Western Standard - Look inside yourself, Canada

00:00:00.000 Good day.

00:00:29.580 Welcome to the Cory Morgan Show.

00:00:32.100 Are you sick of the election yet?

00:00:33.580 We're almost through a week of it.

00:00:35.920 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.

00:00:44.120 You know, we knew this election was coming for quite some time, though nobody knew exactly when.

00:00:48.420 But now that it's happening, it still almost seems like it caught people by surprise.

00:00:53.360 I guess maybe they'll find their stride later on in the week.

00:00:56.000 Be sure to tune in on Friday.

00:00:57.100 I'll have a live show starting at 11 a.m. and we really break down the election issues and get into that.

00:01:03.180 Meanwhile, though, we're going to stick to provincial and well, just issues in general on this show today.

00:01:07.740 And I got a good one. I got Don Sharp. He's a paramedic. He's been on a number of times.

00:01:11.500 He's from Where's My Ambulance. He's been active and lobbying and trying, you know, because don't forget EMS.

00:01:17.260 We can't forget our local issues during a provincial campaign.

00:01:20.500 You know, it gets kind of pushed aside or during a federal campaign.

00:01:23.280 we still have to talk about it so that'll be a good conversation with Don and of course we'll

00:01:28.520 be covered a lot of other things use that comment scroll even the mic there with freedom honey is

00:01:32.540 allowed to and Paradoxie Sharp good to see you guys checking in you know this is an interactive

00:01:37.200 show that's why I like live I really do that's why I'm looking forward to the Friday show it's

00:01:40.900 live send me the questions send me the ideas I mean I see them all I don't necessarily read them

00:01:46.060 all out but I do see them all and it just reminds me that somebody's actually out there watching

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00:02:31.240 i was talking about before sleight of hand you know when you look at those things i used to love

00:02:34.840 watching those pen and teller shows actually where they would show how the magic trick was

00:02:38.600 done i know it ruins it for some people i liked watching it well a magician you know they'll

00:02:42.920 always bring the attention of the audience to the side of the stage while he prepares to deceive

00:02:48.040 their eyes i mean if people remain focused on the performer the trick's gonna fail that's part of

00:02:52.920 what you know magician's assistants were about i mean why they dress them up and have them off to

00:02:56.440 the side it wasn't just to be cut in half now the only hope the liberals had of retaining power is

00:03:00.840 to have a distraction so massive the public would forget about 10 years of terrible governance

00:03:05.320 before heading into an election in igniting an unprecedented and unfair trade war donald trump

00:03:10.360 gave the liberals the gift it keeps on giving he's become the magician's assistant whenever the

00:03:15.560 Liberal record comes up they point to Donald Trump. Whenever Polyev makes a good political 0.70

00:03:20.360 point the Liberals compare him to Trump and then steal Polyev's policy. Another violent offender

00:03:24.680 released on bail? Have a rally waving flags and offer elbows up to Trump. News breaks with poor

00:03:30.120 economic news? Dig up an interview from weeks ago with Premier Smith and an American outlet

00:03:34.440 and claim it somehow brings Polyev closer to Trump. It doesn't matter how unrelated to

00:03:40.280 an issue Trump may be the Liberals will find a way to tie it in there and tie it to the

00:03:43.480 conservatives and canada's legacy media outlets will happily indulge them canada's in for five

00:03:48.120 solid weeks of political gotcha games tied to donald trump and the worst part of it it's working

00:03:53.080 like a charm the liberals are making a speedy political recovery unlike any ever seen i mean

00:03:57.800 only a month ago pollsters couldn't find one in five canadians willing to vote for the liberal

00:04:01.320 party and today they could be poised not only to win the election but might pull a majority

00:04:06.120 government out of this and it's not just outlying pollsters reporting this anymore every pollster

00:04:11.160 seeing the same trend and it's starting to sustain. Opportunistic Liberals are returning

00:04:16.100 to the flock they so recently abandoned. Former Liberal Cabinet Ministers Anita and Anne and

00:04:20.600 Sean Fraser both recently said they were leaving public office to spend more time with their

00:04:24.140 families. I guess after sitting with their families for a while they've discovered they're

00:04:27.400 assholes and they've decided to spend more time in Parliament and to come back to jump into the 1.00

00:04:30.820 political fray. Couldn't have anything to do with those new polling numbers could it? The cynical 0.98

00:04:34.940 self-serving actions of Liberals though apparently don't bother Canadian voters.

00:04:39.380 Edmonton Mayor Sohi, he's taken a five-week leave of absence to run for the Liberals.

00:04:44.420 He'd already stated he's not going to run again for the position of mayor,

00:04:47.240 but he won't resign because he wants to keep collecting a paycheck for a few months

00:04:50.180 in case he doesn't win the federal seat.

00:04:52.040 Will this greedy man be rewarded by Edmonton voters with a federal seat?

00:04:55.660 Perhaps.

00:04:56.580 People instinctively rally around their current leadership when presented with an outside threat.

00:05:00.960 It's a good survival instinct developed over thousands of years

00:05:04.180 when there was things like tribal warfare.

00:05:05.580 When your community is threatened, you cluster together and set aside your differences until the threat's resolved.

00:05:11.480 So through fluke and years of opportunistic political imaginations, the Liberals happened to be in power

00:05:15.960 when Trump decided to challenge Canada's sovereignty as a nation with insulting jibes about turning the country into the 51st state.

00:05:22.400 And he did impose economically devastating tariffs.

00:05:24.820 The Liberals were given an opportunity and they have grabbed it. They're making the most of it.

00:05:28.660 Are Canadians really that obtuse though? 1.00

00:05:30.080 Is Canada really that easily distracted and willing to overlook so many years of terrible 0.89

00:05:34.860 governance? Canadians must look beyond the distraction and look at the record of the

00:05:38.640 government before casting their ballots. Look at the doubling of the national debt, the explosion

00:05:42.880 of overdoses after the decriminalization of hard drugs, the constant embarrassments overseas,

00:05:48.080 the decline of the military and the rise of organized crime, the housing crisis, mass

00:05:52.720 immigration challenges, foreign interference, the rising cost of living while the GDP per capita

00:05:56.880 remain stagnant for a decade. The list of government failures is so extensive,

00:06:02.160 well, successes are almost impossible to find. Donald Trump couldn't care less who the next

00:06:07.440 Prime Minister of Canada is. He has his own agenda, whatever the hell it is, and it's not going to

00:06:11.120 change no matter who Canadians choose in the election. Yes, the next Prime Minister is going

