Western Standard - MARTY UP NORTH： Trump warns Canada’s immigration problems are ‘TOO BIG TO HANDLE’

00:00:00.000 all right we're live welcome back um where do i start actually

00:00:29.760 if I talk fast today

00:00:33.540 and I'll try and slow it down

00:00:35.680 because if I talk fast

00:00:37.500 in my mind I'm trying to get this show over

00:00:39.680 and done with quickly

00:00:40.660 not that I don't love doing this show

00:00:43.320 but as soon as I'm done this show

00:00:45.440 I'm jumping in my truck and I'm starting

00:00:47.520 a 7 hour journey

00:00:48.720 I'm heading up north to

00:00:51.060 Edson, Alberta as a starter

00:00:52.620 hook up with some buddies and then first thing tomorrow morning

00:00:55.560 we're heading into our hunting camp

00:00:57.180 so this is the start of my annual

00:00:59.460 hunting trip uh moose season starts on saturday in the area where i hunt and i'm fortunate i've

00:01:07.340 been hunting in the same area for about uh 30 years now going on 30 years with the same great

00:01:12.640 bunch of guys and uh this year man we have i personally have a moose draw for a cow so i have

00:01:19.500 a cow moose tag two of my buddies have bull moose tags and then we have a cow elk tag

00:01:25.280 and there's six of us so um i'm i'm and gonna be honest we're usually pretty successful right

00:01:33.860 hunting is one of those things where you go through sort of stages a lot of hobbies and

00:01:39.600 go through stages photography bird watching hunting running whatever hobbies go through

00:01:45.740 stages right when you start hunting you go through the i just want to kill something stage

00:01:51.080 and then you'll go through the trophy stage

00:01:54.540 and then you'll go to the whatever.

00:01:59.620 I'm at the stage of I just want to hang around buddies,

00:02:04.500 sit by the campfire, away from civilization,

00:02:07.840 tell stories, have a couple of beers,

00:02:10.020 have a coffee in Baileys in the morning.

00:02:12.100 And if I get something, it's not that bad.

00:02:14.320 But if I don't, it's okay.

00:02:16.200 Or if I do, it's great.

00:02:17.540 and and we're also at the stage where um when i was younger and we'd go hunting like that

00:02:23.580 the nights would be long right you'd sit around the campfire and you'd be talking till two in the

00:02:27.680 morning and then when seven in the morning came up and you're trying to get up for the early uh

00:02:32.200 you know for the early hunt you weren't always crawling out of bed now i'm older i'll look around

00:02:38.380 the fire some nights and then you'll notice two or three guys are already gone and it's like 9 30

00:02:43.060 and they're in bed in the tent.

00:02:44.680 So, and I'm in that boat, right?

00:02:47.040 There's a lot of nights where I'll go to bed

00:02:48.480 at nine, 10 o'clock,

00:02:49.700 which makes getting up in the morning

00:02:51.120 to go hunting easy and okay.

00:02:54.600 So yeah, excited about that.

00:02:57.380 All right, thanks for joining.

00:02:59.260 As usual, the phone number is on the screen there.

00:03:03.140 Don't be shy.

00:03:04.360 Let's make it about whatever you guys wanna talk.

00:03:07.380 Before I come in here,

00:03:08.700 I always send a quick email to the producer about topics.

00:03:12.020 and then we have a quick chat of what people want to talk about

00:03:14.880 or what he thinks would be a good subject.

00:03:17.980 Because you've got to remember, we've got co-hosts here.

00:03:21.080 I've got other people at the Western Standard

00:03:23.000 that cover a lot of topics, right?

00:03:24.940 I definitely had the snap election in BC on my list of things,

00:03:32.020 but I won't make it a high priority,

00:03:33.760 and maybe I'll come back to it later.

00:03:35.720 I wanted to talk about that,

00:03:36.920 but apparently Corey and some of the others

00:03:40.120 are discussing that at length.

00:03:42.020 Maybe people want to go on to another topic.

00:03:45.080 So John, the producer here, definitely suggested, as you can see in the topic, Trump warns Carney about immigration.

00:03:52.640 And so I'm going to I'm going to dive into that one.

00:03:56.340 Definitely want to talk a little bit about I'll give an update on independence in general.

00:04:03.860 In fact, I just finished doing a walk around Calgary with a journalist from.

00:04:08.420 Yeah, I'll admit it. I'd walked around with a journalist from the CBC who interviewed me while we're walking around, grabbing some sound bites. Don't worry, I've met lots of journalists from the CBC and I've learned their tricks, right? When they ask you a question, do like you're in the House of Commons. Don't answer the question. Just tell them what you want. Just get your message across. So we'll see if that comes out.

00:04:31.760 But yeah, I want to talk about, I'll give an update on the referendum, want to talk a little bit about Smith pausing the gasoline tax, the UN assembly that went on this week, and other topics.

00:04:48.420 So let's dive into this one.

00:04:51.600 So Trump put out a tweet.

00:04:55.960 John, do we have that tweet or that comment?

00:04:58.640 I should read it there.

00:05:00.240 It's a bit hard for me to read, but he basically says Canada is destroying.

00:05:05.320 Can you zoom in? There you go.

00:05:07.060 Canada is destroying itself by allowing millions and millions of people into the country, 1.00

00:05:11.240 essentially unchecked and unvetted and who are causing problems that will soon be too big to handle.

00:05:17.920 It is a liberal takeover that will end very badly.

00:05:23.380 I can almost hear that very bad.

00:05:25.140 I'm not good at doing a Trump imitation, but I can almost hear Trump saying that.

00:05:29.140 and already showing up in their numbers, big unemployment, O Canada, President Donald J. Trump.

00:05:35.640 By the way, do you guys think that Donald writes his own tweets or is he like most politician

00:05:41.140 and does he have a staff that does it for him?

00:05:43.260 Because if he has a staff, they're very good at imitating his style.

00:05:47.620 If he has a staff, I'm pretty sure that somebody that Donald reads them before they go out.

00:05:54.140 But, you know, he has a style of and actually that's not a tweet.

00:05:57.900 I need to be corrected. There's no tweets anymore. You're either on X or you're on something else.

00:06:03.240 And Donald Trump has his own platform called Truth Social.

00:06:07.060 And so he tweets on on that platform and then that's picked up by others.

00:06:13.320 So let's unpack that. Right. Because and actually I found the timing of that post interesting because I've told you guys this before.

00:06:23.980 I start my day by going through a couple of sources.

00:06:27.560 I have a couple of places that I go and look every day to see what's going on.

00:06:32.260 And one of the places I like to check every day is Stats Canada.

00:06:35.640 Stats Canada has a portal and you can go in there and you can see all this.

