Western Standard - The Cory Morgan Show June 14

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00:01:30.000 Thank you.

00:02:00.000 Good morning.

00:02:28.140 Welcome to the Cory Morgan Show. June 14th, going into the best summer ever. Well, time will tell.

00:02:36.980 Weather's been good so far. Things are starting to open up. Hopefully it's going to be getting better.

00:02:41.300 I'm trying to maintain some optimism. We've been nothing but crabby and downcast for a while.

00:02:47.700 We're going to talk about some serious stuff a little later. Marcel Latouche is going to be my guest in about 15 minutes or so.

00:02:53.320 He's running a group now called Lead Calgary.

00:02:56.100 They're getting ready for the municipal elections that are coming this fall,

00:02:58.980 and that's going to be a really hotly contested one.

00:03:02.820 You know, we're getting a new mayor one way or another.

00:03:05.120 We're going to get a number of new councillors,

00:03:07.300 and we've got some real ingrained sickness in our municipal politics

00:03:12.080 and our municipal system.

00:03:13.420 So Marcel's worked on municipal politics, you know,

00:03:15.840 and commented on it for quite some time.

00:03:18.220 He's written a number of books on it.

00:03:20.140 It's always a good chat to get him on.

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00:05:57.180 back for them so uh so jake hickson isn't lead calgary one of those leftist packs or i'm mixing

00:06:04.680 it up with one of the other groups yes jake i i believe you are uh mixing it up with one of the

00:06:10.120 other groups actually there's so many sprouting up right now and that's part of what i want to

00:06:13.220 talk to marcel about um is that i think there's lead now there's a leftist group with those guys

00:06:19.120 and there are so many all over the place you know when we throttle election financing ability

00:06:24.100 I mean, it's like using a strainer to hold water, right?

00:06:26.540 It's just going to leak out all sorts of other ways.

00:06:28.540 And that's what's happened.

00:06:29.880 We've got a whole pile of union PACs all over the place.

00:06:32.820 I mean, the unions just seem to have a bottomless pit of money to try and influence elections.

00:06:37.020 It's funny, people speak of the evil, you know, corporate influence upon elections.

00:06:41.240 But I tell you, unions, I mean, look at the ads you're listening to day in, day out,

00:06:45.040 if you're listening to mainstream media, which you really should cut out.

00:06:47.200 You know, we got better things than that.

00:06:49.000 But all the same, they're also spawning these PACs all over the place.

00:06:53.140 i mean some of them are just something else but this one with marcel is most certainly not a union

00:06:56.820 funded left-wing pack uh the way i believe it is a pack and it's looking for a conservative thing

00:07:02.420 so marcel will expand in more detail on that for sure uh so yeah albert you know is the liberals

00:07:09.300 tears blend bitter it might be i don't know you know it's bitter tears to them but it's uh

00:07:14.820 sweet tears to us you know when they're crying those liberal tears because somebody's triggered

00:07:19.220 them because they said something that sparked them off i find it sweet to see those tears

00:07:24.020 running down those thin-skinned faces and yeah as heather's confirming their uh lead calgary is

00:07:29.940 not leftist that's right so but again it's it's not i don't blame people for getting mixed up

00:07:34.420 there's just so many packs out there it's it's hard to keep up on them uh i'm gonna get on a

00:07:40.580 self-serving thing quickly it is my wife jane morgan's birthday today she survived another year 1.00

00:07:46.420 living with my crazy ass. She puts up with so much. I want to wish her a happy birthday. She was 1.00

00:07:52.200 actually sleeping in this morning. I didn't want to wake her up and bother her because she didn't

00:07:56.160 sleep well last night because her husband's too cheap to get air conditioning at home,

00:07:59.600 but she's a fantastic, beautiful woman, and I benefit from her poor taste in men every day.

00:08:05.420 I don't know if she's tuning in. She listens to enough of my ranting at the best of times,

00:08:09.100 but if you're watching, Jane, I love you. Happy birthday, and I'll be home to irritate you in a

00:08:13.540 couple of hours. So I'll get those wishes out to you. And I said, yeah, back to the subject at

00:08:20.720 hand. And Claudette says, happy birthday, Jane, as well. Let's get on to some news, a little more

00:08:25.940 crabby things here. C10, you know, that's the big one on the federal front going on. This is that

00:08:33.820 free speech gagging order. You know, this is sliding under the radar. We're so distracted

00:08:37.920 this year these years when we have a crisis from the pandemic uh things like this you know we get

00:08:45.360 we get the government can manage to get a whole lot of things accomplished that infringe on our

00:08:49.920 rights because we're too busy trying to defend our rights from a hundred different fronts so

00:08:54.720 it's a challenging thing c10 you know it sounds so innocuous and boring uh it started as just kind

00:09:00.640 of a bit of a internet control bill it comes from that good ball but we kept seeing it leaking out

00:09:05.520 out of them how much more control and how much they want to control our speech with it how much

00:09:08.820 they want to control our press with it and it's gotten to the point of frantic now the conservatives

00:09:13.700 are the only party really standing up uh and trying to fight this they've been filibustering

00:09:18.500 you know and i've not been uh you know terribly friendly with uh o'toole but he's still the best

00:09:23.860 to the punch as far as that goes they've been trying to hold this bill up and now the liberals

00:09:28.840 have shut down all debate they're trying to mash this through committee before the summer break

00:09:33.340 I think a lot of it too, their desperation, and it's showing, we're probably going into a federal

00:09:39.560 election this fall. If they don't get this gag bill through now, they won't be able to gag us

00:09:45.600 when the election comes this fall. So they're just getting frantic. And it's a battle worth

00:09:50.580 watching. Not enough people are keeping a close eye on it. It looks like the clock might be running

00:09:55.280 out on them. Because the next step once they force this through parliament is it has to go to the

00:10:00.740 Senate and the Senate, they don't do anything quickly. I mean, again, though, you know, with

00:10:05.700 the majority government, we know they would have rammed this through on us already. With a minority,

00:10:09.380 there's some ability to slow these things down. But speak to your MPs, you know, send emails out.

