00:05:04.780Cowardly government leaders toss tax dollars at the issue and hope it solves itself.
00:05:09.240It's the same approach with health care, and we see how that's turning out.
00:05:12.760Smith and Kearney took the chicken-hearted path, and we're all going to dearly pay for it.
00:05:17.820If the governments don't have the guts to strip some current regulations,
00:05:20.740will they have the courage to stand up to the inevitable protesters and activists
00:05:24.500who are going to try and delay the construction of a new line?
00:05:26.380Will they tell the regulators who are going to add layer after layer of regulations for more licenses and more studies that there's been enough?
00:05:33.080Will they lay down the law with Indigenous activists who have an insatiable appetite for consultation?
00:05:39.240Smith predicted the biggest boondoggle in Canadian history nearly 10 years ago, and now is a key participant in what's surely to be even a bigger boondoggle.
00:05:47.000Instead of making demands of the federal government, she offered concessions.
00:05:49.900She rolled over and showed her underbelly.
00:05:52.080The token involvement of Pemina pipelines who have a 10% stake with a clear escape clause is an insult to common sense.
00:05:59.260Just dump them and admit the entire project is going to be nationalized.
00:06:02.860Smith said in a past interview it would be considered a failure if public dollars had to fund pipelines.
00:06:08.940She's managed to be right in her interviews and dead wrong interactions.
00:06:12.180What she may feel is the easiest path to getting a pipeline done is simply charting a path to nowhere.
00:06:16.400If the only way to get things done in Canada is to nationalize them, then Canada truly is broken.
00:06:22.780There's only one place where that path ends.
00:06:25.560That's my thoughts on the great and trumpeted pipeline recently.
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00:11:40.440So I might as well get to my guest who's already sitting next to me here, Mr. Josh Andrus from the office, coordinating all of this affair.
00:24:12.880You need as much leverage as you can get.
00:24:15.080So I think it's one of those things where, yeah, there is a pathway here.
00:24:20.900The storm, like the thunderclouds seem to be over the stay in Canada side.
00:24:26.520And this MOU is absolute dog's breakfast.
00:24:29.700Every time the premier talks about it, every time Brian Jean talks about it, I want to throw, well, you know, it doesn't make water balloons.
00:24:36.180I want to throw water balloons at them, which their security would never allow.
00:24:39.900And they're honestly, I don't think the premier would let us throw water balloons at her.
00:24:44.660Jeremy Farkas might, but I don't think the premier will.
00:24:48.420So I think there's just it's it's it's all these vanity projects that I think are going to be detrimental to running the government from Edmonton moving forward.
00:25:01.320Farkas and Premier Smith and a lot of political science professors and federal leaders and former politicians.
00:25:06.980Part of what's going on is, as you said, it's like Brexit.
00:25:09.860The old establishment is all talking about don't do, don't do this.
00:25:13.760But they really are overlooking the people on the ground.
00:25:17.440They make the accusations, oh, the independent side is foreign funded.
00:25:20.380You know, well, no, we disclose all our numbers.
00:25:22.820It's been interesting actually because, yeah, my group has raised over $100,000 now.
00:25:28.180People are saying, well, the site online only shows $80,000.
00:25:31.320Yeah, that's because anything under $50, we still report it as a whole to Elections Alberta, but it doesn't go up.
00:25:35.980these are hundreds and hundreds of small donors who are funding this. These are people on the
00:25:39.860ground. I look at the few federalist groups who are even reporting, and Fabio's
00:25:43.960isn't for some reason, but that's a separate issue. Those are often 5,000
00:25:48.000from this union, 5,000 from that group, 5,000. They're maxed out a few, but they're not getting
00:25:51.980grass roots. I think that early indication is that they might be
00:25:55.800underestimating a groundswell getting going here.
00:25:59.180100%. Absolutely. The groundswell, we can feel it.
00:26:03.800i mean every time like you talk about the mou or a politician talks about the mou you go into the
00:26:10.980comments and and you can see there's this like if this is how canada works where we in order to get
00:26:18.160a single pipeline we have to jump through 50 000 hoops to get there i i just i don't think that's
00:26:23.560a sales pitch that people are going to buy and another point that i want to make is uh the
00:26:27.820alberta government's 400 billion dollar price tag on independence they're counting and the biggest
00:26:33.260portion of that 400 billion is the 150 billion they're saying that's our share of the federal
00:26:38.500debt like if you're making that argument as a reason to stay i would probably point at the
00:26:44.500federal government's most recent budget where they're running another massive if not record
00:26:49.380breaking deficit so yeah it's it's 150 billion today if we wait 10 years it could be 600 billion
00:26:56.700700 billion just for the debt share so i mean it almost makes sense to cut your losses and go so
00:27:03.080yeah no i but it does feel like a groundswell and i think the establishment is also dealing
00:27:08.440with the fact that you have most of the most rat like i don't want to call them radical elements
00:27:13.520but we'll we'll just for the the strongest uh most patriotic canadians most of them are liberals
00:27:22.120and so it kind of begs the question of of in terms of internal party dynamics for the
00:27:28.580Alberta MPs and the Federal Conservative Party, as well as the provincial UCP, how are they going
00:27:36.100to combat the groundswell? I mean, we know it's there. Are they going to be recruiting liberals?
