Western Standard - January 12, 2026


CORY MORGAN SHOW： UNDRIP can’t be ignored. It must be actively opposed


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45 minutes

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188.78658

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8,584

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663

Misogynist Sentences

13

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Transcript

00:00:00.000 Welcome to the Cori Morgan Show.
00:00:31.000 2026, and it looks like we won't be starved for any news this year.
00:00:35.140 I guess last year was similar.
00:00:36.300 We kicked it off with the resignation of Prime Minister Trudeau
00:00:40.040 so that Central Canada can just put a smarter, older liberal in power
00:00:44.800 rather than the last one.
00:00:46.140 But now we've got madness down south of the border
00:00:49.500 with President Trump and Venezuela and Greenland,
00:00:53.420 and who knows what else is going on.
00:00:55.000 Good stuff up here on our side of the border.
00:00:56.900 The referendum is almost a sure thing to be happening in 2026.
00:01:01.540 I mean, how the referendum ends, well, that's a lot to be decided yet,
00:01:05.040 but there's going to be one.
00:01:06.160 That means a whole year of discussing Alberta's place within Canada,
00:01:10.060 or at least the better part of it.
00:01:11.620 This is a live show, guys.
00:01:12.980 Good to see you checking in.
00:01:14.000 Prayer handle and paradoxy.
00:01:16.340 Use those comments.
00:01:18.120 Discuss things.
00:01:18.880 Send questions my way, my guests' way.
00:01:20.300 And I've got a guest coming, Mitch Sylvester of the Alberta Prosperity Project
00:01:23.360 on this referendum petition, and it's actually through stayfreealberta.com.
00:01:28.140 There's a lot of bureaucracy and headaches involved with this whole thing,
00:01:31.780 petitioning, to get it done right, and they're just trying to really make sure they,
00:01:36.160 again, you know, cross all those T's, dot those I's,
00:01:38.900 and make sure there's no way or reason a person can stop that referendum from coming.
00:01:43.240 All right, well, let's talk about something else that's going to be big this year,
00:01:45.800 and it's big every year.
00:01:47.260 We've got to talk more about it.
00:01:49.140 The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People.
00:01:52.940 Yeah, UNDRIP.
00:01:54.380 I like that.
00:01:54.800 It's got DRIP in it.
00:01:55.860 Probably, you know, it talks about how good that is.
00:01:58.920 It was a resolution adopted by the United Nations in 2007.
00:02:02.760 Canada was still under sane government at that time.
00:02:06.600 It was one of the few UN members actually voted against it.
00:02:09.640 But Canada shredded those pretenses of sanity in 2015
00:02:12.880 and endorsed UNDRIP in 2016.
00:02:16.760 Now the nation's paying a terrible price for that endorsement.
00:02:20.140 The UNDRIP is not legally binding.
00:02:22.700 Its principles, though, have contributed to the catastrophic Indigenous policy
00:02:27.580 Canada has been enduring the last 10 years.
00:02:30.960 UNDRIP isn't just an aspirational document that can be ignored.
00:02:34.240 Provinces actually have to get up now and denounce this thing,
00:02:37.660 openly oppose recognizing the plan.
00:02:39.840 This document entrenches a sense of victimhood and entitlement
00:02:43.140 within a minority population that's already a socioeconomic basket case
00:02:47.500 within Canada.
00:02:48.760 Reserve corruption and appalling living conditions are never going to be
00:02:51.340 addressed in a country binding itself of the absurd mandates of UNDRIP.
00:02:55.720 To begin with, UNDRIP calls for the full autonomy and self-government
00:02:59.220 of Indigenous people on reserves.
00:03:01.040 Oh, that sounds dandy.
00:03:02.440 Except that all efforts of self-government within Canada's reserve system
00:03:05.460 have been an abject failure.
00:03:06.820 UNDRIP inspired Trudeau to remove the provisions for fiscal oversight on Native
00:03:12.420 Reserves and the results have been predictable.
00:03:14.360 Blank checks given to bands have not led to improvement of any conditions on
00:03:17.480 the reserves except for those sitting on top of the local hierarchy.
00:03:20.440 People are living in squalor while a banded class lives the high life and
00:03:23.660 there's no way to correct the issue.
00:03:25.440 Getting all the authority of the reserves for self-government while giving them
00:03:28.360 none of the responsibility for it has failed the people living on the reserves
00:03:31.880 and the people off the reserves who have to pay the bills.
00:03:35.520 UNDRIP affirms Indigenous people's rights to traditional lands and resources.
00:03:40.540 The traditional land refers to every square inch in North America.
00:03:44.520 This path has led to the crippling of economic development in the resource sectors
00:03:48.200 across the country.
00:03:49.600 Indigenous leaders feel they have the right to block all developments while extorting
00:03:53.140 fees for any developments that go ahead.
00:03:55.160 UNDRIP has killed employment opportunities for Indigenous people in remote regions
00:03:58.800 and it's hampered Canada's productivity.
00:04:01.440 Wondering why our GDP per capita is in free fall when compared to other developed countries?
00:04:05.440 See UNDRIP.
00:04:06.560 The belief that Indigenous people have the right to call all traditional lands has also led
00:04:11.940 to the endless and massive land claims which are tearing the lower mainland of BC to shreds.
00:04:18.000 People are suddenly finding their homes and businesses valueless as banks refuse to refinance
00:04:22.540 mortgages and investors bail out from developments in Richmond.
00:04:25.580 Things are only going to get worse, guys.
00:04:27.540 Canada endorsed UNDRIP, but BC, they went a step further and enshrined their own declaration
00:04:31.660 on the Rights of Indigenous People Act.
00:04:34.300 DRIPA.
00:04:35.040 Again, more DRIPS.
00:04:36.440 With the power of legislation behind it, UNDRIP is creating a catastrophe in BC.
00:04:40.760 The Cowichan Ban created a garbage jump, which is going to cost tens of millions of tax dollars
00:04:45.400 to clean up while non-native people are being banned from provincial parks.
00:04:49.000 This is all from that crap, guys.
00:04:50.620 What do you expect, though?
00:04:51.360 When a race of people has been granted rights based on ancestors, theoretically walking lands
00:04:57.020 a thousand years ago and having a right to self-govern without responsibility.
00:05:01.600 Canada foolishly entrenched Indigenous rights into the Constitution, which is bad enough.
00:05:06.460 But at least Section 35 of the Constitution only contains an obligation to consult Indigenous
00:05:11.080 people before doing anything.
00:05:12.800 Activists have been wrongly claiming that the requirement for consultation is actually one
00:05:16.860 for consent.
