Corey is joined by Brett Wilson and Rachel Emanuel to talk about the leadership review of Jason Kenney, the Alberta election, and much, much more! Thank you so much for all your support, keep up the good vibes coming!
00:00:30.000good morning it's april 11th 2022 and welcome to triggered happy monday or not so happy but hey
00:00:40.120look on the bright side this is a short week for most people due to uh easter coming up this
00:00:45.080weekend we won't be doing a show on friday just so you know but there'll be lots of coverage lots
00:00:50.240of things happening going tomorrow night to pierre polyev's big to do at spruce meadows in calgary
00:00:55.000actually. That should be interesting. I mean, he's been really getting giant turnouts to his
00:01:00.880rallies across the country, and he really seems to have some momentum going on in that conservative
00:01:05.200leadership race right now. And, well, we're starting to see the pushback. You know, the hard
00:01:09.820left. They're trying to say, he's the new Trump. He's the new Trump. That's all they got. That's
00:01:15.500fine. You know, if they want to stay shallow and poor and trying to stop a good solid conservative
00:01:20.740person from having a campaign, I think it's only going to backfire on them in the long run.
00:01:25.000So, we'll talk a little more about that later though. So, this show, just to let you all know, is live. And it comes every day, Monday to Friday, aside from this Friday, as I said, at 11.30 a.m. Mountain Standard Time.
00:01:38.260and I see the comments are already starting
00:06:22.280The leadership review process has been altered so much
00:06:24.760that few people are even going to have faith in the outcome of it.
00:06:27.560Kenney and his supporters haven't tried to win the review
00:06:30.020through winning the hearts and minds of supporters,
00:06:32.000as much as they've been trying to win it through rigging the process.
00:06:35.400If Kenney just embraced an open review last fall
00:06:37.660when the rumblings of discontent were becoming persistent,
00:06:40.580he could perhaps have gotten to work on healing internal rifts
00:06:43.540within his party enough to have survived such a vote.
00:06:46.320But now this trust is really utterly broken.
00:06:49.120I wish I could say otherwise, but I just don't see a good outcome in this leadership review.
00:06:54.120I mean, while Kenny claims he's the only one who can bring unity to the party, I just can't see how.
00:06:58.960Kenny claims he only needs 50% plus one in order to have a mandate.
00:07:01.920Look, if Kenny gets anything less than 75% support, this party's going to tear itself to shreds.
00:07:07.340And if he gets anything more than 75% support, nobody's going to believe the numbers.
00:07:11.360Kenny's main party problems are internal.
00:07:14.280His own MLAs and constituency associations have turned on him.
00:07:17.340If Kenny remains as a leader, it's without question that a number of MLAs are going to be crossing the floor and taking their constituency support with them.
00:07:24.800Our legislature will look much like it did shortly before Notley took power in Alberta, which is distressing to say the least.
00:07:32.620One valid question Kenny supporters are asking is, if not Kenny, then who?
00:07:37.320And while there might not be a clear contender for the throne evident right now, the party can't remain crippled for lack of one.
00:07:43.560While members don't know yet who can lead their party successfully,
00:07:46.820they've got a pretty good idea now who can't.
00:07:49.840I've said it before and I'll say it again.
00:09:17.460So anyway, leading off the top of the news this hour,
00:09:22.120we've got a federal adjudicator who has ruled that the Treasury Board was wrong
00:09:27.100to force staff to use up all their sick leaves
00:09:31.680and use up all their vacation days before they were allowed to go on COVID furlough.
00:09:36.940It was a program that had already cost $1.3 billion, and I guess they were trying to save some money, but an adjudicator has shot them down.
00:09:47.840One of our columnists, Barbara Kay, has written about the Arctic and how Russian nutcase Vladimir Putin may turn his eyes towards Canada's Arctic when he's done with the Ukraine.
00:10:00.880And speaking of the Ukraine, Premier Kenney announced today that the Alberta government was terminating relationships with three regions within Russia.
00:10:11.200I'm not even going to try and pronounce the names, but they were all sister regions.
00:10:15.720And Kenney has terminated it, saying the Russian aggression is outrageous and cannot be tolerated.
00:26:26.400No, and the economic recovery is certainly going to help.
00:26:28.860I mean, people feel more comfortable as they're going forward.
00:26:31.640Something you brought up, though, was Premier Moe in Saskatchewan.
