Western Standard - Inside Elections Alberta’s petition count

00:00:00.000 Okay, all right.

00:00:27.120 we're just uh we're a bit rushed here uh john was uh turned on the camera and all of a sudden all i

00:00:34.460 could hear was the sound coming out of the screen and not in my head says but i think we're good

00:00:38.000 john i think we're okay all right uh hey welcome back folks uh geez the month of july just flew

00:00:45.040 by right today is july 30th uh what is there july one two three 31 days in july tomorrow's the last

00:00:52.520 day of july like halfway through the summer we got august and september wow wow wow wow wow um

00:00:59.000 just before i get deep into the show um sympathies out to the family of uh parker wells what a

00:01:06.840 tragic ending i was i like i'm just getting i'm trying not to get choked up but i was so hoping

00:01:13.320 and i think like so many others that there was going to be somehow a miraculous happy ending to

00:01:18.600 this story but unfortunately yesterday the police found a body i don't think they've confirmed that

00:01:26.520 it was his but i mean you know you find an 11 year old boy in an area where an 11 year old boy

00:01:31.640 went missing what a tragedy um all right so another uh another interesting week a lot of

00:01:40.680 good things to talk about again folks this is your show where i'm trying to develop a call-in show and

00:01:47.880 And I want you guys to feel free to call in.

00:01:51.340 John's going to put the number on the screen down there, 866-479-WEST, extension 711.

00:01:58.160 And I'll take your calls.

00:02:00.920 I just ask that you pick any topic you want and let's have a chat.

00:02:05.920 But I'll start off.

00:02:07.120 I'll challenge you with you guys.

00:02:08.280 I got two questions that I've asked on X.

00:02:11.280 I've had some interesting replies to them.

00:02:13.720 And I'm going to ask you guys the same question.

00:02:15.300 And maybe it'll foster some discussion.

00:02:17.880 So first question I asked on X, and we touched on this last week, was Elections Alberta has opened the portal to apply for mail-in ballots for the referendum.

00:02:32.320 And so my question to you is, are you guys for or against mail-in ballots?

00:02:37.000 Let me know your thoughts on that.

00:02:38.380 Call in.

00:02:38.840 Let's chat about that.

00:02:39.940 I have an opinion on that.

00:02:41.620 And the second question I'll ask you maybe is a little more controversial.

00:02:45.540 i asked this question about every six months on x and the question is uh how would you rate the

00:02:53.680 performance of our premier danielle smith uh you know in the last say three months four months

00:02:59.380 and you can do it either on a scale of uh one to ten with ten being outstanding or you can do it on

00:03:06.340 a on a you know very uh standard uh letter scale with uh f being a fail all the way to an a plus

00:03:14.900 so two questions call in let me know your thoughts on that all right so today uh and actually speaking

00:03:21.280 of elections alberta that's probably uh that's the topic that's on the screen there uh john asked me

00:03:27.320 for topics and i said i want to talk about election alberta's petition count uh i'll try not to get

00:03:33.520 too too deep on this one but i could get deep because um you know i got that engineering

00:03:40.640 statistics background so last week so here's the recap right sorry to repeat the broken record

00:03:47.920 sometimes but let's just repeat it anyways so we we have stay free alberta launches a files a

00:03:55.440 petition under the citizens initiative act back in december and uh it's approved by elections

00:04:01.840 alberta and we're off to the races we're collecting signatures and the threshold is 177 000 signatures

00:04:07.920 and elections alberta gives us a form and says this is how you collect the signature you have

00:04:14.000 to go and get it has to be done in person can't be done electronically and you have to write down

00:04:19.760 the person's name full name their physical address not just their mailing post office box

00:04:26.800 uh whether and then you have to put a phone number or an email most people choose a phone

00:04:31.760 number then you have to uh date the day the signature is then get the people to sign the

00:04:37.920 signature and check off a little um disclosure that says i confirm that i'm an alberta citizen

00:04:45.600 over the age of 18 and canadian citizen residing in alberta and then and then so we collect those

00:04:52.560 signatures like that and then me as a canvasser i had to register as a canvasser thousands of people

00:04:58.320 registered as canvassers we all went about collecting these signatures and every time we

00:05:02.400 had five signatures on the page we signed the bottom of the page and the pages were on a serial

00:05:08.000 had a serial number right so very complicated lots of quality control lots it's a it's a very

00:05:15.120 you know to sign the sign to sign the petition individuals had to provide a lot of information

00:05:19.760 and we start collecting signatures and then first nations uh file uh for an injunction and a judge

00:05:27.720 at first grants a stay but eventually the judge says no they're uh i i'm i'm invalidating the

00:05:34.740 petition okay so the petition is invalidated even though the signatures have been collected

00:05:41.380 at this point and they're sitting in elections alberta elections alberta kept the signatures

00:05:46.340 didn't destroy them because they knew that as soon as the first judge said the petition was invalid

00:05:52.820 both the government of alberta and stay free alberta filed an appeal and then the appeal

00:05:58.980 was heard started being heard and then so the second judge said okay i'm hearing this appeal

00:06:05.780 but while i'm hearing this appeal and it's going to take me a long time to rule on this appeal or

00:06:10.660 could take me a long time i'm going to allow elections alberta to count the signatures

00:06:15.380 okay so now elections alberta gets tapped on the shoulder take all these boxes and go ahead

00:06:20.340 and count them and not only count them but validate them so that lasted about three weeks

00:06:26.020 and while they're validating their signatures both the premier's off or the the the government's

00:06:32.180 office is allowed to have scrutineers and stay free alberta uh which is uh mitchel vester the

00:06:38.580 petitioner he's allowed a scrutineer so he has scrutineers and the process takes about three

00:06:44.660 weeks to count the signatures and this and the result of this count was announced on friday

00:06:50.260 and so on friday uh elect so mitch when he submitted the signatures at first don't quote

00:06:56.180 me on the exact numbers i didn't write him down but mitch thought he had about 303 000 signatures

00:07:01.780 give or take and uh more than uh more than the threshold of 177 000. so it gives those to

00:07:08.180 elections alberta elections alberta did a whole bunch of things so the first thing they did is

00:07:12.100 they went through and they did a uh they they they double check mitch's count and they counted

00:07:18.420 the signatures so elections alberta counts the signatures and comes with the number close to

00:07:22.260 mitch you know in the in the 295 000 range then elections alberta does its first quality control

00:07:29.300 and it and it eliminates a whole bunch of signatures it looks at the pages and uh if um

00:07:36.020 if dates aren't on the pages or if there appears to be duplicates and all sorts of things or they're

00:07:41.220 on illegible pages have been damaged whatever so elections alberta starts to disqualify a whole

00:07:46.420 bunch of pages so the next thing you know elections alberta gets to a raw count something like 290

