00:00:30.000um i just noticed in the introduction video there uh john put that together four weeks ago and i
00:00:36.700just noticed there's like uh on one of the scenes there's a little sort of blurred spot in the
00:00:40.900middle one of the scenes where i'm hiking i remember that day i dropped my camera and then
00:00:45.160i had like a scratch right in the middle so it's it's on that scene i'll have to get john some new
00:00:49.340scenes for uh for the for the video uh hey thanks for taking time out of your day to join me you
00:00:56.200know when when i accepted this uh offer from derek to come here and do the show i really wanted to
00:01:03.020do this live interaction with you guys and gals right i mean i'm like my biggest platform is i'm
00:01:10.440on x and the reason i've always said i like x is because the feedback is instantaneous right i can
00:01:14.980put out a tweet and if i'm wrong or if i have a bad take on something i'll get some quick feedback
00:01:20.740it's actually a useful platform for me you know when you're you're when you're practicing
00:01:25.040debating and politics and and commenting on stuff i get to practice stuff on x and then see how it
00:01:31.740resonates with people so the reason i'm saying that is this show will be super successful if
00:01:36.500you guys call in right so you can see down on the screen there there's the number uh you know
00:01:41.940866-479-WEST uh back in the good old days that would have cost you probably a long distance call
00:01:48.360but we're past that right everybody pays the same rate regardless of where you're calling in the
00:01:51.960province last week somebody even I think it was a lady named Diane who who said she had to build
00:01:57.340up the courage to call and she was calling down from Florida which was fantastic and and that's
00:02:02.840another reminder right don't be shy like I don't know how many times I've said this to people I am
00:02:09.020as average Joe Albertan as you can possibly get right sure I have a bigger following than a few
00:02:15.720people but I'm just literally an average guy look at me right I'm wearing a Columbia sweater my my
00:02:20.820wife hates this sweater she says it's all frayed but it's my favorite sweater I think I have Costco
00:02:25.020pants on and a pair of running shoes like if you see me on the street I'm not a I'm just a guy and
00:02:30.320and and that happens all the time by the way I see people they're looking at me on the train or
00:02:34.840someplace like that yeah I even took the train that's how I get to downtown Calgary I take the
00:02:38.940train so don't be shy please call um and and before before we get too deeply into the show
00:02:44.460and I want to take a lot of calls today because I really don't have a lot of topics I mean I put
00:02:48.480up there on the screen you can see the topic i want to talk about is fiscal responsibility
00:02:52.960it's in light of danielle's budget last week so let's let call in you know give me your thoughts
00:02:58.560on on the budget i'll offer some other suggestions i'd like to talk a little bit about the referendum
00:03:03.440that she proposed because i'm now that i've had time to digest it i'm not too happy about what
00:03:09.120she's proposing the fact that she wants to have sort of her own referendum i'll talk a bit about
00:03:13.840that and i want to talk about some of the things that are going on in ottawa uh but just before i
00:03:20.120dive deeply into that uh speaking of referendum i just got so i've been some of you guys know this
00:03:26.220i've been actually canvassing so i'm a i'm a i'm a canvasser there's about six thousand seven
00:03:31.780thousand canvassers in alberta i got a nice little pop-up on the corner of crow child and
00:03:37.220bear's paw road i got two crews i'm usually on the south side and i got some buddies that are
00:03:42.360on the north side. We're there almost every day from 11 to 4 collecting signatures. It's going
00:03:47.360really, really well. And if you happen to be driving by, come by, stop by. If you've already
00:03:52.600signed, that's fine. Stop anyways, come say hi. But I want to emphasize one thing that I heard
00:03:57.360about in the last couple of days. Prior to the petition campaign that we're going through right
00:04:03.540now, the Alberta Prosperity Project was collecting names online in what they were calling pledges.
00:04:11.040People had the ability in, you know, in the last year, year and a half to actually go on the Alberta Prosperity website and pledge that once the petition signing period would be on, that they would sign.
00:04:23.140Right. Well, we're calling around and we're talking to people and we're realizing that some people think that that pledge was actually signing the petition.
00:04:31.640It's not, folks. The laws, the independence petition that was launched by Mitch Sylvester on behalf of the Alberta Prosperity Project, it requires hand signatures. People have to show up, show a quick piece of ID, confirm you're in Albertan, you live here, and then sign, physically sign.
00:04:52.700So just a reminder, if you pledged on the website and you thought that that was good enough, it's not.
00:04:58.380Unfortunately, you have to come out and sign. All right. So no, no question.
00:05:03.820So let's talk about let's talk about a couple of things.
00:05:06.820So actually, let's let's let's stay sort of on the referendum topic.
00:05:11.480Last week, Danielle had a press conference, Danielle Smith.
00:05:15.160And in there, she announced that she was going to do a referendum in or actually it was two weeks ago now, not not last week.