00:26:34.360As you said, he's been doing well out there as well.
00:26:36.240His policies when it came to restrictions and such very much parallel Premier Kenny's.
00:26:41.480But Scott Moe isn't dealing with such internal division and these kinds of problems like Jason Kenny is.
00:26:47.680I mean, I'm certain he's got activist doctors in Saskatchewan like Vipond out here and others who have been on his case, but it doesn't seem to be stuck to Moe so strongly as it does with Jason Kenney. Why is he having such a difficulty maintaining unity here?
00:27:02.580Well, that is an interesting parallel because they have run very much in lockstep and Saskatchewan has celebrated what they've accomplished.
00:27:16.000One is our medical community was divided and I blame our medical community, the incompetence of some of the leadership in our medical community.
00:27:24.660And that's, I mean, it's just, I'm not going to name names because it doesn't matter.
00:27:27.460But if they can't agree, then how can the politicians who have to rely on input, I mean, it's just like economists and business people provide input to the government, and hopefully they respond in a thoughtful way with budgets that accommodate, with royalty systems, tax systems that make sense.
00:27:43.620but here we are relying entirely upon the medical community and it can't agree and even today you
00:27:49.920can find a wide disparity of opinions on whether masks work and whether vaccines work on whether
00:27:56.020covid has any impact on your life or not you get a wide disparity and that's the blame that has
00:28:01.220been dumped on and that's i think so the medical community and the ndp or the left or the woke
00:28:06.520have captured the flag on waving a flag very inappropriately that says this is all kenny's
00:28:12.540fault and blaming someone who's actually in the driver's seat, who's actually navigated and
00:28:17.920steered through. I mean, one mistake Kenny made clearly was last July when he announced that
00:28:22.580Alberta was open for business. I own restaurants here. We were spectacularly delighted and it went
00:28:28.100well. It went extremely well. Kenny's mistake that day though was he didn't say we're open until the
00:28:33.660next variant comes and hits us. And there we were three months later with a variant. So he opened
00:35:13.300And the main question, I guess, is going to be post-leadership.
00:35:16.380You know, who is most likely to stave off the potential of an NDP government?
00:35:21.320And that's the case that Premier Kenney would have to make to everybody, I think, to keep things from getting too divided.
00:35:27.300I mean, I do believe a lot of people who are frustrated with him for whatever reason it may be, he opened up too early, he opened up too late, all of those things.
00:35:34.560There's a good chance they would unify just to say, well, I'm annoyed with him, but darn it, you know, we can't have a repeat of the election back that put Notley in power.
00:35:44.660Well, and that's where it goes back to your earlier point, which is there's subterfuge and there's subdivision occurring within the party at the grassroots level.
00:35:51.540Once we get past this leadership review, my hope is that the economic results, what we're doing in terms of activity, employment, all of the things that personify a great Alberta will be attributed in some small way to the existing leadership.
00:36:11.460Yeah, well, and one of our greatest, I think, gifts as conservatives and our greatest flaws is that we speak for ourselves and we're individualists.
00:36:18.900So, I mean, it's a fantastic trait, but it makes it increasingly difficult to manage a party.
00:36:23.580I mean, the left will close ranks even if their leader has done something to upset them and they'll deal with it inside.
00:36:28.800Conservatives, well, we're going to pull out the pitchforks, as we saw federally twice now and we're seeing provincially, which isn't the most productive way to go.
00:36:36.660I mean, but still at the same time, you don't want to silently take something if you don't see it.
00:36:40.060So I'm just hoping, I think a lot of Premier Kenney's challenges, too, though, have come with internal management and dealing with his own caucus.
00:36:47.740And that's going to be up to him to try and soothe those things, assuming he gets past this review.
00:37:04.480I mean, you watch what's going on in Ontario, and I just roll my eyes at how can the conservative movement in Ontario support the hypocrisy and the range of outcomes that occur within the Conservative Party?
00:37:15.460Well, then you get the Liberal Party federally.
00:45:50.520So you've got to keep active as frustrating and as annoying as it gets.
