CORY MORGAN SHOW： The Sixties Scoop saved lives
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Summary
In this episode of the Corey Morgan Show, Corey talks about The 60s Scoop, the government's policy of removing Indigenous children from their homes and placing them in foster care, and how that led to the deaths of thousands of Indigenous children.
Transcript
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I just can't stand winter, so I just see this as winter moving its way in.
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But whatever, I guess I should set aside the dread.
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On the bright side, it's the political season ramping up to lots of stuff going on,
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lots of stories for weenies and wonks and nerds like me,
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and I'm sure many of you in the audience, this is the prime time for it.
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I'm going to have one of the candidates for mayor on shortly, Sonia Sharp.
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We're going to talk about her campaign a little bit,
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and we'll cover a lot more of the other news going on out there.
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So for those who took part in it or noticed it or whatever,
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you might have noticed every radio station was unlistenable all day.
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Yesterday, it was Orange Shirt Day or Truth and Reconciliation Day,
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the fabricated holiday by Justin Trudeau to try and pacify people over the hoax of bodies
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Either way, I got to listen to a lot of that mythology going on out there and revisionism,
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and it just inspired me to write about the 60s scoop.
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It refers to a period when the government, through social services agencies,
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took thousands of indigenous children from households over the period of a couple of decades
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Many of those children ended up permanently adopted.
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Now, as has been the trend lately, every government action has been retroactively declared to be genocidal,
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and compensation, of course, has been demanded.
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Kids taken in the 60s scoop are now referred to as survivors,
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and those kids are survivors indeed, but not of the government action.
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They're survivors thanks to the government action.
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The government just didn't randomly snatch children from a household.
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They were only taken from situations where they were in danger.
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The problem is there are and were thousands of households in dire conditions,
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Indian reserves are and were socioeconomic disasters across Canada.
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Thousands of children live in squalor, neglect, and abuse in these racial enclaves we call reserves.
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In the 60s, as with now, addiction and dysfunction overwhelms thousands of families living on these reserves.
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Children are dying from neglect, abuse, and even house fires as parents are lost and busy with their addictions.
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The most inhumane action that could have been taken in the 60s
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would have been to leave the children in the circumstances they were in.
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The government, of course, then would have been blamed for the harm coming to the kids if it hadn't stepped in.
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In the spirit of revisionism, the government's been portrayed as some evil institution
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determined to snatch kids at every opportunity and put them into state care whether they needed it or not.
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And look, I'm far from a fan of the government, and I often question its motivations,
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but let's not pretend the government was eager to intervene into the catastrophe occurring on Indian reserves across the nation.
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There were many other priorities they would have preferred to work on rather than mire themselves in the contentious issue of intervention.
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Rather than stand up for its options, though, of course, the government's bent over and apologized.
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Settlements have followed and demands for more funds are going to continue for generations.
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Even worse than the apology has been the changes to child welfare policies made in response to the issue.
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Child welfare services have bent over backwards to keep children in Indigenous houses even when it harms the child.
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Some of the cases due to this have been horrific.
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Senator Paula Simons wrote on the tragic case of baby Serenity,
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who was a toddler taken from her parents and given to other caregivers in the family.
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Serenity was abused and died a terrible death under the care of these relations.
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Would she have been worse off in a foster home outside the reserve?
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That family, by the way, tried to sue Simons for writing about it.
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Getting more money and covering up the problem tends to be the path activists take rather than seeking solutions,
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just as the Siksika band has tried charging me for trespassing after I exposed the squalor on their reserve,
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More recently, Sonia Pasqua and Michael Sinclair had their child taken from them due to their abuse of it.
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According to court documents, the couple referred to their child as a paycheck before they scalded the toddler to death.
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They were only sentenced to a few years, by the way.
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This was just recently in Alberta, and likely thanks to Gladue principles,
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Children have died terrible deaths due to an obsession keeping kids with Indigenous families,
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There's a huge blind spot in Canadian policy with Indigenous people.
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It's an utter refusal to admit the reserve system is a complete catastrophe, no matter how much money is thrown at it.
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People were horrified when images of children huffing gasoline and living in terrible conditions were released from Davis Inlet in the 1990s.
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The town was so run down, the government actually built an entirely new town a few miles away down the coast and moved everybody there.
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They couldn't even fix the mess that was there.
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Follow up, a decade or two later, the new town's in shambles,
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and kids were found left alone in a house huffing gasoline surrounded by loaded shotguns,
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Would it be a scoop to remove the children from this situation?
