Look inside yourself, Canada
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On this episode of The Cory Morgan Show, host Cory Morgan chats with Don Sharp, a paramedic who has been on the show a number of times and has been active in the fight to make a difference in the upcoming election.
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You know, I usually look forward to these things, but so far it's just been, well, the usual, I guess, campaigning, a promise fest.
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You know, we knew this election was coming for quite some time, though nobody knew exactly when.
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But now that it's happening, it still almost seems like it caught people by surprise.
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I guess maybe they'll find their stride later on in the week.
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I'll have a live show starting at 11 a.m. and we really break down the election issues and get into that.
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Meanwhile, though, we're going to stick to provincial and well, just issues in general on this show today.
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And I got a good one. I got Don Sharp. He's a paramedic. He's been on a number of times.
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He's from Where's My Ambulance. He's been active and lobbying and trying, you know, because don't forget EMS.
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We can't forget our local issues during a provincial campaign.
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You know, it gets kind of pushed aside or during a federal campaign.
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we still have to talk about it so that'll be a good conversation with Don and of course we'll
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be covered a lot of other things use that comment scroll even the mic there with freedom honey is
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allowed to and Paradoxie Sharp good to see you guys checking in you know this is an interactive
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show that's why I like live I really do that's why I'm looking forward to the Friday show it's
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live send me the questions send me the ideas I mean I see them all I don't necessarily read them
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all out but I do see them all and it just reminds me that somebody's actually out there watching
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i was talking about before sleight of hand you know when you look at those things i used to love
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watching those pen and teller shows actually where they would show how the magic trick was
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done i know it ruins it for some people i liked watching it well a magician you know they'll
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always bring the attention of the audience to the side of the stage while he prepares to deceive
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their eyes i mean if people remain focused on the performer the trick's gonna fail that's part of
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what you know magician's assistants were about i mean why they dress them up and have them off to
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the side it wasn't just to be cut in half now the only hope the liberals had of retaining power is
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to have a distraction so massive the public would forget about 10 years of terrible governance
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before heading into an election in igniting an unprecedented and unfair trade war donald trump
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gave the liberals the gift it keeps on giving he's become the magician's assistant whenever the
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Liberal record comes up they point to Donald Trump. Whenever Polyev makes a good political
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point the Liberals compare him to Trump and then steal Polyev's policy. Another violent offender
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released on bail? Have a rally waving flags and offer elbows up to Trump. News breaks with poor
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economic news? Dig up an interview from weeks ago with Premier Smith and an American outlet
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and claim it somehow brings Polyev closer to Trump. It doesn't matter how unrelated to
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an issue Trump may be the Liberals will find a way to tie it in there and tie it to the
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conservatives and canada's legacy media outlets will happily indulge them canada's in for five
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solid weeks of political gotcha games tied to donald trump and the worst part of it it's working
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like a charm the liberals are making a speedy political recovery unlike any ever seen i mean
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only a month ago pollsters couldn't find one in five canadians willing to vote for the liberal
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party and today they could be poised not only to win the election but might pull a majority
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government out of this and it's not just outlying pollsters reporting this anymore every pollster
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seeing the same trend and it's starting to sustain. Opportunistic Liberals are returning
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to the flock they so recently abandoned. Former Liberal Cabinet Ministers Anita and Anne and
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Sean Fraser both recently said they were leaving public office to spend more time with their
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families. I guess after sitting with their families for a while they've discovered they're
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assholes and they've decided to spend more time in Parliament and to come back to jump into the
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political fray. Couldn't have anything to do with those new polling numbers could it? The cynical
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self-serving actions of Liberals though apparently don't bother Canadian voters.
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Edmonton Mayor Sohi, he's taken a five-week leave of absence to run for the Liberals.
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He'd already stated he's not going to run again for the position of mayor,
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but he won't resign because he wants to keep collecting a paycheck for a few months
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Will this greedy man be rewarded by Edmonton voters with a federal seat?
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People instinctively rally around their current leadership when presented with an outside threat.
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It's a good survival instinct developed over thousands of years
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When your community is threatened, you cluster together and set aside your differences until the threat's resolved.
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So through fluke and years of opportunistic political imaginations, the Liberals happened to be in power
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when Trump decided to challenge Canada's sovereignty as a nation with insulting jibes about turning the country into the 51st state.
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And he did impose economically devastating tariffs.
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The Liberals were given an opportunity and they have grabbed it. They're making the most of it.