00:10:13.780 This one is really a frightening bill. I mean, they could shut down shows like this. They could

00:10:18.980 shut down the standard. They could shut down the rebel, post-millennial, all these other alternative

00:10:22.680 media outlets, because that's what they're out to do. They want to control information and we can't

00:10:28.900 let them do that i mean yes it's a messy world out there in the internet there's no doubt about it

00:10:34.900 there are you know some inaccurate news stories get out there um there's some hyperbolic stuff

00:10:41.300 there's some terribly slanted media but you know what it's up to us as citizens to sift through

00:10:45.540 that we have to do it ourselves don't let the government clean out the information on your

00:10:50.500 behalf because they won't do it on your behalf they'll do it on their own and you won't see any

00:10:55.060 the information that doesn't serve the interest of the party in power. Free speech. It's such a

00:10:59.920 critical, essential one. Free expression, free press. And these guys are trying their hardest

00:11:05.840 to take that away. So, I mean, if, and there's so many reasons to vote for change this fall or

00:11:11.020 whatever, and I don't know, it's an exercise in futility. I don't think we'll get these freedoms

00:11:15.060 until the West finally becomes independent, but we've got to at least go down fighting,

00:11:19.180 keep pushing back. They're coming after your firearms. As I said earlier, we got the group

00:11:23.540 pushing back on this but this c10 this is an ugly odious bill i mean he wants to even go after

00:11:28.940 somebody who has a little youtube channel if they do fitness videos you might suddenly have to get

00:11:33.220 a government license to do it and there's not a problem this is a solution looking for a problem

00:11:37.780 the problem is that the federal government is hearing from people they don't want to

00:11:43.140 citizens are speaking and communicating with each other in ways that the federal government

00:11:47.880 can't control and they don't want that. And so they've modeled this bill to try and take care

00:11:54.320 of it. And it's really distressing. You know, again, they're taking advantage of us in a time

00:11:59.720 of crisis and trying to shove this thing through when people aren't watching. And we really got to

00:12:06.280 stand up on this one. Speaking of the imbeciles in government, Seamus O'Regan, you know, that guy, 1.00

00:12:10.340 he's he's special and he's he's the one in charge of our uh you know our energy these days a statement 0.99

00:12:18.600 out of him it's on the western standard online one of the stories up there saying he doesn't

00:12:22.220 know if if we need any more pipelines in canada he's not sure well don't be then but you know

00:12:28.520 it's not and shouldn't be the bloody role of the government to decide that get the hell out of the

00:12:33.280 way and private investors will decide if we need more pipelines or not this ridiculousness this

00:12:39.860 insanity of throttling our energy sector, of shutting down our ability to export products

00:12:47.260 to a world that's hungry for them. And they are. Quit listening to the leftist BS. Why would you

00:12:52.500 ever listen to a socialist when they preach about economics? These guys, they failed everywhere

00:12:58.740 they've gone, okay? Their leadership led to Venezuela. Their leadership led to the Soviet 0.95

00:13:02.500 Union. Their leadership led to Cuba. And now they're saying, oh, we don't need oil and gas

00:13:06.820 anymore. The economy, the green economy will fix it. It'll be better. They're wrong. And they're

00:13:11.820 idiots. Don't listen to them. We can't put our policies based on the madness from these guys 1.00

00:13:17.400 with an imaginary secondary economy up there with these green energy sources. They're not there.

00:13:24.380 The Trans Mountain, everything's done. It's not a matter of whether we need pipelines. We just

00:13:28.460 can't get them. You know, we're looking at line five. That's in battle right now. If we'd had

00:13:33.480 Energy East, it wouldn't have been an issue really, but now we're kind of castrated, aren't we?

00:13:37.900 And again, Energy East, they weren't looking for tax dollars.

00:13:40.580 They weren't looking for money.

00:13:41.260 They just needed government to get out of the way.

00:13:43.540 And getting government more deeply involved doesn't help.

00:13:45.940 We saw that.

00:13:46.560 Jason Kenney put $1.3 billion of our tax dollars into the Keystone line.

00:13:51.120 That got canceled, and now we're on the hook for that.

00:13:54.000 The solution is just get government out of the way.

00:13:57.140 We'll take care of it.

00:13:58.480 We'll be all right.

00:13:59.520 Quit holding it up.

00:14:00.880 Look how brutal it is with the Trans Mountain.

00:14:02.520 and they're shut down again because somebody went and mowed some grass somewhere on the right-of-way

00:14:06.080 that they weren't supposed to. It was shut down for a few months last winter because of a fatality.

