Western Standard - Premier Smith is flirting with political suicide

00:00:00.000 Good day.

00:00:29.760 welcome to the cory morgan show as you can see we've got a spiffy new background in the studio

00:00:34.380 now looking all professional like and everything still haven't changed my wardrobe or uh makeup or

00:00:40.500 budget still limited on these things but you know we'll pretty myself up as much as we can good to

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00:01:03.820 Lots going on, as always, this week.

00:01:07.920 Hard to tell where to begin.

00:01:09.140 Well, of course, I know where to begin.

00:01:10.200 I've got a ranting monologue I'm going to start into momentarily.

00:01:14.860 So let's see.

00:01:17.680 Oh, well, there's CB fixes all.

00:01:19.580 It says, I ran the $400 billion through AI and everything I could think of

00:01:22.240 and what AI suggested came out at $10 billion max.

00:01:24.320 Okay, that's good.

00:01:25.180 It is a discussion is about what I'm going to start talking about in just a moment.

00:01:29.900 And yes, it is related to Premier Daniel Smith getting up and saying that becoming independent would cost $400 billion.

00:01:37.180 So, I mean, Premier Daniel Smith, she's been maintaining something of a delicate balancing act

00:01:41.440 between satisfying the provincial sovereigntist element within her party base

00:01:45.640 and most Albertans at large who lean towards the Federalist side.

00:01:49.460 Of late, though, the Premier's decided to fall solidly onto one side of the debate,

00:01:53.020 may lead to some pretty dire consequences for the UCP in the future.

00:01:57.000 And it can be understood why the premier is maintaining a stance on the federalist side of the debate.

00:02:01.660 She never claimed to be a supporter of Alberta independence,

00:02:04.480 and she didn't campaign on a platform supporting it.

00:02:07.360 She certainly has the right to express where she stands on the issue, too. 0.99

00:02:11.000 But when she went into a tirade with hyperbolic economic assumptions,

00:02:14.920 claiming that the transitional cost of independence would be over $400 billion,

00:02:18.880 she sounded much like former Premier Jason Kenney has lately,

00:02:22.400 since he donned the cloak of being Captain Canada.

00:02:25.280 Premier Smith would be well served to remember why the word former is used

00:02:28.360 when speaking of Jason Kenney's premiership.

00:02:30.680 While some of the leading figures in the independence movement

00:02:33.480 have always had that chip on their shoulders with the premier,

00:02:36.300 they were tempered by the majority of independent supporters

00:02:38.480 who accepted her federalism as long as they could get a referendum out of the deal.

00:02:42.460 With the courts blocking the ability for citizens to initiate a referendum on sovereignty,

00:02:46.800 independent supporters became a little more upset with the status quo,

00:02:49.620 but many still grudgingly accepted the watered-down word salad of a referendum question the Premier added to the ballot for this fall.

00:02:56.600 They took the Premier at her word that this was the only option available for people to express themselves on a referendum right now.

00:03:03.120 With the Premier now in an open campaign, though, against the option number two on the question,

00:03:08.040 independent supporters are going to be sorely tempted to give up on the referendum and direct their resources and energy into unseating the Premier.

00:03:15.060 And this is not a threat to be dismissed.

00:03:17.380 No conservative premier has managed to remain in power beyond a single term since Ralph Klein,

00:03:21.760 and it's tended to be party members who take them down, not the electorate.

00:03:25.660 In needlessly provoking a segment to the UCP member base who number in the thousands,

00:03:30.000 Smith could start a chain of events leading to her political career, 0.88

00:03:33.560 meaning the same nasty ending her predecessors enjoyed.

00:03:37.300 Rather than going to war against the independent supporters,

00:03:39.440 the premier should be focusing on accomplishments that may undercut the strength of the independence campaign.

00:03:44.480 Where did that plan for a provincial pension plan go?

00:03:46.820 When are we going to formally announce an end to the RCMP contract plan with a full police, you know, provincial police force?

00:03:53.140 How about bringing home the collection of provincial taxes and keeping energy royalties within provincial institutions rather than using eastern-based banks?

00:04:00.400 With three years in office, Premier Smith has talked a really good game when it comes to provincial sovereignty initiatives, but her delivery has been terrible.

00:04:07.340 If the intention is to make Alberta more sovereign within Canada, it would be refreshing to see a tangible indication of it.

00:04:13.000 Smith's ongoing negotiations with Mark Carney appear to have involved a lot of capitulations from Alberta on carbon taxes

00:04:18.080 and questionable carbon tax initiatives, with no concrete commitments from the government to approve projects.

00:04:24.640 She's set multiple deadlines with the Prime Minister since he was elected,

00:04:27.680 only to do nothing when the deadlines were ignored.

00:04:29.720 Remember that Grey Cup deadline? Yeah, that was a long time ago since the Grey Cup.

00:04:33.400 The Premier is appearing weak on Ottawa and harsh against Alberta regionalists. 0.99

00:04:38.280 This is creating an ugly formula which will lead to a populist uprising against her 0.99

00:04:42.560 and no amount of threats that it's going to lead to another term of the NDP might cool that.

00:04:46.580 A referendum is on the horizon that presents independent supporters with half a loaf to be satisfied with.

00:04:52.060 Premier Smith should stay clear of the campaign and let citizens deal with it from here on in.

00:04:56.320 She made her federalist inclination clear and doesn't need to keep pressing it.

00:04:59.740 It's changing the sentiment among independent supporters from frustration with the Premier to rage.

00:05:05.000 The 7,000 people who sat through blizzards and endured abuse from Federalists last winter

00:05:09.460 to get the referendum signatures are dedicated, hardworking Albertans.

00:05:13.460 The Premier really doesn't want to have them dedicate their hard work towards removing her from power.

00:05:18.600 Nobody expects the Premier to adopt a pro-independence stance.

00:05:21.600 She doesn't need to go on a campaign against independent supporters either.

