On today's show, the crew talks about the by-election results, the snowfall, the petition, and much more. Thanks to everyone for all your support, stay tuned for the call-ins!
00:05:13.160CBC News on the night of the election,
00:05:15.140Rosemary Barton and what's his name, Cochran,
00:05:19.200David Cochran trying to say that, you know,
00:05:22.080Carney had secured his majority through the by-elections
00:05:26.540and that it had nothing to do with the floor crossings.
00:05:28.660i mean i think that's uh that's something we can discuss but hey i already got a caller on the line
00:05:33.380so as usual uh you know give me your name number or sorry name number and name where you're calling
00:05:39.060from question comment whatever you want to talk about and sometimes i might ask you to hang up
00:05:44.340sometimes i'll ask you to stay on the line and have a little chat if i'm asking you to hang up
00:05:47.940it's simply because we we don't have a giant switchboard here so while i'm talking to you
00:05:52.020the phone line's uh busy so go ahead what's your name please
00:05:54.740oh this is reed hello yeah hello there this is reed hi reed and i'm calling actually i'm down
00:06:07.000in utah right now but i'm from alberta of course awesome really all i was calling about yeah i was
00:06:13.020just phoning to um find out like like um where's the best place or maybe you'll know like we're
00:06:22.480to have to do some serious donating here to get advertising and when they do the advertising they're
00:06:28.560gonna have to do it in increments so that they can truly explain to people the advantages of
00:06:35.200being separate i don't think enough people understand the numbers and i think they need
00:06:40.400to know the numbers yeah no you're uh stay on the line read for a couple of minutes but
00:06:46.400you're 100 right um let me just explain a couple of things and you i'm sure you know this already
00:06:52.800but you know the the proponent for the referendum was the alberta prosperity project so they spent
00:06:58.700money educating people on the pros of being an independent alberta and then they they triggered
00:07:05.460the referendum so and and then alberta like whether it's a political party whether it's a
00:07:11.460private citizen the rules for campaigning and raising money are super strict right so uh alberta
00:07:18.000prosperity had some money they did their job then they started the petition and during the petition
00:07:22.980it's like we're in a different phase so during the petition uh alberta prosperity project couldn't be
00:07:28.540the ones uh raising the money and collecting the signatures they had to create another group called
00:07:35.440the stay free alberta and stay free alberta's got like five hundred thousand dollars in the bank or
00:07:40.340maximum that they can spend and they're focused on actually collecting signatures right paying for
00:07:45.820the papers and flags and holding events and stuff like that and and i agree with you that we're
00:07:52.560going to need to spend money on advertising during the campaign and the campaign's going to start
00:07:57.760like in probably june july once danielle smith officially sets the date for the referendum
00:08:04.060And in that campaign phase, expect a whole bunch of third-party advertisers to appear, and they'll all start promoting and advertising and selling the whole concept.
00:08:22.180I was just hoping there was going to be something like that because there's so many people out there that are, you know, I don't know whether it's ignorance or they just,
00:08:31.420a lot of them just won't take the time to really look at it and they they just come up with notes
00:08:36.780and they just you know they won't look at the numbers but once they see the numbers i think
00:08:40.860their their minds will start to change oh i i agree anybody who yeah i mean yeah the numbers
00:08:47.180are convincing and vice versa i've never had anybody be able to convince me otherwise of
00:08:52.060why we should stay now just on that topic um it's interesting because this week uh nenshi
00:08:59.020and thomas lukasic right we all know thomas lukasic he had the the uh sort of stay yeah
00:09:04.300stay petition they're kind of aligned now and now they formed their group called uh
00:09:10.140oh god what's their oh i wrote it down here um for alberta for canada right and they're kind of in
00:09:16.060my opinion they're kind of cheating they're using a loophole they're they're going ahead and they're
00:09:19.820starting their advertising campaign but why can they do it they can do it because they're sort
00:09:23.980of claiming to do it as the ndp party so a political party that already exists can spend
00:09:29.420money you know they're not campaigning they're ruling or whatever you know what i mean they're
00:09:35.420governing so um yeah no it's gonna be uh it's gonna be a really interesting and and same thing
00:09:42.620you're just reminding me they're getting they're they're just getting off the ground and they're
00:09:47.100already getting mainstream media attention right so the mainstream's advertising for them whereas
00:09:51.740we're going to have to pay for it there's no way that uh that you know the national post and ctv
