CORY MORGAN SHOW： Premier Smith must schedule an independence referendum
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It's the year of the Alberta independence referendum, and we're here to talk about it. Cory is joined by Chris Oldcorn, editor-in-chief of the Globe and Mail's "Woke" column, to talk all things Alberta.
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We haven't been shut down yet by the new Mark Carney majority.
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You know, I actually was going to have a senator on.
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In fact, two weeks ago, I was going to have a senator on.
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And then today, I was going to have a senator on.
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I've been critical of senators, but I thought maybe they're doing something reasonable,
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decent and so on. But apparently it's impossible for senators to figure out what Mountain Standard
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Time means versus Eastern Standard Time and to be able to respond to emails. So I'm afraid
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the chances of me having a senator on this show in the future have become very slim. You only get
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two chances to stand me up on this one. So yes, it's put me off into a crabby mood to start things
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off to begin with. But that's par for the course for me, isn't it? I'm going to talk to Chris
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Oldcorn in a little bit. He's our opinion editor. We're talking about the woke. We're talking about
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saskatchewan we're talking about politics in general lots to cover as an opinion editor he's
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certainly got a lot of opinions to sift through so uh be sure to use that uh comment scroll guys
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keep this interactive i see uh well you geez give me pronounceable names guys lz saying good
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afternoon from grand prairie fio from mission and uh alberta nan for independence in fort mac people
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all over the place tuning in so let's talk about what i want to rant about today this is going to
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be the year of the Alberta independence referendum. It's not in question. Advocates for both federalism
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and independence, they've collected hundreds of thousands of signatures demanding a referendum
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be held and it's just time to schedule the voting date and get on with it. The authority to schedule
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a binding constitutional referendum lands squarely in the office of the premier and she might as well
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just bite that bullet and set the date. I mean the opponents to independence have morphed their
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movement from one promoting federalism into one opposing democracy. They're using the courts to
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try and block Albertans from having a democratic vote, and it's only fostering more division.
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Their efforts are only going to delay the inevitable at best. I'm not saying a positive
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vote for independence is inevitable, hardly. It's a long ways and a lot of work to be done,
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but holding a referendum is inevitable. It's going to have to happen. The Clarity Act became law in
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Canada back in 2000. It laid out the process for a province to exit the federation through a
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referendum. And the process is a tough one, but it is a legal one. And it's been in place for a
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generation now. It speaks volumes that Canada accepted this process as a national law when it
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was under the assumption it would only be applied to Quebec. But when Albertans decided to pursue
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a referendum, suddenly the ability to do so was brought before the courts. And that double
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standard illustrates why a third of Albertans are ready to leave in the federation or more.
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And that number is growing. The independence movement in Alberta has had its ups and downs
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since the 80s. It's never been, though, so strong and widely organized as it is today. The 2025
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federal election enraged the province and the fury wasn't short-lived as it has been. In the past,
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it has been channeled into established activism and a massive petition campaign, actually two
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campaigns, calling for a referendum, one on the pro and one on the against side. In 1995, the
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message from Canada to Quebec as they headed towards a referendum was, oh, please, please don't
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go. In 2026, the message from Canada to Albertans is you aren't allowed to go. In fact, you're not
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even allowed to have a vote on the question. That's what it's down to. Not only is that an
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assaulting double standard, but it also sets a dangerous stage. When a movement has momentum
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with over one in three people asking for a democratic exercise, and then that democratic
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mechanism is taken away from them, it doesn't kill the movement. It inspires some people to
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work towards undemocratic means of change. Albertans at large have no interest in violence,
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and even if the referendum was blocked, the vast majority of Albertans would never
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consider such a thing. But let's not be so naive as to believe there aren't at least a handful of
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unhinged individuals who might consider doing something stupid if they feel there's no other
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path to change. A referendum releases that sort of pressure. The FLQ vanished in Quebec when they
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began using democratic pursuits of independence. It would be foolhardy to foster the seeds of such
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a movement in Alberta by denying the citizens the right to vote. Federalists are claiming
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the independence discussion in itself will cause massive economic damage due to the instability
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it would cause even if a yes vote doesn't happen. Now, that argument fails on two counts. I mean,
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for one, Alberta had $670 billion in energy projects canceled or deferred over a decade
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due to the federal government's interference. An independence referendum couldn't possibly do more
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damage than staying the course will. Also, if you want stability, there's no better way to pursue it
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than to hold a referendum on the issue and get it done with. Do you really think the instability
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would disappear by removing the ability to hold a referendum? Do they think independent supporters
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are just going to shrug and give up. The path to stability, whether yes or no on that, is peeling
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off the band-aid and getting it done with. If federalists are confident support for an independence
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will remain at the 30% range, they should be welcoming a referendum so we could be put to bed.
