00:01:44.260But when you don't have any food in your body, your metabolism changes and then it needs a lot of water to do all the things I talked about.
00:01:57.160And then the water just goes through you.
00:01:59.560And a lot of people when they're fasting don't actually feel thirsty and will get dehydrated.
00:02:04.560So you've got to drink more water than you actually even think you need, right?
00:02:09.140If you think you need three liters per day, trust me, you need like four or five while you're fasting.
00:02:13.200I mean, it just goes through you. And weirdly, you know, I drank a lot of water and I became fascinated by a couple of things, including the fact that, did you know that even on water, there's a best before date?
00:02:27.540Like this water bottle here says best before July 2028.
00:02:51.620I reminded folks, this is a talk show.
00:02:55.060I want to try to do this into a call-in show, so don't be shy.
00:02:59.160John's got the phone number on the screen right there, 479-9378, extension 711.
00:03:05.760And if John answers, and then you get through, I'll ask you, you know, name, number, where you're calling from, what you want to talk about.
00:03:15.280I mean, like, call me, and we can talk about anything, although I do have some topics today.
00:03:19.440It was a bit of a weird week, I'd say. It was a bit of a weird week.
00:03:26.420And you saw that. So the topic that's on the screen right now is, is Carney finally admitting defeat?
00:03:36.020And I'm going to roll all over. I'm going to go back and forth across the country today talking about a couple of things.
00:03:43.720But but I want to start with I want to start with one thing I said, and there's a reason I picked that topic.
00:03:51.220Right. Is Carney admitting defeat? I I made a prediction in at Christmas.
00:03:57.460You know, you do your end of year prediction and my end of year prediction was that 2026 would be the great awakening in in Canada.
00:04:08.840And I think it's I think I'm going to be spot on on that one.
00:04:12.600I think it's happening. I think there's a great awakening. And what we're seeing this week is part of that. It's a manifestation of that.
00:04:21.620So what happened, right? So, well, Carney, Trump, Carney and Trump have been going back and forth in a battle, in a trade war.
00:04:33.160And like I've said in the past, when Trump got elected and decided that he was going to do what's best for his country and try and bring back manufacturing to his country and try to, you know, correct what he perceived as wrongs, you know, other countries taking advantage of them and things like that.
00:04:50.940So when Trump got elected and started doing those things, some people said it was an attack. And I've always said, no, it wasn't an attack on Canada. It was should have been a wake up call.
00:05:00.760And rather than rather than than go and meet Trump and like like statesmen and really try to, you know, find a win win, listen to each other and a win and a win win could have been an amazing thing.
00:05:16.720Right. Like the North America as a as a as a continent and as a trading entity could be so powerful.
00:05:24.120right like if canada and the u.s without without having to be uh amalgamated like we're not talking
00:05:29.320one country but canada next door to the u.s and mexico like that's a pretty solid you know we got
00:05:35.080resources people culture technology everything we could be just just just such a powerful um
00:05:44.120you know continent so but but instead the you know uh carney got into uh um a pissing contest
00:05:52.440with trump and you know we all know the history but so the latest installment of that was that a
00:05:58.040couple of weeks ago um trump announced that he was imposing 50 tariffs on another 20 or 30 billion
00:06:08.360dollars worth of canadian goods so that's you know like that's a lot right that's a lot and
00:06:13.560the tariffs were set into sorry i gotta take a sip here of water the tariffs were set in to uh
00:06:21.800to take place uh to go into effect yesterday yesterday yeah yesterday the 19th and what did
00:06:29.960we get yesterday well we got uh an announcement i guess a post a social media post and a couple
00:06:38.520of interviews from donald trump donald trump saying we got a deal okay and uh no details on
00:06:46.920the deal sort of just saying we got a deal and i'm giving i'm speaking as trump now we got a deal
00:06:54.760and i'm giving carney three days to finalize the deal so that was yesterday and i don't know if he
00:07:03.020meant three days three business days or three work days if it's three business days that means
00:07:07.540that carney has today tomorrow and sunday to finalize the deal and then and then and then
00:07:13.300the tariffs don't go into effect or they go into effect if he has three working days he has until
00:07:17.700a couple of days you know early next week and so trump makes that announcement and then on our side
00:07:24.420of the border carney doesn't make too many announcements and so we're all sitting there
00:07:28.980going well what's the deal like what's the deal and i i i suspect he didn't make nobody nobody
00:07:38.340gave us concrete details of the deal, but the markets, okay, the stock markets, the markets
00:07:43.860kind of reacted in a weird way. So one of the things that happened in the market yesterday,
00:07:48.400and it's still happening today is Canadian banks are taking a beating. Canadian banks are like
00:07:53.420lost two, 3% yesterday, all the big banks, right? TDs, Scotia, CIBC, the banks lost a lot of money
00:08:00.320and the sell-off is going on today. And some people try to excuse that as like a shift
00:08:06.700away from you know that the market was that the investors were shifting away from financials and
00:08:11.780into materials let's say but the banks took a beating the insurance companies took a beating
00:08:16.900media took a beating and i'm talking canada like um rogers telecommunications uh tell us they they
00:08:25.660all took a beating and airlines took a beating okay we don't have many airlines in canada i mean
00:08:57.780and he wanted fair access to our markets.