00:06:14.880 to have to deal with the trade war, but let's not pretend Trump will respect one leader more or less

00:06:19.440 than another. He can't even pronounce the name of one of them. With that in mind, Canadians must vote

00:06:23.600 based on government performance and current issues if canadians can't see beyond today's

00:06:28.080 distractions and reward yesterday's government with another term in office maybe the country 0.54

00:06:33.120 doesn't deserve sovereignty maybe canada truly is too weak and too shallow to be sustained

00:06:38.000 and it's ironic that it's going to be a surge of domestic jingoism that's going to bring it to an

00:06:42.160 end the appetite for independence has been rising in quebec and the election of another liberal

00:06:45.920 government is going to cause an explosion of independent sentiment in alberta people will

00:06:50.240 realize that the only way to fix Canada, and it is broken, will be to break it up and work to

00:06:54.660 rebuild parts of it or all of it from there. This is the most important election in generations. So

00:07:00.200 yeah, to take a term from Kearney, look inside yourselves. Canadians, look inside yourselves. 0.98

00:07:06.480 All right, that's enough pissing and moaning. Let's see what else is going on out there. Check 0.97

00:07:10.020 in with our news editor, Dave Naylor. How's it going, Dave? It's going very well, Corey. Yourself?

00:07:13.460 Pretty good, actually. Yeah, as much as you know, I get the blood pressure up when I rant.

00:07:16.440 Have you had any visits this week from Indian Act investigators?

00:07:21.460 Not yet, not yet.

00:07:23.580 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.

00:07:29.340 How many views now?

00:07:30.440 It's getting over 30,000, I believe, so far.

00:07:32.920 Not bad for a 20-minute video.

00:07:34.620 And, you know, all the threats and howling and indignance from some activists and people on there, no charges yet.

00:07:42.060 And YouTube hasn't taken it down?

00:07:43.760 They have not.

00:07:44.500 so I'm big kudos to YouTube too because they have been mass reporting it and

00:07:49.500 complaining that apparently it's inappropriate but YouTube disagrees so

00:07:52.720 good for you good for you hey are your bees coming out of hibernation they are

00:07:56.200 they've been out I've been feeding them and getting them ready to get into

00:07:59.320 spring they're happy so far that's good did you see that story I sent you about

00:08:03.520 a guy in North Carolina who is a bee vet I did a veterinarian yes like where do

00:08:09.220 they put the thermometer well yeah we're getting in there and neutering I mean

00:08:12.220 that's got to be quite a task I just don't I'd say it was a cool article and

00:08:17.800 a cool specialist I mean yeah part of beekeeping I see Mike you know was on

00:08:20.680 there from freedom honey watching as well and others but yeah part of bee

00:08:23.980 keeping actually it's not that hard but it's watching for the others a number of

00:08:27.220 diseases and sicknesses they can hit your bees and if you don't maintain them

00:08:30.280 right that's how you lose hives and and seeing somebody specializing finally

00:08:35.080 because there's nothing like that around here it was kind of cool

00:08:38.340 Interesting. I wonder if the university is going to offer it.

00:08:42.420 Veterinary clinics.

00:08:43.380 Yeah, B-Vets. 1.00

00:08:44.320 B-Vets. 0.98

00:08:44.880 Yeah, you don't have to get worried by bitten by the dog when you're bathing it.

00:08:47.040 You're just going to get the hell stung out of you.

00:08:48.680 There you go.

00:08:50.000 Well, once, you know, busy day in politics again,

00:08:53.340 and obviously our site is dominated by that the last couple of days.

00:08:58.760 We've got an actual full-grown communist in Edmonton now that's running for the Liberals.

00:09:04.560 Rod Loyola, he stepped down from the NDP yesterday.

00:09:08.340 He was an MLA, and now he's going to run federally for Mark Carney and the Liberals.

00:09:13.240 But he's got a fairly checkered past as a true-blown communist, Corey.

00:09:17.420 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

00:09:25.340 and, you know, candlelight vigils for when Hugo Chavez died and all sorts of weird stuff like that.

00:09:31.520 So, yeah, good luck, Edmonton, with that one.

00:09:35.260 The Telegraph, one of England's most respected newspapers,

00:09:40.140 did a big feature on Mark Carney's volcanic temper.

00:09:44.300 And one of the incidents that they cite was the Western Standard,

00:09:48.420 our two incidents, when we were thrown out of his rally in Edmonton,

00:09:54.280 even though we had an invite, and when James Snell asked him a question,

00:09:58.560 and he got all haughty and what.

00:10:00.820 so that's uh mr carney's mood has uh gone all the way to the telegraph um miss speaking of mr

00:10:08.740 carney he was musing yesterday about putting a export tax on you know things like maybe albert

00:10:14.980 oil and uh danielle smith gave us a statement this morning who basically saying mark carney is clueless

00:10:21.780 and uh you know he's basically she basically double dares him you want to fight come on

00:10:25.940 we'll fight you uh carney had a problem today down in uh uh down east i think it was in windsor

00:10:32.500 uh reporter asked him in french and he didn't know he was talking about conspiracy theories

00:10:38.740 and he tried to answer the reporter in french but he he didn't know the french words for a

00:10:43.220 conspiracy theory so he just said oh to heck with that i'll finish answering it in english so

00:10:47.380 Well, his weak French exposed again.

00:10:52.320 Stories came out this morning that he and Brookfield was involved in moving all the company's assets to Bermuda, tax haven.

00:11:01.580 And he was questioned about that.

00:11:03.400 And he literally said, quote, I own nothing, quote.

00:11:08.160 Oh, well.

00:11:08.900 Other than those $6 million minimum worth of Brookfield shares.

00:11:13.900 And Polyev today has had a press conference down in Quebec.

00:11:19.200 That's going to be a big sort of tax break for seniors.

00:11:22.220 If they're still working, they can claim now up to $34,000 a year income tax-free.

00:11:28.240 So Nigel's quite happy about that.

00:11:30.160 Well, you know, that's the gringer amongst our group in here anyways. 1.00

00:11:35.620 I don't know if he makes that much out of the standard, though.

00:11:37.580 No, that's true.

00:11:38.800 That's true, whatever he earns.

00:11:40.140 I mean, it's interesting with, you know, looking at the polls, something that has been striking, though,

00:11:44.780 those, when the demographic breakdown comes along, that are returning to the Liberal fold,

00:11:49.500 or whatever way you want to put it, are actually older Canadians.

00:11:52.420 It's the younger Canadians are still supporting Conservatives.

