Western Standard - MARTY UP NORTH： From pipelines to submarines： Is Carney alienating his base？

00:00:00.000 good afternoon it is yeah it is afternoon um hey thanks for accommodating uh we moved the

00:00:29.940 show an hour ahead today normally we go on live at 1 p.m but i'm on at noon today main reason for

00:00:38.460 that is uh as soon as we're done this show john the producer he's got to pack up a bunch of things

00:00:43.500 and then head on down to the i believe it's the glenmore the old glenmore hotel or the glenbo no

00:00:50.640 the old glenmore hotel has got to go get set up for the debate right so today tonight or this

00:00:55.940 evening is the debate between uh our boss derek and uh mr duane bratt from uh duane is a professor

00:01:04.820 of political science at mount royal university so that's going on tonight um 300 plus tickets

00:01:12.980 have been sold out have been sold for this event there's still a chance you can yeah there's the

00:01:17.620 there's the logo or there's the poster on the website right now you can still get to some

00:01:22.500 tickets for tonight uh listen shout out to to duane for doing it well to both guys so to derek

00:01:29.220 and duane but you know to me me honestly i think that it's uh almost an untenable position uh i i

00:01:36.900 wish i could be there tonight unfortunately i'm gonna i have to other commitments today but i

00:01:41.620 haven't heard anybody come up with a good argument on why albertans should stay in this failed

00:01:46.580 experiment called confederation by the way i want to give a quick uh quick story about duane actually

00:01:52.020 um he's a political science professor at the mount royal and uh you guys know that i was sitting on

00:01:58.900 the side of the road for uh you know hundreds of hours this this past winter canvassing collecting

00:02:04.260 signatures right and i would often get these young people like in their 19 20 21 range come by and i

00:02:12.100 could tell that they were coming to challenge me and have a debate with a separatist right

00:02:16.420 and i i'd humor them i'd engaged in the debate and then and then more than once i i you know

00:02:22.660 shook hands with the i call them kids having a debate with me and then i said say hi to duane

00:02:27.220 for me uh when you go back and submit your essay because i could sort of tell during that petition

00:02:33.700 campaigning uh or that petition collection period that the duane and others were sending people to

00:02:39.540 to challenge us anyways um yeah so that's today that's why we're moving and and um otherwise yeah

00:02:48.180 look at me all cowboyed up today right you could tell it's stampede i i take the train downtown

00:02:55.140 and i you like you can tell it's stampede right now i should have taken a picture because it is

00:02:59.940 just a sea of cowboy hats on the train and the other this is unfortunate though it shouldn't

00:03:06.340 happen only because of this but the other way you can tell it's also stampede is uh the trains are

00:03:12.660 clean and there's uh beefed up security and and that's a sad reality you know the fact that we

00:03:18.340 have to um clean up our trains because they're so dirty some days with all the the the homeless

00:03:25.460 people on the train kind of sad all right uh hey i think we got a busy busy busy uh i got a busy

00:03:32.340 topic list here i got a lot of things i want to talk about remember last week uh we were just a

00:03:37.860 little too early the pipeline announcement came out last week after the show and boy oh boy what

00:03:43.380 a surprise we didn't get just one pipeline we got two we got two pipelines we got a data center we

00:03:49.540 got a power plant so i want to talk about that um we got we got everybody jumping on suddenly

00:03:55.940 everybody wants alberta to be on team canada that that's kind of a topic in and of itself

00:04:02.020 um i want to talk about the feedback to the pipelines both here locally and i've done a

00:04:09.060 round of uh social media interviews so um there's i'm i'm hearing more negative than good when it

00:04:16.500 comes to these pipelines uh money going to ukraine uh i'll give an update on the signature accounts

00:04:23.700 uh i a few other things so but but as as always as always i always say this this is a show we're

00:04:31.700 trying to do a call-in show so it's a show about you guys so call in numbers down there on the

00:04:37.240 screen and just i mean bounce any subject off of me let's let's have a chat reminder we don't have

00:04:44.340 a switchboard and actually another reminder when you call and you're and you're on hold on the line

00:04:50.720 but you're also listening to the show there's sometimes like a five second delay right so

00:04:57.600 you guys have seen me when i'm when i'm sitting here and going hello caller and then it sounds

00:05:01.760 like there's nobody talking there that's because somebody's listening on sort of watching the

00:05:06.720 screen and not paying attention to their phone so you know just uh just be aware of that if you're

00:05:11.440 calling and you're on hold uh keep listening on your phone kind of thing so uh all right well

00:05:17.200 let's go let's start then with um let's start with the pipelines right so we got a big announcement

00:05:23.360 from uh danielle smith the the first announcement let's break it down so the first announcement was

00:05:28.720 a pipeline to the west coast and um for all intense purposes i'm calling this one trans

00:05:38.960 mountain three right so you have the original trans mountain that leaves you know the edmonton

00:05:43.840 area hardesty and then goes all the way down to um to vancouver basically and delivers oil there

00:05:50.640 that's been operating since the 1950s since 1953 chosen in the 50s because it was an ideal path

00:05:58.880 easy through some low points in the mountains took advantage of existing other infrastructures

00:06:04.160 like power lines and roads and stuff like that so a preferred path trans mountain original pipeline

00:06:10.480 operating since the 1950s fundamentally operating without incident since the 1950s like kudos what

00:06:18.120 an accomplishment right a 70 plus year old pipeline still running today then you fast forward you know

00:06:24.560 60 years later kinder morgan proposes trans mountain x expansion tmx uh proposes a pipeline

00:06:33.940 for about seven billion dollars and then just boom gets hit with hurdle after hurdle after hurdle

00:06:40.740 right so ottawa is imposing uh very rigid regulatory compliance rigid environmental uh

00:06:49.620 emission caps and standards almost impossible negotiations consultation with third uh with

00:06:57.540 first nations social acceptability is is is down in the in the tanks everybody's like hardcore on

00:07:05.060 board with climate change everybody's predicting the end of oil there's people saying we don't

00:07:09.540 need this pipeline etc etc etc and trudeau comes along and goes out of his way to kill it and

00:07:17.620 finally everybody realizes oh no we need this pipeline right oil is actually more important to

00:07:24.340 alberta and canada's economy overall then then then we want to admit so we need this pipeline

00:07:31.460 kinder morton is about to give up notley convinces trudeau to buy it to form a crown corporation

00:07:39.620 to buy the pipeline and build it so that's how we end up with tm transmount today as it exists

00:07:47.380 is a crown corporation and the sad story of that whole event is we started out with a private

00:07:54.020 company that wanted to build a pipeline their estimate was about seven or ten billion dollars

