Western Standard - February 26, 2026


LNG From Australia and a Failed Gun Ban： What Is Ottawa Doing？

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In this episode, I tell you a story of how Canada acquired its first LNG facility in Nova Scotia, Canada's first natural gas facility, and the story of the deal that allowed Canada to acquire natural gas from Australia.

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00:00:00 hey welcome back thanks for joining me today
00:00:29 um i just noticed that i was wearing the same uh sweater in the introduction uh that's all
00:00:36 i wore today it's a gorgeous day outside here in calgary i think it's like plus five or plus six
00:00:41 and uh hopefully actually hopefully you know speak you know uh let's talk about this speaking of
00:00:47 weather you know i'm like a lot of canadians i like to go down south you know and uh vacation
00:00:53 mexico is one of our favorite spots we uh we tend to alternate between mazatlan and puerto
00:00:57 Vallarta and this year the weather's been so nice here in Calgary that Karen and I haven't felt the
00:01:05 need to leave and you know go down south so and I'm kind of glad we haven't because if we had we
00:01:11 probably would have ended up in Puerto Vallarta because we went to Mazatlan two years ago so we
00:01:15 kind of alternate between the two anyways hopefully no none of you guys or none of you folks got
00:01:19 involved in that or caught up in that hope everybody's okay and your friends and families
00:01:24 uh i i did the circle around my group and uh you know nobody was caught up in that so uh hopefully
00:01:30 you're in the same boat uh you saw the title today you know lng and uh gun bans i mean on you know i
00:01:38 do this show on thursday so on mondays i'm usually starting to think about what do i want to talk
00:01:43 about and uh because i want to do a little you know monologue before before taking calls but but
00:01:50 this week, like what I saw on the news yesterday, there's only one thing I really want to talk
00:01:54 about. And that's that LNG shipment that we got from Australia. I mean, you know, I say it all
00:02:01 the time, like Canada is not a serious country anymore. And yesterday, to me, that's peak lunacy.
00:02:07 And so I'm going to tell you a story. I'm going to tell you a great story because
00:02:10 I'm not speaking about LNG from an outsider perspective. I'm going to speak to you from
00:02:17 an absolute insider. So in about 2016, 17, 18, I was working for a private company called Parade
00:02:27 Energy here out of Alberta. And Parade went public around 2018. And Parade was advancing an LNG
00:02:36 project out east in Nova Scotia called the Goldboro LNG project. And I was the vice president
00:02:44 in charge of the engineering for that project and so um what and paraday was founded by a guy
00:02:50 named alfred sorenson and alfred got his start doing uh lng up in in the kitty mat area but
00:02:57 alfred saw an opportunity he knew right back in like 2014-15 that there was an opportunity for
00:03:03 canada to sell lng liquefied natural gas to europe and alfred actually signed a contract
00:03:12 worth he sold 20 years worth of liquefied natural gas to a german company called uniper okay 20
00:03:20 years and it was a contract worth about 35 billion dollars and the contract it's public so i'm not
00:03:27 telling i'm not disclosing anything that's non-confident here it's or confidential it's
00:03:32 public information but the contract was kind of signed quietly in nova scotia without fanfare
00:03:39 because for the germans this was an admission like more than a decade ago this was basically
00:03:45 an admission that their transition to green had failed right if we remember the germans jumped in 0.91
00:03:50 with both feet they were gonna do they shut down their nuclear plants they shut down their coal
00:03:54 fired plants they were gonna do um uh green you know solar and and wind and it all failed and so
00:04:01 they needed quietly to acquire natural gas and they were getting natural gas from the russians
00:04:07 but we all know how that turned out so they came to canada and they made a deal with us
00:04:11 with parody at the time so it went without fanfare and then and and then if you look at a map of of
00:04:18 uh of canada there is a path so natural gas from alberta can go all the way to ontario
00:04:24 then it can dip down into the u.s and come back up north through what's called the maritime and
00:04:29 main pipeline that pipeline was built brilliantly by because there was offshore gas in nova scotia
00:04:35 right in the uh early 2000s so there was offshore gas there that was it was deep panook coming to
00:04:41 shore in goldboro nova scotia and then going down to nova scotia and down to the us but that pipeline
00:04:47 was built to be reversible so we had a path to get natural gas from alberta all the way to nova
00:04:52 scotia and we had a contract and not only did we have a contract but this contract was so important
00:04:58 to the german government that the germans gave us loan guarantees so all we had to do was build
00:05:05 this facility and and in terms of you know building lng facilities in those days we refer to
00:05:10 it as you know million metric tons per year of lng and we were going to build a 10 million metric
00:05:16 ton per year facility which is just a block right it's it's it's a cookie cutter stuff i mean you
00:05:21 buy this it's licensed by various companies around the world you buy it you uh you get a company like
00:05:26 kbr or whatever to build it and you know the detail is like the ports and a few other little
00:05:31 thing so we had it all figured out we did the detailed uh the the the basic front-end engineering
00:05:38 we even had the permit to export we had the permit to construct from the local nova scotia utility
00:05:44 board i mean we had everything the only thing we didn't have was uh proper support from ottawa
00:05:52 because we had at that time um when we were getting ready to pull the trigger and build this thing
00:05:58 the the german company that was giving the loan the german government which was giving the loan
00:06:04 guarantees asked a reasonable question they're like can we uh get some assurances that your
00:06:09 government is behind this and so when we uh tried to get assurances nobody would give us like trudeau
00:06:16 blew us off and passed us on to uh amrjeet sohi and anyways i like i don't want to get into a
00:06:21 whole ton of details on what happened except to say that we got blocked at every step of the way
00:06:26 by our own government because our own government here in ottawa in ottawa was doing you know the
00:06:32 same thing that the germans had done years ago which was going all in on uh green energy and net
00:06:37 zero and so which brings me back to today right what happened yesterday i mean yesterday we had
00:06:43 a shipment of lng liquefied natural gas from australia shipped all the way to canada that's
00:06:50 insane right and it traveled like it must have been a 12-day uh journey to get that probably
00:06:57 longer to get that lng here where we could have produced it in alberta and shipped it over over
00:07:04 to nova scotia or ship the gas to nova scotia you know what i mean so we have it inside and what's
00:07:09 extremely frustrating about all of this is that right now carney and a delegation of of of people
00:07:17 from ottawa are like boarding planes as we speak they're on their way to australia and they're on
00:07:21 their way to india and they're on their way to places like that to try and sell canadian lng but
00:07:26 the lng they want to sell is the stuff that they're proposing that we produce up north in northern