00:11:55.420 I mean, everything's kind of gone flipped over, you know.

00:11:57.640 You used to go to a Conservative function, and I'd feel young in it,

00:12:00.460 because the average age would be into the 60s,

00:12:02.360 but a lot of Canada seniors apparently are all turning towards the Liberals for some bloody reason.

00:12:06.420 Yeah, that's what all the polls are showing.

00:12:07.700 Is there something wrong in the medication or something?

00:12:10.720 These people are supposed to know better.

00:12:12.640 And also to let you know, 2 o'clock Mountain Standard Time,

00:12:16.300 President Trump's supposed to be making an announcement on tariffs,

00:12:19.740 we think in the auto sector.

00:12:21.380 So we'll see what comes out of that.

00:12:23.480 I'm certain that'll cool down the political climate

00:12:25.560 and bring some stability to everything.

00:12:27.400 I'm sure it will, but we'll be monitoring and writing it up.

00:12:31.340 Right on.

00:12:31.920 Well, I'll read the report when it comes.

00:12:33.980 there Dave I'll let you back to your desk to start hammering away on those reporters yeah now sadly

00:12:38.660 my desk is behind me now yes so I'm gonna have to make sure or make be very careful when I call up

00:12:44.820 on the computer oh well you never called anything inappropriate no no no not at all okay folks so be

00:12:50.880 sure to zoom in that screen when it's not on my agent face and see what our newsroom is doing

00:12:55.740 in the background you can be the oversight and talk about transparency we're as transparent as

00:13:00.640 again. Absolutely. All right. Thanks, Dave. You bet, Corey. That is Dave Naylor, our news editor. Yes,

00:13:06.980 lots of stories. I mean, again, it's hard to keep up with things as they go, as this election

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00:13:51.100 The election's coming. Stuff's going to be behind a paywall. As you heard from Dave,

00:13:53.680 Those stories are coming out fast.

00:13:55.780 I mean, we are an active newsroom.

00:13:57.660 There aren't too many of them left.

00:13:58.560 Look at that.

00:13:58.800 You can see Dave getting back into his chair right over there, back to work.

00:14:01.880 Just no privacy around here anymore.

00:14:03.840 At least we don't have a bathroom cam yet.

00:14:06.380 So, yes, lots to cover and lots going on.

00:14:10.340 Darlene, oh, I'm going to ruin your name, Darlene, and I appreciate your comment.

00:14:16.640 Chernowitchin?

00:14:18.100 Either way, Darlene has commented and said,

00:14:19.820 the seniors that are voting liberals need to turn off the TV news.

00:14:22.120 That's an interesting part of the trend.

00:14:23.280 and something some people have been talking about.

00:14:25.900 Why are seniors suddenly supporting Liberals again?

00:14:28.740 Well, seniors are the ones more inclined to watch the old CBC, CTV, Global,

00:14:33.200 and guess what?

00:14:34.000 Those guys are getting brutal.

00:14:35.940 Oh, the slant on them.

00:14:36.900 But you see, they rely on subsidies.

00:14:38.360 They want those tax dollars. 0.72

00:14:39.220 They desperately are invested in having the Liberals win.

00:14:42.740 So, yeah, they're getting some pretty slanted news.

00:14:44.680 If you want something for a name you might not be familiar with,

00:14:46.440 I don't think I've ever mentioned her on my show,

00:14:48.000 but I might as well, for Comic Relief.

00:14:49.400 Rachel Gilmore, interesting online personality. 0.96

00:14:52.600 nut ear and squirrel crap is what she is either way if you want a valley girl interpretation 0.88

00:14:57.580 of what the news is apparently ctv has brought her on to fact check every friday morning rachel 0.91

00:15:04.460 gilmore this fruit loop is going to actually be the person checking facts and if you look into

00:15:09.200 her history she's had a long troubled relationship with the truth and this is what legacy media is

00:15:14.940 hiring a uh ditz in charge of fact checking every friday morning so yeah keep tuning into the western

00:15:21.080 standard guys we might be grumpy around here but at least we'll give you the truth all right let's

00:15:24.840 turn to the guest i have today don sharp is back and in studio we're going to talk about ems how's

00:15:30.580 going on very well pleased to be here again good good yeah we're overdue yeah uh you know i used to

00:15:36.620 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

00:15:41.060 and it's a great occasion for me to be here it's our first anniversary yes of the where's my

00:15:47.180 ambulance that's what you've been where's my ambulance.com so for years we worked together

00:15:52.260 trying to get citizen action groups together and we did a lot of foiping and stuff but we finally

00:15:56.800 made it official last year and started pursuing the truth with a banner where's my ambulance.com

00:16:02.820 and it's been very successful yeah and you have been traveling you've been working on this for

00:16:06.480 a while i've got one of those signs at home actually it's not on the lawn right now it's

00:16:09.380 things are frozen up but uh i mean our rural areas well we where i live in prittis is one

00:16:14.520 in the areas where we've been losing ambulances pretty chronically to service city ones,

00:16:18.980 and those are the kind of problems you've been bringing to people's attention.

00:16:23.000 So, I mean, we were looking at things optimistically, though.

00:16:25.920 I mean, Premier Smith came in.

00:16:26.900 She was talking about fixing some of the issues.

00:16:29.180 She wanted to get in there and shake up AHS. 0.99

00:16:32.720 But some things have changed, but progress has been limited, to say the least.

00:16:36.940 Yeah, and it's frustrating.

00:16:38.100 I mean, we've asked for more information.

00:16:39.960 I think three of the problems we have is poor leadership,

00:16:43.740 not at the provincial government level.

00:16:45.600 It's just an absence of transparency, really.

00:16:49.880 I think we don't know what's really going on.

00:16:51.740 We're not familiar with what her problems are,

00:16:54.380 but certainly she made a lot of efforts when she ran the radio show 0.97

00:16:59.540 to have paramedics on.

00:17:01.640 I think she understood the problem quite well.

00:17:04.800 And finally, a lack of accountability, and I think that's coming from AHS.

00:17:07.740 I don't think – I have a hard time separating the government and AHS, and I think a lot of people do.

00:17:15.480 Like, who's really responsible for what's wrong?

00:17:18.280 Well, that's a difficult part.

00:17:19.480 I mean, it's confusing to people.

00:17:21.200 AHS – it's funny.

00:17:23.120 I mean, when Premier Smith was, you know, breaking that into four parts, people were, you know,

00:17:27.740 and the news was reporting Daniel Smith is dismantling Alberta Health Services,

00:17:31.440 and it's making it sound like she's taking down the whole – AHS is the bureaucracy. 0.99

00:17:35.080 It's the administration.

