Western Standard - October 24, 2024


If $1.7 million for every indigenous child in care isn’t enough, what will be？

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Dave Naylor Justin Trudeau Carla Beck Chris Oldcorn Scott Moe Terry Bryant Mike Thomas Stanley Corey Smith Alexis Saskatchewan Chrystia Freeland Nigel Hannaford Stephen Harper Freedom Honey Kenzie Kraken Nadine Wilson New Brunswick George Chahal Linda Subodian and 17 more
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In this episode of The Cory Mendoza Show, we talk about how much is being spent on Indigenous child welfare in Canada, and why it needs to go a thousand times higher. We also talk about the fact that Indigenous children are still being taken into care by the government even though they were educated in residential schools.

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00:00:30.000 Thank you.
00:01:00.000 good day welcome to the cory morgan show i'll start with the bad news trudeau is still in power
00:01:22.800 and christia freeland is as annoying as ever nothing's changed there despite three hours of 1.00
00:01:27.440 of those guys sitting around in circle doing whatever a liberal caucus does behind closed
00:01:33.060 doors when a supposed revolution is getting going. But of course, we'll keep covering and
00:01:37.180 watching that. Lots of other stuff going on. We've had the week of provincial elections the last
00:01:43.140 just a little more than a one-week period. We'll have New Brunswick, Saskatchewan, and BC all
00:01:48.440 having held elections. Saskatchewan's the last of the three. That's going to be this Monday,
00:01:52.920 I believe. And Chris Oldcorn, our reporter out in Saskatchewan, is going to come on the show
00:01:56.960 a little while to talk about that. We'll break it down. Maybe, maybe we'll get a conservative
00:02:02.020 type government winning one of these elections. There's only one left, so that's the one to hope
00:02:06.060 for. Here's that comment scroll, guys. Good to see you already in there. Tim, Dale, Mr. Stanley,
00:02:10.980 Paradoxy, even Freedom Honey, and Kenzie Kraken. Just, you know, keep the discussions going,
00:02:17.440 throw the questions my way, and keep it civil. We can have some fun on a live show. It's a good
00:02:22.400 thing. So I'm going to get going on what I'm ranting about this week, though, because I was
00:02:25.180 pretty gobsmacked. I don't know why that surprised me anymore, but things still do. Right now, we've
00:02:30.940 got an estimated 40,000 indigenous children currently in the child welfare system. Yeah, 0.62
00:02:36.180 that's not a typo. 40,000. And the nation's tied itself into knots, you know, trying to apologize
00:02:41.120 and compensate indigenous people for the 150,000 children who attended residential schools over
00:02:46.740 the course of a century. But think of that. We've got 40,000 still in care right now.
00:02:50.660 Now, since the 1990s, the attempted solution to every indigenous issue is, of course, to pour more tax dollars into the system and hand money directly to chiefs and councils in the spirit of self-government.
00:03:02.900 So far, that strategy has led to mass corruption, housing and water shortages, unemployment, poverty, people dying at younger ages.
00:03:12.280 They're suffering from crime rates that make inner city levels look like peaceful and safe by comparison.
00:03:17.140 And not only that, but the people in the reserves have become so socially and economically messed up
00:03:21.420 that 40,000 of their children are now wards of the state.
00:03:25.460 So what's the solution the government's proposing?
00:03:27.100 Well, guess what?
00:03:28.580 They wanted to give $47.8 billion to the Indigenous people for child welfare programs in the reserves.
00:03:34.480 This is after the government already gave Indigenous people $23.3 billion just the other year
00:03:38.420 to compensate them for having taken children into care in the past.
00:03:42.380 Now, when you break all that down, it comes up to about $1.77 million for each and every
00:03:47.400 Indigenous child in government care right now. Of course, these funds were to be managed by
00:03:52.180 Indigenous reserves themselves as they were supposed to take over the child welfare programs.
00:03:56.180 What could possibly go wrong? Well, Indigenous chiefs from Canada across the country gathered
00:04:01.180 in Calgary. We paid for that, of course, and sat around in the naval gaze to discuss what they're
00:04:06.320 going to do with this latest waterfall of funds being offered to ease their social ills. They
00:04:10.840 determined that the offer of nearly 1.8 million dollars per child wasn't enough and they rejected
00:04:15.340 the offer. Yeah, they rejected it. Will it ever be enough? No, it won't. Decades of tossing funds
00:04:22.360 at indigenous reserves while never holding them accountable for the funds being spent has led to
00:04:26.960 a class of entitled chiefs and advocates who have no concept of personal accountability and can't
00:04:31.520 look at any solving any problems beyond holding their hands out for more funds. They're never
00:04:35.440 going to be satisfied and they're never going to solve a problem. The problem is the racial apartheid 0.64
00:04:40.660 system of reserves. We could increase funding to these reserves a thousandfold. They'd still be
00:04:45.160 enclaves of socioeconomic misery. There's no situation where we can separate a race of people, 1.00
00:04:50.480 put them in isolated places, make them 100% dependent upon welfare, and have it work out
00:04:55.960 for the residents of these places. Yet we keep trying. Much of the reason the residential schools
00:05:00.100 were created over a century ago was because children were suffering horrifically on the
00:05:04.560 reserves. A race and culture that had been living as nomadic, neolithic people only a couple
00:05:08.760 generations before were suddenly crammed into reserves and expected to adapt to the modern
00:05:12.820 living standards of the day. It was a disaster. And some people felt educating the children,
00:05:17.620 yeah, through residential schools could bring them up to the proper health and help them integrate
00:05:21.440 into modern society. Now that didn't work out really well. We know that. Part of the reason
00:05:25.900 was as soon as these kids graduated from residential schools, they went right back to
00:05:28.480 the reserves. Well, what did you expect to happen? During what was called the 60 scoop? Yes, this is
00:05:34.260 a big one. 20,000 indigenous children were taken into government care. It wasn't as if the
00:05:38.660 government really wanted to take over the care of these children, they had to. The kids were
00:05:42.220 malnourished and subject to abuse as reserve living had made life so dysfunctional parents 1.00
00:05:46.700 couldn't raise their children any longer. The separation from their families was surely traumatic,
00:05:51.660 but if they had remained in those households, they didn't face a very good future either.
00:05:55.580 Ironically, if the government had left the children in those conditions, we'd be sued and
00:05:59.060 blamed for neglect and having left them with their parents to be abused. Instead, the government took
00:06:03.520 on the abuse and they're more effective at it. Look, Indigenous leaders won't be satisfied no 1.00
00:06:07.600 matter what we do. The common denominator in this whole affair over a century, though, is the reserve
00:06:11.620 system itself. It's the elephant in the room that no politician has the balls to address. The reserve 0.97
00:06:16.400 system is doomed to failure, and we haven't even begun discussing how to ease people out of it,
00:06:21.920 much less start acting on it. How bad does it have to get? Are 40,000 kids in care not enough?