00:07:31 british columbia a project that's barely off the table that's financed by the chinese you know what 0.78
00:07:35 i mean so i i can't help but be frustrated especially at the hypocrisy of carny and others
00:07:43 who lately have been talking about how we have to diversify the the economy and not be dependent on
00:07:49 the americans but they go as far as saying that we are going to build you know canadian infrastructure
00:07:54 and we're going to become our own best customers right well if we were going to be our own best
00:08:00 customers you would think that quebec would buy oil from alberta instead of from uh you know
00:08:05 nigeria and qatar and you would think that uh new brunswick and nova scotia would buy liquefied
00:08:12 natural gas same thing from alberta so i i'm sure you can sense the frustration i i just wanted to
00:08:19 bring that up i mean the the the stuff seeing seeing lng transported around the world to come
00:08:26 to canada when we have probably some of the largest reserves of gas and oil not probably
00:08:31 we have some of the largest reserves of gas and oil in the world is absolutely insane by the way
00:08:36 look it up right um look up where goldborough is it's just close to antigonish right it's about
00:08:41 an hour away from antigenish and people say why would you have built a facility there well like
00:08:46 i said we there's a path to get the gas there but amazingly gold bro in terms of how close it is to
00:08:52 europe how close is nova scotia to europe compared to the gulf of mexico to europe is about uh you
00:08:59 know three days of sailing closer and so that's why we had a huge economic advantage over our
00:09:06 american competitors now we conceived of that project way back in 2013 2014 we never built it
00:09:13 and like i said they're built in like cookie cutter you know chunks of like 10 million metric tons
00:09:19 in that same time our competitors in the united states have built like seven or eight of these
00:09:24 kinds of units so just putting it out there all right i got our first call on the line uh
00:09:30 once again thanks for calling in let me know your name and where you're calling from and
00:09:34 shoot me a question or a comment go ahead hi marty how are you uh this is yet from first row
00:09:43 i'm good how are you good good i've met you a few times at a couple of rallies
00:09:50 my question is um my understanding about 15 percent of uh oil flows to the uh trans mountain
00:10:01 pipeline yep is that correct uh okay and who won't yeah yeah and who owns trans mountain pipeline
00:10:09 so uh so trans mountain used to be kinder morgan um great question by the way so let me put some
00:10:15 context right so alberta produces about uh currently these days about four and a half
00:10:19 million barrels of oil a day uh we keep here in alberta for our own consumption about 500 000
00:10:26 barrels we have like uh five or six refineries uh and and we keep some for ourselves and we sell a
00:10:32 bit of gasoline and jet fuel and stuff like that which leaves about four million barrels to be
00:10:36 exported and and that export capacity is mostly uh keystone going straight south to the us enbridge
00:10:45 going south and east to the us and as you mentioned trans mountain the original trans mountain was
00:10:52 built uh in the 1950s and 56 57 and was had a capacity of about 380 000 barrels a day and what
00:11:00 and so uh and about a decade ago kinder morgan wanted to double that capacity so that's why we
00:11:06 call tm trans mountain and then tmx the expansion it's the expansion that got blocked over and over
00:11:12 and over by by regulators inadvertently by first nations by governments whatever but eventually
00:11:21 Notley realized that this, Notley and Trudeau kind of realized that it did need to be built
00:11:28 because the revenue from oil is just so significant.
00:11:32 So, and Trans Mountain gave up, or Kinder Morgan, the owner of Trans Mountain gave up
00:11:37 on trying to build it.
00:11:38 And so Ottawa had to step in and buy the Trans Mountain existing pipeline and the design
00:11:44 for the expansion.
00:11:45 They bought them from Kinder Morgan and formed a crown corporation.
00:11:49 so today trans mountain is a crown corporation owned by the federal government that transports
00:11:54 like you said about i i don't know if it's as high as 15 of our production but it's you know
00:11:59 it's roughly 800 000 barrels a day are transported down that pipeline it's it's useful there's no
00:12:04 doubt it's useful yeah okay here's my question my question is if the canadian government owns
00:12:12 trans mountain uh pipeline if alberta becomes independent could they shut it off
00:12:23 uh yeah i mean that'd be that'd be sure they could i mean uh they they could shut it off just
00:12:28 like they could shut off uh anything else but that but great question that probably would be one of
00:12:33 the you know i talked about this last week if we have a referendum and we have our majority and we
00:12:39 declare ourselves uh an independent state or country we then have a negotiation with ottawa
00:12:47 and part of the negotiation are what's our debt you know what what what's our share of the debt
00:12:52 that you want us to pay and then and then we would give them a list of assets that we would
00:12:56 want to buy so uh federal assets in alberta include you know the national parks military
00:13:01 bases and i guess we'd add trans mountain to the equation excuse me and say you know how much to 0.92
00:13:06 buy trans mountain and if they don't want to sell it to us then i guess they would they'd be foolish 0.98
00:13:14 not to keep operating it because it makes them money yes that's true thank you yes okay excellent
00:13:23 thank you excuse me bye bye yeah yeah um yeah that's a you know just back to trans mountain
00:13:31 When it was first proposed by Kinder Morgan, it was something like a $7 billion project
00:13:40 and it ballooned, it exploded.
00:13:42 At the end when it became operational, I think it was the May of 2024, like about 18 months
00:13:49 ago it became operational.
00:13:51 It ballooned into like a $30-35 billion project.
00:13:55 So an example of our government's inability to execute large projects efficiently.
00:14:03 And the other thing that's always interesting about Trans Mountain, I often hear comments about, weirdly I hear comments about this from Quebecers.
00:14:12 You know, whenever I bring up equalization payments and how Alberta is, there's a wealth transfer and we're sending money to Ottawa that is then being redistributed.
00:14:22 the argument for what we receive from ottawa is often the the oil and gas subsidies and people
00:14:33 use trans mountain as an example of an oil and gas subsidy i don't think it fits the definition
00:14:38 of an oil and gas subsidy because it is a uh crown asset it's something that the government of
00:14:44 uh that ottawa owns so it wasn't given to anyone it's owned by ottawa so to declare that as a
00:14:51 subsidy is pretty um that's twisting the definition of a subsidy as far as i'm concerned a subsidy to
00:14:58 the oil industry would be um you know loans or or or actual money invested or given as part of a
00:15:07 grant or something like that and you won't find a lot of that there's not i mean sure ottawa will
00:15:12 there's small little oil and gas companies in alberta that will take advantage of certain
00:15:16 subsidies, certain tax credits for doing research and things like that. But generally speaking,
00:15:22 there's not a lot of subsidies received by the oil industry. Another one that's commonly listed
00:15:28 is that oil industry will have tax credits and capital gains exemptions and things like that.
