Western Standard - MARTY UP NORTH： Carney to Trump administration： ‘Stop doing memes’ and get serious

00:00:00.000 hey welcome back uh thanks for joining me on this uh i'm not gonna say beautiful

00:00:29.520 Every day is a beautiful day, but it's raining today here downtown in Calgary.

00:00:33.680 But thanks for joining me during your lunch hour for most of you, I guess, or maybe slightly after lunch.

00:00:42.220 I think this show is going to, for me, this show is going to fly today because I was walking over here making a quick list of things I want to talk about.

00:00:49.780 and the list is never ending um which which which is sort of um what i expected right like the summer

00:01:00.760 was kind of calm right summer's always calm politicians are in recess and stuff like that

00:01:05.460 and now you can sort of sense this bubbling and and the country's about to become even crazier

00:01:10.700 than it's been because paul and and isn't that sad that the reason the country becomes crazier

00:01:15.760 is because politicians go back to work right that says something like if if we had less politicians

00:01:20.880 and they weren't doing anything we'd be better off but then as soon as politicians go back to

00:01:25.520 work things seem to escalate and get crazy um so speaking of politicians i walk into the studio

00:01:32.240 here and i got uh mr stephen gilbeau over my shoulder i'm not going to leave him very long

00:01:38.000 i'm going to reach around and and toss him on the ground but the reason we put him up is because

00:01:42.720 um Stephen Gilboa finally told Elections Canada that he was resigning right he announced his

00:01:51.180 resignation way back I think it was in uh uh was it October last year when uh the first MOU was

00:01:58.480 signed yeah I think it was October November so as soon as you know when Carney and Smith signed

00:02:03.320 their first MOU he got upset and uh you know Canada's going backwards and I can't stand for

00:02:10.300 this. So he stepped out of cabinet. He resigned as minister in protest. He didn't resign as a

00:02:18.120 parliamentarian, but he kind of said that he would step down. And then later on, he got upset a second

00:02:25.240 time this year. I think back in May, he got upset again at the second MOU between Ottawa and

00:02:32.660 Alberta. And so at that time, he's like, okay, I'm going to resign sometime near the end of summer.

00:02:38.140 And he kind of hinted that he was going to do it on August 28th.

00:02:41.800 But there was three by-elections in Canada on Monday.

00:02:47.420 And after the result of those by-elections,

00:02:49.540 actually, I'll just talk quickly about those by-elections, right?

00:02:52.040 So the one, there was two Liberals that had stepped down

00:02:56.000 and one Conservative in Quebec had stepped down.

00:02:59.240 Kearney won all three seats.

00:03:00.860 So the Liberals, two were expected,

00:03:03.420 the one in British Columbia and the one in Ontario,

00:03:05.400 everybody expected them to stay Liberal.

00:03:07.400 The one in Quebec, in Chicoutimi, the fjord, was contested a little harder and it ended up being a true vote split, whereas the bloc and the conservative split and the liberal got in.

00:03:21.200 So that temporarily gave Carney back his majority, like ever so slim, right? 173.

00:03:28.680 And then just to be, I'd say, just in character, Stephen Gilbeau went to Elections Canada and said, I resigned effective the 31st, which kind of dropped Carney back to, don't quote me on this, maybe somebody can comment, but I think he's down to 172.

00:03:46.920 So I don't think there's a majority for the Liberals at this point.

00:03:51.720 And then we still have a few other, we have one more resignation to take effect soon, the one of Brock.

00:04:02.060 Anyways, there's one resignation still pending, and then there's five empty seats.

00:04:06.480 So we'll have six by-elections in the next couple of months.

00:04:08.860 and uh anyway so steven gilbo my friend happy to say good riddance um all right so what are we

00:04:20.440 going to talk about uh again folks this is a call-in show don't be shy uh you can make some

00:04:26.800 comments but uh definitely encourage you to call the number uh john will put it back down on the

00:04:31.560 screen there it's it's down on the screen please call let's make it uh interactive it doesn't have

00:04:37.760 to be about something I'm talking about today it could be about something you guys want to talk

00:04:41.460 but there's a lot I'll just go through quickly what I kind of have on my agenda I know I was

00:04:48.840 gone for a week back in my hunting camp I asked John the producer what what what's on people's

00:04:54.480 mind and I guess the trade war is definitely on people's mind so I want to talk about the trade

00:04:58.060 war and and some of the events that have occurred in the last couple of days and and we got to

00:05:03.160 repair right that big tariffs from uh carney go into effect next week on the 8th so i want to talk

00:05:07.760 about the trade war can't ignore the uh the meme war that's going on uh bank of canada holding

00:05:13.980 interest rates at 2.25 calgary the big leak at city hall yesterday um calgary like for you know

00:05:21.700 the various departments presenting a 20 increase in spending that'd be ridiculous you can't have

00:05:27.700 a 20% increase. Elections Alberta kicking in their public relations campaign in overdrive.

00:05:33.520 Jason Kenney going after influencers, Lake America, and a few other things. So let's

00:05:40.380 steer it whichever way you guys want to go. But before I go to create, just on the topic

00:05:47.280 of trade wars, John, can you bring up, I think I talked about this a little bit last week,

00:05:51.300 But John, bring up the picture of the USS Abraham Lincoln, please.

00:05:56.580 So this is the USS Abraham Lincoln, an American warship coming in for some rest and recreation, R&R, in Thailand.

00:06:09.400 It spent 285 days in the Gulf protecting American interests, defending the Gulf of Hormuz.

00:06:17.860 You know, it's been on a mission for 285 days.

00:06:21.180 that's a long time and it was weird to see this week it created a bit of a storm online because

00:06:27.100 people are so trump derangement syndrome is so real not just here in canada but even in the u.s

00:06:34.140 and america the the american uh left the attack is you know showing this as an example of of

00:06:41.180 american failure because the vessel was rusted all right and so a rusted boat like that and

00:06:48.220 is not a sign of failure that's what happens when the american you know that that boat was

00:06:52.620 commissioned in like 1989 has been floating for 37 years powered by a nuclear reactor has a has a

00:07:00.620 larger air force on that boat there's more planes on that boat than we have it didn't limp into

00:07:06.540 port it came into port under its own power and that is wear and tear from a mission well done

00:07:11.900 and 5 000 young soldiers on board now are going to get a break in thailand and uh i think there's

00:07:17.500 going to be some epic stories but i just found that whole thing i just wanted to show that uh

00:07:22.620 trump derangement that donald trump just does that to people it's it's it's crazy but if if

00:07:28.060 you think that that's a sign of failure you're wrong that'd be like me saying you know that a

00:07:33.180 boxer with bloody knuckles or uh or uh or or a black eye after a fight is a lousy boxer no that's

00:07:40.700 That's not what that is.

00:07:41.940 So and again, and I also want to show.

00:07:44.580 So metaphorically speaking, there's people who have joked about, you know, a war with the U.S.

00:07:52.280 I would never want to be in a war with the U.S.

00:07:55.620 I've said it many, many times.

