Western Standard - MARTY UP NORTH： Quebec sends a message to Ottawa

00:00:00.000 um listen every time i go hunting i get nervous right i get nervous so uh this is a tradition

00:00:28.640 for me i leave it almost exactly this week every year you know last week of september to the first

00:00:36.480 week of october leave around september 25th come back october 3rd those are the dates that coincide

00:00:43.200 i go up north to hunt moose been doing it for 30 years and out of those 30 years 15 times i'd say

00:00:51.200 half the times when i've come back and and and while especially for the early years like while

00:00:57.200 I was gone hunting there's no communication to the outside world like 30 years ago we didn't have

00:01:02.400 cell phones today we've had cell phones out there for the last you know 20 years kind of thing but

00:01:07.600 even where I hunt it's so remote like it's in the area just south of Grand Cache and there's no cell

00:01:13.600 coverage in our camp I know a couple of spots where I can sneak off you know on my ATV go climb

00:01:20.000 a hill or if I happen to go buy certain hills I have a couple of hills that I'm familiar with that

00:01:25.520 if i go on top of those hills and i hold my phone up i can get a little bit of cell coverage

00:01:29.680 and read a couple of texts but i'm you know i'm not there to do that i want to disconnect

00:01:34.160 but in the past a lot of times it was a total mystery when i came back from my hunting trip

00:01:40.080 fingers crossed nothing bad happened while i was gone and and what i was saying is that about half

00:01:46.160 the time in the last 30 years when i've come back from my hunting trip something bad has happened

00:01:50.720 while i was gone and usually it's something bad on a global scale right i came back from

00:01:55.520 You know, the 2008 economic crash happened while I was out in the bush.

00:02:01.000 I think the 2014 one has happened.

00:02:03.880 Usually, a lot of it is financial, right?

00:02:05.900 The stock markets sometimes do a lot of wonky things in September or October.

00:02:11.220 And so anyways, you know, so I was out hunting.

00:02:15.200 By the way, successful, very successful.

00:02:17.400 As a group, we had four tags and we filled two.

00:02:21.860 So we got our two moose.

00:02:23.360 I got my cow moose and a buddy got his bull moose and I was present for both I have to be

00:02:31.900 the bull moose in particular was what I would call a quintessential hunt right like we we we

00:02:39.900 set out we he dropped me off I walked a perimeter in a in a favorite meadow of mine and then I came

00:02:48.380 back and I rejoined with him just as the sun was going down and we were sitting quietly and the sun

00:02:54.660 went down over the horizon and just as the sun went down literally right under the sun we couldn't

00:03:00.320 see the far end of the meadow because of the sun and as the sun finally went down it's like oh boy

00:03:05.300 look at this beauty and you know in hunting terms I always like a moose even sometimes a little moose

00:03:11.780 you gotta kind of look with the binoculars and make sure there's a there's a rack on there they're not

00:03:16.500 always huge. This one from a distance, he's about 350 yards away from a distance. I'm like, oh my

00:03:22.660 God, he's got a sheet of plywood on his head. So big moose, typical, very classic hunt, you know,

00:03:29.980 and Paul shot it, two shots, dropped it, needed a coup de grace, we call it, you know, he was still

00:03:40.440 breathing when we walked up so we we uh humanely finished it off and then the work begins right

00:03:46.780 and i didn't get back in the camp until about three in the morning and i was a little upset

00:03:51.420 that day because we had steaks in camp we're gonna have steaks we bring steaks we're gonna

00:03:55.680 have steaks it's the middle of the week and i didn't get my my steak that night but um anyways

00:04:00.920 so i come back out uh sorry to drag on come back out hoping you know nothing too crazy happened

00:04:06.980 and you know a little bit of disruption in the stock market but nothing fancy but I come out

00:04:12.500 and I get I came out on Saturday I didn't get home until Sunday and then Monday was the election

00:04:20.380 in Quebec and boy oh boy was that ever fascinating right and that's the that's the sort of the topic

00:04:27.720 that that producer John chose today is Quebec sends a message to Ottawa and boy did it ever

00:04:34.620 Not just to Ottawa, but it sent a message, I guess, to politicians in general.

00:04:40.440 So let's break it down real quick, right?

00:04:44.160 Quebec has...

00:04:48.340 Let me break it down quick.

00:04:50.000 Okay, let me start back.

00:04:51.460 So Quebec, in the last couple of years, has been under rule by a group called Coalition Avenir Quebec.

00:05:00.700 So these guys, that was François Legault.

00:05:04.620 that Quebec had bounced back and forth over the years between the Liberals, the local provincial

00:05:09.740 Liberals and a group called the Parti Québécois, which is a separatist party. When you talk about

00:05:15.020 the referendums that occurred in Quebec in the 1990s and earlier, it was because of a very

00:05:21.260 separatist sentiment and a separatist party called the Parti Québécois, which in its constitution,

00:05:28.620 like top foremost in his constitution is is separation but uh so so quebec has bounced back

00:05:35.180 and forth between those two but about six or eight years ago coalition avenir quebec showed up on the

00:05:40.860 scene and um presented an a different alternative now for legault when he showed up he didn't really

00:05:49.740 have a chance to present his alternative view because covid hit and i was surprised because

00:05:54.940 during covid that guy imposed some pretty draconian mandates in quebec right like strict

00:06:00.620 curfews he's the guy who almost who was proposing you know denying benefits to people who didn't get

00:06:05.580 vaccinated and stuff like that like that was that was pretty ugly and i was surprised in 2022 when

00:06:11.740 quebecers gave him a second mandate so after covid they saw what i i guess they thought well he's a

00:06:19.180 different he's a he was a different choice he was something different from the liberals and the

00:06:23.180 and the separatists and i guess they gave him the benefit of the doubt that he didn't really have a

00:06:27.660 chance to show what he could do because of covid so when covid was ending they had an election and

00:06:33.580 they gave him a second mandate i was surprised by that but so be it and that was in 19 uh in 2022

00:06:40.300 and he did nothing that poor guy did nothing and they went downhill and he was losing so much

00:06:46.620 popularity that he set down as premier of Quebec back in, don't quote me on this, but I think it

00:06:53.820 was February, March of this year, 2026. In appears the new leader of that party, Coalitions of Nia

00:07:01.700 Quebec, a lady named Christine Frechette. And she's, you know, she's kind of a lame duck. I mean, 0.98

00:07:07.320 the party's in trouble and she has no choice. There's an election, right? It's a fixed election 0.96

00:07:13.720 dates kind of and so she went she she campaigned and uh boy oh boy the results were fascinating

00:07:20.840 so uh john do you have a quick map um so five parties were fighting for position in quebec

00:07:28.640 the old liberals the provincial liberals the the separatists i'll just call them the pq

00:07:35.900 the conservatives the conservative party of provincial party which has never won a seat

00:07:42.020 in Quebec. They were fighting. And then a couple of other fringe groups, well, Coalition Avenir

00:07:47.660 Quebec, the incumbents were fighting. And then Quebec Solidare, which is kind of like

00:07:51.980 their green, their NDP, sort of a bit of an outsider group. And here's the result. So the

00:07:59.720 light blue is the winner. So the light blue is the Parti Québécois. So the separatist party got

00:08:05.460 back into power with a minority government, 59 seats. I think they need 65 there to form a

00:08:11.740 majority so they came in strong with an amazing leader young man and uh oxford educated with some

00:08:19.220 great ideas but still fundamentally a separatist and then you can see there's some red and if you

00:08:24.600 actually zoomed in on quebec which on montreal which we don't need to do but the the the province

00:08:31.160 the town of montreal the city of montreal stayed red stayed liberal and they're forming the the

00:08:39.000 opposition there you go it's completely red and so the the provincial liberals are only basically

00:08:45.720 only in montreal crazy but only in montreal some people are attributing that to uh more of an

00:08:52.440 ethnic vote and more of um of an anglophone community and and then you got this weird uh

00:09:00.580 chunk around quebec city i don't know how you guys know familiar with the geography but you

00:09:04.400 You can see the St. Lawrence, and then the first major town along the St. Lawrence is Quebec City.