00:45:55.840let's see, Smith, the vaccine passport saleswoman, Winston saying, I think Daniel Smith was very
00:46:04.160opposed to vaccine passports, if I recall correctly. I could be wrong, though. I can't
00:46:08.220speak for Danielle. But I mean, as far as part of what got Smith pushed off the radio was she
00:46:14.540interviewed people on alternative medications on her radio show, and she looked into some of those
00:46:19.880things, and she questioned some of the orthodoxy with COVID and with the pandemic, and she got a
00:46:25.360great deal of pressure from the radio heads and from sponsors and from the cancel mob and the
00:46:32.740rest that finally pushed her out of conventional media. So whatever, again, if she's the one or
00:46:39.020not, Danielle's not a pushover when it comes to some of those issues and things like that. She0.99
00:46:44.320does stand up for herself. Speaking of pushovers, I mean, before I get to my next guest, she'll be
00:46:48.880a little bit here yet. I want to speak to one of our sponsors again, and that's the Canadian
00:46:53.880Shooting Sports Association. As we do have to push back, speaking of rights, speaking of staying
00:46:59.240active, speaking of that video game that never ends. Well, one of the things we have to do is
00:47:03.480always be on guard, always push for your rights and make sure that you maintain them. And one of
00:47:09.040those rights is the ability to use and enjoy firearms legally, safely, of course. I mean,
00:47:14.120you know, if you're going to get violent with people, if you're going to rob people,
00:47:17.020you're going to shoot at people, that's wrong. And we have laws to address that. But the vast
00:47:21.580majority of firearm owners are perfectly law-abiding people, and they aren't harming anybody. But you
00:47:26.320wouldn't know it with the way the Liberal government treats them, because they are constantly trying to
00:47:29.920take away their property, trying to take away their firearms. They keep making new laws, they keep
00:47:34.760changing the categorization of firearms, and trying to take them away. Well, the Canadian Shooting0.78
00:47:39.460Sports Association is pushing back. They have a number of legal challenges on behalf of firearm
00:47:44.220owners, standing up for your rights. And they can only do it, though, if you support them, right?
00:47:48.660you're only going to protect yourself if you get up and protect yourself. So check them out. The
00:47:54.520Canadian Shooting Sports Association is, you know, if you own firearms, you should be, it's also an
00:47:58.940association in that you can network with other firearm owners. There's resources, whether it's
00:48:03.140videos on safe firearm use, different sports, trade shows that are coming up, all sorts of
00:48:08.920stuff like that. Check them out. Canadian Shooting Sports Association. It's cssa-cila.org. Take out
00:48:16.640membership with them because, hey, your rights, if you don't stand up for them, you're going to lose
00:48:21.020them. You're going to lose them. And again, you know, it's, let's see, you can use firearms of
00:48:29.840equal force. Some people are saying the sounds a bit choppy. I know it was when Mr. Wilson was on.
00:48:36.660I think he had a loose connection on his end. I think we should be coming in pretty clearly to
00:48:41.000and now I hopefully it's not quite as a choppy at this point it was just that's one of the things
00:48:46.940being live and having people on remote interviews is uh we can get those technical issues now and
00:48:52.740then uh so you know here we're seeing some other interesting stories and again I know some of the
00:48:57.140commenters weren't always uh happy with police in general and everything but demoralizing police and
00:49:01.800getting on their case and constantly uh telling them they should be ashamed of themselves doesn't
00:49:05.960make them any more receptive or better or respectful of our rights in general i i've been
00:49:11.320very much annoyed and upset with the pushing of the removal of the thin blue line patches
00:49:17.720and we've got some officers now that are standing up to and they're just saying no it's not
00:49:21.800happening we've done it we've hit that line where you've pushed us back far enough and we're just
00:49:28.040not taking them off it's a symbol now and the western standard uh it's a story you can find
00:49:31.480on the Western Standard Online, spoke with two active CPS officers, Calgary, and they had to
00:49:36.560stay anonymous because they couldn't get a, you know, they gave me fired. They got in trouble.
