Western Standard - July 26, 2026


MARTY UP NORTH: Trump slaps more tariffs on Canada


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00:00:00.000 hey welcome back to this beautiful thursday afternoon in calgary
00:00:30.000 uh it's a hot one out there uh if i wasn't doing the show today i would be out on the river
00:00:35.520 but i'll do that tomorrow i'm gonna head out on the river and go for a float um you know before
00:00:42.200 uh lots to talk about again today lots to talk about and as i've said many times we're this is
00:00:48.240 a call-in show please uh call in number uh john the producer will put the number down on the screen
00:00:54.760 here in a second but uh don't be shy call uh let me know where you're calling from name and what
00:01:00.740 you want to talk about the show is about you guys right now i mean we're making it about current
00:01:04.560 events it's been a busy week and we got lots to talk about i want to talk about the new tariffs
00:01:10.420 the premier's meeting in pei um the secrecy around the gordy howe bridge uh deal uh and then the
00:01:20.040 bridge reopening, what else?
00:01:21.880 Inflation, the weird viral incident 0.70
00:01:26.460 of the guy with the kerpan at the gym there,
00:01:30.740 at the Good Life gym and things like that.
00:01:32.580 So, but before we dive too deep into the show quickly,
00:01:36.680 just a reminder, unfortunate event going on in Calgary.
00:01:41.500 Like I think we're on day seven or eight,
00:01:43.700 a young boy named Parker Wells has been missing.
00:01:48.700 Um, Parker, uh, is diagnosed on the autism spectrum and his parents are worried that,
00:01:57.560 uh, he might've wandered off and he has a tendency to go hide and he might, and close
00:02:02.960 doors behind him.
00:02:04.040 And he might be hiding somewhere, closing a door behind him.
00:02:07.940 He might be in the shed.
00:02:09.320 He might be, he could be anywhere.
00:02:11.660 And so the search is ongoing.
00:02:14.060 So if you have any information, anything, you know, there's websites, there's places, there's even calls for volunteers, I guess, to go do some looking.
00:02:26.180 My kids are all grown and luckily I had very healthy kids, but I did have an adventurous youngster.
00:02:35.280 So my youngest, Raymond, went missing twice, two memorable times in our life.
00:02:40.860 and one of them was when we were camping uh we were camping up by dunvegan up in the peace river
00:02:46.860 area yeah he was the youngest at the time he was about three or four and his sister uh his oldest
00:02:52.860 sister is uh you know seven eight years older than him so 11. the kids were gone went for a walk
00:02:58.860 around the campground sarah comes back with nick and patrick and i said like where's your brother
00:03:04.860 raymond and sarah kind of looked at me like i don't know i'm like what do you mean you don't
00:03:09.100 know he was with you you know and i and i don't blame her i mean it wasn't necessarily it wasn't
00:03:14.220 her responsibility to look after raymond but anyways we mobilized everybody in the campground
00:03:18.620 to go looking for raymond and eventually we found raymond had wandered down by one of the creeks and
00:03:24.140 was you know throwing rocks in the creek but it but you know those those few minutes where
00:03:28.700 we were looking for him were frantic and gut-wrenching and uh i can't imagine what's going
00:03:34.860 through the minds of of Parker's parents so good luck with that and I hope it comes out with a
00:03:41.020 happy ending all right so I listen I'm gonna jump right into it you know the the title of the show
00:03:47.980 today Trump slaps more tariffs on Canada we got to talk about that we got to talk about that I
00:03:54.620 mean it's it's a it's a year and a half we're in a trade war and we're losing the trade war but
00:04:00.460 but I want to go back to, to sort of the beginnings and I want to ask people a question,
00:04:05.380 right? Have you ever, you know, have you ever taken something, have you ever received a benefit
00:04:12.140 that you didn't pay for? Like, I don't know, have you ever, you know, use somebody else's Wi-Fi?
00:04:18.140 You got a neighbor who didn't secure their Wi-Fi and you got to use their Wi-Fi or back in the
00:04:22.100 good old days, maybe you lived in an apartment with a, with a bunch of people and you had,
00:04:26.840 you know coax splitters and you would split cable uh have you ever gone to work like do you have an
00:04:33.240 employer somewhere that provides you with um a plug-in for your car and over the year and you
00:04:40.980 bought yourself an electric car now you plug in your car there even though the plug-in was just
00:04:45.980 to keep your car warm uh or maybe somebody's taking advantage of you right maybe you know
00:04:51.640 maybe you're the person who has a nice boat you had a nice boat at the lake and nobody else has
00:04:56.480 a boat at the lake and for years everybody took uh you know jumped on your boat went for rides on
00:05:01.220 the boat if you went out water skiing you invited people and you never asked for a dime for that
00:05:06.540 boat but you certainly appreciate it if somebody said you know here's 20 bucks for gas for after
00:05:11.760 an afternoon of water skiing right so people have been on the receiving end of that or on the giving
00:05:17.880 end and and then all of a sudden you know what happens when when the neighbor suddenly says hey
00:05:22.380 uh uh i'm not i'm not gonna give i put a password on the wi-fi and then you get upset because your
00:05:29.660 neighbor put a password on the wi-fi and you're no longer getting free wi-fi well is that you know
00:05:36.780 what what's the situation there well i think the situation there i'm getting to something
00:05:42.620 that's what to me that's what happened with the us when donald trump got elected okay so donald
00:05:47.580 Trump got elected two years ago and Donald Trump has always said it clearly that he felt in that
00:05:55.980 a lot of nations around the world had been taking advantage of the of their goodwill but in particular
00:06:02.140 he he turned and he pointed fingers at us at Canada right so we we live north of the US so
00:06:10.540 we're granted huge protection right sure we we you know we we had our own military but in reality
00:06:17.100 if somebody if the russians came over the arctic and invaded us the americans would be there
00:06:21.740 the americans are the ones who patrolled the the the coast the north and the atlantic and
00:06:28.140 and the arctic and protected vessels when when we have a ship that's transporting goods from from
00:06:33.660 japan back to canada or vice versa and those ships are in international waters and they get in
00:06:39.020 distress they're calling americans canadians are calling on americans all the time um the the anyway
00:06:46.460 so lots of things lots of examples of that you know uh american car manufacturing having divisions
00:06:52.620 in the in canada and building cars here and so forth so donald trump gets elected and and he's
00:06:58.780 got a he's got a beef right he he doesn't like the trade imbalance between our two countries
00:07:05.820 okay there's always going to be a trade imbalance but he doesn't but in his mind it's it's less than
00:07:11.340 it's worse than it should be so there's a trade imbalance uh we are opening he's opening his
00:07:17.580 border he's allowing canadian banks to do business in canada but we don't reciprocate uh we have two
00:07:24.540 you know we force his manufacturers to provide services that are bilingual there's the dairy
00:07:29.900 cartel there's all sorts of things right so trump is just upset and he gets elected and he's mandated
00:07:36.380 by his people to reform their economy turn things around bring back manufacturing into the us
00:07:42.780 and make america great again and and that for us it's unfortunate it had a negative consequence on
00:07:50.700 us right right away but to me that should have just been a wake-up call okay it's just a wake-up
00:07:58.140 call we were lucky we got the free internet we were lucky for years and finally when when the
00:08:04.060 neighbor says enough is enough and I'm not giving you the free internet. So Donald Trump says enough
00:08:08.840 is enough. I'm not letting you just build cars and export and re-export them back to my country
00:08:16.040 at a higher cost. I'm going to put an end to that and I'm going to put tariffs on your products.