00:06:27.900 The willful blindness to the root of the problem has led to proposed solutions which are only
00:06:32.260 exacerbated. How could somebody look at this mess and think that moving more kids back onto the
00:06:37.100 reserves while handing more money to chiefs and councils is going to make it any better. How many
00:06:41.380 times you got to fail and keep trying that, guys? We're working to put kids back into the very 0.98
00:06:45.300 situation to put them in the mess in the first place, and it's only going to get worse. We're
00:06:48.800 never going to solve problems created by race-based policy through implementing even more race-based
00:06:52.620 policy, but we keep trying. Either way, right now, yeah, the taxpayers are paying it, but the kids
00:06:57.340 in the reserves are the ones paying the highest price right now. We got to get realistic with
00:07:02.040 this, and yeah, when you can see chiefs turning down money like that, it's never enough, and it
00:07:06.520 won't be. All right. Well, that's what's got me wound up today to start things off. Let's see
00:07:11.260 what else is going to get me all worked up. I got our news editor back, Dave Naylor, to tell me what
00:07:15.860 else is breaking out there. How's it going, Dave? Good. You were gobsmacked, eh? Gobsmacked.
00:07:19.320 Gobsmacked. I love that word. Yeah. Gobsmacked. I like the opportunities to use it now and then. 0.99
00:07:23.480 Exactly. I hear Jane was gobsmacked this week at the actions of a certain male mechanic. 0.99
00:07:29.460 Yes. She made the mistake of saying, well, I'll explain it to your husband when he gets here.
00:07:34.100 probably didn't go down well no yeah so i'll give a little background yes jane's my my long
00:07:39.600 suffering wife and and uh she took a car in to get it diagnosed with some problems and phoned to ask 1.00
00:07:45.320 well what's the deal with it and they wouldn't tell her they said you know be better to explain
00:07:49.340 it to your husband when you and him come here to get it oh yeah and they should understand jane
00:07:54.100 knows more about cars than i do i'm not a mechanically inclined guy i can change a tire
00:07:57.760 i can check the oil but uh yeah that that presumption sort of kind of did she make her 1.00
00:08:02.520 feelings known at the mechanic?
00:08:04.840 No, but I doubt there'll be too many
00:08:06.620 jobs going to that
00:08:09.000 mechanical outlet anymore. 0.54
00:08:11.380 Silly mistake, mechanics. 0.53
00:08:12.740 At least it wasn't me pissing her off for a change. 0.83
00:08:15.120 Yeah, exactly.
00:08:16.660 So, speaking of people
00:08:18.520 being pissed off, all eyes were today 0.75
00:08:20.940 as you mentioned on the lead on
00:08:22.660 Ottawa in the Liberal Caucus
00:08:24.540 meeting. There were
00:08:26.760 reports going in that Trudeau may even
00:08:28.700 resign. There was apparently
00:08:30.680 40, more than 40 MPs had signed this. You must go resignation. Turns out at the end of the day,
00:08:37.140 only 24 people apparently, 24 MPs signed. And he smirked as he left the caucus meeting and said,
00:08:45.100 we're strong and united. I'm not sure about that, but there you go. The UN actually released an
00:08:54.040 interesting report today, something rare for them. They say that close to 900 real female athletes 1.00
00:09:00.280 have lost medals to trans female competitors. 0.76
00:09:06.280 You remember that Algerian boxer, that monster guy who was beating up women. 1.00
00:09:10.940 That's happened like in 900 different incidences over the few years.
00:09:15.520 So kind of scary.
00:09:17.740 We've got another fatal police shooting in Canada, Corey.
00:09:21.060 This time it was in Penticton.
00:09:23.020 Yesterday afternoon on the main street,
00:09:25.800 police were called because of a guy waving a knife around.
00:09:28.840 They arrived.
00:09:29.720 They won't say what happened, but police ended up shooting him and he died in hospital a short time later.
00:09:36.320 So there's an investigation going on into that.
00:09:40.100 Our real estate expert, Mike Thomas, has a look at the Bank of Canada jumbo interest rate cuts today.
00:09:47.780 They cut it by half a percentage point.
00:09:49.940 So he explains what that means to mortgage holders and line of credit people.
00:09:55.180 Well, the Surrey Police Union came out this morning and attacked Justin Trudeau a couple of days ago.
00:10:01.960 He put out that ridiculous tweet on his handgun ban and how that's all cut down on crime and things are all fairy tales and unicorns.
00:10:10.300 Well, the Surrey Police Union says they don't know what Trudeau was smoking.
00:10:14.460 And they joined the Toronto Police Union and saying, no, it's not.
00:10:18.380 Crime is getting out of control.
00:10:19.820 Guns are coming in through the states, obviously, and it's not a good situation.
00:10:26.660 And here's your shocker of the day.
00:10:28.720 Chrystia Freeland, the Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister, was questioned by reporters on, hey, you know, spending's out of control, the debt's going up, interest rate payments are getting to record amounts, billions and billions of dollars.
00:10:45.540 And she says, oh, nothing to worry about, quote, we could spend even more.
00:10:50.700 They'll probably try.
00:10:52.320 And they will probably try it.
00:10:53.780 You know, look at those billion dollar figure you got in your monologue there.
00:10:59.420 Their printing press on money is going 24-7.
00:11:03.220 And it doesn't work.
00:11:05.420 No.
00:11:06.440 And it breeds inflation, right?
00:11:08.220 And that's what we're trying to get under control.
00:11:10.260 Well, we're in for a rough ride yet until Prime Minister Hammerhead's out of there.
00:11:14.400 I mean, just a note.
00:11:15.560 You said he tweeted the other day.
00:11:16.820 But a funny thing, while we were waiting for him to come out of his caucus meeting, I saw a tweet come from his account.
00:11:22.280 Not a big secret that he actually probably doesn't run his own Twitter account.
00:11:25.840 There's not nearly enough spelling errors.
00:11:28.100 But all the same, his comms people perhaps should reconsider some of the stuff they're putting out on his behalf.
00:11:33.840 I doubt he even reads it either way.
00:11:35.500 Yeah, either way.
00:11:36.800 All right.
00:11:37.280 Well, a load of updates.
00:11:39.660 Yeah, what's going on?
00:11:41.420 I'll let you get back in to find some more stuff to keep everybody's hair going gray and worked up in the future.
00:11:46.200 All right. Thank you, Dave.
00:11:48.760 Here's our news editor, Dave Naylor.
