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00:00:00.000 Good day.

00:00:29.600 Hey, welcome to The Cory Morgan Show.

00:00:31.560 As you can probably tell, it's cowboy cosplay season, so once a year when I throw on a hat and a western shirt and pretend to be something akin to a cowboy.

00:00:40.880 I grew up in Banff. I'm a mountain boy at best, but I do live rural and I have livestock, even though they are, you know, bees.

00:00:47.060 But, oh well, I think I dress up better than some of the folks you see down on the grounds anyways, but I know I'm not that much of a convincing cowboy.

00:00:53.580 But it's a fun time in the city of Calgary. I mean, the whole city gets going on it.

00:00:56.680 We're lucky to have such an internationally renowned annual festival like that that's so distinct from so many others,

00:01:03.140 even though the downtown hipsters and municipal politicians like decrying it and trying to move us away from that image.

00:01:10.040 Most people enjoy it and have a heck of a time.

00:01:12.080 The show is live. Use that comment scroll. Good to see you there.

00:01:15.160 Waniska and E Sharp just keep things civil with each other.

00:01:18.620 I got a good one coming up. I got Andy Crooks coming on.

00:01:20.780 He's going to be in studio in a little bit.

00:01:22.320 And you might remember him. He was one of the signatories to the Alberta Agenda.

00:01:26.620 It's been 24 years.

00:01:28.080 Him, along with Stephen Harper and some others, signed that letter trying to get Ralph Klein to bring in some provincial changes and fight Ottawa.

00:01:35.120 It's been 21 years.

00:01:36.360 Kind of got to ask, well, has anything changed?

00:01:38.820 Seems to be the same questions happening.

00:01:40.340 A lot of news check in with Jen Hodgson in a short bit here, too.

00:01:43.800 But first, I'm going to get off on my rant of the day.

00:01:47.920 Bike lanes, always one of my favorites. 0.98

00:01:49.860 And tracks, they're a scourge on the roads of Canadian cities.

00:01:53.000 They tie up traffic, steal parking from suffering urban businesses, and are barely used for half of the year.

00:01:59.500 And the underlying reason for expanding bicycle infrastructure has nothing to do with bicycle commuters.

00:02:04.740 Years of studies have shown that despite the addition of countless kilometers in new bike lanes,

00:02:08.800 the number of people who commute daily by bicycle remains a tiny minority of citizens.

00:02:12.220 So why are bike lanes expanding so much when there's no real demand for them?

00:02:16.360 Well, it's due to density-obsessed urban planners who have infested city bureaucracies.

00:02:21.000 They tend to be downtown living hipsters who feel that if they can live without a personal automobile,

00:02:25.740 everybody else should live without one, too.

00:02:27.560 They're ideologues who are opposed to personal automobiles for environmental, social, and economic reasons based on a twisted worldview.

00:02:35.060 They understand people won't give up the personal freedom and comfort of owning an automobile willingly.

00:02:39.780 So they've been on a crusade to make auto ownership as inexpensive and inconvenient as possible.

00:02:45.120 They fight against private developers who want to include parking in garages for multiple vehicles in new communities.

00:02:50.780 They expand sidewalks out into the roads and close lanes for traffic under the guise of traffic calming for safety.

00:02:56.860 They throttled the downtown parking to spike the cost.

00:02:59.380 At one point, Calgary was second only to Manhattan for parking prices.

00:03:02.140 But the favorite tool for city planning zealots is the bicycle track.

00:03:06.140 It takes entire lanes from the road system, adds a whole bunch of traffic lights to every intersection to snarl traffic further.

00:03:12.800 The lanes get a priority for snow clearance for bicyclists who don't exist in winter,

00:03:16.940 while residential streets deal with glaciers while citizens must pray for warm weather to clear their roads.

00:03:22.260 Emergency services vehicles are stranded and traffic jams while downtown overdoses continue to do the permissive policies with addicts.

00:03:28.620 The addicts in the city insist on enabling congregate in transit zones and on trains,

00:03:33.400 and ironically keep people in their personal vehicles, despite the city-induced expenses and inconvenience.

00:03:39.160 Despite all those efforts, citizens won't give up their cars.

00:03:41.660 Instead, they're moving deeper into the suburbs and businesses are following them.

00:03:44.880 New business campuses are springing up in the outlying areas and people are shunning the downtown cores.

00:03:49.600 Commercial vacancies remain stubbornly high,

00:03:51.460 while city planners dump millions of dollars into office conversions in hopes that people will migrate to live in high-density downtown.

00:03:59.940 The efforts of these fanatical city planners and the city councillors who support them have been a total failure.

00:04:05.360 They've cost in productivity, reduced safety, and are bringing more people downtown.

00:04:09.680 Their constant shortcomings, though, just seem to spur them to double down,

00:04:12.960 despite citizens and businesses begging for mercy.

00:04:15.120 And despite all that, I oppose Provincial Transportation Minister Devin Drieschen's threats to intervene in Alberta's cities

00:04:21.900 and block the ridiculous rise in bicycle lanes.

00:04:24.640 So why, after a rant like that, would I oppose a minister bringing the expansion of those absurd lanes to a halt?

00:04:30.160 Well, because it's not his job.

00:04:32.160 It's ours. And I know that's what nobody ever likes to hear.

00:04:35.100 The reason city planners are overrun with zealots is because the mayor's chair and the seats of city council have been dominated by zealots as well.

00:04:41.560 Hiring has reflected the ideology of the mayor and council, and now the bureaucracy is outright infested.

00:04:46.440 But whose fault is that? 0.95

00:04:47.840 Voter turnout in Alberta's civic elections is traditionally pathetic.

00:04:51.880 Rarely does it reach 50%, and Calgary had even dropped near 20% on some years. 0.99

00:04:56.660 If more than half the citizens won't get off their asses to cast a vote, 0.98

00:04:59.780 why should we be surprised when the city management becomes dominated by extremists and incompetence? 0.98

00:05:04.480 Incumbent city council candidates know they have a plum job, and they count on voter apathy to maintain their seats.

00:05:09.360 Many Calgarians don't even know who their local councillor is, much less what they politically stand for.

00:05:15.020 It makes it tough for up-and-comers to dethrone the incumbents at election time.

00:05:18.480 The only way to deal with these terrible municipal governments is to fire them.

00:05:22.020 And it is possible, but it takes a little time and effort.

00:05:24.920 Alberta's fighting against a federal government that insists on infringing on provincial jurisdiction.

00:05:29.300 We understand the need for local governance to reflect the diversity of needs of regions and zones.

00:05:34.260 We abhor centralised government, so why would we want more centralised power in the provincial government?

