Western Standard - August 20, 2026


Is Carney finally admitting defeat？


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00:00:00.000 Hey, welcome back.
00:00:27.960 uh hope everybody's doing okay actually when i walked into the studio uh you know i usually come
00:00:35.280 in a couple minutes early and the first thing john asked me is how are you doing and uh had to think
00:00:39.980 about it for a second i'm doing great and uh and then i told him i i survived my fast uh if you
00:00:46.860 follow me on x you know you would have known this uh you know once about twice a year i do uh 48
00:00:53.060 hour fast. A lot of people do intermittent fasting, you know, fast every day, but I like
00:00:58.740 to do it sort of twice a year and do a 48-hour one. Sometimes I'll stretch it, try to go,
00:01:04.700 you know, 60 hours or so. Fasting is, it's good, right? It's not a purge. It's not a
00:01:15.020 cleanse. Well, it's kind of a cleanse, but it's more, for me, it's more about resetting
00:01:19.480 certain chemicals in the body, right? Resetting the insulin levels, resetting the testosterone,
00:01:24.420 resetting other things. And if you fast long enough, you start to actually get rid of a little
00:01:29.680 bit of dead cells and dead tissue in your body. And your body has a mechanism for replacing all
00:01:36.740 that. But I do get nervous when I fast. I drink a lot of water. And it's a weird thing that
00:01:44.740 happens when you're, well, it's not weird, I guess it's predictable. But when you don't have
00:01:48.740 any food in your body, your metabolism changes, and then it needs a lot of water to do all the
00:01:58.780 things I talked about. And then the water just goes through you. And a lot of people when they're
00:02:03.540 fasting, don't actually feel thirsty and will get dehydrated. So you got to drink more water
00:02:09.140 than you actually even think you need, right? If you think you need three liters per day,
00:02:13.580 trust me, you need like four or five while you're fasting. I mean, it just goes through you.
00:02:17.440 And weirdly, you know, I drank a lot of water and I became fascinated by a couple of things, including the fact that, did you know that even on water, there's a best before date?
00:02:30.560 Like this water bottle here says best before July 2028.
00:02:35.260 Like what would go bad about water? 0.57
00:02:37.720 I guess maybe mold or bacteria would get in there.
00:02:41.260 I don't know.
00:02:42.440 You know, just one of those crazy things.
00:02:44.800 Too many things in life have.
00:02:46.800 Actually, we could talk about best before days, but let's not go there.
00:02:50.700 All right.
00:02:52.320 Hey, weekly call show.
00:02:54.400 I reminded folks, this is a talk show.
00:02:58.000 I want to try to do this into a call-in show, so don't be shy.
00:03:01.920 John's got the phone number on the screen right there,
00:03:05.240 479-9378, extension 711.
00:03:08.520 And if John answers and then you get through,
00:03:13.300 I'll ask you, you know, name, number, where you're calling from, what you want to talk about.
00:03:18.060 I mean, like, call me and we can talk about anything, although I do have some topics today.
00:03:23.000 It was a bit of a weird week, I'd say.
00:03:28.020 It was a bit of a weird week.
00:03:29.060 So the topic that's on the screen right now is, is Kearney finally admitting defeat?
00:03:37.460 and uh and and i'm going to roll all over the i'm going to go back and forth across the country
00:03:43.860 today uh talking about a couple of things but but i want to start with uh i want to start with one
00:03:50.000 thing i said um and there's a reason i picked that topic right is carny admitting defeat
00:03:55.780 i i made a prediction in uh at christmas you know you do your end of year prediction and i
00:04:02.160 My end-of-year prediction was that 2026 would be the Great Awakening in Canada.
00:04:11.820 And I think I'm going to be spot on on that one. 0.99
00:04:15.440 I think it's happening.
00:04:16.420 I think there's a Great Awakening.
00:04:18.540 And what we're seeing this week is part of that.
00:04:21.700 It's a manifestation of that.
00:04:24.200 So what happened, right?
00:04:25.760 So, well, Carney and Trump have been going back and forth in a battle, in a trade war.
00:04:36.480 And like I've said in the past, when Trump got elected and decided that he was going to do what's best for his country and try and bring back manufacturing to his country and try to, you know, correct what he perceived as wrongs, you know, other countries taking advantage of them and things like that.
00:04:53.700 So when Trump got elected and started doing those things, some people said it was an attack.
00:04:58.180 And I've always said, no, it wasn't an attack on Canada.
00:05:01.480 It should have been a wake-up call.
00:05:04.460 And rather than go and meet Trump like statesmen and really try to find a win-win, listen to each other.
00:05:16.580 And a win-win could have been an amazing thing, right?
00:05:19.700 Like the North America as a, as a, as a continent and as a trading entity could be so powerful, right?
00:05:27.200 Like if Canada and the U.S. without, without having to be amalgamated, like we're not talking one country, but Canada next door to the U.S. and Mexico, like that's a pretty solid, you know, we got resources, people, culture, technology, everything.
00:05:41.180 We could be just, just, just such a powerful, you know, continent.
00:05:47.880 so but but instead the you know uh carney got into a a pissing contest with trump and you know
00:05:56.780 we all know the history but so the latest installment of that was that a couple of weeks ago
00:06:01.860 um trump announced that he was imposing 50 tariffs on another 20 or 30 billion dollars worth of
00:06:11.920 canadian goods so that's you know like that's a lot right that's a lot and the tariffs were set
00:06:17.420 in to, sorry, I got to take a sip here of water. The tariffs were set in to take place, to go into
00:06:26.560 effect yesterday. Yesterday? Yeah, yesterday, the 19th. And what did we get yesterday? Well,
00:06:35.320 we got an announcement, I guess, a post, a social media post and a couple of interviews from Donald
00:06:42.500 Trump, Donald Trump saying we got a deal. Okay. And no details on the deal, sort of just saying
00:06:51.620 we got a deal. And I'm giving, I'm speaking as Trump now, we got a deal. And I'm giving
00:06:58.560 Carney three days to finalize the deal. So that was yesterday. And I don't know if he meant three
00:07:06.240 days, three business days, or three work days. If it's three business days, that means that Carney
00:07:10.700 has today tomorrow and sunday to finalize the deal and then and then and then the tariffs don't go
00:07:16.920 into effect or they go into effect if he has three working days he has until a couple of days you
00:07:21.500 know early next week and so trump makes that announcement and then uh on our side of the
00:07:27.540 border carney doesn't make too many announcements and so we're all sitting there going well what's
00:07:32.620 the deal like what's the deal and i i i suspect he didn't make nobody gave us concrete details of
00:07:42.720 the deal but the markets okay the stock markets the markets kind of reacted in a weird way so one
00:07:49.500 of the things that happened in the market yesterday and is still happening today is
00:07:52.660 canadian banks are taking a beating canadian banks are like lost two three percent yesterday
00:07:57.880 All the big banks, TD, Scotia, CIBC, the banks lost a lot of money and the sell-off is going on today.
00:08:07.320 And some people try to excuse that as like a shift away from, you know, that the market was, that investors were shifting away from financials and into materials, let's say.
00:08:16.380 But the banks took a beating, the insurance companies took a beating, media took a beating.
00:08:21.920 and I'm talking Canada, like Rogers, Telecommunications, TELUS,
00:08:28.140 they all took a beating and airlines took a beating, okay?