00:11:50.180 I know you missed him last week, but he's back.
00:11:52.520 He's here.
00:11:53.260 He's keeping all those reporters running.
00:11:55.380 Lots of stuff.
00:11:56.000 The coverage is just breaking all the time, guys.
00:11:59.180 It's busy out there.
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00:12:53.340 take care of it. All right. Yeah. You know, I was, I was talking to Dave before the show a little bit
00:12:58.200 before we got going with that, the amount of ACERT, you know, that's the Alberta serious incident,
00:13:03.200 something or other, whatever is a police shooting or something like that, that they're the ones who
00:13:08.020 investigate to find out, you know, if the police were out of bounds, which does happen at times,
00:13:11.780 or if it was just an act of self-defense
00:13:14.600 or something like that.
00:13:15.700 A whole bunch of them just got cleared recently.
00:13:18.100 So they'd gone through,
00:13:18.560 and these usually take a year or two to investigate.
00:13:20.500 But the main thing was the volume
00:13:21.940 and then looking at the amount of cops
00:13:23.240 and shootings going on right now.
00:13:25.840 I mean, a recent one, yeah,
00:13:27.020 a meth addict got shot
00:13:28.300 because he'd been stabbing the police dog.
00:13:31.380 And yeah, I do have more sympathy for the dog
00:13:33.880 than the addict.
00:13:34.620 I do feel for addicts.
00:13:35.560 It's a huge problem. 0.98
00:13:37.820 But yeah, when a cop has to shoot, they have to shoot.
00:13:40.140 Let's hope to reduce that.
00:13:41.780 But I'm just thinking, I mean, the volume, the amount we're seeing, as Dave just reported
00:13:45.980 yet another one out in Kelowna, we haven't seen it like this before, but I'm just, this
00:13:51.360 is just an anecdote on my part.
00:13:52.600 I'm just guessing, but I think it's got to have to do with the addiction epidemic, right?
00:13:55.760 You can't reason.
00:13:57.240 I mean, if it was a reasonable armed robber, even if it was a reasonable car thief, maybe
00:14:01.880 they realize, you know what?
00:14:02.720 I'm going to put my hands up.
00:14:03.780 I'm going to go take my lumps, do what I got to do.
00:14:05.920 But when you've got somebody strung out on a substance of some sort or another, they're
00:14:10.400 not within control.
00:14:11.480 they can become incredibly dangerous, especially with something speedy like methamphetamines,
00:14:16.540 and it's leaving the police in a position with, again, no other alternative but to use lethal
00:14:21.880 force at times. It just highlights, again, further the addiction epidemic, though, how bad it is for
00:14:27.500 everybody, for the officers, for the addicts, for the families, for people, again, being robbed by
00:14:33.380 the addicts who were desperate. It's just horrific. We've never seen anything like this in our,
00:14:37.220 at least people my age in my lifetime. And we always had addiction, alcoholics, some heroin
00:14:42.500 addicts. I mean, remember Inglewood, Calgary used to be nasty, but we're talking handfuls of people.
00:14:46.900 Now it's everywhere. It's unbelievable. It's almost dystopian. Another thing that has been
00:14:51.880 interesting, the rents in Alberta and Calgary actually came down a little bit. Maybe we're
00:14:55.880 building houses faster. We're keeping up with things. But Dave mentioned too, a half point
00:15:01.660 drop in the bank rate. That's a huge drop in one shot. And again, for people to write who can add
00:15:06.720 a lot of knowledge and discussion on that. Mike Thomas, as Dave said, is working on that. He
00:15:11.160 writes on real estate business, things like that. And it's fantastic. He'll break it down,
00:15:16.260 check it out, get onto the Western Standard, see how these rate cuts are going to impact the real
00:15:20.360 estate market. And the real estate market, of course, is a massive market that impacts all of
00:15:24.100 us. So enough plugs for us. Well, actually, I'm still going to pivot to another Western Standard
00:15:28.960 person, but he's going to be talking about more specific things. And that's the Saskatchewan
00:15:32.960 election, the last of the three in this eight-day period or whatnot. It's coming up this Monday.
00:15:38.140 Let's see what Chris Oldcorn out there thinks we've got to look forward to. Hey, Chris,
00:15:43.040 thanks for joining today. Thank you very much for having me, Corey.
00:15:49.480 So you're coming down into the tail end of, you know, chasing these guys around. I guess it was
00:15:54.140 kind of a short, formal campaign. You know, they went just that straight 28, 27 days or whatever,
00:15:59.540 but I know when you're really watching one closely, you really start looking forward to
00:16:03.420 the final end of it, don't you? Yeah, I mean, it's been super quick. Also, at the same time,
00:16:09.360 we're in the middle of municipal elections as well that are coming up on November 13th. So
00:16:13.620 to say that some corners are pretty crowded with election signs would be the understatement of the
00:16:18.660 year. Yeah, it made me think of that. I think I posted pictures of it before and I've gone down
00:16:24.560 to the US during local election season, you know, and they elect everything down there. I mean,
00:16:29.200 your local coroner, your dog catcher, the state controller, whatever. Even the judges. Oh yeah,
00:16:35.760 and you get to a busy street corner and it's just a vomit of signs. I don't imagine anybody can
00:16:40.720 really actually take a moment to look at them, but everybody's got to try and get their word in. So
00:16:45.280 right now, anyways, you've got a provincial one coming up this Monday. I guess to start with,
00:16:51.380 advanced polls are a new thing that have really gotten big. Has there been a lot of advanced
00:16:55.400 voting in this one? Well, uh, there's been a lot of promotion of advanced voting in this one. Uh,
00:17:00.620 they actually have more places for advanced voting than they do on voting day, which is, uh, an
00:17:05.300 interesting, uh, situation. It used to be like, if you wanted to vote early, there was only a couple
00:17:09.500 spots and now it's the complete reverse here in Saskatchewan. Um, Scott Moe, uh, posted a picture
00:17:15.420 of him voting yesterday. Um, obviously I think we know who he voted for. Uh, but yeah, the
00:17:21.160 advance bulls are open. However, Alexis Saskatchewan has not released any information on how busy the
00:17:27.740 advance bulls actually have been. Yeah, so there's no atmospheric river anticipated to come on Monday
00:17:33.340 and keep everybody from getting out on the final voting day. But so, I mean, I guess we'll start
00:17:38.900 into the, you know, prognostication. What have been the top issues, I guess, in this campaign? Like
00:17:43.180 people are watching across the country. It's been kind of flying under the radar for most Canadians,
00:17:47.900 I'm afraid. But you know, what's been standing out? What are the key issues this time?