00:07:52.900 000 signatures once they got to the 290 000 signatures now they start the full-blown validation

00:07:59.860 period of validation of those signatures but they're not looking at each signature to make

00:08:05.460 sure that all those things i said earlier on there right name address uh date um check off the box

00:08:12.500 no they go with a sort of a statistical method where they pick a random sample of signatures

00:08:20.020 i think it was 354 357 something like that so they grabbed 357 signatures pages with signatures and

00:08:28.420 now they they have staff that call the people on here to validate and after they've done this

00:08:35.780 portion elections alberta invalidated invalidated over 80 000 signatures and brought the total down

00:08:47.140 to something like 220 000. so we start with you know in the high 300 or in the low 300s we start

00:08:53.540 at 305 306 some duplicates and then after a quality control check and then finally after

00:08:59.860 validating elections alberta eliminates a full 21 of the signatures boom gone and when they announced

00:09:08.500 that on friday at first i thought about it and i was like that seems high right because in a typical

00:09:13.220 election the number of spoiled ballots and and and invalid ballots is about one percent one to two

00:09:19.940 percent so here they're telling us that there's twenty percent of the signatures were invalid

00:09:24.180 and personally i was a canvasser and i witnessed the effort that people put in

00:09:28.020 campuses were trained canvassers collected signatures they almost always collected

00:09:32.260 signatures with somebody else and uh and they followed the rules as convoluted as the rules were

00:09:38.020 and i witnessed it so when at first that this 20 discount appeared i was a little shocked and then

00:09:44.260 then i talked to uh one of the screw to the scrutineer um i won't tell her i think we all

00:09:52.740 know who her name is the the scrutineer for election for stay free alberta was eva chipyuk

00:09:57.220 right everybody i think most people know eva chipyuk um uh an alberta lawyer who became famous

00:10:04.820 for being the last person to question Justin Trudeau on the stand

00:10:11.020 during the Emergencies Act inquiry.

00:10:15.520 And Eva has been, you know, she's got her own group.

00:10:20.780 She's promoting democracy, civil engagement.

00:10:26.080 She's very popular.

00:10:28.080 And then she also is a lawyer who works alongside Jeff Rath,

00:10:32.240 and she has her own you know cases near and dear to her she represents uh kerry sakamoto in a

00:10:37.520 vaccine injury case and she represents uh people that were negatively affected by the covet mandate

00:10:44.720 so that that eva chip was the was the scrutineer so i chatted with her a little bit but then i so

00:10:51.840 after i talked to her and i started thinking about the 80 percent the the 20 i realized something

00:10:56.640 a big flaw in the way that elections alberta were validating the signatures because elections

00:11:02.160 Alberta, so there were 7,000 canvassers, right, that collected about 300,000 signatures, but

00:11:09.120 not all canvassers were the same. Honestly, the bulk of the work was carried out by about 20%

00:11:16.560 of the canvassers. That's just, it's just what's called the Pareto law in statistics, right? For

00:11:22.020 any event, in a business, 20% of the people are doing most of your work, 20% of the people do 80%

00:11:27.780 of the work and the other 80 do 20 of the work it's always like that so canvassing was the same

00:11:31.980 way even though there's a lot of signatures collected the bulk of them 20 80 of the signatures

00:11:37.820 were collected by the you know literally like no more than two three hundred canvassers people like

00:11:42.760 myself who collected 700 signatures and people on my team and at the other end there were thousands

00:11:48.420 of canvassers who only collected one or two or three signatures and so when elections alberta

00:11:53.940 just randomly picks numbers like that so let me give you a scenario right so if elections alberta

00:12:00.180 chose uh grab the page and on that page there was three signatures and those are that's it

00:12:06.660 only three signatures had been collected by that canvasser and one of those signatures is bad

00:12:12.740 out of the three then statistically elections alberta eliminated 700 signatures in the whole

00:12:21.380 pile that's it that's the ratio whereas if they had picked one of my signatures and i collected

00:12:26.980 700 and i had a bad one then they're still eliminating 700 signatures but the odds of

00:12:33.220 you know what i mean that the distribution of canvassers and the quality of the canvassers

00:12:39.940 wasn't the same some did a lot of work some did only a little bit of work some were extremely

00:12:44.580 diligent and a few were maybe not so diligent and so it was an uneven distribution of of stuff of

00:12:52.420 people and you can't do a quality control randomly that way so and and let me give you an example of

00:13:01.380 you know what okay i'll pause because we got our first call and i wanted so i'm i gotta remember

00:13:07.060 that i was at the example of quality control i was going to talk about pipelines go ahead

00:13:10.740 head caller where are you calling from and what's your name please hi marty can you hear me i can

00:13:17.340 hear you okay it's uh i lost my voice but it's ken calling from uh capital by saskatchewan crossing

00:13:25.380 and um i've got more of a statement than a question uh in the digital age we're in right now

00:13:34.240 Why is it that there's no transparency in government or anything else?

00:13:39.900 And why can't we be validating these things, voting and otherwise, through digital means?

00:13:45.400 Yep.

00:13:48.520 You were going to make a statement and a question, so I'll answer that.

00:13:51.420 What was the other part of your question or statement?

00:13:54.180 Well, my question was, I don't understand why elections in Alberta has really no oversight.

00:14:01.300 It seems to me that there's really something very fishy going on between the Forever Canada group and their petition, which is really not a petition now, I guess, and everybody else who's under severe scrutiny with this movement.

00:14:19.960 You know what?

00:14:21.000 I'll finish my little story, which I think will answer your question.

00:14:24.640 So you're just a little bit ahead of me.

00:14:26.080 Appreciate the call.

00:14:27.080 Save your voice.

00:14:29.580 Yeah, thanks for calling.

00:14:30.940 Cheers.

00:14:31.300 yeah yeah so okay well let me try and finish my story real quick right so elections alberta

00:14:37.580 if election it ties into what the caller just said if elections alberta had been in

00:14:42.480 really intent on making sure that the signatures were good quality they would have used a different

00:14:47.020 process so i'll give you an example in the pipeline industry right in the pipeline industry

00:14:51.620 let's say i'm running a big long pipeline 100 kilometers of pipeline and i'm going to have

00:14:56.780 like on that pipeline i'm going to have like 10 000 welds okay and i cannot go and inspect every

00:15:04.380 weld that would take too long and it would be too costly and inefficient so we do similar to what

00:15:11.580 elections alberta did we inspect i'll start off by saying let's inspect 10 of the welds

00:15:17.980 but and when somebody when a welder welds on a pipeline when he's done his weld he grinds off

00:15:23.340 a smooth little spot somewhere and each welder has their own little stamp kind of like a brand

00:15:27.980 right he has a little punch might be his name might be it might be a little initial or a number

00:15:32.620 or whatever when the welder's done boom he he punches his name his his mark on that weld so if

00:15:39.980 i'm interested in checking 10 of the welds i start at the beginning and i check a weld

00:15:45.260 and if that weld is good i move on count 10 and then i go you know i do every 10th weld i want

00:15:51.260 want to do 10%. When I get to the second weld, let's say it fails. Okay. Well, I don't immediately

00:15:58.100 cancel out a whole bunch of welds just because I had one failure, like Elections Alberta. In the

00:16:04.420 case of Elections Alberta, you count one bad signature and then you cancel 700 right away.

