When the Trudeau government painted itself into a corner, leading to the purchase of the Trans Mountain pipeline by taxpayers, Daniel Smith's commentary on the issue was critical and uncompromising. In an article she wrote for Global News, she said, I hope I m wrong, but we may be witnessing the biggest boondoggle in Canadian history. And at that time, the estimate for the expansion of that pipeline was $7.4 billion on top of the $4.5 billion spent to purchase the existing pipeline.
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?0.95
00:05:33.080Will they lay down the law with Indigenous activists who have an insatiable appetite for consultation?0.99
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.0.60
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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00:11:36.920And as soon as you do that, get down here to the barbecue.
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.0.93
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 thought0.94
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 pathetic0.99
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 today0.99
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