00:08:21.940 Well, I was always of the opinion that we shouldn't retaliate with tariffs, that that was a
00:08:27.580 wake-up call and that we should have just used it as an opportunity to smarten up and get more
00:08:32.820 efficient but canada decided to retaliate with tariffs and so there's only and there's only a
00:08:40.580 handful of countries at the and at the beginning trump didn't just pick on canada he picked on a
00:08:46.160 lot of countries broadly and he implied imposed tariffs on a lot of nations and by the way a
00:08:50.880 tariff is not a penalty on us on the exporting nation it's a penalty on his own country right
00:08:57.780 So when he put a tariff on, you know, call it lumber, he's not punishing us per se.
00:09:05.080 He's saying to the Americans, find a cheaper place to buy your lumber.
00:09:09.920 But now, in effect, once the tariff's in place, yes, we might lose a bit of market share, but what's our incentive?
00:09:16.880 If the tariff is 10%, then reduce your cost by 10% and stay competitive.
00:09:21.260 So Donald Trump was a wake-up call, and it was a wake-up call to a lot of nations.
00:09:26.100 and a lot of nations responded in a very positive way they said yeah yeah sorry sorry we agree and
00:09:32.260 and we're gonna rectify things we'll we'll we'll buy more from you guys we'll adjust the trade
00:09:37.340 imbalance and so forth and so forth but then you got canada that doubles down and immediately says
00:09:42.100 no we're going to impose tariffs on you counter tariffs we're going to strike back and then you
00:09:47.660 got carny going over the top saying you know the relationship is forever damaged and we can't count
00:09:52.880 on the americans anymore and we're going to start the new world order and and uh and and
00:09:58.400 antagonize and then you got doug ford who stepped in right remember doug ford like a year ago
00:10:03.080 pouring uh um you know running ads in the u.s during the the world series criticizing donald
00:10:11.400 trump and so forth and so forth so and and this rhetoric between our two nations has kept on going
00:10:17.740 And Trump hasn't changed his stance.
00:10:22.100 Fundamentally, he keeps repeating it that, you know, he doesn't.
00:10:25.180 Well, there's a couple of things he doesn't like.
00:10:26.740 He doesn't.
00:10:27.380 One of the things he really doesn't like is the dairy cartel.
00:10:30.400 The fact that we are protecting a small industry that's really only in a couple of provinces.
00:10:36.700 We're protecting the dairy cartel in Quebec and Ontario.
00:10:40.600 And Trump doesn't like that.
00:10:42.660 And by the way, I think that if we stop protecting the dairy cartel, our own dairy farmers would still do fine, because as long as you produce like there's a there's a demand.
00:10:52.880 People want good milk, good cheese, good yogurt and things like that.
00:10:56.680 And our, you know, our government, our our farmers always are proud of the fact that we have, I don't know, less antibiotics in it and less growth hormones.
00:11:05.400 And it's whatever. It's a more organic milk.
00:11:08.260 If that's the case and that's what people want, then you should be able to compete on an open market.
00:11:12.660 So, and the dairy cartel keeps coming up all the time, all the time, all the time. So we've had this back and forth. And originally when Carney was running to get elected, this served him well, right? He had an instant boogeyman south of him. He's got Donald Trump, who's attacking Canada. It's a wake up call for folks. He wasn't attacking Canada, but the liberals played it that way that Trump was attacking us.
00:11:40.200 And Carney was the man that could stand up to Trump.
00:11:45.180 And Carney played that card at the beginning and it got him.
00:11:48.280 It was popular and it got him votes and it helped him win an election.
00:11:52.580 But he's been playing that card over and over and over and over.
00:11:56.040 And now it's become this stubborn battle.
00:11:58.480 And it's a stubborn battle that we're going to lose because the U.S.
00:12:02.880 economy is 13 times, 14 times bigger than us.
00:12:06.360 And it's so don't call it giving in to the Americans. 0.65
00:12:09.100 We're not giving in to the Americans.
00:12:11.280 We have to be realistic. 1.00
00:12:12.960 They are our number one trader.
00:12:14.800 Geographically, they're right next door.
00:12:17.000 And if their demands, we kind of have to meet their demands.
00:12:21.260 Some people call it bullying, but it's just that they're in a better bargaining position
00:12:26.940 and they're taking advantage of their better bargaining position.
00:12:30.100 So we're not capitulating to the Americans when we,
00:12:34.020 if we had just simply accepted the tariff and became more competitive.
00:12:39.100 not initially and that's the way most countries approached it but canada went with strict tariffs
00:12:44.780 and so did china and this battle is ongoing so this battle is ongoing and so this week
00:12:50.060 we just had another week where where trump announced more tariffs and and so the original
00:12:56.140 um now remember we have a trade deal between canada the us and mexico the can the the
00:13:01.980 the KUMSA or the USMCA, whichever country you're from, whatever acronym you want.
00:13:07.920 And so Trump wants to impose tariffs.
00:13:10.980 Luckily, that trade deal is in place and it limits the goods and services that he can tariff.
00:13:17.120 But despite that, this week he announced another round of really big tariffs on a whole bunch of products from Canada.
00:13:26.100 He did this to Canada now.
00:13:27.480 He didn't do this to Mexico.
00:13:28.680 He didn't do this to any other countries.
