Western Standard - MARTY UP NORTH： Why hold byelections when you can just buy elections？

00:00:00.000 all right welcome back folks uh happy thursday

00:00:29.980 to everyone uh i think we're gonna have a good show today i think you guys are gonna want to

00:00:35.900 talk about what we're going to talk about today but before i go too deep in the show um just want

00:00:40.580 to wish a happy birthday to my good buddy george who turns 48 today george so i hope you're watching

00:00:46.140 right now and and i also want to just uh mention that it's been overshadowed there's a lot of

00:00:53.140 things in the news today but it's been overshadowed today is vimy ridge day uh that's and perhaps it's

00:01:00.200 a good segue into what's happening today but you know vimy ridge was an important battle in uh world

00:01:06.320 war one um it's pierre burton wrote about it pierre burton was a canadian historian he wrote

00:01:14.040 several books and pierre was up from the yukon and he wrote a book probably in the 1980s 84 85 and i

00:01:20.760 remember reading that book when I was in high school. We had to read it. And, you know, Pierre

00:01:26.540 described the battle in detail and from a historical point of view. And Pierre thought of the battle as

00:01:34.000 a major turning point in Canadian history at that point. You know, we had been fighting under the

00:01:38.960 British as the Canadian expeditionary force, but we were sort of under the direction of the British

00:01:43.440 all the time. And the British were kind of treating us as colonials and, you know, sending us as

00:01:48.240 cannon fodder to be slaughtered basically and and then but at one point they had no choice you know

00:01:53.840 there was this big ridge overlooking vimy and and they had and the british needed to take it as part

00:01:59.200 of a major offensive and they turned to the canadians and they said okay you take it under

00:02:03.200 your own command and so it's really the first time that the canadians came together unified

00:02:08.480 all the regiments that were there in europe came under one proper control under canadian control

00:02:13.440 and and the Canadian generals of the time they wanted to show what Canadians can do and they

00:02:19.300 had a different philosophy right they didn't they weren't they weren't nearly a they they respected

00:02:23.920 our troops and and they wanted to yeah and they had a system a very different system in the book

00:02:28.460 that Burton describes which is um the the Canadians were forward thinking which is everybody knew what

00:02:35.960 everybody else was trying to do right instead of just sending people without telling them the

00:02:39.600 objectives the canadians that explained to the corporal or to the to the to the corporal who

00:02:45.760 explained it to the sergeant who explained it to the the trooper and all the way up the chain of

00:02:50.260 command everybody knew what they had to do and then everybody was prepared so that when somebody

00:02:53.860 fell somebody else could take over anyways long story short um we took the ridge it was a historic

00:03:00.480 win for us you can see on the screen uh you know a decade later after world war one ended

00:03:05.880 in france there's an amazing uh monument to uh to vimy ridge and um and and and some people said

00:03:15.040 we came of age at that time and a lot of people have you know canada has been claimed to have

00:03:20.200 come of age many times and i'd say canada's glorious age to me was in the 1960s and 70s

00:03:26.800 just before i was born that that period after world war ii and i think when we look back in

00:03:33.380 the future in 100 years from now because vimy was like 110 years from now i think when we look back

00:03:38.100 at 110 years from now at canada or what will be what will remain of canada i think we'll look back

00:03:44.740 at this period as one of the most bizarre periods where a country like canada that had such an

00:03:49.220 amazing opportunity so many amazing resources just blew it we just blew it like the country

00:03:54.420 just blew apart and just blew it and and i think that's the theme of today right um i don't know

00:04:01.860 can the viewers see the theme or am i the only one who can see the theme um so that when john

00:04:08.740 asked me what i wanted to talk about today i said you know the title that came to mind for me is

00:04:13.460 why have by elections when you can buy elections right and so um the yesterday morning i did not

00:04:23.180 expect to wake up yesterday morning and to learn that another person had crossed the floor never

00:04:28.940 Nevermind a Conservative, like long ago, you know, three, four months ago, actually longer than that, after the election, I knew that Carney would try to get people to cross the floor, but I seriously thought he was going to try and get NDP MPs to vote the floor.

00:04:44.040 I was surprised that he managed to get two, never mind three, now never mind four, conservative MPs to cross the floor.

00:04:53.380 And the latest one yesterday was an even bigger shocker because she might not be entirely famous out west, but Marilyn Gladue has been an MP for 10 years. 0.97

00:05:06.600 like she's not a rookie uh she had a front row seat in the on the conservative side in the 0.98

00:05:13.240 opposition and you know she's she's not what we would call a she's not a backbencher she's not a 0.99

00:05:19.080 minister but she's a shadow minister she shadows you know the lib the liberals and she featured

00:05:24.440 prominently in a lot of uh chats in the house of commons and until very recently she was extremely

00:05:33.240 critical of the nd of the liberals right she was critical of carney right up till the end i mean

00:05:39.000 she was she was attacking him like a mere two three weeks ago on you know high food prices and

00:05:46.440 uh the um how how inefficient or uh ineffective the uh gst rebates were and things like that like

00:05:53.960 and not little attacks like she was almost vicious and and then and then more importantly

00:05:59.000 she was on the record as you know when others were crossing the floor she was one of the more

00:06:05.080 vocal opponents to this whole concept of crossing the floor going as far as proposing that there be

00:06:10.620 laws to prevent crossing the floor and then for her this more for us to wake up yesterday to have

00:06:16.900 her cross the floor was a big shocker um and and yeah no let's stay on that i mean i was i was

00:06:23.480 going to go to something else because i had other expectations yesterday morning when i woke up

00:06:27.440 yesterday morning and maybe i'll come back to this later but when i expect woke up yesterday

00:06:31.460 morning i expected iran to be have been obliterated off the face of the earth because that was what

00:06:36.420 was happening at the beginning of the week but we'll come back to that so um so i i want you

00:06:42.540 guys and again this is your show so don't be shy call in and let's chat about this floor crossing

00:06:47.300 so i want to i want to hear your thoughts on on floor crossing in general i want to hear your

00:06:51.640 thoughts on whether they should be allowed or whatnot. But I'm also curious as to the timing,

00:06:58.880 right? Well, I got a bunch of questions that I don't have answers to. First of all, the first

00:07:04.400 question for me is, is why? Just why? Why would Gladue cross the floor right now? I mean, she's

00:07:12.160 been an MP for 10 years. Her pension is secure. No matter what, in her current role, she'll be an

00:07:19.860 MP for the next three years or until there's an election. I don't think she's planning to run

00:07:24.720 again. She's of that age where she can retire nicely. So why cross the floor now? I don't know 1.00

00:07:31.300 what's in it for her. I know what's in it for Carney, but I'll even come back to that because

00:07:36.980 even for Carney, the timing is unusual. So why did Gladue cross the floor this week?

