00:00:00.000all right welcome back happy thursday what is today the 13th holy
00:00:29.920smokes august 13th what does that mean about another another two like it feels like just
00:00:35.840yesterday i was talking about stampede which to me is kind of like the start of summer and now i'm
00:00:39.900already thinking about the fact that kids are going back to school in a couple of weeks i mean
00:00:44.960my kids are all grown up but uh wow it's no joke right i mean summer in alberta can last about a
00:00:51.320month and a half some years and i think this is one of those years something something tells me
00:00:56.040we're going to have a nasty winter. Just my thought. It's raining today. I think hopefully
00:01:02.520a lot of people are happy about that. I know there's lots of smoke in the air recently. Good
00:01:07.320to clear the air. Yesterday we had some sun. You know, thoughts out to the people in BC that are
00:01:15.100affected by these fires. And I'm going to come back to this, right? I mean, I think I'm going
00:01:19.680to talk a little bit about forest mismanagement today. But before we get too deep in the show,
00:01:25.500a reminder right we're trying to turn this into a call-in talk show i got a list of topics maybe
00:01:32.220i'll i'll quickly give you the topics i'd kind of like to talk about today but really this shows
00:01:37.260a success when you guys call in john's got the number there on the screen and i think maybe
00:01:43.420maybe today because it's raining here in calgary and most of the province maybe you guys are stuck
00:01:47.500indoors at your lunch hour instead of going out for a nice walk so maybe it'll be an opportunity
00:01:51.500to call me. So what do I want to talk about today? You know, I'll do my usual little monologue.
00:01:59.000Actually, it's going to be monologue bordering on a rant. But I want to talk about, you know,
00:02:06.020the looming American tariffs. We had another Liberal MP resign. Interesting circumstances
00:02:15.220there, perhaps. We got a couple of by-elections, three by-elections coming up later this month
00:02:22.820across Canada there on, I think it's August 29th is when those are happening. We had a spy,
00:02:31.900a Canadian spy in Europe, and a few other stories, the foreign students protesting here
00:02:38.800um and and so forth so uh where to start um let me start with uh let me start with telling you
00:02:46.920where I went last week because it it helps with uh I I discovered a couple of things right you
00:02:52.360guys know I love to uh leave and go out in the wilderness the name Marty up north is not a
00:02:58.300coincidence right it's a it's a moniker that I acquired in my years gone by you know I started
00:03:05.440my oil and gas career living in fox creek alberta so i lived in fox creek for about six or seven
00:03:11.200years uh if you don't know where fox creek is you know it's kind of like on the highway between
00:03:16.640edmonton and grand prairie middle of nowhere and then i did a stint in uh in slave lake fort
00:03:24.560saskatchewan i lived in burstall for a while so i in fact i'd go from the south and then the company
00:03:30.480because I worked in the oil patch, it transferred me down south and back up north. But the bulk of
00:03:35.340my career up north in towns like Grand Prairie, Edson, and Fox Creek, that's where I cut my teeth
00:03:42.960in the oil patch, spent about 20 years there. That's where I acquired the name Marty Up North,
00:03:46.780and that's where I discovered my passion for the outdoors. And to this day, I love to just
00:03:54.400disconnect bugger off and go on long hikes in the wilderness and that's what i did last week
00:04:01.000so and and and there's a two-parter to this so the first thing i did last week is uh i went back0.55
00:04:07.820to my hunting camp my hunting camp is up around grand cache and uh i told you guys i i set up the
00:04:14.380hunting camp me i've been hunting in this area for 35 years with the same six or seven guys
00:04:19.200and um nowadays we set up our hunting camp in july so that people family friends can enjoy it
00:04:26.760over and over throughout the summer and then we go in there finally in september and hunt
00:04:31.380and the area has been um the target of we we've been really affected by the caribou management
00:04:41.600plan. So in Alberta, Alberta is forced to address caribou management and to try and protect the
00:04:49.820caribou. And I say Alberta is forced to do this because caribou protection really is animal
00:04:55.420protection really is a federal jurisdiction. It's one of those things, right? So Ottawa has
00:05:01.340signed on to protect caribou. And consequently, Ottawa pushes that down onto the provinces.
00:05:08.340And then in here in Alberta, they almost hold us hostage with this thing. Right. Protect the caribou, do certain things or risk us coming in, us being Ottawa and designated large tracts of land as national parks and things like that. Right.
00:05:24.540And you saw Carney this week announce more of that.
00:05:27.800Funny that Carney's able to announce these things while he's in Italy, right?