00:17:36.580 The government is in charge of them, but they have to give them a degree of independence, too.

00:17:41.380 They can't micromanage.

00:17:43.120 No, and by legislation, AHS is protected.

00:17:45.700 Remember, the Alberta ombudsman, by law, can't even investigate AHS.

00:17:49.900 They do their own investigations.

00:17:51.700 So making a complaint to the ombudsman about AHS, she'll just tell you, no, she can't get involved.

00:17:57.240 The same with a complaint about, say, vehicle maintenance of ambulances.

00:18:01.400 You make a complaint to Alberta Transportation, they say, AHS is an essential service.

00:18:05.680 all we can really do is ask them to do better when in if this had been a trucking company all

00:18:11.120 the vehicles would be pulled off the road immediately and certified so again i have i

00:18:16.720 have trouble drawing a line um you know i've got to work with the government that's in power

00:18:21.360 uh i'm not i don't want to be partisan i'm that's not the point but my problem is consistently with

00:18:27.440 ahs i worked for them for a long time as a paramedic and i think that their reluctance

00:18:33.120 The bottom line is their reluctance to take risks, to do the things that need to be done to fix the problems that exist.

00:18:41.040 They're a little over-focused on managing their own business at the bureaucratic level,

00:18:48.140 rather than doing what's important, which is looking after the people who need care.

00:18:52.440 Yeah, and I mean, this is something everybody cares about.

00:18:55.000 I mean, you might not realize how much you need it until something tragic happens, a health episode, an accident,

00:19:00.680 enter and then that's when you suddenly discover yeah wow we do not have a quickly responding

00:19:07.160 no and it's such a big issue even when you have a problem people don't know where to turn so

00:19:11.160 as experienced paramedics who've done some foip work before we started digging in

00:19:15.480 and we fought first around the calgary area and then we fought some data in north zone

00:19:21.080 and we exposed how poorly they are running their staffing up there a lot of paramedics are dropping

00:19:26.040 from full-time to casual so they can pick their shifts because they were just being overworked

00:19:31.720 it's fine in ems as a paramedic we expect that there will be late trips at the end of your shift

00:19:35.800 if you're the only truck available but if it happens shift after shift and you become exhausted

00:19:41.000 and your family suffers paramedics start saying i'm not going to do this anymore i'll drop the

00:19:46.280 casual and i'll work when i want yeah the burnout's been another big issue so frustrating i get

00:19:51.640 stories we get letters and emails and phone calls all the time so there's a deadline for a possible

00:19:58.040 change approaching right uh one of the bigger issues labeled of course has been hallway care

00:20:02.360 hospitals have been handing off care of new patients to paramedics who are stranded kind

00:20:07.160 of in the hallway next to a gurney when they should be out you know rounding up people or

00:20:11.320 stable held hostage really held hostage by a hospital centric system that believes patients

00:20:16.920 in the hospital are more important than the patients i serve which are the ones in the

00:20:20.040 the community so we did a study back in 2017 about how many hours and days we spend in the hallway

00:20:28.120 with patients the hospital's got to pick up and we hear april 1st we hear something from

00:20:34.200 ehs that that might actually be changing so we're not going to hold our breath we're convinced that

00:20:40.520 well we've been lied to before it's that simple so we'll see what happens but again one of the

00:20:47.800 things they could do to alleviate the problem is they hired a couple of private companies to do

00:20:52.600 contracted non-emergent patient transfers and that's absolutely necessary the bottom line

00:21:00.200 hs can't do it alone and i watch what's been happening with this argument about private

00:21:04.840 contractors and i know that lots of people in the union world are just absolutely dead set against

00:21:09.800 privates but i think we hs has proven over and over again they can't do it by themselves they

00:21:14.280 They need some help.

00:21:15.580 There are private contractors out there who are qualified and capable of stepping up

00:21:20.020 and moving non-urgent patients in a timely fashion using professional paramedics

00:21:24.620 and, you know, well-maintained ambulances.

00:21:28.460 So it's frustrating to see it not happen.

00:21:31.960 Yeah, and that's one of the, you would think, relatively easier common-sense solutions.

00:21:35.320 I mean, if you've got somebody who's got health challenges,

00:21:38.100 they're being moved from one facility to another,

00:21:40.060 You want somebody skilled with them in case something goes awry,

00:21:44.620 but they're not urgent at the time.

00:21:46.960 And we've been using fully equipped ambulances to do that task.

00:21:51.420 Correct.

00:21:51.760 If you're the only paramedic crew in Nanton responsible for 1,400 square kilometers

00:21:58.120 and they take you out of your service area to take somebody to the CAST clinic,

00:22:03.480 that's a misuse of that vital resource.

00:22:05.500 And I think people have to understand that, especially rural people get it.

00:22:08.620 But their ambulance is gone for better parts of most days.

00:22:13.280 Okotoks, Pritis, Black Diamond, those communities can all be empty. 0.95

00:22:17.460 And nothing's ever done about it.

00:22:19.760 Nobody seems to care as long as there's trucks in Calgary.

00:22:23.300 So ending hallway waits would be a big part of that,

00:22:25.840 returning those crews to their communities.

00:22:27.780 Get them there, get them ready for those, again, that critical first hour or whatnot,

00:22:32.800 instead of, again, transporting somebody.

00:22:34.800 And, I mean, there's the risk-averse thing, right?

00:22:37.000 Do people always say, well, what if that person is midway and transported and then, you know, at health?

00:22:43.000 We can what if EMS to death.

00:22:45.140 In fact, I used to answer questions that started with what if.

00:22:48.700 I'd say, well, okay, you answer it.

00:22:50.120 What if?

00:22:50.820 And in most cases, well, paramedics are, you know what we're really good at doing is solving problems.

00:22:55.820 So if you have a problem in transit, you'll figure it out.

00:22:58.160 You'll call for help.

00:22:59.060 You'll pull over or you'll go to the nearest or, I mean, there's so many options.

00:23:03.940 That's what paramedics are trained to do is solve those problems.

00:23:06.100 Well, then we can't look for every contingency.

00:23:08.200 I mean, if you had a whole cardiac crew in every ambulance,

00:23:10.960 the chances of reducing a fatal cardiac episode in transport would be greatly reduced, too.

00:23:15.400 But we have to get realistic.

00:23:16.540 Yeah, it's like taking a limousine to the grocery store.

00:23:18.620 Nobody does that.

00:23:19.700 So there's lots of it.