00:05:26.020 Like you see, media and any Eastern elites are going to label her as separatist anyways. 0.55

00:05:29.240 We've been seeing that. It doesn't matter what she does. 1.00

00:05:30.820 what Smith must do is show some victories for Alberta within the Federation and she's running

00:05:36.060 out of time to do that that's what's got me going these days all right hey Dave welcome to the new

00:05:42.020 studio well isn't this cozy yeah it's not so bad it's not so bad looks nice explain to me how we're

00:05:48.640 going to get uh us two and Nigel and Derek all around this little table that's a good segue for

00:05:53.340 you know viewers just to watch we will see something interesting as this the pipeline our

00:05:57.640 next show that we do uh does put four or five of us in a row uh we'll see how that works uh john

00:06:02.940 was gonna have to get creative yeah it's not our responsibility maybe it'll be maybe there's

00:06:06.540 something coming like a celebrity squares where we'll be uh you know stacked on top of each other

00:06:10.880 there you go so i'm seeing your name on all sorts of billboards across alberta these days what's

00:06:16.100 going on yeah well i got i got kind of frustrated waiting for some of the uh you know independence

00:06:21.040 groups to get things moving and everything the petitioning period ended weeks ago and uh stay

00:06:26.120 Free Alberta and the Alberta Prosperity Project seem to have vanished. So in a fit of foolishness

00:06:30.880 and insanity, I started a third-party advertising group and thought we'd raise a few dollars and

00:06:37.680 yeah, it exploded and we raised well over $30,000 and now have billboards out and signs going on

00:06:43.220 people's lawns with my name attached just because that's the website that's going on. I'm not

00:06:46.420 promoting me. I'm just being cheap and using the court. Why don't you just announce you're

00:06:50.540 going to run for leader and no way no i'm nuts but i'm not that nuts the movement deserves better

00:06:56.860 than that well i know they deserve something but either i have no comments on that i'm not going

00:07:03.180 there but yeah it's been it's been an interesting five days already and i'm sure jane again as

00:07:07.400 usual wondering oh what kind of nutcase have i married uh you know when am i going to get some

00:07:11.340 rest exactly so have you been following the henry noak case in england that's awful it is it is just 0.89

00:07:17.860 horrible. It's being described as Britain's George Floyd moment. This was an 18-year-old

00:07:24.400 university student walking home, came across a Sikh guy who was wearing his kirpan, ceremonial

00:07:32.880 knife, and there was a dispute and the kid got stabbed four or five times, slashed in the face

00:07:40.780 and back by the ceremonial dagger.

00:07:44.080 And when police arrived, the killer said, oh, no, it was him.

00:07:48.320 He acted racism towards me and tried to knock my turban off.

00:07:53.020 So they handcuffed this poor kid who's bleeding out in the street.

00:07:56.780 He's saying, I can't breathe, I can't breathe.

00:07:59.180 He says, I've been stabbed.

00:08:00.820 And the cop says, don't think so, mate.

00:08:03.680 And he ends up bleeding out on the street, and it's ugly.

00:08:07.420 The killer got sentenced to 21 years yesterday.

00:08:10.780 And the people down in Southampton on the lovely southern English coastline

00:08:15.340 weren't too happy when the video was released and did a bit of writing last night.

00:08:19.080 So it's ugly.

00:08:20.760 There's a powder keg going on over there, you know, with this.

00:08:23.860 It's a much bigger story.

00:08:25.500 I mean, the tensions built, mass immigration issues.

00:08:28.020 I see a lot of precursors to things that might happen in Canada

00:08:30.540 if they don't understand when you overload with too much of one culture that can't integrate.

00:08:36.200 Well, you know what?

00:08:37.040 It's one of the things we're going to talk about on the pipeline tonight.

00:08:40.560 So guess how many stories are in the mainstream Canadian media on Mr. Nowak?

00:08:45.820 Let me guess they're not touching it with a 10-foot pole.

00:08:47.660 CDC has done one small story, focusing on the violence and the far right.

00:08:52.480 Oh, on the reaction to this rather than the fact.

00:08:55.260 I mean, to be fair, there's part of where they, you know, when they bottle this up, and it's so wrong.

00:09:01.080 You know, far most Sikh people never use that ceremonial dagger for anything dangerous or wrong.

00:09:06.520 It really is ceremonial. 0.99

00:09:07.500 and this is what does create backlash towards innocent Sikh people but when they try to cover

00:09:13.080 up the bad elements and the problems and the issues with the integration it just ends poorly

00:09:18.460 for everybody have the open discussion it does uh premier daniel smith announced today that

00:09:23.200 alberta is going ahead with their new id card starting july 2nd it'll have all your health

00:09:28.280 information numbers and and your citizenship so if you're a canadian citizenship that's noted

00:09:34.240 permanent resident not as noted uh uh immigrant you know it's it's gonna be interesting yeah 0.99

00:09:41.060 uh red deer rcmp are warning about a release of a scumbag child sex offender they say he's going 0.99

00:09:48.180 to re-offend he's going to uh hurt another child so question is why is he out on the streets 0.98

00:09:53.940 yeah well that's a question we keep asking over and over and you know recidivism rates for those

00:09:59.120 kinds of monsters the stats are there they're terrible the chances of guys like him of re-offending

00:10:04.620 are yeah very high why our system can't keep them behind bars i mean this is something that

00:10:10.560 crosses political lines left wing right wing i mean almost everybody is disgusted with child

00:10:15.120 molesters yet yeah and you've covered it extensively some of these people get out and 0.99

00:10:19.560 go on to murder yeah you know it only gets worse only gets worse speaking of scumbags uh the alert 0.99

00:10:25.940 team has arrested a guy in Okotoks 0.99

00:10:28.640 with one of the largest

00:10:30.060 troves of child porn in

00:10:32.440 Alberta history. 500,000

00:10:34.840 individual pictures 0.97

00:10:35.980 of child porn. To put 0.99

00:10:38.580 it into perspective, last year

00:10:40.320 in all their seizures, they only see

00:10:42.320 600,000. And this one

00:10:44.300 Okotoks scumbag, it's got 500,000. 0.99

00:10:46.940 Again, you know, there's one of those precursors 0.99

00:10:48.680 where we should have some judicial

00:10:49.800 room to say this guy is clearly

00:10:52.360 if he hasn't already

00:10:54.020 molested kids is going to move on to it. Let's just put him away for, you know,

00:10:58.140 we'll be fair, a century. Yeah, exactly. Guess what though? He's out on bail. Oh, of course.