00:09:05.960American banks are not allowed to do business in Canada.
00:09:10.640American airlines, sure, American airlines can come fly here,
00:09:14.120but they can't fly once they're here domestically.
00:09:16.260You know, like if Alaska Airlines is flying Alaska to, I don't know,
00:09:22.320San Francisco via Vancouver and it stops in Vancouver,
00:09:24.720That Alaska airline plan is not allowed from Vancouver to then go say Edmonton and Calgary and offer some cheap domestic flights within Canada. It has to just continue on and go back to the US. So Trump was asking for those things. And I have a sneaking suspicion that those are the concessions that Carney gave in.
00:09:51.580After almost a year, more than a year of pounding his chest and saying we're going to be the greatest economy in the G7, we're going to be the leaders of a new world order, trying to find extra business with Europe and other places like that.
00:10:07.080So his ideology got slapped by a massive dose of reality.
00:10:13.820And I think that's the deal that we're going to see.
00:10:17.340Now, the reason it didn't get announced is because this is the problem with Canada.
00:10:24.000Trump or not Trump, Carney or somebody on behalf of Carney.
00:10:28.640What's his name? Dominic. Is it Dominic?
00:10:32.840Who's the guy from it's Dominic? I'm having a memory, but it's Dominic LeBlanc, right?
00:10:38.300Who's negotiating for us and a couple of other people, Melanie Jolie or whatever.
00:10:42.680But they like we're sending an individual, a federal representative to negotiate on behalf of 10 provinces.
00:10:49.780Right. Which is a problem. And so when that individual is negotiating, then they got to keep coming back to to Canada and then try and talk to everybody.
00:10:59.080So yesterday we know there was a meeting of first ministers, a conference call.
00:11:04.000So sort of an emergency meeting of first ministers. And again, a press release came out after that saying we made progress.
00:11:11.160Didn't announce anything, but I know what was on the table, right?
00:11:14.300So LeBlanc comes back from the U.S. and he's made an offer.
00:11:18.200Now he's got to convince his counterparts, the premiers of the provinces,
00:11:24.880to give up on the milk cartel, to put American booze back on the table,
00:11:45.440Now, at the end of the day, to me, like this is all good news, right?
00:11:48.700I mean, if I can get if I can get if I can get cheaper food, if I can get cheaper flights, if I can get cheaper insurance, right, that's on everybody's I'm sure that's on everybody's mind these days.
00:12:00.140Insurance in Alberta in particular is crazy expensive.
00:12:03.500If I can get all those things cheaper, that's a win. Right. But I don't. And I honestly don't think that they were negotiating in good faith and representing us. Right. They weren't working on our behalf. They say the politicians say they're working on our behalf, but I don't think they were.
00:12:20.260so give me a buzz somebody call in or give me some comments there what are your thoughts on that did
00:12:26.740did carney cave in am i am i missing something because i i i don't see what else we could have
00:12:33.160done i mean we just don't have a lot of things that uh like in a trade deal what do we know what
00:12:39.060trump wanted and what do we want what did we get i guess all we got is we we don't have more uh
00:12:46.320more tariffs. I'm going to read a couple of comments here. It's a good day when I can, let's
00:12:52.980see. Tax to death. All right, folks, you can ask me a question right here on the comments.
00:13:02.040John, if you see a good question, you can throw it up on the screen there. But I don't
00:13:09.260see anything good right now. All right. Don't be shy, folks. I've said this before, right?