00:06:40.200 Like our government, one thing I like about our government and our army of bureaucrats and clerks

00:06:47.900 is that they collect a lot of information and they just produce report after report

00:06:53.600 every week. And some of that information is actually quite valuable to me as a commentator,

00:06:58.400 right? So I go to Stats Canada, and there's like a schedule, a release schedule, and certain data

00:07:04.220 comes out quarterly, some of it comes out monthly, some of it comes out annually. And yesterday,

00:07:10.060 coincidentally, there was a release of the latest population estimates, the latest number of which

00:07:18.860 the population estimates includes things like immigration natural birth uh temporary foreign

00:07:25.500 workers student visas and stuff like that so there was that number that came out there was a number

00:07:31.260 that came out uh that was really interesting to me which was the uh fertility rate and then the

00:07:38.540 unemployment numbers didn't come out yesterday but they came out today and so all together they tell

00:07:43.340 the picture and Donald Trump is not wrong. So let's start with one quick stat that came out

00:07:49.080 yesterday, which I think explains a lot of what's going on. And that's the John's going to enlarge

00:07:55.540 the one. Well, actually, you can see it there, but you can enlarge that. So the one he's pointing

00:07:59.100 out right there, 1.26. That's Canada's national fertility rate. And if you could just zoom in on

00:08:09.120 that graph john and just show it right so the fertility rate is right down there at 1.26 0.88

00:08:15.640 1.26 so let me explain what 1.26 means what 1.26 means is that the average woman

00:08:26.320 that average number of children born per women in all across canada women of of childbearing age

00:08:34.600 the average is 1.26 child per woman okay so that means that if you have four women in a room

00:08:43.600 among them they will have five kids so four women in a room among them they'll have five kids and 0.89

00:08:50.660 that could be now you have to dig into the stats to see how that's distributed but one one four

00:08:56.400 women in a room five kids what it currently means in canada is that two of those women have zero

00:09:02.740 kids two women have zero kids one woman has one kid and one woman has four so five divided by four

00:09:13.100 1.26 1.25 but that's how you get to that a healthy population that to keep growing for a population 0.84

00:09:21.560 to keep growing you need a fertility rate of 2.2 and the math for 2.2 is that a couple gets married

00:09:29.680 and that couple, that woman, needs to have 2.2 kids. 0.92

00:09:33.920 One kid to replace herself, one kid to replace her husband 1.00

00:09:38.140 and the 0.2 is to account for accidental deaths

00:09:42.520 over the course of the next 80 years.

00:09:44.640 So 2.2 is a population that will barely grow.

00:09:50.060 Three or four is the number that you see

00:09:52.840 in a lot of less developed countries 1.00

00:09:55.220 and it's pretty natural, it's been observed

00:09:58.460 that most nations when they start to develop economically i'm going to be a little bit crude

00:10:05.300 here but humans are just like other animals right and so uh 50 years ago more than 50 years ago

00:10:13.340 let's say 100 years ago you lived on a farm here and you couldn't depend on other people

00:10:17.420 you needed to have a lot of kids you needed to have kids to to grow up to work on the farm to

00:10:23.720 look after you when you got older, you had to account for a lot of fatality, right?

00:10:27.760 A hundred years ago, life was harder in our country.

00:10:31.140 And so as the country's economy improves and standard of living improves,

00:10:37.760 the fertility rate starts to go down.

00:10:39.260 It's been observed across the world.

00:10:40.760 But at 1.26, Canada is among the lowest of the low.

00:10:45.800 And that report says, and the news picked up on it, 1.26 is the lowest it's ever been.

00:10:51.300 It's historically the lowest.

00:10:52.520 and very few countries have a birth rate that's that low.

00:10:58.080 I think South Korea might have a lower one than us.

00:11:02.280 Otherwise, everybody else is higher,

00:11:03.700 including the Americans next door and stuff like that.

00:11:06.760 And what caused that decline?

00:11:10.820 I'm not a sociologist, but I mean, there's a lot.

00:11:15.340 The fundamental reason that the birth rate has gone down

00:11:18.180 is our standard of living is good.

00:11:20.140 You can have one kid and the odds of that kid surviving into adulthood is pretty good. 1.00

00:11:27.580 Women are empowered, want to go work. 1.00

00:11:31.600 Staying home is less appealing to some. 1.00

00:11:35.400 You could argue.

00:11:36.300 I think a lot of people go work because they have to, which is another problem, right?

00:11:40.280 The cost of living in this country and the tax rates and everything else, I've made it so that children are unaffordable.

00:11:46.660 So call in.

00:11:47.340 Let me know that, right?

00:11:48.100 Let me know your thoughts, right?

00:11:49.080 Why do you think the birth rate has gone down?

00:11:52.260 Is it just because we're affluent or is it because the cost of living is a little too high and people – let me read that question. 1.00

00:12:00.260 It's because the government wanted women in the workplace rather than raising a family. 1.00

00:12:04.660 It's a good argument, right? 1.00

00:12:05.880 It's a great argument that by making women in the workplace, they will pay taxes and so forth. 1.00

00:12:14.180 So we have a declining birth rate, which is a problem. 0.98

00:12:18.100 So if you have, mathematically, if the birth rate is 1.26 and you don't bring in immigrants, okay, let's say you don't bring in immigrants, you just don't bring in immigrants and you stay like this at 1.26, the reality is that the population starts to go down, especially now because the baby boom is over, right? 0.85

00:12:37.360 The baby boomers are the people that were born like this, this, this anomaly, this huge chunk of our population born between 1946 and 1965. 0.84

00:12:48.340 Like the youngest baby boomers are the one born in 1965. 1.00

00:12:52.860 They're going to be, I'm trying to do the math here. 1.00

00:12:55.240 If you're born in 1965, you will be 65 years old in about four years from now, right?

00:13:02.440 Five years. 1.00

00:13:02.840 So the last of the baby boomers are going to start retiring and they're starting to die. 0.99

00:13:07.360 Baby boomers born in 1946, they're already 80 years old, so they're starting to die. 0.99

00:13:12.660 So there's this big change in our population, the older people, which was a huge cohort, like a lot of baby boomers, they're starting to die. 0.99

00:13:20.720 And the fertility rate of the people that followed is low. 0.98

00:13:23.500 So if you do the math and you forecast forward at this rate without immigration, the population in 2060, 2070 starts to go down.

00:13:33.420 And then by 2090, I did the math and I asked the I did the math. If you don't bring in immigrants by 2090, Canada's population goes back down to about 28 million and then it starts to decline.

00:13:45.100 There's an irreversible decline. So we created a problem and I'm sure this was identifiable, but we created a problem and we needed to bring in extra workers, immigrants to replace the people that are not being replaced by childbirth. 1.00

00:14:06.000 And why? For the same reasons that I described, the future generations, like we live in a society where we need people to pay tax dollars because we become dependent on the government and the government provides all sorts of benefits. 1.00

00:14:22.220 And I will argue that we lavish upon ourselves benefits that we can't afford. I know we can't afford them because we're three trillion dollars in debt.

00:14:29.600 So we lavish on ourselves these benefits that we can't afford.

00:14:33.360 And now we have a declining population. 1.00

00:14:35.220 So we have to bring in a schwack of immigrants. 1.00

00:14:39.440 And I wish there was a chart on this. 1.00

00:14:41.620 I'm not going to make John look for it.