00:17:52.780 Well, the NDP has really been harping on healthcare, and saying that they would do it
00:17:57.020 better, that somehow they would hire magical physicians and nurses that don't exist into
00:18:03.020 the system and make them want to live in, you know, rural Saskatchewan. This is a problem that's
00:18:09.500 being faced by every single province across this country. With regards to healthcare recruitment,
00:18:15.580 There is no magic bullet here. It's going to be a long period of time. The SAS party, actually, when they were in government, they've increased the amount of spaces for health care jobs in the province in both the colleges and the universities to try and make up for that.
00:18:32.700 but uh and and it was significant increases you know they've increased the amount of rns they're
00:18:37.260 training by 50 percent uh and they're and they're still increasing it more uh as we go into future
00:18:42.700 years but uh the actual main issue in this election started last week and that is parents rights again
00:18:52.300 and that happened uh with the belvoni elementary school where there was biological boys two of
00:18:57.740 them that are twins changing in the grade seven girls changing room uh we published that as an
00:19:03.740 exclusive last wednesday and uh obviously the mainstream media went crazy with that uh you
00:19:09.900 know apparently you know i i apparently hate trans kids and all this other stuff which is completely
00:19:15.020 untrue uh but the the mainstream media spent five days on the story and it it sucked up all the air
00:19:21.260 in the room well and the other nuanced kind of aspect of that it turns out that those two
00:19:27.260 trans children were were the children of an ndp in la that's correct yeah one that was uh elected
00:19:33.020 in by-election now in 2023 so he'd only been in for a little bit over a year so but yeah they
00:19:39.340 ended up uh and it was there was posts online of him with his family i mean he essentially had outed
00:19:44.940 himself anyways uh because he had pictures he had pictures online posted of him and his transgender
00:19:50.380 children we got blamed for it but i mean the truth is it was all there's a rumor we cleared
00:19:56.220 it up because that's our responsibility. However, when we did the story, we didn't know that it was
00:20:00.720 a SAS NDP, MLA's kids. Yeah, well, a heated campaign and other strange stuff, I guess,
00:20:08.080 aside from that coming in, a campaign office, it looked like it may have been shot at. It turns out
00:20:14.380 it wasn't. Something that happened with the SAS party headquarters there? Yeah, one of the campaign
00:20:20.780 offices in northeast regina they arrived one morning yesterday morning specifically with two
00:20:27.580 rather large holes in the glass in the front of the campaign office when it was originally
00:20:34.860 investigated by the police at first they thought it was bullet holes however after they further
00:20:39.900 investigated they found some rocks inside so it probably came from a pickup truck with big wheels
00:20:45.180 that shot the rocks backwards as it was driving out of the strip mall parking lot where it was
00:20:50.300 located must've been spinning those wheels pretty hard there yeah trying to get get out of that
00:20:56.380 parking lot fast apparently well i mean it's good that there's not somebody shooting things up
00:21:01.500 anyways as insane as things get we just don't need that it's bad enough yeah and the other thing
00:21:07.100 connected to that was that specific uh candidate had had a bunch of his signs stolen as well
00:21:13.020 so they're and vandalized so there was the obviously concern that when you show up and
00:21:18.220 and you see what looked like bullet holes
00:21:19.420 to treat it as they were bullet holes
00:21:22.300 and make sure that your campaign staff are safe
00:21:24.580 and so on and the police got involved, so. 0.79
00:21:27.260 Yeah, well, unfortunately, there's always crazy people.
00:21:29.800 It went way back when we had the Wild Rose party
00:21:31.400 and they were actually hosted in offices
00:21:33.580 that I lent to them.
00:21:34.720 This is going back a ways.
00:21:36.040 And Paul Heman won a by-election
00:21:37.640 that really upset the left in Calgary.
00:21:39.440 We came back to our office
00:21:40.880 and our windows had been smashed
00:21:42.560 and somebody had spray-painted on the steps.
00:21:45.240 Are you really innocent?
00:21:46.200 It was kind of bizarre and very discomforting for, you know, people working in those offices.
00:21:52.520 Like some people just kind of lose it in these elections sometimes.
00:21:56.260 Yes, unfortunately, that happens to be the case sometimes.
00:21:59.460 And luckily in this scenario and what happened, it was just a couple of rocks that went through the windows and it wasn't bullet holes.
00:22:08.980 I mean, there's a sense of relief there that this election hasn't gotten to that level of intolerance between the two sides.
00:22:18.220 I see one of our commenters asking the big question.
00:22:21.300 You know, he's got his fingers crossed in the symbols there in the comments.
00:22:23.620 Girl says, you know, I'm crossing my fingers that Saskatchewan doesn't go NDP.
00:22:27.960 I mean, this race is looking tighter than the last couple of races have looked for the Sask party.
00:22:33.180 What do you think? Is there a chance the NDP could be taking power here this Monday?
00:22:37.220 No.