00:07:43.360 um you know there's theories that it's purely um that it could be legitimate that it could be

00:07:50.140 based on a philosophy on on uh you know the liberal stance on freedom of choice and things

00:07:55.980 like that that maybe you know she's been described as a more socially progressive conservative so

00:08:02.540 there could be a real um personal values reason for crossing but why now um and so so that's that

00:08:12.060 there's definitely a camp that says that carny has something on her i i find that to be a bit

00:08:17.960 of a stretch although i will i i have learned you know lots of people have told me that

00:08:21.900 in ottawa um blackmail is a form of currency everybody in ottawa knows something about

00:08:30.140 somebody else everybody all the mps all the parties everybody knows who's hanging out with

00:08:35.180 who who's sleeping with who who's having affairs who's going on trips that are paid by what

00:08:39.900 organizations and all the dirty little secrets and the dirty little secrets are traded as currency

00:08:45.700 in Ottawa. And I don't doubt that. And I'm sure it happens elsewhere. But so does somebody have

00:08:51.020 a dirty little secret on her? That's a possibility. But then I flip it to I flip it to Carney's side

00:08:57.000 of the equation. So, you know, Carney is close to having a majority. He was like one or two seats

00:09:03.820 shy. And and he's about to find out if he has a majority in literally four days from now. So

00:09:09.680 on you know there's the advanced voting for three by elections is already underway and the actual

00:09:16.520 the final day of the by elections is on monday the 13th so by the end of the day next week like

00:09:22.080 in four days from now we'll know whether carney has an actual majority or not he could win three

00:09:27.980 more seats i think he's going to win actually prior to this week i thought he was going to win

00:09:32.560 all three by elections the two in ontario and the one in quebec after this week i'm not sure he's

00:09:37.180 going to win the one in Quebec but so why why risk pissing off Canadians with this floor crossing

00:09:43.820 when he probably has a majority coming uh in a couple of days so so I'm so I'm curious about

00:09:50.580 people's thoughts on that because I don't know the the the announcement today the crossing seems

00:09:56.700 suspect to me like is it just opportunistic um and and and I know and a lot of people and then

00:10:04.800 And the polls, you know, I don't 100% trust the polls, but the polls do trend in a certain

00:10:09.740 direction, and the polls right now show clearly that if Carney was to hold an election tomorrow,

00:10:17.440 he could conceivably win a majority.

00:10:19.760 I mean, he's got about a seven-point lead on the conservatives right now, so he could

00:10:25.700 hold an election.

00:10:27.500 Now, I talked about this last week.

00:10:29.140 They've been testing the waters, right?

00:10:30.760 I mean, the rumor about prorogation, the rumor, the weird story that came out last week where suddenly everybody was interested in the cost of the by-election in Battle River Crowfoot a year ago, Pierre's by-election.

00:10:45.900 You know, all those stories were being tested.

00:10:48.040 And I think that was the Liberals testing the waters to see the appetite of Canadians for a general election.

00:10:53.040 And maybe Carney has figured out, maybe his internal polling tells them that there really is no appetite for a general election.

00:11:01.600 We're all a little bit tired of elections. We're all a little election fatigue and they've been costly.

00:11:07.020 So maybe his polling tells him that. But again, if his polling tells him that, why not wait until a week from now to see what the results of the by-election are going to be before she crosses the floor?

00:11:18.760 now I was surprised just just before we sat down and started the show we were watching I was while

00:11:25.760 the people here in the office at the Western Standard we're watching the press conference of

00:11:29.120 Pierre so finally Pierre had a press conference to talk about um the floor crossing and and I was

00:11:35.880 I was a little bit nervous because I I just saw the the tagline at the bottom and it says another

00:11:40.980 defection and I literally asked the guys is this new is there another defector and no he was simply

00:11:46.380 talking about yesterday but uh okay so we got a caller on the line just a quick reminder we don't

00:11:51.740 have a formal switchboard right now so uh when i'm talking to somebody the line will sound like it's

00:11:57.900 uh it's busy so uh wait until that person hangs up before you call again and if you're chatting with

00:12:04.300 me i'll often ask you to hang around but sometimes i'll ask you to just hang up after your question

00:12:08.700 so that somebody else can call in and again please let me know where you're calling from and uh and

00:12:13.660 let's have a chat so go ahead whoever's on the line hi marty it's diane from devon hi diane how

00:12:21.020 are you i'm good how are you today good hey quick question diane uh did i hear that somewhere around

00:12:27.660 edmonton you guys had a mini earthquake earlier this week um i did not hear that okay so it might

00:12:35.660 maybe somebody else will call in with that one but you were not you the world didn't shake around you

00:12:39.820 this week no no no go ahead all right go ahead first of all i want to i i want to thank you

00:12:47.320 first of all for all your effort in the independence movement thank you it's very

00:12:54.900 it's very much appreciated i'm sorry secondly i want to just say i went uh i went to vimy ridge

00:13:03.640 11 years ago it's so canadian it would make your heart swell how proud i was to be a canadian

00:13:13.680 when i walked around there and saw that monument i don't know if you've ever been but

00:13:19.260 definitely a a destination for a canadian if there's any of us left um as far as the floor

00:13:28.320 crossing I was so disappointed to see her do that she is the same age as me she was like by every

00:13:38.040 sense a conservative with um just so many of the issues that she supported were true true blue

00:13:45.680 conservative she bothered me more than those other guys did who just seemed like they were

00:13:51.740 flippant and not as serious and I apologize if they are more serious but that really bothered

00:13:58.220 me over with her yesterday and i sent her an email and just very nice and said i'm very disappointed

00:14:05.260 that this is where canada is people are struggling like what are you thinking can't you see

00:14:11.340 and um i i like you because i watch you with clyde all the time i too canada like anything

00:14:20.380 any resemblance of Canada that we once had that is gone my my my father he would be 103 this year

00:14:29.100 he would be so brokenhearted because he always had a flag on his front porch a Canadian flag

00:14:39.240 and his car would be broken to see what it has become wow I'm sorry I don't mean to get

00:14:47.360 i don't mean to get emotional but it's hard to watch this you're you're definitely hard to watch

00:14:53.980 you're not alone you're you're diane you're not alone let's let's break that down just a little

00:14:59.580 bit and let's let's bring you let's cheer you up a bit or maybe not but but uh yeah well let's stay

00:15:06.980 on the sad side so um i i so people to people who accuse us of disrespecting our fallen by having an

00:15:16.100 independence movement i often say that our fallen have been disrespected by ottawa long for a long

00:15:22.600 time so what's your thoughts on that like what are we disrespecting the fallen when when with

00:15:27.840 what we're doing right now not even close my son served in afghanistan my son is a ppcli so

00:15:37.300 i know that i know the whole drill about the military so we are not being disrespectful

00:15:44.260 We are saving any resemblance of insanity that is left in people, because we can't keep this trajectory. It's not going to work. It's getting worse instead of better.

00:16:02.060 Yeah, you're giving me chills. So thank you for that. So then let's get back to the really serious side. So why do you think Maryland crossed floors?

