Western Standard - November 08, 2026


MARTY UP NORTH： Trump lost the midterms. How quickly will Canada's economy recover？

Borrowing for Projects… So Where's the Construction？ Hannaford Warns Conservatives About Walking Away

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00:00:00.000 Hey, welcome back.
00:00:24.680 hopefully i didn't lose some of you guys because of the time change now we haven't had a time
00:00:33.000 change in alberta for the first time for the first time since i can ever remember i mean as long as
00:00:39.200 i've known there's always been two time changes in alberta and uh we didn't have one this time
00:00:46.700 it confused me a little bit you know i think it was on monday we were supposed normally we would
00:00:51.760 I had the time change and then I had several machines at home, you know, the phone, the watch, the computer all had different times.
00:00:57.560 So it took a took a day to get everything settled in.
00:01:00.520 So hopefully nobody is missing the show because of that.
00:01:06.260 But but I'll be realistic.
00:01:08.340 Maybe maybe some of you feel the same way.
00:01:10.640 I do feel as if my body was expecting that time change.
00:01:15.920 I know there wasn't a time change and things are normal, but somehow or other, I'm a little bit.
00:01:21.760 misadjusted right now i'm sure it'll pass the other thing that's really weird for me and i
00:01:27.360 is um is this is the first time that i remember being only one hour behind ontario i noticed again
00:01:34.800 i noticed that this week i log in the morning and i'm looking at news i'm going you know i go to
00:01:39.600 websites like stats canada to see their updates i used to go to this i used to get a stats canada
00:01:44.960 update at 6 30 in the morning now it's at 7 30. then after that i'd go look at the stock market
00:01:50.960 and look at the stock market at 730. Now I got to go look at it at 830. So it's, you know,
00:01:56.320 it's creating some, some, some confusion for me. And then we had things like the budget,
00:02:02.240 the budget's coming out this afternoon at four o'clock Eastern. Well, that's not two my time
00:02:07.180 now, that's three my time. I don't know, I, I, I, I'm on the fence on in terms of, of the time
00:02:17.060 change i guess um i fundamentally i do like it when we have uh the daylight is more towards
00:02:24.500 the morning versus the evening um but uh not my choice i guess so all right um apart from that
00:02:33.520 um i'm looking at the screen yesterday i was doing another podcast and somebody was complaining
00:02:38.940 because apparently my poppy was on the wrong side my poppy was always on the on the correct side it's
00:02:44.020 over the heart. But on the podcast that I was doing yesterday, the software had mirrored my
00:02:49.820 image. Now, speaking of poppies, it is it is remembrance. It's officially Remembrance Week.
00:02:57.840 I always thought like Remembrance, I didn't know that Remembrance was a week or very specific.
00:03:03.820 I always started wearing a poppy, you know, sort of around Halloween kind of thing. But now it's
00:03:10.520 very specific and and then i noticed today coming into calgary i was walking i was on the train
00:03:16.580 first of all then i was walking downtown and i i like i was doing a mental count in my head
00:03:22.660 maybe five percent of the people have poppies that's it i don't know hopefully it goes up over
00:03:27.900 over the course of this week but but then at this point i'm willing to give people the benefit of
00:03:33.940 the doubt one of the things that happened with poppies unfortunately is you know remember there
00:03:38.120 used to be the boxes were everywhere and you just put your coins and they were all over the place
00:03:42.600 well people aren't carrying coins and I think that's part of the problem right you see the box
00:03:46.860 of poppies and you don't have a coin I think some people are solving that problem by bringing
00:03:51.040 you know those card readers or whatever but so keep that in mind this week you know if you're
00:03:57.000 coming for a walk going to the bank you know and the poppy boxes are usually in common places like
00:04:02.000 that like at the bank tellers and at your convenience stores and things like that so this
00:04:05.980 week maybe do a little extra effort to i know most of you just use credit cards and debit cards but
00:04:11.600 throw throw throw five loonies in uh in your pockets or some change or whatever and then go
00:04:18.040 buy yourself a poppy okay especially at this time um with uh here in alberta with the tragedy that
00:04:25.680 happened at uh wainwright uh you know on october 17th and and they're still um i mean we shouldn't
00:04:32.980 be just remembering our veterans and our soldiers this week, right? We should remember them all the
00:04:37.700 time and thank them for what they do. But this week in particular, here in Alberta, because of
00:04:44.780 the incident at Wainwright. So it's a little closer to home. All right. Again, it's your show.
00:04:52.420 Call in. Phone numbers on the screen there, 866-479-WEST. And as always, we only have one
00:05:01.340 line. It's not a classic switchboard where you can be put on hold. And then when I'm ready,
00:05:05.460 we press a button. John's taking your calls one by one. And sometimes I'll ask you to stay on the
00:05:12.940 line. We'll have a bit of chat. But if I know that there's other people trying to get through
00:05:15.920 because I hear the beep, then I'll ask you to hang up. Let me know your name, where you're
00:05:20.220 calling from and generally what's on your mind. The topic today, I think it's the topic on
00:05:24.680 everybody's mind is the midterm election that just happened in the US. I want to talk about
00:05:29.940 that but but uh i mentioned earlier the budget's coming out uh unfortunately i won't come out
00:05:35.160 until i'm done this show but you know there's a lot of things that have been leaked out of the
00:05:40.040 budget so i want to talk a little bit about carnies because it's his second budget um the
00:05:44.800 six by-elections that were announced uh earlier this week uh the poor nenshi i think nenshi's in
00:05:51.360 for a rough couple of days here uh uh colleagues here broke a story on the report that he knew
00:05:58.120 about the water infrastructure problems and so forth
00:06:00.980 as Calgarians are currently being asked by the mayor
00:06:04.180 to take shorter showers.
00:06:06.340 Man, there was a cringe video on that.
00:06:08.400 So those are the kinds of things I want to talk about.
00:06:12.400 Carney banning the junior Russian team from the tournament,
00:06:16.400 stuff like that.
00:06:16.940 So those are the topics, but let's talk quickly,
00:06:19.720 or not quickly, but let's talk about the midterm
00:06:21.340 because it's the title of today's show.
00:06:24.380 And before I get too deep into the results of the midterm, I think I need to, I hate to do this.
00:06:31.120 I hate to mansplain or explain what's going on.
00:06:33.560 I'm sure most of you guys know this, but I need to explain the difference between the American system and the Canadian system.
00:06:41.820 Because I saw this week, a lot of people really don't get, don't understand what the midterms were, right?
00:06:47.560 So in Canada, pretty straightforward.
00:06:50.120 We have a Westminster system.
00:06:52.520 We have elections where we vote for our own member of parliament in our own riding.
00:07:01.000 We elect them in what's called first past the post.
00:07:03.800 So it's not a majority.
00:07:04.740 So in any riding, you can have five, six people.
00:07:07.600 And whoever gets the most vote of those five or six or two people or three gets elected as a member of parliament.