00:09:08.960 In Quebec City, that area went conservative.

00:09:12.060 Boy, the Conservatives in Quebec had a major breakthrough.

00:09:16.560 I can't remember. I don't know what they ended up with in the end.

00:09:20.520 John, do you have a—there you go. I can't read it. Is it nine?

00:09:25.560 I think the Conservatives ended up with about nine seats.

00:09:29.340 Yeah, Conservatives ended up with nine seats.

00:09:31.360 still you know not fully official but the conservatives did uh did good oh no more than

00:09:39.200 nine sorry 19 wow what a what a breakthrough right 19 seats and so and then here's the fascinating

00:09:46.160 thing the very bottom there with zero seats is the incumbent coalition avenir quebec the ruling party

00:09:54.800 in the province got zero seats like wow congratulations quebecers by the way that's

00:10:01.920 how you send a message to politicians not just in your own province but that's the title today

00:10:06.960 that's how you send a message across the province i wish more places would do that right if you

00:10:13.200 underperform and you don't deliver you're done and so they're so done i mean i i don't know if

00:10:17.920 they'll be able to continue to exist they lost all funding they're not they've lost party status

00:10:22.880 They don't have a leader at this point.

00:10:24.680 She stepped down.

00:10:25.500 I don't know what they got left, but they're completely crushed.

00:10:28.880 So, and when I look at that, it's a couple of interesting points, right?

00:10:32.740 A, they sent a message and they zeroed out that party.

00:10:37.220 And then that left four other parties to fight it out.

00:10:40.920 For all intents and purposes, the other four parties did a lot of splitting.

00:10:44.660 And this is always going to happen in Canada.

00:10:46.400 And I think this is going to happen in Canada going forward a lot more often, right?

00:10:50.400 Because of our first-past-the-poll voting system, you don't need a majority.

00:10:57.760 You need a plurality.

00:10:59.040 You just need to have the most votes.

00:11:01.340 And so if you have three parties, then a plurality is 33.3%.

00:11:05.620 If you have four, you can win with 25%.

00:11:08.580 And if you have five, you can win with 20%. 1.00

00:11:11.000 So mathematically, minority governments are going to be on the rise in our country

00:11:17.580 anywhere where there's more than two parties.

00:11:20.400 And so Quebec sent a couple of messages, bye-bye for the incumbent, and then they split the vote and they got a minority government, which will force the parties to work together.

00:11:33.640 But one of the interesting things about Quebec that I really appreciate, that I'm happy to see, is that weird divide, right? They had urban and rural and they had Quebec City and Montreal. And in the end, practically speaking, the urban vote won.

00:11:50.400 you look at it it's the urban vote one it's like it's the most common sense people the light blue

00:11:55.920 is the the urban regions outside the two major cities decided this election and that gives me

00:12:03.280 hope for i mean it's a divide it's a divide that exists across the country i think every

00:12:08.400 province has that divide has that urban versus rural i know we definitely have it here in uh

00:12:14.960 in alberta bc has it and and i think that's something that more politicians need to take

00:12:21.120 note of right there's something broken going on within different provinces but this also sends

00:12:27.840 a broader message to mark carney and to others which is um at the end of the day the separatist

00:12:35.680 party won in quebec now because they're a minority right now at this point they're going to have to

00:12:41.040 try and form a coalition and work with the other parties to try and stay in power.

00:12:45.420 We'll see how that goes.

00:12:47.240 I've been, you know, I speak French.

00:12:49.240 I follow Quebec politics.

00:12:50.520 I follow all politics.

00:12:52.220 One of the things about this coalition is going to be,

00:12:54.480 it's going to be difficult for a coalition to emerge in Quebec

00:12:57.500 because the leaders don't like each other.

00:12:59.440 They really don't.

00:13:00.300 Like it's, it's going to be tough.

00:13:03.640 And historically, coalitions in our country in general,

00:13:07.100 but in Quebec rarely last more than about two years.

00:13:11.040 all right cool so uh maybe this is a topic of interest for folks today i want to i want to

00:13:16.960 talk about this but i also want to talk about whatever you guys want to talk about so

00:13:20.880 uh don't be shy give us a buzz let me know who you are where you're calling

00:13:25.280 from and what's on your mind so go ahead caller where are you calling from

00:13:30.080 hi marty can you hear me perfectly all right this is lean on from stony plain

00:13:36.560 go ahead what's on your mind my question my question to you is how much do you think

00:13:43.040 quebec is uh relying on the historical of um canada bowing down to their demands

00:13:50.320 oh a lot i mean that's uh actually that's a great question um

00:13:57.840 quebec let's expand on your are they just playing the game yes yes

00:14:04.080 Yes, they're playing the game, but they're getting more serious every time, right?

00:14:08.560 And this is something about Quebec politicians and the Quebec strategy.

00:14:15.580 The Quebec strategy is an all or nothing strategy.

00:14:19.180 So they're going to make requests now from Kearney, and Kearney's going to have to figure this out.

00:14:25.460 And their request will be all or nothing.

00:14:28.120 That's how they're kind of brutal at it, and it serves them in a sense.

00:14:31.960 I mean, I wouldn't want to run that way.

00:14:35.660 Like, I'm not interested in getting more out of Ottawa.

00:14:39.040 I'd rather be separated.

00:14:40.640 But actually, on that point, I do want to mention, well, I'll go to this.

00:14:50.360 Quebec separation, yes, it's a little bit about getting more from, like people ask this, are they bluffing?

00:14:57.920 Yes and no.

00:14:59.680 They do aspire, I think, to a real separation for different reasons than maybe we do.

00:15:06.460 I think Quebecers really, and their new leader said this again, right?

00:15:10.240 They want to separate for cultural reasons.

00:15:12.880 They've always said that, right? 1.00

00:15:14.160 Agreed. 0.96

00:15:14.520 They're French within, you know, on a continent surrounded by Anglophones,

00:15:19.120 and they want to separate to protect their culture.

00:15:22.100 But in the meantime, until they achieve that separation, 0.55

00:15:25.000 they're going to milk the rest of Canada and Canada for everything they can. 0.53

00:15:28.800 Does that make sense?

00:15:30.960 Yeah.

00:15:31.980 What did you think of the election?

00:15:33.420 Were you surprised or are you optimistic?

00:15:35.540 How do you think it helps us?

00:15:38.920 It proves that it can be done.

00:15:41.740 It proves that we can get leverage.

00:15:45.200 Even if the referendum doesn't go our way,

00:15:47.680 at least we'll still have leverage, right?

00:15:49.460 Yep.

00:15:50.920 Do you have friends that can make any chance?

