Western Standard - November 12, 2026


Stellantis exposes Canada’s investment problem

Harper, Trump and the Problem With Political Legacies

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00:00:00 Happy Thursday, everybody.
00:00:27 I hope you're doing well.
00:00:30 um where to start today um actually you know what i'm gonna start with i i know john on the title
00:00:40 there put uh stelantis uh uh exposes canada's investment problems it exposes a lot there's
00:00:48 actually quite a bit going on this week um but let me let me let me let me go this way so
00:00:56 So again, I'm trying to, I want you guys engaged.
00:00:59 I want people calling in.
00:01:01 Let me know what's on your mind.
00:01:02 I think today is a great day for that
00:01:05 because when I look at the list of what's going on,
00:01:08 it's not that interesting.
00:01:10 So maybe you guys got things you want to talk about,
00:01:12 but I want to talk about Stellantis a little bit.
00:01:15 I never got around to talking about the by-elections
00:01:17 that are coming up on November 7th.
00:01:20 I never got around to talking about the budget,
00:01:22 although I think at the end, the budget,
00:01:23 The Ottawa's budget turned out to be sort of a nothing burger.
00:01:29 I never talked about the new Alberta Federal Party last week, Alberta Now, so maybe talk about that.
00:01:35 The CCFR was in court all week at the Supreme Court, appealing the previous decisions, trying to get the gun ban overturned.
00:01:48 So we can talk about guns, Calgary's budget, what happened in Poland last week.
00:01:53 a couple of things the premier of quebec to me super interesting i'd like to talk about that
00:02:00 and then of course uh at home we got the usual uh the continuation of of i think the ucp i think
00:02:09 smith is i don't know falling apart i i don't know how else to describe it i mean sending letters to
00:02:15 constituency association presidents and sort of demanding loyalty and getting them to sign that
00:02:21 that they won't talk about independence.
00:02:23 I mean, that makes absolutely no sense.
00:02:25 That's so undemocratic on her part.
00:02:28 So those are the kinds of things I wanted to talk about.
00:02:31 But let's get John to play one video, okay?
00:02:36 John, if you don't mind, this was viral on most social medias this week.
00:02:42 And we might play it twice.
00:02:44 You don't need to play all of it, John.
00:02:46 Just play the first sort of like 15 seconds.
00:02:48 But it's a hockey video from last week.
00:02:51 look at that again so all right that folks is bad hockey okay so right there john froze it
00:03:06 right at that moment look at that elbow up right so nhl hockey couple of bad mistake on the uh on
00:03:13 the uh forward who's or probably a defenseman who just picked up the scooped up the puck behind the
00:03:19 net. Now he's skating out, coming out, he's doing his breakout and he's got his head down and the
00:03:25 forward from the other side just nails the guy, right? So bad, bad play on the guy's part with
00:03:32 having his head down. That's a, that's a bad move. I think it's a bad move for the player who hit him
00:03:38 with the elbows up. And the reason I bring that up is we've talked about this before. I always
00:03:44 hated uh i i always thought that the liberal slogan of a couple of years ago you know elbows
00:03:51 up was one of the worst slogans ever i coach i played hockey and i coach hockey for about 20
00:03:57 years and when i coach hockey i would have never ever ever ever told my kids elbows up that's just
00:04:05 dirty playing that's just dirty hockey i mean and that guy uh i don't know i didn't follow up but
00:04:11 I'm guessing he got a game suspension or definitely got expelled from the game
00:04:14 for that elbows up move, probably a game suspension.
00:04:17 Plus the guy that he hit got hurt that like so bad. Right.
00:04:20 And, and, and there's the picture of Carney with his elbows up.
00:04:23 So I always hated that slogan, but I'm going to, but I'm,
00:04:27 but I'm replaying it today because I think right now Carney and the elbows up
00:04:34 crowd are taking a beating. They're taking a beating.
00:04:37 And that's why I wanted to lead off with the Stellantis thing that's going on right now.
00:04:42 So quick recap on Stellantis, right?
00:04:47 So Stellantis is the parent company of Chrysler.
00:04:51 And they own an auto plant in Ontario that they were retooling.
00:04:59 They were going to retool this plant and shift over to whatever car they were going to make.
00:05:05 They were going to start making the Jeep Compass, I believe.
00:05:09 And so this happened like three years ago.
00:05:11 They're retooling to change production and make a different vehicle.
00:05:15 Now, this is common in the auto industry.
00:05:18 And these days, retooling a factory will take like nine months to a year kind of thing.
00:05:23 You're reprogramming the robots, changing the assembly line, whatever, retooling to start making a new model.
00:05:30 And it can take a year to do that.
00:05:31 And while they're doing that, all the workers get sent on leave, right?
00:05:37 They're laid off, basically.
00:05:40 And while they're laid off, they get their normal unemployment insurance from you and I, from the government.
00:05:45 So they collect their unemployment insurance, and that goes on for about six months, let's say.
00:05:49 And then when that six month runs out, then Stellantis picks up and keeps these workers whole while they continue to retool the factory.
00:06:01 So Stellantis has, it's in its interest to retool as quickly as possible.
00:06:07 They started retooling, the election happened, Donald Trump comes in,
00:06:10 all these tariffs are being talked about, and Stellantis says,
00:06:15 we're done, we're not moving production to the U.S.,
00:06:20 we're not retooling this factory, we're moving production to the U.S.
