00:05:19.480I do cross over into B.C. when I'm hiking along the Continental Divide.
00:05:24.360But otherwise, I don't generally take vacations over to B.C.
00:05:28.100i find it uh overly crowded and uh and a little bit too socialist for my taste
00:05:36.700and i definitely got a heavy dose of socialism while i was gone and and you do get to see
00:05:45.160in bc like when i've come back and everybody was asking me like what do you think of bc and and i
00:05:50.160just have one real overarching comment for bc everything in bc is in disrepair like do they
00:05:57.580not understand the concept of maintenance like everything's in disrepair right we showed up at
00:06:02.860the like you're driving through the towns as you're driving we went via the southern route
00:06:07.100because i had to pick up a buddy in uh kimberly so you know we're going through a soyuz and uh grand
00:06:12.300forks and and places like that and uh you know um cranston and um it like everywhere along the way
00:06:20.940you see the homes are all in disrepairs the cars are the the lawns are full of beat up cars all the
00:06:27.100businesses all the farms all the everything looks just like they don't do maintenance on anything
00:06:32.860and then we got to the ferry terminal and the ferries like you get on the ferry and those
00:06:37.180things look ancient man like everything is rusted i had i took a picture one funny picture at one
00:06:42.720ferry terminal a whole giant section of the parking lot was closed because and it was flagged
00:06:49.280off and then there was warning signs everywhere dangerous trees and like about 100 yards away
00:06:53.560were a couple of dead trees so they shut down the whole parking lot in this uh at the ferry terminal
00:06:59.460because of a potential dead tree that could fall and all i kept thinking is we're in british
00:07:04.200columbia man like a place once famous for its locking industry and you can't find a logger to
00:07:09.620go kill that and we've cut not kill the trees already dead can't find a logger to go knock
00:07:13.400down that one tree took off for 10 days came back and that was one of the things i was looking
00:07:17.840forward to i thought okay well hopefully on the way back when we go by that ferry terminal
00:07:21.260that that one tree will be down and they'll have reopened the uh parking lot nope 10 days later
00:07:26.800parking lot is still closed so you know and and and then the other thing while you're in bc
00:07:33.060like i'm gonna i'm being critical of british columbia but you know bear with me i mean when
00:07:38.060i was in bc you almost like every little map we picked up every every street sign everything now
00:07:44.920is in two languages right you got everything in english but now everything else is not in french
00:07:50.080or some other language or punjabi or chinese it's in these made up languages right so the
00:07:56.480they they they got they got a translation for everything in the local native tongue and there's
00:08:02.480like about 15 different languages depending on as you travel through and and i don't know how
00:08:09.120to read that language and some of the science to me it's literally like it's made up and it's weird
00:08:14.880like this this virtue signaling of of literally handing it like it feels like it honestly feels
00:08:21.200like british colombians at this point are going to hand over everything that they've done for the
00:08:26.080last 200 years like they feel so guilty that they're going to hand everything over back to
00:08:30.240the first nations like that's what it feels like when i was there so yeah um i mean the hike was
00:08:36.000pretty the weather was okay but uh boy am i glad to be back home all right nobody's calling that's
00:08:44.320fine so let me uh get on to uh in no particular order one of the one of the happiest things i
00:08:51.520saw when i came back was the announcement that um the signatures for the citizens initiative
00:08:59.680petition can finally be counted right so just a quick recap um stay free alberta was the
00:09:07.520petitioner we collected thousands and thousands of signatures but just at the end when we were
00:09:13.520When we're ready to hand him in, when Mitch Sylvester was ready to hand him in, there was a case, the six or seven First Nations up in northern Alberta tried to get the process invalidated, were successful in getting the process invalidated.
00:09:30.860And the first judge, Judge Leonard, said that she was putting a stay, a stop to all of it, that Elections Alberta could receive the signatures, but couldn't count them, couldn't validate them.
00:09:45.440All right. So that was back in late April, early May.
00:09:50.140And then so immediately after that, you see on the picture there, Mitch Sylvester and
00:09:55.220Jeff Rath, who's the lawyer, what he's one of the leaders of Stay Free Alberta, but he's
00:10:16.460OK, I'll come back to that because I do want to take the callers.