00:15:52.580 I don't know. 0.94

00:15:53.140 I see the history of Quebec fucking using this referendum 0.91

00:15:57.340 them as a leverage point to make Canada capitulate to their wants and needs, well, Alberta could 0.98

00:16:04.340 do that, too, couldn't we?

00:16:05.920 Oh, absolutely.

00:16:06.800 Absolutely.

00:16:07.500 And I guess we have the resources.

00:16:10.800 We have the resources Quebec doesn't.

00:16:13.340 We have the resources Canada needs.

00:16:15.280 So why shouldn't we do what Quebec does?

00:16:17.240 Right.

00:16:17.640 And actually, that's an interesting point.

00:16:20.140 When people say, is Alberta, like, who's stronger at the negotiation table?

00:16:25.480 I think Alberta is stronger at the negotiation table, right?

00:16:28.140 Fundamentally, what's Quebec negotiating with Kearney?

00:16:30.820 Give us more money or we'll leave?

00:16:33.640 Okay.

00:16:34.280 Pretty much.

00:16:35.060 Yeah, yeah.

00:16:35.580 Thanks for calling.

00:16:37.780 Thank you.

00:16:38.640 Cheers.

00:16:39.740 John, was there a beep on the line?

00:16:41.260 Somebody else is on the line?

00:16:42.460 Or no?

00:16:44.140 Hung up by accident.

00:16:46.240 Yeah, no, I think Quebec is this group, this party.

00:16:51.840 The party itself is serious, the Parti Québécois is serious about separation,

00:16:58.660 but I think this election is not about separation.

00:17:02.180 This election was really about not being happy with their incumbent

00:17:07.160 and trying to send a message to a bunch of people at the same time.

00:17:12.220 Got another caller. Go ahead. What's on your name and what's on your mind, please?

00:17:17.300 Hey, this is Chris from Calgary.

00:17:19.360 Hey, Chris, how are you?

00:17:20.220 good good i actually met you when you were uh canvassing out on the highway there with the

00:17:26.740 maintenance guy ah the good old days that seems like an age the good old freezing freezing cold

00:17:33.740 days yeah but uh the one thing i i wanted to get your opinion on it's like um i think this really

00:17:39.500 ups the stakes for the alberta also pursuing an independent vote because now that quebec is pretty

00:17:46.480 much locked in and they're going to be putting this on the table for the next two years you know

00:17:51.800 because they're not going to have their referendum until trump's out so they're going to hold this

00:17:55.280 card for two years over our head and if we vote option one i wonder where ottawa is going to get

00:18:01.880 the money to pay off quebec to placate them to keep them in canada this sounds like the same old

00:18:08.220 story again and again and again because we vote option one we're we're just basically saying go

00:18:13.640 Go ahead, Ottawa, you know, whatever you want to take from Alberta or whatever, environmentally, carbon, whatever, to satisfy Quebec, go for it.

00:18:22.200 Whatever you want to tax us to retaliate against Trump, go for it.

00:18:26.860 Like, it's just, I'm horrified.

00:18:29.560 Hang on one second. Hang on a second, Chris.

00:18:31.820 So let me ask you a question, right?

00:18:33.020 So I actually had sort of a little notes on my sheet here.

00:18:38.080 And the next thing I was going to talk about is what does this election mean for Carney?

00:18:41.620 And then what does this election mean for Alberta?

00:18:43.640 So let's stick with Carney.

00:18:44.800 So what do you think Carney was feeling the next day

00:18:49.820 when he saw the election results

00:18:51.120 or the night when they were happening?

00:18:52.520 How's he, what's he, what's on his mind this week?

00:18:56.540 Well, now I think he's really between a rock and a hard place

00:19:00.120 because on the one side, you got him out here saying,

00:19:03.460 oh, well, we're going to put in a pipeline.

00:19:05.400 Well, we know Quebec doesn't want the pipeline.

00:19:07.640 So like, how do you please two masters?

00:19:11.160 He's really between a rock and a hard place.

00:19:13.260 But again, I think this kind of just shows the validity to both independence movements.

00:19:19.280 Canada does not work as a country.

00:19:21.560 We have different interests.

00:19:23.060 Quebec has their interests.

00:19:24.360 Alberta has our interests.

00:19:26.340 Ontario has their interests.

00:19:27.980 I mean, you just gave me goosebumps.

00:19:30.420 You just gave me goosebumps with that message.

00:19:33.000 That's awesome.

00:19:33.740 I agree.

00:19:34.660 I agree.

00:19:35.520 Do you want to continue on?

00:19:36.720 What do you think it means for Alberta?

00:19:38.340 Is it good or bad?

00:19:39.800 How do we play this?

00:19:40.660 How do we capitalize on this? 0.62

00:19:43.260 Well, I actually think it's really good for Alberta because, like I say, if we vote option one, this is basically Alberta signing up the maid.

00:19:56.560 Like, that's it. Put the fork in us. We're done. 0.52

00:20:00.620 Right. Yeah. Awesome. Awesome. Awesome. Awesome.

00:20:03.420 All right. Well, thanks for calling in.

00:20:04.780 By the way, are you one of the guys who brought me a coffee when I was on the side of the road freezing or we just had a chat?

00:20:09.200 no i think i think we just chatted freezing cold there i stopped a couple times i always

00:20:15.200 gave you a good honk honk whenever we were driving by awesome thanks for your support cheers

00:20:22.640 thanks marty enjoy the show keep up the good work you bet thanks um yeah so these are all great

00:20:28.880 points right i think uh yeah it's a it's a tough one for carney i've talked about this in the past

00:20:34.560 I think Kearney and the Liberals are feeling that the country is on the verge of maybe a real crisis.

00:20:46.380 And so Kearney came to Alberta and gave us that MOU.

00:20:49.520 And I've said this before, as soon as he gave us that MOU, a lot of Quebecers felt betrayed.

00:20:54.960 Like to the point where Stephen Gilboa resigned over it and other Quebecers online and in the news started whining about it.

00:21:01.120 which really, really highlighted that there's a big divide in the way we think about, you know, something like energy development.

00:21:10.420 And it was and I thought it was a risky game that Carney was playing.

00:21:13.920 I thought he was playing it deliberately. He had no choice.

00:21:16.380 He had to throw some carrots to Alberta and temporarily, you know, sacrifice some goodwill in Quebec.

00:21:27.380 I'm sure he wished that the Quebec election was after our referendum,

00:21:32.660 but the timing for us turned out to be great because it showed that divide.

00:21:39.940 Got another caller.

00:21:40.880 I'm going to take the callers, man.

00:21:42.080 This is what I wanted to do.

00:21:43.500 So go ahead, caller.

00:21:44.260 Where are you calling from?

00:21:45.040 What's your name, please?

00:21:47.560 Hi, Marguerite.

00:21:48.780 Gordon calling from Edmondson.

00:21:50.480 Hi, Gordon.

00:21:52.680 Yeah, no, just in regards to the Quebec election.