00:14:11.740 But I mean, how long do you do a safety stand down? I tell you what, we're coming into some

00:14:15.480 really tough economic times. We're sitting on some of the best resources with world demand

00:14:20.420 rising for it all over the place. Oil's back up to $70 a barrel. We need to recover with all this

00:14:26.120 debt we've taken on, all this spending, all these unemployed people. We're sitting on this pile of

00:14:30.780 golden eggs, and we're busy putting a brick wall around the nest. And it's stupid. And we're all 1.00

00:14:36.780 going to pay for it. You know, we got to push back. This is ridiculous. How much debt do you want to

00:14:41.820 take on that we can't borrow forever? We're going to see some inflation coming. Meanwhile, the man

00:14:46.380 in charge of our energy sector is up there musing, saying, ah, you know, I don't know if we need any

00:14:50.480 more pipelines. Shut up, Seamus. You don't know what you're talking about. You're an East Coast 0.98

00:14:55.540 guy. You know nothing about the energy sector. You're grossly unqualified for the role you're

00:15:00.260 in just just put in your days nine to five head to the bar talk about how important you are and

00:15:06.280 let us get to work we'll take care of it don't try to speculate on whether or not we need pipes

00:15:10.660 you're wrong you know and yeah think about that he looks up to trudeau as a mentor that's a

00:15:17.100 frightening thought mr blackface who's over there unmasked hugging and kissing and doing whatnot in 0.54

00:15:22.240 the g7 summit over in europe whilst the rest of us remain following pandemic restrictions either

00:15:29.080 way, that's my rant for the morning. Like I said, I had some good news. Jane's still hanging in there 0.97

00:15:34.780 with me and she's gotten another year old or bad news. The liberals are still in power in Ottawa

00:15:38.940 and we still have our battles. So I've got Marcel Latouche joining me though, and we can perhaps get

00:15:43.300 some good productive talk on how we can improve our status and things going forward, how we can

00:15:48.580 use our democratic exercises to get better government, hopefully. And, you know, all is

00:15:54.740 never all lost. It's just, we can get ourselves into a bad hole before we dig ourselves out.

00:15:59.080 so let's bring marcel in here hey marcel how you doing good morning corey how are you oh very good

00:16:05.880 thanks actually i love i love the hot weather and the heat it's hard on some people but i just drive

00:16:10.680 on it so that puts me in a better mood and oh i'm just hoping to get some sunshine and be able to go

00:16:17.160 outside without a mask yes yeah the masks are a little unpleasant in 30 degree weather that's

00:16:23.080 that's for sure um so yeah i appreciate you you know uh coming on there's a lot lining up as we

00:16:29.560 get into july and august it's going to be uh hard to um uh you know pay attention to politics

00:16:37.000 hopefully we're getting a good summer we're all going to get out and all that stuff we've been

00:16:39.800 holding back on and all that um we got to pay attention because we've got a big municipal

00:16:45.800 election approaching us this fall in the entire province and as i said in my intro uh it's uh

00:16:51.160 we've got a real sick municipal political situation is the term i used for it all over

00:16:56.440 the place um i wanted to clarify though so you're with lead calgary now is that right marcel uh yes

00:17:03.160 for the municipal election uh i am going to be working with lead calgary which is a political

00:17:09.880 action committee that some people have put together and so that we can monitor uh interview

00:17:17.880 some of the candidates make sure that we get some good ideas out there get the information required

00:17:25.720 to the electorate so that they can make the best decision because in our view we believe that in

00:17:32.680 2021 municipal election across the board in the two big cities and some other jurisdiction are

00:17:40.680 going to be a watershed we need to look at things in a totally different way from the past 10 years

00:17:47.880 And with Iverson leaving and Nancy leaving, we've got to be very, very careful how we elect and select people to be elected in October of 2021.

00:18:01.660 And I want to talk to you about a certain number of things.

00:18:04.940 And it is very troubling.

00:18:06.600 And that's what we're going to talk about today.

00:18:09.400 Great.

00:18:10.100 Yeah, there's unfortunately always a lot of problems to lay out and things that need to be addressed.

00:18:15.720 I guess one of them, and you mentioned it earlier with your email, we've had issues in Edmonton and in Calgary with councillors who don't toe the line and the others sort of circle the wagons and try to censor them.

00:18:28.080 We're seeing that with Mike Nichol in Edmonton.

00:18:30.340 Again, we're seeing that in Calgary with Farkas. 1.00

00:18:33.780 What have we got going on down there?

00:18:36.080 Well, there is a major problem here, and we've got to be very careful about this.

00:18:40.560 This goes down to the fundamentals of democracy.

00:18:44.580 In Alberta, we continue to say there is no party politics at the municipal level, but what we have now is a wave of censorship between councillors who do not like people who do not stand with their policies of big spending and taxation.

00:19:04.920 Let's first start with Calgary. For the past four years, we've had Farkas, who opposes a lot of things because he's a principal councillor who believes in less spending, less taxes, who's been marginalised by most of councils.

00:19:24.900 And what happens is he's been sanctioned, he's been censored, and together with Sean Chew,

00:19:32.980 another councillor, they've been maligned for the past four years. And this is not only Calgary,

00:19:39.300 you've got Mike Nicol who's now going on and on with all sorts of sanctions by the remainder of

00:19:46.260 the edmonton council what happens is if these people do not do not like what other people say

00:19:57.700 in democracy they've got a right to stand on their principles and the other majority of people on

00:20:05.780 these councils are beginning to ostracize these people and it's not just the the two big council

00:20:12.260 let's look at initial for instance uh carrot has been ostracized and he has to step down

00:20:20.900 and he's running for mayor of initial and last week we got a report from the rocky view now

00:20:27.700 they are they are attacking samantha samantha wright a counselor telling her that she's not

00:20:33.940 been paying her taxes and so on and so forth so much so that the judge has said that this

00:20:39.460 is harassment i mean what is going on here do we have democracy in our local government or don't

00:20:48.500 we because some people are getting away with it if they form part of the cabal they get away with it

00:20:56.900 if you are you are not with the cabal you get ostracized and your constituents do not get

00:21:04.420 respected because you don't respect the elected representative this is becoming a very very big

00:21:12.020 issue and albertans especially in both cities have got to recognize this and start and asking

00:21:19.140 the questions do we ask people to be elected to represent us or to represent a cabal yeah well

00:21:29.540 Well, the only thing worse than a party system is an unofficial party system in my point of view.

00:21:35.480 I mean, they've got their little groups where they stick together and they organize and they move as a block, which is essentially a party system.