00:10:18.840i got callers on the line uh as usual folks we don't have a fancy switchboard um so if you call
00:10:25.000and it's busy stay on the line john will get to you and give me your name number where you're
00:10:29.200calling from and what you want to chat about go ahead caller hi good afternoon uh it's gordon
00:10:35.660calling hey gordon and uh uh yeah i'm glad you had a good hike i've done a little hiking in bc
00:10:42.120myself and uh but uh i'm calling about was just in regards to the uh the announcement going on
00:10:48.840today with the harney and ed and uh bc all of a sudden becoming very on board with the new uh
00:10:56.120proposal with a pipeline to the southern coast and i know danielle will make a danielle will
00:11:02.920make an announcement this afternoon and i'm sure she'll be joined by carney and it's going to go
00:11:07.240well. But my point is simply this. I hope people are taking note, and I'm sure they are, of all of
00:11:13.800a sudden the urgency from the federal government, the urgency with B.C., that all of a sudden they
00:11:20.120are becoming so cooperative with Alberta and our oil industry and getting these projects done.
00:11:26.960And it's a major reason for that, of course. They're not fooling anyone. It's because of our
00:11:32.700very real threat of separation they have to take it serious this is not like dealing with quebec
00:11:40.560quebec they throw a little tantra once in a while to get a score a few points but this is real and
00:11:48.000they know it so they have to do what they have to do so so gordon pause for a second gordon stay on
00:11:54.740the line so are you saying people is it the government that's getting a dose of reality or
00:11:58.920is it the people that are pushing the government are people getting a dose of reality no it's the
00:12:04.920government is getting a dose of reality of the seriousness of the alberta separation issue
00:12:10.820absolutely right so that yeah people in power know that if alberta goes that's a chunk of tax
00:12:16.420revenue and the economy and everything else oh it would it would be devastating to the rest of
00:12:24.240canada if alberta exit it would be absolutely devastating they know it we know it all we all
00:12:31.700i'm trying to stress is those of us who are in favor of separation don't be duped by what's going
00:12:37.720on and all of a sudden all these canada speeches by carney and oh my we're gonna have this uh
00:12:44.620united sovereign province within the united canada just yeah no no i i um yeah as i said
00:12:52.680just early in the show i was hoping that we would have the smith announcement because the deadline
00:12:56.780for smith to uh propose a project to the major project office was yesterday but i guess she gets
00:13:02.420a bit of a day uh an extra day because yesterday was july 1st she um carney's flying back from
00:13:08.720vancouver to alberta tonight and they will make a joint announcement about an alberta pipeline at
00:13:14.1606 p.m tonight so i guess we'll we'll wait to see yeah but in the meantime if you saw the
00:13:20.100announcement that carney made yesterday or today i agree right they're they're getting a dose of
00:13:25.340reality they understand that they got to throw more than just a couple of carrots now they got
00:13:29.280to pretend to show some real collaboration but hidden in that memo today carney's still pushing
00:13:35.140his agenda right if you read the memo today um alberta or sorry bc and ottawa agreed to a carbon
00:13:42.880credit a working carbon credit market and guess who's going to pay for that right we're going to
00:13:48.740get a pipeline one way or another but they're going to make us pay for it no absolutely yeah
00:13:54.200it's always that way but but i i just my point was just make sure we stay on track
00:14:00.040with our separation movement you know let's not be fooled and i'm sure we're not people are getting
00:14:05.580too wise from the way federal government easterners the eastern elite how they operate
00:14:11.160awesome thank you and by the way where'd you call where are you calling from gort
00:14:14.440oh i'm from edmonton edmonton awesome and uh you guys had nice weather this week or you're not
00:14:20.140affected as much as the flooding that we're having down here right we've had a ton of rain
00:14:25.780buddy i was up uh hiking up in the columbia ice field uh the past weekend and it was cold and
00:14:33.140raining and snow it was everything typical alberta weather thanks for calling gord have a great day
00:14:38.920yeah you bet take care cool bye so uh yeah um by the way uh the flooding down in kananaskis was
00:14:49.080impressive i hope everybody that was trapped behind those failed bridges or whatever is okay now
00:14:55.640um yeah we're getting a lot of rain right now that's uh that's a fact uh so just back to what
00:15:03.320was talking about so um so uh the stay free alberta and the government both appeal the the
00:15:10.360the previous hearing and um and as part of the appeal they immediately asked for a stay
00:15:17.720so a stay of a stay like it's crazy you you get lost in the in the um in the technicalities but
00:15:24.520yesterday the judge or earlier this week i think it was on the 30th monday tuesday the new the new
00:15:31.000judge in this one, the appeals judge, Judge Woolley, granted a partial stay of the ruling
00:15:39.080from the lower court. And she said that Elections Alberta can now go ahead and validate the
00:15:46.140signatures and count them and publish the number. Okay, so that's good because, you know, me
00:15:53.660personally, as you know, I had collected 700 signatures and I felt that there was a slap in
00:15:59.340the face for a judge to simply say that the signatures I collected couldn't be counted.
