Western Standard - MARTY UP NORTH： Stay Free Alberta canvassers face rising hostility

00:00:00.000 Welcome back to the

00:00:29.000 marty up north show on uh here on the western standard uh i'm your host marty up north coming

00:00:35.560 at you live from calgary almost didn't make it in this morning i thought uh i thought i was gonna

00:00:40.680 have to call john and say hey we're gonna have to do this one remotely i mean my i think the colors

00:00:45.500 come back in my knuckles right now but it was a bit of a white knuckle drive i come in from out

00:00:50.040 of town i live northwest of calgary and i take a back way in and there's like a big hill where i

00:00:56.740 got to go and the guy in front of me or gal i didn't get to see decided that they were getting

00:01:02.120 a little nervous and we're hitting the brakes on the hill going down and uh i was like no i'm not

00:01:07.940 having any of that so i had to try and swerve around and then accelerate going up the hill it's

00:01:11.720 all good got it made it but uh reminder you know snow tires make a big difference on cars i know

00:01:17.560 a lot of people like to just run those all seasons but nothing beats an actual proper snow tire

00:01:23.080 all right um and actually it's a it's it's a kind of an interesting segue into the story into the

00:01:30.640 show because um i've been i've told you guys i've been canvassing on the side of the road so i got

00:01:36.060 a spot that i go to uh every day now i think i spend about 24 days about four hours a day at a

00:01:44.920 location that has become sort of a fixture in northwest calgary along bear spa or along uh

00:01:50.460 Crowchild 1A and at the Bears Bar intersection.

00:01:53.020 We've got two crews of canvassers there.

00:01:55.520 We're not there.

00:01:56.960 Usually I'm not there on Thursdays.

00:01:58.780 None of us are there today because of the weather.

00:02:01.360 Kind of good to take a break.

00:02:03.000 And it is the topic of what I want to talk about today.

00:02:07.620 You guys have probably seen, if you follow me on X,

00:02:10.640 you've seen not just my incident, you've seen other incidents.

00:02:14.220 There's been a growing number of incidents of people who are canvassing getting harassed.

00:02:20.460 And I've had so far two videos now that that that have gone not viral, but that have made the rounds on X.

00:02:29.000 And in both instances, people have been coming to us disingenuine, right?

00:02:34.520 They're not interested in signing. And we know that.

00:02:36.460 I mean, we play a little game when somebody steps out of the car.

00:02:38.960 Now we're what we ask ourselves, you know, friend or foe.

00:02:41.360 And there's a pattern that's emerging and we have some people that come out and they're not interested in signing.

00:02:45.860 They're just interested in either some of them just come out immediately, guns a blazing, you know, hurling insults at us and being offensive.

00:02:54.260 And when that happens, we were I was I'm going to say this.

00:02:57.780 I was wrongly instructed to take out a camera and start recording and and tell them that, you know, they're interfering with the activities of a canvasser and that it could lead to fines.

00:03:09.460 Turns out that that's not the case.

00:03:13.420 So and and not coincidentally, yesterday, Elections Alberta put out a press release.

00:03:20.940 So, John, you want to just flash that up for us real quick?

00:03:24.520 And you don't you know, I'm not going to read the press release here.

00:03:27.580 But, you know, the title says Elections Alberta addresses petition canvassers conduct harassment and misinformation.

00:03:34.400 So that wasn't a coincidence because apparently my my incident is not the only one.

00:03:39.900 there's been like dozens, even up to a hundred.

00:03:44.220 And so Elections Alberta felt it was necessary to clarify some things,

00:03:48.720 which led me then to go look at the elections or the Alberta

00:03:53.880 Elections Act and go see a few things.

00:03:56.400 And I was a little disappointed in what I read in there.

00:03:59.820 So when you become a canvasser, you are signing a code of conduct that says

00:04:04.140 you won't harass people who come to sign, or if you're going door knocking

00:04:09.020 And you go and try and get a signature and somebody says, I'm not interested.

00:04:11.780 You just, you know, say thank you and walk away.

00:04:14.180 So we, the canvassers, have signed a code of conduct and we're not allowed to harass while we're doing our job.

00:04:21.160 But the reverse actually doesn't apply.

00:04:23.480 So if somebody comes and harasses us while we're canvassing or gets really offensive to us, the only recourse we have, Elections Alberta is not going to come to our defense.

00:04:32.500 The only people who are going to come to our defense is if we call 911 or the police and then file a report.

00:04:37.820 so i was misled into thinking that and what it made me realize is that i mean i know i'm a victim

00:04:43.520 not a victim a target of some persistent harassment they want to harass me they want

00:04:49.040 to capture me on video losing you know my cool my temper which they kind of did the the other day

00:04:54.180 but i'm but now i'm realizing this is a strategy they want to harass us so that they catch us

00:04:59.800 uh being uh you know losing our cool and potentially then they can complain to elections

00:05:05.760 Alberta and elections Alberta will investigate us so all that to say that you know citizens on

00:05:11.820 the side of the road or walking door to door collecting signatures for a petition are literally

00:05:16.980 held to a higher standard than the people we're trying to hold accountable we're trying to hold

00:05:22.300 politicians accountable we're trying to hold senior bureaucrats and civil servants accountable

00:05:28.000 and we're actually trying to do something good for the lunatics that are running around there

00:05:32.800 but we are held at a higher standard.

00:05:34.320 So it's just a message out to my fellow canvassers.

00:05:40.260 Hold yourself to a higher standard.

00:05:42.140 That's what the government wants,

00:05:43.260 but that's what we're going to do as well.

00:05:44.800 Hold yourself to a higher standard.

00:05:46.200 Don't fall for the shenanigans.

00:05:47.980 Collect your signatures.

00:05:48.920 If somebody comes by, do it in groups.

00:05:50.940 And if somebody comes by to harass you,

00:05:53.120 just disconnect and de-escalate and let it go.

00:05:58.320 So that was a good lesson for me coming in the other days.

00:06:02.440 All right.

00:06:02.660 So otherwise it's your show folks, it's your show and it's a call-in show.

00:06:06.940 That's the format we're trying to use. It's a call-in show.

00:06:09.100 I mean, I got a couple of things written down here that I,

00:06:11.420 that I'll happily talk about, but you know, ask me a question,

00:06:15.800 let's have some dialogue and then just realize something last week while I was

00:06:19.960 doing the show, right? I was, there's moments where there aren't calls coming in,

00:06:23.840 but I realized that you guys also can, if you're more comfortable,

00:06:27.040 just fire up a question on the side there and John,

00:06:30.260 the producer will pick out the odd one and put them on the big screen and i can read them out

00:06:34.400 and and we can have um the dialogue that way but like i said last week don't be afraid folks the

00:06:40.740 number's on the bottom i don't think anybody pays long distance anymore call in and no need to do

00:06:46.040 like diane did two weeks ago build up the courage to to call marty i'm just a guy and i just want

00:06:51.700 to chat about things um and i'll tell you some of the things that are on my list today right

00:06:56.720 beyond the canvassing oh by the way and the canvassing is going well I should mention that

00:07:03.500 the canvassing for me in particular is going extremely well I set myself a target of getting

00:07:08.220 a thousand signatures I'm well over the halfway mark I still got 55 days to do it and now we're

00:07:13.720 entering a new phase of canvassing which is uh we're because at first we were doing the easy

00:07:19.000 stuff at first we're calling the people who had already pledged to um to sign we call them and now

00:07:27.320 we're going door to door which is a new phase and the door to door is actually turning out to be

00:07:31.880 really successful some small groups that are reporting back are going around door to door

00:07:36.600 and uh getting like 40 50 60 success rate on doors that open of course right because sometimes people

00:07:43.960 aren't there um but but and and i also want to mention the urgency of the camp scene but before

00:07:50.040 i go there we do have a call and before i take this call reminder folks name where you're calling

00:07:55.240 from and i'll i'll ask you sometimes to stay on the line and sometimes i'll just ask you to after

00:08:00.040 you do your question to you know please hang up so that other people can call in because we don't

00:08:04.600 have a switchboard so all right go ahead on the line name and where you're calling from

00:08:08.360 uh good afternoon my name is uh ian coates i'm calling from uh in between caster and alliance

00:08:17.480 alberta cool um um i really appreciate the work you're doing um it's it's really important um

00:08:27.400 And, man, it must be so, so challenging to keep your cool with some of these actors that

00:08:40.680 you're encountering, encountering rather.