00:13:30.480 he singled out canada okay that should tell you a lot he singled us out and these tariffs go into
00:13:38.000 place on august 19th and about three weeks from now and look at what our country is doing again
00:13:44.560 right we are doubling down on the rhetoric rather than addressing trump's initial concerns his
00:13:52.800 initial concerns are simple right we should just get rid of the the dairy cartel by the way we can't
00:13:58.880 can't even do that now one of the first things that carney did when he got elected is they passed
00:14:03.320 bill i believe it's c2 or maybe c3 one of the very very very uh initial bills passed by our
00:14:10.720 government explicitly states in the bill that in any ongoing trade negotiations the dairy cartel
00:14:18.560 is off the table that's how entrenched that dairy cartel is in in uh in canadian um politics like
00:14:27.780 it's untouchable. And it's okay, enough on the dairy cartels. But so we're not addressing the
00:14:34.020 original complaints. Another original complaint that Trump had was that we weren't spending
00:14:40.520 enough on defense, that he was picking up the cost for most of NATO. And he wanted countries
00:14:46.900 like ours to increase our spending as a percentage of GDP from two to 5%. A pretty reasonable 0.99
00:14:53.520 requests certainly in canada in light of the fact that our military has pretty much been decimated
00:14:58.240 for the last couple of decades right so and how could we have addressed that initial complaint by
00:15:04.720 trump well look we're miss we don't have navy our boat our fleet of boats is is in disrepair we don't
00:15:12.320 have any vehicles anymore because we lost them all in afghanistan we don't have any tanks our snowbirds
00:15:17.120 can't even fly okay so we need military spending and what do we do normally in canada we study
00:15:24.320 problems to death and we make ridiculous requirements and we engage in competitive
00:15:29.760 bidding and then we we end up buying stuff from other nations that's not off the shelf that's
00:15:35.360 customized that's overpriced that's complicated that's expensive that often doesn't work and what
00:15:41.840 we could have done quickly when trump brought up these issues is we could have just gone to the us
00:15:47.120 and said you're right donald we're not spending enough money on defense um how about we buy i
00:15:52.800 don't know 30 f-16s from you or f-18s and how about we buy two uh harleyberg class battleship
00:16:01.120 or not battleships destroyers and maybe one submarine and a whole bunch of whatever armored
00:16:07.280 personnel carriers we could have done a quick deal like that but what are we doing even there even
00:16:11.840 even in the process of of of ramping up we just announced that we're buying submarines from
00:16:18.520 from germany which to me is a lose lose lose right we're we continue to antagonize trump
00:16:24.400 we're not helping any if if we wanted at least we could have at least uh if we're going to
00:16:30.940 antagonize trump we might as well help our own local industry and buy locally we didn't even
00:16:35.160 buy locally we didn't buy the cheapest of the best subs which would have been to buy from the
00:16:39.520 koreans but instead we go to europe and we buy german subs you know what i mean so it's lose
00:16:44.260 lose lose lose and and trump's watching this and he's he's picking up on this so he imposes these
00:16:48.940 tariffs this week and and then how does canada respond you have doug ford standing on stage
00:16:55.580 yesterday and the day before almost daily now doug ford is on stage um being critical of of trump
00:17:03.900 still and then and then this week in particular we had a a first ministers meeting in uh pei so
00:17:12.700 all the premiers of the of the country got together in pei and you'd think that our that
00:17:18.340 our premiers would be preoccupied with this and that this is what they would be focused on
00:17:22.600 but what did they discuss while they were there well i mean they still talked about health care
00:17:29.740 and transfer payments and the threat of alberta independence and a few other things like
00:17:33.900 that. They never really addressed the plan to deal with Trump and to respond to his initial
00:17:42.020 concerns. And then what do we get out of PEI this week? We get another MOU. We get an MOU now that
00:17:48.660 the provinces are going to work together to further eliminate interprovincial trade barriers,
00:17:53.880 specifically those around booze, like alcohol. So the whole country is in trouble with the
00:18:02.580 americans and we're and our premiers are talking about alcohol like it's dominating the news this
00:18:07.660 week dominating the news is is david eby in british columbia saying there will be no american booze
00:18:14.780 on british columbian shelves and on and and doug ford in ontario saying almost the same thing by
00:18:20.420 the way just just just for that after this show on my way home tonight i'm gonna go stop and i'm
00:18:25.740 luckily we live in alberta where we still have uh private liquor stores i'm gonna go film
00:18:31.760 in one of those private liquor stores, what the American section looks like. I'm pretty sure it's
00:18:36.120 well-stocked and I'm going to go find myself a nice American bourbon. And that's not because
00:18:40.440 I'm anti-Canadian. I'm, yeah, I'm Canadian. I'm definitely pro-Albertan. I drink my fair share
00:18:47.620 of Alberta whiskeys. But in this instance, just to spite Doug Ford and David Eby, I'm going to
00:18:53.280 go buy myself a nice American bourbon for tonight. And I mean, and it doesn't even stop there. Like
00:19:00.640 today this morning there was somebody there was an interview and there was a wine a winery owner
00:19:08.360 in british columbia who was on being interviewed by the cbc and he let out a big secret out of the
00:19:14.840 he let the cat out of the bag i don't know where that expression came from but
00:19:18.380 he literally said that despite he's from bc and he said despite tariffs from the u.s it's still
00:19:27.400 cheaper for him as a canadian winemaker to do business with the u.s than it is for him to do
00:19:33.860 business with the rest of canada like let that sink in right so okay folks i've talked like
00:19:39.440 my opening monologue was a little bit longer than i wanted to i'm sure like what what are your guys
00:19:45.000 thoughts on on on pei on trump on uh doug ford david eby maybe this mou right i mean the mou like
00:19:55.940 the mou i'm beginning to hate the word mou memorandum of understanding like it's getting
00:20:01.980 uh to me now the mou at this point is basically when um when nothing concrete can be accomplished
00:20:09.200 let's let's sign an mou right so mou now between uh danielle smith and and mark carney and now
00:20:16.080 there's going to be mous between all the premiers and and don't get me started on the fact that we
00:20:22.420 we shouldn't even need an mou right that's the whole that's fundamentally shows the flaw of of
00:20:29.200 a country you know of confederation when provinces have to negotiate so hard just to uh just to
00:20:36.980 advance projects uh who said that so i got a sign on the or a chat on the screen he said memorandum
00:20:44.980 of uselessness great interview who said that was that the was that the uh wine person talking this
00:20:51.180 morning. Look at all the acronyms for MOU. I got mostly optics, useless. MOU equals kick the can
00:21:01.240 down the road. Yeah. Okay, cool. Jesse and GP says someone better call or you'll have to hear 1.00
00:21:09.040 my diatribes again. No one wants that. Hey, no, no. I mean, it's okay to have regulars. I appreciate
00:21:16.220 having regulars who call uh or comment all the time uh just if you want to call give give me a
00:21:23.300 buzz but yeah you know um yeah Doug Ford what do I say okay well so let me continue on that topic
00:21:31.980 right so here's the uh so I wish I wish we could play clips oh just lost the screen there John what
00:21:40.080 happened okay that's the big screen's gone the little screen's still here um uh there was a clip
00:21:46.040 uh there was a clip of doug ford basically making these veil threats right so doug ford had a clip
00:21:53.720 where he said we have to i can't remember his exact words um we have to not retaliate but
00:21:59.900 almost like we have to annihilate the americans john did i lose the caller or call on the line
00:22:05.780 all right go ahead caller marty yes hello marty yes marty hey how you doing good good 0.86
00:22:16.660 it's diane from devon hi diane another regular yeah um so i mean you just went through the whole
00:22:27.940 list of everything and you made my blood pressure go up again i was having a nice relaxing
00:22:34.580 aspirin too sorry about that it's it's okay it's okay it's it's it's our lives um so it's it's
00:22:44.360 being mismanaged to a degree that like we've never seen before what is the end game because
00:22:53.380 the train's going down the track and it's gonna derail at some point so what is what is the end
00:23:03.800 game for, I mean, the independence that we support aside, what is the end game with Kearney
00:23:16.260 and all these people?