00:05:38.160 The provincial government already has enough to do, and more than enough local power.

00:05:42.220 They don't need to be grabbing more authority due to citizens abdicating their democratic duty in municipal elections.

00:05:47.480 I like Minister Dreschen, and I'm typically supportive of the UCP government.

00:05:51.100 I don't support them dipping into municipal issues, however. 0.86

00:05:54.520 It's a municipal election year in Alberta right now, and if citizens get off their butts, 0.95

00:05:58.960 they can wipe out most of the worthless municipal politicians in one swoop. 0.95

00:06:02.040 Or they can stay home, and we're going to get more of it. 0.77

00:06:05.520 As the saying says, in a democracy, you get the government you deserve.

00:06:09.200 So get out there, guys. This is the year. Vote. Get those clowns out of there. 0.79

00:06:12.420 All right, let's see what else is going on. Check in with Jen. How are you doing? 0.98

00:06:15.240 Hey, Corey. Doing good. Thanks for having me on.

00:06:17.080 Oh, glad to. So lots on the news, Berger? I mean, the newsroom is packed with people today.

00:06:20.620 Yeah, lots in the news. It may be Calgary Stampede. It may be summertime, but actually the news hasn't taken a break.

00:06:27.000 There's lots going on here. So we'll start with up in Edmonton. Edmonton has a new official bird.

00:06:33.740 Guess what that could be?

00:06:35.640 I didn't see that story yet.

00:06:38.040 It's been named as the magpie.

00:06:39.740 The magpie. The annoying trash hound thing that disturbs people's pets and gets into our garbage. 1.00

00:06:46.000 The same. Yep. So that now represents the city of Edmonton.

00:06:49.540 Oh, well, good choice, guys.

00:06:51.120 Yeah. Yeah, good choice. So that story speaks for itself.

00:06:55.680 In extremely disturbing news, up in Crossfield, a teacher has been charged with 16 sex offenses against eight separate students.

00:07:06.620 So we'll be watching to see how that all unfolds. 47-year-old mathematics teacher.

00:07:12.140 Hmm. So he'll need at least a 50-year sentence to be realistic and keep this from happening, but he'll probably be out for a few weeks, I imagine.

00:07:19.760 Yeah, that's a good point. So we'll be following that closely to see if this teacher actually gets the consequences that he deserves for this abhorrent behavior.

00:07:29.420 So that was the Airdrie RCMP that made those arrests.

00:07:34.340 Now, speaking of the RCMP, an RCMP officer went on CBC last night and documented the rise in extremism.

00:07:44.200 And she flagged extremist behavior can sometimes be based on traditional value, she said.

00:07:51.780 So she warned, if your family and friends start, maybe one day they support, you know, quote, gender rights, and now they are going to more, quote, traditional family values, then watch out, because they may be extremists.

00:08:09.220 So, yeah, it just stands to reason, you know, we're wondering why we want a provincial police force.

00:08:14.540 Yeah.

00:08:15.240 Let's see, you might be a terrorist if you think that a man shouldn't compete in women's sports. 0.98

00:08:20.300 That's pretty much what they're getting at.

00:08:21.660 Essentially, yeah.

00:08:22.960 Meanwhile, we have terrorists actually protesting outside of Jewish neighborhoods across the country, but that's not priority.

00:08:27.580 Different standard, though, of course, Corey.

00:08:29.780 Okay, well.

00:08:32.060 Okay.

00:08:33.080 Yeah.

00:08:34.460 So, and keep in mind that that was on CBC, so the publicly funded broadcaster as well, state broadcaster.

00:08:41.440 That's right.

00:08:42.720 So, next we have the fluoride rally.

00:08:46.480 So, in Calgary on June 30th, the city, based on a vote, mind you, implemented the fluoride process into the public water supply.

00:08:57.400 So, there's a group of activists gathered down at the courthouse steps today for a protest, where at two o'clock there will be an injunction against the fluoride being added to the water.

00:09:09.020 So, our reporter, Leah Mushett, is heading down there.

00:09:12.840 She's our intern.

00:09:13.980 So, she's going down there to get some boots on the ground and find out what people are saying about this fluoride situation.

00:09:19.500 Well, that one just goes back and forth, right?

00:09:21.120 We've heard phlebesites.

00:09:22.160 We get rid of it.

00:09:22.880 We hold phlebesite.

00:09:23.540 We bring it back.

00:09:24.780 It gets tiresome.

00:09:26.340 You know, I'm mixed on it.

00:09:27.260 I mean, I think maybe fluoride itself isn't a lot bad, but it's not the rule of the government to put it in the water.

00:09:31.720 You want to go get it in your toothpaste or something.

00:09:33.520 Right.

00:09:33.840 It's mass medication, right?

00:09:36.000 And it's also interesting that as the U.S. in several states are now making moves to ban fluoride in the water, Calgary is now going ahead to implement it.

00:09:46.420 So, apparently this new, sorry, apparently this group of activists has new evidence that is actually harmful.

00:09:54.420 And I think that it's a proportionate warming.

00:09:57.840 So, if there's a certain amount of fluoride in the water, then that's going to have potentially dangerous effects.

00:10:07.140 Whereas a very small trace amount, maybe not so much, but it's still like an ongoing discussion.

00:10:14.500 So, people are concerned.

00:10:15.000 It's probably going to get a monopoly.

00:10:16.620 You've got no choice but to consume local water.

00:10:18.660 It's difficult.

00:10:19.360 I mean, I have water well, so I've got lucky that way.

00:10:21.480 Oh, nice.

00:10:21.980 We're going to medicate the water.

00:10:22.880 We're going to have fun with it.

00:10:23.520 You know, put Viagra in it. 0.90

00:10:24.680 Let's see what happens in the city.

00:10:26.160 They won't know who's trans and who's not because it's going to be outstanding.

00:10:29.260 Yeah, going to get some weird outcomes if it was something like that, I think, Corey.

00:10:33.340 These are the good ones that kept me out of all the good schools.

00:10:35.660 Yeah, maybe so.

00:10:37.840 So, someone's doing something down at City Hall.

00:10:40.180 So, we'll see if this injunction, if there's anything to it.

00:10:43.100 And finally, the Alberta Next panel, which is a panel launched by Smith's government to gauge Albertans' interests and concerns in what might need to go on that referendum ballot that we're seeing next year.

00:11:00.280 The main question, of course, is going to be a question of independence.

00:11:03.280 However, they're looking at adding more questions to the ballot, which in itself is, I've heard, a bit of a controversial issue for some people.

00:11:12.360 Some people believe that on that ballot should just be the one question.