00:06:18.580and they're using our area as a test to um they've been testing for for 40 years now they've been
00:06:27.920testing all these different methods of protecting the caribou right they've gone from like let's
00:06:33.300shoot all the wolves from the air to hey let's let the wolves prosper but let's take away the
00:06:38.700wolf's favorite food so let's kill all the moose because if you know if the moot if the if the0.99
00:06:43.740wolves are gone. The caribou will do good. That didn't work. Uh, well, let's kill their favorite0.73
00:06:48.180food. So if we kill the, their favorite food, the wolves will leave on their own. Cause, and1.00
00:06:52.680they even considered building a pen around this thing, like putting a hundred kilometer by a
00:06:57.180hundred kilometer fence and, and capturing the caribou holding in an area. Anyways, they've been,
00:07:04.240uh, we, we, we were consulted and we had, uh, they promised us that they weren't doing this
00:07:10.020to keep us out that they were doing this to protect the caribou i disagree fundamentally i
00:07:16.340think their method is flawed but they promised in consultation with us because we've been hunting
00:07:21.460there a long time and some of my buddies that hunt with us are our treaty indians and our metis and
00:07:27.300so they were consulted and they promised that they would leave us some cut lines unaffected or what
00:07:32.660they called a modified treatment and that we'd still be able to use those cut lines to access
00:07:37.460or hunting grounds well i'll tell you real quick uh i do have my own youtube channel called marty
00:07:44.420up north it's just one word marty up north so i encourage you to go look at a video that i posted
00:07:48.420because while i was up there we finally got to go see the these these cut lines and what they did
00:07:54.340during the winter and i was i was shocked i i i don't know how else to say it it's if they consulted
00:08:02.100with us and if they had they they they their execution was flawed because the cut lines that
00:08:07.940were supposed to be left open for us are almost inaccessible me and my buddies we spent hours
00:08:13.620trying to clear one of these cut lines that were supposedly still left open for us and it took us
00:08:19.940hours of chainsaw work just to advance a couple of kilometers so um you know it's it's for me
00:08:26.580For me, it's an example of, and by the way, the government of Alberta is spending $55 million to do this, $55 million to reclaim old cut lines.
00:08:39.840I'm going to stop now because it's going to make me mad to think about it.
00:08:43.540So just go and look at that and you'll see it's an example of absolute unnecessary work mismanagement.
00:08:51.280I think, this is my prediction that I made in my video.
00:08:54.460my prediction is that when they when they do the next survey of caribou in that area the
00:09:00.480population will go down and i'll and i'll finish it with this in all my years of hunting caribou
00:09:05.020in that part of the world i would see caribou a couple of times a year usually in the back
00:09:10.060country so when i'm deep and i'm hunting for moose or i'm scouting i'd see the odd caribou
00:09:14.620once in a while last year when they started doing this this reclamation to protect the caribou
00:09:20.760they confuse the caribou and now all of a sudden last year I was we were seeing caribou I won't
00:09:26.240say everywhere but I saw more caribou last year than I've seen in a long time but the reason I
00:09:30.900saw more caribou that I've seen in a long time is because they confuse the caribou by destroying
00:09:34.940these ancestral cut lines and the caribous are now traveling along the dirt roads and the main
00:09:40.760pipelines they need to get from their feeding ground to their breeding ground to their
00:09:45.480to their wintering ground they need to transit they need to move around these lines were part
00:09:51.540of their landscape right to you and me a cut line might be might look man-made but to a caribou
00:09:56.300who's the sixth or seventh or eighth generation of an animal that you know these cut lines go
00:10:02.100back to the 1950s and 60s to to a fifth generation caribou if there's such a thing these cut lines
00:10:08.200are part of their environment and so uh my prediction now and when the animals like this
00:10:13.000are suddenly on the dirt roads and places like that they're going to get hunted they're going
00:10:16.440to get slaughtered accidentally intentionally and my my prediction is that um that will backfire on
00:10:22.940them so um that's my first rant my second quick little rant is that i uh because i was up north
00:10:31.980and uh after i went and visited the camp i decided to sneak into uh jasper national park i love
00:10:38.800you know that's one of the things i love the most is i love hiking and so i uh i went down the old
00:10:45.100coal spur head down towards uh you know i go to hinton you go to cadaman then you go to mountain
00:10:50.420park if you can ever tour that part of the world i encourage you to do it the old coal branch it's
00:10:55.400called like there's a lot of history there a lot of really formidable history of of like that
00:11:00.120explains the province right um when the railroads were being built it was important to have supplies
00:11:06.460of coal for the railroad and so these all these little towns existed in the 1930s and 40s just to
00:11:13.500mine coal and it's like it's a part of our heritage right coal mining is truly a part of
00:11:18.140of alberta's heritage in fact when you go past cadaman the next abandoned town is called mountain
00:11:26.140park it doesn't exist anymore but as you go by mountain park there's an old cemetery there very
00:11:32.300well kept very well kept because um because people people who live there in the 1930s and
00:11:39.50040s that are dying today still request to be buried in mountain park i follow some some groups
00:11:45.500on facebook and ever so often you see a story about a really old guy or gal uh passing away
00:11:53.100and requesting to be buried there so when i drive by there i do my pilgrimage go visit the cemetery
00:11:57.980But but the point of my story is I snuck into the park and I went into Jasper.