00:15:33 And I'm like, again, those are not subsidies. Those are taxes and credits available to any
00:15:39 industry to anybody deploying capital. So I don't like that argument. Just a reminder, folks. So
00:15:47 yeah, please call. I mean, you don't have to ask me questions about LNG or the gun grab, which is
00:15:55 the other topic we'll get to. But just hit me with any question. We don't have a sort of a proper
00:16:03 functioning switchboard right now. So if you call and it's busy, that's because I'm calling to I'm
00:16:09 talking to one person right now but right now there's no there's nobody on the line so go ahead
00:16:13 and uh and give me a call otherwise you keep making me uh do my little monologues trying to
00:16:20 sorry something went down the wrong way here i should all i got a coffee which is not quite
00:16:25 a substitute for a bottle of water i should have a bottle of water um yeah so all right well well
00:16:37 Well, in that case, let's move on then to – I do want to move on to the gun grab because of the two stories this week that were bugging me the most, the first one was the LNG one, but the other one is the gun grab.
00:16:51 Now, if you're an Albertan and you're watching this show, I think there's probably a pretty high likelihood that you're a firearm owner.
00:16:57 and uh we all know that about uh you know four years five years ago ottawa uh implemented a ban
00:17:06 on what it calls assault style not even assault anymore it's assault style firearms and um the
00:17:16 ban was to um lower crime which i don't see how that we'll get to that so they implemented the
00:17:24 ban. Now, the ban, in effect, is an expropriation of property. And if you're going to, and in this
00:17:30 country, if you expropriate property from people, then you need to compensate them. Now, the ban
00:17:37 went into effect in 2021. But ever since then, the government, all they've been able to tell us is
00:17:44 hold on to your firearms, keep them stored downstairs, and don't use them. And you also
00:17:52 can't transfer them you can't pass them down to your kids you can't sell them you can't do anything
00:17:57 they're banned just hold on to them we don't know what we're going to do with them so now they're
00:18:02 trying to develop this program where finally they would buy back the firearms from us and that's
00:18:08 what they're calling it they're calling it a buyback program and while they were preparing
00:18:13 that program they just kept extending an amnesty because technically as soon as that order and
00:18:19 council came in in 2021 saying these firearms were um banned anybody in possession of them
00:18:26 was breaking the law but there's an amnesty that goes on until the end of this year until october
00:18:32 2026. that amnesty has been extended time and time and time again because the liberals created
00:18:38 a problem with this ban so now they're finally getting into the stage where they're trying to
00:18:42 figure out they think they have an idea of how they're going to buy back the guns from the people
00:18:46 who own them and so they want us to register our guns but i'll come back to that because i just see
00:18:52 i got a call so remember i'll remember this point so go ahead whoever's on the line uh name and
00:18:59 where are you calling from please my name is mac and i'm calling from calvary how are you doing max
00:19:07 i'm doing well thank you and i'll i'll stay on your topic that you're talking about right now
00:19:12 marty okay but from what i've seen in world history if they're coming to take away your guns
00:19:17 and they're not going after criminals that should tell you everything yes i mean that's straight
00:19:24 pat down to communism yeah i know you're there you have no way to defend yours it it never yeah
00:19:31 any any civil any uh society that's given up their guns the chinese did it in uh whatever the 1930s 0.99
00:19:37 and 40s i'm sure cambodians uh wish that they had kept their guns uh before the pol pot regime uh
00:19:44 yeah you're you're absolutely right so is that is that your premise then
00:19:49 go ahead yeah my premise is that you're never they're never the good guys if they're coming
00:19:56 to take away your guns and they're censoring your speech yeah i mean that's pure evil
00:20:01 in Carney. That's showing you their face. That's showing you their cards. I mean, and Carney's
00:20:08 talking about building back faster than ever been seen before. He hasn't built a thing, but he's
00:20:12 concentrated on taking away guns and censoring speech. That makes no sense. Yeah, yeah. No, no,
00:20:18 100%. So appreciate that comment. So yeah, let me let me finish on that, expand on that. So
00:20:24 they're they're they're trying to take away guns um from law-abiding citizens and and right now
00:20:31 they're asking law-abiding citizens to self-declare that they might have firearms on this list
00:20:36 and uh john if you could just put up the the screen so there's uh there's an amnesty there's
00:20:42 a period right now so there's a there's a screenshot there's a period right now uh for
00:20:46 the next month where people are asked to submit uh or to self-register for this compensation
00:20:51 program and it's backfiring on the liberals right now that's a map of the of canada all told there's
00:20:57 about uh 30 000 people that have self-declared on that list um by all estimates there's like over a
00:21:04 million firearms that would be on that list so it's it's an example of a policy that is absolutely
00:21:08 backfiring on the liberals and uh and there's going to be mass non-compliance to this policy
00:21:14 which i think is going to be which i'm happy to see i mean i i i don't advocate breaking the law
00:21:20 but once in a while you have to do some civil disobedience and and i've been definitely
00:21:25 advising people that there's an amnesty period that goes on until october this year so why would
00:21:30 you voluntarily submit yourself to this this is an example of coercion along with this right now
00:21:36 anybody who's a firearm owner in canada and has a possession and acquisition license is getting an
00:21:42 email uh they they sent out mass emails and last few days you know ramping up the coercion they're
00:21:49 going to scare you into thinking that you need to turn in your firearm otherwise you know this
00:21:54 will happen so just just wanted to bring that up and i agree with uh max that you know it's it's
00:22:01 pretty um it's pretty telling when your government is coming after a measure that is completely
00:22:09 unnecessary i actually let me add this to this this is an this is another kind of an interesting
00:22:15 point with this whole program the minister in charge of this i never i always forget his name
00:22:20 garyanna sandys and whatever whatever like the long the long name uh minister he's telling people
00:22:27 that he expects canadians to abide by the law which we do but at the same time he's being a
00:22:34 hypocrite because when i i wish i had it i i have it in my pocket here i have my gun permit but when
00:22:40 When I accepted my original gun permit, I accepted it with conditions and I accepted to follow the law. 0.98
00:22:46 So my gun permit says, use your gun in a responsible way at a gun range, doing this, don't shoot people with it, use it for whatever.
00:22:56 You know what I mean? Store it this way.
00:22:58 So we as Canadians, almost, not almost, all Canadians that I know who are firearm owners respected the law.