00:06:24 So now this plant is sitting there, the plans are put on hold,
00:06:28 the facility is empty and the workers are collecting unemployment insurance and along
00:06:34 comes a buyer and the buyer um uh god i always forget the name of the company show i don't not
00:06:42 chappelle but somebody something like chappelle comes along wants to buy the facility negotiates
00:06:48 ottawa kicks in some money uh ontario kicks in some money and these guys want to build they want
00:06:55 to use a facility and they want to use a facility to build military type vehicles and and then the
00:07:02 next thing you know it's all unraveling and now the new owners are also reselling so like basically
00:07:11 it's a gong show it's a total gong show and this week you got uh you got melanie jolie who's sort
00:07:20 of spearheading this thing all sorts of videos about her come out was she involved in the deal
00:07:25 did she know what was going on what was promised this and that it's all irrelevant well it's not
00:07:30 irrelevant but the new owners or the the the buyers they're having buyer's remorse they want
00:07:36 to sell they want to cancel the contract and jolie is threatening them saying well we had given you
00:07:42 money as an incentive to come here which in and of itself is a problem right like it we're this is
00:07:48 country we live in now the only way we attract foreign investment at this point is when either
00:07:53 the government gives huge subsidies or the government takes a piece of the pie itself
00:07:58 because nobody wants to come and invest in canada this is a classic example of that we find a buyer
00:08:04 but the buyer trying to make so the buyer is trying to build it wants to build military vehicles
00:08:10 this this this this this but they're stuck with the unions the union is opposing the new
00:08:17 buyer because the because the new buyer doesn't want unionized workers you see
00:08:22 where this is all going right so the deal is falling apart well it's not just
00:08:25 bad enough to let the deal fall apart now Carney and Jolie are threatening
00:08:31 these guys with all sorts of lawsuits so that's the country we live in right now
00:08:36 we entice you to come here we we we offer you goodies we keep changing the
00:08:43 rules uh and then and then somebody has buyer's remorse backs out on the deal and now we threaten
00:08:49 the buyers what message are we sending to other potential investors in this country who want to
00:08:57 come to this country so i i don't know i i saw that this week as uh i mean it's a it's an ongoing
00:09:03 saga but it's finally i think coming to an end and um and it and and the other thing i was going
00:09:12 to say is all along we've had all sorts of people say that trump was the guy causing this the
00:09:19 decline of the auto industry in in uh in ontario no folks this we i'll use the royal we canadians
00:09:28 carney and ford did this to themselves you can't blame trump for this like trump has nothing to do
00:09:34 with this i mean that all trump did is make it attractive for somebody to want to go and build
00:09:38 cars in his country. And somehow or other, we tried to villainize him or not we I'd never did,
00:09:46 but Carney and others did. And it's all backfiring. So my fear now, my fear now is that
00:09:52 this could be part of a greater plan. And that greater plan is what Carney always says in his
00:10:00 book, right, which is kind of nationalizing industries. And and I can see I can definitely
00:10:06 see more money being pumped into the auto sector in Ontario, but more federal money and words along
00:10:14 the lines of we're going to create our own industry around here and do this and do that and do this
00:10:19 and do that. So I wanted to lead with that. All right, folks. So that's my monologue for today.
00:10:27 It's not a very long one. Like I said, I got these topics, but don't be shy. So phone number
00:10:32 is on the screen right there 866-479-9378 call give me your name let me know whatever's on your
00:10:40 mind i told you some of the topics i want to talk about you know maybe you want to talk about the
00:10:45 budget i'll i'll continue talking i mean i got no no issues talking i'll keep talking but uh
00:10:51 hopefully you guys got some topics on your mind um so how do i roll that uh so let let's roll uh
00:11:00 I'll keep rolling down this path.
00:11:03 So Carney, one of the things I wanted to say about Carney too
00:11:05 is it's been noticeable to me this week, more and more,
00:11:13 that he's kind of, he's in a bit of a panic.
00:11:18 Maybe, no, he's in a panic.
00:11:20 And one thing, I know he's in a panic.
00:11:23 One thing politicians do when they're in a panic
00:11:25 is they start muzzling other people around them
00:11:30 and they start to really over,
00:11:33 to start to micromanage.
00:11:35 You know what I mean?
00:11:36 And so, and I've noticed that a lot
00:11:38 in the last couple of weeks
00:11:39 in terms of Carney starting to micromanage.
00:11:42 So all the press releases lately,
00:11:45 they're all Carney and he's talking everywhere.
00:11:48 And when he's on stage with other people,
00:11:50 nobody else is really getting a chance to talk.
00:11:53 So pay attention to that, right?
00:11:54 And if you watch what's going on, if you look at, like, there's a picture there that John's got, right?
00:12:00 It's a stock photo.
00:12:01 I mean, even Ford, right?
00:12:04 Ford's been completely, like, this is in Ford's backyard.
00:12:08 This is, the auto industry is in Ford's backyard, but Ford's not saying a word.
00:12:13 It's all carny.
00:12:14 So that's on purpose.
00:12:15 And so who's left that, remember, we used to hear from, we used to hear from Anita and Ann,
00:12:21 who's like, you know, foreign affairs and we'd have LeBlanc talking about trade
00:12:29 and we'd have Gary, the big chipmunk, talking about public safety.
00:12:35 They're all silenced. We're not hearing from them.
00:12:37 The only people we're hearing from lately is Jolie.
00:12:40 We hear from Jolie.
00:12:42 We heard from Champagne, the finance minister, last week
00:12:47 when he tabled his budget, barely,
00:12:49 and he went on a he went on a PR tour that was absolutely disastrous and then we had Mark Miller
00:12:55 this week doing a bit of PR and his uh interviews were disastrous so Carney is is trying to um
00:13:04 silence everybody around him to try and take control of the narrative now there's a problem
00:13:09 well there's a couple of problems with that one of the problems is he's going to tire out because
00:13:14 he's going to be facing all the questions and that's not a very sustainable model you should
00:13:19 you know in a good organization you should have uh the ability to delegate and have a bunch of
00:13:25 people spread your message but if you and think about this if joe lee and uh champagne are the
00:13:34 ones that are still tapped on the shoulders to go spread the message and that's considered your 18
00:13:40 If that lady on screen right there is considered the A team, what does that say about the B team and the C team within the Liberal Party?
00:13:49 And I know for a fact that the depth of that party is shallow, like super shallow.
00:13:56 I mean, half the people who get elected for the Liberal Party are just people with absolutely no industry experience, never ran businesses.
00:14:07 I mean, that's politics for a lot of instances.
00:14:11 It's a popularity contest, but the Liberals seem to be very good
00:14:14 at just picking people that are popular and then getting them elected.
00:14:18 But unfortunately, once elected, they can't carry on as ministers.
00:14:21 They don't have a lot of competent ministers.
00:14:24 So Carney is having a hard time with that right now.
00:14:29 And Carney is still faced with, you know, just the slimmest, slimmest, slimmest of majorities.
00:14:40 I mean, it's like 173 liberal seats to 172 for the other side.
00:14:47 That doesn't add up to the 343, which is why there's six by-elections.
00:14:55 And so he's going to try.
00:14:56 So and there's six by-elections coming up on December 7th.
00:14:59 So that's three weeks from now, December 7th.
00:15:03 Man, does Kearney pick, like December 7th is,
00:15:06 what's December 7th? 1.00
00:15:08 December 7th is the day that Japan
00:15:10 attacked the Americans at Pearl Harbor.
00:15:15 Does Kearney pick dates like that on purpose?
00:15:18 Because I know like he delivered the budget
00:15:20 on the same day as,
00:15:24 could they be that devious?