00:23:21.240 And we exposed, again, the EMS 811 referral system scandal where Alberta Health said,

00:23:30.880 yeah, we're going to refer a lot of non-urgent calls to 811,

00:23:34.280 and they'll look after them and they'll get them alternate transport but in large part 65% of the

00:23:40.260 calls that EMS sent to 811 were bounced back to EMS in a lot of cases because 811 didn't answer

00:23:46.140 in the three minutes that they were required to answer and it came back automatically where the

00:23:50.260 caller said well I don't have a car or I'm not going to wait or I want an ambulance right now

00:23:55.420 and like it's just again this is the accountability factor and the fact that we have to FOIP all of

00:24:01.300 this information speaks to the lack of transparency very frustrating yeah and

00:24:05.380 you've gotten some pushback I mean they've been pretty upset with you yeah

00:24:09.460 so last year they tried to take my license away as a paramedic they made a

00:24:13.240 complaint to the college it went nowhere and then they sent us a cease and desist

00:24:17.920 because they said we were being defamatory and I would say we were a

00:24:23.060 little hyperbolic but we were accused of making EMS managers feel unsafe and we

00:24:28.720 We certainly don't want to do that.

00:24:30.180 So we agreed to take some of the more inflammatory comments off of our,

00:24:37.840 and tone it down a little, which is, you know, which is fair, right?

00:24:41.000 I mean, we're interested in the truth.

00:24:42.200 We're interested in the facts.

00:24:43.740 And we all together are trying to make EMS better.

00:24:48.440 Being shut out, though, and speaking of being shut out,

00:24:51.300 I mean, I was shut out from this EMS standing committee.

00:24:54.040 I wasn't even qualified to sit on the committee.

00:24:56.980 They made that quite clear.

00:24:58.720 He had to be either a working paramedic or a leader in one of the related organizations.

00:25:05.880 So now there's 22 people on the standing committee, some from the rural municipalities,

00:25:10.260 some are fire chiefs, some are working paramedics in AHS.

00:25:14.980 They've been meeting for about 18 months.

00:25:17.540 They're called the Alberta EMS Standing Committee,

00:25:19.940 and because they report directly to the minister, we don't have access to their agenda or their minutes.

00:25:26.280 So I started phoning him.

00:25:27.640 I phoned them up and I said hey I know you signed an NDA I don't want to violate that

00:25:31.780 tell me how you're feeling tell me what's happening with the committee well they're

00:25:36.160 all feeling just a little frustrated AHS is doing some level setting trying to

00:25:40.840 educate everybody about how EMS works and I think it sounds like they're

00:25:44.680 trying to limit their actual ability to make change which is you know it's

00:25:49.900 disappointing for them because we're depending on this committee to valiantly

00:25:53.740 push forward for the changes that are really necessary so i wish them luck and i uh you know

00:25:59.220 if you're on the standing committee and you're and you're struggling i i hope you uh realize this is

00:26:04.980 not about careers or politics it's about people's lives and you need to stand up and tell them what

00:26:09.340 you really think and make the changes that need to be made so yeah and i mean death by committee

00:26:14.700 it's something that that politicians and bureaucracies have always been skilled if they

00:26:20.100 if they want to rag the puck and just avoid changing something just make a bloated slow

00:26:24.980 moving committee and drag it out and people lose interest and nothing gets accomplished i mean a

00:26:29.620 committee can accomplish things with the right mandate and the will to do it but you need

00:26:35.060 oversight and transparency that's why are they hiding there's nothing in this that should be

00:26:38.820 confidential really you're not talking about patient records or no not at all but again this

00:26:44.740 is again why we have these lawn signs we like to go to the local town halls when the

00:26:48.660 the AHS managers come out and tell town councils what they're up to, and we can spot when they're

00:26:55.120 bending the truth just a little bit. And I sympathize with town councils because every

00:26:59.920 time you talk to AHS, you've always got one hand out, right? Whenever you're talking as a town

00:27:05.260 councillor, you've always got one hand out because you want something. So if you're slapping one of

00:27:09.200 their representatives with the other hand, maybe that'll be counterproductive. But again, town

00:27:14.160 councils are responsible for advocating for the safety of their citizens you

00:27:18.220 need an ambulance in your town as often as possible stop letting them steal your

00:27:22.580 your resources well it's something you've been doing more in the past too

00:27:26.160 which I appreciate you came up to press in other areas and I substance white 0.71

00:27:29.320 talking Cochran some common sense things too like maybe you don't necessarily

00:27:33.600 need an ambulance you know things that let's get the public a little more

00:27:37.620 trained to deal with you know emergent issues sometimes we can resolve things

00:27:41.400 without taking a truck out of the system.

00:27:43.880 I mean, that's a broader, whole huge area as well,

00:27:46.380 but there just doesn't seem to be motivation

00:27:48.080 with a centralized bureaucracy.

00:27:49.540 No, we want to pull everything in.

00:27:50.900 You know, you've got that bleeding hangnail

00:27:52.620 and you're terrified about it.

00:27:53.640 Well, just stick on the safe side and call an ambulance.

00:27:55.540 Right.

00:27:56.240 You know, wait a minute.

00:27:57.940 Yeah.

00:27:58.140 And then, of course, when it comes time when you do call

00:28:00.540 and you really need one and it's not coming, what do you do?

00:28:04.840 So we've encouraged people to think about that.

00:28:06.940 If an ambulance is not coming and you need one.

00:28:09.500 What's your contingency?

00:28:11.040 It's great to have a pre-plan, have a plan B.

00:28:13.420 How am I going to get Dad down the stairs and into the car?

00:28:16.280 And we don't like to say that, but you know what?

00:28:19.460 Everything we see, the disasters in EMS are everywhere,

00:28:24.600 whether it's staffing or dispatch or overtime.

00:28:28.660 In 2019, they spent $6 million on overtime.