00:16:09.260 If I'm checking the welds and I find a bad one, what's the first thing I do? I go and find out

00:16:14.660 who that welder was. And then I go, okay, you know, welder X. So then what I do is I find,

00:16:20.340 I count 10 and I try and find another weld of welder X and I check it and if the second weld

00:16:26.160 of welder X fails now I got a problem and now I'm probably and instead of just randomly cancelling

00:16:32.220 700 wells or whatever I'm going to find all the welds from that welder and and have them re-welded

00:16:38.280 but if I find one bad weld from that welder and then after that I find a bunch of good ones then

00:16:43.060 I just disqualify one weld and I continue my process of and I fix that weld and I continue

00:16:47.700 my process of doing my quality control so in the industry when we're doing something like that we

00:16:53.740 are really trying to get to quality that's the end game i just want quality wells because i don't

00:17:00.120 want my pipeline to fail elections alberta could have done all sorts of methods for for checking

00:17:05.540 the quality but they chose this flawed method because i don't think they were interested in

00:17:11.860 just in simply validating the quality they had an ulterior motive and i think their ulterior motive

00:17:16.860 was to disqualify a bunch of signatures so that's the first thing right is the the method that the

00:17:22.300 method they chose for validating was flawed but then there's a second part they did call people

00:17:28.220 so now they're calling 390 people and the quality their definition of quality i think was also

00:17:34.140 flawed right so they called people and they asked questions like you know um when did you sign the

00:17:40.460 petition and if somebody on the phone hesitated and said well i'm pretty sure i signed it in

00:17:46.860 january and they weren't very specific they got disqualified their signature got disqualified in

00:17:51.980 some instances for not remembering the date right if we'd known that if i had known that as a

00:17:57.420 petitioner every time somebody signed my signature my sheet i would have said hey take a picture of

00:18:02.540 your signature and keep it on your phone for the next four months in case elections alberta calls

00:18:07.260 you you know what i mean and so that was an example another example of signatures that got

00:18:11.740 disqualified was this whole kerfuffle that we had over uh physical address and um mailing addresses

00:18:21.820 right so in alberta especially in rural areas a lot of us have what's called all we have on

00:18:28.540 our driver's license is a mailing address right i live on a range road i'm not going to tell you

00:18:33.100 what range road i live on but let's say i live on range road 14 i live at 113 range road 14

00:18:39.100 in rocky view county right but i don't get my mail delivered there i get my mail delivered at

00:18:46.600 a post office box in cremona so on my driver's license it says whatever post office box cremona

00:18:54.460 it doesn't have my physical address but when i signed a petition they asked me what's my physical

00:18:59.620 address so i'd be like okay so i had to bring something like um a tax assessment or a credit

00:19:07.340 card statement or something that had my physical address on it and you and the and the petitioners

00:19:12.380 uh or the canvassers looked at that and and that was the address that went on there

00:19:17.100 so apparently a whole bunch of people got called so let's say they call me now and they're like hey

00:19:20.540 marty did you sign the petition i'm like yeah i'm pretty sure i signed it in water valley around

00:19:26.540 february 3rd okay what address did you use if i accidentally go uh post office box 12 in cremona

00:19:37.340 and disqualified because i didn't use i didn't say my physical address and and literally on the

00:19:44.720 phone some people apparently were literally like that and then had no chance to re-explain they

00:19:48.880 got disqualified and the other thing that happened is um some people on their physical address would

00:19:55.940 have said because that because on the petition uh sheets it asked for your address and then it's

00:20:01.460 i'd ask for your town so somebody might have written down uh township row or 116 township

00:20:07.780 road 14 and then same thing they might have put cremona as a town or they might have put rocky

00:20:13.300 view county as the as the as the town right and so if they called you and they said what town do

00:20:18.180 you live in and you said cremona and on a sheet you wrote rocky view or vice versa that signature

00:20:22.580 got disqualified so um i'm not so at the end of the day i got to be happy that the threshold was

00:20:31.060 met um unfortunately even though the threshold was met because there's an injunction or not an

00:20:38.100 because the first judge ruled against the petition and the second judge has to uh hear the appeal

00:20:45.140 danielle can't take this and change the referendum so we're still stuck with the

00:20:49.220 referendum that we have on the 19th with the 10 questions um i'm but i'm i'm fundamentally not

00:20:56.180 happy with the way elections alberta counted the signatures even though we still met the

00:21:00.340 threshold i think a lot there was way too many shenanigans and i don't think they were

00:21:04.660 to the caller's question i don't think their intent was a legitimate quality control i think

00:21:11.220 they were more interested in just eliminating a whole bunch of signatures that could backfire on

00:21:16.580 them because as soon as i saw that i'm thinking okay well if if 80 if 20 of the signatures are

00:21:21.540 bad you're going to put me in you're going to make me doubt the results of the next election

00:21:25.620 when there's an election or any event you're going to make me doubt it because you're you're

00:21:31.620 you've you've you've hinted that the standard is about 80 so next time there's an election and

00:21:37.540 they tell me that 98 of the votes were good i'm going to doubt them um so anyways let's let's you

00:21:43.140 know give give me your give me your thoughts on that and um and and then we'll go from there we

00:21:48.820 haven't heard the end of this um immediately after the results came out uh last week uh stay

00:21:56.100 free alberta um sent a letter to elections alberta saying we have uh thank you my my producer's

00:22:04.580 reaching my my list of cheat questions so stay free alberta uh put out a press release i think

00:22:10.260 yesterday or the day before and they're they're questioning the whole validity of of the counting

00:22:15.940 process um this story is not ending i was hoping today to have actually have a chip yuck on the

00:22:22.260 show but we'll let the dust settle a little bit and then we'll have eva on the show in the coming

00:22:26.340 weeks and she can give us her take all right we got a caller on the line go ahead please name and

00:22:30.740 where are you calling from hi marty thank you from fort mcclory hi nancy how are you

00:22:41.700 i'm good how you doing good good what's on your mind

00:22:45.940 Um, one thing I haven't heard anyone talking about that when all that went down with, um,

00:22:56.400 I don't know what was that project called, I started supporting it and then it all went

00:23:00.980 south about the seeded signatures.