00:08:32.260 We don't have many airlines in Canada.
00:08:34.040 I mean, we got Air Canada.
00:08:35.760 So do the markets and those big boys know something that we don't know?
00:08:39.980 I think so, right?
00:08:40.900 Like what do we have to offer in a trade agreement?
00:08:46.880 And we know all along what Trump wanted, right?
00:08:49.440 Trump wanted a secure border, fentanyl taken care of.
00:08:54.000 He wanted the dairy cartels sort of taken away
00:08:57.360 or the protection for the dairy cartels sort of diminished.
00:09:01.340 And he wanted access to, he wanted fair access to our markets.
00:09:07.660 You know, his fair, like Canadian, American banks
00:09:10.200 are not allowed to do business in Canada.
00:09:13.420 American airlines, sure, American airlines can come fly here,
00:09:16.800 but they can't fly once they're here domestically.
00:09:19.060 You know, like if if Alaska Airlines is flying Alaska to, I don't know, San Francisco via Vancouver and it stops in Vancouver, that Alaska airline plane is not allowed from Vancouver to then go, say, Edmonton and Calgary and offer some cheap domestic flights within Canada.
00:09:36.440 It has to just continue on and go back to the U.S.
00:09:39.600 So Trump was asking for those things.
00:09:41.560 And I have a sneaking suspicion that those are the concessions that Carney gave in.
00:09:51.060 He caved.
00:09:52.160 He finally gave what Trump wanted.
00:09:54.560 After, you know, almost a year, more than a year of pounding his chest and saying we're going to be the greatest economy in the G7.
00:10:02.480 We're going to be the leaders of a new world order, trying to find extra business with Europe and other places like that. So his ideology got slapped by a massive dose of reality. And I think that's the deal that we're going to see.
00:10:20.140 now the reason it didn't get announced is because this is the problem with canada
00:10:26.100 trump or not trump carney or somebody on behalf of carney um uh what's his name um dominic uh
00:10:34.580 is it dominic uh who's the guy from uh it's dominic i'm having a memory blank it's dominic
00:10:40.220 leblanc right who's negotiating for us and a couple of other people melanie jolie or whatever
00:10:45.480 But they like we're sending an individual, a federal representative to negotiate on behalf of 10 provinces.
00:10:52.580 Right. Which is a problem. And so when that individual is negotiating, then they got to keep coming back to to Canada and then try and talk to everybody.
00:11:01.880 So yesterday we know there was a meeting of first ministers, a conference call.
00:11:06.800 So sort of an emergency meeting of first ministers.
00:11:09.640 And again, a press release came out after that saying we made progress, didn't announce anything.
00:11:15.480 But I know what was on the table, right?
00:11:17.080 So LeBlanc comes back from the U.S. and he's made an offer.
00:11:21.000 Now he's got to convince his counterparts, the premiers of the provinces,
00:11:27.680 to give up on the milk cartel, to put American booze back on the table,
00:11:33.020 to consider these concessions.
00:11:36.040 So I think that's what happened.
00:11:39.540 I think, in a nutshell, Trump won.
00:11:45.480 but time will tell we'll see in a couple of days now at the end of the day to me like this is all
00:11:50.760 good news right i mean if i can get if i can get if i can get cheaper food if i can get cheaper
00:11:56.620 flights if i can get cheaper insurance right that's on everybody's i'm sure that's on everybody's uh
00:12:01.760 mind these days insurance in alberta in particular is is crazy expensive if i can get uh all those
00:12:08.680 things cheaper that's a win right but i don't and and i honestly don't think that they were
00:12:14.440 negotiating uh in good faith and representing us right they weren't working on our behalf they say
00:12:20.240 politicians say they're working on our behalf but i don't think they were so give me a buzz somebody
00:12:26.020 call in or give me some comments there what are your thoughts on that did did carney cave in am i
00:12:31.480 am i missing something because i i i don't see what else we could have done i mean we just don't
00:12:37.000 have a lot of things that uh like in a trade deal what do we know what trump wanted and what do we
00:12:43.600 want what did we get i guess all we got is we we don't have more uh more tariffs um i'm gonna read
00:12:51.940 a couple of comments here it's a good day when i can uh let's see tax to death all right folks
00:13:01.660 you can ask me a question right here on the comments uh john if you see a good question
00:13:06.240 You can throw it up on the screen there, but I don't see anything good right now.
00:13:14.240 All right.
00:13:14.720 Don't be shy, folks.
00:13:15.860 I've said this before, right?
00:13:17.080 I've said this before.
00:13:17.960 Like, I'm just a guy.
00:13:20.460 I don't know why some people are nervous about calling.
00:13:23.560 I don't bite.
00:13:24.940 I'm a retired engineer from Alberta.
00:13:29.140 Look at me today.
00:13:30.260 I'm actually wearing a nice new shirt.
00:13:31.560 I think I got this shirt for my birthday a little while ago.
00:13:33.620 The kids say it makes me look like my father-in-law.
00:13:36.880 My father-in-law is a big Dutchman, and the kids call him Opa.
00:13:39.840 So they're saying this is an Opa shirt.
00:13:43.020 And, you know, I'm wearing Mark's Work Warehouse pants and some running shoes.
00:13:48.820 Like, I'm not a fancy politician.
00:13:52.960 All right, well, let me keep on going then.
00:13:55.220 Because, like I said, it's interesting.
00:13:56.920 There's some really weird stuff going on.
00:13:58.760 So part of – now, so Carney, I think, is perhaps caving and giving in, and then Trump doubles down on his victory lap and announces – and it's not announced – it's not a defeat.
00:14:22.360 he had no intention of making a better deal that wouldn't benefit Crookfield.
00:14:29.120 Yeah, no, I agree that.
00:14:30.080 I mean, that's the, you know, if they, yeah, no, I agree.
00:14:34.200 Lots of people say that Carney never had any intentions of making a deal.
00:14:38.040 He was doing his own thing.
00:14:40.220 So, and where was I?
00:14:42.580 Yeah, so Trump then, you know, he's got a little victory
00:14:47.660 and then he adds a little bit of salt to the wound there.
00:14:51.300 and then goes ahead and sends a separate tweet out in the Twitterverse
00:14:57.040 and announces that Keystone is back on.
00:15:00.400 Actually, he almost goes as far as saying I'm approving Keystone XL.
00:15:04.820 Like, that's crazy, right?
00:15:06.820 That's one-upping Carney once again
00:15:10.780 because we all know Carney's trying to win points with Alberta,
00:15:16.320 and I'll come back to that.
00:15:17.380 but but trump's announcement on keystone was really interesting okay i got a call on the line
00:15:23.680 uh go ahead where are you calling from what's your name please
00:15:25.860 hi my name is carl from caldery hey how's it going
00:15:30.920 yeah like this uh i meant that bierre came out in favor of supply management i'm wondering what's
00:15:38.700 that all about do we have any conservative government or do we have to have to choose
00:15:42.980 I missed the first part of that.
00:15:50.920 Did you say supply management?
00:15:55.060 Oh, yeah.
00:15:55.920 There are two motives, but we're not able to supply management.
00:15:58.960 I'm sick of it.
00:16:00.160 We do not have a conservative story.
