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

00:00:00.000 hey welcome back thanks for joining me today

00:00:29.600 um i just noticed that i was wearing the same uh sweater in the introduction uh that's all

00:00:36.320 i wore today it's a gorgeous day outside here in calgary i think it's like plus five or plus six

00:00:41.280 and uh hopefully actually hopefully you know speak you know uh let's talk about this speaking of

00:00:47.200 weather you know i'm like a lot of canadians i like to go down south you know and uh vacation

00:00:53.120 mexico is one of our favorite spots we uh we tend to alternate between mazatlan and puerto

00:00:57.920 Vallarta and this year the weather's been so nice here in Calgary that Karen and I haven't felt the

00:01:05.080 need to leave and you know go down south so and I'm kind of glad we haven't because if we had we

00:01:11.260 probably would have ended up in Puerto Vallarta because we went to Mazatlan two years ago so we

00:01:15.700 kind of alternate between the two anyways hopefully no none of you guys or none of you folks got

00:01:19.700 involved in that or caught up in that hope everybody's okay and your friends and families

00:01:24.280 uh i i did the circle around my group and uh you know nobody was caught up in that so uh hopefully

00:01:30.660 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

00:01:38.140 do this show on thursday so on mondays i'm usually starting to think about what do i want to talk

00:01:43.540 about and uh because i want to do a little you know monologue before before taking calls but but

00:01:50.060 this week, like what I saw on the news yesterday, there's only one thing I really want to talk

00:01:54.900 about. And that's that LNG shipment that we got from Australia. I mean, you know, I say it all

00:02:01.260 the time, like Canada is not a serious country anymore. And yesterday, to me, that's peak lunacy.

00:02:07.780 And so I'm going to tell you a story. I'm going to tell you a great story because

00:02:10.980 I'm not speaking about LNG from an outsider perspective. I'm going to speak to you from

00:02:17.100 an absolute insider. So in about 2016, 17, 18, I was working for a private company called Parade

00:02:27.980 Energy here out of Alberta. And Parade went public around 2018. And Parade was advancing an LNG

00:02:36.160 project out east in Nova Scotia called the Goldboro LNG project. And I was the vice president

00:02:44.260 in charge of the engineering for that project and so um what and paraday was founded by a guy

00:02:50.500 named alfred sorenson and alfred got his start doing uh lng up in in the kitty mat area but

00:02:57.540 alfred saw an opportunity he knew right back in like 2014-15 that there was an opportunity for

00:03:03.780 canada to sell lng liquefied natural gas to europe and alfred actually signed a contract

00:03:12.100 worth he sold 20 years worth of liquefied natural gas to a german company called uniper okay 20

00:03:20.420 years and it was a contract worth about 35 billion dollars and the contract it's public so i'm not

00:03:27.940 telling i'm not disclosing anything that's non-confident here it's or confidential it's

00:03:32.580 public information but the contract was kind of signed quietly in nova scotia without fanfare

00:03:39.220 because for the germans this was an admission like more than a decade ago this was basically

00:03:45.060 an admission that their transition to green had failed right if we remember the germans jumped in 0.91

00:03:50.020 with both feet they were gonna do they shut down their nuclear plants they shut down their coal

00:03:54.740 fired plants they were gonna do um uh green you know solar and and wind and it all failed and so

00:04:01.780 they needed quietly to acquire natural gas and they were getting natural gas from the russians

00:04:07.460 but we all know how that turned out so they came to canada and they made a deal with us

00:04:11.460 with parody at the time so it went without fanfare and then and and then if you look at a map of of

00:04:18.100 uh of canada there is a path so natural gas from alberta can go all the way to ontario

00:04:24.180 then it can dip down into the u.s and come back up north through what's called the maritime and

00:04:29.300 main pipeline that pipeline was built brilliantly by because there was offshore gas in nova scotia

00:04:35.940 right in the uh early 2000s so there was offshore gas there that was it was deep panook coming to

00:04:41.380 shore in goldboro nova scotia and then going down to nova scotia and down to the us but that pipeline

00:04:47.060 was built to be reversible so we had a path to get natural gas from alberta all the way to nova

00:04:52.260 scotia and we had a contract and not only did we have a contract but this contract was so important

00:04:58.980 to the german government that the germans gave us loan guarantees so all we had to do was build

00:05:05.380 this facility and and in terms of you know building lng facilities in those days we refer to

00:05:10.660 it as you know million metric tons per year of lng and we were going to build a 10 million metric

00:05:16.740 ton per year facility which is just a block right it's it's it's a cookie cutter stuff i mean you

00:05:21.300 buy this it's licensed by various companies around the world you buy it you uh you get a company like

00:05:26.820 kbr or whatever to build it and you know the detail is like the ports and a few other little

00:05:31.860 thing so we had it all figured out we did the detailed uh the the the basic front-end engineering

00:05:38.340 we even had the permit to export we had the permit to construct from the local nova scotia utility

00:05:44.740 board i mean we had everything the only thing we didn't have was uh proper support from ottawa

00:05:52.340 because we had at that time um when we were getting ready to pull the trigger and build this thing

00:05:58.100 the the german company that was giving the loan the german government which was giving the loan

00:06:04.040 guarantees asked a reasonable question they're like can we uh get some assurances that your

00:06:09.580 government is behind this and so when we uh tried to get assurances nobody would give us like trudeau

00:06:16.180 blew us off and passed us on to uh amrjeet sohi and anyways i like i don't want to get into a

00:06:21.880 whole ton of details on what happened except to say that we got blocked at every step of the way

00:06:26.700 by our own government because our own government here in ottawa in ottawa was doing you know the

00:06:32.400 same thing that the germans had done years ago which was going all in on uh green energy and net

00:06:37.240 zero and so which brings me back to today right what happened yesterday i mean yesterday we had

00:06:43.740 a shipment of lng liquefied natural gas from australia shipped all the way to canada that's

00:06:50.980 insane right and it traveled like it must have been a 12-day uh journey to get that probably

00:06:57.460 longer to get that lng here where we could have produced it in alberta and shipped it over over

00:07:04.440 to nova scotia or ship the gas to nova scotia you know what i mean so we have it inside and what's

00:07:09.720 extremely frustrating about all of this is that right now carney and a delegation of of of people

00:07:17.120 from ottawa are like boarding planes as we speak they're on their way to australia and they're on

00:07:21.640 their way to india and they're on their way to places like that to try and sell canadian lng but

00:07:26.780 the lng they want to sell is the stuff that they're proposing that we produce up north in northern

00:07:31.180 british columbia a project that's barely off the table that's financed by the chinese you know what 0.78

00:07:35.820 i mean so i i can't help but be frustrated especially at the hypocrisy of carny and others