00:49:41.980That's the way it's sitting. And the first officer said he's been with the CPS for less than 10
00:49:46.720years and he wanted to serve and protect, you know, he's a person who was drawn to being a police
00:49:49.960officer. When he was asked what the fin blue line symbols, because that's what's coming down to is
00:49:53.980what does it mean? Somebody else, that the woke crazy left is reading into this symbol something
00:49:59.940else that it doesn't mean at all. This gentleman said, it's supposed to be a symbol to remember
00:50:04.160our fallen brothers and sisters. And he just wants to make sure that they always remember
00:50:09.860it's that thin blue line between good versus evil. And it's not police versus citizens
00:50:13.440because they're citizens as well. He says it represents brotherhood. And it hurts these
00:50:20.240guys. And when he was asked, well, what do you think of it being racist or somehow reflective
00:50:25.140of white supremacist values? And he said, so myself and some of my other colleagues
00:50:29.520that are of color think it's ridiculous. He said, I'm a visible minority, and I 100% support and
00:50:34.600back the thin blue line. When they say the symbol is racist, come on. There are police officers from
00:50:42.480every race out there, and many of them support that symbol because it's their brothers, sisters,
00:50:49.260compatriots who are getting injured, who do get killed occasionally, who are suffering PTSD. A lot
00:50:55.200of the things, whether you like police or don't like police, they've got a lot of challenges.
00:50:58.680and to take away that one gesture that they can wear and say that it's inappropriate and label
00:51:05.860them it ridiculously. I mean, think of that non-white officers and you're calling them1.00
00:51:09.720white supremacists, but we've hit that point. We've hit that point where if you push against
00:51:13.480the woke, it doesn't matter. They immediately throw that at you and it's a problem. So they're
00:51:19.260hanging onto that symbol. And so people say, well, they shouldn't wear anything. Well, maybe if we
00:51:22.440want to go that route, but you know what? They, they, they wear the rainbow ribbons during pride
00:51:26.820weak. They wear all sorts of other woke symbols that the left would be pretty pissy and upset if
00:51:32.680the police officers removed those as well. So do you allow them to make gestures as part of the
00:51:36.700community or not? And blue line one is a benign one. It is wrongly being labeled as an extreme
00:51:43.260symbol and it's stupid and it's got to stop and it's demoralizing. And unfortunately that actually
00:51:48.560leads to more of the problems because when you get demoralized police, then you can get police
00:51:52.540to act out and do things wrong. All right. Enough pissing and moaning out of me. Let's bring in the
00:51:57.780Western Standards, Edmonton Bureau Chief, Rachel Emanuel, who's been up there for just about a
00:52:05.080couple of weeks now, I guess. And hey, how's it going, Rachel? I'm doing well today. Good, good.
00:52:10.960So you're in the legislative office now, are you? Yes, I am. Great. So it's been, what, about 10
00:52:18.540days since you've settled in up there? How are you liking life in the Alberta Centre of Governance?
00:52:24.780Sure. Yeah, it hasn't actually been quite 10 days. This is just my second week. I began in
00:52:28.520the legislature last Monday. So I guess technically, you know, well, I've worked on
00:52:32.860weekends. So I guess we're getting there. It's been really good. I'm enjoying myself quite a bit.
00:52:36.680It's nice to be going into the office again every day after working from home for two years. So I'm
00:52:41.220enjoying that. However, the legislature isn't actually sitting this week or last week. So it's
00:52:45.720been pretty quiet, which has actually been quite nice to just have some time to get myself up to
00:52:50.660speed on everything and kind of figure out where everything is. So I'm definitely really enjoying
00:52:54.920it. And I'm really excited to be here as well. Great. Yeah. Well, the news doesn't stop just
00:52:58.700because they aren't in session. One of your more recent stories for pointing out, you know,
00:53:02.660Brian Jean was sworn in last week and he did say that the UCP approved him and he's on the mailing
00:53:08.400list now. So they've given Gene an office there and he's a functional MLA? Yeah, he's a functional
00:53:16.840MLA right now. I think it would be a tricky matter for them to kick him out of the caucus,
00:53:22.340but I guess it's sort of a lose-lose situation with them. You know, you kick him out, you make
00:53:25.740him a martyr, but you have him in and you have sort of someone who's working against the leader
00:53:29.620within the party. So definitely a tricky situation there, but it seems like he's in for now. Doesn't
00:53:34.560sound like he has the most direct communication with Kramer Kenny. I think he said in that press
00:53:38.480conference the last time he had spoken to Kenny directly was about four years ago. So it'll be
00:53:42.800interesting to see those two attempt to work together. I'm definitely excited for things to
00:53:47.040get into full swing here at the legislature and to see how that all plays out. Yeah, well, once it
00:53:51.760does get back in session, you're going to be in the midst of quite a bit of political intrigue,
00:53:57.120at least to keep your reporting on. When does it come back in session? Is it after the Easter
00:54:02.340weekend i imagine yeah so uh should be back next week uh according to the schedule so that'll be
00:54:07.860really nice i mean right now it seems like the leadership review is dominating so much of what
00:54:12.100the discussion is um and in terms of what we're covering for the conservatives certainly that's
00:54:16.100quite a bit of it there's been some other stuff as well but that's really the story everyone's
00:54:19.540watching right now and uh you'll notice in the ndp's attack lines that's a sort of common focus
00:54:24.340point for them that the government's distracted on holding on to power and they're not doing any
00:54:28.420real work and certainly with any peers that I've spoken to that's something that they're very
00:54:31.940concerned about they say this government is really busy focused on just maintaining you know their
00:54:36.500leader and everyone keeping their jobs and they're not actually pushing a lot of stuff forward so
00:54:40.260that's a complaint that I've been hearing so I'm interested to see what will happen when the
00:54:43.540legislature returns and we can actually see what sort of you know laws and bills are being debated
00:54:48.340debated in the chamber. I guess there's no committee work going on this week either then?
