Western Standard - September 27, 2026


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

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00:00:00 all right we're live welcome back um where do i start actually
00:00:29 if I talk fast today
00:00:33 and I'll try and slow it down
00:00:35 because if I talk fast
00:00:37 in my mind I'm trying to get this show over
00:00:39 and done with quickly
00:00:40 not that I don't love doing this show
00:00:43 but as soon as I'm done this show
00:00:45 I'm jumping in my truck and I'm starting
00:00:47 a 7 hour journey
00:00:48 I'm heading up north to
00:00:51 Edson, Alberta as a starter
00:00:52 hook up with some buddies and then first thing tomorrow morning
00:00:55 we're heading into our hunting camp
00:00:57 so this is the start of my annual
00:00:59 hunting trip uh moose season starts on saturday in the area where i hunt and i'm fortunate i've
00:01:07 been hunting in the same area for about uh 30 years now going on 30 years with the same great
00:01:12 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 a cow moose tag two of my buddies have bull moose tags and then we have a cow elk tag
00:01:25 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 hunting is one of those things where you go through sort of stages a lot of hobbies and
00:01:39 go through stages photography bird watching hunting running whatever hobbies go through
00:01:45 stages right when you start hunting you go through the i just want to kill something stage
00:01:51 and then you'll go through the trophy stage
00:01:54 and then you'll go to the whatever.
00:01:59 I'm at the stage of I just want to hang around buddies,
00:02:04 sit by the campfire, away from civilization,
00:02:07 tell stories, have a couple of beers,
00:02:10 have a coffee in Baileys in the morning.
00:02:12 And if I get something, it's not that bad.
00:02:14 But if I don't, it's okay.
00:02:16 Or if I do, it's great.
00:02:17 and and we're also at the stage where um when i was younger and we'd go hunting like that
00:02:23 the nights would be long right you'd sit around the campfire and you'd be talking till two in the
00:02:27 morning and then when seven in the morning came up and you're trying to get up for the early uh
00:02:32 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 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 and they're in bed in the tent.
00:02:44 So, and I'm in that boat, right?
00:02:47 There's a lot of nights where I'll go to bed
00:02:48 at nine, 10 o'clock,
00:02:49 which makes getting up in the morning
00:02:51 to go hunting easy and okay.
00:02:54 So yeah, excited about that.
00:02:57 All right, thanks for joining.
00:02:59 As usual, the phone number is on the screen there.
00:03:03 Don't be shy.
00:03:04 Let's make it about whatever you guys wanna talk.
00:03:07 Before I come in here,
00:03:08 I always send a quick email to the producer about topics.
00:03:12 and then we have a quick chat of what people want to talk about
00:03:14 or what he thinks would be a good subject.
00:03:17 Because you've got to remember, we've got co-hosts here.
00:03:21 I've got other people at the Western Standard
00:03:23 that cover a lot of topics, right?
00:03:24 I definitely had the snap election in BC on my list of things,
00:03:32 but I won't make it a high priority,
00:03:33 and maybe I'll come back to it later.
00:03:35 I wanted to talk about that,
00:03:36 but apparently Corey and some of the others
00:03:40 are discussing that at length.
00:03:42 Maybe people want to go on to another topic.
00:03:45 So John, the producer here, definitely suggested, as you can see in the topic, Trump warns Carney about immigration.
00:03:52 And so I'm going to I'm going to dive into that one.
00:03:56 Definitely want to talk a little bit about I'll give an update on independence in general.
00:04:03 In fact, I just finished doing a walk around Calgary with a journalist from.
00:04:08 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 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 So let's dive into this one.
00:04:51 So Trump put out a tweet.
00:04:55 John, do we have that tweet or that comment?
00:04:58 I should read it there.
00:05:00 It's a bit hard for me to read, but he basically says Canada is destroying.
00:05:05 Can you zoom in? There you go.
00:05:07 Canada is destroying itself by allowing millions and millions of people into the country, 1.00
00:05:11 essentially unchecked and unvetted and who are causing problems that will soon be too big to handle.
00:05:17 It is a liberal takeover that will end very badly.
00:05:23 I can almost hear that very bad.
00:05:25 I'm not good at doing a Trump imitation, but I can almost hear Trump saying that.
00:05:29 and already showing up in their numbers, big unemployment, O Canada, President Donald J. Trump.
00:05:35 By the way, do you guys think that Donald writes his own tweets or is he like most politician
00:05:41 and does he have a staff that does it for him?
00:05:43 Because if he has a staff, they're very good at imitating his style.
00:05:47 If he has a staff, I'm pretty sure that somebody that Donald reads them before they go out.
00:05:54 But, you know, he has a style of and actually that's not a tweet.
00:05:57 I need to be corrected. There's no tweets anymore. You're either on X or you're on something else.
00:06:03 And Donald Trump has his own platform called Truth Social.
00:06:07 And so he tweets on on that platform and then that's picked up by others.
00:06:13 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 I start my day by going through a couple of sources.
00:06:27 I have a couple of places that I go and look every day to see what's going on.