00:23:18.360 What is it?
00:23:20.020 Let me clarify.
00:23:20.780 So you're asking me what my end game is or what do I think Kearney's end game is?
00:23:26.380 The end game for Canada, the people who are mismanaging it.
00:23:30.480 And really, we can't do anything about it
00:23:34.980 We're just getting dragged along
00:23:36.920 While this game is being played
00:23:38.840 Whatever game it is
00:23:40.320 What is their endgame?
00:23:42.760 Yeah, I think they've told us what their endgame is
00:23:45.720 Their endgame is things like the UN Agenda 2030
00:23:49.840 And the agenda of the Klaus Schwab's of the world
00:23:55.640 And the World Economic Forum
00:23:57.380 Their endgame is
00:23:59.020 there's these weird evil people that envision a a different world uh where they're in power and
00:24:06.380 we're all subservient and and there's countries like canada that are the testing grounds for this
00:24:13.120 right if we're an easy country to capture we're letting ourselves be captured we're letting
00:24:17.480 ourselves be led down this evil path and i think that's the end game there's there's look at u.n
00:24:23.620 agenda 20 it's a 2030 it's a it's a redistribution of wealth it's a world without borders it's um
00:24:31.220 it's it's it's it's a form of socialism on steroid where the average person will own nothing and be
00:24:40.180 happy all those sentences that we used to think was just um people with bad intentions they're
00:24:47.380 coming true and we're realizing that they're more powerful than we thought like it it's it's playing
00:24:52.260 out i think do you agree or do you see it differently absolutely absolutely i'm and and
00:25:00.900 donald trump is the stumbling block yes because donald trump is for his country you might hate
00:25:08.420 him you might hate his rhetoric blah blah blah you might hate a lot of things about him but he
00:25:14.580 is he's the only one standing up because britain and the eu and canada you're absolutely right we
00:25:24.180 have like everybody in the cabinet is a young global leader if anybody knows what that is yeah
00:25:30.260 yeah that's in the cabinet you brought up a point that i didn't even sorry diane you brought up a
00:25:36.900 point that i didn't even have on my list for today which is uh um uh carol starmer from uh
00:25:44.020 from england stepped down and then they replaced him with a guy who makes the carney look almost
00:25:50.420 like uh tame so a lot every country's going down this path and and anytime there's resistance yes
00:25:58.420 and their friends carney and burnham are a burn bomb or burnham they're they know each other they've
00:26:04.580 than previous associates in in business 100 yeah and and and and carney like don't be surprised if
00:26:12.180 carney like carney to me looks like he's kind of failing down this path and i wouldn't be surprised
00:26:16.500 if carney doesn't last a full four years and um and then and then they'll just put somebody else
00:26:22.580 in place to try and finish the job but they don't have anybody right now right there's nobody but
00:26:26.980 but yeah no we're on the same page now just to finish on your question just to finish on your
00:26:32.100 question i think you and i and a bunch of us in alberta have identified what's going on right
00:26:36.900 and that's one of the things we've always said like when as an albertan why am i for independence
00:26:42.340 because we're seeing this this madness in the rest of the country and we're like we got to protect
00:26:47.620 ourselves from this madness and one of the only ways we can do it is by separating and and and
00:26:53.380 forming our own country to try and resist it i i mean i hope i hope we can resist and i hope it's
00:26:58.900 It's not futile, but that's why I'm a separatist.
00:27:01.300 I see what's happening in the rest of Canada, and there's nothing changing them.
00:27:05.520 Like they.
00:27:06.780 No.
00:27:07.880 Yeah.
00:27:08.760 I think, honestly, Marty, there's a lot of people in Alberta who are going to vote yes.
00:27:18.560 I think there's a lot of people that when you were doing your campaign,
00:27:24.880 pain a lot of people didn't want to show up because people were afraid but every day
00:27:31.720 things get worse and worse and worse with all the censorship and and and so on so on
00:27:37.280 like everything and i think there's a lot of people who are gonna stand up and vote
00:27:42.640 yes there's a still a group of people though that they don't even all these issues that
00:27:49.640 have just talked about and i have just addressed there's a lot of people who say because i start
00:27:56.520 the conversation and just the most minor thing they either don't know or they do not want to know
00:28:06.120 they are willing to let that train hit that cement wall and then they're going to say what happened
00:28:12.680 but they don't want to know what it's all this is that's going on it stresses them out or it
00:28:18.600 it upsets them or it's not the Canada that they love and so on and so forth.
00:28:22.960 Awesome. Well, I appreciate it. Thanks for calling in.
00:28:25.520 Hopefully you broke the ice for the rest of the gang and other people will call in today.
00:28:28.880 Have a great day, Diane.
00:28:31.180 Yeah, you as well. Take care of yourself.
00:28:33.080 Cheers.
00:28:35.560 Yeah, she brings up a bunch of good points, but I just want to go back to,
00:28:39.640 um i i want to go back to that the alberta independence was on the topic this week uh in
00:28:48.180 pi but i i want to talk about how um how suddenly everybody wants alberta on team canada and and i
00:28:56.320 keep saying this like they want us on team canada when it's convenient and then as soon as it's
00:29:00.900 inconvenient they'll kick us off the team right like they that that's that's my opinion and this
00:29:06.860 week was another example of that. Doug Ford, Doug Ford's been in front of the mic all week long and
00:29:11.640 keep keep putting the mic on him, folks, because every time he talks like it's comedy. And so he
00:29:17.000 he had the mic on him today and he was or yesterday. And like I said, I can't find the
00:29:21.900 exact words, but he was saying something like along the lines of we can't take it sitting down
00:29:26.840 from Trump. We need to like retaliate and annihilate like he was using that kind of language.
