Western Standard - August 03, 2026


MARTY UP NORTH： Inside Elections Alberta’s petition count


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00:00:00.000 all right uh hey welcome back folks uh geez the month of july just flew by
00:00:29.520 right today is july 30th uh what is there july one two three 31 days in july tomorrow is the
00:00:36.400 last day of july like halfway through the summer we got august and september wow wow wow wow wow
00:00:42.560 um just before i get deep into the show um sympathies out to the family of uh parker wells
00:00:50.400 what a tragic ending i was i like i'm just getting i'm trying not to get choked up but
00:00:55.680 But I was so hoping and I think like so many others that there was going to be somehow a miraculous, happy ending to this story.
00:01:03.460 But unfortunately, yesterday, the police found a body.
00:01:09.200 I don't think they've confirmed that it was his.
00:01:11.440 But I mean, you know, he find an 11 year old boy in an area where an 11 year old boy went missing.
00:01:17.600 What a tragedy.
00:01:19.900 All right.
00:01:20.400 So another another interesting week.
00:01:24.380 a lot of good things to talk about again folks this is your show where i'm trying to develop a
00:01:31.200 call-in show and i want you guys to feel free to call in john's going to put the number on the
00:01:36.600 screen down there uh 866-479-WEST extension 711 and uh and and i'll take your calls i just ask
00:01:45.700 that you pick any topic you want and and let's have a chat uh but i'll but i'll start off i'll
00:01:51.440 challenge you with you guys. I got two questions that I've been, that I've asked on X. I've had
00:01:56.040 some interesting replies to them, and I'm going to ask you guys the same question, and maybe it'll
00:02:00.160 foster some discussion. So first question I asked on X, and we touched on this last week, was
00:02:06.220 Elections Alberta has opened the portal to apply for mail-in ballots for the referendum. And so my
00:02:16.940 question to you is are you guys for or against mail-in ballots let me know your thoughts on that
00:02:22.460 call in let's chat about that i have a i have an opinion on that and perhaps this and the second
00:02:27.500 question i'll ask you maybe is a little more controversial i ask this question about every
00:02:32.060 six months on x and the question is uh how would you rate the performance of our premier danielle
00:02:40.220 Smith, you know, in the last, say, three months, four months. And you can do it either on a scale
00:02:46.160 of one to 10 with 10 being outstanding, or you can do it on a, on a, you know, very standard
00:02:54.360 letter scale with F being a fail all the way to an A plus. So two questions, call in, let me know
00:03:01.000 your thoughts on that. All right. So today, and actually speaking of elections, Alberta, that's
00:03:06.900 probably uh that's the topic that's on the screen there uh john asked me for topics and i said i
00:03:12.420 want to talk about in election alberta's petition count uh i'll try not to get too too deep on this
00:03:19.300 one but i could get deep because um you know i got that engineering statistics background
00:03:26.740 so last week so here's the recap right sorry to repeat the broken record sometimes but let's just
00:03:33.060 repeat it anyways so we we have stay free alberta launches a files a petition under the citizens
00:03:41.140 initiative act back in december and uh it's approved by elections alberta and we're off to
00:03:47.300 the races we're collecting signatures and the threshold is 177 000 signatures and elections
00:03:52.820 alberta gives us a form and says uh this is how you collect the signature you have to go and get
00:03:59.780 it has to be done in person can't be done electronically and you have to write down
00:04:03.940 the person's name full name their physical address not just their mailing post office box
00:04:11.540 whether and then you have to put a phone number or an email most people choose a phone number
00:04:16.740 then you have to date the day the signature is then get the people to sign the signature and
00:04:23.060 check off a little um disclosure that says i confirmed that i am an alberta citizen over the
00:04:30.100 age of 18 and canadian citizen residing in alberta and then and then so we collect those signatures
00:04:37.300 like that and then me as a canvasser i had to register as a canvasser thousands of people
00:04:42.500 registered as canvassers we all went about collecting these signatures and every time we
00:04:46.580 had five signatures on the page we signed the bottom of the page and the pages were on a serial
00:04:52.260 had a serial number right so very complicated lots of quality control lots it's a it's a very
00:04:59.300 you know to sign the sign to sign the petition individuals had to provide a lot of information
00:05:04.820 and we start collecting signatures and then first nations uh file uh for an injunction and a judge
00:05:12.420 at first grants a stay but eventually the judge says no they're uh i i'm i'm invalidating the
00:05:18.820 petition okay so the petition is invalidated even though the signatures have been collected at this
00:05:25.940 point and they're sitting in elections alberta elections alberta kept the signatures didn't
00:05:30.660 destroy them because they knew that as soon as the first judge said the petition was invalid
00:05:36.980 both the government of alberta and state free alberta filed an appeal and then the appeal was
00:05:43.380 heard started being heard and then so the second judge said okay i'm hearing this appeal but while
00:05:50.820 i'm hearing this appeal and it's going to take me a long time to rule on this appeal or could take
00:05:55.220 me a long time i'm going to allow elections alberta to count the signatures okay so now
00:06:00.660 elections alberta gets tapped on the shoulder take all these boxes and go ahead and count them and
00:06:05.460 not only count them but validate them so that lasted about three weeks and while they're
00:06:10.980 validating their signatures both the premier's off or the the the government's office is allowed
00:06:17.120 to have scrutineers and stay free alberta uh which is uh mitch sylvester the petitioner he's allowed
00:06:24.460 a scrutineer so he has scrutineers and the process takes about three weeks to count the signatures
00:06:30.080 and this and the result of this count was announced on friday and so on friday uh elect so mitch when
00:06:37.840 he submitted the signatures at first don't quote me on the exact numbers i didn't write them down
00:06:42.080 but mitch thought he had about 303 000 signatures give or take and uh more than uh more than the
00:06:50.060 threshold of 177 000 so he gives those to elections alberta elections alberta did a whole bunch of
00:06:55.060 things so the first thing they did is they went through and they did uh they they they double
00:07:00.780 checked mitch's count and they counted the signatures so elections alberta counts the
00:07:04.680 signatures and comes with a number close to Mitch, you know, in the, in the 295,000 range.
00:07:10.460 Then the elections, Alberta does its first quality control and it, and it eliminates a
00:07:15.140 whole bunch of signatures. It looks at the pages and, uh, if, um, if dates aren't on the pages,
00:07:21.860 or if there appears to be duplicates and all sorts of things, or they're on the illegible
00:07:26.560 pages have been damaged, whatever. So elections, Alberta starts to disqualify a whole bunch of
00:07:31.280 pages. So the next thing you know, Elections Alberta gets to a raw count, something like
00:07:36.240 290,000 signatures. Once they got to the 290,000 signatures, now they start the full-blown
00:07:43.280 validation period of validation of those signatures. But they're not looking at each
00:07:49.000 signature to make sure that all those things I said earlier on there, right? Name, address,
00:07:53.560 date, check off the box. No, they go with a sort of a statistical method where they pick
00:08:00.700 a random sample of signatures i think it was 354 357 something like that so they grabbed 357
00:08:09.240 signatures pages with signatures and now they call they have staff that call the people on here
00:08:16.180 to validate and after they've done this portion elections alberta invalidated
00:08:24.440 invalidated over 80,000 signatures and brought the total down to something like 220,000.