00:07:57.100 I don't like what's happening right now.

00:07:58.840 I find it a little bit disappointing, especially, you know, we've been allies.

00:08:03.400 I think there's a temporary misunderstanding that's getting escalated.

00:08:08.400 escalated and I hope we're not and I hope that we don't end up doing long-term damage because

00:08:13.380 we've been neighbors for 200 years I would never want to fight Americans I've always I consider 0.87

00:08:18.340 them cousins and we've been side by side with them forever next week is the 25th year adversary

00:08:25.740 of 9-11 and I hope that we can definitely set aside some of this rhetoric you know in during

00:08:33.340 that period and remind ourselves of that strong relationship we've had for all those years.

00:08:39.580 But all right, well, let's go back to the trade war then. So there's a lot to unpack. And I just

00:08:48.600 I want to start with something. So John, please put up a quick graph again. This is a graph that

00:08:54.400 the graph that shows Canada's trade balance with other countries. It's a crowded graph. I actually

00:09:02.060 put this together because this this morning this data was released this morning by stats canada

00:09:07.100 it's just it's it's a quarterly data that comes out and so the trade balance canada's and this

00:09:15.980 one goes back to uh you know to to to about 40 years right and so when the lines are on the top

00:09:22.940 above that means that uh those are years where the trade balance is the difference between

00:09:28.700 our exports and our imports so when we export 500 billion dollars worth of stuff in a year and we

00:09:36.220 import 400 we get a a balance we're positive and so anytime and right in the middle there

00:09:42.940 is the black line so that's the zero line so anytime we're well above that line we're in the

00:09:47.820 trade balance we're we're we're selling more than we're taking and what that's showing that graph

00:09:55.340 is the thick yellow line is our overall trade balance.

00:10:00.560 And look at our trade balance.

00:10:01.980 The overall yellow line is going down and down

00:10:05.200 and down and down and down.

00:10:06.920 So for the last 40 years, we've de-industrialized ourselves

00:10:10.440 and we've gone into competition and selling things

00:10:14.200 that almost everybody else makes.

00:10:15.920 And consequently, we've thrown ourselves

00:10:20.080 into a trade imbalance.

00:10:23.440 Now, the only reason it's not more pronounced is because the thin brown line at the top is the U.S.

00:10:30.660 It's our balance just with the U.S.

00:10:32.360 And you can see how high it was I.

00:10:34.100 It drove down and then it came right back up.

00:10:36.500 And now it's on its way down again.

00:10:38.820 And the only reason that's been on the upswing in the last four or five years is because of our oil.

00:10:44.680 The Americans need a lot of oil.

00:10:46.440 Their economy is firing on all cylinders.

00:10:48.480 And so they're buying oil from us via Keystone and Line 5 and other things.

00:10:53.600 And so temporarily, the imbalance with the American is in our favor, even though it had been declining quite a bit.

00:11:02.040 And then near the end, you see a couple of interesting things.

00:11:05.640 You see a couple of lines that are getting more pronounced going down.

00:11:09.980 So that's China, that's the EU, and that's Mexico.

00:11:15.020 so those three uh trading partners we're in an imbalance with them so when car and and carny is

00:11:22.100 putting us in a deeper imbalance because he's making deals with the eu in places like that

00:11:26.480 and those deals are not favorable to us and then lastly there's only one purple line that's really

00:11:31.760 going up in the last little that purple line and that's our trade balance with the uk so we're

00:11:37.980 selling more to the uk than we're buying from them which on the surface is a good thing but on the on

00:11:42.800 the on the deeper look you realize oh smokes that's all gold the Brits have been have smartened

00:11:52.200 up and they're using their paper currency which is kind of worthless like everybody else's paper

00:11:56.480 currency and they're buying our gold so they're really strengthening our economy and we're being

00:12:01.500 suckers and we're selling them gold so I want to show that I just wanted to put that into context

00:12:06.120 this graph is and I've said this to folks all the time right you can hear all the rhetoric 0.99

00:12:12.400 that's going on by by on the mainstream media and other places but go look at the data yourself

00:12:18.000 and try and convince yourself right are we winning a trade war the answer is no okay we're not

00:12:23.760 winning the trade war right now um so so let's so let's get rid of that graph for now and and and

00:12:30.640 let me keep chatting on that topic so we're not winning the trade war and um an existential trade

00:12:37.760 war by the way you know we should we should have parliament um reconvene but what happened last

00:12:46.500 week is the deal got cancelled apparently there was a deal uh on the table and the deal fell

00:12:53.520 through at the you know at the 11th hour there's all sorts of stories on the internet that there's

00:12:59.720 interviews of ambassadors from the u.s and trade negotiators from the u.s and as a canadian

00:13:04.640 representatives, and both sides are arguing, I'm tending to believe the American side of

00:13:13.920 this story, that there was a deal and that we pulled the rug at the last minute, making

00:13:19.160 all sorts of excuse to do that. I would say it goes back to Trump being a boogeyman helps

00:13:31.080 Carney. He just won three by-elections pretty much on that

00:13:35.820 topic. And he's going to milk that for all it's worth.

00:13:39.880 He can milk that for at least another two years. And then after that

00:13:43.980 Trump is done. Or so we think.

00:13:47.860 I mean, legally he can't do more than two terms. We've got the American midterms coming up

00:13:52.120 and they'll be interesting to see. I think that in the American

00:13:55.800 midterms, Trump is going to surprise everyone and still come

00:13:59.900 out strong and so and and at the end of the day um you know we started by talking about that that

00:14:07.420 uss uh abraham lincoln the americans have bigger problems to worry about right they are an enormous

00:14:13.260 economy and um they they're negotiating with all sorts of countries and and i would say quite

00:14:21.580 honestly we're small potatoes for them sure they import from us a bunch of things like oil and

00:14:26.560 whatnot but not enough to like we are not as important to them as we like to think we are

00:14:33.640 and i think donald's got bigger problems to worry about and then donald this week played a couple

00:14:38.900 of interesting card i mean he played a really interesting card which is he signed a deal with

00:14:43.580 venezuela and so he's going to start bringing in venezuelan oil that one caught me off guard a

00:14:48.720 little bit because i thought that the venezuelan infrastructure had taken a real beating in the

00:14:53.960 last you know 30 years and i didn't think that they'd be able to sort of turn around the oil

00:14:58.500 patch in venezuela quickly but i think i'm going to be proven wrong and um and they're gonna they're

00:15:04.020 gonna do that so so that brings us then to very very current events right now in the trade war

00:15:11.100 so we we apparently we had a deal the deal didn't didn't materialize i'm still i'm one of those

00:15:18.940 people who's like i'd like to see the deal i don't know what the deal was right we don't know nobody

00:15:23.480 knows i mean like i said both sides have been interviewed but nobody has actually seen the the

00:15:29.480 paper the deal was the dairy cartel on there was the french language issue really on there was it

00:15:35.400 all simply netflix or you know was it the banks was it the airlines what was it what was the deal