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Is Canada really that easily distracted and willing to overlook so many years of terrible
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governance? Canadians must look beyond the distraction and look at the record of the
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government before casting their ballots. Look at the doubling of the national debt, the explosion
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of overdoses after the decriminalization of hard drugs, the constant embarrassments overseas,
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the decline of the military and the rise of organized crime, the housing crisis, mass
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immigration challenges, foreign interference, the rising cost of living while the GDP per capita
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remain stagnant for a decade. The list of government failures is so extensive,
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well, successes are almost impossible to find. Donald Trump couldn't care less who the next
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Prime Minister of Canada is. He has his own agenda, whatever the hell it is, and it's not going to
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change no matter who Canadians choose in the election. Yes, the next Prime Minister is going
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to have to deal with the trade war, but let's not pretend Trump will respect one leader more or less
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than another. He can't even pronounce the name of one of them. With that in mind, Canadians must vote
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based on government performance and current issues if canadians can't see beyond today's
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distractions and reward yesterday's government with another term in office maybe the country
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doesn't deserve sovereignty maybe canada truly is too weak and too shallow to be sustained
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and it's ironic that it's going to be a surge of domestic jingoism that's going to bring it to an
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end the appetite for independence has been rising in quebec and the election of another liberal
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government is going to cause an explosion of independent sentiment in alberta people will
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realize that the only way to fix Canada, and it is broken, will be to break it up and work to
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rebuild parts of it or all of it from there. This is the most important election in generations. So
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yeah, to take a term from Kearney, look inside yourselves. Canadians, look inside yourselves.
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All right, that's enough pissing and moaning. Let's see what else is going on out there. Check
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in with our news editor, Dave Naylor. How's it going, Dave? It's going very well, Corey. Yourself?
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Pretty good, actually. Yeah, as much as you know, I get the blood pressure up when I rant.
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Have you had any visits this week from Indian Act investigators?
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You know, the threats have been coming hard and heavy for my daring to show a video on my YouTube channel of the Siksika Reserve.
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And, you know, all the threats and howling and indignance from some activists and people on there, no charges yet.
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so I'm big kudos to YouTube too because they have been mass reporting it and
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complaining that apparently it's inappropriate but YouTube disagrees so
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good for you good for you hey are your bees coming out of hibernation they are
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they've been out I've been feeding them and getting them ready to get into
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spring they're happy so far that's good did you see that story I sent you about
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a guy in North Carolina who is a bee vet I did a veterinarian yes like where do
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they put the thermometer well yeah we're getting in there and neutering I mean
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that's got to be quite a task I just don't I'd say it was a cool article and
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a cool specialist I mean yeah part of beekeeping I see Mike you know was on
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there from freedom honey watching as well and others but yeah part of bee
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keeping actually it's not that hard but it's watching for the others a number of
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diseases and sicknesses they can hit your bees and if you don't maintain them
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right that's how you lose hives and and seeing somebody specializing finally
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because there's nothing like that around here it was kind of cool
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Interesting. I wonder if the university is going to offer it.
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Yeah, you don't have to get worried by bitten by the dog when you're bathing it.
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You're just going to get the hell stung out of you.
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Well, once, you know, busy day in politics again,
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and obviously our site is dominated by that the last couple of days.
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We've got an actual full-grown communist in Edmonton now that's running for the Liberals.
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Rod Loyola, he stepped down from the NDP yesterday.
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He was an MLA, and now he's going to run federally for Mark Carney and the Liberals.
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But he's got a fairly checkered past as a true-blown communist, Corey.
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He was a former rapster, and we've got some of his lyrics there about how he's going to be firing off his AK-47s for the Revolution
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and, you know, candlelight vigils for when Hugo Chavez died and all sorts of weird stuff like that.
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The Telegraph, one of England's most respected newspapers,
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did a big feature on Mark Carney's volcanic temper.
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And one of the incidents that they cite was the Western Standard,
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our two incidents, when we were thrown out of his rally in Edmonton,
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even though we had an invite, and when James Snell asked him a question,
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so that's uh mr carney's mood has uh gone all the way to the telegraph um miss speaking of mr
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carney he was musing yesterday about putting a export tax on you know things like maybe albert
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oil and uh danielle smith gave us a statement this morning who basically saying mark carney is clueless
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and uh you know he's basically she basically double dares him you want to fight come on
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we'll fight you uh carney had a problem today down in uh uh down east i think it was in windsor
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uh reporter asked him in french and he didn't know he was talking about conspiracy theories
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and he tried to answer the reporter in french but he he didn't know the french words for a
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conspiracy theory so he just said oh to heck with that i'll finish answering it in english so
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Stories came out this morning that he and Brookfield was involved in moving all the company's assets to Bermuda, tax haven.
