CORY MORGAN SHOW： Unchecked federalism is sinking Nenshi’s NDP
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Corey has a new backdrop for today's show, and it's not as scenic as he'd like it to be, but it's a good one. Today, he's joined by Chris Scott, owner of the Whistle Stock Cafe in Mirco, to talk about the Alberta government, the Alberta Education Teachers' Federation, and the Alberta independence movement.
Transcript
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I've got a new backdrop for today, unfortunately not as scenic as I wanted it to be.
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I'm still down in the States, I'm actually in southern Arizona, right near the Mexican border.
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And this washed out whiteness behind me was showing a beautiful desert scene from outside of my fifth wheel.
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I was going to be camped outside for this show, but the wind is just blowing like all get out out there.
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So I figure you guys want to be able to hear me while the show is going on.
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So I'm doing it from inside the comfort of the fifth wheel.
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And it won't impact the rest of our content for the day.
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We've still got a lot to cover and a good time to be had.
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So in a little while I'm going to have Chris Scott on.
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He's the owner of the Whistle Stock Cafe in Mirror.
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And he spoke at a meeting for the British Columbia Prosperity Project.
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Yes, the independence movement is spreading out to BC now.
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Multiple provinces are getting independence movements going now.
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And, well, the opponents to it don't really know what to do about it.
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And that kind of brings me into what I want to talk about to kind of kick things off today.
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So the UCP under Premier Daniel Smith, I mean, they've offered up a lot of errors that an adept opposition party could have taken advantage of.
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I mean, the Alberta Health Services procurement scandal should have been gold for the NDP who oppose any form of health care reform or private contracting.
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And yet they couldn't get the issue to grow legs.
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Internal caucus discontent led two UCP MLAs to finding themselves sitting as independent members.
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But the NDP couldn't manage to widen those cracks of division.
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On the budgetary front, the UCPs posted deficits, which could have given the opposition space to campaign upon fiscal responsibility.
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So, I mean, also, we've had legacy media left-leaning pundits carrying as much water for Ninchy's NDP as they could.
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They accused Smith of banning books when pornography was removed from children's libraries.
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And they claimed that children's lives would be put at risk if boys were prevented from participating in girls' sports.
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They pumped the tires for disgraced former MLA Lukasik's forever Canadian petition stunt and lent false credibility to the union-inspired flurry of recall initiatives filed against over 20 MLAs.
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Lukasik's petitions all but forgotten, and the recall efforts are failing dismally.
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Nahed Menchi has led the NDP now since June of 2024.
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He's held a seat in the legislature since June of 2025, and he's sat as the leader of the opposition for a full fall session now.
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Now, this should be the honeymoon phase for a fresh new opposition leader.
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If there's any time for the NDP to gain ground, it would be during Menchi's first couple of years in office,
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and the results are in it's looking pretty dismal for Menchi and the Democratic Socialists of the NDP.
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A Leger poll conducted between January 23rd and 26th found the UCP just climbing in the polls while the NDP are sinking.
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The Smith government commands 50% of support compared to 37% for Menchi's struggling party,
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and seat projections based on the latest numbers indicate the NDP would lose several urban seats if an election were held today.
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UCP raised $9.3 million in 2025, while the NDP garnered $6.3 million.
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I mean, it's not peanuts, but it's well below the UCP.
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Union rage over the back-to-work order for teachers didn't translate into party donations.
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I guess a 12% raise wasn't enough to encourage Alberta's woe-be-cought educators to open their wallets and fund the NDP.
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So with the NDP being granted so much opportunity, what's holding them back aside from Menchi's lack of charm?
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Not so much that the NDP should be embracing secessionism,
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but that they don't appear to be a party willing to stand up to Ottawa and Alberta's behalf.
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I mean, unity has been a top issue since the last federal election when the Liberals were kept in power.
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The Alberta independence movement has blossomed,
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and while there might not be a majority support for provincial independence,
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it's all but assured a referendum on the issue is going to be held this fall.
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But not Albertans want to vote for independence.
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They do see Ottawa and the Liberal government as the greatest threat to Alberta's well-being right now.
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They want to feel confidence that the Premier of Alberta will put Alberta first,
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and then she just can't provide that confidence.
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The NDP under Rachel Notley's premiership was tight with former Prime Minister Trudeau.
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In fact, Notley even appeared a little besotted with him during public appearances together.
