00:00:28.660uh i'm not gonna lie to you when i just watching that intro and some of those clips uh they're
00:00:34.180from my own personal collection some of those clips are from you know you guys know this about
00:00:37.840me i love to hike i spend a lifetime almost a lifetime started hiking when i was 18 but that
00:00:43.380was like 30 years ago 40 years ago i love the rockies love the mountains crave them and when
00:00:49.500i see that video intro it makes me think about uh the fact that hiking season is just around the
00:00:54.860corner thankfully in fact uh what's today today's the 19th which means we got what one more day of
00:01:01.580this miserable winter and then we can uh finally enter spring let's see uh let's hope for a good
00:01:07.180spring um lots to talk about this week what an interesting week right this is something i uh
00:01:13.260like i said i i totally look forward to this show it is your show somebody just asked me this right
00:01:17.980now they said uh are you prepared for the show and i'm like i do prepare for the show i you know i
00:01:23.900I mean, I'm online most days and I'm looking at headlines and what the stories are.
00:01:29.180But when somebody said, are you prepared for the show?
00:01:31.520I'm like, I don't need to really prepare because it's up to you guys, right?
00:01:35.120It's what you want to talk about and what you call in.
00:01:38.320And then that's the topic for the day.
00:01:40.180But that said, there have been some interesting topics this week.
00:01:45.500The headline right now, the one I'm most fascinated about is I do want to talk about the state of the economy
00:01:50.860and some of the reports that have been coming out.
00:01:53.600because, you know, the year ended, the year ends on, you know, December 31st, but it takes like
00:01:59.800several months for all the data to come in. And so finally, Stats Canada starts to release
00:02:04.440a lot of data in February, March, that that reflects how 2025 was. And so for me, one of
00:02:12.300the most interesting parts of that for 2025 was the fact that Canada's population went down.
00:02:17.540and not a lot. It went down about 100,000 people year over year. We've had three quarters in a row
00:02:27.600of decreasing population, but a full year over year. So on December 31st, the population of
00:02:34.120Canada, December 31st, 2025 was less than it was in 2024. And that's after a couple of years
00:02:43.520following covet of increased growth but significantly it's the first time our population
00:02:48.560has gone down ever ever ever ever we've never recorded a year-over-year population decrease so
00:02:54.720why is that and well when you dig into the numbers there's one real fundamental reason and that is
00:03:00.240that ottawa has basically stopped issuing temporary work visas and temporary student visas and it's
00:03:07.280the student visa category that's really making up that hundred thousand people uh difference so uh
00:03:13.520people who were here on on all sorts of visas the visas didn't get renewed and those people are
00:03:19.360going back to their home countries and um and personally i think that's that's good news i mean
00:03:25.760i i would like to you know i i'm not happy with the canada at 40 million people i prefer the
00:03:30.480canada we had at 30 35 million but i also think that not think i know i know that the increase in
00:03:38.480population in the last couple years was a failed it was a liberal attempt to solve a problem that
00:03:45.200is a bigger problem we have a really really big problem in this country and that is that our
00:03:51.040productivity has gone down our our you know we we were fundamentally a resource extraction nation
00:03:57.280And then somewhere along the way, we decided that we needed to diversify a way into other industries like finance and banking and services and the movie industries and other things like that.
00:04:11.560We tried to diversify, but we diversified into industries that are not really productive.
00:04:19.880And consequently, our GDP was suffering.