00:07:59.860 that's a legit inline estimate i work for trans canada on keystone and energies well i'll touch

00:08:06.020 on that later but we built keystone in line with that kind of cost and that's the kind of cost that

00:08:11.700 makes a pipeline like that beneficial i could go in long details with that but a pipeline a a a

00:08:18.420 thousand kilometer pipeline through the mountains delivering half a million barrels a day if you build

00:08:23.140 it for for 10 12 billion bucks you'll get your money back the private sector will do it it's

00:08:29.660 efficient it's good it's worth doing but after the liberals got involved in this mess transmount

00:08:37.100 ended up being a call it 40 billion dollar fiasco it took longer than expected to build the

00:08:44.800 consultation was out of this world the compliance the inefficiencies the delays the the restarts

00:08:52.600 everything. It was just a brutal pipeline. And it's finally been in operation now since about

00:08:57.800 just over a year ago. It's just getting ramped up, finally hitting its peak. It's producing at

00:09:04.380 the capacity it's supposed to produce. I went and looked at Trans Mountain's financial results for

00:09:09.280 last year. In 2025, Trans Mountain as a crown corporation that is recently formed and purchased

00:09:17.260 a 35 or 40 billion dollar pipeline made get this 500 million bucks okay so do the math 500 million

00:09:26.380 bucks 500 million bucks you need to do that for 80 years to break even on your on your initial

00:09:33.980 investment so um so trans mountain 2 tmx crown corporation is not a good project so we have two

00:09:44.380 pipelines in the same corridor well the announcement last week is basically for all intense purposes

00:09:50.460 trans mountain three so it's the same it's the same path slightly bigger now we're talking

00:09:56.460 we're they're immediately talking about a million barrels and they're bouncing around similar

00:10:02.620 numbers so so the smith and carney stood on the podium and announced that they were submitting

00:10:09.900 to the major projects office here in calgary a proposal for this pipeline for and their estimate

00:10:16.140 was already in the 40 billion dollar range i think it's going to be more than that because we've

00:10:21.340 already seen the trans mountain was 40. i mean if they in the perfect world they should have learned

00:10:26.860 lessons from building trans mountain too because they just did it we just finished building it in

00:10:31.440 in 2024 so hopefully they learn lessons i don't think they did i think it's going to be a 50 60

00:10:37.720 80 billion dollar project if it gets built but and and think about also simultaneously think

00:10:45.600 about this why didn't we put two lines in the ditch when we were building tmx like two three

00:10:51.260 years ago because we used to do that with other some of the companies i work for you run a pipeline

00:10:56.520 in you install it you connect it but while you got that trench open and you got your right away all

00:11:01.180 cleared and you're working on it you can put another line in parallel right there and you

00:11:06.000 have to tie it in but you can leave it there until the day you need it and then that you know when

00:11:09.920 you need it a couple years down the road or three years down the road you connect it and and you can

00:11:14.000 double your capacity at that point because when you're talking about pipelines it's not necessarily

00:11:19.440 like the materials themselves this the steel and whatnot that's about 25 30 of the cost of

00:11:24.720 your entire pipeline the rest of it is in the engineering and the labor the digging the ditches

00:11:29.520 the reclaim you know all of that work anyways so now we get this announcement last week um

00:11:36.080 and and and we get the announcement that we're getting a pipeline now i said smith and carney

00:11:41.760 they're smith and carney were there and this is part of the mou there was one other partner but

00:11:46.720 they were pretty quiet right the other part there is supposedly a private investor interested in

00:11:52.880 this and that's pemina pipeline so pemina is a local alberta company that's grown pretty big

00:11:59.200 they're a midstreamer they don't produce uh and they don't have gas stations they're in the middle

00:12:04.080 they have they have pipelines all over the province they that pembina pipeline and pembina's

00:12:09.280 gone bigger they've amalgamated they've bought out competitors and they're they're a decent

00:12:13.840 sized company and they were at the they were on the podium for a 10 share so they said they're

00:12:19.760 willing to put in a 10 share uh or finance 10 of the cost but they're basically a silent partner

00:12:26.640 the engineering the operations everything else is transmountain and when you read pemina's press

00:12:31.600 release they give themselves a huge uh wide open uh claw get out clause right so they they say

00:12:41.040 they'll only commit to 10 after they've reviewed all the other parties work and if they approve it

00:12:46.640 then they're on board for 10. they said they might go as high as 20 but they leave themselves a huge

00:12:51.360 door to get out. And they also say that they will not commit a single penny in this phase. So they're

00:12:57.340 not involved in the development, the negotiations, the finding shippers, all of that. So they're 1.00

00:13:03.760 pretty silent on this whole deal. And I found Pemina's involvement in this whole deal a little

00:13:09.940 bit interesting until you see some of the other announcements that occurred simultaneously or

00:13:15.940 almost nearly simultaneously right so almost simultaneously we heard um danielle smith

00:13:23.940 announced that pembina was building a don't quote me on this but i think it was about a 1.5 megawatt

00:13:32.740 power plant up near the edmonton area so that's all we heard last week that's the announcement

00:13:37.860 we got was that pembina was getting a power plant so i'm like okay this is interesting

00:13:43.060 pemina is getting a power plant obviously they're getting a fast track power plant in exchange for

00:13:50.500 standing on the podium for this really bad pipeline that's my opinion by the way i think

00:13:55.300 i'm pretty clear on that i think that i'd love to have a pipeline okay i want another pipeline

00:14:00.020 i mean alberta produces five million barrels of oil per day we can easily ramp that up to six

00:14:05.540 seven eight million in the in in the coming years the world the whole planet consumes about

00:14:12.100 105 million barrels per day so you know we're we're contributing 120th like we're providing

00:14:20.460 five percent not even five percent four percent of the world's oil demand comes from alberta

00:14:25.360 we could jack it up to eight nine percent uh that'd be fantastic for us it'd be fantastic for

00:14:32.100 the planet for other is countries that are trying to you know get away from coal and other bad

00:14:39.160 um worse forms of hydrocarbons it will lift people out of poverty it's a win-win right

00:14:44.700 and when you look at that and i've talked about this many times also in the past when you look

00:14:48.800 at the world's consumption of oil and you have you have groups that keep talking about peak oil

00:14:53.100 i could show you that peak production like that that production of oil is going up and up and up

00:14:58.580 sorry, not the production, the consumption of oil has gone up and up and up. It's at 105.

00:15:03.340 And when you put a trend line through the world's consumption of oil, I can't see the peak.