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Menchi was only a little less doe-eyed while attending events with Trudeau,
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While Trudeau was thankfully ridden off into the sunset to pursue pop stars,
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the hangover from his tenure remains in Alberta,
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and those closely associated with him are not well-received by Alberta voters.
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Carney might be brighter than Trudeau, but he's still perceived by Albertans to be somebody to be guarded against,
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and the NDP just doesn't inspire confidence on that front.
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Alberta's NDP is also still subservient to the federal party.
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Despite their decoupling of memberships between branches of the party,
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and then she still has to answer to the federal leader of the NDP,
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Singh's complete capitulation to Trudeau in Parliament showed where the federal NDP stand on that front.
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Premier Smith has masterfully played both sides, actually,
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when it comes to the independence movement in Alberta.
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She constantly reiterates she wants Alberta to remain within Canada,
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but has provided and supported the mechanism for triggering an independence referendum.
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Now, Smith can make demands of the federal government
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and point to the growth and the support for independence when the feds shoot those demands down.
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She hasn't put herself into the sovereignist camp,
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but has successfully placed herself in the role as a key defender of Alberta.
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unless he can convince Albertans he'll put the interest of Alberta before the federal government.
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And that's a tall order for a man who tied himself that tightly to the Trudeau regime.
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He's going to have to find a way to distance himself from his staunch federalism
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while not appearing a sympathetic force to the independence movement.
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the UCP is going to continue to gain support no matter how many political gifts they offer to the NDP.
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So that's kind of a bright news story to kick off things today.
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Let's see what else is going on in the news out there.
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Check in with our news editor, Dave Naylor, who's in the confines of the newsroom there.
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Good, Corey, even though you are a great disappointment to me.
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You promised me a table with you on it, with open desert,
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you sitting there in a tinfoil hat for this show.
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You're now sitting in the bathroom of your fifth wheel.
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On the bright side, I got you a fridge magnet yesterday.
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From Oregon Pipe National Monument down by the Mexican border.
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When you're coming back through the border next week, you know, think of me at the duty-free shop,
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Well, you know, I like watching the ski jumping.
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You know, it's not like the Olympics used to be.
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You don't just set aside that time and expect to watch it all anymore.
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How close did you come to qualifying for the Olympic ski jumping team?
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The nice part of being a ski jumper in the 80s, though, is there's still only so many ski jumpers.
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And with all that hype, with the Olympics coming to Calgary back in 88, we all kind of got over-promoted and over-funded for a little while.
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But to be frank, with my own talent as a ski jumper, I was only kind of middling at best.
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Well, you got to see a bit of the world for free anyways, right?
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It looks like the federal government is going to back down on their EV mandate.
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That's up there from our business whiz, Dave Winnick.
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We've got a story on Paul's, a very popular Airdrie pizza joint.
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They have made their location available to sign the independence petition.
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We've got your favorite guy, Nahid Nenshi, telling Daniel Smith to stop her word salad and to pick a side in the referendum.
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Carney has abolished the offices of the Islamophobia czar and the anti-Semitism czar.
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And he's going to mix them all and put them all under one big tent.
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Calgarian Tate McRae, a singing superstar, is creating some controversy because she appeared in an ad for the American Olympic team.
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So there's some people questioning why she would do that.
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It was a bloodbath today, Corey, at the Washington Post.
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They laid off a third of their staff, a ton of overseas people, all their photojournalists.
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The Epstein files appear close to toppling the prime minister, believe it or not.
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The British prime minister, Keir Starmer, is in hot water over the fact he appointed a gentleman called Peter Mandelson to become U.S. ambassador,
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even though Starmer knew about the deep connections Mandelson had with Epstein.
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And one you'll probably be all too familiar with, Corey, stray dogs on Indian reserves.
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The Blood Nation in southern Alberta has had to declare a state of emergency because of roaming packs of feral dogs attacking people.
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So all that and more, Corey, on our website this lunch hour.
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Well, you're not struggling to find content, as you said.
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It's just a matter of picking what stands out most.
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I imagine you're pumped for the game this Sunday.
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So I think it should be a comfortable 14-point victory.
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I got to admit, I prefer the Seahawks over the Patriots.
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I'm trying to pull a little bit of optimism for my beleaguered Steelers right now,
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though both of those teams that are in the playoffs now did so after getting new coaches.
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So maybe that's what will help the Steelers along next year.
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Yeah, but they hired good winning coaches, not a Dallas Cowboy coach.
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Well, no, they took that fellow from the Titans there, what's his name again,
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And like I said, I'm grasping, but I got to look forward to next year.