00:16:02.780 John, I can't hear what he's saying.
00:16:04.820 I'm having a hard time.
00:16:12.980 all right i'm sorry i i just either either it was a bad connection on the phone or or if somebody
00:16:19.560 else wants to call in and repeat the question or put it in the comments i'll go right to the bottom
00:16:23.320 maybe maybe somebody can repeat it in the bottom of the comments i thought it was i thought the
00:16:28.300 caller was asking about supply management which i will um marty do you think that the dairy cartel
00:16:35.880 should be abolished yes i do i mean if that was what the question was i'll come back i i i had
00:16:42.560 the dairy cartel as a as a whole separate topic on here but i just i just want to keep going uh
00:16:48.260 quickly on keystone right so trump comes back with uh with offering keystone which would
00:16:53.560 you know i've said last week i mean i first of all i don't think the memorandum of understanding
00:16:58.520 uh between uh alberta and carney is very strong um and but but it's there and uh they were
00:17:08.600 proposing a pipeline uh to british columbia i the reason i don't like that pipeline is because
00:17:15.340 that pipeline was going to require a lot of federal funding and um and that's how it was
00:17:22.640 going to get approved now keystone and and then and that pipeline is not designed or not ready
00:17:27.500 keystone excel i can say for a fact that keystone excel is almost like 75 built it was uh the the
00:17:36.740 A good chunk of the infrastructure in the U.S. was built five, six years ago.
00:17:43.400 It was repurposed.
00:17:46.600 Because the border crossing was never done, TransCanada still built the U.S. component of it,
00:17:53.280 built part of the Canadian component of it, just never connected all the pieces
00:17:57.320 and used the pieces for other things.
00:17:58.920 And it's not TransCanada anymore.
00:18:01.440 now it's a south bow but south bow could build finish should say finish keystone xl quickly
00:18:08.940 and uh keystone xl could be done without any uh subsidies federal uh monies even provincial
00:18:17.540 monies it could be built quickly so it's a really nice pipeline and it could be done really quickly
00:18:22.320 and it would benefit the americans it like more than the more than the uh west coast pipeline
00:18:29.900 And so when Trump brought that up yesterday, I think that is another way for him to one-up Carney, but I'll take it.
00:18:39.820 I mean, for me, that's a win-win.
00:18:41.840 If he one-ups Carney and we get a pipeline in Alberta, I don't care if the pipeline goes to the U.S. versus going to the West Coast.
00:18:48.500 Some people say that if it goes to the West Coast, it's tidewater.
00:18:53.640 A pipeline going to the U.S. all the way down to the Gulf of Mexico is just as good, just as good.
00:18:58.620 So that was an interesting development that happened yesterday as well, the Keystone Pipeline.
00:19:08.220 Did we figure out what that caller was trying to say?
00:19:12.560 No. Okay, I'll just read a couple of questions here.
00:19:15.200 If affordability is such an issue in this country, why are we not trying to abolish the GST, HST, and PST once and for all? 0.64
00:19:23.560 Tax on the tax is straight up racketeering.
00:19:28.620 Boy, you guys, I mean, you guys keep, you're bringing up good, I mean, we're overtaxed.
00:19:35.920 That's a great question, right?
00:19:37.300 We're overtaxed.
00:19:38.720 We should eliminate taxes, first of all, but then we should eliminate those kinds of taxes.
00:19:44.800 I agree because those taxes actually add to the cost of living.
00:19:48.720 I'd rather just be taxed, like if the government needs money, I get that.
00:19:52.020 If the government needs money for things like, you know, building hospitals and schools and roads,
00:19:56.900 Just tax individuals on their income and businesses on their profits and then use that money.
00:20:04.920 When the government has to go over and get extra money by taxing gasoline and the goods you purchase, the value-added taxes, they call them, I think those are terrible taxes because they get money, but they also contribute to inflation.
00:20:20.400 And inflation, to me, the number one driver of inflation is excessive government spending.
00:20:26.480 Which is why, you know, here in Alberta, like when I first moved to Alberta, there was no GST and no HST.
00:20:33.060 And now, you know, 30 years later, 35 years later, yeah, we have a GST, but we still don't have an HST.
00:20:38.860 I'm amazed that there are still people who bring up the concept that Alberta should have an HST or PST, a provincial sales tax.
00:20:47.860 And that's a non-starter.
00:20:50.820 I mean, and even when they promise like,
00:20:52.800 oh, well, if we give you a provincial sales tax,
00:20:54.960 we'll diminish your income tax by an equivalent amount.
00:20:58.980 No, I don't buy that.
00:21:00.700 And even though, I mean, there is, in theory,
00:21:02.780 there is one advantage to a sales tax,
00:21:04.860 which is you can tax people from out of province
00:21:07.060 or out of country who are coming here.
00:21:10.200 But I don't think that's a valid enough reason.
00:21:13.120 And, I mean, the lost tax revenue from tourists does not justify taxing myself on consumption, which then leads to higher prices.
00:21:21.920 Now, that's going to come to a boil in the coming weeks because the federal government suspended the fuel tax during the summer, right?
00:21:34.340 There's a fuel tax at $0.10 per gallon on gasoline, and I think it's $0.12 on diesel and airplane fuel or whatever.
00:21:41.920 The government suspended that during the summer. That tax is going back on after September long weekend, which is going to add another 10 cents to the price of gasoline, which then drives inflation.
00:21:55.040 and and interestingly enough there was a survey done not too long ago i think it was uh ipsos or
00:22:03.780 one of those and you know and i take the surveys with a grain of salt but it asked if people want
00:22:09.480 uh were in favor of that tax being put back on and an amazing surprising 39 of uh canadians are
00:22:16.420 in favor of putting that tax back on but i think i know where those canadians live and and and they
00:22:22.300 have something in common um and and i won't i don't want to go there right now all right so um
00:22:29.940 well let's keep going down this path then so uh oh hang on what's that the caller
00:22:35.560 was questioning why pierre was supporting supply management yes i'll i very good question very good
00:22:44.240 question i um i i saw that right that was that was listen i don't know why anybody's supporting
00:22:52.280 that i'll be blunt i think i know why pierre supporting supply management it's because of
00:22:59.000 the base that supply management is near and dear to a bunch of people in quebec and to a bunch of
00:23:04.360 people in ontario and that's their base that's where they get votes and it's just it's just one
00:23:09.660 of those things he's not willing he's not willing to sacrifice that and by and and i think he got
00:23:15.540 handed a gift this week he should have capitalized on that right if supply management is on the table
00:23:20.700 and it is being removed,
00:23:24.040 Pierre is missing the boat on that one.
00:23:25.880 He should have said something along the lines of,
00:23:28.060 I told you so, but he can't
00:23:29.740 because he's actually been in favour
00:23:31.240 of supply management all along.
00:23:32.760 There's only one politician in Canada, I think,
00:23:34.620 who's really opposed supply management,
00:23:36.880 aka the dairy cartel, and that's been Max Bernier.
00:23:40.520 I mean, it's why Max didn't win
00:23:43.360 the Conservative leadership race, whatever,
00:23:47.180 seven years ago.
00:23:48.020 So it's crazy that the dairy cartel and supply management are still a sacred cow in part of the country.
00:23:58.180 I mean, we had our own form of supply management here in Alberta and in the West.