00:54:53.620I? No. Have you had a chance to meet the independent members kind of hanging over in
00:54:59.580the corner there with Drew Barnes and Todd Lowen? Yeah, I've sent out some emails and I've set up
00:55:05.420some coffees for everyone's back, but most people are actually back in their writings right now.
00:55:09.000I've been sort of looking through MLA's Facebook pages. It seems like a lot of people have town
00:55:13.080halls planned for the past two weeks, which makes sense. They're back in their writing. It's a good
00:55:16.760opportunity for them to meet with constituents and hear their concerns. So like I said, there's
00:55:21.100actually not a lot of people in the legislature currently. It's quite empty when you walk around
00:55:24.640the hallways. It's a little bit eerie. So yeah, I'm excited to see what will happen when we're
00:55:28.680in full swing. And when people are back in Edmonton, I'm sure I'll be meeting with people
00:55:31.320quite a bit more frequently. Yeah. Well, and you're reporting on other things in Edmonton
00:55:35.560on our behalf as well, of course, up there for the Western Standard. One of your stories was on a
00:55:39.780report offering recommendations on Constable Whittle's murder in Edmonton. What was that
00:55:44.100story? If you want to expand on it. Yeah. So I guess that was a really big story in Edmonton
00:55:48.180when this constable was murdered when he showed up to do an arrest at someone's house with four
00:55:53.140of his colleagues and the arrest did not go very smoothly and the person who they were planning to
00:55:59.060arrest wouldn't come out of his house and so they had to wait to get a warrant to break in and
00:56:02.900meanwhile they tried to pick the lock and the individual inside actually ended up shooting
00:56:07.860through the door and the individual who was murdered constable woodall's picture was just
00:56:11.460up there on the screen he was shot multiple times and he was unable to take cover when the rest of
00:56:15.460of the officers sort of fled and took cover behind the their police cars and he ended up dying so
00:56:20.940there's been that was back in I want to say 2014 or 2015 oh yeah so six years ago and so there's
00:56:26.860been lots of reviews and reports that have come out on this story since then but this was one of
00:56:31.420the last ones and it just offered some final recommendations on the process like I said there
00:56:35.740had already been reports done and the judge who was doing the report agreed with many of the
00:56:40.200recommendations and policy changes that had already been implemented to basically avoid a
00:56:44.980situation like this ever happening again but he did have a couple other recommendations and his
00:56:48.980main one was you know they were there for the arrest things weren't going very smoothly uh would
00:56:54.080it have been better for them to say this isn't going to work out today maybe we should go home
00:56:57.900and try this again on a different day and it's tough to say if that would have been the case or
00:57:01.700not because obviously this individual was armed and now he was agitated so if they had left and
00:57:06.220gone home that day would he have you know maybe taken his anger out on his neighbors he had
00:57:10.160firearms in his house what could have happened so there was definitely a speculative element to it
00:57:14.240But he was saying, I think going forward, you know, police officers need to kind of constantly re-evaluate the situation, see if tensions are escalating and just basically determine whether they think it's the best situation to continue to proceed with an arrest or if we should go home and continue for another day.
00:57:27.180He wasn't saying they should have gone home that day. He was just saying going forward, that's something that we should consider.
00:57:31.660So, yes, as you mentioned, I'm here also be covering some Edmonton stories as well, not just Alberta stuff.
