Western Standard - Liberal majority and a stay on Alberta independence？ (with @Martyupnorth)

00:00:00.000 Welcome back, folks.

00:00:27.960 happy thursday april 16th you know not gonna lie almost was looking almost looking for an excuse

00:00:36.760 not to come in this afternoon john the producer texted me at home said you know if you want to

00:00:41.800 do the show from home we can do it from home which is awesome that we have that capability

00:00:47.480 and we will do shows from home but um you know and and the reason i was looking for an excuse

00:00:52.920 not to come in today is nobody's happy when you wake up in the morning and there's literally

00:00:57.640 a foot of snow like that's how i live northwest of calgary out in the country and there was a full

00:01:03.160 foot of snow on the back deck it and i thought maybe that's just some drifting that had occurred

00:01:08.440 no look out front and there's snow everywhere so i had to go outside and plow my driveway

00:01:13.720 that took me about an hour i told john i'll make up my mind on whether i'm coming into the studio

00:01:18.920 or not after i plow my driveway but once i was done plowing my driveway um i got another text

00:01:24.760 from somebody and I had committed to meeting somebody here downtown to collect a petition

00:01:29.120 signature so somebody reached out to me and I said sure I'll uh I'll meet you at a for a coffee after

00:01:34.700 the show so here I am folks uh and and just speaking you guys know I'm an engineer right

00:01:40.560 and I'm I'm one of those uh guys who doesn't really like anecdotal evidence so that's why

00:01:45.540 I keep track of a lot of things at home uh you guys have seen if you follow me on x you've seen

00:01:50.080 my my plots on signatures collected and other things one of the things i keep track of at home

00:01:56.240 is how many times i plow my driveway in the winter and uh today was the 15th time in the 2025 2026

00:02:06.720 winter season that i plowed my driveway which ties my record so i've been tracking uh plowing

00:02:12.720 driveways at home for about 20 years now so this ties the record for the most number of times i've

00:02:18.800 ever plowed my driveway um so uh 15 times this year uh but it's not a record for the latest in

00:02:26.700 the season that i've ever plowed my driveway um today's the 16th about 2021 i had to plow the

00:02:32.620 driveway on the 20th of april so hopefully this is the absolute last dump like we said last time

00:02:38.620 a couple weeks ago when we had a dump i think the city crews have absolutely given up on removing

00:02:43.440 snow right now the roads are in absolute terrible conditions i feel sorry for anybody that's uh

00:02:49.520 that's trying to collect signatures canvassing today or people that are traveling to go to events

00:02:54.640 some days it feels like uh somebody's conspiring against us but anyways i'm here uh i and and

00:03:01.600 honestly i just i love coming in here and um you know i'm becoming familiar with uh with with john

00:03:08.480 the producer and we're getting the show you know working out the bugs everything i feel comfortable

00:03:13.440 this is about the 11th show now and like i keep saying the show will be really really much better

00:03:19.440 if you guys aren't afraid to call in so you see the number down there join the conversation call

00:03:24.000 us at uh uh 479 west i don't know what west uh spells out 9378 and uh and make make this show

00:03:32.480 about you guys um so you saw that i i don't know if it's on the on the thumbnail or whatever but uh

00:03:39.680 i you know i always ask john uh he's he's sort of in touch with what you guys are interested in and

00:03:44.960 i'm like what are we going to talk about today i kind of suspected we were going to talk about the

00:03:50.000 um by elections which is on the on the headline there and then uh we're going to keep talking

00:03:56.160 about um the independence uh petition and what happened on friday and then of course i got my

00:04:04.240 list of topics but like i said it's all about you so so let's start there then let's start with uh

00:04:09.280 let's start with the by-election um nothing surprised for me anyways well no no sorry let

00:04:16.080 me step back a little bit of a surprise i actually thought uh i knew i knew carney and the liberals

00:04:23.200 were going to win um you know the two writings in toronto uh bill blair's old writing and christian

00:04:29.280 freeland's old writing i had no no issues about that i i didn't think that that would go any

00:04:34.160 other way but liberal i kind of was keeping my fingers crossed hoping that terbane which is a

00:04:39.520 suburb of the island of montreal it's not on the island it's just off the island just on the north

00:04:44.400 uh east side i was kind of hoping that that one would go to the bloc the bloc had made a plea

00:04:50.480 with conservative voters in that area not to split the vote and to sort of give their votes

00:04:54.640 to the bloc and it started out uh as a tight race between the bloc and the liberals and it stayed

00:05:01.680 tight all the way through the night and then at the end so the liberals won the three ridings

00:05:06.960 securing carney an official majority it was funny to watch the you know cbc news on the night of the

00:05:14.560 election rosemary barton and uh what's his name uh cochran david cochran trying to say that you

00:05:21.760 know carney had secured his uh majority through the by-elections and it had nothing to do with

00:05:27.680 the floor crossings i mean i think that's uh that's something we can discuss but hey i already got a

00:05:32.560 caller on the line so as usual uh you know give me your name number or sorry name number name where

00:05:38.320 you're calling from question comment whatever you want to talk about and sometimes i might ask you

00:05:43.600 you to hang up sometimes i'll ask you to stay on the line and have a little chat if i'm asking you

00:05:47.540 to hang up is simply because we we don't have a giant switchboard here so while i'm talking to

00:05:51.640 you the phone line's uh busy so go ahead what's your name please oh this is reed hello yeah hello

00:06:01.800 there this is reed hi reed and i'm calling actually i'm down in utah right now but i'm

00:06:08.340 from Alberta for really all I was calling about yeah I was just phoning to

00:06:15.620 find out like like where's the best place or maybe you'll know like we're

00:06:22.400 gonna have to do some serious donating here to get advertising and when they do

00:06:27.340 the advertising they're gonna have to do it in increments so that they can truly

00:06:32.100 explain to people the advantages of being separate I don't think enough

00:06:37.120 people understand the numbers and i think they need to know the numbers yeah no you're uh stay

00:06:44.400 on the line read for a couple of minutes but you're 100 uh right um let me just explain a

00:06:50.720 couple of things and you i'm sure you know this already but you know the the proponent for the

00:06:55.520 referendum was the alberta prosperity project so they spent money educating people on the pros of

00:07:01.360 being an independent alberta and then they they triggered the referendum so and and then alberta

00:07:08.800 like whether it's a political party whether it's a private citizen the rules for campaigning and

00:07:13.760 raising money are super strict right so uh alberta prosperity had some money they did their job then

00:07:20.800 they started the petition and during the petition it's like we're in a different phase so during the

00:07:24.720 petition uh alberta prosperity project couldn't be the ones uh raising the money and collecting

00:07:32.080 the signatures they had to create another group called the stay free alberta and stay free alberta

00:07:37.680 has got like five hundred thousand dollars in the bank or maximum that they can spend and they're

00:07:42.240 focused on actually collecting signatures right paying for the papers and flags and holding events

00:07:49.280 and stuff like that and and i agree with you that we're going to need to spend money on advertising

00:07:55.200 during the campaign and the campaign's going to start like in probably june july once danielle

00:08:00.960 smith officially sets the date for the referendum and in that campaign phase expect a whole bunch

00:08:08.160 of third-party advertisers to re to appear and they'll all start promoting and and and uh and

00:08:15.280 and advertising and and selling the whole concept does that make sense reed oh totally does i was

00:08:22.240 just i was just hoping there was going to be something like that because there's so many