00:15:27 I hope not.
00:15:28 I hope not.
00:15:29 So there's so there's six by elections coming up. Three of them are in Quebec. Two are in Ontario and one is in Saskatchewan. I'm trying to I'm going to go by memory. The three in Quebec were we had Gilbeau's old writing. Right. Stephen Gilbeau, who resigned in disgust. So his writing is up for. So that's that's going to stay liberal.
00:15:51 And then he had a block writing and the block MP stepped down to run in the provincial election and was unsuccessful. So that writing is up for grab.
00:16:08 But that writing in Quebec is probably going to be the one that's most hotly contested.
00:16:13 I can see Carney throwing – I can't see him.
00:16:19 He has.
00:16:20 I know he nominated a girl named Chantal Soucy to run in that writing.
00:16:26 So the Liberals are going to try desperately hard to win a writing to try and increase a majority.
00:16:32 So that's the one they're going to focus on.
00:16:33 And then the other one in Quebec was an NDP writing.
00:16:37 Again, a candidate who resigned to go run in the provincial election,
00:16:43 that one could go either way, could stay NDP if Abby Lewis and others are quiet.
00:16:52 Otherwise, it could easily go to the Liberals.
00:16:54 And then there's the two in Ontario.
00:16:56 There was a Conservative writing in Ontario that used to belong to Larry Brock.
00:17:00 Very popular guy, Larry.
00:17:02 Well-liked in the Conservative Party.
00:17:04 But Larry is stepping down to just to go back to being a Crown prosecutor, to being a lawyer.
00:17:13 And I looked at that writing.
00:17:15 That writing actually could flip to the Liberals.
00:17:17 That would be unfortunate.
00:17:19 And then the other writing, I can't remember the guy's name, but that was the guy who claimed that he had that he had health issues and resigned.
00:17:27 And then we learned right away, no, he didn't have, well, he might have had health issues, but he ran in the municipal election in Ontario and he got elected.
00:17:36 So, you know, that riding could go either way, conservative or liberal.
00:17:41 And then there's the one in Saskatchewan, which I think will stay conservative.
00:17:45 So anyways, all this to say that there's seven ridings up or six up for grab in a month from now.
00:17:53 And I don't think Carney's going to really increase his majority.
00:17:58 Like he might get one more seat out of it, which is a two-vote majority, I guess.
00:18:07 But when you have two votes like that, then you have to make sure that any non-confidence vote is done on a day where absolutely everybody is present, right?
00:18:18 So it's still pretty risky.
00:18:20 Me personally, I like the fact that we have a minority government because it keeps everybody in check federally and then, you know, nothing crazy happens, I guess.
00:18:34 All right, John, any interesting comments so far?
00:18:38 Anything catch your eye on there that I should have had my little computer in front of me, but that's okay.
00:18:46 Folks, again, like I don't bite.
00:18:49 It's lunchtime.
00:18:50 I get no it's not lunchtime you're done lunch so sneak off close your door call me take a few
00:18:56 minutes and uh your boss won't mind you guys are all hard workers anyways right um all right so
00:19:03 where do I go from there I guess well well let me let me stay in uh let me stay in federal politics
00:19:09 well it's kind of linked to federal politics but um back to it ties into the elbows up opening
00:19:17 clip and to Carney's struggles right now. So he's got these by elections. You know, I don't
00:19:25 entirely believe polls, but the polls do say he's still popular. And is he popular enough to want to
00:19:32 trigger a general election? I don't think he's that crazy, right? He saw what happened to EB
00:19:37 and others. So he's not going to trigger a general election. He basically still has two years in his
00:19:42 mandate but his mandate is not very strong uh not strong enough to pass some really controversial
00:19:49 laws okay i was going to talk about quebec but i'll come back because i got a caller go ahead
00:19:54 caller where are you calling from hey marty it's diane from devon diane i can always count on you
00:20:01 thanks for calling it it's i'm i'm in leduc now so it's diane from leduc okay but i want to talk
00:20:11 about Stellantis
00:20:14 because
00:20:15 that's where I
00:20:17 worked and retired from
00:20:19 in Ontario
00:20:21 or for Stellantis in general or you worked
00:20:23 at that plant
00:20:24 I work at
00:20:27 Windsor Assembly Plant
00:20:29 oh give us your insights then
00:20:31 absolutely
00:20:32 okay so I worked there
00:20:35 for 25 years
00:20:36 I retired 5 years ago
00:20:39 very
00:20:41 very fortunate i consider myself a very fortunate person but the windsor assembly plant is the
00:20:50 lifeblood of windsor when i first started working for chrysler there was 12 000 employees in windsor
00:20:58 there was two plants wow there was three three or four ford plants and there was two gm plants
00:21:07 It's a trim plant and a transmission plant.
00:21:10 Okay.
00:21:10 So that's thousands and thousands of people, plus all the feeder plants that supply the plant.
00:21:20 So all the parts, most of the parts are on time.
00:21:26 So the feeder plants were working the same shift I was working, building the seats that were coming in a couple hours.
00:21:35 So if that plant went down, our plant went down.
00:21:38 We call that a supply chain, so a very well-integrated supply chain.
00:21:44 It would blow your mind how to the minute to the second it is.
00:21:51 And I'm not exaggerating.
00:21:53 It's unbelievable.
00:21:54 But, okay, let's put that aside.
00:21:57 So Windsor Assembly Plant built the Dodge Caravan minivan
00:22:02 and the Town & Country minivan.
00:22:05 for since 1985, and now they built the Pacificas,
00:22:10 which took over the brand of the Voxy minivan.
00:22:15 When I worked there, we ran three shifts.
00:22:20 We were the only plant in North America
00:22:22 that was a full assembly plant that ran three shifts.
00:22:27 Because that vehicle, I remember those vehicles,
00:22:29 they were hugely popular. Is that why?
00:22:33 Absolutely.
00:22:33 Absolutely. So just FYI, 75% to 80% of the vehicles we built in that plant, guess where they went?
00:22:45 The U.S.
00:22:47 The United States of America.
00:22:50 We have 40 million people roughly in Canada, and they have 300 and some odd million people.
00:22:58 So we supplied their market. We were the only plant that built that minivan, too.
00:23:03 So we ran three shifts, we built 500 plus vehicles a shift, we worked six days and seven days a week and on three shifts.
00:23:15 So anyway, if those two plants in Ontario being lost, if Windsor Assembly, which it could go out the door because it's the last man standing now, if that goes, those are just thousands and thousands of really good paying jobs.
00:23:32 And those people are not going to get those jobs with benefits and everything.