00:15:08.600 I don't see it flattening out any time in the near future. Because normally when you look at

00:15:12.760 trends of data, they start to bend like that and you can sort of predict a peak. But when you're

00:15:17.080 looking at a trend of data that's going in a straight line, there's no bending. So peak oil

00:15:22.220 is not anywhere around the corners, not for another decade, not for another 20 years, 30 years,

00:15:27.880 I'll even say. So there's nothing wrong with us building another pipeline. We should.

00:15:33.700 But I'm opposed to building a pipeline that's paid for by the taxpayers, that's done super

00:15:39.460 inefficiently, that just becomes a money pit, right? I think it's a bad deal to spend $30

00:15:45.720 billion. This pipeline should be done by the private sector. And the fact that the private

00:15:52.880 sector is not stepping up that's the problem that's the problem that needs to be addressed 0.97

00:15:57.840 that's the problem i wish that danielle smith instead of just cozying up with mark carney i

00:16:03.700 wish she was challenging him like she like we've heard her say in the past right when she provided 1.00

00:16:09.080 her not her her nine items her almost her uh ultimatum like remove the carbon cap remove the

00:16:15.740 tanker ban remove all those things and and we're we're stuck with this mou which as far as i'm

00:16:21.120 concern is a chicken and egg thing. Kearney is saying, I might remove some of these rules if

00:16:25.780 you find the investors. The investor is saying, we might come on board if you remove the rules.

00:16:30.300 I think the best place in that loop we're stuck in, it's Kearney's job to break that loop. If

00:16:37.600 Kearney was absolutely serious about moving this country forward, advancing major projects,

00:16:45.420 and kickstarting the economy, he would remove some of these silly barriers like the tanker ban.

00:16:51.120 and and he would he would recognize that the pipeline's already going down an energy corridor

00:16:56.560 that we've already done a ton of consultation with first nations that we don't need to do any

00:17:00.380 further consultation he would he would fast track this project in a real way in private sector would

00:17:06.120 get in for and and do it today for maybe 15 billion dollars and then that would be a win

00:17:11.180 win win win but the way this deal is done right now it's lose lose lose loops so then let's go

00:17:17.380 back to pembina so pembina is uh stands on the podium with a ton of conditions they agree to

00:17:23.220 have their picture taken smile for the camera and then we learn that they're getting a power plant

00:17:27.680 and when i first heard about them getting a power plant my immediate reaction was

00:17:31.420 quite interesting why are we building a power plant in alberta right now because in alberta

00:17:38.220 um for all intense purposes there is no shortage of electricity i mean the the our entire grid

00:17:47.480 can produce about 21 megawatts and we consume at best 13 to 14 in like the deepest cold days of

00:17:55.460 winter so we're we're we're in an over oversupply we got lots of power and uh and that so i was just

00:18:03.780 thinking, okay, well, maybe Pemina still being, you know, smart about this. I mean, it'll take

00:18:09.520 a couple of years. They're anticipating some growth. They might as well build a plant and

00:18:14.920 have it ready to go when you need it. So I thought it was a smart deal until I saw what happened

00:18:20.080 this week. Now, this week, we found out why Pemina. Oh, and there was another part. I was

00:18:24.900 wondering why Pemina was wanting to build a power plant. And I was also curious as to why they were

00:18:29.340 building it in the area right they're building it in uh in the strathcona area like fort saskatchewan

00:18:35.740 part of the world and um not i mean there's some growth there there's some industry

00:18:41.580 but we saw the announcement today meta which is the parent company of facebook announced that

00:18:48.540 they're going to build a big ai data center now i don't know if that means it's a center

00:18:56.060 that's just going to store information or it's going to be a campus not quite sure i think

00:19:02.060 fundamentally it's just a big data storage hub and these things these big giant data hubs for ai

00:19:09.420 they require a lot of power all those servers all those computers need to be powered but they also

00:19:15.100 need to be cooled i don't know if you've ever noticed but uh your your little your laptop

00:19:19.820 computer has a little fan is and is often humming the more horsepower you have in your computer you

00:19:25.100 You know, if you have a series three chip, you get a little bit of heat coming off.

00:19:29.600 But if you've got a series five or seven, they can generate quite a bit of heat.

00:19:33.520 So these big giant data centers, they're high demand for power.

00:19:40.000 They're power hogs, but they also need a lot of cooling.

00:19:43.440 And that's why they're being promoted in places like Alberta, because we have the power, not the power they want.

00:19:52.940 that everybody would prefer that they were powered by hydropower but we can provide power but more

00:19:58.120 importantly we have the cooling apparently you know you can you can get away with a lot of cooling of

00:20:03.040 these facilities in the winter when the ambient temperatures here drop in the summer you have to

00:20:07.460 rely on on rivers which is why some people are opposed to these so in that part of the world

00:20:12.340 the river i guess is the uh north saskatchewan river and probably the uh athabasca and that

00:20:18.420 whole watershed. So there's quite a bit of water. The water is not being diverted and taken out of

00:20:24.420 the system, but it's being used to cool. And so that will have an impact on the environment.

00:20:30.680 Me personally, I kind of worry about data centers and the AI implication. I think AI is a dangerous

00:20:41.860 game changer that's going to eliminate a lot of jobs but i guess if you're it's an inevitable

00:20:48.700 technology and we might as well have it close to us where we can control it and monitor so

00:20:53.700 anyways you you you see i mean when you start to break it down you see last week's deal and you

00:20:59.580 just go wow you know a lot of horse trading that happened there right well the horse trading goes

00:21:04.920 on and on it continues right because um the pipeline proposed goes through british columbia

00:21:13.000 and british columbia has been opposed to pipelines right david eby has been one of the biggest

00:21:17.320 opponents the pipeline and now there's avi lewis the leader of the ndp he's opposed the pipeline

00:21:22.680 so he's he they both the avi piped up but look at the horse trading that happened last week

00:21:28.600 Like, all of a sudden, David Eby is asked, you know, microphone held to his face,

00:21:34.080 how do you feel about this pipeline?

00:21:36.520 And surprise, surprise, he basically said, well, I'll respect whatever the process.

00:21:43.600 I won't fight it.

00:21:44.780 I won't oppose it.

00:21:46.080 He basically completely stepped back from his earlier stance.

00:21:51.040 But what happened in British Columbia to David Eby almost a day before this pipeline announcement?

00:21:58.600 Carney flew to BC first before coming to Alberta to make the announcement.

00:22:02.920 And what announcement did Carney do in BC this last week?

00:22:07.300 He announced like a pretty sweet $2.3 billion bailout of the condo industry in that province,

00:22:15.060 in Vancouver in particular.