00:08:26.240 people out there that are you know i don't know whether it's ignorance or they just a lot of them

00:08:31.920 just won't take the time to really look at it and they they just come up with notes and they just

00:08:37.600 you know they won't look at the numbers but once they see the numbers i think their their minds

00:08:41.760 and start to change oh i i agree anybody who yeah i mean uh the numbers are convincing and vice versa

00:08:48.960 i've never had anybody be able to convince me otherwise of why we should stay now just on that

00:08:54.240 topic um it's interesting because this week uh nenshi and thomas lukasic right we all know

00:09:00.800 thomas lukasic he had the the uh sort of stay yeah stay petition they're kind of aligned now

00:09:06.960 and now they formed their group called uh oh god what's their oh i wrote it down here um

00:09:13.520 for alberta for canada right and they're kind of in my opinion they're kind of cheating they're

00:09:17.600 using a loophole they're they're going ahead and they're starting their advertising campaign but

00:09:21.520 why can they do it they can do it because they're sort of claiming to do it as the ndp party so a

00:09:27.200 political party that already exists can spend money you know they're not campaigning they're

00:09:32.240 they're ruling or whatever you know what i mean they're governing so yeah um yeah no it's going

00:09:38.720 to be uh it's going to be a really interesting and and same thing um you're just reminding me

00:09:44.080 they're getting they're they're just getting off the ground and they're already getting mainstream

00:09:48.240 media attention right so the mainstream's advertising for them whereas we're going to

00:09:52.240 have to pay for it there's no way that uh that you know the national post and ctv and global

00:09:57.920 are going to give us air time so i appreciate the call hope the weather how's the weather down in

00:10:01.360 utah did you sign while you were down in utah because uh i think there were events no actually

00:10:05.840 actually no no i i no i i actually uh on my way down i read there was a fella just on the side

00:10:13.200 of the road there by taper and i was able to whip in and sign there awesome yeah because that was

00:10:18.160 something i noticed that i i've i've been a canvasser i've been sitting on the side of the

00:10:21.920 road myself uh for the better part of 40 50 days now and i noticed in the last couple weeks a lot

00:10:27.680 lot of returning snowbirds were coming to sign the petition which was very encouraging yeah all

00:10:32.240 right thanks for the call yeah yeah you betcha go ahead i mean i'm not kicking you off like if you

00:10:37.960 got something else you want oh no no i was just saying like like i know the ndp you're just saying

00:10:45.180 the ndp going with their advertising already and really we can use the federal ndp and just run a

00:10:53.300 little skits of their their little equity thing there and i said is this what the country you

00:11:00.040 want to be part of or do you want to be part of something a little greater than that yeah

00:11:04.100 appreciate it might work while i've added yeah okay i'll let you go reed but i'll finish your

00:11:08.920 thought on that uh thanks reed um just all right cheers um just speaking of the ndp that was one

00:11:17.520 of the sort of breaking stories yesterday one of those quiet stories right the ndp the federal ndp

00:11:22.920 So the federal NDP after the last election only had seven seats. And that's not enough for official party status. And official party status is important in the House of Commons because it means money from the government, like the government sets aside money for parties.

00:11:40.900 I mean, parties raise their own money for campaigning and things like that, but once they're in power or governing, they're allowed some funding for their MPs, for office spaces, for staff, for things like that, right?

00:11:53.760 And the NDP lost official party status, so that takes away a lot of their funding and stuff like that.

00:11:59.220 Well, yesterday, I don't know, they felt bad for them, so the Liberals, the Bloc, and the Conservative agreed to take some of the money that was set aside and give it to the NDP.

00:12:09.180 So the NDP gets $670,000 of assistance to help them in their role as MPs, which I'm fine with that. But I mean, you know, but at the end of the day, it does show that the NDP are not really a serious party anymore. They've gone bankrupt, basically, they borrowed so much money to run their campaign.

00:12:32.760 and and now you got abby lewis who's trying to convince us that he's the man you know he i mean

00:12:39.800 if you're a leader of a federal party your ultimate goal is to be the pre the prime minister

00:12:44.760 of the country so abby abby will never be the prime minister of this country but it's one of

00:12:49.120 his goals and he said you know if he ever was he would propose government mandated grocery stores

00:12:54.640 and things like that so a party that can't run its own finances wants to run the finances of

00:12:59.580 country i don't think so uh go ahead on the line where are you calling from name please

00:13:07.980 hello hello go ahead hi uh it's gabe i'm just wondering what you're thinking about

00:13:16.220 carney's comment he's gonna bring in the emergency act if alberta separates all right um

00:13:24.860 thanks for that you guys are reading my mind i mean that's something i wanted to talk about

00:13:29.180 and i haven't even gotten gotten to that i'm going to hold off on that dave i got some thoughts on

00:13:34.380 that but i will i will i will mention i will talk about a little bit later in the show when i talk

00:13:39.260 about the um the stay that occurred which will be sort of topic number two so appreciate that

00:13:44.300 question dave okay thanks yeah yeah thanks um yeah you know i'm still trying to get it so let's get

00:13:51.500 through okay let's obviously you guys want to talk about independence more than what's going on with

00:13:55.500 the liberals but so the liberals got their majority um yay hooray and then uh the one thing

00:14:02.140 that that i did find fascinating though and i want to talk about this a little bit you remember last

00:14:07.500 week when we were talking about uh uh maryland gladu crossing the floor and i found it unusual

00:14:14.620 that maryland that carney would take a floor crosser last week because i knew that this week

00:14:20.540 was the by-election right so i thought why would he take a floor crosser and risk upsetting canadians

00:14:27.980 when he knew he had a majority just around the corner well when i saw what happened this weekend

00:14:33.820 now i think it makes sense right so this weekend the liberals just in advance of those by-elections

00:14:39.900 had their big campaign their big annual general meeting in montreal their big love in get together

00:14:44.940 where they talk about policies and and one of the things they did there is they brought out

00:14:51.180 marilyn gladu and they put her through what in politics we call the humiliation ritual right so

00:14:59.460 when you cross the floor like that you kind of have to bow to the new leader and be humiliated

00:15:06.160 a little bit and and and and we saw that happening in at a level that i hadn't seen in a long time

00:15:13.220 Maybe you guys didn't watch the AGM in Montreal, but watch it now with that in mind, right?

00:15:21.520 Watch how Carney paraded her through the meeting, made her sort of criticize the Conservative Party, made her comment and abandon her views from the past, made her, you know, almost swear a new allegiance.

00:15:38.220 I mean, it's a very, it's a very, yeah, there's a picture of her, it's a very communist thing, fascist thing to do, right? And also, it serves as a purpose to get full loyalty from her towards Carney, but it's also a message to the voters. It's really, like, it's really nefarious and sick when you think about it, right?