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With Davis Inlet, the government dodged the underlying issue,
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The treatment of Indigenous people in Canada is rife with abuse and race-based laws were terrible.
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and that's to care for those who are being harmed by others, like stop the harm.
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The government must step in to take care of those who can't take care of themselves.
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Because of the revisionist PAP coming from the 60s scoop, children are dying.
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We must look at the root of the issue, and that's the utter and complete failure of the reserve system.
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In the meantime, children are at risk, and they must be removed from dangerous households,
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All right, well, let's see what else is going on in the news out there post-Truth and Reconciliation Day.
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Good. How was your day? Did you do a land acknowledgement?
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I know I've got to get into the habit of that chant, you know,
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reminding everybody that I own my land and it was permanently ceded in Treaty 7.
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It looks like we're going to be proposing a new pipeline.
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Premier Smith will be having a press conference at 1.30, but the Globe and Mail has got a leak on it,
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and they're saying it's going to be an Alberta to B.C. pipeline,
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and it's all going to be planned out with the help of Enbridge, South Pole Corporation, and Trans Mountain.
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Trans Mountain has a bit of experience in building pipelines, Corey.
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So more details coming up, but obviously this is going to be a huge announcement for Alberta and the oil patch.
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And it's over to you, Mr. Carney, and over to you, Mr. Eby, to see what they have to say about it.
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In B.C., the Conservative leader, Rustad, our Jared Jagr, got an exclusive interview with him,
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and he is thrilled and excited and promises that he will do all he can do to get the pipeline going.
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Several provinces raised their minimum wage today, now leaving Alberta as the lowest minimum wage in the country.
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And our Chris Oldcorn has got a column on arguing not to raise it because of the economic problems that it will bring,
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including main layoffs of younger people in those minimum wage jobs.
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The Alberta Prosperity Project is back from another visit to Washington.
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Their spokesman, Jeff Rath, while not revealing who he met, said it was pretty senior guys,
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one degree away from the White House, apparently.
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And they were very interested in listening to Alberta.
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And a member of the Lawrence Bishnois, I don't know how to pronounce it, Lawrence Bishnois gang.
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He's been jailed in Vancouver Island for many years for shooting into a house and setting a car on fire.
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So one of them was caught, he's been sentenced, and one of them is on the run,
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So, and now the biggest problem of the day, Corey, my parents are arriving tomorrow for a visit.
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So do you mind coming over after work and giving me a hand?
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No, I haven't, because you've never invited me.
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Well, it's not unhealthy, but it's not spick and span over there.
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I was going to say, you don't have an Airbnb to keep clean?
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But I mean, it's great to see the parents coming out for a visit.
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And in their younger days, my mom literally used to bring three vacuums,
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and she would get started like 10 minutes after arriving,
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So, yeah, I guess I'm going to have a late night cleaning that up.
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Oh, well, you need that motivation to get around to it.
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and then I'll be motivated to do an end-to-end on it.
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And I guess we'll see you on the pipeline a little later.
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Yes, I'm filling in for Derek, who's gallivanting again somewhere.
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And as our news editor, Gabe Naylor, lots of stories going on, lots breaking.
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I know there's some press conferences going on today and things too,
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All right, before I get to the guest, I'll talk a little bit about something else.
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You've probably seen that going on in the news last night.
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And that was more the night before last, the final Alberta Next meeting.
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And boy, it looked like it turned into quite a scene there, didn't it?
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And Bruce McAllister, who was moderating that event, he messed up.
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But looking at the framing of it, what I strongly suggest people do is check online,
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I posted that video on my X account, just a couple minutes of it, to see exactly what happened.
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And this is why I want to remind you folks why independent media is important.
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And the radio coverage went and clipped the audio from what happened there,
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from the point of where a young fella asked a question, straight to where Bruce unwisely said
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that the kid should be put over his parent's knee.
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If you watch the whole video, you kind of see what's going on.
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Part of the problem was, and maybe part of why I've got more sympathy for this is because
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I have moderated meetings and I have had to chair things and deal with this.
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They'd said repeatedly at this meeting, everybody has to stay on topic.
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The kid got up there with a phone in front of his face, reading clearly from a script,
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the union talking points of the teacher's union.
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You're only supposed to get 45 seconds before the mic was cut off.
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And then you can see with the visual of it, the kid went bananas when the mic was cut off
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This is what led, and again, still unwisely, to have Bruce lose his composure
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and talk about how the kid should be put over his knee.
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But you got to remember, these meetings, there's been 10 of them.