00:09:57.420and global are going to give us air time so no appreciate the call hope the weather how's the
00:10:00.780weather down in utah did you sign while you were down in utah because uh i think there were events
00:10:04.940no actually actually no no i i no i i actually uh on my way down i read there was a fella just
00:10:12.460on the side of the road there by taper and i was able to whip in and sign there awesome yeah
00:10:17.500because that was uh something i noticed that i i've i've been a canvasser i've been sitting
00:10:21.420on the side of the road myself uh for the better part of 40 50 days now and i noticed in the last
00:10:27.020couple weeks a lot of returning snowbirds were coming to sign the petition which was very
00:10:30.620encouraging yeah all right thanks for the call yeah yeah you betcha go ahead i mean i'm not
00:10:36.700kicking you off like if you got something else you want oh no no i was just saying like like i
00:10:43.420know the ndp you're just saying the ndp going with their advertising already and really we can use
00:10:50.780the federal ndp and just run a little skit of their their little equity thing there and i said
00:10:58.620is this what the country you want to be part of or do you want to be part of something a little
00:11:02.700greater than that yeah i appreciate it might work yeah okay i'll let you go read but i'll finish
00:11:08.700your thought on that uh thanks reed um just all right cheers um just speaking of the ndp that was
00:11:17.300one of the sort of breaking stories yesterday one of those quiet stories right the ndp the federal
00:11:22.440ndp right so the federal ndp after the last election only had seven seats and that's not
00:11:28.420enough for official party status and official party status is important in the house of commons
00:11:33.280because it means money from the government,
00:11:37.020like the government sets aside money for parties.
00:11:41.020I mean, parties raise their own money for campaigning and things like that.
00:11:43.820But once they're in power or governing,
00:11:47.220they're allowed some funding for their MPs,
00:11:49.880for office spaces, for staff, for things like that, right?
00:11:53.780And the NDP lost official party status,
00:11:56.720so that takes away a lot of their funding and stuff like that.
00:11:59.240Well, yesterday, I don't know, they felt bad for them.
00:12:02.420So the Liberals, the Bloc, and the Conservative agreed to take some of the money that was set aside and give it to the NDP. So the NDP gets $670,000 of assistance to help them in their role as MPs, which I'm fine with that.
00:12:21.840I mean, you know, but at the end of the day, it does show that the NDP are not really a serious party anymore.
00:12:28.320They've gone bankrupt. Basically, they borrowed so much money to run their campaign.
00:12:33.920And now you got Avi Lewis, who's trying to convince us that he's the man, you know, he I mean, if you're a leader of a federal party, your ultimate goal is to be the prime minister of the country.
00:12:45.220So Avi will never be the prime minister of this country, but it's one of his goals.
00:12:49.660And he said, you know, if he ever was, he would propose government mandated grocery stores and things like that.
00:12:55.560So a party that can't run its own finances wants to run the finances of the country.
00:13:00.120I don't think so. Go ahead on the line. Where are you calling from? Name, please.
00:13:11.420Hi, it's Dave. I'm just wondering what you're thinking about Carney's comment.
00:13:17.240he's going to bring in the emergency act if alberta separates all right um thanks for that
00:13:25.540you guys are reading my mind i mean that's something i wanted to talk about and i haven't
00:13:30.080even gotten gotten to that i'm going to hold off on that dave i got some thoughts on that but i
00:13:34.960will i will i will mention i will talk about a little bit later in the show when i talk about
00:13:39.660the um the stay that occurred which will be sort of topic number two so appreciate that question
00:13:44.720dave okay thanks yeah yeah thanks um yeah you know i'm still trying to get a so let's get through
00:13:51.840okay let's obviously you guys want to talk about independence more than what's going on with the
00:13:55.600liberals but so the liberals got their majority um yay hooray and then uh the one thing that that i
00:14:02.800did find fascinating though and i want to talk about this a little bit you remember last week
00:14:07.760when we were talking about uh uh maryland gladu crossing the floor and i found it unusual
00:14:14.640that maryland that carney would take a floor crosser last week because i knew that this week
00:14:20.560was the by-election right so i thought why would he take a floor crosser and risk upsetting canadians
00:14:28.000when he knew he had a majority just around the corner well when i saw what happened this weekend0.62
00:14:33.840And now I think it makes sense. Right. So this weekend, the liberals, just in advance of those by elections, had their big campaign, their big annual general meeting in Montreal, their big love and get together where they talk about policies.