00:13:14.260i've said this before like i'm just uh i'm just a guy i i don't know why some people are nervous
00:13:19.700about calling i don't bite i'm i'm uh i'm a retired engineer from alberta look at me today
00:13:27.260actually wearing a nice new shirt i think i got this shirt for my birthday a little while ago the
00:13:31.000kids say it makes me look like uh like my father-in-law my father-in-law is a big dutchman
00:13:35.720and the kids call him opa so they're saying this this is an opa shirt and uh you know i'm wearing
00:13:41.560uh mark's work warehouse uh pants and some running shoes like i'm not a i'm not a fancy politician
00:13:49.640um all right well let me keep on going then because like i said it's interesting there's
00:13:54.200some really weird stuff going on so part of um now so so carney's is i think is perhaps
00:14:04.120Trump's caving and giving in, and then Trump doubles down on his victory lap and announces, and it's not announced, it's not a defeat, he had no intention of making a better deal that wouldn't benefit Cookfield.
00:14:26.240Yeah, no, I agree that. I mean, that's the, you know, if they, yeah, no, I agree. Lots of people say that Carney never had any intentions of making a deal. He was doing his own thing. So, and where was I? Yeah, so Trump, Trump then, you know, he's got a little victory and then he adds a little bit of salt to the wound there and then goes ahead and sends a separate tweet out in the Twitterverse and announces that Keystone is bound.
00:14:56.240on actually he almost goes as far as saying i'm approving keystone xl like that's that's crazy
00:15:03.540right that's that's one-upping uh carney once again because we all know carney's trying to
00:15:11.000you know win points with alberta and i'll come back to that but but trump's announcement on
00:15:16.800keystone was really interesting okay i got a call on the line uh go ahead where are you calling
00:15:22.080from what's your name please hi my name is carl from saudis hey how's it going
00:15:30.160yeah like which uh i mean the pierre came out in favor of supply management i'm wondering what
00:15:35.600what's that all about do you have when you think there's a good government or do you have what
00:15:39.520happens between four left-wing government that's all
00:15:46.640i missed the first part of that did you say supply management
00:16:12.200I just either it was a bad connection on the phone or if somebody else wants to call in and repeat the question or put it in the comments, I'll go right to the bottom.
00:16:22.080repeated in the bottom of the comments i thought it was i thought the caller was asking about
00:16:26.640supply management which i will um marty do you think that the dairy cartel should be abolished
00:16:34.560yes i do i mean if that was what the question was i'll come back i i i had the dairy cartel as a as
00:16:41.360a whole separate topic on here but i just i just want to keep going uh quickly on keystone right
00:16:46.560Right. So Trump comes back with with offering Keystone, which would, you know, I've said last week, I mean, I first of all, I don't think the memorandum of understanding between Alberta and Kearney is very strong.
00:17:01.180um and but but it's there and uh they were proposing a pipeline uh to british columbia
00:17:08.780i the reason i don't like that pipeline is because that pipeline was going to require a lot
00:17:16.120of federal funding and um and that's how it was going to get approved now keystone and and then
00:17:22.600and that pipeline is not designed or not ready keystone excel i can say for a fact that keystone
00:17:28.140excel is almost like 75 built it was uh the the the a good chunk of the infrastructure in the u.s
00:17:37.580was built uh you know five six years ago it was repurposed i mean they were like it because the
00:17:44.780because the border crossing was never done trans canada still built the u.s component of it the
00:17:50.460built part of the canadian component of it just never connected all the pieces and use the pieces
00:17:55.420for other things but they could uh and it's not trans canada anymore now it's a south bow but
00:18:01.020south bow could build finish should say finish keystone xl quickly and uh a keystone xl could
00:18:08.540be done without any uh subsidies federal uh monies even provincial monies it could be built quickly
00:18:16.380so it's a really nice pipeline and it could be done really quickly and it would benefit
00:18:20.940the americans it like more than the more than the uh west coast pipeline and so when when trump
00:18:29.100brought that up yesterday i think that is another way for him to one-up uh carney and i'll but i'll
00:18:36.380take it i mean for me that's a win-win if he one-ups carney and we get a pipeline in alberta
00:18:42.220i don't care if the pipeline goes to the u.s versus going to the west coast some people say
00:18:46.220that if it goes to the west coast it's tidal you know it's tide water uh a pipeline going to the
00:18:52.060us all the way down to the gulf of mexico is just as good just as good so that was uh that was an
00:18:58.060interesting uh development that happened yesterday as well the the keystone pipeline um can do we did
00:19:06.220we figure out what that caller was trying to say no okay i'll just read a couple of questions here
00:19:12.380If affordability is such an issue in this country, why are we not trying to abolish the GST, HST, and PST once and for all?