00:57:36.560So there's definitely lots to do. I even attended a Lesley Lewis campaign event on Saturday and Pierre Polyev is coming to town on Thursday.
00:57:43.540day. So I will see him in Edmonton as well.
00:57:46.620Great. How was the Lesley Lewis event? Is it well attended?
00:57:50.480It was very well attended. She had a full gymnasium packed with people. She's pulling
00:57:55.080really big crowds. I know out West, she's very popular. I believe a lot of her support in the
00:57:59.700previous leadership campaign came from Alberta and Saskatchewan. She's of course a social
00:58:04.240conservative. So she's very popular in these areas, but it was an enormous crowd. Hundreds
00:58:07.460of people were there. Hundreds of people were there. And she's been pulling really big crowds0.90
00:58:11.240from what I've seen throughout her time in Alberta.
00:58:13.560So it was an exciting event, and I'm sure, you know,
00:58:16.220Kerr will probably pull an even bigger crowd on Thursday.
00:58:19.020Yeah, Polyev will be going Tuesday here.
00:58:21.500I'll be watching one, and you'll be watching the one on Thursday,
00:58:24.900But it's interesting to see Lewis pulling such a large amount as well.
00:58:28.320I mean, right now it seems to be a battle of words,
00:58:30.680and it's getting pretty harsh between Polyev and Sherey.
00:58:33.740But if they start fighting over the same conservative base out west,
00:58:38.140we might see more development in the campaign with those two kind of getting a little more
00:58:41.880direct in their campaigns with each other, I imagine. Yeah, I suppose that's always a
00:58:46.040possibility. I mean, when you're competing, you're competing against the other candidates in the race.
00:58:49.540However, these two seem to have just a very mutual respect. Actually, something I've observed is it
00:58:53.580seems that all the other candidates really hold quite a bit of respect for Leslie Lewis. She is a
00:58:57.980very good campaigner and she presents herself in a very professional manner and she's not offensive.0.83
00:59:03.480I think one of the things I heard commented on from the last leadership campaign is that
00:59:06.420her and Derek Sloan, who is no longer in federal politics. Now he runs the Ontario Party.
00:59:11.540They're both social conservatives, but she delivered her views in a more palatable way.
00:59:16.300So people have really respected that about her, appreciated her professionalism. And also,
00:59:20.140she's been very impressive with just how quickly she's been able to fundraise. That's sort of what
00:59:23.560got her so much attention in the previous Conservative leadership campaign, just how
00:59:27.100much money she was able to fundraise for being relatively unknown. So she definitely carries a
00:59:31.540lot of weight in the Conservative Party. I don't know that I would say that I think she'll win,
00:59:35.260but she's very well respected by her colleagues. I would expect her to have, you know, a good place
00:59:39.500in the party. Yeah, the candidates would be poorly served to underestimate her this time. I mean,
00:59:44.620Lewis was dismissed in the last leadership race kind of initially. Nobody really thought she was
00:59:48.660going to go anywhere aside from representing a small constituency. And in the end, she was one
00:59:52.300of the most competitive candidates of them all. So, I mean, this time around, she's working on
00:59:57.920that base that she got to build last time. It would be foolish to dismiss her at this point.
01:00:01.800Yeah, absolutely. I'm excited to see what she does. I'm excited to see what kind of numbers she pulls in, how late she stays on the ballot. And of course, whatever position she'll have following the leadership race, I think it would be a, I think it would be a mistake, as you said, for any leader not to, you know, give her a high position within the Conservative Party. She's proven herself to be an excellent organizer, an excellent campaigner, and an excellent fundraiser, which is extremely important in politics, of course.
01:00:25.180Great. And then so another story, something kind of broke last week, but we're kind of reviewing on a Monday, was the, you know, the federal government did approve the Bay de Nord project off of Newfoundland, which is great because, I mean, they could use the funding and the jobs out there in Newfoundland.