00:23:04.300 Yeah.

00:23:05.140 Um, Elections Alberta found no seeded signatures in the referendum for us, but I still see,

00:23:15.180 I still see the Forever Canadians talking about how we cheated and that's where all those signatures came from.

00:23:24.060 So no one's pushing that narrative because they really used that to try and invalidate what we were doing.

00:23:31.760 Yeah, okay. Well, actually, thank you. That's a good reminder.

00:23:35.560 one of the good things though that came out of the count from elections alberta on friday was that

00:23:42.280 they confirmed that there was no what did they call them salted signatures right there was no

00:23:47.500 fake signatures there was no signatures from the the leaked database there was no fraud so they

00:23:53.700 confirmed that some of the signatures didn't meet the quality but they confirmed that there was no

00:23:58.080 uh fraudulent signatures so that's what that's that's a small victory for our side right and

00:24:04.600 And I think you're alluding to the fact that Stay Free Alberta collected signatures under a pretty strict standard compared to Thomas Lukasik, right?

00:24:17.520 Absolutely, yeah. I was collecting signatures, Stephen. It was pretty intense.

00:24:24.600 So you were a canvester. So give me, what was your experience then?

00:24:29.460 like um were you uh what did you think your quality control was like before you submitted

00:24:36.560 your signatures did you think that you would have had 20 of your signatures and validated

00:24:40.560 absolutely not no we sent people back home to get proper documentation for addresses

00:24:49.720 different ways that we could verify if they couldn't we couldn't verify their address we

00:24:55.700 we couldn't take the signature yeah we were it was crazy how particular we were about it

00:25:02.820 yeah yeah no uh same same same so hey before i let you go uh since we're on this topic uh maybe

00:25:09.460 you didn't hear my first question at the start of the show what's your thoughts on mail-in ballots

00:25:12.980 for this referendum um well i'm going to be out of the country so i've uh i've applied for my

00:25:20.660 mail-in ballot i'm not a super big fan of it but i know several people that had work trips etc that

00:25:28.340 they're not going to be available so it's one way where we still get to have our vote yeah okay so

00:25:34.420 i mean that's my thoughts on it right if uh mail-in ballots are for you should provide a

00:25:40.340 legitimate reason right it shouldn't just be because you're lazy i mean if you're out of

00:25:44.020 country you're studying something like that i just i just have a problem with the fact that

00:25:48.340 the current system for mail-in ballots clearly says you don't need a reason just call in we'll

00:25:53.540 give you a mail-in ballot so all right cool excellent well thanks for calling well when i

00:25:58.100 fill my notes i i had to give them a reason why why i wasn't able to vote at the ballot box but

00:26:04.740 the concerning thing is i see the forever canadian saying they should all vote by ballot right oh okay

00:26:12.500 you're seeing that so where where are you seeing that like sort of online or where are you seeing

00:26:16.500 that yeah interesting okay well i have to pay uh i'll have to watch uh closely on that so yeah i

00:26:29.460 mean that's the whole topic that we covered last week and i i don't want to go there i mean i i

00:26:34.420 think um well i mean nah i'll save it i was going to talk about i don't want to talk about i don't

00:26:41.780 want to give thomas lukasic too much air time right now is what i'm trying to do trying to avoid

00:26:46.500 You know, I get it. I have one concern about voting in Alberta, though. It's just showing your driver's license. Anyone can come here and get a driver's license.

00:26:57.740 Yes.

00:26:58.000 We provide an address, a utility bill, whatever, temporary residence, permanent residence.

00:27:04.460 We don't ask so much when we go to the ballot box.

00:27:10.040 If you have a driver's license, we usually go to them.

00:27:12.920 And I've seen them inviting people from outside of Alberta just to come to Alberta and get a driver's license and you can vote in the referendum.

00:27:20.580 That's something I talked about last week.

00:27:22.620 I think I talked about it last week.

00:27:24.060 I had an interesting experience because my vehicle registrations all expire on July 31st, right?

00:27:31.700 So last week I was in a panic and I went to registries to renew three vehicles. 1.00

00:27:36.920 And I said it online, about 70% of the people there look like they were new immigrants. 0.99

00:27:45.120 And listening to the conversations, it was crazy how many of them were just trying to get a driver's license

00:27:49.800 and and didn't qualify and didn't have the paperwork and were just pleading it uh it shocked

00:27:56.100 me it quite honestly shocked me and people said how do you know they're immigrants i'm like it's

00:27:59.780 not my first rodeo right when somebody's in line and uh like you know trying to get a driver's

00:28:05.920 license you can tell right a lot of them are basically trying to bribe the clerks like you

00:28:11.320 know the clerk would say well do you have an address do you have a piece of paper and they're

00:28:13.940 like yeah i do he's like okay well show it to me and they're like well i don't have it with me

00:28:17.180 can i just pay and get a driver's license and and like it literally you overhear the conversations

00:28:22.660 they're all trying to bribe the clerks to get a driver's license and i know why they're you're

00:28:26.080 right once you get a driver's license in alberta it's a ticket for a lot of benefits a lot of

00:28:31.480 benefits yeah yeah it's not even the temporary the permanent residence that confirm it's people

00:28:39.620 from outside alberta that have friends here that don't support independence and they're inviting

00:28:44.720 of just come on in we'll give you a fake lease agreement you get your driver's license and you

00:28:50.560 can vote against independence when they actually don't live here right for a Canadian citizen it's

00:28:57.840 super easy so that that worries me i mean how hard is it for someone from dc or

00:29:04.560 hop over the border grab a driver's license and go vote yeah no i hear you awesome all right well

00:29:09.600 thanks for calling and actually that's a great segue i guess into my next topic i have a great

00:29:13.680 day you too thanks thanks yeah um you know my i mean i have i mean i have two topics and there's

00:29:23.120 there's 30 minutes left on the show here um i mean the two ones that interest me right now other than

00:29:29.840 elections alberta that i should have mentioned at the beginning the fauci uh hearings in uh in

00:29:35.120 washington and danielle's meeting with carney yesterday in red deer i guess i'll i'll go with

00:29:42.560 with the carny one because it's kind of a segue to to this caller um and i think we're going to

00:29:49.420 have more coming on fauci in the coming week so that that'll probably be a topic for a couple

00:29:53.700 weeks but yesterday smith met uh carny flew into uh to red deer and uh met with danielle smith for

00:30:01.980 another one of his announcements and i mean wow like can somebody please tell me what happened

00:30:10.540 to danielle smith like where's the real danielle smith because the person we saw yesterday on

00:30:14.820 stage i'm sorry but that's not the real danielle smith right like danielle smith of uh um you know

00:30:21.560 the the the the fiery danielle smith who got elected who passed her first bill called you

00:30:28.360 know the sovereign alberta act like you know wanting a more sovereign alberta within the 0.98