00:16:12.560 Do you think it's just personal gains?

00:16:14.420 Is it a change of heart or is it something more nefarious?

00:16:18.920 Either.

00:16:20.220 I think it's personal gain.

00:16:22.580 And I think if you look at all the floor crossings, and I've watched a lot in the last 24 hours, every time there's been a floor crossing, there's been some other issue happening.

00:16:35.400 And it's like, so what's everybody talking about today?

00:16:38.620 Are we talking about champagne and his wife and the economy or the price of beef that nobody can afford or gas or anything?

00:16:48.240 Are we talking about anything? No. What are we talking about?

00:16:51.300 The Liberals got a conservative to walk over.

00:16:54.580 I think it's all diversion. It's all smoke and mirrors.

00:16:58.360 And it's just to them, it's so disgusting because it's a game and it's our life.

00:17:04.780 it's our life it's our children's life it's our grandchildren's life that's what's being

00:17:12.460 taken down here and it's hard you're saying to cheer me up here here probably i can't even fix

00:17:21.980 this this that ship has sailed wow that ship has sailed who who how can this be fixed there's so

00:17:29.640 much wrong well I'm with you on that one so we can't fix the country but we can definitely

00:17:35.760 we can definitely go our own way and and make our own little corner of the world a better place so

00:17:42.600 thanks for calling Diane and I don't know thanks cheer up somehow I don't know what to say but

00:17:49.100 thanks for calling yeah I'm gonna go for a walk with my dog god bless you Marty all right thank

00:17:54.800 you say cheers um i that that was wonderful and and actually you know she she touched on a couple

00:18:03.100 of things that i want to touch on and i and i gotta try and stretch the show here or all my

00:18:08.420 my chat but uh you know she said one bit there pierre can't save us and and that's the other 0.54

00:18:15.100 thing that i want to talk about today i mean i'm gonna maybe i'm gonna piss off a bunch of people

00:18:20.060 but pierre is blowing this like i i don't know what else to say pierre is blowing this and um

00:18:29.900 like sure the sure that the the you know the mainstream media is on the other side sure

00:18:36.940 he won the popular vote but he didn't win the overall number of seats and all those things but

00:18:42.300 i gotta i i keep saying that strategically whatever they're doing is not working and and i

00:18:49.580 and i get it they've pivoted a couple of times quickly but they don't need to they need a

00:18:53.740 dramatic and by they i mean the conservatives they need a dramatic pivot and i'm i'm at the

00:19:00.860 point now where i'm thinking it is they need a change of leadership and i know that's not a

00:19:05.100 popular opinion but i think that unfortunately the conservatives need a change of leadership

00:19:09.260 because I've been saying this for months and months now.

00:19:14.060 Purely on paper, if we turn this into a popularity contest of resumes

00:19:21.120 and I hold up Mark Carney's resume and I hold up Pierre Poilievre's resume,

00:19:26.320 on a resume basis, Carney looks better.

00:19:30.640 And we've seen that before.

00:19:32.380 I mean, the guy was the governor of the Bank of Canada,

00:19:35.040 the governor of the Bank of England.

00:19:36.540 he he he's a captain of industry he's held some powerful titles and so and that resonates with

00:19:43.500 people i know i know i know that you know academics and credentials are not everything

00:19:47.600 but bear hear me out right on paper the guy looks good and i'm also beginning to see that in

00:19:54.360 practicality the guy is pretty good like lots of people say politics and business aren't the same

00:20:00.280 and everybody said that the way he ran businesses wasn't going to work in politics and i'm beginning

00:20:04.580 to think that maybe it does run because he's running a pretty tight ship and and i'll finish

00:20:08.900 my line of thought but i mean like pierre is carney's wiping the floor with pierre right now

00:20:15.220 no pun intended and he's winning on a lot of fronts so let's come back to that but we've got

00:20:19.380 a caller on the line and uh that's what this show is all about so go ahead please where are you

00:20:23.300 calling from and name hey jesse and gp first time caller long time listener i love that sentence

00:20:30.820 yeah how's it going jesse thanks yeah yeah thanks for calling uh i think uh in regards to the floor

00:20:38.100 crosser uh we had a new pbo uh appointed right in the old one left march 2nd whatever his name was

00:20:44.180 jacques so maybe there's a lot of scrutiny yeah perhaps and uh that would be another reason why

00:20:50.660 that somebody perhaps could allegedly line their pockets you never know right um oh i see what

00:20:59.220 you're saying so somebody's jumping ships right now they're a little bit

00:21:01.920 worried about some new scrutiny coming some new yeah okay yeah interesting I

00:21:09.600 sure go with that yeah well you never know right because the PBO is in flux

00:21:17.520 right now right so maybe and the new appointee may not be as watchdoggy as the

00:21:22.740 last person right I think it's obviously a liberal appointee right so maybe

00:21:28.600 there's some going to be some blind eye turning who knows right yeah just one theory okay no no

00:21:33.940 interesting one um it yeah and that's also um uh what was the point i was going to make um

00:21:40.840 i'll have to come back but uh hey let me ask you the same question i asked diane or maybe somebody

00:21:46.420 will answer so there was no earthquakes anywhere in northern alberta that's a rumor was there an

00:21:50.800 earthquake by grand prairie no i didn't feel one we usually have one where i'm always situated

00:21:56.520 situated at the Husky Road, but I haven't felt one lately or didn't see any news breaking.

00:22:01.000 Okay. While we were talking, I just remember the point I wanted to ask you that I was

00:22:05.320 mentioning, right? So, you know, crossing the floor and maybe some shady business,

00:22:11.400 maybe some bad dealings, whatever. But you reminded me that one of the ways that this,

00:22:18.160 the floor crossings in general, and I think this is a good example of this one,

00:22:22.420 they reflect poorly on both parties right i mean this makes this makes the conservatives look a

00:22:27.940 little bit bad because how are you vetting these candidates that are suddenly flipping you know are

00:22:32.380 the you know were they truly conservative to start with and and and how are you vetting the

00:22:37.480 candidates but i think it also makes carney look bad right because look at carney in this picture

00:22:41.680 right now he's shaking hands with somebody who like a mere two weeks ago was basically calling

00:22:46.040 him every name in the book and saying he was grossly incompetent and everything else so

00:22:49.720 So how do they square those pegs?

00:22:53.160 But I guess that's politics, right?

00:22:55.080 Their level of – their moral compass is not maybe the same as yours and mine.

00:23:01.180 Yeah, two-faced practices seem to be commonplace in the political world, right?

00:23:08.340 Yeah, yeah.

00:23:09.380 And I'll ask you this question.

00:23:12.360 So what are your thoughts, your general thoughts on should our system of parliament allow floor crossing

00:23:17.900 or should there be a mechanism to a different way of doing it?

00:23:21.680 What do you think?

00:23:22.180 What do you thought on that?

00:23:24.400 I think I'm on board with most Canadian thoughts

00:23:27.360 where there should be another election held, right?