00:23:06 so they expect us to follow the this law but why did they not recognize the fact that we followed
00:23:12 the law when they gave us the gun permits so what that tells me is in this country if you follow the
00:23:18 law but they but they but they still want to do something like take away your guns or taking away
00:23:22 your speech following the law is irrelevant because they'll just move the goalposts so that's
00:23:27 what they're doing on this they're just they're just moving the goalposts i mean firearm owners
00:23:31 as far as i know are some of the most law-abiding people there's so many steps necessary to acquire
00:23:37 a firearm in this country and people keep going through those steps so um you know
00:23:43 in common sense marty marty said i think common sense says that a hundred percent of the canadian
00:23:49 population never mind a hundred percent of the alberta future nation population would totally
00:23:54 agree with confiscating guns belonging to criminals but to go after legal gun
00:24:00 orders that makes no sense but the really the thing I wanted to talk to you
00:24:04 about you can go back to the guns later after we're done this call but I was
00:24:08 hoping you would be able to speak to this because one of the things that I'm
00:24:12 kind of getting mixed messages on when it comes to Alberta as an independent
00:24:16 nation and I'm very optimistic that we can do this and that we will do this but
00:24:22 But would it be the next day after the vote that we would start using the U.S. currency as a transition currency?
00:24:29 Or would it be have to live with a depleted Canadian dollar or until a new constitution is wrote?
00:24:37 What are your thoughts on that?
00:24:38 All right.
00:24:39 I'll answer that, but I'll ask a favor from you if you don't mind hanging up on this one so that somebody else can get in queue.
00:24:45 But appreciate the call.
00:24:48 Yeah, that's a great question.
00:24:50 you know i this is my understanding of it i mean if there's a if there's a referendum and it comes
00:24:57 out positive and we want to be an independent nation there is a there is a period immediately
00:25:03 after that it's not like immediately after that the next morning we're an independent nation the
00:25:07 next morning there's uh there there's a lot of work to do right so the next morning we look at
00:25:12 this and we go holy smokes we just voted to be independent we need a leadership you know does
00:25:16 Danielle Smith say hey I volunteer to start the negotiations in the next step or does Danielle
00:25:21 step down or say something like I'll step down as soon as there's another election then you choose
00:25:26 a new leader so we I think there's a step like that and then the new leader would have the task
00:25:33 of working with the population and the MLAs and everybody else to redefine all those questions
00:25:41 right what kind of do we how do we change our constitution what currency do we adopt things
00:25:45 like that so i i i don't think we need to panic uh the day after the vote then we we certainly don't
00:25:52 have the answer so i i think that's the way it's gonna go we're gonna have a vote i'm gonna be
00:25:56 successful i'm i'm i mean i've been canvassing on the side of the road so we're gonna be successful
00:26:00 we're gonna have a vote and and then after that the real work starts and we're gonna have to have
00:26:06 people leaders step up i honestly don't think it's gonna be danielle smith in that case because i
00:26:11 i think she's going to campaign for the no side uh go ahead who's on the line uh name where you 0.79
00:26:16 calling from please hello jeff in gp gp how's it going jeff good just uh just for folks who
00:26:26 might not be familiar gp is uh grand prairie not every i i i i tend to i've lived across the
00:26:33 province i am from up north so i i know all these places right but uh some people aren't familiar
00:26:37 So what's going on in GP, Jeff?
00:26:39 Help us out.
00:26:41 Oh, lots of snow and just enjoying your show.
00:26:44 Another great one today, Marty.
00:26:45 Thanks a lot.
00:26:47 And I was hoping I could speak with, in regards to the firearm regs,
00:26:51 there's one thing that I think people don't understand quite often
00:26:55 is that we are checked daily by the RCMP automatically
00:27:00 for any kind of criminal offenses, activity, investigations, et cetera.
00:27:07 If we are flagged, and it's an automated system, if we are flagged by our names with our RPAL or PAL, and I'll explain to the viewers or if you want to what the difference is, they come for our guns, right?
00:27:20 Serious.
00:27:21 We're not allowed to have them if you're on a conviction list.
00:27:25 An RPAL is a restricted possession acquisition license, and a PAL is a possession acquisition license.
00:27:32 The difference is restricted versus non-restricted.
00:27:34 And that brings me to my point, and I'll be real quick.
00:27:37 I know you want to get other callers.
00:27:39 I implore everyone to look at the regulations that were enacted previous to May 1st, 2020.
00:27:46 And let's just have a quick little history.
00:27:48 May 1st, 2020, they created an order in council that transferred or now has created all of
00:27:55 the non-restricted items at that particular time to prohibit it, which means can't use
00:28:03 and can't do it.
00:28:04 But just a PSA, public service announcement here for everyone.
00:28:10 If they review the regulations previous to May 1st, 2020,
00:28:15 it's called the regulations are SOR slash 2012-138.
00:28:22 That's the non-restricted firearms regulations that were enacted.
00:28:26 I think it was January 12th, 2020.