00:16:03.300 so yeah i was wondering why why she accepted to cross the floor when she did i'm sure she accepted

00:16:09.800 a long time ago but they decided to pull the plug and or pull the whatever the and make it happen

00:16:15.400 just before the by-election just before the campaign and uh and i think that's part of it

00:16:20.820 right that's part of the reason they wanted to use her during the convention now speaking of the

00:16:26.280 convention i don't know if you get two uh conventions i mean i've gone to agms here for

00:16:30.920 conservative party and the ucp and they're an opportunity for the membership to try and

00:16:37.080 push policies onto the the leadership and two i just want to talk about two policies in particular

00:16:43.560 that caught my eye that the liberals tried to pass or passed that then you know hopefully

00:16:50.760 they're hoping they become long-term policies the first one was they they passed on the floor

00:16:56.680 emotion calling for censorship uh or not censorship outright banning social media for kids under the

00:17:03.880 age of 16 okay and and that sounds sort of innocent enough right a lot if you talk to a

00:17:10.680 lot of people go like should kids have uh access to social media until they're 16 some parents

00:17:15.720 might just quickly naively say sure i agree with that right but be careful with these kinds of

00:17:22.200 policies because when you read into the details of the policy it's kind of just a setup for more

00:17:28.760 long-term uh censorship and control right by by because when you look in that policy they also

00:17:35.160 said we should form a governing body that makes sure that uh um you know to monitor the platforms

00:17:43.880 you know like and there's already governing bodies like the crtc and stuff like that but so now the

00:17:48.040 liberal solution to everything right it's more censorship hide your censorship as protecting

00:17:53.160 kids at now and then use uh uh the the the skies of protecting kids as an opportunity to have

00:18:00.440 another governing body to monitor us and then also use it as an excuse to work with social media

00:18:08.040 companies to figure out how to uh prevent certain groups from having access you know what i mean

00:18:13.720 It sounds all good and well-intentioned until you start thinking about it, and then you realize the can of worms that opens up.

00:18:20.620 Now, one thing I found really interesting is that they set it as 16, right?

00:18:23.940 I thought, okay, maybe they could set it as, say, 12 years old or younger or 13 or 14, but they went all the way up to 16.

00:18:30.880 I mean, 16, and the reason I found that number interesting is because there's a lot of people among the liberals who would have the voting age drop to 16, 15, or even 14.

00:18:42.440 I mean, 14 has been bounced around as a voting age.

00:18:45.080 So then I found this interesting because they're kind of restricting themselves down the road if they want to change voting age.

00:18:53.200 Because on the one hand, you're saying, well, kids 16 and under are too young to be on social media.

00:18:57.640 Well, then I would argue then they're probably too young to vote.

00:19:00.140 Right. So they created an interesting problem with that one.

00:19:04.180 And the other thing that came out of the Montreal gathering wasn't necessarily a policy, but it was the speech that they brought in an ex-Google guy, a guy who had left Canada, went to work in the U.S., made a fortune working for Google.

00:19:24.540 Maybe you can find that clip, John.

00:19:26.000 I don't know if we want to play the clip, but maybe find the guy sitting on stage from Google.

00:19:30.740 uh anyways he he made this same thing he made this bizarre plea right he's saying his his his

00:19:40.000 comment was that there's a brain drain going on in canada which i completely agree like we are

00:19:46.220 losing last last known year with formal data was uh 2023 and something like 100 000 canadians

00:19:55.020 emigrated left canada like citizen not not not uh temporary foreign workers going back home but

00:20:01.880 full-blown born in canada citizens educated here have left the country and so there was there's

00:20:08.540 like about a hundred thousand every year yeah that's the gentleman so about a hundred thousand

00:20:12.760 canadians are leaving every year and they're usually 60 of those canadians leaving are between

00:20:18.160 the ages of 22 and 40 right so that's like the that's what they call the brain drain the brain

00:20:23.360 drain is real we are losing talent they're going to the u.s they're going to uh australia uk france

00:20:30.140 and places like that so the liberals bring out this guy on stage and this guy's solution to that

00:20:35.780 problem you know what's the solution how do you keep people how do you keep people here well you

00:20:42.000 should make it attractive to want to be here you should make it you know a a good tax regime you

00:20:48.320 should make it affordable you should have good jobs we should promote we should do something

00:20:52.560 that would want to make people to stay here but people want to leave so this guy comes on stage

00:20:57.560 and he starts proposing that we charge people who want to leave the country 500 000 bucks

00:21:02.020 and he went through this weird justification of well you know canada has invested money in their

00:21:09.360 education and in and in them as a resource and we can't just let that resource leave the country

00:21:16.720 without some sort of compensation for the money we invested in a Canadian.

00:21:21.440 Can you see where this could potentially go somewhere really, really south?

00:21:25.880 Like, what if we all start talking that way, right?

00:21:28.480 Oh, well, I mean, I didn't even pay for somebody.

00:21:31.100 I paid for, I don't have kids,

00:21:33.000 and I paid for somebody else's kids to be educated.

00:21:35.360 Do I get extra compensation?

00:21:37.420 Or I paid for my kids, and my kids stayed here,

00:21:40.640 but your kids left, so should I get compensation?

00:21:43.240 You know where this is going?

00:21:44.600 And this is, again, a symptom of the liberals, right? They are addicted to spending and they've created a giant mess and things are spiraling. The economy is getting worse. And that's their solution, right, is find more ways to tax us and so forth.

00:22:03.020 So I found that whole bit about the AGM in Winnipeg quite interesting.

00:22:11.740 And so back to the question then.

00:22:14.180 So now Carney has a majority.

00:22:17.560 Nothing's been leaked out.

00:22:18.900 I don't know what he's going to do with his majority,

00:22:20.800 but I'm pretty certain that there's going to be some crazy new laws coming down the pipe in the next couple of months.

00:22:28.000 We'll see what happens.

00:22:29.020 uh he he did do one sort of good announcement i mean he stole another idea from uh pierre

00:22:35.780 poilievre this week immediately after winning his majority he announced that he was going to take

00:22:40.120 off uh you know the canadian the federal component on of on gasoline and diesel and jet fuel taxes

00:22:46.820 so we're going to get about a 10 cent discount there but trust me they're going to find another

00:22:52.600 way to make that up it's not like they're cutting back uh the taxes overall um i'm still i'm still

00:22:59.080 quite frustrated that danielle smith won't do the same thing here in uh in alberta and take away the

00:23:04.840 14 cents on the tax um but also i mean the the the conflict in the gulf of hormous there between

00:23:13.240 iran the us and israel seems to be resolving itself so maybe things will get back to normal

00:23:19.480 pretty quickly hey i mean give me a buzz or uh give me a comment here what do you think

00:23:25.800 of the um of the liberals getting their majority is it something that was predicted are you worried

00:23:32.520 about it or or not uh don't be shy give us a call all right well let's i guess we'll move on then to

00:23:40.040 um actually let me take a sip of my coffee i'm hopefully you guys are sitting actually i was

00:23:45.880 was expecting more calls today it's a snow day right you guys that that was your excuse a couple

00:23:50.860 of weeks ago people told me well the show is right after lunch and we're all busy working which i get

00:23:55.040 that right albertans are busy busy working but it's a snow day today don't don't don't lie to

00:24:00.180 me i know a bunch of you are sitting at home working today you didn't i mean even here in

00:24:03.560 the office uh i'd say uh about half the people as usual so and and you know what i i advocate that

00:24:12.860 i i do say that right it's not worth like it's not worth getting on the roads when the roads are

00:24:17.420 really bad it's certainly not worth getting on the road if it's going to take you two hours to get in

00:24:21.260 then you work four hours and then two hours to go home that's not productive so you know stay stay

00:24:26.540 home on a day like this but um all right so let's jump into the big topic that's apparently you guys

00:24:32.860 want to talk about which is uh and it's an elephant in the room i'll i'll i'll i'll give my personal

00:24:38.540 side about this the injunction right and the results of the injunction so last week uh so

00:24:46.540 several first nations got together and filed an injunction with the court and tried to get the

00:24:57.740 petition stayed or stopped or cancelled altogether and the hearing for that was in edmonton last

00:25:06.940 week okay just before i get into it i got a call so i keep going no i'll take the call i'll take

00:25:12.620 the call all right because i played for you guys and you're answering my call so go ahead name and

00:25:17.340 where are you calling from please marty donald smith here calling from vancouver communist british

00:25:24.700 columbia i'm very very scared with the liberals basically uh getting the majority government

00:25:31.260 where they're going to start passing these uh censor uh uh laws now where basically you see

00:25:36.700 something the wrong way like man in the dress or insult somebody whatever they're going to come

00:25:41.420 kicking your door they're going to do stuff to you and it's just very scary how this country's

00:25:46.380 been run now with people now with the liberals they want to kill your guns away and it's just

00:25:51.740 basically that is a very scary thing too i know alberta has guns and all that stuff but um

00:25:56.860 Um, I don't know what to say anymore.