00:15:40.680 breaker i don't know i never saw the deal house of commons is not sitting this is all being done

00:15:46.200 unilaterally by by you know by carney and a handful of people so i don't know what the deal was

00:15:51.640 what i do know is the tariffs are going to kick in in a couple of days on the 8th and um

00:15:59.080 all right well let's go i got a caller on the line um let me make a note so i was just about

00:16:04.120 to talk about tariffs going in but go ahead call it as always too where are you calling from what

00:16:08.360 do you want to talk about and uh and let's go from there so go ahead caller hey marty it's

00:16:14.360 cory from edmonton just uh call me edmonton as they call it i just had a question about the uh

00:16:20.360 the care thing and the whole trump and carney dynamic my question basically was so twice now

00:16:26.340 connie has duped the public into trump is the boogeyman and you know he used it to his advantage

00:16:32.360 to boost himself in the polls even doug poor did it realistically how many how many times are they

00:16:38.460 going to be able to do this trick before the the the mass psychosis the hypnotized public

00:16:45.680 starts crying wolf you know what i mean or starts you know seeing through starts seeing through

00:16:51.240 the rhetoric like how how many times do you think they can roll the dice on this realistically

00:16:55.460 11 years worth right i mean trudeau was doing the same thing like uh you you're you know you're

00:17:01.780 you're preaching to me to the choir right i've been trying to expose that forever and ever and

00:17:06.460 i'm like you i'm hoping that people will wake up how do you think people wake up let me ask let me

00:17:12.300 flip it back on you like do you like well normally it's the pocketbook right you hit the pocketbook

00:17:18.940 and people tend to wake up but like here's here's the thing murray i thought drag queen story hour

00:17:24.120 was going to be the thing i thought that was going to be the thing that people were going to be up in

00:17:27.820 arms they were going to be in the streets like no we can't do this i really did and then the next

00:17:32.700 they push it further and further still and further still it's astonishing just how much

00:17:37.000 it's how apathetic canadians can really be like it's suicidal empathy at this point like my sister

00:17:42.820 and my grandmother are both as liberal as they come and even when you try to approach it with

00:17:47.300 diplomacy and and facts and reason and you try not to and get escalated and yell and you try to

00:17:53.780 remain very calm and you try to navigate the minefield that is liberal logic and you try to

00:17:59.260 get through to them with something even if you can see it sparking and resonating with them a little

00:18:04.600 bit it just seems like they that that what do they call it agent smith syndrome kicks in and

00:18:10.460 all of a sudden they just they become a different person and they react purely on emotion and this

00:18:15.640 is the one thing that i just can't seem to break through i i'm i'm with you i share your frustration

00:18:20.680 i mean i've you know uh the carbon taxes hit and their cost of going on a trip to cuba started

00:18:26.580 being more expensive and i thought okay that'll be it for people nope uh i thought yeah the your

00:18:32.440 kid's house is twice as expensive as it should be? Nope, that's not it. Groceries are expensive?

00:18:37.480 Nope, that's not it. We seem to have a high tolerance for pain. And I keep hoping, like,

00:18:44.260 I'm actually even hoping that the tariffs that kick in in a couple of weeks will add enough pain

00:18:52.980 to make some people smarten up. But I mean, there's definitely a couple of things that are

00:18:59.180 at play here right um we we have about uh you know one out two out of every five workers in

00:19:06.760 this country work for one branch of government or another so they're kind of immune to the pain

00:19:10.920 they got guaranteed jobs and then 40 never pay taxes and are net receivers from the government

00:19:16.940 and i think and i think that there's a group now that have just settled for less and they're happy

00:19:22.980 like and and then let's not forget this group hang on hang on one second let's not forget this group

00:19:29.720 too we have brought in like millions of people from other countries i hear this all the time

00:19:36.300 they look at us and they go why are you guys complaining because they're happy right imagine

00:19:40.120 you come to canada from i don't know somalia right and india india right a perfect example

00:19:46.220 and they come here and they go why are you guys complaining man like i can have 43 people in the

00:19:50.800 house and i can do this and do that and borrow money and have a big car and they're happy so

00:19:55.840 um that's there's been a transformation of our society i think is the answer

00:20:00.840 yeah and maybe that's just it because i did see something recently saying that in about 10 years

00:20:07.860 the majority of canada if we stay on this trajectory is going to be majority indian

00:20:12.220 um whether or not that's true or not you can look into that but i don't i don't doubt it based

00:20:17.820 up what i see you know they'll tell you it's only a small percentage of indians that are here but

00:20:22.440 when you go outside and you look around and you go places that doesn't exactly ring true to me

00:20:29.480 i'm just maybe i'm spiritual here i don't know i'm just saying it's awfully it's like i'm looking

00:20:34.880 through the windows or like i'm looking through the lights to think it windows when i walk around

00:20:38.520 yeah i mean i think edmonton is like yeah statistically it won't there's a change in the

00:20:44.760 in the makeup of the country i don't think it will be indian per se the change that worries me more

00:20:50.440 is the fact that uh we the the change of worries me the most in our society is the fact that we 0.95

00:20:56.600 have so many people working independent on government that's the change that i don't care

00:21:00.440 what culture what they are what bothers me is just how many people like you said edmonton

00:21:05.720 i mean i like i drive around edmonton and i can't believe how many uh you know stay in canada signs

00:21:11.160 i'm seeing and then i realized yeah because they work for the federal government the provincial

00:21:15.560 government the universities or something like that anyways i uh i appreciate the appreciate

00:21:20.680 the call um how's the last thing how's the weather in edmonton today

00:21:26.680 i'm not it's raining like it's it's raining buddy it's just a it's just a metaphor for life

00:21:32.120 and then it's just gloom and doom but you know we're trying to rest above it and you know we're

00:21:36.840 always trying to do what we can support independence um you know we're trying to do what

00:21:40.920 we can everywhere trying to wake people up so uh i love what you're doing with the show buddy

00:21:44.840 and i'll see you on next man thank you cheers um actually before he leave uh before i go back to

00:21:51.560 tariffs i just wanna it's on my lap i want to show you guys something speaking of uh stay in in uh

00:21:57.560 uh so this is my this is my official ndp t-shirt and the ndp here in alberta is sort of

00:22:05.800 stealing the uh ottawa logo right we stick with canada and uh and they got their hockey stick

00:22:12.200 and how did i come about that shirt i told you guys the story right so i joined i'm a member of

00:22:17.240 the liberal party i'm a member of other parties but i i joined uh uh naheed nenshi's uh for alberta

00:22:25.720 for uh for canada or whatever the heck his group is and then i've been going logging on and doing

00:22:32.520 the things they want us to do right like i've been promoting uh promoting the the movement and a

00:22:38.580 couple of weeks ago they told me i won a t-shirt and they gave me this free code well i ordered

00:22:43.160 the t-shirt and then a couple of days later they figured out who i was because i talked about it

00:22:47.240 online so they mysteriously said we're canceling that order but uh i have more than one account

00:22:52.960 with them right and so i get home and uh and karen my wife says who's humongous because there's

00:23:00.480 a package at the door for humongous well that's my alter ego my second account so i'll wear this

00:23:06.360 proudly at one of their upcoming town halls uh go ahead caller where are you calling from what's

00:23:10.700 your name please oh hi marty it's gordon calling from edmonton uh wasn't there just a guy named

00:23:18.860 gordon call a second gordon from edmonton okay uh yeah no no i must be the second one okay yeah

00:23:27.600 I'm not really recalling, Bobby, in regards to the trade war tariffs

00:23:32.200 that we're having here with the U.S.