00:08:45.460 My question is, if you could please talk about the organization of the people who are harassing

00:08:58.840 you and if you've sort of put any pieces of that puzzle together.

00:09:09.340 Got it.

00:09:10.340 Okay, cool.

00:09:11.340 Thanks very much for your time.

00:09:12.340 Yeah, yeah.

00:09:13.340 Thank you.

00:09:14.340 Yes, first of all, it is. Yeah, it is challenging to keep your cool when somebody is is, you know, harassing you and playing loud music or doing things. Right. We play. So and I have a group. And so last the incident the other day, I lose my cool. OK, I'll admit it. I'm not that I idol at 70. That's what I tell. I idol at 70. I can go to 100 pretty darn quick. So my and my wife's always been critical of me of that. So I said, OK, Karen.

00:09:44.340 you handle some of these calls right so she and so is so i'm laughing because it was funny to watch

00:09:49.460 her lose her cool so it's really easily said but it's a whole other thing to keep your cool um you

00:09:58.020 know is there an organization that's doing this on purpose i i think so i mean look there's a like

00:10:03.620 there's a there's organizations that uh launch a whole bunch of recall petitions against mlas right

00:10:11.460 don't quote me on the exact number, I think it was 24 or 25 recall petitions were launched near

00:10:15.960 the end of last year. They've all been sort of meeting their deadlines, and none of them have

00:10:20.860 been successful. And we know a lot of that was done by the unions and the NDP. And then you can

00:10:26.440 go to Elections Alberta and see who's registered as third party advertisers and things like that.

00:10:31.120 So there is, I think on the other side, there's a pretty concerted effort organization to try and

00:10:37.040 disrupt what we're trying to do um now that said uh you can see in one of the in the video you

00:10:44.260 could go back and watch the video but near the end of the video what really caught my attention

00:10:48.640 on the incident i had a couple of days ago is that when the lady turned around and drove past us and

00:10:53.460 was seemed to be leaving she didn't she stopped and she engaged with a vehicle that was parked

00:10:59.780 on the side of the road so i walked up to that vehicle because i was like still filming and i

00:11:06.280 and the gentleman held the camera in my face and it was weird because the first question he said

00:11:10.040 to me or asked me is are you armed so i found that unusual i said no i'm not armed i'm just

00:11:15.560 you know filming this lady who near who tried to assault me with the vehicle and then he said well

00:11:20.760 that's not how i you know there was a dialogue and all i'll say about that dialogue is that um

00:11:26.520 it it looked like they were setting a narrative and they were filming but i disrupted their

00:11:31.240 narrative because i stayed calm and i was asking questions the only the biggest regret i have about

00:11:36.600 that incident is that to me when i hear the sound there was a dispatch radio in that car so um yeah

00:11:42.920 anyways it's i don't know who i have a suspicion that it's the ndp and perhaps federal organizations

00:11:49.880 but uh somebody's definitely trying to disrupt us excellent um um another uh uh

00:11:57.640 observation i've had and um i'd like to hear what your experience has been um

00:12:05.840 um a lot of young people i talk to um like who are you know like early 20s or even like

00:12:15.000 in their late teenagers um are really pro-separatists and and um in other parts of canada

00:12:28.040 are really kind of questioning this political system we have and and and questioning all the

00:12:35.660 flaws in it and seem to have a lot more energy to kind of engage in protest.

00:12:48.540 What's your been, correction, what is your experience been with young people and are

00:12:56.420 you seeing any trends there?

00:12:59.900 Okay, excellent question.

00:13:02.300 It was Ian, right?

00:13:03.300 you to hang up i'll answer that so we can get other calls on the line but um my you know i i've

00:13:08.980 said this several times there is no unique demographic of who signs so we've had across

00:13:14.580 the spectrum of who signs there is a but there is a evolving very unique demographic of who doesn't

00:13:20.260 want to sign and the people who are generally opposed and and and very um uh vocal about it

00:13:27.380 are very senior people what i call the boomers who have something who who who are hanging on

00:13:32.820 to a very nostalgic canada and are worried about their pension and are worried about whatever the

00:13:38.660 wealth they've accumulated on the other hand the youth are an interesting group they are very

00:13:45.460 disenfranchised a lot of youth that we come across are disenfranchised because their lives is

00:13:50.420 different they don't if you're a 24 year old kid today your prospects when you look next 10 years

00:13:56.740 it's dismal compared to at when i was 24 years old in the 19 early 90s i mean god i like i was

00:14:03.620 you know future so bright i gotta wear shades like the my my prospects i never worried about

00:14:08.900 my future but the kids today worry about their future so they so you're absolutely correct they

00:14:13.540 are on board with the separatist pro uh movement the only problem we have is they are extremely

00:14:22.340 um they're the digital generation and so coming out and signing in person for them is some is a

00:14:29.460 is a difficult thing we we i haven't figured out how to we haven't figured out how to reach out to

00:14:35.060 them because uh i guarantee you if we could allow uh the petition to occur online via signatures

00:14:41.220 the kids would be all i call them the kids the the the young generations would be all over it so

00:14:45.780 uh go ahead uh call what's what's on your mind hey it's jesse in gp how's it going jesse

00:14:55.860 good thanks uh hey are you warm by the way i'm just kidding

00:15:01.180 what a weird question that was that freaked me out that question really freaked me out like

00:15:07.660 that that's the one where my uh tingly senses went up right like why is this guy asking me that but

00:15:14.060 anyway sorry yeah yeah and and rightfully so because that's you know that is a very off the

00:15:20.860 wall question right so it's obviously pre-credited i think but um what i wanted to call about was uh

00:15:27.260 in regards to organization on that side we also need to be organized on our side so um

00:15:31.900 there's a lot of people i had a signing event uh pop-up signing event yesterday on the husky road

00:15:36.460 you probably know the husky roads at the gp um and i'm capturing a lot of the truckers oil and gas

00:15:42.140 workers crews construction you know all the camp folks and stuff because and this is the problem

00:15:46.800 they're out there working and they can't get in and this goes along with what you just said in

00:15:51.600 regards to an internet signing drive would be nice um so and that just i was hoping that we could

00:15:57.940 try and like this is a plea to everyone who's a canvasser such as myself is to put these pop-ups

00:16:04.800 on the oil and gas road because they will sign they're stopping and signing and the first thing

00:16:09.540 I hear, and it's all watch-the-life, Native indigenous people, like obviously Black people,

00:16:15.420 East Asians, Asians, like everybody, but they're too busy working that they can't get in and

00:16:22.540 sign.