00:11:03.260 Of course. Mr. Trump went a bit crazy again last night and put 10% tariffs on about 60 countries,

00:11:11.780 including Canada, who import goods made by slave labor. So that'll be fun and games. 1.00

00:11:20.640 And the Liberals have removed the recent CRTC decision to have Canadian broadcasters contribute more money to a Canadian fund to produce Canadian stuff.

00:11:33.720 So they're going to repeal that, but they're going to give them $600 million to help to hurt.

00:11:39.000 Yeah, I saw that. I mean, I read the first part of it. Oh, they did something right. They did something good.

00:11:42.500 And then they get down to the second paragraph. Oh, but we're going to sell taxpayers for $600 million and toss it out to them.

00:11:46.880 Oh, you just can't do it.

00:11:48.000 Can't wait for losing with this government.

00:11:49.260 No, no.

00:11:50.360 Well, they started on the right track.

00:11:52.320 That's a rarity, I guess, in itself.

00:11:54.020 Yeah.

00:11:54.520 They're a bit of a flip-flop to this government.

00:11:57.120 Yes.

00:11:57.760 Oh, well, flip-flops.

00:11:59.460 It's been an issue with a lot of things lately.

00:12:01.200 It is.

00:12:01.980 That's it.

00:12:02.420 That's all.

00:12:02.940 See you on the pipeline.

00:12:04.080 Well, thanks for breaking in the new studio this morning and all those news updates.

00:12:07.800 I'll let you get back to the room to carry on with all your reporters back there who now no longer have to worry about.

00:12:13.840 Yeah, we can't see them.

00:12:14.300 They could have all left for lunch by now.

00:12:15.980 We can't see them.

00:12:16.680 Yeah, they could hide back there.

00:12:18.240 Oh, well.

00:12:18.820 Oh, well.

00:12:19.260 All right. Thanks, Dave. It is our news editor, Dave Naylor. And as you see, lots on the go.

00:12:25.800 So I'd like to remind you, I mean, look at that crap from Legacy Media, right? 0.91

00:12:29.280 As he said, nobody else reported on that incident in the UK, which is awful. It really is just 0.95

00:12:34.800 horrific. I mean, the imagery of this, you could tell these blood covered fingers of a kid

00:12:41.900 handcuffed from behind the cops holding him down who died and uh legacy media didn't touch it they

00:12:49.760 didn't cover it we need to cover these things they are important so this is where i do the ask

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00:13:21.020 you.

00:13:22.840 You know, Tim Burns saying that cops should be in prison.

00:13:25.620 Yeah, I know.

00:13:26.400 We seem to get everything backwards, right?

00:13:28.100 And those horrific, horrific stories with these ones, these, these,

00:13:31.900 why, why can we not keep of all things chronic childhood?

00:13:39.580 abusers behind bars. Yet here we are. Here we are. And the police know it. They know the risk.

00:13:43.860 They know the hazard. And that's why they warn us when they release them among the public.

00:13:48.440 But warning isn't enough. We're going to lead on to possibly, you know, dangerous actions from

00:13:55.320 people who fear for the safety of their children if we keep this up. We've got to find a mechanism

00:13:58.700 when the police, when corrections have identified. I mean, they talk about dangerous offenders,

00:14:03.400 status things such as that well then use it use it but it seems you know we're far more uh

00:14:11.800 inclined to uh you know just get people a tax evasion they'll keep you behind bars for a long

00:14:16.100 time on that one abusing a child not so much okay let's get to my guest because i know he's got a

00:14:20.420 meeting he's got to go to right after this and i've been looking forward to it uh dan's been on

00:14:25.220 before but it's been a long time this is city councillor dan mcclain and he is uh doing a

00:14:31.080 political shift so thanks for coming on to talk to us today dan thank you for having me cory good

00:14:36.680 afternoon so i mean i'll get right to the point i i've been enjoying your your time as a city

00:14:43.220 councillor you've been outspoken you've been on the right side of pretty much all issues but it

00:14:48.260 looks like you're doing that migration and and uh making a run towards provincial politics what's

00:14:53.680 happening yeah yeah i it was always in the plans cory i was always the plan was to serve on the

00:15:01.120 municipal level do what i can to try to turn things around city hall which was obviously

00:15:06.620 with nancy and gondek going in a totally far left direction and then look at a potential

00:15:13.220 provincial run but it did kind of uh it was unexpected rebecca schultz dear friend i've

00:15:20.380 since the beginning when she resigned in uh november i guess it was six seven months ago

00:15:26.300 she uh called me immediately and said would you consider running she says i think you know the

00:15:31.020 area we're good friends we have this a lot of the same ideals and same uh ideas that uh you know

00:15:36.780 conservative values uh and so i put that into uh give me some time let me see what i can do at city

00:15:43.340 hall we've just got a new council a new mayor and so as many know the first thing i did was sit down

00:15:48.940 with Mayor Farkas and say, here's my priorities. We need some more. We've got to crack down on

00:15:53.720 crime and social disorder. We need to repeal blanket rezoning. We need to bring in a better

00:15:58.400 budget. Those are my three main priorities, which we've done. Since then, we've let go of two of our

00:16:04.500 top city administrators, which again, I think that was necessary for change at the top.