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Yeah, before that, Corey, we've got a Battle of Alberta at the Saladone tonight.
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Thank you for the update, and I will endeavor to be at a more scenic location for you next week.
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I've got a couple of minutes before my next guest.
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And the name of the owner of that is kind of escaping me, but he's a very non-woke person.
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And he got into a lot of, you know, usual blowback and everything for being a little too candid with his thoughts on Instagram.
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So, of course, the hordes came out and screamed and called for boycotts of his business and everything else.
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I've gone to the Paul's Pizza and there's a few of them.
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His main one's kind of a nerdy, I think, or North Calgary.
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But it's really a gamble when you do mix your politics with your business in general.
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It's just, it's up to the owner, you know, power to them if they want to go that route.
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I'm not sure if it's always the best idea, but it's certainly up to him.
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But, you know, it can be, it can really cut into your sales.
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And my guest, who's going to be coming on in a moment, Chris Scott, did the same sort of thing, of course, with his whistle-stop cafe and mirror.
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I don't know how well it worked out for his business, but it certainly made him a nationally known person who stands on his principles and stood up against being shut down.
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You know, they've illegalized his ability to serve people food during the pandemic.
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But he wasn't afraid, I guess, to mix the business with the politics.
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So if Chris is in the lobby, we'll bring him in and he'll have a chat, though, because we're talking about the BC Prosperity Project,
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who have held a founding meeting in Campbell River on Vancouver Island.
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I can't see the lobby with this set up right now, so I'm not sure if Chris is there.
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Hopefully he is, and if he isn't, well, he'll be pulled into the show.
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As I was saying, I was thrilled to hear, you know, just not only that they're organizing, but that you took the time to go out and speak to this, I guess you could say,
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founding group for the British Columbia Prosperity Project out in Campbell River.
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And just so you know, it wasn't just that that got me out here.
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My grandparents, they still live in Campbell River.
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They're 93 and 94, and I'm always trying to find a reason to get away from my busy life to visit.
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So when I saw that the founding meeting for the British Columbia Prosperity Project was in the city I was born in, Campbell River, where my family still is,
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it was, hey, we're leaving in two days, going to the island, and here we are.
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So you're in the right place at the right time.
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I remember going fishing through Painter's Lodge with guided salmon fishing out there.
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So, I mean, it's just something people don't think of.
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But they forget that, you know, aside from lower mainland B.C., British Columbians are Western Canadians,
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and they aren't all as thrilled with Ottawa as some people might imagine.
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Well, you know what, the rationale for independence in Alberta is the same as rationale for independence in British Columbia.
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We're subject to the same constitutional, you know, systemic issues that put us in a position where our voices just don't really carry much weight in Ottawa.
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And, you know, even the lower mainland, look what's happened in the lower mainland in the last 30, 40 years.
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The government has allowed speculative investment to drive up real estate prices in the lower mainland so far that, you know, nobody can afford it anymore.
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So there is a self-determination that we're all lacking in Western Canada is a common denominator.
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Yeah, well, I like to regularly remind people who, you know, might not be political weenies like me or as old as me,
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is to remember in the late 80s and the early 90s, lower mainland B.C. actually had a lot of conservative strength.
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There were a lot of Reform Party members who were just a Western Canadian party at that time,
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and they were holding seats out in the Vancouver area and down in that part of the world.
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Like, it's just a matter, I think, of organization.
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I mean, when people are hurting, as you said, with housing prices and everything else going on,
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you know, we shouldn't write off the potential for support down there in lower mainland B.C.
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And even going back a little further, you know who Elmer Knutson is, Corey.
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Elmer Knutson had pretty successful meetings in Vancouver, on Vancouver Island,
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and in other places in British Columbia in the early 80s prior to the repatriation of the Constitution.
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And that was because, you know, British Columbia, just like Alberta, has largely felt, you know, unheard by Ottawa.
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And it's frustrating to be taken along for the ride and not have any real input as to where you're going.
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It's just renewed because of the success Alberta's having in pursuing their self-determination.
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Yeah, well, and Saskatchewan's been taken off excellently with the Saskatchewan Prosperity Project.
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I like how these are independent, you know, units forming in different provinces.
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And they're doing it on an unabashedly independence platform.
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They're campaigning on holding a referendum this fall.
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Do you think the Federation is finally perhaps reaching its end days?
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We got cracks forming all over from east to west now.