00:04:25.080but while we were becoming less productive we continue to lavish ourselves some really nice
00:04:29.640benefits we've been doing that since the 1960s right so it's it's sure it's great to have a
00:04:34.680canada pension plan old age security child tax uh support uh uh cheaper um education health care
00:04:43.480all those things but we are at the point where we really can't afford those things
00:04:48.360and our and and we keep paying for those things by debt by borrowing a lot of money so canada is
00:04:53.720famous for borrowing a lot of money in fact we're one of the we're one of the most resource blessed
00:04:59.080nations on earth but we borrow and borrow and borrow and the debt load of our government and
00:05:05.300individual citizens is like top of the chart worldwide i mean there's hardly a nation on earth
00:05:10.980and the people on earth more indebted than us so we're fundamentally living beyond our means
00:05:16.000we're giving ourselves things we can't really afford and and and and then we have this compounding
00:05:23.140problem that um that our cost of living is going up and we are taxed to death and we're not having
00:05:29.800children and our population is decreasing naturally by naturally i mean that the number
00:05:35.160of people born versus the number of people dying is is is uh is less or more and so we the the
00:05:43.660liberals thought that they could solve part of that problem by importing a lot of people and
00:05:48.020when you bring in a lot of people sure in principle those people are going to come here and they're
00:05:52.040to work they're going to start industries start jobs start businesses but that didn't happen
00:05:58.040and so the people we brought in we brought them in too rapidly they were unproductive and they
00:06:03.160created other problems such as those people need to be housed and our housing didn't keep up with
00:06:08.920that so and and i'm pretty sure most of you folks know all of that but so this is a this is a you
00:06:16.520know the decrease in population is a reversal of a one of the worst policies that the government of
00:06:21.720canada has implemented in the last couple of years which was this out of control immigration and and
00:06:28.360now cost and and and we're going to see things are going to get a little bit worse for for the short
00:06:34.520term right we got uh all these problems that this out of control immigration caused like the the
00:06:39.640housing bubble and stuff like that and the inflation are here to stay with us so we have
00:06:45.240you know this week we saw the bank of canada again announced that inflation is 1.8 percent they're
00:06:50.200they're they're happy with it they're trying to claim that it's in their target range their target
00:06:54.680range is is one to three percent so their target inflation is two so 1.8 is okay but um inflation
00:07:02.840is not coming down because of things that the government is doing inflation is simply coming
00:07:07.320down because canadians are have no more uh discretionary income i mean for every you know
00:07:13.800if you earn a hundred thousand dollars you're paying fifty thousand dollars in taxes and then
00:07:17.960you're paying your mortgage and your utilities and everything else and you're left with hardly
00:07:22.120anything so people are not going on vacation they're not buying new shoes they're not they're
00:07:27.000putting off changing the tires on their car and all those things and consequently it appears that
00:07:32.840inflation is coming down but that's just the supply and demand side balancing itself out
00:07:38.440and uh and and and so we we got this you know we we got this long-term problem i mean inflation's
00:07:46.200high. And then this week, yesterday, Tiff Macklin, the governor of the Bank of Canada,
00:07:51.320decided to keep interest rate at 2.25%. And that's good. And that's bad news. I mean,
00:07:59.020it's good news if you're thinking of renewing your mortgage, but fundamentally for the economy
00:08:04.520with inflation as hot as it is, what the bank would normally do is increase that interest rate
00:08:12.600and take out some of the money supply in in the economy and then hopefully the inflation comes
00:08:19.100down but tiff is between a rock and a hard place it's been that way for about a decade now
00:08:23.420you know the the the relationship between the bank of canada and the government is supposed
00:08:27.880to be an arm's length relationship but they're supposed to help each other and work cooperatively
00:08:32.300and and tiff is trying to control the economy but he needs help from the government and then
00:08:38.020a fundamental help that he needs from the government is for the government to stop this
00:08:41.540reckless out of control spending and and there's no end to that in sight so it's it's i wanted to
00:08:48.420talk about that um it's it's a big problem that uh that to me the uh all our governments of the
00:08:56.340last decade in fact further back even harper i think failed to address the fundamental problem
00:09:02.340of canada which is we are an unproductive society at this point um you know we got we got way too
00:09:08.180too many people working for the government and sectors that don't really contribute to the
00:09:12.620economy all right we got a caller on the line just a reminder um yeah uh so we don't have a
00:09:19.380switchboard so please call ask your question sometimes if i i'm not sounding rude if i say
00:09:25.600i hope i don't sound rude if i say you know thanks for the question then please hang up the
00:09:29.080reason i say please hang up is that that way somebody else can call in because we don't have
00:09:32.380a switchboard per se um and if you don't call in uh well you can't see it right now but the
00:09:38.620producers put a tablet on my desk so if i'm looking down once in a while it's because i'm
00:09:42.000looking at my tablet because some questions can come in on the tablet all right caller on the line
00:09:47.240name please where are you calling from and what's on your mind hi marty such a pleasure uh this is
00:09:54.160sonia from redmonton and there are still a few of us good ones living in the den of vipers here
00:09:59.360I have a comment and a couple questions go for it okay so first off I just want
00:10:06.140to say how much I appreciate what you do especially for all the independent
00:10:09.920stuff and keeping us in the know it's just pretty awesome and I also want to
00:10:15.980thank you for articulating that why I don't give a shit about Canada and it
00:10:22.320just kind of sunk in when you kind of said that you know it's kind of the
00:10:27.700system and we just can't get past that and it's not for our benefit. Anytime a
00:10:34.360politician comes from the West, they get Ontario washed as soon as they kind of
00:10:39.160leave the borders. But anyway, just like I said, just thanks for everything. And my
00:10:45.000first question is about the Alberta referendum vote. Is there any way to
00:10:50.740limit the votes to a maximum three questions? The first question, of course,
00:10:55.600independence the second one perhaps the time change because that's really
00:11:00.160annoying and then the third one may be a pension but we don't even need that one
00:11:05.440because Smith she can change it all she doesn't even have to put that on and my
00:11:11.500big fear is that they're going to water down the independence vote so that it
00:11:19.000can be challenged in court because it wasn't clear because of all these other
00:11:22.480bullshit questions that they put on there so I'm drafting a letter now but
00:11:27.720what is it that we can kind of do with that and my second question is has
00:11:34.180anything become of that crazy old batshit lady that attacked you I'm
00:11:39.700betting the RCMP dropped it so yeah I was just wondering if anything came of
00:11:44.980any of these harassment yeah yeah great question so thanks and I'll ask you to
00:11:51.240to hang up and i'll answer all all your questions and your comments so first to your comment yes i
00:11:57.000do make fun of thanks yeah you mentioned it it's redmonton i make fun of edmonton i feel bad when
00:12:02.920i make fun of edmonton because i know i have some of my best friends live in edmonton i'm from
00:12:07.320northern alberta and i used to hang out edmonton i have a kid who lives there so take it all with
00:12:12.120a grain of salt i i love people and i recognize that there are some great people in edmonton but
00:12:17.560you got to admit with me that generally speaking, Edmonton is pretty left-leaning, I guess, because
00:12:25.220I think one of the fundamental reasons, it's a government town and an academic town.