00:07:43.800 who lately have been talking about how we have to diversify the the economy and not be dependent on

00:07:49.640 the americans but they go as far as saying that we are going to build you know canadian infrastructure

00:07:54.920 and we're going to become our own best customers right well if we were going to be our own best

00:08:00.280 customers you would think that quebec would buy oil from alberta instead of from uh you know

00:08:05.400 nigeria and qatar and you would think that uh new brunswick and nova scotia would buy liquefied

00:08:12.120 natural gas same thing from alberta so i i'm sure you can sense the frustration i i just wanted to

00:08:19.640 bring that up i mean the the the stuff seeing seeing lng transported around the world to come

00:08:26.040 to canada when we have probably some of the largest reserves of gas and oil not probably

00:08:31.240 we have some of the largest reserves of gas and oil in the world is absolutely insane by the way

00:08:36.200 look it up right um look up where goldborough is it's just close to antigonish right it's about

00:08:41.400 an hour away from antigenish and people say why would you have built a facility there well like

00:08:46.040 i said we there's a path to get the gas there but amazingly gold bro in terms of how close it is to

00:08:52.680 europe how close is nova scotia to europe compared to the gulf of mexico to europe is about uh you

00:08:59.960 know three days of sailing closer and so that's why we had a huge economic advantage over our

00:09:06.360 american competitors now we conceived of that project way back in 2013 2014 we never built it

00:09:13.640 and like i said they're built in like cookie cutter you know chunks of like 10 million metric tons

00:09:19.480 in that same time our competitors in the united states have built like seven or eight of these

00:09:24.440 kinds of units so just putting it out there all right i got our first call on the line uh

00:09:30.280 once again thanks for calling in let me know your name and where you're calling from and

00:09:34.040 shoot me a question or a comment go ahead hi marty how are you uh this is yet from first row

00:09:43.400 i'm good how are you good good i've met you a few times at a couple of rallies

00:09:50.040 my question is um my understanding about 15 percent of uh oil flows to the uh trans mountain

00:10:01.000 pipeline yep is that correct uh okay and who won't yeah yeah and who owns trans mountain pipeline

00:10:09.240 so uh so trans mountain used to be kinder morgan um great question by the way so let me put some

00:10:15.640 context right so alberta produces about uh currently these days about four and a half

00:10:19.880 million barrels of oil a day uh we keep here in alberta for our own consumption about 500 000

00:10:26.920 barrels we have like uh five or six refineries uh and and we keep some for ourselves and we sell a

00:10:32.840 bit of gasoline and jet fuel and stuff like that which leaves about four million barrels to be

00:10:36.840 exported and and that export capacity is mostly uh keystone going straight south to the us enbridge

00:10:45.000 going south and east to the us and as you mentioned trans mountain the original trans mountain was

00:10:52.040 built uh in the 1950s and 56 57 and was had a capacity of about 380 000 barrels a day and what

00:11:00.200 and so uh and about a decade ago kinder morgan wanted to double that capacity so that's why we

00:11:06.280 call tm trans mountain and then tmx the expansion it's the expansion that got blocked over and over

00:11:12.760 and over by by regulators inadvertently by first nations by governments whatever but eventually

00:11:21.240 Notley realized that this, Notley and Trudeau kind of realized that it did need to be built

00:11:28.460 because the revenue from oil is just so significant.

00:11:32.820 So, and Trans Mountain gave up, or Kinder Morgan, the owner of Trans Mountain gave up

00:11:37.720 on trying to build it.

00:11:38.720 And so Ottawa had to step in and buy the Trans Mountain existing pipeline and the design

00:11:44.980 for the expansion.

00:11:45.860 They bought them from Kinder Morgan and formed a crown corporation.

00:11:49.380 so today trans mountain is a crown corporation owned by the federal government that transports

00:11:54.820 like you said about i i don't know if it's as high as 15 of our production but it's you know

00:11:59.620 it's roughly 800 000 barrels a day are transported down that pipeline it's it's useful there's no

00:12:04.580 doubt it's useful yeah okay here's my question my question is if the canadian government owns

00:12:12.900 trans mountain uh pipeline if alberta becomes independent could they shut it off

00:12:23.140 uh yeah i mean that'd be that'd be sure they could i mean uh they they could shut it off just

00:12:28.020 like they could shut off uh anything else but that but great question that probably would be one of

00:12:33.700 the you know i talked about this last week if we have a referendum and we have our majority and we

00:12:39.780 declare ourselves uh an independent state or country we then have a negotiation with ottawa

00:12:47.380 and part of the negotiation are what's our debt you know what what what's our share of the debt

00:12:52.020 that you want us to pay and then and then we would give them a list of assets that we would

00:12:56.020 want to buy so uh federal assets in alberta include you know the national parks military

00:13:01.460 bases and i guess we'd add trans mountain to the equation excuse me and say you know how much to 0.92

00:13:06.580 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

00:13:14.340 not to keep operating it because it makes them money yes that's true thank you yes okay excellent

00:13:23.380 thank you excuse me bye bye yeah yeah um yeah that's a you know just back to trans mountain

00:13:31.300 When it was first proposed by Kinder Morgan, it was something like a $7 billion project

00:13:40.800 and it ballooned, it exploded.

00:13:42.900 At the end when it became operational, I think it was the May of 2024, like about 18 months

00:13:49.780 ago it became operational.

00:13:51.900 It ballooned into like a $30-35 billion project.

00:13:55.800 So an example of our government's inability to execute large projects efficiently.

00:14:03.180 And the other thing that's always interesting about Trans Mountain, I often hear comments about, weirdly I hear comments about this from Quebecers.

00:14:12.400 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.

00:14:22.820 the argument for what we receive from ottawa is often the the oil and gas subsidies and people

00:14:33.020 use trans mountain as an example of an oil and gas subsidy i don't think it fits the definition

00:14:38.340 of an oil and gas subsidy because it is a uh crown asset it's something that the government of

00:14:44.540 uh that ottawa owns so it wasn't given to anyone it's owned by ottawa so to declare that as a

00:14:51.460 subsidy is pretty um that's twisting the definition of a subsidy as far as i'm concerned a subsidy to

00:14:58.640 the oil industry would be um you know loans or or or actual money invested or given as part of a

00:15:07.660 grant or something like that and you won't find a lot of that there's not i mean sure ottawa will

00:15:12.300 there's small little oil and gas companies in alberta that will take advantage of certain

00:15:16.440 subsidies, certain tax credits for doing research and things like that. But generally speaking,

00:15:22.460 there's not a lot of subsidies received by the oil industry. Another one that's commonly listed

00:15:28.240 is that oil industry will have tax credits and capital gains exemptions and things like that.