00:12:04.100And again, when the when I when I go to a place like like that and I see that all these amazing places, all these amazing trails that we used to have in the backcountry are becoming inaccessible.
00:12:20.720these are trails that i've been trying that i've been walking on for uh for a long time you know
00:12:27.76025 30 years i've been hiking in this region i get a craving for it and i'll head over the cardinal
00:12:32.800divide and head into uh you know into the cairn pass area and stuff like that which is what i did
00:12:38.000last week and it's becoming almost impossible to enter that part of the world because parks
00:12:45.120canada is not maintaining any kind of trails they're just letting everything uh grow in
00:12:52.640and become inaccessible for us and and i think that's a shame and um and again i'll say one thing
00:13:02.240apparently they don't have my i i posted this on x apparently they don't have money to maintain
00:13:06.480the trails and they make us pay like nine bucks i'm supposed to pay nine bucks for a permit to go
00:13:11.760stay overnight in the back country. So they collect money from me, but they don't have any
00:13:16.280money to, uh, maintain the trails. But lo and behold, I show up at one of these remote back
00:13:22.640country sites and it happened twice. There was a sign that had been nailed to one of the trees
00:13:28.100and official parks, Canada sign that had been nailed to one of the trees. And it said boil
00:13:32.680water advisory. I, I, I, I, I was like, wow, they got no money, but they got enough money to fly
00:13:39.640somebody by helicopter to come and put a boil water advisory at these campsites i i would again
00:13:45.440i'm almost at a loss for words i have no idea why they would do something that silly sometimes i
00:13:50.820think they do it simply to antagonize people like me and some of us um who you know i i quite
00:13:59.440honestly sometimes i imagine that it's a civil servant uh from uh from ottawa who's been transferred
00:14:04.740to alberta who's managing the parks and he's doing these things by the way actually just
00:14:09.620just the last thing on that topic all those cut lines i talked about earlier in my hunting area
00:14:14.620that they damaged uh again just to add insult to injury they did put same thing you can see them
00:14:22.020along the highway where the cut lines start they put signs that say dangerous or sorry warning
00:14:27.600uneven terrain ahead like uh add insult to injury insult to injury all right i'll leave it at that
00:14:34.500Happy to be back. It is still as it's too bad that some of my trips end up frustrating me a little bit.
00:14:41.400But I'd say overwhelmingly, I still prefer to go out in the wilderness.
00:14:45.480It's rejuvenating for me. It makes me feel good.
00:14:48.880And I do realize when I'm doing it that that is one of the agendas.
00:14:52.420They do not want us in the wilderness.