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Canada has been referred to as an experiment by many people, including Federalists.
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And if you look at the outcome of the experiment, which is Canada, it was supposed to be,
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the idea was supposed to be that we could unify under a common banner and prosper together.
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But as we found out, specifically as Western Canadians, you know, our values aren't all the same.
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We don't particularly want to go to the same place.
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I mean, Alberta, most of British Columbia, Saskatchewan, probably Manitoba, they don't
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particularly want to usher in the new world order.
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So, you know, when your values diverge in ways as they have across Canada, it only makes sense
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Like, we can't be governed under the same rules as those that have a different destination
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And that's the outcome we're seeing now with the Canadian experiment.
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And I mean, nothing less, at least I've said it, the massive constitutional reform is going
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We can't even get relatively minor constitutional reform done.
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I mean, the only capitalist I can see for constitutional reform is a province having a positive referendum
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And that's where I was even just maybe a year and a half ago, Corey, I was a, hey, we need
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the leverage to amend the constitution and fix these things so that the Canadian tattoo
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tattooed or flag tattooed on my back makes sense.
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But I've come to realize, you know, our voices aren't effective enough, even if we did get
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a constitutional convention, even if we did open it and do some amendments.
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I fear that right now with a prime minister like Mark Carney, who wrote in his book Values,
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how, you know, the ordinary person has to give up rights and freedoms in order for us
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to survive, you know, a guy who hates capitalism and hates energy use.
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If we opened and tried to amend the constitution right now and people that have those types
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of values have a stronger voice than us, what would we end up with?
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I doubt it would be anything better or more equitable.
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So getting back to the British Columbia meeting, I think I saw reports, you know, that's not
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that unexpected, there were a few hecklers in attendance or protesters outside or something
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Yeah, they're, you know, they're perfectly nice people.
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I, on my way in, I, I stopped and kind of interjected in a few conversations.
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And it was the same kind of things that we hear all across the board.
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The very first thing I heard was, oh, Alberta, a bunch of hillbilly, whatever they said.
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And I turned to him, I said, listen, you know, that's exactly why we're leaving is because
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We're completely disrespected within Confederation.
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Alberta stands up to, to do something on their own and immediately they're just name
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The second one was, I asked the question, you know, why is it that you want to be part
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Why, why is it that you want to stay under these rules?
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And I got the same things like, oh, Canada is the best on the world stage.
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We have the largest, uh, we have, we have great GDP.
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And, and the list went on and on with some more ideological things.
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We even got into some conversations about the tanker ban and, uh, you know, the protesters
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were saying, well, you, well, you don't care about, uh, the, the hundreds of first nations
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And I'm like, what do you mean will be destroyed?
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You know, there's, there's no evidence to support what you're saying.
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So what I found was the, the 20, maybe 25 people out there, there's quite a few and kudos
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It was raining and they still came out their arguments against the idea of independence
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or self-governance are all, at least in my opinion, seem to be quite emotionally driven
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I've talked about that in past things or even wrote about it.
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You know, that we can't dismiss the emotional attachment to the Federation either emotions
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or we're trying to vote yes or no, or we're this way or that way.
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So we, we have to approach them with reason, even if they, if they get us a little grumpy
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sometimes, uh, getting aside from them though, uh, how about with the, the, the local people
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who did come out so that this is starting the core, like a, was there a good group, uh, organized
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volunteers signed up so this could spread and, and turn into the kind of movement the ATT
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Yeah, so it's, uh, it's grassroots completely new in its infancy.
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Um, it's, uh, it's a, it's a group of concerned British Columbians.
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And there was actually some people from Alberta in the room.
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Who are, understand that the, uh, the patriotism and the emotional feelings that keep us attached
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to Canada are quickly being overcome with the reality that even British Columbia, uh, needs
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Uh, it was, uh, it reminded me about the, the infancy of the Alberta prosperity project,
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you know, back in 2021, when we met in a shop in, uh, in Nisku under cover of darkness
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for fear of being arrested, uh, very similar to that.
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So I would think that over the next few months, we're going to see a lot of people volunteer,
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uh, as the movement grows, people will be emboldened so that they feel free to share their
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opinions unabashedly about British Columbia independence.
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And it's, uh, I think the, the independence movements across Western Canada are going to,
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Like when Alberta has a, we get our numbers and we, we get our referendum, that's going
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to get people talking to British Columbia and Saskatchewan.