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It's time to quit wasting time in the courts. Premier Smith has already said if a question on
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independence is to be put to referendum, it'll be done on October 9th with the other questions.
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She might as well take the word if out of that and just schedule the vote. No more asking judges.
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tell the chief electoral officer the vote will be held and to either accommodate it or be replaced
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by a bureaucrat who will. This is all within the premier's authority. It doesn't mean Smith
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supports a yes vote, but it does mean she supports democracy, and I suspect she would phrase it that
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way. The discussion of Alberta's independence must be held in a full campaign and resolved
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one way or another now. It's the healthiest path we can take. So quit trying to tell us we can't go.
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we can and quit telling us why we shouldn't just try telling us actually why we shouldn't
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choose to if you support federalism let's get this campaign going and have that discussion
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all right that's what i'm pissing the moan about today how's it going there storms are coming
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yes i 30 centimeters of snow i've caused a bit of a curse this year three weeks ago you said
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spring has finally arrived well something like that i've kept my winter tires on too though
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I heard a rumor that you are giving up this gig and moving to La Crete.
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I don't know if I'd make a good Mennonite.
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you're getting up towards the northwest territory's border and if you look there's a little hook that
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comes down it's truly in the middle of nowhere south of fort vermilion uh way up there i was
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doing a speaking event up there i'd worked in the area but never been to lacrete itself you know so
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those towns like fort vermilion high level peace river i mean they got their nice aspects but they
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get a little run down and they can be pretty rough i expected lacrete to be similar you know and i
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get up there and there's all this farmland opens up and suddenly you pull into this town
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everything is brand new. You know, the, the, the buildings are new. The businesses are new.
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There's, there's construction going on. There's new, uh, residential districts going on. They've
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had a growth rate up to 42% in a year at times going on up there. Just a gem hidden in the North.
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Uh, great food, really nice people. Again, mostly Mennonites, no liquor stores. It doesn't matter
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to me anyways, but for those who like, uh, and, uh, uh, no bars that I could see, but, uh, just
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So I did a little bit of research settled by the Mennonites in the 1930s and a
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But I mean, I think in the eighties it only had like a few hundred or 600 or
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So, I mean, it's really explosively grown lately.
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See the things you learn watching the Cory Morgan show.
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And yeah, it took us nearly 12 hours to get home with a couple of stops with
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She came up with me on that one and we're still married.
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Oh, well, we slept the whole way then, I'm thinking.
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Well, she just tells me to shut up and I stare at the road.
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Leading off with a disturbing story involving former professor Francis Widdowson,
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who you know has been a long champion of saying the Kamloops Residential School graves are a hoax like you.
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We have a BC chief on a podcast saying that she wishes Widdowson would be raped so that she could understand the violence that these people or the Indians suffered at residential schools.
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If you're not a regular reader, the owner of Paul's Pizza put a fairly not very nice tweet out about the acronym Missing, Murdered, Indigenous, LBTGQ, LMNOP+, saying that he was going to put a special on anybody who identified these crazy acronyms.
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And it was pointed out that it starts with missing and murdered Indigenous women, to which he replied, well, I guess they're not getting the special then.
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So, you know, it blew up in his face and the council crowd came out en masse.
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They put fake stories about cockroaches in his kitchen.