00:22:16.340 He also announced a similar bailout in Toronto.

00:22:20.940 But so now you're like, oh, okay, so everybody's being bought out.

00:22:24.340 so so eb got bought out by with this condo deal which is again bad for us bad for us because uh

00:22:32.580 these speculators come in they they they they build condos on speculation they drive up the market

00:22:39.540 and now the market is correcting itself and the and the prices are coming down and what do we do

00:22:45.140 we reward these speculators by bailing them out no we should have let them fail by the way carnie's

00:22:50.900 on the record there's an interview of carney from like i don't know 2012 talking about um his

00:22:56.660 experience with the crash of 2018 and so forth and talking about how he really wanted to let the

00:23:04.180 the the banks at that time fail so car you know anyways i don't want to go in there but

00:23:09.780 so now you got this whole horse trading that went on last week and

00:23:13.540 And I got to bring it back.

00:23:17.320 This is such a, it's so crazy, this story, right?

00:23:21.720 So now I'm bringing it back.

00:23:23.160 So we're just digesting this deal.

00:23:26.560 We're digesting this deal.

00:23:28.580 I start doing a tour, not a physical tour,

00:23:33.840 but I started being interviewed on social media.

00:23:36.940 I did a couple of French podcasts.

00:23:39.200 I got a couple of French CBC interviews because I speak French and I have experience with the

00:23:46.220 pipeline and I was remarkably shocked yeah yeah maybe yeah maybe not shocked yeah shock surprise

00:23:56.820 not surprise surprise Quebecers are mad right Quebecers are pissed off at this deal because

00:24:03.540 uh remember gilbo quit the caucus actually gilbo at first quit uh the cabinet and then he went as

00:24:12.020 far as quitting caucus like stepping down as an as an mp because he was so opposed so pissed off

00:24:18.180 at what carney was doing and a lot of quebecers in general view it the same way they viewed this

00:24:23.940 deal this announcement that we're getting a pipeline through several lenses one of the lenses

00:24:28.820 they view it as is they're strongly still support uh still believe in man-made climate change and

00:24:36.660 believe in in in their technology that the planet should go with electricity which they have in

00:24:42.020 abundance they're totally against hydrocarbons and they and they know that fundamentally canada

00:24:48.340 is not meeting its emission targets and they see carny giving in and and accepting a pipeline

00:24:54.980 pipeline as a betrayal that's one then they see it as an even bigger slap in the face when they

00:25:02.920 learn that the pipeline is at this in its configuration as presented right now would be a

00:25:09.260 um another crown corporation funded by tax dollars and quebecers will are using this and

00:25:16.900 saying listen we bought you one pipeline so why are we buying you a second because in their mind

00:25:22.820 a lot of them do think that they are subsidizing our industry so they're pissed off and so that's

00:25:29.300 the one part i have a hard time wrapping my mind no i don't have a hard time wrapping my mind around

00:25:33.620 it i can wrap my mind around this so why why is carney taking a chance right now and alienating

00:25:42.660 his base in quebec well i think the reason he's doing that is because he's finally

00:25:51.220 realizing that the separatist movement in this province has teeth and is real and so he has to

00:26:00.520 come here and deal with the separatist problem so of all the problems that he has to deal with

00:26:05.500 temporarily right now what are carney's problems right he's got a a trade war with the u.s

00:26:11.620 uh a disagreement with donald trump and a separatist party in alberta and a small one

00:26:18.280 in quebec but that that's it beyond that he doesn't have a lot of other problems to deal with

00:26:22.040 so and on the trade front he's he uh trump is not renegotiating uh the the canada u.s mexico

00:26:30.780 trade deal right now so that's on hold trump's pissed off at him he wants him to he wants us

00:26:36.800 to keep spending more of our gdp on defense we'll we'll get to that in a minute so what's

00:26:42.100 carney's number one problem that surfaced on his list of problems right now it's independence in

00:26:46.200 alberta with this upcoming um independent independence referendum it's also danielle's 0.72

00:26:52.600 sort of number one problem so again the mou which is a shitty piece of legislature this is mou part 0.78

00:26:59.240 two it's junk it's alienating the east but carney it shows that carney is truly starting to worry 0.80

00:27:08.300 about the separatist movement in this province so he's extending more than the mou he's he's it's a

00:27:13.980 bigger olive branch trying to appease us with this pipeline, which is why I'm talking about it in so 0.97

00:27:20.280 much detail, because I think the pipeline is a crap deal to start with. I think it's disingenuous. 0.95

00:27:27.420 I don't think they'll ever build one anyways. And I'm pretty sure that if we were to lose

00:27:34.520 the referendum in October, then you'll see that this pipeline will never get built. And then

00:27:40.000 Carney will go back to Quebec, to his base and say,

00:27:45.340 please forgive me.

00:27:46.940 I wasn't serious when I did these deals.

00:27:50.620 I was only trying to keep the country together,

00:27:53.920 make sure that the equalization doesn't get affected

00:27:58.920 and please forgive me and continue to support me.

00:28:02.880 That's my play on, so that's one pipeline.

00:28:07.740 That's just the first pipeline we got last week.

00:28:10.000 listen folks i've talked for a lot i mean there's something you gotta have an opinion on some of

00:28:14.240 this or is what i'm saying you're just taking it all in and digesting that's cool if that's what

00:28:18.720 you're doing today that's fine uh or maybe i caught everybody off guard with the one hour shift uh

00:28:24.480 the phone number is there on the screen right uh call call me or call the number there and uh

00:28:31.440 john our producer will put you on hold or put you right through if you call right now you'll probably

00:28:35.760 go ahead of the line and and we'll talk about it so uh oh oh toll free i thought john was showing

00:28:43.600 me that there was a number sorry so so that's the first deal okay so i'm so we got the first deal

00:28:48.960 i'm i'm not happy about it i'm unpacking it it's it looks like a lot of politics and then just for

00:28:55.680 uh just for giggles uh it's stampede and stampede is an event like no other event in the country i

00:29:03.440 I don't think there is an equivalent in the country in terms of an event that brings out politician, not the Montreal Carnival, not just or the Quebec Carnival, not the just for last festival, nothing else.

00:29:12.740 Like when Stampede occurs in Calgary, wonderful tradition, by the way, when it occurs, it's incredible how many politicians show up.

00:29:22.060 Right. Everybody's got a barbecue. Everybody's got a breakfast. Everybody, everybody wants to come.

00:29:27.260 So who was in town this week? Nenshi's in town. Pierre Polyev was in town.

00:29:33.440 Doug Ford was in town, a whole bunch of other people.