00:28:29 In those regulations, it clearly states that, and this is important,
00:28:33 everybody remember this uh section two states that it was not required for you to keep a record
00:28:42 of your sale of non-restricted firearms yeah so what that means is if you sold your gun
00:28:50 uh previous to may 1st 2020 to another pal owner now these are non-restricted only restricted is
00:28:58 a totally different entity i'm not talking about that i'm only talking about non-restricted
00:29:00 any unrestricted weapon you could sell to another cow owner and it was not 0.57
00:29:06 required for you to keep a record of that sale take that information with
00:29:12 what you will yeah everyone yeah but that is what the regulation state
00:29:16 appreciate that appreciate that insight in that context Jeff yeah if you don't
00:29:22 mind hanging up and letting somebody else call but I'll just I'll just yeah
00:29:27 thanks for the comment i'll i'll add on that uh he's right so because there used to be there you
00:29:32 thank you there used to be this long gun registry and some people are worried that um that their
00:29:37 firearms that they own are still uh registered somewhere they shouldn't be because when harper
00:29:43 came in he abolished the long gun registry and hopefully it's uh it's deleted but you never know
00:29:49 but he is right there was since 2020 you've been we were uh firearm owners were obligated to
00:29:57 register the farms most private guys never did but definitely businesses did so if you bought
00:30:02 a firearm from one from a business like a cabela's or bass pro shop since 2021 there's a pretty good
00:30:08 chance that it's registered somewhere uh it still would be tough for the government i mean i don't
00:30:15 want to get into all those details but it would be tough for the government to know what we have or
00:30:19 what people have that are on that list i mean that's one of the problems the government passed
00:30:23 it's voluntary they want us to turn in firearms that they put on this list and i think it's just
00:30:29 going to create a big giant mess for them ultimately i keep saying they should just drop
00:30:33 this gun ban because it's bad legislation it's bad policy it doesn't address the problems that
00:30:39 they claim it addresses i mean it doesn't do anything for reducing crimes the the firearms
00:30:43 that the proof is the fact that that we haven't been able to use these firearms since they went
00:30:48 since they've been banned and people have complied with the order so people are complying with the
00:30:52 order people complied with the regulations beforehand i mean i have you know i'm on the
00:30:56 record i have a restricted firearm and i only use it at the gun range and since 2021 i haven't used
00:31:03 it anywhere so we're in compliance with it so i think the government's best bet forward is to just
00:31:08 reverse this bad policy uh now i'm hoping simultaneously you know jeff's bringing up some
00:31:15 good points one of the things about alberta here is we do have a reasonable uh chief firearms
00:31:21 officer and we do have danielle on board saying that she's not going to allow uh you know 800 000
00:31:29 canadian albertans to suddenly become criminals at the drop because because of a piece of paper
00:31:35 so she's got something planned they're they're they're um preparing something along the lines of
00:31:42 alberta issuing its own firearms permits or something like that to make sure that we don't
00:31:47 all suddenly become criminals if this uh amnesty is finally uh you know lifted so we'll see how
00:31:56 that goes so yeah don't be shy folks uh give us a call um so uh well we're on the topic of danielle
00:32:05 let's keep talking about danielle a little bit so on thursday last week um when i did the show i
00:32:12 knew that there was a press conference in the afternoon and i suspected i suspected she was
00:32:18 going to talk about immigration she leaked it out right her chief of staff rob uh leaked it out so
00:32:24 true to uh what we expected she i think she dropped a pretty important a pretty nasty 0.96
00:32:30 bomb on us on thursday when she announced that she was going to do a referendum in october on 1.00
00:32:37 a whole bunch of questions including immigration and i think that really muddles the water but
00:32:42 i got a call on the line so go ahead the name and where you're calling from please
00:32:47 i'm sorry i'm gonna turn this off debbie from white court hi debbie how are you today good
00:32:55 good you know I have family in white court right no I didn't yeah so I have a comment first okay
00:33:02 that irritates me is how can the government buy back something they never sold me for one
00:33:10 but my question is based on the amount of money they've already spent and the average from what
00:33:16 they say is eighteen hundred dollars if you do the math they don't have enough to buy a quarter
00:33:24 of our firearms back correct not that i want to sell correct so um okay to your first point yes
00:33:31 i thank you for reminding us of that uh they they want to buy back something that they didn't sell
00:33:37 to us i bought my firearm you bought yours from cabela's and now the government wants to buy it
00:33:41 back no they don't want to buy it back they want to buy it from us and what's really upsetting is
00:33:47 they're going to buy it from us with their own money right so i'm going to send taxes to ottawa
00:33:50 and then ottawa is going to give me back my taxes and then take away my gun i mean i might as well
00:33:54 pay my taxes with a gun at this point so um yeah and sorry and what was the second part of your uh
00:34:02 oh the cost you're right so yeah they've they've even they've even announced that right they said
00:34:06 that they've set aside i i don't quote me exactly but something like 730 million dollars to do this
00:34:11 and you've done the math right if there's you know if there's uh 500 000 firearms at 1800 a piece
00:34:18 it's it's more than the 700 million that's why they're they're trying to scare us right now into
00:34:23 registering for this buyback because they're saying that there might not be enough money
00:34:28 and if you don't pre-register you won't qualify i i think it's a giant scare tactic and we also
00:34:35 you know we spoke earlier about the the original long gun registry that was sold to canadians as
00:34:41 like oh that's only going to cost like two three million dollars it cost billions of dollars for
00:34:45 the original long gun exactly yeah yeah no great question thanks uh thanks debbie how's how's the
00:34:50 weather up there good in white court oh yeah it's it's good for winter could be worse yeah yeah
00:34:57 could be worse all right awesome thanks thanks for calling yeah yeah and yeah you know um back
00:35:04 to the buyback program they they they rolled it out so one of the tests they did recently was they
00:35:09 did a little pilot of it in cape breton and it's never a coincidence with the liberals right so
00:35:15 they picked this little they picked cape breton somewhere where the fire chief or not the fire
00:35:19 chief the police chief was literally pro like related like related to somebody in in higher up
00:35:26 in government so they did the test of the pilot there and something like you know 23 people signed
00:35:33 up for the buyback no not 23 23 rifles were registered for the buyback in cape breton and i
00:35:41 think something like you know 12 or 13 of them came from one person so it's it's um the fact
00:35:47 that they're pushing ahead but i'm not surprised i mean how often do we ever hear our governments
00:35:53 say that they made a mistake and want to reverse a law all they'll do is just double down double
00:35:58 down double down and try us and uh try to wear us down so uh yeah i think we i think we uh i think
00:36:06 we exhausted the uh the gun uh debate so um what else have i got on my list of things uh i got oh
00:36:13 so i was talking about danielle smith right um so danielle did this announcement now to me the
00:36:19 announcement is uh i i still hear when it comes to danielle and some of the things she's done
00:36:26 lately i still hear two thoughts right one is she's doing due diligence so that she can uh