00:15:33.080 And I'm like, again, those are not subsidies. Those are taxes and credits available to any

00:15:39.740 industry to anybody deploying capital. So I don't like that argument. Just a reminder, folks. So

00:15:47.860 yeah, please call. I mean, you don't have to ask me questions about LNG or the gun grab, which is

00:15:55.160 the other topic we'll get to. But just hit me with any question. We don't have a sort of a proper

00:16:03.680 functioning switchboard right now. So if you call and it's busy, that's because I'm calling to I'm

00:16:09.440 talking to one person right now but right now there's no there's nobody on the line so go ahead

00:16:13.480 and uh and give me a call otherwise you keep making me uh do my little monologues trying to

00:16:20.320 sorry something went down the wrong way here i should all i got a coffee which is not quite

00:16:25.440 a substitute for a bottle of water i should have a bottle of water um yeah so all right well well

00:16:37.260 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.

00:16:51.140 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.

00:16:57.860 and uh we all know that about uh you know four years five years ago ottawa uh implemented a ban

00:17:06.980 on what it calls assault style not even assault anymore it's assault style firearms and um the

00:17:16.080 ban was to um lower crime which i don't see how that we'll get to that so they implemented the

00:17:24.200 ban. Now, the ban, in effect, is an expropriation of property. And if you're going to, and in this

00:17:30.840 country, if you expropriate property from people, then you need to compensate them. Now, the ban

00:17:37.080 went into effect in 2021. But ever since then, the government, all they've been able to tell us is

00:17:44.900 hold on to your firearms, keep them stored downstairs, and don't use them. And you also

00:17:52.740 can't transfer them you can't pass them down to your kids you can't sell them you can't do anything

00:17:57.380 they're banned just hold on to them we don't know what we're going to do with them so now they're

00:18:02.580 trying to develop this program where finally they would buy back the firearms from us and that's

00:18:08.260 what they're calling it they're calling it a buyback program and while they were preparing

00:18:13.860 that program they just kept extending an amnesty because technically as soon as that order and

00:18:19.940 council came in in 2021 saying these firearms were um banned anybody in possession of them

00:18:26.900 was breaking the law but there's an amnesty that goes on until the end of this year until october

00:18:32.420 2026. that amnesty has been extended time and time and time again because the liberals created

00:18:38.420 a problem with this ban so now they're finally getting into the stage where they're trying to

00:18:42.660 figure out they think they have an idea of how they're going to buy back the guns from the people

00:18:46.900 who own them and so they want us to register our guns but i'll come back to that because i just see

00:18:52.660 i got a call so remember i'll remember this point so go ahead whoever's on the line uh name and

00:18:59.060 where are you calling from please my name is mac and i'm calling from calvary how are you doing max

00:19:07.860 i'm doing well thank you and i'll i'll stay on your topic that you're talking about right now

00:19:12.180 marty okay but from what i've seen in world history if they're coming to take away your guns

00:19:17.780 and they're not going after criminals that should tell you everything yes i mean that's straight

00:19:24.320 pat down to communism yeah i know you're there you have no way to defend yours it it never yeah

00:19:31.200 any any civil any uh society that's given up their guns the chinese did it in uh whatever the 1930s 0.99

00:19:37.900 and 40s i'm sure cambodians uh wish that they had kept their guns uh before the pol pot regime uh

00:19:44.800 yeah you're you're absolutely right so is that is that your premise then

00:19:49.140 go ahead yeah my premise is that you're never they're never the good guys if they're coming

00:19:56.760 to take away your guns and they're censoring your speech yeah i mean that's pure evil

00:20:01.380 in Carney. That's showing you their face. That's showing you their cards. I mean, and Carney's

00:20:08.220 talking about building back faster than ever been seen before. He hasn't built a thing, but he's

00:20:12.920 concentrated on taking away guns and censoring speech. That makes no sense. Yeah, yeah. No, no,

00:20:18.340 100%. So appreciate that comment. So yeah, let me let me finish on that, expand on that. So

00:20:24.360 they're they're they're trying to take away guns um from law-abiding citizens and and right now

00:20:31.360 they're asking law-abiding citizens to self-declare that they might have firearms on this list

00:20:36.340 and uh john if you could just put up the the screen so there's uh there's an amnesty there's

00:20:42.240 a period right now so there's a there's a screenshot there's a period right now uh for

00:20:46.140 the next month where people are asked to submit uh or to self-register for this compensation

00:20:51.960 program and it's backfiring on the liberals right now that's a map of the of canada all told there's

00:20:57.640 about uh 30 000 people that have self-declared on that list um by all estimates there's like over a

00:21:04.280 million firearms that would be on that list so it's it's an example of a policy that is absolutely

00:21:08.920 backfiring on the liberals and uh and there's going to be mass non-compliance to this policy

00:21:14.840 which i think is going to be which i'm happy to see i mean i i i don't advocate breaking the law

00:21:20.680 but once in a while you have to do some civil disobedience and and i've been definitely

00:21:25.720 advising people that there's an amnesty period that goes on until october this year so why would

00:21:30.760 you voluntarily submit yourself to this this is an example of coercion along with this right now

00:21:36.280 anybody who's a firearm owner in canada and has a possession and acquisition license is getting an

00:21:42.120 email uh they they sent out mass emails and last few days you know ramping up the coercion they're

00:21:49.880 going to scare you into thinking that you need to turn in your firearm otherwise you know this

00:21:54.680 will happen so just just wanted to bring that up and i agree with uh max that you know it's it's

00:22:01.800 pretty um it's pretty telling when your government is coming after a measure that is completely

00:22:09.400 unnecessary i actually let me add this to this this is an this is another kind of an interesting

00:22:15.400 point with this whole program the minister in charge of this i never i always forget his name

00:22:20.120 garyanna sandys and whatever whatever like the long the long name uh minister he's telling people

00:22:27.240 that he expects canadians to abide by the law which we do but at the same time he's being a

00:22:34.520 hypocrite because when i i wish i had it i i have it in my pocket here i have my gun permit but when

00:22:40.600 When I accepted my original gun permit, I accepted it with conditions and I accepted to follow the law. 0.98

00:22:46.500 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.

00:22:56.640 You know what I mean? Store it this way.

00:22:58.000 So we as Canadians, almost, not almost, all Canadians that I know who are firearm owners respected the law.