00:16:23.540 So, Caminister, please hop up on the side of that oil and gas road because you guys are

00:16:29.300 going to sign.

00:16:30.300 This is your 100% signing people, and the people that are driving by have already signed.

00:16:34.300 Awesome.

00:16:35.300 Thanks, Jess.

00:16:36.300 Yeah, I got a couple of goosebumps while you were saying that. And so that's another message we get, right? We're on the side of the road. People stop. They see us one day. They go by and don't lose. Like set up the consistency, set up at the same spot day after day. They see us. They go by. They don't sign. They see us. They go by. They don't sign. Then finally, on the third day, they realize ahead of time, they're going to be there. They look for us. They come and sign. And we overwhelmingly hear that. I'm so busy. I'm so busy. And that's what I tell them.

00:17:03.220 that's why we have to come to you the the the the Albertans that are going to sign a petition are

00:17:08.300 the ones working and paying taxes and the ones that are not going to sign it are the ones that

00:17:12.200 are not working collecting you know the givers for the the makers versus the takers so I I totally

00:17:17.460 agree make it as convenient as possible to uh to to go to the folks now and I I didn't want to talk

00:17:23.920 too much about the petition but I'll I'll say one last thing you guys probably saw Mitch Sylvester

00:17:29.320 the proponent of the petition come out last week and talk about the fact that there are um don't i

00:17:35.480 think six or seven first nations now up in in uh in northern alberta that have filed an injunction

00:17:42.120 so an injunction simply means they're trying to stop the process and they're not trying to stop

00:17:47.000 the referendum they're trying to stop the collection of signatures which to me is one of the

00:17:51.880 most basic basic basic tenets of democracy so they're trying to stop that and uh the judge is

00:17:58.360 going to hear their motion on this injunction, like on April 5, 6, 7th kind of thing. And my

00:18:06.040 fear, I think it's completely ridiculous that a judge would accept this injunction. We're just

00:18:11.080 citizens exercising our democratic right. But you know how judges have been in this country

00:18:16.200 of late, they're appointed by liberals, and they've become kind of puppets of the state,

00:18:21.480 and they're scared to adjudicate properly. That's my opinion. So I think the judge might just hear

00:18:26.920 this and say yeah well i'll err on the side of caution and i will you know uh whole whatever

00:18:33.160 freeze the signature collection i don't think that should matter i mean if some guy tells me

00:18:37.000 you're not allowed to collect signatures what's he going to do come and stop all thousands of

00:18:40.440 canvassers from collecting signatures i mean i don't see the mechanism or or invalidate the

00:18:45.800 signatures we've collected so just because of that uh the organizers are trying to put a little bit

00:18:51.400 you know keep the pedal to the metal and keep collecting signatures get as many so that hopefully

00:18:55.640 we're well past the threshold in case they cancel the petition and the injunction goes

00:19:02.180 through. But anyways, let's try and move on to another topic. But go ahead, on the line,

00:19:06.380 name, where are you calling from?

00:19:09.600 It's Donald.

00:19:11.580 Hi, Donald. How are you?

00:19:14.420 I'm good, Martin. Donald here from Vancouver, News Now Canada, independent media here.

00:19:19.200 So I've been seeing all these videos online where these so-called left-wing clowns,

00:19:25.520 basically interfere in elections um where are the police to deal with these people are um

00:19:32.000 interfering with elections and plus you're in booth too they do not like daniel smith at all

00:19:37.420 they call her fascist they call her nazi they call her everything here and i've been in british

00:19:43.260 columbia for a month now and it's just it's it's a socialist city here yeah well like i said at

00:19:51.540 the start of the show i mean the cops don't come and the cops only come if somebody calls them

00:19:57.340 they come if a protest gets big enough and the politicians ask them to stand in between two

00:20:03.640 sides you know like when there's a big protest in vancouver or where there's a big one somewhere you

00:20:07.740 know then you'll see the police come out and and try and keep the groups apart but in the case of

00:20:12.880 of uh just somebody on the side of the road or going door to door collecting signatures there's

00:20:17.520 no there's no protection the it you're you're it is what it is and and and i'll i'll say this and

00:20:25.460 i think you can validate it too i i see a lot of double standard in police forces these days

00:20:31.280 especially in vancouver actually it's interesting that you're calling from there i mean we watch

00:20:35.120 some of your guys's protests and we do see uh you know uh independent media interviewing the police

00:20:40.480 and and the police are giving warnings that that if you if you were to try and take down the

00:20:45.100 palestinian flag you're gonna get hit with uh mischief but on the other hand the fact that

00:20:51.620 somebody's flying a palestinian flag somewhere where they shouldn't to me that's mischief but

00:20:56.260 they don't get hit with mischief so yeah i hope that answers the question don thanks you got a

00:21:00.480 follow-up or like oh i do have a follow-up here obviously they're having a palestine protest this

00:21:07.160 weekend i don't know what it's about but every time independent moodle try to cover this vancouver

00:21:12.100 police basically start to arrest us and tell us to leave and all that stuff we're antagonizing

00:21:18.900 and the vancouver police don't understand about fleming versus ontario where you're allowed to

00:21:24.480 basically counter protect but some of these ndp's police um police departments just don't give a

00:21:31.420 care about people's rights at all like here and here we're having like care armstrong like dallas

00:21:39.160 roadies being attacked by these antifa people like over the weekend i went to her lunches on

00:21:46.440 or something in um here in vancouver yeah first nations people telling us to get off our land to

00:21:52.520 get out of here you're a settler you're an immigrant just basically n plus nothing fun

00:21:57.000 of me for who i am as my disability yeah tell me i have a white piece of trash and a whole bunch of

00:22:02.520 is all right yeah yeah okay well um yeah thanks for that don um get off the line please and then

00:22:10.280 but uh yeah there's a double standard there's and and then well i mean i i didn't even have it on my

00:22:16.760 list of things to talk about today but now you remind me of you know laws that make it even more

00:22:22.920 difficult for us to express our opinions as independent media right i actually i think we're

00:22:27.400 we're going to talk about this let's talk about this for the second half of the show here uh c9

00:22:32.400 right so c9 is well yesterday went through uh for our second reading i i'm i haven't even had a

00:22:39.860 chance to check maybe somebody can make a comment on it i think it actually went to third reading

00:22:44.320 immediately today and it's being forced through the house of commons and c9 is one of those bills

00:22:49.660 that should scare everybody when it comes to free speech right i'm joking about this because i'm

00:22:54.920 joking but not joking about it i mean i i am producing content and i'm sitting on the side

00:22:59.500 of the road there producing content and i was talking to one of the the other people there

00:23:03.400 and i said yeah you know between the three of us one of us will be arrested for uh under c9 in the

00:23:10.620 next six months like i'm i'm almost certain of that because um that's what they're trying to do

00:23:17.240 it's it's another step in eroding our democratic right right they i mean look at what we just

00:23:22.520 talked about they don't want to be canvassing that's almost like trying to stop me from voting

00:23:26.800 which by the way some people do think that voting is a is a useless exercise that we do it you know

00:23:32.360 it's mostly theatrics but you start to believe it after a while because you you start to see

00:23:38.200 what they're doing to us and c9 if it passes is an extremely scary piece of legislature it's the

00:23:44.640 anti-hate bill and a lot of people will are have rightfully talked about the fact that there's no

00:23:53.240 that there is such a thing as hate but it's not a crime i hate olives you love them that's fine

00:23:59.020 it's just an emotion it's just a word but they're trying to turn hate into something else and and

00:24:05.260 that totally worries me and and i'll just before i go to the question i'll say this about that bill

00:24:10.120 The other thing that worries me about that bill is that Mark Carney is trying to pass something crazy, unpopular like that and and damaging.