00:26:00.600 Do we have rights in this country?

00:26:02.300 Are we turning into the new terror now? 0.86

00:26:04.300 Or like, when are Canadians going to rise up in this country?

00:26:07.820 What they're doing in Ireland and other places?

00:26:09.800 Are Canadians just getting, I don't know what to say.

00:26:12.900 Are we going to have another freedom convoy?

00:26:14.560 Or are we just going to let the liberals roll on us?

00:26:17.900 Yeah, well, it sounds like you're waking up, which is awesome.

00:26:21.180 Uh, thanks.

00:26:22.480 No, I, um, no, you're, I mean, you're, we're on the same page.

00:26:26.560 Canadians are not waking up and we are losing some very basic democratic rights and we continue to

00:26:32.940 allow it to happen which I think is why here in Alberta there's there's this really this real

00:26:38.420 growing separatist movement independence movement because we've tried and tried and tried all these

00:26:45.760 other means and they don't seem to work um I mean that's that's the best I can come up with that one

00:26:52.140 And, you know, otherwise people say we got to keep hitting rock bottom.

00:26:55.600 And there's tons of evidence that we keep going down.

00:26:58.220 And I'm curious where that rock bottom is.

00:27:02.660 Well, let's talk about grocery prices.

00:27:04.900 Let's talk about the grocery prices going up, inflation, people who are trying to survive,

00:27:09.480 people who are on disability like me.

00:27:11.740 I'm on disability myself.

00:27:13.400 Look, I'm not a lazy person.

00:27:14.600 I'm capable of working.

00:27:15.740 But the mental health issue is a big problem for me and a challenge.

00:27:19.520 but um people say um albert when you say alberta are separating people are here in british columbia

00:27:26.340 are calling us racist um a whole bunch of things um it's like you know what look at quebec they'll

00:27:33.100 try to do a referendum and separation all that stuff but yeah i think alberta should separate

00:27:38.180 and basically have their own province and all that i will be back that referendum and i would

00:27:45.380 love to come there and to sign it but i can't i'm an independent journalist i can't pick and choose

00:27:51.020 but our country needs to be served people like i'm gonna say this canadians are are you to uprise

00:27:58.220 like who cares what the what what happened to the freedom convoy who cares people just need to stand

00:28:03.440 up look in the uk they're standing up looking in ireland they're standing up people are standing

00:28:08.100 up everywhere people are sick of it but here in canada we're just a bunch of babies and all that

00:28:13.380 I'm not saying, you know, I'm just saying in general and all that.

00:28:16.400 No, I'll, yeah, no, I appreciate the call and I'll stay on the line and I'll, I'll, I'll sort of correct what I said, right?

00:28:22.620 I haven't given up completely, right?

00:28:24.740 I mean, I, I know, I know that some, a lot of people describe what's happening in our country.

00:28:31.300 It's predictable, right?

00:28:32.140 It's predictable.

00:28:32.860 The countries have a nice rise and then eventually start going down, right?

00:28:37.180 The rise and fall of empires is, is common.

00:28:39.620 And then there's, and, and I think it's happening in our country.

00:28:42.580 And maybe it's inevitable. But you and I, at the end of the day, are not completely losing faith. And we keep educating people. I'm, you know, I haven't given up. If I had completely given up, I wouldn't be I wouldn't be here doing the show today. I wouldn't be sitting on the side of the road canvassing, I would have gone and left. So I'm still doing this because because of you. And because if we can wake up a couple of people, then then so be it, right?

00:29:08.180 And there's some experts who say that we only need, like, as long as 3% or 4% of us keep working and trying to get the truth out, we will succeed at waking up people.

00:29:18.720 So, yeah, I just got to correct myself.

00:29:21.300 I haven't completely given up, but, boy, there are days where I think, yeah, we're doomed, right?

00:29:24.660 I mean, I'm amazed at my fellow Canadians' threshold for pain, right?

00:29:30.060 You're describing it.

00:29:31.020 Like, I thought, okay, you know, you got to cancel your trip to Cuba because the price of gasoline is high.

00:29:37.300 maybe that'll hurt a few people and get them to vote differently nope that didn't work

00:29:41.020 maybe when butter hits 12 a pound that'll get them to change their mind nope

00:29:45.120 maybe you know what i mean like i i don't know where that bottom is we have a big threshold for

00:29:50.420 pain well i mean well well we do have that big threshold for pain look at the gas right look at

00:29:57.000 the gas price which here in british columbia they're through the roof here they're like

00:30:00.260 like um two dollars and ten cents a liter and all that and and um they're they're trying to like

00:30:07.900 i'm hearing from the grapevine too they're trying to do a climate lockdown like an energy lockdown

00:30:12.360 and make us uh uh go on how do i say it because uh took boxes and all that stuff yeah it's an

00:30:20.380 energy lockdown and all that nobody the prime minister little liberal goons who cross the

00:30:26.120 or all that stuff which is not correct if you want to basically hit cross before call an election

00:30:31.720 color call call a by-election instead of being offered and bribed but the politicians out there

00:30:37.160 say oh we need to do this to the planet well maybe they should get on done on their um horse or their

00:30:43.560 electric bike or their car instead of taking their gas gas and get you moved and just walk to work

00:30:49.560 like everybody else instead of oh i'm trying to close the planet i'm trying to do that you know

00:30:54.120 Yeah, I hear you. And speaking of, I think we're good there. We're immune from some of this in terms of the shortage of gasoline and whatnot. But boy, I saw a story this morning. I think Europe has got only enough more jet fuel for about six weeks.