00:23:06.660 so they expect us to follow the this law but why did they not recognize the fact that we followed

00:23:12.560 the law when they gave us the gun permits so what that tells me is in this country if you follow the

00:23:18.060 law but they but they but they still want to do something like take away your guns or taking away

00:23:22.740 your speech following the law is irrelevant because they'll just move the goalposts so that's

00:23:27.060 what they're doing on this they're just they're just moving the goalposts i mean firearm owners

00:23:31.280 as far as i know are some of the most law-abiding people there's so many steps necessary to acquire

00:23:37.840 a firearm in this country and people keep going through those steps so um you know

00:23:43.920 in common sense marty marty said i think common sense says that a hundred percent of the canadian

00:23:49.820 population never mind a hundred percent of the alberta future nation population would totally

00:23:54.800 agree with confiscating guns belonging to criminals but to go after legal gun

00:24:00.840 orders that makes no sense but the really the thing I wanted to talk to you

00:24:04.700 about you can go back to the guns later after we're done this call but I was

00:24:08.840 hoping you would be able to speak to this because one of the things that I'm

00:24:12.620 kind of getting mixed messages on when it comes to Alberta as an independent

00:24:16.520 nation and I'm very optimistic that we can do this and that we will do this but

00:24:22.280 But would it be the next day after the vote that we would start using the U.S. currency as a transition currency?

00:24:29.600 Or would it be have to live with a depleted Canadian dollar or until a new constitution is wrote?

00:24:37.600 What are your thoughts on that?

00:24:38.960 All right.

00:24:39.460 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.

00:24:45.680 But appreciate the call.

00:24:48.460 Yeah, that's a great question.

00:24:50.320 you know i this is my understanding of it i mean if there's a if there's a referendum and it comes

00:24:57.280 out positive and we want to be an independent nation there is a there is a period immediately

00:25:03.120 after that it's not like immediately after that the next morning we're an independent nation the

00:25:07.200 next morning there's uh there there's a lot of work to do right so the next morning we look at

00:25:12.240 this and we go holy smokes we just voted to be independent we need a leadership you know does

00:25:16.800 Danielle Smith say hey I volunteer to start the negotiations in the next step or does Danielle

00:25:21.760 step down or say something like I'll step down as soon as there's another election then you choose

00:25:26.720 a new leader so we I think there's a step like that and then the new leader would have the task

00:25:33.600 of working with the population and the MLAs and everybody else to redefine all those questions

00:25:41.200 right what kind of do we how do we change our constitution what currency do we adopt things

00:25:45.600 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

00:25:52.480 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

00:25:56.560 successful i'm i'm i mean i've been canvassing on the side of the road so we're gonna be successful

00:26:00.880 we're gonna have a vote and and then after that the real work starts and we're gonna have to have

00:26:06.320 people leaders step up i honestly don't think it's gonna be danielle smith in that case because i

00:26:11.040 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

00:26:16.800 calling from please hello jeff in gp gp how's it going jeff good just uh just for folks who

00:26:26.360 might not be familiar gp is uh grand prairie not every i i i i tend to i've lived across the

00:26:33.080 province i am from up north so i i know all these places right but uh some people aren't familiar

00:26:37.740 So what's going on in GP, Jeff?

00:26:39.620 Help us out.

00:26:41.140 Oh, lots of snow and just enjoying your show.

00:26:44.280 Another great one today, Marty.

00:26:45.700 Thanks a lot.

00:26:47.960 And I was hoping I could speak with, in regards to the firearm regs,

00:26:51.200 there's one thing that I think people don't understand quite often

00:26:55.820 is that we are checked daily by the RCMP automatically

00:27:00.880 for any kind of criminal offenses, activity, investigations, et cetera.

00:27:07.080 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?

00:27:20.960 Serious.

00:27:21.560 We're not allowed to have them if you're on a conviction list.

00:27:25.780 An RPAL is a restricted possession acquisition license, and a PAL is a possession acquisition license.

00:27:32.000 The difference is restricted versus non-restricted.

00:27:34.900 And that brings me to my point, and I'll be real quick.

00:27:37.400 I know you want to get other callers.

00:27:39.160 I implore everyone to look at the regulations that were enacted previous to May 1st, 2020.

00:27:46.520 And let's just have a quick little history.

00:27:48.140 May 1st, 2020, they created an order in council that transferred or now has created all of

00:27:55.260 the non-restricted items at that particular time to prohibit it, which means can't use

00:28:03.140 and can't do it.

00:28:04.900 But just a PSA, public service announcement here for everyone.

00:28:10.840 If they review the regulations previous to May 1st, 2020,

00:28:15.080 it's called the regulations are SOR slash 2012-138.

00:28:22.480 That's the non-restricted firearms regulations that were enacted.

00:28:26.260 I think it was January 12th, 2020.

00:28:29.240 In those regulations, it clearly states that, and this is important,

00:28:33.460 everybody remember this uh section two states that it was not required for you to keep a record

00:28:42.700 of your sale of non-restricted firearms yeah so what that means is if you sold your gun

00:28:50.580 uh previous to may 1st 2020 to another pal owner now these are non-restricted only restricted is

00:28:58.020 a totally different entity i'm not talking about that i'm only talking about non-restricted

00:29:00.960 any unrestricted weapon you could sell to another cow owner and it was not 0.57

00:29:06.480 required for you to keep a record of that sale take that information with

00:29:12.420 what you will yeah everyone yeah but that is what the regulation state

00:29:16.140 appreciate that appreciate that insight in that context Jeff yeah if you don't

00:29:22.920 mind hanging up and letting somebody else call but I'll just I'll just yeah

00:29:27.240 thanks for the comment i'll i'll add on that uh he's right so because there used to be there you

00:29:32.120 thank you there used to be this long gun registry and some people are worried that um that their

00:29:37.640 firearms that they own are still uh registered somewhere they shouldn't be because when harper

00:29:43.960 came in he abolished the long gun registry and hopefully it's uh it's deleted but you never know

00:29:49.640 but he is right there was since 2020 you've been we were uh firearm owners were obligated to

00:29:57.640 register the farms most private guys never did but definitely businesses did so if you bought

00:30:02.440 a firearm from one from a business like a cabela's or bass pro shop since 2021 there's a pretty good

00:30:08.760 chance that it's registered somewhere uh it still would be tough for the government i mean i don't

00:30:15.080 want to get into all those details but it would be tough for the government to know what we have or

00:30:19.480 what people have that are on that list i mean that's one of the problems the government passed

00:30:23.320 it's voluntary they want us to turn in firearms that they put on this list and i think it's just

00:30:29.000 going to create a big giant mess for them ultimately i keep saying they should just drop

00:30:33.880 this gun ban because it's bad legislation it's bad policy it doesn't address the problems that

00:30:39.240 they claim it addresses i mean it doesn't do anything for reducing crimes the the firearms

00:30:43.640 that the proof is the fact that that we haven't been able to use these firearms since they went

00:30:48.040 since they've been banned and people have complied with the order so people are complying with the