00:36:33 act on something and i hear that and then on the other side i always i hear she's doing due
00:36:40 diligence i also hear that she's perhaps naive and thinking and then i also hear that she's
00:36:45 been compromised so and on this announcement i don't buy the due diligence anymore like she's
00:36:51 you know we we've made a clear the the leadership the membership of the ucp has made uh a pretty
00:36:59 clear path for her at the agms that that immigration was an issue that needs to be addressed
00:37:05 and she also heard it loud and clear at uh very throughout the summer when she was doing her
00:37:13 Alberta next panels. Immigration came out all the time. So did other issues, right? Should we
00:37:17 should we take control of an Alberta pension plan? And maybe a little more contentious. Should we
00:37:24 have our own Alberta police force? Yes. So she's heard that over and over. And I don't think she
00:37:31 needs a referendum for the mandate to do that. She's been elected. She's heard what's going on,
00:37:37 and she should do it so i don't buy this idea that um she's holding these referendums in october 1.00
00:37:44 as a way to check off that she's done absolutely everything she needs to do for due diligence
00:37:50 because i and and in fact i always bring up the example do you does anybody honestly think that
00:37:55 if naeed nenshi got elected tomorrow that he would do uh i don't know what his weird policy
00:38:01 might be you know is he going to do a bunch of due diligence to find out if uh if albertans want
00:38:05 shut down coal plants or do whatever no he's going to do it so why are why why would a politician
00:38:12 like danielle hold herself to a much higher level of accountability and due diligence than than than 0.60
00:38:18 her opponents so i don't buy that to me to me the the the referendum that she's proposing with all
00:38:25 the questions that's just to confuse the the that's just to distract from the independence
00:38:33 movement and that's just to confuse people during that referendum all right i got another
00:38:38 call on the line go ahead please name where are you calling from uh yes i'm jerry and i'm from
00:38:45 calvary okay welcome to the show and i was kind of wondering because the lmg thing that's being
00:38:53 uh reported right now it's kind of odd because i'm literally born in newfoundland but i didn't
00:39:00 heavier and in Alberta for probably 30 years now but that to my knowledge why
00:39:07 are we not consuming the oil and gas from the East Coast and everybody's
00:39:11 kind of questioning why was not getting it from Alberta we have to do oil
00:39:16 factors here in Canada one has to be massive but the other one is still in
00:39:20 function kind of even with all the legislation that the liberals are
00:39:27 putting forward because i just recently watched uh the representatives from newfoundland get up and
00:39:32 why they're being strangled just like alberta i mean that the premise that we're not using our
00:39:42 own supplies is that one to me well i i no great yeah yeah good question um i i can't speak for
00:39:50 newfoundland specifically i i suspect newfoundland i mean newfoundland's producing a lot of oil right
00:39:55 the hibernia and offshore there's some good oil there and i know there's refineries in newfoundland
00:39:59 so i i kind of think newfoundland is actually producing its oil and using enough on locally
00:40:05 and then exporting the rest definitely nova scotia new brunswick and quebec all have gas
00:40:12 a little bit less oil but they you know quebec in particular has gas and quebec has been i think for
00:40:17 quebec in particular it's it's clear that they're not producing their gas because it would uh
00:40:23 increase the province's capacity to generate money which would uh negatively impact its
00:40:30 ability to get transfer payments through equalization so i think quebec is i don't
00:40:35 think i lived it i i i worked for that same company uh paraday that did the nova scotia
00:40:40 project we drilled wells in quebec and we got expropriated the quebec government is uh is
00:40:46 is against developing its gas resources totally 100 so it's it's political i'm aware of it just
00:40:52 because I spent three years actually out in Montreal
00:40:56 before I moved to this beautiful province.
00:40:58 But, you know, I'm aware of why they're holding back those numbers
00:41:03 because it makes it look better on their reports and stuff
00:41:07 so they can get a bigger chunk of pie.
00:41:11 I mean, they also don't add in Hydro-Quebec into their numbers either
00:41:16 saying that's a win for the province. 0.99
00:41:18 So I mean, you have to know, it's stupid all around with the five lines. 1.00
00:41:23 So most of these policies are up your ass. 1.00
00:41:26 Yeah, yeah, no, great, great comment. 1.00
00:41:30 Yeah, and Newfoundlanders, we all know, right?
00:41:34 You guys get, you get the short end of the stick on a really bad deal for selling your
00:41:40 hydropower through Labrador and down into the, I don't know the specific details of
00:41:44 that one, but I know there's a lot of bad blood between Newfoundland and Quebec when
00:41:48 comes to hydro production oh yeah i'm aware of that one but that contract that uh that ran years
00:41:56 ago so i mean uh that has no say in what we produce for energy anymore they just they don't
00:42:03 own that contract as far as i know they didn't even renew it yeah yeah awesome appreciate it
00:42:11 labrador selling their electricity down to new york as far as i know
00:42:14 uh through through quebec though right that's that's my understanding there's no direct line
00:42:21 yeah yeah yeah excellent okay well thank you they're probably using the problem they're using
00:42:26 transmission fees and stuff to get a little money but that has no say of what the muslim 0.99
00:42:33 government's doing with their energy right perfect awesome all right thanks for the call
00:42:37 thank you yeah um yeah you know and and all these things bring up um you know the
00:42:47 this reminds me again that you know we came together as a like one of the reasons we came
00:42:53 together as provinces to form this thing called confederation was to facilitate trade among
00:42:58 ourselves and like that's that was the number one thing we were sold on right come together
00:43:04 different provinces different regions come together under the umbrella of ottawa and and
00:43:09 they'll facilitate facilitate trade and and 150 years later i find that that's that's the most uh
00:43:18 that that's the worst aspect of our country is that we actually block each other's uh efforts
00:43:24 you know i mean i can't buy wine from bc without uh jumping through hoops and you can get in trouble
00:43:30 for buying beer in nova scotia and crossing the border into quebec and and quebec is not buying
00:43:35 alberta oil but and and you know what i mean so it it's uh one more reason where why i personally
00:43:41 don't think that confederation the way it was designed is is working very well i think it's
00:43:46 more of a failed experiment but that's uh that's my opinion uh go ahead on the line uh name and
00:43:52 where you're calling from please uh yes i'm steve you know me as canadian spider-man with clyde
00:43:59 i'm calling from uh yeah hello marty good to hear you i'm calling from just outside of vernon
00:44:04 in the woods here in dc but i i i'm calling because i grew up in new brunswick i spent 27
00:44:10 years there and i think that there are a lot of hard-working people in new brunswick i know that
00:44:16 but there's a lot of people that take advantage of the system and i work in construction there
00:44:22 you know part of your job is to go on on the dole for all winter and so i think that if they were
00:44:28 proposed if the equalization payments were cut they would be forced to be more industrious they 0.97
00:44:36 do have resources there and i think people would really get off their ass and and produce they have
00:44:41 that ability that was that was my only question what's your thoughts on that if yeah if you don't 0.86