00:22:38.980 okay uh there was a poll that came out a couple days ago by incitrix uh if you look on 338 canada
00:22:45.780 incitrix polls get the lowest rating of any poll uh done in the province of saskatchewan
00:22:52.020 could be because uh it's a company run by former ndp staffers uh so they might be slightly biased
00:22:57.700 and actually i didn't bother even doing a story on that poll because i i basically kind of looked at
00:23:02.580 how they did it and it was as someone who has worked in polling in the past i can see why
00:23:08.340 338 treats uh incitrix polls uh differently than let's say angus reed for example that poll did
00:23:15.140 have the ndp up 50 45 however when 338 inputted the data into their uh projections the sas party
00:23:24.100 seats actually went up one so they actually went from 38 to 39 seats i've been saying for quite
00:23:30.500 some time this is probably going to be around 38 seats for the sas party uh and low 20s for the ndp
00:23:37.540 anything over 25 for the ndp i think is super hopeful on their part but there's no way they're
00:23:43.540 going to get to the magical number of 31. they just don't have a path there because a lot of
00:23:47.780 their support is just stuck in saskatoon uh and regina they have they are projected to flip some
00:23:53.940 seats in regina and a couple in saskatoon but uh the sas party is still going to be holding on to
00:23:59.940 four or five seats in saskatoon and a couple in uh regina and then obviously their strongholds
00:24:04.980 are in the rural areas as well. Yeah, I mean, the urban rurals, you know, demographics are a big
00:24:11.400 factor in Alberta and well, pretty much everywhere. That's where we're seeing a lot of differences in
00:24:14.860 views. And it depends on how your seats are balanced impacting the elections. So if, if indeed,
00:24:20.440 though, say there is a reduced majority for the SAS party, do you think over the long run, I doubt
00:24:25.760 they'd get the pitchforks out right away, but there might be pressure to kind of start moving
00:24:29.400 somebody else into the head rather than Scott Moe? Yeah, I mean, we saw this back in 2017 with Brad
00:24:35.580 Wall. Basically, they gave Scott Moe about two and a half years before he had to go to the polls
00:24:41.140 in 2020 as leader. And if it's below 3840, that sort of magic number they've been at, and also
00:24:49.920 keep in mind that the amount of ridings is now 61 as well. So it's a little easier to actually get
00:24:56.220 to 40 uh we could see scott moe maybe bow out uh being premier and maybe a year and a half something
00:25:02.860 like that uh if they're below 36 then i think the pitchforks will come pretty fast but if they're in
00:25:09.480 them you know the high 30s to you know 40 maybe i don't think you'll see pitchforks quickly coming
00:25:16.900 for him but they're definitely probably in the next 18 months that gives the new leader two and
00:25:20.560 a half years to stand in front of the mic and talk to people uh before they have to go back to the
00:25:25.240 polls in 2028 for another mandate. Another factor is, or maybe a non-factor, the alternative
00:25:33.360 conservative type parties. You got SaskUnited, Buffalo Party. I mean, SaskUnited, they have
00:25:38.440 incumbent MLAs or did. Potentially, they could take a pretty decent bite out of a couple of
00:25:44.440 constituencies. Do you think they're going to have much of an impact then? I think they will take a
00:25:49.120 bite out of a couple. Absolutely. Nadine Wilson in Saskatchewan Rivers, extremely popular. She was 1.00
00:25:54.460 in with the SAS party for basically two decades in that seat. So she's very well known. And then
00:26:01.020 you also have John Romick, who is the leader now of SAS United. He's running in Lums and Morse. And
00:26:06.840 he, in a by-election last year, in only four weeks after being announced as a candidate, took
00:26:12.460 approximately 22.5% of the vote. That seat has always been viewed as a very safe seat for the
00:26:19.580 SASS party. And the fact that he was able to get that percentage of the vote in only four weeks was
00:26:25.820 obviously a concern for them and probably one of the drivers on why they dealt with those
00:26:31.840 lumps in sex cards and other things that came out with the Parents' Rights Act back in the fall
00:26:37.680 when they used the notwithstanding clause. And they have another day one now. Scott Moe has said
00:26:44.760 that his first thing he's going to do is direct the Minister of Education to do a ministerial
00:26:48.700 order. The changing rooms are for the biological sex only. So we could be lining up for another 1.00
00:26:56.440 contentious parents' rights battle here in the province, even after the South Party is elected.
00:27:03.760 Yeah, well, those battles are happening all over the place. I mean, some people are attributing the
00:27:07.660 New Brunswick win, though, to the conservative, you know, for the liberals, to the conservative
00:27:13.000 stance taken by the former premier of New Brunswick when it came to these trans issues.
00:27:18.700 I don't know, it's just getting absurd when we're talking the fringe of a fringe of kids who used to
00:27:22.220 be emos who now want to play dress up on other genders as they go through puberty. And we've 0.64
00:27:27.340 actually turned these into election defining issues. The world's gotten into a strange place,
00:27:32.140 Chris. Yeah. And if you look at, for example, New Brunswick versus Saskatchewan, federally speaking,
00:27:38.780 this entire province is blue. As a matter of fact, we vote conservative here more than Alberta does.
00:27:44.460 Saskatchewan is actually the most conservative province.
00:27:47.920 Even Saskatoon and Regina that go orange in provincial elections, they go solid blue in federal.
00:27:54.080 So there's a little bit different voting electorate here than there is in New Brunswick that has been, you know, basically a liberal stronghold federally off and on for, you know, decades.
00:28:04.840 So the NDP, of course, they're surely running to win.
00:28:07.420 They're hoping to all the same.
00:28:08.760 You have to.
00:28:09.260 And if they come in and, you know, that strong second opposition role, though, will they be satisfied with their leadership in that?
00:28:16.400 And are they going to be stable as a party at that point going forward?
00:28:20.840 Well, Carla Beck will be the first leader to get above the 20 mark since they were sent packing in 2007. 0.71
00:28:29.940 So anything above the 14 seats that they have now is a gain for them.
00:28:35.740 getting into the low 20s is, you know, a major electoral gain compared to where they have been
00:28:42.760 in the past, because they were at 12. And then the two by-elections, two of the three by-elections
00:28:47.900 last year, they won seats and converted them. So they got up to that 14. So if they can get up to
00:28:54.540 22, 23, there'll be a much louder voice in the legislature. However, they have absolutely no
00:29:00.720 control because we are essentially a two-party system here. So someone has to get to that
00:29:05.940 magical 31 number. And once you do, there's nothing the opposition can do other than kick
00:29:11.580 and scream and complain, which is what they've been doing since 2007. That will probably continue.
00:29:17.100 The one problem Carla Beck's going to have is that a lot of her MLAs are activists for various 0.99
00:29:25.280 different causes. And that's going to cause problems behind closed doors when she has to 1.00
00:29:31.780 try and make all of them happy with whatever they're going to attack the government on each
00:29:36.260 day, because they are all going to have their own political agendas going in there. Whereas Mo
00:29:40.840 doesn't have to deal with that issue. No, they've got unique challenges. That's one of the things
00:29:45.600 that the NDP trying to maintain, I mean, they've had a better, you know, success rate of maintaining
00:29:50.160 unity with divisive internal things than conservatives, because conservatives like
00:29:54.020 gripping themselves up fast. I mean, they've got to deal with the labor front. They got to deal
00:29:58.020 with the socialist front who wouldn't put a lot of labor out of work if they shut down projects.
00:30:02.900 And then they got to deal with the woke front, which is a bunch of activists who are often on
00:30:07.000 the fringe, who upset, again, the blue collar lunch pail union folks, and they got to keep
00:30:11.620 them all under one tent. But they're pretty good at doing that. I got to give it that. They get
00:30:15.420 crack ups now and then, but they hold it together. Yeah, I think this will be the first time that
00:30:20.800 the NDP might not change their leadership going to the next election.
00:30:25.960 I think you'll see Carla Beck in 2028 because
00:30:28.700 no matter any way you slice this election, she's going to 1.00
00:30:33.400 win at least six to eight more seats for sure
00:30:37.400 than what they already have now. And that is a massive
00:30:41.180 seat upgrade from what they have now.
00:30:45.820 We're talking about Carla Beck is the first leader they've had in a while
00:30:49.340 who is actually personable.
00:30:52.760 I was at a previous campaign issue.
00:30:56.740 Well, not campaign stops, but the former leader, Ryan,
00:31:01.160 I went to a couple of his events.
00:31:03.360 He's an okay speaker at the front,
00:31:05.860 but then he didn't mix with people.