00:24:20.060 And he's trying to do it with a minority government. Right. And we'll come back after the call.

00:24:23.420 We'll talk about how he's rebuilding his minority. He's getting back to a minority to a majority. Right.

00:24:29.300 He's getting close. So if Carney is willing to pass a bill like C9 with barely a majority, what do you think he would do if he had a full majority?

00:24:37.620 right how crazy would he be so let's come back to that one on uh on uh the majority but uh go

00:24:42.740 ahead uh call her on the line where are you calling from oh hi my name is gordon i'm calling

00:24:48.580 from edmonton hi gordon uh yeah no i'm just calling just uh kind of state you know everything

00:24:55.120 that's happening aren't they with their relaxments and uh all the bad press all the easterners

00:25:00.580 calling us all kinds of different names you know it's it's not unexpected i i totally

00:25:07.200 expected this down the road, that this would happen. They were going to go after the big

00:25:12.880 people in the group, Jeff, and people like yourself, and a lot of the people, all of them.

00:25:25.040 So it's totally not unexpected that this is happening. The only thing I'm still concerned

00:25:30.480 about, why there isn't a little more fight back against people like Jason Kenney, telling Albertans

00:25:36.640 what kind of a premier he was like uh uh lukasiak who tried to rip off the uh alberta uh citizens

00:25:45.040 on that when he was there why aren't we doing more of this letting know it's maybe you know

00:25:51.300 they're dirty playing i'm saying maybe we should be reminding people of the type of characters that

00:25:57.280 were coming after the people who are coming after us now you gotta let people know i appreciate that

00:26:04.080 the thought you gave me a whole segment to talk about so if you don't mind like I said hang up

00:26:10.300 appreciate the thanks for the the comment Gord um Gord brings up like so many things and this will

00:26:17.880 tie into some of the things I wanted to talk about so let's finish real quick on the minority

00:26:21.480 government right so uh yesterday there was a floor or two days ago there was a floor crossing I'm not

00:26:26.720 surprised that it was an NDP uh MP I thought all along that Carney would actually go and pick off

00:26:31.940 you know the remaining three or four NDP MPs that that made sense so he's rebuilding his

00:26:37.220 minority that way and then or his majority sorry and then I think it's maybe somebody can confirm

00:26:43.880 I'm pretty sure it's April 19th but quietly last week three by-elections were announced so there's

00:26:49.760 a by-election in Terrebonne Quebec that's the one that was disqualified that was an interesting one

00:26:55.720 right that's the one that uh the block won on the first count and then on the recount the liberals

00:27:02.720 won by one vote and then we found out that some of the mail-in ballots had gone to the wrong envelope

00:27:08.060 or wrong um polling station whatever and then finally that went to court and the court said

00:27:14.300 uh null and void so the results of that uh writing were null and void so that one's being

00:27:21.260 recontested so there's a by-election there and then there's two in the toronto area one in uh

00:27:25.660 christia freeland's old writing and i believe the other one is in uh uh bill blair's old writing so

00:27:31.100 so if carney wins those three by-elections and i think he'll i think he'll get two out of three

00:27:36.380 hopefully the people of quebec woke up after the terrebonne fiasco he'll win two out of three plus

00:27:41.340 the one he got so he's back into majority territory which is scary for all of us but to the other

00:27:46.880 point of of of uh that gord was mentioning you know who's holding politicians and other people

00:27:54.240 accountable and i'll say this right i'm i'm a i'm a private citizen like i don't hold office which

00:28:00.080 is the definition of private citizen sure i have a big following and i'm popular and i'm known

00:28:05.520 but so are actors so are hockey players so are you know so if you're in the media in sports

00:28:11.340 whatever you are still a private citizen the the definition of a non-private citizen is a public

00:28:17.200 servant like an elected official so it's very interesting that people come after guys like me

00:28:22.440 and others because uh i don't have access to the levers of power and what becomes really interesting

00:28:29.500 is that even the media comes after me and that's the segue i want to talk about that that's been

00:28:35.040 interesting this week that ties in what gore just said the media right what's the media doing the

00:28:41.220 The mainstream media, not these guys. I mean, you know, Western Standard, Rebel News, you know, little guys, whatever, people on X, they're independent media that you pay for.

00:28:54.560 Sure, you pay for them, which makes them a little bit biased. But but we've always had, you know, people have a bias, but that's not a conflict of interest. It's a bias. There's a difference.

00:29:05.740 whereas a lot of the mainstream media in this country is fully paid for by the government.

00:29:13.600 The CBC is an example, right? The CBC gets paid $1.6 billion a year to exist.

00:29:19.620 That's a conflict of interest. In the private sector, that's a conflict of interest.

00:29:24.340 If you're paid by someone, you're beholden to them. You work for them. So Rosemary Barton can

00:29:29.800 say whatever the heck she wants. She can say, I'm impartial. I'm unbiased. No, you're not.

00:29:34.980 you work for the government so and plus she's already so and you know where i'm going with this

00:29:41.380 right before i go into the testimony of of travis there uh two days ago i just want to bring it back

00:29:48.300 to one quick thing right the role of the media we live in a democracy which is a fragile thing

00:29:54.300 and and to me the democracy that we live in there's five important pillars right there's the

00:29:59.580 voter there's you and i we vote and and and unfortunately we give everybody a vote that's

00:30:05.320 a reality we have to deal with because i mean if it was entirely up to me there's some people that

00:30:09.620 i don't think are smart enough to vote and we shouldn't let them vote but that's the that's

00:30:12.860 the cornerstone we expect them to vote and be responsible with their vote and educate themselves

00:30:18.160 before they vote so that's the first pillar the second pillar is the government whatever

00:30:21.400 body forms the government i mean everybody in the house of commons or in the legislature is

00:30:26.560 officially the is the government but in this context i'm talking about the ruling side of

00:30:30.220 the government right so um so you got the voter you got the government you got the opposition

00:30:36.640 the government makes the rules the opposition holds the government accountable if you watch

00:30:40.540 the house of commons right now it's it's it's almost uh comical right we just talked about it

00:30:45.740 if you have a majority the opposition is irrelevant and then there used to be the media that had an

00:30:50.400 important role and the media's role was sure the media is there to report on the fire that happened

00:30:56.100 last week and the theft and the rising crime rate and other things but the media was also had a key

00:31:00.440 role which was to hold politicians accountable and we don't see that i like so to to gord's point

00:31:07.400 who's holding jason kenny accountable when he starts spewing lies or or thomas lukasik or even

00:31:14.160 nenshi i mean nenshi last week sitting on the steps of the legislature in edmonton like you

00:31:19.280 could listen to him and you can analyze him as he's going and you can go lie lie lie lie lie i

00:31:24.260 I mean, in real time, if you're smart, you can see the lies.

00:31:27.420 If you want to take the time, you can go.

00:31:29.020 You know, he said that something was said in the legislature.

00:31:31.420 You can go see what was said and you can quickly realize it was a lie.

00:31:35.680 So, you know, I've done four pillars.