00:11:15.500 So, today, the Alberta Next panel released a video suggesting that perhaps on the referendum there should be a question about how willing people are to work with other provinces for Alberta to be a leader in making amendments to Canada's constitution.

00:11:33.620 And that would, at the end of the day, give more power to provinces.

00:11:36.460 It would eliminate or at least really substantially minimize the overreach that Ottawa has in provinces.

00:11:45.120 So, when it comes to provincial jurisdictions like health care and also federal judges, that it should be more fairly represented by all the provinces, especially Western provinces.

00:11:58.060 Well, it's the same old stuff.

00:12:00.560 I mean, I'll be talking to Andrew Crooks about that, you know, and it all sounds good.

00:12:04.360 But the constitutional formula, I think we need seven provinces and, you know, 50% of the country is supporting those changes.

00:12:10.800 So, yeah, it definitely would take some cooperation from some of the other provinces.

00:12:16.300 It would be interesting to watch.

00:12:17.480 Anyway, it's kind of a referendum period coming up.

00:12:19.640 That'll be something you're doing, whether it's one question or a whole bunch, probably by the looks of it.

00:12:23.200 But, well, the campaign years keep going.

00:12:25.540 Mm-hmm.

00:12:26.660 All right.

00:12:27.320 Anything else on the go?

00:12:28.500 Those are our top stories today, Corey.

00:12:30.180 All right.

00:12:30.620 Well, I appreciate the updates on them.

00:12:32.460 I'll let you get back out to the newsroom and get ready for more stampeding.

00:12:36.280 Yeah, okay.

00:12:37.340 Looking forward to that, for sure.

00:12:38.900 All right.

00:12:39.200 All right.

00:12:39.600 Thanks for having me on, Corey.

00:12:40.600 All right.

00:12:42.160 That is our own Jen Hodgson. 1.00

00:12:43.740 Yes, very prolifically writing on many of those stories that matter.

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00:13:20.820 Yeah, what else have we got going on there?

00:13:22.860 Before we get to our next guest, here's an interesting one.

00:13:24.980 You know, I like watching Argentina.

00:13:26.980 You know, South America, the South End, these are areas you just don't hear about that often.

00:13:31.060 And yet they're great, well-developed countries, good economies.

00:13:34.860 And Miele, I'm probably mispronouncing it, though.

00:13:37.420 He's been that interesting fellow with the hair and the rest, a very libertarian, taking over Argentina.

00:13:41.540 But now he's changed their firearms policy.

00:13:44.020 And he's letting citizens buy and possess semi-automatic firearms, which shows a government confident, I guess, in having the faith of citizens.

00:13:50.540 And he's also lowered the minimum age for firearm ownership from 21 to 18.

00:13:56.600 So that rescinds a 1995 prohibition on pretty much everything out there.

00:14:00.620 And it's just going to be interesting.

00:14:03.580 You know, I'd like to see the real numbers on it.

00:14:06.440 It's going to take some time.

00:14:07.780 But is this going to lead to some sort of crazy spike in firearm use down there?

00:14:13.080 A lot of his...

00:14:13.620 He's coming at it from a perspective, too, where self-defense actually is a right.

00:14:17.860 Maybe a firearm is an appropriate tool.

00:14:20.220 So keep an eye on Argentina in the next year or two.

00:14:22.860 I mean, keep an eye on it in general.

00:14:24.040 It's, if nothing else, very interesting politics.

00:14:26.120 We've got an interesting president down south of the border, but go a little farther.

00:14:30.760 And I think Mille is even more interesting in a lot of ways.

00:14:34.240 So put your eyes down there.

00:14:36.040 All right.

00:14:36.660 So getting back closer to home in studio, we do have Andy Crooks, a retired lawyer.

00:14:42.640 Well, I won't hold that against you.

00:14:45.000 And you were the chair of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.

00:14:47.960 A lot of a lie around here from there.

00:14:50.520 And now you're with the Canadian Constitution Foundation.

00:14:53.220 I am.

00:14:53.660 And with Simon House Recovery Center here in Calgary.

00:14:57.460 So busy, busy guy.

00:14:59.400 Well, yes.

00:15:00.240 So you don't take retirement into that, just lay around.

00:15:03.380 No, I describe it as being a lawyer in recovery.

00:15:06.740 We have a 12-step program that we run.

00:15:11.020 That first step is admitting the problem, is it?

00:15:13.440 Admitting the problem.

00:15:14.500 That's right.

00:15:15.180 I really appreciate you coming in.

00:15:17.340 And, you know, just a sense of deja vu I've been feeling lately.

00:15:22.000 I remember way back, actually, when Alberta Report did a big photo shoot and they had yourself and the other signatories of the Alberta agenda back in 2001.

00:15:32.380 I think it was the next page over they had me and I was leading the Alberta Independence Party at that time as this deer in the headlights 29-year-old didn't know what the hell I was doing.

00:15:39.820 And, you know, the issues were the same.

00:15:44.560 A lot of the proposed solutions are similar, but we just can't seem to get things over the finish line.

00:15:50.020 Like, do you think we're closer now to getting some of those things into place?

00:15:54.200 Yeah, that's a good way of framing it.

00:15:57.380 You know, the problems are the same and the solutions are the same.

00:16:01.240 Are we closer to getting them?

00:16:03.180 Are we getting, I think of it as in terms of are we getting close to the tipping point?

00:16:08.620 I think, yes.

00:16:10.780 Back in the day when we wrote the firewall letter, we actually had meetings with Ralph Klein and his advisors and some of the ministers.

00:16:18.040 And they were quite clear that the polling at the time did not support the ideas like the Alberta pension or a no-brainer that I thought of, which was the Alberta police presence.

00:16:32.500 Ideas that seemed to make a lot of sense to me were not resonating in the public agenda.

00:16:38.780 And Ralph said, listen, I think they're good ideas, but there's no support for them.

00:16:44.000 And Ralph's leadership style was very much, I don't know, he often quoted himself as saying how he leads is to look for a parade, run like hell to get out in front of it, and then keep checking over his shoulder to make sure the parade is still behind him.

00:17:00.920 It's a lot easier than trying to start a new one, that's for sure.

00:17:02.980 Well, that's right.

00:17:04.280 In fact, it may be impossible to start new ones.

00:17:07.080 You know, Preston Manning, another political hero in the West, used to talk about waiting for the wave.

00:17:15.820 Politicians are like surfers.

00:17:17.820 They're just waiting, paddling around, waiting for the right wave.

00:17:20.680 And when it hits, then they can move the agenda.

00:17:23.800 Yeah.