00:21:55.000 that uh yeah you know it's a separatist vote but uh their separation is much the same as ours

00:22:00.280 they've done this before it's mostly a bluff just to get more of what they want i'm gonna just say

00:22:05.800 this they're never gonna separate because they are one of the founding of the founding nation

00:22:12.840 they're of upper canada lower canada their history they will never go anywhere but they will pull all

00:22:18.280 the strings they can to get what they want and when you say they're looking after their culture

00:22:23.400 about english and uh and uh french well no it goes deeper than that now because now they'll even have

00:22:29.720 what's the situation with the muslim uh islam and muslim culture and the difficulties they have

00:22:37.080 these kind of things go deeper now and it's not just black and white anymore it there's

00:22:43.640 multi-facets to it but our separation is different our separation is not to negotiate well we guess

00:22:51.160 we are but their game is out theirs is not no i somewhat agree maybe i'll just uh ask you this

00:23:03.160 right um do we run the same like theirs was dragged out i think theirs started out probably

00:23:10.600 they did start out wanting separation right like in the 1960s and 70s they were really

00:23:15.560 back when they really really really were a distinct society so is that a risk that we run

00:23:21.160 because what you're saying i agree with right their society's been dissolved and now that

00:23:25.000 willingness to separate kind of erodes away because you got so many new groups that are in

00:23:30.680 there do we face the same risk in alberta like is time something we need to worry about

00:23:36.360 well well what we do but with separation we can change that because we won't have to worry

00:23:45.560 about carney and his immigration policy i think that's what you're getting at i was a teenager

00:23:51.340 when the flq crisis happened and that was the start of the separation if we remember back when

00:23:58.060 the kidnappings and on and so forth that got pretty ugly and of course you know it evolved

00:24:04.160 since then and yeah that was pretty ugly back then but you know no you know we never want to see that

00:24:10.960 here but i think our end game is probably for separation i think if we get to that vote

00:24:17.600 if we can get past october the 19th with good results we'll we'll be negotiating because yeah

00:24:25.420 they're going to come to the table uh ottawa's not going to have a choice yeah yeah we're definitely

00:24:30.660 Both the provincial government and Ottawa are going to have to come to the table,

00:24:35.140 but I still think the end game will be separation.

00:24:37.640 We definitely have a stronger negotiating position.

00:24:40.000 I agree 100%.

00:24:41.200 Awesome.

00:24:42.840 Thanks.

00:24:43.220 Gordon, you said Calgary, right?

00:24:46.220 No, you said Edmonton.

00:24:47.040 Are you going to the rally on the Hill or on the legislature on the 17th?

00:24:54.740 On the 17th?

00:24:55.620 Yep.

00:24:55.920 On Friday.

00:24:56.660 On Saturday and 17th.

00:24:57.800 Yep.

00:24:58.020 No, I've been to actually two rallies there now.

00:25:00.320 I'm not going to miss the third one.

00:25:02.340 Thanks for calling, bud. Hopefully you'll call again. Cheers.

00:25:07.340 Yeah, thanks. Bye.

00:25:08.840 Yeah, so just a reminder, I guess I'll throw it out there.

00:25:11.960 There is a rally on October 17th.

00:25:14.880 So the referendum vote for us is right around the corner, right?

00:25:18.160 It's not this Monday coming up. It's next Monday.

00:25:20.300 I think it's, if I do the math, what's today?

00:25:23.620 Today, it's in 11 days.

00:25:25.180 So there's one big last push on the 17th at the legislature.

00:25:29.820 And I think it starts at three, but I mean, people will be there earlier.

00:25:33.580 I'll be there.

00:25:34.180 So I'm just saying, I'm just putting it out there.

00:25:36.280 I will be there on Saturday next week at the legislature.

00:25:41.660 I'll be there as early as possible.

00:25:43.640 If you see me, come, you know, say hi, don't be shy.

00:25:47.000 And hopefully we get a great turnout.

00:25:49.220 I mean, I was at the last one last year in October, had about, you know,

00:25:54.780 I saw all sorts of estimates from five to 12,000 people.

00:25:58.040 I don't know.

00:25:58.480 But let's fill it up quickly and make a big push to the end.

00:26:03.800 So I guess I'll keep talking, right?

00:26:06.300 So I think I'm pretty clear that, yeah, I think it's interesting for Kearney.

00:26:12.360 It's a dilemma for Kearney.

00:26:14.760 It shows that there's some fractures, that some people are unhappy.

00:26:19.220 We'll see what happens in BC in a couple of weeks,

00:26:21.780 although there's no separatist movement in Quebec.

00:26:26.340 What does it mean for Alberta?

00:26:28.480 What it means for Alberta is it shows a lot of things, right?

00:26:31.400 It's been interesting to watch now the pundits, pro and against,

00:26:36.300 people coming out and saying all sorts of things like,

00:26:39.300 oh, you can't separate unless you form a party.

00:26:44.540 You know, referendums are invalid.

00:26:46.120 You need to form a party.

00:26:47.100 I've heard that argument over and over.

00:26:49.140 We saw Quebec.

00:26:50.120 So Quebec is going that path, right?

00:26:51.800 So I hear that in Alberta.

00:26:53.400 People go, hey, if you want to separate in Alberta, form your own party.

00:26:56.080 I'm like, okay, well, you know, that's an interesting thing.

00:26:58.860 I mean, democracy, to me, democracy can be grassroots.

00:27:02.400 I don't need a party.

00:27:03.700 But then Quebec shows us that they're forming a party.

00:27:06.160 So Quebec forms a party, gets elected.

00:27:08.020 Now what does everybody say?

00:27:09.040 Oh, they don't have a mandate.

00:27:10.140 They only got, you know, 42% of the vote and blah, blah, blah.

00:27:14.020 And so, you know, and I'm glad that that happens

00:27:16.960 because you start seeing the other side show their colors.

00:27:19.980 Like, you're never going to let us win this easily.

00:27:22.060 You're going to keep changing the rules.

00:27:23.640 And so it's just good to see these things being experimented on and happening across the country so we can see.

00:27:31.280 By the way, I hate that one, right?

00:27:33.580 I saw that over and over and over and over this past week.

00:27:36.960 Oh, it's an illegitimate government.

00:27:39.360 They only have 42% of the votes.

00:27:42.300 I'm like, I think Trudeau won a majority with a lot less than that and didn't win the popular vote and still, you know, ran the country and nobody complained when he was doing it.

00:27:54.100 So, you know, tit for tat.

00:27:55.820 You got to pick your lane.

00:27:56.920 The rules are the rules are the rules.

00:27:58.680 And if you win, you win.

00:27:59.600 That's it.

00:28:00.780 I'm happy to see that.

00:28:04.060 Actually, what do you guys think of the fact?

00:28:05.600 Oh, that was a, I don't know.

00:28:07.160 Do you have a tweet that you could show, John?

00:28:09.040 I don't know.

00:28:09.380 But somebody else, a really interesting person weighed in on the results, right?

00:28:14.780 And that was Elon Musk.

00:28:15.940 Did you guys see that?

00:28:16.800 Maybe you didn't.

00:28:17.380 But Elon Musk put out two tweets or two posts yesterday.