00:14:54.720They will they will put aside more land and they'll designate it as parks and they'll make it hard for us to get into those parks
00:15:03.260because they want us in the cities in their 15 minute cities where they can control us
00:15:08.860and where we become dependent on the states where we will live in apartments instead of living on
00:15:15.180land you you've heard this story before and i don't think it's a it's a conspiracy all right
00:15:21.120so uh come on guys give me a give me a buzz here 8 8 or 8 6 6 4 7 9 9 3 7 8 i mean i know you know
00:15:29.440can do this i can talk for an hour uh in fact i practice some of my monologues when i'm walking
00:15:34.800in the wilderness and uh you know i've got to make noise because that's you know if if you don't make
00:15:41.360noise one of the danger i get asked this all the time are you afraid of bears no i'm not afraid of
00:15:45.760bears i take precautions like i bring a bear spray and i and i know the environment i look for signs
00:15:50.560and stuff like that but a bear encounter is a reality and the most likely bear encounter for
00:15:55.920me in the back country is just the accidental come around the corner on the trail and there's
00:16:01.520the bear right you just accidentally come around the corner there's noise the bear's eating the
00:16:05.760water's making noise neither the bear i hear each other and there could be a startling moment
00:16:10.960i've had many of those over the years they've always turned out okay in every circumstance
00:16:15.440the bear spooked and turned around i've never had one charge me even though i startled them
00:16:19.920but uh a good defense i remind myself several times a day a day several times an hour when
00:16:26.080i'm walking in the wilderness you'll hear me just yell out loud to myself hey bear otherwise i have
00:16:31.780these monologues sort of like this i talk to myself out loud and i practice ideas it's a it's
00:16:37.040a crazy thing uh john any any store any i'm just scrolling through anything uh somebody said i saw
00:16:44.940your video it made me angry and i agree thank you um uh any other good comments here building
00:16:52.620pipelines my whole life seeing lots of caribou yeah they do exist right and and that's the other
00:16:58.340thing they exist and i don't see what they're not an endangered species i mean the herd in
00:17:03.180northwest territories seems to be like hundreds of thousands of individuals strong uh carny can
00:17:10.160take his 30 land grab and shove it you know where yeah we're not gonna go there i i tend to agree
00:17:16.080with that uh okay let's move on so i come back out of the wilderness and uh take a day to catch up
00:17:22.720do my lawn check my tomatoes and then finally i log on to the internet and what are some of the
00:17:29.600couple of things that show up right away well the title here is uh can ottawa um i'm having a hard
00:17:37.440time here john said can ottawa strike a tariff deal on time and all right so let's step back
00:17:44.080you've heard this story before but i'll repeat it right uh donald trump gets elected and donald
00:17:49.680trump has his own very simple agenda he's gonna do what's good for americans and donald trump has
00:17:55.600a couple of beefs against canada very reasonable beefs when he gets elected um he does he he
00:18:03.280doesn't like the trade imbalance which which i donald i'm going to disagree with you on that
00:18:08.080one i think the trade imbalance is just a fact of life i mean your country is 13 times bigger than
00:18:13.120ours in terms of an economy so donald has said you know he's equated the trade imbalance as less
00:18:18.720as us abusing it perhaps i'm sure we've taken advantage of the americans more than they've
00:18:24.160taken advantage of us but but he's upset about the trade imbalance he's definitely upset about
00:18:28.560uh canada and many other nations not spending their share on nato defense or u.n spendings or
00:18:37.260costs like that right so he wants he he he accuses us of taking advantage of him of him and just
00:18:44.200uh enjoying the protection for divided by the americans which i think is legit right what kind
00:18:48.720of protections do americans provide i mean if the russians that tried to come over the top of us
00:18:53.920through the North Pole. Donald Trump would have stopped him on a routine basis. Any Canadian ship
00:19:00.360that's traveling across the Atlantic or across the Pacific, you know, you cross a ship, a ship in
00:19:05.620distress in the middle of the ocean, a Canadian ship coming back from Japan or China, bringing
00:19:10.140goods back to Canada, gets in distress. Who's going to respond? It's the Americans, right?
00:19:14.580They are, they do that as a favor. And once in a while, I guess Donald was just saying like,
00:19:20.260hey pay back once in a while so he's upset about the imbalance uh us not meeting our two percent gd
00:19:26.260or gdp on defense and he's upset about one of the things that was really uh bugged him a lot was the
00:19:33.860um the the dairy cartel and the poultry cartel so donald trump gets elected starts imposing
00:19:42.420tariffs start bringing he wants to bring jobs back to uh to the us he's protecting his own interest
00:19:48.580he's doing what he said he would do and then we we being canadians in general but the liberals are
00:19:55.240like hey he's attacking us and i've said this before he wasn't attacking us he was doing what's
00:19:59.360good for them but we got caught off guard and it looked like an attack but in reality it was just
00:20:04.700a wake-up call and um all right i'll i got a call on the line so i'll finish my story after uh as
00:20:13.520usual when you call me please uh name where are you calling from what do you want to talk about
00:20:17.560stay on the line a little bit but sometimes i'll ask you to hang up so we can because we only have
00:20:21.680one line so go ahead where are you calling from uh good afternoon my name is connie and i'm calling
00:20:28.040from leduc hi connie how are you i'm pretty good i enjoy listening to you and your shows every week
00:20:35.760but i just wanted to talk about something a little bit different okay and it's on the carbon capture
00:20:41.920okay and i had listened to a video that was run about two years ago by robert kennedy on pipeline
00:20:49.140deception and i just thought you might want to take a listen to it one day on robert kennedy on
00:20:57.360what sorry what was the topic that robert can robert kennedy on pipeline deception okay and
00:21:05.560has to do with carbon capture and when things go wrong what can happen where deaths can occur and
00:21:12.920everything like that it goes back to october of 2024 okay um and i just wanted to bring it
00:21:19.800to your attention and if you wanted to research it a little bit more and listen to that video
00:21:24.040that's on youtube and it's very enlightening and i'm just not really for this carbon capture
00:21:29.400i think it's a waste of money oh it's and i just yeah yeah no uh well if you want to stay on the
00:21:35.800line stay on the line if not thanks for calling bonnie but no i uh carbon capture is uh you know
00:21:43.560back to me walking in the forest right i mean when i'm walking in in canadian forest like in
00:21:48.280northern alberta like most people have no idea just how vast the boreal forest of north america
00:21:56.040is and most of it is in canada like it's huge and and you go around and you see all this growth and
00:22:01.800all these trees and what are those trees doing they're capturing carbon and so for for humanity
00:22:07.800to think for for a small little group of humans to think that we can uh build a facility i don't
00:22:13.720know where fort saskatchewan or somewhere like that and grab a little bit of carbon that comes
00:22:17.640off the exhaust of a couple of plants and plants by that i mean manufacturing plants oil plants and
00:22:23.000and then inject it in the ground, Bonnie, if she's still online, is absolutely right.