00:30:32.920 united canada that danielle smith from two years ago three years ago the danielle smith who just

00:30:40.020 before the last federal election issued a referendum to the future prime minister and i

00:30:46.660 think when she issued her referendum or not not in the referendum she issued an ultimatum to

00:30:54.580 the future prime minister like back in february 2025 right so we didn't know i mean we hadn't had

00:30:59.860 the election i'm sure she thought poiliev was going to win we all did but she issued this

00:31:05.380 ultimatum uh i don't know if john can find the ultimatum it's maybe difficult but she had sort

00:31:10.580 of like nine things on her ultimatum she wanted the future prime minister to uh to drop these bad

00:31:17.860 laws like the tanker ban and she wanted the future prime minister to drop all net zero initiatives

00:31:24.020 and the net zero power grid and and uh emissions caps and then and basically wanted equalization

00:31:32.340 to be dropped like there was nine nine things on that uh ultimatum and that ultimatum had a date

00:31:39.540 i can't remember i think it was october of last year like just about a year ago

00:31:44.420 and and and then just just when that ultimatum was due um she had her her annual general review

00:31:53.700 and her agm and then that's when carney and her signed that first mou and we all went like oh my

00:31:59.860 my god you sold out right because that mou was like um a chicken and egg thing carney said i'll

00:32:07.100 give you a pipeline if you do this and what did she do she accepted a higher um carbon tax and 0.80

00:32:13.700 then and then and then yesterday and and yesterday i mean i'm i'm almost flabbergasted like yesterday

00:32:19.740 carney comes out here from ottawa and what's he bringing he's bringing a bag of money and he's

00:32:25.340 basically announcing that, you know, Ottawa is going to build more houses, right? It's one of

00:32:30.860 his biggest broken promises of the last 500 days, like Carney's been in power for 500 days. And that

00:32:36.500 was one of the things he campaigned on, right? He campaigned on making life more affordable for

00:32:42.360 Canadians, building more houses, like he literally promised to build 500,000 homes a year. I mean,

00:32:48.380 that's double the maximum rate we've ever hit. Like in the 1970s, I think Canada was building

00:32:53.180 270 000 housing units a year and to get ourselves out of this housing crisis we have to double that

00:32:59.500 that was a funny moment right that was that was during the leadership uh that was the leaders

00:33:03.580 debate in montreal when uh carney and and poiliev and and jagmeet and and uh the the the block leader

00:33:11.340 were all trying to one-up each other like i'll build 500 000 houses oh i'll build six or i'll

00:33:15.580 build seven like and and nothing's been built right no no i mean there's already actually a

00:33:20.860 downturn in um uh in in in building permits being issued and whatnot like the peak has already

00:33:28.540 subsided and it came nowhere near the peak of the 1970s so we're not solving the housing crisis by

00:33:35.020 building more houses i think the way to solve the housing crisis is by slowing down immigration so

00:33:41.740 then and so then carney comes here yesterday with a bag of money announcing in red deer

00:33:46.780 that uh you know he's got more money for an accelerator fund for more housing and danielle

00:33:52.220 is on stage like all applauding all good it's like well danielle this is a perfect example

00:33:57.500 of of of a federal overreach okay building houses is not a federal responsibility

00:34:06.620 like it's not ottawa's job to build houses i mean if you want to see what ottawa building

00:34:11.500 houses look like cory morgan said it this morning and i've said it many times you want to see what

00:34:15.500 it looks like when ottawa builds houses go visit any first nation reserve in this country okay

00:34:20.620 that's what ottawa looks like when they build houses or go visit some of the decrepit military

00:34:24.860 bases we have and go see what kind of housing our soldiers are living in so ottawa's responsibility

00:34:30.380 is not to build houses but this is another example where we send money to ottawa and then they send

00:34:35.260 it back to us with conditions so carney comes out here with conditions and and remember danielle

00:34:41.900 passed the bill like she's all for a more sovereign alberta within a united canada

00:34:48.380 and she's always tried to say that she's fighting ottawa every time that ottawa is constantly

00:34:54.940 overstepping its boundaries its mandates and and overreaching well yesterday was an example of

00:35:01.100 overreaching and danielle should have fought back but she caved but not only did she cave

00:35:05.820 she went one step further because um it there's a little press conference going on there by the way 0.97

00:35:11.900 what a what a the mayor of red deer what a ridiculous moment right the mayor of red deer

00:35:16.100 suddenly realizes that that carney and smith have are starting a press conference but nobody did a 0.90

00:35:21.500 land acknowledgement right so the the the the mayor of red deer steps up and does a land

00:35:27.680 acknowledgement like can we all yeah different topic so there's a press conference and somebody

00:35:32.640 bluntly asked danielle basically about her her her uh ultimatum and asked about equalization

00:35:39.180 and again danielle caved on equalization and instead of demanding that it be stripped basically

00:35:45.560 said well let's just let's just change it a little bit and let's just give equalization to the

00:35:50.680 provinces who deserve it and then the rest of the money can be redistributed equally among the other

00:35:55.260 provinces right a complete capitulation on on uh on on one of her ultimatum issues and and then it

00:36:03.920 didn't stop there i mean the press conference had some other comical movement but moments but the

00:36:08.640 perhaps the most telling one was when carney was up on the stage and he was asked a question and

00:36:14.560 then his you know and his answer was like well i'm here to help but he couldn't help but laugh

00:36:19.120 like he's literally answering the question and while he's answering the question he knows that

00:36:23.280 what he's saying is a complete lie and he's he's he's losing control and he's laughing on stage so

00:36:28.480 um and and that was the so that's the question i asked today uh and i asked some of you guys

00:36:34.160 you know what's what's your what's your thoughts on danielle smith's performance of the last few

00:36:40.160 months um i'm going to be blunt i see it as a capitulation i mean she's she's she's not pushing

00:36:47.680 back in any way shape significant way against ottawa in fact there was another moment yesterday

00:36:53.040 where some where she went on this weird uh rant about wanting more um permanent resident quotas

00:37:02.160 or slots like she said that you know something along the lines of alberta is allotted 6700

00:37:07.600 permanent resident slots and we need 40 000 it's like that's a question i've asked bluntly why is

00:37:14.500 she on this uh tangent why does she want to keep increasing the size of our population in the past

00:37:21.420 she said she believed that you know having a larger population was our way of being able to

00:37:26.160 exercise more pressure on on ottawa and on on the other provinces but that's a flawed strategy

00:37:32.820 because the other provinces are also growing so if we're all racing to grow nobody nobody's share

00:37:39.080 of the pie gets bigger but yesterday you know she contradicts herself and um so i asked that

00:37:45.360 question in one of my polls today where where where do you see danielle i asked you guys and

00:37:50.160 And I was quite surprised on X, she's getting a failing grade from my audience, which is a largely conservative, independence-minded audience, right?