00:24:04.020 Don't quote me on the years, but I mean, we had the wheat pool, right?
00:24:07.460 We had the Alberta and the Saskatchewan wheat pool.
00:24:09.340 like wheat farmers here had to send all their wheat to the wheat pool
00:24:14.480 and it's the wheat pool that set quotas and sold it on their behalf.
00:24:18.500 That was abolished.
00:24:19.320 I think it was abolished in 1995, maybe a little bit later.
00:24:22.920 If somebody wants to correct me on that, that's fine.
00:24:27.940 But that whole thing about supply management and their base
00:24:32.820 brings up another super interesting development that happened this week, right?
00:24:37.180 um i think well happening this week and will continue to happen
00:24:43.920 carney might be caving and in the process carney is also
00:24:51.100 really alienating quebecers like more than i've seen in a long time again there was another poll
00:25:01.560 that came out i think this was a legé poll that came out last week that showed that the 1.00
00:25:07.120 Liberals had lost 11% of their support in Quebec just in the last couple of weeks.
00:25:14.580 And that's because Carney is, I think Carney is sensing that the independence movement in Alberta is real
00:25:24.060 and that there is a threat of the country falling apart.
00:25:27.520 Now, he's got that same threat.
00:25:29.220 There's a bit of a paradox here because he's got that same threat in Alberta
00:25:32.520 and he's got that same threat in Quebec to a lesser degree.
00:25:35.980 But I think he's dealing with the Alberta threat more urgently.
00:25:41.380 So he's got the MOUs and a couple of other things for the pipeline.
00:25:47.200 And in doing so, he's alienating Quebecers.
00:25:50.900 But I think he's alienating, he's taking a gamble on alienating Quebecers.
00:25:54.720 He's taking a gamble that they will come back to him in months from now.
00:25:59.400 So he's sort of taking a chance and pissing them off.
00:26:04.420 So what did he do? 1.00
00:26:05.400 he's got the mou with us another big news that happened this week that the that the quebecers 0.98
00:26:11.620 were not happy about is the electric vehicle mandates were quietly uh repealed right so
00:26:19.940 remember those were uh gilbo pushed hard for this gilbo uh convinced trudeau and the liberals
00:26:28.940 to pass a mandate forcing us to adopt electric vehicles by like 2030 at a certain level and in
00:26:37.340 2035 right basically they were going to make it illegal for us to buy diesels and gas and force
00:26:43.000 us all into electric vehicles well that was that was not only unpopular in a lot of in a lot of
00:26:49.620 many parts of Canada but that was also impractical right because realistically speaking nobody else
00:26:57.580 is doing this and if and and when when somebody manufactures cars like when ford or toyota or
00:27:02.760 whoever makes cars they need to make cars for huge markets like when you design a car you need to sell
00:27:08.000 like thousands and like hundreds of thousands of examples of that car to return a profit and so
00:27:15.880 they're very careful they're not going to make cars that don't sell and they all the big boys
00:27:21.140 were stopping are stopping right now they're not making electric vehicles okay yeah sure tesla is
00:27:26.680 doing them and the chinese are making some but locally in north america not a lot of electric
00:27:31.720 vehicles are being made because we're buying gasoline vehicles that's just a fact so these 0.95
00:27:37.320 mandates never made sense they were put in place because gilbo was a lunatic and it appealed to 0.97
00:27:42.520 quebecers who still by and far believe in climate change and believe in in in other nonsense like 0.60
00:27:50.360 that so quietly this week um ottawa repealed the electric vehicle mandates they finally gave 0.95
00:27:59.620 themselves an excuse like they they they they they i don't they called the they asked the
00:28:04.240 parliamentary budget officer to you know analyze what this would cost i could have done it for free
00:28:08.760 by the way uh carney if like next time you want to do one of these analysis you could just call me
00:28:13.760 but somebody you know the parliamentary budget officer said that electric vehicles would have a
00:28:18.400 the mandates would have a devastating impact
00:28:20.680 that would result in like a net $57 billion loss to Canada.
00:28:24.840 So the mandates were canceled quietly this week.
00:28:28.220 And again, that pissed off Quebecers further.
00:28:32.760 Now, Carney's trying to appease the Quebecers in a sense.
00:28:36.480 That's why we saw him go and announce
00:28:38.940 that big Labrador project, right?
00:28:43.000 The Muskrat Falls continuation,
00:28:46.500 Like the big, they're going to expand the Labrador's hydroelectric power generation capacity.
00:28:54.820 That's a 20-year project down the road.
00:28:58.600 That's billions and billions of dollars of federal money to do it right up there with the electric, you know, that high-speed rail.
00:29:07.340 I mean, it's almost, it's an unlikely project.
00:29:11.960 It's an inexpensive, it's an expensive project.
00:29:14.240 It's an unnecessary project.
00:29:17.160 I mean, Labrador right now is producing too much power and they can't get it to the U.S.
00:29:22.880 The U.S. don't need it.
00:29:24.120 You know what I mean?
00:29:24.780 So Carney tries to appeal to Quebecers with that that crazy deal, but it's not it's not it's not working.
00:29:33.860 So so right now, Carney is more focused on Alberta and he's sacrificing Quebec, which is which is an interesting strategy.
00:29:43.720 And I've said this, if you think about this, if Quebec were to separate, there would never be a liberal government in Canada ever again.
00:29:53.600 That's how much liberal votes there used to be in Quebec.
00:29:57.040 And on the other side, if Alberta separates, there will never be a conservative government in Canada ever again.
00:30:03.820 That's how important our conservative vote is.
00:30:05.820 So if you're a carny, in reality, you should be, you'd think that you'd want to sacrifice Alberta and let Alberta go. But again, in that battle of practicality versus ideology, if Alberta goes, the country is in trouble because Alberta is the economic engine.
00:30:24.520 and we've seen it over and over and over and over,
00:30:27.540 especially in the last couple of weeks, especially this week.
00:30:31.120 The concessions are like Daniel Smith sitting here in Alberta right now
00:30:36.460 is just sitting back and laughing and enjoying what's going on
00:30:41.640 because she's getting a better deal.
00:30:45.060 She's getting the attention from Ottawa and our economy is doing okay.
00:30:50.240 We're not being attacked by the Americans.
00:30:52.240 They want our product.
00:30:53.400 They want Keystone.
00:30:54.520 and um you know and then remember she had her she had her what do you call it her um
00:31:00.920 um her ultimatum a year and a half ago or two years ago like to the future prime minister 0.58
00:31:07.940 where she had her nine bad laws i think she's counting this ev mandate removal as a um as a win
00:31:15.120 so um you know that's that so that's the that's the dichotomy that's what's going on in the
00:31:21.500 country right now carny is having a dose of reality the other provinces are going to finally
00:31:26.800 have to uh answer that wake-up call sacrifice some industries focus on what they're good at
00:31:35.200 um everybody wants energy now so the bad like the the energy bad green good that battle is lost
00:31:43.580 And Alberta is coming out rosy, which makes our efforts for independence all that much more relevant, right?
00:31:55.740 All right, come on, folks.
00:31:56.840 Give me a buzz here.
00:31:59.340 Oh, instead of a call, I got a question here.
00:32:02.980 How do you feel about Elections Alberta bringing in support workers from out of province?