00:05:17.560 Now, UNDRIP does expressly say any state must get Indigenous consent before pretty much doing
00:05:23.860 anything.
00:05:24.700 Consent's becoming nearly impossible to attain as the demands for payoffs and extended consultation
00:05:29.240 continue to escalate.
00:05:30.860 Canada's Indian Act is a vile piece of racist legislation that must be scrapped if we want
00:05:35.000 to pretend to be a country that values equal rights for all races.
00:05:37.840 For politicians to find the courage to take such a course of action, though, the nation must
00:05:41.900 embrace a change of attitude when it comes to these Indigenous bands.
00:05:45.180 We've got to stop pretending we can have a functional country when 5% of the population
00:05:49.300 holds a veto authority over the nation, especially when the authority is based on race.
00:05:54.400 The world is supposed to have grown beyond that.
00:05:56.360 To begin that journey to changing the course of the country, though, we've got to start
00:05:59.800 actively opposing the empowerment of a racial minority over the majority.
00:06:04.100 Nothing less than full equality of status and authority between all races can be accepted.
00:06:08.280 That means not just ignoring UNDRIP, we have to denounce it and any other foreign-crafted
00:06:13.320 initiatives to try to divide our nation based on race.
00:06:16.200 The passive and cowardly approach of letting things slide is no longer acceptable.
00:06:20.320 So yeah, people, UNDRIP sounds boring and dry, but you know what?
00:06:23.480 Gotta get rid of it.
00:06:24.200 All right, that's what's kicking off the year for me.
00:06:27.020 Let's see what else is going on in the newsroom with our news internealer.
00:06:30.300 How's it going?
00:06:30.700 Good.
00:06:31.040 Happy New Year.
00:06:31.880 Yes, how do you?
00:06:32.820 Have a good holiday season?
00:06:34.080 That was pretty good.
00:06:35.140 I see you're almost packed up to get ready to go out of town.
00:06:38.620 You got your hitch in the truck.
00:06:39.760 Pretty close, yeah.
00:06:40.920 I'm still sore from that.
00:06:42.540 Those fifth wheel hitches are brutal, but I'm cheap.
00:06:45.980 Well, that's good.
00:06:46.560 And you're doing your Art Bell Memorial Tour to the desert?
00:06:50.260 We will be doing some shows from the desert in Arizona.
00:06:54.200 In a few weeks, yes.
00:06:55.420 Okay, you're not changing the time to midnight or anything, are you?
00:06:58.280 No, no, I won't do the night shift like Bell used to, but I've already got some tips on,
00:07:02.780 perhaps we'll have some interesting subject matter coming from out in those where the hills have eyes.
00:07:06.620 Excellent.
00:07:07.320 Well, you're certainly right.
00:07:08.140 The news isn't stopping.
00:07:09.280 Holy cow.
00:07:09.900 So, we just got the big report into the city's water main woes, and it offers a scathing look at various administrations.
00:07:21.360 And throughout the last 20 years, it basically says they've known it's going to be a looming disaster for 20 years and didn't do anything to try and stop it.
00:07:30.400 And it makes a whole bunch of recommendations, and our city hall reporter, Mike Thomas, will be getting some reaction on that.
00:07:38.200 We got rioting breaking out in Minneapolis.
00:07:42.160 This comes after an ICE agent was almost run over and shot a woman to death who was driving the car.
00:07:49.760 Some amazing scenes coming out of there.
00:07:54.880 Drama on the high seas this morning with U.S. troops backed by British help took over a Russian-flagged oil tanker that had escaped from Venezuelan waters,
00:08:09.040 and they captured it somewhere between Iceland and the coast of Scotland.
00:08:13.760 And they also took over another ship somewhere in the Caribbean, and that's being diverted to the United States.
00:08:24.780 You know these recall petitions, and we've predicted that they ain't going anywhere.
00:08:31.300 And the organizer of the one to recall, Dimitri Nicolaitis at Calgary UCPL in LA, admits basically she's going to fail.
00:08:39.640 She's only got 6,000 signatures and needs to get another 10,000 in the next two weeks for it to become valid.
00:08:49.220 So I don't think that's going anywhere.
00:08:51.960 And today's story on useless government spending by the Liberals.
00:08:57.880 They're spending $1.7 million on, quote, indigenous climate projects, unquote, in Colombia and Zambia.
00:09:06.720 Well, that's money well spent, isn't it?
00:09:11.760 Zambia, like, come on.
00:09:14.080 Well, ironically, that ties right back into that undrip crap, right?
00:09:18.000 You know, countries are all supposed to pour into these indigenous things.
00:09:20.500 Well, all we know that probably a few tribal leaders in Zambia and Colombia got very, very rich, and maybe they put a windmill somewhere.
00:09:28.800 Maybe they did, eh?
00:09:29.640 Let's hope for the best for those good people of Zambia.
00:09:32.080 Well, we only have, what, five or so months before Tax Freedom Day comes along.
00:09:36.000 So these are the things that keep in mind that all these things that you're taking your money from you.
00:09:40.220 The left wing loses their minds when they say we're going to cut off foreign spending.
00:09:46.540 But this, I mean, some of it is needed.
00:09:48.760 Most of it is not.
00:09:50.860 Indigenous stuff in Zambia is an example of wasted foreign money spending, surely.
00:09:56.420 Well, I don't know, sometimes they invest in rocket launchers and helicopters and things like that so that they can better entrench their governance methods out there.
00:10:04.420 So some would see that as a positive.
00:10:06.260 I mean, the left apparently loves dictators, you know, looking at their response to the deposing of Maduro.
00:10:12.560 Exactly.
00:10:13.380 Make sure you, before you leave, enter the new Western Standard newsroom pool.
00:10:19.100 We're taking bets on who Trump will attack next.
00:10:23.040 Oh.
00:10:23.300 And it's everything, you got Canada, you got Greenland.
00:10:27.480 I, I myself have picked Iran.
00:10:30.040 Ah, yeah.
00:10:31.460 Well, it's a big world.
00:10:32.600 Iran is a target, not too much sympathy if you go.
00:10:35.180 You know, you got Cuba potential, Colombia is a potential.
00:10:38.900 You know, there's, there's no place off limits to Mr. Trump.
00:10:41.880 Well, that's funny with, you know, Iran has got the, the, the demonstrations going on right now from women and so on.
00:10:47.480 And the riots are happening.
00:10:48.580 It looks like the people might be getting to rise up.
00:10:49.920 But some people are paying attention finally, like John Cleese, love the man, love, you know, the, the work of his past, but his, his, his, his leftism since then as well, typical celebrity garbage.
00:10:59.400 But even he's been ripping into the BBC saying, why are you not covering anything in Iran?