00:06:32 And one of the places I like to check every day is Stats Canada.
00:06:35 Stats Canada has a portal and you can go in there and you can see all this.
00:06:40 Like our government, one thing I like about our government and our army of bureaucrats and clerks
00:06:47 is that they collect a lot of information and they just produce report after report
00:06:53 every week. And some of that information is actually quite valuable to me as a commentator,
00:06:58 right? So I go to Stats Canada, and there's like a schedule, a release schedule, and certain data
00:07:04 comes out quarterly, some of it comes out monthly, some of it comes out annually. And yesterday,
00:07:10 coincidentally, there was a release of the latest population estimates, the latest number of which
00:07:18 the population estimates includes things like immigration natural birth uh temporary foreign
00:07:25 workers student visas and stuff like that so there was that number that came out there was a number
00:07:31 that came out uh that was really interesting to me which was the uh fertility rate and then the
00:07:38 unemployment numbers didn't come out yesterday but they came out today and so all together they tell
00:07:43 the picture and Donald Trump is not wrong. So let's start with one quick stat that came out
00:07:49 yesterday, which I think explains a lot of what's going on. And that's the John's going to enlarge
00:07:55 the one. Well, actually, you can see it there, but you can enlarge that. So the one he's pointing
00:07:59 out right there, 1.26. That's Canada's national fertility rate. And if you could just zoom in on
00:08:09 that graph john and just show it right so the fertility rate is right down there at 1.26 0.88
00:08:15 1.26 so let me explain what 1.26 means what 1.26 means is that the average woman
00:08:26 that average number of children born per women in all across canada women of of childbearing age
00:08:34 the average is 1.26 child per woman okay so that means that if you have four women in a room
00:08:43 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 that could be now you have to dig into the stats to see how that's distributed but one one four
00:08:56 women in a room five kids what it currently means in canada is that two of those women have zero
00:09:02 kids two women have zero kids one woman has one kid and one woman has four so five divided by four
00:09:13 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 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 and that couple, that woman, needs to have 2.2 kids. 0.92
00:09:33 One kid to replace herself, one kid to replace her husband 1.00
00:09:38 and the 0.2 is to account for accidental deaths
00:09:42 over the course of the next 80 years.
00:09:44 So 2.2 is a population that will barely grow.
00:09:50 Three or four is the number that you see
00:09:52 in a lot of less developed countries 1.00
00:09:55 and it's pretty natural, it's been observed
00:09:58 that most nations when they start to develop economically i'm going to be a little bit crude
00:10:05 here but humans are just like other animals right and so uh 50 years ago more than 50 years ago
00:10:13 let's say 100 years ago you lived on a farm here and you couldn't depend on other people
00:10:17 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 look after you when you got older, you had to account for a lot of fatality, right?
00:10:27 A hundred years ago, life was harder in our country.
00:10:31 And so as the country's economy improves and standard of living improves,
00:10:37 the fertility rate starts to go down.
00:10:39 It's been observed across the world.
00:10:40 But at 1.26, Canada is among the lowest of the low.
00:10:45 And that report says, and the news picked up on it, 1.26 is the lowest it's ever been.
00:10:51 It's historically the lowest.
00:10:52 and very few countries have a birth rate that's that low.
00:10:58 I think South Korea might have a lower one than us.
00:11:02 Otherwise, everybody else is higher,
00:11:03 including the Americans next door and stuff like that.
00:11:06 And what caused that decline?
00:11:10 I'm not a sociologist, but I mean, there's a lot.
00:11:15 The fundamental reason that the birth rate has gone down
00:11:18 is our standard of living is good.
00:11:20 You can have one kid and the odds of that kid surviving into adulthood is pretty good. 1.00
00:11:27 Women are empowered, want to go work. 1.00
00:11:31 Staying home is less appealing to some. 1.00
00:11:35 You could argue.
00:11:36 I think a lot of people go work because they have to, which is another problem, right?
00:11:40 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 So call in.
00:11:47 Let me know that, right?
00:11:48 Let me know your thoughts, right?
00:11:49 Why do you think the birth rate has gone down?
00:11:52 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 It's because the government wanted women in the workplace rather than raising a family. 1.00
00:12:04 It's a good argument, right? 1.00
00:12:05 It's a great argument that by making women in the workplace, they will pay taxes and so forth. 1.00
00:12:14 So we have a declining birth rate, which is a problem. 0.98
00:12:18 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 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 Like the youngest baby boomers are the one born in 1965. 1.00
00:12:52 They're going to be, I'm trying to do the math here. 1.00
00:12:55 If you're born in 1965, you will be 65 years old in about four years from now, right?
00:13:02 Five years. 1.00
00:13:02 So the last of the baby boomers are going to start retiring and they're starting to die. 0.99
00:13:07 Baby boomers born in 1946, they're already 80 years old, so they're starting to die. 0.99
00:13:12 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 And the fertility rate of the people that followed is low. 0.98
00:13:23 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 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 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 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 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 So we lavish on ourselves these benefits that we can't afford.