00:08:33.380 So we start with, you know, in the high 300 or in the low 300s, we start at 305, 306,
00:08:39.380 some duplicates, and then after a quality control check, and then finally after validating
00:08:44.740 Elections Alberta eliminates a full 21% of the signatures. Boom, gone. And when they announced
00:08:52.760 that on Friday at first, I thought about it and I was like, that seems high, right? Because in a
00:08:57.040 typical election, the number of spoiled ballots and invalid ballots is about 1%, 1 to 2%. So here
00:09:05.400 they're telling us that there's 20% of the signatures were invalid. And personally, I was
00:09:09.360 a canvasser and I witnessed the effort that people put in. Canvassers were trained. Canvassers
00:09:14.220 collected signatures. They almost always collected signatures with somebody else. And they followed
00:09:19.900 the rules as convoluted as the rules were. And I witnessed it. So when at first that this 20%
00:09:25.140 discount appeared, I was a little shocked. And then, then I talked to one of the, to the
00:09:33.180 scrutineer. I won't tell her, I think we all know who her name is. The, the, the scrutineer for
00:09:39.080 election, for Stay Free Alberta was Eva Chipyuk, right? Everybody, I think most people know Eva
00:09:43.600 Chipyuk, an Alberta lawyer who became famous for being the last person to question Justin Trudeau
00:09:54.480 on the stand during the Emergencies Act inquiry. And Eva has been, you know, she's got her own
00:10:04.440 group she's promoting democracy civil engagement she's very popular and and then she also is a
00:10:13.960 lawyer who works alongside jeff rath and she has her own you know cases near and dear to her she
00:10:19.640 represents carrie sakamoto in a vaccine injury case and she represents uh people that were
00:10:27.000 negatively affected by the covet mandate so that that eva chip was the was the scrutineer so i
00:10:32.760 I chatted with her a little bit, but then I, so after I talked to her and I started thinking
00:10:37.600 about the 80%, the 20%, I realized something, a big flaw in the way that Elections Alberta
00:10:43.720 were validating the signatures because Elections Alberta, so there were 7,000 canvassers, right?
00:10:50.120 That collected about 300,000 signatures, but not all canvassers were the same to, honestly,
00:10:57.280 the bulk of the work was carried out by about 20% of the canvassers. That's just, it's just
00:11:02.480 what's called the Pareto law in in in statistics rights for any event in a business 20 of the
00:11:08.640 people are doing most of your work 20 of the people do 80 of the work and the other 80 do
00:11:13.360 20 of the work it's always like that so canvassing was the same way even though there's a lot of
00:11:17.760 signatures collected the bulk of them 20 80 of the signatures were collected by the you know
00:11:23.920 literally like no more than two 300 canvassers people like myself who collected 700 signatures
00:11:28.800 and people on my team and at the other end there were thousands of canvassers who only collected
00:11:34.480 one or two or three signatures and so when elections alberta just randomly picks numbers
00:11:40.480 like that so let me give you a scenario right so if elections alberta chose uh grab the page
00:11:47.520 and on that page there was three signatures and those are that's it only three signatures had
00:11:52.000 been collected by that canvasser and one of those signatures is bad out of the three
00:11:57.680 then statistically elections alberta eliminated 700 signatures in the whole pile that's it that's
00:12:06.840 the ratio whereas if they had picked one of my signatures and i collected 700 and i had a bad one
00:12:13.040 then they're still eliminating 700 signatures but the odds of you know what i mean that the
00:12:18.700 distribution of canvassers and the quality of the canvassers wasn't the same some did a lot of work
00:12:26.460 some did only a little bit of work, some were extremely diligent and a few were maybe not so
00:12:31.320 diligent. And so it was an uneven distribution of stuff, of people, and you can't do a quality
00:12:39.640 control randomly that way. So, and let me give you an example of, you know what, okay, I'll pause
00:12:46.980 because we got our first call and so I got to remember that I was at the example of quality
00:12:52.900 control. I was going to talk about pipelines. Go ahead, caller, where are you calling from? And
00:12:56.140 What's your name, please?
00:12:59.140 Hi, Marty.
00:13:00.320 Can you hear me?
00:13:01.260 I can hear you.
00:13:03.220 Okay.
00:13:03.620 I lost my voice, but it's Ken calling from Campanile by Saskatchewan Crossing.
00:13:10.700 And I've got more of a statement than a question.
00:13:14.800 In the digital age we're in right now, why is it that there's no transparency in government or anything else?
00:13:24.080 And why can't we be validating these things, voting and otherwise, for assuming?
00:13:29.420 Yeah.
00:13:32.720 You were going to make a statement and a question, so I'll answer that.
00:13:35.600 What was the other part of your question or statement?
00:13:38.740 Well, my question was, I don't understand why elections in Alberta has really no oversight.
00:13:45.480 It seems to me that there's really something very fishy going on between the Forever Canada group and their petition, which is really not a petition now, I guess, and everybody else who's under severe scrutiny with this movement.
00:14:04.140 You know what?
00:14:05.200 I'll finish my little story, which I think will answer your question.
00:14:08.840 So you're just a little bit ahead of me.
00:14:10.260 Appreciate the call.
00:14:11.260 Save your voice.
00:14:13.800 Yeah, thanks for calling.
00:14:14.960 Cheers.