00:23:40 So you're bringing up the human element of this saga, which thank you for doing that.
00:23:46 We often forget that that's going on.
00:23:49 But so where did it all fall apart?
00:23:55 Where to start?
00:23:56 I just, I mean, like, 10 years ago, it was humming.
00:24:04 Like, honestly, it was.
00:24:06 And those were going to the States.
00:24:09 Where did it go?
00:24:10 Like, it's a better situation for building those vehicles in Canada because of the dollar and going to the States.
00:24:20 So somehow we had an amazing competitive, you're describing something that makes sense, right?
00:24:25 we have this amazing competitive advantage everything's humming along but now you're when
00:24:29 you say 10 years ago i'm like something happened 10 years ago i kind of think i know what happened
00:24:34 but did we shoot ourselves in the foot like is this self-inflicted it's like it is i just don't
00:24:42 think i think first of all the government in the west are trying to de-industrialize everything
00:24:50 and to what end i don't know because like i said those jobs those people will never get those jobs
00:24:56 back with those wages let's let's be honest um people with the grade 12 education that like
00:25:03 where are you going to get a job that you're not going to so i don't know where it all fell apart
00:25:09 so i i don't think it i i know one thing sorry to interrupt you but one thing with the minivan
00:25:17 the um what took over the minivan market was more of the jeep and then they got into those
00:25:26 bigger wagoneers and uh like the so those you could see a family in and be like kind of more
00:25:34 posh than a minivan like a lot of people say they don't want to be in a minivan i'm going to offer
00:25:41 I'm going to offer this as a, I mean, I'm not going to blame the unions entirely, but one of the sticking points right now is the union.
00:25:49 And so, and the unions are having to ask more money, but I'm not going to blame them for asking more money.
00:25:55 The reason they keep having to ask more money on behalf of the workers is because workers aren't making ends meet, even in good paying jobs in this country.
00:26:03 So I'm going to somehow or other, I think I can blame ultimately the failure of our government to keep, you know, if the if if the government wasn't spending like they did, like they just announced in the budget and we weren't all just struggling day to day, this would work.
00:26:21 But we we we've made ourselves noncompetitive wage wise compared to Americans because it's our government that's making us more expensive.
00:26:32 Does that can you wrap your head around that? Am I on to something there?
00:26:35 Well, yeah. Well, I think that it's the sort of thing that possibly just didn't get nurtured.
00:26:44 I mean, I can't blame the union for everything. I thank the union for a lot of things.
00:26:50 So I can't blame them for, like, everything.
00:26:54 So, I mean, I just, I really, I think that it was just, the situation wasn't nurtured.
00:27:02 It was the demise of the minivan.
00:27:05 It was the products that were in Brampton when I worked there.
00:27:09 It was the Charger, the Challenger, and the big 300.
00:27:14 Those are, like, sedans that, like, some young guys want to have a Charger or Challenger.
00:27:19 But the 300, those are like sedans, like that sort of market just ended and it went into the crossover vehicles and the SUV sort of vehicle.
00:27:30 Yeah. But but somewhere in there, there's that. Yeah.
00:27:34 But but what's happening right now there, I'm surprised they can't find a win. Right.
00:27:38 I mean, there's a buyer who comes and wants to make military vehicles.
00:27:42 How can they not find a win with the union? That's the part that's frustrating me.
00:27:45 And I guess this is you like, look, sorry, look what I just said.
00:27:53 Yeah. The plants were were made to be ultra efficient.
00:27:58 Right. To build. Right. Like we were building a vehicle every 40 seconds.
00:28:04 A completed vehicle was coming off the end of the line. 40 seconds, 42 seconds.
00:28:09 Which is not what military vehicles are like. Right. Their military vehicles are sort of.
00:28:15 yeah go ahead no no they're built by craftsmen slowly and and so it's a different labor force
00:28:22 to build a military vehicle versus what versus the people that are there so it's it is is that
00:28:28 what is that what you're saying or i think you are yeah yeah yeah so maybe one vehicle maybe
00:28:35 they're building one of those big military vehicles today i i don't really know what their
00:28:40 introduction situation is but i do know that the plant was that's the way it goes like that
00:28:47 and that's not i'm not exaggerating those numbers at all that's a fact maybe i'll have you on the
00:28:55 show one of these days diane you can sit next to me and we can talk about manufacturing and
00:28:59 that'd be awesome i i love that insight i mean that's uh thanks for sharing that so let me let
00:29:05 me end it here then we'll give opportunities for somebody else what would you recommend what is
00:29:10 there what what do you is there a way out of this conundrum right now what do you think we should do
00:29:15 in ontario right there i don't even know because winter assembly they don't have a contract right
00:29:23 now either their contract expired in september they were in talk they backed away from the table
00:29:30 because of the situation in Brampton,
00:29:33 now that's going to push the union and the company even further apart.
00:29:38 So, I mean, and don't think for one second,
00:29:42 people are naive if they think that you cannot close a plant down
00:29:46 and send it over to Illinois and build and retool a building
00:29:52 and make those, like, believe me, they can do that pretty darn quick.
00:29:56 yeah there is i i guess there is one solution on the table right now which some people are fearful
00:30:01 of which is i i i guess the chinese there's a possibility of of sort of completing chinese
00:30:07 kits like taking almost a kit and then bringing it here and then just assembling it here um i mean
00:30:14 competing and competing and competing against our own workers yeah that the deal we needed the deal
00:30:22 We needed the trade deal so that Windsor Assembly could continue to send vehicles to the United States in a mass.
00:30:32 And now they're going to get tariff.
00:30:34 Well, we'll see.
00:30:36 I don't know.
00:30:36 Yeah, I guess they got to hang out now for at least another year or two and see what happens after Trump.
00:30:42 But my fear, like I spoke on the last show, I really don't think that even if the Democrats took total control tomorrow, I don't think they'd eliminate the tariffs.