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And he literally said, quote, I own nothing, quote.
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Other than those $6 million minimum worth of Brookfield shares.
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And Polyev today has had a press conference down in Quebec.
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That's going to be a big sort of tax break for seniors.
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If they're still working, they can claim now up to $34,000 a year income tax-free.
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Well, you know, that's the gringer amongst our group in here anyways.
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I don't know if he makes that much out of the standard, though.
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I mean, it's interesting with, you know, looking at the polls, something that has been striking, though,
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those, when the demographic breakdown comes along, that are returning to the Liberal fold,
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or whatever way you want to put it, are actually older Canadians.
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It's the younger Canadians are still supporting Conservatives.
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I mean, everything's kind of gone flipped over, you know.
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You used to go to a Conservative function, and I'd feel young in it,
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but a lot of Canada seniors apparently are all turning towards the Liberals for some bloody reason.
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Is there something wrong in the medication or something?
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And also to let you know, 2 o'clock Mountain Standard Time,
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President Trump's supposed to be making an announcement on tariffs,
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I'm certain that'll cool down the political climate
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I'm sure it will, but we'll be monitoring and writing it up.
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there Dave I'll let you back to your desk to start hammering away on those reporters yeah now sadly
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my desk is behind me now yes so I'm gonna have to make sure or make be very careful when I call up
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on the computer oh well you never called anything inappropriate no no no not at all okay folks so be
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sure to zoom in that screen when it's not on my agent face and see what our newsroom is doing
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in the background you can be the oversight and talk about transparency we're as transparent as
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again. Absolutely. All right. Thanks, Dave. You bet, Corey. That is Dave Naylor, our news editor. Yes,
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lots of stories. I mean, again, it's hard to keep up with things as they go, as this election
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The election's coming. Stuff's going to be behind a paywall. As you heard from Dave,
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You can see Dave getting back into his chair right over there, back to work.
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Darlene, oh, I'm going to ruin your name, Darlene, and I appreciate your comment.
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the seniors that are voting liberals need to turn off the TV news.
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and something some people have been talking about.
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Why are seniors suddenly supporting Liberals again?
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Well, seniors are the ones more inclined to watch the old CBC, CTV, Global,
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They desperately are invested in having the Liberals win.
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So, yeah, they're getting some pretty slanted news.
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If you want something for a name you might not be familiar with,
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I don't think I've ever mentioned her on my show,
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Rachel Gilmore, interesting online personality.
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nut ear and squirrel crap is what she is either way if you want a valley girl interpretation
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of what the news is apparently ctv has brought her on to fact check every friday morning rachel
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gilmore this fruit loop is going to actually be the person checking facts and if you look into
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her history she's had a long troubled relationship with the truth and this is what legacy media is
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hiring a uh ditz in charge of fact checking every friday morning so yeah keep tuning into the western
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standard guys we might be grumpy around here but at least we'll give you the truth all right let's
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turn to the guest i have today don sharp is back and in studio we're going to talk about ems how's
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going on very well pleased to be here again good good yeah we're overdue yeah uh you know i used to
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get you a lot when i had that show every day but you know now it's oh no it's been you know it's
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and it's a great occasion for me to be here it's our first anniversary yes of the where's my
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ambulance that's what you've been where's my ambulance.com so for years we worked together
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trying to get citizen action groups together and we did a lot of foiping and stuff but we finally
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made it official last year and started pursuing the truth with a banner where's my ambulance.com
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and it's been very successful yeah and you have been traveling you've been working on this for
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a while i've got one of those signs at home actually it's not on the lawn right now it's
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things are frozen up but uh i mean our rural areas well we where i live in prittis is one
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in the areas where we've been losing ambulances pretty chronically to service city ones,
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and those are the kind of problems you've been bringing to people's attention.
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So, I mean, we were looking at things optimistically, though.
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She was talking about fixing some of the issues.
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She wanted to get in there and shake up AHS.
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But some things have changed, but progress has been limited, to say the least.
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I think three of the problems we have is poor leadership,
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but certainly she made a lot of efforts when she ran the radio show
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And finally, a lack of accountability, and I think that's coming from AHS.