00:16:07.660Like, I thought that was anti-democratic. So this judge, the appeals judge, said, no,
00:16:12.220the signatures can at least be counted. Now, the judge will still rule on whether
00:16:18.980the First Nations had the right to stop this whole citizen's initiative process.
00:16:27.780um so the the interesting thing about all of this is that there's still like a really really really
00:16:34.900slim hope that the referendum question could be changed i'm not gonna i'm not gonna hold my breath
00:16:41.420on that one but uh but i'll take this as a partial victory because at least as a citizen
00:16:46.000part of my voice the fact that we collected signatures can be validated and then there can
00:16:51.760be a a number published so we'll we'll see how that goes or the uh the amount of money being
00:16:57.320spent on on on on different law courts and cases in this country is absolutely crazy all right um
00:17:06.760okay so i'll just go down my list so yesterday is uh actually i want no i won't go down the list i
00:17:13.720want to talk about the ones that that that to me are the most fascinating ones the carney housing
00:17:19.240bailout right that was another interesting one this week or while i was gone i think it happened
00:17:25.560last week hopefully derek or some of the others didn't talk about it too too much but let me give
00:17:30.280you your my take on this one right so in british columbia canada's real estate market canada's
00:17:37.880real estate market is about 13 of our gdp it's huge like no other country relies it makes real
00:17:46.360estate part of its gdp to the same extent that we do most other countries are are are putting uh
00:17:53.720you know are developing resources they're developing manufacturing
00:18:01.160other service industries and so forth and so forth but in canada one of the top four chunks
00:18:07.080of our industry of our overall economy is real estate in a country of like 40 million people
00:18:13.080with huge amounts of land real estate is one of our top uh parts of our gdp why because people
00:18:19.960speculate all the time and people keep the supply low and the demand high and it's a and our market
00:18:27.800attracts people from all over the world come here speculate buy land buy property turn around and
00:18:34.680re-rent it and rent it to canadians real estate has become completely unaffordable for young
00:18:41.320canadian families especially in markets like toronto and vancouver and montreal it's becoming
00:18:48.440I mean, apparently here in Alberta, but statistically Alberta, Edmonton and Calgary are still some of the more affordable markets, but we know that they're going up, right?
00:18:57.080And we've had these bubbles year after year.
00:18:59.060We have these huge bubbles because too many people speculate and drive up the prices.
00:19:05.840And so in recent years in British Columbia and in Toronto, speculators have driven up prices and condo builders, developers have built a whole bunch of condos.
00:19:17.760and finally the supply and demand side of the equation balanced itself out and there were more
00:19:23.440condos than there are buyers and so apparently in uh in in those two more in vancouver alone
00:19:30.240there was something like 2200 condos sitting unsold brand new condos that have been built
00:19:34.880that are unsold and rather and and the develop and rather than let the developers the speculators
00:20:06.100Mark Carney went into Vancouver last week
00:20:08.460to coincide with one of the FIFA Cup games.
00:20:13.120And he announced a bailout like worth like $2.2 billion of your money, of our money, going to bail out these condo developers, speculators.
00:20:25.220And he calls that somehow or other, that's part of the plan to make housing more affordable.
00:20:33.240So what Carney should have just done, and he's on the record as having said this.
00:20:37.100I mean, there are old videos that surface of Carney from 10 years ago, 11 years ago, talking about this very subject and saying how businesses that are unsuccessful should be allowed to fail, which is which is part of his overall theme that you'll keep seeing all the time.
00:20:55.720right he wants businesses to fail and he doesn't believe in true capital markets he believes in
00:21:02.100capital markets with guidance from the government and letting the government pick the winners and
00:21:08.040losers so that that bailout last week backfired on him immediately it was all over the all over
00:21:16.060the media people were upset and and journalists even everybody everybody was upset about this one0.98
00:21:22.520I mean, there's nothing good about this so much so that it's actually people started doing digging.