00:29:36.000 But before I get to Doug Ford and his visit to Calgary, can we do a quick video, John, or maybe cue it up and get it ready?

00:29:45.780 Because yesterday, Western Standard had its barbecue, afternoon barbecue at the Sun Alta Community Hall.

00:29:57.540 A beautiful day to do it with water balloons.

00:30:01.120 and uh john do you have a maybe a maybe a cue a couple of clips uh mayor farkas came out uh kudos

00:30:08.040 to the mayor excellent excellent great sport about it he put himself out there made a bit of a you

00:30:15.140 know it's a bit of a goofy thing he he allowed himself to put on the water wings the lifeguard

00:30:20.200 water wings and people for a good cause for charity uh bought water balloons that got to

00:30:25.040 toss them at the mayor so uh kudos to the mayor our own uh our very own derek got one right in

00:30:31.280 the noggin it was a perfect shot john do you have that shot or or is that asking for too much right

00:30:36.280 now um while while john looks that up i i uh oh there you go uh we got pictures of it right

00:30:43.180 take my word for it it was a it was a great time uh go go on our x feed uh under western standard

00:30:49.840 and go find the videos of oh there you go here's uh that's the one where Derek got hit right square

00:30:55.740 in the head I think anyways a great time had by all uh me personally uh always happy to go to

00:31:07.260 events like that have friends come visit and uh fans and people come talk and I got to meet

00:31:13.500 michelle remple yesterday uh i'm folks i'm a big fan of michelle's okay so i and i i gave her a

00:31:21.760 shout out online i'm i was genuine in this comment which is i'm not one of those uh person i'm not a

00:31:29.120 hog who asks everybody for a camera shot i didn't get a camera shot with uh with the mayor i'm not

00:31:35.340 i'm not struck like that i don't need to have a collection of people on my uh on my phone but

00:31:41.420 once in a while, there are people that I genuinely admire, and I want a picture with them. And that

00:31:45.980 was the case with Michelle Rempel. I asked for a picture. And I will say this, I'm just a little 0.79

00:31:51.660 bit disappointed when, you know, I said I liked her. And I like her for the fact that she represents

00:31:59.360 Alberta so well. She's a good advocate for our province. She's fought a hard fight for years

00:32:05.260 in the House of Commons. She's out there in the public. And one thing I really admire about her

00:32:11.120 is how she uses social media and her platform to do similar to what I do,

00:32:16.260 which is to share topics, complicated topics, and get some discussion.

00:32:20.400 And so I'm trying to be nice about that.

00:32:22.320 I make a nice post, and then I get a whole bunch of people

00:32:24.540 just literally criticizing her because they don't like one of her issues.

00:32:29.300 And I ask people to get beyond that, right?

00:32:31.920 Like you cannot, you will never find somebody that you agree with on everything,

00:32:37.040 including me.

00:32:37.800 and i and i don't want anybody to agree with everything about me but like do you really like

00:32:43.820 it's i don't like it when somebody completely dismisses somebody because they disagree on one

00:32:49.040 item and i got that a lot yesterday on that post about michelle okay got a caller on the line

00:32:54.260 go ahead what's on your mind where are you calling from and what's your name please

00:32:57.700 my name is colin gunn i'm calling from manitoba oh colin how's it going

00:33:04.260 really good we used to work together on tc uh the reason i phoned is what's happening in the

00:33:11.320 dauphin swan river area we've had these floods it's actually closed down we can't even get

00:33:17.720 groceries what we're seeing is indecision and and a bunch of politicians that don't know what

00:33:24.020 they're doing you know our hospitals closed down give you an idea a place like airdrie or

00:33:29.440 or uh high river think about that hospital shut down everybody's thrown out well now we have this

00:33:36.120 ntb ntb government couldn't even put together a couple bulldozers and just get temporary roads so

00:33:43.500 we can get people who are hospital or even groceries or dog food in and it's ridiculous

00:33:48.360 and correct me if i'm wrong but this is probably not something brand new right you probably have

00:33:54.420 events of this type once in a while i mean it's something that should be able to anticipate and

00:33:59.940 be prepared for well that's normal but yeah ndp not only did the same thing you know they shut

00:34:07.700 down the forest service to save a few bucks to build painted crosswalks bottom line is

00:34:13.900 the federal government they're just showing their hands up too you would think with our military

00:34:19.760 would have uh chinook helicopters at least bringing in freight and putting up some kind of uh

00:34:27.920 ems to get people if they need to get to a hospital which we don't even have

00:34:33.600 some help here yeah okay well i'm sorry we've got the farmers out we've got the farmers out there

00:34:40.480 doing the construction themselves can you imagine that yeah we all gang up as farmers

00:34:46.080 well no i mean you're you're reminding me of uh yeah i mean farmers are wonderful people right

00:34:51.740 you can always count on farmers i mean we had uh that reminds me of when we had the major fires a

00:34:56.840 couple years ago in grand prairie and the farmers starting getting involved in fighting the fires

00:35:00.880 and then the police came in and tried to stop the farmers from doing the job because the farmers

00:35:04.860 could hurt themselves you know what i mean yeah we got the same thing going here same thing going

00:35:08.220 on that's so frustrating i'm sorry to hear that i lost you uh okay well what what can we do i mean

00:35:13.220 where i guess we bring a bit of awareness where where is this what part of the world it's just

00:35:16.900 southeast of winnipeg or where would this be okay we we i think we colin hung up that's okay all

00:35:30.060 right well thanks for calling colin i i i when uh when i got a call from manitoba i thought he was

00:35:34.860 going to call about something else because so let me get back to the story it's stampede everybody's

00:35:39.500 visiting i don't want to rush through the stories i'm looking at the time man today's flying by

00:35:44.780 uh so doug ford's in town all right so doug ford comes to stampede he doesn't want to miss it and

00:35:49.260 now he wants to be on uh he wants to be on team alberta or he wants team alberta to stay on team

00:35:55.580 canada so now even doug ford's getting involved in uh fighting the separatists so i'm laughing

00:36:01.100 because doug ford to me uh before leaving uh toronto he asked somebody like hey uh draw me a

00:36:08.540 map and what kind of pipeline could we support right so so doug comes out of the blue and he

00:36:15.900 announces that hey uh he's working with danielle smith and they're going to build a pipeline from

00:36:21.420 hardest d to sarnia do you have a map of that one john sorry to put you on the spot but maybe we can

00:36:27.100 find a map of doug ford's proposed pipeline and um so i'm laughing because doug's pipeline had even

00:36:36.700 less um uh even less engineering even less things worked out like it was literally well i know what