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one guy sent him pictures of his nephew and nieces because they doxed him. They contacted
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charities that he gives to. I mean, they put on the full court pressure. So I kind of feel sorry
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for him. Well, he kind of knows what he steps into because it's not the first time and they've
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been trying for years to shut him down. I don't think they will this time. I mean, it's at this
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point where the hard left of Airdrie and other areas, there's a few branches of this restaurant
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already weren't going and uh now you're just bringing more attention to a place which
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i'll say it they got good pizza there yeah it really is good food i mean if it's crappy food
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i wouldn't say anything i got one down near my place in south calgary so i think i'm going to
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go on saturday and show my support yeah if you like like all meat pizzas where they just pack
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it thick with meat and then really brown that cheese on it that's what they do it there it's
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like it's uh not healthy but damn it's good i'm a ham and pineapple guy ah well that's a separate
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discussion altogether but i'm certain their hawaiian is probably good as well probably
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pretty good as far as those go uh we've got a story on ontario judge who hasn't read the uh
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playbook obviously he's saying he's concerned that uh uh immigrant criminals are getting a
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better deal than canadian criminals saying justice should be done by all uh we've got our bc reporter
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alex zolton there's been lots of controversy out there in the bc leadership race accusations of
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of lying and uh all sorts of nasty stuff so he's got to call him i think with the headlines saying
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with uh friends like these who needs enemies and all the bcs can uh you see conservatives can
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destroy themselves with infighting which conservatives tend to do it seems the
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conservatives love turning their guns inward it's uh just seems to be the nature of yeah
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uh we got some wild video on the website of a mass road rage ball brawl in edmonton uh yesterday
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four occupants of four cars got out and started beating the hell out of each other right on the
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boulevard between the two roads and it's a pretty good video pretty fun video i'll check that one
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and have you uh in your road trips recently have you stopped at 7 11 and bought yourself a sub or
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a sandwich thankfully i've just been getting the coffees and i've been tempted to try because they
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keep going on about that that japanese egg salad sandwich you know everybody's been talking about
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that and i haven't gotten one yet no maybe i won't no uh it's a big recall uh because the
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the subs and the sandwiches have got listeria or some other disease so and the the best story of
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the day uh toronto and i'm gonna get this story up after the meeting toronto has decided they're
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going to give away thousands of trees to uh you know get the canopy going bigger in toronto but
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And if your neighbor is white, you can't have a tree.
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Well, are they going to maybe get, you know, like a equity cards for
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neighbors and so on, like the NDP, you know, you can turn it in for what
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But it's, it's about the, one of the wokest things I've ever seen.
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Well, I'll let you back into the newsroom to keep writing that dark comedy on The Woke and the pushbacks on it.
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Again, a lot of it's kind of dark funny, isn't it?
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You know, with the stuff of Farouk and other things.
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I just want to hit a quick run through some of the comments that I lost today, which is great.
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I might have to catch up after I talk to Chris with some of those.
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My thoughts on Carney saying he'll use the Emergencies Act to stop independence.
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I heard about that, but I haven't seen it properly sourced yet.
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if you had a majority of a province vote to go,
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what exactly would he be able to do with the Emergency East Act?
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Just a reminder, search through the Western Standard.
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That we have more generals than tanks in Canada.
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We really do. We have like 14 operational tanks. I don't think it's going to come to anything like
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that in Canada, but let's get realistic. Canada's military can't do much except come and throw
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tampons at Albertans while the Albertans chase them back out. So, uh, I wouldn't worry much
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about that though. I do worry when Carney talks about bringing foreign people into the Canadian,
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uh, military. Uh, lots of other folks saying hello from Calgary and so on. I'll go through
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some of more of these comments cause there's just lots to talk about today, but I want to bring
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in our opinion editor chris old corn in from saskatchewan and let's chat about some of the
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stuff happening out there how's it going chris it's going well how are you court good good it's
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been a while since i've had you on we're overdue and uh i guess i just a fun one yeah well as i
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said there's so much dark comedy in that sense that's led to other things you might have heard
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with dave's news update so let's start with that you wrote just on the absurdity and the insanity
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of the woke with that long acronym how many letters does it take before you can't even call
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it an acronym anymore from leah you know mostly seen that but what's it give us a recap what
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what happened there uh well uh it is uh technically 15 letters plus the plus sign so it's 16 uh 16
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digits long uh which i mentioned my piece could be a guinness book of world record for the length
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of an acronym. And basically what happened was a MVP, MP, Leah Gazin, she was doing a press
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conference about some funding cuts to indigenous organizations that the liberals did in their
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budget this year. And so what happened was she got up and she said this big long acronym because
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she decided to put the murdered and missing indigenous women into the, we'll call it sexual
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minority acronym, you know, LGBTQ, et cetera, and put it and smushed it all together, even though