00:31:12.220 if things don't resolve quickly in the gulf uh you know flights between our two continents are

00:31:18.220 going to come to a grinding halt there's already uh shortages in cuba and places like that right

00:31:23.900 like air canada is not flying to cuba because there's no guarantee they'll bring the planes back

00:31:28.300 so we're kind of immune oh there's no gas in cuba right now yeah okay yeah yeah there's no gas in

00:31:33.500 cuba at all yeah and then and then australia is about to go gas at all and go ahead but i'm

00:31:41.820 i'm gonna say here quickly too what happens we have a gas shortage what are canadians going to

00:31:45.900 do are they just going to be like the same same thing just basically be the slave or just basically

00:31:51.420 uprise and all that like this country like we're approaching the agenda 2020 the agenda 2030 very

00:31:58.700 soon and can even seem to uprise like living in a police state where liberals want to stand for you

00:32:04.780 say if you want to insult a man in the dress or say something the wrong way about the um you know

00:32:10.540 what i'm talking about i'm not going to go there and quit yeah no they will they will throw your 0.77

00:32:15.100 they will throw you in jail for speaking out about the lgbtq and the um pedophilia what's going on in 1.00

00:32:21.260 there which is disgusting look i got friends who are lgbtq they're just sick and tired of the crap 1.00

00:32:26.700 were being rammed down to throats look i went to jail because they exposed the stuff 0.99

00:32:31.660 and it's garbage i have to see yeah yeah cool no i appreciate that and and i'll bring it back to

00:32:36.540 i'll bring it back to a little bit of positivity right um you know you you mentioned the trucking

00:32:42.220 convoy we were hitting to a pretty dark time and all of a sudden the truckers came out of nowhere

00:32:47.580 and saved us and so and then the truckers rubbed off on other people right so you saw what's

00:32:52.060 happening in ireland i'd say the irish got a nice little victory right i mean they they protest

00:32:56.620 tested the government came down hard on them but at the same time they got their their break on

00:33:00.700 their fuel um and I think I think at the right time I'm hopeful that Canadians will do the same

00:33:06.820 thing again right I mean we're a little shy right now because we saw what happens right when you go

00:33:10.780 against the government like the ostriches and other things the government still um throws a

00:33:15.880 lot of weight and a lot of force at us but um you know I I I sense that our governments right now

00:33:22.720 a little bit less aggressive than they used

00:33:24.740 to be. So there is some hope, right?

00:33:27.120 Do you agree? Like, do you see that kind

00:33:28.700 of pullback

00:33:30.560 from the government? Carney?

00:33:31.860 Yeah, I

00:33:32.420 do agree. And then as a person who

00:33:36.440 is from Alberta, who's living in British Columbia,

00:33:39.660 it's a communist

00:33:40.380 soda. It's a communist country. It's a

00:33:42.460 communist province out here. They

00:33:44.060 basically want socialist programs. They

00:33:46.380 basically want you to

00:33:47.600 how do I

00:33:50.620 say that?

00:33:50.900 Like, David Liby, I've met him so many times,

00:33:57.840 so you know who I am, but he's a socialist,

00:34:00.240 he's a communist, and he sends his antifa goons

00:34:02.580 and all that stuff to hurt people

00:34:04.660 and do stuff to people. 0.85

00:34:05.960 Like, people need to start uprising.

00:34:08.380 Like, these pro-Palestinian marches in Alberta

00:34:11.080 and other places, they need to come to an end.

00:34:13.020 When is that going to come to an end?

00:34:15.320 Yeah, again, they're starting to come to an end, right?

00:34:19.940 we've seen a lot of towns in the last little while past bylaws uh no more pride sidewalk stuff

00:34:25.580 like that uh you know there was that there was good i support that yeah there was an event this

00:34:30.280 weekend right uh maybe john can find that clip while we're talking about this there was that

00:34:34.560 lady at a press conference who uh added like four letters to the um lgbtq acronym right so now she

00:34:41.880 was the mwi but but look at the mocking she got out of that right which is again it's a mocking

00:34:49.080 is a sort of sense of waking up i'm i'm happy that at least she's being mocked because there 0.88

00:34:53.920 was a time where we wouldn't even dare mock the you know the the the pride sidewalk so uh yeah

00:35:01.140 thanks for the call david then that is my it's donald by the way but you know that is my wi-fi

00:35:07.960 password it is my wi-fi password by the way to that m whatever bb ggg and i like to see people

00:35:14.760 in alberta and all that stuff keep fighting keep doing what you're doing i'm in alberta and i came

00:35:19.920 back here to be here to deal with stuff i'm in a big fight myself dealing with the so-called

00:35:24.660 communist um court here if you say something the wrong way they'll come after you if you say man

00:35:30.720 in the dress the wrong way they'll come out but um i feel bad for the show out there but here in

00:35:36.420 vancouver it's nice it's cold but i'm not far from things where it smells like meth meth and

00:35:41.920 disgusting stuff and people really need help man i've seen a lot of people die already awesome i

00:35:46.820 gotta go not awesome that they're dying but awesome thanks for calling in uh donald i appreciate the

00:35:51.100 call you did all right uh john do you have that clip or can we play that clip or maybe we shouldn't

00:35:58.260 i don't know i don't want to get us in trouble yeah don't worry about the clip but you've all

00:36:01.940 seen the clip right where uh uh she the lady said it without blinking an eye now like the acronym is

00:36:08.640 like i don't know like 12 letters long right this one here the uh can we play it john it's about

00:36:13.460 nine seconds long yeah don't play it but that's the acronym right there right i challenge anybody

00:36:20.300 watching looking at that on screen m m i w g 2 s l g b t q q i a plus oh boy

00:36:30.980 yeah actually i know on the pipeline they discussed about this a little bit the other day

00:36:36.540 um that that was funny okay cool hey i love the way the show is going today i mean i'm i uh this

00:36:43.820 is what i want on the show right i i have a lot of topics i can talk but i want you guys to call in

00:36:49.560 and uh and and let's have a discussion so let me try and get back to the um so the the the the

00:36:57.740 injunction hearing started on tuesday wednesday thursday so tuesday tuesday wednesday was basically

00:37:03.480 basically the opponent uh starts in court and then uh then the next two days is the proponent so

00:37:12.420 uh in this case Mitch Sylvester represented by basically Jeff Brath and Eva Chipyuk maybe we'll

00:37:19.020 have him on the show in the near future and uh Jeff gave the judge a lot to think about right

00:37:25.480 basically what his role is is is countering the other arguments and then providing a whole bunch

00:37:31.560 of legal documents and stuff like that for the judge to go look at so jeff did a good job making

00:37:36.920 sure that the judge couldn't just rule on this like on the spot well what was surprising maybe

00:37:43.640 maybe surprising maybe to me but maybe not to others i was sitting on the side of the road i

00:37:48.600 was still collecting signatures on uh friday morning and then i heard about it through the

00:37:54.040 grapevine that a partial ruling had come out and and what the ruling was is that the judge decided

00:38:00.680 to uh stay temporarily prevent there you see it on the screen temporarily prevent independence

00:38:07.000 petition from certification he stayed staying something means he stopped but he didn't stop

00:38:12.760 the whole petition so the judge said you me marty you can keep collecting signatures larry bob

00:38:18.360 everybody you guys can all keep collecting signatures but what the judge said is that

00:38:23.320 elections alberta cannot certify the signatures in other words they can't count the signatures

00:38:29.000 and do the quality control and then and then and then report back to um to the minister of justice

00:38:37.800 until the judge finalizes his ruling so and now luckily the judge said uh this day is only good

00:38:49.480 for 30 days so in other words we can continue collecting signatures until may 2nd the stay

00:38:55.800 will go on until about i don't know may 7th or 8th or 9th and by then either the judge has to 0.99

00:39:03.160 make a ruling or he can extend she it's a she by the way she can extend the stay and delay the

00:39:10.520 counting a little bit longer and um that upset me when i heard that that upset me and i know

00:39:18.040 i posted a video uh where i ranted about that and i said some words that perhaps i should have

00:39:23.800 chosen different words i was a little bit hot under the collar on friday and um my bad but um

00:39:33.320 at the end of the day i'm i'm still the reason i was hot under the collar still stands i i'm i'm

00:39:40.120 extremely frustrated in this country i've expressed this on on a personal level for the last decade