00:05:21.940she announced that coming up in uh october of this year october 19th she was going to have
00:05:28.700a referendum and and then she proposed a whole bunch of questions and i got a big problem with
00:05:35.340that first of all i got a problem with the fact that uh you know we're going to show up in the
00:05:39.240booth there and we're going to have like nine or ten referendum questions i think that's too many
00:05:43.340i think that's an abuse of a process to me seriously referendums should be very rare
00:05:49.180and uh and and when they happen they should be on some very specific topics among the things that
00:05:56.120danielle smith wants on her referendum i think are things that fall in her purview as premier i mean
00:06:01.800she wants to put things on there i got a list on there here but i'm you know i'll go by memory real
00:06:06.440quick i mean she wants to have several questions around immigration right should uh she's going to
00:06:12.440ask the people of alberta you know should we quote unquote deny benefits to people that are
00:06:18.260still just seeking uh i don't know residency and things like that i don't think she needs to
00:06:25.700uh hold a referendum for that i think that's in her that's in her mandate but i'll come back to
00:06:32.600the word mandate right because danielle seems to take that to heart that she feels that if she's
00:06:38.360elected to do something she's elected on a platform and then she does it and if something
00:06:43.380new comes along that she needs to go get a mandate i don't think so right i mean politicians are
00:06:48.420elected for four-year terms if they only campaigned on things that were current in the year that they
00:06:53.620get elected and something new came up i think they're allowed to deal with new issues throughout
00:06:57.940their terms i don't think they need to go necessarily get a new um mandate but so she
00:07:04.740wants to talk about things that i think are clearly within you know her jurisdiction she can
00:07:09.620she can uh change the laws around immigration and benefits and things like that but then the other
00:07:15.300thing worrisome in her speech two weeks ago she talked about wanting to put up some questions
00:07:21.140that are really constitutional in nature right like should uh alberta um force uh ottawa's hand
00:07:29.300and and to discussions around i don't know the courts and other things that are really constitutional
00:07:34.580and i don't think that that is a mandate so that's something that up until recently the people of
00:07:42.880alberta weren't talking about weren't asking so i don't know why she's putting that on there we're
00:07:46.920not interested in that kind of stuff so what i'm saying to danielle if i if i if i had the you know
00:07:53.480the opportunity to talk to her right now is i would say this drop all your silly referendum
00:07:59.020questions that you have. You have five of them that to me are related to things that are already
00:08:05.340in your control. And if you don't feel like they're in your control right now and they're
00:08:08.340not in your mandate, then either call a snap election or wait another year and a half because
00:08:13.600your term is up and then make those things, make immigration an issue on your next platform. So
00:08:20.440you don't need a referendum for now. Either act now on a referendum or sorry, act now on immigration
00:08:25.780or make it an issue in the next election and as far as the constitutional things again that's not
00:08:31.780even in your that's not in your purview that's not your jurisdiction that's not your responsibility
00:08:36.980no one wants to even talk about that so don't even force the issue on that let the people of
00:08:43.320alberta and and let the people of alberta who are currently collecting signatures yeah we had
00:08:49.520thomas lukasik had his uh petition and he collected 400 000 signatures on something like
00:08:55.180an independence question and now you have mitch sylvester collecting his signatures on an
00:08:59.420independence question so let's just have a very simple referendum in october with an independence
00:09:04.900question and let's not muddy the waters with a whole bunch of other things all right so that's
00:09:10.740that's my thoughts on that um folks i'm serious don't be shy give us a buzz you see the number
00:09:16.340there on the bottom 866 479 west i'm not sure what west translates to in the number i have to
00:09:23.620figure it out on my keyboard. All right, let's talk then a bit about, let's talk about fiscal
00:09:31.540responsibility, which is, it's one of the things that I'm most known for online is the fact that
00:09:39.220I like to go through numbers. I had a career in the oil patch and as I moved into upper management
00:09:46.200and in the office in my career, managing budgets, managing my finances, knowing on a day-to-day
00:09:53.500basis how much oil i was producing how much gas what it was costing me all of that was something
00:09:59.260that i had to do but it was something that i actually enjoyed doing i enjoy diving through
00:10:04.300numbers and using datas and numbers to manage my assets and and when i retired that translated
00:10:12.060nicely it's something i love doing i love going through the budgets of you know ottawa and and
00:10:20.200And I'm going to be honest, two years ago or last year when, when two years ago, Smith's budget disappointed me.
00:10:27.680I mean, the first one after Kenny, the first one after COVID, you know, I understood what happened during COVID.
00:10:33.040I mean, everybody went crazy during COVID and we started spending, not we, government started spending a little too much, I think, during COVID.
00:10:41.640And I was hoping that in the first few budgets after COVID, that things would start coming down again.
00:10:46.480because often when i talk about actually when i talk about life in general i'm i'm i'm at the
00:10:51.680point now where i call i talk about pre-covid and post-covid you know the the for me in my life
00:10:57.120covid was a big demarcation a lot of things changed before and after so when when smith
00:11:02.560published her first budget uh when she first got elected and it was a post-covid one i was
00:11:06.800disappointed it was it was a big number right it was like in the 70 billion dollar range
00:11:11.520i expected it to be back into the 60 billion dollar range but i i forgave that one then last
00:11:17.520year she published another budget and same thing she started getting on track um she was on a she's
00:11:24.640as far as i'm concerned the province is on a bad track the provinces you know the the amount of
00:11:28.720money that the province is spending is outpacing population growth and inflation and and the problem
00:11:35.280with inflation is that the government spending causes inflation right so you can see how that's
00:11:39.040like a spiraling problem government creates inflation and then budgets to match inflation
00:11:45.440well that makes no sense so so i was disappointed with uh last year's budget because it's on it's
00:11:50.160it's outpacing inflation and population growth well this year's budget the one that just came out
00:11:56.000as far as i'm concerned this is a catastrophe i haven't even dove into it i will dive into it
00:12:02.160but on the surface when i see a province like uh alberta publish a budget with a 9.4 billion
00:12:10.640dollar deficit i don't even need to go into it i mean immediately it's a non-starter for me
00:12:17.360because um a a governments to me as far as i'm concerned government should be spending within
00:12:24.240we should be living within our own means we do it as citizens and i think governments should
00:12:28.080be doing the same thing if the money's not coming in then you have to cut somewhere this constant
00:12:32.720idea of going into deficit after deficit after deficit to me that doesn't resonate and and i
00:12:39.600and i do think there are lots of places where government can cut their spending i'd love i'd
00:12:45.040love personally to have something like uh like donald trump had for a while that you know the
00:12:49.520department of government efficiency the doge i guarantee you if i was allowed full access to
00:12:54.320the government's books i could find 10 15 savings across the board i mean i know for a fact that
00:13:00.960we've been hiring you know our civil service has been growing again disproportionately in recent
00:13:07.120years like for every 10 jobs that are that are created in alberta three of them are in the public
00:13:12.480or in the public sector like government jobs and then the other seven are in the private that's an
00:13:16.640unsustainable level so so back to the budget you know the 9.4 billion to me that's that's a non-starter
00:13:23.840and it's also um against smith's own rules i mean she passed these accountability rules that said we
00:13:31.920cannot have deficit after deficit we can't have three in a row and she has three in a row now so
00:13:36.960there's so there's a so there's a big problem there and um and i and i come back to this all
00:13:43.120the time to me alberta has a spending problem not a revenue problem everybody keeps blaming
00:13:50.400oil and and other prices and other commodities that affect the budget but um that that's a that's
00:13:57.680a non-starter the other thing that's really really discouraging when i see uh danielle's budget and
00:14:04.320this is a bigger picture thing the 9.4 billion dollar deficit almost matches dollar for dollar
00:14:12.720alberta taxpayers share of the equalization payments that are going to the east
00:14:16.800so how how how am i supposed to feel as an albertan knowing that you know i'm going in debt
00:14:23.640my future generations my kids my grandkids are going into debt so that we can have money that
00:14:30.340we then leaves our province goes to ottawa and ottawa redistributes to provinces out east and
00:14:36.980again i've i've always said i'm i'm in favor of helping in times of need but we're not in times
00:14:42.140of need in recent history i don't understand why quebec would require year after year after year
00:14:48.780after year a nine billion dollar bailout so as far as i'm concerned i'm going into debt right now so
00:14:54.540that the equalization payment can go to quebec and quebec can give themselves free tuition i mean am
00:14:59.740i the only one who sees it that way um so uh anyways that so so that's uh that's my thoughts
00:15:07.980on uh on danielle's budget at the highest of levels i don't like what's going on i will i
00:15:14.300will dive deep into it but uh you know while i wait for calls one of the one of the other things
00:15:20.540i really really don't like in her recent budget is she basically admitted she basically admitted
00:15:28.460that some of the costs have to go up to deal with the influx of immigrants and again that's that's
00:15:35.340something that i have a problem with right like well i'll give you an example regional to where
00:15:39.740i live i i belong in the little water co-op right so i live out in the country and there's an acre
00:15:45.740and we're all in acreages and we stopped drilling wells we we formed a cooperative together and we
00:15:51.340have a little water plant and then we have 2500 members to belong to this co-op well if a new
00:15:57.580member if a developer comes in our neck of the woods and wants to build a development with 15
00:16:03.100new houses and i don't have enough capacity in our co-op to provide him water i'm not the one
00:16:09.260who pays the extra money to provide right so the developer who comes in at the last minute the last
00:16:16.300people who come in in our development they pay for their upgrade to the water system because they
00:16:22.300came on board well i feel the same way about the recent tax increases and one of the tax increases
00:16:28.300that's really hard to swallow is education.