00:32:07.500 I was just going to go, okay, well, let's pivot to independence, right?
00:32:12.280 So we're 60 days away from the referendum, almost officially.
00:32:18.820 Yeah, well, two months, right?
00:32:20.580 I mean, the referendum is October 19th.
00:32:22.220 Today is August 19th.
00:32:23.300 So two more months, and then we have the referendum.
00:32:26.100 A couple of things on that.
00:32:27.600 So yeah, today or this week, Elections Alberta was announcing that they're trying to staff for the referendum.
00:32:34.260 They need 60,000 people to try and count the votes in 48 hours.
00:32:39.760 that's an that's an interesting i mean if i do the math backwards on that how many people are
00:32:46.340 they expecting to come out right each each ballot is going to have 10 questions so somebody has to
00:32:51.940 look at all 10 questions and uh record them i guess that's gonna yeah i guess i can see how
00:32:58.140 that's complicated right you gotta it's not like you go through the ballot and find the one you
00:33:02.700 gotta on 10 questions you gotta go yes yes no yes yes no so you gotta record that so
00:33:09.680 how many seconds does it take might take a person a couple of minutes to do one minute or two to do
00:33:15.580 a ballot if you need 60 000 people in 48 hours uh i'm lost on the math but they elections alberta
00:33:23.060 must be expecting something like uh two million people to come out for uh to vote in the referendum
00:33:28.040 that's impressive um it listen i am am i do i care personally where the people come from
00:33:35.580 I think I'd rather have – it's an interesting question.
00:33:41.960 Ultimately, I wish we could give those jobs to Albertans.
00:33:45.820 Sure, I wish we could give those jobs to Albertans.
00:33:47.860 I mean, what is it?
00:33:48.780 You hire 60,000 people to work for two days.
00:33:54.460 That's 60,000 people who could make $500, $600 over a couple of days.
00:33:59.400 That's fun.
00:34:00.200 Good money for retirees and students and stuff like that.
00:34:03.380 um the fact that there's not 60 000 people that's great that just means that everybody in alberta is
00:34:09.380 busy working and doesn't have time to do this now devil's advocate in me says i'm not very happy
00:34:16.480 with elections alberta i don't trust them entirely and i don't trust um so should it be um
00:34:27.480 farmed out to workers from another province
00:34:30.660 well most provinces probably want us to stay so could there be some cheating going on you know
00:34:39.320 what i mean so yeah no if you're going to farm it out then uh farm it out to uh somebody farm
00:34:45.240 it out to somebody in switzerland or something like that i don't know no it's a it's an interesting
00:34:49.260 question it's uh it's uh it brings up a bigger problem which is um we we i've lost faith in
00:34:57.460 elections alberta and and i don't understand how we can not count votes in a timely manner when
00:35:06.440 every other country on earth seems to be able to do it right so we gotta we gotta use the right
00:35:11.180 kind of technology and the right balance to do it and uh and go from there now um all right color
00:35:17.860 on the line uh go ahead where are you calling from what's your name please hey marty donald here
00:35:24.340 from all the girls
00:35:25.080 who are responding
00:35:25.700 how you didn't say
00:35:26.620 how's it going
00:35:28.020 Donald
00:35:28.340 I'm wonderful
00:35:31.160 I want to talk
00:35:32.340 about what's going
00:35:32.980 on in Alberta
00:35:33.720 with the separatist
00:35:34.640 movement here
00:35:35.420 would you take
00:35:36.400 on some
00:35:37.720 individuals
00:35:38.500 so if Alberta
00:35:39.500 separates 0.99
00:35:40.220 would you take
00:35:41.320 on an individual
00:35:42.140 and a hungry
00:35:42.760 trucker named
00:35:43.560 Daniel Martin
00:35:44.240 it's going out
00:35:46.540 there
00:35:46.840 so in Canada
00:35:48.240 if Alberta
00:35:49.820 separates 0.92
00:35:50.420 he's going to
00:35:50.940 hunt down 1.00
00:35:51.920 and shoot 1.00
00:35:52.560 and kill 1.00
00:35:53.480 separate it. What's your joke on that? 0.98
00:35:57.040 He's been posting
00:35:57.880 online.
00:35:59.260 Go ahead, sorry.
00:36:00.680 That's unacceptable language.
00:36:04.460 That's
00:36:04.900 something I would immediately turn to the
00:36:07.980 police. I don't know. Who'd you say?
00:36:10.060 Hungry Trucker?
00:36:12.740 Yeah, Danny Martin. 1.00
00:36:13.960 He's a low-life piece of trash. 1.00
00:36:16.020 Piece of trash. I'm not trying not to swear 1.00
00:36:18.080 because this is live. 1.00
00:36:20.440 He's a low-life piece of trash 1.00
00:36:22.060 or sits down and calls people feds, 1.00
00:36:24.280 muppets, trashes
00:36:26.180 you, Chris Barber, and a whole bunch
00:36:28.260 of people.
00:36:30.200 You've probably given him too much attention
00:36:32.220 already. I don't give those
00:36:34.060 kinds of people attention.
00:36:36.440 Short answer, I'm against that.
00:36:41.040 I'll stay on that
00:36:42.060 topic. Sure,
00:36:44.080 independence is divisive. I get it.
00:36:46.320 It's divisive, but it's
00:36:48.240 pretty ugly. Is it that
00:36:50.160 divisive where people just can't still be civil and talk about it it's it's kind of a it it's what
00:36:57.480 the government has done to us right they they do this on purpose they want us to fight each other
00:37:02.940 yeah yeah that's what they want to do um i'm going to tell you too what i saw in strathmore
00:37:10.960 the uh yesterday and all that where uh uh chris um from whistle spot cafe wanted to do a discussion
00:37:17.840 And somebody decided, some Karen decided to call the cops and say, oh, he's not allowed to have a discussion.
00:37:23.420 But you've got a former conservative member named Thomas Lukasik, a PC member who now is a left-wing NDP socialist,
00:37:32.600 who shows up in Strathmore and people start talking.
00:37:35.580 They don't kick him off. 0.97
00:37:37.060 How come these so-called left-wing rainbow clowns going out there and saying separatists are Nazis or separatists are this? 0.96
00:37:48.580 People are just looking tired of what they're seeing and what they're doing. 0.96
00:37:52.440 People don't want basically the so-called—go ahead.
00:37:58.380 No, no, I was going to talk about that today.
00:38:00.320 I mean, thanks for bringing it up.
00:38:01.820 You know, I'm on the topic of independence.
00:38:04.480 there's been uh yeah strathmore was an interesting one because it's chris scott right is chris with
00:38:10.880 the whistle stop so chris bought himself a nice motor home and then they put the you know he put
00:38:17.240 the uh the skins on it and then he's doing a tour with uh tanya clemens and others they went to
00:38:22.020 strathmore and the town council tried to stop them i mean they i don't know the exact details i saw
00:38:29.280 the video like they they looked to me like they were pulled in the park like uh sort of a community
00:38:33.520 park and and hosting an event and uh somebody from town council came to talk to them and try to
00:38:39.840 tell them they couldn't be there which by which they're allowed to be they even called the cops
00:38:44.340 and then luckily the cops said no you know we're we're he's allowed to do this but i'll add one
00:38:50.700 thing so you're right it's it's ugly what's happening and it's backfiring right like tabor
00:38:55.080 tried to do this and it backfired on tabor i think it's going to backfire on um on strathmore
00:39:02.160 Because people are, Canadians are more common sense, they're still fairly common sense, right?
