Western Standard - June 2, 2021

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00:02:00.000 Thank you.

00:02:30.000 Good day.

00:02:56.740 Today is June 2nd, 2021.

00:02:59.340 I'm Western Standard publisher Derek Fulibrandt, and you're watching The Pipeline.

00:03:04.480 Today I'm joined by Western Standard news editor Dave Naylor.

00:03:08.940 Good day, Dave.

00:03:09.800 Hello, Derek.

00:03:11.120 And by the always bright and sunny Corey Morgan, our Alberta political columnist and host of The Corey Morgan Show.

00:03:17.820 Hello.

00:03:18.380 Are you in a good mood?

00:03:19.020 I'm in a good mood.

00:03:20.300 Good. I'm in a good mood too.

00:03:22.320 Well, we've got a great show today.

00:03:23.800 we're talking about the tragedy of 115, the bodies of 115 dead children, 215 dead children

00:03:36.100 discovered in Kamloops, British Columbia. We're going to talk about that. And we're going to talk

00:03:40.860 about some of the broader issues around First Nations. And is it really possible for any kind

00:03:46.960 of change in Canada? We're going to dive into that. I know Corey's got some particularly

00:03:50.900 really interesting thoughts around it. We're going to be discussing an exclusive story from

00:03:57.600 the Western Standard. Dave Naylor broke. UCP Constituency Association and Cypress Medicine

00:04:03.560 Hat is demanding that Jason Kenney immediately return Drew Barnes, the Rebel MLA, back to the

00:04:10.880 UCP caucus. I'll give anyone 10 to 1 odds. That's not going to happen. And K-Days versus the Calgary

00:04:20.240 Stampede. Calgary Stampede is on, at least in some form. K-Day's is not, and K-Day's issuing

00:04:24.860 some kind of snooty comments that I think could be interpreted as a shot across the bow,

00:04:31.220 the Calgary Stampede. We're going to talk about what's going on there with the return of similar

00:04:36.060 festivals in Alberta, and we'd also like all of your opinions on which you prefer. Do you like

00:04:41.100 K-Day's or Calgary Stampede more? We'd like to know if you're sane or not. Well, before we get

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00:06:28.400 on as a sponsor with us well let's um i guess kind of bring the mood back down uh for a second here

00:06:39.120 the tragedy in kamloops has shocked canadians um from coast to coast i think regardless of your

00:06:46.560 politics your province uh what class you fall into uh dave uh why don't you set up uh what's

00:06:55.600 happened in Kamloops. Terrible, terrible story, Derek. This is involving the Kamloops residential

00:07:02.800 school and the discovery of 215 dead children that they discovered by ground penetrating radar.

00:07:13.200 So that was announced last weekend and as you said, sent shockwaves across the country,

00:07:18.800 immediate calls for action, the flags were lowered to half-mast across the country.

00:07:25.920 People just in shock, just can't believe it, that this happened in Canada. 0.61

00:07:32.240 Brought up all the nightmares of residential schools again and what Indigenous children

00:07:39.040 had to go through. Many, many questions unanswered.

00:07:44.160 uh you know when you when you when you think of 215 dead children or is it is it just in a

00:07:53.120 like a world war ii trench are they individual coffins uh this was known as a particularly brutal

00:08:01.040 residential school were any of the kids murdered um you know so the the the call for changes

00:08:11.760 to the whole indigenous system in canada is growing louder and louder one of the uh recommendations

00:08:18.640 from the truth and reconciliation commission was that the government do try and find these burial

00:08:24.000 sites all across canada and of course no action was taken derek and until uh these poor children

00:08:30.080 were discovered in uh in kamloops so i'm sure you'll things see things moving a little quicker

00:08:36.000 rate as to what can be done i'll leave that for you two guys to talk about yeah there's still a

00:08:41.360 lot of unanswered questions here uh even in the i don't know this is not the right term but even in

00:08:47.680 the most charitable interpretation of circumstances something has still gone terribly wrong these

00:08:54.080 children were forcibly removed from their homes and their families taken to this place against

00:08:59.280 against their will and against the will of their families um we don't know anything about the

00:09:03.760 circumstances of their death. It is entirely possible they were murdered. It's possible

00:09:11.120 that they were mistreated and neglect led to their death, which it would be inexcusable,

00:09:18.960 but I suppose on the scale of atrocity, it would be less extreme than murder. It's also possible

00:09:25.840 that, I mean, we don't really know when these children died. I mean, it is possible that,

00:09:32.880 But, you know, it was 1919 and the Spanish flu came through.