00:16:30.740Danielle says that we have so many new immigrants here,
00:16:33.860like 600,000, which brought in 80,000 new kids.
00:16:37.340We need to catch up on building schools.
00:16:39.940And our taxes are going up disproportionately,
00:16:50.280because I mean, I've always been sold on the idea
00:16:52.200that we're supposed to have immigrants
00:16:53.740and growth is supposed to be good for us
00:16:56.580and it's supposed to make all our costs go down economies of scale but in this instance growth
00:17:01.540means that we're having to pay extra costs and i and i got a big problem with that all right we got
00:17:06.180a call on the line um before i take it i'll take the call uh like i said give me your name where
00:17:11.460you're calling from and and if if you just want to drop a question and let me answer that's great
00:17:17.380because if you hang up that allows somebody else to call in if you stay on the line too long the
00:17:22.580line sounds busy and nobody else can call it you know what i mean so uh so so if i ask you to drop
00:17:27.940off that's because we're just trying to open the line for other people so go ahead name and where
00:17:31.220are you calling from please helen from foothills hi helen how are you today i'm good marty and you
00:17:39.380excellent well i think you and i have probably are on the same wavelength uh in that um um we
00:17:47.620we should scrutinize what is being spent and have something like the united states dodge
00:17:52.980or whatever to go through the books because it's ridiculous my focus and that's all because i know
00:17:59.860about it it is about um the waste of money spending good data after bad money on nothing
00:18:08.420that is what we call the education system and uh first of all we don't teach english property
00:18:17.060Second of all, we don't teach cursive writing anymore.
00:18:20.540We don't teach the basics or do it properly.
00:18:23.860Even academia professors are shaking their heads in regard to the skills that grade 12 students come out with now.
00:18:33.940And this has been, you know, for a long time.
00:18:36.600We have gatekeepers there and secret, what is it called, sealed servicing managers that seem to want to keep the status quo rather than developing our true potential.
00:18:52.660I have two nieces that are both teachers in Ottawa, and they started teaching French, learning French in very primary schools.
00:19:04.660I don't know what grade, but, you know, the first couple of grades and neither of them know how to speak French or English well, in my opinion.
00:19:14.660my opinion um math um i didn't know that i'm sorry i i wasn't good with math at all and when
00:19:24.020i went back to university and had to take some statistics courses i learned that um the best
00:19:30.560students there as being a mentor for me were were the russian students because they knew how to
00:19:36.440and they were very helpful and they knew how to show you how to learn the math yeah okay uh helen
00:19:44.320that's that's awesome let me let me unpack a little bit of what you've said you gave me some
00:19:48.600some food for thought but if you don't mind uh hang up and then uh we can let somebody else but
00:19:54.080thanks for calling helen uh so let me unpack a couple things she brought up which are fantastic
00:19:58.960right um she she did bring up the fact that uh we spend a lot of money without accountability
00:20:05.620and i'll talk a lot and i got more to say about that but that's one of the that you know in in
00:20:10.940in i understand that industry and government are not the same but they have some similarities
00:20:15.180right in industry if my boss gave me money year after year and i didn't show results i wouldn't
00:20:20.700get more money at some point whereas so in government there's two problems the first problem
00:20:26.620is there's no measurement to see if there has been improvement she brings up good point i think in
00:20:31.100some in some things like education i guess we can measure and see if it's getting better or not
00:20:36.060but there's other areas where we barely measure we don't know how the government's doing how the
00:20:40.460money is being spent what value we're getting for that money and they keep asking for more money so
00:20:46.060i think that that that brings up that's a very important point ultimately that's why i always
00:20:51.340believe in smaller governments i mean smaller governments that spend less it's it's easier to
00:20:55.500manage but you know governments in and of themselves are are beasts um now as far as uh
00:21:03.100as far as the the language and the skills that the kids are getting when they graduate
00:21:11.020one thing i'm still hearing is that um alberta uh is still producing some pretty good kids right
00:21:17.820like our system is not completely broken so that's one good thing but um i lost my i just lost my
00:21:26.780thought she she had something else she said that was interesting but anyways uh thanks for calling
00:21:31.820Helen. I hate it when that happens, when I lose my thought. She brought up something that made
00:21:38.520me think of something good, but now I completely lost it. Well, actually, what I was going to bring
00:21:45.380it down to is charter schools and other schools, right? Boy, there's so much to unpack today.