00:39:07.940 They understand that you have the right to talk and debate.
00:39:14.100 But I'll tell you.
00:39:15.020 Well, here, well, just to give you a heads up, now that you say something the wrong way about the gender, what do you call it?
00:39:25.120 but i have a disability the gender politics about trans uh transfer in schools you're labeled as
00:39:31.680 racist you're labeled as homophobic you're labeled as a whole bunch of things then you got caught up
00:39:37.680 your alley you got crown prosecutors uh if you spoke about this they'll jail you like i've been
00:39:43.360 in jail before because individually jessica john at the young news uh you can go look him up wax
00:39:50.160 my balls and all that stuff he's been violent to people and the cops haven't charged him he's 0.96
00:39:54.320 He's trying to murder me multiple times. 0.93
00:39:55.880 I spent three months in jail in Toronto in 2022,
00:40:00.200 and I spent almost like two months in jail until I pled guilty just to get out
00:40:04.960 because of a horrible condition.
00:40:06.640 Why are these lunatics can go out there and threaten to murder people,
00:40:11.380 assault people, and do anything because you have an opinion and they're not in jail? 0.93
00:40:17.120 That's my question.
00:40:18.060 Yeah, yeah, no, I don't have the clinical answer.
00:40:21.320 the the guy who has the clinical answer to that is a is a is a montreal academic named gad sad
00:40:29.040 right gad has two books sort of on this subject the first one is the parasitic mind the second
00:40:33.960 one is uh suicidal empathy and and you're bringing up uh one of the reasons i'm pro
00:40:39.960 independence is because i think what you just describe it i describe it as a woke virus and
00:40:46.320 And that's what Gad talks about.
00:40:47.820 I mean, the East has been infected by these crazy ideological ideas that they're testing out without consequence.
00:40:57.840 And you don't want any of it, and I don't want any of it.
00:41:02.840 No, I'll tell you right now, I live here in British Columbia. 1.00
00:41:07.440 I live in a communist, NDP, drug-infested, transgender, lunatic, soy city here. 1.00
00:41:15.320 If you say something the wrong way, these people scream like murder. 1.00
00:41:19.900 The crime right here is still bad.
00:41:22.480 Police are just basically watching Twitter, watching this.
00:41:25.960 Oh, you say something the wrong way, we're going to come squat your door.
00:41:29.020 We're going to do all this stuff.
00:41:30.600 But you know what?
00:41:31.300 I finally now have my member of my member, sorry, not my member of my MLA in my area planning to sit down with me and talk about the individual I mentioned earlier, but just to get you on with the news, why it has not been charged for threatening to murder people, assault people and all that stuff.
00:41:49.080 And I'm finally, something is getting done.
00:41:50.620 And I do have a police investigation because this individual has been a page about me called the Derpy Mix.
00:41:56.860 Yeah, yeah.
00:41:57.280 OK.
00:41:57.640 I'm the pedofiler.
00:41:59.300 Yeah, I hear you.
00:42:00.040 I hear you.
00:42:00.460 so thanks for calling in yeah yeah thanks for calling in okay yeah sorry about that marty i
00:42:05.860 feel bad yeah no that's good i appreciate the call and then uh we're on the same page thanks
00:42:10.340 for calling um i i just want to finish on one of uh what one of the things he was saying just back
00:42:16.120 to strathmore right and when it comes to strathmore and the double standard right the double standard
00:42:21.940 because uh chris scott gets somebody you know gets the the council comes out they call the cops blah
00:42:27.940 blah, blah. And he, he, he defended himself. And in the end he stayed, but Strathmore just had like
00:42:34.380 a, a stampede parade like three weeks ago. And in the parade, in the parade, Thomas Lukasik and his
00:42:42.380 little red bus or whatever were in that parade. So like, is that a double standard? Like how crazy
00:42:48.200 of a double standard is that? Right. So like, um, and, and people notice that thankfully Canadians
00:42:54.840 are smart enough actually there was an interesting incident uh you guys do you guys follow uh his
00:43:00.160 name is john alberta john's the guy who walks around with the flag on his shoulder and uh
00:43:05.720 interviews people he was interviewing somebody not uh yesterday and unbeknownst to him he recorded
00:43:12.940 it he he didn't quite notice what was happening but while he you know he's got the camera on
00:43:17.360 himself and he's recording and uh he's talking and then when he played the footage afterwards
00:43:23.020 he realized that behind him there was a kerfuffle somebody was like running towards him and was like
00:43:28.560 dead set on you know on being offensive and challenging him and started yelling like you're
00:43:34.060 not allowed to be in this dog park blah blah blah and that person got intercepted and blocked
00:43:38.580 by somebody who um i don't know if they were pro or against independence but they were sort of like
00:43:44.320 a good samaritan who saw what was going to happen and stepped in so i i mean i i don't want any of
00:43:51.300 to get violent like yeah you know i i just want people to be able to to have discussions go ahead
00:43:57.780 please where are you calling from what's your name hi there sir david from sudbury ontario
00:44:03.300 oh sudbury how's it going oh i have to be alive what's on your mind uh just sorry i said what's
00:44:12.420 on your mind jerry i just a quick question um and it might be something you can touch on the
00:44:18.820 your show with Clyde as well. I'm just wondering what your thoughts are on the federal and
00:44:25.860 provincial politicians that are against Alberta separation while at the same time celebrating
00:44:33.940 Calistani separatists in Canada. Yeah, no, good question. I mean, 1.00
00:44:42.340 I mean, well, I can bring it closer to home, right?
00:44:47.060 I mean, no, actually, that's a great question.
00:44:53.020 Well, I find it disturbing, right?
00:44:56.640 I find it, again, it's part of a double standard.
00:44:59.180 Actually, to those politicians, no, I don't even have anything to say.
00:45:04.300 I mean, they're playing a double standard.
00:45:07.460 Some of them go even farther, right? 0.74
00:45:08.900 Like some of them are maybe supporting it, supporting the Calisthenes' right to speech and stuff like that. 0.81
00:45:15.800 And then, I mean, if they were doing that, that was fine. 0.94
00:45:19.360 And if they ignored us, that'd be fine.
00:45:21.680 But it's when they support one side and chastise another side that upsets me, right?
00:45:26.540 And then they don't stop there.
00:45:28.900 I mean, not only do they support them, but they come as far as calling us traitors for wanting independence,
00:45:35.520 which, by the way, is legal, allowed in this country, and so forth.
00:45:38.680 So I don't know if that answers your question, but yeah, I'm going to use it against them at one point.
00:45:46.160 I'm going to use it against them. 0.64
00:45:47.740 I mean, you know, Carney, you know, recognizing, let's say, Palestine, like as a nation, even though it doesn't have borders.
00:45:57.380 I'm like, wow, that's interesting.
00:45:58.460 So you recognize Palestine, you'll recognize Palestine, you'll recognize other groups.