00:14:43.920 Or maybe he can find one.

00:14:45.420 But the population of Canada went up like this in the last couple of years.

00:14:51.660 Because, as Donald pointed out, these problems are real.

00:14:55.720 And the liberals thought that one of the solutions to this problem was just to bring in a whole bunch of people.

00:15:01.520 And so in the years since COVID, our population has exploded and we've brought in not like millions of new people, millions of new people.

00:15:11.440 And and so much so that it's caused us problems.

00:15:14.440 And I don't want to like I'm I'm an immigrant, right?

00:15:18.620 I'll practically speaking.

00:15:21.140 I mean, my family's been on this continent for a darn long time, like it's since the 1600s.

00:15:25.540 But okay, I'll bite and I'll say I'm an immigrant.

00:15:28.240 I'm not against immigration, especially not here in Alberta. 0.97

00:15:31.640 Alberta was founded by people coming here to work.

00:15:35.200 So I'm absolutely okay with immigration. 0.99

00:15:37.740 I mean, at the end of the day, I prefer that we had a high birth rate.

00:15:40.220 I have four kids, so I think I did my part.

00:15:42.660 I prefer that the conditions were ripe so that we could, you know,

00:15:48.760 have kids and maintain perhaps a stable population.

00:15:52.460 I don't need one growing or going down.

00:15:54.060 I'd like to have one sort of stable.

00:15:55.540 And so I wish the conditions were there for that. But since they're not, then I'm definitely pro-immigration. But when I'm critical of immigration, it is because it has been out of control in the last little while. When you bring in people way too fast, they don't have time to integrate. They don't have time to learn our norms. They cause, there's some friction that happens because of that. And our infrastructure is lagging. 0.87

00:16:22.180 You know, our schools, our schools aren't keeping up. Our housing is absolutely not keeping up, right? I mean, just do the math in your head. We've talked on previous shows. Canada has about 200,000 housing units starts a year. Okay, 200,000 housing units. Each housing unit can hold two or three people.

00:16:43.180 so we build enough housing units to accommodate 600 000 people new people a year well if we're

00:16:50.060 growing by one or two million million people a year we can't accommodate so um i was looking at

00:16:57.420 this data now the rest of john maybe put that quote back up for uh for a second that uh you

00:17:05.260 don't need to i mean donald trump put it back up put it back up i want to just reread the rest of

00:17:10.300 it right um who are causing problems that will soon be too big to handle that's the part where

00:17:19.340 liberals and others got upset yesterday i mean nobody's denying that immigration has been fast

00:17:24.860 and rapid but is it causing problems that are could become irreversible that i'm not willing

00:17:34.220 to go there just yet but the problems are they are real they're problems right we are seeing

00:17:39.900 stories every day of of these problems it's not just uh it's not just housing there is there is

00:17:46.280 sort of a clash is happening like i said because people aren't having we're they're not having a

00:17:51.100 chance to integrate properly right like the the story last week of the guy like somebody went up

00:17:56.060 hiking in banth and they got to uh the devil's thumb which is like a popular hike and then they

00:18:01.180 get there and there's this graffiti that's been painted on the rock by by somebody uh and you

00:18:08.120 But I'll yeah, I'll be blunt. There is a visible minority. I mean, it's it's somebody and that's unacceptable. And that's because they haven't had a chance to integrate with the way we do things. So, yeah, thanks. And I mean, some people don't like Donald because Donald Trump is kind of like he's blunt, right? He's blunt. He definitely put the liberals on the on the defense yesterday. They were they were they were having to quickly point out that that they've reversed immigration and things like that.

00:18:38.120 that. And I'm glad. I mean, again, Donald is a wake up call for a lot of people. And I'll finish

00:18:48.300 it by the last part of his comment there, which is the unemployment. Those numbers came out this

00:18:58.480 morning. Unemployment numbers, employment numbers, I would say employment's more important than

00:19:02.600 unemployment. Employment numbers came out for the last quarter and like 20,000 jobs added.

00:19:10.980 Like in a country of 40 million people in one quarter or in one month, we're adding 20,000 jobs.

00:19:16.880 And again, sure, it's minuscule positive growth, but 20,000 jobs added when you're increasing the

00:19:22.860 population by a million, that's a problem because we're bringing in too many people and we're not

00:19:31.360 adding creating the jobs for those people so let's pivot just ever so slightly because this ties in

00:19:38.740 nicely with uh with a couple of other things so this this whole concept of immigration ties in

00:19:45.440 nicely with uh the referendum okay and the alberta referendum because uh i think it's four out of the

00:19:55.960 five maybe or sorry four out of the nine maybe five out of the nine questions reference uh

00:20:02.120 immigration on the referendum and some people say that that uh immigrants are being scapegoated for

00:20:09.800 a problem yeah perhaps a little bit of scapegoating is going on there but but i 1.00

00:20:15.160 i fundamentally agree that the data reveals that the out-of-control immigration has caused some

00:20:20.360 problems and on the upcoming referendum smith put some questions around immigration you know

00:20:27.800 regarding slowing it down taking more control of it and uh imposing some um some some guidelines

00:20:37.240 and some minimum fees on immigrants who come to alberta and that's not i mean i don't think it

00:20:43.960 should be on the referendum to be honest i don't think it should be on the referendum the problems

00:20:47.240 are known, and it's completely within any government's purview to deal with these problems.

00:20:53.100 I don't think she needs to do the referendum to go get the mandate to deal with that.

00:20:57.940 She's fundamentally asking for powers that provinces like Quebec already have, right?

00:21:03.040 I mean, the problem with immigration overall is that it is a federal matter.

00:21:08.140 Ottawa decides who comes in and who doesn't.

00:21:11.400 Ottawa controls the border.

00:21:12.560 And when somebody comes in, most people will fly into Canada and they'll land in whatever, Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver.

00:21:20.320 And then once they're in the country, then they're free to go wherever they want.

00:21:23.960 And statistically, a lot of them are coming to Alberta.

00:21:27.160 I don't know. Is that the image you had up there ready to go, John?

00:21:30.500 What is this one?

00:21:33.640 Oh, that's one of the immigration questions.

00:21:35.720 Yeah, we don't with the questions are there and we we don't need to go to the questions specifically, but they are they are.

00:21:45.040 Again, I don't think Smith necessarily needed a referendum.

00:21:49.100 It's in her power to to to adjust some of the things I mean.

00:21:54.520 Well, let's stay on this. We don't control immigration in Alberta specifically.

00:21:58.900 Like I said, Alberta, Ottawa decides who comes in.

00:22:01.700 But once you come to Alberta, then we have some controls.

00:22:07.220 And that coincidentally came out this week. 0.97

00:22:11.500 Danielle Smith is bouncing the idea of charging a health care fee for new arrivals, right?

00:22:20.960 Because she's on the record now.

00:22:22.820 She said it, I think, two or three times publicly in different press conferences.