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So the, uh, the ideas are becoming commonplace and mainstream, uh, the, the stigma of, you
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know, in, of, of separation is being reduced and the conversations are, are changing.
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So they've got kind of a, a lot of organization ahead of them.
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Like I said, it was great to see the beginning.
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So I imagine that their plan is to spread out, get more regional chapters, kind of get a
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more of a central organization, things like that going, and they'll have to, and it seems
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pretty unlikely with the EB government, but try to determine a path where they can get
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citizens initiated referendum legislation, uh, from their provincial government.
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Like it's, it's, things will have to change somewhat dramatically, but I mean, the time to
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And you know, one, one thing that, uh, it actually surprised me when our premier in Alberta,
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Danielle Smith, she said, well, you know, if you can't do a referendum through the government,
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Governments are secondary to the will of the people.
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Governments are supposed to serve the will of the people.
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And our premier in Alberta, she, she believes in that strongly.
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So she said, if you, you know, if you want to do something like this and government's
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You mobilize, you get the numbers, you build the movement, you get the signatures in a petition
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drive, and then you have it audited by an accounting firm presented to government.
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Uh, in Alberta, we have the benefit of the Citizen Initiative Act, which allows us to compel
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But you know, uncooperative government should never be able to override the will of the people.
00:26:13.400
No, and then, uh, in the end, when people get upset enough, things change.
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Uh, I can see a potential, uh, time bomb in the United States, lower mainland, or in the
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United States, in British Columbia, the lower mainland BC and throughout with, uh, David Eby's
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DRIPA, you know, which is the thing from the United Nations, uh, Declaration of Rights
00:26:34.120
for Indigenous People and how it applied to property rights.
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And now it sounds like some people's, uh, feasible held property may be actually at risk,
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uh, due to some pretty, uh, well, in my view, absurd claims.
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But when you lost the land, it doesn't matter how absurd it is.
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If we start seeing a situation where people are actually losing their homes and businesses
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over this, I got a feeling the temperature in British Columbia is going to change very
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There's a large group of people in British Columbia and across Canada that have been made
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to believe that their own existence is shameful and they carry so much guilt that they should
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And that all came out of the, uh, you know, the 215 hoax out of Kamloops, which is rapidly
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It actually convinced people that they needed to sacrifice their future and their children's
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future and, uh, you know, just ignore the idea of personal property or anything like
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that in order to satisfy some debt that was incurred, you know, a hundred, hundreds of years
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Um, and that's, you know, that that's, that's something else.
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And we're not talking just of people that don't have anything that believe in this.
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Like we, we see that in the left wing activism, lots people that don't necessarily work there
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live on entitlements, have lots of time and they want everyone else's money.
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That was a conversation actually at that meeting with the protesters.
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And I said, what makes you think that you deserve to have a right to someone else's money?
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But my, my point is, um, there's like in British Columbia, there's, there's judges and
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lawyers and politicians who actually believe that it's okay that their children's futures
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are sacrificed because of some supposed sin that occurred in the past.
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So that is something we have to work on as well.
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Corey, you've, uh, I think you've, you've interviewed Dallas Brody and some of the others
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that are uncovering that, but all of these things go together.
00:28:33.340
You know, the legislation on, on, with DRIPA, uh, the UNDRIP, uh, UN convention stuff, you
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know, the Supreme court rulings recently in Canada that are affirming verbal oaths in the
00:28:45.360
past, they're all culminating in the potential to destroy what Canadians built together, regardless
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of where they're from or what their ancestry is.
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It's ironic that the biggest threat to actual unity of what Canada is, is coming from this
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misguided land back, uh, movement from, from, uh, extreme leftists that's been become into
00:29:07.640
the hands of, of judges and politicians who can actually bring something about in it.
00:29:11.240
And seeing Francis Whitteson and, and, uh, Dallas Brody out there, the, the backlash
00:29:16.440
against them and how hysteric and, uh, out of control and vitriolic it's been only tells
00:29:24.960
The people who are benefiting from this system, who are the minority of a minority are feeling
00:29:30.880
threatened, which I think is a good sign actually.
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When you see those hysterics and those antics and the, and actually outright violence, like
00:29:38.480
what we saw at UBC and at Thompson Rivers university, uh, I grew up in Kamloops by the way.
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So this is, this stuff is all heading closer to home for me than, than to many others.