00:29:32.640 right and and and then and then he went from there and talking about we how he was going to do that
00:29:40.640 and will annihilate them by denying them you know energy and power and stuff like that and right
00:29:46.400 away everybody who was listening to him especially from alberta were like doug those are things you 0.95
00:29:51.840 don't even have right and and so doug ford doug doug i'm talking to you man you have no aces up
00:30:00.400 your sleeve in terms of how you're going to deal with donald trump you have nothing
00:30:04.960 that donald trump needs nothing maybe you got a little bit of you got a bit of critical minerals
00:30:12.640 you got some copper maybe up in northern ontario and you got a few things but fundamentally what
00:30:19.200 does donald trump need that he can't supply himself and then he can't get quickly from
00:30:24.800 other places you're on to something doug donald trump needs oil the us is a net importer of oil
00:30:31.200 so they need like 12 million barrels of of oil per day that they consume and they produce about
00:30:36.160 10 so they need two from somewhere else so they get it from us they actually get more from us than
00:30:40.560 the two they buy four and then they resell a couple so they're a net importer of oil so they
00:30:46.000 need our oil and they can't replace that quickly with anywhere anybody else's oil not venezuela's
00:30:50.800 not nobody else is that just takes time they need natural gas from us they produce a lot of natural
00:30:56.320 gas and they export natural gas but they're doing the same thing the americans are doing the same
00:31:00.080 thing we are they're going down this ai path and they need to burn a lot of natural gas to make
00:31:04.560 electricity to power their ai facilities and uh and they're great at exporting but the gulf of
00:31:11.040 mexico is exporting like millions of metric tons of lng per year to uh europe so they'll buy all
00:31:17.520 the natural gas from us for cheap and resell it so they need that they need nuclear okay they need
00:31:22.880 uranium the americans don't produce uranium they really don't and they have this huge fleet of
00:31:30.400 they project their power around the world right they are aircraft carriers and they're submarines
00:31:34.880 and they project their power and their power is powered by nuclear energy so they need uranium
00:31:41.920 from us and they can't get that from anywhere else i mean they could get it from russia
00:31:45.440 doubt that's going to happen and then it can get it from other countries but it needs to be enriched
00:31:50.080 a lot more and it's different so we got the best uranium for them so so far i've said oil natural
00:31:57.060 gas that comes from alberta a little bit from bc uranium that comes from saskatchewan the americans
00:32:02.960 need potash okay potash is critical for growing stuff for growing carrots potatoes corn whatever
00:32:11.140 so they need potash and we're like the number one two or three producer of potash on the planet the
00:32:16.980 other ones is australia and places like kazakhstan or whatever so the americans can't uh produce
00:32:24.000 enough potash for themselves so they need to import it and they get it from us and it's super
00:32:28.800 critical it might as well be a critical mineral for them so they need potash and then um what
00:32:35.160 else do they need um that's about it they need a couple of other things but they but almost
00:32:40.840 everything else they can produce in sort of suitable quantities for themselves so i mentioned
00:32:45.240 four things well so and those four things i mentioned come from saskatchewan alberta and a
00:32:53.000 bit from british columbia quebec oh minerals yes let's go i mean we don't produce a lot of rare
00:32:58.520 earth minerals but we do produce quite a few important critical minerals that the americans need
00:33:04.440 um you know like the the tungsten and nickel and magnesium and lithium and some of those things
00:33:12.200 and um that they have the ability to source of from a few more places around the world but they'd
00:33:18.920 rather source it from us and again the minerals come from yeah northern quebec northern ontario
00:33:24.840 a little bit of places like that but i basically ranked them in order and so the americans uh need
00:33:30.280 that stuff from us and when doug ford was threatening the americans i'm sure trump was
00:33:34.600 laughing because trump knows that hey you personally dougie you don't have anything that i need
00:33:40.920 yeah dougie needs to sit down somebody that's exactly right and doug in his exact sentence
00:33:46.360 started mentioning the things i mentioned which is and then he appealed i knew i said yesterday
00:33:51.880 i said how long before doug ford appeals to alberta to jump on teen canada and help out
00:33:58.840 and what does doug ford want us to do on team canada he wants us to take one he wants us to
00:34:05.640 shoot ourselves in the foot and he wants us to cut off the oil and the natural gas to the us
00:34:10.520 he wants one he wants us to take one for team canada hurt our own economy and take one for
00:34:15.480 team canada so the dougie can you know stick it to the americans luckily uh danielle smith today
00:34:22.760 being interviewed said you know she wants no part of that and i don't blame her and by the way
00:34:27.080 that would actually be uh an act of war like shutting off another nation's supply of energy
00:34:33.400 even though it's done as part of trade i mean that's how uh the americans and the japanese
00:34:38.520 uh got into a conflict that the uh you know in world war ii the americans cut off japan's oil
00:34:44.040 supply so i'm not i i don't think we should be cutting off america's oil or gas supply
00:34:50.600 and uh it's potentially an act of war and it would only hurt us and that and elevate things so
00:34:56.280 All that to say that I don't like the path that this is going down.
00:35:00.040 I think the solution is obvious, which is, you know, lift the dairy cartel, which and I think the dairy cartels could take care of themselves, buy some stuff from the Americans, work on the imbalance, lift the lift the our tariffs and focus on becoming more efficient.
00:35:18.520 But, you know, Carney is refusing to do that and he's going to keep being stubborn and go down this path for for as long as possible.
00:35:26.160 and I don't think it's going to end up well for us.
00:35:31.560 Where to go next?
00:35:35.240 I got so many places I can go.
00:35:38.420 Actually, I'll finish picking on Kearney.
00:35:41.840 I'll finish picking on Kearney and then I'll move on.
00:35:44.840 This week we're getting,
00:35:46.300 so you guys know the story of the Gordie Howe Bridge
00:35:49.680 back in about 2008 under the Harper government.
00:35:54.620 so this started under the harper government we decided that we needed to somebody was thinking
00:36:00.380 into the future okay this is good this is forward looking somebody saw that there's a problem there's
00:36:05.020 a bottleneck at the border the uh peace bridge is not or the peace bridge or the edge whatever
00:36:10.460 bridge is down in that windsor uh detroit corridor was insufficient somebody mentioned on somebody
00:36:16.460 tell me what the name of that bridge was in the chat there please so we we had a vision and we
00:36:21.340 decided we're going to build a bridge across and uh de-bottleneck the traffic which would help for
00:36:29.060 the import exports of auto parts and things like that good good good right infrastructure and then
00:36:33.880 we didn't quite negotiate a really good deal with the americans and we basically unilaterally built
00:36:40.520 this bridge so canada builds the bridge and then canada sets up the toll and canada is going to
00:36:46.820 collect the tolls but then donald trump gets elected donald trump's a wild man and he says
00:36:51.980 no we're not opening this bridge on our side so we pay billions of dollars build a bridge we expect
00:36:57.700 to have it open and we're going to collect tolls and trump says nope you should have signed a
00:37:02.520 better deal and i'm not opening this bridge until so he's using it as a bargaining chip right and
00:37:09.780 this and then carney tells us that oh i i i went and met with trump we negotiated and the bridge
00:37:16.060 will open and it's all good so then people start digging and went oh wait a minute wait a minute
00:37:21.400 wait a minute wait a minute and so uh carney got challenged on this and carney almost refused to
00:37:28.280 talk about it turned away from the mics wouldn't talk about it and now we're getting the whole
00:37:32.220 story the bridge is going to open and uh we will recover the cost of the bridge through tolls
00:37:40.300 But in the meantime, regardless, half the tolls we collect on this bridge are just going to go to the U.S.
00:37:46.660 So the U.S. who put no money into building this bridge is going to is going to get money revenue from the bridge.
00:37:54.500 And now it's going to take us twice as long to pay off this bridge because half the money we're getting every year is instead of going to pay off the bridge is just going to go to the U.S.
00:38:04.060 So another example of an absolute monumental failure on the part of Kearney.