00:09:37.000 We don't we have no idea.

00:09:39.360 I'm inclined to believe probably the less charitable view of things, but we just don't have the facts yet.

00:09:47.940 So I think there is a huge sense of national urgency to figure out what happened.

00:09:52.920 We need we need investigators there.

00:09:54.720 Obviously, a lot of forensic work can be done.

00:09:56.960 It begins with finding out, well, when did these children die?

00:10:00.200 Did they all die at the same time?

00:10:01.620 i mean that would be that would be beyond belief if if it was the case uh more likely that maybe

00:10:10.100 they are coffins and it's just over a period of time and we don't still don't know the circumstances

00:10:14.980 of that but we need to know when they died and then as best as possible try to trace them to

00:10:21.780 you know these kids that have essentially gone missing off the radar yeah it's so important

00:10:25.940 to know that this this was a catholic residential school even though all basically all religions

00:10:31.460 had residential schools for for children the chief of the sutina uh just outside calgary

00:10:37.220 has demanded the rcmp open the books uh sorry the catholic church opened the books and let the rcmp

00:10:45.940 go and have a look-see so but you know maybe the bottom line is the government the government put

00:10:54.020 these policies these laws in place and as a what happened in Kamloops is as a

00:11:00.740 result of what laws the government put in so you know Cory may have some views

00:11:07.220 on the laws yeah we'll get into that in a second I think the Catholic Church

00:11:11.640 would be very well advised to open it up in this case if they don't do it

00:11:15.620 voluntarily it may well be forced I mean when you have this number of dead bodies

00:11:20.060 it's a crim it could be a criminal investigation even if you know there's a

00:11:23.260 0% chance that anyone responsible would be alive today. Almost 0%. We don't, again, we don't know

00:11:29.920 when these children were buried, when they died. There's a lot to be handed from it. But, you know,

00:11:38.120 I think Canadians have recognized broadly that this is a shameful part of Canadian history,

00:11:42.580 that it has to be addressed for some time. But this is a whole new level. I mean, it's always

00:11:48.760 been believed that yes these these were bad institutions for the most part uh that had a

00:11:54.200 terrible mandate terrible thing did terrible things uh and that people died but nothing on

00:12:01.080 this scale so again we need to know is this 215 kids spread over a hundred years or is this 215

00:12:08.520 kids on a single day i mean there's there's a big difference so more questions than answers

00:12:13.160 that's for sure yeah again so i guess you know before the conversation can move too far ahead

00:12:17.880 we're going to need a lot more information and we're probably not going to know

00:12:21.560 a real complete picture for a couple of years um corey uh i know you you know you've got thoughts

00:12:29.560 on this um kind of about yes this is a tragedy but it it is in the past what can we do going forward

00:12:39.320 with first nations uh i mean we can have all these truth and reconciliation commissions we can

00:12:44.200 uh at every public meeting say what treaty land we're on or something like that but none of that

00:12:48.760 really seems to actually do anything uh as long as first nations are kept in a legally constricted

00:12:55.240 um almost let's call it a apartheid with a smiley face the reserve system uh you you wrote a column

00:13:04.040 on this sure well and part of it though i mean is this something we've always known about people

00:13:10.120 have talked about i mean survivors have talked about this happening in these places we've had

00:13:14.840 incidents in uh the red deer industrial school they called it there was a cemetery there of

00:13:19.160 unknown graves full of children uh in high river uh almost 20 years ago during some floods some

00:13:23.880 coffins were exposed from another residential school down there this was out there it's just

00:13:28.440 that the scope of it this time is so large it just forced canadians who for the most part you know 0.69

00:13:33.000 what i think we don't want to think about it we don't want to talk about it we know it's there

00:13:36.680 but this was so big it slapped everybody in the face. And we have to deal with this. We have to

00:13:41.640 understand just how bad and how wrong this was. I mean, however these children died, the horror is

00:13:48.360 that they were snatched from their households without permission. Can we imagine that today

00:13:52.680 with our own children? It's unimaginable. You get a letter and a note later on that your child

00:13:56.760 passed if you got that even. And why are there no records? How can you have a cemetery with over

