Western Standard - September 10, 2026


Poilievre shouldn’t take Alberta’s support for granted


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00:00:00.000 Good day.
00:00:29.320 Hey, welcome to the Corey Morgan Show as we make our way into September.
00:00:33.600 Good to see a few folks already making comments in the comment scroll.
00:00:37.000 I like this.
00:00:37.400 Being live means we can be a bit interactive.
00:00:39.580 Angela, North Run grader, Louis and David all checking in there
00:00:44.780 and offering some comments on, yeah, for the most part on Pierre Pauly,
00:00:49.220 who I'm going to speak of in a bit here,
00:00:51.360 and of the federal party in a little while as well.
00:00:55.220 As a guest, I'm going to have Jeff Knight on.
00:00:56.740 It'll be his first time on.
00:00:57.680 He's been our reporter in Ontario in Queen's Park.
00:01:00.580 Yes, the poor man has to watch Doug Ford on a regular basis and try and make sense of whatever the hell he's doing.
00:01:06.680 Should be a great conversation.
00:01:08.120 He's been putting a lot of great stuff out from that eastern perspective.
00:01:11.700 So be sure to use that comment, scroll, discuss things with each other.
00:01:14.800 I don't necessarily read all the comments out, but I do read them all and just keeps things flowing along.
00:01:19.860 So getting to what I entitled this about.
00:01:23.420 I mean, this is one of the problems, actually, a shortcoming of Alberta.
00:01:26.060 I don't like talking about those often, but Alberta's political Achilles heel federally is our electoral predictability.
00:01:32.680 While provincially the situation has been volatile, leading from progressive Conservatives to NDP to UCP in the span of a decade,
00:01:40.480 the province has always given a strong majority of its seats to whatever the Conservative Party of the day is federally.
00:01:47.000 And that tendency has led to Alberta being taken for granted by federal parties.
00:01:51.080 The Liberals don't pay much attention to Alberta because the likelihood of gaining seats here is pretty slim.
00:01:55.760 The Conservative parties don't pay much attention to Alberta because the likelihood of losing seats here is pretty slim.
00:02:02.100 But Albertans tend to punch above their weight within the Conservative Party of Canada
00:02:05.580 because the province has always served as a fundraising hub for the federal party
00:02:09.380 and an incubator for conservative politicos from candidates to strategists.
00:02:14.200 When the federal campaign comes, though, Alberta is quickly forgotten
00:02:17.160 as the federal entity starts to try to win the electoral love in Laurentian Canada.
00:02:22.160 You know what? It isn't even personal. It's just math.
00:02:23.980 No federal party can win government without strong showings in Quebec and Ontario.
00:02:28.640 To win those central provinces, though, the wishes of western provinces have to be sidelined.
00:02:33.000 We aren't in the middle of a federal campaign right now,
00:02:35.760 but we're seeing a great example of the federal dynamic in conservative politics
00:02:39.580 as the CPC has kicked off its Conservatives for Canada campaign.
00:02:43.720 This campaign ostensibly is to reach out to Albertans and tell them why the Federation is just spiffy,
00:02:49.360 and they should set aside notions of independence.
00:02:51.380 If online reactions to the campaign kick off are any indication, the response from conservative Albertans to Polyev's overture is flat at best.
00:02:59.620 Albertans are sick of federal politicians telling them what they're supposed to think, and that includes politicians from the conservative side of the aisle.
00:03:06.840 The CPC knows their campaign won't make much difference in the voting intentions in Alberta in the referendum.
00:03:12.380 The campaign isn't targeting Albertans, it's targeting eastern voters.
00:03:15.420 It's Polyev's way of trying to distance his party from the Sovereignists, who, like it or not, are dominating the Conservative membership in Alberta federally, just as they dominate the United Conservative Party provincially.
00:03:26.600 He's trying to assure Eastern voters that if he were ever to become Prime Minister, he wouldn't act to change the federal status quo on behalf of his Western support base.
00:03:35.640 Polyev said earlier this summer that all Conservatives will be campaigning for Canadian unity in Alberta.
00:03:41.140 Many members of Polyev's caucus have kept their campaigning rather silent, actually, through the summer, if they did so at all,
00:03:47.740 while orders from above may be pressuring them to wrap themselves in the Canadian flag,
00:03:52.240 orders from the membership are telling them Albertans have had enough.
00:03:55.160 The CPC Unity campaign began with some CPC MPs posting canned statements about their indivisible federalism on X and other social media spots,
00:04:04.220 but it wasn't terribly well received.
00:04:06.840 Beyond that, a website for Conservatives for Canada was launched
00:04:09.580 and MP Dane Lloyd was named the point person for the Unity campaign.
00:04:13.960 At present, the site offers little more than a copy of a press release from Lloyd
00:04:17.460 and a strong plea for donations, of course.
00:04:20.000 While it's politically understandable why the CPC must campaign to win Eastern Canadian voters,
00:04:23.840 it should also be understood that alienating the Western voter base
00:04:26.740 doesn't come without potential consequences.
00:04:29.240 The federal Progressive Conservatives under Diefenbaker won every single seat in Alberta in 1958
00:04:33.560 and the Progressive Conservatives had a solid lock on Alberta's support for decades.
00:04:37.980 It seemed as if the PCs would maintain their hold upon Albertan voters forever, until they didn't.
00:04:43.040 Mulroney dislodged the Liberal government in 1984 and his government was strongly supported in Alberta.
00:04:48.100 When it quickly became clear, though, that Albertans had just switched from a Liberal government focused on Eastern Canadian needs
00:04:53.200 to a Conservative government focused on Eastern Canadian needs, the Reform Party was born.
00:04:57.200 It took two election cycles, but the Reform Party wiped the Progressive Conservative Party off the Western Canadian map federally forever.
00:05:05.340 There were many other factors that led to the collapse of the federal Progressive Conservatives after Mulroney's time.
00:05:10.140 But taking the support of Western Canadian conservative-minded voters for granted was one of them.
00:05:14.760 When the Reform Party was ascendant, the usual lines about vote splitting were to be heard,
00:05:18.540 and it was said that a Liberal victory would be assured if the West went Reform, and indeed it turned out to be true.
00:05:23.720 The Khrushchev's Liberals won three straight majorities.