00:14:15.480 i think yeah yeah so okay well let me try and finish my story real quick right so elections
00:14:21.220 alberta um if election it ties into what the caller just said if elections alberta had been
00:14:26.440 in really intent on making sure that the signatures were good quality they would have used a different
00:14:31.200 process so i'll give you an example in the pipeline industry right in the pipeline industry
00:14:35.800 let's say i'm running a big long pipeline a hundred kilometers of pipeline and i'm going to
00:14:40.600 have like on that pipeline, I'm going to have like 10,000 welds. Okay. And I cannot go and inspect
00:14:48.100 every weld that would take too long and it would be too costly and inefficient. So we do similar
00:14:55.440 to what Elections Alberta did. We inspect, I'll start off by saying, let's inspect 10% of the
00:15:00.840 welds. But, and when somebody, when a welder welds on a pipeline, when he's done his weld,
00:15:06.840 he grinds off a smooth little spot somewhere and each welder has their own little stamp kind of
00:15:11.560 like a brand right he has a little punch might be his name might be it might be a little initial or
00:15:16.520 a number or whatever when the welder's done boom he he punches his name his his mark on that weld
00:15:23.800 so if i'm interested in checking 10 of the welds i start at the beginning and i check a weld
00:15:29.480 and if that weld is good i move on count 10 and then i go you know i do every 10th weld i want
00:15:35.480 to do 10 when i get to the the second weld let's say it fails okay well i don't immediately cancel
00:15:43.320 out a whole bunch of wells just because i had one failure like elections alberta day in the case of
00:15:48.840 elections alberta you count one bad signature and then you cancel 700 right away if i'm checking the
00:15:54.840 the wells and i find a bad one what's the first thing i do i go and find out who that welder was
00:16:00.680 and then i go okay you know welder x so then what i do is i find i count 10 and i try and find
00:16:06.120 another weld of welder x and i check it and if the second weld of welder x fails now i got a problem
00:16:12.840 and now i'm probably and instead of just randomly canceling 700 wells or whatever i'm going to find
00:16:18.920 all the welds from that welder and and have them re-welded but if i find one bad weld from that
00:16:24.840 welder and then after that i find a bunch of good ones then i just disqualify one weld and i continue
00:16:29.320 my process of and i fix that well then i continue my process of doing my quality control so in the
00:16:35.880 industry when we're doing something like that we are really trying to get to quality that's
00:16:41.080 the end game i just want quality wells because i don't want my pipeline to fail elections alberta
00:16:47.080 could have done all sorts of methods for for checking the quality but they chose this flawed
00:16:52.840 method because i don't think they were interested in just in simply validating the quality they had
00:16:58.600 an ulterior motive and i think their ulterior motive was to disqualify a bunch of signatures
00:17:03.480 so that's the first thing right is the the method that the method they chose for validating was
00:17:08.360 flawed but then there's a second part they did call people so now they're calling 390 people
00:17:14.680 and the quality their definition of quality i think was also flawed right so they called people
00:17:20.920 and they asked questions like you know um when did you sign the petition and if somebody on the
00:17:26.360 phone hesitated and said well i'm pretty sure i signed it in january and they weren't very specific
00:17:33.400 they got disqualified their signature got disqualified in some instances for uh not
00:17:38.360 remembering the date right if we had known that if i had known that as a petitioner every time
00:17:42.760 somebody signed my signature my sheet i would have said hey take a picture of your signature and keep
00:17:48.440 it on your phone for the next four months in case elections alberta calls you you know what i mean
00:17:52.680 and so that was an example another example of signatures that got disqualified was
00:17:57.720 this whole kerfuffle that we had over uh physical address and um mailing addresses right so in
00:18:06.840 alberta especially in rural areas a lot of us have what's called all we have on our driver's license
00:18:13.960 is a mailing address right i live on a range road i'm not going to tell you what range road i live
00:18:18.280 on but let's say i live on range road 14 i live at 113 range road 14 in rocky view county right
00:18:26.920 but i don't get my mail delivered there i get my mail delivered at a post office box in cremona so
00:18:34.600 on my driver's license it says whatever post office box cremona it doesn't have my physical
00:18:40.120 address but when i signed a petition they asked me what's my physical address so i'd be like
00:18:45.240 okay so i had to bring something like um a tax assessment or a credit card statement or something
00:18:52.600 that had my physical address on it and you and the and the petitioners uh or the canvassers looked at
00:18:58.280 that and and that was the address that went on there so apparently a whole bunch of people got
00:19:02.840 called so let's say they call me now and they're like hey marty did you sign the petition i'm like
00:19:07.160 yeah i'm pretty sure i signed it in water valley around uh february 3rd okay what address did you
00:19:13.560 use if i accidentally go uh post office box 12 in cremona and disqualified because i didn't use i
00:19:25.720 didn't say my physical address and and literally on the phone some people apparently were literally
00:19:30.920 like that and then had no chance to re-explain they got disqualified and the other thing that
00:19:35.000 happened is um some people on their physical address would have said because that because on
00:19:41.800 the petition uh sheets it asks for your address and then it's it asks for your town so somebody
00:19:47.720 might have written down uh township row or 116 township road 14 and then same thing they might
00:19:54.680 have put cremona as a town or they might have put rocky view county as the as the as the town right
00:20:00.440 and so if they called you and they said what town do you live in and you said cremona and on a sheet
00:20:04.360 you wrote rocky view or vice versa that signature got disqualified so um i'm not so at the end of
00:20:11.400 of the day i gotta be happy that the threshold was met um unfortunately even though the threshold
00:20:18.840 was met because there's an injunction or not an because the first judge ruled against the petition
00:20:25.260 and the second judge has to uh hear the appeal danielle can't take this and change the referendum
00:20:32.240 so we're still stuck with the referendum that we have on the 19th with the 10 questions um i'm but
00:20:39.100 I'm fundamentally not happy with the way Elections Alberta counted the signatures.
00:20:43.680 Even though we still met the threshold, I think there was way too many shenanigans.
00:20:47.520 And I don't think they were, to the caller's question, I don't think their intent was a legitimate quality control.
00:20:55.180 I think they were more interested in just eliminating a whole bunch of signatures.
00:20:59.760 That could backfire on them because as soon as I saw that, I'm thinking, okay, well, if 20% of the signatures are bad,
00:21:06.080 you're going to put me in you're going to make me doubt the results of the next election when
00:21:10.000 there's an election or any event you're going to make me doubt it because you're you're you've
00:21:16.320 you've you've hinted that the standard is about 80 so next time there's an election and they tell
00:21:22.080 me that 98 of the votes were good i'm going to doubt them um so anyways let's let's you know
00:21:28.640 give me your give me your thoughts on that and um and and then we'll go from there we haven't
00:21:33.200 heard the end of this um immediately after the results came out uh last week uh stay free alberta
00:21:42.480 sent a letter to elections alberta saying we have uh thank you my my producer's reaching my
00:21:49.680 my list of cheat questions so stay free alberta uh put out a press release i think yesterday or
00:21:54.960 the day before and they're they're questioning the whole validity of of the counting process
00:22:01.280 um this story is not ending i was hoping today to have actually have a chip yuck on the show but
00:22:06.800 we'll let the dust settle a little bit and then we'll have eva on the show in the coming weeks
00:22:10.800 and she can give us her take all right we got a caller on the line go ahead please name and where
00:22:15.040 are you calling from hi marty from fort mcclory hi nancy how are you i'm good how are you doing
00:22:27.280 good good what's on your mind um one thing i haven't heard anyone talking about that
00:22:35.280 when uh all that went down with um
00:22:40.560 well what was that culture called you were about bigot i started supporting it and then it all went
00:22:45.920 now it's about the seeded signatures yeah um elections albertas on those signatures
00:22:54.080 in the referendum for us,
00:22:57.820 but I still see the forever Canadians
00:23:01.840 talking about how we cheated.
00:23:04.700 That's where all those soil signatures came from.
00:23:08.240 So no one's pushing that narrative.
00:23:11.260 They really use that to try and invalidate
00:23:14.100 what we were doing.