00:07:14.340 Now, in principle, we could elect members of parliament that don't belong to any parties, but they do belong to a party.
00:07:21.320 Let's be realistic.
00:07:22.520 And then, and then we send those members of parliament to Ottawa and among them, and then the side that has the majority forms government and the side that forms government, uh, in the house of commons, then chooses among themselves, who's going to be the prime minister.
00:07:41.000 And then the Prime Minister has fundamentally not much different powers than all the other members of Parliament.
00:07:48.600 And then our House of Commons makes laws and passes bills based on a majority.
00:07:56.680 And at any time, if one side gets voted, loses the confidence of the, if the governing side loses what's called the confidence of the House of Commons,
00:08:08.600 then either we go to another election
00:08:11.720 or the other side gets asked to form government.
00:08:15.960 So it's as simple as that.
00:08:17.660 So, well, it's not that simple, but that's our system.
00:08:20.760 We're familiar with the system.
00:08:21.820 And now the U.S. has a very different system,
00:08:27.480 very different system.
00:08:29.160 So in the U.S., their body that legislates
00:08:34.400 and passes laws is is the um the the uh the assembly and uh they they elect those representative
00:08:45.680 the house of representatives they elect their representatives to two-year terms okay not four
00:08:51.840 years only to two-year terms and so in the first and in the first year every every four years they
00:08:59.040 elect them to a two-year term and in that election they also elect a president so that in the us the
00:09:06.160 president's name is separate on a ballot so two years ago americans went to vote and they elected
00:09:14.000 their representative and they got to choose their president now this has happened in the past
00:09:20.320 rarely but it does happen that um that the house has a majority of one party that's different than
00:09:29.040 the president so it happened to reagan for instance so reagan was a republican reagan got
00:09:33.840 elected in his first term as president but in his first term the republicans had less members of the
00:09:40.560 house than the democrats okay so they do that and and then their their house functions sort of
00:09:47.760 similar to ours they they their house of representatives they debate ideas and they pass
00:09:53.280 laws on based on majority but there's no concept of loss of confidence in the house okay they if
00:10:02.800 they if they vote down a bill or whatever there's no loss of confidence in the house and there's no
00:10:08.960 easy ability there's no easy way to remove the president the president sort of stands
00:10:14.800 separate from the house and the president stands separate from the house of representatives and he
00:10:21.200 has separate powers he has very powerful executive powers he has veto powers the house can pass a bill
00:10:28.960 and the president could just say not happening done because the president at the end of the day
00:10:34.800 he represents all of the people because they the whole country chose him whereas the representatives
00:10:40.560 are chosen by their own little constituents, right?
00:10:43.160 So the president has these really powerful powers, strong powers.
00:10:49.280 And he can't easily be removed unless he's impeached.
00:10:52.740 And I'll get back to that.
00:10:54.900 So, and the president's elected for a four-year term.
00:10:58.160 Then he can get elected twice and that's it.
00:11:00.420 That's their law.
00:11:01.080 That's their constitution.
00:11:02.140 You can't do more than two terms.
00:11:04.340 But so they elect all their representatives and the president.
00:11:08.140 Then two years later, they go back to an election, but two years later in that second election in the president's term, all the representatives are up for grab.
00:11:18.920 They all have to try and get reelected, but the president is not.
00:11:22.580 So that's what happened in the U.S. on Tuesday, two days ago, is that all the representatives had to run again for their position.
00:11:33.040 And that's where they say that the House flipped.
00:11:35.180 so the president stays but now in in the second half of his term the house is more democratically
00:11:44.600 leaning than republican they have more members so now the house is going to continue and make laws
00:11:50.940 so the american house will continue to pass laws but in all likelihood a lot of those laws if they're
00:11:58.080 if they don't come to a nice consensus trump can just veto it and scrap those laws so when the house
00:12:04.320 now starts working they kind of and and this is all designed this was all designed you know 250
00:12:10.400 years ago the americans who wrote the constitution thought of all these kinds of things this this
00:12:16.400 they they created a system completely different than the westminster system that we have on
00:12:21.760 because they balance powers in a very different way and um so that's important right so so that's
00:12:29.360 what happened last week the the house changed but the president doesn't and that kind of changes
00:12:34.340 the dynamics going forward because now um in order to make law in order to pass laws the democrats
00:12:41.980 who control have to do have to pass laws that are kind of appeal to trump otherwise he'll just
00:12:47.280 veto them and and um so that that that's one thing so that so the the midterms in essence
00:12:57.580 act as a kind of a really good gut check to the government.
00:13:05.020 It's a good balance, right?
00:13:06.680 So if you're unhappy with the way that the government was going,
00:13:09.800 you don't have to wait four years.
00:13:11.140 They can start having some change after two years.
00:13:14.980 So it's a pretty cool tool, I think.
00:13:18.420 Now, while I'm talking about this,
00:13:21.200 I want to do just a really quick, interesting comparison
00:13:23.460 because it's going to affect one of the other things
00:13:25.760 I want to talk about today,
00:13:26.660 which is we're in the process of adjusting the number of seats in Alberta.
00:13:30.880 But don't quote me exact, unless John can find a diagram.
00:13:34.900 I don't know if John can find a diagram.
00:13:36.360 If you can find a result of the election in the U.S. or something like that.
00:13:39.720 But our House of Commons has 343 MPs.
00:13:47.740 The U.S. has something like 437 or 436.
00:13:52.960 Don't quote me exactly, but you know what I mean?
00:13:54.980 It's like pretty darn close, right?
00:13:56.660 like maybe 100 more representatives than we have,
00:14:00.660 but for a country that's 13 times bigger.
00:14:04.020 So each, and you always hear that complaint in Canada,
00:14:07.160 like, oh, we need more MPs because they have to travel so much
00:14:10.700 and they have to visit their constituents
00:14:12.020 and get their input and stuff like that.
00:14:14.300 I call BS to that, first of all.
00:14:16.220 Like they barely travel.
00:14:17.360 They never come around door.
00:14:18.780 Like the idea of door knocking is a thing of the past.
00:14:22.660 And they can get my feedback without having to travel.
00:14:25.700 They can get it electronically.
00:14:27.100 But at the end of the day, an MP in Canada represents about 50,000 people, 60,000 people, some as high as 100.
00:14:34.460 Like it's not completely even.
00:14:36.020 But if you do the math, you know, 343 divided by 40 million divided by 343, it's about that.
00:14:42.800 It's about, you know, 50, 70,000 per MP, whereas the Americans are in the 700,000 range.
00:14:48.240 so that would mean that like uh if can't if alberta was a state we'd have like five or six
00:14:54.940 members uh representatives and and what do we have now in the house of commons like 30 uh 34
00:15:01.740 so a big um a big difference there all right so and and and because of that because of the
00:15:10.680 the way the americans vote every two years what happened on tuesday was not entirely
00:15:20.600 unexpected and uncommon there's been a lot of almost every president in the last
00:15:27.800 20 years that i've been that i've been following politics has lost the midterm in meaning that
00:15:34.040 you know there's been a major change to the to the balance of power in the house of representatives
00:15:39.480 It happened to Obama. It happened to Clinton. It happened to George Bush. It happened to all of them. It even happened to Biden. So and some people are trying to make a big something out of Trump, you know, making it a victory for the other side.