00:05:26.260 What's got to be understood, though, is that when the federal Liberals and Conservatives become indistinguishable from each other,
00:05:32.060 Western voters will shun them both.
00:05:34.120 Albertans would rather have opposition MPs who could speak for their province
00:05:37.080 than alleged Conservative ones in a government that's gagged and beholden to Eastern leadership.
00:05:41.420 Nobody expects the Conservative MPs to come out in support of Option 2 on Question 10 on October 19th.
00:05:46.140 The CPC is a federal party, and its members have no mandate to dip into such a divisive local issue.
00:05:51.320 They shouldn't have waded in with a full-throated campaign in favour of option one on the question either, though.
00:05:56.880 It's a provincial referendum, and having a federal party meddling in the affair won't impress the Alberta voter base.
00:06:02.460 Polyev feels the risk of pissing off Alberta Conservatives is worth it
00:06:05.500 if he can signal his party's commitment to federalism to eastern Canada effectively.
00:06:10.500 He would be well served to remember how quickly the Reform Party rose
00:06:13.160 and what it did to the federal progressive Conservatives in Alberta.
00:06:15.460 On October 20th, there's going to be a lot of engaged activists and voters
00:06:18.980 looking for another project to protect Alberta's interests,
00:06:21.840 and it could come in the form of a new federal party.
00:06:24.920 Careful, Pierre.
00:06:26.200 All right, well, that's what's got me going today.
00:06:27.540 That came out better.
00:06:28.320 That is much better than last week.
00:06:29.980 That's, I've got to go back to writing them over two days,
00:06:32.240 not blasting it out at 6 in the morning.
00:06:34.400 Exactly.
00:06:34.860 Lesson learned.
00:06:35.400 Way, way, way better.
00:06:37.000 So you were just telling me you've had a bee exodus.
00:06:39.620 I did.
00:06:40.400 Tragedy, what happened?
00:06:41.260 They call it absconding, one of my hives.
00:06:43.840 Well, I'd said before, I'd done a harvest a few weeks ago,
00:06:46.480 and that hive went really hot.
00:06:47.940 They went crabby, and they were attacking me whenever I'd come close for days.
00:06:52.300 And suddenly activity just started getting lower and lower with it.
00:06:55.640 And finally I checked on it fully yesterday.
00:06:57.340 I left the lid and it was gone.
00:06:58.760 All the bees were gone.
00:06:59.600 The only activity was other bees coming in, stealing the remaining honey and everything.
00:07:02.500 So how many bees would be in there?
00:07:04.640 It probably would have been 40,000 or 50,000.
00:07:06.920 Holy cow.
00:07:08.200 Zero now.
00:07:09.340 So where do they go?
00:07:10.500 I don't know.
00:07:10.980 Do they all go their separate ways?
00:07:12.520 They've never had an expounding issue.
00:07:14.220 Do they travel as a swarm?
00:07:15.440 They'll go in a swarm, and I guess typically when this happens this late in the season in fall,
00:07:19.920 I mean, their chance of survival isn't very good.
00:07:21.640 They're not going to find a new spot to shack up and make it through the winter.
00:07:24.880 That's a shame.
00:07:25.800 It is.
00:07:26.440 Can we blame Donald Trump on the trade war?
00:07:28.480 I'll try.
00:07:29.440 I don't want to blame myself for my poor beekeeping.
00:07:30.920 No, of course.
00:07:31.540 Nothing's your fault.
00:07:33.400 But, yeah, it's just another lesson in the beekeeping.
00:07:36.720 So, on with the news.
00:07:38.300 The weekend saw a seismic turn of events in Germany with the Alternative for Germany party getting their highest vote ever.
00:07:49.640 Trump replied today, yay, good for you guys.
00:07:53.200 Finally, Germans have had enough of the immigration and they're going to make Germany great again.
00:07:59.400 So not MAGA, but MAGABA or something like that.
00:08:03.740 Close, sorry?
00:08:04.980 I was supposed to say, maybe Derek will translate that.
00:08:06.620 Yeah, yeah, on the pipeline.
00:08:09.700 Closer to home, we've got an Indian temple that's being shut down up in Edmonton
00:08:14.160 for disgusting conditions in the kitchen and bathrooms and stuff like that.
00:08:18.860 It's not a very pleasant story to read.
00:08:21.960 Got a fun one out of B.C.
00:08:25.580 A taxi is zooming down the highway on Ski-to-Ski Highway
00:08:30.480 and got pulled over doing 131 in an 80 zone.
00:08:34.120 And it turns out the passenger in the taxi had just had his car impounded for speeding in the same traffic zone.
00:08:42.980 Found a kindred spirit for a second.
00:08:44.380 Found a kindred spirit.
00:08:45.120 So I guess they're both sitting on the highway with their thumbs out.
00:08:49.600 City of Calgary has released their preferred green line option.
00:08:53.200 It's the above ground one, which is the cheapest.
00:08:56.840 Got a BC realtor whose name escapes me at the moment.
00:09:00.320 He's in Langley.
00:09:01.080 He was posting about Indigenous affairs and how it's ludicrous that national parks are being shut down and areas being shut down just for Indigenous use.
00:09:12.040 Well, the B.C. Realtors Association clamped down on him and gave him a nasty letter calling his actions polarizing and inflammatory.
00:09:20.240 So now the Canadian Constitution Foundation has got involved, and their lawyers have given the B.C. guys 30 days to get rid of that nasty letter they're going to sue.
00:09:34.380 Carney is talking.
00:09:36.000 We talked yesterday about the sanctions, and he urged everybody to vacation in Canada, see the glorious sights that Canada has to offer, making no mention about the fact that he summered in Tuscany in Italy.
00:09:49.260 So I guess what's good for the goose is not good for the younger.
00:09:51.700 We're to have the staycation, I guess, taking those local wonders.
00:09:55.220 Exactly.
00:09:58.420 Speaking of Trump, last night he banned Canadian booze from entering the United States,
00:10:04.680 and also dairies and motorcycles.
00:10:07.220 I didn't realize we manufactured motorcycles.
00:10:09.860 I think I looked it up, but it was some of an e-trike or some odd thing.
00:10:13.960 It's an unusual niche item, but still.
00:10:16.440 But booze is a big one.
00:10:18.200 And the boss of Crown Royal says they sell more Crown Royal in Texas than all of Canada combined.