00:14:33 And now we have a declining population. 1.00
00:14:35 So we have to bring in a schwack of immigrants. 1.00
00:14:39 And I wish there was a chart on this. 1.00
00:14:41 I'm not going to make John look for it.
00:14:43 Or maybe he can find one.
00:14:45 But the population of Canada went up like this in the last couple of years.
00:14:51 Because, as Donald pointed out, these problems are real.
00:14:55 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 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 And and so much so that it's caused us problems.
00:15:14 And I don't want to like I'm I'm an immigrant, right?
00:15:18 I'll practically speaking.
00:15:21 I mean, my family's been on this continent for a darn long time, like it's since the 1600s.
00:15:25 But okay, I'll bite and I'll say I'm an immigrant.
00:15:28 I'm not against immigration, especially not here in Alberta. 0.97
00:15:31 Alberta was founded by people coming here to work.
00:15:35 So I'm absolutely okay with immigration. 0.99
00:15:37 I mean, at the end of the day, I prefer that we had a high birth rate.
00:15:40 I have four kids, so I think I did my part.
00:15:42 I prefer that the conditions were ripe so that we could, you know,
00:15:48 have kids and maintain perhaps a stable population.
00:15:52 I don't need one growing or going down.
00:15:54 I'd like to have one sort of stable.
00:15:55 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 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 so we build enough housing units to accommodate 600 000 people new people a year well if we're
00:16:50 growing by one or two million million people a year we can't accommodate so um i was looking at
00:16:57 this data now the rest of john maybe put that quote back up for uh for a second that uh you
00:17:05 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 it right um who are causing problems that will soon be too big to handle that's the part where
00:17:19 liberals and others got upset yesterday i mean nobody's denying that immigration has been fast
00:17:24 and rapid but is it causing problems that are could become irreversible that i'm not willing
00:17:34 to go there just yet but the problems are they are real they're problems right we are seeing
00:17:39 stories every day of of these problems it's not just uh it's not just housing there is there is
00:17:46 sort of a clash is happening like i said because people aren't having we're they're not having a
00:17:51 chance to integrate properly right like the the story last week of the guy like somebody went up
00:17:56 hiking in banth and they got to uh the devil's thumb which is like a popular hike and then they
00:18:01 get there and there's this graffiti that's been painted on the rock by by somebody uh and you
00:18:08 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 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 it by the last part of his comment there, which is the unemployment. Those numbers came out this
00:18:58 morning. Unemployment numbers, employment numbers, I would say employment's more important than
00:19:02 unemployment. Employment numbers came out for the last quarter and like 20,000 jobs added.
00:19:10 Like in a country of 40 million people in one quarter or in one month, we're adding 20,000 jobs.
00:19:16 And again, sure, it's minuscule positive growth, but 20,000 jobs added when you're increasing the
00:19:22 population by a million, that's a problem because we're bringing in too many people and we're not
00:19:31 adding creating the jobs for those people so let's pivot just ever so slightly because this ties in
00:19:38 nicely with uh with a couple of other things so this this whole concept of immigration ties in
00:19:45 nicely with uh the referendum okay and the alberta referendum because uh i think it's four out of the
00:19:55 five maybe or sorry four out of the nine maybe five out of the nine questions reference uh
00:20:02 immigration on the referendum and some people say that that uh immigrants are being scapegoated for
00:20:09 a problem yeah perhaps a little bit of scapegoating is going on there but but i 1.00
00:20:15 i fundamentally agree that the data reveals that the out-of-control immigration has caused some
00:20:20 problems and on the upcoming referendum smith put some questions around immigration you know
00:20:27 regarding slowing it down taking more control of it and uh imposing some um some some guidelines
00:20:37 and some minimum fees on immigrants who come to alberta and that's not i mean i don't think it
00:20:43 should be on the referendum to be honest i don't think it should be on the referendum the problems
00:20:47 are known, and it's completely within any government's purview to deal with these problems.
00:20:53 I don't think she needs to do the referendum to go get the mandate to deal with that.
00:20:57 She's fundamentally asking for powers that provinces like Quebec already have, right?
00:21:03 I mean, the problem with immigration overall is that it is a federal matter.
00:21:08 Ottawa decides who comes in and who doesn't.
00:21:11 Ottawa controls the border.
00:21:12 And when somebody comes in, most people will fly into Canada and they'll land in whatever, Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver.
00:21:20 And then once they're in the country, then they're free to go wherever they want.
00:21:23 And statistically, a lot of them are coming to Alberta.
00:21:27 I don't know. Is that the image you had up there ready to go, John?
00:21:30 What is this one?
00:21:33 Oh, that's one of the immigration questions.
00:21:35 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 Again, I don't think Smith necessarily needed a referendum.
00:21:49 It's in her power to to to adjust some of the things I mean.
00:21:54 Well, let's stay on this. We don't control immigration in Alberta specifically.
00:21:58 Like I said, Alberta, Ottawa decides who comes in.
00:22:01 But once you come to Alberta, then we have some controls.