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I don't think – I have a hard time separating the government and AHS, and I think a lot of people do.
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Like, who's really responsible for what's wrong?
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I mean, when Premier Smith was, you know, breaking that into four parts, people were, you know,
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and the news was reporting Daniel Smith is dismantling Alberta Health Services,
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and it's making it sound like she's taking down the whole – AHS is the bureaucracy.
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The government is in charge of them, but they have to give them a degree of independence, too.
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Remember, the Alberta ombudsman, by law, can't even investigate AHS.
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So making a complaint to the ombudsman about AHS, she'll just tell you, no, she can't get involved.
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The same with a complaint about, say, vehicle maintenance of ambulances.
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You make a complaint to Alberta Transportation, they say, AHS is an essential service.
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all we can really do is ask them to do better when in if this had been a trucking company all
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the vehicles would be pulled off the road immediately and certified so again i have i
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have trouble drawing a line um you know i've got to work with the government that's in power
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uh i'm not i don't want to be partisan i'm that's not the point but my problem is consistently with
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ahs i worked for them for a long time as a paramedic and i think that their reluctance
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The bottom line is their reluctance to take risks, to do the things that need to be done to fix the problems that exist.
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They're a little over-focused on managing their own business at the bureaucratic level,
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rather than doing what's important, which is looking after the people who need care.
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Yeah, and I mean, this is something everybody cares about.
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I mean, you might not realize how much you need it until something tragic happens, a health episode, an accident,
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enter and then that's when you suddenly discover yeah wow we do not have a quickly responding
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no and it's such a big issue even when you have a problem people don't know where to turn so
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as experienced paramedics who've done some foip work before we started digging in
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and we fought first around the calgary area and then we fought some data in north zone
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and we exposed how poorly they are running their staffing up there a lot of paramedics are dropping
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from full-time to casual so they can pick their shifts because they were just being overworked
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it's fine in ems as a paramedic we expect that there will be late trips at the end of your shift
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if you're the only truck available but if it happens shift after shift and you become exhausted
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and your family suffers paramedics start saying i'm not going to do this anymore i'll drop the
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casual and i'll work when i want yeah the burnout's been another big issue so frustrating i get
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stories we get letters and emails and phone calls all the time so there's a deadline for a possible
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change approaching right uh one of the bigger issues labeled of course has been hallway care
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hospitals have been handing off care of new patients to paramedics who are stranded kind
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of in the hallway next to a gurney when they should be out you know rounding up people or
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stable held hostage really held hostage by a hospital centric system that believes patients
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in the hospital are more important than the patients i serve which are the ones in the
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the community so we did a study back in 2017 about how many hours and days we spend in the hallway
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with patients the hospital's got to pick up and we hear april 1st we hear something from
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ehs that that might actually be changing so we're not going to hold our breath we're convinced that
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well we've been lied to before it's that simple so we'll see what happens but again one of the
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things they could do to alleviate the problem is they hired a couple of private companies to do
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contracted non-emergent patient transfers and that's absolutely necessary the bottom line
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hs can't do it alone and i watch what's been happening with this argument about private
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contractors and i know that lots of people in the union world are just absolutely dead set against
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privates but i think we hs has proven over and over again they can't do it by themselves they
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There are private contractors out there who are qualified and capable of stepping up
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and moving non-urgent patients in a timely fashion using professional paramedics
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Yeah, and that's one of the, you would think, relatively easier common-sense solutions.
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I mean, if you've got somebody who's got health challenges,
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they're being moved from one facility to another,
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You want somebody skilled with them in case something goes awry,
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And we've been using fully equipped ambulances to do that task.
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If you're the only paramedic crew in Nanton responsible for 1,400 square kilometers
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and they take you out of your service area to take somebody to the CAST clinic,
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And I think people have to understand that, especially rural people get it.
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But their ambulance is gone for better parts of most days.
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Okotoks, Pritis, Black Diamond, those communities can all be empty.
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Nobody seems to care as long as there's trucks in Calgary.
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So ending hallway waits would be a big part of that,
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Get them there, get them ready for those, again, that critical first hour or whatnot,
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And, I mean, there's the risk-averse thing, right?
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Do people always say, well, what if that person is midway and transported and then, you know, at health?
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In fact, I used to answer questions that started with what if.
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And in most cases, well, paramedics are, you know what we're really good at doing is solving problems.
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So if you have a problem in transit, you'll figure it out.