00:11:05.260 What on earth is going on?
00:11:06.460 There's some amazing scenes coming out on Twitter.
00:11:08.580 There, uh, it looks like, uh, uh, uh, rebel forces have gained control of two cities now.
00:11:14.440 Uh, so yeah, it's, and, uh, uh, all sorts of money being bet that Israel is going to attack, uh, before the end of the month again.
00:11:21.320 So, uh, the news just never stops, Corey.
00:11:24.640 It never stops.
00:11:25.640 Well, it keeps us working anyways.
00:11:27.240 A little fun good news things to report on eventually.
00:11:29.700 Sure.
00:11:30.020 A plane lands safely at Calgary airport.
00:11:31.740 All right, except everybody had sore knees cause it was a West jet flight.
00:11:35.980 There you go.
00:11:37.000 There you go.
00:11:37.920 I, uh, that video today prompted me to go and select a seat, uh, for an Easter flight out there.
00:11:43.820 So I didn't want to sit in that, that row.
00:11:46.700 No, it looks pretty brutal.
00:11:48.960 There we get the, the, ooh, I almost said the M word.
00:11:52.060 Little people can book those seats, uh, at a discounted rate, perhaps.
00:11:55.860 There's ways we can.
00:11:56.860 You can't use the M word just so you know.
00:11:59.100 Well, I didn't, but I'm thinking it, there you go.
00:12:02.320 All right.
00:12:02.680 Thanks, Dave.
00:12:03.320 You bet.
00:12:03.740 All right.
00:12:04.600 And there's our news editor, Dave Naylor.
00:12:06.340 And yeah, that newsroom is hustling.
00:12:08.220 I can hear him, uh, barking across the room to David number two to make sure to get on those stories and get them rolling.
00:12:13.520 And, uh, this is where I nag and do the cup rattling to get some fundraising.
00:12:18.400 Guys, the reason we have all these reporters out there, we've got a fella full-time in Toronto now.
00:12:23.200 Jeremy Borg is out there.
00:12:24.460 We've got a wheel up in Edmonton, Jared up in, uh, BC is cause you guys have been subscribing.
00:12:30.920 We're subscriber based.
00:12:32.120 So, uh, I see Mike is looking to put $20 down on Columbia for being invaded.
00:12:35.800 That's fine.
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00:12:48.040 And boy, they're breaking just hard and heavy and fast.
00:12:51.560 Uh, the one Dave was mentioning, you know, for those outside of Calgary, maybe not as familiar with it, but we've just had massive water main problems in the city for a couple of years.
00:13:03.120 Now it happened in the spring of 2024, this thing burst out in the west side of Calgary.
00:13:08.860 It turned out the whole city had to go on water restrictions for just about the entire summer, cost a pile to repair all these news conferences and discussions.
00:13:16.860 And this pipe was supposed to last a hundred years and it only lasted 50.
00:13:20.640 And they were going to get all these experts in to test it and check it and do a report on it, which apparently they did.
00:13:28.580 But then we kind of forgot about it.
00:13:30.540 Well, lo and behold, what a few weeks ago, bang, it burst again, which is even worse in winter.
00:13:36.180 So people almost got killed.
00:13:38.020 This thing was flooding roads.
00:13:39.800 It was coming up like a geyser.
00:13:42.420 And now that they're repairing it, uh, word is coming out and they're trying to say, well, what happened to the report?
00:13:49.020 What did happen to it?
00:13:51.040 City council never got to see it yet.
00:13:53.260 And the, you know, it should have been just sitting on the city manager's desk or in a drawer for once, you know, okay, it's kind of hit the fan.
00:14:00.840 I'm just going to give it to the mayor.
00:14:02.660 Cause the mayor was demanding it.
00:14:03.840 Mayor Farkas said, give us the report.
00:14:05.500 What happened to it?
00:14:06.540 They've dragged their feet all the way till today before even giving them the report, the report that millions were probably spent to create.
00:14:15.180 That was supposed to answer some of these questions.
00:14:17.640 And city council has to beg and fight and threaten to get it.
00:14:23.800 Some heads have got to roll.
00:14:25.700 This is nuts.
00:14:26.960 And, uh, yeah.
00:14:29.040 Uh, Paradoxie saying, thank goodness.
00:14:30.840 Uh, Gondek and as well as it said, 80 billion for climate crisis, crisis nonsense.
00:14:34.160 Yeah.
00:14:34.540 Something like that.
00:14:35.260 The last mayor, she was hung up on, you know, again, a climate emergency and spending billions and billions of dollars on that.
00:14:41.520 And she did nothing with infrastructure.
00:14:43.120 And then for 11 years prior to her, Nahed Nenshi did nothing on it because nobody wants a water pipe.
00:14:49.400 They want public art.
00:14:50.500 They want a city park.
00:14:52.020 They want to have nice, pretty things to talk about that they can put their name on.
00:14:56.400 They can put a little bronze plaque or do a ribbon cutting or something.
00:15:00.580 And, uh, these things, uh, you know, aren't, uh, water pipes don't provide that sort of goodness for them.
00:15:06.060 So, uh, either way, now it's still gushing.
00:15:10.060 Calgarians are still on water restrictions, but some of the word out of the mayor's office with, uh, Jeremy Farkas, the mayor there is, is, uh, uh, that, yeah, you know, they're going to have to basically replace that entire line.
00:15:23.020 It's huge.
00:15:24.240 And this kind of speaks to the whole thing on city councils in general on two fronts.
00:15:30.360 And for one city councils and mayors go way off into a hundred directions of what, uh, they don't need to.
00:15:39.960 They go into areas that aren't their jurisdiction.
00:15:42.860 They waste time and money on stupid vanity projects.
00:15:47.320 Somebody else was pointing out the, the library that was built in Calgary.
00:15:51.700 I don't know what that costs a couple hundred million dollars or something.
00:15:54.500 And very few people go to it for two reasons.
00:15:57.220 Because we don't really need libraries like we used to.
00:15:59.860 Community halls and things fine, but not libraries books are kind of, and I love books, but they're going obsolete guys.
00:16:06.420 So who has taken it over was basically turned into kind of a giant, uh, homeless shelter because the area they put it in is pretty rough, but that's where hundreds of millions went right now.
00:16:16.040 I think people would rather be able to flush their toilets multiple times rather than have a big public library that only addicted people tend to go to, but this is what happens.
00:16:26.160 But the other part is that relationship between the elected officials and the administration, and this, this applies to other levels of government to the city manager.
00:16:37.960 That's the one he makes more money than any of the elected officials.
00:16:41.520 That's the name that a lot of people, unless they're close watchers, don't even know who it is.