00:38:08.660 and um and and and this is you know was it a bad deal to start with sure but remember he was touted
00:38:16.520 as carney the magnificent the guy who could negotiate anything and so far he just hasn't
00:38:22.000 negotiated anything whatsoever for us i'm scrolling through the comments folks there is a lot of
00:38:28.180 comments there um all right well i'll keep pei is the place that is all no okay cool folks uh numbers
00:38:37.980 on the screen there i i know it's uh just after lunchtime maybe you're digesting maybe you're at
00:38:42.300 work and you're uh you don't want to be uh uh you got rules you can't uh make phone calls on
00:38:49.260 i don't know what the deal is but come on folks uh there's the number on the on the screen there
00:38:54.780 and give me a give me a call um all right where do i go from here uh i want to talk about this
00:39:02.060 one i don't know how long i'll be able to talk about this one but this was another one of those
00:39:06.460 weird stories this week um how many did you guys all see that um gentleman the the the young man
00:39:17.260 of uh the seek persuasion who went to the good will or good life gym uh in somewhere in ontario
00:39:25.980 and made a big deal so this guy's an influencer and he's obviously likes to film himself doing
00:39:32.540 things and so he goes to the gym he's not wearing a shirt and he's got his kerpan right that little
00:39:38.040 curved um ceremonial knife and and the gym a lady who works at the gym walked up to him and said
00:39:47.420 i'm getting complaints and people uh would like you to you know cover up and hide that perpan or
00:39:56.000 keep it in your in your locker and i mean this thing that like he was openly wearing it and this
00:40:01.980 thing was long right like not not just a little ceremonial thing this thing looked like a hunting
00:40:06.800 knife kind of thing and she and and then he got into this back and forth with her and he posted
00:40:12.200 it on the internet and then he posted all these all these other videos came out about it and there
00:40:18.340 was at first there was a rumor so i'm i'm gonna try and keep this concrete but at first there was
00:40:24.940 a rumor that Good Life had fired the lady in the business, the gym attendant. That turns out that
00:40:33.160 no, that wasn't the case. I wouldn't be surprised if there's a lawsuit against Good Life that comes
00:40:38.620 out of this. But he's an influencer, I get it. But then other people piled on, right? And so then
00:40:45.800 Jagmeet Singh, former leader of the NDP, his brother comes on. And now everybody's making a
00:40:51.720 big deal about how this is a human right folks i looked into it and uh the i mean this is an
00:40:59.880 this is an awesome debate right now and i and i like it i i and i think it's going to backfire
00:41:05.180 on that guy yes the courts have ruled that um the gyms have to accommodate that they're allowed to
00:41:14.000 bring a kerpan but the the court said a small one like a four not a four to six centimeter one
00:41:20.040 and that it has to be sort of not visible
00:41:23.580 under the shirt kind of thing, et cetera, et cetera.
00:41:27.100 And so there's attempts to accommodate
00:41:30.200 and the gym I think has accommodated
00:41:34.120 and is accommodating, but this is an example.
00:41:37.360 This is where I get upset.
00:41:39.720 We live in a country where we are extremely accommodating
00:41:42.860 to all sorts of people for all sorts of reasons,
00:41:46.320 even when it's not required by law, okay?
00:41:49.760 we're just a nice nation of accommodating people if somebody comes to me and says you know i need
00:41:56.560 i i can't work on saturdays or i can't work on fridays because because because i'll accommodate
00:42:02.480 if somebody came to me in in the camp that i managed and said i need a quiet place to go pray
00:42:08.960 i'll accommodate we'll find you a quiet place but if you come to me and say i need you to build me
00:42:14.160 a temple at the work site so i can go pray i'm not going to build you a temple at the work site
00:42:18.160 right that's the concept of accommodating is means that you do something that's not too
00:42:23.920 unaccommodating for me not too intrusive not too complicated it's not just religious it's uh it's
00:42:30.560 it's it's in other instances right you come to me and you have a wheelchair but you're perfectly
00:42:35.920 capable of doing a job but you just need you know i need to provide you an office with wider doors
00:42:41.200 and do something like that we will accommodate that's not going i don't it's not crazy accommodation
00:42:46.960 doesn't mean i have to you know widen every single door in the office and and pave every sidewalk
00:42:54.160 that's the you know what i mean so that's that's what accommodating and we live we're living in a
00:42:58.720 world now where um we accommodate we give an inch and they'll want a mile and it's starting to
00:43:04.800 backfire so i i didn't like that story and i i think we're in i think we're seeing a tipping
00:43:10.720 point because online I didn't see too many people that were on side with this gentleman now I want
00:43:17.500 to just add one other thing that was interesting despite accommodating this debate brought up other
00:43:25.720 uh other groups that want to be accommodated which is interesting because so I went and looked at the
00:43:33.820 Supreme Court ruling on this one that said a business had to accommodate one of the things
00:43:40.240 it said in there is that simply having a kerpan or something like that looks like a weapon
00:43:45.560 does not prove intent to use as a weapon and i looked at that and go oh that's interesting so
00:43:52.940 just because you have a knife doesn't mean that the knife is a weapon and the supreme court went
00:43:58.340 on to say other things like in a gym the dumbbells could be used as a weapon so it said a weapon
00:44:06.640 cannot be defined by just the purpose of the object almost anything can be a weapon and almost
00:44:11.920 anything that's a weapon could be used as a non-weapon you know where i'm going with this
00:44:16.020 so if you have so in one instance the the the courts rule that just having a knife doesn't
00:44:23.060 prove any intent well then what about somebody who's walking around with a firearm
00:44:26.780 i guess just owning a firearm is not intent on using the firearm you see where i'm going with
00:44:33.740 this. I got a caller. I want to definitely prioritize callers.
00:44:36.440 Go ahead. Where are you calling from? What's your name, please?
00:44:40.100 Hey, Marty, it's Jess and GP.
00:44:42.860 Thanks for calling, Jess. How are things?
00:44:46.100 Good. How are you, dude?
00:44:47.000 Good.
00:44:48.860 Good. Accommodate. Is that another, you know, there could be
00:44:52.280 another term for accommodate and I would liken it to consult, just
00:44:56.020 like consultation.
00:44:58.100 I was going to go there. You beat me to it.
00:45:00.020 Right? It's a perfect segue to what we're encountering with the two-tier justice that we see evident, and let's even correlate that with what we see with the Forever Canadian, what's happening here. It all works together, it seems, right?
00:45:22.880 Yeah. And accommodate and consult have similar words. And then consult definitely doesn't necessarily mean agree. Right. Or what's the other terms I'm thinking of? I see where you're going with this. I was going to go with this, perhaps in the context of of major projects right now and consulting and accommodating First Nations and things like that.
00:45:48.940 But you yeah, I like where you took it.
00:45:52.880 Yeah, because condone I think would be a word that you're looking for as well, you know, 0.97
00:45:58.680 or we're consulting doesn't mean we doesn't mean we take Oh, yeah, the word that Wob
00:46:05.380 Can you use?
00:46:06.380 Trying to think of that?
00:46:07.380 Well, I think he used did he use consent or consensus?
00:46:11.120 There's there's there's those terms get mixed up too, right?
00:46:14.120 So yeah, consent.