00:23:30.000 And or when you go to want to leave one particular party,

00:23:34.140 you should become an independent

00:23:35.220 and then hold an election at that point.

00:23:38.300 Right.

00:23:38.800 Awesome.

00:23:39.320 Okay, perfect.

00:23:40.240 That's my thoughts.

00:23:40.960 All right, Jess.

00:23:41.540 Thanks.

00:23:41.920 Thanks for calling.

00:23:43.020 First time caller.

00:23:44.000 Okay.

00:23:44.420 Cheers.

00:23:45.880 So let me, all right, cool.

00:23:47.300 yeah and others let me know i mean i'm i'm of the same opinion uh you know people say that i'm that

00:23:53.260 not just me people say we're conservatives are complaining because we're the ones negatively

00:23:58.940 affected by the floor crossing and no i'm on the record on previous floor crossings uh as being

00:24:05.300 opposed to them notably i was not happy when danielle smith crossed the floor from the wild

00:24:10.540 rose to the conservative party uh you know 15 years ago and uh so i i i'm i would i'm okay with

00:24:18.700 an with somebody crossing or i'm okay with somebody leaving the party and and staying as an

00:24:23.740 independent 100 okay with that and uh and then after that uh re-nominating uh and trying to

00:24:30.860 you know run back which which brings up a point right like i made a joke this morning the person

00:24:37.420 i feel sorry for the most i can't remember his name but is the liberal candidate that ran against

00:24:43.580 um maryland in the last election because that guy won his uh candidacy fair and square

00:24:51.040 and then and then and then he had it taken away so you know um everybody thinks of the poor voters

00:24:59.460 whose vote didn't count but then there's the poor liberal candidate whose nomination didn't count

00:25:04.640 i know i know i'm being facetious and not a lot of sympathy for sure sorry folks when i when you

00:25:11.060 make me talk too much i get i have to drink water so you got a call and give me a break here

00:25:16.000 all right let's go back to uh so um i'm gonna go back to my my unpopular opinion that i think

00:25:25.880 pierre needs to be replaced and pierre's losing you know uh like i said based on the based on

00:25:31.960 the resumes and and now i'm seeing that uh carney perhaps is running the show in maybe he is running

00:25:39.800 it like a bit of a business and he's pretty good at it and um he's he's winning he's winning

00:25:46.520 everywhere that matters and not like not just because of the fact that he's moving to the center

00:25:52.520 and taking away um you know policies that were near and dear to the conservatives he's he's he's

00:26:00.040 he seems more credible among the voters and i truly think that if he was to run an election

00:26:04.920 tomorrow morning that would be dangerous because he could get elected now the glass half full side

00:26:11.480 of me says well so what i mean every time he does what he did does uh it pushes more people to the

00:26:17.880 independent side kind of like diane who called earlier i was out canvassing yesterday and i've

00:26:23.080 said this before when i'm canvassing i i can notice the the ebbs and and tides of of uh

00:26:31.080 sentiment and yesterday i collected a lot of signatures and i had a lot of people come out

00:26:35.720 of their cars where do i sign and they were talking about this floor crossing um so so that

00:26:41.560 was definitely good for us um all right and and actually let's stay let's stay on carney so uh

00:26:48.520 because i said he's he's winning and he's doing uh he's doing the right things um okay well before

00:26:54.920 all right john i'll take this call but and and while i take this call john maybe you can find uh

00:26:59.560 can you find the announcement on uh carney's announcement yesterday the bill community strong

00:27:05.160 fund the 51 billion dollar fund that he announced yesterday all right caller go ahead name please

00:27:09.960 where are you calling from oh hung up all right um well while he tries to could you find did you

00:27:17.560 you find that john so that so carney uh and you know again yesterday buried in all the announcement

00:27:23.940 was this new fund called the build community strong fund and it's a 51 billion dollar fund

00:27:32.100 and uh the first project on that so basically it's a big fund and he's offering it to

00:27:39.360 municipalities across the country to dip into this fund to build projects and the first one

00:27:46.600 announced yesterday was a big um uh yeah build community strong the first one announced yesterday

00:27:53.160 was a big project in brampton ontario like 150 million dollar sort of community hall rec complex

00:28:01.140 kind of thing and then he had 12 others announced in there uh if i when i scrolled through the list

00:28:06.680 the only one in alberta and i'm sure there'll be more but the one in alberta was uh money to the

00:28:12.020 city of St. Albert to upgrade water infrastructure and I was waiting to see Danielle Smith's reaction

00:28:18.860 to that maybe she's been too busy with other things but that announcement by Kearney is another

00:28:24.540 example I think of absolute overreach by Ottawa because now Ottawa is saying to communities like

00:28:32.060 St. Albert hey bypass your provincial government bypass Edmonton and just come to us and we'll give

00:28:37.540 you money for your infrastructure projects and i know that's a thorn in danielle's side she

00:28:42.520 doesn't like that uh when ottawa um sends us money back with our with with conditions on it

00:28:50.220 and that's basically what that is we're paying money to ottawa we're paying our taxes and then

00:28:53.840 ottawa doles it back out with conditions uh go ahead caller what's your name where are you calling

00:28:59.180 from uh dale from lethbridge hey dale what's on your mind uh just calling well first of all

00:29:09.980 thanks for all you're doing uh we all appreciate it um i just kind of dispute what you said about

00:29:16.460 carney being the good businessman and doing a good job and pierre not and i really don't uh

00:29:26.140 see where Carney has done anything other than make a bunch of announcements.

00:29:30.820 You know, in the G7, we got the worst debt numbers.

00:29:34.800 We got the worst housing numbers, worse inflation, food costs.

00:29:40.800 He hasn't made any, he made all kinds of announcements, but hasn't done anything.

00:29:46.220 He didn't stand up to Trump like he said he was going to.

00:29:51.320 He's never enacted the Bill C-5 that was going to get us.

00:29:57.420 We're going to be so strong with that. 0.98

00:29:59.820 We're now in bed with China.

00:30:02.140 I think his leadership is brutal.

00:30:05.520 He's not an honest guy.

00:30:06.940 He's been caught in a number of lies,

00:30:08.840 so I'm not sure where we give him all the credit,

00:30:12.880 plus the fact he was running our country with Trudeau for five years.