00:22:07 And that coincidentally came out this week. 0.97
00:22:11 Danielle Smith is bouncing the idea of charging a health care fee for new arrivals, right?
00:22:20 Because she's on the record now.
00:22:22 She said it, I think, two or three times publicly in different press conferences.
00:22:27 She talks about the imbalance, right?
00:22:30 That the new arrivals are contributing something like $150 million in taxes, but taking out a billion dollars in services.
00:22:41 And so there's an imbalance there.
00:22:43 And she wants to charge a fee to new arrivals.
00:22:47 I didn't see the details.
00:22:49 I mean, a fee makes sense, period, right?
00:22:52 I'm old enough to remember when in Alberta, we all paid a health care premium.
00:22:59 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 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 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 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 and now most of us didn't know that we were paying the premium because if you were employed
00:23:31 by the government or union or even the new oil sector like my employer at the time you know i
00:23:36 worked for talisman energy i'm pretty sure uh it was one of my benefits right uh talisman energy
00:23:44 paid that 44 on my behalf i mean they were the ones that were supposed to collect it anyways
00:23:48 the health premiums were collected by your employer and then uh but but they paid it on my
00:23:54 behalf if you were self-employed or if your employer didn't pay it then somehow or other
00:23:59 you got a bill and you had to pay your premium so the concept of paying a premium is not new
00:24:05 and i think ontario still pays a health premium and i think quebec might still
00:24:09 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 alberta health entirely from the government none of it coming from the public by the way
00:24:22 if the government's paying for it,
00:24:25 you and I are still paying for it, right?
00:24:27 Whether the premium is on your card
00:24:28 or comes out of your pocket directly as a premium
00:24:32 or whether it comes out of your taxes,
00:24:33 you're still paying for it.
00:24:35 So anyways, I'm not entirely against the idea
00:24:37 of charging somebody who's new to the province
00:24:42 or who's here on a temporary basis.
00:24:44 I'm not against charging them a premium for healthcare.
00:24:50 And so I'll just leave it at that.
00:24:52 I mean, it's not crazy.
00:24:56 What other image you got up on there, John?
00:24:59 You're trying to get some pictures ready.
00:25:01 What are you going with?
00:25:05 All right.
00:25:06 Okay, folks.
00:25:08 Again, don't be shy.
00:25:09 Like 866-479-WEST and extension 711.
00:25:16 And John will patch you through and let's have a chat.
00:25:19 I mean, we're trying to make it a talk show.
00:25:21 So maybe I'm just so, what's the word?
00:25:25 So verbose.
00:25:26 You guys just like hearing me.
00:25:29 Did I tell you I just finished?
00:25:30 Yeah, I told you I finished a chat with the CBC.
00:25:33 Oh, what I didn't tell you though, it was CBC French.
00:25:36 So I was walking around Calgary with a guy,
00:25:39 all mic'd up and he was asking me a bunch of questions
00:25:42 on independence.
00:25:45 And there's something going on in the country, right?
00:25:50 I experienced it.
00:25:51 I know what's going on in Quebec.
00:25:54 Quebec had a leader's debate yesterday.
00:25:56 Quebec has their provincial election next week,
00:25:59 or two weeks from now.
00:26:01 The 5th of October is the Quebec provincial election.
00:26:04 And right now, the separatist party in Quebec
00:26:07 is leading in the poll by a huge margin.
00:26:10 All efforts, everything Carney's done
00:26:12 to support the current incumbent.
00:26:15 The incumbent is a lady named,
00:26:17 I think it's Christine Frechette. 0.93
00:26:20 And she didn't get elected, right, per se, in a general election.
00:26:24 The previous leader of the current party in power in Quebec
00:26:30 is called Coalition Avenir Quebec.
00:26:33 And they've been in power for about six or seven years.
00:26:36 Their leader stepped down.
00:26:38 Somebody else stepped in.
00:26:39 So now this will be her first chance 0.98
00:26:43 at truly getting elected as the leader.
00:26:45 This is common.
00:26:47 Carney's trying to help her, right?
00:26:48 he went over there and he's announcing that alto high-speed power uh train line he's announced the
00:26:53 icebreaker deals he's announced the power he's announced all sorts of things and then standing
00:26:59 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 to the polls and not according to what i saw yesterday um in their debate they had their
00:27:10 leaders debate by the way i wish all you guys could more of you could understand french and
00:27:15 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 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 passionate about it i'm passionate about politics in quebec politics is a blood sport like way more
00:27:35 than anywhere else right it's like they live it and they like they they have lots of parties they
00:27:41 have um they're well organized they have like every party has a young branch right the young
00:27:47 liberals the young conservatives the the young everything they really love their politics it's
00:27:51 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 it so that debate last night was an ex an absolute excellent debate and um like i said i wish
00:28:04 everybody could watch it and that new that girl that that that current leader who's running
00:28:10 she's basically running against trump right this is funny like uh carney did the same thing she's
00:28:17 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 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 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 in power for this long but more importantly like one of the best questions somebody asked yesterday
00:28:39 was how did you prepare for trump your party's been in power for six or seven years how did you
00:28:46 prepare for trump and not specifically trump but you should have prepared for a trump or a or a
00:28:54 trade disruption or, you know, a pivot, AI, whatever, you should have prepared for a disruption
00:29:00 and you can, you are completely unprepared. I thought that was the knockout blow to that poor
00:29:05 lady. Like you, you have no credibility. I hope and if conservatives are, I mean, I know, I want 1.00
00:29:13 to talk about it just a little bit. I, you know, John said, don't talk too much about BC politics.