00:46:16.120 Yeah, accommodating consulting is a tough one, right?
00:46:19.800 I've dealt with that right consulting.
00:46:21.920 I mean, some people could interpret consulting as me simply telling you what I'm going to
00:46:26.200 do, right?
00:46:26.780 I'm going to build a road in your neighborhood next year, and I'm giving you time to know
00:46:33.000 that it's going to happen so you can adjust.
00:46:34.780 I'm not necessarily seeking your permission to do it.
00:46:37.680 But these days, consulting has become equivalent to a veto, and everybody is assuming that
00:46:47.060 they have to get absolutely everything that they want.
00:46:49.900 And that's not what consulting means.
00:46:53.520 Exactly.
00:46:54.360 And I agree 100%.
00:46:56.060 And this, you know, this just goes to show for many reasons, you know, including the poking the bear of Donald Trump.
00:47:07.060 Right.
00:47:08.960 And we didn't vote for any of this.
00:47:11.420 No, no, absolutely not.
00:47:13.160 And I like what Diane said earlier, right, that Donald Trump is doing what's good for the Americans.
00:47:19.920 And that's, yeah, I mean, like him or not,
00:47:22.100 that's one thing I fundamentally like about him.
00:47:24.240 Yeah, I don't like all his rhetoric.
00:47:26.160 And sometimes I wish he'd just get off X
00:47:28.000 and stop trolling us.
00:47:29.700 But at the end of the day,
00:47:30.780 he's doing what's best for his people.
00:47:32.520 Like he's, that's what he got elected to do.
00:47:35.660 And if only we had somebody that did that here.
00:47:38.240 Can you imagine?
00:47:41.300 All right, well, thanks.
00:47:42.760 Have a good day.
00:47:43.480 Yeah, thanks for calling.
00:47:44.480 Awesome.
00:47:46.040 Boy, that's, again, another hour
00:47:48.340 that's just going to fly by and i'm going through my list of things and and uh i'm not even going
00:47:53.060 to have time to cover all of the topics that i wanted to talk about um so anyways uh where do
00:48:00.260 i end off on uh on the good life um it's well to see i i guess we're going to see what happens
00:48:08.500 um i i feel bad for them already they're they're already the subject of memes they're already the
00:48:14.820 subject of boycotts and things like that and uh and and that's too bad like it's i i guess i'm
00:48:21.540 going back to accommodating and i think we are actually this is one thing i wanted to say i'm
00:48:26.340 going to tie this in accommodating and and other things it's it what's really interesting is when
00:48:32.340 accommodation starts to uh accommodating one person impacts another and even when you have
00:48:39.700 well intentions right good intentions so i'll give you an example right i talked about wheelchair
00:48:44.660 access and so in order to make a property wheelchair accessible you might have a property
00:48:50.340 like a you know i might have sidewalks with a curb and so somebody can't go up and down the sidewalk
00:48:56.500 when they're in a wheelchair so to accommodate somebody with a wheelchair i might put a little
00:49:01.700 area at the end you see it in city streets right the sidewalk suddenly smooths down and that's to
00:49:06.740 accommodate a wheelchair but when you accommodate a wheelchair by removing that curb you are
00:49:13.540 inconveniencing a blind person who is walking along with the cane and who's relying on that 0.81
00:49:19.060 curb to know where something is you know you see what i'm saying so this whole concept of of 0.99
00:49:25.220 completely accommodating everybody on everything all the time is impossible right you can't please
00:49:31.460 all the people all the time so it's the same thing with accommodating it you you end up with a you
00:49:36.980 end up with an overlap in a conflict and an example of the conflict that showed up this week with this
00:49:42.260 gentlemen you know i i gave the example of the guns which is perhaps a stretch because um you know
00:49:50.100 i'll leave it at that but somebody else brought up a very real case like
00:49:53.780 if a young lady has a bear spray and brings a bear spray to the gym because she's nervous and
00:50:00.500 she's worried um how come she's not accommodated or or should women expect to be accommodated by
00:50:07.620 having a separate hours at the gym or a separate area of the gym and stuff like that right so that 0.98
00:50:13.380 that's where the whole accommodation thing keeps on uh on on on going and uh and i'll leave it at
00:50:19.300 that um okay i wanted a couple of things i wanted to talk about uh maybe i should have brought these
00:50:25.540 up earlier uh might have resonated more with people locally elections alberta this week elections
00:50:31.380 alberta has been in the news a lot this week they're uh they're actually almost asking that uh
00:50:36.340 influencers like myself stop talking about them okay that's an interesting one right so when the
00:50:42.740 government or an institution doesn't want us to talk about them uh why and so i find that
00:50:48.500 elections alberta lately is going out of its way to defend itself they're running a big ad campaign
00:50:54.740 you know promoting themselves as impartial this blah blah blah this week uh for them the they're
00:51:01.060 they're they continue to be under call under criticism by a lot of valid by a lot of separatists
00:51:11.900 who are bringing up points of why actually let me let me bring this back we had a very successful
00:51:18.100 telethon last Saturday five days ago where we promoted all the third-party advertisers we did
00:51:25.000 a 12-hour telethon and then during the telethon I got to interview one of the third-party advertisers
00:51:30.420 and talk in depth about, you know, what they have to do to comply with the Elections Alberta rules
00:51:38.180 regarding raising money, campaigning and stuff like that.
00:51:41.500 The advertiser I got to interview was Jason Levine of The Levine Show.
00:51:45.960 But, you know, right here, Corey Morgan is a third party advertiser and others.
00:51:52.480 And so we are held, they are held to a very high standard of transparency by Elections Alberta when it comes to all these things.
00:52:03.440 And there's been a lot of criticism this week that Thomas Lukasik's group, the Forever Canada group, is not being held to the same level of compliance.
00:52:12.680 And Elections Alberta's excuse is that they're not campaigning, they're just promoting something.
00:52:19.220 And, you know, in elections, Alberta went as far as issuing a bulletin, trying to clarify the situation.
00:52:24.840 And when you read the bulletin, it just looks like they're making excuses for Thomas's group.
00:52:29.380 Go ahead, caller. Where are you calling from? What's on your mind?
00:52:33.300 Oh, Marty here from Abbotsford, British Columbia.
00:52:38.120 I'm glad there's a referendum. Yeah, it's Donald. You know who I am.
00:52:42.120 So we're having problems here with fires right now here in the Boston fire.
00:52:47.040 we have a lot of talking about
00:52:48.700 in this regime and NDP.
00:52:51.640 I want to talk about
00:52:52.960 Michaela the Resistance,
00:52:54.880 the so-called left-wing Antifa girl 0.95
00:52:57.340 who literally went up to 0.91
00:52:59.020 Donald Smith and called her an 0.88
00:53:00.360 as a fascist parenthood. 1.00
00:53:03.500 Like, is this woman mentally ill or is she? 0.99
00:53:08.320 How do I feel that? 1.00
00:53:09.720 Is she nuts or something, Marty?