00:38:03.220 So we'll see where she goes.

00:38:06.960 I'm making a prediction. 0.83

00:38:08.160 I think Danielle is a one-term premier at this point.

00:38:11.160 And that's in line with, I mean, we just haven't had many repeat premiers in Alberta.

00:38:17.180 I mean, Klein was the last one.

00:38:18.640 before honestly since klein if you look at that uh that era like of the last eight premiers we've

00:38:24.620 had none of them have uh had more than one term and so it's just a tradition it's something that

00:38:30.140 works for us albertans we uh we we we recycle our premiers let me just check make sure any any

00:38:36.500 interesting comments strike your uh attention john on the screens here or um no everything looks good

00:38:43.700 okay all right uh oh question for the chat what's the question uh who would you have replaced danielle

00:38:50.420 smith that's always a good question right i nobody comes to mind right now but i but i always answer

00:38:59.460 this okay so i i don't have somebody in mind to replace danielle smith but i have this argument

00:39:04.660 for people the the argument that i don't like is is when people make this binary when people say

00:39:10.020 if it's not danielle smith it's going to be naheed nenshi right we're not that binary i don't think

00:39:16.100 so and and and the other thing i say is like some people will vote they they might not like danielle

00:39:23.140 but they'll hold their nose and they'll vote for danielle because they don't want the ndp

00:39:27.140 to those same people i always say what did you think when we were thinking about replacing

00:39:34.900 jason kenney right we had the same comments so when we were replacing when we were unhappy with

00:39:39.460 jason kenny four years ago and we were thinking of replacing him i got that question all the time

00:39:45.540 if it's not kenny it's going to be notley again and who's it going to be right and so who came

00:39:50.500 after kenny smith and for all intense purposes most people were pretty happy with smith after

00:39:57.380 kenny but so so the to the pundits that made it binary in the last election and always says if

00:40:03.780 it's not if it's not kenny we can't replace kenny because you know better the devil you know than

00:40:08.820 the one you don't i say the same thing i don't know who's going to be the replacement for danielle

00:40:14.180 but we're in a we're a province with five million people so there's there's got to be some talent

00:40:19.140 there and and i'm not gonna i'm not gonna that's not gonna be a reason fear of the unknown is not

00:40:25.380 a reason to to to change today all right go ahead caller where are you calling from and uh what's

00:40:31.380 your name and what's on your mind please hi it's rose i'm calling from knee hill county

00:40:36.900 knee hill okay how are things over there oh pretty good pretty good um i i had an interesting

00:40:45.660 conversation with my sister who is kind of one of those people in the middle and she says unless

00:40:52.240 um we the the independence movement has some kind of plan which i think is like this uh

00:41:02.240 white paper that they're working on and it's published like where people get

00:41:07.040 their news like I guess the newspaper I'm not sure what she was thinking but

00:41:11.480 people are not going to vote for the second option option so what do you

00:41:17.480 think about that let me just one quick clarifying question is your sister 0.99

00:41:22.800 normally is she extremely partisan or does she or do you feel that her her

00:41:28.820 comment is is grounded in um in just you know good critical thinking a good critical thinking

00:41:37.700 she's a smart woman and i think she truly wants to know before you know october 19th she says that

00:41:45.220 if if there's nothing before october 19th that people aren't gonna go for the second they're

00:41:50.820 gonna they're gonna play it safe and go with what they know which is not good but go with what they

00:41:55.860 know which is stay in canada uh yeah no uh thank you and i so we you know i've i go back to we got

00:42:03.680 30 of the so she's in the she's in the middle 30 we got 30 of the population yeah 30 or no no matter

00:42:10.700 what 30 or yes they're they're they're they're gone they're on their they want an independent

00:42:15.340 and in the middle she's she's the tough audience and um i'm glad i think the only answer is we have

00:42:22.780 to try and give her what she wants which is that white paper at first i was reluctant because the

00:42:28.380 white paper um is somebody's best idea right it's an unelected person it's keith wilson it's others

00:42:35.320 who are putting together white paper but i'm i'm agreeing now that we need that white paper and at

00:42:39.580 least have the discussion so so i hope keith and them have that document and there was an initial

00:42:45.680 remember there was one that um the alberta prosperity project had the um what did they

00:42:51.080 call theirs um the cost of yeah the cost of freedom yeah no it's a great it's a valid comment

00:42:58.340 i i i agree with your sister it's valid it's i'm i'm in that i'm sort of in uh i can see that way

00:43:04.920 of thinking right i i usually base my decisions on more facts it just so happens that in this case

00:43:11.220 i'm so darn unhappy that i just want out i mean i'm willing to take a leap but uh yeah hopefully

00:43:16.840 the white paper comes out but she says that it has to be published somewhere where you don't

00:43:24.320 have to go digging for it right right um well i guess that's uh that's a good message for keith

00:43:31.880 right it's uh use some of that money that they're raising they're raising money and they're using

00:43:36.980 it for billboards and lawn signs we're going to tell them use that money to put little to put that

00:43:42.000 white paper in the uh calgary's papers and in uh and a few and and lots of pamphlets make it

00:43:49.240 available i guess to a lot of people is that is is that what you're saying and and that's what

00:43:54.380 she's saying she says people get their news from wherever cbc ctv global wherever and they're not

00:44:01.380 going to go digging for this it's got to be available readily available got it got it yeah

00:44:07.800 yeah yeah no we're on the same page on that one her her concerns are valid i appreciate that

00:44:12.620 comment appreciate that call thank you thank you yeah yeah um yeah i mean you know it's the story

00:44:21.860 of uh you know i've given this story before we're in a sort of in an un if you're an un in an unhappy

00:44:29.000 relationship and and you've decided that you want out you want a divorce some people decide they're

00:44:35.180 unhappy and and file for divorce and make a leap of faith that life you know they'll figure it out

00:44:40.740 they'll figure out where they're going to live they'll figure out uh how they're going to split

00:44:44.340 the assets and who's going to have visitation rights but some people once they're unhappy

00:44:48.420 they make that leap and they're gone other people stay in an unhappy relationship for a long time

00:44:54.140 and never make the leap and then there's other people who um who before they decide that they're

00:44:59.560 going to leap even though they're unhappy will want to know all those answers right they'll

00:45:04.220 they'll formulate a plan figure out where they're going to live and this and this and that so i

00:45:07.660 guess in in the say in the case of separation it's the same kind of idea but i do encourage people

00:45:13.180 like vote option two in october because it's not it's still not um binding it's it's um

00:45:22.700 it's it's democratic all right caller on the line go ahead please where are you calling from

00:45:26.380 um Marty yeah Marty yeah yeah go ahead hi it's Diane hi Diane okay so for I got just a couple

00:45:42.400 quick quick comments the um the elections those signatures I mean it doesn't surprise me that

00:45:52.120 and something nefarious wouldn't happen all the way, all this whole journey.