00:29:19 We've got to talk about B.C. politics ever so slightly.
00:29:26 What happened a couple of days ago with E.B. calling a snap election,
00:29:33 I think that's dirty politics.
00:29:35 I don't like that.
00:29:36 I just don't.
00:29:37 I mean, he's in year two of a four-year mandate,
00:29:41 and B.C. has fixed election dates like Alberta and a lot of other places,
00:29:45 so he's in year two.
00:29:47 He didn't get defeated by a voter or anything like that.
00:29:49 He's just being opportunistic and he's calling an election while the other side is in disarray.
00:29:56 I don't care what anybody says.
00:29:58 He's on stage saying, no, it's existential.
00:30:01 I need to call an election to get a mandate to deal with Trump.
00:30:05 Really?
00:30:05 Nobody else is doing that anymore, right?
00:30:08 If Trump was that existential of a threat, every province would use the same excuse.
00:30:13 But no other province is using that excuse except you, John.
00:30:16 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 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 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 staunchly independent and it was hard to bring us under a big tent i will give credit to kenny
00:31:22 for accomplishing this so kenny not my favorite politician especially not these days but one
00:31:27 thing kenny did is he did come around and he united the right against rachel notley and so
00:31:36 And I remember at the time saying, what do we call ourselves, right?
00:31:39 Like people said, we're going to call ourselves our United Conservative Party.
00:31:42 I mean, it was barely that because it was such a mishmash of people.
00:31:46 It was just literally the party against the NDP.
00:31:50 So I think what somebody's saying there,
00:31:54 our Conservatives aren't Conservatives only Quebec?
00:32:00 Or only 1BC. Sorry, I was reading that as Quebec.
00:32:02 No, I agree.
00:32:03 So don't call yourselves Conservatives.
00:32:06 Just call yourself the other side of David Eby.
00:32:09 And Eby, by the way, is so far that way that almost everybody is on the other side of him.
00:32:14 So don't nuance it with colors of like conservative, liberal, whatever, labor.
00:32:20 Just get united.
00:32:21 So I don't know who's going to come out and do that for British Columbia.
00:32:24 Who's your Jason Kenney?
00:32:27 I don't know.
00:32:28 Is it going to be Aaron Gunn?
00:32:29 Is it going to be somebody else?
00:32:30 I don't know, but I just hope that somebody comes out and unites the other side.
00:32:38 Call it the right. Don't call it conservatives.
00:32:39 If you want to, just call it the right.
00:32:42 Or call it the common sense, man.
00:32:44 Like, you might as well, like, literally just call it a common sense party at this point.
00:32:49 And then take a slice or take a slide and a page out of what happened in Quebec.
00:32:58 do not whatever group uh is against eb let eb fight trump you the other side should not do that
00:33:12 do your own thing do your own thing so explain to voters how you will diversify the economy
00:33:20 and bring things, you know, help things.
00:33:25 Don't just be we're not Trump or we're going to attack Trump.
00:33:28 Do your own thing.
00:33:29 Anyways, I think I spoke enough about BC elections and elections in general.
00:33:34 Well, I'll come back before I end the show.
00:33:35 I will talk about independence here.
00:33:37 But boy, I definitely did not have that on my...
00:33:42 I got to say one more thing about BC election that I think it'll backfire on him.
00:33:50 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 um Prentice saw an opportunity Jim Prentice dropped the writ did a snap election and the
00:34:21 Alberta voters got really pissed off about these shenanigans and uh gave the NDP this huge majority
00:34:30 and so sometimes the voter can see right through I'm glad that once in a while the voters do see
00:34:36 through the shenanigans played by a leader and I think in this case David Eby might regret um
00:34:43 dropping the red and calling this snap election but time will tell um and that's pretty quick
00:34:49 right it's interesting that his election boy what a what an interesting fall we're gonna have right
00:34:54 we have a referendum in alberta well what do we have an election in quebec on october 5th a
00:34:59 referendum on october 19th in alberta an election in bc on october 27th wow it's gonna be an
00:35:04 interesting uh interesting um fall um where do i go from here any interesting comments make uh
00:35:14 catch your eye john you got the maybe not okay um what else happened this week oh okay well let's
00:35:26 let's stick on trump right so uh the trump trump caught me off guard with a move this week caught
00:35:33 me off guard caught me off guard when so let me reiterate right we're we're in Canada does
00:35:43 a lot of trade with the US like 700 billion dollars worth of trade and Alberta alone does
00:35:51 about 179 billion with the US Saskatchewan does about 30 billion or 40 billion and then the rest
00:35:58 is Ontario, Quebec, and BC.