01:00:40.260but at the same time they said a sun core expansion is unacceptable and uh did you get much
01:00:46.280legislative response like is there an effort to defend ourselves it just seems again alberta
01:00:51.200oil bad eastern oil good alberta oil bad russian oil good uh has there been a some discussion in
01:00:58.220the legislature on what might be a response to that yet sure so um i did initially hear i was
01:01:03.720going to get a response from the energy minister but they didn't end up coming with anything because
01:01:07.240the budget broke on the same day. And I think that was their focus at that time. However,
01:01:11.220the Suncor projects could still go ahead. Basically, at this point, they have resubmitted
01:01:16.180saying they need a nine month extension to submit their sort of impact assessment proposal,
01:01:21.320which will just show the impact of the project on the environment. I'm wondering if they maybe
01:01:25.360sensed that it was going to be rejected and they thought, you know, let's just give ourselves a
01:01:28.260little more time to work on this. So they said they're going to continue working with the
01:01:31.540government on sort of new regulations that have come out and making sure their project is in line
01:01:35.940with that, as well as with Indigenous groups and other stakeholders. So I think they're still
01:01:39.400hoping to get approval on this project at some point. They have another nine months to resubmit
01:01:43.660things. And Environment Minister Stephen Guivo said at this time, you know, their project is
01:01:48.960unacceptable, was the exact terminology he used in his letter to Suncor, just due to the amount
01:01:54.000of emissions that we were going to see from it. So it is possible we could see it be approved in
01:01:58.480another, you know, nine months to a year. But currently at this time, it's not going to get
01:02:02.460the green light. Yeah, well, and I find it, you know, I was surprised that Gilball even approved
01:02:06.460the one in Newfoundland, to be honest, but I'm glad he was. I don't anticipate he's ever going
01:02:10.640to willingly approve something in Alberta, though financial reality may force that to change. I
01:02:15.920guess we'll watch as that goes. It's good to know it's not completely shelved, and even if nine
01:02:20.980months is just, you know, we delay ourselves to death with these things. So something you've got
01:02:25.800to look forward to, I saw in Edmonton as well, I don't think you've written on it, but it was
01:02:29.260they've banned the spraying for mosquitoes coming up this summer. I don't know if you've done a
01:02:34.760summer in Edmonton yet, but there's a lot of river and water bodies and spots. I imagine, well, I know
01:02:40.600some people up there are quite upset about it. I mean, they're not feeling it yet, but you guys
01:02:44.140are going to be, you better stock up on that repellent because in about a month or so, you're
01:02:47.540going to be feeling it. Yeah, I haven't written about that. I did see that story. It was covered.
01:02:52.640I also had seen that city council had apparently passed something similar. I believe it was a year
01:02:57.000or two ago and then when they saw the weather that was coming in it was like a quite a rainy
01:03:01.540and wet season they ended up reversing the motion and they said you know we're going to go ahead
01:03:05.080with a mosquito spring anyways so I did put a question to the member that had actually introduced
01:03:10.140that motion and said you know is this something that you'll consider and he kind of was just like
01:03:13.580well I think there's other alternatives that we need to consider but I didn't get a firm no so
01:03:17.540I'm wondering you know if we're expecting to get quite a wet season I'm sure people would be happy
01:03:21.600for them to introduce the mosquito spring again this year so something to keep your eye out for
01:03:26.200Of course, you know, city councillors, they're always listening to their constituents.
01:03:29.080If people are concerned about it, their best option would be to email their constituents
01:03:32.720or call their office directly to let them know.
01:03:34.620I have never experienced a summer in Edmonton.
01:17:54.280And then there was that one virtue signaling bar in Calgary on 17th Avenue, that hipster bar.
01:17:59.100They followed and believed almost, you know, that rotten crap out of Calgary's Chamber of Commerce with a non-business person who runs that, saying people prefer the passports.
01:18:12.000They feel more comfortable and they'll go out and spend their money as long as they got the passports.
01:18:18.240And this bar on 17th believes that we're going to virtue signal, we're going to keep this passport even if we don't have to, if the government doesn't want to.
01:18:24.520Within weeks, they got rid of it because people voted with their dollars.
01:18:28.220Don't believe the mainstreeting. Don't believe the BS out of the mainstream media saying that everybody out there is afraid, saying that everybody out there wants this crap. They don't. They don't. So, don't pay attention. But you can still watch those things. Just make sure you see through what they're up to and how they're doing that.