00:53:13.540 Listen, stay on the line for a second. 1.00
00:53:16.060 She's nuts. 0.98
00:53:16.900 Okay, I wanted to talk about that today. 0.99
00:53:18.540 I was going to talk about that.
00:53:19.420 That was on my list of things.
00:53:21.300 Folks, what happened there is Danielle Smith finished her campaign
00:53:26.060 or her stampede week.
00:53:28.580 so now she's up back in edmonton doing klondike days she was having a breakfast this lady
00:53:33.700 uh had a camera on her started talking to danielle you know how do you like my shirt this that all 0.96
00:53:39.380 over the place danielle kept her cool calm answered some of her questions and then the 1.00
00:53:44.740 lady got a little bit belligerent and so um security intervened grabbed the lady and hauled 0.98
00:53:51.940 her away and as she was being hauled away she said i don't think i can repeat it on the air but she 1.00
00:53:57.460 said f your fascist pancakes which okay so to answer your question yes she's a lunatic right 0.98
00:54:07.000 the girl who said that is a lunatic what's more disturbing to me though is that there are 0.99
00:54:12.760 politicians who are playing this card right so and yeah like like like the like the nbq 0.89
00:54:20.580 NDP person, what's her name, McPherson, who wears that
00:54:24.060 people in the House of Commons
00:54:28.460 sometimes, I can't remember what her real name is
00:54:32.500 her name is McPherson, she has a cop
00:54:36.260 which I'm not going to say on the air, she says
00:54:39.700 pancakes or whatever, yeah, she's another 1.00
00:54:44.280 NDP lunatic who supports fascism 1.00
00:54:48.280 and supports terrorism and supports all this stuff. 0.99
00:54:50.820 Like, you know what?
00:54:52.040 I want to have pancakes now.
00:54:54.020 So guess what?
00:54:54.960 I guess I'm a fascist.
00:54:56.120 I would love to have some pancakes.
00:54:57.460 Well, I want to say, I think it's, I don't, it's not, 0.85
00:55:00.740 it's Heather McPherson is the lady.
00:55:03.280 Yeah, that's it.
00:55:03.980 And she's more than just an average, like she's a federal MP, okay?
00:55:09.520 So she's a federal MP.
00:55:12.060 She's the only NDP federal MP in Alberta.
00:55:16.480 She's in Edmonton. 0.94
00:55:17.400 and she posted a picture of herself holding a cop a coffee mug that said f your uh fascist pancake
00:55:26.120 with the funny music basically accusing and agreeing she's basically agreeing that danielle 0.98
00:55:32.760 smith is a fascist and i think i think that's dangerous identity politics that's care that's 0.58
00:55:39.320 that's really careless like i want my politicians to step up politicians to me should have condoned 0.95
00:55:45.320 that lady saying this is not how you engage the premier that's it but but to to to to to
00:55:51.960 not only support what she said but to agree with it and to use it uh politically that's that's
00:55:58.760 gross right mcpherson should know better daniel smith is no is is as far from being a fascist as
00:56:05.240 i can possibly think yeah well daniel smith daniel smith has been a lot on a podcast and all that
00:56:13.000 stuff like bird of dad rebel movie and all that stuff like and they're calling and these little
00:56:18.440 lunatics and all that stuff are calling you guys calling you guys fascist separatist extremists
00:56:26.100 and all that stuff when these people are extremists themselves they want now let's talk about the
00:56:31.880 so-called nerves here blocking a freezing bank account because they can't get their own way
00:56:37.800 so they want to now block infrastructure they want to attack people they want to do checkpoints they
00:56:44.040 want to do all this stuff like i agree there has to be some audits on these band members i like to
00:56:50.320 know how much money they're getting from the mvp and from these ngos yeah yeah okay cool uh save
00:56:56.860 some of that for next week where yeah you're you're you're giving me too much thought but now
00:57:00.900 i'm looking at the screen and my god that the hour went by so fast appreciate the call thanks for uh
00:57:06.200 we'll chat again next week sorry about no worry about that martin it's like one it's one o'clock
00:57:10.920 here yeah yeah no worries have a great weekend thanks okay so i i got a couple of minutes i think
00:57:17.940 before uh the hour is up john i think we're gonna have to go maybe we'll wait until after summer but
00:57:23.320 after summer we're gonna have to go to 90 minute shows because um i'm having no problem filling
00:57:28.740 i'm literally having no problem filling an hour of just monologuing with a handful of calls i
00:57:33.700 really want you guys to call in so like tell me what's keeping you from calling is it the time
00:57:39.380 of the day like do i need to shift the show to another different time zone do i need to bring
00:57:44.420 in more guests i mean i like i'm feeling like there's no problem for me to fill 90 minutes
00:57:49.220 especially if i bring a guest i think we'll run the summer on this schedule and then come fall
00:57:54.660 we'll you know i'll put some serious thought into uh going to a 90 minute show maybe at a different
00:57:59.300 time slot um i like let me just finish on elections alberta so elections alberta's
00:58:04.820 is really backed in the corner defending himself and especially their decision to
00:58:10.020 they they really appear to be um biased and not as impartial as we want them to be
00:58:16.740 um and and to me the more an organization or business fights saying hey we're impartial or
00:58:22.420 we're this or we're that the more they fight to convince you of something the more i get suspicious
00:58:27.060 So I don't like what's going on with Elections Alberta.
00:58:29.920 And the other thing I wanted to talk about, but I'm kind of running out of time, is Elections Alberta this week opened the portal so that people can go register to vote by mail for the upcoming referendum.
00:58:43.200 I'm not going to lie.
00:58:44.580 I'm not a big fan of mail-in ballots.
00:58:47.320 I think they're one of the most abused forms of voting.
00:58:51.220 I am okay with mail-in ballots under certain circumstances.
00:58:54.840 I think when you apply for a mail-in ballot, you should have to give a reason why you're
00:58:59.780 applying for that ballot.
00:59:01.040 Maybe you're studying abroad.
00:59:02.580 Maybe you have a plane ticket and you're going to be on vacation.
00:59:05.660 Maybe your business takes you away, something.
00:59:08.300 But I want some sort of valid reason.
00:59:11.340 I don't want it to make it just wide open.
00:59:14.000 You don't need an explanation.
00:59:15.380 And it's very clear on the Elections Alberta website that you do not need an excuse for
00:59:20.320 requesting a mail-in ballot.
00:59:22.300 You just request one and it's yours.
00:59:23.980 So like a lot of other things, I'll go through the process next week and I'll I'll request a mail in ballot to see how that works out and whether or not I feel that there's, you know, areas for improvement.
00:59:38.080 Who knows? All right. We never got around to I wanted to maybe I'll save this one for next week.
00:59:42.500 i wanted to talk about stats canada's report on crime and uh i wanted to talk about uh well
00:59:49.220 actually i covered almost everything i was going to talk about inflation and stats canada report
00:59:53.300 on climb but i never got around to those uh covered everything else pretty good okay uh it is the
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