00:12:30.460To the referendum question, I think we talked a little bit about this last week. Personally,
00:12:35.540I don't know what we can do. I think there should only be one question on the referendum in October,
00:12:39.740And that's either the APP's question or a variation thereof, because there are two groups that want a discussion on independence.
00:12:49.420Thomas Lukasik's group raised 400,000 signatures, and I think our group will raise 400,000 or 500,000 signatures.
00:12:55.500So a million Albertans want to talk about independence in one way or another.
00:13:00.240So I think that should be the only question.
00:13:01.700everything else um can either be addressed directly through legislation because i think
00:13:08.140danielle has the mandate to do that and and anything where danielle is contemplating opening
00:13:13.880the constitution that's nonsense and and uh shouldn't be on there is there something we can
00:13:20.140do no there isn't i mean she's you know they're moving the goalpost danielle has a mandate and
00:13:25.660she told us that if we want some a referendum question the citizens should request it and i
00:13:30.720agree i think a referendum should only come from the citizens it should never be proposed by the
00:13:36.000government so i think she's breaking her own rule by by by doing that and i think she should stick
00:13:41.840to what you know the initial plan which is uh citizens initiatives are where uh referendums
00:13:48.800come from in fact she gave a great example last week right somebody talked about um the you know
00:13:54.000should should alberta have a sales tax or something like that and danielle literally turned and said
00:13:58.720if Albertans want a sales tax, then they should petition the government. So I think she's breaking
00:14:03.880her own rules there. And that's the short answer to that is there's nothing we can do except to
00:14:09.140keep pleading with her that we only want one question. I don't have an update on the crazy
00:14:14.260lady. I'm not going to, you know, I filed my report. No, I didn't file a report. I filed a
00:14:20.420statement. I didn't lay a charge or anything like that. I simply filed a statement of what happened.
00:14:26.980And then my statement was taken by State Free Alberta, and they did what they want with it.
00:14:33.180As far as I know, that lady, you know, the cops chased her down the highway after she left us, and they turned on the sirens.
00:14:38.780And talking to people, once the sirens are turned off, you're going to get charged with something, either, you know, a road violation of some sort.
00:14:49.620Coincidentally, I'm not canvassing on the side of the road today because I'm here.