00:36:45.740 he did right i mean he it looked a lot like a mini version of energy east right so you remember

00:36:51.980 uh back in 2011 12 13 somewhere around there yeah i leave the picture up there for a few minutes uh

00:36:57.420 john so energy east was a pipeline proposed by trans canada that was going to follow basically

00:37:03.660 a lot of that path but go further go all the way to new brunswick st john new brunswick

00:37:09.340 and energy east had been proposed by trans canada as an export pipeline to go all the way out east

00:37:16.240 to ship a million barrels of oil and to export it and send it to um overseas markets like europe

00:37:23.000 but of course since the pipeline was going across the country energies was also going to branch off

00:37:27.840 and um ship a little bit of oil to a refinery in montreal one in quebec city and uh and so forth

00:37:35.800 and again energies um like uh earlier like so many other pipelines of that era died a quiet death

00:37:44.880 overly regulated um trans canada in the end just gave up said we're not going to do it

00:37:51.720 and and as an example energies i worked on energies my team did the hydraulics and we

00:37:57.120 started when we started doing the hydraulics and and the preliminary cost estimates and the

00:38:02.120 negotiations with shippers we were looking at like a 3400 kilometer long pipeline with 72 pump

00:38:08.060 stations delivering a million barrels of oil all the way to new brunswick and we had a budget of

00:38:12.260 about 18 billion dollars so uh that just shows how the economies have changed right when the

00:38:19.780 government gets involved it's it's it becomes rapidly uneconomic and and i i insist on that

00:38:25.060 the government is a chicken and egg and the government has to reverse some of these bad

00:38:29.480 regulations but yeah so this is uh this is the northern shield pipeline that um that doug ford

00:38:36.240 brought to the table here and proposed and and uh was all pumped up about there's a lot of problems

00:38:42.120 with that pipeline but the the cost aside the one that's surprising is uh it's not really needed

00:38:48.480 right now because ontario is getting uh oil from alberta indirectly through line five but i guess

00:38:55.120 there's enough risk of line of the fact that line five goes down to the u.s that it could be shut

00:39:00.160 off um so you know at this point i didn't anticipate this pipeline i wasn't expecting it

00:39:07.600 i don't really see the need for it but if some private sector wanted to build it i'd be 100

00:39:12.880 for it but when again if the government wants to get involved that would be an 80 billion dollar

00:39:17.920 fiasco but what was funny about this one is it's been a few days now um and we still haven't heard

00:39:24.280 from wab canoe i'm pretty sure that uh scott moe's okay with the pipeline crossing saskatchewan but

00:39:29.420 wab canoe uh ndp premier hasn't said a word and that was a little bit awkward and embarrassing

00:39:35.580 and weird that doug ford just came out and said yeah i want this pipeline without consulting with

00:39:41.880 other premiers so again it's a knee-jerk reaction and um it's politicians fighting for some attention

00:39:50.120 from some camera time but i also think it does show that the players the big boys are worried

00:39:55.560 about the independence movement in alberta and and we're seeing that that's that's what we're

00:40:00.760 seeing right now um yeah it'll be interesting to see uh if if wob says anything by the way uh

00:40:08.520 uh yeah we're done with that one thanks john we don't need to keep hounding that one uh i'm gonna

00:40:14.560 go through some of these other things really quickly i guess we're uh i'm just looking at

00:40:18.960 the clock um like it's been a bad week for carney right so what was the other big announcement this

00:40:25.380 week um canada is buying and i can't wrap my mind around this one my head around this one

00:40:32.920 Canada's buying 12 subs, 12 submarines, 12 subs, not nuclear ones, good old fashioned diesel submarines.

00:40:39.960 We're buying 12 submarines from Germany for a total all in cost of about a hundred billion dollars.

00:40:48.880 And that is a that is weird on so many levels.

00:40:54.080 I get it. I get it.

00:40:55.740 We we need to increase our spending and because we're under pressure from Donald Trump to increase our GDP.

00:41:01.600 or military spending as a percentage of GDP to like 5%.

00:41:07.660 Trump said it clearly, NATO's underperforming, underspending.

00:41:11.940 Trump's tired of defending us and being the one who bears all that cost.

00:41:16.980 So Carney's rushing to find things.

00:41:19.960 Did he buy the subs just because they're really expensive?

00:41:24.040 I'm almost thinking so.

00:41:25.940 I'm also thinking you'll never buy the subs because it's not in our DNA, right? It's not

00:41:33.140 in our DNA. Since 1914, Canada has registered something like 13 submarines. 13 Royal Canadian

00:41:42.680 Navy vessels have been submarines since 1914. Like one in the First World War, a couple in the Second

00:41:50.480 world war one in the cold war period or two and we currently have like three uh that are officially

00:41:57.760 commissioned three that we bought from the uk uh 15 years ago when they and we bought them when

00:42:03.680 they're already 20 years old it's not in our dna to operate submarines okay we don't have a long

00:42:10.080 proud tradition of operating submarines we do have a proud tradition of operating navies of

00:42:16.720 surface navies we had like the third or fourth largest surface navy after the second world war

00:42:22.080 that's in our dna but what's really sad is that um we we are an amazing country with three oceans

00:42:31.200 steel a labor force deep ports electricity skills everything and we do not have a proper shipbuilding

00:42:40.320 industry okay we don't have a shipbuilding industry now i'm pretty vocal about this i don't think the

00:42:45.680 government should subsidize 100 any industry and the government shouldn't give money just to try

00:42:53.040 and get an industry uh going but this is an example where if the government was really smart

00:43:03.200 instead of just giving 100 billion dollars to germany or spending the next decade anyways

00:43:08.400 negotiating because i think that's how long it's going to be this is all for show but let's say it

00:43:12.160 was real instead of just giving 10 billion dollars to a hundred billion dollars to germany

00:43:16.800 and getting almost nothing out of it why could we not go and build surface maybe some marines

00:43:24.160 a stretch i don't think we could build submarines in this country but why don't we even build

00:43:27.520 surface vessels right we used to be able to build surface vessels so i don't like this deal i sound

00:43:33.120 negative today i sound negative i know i sound negative and i know i don't like carny but boy

00:43:38.400 i'd sure like to be able to give him something positive but i just can't and i'm not nitpicking

00:43:43.600 i'm not going out of my way to find the negative some people say marty just be happy it's a hundred

00:43:47.760 billion dollars spent i'm not at that point folks like i'm like i'd rather not spend than waste

00:43:55.120 okay that's me i'd rather like our government is in huge debt right now uh the the national debts