00:23:15.940 Yeah, okay.
00:23:17.220 Well, actually, thank you.
00:23:18.920 That's a good reminder.
00:23:20.120 One of the good things, though,
00:23:21.880 that came out of the count from elections alberta on friday was that they confirmed that there was
00:23:28.200 no what did they call them salted signatures right there was no fake signatures there was no
00:23:33.560 signatures from the the leaked database there was no fraud so they confirmed that some of the
00:23:38.840 signatures didn't meet the quality but they confirmed that there was no uh fraudulent
00:23:44.360 signatures so that's what that's that's a small victory for our side right and and i think you're
00:23:49.400 alluding to the fact that um stay free alberta collected signatures on a under a pretty strict
00:23:55.160 standard compared to um compared to thomas lukasic right absolutely yeah i was uh collecting
00:24:04.360 signatures steve and it was uh it was pretty intense so so you were you were a caber sir so
00:24:11.560 give me what was your experience then like um were you uh what did you think your quality control
00:24:19.160 was like before you submitted your signatures did you think that you would have had 20 of
00:24:23.320 your signatures invalidated absolutely not no we sent people back home to get proper documentation
00:24:33.000 for addresses uh different ways that we could verify if they couldn't we couldn't verify their
00:24:39.160 address we shouldn't take the signature 100 and we were it was crazy how particular we were about it
00:24:47.000 yeah yeah no uh same same same so hey before i let you go uh since we're on this topic uh maybe
00:24:53.640 you didn't hear my first question at the start of the show what's your thoughts on mail-in ballots
00:24:57.160 for this referendum um well i'm going to be out of the country so i've uh i've applied for my
00:25:04.840 mail-in ballot i'm not a super big fan of it but i know several people that had work trips etc that
00:25:12.600 they're not going to be available so it's one way where we still get to have our vote yeah okay so
00:25:18.600 i mean that's my thoughts on it right if uh mail-in ballots are for you should provide a
00:25:24.520 legitimate reason right it shouldn't just be because you're lazy i mean if you're out of
00:25:28.200 country you're studying something like that i just i just have a problem with the fact that
00:25:32.520 the current system for mail-in ballots clearly says you don't need a reason just call in we will
00:25:37.720 give you a mail-in ballot so all right cool excellent well thanks for calling when i was
00:25:41.960 when i saw my notes i i had to give them a reason why why i wasn't able to vote at the ballot box
00:25:48.760 but the concerning thing is i see the forever canadian saying they should all vote by ballot
00:25:55.000 right oh okay you're seeing that so where where are you seeing that like sort of online or where
00:26:00.280 are you seeing that yeah in the different facebook groups i've seen it on ask
00:26:07.720 interesting okay well I have to pay I'll have to watch a closely on that so yeah I mean that's a
00:26:14.140 whole topic that we covered last week and I don't want to go there I mean I I think well I mean now
00:26:21.820 I'll save it I was going to talk about I don't want to talk about I don't want to give Thomas
00:26:26.800 Lukasik too much air time right now is what I'm trying to do trying to avoid no I I get it I have
00:26:33.280 one concern about voting in Alberta though it's just showing the driver's license you can uh
00:26:38.800 anyone can come here and get a driver's license yes provide an address a utility bill whatever
00:26:45.680 temporary residence permanent residence there's they don't ask so much when we go to the ballot
00:26:53.360 box if you have a driver's license you're usually golden and i've seen them inviting people from
00:26:59.840 outside of alberta just to come to alberta and get a driver's license and you can vote your
00:27:03.760 referendum that's something i talked about last week i think i talked about it last week i had a
00:27:09.040 interesting experience because my my my vehicle registrations all expire on july 31st right so
00:27:16.000 last week i was in a panic and i went to registries to renew three vehicles and um i i i said it
00:27:23.760 online about 70 of the people there look like they were new immigrants and listening to the
00:27:30.240 conversations it was crazy how many of them were just trying to get a driver's license
00:27:34.800 and and didn't qualify and didn't have the paperwork and were just pleading
00:27:39.040 it uh it shocked me it quite honestly shocked me and people said how do you know they're
00:27:43.200 immigrants i'm like it's not my first rodeo right when somebody's in line and uh like you know
00:27:49.120 trying to get a driver's license you can tell right a lot of them are basically trying to bribe
00:27:53.680 the clerks like you know the clerk would say well do you have an address do you have a piece of
00:27:57.600 paper and they're like yeah i do he's like okay well show it to me and they're like well i don't
00:28:00.680 have it with me can i just pay and get a driver's license and and like it literally you overhear the
00:28:06.380 conversations they're all trying to bribe the clerks to get a driver's license and i know why
00:28:09.920 you're right once you get a driver's license in alberta it's a ticket for a lot of benefits
00:28:14.700 a lot of benefits yeah yeah it's not even the temporary the permanent residents that confirm
00:28:22.720 people come outside Alberta that have friends here that don't support
00:28:27.180 independence and they're inviting them just come on in we'll give you a great
00:28:32.400 lease agreement you get your driver's license and you can vote against
00:28:36.340 independence when they actually don't live here. For a Canadian citizen it's
00:28:41.260 super easy so that worries me. I mean how hard is it for someone from BC or
00:28:48.120 pop over the border grab a driver's license and go vote yeah no i hear you awesome all right well
00:28:53.880 thanks for calling and actually that's a great segue i guess into my next topic i have a great
00:28:57.920 day you see thanks thanks yeah um you know i the my i mean i have i mean i have two topics and
00:29:07.100 there's there's 30 minutes left on the show here um i mean the two ones that interest me right now
00:29:13.600 other than Elections Alberta that I should have mentioned at the beginning,
00:29:16.680 the Fauci hearings in Washington and Danielle's meeting with Carney yesterday
00:29:24.140 in Red Deer.
00:29:24.880 I guess I'll go with the Carney one because it's kind of a segue to this caller.
00:29:32.480 And I think we're going to have more coming on Fauci in the coming weeks.
00:29:36.100 So that'll probably be a topic for a couple of weeks.
00:29:38.100 But yesterday, Smith met, Kearney flew into Red Deer and met with Danielle Smith for another one of his announcements.
00:29:48.980 And I mean, wow, like, can somebody please tell me what happened to Danielle Smith?
00:29:55.720 Like, where's the real Danielle Smith?
00:29:57.340 Because the person we saw yesterday on stage, I'm sorry, but that's not the real Danielle Smith, right?