00:15:57.400 It is a victory. Sure, it's a victory. But is it but it's not an unexpected victory and it's not a total condemnation of what he was doing.
00:16:05.840 Now, I think me personally speaking, I mean, I'm not an American. I don't live in the U.S.
00:16:11.400 And I do know this about Americans. They're not as interested in in in our politics as perhaps we are in theirs. 0.51
00:16:19.240 And that makes sense. Right. They're they're they're 13 times bigger. They're the elephant in the room.
00:16:23.500 And some people said that, oh, the tariffs against Canada were hurting Americans and that's how they reacted with this vote.
00:16:36.140 I think it comes down to some much simpler things.
00:16:39.120 Definitely Americans were not happy with the war against Iran dragging on and jacking up the price of oil.
00:16:46.460 They definitely weren't happy about $6 gasoline.
00:16:51.460 gasoline like every every nation every place has their own sort of sacred cow the americans don't
00:16:57.420 like expensive fuel i wish i knew what our sacred cow was i don't know what it is it's um you know
00:17:03.420 we seem to endure a lot of suffering and um and and keep re-electing the people who uh cause that
00:17:11.300 suffering but i think for the americans it was it was a combination of those things and it was one
00:17:16.480 thing i mean i think they were sending a message to trump which is um you're you're not listening
00:17:24.660 to us or you're going too far and so he's gonna i think he's gonna have to um well in the u.s they
00:17:31.840 have an interesting term so once once this happens to a president in the second half of his second
00:17:38.120 term they call it a lame duck president right so basically the president in the u.s right now can't
00:17:43.020 do a lot of things because he'll all he can do is veto a bunch of new bills that get passed or he
00:17:50.080 can keep using his executive powers to to like tariffs tariffs or tariffs were done with an
00:17:56.840 executive power they're not something that was voted in their house of representatives trump
00:18:00.900 can literally just say i'm imposing a tariff on on uh whatever aluminum and so he can keep doing
00:18:07.100 that so the the house of representatives doesn't have the ability to reverse the tariffs but but
00:18:12.040 back to what I was saying. Trump is limited in what he can do. John, I always like doing this.
00:18:19.320 We don't get a lot of these. We got a super chat. And so can you just bring it up? And I'd like to
00:18:23.240 be able to read it. So JP, Alberta First, $5 super chat says, yes, we would have five or six
00:18:30.360 representatives, but we would have two senators. And so would Ontario have two senators. Yeah,
00:18:35.400 yeah. So thanks, JP. I didn't bring up the whole balance of power. The US also has a second house
00:18:41.640 to try and balance out the power.
00:18:43.420 We have that. 0.99
00:18:44.080 Plus they have governors.
00:18:45.220 They have a whole lot of things.
00:18:46.760 But fundamentally speaking,
00:18:49.340 they get away with a lot less representatives
00:18:51.680 than we do per population.
00:18:54.120 But anyway, so Trump is kind of, 0.99
00:18:56.880 he is a lame duck. 0.99
00:18:58.020 That's the term they use. 0.99
00:18:59.180 He can't do much.
00:19:00.940 So that was one of the questions I've been asking
00:19:04.720 and I'm asking you guys,
00:19:06.280 what does this defeat mean for Trump going forward?
00:19:11.640 I think he's going to end up, unfortunately, he's going to end up fighting, you know, somebody said lawyer up.
00:19:17.420 We know this happened in his last term, right?
00:19:19.760 In his first term, like the Democrats are going to get ugly.
00:19:23.060 They're going to try and impeach him.
00:19:25.020 Impeachment is how they try and like that's their tool for saying we don't you've lost the confidence of our of the House and and we want you gone and you should resign kind of thing.
00:19:35.420 They're going to go down that path, which is ugly.
00:19:37.500 I don't even think they'll be successful down that path because they don't have their two-thirds majority.
00:19:41.800 I mean, they have a majority in the House, but it's not a super majority.
00:19:44.640 So impeachment is not necessarily available to them.
00:19:48.480 I personally hope that Trump spends more time just listening, taking this as his own wake-up call,
00:19:58.040 listening to what the people really want, focusing on ending that war in Iran and bringing costs down
00:20:05.320 and maybe advancing some of the things he'd been doing
00:20:07.660 and make sure that another Republican president gets elected.
00:20:14.880 I think that's the number one thing I'd like to see.
00:20:17.320 I still think that the U.S. and Canada does better
00:20:22.160 when there's a Republican president next door than a Democrat.
00:20:27.140 But the other question then this week was,
00:20:29.500 what does this mean for Canada?
00:20:32.200 And I think I've already answered that.
00:20:34.980 It doesn't mean much. Right. So Trump has Trump doesn't need to reverse tariffs.
00:20:42.340 I also don't think the Democrats want to reverse tariffs because a lot of the tariffs that are imposed on Canada are for things that we've you know, that are they want to bring back jobs to the U.S.
00:20:53.140 They're imposing tariffs on us to protect because they're worried about us cozying up with China and the Democrats and the Republicans agree on that.
00:21:01.620 Right. Down in the U.S., China is is viewed as a bad guy.
00:21:06.480 The tariffs. So I don't think I don't think the tariffs are going to go away.
00:21:13.020 I don't think any politician other than maybe Doug Ford yesterday, Doug Ford was the only one who seemed to stand on stage saying, hey, I I'm glad to see Trump defeated.
00:21:24.520 Everybody else was being pretty diplomatic about it.
00:21:27.200 Carney didn't make any pronouncement.
00:21:29.320 Nobody said anything to rock the boat.
00:21:31.800 I think the politician witnessed what happened
00:21:34.100 and there's not going to be a big change for us
00:21:38.200 in the relationship between Canada and the U.S.
00:21:42.280 in the next two years.
00:21:43.720 Although it's already softening up a little bit
00:21:46.480 and we keep hearing talks of the trade negotiations
00:21:50.720 still being ongoing and stuff like that.
00:21:52.780 So, I mean, that's all I got to say about, because I don't follow American politics much closely either. I've always said I kind of like what Trump was doing. But it was a wake up call for him. And I think a lot of politicians around the world right now have been getting wake up calls, including here in Canada.
00:22:15.620 we had eb a couple of weeks ago and i think danielle better pay attention to what happened
00:22:20.520 at the referendum and and so forth and so forth so that that that's my thoughts on uh the u.s
00:22:27.580 election uh what what kind of comments any special comment go ahead folks like call again
00:22:32.840 i guess some fair enough i think some of you folks yeah it's kind of the format right i talk
00:22:38.840 i do a bit of a monologue at the beginning and then and then after that we'll take some call
00:22:43.660 So consider my monologue on the U.S. election done. I'm not let me summarize it. I'm not entirely surprised. It's it's expected that their system works that way. The there's a generally a nice it keeps the powers in balance and it prevents one side from getting too crazy.