00:14:01.160 200 children in it with no records on who was buried where and why? I mean, there needs to be

00:14:06.520 some forensic investigation. But more of what I wrote on is this is now that our faces have been

00:14:13.120 slapped before we bury our heads back in the sand and strike some commissions and strike some

00:14:17.700 forensic investigations as we should with this mess. Let's look at the whole thing because we've

00:14:23.080 got a massive problem and it's the Indian Act itself. It's the reserve system. I mean, we've 0.98

00:14:29.320 got high suicide rates. We've got sickness. We've got poverty. We've got educational issues. We've

00:14:34.000 got crime issues. All of these things are happening on the reserves that are still under the same

00:14:39.280 Indian Act that facilitated those residential schools back then. Now's the time while people 0.99

00:14:43.980 are talking about it because I've had some people get on my case. They're upset. You know, this isn't

00:14:47.180 the time to talk about it. No, this is exactly the time to talk about it. It's time to examine

00:14:51.320 is having this racially segregated series of enclaves around the nation a good idea. And to 0.96

00:14:57.860 be blunt, it's apartheid. In any other country, you call it apartheid, yet somehow here we defend it 0.99

00:15:02.620 as if it's politically incorrect to question having racial segregation, which is what it is.

00:15:08.840 And no, I say it's time to peel off that bandaid. We can't, I mean, we've got to investigate what

00:15:13.720 happened. And we've got to hold people responsible if we can. We can't put that toothpaste back in

00:15:17.980 the tube, but we can fix things going forward. And we have to, because if we just kick this

00:15:21.600 under the rug again, as I said in my column, a generation from now, people are going to be

00:15:25.020 looking back at us saying, why didn't you guys do something about that then?

00:15:27.700 you know i think you're you're dead right but i actually don't believe it's possible

00:15:33.620 this is one area of policy that i don't believe any significant positive change is possible

00:15:40.640 whatsoever um you've got the i don't know what they call themselves anymore but essentially the

00:15:47.080 the department of indian affairs whatever name it goes under now indigenous affairs maybe um

00:15:52.080 It is a massive, entrenched bureaucracy that, James, James, I'm getting a call. It's frozen. Hit no call. Jesus. No, no, no, no. The red button on the screen.

00:16:08.620 so i am sorry i don't know if any of you saw that i hope not i hope it was just frozen

00:16:16.180 uh you know attempts have been made to change this stuff you've got a massive bureaucracy that

00:16:24.220 doesn't want to change you've got i mean and let's understand here there's a difference between

00:16:30.460 the chiefs and councils of first nations and first nations uh a lot of these chiefs and

00:16:37.040 councils. Many of them are great and they have the best interests of the people at heart,

00:16:39.920 but many of them, at least a significant number of them, they're little better than feudal

00:16:47.520 chieftains that run it as a private fiefdom. They hand out contracts to themselves and family

00:16:55.360 and they have no interest in reform. They have no interest in reform and losing the powers they've

00:17:00.320 got. And I believe that any attempt to fix this is doomed to failure. The only kind of reforms

00:17:08.240 we're going to see are probably more of a liberal style, which is, you know, maybe throw more money

00:17:14.680 at the problem, but it's not fixing it. And I just won't accept that though. I understand this is one

00:17:19.200 of the biggest difficult things. And yeah, it's not just the unreserved ones. There's thousands

00:17:22.560 of lawyers and bureaucrats and I'll call them what they are. They're parasites and they are

00:17:27.460 in federal buildings and they make a very healthy living out of this giant bloated bureaucracy that

00:17:32.680 runs this sick system. But I mean, we still have to try. I know what you're saying. You're going

00:17:38.620 to get so much resistance trying to change this system. But we have to keep pointing out, I mean,

00:17:42.440 do we remember Davis Inlet? This was a community that was so messed up that they actually picked 1.00

00:17:48.040 up the entire town and moved it down the coast and rebuilt it. And 15 years later, it was just

00:17:53.400 as bad as what they moved it away from. But it took till people saw children huffing gasoline

00:17:57.780 from paper bags is what woke Canadians up and made them act. Unfortunately, we only seem to act

00:18:02.720 when it's a tragedy. We just threw money at it. We moved it. We didn't fix any of the underlying

00:18:06.920 problems. You're exactly right. We didn't fix it to even react, I guess, to taste a tragedy. And

00:18:11.240 I know it seems terrible. We have to try. Yeah, we had Davis Inland. We've had Attawapiskat.