00:10:26.120 So it's going to hurt that sector.
00:10:29.200 And there's a lot of small craft breweries and distillers in Alberta that will also be hurt.
00:10:34.900 Well, I mean, you know, brand loyalty is big with those sorts of things like liquor.
00:10:39.120 People get used to their things they drink and so on.
00:10:41.180 I mean, as my former drinking days, when I started working in the States, I got to admit,
00:10:45.240 When I started moving on to bourbon from Canadian rye, I kind of like the bourbon better.
00:10:50.060 I don't know if they want to switch all those Canadians off the Crown Royal.
00:10:52.520 You're not going to get them back that easily.
00:10:53.760 No, exactly.
00:10:55.380 And two studies out today showing that as of January 1st, Albertans are going to save 15% on their car insurance.
00:11:05.980 Believe it when I see it.
00:11:07.180 Yeah, pretty much it will.
00:11:08.620 I mean, if you explain to me why I'm paying $2,300 a year for a 10-year-old Honda Civic.
00:11:15.240 Yeah, I'll believe it when I see it.
00:11:16.840 Yeah, well, banks and insurance companies,
00:11:19.780 you know, there are two areas where they're mandatory,
00:11:22.020 you know, you can't get away from them in life,
00:11:23.300 but in both cases, you feel more like you've got to ask them
00:11:26.700 to do things for you rather than being the customer.
00:11:29.020 And it's a...
00:11:29.800 Exactly.
00:11:30.620 Yeah, the insurance probably won't.
00:11:31.560 So you've got Jeff on later?
00:11:33.140 I do.
00:11:33.800 He's coming.
00:11:34.040 You'll have to ask him about a story he did yesterday.
00:11:35.980 He's been doing very well about a mother of a convicted ISIS terrorist
00:11:40.540 running for school board.
00:11:42.420 And her reaction to Jeff when he asked for a comment.
00:11:48.480 Oh, I'll have to see what that was.
00:11:50.640 That was an interesting story.
00:11:51.640 I saw that.
00:11:52.280 Yeah, I mean, gee, that's the one I want, managing the raising of our children.
00:11:55.900 She did such a fine job with her own.
00:11:57.320 With her own son.
00:11:57.960 Yeah, great.
00:11:58.680 She blames mental illness, Corey.
00:12:00.280 Oh, of course.
00:12:00.920 Well, I mean, hey, I'm nuts, too, but I haven't gone and tried to blow anybody up yet.
00:12:04.760 Well, the day's young.
00:12:05.900 True.
00:12:06.880 All right.
00:12:07.540 Well, thanks, Dave.
00:12:08.380 I'll let you get back to the newsroom, and we'll talk to you at the pipeline.
00:12:11.900 He will.
00:12:12.920 So, yeah, as you can see, as always, loads and loads of stories coming out there on all sorts of things, national, international, and across the country.
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00:12:46.260 I'll just look at a couple of comments here before we roll around.
00:12:49.760 Joe Mills pointing out, you know, Mr. Harper was a great PM,
00:12:52.840 and we've elected a great prime minister from the West before we can do it again.
00:12:56.660 Yeah, it's not impossible.
00:12:58.160 I'm not trying so much to shoot at Polyev.
00:13:00.980 I'm just pointing out the political reality of things.
00:13:03.700 And when you look at Prime Minister Harper, I mean, he was good,
00:13:07.680 but he didn't change anything.
00:13:09.320 He can't.
00:13:09.880 He wouldn't have stayed in even as long as he did if he'd changed anything substantially.
00:13:13.340 He wrote the Alberta Agenda, the Firewall, him and some others.
00:13:17.620 And then once he became Prime Minister, all of that stuff went out the window.
00:13:20.320 It disappeared.
00:13:21.460 All I can say is Conservative Prime Ministers tend to be less bad for the West than Liberal ones.
00:13:27.160 But they don't make any substantial changes.
00:13:30.160 Cathy said basically the same thing.
00:13:31.700 Did some things that were not good for Canada,
00:13:34.480 but not able to get consensus to make changes to the Constitution or equalization.
00:13:38.260 Yeah, well, that's the problem.
00:13:39.180 It's the system, guys. It's not just the party in power.
00:13:43.680 And it's problematic.
00:13:45.160 And the gamble, as I'm saying, with what's going on with Polyev,
00:13:50.220 I wouldn't expect or want, I think.
00:13:52.560 Well, I mean, I'd want it as a regionalist I am,
00:13:55.400 but I never would expect the Conservatives to come out
00:13:57.500 and support the independent side in the upcoming referendum.
00:14:01.820 It's not their role, and as a federal party, they shouldn't.
00:14:04.100 but I don't think they're being terribly wise by jumping in feet first and taking a side on the
00:14:10.880 federalist side, actively campaigning on the ground, starting an advertising group for it.
00:14:15.640 Guys, 60, you know, we've seen some of those pollings when you're talking membership bases
00:14:20.200 and so on, 60 to 70% support within your membership base are independence friendly,
00:14:26.240 and you're pissing them off. And I don't know, you know, I'm a student of history to a degree.
00:14:32.040 I started, you know, when I had my long hair and no grays, but as a young reformer in the reform party, Albertans will change and turn their attention elsewhere.
00:14:42.060 I don't know if Mr. Polyev has been enough time in Alberta to see the activism and the galvanizing of conservatives that's been happening in this last couple of years here.
00:14:53.740 You don't want that activated crowd to turn their guns on you after this referendum's over.