00:16:09.900 Repealed the climate change emergency just last week, which was good. Focusing on infrastructure,

00:16:15.440 things are going in the right direction and so I feel now is the time that I can make this jump

00:16:20.780 to go to provincial politics and hopefully serve and do the same thing I've done at City Hall just

00:16:26.440 work even harder just at the provincial level now. Okay well so just for those who aren't you know

00:16:32.380 as politically involved and so on how the process works you're at this point running for the

00:16:37.880 nomination to be able to run in the by-election for Calgary Shaw that's right? Yeah yeah the

00:16:43.620 nomination got announced about a month ago so i've been juggling now for the last month i city

00:16:50.160 holds a demanding job i put in a good 60 hours plus a week there but the evenings and then

00:16:54.720 weekends i've been at the doors with my volunteers talking to hundreds and hundreds of people

00:17:01.200 great support fantastic support again it's the same area a lot of calvary shaw the provincial

00:17:07.260 writing of rebecca schultz overlaps word 13 in a very large way so i know these doors i know

00:17:13.540 these people uh and uh yeah i'm hearing a lot of really good things and a lot of support so um

00:17:19.380 that'll go for another month and then there will be a nomination vote on june 24th

00:17:23.940 at cardell rec center in southwest calvary great so when that happens just so people know it's a

00:17:30.020 nomination so it's only party members in that constituency who will vote on that you get to

00:17:34.660 choose your your local uh representative and and candidate there what sort of timelines are there

00:17:40.500 and cut off and so on for people if they're they're looking to take part in the nomination

00:17:44.020 well so today is the very last day to buy a ucp a conservative party membership

00:17:50.180 they're ten dollars you can go online thanks for asking the question because today's your last day

00:17:55.620 you have to have a membership to participate and make your voice heard and you have to live in

00:18:00.900 then calvary shaw which is going to be legacy walden chaparral and then all the way from

00:18:07.060 Somerset, Shaughnessy, Silverado, Belmont, just that southwest corner of Calgary.

00:18:13.380 If you live in one of those areas and you have an expired membership, please renew it. If you

00:18:17.300 want to get a new membership, renew it. Then there will be three weeks of more campaigning,

00:18:23.380 two memberships, ideally, and a vote will be, like I said, on 3 to 8 p.m. on June 24th.

00:18:30.260 All right. So presuming you go through the process, you get elected in the by-election,

00:18:35.140 you end up as a member of the united conservative party caucus what are your priorities going to be

00:18:40.180 as a member what do you want to bring to the table uh provincially well if i'm successful

00:18:46.580 and again i've learned a thing or two about campaigning and people in my area

00:18:50.900 uh i do have brought uh you know seem to uh like my platforms after that cory then the nomination

00:18:56.900 contest if i'm successful there then there will be a by-election and then you'll the ndp will

00:19:00.900 have to put up their candidate and then i'll have to go through that election and hopefully that's

00:19:06.260 sooner than later so that i can get into legislation and then my priorities of course would be

00:19:14.260 alberta first calgary southwest calgary these are the these are close near dear to my heart

00:19:20.740 uh and my priorities are going to be the same you know we've really got to crack down on the

00:19:24.420 crime and socialist order just not in the big cities but it's spreading out everywhere and

00:19:29.620 And then just the affordability.

00:19:32.700 What I'm hearing at the doors is the same as we hear more and more.

00:19:35.880 It's just the cost of living.

00:19:37.380 Their taxes are too high.

00:19:38.540 I don't care what level it is.

00:19:40.440 You know, all levels of government need to shrink down what we're spending on our bureaucracies

00:19:44.300 and quit doubling too much on the average taxpayer.

00:19:47.900 That's the big focus.

00:19:50.320 So, I mean, some experience you'll bring to the table from Calgary City Hall.

00:19:53.540 you know the relationship between calgary city hall and the provincial government has been

00:19:58.680 strained many times over the years i think it's gotten better under under mayor farkas but there's

00:20:03.360 there's still differences of opinion uh would you be able to bring some perspective i guess

00:20:08.160 into the provincial caucus to maybe you know help things working together that way yeah exactly i

00:20:13.440 really hope so and i'm encouraged by i think the mayor and current council they're very supportive

00:20:18.060 of uh of you making this move and they are hopeful as well that i will be able to advocate

00:20:22.720 your business leaders your residents uh the arts community everybody wants to see a better

00:20:29.040 relationship with the cities the big cities and the province and i did have a conversation with

00:20:35.600 the premier at a small event in my ward just last week and i'd mentioned that as well i said i've

00:20:41.680 talked with the mayor of arcas i really want to see us talking together getting along and you know

00:20:46.400 what she had said she said interestingly enough she edmonton and the province as sometimes had

00:20:54.160 a better relationship with uh the city with the province and cowrie does because edmonton asks

00:21:00.480 for usually one big thing at a time whereas the city sometimes with underneath gondek and then

00:21:05.120 she did put a laundry list of i want this i want this i want that and letters saying you know

00:21:10.480 chastising the province and all over the map and so i think what i heard there is the focus is

00:21:17.040 nail it down to one or two you know big priorities that we need right now help with the prop from the

00:21:21.840 province bring it to us and let's solve them one at a time and so that's what i think i you know

00:21:26.560 right now we have a as the city has a big infrastructure deficit the water pipes and you

00:21:31.120 know there's we could certainly use some help there so maybe we start there and maybe take a

00:21:35.760 I hate to see Edmonton beat us at anything, but that sounds like probably the right path forward.

00:21:41.580 Let's just narrow it down. 1.00

00:21:42.900 Don't bitch and complain all the time. 1.00

00:21:44.500 Figure out something tangible that we can work on, and let's fix it. 1.00

00:21:47.460 So you would be, you know, presumably one MLA among a caucus of many, but I'll still throw something at you.

00:21:53.420 Something, an area where I have been, you know, a little critical of the UCP, as you've seen in City Hall.

00:21:58.780 Sometimes the temptation is just there to just keep spending rather than, you know, taking some of the more difficult decisions.

00:22:05.760 We haven't had a balanced budget for some time on the provincial end of things, though high oil prices might change that.

00:22:11.300 But we still should always assume we need to be tight.

00:22:13.620 And you've always been excellent in calling out bad spending and getting the budget in order in City Hall.

00:22:18.800 What could you see provincially that could be an area where they could scale back some spending?

00:22:23.900 Like you'll show some more responsibility because I think there's a few areas hiding in there.

00:22:28.800 Well, I agree. I agree. And I think it's the feds, the province, the municipal levels.