00:22:27.080 She talks about the imbalance, right?

00:22:30.400 That the new arrivals are contributing something like $150 million in taxes, but taking out a billion dollars in services.

00:22:41.580 And so there's an imbalance there.

00:22:43.100 And she wants to charge a fee to new arrivals.

00:22:47.560 I didn't see the details.

00:22:49.180 I mean, a fee makes sense, period, right?

00:22:52.000 I'm old enough to remember when in Alberta, we all paid a health care premium.

00:22:59.040 like right up until about uh i think it was stalmac in 2009 who took that away but when i was you know

00:23:06.060 when i was 35 years old and i well yeah yeah i was gonna pull my health care cards i don't need to

00:23:12.640 show you my health care cards but uh my paper card um in alberta you know i'd get my um if

00:23:20.520 we all had to pay a premium right i think it was like 40 50 a month and we paid an alberta premium

00:23:26.540 and now most of us didn't know that we were paying the premium because if you were employed

00:23:31.660 by the government or union or even the new oil sector like my employer at the time you know i

00:23:36.820 worked for talisman energy i'm pretty sure uh it was one of my benefits right uh talisman energy

00:23:44.300 paid that 44 on my behalf i mean they were the ones that were supposed to collect it anyways

00:23:48.540 the health premiums were collected by your employer and then uh but but they paid it on my

00:23:54.800 behalf if you were self-employed or if your employer didn't pay it then somehow or other

00:23:59.860 you got a bill and you had to pay your premium so the concept of paying a premium is not new

00:24:05.300 and i think ontario still pays a health premium and i think quebec might still

00:24:09.740 but uh stalmach uh put an end all to all of that and then made uh you know made the financing of

00:24:17.260 alberta health entirely from the government none of it coming from the public by the way

00:24:22.840 if the government's paying for it,

00:24:25.600 you and I are still paying for it, right?

00:24:27.060 Whether the premium is on your card

00:24:28.940 or comes out of your pocket directly as a premium

00:24:32.120 or whether it comes out of your taxes,

00:24:33.840 you're still paying for it.

00:24:35.240 So anyways, I'm not entirely against the idea

00:24:37.660 of charging somebody who's new to the province

00:24:42.240 or who's here on a temporary basis.

00:24:44.420 I'm not against charging them a premium for healthcare.

00:24:50.080 And so I'll just leave it at that.

00:24:52.840 I mean, it's not crazy.

00:24:56.000 What other image you got up on there, John?

00:24:59.240 You're trying to get some pictures ready.

00:25:01.700 What are you going with?

00:25:05.780 All right.

00:25:06.940 Okay, folks.

00:25:08.260 Again, don't be shy.

00:25:09.860 Like 866-479-WEST and extension 711.

00:25:16.220 And John will patch you through and let's have a chat.

00:25:19.440 I mean, we're trying to make it a talk show.

00:25:21.940 So maybe I'm just so, what's the word?

00:25:25.780 So verbose.

00:25:26.800 You guys just like hearing me.

00:25:29.120 Did I tell you I just finished?

00:25:30.520 Yeah, I told you I finished a chat with the CBC.

00:25:33.780 Oh, what I didn't tell you though, it was CBC French.

00:25:36.520 So I was walking around Calgary with a guy,

00:25:39.720 all mic'd up and he was asking me a bunch of questions

00:25:42.420 on independence.

00:25:45.300 And there's something going on in the country, right?

00:25:50.340 I experienced it.

00:25:51.700 I know what's going on in Quebec.

00:25:54.220 Quebec had a leader's debate yesterday.

00:25:56.380 Quebec has their provincial election next week,

00:25:59.580 or two weeks from now.

00:26:01.260 The 5th of October is the Quebec provincial election.

00:26:04.980 And right now, the separatist party in Quebec

00:26:07.700 is leading in the poll by a huge margin.

00:26:10.740 All efforts, everything Carney's done

00:26:12.640 to support the current incumbent.

00:26:15.360 The incumbent is a lady named,

00:26:17.080 I think it's Christine Frechette. 0.93

00:26:20.680 And she didn't get elected, right, per se, in a general election.

00:26:24.860 The previous leader of the current party in power in Quebec

00:26:30.120 is called Coalition Avenir Quebec.

00:26:33.400 And they've been in power for about six or seven years.

00:26:36.500 Their leader stepped down.

00:26:38.240 Somebody else stepped in.

00:26:39.880 So now this will be her first chance 0.98

00:26:43.200 at truly getting elected as the leader.

00:26:45.200 This is common.

00:26:47.120 Carney's trying to help her, right?

00:26:48.360 he went over there and he's announcing that alto high-speed power uh train line he's announced the

00:26:53.860 icebreaker deals he's announced the power he's announced all sorts of things and then standing

00:26:59.220 arm in arm with her rah rah rah but um i don't think she's going to get re-elected not according

00:27:04.780 to the polls and not according to what i saw yesterday um in their debate they had their

00:27:10.700 leaders debate by the way i wish all you guys could more of you could understand french and

00:27:15.280 watch that debate that debate i guess in let me let me say this i'm i'm french right you see me

00:27:22.540 when i talk i move my hands and i'm and i get the my voice gets louder and i'm agitated and i'm

00:27:29.460 passionate about it i'm passionate about politics in quebec politics is a blood sport like way more

00:27:35.500 than anywhere else right it's like they live it and they like they they have lots of parties they

00:27:41.180 have um they're well organized they have like every party has a young branch right the young

00:27:47.060 liberals the young conservatives the the young everything they really love their politics it's

00:27:51.700 in their blood and i say so much so that it's almost a blood sport but it's a pleasure to watch

00:27:57.480 it so that debate last night was an ex an absolute excellent debate and um like i said i wish

00:28:04.820 everybody could watch it and that new that girl that that that current leader who's running

00:28:10.960 she's basically running against trump right this is funny like uh carney did the same thing she's

00:28:17.000 doing the same thing like i'm the one who can uh better get us a better deal and defend us against

00:28:22.620 trump i think eb is going to try and run that the angle for a while there and all her opponents are

00:28:29.440 like what makes you think you can get us a deal right you haven't got us a deal your party's been

00:28:35.420 in power for this long but more importantly like one of the best questions somebody asked yesterday

00:28:39.720 was how did you prepare for trump your party's been in power for six or seven years how did you

00:28:46.960 prepare for trump and not specifically trump but you should have prepared for a trump or a or a

00:28:54.460 trade disruption or, you know, a pivot, AI, whatever, you should have prepared for a disruption

00:29:00.800 and you can, you are completely unprepared. I thought that was the knockout blow to that poor

00:29:05.800 lady. Like you, you have no credibility. I hope and if conservatives are, I mean, I know, I want 1.00

00:29:13.480 to talk about it just a little bit. I, you know, John said, don't talk too much about BC politics.

00:29:19.540 We've got to talk about B.C. politics ever so slightly.

00:29:26.780 What happened a couple of days ago with E.B. calling a snap election,

00:29:33.460 I think that's dirty politics.