00:21:42.760 But it doesn't even have the checks and balances that a party system would have.

00:21:46.660 So it's actually kind of an uglier hybrid.

00:21:50.240 Absolutely.

00:21:51.280 And what is happening is some members of the cabal are having breach of the code of conduct.

00:21:57.840 They are having breach of electoral bylaws and they are not being sanctioned at all because

00:22:05.260 they are part of the cabal.

00:22:07.720 And this is very, very disturbing.

00:22:09.240 I mean, what has happened lately is that, for instance, Councillor Sutherland can support

00:22:15.900 anybody he wants.

00:22:17.980 But what he did last week was to send a letter out of his office to ask his constituents

00:22:25.500 to support another councillor, Jeff Davison, as mayor in October.

00:22:32.160 But what is very interesting about this is this is a breach of the code of conduct and nobody has said anything.

00:22:38.940 Where is the ethics commissioner?

00:22:40.920 Where is the outrage about somebody using his office to support another councillor?

00:22:49.360 And this is very important because I'm going to talk to you about what is this collusion about

00:22:55.040 down the road. Councillor Gondek, who is running for mayor, has a signs all over the place in

00:23:04.320 Calgary on public areas and nobody has done anything about it. Nobody has complained about

00:23:11.440 it. The electoral officer has not done anything about it. And this is what worries me. I don't

00:23:17.520 care if somebody supports somebody as long as they support them within the rules as put forward in

00:23:25.520 the electoral system and if we are going to have a cabal supporting a group of people and by the

00:23:32.160 same token ostracizing other people we've got a problem this is not a banana republic

00:23:40.960 yeah well and that's i'm glad you brought it up because i've noticed that driving around the city

00:23:44.640 and I've run in a number of elections, and typically you're not allowed to put any signs

00:23:49.260 on public property until the writ period begins, which is still months away. Yet I am seeing Jody

00:23:54.500 Gondek's signs in ditches, and actually on Blackfoot Trail, for example, where I know from

00:23:58.560 past elections, you're not allowed to put election signs on that at any time. Yet where is it? But

00:24:03.720 you know what I almost fear, because we've got some really ugly politics going on, and I know

00:24:08.620 the manager of Gondek's campaign won't stop anywhere, is they're waiting for somebody to

00:24:13.680 out and vandalize or tear down one of those signs or do something nasty and then they'll claim that

00:24:18.320 it was racism of course because that's always their favorite plot to go towards even though 0.79

00:24:22.800 it might be just some drunken clown going after a sign he didn't like on the side of the road but

00:24:26.640 i think there's quite a strategic basis to what they're up to right now oh exactly i remember

00:24:31.840 clearly 10 years ago uh with the mac ivor campaign when apparently uh a brick was thrown into the

00:24:39.440 Nancy campaign and it was claimed to be racism from from MacIver and having been with MacIver for

00:24:46.000 years I knew it was nothing to do with him and and this is exactly what you said we may be able

00:24:52.800 to see these kind of things coming up very soon the problem is Heather uh Heather McRae is the wife 1.00

00:25:03.520 of Gondek's manager, who is Stephen Carter. The problem is, are we going to have collusion if

00:25:12.160 Gondek becomes mayor and then Heather Macrae is elected? We've got to make this quite clear

00:25:18.640 to the electorate. What is your position? Which brings me to something else,

00:25:23.920 which is even more important. My sources say to me that if there is a federal election,

00:25:31.040 councillor shahal may be running for the federal liberal party now let's look at this then there

00:25:44.480 is the issue of sutherland thinking that by supporting jeff davison he might run as a

00:25:55.680 candidate and then step down to be davison chief of staff if he is elected for mayor let's talk

00:26:03.520 about this very clearly here so if shahal runs for council he wins his position in council

00:26:12.560 without telling people that he has an intention to run as a liberal candidate at the federal level

00:26:18.320 the federal election is gold and he steps down and he runs for the federal election

00:26:29.360 and then we have to have a another by election same thing with sutherland if if jeff davidson

00:26:37.040 wins as mayor does the sutherland step down as counselor if he wins and run for chief of staff

00:26:45.040 with him. There is a need for clarification to the electorate. This is what I'm going to do.

00:26:52.560 This is what I expect to do. And if I do this, we are not going to expose the electorate to a

00:27:00.160 by-election, maybe a month after the municipal election. We need transparency. We need these

00:27:07.760 candidates to announce what their intention is clearly before the election so i challenge both

00:27:15.760 sutherland to tell us what his intent is and shahal to tell us whether he's running as a liberal

00:27:22.480 candidate in the federal election yeah i'm just going to step back one moment because there was

00:27:28.240 a good question over cladette she was asking this was getting back to the signs though some others

00:27:32.000 are speaking up what has to be done to get that addressed uh cladette there's two things you can do

00:27:37.040 call 311 and get the complaints in because it's breaking city bylaws and they should come out and

00:27:41.600 remove it and at least it's on the record that there has been a complaint and i suggest i suggest

00:27:45.600 that to everybody else as well and you can also call the electoral officer or email them with uh

00:27:50.720 uh boy i'm not sure where it is it's at the city of calgary site perhaps i'm used to elections

00:27:54.400 alberta but those signs have to be addressed and it kind of indicates again i mean we've got

00:27:59.760 the person who's breaking those rules is somebody who was very tightly tied to the nenshi uh

00:28:05.200 campaign i mean it's all that same group as you're saying it's a cabal and they know that

00:28:09.520 they're not going to get cracked down on because they got connections with the existing mayor and

00:28:13.440 it's again abusing uh the how entrenched they are so either way getting back to where you were