00:30:50 like i don't think tariffs are just going to disappear so um yeah it's a it's a conundrum
00:30:56 right now it's a it's a mess and i feel sorry for the people in ontario that are stuck in this
00:31:00 especially in places like windsor yeah yeah yeah yeah all right okay yeah have a great day diane
00:31:08 thanks for calling yeah you too bye-bye bye yeah what a reminder though right so thank you for the
00:31:16 reminder that there is a human component. I often forget that. I mean, I can be pretty
00:31:20 blunt. And I mean, part of me, part of me says, you know, I repeat this all the time, you, you,
00:31:27 you get the government that you deserve, and you keep voting for some of this stuff. So I do have
00:31:34 to bring that back to something, right? This is not this, this, these aren't just things that
00:31:38 happen overnight. And there's consequences. And I think, and I'm going to be blunt, I think there
00:31:42 are consequences to voting for bad governments all the time. So I'm pretty sure I could make the
00:31:49 case that this is an example of this. I mean, especially when you start saying, you know,
00:31:54 that something is noticeable 10 years ago. And I go, what happened 10 years ago? Right. So,
00:31:59 but I appreciate the call and I appreciate me as an engineer. I'd love to talk about this more,
00:32:06 but I also appreciate the complexity of issues.
00:32:08 Nothing is black and white.
00:32:09 So great point on her part.
00:32:13 I never thought of it that way.
00:32:14 Building a military vehicle is definitely a skilled trade.
00:32:17 I'm going to say it's more skilled than just assembling.
00:32:21 I've seen what assembling cars looks like nowadays,
00:32:24 and she's right.
00:32:25 It's not very, very skilled.
00:32:27 It's good work if you can get it.
00:32:29 And I think at the end of the day,
00:32:30 some of the compromise is going to have to be, you know, the equivalent of a wage cut, right?
00:32:39 Better a wage cut than losing your job entirely.
00:32:42 And so, and that's the nature of business, right?
00:32:45 One person's misfortune is usually results in somebody else doing pretty good in the capital market,
00:32:50 and then things will reset.
00:32:53 And in fact, it's testing my history, but the Dodge minivan was a game changer.
00:32:59 The industry had suffered, suffered, suffered, suffered, and then boom, the Dodge minivan came along and totally transformed the industry.
00:33:06 So maybe there'll be another transformation like that.
00:33:09 All right. Now, hopefully I do get to Quebec, but I got another caller.
00:33:11 Go ahead. Where are you calling from? What's your name, please?
00:33:15 Oh, hi, Marty. This is Keith. I'm from Calgary. How are you doing today?
00:33:19 Good, sir. How are you?
00:33:21 Good. So, Marty, I got two things I want to talk to you about and get your comment on.
00:33:26 Did you know that Daniel Smith, I just recently found out that her husband is an executive of Global News?
00:33:33 And I find Global News to be so biased and like a part of the one world government, one world religion agenda.
00:33:42 And they're so biased in the reporting.
00:33:45 I'm just wondering what your thoughts are about that.
00:33:48 And also, I don't think, I wish Jeff Rath had been so, not so, you know, surreal with Daniel Smith.
00:33:59 He was so disrespectful during that separation campaign towards Daniel Smith.
00:34:05 I don't think he helped the cause at all.
00:34:08 He turned a lot of people off.
00:34:10 And I don't know, I kind of, I'm turned off by the whole thing.
00:34:13 And I was such a supporter and went to rallies, but it just turned into kind of a gong show at the end.
00:34:19 And I just don't know where the professionalism and the strategic planning is with some of these so-called leaders.
00:34:26 If you could comment on that, I appreciate it.
00:34:28 Stay on the line. Don't hang up just yet. It was Keith, right?
00:34:32 Yeah.
00:34:32 So to the first one, I don't think Danielle Smith's husband works for Global News or is an executive.
00:34:41 I might be wrong on that one. But I mean, I've always thought that he just like he as far as I know, he owned a little diner down in Okotoks and was like a small restaurant kind of guy. We don't see him very often. Right. He's not by her side all the time. But I think he's just a private guy who runs a diner or used to. I know they tried selling it for a while. So maybe if somebody wants to comment otherwise, I'd be surprised. But but beyond that, regardless of who works at Global, I completely agree.
00:35:11 I mean, the media in this country, the mainstream media, the globals, the CTVs, the CBCs, I've talked about this at length, they're compromised, they get too much money from the government. And, you know, everybody has a bias, right? Even this station here, even Western Standard, Rebel News, we all have a bias, right? I'm right leaning, but I'm not compromised, or I'm not in conflict of interest by taking a ton of money from the government.
00:35:39 So I think global, you know, I'll park that.
00:35:42 As far as Jeff, funny coincidence you talk about that.
00:35:47 I mean, maybe do you follow me on X?
00:35:50 Does this come from some of my comments this morning or is just your it's out of the blue?
00:35:57 I've never been on social media. I'm 62. I don't get it.
00:36:00 OK, OK. And I don't want to be on it.
00:36:02 So I just I listen to your program all the time.
00:36:04 Yeah, no, I found your question regarding Jeff coincidental because I was talking about Jeff this morning.
00:36:09 Yeah, Jeff is boisterous.
00:36:11 He's loud.
00:36:12 And but I don't think he and I, I wish he toned it back.
00:36:16 I wish I agree with you.
00:36:17 I mean, I say this about Jeff, you know, using the football analogy.
00:36:21 I think he got us like to the to within the 20 yard line.
00:36:25 We could have done a field goal kick at that point, which would have been awesome.
00:36:27 But then he keeps taking penalties and we keep moving backwards.
00:36:30 So he helped, but then at some point he started becoming a nuisance.
00:36:38 But at the same time, and he brings a lot of sort of hate on himself.
00:36:44 But this morning I kind of noticed like, boy, they're doing hit piece after hit piece after hit piece on Jeff.
00:36:50 And whether people accept it or not, he's a private citizen, right?
00:36:55 I mean, sure, he's a lawyer and he's taken an oath and he and he's he's a little more high profile, but he's still a private citizen.
00:37:02 He's not a government. He's not a politician.
00:37:05 And I find it very interesting that he's being held to a standard that I think it should be reserved for politicians.
00:37:13 You know, there's hit pieces on him that are that are so critical.
00:37:18 And yet the, you know, people, the mainstream ignores the main politician.
00:37:23 So, I mean, that's that's what I got to say about Jeff.
00:37:29 Now, also, coincidentally, I might try and get Jeff on the show here.
00:37:33 I ask now I got to be a bit sensitive because I know him and Corey Morgan have been like kind of like this for a while.
00:37:39 So I kind of asked, you know, I'll ask the the the the editorial board here, like, can I bring Jeff on the show?
00:37:46 Because I'd like to hear Jeff. I'd like to I'd like him to take questions from you guys.
00:37:50 Does that make sense? Sure.