00:22:33.200 there's way too much spending on uh you know maybe we could call them the non-profits or the

00:22:39.420 non-governmental organizations i think we really need to dig into that i mean we saw this at you

00:22:44.340 know in the states where they had a doge department what i did at city hall the last budget review is

00:22:48.940 i put forth a notice of motion that was calling for a zero-based budgeting is they got audit a

00:22:53.720 forensic external audit to go through every city department from from an outside source kpmg to go

00:23:00.700 through and find the savings and efficiencies so this is what we're now going through with at the

00:23:05.000 city that i hope will result in tens of millions in savings and there's a lot of jobs out there i

00:23:10.380 mean nobody wants to fire people but the bureaucracies are bloated at city hall we hired

00:23:16.200 2 000 people just in the last few years the province is the same thing a ton of employees

00:23:21.520 the federal government is the largest employer in the whole country we have to we can't have

00:23:26.240 these big bloated bureaucracies that's where we start paring down and getting more efficient and 0.78

00:23:30.680 streamlining, just that type of personnel costs. Okay, so going in, I mean, with the regional

00:23:38.020 representation, I know it's limited when you get into a caucus, because then you're speaking with

00:23:42.240 the whole government, but still the intent, and I imagine some of the outcome is that you'll bring

00:23:46.960 those local concerns, though, to the provincial government. What sort of Calgary Shaw specific

00:23:53.880 issues do you think you could be bringing forward to make sure you're represented there? Things that

00:23:58.700 kind of particular to that end of the city well the big one is interchanges we've had extreme

00:24:04.540 growth in the southwest there's 194th ave and 210th ave they're two places that are just uh

00:24:12.380 they need interchanges at those two crossings there's between both sides of mcleod trail going

00:24:17.420 south towards okatoks there's probably 40 000 people that have moved in there in the last 10

00:24:22.300 years interchanges that need to be built the city does collect levies from the developers to pay for

00:24:27.980 these things as well as tax dollars but sometimes the province can chip in they have in the past

00:24:33.340 you know helped them with infrastructure so i'd advocate for that type of help uh and then um

00:24:39.180 you know for those infrastructure things maybe some more funding in recreation everybody like

00:24:44.060 i think all over cities and and it's not just calgary i mean i think if you give something to

00:24:48.620 one place you have to give them all i mean that's where the province works and i recognize that

00:24:53.180 so we can't you know pick the winners and losers but i will remind the premier that this election

00:24:59.660 i think is going to hinge on southwest calgary that's where things are won and lost sometimes

00:25:03.980 that's where uh you know those seats down there sometimes are what bring you across the finish

00:25:09.420 line so hopefully a lot of just bread and butter issues corey just at the end of the day just you

00:25:16.940 if you can lower the taxes your uh your your portion of the taxes that you collect from

00:25:22.220 the cities i'll be happy with that as well great well and like i said i know you're on a tight

00:25:27.420 schedule i appreciate that you're burning the candle on both ends still being a councillor

00:25:31.180 while running in a nomination uh so before i let you go where can people again just one more time

00:25:36.860 find information on you on this last day to get a membership or support your campaign in any other

00:25:42.220 way or give you a blast if they're not too happy with what you've done uh how do the people find

00:25:46.620 mind you. Fair enough, danmcclain.ca. Just as simple as that going there. Yes, get a membership

00:25:53.920 is the big thing right now too. And if you want to give me a blast, that's fine, but buy a membership.

00:25:59.160 Yeah, well, you've been a councillor for a while. That's why I put out the invitation. I know you've

00:26:02.500 already heard plenty of feedback. You're not afraid of it. It's not always the nicest, but

00:26:07.840 sometimes the good critique can be good. Yeah, you bet. All right. Well, thank you again for coming on.

00:26:12.500 good luck with the nomination we'll be watching it really closely and perhaps the next time we

00:26:16.860 talk you'll you'll be an MLA and then I'll really blast you for your lack of performance on the

00:26:20.620 provincial front I appreciate that thanks so much for having me on Corey great thank you Dan have

00:26:25.440 a good day thanks so one more time guys danmcclain.ca and yes it's a nomination thing if we want to get

00:26:31.580 the good folks in there in those spots you got to participate that's the way it works get a

00:26:36.960 membership, make up your mind, make your choice and select who you want to be your MLA. I mean,

00:26:42.680 it is Calgary Shaw. There's no guarantees, you know, a by-election can go any way, but I think

00:26:46.840 it's one of the more safe UCP seats. So who you choose there is most likely going to be the next

00:26:52.400 MLA. So a lot of provincial debate and discussion going on. I see Vant Fashions talking and others

00:26:58.560 and yeah, this is something we see what I'm worried about. As I was saying with my monologue,

00:27:04.840 You know, as I made it pretty clear, I'm not too thrilled with Premier Smith taking such an active role in this referenda campaign.

00:27:13.840 I mean, as I said, I don't expect her to take an independence supporting role.

00:27:20.240 I never wanted her to.

00:27:21.160 I think it would be death for the party to take on an overtly independence stance. 0.94

00:27:26.080 but at the same time to say that she's going to just campaign her butt off over this next four 0.97

00:27:32.380 months on one side of it you're she's going to inflame the base the the workers I mean people

00:27:40.860 who work in politics know this as well I mean so what I'm saying part of why I'm as crabby with

00:27:45.360 Smith right now is I've been one of her most ardent defenders I mean lord knows I've been

00:27:49.700 called everything in the book by some of the people who support tearing her out of power

00:27:53.140 you know i've taken my share of flack on that but i'll always be i'm critical of her i have been

00:27:58.560 when it came to the budget in the past and things like that in this case i'm critical and i'm

00:28:02.800 worried i'm genuinely worried because i don't want to see the party go into a round of ripping

00:28:08.040 a leader out tearing itself apart over this she's not winning the support and love of the federalists

00:28:15.540 as i said legacy medias the the personalities the other politicians they're still all calling 0.92

00:28:19.280 or separatist anyway. Just stick to some of the other things. If she really, really wants to

00:28:26.400 stop the independence vote, as I said, during my monologue, then do some things, do some things,

00:28:32.840 get some stuff done. You get a provincial pension plan in place, or it looks like it's well on its

00:28:38.300 way, like it's real. I bet you you'll see support for the independent side drop by 10%. But do

00:28:44.480 something because right now it has been a lot of talk and that's just not good uh you know and a

00:28:51.600 commenter said that user fp07 saying smith is pretty great all things considered this seems

00:28:55.720 like an attempt to split the vote remember what happened the last time we did at the end he would

00:28:58.860 destroy the province yeah so let's not split the party you can't always just blame the the people