00:21:53.480that is another issue that we have in this province right now is that um when uh i now i
00:22:02.160just remembered my thought the the the problem is with the bigger government and the bigger system
00:22:07.840she was talking about gatekeepers that's what she was talking about gatekeepers right a lot of
00:22:12.260people know the problems right so let's say that loosely speaking if if if some of the kids have
00:22:17.820issues and and and we know how to address the issues with either technology or changes to the
00:22:24.380classroom or things like that it can be in a classroom we even know in other areas where
00:22:28.540government spends right we know we know problem in health care we know we know some of the problems
00:22:32.340we know some of the wait lists the waiting times we know some of the inefficiencies people who work
00:22:37.320as ambulance drivers can tell you stories people who are cops can tell you inefficiencies and
00:22:41.300inefficiencies like a lot it goes back to what i said earlier you give me access to the data i'll
00:22:46.780find those efficiencies they're everywhere they're they're inefficiencies everywhere the problem is as
00:22:53.340our governments get bigger the bureaucracy becomes a problem in and of itself and you can't address
00:22:59.100the efficiencies you can't bring in solutions to the problem because you get blocked by people who
00:23:05.740quote unquote benefit from the problem right teachers are a perfect example i pick on teachers
00:23:10.300a lot but there are there are way better ways of teaching kids we could bring in tools we could
00:23:17.180bring in uh methods and technologies that would improve but it might mean that you could get by
00:23:24.460with a few less teachers and and the unions are will fight those those initiatives the health care
00:23:30.860system does that all the time too you you know i mean you walk into a modern uh alberta hospital
00:23:36.540if there is such a thing and you see and and then you go go go go to europe like you'll hear you go
00:23:43.180to europe go visit germany go visit france and go see what super efficient modern healthcare looks
00:23:49.980like and ask yourself why we don't have that which by the way brings up a whole other point
00:23:55.900which is interesting uh you know yesterday i saw uh naheed nenshi is piling up on the the
00:24:02.780NDP are piling on to the Conservatives saying, you know, the Conservatives are mismanaging
00:24:07.500the province, which is ironic because some of the biggest deficits we ran, I mean,
00:24:12.060under Notley, I think we ran about a $90 billion deficit. So I don't think the NDP are in a position
00:24:19.100to lecture Conservatives on fiscal responsibility. But then she's piling up on and he uses a term
00:24:26.700that I really can't stand, which is, you know, he'll use language along the lines of Albertans
00:24:31.980deserve better or not just deserve better albertans deserve the best health care albertans deserve the
00:24:38.300best schools albertans deserve the best roads albertans you know and and then she's not the
00:24:42.940only one who does that pay attention you'll hear a lot of politicians say that we deserve the best
00:24:48.860again there's no such thing we'd all like the best but do we deserve the best can we afford
00:24:55.020the best i just don't like that language i don't like and and i'm critical of if of nenshi using
00:25:00.300it but if danielle smith used the same language if danielle smith says we deserve the best schools
00:25:05.580i'd be like no no no no put that to a vote and specifically ask the people who are paying for
00:25:11.100the schools if they think we deserve the best schools right i mean i'm i'm by her language
00:25:17.740but by using that language i should be driving a mercedes-benz car and i should have a million
00:25:23.660dollar house because i deserve the best but what i deserve versus what i can work for and afford
00:25:29.100is a big difference which is why i drive uh a ford uh f350 instead of uh of something nicer
00:25:36.380you know what i mean um okay well uh you guys are testing me today here you're going to make
00:25:41.940me keep talking uh and weirdly and sometimes it just doesn't go that way right so i showed up in
00:25:48.160studio and i kind of told john like hope i didn't have a lot of topics to talk about so i told john
00:25:53.460i hope well let's make it all about collins and now you guys are testing me i'm gonna go start
00:25:58.080going down through my uh my list of uh of topics let's stay on schools for a second
00:26:05.600um here in calgary uh the new mayor uh jeremy farkas has been making a big stink about something
00:26:14.160else that came out of the budget right so i said earlier that smith has has admitted that we need
00:26:19.280to increase the funding to schools to catch up with all this influx of new people immigrants
00:26:26.480and 80 000 new kids so we have to catch up and that catch up means like a son that everybody
00:26:32.640who's here who's been here for the last 20 years now has to pony up to build quickly some new
00:26:38.560schools for the people who are arriving i think that's wrong in and of itself but i also think
00:26:43.440the way they're going about it is wrong right so danielle smith increased the amount of money
00:26:49.200she wants to spend on education but the education taxes are collected by the municipalities and so
00:26:55.840So Calgary noticed it. I noticed it last year in our in our municipal taxes. There was a sudden jump. And, you know, go look at your tax bill. Right. When you get your tax bill, you'll see on there that you'll probably most tax bills, municipal tax bills have about four things. Right. You'll have let's say you have a three thousand dollar tax bill. You'll have fifteen hundred bucks of that. That's probably going through to this municipality directly.
00:27:24.340and that's for your road repairs and your snow removal and your garbage disposal and stuff like
00:27:30.000that. Then you'll have a chunk in there that's like a thousand bucks and that's your education
00:27:35.660levy. So the government decides how much money it needs to spend on schools, but then it makes the
00:27:41.340municipality collect that chunk. I think that's wrong. I think municipalities should only be
00:27:46.340collecting stuff that they are responsible for. And then the other two, three things you'll usually
00:27:52.220find on your tax bill might be something like a little bit of money for libraries, some money for
00:27:58.060some foundation, old age homes, things like that. So if you look at this year's tax bill,
00:28:04.260you probably haven't received your tax bill yet. You've only received your tax assessment,
00:28:08.600your property assessment at this point, but take a look at your tax bill for this year.