00:30:52.360 order people complied with the regulations beforehand i mean i have you know i'm on the

00:30:56.680 record i have a restricted firearm and i only use it at the gun range and since 2021 i haven't used

00:31:03.320 it anywhere so we're in compliance with it so i think the government's best bet forward is to just

00:31:08.440 reverse this bad policy uh now i'm hoping simultaneously you know jeff's bringing up some

00:31:15.320 good points one of the things about alberta here is we do have a reasonable uh chief firearms

00:31:21.640 officer and we do have danielle on board saying that she's not going to allow uh you know 800 000

00:31:29.960 canadian albertans to suddenly become criminals at the drop because because of a piece of paper

00:31:35.800 so she's got something planned they're they're they're um preparing something along the lines of

00:31:42.360 alberta issuing its own firearms permits or something like that to make sure that we don't

00:31:47.800 all suddenly become criminals if this uh amnesty is finally uh you know lifted so we'll see how

00:31:56.840 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

00:32:05.960 let's keep talking about danielle a little bit so on thursday last week um when i did the show i

00:32:12.600 knew that there was a press conference in the afternoon and i suspected i suspected she was

00:32:18.600 going to talk about immigration she leaked it out right her chief of staff rob uh leaked it out so

00:32:24.840 true to uh what we expected she i think she dropped a pretty important a pretty nasty 0.96

00:32:30.440 bomb on us on thursday when she announced that she was going to do a referendum in october on 1.00

00:32:37.000 a whole bunch of questions including immigration and i think that really muddles the water but

00:32:42.760 i got a call on the line so go ahead the name and where you're calling from please

00:32:47.880 i'm sorry i'm gonna turn this off debbie from white court hi debbie how are you today good

00:32:55.080 good you know I have family in white court right no I didn't yeah so I have a comment first okay

00:33:02.840 that irritates me is how can the government buy back something they never sold me for one

00:33:10.600 but my question is based on the amount of money they've already spent and the average from what

00:33:16.920 they say is eighteen hundred dollars if you do the math they don't have enough to buy a quarter

00:33:24.120 of our firearms back correct not that i want to sell correct so um okay to your first point yes

00:33:31.640 i thank you for reminding us of that uh they they want to buy back something that they didn't sell

00:33:37.080 to us i bought my firearm you bought yours from cabela's and now the government wants to buy it

00:33:41.720 back no they don't want to buy it back they want to buy it from us and what's really upsetting is

00:33:47.080 they're going to buy it from us with their own money right so i'm going to send taxes to ottawa

00:33:50.840 and then ottawa is going to give me back my taxes and then take away my gun i mean i might as well

00:33:54.840 pay my taxes with a gun at this point so um yeah and sorry and what was the second part of your uh

00:34:02.200 oh the cost you're right so yeah they've they've even they've even announced that right they said

00:34:06.600 that they've set aside i i don't quote me exactly but something like 730 million dollars to do this

00:34:11.800 and you've done the math right if there's you know if there's uh 500 000 firearms at 1800 a piece

00:34:18.280 it's it's more than the 700 million that's why they're they're trying to scare us right now into

00:34:23.640 registering for this buyback because they're saying that there might not be enough money

00:34:28.360 and if you don't pre-register you won't qualify i i think it's a giant scare tactic and we also

00:34:35.000 you know we spoke earlier about the the original long gun registry that was sold to canadians as

00:34:41.080 like oh that's only going to cost like two three million dollars it cost billions of dollars for

00:34:45.400 the original long gun exactly yeah yeah no great question thanks uh thanks debbie how's how's the

00:34:50.280 weather up there good in white court oh yeah it's it's good for winter could be worse yeah yeah

00:34:57.640 could be worse all right awesome thanks thanks for calling yeah yeah and yeah you know um back

00:35:04.440 to the buyback program they they they rolled it out so one of the tests they did recently was they

00:35:09.480 did a little pilot of it in cape breton and it's never a coincidence with the liberals right so

00:35:15.240 they picked this little they picked cape breton somewhere where the fire chief or not the fire

00:35:19.800 chief the police chief was literally pro like related like related to somebody in in higher up

00:35:26.760 in government so they did the test of the pilot there and something like you know 23 people signed

00:35:33.960 up for the buyback no not 23 23 rifles were registered for the buyback in cape breton and i

00:35:41.000 think something like you know 12 or 13 of them came from one person so it's it's um the fact

00:35:47.640 that they're pushing ahead but i'm not surprised i mean how often do we ever hear our governments

00:35:53.160 say that they made a mistake and want to reverse a law all they'll do is just double down double

00:35:58.540 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

00:36:06.040 we exhausted the uh the gun uh debate so um what else have i got on my list of things uh i got oh

00:36:13.760 so i was talking about danielle smith right um so danielle did this announcement now to me the

00:36:19.600 announcement is uh i i still hear when it comes to danielle and some of the things she's done

00:36:26.280 lately i still hear two thoughts right one is she's doing due diligence so that she can uh

00:36:33.880 act on something and i hear that and then on the other side i always i hear she's doing due

00:36:40.280 diligence i also hear that she's perhaps naive and thinking and then i also hear that she's

00:36:45.280 been compromised so and on this announcement i don't buy the due diligence anymore like she's

00:36:51.100 you know we we've made a clear the the leadership the membership of the ucp has made uh a pretty

00:36:59.160 clear path for her at the agms that that immigration was an issue that needs to be addressed

00:37:05.840 and she also heard it loud and clear at uh very throughout the summer when she was doing her

00:37:13.260 Alberta next panels. Immigration came out all the time. So did other issues, right? Should we

00:37:17.900 should we take control of an Alberta pension plan? And maybe a little more contentious. Should we

00:37:24.380 have our own Alberta police force? Yes. So she's heard that over and over. And I don't think she

00:37:31.980 needs a referendum for the mandate to do that. She's been elected. She's heard what's going on,

00:37:37.920 and she should do it so i don't buy this idea that um she's holding these referendums in october 1.00

00:37:44.660 as a way to check off that she's done absolutely everything she needs to do for due diligence

00:37:50.480 because i and and in fact i always bring up the example do you does anybody honestly think that

00:37:55.160 if naeed nenshi got elected tomorrow that he would do uh i don't know what his weird policy

00:38:01.100 might be you know is he going to do a bunch of due diligence to find out if uh if albertans want

00:38:05.760 shut down coal plants or do whatever no he's going to do it so why are why why would a politician

00:38:12.080 like danielle hold herself to a much higher level of accountability and due diligence than than than 0.60

00:38:18.880 her opponents so i don't buy that to me to me the the the referendum that she's proposing with all

00:38:25.040 the questions that's just to confuse the the that's just to distract from the independence