00:36:00 So we do a good chunk.
00:36:02 And Trump, when you look at the map
00:36:05 of what Trump needs,
00:36:08 Trump doesn't need Ontario's milk
00:36:12 or cars or Quebec's milk.
00:36:15 He doesn't need a booze.
00:36:16 He doesn't need our softwood lumber.
00:36:18 He doesn't need our coal.
00:36:19 He doesn't need any of those things.
00:36:21 What are the fundamental things
00:36:23 that Trump needs from Canada?
00:36:26 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 So the real things that he needs are those things.
00:36:38 Everything else he can source elsewhere.
00:36:41 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 And I was a little cocky.
00:36:54 I thought our potash from Saskatchewan
00:36:57 can't easily be replaced by other sources.
00:37:02 Well, Trump is the master of the deal
00:37:05 and he announced a couple of weeks ago
00:37:08 that he had done a deal with New Zealand.
00:37:10 Or sorry, I keep saying New Zealand. 0.59
00:37:12 Venezuela.
00:37:13 And so he's sourcing,
00:37:14 he's going to source some oil from Venezuela,
00:37:17 which is okay, good for him, bad for Alberta.
00:37:19 I still think that by the time he gets that oil
00:37:23 from venezuela his country's demand will have gone up and he will still need you know what i mean
00:37:29 like he needs he's taken four from us but their economy is firing so hard he needs everything we
00:37:34 can give him and everything uh venezuela so i wasn't too worried but well played mr trump well
00:37:40 played i mean he's doing a deal with belarus uh but you know there's three big producers of uh
00:37:46 of potash in the world belarus canada and australia australia does asia pacific belarus
00:37:52 provides europe and we were providing trump and now trump does a deal or is working on a deal
00:37:59 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 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 is demonstrating that he's demonstrating that and he's also demonstrating that if we're not willing
00:38:18 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 fine that's our choice but when we refuse a deal there are plenty of countries that are lined up
00:38:30 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 an interesting development well played mr trump personally again i think it's in the same kind of
00:38:44 situation as our oil. I think we were about, Saskatchewan's about to increase its potash
00:38:50 production, putting a new mine on production. And the world, the population keeps growing,
00:38:55 agriculture's growing, the world needs more potash, the US needs more potash. I don't think
00:39:01 Trump sourcing potash from Belarus will necessarily mean he buys less from Saskatchewan,
00:39:08 but time will tell. But again, it's an important, it just sends that message, right, in this trade
00:39:13 war and um i uh carney was awful quiet this week awful quiet anybody did anybody watch the uh the
00:39:23 un national assembly like am i the only weirdo who watches that kind of stuff i mean there was
00:39:28 some interesting moment uh i don't know we probably can't replay it here but uh trump's
00:39:34 address uh and when the camera would pan from donald trump to the i don't know is it a president
00:39:41 or who's the leader of Iran?
00:39:42 They have the, whatever they call it,
00:39:45 the religious leader, the Ayatollah,
00:39:47 and they have other leaders.
00:39:48 I think it's the president of Iran.
00:39:49 But when Trump was basically saying,
00:39:51 I will annihilate you if we don't get a deal,
00:39:53 like he said that in other instances, 0.97
00:40:00 but this was kind of the first time
00:40:01 they were almost face-to-face,
00:40:03 you know what I mean?
00:40:05 That guy looked a little bit uncomfortable.
00:40:11 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 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 did you guys see the story of simon fraser university rebranding itself uh i'll give
00:40:30 you a second john you can find the uh you this has been going on right this is one of those
00:40:35 things that i find absolutely uh funny this this this idea you know everybody got upset that
00:40:44 that uh donald trump was renaming lake america remember we talked about that and then and then
00:40:51 and then almost in the same breath a week later uh simon fraser university rebrands itself
00:40:57 and uses um they they changed the the big sign at the front of the university and it's now
00:41:04 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 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 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 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 university now like what are you guys thinking like what are they thinking what do you like
00:41:33 Like, I can't even pronounce that.
00:41:35 So if somebody says to me, where's your kid going to school?
00:41:38 I'm going to say, well, he's going to Simon Fraser University.
00:41:40 Do you want me to say that?
00:41:44 But I just want to point out, like, I just see this as silly, right?
00:41:48 As this weird acknowledgement that really accomplishes nothing.
00:41:57 And I made a joke about this, but in the end, it's not really a joke.
00:42:00 This is a made-up language at this point.
00:42:02 Sorry, the language is not made up.
00:42:05 The language is, sure, there's some speakers who speak whatever this was,
00:42:09 Tawasin or whatever, but there's no dictionary of this language.
00:42:14 I looked online.
00:42:15 There's no dictionary of this language.
00:42:16 The translations are done by, they go and find whatever,
00:42:21 elders who say, oh, this is how you should pronounce this word.