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missing and murdered indigenous women has absolutely nothing to do with sexuality or
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transgenderism. So I'm not sure where her mind was when she decided that was a good idea to put
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it together. Even one senator said that she would not use that acronym. She would continue to use
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the other one because this one doesn't make sense. And the other interesting thing is too,
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the NDP seems to have a hard time defining what a woman is, but they put woman into the acronym,
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which I thought was kind of weird because it's literally a party that if you ask them what a
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woman is they can't even define it uh and they put and she put it in and totally changed what
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the acronym is like like there's even a plus sign at the end like what's a plus like a furry or
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something like like in case she missed something she put a plus at the end in case 16 letters
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wasn't enough like it's unbelievable some of this stuff especially if you go back and their
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convention a week before was a joke too and did they have two s in there i i i can't remember
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now because that's okay because there's that's supposed to be the two-spirited thing and that's
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the two-spirit yeah they become redundant as they try to cover all their ground and and contradict
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themselves and it was a great follow-up from their own convention uh yeah you know what are your
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thoughts on that in looking at opinion and everything the federal ndp i mean the ccf
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saskatchewan that was the heartland of populist i guess democratic socialism you could say but boy
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what what on earth is this today i i mean i i see that uh saskatchewan's ndp leader has been the most
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moziferous and saying you know i have nothing to do with these clowns
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uh you know is that party done in saskatchewan federally you think
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uh well the sask ndp like the provincial party uh they're in opposition here we only have two
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parties in saskatchewan basically that get elected which is the staff party which is our sort of
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version of conservative party and then you have the sask ndp um i do know that carlo beck has
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almost no con direct contact with jagmeet singh for a long time um like there there was nothing
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uh going on between the two of them even at their convention a couple years ago when he was still
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the leader of the ndp uh they they brought him in on zoom call they didn't even actually bring
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him into the convention which is what normally would happen uh and i've talked to several sas
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ndp mlas who have said told me off the record but like they have no connection to the federal party
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and that they have absolutely their policies are so different like like for example the ndp here
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in the province is not like super anti-oil or anything like they they're for responsible use
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of you know getting oil out of ground and mining and stuff all the things that actually drive the
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to catch an economy uh the like the two parties if you line them up federally and provincially
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it would not look like the same party like even after uh lewis got in as the leader i mean carlo
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beck the next day put out a press release saying we disagree with xyz and made a full list of like
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no we don't agree with anything that the federal party is basically doing so there's there is
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basically no connection between the two right now yeah no no spoken connection but one thing
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that is a connection that both Ned and H-E-N and Carla Beck can't avoid. And I'm sure Scott Moe
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and Daniel Smith in Alberta, I mean, they're just going to keep hammering them with that,
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though, is constitutionally they're tied together. Even if they're functionally used that way,
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it's hard to deny that you're beholden to them when it's written right in your thing. Do you
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think there might be a move for Beck to finally formally say, you know what, we've got to break
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away and be fully independent from the federal entity well saskatchewan's a weird province that
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way um they tend to once they vote a party out they basically never voted back in they just
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like the sas party when it was founded it was a combination of people who left both the conservative
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and the liberal party like the progressive conservative party and actually the progressive
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conservative party still exists in the province they just don't get elected um but it was a
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merger of the two because it's the only way they were ever going to beat the NDP because they were
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just back then. And this was 25 years ago, liberal party, conservative party were kind of closer
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before all the stuff that's happened in the last 10 years or so where there's been drastic change.
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I mean, we used to talk about the parties all trying to sit on the center seat and now no one
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wants the center seat. Politics has changed drastically since the South party came into
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existence so it wouldn't surprise me um because even in the last election we had a new conservative
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party called sas united here um they did fairly well with the buffalo party they did fairly well
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uh like they came in second in a lot of ridings uh both well the buffalo and the sas united party
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they neither one got anyone elected but they did you know they got significant uh percentage of the
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vote um i don't know if the sas ndp would rename or not if they did i think they'd want to do it
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a couple of years before an election and then then people would get to know them get to know
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the name ahead of time um but yeah it's it's definitely a weight around sasca dp uh to be
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connected to the federal mvp so so coming up for our viewers from outside of saskatchewan i mean
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how is scott moe doing he's becoming kind of more of the one of the senior premiers in canada now
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actually he's been in for a fair amount of time eventually every political leader starts to kind
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Are there indications he might be looking to move along
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probably somewhere around the same amount of seats.
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It's funny, I actually asked him not this Christmas,
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And he had never been asked that question before.