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Listen to the crowd in the background and all the people screaming and shouting back there too.
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Go to enough meetings, you see how these games are played, unfortunately.
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I think, again, McAllister made a terribly unfortunate decision.
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He, you know, apologized for that shortly afterwards.
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But people are framing it as if it was some affront to free speech
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What are you supposed to do at these meetings then?
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Let everybody just bring up every subject they please.
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And then the hundreds of people who came out to hear about the five subjects of the,
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or six or whatever it is, the Alberta next pile, don't hear anything on those subjects
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because people just took it wherever they pleased.
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There was a person online described it best in that they drew a penalty
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because in finally getting under the skin of the moderator long enough,
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everything else that was discussed at the meeting was lost and forgotten in the public realm
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while everybody went on about how Big Bad Bruce cut off the microphone on a kid
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Either way, just be more careful out there, Mr. McAllister.
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And other folks, look at the whole video before freaking too much out about this.
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This was just a political posturing on both sides and both playing,
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It's been an interesting one coming up this time.
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Normally, to be honest, a campaign with an incumbent mayor tends to be dull
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because they get reelected with, you know, a massive showing of support.
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But it's not looking very likely in this particular circumstance.
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I guess we'll start with, just to get you to start with the clip of why then you should
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be the person who would replace Mayor Gondek and why she needs to be replaced.
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I know you want to speak more on the positives of your team.
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But why then is it time now to change out a mayor when she's only been for one term?
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I think what's important is certain people are suited for the right positions to lead.
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And you can see a bit of a lack of leadership the last four years.
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I mean, I'm on a council that is the most disliked council ever.
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And so if there were better options out there, I wouldn't be running for mayor.
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So I'm running to, you know, make this a safe and affordable city that works for everyone.
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And the biggest thing that we've lost over the four years is trust.
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And so I want to regain that trust back from you and the Calgarians and trusting City Hall
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So another dynamic that's new in this election is the party element.
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I mean, to be honest, I've always wanted to see this sort of thing evolve.
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I think perhaps in the long run, it's going to be a better development.
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Like let's say, presumably, and it's a fair question for people with parties, that you
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became the next mayor and a number of fellow party members were in council with you.
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How do you maintain the independence of yourself or the council members if you have
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disparities of views on certain policies and issues when you have as well a party that
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And I think what's interesting about this whole system is the province put forward this
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bill just to legitimize what was already there four years ago.
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And so when we're elected, we're elected as individuals.
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We're elected with the title either independent or communities first under us.
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And we're a, I call us a team, like this is, we didn't come with any party benefits.
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And so we're like-minded individuals that are pushing, you know, for the same sort of
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policies, repealing blanket rezoning, you know, adding more police officers.
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But really what happens is the day after the election, I think is a conversation with, you
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know, myself and all the members of communities first that get elected and say, you know, how
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And so we're, we have committed to seven principles, but there are things that pop
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up in individual communities that I would say, if you're a counselor to that community
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and you feel a certain way about something, your colleagues should support you.
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That's a, that's a counselor based leadership role.
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And we should be listening to our constituents in our communities, not, you know, voting on
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and aspirational things that obviously are never going to come to fruition.
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I mean, one of the top issues this time around is most certainly crime disorder, things on
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It gets frustrating as a person who comes walking downtown when you listen to some people
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in the administration say, it's a perception problem.
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I didn't perceive this going on seven years ago.
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Something has gone drastically much worse than it used to be.
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I mean, more police is one thing, but it's, it's a big issue.
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And people, perception is reality though, right?
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Like when you're walking down the street and you feel unsafe, you feel unsafe.
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When you're getting on the train and you know, you're a mom or a woman, even a man,
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like I hear from some of the dads that I know in, in hockey that they don't feel safe
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They wouldn't put their daughters on the train.
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When we hear our own operators being attacked, how is the safe?
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How am I going to convince you to take a train or a bus if our own operators are being
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So we've talked about, you know, increasing the number of police officers just to get
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And the, the issue is though, is it hasn't been a priority for the last council or the
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council before to my opponents voted to defund the police.
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And it's interesting because they'll rebuttal that and say, well, we gave money back at budget
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And, and my, I guess, rebuttal to that is it doesn't matter.
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You sent a clear signal when you defunded the police during your term that you didn't care
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about the police and you didn't care about the frontline and those that keep your city
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I've talked a lot about the Beltline injection site and how we get that clean and work with
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We talked a little bit about decentralizing the, some of the programs, the drop-in center.