00:14:59.220 having a hard enough time winning things as it is all right let's bring in our guest jeff knight
00:15:05.040 from ontario he's been writing on the situation in queens park and all the great stuff happening
00:15:10.860 out there it's about time we got you on thanks for joining us today jeff yeah cory thanks for
00:15:15.840 having me so uh if you heard it uh what dave was mentioning we should get into that story you
00:15:23.900 posted uh the other day on uh the mother of an isis terrorist running for school trustee
00:15:30.540 what would uh inspire somebody so controversial to make a more public run
00:15:36.220 uh yeah dr diga met wally yes oh i mean it was uh pretty interesting to see her kind of popping
00:15:42.380 up like that i expect you know she's trying to get uh you know more sympathy for her son in a
00:15:48.300 lot of ways and roundabout way uh in her correspondence with me she you know she
00:15:52.940 referenced the the bring abdul home website that she set up for him and stuff like that but i mean
00:15:57.300 you know the guy uh even while he was incarcerated like he stabbed an officer in the eye and the
00:16:02.140 officer lost his eyes like i i don't think there's a very good chance of him gaining too much sympathy
00:16:07.280 uh regardless of how successful she is in her campaign uh now you know this is this is canada
00:16:14.560 so she might actually have a decent chance of of winning but uh uh yeah it was interesting
00:16:21.220 interesting correspondence i had with her uh on email i was trying to get her to answer a few
00:16:25.280 questions like for example uh when this first all happened she said that uh it was all canada's
00:16:31.000 fault that it had happened and that he had been manipulated by the rcmp so i was trying to get
00:16:35.800 her to see if she still stood by that and she responded with uh you know basically oh i can't
00:16:41.900 say anything until i've spoken with a lawyer and you know i'm very concerned that the framing is
00:16:46.820 going to create a misleading and damaging impression about my personal character and
00:16:51.120 stuff like that so you know she seemed to kind of be leaning towards getting a little litigious
00:16:54.980 uh there so you know i didn't pursue it too much further um but yeah she seems pretty defensive
00:17:01.560 about the whole thing i guess understandably so well did she at least explain like what does she
00:17:07.620 think she can offer them as a school trustee i mean her her kids are presumably uh grown beyond
00:17:13.480 the school point he's he's in the you know he's he's been well educated in stabbing prison guards
00:17:17.960 uh what what motivation would there be because it's not like it's a you know a big paying job
00:17:24.280 or something like that it just seems a strange path to go um i i expect that you know her
00:17:31.020 motivation is going to be around kind of controlling those types of narratives and
00:17:35.340 being on the forefront of uh you know being able to have a say as to who's coming and going
00:17:41.300 from the school system but she really you know the the responses that she gave me were pretty
00:17:47.260 much just like you know I need to talk to a lawyer and you need to give me very specific
00:17:52.200 you need to get back to me in a very specific way otherwise I'm not answering any questions so she
00:17:58.520 really you know I pressed her a couple times but she didn't really go beyond that she seems very
00:18:02.600 concerned with the legality of what she's going to be saying well it'll be an interesting race to
00:18:08.180 watch, I guess, if nothing else. Maybe I'll pivot back to something, you know, more recently you
00:18:12.940 wrote, and of course, it's the dominant story has been for, it's just, it already seems like forever,
00:18:17.420 but this ongoing trade war, President Trump has banned outright a number of items coming from
00:18:24.280 Canada into the United States now. That's quite a development. I mean, that's not just a tariff,
00:18:27.740 that's a blockade. Yeah, the outright ban on, what is it? It's dairy, booze, and motorcycles now.
00:18:35.440 You know, I think the U.S. took something like $700 million in alcohol sales from Canada last year.
00:18:42.620 So, you know, it's a substantial part of the market for us.
00:18:46.460 But I'm pretty sure we actually hurt them even more when we blocked American alcohol.
00:18:52.160 So it's a bit of a it's kind of a bit of a tug of war with Trump and Ford here on kind of, you know,
00:18:58.500 And they've gotten really down into the mudslinging with Ford telling him to kiss his ass and Trump changing Lake Ontario to Lake America and stuff like that.
00:19:06.940 And it seems to, you know, I've been saying it's one of the best gifts Ford's got in a while because, you know, he's kind of like a bit of like a sailor, right?
00:19:16.840 He'll kind of point himself whichever way the wind's blowing.
00:19:19.320 And it seems like Canadians are really on board with sticking it to Trump any way that they can.
00:19:24.520 So for Ford to now be leading the Liberals in the polls where he was kind of behind them a little bit, it seems like this is a great gift for him politically to kind of move his career forward in what I expect is the direction is aiming for Pierre Paulietta's position.
00:19:42.300 Yeah, there's a lot of discussion on that.
00:19:44.640 yeah so obviously Ontario got hurt the worst because of the the motorcycles and and you know
00:19:51.040 we have all the the auto factories and stuff here so that's the biggest concern for us so since you
00:19:57.260 kind of went there and I you know I wasn't really thinking of that but I mean there has been sort of
00:20:01.200 that sub campaign at least positioning himself uh you know Corey's out there uh working on things
00:20:08.160 BC's conservative leadership race sort of turned into a proxy race between uh Eastern staff
00:20:14.620 going on uh if if it looks like ford is kind of eyeing the federal direction what's happening
00:20:22.780 within the provincial conservatives though are the people up and coming under ford i mean it
00:20:27.020 causes more than just uh you know uh it causes quite a ripple effect if a leader moves on
00:20:33.740 uh yeah absolutely and and i don't know if he's even thought that far ahead i know that they've
00:20:38.860 We've got the annual policy priorities setting session coming up tomorrow, actually.
00:20:45.400 I'm planning to attend that.
00:20:47.080 And I think that's part of the reason he's been pretty quiet this week, despite all of the U.S. banning of Canadian products and stuff like that, is he's probably saving a little bit of his response for then.
00:20:58.620 And also, he's probably like, you know, he's probably spending a lot of time online and seeing what people have to say so that he can, like I said, plan his response according to what's popular right now.
00:21:08.860 Um, so I'm not exactly, uh, sure who'd kind of follow him up if he did jump ship, but, uh, I think it's, it's not a secret that he's, he's got big aspirations on his mind.
00:21:22.980 Yeah, well, he's got, uh, ambition. There's no doubt about that. It's kind of ironic that, that him and Trump are locking horns the way they are.
00:21:29.840 I mean, if there was a comparable type of political style coming from Canada, comparing to Trump, I would put Ford actually kind of at the top of the list for that shoot from the hip.
00:21:38.600 uh maybe speak first and think later sort of approach to things i guess you can't have two
00:21:43.440 people in the same room who have that attitude yeah it's kind of our our big uh blonde loud
00:21:49.460 mouth versus theirs well it keeps you with lots to uh watch and report on i mean uh politics has
00:21:57.020 certainly never been dull in canada lately though i i think alex out in bc still has a crazier thing
00:22:01.400 to watch than you do at this time but uh there hasn't been a max mass exodus uh another story
00:22:07.040 It came up, Jean Cretchen surfaced, they pulled him out of the crypt and had him speaking on using Alberta's resources and Saskatchewan resources for leverage.