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i found it after uh they never even prepped them for that question because it was just assumed he's
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going to be here forever i just thought it'd be interesting to find out what he wanted to do after
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politics because he was what he had done before and been in politics for at that point and he's
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been in about 15 16 years now uh he's been leader since 2017 so he's come up on 10 years as leader
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as well uh and his popularity is good like people people like scott moe i mean there are problem
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issues in the province healthcare in particular we're having a lot of issues with but at the same
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time i think people are getting a lot of slack because the same problem is happening in every
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other province so it's not like people are like oh well it's so bad here but it's so much better
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next door in manitoba or alberta it's like everybody has the same problem recruiting
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retaining staff etc um so because it's a problem across canada it's not the same weight on his
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popularity and on the sas party because i think people kind of understand it's a canada-wide
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issue it's not just the saskatchewan issue so a lot of the ways that his popularity and
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particularly the sas party's popularity could go down it's not just because i think people
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are understanding of how the issue is across canada and i'm not sure he's going to run
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again in 2028 at the next provincial election or he'll step down before that because at that point
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will be going on 12 years as leader and that's a long time state leader of a party i mean sometimes
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people just need to change their face at the top like they did when brad wall left and scott moe
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came in uh so i don't know if he's gonna make it 2028 but probably yeah there's a lot of parallels
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between saskatchewan and alberta and in our politics and in our interviews uh and the
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independence movement in saskatchewan has been simmering at a similar level 20 30 perhaps it's
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not insignificant and we've got now a carny majority which i imagine has upset some conservative
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leaning uh saskatchewan residents and so on but there isn't a vent for the independence movement
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in saskatchewan right now though i don't think there's as much of the ground organization kind
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of pushing yet but they're getting together uh there's no mechanism to petition and try to invoke
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a referendum but the saskatchewan prosperity project they have been holding meetings and
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trying to build that base so they can pressure the mole government do you think at some point
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scott mo might bring in citizens initiative legislation to kind of at least take that
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pressure off his flank well um the polls actually has shown that uh support support for independence
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in syscapital is actually higher than alberta uh and that's without much uh an organization uh now
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now the SAS prosperity project has been doing some events.
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I was at a, another event a while back and, and it was, it was at one of the
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Uh, part of it was talking about independence and then it was like a
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conservative type convention, uh, done by a group here that does a, uh, once a
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year, they do a, uh, weekend and they bring in speakers.
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Sometimes they're in person, sometimes they're in zoom.
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Uh, so I was there actually covering it as, as a journalist.
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um but yeah there was a couple independent speakers there and uh i was at another event
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uh run by the buffalo party that was also uh independence uh conference uh it was well attended
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so both those ones that i went to were sold out and they were ones that he had to pay to go to
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uh the free ones like that sas prosperity is doing like they're they're filling up whatever
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space they can get so i think there's an appetite for it particularly now that people feel like
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Like, Kenny, or sorry, not Kenny, Kearney kind of like stole his way into a majority
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because we didn't elect a liberal majority government.
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It was by five people leaving their parties and going over to the liberals that did it.
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And I can tell you, I was at an event last night.
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And it wasn't even the political event that I was at.
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They were just not happy at how Kearney got his majority.
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and that's what i mean but you see and there's a hazard that something like the buffalo party
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or something like that could start gaining a foothold i it's my view i believe anyways i mean
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independence parties in alberta haven't been able to do that though some people have tried but it's
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because the independence movement's focused on a petition it's kept their energy on that and
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rather than going after the government in power i would think there's a hazard of something forming
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that could be a vote splitter anyways for the SAS party
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if maybe they would be looking at bringing something.
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It just means you're supporting having that vote.
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And it doesn't seem to be hurting Premier Smith.
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for six months now, and her support's climbing.
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during the question period in the legislature about whether or not he would support, you know,
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an independence petition or whatever in the province and allow it to go to a referendum.
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And he has said that, you know, he's, for the time being, he has not made any indication that
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he would support Saskatchewan leaving Canada. However, he has said that he would support the
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will of the people, if there was enough signatures to run a referendum, uh,
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here in Saskatchewan, there's actually, even if you get enough signatures on a
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petition, uh, it still has to be, uh, approved by the governments to actually
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So they've even been asked like, well, if there's enough signatures, uh, to do
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And once again, the answer there was, you know, we'll do whatever the will of the people is.
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So he's not going to stand in the way, but he's not out there champing it either.
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Again, it's just been interesting to watch how both provinces are moving so similarly.
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So, you know, before I let you go, I mean, you're covering all things opinion as well as the opinion editor and watching things in Saskatchewan.
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What should we be watching you for and your province for in the next coming days?
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Well, the stats of legislature is still sitting right now. However, there's not much exciting stuff going on. Budget's already kind of been presented and going through. For the opinion, we have a ton of stuff coming down on Carney from all kinds of different angles with how he got his majority. We already have a couple up, including former opinion editor Nigel Haniferts. His was up earlier today on the conservatives.