00:31:38.480 The fifth pillar of our democracy used to be me as a professional, the doctors, the engineers, the accountants, the scientists who would be consulted on and relied on to help develop policy.

00:31:54.260 Because, you know, the sad part is governments pass policies nowadays without consulting a broad group.

00:32:00.660 And the experts, we used to have a role in that whole hierarchy.

00:32:07.480 So I will go back to, I'll finish my thoughts on that because I do want to talk about the whistleblower at the CBC.

00:32:14.520 But I got a comment on the screen.

00:32:15.780 I got to read it.

00:32:16.460 It says, hey, Marty, please talk about what the chiefs are trying to do in court to stall the referendum process.

00:32:22.540 Yeah, I talked about it real quick, right?

00:32:24.140 They're they're they're they're basically trying to to say that the they're saying that the Clarity Act is invalid.

00:32:36.860 And they're saying that Danielle Smith here in Alberta, that the Citizens Initiative is invalid.

00:32:43.700 And so they're literally trying to stop people from just collecting signatures to petition the government.

00:32:50.520 it that's all they have right now which is interesting because if you read the clarity

00:32:54.840 act the clarity act says that somebody trying to block the exercise of citizens is unconstitutional

00:33:01.880 i mean the word constitutional these days is getting thrown around everybody's saying

00:33:05.180 constitutional unconstitutional constant i'm kind of at the point where we we're we're generally

00:33:10.640 making a giant mockery of our whole democratic system uh you know it's a comment somebody asked

00:33:15.600 that question last week on thursday why don't we pass laws to prevent some of these things happen

00:33:20.560 and we had a good chat about that the the our governments and our courts are making a mockery

00:33:26.080 of uh of the laws um so where was i uh yeah so i so i so you know we're talking about the the role

00:33:35.760 of the cbc or the mainstream media in holding governments accountable which brings us to the

00:33:40.800 really cool event of um geez the days are flowing through i think it was tuesday right so tuesday

00:33:46.540 travis i i forget his last name but he's he's the whistleblower guy worked for the cbc as a producer

00:33:53.640 and was trying to do his job impartially and bring in um you know he was helping uh he's bringing in

00:34:02.040 guests that have political discussions on on camera and every time he tried to bring in a

00:34:08.440 conservative or right-leaning guest it got rejected and and then he got sort of what we call

00:34:15.400 in the industry in uh in the world um uh constructed dismissal they gave him a job that that he didn't

00:34:21.980 like right businesses will even do that and it's an it's an illegal activity you give a guy a job

00:34:26.860 or a gal that they don't like and you hope they quit you can't do that you know so um he he tolerated

00:34:33.680 that and in the end uh he kind of did quit but then he decided to become a whistleblower some

00:34:39.140 people say he's just a high maintenance employee no i think he is a genuine whistleblower and of

00:34:43.900 course if you're complaining against your employer and your employer happens to be the cbc which is

00:34:48.740 financed by the government boy the pockets are deep on that side and this poor guy is just being

00:34:53.280 hammered well he got a great opportunity this week he got to go in a parliamentary committee

00:35:00.280 so and and parliament so there's three places to me where um you're still supposed to tell the

00:35:06.840 truth it's supposed to tell the truth when you go into court right swear to tell the truth the

00:35:10.400 whole truth nothing but the truth and that's pretty good there like in court it lasts long

00:35:14.280 enough and if you if you get caught lying there's some real repercussions in court the other place

00:35:19.480 you're supposed to tell the truth is in the house of commons well we all know how that goes right

00:35:23.160 i've seen the house of commons these days i don't see i see a lot of lying going on in the house of

00:35:27.260 comments the third one were these uh parliamentary committees and they used to be pretty good you

00:35:32.300 could expect to watch the parliamentary committee and you could expect you know the finance committee

00:35:36.340 to interview the the budget officer and things like that and you'd get some really good feedback

00:35:41.240 and some truth well that's completely turned into a gong show so poor travis goes to a parliamentary

00:35:46.820 committee to talk about sort of censorship and what's going on at the cbc you know and the

00:35:52.860 parliamentary committee is about 90 minutes long and it's it's it's uh multi-partisan i mean there's

00:35:58.840 ndp there's block there's conservatives and whatever and the way it works nowadays is the

00:36:04.860 poor the the witness so in this instance he's brought in as a witness the witness only gets

00:36:09.740 about four minutes in your opening statement to the parliamentary committee they're not going to

00:36:14.620 interrupt you so during those first four minutes man whatever your talking points are you got to

00:36:19.700 get him off across real quick so in the first four minutes he's giving a whole bunch of examples of

00:36:24.580 how rosie barton and and david cochran and others were constantly blocking him and he's basically

00:36:30.920 saying that the cbc only accepted liberal guests and never accepted proper uh conservative guests

00:36:38.340 but after that once the committee's over once his opening speech is over and now it's question and

00:36:44.100 answers from committee members that the next the next 86 minutes are just a joke because they

00:36:50.540 they're yelling over each other and they're constantly you know point of order point of

00:36:54.300 order point of order i object point of order i object and nothing gets said so that whole but

00:37:00.300 that whole exchange was interesting the four minutes that he that he got to talk are interesting

00:37:04.720 nothing really new for most of us we know that there's a lot of censorship going on at the cbc

00:37:10.200 It's not going to kill Rosie Barton's job or career.

00:37:13.720 In fact,

00:37:14.080 they'll probably make her a Senator in the next couple of years.

00:37:16.740 That ain't going to do anything for David Cochran.

00:37:19.480 But it gave us some,

00:37:21.080 some,

00:37:21.600 some ammunition and some further food for thought.

00:37:23.760 And then some independents will continue to dig into what's going on at the

00:37:27.440 CBC.

00:37:28.140 So yeah,

00:37:29.580 we'll,

00:37:29.900 we'll leave it at that.

00:37:31.120 All right.

00:37:32.460 What else have I,

00:37:33.680 was I going to talk about?

00:37:35.920 Well,

00:37:36.400 I talked about,

00:37:37.020 actually let,

00:37:37.640 let's finish on the chiefs.

00:37:39.360 So the, yeah, the chiefs, you know, it's funny because they went to the house or to the legislature.

00:37:46.700 They're trying to block in the courts.

00:37:48.120 That's step one.

00:37:49.080 Then yesterday or two days ago, they went to the legislature.

00:37:51.720 They're on the steps there with Nahid Nenshi.

00:37:54.600 They did something like a non-confidence motion that's kind of meaningless.

00:37:58.160 And then they jumped on a plane and they flew to England.

00:38:00.700 So now yesterday they were meeting with King Charles III, whom I need to remind people.