00:30:01.900 like danielle smith of uh um you know the the the the fiery danielle smith who got elected who
00:30:10.380 passed her first bill called you know the sovereign alberta act like you know wanting a more sovereign
00:30:16.140 alberta within the united canada that danielle smith from two years ago three years ago the
00:30:22.300 danielle smith who just before the last federal election issued a referendum to the future prime
00:30:30.220 minister and i think when she issued her referendum or not something not in the referendum
00:30:34.860 she issued an ultimatum to the future prime minister like back in february 2025 right so
00:30:42.540 so we didn't know i mean we hadn't had the election i'm sure she thought poiliev was going
00:30:46.700 to win we all did but she issued this ultimatum uh i don't know if john can find the ultimatum
00:30:53.100 it's maybe difficult but she had sort of like nine things on her ultimatum she wanted the future
00:30:58.140 prime minister to uh to drop these bad laws like the tanker ban and she wanted the future prime
00:31:04.940 minister to drop all net zero initiatives and the net zero power grid and and uh emissions caps and
00:31:12.940 then and basically wanted equalization to be dropped like there was nine nine things on that
00:31:20.300 uh ultimatum and that ultimatum had a date i can't remember i think it was october of last year like
00:31:26.620 just about a year ago and and and then just just when that ultimatum was due um she had her her
00:31:36.140 annual general review and her agm and then that's when carney and her signed that first mou and we
00:31:43.260 all went like oh my god you sold out right because that mou was like um a chicken and egg thing
00:31:50.460 carney said i'll give you a pipeline if you do this and what did she do she accepted a higher
00:31:55.020 um carbon tax and then and then and then yesterday and and yesterday i mean i'm i'm almost flabbergasted
00:32:03.240 like yesterday carney comes out here from ottawa and what's he bringing he's bringing a bag of
00:32:08.800 money and he's basically announcing that um you know ottawa is going to build more houses right
00:32:14.320 it's one of his biggest broken promises of of the last 500 days like carney's been in power for 500
00:32:20.120 days and that was one of the things he campaigned on right he campaigned on uh making life more
00:32:25.720 affordable for canadians building more houses like he he literally promised to build 500 000 homes a
00:32:32.040 year i mean that's double the maximum rate we've ever hit like in the 1970s i think canada was
00:32:37.000 building 270 000 housing units a year and to get ourselves out of this housing crisis we have to
00:32:42.760 double that that was a funny moment right that was that was during the leadership uh that was the
00:32:47.320 leaders debate in montreal when uh carney and and poiliev and and jagmeet and and uh the the
00:32:54.680 the block leader are all trying to one-up each other like i'll build 500 000 houses oh i'll
00:32:59.000 build six or i'll build seven like and and nothing's been built right no no i mean there's already
00:33:04.520 actually a downturn in um uh in in in building permits being issued and whatnot like the peak
00:33:12.040 has already subsided and it came nowhere near the peak of the 1970s so we're not solving
00:33:17.800 the housing crisis by building more houses i think the way to solve the housing crisis is by
00:33:23.960 slowing down immigration so then and so then carney comes here yesterday with a bag of money
00:33:29.160 announcing in red deer that uh you know he's got more money for an accelerator fund for more housing
00:33:35.720 and danielle is on stage like all applauding all good it's like well danielle this is a perfect
00:33:40.440 example of of of a federal overreach okay building houses is not a federal responsibility like it's
00:33:51.360 not ottawa's job to build houses i mean if you want to see what ottawa building houses look like
00:33:56.680 cory morgan said it this morning and i've said it many times you want to see what it looks like when
00:34:00.420 ottawa builds houses go visit any first nation reserve in this country okay that's what ottawa
00:34:05.620 looks like when they build houses or go visit some of the decrepit military bases we have and
00:34:10.000 go see what kind of housing our soldiers are living in.
00:34:12.980 So Ottawa's responsibility is not to build houses.
00:34:16.100 But this is another example where we send money to Ottawa
00:34:18.740 and then they send it back to us with conditions.
00:34:21.460 So Carney comes out here with conditions.
00:34:24.660 And remember, Danielle passed the bill.
00:34:27.080 Like she's all for a more sovereign Alberta within a united Canada.
00:34:32.360 And she's always tried to say that she's fighting Ottawa
00:34:36.520 And that Ottawa is constantly overstepping its boundaries, its mandates, and overreaching.
00:34:44.020 Well, yesterday was an example of overreaching, and Danielle should have fought back, but she caved.
00:34:48.840 But not only did she cave, she went one step further because there's a little press conference going on there.
00:34:55.400 By the way, the mayor of Red Deer, what a ridiculous moment, right?
00:34:59.360 The mayor of Red Deer suddenly realizes that Carney and Smith are starting a press conference,
00:35:04.880 but nobody did a land acknowledgement, right?
00:35:06.880 So the mayor of Red Deer steps up
00:35:11.180 and does a land acknowledgement.
00:35:12.520 Like, can we all, yeah, different topic.
00:35:14.980 So there's a press conference
00:35:16.320 and somebody bluntly asked Danielle
00:35:18.340 basically about her ultimatum
00:35:21.520 and asked about equalization.
00:35:24.100 And again, Danielle caved on equalization
00:35:26.720 and instead of demanding that it be stripped,
00:35:29.380 basically said, well, let's just change it a little bit
00:35:33.080 let's just give equalization to the provinces who deserve it and then the rest of the money can be
00:35:37.480 redistributed equally among the other provinces right a complete capitulation on on uh on on one
00:35:44.680 of her ultimatum issues and and then it didn't stop there i mean the press conference had some
00:35:50.280 other comical movement but moments but the perhaps the most telling one was when carney was up on the
00:35:55.960 stage and he was asked a question and then his you know and his answer was like well i'm here to help
00:36:01.880 but he couldn't help but laugh like he's literally answering the question and while he's answering
00:36:06.360 the question he knows that what he's saying is a complete lie and he's he's he's losing control and
00:36:10.600 he's laughing on stage so um and and that was the so that's the question i asked today uh and i asked
00:36:17.560 some of you guys you know what's what's your what's your thoughts on danielle smith's performance of
00:36:23.400 the last few months um i'm gonna be blunt i see it as a capitulation i mean she's she's
00:36:30.120 She's not pushing back in any way, shape, significant way against Ottawa.
00:36:35.200 In fact, there was another moment yesterday where she went on this weird rant about wanting more permanent resident quotas or slots.
00:36:47.000 Like she said that, you know, something along the lines of Alberta is allotted 6,700 permanent resident slots and we need 40,000.
00:36:55.100 It's like, that's a question I've asked bluntly.
00:36:57.940 Why is she on this tangent? Why does she want to keep increasing the size of our population?
00:37:04.800 In the past, she said she believed that, you know, having a larger population was our way of being able to exercise more pressure on Ottawa and on the other provinces.
00:37:15.220 But that's a flawed strategy because the other provinces are also growing.
00:37:19.640 So if we're all racing to grow, nobody's share of the pie gets bigger.