00:28:12.920Hopefully you got last year's and the years before and go look at it. And I guarantee you,
00:28:16.340you're going to see the education portion of them going up disproportionately. Last year,
00:28:21.240me personally when I got my tax bill for the municipality I got mad and I called my county
00:28:26.720I'm like what's going on right why this you know nine percent jump because it didn't match what
00:28:31.420what the county told us the county told us that they were whatever increasing taxes by about three
00:28:36.260and a half percent but I got a nine percent jump and when I looked at it the big bulk of that jump
00:28:41.620was the um the education component so Farkas is uh is on to something there and uh we'll see what
00:28:48.980happens i i i don't think anything will happen a bit i mean the budget is the budget and the
00:28:53.820municipalities will be stuck uh they're the ones stuck being the bad guys and collecting um
00:28:58.860collecting the money um any calls john come on folks give me a give me a buzz i know it's lunch
00:29:05.960time everybody's uh uh welcome to alberta right where everybody takes their lunch break and then
00:29:12.700immediately goes back to to uh to work don't i know how it works folks i know you guys are sitting
00:29:19.100at your desk and you can take a few minutes to to make a phone call or some of you guys are probably
00:29:23.260driving um well i guess we're gonna we're gonna stay on the topic of uh of fiscal responsibility
00:29:31.500helen brought up something that there wasn't oversight i want to talk about something that
00:29:35.740again something that's bugging me um in ottawa well a lot of things this is going to turn out
00:29:42.940to be the marty monologue today in ottawa ottawa's ottawa actually danielle just did her budget
00:29:49.980and ottawa is about to do their budget weirdly right people keep saying well how how could
00:29:55.500ottawa be just getting ready to do their budget when we just had the budget the budget cycle
00:30:02.860in ottawa runs from april 1st to march 31st okay so it's not a it's not the same fiscal year as you
00:30:10.940and i most of us have a january 1st to december 31st fiscal year ottawa and most governments
00:30:16.540because of their recesses and summers and when they sit whatever have a have a basically a
00:30:23.020an april 1st to april 1st budget so so when ottawa passed the budget recently in november
00:30:29.500it was actually seven months late okay so it should have passed way back in uh march april may
00:30:37.020but they waited until november in fact remember ottawa said they weren't even going to do a
00:30:41.180budget and we forced carney to do a budget but um um so ottawa was re used the excuse that they
00:30:53.740weren't going to do a budget because they had just had the election and the carney just came into
00:30:57.580power and he didn't know what was going on again i call bull because they'd been and it's not like
00:31:04.940if if we'd had a change of government if the conservatives if the liberals had been in power
00:31:09.100and suddenly the conservatives came into power okay maybe they need a little more time to see
00:31:13.020what's going on and do a budget but the but we basically had no change in power it was the same
00:31:17.980guys so carney tried to pull a fast one by not doing a budget he was forced into it he finally
00:31:23.420submitted a budget in september that was voted on in november and uh and now and by the way it was
00:31:31.180approved by the narrowest of margin but there's actually after it's done the budget is not
00:31:36.700authority to spend the budget is simply a budget the authority to spend comes from bills there has
00:31:41.980been absolutely no uh appropriation bill since the budget was approved i'll i'll come back to the
00:31:49.740budget i got a call on the line all right who's on the line name and where are you calling from please
00:31:56.300hi marty uh this is ed uh from uh how's it going ed met you a couple of times good good good uh
00:32:04.460a question for you uh when alberta becomes independent do we basically go from three
00:32:11.820levels of government to two and uh i'll hold there for a second yeah yeah no that's that's
00:32:18.940exactly what happens we go from three to two but the one you know we we go in we we have municipal
00:32:26.220provincial and federal so now we'll have municipal provincial but our provincial government will have
00:32:31.340to do a little bit more our provincial government will have to do things that used to be done by
00:32:35.500ottawa like uh border security and the military okay i'll just make the comments and then uh
00:32:44.460get your thoughts on it. So we now have 120 elected officials. We've got 37 MPs, 87 MLAs,
00:32:55.520and six senators. So that's 120. Could we operate with 10 senators, two from the north,
00:33:07.200two from Tedmonton, two from central, two from Calgary, two from southern Alberta,
00:33:12.840And then 25 elected officials, one for every $200,000.
00:33:20.300Look at the savings we get off of that.
00:33:42.180so ed's let's stick to the sort of the the the easy model if if we get rid of ottawa then uh the
00:33:51.300in the coming days after the separation alberta would no longer need a senate because we'd have
00:33:55.860our own little senate right so instead of uh the 10 senators he's right we might need a a handful
00:34:01.380here we'll have to have some something to replace the senate um the mps the the uh 34 the 37 albertans
00:34:10.660that are federal MPs right now, they all lose their job because we don't need that anymore.
00:34:14.140We don't need any representation in Ottawa. Anybody who's in the Canadian military that
00:34:19.940wants to stay in Alberta, welcome aboard. And then we'd have to build a Canadian and Alberta
00:34:25.180military and Alberta police force, a few things like that. But so we lose a few jobs. We definitely
00:34:31.900save money because right now we're sending, you know, $70 billion of Alberta taxpayer money goes
00:34:39.900ottawa and in return we get like 40 billion dollars in services 30 billion just disappears
00:34:46.460through equalization payments and and money misallocated and spent elsewhere and given and
00:34:52.060wasted so we would we would net out in principle we'd net out 30 billion dollars we come out at
00:34:59.180top 30 billion dollars richer but then we have to use some of that for the military and things like
00:35:03.260that i mean a military you know two percent spending on gdp annually alberta's gdp is like
00:35:09.340you know three hundred uh billion dollars so what's two percent spending on gdp on that like
00:35:15.020it's you know six billion dollars a year i mean it's not a huge amount of money that's kind of
00:35:20.780the status quo but i think the bigger question is uh what does alberta look like down the road i
00:35:27.740don't think we want and this is where corey morgan and some of the others are like the real experts
00:35:32.540the the the the the jeff raths and and others what the i i think in alberta has to transform itself
00:35:42.140and not simply be a mini version of canada with a westminster system i personally hope that we
00:35:48.300will end up being a republic with a we the people type constitution uh maybe smaller representation
00:35:55.500i like i hope we have a big overhaul and and change some things very drastically and and
00:36:02.700and shrink the size of our government so that's um you know that's that i'm all in that way i i
00:36:09.100don't want i don't want to just separate and be a mini uh a mini canada yeah feel bad if you're uh
00:36:15.260if you're an mp uh you know if you're uh whatever some of the mps that are that are sitting in
00:36:21.020ottawa right now the day after the election you're you're out of a job so are some of the
00:36:26.060two senators that we have out there and and some of the judges and things like that but um it is
00:36:30.860what it is so so so back to uh where was i i was talking about uh so ottawa all right so i was