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You'll pull over or you'll go to the nearest or, I mean, there's so many options.
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That's what paramedics are trained to do is solve those problems.
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Well, then we can't look for every contingency.
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I mean, if you had a whole cardiac crew in every ambulance,
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the chances of reducing a fatal cardiac episode in transport would be greatly reduced, too.
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Yeah, it's like taking a limousine to the grocery store.
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And we exposed, again, the EMS 811 referral system scandal where Alberta Health said,
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yeah, we're going to refer a lot of non-urgent calls to 811,
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and they'll look after them and they'll get them alternate transport but in large part 65% of the
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calls that EMS sent to 811 were bounced back to EMS in a lot of cases because 811 didn't answer
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in the three minutes that they were required to answer and it came back automatically where the
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caller said well I don't have a car or I'm not going to wait or I want an ambulance right now
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and like it's just again this is the accountability factor and the fact that we have to FOIP all of
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this information speaks to the lack of transparency very frustrating yeah and
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you've gotten some pushback I mean they've been pretty upset with you yeah
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so last year they tried to take my license away as a paramedic they made a
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complaint to the college it went nowhere and then they sent us a cease and desist
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because they said we were being defamatory and I would say we were a
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little hyperbolic but we were accused of making EMS managers feel unsafe and we
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So we agreed to take some of the more inflammatory comments off of our,
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and tone it down a little, which is, you know, which is fair, right?
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And we all together are trying to make EMS better.
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Being shut out, though, and speaking of being shut out,
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I mean, I was shut out from this EMS standing committee.
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I wasn't even qualified to sit on the committee.
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He had to be either a working paramedic or a leader in one of the related organizations.
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So now there's 22 people on the standing committee, some from the rural municipalities,
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some are fire chiefs, some are working paramedics in AHS.
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They're called the Alberta EMS Standing Committee,
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and because they report directly to the minister, we don't have access to their agenda or their minutes.
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I phoned them up and I said hey I know you signed an NDA I don't want to violate that
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tell me how you're feeling tell me what's happening with the committee well they're
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all feeling just a little frustrated AHS is doing some level setting trying to
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educate everybody about how EMS works and I think it sounds like they're
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trying to limit their actual ability to make change which is you know it's
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disappointing for them because we're depending on this committee to valiantly
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push forward for the changes that are really necessary so i wish them luck and i uh you know
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if you're on the standing committee and you're and you're struggling i i hope you uh realize this is
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not about careers or politics it's about people's lives and you need to stand up and tell them what
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you really think and make the changes that need to be made so yeah and i mean death by committee
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it's something that that politicians and bureaucracies have always been skilled if they
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if they want to rag the puck and just avoid changing something just make a bloated slow
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moving committee and drag it out and people lose interest and nothing gets accomplished i mean a
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committee can accomplish things with the right mandate and the will to do it but you need
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oversight and transparency that's why are they hiding there's nothing in this that should be
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confidential really you're not talking about patient records or no not at all but again this
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is again why we have these lawn signs we like to go to the local town halls when the
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the AHS managers come out and tell town councils what they're up to, and we can spot when they're
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bending the truth just a little bit. And I sympathize with town councils because every
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time you talk to AHS, you've always got one hand out, right? Whenever you're talking as a town
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councillor, you've always got one hand out because you want something. So if you're slapping one of
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their representatives with the other hand, maybe that'll be counterproductive. But again, town
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councils are responsible for advocating for the safety of their citizens you
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need an ambulance in your town as often as possible stop letting them steal your
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your resources well it's something you've been doing more in the past too
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which I appreciate you came up to press in other areas and I substance white
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talking Cochran some common sense things too like maybe you don't necessarily
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need an ambulance you know things that let's get the public a little more
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trained to deal with you know emergent issues sometimes we can resolve things
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I mean, that's a broader, whole huge area as well,
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Well, just stick on the safe side and call an ambulance.
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And then, of course, when it comes time when you do call
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and you really need one and it's not coming, what do you do?
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So we've encouraged people to think about that.
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If an ambulance is not coming and you need one.
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How am I going to get Dad down the stairs and into the car?
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And we don't like to say that, but you know what?