00:17:23.980 So alienation, I think, in general, you know, is at a high like we haven't seen probably since 2000.

00:17:29.080 Yeah, yeah, alienation is, of course, a good Marxist term, but it is a presence in Canada.

00:17:37.960 And I've often, I've been thinking a lot about this, thinking about do I really want to separate?

00:17:44.660 And I think, well, I don't, but the gap between me and the rest of Canada is growing.

00:17:50.320 I explain it this way.

00:17:53.420 We Albertans, I think, are more Canadian than the rest of Canada.

00:17:57.860 We Albertans are industrious.

00:18:00.240 We're ambitious.

00:18:01.880 We're actually proud of our heritage.

00:18:03.860 We're in Stampede as we tape this show.

00:18:06.840 And Stampede is a celebration of Alberta's agricultural heritage.

00:18:11.520 We celebrate our oil heritage.

00:18:13.620 We celebrate the Indian culture within Alberta.

00:18:16.780 We celebrate these things.

00:18:18.180 The rest of Canada seems sometimes mildly and sometimes very strongly ashamed of their heritage.

00:18:24.740 We don't.

00:18:25.680 And we're industrious.

00:18:26.920 And we're bright.

00:18:28.260 We're capable.

00:18:29.320 I liken us to the beaver, the Canadian symbol, the Canadian icon.

00:18:35.000 And all Canadians used to be like the beaver, really industrious.

00:18:39.640 They worked hard.

00:18:40.560 They would change the environment.

00:18:41.920 They'd bend a hard environment to allow them to grow and nurture families and create a life for themselves.

00:18:50.760 We were like good beavers.

00:18:52.480 We did a lot.

00:18:54.520 And Albertans have persisted on this path, whereas the rest of Canada seems to have wandered off.

00:19:01.480 So that sense of a gap growing, they use the word alienation, that sense of alienation or a gap is growing.

00:19:09.920 But I'm not sure we're striving for independence.

00:19:13.200 It looks like the rest of Canada, not pushing us out.

00:19:17.100 They're just going a different way.

00:19:19.020 Yeah.

00:19:19.140 Well, as you described it, one of those waves seems to be kind of coming.

00:19:23.040 And Premier Smith has been putting herself in front of it to a degree anyways and really wearing the issue, I guess, of regionalism or standing up to Ottawa or trying to at least isolate us a little bit policy-wise from the rest of the country.

00:19:35.260 Yeah, I don't like the words isolation.

00:19:39.560 It's a negative connotation.

00:19:40.180 It is.

00:19:41.080 It is very negative.

00:19:42.480 And that's not certainly the groups that I hang out in my own personal views.

00:19:46.640 Insulate is a better way to do it.

00:19:48.020 Insulate, which, in fact, the firewall letter, Stephen Harper coined the phrase firewall letter.

00:19:56.500 And what he had in mind was a firewall in a computer.

00:20:00.340 You let the good stuff in, but you keep the bad stuff out.

00:20:03.260 And that was his vision.

00:20:04.280 It wasn't to be separate.

00:20:05.940 It wasn't to create a fire break.

00:20:07.840 And I'm from Northern Ontario.

00:20:09.580 I know what a fire break is.

00:20:11.240 It's a rude slash through the forest to break a fire.

00:20:17.000 This was a firewall.

00:20:19.280 Softer, gentler.

00:20:20.820 Defensive.

00:20:21.420 You're trying to be on a good side rather than that.

00:20:24.500 Again, not so much defensive as protecting the integrity of the computer itself.

00:20:29.240 It's not defending.

00:20:30.320 It's standing up for itself.

00:20:31.760 Yeah.

00:20:31.900 So I think a lot with the independence-minded people, and I think it's a growing number, but we're a long ways from a 50% vote, I believe, in Alberta.

00:20:40.820 But a lot of people say the same sort of thing.

00:20:42.000 We want to try everything else first.

00:20:44.060 They understand there's problems.

00:20:45.460 They want to run through every other effort.

00:20:48.500 But how can we keep trying?

00:20:49.880 We want a new deal.

00:20:51.120 We want a new deal.

00:20:52.620 We want a new arrangement with the rest of Canada.

00:20:55.020 And I came to this realization decades ago.

00:20:57.760 I heard Lucien Bouchard interviewed on the radio and say, why are you such a champion for separatism?

00:21:05.780 And his reply was, I'm not so much a separatist, but I want a new deal, a new arrangement.

00:21:10.660 I thought, that's it.

00:21:11.400 That's what I want.

00:21:12.260 Separatism and independence may be on the table, but they're just on the table.

00:21:18.680 I don't want to talk about them.

00:21:20.140 And if I'm negotiating with Mark Carney or anyone in Ottawa, I don't want them talking about it either.

00:21:25.940 It's just there on the table.

00:21:28.120 It's a presence.

00:21:29.440 It's a fact.

00:21:30.400 It's a reality.

00:21:31.440 It's the far end of the spectrum.

00:21:32.900 In the meantime, I want to talk about how we can be better Albertans and better Canadians and build and thrive in our own environment.

00:21:42.360 That includes having our own police force, collecting our own taxes, managing our own pension money.

00:21:49.140 So those are the things we could do as a province without constitutional change.

00:21:52.820 And the new Alberta Next panel that Premier Smith has launched recently released.

00:21:58.360 I think now they're exploring a bunch of possible constitutional initiatives and kind of inviting other provinces to get together to try and meet constitutional change.

00:22:07.500 But our formula in Canada is pretty darn difficult to make significant.

00:22:11.240 Well, except your point is right.

00:22:14.300 These are changes that we can make on our own.

00:22:16.840 We don't need the rest of Canada to make them.

00:22:20.000 And, you know, this next panel that Danielle is moving forward with, it's reminiscent of Jason's initiative, which is reminiscent of something Ralph Klein did when Ralph took office.

00:22:32.540 That's what I'm meaning with this deja vu.

00:22:33.940 Yeah.

00:22:34.420 When Ralph Klein took office, the first thing he did was commission what he called the Blue Ribbon Commission.

00:22:40.220 And they did a roving brief around Alberta to identify the problems with Alberta finances.

00:22:45.920 This is an old habit in Alberta to consult around the province.

00:22:50.420 Jason did it.

00:22:51.500 The problem with Jason, and I love him dearly.

00:22:53.740 He is a great politician.

00:22:55.120 He's done a lot of good.

00:22:56.080 And he used to work for me at the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.

00:22:59.460 But he kept taking independence off the table.

00:23:03.600 He said, we're going to talk.

00:23:05.500 We want a new deal.

00:23:06.540 We want a new arrangement.