00:29:05.280 coming up who are upset you've got to look at the leadership that has allowed the party to become

00:29:10.580 split why is there a split and address it when you fall too far to one side or the other guess

00:29:16.260 what happens you will split the party just as if smith came around with a strong independence

00:29:22.020 support that would also split the party so don't stick to being a premier stick to saying as she

00:29:29.540 did as she has every right that she is a federalist but quit getting on the pulpit and and hammering

00:29:36.100 at the independent side, because you are infuriating them. And as I said, if you've been

00:29:40.700 involved in politics, you know that a small minority of people do the vast majority of the

00:29:45.700 work, you know, anything, it's not even just politics, a soccer committee, you know, you're

00:29:50.920 working on or any volunteer group, but it's just the nature of things. The independent side galvanized

00:29:56.520 7,000 people who are very predominantly conservative to actually go out and petition all

00:30:03.980 year, you know, this last few months through the winter. These are the workers. These are the

00:30:08.640 volunteers. These are the hardcores. So it's not just upsetting, you know, a group of people. It's

00:30:14.800 upsetting the most activated, effective people in your party base of support who may turn on you.

00:30:21.220 And I do not want to see that. We know that one of the main people in the Alberta Prosperity Project

00:30:27.140 has been screaming and howling and having tantrums and calling for the end of Premier Smith's

00:30:31.380 leadership for a long, long time. Most of the group has ignored him to this point on that front.

00:30:37.320 But if she keeps inflaming the base, they're going to start saying, maybe he has a point.

00:30:42.300 And I don't want to see that. So change the tack. By the way, there was a super chat put in by Jay

00:30:48.700 Mitchell saying, end federalism. I appreciate that. I'm fully on board. I mean, I've unapologetically

00:30:54.640 been an independent supporter, well, for decades now. And we're coming up on an interesting

00:31:00.040 turning point in Alberta. You know, we're having this referendum, imperfect as it is.

00:31:08.060 And I don't, I don't like the question. I've been clear on that. And, but we got to work with

00:31:14.240 what we've got. We got to do what we can. And putting a solid vote on option two,

00:31:20.820 it's turned into a de facto poll, but a very serious one where the whole province is going

00:31:25.940 to be pulled they're basically talking about it it is an independence vote even though it won't

00:31:30.260 be binding at this time we've got to take it seriously because i guess what if we sit back

00:31:34.000 and say well i'm not participating because i don't like the question and then we allow lukasic side

00:31:38.260 to get a 70 victory on that the independence movement is really going to be quiet for a long

00:31:43.460 long time so take this run with it get as much as we can out of this uh milo nexus uh with a

00:31:51.600 a $7 super chat, which again, I appreciate it really helps as well.

00:31:55.760 It says, I think Smith's point is to not let people's votes get crushed.

00:32:01.540 It's not about independence. So, I mean, it's, it's, it's her point as well. I mean,

00:32:08.860 she's given the referendum. She could have backed off. She didn't have to appeal the decision of

00:32:13.800 the judge. She, there's a lot of things she could have done. I think she wanted as much

00:32:17.680 hands off as she could. That's why she wanted this thing to be citizens initiated rather 0.98

00:32:21.400 than her putting it in but now we've got this mushy mess and uh you know uh john i won't read

00:32:28.880 the full name says why does infighting always happen are they planted by the rcmp or ceases

00:32:32.500 no i don't think so i don't think so i this has happened i've been involved in politics and small

00:32:37.300 groups uh infighting has been the nature of it since the beginning of politics unfortunately

00:32:42.260 a bunch of opinionated people trying to work together will eventually start fight uh fashion

00:32:48.440 saying, Corey, we aren't going to win this time. We need to let that happen, but then also focus

00:32:51.580 on building the structures, banks, police, military pensions. Perhaps. I'm not going to give up on

00:32:55.340 saying we aren't going to win this time. Not at this point. You know, this referendum won't lead

00:33:01.420 to anything binding. So, you know, there's not going to be a win no matter how you look. I think

00:33:06.840 very, very possibly we could get over 50%. That's part of why, yes, I started a third-party

00:33:11.500 advertising. I put out billboards, digital billboards. People have probably seen them

00:33:15.620 going around the internet because they've been hugely well received and it just says send Ottawa

00:33:21.440 a message choose Alberta I mean it's a great risk-free warning shot you can put over the bow

00:33:27.320 for people who maybe are still on the fence on the independence thing we're saying I want to kind of

00:33:31.280 give the middle finger to Ottawa because I am pretty upset about things so far and you know

00:33:34.880 what you can safely vote for option two and yeah things will keep moving but I mean you know you'll

00:33:40.520 have the other chance potentially in another referendum down the road in the meantime as

00:33:44.520 Vamp Fashion says, which I fully agree with. We got to get the police in place, the pensions,

00:33:49.460 all of that stuff. We should be doing it anyway. We should have done that yesterday.

00:33:56.160 You know, we've got as well, here we go with 4E Canadian. It's forever Canadian. I believe I've 0.60

00:34:01.140 seen you in my scroll on my live feeds when I do my other ones on my own channel. Premier Smith

00:34:05.860 is flirting with political suicide. More and more of us do not care as we want her defeated, 0.99

00:34:09.040 as well as you. I don't want her defeated, actually. And, uh, I do think a lot of people

00:34:14.360 are enjoying the, the, the push to have her defeated from within people who would never

00:34:17.880 support the UCP in the first place. Uh, John Bolton, you know, again, excellent voice out

00:34:23.460 there. Check it out. If you aren't subscribed to his YouTube channel already, get on there guys.

00:34:27.260 He's brilliant. And, uh, you'll get your, your morning dose of common sense and politics every

00:34:30.940 day. Just there's my plug for John, but it's well worth it. I would not direct you guys to

00:34:34.660 a channel that's not worth watching. Just don't set aside your time watching my channel first.

00:34:39.040 He's saying UCPM, AGM, November 22nd, tickets available now.

00:34:43.040 Yeah, if people want to express discontent with UCP, that's one of the times you can do it.

00:34:49.340 In fact, it's a prime time to do it.

00:34:51.860 I'm just saying don't express it prior to October 19th.