00:31:07.820 Like he never walked around the room
00:31:09.060 and talked to people and shook their hands.
00:31:10.840 Carla Beck is the exact opposite of that. 0.97
00:31:13.180 She will shake everybody's hand in the room,
00:31:16.540 kiss every baby that she possibly can. And they've just not had that. And so I think Carla Beck's
00:31:26.260 personality is actually helping the NDP substantially, because she's interactive,
00:31:32.200 whereas their previous leader was not. Well, they developed momentum, so they'd be foolish to get 0.95
00:31:39.360 rid of her in the next period. Of course, politics, people love doing foolish things and 0.97
00:31:43.880 shooting themselves in the feet so we'll wait and see all right well thanks for joining us we'll be
00:31:47.740 watching as his monday approaches and uh well i'll see you uh on the pipeline a little while too i
00:31:52.200 believe uh today and uh thanks so looking forward to your continued coverage and seeing what how it
00:31:57.920 all shakes out there in saskatchewa chris thanks cory all right thank you so yeah be sure guys get
00:32:03.240 on there chris old corn uh for all things saskatchewa not just the election he's out there
00:32:07.480 he's covering things and as you can see he's breaking it down for us because uh you know we
00:32:11.560 can watch things from outside, but you got to be inside to get a good feel or an idea of what's
00:32:16.580 going on there. And that's why it's important, again, to have these reporters in different
00:32:19.840 regions voting or reporting, reporting, not voting, though I imagine he votes from those
00:32:25.200 regions. So yeah, elections, you know, again, just a side note, because Mr. Stanley commenter
00:32:31.540 brought up something that's always been a bit of a pet issue with me having worked on campaigns in
00:32:35.680 the past and everything. When we talked about campaign signs, how many people's votes are
00:32:39.140 influenced by the senseless signs. And I quite strongly agree with you, but I will break down
00:32:44.720 a little bit because, you know, I talked to somebody a little while back who was asking
00:32:47.400 advice because they were thinking of running for office. I was thinking, boy, you know,
00:32:49.880 there's really not much outside of the party system for good training for people to do that
00:32:53.760 and everything. I'll tell you what, signs on campaigns are grossly overrated. It's not to
00:33:00.560 say they're completely unimportant or that you shouldn't have them. They're just overrated.
00:33:05.880 I tell you, one of the most fun parts of a campaign, if you're a candidate or a volunteer, is the day when you get all those nice shrink-wrapped signs showing up, those bright colors, and you're ready to get out there and get the name of your campaign and candidate out on the streets, and you eagerly do so.
00:33:19.400 But they're very expensive.
00:33:20.960 They take a lot of time to get distributed.
00:33:23.800 Now, there's different types of signs.
00:33:25.780 I'm just, you know, I'm going to go into this a little for people with politics as to why they're going out and how they're going out.
00:33:30.500 There's the signs that go on people's front lawns on private property.
00:33:34.320 those signs are important for a few reasons. They can have an impact on neighbors. People tend to
00:33:40.920 go with the flow. They move as a herd. And when they see Larry and Beth next door on each side
00:33:46.240 of their place have gone with such and such a candidate, even unconsciously they might look
00:33:50.680 and say, you know, maybe I'll just kind of jump and lean that way. It shows some momentum.
00:33:56.140 The other part is if it's a completely unknown candidate, yes, it gives some name recognition
00:34:00.480 to get that out there so people see who's running. But seeing who's running doesn't influence very
00:34:06.200 often how somebody will vote. Just because they saw the name, it'll increase the chances a little
00:34:11.200 bit. Then you get the public area signs, and that's where signs get abused and foolishly used.
00:34:15.720 People just splatter them everywhere they can. As I said, when you see those corners,
00:34:19.600 they're just jammed with 50 signs. Those have no influence on anybody, but they get
00:34:24.400 They get vandalized constantly. You've got to fix them up all the time.
00:34:29.940 You know, you see the stupid tricks and games played between campaigns, or, 0.96
00:34:34.580 oh, this guy's got a sign, and I'm going to stick three signs right in front of his sign to 0.99
00:34:37.860 upset him. And it's just silly games, because I tell you what, when you've got 28 days to try
00:34:43.280 and convince as many people as possible to vote for you, and if you're dedicating hours and hours
00:34:47.760 a week to fixing signs and playing sign games and doing all that, you're wasting very precious
00:34:54.200 moments. One campaign I worked on, I was managing and then the candidate would come in and he'd have
00:34:59.260 a list of signs he saw down while he was driving out to go door knocking for the day. Very hard
00:35:03.620 working, excellent candidate, but he was letting it take up that much space in his mind that he
00:35:08.680 couldn't help it, but have this list and worry about signs that were knocked down to make sure
00:35:12.880 we got somebody out there to stand them up and fix them. So yes, the signs are important, but
00:35:18.200 not as important as something. Get them on the lawns. The other thing is getting them on those
00:35:22.120 launch forces your candidate or at least volunteers to door knock because you have to ask permission
00:35:25.960 you've got to get that's the effect of campaigning go to the door and talk to people don't stick a
00:35:31.160 whole bunch of signs in a city park get out there and meet people that's how you change votes that's
00:35:36.240 how you gain votes that's how you build your database and voter id and knowing who's where
00:35:40.560 but those ones when you're splattering them all over and of course you always notice at the end
00:35:43.720 of the campaign that's when the campaign office is suddenly okay we've still got 200 signs left
00:35:48.060 they'll send some volunteers out just to stick them anywhere and everywhere they can because
00:35:51.880 well, they're not doing any good sitting around in the back of the campaign office anymore.