00:28:22.000 one saying sort of like congratulations to quebec you should separate and then he underneath he he

00:28:29.180 added a second post saying uh and uh alberta and saskatchewan should too it's like wow and again

00:28:35.780 that's another one of those weird things where um everybody a lot of people started piling up on

00:28:41.660 elon going well that's foreign interference and this and this and this and this is like no no no

00:28:45.840 again the internet's forever god i love the internet for this right like we live in a new

00:28:50.340 era where it's a lot easier to find stuff from the past and remind people of their hypocrisy so

00:28:56.420 everybody who said oh no elon is foreign interference elon's a canadian citizen okay

00:29:00.980 he has a canadian passport so uh it's not foreign interference so then somebody like

00:29:05.860 jason kenny said well uh elon should do the noble thing and renounces canadian citizenship 0.63

00:29:13.220 really again now you're being a hypocrite because mark carney has a a canadian citizenship an irish

00:29:19.940 one and an eu one so how come you never asked him to renounce by the way 39 mps in this country 39 0.91

00:29:26.420 at last count members of parliament were not born in canada so don't start lecturing people on the

00:29:33.140 concepts of foreign interference and then when elon speaks his mind he's allowed to speak his mind

00:29:39.060 and and then and then yeah they would be better off alberta and saskatchewan should separate too

00:29:44.580 So that was, thank you, Elon, for doing that.

00:29:47.320 Thank you, Elon, also for giving us a voice and for salvaging Twitter,

00:29:53.400 which had started to, you know, it's a free speech platform.

00:29:56.800 And I think he's honoring that.

00:29:58.320 And he's like, yeah, different topic.

00:30:01.140 But I like when somebody like Elon makes a statement

00:30:04.260 and it brings out a whole bunch of people.

00:30:06.060 Like, heads exploded because Elon can't make that statement.

00:30:09.120 It's foreign interference. 0.91

00:30:12.060 Foreign, you know.

00:30:13.160 I'm surprised, I'm honestly surprised that liberals still use the word foreign interference.

00:30:19.960 In fact, the liberal, what's his name, John?

00:30:23.500 I don't know if you, I'm sorry to put you on the spot, John,

00:30:25.540 but the liberal foreign, the liberal minister for national security

00:30:31.620 put out a statement today or yesterday saying Ottawa is concerned about foreign interference

00:30:39.040 in the upcoming Alberta referendum.

00:30:43.160 And I'm like, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow.

00:30:47.760 Like a guy from Ottawa who himself has been, remember two years ago,

00:30:53.780 remember in 2024, there's two RCMP officers that were whistleblowers

00:30:58.080 that wrote a letter naming nine MPs that they said were compromised, okay?

00:31:04.660 And the minister is one of them.

00:31:06.480 So I don't think the federal minister should be talking about foreign interference

00:31:11.860 and they shouldn't even be interfering in the affairs of Alberta at this point.

00:31:16.960 Sorry, I want to take that call, but in a second.

00:31:19.160 In fact, the more a federal minister from an outside province interferes,

00:31:24.860 the more he validates the reason why we're disgruntled, right?

00:31:28.180 So I guess I should say to the minister, hey, keep interfering.

00:31:31.280 You're making our point.

00:31:32.780 Go ahead, call her name and where are you calling from?

00:31:36.860 Hey, Marty, it's Mike from Down South.

00:31:39.020 How's it going today?

00:31:39.980 Mike from Down South.

00:31:41.400 How are things? Good, Mike. What's on your mind?

00:31:47.140 Hey, well, just watching and listening to everything in that.

00:31:50.900 I think the Quebec election, that's good for everything.

00:31:53.860 It's actually really impressive that the Conservatives got 19 seats in Quebec,

00:31:58.440 especially since they haven't had it in like over 100 years down there, I think they were saying.

00:32:03.320 But one thing I've noticed with Carney making, Carney is a mainstream media,

00:32:09.640 making everyone all disgruntled with the United States and everything like a hidden agenda

00:32:16.760 to make the majority of the Canadian population accept this honorary membership to the EU.

00:32:24.120 And then basically when that happens, my thought is that 100 million population number, 0.74

00:32:29.560 they're going to try and flood Canada like they have the rest of Europe. 0.97

00:32:32.440 Yeah. That's my thought that I could see it happening. And it's kind of odd how with all the other bills and everything, like it's not the Canadian government totally controlling the Internet. 0.63

00:32:45.000 And now having to basically kick Starlink out of Canada or something almost or to kind of try to avoid a bunch of it for basic shit. 0.73

00:32:53.460 Well, I didn't hear that, but I could see it. Yeah. 0.96

00:32:56.780 Well, because even with the Starlink, we've got our governments trying to run all this fiber optic line in the ground, which is basically a waste of money and out in the rural.

00:33:09.560 Yeah.

00:33:09.820 Because if everyone just spent 75 bucks and bought a Starlink dish, pick your package and there you go.

00:33:15.500 Now you've got internet.

00:33:16.200 Well, actually, you remind me. Remember last year? That was one of the things that the Ontario Conservatives had chosen Starlink as part of their plan to deliver the Internet to Northern Ontario.

00:33:29.960 And then Doug Ford, all pissed off during the trade war, said, oh, I'm cancelling the deal.

00:33:36.320 And Elon must have been laughing all the way to the bank because the deal, sure, you can cancel it, but there was all these penalties or whatever.

00:33:42.440 And to your point, it just shows how silly we are some days, right?

00:33:46.000 Like it's a boy, I could talk about this topic a lot longer,

00:33:50.120 but I got another call on the line, Mike.

00:33:52.080 So if you got one more comment or.

00:33:55.900 No, no, I just wanted to put my two cents in.

00:33:58.640 You guys have a great day and on to the next one.

00:34:00.760 Thanks, Mike. Take care.

00:34:02.840 You bet. Bye bye.

00:34:03.880 Cheers.

00:34:05.740 Is there another caller, John?

00:34:07.040 I heard the beep.

00:34:07.940 Maybe they got hung up.

00:34:10.020 Actually, on that topic, I want to stay on Quebec,

00:34:13.200 but I just want to bring this up really, really quickly.

00:34:16.000 on waste of money right so one of the initiatives and it's related to elon god elon's related to

00:34:21.200 everything these days right so one of the big waste of money remember earlier this year like

00:34:26.400 oh canada is going to get into the space launching business or whatever and they've had like a bunch

00:34:31.200 of failed launches in newfoundland like they tried to like launch a couple of home rockets blah blah

00:34:36.000 blah well uh i think it was on monday on october 1st or maybe on the second um they bragged about

00:34:44.400 how this Canadian space company had launched a satellite in space.

00:34:49.000 Okay, we built a satellite and it's in space,

00:34:52.040 but you had to dig deep into the story to realize,

00:34:54.560 no, no, you know who delivered the satellite up in space?

00:34:57.000 SpaceX.

00:34:58.160 Like, we're going to try and compete against SpaceX.

00:35:01.180 By the way, just before I got here, I watched Dragon 12,

00:35:04.240 the latest manned flight.

00:35:09.540 So, you know, they went up to the International Space Station,

00:35:11.920 picked up the four astronauts and brought them back to earth absolutely fascinating man elon

00:35:16.640 makes going to space look so smooth and so orchestrated and uh so brilliantly um i just

00:35:23.760 want to i want to stay on a couple of things about quebec that i had wrote down on my note here

00:35:29.360 um one of the one of the so i'm looking forward to seeing what plumondon their new leader does

00:35:37.680 He's going to have to navigate and try and, you know, stay in power with his minority government for a while.

00:35:45.340 But he made an already interesting statement this week, like a real statement.

00:35:50.560 They have to be sworn in, him as the premier and his MLAs.

00:35:56.420 And he's already said that the oath of allegiance that they're taking will not be to the king.

00:36:02.840 I'm not sure how that's going to work out, how they're going to do it.

00:36:04.980 But he's pretty much saying, I'm not taking an oath of allegiance.

00:36:07.820 My oath of allegiance will be to the people of Quebec and not to the king.