00:29:35.380 I don't like that.

00:29:36.420 I just don't.

00:29:37.540 I mean, he's in year two of a four-year mandate,

00:29:41.380 and B.C. has fixed election dates like Alberta and a lot of other places,

00:29:45.680 so he's in year two.

00:29:47.460 He didn't get defeated by a voter or anything like that.

00:29:49.860 He's just being opportunistic and he's calling an election while the other side is in disarray.

00:29:56.860 I don't care what anybody says.

00:29:58.280 He's on stage saying, no, it's existential.

00:30:01.180 I need to call an election to get a mandate to deal with Trump.

00:30:05.260 Really?

00:30:05.920 Nobody else is doing that anymore, right?

00:30:08.060 If Trump was that existential of a threat, every province would use the same excuse.

00:30:13.320 But no other province is using that excuse except you, John.

00:30:16.400 So John or David, you're using that excuse. I think it's crap. Let's admit it. You're witnessing disarray in your opposition. And I don't like that. But all right, it is legal. Sure. Constitutional. Sure. Go for it. I hope that the British Columbian voters wake up. 0.99

00:30:40.140 Now, that said, one quick word of advice, if I can, to the British Columbians, you guys need to unite, man. Don't think of like at this point, it's not David Eby versus conservatives or whatever. It's David Eby versus non David Eby. You know what I mean? Like you guys on the and Alberta was in the same boat. Remember a couple of years ago, not more than a couple of years ago, six years ago, five years ago, when we were trying to get rid of Rachel Notley.

00:31:09.500 we're in the same boat we had a divided side on the right um that was you know we're we were

00:31:17.100 staunchly independent and it was hard to bring us under a big tent i will give credit to kenny

00:31:22.980 for accomplishing this so kenny not my favorite politician especially not these days but one

00:31:27.400 thing kenny did is he did come around and he united the right against rachel notley and so

00:31:36.540 And I remember at the time saying, what do we call ourselves, right?

00:31:39.280 Like people said, we're going to call ourselves our United Conservative Party.

00:31:42.040 I mean, it was barely that because it was such a mishmash of people.

00:31:46.220 It was just literally the party against the NDP.

00:31:50.000 So I think what somebody's saying there,

00:31:54.660 our Conservatives aren't Conservatives only Quebec?

00:32:00.280 Or only 1BC. Sorry, I was reading that as Quebec.

00:32:02.860 No, I agree.

00:32:03.880 So don't call yourselves Conservatives.

00:32:06.320 Just call yourself the other side of David Eby.

00:32:09.280 And Eby, by the way, is so far that way that almost everybody is on the other side of him.

00:32:14.360 So don't nuance it with colors of like conservative, liberal, whatever, labor.

00:32:20.200 Just get united.

00:32:21.840 So I don't know who's going to come out and do that for British Columbia.

00:32:24.840 Who's your Jason Kenney?

00:32:27.480 I don't know.

00:32:28.380 Is it going to be Aaron Gunn?

00:32:29.660 Is it going to be somebody else?

00:32:30.880 I don't know, but I just hope that somebody comes out and unites the other side.

00:32:38.020 Call it the right. Don't call it conservatives.

00:32:39.980 If you want to, just call it the right.

00:32:42.760 Or call it the common sense, man.

00:32:44.900 Like, you might as well, like, literally just call it a common sense party at this point.

00:32:49.520 And then take a slice or take a slide and a page out of what happened in Quebec.

00:32:58.360 do not whatever group uh is against eb let eb fight trump you the other side should not do that

00:33:12.100 do your own thing do your own thing so explain to voters how you will diversify the economy

00:33:20.600 and bring things, you know, help things.

00:33:25.240 Don't just be we're not Trump or we're going to attack Trump.

00:33:28.640 Do your own thing.

00:33:29.520 Anyways, I think I spoke enough about BC elections and elections in general.

00:33:34.120 Well, I'll come back before I end the show.

00:33:35.940 I will talk about independence here.

00:33:37.540 But boy, I definitely did not have that on my...

00:33:42.540 I got to say one more thing about BC election that I think it'll backfire on him.

00:33:50.000 OK, I'll just say that. I think it'll backfire on him. Again, the parallels between what happened in Alberta and what's happening in BC are pretty, pretty interesting. Right. Remember, how did Rachel Notley get in? It was a backlash vote. Right. We had the Lions or the Wild Rose Party and the Conservatives formed an alliance. Right. Danielle Smith walked across the floor.

00:34:13.980 um Prentice saw an opportunity Jim Prentice dropped the writ did a snap election and the

00:34:21.900 Alberta voters got really pissed off about these shenanigans and uh gave the NDP this huge majority

00:34:30.540 and so sometimes the voter can see right through I'm glad that once in a while the voters do see

00:34:36.480 through the shenanigans played by a leader and I think in this case David Eby might regret um

00:34:43.560 dropping the red and calling this snap election but time will tell um and that's pretty quick

00:34:49.960 right it's interesting that his election boy what a what an interesting fall we're gonna have right

00:34:54.420 we have a referendum in alberta well what do we have an election in quebec on october 5th a

00:34:59.520 referendum on october 19th in alberta an election in bc on october 27th wow it's gonna be an

00:35:04.980 interesting uh interesting um fall um where do i go from here any interesting comments make uh

00:35:14.380 catch your eye john you got the maybe not okay um what else happened this week oh okay well let's

00:35:26.060 let's stick on trump right so uh the trump trump caught me off guard with a move this week caught

00:35:33.320 me off guard caught me off guard when so let me reiterate right we're we're in Canada does

00:35:43.140 a lot of trade with the US like 700 billion dollars worth of trade and Alberta alone does

00:35:51.260 about 179 billion with the US Saskatchewan does about 30 billion or 40 billion and then the rest

00:35:58.120 is Ontario, Quebec, and BC.

00:36:00.060 So we do a good chunk.

00:36:02.940 And Trump, when you look at the map

00:36:05.900 of what Trump needs,

00:36:08.500 Trump doesn't need Ontario's milk

00:36:12.300 or cars or Quebec's milk.

00:36:15.140 He doesn't need a booze.

00:36:16.620 He doesn't need our softwood lumber.

00:36:18.580 He doesn't need our coal.

00:36:19.960 He doesn't need any of those things.

00:36:21.400 What are the fundamental things

00:36:23.060 that Trump needs from Canada?

00:36:26.180 He needs our oil, he needs our potash, he needs our sulfur, he needs our uranium, and a few other things, right?

00:36:36.000 So the real things that he needs are those things.

00:36:38.580 Everything else he can source elsewhere.

00:36:41.720 And I was a bit cocky in the last few months thinking Alberta's safe because our oil supply can't easily be displaced by Venezuela.

00:36:52.460 And I was a little cocky.

00:36:54.700 I thought our potash from Saskatchewan

00:36:57.420 can't easily be replaced by other sources.