00:28:19.600 marcel yeah there's a lot of them with some strange uh competing interests going i remember

00:28:24.400 diane collier cart she ran to be uh mla in a by-election uh but she didn't leave it open for 1.00

00:28:30.480 a by-election for municipal council because she lost the provincial campaign so she just went

00:28:34.160 right back to her seat you know she hedged her bets there that's that's right i mean edging your 1.00

00:28:39.200 bets is an insult to the electorate because what you're doing is you're looking for your own 1.00

00:28:46.000 self-preservation as well as looking for a new job at a higher level we've got to stop this sort

00:28:54.000 of double dipping that goes on here not only are they uh lying to their constituent vote for me

00:29:01.760 vote for me and we are going to be representing you but next week if there's a federal election

00:29:07.840 i'm going to seek a seat on the federal uh uh on the federal government because i have been

00:29:15.120 promising a position as minister to represent calgary i mean this is absurd we cannot have

00:29:21.200 this anymore and and the electorate is going to be fooled once again yeah well so is that part of

00:29:28.880 what uh you know lead calgary is going to be doing is putting the question to them i mean try to get

00:29:33.360 a commitment say hey if you're running or you're running for a four-year term we expect you to put

00:29:37.280 in the job for four years when you're asking for my vote today things such as that exactly

00:29:43.040 and this is this is what we are going to do i mean uh my work with the institute for public

00:29:48.000 sector accountability has always been about transparency and accountability and that's

00:29:52.960 what we are going to continue at lead calgary if people want to know what we are about they

00:29:57.600 can go to leadcalgary.ca or follow us on facebook at lead calgary i mean the the fact that we are

00:30:04.800 going we are not going to be sort of attacking people we want to educate the electorate so that

00:30:10.800 they get the best information to make the best decision when they vote i mean we are not going

00:30:18.240 to start having a slate of candidate or whatever i mean what we are going to do is we are going to

00:30:23.040 evaluate we've started interviewing candidates we know that it's a little bit uh set up by number

00:30:29.760 of wards here already we're going to talk to people we're going to find out what they stand

00:30:34.880 for we are going to start asking them the tough question so that we know if we are going to make

00:30:40.960 them accountable when once they're elected the electorate deserves to know what people stand for

00:30:48.400 what they are going to do for them do they say oh i am going to run as a conservative

00:30:55.440 and then once elected i operate as a liberal nobody says they are liberals or conservative

00:31:01.360 when they run at the municipal level but the ideology exists i was fooled last time i supported

00:31:09.440 a number of candidates in calgary including davison gondek shahal and and i've been fooled

00:31:17.440 because these people never ever operated as conservative they say they are conservative

00:31:24.240 but anybody who supports tax increases for four years and huge expenditures on all sorts of

00:31:32.400 political legacies cannot be a conservative or a principled conservative and that's what we are

00:31:38.960 going to do at lead calgary we are going to examine the situation we are going to look at the the

00:31:44.640 the economic basis of calgary and advise people on what kind of candidates you require to bring

00:31:52.880 us back to where we are well and i appreciate that you know one of our problems as jake uh

00:31:59.280 pointed out one of the commenters too saying the municipal level people vote for the most

00:32:02.400 recognizable name and unfortunately there really is a very strong incumbent advantage when it comes

00:32:07.760 to municipal politics again some of it comes down to our apathy uh you know we we don't get out there

00:32:14.240 and look i mean that's the government that's closest to us it impacts us so much yet we're

00:32:18.480 terrible for giving off our butts and checking out who's running and uh casting our ballot

00:32:23.440 and this time around it's such a huge opportunity for potential change uh we really need to be get

00:32:29.200 people informed and get them out to vote this time because it might be 10 more years before you get

00:32:32.240 another chance to knock off a mayor absolutely but there is there is one more fundamental thing

00:32:38.560 that we've got to look at now and we've submitted a letter already to the municipal affairs uh

00:32:45.200 ministry because we we have a real problem here because of the behavior and i don't know anything

00:32:52.800 about mr johnston uh to tell you the truth there are legal cases going around i don't know the

00:32:58.240 person has never spoken to him i just read what is in the newspaper that he's being charged or

00:33:04.320 whatever so i'm not going to go there but the issue that i want to talk about is the fact that

00:33:12.080 there will be no no electoral list this year because they don't want to give him the electoral

00:33:20.400 list what that does is it prevents other candidates for getting an electoral list which is unfair

00:33:29.120 because incumbents already have maybe not a full list but at least a list that they've used

00:33:36.720 in previous elections so they have an unfair advantage and this is wrong we've got to look

00:33:42.560 at this very seriously and talk about whether we should have a list of electors given candidates

00:33:51.200 or preclude somebody from it it's very very dangerous because incumbents will have an unfair

00:33:58.080 advantage yeah that's a sticky and difficult issue you know because i mean it's it's led people to

00:34:04.880 ask that question well why do they need those lists any longer you know they can pound the

00:34:08.800 pavement and find out who lives where um i wrote an article on it though it's a little dry and

00:34:12.960 boring but at the end when it comes to scrutineering and things such as that there's an

00:34:17.120 important reason for those because that get spreading that list to others at some point

00:34:21.840 actually helps prevent electoral fraud it makes it much more difficult uh but and at the same time

00:34:30.400 we are seeing a valid issue that perhaps there's some people are going to get a hold of personal

00:34:33.840 information but we really don't want getting a hold of it but how do you ease out of it without

00:34:38.400 giving that incumbent advantage it's a tough one this one exactly it is a tough one and since i'm

00:34:43.680 not a lawyer i'm not going to dwell into this because but i just want to let people know that

00:34:48.720 there is a possibility of unfair advantage i mean you know i i don't know the legal uh processes or