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These are things happening outside those buildings that city council doesn't have control
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over, but we have control over what happens in our streets.
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And, and you're segwaying excellently for me, cause I wanted to ask about that.
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One of the roles as mayor, I mean, people speak often.
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You're just one vote on council, but a mayor also stands out as a representative, as almost
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an ambassador of the city or, or the, the negotiator when it comes to the other levels
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And the relationship between the city and the provincial government has been pretty
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Uh, for example, when the sheriffs were deployed to help downtown and it seemed that the city
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wanted to do nothing more than get them out of here as fast as possible.
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So you'd be looking at a more cooperative attitude with the provincial government, I would hope.
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For, for us that sit in these roles, specifically myself with being, running for mayor, but your job
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is to advocate for your constituents, the provincial government and relationships are key.
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And we may not always agree on things and that's okay.
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Cause that's democracy, but the respect you have to have for those in, you know, at the
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And then together, you know, if the provincial government and the cities are working well,
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you can be quite, um, I would say successful in getting what you need from the federal
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I mean, we, we have infrastructure dollars we need to unlock obviously from the federal
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And so my, my role as mayor is to work, um, with the provincial government, regardless
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who's in power and focus on delivering what we need for Calgarians and getting money, right?
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And so fighting for that is really important, but there's a respect level there.
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You can't be having these conversations on social media.
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Uh, cause you don't agree on something that has to come to a stop because also is the
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public looks at that and thinks you're dysfunctional.
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So you mentioned getting infrastructure dollars on the locked has been a problem
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as well with multiple levels of government in that, uh, the federal and the province
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They'll say, Hey, we're going to fund this, but we got strings attached to it.
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And, uh, and of course the city looks terrible if you say no, and the province gets that
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from the federal government, you know, we don't want to go down that line and say, Oh, well,
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How would you be able to advocate to make sure then that to continue to get those
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transfers, but perhaps standing up for the city's autonomy and being able to
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I think what's important is a clear business case.
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When you go to a bank and you need to borrow money, they want to see a business
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If you're a business owner, that's how this works and understanding with those
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federal dollars, when you're going to the province saying, we need this sort
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of funding for X, Y, Z, they want to understand what does X, Y, Z look like?
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And do they have a role to play in the success of that?
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That's really another thing is making sure that everybody understands where is, you know,
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And that's fine because we all serve the same people, but it's relationships.
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It's understanding what you're asking for and the return on investment back to your
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If you can't show a proper business case, if I was someone that was lending money, I
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When we talked about, you know, getting the green line back and, you know, having those
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conversations, Councillor McLean and I brought the province back to the table, we had a clear
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And now can we unlock the dollars to move forward?
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And so we know we're moving forward on projects like that.
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You know, this is what we need support with $330 million, better than the last deal.
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And they unlock the money for us to deliver on a project that we know we needed.
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So it's relationship building and it's really being able to justify why you need that money.
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So another issue that not many, I guess, people don't pay too close attention to with those
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of us who are weenies enough to watch council meetings is that the dynamic between the mayor
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and council and city administration, which I'll give my own view on it.
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I think it got really badly skewed, particularly more prior to your time with the head and inchie.
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But whereas it seems almost like the mayor and council answer to the administration rather
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than the council providing oversight to the administration, would you be able to change
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I know you don't want to be fighting with administration.
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That's the worst thing that could be happening, but it just seems that the relationship's skewed
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When I worked at administration, I reported to council and that really did change during
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And one of the pillars of my, you know, I'd say to-do list is getting city back on the
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So, you know, administration reports to council or senior administration reports to council
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And so we have got to take control of what's happening at city hall.
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And when you see all these taxes going up and the budget being inflated, a lot of that
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comes from things that administration would like to see, not always council direction.
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You know, I'm ready to take things in a different direction and make sure that, you know, everyone
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understands kind of the governance structure of what council does and how senior administration
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reports and how administration, like we have great people doing great work on the front
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They're also feeling a little bit, I would say, not valued by their own leaders.
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And in order for anything to happen at the city right now, any promise you're hearing from
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my opponents or myself, if you don't get control of that senior administration to know
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that council's in charge, nothing is going to change.
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And that applies with other levels of government too.
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People could never name who the deputy minister of any ministry is.
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And if you really want to know who tends to hold the power, that's where it is.
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And if they foot drag, no elected politicians are getting done.
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And it doesn't matter if you've got a team, a slate, anything.
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And so we've got to, you know, it's, it's not, it's, it's an uncomfortable thing to
00:24:24.500
And I talk about it because I'm running for that reason.