00:37:24.700 but yesterday you know she contradicts herself and um so i asked that question in one of my
00:37:30.600 polls today where where where do you see danielle i asked you guys and and uh i was quite surprised
00:37:36.200 on x my she's getting a failing grade uh from my audience which is a largely conservative uh
00:37:44.760 independence minded audience right so um we'll see where she uh we'll see where she goes i'm
00:37:51.540 making a prediction. I think Danielle is a one term premier at this point. And that's in line
00:37:56.880 with, I mean, we just haven't had many repeat premiers in Alberta. I mean, Klein was the last
00:38:02.520 one. Honestly, since Klein, if you look at that era, like of the last eight premiers we've had,
00:38:09.160 none of them have had more than one term. And so it's just a tradition. It's something that works
00:38:14.600 for us Albertans. We recycle our premiers. Let me just check, make sure any interesting comments
00:38:21.520 strike your attention, John, on the screens here, or no, everything looks good. Okay. All right.
00:38:29.400 Oh, question for the chat. What's the question? Who would you have replaced Danielle Smith?
00:38:36.420 That's always a good question, right? Nobody comes to mind right now, but I always answer this.
00:38:44.460 Okay. So I don't have somebody in mind to replace Danielle Smith, but I have this argument for
00:38:49.120 people the the argument that i don't like is is when people make this binary when people say if
00:38:54.320 it's not danielle smith it's going to be naheed nenshi right we're not that binary i don't think
00:39:00.320 so and and and the other thing i say is like some people will vote they they might not like danielle
00:39:07.280 but they'll hold their nose and they'll vote for danielle because they don't want the ndp
00:39:11.360 to those same people i always say
00:39:13.120 what did you think when we were thinking about replacing jason kenny right we had the same
00:39:20.740 comments so when we were replacing when we were unhappy with jason kenny four years ago and we
00:39:25.480 were thinking of replacing him i got that question all the time if it's not kenny it's going to be
00:39:31.400 knotley again and who's it going to be right and so who came after kenny smith and for all
00:39:38.060 intense purposes most people were pretty happy with smith after kenny but so so to the pundits
00:39:44.940 that made it binary in the last election and always says if it's not if it's not kenny we
00:39:49.800 can't replace kenny because you know better the devil you know than the one you don't i say the
00:39:54.820 same thing i don't know who's going to be the replacement for danielle but we're in a we're a
00:39:59.620 province with five million people so there's there's got to be some talent there and and i'm
00:40:04.800 not gonna I'm not gonna that's not gonna be a reason fear of the unknown is not a
00:40:09.660 reason to to to change today all right go ahead caller where are you calling
00:40:14.460 from and what's your name and what's on your mind please hi it's Rose I'm
00:40:19.840 calling from knee Hill County knee Hill okay how are things over there oh pretty
00:40:26.400 good pretty good I I had an interesting conversation with my sister who is kind
00:40:32.460 of one of those people in the middle and she says unless um we the the independence movement has
00:40:41.740 some kind of plan which i think is like this uh white paper that they're working on and it's
00:40:49.340 published like where people get their news like i guess the newspaper i'm not sure what she was
00:40:54.940 thinking but people are not going to vote for the second option option so what do you think about
00:41:02.140 that uh let me just one quick clarifying question is your sister normally um is she extremely
00:41:09.420 partisan or does she or or do you feel that her her comment is is grounded in um in just
00:41:17.900 you know good critical thinking a good critical thinking she's a smart woman and i think she
00:41:23.980 truly wants to know before you know october 19th she says that if if there's nothing before october
00:41:31.100 19th that people aren't gonna go for the second they're gonna they're gonna play it safe and go
00:41:36.940 with what they know which is not good but go with what they know which is stay in canada i yeah no
00:41:43.420 uh thank you and i so we you know i've i go back to we got 30 of the so she's in the she's in the
00:41:49.900 middle 30. we got 30 of the population yeah 30 or no no matter what 30 or yes they're they're they're
00:41:57.420 gone they're on their they want an independent and in the middle she's she's the tough audience and
00:42:04.540 i'm glad i think the only answer is we have to try and give her what she wants which is
00:42:09.580 that white paper at first i was reluctant because the white paper um is somebody's best idea right
00:42:16.780 it's an unelected person it's keith wilson it's others who are putting together white paper but
00:42:20.940 i'm i'm agreeing now that we need that white paper and at least have the discussion so so
00:42:26.140 i hope keith and them have that document and there was an initial remember there was one that's um
00:42:32.060 the alberta prosperity project had the um what did they call theirs um the cost yeah the cost
00:42:38.300 of freedom yeah no it's a great it's a valid comment i i i agree with your sister it's valid
00:42:45.020 it's i'm i'm in that i'm sort of in uh i can see that way of thinking right i i usually base my
00:42:51.740 decisions on more facts it just so happens that in this case i'm so darn unhappy that i just want out
00:42:57.740 i mean i'm willing to take a leap but uh yeah hopefully the white paper comes up but she says
00:43:04.060 that it has to be published somewhere where you don't have to go digging for it right right um
00:43:12.620 well i guess that's uh that's a good message for keith right it's uh use some of that money that
00:43:18.780 they're raising they're raising money and they're using it for billboards and lawn signs we're going
00:43:23.340 to tell them use that money to put little to put that white paper in the uh calgary's papers and
00:43:30.140 in uh and a few and and lots of pamphlets make it available i guess to a lot of people is that is
00:43:35.820 is that what you're saying and and that's what she's saying she says people get their news from
00:43:41.500 wherever cbc ctv global wherever and they're not going to go digging for this it's got to be
00:43:47.260 available readily available got it got it yeah yeah yeah no we're on the same page on that one
00:43:54.780 her concerns are valid i appreciate that comment appreciate that call thank you
00:43:59.660 thank you yeah yeah um yeah i mean you know it's it's the story of uh you know i've given this
00:44:09.020 story before we're in a sort of in a nun if you're an un in an unhappy relationship and and you've
00:44:14.780 you've decided that you want out, you want a divorce.
00:44:17.860 Some people decide they're unhappy and file for divorce and make a leap of faith
00:44:22.820 that life, you know, they'll figure it out.
00:44:24.980 They'll figure out where they're going to live.
00:44:26.340 They'll figure out how they're going to split the assets
00:44:29.420 and who's going to have visitation rights.
00:44:31.100 But some people, once they're unhappy, they make that leap and they're gone.
00:44:34.940 Other people stay in an unhappy relationship for a long time and never make the leap.
00:44:39.780 And then there's other people who who before they decide that they're going to leap,
00:44:44.300 even though they're unhappy, will want to know all those answers, right?
00:44:48.200 They'll formulate a plan, figure out where they're going to live,
00:44:50.780 and this and this and that.
00:44:51.680 So I guess in the case of separation, it's the same kind of idea.
00:44:55.920 But I do encourage people, like, vote option two in October
00:45:00.160 because it's still not binding.
00:45:06.820 It's democratic.
00:45:08.520 All right, caller on the line.
00:45:09.420 Go ahead, please.
00:45:09.980 Where are you calling from?
00:45:12.960 Party?
00:45:13.780 Yep.
00:45:14.300 Marty?