00:46:03.380 well then i hope you uh will stand uh stand by your values and recognize alberta when we become
00:46:09.880 independent well i hope so too and we'll be moving yeah awesome cheers thanks for calling in
00:46:17.140 yeah yeah thank you um where was i i lost my uh supply i'm trying to look ah well actually
00:46:26.280 it was on my list of things uh for for today right uh on on um on how do i segue into this one
00:46:35.400 uh well i'll maybe i'll find a way once i talk about it but there was another event
00:46:39.340 this week it's all related this week was uh helen gruss right detective helen gruss
00:46:44.140 got her sentencing now just to remind you of the story so helen gruss was is an ottawa
00:46:50.980 police detective during covid um she got sort of a a hint a clue somebody called her gave her sort
00:46:58.980 of a heads up and said listen there's some anomalies there's uh there's some unusual
00:47:03.800 deaths going on at one of the hospital and by the way throughout history like others like many
00:47:10.140 serial killers and crazy people have been found this way right like there have been doctors who
00:47:14.420 have committed uh some pretty serious crimes and nurses and and people like that and so a whistle
00:47:19.320 blower sort of rings an alarm so dr helen gruss gets somebody whistle blows rings an alarm and
00:47:26.040 says you know there's some unusual deaths uh among uh newborns in in an ottawa hospital so
00:47:32.020 she starts investigating and i guess she didn't talk about it enough with um with her director
00:47:39.180 her supervisors or whatever and and anyways she started uncovering things that people were
00:47:44.600 uncomfortable about they didn't want her to follow to dig too deep she insisted on digging
00:47:49.400 and then she had a police tribunal i'll come back to this one because i want to prioritize the
00:47:54.320 callers and i got a super chat here let's go with the caller first uh where are you calling from and
00:47:59.460 what's your name please oh sorry lost that caller um all right john can you put the super chat on
00:48:06.560 there uh super chat says uh what's up marty how can the liberal government tell us that they're
00:48:12.840 protecting supply management while trump is saying the u.s farmers are going to basically be
00:48:19.520 terror free uh well i i mean i think you're asking the valid question which is sort of
00:48:25.460 we'll know tomorrow i'm assuming i'm assuming that um that based on what i'm seeing the only
00:48:34.600 logical conclusion is that that supply management and the cartel has to be off the table like it
00:48:40.620 can't be both right so i think i think we're kind of saying the same thing we'll see tomorrow if
00:48:45.240 supply management is still on the table tomorrow and they do nothing about the dairy cartel
00:48:50.080 and bill 202 doesn't get repealed then your question is super valid um but we gotta wait a
00:48:57.160 a couple of days um just back to helen grass so helen so the detective uh got told the cease and
00:49:05.180 this is stop investigating this thing and she continued maybe a little bit too far i mean that's
00:49:10.260 crazy that a that a detective would be told by somebody hey stop investigating what appears to
00:49:15.500 be a crime like that you know the where there's there's something super unusual about that but it
00:49:20.980 turned into a full-blown the police charge her with a code of conduct violation she had a trial
00:49:28.220 not a federal trial or a civil trial just a police tribunal convene and then they found her guilty
00:49:35.160 of i guess disobeying orders and then she was um she was sentenced this week and her sentence was
00:49:43.080 that um she went from a detective first class to detective second class but again this all ties
00:49:50.140 into what's been happening you like even even um i feel some days that i'm at risk by questioning
00:49:57.860 too hard what's going on you know like if they come after people that are on the inside for
00:50:03.640 questioning too much what about the rest of us right so there's so i'm not done with that but
00:50:09.200 uh go ahead caller where are you calling from hey marty how you doing buddy good good
00:50:15.360 so i am uh i'm just wondering okay so i have parents who are like they're they're they're the
00:50:23.720 they're taking a side of the uh the anti uh anti um independence movement right but they also
00:50:32.160 take the notion that they hate
00:50:34.220 Ottawa. Ottawa's never going to give
00:50:36.160 Alberta a fair chance. So how do you
00:50:38.040 direct that? How are you guys going to
00:50:40.040 kind of approach that demographic?
00:50:45.640 Well, it's not unique to a demographic.
00:50:48.700 I mean, you know, like
00:50:49.900 I guess we've got to approach it
00:50:51.940 individually.
00:50:54.380 Usually the answer to that,
00:50:56.360 what we've been telling people, is that
00:50:58.060 the best people to convince somebody
00:51:00.300 are those closest to them.
00:51:02.160 right so if if you can't convince your parents then i'm probably not going to be able to
00:51:08.620 you know what i mean like that does that like that's what we've been telling in the independence
00:51:12.260 like so so if you're asking me for what you could uh what i can do is we could provide you maybe a
00:51:20.020 few other things to try and help you do it but but i can't do it for you does that make sense
00:51:24.820 no i mean i understand where you're coming from i'm just trying to figure out how you guys are
00:51:30.260 trying to grab those people that could very well be on the fence
00:51:34.340 and not look at this first referendum as the actual referendum,
00:51:38.500 but actually looking at it in a direction of being maybe,
00:51:43.600 it's just to try waking up Ottawa to say,
00:51:47.820 hey, there's a problem here in Canada, and it's a much bigger issue.
00:51:52.800 I'll answer it this way.
00:51:54.060 Okay, great question.
00:51:54.800 Now I understand your question.
00:51:55.760 So, we were successful in swaying a pretty large percentage of people by convincing them that the deal is broken.
00:52:08.300 So, we had no problem convincing about 25-30% of Albertans that we're getting a bum deal in Confederation, right?
00:52:16.860 We're underrepresented, we're subsidizing the others, it's costing us financially, so forth, right?
00:52:23.780 We convince a bunch of people because of that.
00:52:27.060 The next swath of people is perhaps people like your parents.
00:52:30.200 To convince them, we need to also show them how an independent Alberta will benefit them.
00:52:40.040 It's not enough to show what's broken.
00:52:42.080 We need to start showing them concrete numbers of how they'll benefit.
00:52:46.060 And we're working on that.
00:52:47.220 So I know, you know, we spoke last week.
00:52:49.580 mitchell vester put out something called the the um um basically a constitution a proposed
00:52:57.280 constitution i think that's too that's that's way too granular that's not what we need uh keith
00:53:04.240 wilson this week i know i spoke to keith uh on the weekend and keith is rushing to put a a document
00:53:10.740 like a white paper a transition so keith is and others are rushing to put something together
00:53:16.800 that shows more realistically what an independent Alberta looks like
00:53:22.500 and how people, like, you know, how will the pensions be better?
00:53:26.480 Where will we save the money?
00:53:27.960 How do we address the military, the police, and stuff like that?
00:53:30.560 So they're putting together a little bit, some good stuff
00:53:34.060 that hopefully you can share with your parents.
00:53:37.940 Perfect.
00:53:38.660 Yeah, that's kind of what I'm looking for.
00:53:41.140 And obviously because this referendum is now a referendum
00:53:45.200 them to have a referendum it makes it a little bit more complicated and kind of shifts the focus
00:53:49.480 in terms of sending the message right and that's kind of yeah let me ask you this have you brought
00:53:55.540 your parents out to an event i well i'm stuck in dc and my parents are in alberta but they've
00:54:02.380 they're uh they're coming off of the you know the legacy media yeah yeah that's the that's the
00:54:08.560 other big way to break through yeah that would be the big win you need to get them out to uh
00:54:13.920 you need to get them out to meet people their age and go chat with people
00:54:18.280 their age.