00:24:29.660
And I, I pledged a little bit about more senior leadership reporting directly to council.
00:24:34.040
Things did change eight years ago and not for the better.
00:24:36.240
And then the last four years, we had really seen a shift in, you know, administration bringing
00:24:46.500
It needs to be focused and we need to deliver on the core services Calgaryens are asking for.
00:24:51.260
But a governance, um, kind of overview needs to happen.
00:24:59.380
I mean, every politician, every government just likes to have more to spend.
00:25:04.460
Uh, municipalities are very limited in Alberta.
00:25:06.500
It's a fair case where they're kind of locked in with property taxes as a primary area of
00:25:11.980
Are you looking at it perhaps diversifying some of the abilities or, uh, that that's something
00:25:16.860
It's never really been, maybe it's been successful with, but they've been trying to find other
00:25:21.860
I don't want to see more taxes, but I could support different ways of collecting perhaps.
00:25:25.820
I think what's important is you have to focus on what you have right now.
00:25:28.400
So the tax rate and how we reduce that, how we reduce the 22% that was increased over
00:25:32.840
four years, looking for efficiencies on things that wouldn't affect your frontline or your
00:25:38.300
And then looking at opportunities to work with the provincial government and changing some
00:25:41.960
of the rules around the municipal government act.
00:25:43.980
Do we look at different subclasses and things like that?
00:25:47.640
But right now, when you walk in and look at the budget, your first, well, one of your
00:25:51.620
most important decisions as a new elected council is to, um, is to, you know, approve
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And we've increased taxes for, you know, the last four years.
00:26:05.220
And we have to look at that 5.4% and say, what are we getting out of this?
00:26:12.100
And I've also pledged with my colleagues on communities first to bring back a finance,
00:26:16.020
um, a finance oversight committee where, you know, senior leadership is coming to this
00:26:21.620
committee quarterly and opening up their books publicly.
00:26:24.620
And when you do that publicly, it's, you start to be accountable.
00:26:28.220
And so there needs to be accountable and, and we need to be transparent about where our
00:26:32.520
dollars are going line item by line item in every business unit.
00:26:36.300
Well, and getting some of that and following through, like something I'd like to see investigated.
00:26:41.520
And I think a lot of Calgarians were, you cannot find three blocks stretch in the city
00:26:46.340
They've ripped up half the city, but it seems like they can't finish anything.
00:26:49.600
Uh, the poor souls in Marta Loop are going bankrupt with an absurdly long construction
00:26:56.960
Are the city workers dropping the ball or contractors dropping the ball?
00:27:00.360
I mean, it's ridiculous how long it takes to get something done now.
00:27:03.480
And I think what's happening is, I would say Cumberland infrastructure that has just caught
00:27:11.000
We were, we're 10 years behind the unfortunate thing though, the businesses and the residents
00:27:16.000
And so I've, a week ago, I pledged for the infrastructure planning office out of the mayor's
00:27:21.520
office, which not just has a segment of the, you know, city builders and developers at the
00:27:27.700
table, but also the business community at the table and understanding the impacts to infrastructure
00:27:32.400
So before a project, during a project and after a project.
00:27:34.980
And if a business or a group of businesses end up suing the city, you have failed as a city.
00:27:42.360
You should never be the reason they cannot operate.
00:27:45.820
And, you know, if you look at 17th Avenue construction that happened years ago, I was
00:27:49.040
the manager of business, local economy at the time I worked with administration.
00:27:53.660
The, the, the team that were kind of part of that 17th Avenue revitalization, it really
00:27:58.360
They did it by phase by phase, but this has the, not just the Martell Loop, but even
00:28:02.140
Stephen Avenue and other, the areas you go down to West Hillhurst, the ball has been
00:28:05.720
And we can't continue like this because time is money, not only for the industry to deliver.
00:28:12.100
There's a sense of uncertainty, but also the businesses are impacted.
00:28:15.680
There are many businesses in Martell Loop that have closed their doors and residents are feeling
00:28:21.800
like it's just now bleeding into their community.
00:28:24.620
And if you go down, even in Hillhurst now, you can see what's one way in certain directions.
00:28:33.540
Uh, you know, they've talked a little bit about mission being next.
00:28:36.800
So there's gotta be better oversight and transparency and allowing certainty to our project and our
00:28:45.120
I should have asked a little earlier, but is the blanket rezoning?