00:45:15.300 Yeah, yeah.
00:45:16.300 Go ahead.
00:45:17.300 Hi, it's Diane.
00:45:19.300 Hi, Diane.
00:45:20.300 Okay.
00:45:21.300 So I got just a couple of quick comments.
00:45:28.300 The elections, those signatures.
00:45:33.300 I mean, it doesn't surprise me that something nefarious wouldn't happen all the way, all
00:45:42.300 whole journey um there's there's forces working against us that we probably don't even know about
00:45:49.640 but they're there and just have to like keep fighting that's that's all i that's all i can
00:45:56.880 say and keep talking to people trying to win people over and understand the benefits uh secondly
00:46:04.040 um i don't know what happened to danielle it's like she it's like invasion of the body snatchers
00:46:13.780 like it's like a different person to me talking from when i first um because i was not living in
00:46:22.940 the province the first time years and years ago when she was in politics and i was so impressed
00:46:29.660 with her because she just spoke so well and she seemed like just um a libertarian type of person
00:46:37.060 and i admired that so i don't know what happened but something definitely did happen because she
00:46:44.540 is not the same person yeah and after putting a lot of my thoughts into this um if the whole
00:46:55.100 independence thing is not going to move forward because of the roadblocks that we are experiencing
00:47:00.700 i think what we have to do is we have to be involved in our own government we have we don't
00:47:09.320 want to we don't want to i don't want to because i'm i'm a private person and i have a i'm retired
00:47:17.040 but we have to get involved and we have to take things back from the inside just like
00:47:24.220 the communism that's going on in the state they're taking that in they're inside the democratic party
00:47:32.860 now yeah so that's how they are spreading it that's what we have to do we have to stand up
00:47:39.460 and i hope we get younger people than us that are like like-minded like that maybe are 20 years old
00:47:49.360 25 years old 30 years old who are looking at their future i hope we get people like that
00:47:55.920 to be involved that that's what i think i think we got to get inside the government and we have to
00:48:02.800 work yeah that's that yes that's definitely uh by the way diane thanks for calling at your regular
00:48:12.080 on the show i'm gonna let you go and i'll i'll follow up on your comments because i think there's
00:48:17.040 another caller in the line but thanks for calling um yeah i mean a couple of things
00:48:23.440 yeah i i think diane or not that i think i think smith is a different person but one of the things
00:48:28.960 that to me one of the um this is my theory she can see the writing on the wall right she's like
00:48:35.920 it's scary it's it's scary it's totally scary that um that carney is leading in the polls and not by
00:48:43.840 little bit like carney if you believe the polls and i take the polls with a grain of salt but i do
00:48:49.760 look at trends and i do and the polls have been pretty correct right i mean they they haven't
00:48:55.520 been that far off in the last few years so carney is leading there's a couple of by elections coming
00:49:01.600 up carney is not losing any uh mps his majority is not going away he's not too worried about
00:49:08.640 calling an election he's going to be in power for a while and pierre is struggling okay that's a fact
00:49:15.200 so diane so diane sorry so uh danielle smith is a politician and she knows what's happening and so
00:49:23.520 she's she's just cozying up to carny she's not she's playing the cards and she's playing the game
00:49:29.760 that's one answer do i like it no um is it causing any harm no if it was causing harm
00:49:37.760 i wouldn't be so happy i mean taking our money back with conditions sure do it the only thing
00:49:42.240 that she that that smith's talking about lately that i really really don't like is when she keeps
00:49:46.320 talking about increasing immigration that that's worrisome but all the other crap she's doing right
00:49:51.520 now i can take it and i can sort of understand why she's doing it all right go ahead call her
00:49:56.320 where are you calling from and name please uh yeah hello uh marty uh steve uh jacking spider-man
00:50:04.560 again i'm calling from a new place in the high river uh thanks for doing the show hey high river
00:50:09.200 hope that is just settling in like moved in recently that that two months ago yeah still
00:50:15.040 settling in uh listen i've got a major um concern about elections alberta losing the trust of the
00:50:22.640 population that's a huge deal um that's a really big thing that's how we become a third world
00:50:28.480 country really quickly is there a some sort of a body who has higher powers that can step in
00:50:36.480 and sort elections alberta out to prevent that from happening to prevent the loss of of a
00:50:43.280 reputation a loss of faith from the people it's yeah it's a i agree it's a bad situation i mean
00:50:51.920 it's one of the most a cornerstone of our democracy is a fair vote right like it's the absolute
00:50:58.880 cornerstone of our democracy and right now we have an institution that people are losing trust in
00:51:04.560 i i don't think somebody can step in it it's not it's not danielle who and danielle through her
00:51:11.440 her privy council whatever appoints the chief electoral officer and then the chief electoral
00:51:16.080 officer is supposed to even though he's paid by the government is supposed to be impartial i mean
00:51:20.640 I mean, that's like I have a pretty strong sentiment on that.
00:51:24.840 If you're paid by the government, you're not impartial.
00:51:27.720 That's just that's just right.
00:51:30.200 It's just done.
00:51:31.200 I think the answer is we got to keep the pressure on this on this chief electoral officer.
00:51:36.720 And he has to step down.
00:51:38.700 That's if he he'll have to do the right thing.
00:51:40.780 He'll have to step down.
00:51:41.840 That's what he'll have to do.
00:51:42.920 That's the only way to restore the the faith in the institution is if he steps down.