00:38:06.900 king charles iii came to canada last year in may did the throne speech which is hilarious in and

00:38:13.140 of itself right so we they brought out the king to remind us that we were sovereign like the whole

00:38:22.480 exercise was bizarre right so the king comes here and he reads the speech to us and he does it not

00:38:29.080 in the house of commons because only commoners are allowed in the house of commons so the king

00:38:33.380 reads the speech from the senate and the commenters are invited to the senate and before the king

00:38:39.380 opens his speech the king did king charles did a land acknowledgement in ontario where he admitted

00:38:46.320 that he was on unceded lands which is the case probably i'm not familiar totally with ontario

00:38:51.320 but i think ontario does have a lot of unceded lands but here in alberta treaties six seven and

00:38:57.300 eight specifically and there's there's there's minor geographies that are affected by other

00:39:01.480 treaties but 678 are the ones that cover most of alberta under those treaties first nations in the

00:39:07.340 1860s ceded their lands other than the small reserves that they're living on and they ceded

00:39:13.100 them to the crown so now they went back to the crown what i mean it was all super symbolic i

00:39:19.480 don't know what king charles is going to do king charles acknowledged that uh hey i had originally

00:39:24.600 given you the land and then i took it back i don't know i'd love to have been a fly on the wall in a

00:39:29.920 discussion between six or seven chiefs uh meeting with king charles now um on on this morning i saw

00:39:38.540 a story there was um there somebody wrote an article and showed the gifts that the chiefs

00:39:43.500 brought over there to give the kings charles and one of the gifts i'm sorry folks but one of the

00:39:49.920 gifts was a nice uh birch bark basket that was laser etched so i thought yeah nothing says uh

00:39:59.820 you know first nations craftsmanship quite like laser etching bark you know i mean a laser super

00:40:09.260 modern technology that uh that that you know where i'm going with this one and i'm not going to go

00:40:15.980 there with this one so uh john we got a couple of any good comments that you've seen as you're

00:40:22.140 strolling by come on folks give me a give me a buzz there i'm i'm uh for me it's a i'll take a

00:40:27.020 second it's a challenge i gotta read the comments and they're sitting on the side there um

00:40:33.660 people quit their jobs because of the jab yeah that's uh i'm not gonna go there today

00:40:38.780 uh all right let me go see what i got on my list well let's talk about the floor crossing right so

00:40:42.380 i do i do uh floor crossings are interesting i'll ask you guys that then somebody call me

00:40:47.660 or give me a comment do you think there will be more floor crossings or are they going to wait

00:40:52.300 until the by-elections and what's your thoughts on floor crossings now some people like to bring

00:40:58.400 up um you know the the the fact that floor crossings have been going on a long time i think

00:41:05.260 i've been on the record in the past as as saying at um you know that well no i don't think i've

00:41:12.300 been on the record in the past i don't think floor crossings are appropriate to me if you're gonna

00:41:18.920 across the floor you should literally uh sit as a as an independent so there should be a process

00:41:26.640 there should be a step so if you're unhappy and you feel that you no longer represent the party

00:41:30.760 that not the party if you feel that you no longer represent the electors in your writing and the

00:41:37.500 party at the same time then sit as an independent until the next election and then at the next

00:41:43.440 election run for whatever party you choose to run but this this whole concept of simply crossing

00:41:49.000 the floor and going to the other side that just stinks to me and i'll say it like people say oh

00:41:54.620 would you'd be happy if it was a conservatives recruiting liberals no i wouldn't be i wasn't

00:41:59.920 happy when danielle smith crossed the floor uh you know in the early 2000s in the mid 2000s to

00:42:06.220 to from from the wild rose to join the uh the the conservatives i wasn't happy then and supposedly

00:42:13.100 she's on my side and i wouldn't be happy if a conservative did it tomorrow so for me it's it's

00:42:17.900 it's non-partisan i don't care about your political stripes i do not like floor crossers

00:42:23.980 and um so i i'd like to hear your comments on that but i i do have a chat there's a nice comment

00:42:29.820 there going up so could ottawa push through an act to take back all provincial resources or do they

00:42:37.100 have to open the constitution i'm not a constitutional expert but i would say that

00:42:43.660 would be a tough one i mean um they gave us our resources in the 1930s the resource transfer act

00:42:51.980 and uh can you imagine if if we reopen the constitution and nine of the other province

00:42:58.540 i i okay i here's how i'm going to answer that one if if every province wanted to give back

00:43:06.940 their resources to ottawa sure that would require an act but but you know try and imagine that right

00:43:13.660 that would require reopening the constitution so imagine all 10 provinces says yeah let's

00:43:17.980 reopen the constitution and we want to give our resources back to ottawa i don't think that would

00:43:22.380 happen now could could they gang up on one so if the other nine provinces says hey we want to take

00:43:30.860 resources away from alberta and give alberta's resources back to ottawa trudeau tried to do that

00:43:38.060 trudeau senior uh pierre with the national energy policy was basically an attempt to do that right

00:43:44.220 he was trying to take the resources back from alberta and nationalize them and it backfired

00:43:50.540 And I, so I don't think, I don't think that would go very far.

00:43:53.440 That would be, that would be an interesting event to,

00:43:58.780 to take the resources back. Any, okay.

00:44:02.100 So let me go back here, get a petition. Oh, Hey, okay.

00:44:08.280 I got another one. Let's talk about this one real quick.

00:44:10.920 See if we can gather it a little bit of interest.

00:44:13.240 Another interesting news story.

00:44:14.500 I don't know if you can find this one, John Saskatchewan gun law,

00:44:18.780 that Saskatchewan amended their uh their firearm act at this week and did something really really

00:44:24.720 cool and um they so as we all know we've talked about this many times uh there's a gun grab and

00:44:33.440 uh went into effect in about uh 2021 government told us to just park our firearms just leave them

00:44:40.860 locked the ones that have been prohibited and then at some point they'll develop a a buyback

00:44:46.140 program they're struggling with that and because they don't have a proper buyback program they keep

00:44:50.960 having an amnesty so basically you keep your firearms right now until as long as this amnesty

00:44:57.300 is in place but once the amnesty if they don't renew the amnesty anybody who owns a restricted

00:45:03.120 or a prohibited firearm from this list will become a criminal and so and that's that that

00:45:09.500 deadline's looming on us right so by uh by october of this year if the liberals do not

00:45:15.180 renew the amnesty anybody who owns a firearm on that list will become a criminal while saskatchewan

00:45:23.020 and alberta over time have been taking steps to sort of counter that because both provinces see

00:45:28.620 that this is wrong right suddenly making a guy like me because i might have a risk a prohibited

00:45:34.700 firearm just turning me into a criminal makes no sense right i've i i i've been a good citizen for

00:45:39.980 35 years i followed the law and now you change one law and suddenly i'm a criminal so you can

00:45:44.700 see it on the screen there saskatchewan plans amendments to firearm uh act amid amid the gun

00:45:50.540 grab you can find one of those articles but i'll tell you what it kind of what the saskatchewan's

00:45:54.700 trying to do it's very clever they're going to let their citizens hold on to those prohibited

00:46:01.500 firearms indefinitely and what they're going to do is they're going to give the citizens like a

00:46:06.780 coupon or certificate saying you are holding on to this firearm on behalf of the province

00:46:12.140 It's very interesting.

00:46:13.840 I mean, you know, would it hold water?

00:46:15.980 Is it legal?

00:46:16.920 Is it a trap so that they can get that so that they can find out where the firearms are?

00:46:21.500 It could be all those things.

00:46:22.740 It needs to be debated.

00:46:23.820 But I'm just I'm at the I'm fundamentally happy that some governments are trying to explore options like that.

00:46:32.400 Alberta is doing the same thing.

00:46:33.340 I mean, Alberta passed its own Firearms Act, mimicking the one in Saskatchewan, where here in Alberta, the path we took so far is Danielle Smith is trying to make it hard for the government to confiscate our guns.

00:46:46.580 They'll be able to declare me a criminal and they'll say, you know, you're in possession of these, but they won't be able to come and get them easily in Alberta because, you know, she's passed rules that says you'll have to be certified to confiscate firearms.

00:47:02.520 You'll have to do it no more than three at a time.