00:14:46.460and and one of the things they did there is they brought out marilyn gladue and they put her
00:14:53.800through what in politics we call the humiliation ritual right so when you cross the floor like that
00:15:01.220you kind of have to bow to the new leader and be humiliated a little bit and and and and we saw
00:15:09.300that happening in an at a level that i hadn't seen in a long time maybe you guys didn't watch the
00:15:14.520can't the the the the AGM in Montreal but watch it now with that with that in mind right watch how
00:15:22.100Carney paraded her through the to the meeting made her sort of criticize the conservative party
00:15:29.860made her uh comment and abandon her views from the past made her you know almost swear a new
00:15:37.840allegiance I mean it's a very uh it's a very uh yeah there's a picture of her it's a very
00:15:42.560communist thing fascist thing to do right to and and also it serves as a purpose to uh to to get
00:15:52.160to get full loyalty from her towards carney but it's also a message to the voters it's really
00:15:59.420like i really it's really nefarious and sick when you think about it right so yeah i was wondering
00:16:04.740why why she accepted to cross the floor when she did i'm sure she accepted a long time ago but
00:16:10.740They decided to pull the plug and or pull the whatever the and make it happen just before the by-election, just before the campaign.
00:16:19.100And and I think that's part of it. Right. That's part of the reason they wanted to use her during the convention.
00:16:25.220Now, speaking of the convention, I don't know if you get to conventions.
00:16:29.560I mean, I've gone to AGMs here for the Conservative Party and the UCP, and they're an opportunity for the membership to try and push policies onto the leadership.
00:16:40.740And two, I just want to talk about two policies in particular that caught my eye that the liberals tried to pass or passed that then, you know, hopefully they're hoping they become long term policies.
00:16:53.740The first one was they they passed on the floor in motion calling for censorship or not censorship, outright banning social media for kids under the age of 16.
00:17:04.720okay and and that sounds sort of innocent enough right a lot if you talk to a lot of people go
00:17:11.320like should kids have uh access to social media until they're 16 some parents might just quickly
00:17:16.800naively say sure i agree with that right but be careful with these kinds of policies because when
00:17:23.420you read into the details of the policy it's kind of just a setup for more long-term uh censorship
00:17:31.240and control right by by because when you look in that policy they also said we should form a
00:17:37.140governing body that makes sure that uh um you know to monitor the platforms you know like and
00:17:44.800there's already governing bodies like the crtc and stuff like that but so now the liberal solution
00:17:48.940to everything right is more censorship hide your censorship as protecting kids at now and then use
00:17:55.120the skies of protecting kids as an opportunity to have another governing body to monitor us
00:18:03.220and then also use it as an excuse to work with social media companies to figure out how to
00:18:10.260prevent certain groups from having access. You know what I mean? Like it sounds all good
00:18:15.300and well-intentioned until you start thinking about it and then you realize the can of worms
00:18:19.360it opens up. Now, one thing I found really interesting is that they said it as 16, right?
00:18:23.920And I thought, OK, maybe they could set it as, say, 12 years old or younger or 13 or 14, but they went all the way up to 16.
00:18:30.900I mean, 16. And the reason I found that number interesting is because there's a lot of people among the liberals who would have the voting age drop to 16, 15 or even 14.
00:18:42.480I mean, 14 has been bounced around as a voting age.
00:18:45.100So then I found this interesting because they're kind of restricting themselves down the road if they want to change voting age.