00:39:46.520 on all the projects i've worked on everything that i'm working on is always subject to veto these

00:39:53.160 secret magical vetoes by first nations who seem to have the ability to just about block anything

00:39:59.000 we're trying to work on and it's frustrating and and then when we invite them at the table

00:40:04.680 to come collaborate with us they flat out reject us right there was that i can i know for a fact

00:40:11.560 that there was a lot of effort by by mitch sylvester and others to engage these uh chiefs

00:40:20.120 who were doing this injunction to see if there could be some resolution beforehand and there's

00:40:24.900 no dialogue so i was on the side of the road and i got frustrated bad choice of words it is what it

00:40:31.600 is um but but then so thinking about this stay am i nervous about it yes and no um as it stands we

00:40:42.400 were going to collect signatures until may 2nd then the the the chief elector had to certify the

00:40:49.420 signatures and then return a report to the Minister of Justice, Mickey Amory. And then

00:40:59.280 they were going to have to table a little committee and then study the request of the

00:41:03.480 petition and then perhaps declare, agree with the petition and launch a referendum. Now there's a

00:41:09.680 summer recess coming up and stuff like that. And the referendums already be announced as

00:41:13.640 will happen around October 19th if there's a referendum so if I work back from October 19th

00:41:20.180 as long as Danielle Smith declares the referendum on let's say July 19th that's July August September

00:41:26.520 October three months of campaigning I'm okay with that right so that was the timeline my fear now

00:41:32.220 so we're okay in terms of the timeline we're all good unless of course the judge grants the complete

00:41:38.380 injunction and this whole petition is out the door uh but with the current timeline i'm okay with it

00:41:44.780 there is time for the judge to uh render a judgment i am afraid though that the judge could

00:41:51.060 sort of kick this down the road kick it down the road kicking down the road uh extend the stay

00:41:57.180 extended extended extended and next thing you know we're in september and elections alberta hasn't

00:42:02.080 counted the signatures and the referendum is slipping away from us and now we're into 2027

00:42:06.420 and there's an election next year so i'm so it's a setback uh it upset me i'm back i'm calm from it

00:42:13.920 back i i i didn't give up i mean i was on the side of the road on monday tuesday collecting

00:42:18.560 signatures uh why was i not there yesterday i i wasn't there yesterday i'm not there today and

00:42:24.560 i'll be back there tomorrow um all right caller on the line please where are you calling from and

00:42:29.260 name. Yes, hello Marty. I'm calling from outside the Vernon area, Canadian

00:42:37.300 Spider-Man, but you can call me Steve. Yeah, cool Steve. How's it going?

00:42:42.760 Wonderful and I'm thinking that a new Alberta will have the opportunity to put

00:42:51.160 in a lot of laws that will prevent floor crossings. I mean we're witnessing a

00:42:56.640 whole lot of flaws in the Canadian system that I think a new Alberta will have an excellent

00:43:02.520 chance to address and rectify.

00:43:05.640 And I just was wondering what your thoughts on that potential and how great it is.

00:43:10.260 I mean, that's the best part, right?

00:43:13.760 By the way, John, if you could – sorry, Steve, I'll get right back to you. 0.52

00:43:18.260 I saw Tamara Lich is in the house and I made a comment.

00:43:20.940 If you could just put Tamara's right there, right there under your cursor, a little bit down there, there's one more down.

00:43:28.860 I mean, for somebody like, can you put it on the screen for Tamara to say it's definitely frustrating?

00:43:35.080 And Tamara's level of tolerance for frustration is off the chart, right?

00:43:40.800 Saw her speak here in Calgary last week, a wonderful lady, a saint as far as I'm concerned, her ability to forgive what happened to her.

00:43:48.500 yeah yeah um so no um unbelievable yeah unbelievable uh back to your con so no steve

00:43:55.080 that is one of the you know i got goosebumps about this whole thing and and your question

00:43:59.140 that's one of the amazing things about alberta independence right um bruce party's the one who

00:44:05.120 speaks along these lines the most he's like make that leap of faith you know we're not happy make

00:44:11.420 the leap of faith both for independence and then hold that constitutional uh conference and then

00:44:17.600 decide on the future what the country looks like and dare to be bold right think boldly and so

00:44:24.120 i that is the amazing part we can be bold we can reinvent ourselves i don't think we need to

00:44:29.960 reinvent too much i mean i i've said i'm on the record of saying this right if i look across the

00:44:34.080 street the across the border into the u.s and i look at their constitution and how it survived

00:44:39.120 time especially with all its amendments like you know you take the american constitution

00:44:43.900 incorporate the amendments change the word to alberta and fine-tune it a little bit and i think

00:44:48.440 we can do something bold so no i'm i'm with you definitely definitely sorry definitely do not want

00:44:54.200 alberta to just be a mini version of canada no way no no that that's exactly it and and this

00:45:00.960 this is an opportunity i'm not kidding uh as great as the people stepping on the mayflower

00:45:06.460 Come over to start a new country in North America.

00:45:11.080 This is a huge potential, and it's so exciting.

00:45:14.880 And I'm going to Calgary tomorrow, actually, to look for a place to live.

00:45:18.560 I'm out of British Columbia.

00:45:20.560 It is socialist here.

00:45:22.040 It is not going to change.

00:45:23.900 And the opportunity for a whole new country with a whole new way of doing things is incredible, Marty.

00:45:32.960 Let's get rid of half of the laws on the books.

00:45:35.480 There's just too much bureaucracy, too much restrictions on our freedom.

00:45:40.340 Well, I definitely want to, yeah, and I want to finish that thought with this thought, right?

00:45:46.660 I've been asked questions along those lines quite a bit.

00:45:49.700 And one of the things that leads to all these problems is every time governments anywhere in the world become bigger, it just leads to problem, right?

00:45:59.600 Because the temptation to do something bad is too great, right?

00:46:06.240 So maybe that's not Marilyn Gladue's reason, but I think fundamentally somewhere in there it is, right?

00:46:13.600 She can say any way she spins it, it comes down to big money, big government, right?

00:46:18.340 Oh, I had to cross the floor to help my constituents, or I had to cross the floor because that's the only way that this happens.

00:46:23.960 And when you break it down, it's like money, money, money, money, money, and big government, right?

00:46:28.220 So I, my hope is that Alberta will be a smaller, will go back to being a smaller, the bare minimum necessary for governance. I don't, I don't need bare minimum. I don't need all this excess stuff because that just creates the opportunity for corruption and problems. That's one thought. And my second, yeah. And then my second thought was, and how do you feel about this one?

00:46:51.740 But a lot of people I talk to are stuck on the concept of parties.

00:46:57.880 And I do like – there are a lot of democracies around the world that don't have parties.

00:47:04.200 And where everybody's basically –

00:47:05.500 Before 1906?

00:47:06.760 Yeah, yeah.

00:47:07.960 Like I like the idea –

00:47:09.400 Canada before 1906.

00:47:10.820 Yeah, no parties.

00:47:12.300 Yeah.

00:47:13.760 So then you can't cross the floor because there's no parties.

00:47:16.020 And people, how about the parliamentarians get paid the average wage of the citizen in

00:47:24.020 their province?

00:47:25.020 Yeah, well, absolutely.

00:47:26.020 I mean, right now it's what?

00:47:27.020 It's three times?

00:47:28.020 It's three times.

00:47:29.020 Yeah.