00:19:20.780Tax on the tax is straight up racketeering.
00:19:25.880Boy, you guys, I mean, you guys keep, you're bringing up good questions.
00:19:47.320Like if the government needs money, I get that.
00:19:49.240If the government needs money for things like, you know, building hospitals and schools and roads,
00:19:54.260just tax individuals on their income and businesses on their profits and then use that money.
00:20:02.220When the government has to go over and get extra money by taxing gasoline and the goods you purchase,
00:20:08.500the value-added taxes, they call them, I think those are terrible taxes because they get money,
00:20:15.660but they also contribute to inflation. And inflation, to me, the number one driver of
00:20:20.860inflation is excessive government spending. Which is why here in Alberta, when I first
00:20:27.100moved to Alberta, there was no GST and no HST. And now, 30 years later, 35 years later, yeah,
00:20:33.740we have a GST, but we still don't have an HST. I'm amazed that there are still people who bring
00:20:38.140up the concept that Alberta should have an HST or a PST, a provincial sales tax. And that's a
00:20:45.840non-starter. I mean, and even when they promise like, oh, well, if we give you a provincial sales
00:20:51.760tax, we'll diminish your income tax by an equivalent amount. No, I don't buy that. And
00:20:58.080even though, I mean, there is, in theory, there is one advantage to a sales tax, which is you can
00:21:02.760tax people from out of province or out of country who are coming here. But I don't think that's a
00:21:09.300valid enough reason. I mean, the lost tax revenue from tourists does not justify taxing myself on
00:21:16.420consumption, which then leads to higher prices. Now, that's going to come to a boil in the coming
00:21:22.020weeks because the federal government suspended the fuel tax during the summer, right? There's
00:21:32.080a fuel tax uh 10 cents per gallon on gasoline and i think it's 12 cents on diesel and uh and
00:21:38.120airplane fuel or whatever the government suspended that during the summer that tax is going back on
00:21:44.120uh after september long weekend which is going to add another 10 cents to the price of gasoline
00:21:50.100which then drives inflation and and interestingly enough there was a survey done not too long ago
00:21:58.660I think it was Ipsos or one of those, and I take the surveys with a grain of salt, but it asked if people were in favor of that tax being put back on.
00:22:10.200And an amazing, a surprising 39% of Canadians are in favor of putting that tax back on.
00:22:16.300But I think I know where those Canadians live and they have something in common, and I don't want to go there right now.
00:22:24.360All right. So, well, let's keep going down this path then. So, oh, hang on. What's that? The caller was questioning why Pierre was supporting supply management. Yes. Very good question. Very good question. I saw that, right? That was, listen, I don't know why anybody's supporting, I'll be blunt.
00:22:52.840I think I know why Pierre is supporting supply management.
00:24:44.640And in the process, Kearney is also really alienating Quebecers, like more than I've seen in a long time.
00:24:57.100Again, there was another poll that came out. I think this was a Leger poll that came out last week that showed that the Liberals had lost 11 percent of their support in Quebec just in the last couple of weeks.
00:25:10.520and and that's because um carney is i think carney is sensing that the independence movement
00:25:19.960in alberta is real and that there is a threat of the country falling apart now he's got that
00:25:25.380same threat there's a bit of a paradox here because he's got that same threat in alberta
00:25:29.800and he's got that same threat in quebec to a lesser degree but i think he's dealing with the
00:25:35.460alberta threat more urgently so he's got the mous and a couple of other things and
00:25:42.200for the pipeline and in doing so he's alienating quebecers but i think he's alienating he's
00:25:49.460taking a gamble on alienating quebecers he's taking a gamble that they will come back to him
00:25:54.780in months from now so he's he's sort of taking a chance and pissing them off so what did he do
00:26:02.620He's got the MOU with us. Another big news that happened this week that the Quebecers were not happy about is the electric vehicle mandates were quietly repealed, right?
00:26:16.860So remember, those were Gilboa pushed hard for this.
00:26:22.100Gilboa convinced Trudeau and the Liberals to pass a mandate forcing us to adopt electric vehicles by like 2030 at a certain level and in 2035, right?