00:22:19.520 What's the attitude in Ontario about that?
00:22:21.520 I mean, that's a very hot button out here.
00:22:23.840 Is it even coming up out there, though?
00:22:26.140 Well, I mean, obviously, Ontario wants to leverage, you know, the energy out in Alberta and stuff like that.
00:22:32.980 But Daniel Smith has already essentially just rejected it outright.
00:22:37.040 And pulling Kretchen out, he looks better than I thought he would, but he said, you know, that what Trump's doing doesn't hurt Lake Ontario because it's just a lake and all that kind of stuff.
00:22:49.200 And he's saying that they really do need our oil, electricity and potash and gas and everything really bad.
00:22:57.300 and to kind of attack them that way i think you know the sheer size of the u.s means that
00:23:03.620 really getting down and dirty with them ultimately is going to hurt us i think more than it hurts
00:23:08.380 them so you know the the nastier we get um pushing these types of things forward uh it's only you
00:23:14.760 know it's going to help uh the politicians who are championing it because you know canadians
00:23:19.320 love to fight with americans but ultimately it's it's going to be terrible for us i believe so
00:23:25.080 So, you know, no matter who says it, Chrétien, Ford, or Kearney, I tend to align with Daniel Smith on this, that it's a terrible idea.
00:23:35.220 Yeah, well, and when we do have, you know, Venezuela lining up and things such as that, encouraging our biggest customer to start sourcing from other areas.
00:23:45.660 I mean, there are other suitors out there could cause a lot of long-term difficulties for us, you know, versus the immediate problem.
00:23:52.280 But, you know, it's understood. I mean, you know, they want something stronger than just liquor to go back and forth with, even if it has a good symbolic victory.
00:24:02.380 It's just interesting how it's tied together. I mean, the timing of this referendum, probably I got a feeling if there wasn't a referendum coming in Alberta, they might have already made a move for Alberta, an export tariff or something of the sort.
00:24:13.220 yeah no absolutely uh and the scary thing too is once we you know start to lose our auto
00:24:21.400 relationship with the u.s then that just kind of opens us up directly to chinese markets and uh
00:24:27.120 you know they don't have the best reputation for their auto automobile industry no or their
00:24:32.740 corporate practices or pretty much much of anything but and that is an area that has been
00:24:38.100 devastated you know is the auto sector and the parts manufacturing i mean this this trade war
00:24:42.020 has hurt central canada far far more than than the west and i i guess it could lead to a bit of
00:24:47.960 you know regional envy or things like ford said at one point kind of implying that well alberta
00:24:53.360 and saskatchewan should be feeling some pain as well well the equal sharing of pain doesn't
00:24:57.760 necessarily mean we're moving towards a productive end though yeah the whole like we're all in this
00:25:03.060 together uh mantra that he's been promoting but you know it's it's really we're all we're all
00:25:07.720 going to lose together in the end and so um i think you know trump trump's a tough guy to work
00:25:13.320 with i think you kind of just have to you know butter his bread a little bit and not get down
00:25:17.980 in the mud with him and he gets satisfied so i i feel like uh you know maybe the whole approach
00:25:23.420 needs to be reworked here so so i guess i'll pivot a little more to something that's big that's going
00:25:30.280 on out there i mean it's the the mayoral uh race is sort of heating up in toronto uh uh olivia chow
00:25:37.240 is out um well out and hitting the hustings but the story you put up i guess she she skipped out
00:25:44.220 on an anti-semitism debate uh not that surprising i guess in light of things though is it no i mean
00:25:51.340 she's been pretty consistent with uh you know not being a huge fan of of uh i think israel in general
00:25:58.740 And, you know, she's been a pretty big supporter of the Palestinian protests and stuff like that happening in the city.
00:26:04.920 So I can see why she's like strategically avoiding these types of events.
00:26:09.760 But, you know, Toronto has a pretty giant Jewish population and it's important for her to be a mayor for all her constituents.
00:26:18.440 Right. And so to kind of be rejecting these these types of things is sounds a pretty loud message.
00:26:23.980 So how secure does she look going into, you know, the next municipal election?
00:26:28.520 I mean, she's been difficult to dislodge, as some people have said.
00:26:31.380 It's because, of course, we tend to have a lot of people splitting that vote.
00:26:34.320 But is she sitting comfortably going ahead or are Torontonians finally kind of tiring of her?
00:26:39.600 Well, I don't think they're tiring of her.
00:26:40.780 That's the thing is I think that her strategy is working.
00:26:44.840 Like Toronto is a pretty left-leaning place.
00:26:48.140 And, you know, I don't understand it as someone who lived in Toronto for a long time
00:26:52.540 and has seen it, you know, in my opinion, decline over the years.
00:26:57.020 But it seems like the strategy is working for her.
00:27:00.820 I'm not sure what her exact numbers are that she's pulling by,
00:27:04.120 but I think she's beating Bradford by a pretty solid amount right now.
00:27:08.260 Yeah, well, not much change in there.
00:27:10.460 Who knows if campaigns can be pretty wild.
00:27:12.580 When's your voting day coming?
00:27:14.820 It's October 26th, I believe.
00:27:17.400 Okay, so just ramping up.
00:27:20.200 Maybe I'll pull a little provincial now.
00:27:22.060 This is something Alberta just dealt with a year ago.
00:27:24.360 So I see an article of yours in the labor agreements have expired as students are going back to school.
00:27:31.900 Is there much of a risk of a teacher or support strike hitting and messing with the school year?
00:27:37.220 Or do you think they're going to have something out?
00:27:39.680 Well, I mean, there are teachers love to strike here in Ontario.
00:27:42.940 So I expect it's something that probably is on the table.
00:27:47.080 I think the University of Toronto just voted against having a strike.
00:27:50.320 So, you know, there's obviously some conversations happening in back rooms that are really trying to make this not happen.
00:27:57.620 I got some correspondence back from the from Emma Testani, who is the.
00:28:09.440 Sorry, I'm just reading it here. Yeah.
00:28:13.760 Well, yeah, anyway, I got a little bit of correspondence back to say at this early stage of bargaining,
00:28:17.980 the first step is to determine what issues will be negotiated at central or local tables.