00:18:17.160 We have this, even though this is obviously much before it's just come to our consciousness. Now,

00:18:21.040 this happens about roughly every 10 years and we all care about it and we talk about it and we all

00:18:27.100 pledge we're going to do something about it and then a couple months later it's gone until the

00:18:31.960 next big thing happens and i call me a cynic but there is no issue on which i am more cynical about

00:18:38.780 the possibility of change i just don't see it where we can uh you know reform the system doesn't

00:18:48.200 just need reform it needs to be completely dismantled and i cannot see a circumstance

00:18:53.160 under which uh i can see one okay western independence when you're rewriting an entire

00:18:59.800 new deal that's a time when you can write some new deals just to interrupt that's getting very

00:19:04.360 fictional and down the road perhaps but uh or speculative it is it is the only possible

00:19:08.920 circumstance in order to take something that large but even then you'd still have some of the

00:19:12.520 problems where you know at least a good portion of first nations leadership doesn't want to give

00:19:18.360 up their power and what largely that power translates to their livelihoods i just don't

00:19:24.200 see it happening because because you can't impose it on these people these people have rights they

00:19:28.120 have treaties and this has to be it has to be mutually agreeable and if their leadership is not

00:19:33.320 willing uh to because you know the the indian act is a racist document it's it segregates people

00:19:41.320 but it's a conspiracy of white liberals and some of these barons that use this industry for their

00:19:52.880 own purposes. And most of the garbage packed into the Indian Act isn't in any treaties. I actually

00:19:57.300 posted all the treaties themselves on my website. The treaties are actually fairly simple documents.

00:20:02.400 Most of the bigger obligations are actually the land divisions and boundaries or sickly and

00:20:07.000 ironically, commitments for education, which actually led to the residential schools, but the

00:20:11.900 Indian Act itself, actually, for the most part, a lot of the measures within it, we aren't committed

00:20:16.900 to by treaty and so on, though a lot of people defending it imply as much, but that's not the

00:20:21.720 case. As you said, it's a huge, monumentous task that may or may not ever get done, but I'm still

00:20:27.540 going to keep speaking up and hope that eventually something happens. I think it's worth banging

00:20:30.960 away it but i i'm just i have zero hope that this is ever going to be fixed before in in my lifetime

00:20:38.120 okay well let's go on to something that's got probably a better chance of a result of a happy

00:20:45.860 resolution but still not a good not very not a very good one still uh the cypress medicine hat

00:20:51.820 ucp constituency association uh it has issued a letter demanding uh written to jason kenney

00:20:58.920 demanding that their MLA, Drew Barnes, be immediately returned to the caucus.

00:21:04.360 Dave, you broke the story. Tell us about it.

00:21:08.040 Well, you remember the afternoon of the long knives, Derek, on May 13th when Drew Barnes and

00:21:14.600 Todd Lowen were expelled from the UCP caucus in a secret ballot. It didn't go down too well with

00:21:20.680 the UCP constituency association in Cyprus Medicine Hat.

00:21:27.000 So they have sent a letter to Premier Kenney noting that Barnes was democratically elected

00:21:35.440 and noting that he's well thought of in the writing and they demand that he immediately

00:21:44.560 comes back or gets returned.

00:21:49.740 I think you may have hit the nail on the head when you said 10 to 1.

00:21:52.840 I may even say, give it longer odds, 100 to 1.

00:21:56.740 Premier Kenney rarely admits he makes a mistake, rarely.

00:22:00.900 He's done it once with the COVID closures and not closing the...

00:22:05.500 But then he remade the mistake again.

00:22:06.920 Yeah, he made the same mistake he apologized for.

00:22:10.400 So I don't see Kenny backing down on this one and letting Drew Barnes back in.