00:45:59.980 There's forces working against us that we probably don't even know about,

00:46:05.460 but they're there and just have to keep fighting.

00:46:10.580 That's all I can say and keep talking to people,

00:46:14.880 trying to win people over and understand the benefits.

00:46:18.060 uh secondly um i don't know what happened to danielle it's like she it's like invasion of

00:46:28.380 the body snatchers like it's like a different person to me talking from when i first um because

00:46:37.740 i was not living in the province the first time years and years ago when she was in politics

00:46:43.260 And I was so impressed with her because she just spoke so well, and she seemed like just a libertarian type of person, and I admired that.

00:46:54.840 So I don't know what happened, but something definitely did happen because she is not the same person.

00:47:02.420 yeah and after putting a lot of my thoughts into this um if the whole independence thing

00:47:11.980 is not going to move forward because of the roadblocks that we are experiencing

00:47:16.500 i think what we have to do is we have to be involved in our own government we have we don't

00:47:25.140 want to we don't want to i don't want to because i'm i'm a private person and i have a i'm retired

00:47:33.380 but we have to get involved and we have to take things back from the inside just like

00:47:40.660 the communism that's going on in the state they're taking that in they're inside the democratic party

00:47:48.740 now yeah that's how they are spreading it that's what we have to do we have to stand up and i hope

00:47:56.240 we get younger people than us that are like like-minded like that maybe are 20 years old 25

00:48:05.560 years old 30 years old who are looking at their future i hope we get people like that to be

00:48:12.160 involved that's that's what i think i think we got to get inside the government and we have to

00:48:18.660 work yeah that's that yes that's definitely uh by the way diane thanks for calling at your regular

00:48:27.900 on the show i'm gonna let you go and i'll i'll follow up on your comments because i think

00:48:32.740 there's another caller in the line but thanks for calling um yeah i mean a couple of things

00:48:37.320 yeah i i think diane or not diane i think i think smith is a different person but one of the things

00:48:44.840 that to me one of the this is my theory she can see the writing on the wall right she's like it's

00:48:52.160 scary it's it's scary it's totally scary that um that carney is leading in the polls and not by a

00:48:59.840 little bit like carney if you believe the polls and i take the polls with a grain of salt but i

00:49:05.060 do look at trends and i do and the polls have been pretty correct right i mean they they haven't been

00:49:11.620 that far off in the last few years so Carney's leading there's a couple of by-elections coming up

00:49:17.800 Carney's not losing any uh MPs his majority is not going away he's not too worried about calling

00:49:24.820 an election he's going to be in power for a while and Pierre is struggling okay that's a fact so

00:49:31.260 Diane so Diane sorry so uh Danielle Smith is a politician and she knows what's happening and so

00:49:39.360 she's she's just cozying up to carny she's not she's playing the cards and she's playing the

00:49:45.060 game that's one answer do i like it no um is it causing any harm no if it was causing harm

00:49:53.040 i wouldn't be so happy i mean taking our money back with conditions sure do it the only thing

00:49:58.160 that that smith's talking about lately that i really really don't like is when she keeps talking 0.55

00:50:02.440 about increasing immigration that that's worrisome but all the other crap she's doing right now

00:50:07.620 i can take it and i can sort of understand why she's doing it all right go ahead call her where

00:50:12.360 are you calling from and name please yeah hello uh marty it's uh steve uh creating spider-man

00:50:20.380 again i'm calling from a new place in high river uh thanks for doing the show hey high river hope

00:50:25.260 is just settling in like moved in recently that that that two months ago yeah still settling in

00:50:31.540 Listen, I've got a major concern about Elections Alberta losing the trust of the population.

00:50:39.880 That's a huge deal.

00:50:41.800 That's a really big thing. 0.99

00:50:42.960 That's how we become a third world country really quickly.

00:50:46.040 Is there some sort of a body who has higher powers that can step in and sort Elections Alberta out to prevent that from happening,

00:50:56.420 to prevent the loss of of a reputation a loss of faith from the people it's yeah it's a i agree

00:51:06.500 it's a bad situation i mean it's one of the most a cornerstone of our democracy is a fair vote

00:51:12.900 right like it's the absolute cornerstone of our democracy and right now we have an institution

00:51:18.340 that people are losing trust in i i don't think somebody can step in it it's not it's not danielle

00:51:24.580 and danielle through her her privy council whatever appoints the chief electoral officer

00:51:30.880 and then the chief electoral officer is supposed to even though he's paid by the government is

00:51:35.400 supposed to be impartial i mean that's a like i i have a pretty strong uh sentiment on that if

00:51:40.780 you're paid by the government you're not impartial that's just that's just right it's just done i

00:51:47.460 think the answer is we got to keep the pressure on this on this uh chief electoral officer uh and

00:51:52.980 he has to step down that's if he he'll have to do the right thing he'll have to step down that's

00:51:57.860 what he'll have to do that's the only way to restore the the faith in the institution is if

00:52:02.120 he steps down if he doesn't step down i don't know how we replace him i haven't looked into it maybe

00:52:07.720 some caller can maybe that's a question for uh next week when uh i'm going to try and get keith

00:52:12.520 wilson or ever somebody to come talk about this what what can we do but yeah we've the erosion is

00:52:18.680 the uh the trust is gone right now or if it's not gone it's taken a beating

00:52:23.800 so we got to write letters i suppose letters and keep up the pressure online um people are doing

00:52:29.320 it online i mean whatever pressure we're exerting is starting to work right because i've never seen

00:52:34.680 an electoral uh body like this one defend itself so much right like bc did it for a while but look

00:52:43.160 at like really go and look at elections alberta's website they're they're releasing uh um well

00:52:49.960 they're spending big bucks on an ad campaign saying hey we run a tight ship and we're we're

00:52:55.400 uh you know we do things by the book you know what i mean like when a when an when a when a

00:53:00.600 when an organization that's supposed to be impartial is running a constantly an ad campaign

00:53:04.920 to try and convince us that they are impartial you know where there's smoke there's fire so i

00:53:08.840 i think the pressure is working all right thanks buddy all right cheers have a great weekend um

00:53:16.280 yeah okay well yeah um i wanted to talk about dr fauci's uh testimony but i'm i'm sure it's going

00:53:26.580 to go on for another uh the story's not dead the testimony might end pretty soon but the story's

00:53:35.840 not dead so just just in those last few minutes that we got here so if i mean if you don't know

00:53:41.000 you've been living under a rock but you know dr fauci was basically the u.s's chief medical officer