00:26:35.580Basically, they were going to make it illegal for us to buy diesels and gas and force us all into electric vehicles.
00:26:41.720Well, that was not only unpopular in many parts of Canada, but that was also impractical, right? Because realistically speaking, nobody else is doing this.
00:26:55.560And if and and when when somebody manufactures cars, like when Ford or Toyota or whoever makes cars, they need to make cars for huge markets.
00:27:02.600Like when you design a car, you need to sell like thousands and like hundreds of thousands of examples of that car to return a profit.
00:32:24.640So yeah, today or this week, Elections Alberta was announcing that they're trying to staff for the referendum.
00:32:31.500They need 60,000 people to try and count the votes in 48 hours.
00:32:38.500That's an interesting, I mean, if I do the math backwards on that,
00:32:42.380how many people are they expecting to come out right each each ballot is going to have
00:32:46.70010 questions so somebody has to look at all 10 questions and uh record them i guess that's gonna
00:32:53.900yeah i guess i can see how that's complicated right you gotta it's not like you go through
00:32:58.340the ballot and find the one you gotta on 10 questions you gotta go yes yes no yes yes no
00:33:05.640so you gotta record that so how many seconds does it take might take a person a couple of minutes
00:33:10.840to do one minute or two to do a ballot if you need 60 000 people in 48 hours
00:33:17.160uh i'm lost on the math but they elections alberta must be expecting something like
00:33:22.040two million people to come out for uh to vote in the referendum that's impressive um
00:33:27.960it listen i am am i do i care personally where the people come from i think i'd rather have
00:33:34.280have, it's an interesting question. Ultimately, I wish we could give those jobs to Albertans.
00:33:43.020Sure. I wish we could give those jobs to Albertans. I mean, what is it? You hire 60,000 people
00:33:48.260to work for two days. That's 60,000 people who could make five, 600 bucks over a couple of days.
00:33:56.260That's fun. Good money for retirees and students and stuff like that.
00:34:00.600um the fact that there's not 60 000 people that's great that just means that everybody
00:34:05.880in alberta is busy working and doesn't have time to do this now devil's advocate in me says i'm not
00:34:13.060very happy with elections alberta i don't trust them entirely and i don't trust um so should it be
00:34:21.560um farmed out to workers from another province
00:34:27.820well most provinces probably want us to stay so could there be some cheating going on you know
00:34:36.520what i mean so yeah no if you're going to farm it out then uh farm it out to uh somebody farm
00:34:42.440it out to somebody in switzerland or something like that i don't know no it's a it's an interesting
00:34:46.460question it's uh it's a it brings up a bigger problem which is um we we i've lost faith in
00:34:54.660elections alberta and and i don't understand how we can not count votes in a timely manner when
00:35:03.620every other country on earth seems to be able to do it right so we gotta we gotta use the right
00:35:08.340kind of technology and the right balance to do it and uh and go from there now um all right color
00:35:15.060on the line uh go ahead where are you calling from what's your name please hey marty donald
00:35:24.660how's it going donald i'm wonderful i want to talk about what's going on in alberta with the
00:35:31.220separatist movement here what's your take on um um some individuals so if alberta separates
00:35:37.860what's your take on an individual and hungry trucker named damon martin uh uh it's going out
00:35:43.700there um so in canada if alberta separates he's gonna hunt down and shoot and kill um separatists
00:35:51.940what's your took on that well i mean he's been posted online he's been go ahead sorry no no i
00:35:57.940mean that's unacceptable language i like that's uh you know that that's a that that's something
00:36:03.700i would immediately turn to the police i i don't know who'd you say hungry trucker
00:36:09.860yeah danny martin he's a low life piece of trash piece of trash i'm not trying not to swear yeah
00:36:16.020This is why. He's a little like who's a trash. He sits down and calls people feds, muppets, trashes you, Chris Barber, and a whole bunch of people.
00:36:25.780Yeah, yeah. I mean, you've probably given him too much attention already. I mean, I don't give those kinds of people attention.
00:36:32.440And like, short answer, I'm against that, right? I mean, I don't like, you know, I'll stay on that topic.