00:23:37.040 And I mean, I think somebody would do some more,

00:23:39.640 like some reporting into some more deeper stuff.

00:23:42.280 Like when we were having trade negotiations,

00:23:45.880 Mark Carney was on vacation in Europe.

00:23:49.220 Well, you can be sure he wasn't at the beach.

00:23:51.960 He was consulting with all his WF, globalists, and they are all very, very concerned about Trump winning both houses in the midterms because they know that if he wins, they're toast.

00:24:08.240 He's already started attacking them through the financial systems.

00:24:12.940 Already, we've said he's been talking about how they're attacking him through the finances.

00:24:17.660 And they know that it's their coach if he gets to win both houses because he's going to be unstoppable.

00:24:25.220 So let me ask you a quick question.

00:24:27.460 How closely do you follow American politics?

00:24:32.900 Quite a bit.

00:24:33.660 Quite a bit.

00:24:34.260 I listen to a group out of there.

00:24:36.280 Okay.

00:24:36.940 So what's your thoughts?

00:24:37.880 Does Trump sort of keep control of the House and win some of these midterms in a couple of months?

00:24:45.740 or is he what's what's your prediction oh no he's i believe my prediction is uh he's going to get 0.94

00:24:53.560 him he's doing very well uh they get knocked off for one of the pigs there that was uh true

00:24:59.180 democrats and you know he's going to do well the people are very happy oh you know it's like in 0.71

00:25:06.220 canada the only people who are unhappy are the people who are going to be affected by change

00:25:11.480 whether you're a politician, government worker.

00:25:13.980 It's the same thing in the U.S.

00:25:15.880 The people who are unhappy are the politicians who are going to be affected

00:25:19.440 when Trump wins both houses,

00:25:21.960 because then they know that all the plans that he has

00:25:26.660 for changing the American society, he's going to be unstoppable.

00:25:32.880 And a lot of people think, well, when Trump has gone in two years,

00:25:37.260 you know, it'll be better.

00:25:38.620 I don't know about that.

00:25:40.200 When you've got guys like Vance and Rubio, one of those two guys is probably going to be the new president.

00:25:46.320 And I think they're almost more of they're more than Trump on steroids because those guys are true blue Republicans and true blue Americans.

00:25:56.340 Yeah, no, I appreciate the call. Thanks for calling.

00:25:58.680 And I, you know, one interesting thing in the U.S. is I have lots of friends who've been down there recently and they, you know, it's obvious when you're down there that the Americans are doing well.

00:26:13.900 And so you can criticize and the Americans are feeling it, right?

00:26:17.680 They're going, well, the criticism aimed at Trump in my daily life don't align because I'm actually doing good.

00:26:24.720 And in Canada, it's the opposite.

00:26:26.460 it we're we're we're we're not making the link between our miserable lives and our government

00:26:33.020 it's it's fascinating john did i lose that caller and i got another caller already is that what it

00:26:37.580 is okay go ahead uh go ahead caller hi marty my name is keith i've been listening for about two

00:26:45.820 three months i mean i worked a night show so i just happened to catch a live marty do you mind

00:26:51.500 if i switch topics for a minute is that okay i want to talk about this oh marty why isn't anybody

00:26:59.260 bringing up that they're still promoting the college shot because i i have a personal story

00:27:05.180 my mother was 94 in long-term care and um last uh may 11th night usually my family's away and i i

00:27:14.780 would reject her getting any boosters but this time it was overwritten by a family member my

00:27:20.940 mother went into palliative care not the shot in the 11th without my knowledge went in palliative

00:27:27.100 care on the 19th and died june 5th and she was healthy her mind just her mobility was the reason

00:27:34.060 she ended up in 93 in long-term care and all the all the nurses and all the people that worked in

00:27:40.460 that facility were required to get the booster even the workers and i'm and they're still calling

00:27:46.380 it safe and i don't understand what is going on in alberta that they're still promoting it

00:27:51.420 it's safe and that they're requiring people to get it i you just you're upsetting me with your

00:27:57.660 yeah you're upsetting me with your story right now i just got goosebumps i mean i don't know

00:28:01.580 what you can like short of moving her into another home i i need somebody else to pipe in on this

00:28:08.540 like could you not could you not give orders and and prevent that i don't know that sounds criminal

00:28:14.540 i mean i i feel for i don't i don't have an answer but i feel for you i i've been talking

00:28:19.340 about this relentlessly i don't know why people are still doing this i have no idea

00:28:26.780 yes thanks marty i i just wanted to bring it up i don't understand why the politicians

00:28:31.980 in alberta or why the separate separate just movement are not talking about this

00:28:37.500 yeah yeah yeah thanks still being promoted thanks for calling keith uh sorry to hear that but thanks

00:28:43.180 for calling thank you thank you yeah that what another terrible story i mean i i've you know

00:28:51.180 if if if you're if you're 30 years old and you want to go get vaccinated that's your choice

00:28:57.580 that's fine um i'm upset at the fact that there are still so many kids under the age of 18 that

00:29:04.620 are being vaccinated that are parents that are taking their kids and and vaccinating their kids

00:29:09.820 And I understand it's the law the parents allowed to choose. But I mean, there's so much evidence that shows that vaccinating a kid against COVID who's under the age of 18 and healthy is completely, totally unnecessary.

00:29:22.320 But there's still literally tens of thousands of people that do it. But at the other extreme is like this caller is like Keith just said, what we're doing to me, to some of the people in old age, the number is high, right?

00:29:34.860 Across the board in Alberta, like a vaccine uptake is minuscule now.

00:29:39.800 It's under 10 percent, but it's in the 60 to 70 percent range in people over the age of 65 and 70.

00:29:46.500 And I know it's in old age homes and are being, I would dare say, vaccinated against their will.

00:29:51.900 I don't think they know. And if somebody has an idea for the caller, like, how do you stop that?

00:29:57.040 I have no idea. Is there is like I have no idea. It's so terrible.

00:30:01.560 All right, well, let me rush through the story on tariffs then.

00:30:07.740 So American tariffs are kicking, new tariffs are kicking in on the 8th, right?

00:30:11.660 And so these are tariffs we're imposing on ourselves, okay?

00:30:15.760 So Carney is going to tax you for buying things from the U.S.

00:30:21.960 So he's going to tax you for buying makeup, furniture, children's toys, motorcycles, farm equipment, a few other things.

00:30:32.920 Like it's a long list. I think there's 879 categories that kick in in a couple of weeks.