00:37:53 yeah yeah yeah I don't know about Danielle Smith's husband working at
00:37:57 global I somebody will have to double check that for me but appreciate the
00:38:01 call thanks I thought I'm lying I thought online so I could be wrong but
00:38:04 I'd like to know more about that if you could find out we will awesome all right
00:38:08 thanks for calling in thanks Marty bye yeah Jeff wrath now I'm not gonna meet
00:38:18 Jeff tonight but if you're interested I don't have the exact details but I know
00:38:23 the Alberta Prosperity Project, the Alberta Prosperity Project had its internal troubles
00:38:30 and they aired some dirty laundry out in public.
00:38:34 I don't think they should have done that.
00:38:36 They seem to be resolving things.
00:38:38 I mean, there was a picture of Mitch Sylvester and Chris Scott shaking hands a little while ago.
00:38:44 and then I'm seeing comments from the Alberta Prosperity Project
00:38:52 with Mitch pretty front and centre in there.
00:38:55 And he's coming to town tonight.
00:38:57 You'll have to go on our website, but it's somewhere,
00:39:01 it's just north of the university.
00:39:03 I can't remember the district, but just north of the university
00:39:05 at 7 o'clock tonight, Mitch Sylvester will be there.
00:39:08 So I'll be there.
00:39:09 I'm going to go there.
00:39:10 I want to ask Mitch a couple of questions.
00:39:12 and I want to hear what he has to say about the next steps.
00:39:16 I want to ask Mitch a couple of questions
00:39:18 and maybe I'll report back on that.
00:39:22 I do have some questions for Mitch regarding transparency.
00:39:25 I mean, when I go to their website right now,
00:39:26 I don't see exactly who the board of directors is.
00:39:29 I don't see their constitution, things like that.
00:39:32 So I've talked about this.
00:39:34 I expect that kind of transparency from everyone,
00:39:36 from the UCP, from third-party organizers,
00:39:40 or advertisers, from everyone.
00:39:42 So I'll challenge him on that. But I encourage you, if you've got nothing else to do tonight, come listen to Mitch talk. And we were talking about Jeff. So maybe I'll try and get Jeff on the show. I'd like to hear his opinion as well. I do think he's taking a lot of heat right now, which is a good and a bad thing.
00:40:04 I did talk about this many times in the past, right?
00:40:07 Independence was a grassroots movement.
00:40:10 I was in favor personally of not having a leader in the last phase.
00:40:15 I think we will need a leader in the future.
00:40:17 Maybe the time is right now for an official leader of the independence movement.
00:40:21 But I saw value in not having a leader, and I predicted this.
00:40:26 I always said that if we had just one leader,
00:40:28 the establishment would have come hard after that leader during the campaign.
00:40:32 And the fact that, and that's the other thing,
00:40:34 Keep this in mind, folks. Right. If if if there really was this, call it dirt on Jeff, something really, really bad.
00:40:43 How come how come all these people that had this dirt didn't use it against him during the campaign?
00:40:50 How come it's only coming out now? You know what I mean? Like it's a it's just a question.
00:40:54 I don't have an answer. But you know me, I'm I don't believe in pure coincidences anymore.
00:41:01 I just don't, right? To me, everything that happens is either a distraction or it's on purpose, whether it's a hit piece on a person, whether it's an accident that we're witnessing, weird rule changes, that shooting in Poland.
00:41:19 I mean, I didn't even talk about that, but, you know, when there's that shooting in Poland, when there's that terrorist attempt, and that guy goes along and shoots a bunch of people, and then he gets, you know, he gets, whatever, I don't want to get into, I wasn't coming here to prepare to talk about Poland, but every kind of incident like that now makes me question, like, is this really a lone wolf, or is this something else going on?
00:41:43 Okay, let me try and finish rolling.
00:41:47 It's so crazy how fast that you guys have no,
00:41:50 well, maybe you do have an appreciation,
00:41:52 but when you're sitting on this side and I'm talking
00:41:54 and I look over the camera and I see the clock
00:41:57 and it's just ticking by, it's like, wow, it's been 43 minutes.
00:41:59 It's absolutely crazy how fast some of these hours go by.
00:42:05 So I was talking about Carney and his drop,
00:42:09 and, you know, is trying to secure a majority or improve his majority.
00:42:14 We talked about the problems that he has with a separatist movement in Alberta
00:42:20 and how he had to come here and make concessions with us.
00:42:25 And then he was pissing off Quebecers.
00:42:27 And I'm sure I always said, you know, he came here, he made deals with us,
00:42:32 and he turned around and told the Quebecers, like, don't worry about it.
00:42:34 I'll, you know, I'll smooth it over with you guys.
00:42:38 He's gone.
00:42:38 I think we're not going to see Kearney in Alberta for a good long time now.
00:42:44 He doesn't need to come here.
00:42:45 He got what he needed.
00:42:47 We lost the referendum and he's happy.
00:42:51 I don't think we're going to see progress on the MOU and anything else like that.
00:42:55 So now he's back in Quebec.
00:42:57 But now he still has a battle in Quebec, which is fascinating for me.
00:43:03 I'm cheering right now for Plamondon, for the Premier of Quebec.
00:43:06 I never had on my bingo card that I would be cheering for the Premier of Quebec.
00:43:12 Didn't have that.
00:43:13 But right now I'm watching and I'm cheering him.
00:43:15 And so this week he pulled another beauty moment.
00:43:19 In the days after the midterm elections, he sent 59, that's the number being quoted online,
00:43:29 He sent 59 letters to the U.S. to newly elected governors and senators and maybe some sitting governors and senators.
00:43:40 And he basically sent 59 letters all across the U.S. saying, if you want to do a trade deal with Quebec, come talk to me directly.
00:43:49 Beautiful. And Carney got pissed off at that.
00:43:52 So Carney said, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. I would prefer that we negotiate as a team. Right.
00:43:59 And, okay, I want to finish this story, but I want to take the call.
00:44:01 So go ahead, caller.
00:44:02 Where are you calling from?
00:44:05 It's Rimby Rick.
00:44:06 Hey, Rimby Rick.
00:44:08 Hey, buddy.
00:44:10 I'm sorry to cut you off to your whole thing there,
00:44:12 but I know there's so many topics to cover,
00:44:16 and one show a week might not be enough.
00:44:19 I think you're right about the thing about lone wolf attacks,
00:44:24 like the thing in Poland,
00:44:25 and then we talk also about what just happened in D.C., right?
00:44:30 There's a gun, there's someone shot five people in D.C.
00:44:33 It always seems to be happening into these places
00:44:35 that are fighting for freedom against a particular system in this world
00:44:42 and then something happens.
00:44:44 Yep.
00:44:46 Well, the one in Poland, I wasn't really going to talk about Poland,
00:44:52 but let's talk about Poland real quick, right?