00:22:16.500 um so i've got some experience with this uh amber uh brian gene uh tried to remove me from the wild

00:22:24.200 rose uh on my friday night by saturday morning my my wild rose constituency association in

00:22:30.820 strathmore brooks had passed a unanimous resolution telling him to get lost and immediately return me

00:22:36.460 that actually did work because it spiraled into a broader party revolt uh there is a broad party

00:22:43.420 revolt right now but kenny uh has enough power in the party i think to try and keep that down

00:22:49.500 um and i can also tell you if my experience kenny doesn't really care what a local constituency

00:22:55.020 association says uh his belief is that well that that ca can think whatever it wants but

00:23:01.100 its job is just to elect who i want to be there um and at the end of the day uh people in cyprus

00:23:07.980 medicine. They're going to elect the candidate I want there, not Drew Barnes. So I don't really

00:23:13.160 need to listen to these people. What do you think is really the intention behind this letter? Is it

00:23:19.080 really to plausibly get Drew Barnes returned to the caucus? Maybe it's a stab, but I think most

00:23:25.860 of the board there know it's, you know, I guess we're all saying we know the odds are 100 to one

00:23:29.820 that Kenny was going to back down. You can't set that precedent of allowing constituency associations

00:23:35.380 to push the leadership around, you know, they can suggest, but not demand. But it's a step towards

00:23:40.720 the direction of suddenly becoming independent and forming the election team and constituency

00:23:44.560 association that would work to reelect Drew Barnes under what incarnation or party he might

00:23:48.900 be under at that point in the next election. Kenny can ignore them at his peril, but I mean,

00:23:53.800 it's not going to bring his party down, but very well might cost him a seat out there, that's for

00:23:57.060 sure. But yeah, Barnes has said he likely will run as an independent. Derek, correct me if I'm wrong,

00:24:02.940 but have we ever elected an independent MLA?

00:24:05.920 I think the last time was approximately 1982.

00:24:09.640 It was Ray Speaker, and he had been the Social Credit Minister of Finance

00:24:13.080 and effectively the Deputy Premier for decades.

00:24:16.660 And it was in an era before they even had televised leadership debates.

00:24:21.220 So you pretty much actually did elect your MLA.

00:24:23.900 Now everybody, you vote for the leader, you vote for the party.

00:24:26.940 I know you're all going to say, oh, I vote for a strong representative.

00:24:30.520 Two percent of you do.

00:24:31.460 2% of you vote for your local representative. The other 98%, you're voting for the leader,

00:24:36.560 you're voting for the party, those kinds of things. So independents do not get elected 0.98

00:24:43.260 almost anywhere, and they especially don't get elected in Alberta. Alberta has not elected

00:24:49.780 provincially an independent as long as I have been alive. So yeah, I mean, Kenny's got a point.

00:24:58.620 if Barnes is running as an independent, he'll probably make a good dent, but independents just

00:25:03.100 don't get elected. I'm sorry. But I think your point is correct, Corey, that it looks like

00:25:13.320 there's probably more positioning for the people on that board to follow Drew to whatever he's

00:25:19.720 going to do, be it some kind of independent association or going to the Wild Rose or

00:25:24.620 something like that um it's just formalizing getting out the door then we're no longer ucp

00:25:29.840 this is the line in the sand they have to say like hey we've given you a chance to do right

00:25:34.780 and bring our guy back in and if you don't well you know we've offered up the chance that's that's

00:25:40.600 what it looks like i think um okay well uh let's go to something a bit more fun um k-days calgary

00:25:53.080 stampede i have really apologized to our edmonton uh listeners right now but you know southerners

00:25:59.960 just can't help but snicker at kdays we just can't help it uh i'm i'm sorry just the stampede's so

00:26:07.400 much better uh dave um stampede is on at least partially uh kdays is off entirely uh but the kdays

00:26:18.680 issued an interesting statement let's tell us about that statement yeah k-days were officially

00:26:23.800 cancelled late yesterday afternoon and they issued a statement saying that after premier kenny sort

00:26:31.720 of announced his reopening plans they looked at what they had planned and and decided it wasn't

00:26:38.600 worth going ahead interestingly they had a line in the in the release saying we didn't want to

00:26:45.960 put on a show just to say we put on a show in 2021 we'll skip it this year come back

00:26:54.040 2022 could be considered by the cynics amongst us as a bit of a shot over the stampede bows

00:27:01.640 which has vowed to go ahead they were vowing to go ahead even while the covet numbers were a lot

00:27:08.040 higher than than they are now but they're still it's still a work in progress they last week they

00:27:14.360 canceled the chucks which is a huge part of the show canceled the grandstand show uh so we won't

00:27:21.240 get to see paul brent to perform in his hometown uh lots of other stuff like nashville north

00:27:28.200 everything like that is still still being worked on uh they're looking from what i understand

00:27:33.960 making nashville north table seated so can you imagine all the drunk cowboys sitting at a table

00:27:39.880 and trying to find somebody to dance with, the mind kind of boggles.