00:38:33.520 movement and that's just to confuse people during that referendum all right i got another

00:38:38.000 call on the line go ahead please name where are you calling from uh yes i'm jerry and i'm from

00:38:45.680 calvary okay welcome to the show and i was kind of wondering because the lmg thing that's being

00:38:53.360 uh reported right now it's kind of odd because i'm literally born in newfoundland but i didn't

00:39:00.800 heavier and in Alberta for probably 30 years now but that to my knowledge why

00:39:07.220 are we not consuming the oil and gas from the East Coast and everybody's

00:39:11.840 kind of questioning why was not getting it from Alberta we have to do oil

00:39:16.800 factors here in Canada one has to be massive but the other one is still in

00:39:20.600 function kind of even with all the legislation that the liberals are

00:39:27.180 putting forward because i just recently watched uh the representatives from newfoundland get up and

00:39:32.700 why they're being strangled just like alberta i mean that the premise that we're not using our

00:39:42.220 own supplies is that one to me well i i no great yeah yeah good question um i i can't speak for

00:39:50.780 newfoundland specifically i i suspect newfoundland i mean newfoundland's producing a lot of oil right

00:39:55.740 the hibernia and offshore there's some good oil there and i know there's refineries in newfoundland

00:39:59.660 so i i kind of think newfoundland is actually producing its oil and using enough on locally

00:40:05.500 and then exporting the rest definitely nova scotia new brunswick and quebec all have gas

00:40:12.700 a little bit less oil but they you know quebec in particular has gas and quebec has been i think for

00:40:17.900 quebec in particular it's it's clear that they're not producing their gas because it would uh

00:40:23.980 increase the province's capacity to generate money which would uh negatively impact its

00:40:30.780 ability to get transfer payments through equalization so i think quebec is i don't

00:40:35.180 think i lived it i i i worked for that same company uh paraday that did the nova scotia

00:40:40.940 project we drilled wells in quebec and we got expropriated the quebec government is uh is

00:40:46.380 is against developing its gas resources totally 100 so it's it's political i'm aware of it just

00:40:52.780 because I spent three years actually out in Montreal

00:40:56.540 before I moved to this beautiful province.

00:40:58.580 But, you know, I'm aware of why they're holding back those numbers

00:41:03.160 because it makes it look better on their reports and stuff

00:41:07.720 so they can get a bigger chunk of pie.

00:41:11.280 I mean, they also don't add in Hydro-Quebec into their numbers either

00:41:16.400 saying that's a win for the province. 0.99

00:41:18.840 So I mean, you have to know, it's stupid all around with the five lines. 1.00

00:41:23.340 So most of these policies are up your ass. 1.00

00:41:26.780 Yeah, yeah, no, great, great comment. 1.00

00:41:30.560 Yeah, and Newfoundlanders, we all know, right?

00:41:34.540 You guys get, you get the short end of the stick on a really bad deal for selling your

00:41:40.220 hydropower through Labrador and down into the, I don't know the specific details of

00:41:44.780 that one, but I know there's a lot of bad blood between Newfoundland and Quebec when

00:41:48.520 comes to hydro production oh yeah i'm aware of that one but that contract that uh that ran years

00:41:56.680 ago so i mean uh that has no say in what we produce for energy anymore they just they don't

00:42:03.960 own that contract as far as i know they didn't even renew it yeah yeah awesome appreciate it

00:42:11.000 labrador selling their electricity down to new york as far as i know

00:42:14.200 uh through through quebec though right that's that's my understanding there's no direct line

00:42:21.580 yeah yeah yeah excellent okay well thank you they're probably using the problem they're using

00:42:26.900 transmission fees and stuff to get a little money but that has no say of what the muslim 0.99

00:42:33.080 government's doing with their energy right perfect awesome all right thanks for the call

00:42:37.740 thank you yeah um yeah you know and and all these things bring up um you know the

00:42:47.580 this reminds me again that you know we came together as a like one of the reasons we came

00:42:53.580 together as provinces to form this thing called confederation was to facilitate trade among

00:42:58.700 ourselves and like that's that was the number one thing we were sold on right come together

00:43:04.860 different provinces different regions come together under the umbrella of ottawa and and

00:43:09.340 they'll facilitate facilitate trade and and 150 years later i find that that's that's the most uh

00:43:18.140 that that's the worst aspect of our country is that we actually block each other's uh efforts

00:43:24.860 you know i mean i can't buy wine from bc without uh jumping through hoops and you can get in trouble

00:43:30.860 for buying beer in nova scotia and crossing the border into quebec and and quebec is not buying

00:43:35.580 alberta oil but and and you know what i mean so it it's uh one more reason where why i personally

00:43:41.820 don't think that confederation the way it was designed is is working very well i think it's

00:43:46.060 more of a failed experiment but that's uh that's my opinion uh go ahead on the line uh name and

00:43:52.620 where you're calling from please uh yes i'm steve you know me as canadian spider-man with clyde

00:43:59.660 i'm calling from uh yeah hello marty good to hear you i'm calling from just outside of vernon

00:44:04.940 in the woods here in dc but i i i'm calling because i grew up in new brunswick i spent 27

00:44:10.060 years there and i think that there are a lot of hard-working people in new brunswick i know that

00:44:16.700 but there's a lot of people that take advantage of the system and i work in construction there

00:44:22.860 you know part of your job is to go on on the dole for all winter and so i think that if they were

00:44:28.860 proposed if the equalization payments were cut they would be forced to be more industrious they 0.97

00:44:36.140 do have resources there and i think people would really get off their ass and and produce they have

00:44:41.820 that ability that was that was my only question what's your thoughts on that if yeah if you don't 0.86

00:44:48.300 mind hanging up steve uh appreciate the call and then let somebody else uh call in but no i i sure

00:44:54.060 lots of people yeah yeah thanks steve lots of people agree with you i agree with you i think

00:44:59.420 equalization might have started out as a good idea to uh you know it was kind of an insurance policy

00:45:06.940 when some province experienced a little bit of a downturn sure it got help

00:45:11.820 and and equalization started about whatever 50 plus years ago right in the 1960s it's become

00:45:18.460 a program now and it's created a welfare mentality i 100 agree that uh we should just eliminate the

00:45:26.220 whole equalization program and rethink it we you know we should just have an insurance policy in

00:45:32.700 the background but not automatic right maybe we all throw in money and keep it for a rainy day

00:45:38.700 fund when the province needs it in fact we don't need an equalization i mean we we can help each

00:45:43.340 other out in times of need without having an equalization program so i no i 100 agree that

00:45:49.420 if we cancel the equalization program some people would uh and it's not just new brunswick it's

00:45:54.860 across the board right i i'm on the record as saying that uh not just saying it i i can