00:29:47.260
Um, but when you start seeing that you, you, you realize that that's because the debate
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The only thing they really have is emotional outbursts and outright attacks, threats of
00:29:59.920
physical violence and physical, physical violence to shut down the conversation on the
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When that, when those things happen as uncomfortable as it is, you know, you're over the target
00:30:09.900
because your opponent has no, uh, they have no debate.
00:30:14.080
Well, we're in for interesting times in a year, like we've never seen before in the, in
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Uh, you know, before I let you go, uh, what, what are you going to be up to in the, in the
00:30:23.540
upcoming months and, uh, you know, business wise, activity wise, uh, and all the rest.
00:30:27.800
Well, I have a really busy summer planned with the Wustlestop cafe, of course, uh, my, my
00:30:34.300
restaurant, we have a food truck now, so we have three medieval fairs to do this year.
00:30:40.540
One of which is, is going to be absolutely awesome.
00:30:44.180
And, uh, just recently I've decided to launch my own more, uh, more Q and a focused, what
00:30:52.580
Socratic events where we're talking to people about Alberta independence, listening to their
00:30:58.480
opposition points or their, uh, you know, their fears of independence and talking through
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it, that the first event is in Rimby on February 18th.
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And we're even going to serve a little food there too.
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So it'll be fun, but that's, that's going to be my year, you know, trying to manage,
00:31:13.080
uh, the cafe, all our extra stuff we have with that.
00:31:16.440
Um, really advocating for Alberta independence, cause this is a most important thing we can
00:31:23.860
And Corey, I am, I'm really looking forward to having you at some of those events with
00:31:26.920
us as well, because you're, uh, you know, you're a wealth of, of knowledge and information
00:31:31.460
And even my grandpa here, he remembers from the early nineties when the independence movement
00:31:36.760
was talked about in Alberta and so, and he remembers your work.
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I'm glad some folks can still remember those early efforts.
00:31:47.860
Well, I I'm sure I'll see you at one of those events without doubt.
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As you said, it's going to be a crazy busy summer.
00:31:54.100
So thanks for taking the time to talk to us today and taking the time to talk to those
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I'm really looking forward to things taken off for them out there.
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So one more time, folks, that is Chris Scott from the whistle stop camp cafe.
00:32:10.460
That's out in mirror, Alberta, kind of central Alberta, a little, uh, East and North
00:32:16.260
And I honestly, I, I go out on my way, the odd time Jane sent me to Edmonton to get stuff
00:32:21.540
If I got time to grab a bite and I like it, just like I said, with Paul's pizza, it is
00:32:26.520
I don't have to try and BS to help a friend or fellow advocate.
00:32:30.380
In fact, I would just say nothing if the food wasn't any good.
00:32:32.480
And I'd just say, go support him because of his activism.
00:32:34.420
You won't be disappointed grabbing a lunch in mirror at that place.
00:32:39.400
And as I was talking about earlier, you know, it's, boy, it's a gamble to mix your,
00:32:43.860
your business with your, uh, you know, your, your political activism.
00:32:47.540
I guess you could say I owned a pub and cafe for years.
00:32:52.440
And I got to admit, I didn't have the courage they did.
00:32:58.460
I was always political and doing all my things elsewhere and everything, but I didn't do anything
00:33:03.160
Um, just cause I didn't want to deal with the nuts and we would still get people, you
00:33:06.100
know, attacking us and the gurus and crap like that.
00:33:08.540
Uh, again, pretty sad case that what they have to do is make up false, uh, food reviews.
00:33:13.040
Either way, lots of people showing courage all over the place.
00:33:17.160
Um, so, you know, let's talk about, uh, some of the things that this is one of the biggest
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hangups people keep pushing against with the independence movement.
00:33:26.680
And this is one of the biggest threats to Canada is the catastrophic state.
00:33:32.660
It's a mess and we're pretending it's a viable mess.
00:33:36.560
We're pretending there's a future that's good for anybody under the current system and mess.
00:33:43.800
The only ones getting served are lawyers who do lawsuits on behalf of first nations, bureaucrats
00:33:49.260
who work in departments that serve first nations and some of the leadership within first nations.
00:33:53.400
Otherwise everybody else in first nations is losing.
00:33:56.680
And we're perpetuating a myth that these first nations have a veto over everything else that
00:34:03.700
everybody else in Canada does this, this 5% of the country has a veto authority over the rest of the nation.
00:34:11.240
And they don't, and nor should they, for a couple of reasons.
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For one, we shouldn't give race-based authority to anybody.
00:34:17.660
That was the wrong that allegedly should be, you know, undone by current, uh, contemporary policy.