00:27:44.720 I think we're going to have bureaucrats going around making sure people leave room for the Holy Spirit at Nashville North.

00:27:52.060 Don't dance too close, people.

00:27:53.440 Absolutely.

00:27:54.300 And make sure you wear a mask when you make out on the dance floor.

00:27:57.220 One of the crown jewels of the Stampede, obviously, is the kickoff parade.

00:28:01.040 Normally draws around 300,000 people to the downtown core, which, of course, in this day and age, you can't have.

00:28:07.900 I assume 290,000 of those people wouldn't want to come anyways.

00:28:14.780 Just remember how many people died from the rodeo in Bowdoin.

00:28:17.420 Yeah, how many was it?

00:28:18.520 It was a massacre.

00:28:19.640 It was a massacre.

00:28:22.640 Yeah, so the stampede has been a, you know, Jason Kenney thought Mayor Nahedon and she may have canceled it already.

00:28:31.760 Well, it's not in the mayor's power to do that, I don't think.

00:28:35.260 So Stampede officials say they're still working on the parade, trying to make it as safe as possible.

00:28:40.160 But, you know, we're just about a month away now.

00:28:42.280 So we've got to start hearing some details pretty quick, I think.

00:28:45.840 Corey, so this kind of thing does have some split jurisdiction between the city and the province.

00:28:52.080 Calgary Mayor Nahidenshi and his, I think we could probably quite fairly say, his successor candidate, Jody Gondek.

00:29:01.380 they're doing everything they can to essentially cancel Stampede or make it as lame as possible

00:29:07.240 because we're all going to die. These rodeos are just super spreaders. So do you think the

00:29:15.660 province should step in? Constitutionally, the cities don't exist. They're called creatures of

00:29:24.120 the provinces. Every power they have and their borders, everything about them is created by the

00:29:29.660 province. In this case, you've got an insane council. Do you think the province should step

00:29:35.040 in and essentially strip the city of its powers for permitting for things like parades and stuff?

00:29:42.460 Or do you think even if it's a good idea, it's overreach? We're seeing a lot of really actually

00:29:46.620 well for weenies like us, fascinating politics going on here. And I don't. Did you call me a

00:29:52.460 weenie? Yeah. You see what I call you off, Mike? That hurts. I'm sure you'll get over it. But

00:29:59.620 either way, Kenny has invested a lot of political capital into the stampede. And if we try to

00:30:04.600 compare the stampede with K-Days, yeah, we can't. Not even just to shoot it up. It's just it's a 0.98

00:30:08.380 different creature altogether. The city of Calgary goes wild. And we didn't miss the stampede for the

00:30:14.480 floods. I don't believe we missed stampedes for World War II. This goes on no matter what. We

00:30:19.640 missed it last year and it's a symbol of the city it's something where you know it's more than just

00:30:25.080 a fair downtown i mean people have parties all over the city you have those rubbery cold pancake

00:30:29.880 breakfast lineups in mall parking lots you have barbecues at friends and family places you know

00:30:35.240 that it's it's a whole city thing the best one we ever had was the year of the flood because we're

00:30:40.040 all just so pumped to still be standing well and i think that's a little bit of what jason kenny

00:30:45.640 really wanted to see okay we've got enough that we can pull this off safely there's not going to be

00:30:49.320 we fall out. Let's have this simple run this year to show that people are alive again. They're

00:30:53.580 enjoying themselves again, and they're moving. Now, unfortunately, we got the politics on the

00:30:57.920 other side, and that is people like Rachel Notley, the head and NSHE, Jody Gondek, who despise

00:31:05.560 Kenny, everything the UCP stands for. And they, in my view, are trying their hardest to undercut

00:31:10.360 this and make it as miserable as possible. So they can't shut down that ball that's already

00:31:15.080 rolling, but they can take away all the fun stuff. Let's get rid of the grandstand show.