00:23:03.100 So I like that about the American system. It's not unexpected. It's not unusual. Trump lost some seats in the House of Representatives, but it's nowhere near the record. There's been other presidents that have lost way more than he has. I don't think it fundamentally changes Trump's strategy.
00:23:24.600 He's still the president, and he's got his plan, and he's going to try and do it.
00:23:29.340 Besides, by the way, if Trump changed strategy every time he got defeated, he wouldn't be who he is, right?
00:23:35.860 He's the kind of guy who—and maybe I'll bring that up.
00:23:39.480 That's one part of this weekend, of the election, that still makes me nervous.
00:23:48.040 There is a wokeism that has taken over Western society. And we're taking progressivism too far in many instances, way too far. And then there's the establishment, right? We see that all the time.
00:24:07.800 There's an establishment in the world, like big, big, powerful families, big, powerful groups like the World Economic Forum and people at the top of the UN and people in government all over the world.
00:24:21.560 There's an establishment. There's an establishment here in Canada.
00:24:25.540 There's an establishment in Alberta.
00:24:27.840 I mean, we saw the establishment.
00:24:30.900 Caller on the line, answer when ready.
00:24:32.840 I'll come back to the establishment in a second because that's I'm just going to write it down.
00:24:36.940 go ahead caller where are you calling from and what's on your mind hey i'm luke and i'm just
00:24:42.540 out the lethbridge how's it going and uh i'm doing all right doing all right so uh trump's
00:24:51.260 a lamed up president and that's interesting i don't think the uh tariffs are going to go away
00:24:56.860 if next time they're up for election i'm pretty sure like if they get a democrat president
00:25:02.380 that actually doesn't do anything for the tariffs.
00:25:05.800 I mean, they could executive order and remove them,
00:25:08.760 but it doesn't reestablish the NAFTA or anything like that.
00:25:13.740 So what do you think about that?
00:25:16.160 Do we think we have tariffs beyond the next two years?
00:25:23.980 Gut answer is yes.
00:25:25.440 My gut answer is yes, even beyond the next two years.
00:25:28.260 i i think there's a broader plan the americans want both sides of the house both all americans
00:25:36.720 kind of want a change to the nafta deal the usmca so they're going to so the tariffs are going to
00:25:43.040 stay until there's a real significant change to the usmca that's kind of my thought
00:25:47.400 yeah that's kind of where i'm thinking too uh and i i think that leads into all of our issues with
00:25:55.740 dairy trade. I've looked at some of the preliminary stuff and responses from some of the EU countries
00:26:01.400 and they all say, well, we don't really want to trade to Canada because you don't take dairy.
00:26:05.200 And that's also what the state is upset about. And I think that that's also going to affect
00:26:09.960 free trade now and in two years when probably tariffs get re-examined.
00:26:15.180 Yeah, yeah. Now, hey, just because it's on a different topic, but because you're calling from,
00:26:21.020 you said Lethbridge, right?
00:26:23.340 Yeah, just out of Lethbridge.
00:26:24.580 Awesome. I wanted to cover this today, but what's your thoughts on that? Lethbridge seems to be in the center of a bit of a storm when it comes to the redrawing the Alberta electoral boundaries. Are you are you caught up on that? Am I catching you off guard or do you have a thought on the electoral boundaries?
00:26:39.640 no i i think it's a good thing i mean my personal politics are reasonably conservative and what it
00:26:47.420 looks like to me is they're taking a lot of the land surrounding left bridge and combining it
00:26:52.220 with more rural communities in order to dilute the conservative vote i mean i know that i think
00:26:57.960 it's elections canada that recreates the boundaries but uh i like it but that's because it agrees with
00:27:03.820 my politics right right okay fair enough fair enough okay well appreciate the call luke thanks
00:27:08.340 for calling yeah no problem you too um yeah um yeah that's i mean uh yeah we'll see we'll see
00:27:17.920 where where the tariffs go i mean i think uh both sides have already kind of adopted to the tariffs
00:27:23.220 anyways they're built into everything uh the economy's moving along things are going but
00:27:29.080 but uh let me go back so i was talking about the establishment right and and how that was one thing
00:27:34.300 that scared me so first of all i said donald is not uh donald's been fighting hard and uh he gets
00:27:42.700 knocked down and he keeps on fighting and and i've always said i really consider donald to be
00:27:48.040 not part of the establishment and that's one of the reasons he gets attacked so hard right
00:27:52.760 he he's disrupting uh and that's why you got guys like carney talking about the new world order
00:27:59.300 and the European Union, like there's been a battle.
00:28:02.460 I mean, Americans have been a dominant powerhouse
00:28:06.100 since the end of World War II.
00:28:08.760 And there's always been groups that are trying to wrestle
00:28:12.060 that power away from the Americans.
00:28:15.180 And you had some American presidents in the past
00:28:18.880 played the game and everybody, you know,
00:28:21.360 there's a big game of people in the establishment.
00:28:23.780 And Donald Trump is anti-establishment.
00:28:26.720 I've always said this.
00:28:27.700 I do believe this.
00:28:28.680 And I've always and I'm always worried. I'm glad I'm glad he got you know, he took a punch and he's staying up and he's good because I've always said if they can get to Donald Trump and the establishment can fight him, then what hope is there for all of us?
00:28:45.460 I just saw it. I'll bring it up again. I saw the independence movement in Alberta. It was an example of a populist group against the establishment. Look at what the other side did to us.
00:29:00.460 Kearney came to visit. 0.67
00:29:03.480 Poiliev came to visit.
00:29:04.720 Smith was against us.
00:29:08.080 Jason Kenney and Rachel Notley were singing Kumbaya.
00:29:12.880 Like, everybody, like, name me a politician
00:29:15.260 who was on the independent side.
00:29:20.360 None.
00:29:21.060 Because at the end of the day, it's the status quo,
00:29:22.940 and the status quo is the establishment.
00:29:26.240 And so the establishment is, you know,
00:29:29.240 you got a guy like Carney or not like Trump who comes around once in a while and they they weren't able to completely defeat him.
00:29:36.320 And I'm glad because if they did, then then that's a giant, you know, victory for the establishment.
00:29:41.060 Think of the resources they are throwing at that guy. It's incredible.
00:29:46.120 Actually, and I just want to I'll throw that out there.
00:29:49.960 Somebody somebody brought this up like they were trying to they were mentioning to me last night sort of broken promises
00:29:57.720 that Trump made.
00:30:00.860 And the one that kept coming up
00:30:02.320 is the Epstein files.
00:30:04.700 Do you guys really think
00:30:06.120 that the Epstein files
00:30:07.540 are a deal breaker?
00:30:09.660 Like, you know,
00:30:11.820 do you absolutely need to know
00:30:13.780 what's in the Epstein files?