00:26:03.260Who can forget the Doug Ford pouring, you know, Crown Royal on the ground and so forth.
00:26:11.160And so and and then what were we told by the liberals and the people who elected Mark Carney?
00:26:17.000We were told that Donald Trump is the biggest existential threat to our existence in like 100 years, right?
00:26:24.820Not World War Two, not the economic crisis of 2007 or four or all the other crisis, not COVID.
00:26:33.260none of those things the biggest threat to canada's uh sovereignty ever is donald trump
00:26:39.980so on a threat like that you think well it should be all hands on board and let's be let's put aside
00:26:46.080partisan politics and let's form a special committee and let's deal with trump but nope0.99
00:26:51.260uh canada doubles down does a couple of stupid things and so it's a back and forth we go into0.99
00:26:56.780a full out trade war and predictably we're not going to win a trade war okay we're not going to0.99
00:27:02.020win a trade war against the US. And the latest salvo from Donald Trump is that on August 19th,
00:27:08.660a new round of tariffs, he was limited on the tariffs he could impose on us, by the way.
00:27:14.320And because of Kuzma, because of the free trade deal and whatnot, right? He couldn't impose
00:27:19.280too many tariffs. There was already a lot of deals. 70% of the trade we do with the US was
00:27:25.460protected by the free trade agreement. So his ability to impose tariffs was pretty limited.
00:27:31.580And I remember, like, like, I'm not saying I told you so, you know, many of us have said the same thing. But I remember saying, just don't retaliate, man, because an American tariff is not a hit on us. It's just going to force us to be more efficient. Anyways, he's hitting us next week with a 50% tariff now on an additional $20 billion worth of trade.
00:27:54.780so he's hitting things that weren't in there and like he's really squeezing us supposedly this is
00:28:00.920existential and where's carny like if it's existential with this threat looming you'd
00:28:07.700think carny would be all over this but carny right now is in italy relaxing and uh he's got
00:28:14.160his best lieutenants on this i don't know who his best lieutenant is on this can you guys tell me
00:28:18.720who Carney's second in command is because I like nobody, nobody comes to mind. So we got so. So
00:28:26.180some people are saying that we're capitulating. We're not capitulating. We're facing reality.
00:28:32.440And I think the reality is that we better start removing some of the we better start doing some
00:28:39.320of the things that Trump wants us to do. In fact, we don't have to. And they're simple, right?