00:28:32.360 This year, it looks like they're spending $3 million a month on overtime

00:28:37.300 for paramedics to come in on their days off and sit in empty seats and do calls that's unsustainable

00:28:45.140 financially but it also burns our guys out there they're leaving the profession they're failing

00:28:49.700 well it's indicative of how exhausting it would be i mean it's a different profession than anything

00:28:53.700 else these are people who take it very seriously understand that if somebody's not there for an

00:28:58.180 emergency a person may die yeah and as burnt out as you are it's hard to say no to that extra shift

00:29:03.380 if you're going to be leaving an area uncovered you get that phone call and you think they say

00:29:07.860 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

00:29:13.220 more shift i talked to a guy over christmas he worked 19 shifts in a row how do you work 19 12

00:29:18.900 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

00:29:24.020 look at red deer fire red deer fire also runs the ambulance service that organization the union just

00:29:31.220 had a non-confidence vote in their leadership because they're actually not staffing fire trucks

00:29:36.820 in order to keep the ambulances staffed because the paramedics there are failing

00:29:41.860 it's a big controversy and it needs some attention strathcona fire department has well staffed well

00:29:47.700 trained firefighters on all of their ambulances in strathcona county but every night they get

00:29:52.820 sucked into edmonton they spend the whole shift in edmonton do you want to be a firefighter on

00:29:58.020 an ambulance that spends all night in edmonton and leaves your home community unguarded ahs has

00:30:03.460 this fallacy called the borderless system they keep hanging on to it's a terrible idea it's it's

00:30:08.340 really a uh it's really a shared resources mass casualty contingency plan that they're they've

00:30:16.340 adopted as gospel and it's a bad idea it takes resources from the smaller communities to the

00:30:22.020 central urban areas and uh and leave those small communities defenseless it's it's unconscionable

00:30:28.100 in my opinion yeah well the government you know premier smith's burning the candle from 12 ends

00:30:32.340 but you know well she took on the big job it's gonna come with it and this is you know what we're

00:30:36.180 here to help her yeah um we just we're gonna keep exposing what's wrong making foip requests even

00:30:42.020 though ahs is now charging us fifteen hundred dollars that's another way they like to yeah

00:30:47.300 does the same garbage yeah so i mean we're here to help we'll keep exposing it until somebody

00:30:51.780 realizes that something has to change yeah and just you know in closing for people unfamiliar

00:30:55.700 with foip it's freedom of information requests and it is our information it should be ours by default

00:31:01.540 they should be making the excuse as to why anything shouldn't be i mean there's some things

00:31:04.740 that have to be kept confidential but for the most part yeah it should be just there for us yeah and

00:31:09.060 the foip team that we talk to the guys who actually accept the foips and share them with ahs they're

00:31:13.780 great people they work really hard to explain the rules and get us what we're asked for and

00:31:18.420 help us with the with the nomenclature with the verbiage and yeah but it's a

00:31:24.240 HS seems to be just throwing a rock in the road every day and it's to their own

00:31:27.960 detriment I wish they could see that it's a shame well I appreciate the work

00:31:31.620 you're doing and keeping hammering on it and keeping them exposed and again so

00:31:34.940 you're at where's my ambulance and where's my ambulance.com and remember

00:31:39.120 and simple straightforward yeah we're on Instagram now we have 3,000 followers

00:31:42.720 that was unexpected so be sure guys get out there follow them thank you again

00:31:47.660 Don and yeah, reach out to Don. He's very responsive. He'll get back to you because

00:31:51.540 this is something that eventually it's going to affect you and it might be in the worst sort of

00:31:55.660 way. So yeah, know what to expect. Let's get it fixed. Thanks again for having me on. Thanks Don.

00:32:00.460 Good to see you. You too. We'll talk again soon. So yes, again, one more time, where's my ambulance.com

00:32:06.900 and it makes sense. You know, I mean, going a little farther back historically and I, you know,

00:32:12.380 it gets into the the blasphemy among some people and so on but municipalities used to run their

00:32:20.040 their own ambulance service it was local and you know what it's we centralize things too much we

00:32:26.540 stick it into a location that can't apply itself I guess to the the wider needs of a of a broader

00:32:32.620 area so needs in a rural area are going to be different than those in an urban area you know

00:32:39.580 Calgary needs are going to be different from Prittis needs where I am, but you're sharing

00:32:43.160 all those resources and stuffing it in under a centralized governance, I believe it was

00:32:49.840 under the Stelmac government when that first came about, and it's not working, but what

00:32:54.800 do you do?

00:32:55.500 And AHS, they have been dragging their heels, I mean, Premier Smith has been in a pitched

00:33:00.180 battle, basically, with AHS, Alberta Health Services, that's the stuff that's going on

00:33:04.820 now where the government's being sued for wrongful dismissal of the former head of the ahs and

00:33:11.220 there's accusations of uh of uh inappropriate uh tendering for for private services that are going

00:33:19.380 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

00:33:24.340 government unfortunately to to screw things up and make mistakes when it comes to that and procurement

00:33:29.060 But at the same time, you've got a bureaucracy that clearly does not want to change anything.

00:33:36.420 And they're going to do everything they can to maintain the status quo.

00:33:39.660 So, you know, reach out to those things.

00:33:41.740 I mean, that's part of what I like what Don does.

00:33:43.500 It's a citizen's thing.

00:33:44.380 He's come out to small towns.

00:33:45.520 He's talked to people.

00:33:46.920 As I said, you know, in Cochrane, they came out and talked to people about just how to take care of yourself.

00:33:52.200 If you phone and you've had, you know, somebody's having a cardiac episode in your house, a stroke, something like that.

00:33:58.800 This area is where liability, everybody worries too much.

00:34:01.500 But you need to get that person to medical professionals as fast as possible.

00:34:06.180 You phone 911, of course, that's what you're supposed to do.

00:34:07.960 But they say, yeah, it'll be there in about 40 minutes.

00:34:10.160 Or often they won't tell you the time.

00:34:11.280 But, you know, you've got to know.

00:34:12.740 You've got to push.

00:34:13.560 Because if it's going to be that long, they'll say, get the person in your car and start driving.

00:34:18.260 Get moving.

00:34:19.040 Because sitting still isn't going to help.

00:34:20.700 You can stay in communication with EMS if you've got the ability anyways, you know.

00:34:25.280 and they will offer that information to people

00:34:28.520 because all Don wants to do

00:34:29.700 and the other paramedics he works

00:34:30.900 is just make sure people get help as fast as possible

00:34:34.280 because it's so important to be speedy.

00:34:37.440 All right, but yeah,

00:34:37.980 the stuff that's getting overshadowed with all of that

00:34:40.180 is the federal election.

00:34:42.580 We should talk a little more about it,

00:34:43.660 some of the stuff that's been in the news.

00:34:45.200 So the NDP, you know, the polls, as I said,

00:34:48.340 they're in collapse.

00:34:50.020 I mean, I put on an X the other day.

00:34:52.000 I'm wondering with Jagmeet Singh,

00:34:53.200 this is the worst NDP leader in history.

00:34:56.220 He really is.

00:34:57.680 And that support, you look at the polls,

00:34:59.940 the Liberals have been growing and surging.