00:30:17.000 so i just kind of dispute what you were saying that he he's i know a lot of people from talking

00:30:23.460 to a lot of people especially seniors think he's the greatest but when you look at his track record

00:30:30.120 i don't think he's got a lot to stand on i'm i'm smiling dale because i'm 100 on board with you

00:30:37.620 and and you know you you guys know me i mean i was kind of baiting seeing where where this would go

00:30:42.800 you are a common sense albertan and you see right through carny you completely get that everything

00:30:48.880 he's doing is just smoke and mirrors but unfortunately his smoke and mirror show

00:30:55.920 resonates with a huge chunk of the population right and that's where i mean that he's playing

00:31:00.480 the game well right he's like i agree he's not doing anything significant but he is playing the

00:31:05.360 game well he's a better he's better at playing the game it it it it it validates in the numbers

00:31:12.240 right in the data i mean the fact that he's getting people to do but i i i appreciate that

00:31:16.720 how are things otherwise and uh i was in your neck of the woods there last week um i was pleasantly

00:31:23.520 surprised when i walked into the room i thought that i would have a smaller crowd but i was very

00:31:29.040 happy with the level of enthusiasm for independence that came out to uh listen to me when i was in

00:31:34.400 in lethbridge last week what what part of lethbridge are you in i'm on the west side

00:31:40.060 and unfortunately i missed you when you were here we were down south hadn't got back yet

00:31:45.240 um but i've been talking to a lot of people and uh i really find this carny thing

00:31:53.340 uh such a stumbling block you know that's the number one pushback i get that things will be

00:32:00.240 different with carney and i guess i'm just like any good conservative i think it's pretty pretty

00:32:07.440 frustrating but it is what it is i guess yeah appreciate it all right uh thanks for calling

00:32:13.440 dale um yeah thank you yeah common sense alberton right there um yeah carney i mean yes carney hasn't

00:32:21.520 done much for for any of us it you know even that list of projects yesterday every time there's a

00:32:27.120 list of projects and you go and you see that alberta gets a little bit of pittance and then

00:32:32.880 everything else the big announcements are you know military spending in nova scotia and and

00:32:38.160 big boats and stuff like that and i think i think he's really really just playing us in alberta in

00:32:44.480 fact there there there's there there is a part of me um you know i think it was sherlock holmes who

00:32:51.920 said it like when when you when you investigate every opportunity or every uh cause and then you

00:32:58.400 run out of ideas and what's left is is the truth like i i definitely am starting to get to the

00:33:04.480 point now where i'm thinking that carney is trying to divide the country and he's going to sacrifice

00:33:09.920 alberta i don't think he cares that alberta is going to leave um sure he loses a cash cow but

00:33:17.040 maybe he'll make it up with something else down the road maybe he'll have tariffs on alberta i

00:33:21.680 don't know but he certainly appears to be sacrificing alberta because we all know that if alberta

00:33:29.440 leaves they'll almost never ever be a a conservative government in canada ever again and maybe that's

00:33:36.000 what the liberals want not the liberals that's what that's what liberal politicians want they

00:33:42.640 just want to stay in power because for them it's it's just good like they're not working for the

00:33:47.440 people um go ahead caller where are you calling from hey this is mike from down south medicine

00:33:54.480 hat how you doing today good mike how are you hey real good uh i'm gonna phone in and talk about the

00:34:01.120 corruption in our political system go for it because it it seems like well nowadays there's

00:34:08.160 no accountability for anything at all um every liberal member of parliament who's had a corruption

00:34:14.800 scandal the last while there's certain people used to get fired for that but there's no

00:34:20.300 accountability i haven't had television in like seven years so i don't know if the mainstream

00:34:24.860 media ever covers anything like that but i think that's one of the biggest problems it's all

00:34:29.680 corrupt it's a bloody fat it's unreal and i totally agree with you that pierre needs to

00:34:36.380 step aside because what did the liberals do just before the election they got rid of trudeau 0.91

00:34:41.960 and they put Carney in because they knew they weren't going to have a chance yeah yeah and I

00:34:48.480 don't know yeah no I'm with you there and stay on the line I mean that you know and Carney and

00:34:52.480 Pierre or sorry Trudeau and Pierre were sort of like arch enemies and that that was noticeable

00:34:58.220 right when when Trudeau was gone Pierre was like well who's my new enemy he didn't know what to do

00:35:02.860 I just want to go back to you know to corruption and holding politicians accountable it's one of

00:35:10.620 the number one questions that i've been getting you know like as we're collecting signatures for

00:35:15.280 the petition and we're and now that we're like the idea that we're going to have a referendum

00:35:19.160 is becoming real right it's pretty real like people are starting to believe that but now we

00:35:24.160 have to start talking about what the new alberta would look like and the number one question i get

00:35:29.800 asked is how do we we we don't want alberta to be just a mini canada we want to do something

00:35:34.980 different and one of the big things we want to do in the new alberta is how do we prevent

00:35:38.920 politicians from being corrupt like or or what so what's your thoughts on that any ideas of

00:35:45.200 how we keep politicians quote-unquote honest

00:35:48.200 that that is probably the million dollar question um i think keeping government as small as possible

00:35:56.460 um only keeping them tasked with what they actually need to do yeah um because because

00:36:03.660 the more the more they are involved with the harder it is to keep track of them and it's

00:36:08.420 harder to pay attention to everything and there's too many topics but yeah because that's the biggest

00:36:13.540 problem right now with the federal government the federal government feels that they need to

00:36:19.880 incorporate federal municipal and provincial all under their whole jurisdiction it seems like what

00:36:27.300 they're trying to do and it just it just muddles with everything great point i mean uh yeah no i

00:36:32.700 like that i you know what thank you i mean i'm on i'm on the same page i mean that's like a lot of

00:36:38.320 people overcomplicate things and come up with too many ideas we could have term limits we could have

00:36:43.000 this we can have that you're right and i and i agree at the end of the day when governments are

00:36:47.400 small it saves a lot of problem like it just you know they're easier to manage the monies are

00:36:52.400 smaller and the temptation for corruption is easier to monitor and i think that solves a lot

00:36:59.400 of problems just to keep things small and and that's one of the things i will always be encouraging

00:37:03.980 is i hope a new alberta will have a smaller government but and back to what you said about

00:37:08.380 ottawa i mean that there's i i think if i think if carney has his way like that announcement

00:37:13.980 yesterday is an example of that right it's overreach right he's he's he's meddling into

00:37:18.780 uh infrastructure which is like you know ottawa's supposed to do what uh the border immigration um

00:37:26.460 um your your army or whatever you exactly yeah yeah they're not supposed to protect your country

00:37:32.580 um yeah they're not supposed to do defense and and infrastructure building or sorry they're not

00:37:38.340 supposed to do uh education and they're not supposed to do health care and stuff like that

00:37:42.800 and they're all into that and i think carney i i've said this i i'll say it again i think we

00:37:48.060 if carney gets a majority next week we're going to see a different carney the carney we're seeing

00:37:52.160 today i it's not even it's a totally different carney right like how how how nasty is he going

00:37:57.840 to be i think if he gets the majority we're screwed yeah he's going to be a totally different leader

00:38:06.960 um oh shoot i lost my point um that's okay uh hey uh yeah yeah i appreciate the call and

00:38:14.880 things are good in medicine hat and your neck of the woods how's the uh how's the independence

00:38:19.520 movement out there? Actually, it's pretty strong down here. We have some big major local places

00:38:27.440 that are open almost daily for signing and everything, but there's a really good culture.