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And basically, his argument is like, you've got to vet these candidates better because you've got four that, you know, jumped ship since November and gave Kearney the majority.
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So that's an excellent read. I'll read Nigel's column. It's very interesting.
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But yeah, there's other columns up there as well that are connected to Kearney.
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And then we also have some other ones on some other issues coming up, too, that are very important.
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A lot of stuff on independence related stuff, as well as we've got a couple on education coming up.
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that'll be up on the weekend that are quite interesting right on well i know you've got
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your hands full in a lot of content that you're working through so i appreciate you taking some
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time to talk to us today about you know your own one that came out recently and and just stuff out
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in saskatchewan that we don't we don't watch nearly closely as as we should so thank you for
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that and thank you for keeping on all that opinion content for us and i'm sure we'll talk again soon
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chris sounds good thank you very much for it all right thanks so that is our opinion editor chris
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old corn. And yeah, much like Dave, you know, just running hard, lots on the go, things are
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happening. So yeah, Saskatchewan, a lot of parallels. Let's get through some of these
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comments. Again, Carol Scobie saying it can snow every month in the year in Alberta. There's some
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truth to that. It's not unique that it's happening in April, but it just keeps happening over and
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over and over and over again. If it would just give us a bit of a break. Save Canada 123 saying
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50% plus one is all it takes to join Canada and that's all it takes to leave. Some people have
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talked about that when we're talking about independence votes and things, because, you know,
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that was kind of the formula for Newfoundland to come in. But getting realistic, a couple of
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things. The Clarity Act says a clear majority, not a simple majority. 50% plus one is a simple
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majority. And unfortunately, it's one area where the Clarity Act isn't very clear at all,
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because, well, what's a clear majority? I just want to talk about pragmatically, realistically,
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if it's under 55%, it's not going to happen. I'm just saying that. There'll be so many challenges,
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protests uh pushbacks things going on it will be mired in that for years it would go much like
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brexit whereas brexit got the momentum they got it moving they got it across the line and then
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things never really kind of came together afterwards because they didn't have a strong
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enough mandate to push back on the politicians who were fighting it from within so just an
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independent supporter should be shooting for 55 to 60 to be realistic if you're really looking to
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get out it really the worst we could possibly get would be 50 plus one because it does put
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everything make it stall and and go on hold but uh it doesn't get us there uh let's see
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cbc doesn't the conservative party doesn't want alberta to separate well no they're a federal
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party and uh it's just you know people going after smith saying she should come out in support of
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independence or poly that's why we don't bother with the party system with independence it has
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be advocates they're not going to come out in support of it they can't it's not their mandate
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but uh you know we still need to also have a provincial government and do what we can with
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our federal mps until a promise becomes independent so you know be a little pragmatic
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but they're not going to come out in support of it uh barbie hill saying uh had a great time
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with corey yeah great to see you up there barbie appreciate the work and everything you guys are
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doing in the north i tell you that's where the the hub of great people and independence movement is
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it's strong up there uh let's see what else we got here i don't like pierre but this is a far
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deeper movement uh it's for the children and future generations sorry pierre but candace
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toast yeah like you know people are frustrated they're throwing their hands up especially when
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we see uh the majority this is the very first time a majority government has come through
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just floor crossers just floor crossers floor crossers have been around they've come and gone
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over the years. They've impacted governments, impacted policy, but not to the point of actually
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changing the government from a minority to a majority. And yeah, that's got a lot of people
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pretty ticked off, especially when you get pure, gross, opportunistic ones like Gladue.
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You know, look, Jen Aru in Edmonton, he was always a liberal anyways. He was just looking for a way
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to get a seat. He always was. I'm surprised he lasted as long as he did before he crossed.
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uh glad you though i mean an established conservative been there for over 10 years i
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believe more conservative than me in most regards socially for sure and then joining the liberals
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oh they offered her something nice let's not pretend they offered her something nice that
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builds cynicism that builds a sense of futility and that is what leads to things like an
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independence movement you know we've had it and that's why again you know some people might like
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Polyev or others, but they're just saying, what's the point anymore, right? There's somebody saying
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Smith will do whatever Queen Charles tells her to do. I'm not sure where you're going there. Okay.