00:23:07.560 And I'm taking this off the table.

00:23:08.860 And then it's like, okay, so why would the other side talk?

00:23:13.100 I just want it on.

00:23:14.120 And this is the genius of Danielle.

00:23:16.320 She's saying, no, I don't want to talk about it.

00:23:18.480 I'm not going to talk about it.

00:23:19.860 But it's on the table.

00:23:21.040 I'm not taking it off.

00:23:22.320 It's there.

00:23:23.020 It's a fact.

00:23:23.800 It's a reality.

00:23:25.260 Well, it's part of keeping it as a citizen's initiative.

00:23:27.200 It's not the premier sparring.

00:23:28.960 It's just the citizens decide that that's where they want to go.

00:23:31.860 Well, and I note with interest that she's actually going to be deeply involved in the panel.

00:23:36.360 She's sharing it.

00:23:36.860 Yeah, so attending and listening to the people directly.

00:23:42.820 This is Klein-esque, is that?

00:23:45.720 Yeah, so something that's a little different this time is that Premier Smith seems to really like the referenda idea, the notion of it, putting a number of questions perhaps on a referendum.

00:23:55.620 And again, Premier Kenney did that as well on the equalization, but it really was just a poll of Albertans.

00:24:01.200 Nothing really became of it.

00:24:02.480 And the idea of a multiple question referendum is really a good one.

00:24:06.700 And she's channeling Ernest Manning.

00:24:08.480 Ted Morton writes about this.

00:24:09.820 Ernest Manning back in the day had a real problem.

00:24:12.660 It was a party-splitting problem.

00:24:15.060 It had to do with the, I think it was the gas transmission or electrical transmission systems.

00:24:20.920 Anyway, it was this, his party was divided on it.

00:24:24.700 And he knew, and the people in the province was divided on it.

00:24:27.820 And he knew that if he didn't handle it well, he was going to be in trouble.

00:24:32.280 Like the party would disintegrate, split apart, much like Wilder O's and the Conservatives did in the day.

00:24:38.020 Familiar with it.

00:24:38.520 Right, yeah.

00:24:39.320 So we're all familiar with that, those of us in Alberta.

00:24:42.900 So what he did was conceive of the idea of putting the question to the people, but it was a series of questions.

00:24:47.860 So we could put questions to Alberta.

00:24:51.140 I have a referendum.

00:24:52.620 Are you happy with the current state of affairs and arrangement?

00:24:58.740 You're going to get a start with it.

00:25:01.100 Yeah, yeah, exactly.

00:25:02.260 And would you like to see major changes?

00:25:04.440 Start to break the questions down.

00:25:06.760 And again, much like the firewall letter, instead of a massive revolution, rather,

00:25:12.660 start to break the idea of Alberta standing on its own in little parts, a pension, a police force, collecting our taxes,

00:25:21.180 maybe looking after our own healthcare, which is a provincial response, doing what provinces should be doing.

00:25:27.460 Yeah, well, and that's what a lot of people have said over the years.

00:25:29.860 A lot of these challenges we have are things we can do.

00:25:32.740 There's a lot we can do within the system.

00:25:34.400 We're not a unitary form of government in Canada.

00:25:36.660 No, we're a federation.

00:25:38.120 The provinces have a lot of potential autonomy.

00:25:41.100 Right.

00:25:41.340 But there's just an endless battle of infringements going on.

00:25:45.680 Well, and it's infringements that a lot of the provincial politicians like, quite frankly.

00:25:51.020 It was good fodder.

00:25:52.080 I mean, well, they like it because Ottawa says, I'll collect the taxes and then give you money.

00:25:56.760 So the politician, you know, a politician sitting in Alberta says, oh, great.

00:26:01.140 I don't have to justify any of the tax bills.

00:26:04.780 Ottawa will look after that for me.

00:26:06.180 I just get receipts from Ottawa.

00:26:07.780 Ottawa edges its way into the provincial agendas using its taxing powers and ability to distribute money amongst the provinces.

00:26:18.180 And the provincial politicians, God love their souls, but they like this because they don't have to stand the heat of saying to the citizens, this is going to cost you and this is how much.

00:26:30.280 And here's why they can hide that off to Ottawa.

00:26:34.000 And then Ottawa says, well, we just have to collect for everybody, including you.

00:26:39.200 And so it distributes the load.

00:26:41.160 And as we get entangled, though, we could end up with worse policies.

00:26:44.060 I mean, I see the appeal for some provincial politicians, but let's say, for example, $10 daycare way outside of the federal realm.

00:26:51.620 But the provincial people look like bad guys if you try to say no to it, because then you're saying, oh, you want the single mom to starve and you don't.

00:26:59.540 And they're kind of on the hook if they don't support the Ottawa initiative, they look bad.

00:27:03.980 If they do support it, though, they're going quite contrary to any policy initiative.

00:27:07.020 So we end up with this creeping federalism that is now it's it's it's poisoned even at the highest levels of judicial thinking in Canada.

00:27:16.580 The Como case in New Brunswick, where we challenged the right of New Brunswick to prohibit the importation of beer into Quebec beer in particular into New Brunswick.

00:27:28.960 And it was the first time in decades that the court had ever considered Section 92 of the Constitution, where it says there shall be no impediment to trade between provinces.

00:27:42.340 First time that they considered this in decades.

00:27:45.320 It just doesn't come up that often.

00:27:47.720 But it came up and the court kind of wobbled and waffled and said, oh, and what they were.

00:27:53.220 You can see reading between the lines, they were really afraid of dismantling this complex structure that has evolved over the last 50 or 60 years.

00:28:03.020 Isn't that when they kind of acknowledged that, yes, this is contrary to the Constitution and the spirit of it for that free trade, but they felt it was a justifiable violation because they never did rule in his favor.

00:28:15.340 No, no, they didn't say it's a justifiable interesting use of the word.

00:28:20.620 They just weren't prepared to dismantle the whole thing.

00:28:24.120 If your judges at that level won't do it, who's going to?

00:28:27.040 Exactly, exactly.

00:28:28.540 Now, coincidentally, that case next came up about two months later in an Alberta case against about beer, and the court used the reasoning that they arrived at for Como to arrive at the right result in the Alberta case.

00:28:43.060 So these things tend to work out, but your point is, I think, we do have to restore Canada to the balance of federal, provincial powers and responsibilities that our founders had in mind and that, quite frankly, I want to see restored.

00:29:00.680 Yeah, well, and that's another tougher one when we're talking about inter-provincial infrastructure.

00:29:05.800 That's actually federal jurisdiction in a sense, or at least they have the ability to approve or not approve.