00:18:52.900because on the one hand you're saying well kids 16 and under are too young to be on social media
00:18:57.560well then i would argue then they're probably too young to vote right so um they they created an
00:19:02.660interesting uh problem with that one the other interest the other thing that came out of the
00:19:07.640montreal gathering wasn't necessarily a policy but it was um it was the speech that they that
00:19:15.880they brought in an ex uh google guy a guy who had left canada went to work in the u.s made a fortune
00:19:22.860working for google maybe you can find that clip john i don't know if we want to play the clip
00:19:27.340but maybe find the guy uh sitting on stage from google uh anyways he he made this same thing he
00:19:34.860made this bizarre plea right he's saying his his his comment was that there's a brain drain going
00:19:43.100on in canada which i completely agree like we we are losing last last known year with formal data
00:19:50.220was uh 2023 and something like 100 000 canadians emigrated left canada like citizen not not not
00:19:59.660temporary foreign workers going back home but full-blown born in canada citizens educated here
00:20:05.500have left the country and so there was there's like about 100 000 every year yeah that's the
00:20:11.160gentleman so about 100 000 canadians are leaving every year and they're usually 60 of those canadians
00:20:16.860leaving are between the ages of 22 and 40, right? So that's like the, that's what they call the
00:20:22.420brain drain. The brain drain is real. We are losing talent. They're going to the US, they're
00:20:27.400going to Australia, UK, France, and places like that. So the Liberals bring out this guy on stage
00:20:33.560and this guy's solution to that problem, you know, what's the solution? How do you keep people,
00:20:39.500how do you keep people here? Well, you should make it attractive to want to be here. You should make
00:20:44.680it you know a good tax regime you should make it affordable you should have good jobs we should0.55
00:20:51.160promote we should do something that would want to make people to stay here but people want to leave
00:20:56.040so this guy comes on stage and he starts proposing that we charge people who want to leave the
00:21:00.560country 500 000 bucks and he went through this weird justification of well you know canada has
00:21:08.060invested money in their education and then and and in them as a resource and we can't just let
00:21:14.980that resource leave the country without some sort of compensation for the money we invested in a
00:21:20.740canadian can you see where this could potentially go somewhere really really south like what if we
00:21:27.020all start talking that way right well well i mean i didn't even pay for somebody i paid for i don't
00:21:32.480have kids and i paid for somebody else's kids to be educated do i get extra compensation or i
00:21:37.960paid for my kids and my kids stayed here but your kids left so should i get compensation you know
00:21:43.480where where this is going so and this is again a symptom of the liberals right they are addicted
00:21:49.500to spending and they don't have uh and they've created a giant mess and things are spiraling
00:21:56.260the economy is getting worse and that's their solution right is find more ways to tax us and
00:22:01.940and and so forth so i found i found that whole bit about the um the the the agm in winnipeg
00:22:09.780quite interesting and uh so back to the question then so what's so now carney has a majority
00:22:16.740um nothing's been leaked out i don't know what he's going to do with his majority but i'm pretty
00:22:21.620certain that there's going to be some crazy new laws coming down the pipe in the next couple of
00:22:27.620months. We'll see what happens. He did do one sort of good announcement. I mean, he stole another
00:22:34.420idea from Pierre Poilievre this week. Immediately after winning his majority, he announced that he
00:22:39.540was going to take off the Canadian, the federal component on gasoline and diesel and jet fuel
00:22:46.400taxes. So we're going to get about a 10 cent discount there. But trust me, they're going to
00:22:52.120find another way to make that up. It's not like they're cutting back the taxes overall. I'm still
00:22:58.460quite frustrated that Danielle Smith won't do the same thing here in Alberta and take away the 141.00
00:23:05.340cents on the tax. But also, I mean, the conflict in the Gulf of Hormuz there between Iran, the U.S.