00:28:43.180fix the border stop the the fentanyl going across there's been efforts to do that but
00:28:49.200you know i haven't heard too much lately i mean there was a sort of a lot of announcements at
00:28:54.120the beginning right we had the fentanyl czar we bought a couple of black hawk helicopters but
00:28:58.900i think donald wants something concrete uh increased military spending from two percent to
00:29:04.680five percent gdp i'm in favor of that i i love our canadian military it used to be a proud
00:29:11.320institution has been kind of beat up after afghanistan and they needed some rebuilding
00:29:15.640and the rebuilding to me that was a no-brainer right um we we needed the equipment we needed
00:29:22.800to buy it what should we have done we should have just gone told somebody in canada here
00:29:27.220here's a you know here's 20 billion dollars go on a shopping trip head on down to vegas go to the
00:29:32.740next defense show in vegas buy buy 20 off the shelf f-16s buy 60 000 new rifles buy two frigates
00:29:41.780buy um i don't know ten thousand a thousand humvees or whatever the heck it is buy a whole
00:29:48.660bunch of stuff off the shelf from the us quickly make them happy but instead we're increasing our
00:29:55.060spending the way we've our military spending the way we've always done it which is we study it
00:29:59.940study it study it study it bid it out bid it out bid it out like you know and then cancel stuff
00:30:06.660cancel the f-35s don't know they're back on cancel them so we study it to death we make it
00:30:12.080ridiculously difficult to bid for the jobs and then when it's time to pick a company we do like
00:30:18.080we just recently did with the submarines and we go buy submarines from germany we don't need
00:30:23.660submarines or if we needed submarines we should have bought them from the americans fix the bid
00:30:28.280so that the americans can win it right so so we're not doing the things that donald wants and
00:30:32.860we're and and then the last one to me i talked about this last week it is such an easy one
00:30:37.200we should have lifted the that we should have unprotected the dairy cartel we should have said
00:30:44.380yeah you're right donald um our our our tariffs on milk and and poultry in your country are
00:30:50.760ridiculous because they're as high as 400 right the other way around and and i think we've been
00:30:55.980protecting the dairy cartels in this country and i think they would do just fine on their own0.73
00:31:01.700without protection but again i'll encourage you to go look at this what was the first what was
00:31:07.620one of the first bills passed by uh the liberals when they got elected right so they got elected
00:31:14.240in april of 2029 and the first bill that they passed wasn't even in a fit like the bills bills
00:31:20.660usually go like when the government presents a bill it goes with a c and a single digit c1 c2 c3
00:31:27.460c4 c1's always reserved for just it's just sort of a courtesy bill saying kind of like we're
00:31:34.100opening parliament so then c2 should be the first official bill wasn't c2 that was passed it wasn't
00:31:40.340a single digit bill the first bill that was passed in the house of commons in the after in the days
00:31:47.060following uh the election of the liberals was bill c202 which is a member's bill which usually gets
00:31:55.860a lower priority but c202 is the first one that passed and c202 is was a bill that literally said
00:32:05.780anybody who negotiates on behalf of canada with the us or with any country cannot give any
00:32:12.740concessions that involve the dairy cartel so right off the bat anyways a long story short um
00:32:19.460so here we are existential threat uh coming down the pipe and um carney is nowhere to be seen and
00:32:28.640i haven't heard anything that's meaningful except a whole bunch of ranting uh doug ford is still
00:32:36.400looking like a lunatic i think it's only a matter of time now actually what's going to be what's
00:32:40.760going to be really interesting here is some of my prediction we will concede we have no choice0.90
00:32:46.080we will reverse some of these bad ideas we will put american booze back on the table
00:32:51.400it's it's back on the shelves and liquor stores that's common sense what's going to be really
00:32:57.160really interesting is watching the mainstream media and the pundits and the and the and the
00:33:02.900politicians do all sorts of backflips as to why they won't say they won't say that they failed
00:33:09.720they'll just they'll just make an excuse and my prediction this is my weird prediction but i
00:33:14.060haven't you know how donald trump or donald trump how doug ford was pouring whiskey on the on the
00:33:19.000ground which was a bizarre move i have a feeling donald or donald i gotta stop saying that i have
00:33:24.800a feeling doug ford we're gonna see doug ford in the next month pouring himself an american bourbon
00:33:30.740on stage and promoting the americans that's my prediction that's that's that's how far crazy
00:33:36.640we're getting um just staying quickly so come on guys like it it's a rainy day i know you have a
00:33:45.660day off or not a day off it's lunchtime no it's past lunchtime give me a call folks don't make
00:33:51.760me do all the talking give me a call 8 8 6 6 4 7 9 9 3 7 8 uh before i keep going let me go let me
00:34:00.640go check uh any any comments there john actually i got a bunch of i gotta remove things i got too
00:34:08.240many uh oh i don't want to do that all right good afternoon from tabor oh hey before i go um i
00:34:21.020forgot about this i started the show something about tabor just made me think about this
00:34:25.460A couple of big events coming up in Calgary today
00:42:39.200you're talking about should we export gasoline that'd be a great market but we just don't at
00:42:43.120this point i mean i i'm trying to but i'm just yeah i'm just saying like in alberta if it
00:42:50.080you know wanted to become an independent country it could instead of just exporting you know uh
00:42:58.640you know because you your oil and whatnot took for refining yeah no no we're on the same page
00:43:07.840so it could build those refineries locally yeah no where i i'm in agreement but at this point i'm
00:43:15.360just trying to you know one uh oil is is the building a refinery that's a longer term thing
00:43:22.080i mean well the refineries are very big very complicated i mean i can get i can barely get a
00:43:27.840you know a a simple thing built here i'm not even trying to get a refinery built that would be that