00:37:02.300 Well, Trump is the master of the deal

00:37:05.680 and he announced a couple of weeks ago

00:37:08.340 that he had done a deal with New Zealand.

00:37:10.560 Or sorry, I keep saying New Zealand. 0.59

00:37:12.160 Venezuela.

00:37:13.180 And so he's sourcing,

00:37:14.100 he's going to source some oil from Venezuela,

00:37:17.060 which is okay, good for him, bad for Alberta.

00:37:19.620 I still think that by the time he gets that oil

00:37:23.360 from venezuela his country's demand will have gone up and he will still need you know what i mean

00:37:29.760 like he needs he's taken four from us but their economy is firing so hard he needs everything we

00:37:34.360 can give him and everything uh venezuela so i wasn't too worried but well played mr trump well

00:37:40.400 played i mean he's doing a deal with belarus uh but you know there's three big producers of uh

00:37:46.560 of potash in the world belarus canada and australia australia does asia pacific belarus

00:37:52.900 provides europe and we were providing trump and now trump does a deal or is working on a deal

00:37:59.060 so he's just he's just whittling away at us right and um and that and what that shows is a couple

00:38:05.480 of things which we've said before they're way less dependent on us than we are on them and and trump

00:38:12.620 is demonstrating that he's demonstrating that and he's also demonstrating that if we're not willing

00:38:18.040 to put up and do a deal like we can stand up and say the deal was poor we're not taking it that's

00:38:24.060 fine that's our choice but when we refuse a deal there are plenty of countries that are lined up

00:38:30.600 to do deals with the u.s including mexico including even china this week so um so that was uh that was

00:38:39.020 an interesting development well played mr trump personally again i think it's in the same kind of

00:38:44.520 situation as our oil. I think we were about, Saskatchewan's about to increase its potash

00:38:50.400 production, putting a new mine on production. And the world, the population keeps growing,

00:38:55.720 agriculture's growing, the world needs more potash, the US needs more potash. I don't think

00:39:01.800 Trump sourcing potash from Belarus will necessarily mean he buys less from Saskatchewan,

00:39:08.060 but time will tell. But again, it's an important, it just sends that message, right, in this trade

00:39:13.880 war and um i uh carney was awful quiet this week awful quiet anybody did anybody watch the uh the

00:39:23.160 un national assembly like am i the only weirdo who watches that kind of stuff i mean there was

00:39:28.480 some interesting moment uh i don't know we probably can't replay it here but uh trump's

00:39:34.420 address uh and when the camera would pan from donald trump to the i don't know is it a president

00:39:41.060 or who's the leader of Iran?

00:39:42.940 They have the, whatever they call it,

00:39:45.400 the religious leader, the Ayatollah,

00:39:47.160 and they have other leaders.

00:39:48.200 I think it's the president of Iran.

00:39:49.520 But when Trump was basically saying,

00:39:51.640 I will annihilate you if we don't get a deal,

00:39:53.920 like he said that in other instances, 0.97

00:40:00.320 but this was kind of the first time

00:40:01.860 they were almost face-to-face,

00:40:03.780 you know what I mean?

00:40:05.020 That guy looked a little bit uncomfortable.

00:40:11.060 where to go next all right uh uh can we do a funny story john i sorry i didn't prepare you

00:40:18.340 for this one uh maybe i should have but uh let's let's let's pick on bc a little bit

00:40:23.620 did you guys see the story of simon fraser university rebranding itself uh i'll give

00:40:30.880 you a second john you can find the uh you this has been going on right this is one of those

00:40:35.620 things that i find absolutely uh funny this this this idea you know everybody got upset that

00:40:44.980 that uh donald trump was renaming lake america remember we talked about that and then and then

00:40:51.040 and then almost in the same breath a week later uh simon fraser university rebrands itself

00:40:57.100 and uses um they they changed the the big sign at the front of the university and it's now

00:41:04.460 in that i don't even know how to pronounce that language it's in uh to watson or whatever it's

00:41:09.900 one of the one of the oh okay is that one of our own stories yeah the western standard did a story

00:41:15.120 on it right so uh maybe zoom in on that but how do you pronounce that like zoom in on that what

00:41:20.780 what like i don't even know how to look at that like that's the name of the of simon fraser

00:41:26.900 university now like what are you guys thinking like what are they thinking what do you like

00:41:33.600 Like, I can't even pronounce that.

00:41:35.760 So if somebody says to me, where's your kid going to school?

00:41:38.780 I'm going to say, well, he's going to Simon Fraser University.

00:41:40.980 Do you want me to say that?

00:41:44.480 But I just want to point out, like, I just see this as silly, right?

00:41:48.980 As this weird acknowledgement that really accomplishes nothing.

00:41:57.000 And I made a joke about this, but in the end, it's not really a joke.

00:42:00.960 This is a made-up language at this point.

00:42:02.960 Sorry, the language is not made up.

00:42:05.060 The language is, sure, there's some speakers who speak whatever this was,

00:42:09.160 Tawasin or whatever, but there's no dictionary of this language.

00:42:14.200 I looked online.

00:42:15.060 There's no dictionary of this language.

00:42:16.780 The translations are done by, they go and find whatever,

00:42:21.340 elders who say, oh, this is how you should pronounce this word.

00:42:25.260 And then we had to give them an alphabet. 0.98

00:42:28.120 This is a Greek alphabet that's been adapted to this.

00:42:31.440 This is not a Tawasin or whatever language.

00:42:34.880 This is an alphabet because these guys did not have a written language.

00:42:41.260 So this is going a little bit too far for me to, you know, in terms of truth and reconciliation.

00:42:52.340 Okay, this is not reconciliation.

00:42:55.200 Like renaming modern institutions based on something that happened a thousand years ago.

00:43:01.020 that's not reconciliation okay if they want to build a new university and call it then whatever

00:43:06.140 they want that's fine but i'm i don't like this and i made a joke about this you might as well do

00:43:11.860 this in klingon right now right in the star trek universe the language of klingon there are more

00:43:16.480 people who speak klingon than speak that language klingon has an association klingon has a national

00:43:23.020 convention every year where people come together and practice speaking klingon the bible's been

00:43:28.580 translated into Klingon. All right. Tolkien, when he wrote Lord of the Rings, developed a whole

00:43:35.180 language around Elvish and stuff like that. So like, come on, folks, stop, stop mocking us and

00:43:42.020 stop. You're actually mocking the culture when you do something like that. I think it's, that's

00:43:47.680 just me. Maybe I'm being a little bit harsh, but that's the way I think. All right. Okay. Well,

00:43:56.020 maybe you guys wanted to you guys are testing me you wanted me to just talk talk talk like I said

00:44:00.460 I'm talking fast because I want to go hunting um all right well I got a I'm running out of

00:44:08.120 subjects folks I got I got one or two more that I can talk about I mean so uh somebody my somebody

00:44:14.980 call I hate sounding like I'm begging if you guys don't want to call that's cool I will I will keep

00:44:20.600 talking. So I got two subjects left to chat about. One is that Danielle Smith paused the gasoline