00:44:01.120 2.3 trillion dollars carney said he was going to do small deficits all this spending is money

00:44:07.040 we don't have like the fiscal update that came out in uh in april was like predicting a 72 billion

00:44:14.720 uh deficit for this year the way he's running around and spending money this like i'm looking

00:44:20.720 forward to the fall economic update because i'm sure we're going to be in 150 billion dollar

00:44:25.280 deficit range with all this uh this craziness right and so i i i don't understand the well no

00:44:34.400 again i understand the logic because this goes back to the flawed one of one of carney's um

00:44:43.040 he he came on board as the guy who was gonna be he was promoted as a guy to defend us against trump

00:44:50.480 and he failed at that right he failed at his first job his number one job was to reneg to fight an

00:44:55.920 economic uh um a trade war with the us and uh get us a better deal he lost that so then he's

00:45:04.160 going around the world making now he's going around the world making deals elsewhere but these deals

00:45:09.440 are making our trade balance worse okay it's not like when i bought when you when he visits

00:45:14.640 germany and he comes back says hey i got us a deal with germany but the deal is that we give them a

00:45:19.280 hundred billion dollars and in return they give us 12 subs that's not when that's not improving

00:45:24.400 our trade balance that's not replacing the trade that we've lost with the us that's making things

00:45:29.840 worse and this is making things really worse so we're pumping money that we don't have uh and

00:45:36.080 giving it to foreign entities instead of using money i mean i'd prefer we use money we have to

00:45:41.840 improve our economy my second choice would be to use money we don't have and borrow it to improve

00:45:46.640 our economy when i'm borrowing money because i don't have it and then i give it to a another

00:45:52.960 country how am i making things better so so these kinds of announcements get made nobody

00:45:59.040 criticizes it nobody looks into it and everybody sort of applauds and and then we move on so not

00:46:05.520 happy about the deal with uh the submarine deal just just not happy about it and speaking of

00:46:12.720 giving money away so carney uh is in europe right now he's in uh turkey or i don't know how i'm

00:46:19.280 supposed to say it now like everybody's saying turkey or something like uh we're not calling

00:46:24.000 it turkey anymore they're changing the word there um carney's in turkey at a nato conference and

00:46:30.720 what's the first thing he did when he got there he had a quick meeting with uh zelinski and gave

00:46:35.840 zelinski another 900 million dollars another 900 million dollars we don't have wow okay and now

00:46:44.720 now i'm going to bring it back to another weird thing right no it's not weird it's all related

00:46:49.200 it's all related and and uh so while while he's on his little tour in europe over there um

00:46:57.520 carney is meeting with saudi arabia carney went and met with the united arab emirates the united

00:47:02.240 arab emirates is a country that actually has a real sovereign wealth fund okay they have like

00:47:07.680 a trillions of dollars in sovereign wealth and they're looking to invest all over the world

00:47:13.600 and diversify their economies and carney went there about six months ago and and said yeah

00:47:19.440 yeah we're good we'll we'll we'll open trade negotiations between our two country we'll do

00:47:23.920 more partnerships and everything else and finally finally on the hook he gets a country like the

00:47:29.840 united arab emirates that says yeah we're looking to invest some money we got money ready to go and

00:47:34.160 what did he tell him this week he just told the united arab emirates sorry we have no shovel

00:47:39.280 ready projects for you so you got one in you got one come one one foreign sovereign wealth fund

00:47:48.040 ready to invest in our country and we have nothing to offer them like i don't know i don't know i

00:47:55.840 don't know i don't know how i go with that i don't know what to do um listen i'm gonna all right i

00:48:02.680 got a couple more minutes i got a couple of things i want to uh uh uh because i want to finish with

00:48:07.360 the private story um john can you find the other clip that i was going to bring up today can you

00:48:14.120 find the story from ernst and young about 40 of manufacturing thinking of moving to the united

00:48:19.880 states put that on the screen if you get a chance again it all ties in right so don't don't believe

00:48:27.060 like our governments will tell us one thing often do something else but like if you want to know

00:48:34.120 what's going on um you've got to dissect what's happening and you gotta you gotta look at more

00:48:40.080 than one source of information right so the you got the government in this country that keeps

00:48:44.080 telling you uh we're the source of truth then there's guys like me and the western standard

00:48:49.720 and rebel news and and and you know independent media we're a different source of information

00:48:54.640 we don't regurgitate the government lines i try and bring you facts what i'm trying to do right

00:49:00.100 now is get you guys i got tried to piece together the whole story that happened this week not just

00:49:05.580 one of them but i was showing you the complexities of everything that happened this week and now it

00:49:09.840 can all sort of tie in and and how it's all sort of going as far as i can say in the wrong direction

00:49:15.780 but don't just believe me right believe the industry and the markets like the financial

00:49:23.740 markets because they don't lie they're motivated by real um they make real decisions not decisions

00:49:30.300 based on emotions or ideology they make real decisions and this week ernest and young broke

00:49:35.980 out a story that said that in the survey of companies 40 of canadian companies surveyed i

00:49:41.980 don't know how big the survey was but 40 of companies surveyed in canada right now are

00:49:46.940 seriously thinking of pulling uh uh lifting roots and pulling uh the plug and moving to the united

00:49:55.660 states so that those are the real indicators right it doesn't matter what carny tells you oh we're

00:50:01.580 we're in a small recession or we're not in a recession or the economy is doing fine or the

00:50:05.740 jobs are okay or whatever don't believe the stories go find the data go find what the real

00:50:13.500 markets are doing and that's an indicator so we got we got a we got a ernst and young is like a

00:50:18.860 big accounting firm a big uh strategic think tank and and when a company like that says that they've

00:50:26.780 surveyed people in the company and they want to move to the u.s that's the state of the economy

00:50:30.920 that's what's happening um we're that's the evidence that we're losing the trade war companies

00:50:36.320 want to leave canada and go somewhere else i like that's that's um that's a bit of a that's a sad

00:50:43.100 story uh hey okay so i wanted to um maybe i should have talked about this one first just to see if

00:50:49.660 you guys would uh would would have some thoughts to share with me on this one but i had a weird

00:50:55.180 incident uh at home this week you guys know i've had a few weird incidents but i had a really really

00:51:00.700 really weird one this week i went for a walk on uh tuesday night and uh my dog was i live out in

00:51:08.060 the country the dog was running loose and um she found something and i went up to her she's a coon

00:51:14.220 hound right she's got a good nose she found something and i grabbed it out of her i'm like

00:51:17.900 what is that and it was a ziploc bag full of meat okay so i mean i have no idea why there'd be a