00:43:33.040would make heads spin you know you know what i mean like it takes 10 years to get a permit to
00:43:36.800build something simple so refineries are off the chart but in the future yes the data center but
00:43:45.040data centers those are simple things yes yes yeah thanks for the call hope uh hope things are good
00:43:51.360in texas there cheers no great take care marty take care thank you um hey that's i think the
00:43:58.320first call i got from the u.s that's awesome uh where was i just oh finishing so that so tonight
00:44:04.320uh mitch sylvester will be in airdrie unveiling his idea stay free alberta's or not stay free
00:44:11.320alberta alberta prosperity projects idea for a a constitution for an independent alberta i'll be
00:44:19.080there tonight because i'm honestly i'm i'm very curious to see what kind of uh document he's
00:44:24.660proposing uh mitch if you're listening i only have one real big hope i hope that the first three
00:44:30.340words of your document are we the people i don't think we need to overthink this one just look to
00:44:36.340the us look at the american constitution uh look at the amendments that they've added to it and i
00:44:42.180think it's a pretty solid document it's one of the better i can't think of a better constitution in
00:44:47.620the world than the american one so um if you somehow or other think you can improve on that
00:44:52.420one kudos but i hope it starts with we the people and then the second event uh along those lines
00:44:59.220Maybe not so much along those lines, more fun, is the Whistle Stop Cafe, Chris Scott, who has Let's Talk Alberta.
00:45:09.820That's his third-party advertiser, Chris Scott.
00:45:15.180Again, if you don't know, I'm sure you know who Chris Scott is, right?
00:45:18.240Just like Mitch Sylvester, a pretty solid businessman who just wanted to be left alone, wanted to run his little restaurant and gas station out in Amir, Alberta and got all screwed over by our government during COVID and then turned him into a bit of an activist and a person who wants to make change.
00:45:43.140I love when that happens I love when that happens I love when people get royally pissed off I'm on
00:45:49.500that fence I'm on that fence right people saw the video of me getting pissed off at the cut lines
00:45:55.040and stuff and people keep saying like Marty when are you going to run for politics I'm on that
00:45:59.000fence and so at the whistle stop on Saturday more of a thank you not a campaign event but more of a
00:46:06.700thank you an afternoon of barbecues and drinking pop and maybe a couple of beers I don't know
00:46:14.320and some concert and sort of a thank you for people in the movement people thank you for
00:46:20.300volunteers canvassers and things like that and I'm going to be at that event as well so two
00:46:25.300two fun events coming I just thought I'd mention that all right well I got the hour just goes by
00:46:32.780so fast and i have stories here i have so many stories i'm trying to figure out which one i want
00:46:37.000to do next i'm going to hit them in super rapid succession i guess and see if they pique anybody's
00:46:42.640interest so the other news this week i come out of the wood and the other news that was interesting
00:46:47.320is there was a liberal mp from scarborough ontario named sean chen who resigned and uh interestingly
00:46:57.800enough you know last uh last mp the resign was a conservative and when uh when uh that was the
00:47:07.160seventh one in the last sort of year and everybody was like oh um uh poiliev is losing uh control of
00:47:15.000his party blah blah blah well uh guess what sean chen resigning is the seventh mp since um
00:47:22.760um Carney came into power so they're tied seven seven and I think Carney's had some pretty
00:47:29.100spectacular departures like Stephen Gilbeau and uh this one was interesting for several reasons
00:47:36.580the first one is that nobody had ever heard of Sean his pictures on the screen there I could
00:47:41.640put Sean you could have put Sean in a in a police lineup and nobody would have pointed him out
00:47:46.940including other MPs there was MPs on the record saying I've been in the House of Commons for years
00:47:52.160and i've never seen this guy and um 11 years okay 11 years sean was in the house of commons
00:48:00.800representing scarborough and and people you can go and see like sort of the voting patterns and
00:48:06.800bills that they've introduced and how many times they've spoken to the house comment that's all
00:48:10.320public data like easy easy easy to find this guy's never introduced a bill in the house of commons
00:48:16.160hardly ever showed up for work in the house of commons spoke once in recent years um so basically
00:48:24.560kind of like a nobody and then he gives this excuse that uh it's not an excuse i think there's
00:48:30.800some validity to it he says i got in his departure letter he says i got injured in a car accident a
00:48:36.600year ago and it's increasingly difficult for me to travel from scarborough which is like toronto
00:48:42.560to ottawa you could drive there in about four hours five hours right you don't need to fly
00:48:47.680and uh so he resigns but then people get suspicious of that including our very own
00:48:53.760andy lee sa very own she's not western standard but andy lee's a darling of the alberta um
00:49:00.160independent media scene andy does some phenomenal investigation into um chinese interference in
00:49:08.880canadian politics and so andy starts just revealing like video after video after video
00:49:15.600and story after story after story from china and it's like it's like this guy is almost uh it's
00:49:21.280like this guy's almost an mp in china like he does more promotion for chinese the chinese
00:49:26.400communist party than he does for his constituents in ontario and so the the rumor now is or not the
00:49:34.240rumor the prevailing theory is that this guy was one of those um uh people identified in the
00:49:42.320ensacop report a couple years ago he has been compromised by the chinese he is uh maybe
00:49:49.600overly compromised and and the theory is that ccis finally you know called an emergency meeting with0.99
00:49:58.560the Prime Minister and said, Mr. Carney, this guy is a big risk. He's on the list and you need to
00:50:06.160get rid of him or something else. And so that's the deal. The deal was that he was given an exit
00:50:12.800strategy and he announced his departure. I think there's more to the story. We'll see more.