00:14:54.680but uh the you know i've got a group of volunteers now that sit where we normally sit and one of
00:15:01.800them sent me two really unusual pictures so you know maybe we're getting a little bit paranoid
00:15:06.640but you can never be too uh safe these days so one of the guys who's canvassing at my spot sent
00:15:11.700me two pictures of two unusual vans parked within about 500 yards and and and his words are they
00:15:18.660have eyes on us so that kind of means that he's under the impression that somebody is sitting in
00:15:22.820van just looking at us uh we're under we're under scrutiny by the way this is an interesting
00:15:28.420maybe a good segue for this uh i wasn't going and i was going to talk a little bit about this
00:15:33.380john can you bring up the um the national post headline this was in the national post yesterday
00:15:39.460and i don't read the whole story i don't care because i'm not a subscriber but you know right
00:15:42.980there it says canadians opened the negotiation with western separatists as data shows under
00:15:48.020representation in parliament my god and and look at the line underneath there uh recent data shows
00:15:53.220alberta remains underrepresented in the house of commons we on a per capita basis folks
00:15:59.700two two three things about this article first of all uh it it shows that perhaps internal polling
00:16:05.860in ottawa and other places are showing that the movement is maybe a little bit bigger because now
00:16:10.340we're seeing these kinds of pieces right there's there's always um you know kind of like the five
00:16:15.780stages of grief kind of thing of this five you know at first they said the movement was fringed
00:16:20.820then they attacked us and then they mocked us and now maybe they're starting to realize oh there is
00:16:25.060some truth to that so the fact that there's pieces like this coming out saying ottawa is perhaps
00:16:30.180interested in some conversation shows that their internal polling um proves that the movement is
00:16:37.380big but the funny part was whoever did that article like come on do your research man we've
00:16:42.020been underrepresented in the house of commons since 1905 like by design right um yeah alberta
00:16:50.260has like 37 seats no i'm not alberta yeah anyways i'm you know the number of seats we have and and
00:16:58.900saskatchewan the last two provinces uh compared to our population compared to uh uh ontario and
00:17:06.020quebec we're completely underrepresented but even if we were properly represented we it still
00:17:12.340doesn't matter because we're outnumbered um you know ottawa or not ottawa ontario and quebec
00:17:18.260outnumber us like three four to one so we'll never we'll never get our way interesting article just
00:17:23.540shows that we're uh we're hitting on the on um on some spots there i i mean i i just staying on the
00:17:30.660topic. I did some math this weekend. I finally got my hands on the statistics for our little
00:17:36.660writing. And I know in our writing, we collected just over 4,600 signatures so far. And that's
00:17:43.420between 120 people. If you do the math, if our writing is typical of all the other writings in
00:17:48.540Alberta, there's 87 writings. If all 87 writings got 4,000 signatures, that's 320,000 signatures
00:17:55.360plus 350 so i think we're already in the 500 range four to 500 range the weather outside's
00:18:02.240absolutely gorgeous uh i mean this is all i wore coming out here today so i think we're going to
00:18:08.160see a big um push on petitions uh going forward this weekend um all right folks don't be shy like
00:18:17.040i said bring uh hit the hit that line and give me a buzz i'm trying to go through the comments here
00:18:22.240see uh i'm just going to pick one a couple out here uh alberta whoops how did that work alberta's
00:18:31.600population is estimated to be over 5 million as of 2025 specifically statistics canada yeah um
00:18:39.440boy like the alberta that i came to when um uh okay john sorry how do i remove okay it does itself it
00:18:47.840removes yeah when i um full disclosure right you guys know this i'm not an alberton by birth
00:18:54.240uh i was born in ontario but i came here looking for work in came here as a student
00:19:02.320with a temporary work term in 1988 was the first time then i came a second time a little bit later
00:19:07.600to work so i'm living in ontario at the time i was naively when i was younger i thought i might
00:19:13.360go into the pulp and paper industry or perhaps the auto industry like everybody else does in
00:19:17.280that province but while i was in school i was open to the idea of uh exploring my options and
00:19:23.680you know i went to a school where there's there there were um what we did i did a co-op program
00:19:28.960it's called so employers would come on campus and try and recruit and i'm looking at these job
00:19:33.680postings in like slave lake and places like that and none of my buddies would apply and so i thought
00:19:38.080not what the heck i'll apply ended up in a small town uh alberta loved it and finished my studies
00:19:44.640and then came here permanently so um so i was you know i wasn't born here but i married a
00:19:51.440fifth generation gal from here and i have four adult children that were born here so i'd say
00:19:55.520i'm pretty much as albertan as they get been here more than half of my life and i do miss the alberta
00:20:01.840of uh of when i was younger of the 19 late 80s and early 90s the alberta that had about two and
00:20:08.320and a half million people the alberta where um i could go uh golfing anytime i wanted to without
00:20:15.680having to book a tea time uh curling was fun restaurants didn't need reservations um camping
00:20:23.520permits that didn't exist that you know you just showed up in the parks and you went camping pretty
00:20:28.240much anywhere you wanted and uh fishing everything i i i just missed those days i i'm one i am of the
00:20:36.560opinion i do not believe in growth for the sake of growth whether it's a business or whether it's
00:20:41.840the size of a country or anything i think canada should try and find that comfortable spot that
00:20:46.960you know maybe it's 30 40 million people and then just try and sustain ourselves stay at that level