00:31:18.240 let's get rid of the the chucks because he's the stampede board which is tied very tightly with the 1.00

00:31:23.480 city of calgary who makes those decisions the head nenshi and the number of councillors sit 1.00

00:31:27.100 on that board and it's all a inbred group in my words uh you know it's not all of them there's

00:31:33.140 some very uh you know uh good people on that board as well who serve and they're volunteers

00:31:38.700 and good on them but we're seeing a lot of political games getting played with this and

00:31:42.420 there's some people who want this stampede to go badly i'll go as far as say the controversial

00:31:46.340 statements of Casey Maddu to say they're hoping for people to get sick. I don't think anybody's

00:31:50.180 hoping for that, but I think they're kind of hoping that it's a flop and they're hoping that

00:31:53.860 Kenny looks like he has egg in his face at the end of this because everybody just had a bad time.

00:31:58.380 But the irony is you shut everything down at the grounds and turn it into just a fair like

00:32:02.940 K-Days. Calcareans aren't going to give up. They're going to put on those boots

00:32:08.040 and they're going to party somewhere else. They're going to do it at home. They're going to do it in

00:32:11.600 in parks and so on yeah i had stampede at my own house last year that's where it was where i

00:32:16.400 pioneered uh so i made my first ever brisket yeah i was like i'm having stampede i don't care what

00:32:21.280 the government says stampede goes forward and it's gonna you want to believe that if you know

00:32:25.440 if they banned nashville north and actually social get together part of it you just bet that every

00:32:31.440 third backyard in calgary is going to be a stampede party it's just gonna be what happens the other

00:32:35.520 part too you got to remember is city council as you said they are a bunch of nuts down there and

00:32:39.040 And they're dominated by the hipster class.

00:32:40.880 And they loathe the Western culture.

00:32:43.240 And the Stampede is a symbol of that.

00:32:45.240 I mean, they won't come right out and say it because it's a vote killer.

00:32:48.040 But they despise having to put on those cowboy hats and go out and hit those barbecues.

00:32:52.520 They can't stand that rodeo.

00:32:54.300 Nenshi in a cowboy hat is as uncomfortable as Jason Kenney in a pride flag.

00:32:59.520 It's just not, you know, they just have a visceral dislike.

00:33:04.700 Just squirming underneath it.

00:33:05.620 yeah and and so i mean we've got a whole lot packed into what's going on here right now

00:33:10.020 i am in this case just behind jason k let's get this thing going let's have some fun let's get

00:33:14.500 this summer rolling people are getting vaccinated the cases are going down i wish unfortunately

00:33:18.900 that the city council uh loons would just step back and let people live their lives and enjoy

00:33:23.780 themselves for the first time in a year we'll see what happens in the coming month um well actually

00:33:30.100 this is an interesting uh comment from vl burton on youtube he says kenny is desperately searching

00:33:36.340 for a grand distraction to make people forget about his abuses um oh and then uh claudette uh

00:33:45.780 what j says derek are you going to invite us loyal followers for some of that brisket

00:33:50.260 uh you know what um that actually gives me an idea that maybe there should be a western

00:33:55.540 standard stampede party uh no promises uh so western circle members you know we've promised

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00:34:17.300 promises uh i don't want to be too uh i don't want to be too um grandiose grandiose in my

00:34:25.620 whimsical ideas right now but the idea of a western standard uh stampede barbecue sounds

00:34:30.500 sounds pretty fun so that's that's food for thought so thank you claudette uh but back to

00:34:35.700 what the albertans said is this a distraction i think i mean this has obviously been a political

00:34:45.380 chernobyl for kenny like i've never seen a party short of brian mulrooney below his own base apart

00:34:53.700 so epically as jason kenny has done here um you know when i talk to people in the government

00:35:01.060 they're praying that a bold reopening plan now even if it's far too late is gonna be enough to

00:35:09.620 to bring people home my god tells me that this is going to simmer a lot of people down it's

00:35:14.980 not going to be as white hot there's now light at the end of the tunnel we're going to get there

00:35:18.500 probably sooner than the rest of canada but we're getting there four six months

00:35:24.740 florida and they have significantly lower rates of vaccination than we do right now

00:35:31.060 uh so corey do you think this is going to be enough to a lot of people forgive and forget

00:35:38.180 uh how upset they are with kenny it depends on the person but it'll go a long ways towards it

00:35:42.980 you know just people having a good time and feeling a sense of normalcy will make them feel

00:35:46.660 less crabby and you're going to be less likely to take that out on the incumbent government at that

00:35:50.660 time i mean he needs a lot more work than that next two years uh but it's a politically a good

00:35:55.620 step i think on this part assuming everything goes smoothly yeah okay um well i think uh we're

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