00:21:28.580And, you know, when you dig around Carney and these kinds of announcements, the word Brookfield shows up real quick.
00:21:33.900Doesn't take long to see if to realize that Brookfield Asset Management, the condo management is part of that deal getting bailed out.
00:21:41.220So basically, Carney was going to go out and bail out his own buddies.
00:21:44.980And so the ethics commissioner and other people got immediately advised and you're not hearing about it much.
00:21:51.420In fact, I think Carney's so scared right now that he's if you if you go look, I do this for a living.
00:21:59.680I said not for a living. I don't get a lot of money from it, but I'm online all the time and I can see when somebody is trying to distract or hide.
00:22:05.840And so Carney right now is trying to whoever's managing his Twitter accounts and his Facebook accounts is just posting, posting, posting, posting, posting, posting, posting to try and make sure that bad stories get buried.
00:22:20.280and I think this is one of the bad stories now that said um you know Carney's been in power for
00:22:27.380over a year now and he's got like just like just like Trudeau before him bad stories about him
00:22:35.300keep popping up and nothing's sticking so I don't know when's the story when something going to
00:22:40.000finally stick to uh to Carney I don't know I was hoping that this would be the one I mean in line
00:22:46.740with this this week so carney i think is having a bad week but that's why he's doing what he's
00:22:51.460doing he went to vancouver to watch the world cup now he actually flew to vancouver twice he's on
00:22:56.500his way to edmonton tonight um carney's having a bad week the condo thing was a bad week a bad
00:23:03.940event but i think the worst one is what happened yesterday right so yesterday uh donald trump
00:23:08.660finally officially said that he is not opening up the usmca or or the canada us agreement free trade
00:23:19.860agreement call it whatever you want i i i call it the usmca lately he's not reopening it okay so the
00:23:27.520usmca was signed on july 1st 2020 this was the it's a 16-year deal with a sunset clause a weird
00:23:34.700clause the clause was yesterday what the three countries canada usa and mexico yesterday had
00:23:41.500the opportunity to all three say hey um let's extend it but nobody exercised that right so now
00:23:49.820the canada so now it goes into an annual review it automatically goes into an annual review
00:23:55.820and and now it's set to expire its normal course on july 1st 2036 and 10 years from now
00:24:02.220this is this is donald trump renegotiated this deal put in those clauses and he's working this
00:24:09.100deal the way he wanted it he's cozying up right now he's talking with mexico making it a little
00:24:15.020bit uh you know leaving the door open for mexico but when it comes to canada he is leaving that
00:24:19.860door shut and you can tell that carney at this point remember carney got elected the big fear
00:24:26.720last year during the election was that donald trump was gonna you know fight an economic war
00:24:32.780against canada and that the only person's um best suited to stand up to trump was carney so the
00:24:40.000liberals out east with their elbows up strategy elected trump or elected carney carney promoted
00:24:46.300himself as the man to negotiate a better deal with trump well that ain't happening and um and
00:24:54.120And in fact, I think this is setting up Trump to do what he – well, before I go there, it's obvious now that Carney is staying super low-key.
00:25:06.080And Carney's new strategy now is to hope that as little happens between now and in the next two years and that Trump loses the next election – well, he will.
00:25:15.680he can't run again that the that the uh americans don't elect another republican and that maybe he
00:25:21.600can negotiate a better deal with the next american administration so carney has completely failed and
00:25:28.020now he's staying low-key and uh and he's going he's going with that route uh what uh what uh
00:25:35.300what an and and who loses in all of that it's not us here in alberta right i mean the americans uh
00:25:41.240the free trade agreement doesn't include oil.
00:25:44.120We've been trading oil back and forth.