00:44:48 mind hanging up steve uh appreciate the call and then let somebody else uh call in but no i i sure
00:44:54 lots of people yeah yeah thanks steve lots of people agree with you i agree with you i think
00:44:59 equalization might have started out as a good idea to uh you know it was kind of an insurance policy
00:45:06 when some province experienced a little bit of a downturn sure it got help
00:45:11 and and equalization started about whatever 50 plus years ago right in the 1960s it's become
00:45:18 a program now and it's created a welfare mentality i 100 agree that uh we should just eliminate the
00:45:26 whole equalization program and rethink it we you know we should just have an insurance policy in
00:45:32 the background but not automatic right maybe we all throw in money and keep it for a rainy day
00:45:38 fund when the province needs it in fact we don't need an equalization i mean we we can help each
00:45:43 other out in times of need without having an equalization program so i no i 100 agree that
00:45:49 if we cancel the equalization program some people would uh and it's not just new brunswick it's
00:45:54 across the board right i i'm on the record as saying that uh not just saying it i i can
00:46:00 demonstrate it i can demonstrate by many measures that canines have become unproductive in the last
00:46:07 30 years like we've we are our our our gdp per capita productivity per hour is just is just
00:46:16 stagnating and going down we and and there's a lot of reasons for that and a lot of them i think are
00:46:22 bad policies that you know i mean steve mentioned the dole like it it it's become uh part of the
00:46:28 system where you work six months or whatever and then you you you go and collect the welfare and
00:46:33 then somebody else works i mean that that's institutionalized welfare and it's not working
00:46:38 speaking of statistics that was another one that was interesting that came out uh this morning uh
00:46:45 not unemployment employment numbers for december came out and uh turns out that in december um i
00:46:53 got on a sheet of paper uh we lost about 23 000 jobs in december which means that for the entire
00:47:00 year, on a year-over-year basis, Canada lost 35,000 jobs in 2025. So we're not creating
00:47:09 jobs anymore. It's been like that now. The economy stalled. The Canadian economy is stalled,
00:47:16 right? By every metric that matters, GDP, GDP per capita, productivity, jobs created,
00:47:23 uh revenue all sorts of things by by every measure the economy is stalling which i again i find it so
00:47:31 fascinating how people are still uh apparently carny is trending positively in the in the polls
00:47:39 and i and i fail to see how people aren't can't can't put one and one together that their lives
00:47:45 are tougher now than they were in 2014 but uh somehow or other they're still uh willing to um
00:47:52 to to to give a pass to the liberals in fact did you guys see um it might be difficult for john to
00:47:58 bring it up but i'll i'll tell you to go look for it i mean there was a there was a um an exchange
00:48:03 in the house of commons yesterday where um uh pierre poiliev said something about you know
00:48:12 the economy being stalled and blaming the liberals and carney said well you can't blame me i've only
00:48:20 been here for a year and he got this huge applause from his back bench and then he followed it up by
00:48:27 saying the member opposite Pierre has been here for 11 years as if he was blaming Pierre Poiliev
00:48:33 for the woes of the country because Pierre happens to have been like does he not understand that
00:48:40 Pierre was an opposition uh member of parliament and not designing the policies like I mean it's
00:48:47 a pure example of of really ugly gaslighting you know i i wasn't here i only showed up this year
00:48:54 by the way and and we all know this right carney plays that game that he's only been here for
00:48:59 for whatever a year which by the way in the last year what has he actually accomplished it's nothing
00:49:04 but we all know he was advising trudeau behind the scenes as far back as like 2020 so carney cannot
00:49:12 simply say he's new to the scene he's he's been around for uh for a while and he has a
00:49:18 he he's one of the reasons the country is so messed up right now um yeah call in with that
00:49:23 one folks like what's your thoughts on on the economy what's your thoughts on on danielle so
00:49:27 am i am i off base on this one where danielle is doing uh just this referendum to confuse us
00:49:32 because i want to go back i i don't want to repeat too much of this because i know cory and others
00:49:37 cover this topic in death i mean cory is the you know cory morgan is the expert when it comes to
00:49:45 separatism and and and and those kinds of things i'm just a guy on the street corner
00:49:50 collecting signatures but my understanding of the clarity act is exactly that the question asked in
00:49:58 the referendum has to be brutally clear can't be confusing so to me if danielle has a referendum
00:50:07 in october and there's an independence question but there's also a quite you know if there's a
00:50:11 question that says do you want to separate but underneath it there's a question that says uh do
00:50:15 you want to continue to try and negotiate a better deal on immigration with ottawa and do you want to
00:50:20 try and negotiate a better deal on uh pensions and you want to do this to me that becomes confusing
00:50:25 if there's four or five questions on the ballot so i i in the back of my mind um danielle should
00:50:31 not have muddled the muddied the waters with that she should have left the uh she should have actually
00:50:38 before she made that announcement she should have just waited another couple of weeks or a couple
00:50:43 of months in two months we will have the results of the current uh independence petition put forward
00:50:48 by um uh stay free alberta and mitch sylvester and then we will also have the one from thomas
00:50:56 lukasic from a while ago so then you know why why muddle the waters now when she could have waited 0.96
00:51:02 a couple of months to see uh what's going on by the way did you guys i at first i was a little bit
00:51:07 on the i got ahead of myself i i mentioned mitch sylvester i saw the story yesterday of mitch
00:51:14 sylvester being threatened indirectly in his store somebody walked into mitch's store and apparently
00:51:19 put a bullet on the counter and said you know this bullet's for you now mitch wasn't there but it 0.50
00:51:24 scared his clerk and um and and then you know there was a search for the individual and then
00:51:30 some people claimed to know who it was and then there was some backpedaling and people try to
00:51:35 make it sound like oh it was a misunderstanding it was a wasn't a bullet it was a pen shaped like a
00:51:40 bullet all sorts of things like that um i i always think that there's two sides to the story but
00:51:47 based on what i've seen lately i'm i'm i'm fully on board i absolutely believe mitch when he says
00:51:53 somebody put a bullet on the counter and uttered those words it's on video and i think somebody's
00:51:58 trying to backpedal after the fact uh claiming oh it was just a joke that's no joke folks that's
00:52:05 that's a genuine threat um and i've seen that kind of stuff before and and i actually saw it
00:52:12 recently i mean i'm on the side of the road collecting uh or going door to door and setting
00:52:17 up pop-ups and collecting signatures and i've seen things that are that are close to threats right
00:52:22 and and and along those lines like even if it was a fake bullet like if you put a fake bullet you
00:52:28 know you can have a bullet where that's already you know there's no primer in it or something
00:52:32 like that it's no different than me walking into a bank with a replica handgun and saying this is
00:52:38 a stick up give me your money and then i get caught by the police a week later and i go oh it was a
00:52:42 joke it was just a replica gun it was a joke it was just a replica bullet no no no no it doesn't
00:52:48 work that way so that guy got caught and I think I think it's it's disturbing that somebody would