00:30:14.960 I mean, this is what I'm going to say.
00:30:16.680 I think there's a bunch of bad people
00:30:18.920 and perhaps even some innocent people 0.90
00:30:21.460 that went to visit the Epstein island, right?
00:30:23.400 It's a big club and we're not in it.
00:30:26.120 celebrities like to you know uh hang out with other celebrities if somebody said hey you know
00:30:34.140 we're flying to this island it's in the bahamas blah blah blah i think i think i think there's
00:30:38.920 and i think at the end of the day there's a lot of names on the epstein file from both sides right
00:30:44.040 if there was only republicans then the democrats would have brought it out a long time ago and if
00:30:48.120 it was only democrats the republicans would have brought it out but there's names from both sides
00:30:52.520 and revealing that list is sort of a mutually agreed destruction kind of thing and so it didn't
00:30:58.180 come out now some people are pissed off because they want to see who's on the list um i don't
00:31:03.940 know what's your thoughts i mean i i'm okay not knowing who's on the list maybe we'll know
00:31:07.760 you know 30 years from now but uh but i don't think that was a deal breaker go ahead caller
00:31:13.060 where are you calling from oh hi good afternoon marty it's uh gordon calling hey gordon hi uh
00:31:21.600 Yeah, just in regards to the election.
00:31:23.540 Yeah, I don't think it changes much.
00:31:24.640 I think Trump is going to forge ahead with his attack on the globalists.
00:31:30.580 And I think what he needs to do, though, he needs to wrap up land and Ukraine really quick 0.70
00:31:37.880 so that they can concentrate on doing what he needs to do, satisfying the American people. 0.95
00:31:44.600 And this week there, or the last couple of days, yeah, they've been talking about some
00:31:49.040 sort of rip before JD Vance and himself. No, there's no rip. It's planned. He's going to be
00:31:54.600 helping the young men get established and get their campaign going. JD and Marco, he's going
00:32:01.600 to be helping the guys. He knows he's on his way out. He doesn't want to do anything to hurt him.
00:32:06.140 So I think that's kind of going to be the agenda. Get these things wrapped up and really start
00:32:10.520 working on the American problems and get back into the people's favor. Yeah, no, I'm with you
00:32:16.760 that one um go through some of the names so who are some of the names you favor who do you think
00:32:23.320 is gonna who's interested in uh donald j trump's job you think versus who do you want to see is
00:32:31.240 there somebody you'd like to see well i think the two guys who are going to really be going into it
00:32:37.320 is uh going to be uh jd vamps the vice president i think for sure him and now there i read something
00:32:44.040 this morning that they're uh they're saying it's a clock watch for rubio's resignation so that he
00:32:51.880 can go concentrate on his campaign so that's where i heard it so i think because those two are very
00:32:58.280 prominent in donald's uh uh cabinet you know yeah yeah yeah no advance for sure i mean that's
00:33:07.240 that's sort of like uh why they choose those guys as vice presidents and then they get groomed but
00:33:12.120 For me, one of my favorites, and actually I thought he did brilliantly in this.
00:33:16.460 Like there were some upsets, right, in the by-elect, or not the by-elections.
00:33:20.540 There were some upsets in the midterms, right?
00:33:22.480 Like Texas went completely blue.
00:33:24.900 Like I was like, whoa, what happened there?
00:33:27.100 But for me, it's Ron DeSantis.
00:33:29.080 I still love that guy.
00:33:30.060 I think he should be a great, he would be a great American president.
00:33:36.600 Agreed, yeah.
00:33:37.780 Yeah, cool.
00:33:38.760 Okay, awesome.
00:33:39.440 Well, thanks for calling.
00:33:40.780 Have a great one.
00:33:41.560 Okay, I just wanted to ask you one more question, and it's in regards to the APC.
00:33:47.000 Yep.
00:33:48.000 I just wanted to ask, what's ever happened to Dr. Mudry?
00:33:51.800 Is he still involved with it? 0.60
00:33:53.960 Because that's when I got active with listening and following it and actually signing up.
00:33:58.320 It was Dr. Mudry, and there used to be this young guy out of Lloyd Minister, and he was
00:34:03.180 an economist.
00:34:04.180 He was a farm boy, you know, he drove trucks, but he had a degree in economy.
00:34:08.960 And all of a sudden, these people just gone by the wayside.
00:34:11.920 Do you have any idea?
00:34:13.060 Can you respond to that?
00:34:15.000 Was The Economist a guy named Tanner?
00:34:17.040 Was that the guy you're thinking of?
00:34:20.160 That's right.
00:34:21.480 Listen, I'm not an insider, right?
00:34:26.100 I'm not a board member, so it's kind of speculation for me.
00:34:32.200 But this is what I think happened with the APP.
00:34:36.220 The APP was trying to did form, you know, a sort of a call it a nonprofit group and try to register as a society slash corporation.
00:34:47.060 And then they they they got sloppy.
00:34:49.860 They they some of their filings went here and there and things that they assumed that happened didn't happen.
00:34:55.220 So so they're they're kind of having to clean up who's actually on the board of directors and that kind of stuff.
00:35:00.520 So they're they're working that out right now.
00:35:02.400 I know they're working that out because we saw it publicly, like the disagreement between Chris Scott and Mitch Sylvester.
00:35:08.140 I didn't like that, but they shook hands. Right. There's a picture on social media.
00:35:11.360 They shook hands. They agreed. So they're trying to clean it up and then they'll let us know what's going on.
00:35:15.880 Because because if it was working really properly, you and I wouldn't be we we wouldn't need to ask these questions.
00:35:23.060 We should be able to just go to a website and see, you know, the Constitution and who the directors are.
00:35:29.180 Right. And so I think that was a big oops on their partner trying to fix it.
00:35:33.820 Now, when it comes to Dennis Modry, even if even if the system was working, I think Dennis.
00:35:41.660 Properly stepped back and would have stepped back no matter what, because he has his own he has his own legal issues right now.
00:35:50.920 And again, I don't know what they are, but, you know, he he was the executor of somebody's estate and they got it got sort of ugly.
00:35:58.460 And I think he did the right thing by literally stepping back.
00:36:02.220 So, like, they're separate issues.
00:36:05.300 I think Dennis is stepped back.
00:36:07.600 Hopefully, he'll come back at some point when it's all settled.
00:36:10.380 I think he's a smart guy and he's a founder and he's helpful to the movement.
00:36:17.440 But right now, the first priority for the APP is to clean up just the paperwork
00:36:23.240 so that we can finally agree and be, you know, who's the directors.
00:36:27.920 Does that make sense?
00:36:30.420 Yeah, no, absolutely.
00:36:31.920 Now, great.
00:36:32.640 Thank you for answering that.
00:36:34.000 And I'll let you go.
00:36:35.360 I mean, you've got other callers.
00:36:36.440 Great show.
00:36:37.020 Awesome.
00:36:37.480 Thank you.