00:36:36.220talking about ottawa's budget so uh the budget was passed by the narrowest of margins and and then
00:36:42.380ottawa has been spending on it incorrectly because they should have passed some appropriation bills
00:36:48.060and there hasn't been any appropriation bills parliament's not even sitting right now and by
00:36:53.180the time parliament resumes in a couple of weeks the the number one of their number one priorities
00:36:58.380will be to start preparing to table the budget for 2026 2027 so you know crazy time we live in
00:37:06.940but the craziest thing that's going on right now uh on and people aren't aware of this is there's
00:37:13.260there are these important non-partisan positions in ottawa and one of them is a position called the
00:37:18.460parliamentary budget officer and so the parliamentary budget officers helps put together
00:37:24.700the budget helps analyze the budget along with you know the auditor general has an important role but
00:37:29.900the parliamentary budget officer has an important role in preparing the budget analyzing the budget
00:37:35.260and analyzing proposals that come from mp so let's say an mp wants to study uh you know wants to
00:37:42.700table some uh once once a budget wants a universal basic income some some some mp thinks that we
00:37:48.700should you know the government should go down that path well the cost of that can they can ask the
00:37:54.540parliamentary budget officer to investigate what that would cost you know if somebody says we
00:37:59.100should cancel uh diesel cars and force everybody to go to electric vehicles that has an impact so
00:38:05.020then the parliamentary budget officer could study that well right now we don't have a parliamentary
00:38:09.500budget officer. I mean, we had one, a really good one named Eve Giroux. He had been appointed. So
00:38:17.740Eve Giroux was appointed for a five-year term as a parliamentary budget officer. His term came to
00:38:23.600an end last year, and they knew when his term was going to end. It's a fixed date, and the Liberals
00:38:29.440dragged their feet. They had nobody to replace Giroux when his term ended, and they appointed
00:38:35.000instead an interim person while they continued their search to find a suitable replacement and
00:38:40.520that interim parliamentary budget officer a guy named jason jock he his term ended on march 2nd
00:38:48.600a couple of days ago so for the first time in forever in as long as i can remember we don't
00:38:53.160even have a parliamentary budget officer so we we have a government that wasted uh half a year
00:38:59.080before they finally gave us a budget the budget is approved no appropriation bills have been
00:39:04.600passed to allow spending of budget money we don't know how much they're spending we don't know what
00:39:09.720the deficits are like we don't know anything and now we don't have a parliamentary budget officer
00:39:13.880and we're entering the budgetary period in ottawa like am i the only one who thinks that's crazy
00:39:19.400go ahead who's on the line where are you calling from what's your name please
00:39:29.080sorry you you are totally rubber banding i i you uh hang up and call again i really can't hear a
00:39:40.280word you're saying okay okay we'll we'll let that caller uh try and and get back to us there um but
00:39:50.600yeah you know no parliamentary budget officer like this this is this should be this is egregious and
00:40:00.280canadians should be upset about this now i understand that canadians aren't upset about
00:40:05.480it because most canadians don't even know what's going on so on our behalf the conservative party
00:40:10.440or the opposition should be upset about this and i'm not hearing any noise from them so you know
00:40:16.120know we don't have our systems are falling apart like I keep saying we're
00:40:21.100not a serious country when these basic structural elements of our democracy are
00:40:26.380not functioning is that the same caller John we'll try again go ahead please
00:40:31.120hey Marty it's back again there you go perfect Marty I think that what you were
00:40:40.060just talking about in regards to Jason Jocks I think he's a fantastic
00:40:43.780parliamentary by the officer and the new republic of alberta should hire that guy but that's my
00:40:49.840opinion because i thought he did his job well he pulled the fire alarm on the federal government
00:40:54.500saying this is crazy this is a danger and i think it makes a great argument for alberta independence
00:41:00.840when you have a federal government that is so irresponsible with everybody's money i mean i'm
00:41:06.320a couple years away from retirement but i don't expect ctp to be there i mean it's just crazy how
00:41:12.760they're leveraging the future of all Canadians but never mind Albertans who have put in the most
00:41:19.420and zero accountability and that's what I think most people what brought me to the Alberta
00:41:25.380independent movement was the fact that we're going to be looking at having complete accountability
00:41:31.060over every dollar that's collected instead of these runaway budgets and reckless spending
00:41:37.360that puts everybody's future at risk yeah no stay on the line let me uh let's talk about this a bit
00:41:45.640further you're right and actually uh jason jock is good but um yves jeroux was even better
00:41:53.680yves jeroux as a parliamentary budget officer do you remember like he was the guy he would be
00:41:58.760brought to committee and like you said he was trying to he was doing his job almost and pushing
00:42:04.060back and identifying issues. One of the issues that Jacques, maybe it was Jacques or maybe it was
00:42:09.820Giroux, but either or, they were both very good. Remember, one of them identified the fact, and you
00:42:14.900brought up pension, right? One of them identified the fact that Carney included the Canada Pension
00:42:20.960Fund in the balance sheet of Canada. And I think it was Giroux. Giroux said, you cannot do that
00:42:28.540because the Canada, the excess money that Canadians have contributed to their pension plans
00:42:34.280has been invested in something called the Canada Pension Fund. And it's there for future generations
00:42:39.260if we ever, if the, when the pyramid scheme starts to fall apart, because by the way, the Canada
00:42:45.100Pension is a pyramid scheme, right? Seven workers today pay for the one retiree. And then in the
00:42:51.000future, it'll be five workers for every one retiree and then three to one. And eventually
00:42:54.740we will run out of workers, and that's why that fund's important.
00:42:59.080But yeah, they got in trouble for pointing out things like that.
00:43:05.860Yeah, and that's, for me, to have any spending without a parliamentary budget officer is
00:43:12.560completely irresponsible, and a great advertisement for why Alberta needs its independence.
00:43:18.180I mean, when we're going down the road where the prime minister invests in his own former
00:43:23.300company with Canadian pension money which is illegal under the law yeah but
00:43:28.820oh they've done it in such a way where it kind of buzzes the numbers but he's
00:43:33.020enriching himself in front of everybody that's why I agree with Jeff Ross so
00:43:37.160he's like one of the best proponents for Alberta independence without a doubt
00:43:40.700totally agree yeah yeah no thanks for that appreciate the call yeah that was
00:43:46.760yeah excellent haven't had a chance to look into that but I think he was
00:43:51.800He's referring to, you know, on his trip to India and currently in Australia, Carney apparently looks like he's making some pretty shady deals and he's throwing around the Canada Pension Fund as an investment tool or something like that.
00:44:07.040So we'll have to come back on that one maybe next week when I've had a chance to digest that one.
00:44:13.820By the way, that's another report I love to.
00:44:16.260I mean, this is Marty's routine, right?