00:36:39.660sure independence is divisive i get it it's divisive but it but it's it's pretty ugly
00:36:46.060like is it that divisive where people just can't still be civil and talk about it
00:36:51.100it's it's kind of a it it's what the government has done to us right they they do this on purpose
00:36:57.580they want us to fight each other yeah yeah that's what they want to do um i'm going to tell you too
00:37:06.820what i saw in strathmore the uh guest party and all that where uh uh chris um from whistle spot
00:37:13.380cafe wanted to be a discussion and somebody decided some karen decided to call the cops and
00:37:18.660say oh you're not allowed to have a discussion but you've got a former conservative member named
00:37:23.300thomas lucas a pc member now with the left-wing ndp socialist um he shows up in strathmore and
00:37:31.780people start talking they don't get they don't kick him off how come how come how come he's so
00:37:36.820Let's bring rainbow clowns going out there and saying separatists are Nazis or separatists are this.
00:37:45.800People are just fucking tired of what they're seeing and what they're doing.
00:37:49.620People don't want, they, how do I, the so-called, go ahead.
00:37:55.340No, no, I was going to talk about that today.
00:48:07.560How can the Liberal government tell us that they're protecting supply management
00:48:11.660while Trump is saying the U.S. farmers are going to basically be terror free?
00:48:18.740Well, I mean, I think you're asking the valid question, which is sort of we'll know tomorrow.
00:48:24.240So I'm assuming that based on what I'm seeing, the only logical conclusion is that supply management and the cartel has to be off the table.
00:48:42.240If supply management is still on the table tomorrow and they do nothing about the dairy cartel and Bill 202 doesn't get repealed, then your question is super valid.
00:48:57.940So Helen, so the detective got told cease and desist, stop investigating this thing.
00:49:04.260And she continued maybe a little bit too far.
00:49:07.000I mean, that's crazy that a detective would be told by somebody, hey, stop investigating what appears to be a crime like that, you know, where there's something super unusual about that.
00:49:17.360but it turned into a full-blown the police
00:49:20.480charger with a code of conduct violation she had a trial not a federal trial or a civil trial just a
00:49:28.720police tribunal convene and then they found her guilty of i guess disobeying orders and then she
00:49:35.940was um she was sentenced this week and her sentence was that um she went from a detective
00:49:43.220first class to detective second class but again this all ties into what's been happening you
00:49:50.020like even even um i feel some days that i'm at risk by questioning too hard what's going on
00:49:56.580you know like if they come after people that are on the inside for questioning too much what about
00:50:02.500the rest of us right so there's so i i'm not done with that but uh go ahead caller where are you
00:50:07.780calling from hey marty how you doing buddy good good so i am uh i'm just wondering okay so i have
00:50:17.060parents who are like they're they're they're the they're taking a side of the uh the anti
00:50:24.000um independence movement right but they also take the the notion that they hate ottawa they
00:50:31.960ottawa is never going to give alberta a fair chance so how do you direct that how are you
00:50:36.320guys going to kind of approach that demographic um well it's not it's not unique to a demographic
00:50:45.740i mean you're you're you know like i guess we got to approach it individually the the usually the
00:50:52.400the answer to that what we've been telling people is that the best people to convince somebody are
00:50:57.860those closest to them right so if if you can't convince your parents then i'm probably not going
00:51:05.240be able to you know what i mean like that does that like that's what we've been telling in the
00:51:08.920independence like so so if you're asking me for what you could uh what i can do is we could provide
00:51:16.600you maybe a few other things to try and help you do it but but i can't do it for you does that make
00:51:21.640sense no i i understand what you're coming from i'm just trying to figure out you guys are trying
00:51:27.720to grab those people that that could very well be on the fence and not look at this first referendum
00:51:34.280as the actual referendum but actually looking at it in a direction of being maybe uh um
00:51:41.880it's just to try waking up ottawa to say hey there's there's a problem here in canada and it's
00:51:48.040yeah okay so i'll answer it this way okay great now i understand your question so um the
00:51:56.120we we were successful in in um in swaying a pretty large percentage of people by convincing
00:52:02.680them that the, that the deal is broken. So we had no problem convincing about 25, 30% of Albertans
00:52:09.660that, uh, we're getting a bum, bum deal in confederation, right? We were underrepresented,
00:52:15.420we're, we're subsidizing the others. It's costing us financially, uh, so forth, right? We had, we,
00:52:21.720we, we convinced a bunch of people because of that. The next swath of people is perhaps people
00:52:26.580like your parents to convince them we need to um also show them how uh an independent alberta will