00:38:32.960 And my employer, he's actually pretty big on Western independence. He's been that way for

00:38:39.400 about the last, I think, 40 years. So the company I work for, we have a really good culture as well.

00:38:45.440 Oh, where I was going with part of it is, you talked about government getting involved in stuff.

00:38:51.840 Well, one of the biggest waste of money that's going to cost us a fortune, and probably none of us out here will ever benefit from it, is that new mass transit they're building there for, what, $90 billion or something.

00:39:04.320 That should be left up to private entities.

00:39:06.880 No different than if they wanted to build it in Alberta here, too.

00:39:10.340 If there's such a desire to have fast speed transit or whatever you want to call it, I would think that the businesses and the industry that are going to benefit from it, there should be enough of a demand that all of them would come up with the capital and get it moving forward rather than government.

00:39:30.820 Tell you what, thanks for that, Mike.

00:39:34.200 I'll get you to hang up and I'll keep talking about that because that was on my list of things.

00:39:38.320 We didn't talk about that one much this week.

00:39:41.140 So thanks for calling, bud.

00:39:43.700 Oh, you betcha.

00:39:44.440 You take care, man.

00:39:45.240 All right.

00:39:45.480 Thanks.

00:39:45.860 Cheers.

00:39:47.800 Yeah, he's talking about the big – this was an announcement that was sort of just before the writ was dropped in the last election.

00:39:58.040 The Project Alto, they call it, the high-speed rail between Quebec City and I think all the way down to Toronto.

00:40:03.740 Like, it's a $90 billion project.

00:40:06.680 And a couple of interesting things on that. First of all, maybe John can find the headline on this one. Philippe Champagne, I never remember his first name, but Minister Champagne had to recuse himself from that project because François Philippe Champagne had to recuse himself because his wife works for the Crown Corporation that would run this project.

00:40:34.340 OK, so that's like, again, even recusing yourself is not enough. Right. And recusing yourself just means whenever we talk about this project, this 90 billion dollar project, I won't be in the room making the decisions. Really? You're going to recuse yourself and your wife is like the CEO of this corporation that's potentially going to get 90 billion dollars. No, no, no. That's not how it works.

00:40:55.740 but i don't think personally i don't think that train system will ever get built and i'll tell

00:41:00.640 you why and i i tweeted about this the other day um do you guys remember the major rail uh yeah

00:41:08.020 there's the train so it's uh quebec city all the way down to toronto and uh like the most densely

00:41:13.620 populated corridor in the country uh landowners piled onto landowners piled onto landowners this

00:41:20.600 will never happen and i'll tell you why it will never happen you know 15 years ago we had a uh

00:41:26.280 a major incident in quebec the lac megantic um derailment remember that one the train was parked

00:41:33.000 at the top of the hill kind of thing the brakes let loose the train uh rolled into town crashed

00:41:39.400 caught on fire it was transporting oil and it killed like 37 or 47 people huge disaster right

00:41:46.120 and after the disaster there was an inquiry and the inquiry said that they needed to

00:41:51.480 bypass the town of yeah there's there's champagne i can't stand that guy that guy

00:41:57.880 take his take his face away john i don't like even seeing that guy's face but maybe bring a

00:42:03.640 picture of lac megantic um or maybe find the lac megantic uh government of canada website and uh

00:42:11.560 And I'll talk about that in a second, but so, and you can put it up, but so the, the major train derailment, big disaster, long inquiry and inquiry says we need to move the rail because the rail was going through Lakme Gantzik, similar to the rail going through Calgary and other cities.

00:42:28.540 right and and the proposal was to create a bypass a 12.5 kilometer bypass around the town

00:42:37.020 after a disaster that killed 40 people let's build a make sense right makes sense to you and me

00:42:42.620 let's build a 12 kilometer bypass around town the government's been studying that project doing

00:42:48.620 public consultation land consultation trying to buy the land trying to do the engineering trying

00:42:54.300 to do everything the government's been doing that for 10 years 10 years 10 years after a major

00:43:01.100 disaster a recommendation that made sense to everybody but they haven't even put a single

00:43:07.740 meter of new rail in place they haven't even started construction 10 years of consultation

00:43:13.660 and that lac megantic project was something like it was going to be 80 or 90 million dollars makes

00:43:19.340 sense we're all on board it's already ballooned to a billion dollar project and they haven't even

00:43:24.300 put a stitch of rail anywhere so do i think project alto all 90 billion dollar 1 000 kilometers

00:43:31.500 through the most heavily populated uh section of canada will ever get built no i i don't think so

00:43:38.060 so uh that's the one good thing about liberals that's the one good thing about um uh you know

00:43:44.780 they they talk big and like one of the i think it was uh dale said they talk big but they're

00:43:50.220 crappy on execution and that's one of the reasons i'm not too worried about the gun grab because

00:43:55.340 they really really suck at executing anything and so i don't think they'll build anything and i

00:44:00.060 don't think they'll grab any guns from us or anything like that um all right let me go down

00:44:04.840 the list there um that uh all right well okay well let's talk about this a little bit i mean i

00:44:10.920 You know, I said at the beginning of the show that when I went to, I guess I didn't say it, but I'll say it.

00:44:18.140 When I went to bed on whatever, Monday night, and I woke up Tuesday or yesterday, I didn't expect the floor crossing to be the news.

00:44:27.100 The news that I expected, the one that was really interesting to me this week was Donald Trump's statement on Easter, where Donald Trump, I don't know, John, I'm putting you on the spot.

00:44:38.680 I'm asking you to find a whole lot of things there.

00:44:40.620 But can you find that statement by Donald Trump, the one where he said he was going to end the Iranian civilization?

00:44:47.380 Like that was that was savage, for lack of a better word.

00:44:52.380 That was absolutely savage. Right.

00:44:54.100 Trump. That's Trump diplomacy for you. Right.

00:44:56.780 Like it's it's negotiation 101, like threaten something or start high and find the middle ground eventually.

00:45:04.500 But Trump was getting a little frustrated and he put out this tweet or the statement that he was going to end Iranian civilization if they didn't agree to a ceasefire.

00:45:13.940 And I thought, wow, that is a lot of people turned on him.

00:45:18.680 I, you know, I found it a bit comical.

00:45:21.940 I mean, it's there are big words, but the big words were effective because the Iranians agreed to a two week ceasefire. 0.97

00:45:30.720 And that's good news.

00:45:32.360 now it's good news but it's not coming fast enough i drove by here and you know uh gas is still a buck

00:45:40.740 69 a buck 70 i think it's two dollars in some parts of the country and and that's a criticism

00:45:47.160 i have of uh of carney and of smith and others they're making money hand over fist with these

00:45:53.480 high prices of oil especially here in alberta i think uh daniel i think our provincial coffers

00:45:59.340 are getting an extra 60 million dollars a day of revenue from royalties with the higher oil prices

00:46:07.020 and the least that danielle could do is take away that the 13 cents per liter road tax that we're

00:46:13.820 paying in it and then if ottawa took off their chunk i think we could see prices go back down

00:46:19.660 you know not reasonable but better than what they're at i mean i have a pretty big truck and

00:46:25.420 And I don't want to tell you what it cost me to fuel up the truck the other day, but it was no relief at the pump.