00:23:14.320and Israel seems to be resolving itself. So maybe things will get back to normal pretty quickly.0.95
00:23:20.240hey i mean give me a buzz or uh give me a comment here what do you think of the um of the liberals
00:23:29.260getting their majority is it something that was predicted are you worried about it or or not uh
00:23:35.220don't be shy give us a call all right well let's i guess we'll move on then to um actually let me
00:23:41.540take a sip of my coffee i'm hopefully you guys are sitting actually i was expecting more calls
00:23:46.920today it's a snow day right you guys that was your excuse a couple of weeks ago people told me
00:23:51.920well the show is right after lunch and we're all busy working which i get that right albertans are
00:23:56.080busy busy working but it's a snow day today don't don't don't lie to me i know a bunch of you are
00:24:01.160sitting at home working today you didn't i mean even here in the office uh i'd say uh about half
00:24:07.500the people as usual so and and you know what i i advocate that i i do say that right it's not worth
00:24:15.120like, it's not worth getting on the road when the roads are really bad. It's certainly not worth
00:24:19.000getting on the road. If it's going to take you two hours to get in, then you work four hours,
00:24:22.400and then two hours to go home, that's not productive. So, you know, stay, stay home on
00:24:27.080a day like this. But all right, so let's jump into the big topic that apparently you guys want
00:24:33.180to talk about, which is, and it's an elephant in the room, I'll give my personal side about this,
00:24:39.480the injunction right and the results of the injunction so last week uh so uh several first
00:24:47.280nations got together and filed an injunction with the court um and try to get the um petition
00:24:58.220stayed or stopped or cancelled altogether and the hearing for that was in edmonton last week
00:25:07.380okay just before i get into it i got a call so i keep going no i'll take the call i'll take the
00:25:12.880call all right because i played for you guys and you're answering my call so go ahead name and
00:25:17.420where are you calling from please marty donald smith here calling from vancouver communist british
00:25:24.840columbia i'm very very scared of with the liberals basically uh getting the majority of government
00:25:30.960where they're going to start passing these censor laws now
00:25:35.660where basically you see something the wrong way,
00:25:37.880like man in the dress or insult somebody, whatever.
00:25:41.040They're going to come kick in your door.
00:28:33.060Countries have a nice rise and then eventually start going down, right?
00:28:37.220The rise and fall of empires is common.
00:28:39.660And then there's, and, and I think it's happening in our country and maybe it's inevitable, but you and I, at the end of the day are not completely losing faith.
00:29:08.200And there's some experts who say that we only need, like, as long as 3% or 4% of us keep working and trying to get the truth out, we will succeed at waking up people.
00:29:18.740So, yeah, I just got to correct myself.
00:29:21.340I haven't completely given up, but, boy, there are days where I think, yeah, we're doomed, right?
00:29:24.680I mean, I'm amazed at my fellow Canadians' threshold for pain, right?
00:36:31.020yeah actually i know on the pipeline they discussed about this a little bit the other day
00:36:36.580um that that was funny okay cool hey i love the way the show is going today i mean i'm i uh this
00:36:43.860is what i want on the show right i i have a lot of topics i can talk but i want you guys to call in
00:36:49.580and uh and and let's have a discussion so let me try and get back to the um so the the the
00:36:57.360The injunction hearing started on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. So Tuesday, Tuesday, Wednesday was basically the opponent starts in court. And then then the next two days is the proponent. So in this case, Mitch Sylvester represented by basically Jeff Brath and Eva Chipyuk. Maybe we'll have him on the show in the near future.
00:37:20.620and Jeff gave the judge a lot to think about right basically what his role is is is countering the
00:37:29.560other arguments and then providing a whole bunch of legal documents and stuff like that for the
00:37:34.160judge to go look at so Jeff did a good job making sure that the judge couldn't just rule on this
00:37:39.800like on the spot well what was surprising maybe maybe surprising maybe to me but maybe not to
00:37:46.020others i was sitting on the side of the road i was still collecting signatures on uh friday morning
00:37:51.800and then i heard about it through the grapevine that a partial ruling had come out and and what
00:37:57.420the ruling was is that the judge decided to uh stay temporarily prevent there you see it on the
00:38:05.320screen temporarily prevent independence petition from certification he stayed staying something
00:38:10.600means he stopped but he didn't stop the whole petition so the judge said you me marty you can
00:38:16.360keep collecting signatures larry bob everybody you guys can all keep collecting signatures
00:38:21.160but what the judge said is that uh elections alberta cannot certify the signatures in other
00:38:27.240words they can't count the signatures and do the quality control and then and then and then report
00:38:32.840back to um to the minister of justice until the judge finalizes his ruling so and now luckily the
00:38:46.100judge said uh this day is only good for 30 days so in other words we can continue collecting
00:38:53.280signatures until may 2nd the stay will go on until about i don't know may 7th or 8th or 9th
00:39:00.540And by then, either the judge has to make a ruling or he can extend, she, it's a she by the way, she can extend the stay and delay the counting a little bit longer.