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Everything we see, the disasters in EMS are everywhere,
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This year, it looks like they're spending $3 million a month on overtime
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for paramedics to come in on their days off and sit in empty seats and do calls that's unsustainable
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financially but it also burns our guys out there they're leaving the profession they're failing
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well it's indicative of how exhausting it would be i mean it's a different profession than anything
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else these are people who take it very seriously understand that if somebody's not there for an
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emergency a person may die yeah and as burnt out as you are it's hard to say no to that extra shift
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if you're going to be leaving an area uncovered you get that phone call and you think they say
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well we they really need you to come in you say i'm tired but yeah okay i'll come in i'll do one
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more shift i talked to a guy over christmas he worked 19 shifts in a row how do you work 19 12
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hour shifts in a row how is that even allowed but that's the way it is right now i mean it's so bad
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look at red deer fire red deer fire also runs the ambulance service that organization the union just
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had a non-confidence vote in their leadership because they're actually not staffing fire trucks
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in order to keep the ambulances staffed because the paramedics there are failing
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it's a big controversy and it needs some attention strathcona fire department has well staffed well
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trained firefighters on all of their ambulances in strathcona county but every night they get
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sucked into edmonton they spend the whole shift in edmonton do you want to be a firefighter on
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an ambulance that spends all night in edmonton and leaves your home community unguarded ahs has
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this fallacy called the borderless system they keep hanging on to it's a terrible idea it's it's
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really a uh it's really a shared resources mass casualty contingency plan that they're they've
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adopted as gospel and it's a bad idea it takes resources from the smaller communities to the
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central urban areas and uh and leave those small communities defenseless it's it's unconscionable
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in my opinion yeah well the government you know premier smith's burning the candle from 12 ends
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but you know well she took on the big job it's gonna come with it and this is you know what we're
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here to help her yeah um we just we're gonna keep exposing what's wrong making foip requests even
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though ahs is now charging us fifteen hundred dollars that's another way they like to yeah
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does the same garbage yeah so i mean we're here to help we'll keep exposing it until somebody
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realizes that something has to change yeah and just you know in closing for people unfamiliar
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with foip it's freedom of information requests and it is our information it should be ours by default
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they should be making the excuse as to why anything shouldn't be i mean there's some things
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that have to be kept confidential but for the most part yeah it should be just there for us yeah and
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the foip team that we talk to the guys who actually accept the foips and share them with ahs they're
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great people they work really hard to explain the rules and get us what we're asked for and
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help us with the with the nomenclature with the verbiage and yeah but it's a
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HS seems to be just throwing a rock in the road every day and it's to their own
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detriment I wish they could see that it's a shame well I appreciate the work
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you're doing and keeping hammering on it and keeping them exposed and again so
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you're at where's my ambulance and where's my ambulance.com and remember
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and simple straightforward yeah we're on Instagram now we have 3,000 followers
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that was unexpected so be sure guys get out there follow them thank you again
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Don and yeah, reach out to Don. He's very responsive. He'll get back to you because
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this is something that eventually it's going to affect you and it might be in the worst sort of
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way. So yeah, know what to expect. Let's get it fixed. Thanks again for having me on. Thanks Don.
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Good to see you. You too. We'll talk again soon. So yes, again, one more time, where's my ambulance.com
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and it makes sense. You know, I mean, going a little farther back historically and I, you know,
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it gets into the the blasphemy among some people and so on but municipalities used to run their
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their own ambulance service it was local and you know what it's we centralize things too much we
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stick it into a location that can't apply itself I guess to the the wider needs of a of a broader
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area so needs in a rural area are going to be different than those in an urban area you know
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Calgary needs are going to be different from Prittis needs where I am, but you're sharing
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all those resources and stuffing it in under a centralized governance, I believe it was
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under the Stelmac government when that first came about, and it's not working, but what
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And AHS, they have been dragging their heels, I mean, Premier Smith has been in a pitched
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battle, basically, with AHS, Alberta Health Services, that's the stuff that's going on
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now where the government's being sued for wrongful dismissal of the former head of the ahs and
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there's accusations of uh of uh inappropriate uh tendering for for private services that are going
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on i don't know i don't know that's now it's being investigated i mean i i don't put it beyond any
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government unfortunately to to screw things up and make mistakes when it comes to that and procurement
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But at the same time, you've got a bureaucracy that clearly does not want to change anything.
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And they're going to do everything they can to maintain the status quo.
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I mean, that's part of what I like what Don does.
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As I said, you know, in Cochrane, they came out and talked to people about just how to take care of yourself.
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If you phone and you've had, you know, somebody's having a cardiac episode in your house, a stroke, something like that.
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This area is where liability, everybody worries too much.