00:29:12.180 As well, a province should be able to, we can't stop a highway or a railroad from crossing, but they give an authority to provinces to hinder and stop pipelines.

00:29:19.660 Well, except we're a federation again, and part of the price of being a federation is you surrender some of these decisions.

00:29:28.580 So you're right, we couldn't stop the Trans-Canada Highway from going through Alberta.

00:29:33.180 The government of Canada says this is a national project of national interest, we want it.

00:29:38.620 In the same way that they would say the pipeline to the East Coast to ship oil and gas is in the national interest, it's a national project, we want it.

00:29:48.660 So just as Alberta can't stop the Trans-Canada Highway from going across Alberta, Quebec should not be able to stop a national pipeline from going across Quebec.

00:30:01.160 Because the term should not, but realistically.

00:30:03.340 That's part of the deal of being in a confederation.

00:30:06.740 And if you're not prepared to accept that part of the deal, then what the hell are you doing in the confederation?

00:30:12.600 Leave. 0.99

00:30:13.300 That's where a lot of our discussions end up leading to.

00:30:15.940 Exactly.

00:30:16.240 I mean, it's been interesting out of Prime Minister Carney, he knows how to say the right things.

00:30:21.260 He's certainly talking a good game, but we're going to have to see some action pretty darn soon, I think, when the patience is wearing.

00:30:28.880 Yeah, and there's some pundits who say, you know what, he can't do it.

00:30:33.040 He just, never mind his promises.

00:30:35.120 But he says, well, I mean, I mean, it seems to be coming to a head though.

00:30:52.220 I mean, I, I haven't seen such a, an active provincial government at least pushing back and Scott Moe has been pretty, uh, interestingly, we have partners.

00:31:08.900 Now we have partners, uh, as, as, as we, uh, trudge our road towards happy destiny.

00:31:14.580 Yeah.

00:31:14.820 So we might see some change.

00:31:17.220 I don't know.

00:31:17.660 And even why, as I said, we're getting pretty great.

00:31:19.620 We've got Squam, uh, Scott Moe and Wob Canoe in Manitoba, uh, a strange alliance of conservative and dippers, but there you go.

00:31:28.520 Well, yeah.

00:31:29.320 Well, it was a pragmatist, I think in some ways, anyways, and Manitoba can certainly use resource revenue.

00:31:34.900 Yep.

00:31:35.420 So we'll see what develops.

00:31:37.600 Well, I appreciate you coming in to talk about it.

00:31:40.080 Like I said, it just seems to be kind of rehashing a lot of stuff, but maybe we can bring the experience from 20 some years ago and apply it today and maybe come to more productive conclusions than we did last time.

00:31:49.540 That's all we can hope for.

00:31:50.420 We're Albertans.

00:31:51.240 We live on hope.

00:31:52.160 Oh yeah.

00:31:52.660 And we're stubborn.

00:31:54.820 All right.

00:31:55.340 Well, thank you very much for joining us today.

00:31:57.080 I really appreciate it.

00:31:58.260 And, uh, hopefully you can talk again soon.

00:31:59.760 Where, where can people find your work by the way, with the constitution, uh, committee and such?

00:32:02.940 Well, actually the, uh, ccf, uh, dot org is the, uh, website, uh, Google Canadian Constitution Foundation and Google Simon House Residence Society.

00:32:14.580 And I should add, I'm speaking for myself, not any of these organizations.

00:32:18.080 No, and Simon House does good work.

00:32:19.620 I am a friend of Bill myself.

00:32:21.340 I've never heard of this.

00:32:21.980 Oh, are you?

00:32:22.640 Yeah, there you go.

00:32:24.300 Yeah, I really appreciate the effort on those parts.

00:32:26.600 It makes us all better people.

00:32:28.340 I knew I liked you for a lot of reasons.

00:32:30.280 I just got one more.

00:32:31.360 Great.

00:32:31.740 Okay.

00:32:31.960 Thank you again.

00:32:32.680 Thanks, Corey.

00:32:33.200 I'll talk soon.

00:32:35.040 So again, guys, yes, uh, Andy Crooks and, uh, well, you know, the issues just keep, uh, coming up, but I mean, if we can learn from our past efforts, maybe we can come to a different outcome.

00:32:46.600 But, uh, the, the frustration of feeling like we're just going in circles sometimes can be, uh, overwhelming.

00:32:52.000 And then again, the, the independence, I mean, as I said, you can't take it off the table.

00:32:56.880 You've got to have something in the background to say, well, look, if this isn't going to work,

00:33:00.840 this is the way we're going to go.

00:33:02.940 Oh, this is the way we have to go.

00:33:04.400 I mean, I'm, uh, always been pretty straightforward on the independence, uh, front.

00:33:11.040 I have been for a long, long time.

00:33:12.300 I feel the system's irreparably broken.

00:33:14.000 I feel the mechanisms to try to change it won't work.

00:33:16.440 Constitutional change, things like that.

00:33:18.640 But I, I, I meet so many people.

00:33:21.780 I've been doing so many speaking events.

00:33:22.900 As I said earlier, I, I think the appetite's stronger than I've ever seen, but a whole lot of people still want to try everything else first.

00:33:33.120 That's perhaps a little bit of what I see happening with, with Premier Smith is she's throwing it all out there. 0.92

00:33:40.460 Okay.

00:33:40.760 Well, here's all the, the things we're going to try first.

00:33:43.780 Here's the constitutional reform.

00:33:45.120 Here's the pension plan.

00:33:45.980 Here's the other things.

00:33:47.900 Pardon me.

00:33:48.540 And, uh, well, once those fail or if they fail, well, there's also, we've given citizens initiatives.

00:33:54.420 So, uh, perhaps we can, we're going to have a referendum on independence.

00:33:58.440 And that's what I think some people need to think about if they're opposing the initiatives coming from the provincial government on these things, then, well, if, if you stop the province from doing any of these reforms or getting things done, more and more people are going to be saying, well, that's it.

00:34:12.800 I've had enough.

00:34:13.280 I'm going to the independence option.

00:34:14.300 And I'm, I'm going to be one standing out there trying to, uh, pull people to that independence option as much as I can.

00:34:21.800 I don't want to see a failure.

00:34:23.360 I'm not an accelerationist.

00:34:24.540 I don't want to, you know, see Smith splat against the wall.

00:34:29.080 I just don't feel confident that it's going to change anything.

00:34:32.380 Uh, Jacqueline, uh, you know, Littler, a commenter saying, how long do we have to keep trying?

00:34:36.360 Has it been long enough with no change?

