the mass immigration to a point, suddenly that GDP 0.97

00:44:44.360 that they were pumping up artificially is not. It's going down. Hey, you only got yourselves to

00:44:50.960 blame. Cut spending. Get things reasonable. They won't do it. That's why independence is the only

00:44:55.760 path left for Alberta. I'm ending on my biased points with that. One other thing, just to note

00:45:00.360 for the Kearney government, they struck this anti-Semitism council because Canada's getting

00:45:05.020 a horrible reputation for it all around the world. And he goes and sticks Omar Al-Ghabra on it,

00:45:10.880 who is a known anti-Semite. Brilliant. Why not just get Rachel Gilmore on there while you're 0.97

00:45:17.360 at it and get some more tips from Candace Owens. Meanwhile, a Jewish surgeon in Montreal already 1.00

00:45:22.760 announced he said, you know what? I'm out of here. I'm heading to the United States. Canada

00:45:26.020 does not want to support me or keep me safe. It's welcome to the Liberal Canada. All right,

00:45:33.940 guys thanks for tuning in and thanks for those super chats i do appreciate it helps keep us

00:45:38.540 keep the lights on in here the new studio revisions things like that like share all that stuff tune

00:45:43.700 into the pipeline tonight we're going to be out on a panel talking about a bunch more of all of

00:45:49.060 this sort of stuff and uh well check my other channels if you're interested in more independence

00:45:53.980 talk thank you very much and we'll see you next week at this time

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Western Standard - June 06, 2026

CORY MORGAN SHOW： Premier Smith is flirting with political suicide

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