00:28:22.400 Those decisions are still underway with some unions choosing to bring this matter to the
00:28:25.780 Ontario Labour Relations Board. We respect their decision to do so and at all times are ready to
00:28:30.440 continue discussions on the scope of central versus local issues before proceeding to the
00:28:34.540 next stage of negotiations. You know, so they're obviously trying to smooth things out to avoid a
00:28:40.760 strike. But, you know, if you'd ask me, I expect that there probably will be one on the horizon.
00:28:44.880 it always makes parents nervous when uh you know the kids might be missing out on part of a school
00:28:50.640 year so i guess you'll be watching this pretty closely uh so before i let you go you've been
00:28:56.320 very prolific you got a lot on the go and it's fantastic with those stories coming from ontario
00:29:00.480 for us what are you working on and what sort of things should we be watching for in the next uh
00:29:04.880 weeks to come here um well i mean uh i'm going to be keeping a close eye obviously on what ford's
00:29:10.960 got to say on on this week's revelation uh revelation so uh when i check out the priority
00:29:17.120 setting session tomorrow i hope to have a whole video put out on that um so you know we can look
00:29:22.320 forward to that on uh friday uh if all things go well um and then other than that you know there's
00:29:27.740 been a lot of crime happening in especially brampton lately uh over the long weekend there
00:29:32.940 is a you know several break-ins there was uh some knife attacks and stuff like that uh so you know
00:29:38.480 always got my eye on those types of things and stories that'll be interesting for an Ontario
00:29:43.840 perspective. Yeah, well, there's that balance you got to take on with things as they break and then
00:29:49.680 the longer stories and the bigger things. Brampton is certainly garnering a reputation within Canada
00:29:55.440 this last decade or so. Yeah, it's a bit of a hot thing. Whenever I see Brampton show up,
00:30:05.120 i'm just like oh you know this will be this will be getting some views for sure yeah here we go
00:30:09.520 again all right well i i really appreciate uh you know the amount of excellent coverage you've been
00:30:15.520 offering us from out in ontario we we can be too western focused here at the standard and and the
00:30:21.040 the news out there is important to us too so thank you very much for for coming on uh to to speak to
00:30:26.560 us today and i i look forward to reading your stories going forward thank you for having me
00:30:30.720 all right thanks so you guys out in queen's park in ontario keep an eye on it that's jeff knight
00:30:37.080 and uh he's he's as i said i pulled up the page before we brought him on and wow he's got a lot
00:30:43.180 of content going on out there i mean that's the standard we are you know do have people across
00:30:48.200 this country and uh he's been he's been doing a great job out there and it all ties together you
00:30:53.420 know we can't i i'm a regionalist i'm frustrated with eastern canada and so on but i also understand
00:30:57.940 that the politics out there still end up impacting us out here.
00:31:01.540 That's part of what I was talking about.
00:31:03.760 I guess I'll get back to some of the comments.
00:31:05.340 You know, Pedro Firestyle saying,
00:31:06.540 I don't think he's taking this for granted.
00:31:09.880 I think the Conservatives are, but they always have.
00:31:12.840 And like I said, I don't want to say it personally.
00:31:15.580 I just mean it's the nature of things.
00:31:18.560 It's hard to lose seats in Alberta if you're a Conservative.
00:31:21.740 You know, you can ignore Alberta.
00:31:24.160 A lot of those Alberta ridings are going to vote Conservative
00:31:26.260 if you ran a tree stump, they're going to vote for it.
00:31:29.540 And that leads to us being taken for granted, not in a hostile way,
00:31:32.620 but just in we don't have to worry about that.
00:31:34.600 We'll focus on things over here.
00:31:37.100 That's just sort of what happens.
00:31:38.660 But as I said, we look historically, we've got to be careful because,
00:31:43.900 or they've got to be careful, Albertans are very grumpy right now.
00:31:47.620 And we make new parties.
00:31:48.880 And I know that the Maverick Party didn't go anywhere
00:31:51.360 and the PPC isn't going anywhere,
00:31:53.780 but our atmosphere has been changing a lot and this referendum comes to a close people are going
00:31:59.820 to be looking at different things to make change and if it looks like the federal party isn't
00:32:04.760 speaking for albertans they could be at risk of things you know with a grumpy electorate doing
00:32:10.140 things uh we just got to watch it or at least mr polyev has to watch it uh let's see what else
00:32:19.000 we've got uh joe mills pointing out of the liberals rescinded any anti-oil and gas policies
00:32:23.900 no but stephen harper didn't get that much for pipelines built either uh the mess that came
00:32:29.660 with trans mountain for example that was already bunged up in red tape and a bunch of battles
00:32:35.260 before justin trudeau got in there and really screwed it up and made it worse because harper
00:32:40.960 didn't want to get up and say look this is federal jurisdiction that pipe is going whether you like
00:32:45.060 it or not the consultation's done we're going full bore ahead he didn't want to stir up the east
00:32:49.840 so he didn't do that again it's not personal it's just the way it goes uh as i said conservative
00:32:56.640 parties tend to be less bad than than liberal ones but they don't change anything so we got
00:33:01.280 to accept the same system uh joe mills okay asking if i if you were p.m what's the first thing you
00:33:07.860 would do fine yes i would exercise my authority on this trade war if you really want to use oil
00:33:13.320 for leverage it's not by adding counter tariffs which by the way poly have supports and it's
00:33:20.240 self-defeating i'm not going to try and out liberal the liberals on bad policy or outdo
00:33:25.460 trump on bad policy find other customers that's the leverage sell more oil but sell it to somebody
00:33:32.660 else that's when they realize there's somebody else who will buy it off you you would say this
00:33:37.940 is in the national interest you could practically declare it an emergency and say that's enough
00:33:42.800 Northern Gateway, every study was already done on every part of that right-of-way to get oil to the coast over there.
00:33:49.920 You say, that's it. We're guaranteeing it as a federal government.
00:33:53.020 Proponents come in. We will clear the way so you can get that bloody pipe in there.
00:33:57.000 And we can get a port going and ship to India and Japan and Singapore and all of those other places, the Philippines,
00:34:04.380 that could use our oil and natural gas through LNG plants.
00:34:08.900 Get it done.