00:20:53.040and if at any time uh the the the benefits we give ourselves uh are become too expensive and we feel
00:21:02.400that we the solution is not to bring in more people i think the solution at that point is to
00:21:07.120either um find efficiencies or maybe cut back the benefits i know that's not a popular thing but uh
00:21:15.520we do it in the real world right at home if i can't afford a second trip to if i can't afford
00:21:21.040one trip to mexico in the winter then i don't go to mexico i don't keep piling it on my credit card
00:21:25.920and i don't know why we accept that from our government it's just a problem that we're pushing
00:21:29.760uh kicking down the the you know kicking the can down the road by constantly borrowing money and
00:21:36.640and doing those things um all right well let's talk about a few other things then uh actually
00:21:42.580it's uh um i'll maybe i'll i'll pose some questions for you guys just to see if i can solicit a little
00:21:50.200bit of of debate um what does everybody feel so one of the things that dominated the airwaves
00:21:56.140yesterday on x in particular was uh pierre poiliev going down to texas which was good right he had a
00:22:02.940trip uh he went and talked to uh people in uh west virginia i believe or some other place and then
00:22:09.080they ended up in texas talking to the governor of texas about oil and stuff like that and um and
00:22:15.160then and then he ended up on the joe rogan podcast joe's based out of austin texas and that seemed to
00:22:21.960to me to me um i'm at this point i mean i i'm i'm pretty much disengaged from the federal
00:22:30.900politics like i'm focused on alberta independence i still keep an eye do i would i like carney to
00:22:37.200be replaced by somebody like paul yep absolutely uh do i think it's going to happen not in the
00:22:42.880near term so i find the fact that joe or not joe that pierre went down to texas now to do this
00:22:48.220podcast the timing is interesting to be honest i wanted him to do something like this last year
00:22:53.660during the campaign i find that he was a little bit um too uh nervous about doing it during the
00:23:00.700campaign i got to be careful when i say this i don't think i don't think pierre like a lot of
00:23:05.420politicians actually makes his own decisions right which is kind of alarming right you would think
00:23:10.460that the like you would think that the the the premier or the or the leader of a group or the
00:23:18.140prime minister would make his own decisions just like i always expect the um you know ceo of a
00:23:24.860company to make all the decisions but i find that in political world a lot of times leaders don't
00:23:30.460necessarily lead they rely on too much on the team of advisors and campaign managers and pr managers
00:23:37.740and people like that and they also rely on polls and uh and i don't like that i mean uh but that's
00:23:44.700politics so i so i think last year we wanted a lot of people wanted pierre to be more out there
00:23:49.900more personable get off the main script and go do podcasts because you know we we we know that
00:23:56.860a lot of elections um are won by by winning over that middle ground people and in this day and age
00:24:04.540it's it's younger people who are watching social media and so people wanted joe not joe uh pierre
00:24:10.780to go on podcast last year he didn't do it i think he didn't do it because he was poorly advised but
00:24:15.500i also think he didn't do it because he was a little bit scared of being associated too closely
00:24:19.500with the americans and and i think that was a misstep that the fact that he's doing it now
00:24:24.700is interesting but let me know your thoughts on that um but more interesting to me i haven't seen
00:24:31.500the podcast so the podcast is going to come out uh probably in full length in the coming days
00:24:36.700i know they leak not leaked out but i know they've released little bits of the podcast right now a
00:24:42.060little teasers i haven't seen anything in the teasers that's that's too shocking or too revealing
00:24:48.620um i look forward to the full length podcasting what that does but what what i'm more interested
00:24:53.420in is not our side's reaction to it but i'm really interested in the left's reaction to it if they
00:24:59.580have a complete meltdown well then that will have been a success i hope that uh so so i look forward
00:25:04.860to seeing that uh if you guys have seen something and you want to mention it uh let me know let me
00:25:11.980check a couple of comments here john do you see any comments worth highlighting um right now i'm i'm
00:25:19.660it's interesting because we can both move up on the thing at the same time
00:25:23.340Marty you make so much sense yeah don't I do yeah how much taxpayer dollars are they spending on
00:25:35.100those surveillances yeah I actually I turned off my phone while I'm here because I don't want my
00:25:41.340phone ringing but I did reach out to a couple of people and I got some people driving by those
00:25:46.560vans to go see what's going on isn't it crazy though that I would have that I would feel that
00:25:51.720way in this day and age that I'm simply a citizen with no access to the levers of power. I don't
00:25:57.400make policy and I'm being spied on. And I don't think that's a coincidence. And I don't think
00:26:03.240I'm being, that I'm exaggerating. I've had too many weird incidences in the last little while
00:26:09.160to attribute them just to coincidence. I think I am being surveilled. I'm sure if you ask people
00:26:16.620here, if I ask Corey or if I ask Derek and others here, they feel the same way. In fact, I know
00:26:21.320cory feels the same way and cory's also uh one step further people have threatened cory um that's
00:26:28.040that's not cool i mean you know the crazy lady coming to yell at me i'm okay with that but uh
00:26:32.920it's when you go to that next step that um that uh that that i draw the line um all right well
00:26:41.480let's keep talking about a couple of things that are on my mind that made the news this week uh
00:26:46.600So actually, let's talk about oil and Pierre's trip to the US. You know, again, oil is everybody who's tried to ignore oil in the last 25 years, right? Whether it's the Liberals or the NDP or Greta Thunberg, everybody who's tried to ignore oil.