00:34:54.900 We've got something else to focus on.

00:34:56.100 We've got a big one.

00:34:56.920 And I think we can really, really make a mark with this.

00:34:59.800 We can really do something with it.

00:35:04.120 We've just got to think strategically, tactically, work with what we've got.

00:35:07.920 we're not going to win every battle. We're not going to get things our way every time. In fact,

00:35:13.940 often we don't, but we keep moving the ball in the right direction. And speaking as a, you know,

00:35:20.400 a frustrated independent supporter has been at it for decades. We're closer to it than we've ever

00:35:25.960 been before. And Keith Wilson, he's got things going. Jason Levine, by the way, lots of other

00:35:33.100 TPAs, things are getting moving, they're getting moving on the ground. And I like the way Keith

00:35:39.140 Wilson put it anyways, because there's some truth to it. And I didn't really want to say that during

00:35:41.940 the petitioning point. But the needle of truly dedicated independent supporters hasn't been

00:35:46.340 moving much. It's been stubbornly hanging around that 30, 35%, which is not something to be

00:35:50.800 dismissed. That's one in three people in this province are saying they've had it. It's a huge

00:35:54.680 amount of support. But it's not the 50% in some that we would need to become independent. This

00:36:00.280 gives us some breathing space. This gives us some room. This gives us time for campaign practice,

00:36:05.600 time for more networking, time for more discussion on all these issues, and moving towards what would

00:36:10.800 be a binding referendum later. Because if we lose the, if we had a binding one coming this fall,

00:36:15.880 we'd probably have lost it, to be honest. We've got to be honest about this. I mean, look at it.

00:36:19.660 Look at the disarray of the APP and Stay Free Canada or Stay Free Alberta, whatever the heck

00:36:24.860 they're doing. I don't know. They keep assuring me, we've got a plan. We've got something coming.

00:36:29.040 we've got a campaign coming. Where the hell is it? They got thousands of volunteers. I don't

00:36:34.360 know how many dollars they've brought in. Why on earth have we had virtual silence from them

00:36:39.360 three weeks after the petitioning period ended? Where are they? What if they'd gotten the question?

00:36:44.240 What if the binding question was held this fall? Would these guys still be sitting in the starting

00:36:48.500 blocks right now while Thomas Lukasik is getting a thousand signs in the ground?

00:36:52.580 We weren't ready for this.

00:36:54.920 So, you know, a non-binding one might be a blessing in some ways.

00:37:02.100 Let's see, you know, François, Laurie Jean, you know, referring to François Levine,

00:37:06.320 we've tried for 30 years to have a Federalist, you know, Independence Party,

00:37:09.300 but Ottawa's always shut them down, ask Corey or Mitch.

00:37:11.960 Yeah, the party front just hasn't worked for this in general.

00:37:15.700 We've got a lot in common with Quebec, but we've got a lot of differences too.

00:37:19.620 And in Quebec, the party version seems to work, but not always, you know, that's why we're in advocacy groups and so on.

00:37:28.940 But it's going to be interesting.

00:37:30.720 It's going to be interesting.

00:37:31.360 You know, part of what got me worked up, and I do things for AlbertaFactCheck.com too, if you check it out, when Premier Smith got up and said it's going to cost $400 billion, you know, in transitional expenses for Alberta to become independent.

00:37:46.120 Whoa, hang on.

00:37:47.040 I mean, she started right off and then she started listing things.

00:37:48.960 this was a prepared statement. Obviously, she was ready for this, you know, issue to come up.

00:37:53.300 It said $170 billion of that is the debt we would have to take from Canada. I'm not going to go

00:37:59.140 down the rabbit hole of how much debt Alberta would or would not take in an independent situation. 0.62

00:38:03.460 That's all of the presumption that we aren't on the hook for the debt already. There's where

00:38:06.540 Smith was already BSing. And that really ticked me off because I know Danielle, I know she's smart. 0.95

00:38:11.040 She knows all this. So why did you do that stunt, that crap? Because it was crap. We owe that $170 0.99

00:38:17.040 billion, whether we're within the Federation or we're out of the Federation. This is not a new

00:38:22.300 expense as she's framing it, as are a whole bunch of the other, you know, expenses she listed,

00:38:30.620 things that are on there. It's all stuff we're already paying for. So this is not a new

00:38:35.640 embracing of expense. It's fair enough to point out it would come with expense. It's fair enough

00:38:41.360 to point out that there would be a hit to the economy if there was a yes vote for a little

00:38:47.980 while until things get stabilized. Fair enough to vote that we might not negotiate the best things

00:38:52.480 as it goes along. But to make up things like saying, you know, as if we wouldn't have that

00:38:57.560 debt or stuff like that, if we stayed in Canada, that's just being disingenuous. And I expected

00:39:04.820 better. You know, BMC television saying, can we still trust Danielle? I'd like to. I'd like to.

00:39:10.980 now isn't the time to take her out it isn't the time to take her down and uh you know but still 1.00

00:39:19.080 that does mean that if she doesn't get it together there's going to have to be some sort of moves to

00:39:23.240 make her accountable and wait until after this referendum but right now that's where i'm just 0.98

00:39:29.000 saying look cut it out quit doing this sort of garbage you know disingenuously uh laying out 0.96

00:39:35.180 what things would happen with an independence thing again you can oppose it but you don't have 0.98

00:39:40.420 to take, we've got Jason Kenney and Thomas Lukasik already out there to give that bad case against

00:39:46.680 it. This is just infuriating people. All right. I'm going to turn on a couple of the other news

00:39:51.760 stories. You know, if you want a more independence talk, I'll do a self-serving plug just once. I

00:39:55.300 rarely do it on here, but if you follow Corey Morgan on YouTube, you can search it out and we

00:39:59.600 can talk a lot more about these things in particular and so on, because here I want to

00:40:02.940 talk about a lot of other stuff. That thing with the driver's license changed. You know, when this

00:40:08.600 was first proposed i think and here's where i guess controversial i think it was a good idea

00:40:13.380 on premier smith's part i like this idea for a couple of reasons and people's digital id digital

00:40:17.940 idea guys the world's got your idea already it hasn't changed putting it all onto one card