00:27:51.460um which is part of the bigger problem right it's like you you're you're you're expressing
00:27:58.200a frustration that most of us have expressed by the way where are you calling from
00:28:02.300uh dar alberta perfect okay so you're so you're an albertan expressing a frustration over the
00:28:11.320fact that there's nothing we can do about um about eastern canada electing liberals right
00:28:18.100there's nothing we can do i'm a separatist i'm a canvasser i i'm pretty much done with canada
00:28:26.960bingo there you go so we're on the same page thank you yeah yeah that's the there's nothing
00:28:31.900the the short answer to your question is how do we get rid of trump or how do we get rid of carney
00:28:36.060we can't we're we're powerless to do anything eastern canada will continue to elect guys like
00:28:41.540trudeau and carney and uh that's why alberta independence is so important i think that's
00:28:46.540the answer right there thanks for calling thank you had a perfect day you too um yeah yeah and so
00:28:56.140we're gonna see uh as as as gore the first caller said you got current people are real what we just
00:29:02.740said right it comes back to this so we always have to remind ourselves i i don't need to remind
00:29:06.840myself i i live this every day we live in alberta we we we we we watch the polls close at 8 p.m on
00:29:16.340election night and then at 805 the outcome of the election has been determined already cbc announces
00:29:22.660a winner because the people out east have selected somebody and our vote doesn't count and so we've
00:29:28.500been kicked and abused and we did now we have a very real we've had some in the past but this is
00:29:35.620probably the most realistic separatist movement we've had in a long time and i think it is starting
00:29:43.460to send some fears in the powers that be and so this week sure it's because it's stampede but
00:29:51.060everybody this week was here in calgary right poiliev was in calgary carney's coming tonight
00:29:56.580they're all going to come back next week during stampede suddenly everybody's focused on on
00:30:02.100on alberta you can see you can see it in the behavior of of david eby yesterday that he's
00:30:10.740being coached by carney and others that are like hey we've kicked alberta a little bit too much
00:30:16.660their threat of separation is real tone down the rhetoric start talking about the fact eb yesterday
00:30:23.940literally said that if there's a pipeline approved he won't fight it okay like wow that's that's
00:30:31.460unheard of from him so he's basically saying he's taking a step back and he's gonna allow
00:30:37.140federal jurisdiction uh to to take precedence and then and then carney going there is no coincidence
00:30:45.700some of the projects that are being announced even though they come with a lot of strings attached
00:30:49.860they're not a coincidence and then tonight carney is flying back now i was hoping tonight
00:30:55.380that that we would hear um about the alberta pipeline today so i could talk about it on the
00:31:01.140show i guess i'm going to have to wait until tomorrow but this is my prediction my prediction
00:31:06.180is um there is no pipeline okay they're still going to be they're going to just push the mou
00:31:13.140forward and extend somehow because no private sector enterprise came forward to say that they
00:31:21.940wanted to build a pipeline and honestly it is not the bit i do not want the government to own a
00:31:27.780pipeline i didn't want government to own trans mountain and i sure as heck don't want our
00:31:32.820government you know transmountain is owned by the federal government i don't want danielle smith i
00:31:37.220don't want the provincial government to own another pipeline that's the clue that's the hint
00:31:42.420that's the evidence that things are not working when governments have to build stuff that used to
00:31:47.060be built by the private sector that's the evidence that something's not working so something's not
00:31:53.220working in this country when we can't get the private sector to invest without bailouts or
00:31:59.060without subsidies or without tax breaks or without anything and so i think we're gonna we're gonna
00:32:04.340see some sort of weird um uh patting on each other's back between smith and carney tonight
00:32:12.100and they're going to try and convince us that the pipeline is still a reality the pipelines
00:32:17.540the only way pipelines are going to go forward in this country is if carney immediately reverses
00:32:23.460questions he was asked all day today at the press conference like does this mean you've removed the
00:32:27.700tanker ban and he dodged that question he's not moving the tanker ban like i said he added more
00:32:32.980regulations today buried in and what in the announcement is a working he called it a working
00:32:39.060carbon credit market okay a carbon credit market a carbon credit market is just a another way to
00:32:46.900redistribute wealth who has a carbon credit who has a carbon sink in this country by definition
00:32:53.140by the carny liberal definition the only two provinces that have a carbon sink are alberta and
00:32:58.980bc because they produce their electricity from hydro and they don't produce a lot of hydrocarbons