00:16:44.840 It's Duckworth right now.
00:16:46.640 And a lot of those other senior managers within city administration, these, these people, they're like deputy ministers in the provincial government.
00:16:54.140 They, they, it's the same person, they stay election to election, people don't hear their names, they like it that way, they hide in the dark, they make six figures, they call the shots.
00:17:05.940 And that, that attitude got so much worse when they had Nenshi was mayor.
00:17:11.000 I remember that I remember watching council meetings, if you wanted to see Nenshi scream at a council member in a council meeting, and it happened quite often, his eyes would bug out and everything.
00:17:18.780 It's pretty comical to look at actually.
00:17:21.260 But it would always be if any of them dared question city administration, that was sacred.
00:17:26.260 You don't dare tell them what to do.
00:17:29.520 Well, wait a minute.
00:17:30.080 That's exactly what you're elected to do.
00:17:32.260 As a matter of fact, you're there to provide oversight.
00:17:35.160 You're there to question them.
00:17:36.480 Part of the risk, true enough, you don't want city council and mayor micromanaging things.
00:17:42.060 It used to be for basement suites, for example, in the city, that every single application for basement suite went through city council.
00:17:50.700 It did.
00:17:51.840 They make secondary suites, you know, that they called at the time.
00:17:53.920 That was a big debate.
00:17:54.620 It took years of debate to take it from the point where you'd have a whole mayor and council discussing every single legal secondary suite application.
00:18:03.100 While city administration was thrilled to see the mayor and council wasting all that time pissing around in their meetings with that and not paying attention to what they're actually doing and what they're not doing and what they weren't doing was pointing out as this report that finally just came out, which is scathing.
00:18:20.180 Saying that they've known for 20 years that this pipe is going to fail, but they didn't do anything about it.
00:18:27.620 I guess I'll just kick the can down the road, hope for your money.
00:18:30.800 And, uh, I'm sure there'll be a generous severance package.
00:18:33.920 If you get fired, that relationship needs to be rejigged in city hall.
00:18:38.460 Uh, mayor Farkas has been interesting coming in.
00:18:40.660 He really has, and seems to be coming on with an attitude of reform and I hope he holds onto it.
00:18:45.380 And that means fighting with city administration and, uh, ensuring that, uh, things are going to get done, that the city administration answers to him and council.
00:18:56.420 And if not fire them, fire them.
00:18:58.640 There are many administrators and managers and people who would love an upper, you know, six figure jobs with massive pensions and massive vacation time.
00:19:07.380 And he did parking spaces and it would do that job far better than the dead weight built up in city hall.
00:19:13.980 So let's hope that this comes to a head.
00:19:15.880 And then Jeremy's talk isn't just talking tough provincially as well.
00:19:19.860 And I'm not seeing it that much.
00:19:21.000 And I know you get a new premier, you get a new prime minister.
00:19:24.080 They don't want to go to war with the civil service, but you know what?
00:19:26.160 You need to, you have to, I'm not sure where Mitch is supposed to be here by now, but, uh, he did text a while ago saying he was going to be in.
00:19:34.160 Hopefully it's just some tech problems.
00:19:35.500 He'll come in soon.
00:19:36.220 So let me talk about the issue a little bit with that as we're in that segment.
00:19:40.180 So Mitch Sylvester is one of the principals of the, uh, Alberta Prosperity Project and, uh, the referendum.
00:19:47.220 I mean, it's been a long road to get there.
00:19:49.520 The APP has been holding meetings.
00:19:52.060 It's been gathering names.
00:19:53.740 It's been, uh, you know, organized, getting ready for this for years.
00:19:59.360 And they've gathered the names of hundreds of thousands of people.
00:20:02.280 It's something that's odd.
00:20:03.320 So, you know, and again, the, the legislation came along and it looks like the province, uh, underestimated or, or basically just wrote bad legislation, gave an out to allow the electoral officer to toss it into the courts rather than deal with it.
00:20:16.660 Uh, so they basically, the federal, the provincial government was forced to bring in bill 14, which fixed the legislation, which again, for all the people claiming Smith doesn't want this.
00:20:25.040 But I don't know, she sure did a heck of a lot of work to make sure it's possible.
00:20:28.980 And then once 14 was through over the Christmas holidays quickly, the, uh, uh, petition was approved.
00:20:36.380 Uh, Mitch was told, I believe that, uh, by January 2nd, they'd be able to start working on it and they've gotten the people, uh, applied and, um, uh, accredited to be able to start petitioning.
00:20:47.440 And last night at a town hall meeting, which was packed, I guess, up in Water Valley, little tiny town of only a couple hundred people had a few hundred people show up for the meeting there.
00:20:56.380 And they started signing the petition, but there's some differences and people who are interested in taking part in that should look at some weird stuff.
00:21:03.400 Kind of, and I was hoping Mitch would be able to come on to clarify some of that.
00:21:05.920 So this can't go through apparently the Alberta prosperity project.
00:21:10.180 It has to run through Mitch Sylvester himself as a proponent.
00:21:13.820 I don't know.
00:21:14.620 They feel that, uh, or the legislation does say, I don't know that it can't be a group.
00:21:19.720 It has to be an individual.
00:21:22.040 Um, it sounds like it's, it's just kind of semantics or something, but they do want to make sure that there's just no possible way for this to be declined or called unofficial or unacceptable.
00:21:33.000 Or anything like that.
00:21:34.020 So Mitch is now the proponent and the site is stayfreealberta.com.
00:21:40.280 That's where to go.
00:21:41.400 That's where to get information on how to become accredited to petition and, uh, uh, get, you know, the petitioning forms or find out the areas, the, the meetings and places where petitioning is going to be happening.
00:21:53.280 And there's meetings.
00:21:54.200 This is one thing the APP has done excellently with, um, is holding hundreds and hundreds, I think thousands over the last few years of meetings.
00:22:01.740 I've been a guest speaker at dozens and dozens of them.
00:22:04.920 I'll be at one in Calgary and Queensland this Saturday.
00:22:07.600 I'm doing one in Bentley on Monday.
00:22:09.380 And then after that, I'm taking off to Arizona for a bit, but I'll still be supporting from afar as much as I can.
00:22:14.020 But what a year we're heading into.
00:22:17.080 I mean, this is history is getting made in Alberta this year.
00:22:21.660 So there's never been an independence referendum in the history of Alberta.
00:22:26.120 Never.
00:22:26.280 This year, it's going to be held.
00:22:28.740 Will it be a winner?
00:22:30.420 If people voted tomorrow, I've said this before.
00:22:32.020 No, not a chance.
00:22:32.860 Not even close.
00:22:34.120 30%, 35, maybe.