00:44:18.740so i have a little list of of reports that i go look at so i i used to go look at the parliamentary
00:44:24.020budget officer's website about every couple of weeks i got a checklist wake up in the morning
00:44:28.580read a couple of news stories you know surf x but then i go dive into parliamentary budget officer
00:44:34.820always excellent because i could go see what they were thinking of right you so if the parliamentary
00:44:41.940budget like i'll tell you right now the one of the latest reports that the parliamentary budget
00:44:45.860officer did was he was he was sounding the alarm on the cost of uh salaries in the in the government
00:44:53.300sector like he has a whole report not only a report he built a tool there's a tool on the part
00:44:57.940on the pbo website that shows um the fully burdened cost of uh of federal employees and and
00:45:07.860by departments you like the the best paid federal employees were the ones who work for uh you know
00:45:13.060the department of justice of course that's mostly lawyers and judges so you know they're paid like
00:45:17.700260 000 a year kind of thing on average but then you go down there and you start seeing like
00:45:23.780departments like the canada revenue agency with with like 70 000 employees and the average salary
00:45:29.780of a cra agent is like 137 000 a year plus benefit so you know that that was an example of a report
00:45:37.460but the other report on there you could see they were they're toying with universal basic income
00:45:41.620they're toying with the idea of taxing cap uh uh capital gains on primary residences how do i know
00:45:48.420that and how can they can't hide it because the parliamentary budget officer says i ran a report
00:45:53.700on this proposal from mp so-and-so so you go to the website and you see what they're what silly
00:45:59.780ideas are coming up so as just giving an example i go i go there every day but then i other reports
00:46:05.540i love looking at i'm anxiously waiting right now because it's the end of the year and so
00:46:09.860you know the the private sector is doing its annual reports they all come out in march april
00:46:14.740right at this time of year but so the public corporations so i'm looking forward to seeing
00:46:19.860uh the annual report for the canada pension fund i'm looking forward to the annual report for
00:46:24.020canada post and you know organizations like that canada post going to be a disaster by the way
00:46:29.380i mean i i'm forecasting the canada post will have lost two billion dollars last year as a crown
00:46:34.580corporation and and don't get me started on uh on the cpp the cpp has extra funds that get invested
00:46:41.620into the cpp investment inc which is a crown corporation and last quarter cpp investment inc
00:46:49.380uh had a 0.9 return on investment 0.9 return on investment if you factor in that inflation
00:46:56.100sitting at 2.3 they're losing money and they keep showcasing that oh the fund is growing the fund's
00:47:01.940not growing organically the funds growing by the fact that albertans over contribute to cpp
00:47:07.700for for working albertans paid nine billion dollars in cpp uh deductions from their payroll
00:47:15.380and retired albertans get six billion dollars in cpp benefits from ottawa so what's happening with
00:47:21.460the other three billion huh go look at the cpp investment inc and they'll they'll boldly say hey
00:47:26.900our investments grew by 3 billion yeah because you had an infusion of cash from alberta
00:47:31.780but that that that's that's a topic i wish now that's a topic i wish danielle would bring back
00:47:37.860i think she messed up on the cp on the alberta uh the alberta pension plan they scared everyone
00:47:43.700right remember when we started talking about having our own alberta pension plan and how
00:47:47.380we were entitled to money from from the cpp and then they were throwing around a big number like
00:47:52.820were entitled to 300 billion dollars and everybody said well that makes no sense right they were
00:47:56.900looking at the fact that the cpp had 700 billion in there and then they're divided by 10. you don't
00:48:03.060divide by 10 you divide by nine because quebec doesn't even contribute there they have their own
00:48:08.100pension plan so you got 700 billion you divide by nine but then you realize ontario and alberta
00:48:14.660are putting most of the money in there the other little provinces aren't doing it so is it
00:48:18.900reasonable that Alberta's share of the CPP if we withdrew today would be in the 300 billion range,
00:48:24.740100%. It absolutely is reasonable. But I'll say this, having looked at the numbers myself,
00:48:30.900we should just start our own Alberta pension plan today, regardless, because we got more workers
00:48:36.660per retiree than any other province. So the quote unquote pyramid scheme of a pension plan
00:48:43.620works in alberta despite not having a fund it will work that way for at least 20 or 30 years
00:48:49.780because of our population demographic and we have time to build up our fund now if we got money back
00:48:55.700from cpp that's even better that's but that's just gravy you know what i'm saying so we don't need we
00:49:00.180we don't need to drag our feet on starting our own pension plan in this province uh we we don't need
00:49:05.700to wait to see what ottawa sends us we could start one tomorrow morning and we'd start benefiting
00:49:10.740i mean just think of um well i i don't want to talk about independence that wasn't the the it
00:49:16.180wasn't the purpose of my show today it wasn't independence um all right no calls well let's uh
00:49:22.260all right okay well i got luckily i put down a couple of things so let's go back this is in line
00:49:28.740with in line with um in line with the parliamentary budget officer uh john if you don't mind uh do it
00:49:37.540in a second here but every i told you i i belong to different i go look at data at different places
00:49:43.460and i belong to different uh newsletters right a lot of federal newsletters so i registered with
00:49:48.900the um you know with the with the prime minister's office so i get their daily newsletters i also get
00:49:55.620daily newsletters from the ndp daily newsletters from the liberals like i take trust me folks
00:50:00.580sometimes i i take one for the team right being a member of the ndp party just so i can get their
00:50:07.540newsletter that truly is taking one for the team because that newsletter reads like a communist
00:50:12.020manifesto every week but um but i get other uh i get the briefings and the press releases from the
00:50:19.060from from the prime minister's office so yesterday out comes this press release on senior appointments
00:50:25.140So just flash it up real quick there, John. It's probably too small for you folks to see, but I'll just read the headline. Today, the Prime Minister, Mark Carney, announced the following changes in the senior ranks of the public service to take effect in the coming weeks.
00:50:39.640that's where i was looking to see if if the new parliamentary budget officer was being announced
00:50:44.520in there so i'm just glancing through there you you can take it down john but uh you know there
00:50:49.720there was there was like 50 names on there and not one of them is a new parliamentary budget officer
00:50:55.140but um maybe john will be able to put the link and you guys can go see it just for your own fun
00:51:01.040just for your own fun go look at that announcement right go look at these titles and and look at
00:51:06.080let me read you one of them. Right. So, um, well actually there was a couple of interesting ones.