00:35:02.800 Some of it's been a little bit of slowdown

00:35:04.680 and support for the Conservative Party.

00:35:06.800 But for the most part, it's the NDP.

00:35:08.840 They're down to like 9%.

00:35:10.440 And that's all going to the Liberals.

00:35:14.120 And opportunists and extremists.

00:35:17.300 So look at what Dave mentioned

00:35:19.400 with Loyola joining the Liberal Party federally.

00:35:25.560 You know, he's an Alberta member of the legislature.

00:35:27.820 He's a hard, hard, hard left liberal or NDP member of the legislature.

00:35:34.020 Yet, apparently, he's not too far left for the liberals.

00:35:37.600 He literally marched in communist parades.

00:35:41.500 Look it up.

00:35:42.120 There's pictures of him proudly marching with a communist banner behind him.

00:35:45.640 We're not even talking about socialists anymore.

00:35:47.320 run-of-the-mill leftists a literal communist not literal in the way that hammerheads like uh

00:35:54.840 good old rachel gilmore uses no i mean it he's a literal communist and as dave said you know uh

00:36:01.160 he's he's known for some pumping up people like shega vera and and uh castro and this guy's gonna

00:36:08.840 run for the liberal party if the liberals win he might actually be a member of parliament in the

00:36:15.320 governing party and he's a communist and people think that carney has actually brought the

00:36:22.200 liberals into common sense people think that carney is is made the liberals a little more

00:36:26.760 conservative no not if you're bringing in nutcases like layola and will edmonton elect him i don't

00:36:33.320 know those edmonton writings you know they're full of union civil servant hacks they will vote for

00:36:38.200 whoever paints himself as the farthest left so what a nice embarrassment for alberta we've 1.00

00:36:42.200 We've already got one kook up there, Heather McPherson. 1.00

00:36:45.240 She's a crazed NDP member of parliament from Alberta, one of our embarrassments. 1.00

00:36:49.500 And we might have more.

00:36:51.540 What's nutty, nutty times?

00:36:53.920 In the meantime, again, everything's been turned over on its head.

00:36:57.820 Carol Scobie saying, don't believe in the polls.

00:37:01.240 A commentator, that's fair enough to say because the polls in the last few years have been less than reliable sometimes.

00:37:09.340 Sometimes they hit it well, but there's been some times they've been awful.

00:37:11.400 We saw that south of the border. We've seen that in past elections, but usually it's a matter of a

00:37:16.260 few outliers. The polls have limits and election campaign can change things, but no, there's been

00:37:21.760 way too many of them now. Even the internal polls, one of the most indicative things, because

00:37:28.280 parties run polls all the time, ones that they don't release. And those are ones where the

00:37:32.480 parties really want to learn what it's looking like out there. They want to see the landscape.

00:37:35.840 They're constantly spending money getting polls, those internals. And when you see liberal MPs,

00:37:41.260 opportunists, like Fraser and Anand, who said, oh, we're going to leave and spend more time with

00:37:46.240 our families, and then suddenly turn around and say, nah, you know what, we changed our mind,

00:37:48.760 I'm going to go run for office again. The internals are telling them that they're going to win.

00:37:56.000 So, yeah, I know there's only one poll that counts and all the terms we can use for it,

00:38:00.340 but the polls at least show some general trends, and they can change. They can change a lot between

00:38:04.620 now and election day. Carney's not a well-prepared, polished politician, whatever he might be,

00:38:09.700 And he might stumble. Canadians might see through things. This might turn around.

00:38:15.340 But there's a real risk of these guys getting in and guys like Loyola getting in with them.

00:38:22.900 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.

00:38:32.700 Why isn't Loyola running for the NDP for his own party?

00:38:36.480 because he wants a seat and not just a seat he wants a seat in the party in power a communist

00:38:43.120 in the party in power plus when it comes to that if there's only two liberal mps typically

00:38:49.780 the liberals will put those mps in cabinet and look what happened with that well we had randy

00:38:56.360 and randy uh he was the scandalous liberal mp from up in edmonton who has finally stepped aside

00:39:02.020 and he's not running because he's nuts and he was constantly caught lying he was lying about his

00:39:07.940 indigenous heritage he was getting government contracts it sounds like that based on that 0.94

00:39:12.660 alleged indigenous background and plus of course he he made up multiple names for himself to claim

00:39:19.640 you know communications weren't his it's just nuts so he was out of cabinet and then we have

00:39:24.020 the porch pirate george shahal he's known as the porch pirate down here he's from calgary and

00:39:28.480 northeast rioting, literally stole mail from a person's mailbox.

00:39:32.180 And the doorbell camera showed it.

00:39:35.540 He walked up in the campaign.

00:39:36.560 He gave it a Chahal on his shirt.

00:39:38.100 And there he is right in the camera.

00:39:39.340 Smart guy, that Chahal. 1.00

00:39:41.300 Saw a conservative piece of literature in the mailbox.

00:39:43.820 He pulled it out and then put the Liberal brochure in.

00:39:48.260 And even after being caught doing that, he stayed in the Liberal Party.

00:39:52.060 But it was embarrassing enough that he didn't get into cabinet.

00:39:54.480 But if Loyola gets in and the Liberals win, Loyola will probably be a cabinet minister.

00:39:59.500 We'll have a communist cabinet minister, at least.

00:40:01.900 And as some others are saying, you know, we've had enough communists around already.

00:40:04.880 Sure, but those are closet ones.

00:40:06.420 Loyola's right out there in the open.

00:40:08.000 That's how nuts it is.

00:40:10.080 This country where we're going.

00:40:12.760 This is something that Daniel Smith, Premier Smith, did email to the Western Standard

00:40:16.340 because Carney mused about export taxes on Alberta oil or potash from Saskatchewan.

00:40:22.540 provincial resources, putting a tax on those in the tariff battle with President Trump.

00:40:29.740 And she said she's been very clear, you know, Alberta will never agree to an observe and

00:40:33.280 self-destructive export tax on our oil and gas headed to the United States. She said it pretty

00:40:37.260 clearly. Well, this has been done before. Pierre Trudeau did it in the past. And it was a disaster.

00:40:45.680 It castrated Alberta's economy. It just devastated us here. The rigs shut down, the work shut down.

00:40:52.540 I mean, I don't know how to deal with Trump.

00:40:55.560 Counter tariffs aren't the way to do it. 0.99

00:40:57.860 As we've had multiple guests talk about that before.

00:41:01.420 It's just shooting yourself as well.