00:33:05.700and who has a a carbon uh deficit alberta so when they're talking about a working carbon credit
00:33:14.820market he's literally talking about hey alberta you'll get your pipeline if you pay bc a carbon
00:33:22.420tax so we're so that's what it's going to be it's going to be a carbon tax for bc and a carbon tax
00:33:27.780for for quebec on top of the equalization payments and stuff like that so i i don't know i'm not i i
00:33:34.420i wish they they had done the announcement today but we'll i guess we'll wait until tomorrow and
00:33:38.420see what that's all about ah man oh man um hey um just just wanted to speaking of stampede uh just
00:33:49.620want to bring it up in case uh i run out of time uh western standard will be uh hosting its own
00:33:56.020stampede uh barbecue right away here uh stampede what does stampede start stampede starts next
00:34:03.140next friday right next friday is the stampede parade that's for for people who don't uh
00:34:09.460who don't know stampede is always is not always the same weeks but it's it's always the same
00:34:13.700length it starts on a friday we shut down most of calgary in the afternoon we have a big parade
00:34:19.540and then uh officially saturday until the next uh weekend is the stampede so it's 10 days so
00:34:26.920it's coming up and uh john are you flashing that the barbecue is tomorrow
00:34:32.860the stampede starts tomorrow oh man i'm i'm holy smokes i've been gone for so long yeah stampede
00:34:41.300starts tomorrow holy cow all right well um no that i'm gonna argue with you john i don't think
00:34:48.460that can be right is stampede actually starting tomorrow holy smokes wow okay so the stampede
00:34:58.620parade is tomorrow so the barbecue is next week on uh on wednesday go to the website there's
00:35:05.280details there um i'm pretty certain that the barbecue with the western standard barbecue is
00:35:12.000is free to attend as a show of thanks for supporters but they will be selling water balloons
00:35:19.440and there will be uh i don't know if the water are they selling water balloons so you can hit
00:35:24.300derrick with a water balloon or are they selling sort of balls so that you can hit uh derrick and
00:35:29.300sink him in uh some something like that there'll be a there'll be a little fundraiser that way and
00:35:33.760you get to uh poke fun at the derrick uh with that and speaking of derrick and tied in with other
00:35:40.880things um next week also next uh next thursday derrick derrick is going to be debating dwayne
00:35:50.280bratt uh so derrick is a diehard separatist and dwayne bratt is a political science professor
00:35:59.600at the mount royal university you see i see dwayne all the time online and um i i i don't
00:36:07.980particularly like Dwayne's takes on anything. So I think that's going to be really interesting to
00:36:12.360have those two finally debate. In fact, I think this might be an even more interesting debate
00:36:21.040than the Keith Wilson, Jason Kenney debate, because Kenney really immediately went to all
00:36:28.760emotions and didn't bring anything really meaningful to that debate. And he was outgunned
00:36:34.540by keith wilson uh i still think derrick will uh is is no match for duane but mr bratt will
00:36:44.520he's a political professor so he's been he you know he thinks about this kind of stuff for a
00:36:50.260living and he might bring a few good arguments to the table but i think he's going to find that
00:36:55.980debating derrick is a little bit different than debating your 21 22 year old political science
00:37:01.060students so uh that one is uh rsvp it's at the glenmore uh hotel the old glenmore um on uh
00:37:12.820just off uh glenmore trail down south kind of thing and i don't think the tickets are that
00:37:18.340expensive uh i think they might be 20 bucks 30 bucks something like that it goes of course um
00:37:26.100and and there's probably room for a couple hundred people so make sure you get a ticket for that folks
00:37:31.060um any other debates any other news on uh upcoming western standard news i guess not so
00:37:38.320all right um keep going down my list of uh stories here um oh and here's another interesting one
00:37:47.820that's july 1st actually a lot of things happen on july 1st your hundred dollar energy rebate
00:37:53.920that danielle smith announced a couple of weeks ago i don't know if you guys remember that one
00:37:58.340So Danielle Smith announced a couple of weeks ago that because of the increased price of oil due to the Gulf War and the Strait of Hormuz being closed, the government had a little extra money.
00:38:12.760And so she announced that every Albertan over the age of 18 who had filed their taxes last year would be eligible for a $100 check.
00:38:23.500this is a bit of a throwback to ralph klein ralph uh near the end when his popularity was waning
00:38:34.080ralph gave everybody the 300 ralph bucks i personally you know personally a couple of things
00:38:40.140i mean everybody likes a little bit of money but 100 bucks like i at this point i'd rather
00:38:46.100i'd rather like 100 bucks times 3 million people like that's still 300 000 or 300 million dollars
00:38:52.180Right. I would have preferred that that money either goes towards some of our debt, which we are accumulating, or I would have preferred that the money would have gone to some actual tax relief.