00:34:22.840
Yes, uh, first nations people were treated as second-class citizens well up into the sixties.
00:34:27.200
And that was wrong, but you can't change that by bringing in more race-based policy.
00:34:31.800
The other part where it's wrong is look at the state of their affairs.
00:34:37.260
And do you, uh, you really want to ask yourself, do you want to hand over the reins of governance
00:34:44.380
As Dave mentioned, they've declared a state of emergency on the blood reserve.
00:34:51.200
If you want to check it out, search Corey Morgan on YouTube.
00:34:52.940
I went out there and actually toured on the ground to show the conditions of that reserve,
00:34:58.440
They got wild dogs running loose, attacking people.
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And if you want to research and Google that, wild dogs have killed children on reserves
00:35:07.960
multiple times over the years, everywhere from New Brunswick back out west.
00:35:18.640
We don't have feral dogs happening anywhere else.
00:35:20.680
Even the smallest of the most underfunded rural towns can manage to maintain a dog catcher.
00:35:26.840
And their population spays and neuters their pets.
00:35:35.600
Well, like anyone else, you know, First Nations citizens want to have house pets.
00:35:39.940
But this is the outcome, and it's symbolic and it's real, of decades of infantilization
00:35:50.440
Most of which involves telling them all, anything and everything that goes wrong in your life
00:35:58.020
There's a complete lack of sense of personal responsibility for anything.
00:36:03.740
It's people living for the moment, not looking ahead for next month, next week, next year.
00:36:13.320
That's why the housing is in some of the condition it's in.
00:36:15.860
And it's just not even a consideration to even spay and neuter the pets.
00:36:21.060
Well, they're not going to take care of the puppies.
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The only places with feral dog populations going on in the whole country are on native reserves.
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It really lets you know just how messed up things are there, unfortunately.
00:36:38.460
So, again, people saying we can't allow independence.
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We can't allow change for the sake of the indigenous people.
00:36:46.580
If you don't want to watch my videos, it's fine.
00:36:50.180
And try to convince yourself that the status quo is actually serving the people living on those reserves.
00:36:58.500
They don't know how to maintain their own water wells and septic systems.
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Every other municipality in the country is responsible for its own water.
00:37:12.120
The First Nations reserves get billions and billions and billions of dollars.
00:37:16.560
Yet, somehow, it's still allegedly everybody else's responsibility that they get clean water.
00:37:23.000
It's led to them being incapable of maintaining the things for the clean water, unfortunately.
00:37:29.560
Even when they're giving money expressly for that.
00:37:31.420
Unfortunately, again, we've taken away accountability.
00:37:35.580
So, we don't even know if the money goes to giving clean water.
00:37:44.520
One of the biggest unchecked garbage dumps in Canada.
00:37:50.380
It's going to cost tens of millions, maybe hundreds of millions, to clean up that mess of them charging people a discounted rate to dump garbage on their land, which they did.
00:38:02.660
The commercial massive amounts of dumped trash until it finally got exposed right next to a river.
00:38:08.480
That mess is going to be leeching into the water, these stewards of the environment.
00:38:16.640
Taxpayers have to come out and pay for this cleanup because it's their fault.
00:38:25.600
I'm not trying to say it to be a jerk to First Nations people.
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Anybody of any race growing up, living in that environment, being told all of these things their whole life, and listening to these idiotic land acknowledgments and all that other garbage, will feel a sense of personal irresponsibility and entitlement just like them.
00:38:46.940
Why can't we realize how backwards this whole idea is?
00:38:54.940
We should never be separating people based on race, yet here we are.
00:39:00.940
When you question the segregation of people based on race, you get called a racist.
00:39:06.020
If I really hated First Nations people, as some of the defenders of the status quo like to claim, I really despised them.
00:39:12.620
If I really wanted them to suffer, you know the worst thing I could wish on them?
00:39:17.420
I could wish that they're still stuck in that god-awful situation forever, because that's the worst punishment you could possibly give them, because you're also condemning their future generations to more misery, as it gets worse and worse on those reserves, until finally some people are going to admit that it's a failure.
00:39:38.180
Again, I keep saying that, because everybody, oh, source this, source that.
00:39:43.300
The average life expectancy of a First Nations man in Alberta versus non-First Nations.
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And we're supposed to pretend that system's working?
00:40:00.420
When people say independence movement's delusional, really?