00:36:12.340 So I don't know constitutionally how that works.

00:36:14.880 I guess we'll have to see.

00:36:16.940 I guess it's their parliament.

00:36:19.800 They can do whatever they want.

00:36:21.240 They can rewrite the oath.

00:36:23.860 No matter what, again, it makes a statement.

00:36:26.640 It is a move in towards independence.

00:36:30.120 Maybe that's a great way to start, right?

00:36:31.680 You start by saying, hey, you know what?

00:36:33.440 I don't take allegiance to the king anymore.

00:36:35.360 It's a pretty, it's a solid statement.

00:36:39.060 And it's a step.

00:36:40.660 So it's going to be interesting to see how,

00:36:42.460 I mean, and we've already taken those kinds of steps already in the past, right?

00:36:45.920 So you can take an oath to, like when you're in court,

00:36:49.540 you can swear on a Bible or you can just take an attestation

00:36:53.280 or whatever they call.

00:36:54.080 But so that was interesting.

00:36:56.760 And then the other thing, it's unrelated to the politics,

00:37:01.000 but i want but i want to congratulate elections quebec okay so i was glued to my computer screen

00:37:09.800 on monday night watching the results came in and elections quebec kudos on conducting an election

00:37:20.200 counting it so efficiently and reporting on it so beautifully like i didn't go to the media or

00:37:26.520 anywhere else i just went to the election quebec website and the data there was beautiful like

00:37:31.800 on the fly rapidly like within a couple of like it took barely a couple of hours there was six

00:37:37.680 million or six or so million eligible electors about 4.3 million came out the vote so they

00:37:44.380 counted 4.3 million votes they counted them in two hours they reported on them the statistics

00:37:49.580 are fabulous when i was on there i could see writing by writing box by box you know the voter

00:37:55.360 participation the number of spoiled ballots who was in the lead uh just brilliant brilliant

00:38:02.400 brilliant data and and and i can tell you like it adds so much confidence when you're a citizen

00:38:09.520 and you're watching that and you go wow good job right and then i got to bring that back to our

00:38:14.560 our guys here in the elections alberta i've been critical of them and i'm going to continue to be

00:38:18.400 critical of them i i think i'm afraid that maybe intentionally or unintentionally that the

00:38:26.240 that the referendum on the 19th might end up being uh uh forgive my french or forgive yeah i'm gonna

00:38:32.880 use the same language as uh jeremy farkas might be a shitshow um you know today we learned that uh

00:38:40.400 600 000 ballots have been mailed out not today but we we know that about 600 000 mail-in ballots 0.57

00:38:45.600 have been sent to people we know that people have been receiving them that are incomplete they're

00:38:49.920 missing pages they're confused do i fold it in half do i fold it three ways blah blah blah

00:38:55.440 and then elections alberta has already said that they've only received about 60 000 ballots and of

00:39:01.280 the 60 000 they've received they've already uh they haven't given an exact number but they're

00:39:05.920 saying there's a lot of them that are being disqualified they're not you know they're they're

00:39:10.240 incomplete or improperly filled which is always going to be an issue with mail-in ballots and

00:39:16.080 then you got nenshi talking today making a video about this saying you know there's 500 000

00:39:22.160 that haven't been received i know he's tracking this like the way he talks about it i really get

00:39:27.840 suspicious of him i mean it really sounds like he put in a giant campaign to uh get the mail-in

00:39:34.000 ballots so um i i just wanted to say that about elections quebec i i thought uh the the folks

00:39:40.960 there did a great job which which now reminds me of another thing um one of the callers i think it

00:39:47.920 was gordon or maybe it was mike talked about how the uh conservatives had a breakout in quebec right

00:39:54.320 and they won 19 seats and that was another thing that's really noticeable you can you can put you

00:40:00.640 You can download the data and you can look at the voter participation as an example.

00:40:06.820 And the writings where the Conservatives won had a statistically significant higher voter participation than the other writings.

00:40:19.380 So that tells me something.

00:40:20.720 That means that there's some, like in the Quebec City area, they got extremely well organized and they got out there and they got the people to come out and vote.

00:40:28.980 And so it's statistically significant. You can see that the conservative writings outperform, got a greater turnout. And again, to the people of Quebec, congratulations. I mean, some of those writings had like 80% turnout. I think there was at least 20 writings in Quebec that had greater than 75% voter participation. That's huge. That's huge.

00:40:54.420 like we we will be lucky here some writings to get like 40 or 50 so they they really knocked it

00:41:00.940 out of the park and again those are those behind the scenes statistics that politicians need to

00:41:07.500 pay attention to when your citizens come out in huge numbers to vote don't pat yourself on the

00:41:14.160 back i had a politician i i went to the agm a couple years ago in edmonton and uh oh no the

00:41:19.820 one in Red Deer and it was Shane Getz and I don't think he's an MLA anymore but Shane was like hey

00:41:27.300 this is fantastic you know we got the 6,000 people to come out and I looked at him I'm like what are

00:41:32.260 you bragging about we're not here because you did a great job like if you were doing a great job we

00:41:38.140 wouldn't be at the AGM we'd probably ignore it but the more we come out we're coming out in force

00:41:45.160 because we're upset so you know and and then that's another message and i and i think we

00:41:50.280 probably will see that in the bc election in the coming weeks um maybe we'll pivot to that right

00:41:57.000 so i think i beat the horse to death there on uh on the quebec politics uh but october is election

00:42:05.240 month in uh in canada there's uh municipal elections and provincial elections in bc i think

00:42:10.760 there's a municipal elections in nova scotia or in manitova i think there's a provincial election

00:42:16.920 in the yukon next week there's a couple of other elections but now that the you know the the next

00:42:22.440 one is a referendum all eyes will be on our referendum and uh and by the way get get out to

00:42:28.520 vote man like that's that's that's an equally strong message right the outcome of the referendum

00:42:33.560 is a message but the there's other statistics i mean regardless of the outcome if four million

00:42:42.200 albertans it can't be four million if 2.8 million let's say 90 percent of albertans vote that's a

00:42:47.100 message in and of itself right that uh that politicians have to pay attention because

00:42:52.040 nothing that that's one of the things politicians fear the most is uh is an engaged populist like

00:42:58.220 if we're engaged and we're voting that's a really really really really really strong

00:43:03.160 message to the politician so that's that's my encouragement to you get out to vote uh on on

00:43:08.840 october 19th actually you have almost all of next week to vote by the way right so you can vote i

00:43:13.560 think uh monday through thursday next week in advance polls uh it's getting too late i think

00:43:19.720 i think today is the deadline no tomorrow is the deadline for mail-in ballots uh you could request

00:43:25.480 them up until the 25th of september and then i think you have until tomorrow they have to hit

00:43:31.000 the elections alberta's office in edmonton or something like that so i think you're running out

00:43:34.500 of time for mail-in ballots but uh lots of opportunities next week um quickly on uh on bc

00:43:42.940 election uh i think i i i'm i'm starting to believe the polls and i think david eby's going

00:43:51.320 to regret this one um he's not doing so hot there's he looks stressed out right there's lots

00:43:57.700 eclipse of david sort of like looking around and i think i think he's regretting this one uh he's

00:44:04.260 rambling he's not making sense and and then his strategy is one of the most bizarre strategies

00:44:09.860 at this point i mean he's he's almost betting on uh i'm gonna make bc the most expensive

00:44:14.980 jurisdiction in the world with the highest tax rates like that's such a weird strategy

00:44:19.620 all right i got a caller go ahead caller where are you calling from and what's your name please

00:44:22.660 can you hear me yeah yeah perfectly how are you oh not too bad a lot on my mind today we'll see

00:44:32.820 what we can get to uh elon musk did he interfere no who cares right let's uh let's look back at

00:44:44.820 our previous election uh china interfered with that election india interfered with that election

00:44:51.700 The Russians interfered with the election.