00:34:56.400 whatever what to do about this because i'm not a a lawyer you know these are the sort of things the

00:35:02.480 other thing that we've got to talk about is the possible return uh in calgary of people who have

00:35:10.880 been uh counselors retired and coming back again my point is very simple you're gone you didn't do

00:35:19.520 very much for calgary and you're trying to come back what are you coming back for to bring back

00:35:24.880 the old policies that fail and or is it for you to come back and double dip again in the big pension

00:35:32.160 funds i mean if you were unsuccessful last time you're going to be unsuccessful this time to make

00:35:38.880 us better and if you brought the policies of higher taxes and huge spending you're going to

00:35:44.560 do the same thing again this time because the cabal if you're part of it is going to continue

00:35:50.800 the old uh political legacy thing i mean and let's spend let's spend and get it done

00:35:58.480 the big spending that is going to happen now is this this projection of uh revitalizing the

00:36:05.520 downtown. This is a huge boondoggle, you know. There are going to be billions of dollars

00:36:12.400 being spent in revitalizing the downtown core of Calgary. There are major problems with this.

00:36:18.880 People have got to seriously think about this. The oil industry has been decimated and

00:36:26.800 with COVID, we've seen that the whole of downtown is completely empty, the offices. My sources in

00:36:35.280 the in the development and and construction industry have told me that they believe that

00:36:40.880 there are perhaps only ten buildings four buildings that can be converted to residential

00:36:47.680 because of of the the construction uh constraints and so on and so forth we are going to spend

00:36:54.000 millions of dollars uh from now and over 10 years to revitalize downtown it's not going to happen

00:37:03.600 More and more reports are saying that with COVID-19, people are saying, hey, I'd like to work

00:37:11.280 from home, maybe three days a week, and I don't need to go downtown to the office.

00:37:17.680 The other thing is that most younger families don't want to leave downtown, because over the

00:37:23.840 past years we've we've seen the lack of security the the drug dealing downtown after after hours

00:37:32.400 and we can't keep people safe downtown and why are we putting so much money in those buildings

00:37:38.800 and refurbishing private owners with taxpayers money to revitalize downtown

00:37:47.360 What it is about is to revitalize it, to get taxpayers to pay for it, so that we get more tax revenue from those buildings.

00:37:58.800 People want to live in suburbs where there are green spaces. They don't want to live downtown.

00:38:04.140 We messed up a long time ago. In 1997, when I wrote, sorry, 2004, when I wrote Take Back City Hall, I told people we should never have put so many buildings in the downtown core because technology is going to change things.

00:38:23.020 Now, 17 years later, it has happened. And what we should have done is have different places for buildings and corporations in different places in Calgary, closer to where people live, as opposed to just concentrate on the downtown, which at five o'clock is closed down, and the riffraff comes in at night, and we get crime increase downtown.

00:38:52.020 this idea of revitalization is going to cost us money and it's not going to work because of the

00:39:00.240 new technology look at you and I we don't have to meet now we can talk I can talk to the world

00:39:05.640 with you by staying in my office and you in your office we don't need these big buildings anymore

00:39:12.660 yeah well and if we're going to do anything about downtown I mean it's ridiculous the way they're

00:39:18.760 going about it. They've got a whole pile of vacant apartments. I mean, if they were full,

00:39:23.300 you could say, well, we need more so people will move down there, but people don't want to live

00:39:27.680 down there. That's what they've got to address. You're just going to build more empty spaces. 0.74

00:39:32.340 As you said, it's not just at night. Actually, when I go down to the standard office once a week

00:39:36.480 downtown, it's daytime. The addicts are out of control down there. You do not feel safe in

00:39:42.380 Calgary's downtown these days. If they want step one, you don't need more accommodation. You need

00:39:48.520 make people feel safe walking up and down the streets because nobody's going to move down there

00:39:51.880 no matter how pretty a condo you build when you got to walk through a wall of addicts

00:39:56.200 passed out and spitting on the streets wherever you go but as you said there's a heck of a boondoggle

00:40:01.800 coming where they can spend a lot of millions changing buildings that nobody's going to move

00:40:05.560 into later anyhow but what is going to happen is that the the one of the things that the institute

00:40:12.760 for Public Sector Accountability has put forward to the Ministry of Municipal Affairs is a change

00:40:20.840 and a look at the assessment of property taxes. We have to look at this very seriously

00:40:30.680 because what's happening in the revenue now, the revenue is coming down because these buildings are

00:40:35.240 empty. And what is going to happen to property taxes? The condo market, the condominium market

00:40:41.240 is going to collapse with this so-called revitalization. We are going to have major

00:40:47.240 problems here if we don't look at how we are going to revitalize Calgary, not just the downtown core.

00:40:55.400 We've got to look at the expenditures. We've got to look at how we are going to have a new Calgary

00:41:03.160 in this new environment. And we are going to have to live within our means. And if we get

00:41:10.520 people who have been spending and spending over the past 10 years re-elected again, we are going

00:41:16.920 to have a major problem because now we don't have revenues, we don't have a source for taxes,

00:41:22.280 but we continue to spend. Who do you think are going to pay for it? The taxpayer. And the taxpayer

00:41:27.880 is not going to be non-residential or business taxpayer because the small businesses are

00:41:34.440 collapsing anyway because they've been decimated by COVID-19, who's going to pay for it? The

00:41:42.440 residents. The residents are the ones who vote, so they should be very careful who they vote for

00:41:49.240 on October 18. So in finding out who they're voting for and looking for information,

00:41:55.640 one of the things that used to be out there for a while was the council tracker from the Manning

00:41:59.400 Institute when that was active, because, you know, that's one of those things lacking in City Hall.