00:28:52.360
It's got to go back to the way it was prior to that public hearing that we all sat through
00:28:58.160
I mean, I, my, my colleagues and I did, but majority of council did not, they went forward with
00:29:04.460
We need to go back to the way it was and we can look for efficiency in the planning process
00:29:09.220
to make sure that, you know, builders and developers, um, have some certainty and we're
00:29:13.900
getting shovels in the ground faster, but blanket rezoning itself is not working.
00:29:22.140
Before you go, where, where can people find information on your campaign, whether to send
00:29:26.340
you an email and complain or send them email of support or whatever?
00:29:30.960
And, uh, the most important thing, uh, for everyone to know at this point is a vast poll
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start on Monday and it runs the 11th and then election day is October 20th, but please get
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This is one of the biggest elections Calgary is going to see.
00:29:43.620
And, uh, it's all about the, it's all about you.
00:29:46.540
So if you want to see change, get out to vote and I look forward to hearing from you.
00:29:52.300
Look forward to the end of the campaign to see what's happening.
00:29:57.720
And yes, we do have a competitive municipal election going on for, uh, the first time
00:30:02.780
I mean, they're all kind of competitive in their little raises, but this is a big one.
00:30:07.420
We're looking at a very possible large turnover of our municipal government in Calgary.
00:30:17.060
You know, we overlook our municipal governments.
00:30:21.600
And these guys spend a heck of a lot of our money.
00:30:24.480
These guys have policies that come very directly into our lives and impact us.
00:30:29.080
Those are the ones that are right outside your front door, literally.
00:30:35.080
CB fixes all says, quit funding idiotic sculptures and paintings and stupid things.
00:30:39.660
I mean, I could have talked to Ms. Sharp on a lot more things.
00:30:48.520
We need them to speak up and stop some of those things.
00:30:51.340
Stan McClain's been pretty good in talking about some of those things, too, and others.
00:30:57.400
I mean, the public art is a good example, even though people keep poo-pooing and dismissing it.
00:31:01.280
Oh, it's only a few million here, a few million there.
00:31:05.780
And I guess that's what art's supposed to be for.
00:31:07.280
When you go into a city and you see something as stupid as a blue ring on an old overpass and find out that German artists, not even local ones, got half a million dollars to make that stupid blue ring on an overpass.
00:31:19.160
Or other artists put rocks on sticks out in West Calgary.
00:31:25.180
Another half million or more on a side of a road.
00:31:31.760
But this just keeps going on and on and on and on.
00:31:35.420
I mean, it's one thing to have one or two stupid art pieces, but everybody gets mad about it, but they never stop.
00:31:50.420
And it's, you know, worth taking the time to tour these things.
00:31:57.800
We see here, I've got a commenter who says, oh, you're talking about public art, which is the point of the art.
00:32:02.940
I mean, it should catch the eye and be worth discussing, but is it really the point of it to have everybody discussing it and talk about how frigging stupid it was?
00:32:13.940
No, we should be talking about, wow, that was an amazing installation.
00:32:18.200
Wow, that's something I want to tell other people about.
00:32:20.560
And I want to encourage them to go have a look at it if they come to visit my city.
00:32:24.640
You know, this is the sort of thing I want to foster.
00:32:27.020
I really want to celebrate the person who created this piece that gets people thinking and talking about things.
00:32:32.440
But if the thing is only a talking point because it's stupid, well, then it's wasting our money.
00:32:41.900
Either way, no, they should leave that to public tender.
00:32:49.160
We should be the ones who actually get the say on what's going to be built out there.
00:32:52.460
Not a bunch of inbred hipsters who are tied in with city administration who managed to get those grants to build that junk and rip you off.
00:33:09.840
Is it really the city's role to keep a full-time poet on staff?
00:33:13.740
Have you ever heard of the poet laureate, who it is?
00:33:23.580
Speaking of entitled people ripping you off, it's the month of the strike, isn't it?
00:33:28.200
Canada Post workers with the dumbest strike on earth, they're still at it.
00:33:33.040
This time, they've gone on strike, and it just seems like nobody's really noticed.
00:33:36.240
Because they did it so recently, most people have already moved on, but after the last strike by Christmas, people, finally, the stubborn holdouts moved on to getting electronic payments on things, not being dependent on Canada Post.
00:33:51.540
It's still inconveniencing a few people, but they don't hold people hostage anymore.
00:34:09.580
And it's down by, what, two-thirds or 80% over the last 10 years?
00:34:16.500
That was, you had to in the past send documents, checks, communications, grandma's birthday gift to you.
00:34:23.600
That would be sent in a letter, and you kind of needed to get those communications every day and send your payments out every day.