00:52:36.440benefit them it's not enough to show what that what's broken we need to start showing them
00:52:40.440concrete numbers of how they'll benefit and we're working on that so i know um you know we spoke
00:52:46.100last week mitch sylvester put out something called the the um um basically a constitution
00:52:54.000a proposed constitution i think that's too that's that's way too granular that's not what we need
00:53:00.640uh keith wilson this week i know i spoke to keith uh on the weekend and keith is rushing to put a
00:53:07.120a document like a white paper a transition so keith is and others are rushing to put something
00:53:13.600together that shows more realistically what an independent alberta looks like and how
00:53:20.480how people like you know how will the pensions would be better where will we save the money
00:53:25.040how do we address the military the police and stuff like that so they're putting together a
00:53:29.120little bit uh some good stuff that hopefully you can share with your parents perfect yeah that's
00:53:36.240kind of what i'm looking for like i just and and like obviously because this is this referendum
00:53:41.600is now a referendum to have a referendum it makes it a little bit more complicated and
00:53:45.680kind of shifts the focus in terms of sending the message right and that's kind of yeah let
00:53:51.520me ask you this have you brought your parents out to an event i well i'm stuck in dc and my parents
00:53:58.080are in alberta but they they're uh they're coming off of the you know the legacy media yeah that's
00:54:05.040the that's the other big part to break through yeah that would be the big win you need to get
00:54:09.760them out to uh you need to get them out to meet people their age and go chat with people their
00:54:15.760age like we're doing more and more of those right like they need to come out to one of the town halls
00:54:19.840where they can meet um people who might have their own the same concerns if people stay at home and
00:54:25.840they're only looking at legacy media those people are going to be very hard to reach yeah sure yeah
00:54:32.080yeah i definitely have to look up your guys website and try and try and tell them hey go and check out
00:54:36.240this thing in barhead so at the end of the day though if they're you know at the end of the day
00:54:40.640i mean uh family's family and don't alienate your parents over something like this right i mean it's
00:54:46.000not or it's going the other way actually they're leaning from me because i'm seeing that i'm seeing
00:54:51.520the challenges so so and i'm just like hey look like what is it going to hurt if you guys at least
00:54:55.920send the message to ottawa that there's an issue yeah right so all right well good luck with that
00:55:00.960thanks for calling and i hope you're doing okay at bc you're not affected by the fires or anything
00:55:04.800like that oh bc's well it's a little bit smoky today but yeah it's uh it is what it is i uh i
00:55:12.320wish we had different government here as well but it is what it is right yeah yeah awesome okay well
00:55:16.640thanks for calling cheers ah no worries take care everybody yeah yeah uh speaking of fires that was
00:55:21.600another uh another victory for uh alberta this week right i'll take it um i think it was wednesday
00:55:29.040yesterday maybe tuesday and yesterday a couple of days this week if you went to the alberta website
00:57:48.260And just regarding the guy that just phoned there, what are the questions, like question 10 is, we want to vote yes for separation, is that correct?
00:58:03.760Well, I think actually all that guy has to know is to tell his parents to vote in favor of that.
00:58:10.100And then obviously that would, you know, we have a little more ammunition when it comes to the federal government, you know, to deal with issues, right?
00:58:17.400more people right absolutely understand what i'm saying yeah yeah it's non-binding and so you have
00:58:22.600nothing to lose by uh letting people uh some people will say well no i'll vote against it and
00:58:27.480try and crush it once and for all but no good point uh that that's a good point thank you
00:58:31.880and actually uh interestingly um quebec announced the not quebec but the leader of the separatist
00:58:41.720party in quebec who will most likely win the next provincial election he said that he wouldn't hold
00:58:46.600the referendum in quebec as long as trump is in power and then conversely here in alberta this
00:58:54.120week danielle smith i i don't get her reasoning but she said that if there's uh if the if the yes
00:59:00.600side wins uh in the referendum if our side wins in october she's kind of basically hinting that
00:59:06.760there would have to be not hinting she said that there would have to be a referendum the binding
00:59:10.920referendum question would have to be in the spring right away uh because i guess that's because
00:59:15.960there's an election uh we have fixed date elections in alberta and there's an election late
00:59:20.600late next year so danielle said she's kind of putting some pressure um on us which could be
00:59:27.160good or bad uh listen i'm running out of time um okay yeah thanks for calling yeah you betcha bye
00:59:35.640cheers um hey i running out of time i gotta make the closing comments uh hey john there's a special
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