00:51:47.820 if he doesn't step down i don't know how we replace him i haven't looked into it maybe some
00:51:52.220 caller can maybe that's a question for uh next week when uh i'm going to try and get keith wilson
00:51:57.240 or ever somebody to come talk about this what what can we do but yeah we've it the erosion is
00:52:02.880 the uh the trust is gone right now or if it's not gone it's taken a beating so we got to write
00:52:08.740 letters i suppose letters and keep up the pressure online um people are doing it online i mean
00:52:14.380 whatever pressure we're exerting is starting to work right because i've never seen an electoral
00:52:19.660 uh body like this one defend itself so much right like bc did it for a while but look at like really
00:52:28.420 go and look at elections alberta's website they're they're releasing uh um well they're spending big
00:52:35.120 bucks on an ad campaign saying hey we run a tight ship and we're we're uh you know we do things by
00:52:41.520 the book you know what i mean like when a when an when a when a when an organization that's
00:52:46.000 supposed to be impartial is running a constantly an ad campaign to try and convince us that they
00:52:50.400 are impartial you know where there's smoke there's fire so i think the pressure is working
00:52:56.800 all right thanks marty all right cheers have a great weekend um yeah okay well yeah um i wanted
00:53:04.720 to talk about dr fauci's uh testimony but i'm i'm sure it's going to go on for another uh
00:53:14.720 the story's not dead the testimony might end pretty soon but the story's not dead so just
00:53:21.120 just in those last few minutes that we got here so if i mean if you don't know you've been living
00:53:25.840 under a rock but uh you know dr fauci was basically the us's chief medical officer right
00:53:33.120 he was their top dog who was advising government in the u.s on what policies to follow during covid
00:53:42.400 and so and and then from him almost every other government around the world like all the western
00:53:48.000 nations followed their advice kind of like the you know kind of like saying well we're following
00:53:53.600 the world health organization or the u.n or the u.s so if fauci said hey um mask up then most other
00:54:02.880 places said all right let's mask up so he the guy had power and he had influence and he he had power
00:54:10.560 and influence but then something unusual happened just before uh joe biden uh left office this is a
00:54:20.320 tradition among uh among presidents they're allowed it's not a tradition it's what tradition
00:54:25.200 is in their constitution presidents are allowed to pardon people even though a peer a jury of
00:54:32.320 your peers could find you guilty the president of the u.s has this interesting power he can
00:54:38.240 just say yeah you were found guilty but i pardon you midway through sentence immediately after
00:54:44.640 whatever joe biden before he leaves grants uh his chief medical officer a pardon
00:54:53.360 and i think he gave him a pardon because he couldn't give him amnesty amnesty is something
00:54:58.640 even higher amnesties like i'm going to protect you from any further prosecution but that that
00:55:03.520 that's not a power that the president had but the power but the president had the power to pardon so
00:55:07.760 the president of the united states pardon joe uh uh not joe fauci um anthony fauci pardoned him
00:55:17.440 retroactively and into the future even though he hadn't committed a uh hadn't been found guilty of
00:55:22.720 anything that's an interesting concept right there but but what's been interesting this week is that
00:55:26.880 that they brought Fauci out of retirement and they're holding him. There's an inquiry. They're
00:55:34.300 questioning him. The Senate, the House is questioning him. He's before an inquiry and
00:55:43.240 he showed up all lawyered up, absolutely lawyered up, had eight lawyers with him and then immediately
00:55:50.340 started being asked questions and then pleaded the fifth, pleaded the fifth, pleaded the fifth.
00:55:55.280 Then in the United States, the Fifth Amendment is an amendment that says you
00:55:58.880 don't have to answer questions that could incriminate you, right?
00:56:01.940 So you don't have to we have similar laws.
00:56:05.640 We just don't go as far like it's it's really dramatic when theatrical in the
00:56:10.820 U.S. when you plead the fifth.
00:56:12.680 So and there's all there's all these old videos from four or five years ago, three
00:56:16.820 years ago, where Fauci was proudly saying, hey, I stand by all my decisions.
00:56:20.420 And if there's ever an inquiry, I'll stand up and I'll talk about it.
00:56:23.120 But Fauci is right now refusing to talk about anything that happened during COVID and any decisions he made.
00:56:31.040 And the reason he's being called out right now is because a little while ago, his diaries, you know, public servants have to write all sorts of documents and whatever they write, their emails or correspondence, that's all public record.
00:56:44.160 You can't just destroy that.
00:56:45.440 And so the Fauci diaries are out and there's some pretty damning evidence in there, right?
00:56:50.700 of Fauci kind of like acknowledging that he knew that some of his recommendations were useless,
00:56:55.780 maybe even bad, but he still went ahead and made those recommendations and they became,
00:57:00.240 you know, laws and mandates. So the Fauci diaries are out. Fauci is on stand and he's pleading the
00:57:06.180 fifth. It's comical. He's pleading the fifth to the point where some guy's like, what color is
00:57:10.840 the carpet in front of you? Respectfully, under the advice of my lawyers, I plead the fifth.
00:57:16.060 What color is your tie? Respectfully, under the advice of... Anyways, I don't have time to get
00:57:20.340 into it we'll get into it in the coming weeks but the for me the fascinating thing i wanted to go
00:57:25.440 back i'll i'll i'll remind everybody of the history of covid in our nation how it's related
00:57:30.940 to what happened in the u.s and i i'm i'm i'm firm on this i do think that uh some people had good
00:57:38.160 intentions in during covid you know i'm talking politicians and bureaucrats i think some of them
00:57:42.800 had absolutely nefarious intentions we're going to take advantage of this crisis to test out you
00:57:48.020 know better uh test out their theories like uh the great reset and stuff like that so there was
00:57:53.400 nefarious people there were some good intention people and then there was just some silly clumsy
00:57:58.060 incompetent people that made decisions but at the end of the day in the u.s and in our country i
00:58:04.300 still think there's no real accountability for some of the things that happened during covid
00:58:08.920 and and that's why i'm watching this one with interest because if if fauci somehow or other
00:58:14.940 goes down or some of these these truths come out with fauci that's a precedent and that's dangerous
00:58:22.460 for the you know the teresa tams and the uh the dina henshaws and the bonnie whatever i call her
00:58:28.220 bonnie doom i can't remember her name in bc but you know if fauci goes down all these others are
00:58:33.660 going to start singing and turning on each other and we're going to have some repercussions so
00:58:37.100 that's why uh all eyes are on this one and i'm and i'm watching this one um carefully so we'll
00:58:43.580 We'll talk more about Fauci in the coming.
00:58:47.120 Actually, go look at some of the videos.
00:58:51.340 Just they were, they're pretty interesting.
00:58:53.520 I mean, there was a moment where one senator had Fauci's lawyers called on security and said, remove his lawyers.
00:59:00.340 And then the other really fascinating clip is there was a former doctor who dropped his career, got pissed off during COVID and said, I'm going to become a senator.
00:59:11.260 and he became a senator and he was in that room and he was looking at Fauci and he told Fauci like
00:59:17.700 who the F were you to think blah blah right so we had a senator in a hearing dropped an F-bomb
00:59:25.540 and and nobody blinked I would have thought for sure that you know the chairman would have gone
00:59:29.520 bang bang bang order order but no the F-bomb was dropped and everybody kind of like it was coming
00:59:34.860 and Fauci when he was reading his statement was shaking like a leaf so it's going to be an
00:59:40.240 interesting thing to watch all right folks uh the the the day the hour went by again lightning fast
00:59:47.440 um thanks for calling in by the way i won't be here next thursday uh i'm heading up north uh
00:59:55.620 gotta go back to the hunting camp and go finish the setup and then i'm going on my own hike i i
01:00:02.000 hinted i'm going on a hike and i'm actually going on a solo hike deep in the wilderness and i'm
01:00:08.080 gonna go and try and find what is the one of the oldest European monuments in Alberta all right
01:00:15.920 hopefully I got your attention on this one and I and I I dropped a hint nobody's guessed what the
01:00:20.840 oldest European monument in Alberta is and it dates back to pre-confederation I've tried to
01:00:27.620 find it three four times in the past but the trails are all overgrown and uh and and it's a
01:00:33.560 difficult bushwhack but I'm pretty confident I know how to get to it this time so hopefully when
01:00:38.960 I come back in two weeks I can tell you whether I was successful or not and as usual there's the
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