00:27:42.420Which I think is really their only option. Like if you're outnumbered in your own membership base,
00:27:47.580you know, whether it be 55-45 or 75-25, the only way you can combat that is to literally sell
00:27:55.120memberships to liberals so i think the entire exercise is going to end up effectively coding
00:27:59.660canada as a left-wing country which i think if you're in the premier's office and you're making
00:28:05.580the the full-throated defense of national unity is a huge barrier for you moving forward and
00:28:13.780i've said it before i think they need to rip up the mou and start you know standing up to
00:28:21.000the federal government the tanker ban is an absolute slight i'm offended when i saw that i
00:28:26.680mean like yeah what are we calling it now the eight bad laws like i'd like to see what the
00:28:31.320premier's communication office does with that but it is incredibly frustrating to watch then again
00:28:37.820as a former staffer this all you know makes sense to me if that makes sense well it's funny when
00:28:44.280you talk about you know the liberals and so on like i i dating myself you know you'll be uh too
00:28:49.980young for that to remember it but the last time the federal conservatives tried to out liberal
00:28:53.620the liberals the reform party got created the last time the provincial conservatives tried to
00:28:57.740out liberal the liberals the wild rose split the vote we ended up with uh unfortunately uh premier
00:29:04.980notley but the bottom line is conservatives have got to stay true to themselves or they're going
00:29:09.120to get blown out of the water we've seen that over and over again but they're trying to get in bed
00:29:13.320with liberals and man they've lost sight of recent history i think well and the the one person that
00:29:20.220should know better than anybody about that is danielle smith you know i mean we saw this 11
00:29:25.580years ago in in december 2014 she packed up i think it was nine wild rose mlas and crossed the
00:29:32.960four to the progressive conservatives so we we've seen her you know sacrifice uh her philosophical
00:29:40.020uh positions in order to seek more power and i think the issue that they have yeah is the fact
00:29:51.080that they are cavorting with liberals and and for the federal mps you know as well the ones
00:29:56.840from alberta like what happens if let's say hypothetically um pierre polyev is no longer
00:30:04.020the leader of the Conservative Party of Canada,
00:30:07.360who now represents Battle River Crowfoot,
00:30:10.220one of the strongest Conservative ridings in the province,
00:30:13.160in the country even, if he's out, who replaces him?
00:30:17.040And I think that really becomes the conversation of,
00:30:20.160do you end up with an Eastern Canadian leader
00:30:23.600that doesn't understand the nature of Alberta?
00:30:29.820And I think a lot of the federal staff don't either.
00:30:32.700I think that's a part of the problem in Ottawa, whether it be conservative or liberal, is they're trying to find ways to win nationally.
00:30:40.140If you're doing that and you're coming at it from a, you know, we'll call it a Laurentian viewpoint, I think it creates incredible challenges for the Conservative Party MPs.
00:30:52.160And it could lead to a revolt party like an Alberta party federally that is there to stand up for Alberta, would still vote with the Conservatives on 90 percent of the issues.
00:31:02.480But I think that just all of these ingredients in the cauldron of Confederation are all potential explosives that could, like Pierre, if Pierre doesn't make it till October, I can imagine a groundswell of support for independence from there.
00:40:03.280The Western Standard is really expanding into more things like events like this and not just news copy and coverage, which we've done, I think, really, really well for quite some time.
00:40:13.700All right, let's see what else is going on out there.
00:40:16.300I just wanted to point out, it is, you know, it's not too bad, but yeah, we saw a little of the same.
00:40:51.140And there is no safe consumption of these things.
00:40:53.140What these centers do end up doing, though, is creating hubs and hangouts for the addicted, and it just terrorizes and makes a horrible mess of neighborhoods.
00:41:03.200So, yeah, I think, I guess a side effect we'll also see is the groups of addicts will kind of spread out and disperse a little more, which isn't a solution, isn't necessarily a better thing.
00:41:11.540But we'll kind of see how that develops through the Beltline over the next year and some.