00:30:39.540 And again, it's such a counterproductive thing to do.

00:30:43.940 As an example, let's say you were ready to buy a motorcycle

00:30:50.340 and you're ready to buy a Harley Davidson motorcycle

00:30:52.980 and it used to be $25,000, but now next week it gets a 50% tariff on it.

00:30:58.240 So the motorcycle jumps up from $25,000 to $40,000.

00:31:03.200 And so now you pause and you go, I'm not buying it.

00:31:06.680 So Carney succeeded in scaring you and you're not buying that motorcycle from the US

00:31:11.820 and then the US is not going to hurt.

00:31:13.060 Right. So if the U.S. doesn't sell you a motorcycle, they'll sell it to somebody else.

00:31:17.160 But now you still have that money and you were willing to spend money on a motorcycle and you're shopping around for a motorcycle.

00:31:24.140 Honda makes a motorcycle. Honda says, hey, I'll sell you that $25,000 motorcycle that you're ready to buy.

00:31:31.240 You think Honda is going to sell you the motorcycle for $25,000 if they know that the Harley Davidson ones all jumped up to 40?

00:31:38.060 No. Honda, being a business, they'll sell you the same motorcycle.

00:31:41.500 they'll jack up their price.

00:31:42.720 They just won't jack them up as high as the tariffs.

00:31:45.260 So you either don't buy a motorcycle

00:31:47.460 or you buy a motorcycle that's more expensive

00:31:49.680 than it was a year ago or a week ago

00:31:52.580 and carny pockets the difference.

00:31:55.060 And this is going to go on across the board.

00:31:56.960 So like furniture,

00:31:58.940 small appliances are being affected

00:32:01.220 by the tariffs in a couple of weeks, right?

00:32:05.540 So small appliance,

00:32:06.400 you buy a KitchenAid Mixmaster

00:32:09.320 or I don't know if a television qualifies.

00:32:11.700 No, television is probably electronics,

00:32:13.140 but you buy a small freezer that was going to be made

00:32:15.460 by Westinghouse in the U.S.,

00:32:17.000 and now that little freezer comes with a tariff.

00:32:19.280 So you're going to have to buy a Heisen,

00:32:22.000 whatever made in China or made in Korea freezer. 0.78

00:32:25.240 So me personally, I've been taking pictures

00:32:27.340 of a lot of for sale or a lot of sale items

00:32:30.340 just to see how this all factors in.

00:32:33.940 But next week, our lives become more expensive

00:32:37.780 because we are going to shoot ourselves in the foot

00:32:40.900 and who gets the money from all these tariffs?

00:32:44.180 It goes to Ottawa and then Ottawa does like what they did today.

00:32:47.920 They turn around and they spend that money.

00:32:50.880 God, I wasn't even going to talk about the Via Rail announcement

00:32:54.520 and I don't even want to talk about it

00:32:56.080 because I still want to keep talking about the bigger picture in the trade war.

00:32:59.740 So now we got this war going and I've said this all along

00:33:04.040 and like the big losers in the trade war.

00:33:08.660 Well, I showed you on the graph, right?

00:33:10.020 So there's still a big, huge trade balance

00:33:13.220 with the US because it's oil, okay?

00:33:16.420 That's what I wanted to come back to.

00:33:17.780 So Alberta is selling oil.

00:33:19.600 And so we're unaffected by this.

00:33:21.720 And then gold to the UK, who's mining gold?

00:33:25.920 There's a little bit in Northern BC,

00:33:27.800 Northern Saskatchewan, Northern Ontario,

00:33:30.200 Northern Quebec, but, and that's okay.

00:33:33.540 and then potash and sulfur and a bunch of things.

00:33:36.200 But then the deep Ontario economy,

00:33:40.280 the auto manufacturing and all those groups

00:33:41.920 are taking a beating.

00:33:43.020 So then Donald Trump,

00:33:45.540 Doug Ford this week, last week,

00:33:47.860 he's twisting our arms.

00:33:50.300 It's not good enough that we send

00:33:52.680 a ton of equalization money to Ontario and Quebec,

00:33:54.980 but now they want us to sacrifice our own economies

00:33:57.960 and they want to use Alberta's oil

00:34:00.700 to squeeze the Americans.

00:34:04.860 And that's where we're at this week. 0.73

00:34:06.860 And I want John to play the clip about one minute

00:34:09.300 because Premier Smith, Danielle Smith,

00:34:11.720 answered that question brilliantly.

00:34:16.600 Let me explain why.

00:34:17.840 And it's important that this be understood by every Canadian.

00:34:22.280 If Canada were to put, let's say, a 50% export tariff

00:34:27.620 on the 4 million barrels of oil that we export daily to the United States.

00:34:32.360 The United States would immediately respond with a 50 to 100 percent export tariff on oil and natural gas

00:34:40.620 that they export to Ontario, along with millions of barrels of diesel fuel and gasoline

00:34:46.740 that Ontario and Quebec import from the Midwest.

00:34:50.460 This would bring the economies of Ontario and Quebec to a grinding halt.

00:34:55.220 Meanwhile, all those refineries in the United States that currently use Alberta's heavy oil

00:34:59.860 would start looking to Venezuela for replacement heavy oil

00:35:03.100 and reverse the pipelines northward to get it to Midwest refineries.

00:35:07.660 As a result, we would lose...

00:35:09.360 So, boy, I don't know.

00:35:12.340 It sounds like she was peering into a crystal ball.

00:35:15.620 She wasn't peering into a crystal ball.

00:35:17.320 She's just well-informed and understands realities.

00:35:20.940 And she's being an adult in the room and explaining things.

00:35:24.620 But, you know, she sounds like she's looking into a crystal ball because what happened?

00:35:29.840 Even though we didn't even threaten and we might have maybe Trump got word that we were going to do something like this.

00:35:37.260 So he he he he was proactive.

00:35:40.820 He already signed a deal with Venezuela, which makes me nervous, like I said, because he can now bring in the Venezuelan oil and reverse the pipelines and feed his refineries in the Midwest and whatnot.

00:35:53.620 with venezuelan oil i personally i think that the economy of the u.s is so booming that they need

00:35:59.240 our oil and venezuelan oil they need it all so so at the end of the day i'm still not worried

00:36:05.620 about that but in the short term it could have a minor impact and then but then she also talked

00:36:10.940 about the fact that most canadians had no idea that this is a fact right alberto oil goes down

00:36:15.860 to the u.s and then comes back up through like the michigan peninsula and line five and into the

00:36:20.680 and to ontario that way and sort of out of just sheer coincidence maybe maybe not line five went

00:36:28.500 down last week right there was an they were they were doing they were shut down to do some

00:36:32.460 maintenance some repairs but then some truck backed in and hit some and there was there's a

00:36:37.420 bigger impact on line five and and what happened instantly there's there's a convergence if you

00:36:44.720 look at the price i fueled up for uh i fueled up in uh stony plain coming back from up north

00:36:50.640 two days ago and i paid a buck a buck 25 nine one two five point nine for uh gasoline in stony

00:37:00.460 plain which is crazy right and so i'll like the war in the war in the gulf is settling down the

00:37:06.500 boats are coming home everything's getting okay we're we're and our prices of gasoline are coming

00:37:12.460 down ontario's is going like this right now and there's this huge divergence because of line five

00:37:18.540 so uh go ahead call her uh name and where are you from please

00:37:23.820 hey marty exchange how are you can you hear me yeah yeah i can hear you go ahead go ahead

00:37:37.660 repeat that please i didn't hear it

00:37:38.940 i figured i'd call and take some mean things about canadians today okay go ahead

00:37:45.100 you're allowed to say two mean things not too many

00:37:49.740 I mean, it's just, uh, well, Premier Smith's completely right, and she hasn't justifiably taken a lot of crap lately for, uh, from the independent school public, I understand, but Premier Smith seems to be the last politician in here who understands what diplomacy is.