00:39:04.300Like maybe she could have lowered the taxes a little bit or taken away the gasoline tax temporarily or permanently.
00:39:11.840But a hundred bucks is not a lot. But but the but the thing is that I worry the most is I did go online this morning in preparation for this.
00:39:19.980And I wanted to see, because you're not just going to get the $100 mailed to you, okay?
00:45:31.140and subject yourself to it right away.
00:45:33.300I mean, like I got a watch, like I got a watch.
00:45:36.800I haven't enabled my wallet on my watch.
00:45:39.040i get nervous i have friends who do that i have like i'm traveling uh you know going to vancouver
00:45:43.680last week and and every time i'm stopping to uh at a gas station get a little bit of gas and go in
00:45:48.960and get a snack i got a buddy who just takes his watch and then puts it to peep and then he's done
00:45:54.640and i'm like wow and i asked him like you know would you would you implant a microchip in your
00:46:00.240hand that would simplify all that and he's like oh yeah absolutely so yeah i get that some people
00:46:04.800are abandoning themselves to that and uh but then at the same time i mean that's another story that
00:46:11.920broke out this week is you know remember the controversy a month ago about the fact that
00:46:19.040uh the electoral list had been quote unquote leaked right and what's on the electoral list
00:46:26.920right the electoral list is no different than a phone book i mean it's people's addresses
00:46:32.320is and uh whatever your address your name and uh perhaps your phone number and and everybody made
00:46:40.200a lot of people made a big cry over the fact that that got leaked but then you got the same
00:46:44.460group a minute later we'll say oh yeah what i'm signed up for for for automatic deposit i have
00:46:49.980this on my watch blah blah blah blah blah i mean we share information but i guess we have the right
00:46:54.440to to choose how that information is shared but i think i think i think that's those lines are
00:47:01.040getting blurred especially now in light of uh of uh c9 c9 anti-hate bill that came into effect
00:47:08.180just before the house paused but now the next one on the table is that uh i can't remember the
00:47:14.020number i think it's c14 is c14 the one where the liberals are proposing to make uh to restrict
00:47:20.480social media to those over the age of 16 well how do you restrict it to those over the age of 16
00:47:27.300Well, by forcing those above 16 to prove that they're 16, and that's going to be by providing either a driver's license or something.
00:47:36.580Basically, the Liberals are going to force anybody in Canada who wants to go on social media to validate their identity.
00:47:45.000Yeah, so, yeah, yeah, I appreciate the comment.
00:47:48.920I mean, you can whine and you can not whine about privacy.
00:47:56.080It's a it's a double edged sword. And back to that privacy breach, there was a there's a law firm out of Bright Creek that is trying to build a class action lawsuit for that data breach for the sharing of the electoral list.
00:48:14.920and they named the chief electoral officer of Alberta as a as a defendant.
00:50:50.000The government is being so incompetent in that matter, and furthermore, Marty, love your show, but there is something else you guys have to know.
00:51:20.000from their pipeline we should get ours as well we are getting ripped off our
00:51:29.060personal dividend funds from our pipeline and where is our interest in that yeah
00:51:41.420like our money's interest like really and the government shouldn't own it because
00:51:50.000If you want a personal dividend fund, you look it up on the Alaskan White website, and they will give you the amounts that they've gotten every year.
00:52:05.020On a good year, you can get $13, maybe $2,400 per each individual in your household, and that includes your children.
00:52:19.020Yeah, I appreciate that comment. No. Yeah. Alaska is an example of a small jurisdiction that's very well managed and everybody gets a dividend check. Absolutely. Yeah. If I agree with you, if Alberta was running that way, we could probably pay ourselves two, three hundred dollars a month. Never mind a year. Right. I mean, that's that's that that would be real money. That would be fun.