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Either way, the monarchy, that came up in the question the other night. I was speaking in
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Hilda last. I didn't get home till near two in the morning. The monarchy is irrelevant. It really
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is. It's just a past thing. It's for the people thinking the king could stop the independence or
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uh you know it's just as bad as those indigenous people going over thinking he can step in he can't
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he won't it's irrelevant let's get into contemporary times to talk about what we're doing
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we're breaking out of a system here uh joel saying paul's pizza is great no press is bad press
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so yeah the owner of paul's pizza and there's some of the things i get a chuckle out of
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and yeah he's he's got a pretty narrowly sense of humor you know with the joke he made about the
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mmlbq wxyz but whatever he's been going on for years with this he was on my show a couple of
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years ago. You could see the old one about that. These guys have come after him, but his name is
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Farouk and he keeps getting called a white nationalist. I just get a chuckle out of that.
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I mean, I don't know. I don't have the NDP equity card handy to see what the point system is,
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but as far as I can tell, Farouk ain't a white bread sort of fella, but that's the, always the
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immediate response to the left isn't. That's all they've got. That's all he goes is just keep
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throwing that out there, smearing that out there for battery. Well, it's falling flat and people
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like Joel pointing out it's great pizza and no press is bad press. Well, sometimes there's bad
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press, but, uh, uh, it's still at this point, I think a lot more people are going out and testing
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the pizza out than anything that was lost because most people don't care and they are sick of the
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idiocy and acronyms and endless, uh, victimhood. When we talk about that missing and murdered,
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uh aboriginal um indigenous woman thing i mean that's been one of those other failures that's
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a trudeau initiative they put the whole commission together all the works and realistically whatever
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happened because they really thought it was some sort of conspiracy right there's there's been
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people stealing indigenous women and raping them and murdering them and hiding them and they've
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been unsolved and this is the authorities aren't trying to track down who did it and all of this
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It did turn out there are more women going missing
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and being murdered in the Indigenous community.
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But the solve rate for those murders and such
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And it's because most of the crimes are committed
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and the horrific nightmare that's going on in the reserves.
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Abused, neglected, impoverished, troubled, and drug-abusing young ladies
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You saw them in the Vancouver's Lower East Side 30 years ago,
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and you're still seeing them today, and it's getting worse
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because we keep hanging on to this broken, ridiculous system of apartheid
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It's the system, guys, and it's not going away.
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They make it the way you can't even question those, that acronym is as absurd as it was
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when an MP puts it out, because then you're, you're dissing these poor murdered and missing
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No, we aren't, but people are pushing back against the stupid narrative, the tiresome
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narrative that keeps trying to blame everyone else rather than it just accepted that we
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got to change this system or it's going to get worse.
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And, uh, I drove on the way to Hilda yesterday.
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Hilda's way over north onto the Saskatchewan border from Medicine Hat.
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I went through, because it's straight through, and it's a public highway,
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the Siksika Reserve, those clowns who've charged me with trespassing.
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I took a couple pictures on my way through from the public highway, guys.
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The wild dogs are still running around, boarded up places, junk on the lawns.
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They just got $1.3 billion from Trudeau four years ago.
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I thought I was in Tijuana for a minute, but it was windier and there weren't palm trees.
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We got to stop letting these activists, these chiefs, these losers, and these Leah guys and say, we can't talk about it.
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And canceling somebody like Farouk or trying to with this pizza place because he mocked it.
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Oh, well, maybe don't give him the material to work with.
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weird we never used to have these problems um just trying to catch up on the comments uh
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republic of alberta ruck and ruckine hound yeah okay so they solve a lot of problems for albertans
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maybe uh jay the albertans say 58 of people might be against us but if half of them don't turn up
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the vote uh they won't matter okay here's something with the independence movement as
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well to keep in mind when quebec held their referendum 93 of people came out with something
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this big, this important, people are going to come out. It's going to be a high turnout referendum.
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It's going to be big. You got to win it. Somebody else pointed out the 42% number.
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We're seeing polls all over the place. I keep saying 30 because you know what? I've seen them
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as low as 20. I saw that 42. I don't believe the 42. I don't believe the 20. When the spread is
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that huge, that 42, if you break down that poll, comes more into people saying, would you vote that
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way as a negotiating tool rather than wanting to go. When you start asking questions in polls that
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get that long, guys, those are leading and they're push-pulls. And to be honest, they're not terribly
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accurate. The reality is though, independent support is stronger than ever. It does have
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momentum and it's growing. As I said, with the Brexit thing, very possible that it could move
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on into an independence vote, a positive one coming, but it's up to us. We will see what
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happens so we see they're getting too old for this nonsense i hear you uh boy we got a lot of
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comments today i really appreciate it be patient with me as i scroll through it uh canada's broken
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a common one uh troglodyte saying albert ottawa can either let albert go peacefully or and then
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the dots yeah i don't know then the main thing the strength has to be in a solid large vote you got
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to win again that's what i'm talking about 55 60 or more i would rather and i know some people get
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upset and debate with me i'd rather see 48 than 52 because with 48 we can keep things rolling
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having another one in four or six years and probably turn that into the 55 or 60 or more we
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need but 52 that's a disaster that puts it on the shelf for years that's the instability
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we're gonna have to worry about um somebody else saying you know why do you think the
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confiscation is ramping up yeah they're coming for the firearms but they're failing that's another
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fun program to talk about, isn't it? You know, they want it, but nobody's participating. This
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is going to fail just like every other initiative that's come out of them recently.