00:51:11.780Let me, let me bring up this first one. Right. So Paul McKinnon, who was the president of the
00:51:17.580Canadian food inspection agency. So he got in trouble because he's the guy who oversaw the
00:51:23.720ostrich fiasco in BC. Right. So Carney brushed him out of the way, but they do this regularly
00:51:28.620anyway. So, so Paul McKinnon gets in trouble for the ostrich fiasco and his reward is he goes from
00:51:34.760being president of canada food inspection agency and he becomes deputy minister of fisheries and
00:51:38.940oceans second in command at fisheries and ocean that's his reward that's how government in this
00:51:44.760country works now um and so who replaces paul the guy above him is dr harpeet something kochar
00:51:53.300he goes from being deputy minister of immigration refugees and citizenship which is again a file
00:51:59.020it was taking a lot of beating and he becomes the the president of the canada food inspection
00:52:04.300agency that's our government folks so you go from being in charge of immigration to being in charge
00:52:09.100of food zero qualifications but it doesn't matter that's what you get a couple of other ones that
00:52:14.580were interesting I'll go down one as I went down the line the one that really caught my eye
00:52:19.220immediately was Kevin Brasso he's the commissioner of Canada's fight against fentanyl do you remember
00:52:24.760him nobody remembers him but I'll remind you who he was right remember in the days after when Trump
00:52:30.320was first getting elected and and carney was campaigning and trump was pissed off that our
00:52:35.680border wasn't secure because all the fentanyl that was spilling over while trudeau actually
00:52:41.040sorry it happened under trudeau trudeau appointed this guy kevin brosso as the fentanyl czar okay
00:52:48.320because the americans had this cool terms right the american had the border czar so we thought
00:52:51.840well we might as well copy him so we had the the the fentanyl czar officially the commissioner of
00:52:56.880of Canada's fight against fentanyl that guy never did anything nothing zero like google him search
00:53:02.640him try and find out any initiative from that department they barely had they don't need I
00:53:06.800don't even think they built a website and that's usually the first thing they do when they create
00:53:10.280a new job they create a big website to make it look like they're doing something so that guy does
00:53:14.820nothing gets appointed fentanyl czar and now uh his reward because we don't need a fentanyl czar
00:53:20.280no everybody's forgotten about that so now suddenly he becomes the senior associate deputy minister
00:53:25.760that's hilarious in and of itself right senior associate deputy minister so there's a minister
00:53:34.020second to the minister is the deputy minister when somebody's deputized that means they're
00:53:38.780in charge when the main guy's not there so minister deputy minister but now the deputy
00:53:43.540minister also has an associate so there's an associate deputy minister and then and then
00:53:49.280there's several associate deputy ministers to the point where one are senior associate deputy
00:53:54.480minister and one is junior associate minister like like am i the only one who thinks this is
00:53:59.840like the most bizarre thing right and and that's just what they do in ottawa they just pad and pad
00:54:04.960and tap pat each other on the back and reward each other for jobs poorly done there's no merit there's
00:54:10.720no merit it's who can suck up to who the best and be the most loyal top of the list on that one and
00:54:17.120it's the last one i read but the very first one that caught my eye was glenn purvis right glenn
00:54:22.320becomes the global head uh sorry glenn who was the global head of research at black rock investments
00:54:30.480becomes the deputy minister of international trade that's basically one of carney's buddies
00:54:35.520investment buddies so anyways get just just go look at the list try not to get too mad when you
00:54:40.880look at these lists i'll take it on the chin i'll take it for the team i'll be the sucker who goes
00:54:45.920and looks at these lists every day and report back on it. But needless to say, it is what it is.
00:54:53.680That was the topic of today. We tried to talk a little bit about fiscal responsibility.
00:54:59.520At this point, it might as well be an oxymoron. I don't think there is such a thing as fiscal
00:55:04.000responsibility at any level of government. I mean, if you know of a good government,
00:55:09.600you know send me a note and uh and and i'll look into it but you know from uh from a canadian
00:55:15.120citizen as a canadian taxpayer i'm i'm i'm very discouraged by what's going on uh i i mean i
00:55:23.120definitely look forward to uh carney's budget i mean the last one was a doozy and uh i think he's
00:55:28.800gonna he's gonna outdo i mean remember when trudeau got elected trudeau said i'm just gonna run like
00:55:34.240three little deficits of like five ten billion and then we'll go into a balanced budget trudeau
00:55:39.920never had a balanced budget um and outside of covid trudeau at least stayed under the 80 million
00:55:46.480dollar deficit like i mean i'm laughing we're like we're literally talking in billions of dollar
00:55:52.000deficits not millions billions of dollars and then out comes carney supposedly a world banker
00:55:57.760a guy who's supposed to be super financially savvy and he turns out to be just about the most
00:56:03.040crooked one uh that that we've had so uh looking forward to seeing uh to seeing that uh budget
00:56:11.920trying to go through my list here i wanted to talk about uh i didn't want to talk about iran
00:56:17.920i guess i managed to uh go all along without talking about iran maybe we'll talk about iran
00:56:23.360next week i mean the one thing i'll say about iran um i i've been asked repeatedly my thoughts on it
00:56:30.000i'm pretty pretty biased on this i think iran was a really bad dangerous regime and uh i think it
00:56:38.800was long overdue that the regime themselves be taken out i i i do i think in hindsight when we
00:56:45.440see how this all unfolds i think the i'm a little disappointed i thought the americans would have
00:56:51.500had a better plan you know you remove the guy and you sort of have a backup plan right now it kind
00:56:56.820looks like they're shooting from the hip and uh maybe i'm wrong but you know i mean i'm not privy
00:57:02.420to all the information but right now as an outsider it looks like they're shooting a little
00:57:05.860bit from the hip but uh glass half full half empty uh for alberta this is good news i mean
00:57:13.220the you know um qatar just announced uh it's good news and it's bad news it's good news for alberta
00:57:19.380because the price of oil is going up bad news at the pump but good news broadly speaking right
00:57:24.740Danielle just budgeted a deficit on $60 oil. Oil's at $80 today. So I think Danielle's deficit is
00:57:32.100completely wiped out. Doesn't excuse you, Danielle. If you get a big surplus, do the right thing and
00:57:36.980pay down some of the debt and don't just go spending big surpluses. That's how we keep
00:57:41.460getting in trouble. So good news. And the other good news is it exposes again how unprepared
00:57:49.060um canada was i mean qatar just imposed uh just invoke force majeure clause on all their contracts
00:57:56.020and they're not shipping lng and if you're expected to get lng from qatar it's not arriving and you
00:58:01.780don't have a recourse you're you're you're you know you're up the creek without a paddle wouldn't
00:58:07.380it have been nice if canada could provide some lng to replace all this qatar stuff right i told you
00:58:12.660guys the story last week we wanted to build 10 million metric tons and in the same time we wanted
00:58:17.700to build 110 the the the qataris built 70 seven units 70 million metric tons per year so wouldn't
00:58:24.500it be nice if we had done that so wake up call right um you know anyways i digress i i didn't
00:58:31.780want to talk about the war because the war is not over and it's not my it's not my forte i i saw it
00:58:37.700but i'm not uh not a huge expert when it comes to war all right folks i'll give it a second maybe
00:58:43.140is there somebody like diane last week who's trying to build up the courage to call marty
00:58:47.620uh diane if you're there call again like i said folks don't be shy next week call please uh we
00:58:54.900that's how this show is going to be successful i want to talk i mean i'm okay talking but it's way
00:58:59.540more fun when i get your questions and your topics and like i said if you see if you if you if you
00:59:05.620If you want to talk to me, it's got a comment from somebody, a super chat.
00:59:13.760Give charter schools incentives by reopening inner city public schools.
00:59:17.560I could make that a whole topic, okay?
00:59:19.560I might make – I'll try and remember that, Prairie Cossack.
00:59:22.260I'll try and remember that for next week.
00:59:23.700I actually got invited to a wonderful charter school just –
00:59:28.360maybe I'll bring a charter school person as a guest, right?