00:42:04.840 You don't have a good Hansard. You don't have a good, you know, gazette system like you do in

00:42:08.120 other levels of government and municipally in the smaller areas, too. I mean, I keep neglecting to

00:42:14.240 bring up, as you said, in Rocky View, we're seeing judges having to intervene because of these guys

00:42:19.480 fighting with each other. And in Innisfail, you know, the battles are going on. So this is important

00:42:24.080 to us everywhere. But where can we find records of where these councillors are voting so we do know

00:42:29.160 the high spenders are because they can lie to us they can say i'm a fiscal conservative and

00:42:33.240 unless you dig in deep and find out what they've actually voted for people believe it well there

00:42:39.000 are other organizations who do this kind of thing i mean you know the the alberta institute has been

00:42:44.520 doing this for the for the the whole of uh of alberta the the issue uh listing and uh of uh

00:42:53.480 voters voters uh uh sorry councillors votes and so on and so forth people have got to to follow

00:43:00.200 these people like save calgary uh the alberta institute and and places like this i mean these

00:43:07.320 are the people who give them this kind of common sense calgary is one of them uh for sure giving

00:43:13.160 them the information i mean these the sort of non-profit organization like uh ipsa.org

00:43:20.920 Common Sense Calgary, Safe Calgary. These are the organizations who are trying to hold these

00:43:26.920 councillors' feet to fire. That's where you can find this information. It's important for people

00:43:33.320 to go and look for this because it's there. It is not that the information is not there.

00:43:40.040 We have to search for it. We are going to make it available to people closer to the election.

00:43:45.400 we want to make people understand this time what is at stake that's uh appreciated i i wonder what

00:43:53.880 we're going to go into this fall it's kind of interesting to see any um actual debates or or

00:43:59.640 things such as that i remember a civic camp years ago back when that little uh fake group was running

00:44:04.200 around uh they managed the debates one year and kind of stacked them up i mean again for getting

00:44:08.680 voters informed i hope we have some sort of system where where people can see their candidates and

00:44:12.840 and make a good choice when comparing between them well what people have got to be very careful about

00:44:18.200 now is the involvement of unions the unions have got two million dollars available to tell you

00:44:26.040 that we must not private uh privatize services the problem that people have got to find out is

00:44:33.240 services can be delivered in a totally different way if we can we we can put a man in space by a

00:44:42.760 private company i can guarantee you that your garbage can be collected by a private company

00:44:49.800 you don't need unions to collect your garbage what we need is a complete rethink of how

00:44:56.520 services are delivered not all services have got to be delivered by the government

00:45:02.280 because 50 percent more than 50 percent of the operating budget of of local government is in

00:45:10.040 wages and benefits and the unions are going to tell you that they are essential for them to do it

00:45:18.200 i don't want people to lose their jobs i want people to get their jobs by delivering the

00:45:24.280 services in more efficient way and the unions are going to use two million dollars of their their

00:45:31.720 jews or whatever they collected to influence this election and the electorate has got to be very 1.00

00:45:37.960 careful because they could be very sorry for what they wish for after october 18 if you continue to

00:45:45.240 vote for people who think that city hall should be the only delivery of of services you can't deliver

00:45:52.680 services and you must deliver services with new technology and with the private sector involving

00:45:59.320 it because the private sector creates jobs small businesses creates jobs not city hall

00:46:06.040 Yeah, well, and it's funny with unions, you know, just for that reminder for some people. I mean, if we're looking to get into change and efficiency and modernization, traditionally, whether people want to admit it or not, unions hold that back quite terribly. I saw that recently with Canada Post. We'd actually had a little outlet for a little while where we were servicing an area with a side business. And boy, the restrictions it would throw on you that had you could you were not allowed to use certain new technologies.

00:46:36.040 to like scan and track packages because it would put the union outlets at a disadvantage it was

00:46:41.960 ridiculous i mean so they're actually lobbying to keep in the dark ages i mean if the unions

00:46:47.320 had their ways we'd still have milkman running up and down the roads which is practical but 0.81

00:46:52.440 not really uh cost efficient or realistic but the unions have been spending advertising already

00:46:59.560 absolutely and this is what's going to happen so i mean we urge people you know come closer to

00:47:07.160 over the end of august we are doing our research we're doing our work now and we are working with

00:47:13.240 people we're interviewing people and about september we are going to really get into it

00:47:19.640 people are going to have holidays having been cooked up for 18 months at home they are going

00:47:25.240 to enjoy the summer and we don't want to bother them with uh election purposes right now you know

00:47:33.800 watch us in in at the end of august after the holidays in september we are going to let them

00:47:39.960 know by then we would have interviewed a number of candidates we can have our opinion uh and and

00:47:46.440 tell them who we think should be elected why they should be elected and the others when we evaluate

00:47:52.520 them why they should not be elected excuse me yeah that's good you know i mean we really

00:48:00.360 need that and it's going to be an unusual summer we've all been waiting a long time it's going to

00:48:05.960 be hard to catch people's uh attention i'm certain candidates will be working throughout the summer

00:48:10.920 however they can uh but i mean people are going to be camping and stampeding and doing whatever

00:48:16.600 they can. I guess wish the best. Claudette is asking, is there a version of what you're doing

00:48:23.860 or a version of you even in Edmonton to speak to Edmonton voters there? We do have a number

00:48:29.780 of listeners up that way as well. No, I don't actually. I have been so busy with Calgary that

00:48:36.260 the only person I know about is Mike Nichol and his tribulations down there. But no, years ago I

00:48:46.020 did but uh this time i uh i am concentrating mostly on calgary but uh they have the same

00:48:52.420 problem and if claudette would take it i mean she can speak to me and uh but uh and and i can advise

00:49:00.260 her if she wants to take that role uh she should step in and do it yeah well it's difficult edmonton