00:44:31.320 tax. I'm glad she finally did that. Unfortunately, it doesn't take effect until October 1st. So I

00:44:38.180 guess when I come back from hunting, I can fuel up at hopefully 13 cents cheaper than when I'm

00:44:43.080 going up. But that's something I don't look forward to right now. Right after this, I'm

00:44:47.860 to go jump in the truck i got 132 liter tank and uh it's gonna cost me a pretty penny to fill that

00:44:55.060 up and uh right now the price of gasoline locally is disconnected from the price of oil thank you

00:45:02.340 somebody's calling all right go ahead where are you calling from what's your name please

00:45:07.460 oh marty it's randy calling from chilliwack whoa chilliwack randy how are things

00:45:12.020 Oh yeah so so here in BC I really enjoy your show I've been listening to it since

00:45:18.900 you started and enjoy listening to you in quiet a couple things my 29-year-old son just

00:45:26.420 packed up and left BC a couple months ago he's a red steel electrician went to Evansburg

00:45:31.860 just west of Edmonton yep just didn't do it out here anymore couldn't afford a house and

00:45:37.860 And he just bought a house with him and his wife and child.

00:45:41.080 And, yeah, just starting young and fresh out there and got a good job as an electrician.

00:45:47.280 That's part of the brain drain from B.C.

00:45:49.500 And, yeah, got a future out there.

00:45:52.080 And he's going to be voting for the referendum to separate.

00:45:56.640 Wish I could follow as well.

00:46:00.420 Another thing, it was pretty disgusting a couple weeks ago

00:46:04.300 that Connie couldn't take the time to go to the 9-11 ceremony there it's just absolutely disgusting

00:46:14.060 and what you guys should be doing with your third-party advertising is have a kind of a

00:46:20.860 tongue-in-cheek advertisement saying that on like on the Canadian side that you're really enjoying

00:46:25.980 Alberta spending out 50 billion dollars to Ottawa every year and all the good stuff that Alberta

00:46:31.820 about us in a kind of a tongue-in-cheek way so that people kind of see where all the all the

00:46:36.860 money's going yeah um okay well um first of all congratulations on your son actually i'll be

00:46:43.420 driving through evansburg this afternoon on my way north so uh it's a small town very quiet i'm sure

00:46:49.020 you got it out hopefully you got an acreage uh but i want to ask you a quick question randy then so uh

00:46:55.020 uh i said earlier in the show i think eb's stunt might backfire on him am i am i out in left field

00:47:01.260 on that one or do you think there's a possibility i think you're right because there's of course a

00:47:07.180 municipal election happening about a week before so i think people are really going to be right

00:47:11.120 kicked off for him trying to pull this quick one on us and um every year or every few months the

00:47:17.740 conservatives are calling me for money and this time i'm going to be telling them that if they

00:47:21.740 can't have a kind of a one conservative candidate on the ballot or bc1 party by themselves on the

00:47:29.140 ballot they're not getting any money from me so they got to get their act

00:47:31.960 together otherwise if we get another four years of NUP this province is done

00:47:36.420 it's already done but it's only gonna be worse yeah yeah actually good yeah

00:47:42.280 thanks for the reminder I forgot to mention that maybe maybe my colleagues

00:47:46.760 Corey mentioned it but yeah there's a in in BC your municipal elections and your

00:47:52.720 provincial elections are completely offset by like two years right and and

00:47:56.900 that's on purpose so that they don't interfere with each other so this month you're going to

00:48:00.940 have both because of this um snap election exactly and i think people are just the drip

00:48:09.180 of things going to be a big thing in this election and yeah with the ndp naming simon

00:48:14.160 fraser university with the indigenous nor indian name i think it's just to start they'll name it

00:48:20.060 first so they're starting to take over all the land seconds so it'll be an easy to conquer 0.89

00:48:24.860 for them you know yeah interesting you know i don't know it's sad what's happening here and

00:48:31.280 that's why i hope you guys succeed and i might have to move out there for all myself because

00:48:36.720 i can't do it anymore i'm just getting tired of it well at the very least you can come visit your

00:48:41.700 kids awesome thanks for calling randy thanks okay good luck hunting thanks john was there

00:48:49.580 another call beeping on the line or hello hey it's marty there yes oh this sounds like uh brenda

00:49:03.740 no it's diane oh diane of course diane from uh sherwood park or edmonton right

00:49:09.900 devin devin marty yes oh i'm sorry i was having a hard time getting through to you i'm i'm calling

00:49:18.700 because you were asking for people to call yeah yeah go ahead diane you you call your regular

00:49:24.620 what's on your mind well um i mean you asked me something ask me a question i like to talk i know

00:49:34.780 i i'm i all the topics you're talking about i'm um i'm educated in because i follow everything

00:49:42.540 so you go you ask me something for a change okay i'll ask you something for a change so um

00:49:47.740 But immigration is a sensitive topic because a lot of people, as soon as we talk about immigration, start to accuse us of being racist or whatever.

00:50:00.620 Are we simply scapegoating immigrants for some of the problems or is there some truth to that?

00:50:08.100 Have you experienced personally in your neck of the woods some little problems because of the recent huge growth? 0.98

00:50:14.340 well the it's the it was the growth is obviously too many people too fast i'm the furthest thing

00:50:25.240 from a racist i have had um i worked with indian people from india that have been here for 30 35

00:50:33.120 years who have kept their own culture but also assimilated into the canadian culture

00:50:39.620 And had their children here, and their children were educated here, and I met their kids. One was a pilot, one worked in the automotive industry, and they assimilated to our culture.

00:50:54.120 um the the you can't let three million people in in four or five years uh temporary and refugee 0.66

00:51:04.280 and whatever status they want to give everybody and not put any money into our health care system 0.73

00:51:10.500 or our education system or anything else that Canadians have had and expect that everything's

00:51:18.780 just going to be going you know swimmingly like it was 20 years ago the the health care system is

00:51:26.320 getting is getting crushed i i mean you know i told you before i'm 65 i really hope i don't get

00:51:32.200 sick and have to um use those facilities because it's there's just too much pressure on it and they

00:51:40.940 don't put money into it um i'm originally from windsor they've been trying to build like i'm

00:51:47.640 not expatriating they've been trying to build a new hospital in windsor since 2002 when my mother

00:51:55.360 was sick and it's now 24 years later and they just put a shovel in the ground there's two hospitals

00:52:04.280 in windsor ontario that are like one is almost 100 years old i and i kid you not it was the nuns

00:52:12.660 the Catholic nuns who used to run it and one that was maybe built 70 years ago where I actually had

00:52:19.000 my children so my kids are almost 40 so um yeah they just are building a hospital now yeah so you

00:52:27.140 you you so now they lack all these extra people in and what what like how how does anybody expect

00:52:35.520 everything to work correctly right and and actually and I think you you helped me answer

00:52:41.500 the question and you perhaps answered it we should not be scapegoating uh immigrants they

00:52:48.060 just came here because they were invited here and and they came here through the process the pro the

00:52:54.940 the people we the the politicians are using some politicians are using immigration as a scapegoat

00:53:02.300 for their failures i think is probably a better way to say it right it's politicians that opened

00:53:07.900 the door and let a whole bunch of people in without thinking of the consequences and they're

00:53:12.540 the ones our anger should be directed at politicians not at the people who just showed up

00:53:17.100 yeah you're you're you're right but it's the the problems with the canada not having enough people

00:53:27.860 and the birth rate this is all going back 30 40 50 years with and a lot of people are not going to

00:53:36.300 agree with me and this may not be very popular but because of feminism it has destroyed 0.98

00:53:44.960 um being a mother and womanhood and try to um have a husband and support your husband 1.00

00:53:54.520 and all the wonderful things that women are and it's it's tried to take that down and destroy it

00:54:03.420 And that might not be popular, but now that I'm the age I am and I can look back, 100%, that's what they have tried to do. 1.00

00:54:13.780 And you're right about the extra taxes coming in from that extra person working in that house.