00:34:09.740 but they won't federal ones won't do it and it's not conservative or liberal why they don't have
00:34:15.760 the balls because they're worried about what quebec will think they're worried about what
00:34:19.440 ontario will think and that pattern doesn't change whether it's conservative or liberal
00:34:24.440 i'm not saying go out and vote against the conservatives in alberta no you still want
00:34:28.620 to vote for the person who's going to be as good for you as possible and there's a lot of really
00:34:32.900 good conservative members of parliament most of them in alberta are really good people
00:34:36.280 but they're handcuffed so don't expect too much of them i mean the biggest point with me
00:34:42.700 federally if you remember a few years ago quebec's population growth has been slower relative to the
00:34:51.620 rest of the country so when they were rebalancing the seats it turned out that quebec was supposed
00:34:57.360 to lose a federal seat well of course quebec and i tell you what albertans are going to learn from
00:35:01.900 them quebec said screw that we're not putting up with that absolutely not and they started raising
00:35:05.560 a stink. So what happened? The House of Commons got together and had a vote and basically
00:35:10.180 exempted Quebec from representation by population and guaranteed they would always have a seat.
00:35:15.020 They could go down to having only 75 Frenchmen in that whole province. They would still have
00:35:18.620 the same amount of parliamentary seats thanks to that bill being passed. The Conservatives
00:35:23.220 didn't oppose it. A bunch of them stayed home and avoided the vote. A bunch of them actually
00:35:27.520 voted for that bill and a handful voted against. Why? Because they take the West for granted and
00:35:34.000 they want to win Quebec it's as simple as that and that's the way it's going but it's not working
00:35:37.680 it's not working uh what's this forever canadian saying two court rulings to maintain the consent
00:35:44.040 of first nations is required that's absolutely wrong and untrue absolutely wrong consent
00:35:49.240 and consult are right next to each other in the dictionary have a look at them there's a big
00:35:54.540 difference between the two and the supreme court has ruled many many times that first nations do
00:35:59.680 not have veto authority in Canada on projects. There's an obligation to consent, or to consult,
00:36:08.260 but no, consent is not required. And again, having a courageous Prime Minister putting things in the
00:36:15.140 national interest could fix that. Instead, they maintain the status quo, and reserves become even
00:36:20.220 more horrific in the conditions. First Nations become even more poor and dysfunctional. In Alberta,
00:36:24.980 First Nations men die 19 years younger than the average Canadian man here in Alberta.
00:36:30.160 But we're afraid to change anything.
00:36:32.180 We're afraid to take on the status quo that is hurting them.
00:36:35.720 Why?
00:36:36.480 Well, because we've got political cowardice.
00:36:38.440 That's the bottom line.
00:36:41.540 Let's see here.
00:36:46.360 Asia, CBC, CB Fix is all saying Asia will take as much oil as we can ship out.
00:36:51.480 But the feds are in the way.
00:36:52.440 Yeah, absolutely.
00:36:53.180 The customers are there.
00:36:54.980 the customers are there and uh we could put him in okay a good question a two-lar super by the
00:37:02.640 way thank you uh you know from scotty saying so we run federal candidates and split the vote
00:37:06.420 okay polyev's trailing by what 17 18 points already what are you splitting they don't have
00:37:15.800 a hope in hell of winning right now he's sinking the i'm talking anyways the risk and i'm not
00:37:22.340 saying is going or anything the risk like it's still a fair question but in alberta if i'm
00:37:28.740 talking a reform style party that party was only built for the west it was like the bloc quebecois
00:37:34.420 it didn't go splitting votes in areas where that's a concern and in alberta a lot of the
00:37:40.740 ridings you can split the vote three ways you're still not going to get a liberal in there
00:37:45.380 so though fair enough if another reform type party came in as i said earlier
00:37:51.220 Yeah, you're pretty much going to guarantee a Liberal Party is going to be in there.
00:37:54.580 But that's exactly what happened before.
00:37:58.160 Mulroney got in.
00:37:58.960 Guess what he did?
00:37:59.660 He dragged his ass in getting rid of the National Energy Program.
00:38:02.260 He gave contracts to Quebec over Albertan contracts.
00:38:07.240 He just turned into Liberal light.
00:38:10.840 And we see the pattern coming from the Federal Party, too.
00:38:13.620 That's the only way you can win.
00:38:16.540 So we'll see.
00:38:19.060 I mean, there's risks.
00:38:20.000 Fair enough.
00:38:20.660 I don't think running federal candidates across the country would be a good idea.
00:38:24.220 I'd just like to see Albertan MPs to be able to stand up and speak just for Alberta.
00:38:28.940 There's the things I admire for the Bloc Québécois.
00:38:33.020 They know they'll never form government.
00:38:35.140 That's their, you know, it's mathematically impossible the way they're set up to form government.
00:38:41.180 But they will vote either way on issues.
00:38:43.740 They're not beholden to the Liberals or the Conservatives.
00:38:45.980 They tend to lean left, but they'll vote either way.
00:38:48.440 Because their lens is always, what's in it for Quebec?
00:38:52.160 That's all.
00:38:52.960 That's the number one question with any policy before it goes to the House of Commons or anything goes into committee.
00:38:58.080 Their question, what's in it for Quebec?
00:39:01.060 And with a representation as we're supposed to have regionally and so on, that's what our members of parliament are supposed to do.
00:39:09.620 They're supposed to speak for the local constituents, not for the interests of the party in eastern Canada.
00:39:14.560 But that's the way it's supposed to be versus how it is.
00:39:18.440 if you had a party that is only based in the west like reform used to be
00:39:23.160 that'll be the lens they're going to look at things with and they can vote either way on things but
00:39:29.880 uh we'll see i mean that's getting ahead of myself we'll see what happens i just don't think it was
00:39:34.280 very wise for polyev to stir up his base by getting so active in the campaign with the
00:39:41.400 referendum here in alberta this is one of those things where it's a domestic battle you don't want
00:39:45.400 to start getting in the middle of it you're very potentially going to make it a heck of a lot worse
00:39:51.720 and uh one more time for this forever canadian who's i think just trolling the thread but
00:39:57.480 he's saying read the rulings and the actual constitutional efforts yes you're wrong man
00:40:01.400 you're dead wrong you're 100 wrong search it's very easy actually with ai or google
00:40:07.960 whether or not indigenous bands have veto authority over projects in canada supreme
00:40:12.360 court has ruled multiple multiple times they do not not have a veto consultant consent i'm sorry
00:40:18.200 it's too confusing for you but you are a forever canadian person so i can understand it takes some
00:40:23.000 slow explanations for you sometimes uh william robe uh saying uh ask yourself why pauliev is
00:40:29.800 trailing so badly canadian voters seem as the same as carney and voters minds they they um
00:40:34.200 uh might as well you know keep it the same and there's some truth for it like you've gotta
00:40:38.120 and i don't have the formula i would you know i would send the magic formula if i could but if
00:40:41.800 But if you can't distinguish yourself from the party in power, people aren't going to switch to you.