00:36:39.000 Is that right, John?
00:36:39.920 Do I have another caller just waiting right now?
00:36:42.420 Oh, somebody hung up.
00:36:44.180 Yeah, no, that's a great question.
00:36:45.740 And that's an important thing, right?
00:36:48.820 I'm all for that.
00:36:50.060 Like, I really, that was one thing.
00:36:51.860 I had that issue with the APP a long time ago with the fact that I'd go to their website and I couldn't see who the directors were.
00:37:02.360 I brought that up a long time ago.
00:37:04.580 I mean, if Mitch is the leader, that's fine.
00:37:08.000 I'm cool.
00:37:08.560 I'm not disagreeing with who is or who isn't.
00:37:12.040 But I would have liked a little more transparency on who are the directors and what their constitution looks like and stuff like that.
00:37:19.060 And it's not just APP.
00:37:20.440 I expect that from everybody.
00:37:21.860 who's, whether you're a business or a nonprofit or anything, right?
00:37:27.040 Like if you're organizing, organize yourself properly.
00:37:30.500 And I think it just got away from them, right?
00:37:33.660 Somebody thought that somebody was making the filings and stuff like that.
00:37:36.560 I know that world.
00:37:37.420 I mean, I was a director, I was a vice president and president of companies.
00:37:42.820 And yeah, you spend an incredible amount of time, you know,
00:37:45.720 in front of lawyers signing documents because, you know,
00:37:49.200 meeting minutes and and everything has to be done by the book and then and then you know you got to
00:37:54.480 elect people and do it there's an there's an order to everything so um so hopefully the but yeah there
00:38:02.800 was a there was some falling out online but they appear to be um working that out now i've been
00:38:10.080 I'll say this I've been approached and for my skills as a as a facilitator and some people
00:38:21.740 are trying to organize a meeting for a lot of a lot of these groups in the coming month to try
00:38:27.520 and see what we can all learn from each other and what went well during the the campaign what didn't
00:38:34.300 stuff like that. And I'd be happy to organize that. But it's a big effort. It's a big job
00:38:40.280 because we got to try and bring together people that right now, right now there's some tempers
00:38:45.960 and there's some people that are not too happy with each other in the independence movement. But
00:38:51.020 trying to park, hopefully we can all park that. And I agree, you know, the biggest problem coming
00:38:56.580 up for us is the election a year from now. And anyways, that wasn't a topic I wanted to talk
00:39:04.100 about today. I can't. I mean, if you guys want to talk about it, but all right. So what was second
00:39:08.800 on my list? Second on my list today was the budget, which comes out in about, geez, I think
00:39:19.500 it's coming. No, it comes out in an hour. So the budget gets tabled by Carney at 4 p.m. It's his
00:39:26.080 second budget. Remember, he was reluctant, right? He didn't want to do the first budget. He had all
00:39:31.160 sorts of excuses last year for not doing a budget. And finally, he published a budget and he was
00:39:36.480 forced to do one. And he did a couple of things in the budget last year. One was he pushed it out.
00:39:46.020 He changed the budgeting cycle. Now, I actually agree with the changes to the budgeting cycle.
00:39:54.300 So he's about to publish the budget today. He's going to table what he's expecting to do for next
00:40:00.480 year. And he's tabling it, you know, two, three months in advance of next year. I think that's
00:40:05.800 okay. That's a good change. That's how it should have been done all the time, right? The previous
00:40:10.520 year's data is all compiled. We have the public account, which is the reconciliation of all the
00:40:18.940 spending and stuff like that is done. We see how last year went. And then he can
00:40:25.020 consult with people through the summer, and then in November, he can say what he wants his budget
00:40:32.760 to look like, and then it coincides with the start of the next year. In the past, the budget was
00:40:39.140 around the sitting of the House of Commons, which is bizarre, right? The House of Commons recesses
00:40:45.800 through Christmas and goes back and starts sitting sort of in April. So no, they're aligning the
00:40:50.700 budgets closer to the way industry does it which is on a calendar year so the 20 now the only thing
00:40:56.520 i don't like is they're calling it the 2026 budget i think it should be called the 2027 budget what
00:41:00.780 he's publishing now should be uh 2027 and he should let us know what he's doing next year so i'm okay
00:41:06.500 with that change uh the budget is a non is a confidence vote so he'll publish it and then the
00:41:14.660 house will he'll table it that officially presents it to the house of common everybody gets a chance
00:41:19.520 to read it and then they can debate back and forth and then sometime in the near future there'll be a
00:41:25.500 vote on whether the budget is approved or not. Now I'll come back to I'll touch on this in a minute
00:41:33.620 but right now if he he's got a one seat majority so something as contentious as the budget could
00:41:44.180 very easily be defeated
00:41:46.600 if
00:41:48.360 people are not happy. It could
00:41:50.540 be defeated. And
00:41:52.300 we'll see if it gets defeated
00:41:54.400 or not. But I think that's
00:41:56.440 why there are
00:41:57.640 six by-elections coming up.
00:42:00.240 I'll park the by-elections for now.
00:42:02.540 But the budget could be defeated.
00:42:05.440 And maybe Carney wants
00:42:06.520 a defeated budget. Because if it's
00:42:08.500 defeated, then he has an excuse to
00:42:10.740 drop the writ
00:42:12.260 and have an election sometime early next year.
00:42:15.320 And I'm thinking he's feeling pretty confident
00:42:17.280 that he would win a real majority in an election.
00:42:22.480 That's what the polls seem to indicate right now.
00:42:24.460 The polls are indicating that he's getting 60% of the popular vote
00:42:31.360 because on the other side, the Conservatives right now
00:42:33.880 under Poilievre are floundering.
00:42:37.720 So the budget is coming out today.
00:42:39.760 now right off the bat on top of the budget they give a theme to every budget and this year's theme
00:42:45.460 they already let us know what it is um it's written in french and in english but in french
00:42:51.040 it's a maître chez nous which is masters at home and um he he it's yes we saw the cover of the 0.56
00:42:59.980 budget we haven't seen the budget itself masters at home which is already pissing off all the 0.88
00:43:05.180 quebecers it's pissed off the premier it pissed off the leader of the bloc quebecois and pissed
00:43:09.280 off a whole bunch of other people because masters at home was a math was a hugely popular uh rallying
00:43:16.560 cry in quebec in the 1960s so before before the you know like after the quiet revolution in quebec
00:43:25.520 and when they started building the big dams up in uh uh james bay and and all the power infrastructure
00:43:31.840 and the saint lawrence seaway and all that other good stuff when like when quebec after its quiet
00:43:37.120 revolution that was a big big slogan for the masters at home and so the quebecers are not happy
00:43:42.960 that of that cultural appropriation that carney used that um so what so we'll see uh what do i
00:43:51.040 expect right now from the budget we've all heard this uh and i'll just go through it quickly
00:43:56.400 carney has announced some like uh the parliamentary budget officer has been keeping
00:44:00.640 track of all of Kearney's promises, right? The Alto train, the rail cars for VIA, the
00:44:07.920 expanded power dams in Quebec and in Labrador, the six icebreakers, the pipeline for Alberta,
00:44:19.160 LNG, you name it. All the upgrading the harbor in Thompson, Manitoba, all of those promises
00:44:27.220 are in the trillion dollar range so money we don't have sorry i wish i had a little bit of
00:44:34.180 water here but so we all it's all it's already been telegraphed the budget is going to have a
00:44:40.020 huge huge huge deficit in there but carney's going to try and sell it to you and me uh doing two ways
00:44:49.580 He's going to he's he's already trying to break out operating expenses and capital expenses.