00:46:00.220 demonstrate it i can demonstrate by many measures that canines have become unproductive in the last

00:46:07.820 30 years like we've we are our our our gdp per capita productivity per hour is just is just

00:46:16.780 stagnating and going down we and and there's a lot of reasons for that and a lot of them i think are

00:46:22.140 bad policies that you know i mean steve mentioned the dole like it it it's become uh part of the

00:46:28.460 system where you work six months or whatever and then you you you go and collect the welfare and

00:46:33.740 then somebody else works i mean that that's institutionalized welfare and it's not working

00:46:38.540 speaking of statistics that was another one that was interesting that came out uh this morning uh

00:46:45.100 not unemployment employment numbers for december came out and uh turns out that in december um i

00:46:53.420 got on a sheet of paper uh we lost about 23 000 jobs in december which means that for the entire

00:47:00.220 year, on a year-over-year basis, Canada lost 35,000 jobs in 2025. So we're not creating

00:47:09.520 jobs anymore. It's been like that now. The economy stalled. The Canadian economy is stalled,

00:47:16.240 right? By every metric that matters, GDP, GDP per capita, productivity, jobs created,

00:47:23.680 uh revenue all sorts of things by by every measure the economy is stalling which i again i find it so

00:47:31.980 fascinating how people are still uh apparently carny is trending positively in the in the polls

00:47:39.620 and i and i fail to see how people aren't can't can't put one and one together that their lives

00:47:45.880 are tougher now than they were in 2014 but uh somehow or other they're still uh willing to um

00:47:52.300 to to to give a pass to the liberals in fact did you guys see um it might be difficult for john to

00:47:58.780 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

00:48:03.900 in the house of commons yesterday where um uh pierre poiliev said something about you know

00:48:12.700 the economy being stalled and blaming the liberals and carney said well you can't blame me i've only

00:48:20.620 been here for a year and he got this huge applause from his back bench and then he followed it up by

00:48:27.400 saying the member opposite Pierre has been here for 11 years as if he was blaming Pierre Poiliev

00:48:33.420 for the woes of the country because Pierre happens to have been like does he not understand that

00:48:40.320 Pierre was an opposition uh member of parliament and not designing the policies like I mean it's

00:48:47.500 a pure example of of really ugly gaslighting you know i i wasn't here i only showed up this year

00:48:54.360 by the way and and we all know this right carney plays that game that he's only been here for

00:48:59.980 for whatever a year which by the way in the last year what has he actually accomplished it's nothing

00:49:04.220 but we all know he was advising trudeau behind the scenes as far back as like 2020 so carney cannot

00:49:12.320 simply say he's new to the scene he's he's been around for uh for a while and he has a

00:49:18.160 he he's one of the reasons the country is so messed up right now um yeah call in with that

00:49:23.280 one folks like what's your thoughts on on the economy what's your thoughts on on danielle so

00:49:27.680 am i am i off base on this one where danielle is doing uh just this referendum to confuse us

00:49:32.960 because i want to go back i i don't want to repeat too much of this because i know cory and others

00:49:37.520 cover this topic in death i mean cory is the you know cory morgan is the expert when it comes to

00:49:45.360 separatism and and and and those kinds of things i'm just a guy on the street corner

00:49:50.560 collecting signatures but my understanding of the clarity act is exactly that the question asked in

00:49:58.480 the referendum has to be brutally clear can't be confusing so to me if danielle has a referendum

00:50:07.120 in october and there's an independence question but there's also a quite you know if there's a

00:50:11.440 question that says do you want to separate but underneath it there's a question that says uh do

00:50:15.920 you want to continue to try and negotiate a better deal on immigration with ottawa and do you want to

00:50:20.320 try and negotiate a better deal on uh pensions and you want to do this to me that becomes confusing

00:50:25.920 if there's four or five questions on the ballot so i i in the back of my mind um danielle should

00:50:31.920 not have muddled the muddied the waters with that she should have left the uh she should have actually

00:50:38.640 before she made that announcement she should have just waited another couple of weeks or a couple

00:50:43.360 of months in two months we will have the results of the current uh independence petition put forward

00:50:48.720 by um uh stay free alberta and mitch sylvester and then we will also have the one from thomas

00:50:56.720 lukasic from a while ago so then you know why why muddle the waters now when she could have waited 0.96

00:51:02.560 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

00:51:07.760 on the i got ahead of myself i i mentioned mitch sylvester i saw the story yesterday of mitch

00:51:14.480 sylvester being threatened indirectly in his store somebody walked into mitch's store and apparently

00:51:19.920 put a bullet on the counter and said you know this bullet's for you now mitch wasn't there but it 0.50

00:51:24.240 scared his clerk and um and and then you know there was a search for the individual and then

00:51:30.660 some people claimed to know who it was and then there was some backpedaling and people try to

00:51:35.000 make it sound like oh it was a misunderstanding it was a wasn't a bullet it was a pen shaped like a

00:51:40.920 bullet all sorts of things like that um i i always think that there's two sides to the story but

00:51:47.640 based on what i've seen lately i'm i'm i'm fully on board i absolutely believe mitch when he says

00:51:53.100 somebody put a bullet on the counter and uttered those words it's on video and i think somebody's

00:51:58.740 trying to backpedal after the fact uh claiming oh it was just a joke that's no joke folks that's

00:52:05.020 that's a genuine threat um and i've seen that kind of stuff before and and i actually saw it

00:52:12.020 recently i mean i'm on the side of the road collecting uh or going door to door and setting

00:52:17.000 up pop-ups and collecting signatures and i've seen things that are that are close to threats right

00:52:22.960 and and and along those lines like even if it was a fake bullet like if you put a fake bullet you

00:52:28.900 know you can have a bullet where that's already you know there's no primer in it or something

00:52:32.860 like that it's no different than me walking into a bank with a replica handgun and saying this is

00:52:38.000 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

00:52:42.820 joke it was just a replica gun it was a joke it was just a replica bullet no no no no it doesn't

00:52:48.380 work that way so that guy got caught and I think I think it's it's disturbing that somebody would

00:52:55.960 threaten somebody else just for having an opinion and supporting a referendum another caller on the

00:53:05.200 line go ahead please name where you from hello hello hello hey Marty how are you good good

00:53:15.640 what's your name my name is diane um i'm currently i'm in florida right now

00:53:22.640 but i'm from ontario originally from windsor and i live in alberta now thank god

00:53:30.500 well you live in florida today but what's on your mind diane today yeah well i am um i'm

00:53:41.680 was disappointed in um the situation with danielle and i like her and i think she's a very smart

00:53:51.440 person um but i'm disappointed with all of those questions that are going to be i mean hopefully