00:47:30.020 Yeah. 0.51

00:47:31.020 And if the people do better, then the politicians do better.

00:47:34.020 We've got to get rid of the corruption, Marty.

00:47:36.020 I think that's one of my biggest frustrations is the corruption and just the money flowing

00:47:42.020 everywhere.

00:47:43.020 Let's get the money out of politics.

00:47:45.020 I agree 100%.

00:47:46.240 Thank you for what you're doing, Mark.

00:47:47.420 Yeah, thank you.

00:47:48.060 Yeah, smaller government takes away a lot of corruption.

00:47:49.980 As soon as I get an address, I'll come sign.

00:47:53.840 Awesome.

00:47:54.400 Awesome.

00:47:54.860 Thank you.

00:47:55.920 So let's finish on the injunction.

00:48:01.940 So right now we're in status quo.

00:48:04.580 We're collecting signatures.

00:48:06.700 And I don't know what Mitch or the others want to do.

00:48:09.420 If they want to pre-count them, announce them, whatever, we'll wait.

00:48:12.960 But then somebody brought up a question.

00:48:14.520 I think it was, maybe it was Reid or Dave, somebody asked a question about the rumor that this could all be, you know, before I, the rumor was, could there be an Emergency Measures Act reenacted for this, right?

00:48:30.560 That rumor comes out of the fact Jeff Rath this week tweeted out something that somebody called him and had heard at an event where Carney was speaking that Carney is on the record as saying if Alberta's separation ever got that far, that he would consider invoking the Emergency Measures Act.

00:48:52.200 okay i don't i don't i trust jeff jeff wouldn't ever he's a lawyer so he wouldn't post something

00:48:58.880 like that unless he trusted the source he heard it from is the source he heard it from hear it

00:49:05.000 correctly who knows i'm not going to debate that is it possible that the government of canada would

00:49:10.580 invoke the emergency measures act i would say yes because i mean i live in you know my bingo card

00:49:15.720 for weird events in 2024 2025 2026 is like completely checked off i don't there's nothing

00:49:23.080 there's nothing out of the realm of possible anymore like the government will do and i'll

00:49:28.040 bring it back to this i think we are going to get um you know the injunction is one step nenshi

00:49:35.160 uh lukasic the media government shenanigans we are not done we are we are trying to

00:49:43.480 improve our lives and go for an independent alberta through all the legal means possible

00:49:47.880 and i want to exhaust all the legal means i hope we never have to get uh civil about this into the

00:49:55.320 real civil disobedience but uh but i'm preparing myself for maybe a longer battle because the

00:50:00.520 other side is going to throw a lot of stuff at us to try and stop us and yes the emergency

00:50:05.640 measures act is definitely not out of out of the realm of possible go ahead on the line uh name

00:50:10.920 where are you calling from hey marty it's timothy calling from edmonton how's going

00:50:15.720 good good timothy uh how's the snow up there did it make its way up to you guys

00:50:20.680 it did yeah i thought it would melt quicker but we still have a little bit of snow here at the

00:50:24.280 moment although it is disappearing relatively soon so uh probably won't last too much longer

00:50:29.080 and we'll be back to a regular spring um but yeah the reason i was calling that was about uh yeah

00:50:36.920 Kearney's majority situation here that we've gotten ourselves into, or I should say the East

00:50:43.280 has gotten us into. Yeah, it seemed entirely predictable, in my opinion, since at least two

00:50:49.160 of the three seats were liberal strongholds. There was little doubt about which way they would go.

00:50:54.560 I mean, the bigger surprise was all the floor crossings that occurred, and especially the last 1.00

00:50:58.640 one with Marilyn Gladue crossing the floor, because she had some pretty strong conservative 0.65

00:51:04.100 credentials from quite a ways back, like all the way back to COVID. She was the one standing up 0.72

00:51:10.260 against the jab. She's one of the stronger social conservatives in the party. It's really difficult

00:51:16.540 for me to understand what her motivation would be across the floor. Like there were some rumors

00:51:22.060 going on, going around about her house, her husband potentially having some ties to contracts

00:51:27.420 that were necessary through Brookfield. But I did some research on that and it didn't seem to have

00:51:31.820 any basis um i don't know maybe you already covered this earlier but sorry no stay on the

00:51:37.640 line tim somebody apparently went through her records right like mps have to disclose sort of

00:51:41.600 like their assets or their net worth kind of thing and apparently she's not very rich right

00:51:45.560 she spent a decade as an engineer and so did her husband and then she spent 10 years in politics 0.74

00:51:51.120 and doesn't have much to show for it so maybe she's just one of those really really piss poor

00:51:55.680 money managers who needs the money I don't know yeah yeah no go ahead go ahead I was gonna say 0.98

00:52:05.740 another theory was that yeah she was rumored to have been convinced to run again this time but 0.96

00:52:11.120 it's probably going to retire at the end of this term and she obviously wouldn't be re-elected in 0.99

00:52:15.460 that writing because it's such a strong conservative writing there's no way they'd elect her under the 0.86

00:52:19.380 liberal banner so maybe she just wanted to have one shot in actual governance actually making some 0.98

00:52:25.040 laws and such, you know, as her final parting shot so that she can say that she was part 1.00

00:52:30.160 of the government, I guess.

00:52:31.180 I don't know.

00:52:31.900 Want some notoriety as well as, yeah, as you mentioned, the additional extra on top of 0.92

00:52:36.500 her paycheck, being part of the government, probably in some sort of committee or something,

00:52:40.820 making extra.

00:52:41.960 No, I mean, you're right, because there's actually a video on X right now and other

00:52:47.140 platforms that apparently Carney wanted her to delete, but, you know, you can't delete

00:52:52.140 it from X-Man.

00:52:52.840 Once it's on there, it's there forever. 0.64

00:52:54.460 And it's basically a two and a half minute rant of hers where she is absolutely savage towards the liberals.

00:53:01.540 And to have that sort of such a dramatic change of heart.

00:53:05.020 I mean, that'd be like me running for the NDP tomorrow morning.

00:53:07.500 Nobody would believe me. Right.

00:53:08.740 Nobody like like exactly like me shaking hands with Nahid Nenshi and saying, hey, great job, buddy.

00:53:15.660 Love what you've done for the last 10 years.

00:53:17.760 Not going to happen. Not going to happen, folks.

00:53:21.020 Oh, that's another. Go ahead.

00:53:23.000 Oh, yeah, I was just going to say, yeah, how do you flip on a dime like that? It just really makes no sense at all. She was also the one that wrote the article in a paper, what was it, two months ago or something, calling for any floor crossers to have to go back for re-election.

00:53:36.640 And yet, two months later, she crosses the floor, like, how does a person do this? Like, clearly, there's a major lack of integrity, which is really unfortunate. And, I mean, you talked about the idea of having no parties, which, I mean, I understand the sympathy towards that idea in some cases. 0.87

00:53:53.240 But, I mean, here, at least in Alberta, we just moved our municipalities towards having parties because we were running into issues with a lack of integrity amongst city councillors and such because you couldn't tell what they would stand for necessarily because they would be elected.

00:54:12.040 Until it was too late.