00:40:48.500 They will go with the devil they know.
00:40:51.140 The whole Trump factor has been devastating for Polly.
00:40:54.780 And it's not Polly's fault, really, necessarily.
00:40:57.340 It's just bad circumstances and bad timing.
00:41:00.200 But Trump has presented himself as a volatile force outside of Canada.
00:41:06.160 It's made an outside threat.
00:41:08.140 and his insulting tone, his 51st state stuff, his governor's stuff,
00:41:14.000 has really rankled a whole hell of a lot of people,
00:41:16.900 whether people like Trump or not.
00:41:18.280 I'm not a fan of him, but either way,
00:41:20.760 that has made everybody rally around the party in power.
00:41:24.160 That made people stick with the liberals,
00:41:28.980 because again, when you have an outside threat,
00:41:30.660 people stick with the known and they don't budge.
00:41:34.340 And Polyev just keeps parroting.
00:41:36.480 I mean, he offers the same things.
00:41:40.340 Carney says we should have counter tariffs.
00:41:42.160 Paulyev says we should have counter tariffs.
00:41:43.840 Well, then if there's no difference, why would I bother switching?
00:41:46.580 They know what they got with Carney.
00:41:47.920 I know what we got with Carney.
00:41:48.840 Nothing.
00:41:49.380 There's a lot of talk.
00:41:50.500 But it's a tough spot for Paulyev to be in.
00:41:53.240 He's got to find a way to distinguish himself and his party from the Liberals
00:41:57.720 while still appearing that he's going to somehow resolve this trade mess that we've got going on.
00:42:07.980 And, you know, it's a very difficult spot to be in.
00:42:16.200 Let's see, let's further with William saying,
00:42:18.860 in voters' minds, they might as well keep the same leaders in.
00:42:20.580 Yeah, don't change the horses midstream.
00:42:22.080 Yeah, exactly.
00:42:22.960 And you say, you're American, great, you know.
00:42:25.440 And that's part of it, right?
00:42:26.780 When you've got a crisis, people aren't, and it is a crisis, guys, again, particularly in Quebec and Ontario.
00:42:35.440 It's really hitting their manufacturing district.
00:42:37.400 It's really hitting them hard, and people don't want to start changing leaders at this point.
00:42:42.060 They want something, some sort of resolution, some sort of fix.
00:42:44.420 I don't know what it is, but it's difficult.
00:42:47.800 Just a quick turn of a page because this is an odd one.
00:42:50.380 Cheryl Vann saying, whatever happened to the Gondek legal issues, why radio silence?
00:42:54.080 uh for those not familiar with it gondex the former mayor of calgary her and a few other
00:42:59.680 councillors actually had their cell phones seized by a warrant it looks like there might have been
00:43:03.360 some inside dealing potentially or corruption gondek won't cooperate and they haven't been
00:43:08.260 able to unlock her phone to find out what's in it but there might be communications perhaps
00:43:12.280 of some inside dealing the last word was they got an extension in court because they think
00:43:17.000 there's some new tech to be able to get into that secured phone because the police haven't
00:43:20.480 been able to get into it uh and find out what's going on in there but nothing's changed at this
00:43:26.920 point that's it's not my so much radio silence i think in the sense of a conspiracy but there's
00:43:31.140 just been nothing new to report yet so we'll see what happens it's very interesting though
00:43:35.880 uh conduct was not a well-liked mayor in calgary she was one of the rare one-term mayors and then
00:43:40.760 kicked out on her butt but if there was corruption going on as well uh she could be in a bad place
00:43:45.280 It doesn't say a lot because they seized the phones of a few former councillors
00:43:51.020 and the other ones cooperated, so they looked in the phone and said,
00:43:55.660 okay, there's no problem, they gave their phone back,
00:43:57.300 but the mayor's refused to cooperate, former mayor has refused to cooperate.
00:44:01.480 So we'll see what happens.
00:44:02.600 Rest assured, if anything comes up, we will report on it
00:44:04.760 because I have little love for Madam Gondek and having it gone would be a plus.
00:44:11.260 uh let's see joe mills saying if elections called i want to hear what both sides would
00:44:16.480 run on might be eye-opening yeah it would you know we but we're not at a point of that right
00:44:21.180 now i guess so we got to talk more in um broader terms on things and where the parties are going
00:44:26.280 and they're more reactive to more immediate issues the house of commons is sitting again
00:44:30.200 what in two weeks see what actually starts coming along and coming through the the folks speaking in
00:44:35.460 there uh i guess just one more thing to note on it you know everybody's been lighting their hair
00:44:40.160 on fire over the election of that, you know, new party in Germany, or not new so much, but you know,
00:44:47.040 quite conservative. And I guess it's run by a lesbian woman who, you know, has a non-white
00:44:54.740 wife or something like that. I mean, so conventional ideas of what far right might be aren't the same
00:45:01.060 as what they are. But what this, what you're seeing in Germany and the people losing their
00:45:04.540 crap over it and everything else, whether this group's extreme or not, this is what happens when
00:45:09.100 you kick the can down the road way too long in immigration. You will get a pendulum swing the
00:45:14.060 other way. And it could be a bad swing. It's better to adjust things now rather than wait until it
00:45:21.640 becomes a crisis and then people push back in what might be a destructive way later. So we'll
00:45:25.700 see what happens over there. But expect that in more and more European countries as they can't
00:45:30.740 get a handle on their immigration. Expect more of it out here. Just to close in Alberta, the first
00:45:35.320 nine questions a number of them are on how to take care of things at least with temporary workers
00:45:39.740 and things like that to take some of that pressure off and that could reduce that pendulum swing that
00:45:45.380 could go back the wrong way later on all right i'm kind of out of time uh look the pipeline is
00:45:50.600 going to be on tonight we'll be uh having a panel we'll break down a bunch more of those issues
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