00:44:54.780 The Americans interfered with the election.

00:44:56.860 Doug Ford interfered with that election.

00:44:59.920 So why do we care what Elon Musk is doing

00:45:03.720 when literally half the planet has their fingers in our election? 0.85

00:45:08.280 It's hypocrisy.

00:45:10.280 You're preaching to the choir.

00:45:11.920 I agree.

00:45:12.780 But they fear Elon because Elon has a big platform, right?

00:45:17.400 Like if Elon says I'm pro-independence, they fear him.

00:45:20.880 it's uh yeah it's simple as that

00:45:23.040 yep simple as they just it's anything they can do to make them shut up it they just don't want to

00:45:32.960 hear it yeah and then and then on the flip side right uh remember last year uh carney brought out

00:45:39.840 mike myers right carney brings out mike myers and uses mike myers in an advertising and mike

00:45:45.120 myers is no more canadian i mean he's also got a passport a canadian passport but is mike myers

00:45:50.240 more canadian or more american than than elon musk you tell me

00:45:56.320 right more canadian than uh mark carney who i thought was irish there you go exactly exactly

00:46:02.880 yeah yeah what else is on your mind you said you had a couple of things we could unpack a couple

00:46:06.720 of things pick something up that one of the other callers mentioned you were asking if you thought

00:46:12.480 mark carney cared about what was going on in quebec or with the bc election yeah i don't think

00:46:18.480 think he cares in the slightest i don't think he cares about this country at all i think he would

00:46:23.980 burn down the entire nation for another zero on his network based on the way he was acting in the

00:46:32.320 house of commons yesterday i would tend to agree i mean he was so flippant yesterday right like

00:46:37.160 pierre is back to his usual self like what have you done to help canadians and carney carney had

00:46:42.880 a smirk on his face he almost couldn't contain himself like he's he views a lot of this as a joke

00:46:48.980 the man has possibly the worst poker face i've ever seen you can tell what he's lying

00:46:55.220 from 100 miles away well you know how you can tell he's lying

00:46:58.360 his lips are moving on his face every time no his lips are moving

00:47:03.520 yeah awesome okay well no um yeah no thanks for calling and um are you uh any chance you'll be at

00:47:14.580 the rally on saturday or you're busy you got other things or it's too far possibly i'm gonna

00:47:19.880 try and make it but uh things are busy right now yeah yeah things are real busy as long as you get

00:47:27.760 out to vote that's what matters the most oh wild horses couldn't drag me away

00:47:33.260 Awesome. Thanks for calling, bud.

00:47:36.460 Thank you, Marty. Have a good one.

00:47:38.000 You too.

00:47:39.580 Yeah, how can you tell Mark Carney's lying?

00:47:41.580 His lips are moving.

00:47:42.500 It's as simple as that.

00:47:46.240 What was I going to say?

00:47:47.220 Oh, just back to the rally.

00:47:51.260 I don't know the website.

00:47:52.740 Like Keith Wilson and Tanya Clemens have their website.

00:47:56.160 What's their group? 0.61

00:47:58.140 It's called Let Alberta Decide.

00:47:59.480 um every you know everybody's got uh third party advertisers cory morgan's done fantastic like

00:48:06.260 cory's cory's plastered the southern part of the province jason levine is i mean that was one thing

00:48:12.640 that was absolutely uh gorgeous to for me to witness right i on my way to go hunting i drive

00:48:18.380 up along the cowboy trail so i leave calgary i go through sundry caroline rocky mountain house

00:48:24.400 drayton valley i cut across i go up through cynthia most of you have never been to cynthia

00:48:29.080 then I do Carrot Creek, Edson, Hinton, Grand Cache

00:48:33.920 and that's where I go hunting

00:48:35.200 and that cowboy trail

00:48:37.180 it's officially called the Cowboy Trail Highway 22

00:48:39.300 the number of flags that keep popping up there

00:48:41.600 the number of blue flags is heartwarming

00:48:44.720 now you're just reminding me of a story

00:48:47.740 did you guys see the story yesterday

00:48:49.700 I don't know, there's a bit missing to the story

00:48:54.540 but apparently some kid

00:48:56.760 or somebody at the Oilers game in Edmonton at Rogers Place

00:49:00.240 got tapped on the shoulder.

00:49:02.240 Somebody complained about them because they had an Alberta flag

00:49:04.700 and then they were deemed disruptive

00:49:08.420 and then got kicked out of the game.

00:49:11.680 I mean, and again, people were like,

00:49:15.900 this is more evidence of a double standard

00:49:18.180 because now somebody said, oh, well, there's a rule against flags.

00:49:22.340 Well, as soon as they said there's a rule against flag,

00:49:24.360 Like everybody brought up all these pictures of people waving.

00:49:28.000 Yeah, there you go.

00:49:29.080 Fans allegedly.

00:49:30.700 Why does it say allegedly?

00:49:32.740 John can't answer me.

00:49:34.060 It's a rhetorical question, I guess.

00:49:35.800 But was it just not proven?

00:49:39.100 Anyways, it's a bad look.

00:49:41.280 Okay?

00:49:41.480 It's a bad look.

00:49:42.200 It's a bad look.

00:49:42.840 If you start getting kicked out of events because you have an Alberta flag, that's a bad look.

00:49:49.340 And then when you try and justify it by saying, oh, well, we don't allow flags.

00:49:52.620 and then somebody says, well, you got the Ukraine flag

00:49:54.660 and the Palestinian flag and whatever, all these other flags,

00:49:58.800 then you're applying a double standard. 0.85

00:50:01.020 They're making too much noise, whatever, whatever, whatever.

00:50:03.360 Like, you know, a lot of these events expose a lot of double standards

00:50:07.680 and a lot of bias and a lot of flawed thinking.

00:50:10.780 So we'll see what happens.

00:50:14.600 The next home game for the Oilers is coming up in a couple of days

00:50:18.200 and everybody's saying, oh, bring out the flag.

00:50:20.580 So maybe that'll be, again, a catalyst, perfect timing.

00:50:25.740 It's the Streisand effect, right, folks?

00:50:27.440 It's the Streisand effect.

00:50:28.580 Like, sometimes when you single out a person for doing something,

00:50:33.540 you amplify the movement.

00:50:36.340 So you kick out – I mean, that's what Corey did.

00:50:38.840 Thank you, Corey Morgan, right?

00:50:40.080 That's what Corey did.

00:50:41.240 The city of Tabor said, hey, you can't have a sign.

00:50:45.280 It's offensive for whatever rules.

00:50:47.220 No, it doesn't fall under the rules.

00:50:48.820 we followed the rules but okay rather than you made a complaint about one sign cory went and put

00:50:55.400 up two more and then three more and four more and a dozen more and i'm sure the people at the city

00:51:00.300 of tabor who who made that complaint wished they hadn't so um and and and i'm okay with that um

00:51:08.360 okay i'm running out of time i want to uh i got a couple of other uh topics i wanted to uh mention

00:51:15.420 but I think I'm running, I wanted to talk a little bit,

00:51:20.000 well, let's talk, can you, let's do one funny one real quick.