00:41:03.320 And just this race to the bottom.

00:41:04.920 If we can afford to wait it out long enough,

00:41:07.220 enough American consumers are going to look at the orange man and say,

00:41:09.880 cut it out.

00:41:11.320 Cut it out. 0.99

00:41:11.820 The price of everything's going up, you madman. 0.99

00:41:13.800 Stop it. 0.98

00:41:14.680 It's not helping.

00:41:15.760 We're not suddenly developing an oil industry in Utah because it's not there.

00:41:20.320 We had to buy Canadian products for that.

00:41:23.020 There's potash.

00:41:24.460 That's 80% of the American fertilizer comes from Saskatchewan.

00:41:27.680 They don't have a source there.

00:41:31.980 So, yeah, you can hurt them by putting a tariff on that outgoing.

00:41:35.900 But if you start tariffing incoming stuff, you're just raising the cost of Canadian goods. 1.00

00:41:39.200 Tariffs are stupid. 0.99

00:41:41.020 And if we waited out long enough, Trump's economics so far, 1.00

00:41:45.580 and I know the Trump supporters get upset with me too damn bad, 1.00

00:41:47.740 his economic policies are stupid, and they have been. 1.00

00:41:50.320 And it will catch up with them. 1.00

00:41:51.820 We have to wait it out.

00:41:52.900 And we do have to broaden our export marketability.

00:41:56.780 We should be looking at increasing portability so more Alberta and Saskatchewan and British Columbia natural resources get out to other customers.

00:42:05.160 It's a smart way to do things no matter who the president is.

00:42:08.160 Likewise with potash and other things like that.

00:42:10.300 But if Kearney steps over and into provincial jurisdiction and starts putting export taxes on our products, that crosses some very heavy lines.

00:42:22.260 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.

00:42:28.340 But you want to see the Western independence movement really spring up.

00:42:33.000 Yeah, get in there and start meddling with our exports and our products 0.81

00:42:38.780 and see how quickly things become problematic.

00:42:42.540 The promises this week, you know, giving a quick rundown.

00:42:45.780 I mean, this week one, it's interesting from both Carney and Polyev.

00:42:50.260 I mean, we're basically at a two-party system at this point.

00:42:52.700 It's going to be Liberals and Conservatives.

00:42:54.200 The NDP have self-destructed under Singh.

00:42:57.260 The People's Party, really, they just have their fringe where they will,

00:43:00.380 but there's nowhere where they have concentrated support enough to win a seat.

00:43:04.300 But they'll be there. They'll speak to it. They will. Fair enough.

00:43:06.060 It's a democracy. That's the way it goes.

00:43:07.760 And, of course, crazy Liz May and her weird, check that out. 1.00

00:43:10.600 They've got a weird co-leadership of Elizabeth May and the other fellow 0.96

00:43:14.280 where they speak together at conferences.

00:43:16.840 Again, shows some of the weirdness of voters, Salt Spring Island and the others, 0.95

00:43:20.320 where they will re-elect people that nutty. 0.55

00:43:22.000 But they will. So it can happen.

00:43:25.300 It's a two-person race.

00:43:26.380 And they're both promising the same things all over the place.

00:43:29.280 So both are promising tax cuts this week, some for seniors, some for people just in general with lower income, people buying houses.

00:43:38.380 Again, both parties have said that they're going to offer tax cuts on the GST.

00:43:44.700 So in reality, you get the same thing promised from both.

00:43:46.820 Which one do you believe, though?

00:43:48.480 Which one might be true? 1.00

00:43:49.640 Look, the Liberals are accomplished liars. 0.99

00:43:51.520 They're very good at it. 0.99

00:43:52.520 To be fair, there's been no shortage of conservative lying politicians historically either.

00:43:56.980 Unfortunately, lying and politics just come together all too often.

00:44:02.100 So you have to look at the broader issue because they're promising the same thing,

00:44:05.040 which one's actually going to follow through.

00:44:06.720 The other thing, I'm glad they're all promising tax cuts.

00:44:08.960 I don't care which party promises it.

00:44:10.800 It's a good promise to make.

00:44:13.620 But you're going to have to eventually make spending cuts then

00:44:15.700 because we're not bringing in more revenue, are we?

00:44:18.880 And you don't hear them talking about that.

00:44:22.580 That's blasphemy.

00:44:23.480 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.

00:44:35.680 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.

00:44:43.540 Spending cuts can be well received if they're done carefully and smartly.

00:44:46.260 but uh yes okay paradoxy pointing out something saying one will increase debt to pay for the

00:44:51.640 promises while the other will cut frivolous spending to do so i like to think so i like to

00:44:57.160 think so but specify where the cuts are they're saying you're going to cut isn't enough you got

00:45:02.720 to have the courage to say we're going to cut this we're going to cut that i want to see where

00:45:08.440 these cuts are going to be i want to see commitment to make these cuts and uh the courage to follow

00:45:13.880 through with them when the time comes. I, yes, I have my leaning. I mean, I'm an opinion person.

00:45:19.820 It's an opinion show. I think the Conservatives are far, far more likely to make those cuts,

00:45:24.400 much more likely to be economically responsible. Look, we have to turn over governments every now

00:45:29.800 and then. We have to, for the sake of just flushing out the rot, the inside dealing,

00:45:35.600 the corruption, and it comes with all of them. It happened when the Mulroney government was in

00:45:39.760 for too long it happened when klein's progressive conservatives were in for way way way too long

00:45:45.320 and the liberals have been in for way too long as well they need to be flushed out so if you're

00:45:51.540 going to look at that and that's what's so maddening then people if you want to look at it

00:45:54.880 and both these parties appear to be the same they aren't we need to get one out and if so if all 0.94

00:46:01.860 things are equal vote for the bloody conservatives don't be a peckerhead putting those liberals back 0.69

00:46:06.740 in for another term. They're not going to do us any 0.90

00:46:08.780 favours. We know their history. Kearney

00:46:10.400 is not going to help anything. Wildrose,

00:46:12.520 I'll leave it off, gave a final comment for the

00:46:14.800 show today saying we need term limits. That's a separate

00:46:16.720 discussion altogether. There's good and bad

00:46:18.680 things about term limits but it's an interesting one to bring

00:46:20.780 up so I appreciate that comment. Alright guys

00:46:22.760 thanks for tuning in. Watch for other

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00:46:26.780 recently interviewed Christine Anderson.

00:46:28.740 That'll be going up soon. Nigel Hannaford has his

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Western Standard - March 27, 2025

Look inside yourself, Canada

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