00:46:31.120 And we could definitely use some relief at the pump.

00:46:35.580 All right.

00:46:36.300 What else have we got here?

00:46:39.060 Well, I guess I was talking about independence a little bit.

00:46:41.540 I don't know how many people talked about this.

00:46:45.040 I'm taking one for the team, and I'm watching the injunction.

00:46:50.640 and i think and hopefully uh i'm sure cory will talk about it others will talk about it but

00:46:57.840 i've i've been toying with the idea of bringing guests on the show it's one of the things i want

00:47:01.940 to do and definitely in the coming weeks i want to bring either eva chip yuck or uh jeff rath or

00:47:07.540 somebody like that to talk about the injunction the injunction so so just to step back on the

00:47:12.400 injunction uh a handful of first nations up in the uh northern alberta valley view area mostly

00:47:18.720 have filed an injunction with the courts to try and stop the whole petition they literally just

00:47:26.080 want to cancel the petition they don't want us collecting signatures and the injunction they

00:47:32.060 start the hearing for that injunction started on Tuesday on the 7th yesterday was day two

00:47:36.960 I kind of missed today and and you can watch it mostly I don't have a link here and I don't know

00:47:42.960 if we'll provide a link but you can there's it's pretty easy to find links to it and you can if

00:47:47.980 can't go in person in the court you can find the link and you can catch it by zoom and you can sit

00:47:52.860 there and listen i actually encourage people everybody should take a trip to some of the

00:47:57.340 courts once in a while and and go hear some of those big hearings or log in and watch them through

00:48:02.460 the zoom calls so i watched that hearing the other day and um my reactions were up and down up and

00:48:11.100 down uh i don't i i honestly don't see how a judge could uh simply call off the petition i i just

00:48:22.940 don't see it i mean there's you know it's it's it's to me we vote every four years that's our

00:48:28.540 that's one of our most basic democratic rights we vote every four years and in between votes if the

00:48:34.220 governments aren't doing exactly we what we want them to do uh instead of waiting for four years

00:48:39.980 we have something called the petition where we can get together as citizens and a bunch of us can

00:48:45.580 sign our name to a piece of paper and and demand some change so i think a petition is sort of

00:48:52.300 another cornerstone of our democracy and for a court to be considering not allowing us to

00:48:59.980 petition i think is ridiculous so i um i i don't think that petition is going to go anywhere not

00:49:07.500 Not the petition, the injunction to stop the petition.

00:49:11.640 And neither does the proponent.

00:49:14.680 So Mitch Sylvester has been talking at different events.

00:49:18.680 And I haven't been to one of his events in person in the last week, but I've talked to people.

00:49:24.160 And Mitch is now saying that we're not going to stop collecting signatures because there were rumors that he was going to stop collecting signatures and hand in the ones he had in advance of the possibility of this injunction.

00:49:36.180 it's pedal to the metal we're collecting signatures and uh no matter what we're not

00:49:41.560 stopping until a judge either orders us or or not and uh i will uh i'll come back to the petition

00:49:49.580 i'll come back to my my reaction what i've been seeing on the side of the road but uh go ahead

00:49:54.360 caller where are you calling from name please yeah thank you um i would prefer to just address

00:50:01.240 myself by my twitter pseudonym mr nobody and i'm calling from edmonton okay and um i'm just i'm

00:50:07.460 just really great that you're having this call-in show i've been watching for the last you know um

00:50:13.200 couple of last few weeks i adore it i mean it's nice to have this direct interaction with you

00:50:20.220 because the only time um people ever had that is when they were on twitter spaces with you with

00:50:25.960 either wog pogs or two chicks with politics so i just want to put that out there um it's greatly

00:50:31.740 appreciated um i don't want to go uh recycle what other people have said here in regards to the um

00:50:39.760 the floor crossing i just want to add in some you know additional content and uh this to me

00:50:47.380 when Michelle Rempel, back on the 41st Parliament back in 2011,

00:50:55.720 she gave this lame speech, in my opinion, in regards to floor crossing

00:51:02.080 and how it was part of the new Westminster tradition for MPs to cross the floor

00:51:09.760 using this logical fallacy of appeal to tradition.

00:51:14.880 okay and now it's fighting them in the well you know what okay and what i just wanted to say in

00:51:23.940 regards to this um floor crossing nonsense you know i i agree i think there's blackmail i think

00:51:31.360 it's they're doing backroom deals that they're not being transparent about uh the way that

00:51:36.940 carney is poaching mps and um undermining the will of the electorate in certain geographical

00:51:44.080 areas in Canada right and to me depending on the circumstances like if somebody has to be

00:51:56.060 you know either get kicked out or want to defect they should not be able to go straight to another

00:52:03.240 party that they should be able to sit as an independent to the rest of their term and then

00:52:09.420 you know either have you know in whether it be in a general election um go and you have the

00:52:15.980 option to rerun and let the electorate um decide for themselves okay because not everybody who

00:52:23.680 um leaves the political party is in the wrong and i just also wanted to point out that many years

00:52:30.420 ago back in 89 there was an edmonton um mp by the name of david kilgore and he was kicked out

00:52:39.060 of the PC caucus during Brian Mulroney because he voted in regards to what his electorate wanted.

00:52:48.900 His electorate did not want the GST. He voted against the GST of the implementation of it,

00:52:55.860 and Mulroney punted him out. Now, what David Kilgore did was a smart thing. He did not cross

00:53:02.000 the floor directly to a political party. He sat as an independent

00:53:07.620 for a number of months.

00:53:10.740 I mean, he did eventually link up to the Liberal Party,

00:53:14.460 and he did run in a general election,

00:53:17.580 and he got re-elected, okay?

00:53:19.820 But mind you, David Kilgore had an excellent reputation.

00:53:23.540 I mean, he could have run under the banner

00:53:25.560 of the Marijuana Party and get re-elected.

00:53:27.940 Yeah, yeah.

00:53:28.380 So, I mean, that's an instance that it wasn't his fault.