00:44:55 Poland's national holiday was yesterday.
00:44:59 Polish independence.
00:45:02 And Poland went through a major, like when I was younger,
00:45:05 I remember Lech Walesia and their breakaway from the Soviet Union
00:45:10 and the Solidarity Movement and everything else they had.
00:45:13 So they fought.
00:45:14 They had a pretty important revolution and they re-became independent.
00:45:20 And then Poland is a country that got invaded numerous times
00:45:23 in the last century.
00:45:24 And so they've you know, they love their independence. And so yesterday was their national holiday for that. And then while this is happening and Poland is trying to get out of the EU. Now, Poland's been in the EU, but but all along they kept their own currency. So they never adopted the euro. And Poland's been resisting other EU attempts to get it to come on board with open immigration and, you know, the green future and blah, blah, blah.
00:45:51 So Poland's been resisting a lot. And now they're under huge pressure to adopt the euro. Of course, the other countries want Poland's resources, right? And so there's a lot going on in Poland right now. And yes, back to you, I have a hard time thinking that incident last week was isolated in light of everything that's going on.
00:46:14 i agree with you and that's the other thing that you want is their gold reserves to be transferred
00:46:20 into their oh they have yeah thanks so thanks for mentioning that they have some of the hugest
00:46:28 biggest gold reserves in the world right they've been buying gold like uh they have real gold
00:46:33 a real currency backed by gold i forgot about that and that's the other while we're while we're
00:46:40 talking about gold resources and reserves with all the money we're sending almost 40 billion in
00:46:47 services and equipment and money to Ukraine if the Ukraine can't come to this why don't we
00:46:55 find gold from them and saying here's the money you need we'll exchange your gold they've got like
00:46:59 27 tons of gold in their reserves so oh no no they get to hold on to that for their rainy day after
00:47:07 this is over while we are guaranteeing their loans to the imf and then that while we're talking
00:47:14 ukraine we'll jump to the next part of that is he just announced that he's been turning announcements
00:47:19 in this budget that we're going to be funding more training of ukraine soldiers but cutting
00:47:25 training sessions and um uh readiness for our reserves here yeah how does that fit in any way
00:47:35 shape or form into our our sovereignty and our readiness we could talk about this at length i
00:47:43 mean this yes this comes back over and over um when when if if you and i sit down and lay down
00:47:53 all the symptoms and all the actions and everything that's happened in the last 10 years and we try
00:47:58 and figure out why you it it's kind of hard to figure out right and i've said this before but
00:48:03 But if you go and start with, if you work backwards and you look at something like, you know, UN Agenda 2030 or some of the other initiatives, then you go, ah, now it makes sense, right?
00:48:14 So I think more and more people are going to start, continue to waking up that everything that's happening is by design and there is a lot of bad intentions and we're being led down a really bad path.
00:48:29 yeah i think there's a group that you could look into if we were looking at that particular
00:48:35 avenue it's called i think they're called fcm the federation of canadian municipalities
00:48:40 and all the all mayors and different counselors of different municipalities across the country
00:48:48 are part of it and they're the ones who make the decisions it's for sustainability right and
00:48:55 And that's one of us where like bike lanes come in, right?
00:48:58 That's a, oh, this is what we're doing.
00:49:00 We're going to be pushing this through.
00:49:01 Do you remember any consultations for bike lanes ever?
00:49:04 No, we're just, we've decided to do this.
00:49:07 And then it's after the fact that we have to do it.
00:49:09 And if someone were to really research and look into that Federation of Canadian Municipalities,
00:49:14 I think that's what they're called.
00:49:15 Yeah.
00:49:16 That's, well, that's kind of the, what's the word I'm looking for?
00:49:19 they're called um like the uh global um wf you know wf young global yeah yeah okay um yeah so
00:49:30 just real quick then i mean i wasn't uh so you don't think it was a lone wolf thing or you're
00:49:35 you're like me so the the event that happened in by the way pretty dramatic event right like you
00:49:40 the the replays were uh um if it's real i think it's real if it's real kudos to that cop that
00:49:49 shot that guy right like that's uh that's a man armed with a handgun uh fight uh he got shot and
00:49:57 he still managed to get up and then he managed to get enough shots off against an uh a terrorist
00:50:02 with a rifle so kudos to that guy that was impressive well that says man while you're
00:50:08 talking about guns now we that kind of pushes us to the cfr and the supreme court this is the
00:50:14 in the coal mine if this ruling comes down in favor of the government right because that's what
00:50:21 that tells you everything that this ruling is very important because if it supports them that
00:50:27 they can just make a an administrative decision of something an order in um order council or
00:50:36 whatever yeah yeah they can just administratively decide well that means one day they can just
00:50:43 administratively decide that all firearms are illegal because they will have they will have
00:50:52 already the um the the what do you call this the approving thing in court i can't think the
00:50:59 precedent to prove it yeah yeah the president will be yeah yeah uh i was going to talk about
00:51:05 the ccfr but i think i'll save it for next week what i'll uh um i'll i'll let you i'll let you
00:51:14 go rick i appreciate the call um maybe maybe next week i'll bring in a guest like uh rob
00:51:19 gilketta or somebody like that to talk about what happened in court i'd love to hear more from
00:51:23 from an insider but i agree it's an important case i wanted to talk about it today but i'll
00:51:28 save it for next week all right i have one last thing to have you comment offline okay
00:51:33 Jeremy Parkas came out, and he's going to increase the Calgary budget by 15% on property taxes.
00:51:42 And he claims that it's because of the high growth of our city.
00:51:47 And I find it interesting.
00:51:49 He says the vast number of growth of our city is what's causing this.
00:51:52 But he campaigned for option one and no to the ninth.
00:51:56 He doesn't want the province to have any control over immigration.
00:51:59 That's because he can just dig into our pockets to take the money, right?