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You know, we can be critical of the provincial government and things. Here's one of the areas
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I want to hit on a bit, and that's the gas tax, the fuel tax in Alberta, the Premier Smith not
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cutting it. All right. This is where you want to get on the provincial government's case rather
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oh, she should be outright becoming an independent supporter. There's one of the more clownish
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people who heads the independence movement in some ways and speaks for quite often. He's just
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got an incredible chip on his shoulder when it comes to Premier Smith, wasting a lot of energy
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going after her when he really should just stick to putting out, try to get that yes vote. Either
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way, there's things that Smith needs to be criticized on, not trying to turn her into an
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open secessionist, but why on earth is she not cutting the gas tax? Come on, I don't care because
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are saying we got our own law and we don't cut it until July 1st. You guys write the law. You've
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got a majority. And you're also for every dollar, the price of a barrel oil rises. The Alberta
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government gets about $700 million in their budget. Okay. And I understand that's over the
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course of a year, but still we're talking oil has gone up by what, 60, $70 and it's been hanging
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in there and it's going to for a while. We can afford to cut the gas tax. And if you can't afford
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to cut the gas tax, it really does mean you're spending way, way, way too much. So cut some
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spending, be conservative. That's the critique we need. And that's how we need to keep pushing our
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honor. Uh, let's see. Uh, I support any independence for, uh, if people vote for
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independence parties, there's a fear of the NDP slipping into power again. I hear you. And it's
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not just a fear. Thankfully, uh, you know, the only real kind of party going is the Republican
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party and it's led by a knob and it's not going anywhere. But if, if Smith doesn't allow a
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referendum to get going, I don't think the Republican party will get anywhere, but somebody
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rational and reasonable might get up and form something. And that could split that vote and
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that could set things way back. So just watch this movement, watch it for, as an activist rather
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than a party activist though because you're just going to cause more damage than you want uh one
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more thing and that's been in there and we're looking into some of that uh let's get on with
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some of our uh fine folks on the indigenous reserves because it's a huge issue and we need
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to have the courage to talk about them there's a chief up in fort mack or fort chip or up there
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somewhere claiming that the cancer rates are way above for indigenous people and everybody else
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well they are but they are in every reserve not just up there he's blaming it on oil and gas
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and of course it was his own study that he commissioned to find this alleged
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rise in cancer rates. Guys, indigenous people suffer from higher cancer rates on every reserve
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in Canada. Let's get to the point. They're socially distressed. Go onto a reserve and
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meet some of the people. That's why I shoot the videos on there and let's show it. And what's
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happening? Well, they're chain smoking, living on Cheetos and cornflakes and pop. They're drinking
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a lot. These things all cause a lot of cancer, more so than other areas. You want to get upset
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with me prove otherwise anybody who's claiming that not true has not been on a reserve as well
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if the oil sands was causing higher cancer rates it would be hitting everybody on the reserve on
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the river up there and throughout that area not just that reserve all we're seeing is somebody
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else throwing something else just like the the hoax and cam loops let's make a fake myth about
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things that are happening and then ask for more money they always do 12 million dollars to try
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and find bodies without actually looking here's a neat one oh chiefs a commenter let's leave it at
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that saying respect our treaties and that's what i'm doing your treaty said that 98.7 percent of
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alberta is forever permanently seated you can keep your 1.3 percent the rest of us are leaving
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pay your own bloody bills all right i'll leave it at that happy note guys thank you very much
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for tuning in today well i make sure to watch the pipeline tonight and check this out next week at
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this time i really appreciate all those comments i couldn't keep up with them today that's the way
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I like to see it happening. Lots of interaction because there's lots going on and I can learn
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some lessons here too. So thanks for tuning in. See you next week at this time.