00:34:29.040
And five-day-a-week mail was important, and it merited having people walk up and down your block.
00:34:39.620
And the federal government finally did the right thing.
00:34:43.780
They said, look, we've got to cut it down to a fraction of the delivery.
00:34:49.880
And, you know, we don't need delivery right to your door anymore.
00:34:55.060
Three-quarters of the country already hasn't had delivery to the door.
00:34:58.340
It's just Trudeau managed to actually promise the union something, so they kept mail monkeys walking up and down the streets delivering flyers to everybody's houses directly for a third of the places.
00:35:15.300
If you're really that dumb, you know, you really should be negotiating on reality, saying, look, how can we ease this transition?
00:35:21.160
How can we soften the blow for the inevitable layoffs that are going to come?
00:35:27.400
They're giving the government all the ammunition that it needs.
00:35:30.100
So people will not be sympathetic when that ax comes down, and it's going to, you guys.
00:35:36.280
You guys should have started planning for this when the fax machine came around.
00:35:40.620
You certainly should have started planning for it when email came around.
00:35:48.120
Walking around with picket lines, you look like idiots.
00:35:52.720
Speaking of picketing morons, well, I mean, these ones aren't quite as dim, but they're just as entitled.
00:35:59.880
They turned down a deal that would make them the second highest paid in Western Canada, capping out after five years, I believe it is, at getting up to $114,000.
00:36:09.620
Don't forget you get July off, August off, a break in November off, Christmas break off, spring break off, sick days, benefits, an incredible match pension plan, and they're whining.
00:36:26.780
But I also know that they're bloody well paid well enough.
00:36:29.600
Plus, the government promised to give $3,000 more teachers.
00:36:39.040
Let's talk about who a lot of the teachers are.
00:36:45.120
All of us who went through school know we had teachers who were incredible, some who wholeheartedly embraced what they were doing.
00:36:53.400
They saw it as a role to take on, to make children better functional as they grow, to become adults and live a good life in society.
00:37:04.740
And there were some who were just mailing it in.
00:37:06.500
And more and more and more of them are mailing it in.
00:37:09.700
I tracked this all the way back down to our post-secondary institutions, shoving kids into, all over the place, the liberal arts programs, which, fine, if you want to take them.
00:37:19.180
But eventually, people with liberal arts degrees get tired of making lattes.
00:37:24.340
You know, that philosophy degree just didn't pay off.
00:37:28.100
So then they upgrade to a teaching certificate because they know that they can get all those summer holidays, a good pension, and all the rest.
00:37:33.780
Because it's just short, late to go there and make decent money.
00:37:37.920
The problem, again, though, is they aren't in it because they love it.
00:37:44.000
So then the motivation starts turning into, I just want to get as much out of this as I possibly can while I'm here.
00:37:50.920
And, yeah, when you do a job you can't stand, it gets a lot more tiresome.
00:37:58.600
The teachers' union is holding parents hostage.
00:38:06.980
I pained myself by listening to, you know, talk radio.
00:38:10.340
I still like to keep up on things before I come in to hear the studio in the office.
00:38:12.860
I listen to the talk scandulously saying, the government had a plan before the strike.
00:38:17.860
They already had a plan in place to give money to parents to help pay for child care to carry them over during the strike.
00:38:26.680
We've seen this coming down the pipe for months.
00:38:29.520
You know, you guys would have crapped all over the government if they didn't have a plan.
00:38:32.760
But what it is indicating is the government's willing to wait this one out.
00:38:38.240
They're making it clear that this sucks, but parents, your kids are going to be home for a while.
00:38:43.120
Their education is going to be stunted because the teacher's got greedy.
00:38:47.080
And they're going to help you a little bit while you wait this out.
00:38:51.240
But I think hopefully, hopefully, it's starting the framework for changing the whole system.
00:38:57.020
One of the things we need to get out of the system is the bloody unions.
00:38:59.140
Now, the right for organized labor is an important one.
00:39:03.440
I do believe in right-to-work legislation, though.
00:39:14.420
And if you're not familiar with what that means is, let's say there's this amount per child, whatever it might be.
00:39:24.780
And the parent chooses a school, and they can dedicate that voucher, and those dollars will go to that school.
00:39:31.940
Whether it's homeschooling, whether it's a private school, whether it's a public school, whether it's a charter school, whether it's a religious school, it doesn't matter.
00:39:40.200
And people say, oh, private tax dollars will go to private institutions.