00:22:35.860 Hey, don't dismiss that.
00:22:37.680 That's a massive amount to start with.
00:22:40.260 That's, you know, one in three people saying, I've had it.
00:22:43.440 I'm done.
00:22:44.280 I'm ready to go.
00:22:45.380 I'll vote yes.
00:22:46.160 But there is still 65% of people who aren't ready to go yet.
00:22:53.300 I think, I like to think there's a good 20, 30% sitting in that bunch, but they need to be convinced.
00:23:00.100 So now the campaign's on.
00:23:02.280 You've got nine months to work on that.
00:23:03.680 And the petitioning, they will need, they've got four months to work on it, just to clarify some of these timelines and stuff too, since I don't have a guest.
00:23:13.740 They'll have four months to petition.
00:23:18.500 And then they're supposed to get, I believe, 177,000 signatures in that time.
00:23:22.020 They're shooting to get hundreds and hundreds of thousands, and I'm certain they will.
00:23:25.860 And then it goes before the electoral office.
00:23:28.420 Then they go through it.
00:23:29.280 They scrutinize it.
00:23:30.000 They make sure it was correct.
00:23:30.860 Then they tell the premier's office, okay, this thing has passed.
00:23:33.980 It's been proper.
00:23:34.760 And then it's on the government to schedule a date for a referendum, which most people are figuring it's probably going to happen in October.
00:23:42.340 Now we've got other stuff with the opponents.
00:23:44.140 They're getting worked up.
00:23:45.060 They're seeing this is happening.
00:23:46.080 They're seeing no matter what.
00:23:47.100 I see Mike, you know, with Freedom Honey pointing out, how do we deal with the shenanigans, the bad players trying to sabotage the campaign?
00:23:54.580 And yeah, we've already seen that.
00:23:55.940 We saw some people talking on Thomas Lukasik's little Forever Canadian site, talking about how they want to sign up and sabotage things.
00:24:06.580 Maybe pretend to get signatures, but never actually go to get them or just sign up and take blank sheets and don't do anything.
00:24:12.900 You know, a few nuts are going to do that.
00:24:15.900 They'll do a little bit of damage and it's good to point them out just to stir people up on social media, just to show how unprincipled some of the opponents of independents are.
00:24:26.040 As for how much damage they'd actually do, I don't think they could do much.
00:24:33.880 So how to deal with it?
00:24:34.840 Well, the bottom line is just overwhelm them.
00:24:36.160 You know, when one out of a hundred people who have actually signed up and gone through the process and gotten accredited and started petitioning, 99 out of a hundred are genuine.
00:24:45.700 That one percent aren't going to be able to do that much damage.
00:24:48.340 They're just wasting their own time and energy.
00:24:50.140 In fact, energy that they would better be able to spend campaigning for the other side, if that's what they really believe.
00:24:57.540 So let them piddle around.
00:24:59.740 I mean, you want to watch for them.
00:25:00.680 You want to stop it.
00:25:01.700 I worry about some of the other things.
00:25:03.580 I worry about some of the other stunts that can be pulled off.
00:25:06.500 And we're going to see it all in this, this next eight, nine months.
00:25:10.600 One will be, and I think a danger zone is the open microphones at town hall meetings.
00:25:15.800 So, uh, uh, people can go up and say whatever they please, as they should be able to.
00:25:23.840 Now, if I were looking to sabotage, get up, take that microphone, claim to be a supporter and say something absolutely horrific.
00:25:32.400 Say something that will just mortify and horrify everybody else and claim to be speaking on the behalf of the independence movement.
00:25:39.820 That's how you can do a lot of damage.
00:25:40.880 I guess I shouldn't be giving tips out to other people, but the bottom line is if we're going to prevent these sort of things, we've got to watch for it.
00:25:46.120 If somebody gets up there and says, we want to bring back slavery or something stupid like that, you know, whatever, you know, there's all sorts of things people could say, right?
00:25:52.100 The room has to denounce, take that person out of the room.
00:25:56.820 And I'm talking about assaulting them, but get them out and make it clear.
00:25:59.520 You are not welcome here.
00:26:00.640 Whatever they just said, that is not acceptable.
00:26:02.700 That's not welcome here.
00:26:03.580 Get the hell out of here.
00:26:04.480 We're here about independence.
00:26:05.440 Not that crap.
00:26:07.720 It's funny.
00:26:08.360 I had some discussion just this morning on semantics with people because some people will say, oh, well, that's not free speech.
00:26:15.700 Even if the guy says something beyond the pale, we should allow him to say it.
00:26:17.820 No, you shouldn't.
00:26:19.600 This is a campaign.
00:26:20.860 Everybody has the right to say things, but they don't have the right to your microphone to do it.
00:26:25.980 So that person can go out and say it down the street.
00:26:28.460 It's not a matter of political correctness.
00:26:29.920 It's a campaign now.
00:26:31.780 All of those things are going to reflect on the whole movement.
00:26:34.800 Kiko Stocks, one of the commenters there, said media will run with it too.
00:26:38.660 Exactly.
00:26:39.120 They're watching.
00:26:39.920 They're waiting.
00:26:40.480 So if some whack job gets up and says something beyond the pale, that's what they're going to report on.
00:26:47.040 Something I've ranted a bit about, like last spring when the independence movement was, it was going, you know, really exploding.
00:26:53.120 I did a couple of, I guess I do interviews with people, ask whatever, wherever it might be.
00:26:57.200 I did a long one with the walrus.
00:26:59.660 Long one, scheduled time to sit down with that guy.
00:27:02.820 And in the end of it, you know, my name never came up in his big, long, extended piece even once.
00:27:08.060 He dedicated 40 minutes talking with.
00:27:11.320 Uh, perhaps I was just too boring to worth be worth quoting.
00:27:15.620 Fair enough.
00:27:16.420 I think the reality is he was hoping, because if you looked in his article, it was very, very negative.
00:27:20.100 If he was hoping I'd say something to be able to hang us with.
00:27:22.780 And I didn't give him that.
00:27:24.040 So I just didn't get in there.
00:27:25.700 Likewise, when I was at a rally in Red Deer and I spoke with a person who was there from the Washington Post.
00:27:33.300 And, uh, same thing, spoke for about 20 minutes with her.
00:27:36.060 And then the Post put out a hit piece about, uh, the lunatics and so on on the movement, uh, and quoted a whole bunch of other people.
00:27:42.580 And I never popped up.
00:27:43.640 But the thing is, as long as we're giving them, I guess, same comments, they won't be able to write anything.
00:27:49.760 Don't give them low hanging fruit.
00:27:51.380 Don't give them ammunition.