00:52:03 he's a giant contradiction i mean um i'll let you go i'll i'll throw a quick comment on that
00:52:08 but i appreciate the call rick thanks oh is he he's gone okay um yeah well i i i wanted to talk
00:52:19 about that but i i i wanted to talk about calgary's budget i mean i think uh uh there's a lot to unpack
00:52:25 there um the 15 now i'll i'll again i'm just gonna save i'm gonna save the budget for next week then
00:52:33 i guess or or that's an again i want to bring in guests so now you guys are bringing me some good
00:52:38 ideas maybe we do bring in somebody from council or somebody inside uh calgary who can talk about
00:52:44 the budget i mean i i would be luckily i live in rockyview county so i don't live in calgary but
00:52:49 if I was a resident of Calgary facing a 15% tax bill increase for a municipality and somebody
00:52:58 blamed it on growth, I would freak out, right? Because I've always said this. I'm not in favor
00:53:04 of growth for the sake of growth, period. I prefer a sustained economy and sustained sizes,
00:53:10 whether it's a business or a city or a country. And when somebody starts to tell me that growth
00:53:15 is costing me, because now they're talking out of both sides of their mouth, right? I have a lot
00:53:19 of politicians say, oh, we need growth because it brings up the tax base for the future and
00:53:25 blah, blah, blah. And we're not having kids. So we need growth. But then when they tell
00:53:29 they tell me that one week, they open the floodgates, they let a whole bunch of people
00:53:32 into the country and then they go, oh, by the way, all this growth now, I got to build
00:53:37 more schools. I got to upgrade the infrastructure. I got to do this. I got to do that. So you
00:53:42 need to pay more money. I'm like, why am I paying more money? Right. If I've drilled
00:53:46 my water well and I got enough water coming from my water well for me and now you invite somebody
00:53:52 else and because they're coming here and I need more water I have to pay to improve the water well
00:53:57 no no no that's not how it works so whenever I hear a politician say that that there's excess
00:54:02 growth and we need to and Smith says that uh uh Farkas there's a lot of them who keep saying that
00:54:08 right we have to pay uh Smith said it last year we have to use a surplus to build more schools
00:54:14 because we have too much growth that drives me nuts right and i wanted to actually i'm surprised
00:54:21 i i thought more people would want to talk about smith today um because of the uh weird letter
00:54:29 that went out to the um like it started a couple of weeks ago remember a couple of weeks ago
00:54:35 she said that um she wanted people who were going to quote unquote represent the party such as um
00:54:43 Council members on the UCP or anybody who wanted to present themselves as a candidate would have to sign off saying that they wouldn't talk about independence.
00:54:52 That's not how it works, by the way.
00:54:55 And we talked a little bit about that.
00:54:56 And then she went further this week.
00:54:57 She's kind of demanding an oath of loyalty from the constituency association presidents and asking them not to talk about independence.
00:55:08 And 15 letters came out or 15 presidents already came out against it. Some because they represent writings that actually voted for independence, right? If you're the president of the constituency association in the Grand Prairie area, which just voted 49% in favor of option two on question 10, basically wanting to leave.
00:55:35 How can that constituency president denounce independence when his writing voted basically in favor of it?
00:55:45 So you got guys like guys and gals like that who voted, who said no to Smith on that principle.
00:55:51 And then there's others who said no, just simply on the principle that no, there's no oath of alliance to the party.
00:55:58 They're elected by the members.
00:56:02 Okay, we're going to, I got to take one last question.
00:56:04 It'll be a super quick one.
00:56:06 You basically got to make a comment or I can only run a few minutes late.
00:56:10 Go ahead.
00:56:10 What's your name?
00:56:11 What's on your mind?
00:56:14 Hey, Marty.
00:56:14 Can you hear me okay?
00:56:15 Roger calling.
00:56:16 Yeah, yeah.
00:56:16 Go ahead.
00:56:18 Okay, just real quick caller.
00:56:20 Yeah, to piggyback off the last caller, like I'm extremely frustrated with Parker.
00:56:24 I voted for Sharp.
00:56:26 But, yeah, like what a baby switch, hey?
00:56:28 Like, I mean, this guy ran on freezing taxes, no taxes, blah, blah, blah.
00:56:32 first thing he does is what triple the water the water tax or the water bill or whatever and then
00:56:38 now he's coming out with a 15 property increase like you can't trust this guy basically what i
00:56:42 want to say to your viewers is the next time there's a vote and this guy runs for re-election
00:56:46 or whenever don't trust a word he says i remember him on council he was such a bandstander i remember
00:56:51 when they were going to tear down a flare there was something going on there you know public 0.99
00:56:54 opinion was against that and he jumped and he was for public opinion this guy's a shite guy just 0.99
00:56:59 don't vote for this guy again he's brutal we need serious people in council we need serious people 0.98
00:57:04 running our city and these are not serious people sorry marty i know you want to pick two provincial
00:57:08 politics no no no no no no i'm i'm 100 on board with you i mean i i don't have a favorite like
00:57:13 i'll go anywhere you guys want to go maybe call back next week and we'll we'll dive more into
00:57:18 calgary for sure it's on my agenda i want to talk about calgary will do appreciate you a lot man
00:57:24 love what you're doing take care okay take care cheers um okay yeah no no i i no no no it's i'm
00:57:31 not federal provincial or municipal focus i mean i'll talk about whatever you guys want to talk
00:57:36 about uh i um i i know you guys are thank you for the guidance and i'm trying to zoom in like i'm
00:57:44 trying to figure out do i narrow down every week to maybe one topic or do i go keep it broad you
00:57:50 You know, I still haven't figured this out and I'm enjoying the journey right now and I appreciate the calls.
00:57:57 We never finished on Smith, but it's it's I think so next week it'll probably be the focus.
00:58:04 We'll talk more about Smith and the continued decline of like she's alienating her base.
00:58:11 I just can't help but think that that's what she's doing. 0.89
00:58:14 She's alienating her base and I don't know why.
00:58:18 I don't know why.
00:58:18 And maybe that's that. Maybe I'll just bluntly ask that question. You guys gave me some great suggestions. Maybe I'll have Jeff on the show. Maybe I'll have somebody from from council who knows lots of possibilities. Let me do a quick. I still I never even got around to this one. I wanted to I'll just mention it. You know, so the Alberta Now Party, which is a federal party.
00:58:45 So somebody, it's Drew Barnes and others, have gotten enough signatures, they got past the 500 member milestone, and they filed the paperwork with Elections Canada, and I think Elections Alberta, maybe I'll have Drew on the show in the coming weeks.
00:59:00 And so they're forming a federal conservative independence party similar to the Bloc Quebecois.
00:59:08 So it's a party that would only run in Alberta federally, unlike the reform, which tried to go sort of Western and and they filed.
00:59:17 Well, so I think we'll have something to talk about that next week.
00:59:20 Anyways, time's running up. I'm talking fast, fast, fast.
00:59:23 Appreciate the calls, folks. As usual, please consider subscribing.
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00:59:47 And as usual, wish you guys a great long week,
00:59:51 or it's not a long weekend, great weekend, everyone.
00:59:52 And we'll see you next week, same time on Thursday.
00:59:55 Cheers, everyone.
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