00:27:09.960I never worried about people that were trying to ignore oil and tell me that oil was done
00:27:15.200because I'm a pragmatic and I know how much oil the world consumes.
00:27:23.140I mean, I've been sitting on the side of the road for the last three weeks collecting signatures
00:27:27.980and I'm sitting literally inside a highway and I see the cars going by all day.
00:27:31.680So I know how much oil the world consumes.
00:27:35.120And then you have an event like just happened in the Gulf.
00:27:38.280You got the US attacking Iran and Iran putting up more of a fight than I thought they would. And suddenly the Strait of Hormuz is shut down. John, do we have a quick picture of where the Strait of Hormuz is, if you get a chance?
00:27:57.100I think most people understand this, but let's let's put some context to this about, you know, about a third to 25 percent of the world's oil comes from those Gulf states where the war is occurring.
00:28:13.520Right. So you got you got a Gulf there. And on one side is Iran and Iraq.
00:28:18.460And on the other side, you got Saudi Arabia and you got Kuwait and you got Qatar.
00:28:23.600And there's so much. There's the picture there. Right.
00:28:26.020So you've got Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Iran, all those countries, Kuwait, Iraq, they all produce oil.
00:28:34.700And the bulk of that oil there isn't shipped by pipelines.
00:28:39.500It's shipped by vessels that have to go through that Strait of Hormuz.
00:28:43.440And so the Strait is just a narrow spot in the Persian Gulf.
00:29:01.660I think the Americans underestimated the willingness of the or the resilience of the Iranians and their willingness to keep on fighting and not the Iranians, but the Iranian regime and the Iranian army.
00:29:15.140And so consequently, the straight is pretty much shut down right now, which is having a huge impact on the price of oil all around the world.
00:29:22.880I drove by the gas station here on the way by. It's $1.62 for gasoline in Alberta.
00:29:28.800It's $2 plus in B.C. And the Americans are now complaining that they're going to hit whatever, $3, $4 a gallon.
00:29:36.800And so suddenly everybody that hated oil is back on board loving oil.
00:29:41.500and that's going to be like that for a long time there's just no replacement for oil in a modern
00:29:46.240society like ours uh even even other sources of energy like nuclear and whatnot which produce
00:29:51.680huge quantities of nuclear they're just not mobile and so the energy we're interested in
00:29:56.500is the energy that literally goes into a vehicle and allows you to drive around so the fact that
00:30:01.540um that uh joe or not joe i keep saying joe i gotta remember it's pierre the fact that pierre
00:30:07.540chose to go down to texas right now is not a coincidence um you know the americans everybody's
00:30:15.540going to look to us now to provide oil and and provide some relief in the short term which was
00:30:22.260another interesting thing that i saw this week so carney and several of his uh ministers all went on
00:30:28.580interviews and i and i laughed at all of the ones who talked about carney specifically i think uh
00:30:34.500use the word strategic reserves so carney said something like canada is going to increase you
00:30:39.380know dump some oil from our strategic reserves into the world market to help ease the problem
00:30:45.460we don't have any strategic reserves folks like there's no such thing the americans have some
00:30:49.380strategic reserves but even theirs aren't that big closer to home here uh cory hogan who's the only
00:30:56.740uh liberal mp in calgary was on uh on the national talking and rosemary barton and he said the same
00:31:03.780kind of things you know we're gonna we're gonna in corey's uh mind there's this magic tap is
00:31:09.780somewhere in alberta where we just increase the tap and all of a sudden we start producing more
00:31:13.700oil there's no such thing there's no tap like that if we want to increase more oil we'd have to do
00:31:18.500it but again the the bigger picture here is this week is that this just shows the um the failure
00:31:25.940of the liberal policies of the last decade to anticipate this to me a government in power
00:31:31.460should be able to anticipate this there should be no shock when there's a gulf that gets shut down
00:31:38.500like this and the price of oil goes up and everybody wants our oil there should be no
00:31:42.820shock at that but some a lot of people are suddenly acting as if that is a big revelation um um
00:31:52.260all right so come on folks give me uh let me um so i'm gonna go through a couple of comments here
00:31:58.900let's see what we got marty don't waste your time on pierre polyev he and the federal conservatives
00:32:07.140are just a boat anchor designed to keep alberta tied forever to confederation um yeah i mean
00:32:17.060thank you for reminding me of that i i i i i perhaps spoke about pierre and carney a little
00:32:23.060too much i still talk about them but like i said i i want to focus mostly on uh on stuff that's here
00:32:29.300closer to home but i but i as much as i want to avoid talking about ottawa i still have to talk
00:32:37.300about ottawa unfortunately until we separate and even after we separate i'm still going to talk