00:27:52.820 Somebody came into an area, screamed, said something beyond the pale.
00:27:56.300 Denounce it, get past it, move that person on and out.
00:28:00.480 And yeah, sure.
00:28:01.400 Some of the media run with it anyways, but you'll show them.
00:28:03.320 No, we didn't put up with that.
00:28:04.200 It's the same sort of crap.
00:28:04.980 Like we saw during the convoy with the swastika flag that sprung out of nowhere.
00:28:08.760 Nobody knew where it came from.
00:28:09.860 A few pictures showed up and nobody else saw it.
00:28:13.580 But of course that picture is still used even today.
00:28:16.320 These are the tricks they're going to do.
00:28:17.840 We can't stop all of them, but you can try your hardest to counter them.
00:28:22.740 But, you know, another aspect when it comes to moderating, a little more commenter pointing out too, you know,
00:28:29.980 too many people take the mic to air their personal grievances and waste everyone's time.
00:28:33.260 And that's true too.
00:28:34.040 That's up to the moderators in the room.
00:28:36.040 The worst damage those people do though is typically just boring people and, you know, wasting time.
00:28:40.900 But at least it won't do heavy damage.
00:28:43.240 Getting back to what I was talking about in a discussion I had online,
00:28:46.380 I spoke with somebody who was using the term separatist.
00:28:48.800 I just politely, I just said, look, we're campaigning.
00:28:50.720 I mean, most independent supporters don't, just don't use that term.
00:28:54.360 We use independence, we use sovereign test because there's negative connotations with separatist.
00:29:00.920 You've got to remember, we're thinking on the basis of a campaign.
00:29:03.440 Are you thinking of winning or not?
00:29:05.700 Oh, I'll say whatever the hell I want.
00:29:07.120 Oh, he got all uptight or she actually, and all wound up, called me all sorts of things.
00:29:10.680 Said I was new to the independence movement.
00:29:12.000 That was pretty funny, actually.
00:29:14.240 Look, you can say whatever you want, but do you want to win or not?
00:29:17.920 You don't hear the pro-choice movement saying they're pro-death or pro-abortion even.
00:29:24.560 They say pro-choice because you get support with something that's positive.
00:29:29.440 Tar sands.
00:29:30.960 You want to know, as soon as you read an article or hear from an activist,
00:29:33.980 if they oppose the energy development of Alberta, they'll say tar sands instead of oil sands.
00:29:38.160 Little thing, minor thing.
00:29:39.460 But why?
00:29:39.980 Why do they do that?
00:29:40.740 Because one's negative and one's positive.
00:29:44.040 And it means something.
00:29:46.480 It works towards something.
00:29:48.940 So, separatists.
00:29:50.460 People think of Basque separatists.
00:29:51.780 People think of Georgian separatists.
00:29:52.900 They think of a lot of separatist movements, or even the FLQ in Quebec, where they get violent,
00:29:57.140 where they blew people up, where they were crazy, where they were communist.
00:30:00.760 Independence is positive.
00:30:03.040 Sovereignty is positive.
00:30:05.280 Separatism's negative.
00:30:06.060 I'm not trying to nag people into political correctness.
00:30:08.580 I'm just saying that this is the difference with this campaign.
00:30:11.740 Because this doesn't have a single leader, individual speaking for the whole thing.
00:30:16.340 This is a campaign of tens of thousands of Albertans getting out, volunteering, going to the doors.
00:30:21.180 And a lot of them have never done it before.
00:30:24.040 And they don't need to be perfectly politically correct, but I'm just passing along
00:30:27.600 that we need to look at things from the lens of a campaigner,
00:30:31.780 which means you always want to bring people into the movement.
00:30:34.280 But if you're going to dig in your heels and give me the middle finger and say,
00:30:38.240 I'm going to use that word as much as I want to, and scream it from the hilltops,
00:30:40.940 I mean, I can't stop you.
00:30:42.020 You have the right to.
00:30:43.300 But you aren't doing the movement any favors.
00:30:47.000 Either way, these meetings, you know, that's a good way to get people together
00:30:49.980 and help train them.
00:30:50.760 And there's a lot of that training.
00:30:52.200 Somebody else, a commenter, had asked.
00:30:53.680 I'll say it again.
00:30:56.000 It's stayfreealberta.com.
00:30:57.720 That's where to get the information on petitioning and how to do it and all of that good stuff.
00:31:04.880 Again, I wish Mitch had made it, but apparently he's tied up.
00:31:09.560 All right.
00:31:10.300 Well, let's talk about some of the other stuff that's going on, though.
00:31:12.800 As Dave said, so much going on in the world.
00:31:16.380 Venezuela.
00:31:17.540 That one's bizarre.
00:31:19.880 And it's kind of funny watching the discussions going on between people throughout the whole thing.
00:31:27.500 I think nobody's saying, but again, there's a lot of insane people out there,
00:31:30.680 but nobody's saying, say, Maduro was a decent person.
00:31:34.360 He was a dictator.
00:31:35.560 He was a criminal.
00:31:36.360 He was a drug runner.
00:31:38.420 All of that's true.
00:31:42.060 Suddenly, though, I mean, I love some of the memes.
00:31:44.040 You know, the people who are holding the Palestine flags have now switched to Venezuelan flags.
00:31:48.280 Oh, you know, Maduro was a hero.
00:31:49.740 He was brilliant.
00:31:50.400 He was beautiful.
00:31:50.940 The CBC called him a man of the people.
00:31:53.180 Speaking of lunatics, our tax-funded trumpet for socialism, the CBC called him a man of the people.
00:32:00.860 He ignored the results of two elections.
00:32:03.880 The winner of the election got put into exile.
00:32:06.260 That is not a man of the people.
00:32:08.180 But, and we're going to discuss that a lot more in the pipeline.
00:32:12.080 We have Nigel and Derek and I sitting here, you know, it's going to come on tonight.
00:32:15.240 It should be fair game to discuss, though, whether Trump's move was the best move.
00:32:23.460 I don't know.
00:32:24.340 Most people on the right feel he did the right thing.
00:32:26.840 Okay.
00:32:27.300 Like I said, it's not a matter of thinking Maduro should stay in longer or that he was decent or anything like that.
00:32:32.480 But just, we've got to watch some of the precedents get set when a country will pop over and take a leader out of another country.
00:32:39.420 And it's not that it's unprecedented.
00:32:41.060 This has happened many times around the world with many different countries before.
00:32:44.420 Some people have pointed out that under Obama's administration, he killed quite a few foreign leaders, actually.
00:32:50.340 So, killed them.
00:32:52.080 Trump brought this one back for trial.
00:32:54.780 What is going to happen over there?