00:34:37.540 Yeah, that's, uh, that's kind of what I'm getting at.

00:34:40.560 You know, Andy Crooks, myself, we've been at this 20 some years and we just got a provincial police force.

00:34:46.500 That was part of the Alberta agenda.

00:34:48.380 A lot of the things that Premier Smith is pushing now are basically the, the, the parts of the Alberta agenda, though we're seeing more will to actually do them.

00:34:56.560 She's, she's just saying we're going to do it anyways.

00:34:58.320 Um, just going through the comments, guys, uh, let's see, uh, Cyril Arnold saying, unfortunately, we don't have time to hold a referendum on questions that a poll will answer when 43% of 18 to 34 year olds want to leave Canada for economic reasons.

00:35:13.480 They're the workforce you can't lose.

00:35:14.740 That's something that's different this time.

00:35:16.560 I don't want to talk about differences from when, you know, like Andy and I saw 20 some years ago and today.

00:35:20.140 Uh, you still go to political meetings today and most of the people there tend to be older, especially in conservative circles.

00:35:27.640 It always has been the nature of it.

00:35:29.160 That was the nature of way back in the reform party days, uh, even today.

00:35:33.860 But you're seeing a different ones that, because that's just young people don't go out to those meetings.

00:35:38.120 Look, if I was in my twenties, I wouldn't be going out to political meetings right now.

00:35:41.320 I'd be down at the stampede grounds partying my head off and having a good time, even though I was still politically active back then.

00:35:46.720 The young people now, though, are the ones supporting independence.

00:35:51.100 This is a different generation. 0.53

00:35:52.760 They're feeling more hopeless than anyone else because they're the ones thinking, well, I can't afford to buy a house.

00:35:57.440 I want to, but I don't have the means.

00:35:59.420 It's not going to happen in my lifetime.

00:36:00.820 Or I want to start a family, but I just don't feel economically secure enough to do it.

00:36:05.660 Those polls are showing a lot.

00:36:07.480 And ironically, it's a lot of the older people who were kind of opposing independence.

00:36:10.440 But as they learn and realize that it's a false security clinging to the federation, if you get the younger demographic and the older demographic, both supporting independence, we're going to see something different happening.

00:36:26.820 Yeah, rucking around.

00:36:28.580 Either way, keeping the conversation going is paramount.

00:36:31.580 Alberta independence is the only way to true prosperity and democracy.

00:36:33.520 Okay, and that's what I'm talking about is this is the way Premier Smith really is keeping the conversation on the table, though.

00:36:41.180 And I know independence purists, I got to admit, and as I said, I want to see a positive vote for independence.

00:36:48.540 But it's going to be harder if you've got a six or seven question referenda sheet in front of you.

00:36:53.600 And a few are offering a few of those other options, right?

00:36:57.700 Because some people say, well, I'll vote for the pension plan and these other things.

00:37:00.460 Yes.

00:37:01.260 But then, you know, because if we have all those, I don't need the independence.

00:37:04.000 They might vote.

00:37:04.500 No, it's going to dilute the support for the independence vote potentially.

00:37:09.300 Yeah, I can see that.

00:37:10.300 I can see the frustration with it.

00:37:12.180 But, you know, you can't let that stop you.

00:37:14.540 If you want to campaign for independence, campaign for independence.

00:37:16.920 Tell people to vote yes on everything.

00:37:18.600 And we want to get the support levels.

00:37:23.060 You see, a referendum campaign means you're going to have all of these issues in the public discussion for months.

00:37:29.980 An actual campaign, people knocking on doors, people dropping flyers, people talking to the media.

00:37:35.680 This keeps that issue up front, you know, because they love to distract.

00:37:40.620 They love to put it off.

00:37:41.980 And you can't do that when you have a referendum going.

00:37:45.480 You know, election time is just about one of the only times that people seem to pay attention to a lot of the news and things.

00:37:50.540 And a referendum is in the election.

00:37:52.560 It's a campaign.

00:37:54.360 So I'm really looking forward to this.

00:37:55.720 Though, again, it's going to be a complicated one.

00:37:58.140 We don't know how many questions are going to go on a ballot.

00:38:00.260 My suspicion is Premier Smith is going to hold her hearings.

00:38:04.520 Kind of said before, I think the way they're phrasing it, they've already got their foregone conclusions with where they want them to go.

00:38:10.420 And we're going to see a bunch of questions on the ballot.

00:38:13.200 But the Alberta Prosperity Project, they've been doing fantastic work.

00:38:17.460 By the way, if you want to check out their website, they put out their costed plan.

00:38:21.460 It answers a lot of questions.

00:38:24.000 You know, there are groups that are working really hard, and those guys are doing a good job on it.

00:38:27.360 If you're looking at independence and you want to see details, you want to see the costs of government and what would happen in an independent environment,

00:38:33.240 they have broken it down because a lot of people opposing things are very deep into the whataboutism.

00:38:38.620 Well, a lot of those questions are answered on their site.

00:38:42.400 They're not perfect.

00:38:43.160 Of course not.

00:38:44.380 But they are the dominant independence advocacy group out there working on things.

00:38:48.960 And as I said, I don't know.

00:38:50.340 I doubt they're very happy with seeing a referendum diluted into a bunch of questions.

00:38:54.840 But that's kind of what we're faced with.

00:38:56.200 At least we've got the ability, which we never had before.

00:38:59.540 And then, you know, I've talked about that.

00:39:01.160 Fabio there, Lukasik has got his fake submission for a referendum petition.

00:39:06.360 He's just delaying things and messing around.

00:39:08.020 The APP will petition, and there's going to be a referendum.

00:39:11.220 The question is how it's going to land and what people will think about it.

00:39:17.220 Let's see what else we've got.

00:39:18.480 Go on.

00:39:19.540 Here's one of those reasons, the futility of trying to change things federally.

00:39:28.000 Anne V, a commenter, saying,

00:39:29.380 Albertans never had so much attention from the federal parties in my lifetime.

00:39:32.740 I guess they're scared we could leave.

00:39:33.900 Perhaps.

00:39:34.720 Perhaps.

00:39:35.380 They're certainly, you know, getting out here on the ground.

00:39:37.820 Though whether they're going to change anything, I don't know.

00:39:40.440 But look at this.

00:39:41.200 You know, the Arrive can.

00:39:42.680 Okay, so let's turn back because this just came out.

00:39:45.540 If people remember, that was the APP that everybody had to stick on their phone.

00:39:48.740 to save us all from possible COVID because a person coming from the U.S. to Canada

00:39:52.940 with the same COVID levels was apparently going to make more risk.

00:39:56.300 It was just bizarre.