00:38:13.040 Well, I think that could learn something from him.

00:38:17.840 Uh, I'm trying to find here.

00:38:19.740 Listen, that's good. I appreciate the call. I got a bit of a bad line, but I got the gist of

00:38:28.540 what you're saying. Thanks for calling. Fair enough. Not a great signal. Have a good one.

00:38:33.120 Cheers. So, all right, we're probably going to change topics, but you know, so Danielle is spot 1.00

00:38:40.100 on and we cannot, and by the way, cutting off the oil to the U.S. would kind of be an act of war,

00:38:47.500 right i mean that's how world war ii started between the u.s and japan when the americans

00:38:52.020 cut off their oil like you do not cut off critical infrastructure like that but um

00:38:58.020 yeah those were uh so danielle is being the adult in the room which is more than i can say about a

00:39:05.520 lot of the other politicians which i guess is a good segue to uh i mean which we were going to

00:39:12.740 talk about the meme war the the best part of the meme war would be if we were able to share a bunch

00:39:17.540 of memes and i don't want to do that you guys have seen the memes right but um mark carney how

00:39:23.400 did this start right so a couple of days ago mark carney was being interviewed and he said like in

00:39:28.120 light of all of this are you going to restart the negotiations and he doesn't want to okay he

00:39:34.660 doesn't want to start the negotiations it it's not in his best interest right now he's doing he's

00:39:39.840 working his other agenda he's pretending he's he's he's distancing us from the americans he's

00:39:46.400 going to get us cozy with the with the eu and other places and then he gets to execute his plan

00:39:53.040 which is uh by canadian for canadians and uh you know he decides that's in his book values it's

00:40:00.340 right there in black and white and now we're seeing it right like when somebody tells you what

00:40:03.860 they're going to do believe them so carney told you in 695 pages in his book he told you that

00:40:09.620 He's a small C capitalist, but he believes in capitalism when he chooses the winners and losers.

00:40:19.420 And lately, he's been picking some pretty doozy losers, right?

00:40:22.320 I mean, today he went up to Thunder Bay and he announced $4.7 billion to buy, I don't know, 316 cars for Via Rail. 0.51

00:40:34.280 Via Rail is a crown corporation that loses about $300 million a year.

00:40:39.620 So it's a non-profitable crown corporation.

00:40:44.180 If Carney was a capitalist, he'd sell via rail,

00:40:46.760 let the private sector get in there and run it at a profit.

00:40:49.560 But instead, Canada is going to continue down this path

00:40:52.740 of nationalizing things and taking tax dollars

00:40:56.360 that we don't even have, borrowed money,

00:40:59.520 and then spending it on things like things that we don't need,

00:41:03.520 like icebreakers, apparently when the world is warming up,

00:41:07.140 icebreakers that will never get built.

00:41:08.620 But do you see what happens?

00:41:09.620 right carney's going around buying votes so he's promising things spending money that we don't have

00:41:16.400 to buy things that we don't need that could be better spent by the private sector that are more

00:41:20.720 expensive than necessary he's picking the winners and losers and he's doing his thing and he's

00:41:26.100 getting re-elected for doing that people buy it people applaud it okay people applaud it because

00:41:31.860 40 percent of Canadians don't pay taxes and those that do it's a very small minority and then and

00:41:38.060 And then and then there's a ton of people on the payroll directly, whether it's OAS or CPP.

00:41:43.600 And then there's a ton of people on the payroll, literally, that work for the government in one way or another.

00:41:50.260 So it's we're like we are going down that path and it's almost too late, which brings like I didn't even expect to go here, which brings me back to why I'm an Alberta separatist.

00:42:00.280 because we have to save Alberta, the last bastion of common sense

00:42:04.040 with people like Danielle Smith and our leaders on the independence movement.

00:42:08.220 And then the last place where capitalism still rules and free markets

00:42:12.440 and we're not, you know, infected by this insanity of wokeism

00:42:17.600 that's happening out east.

00:42:19.760 So Carney doesn't want to go back to the table to negotiate,

00:42:25.020 but, you know, he joked about it.

00:42:27.860 He's like, I'll go back as soon as the Americans become serious and stop making memes about me and throwing shades and a few other things.

00:42:35.940 Well, that just that just became hilarious. Right.

00:42:38.460 So I wish we could share a few of those, but there was memes galore on the Internet and everybody's got their favorites.

00:42:47.560 And and that's the market responding.

00:42:49.860 I don't think I don't think we will see Carney back at the negotiation table anytime soon.

00:42:55.180 I might be wrong well he might have to go back because I believe sorry let me put it this way

00:43:03.760 I do believe that he will have to go back because as some of the callers called in I honestly think

00:43:08.980 life's about to get really really really really expensive for Canadians like we're gonna we we

00:43:15.540 can we can play tough and we can you know say we're gonna boycott Americans and do this but

00:43:21.500 They're 13 times bigger.

00:43:23.140 They're more powerful than us.

00:43:24.620 They are well diversified.

00:43:26.240 They depend on us far less than we depend on them.

00:43:30.080 And if they decide to, they can fight a war of attrition against us,

00:43:36.840 an economic war for a long time, and we will suffer.

00:43:39.440 And I think we're about to start suffering.

00:43:41.560 So we should have probably taken a deal because eventually we're going to be forced into taking the deal.

00:43:47.160 And I think the deal is get rid of the dairy cartels, sacrifice some of the banks,

00:43:51.500 and allow, you know, American airlines to fly domestically within Canada.

00:43:56.080 So I think reality is about to hit us hard and we're going to see it in the next couple of months.

00:44:02.260 And I think even Carney knows it, which is why today or yesterday he announced that, you know,

00:44:07.740 the fuel tax on gasoline was supposed to be reinstated because he took it off for the summer.

00:44:13.320 And now he's like, we're going to leave it. We're going to leave it off for a little bit longer.

00:44:17.680 That's because he has no choice, man.

00:44:19.120 Because if he left, like gasoline is one of the biggest drivers of inflation and the inflation numbers are at 3%.

00:44:25.860 And I think next month and the month after, they're going to be higher and higher.