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But you need to get that person to medical professionals as fast as possible.
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You phone 911, of course, that's what you're supposed to do.
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But they say, yeah, it'll be there in about 40 minutes.
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Because if it's going to be that long, they'll say, get the person in your car and start driving.
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You can stay in communication with EMS if you've got the ability anyways, you know.
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is just make sure people get help as fast as possible
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the stuff that's getting overshadowed with all of that
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with Loyola joining the Liberal Party federally.
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You know, he's an Alberta member of the legislature.
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He's a hard, hard, hard left liberal or NDP member of the legislature.
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Yet, apparently, he's not too far left for the liberals.
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There's pictures of him proudly marching with a communist banner behind him.
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We're not even talking about socialists anymore.
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run-of-the-mill leftists a literal communist not literal in the way that hammerheads like uh
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good old rachel gilmore uses no i mean it he's a literal communist and as dave said you know uh
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he's he's known for some pumping up people like shega vera and and uh castro and this guy's gonna
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run for the liberal party if the liberals win he might actually be a member of parliament in the
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governing party and he's a communist and people think that carney has actually brought the
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liberals into common sense people think that carney is is made the liberals a little more
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conservative no not if you're bringing in nutcases like layola and will edmonton elect him i don't
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know those edmonton writings you know they're full of union civil servant hacks they will vote for
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whoever paints himself as the farthest left so what a nice embarrassment for alberta we've
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We've already got one kook up there, Heather McPherson.
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She's a crazed NDP member of parliament from Alberta, one of our embarrassments.
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In the meantime, again, everything's been turned over on its head.
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Carol Scobie saying, don't believe in the polls.
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A commentator, that's fair enough to say because the polls in the last few years have been less than reliable sometimes.
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Sometimes they hit it well, but there's been some times they've been awful.
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We saw that south of the border. We've seen that in past elections, but usually it's a matter of a
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few outliers. The polls have limits and election campaign can change things, but no, there's been
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way too many of them now. Even the internal polls, one of the most indicative things, because
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parties run polls all the time, ones that they don't release. And those are ones where the
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parties really want to learn what it's looking like out there. They want to see the landscape.
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They're constantly spending money getting polls, those internals. And when you see liberal MPs,
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opportunists, like Fraser and Anand, who said, oh, we're going to leave and spend more time with
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our families, and then suddenly turn around and say, nah, you know what, we changed our mind,
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I'm going to go run for office again. The internals are telling them that they're going to win.
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So, yeah, I know there's only one poll that counts and all the terms we can use for it,
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but the polls at least show some general trends, and they can change. They can change a lot between
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now and election day. Carney's not a well-prepared, polished politician, whatever he might be,
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And he might stumble. Canadians might see through things. This might turn around.
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But there's a real risk of these guys getting in and guys like Loyola getting in with them.
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If Carney really wanted to build a party that's going to be somewhat common sense and somewhat rational, he wouldn't allow a nut like Loyola to join.
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Why isn't Loyola running for the NDP for his own party?
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because he wants a seat and not just a seat he wants a seat in the party in power a communist
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in the party in power plus when it comes to that if there's only two liberal mps typically
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the liberals will put those mps in cabinet and look what happened with that well we had randy
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and randy uh he was the scandalous liberal mp from up in edmonton who has finally stepped aside
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and he's not running because he's nuts and he was constantly caught lying he was lying about his
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indigenous heritage he was getting government contracts it sounds like that based on that
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alleged indigenous background and plus of course he he made up multiple names for himself to claim
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you know communications weren't his it's just nuts so he was out of cabinet and then we have
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the porch pirate george shahal he's known as the porch pirate down here he's from calgary and
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northeast rioting, literally stole mail from a person's mailbox.
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Saw a conservative piece of literature in the mailbox.
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He pulled it out and then put the Liberal brochure in.
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And even after being caught doing that, he stayed in the Liberal Party.
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But it was embarrassing enough that he didn't get into cabinet.
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But if Loyola gets in and the Liberals win, Loyola will probably be a cabinet minister.
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We'll have a communist cabinet minister, at least.
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And as some others are saying, you know, we've had enough communists around already.
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This is something that Daniel Smith, Premier Smith, did email to the Western Standard
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because Carney mused about export taxes on Alberta oil or potash from Saskatchewan.
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provincial resources, putting a tax on those in the tariff battle with President Trump.