00:53:32.100 I mean, he actually was representing his constituents

00:53:36.580 in edmonton southeast at the time in regards to that particular vote which is so i just want yeah

00:53:44.080 yeah no stay on the line uh stay on the line and by and by the way i know who you are right

00:53:49.280 mr nobody so we we we do interact online um you bring up a couple of good points right so um

00:53:56.880 one not nowadays almost every vote is whipped right like every vote is every every member has

00:54:05.480 to vote along the party lines and i think that would be one possible solution is if we went back

00:54:11.080 because originally like a hundred years ago not every vote was whipped only only confidence vote

00:54:18.020 were whipped but during the rest of the year or the session members were more um open to more able

00:54:25.640 more free vote more free votes yeah so there should be more free votes or or routinely free votes

00:54:30.900 but beyond that what do you think of the idea like i think it does exist in a few parliaments

00:54:36.880 around the world the idea of not having parties is that something that humans are just not

00:54:41.020 is that something we're incapable of doing nowadays we're too tribal or or could we

00:54:45.380 could a new alberta reinstitute a system without parties well i mean i personally myself i'm good

00:54:53.900 without parties because i don't just look at the party platform i look at the actual person who's

00:54:59.900 running like i mean i'm not particularly fond of my member of parliament because she seems to be

00:55:05.240 serving her own selfish um self-centered agenda um but as far as the electorate is concerned

00:55:12.360 unfortunately in my opinion we do not have like over for the most for the most part i'm not saying

00:55:20.160 everybody but for the most part we don't have a very good electorate in this country whether it's

00:55:27.400 municipal provincial or federal we have low information um gathering voters low resolution

00:55:35.660 of thought no analytical critical thinking skills not willing to do the homework no no

00:55:41.980 etc etc etc yeah i agree with you i mean like i i did a poll a while back like if if people

00:55:49.780 walked into the voting booth and were faced with a ballot that only had names of candidates and not

00:55:55.020 the party some people wouldn't have a clue who to vote for because they they literally

00:55:59.020 a lot of canadians walk into the ballot room and and just look at the party that's it

00:56:04.480 yeah yeah no you're right and and we so i would agree um with that statement of yours that yeah

00:56:12.740 there is this tribalism that you know um that it always going to the party because if you were to

00:56:19.500 ask 10 people please name you know your respective um you know representative for for all three

00:56:27.180 different tiers of government the majority of those people probably nine out of ten people

00:56:32.800 cannot name them all i mean we are kind of like in the like someone like yourself myself and a

00:56:40.320 number of also a number of other people we're in that top one percent two percent that we are fully

00:56:46.480 cognitive of what's going on in this country with the different tiers of, you know, within

00:56:51.620 the different tiers of governance.

00:56:53.480 There's people who cannot determine what tier of governance in relation to their respective

00:57:01.920 responsibilities and jurisdiction.

00:57:04.700 So you have a lot of these people don't stay in their lanes, a lot of these politicians,

00:57:09.720 because you're trying to capitalize on identity politics, you're trying to sue voters to vote

00:57:15.180 for them over something they have no jurisdiction on a particular subject.

00:57:21.060 Yeah, we saw an example of that.

00:57:22.460 I mean, I don't think it's Carney's jurisdiction to do infrastructure projects, but he's appealing

00:57:28.400 to a lot of people by announcing them.

00:57:30.200 I appreciate the call.

00:57:31.500 I'm running a bit on time here, so thanks for calling, Mr. Nobody.

00:57:34.960 Cool name.

00:57:36.100 Not a problem.

00:57:38.960 I'll leave you to be.

00:57:39.700 Thank you for the show.

00:57:40.660 All right.

00:57:41.040 Cheers.

00:57:41.400 Take care.

00:57:41.680 um you know i'm i'm the clock is running down but i wanted to talk one last thing real quick here

00:57:49.160 uh you know there are so there are three by elections next week uh the advanced voting

00:57:54.900 closes today and then the actual voting is on uh the remaining voting is on monday one two in

00:58:00.980 ontario and one in quebec the leader of the bloc quebecois today was definitely appealing to

00:58:07.180 conservatives um because the the the the polling in so the that that writing is in terbont that's

00:58:15.020 the very uh that's the one that was decided by one vote on the recount that's the writing where

00:58:20.720 uh the one vote was too close it went to the supreme court and the supreme court invalidated

00:58:25.980 that whole uh election from last time um there was also some monkey business there right that's

00:58:33.280 the ones where the mail-in ballots were sent to the wrong address, whatever.

00:58:37.600 So Terrebonne is still closely contested right now.

00:58:41.140 Don't quote me on exact numbers, but, you know,

00:58:43.640 the Liberals look like they're at about 50%,

00:58:45.660 and then the Bloch's at about 40%, and then the Conservatives are at 20%.

00:58:49.920 And Blanchet is appealing to Conservative voters in that writing

00:58:54.460 not to split the vote and vote with the Bloch

00:58:58.520 to make sure that Carney doesn't get that writing, and I would agree.

00:59:02.660 So hopefully, hopefully that's how that one turns out. Sorry. Hey, let me get a quick sip here. Sorry, folks. All right. I think I'm running kind of out of time here. All right. Well, good show. Thanks. Again, I'm encouraging you folks, please call in.

00:59:23.240 And we had like five or six callers today, which is great.

00:59:27.700 And I want to – it is about you.

00:59:30.580 I want to talk about – I have interests.

00:59:33.080 I have topics that are definitely of interest to me,

00:59:35.320 but I want to make it about what you're interested in,

00:59:37.700 and that only happens if you call in.

00:59:40.480 Like I said, I'm just an average guy.

00:59:42.620 Don't be shy.

00:59:43.900 Let's have a chat.

00:59:45.460 And I am toying with the idea, like I mentioned, bringing in some guests.

00:59:50.120 I want to bring, I'm toying with the idea of bringing everyday people.

00:59:56.040 I'll tell you why.

00:59:57.000 I mean, when I'm sitting on the side of the road collecting signatures, I'm taking time to meet people, right, and have a chat.

01:00:04.940 And boy, my fellow Albertans, you guys have stories.

01:00:08.500 It's so amazing, right?

01:00:09.700 I mean, I've had a police officer come in, you know, off duty, but come and sign.

01:00:16.540 and we were chatting and i mean i was like wow crazy cool stories that he was telling me and

01:00:21.340 people who work in in in you know making the infrastructure run like mechanics whatever and so

01:00:28.300 i'm thinking of not always bringing the celebrities and the big names but bringing people that can

01:00:34.620 explain things right like as an example i mean when we're talking about um uh a rail project

01:00:41.900 and and how that proceeds maybe i bring in a somebody who's a little who's a land man who's

01:00:46.940 an expert at how you negotiate and how you acquire lands for major projects that kind of stuff right

01:00:51.740 so i want to so i'm toying with that idea and uh maybe i'll bring in a guest once in a while and

01:00:57.100 maybe not for the whole show maybe for 15 20 minutes in a show or something like that depending

01:01:01.020 on the topics of the day anyways uh thanks for joining me uh i'm i'm here every thursday at one

01:01:07.740 o'clock uh thanks for the western standard for lending me their their studio for john the producer

01:01:14.700 doing a great job and and allowing me to have a voice here a broader voice and uh return a favor

01:01:21.260 to them please it's uh it's ten dollars a month they they depend on uh on uh on donations or

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01:01:43.240 And with that, hope to see you next week, folks.

01:01:45.800 Cheers.

01:02:03.900 We'll be right back.

Western Standard - April 12, 2026

MARTY UP NORTH： Why hold byelections when you can just buy elections？

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