00:35:56.360 Fine. But it's just that much more to clean up at the end of the campaign makes no difference to
00:36:00.300 anybody. But that's why in those last couple of days, you'll just see streets lined with hundreds
00:36:04.060 and hundreds of campaign signs. So again, are campaign signs important? Yes and no, not as
00:36:09.680 important as some people think they are, but they do have a bit of an impact. Paradox, he's saying,
00:36:15.400 I find the destruction of each other's signs abhorrent. Absolutely. And there's one other
00:36:19.440 thing with the targeting. I'll just throw one more tip out for anybody running a campaign if they're
00:36:23.320 a candidate or volunteering. Never, ever, ever, ever lay your hands on an opponent's signs. Even
00:36:33.500 if you're standing one up on their behalf because it got knocked down with a bunch of yours, a
00:36:37.620 volunteer of theirs could be across the street taking a picture and a picture won't show if you
00:36:41.300 were standing the sign up or if you were the one tearing it down. The gotcha games in politics are
00:36:46.640 are endless and if it looks like your people were taking part in the vandalism of other signs
00:36:51.040 you're going to get a whole bunch of again distraction and headaches and look badly
00:36:55.540 and i know people say well that sign was illegally placed fine call bylaw enforcement
00:36:59.860 to get them to deal with it but never ever ever touch their signs even with the best
00:37:04.360 of intentions look at saskatchewan i meant to ask chris about that there was an ndp candidate who it
00:37:09.600 looks like and it was the same as george shahal in calgary the federal liberal mp was actually
00:37:14.780 door knocking, pulled out the piece of literature from another candidate, and took it and put in his
00:37:19.620 own. Stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid. And pointless, it's not changing any votes, and it sure embarrassed 1.00
00:37:27.320 the heck out of himself, as well as Chahal. That move by Chahal, he would have been in cabinet
00:37:32.500 if he hadn't done that stupid porch pirate thing. He would have. But you know, because you only have 1.00
00:37:37.300 two liberal MPs, and Trudeau needs to try and show balance across the country, he would have put
00:37:42.060 Hall and some sort of junior portfolio. But once he was caught stealing mail, he's sure he still
00:37:47.440 won his seat, but he didn't get any positions afterwards. And I doubt he's going to maintain
00:37:52.640 that seat. So either way, there's my little campaign tips for the day, guys. Yeah, it gets
00:37:58.200 frustrating. So New Brunswick now, of course, BC held their election. That was Saturday. We covered
00:38:02.680 all that. You know, Jared's been fantastic on that. Still kind of waiting on the recounts. I
00:38:08.580 suspect looking at things. We'll see. But, you know, there's a lot to be mail-in ballots and
00:38:14.820 advance ballots and things still to be recounted and checked and so on. But I don't think it's
00:38:18.780 going to swing. So you've got, and this isn't the first time they've had this kind of balance.
00:38:24.040 It's going to be NDP with the Green Party holding the balance power, right back to where they were
00:38:29.280 a few years ago. And yeah, tail part, you know, wagging the dog. It's going to be a shaky minority.
00:38:35.680 We'll see how long that lasts.
00:38:37.260 I figure at least a couple of years.
00:38:40.340 There's no way that the Conservatives and the Greens are going to get together to make a coalition.
00:38:44.360 So it'll be NDP.
00:38:45.320 Certainly a humbling for the NDP. 0.59
00:38:47.400 And even though, you know, second place sucks, you were hoping for the best, you thought you might win.
00:38:51.960 the momentum shown by Rustad and the conservatives from a party that was pretty much non-existent
00:38:57.540 a couple of years ago to becoming that close to forming government and now having a very,
00:39:02.540 very strong opposition, well-positioned to be the next government, you know, given the chance
00:39:08.400 in election, it's a big victory for them in that sense. And he's got a lot to hold together though,
00:39:14.580 a lot. I mean, this is a party that was cobbled together fast. They don't have the
00:39:17.500 long structural basis to hold themselves together. And again, conservatives, we love to infight
00:39:23.640 and we love to get going on stuff like that. Speaking of that, so in Alberta, we got that
00:39:28.500 AGM coming up. It's going to be on November 2nd. It's in Red Deer in the middle of Alberta for the
00:39:32.700 United Conservative Party. Over 6,000 people coming out to it. It's just astounding for a provincial
00:39:39.380 annual general meeting. It's amazing. There's a lot of rumors, a lot of intrigue, a lot of
00:39:46.080 speculation. We're going to be there covering it, of course. We can't pass up on that. But the
00:39:49.880 leadership review for Premier Smith, some people think there's going to be a big push. There's
00:39:54.420 certainly, and they got upset with me, but I'll call them that again, chronic malcontents. The
00:39:58.080 same old, because I see those faces year after year. I've seen them 20 years and messing around
00:40:01.980 in politics in Alberta, 30 years. God, I'm getting old. But it's the same people who, they support
00:40:07.220 something until they don't. And usually they can't make it more than six months. Oh, that's it.
00:40:12.060 they ticked me off. I'm out. We're going to demand this person resign. We're going to rip
00:40:15.960 them down. We're going to pull them down because they prefer pulling things down rather than
00:40:19.860 building them up. The UCP is far from perfect. Oh, God knows. I mean, again, I was on the board
00:40:25.080 with Premier Smith when she was the head of the Wildrose Party and made one of the biggest
00:40:28.100 political errors in Canadian history. I know she's capable of mistakes, but the foolishness 0.97
00:40:34.640 of at this point, a couple of years into her mandate when she's got a majority government 1.00
00:40:38.520 to try and rip her out of there. 1.00
00:40:40.320 It's just ridiculous and it's foolish. 0.99
00:40:42.160 Go to the AGM, express your concerns. 1.00
00:40:45.500 You know, let her know what you think.
00:40:46.880 Let the board know what you think,
00:40:48.060 but devote to remover as leader.
00:40:50.240 I don't know, to each their own.
00:40:51.340 It's their thing.
00:40:52.240 I don't think she has much to worry about.
00:40:54.060 We've talked about that in the pipeline.
00:40:55.580 It's a lot of money to attend this AGM.
00:40:57.840 6,000 people, amazing.
00:40:59.500 At least like 300 bucks a head now
00:41:01.520 if you missed all the early bird pricing.
00:41:03.820 It's still at least a couple hundred.
00:41:04.820 You got to go to the central part of the province,
00:41:06.060 find a hotel room or stay with a friend.
00:41:08.520 I don't know. I just can't see, because some people say, oh, the left is buying votes and
00:41:13.100 they're going to get people out there and everything to take care of this. Again, out of
00:41:16.400 6,000 people, how much money and organization and everything would you have to do to really have
00:41:22.300 much of an impact on the leadership review when that's what you got to do? You know, I just don't
00:41:28.060 see it, but we'll find out. We'll find out. We'll be there. So that's not long from now. Lots of
00:41:32.260 political intrigue and things to keep us going. As Dave mentioned earlier, yeah, speaking of which,
00:41:37.500 this is there's that difference between liberals and conservatives trudeau we watched it in the
00:41:41.700 newsroom all this morning went into his caucus meeting for three hours i mean there was supposed
00:41:47.060 to be that you know letter from so many caucus members saying please please please please justin
00:41:52.300 resign because our chances of getting reelected are pretty much nil and they all came out and yes
00:42:00.040 trudeau came out with his usual smirk though it's funny he was walking in a darn hurry past the press
00:42:04.720 with is planted on smirk. We're strong and united and just stomped away. And then every barking
00:42:09.740 little liberal seal, and that's what I'll call them because they got no brains. They do what 0.99
00:42:13.400 they're told. They're scared to stand up for themselves. They all came out and said the same
00:42:16.500 thing. We're strong and united. We're strong and united. We're strong and united. Obviously you
00:42:20.860 aren't. Not when you had to be coached to have a three-word response to everything the media says.