00:44:56.980 So he's he's saying he wants to he almost wants two budgets.
00:45:00.760 He's going to want the budget, the operating budget, which is the embassies, the salaries of people, the Canada Pension Plan, EI, you know, health transfers.
00:45:11.320 He's going to say that's the ongoing budget.
00:45:13.980 And I'm not borrowing for that.
00:45:16.040 I'm keeping that, you know, there's no deficit there.
00:45:18.640 That's what he's going to try and make you believe. And then he's going to say, and I got the separate budget, which is the capital spending budget. And this is where I'm borrowing money and I'm investing. He's going to call it investing for the future. So watch out for that. But at the end of the day, he's borrowing money and borrowed money is is money that we don't have.
00:45:39.160 And the debt, like prior to Trudeau, between whatever, 1867 and 2015, like the country accumulated something like six hundred billion dollars in debt.
00:45:49.700 It's just huge number. Right. Trudeau doubled that in just the 10 years that he was in power to like one point two trillion.
00:45:56.320 And now Carney's about to double it again in a matter of like three or four years.
00:46:00.100 So that's a scary number. Right. The debt is money we don't have.
00:46:03.380 and you'll see in the but and and the way he's going to keep trying to sell us on the idea
00:46:08.580 listen to him very carefully he's going to say the debt is manageable and he's going to use a
00:46:14.860 measure like he's going to say the debt to gdp the debt to the gross domestic production
00:46:19.900 is lower than everybody else but pay attention because he's not going to say debt to gdp
00:46:25.940 Carney started saying debt net debt to GDP and he'll say our net debt to GDP is lower than anybody else in the G7 which is not true by the way but it's also playing with games because how does he achieve net debt he's reducing Canada's debt by the gross debt by adding by subtracting the Canada pension funds and other funds right there's a Canada there's money put aside for the Canada pension plan.
00:46:55.380 And there's also money for the civil service pensions and military pensions and RCMP pensions and things like that.
00:47:03.140 So he's netting out some of the debt by saying, I have these funds.
00:47:07.520 Those funds are not his. He can't borrow against those funds.
00:47:10.800 He can't use those funds as collateral.
00:47:13.300 Those are monies that are being held in trust for pensioners, for people like you and I.
00:47:18.100 So that's a nasty game that he's playing.
00:47:19.800 And he's also playing the game of decreasing the debt by using some sleigh of hands.
00:47:27.060 And he's also cheating on the GDP, the gross domestic production.
00:47:32.680 Those numbers came out this week.
00:47:34.300 And same thing.
00:47:34.880 They go, oh, look, it's inching up.
00:47:36.440 It's like 2% growth year over year.
00:47:39.040 But they're adding government spending. 1.00
00:47:42.820 And like the more people, you can make the GDP of our country go up just by adding immigrants. 0.98
00:47:47.760 which which makes sense now right do you understand why we're adding immigrants 0.98
00:47:52.240 and so so the debt's going to be ugly um he's going to make a whole bunch of promises that go
00:47:59.120 out into the future i and i think you're going to see an announcement that he won't it's it's
00:48:06.280 been telegraphed already he wants to increase immigration again because he has no choice we've
00:48:11.500 talked about this a lot immigration temporarily solves a lot of problems that they have but it's
00:48:16.200 long-term bad solution. Go ahead, caller. Where are you calling from?
00:48:20.840 We'll just say from now on when I call you, I'll say it's Rimby Rick.
00:48:24.280 All right. How's it going today? What's on your mind?
00:48:27.000 Yeah, good. You know what? You're covering so much stuff here. But one of the things you
00:48:31.640 also didn't mention was about him moving pension money around. He just moved the union pension
00:48:37.400 money around and he's going to transfer that into the thing. The unions are up in arms about that
00:48:44.680 as well all of the ridiculous finance finance central banker kind of things that he's trying 0.65
00:48:53.400 to pull is so disgusting well and i'm in that and that's if you and i you know like do you even still
00:49:02.120 think there's money in the pensions right like i i have days where i think it's probably not even
00:49:06.200 there well and and and when you see those deals that he was doing like what he was when he's
00:49:13.000 talking about creating this carbon market here. You remember him talking about underwriting it.
00:49:21.400 The government of Canada and the government of Alberta were going to underwrite it so that they
00:49:26.760 would maintain their value and it would be on a, what's the word, index scale. I'm just like,
00:49:34.760 are you kidding me? And then now he put his wife into this ocean-owned boy role because they want
00:49:39.960 to go find all the green grass and algae the carbon sinks and they now in bar doing deals with
00:49:47.080 those thanks for bringing that up i wasn't even thinking about that one maybe tell the listeners 1.00
00:49:52.360 how big of a budget was she given to do that what two billion dollar she got a two billion dollar 0.98
00:49:59.480 expense account is what that is yeah oh she's doing it for free oh yeah yeah what she's gonna
00:50:04.600 do she's a bigger climate zealot than him yeah and then and they sold it to us by saying well
00:50:11.160 she's the expert on climate or whatever can you believe but if yeah like i yeah no now you're
00:50:17.720 making my heart rate go i apologize marty but i think that he went and did these deals in the
00:50:25.880 caribbean uh this early this week and that announcement of that little deal that they're
00:50:32.200 doing there with those islands because you go to them and say you guys don't have a lot of money
00:50:36.760 you're not uh you're not very you don't have a lot of uh of an economy but we've got an idea for you
00:50:43.160 and look what you can make and we're building this and you can buy in and then we get your
00:50:47.880 uh votes at the u.n right remember he was the climate envoy before uh at the u.n when before
00:50:54.760 so yeah he's not changing he's not changing his stripes like i've said that so many times i mean
00:51:00.440 he's he's already told us what he's going to do and i think we need to believe him um you brought
00:51:05.720 up by the way you brought up a good point and i'm sorry folks i i a lot of people say this i talk
00:51:11.000 about a lot of subjects every week it it is you know my my list is long i almost could have a
00:51:17.800 daily show but that would be too taxing on me so i apologize if i bring up a lot of issues every week
00:51:24.360 yeah derek we need two shows a week let's just try two shows a week and then if we can grow from
00:51:29.960 that yeah yeah if marty has time maybe we should try to work it in well we also talked about a 90
00:51:35.880 minute show which might be uh the thing in the new year i might switch to 90 minutes okay yeah
00:51:41.320 oh there you go that'll give you more time you know what what you might be able to do marty
00:51:45.000 that's not a terrible idea just spitballing with you for a second you do what you want but