00:39:13.540And that upset me. When I heard that, that upset me. And I know I posted a video where I ranted about that and I said some words that perhaps I should have chosen different words.
00:39:25.020I was a little bit hot under the collar on Friday, and my bad, but at the end of the day, I'm still, the reason I was hot under the collar still stands.
00:39:39.500I'm extremely frustrated in this country.
00:39:42.860I've expressed this on a personal level for the last decade on all the projects I've worked on.
00:39:48.340everything that i'm working on is always subject to veto these secret magical vetoes by first
00:39:55.680nations who seem to have the ability to just about block anything we're trying to work on
00:40:00.260and it's frustrating and and then when we invite them at the table to come collaborate with us
00:40:06.500they flat out reject us right there was that i get i can i know for a fact that there was
00:40:12.280a lot of effort by by mitch sylvester and others to engage these uh chiefs who were doing this
00:40:21.020injunction to see if there could be some resolution beforehand and there's no dialogue
00:40:25.560so i was on the side of the road and i got frustrated bad choice of words it is what it is
00:40:31.880um but but then so thinking about this stay am i nervous about it yes and no um
00:40:40.360So as it stands, we were going to collect signatures until May 2nd. Then the chief elector had to certify the signatures and then return a report to the Minister of Justice, Mickey Amory.
00:40:58.540And then they were going to have to table a little committee and then study the request of the petition and then perhaps declare, agree with the petition and launch a referendum.
00:41:08.840Now there's a summer recess coming up and stuff like that. And the referendums already be announced as will happen around October 19th if there's a referendum. So if I work back from October 19th, as long as Danielle Smith declares the referendum on, let's say, July 19th, July, August, September, October, three months of campaigning, I'm OK with that. Right.
00:41:29.140So that was the timeline. My fear now, so we're okay. In terms of the timeline, we're all good. Unless, of course, the judge grants the complete injunction and this whole petition is out the door. But with the current timeline, I'm okay with it. There is time for the judge to render a judgment.
00:41:48.580I am afraid, though, that the judge could sort of kick this down the road, kick it down the road, kicking down the road, extend the stay, extend it, extend it, extend it.
00:41:58.920And the next thing you know, we're in September and Elections Alberta hasn't counted the signatures and the referendum is slipping away from us.
00:42:05.160And now we're into 2027 and there's an election next year. So I'm so it's a setback.
00:42:11.140It upset me. I'm back. I'm calm from it back. I didn't give up.
00:42:16.200i mean i was on the side of the road on monday tuesday collecting signatures uh why was i not
00:42:21.240there yesterday i i wasn't there yesterday i'm not there today and i'll be back there tomorrow
00:42:26.200um all right caller on the line please where are you calling from and name
00:42:31.800uh yes hello marty i'm calling from outside the vernon area uh canadian spider-man but even
00:42:38.040on me, Steve. Yeah, yeah. Cool, Steve. How's it going?
00:44:29.260I don't think we need to reinvent too much.
00:44:30.920I mean, I've said, I'm on the record of saying this, right?
00:44:33.180If I look across the street, across the border into the U.S. and I look at their constitution and how it survived time, especially with all its amendments, like, you know, you take the American constitution, incorporate the amendments, change the word to Alberta and fine tune it a little bit.
00:44:48.180And I think we can do something bold. So, no, I'm with you. Definitely. Definitely. Sorry. Definitely do not want Alberta to just be a mini version of Canada. No way.