00:32:57.860 The thing, you know, at first the way Trump was talking was like, we're in control of you now.
00:33:02.520 We've got this country and we're going to bring it back to, you know, oil production and peace and prosperity and all the good stuff and apple pie.
00:33:11.700 But the vice president's now in charge.
00:33:14.140 Maduro's out.
00:33:15.080 But what's changing exactly yet?
00:33:18.420 I think a lot of people, again, they don't miss Maduro, but is anybody better in yet?
00:33:22.820 So, what's going to happen next?
00:33:24.000 Is there going to be a coup?
00:33:25.060 Is the government weakened that much?
00:33:26.880 I don't know.
00:33:28.520 But then the other people talking about, again, usually liberals, often people, and some on the conservative side, oh no, this is going to be a death nail for Alberta oil.
00:33:37.160 Oh, oh, this is, all this oil is going to come on stream from Venezuela and nobody will want Alberta's oil anymore.
00:33:42.220 Oh, spare me, spare me.
00:33:44.880 Guys, every oil expert who's come on already to be talking about these things.
00:33:50.860 Venezuela is a mess.
00:33:51.820 It's a basket case.
00:33:52.740 It is a creation of socialism, which means that despite having the most oil reserves on the planet,
00:33:58.400 their infrastructure and ability to actually get the oil out of the ground, dilute it, get it out to tankers to ship it around the world is a mess.
00:34:09.760 We're talking at best five to ten years before they really start getting it back on stream, and I hope they do.
00:34:15.720 It's an energy source.
00:34:16.840 The more energy for the world, the better, even if it puts a little downward pressure on the world price.
00:34:20.960 Five, ten years from now, who knows what other oil powers are going to come and go.
00:34:24.100 We've seen these spikes up and down with oil producing countries and wars for the last 60 years.
00:34:30.820 It's not going to change things.
00:34:32.920 It's one of the things that is interesting, though, all the same, if there isn't trust for Trump, and if you really do believe that the reasoning, and maybe that played into it a little, basically what Trump is looking at is bringing in a diversity of energy sources to provide energy to the United States.
00:34:47.940 You know, you want more customers to bring it in.
00:34:51.260 Well, cool.
00:34:51.980 We should be looking, then, at diversifying our customer base out, and that's where we talk about getting a bloody pipeline to the West Coast.
00:35:03.860 Holy cow, what a concept.
00:35:05.580 Has anybody been mentioning this?
00:35:06.760 Yes, we've been trying for 20 years in Alberta.
00:35:10.640 And, you know, Northern Gateway, that should have already been done.
00:35:15.620 Trans Mountain, that should have been done by Kinder Morgan with no tax dollars involved.
00:35:21.260 You just needed that dingbat Trudeau to get out of the way.
00:35:24.700 Energy East, that could have gone all the way out there and could have been.
00:35:29.940 Look at that.
00:35:30.560 We could have been exporting to both coasts, selling to whoever we please.
00:35:34.720 India, by the way, because people say, oh, every oil is different.
00:35:37.120 Yeah, India has some of the largest heavy oil refineries on the planet.
00:35:40.960 Guys, it's not unique to Alberta.
00:35:43.020 Lots of countries more than happy to get our oil, but we have to get it to them.
00:35:46.980 So, Phillips, Deb, a commenter saying, why is no one talking about the fact that Eastern Canada does not buy Alberta oil?
00:35:52.300 Oh, we talk about it a lot.
00:35:53.760 And that's what I just kind of mentioned.
00:35:55.520 There is a lot of Alberta oil does get there.
00:35:58.260 Ironically, the bulk of it goes over and then south into the United States and then back up into Sarnia for refining a lot of it.
00:36:07.120 But they also buy a whole pile of oil, yes, from Saudi Arabia, from Venezuela.
00:36:12.300 Tankers come up and down the East Coast, all over the place, getting foreign oil in while we shut in Western Canada's oil in Alberta.
00:36:19.960 Which is part of why Albertans are pissed to the point where one in three and hopefully growing, you know, more are going to be looking to just say to heck with Canada.
00:36:32.520 They've had enough of it.
00:36:34.460 But what's going on out there, too?
00:36:37.580 As Dave said, I mean, we're joking about it.
00:36:39.640 And Mike said, but where's Trump going next?
00:36:43.220 What is going to go on next?
00:36:45.760 Is he going to go into Colombia?
00:36:46.980 Is he going to go into Iran or Greenland?
00:36:51.040 And that one, I kind of admit, it's got to be a little stumped.
00:36:53.480 Why?
00:36:53.920 Why are you poking that hornet's nest?
00:36:55.580 There's very little for strategic use of that spot.
00:37:01.360 I mean, if it was some big world war, rest assured, the American forces could come and just take the few developed spots of that island in a heartbeat if they felt they had to.
00:37:09.880 Nobody else was setting up a base or something that was threatening Greenland.
00:37:13.120 And it's not like Greenland has a whole pile of oil or fish or anything that really makes it worth taking.
00:37:18.200 I don't, I don't get it.
00:37:20.600 Though, I mean, I guess if I was the person who understood what Trump is going to do, I should be buying, you know, lottery tickets or betting on racehorses or something.
00:37:28.220 Obviously, you know, I've got a brilliant ability for prognostication.
00:37:35.120 All we do know is things are upset, unpredictable, and unusual going on right now.
00:37:42.960 And then, likewise, so some people have talked about it.
00:37:46.800 If Trump made a move on Greenland for some reason, like he's saying, though he says stuff all the time, that could undercut NATO.
00:37:54.820 Because, you know, we're going through Denmark and things like that.
00:37:57.060 If NATO falls apart, Ukraine's in a big pile of trouble.
00:38:00.920 I know there's people with different views on the Ukraine-Russia thing.
00:38:03.500 Fine.
00:38:04.840 But then look at what the Americans are doing as well.
00:38:07.640 The ship Dave talked about that was intercepted with British help was bringing oil to Russia.
00:38:14.720 So if they're cutting off energy exports to Russia, just what is going on?
00:38:23.980 Prayer Handle saying Greenland has a lot of critical minerals.
00:38:26.640 Yeah, a bit.
00:38:27.480 Not enough worth turning the world upside down to try and take it, though.
00:38:30.140 I mean, it'd be easier just to buy it off them.
00:38:31.800 If they're mineable and worth it, just buy it off them.
00:38:34.600 You don't have to take them for it.
00:38:37.560 Mike, mentioning Freeland in Ukraine, there's just some other lunacy going on, too, right?
00:38:44.020 Chrystia Freeland, candidate, you know, for the leader of the Liberal Party, deputy prime minister for a long time, finance minister for a long time.