00:32:41.700about ottawa so on the topic of ottawa there was another big story this week that broke in ottawa
00:32:48.180that i think is worth mentioning and that's the fact that um we all know what happened during the
00:32:55.540trucking convoy right so the trucking convoy occurred there was protests in ottawa they went
00:33:00.020on for three weeks and finally after three weeks trudeau invoked the emergency measures act and
00:33:05.940then they managed to clear everybody out of ottawa and coots and other places well and that that
00:33:12.260uh emergency measures enactment was challenged and and deemed not once but already twice it
00:33:20.100was deemed by two different courts to have been uh that trudeau acted incorrectly illegally
00:33:27.300whatever there's there's all sorts of terminology around it but he didn't have the he shouldn't
00:33:31.380have invoked the emergency measures act we all know that he should have just come out and talked
00:33:35.220to the truckers and and and uh settled it properly but uh his ego got the better of it the thing went
00:33:41.780on forever and then finally he enacted the emergency measures act and two courts have said
00:33:46.580that he did it uh wrongly and and now yesterday was the deadline for the for ottawa to appeal
00:33:55.380the last decision and they waited waited waited waited waited and finally yesterday they decided
00:34:01.780that they were going to appeal the decision uh which is normal they wait until the last minute
00:34:06.740so ottawa is appealing emergency measures uh act decision all the way to the supreme court now so
00:34:13.860now we're going to let the supreme court decide and i'm okay with that i mean it's it's kind of a
00:34:18.900it is a waste of taxpayer dollars but it is unfortunately the way our system works
00:34:23.780and so it has i'm not surprised that this is happening the courts will have to adjudicate
00:34:29.620and and then um we'll know once and for all if he was right or wrong i'm still not comfortable i'm
00:34:35.860i'm still not confident that anybody will ever be held accountable but the interesting part of this
00:34:39.940story is uh that the supreme court has nine judges right now and uh there's always nine but one of
00:34:49.140them in particular uh justice uh wagner i can't remember uh justice wagner's first name but
00:34:54.260justice wagner immediately he was very vocal so he was a he was not he was a judge during the
00:35:02.260protest and he was on the record before before even the the emergency measures act was enacted
00:35:08.340he was on the record of saying that we should kick these guys out of there we should throw
00:35:12.420the book at all of them they're seditious what they're doing is wrong and so he was very biased
00:35:17.860he made some very uh biased ugly comments about the protesters and now he's a supreme court judge
00:35:26.420so he's the one who's going to have to rule on this do you think he's biased i mean by all
00:35:32.100definition his comments passed the test so there's already a lot of people asking that he recluse
00:35:37.940himself that he step away from uh from that court hearing and um because he's impartial but he hasn't
00:35:45.540said anything yet we haven't heard i don't think you know that's another problem with uh with our
00:35:50.900confederation i mean we the the judges are appointed by trudeau or the or the government
00:35:57.140but in this case, mostly by Trudeau. Judges are appointed. Senior bureaucrats are appointed.
00:36:02.880The presidents of crown corporations are appointed. Senators are appointed. Like, of all the people
00:36:09.280in senior roles in government and in the courts, 90% of them have been appointed by Trudeau.
00:36:17.900So is this guy going to do his job impartially? I don't think so. And that's one of the overall
00:36:23.780problems with confederation and and one of the reasons so many of us in alberta want to um want
00:36:29.460to separate so we'll see how that goes um all right let's go through a couple of comments here
00:36:36.740derek voice out voice out your comment call the number oh no that's derek saying that yeah yeah
00:36:42.420please folks come on folks like seriously the number is down on the line there 866-479 what
00:38:26.840Listen, Chief Justice Wagner was Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
00:38:31.100when he made those comments about the trucker convoy.
00:38:34.240So it's probably worse than you thought.
00:38:37.600I don't have a lot of faith in the justice system of this country to treat those of us that want to get rid of the federal government very well.
00:38:51.140But anyway, my question or my comment is, I talked to a lot of people, you know, one of my first questions is, have you signed the petition yet?
00:39:01.000And I'm getting, I got some feedback that kind of shocked me and maybe shocks you a little bit. Maybe you got this comment somewhere, but they don't, they want to sign, but they're afraid.
00:39:14.820They're afraid that the government's going to get the list and use it against us at some point in the future.
00:39:24.780You know, if we don't separate or whatever, that people that sign the petition are going to be, you know, have something bad targeted.