00:44:28.900 So I think Canadians as a whole, get ready, folks.

00:44:31.940 You're in for a lot of pain in the next couple of months as this tariff war drags on.

00:44:38.940 And our stubbornness is going to cost you and I.

00:44:43.240 It won't cost Carney and others.

00:44:45.100 and and and i was gonna i was gonna talk just uh just on the weird trade war i guess you guys

00:44:51.580 you know i was gone while this happened but this was hilarious i mean i thought it was a joke that

00:44:56.940 that donald trump was renaming lake ontario lake america uh i guess he did it and i guess the other

00:45:03.840 side lost their mind on it and i think it would have been funnier if he named it lake trump although

00:45:09.480 I think there's already a Lake Trump. But folks, again, chill, chill. There are places all over

00:45:15.980 the planet where certain geographic features like mountains and straits and lakes have two names

00:45:22.000 when they're on a border, right? You go to Nepal and you see Mount Everest, you know, it's bordered

00:45:27.280 by China and Tibet and Nepal, let's say. And the Nepalese call it one thing, the Chinese call it

00:45:34.320 something else and the and the and the tibetans call it something else and and you got lots of

00:45:39.000 places like that all over the world so it would not be unusual if a lake like lake ontario was

00:45:43.960 called lake ontario on the canadian side and called lake something else on the other side

00:45:48.140 there's nothing unusual about that but i just it just shows how the rhetoric in the couple in the

00:45:53.720 last weeks uh got pretty crazy and ultimately i would like to see it calm down a little bit

00:46:00.600 because it's, like I said, it's you and I that are gonna, that are gonna hurt.

00:46:05.580 Um, I still have time, eh, John?

00:46:08.940 I got about, uh, where's the clock here?

00:46:13.220 I got about 10 minutes or so.

00:46:14.700 Okay, cool.

00:46:15.620 Uh, yeah, as I suspected, I knew, uh, I knew that the time was gonna go by quickly.

00:46:21.400 Um, where do I go next?

00:46:24.720 I got, well, here's where, actually, I want to talk about this for a second.

00:46:30.600 How many people got this in the mail this week, if you live in Alberta, right?

00:46:36.100 This is, I've been in Alberta my whole life just about, and I've been through many elections,

00:46:40.980 and I've never seen Elections Alberta so nervous about an upcoming election or referendum

00:46:47.320 to the point where they sent us this, this is like, this is a 14-page document voting in Alberta.

00:46:56.240 and I guess it's in preparation for the upcoming referendum.

00:47:02.200 Are they trying to make things more efficient by getting ready

00:47:06.960 or is there something else going on?

00:47:09.680 I mean, I found this fascinating.

00:47:11.520 Did you know that you can get services from Elections Alberta

00:47:14.200 in 27 languages?

00:47:16.180 If you show up, if you show up, and it's all detailed in here,

00:47:19.520 if you show up at the, you know, and it talks about ways to vote,

00:47:22.920 mail-in ballots, advanced voting on election day.

00:47:26.680 It shows how to mark a ballot.

00:47:31.460 Like, do we have that many people that are new to the province

00:47:34.960 who've never been in an election that we have to show this?

00:47:39.380 And all the tools available to you, like barrier-free voting,

00:47:43.780 assistance marking your ballot.

00:47:45.580 I mean, if you can't mark your ballot, you can ask for an elections officer.

00:47:48.720 You can ask for a ballot in Braille.

00:47:51.120 you can ask for a ballot with

00:47:53.160 you can ask for the ballot

00:47:55.520 to be translated

00:47:56.320 this is bonkers

00:47:57.580 in a sense

00:48:00.620 I don't know what to make of this

00:48:03.020 maybe you guys have some ideas on this

00:48:05.480 or maybe I'm just overthinking this

00:48:07.700 and this is just

00:48:09.440 Elections Alberta

00:48:10.240 but there's also this page here

00:48:12.940 that I find really interesting

00:48:14.980 which is

00:48:15.860 and actually they don't want me

00:48:18.840 they don't want us commentators

00:48:21.040 sort of making fun of them so i guess i'm i'm i'm maybe pushing the rules a little bit but

00:48:26.640 they have a whole page on elections integrity right and and i've said this before like the

00:48:32.400 more somebody tries to convince me that they're by the book and everything is okay and and ethical

00:48:37.760 and legal and moral and and transparent the more i get suspicious so maybe that's me that's the

00:48:44.160 little suspicious side of me that's like why are they doing this why are they feeling like they

00:48:48.240 need to go over the top and convince us that that everything is hunky dory. All right. Well, let's

00:48:56.400 I'll try and stretch this last little bit. Well, actually, not let let me go there because we

00:49:04.840 we kind of touched on it. The bank. No, we didn't touch on it. Bank of Canada. So we had by elections

00:49:11.460 on Monday. We have the trade war. We have all sorts of things. And then we have the Bank of

00:49:16.580 Canada comes out in the middle of all of this and announces that they're keeping the rate,

00:49:21.160 the overnight rate, they call it steady at 2.25. So 2.25. So that's seven. The bank meets eight

00:49:30.000 times a year, roughly every two months or every six weeks. And then they adjust the rate. Well,

00:49:35.780 they haven't adjusted the rate in seven sessions in a row now. So it's been almost just over a

00:49:42.780 year that we've been at 2.25 and tim macklin goes out of the the the commissioner or the governor

00:49:51.260 of the bank of canada does this press conference and then he talks about how interest or how

00:49:57.220 inflation is you know above the target range of two percent stuck at three uh lots of uncertainty

00:50:03.520 with the price of fuel and stuff like that blah blah blah blah blah and uh basically signals that

00:50:08.780 the economy is doing, is in trouble, but at the same time, he's sending mixed signals because

00:50:18.540 when you send, when you keep the bank rate low like that, you're basically trying to add

00:50:26.080 supply to the whole supply and demand side. And you're trying to kickstart the economy is what

00:50:35.840 you're doing if the economy was really really good you want to slow it down a little bit and

00:50:40.900 increase the um the interest rates and behind the scenes um what we call corporate bonds and

00:50:49.720 government bonds and other bonds are going up slowly and that you know once in a while those

00:50:54.280 are the important things right if the bank's going one way but the private sector is going another

00:50:59.060 who are you going to believe right the thousands of investors not the thousands the millions of

00:51:04.780 investors that make up the private sector and the market, we call it, or the guy from the Bank of

00:51:09.960 Canada. And so just pay attention to that, folks. It's a mixed signal. And again, I think who

00:51:18.720 benefits from a low interest rate more than anybody else? It's the government of Canada,

00:51:23.360 because they got to service that debt right now. And there's supposed to be an arm's length

00:51:27.280 relationship between the governor of the Bank of Canada and the prime minister of Canada.

00:51:32.140 And I'm not sure that that arm's length is exactly there.

00:51:38.100 And I think TIFF is between a rock and a hard place.

00:51:40.940 And he's keeping interest rates low, which helps a few consumers, the ones who are about to renew their mortgages.