00:54:18.940 Like we're doing more and more of those,
00:54:20.420 right?
00:54:20.560 Like they need to come out to one of the town halls where they can meet
00:54:23.520 people who might have their own,
00:54:26.400 the same concerns.
00:54:27.500 If people stay at home and they're only looking at legacy media,
00:54:30.260 those people are going to be very hard to reach.
00:54:33.520 Yeah,
00:54:33.980 sure.
00:54:34.540 Yeah.
00:54:34.960 Yeah.
00:54:35.660 I guess I'll have to look up your guys' site and try and try and tell them,
00:54:38.440 Hey,
00:54:38.540 go and check out this thing in Barhead.
00:54:40.520 So at the end of the day though,
00:54:41.780 if they're,
00:54:42.320 you know,
00:54:42.500 at the end of the day,
00:54:43.340 I mean, family's family and don't alienate your parents over something like this, right?
00:54:48.440 I mean, it's not.
00:54:49.440 Or it's going the other way, actually.
00:54:51.560 They're alienating me because I'm seeing the challenges.
00:54:55.840 So I'm just trying to say, hey, look, what is it going to hurt if you guys at least send a message to Ottawa that there's an issue?
00:55:00.820 Yeah.
00:55:01.760 All right.
00:55:02.960 Well, good luck with that.
00:55:03.880 Thanks for calling.
00:55:04.440 And I hope you're doing okay in BC.
00:55:06.200 You're not affected by the fires or anything like that?
00:55:09.580 Oh, BC is, well, it's a little bit smoky today.
00:55:12.280 But, yeah, it is what it is.
00:55:14.420 I wish we had different government here as well, but it is what it is, right?
00:55:18.120 Yeah, yeah.
00:55:18.560 Awesome.
00:55:19.100 Okay, well, thanks for calling.
00:55:20.200 Cheers.
00:55:21.460 No worries.
00:55:22.080 Take care, buddy.
00:55:22.680 Yeah, yeah.
00:55:23.400 Speaking of fires, that was another victory for Alberta this week, right?
00:55:28.120 I'll take it.
00:55:30.180 I think it was Wednesday yesterday, maybe Tuesday and yesterday, a couple of days this week.
00:55:34.900 if you went to the alberta website under uh where they they have an app where they track all the
00:55:40.660 i call them forest fires i hate people who call them wildfires like they're not there's almost
00:55:45.940 nothing wild about them right they're forest fires and about half of them are uh are lightning
00:55:50.640 strikes and the other half are uh started by uh human activity of some sort but uh we had one day
00:55:56.780 for sure this week where we had zero active wildfires in alberta there i just said it now
00:56:02.840 As soon as I said, I said wildfires.
00:56:04.540 We had one day this week, we had zero forest fires in Alberta.
00:56:08.100 And it was crazy yesterday and today to watch the mainstream media trying to spin this.
00:56:14.280 Suddenly, I mean, when we have a bad year, when we have a bad year, hey, it's climate change.
00:56:19.140 But now we have a good year.
00:56:20.700 And rather than just say it's a good year and we had lots of rain and it's cyclical and once in a while we have years like this,
00:56:28.400 they could have just as easily said it's climate change, there's too much rain.
00:56:31.860 But nope, this week, suddenly a good year of low forest fires is just normal, and a year with high forest fires is climate change.
00:56:43.500 So it's awesome to watch the media do that.
00:56:47.220 I mean, yeah, it's wet out there, but it's wet out there, but there is two things happening.
00:56:54.700 I mean, I think Alberta spent the money wisely.
00:56:59.720 Like, we had underspent on fire prevention.
00:57:03.080 I talked about this a couple of weeks ago.
00:57:04.700 You know, the network of fire towers we have across the country
00:57:09.860 were suddenly automated and stuff like that.
00:57:12.160 Nothing replaces humans.
00:57:13.400 So they put humans back into the fire towers,
00:57:15.920 and that's having an immediate impact.
00:57:17.660 They made sure that the helicopter attack guys were well-funded
00:57:21.660 and able to respond quickly.
00:57:23.680 You know what I mean?
00:57:24.180 And we did good forest management, and there's also this reality.
00:57:28.940 Once you have the big fires, then you're kind of like good for 80 years
00:57:32.640 until the forest regrows.
00:57:34.760 So, you know, I've always said this.
00:57:36.600 I'll make a prediction that there won't be another big forest fire
00:57:39.800 in Slave Lake or Fort McMurray in the next 20 years.
00:57:42.960 I got time for one last call, maybe two.
00:57:45.360 So go ahead, caller.
00:57:46.200 Where are you calling from?
00:57:46.920 What's on your mind?
00:57:48.900 Marty, Kevin from Calgary here.
00:57:51.040 Just regarding the guy that just phoned there,
00:57:54.180 One of the questions, like question 10 is, we want to vote yes for separation, is that correct?
00:57:59.400 For a vote on it?
00:58:01.160 Yes.
00:58:01.600 Am I understanding that correct?
00:58:02.760 Yeah, a non-binding.
00:58:03.720 Okay, so.
00:58:04.420 Yep.
00:58:06.100 Correct.
00:58:06.660 Well, I think actually all that guy has to know is to tell his parents to vote in favor of that.
00:58:12.840 And then obviously that would, you know, we have a little more ammunition when it comes to the federal government, you know, to deal with issues, right?
00:58:20.200 More people, right?
00:58:21.960 Absolutely.
00:58:22.400 You understand what I'm saying?
00:58:23.320 Yeah, it's non-binding. And so you have nothing to lose by letting people. Some people say, well, no, I'll vote against it and try and crush it once and for all. But no, good point. That's a good point. Thank you.
00:58:34.260 And actually, interestingly, Quebec announced the not Quebec, but the leader of the separatist party in Quebec, who will most likely win the next provincial election.
00:58:47.860 He said that he wouldn't hold a referendum in Quebec as long as Trump is in power.
00:58:53.440 and then conversely here in alberta this week danielle smith i i don't get her reasoning but
00:59:00.260 she said that if there's uh if the if the yes side wins uh in the referendum if our side wins
00:59:07.040 in october she's kind of basically hinting that there would have to be not hinting she said that
00:59:11.620 there would have to be a referendum the binding referendum question would have to be in the spring
00:59:16.020 right away uh because i guess that's because there's an election uh we have uh fixed date
00:59:21.260 The election's in Alberta, and there's an election late next year.
00:59:24.180 So Danielle said she's kind of putting some pressure on us,
00:59:28.160 which could be good or bad.
00:59:31.580 Listen, I'm running out of time.
00:59:34.220 Okay.
00:59:35.040 Yeah, thanks for calling.
00:59:37.420 Yeah, you betcha, bud.
00:59:38.440 Cheers.
00:59:40.160 Hey, running out of time, I've got to make the closing comments.
00:59:44.760 Hey, John, there's a special, right?
00:59:47.160 You know, I've said this.
00:59:49.200 Actually, it's timely.
00:59:49.980 today chorus uh announced more cuts uh western standard broke that news story uh chorus
00:59:56.540 entertainment is announcing more people cut it's going bad for mainstream media groups and uh and
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01:00:48.940 Anyways, another good show.
01:00:52.320 Hey, I think next week's going to be great because next week we're going to finally hear about the deal or not.
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