00:47:04.700 You'll have to go in teams.

00:47:05.740 You'll have to store them this way, so forth and so forth and so forth.

00:47:08.960 So it's going to make it extremely difficult for somebody to confiscate the firearms.

00:47:13.320 But it doesn't stop Ottawa from still calling me a criminal and pulling my firearm license.

00:47:19.960 So it's like this is a battle.

00:47:21.320 This is an ugly, ugly, ugly battle that I still don't understand why the liberals are making this a hill to die on.

00:47:27.740 I said it last week.

00:47:28.580 I think it's just to appease to Quebec, but then Quebec had a protest about this last week.

00:47:34.240 So I don't know why they're insisting on making this a hill to die on.

00:47:38.420 It makes no sense.

00:47:40.520 All right.

00:47:41.860 Find me a good comment, John.

00:47:49.960 I'm not sure I trust this.

00:47:51.620 Yeah.

00:47:53.600 Like I said, caveat.

00:47:54.780 I'm not, I'm not a hundred percent. I haven't read the Saskatchewan firearm act to know specifically if it's a trap or what it says in there. Um, you know, so, so don't, don't, don't, don't hold your breath on that one.

00:48:10.480 But at the end of the day, I'm I'm personally hoping that the well, well, I think what will happen is the government will extend the amnesty unless they get a majority.

00:48:24.300 Actually, and that's an interesting thing.

00:48:26.960 I like I said, I think the liberals will get their majority by hook or by crook in April when they run these by elections.

00:48:35.480 They'll be at like 172, which is like just the slimmest of margins, which allows them to continue to do crazy things.

00:48:43.240 If they don't get their, if they don't win the by-elections or somebody else quits or a couple of things happen, then all bets are off.

00:48:52.620 And I have a bet with France.

00:48:55.080 I do think that if the by-elections are unsuccessful, that there will be shortly after that, that the writ will be dropped and Carney will send us to a general election.

00:49:04.880 he's he can taste the the majority just around the corner he wants it he's been sent by his

00:49:12.000 handlers to fix things so he needs to do it otherwise he'll be pulled and then somebody

00:49:16.780 else will go in there um which explains all the which explains by the way guess where carney's

00:49:22.660 been right so carney just come back from uh from a trip to uh australia and india and places like

00:49:28.320 that sat in the house of commons yesterday for one day i think he's sitting tomorrow or today

00:49:33.220 and then he's off on vacation and uh where's he going on vacation he's going two places he's going

00:49:39.140 to england and he's going to rome and i don't think it's a stretch to say he's going to england

00:49:43.940 because that's where he lives i don't care what he says about you know uh living in uh in new york

00:49:50.260 or whatever he's going to england because that's where he lives and then he's going to rome because

00:49:54.660 that's where he's going to go get his uh next set of marching orders uh cool call on the line thanks

00:50:00.260 for doing this i was running out of topics right yeah i think you guys can tell so go ahead on the

00:50:04.180 line name where are you calling from hey marty jesse and gp again nobody else was calling let's

00:50:10.740 figure i'll call again go ahead yeah yeah perfect um so just in regards to the uh firearm regulations

00:50:18.580 that uh we discussed i think two or three weeks ago there's uh sor last 2012-138 clearly indicate

00:50:30.260 uh that uh previous to may 1st 2020 you were uh not required to keep a record of the transfer of

00:50:38.880 your non-restricted at the time yeah previous to may 1st 2020 so i don't know if you looked into

00:50:43.720 that but maybe that's a topic you might want to discuss with the viewers as well touchy one i know

00:50:48.040 yeah yeah no um i maybe i won't do it on this platform this is not my plan you know the i don't

00:50:58.760 want to get the the western standard in trouble come come see me come see marty because i there's

00:51:05.340 a risk of giving legal advice right and so i'm not going to give legal advice here on how i think

00:51:11.120 people should proceed when it comes to their firearms and uh and the legislature and everything

00:51:17.140 else but i'll give you that advice on x where um where i'm where i can put a different caveat and

00:51:23.560 say this is my opinion as a private citizen but but if you want to take a chance jesse if you want

00:51:29.660 to give us some some advice what do you think people should do who are getting their um those

00:51:35.640 letters from the rcmp right now sort of twisting their arms and reminding them to sign up for the

00:51:41.160 compensation program what's your advice my advice is a private thank you very much marty for your

00:51:48.800 for your thoughts um so just to let everybody know previous to may 1st 2020 it was unlawful

00:51:55.780 or not required for you to keep a record of your transfer of a non-restricted firearm once those

00:52:02.260 non-restricted firearms became prohibited you had to keep a couple of them not even do anything with

00:52:08.220 them but previous to that ordering council it was not required for you to keep a record of that sale

00:52:13.760 So I'm hoping that everyone has sold all their newly prohibited weapons in April of 2020.

00:52:22.980 And who do you tell them to?

00:52:23.980 Well, as long as you saw a towel holder, you didn't have to keep a record of that sale.

00:52:27.940 So unfortunately, I don't know who I sold mine to, but I know all of mine are sold.

00:52:32.480 And for those that say, and I just want to, there's a one caveat, and here's my legal

00:52:36.640 advice.

00:52:37.640 And this is true legal advice.

00:52:38.640 If you say you dropped it in the lake, you are now charged with carelessness of a firearm.

00:52:43.140 didn't you report it to the RCMP? Don't go that route. Yeah, I see that one all the time.

00:52:49.540 Yeah, I lost it in the lake. That's an interesting one. I don't know if I had spoken about this last

00:52:54.900 week, but I renewed my RPAL. RPAL, folks, it's just a PAL. It's a Possession and Acquisition

00:53:02.980 License. That's the name. There's no such thing as an RPAL, but we call it an RPAL because some

00:53:07.380 of us have a restricted or a non-restricted so we add the r in front of it um my my restricted

00:53:13.860 possession and firearms and acquisition license was renewed last week i was surprised i got it

00:53:19.380 i got it in the mail i got my card in the mail i thought they were going to drag their feet on it

00:53:23.780 and sort of hold off on it and keep sending me letters saying you haven't registered for the

00:53:28.740 program but they're but here in alberta i think is this fair to say jesse do we have a pretty

00:53:33.540 supportive chief firearms officer chief firearms officer Terry Byron Sir Bryant I do believe

00:53:43.640 she is extremely supportive of Albertans and their legal right to hold firearms yes yeah yeah

00:53:52.600 so so then they're not playing games here so I renewed just before Christmas and you know like

00:53:59.460 i said whatever eight weeks later i got it i was happy to get it and then i look and i reminded

00:54:04.860 the people right when you get your pal uh it has it comes stuck on a piece of paper and don't throw

00:54:11.120 out that white piece of paper because at the bottom of that white piece of paper are usually

00:54:14.940 some conditions and if you read it does say don't throw these out keep it with your card because the

00:54:21.340 conditions are part of the license and i was surprised when i read my conditions that they're

00:54:26.120 nearly identical to the old one. So there's no, yeah, no shenanigans being played in Alberta,

00:54:31.120 which is good. Yeah, same with me. Sorry to, I hope there's no delay. Same with mine. Mine was

00:54:39.440 renewed spring, like in 2024. So they're still renewing our pals at that point, right? Yeah.