00:39:57.460 But it was clearly it stunk to high heaven.

00:40:00.320 An app that should have cost $50,000 or $60,000 ended up screwing us out of $63 million tax dollars.

00:40:07.080 People should be going to jail over this.

00:40:09.700 It was made by, what, two guys in a garage or something like that. 0.95

00:40:12.760 And people were furious, and they should be because the APP was bloody terrible and useless.

00:40:16.160 Anyways, but what do we have now?

00:40:18.860 It's been sealed by a federal court.

00:40:21.080 So we don't get to see what happened with the investigation.

00:40:23.880 We don't get to find out just what was going on in there.

00:40:26.980 They're corrupt, and they're covering up.

00:40:29.640 And this is when you get worried, why would a judge help with that?

00:40:35.480 There's a lot of judges who are principled.

00:40:37.380 There are.

00:40:38.820 But this one, why? 0.96

00:40:40.000 Why would the public not have the right to see what these clowns did with our money? 0.98

00:40:45.300 Why are you giving a smokescreen to these crooks in government? 0.90

00:40:49.700 And that's where we realize the futility of trying to change things from within.

00:40:56.220 Well, you know, we've got to be careful.

00:40:57.640 If we're talking about independence and so on, we can screw up locally just as well as they do federally.

00:41:02.980 If you come in and bring in another bad government provincially, well, then you just double down on it.

00:41:07.340 Every level of government's capable of making mistakes.

00:41:09.560 But man, they covered it up.

00:41:10.480 The government just said, no, the court said we're going to seal it up so Canadians can never find out exactly what happened with that.

00:41:17.000 Not good.

00:41:18.020 Ah, here's some other news.

00:41:20.020 This one's interesting.

00:41:21.840 From Blacklock's reporter.

00:41:23.140 Those guys do great stuff, too.

00:41:24.320 Speaking of independence, independent media.

00:41:26.160 They dig through the things.

00:41:27.760 The cost of keeping an inmate in federal prison, $436 a day.

00:41:33.800 And that's for a male one. 0.96

00:41:35.760 Women's prisons are $780 a day. 1.00

00:41:38.360 I'm not sure why it's so much more expensive for a woman's prison than a man's prison.

00:41:42.340 But I expect things are expensive.

00:41:46.160 I mean, you know, keeping somebody safe behind bars, well, keeping us safe by keeping these guys behind bars is going to cost money.

00:41:54.140 But does it have to cost that much?

00:41:57.520 Excuse me.

00:41:58.920 I mean, we've got all this beautiful, untamed, wild bush in the northern end of every province.

00:42:06.080 Would it really be that hard to stick a prison up there?

00:42:08.560 You know, how much do you have to spend on security when you got them stuck up there?

00:42:11.360 Yeah, I know.

00:42:11.920 We're talking something like the Russian gulags.

00:42:13.460 So, well, as long as we have due process and everything.

00:42:16.940 With some of our long-term prisoners, I think we could pretty, you sit in a prison in the middle of a bunch of muskeg and they don't have clothing to go far. 1.00

00:42:25.380 They're not going to escape, guys.

00:42:27.400 It's not going to happen.

00:42:29.460 Paradox is saying with the prisons here, because they're woke country clubs, not prisons.

00:42:32.860 That could be part of the reason.

00:42:33.660 And, you know, I don't mind spending a lot of money on rehabilitation on first offenders.

00:42:40.760 I really, you know, when a person is just starting down the bad road, perhaps there's a chance that you can knock them back.

00:42:46.800 Because it's best for everybody, right?

00:42:47.960 If you could rehabilitate a prisoner, even if it's a bit of a serious crime, though, they should be in for a while.

00:42:52.760 I'm not talking, you know, multiple murders or something.

00:42:54.540 But if you could actually rehabilitate a person, get them out, and then they end up working, contributing, live a decent life, hey, we all win.

00:43:02.200 And if that takes some investment in education and therapy in a less punitive environment and a more rehabilitational environment, yeah, it's worth trying to spend some money on.

00:43:14.800 But we've got a lot that we know we can't fix.

00:43:18.000 When they're on their 10th, 50th, 100th offense, or as Envy, one of the commenters say, you know, with Paul Bernardo, you know, it's sickening, he's in a medium security.

00:43:25.440 Well, the ones we know we're never going to let out, we don't have to spend a lot of money on them, guys.

00:43:30.100 We can stick them somewhere isolated with a heavy, heavy security.

00:43:35.380 Quit wasting the time and money.

00:43:36.720 I'm not talking about solitary confinement, lockdown.

00:43:39.020 I'm not.

00:43:39.940 Vengeance just doesn't serve anybody as tempting as it is with some of the sick monsters in prison.

00:43:46.100 But they don't need a whole lot.

00:43:48.280 You know, some entertainment, a weight room, books, and moderately decent food.

00:43:53.680 And it shouldn't have to cost, you know, $700 a day to keep people like that.

00:44:00.480 Again, broken system, right?

00:44:02.120 Let's talk about the RCMP.

00:44:03.240 We've got a provincial police force coming.

00:44:05.060 That's great.

00:44:06.260 Well, as Jen pointed out in the news update, yeah, the senior RCMP officer said,

00:44:11.220 moving away from liberal ideas towards traditional values can show the start of violent extremism. 0.98

00:44:16.640 Really, these guys are insane.

00:44:19.980 And what she went on about was basically, if you don't embrace the gender vision these people have,

00:44:25.400 which is that there's, what, 150 different gender identities you can have or something,

00:44:30.640 then you are walking down the road to extremism.

00:44:33.920 No, extremism is letting men compete in women's sports.

00:44:38.980 Extremism is putting a biological man in a woman's shelter, which has happened. 0.98

00:44:44.420 That's extreme.

00:44:47.180 Women who have been already having a hard time, who have been assaulted, who are in a shelter,

00:44:52.740 and then they have to share space with a man? 1.00

00:44:56.820 Again, this is the absurdity of this weird gender ideology. 1.00

00:45:03.060 And listening to some blue-haired Froot Loop saying that, that's fine.

00:45:06.480 I'm used to that out of those nut cases.

00:45:08.380 But this is a senior person with the RCMP.

00:45:13.160 This is somebody, again, with some authority.

00:45:16.300 And these are the ones that are rising to the top in this bureaucracy.

00:45:19.200 They're calling us extreme?

00:45:20.060 No, the extremists are getting to the high levels in these bureaucracies.

00:45:24.680 And we're all going to pay a terrible price for it.

00:45:27.920 All right.

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CORY MORGAN SHOW： The mess in municipalities is our own fault

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