00:42:25 And then we had to give them an alphabet. 0.98
00:42:28 This is a Greek alphabet that's been adapted to this.
00:42:31 This is not a Tawasin or whatever language.
00:42:34 This is an alphabet because these guys did not have a written language.
00:42:41 So this is going a little bit too far for me to, you know, in terms of truth and reconciliation.
00:42:52 Okay, this is not reconciliation.
00:42:55 Like renaming modern institutions based on something that happened a thousand years ago.
00:43:01 that's not reconciliation okay if they want to build a new university and call it then whatever
00:43:06 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 this in klingon right now right in the star trek universe the language of klingon there are more
00:43:16 people who speak klingon than speak that language klingon has an association klingon has a national
00:43:23 convention every year where people come together and practice speaking klingon the bible's been
00:43:28 translated into Klingon. All right. Tolkien, when he wrote Lord of the Rings, developed a whole
00:43:35 language around Elvish and stuff like that. So like, come on, folks, stop, stop mocking us and
00:43:42 stop. You're actually mocking the culture when you do something like that. I think it's, that's
00:43:47 just me. Maybe I'm being a little bit harsh, but that's the way I think. All right. Okay. Well,
00:43:56 maybe you guys wanted to you guys are testing me you wanted me to just talk talk talk like I said
00:44:00 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 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 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 talking. So I got two subjects left to chat about. One is that Danielle Smith paused the gasoline
00:44:31 tax. I'm glad she finally did that. Unfortunately, it doesn't take effect until October 1st. So I
00:44:38 guess when I come back from hunting, I can fuel up at hopefully 13 cents cheaper than when I'm
00:44:43 going up. But that's something I don't look forward to right now. Right after this, I'm
00:44:47 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 up and uh right now the price of gasoline locally is disconnected from the price of oil thank you
00:45:02 somebody's calling all right go ahead where are you calling from what's your name please
00:45:07 oh marty it's randy calling from chilliwack whoa chilliwack randy how are things
00:45:12 Oh yeah so so here in BC I really enjoy your show I've been listening to it since
00:45:18 you started and enjoy listening to you in quiet a couple things my 29-year-old son just
00:45:26 packed up and left BC a couple months ago he's a red steel electrician went to Evansburg
00:45:31 just west of Edmonton yep just didn't do it out here anymore couldn't afford a house and
00:45:37 And he just bought a house with him and his wife and child.
00:45:41 And, yeah, just starting young and fresh out there and got a good job as an electrician.
00:45:47 That's part of the brain drain from B.C.
00:45:49 And, yeah, got a future out there.
00:45:52 And he's going to be voting for the referendum to separate.
00:45:56 Wish I could follow as well.
00:46:00 Another thing, it was pretty disgusting a couple weeks ago
00:46:04 that Connie couldn't take the time to go to the 9-11 ceremony there it's just absolutely disgusting
00:46:14 and what you guys should be doing with your third-party advertising is have a kind of a
00:46:20 tongue-in-cheek advertisement saying that on like on the Canadian side that you're really enjoying
00:46:25 Alberta spending out 50 billion dollars to Ottawa every year and all the good stuff that Alberta
00:46:31 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 money's going yeah um okay well um first of all congratulations on your son actually i'll be
00:46:43 driving through evansburg this afternoon on my way north so uh it's a small town very quiet i'm sure
00:46:49 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 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 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 municipal election happening about a week before so i think people are really going to be right
00:47:11 kicked off for him trying to pull this quick one on us and um every year or every few months the
00:47:17 conservatives are calling me for money and this time i'm going to be telling them that if they
00:47:21 can't have a kind of a one conservative candidate on the ballot or bc1 party by themselves on the
00:47:29 ballot they're not getting any money from me so they got to get their act
00:47:31 together otherwise if we get another four years of NUP this province is done
00:47:36 it's already done but it's only gonna be worse yeah yeah actually good yeah
00:47:42 thanks for the reminder I forgot to mention that maybe maybe my colleagues
00:47:46 Corey mentioned it but yeah there's a in in BC your municipal elections and your
00:47:52 provincial elections are completely offset by like two years right and and
00:47:56 that's on purpose so that they don't interfere with each other so this month you're going to
00:48:00 have both because of this um snap election exactly and i think people are just the drip
00:48:09 of things going to be a big thing in this election and yeah with the ndp naming simon
00:48:14 fraser university with the indigenous nor indian name i think it's just to start they'll name it
00:48:20 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 for them you know yeah interesting you know i don't know it's sad what's happening here and
00:48:31 that's why i hope you guys succeed and i might have to move out there for all myself because
00:48:36 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 kids awesome thanks for calling randy thanks okay good luck hunting thanks john was there
00:48:49 another call beeping on the line or hello hey it's marty there yes oh this sounds like uh brenda
00:49:03 no it's diane oh diane of course diane from uh sherwood park or edmonton right
00:49:09 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 because you were asking for people to call yeah yeah go ahead diane you you call your regular
00:49:24 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 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 so you go you ask me something for a change okay i'll ask you something for a change so um
00:49:47 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 Are we simply scapegoating immigrants for some of the problems or is there some truth to that?