00:41:15.280uh premium smith has carried on one of the things that jason kenny did that was very well
00:41:19.300we're very critical of kenny quite often but it's expanding treatment options expanding treatment
00:41:25.340facilities i'll give credit credit we're due it's not just a matter of shutting down the safe
00:41:29.000consumption centers we do need to get the people who are addicted so that they can get into
00:41:33.120treatment as fast as possible when they're ready for it i had a family member who needed treatment
00:41:37.340a while back the fastest we could get that person into a center the fastest was yeah 30 days person's
00:41:43.020ready to go now yep we'll have you there in 30 days well that's a long time for an addict to
00:41:47.100try and stay clean to get to the end of they need to go in the second they're ready so that's one
00:41:53.080area where things i think are moving in the right direction we just can't necessarily build those
00:41:56.100centers fast enough to keep up with the demand uh let's see looking uh federally we want to see how
00:42:04.120corrupt and broken canada is there's a great example recently with that condo bailout you
00:42:08.180know, a bunch of condominium construction buildings made. Uh, they went, they couldn't
00:42:13.660sell them. They were million dollar condos, apartments. So the federal government stepped
00:42:17.280in and bailed them out. But now the real stink starts coming in. And this is from Gabriel Hardy.
00:42:21.160He's a conservative member of parliament from Quebec. He said, concert properties, this just
00:42:25.420before they shut down the committee, by the way, the liberals shut down the committee on the
00:42:27.840discussion of this because they didn't want to hear more about it. Concert properties who created
00:42:30.900a partnership with Brookfield. Go figure. 15 days before the announcement where the developers got
00:42:37.420the bailout from our tax dollars will be among the developers whom the government will be purchasing
00:42:41.420these condos from. These are just facts. They're not presumptions. They're not accusations. We
00:42:45.480want to know whether or not they will be among those who will see their condos bought. Coincidence.
00:42:49.720And shortly after that, the committee was shut down by the liberal majority on it. But I mean,
00:42:57.520come on guys. So yes, some insiders connected with, I mean, all roads just keep seeming to
00:43:02.660lead to Brookfield, happen to coincidentally get in on this 15 days before the government buyout.
00:43:10.040You know, that would be insider trading that would get somebody into jail any other time.
00:43:14.300But when government does it, apparently it's all right.
00:43:17.420Another thing to watch on the Western Standard site, if you want to see pathetic and you want
00:43:21.000to see attention seeking, old Gil McGowan, you know, he had his terrible failed day of action.
00:43:26.520He was going to bring Alberta to a standstill with his big general strike a month ago.
00:43:31.760nobody noticed because it didn't really go anywhere he also was part of the spearhead of
00:43:35.600all of the recalls they were going to recall all the uh conservative you know united conservative
00:43:40.340party mlas that failed absolutely brutally then none of them even came vaguely close all the
00:43:46.160unions horses all the unions men couldn't do a thing well his next big trick was waiting in line
00:43:51.740for a long long time at the premier's pancake breakfast to try and ambush her and uh question
00:43:58.080her about the chamber of commerce and how they claim that independence is bad for business it
00:44:03.180was just bizarre and weird to be honest and it flopped terribly and just made old gill look
00:44:08.280all the more pathetic but you know the video is available at western standard online you can see
00:44:13.680it just turned into one long awkward moment not a gotcha moment whatever gill might have thought
00:44:18.560and wanted he's going to get out of it um let's see uh j smoke saying i'm sure cbc and msn will
00:44:25.260report on that i don't know if you're talking about that committee thing with brookfield and
00:44:28.440the rest yeah you know they'll be dead silent on all of that um it's it's going to uh not go
00:44:34.220anywhere we're getting robbed guys the bottom line is we're getting robbed and uh i don't know
00:44:39.740how the heck we are gonna get out of it uh one other thing with the independence movement and
00:44:44.600everything else the vandalism and so on sad that it's getting to this but it's another story on
00:44:49.000the western standard the safeway outlets you know they've always had they've had this for over a
00:44:53.160year. This turned into an issue a year ago. It's happening again. They had Alberta flags
00:44:57.360decorating areas where there's Alberta products. It's a bi-local thing. That's been happening
00:45:01.040forever. Co-ops used to do it, everything else. Well, now Thomas Lukasik's little forever Canadian
00:45:06.440purring people are complaining and demanding safely remove those Alberta flags from their
00:45:11.340displays. They're attacking our flag. That's how pathetic they are. Hey, attack me. I'm an
00:45:16.520independence leader. That's fine. Attack my, well, don't physically attack them, but complain about
00:45:21.960my independent signs fine you have that right but don't go after our flag you guys are pathetic
00:45:27.420you're sad you're fearful you're angry and you're gonna lose all right guys that's it for me today
00:45:33.420get down here to senalta if you can throw a water balloon at derek eat a weenie have a good time
00:45:38.820stampede's going for a few more days and uh this sunday i'll be flipping pancakes at ranchman's
00:45:44.600at a stampede breakfast i believe uh yeah sunday at nine in the morning i think i'll double check
00:45:49.920that so thanks for tuning in today guys for this live run even with a few of the the bugs that's
00:45:54.920just part of the fun of being live and we will catch you all on the next show at this time next