00:54:20.380 And I feel sad when I hear young girls who are 20 years old now saying, I don't want to have kids because they're missing out on the absolute joy of a lifetime.

00:54:33.420 Yeah, no, I, you know, like I said, I'm not a sociologist. I think I agree that the feminist movement and other things has put some pressure and dropped the fertility rate. But then also when I compare, let's say, two countries that are very similar, like Canada and the US, right, have very similar opinions about feminism and women and equality, but their birth rate is a lot higher than ours.

00:54:59.380 So then I got to say that the final difference at the end of the day has got to be an economic one. Right. I mean, we're getting to the point where beyond feminism, it's so expensive here.

00:55:11.760 I hear that all the time from people like we just can't afford to have kids. That's pretty sad. I hate hearing that.

00:55:17.680 And I agree with you that that's part of it too. But I think this has been like a slow drip of a lot of different factors that brought us to this point.

00:55:32.220 Right. I really do. I don't think it's just one. I don't think solving it the way the government has tried to solve it with just bringing in all these people that really propped up our GDP and everything because those people are all buying our consumers and they're all buying stuff and it's making everything look better.

00:55:56.760 but it's i don't i don't see it unless i'm really a dumb person i just don't see that there's all

00:56:05.000 this success happening now in canada am i dumb no no no i mean like i said um i talk about this 0.88

00:56:13.080 every week like it is shocking how people are people have to you and i are not dumb and others 0.92

00:56:21.000 are not dumb either but a lot of people are i think they're closing their eyes they're putting

00:56:24.600 on the blinders they just don't want to accept it that they're that there's that things aren't 0.89

00:56:29.480 working it's it's it's yeah excellent okay well thanks and we talked to go ahead we we've talked

00:56:39.080 about that before people people just don't want to see it right people just don't want to see it but

00:56:43.080 anyway you take care of yourself i hope you have a very successful hunt and um take care of yourself

00:56:50.040 thank you diane have a great weekend um yeah no all great points all great points yeah i mean

00:56:58.360 just a personal story like i my my wife is itching to have grandkids like she's just

00:57:03.880 itching itching right we have four adult children um none of them none of them have had kids yet

00:57:10.440 and uh my oldest is 33 and and i i tell my wife like statistically because she comes from a big

00:57:18.280 family we both do and and like i have i don't know like 16 nephews and nieces right so all the i have

00:57:25.320 four kids my wife comes from uh uh my wife's sister has four kids my my wife's like everybody

00:57:32.040 we all have big families my grant my parents had like you know seven grandkids my parents in-laws

00:57:37.720 my in-laws have like 16 grandkids and i tell my wife like statistically you're just looking at

00:57:43.160 an engineer i'm just a statistician we have four kids and so that statistically don't expect much

00:57:50.440 more than three grandkids that's just it's sad but that's the way it is and my my wife is almost

00:57:56.200 depressed at that thought but that's just the reality i don't know how we now statistically

00:58:02.040 we're an outlier and i hope we will be no i shouldn't say that i hope we will end up being

00:58:08.360 a statistical outlier but i'm not crossing my fingers because over the long term stats don't

00:58:14.140 lie okay running out of time uh which i'm sorry if i was pushing it sounded like i was pushing the

00:58:21.200 show uh i am honestly totally excited i will i love disconnecting the rule in camp like we have

00:58:28.960 no cell phone one of the guys said hey i can bring my starlink we rule that out we voted it out there's

00:58:34.520 no star link uh you won't be seeing a lot of tweets or posts from me while i'm hunting i know

00:58:40.760 a couple of hills where i if i really want to reach out in an emergency i know a spot where i

00:58:46.500 can use my atv go follow a trail up to the top of a hill and get some signal but even when i happen

00:58:52.440 to go by there i might turn on the signal call home say hi honey i'm okay but i don't spend

00:58:56.960 minutes or hours on the phone so i will be disconnecting i think it is so refreshing i'm

00:59:02.460 lucky i do this frequently i disconnect all the time so um i won't be here next week somebody else

00:59:11.340 i imagine josh or somebody else will do the show next week uh as i said uh not doing well if you

00:59:18.240 want to join if you if you want to get a subscription you still can but uh for the

00:59:24.340 time being the paywall has been lifted uh until the referendum is held so go and and look at all

00:59:31.960 the stories that we that the western standard brings you and i guarantee you once you get to

00:59:37.560 see all the stories you'll see that you it the ten dollars a month to get this kind of news

00:59:42.920 is nothing it's a hundred dollars a year uh i wanted to talk more about the referendum i didn't

00:59:49.540 you know uh i i didn't get to talk about keith wilson's transition council bringing out their

00:59:54.780 document uh which is a fabulous document i'm sure somebody will talk about it i will just highlight

01:00:01.560 one thing real quick i got my uh my my referendum uh checklist from elections alberta

01:00:09.320 and confirming that the referendum is on the 19th mail-in ballots right now if you want a mail-in

01:00:15.560 ballot you have until the 25th which is tomorrow if you didn't send in a letter to elections

01:00:20.840 alberta to get a mail-in ballot it's too late but you can get one i think in person tomorrow if you

01:00:26.680 go to one of the regional elections offices they've already received 600 000 requests for mail-in

01:00:32.840 ballots i'm not in favor of mail-in ballots but i understand that a lot of people are getting them

01:00:37.640 because they're worried that there might be lineups on the election day but this also confirms that

01:00:43.720 there is advanced voting on tuesday the 13th wednesday the 14th 15th 16th and even saturday

01:00:51.640 the 17th. So you have in all six days to go vote in person. So I'm pretty sure you can find the

01:00:57.640 time to go do it. And it probably won't be that long. But anyways, I am totally out of time saying

01:01:03.760 I won't see you next week, but I'll see you in two weeks from now. Hope everybody has a great

01:01:08.420 weekend. And thanks for calling in. Cheers, folks.

01:01:21.640 We'll be right back.

Western Standard - September 27, 2026

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