00:50:18.640The reaction of some of the Liberal pundits defending him seemed over the top. You know
00:50:25.840You know what I mean? And when when somebody goes over the top, like when somebody when Andy, when others said, you know, he looks suspicious and people go over the top and say, oh, no, no, he's clean.
00:50:36.400He's a really, really good guy. And I get suspicious. So more there.
00:50:41.940But the interesting thing is, again, this frees up another seat in the House of Commons.
00:50:47.180So the the juggling is going on. Right. We have three by elections coming up on August.
00:50:52.360um when are the three elections august 31st end of this month right we're two weeks away from
00:50:58.280three by elections one in uh beaches east york and one in north vancouver those two are currently
00:51:04.720liberal they'll stay liberal i'm pretty sure and then the one is shikudami is the one where
00:51:08.780there's going to be some lots of fighting it's currently a uh a block seat and uh maybe the
00:51:16.180block want to give it up and let the conservatives win there we'll see then uh i so that wouldn't be
00:51:22.060enough to change the balance of power but then there's also one seat vacant here in Calgary
00:51:29.420Shaw that hasn't the by-election hasn't been declared and then now we'll have this one in
00:51:34.280Scarborough so a lot of I think Carney's minority government might stay a minority for a while
00:51:41.540longer now along those lines the other interesting story that broke last week and nobody's talking
00:51:47.940about this one online or sorry on the mainstream media we're talking about it i think the western
00:51:53.620standard talked about it specifically there was a canadian intern somebody um and an intern can be
00:52:04.940almost anything right an intern is somebody who's uh who's generally younger working inside one of
00:52:11.100the departments, not in an official role.
00:52:13.740So let's say you're you're a diplomat at at your Canadian diplomat and you work and you
00:58:29.840And so that act goes into effect next week.
00:58:35.640And then I want to bring up this one because I got a couple of minutes.
00:58:40.040um right now because it's summer uh the carney liberals have given us a break
00:58:47.100and they took away the gasoline excise tax right so back in uh june they announced this so like
00:58:54.060starting the end of june until about september 5th um the the carney liberals brought the excise
00:59:02.380tax on gasoline down to zero it used to be 10 cents a liter but it's set to go back to 10 cents
00:59:08.580a liter on September 5th. So imagine that right now, I think gasoline today was like $1.80. So
00:59:15.620without that, with that tax, it would be right back up to $1.90. So it goes up quickly. A survey
00:59:20.800was done a couple of weeks ago saying, are you in favor of the Liberals permanently removing this
00:59:27.540tax? And I was shocked. 39% of Canadians want the tax to come back. I'm like, why would you want
00:59:36.200that tax to come back. And the number one reason people want that tax to come back is because
00:59:40.600people still think that monies from certain places, like money from gasoline, people still
00:59:47.400think that money from the gasoline tax goes into a special pool and it gets used only to
00:59:55.160fix roads or do something like that. If that's your reason for wanting to keep that tax,
01:00:00.080that's interesting. I'd still rather there were less tax. But let me tell you something.
01:00:04.560There aren't separate buckets. When our governments collect money, it all goes into one big giant pool and then it gets used for whatever projects they want. So as far as I'm concerned, this tax should just remain off the books all the time because it's just an added cost that contributes to inflation and other things.
01:00:25.840taxing the gasoline that's used to transport goods plus personally right for leisure and stuff like
01:00:32.860that so i anyways i just wanted to put that out there i was shocked that people still want to be
01:00:37.100taxed listen we're running out of time a show went by super quick you guys made me talk too much
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