00:54:45.640 And then I'll say this as an observation, a lot of people who, you know, when you come to sign

00:54:51.060 the petition you have to show me id and i'm really impressed by the not impressed and surprised by

00:54:57.480 the number of albertans who have a pal like when they're opening their wallet you are you and

00:55:02.660 they're giving you my their driver's license i often see that right there it's a bit the older

00:55:07.020 the older pals used to be recognizable they had like that purple and blue stripe to it and you

00:55:11.520 sort of they stood out not that i'm peeking in people's wallets to see what they have but

00:55:15.820 you know it casually i can observe that there's a lot of people in alberta that have firearm

00:55:20.660 permits, which, um, which I'm not surprised by. And I'm glad to hear that your opinion of our

00:55:25.880 chief firearm officer is that it, that she's a reasonable lady, uh, holding up, uh, her end of

00:55:31.940 the deal. Awesome. All right. Thanks, Jesse. Um, so we're kind of running out of time here. I got

00:55:38.880 a couple of minutes. Um, literally I like, I'd love one more call. I mean, I, I, I've almost

00:55:45.540 exhausted every topic that i had on here um i'm trying to go through my list i'm gonna have to

00:55:52.500 have maybe a couple more topics next week uh what else happened this week john anything that you can

00:55:58.180 flash up on the screen oh well i'll bring this up uh i heard i heard a rumor that uh that pierre

00:56:04.920 poiliev is on his way to texas and everybody's saying that pierre's on his way to go talk with

00:56:12.160 joe rogan i find that interesting um i'll believe it when i see it i think pierre is probably more

00:56:20.320 likely going to texas as part of a trade delegation you know uh oil and all of that good stuff i guess

00:56:26.560 we never talked about the war in iran that seems to be uh winding down thank you somebody got me

00:56:32.640 a call let's take one last call before we sign off so name and where are you calling from and thanks

00:56:37.600 for doing this yeah hi this is dave i live south shore park east of beaumont go ahead dave awesome

00:56:48.160 yeah hey i got i have two questions so i i mentioned where i live in an acre subdivision

00:56:54.480 um will we what are the campuses reaching our area or is it mainly going to be in urban motor

00:57:00.880 uh good question um door-to-door is probably going to be i live on an acreage as well right

00:57:10.820 and somebody asked me that how come you're not going door-to-door and i'm like door-to-door on

00:57:14.440 an acreage is difficult it's a lot of walking everybody has gates and so forth and so forth

00:57:18.960 so i'd say uh most most door-to-door activity will occur in urban resident residential area

00:57:26.000 your best bet if you're looking for a place is to just go to stay free alberta and and then enter

00:57:30.800 beaumont or edmonton and then you'll see locations that are um that are either permanent or or for

00:57:37.920 a weekend so so yeah uh yeah i don't think they'll go door to door yeah but go ahead part two your

00:57:43.520 question is yeah my second question is from your view not asking what you would do but from your

00:57:50.800 view if the referendum question is presented to alberta residents and the outcome is negative

00:57:57.600 what options might be available to those who support this initiative oh god very few i that

00:58:06.480 i mean that's a fearful outcome for me because um it would oh yeah you know i i think we would

00:58:12.640 be viewed as uh i i think it would give uh uh carney and the liberals a new sense of of confidence

00:58:20.400 that they can do whatever the heck they want and there's no consequences because uh uh albertans

00:58:26.240 are will continue to take a beating um no i don't know i mean uh and i'm not going anywhere okay so

00:58:34.240 i'm not going anywhere i'm going to continue to stay here and fight and uh and do what i can to

00:58:39.120 I guess at that point, we hope plan B, okay, I'll answer it this way.

00:58:43.780 Plan B is Danielle is still trying to get a better deal for Alberta.

00:58:50.420 She has her sovereignty act.

00:58:52.600 She thinks that we can get a better deal within Confederation.

00:58:56.680 So I would say if we have an unsuccessful referendum, we could still say, well, look, hopefully it's, you know, maybe it's 40% who came out.

00:59:04.980 That's still a pretty good bargaining chip for Danielle.

00:59:08.380 So I guess we'd give it to Danielle and now we all line up behind Danielle and say, OK, well, let's let's keep fighting to get a better deal.

00:59:14.520 That's the. Yeah. OK.

00:59:18.020 And thinking back about the correct referendum, it's not like, well, once I died, everything just went away.

00:59:23.780 Right. There was still, you know, there's still been that percolating in the background for years.

00:59:30.660 But you and I, we don't have a generation to wait.

00:59:34.660 yeah well i mean okay i mean i'm already happy i didn't even think i'd see a movement like this

00:59:41.460 in my lifetime so now i'm seeing it in my lifetime so this is i mean i'm hey listen i've been sitting

00:59:46.860 on the side of the road for 25 days in a row now uh doing four or five hours a day and people ask

00:59:52.100 me that like do you think this is going to be successful i'm like i wouldn't be doing this if

00:59:55.600 i thought this was a waste of time right i've committed like 120 hours of volunteer time

00:59:59.900 And if it's unsuccessful, me personally, I will still look inwards and say, I did my part. I tried to do something. I'm one of those guys. I feel sorry for people who drive by every day and give me a thumbs down or whatever. I feel like saying to a lot of those people, like, what have you ever done, right?

01:00:16.160 So I feel good about having stood for something and, uh, and, and, and, and I'm not going to get demoralized. I mean, uh, I'll, I'll cherish the event. I hope it's successful. I'm confident it's going to be successful, but if it's not, then I'll, uh, I'll come up with a plan B down the road. I mean, uh, look at you and you brought up Quebec.

01:00:33.880 i mean quebec i would say quebec's two referendums ended up being pretty good for quebec

01:00:39.080 um they've gotten a pretty sweet deal subsequent to all of that right so maybe maybe it is what

01:00:44.920 it is for us we'll see yeah yeah great question thanks thanks dave okay thanks for your time

01:00:50.440 marty all right cheers folks okay so um or cheers dave so uh are yeah we're getting there i'm i'm

01:00:56.920 getting you folks you know this i i think you can sense hopefully the the my nervousness from the

01:01:02.840 the first few shows is going away i'm getting the hang of this now i'm i definitely got to come up

01:01:07.500 with a few more topics uh me and john are working together great now we're figuring out the system

01:01:12.900 the questions everything else it is up to you though that is this is a show where um i don't

01:01:19.160 want to just be doing the monologues although i like doing the monologues give me some give me

01:01:24.280 some better feedback some questions maybe go underneath this video after you've watched a

01:01:30.040 video you can give me questions for next week if you want but don't be shy don't feel like you got

01:01:34.300 to build up that courage to call me it's uh it's no big deal we're just two folks uh having a chat

01:01:40.980 maybe maybe i need to bring a beer or something and this is water and then we'll feel like we're

01:01:45.480 having a lunch hour chat over a coffee or something like that anyways closing comments here as usual

01:01:52.700 thanks for joining this week you're helping me you know i i hope you enjoy this i look forward

01:01:57.920 to coming here not gonna lie i i do have a lot of podcasts and other events that some days get

01:02:03.320 tedious i look forward to this one i like coming downtown gives me an excuse to come downtown the

01:02:07.780 folks here are fantastic uh cory morgan's i didn't even mention that cory morgan swung by my petition

01:02:13.980 signing location uh two days ago and coincidentally i saw somebody drive by and i said i think that's

01:02:20.500 cory and then sure enough it was cory so thanks for dropping by cory and like i said the folks

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Western Standard - March 15, 2026

MARTY UP NORTH： Stay Free Alberta canvassers face rising hostility

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