00:51:23.500 John, can you find just a picture of Chrystia Freeland

00:51:26.840 and holding up her new book?

00:51:28.840 Because I thought it was parody, but it is not parody. 0.51

00:51:31.880 Like this is, this is bonkers.

00:51:34.320 So I'll give him, I'll give him a second to find it.

00:51:39.780 You guys can go maybe find it afterwards.

00:51:41.840 You'll find the videos.

00:51:43.180 So Chrystia Freeland, we all know Chrystia Freeland.

00:51:45.320 right used to be uh used to be it's a book about her boyfriend right like um not not yeah so

00:51:53.640 christian freeland so i thought this was a joke now i think maybe the full content of the book

00:52:00.900 might be a joke maybe it's just a title but she's she she did a this thing it's not parody she's on

00:52:07.720 she there's a live video of her saying i you know i wrote this book my unreliable boyfriend talking

00:52:13.220 about donald trump and quote the betrayal of donald trump like come on like that's trump

00:52:21.900 derangement syndrome on a whole new level okay this again this is coming from somebody who was

00:52:29.600 a very senior minister in canada okay very senior like second in command like basically the deputy

00:52:38.180 minister and the finance minister like the highest cabinet possible and she resigns and where is she

00:52:45.700 now she's working for zelinski in ukraine helping him launder money and collect money and whatever so

00:52:55.300 i think there's going to be a second book at some point it's her unreliable boyfriend

00:53:00.100 by the way she wasn't a boy like how she makes that link that trump was her boyfriend like that's

00:53:06.500 that's a weird assumption right like you could have said the unreliable neighbor or something

00:53:10.660 like that but to call it the unreliable boyfriend really christian you and donald trump were boyfriend

00:53:16.180 and girlfriend i'd i'm more likely to believe that you and zelinski were boyfriend and girlfriend

00:53:22.420 and i'm curious to you know i'll be curious to see how that relationship ends for you christia

00:53:28.100 freeland so uh anyways just just strike that up you know this is um this is something in general

00:53:34.420 that i talked about i mean um the summer was quiet because uh all the politicians were in recess and

00:53:41.460 now they're all back in uh in in in uh at work and as soon as they're back at work the the the

00:53:48.180 insanity starts um okay i'm gonna i'm i'm i'm really running out i'm not really running out

00:53:54.660 of time but i'm gonna go one last quick one one last quick story and uh i got two to choose from

00:54:00.180 but i'm going to pick on jeremy farkas for the last bit of the show um you know you you guys

00:54:09.980 saw last couple of weeks ago uh jeremy farkas got upset because um some somebody inside uh council

00:54:17.980 did some whistleblowing and and showed up that uh there's going to be a huge tax increase that

00:54:23.940 are being proposed because everybody's having their hand out everybody wants more money more

00:54:27.800 money more money more money and then farkas comes out this week and puts out a video oh pleading

00:54:33.880 with everybody like our water infrastructure is in really bad shape and he's trying to justify the

00:54:39.460 fact that uh i'm surprised he didn't go as far as blaming his predecessor because honestly he could

00:54:44.580 blame uh nenshi and gondek directly for mismanaging the infrastructure but he didn't go that far he

00:54:53.020 basically said the infrastructure is crumbling and i need to charge you guys more money my question

00:55:00.040 exactly to him is how come edmonton's infrastructure is not crumbling how come toronto's infrastructure

00:55:07.140 is not crumbling how come uh you know vancouver's and other places aren't crumbling to quite the

00:55:13.100 same extent as we are here in calgary like rather than rather than do whatever you're saying how

00:55:20.260 about you just come out and admit it and say that it that the city was mismanaged and point the

00:55:27.300 finger directly because he took a little bit of blame on it oh i was part of the council when

00:55:31.820 this happened yeah you're part of the council blame put the blame squarely where it belongs

00:55:37.280 on nenshi and on gondek we already know gondek's under some sort of weird investigation right now

00:55:42.760 She won't break her phone, but put it on Nenshi right now.

00:55:47.100 Nenshi's running in, is still a politician provincially.

00:55:53.680 Gondek, Farkas won't do it. 0.83

00:55:56.060 I'll do it for you, Jeremy.

00:56:00.300 Nahid Nenshi mismanaged the city and he shouldn't be managing anything.

00:56:07.480 All right, there, I said it.

00:56:08.420 Now, the interesting follow up on that is that after he made his announcements, to me, Farkas looks like he's really, really, really, really, really trying to distract. Right. So he's really on board right now. He's taking a lot of time out of his busy schedule instead of managing the infrastructure and worrying about the city. He's taking a lot of time out of his schedule to fight against Alberta independence, which I don't think is his mandate. 0.60

00:56:34.020 He should just sit on the sidelines for this one, and he should just shut up.

00:56:38.000 But then he went further, and two days ago, he declared that October was, don't quote me exactly, but I think his terms were, you know, October is Muslim or Islam Awareness Month or something like that.

00:56:53.460 Which again, I take objection to that simply for the fact that it's not your mandate, okay?

00:57:05.440 Declaring an awareness month, I don't even like awareness month, right?

00:57:09.660 I don't like ice cream awareness month, black history awareness month, whatever, you know, aquarium awareness month. 0.64

00:57:18.360 Like it's getting ridiculous.

00:57:19.480 There's awareness months for all of these things and they're insignificant.

00:57:22.200 who gives us you know who cares i don't need that stuff but it's bad enough that ottawa does it i

00:57:28.360 don't need the provinces and then down to the municipal level doing this so jeremy farkas

00:57:32.760 declaring a month as a certain awareness month is none of your business it's not your mandate you

00:57:37.640 have bigger things to do but i found it particularly weird that he chose monday to declare an awareness

00:57:46.200 month and then yesterday or yeah yesterday was the terrible anniversary was october 7th which

00:57:53.440 is that terrorist attack uh in in uh israel against those kids that were having that festival

00:58:00.400 and others right there's 1200 victims and so on the same week as that you know you see where i'm

00:58:07.660 going with this and then and then yesterday he tried to save face a little bit by saying hey

00:58:12.320 You know, Jewish people have never been under bigger threat since the Holocaust.

00:58:18.900 I'm like, well, so Jeremy, do us all a favor, bud.

00:58:25.920 Worry about the water.

00:58:27.440 Worry about the sewers. 0.81

00:58:29.140 Worry about the garbage collection.

00:58:30.960 And worry about making sure that whenever a young boy like Parker goes missing,

00:58:35.480 that your amber alerts go out quickly so we can find them.

00:58:39.720 So you have bigger things to worry about.

00:58:41.340 other than cultural awareness months.

00:58:44.660 All right.

00:58:44.960 I made my piece.

00:58:46.120 Listen, folks, great show.

00:58:47.940 Thanks for calling.

00:58:49.520 I mean, I was a little worried that I was out of touch

00:58:53.020 because I was gone for 10 days.

00:58:55.320 But you guys made this show today.

00:58:57.020 It was a fantastic show.

00:58:58.020 Thanks for calling in.

00:58:59.480 I talked a lot, but you guys brought up some great points.

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Western Standard - October 11, 2026

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