00:51:25.180 ziploc bag full of meat along the ditch on a country road and then uh and then as we kept

00:51:31.100 walking she kept sniffing and she found five bags all spaced about 100 yards three on one side of

00:51:38.500 the road in the ditch and three on the other side of the road on the ditch and uh okay so me and my

00:51:45.380 wife collected those bags and and uh kept them and then near the end of the walk she found something

00:51:52.520 else and i went with her and tucked in some of the trees was what appeared to be just a carcass of

00:51:59.740 an animal and i looked at it closely and i took a picture of it i put it on x and i said it looks

00:52:05.100 like a dead poodle so i thought oh man maybe uh maybe maybe somebody's trying to kill coyotes and

00:52:13.680 accidentally kill the dog i don't know anyways i shared the story on in the neighborhood on our

00:52:18.920 neighborhood chat line and one of my neighbors who's a vet came out with me and we went and looked

00:52:23.620 closely at the at the carcass of the dog and it wasn't just a carcass it was only a hide

00:52:29.880 and she confirmed that um that that somebody had skinned a poodle

00:52:36.460 like okay so why is there the hide of a skinned poodle in my neighborhood and then yesterday

00:52:46.400 going for a walk found another bag of dog or food i'm saying dog food because i'm jumping

00:52:51.860 ahead of myself found another bag so six ziploc bags full of food and a dead hide or hide in my

00:52:58.160 neighborhood and then i hunt and i finally decided to go look at the little cuts of meat in the baggie

00:53:05.140 and to me they're like they're they're like teeny weeny little roasts like they're it it is totally

00:53:11.140 apparent my conclusion is that the meat in the baggies is the dog so anyways i call the rcmp

00:53:20.940 I called the county and in their infinite wisdom, they said, oh, there's not much we can do to investigate because there's no crime.

00:53:29.440 I'm like, OK, there's no crime. And their infinite wisdom was like, well, maybe you should consider setting up game cameras.

00:53:36.020 Anyways, I'll set up game cameras. Just wanted to share the story because I've shared it on social media and I'm trying to figure out what what is the possible logical explanation for what I found?

00:53:47.560 i know it's too late now probably don't have time for somebody to call maybe i'll ask next week

00:53:52.040 after you watch the show or leave me a comment just leave me a comment

00:53:55.620 online here i'll go read the comments afterwards but what do you guys think is happening with that

00:54:02.080 um okay well we're kind of near the end of the show i i actually i'm i'm rushing off after this

00:54:10.200 i won't be able to go to the debate with between derek and duane i wish i could but uh i'm loading

00:54:16.140 my quad and heading up north uh go set up my hunting camp i'm not starting to hunt but i set

00:54:21.260 up my hunting camp in july so that the family and friends can enjoy it all summer long so i'm

00:54:25.480 looking forward to doing that uh just bringing up a quick shot uh just self-promo uh well actually

00:54:32.560 i want to talk about this one last thing sorry i still got time signatures signatures are being

00:54:36.440 counted yes i forgot about that signatures are being counted so the um the the appeal is being

00:54:42.700 heard and the judge put a stay or i guess it's a stay i don't know how the the technical term but

00:54:50.060 the judge who's a who's hearing the appeal is temper is not over i guess is overruling the

00:54:56.700 lower court judge and saying to elections alberta at least start counting the vote so count or count

00:55:01.740 the signatures in the petition uh i know i i chatted with and i know that eva chip yuck who

00:55:09.980 friend of the channel well known among you for her work in the freedom convoy and defending

00:55:15.600 people like carrie sakamoto in the um in her vaccine injury case and stuff like that so eva

00:55:22.800 has been nominated by stay free alberta as the scrutineer so she's the one who's going to sit in

00:55:29.920 the elections alberta office and supervise as they count the signatures step one and this whole

00:55:37.100 process going to take about three weeks i'm i'm so happy i'm so happy it means that um my hundreds

00:55:43.740 of hours spent collecting signatures weren't for nothing so she's going to uh the the signatures

00:55:48.700 are being counted eva thinks that in uh mentioned uh that in the or not eva mitch sylvester through

00:55:57.340 eva uh or the other way around eva through mitch sylvester anyways mentioned that the first step is

00:56:03.260 they will do a gross count so elections alberta will do a gross count right remember mitch counted

00:56:08.380 him he said there's like 335 000 elections alberta will do the gross count and tell us their number

00:56:15.220 i i'm pretty sure it'll match it should be 335 unless they lost a couple of boxes along the way

00:56:20.200 and then after that we'll start the the quality control process as part of the quality control

00:56:25.220 process they will call they will randomly pick signature sheets and then call people on the

00:56:30.700 sheet so if you sign the petition remember what did you do when you signed the petition you gave

00:56:35.580 your name your address your physical address and a phone number so if they call you and or maybe if

00:56:41.980 you get a an unknown call number answer it or call back when they leave a message elections alberta

00:56:48.780 will leave a message if they call you and what they're validating is you know do you remember

00:56:54.380 generally signing the signature on such and such a date and what's the phone number and the name

00:56:59.820 and the address that you provided i've already talked to a couple of people go i don't remember

00:57:04.300 what phone number i provided i'm like oh i hope this i hope everybody gets it right when they

00:57:09.420 call you because if if they say what what phone number did you or uh no that'd be a bad one what

00:57:15.180 address did you provide if you if you hesitate that signature is going to get disqualified anyway

00:57:19.660 it's just long story short the signatures are being counted um very happy about that and lastly

00:57:26.060 on the independence front uh july 18th so that is next saturday there's a telethon being organized

00:57:33.820 we'll have more detail for that you'll see it all over social media but um a bunch of uh alberta

00:57:40.620 separatists pro separatism social media accounts john bolton myself others are taking the lead on

00:57:48.460 organizing a telethon and i'll be hosting an hour in that telethon and the whole purpose of that

00:57:54.780 telethon is to promote the third party advertisers the cory morgan's of the world and the jason

00:58:00.380 levine's of the world and all the groups that have set up their own little tpas they can't be

00:58:05.820 the host of the telethon but they'll come in as guests so independent totally independent private

00:58:10.220 citizens like myself will be hosting the telethon inviting people to promote the third party

00:58:15.820 advertisers so that you can give them a little bit of money so we can keep fighting this fight

00:58:21.580 and speaking of giving a little bit of money my last pitch this is uh you know you don't

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00:58:47.100 subscription and i'll be back next thursday back at the same time and i hope some of you can make

00:58:54.380 to make it to the debate tonight. Cheers.

00:58:56.380 Thanks for watching again.

Western Standard - July 14, 2026

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