00:39:45.840
Do you think they buy their stationery from a socialist government-owned corporation?
00:39:50.560
We spend tax dollars on private provision of services at times.
00:39:54.200
Yes, that happens in the healthcare system, too, and it needs to happen more.
00:40:05.180
The politics of envy, you can't raise everybody up with the politics of envy.
00:40:08.860
All you can do is drag everybody down to the same level of misery.
00:40:14.020
You don't like that your neighbor can afford to take their kid to a better school?
00:40:19.580
Make more money so that you can do that and put your kids in a better spot.
00:40:24.500
But your kid gets the exact same amount of dollars as that kid does.
00:40:32.340
In fact, you, if you were the low-income person complaining, probably paid a heck of a lot
00:40:38.700
less into the system that led to that amount of dollars going into the voucher for your
00:40:53.940
Talk about, well, we have all the diverse kids, all the diverse needs.
00:40:59.820
All sorts of kids respond to different teaching environments.
00:41:03.180
But then as soon as you actually propose changing it by having a variety of schools and school
00:41:07.200
choices, suddenly the teachers, you know, oh, no, no, no, no, no.
00:41:09.260
We all have to have them in the same standardized schools.
00:41:12.780
That's the reality of what it always comes down to.
00:41:19.640
And part of it is the schools aren't responding and balancing to where the students need to
00:41:26.080
be because it's too bloody hard to operate or move or shift or adapt to things in a union
00:41:33.100
Inner city schools in the bigger cities are actually underpopulated.
00:41:37.620
Whereas the ones in the suburbs where everybody's moving are overloaded.
00:41:45.940
Let's have new schools springing up in areas where there are need through private investment.
00:41:49.540
If the voucher follows the kid, take some of that pressure off specialized schools.
00:41:56.480
Remember the unions, they don't care about the kids, guys.
00:41:59.080
I'm not saying teachers are heartless and hate kids.
00:42:01.060
But when you talk of the union group, guys, they're there for the teachers.
00:42:09.260
You know, some of those numbers going on, I believe it's about 50 some thousand teachers
00:42:18.240
If you divide it up, there's like a teacher for every 20 students.
00:42:22.320
So they scream about alleged classes with 40 kids in them.
00:42:25.640
They've screamed about that since the 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, and up to now.
00:42:31.580
Some schools, if you look around, because of that imbalance between inner and suburban
00:42:35.820
areas, you will be able to find overcrowded classes.
00:42:38.520
If you look hard enough, you'll find some classes where there's one teacher with 10 kids.
00:42:42.260
So why don't we try to maintain the balance more instead of just tossing more money at
00:42:46.100
Well, because that's all they're asking for is more money.
00:42:53.700
This gets back to what I was talking about when they're doing things like stacking the
00:42:58.940
Remember, the kid came up talking, teachers' union talking points.
00:43:03.100
Take a 16-year-old kid, stick him at a microphone with a scripted thing to read.
00:43:06.940
Do you think your average 16-year-old kid happened to know, oh, look, half an hour ago,
00:43:12.400
here's the exact number that voted in the strike vote.
00:43:16.700
Turns out he's a kid who's also organizing a student walkout in support of the teachers'
00:43:21.960
And it turns out that kid right afterwards went and did a video interview, sit down with
00:43:28.160
This was just a run-of-the-mill student who was concerned with a question who got shut
00:43:33.520
He was a kid who was trained and put there as a plant by the teachers' union to try and
00:43:36.680
sidetrack an event into something completely unrelated to it.
00:43:40.600
So, yeah, we've got a big battle coming up, guys.
00:43:46.620
But I think it's time to starve them out a bit.
00:43:51.720
I know the parents are going to have to suffer, but you know what?
00:43:54.260
When the teachers get a couple of months off, which can add up to $20,000 and more, that's
00:43:59.480
going to cut into their summer vacation, isn't it?
00:44:01.640
Maybe they'll start to see a little more reason, won't they?
00:44:05.500
Start pretending to care about the students and get back to work.
00:44:15.120
A professor fired so much for tenure for speaking the truth at Mount Royal University in Calgary.
00:44:21.700
She's been doing speaking things in other venues, and she tried one in Winnipeg.
00:44:29.800
She was assaulted by a bunch of organized thugs.
00:44:33.040
And, you know, it sounds like the university was probably promoting that and pulled them
00:44:38.420
together because the left responds with violence rather than thought.
00:44:56.500
No more crap from the left with their Marxist crap on attacking, shooting, assaulting voices
00:45:18.760
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00:45:25.860
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