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And she said she's been very clear, you know, Alberta will never agree to an observe and
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self-destructive export tax on our oil and gas headed to the United States. She said it pretty
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clearly. Well, this has been done before. Pierre Trudeau did it in the past. And it was a disaster.
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It castrated Alberta's economy. It just devastated us here. The rigs shut down, the work shut down.
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As we've had multiple guests talk about that before.
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enough American consumers are going to look at the orange man and say,
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The price of everything's going up, you madman.
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We're not suddenly developing an oil industry in Utah because it's not there.
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That's 80% of the American fertilizer comes from Saskatchewan.
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So, yeah, you can hurt them by putting a tariff on that outgoing.
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But if you start tariffing incoming stuff, you're just raising the cost of Canadian goods.
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And if we waited out long enough, Trump's economics so far,
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and I know the Trump supporters get upset with me too damn bad,
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his economic policies are stupid, and they have been.
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And we do have to broaden our export marketability.
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We should be looking at increasing portability so more Alberta and Saskatchewan and British Columbia natural resources get out to other customers.
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It's a smart way to do things no matter who the president is.
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Likewise with potash and other things like that.
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But if Kearney steps over and into provincial jurisdiction and starts putting export taxes on our products, that crosses some very heavy lines.
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I mean, if there's going to be such a move, it should be done by the province because those are provincial resources, not federal.
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But you want to see the Western independence movement really spring up.
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Yeah, get in there and start meddling with our exports and our products
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The promises this week, you know, giving a quick rundown.
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I mean, this week one, it's interesting from both Carney and Polyev.
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I mean, we're basically at a two-party system at this point.
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The People's Party, really, they just have their fringe where they will,
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but there's nowhere where they have concentrated support enough to win a seat.
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But they'll be there. They'll speak to it. They will. Fair enough.
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And, of course, crazy Liz May and her weird, check that out.
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They've got a weird co-leadership of Elizabeth May and the other fellow
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Again, shows some of the weirdness of voters, Salt Spring Island and the others,
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where they will re-elect people that nutty.
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And they're both promising the same things all over the place.
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So both are promising tax cuts this week, some for seniors, some for people just in general with lower income, people buying houses.
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Again, both parties have said that they're going to offer tax cuts on the GST.
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So in reality, you get the same thing promised from both.
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Look, the Liberals are accomplished liars.
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To be fair, there's been no shortage of conservative lying politicians historically either.
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Unfortunately, lying and politics just come together all too often.
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So you have to look at the broader issue because they're promising the same thing,
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The other thing, I'm glad they're all promising tax cuts.
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But you're going to have to eventually make spending cuts then
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because we're not bringing in more revenue, are we?
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That shows, unfortunately, the cowardice on the part of politicians and the weakness on the part of voters, where they won't vote for somebody who gives them a hard truth, or at least some people think they won't.
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Now, Berta, we will. I mean, Ralph Klein ran on spending cuts, and guess what? He got reelected and reelected with larger majorities every time he did that.
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Spending cuts can be well received if they're done carefully and smartly.
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but uh yes okay paradoxy pointing out something saying one will increase debt to pay for the
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promises while the other will cut frivolous spending to do so i like to think so i like to
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think so but specify where the cuts are they're saying you're going to cut isn't enough you got
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to have the courage to say we're going to cut this we're going to cut that i want to see where
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these cuts are going to be i want to see commitment to make these cuts and uh the courage to follow
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through with them when the time comes. I, yes, I have my leaning. I mean, I'm an opinion person.
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It's an opinion show. I think the Conservatives are far, far more likely to make those cuts,
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much more likely to be economically responsible. Look, we have to turn over governments every now
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and then. We have to, for the sake of just flushing out the rot, the inside dealing,
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the corruption, and it comes with all of them. It happened when the Mulroney government was in
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for too long it happened when klein's progressive conservatives were in for way way way too long
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and the liberals have been in for way too long as well they need to be flushed out so if you're
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going to look at that and that's what's so maddening then people if you want to look at it
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and both these parties appear to be the same they aren't we need to get one out and if so if all
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things are equal vote for the bloody conservatives don't be a peckerhead putting those liberals back
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in for another term. They're not going to do us any
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I'll leave it off, gave a final comment for the
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show today saying we need term limits. That's a separate
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things about term limits but it's an interesting one to bring
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That'll be going up soon. Nigel Hannaford has his
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to talk all federal good stuff and the pipeline will be on tonight so thank you for tuning in
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