00:39:38.520I didn't really have a good response to that other than that's exactly why you shouldn't.
00:39:44.260Thanks, Dwight. So stay on the line for a second. But that's a great response. I've actually had that question only about a handful of times. One lady came and would not sign a Canadian lady would not sign no matter how I tried to convince her that, you know, the answer, the classic answer is, we collect, we're going to count. And as soon as we're done counting, they're destroyed, and nobody's allowed to gather information from there.
00:40:10.160she wasn't satisfied uh i tried to say almost along the lines of you who went i'm like which
00:40:17.020government are you afraid of right and she's like well ottawa look at what they did to the truckers
00:40:21.200when they froze their bank accounts and then i'm like precisely so we're trying to separate from
00:40:26.980ottawa and alberta wouldn't do the same thing i couldn't win her over uh but but you know one out
00:40:33.420whatever 499 people so that's so uh it is a concern then i had uh but but i had it about three times
00:40:41.500from foreigners people are new newly landed immigrants who two from brazil i i remember very
00:40:48.060clearly and they said they would never do they they didn't want to sign they came over to to
00:40:52.380as a show of support but they said you know back home in brazil if we signed this we would be
00:40:57.020targeted so um yeah there's no there's no perfect answer there's the there's the technical one
00:41:02.780which says they're not allowed to do it but you know how many things are governments not allowed
00:41:07.900to do that they still do um the non-technical answer is an independent alberta would hopefully
00:41:15.820not do what ottawa did yeah thanks dwight um yeah yeah so any uh so you've signed are you
00:41:23.980a canvasser yourself or no i'm not a canvasser but i did sign i signed actually over where you
00:41:31.740sit but it was on a thursday when you first started coming out thursdays and you weren't
00:41:36.160there so cool but yeah i signed yeah appreciate that all right thanks can't wait hopefully take
00:41:42.640care marty bye-bye take care um i was gonna go somewhere with dwight's comments but uh all right
00:41:49.140well thanks dwight uh so let me just go back to uh cory's uh video which is awesome right cory
00:41:54.920identified five uh common uh fears um canada or alberta's land law the treaties uh the canada
00:42:03.240pension plan um is it legal and um i can't remember the fourth or the fifth one but uh i and i pretty
00:42:12.120much agree with cory's assessment i get the same questions and i and i was in the process you know
00:42:16.760i was reading one of the comments who said that the americans don't want to trade with us
00:42:20.600luckily they want to trade with alberta more than they want to trade with just about anybody
00:42:24.760any other province right so we're in good terms with them because we mostly trade oil and and
00:42:30.440pragmatically speaking it's the easiest other than their own oil the easiest oil they get
00:42:36.280is ours so i don't think that relationship is um is uh at risk and and the short answer this was
00:42:44.360really interesting because i looked into it um we do we do about a hundred alberta alberta does
00:42:51.160about 160 billion dollars worth of trade with the us and does 70 billion dollars worth of trade with
00:42:59.080other provinces so in terms of being landlocked right there it's irrelevant we we're already
00:43:05.640landlocked but our number one partner is actually not uh inter-provincial it is with the us we do
00:43:11.240160 billion dollars worth of trade with the us which is a huge number uh go ahead caller name
00:43:17.560and where are you calling from hey marty jesse and gp again hey jesse regular yeah yeah good
00:43:25.320i'll say um i want to just speak to something you mentioned early on in the show i'm actually out on
00:43:32.440the husky collecting signatures right now so i'm a low spot right now so um uh people need to
00:43:39.320remember i think that uh and a lot of people don't hopefully you can repeat this as far and
00:43:44.440and wider as you can, everyone, that the government employees do not contribute to the tax pool.
00:43:50.400They are net negative on the tax pool.
00:43:54.980And that's where you had mentioned the resource industry is dwindling and they're basically
00:43:59.380strangling us when it comes to oil and gas extraction.
00:44:05.080If we had an extra couple of pipelines, maybe we could get more.
00:44:07.740But if we have nowhere to put it, then why are we getting more?
00:44:10.740And if the regulations and the emissions charges and all the royalties, it's not feasible for industry to extract any more oil and gas if it's not going to make them profitable.
00:44:25.620So, yeah, I just wanted to make that note.
01:00:11.600And give us a little bit more of an indication of what's happening with the petition and how the natives got together.
01:00:20.440And they're usually going to use the court system to try and thwart the petition and, you know, the whole thing.
01:00:27.640And what do you think this court system thing is going to happen?
01:00:31.400And you guys are supposedly putting the votes in for the plebiscite early because you think that they're going to try and thwart it with the court system.
01:00:42.260So what's going on with that whole thing?