00:54:01.040 not we'll have to see what happens but i don't like the idea of all of those other questions

00:54:06.960 those referendum questions i don't really think that's right that they should be on the separation

00:54:12.520 with the separation no i appreciate that i agree um stay on the line dan so uh we saw on the news

00:54:20.840 lately um a lot of albertans snowbirds tend to go on the western side of the u.s right they go to

00:54:27.720 phoenix and they go to yuma and places like that there was yeah there was a fantastic signature

00:54:32.320 collection event in yuma have you seen one down in florida in your neck of the woods

00:54:37.020 no no um i'm only here for a little while and i'll be heading back to alberta

00:54:44.640 um so i'll sign in alberta yeah but i did hear about that and i was surprised i thought that

00:54:51.740 was awesome and i do know a lot of albertans go to um arizona and not to florida yeah florida's

00:54:59.160 more a uh ontario thing right right right on okay awesome so uh where where in alberta normally are

00:55:06.100 you uh just outside of edmonton okay so you're coming back to the cold and there's still it's

00:55:12.200 still winter up in edmonton it's nice here in calgary but it's still winter in edmonton

00:55:15.700 awesome thanks for calling that i know yeah i don't mind take care of yourself all right thank

00:55:20.300 you bye yeah that was quite the uh quite the event in yuma um again it it made the news and

00:55:29.780 people again people don't want to people see it with their own eyes but they want to they want

00:55:35.380 to blow it off and say it's a non-event i mean i i seen the video actually um wasn't that video

00:55:41.660 from yuma i think it came from cory morgan's uh uh relatives or somebody like that if i remember

00:55:47.600 correctly and it was a big event right it was uh it was uh 300 signatures were collected in yuma

00:55:53.360 i'll give this quick update so i am a canvasser i have been collecting signatures now i saw online

00:55:59.680 i'm canvasser number whatever 3600 i saw somebody posted a picture online they're number 5200

00:56:06.560 uh i've heard through uh channels that there's upwards of 6 000 canvassers and they're trying

00:56:11.360 to get to 10 000 that's amazing uh so we're all over the province right and everybody's collecting

00:56:16.800 their own signatures this weekend was the first time that my coordinator the guy who gives me the

00:56:22.320 forms and and looks after uh me as a canvasser he has a little group of 30 of us so he collect he

00:56:29.120 gathered us all together uh and he collected the forms from us and out of the 30 of us he collected

00:56:36.560 we we collected 7200 signatures so you do the math right that's like uh that's 250 signatures

00:56:42.640 times 30 gets you to the 7300 or whatever and we're just 30 multiply that by um you know uh

00:56:53.520 100 more than 100 multiply that by 200 because that's how many canvassers are out there i think

00:56:58.640 we're past the threshold i hope that the um that the stay free alberta group will will finally

00:57:04.480 publish a number or an update see where we are with the signature collections if they don't i

00:57:09.120 understand that i mean there's two schools of thoughts right the leave leave your opponents

00:57:13.760 guessing i guess is one school of thought but the other one to me is as an engineer driven by data

00:57:20.480 and and goals i like the idea of of seeing a goal yeah and you could put a reach right i mean the

00:57:27.200 goal officially the threshold is 177 000 signatures but the the miss sylvester the petitioner could 0.96

00:57:34.560 put a goal out there 500 000 and put it as a target and then and then have people driven to

00:57:40.160 achieve that goal so i i can see it both ways it's not my decision but i personally i'd like to see

00:57:45.920 uh an update on um on where we are with the signatures um all right well we're almost running

00:57:54.240 out of time here uh if there's one more person who calls in we got a couple of minutes we could have

00:57:59.920 otherwise i'll uh i'll finish it off by saying uh um it's i hope you guys are enjoying the show

00:58:07.800 uh i'm i'm getting familiar with the format now i think the the call-ins working the microphone

00:58:13.680 the headphones are working for me everything's good i look forward to this show every week

00:58:17.740 getting some awesome feedback from folks online folks in person actually somebody came out to

00:58:23.420 my canvassing location a couple of days ago and uh said they just wanted to come chat to me so

00:58:30.100 you guys have figured it out i like chatting um and so don't be shy uh keep keep calling in uh

00:58:38.080 i gotta do the the the little plug here so uh i encourage you guys that probably if you're

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00:59:11.100 do i take the last call john i'll take that very last call real quick it's got to be quick go ahead

00:59:16.860 Hey Marty. It's Caroline in Fort McMurray. I'm a process engineer turned a stay-at-home mom,

00:59:27.000 which is the best job move I've ever made. You had a post I think yesterday about how

00:59:32.160 lots of women have told your wife over the years that she was missing out big time by 1.00

00:59:38.040 staying home and raising her family. I was just wondering what your thoughts were on,

00:59:43.020 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?

00:59:52.920 Fantastic question.

00:59:54.460 I think it'll naturally I think people naturally want to couples naturally have different roles.

01:00:02.800 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.

01:00:09.140 I think families are important to humans and we want somebody.

01:00:13.020 I think lately in the last 20 or 30 years, the cost of living is one of the things that have made that impossible.

01:00:19.780 And that's why people are both working and having smaller families.

01:00:23.920 And so I think the number one thing that we won't even need a policy, it'll adjust itself.

01:00:29.100 And independent Alberta will leave people with more money in their pockets.

01:00:32.960 And when people have more money in their pockets, then somebody will stay home and look after the kids.

01:00:39.300 or or there'll be a shared but there'll be a bigger family and there'll be more family time

01:00:43.200 so i think that's the simple answer to that question it'll solve it it'll fix itself as a

01:00:47.900 problem because you'll have more money in your pocket do you agree do you think that is that

01:00:52.160 is that fair oh she might yeah i think i think that makes sense yeah well why'd you make the

01:00:59.420 jump while you're on here like what why did you leave work and go and become a mom 0.96

01:01:04.300 yeah it's just you know it's something i always wanted to do um ever since i was little and

01:01:13.540 obviously i you know i was successful working as an engineer but um it's way more fulfilling

01:01:20.100 being at home for sure perfect yeah yeah well it's people like you i mean uh you know you

01:01:25.520 spread that news spread that message uh and i'm sure you meet other people but yes i'll i'll go

01:01:31.360 with my original answer an independent alberta will leave more money in people's pockets and then 0.98

01:01:35.900 and then and then we're protecting ourselves and our culture and part of our culture here in

01:01:39.500 alberta is we still have larger families i mean i have four kids i think i'm i'm an example of that

01:01:44.160 we we tend to have bigger families in alberta all right folks uh thanks for calling uh i think

01:01:50.100 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

01:01:55.200 next week. Cheers, everyone.

Western Standard - February 26, 2026

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