00:40:02.600
Are you delusional if you think this system is ever going to work, or serve people, or that we should kowtow to it?
00:40:09.460
Any further with some of the entitlement, look at some of the news that's in the Western Standard.
00:40:16.540
He's from up Fort Chippewan, I think, northern Alberta.
00:40:24.860
But also his history of getting $55,000 from an American lobby group to take their side on an issue.
00:40:32.600
And he's demanding Premier Smith's resignation.
00:40:35.760
And guess who he was standing hand-in-hand on, you know, arms around each other, cuddling, talking, whispering sweet nothings?
00:40:43.780
Yes, that disgraced former MLA, the Forever Canada guy, was standing with Chief Adam Allen saying,
00:40:50.760
We must make Smith resign and end the independence movement.
00:40:54.300
Well, then, look at who your opponents are when you wonder if you're on the side of right or wrong.
00:41:11.660
But, let's see, the Washington Post, Dave mentioned that.
00:41:17.360
I mean, you know, that's an institution of a media outlet.
00:41:21.700
But, boy, it really illustrates the path of contemporary media.
00:41:31.540
And, you know, I know the Washington Post isn't exactly a conservative outlet, but, I mean, they broke, of course, some incredible things over the decades.
00:41:38.360
They were a very important publication, and now they're getting cut to shreds.
00:41:46.120
All I can say is, accept that these old dinosaurs are gone.
00:41:54.940
I know it's also self-serving because I'm in independent media, but, hey, the Western Standard is the future, guys.
00:42:01.860
We're hiring more reporters, more columnists, and covering more ground.
00:42:07.740
You know, True North, Rebel, all of those ones.
00:42:15.660
It's going to be a hiccup as the communication transition changes.
00:42:20.820
But, in the meantime, there's going to be a bit of a void.
00:42:22.720
It's going to be hard getting coverage or things.
00:42:26.720
Help us evolve into the new media that we're all going to need.
00:42:34.420
I talked about that in a column in a rant the other day.
00:42:40.840
Angela Pitt in Airdrie was another one that came due for a recall.
00:42:44.920
Again, you know, Dwayne Pratt and some of the others.
00:42:47.380
This could cause the end of the Smith government, you know.
00:42:50.300
Or, one of the cabinet ministers said she was going to resign.
00:42:55.820
And the headlines in CTV said, in light of a recall petition.
00:43:01.840
So, Angela Pitt in Airdrie, you know, in MLA, has been there a while.
00:43:04.980
Well, not the most outstanding in profile, but, you know, not in terrible condition.
00:43:12.260
Well, they only got 16% of the required signatures in the months they had to get it.
00:43:19.700
And I'll keep gleefully reporting on those as those continue to happen.
00:43:24.560
And, uh, let's see, uh, Smith's demanding that, uh, Ottawa reforms the judicial, uh, appointment
00:43:32.160
process, saying Alberta needs a stronger voice in selecting judges.
00:43:36.680
Uh, well, keep throwing things against the wall.
00:43:41.480
Uh, but obviously, uh, it's not going anywhere.
00:43:46.120
And, uh, the independence movement will grow, which gets accused of foreign interference.
00:43:52.520
Well, let's talk about foreign interference quickly.
00:43:54.900
Federal election monitors yesterday said conservative candidate Joe Tain needed private security
00:43:58.880
to guard against threats by the Chinese Communist Party agents in the 2025 campaign.
00:44:10.160
Uh, some clown going down, talking to, uh, unnamed United States people over something benign.
00:44:15.140
That's apparently the biggest problem in the world.
00:44:18.380
Not Chinese Communist Party people intimidating politicians in Canada.
00:44:26.480
Well, and as I've said before, and I'll say it again, Canada's broken.
00:44:28.880
Well, we can fix it or at least fix part of it.
00:44:30.820
Once we fix this part of it, some of the fix will apply to the rest of it.
00:44:38.000
One more reminder, guys, if you've got ideas, opinions, thoughts, we will have a phone number
00:44:43.840
You'll be able to call into future shows, two shows from now.
00:44:46.760
And, uh, we'll have some fun with those exchanges.
00:44:54.120
Are you guys watching things on, uh, the cowboy network and some of those other TV channels?
00:45:00.760
Nigel Hannaford's show, Leah, Dave, all sorts of people have been putting content out there
00:45:08.440
If they tell you one of these things, that's how we keep growing and reaching more people.
00:45:14.160
Hopefully the wind will allow me to provide one more decent scenic backdrop on the next