01:18:47.240uh but uh yeah it's just a way to manipulate news and it the more you see them doing it
01:18:56.260the worse it is again hey this is a majority an opinion show i never deny it i've got my bias
01:19:01.400i'm wrong on some things don't worry you guys let me know when i am but when it comes to news
01:19:06.480content it has to be if you got principles you're trying to give it balance guys and and you know
01:19:12.280dave here in the newsroom makes sure he's very careful about that as our news editor he makes
01:19:16.300sure our reporters stick to the facts on their stories. And we aren't going to Main Street and
01:19:20.180try and build a BS basis for people's points of view on their behalf. But unfortunately,
01:19:27.580our mainstream outlets that really just seem to like this pandemic are trying their hardest to
01:19:31.880maintain that ongoing fear of what's going on with the pandemic. And we should be very concerned
01:19:39.360about it. Let's see some other things. So here's some mixed blessing. We talk about business. We
01:19:46.220talk about inflation, talk about what we got to look forward to, as if COVID wasn't bad enough
01:19:51.180in the pandemic. And it's funny because the virus never hurt our economy a bit, by the way. Let's
01:19:55.560break that myth, officer, too. The virus can't do a thing to your economy. It can't. It's a virus.
01:20:00.100It can do things to you. It can't do a thing to your economy. Government responses are what
01:20:05.240screwed the economy, guys. That's what did it. Government shutting down businesses. Government
01:20:10.180screwing up supply chains. Government putting people out of work. Government making people
01:20:14.740afraid of staying home. That is what hurts the economy. A virus is powerless against an economy.
01:20:20.220It can't do anything. So we've done that. We've made a mess of the economy. We've made a mess of
01:20:24.020our supply chains. And now we've got the mess in Ukraine and Russia. And I mean, aside from one0.55
01:20:28.800side or the other, what do you agree with in Russia and Ukraine, the problem that now is
01:20:31.840coming down, though, people know how Eastern Europe, I mean, Ukraine is known as the bread
01:20:37.020basket of Europe. It always has been. Huge farm areas and community. And they're one of the world's
01:20:42.700top exporters of corn, sunflower oil, and wheat. Well, of course, let's see, Bloomberg thinks
01:20:49.000there's going to be a 50% decline in crop output this year. This is going to shoot the cost of food
01:20:56.660through the roof. We aren't even seeing it yet. I mean, costs are already going up. My parking
01:21:01.320space was up another dollar a day, actually, when I checked in this morning to park for the day.
01:21:06.760Everything's going up. I tell you what, food, you haven't even seen it go up yet. Now,
01:21:10.340if you're a canadian producer that kind of could do okay because commodity prices are going to go
01:21:15.980up and you're going to sell your wheat and your canola and your other things for a better uh rate
01:21:19.860but uh for people and consumers in general and in europe especially areas that were served by
01:21:27.240ukraine and that this is going to be really problematic and this is going to be a big
01:21:31.060problem we better i don't know guys i'd just say stock up on your uh your non uh uh perishable
01:21:39.280goods. And please stop spamming the comment area, guys. I understand you want to share information
01:21:46.360with each other, but one person commenting 12 times with the same link is not appropriate. So
01:21:49.840cut it out. We got to talk with each other and keep things open. I like sharing, but
01:21:54.340let's not blast it all out that way. So we've covered quite a bit today, guys, and we've got
01:22:00.460a bunch more coming in tomorrow. I'm going to have Lindsay Wilson from Alberta Proud coming in.1.00
01:22:05.040she's going to talk on some issues they've been a group with a large following online they're not a
01:22:10.480party but they are a group and they have a good following and we're going to discuss some provincial
01:22:15.520issues and i mean alberta proud the name kind of speaks for itself there and mike thomas is going
01:22:20.720to come in he's a western standard columnist and he's been in a number of times talking about real
01:22:24.880estate and a number of other issues uh because again real estate that's one of those big purchases
01:22:30.080that affects everything you do and that seems to be what the big federal government was all about
01:22:33.600it was all about how the feds are going to make your houses affordable which i don't really believe
01:22:38.000and i don't think they're competent to do it but that's what they're talking about and they'll spend
01:22:42.640a lot of your money trying to do it so i got those two great guests coming in tomorrow uh as well of
01:22:47.840course we'll cover the news whatever issues are coming up i'll figure out what's got me triggered
01:22:51.360ranting hey send me any uh tips ideas guest suggestions at uh cory c morgan at western
01:22:57.840westernstandardonline.com or Twitter, Corey B. Morgan. Thank you all for joining us today,
01:23:04.280guys, and I will see you tomorrow at 1130 a.m. sharp.