00:53:48.760 right he was their top dog who was advising government in the u.s on what policies to

00:53:55.900 follow during covid and so and and then from him almost every other government around the world

00:54:02.940 like all the western nations followed their advice kind of like the you know kind of like

00:54:08.380 saying well we're following the world health organization or the un or the us so if fauci said

00:54:14.700 hey um mask up then most other places said all right let's mask up so he the guy had power and

00:54:22.620 he had influence and he he had power and influence but then something unusual happened just before

00:54:30.860 uh joe biden uh left office this is a tradition among among presidents they're allowed it's not a

00:54:39.260 tradition it's what's a tradition it's in their constitution presidents are allowed to pardon

00:54:45.020 people even though a peer a jury of your peers could find you guilty the president of the u.s

00:54:52.140 has this interesting power he can just say yeah you were found guilty but i pardoned you

00:54:57.020 midway through sentence immediately after whatever joe biden before he leaves grants

00:55:03.720 uh his chief medical officer a pardon and i think he gave him a pardon because he couldn't give him

00:55:11.960 amnesty amnesty is something even higher amnesty is like i'm going to protect you from any further

00:55:17.360 prosecution but that that that's not a power that the president had but the power but the president

00:55:22.500 had the power to pardon so the president of the united states pardoned joe uh uh not joe fauci

00:55:28.540 um anthony fauci pardoned him retroactively and into the future even though he hadn't committed a

00:55:36.940 hadn't been found guilty of anything that's an interesting concept right there but but what's

00:55:41.540 been interesting this week is that they brought uh fauci out of retirement and they're holding him

00:55:48.600 there's an inquiry they're questioning him uh the the the the senate the house is questioning him

00:55:56.020 he's before a a an inquiry and he showed up all lawyered up absolutely lawyered up had eight

00:56:03.040 lawyers with him and and then immediately started being asked questions and then pleaded the fifth

00:56:09.260 pleaded the fifth pleaded the fifth and in the united states the fifth amendment is an amendment

00:56:13.460 that says you don't have to answer questions that could incriminate you right so you don't have to

00:56:18.460 we have similar laws we just don't go as far like it's it's really dramatic when theatrical in the

00:56:26.660 u.s when you plead the fifth so and there's all there's all these old videos from four or five

00:56:31.780 years ago three years ago where fauci was proudly saying hey i stand by all my decisions and if

00:56:36.440 there's ever an inquiry i'll stand up and i'll talk about it but fauci is right now refusing to

00:56:41.620 talk about anything that happened during covid and any decisions he made and the reason he's

00:56:47.540 being called out right now is because a little while ago his diaries you know public servants

00:56:53.500 have to write all sorts of documents and their doc and whatever they write their emails or

00:56:58.180 correspondence that's all public record you can't just destroy that and so the the fauci diaries are

00:57:03.620 out and there's some pretty damning evidence in there right a fauci kind of like acknowledging

00:57:08.660 that he knew that some of his recommendations were useless maybe even bad but he still went

00:57:13.820 the head and made those recommendations and they became you know laws and mandates so the fauci

00:57:18.340 diaries are out fauci is on stand and he's pleading the fifth it's a con it's comical he's pleading

00:57:24.280 the fifth to the point where some guys like what color is the carpet in front of you uh respectfully

00:57:29.300 under the advice of my lawyers i plead the fifth what color is your tie respectfully under the

00:57:33.860 advice anyways i don't have time to get into it we'll get into it in the coming weeks but the

00:57:38.920 for me the fascinating thing i wanted to go back i'll i'll i'll remind everybody of the history of

00:57:44.780 covid in our nation how it's related to what happened in the u.s and i i'm i'm i'm firm on

00:57:50.540 this i do think that uh some people had good intentions in during covid you know i'm talking

00:57:56.520 politicians and bureaucrats i think some of them had absolutely nefarious intentions we're going

00:58:01.180 to take advantage of this crisis to test out you know better uh test out their theories like uh

00:58:07.020 the great reset and stuff like that so there was nefarious people there were some good intention 0.84

00:58:11.340 people and then there was just some silly clumsy incompetent people that made decisions but at the

00:58:17.460 end of the day in the u.s and in our country i still think there's no real accountability for

00:58:22.980 some of the things that happened during covid and and that's why i'm watching this one with

00:58:28.220 interest because if if fauci somehow or other goes down or some of these these truths come out

00:58:34.000 with Fauci that's a precedent and that's dangerous for the you know the Teresa Tams and the uh the

00:58:41.300 Dina Henshaws and the Bonnie whatever I call her Bonnie Doom I can't remember her name in BC but

00:58:46.280 you know if Fauci goes down all these others are going to start singing and turning on each other

00:58:51.400 and we're going to have some repercussions so that's why all eyes are on this one and I'm and

00:58:55.600 I'm watching this one um carefully so we'll we'll talk more about uh Fauci in the coming actually

00:59:03.180 go go look at the go look at the some of the videos just they were they're they're pretty

00:59:08.700 interesting i mean there was a moment where one senator had fauci's lawyers uh called on security

00:59:14.940 and said remove his lawyers and then the other really fascinating clip is there was a former

00:59:19.660 doctor who dropped his career got pissed off during covid and said i'm going to become a

00:59:26.020 a senator and he became a senator and he was in that room and he was looking at fauci and he told

00:59:32.700 fauci like who the f were you to think blah blah right so we had a senator in a hearing dropped an

00:59:40.860 f-bomb and and nobody blinked i would have thought for sure that you know the chairman would have

00:59:45.100 gone bang bang bang order order but no the f-bomb was dropped and everybody kind of like it was

00:59:50.300 coming and fauci when he was reading his statement was shaking like a leaf so it's going to be an

00:59:55.980 interesting thing to watch all right folks uh the the the day the hour went by again lightning fast

01:00:03.420 um thanks for calling in by the way i won't be here next thursday uh i'm heading up north uh

01:00:11.740 gotta go back to the hunting camp and go finish the setup and then i'm going on my own hike i i

01:00:17.740 hinted i'm going on a hike and i'm actually going on a solo hike deep in the wilderness and i'm

01:00:23.740 going to go and try and find what is the one of the oldest european monuments in alberta all right

01:00:31.660 hopefully i got your attention on this one and i and i i dropped the hint nobody's guessed what

01:00:36.380 the oldest european monument in alberta is and it dates back to pre-confederation i've tried to find

01:00:43.660 it three four times in the past but the trails are all overgrown and uh and and it's a difficult

01:00:50.060 bushwhack but i'm pretty confident i know how to get to it this time so hopefully when i come back

01:00:55.180 in two weeks i can tell you whether i was successful or not and uh as usual there's the

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01:01:47.580 Amen.

Western Standard - July 30, 2026

Inside Elections Alberta’s petition count

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