00:42:27.420 They're afraid of letting you even speak. You're wimps. Liberal members of parliament are wimps.
00:42:33.500 So this is the other side of the coin, I guess, from what I was talking about with chronic malcontents, who are looking to rip down a new leader who's ascendant and doing okay, versus a caucus of people willing to swirl the toilet because they can't find the courage to stand up to a leader who's years beyond his best before date, who is going to get them obliterated in the polls, and still, obviously, they got chewed out and shouted down in the caucus meeting and threatened and God knows what.
00:43:01.700 and they've all come out strong and united. 0.99
00:43:04.740 You're clowns. 0.99
00:43:06.680 Meanwhile, you know, the House of Commons is crippled 1.00
00:43:09.180 because the Liberals are trying to cover up corruption
00:43:11.440 with refusing to release documents,
00:43:14.720 you know, unredacted documents,
00:43:16.120 so they haven't been able to get any business done
00:43:17.760 in the House of Commons.
00:43:18.940 There's a lot of rumors that Trudeau's going to prorogue
00:43:21.220 the House of Commons soon because they're stuck.
00:43:25.360 And that's just a Westminster tool
00:43:27.480 where basically the Prime Minister can shut things down.
00:43:29.500 Stephen Harper used it before as well.
00:43:31.240 when it looked like the NDP and the bloc
00:43:33.460 and the liberals were all going to get together
00:43:35.200 and basically punt his minority government out.
00:43:38.920 He prorogued parliament to take away the opportunity
00:43:40.720 for them to do that, which I still,
00:43:42.600 you know, I was a Harper supporter
00:43:44.420 and I think it was good for us,
00:43:46.060 but I think it's an ugly, ugly tool
00:43:48.280 for a government to be able to use.
00:43:50.420 And Trudeau might use that pretty soon.
00:43:51.920 We'll see.
00:43:54.820 It's Lane or Ian, I can't tell
00:43:57.680 what the capitalization of comment earlier,
00:43:59.120 that hit all, saying this is the effect of UBI,
00:44:00.780 universal basic income. Sorry, folks, socialism still doesn't work. Okay, I'm not sure where
00:44:05.680 that's popping out of, but it's a good subject to hit on quickly, because people also think that
00:44:09.420 there might be a big policy announcement or something, a Hail Mary throw, something desperate
00:44:14.380 out of the liberals to try it then. If they're not getting rid of Justin, what are we going to
00:44:18.200 try to do to turn this around? Universal basic income is something they floated a lot. I don't
00:44:23.360 think that's where they're going to come from, but you never know. And that is, yeah, you know,
00:44:28.140 basically, well, it's like it sounds, it's going to be a welfare program for everybody,
00:44:32.320 a massive move towards outright full socialism, or even a bit of communism. And as was said,
00:44:39.560 it doesn't work, and it won't work. But we should sure cost a fortune trying and the financially
00:44:44.960 illiterate, such as Chrystia Freeland, could very well try it. I mean, again, she still thinks we
00:44:51.540 can spend our way further. Let's see, BC saying, I'd encourage everyone to stop earning the tax
00:44:57.460 system's communist, and most people are paying 50% of their income to the government. I understand
00:45:02.500 that, but defunding the government also means defunding yourself, and when the sheriff comes
00:45:07.080 to kick you out of your house, you might win on a point of principle, but you're going to end up
00:45:11.500 with a shopping cart and a tent on a corner somewhere. I understand people saying stand up
00:45:16.440 to the government, don't pay your taxes, do things like that, or quit working, but it's just not a
00:45:20.160 realistic option for most. We've got to keep fighting. We've got to break the system, got to
00:45:24.480 change the system. That all comes back to, you know, I wrote a book on it already, guys. Look
00:45:28.900 that up if you like. I want to Google it. But the system itself needs to be changed. Right now,
00:45:33.620 we're just keep slapping new paint on a broken down system. That's why, as I was saying, you
00:45:39.200 know, when we get these ridiculous games of proroguing government and stuff like that.
00:45:44.380 Paradoxically, shout out to Silvercore Outdoors. Their YouTube channel has a long-form interview,
00:45:48.560 okay, with Alberta's Chief Firearms Officer, Terry Bryant. And yeah, Terry, she's fantastic.
00:45:54.480 and she's the firearms officer for Alberta, and she's been there for a couple of years now in
00:45:59.780 that role. She's been here as a guest a couple of times. Fantastic working on that, and I love
00:46:06.160 she's not a secret. She's trans, so that's fine. Good. You know, absolutely live, be happy, be
00:46:13.640 trans. She's not out there trying to go into change rooms or influence children or doing anything 1.00
00:46:18.920 else. She's sticking to her mandate as a firearms officer, and she just happens to be trans. 0.99
00:46:22.340 good for her. I have no issue with this. It's the activists that are the nuts guys and boy
00:46:28.800 they're effective and they're nuts. So stand up to them push back. Shane Wenzel saying Canada needs 0.94
00:46:34.400 a full review of the tax act. Yes that's another one a big one. I mean if we're not talking about
00:46:38.720 stopping paying taxes at least we could try to review and reform how we're paying it. You know
00:46:43.940 I'm hoping I'm assuming Polyev is going to get in with a majority. The next question will be how
00:46:49.500 much is he going to want to shake things up in that first year or two while he's in there? He
00:46:54.140 said a couple of things that sound good, but it's going to be a lot of pushback. Is he really going
00:46:57.980 to get in there and gut some things and really change them heavily? I sure hope so. He's a
00:47:02.420 careful, smart politician. So I could see him hedging some bets and not making some changes
00:47:08.160 in areas that I'd like him to, but we'll see. That'll be up to him and his strategists for now.
00:47:13.040 The first thing is we got to get rid of the nutcases who are in there right now, get an
00:47:16.040 election. So we get the chance to try and change it. And it looks like Justin Trudeau is determined
00:47:20.860 to hang in there as long as humanly possible. Crazy, we will see. All right, we'll break more
00:47:25.720 of that down tonight on the pipeline with the panel with Derek Fildebrand and Nigel Hannaford
00:47:30.820 and myself. And again, get to the Western Standard. Linda Spodian's been great putting her stuff up
00:47:36.820 there. Lots of other reporters and columnists. Keep tuning in, guys. Check in next week. At this
00:47:43.040 time. We'll report on what happened in the Saskatchewan election. And of course, everything
00:47:47.240 else that's been going on in the week since then. So thanks for tuning in. We'll see you in a week.
00:48:13.040 Thank you.