00:50:08 Have you experienced personally in your neck of the woods some little problems because of the recent huge growth? 0.98
00:50:14 well the it's the it was the growth is obviously too many people too fast i'm the furthest thing
00:50:25 from a racist i have had um i worked with indian people from india that have been here for 30 35
00:50:33 years who have kept their own culture but also assimilated into the canadian culture
00:50:39 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 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 and whatever status they want to give everybody and not put any money into our health care system 0.73
00:51:10 or our education system or anything else that Canadians have had and expect that everything's
00:51:18 just going to be going you know swimmingly like it was 20 years ago the the health care system is
00:51:26 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 sick and have to um use those facilities because it's there's just too much pressure on it and they
00:51:40 don't put money into it um i'm originally from windsor they've been trying to build like i'm
00:51:47 not expatriating they've been trying to build a new hospital in windsor since 2002 when my mother
00:51:55 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 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 the Catholic nuns who used to run it and one that was maybe built 70 years ago where I actually had
00:52:19 my children so my kids are almost 40 so um yeah they just are building a hospital now yeah so you
00:52:27 you you so now they lack all these extra people in and what what like how how does anybody expect
00:52:35 everything to work correctly right and and actually and I think you you helped me answer
00:52:41 the question and you perhaps answered it we should not be scapegoating uh immigrants they
00:52:48 just came here because they were invited here and and they came here through the process the pro the
00:52:54 the people we the the politicians are using some politicians are using immigration as a scapegoat
00:53:02 for their failures i think is probably a better way to say it right it's politicians that opened
00:53:07 the door and let a whole bunch of people in without thinking of the consequences and they're
00:53:12 the ones our anger should be directed at politicians not at the people who just showed up
00:53:17 yeah you're you're you're right but it's the the problems with the canada not having enough people
00:53:27 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 agree with me and this may not be very popular but because of feminism it has destroyed 0.98
00:53:44 um being a mother and womanhood and try to um have a husband and support your husband 1.00
00:53:54 and all the wonderful things that women are and it's it's tried to take that down and destroy it
00:54:03 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 And you're right about the extra taxes coming in from that extra person working in that house.
00:54:20 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 are not dumb either but a lot of people are i think they're closing their eyes they're putting
00:56:24 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 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 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 anyway you take care of yourself i hope you have a very successful hunt and um take care of yourself
00:56:50 thank you diane have a great weekend um yeah no all great points all great points yeah i mean
00:56:58 just a personal story like i my my wife is itching to have grandkids like she's just
00:57:03 itching itching right we have four adult children um none of them none of them have had kids yet
00:57:10 and uh my oldest is 33 and and i i tell my wife like statistically because she comes from a big
00:57:18 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 four kids my wife comes from uh uh my wife's sister has four kids my my wife's like everybody
00:57:32 we all have big families my grant my parents had like you know seven grandkids my parents in-laws
00:57:37 my in-laws have like 16 grandkids and i tell my wife like statistically you're just looking at
00:57:43 an engineer i'm just a statistician we have four kids and so that statistically don't expect much
00:57:50 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 depressed at that thought but that's just the reality i don't know how we now statistically
00:58:02 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 a statistical outlier but i'm not crossing my fingers because over the long term stats don't
00:58:14 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 show uh i am honestly totally excited i will i love disconnecting the rule in camp like we have
00:58:28 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 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 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 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 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 minutes or hours on the phone so i will be disconnecting i think it is so refreshing i'm
00:59:02 lucky i do this frequently i disconnect all the time so um i won't be here next week somebody else
00:59:11 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 want to join if you if you want to get a subscription you still can but uh for the
00:59:24 time being the paywall has been lifted uh until the referendum is held so go and and look at all
00:59:31 the stories that we that the western standard brings you and i guarantee you once you get to
00:59:37 see all the stories you'll see that you it the ten dollars a month to get this kind of news
00:59:42 is nothing it's a hundred dollars a year uh i wanted to talk more about the referendum i didn't
00:59:49 you know uh i i didn't get to talk about keith wilson's transition council bringing out their
00:59:54 document uh which is a fabulous document i'm sure somebody will talk about it i will just highlight
01:00:01 one thing real quick i got my uh my my referendum uh checklist from elections alberta
01:00:09 and confirming that the referendum is on the 19th mail-in ballots right now if you want a mail-in
01:00:15 ballot you have until the 25th which is tomorrow if you didn't send in a letter to elections
01:00:20 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 go to one of the regional elections offices they've already received 600 000 requests for mail-in
01:00:32 ballots i'm not in favor of mail-in ballots but i understand that a lot of people are getting them
01:00:37 because they're worried that there might be lineups on the election day but this also confirms that
01:00:43 there is advanced voting on tuesday the 13th wednesday the 14th 15th 16th and even saturday
01:00:51 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 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 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 weekend. And thanks for calling in. Cheers, folks.
01:01:21 We'll be right back.