00:52:46.560but daniel smith is ripping us off a personal dividend fund
00:52:53.260we should be we we we should be pressing her on this subject marty because it's valuable
00:53:06.020for your children to get a personal dividend fund so they can pay for their education and their
00:53:13.740college and furthermore if they have some uh health problem we can they can get prescriptions
00:53:23.580for whatever maybe no no we're we're in agreement thanks for calling uh um yeah thanks thank you for
00:53:30.300calling yeah i think the uh i think the hundred dollar check is just um like i said it's it's a
00:53:36.140way to distract from other things it buys a couple of votes makes danielle popular among a small crowd0.95
00:53:42.620And they added benefit, it gets Alberta1.00
00:54:12.620hi hi hi my name is lena i'm from west of stony plains uh my only question is what is your take
00:54:24.940on smith's attitude towards all the violence happening towards the purpose i'm sorry i missed
00:54:32.940the violence the violence that's happening towards who i missed the last bit our our independent
00:54:39.580spoke oh for example the guy that got into it the other day on the road there and we we all know
00:54:46.540about the cigarette butts and the coffee i just want to know your take on smith's response to
00:54:53.040what's been happening to our side and not calling anything out yeah well i mean i don't have a
00:54:59.960honestly i i missed that event last week and yes i let me take it back i i re i spoke about this
00:55:09.220at length when i was collecting signatures right you remember when i was collecting signatures we
00:55:13.460were sub i was i do i was subject to a lot of that crap and i was upset i it wasn't just smith
00:55:19.860i wanted smith i wanted nenshi i don't care what side of the political arena you are i thought that
00:55:26.020all any politician should have spoken up and they didn't right so it's not it's not just on smith
00:55:31.220i think every politician should speak up against this kind of nonsense uh abuse uh aimed at people
00:55:40.080that are simply exercising their democratic rights but but her her silence is particularly
00:55:46.280galling because she's the most senior person but but yeah um i i really wish more of them would
00:55:52.720speak up my fear right she's that's my fear she's not she's not speaking out loud enough
00:55:59.100you know what i mean i don't know yeah anyways thank you i appreciate it thank you yeah i saw
00:56:05.320that on the news i i guess she's referring to the gentleman or person who got pulled
00:56:10.380almost pushed into traffic like that's crazy that's that's totally crazy um you know and
00:56:17.240one of the one of the things that i've i gotta i'm running out of time but i i just want to
00:56:25.840maybe it's one of my closing thoughts i'm at the point now where i don't believe anything anymore
00:56:30.320right you know what i mean like plane crashes in the world trade center i don't believe it's
00:56:34.080a coincidence a boat hits a bridge i don't believe it's a coincidence mark carney walks
00:56:38.880in a parade and gets liquid sprayed on him i don't believe it's a coincidence it's all orchestrated
00:56:43.120right it's it's just an attempt to say to be able to say oh uh the prime minister is more at risk
00:56:48.480we need to beef up security we need to uh you know more justification for c9 the anti-hate bills and
00:56:54.880stuff like that and and then and it comes down to even this kind of petty small violence and events
00:57:01.920i just some of them i just don't think they're coincidence anymore i think they're they're done
00:57:05.680on purpose to trigger an emotion to maybe re trigger a response from one side or the other
00:57:11.360that then justifies more rules right i've i've shared a poster many many times you know i'll
00:57:16.480paraphrase but the the the rule says if you allow the government to break the law for every
00:57:20.880emergency they always create an emergency or or a crisis right and um and and and i just hate the
00:57:29.460fact that we go down that path i mean we we didn't even talk about like covid was an example of that
00:57:33.980right covid was a crisis that allowed them to put all sorts of measures in place for our security
00:57:38.660i wouldn't be surprised now you know there was some major flooding in canaanaskis and i wouldn't
00:57:43.100be surprised if as a result of this they they say oh well see this is one more reason why we should
00:57:48.600should shut you out of the parks it's too dangerous to go into the parks and so and and then and then
00:57:54.600these these these incidents with people i mean i lived it i i started realizing that the people
00:57:59.800that are coming to harass me when i was collecting signatures were coming to harass me and were being
00:58:04.200paid by somebody to elicit a reaction out of me to give an excuse to shut me down i got it i got it
00:58:11.480So anyways. Okay, cool. Running out of time. A bit of a slow show today, but I guess I missed a couple of weeks and we'll catch up and hopefully next week you guys are back on board. Actually, next week might be a really tough show with Stampede going on. We'll see how that goes.
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00:58:49.720announce the winner of the couple of hats or is that going to be something tomorrow or today
00:58:54.800they were running a promo but i think the promo was done um there will be more events during
00:59:01.580sampede anyways uh happy to be back as much as i'd like to go back into the wilderness
00:59:06.840uh be here next week hoping you guys all call in same time thursday afternoon i know everybody's
00:59:13.120done with their big lunches but uh hope to see you next week folks cheers and have a great weekend