00:51:48.540 But more than anybody else, it helps the government of Canada with its debt servicing and its ability to issue more currency and do the things it wants to do and spend.

00:51:59.000 So I found that whole thing interesting.

00:52:03.620 And again, so when you look at all the pieces together,

00:52:06.660 I think, it's no secret,

00:52:10.140 I think the country is going in a bad direction.

00:52:13.020 And I'm starting to feel it,

00:52:14.760 but I don't know why more people don't feel it.

00:52:20.560 All right, what have I got last here?

00:52:22.620 Last thing I wanted to talk about is independence.

00:52:25.800 I'll do my I'll talk a little bit about independence. So the vote on independence, the referendum is on October 19. So that's coming up where it's less than 60 days away. We did say everybody take a break, relax, re-energize. I get asked that question a lot. Is there going to be how's the push going to be in the next couple of weeks?

00:52:49.460 I think you're going to see a really strong push now to get those voters, you know, like I said, there's the 30% voters that are, they're not interested, they're staying in Canada, the guys that wear these shirts, that's 30%.

00:53:06.160 There's the 30% in my camp, the hardcore people that are already decided no matter what, they want to kick at independence, and then there's that middle 40.

00:53:14.800 So we got to convince that middle 40 in the next 50 days.

00:53:20.360 And I think we're going to see that start in earnest right away here.

00:53:26.100 And interestingly, now is when you see all the polls

00:53:31.620 and all the surveys that are going to come out

00:53:33.280 and all the attacks are going to start getting vicious.

00:53:36.300 And I just wanted to single out one weird thing going on right now.

00:53:41.340 Now, Jason Kenney, who got 51% in his last leadership review

00:53:50.300 and stepped down because 51% wasn't enough,

00:53:54.420 Jason Kenney is now paired up with Rachel Notley, right?

00:53:59.440 Jason Kenney and Rachel Notley are now co-chairs of an upcoming conference

00:54:06.240 to be held in Ottawa, of all places,

00:54:09.700 by the Federal Chamber of Commerce.

00:54:13.300 So they're not holding a conference in Alberta.

00:54:15.920 Two former Alberta premiers or co-enemies,

00:54:20.100 sworn enemies, are now in the same camp

00:54:22.320 holding a conference in Ottawa

00:54:24.560 put on by the Chamber of Commerce,

00:54:27.840 the Federal Commerce,

00:54:28.560 to try and convince people in Ottawa

00:54:31.220 that Alberta should stay in Confederation.

00:54:34.400 The whole thing's a joke,

00:54:35.760 But what I want to just bring out is that I said this all along, right?

00:54:41.920 Independence is a real threat to Carney.

00:54:46.520 It's so much of a threat to Carney that he signed the MOU sacrificing poor Stephen Gilbo

00:54:51.180 and sacrificing some of his support in Quebec.

00:54:55.160 At least I thought he was sacrificing some support in Quebec.

00:54:57.800 I guess the by-election shows otherwise.

00:54:59.840 that he can sacrifice some support in Quebec

00:55:07.120 in order to keep the country together.

00:55:09.940 So he's doing the right thing from his point of view.

00:55:14.180 But independence is a threat to Carney

00:55:17.020 and it's made some interesting bedfellows, right?

00:55:19.200 So we had Carney, we had Daniel Smith,

00:55:21.660 who's against independence, Nahid Nenshi.

00:55:27.380 The list goes on, right?

00:55:29.140 And now, while we always had Jason Kenney, which I think was unusual, and now we got Rachel Notley. So it's making for some really interesting bedfellows that are getting together that are fighting Alberta independence.

00:55:43.680 i i'm i'm i'm glad still at this point that there isn't a single leader in the alberta

00:55:51.280 independence movement because um you know that person would be attacked viciously because it's

00:55:57.040 the the two sides are it's unfair but pay attention to that right i've i've been saying that

00:56:03.140 and and the part that i hate to admit now is i resisted folks who kept talking about the uniparty

00:56:10.980 federally speaking that they're all part of the same group but now i'm i'm almost having to believe

00:56:17.040 it when i'm seeing it with my own eyes how they're all ganging up and and and collaborating

00:56:22.280 together i mean i did not have that on my bingo card i did not have jason kenny and rachel nartley

00:56:29.420 shaking hands almost embracing each other and holding a conference against alberta independence

00:56:34.940 I did not have that on my bingo card. And then aside from that, watching Jason Kenney online, some of you are probably not online, but watching Jason Kenney online systematically attack so many conservative influencers.

00:56:50.040 He came after me a while ago, and I guess he realized I wasn't worth going after because I don't support Pierre Poilievre, right?

00:56:58.380 But now any strong conservative influencer, the Mark Nixons of the world, the Jasmine Lanes, the Pleb, those folks, they're being attacked.

00:57:10.480 So the conservative influencers who support Pierre Poilievre, they're being attacked hard by Carney.

00:57:15.660 So Carney is playing a double agenda right now.

00:57:17.760 He's a defender of Canada.

00:57:19.900 He's against Alberta independence, 0.99

00:57:21.500 which I think makes him a bit of a hypocrite. 0.98

00:57:23.960 And I think he's seriously taken a run at Pierre Poiliev. 0.91

00:57:27.180 And I think that's something we'll probably end up talking a lot more

00:57:29.780 in the coming weeks.

00:57:30.600 But the knives are out for Poiliev,

00:57:32.180 especially after this triple defeat on the weekend

00:57:35.080 with the by-elections and whatnot.

00:57:37.740 So maybe, you know what, I'm going to put that down.

00:57:41.060 I'm going to put that down for next week.

00:57:42.980 Is Pierre done?

00:57:45.000 Let's make that the topic next week.

00:57:46.280 hey folks the hour went by fast as i expected john um can you give me a thumbs up am i right

00:57:52.360 in saying that the firewall or the paywall is down right now for the western standard and people can

00:57:58.120 oh it's still up or we're doing okay so we're trying to uh we're trying to raise

00:58:07.720 so you know the western standard like i've said every week depends on on subscriptions from folks

00:58:12.840 like you to keep bringing this content to bring the stories that nobody else is bringing you right

00:58:17.560 and and and again to the colleagues here the stories they're breaking are absolutely amazing

00:58:23.160 it's behind the paywall so yes it's a ten dollar a month subscription or a hundred dollars a year

00:58:29.800 and gets you all the great content but because Alberta independence is so important and because

00:58:35.560 there's so many great stories on Alberta independence being brought to you by the

00:58:41.000 staff here at the Western Standard, we're raising money to be able to sort of temporarily remove

00:58:48.040 the firewall for, I guess, a couple of weeks, maybe a month during this campaign period to

00:58:58.600 bring you those important stories about why Alberta independence is the only path forward.

00:59:03.800 So, all right, folks, a great show. Thanks for those of you who called in.

00:59:08.040 thanks for watching thanks for the comments and uh hope to see you here next week same time

00:59:13.980 thursdays at 1 p.m have a great weekend folks

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Western Standard - September 06, 2026

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