00:44:56.860no no that that's exactly it and this this is an opportunity i'm not kidding uh as great as the
00:45:05.000people stepping on the mayflower come over to start a new country in north america uh this is
00:45:11.720a huge potential and it's so exciting and that's i'm going to calgary tomorrow actually to look
00:45:17.180for a place to live uh i'm out of british columbia it is socialist here it is not going to change
00:45:23.160and the opportunity for a whole new country
00:48:18.040Somebody asked a question about the rumor that this could all be, you know,
00:48:22.680The rumor was, could there be an Emergency Measures Act reenacted for this, right?
00:48:31.160That rumor comes out of the fact Jeff Rath this week tweeted out something that somebody called him and had heard at an event where Carney was speaking that Carney is on the record as saying if Alberta's separation ever got that far, that he would consider invoking the Emergency Measures Act.
00:48:52.680Okay. I don't, I don't, I trust Jeff. Jeff wouldn't ever, he's a lawyer, so he wouldn't post something like that unless he trusted the source he heard it from. Is the source he heard it from hear it correctly? Who knows? I'm not going to debate that. Is it possible that the government of Canada would invoke the Emergency Measures Act? I would say yes, because I mean, I live in, you know, my bingo card for weird events in 2024, 2025, 2026 is like completely checked off.
00:49:21.160i don't there's nothing there's nothing out of the realm of possible anymore like the government
00:49:26.920will do and i'll bring it back to this i think we are going to get um you know the injunction is one
00:49:33.480step nenshi lukasic the media government shenanigans we are not done we are we are trying to
00:49:43.480improve our lives and go for an independent alberta through all the legal means possible
00:49:47.960and i want to exhaust all the legal means i hope we never have to get uh civil about this into the
00:49:55.320real civil disobedience but uh but i'm preparing myself for maybe a longer battle because the other
00:50:00.760side is going to throw a lot of stuff at us to try and stop us and yes the emergency measures act is
00:50:06.440definitely not out of out of the realm of possible go ahead on the line uh name where are you calling
00:50:11.480from hey marty it's timothy calling from edmonton how's going good good timothy uh how's the snow
00:50:17.400up there did it make its way up to you guys it did yeah i thought it would melt quicker but we
00:50:23.000still have a little bit of snow here at the moment although it is disappearing relatively soon so
00:50:27.640uh probably won't last too much longer and we'll be back to a regular spring
00:50:33.400um but yeah the reason i was calling that was about uh yeah kearney's uh majority
00:50:39.080situation here that we've gotten ourselves into or i should say the east has gotten us into
00:50:44.120um yeah it seemed entirely predictable in my opinion since at least two of the three seats
00:50:50.040were liberal strongholds there was little doubt about which way they would go i mean the bigger
00:50:55.100surprise was all the floor crossings that occurred and especially the last one with1.00
00:50:59.680marilyn gladu crossing the floor because she had some pretty strong conservative uh credentials1.00
00:51:05.080um from quite a ways back like all the way back to covet she was the one standing up against the
00:51:10.700gab she's one of the stronger social conservatives in the party uh it's really difficult for me to
00:51:16.980understand what her motivation would be across the floor um like there were some rumors going0.95
00:51:22.360on going around about her house her husband potentially having some ties to contracts that
00:51:27.700were necessary through brookfield but i did some research on that and it didn't seem to have any
00:51:32.060basis um i don't know maybe you already covered this earlier but sorry no stay on the line tim
00:51:37.940And somebody apparently went through her records, right?
00:51:39.720Like MPs have to disclose sort of like their assets or their net worth kind of thing.
00:51:44.000And apparently she's not very rich, right?
00:51:45.600She spent a decade as an engineer and so did her husband.1.00
00:51:48.860And then she spent 10 years in politics and doesn't have much to show for it.1.00
00:51:52.780So maybe she's just one of those really, really piss poor money managers who needs the money.0.79
00:52:04.460Well, I was going to say another theory was that, yeah, she was rumored to have been convinced to run again this time, but is probably going to retire at the end of this term. And she obviously wouldn't be reelected in that riding because it's such a strong conservative riding. There's no way they'd elect her under the liberal banner.0.80
00:52:20.040So maybe she just wanted to have one shot in actual governance, actually making some laws and such, you know, as her final parting shot so that she can say that she was part of the government, I guess.