00:52:55 threaten somebody else just for having an opinion and supporting a referendum another caller on the
00:53:05 line go ahead please name where you from hello hello hello hey Marty how are you good good
00:53:15 what's your name my name is diane um i'm currently i'm in florida right now
00:53:22 but i'm from ontario originally from windsor and i live in alberta now thank god
00:53:30 well you live in florida today but what's on your mind diane today yeah well i am um i'm
00:53:41 was disappointed in um the situation with danielle and i like her and i think she's a very smart
00:53:51 person um but i'm disappointed with all of those questions that are going to be i mean hopefully
00:54:01 not we'll have to see what happens but i don't like the idea of all of those other questions
00:54:06 those referendum questions i don't really think that's right that they should be on the separation
00:54:12 with the separation no i appreciate that i agree um stay on the line dan so uh we saw on the news
00:54:20 lately um a lot of albertans snowbirds tend to go on the western side of the u.s right they go to
00:54:27 phoenix and they go to yuma and places like that there was yeah there was a fantastic signature
00:54:32 collection event in yuma have you seen one down in florida in your neck of the woods
00:54:37 no no um i'm only here for a little while and i'll be heading back to alberta
00:54:44 um so i'll sign in alberta yeah but i did hear about that and i was surprised i thought that
00:54:51 was awesome and i do know a lot of albertans go to um arizona and not to florida yeah florida's
00:54:59 more a uh ontario thing right right right on okay awesome so uh where where in alberta normally are
00:55:06 you uh just outside of edmonton okay so you're coming back to the cold and there's still it's
00:55:12 still winter up in edmonton it's nice here in calgary but it's still winter in edmonton
00:55:15 awesome thanks for calling that i know yeah i don't mind take care of yourself all right thank
00:55:20 you bye yeah that was quite the uh quite the event in yuma um again it it made the news and
00:55:29 people again people don't want to people see it with their own eyes but they want to they want
00:55:35 to blow it off and say it's a non-event i mean i i seen the video actually um wasn't that video
00:55:41 from yuma i think it came from cory morgan's uh uh relatives or somebody like that if i remember
00:55:47 correctly and it was a big event right it was uh it was uh 300 signatures were collected in yuma
00:55:53 i'll give this quick update so i am a canvasser i have been collecting signatures now i saw online
00:55:59 i'm canvasser number whatever 3600 i saw somebody posted a picture online they're number 5200
00:56:06 uh i've heard through uh channels that there's upwards of 6 000 canvassers and they're trying
00:56:11 to get to 10 000 that's amazing uh so we're all over the province right and everybody's collecting
00:56:16 their own signatures this weekend was the first time that my coordinator the guy who gives me the
00:56:22 forms and and looks after uh me as a canvasser he has a little group of 30 of us so he collect he
00:56:29 gathered us all together uh and he collected the forms from us and out of the 30 of us he collected
00:56:36 we we collected 7200 signatures so you do the math right that's like uh that's 250 signatures
00:56:42 times 30 gets you to the 7300 or whatever and we're just 30 multiply that by um you know uh
00:56:53 100 more than 100 multiply that by 200 because that's how many canvassers are out there i think
00:56:58 we're past the threshold i hope that the um that the stay free alberta group will will finally
00:57:04 publish a number or an update see where we are with the signature collections if they don't i
00:57:09 understand that i mean there's two schools of thoughts right the leave leave your opponents
00:57:13 guessing i guess is one school of thought but the other one to me is as an engineer driven by data
00:57:20 and and goals i like the idea of of seeing a goal yeah and you could put a reach right i mean the
00:57:27 goal officially the threshold is 177 000 signatures but the the miss sylvester the petitioner could 0.96
00:57:34 put a goal out there 500 000 and put it as a target and then and then have people driven to
00:57:40 achieve that goal so i i can see it both ways it's not my decision but i personally i'd like to see
00:57:45 uh an update on um on where we are with the signatures um all right well we're almost running
00:57:54 out of time here uh if there's one more person who calls in we got a couple of minutes we could have
00:57:59 otherwise i'll uh i'll finish it off by saying uh um it's i hope you guys are enjoying the show
00:58:07 uh i'm i'm getting familiar with the format now i think the the call-ins working the microphone
00:58:13 the headphones are working for me everything's good i look forward to this show every week
00:58:17 getting some awesome feedback from folks online folks in person actually somebody came out to
00:58:23 my canvassing location a couple of days ago and uh said they just wanted to come chat to me so
00:58:30 you guys have figured it out i like chatting um and so don't be shy uh keep keep calling in uh
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00:59:11 do i take the last call john i'll take that very last call real quick it's got to be quick go ahead
00:59:16 Hey Marty. It's Caroline in Fort McMurray. I'm a process engineer turned a stay-at-home mom,
00:59:27 which is the best job move I've ever made. You had a post I think yesterday about how
00:59:32 lots of women have told your wife over the years that she was missing out big time by 1.00
00:59:38 staying home and raising her family. I was just wondering what your thoughts were on,
00:59:43 You know, what can we do in an independent Alberta to kind of change some of that mindset and encourage moms to stay home and encourage young families to have more kids?
00:59:52 Fantastic question.
00:59:54 I think it'll naturally I think people naturally want to couples naturally have different roles.
01:00:02 And I think a lot of people would love to be able to have a stay at home parent, whether it's the man or the woman.
01:00:09 I think families are important to humans and we want somebody.
01:00:13 I think lately in the last 20 or 30 years, the cost of living is one of the things that have made that impossible.
01:00:19 And that's why people are both working and having smaller families.
01:00:23 And so I think the number one thing that we won't even need a policy, it'll adjust itself.
01:00:29 And independent Alberta will leave people with more money in their pockets.
01:00:32 And when people have more money in their pockets, then somebody will stay home and look after the kids.
01:00:39 or or there'll be a shared but there'll be a bigger family and there'll be more family time
01:00:43 so i think that's the simple answer to that question it'll solve it it'll fix itself as a
01:00:47 problem because you'll have more money in your pocket do you agree do you think that is that
01:00:52 is that fair oh she might yeah i think i think that makes sense yeah well why'd you make the
01:00:59 jump while you're on here like what why did you leave work and go and become a mom 0.96
01:01:04 yeah it's just you know it's something i always wanted to do um ever since i was little and
01:01:13 obviously i you know i was successful working as an engineer but um it's way more fulfilling
01:01:20 being at home for sure perfect yeah yeah well it's people like you i mean uh you know you
01:01:25 spread that news spread that message uh and i'm sure you meet other people but yes i'll i'll go
01:01:31 with my original answer an independent alberta will leave more money in people's pockets and then 0.98
01:01:35 and then and then we're protecting ourselves and our culture and part of our culture here in
01:01:39 alberta is we still have larger families i mean i have four kids i think i'm i'm an example of that
01:01:44 we we tend to have bigger families in alberta all right folks uh thanks for calling uh i think
01:01:50 that's it for the time so uh we'll see you guys next week at the same time 1 p.m here on thursday
01:01:55 next week. Cheers, everyone.