00:51:50.040 if you did a 90 minute show you could actually have say the first half hour is going to be my
00:51:55.240 monologue and we don't do calls then you could shift into your one hour where you do still talk
00:52:00.440 and take calls but then you could actually frame it and you could actually get all those things you
00:52:05.480 wanted without being interrupted interesting awesome yeah cool all right well i'll let you go
00:52:11.080 just in case i got another color yeah as far as though i wanted to touch on also though uh don't
00:52:17.320 keep this on the non-confidence possibility uh but this eu associate member thing i think that
00:52:24.600 smith and dorkson and mo need to get right beside flamondon on a stage and say not on our watch
00:52:34.680 right this is our resources and just like she did she had some interview she was with that room did
00:52:39.880 a town hall or something and said yeah we're not doing this flamondon came out and said nope this
00:52:45.720 is a question i have for you can you imagine holding if mark carney had held some sort of
00:52:50.680 this event the eu whatever it was called on a first nation reserve he said to the chief
00:52:59.000 we're going to tell you how we're going to how we're going to manage your resources
00:53:02.920 while the eu is going to tell us what to tell you and by the way your chief doesn't get to have a
00:53:08.040 word to say at the meeting and we're not going to do a land acknowledgement so how would have that
00:53:14.200 gong versus how they treated play mon dom and i think that those four premiers need to stand up
00:53:21.400 and together and say we're first ministers and this is how we feel about this we're not doing
00:53:27.000 this without consultation with canadians and always you to answer with it yeah again you and
00:53:32.920 i you could buddy i could have you on stage here you maybe that's the other thing i got to bring
00:53:37.960 in just some of the viewers and you can sit here you and i could have a nice chat about all these
00:53:42.200 things you bring up some great points well i just think what do you think about the premiers coming
00:53:49.560 out and saying excuse me dorkson is definitely going to be on board with uh they'll the only
00:53:54.920 one who has the guts by the way the only ones who has the guts to do it has been uh plamando i think
00:53:59.400 the other ones are too they they they would never say that not yet no daniel did she was on that
00:54:05.960 little town hall with uh with ezra and actually said we this is when it comes to national security
00:54:12.840 arctic stuff for things those are national things when it comes to resources well and uh and students
00:54:19.720 and stuff like them saying they're going to be able to bring students across that's education
00:54:24.040 that's our jurisdiction yeah but actually we're running out of time but you bring up a good point 0.78
00:54:30.600 danielle speaks a good you know she talks but she she doesn't walk the walk right so she talks it 0.93
00:54:37.160 to that to to ezra i get that but i want her to go one step further and literally address
00:54:42.840 carney in some of these instances and say you've gone too far yeah that's why if you bring those
00:54:48.280 ministers you get together can design slam on don't i never thought before that i think that
00:54:53.480 the guy that might be the most benefit to our country was the leader of a party kibik what
00:54:58.040 you me both it was not on my bingo chart all right have a good day all right thanks appreciate it
00:55:02.920 okay uh same as last week i'm running out of time um i you know maybe i'll i i'm getting
00:55:10.520 better at this folks i mean it's almost been a year i think it'll be uh no it's not been a year
00:55:15.000 i think i did the first show in february so it'll be a year in february uh i'm getting better i know
00:55:21.400 i've been told this a lot i got a lot of topics maybe i talk about too much of some of the topics
00:55:26.600 And maybe so I got two ways to go about this.
00:55:29.480 Either I sprinkle all the topics and go from there or I do more deep dives in the topics.
00:55:35.540 I don't know.
00:55:36.320 I mean, I wanted to talk about today.
00:55:39.080 I also wanted to talk and I guess we can talk about this one next week.
00:55:42.360 You know, I was a little upset that Carney is is not allowing the Russian junior team to come play hockey.
00:55:53.900 Right.
00:55:54.020 So the World Juniors are in Alberta again this year.
00:55:59.560 They were here during COVID.
00:56:01.260 You know, they tried to do the Edmonton Red Deer.
00:56:03.480 Kind of didn't work out very well during COVID.
00:56:05.580 So they're doing it again.
00:56:07.100 It's great hockey, man.
00:56:08.440 It's great hockey.
00:56:09.900 And it's kids that are like 18, 17, 18, 19.
00:56:14.180 I don't even think he can be 20 at the World Juniors.
00:56:16.860 Maybe he can be up to 21.
00:56:18.760 But he's using politics.
00:56:21.060 and uh yeah there's been there's been um you know the sports has been used in the past
00:56:30.340 as kind of uh as a political tool and i i disagree with that i i mean you can do uh business
00:56:37.300 embargoes and trade embargoes and you can do boycotts and stuff like that but you know when
00:56:44.140 when the olympics were first conceived of like whatever in 1890 like at you know it was it was
00:56:49.580 a Frenchman, it was
00:56:51.360 I can't remember his name
00:56:54.160 Coubertin or somebody like
00:56:56.200 that and he had thought of
00:56:57.960 he brought back
00:57:00.320 the Olympics, I mean the Olympics had happened
00:57:02.100 in ancient Greece and so he brought
00:57:04.040 him back and the spirit of the Olympics
00:57:05.680 that he brought back was that
00:57:07.680 nations don't know each other very well
00:57:09.900 and we fight
00:57:11.940 and often we fight because we
00:57:14.080 just have these misunderstandings and we
00:57:16.040 don't understand each other so he had
00:57:18.060 idea that let's do sports let's do the olympic sports and let's set aside those differences
00:57:23.020 and let's compete uh in sports instead of wars okay and i get it it's not the same it's hockey
00:57:29.340 is not the olympics but even the olympics started having boycotts and now boycott is one thing if
00:57:35.500 you choose not to go to the olympic that's one thing but if the olympic committee says no you
00:57:40.540 can't come i think that's different and so and and i see i see a similarity here these are young
00:57:47.500 kids that play hockey, okay? So don't punish the kids who play hockey because of the stupid 1.00
00:57:53.180 decisions of Putin and Zelensky and Carney and others. Let the kids come and play hockey. 1.00
00:58:00.320 I want the best to come and play hockey. So I'll bring this up next week again because
00:58:06.480 it ties into immigration. It ties into a whole bunch of other things. I never even talked about
00:58:13.380 the by-elections. I'll have time
00:58:16.000 to talk about the by-elections next week.
00:58:18.200 I think they are important because
00:58:19.880 there are December 7th and there's
00:58:22.020 six by-elections, so it could be an opportunity
00:58:23.900 for Carney to either secure his
00:58:25.860 majority or maybe lose a little
00:58:28.060 bit of his majority. So,
00:58:29.940 who knows?
00:58:31.900 We'll go from there next week.
00:58:33.740 Alright, again,
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