00:54:13.320 conservative things but then yeah yeah and then once you're in government they they turn uh more

00:54:18.840 liberal and such but i mean i guess on the flip side we're seeing that at the federal level even

00:54:24.040 with the parties so i don't know yeah yeah no uh maybe that negates argument yeah speaking to nenshi

00:54:29.420 did you see the clip of him and danielle having that little uh nenshi had a meltdown in uh in the

00:54:35.480 legislature yesterday because you know he was on her case for uh accepting a few bucks uh when she

00:54:42.520 toward Saudi Arabia, so then she used her resources and her staff found all the trips

00:54:46.800 that Nenshi accepted on behalf of China and others, and he had a complete meltdown.

00:54:53.280 Oh, yeah.

00:54:54.280 Well, everything that he says can be flipped right back on him, like even his complaining

00:54:58.060 about the redistricting of the province.

00:55:01.000 He rejected the recommendation for redistricting within Calgary itself every time it was proposed

00:55:06.620 to him and had his own ideas.

00:55:10.260 So that's the great thing about Nenshi.

00:55:11.680 Like he has a long history of doing exactly what he's criticizing the

00:55:16.400 conservative government for doing. Like he's, he's, yeah,

00:55:19.840 he's not some sort of a lofty ideal by any means.

00:55:24.140 Yeah. I'll, I'll, I'll finish it off with one thought and, and, um, you know,

00:55:28.240 you and I are rational human beings and you're using the term, you know, um,

00:55:33.360 uh, ethical and, and, and moral and stuff like that. And, and I,

00:55:37.640 I'm kind of agreeing now when people tell me you can't apply those terms to the

00:55:41.660 average politician they're they're not that moral right like their moral compass is different than

00:55:46.420 ours even Marilyn Gladue right they they they there's something that happens when you go into

00:55:51.980 politics oh yeah well I mean power crops right and absolute power crops absolutely right but

00:56:00.160 but just to close off I was gonna say as well I don't know if you talked about it or saw in the

00:56:05.860 news about Alberta getting new provincial signs I was pretty happy about that I wasn't a big fan

00:56:10.600 of the old brown wooden drab signs as you enter Alberta, some of the neighboring provinces

00:56:16.660 have considerably nicer ones, so it's nice that we're going to be upgrading ours.

00:56:20.440 But yeah, I just think we need to add some border officers and some boots as well there,

00:56:25.360 border boots at those same locations, and we'll be good to go there after October.

00:56:29.100 Yeah, yeah.

00:56:30.100 No, I don't mind the new signs, I mean, that's more or less, that's cool, but deep

00:56:35.880 down i am uh i am a conservative who is also nostalgic for old things and i i do i do get sad

00:56:42.920 that a lot of our symbols those signs regardless are kind of a symbol right i mean i i've maybe

00:56:49.720 it's because personally i use those signs all the times as backgrounds for for my own posters and

00:56:54.920 stuff like that so now i'm gonna now i'm gonna have to change my posters but yeah i appreciate

00:56:59.240 that yeah yeah yeah cool thanks for calling tim oh yeah um boy we're okay this show is awesome

00:57:08.280 we're gonna have a couple more minutes if we got a chance for another call i'm looking at my list

00:57:13.880 i got we never got around to a whole bunch of things today i wanted to talk about maybe i'll

00:57:19.640 just go there real quick and we'll finish the show on this and maybe we'll have more to talk

00:57:23.560 about this next week you know i wanted to talk about some of the i always want to talk about

00:57:27.320 some of the good things going on in alberta right there are good things going on in alberta i think

00:57:31.240 this current setting sitting of the legislature has passed some great rules last week we talked

00:57:35.720 about uh 25 and 26. yesterday was uh bill 30 got introduced so danielle is uh again re-asserting

00:57:44.840 our own jurisdiction over our own uh mandates and responsibilities and so she's introducing

00:57:52.760 uh sort of a fast track project um uh process so that projects that are i haven't again i haven't

00:58:01.240 had a chance to totally dissect it there are you know it's it's in the first reading but this bill

00:58:06.360 is kind of putting a limit of 120 days so she's targeting that any project over 250 million dollars

00:58:12.520 would get sort of a preferential treatment and be accelerated fast track uh to approval and

00:58:20.280 And I ask people, you know, is that a good step in the right direction or is that government picking and choosing winners and losers?

00:58:27.020 And most people seem to agree.

00:58:30.060 It's in line with the fact that there was another report today or yesterday from the Royal Bank that said over the last decade, like one point something trillion dollars of capital fled Canada.

00:58:42.420 And so we need to bring that back.

00:58:44.180 And Carney's doing his part.

00:58:45.460 I don't think Carney's doing enough to attract investors.

00:58:48.120 and I think this is definitely a right step

00:58:50.440 in the right direction for Smith to attract investors.

00:58:53.540 And it ties nicely with sort of a subtle announcement

00:58:56.940 this week, Donald Trump approved

00:58:58.980 five pipeline changes in the US.

00:59:02.120 So it's all tied in.

00:59:03.300 I got one more call,

00:59:04.460 so it's probably gonna be the last call today.

00:59:06.240 So go ahead and whoever on the line.

00:59:10.560 Hi, Marty.

00:59:12.240 Hi.

00:59:13.060 Hello, Marty.

00:59:13.920 Hello.

00:59:15.700 I'm calling from West Rock, Alberta.

00:59:18.120 it's deep um even if pierre would take power the conservatives and i'm a conservative have always 0.98

00:59:27.900 leaned to give the their power to the east because that damn boat they need out there

00:59:34.520 to get re-elected so they're not going to help us we gotta separate no i agree and because they're 0.91

00:59:42.920 not really on our side no even even you're at 100 and even even the alberta mps are reluctant

00:59:51.700 to talk about it right you said that was on the news this week uh i can't remember the mp's first

00:59:55.820 name bexy uh he's key and bexy's father um new new mp an alberta mp and he was put on the spot like

01:00:05.620 did you sign the petition and he and again he brushed it off he's like uh that's off topic and

01:00:10.360 so they won't even talk about it because you're right they don't want to upset their voters uh

01:00:15.000 the majority of voters that they're out east absolutely um is west lock forgive my ignorance

01:00:21.560 is west lock close to gibbons uh no kind of probably 100 kilometers away okay no the reason

01:00:33.240 i brought that i saw on the news today that the gibbons is probably going to lose its status as

01:00:38.360 a town and go back to being part of sturgeon county because gibbons is bankrupt uh 15.3 million

01:00:45.080 dollars in debt wow yeah maybe we were the town that we were the town that outlawed the crosswalk

01:00:53.960 oh you were one of those towns fantastic okay awesome thank you we were the first we were the

01:00:59.400 first first yeah okay yeah well it was right in front of the legion which it shouldn't have been

01:01:06.600 uh just before i let you go how's the independence signing uh petition signing in your neck of the

01:01:12.360 woods are there do you see pop-ups everywhere flags is it is it uh how's the momentum no no

01:01:19.800 no we'll talk a very quiet retired community and uh there there is some liberals here uh

01:01:30.280 and people who don't want to get involved they just don't care they're living out the last of

01:01:35.640 their lives and they don't care about their grandchildren or anything and about the future

01:01:42.040 of alberta well we'll try and make that change i mean there's a lot of good groups that are going

01:01:47.000 all over the province in the next three months four months holding little speech town halls and

01:01:52.520 and uh lectures everywhere so i'll make sure that westlock is on the list thanks for calling have a

01:01:56.600 great all right i wish four o'clock would wake up thank you marty all right take care cheers

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Western Standard - April 16, 2026

Liberal majority and a stay on Alberta independence？ (with @Martyupnorth)

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