00:52:31.960Want some notoriety as well as, yeah, as you mentioned, the additional extra on top of her paycheck, being part of the government, probably in some sort of committee or something, making extra.
00:52:41.360No, I mean, you're right, because there's actually a video on X right now and other platforms that apparently Carney wanted her to delete, but you can't delete it from X, man.
00:52:52.960Once it's on there, it's there forever.
00:52:54.980And it's basically a two and a half minute rant of hers where she is absolutely savage towards the liberals.
00:53:01.560And to have that sort of such a dramatic change of heart, I mean, that'd be like me running for the NDP tomorrow morning.
00:53:08.700like exactly like me me shaking hands with naheed nenshi and saying hey great job buddy love what
00:53:16.180you've done for the last 10 years not gonna happen not gonna happen folks oh that's another
00:53:21.720go ahead oh yeah i was just gonna say yeah how do you flip on a dime like that it just really
00:53:27.580makes no sense at all she was also the one that wrote the article in a paper what was it two0.90
00:53:33.060months ago or something calling for any floor crossers to have to go back for re-election0.75
00:53:36.660And yet, two months later, she crosses the floor like, how does a person do this? Like, clearly, there's a major lack of integrity, which is really unfortunate. And I mean, you talked about the idea of having no parties, which I mean, I understand the sympathy towards that idea in some cases.0.55
00:53:53.260But, I mean, here, at least in Alberta, we just moved our municipalities towards having parties because we were running into issues with a lack of integrity amongst city councillors and such because you couldn't tell what they would stand for necessarily because they would be elected.
00:54:28.400Yeah, speaking of Nenshi, did you see the clip of him and Danielle having that little –
00:54:32.880Nenshi had a meltdown in the legislature yesterday because, you know,
00:54:37.920He was on her case for accepting a few bucks when she toured Saudi Arabia, so then she used her resources and her staff found all the trips that Nenshi accepted on behalf of China and others, and he had a complete meltdown.
00:56:32.300I mean, that's more or less, that's cool.
00:56:35.360But deep down, I am a conservative who is also nostalgic for old things.
00:56:40.540And I do get sad that a lot of our symbols, those signs, regardless, are kind of a symbol, right?
00:56:48.100i mean i i've maybe it's because personally i use those signs all the times as backgrounds for
00:56:53.620for my own posters and stuff like that so now i'm gonna now i'm gonna have to change my posters but
00:56:58.340yeah i appreciate that yeah yeah yeah cool thanks for calling tim oh yeah um boy we're okay this
00:57:07.300show is awesome we're gonna have a couple more minutes if we got a chance for another call
00:57:12.500i'm looking at my list i got we never got around to a whole bunch of things today i
00:57:17.540I wanted to talk about maybe I'll just go there real quick and we'll finish the show on this and maybe we'll have more to talk about this next week.
00:57:24.600You know, I wanted to talk about some of the I always want to talk about some of the good things going on in Alberta.
00:57:29.100Right. There are good things going on in Alberta.
00:57:30.800I think this current setting sitting of the legislature has passed some great rules.
00:57:38.140Yesterday was Bill 30 got introduced.0.75
00:57:40.960So Danielle is, again, reasserting our own jurisdiction over our own mandates and responsibilities.
00:57:51.620And so she's introducing sort of a fast track project process so that projects that are, I haven't, again, I haven't had a chance to totally dissect it.
00:58:03.080There are, you know, it's in the first reading, but this bill is kind of putting a limit of 120 days.
00:58:08.520So she's targeting that any project over $250 million would get sort of a preferential treatment and be accelerated, fast-tracked to approval.
00:58:20.480And I ask people, you know, is that a good step in the right direction or is that government picking and choosing winners and losers?
00:58:30.080It's in line with the fact that there was another report today or yesterday from the Royal Bank that said over the last decade, like one point something trillion dollars of capital fled Canada.
00:58:42.060And so we need to bring that back. And Carney's doing his part. I don't think Carney's doing enough to attract investors.
00:58:48.220And I think this is definitely a right step in the right direction for Smith to attract investors.
00:58:52.880And it ties nicely with sort of a subtle announcement this week.
00:58:57.680Donald Trump approved five pipeline changes in the U.S.