00:38:53.260 Trudeau's right-hand person, that twitchy, tweaky, strange, strange lady, is now, as a member of parliament, is taking on a full-time job as a close advisor to the president of Ukraine.
00:39:07.380 And, well, a couple of things.
00:39:09.180 I don't care.
00:39:10.140 You know, well, fine.
00:39:10.880 They can have her.
00:39:11.900 Gosh.
00:39:12.860 I feel sorry for them if they're trying to fix their economy up.
00:39:16.520 Talking to the woman who ran Trudeau's finances for the better part of 10 years might not be her best bet, but whatever.
00:39:21.200 Take her.
00:39:21.500 The thing that pisses me off is she's still a member of parliament.
00:39:24.820 She said she's going to resign, but she still hasn't.
00:39:27.120 She's still an MP.
00:39:29.260 It should be instant.
00:39:30.700 You aren't doing your job here anymore.
00:39:32.820 Get the hell out.
00:39:34.180 Shows the politics going on, because Carney doesn't want to lose his, basically, majority.
00:39:40.960 He can get anything done.
00:39:43.760 You know, the NDP won't pull the pin.
00:39:46.960 The conservatives don't want to pull the pin the way the polls are sitting right now.
00:39:50.020 But still, he wants his majority, and he's worried about that.
00:39:52.620 So he's just saying, hang on to your seat in case we need you to vote for something, and we'll get you out of there later.
00:39:56.740 So now she's double-dipping, staying in Ukraine full-time, but taking up a seat for the parliament, which somebody should be representing that Toronto riding, and she's not doing it.
00:40:07.200 Yeah, okay.
00:40:08.020 So, Mike, again, good comment-driven show today, anyways.
00:40:13.200 What's with the recall petition with Demetrius Nicolaitis?
00:40:16.680 Yes.
00:40:17.680 So that started.
00:40:19.020 That was the first recall petition.
00:40:21.520 That was back in October.
00:40:25.060 So when the teachers were legislated back to work, all those poor darlings, you know, with their 180 days of working for $120,000, rough life, all they got was a 12% raise.
00:40:36.660 Oh, awful.
00:40:37.740 So they got legislated back to work because they were striking and having a temper tantrum.
00:40:41.740 Well, they had a temper tantrum with the rest of the unions after they got legislated back to work.
00:40:45.240 And they thought they'd take it out on Nicolaitis.
00:40:49.000 And he was the education minister.
00:40:50.660 So they said, we're going to recall him.
00:40:52.040 We're going to use Smith's own legislation against her.
00:40:54.300 We're going to trigger a recall.
00:40:56.460 Okay.
00:40:57.380 And they did.
00:40:58.260 You see, the bar for trigger recall was to put in 500 bucks and write a 100-word essay on why you think this member should be recalled.
00:41:05.500 That's it.
00:41:05.840 The news, the legacy media, and political scientists in the rest, Dwayne Bratt, of course, oh boy, this is putting Smith in trouble.
00:41:13.880 Oh boy, she's got recall legislation going all over the place.
00:41:17.160 They're going to take the government out of power.
00:41:18.680 They're going to call an early election in spring to get away from the recalls.
00:41:22.060 Well, we've got two weeks left in the petition period.
00:41:26.020 They've had months to work on this.
00:41:28.440 Calgary Bow is where Nicolaitis is.
00:41:30.200 And that one was probably like one of the most doable they had because a lot of people were ticked off with Nicolaitis.
00:41:37.000 And it was a tightly won one between the NDP and the UCP.
00:41:43.060 So now with a couple of weeks left, they need over 10,000 more signatures to get it done.
00:41:48.740 They haven't even got halfway.
00:41:50.320 They figure they've got about 6,000 signatures.
00:41:52.800 There's no way on earth they're going to get 10,000 signatures in two weeks.
00:41:55.520 In fact, if you've done these petitions, you would know about 10% of the signatures in those kinds of petitions get thrown out because they're illegible.
00:42:05.940 Like you couldn't read it.
00:42:07.220 The person didn't live in the writing.
00:42:08.900 Lots of reasons.
00:42:10.400 So realistically, they need more like 11,000 to 12,000 signatures more.
00:42:15.700 And everybody who lit their panties on fire and tried to feel that, you know, make the impression that these recalls were going somewhere.
00:42:22.580 I've said it on this show before.
00:42:23.820 Now, anybody who thinks that petitioning is easy has never actually petitioned before.
00:42:29.040 Real petitions, not online petitions, not any of that crap.
00:42:32.400 Going out, getting a physical signature, address, phone number, witnessed.
00:42:38.800 Very, very hard.
00:42:40.760 And they couldn't do the same thing that Fabio did with his Forever Canada petition.
00:42:44.840 These are recall petitions.
00:42:46.400 You have to have only people who live in the constituency working on it.
00:42:50.320 So they couldn't flood it all with union members and, you know, just, you know, cherry pick.
00:42:56.100 They couldn't pour a pile of money into it.
00:42:58.900 They had to get local organizers to hit the ground.
00:43:02.320 Getting 6,000 is actually not half bad, but it's still not even half enough to recall Nicolaitis.
00:43:07.540 So, now, let's talk about that false rumor.
00:43:11.240 And I've seen some people on the right, some of the usual chronic malcontents.
00:43:14.820 Oh, boy, oh, boy, Danielle's going to get enthroned.
00:43:17.920 No, she's not, guys.
00:43:19.620 Sorry, Cam.
00:43:20.720 Not going to happen.
00:43:21.680 If that one's not going to pass, none of them will.
00:43:25.820 None of them will.
00:43:26.660 I mean, they did one against Premier Smith and Brooks.
00:43:30.060 Come on.
00:43:31.140 I mean, they did it in High River.
00:43:33.140 That was won by almost 80%.
00:43:35.240 It's, you're not going to get tens of thousands of signatures opposed to the UCP and those constituencies,
00:43:43.340 and it's showing it's not going to happen.
00:43:45.260 Smith is secure with where she's sitting.
00:43:47.520 The election will be in the fall of 2027.
00:43:51.680 She's not running scared of these recalls, but it's good to see that blow up in their face.
00:43:55.600 It's good to see not even the activists as we expect out of them, but as I said, the pundits,
00:44:00.900 the political scientists, the rest who were saying this is really going to turn into something.
00:44:04.460 These are people who never put their feet on the ground and worked on something before,
00:44:07.360 so they didn't know how tough it really is, or they just hoped, you know, but, well,
00:44:13.200 let's hope in one hand and spit, or there's another term for it in the other,
00:44:17.080 and see which one fills up first, or wish is the term that's often used for it.
00:44:20.460 It doesn't change things.
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