00:40:22.940 is only common sense look at that piece of toilet paper they print out and give you for an alberta

00:40:28.700 health care card you know that falls apart goes through the laundry once you can't read it you

00:40:32.760 can't do anything without it it's so ridiculous i remember going in to get a driver's license uh

00:40:38.600 physical. You got to pay for that out of pocket. And even then I still couldn't do anything in

00:40:44.100 the clinic unless I had my, this, this beat up old healthcare card. It's stupid. And it's 1.00

00:40:48.580 ridiculous. Having it packed onto one card is good. And having citizenship on that card is 0.89

00:40:55.360 good. One of the things we worry about is people, non-citizens voting or things like that. Well, 0.90

00:40:59.580 this will have a marker on that card, which helps put it together. And, uh, you know,

00:41:06.260 people saying digital id digital id get over it guys get over your information is in the digital

00:41:12.640 world all over the place already uh we need to protect our individual freedoms and make sure

00:41:19.340 that we can protect those because i know what people are talking about you'll have this one

00:41:23.080 card where you can't go into certain areas and things like that and all of the things that an

00:41:27.040 authoritarian government would want to do and having it all together in one spot uh makes that

00:41:31.920 easier, but that's a matter of personal freedoms. The digital boat sailed a long time ago. If you

00:41:36.760 don't think it has, you're, you're really, really behind on the times. Um, Susan, uh, within the

00:41:43.740 miss says I would never support, uh, Corey Morgan. Well, I'm not running for anything, so you don't

00:41:48.300 have to support me. Uh, if you mean, you know, you'd never support me, so that's fine, but you're

00:41:52.740 supporting by viewing and I appreciate that, you know, come on, uh, make comments on the channel

00:41:56.660 and let's have the discussion, but, uh, you don't have to worry. I'm not running for office. I, I

00:42:01.120 never will again. That's not where I'm going with anything. Either way, this having things together

00:42:06.820 on one card, getting rid of that stupid healthcare thing was one good thing. Here's one that broke 0.99

00:42:12.980 through the week two. We are in a recession. We're in a recession. And it's not a question of a little

00:42:17.740 bit of recession or a big recession. There's just either recession or not recession. It's like being

00:42:23.440 half pregnant. It doesn't work that way. But look at how legacy media bent right over backwards 0.84

00:42:28.560 to polish that turd on behalf of Mark Carney, because they all reported, as some economists

00:42:36.920 put it out, we're in a technical recession. Because you see, the numbers show if your

00:42:41.140 economic growth is under a certain amount over a period of time, that's where the definition

00:42:44.500 of a recession comes. Well, then it's a recession. Why do you stick technical in front of it? Why

00:42:49.420 do you make it sound as if it's not really in a recession? It is a recession. Canada's in a

00:42:53.980 recession. It's in a recession because of the crap liberal leadership over the last decade and 0.99

00:42:58.180 change uh by the way when my super chat from a time runs out my little nexus thank you again for 0.92

00:43:03.300 another seven dollars uh oh trying to move things up saying uh i'm from bc would much rather ucp

00:43:10.900 than ndp the ndp have lost the plot of the key points of democracy woke crept as socialism

00:43:16.540 outside government yeah well we don't want to risk the ndp we know that we've been through it uh rc

00:43:21.220 la lemaru put in two dollars says you're a great guy but completely blind i don't know i see fairly

00:43:25.700 well. I got glasses these days, but I am almost deaf in my right ear. Um, but, uh, yeah, I, you

00:43:31.560 know, I'm not worried about my, my healthcare number being on a driver's license. Back to the

00:43:35.280 recession though. Uh, Carney has blamed that on the reduction of immigration. Now here's another

00:43:40.960 one of these half truths, right? So they've got the mainstream media out there trying to tell

00:43:44.340 Canadians that this recession isn't really a recession. It's just a technical recession.

00:43:47.640 Right, right. Like I said, the, the, the pregnancy comparison works well. You're, uh, technically

00:43:52.840 pregnant, then you're pregnant. We're in a recession, guys. The states are booming

00:43:57.080 economically. We're in a recession, thanks to bad government. The reason the immigration,

00:44:03.480 now that's half true, was that they used it to pump the numbers with mass immigration. And I've

00:44:07.920 always said this over and over. Immigration is good. Mass immigration is bad. During the

00:44:12.160 years, they pumped up the immigration numbers because that brings your GDP up, which holds it

00:44:18.040 from declining and helps you hide from being in a recession. But the problem is you get more people

00:44:22.560 there, but the economic pie hasn't gotten much bigger. So the GDP per capita went into the

00:44:29.960 toilet. So yeah, we didn't go into recession necessarily, but we all became poorer and we

00:44:36.220 all had less part of the economy. And well, we all lose. Now that they reduced the mass immigration

00:44:44.380 to a point, suddenly that GDP that they were pumping up artificially is not. It's going down.

00:44:50.440 hey you only got yourselves to blame cut spending get things reasonable they won't do it that's why

00:44:57.060 independence is the only path left for alberta i'm ending on my biased points with that uh one

00:45:01.380 other thing just a note for the carny government they struck this anti-semitism council because

00:45:06.380 canada is getting a horrible reputation for it all around the world and he goes and sticks omar

00:45:11.340 al gabra on it who is a known anti-semite brilliant why not just get rachel gilmore on there while

00:45:19.140 you're at it and get some more tips from candace owens meanwhile a jewish surgeon in montreal

00:45:24.400 already announced you said you know what i'm out of here i'm heading to the united states

00:45:27.480 canada does not want to support me or keep me safe uh it's welcome to the liberal canada all

00:45:35.820 right guys thanks for tuning in and thanks for those super chats i do appreciate it helps keep

00:45:40.320 us keep the lights on in here the new studio revisions things like that like share all that

00:45:45.200 stuff tune into the pipeline tonight we're going to be out on a panel talking about a bunch more

00:45:50.280 of all of this sort of stuff and uh well check my other channels if you're interested in more

00:45:55.560 independence talk thank you very much and we'll see you next week at this time

00:46:15.200 Thank you.

Western Standard - June 03, 2026

Premier Smith is flirting with political suicide

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