00:49:06.980 is a tougher city than calgary i think when it comes to uh well particularly organized labor

00:49:11.700 and some entrenched attitudes just due to being kind of a government town but as you said both

00:49:17.380 cities are turning over mayors this time this is really important i mean for the whole province if

00:49:21.780 we can get some good solid change this time around because we're in for some critical years pretty

00:49:26.900 soon we we have to make a change we cannot continue on the same path that we've been going on

00:49:33.700 for the past 10 years these people ran as supposedly centrist but both these mayors

00:49:41.700 were liberals because iverson is going to run as a liberal in the federal election anyway i mean

00:49:48.100 who knows what man she wants to do and uh he's been cozy up with with uh with trudeau for years

00:49:55.300 uh and uh his his true colors are are there he's a liberal he's never been a conservative

00:50:01.940 and and all all is uh during his his mayoral uh term is but nothing but spend spend and tax i

00:50:11.620 mean you know this this has been debated for for the past four years by myself and and and and

00:50:17.380 other people i mean it's been a tax and spend two mayors in alberta of big cities and we don't want

00:50:25.140 to get this going on because there are different ways to do this and if people want to know uh

00:50:32.100 where where to get information they can always go to vipsa.org and we have papers published

00:50:38.980 in there on how things should be done yeah well that's a good buzzword to watch for when you see

00:50:44.820 people campaigning particularly in alberta when they say center what i see with center is somebody

00:50:49.700 who is obfuscating, like you're just actually hiding from where you want to be. Take a stand

00:50:55.680 one spot or another. I mean, we saw that with the Alberta party and voters saw through it.

00:51:00.180 They keep saying we're center, we're center, we're center. People realize, well, you don't

00:51:03.080 stand for anything, so I'm not voting for you. But unfortunately, it's much more effective when

00:51:07.200 you're a municipal candidate when you say that and you try to stand for nothing because then

00:51:11.600 you get away with quite a bit once you get in. I mean, what is important to know is that

00:51:17.600 People talk about conservative, and if you're conservative, you're the far right.

00:51:22.020 But that's not true.

00:51:23.260 A true conservative who believes in small government, less taxes, is not far right.

00:51:29.940 It's right of center.

00:51:32.360 And when people say they are of the center in Alberta, they are liberals who are obfuscating

00:51:39.780 and disguising themselves as liberals.

00:51:43.420 they are not in the center because once they get elected they move to the far

00:51:48.160 left and this is what we are waiting for and we've got to start firing these

00:51:54.040 guys when they do that and Claudette's pointing out a good one with the

00:51:56.960 Edmonton race one thing I have been watching a bit too so so he is running

00:52:00.940 in that and he was for people don't want a liberal member of Parliament he was

00:52:04.780 actually minister when they brought in the no more pipelines bill and he threw

00:52:08.260 Alberta under the bus and Edmonton voters fired him but now he's running for mayor up in Edmonton

00:52:15.140 so as said he's hoping to get another turn at the gravy train better stand up and make sure so he

00:52:20.180 does not get that mayoral seat and this is what I've been talking about about these old candidates

00:52:26.340 who've been there before coming back to double dip again I mean so he was a liberal he was a liberal

00:52:32.980 minister and it was a disaster uh in in the trudeau uh era and and he's going to come back to

00:52:39.940 edmonton i mean come on guys i mean in edmonton wake up i mean he is a liberal he's going to vote

00:52:46.020 as a liberal he's going to operate as a liberal and and there is absolutely no way that he's going

00:52:52.340 to do any good for you except spend and tax yeah that's the basis and that's what's important with

00:52:59.860 these conversations to bring it up because it's not coming into the general uh sphere and public

00:53:04.420 discussion so hopefully uh something organizes in edmonton you know similarly uh to to what uh

00:53:09.620 lead calgary is putting together just to at least help people make an informed decision when it

00:53:13.620 comes this fall um so getting towards wrapping up here what else would you like to touch upon

00:53:18.340 today marcel well i mean you know the the covet 19 i mean i think people have got to think about

00:53:24.180 this very carefully uh i mean uh there are look i am 76 years old i've had many vaccines over my

00:53:32.580 lifetime and i am not an anti-vaxxer if the vaccine is supposed to help please do it but

00:53:39.620 i am not going to tell people to wear a mask or whatever it is because i'm in the camp saying that

00:53:45.540 if you've had covet 19 you are immunized naturally if you have been vaccinated

00:53:53.300 you're immunized so go and enjoy yourself for the summer for goodness sakes let the sun shine

00:54:00.580 have a good time and then we'll talk about politics in in september so that we can get

00:54:06.740 a better time by electing good people at council in all the local authorities jurisdiction

00:54:15.540 Excellent. Yes, we're all looking forward to a good summer after kind of losing one earlier. So, and where again, just one more time, where can people find more information on what you're doing and keeping up with candidates and such?

00:54:26.740 you can go on leadcalgary.ca, and you can go and follow us on Lead Calgary on Facebook page.

00:54:36.600 And if Claudette wants to get in touch with me, please do so at ipsa.info at shore.ca.

00:54:47.640 Great. Well, thank you very much, Marcel. It's always a good time talking to you. Appreciate

00:54:51.900 the work you do and uh i'm sure we'll talk again as the campaign starts to really ramp up this fall

00:54:58.620 look forward to it have a great summer cory always nice talking to you and your audience great thanks

00:55:07.740 kind of mid-word there but he was saying goodbye uh but yeah as i said it is always good getting

00:55:12.860 marcel on he's been a voice for municipal common sense for a long time in the calgary area and just

00:55:19.180 you know again the issues are the same everywhere you go whether it's calgary edmonton or as said

00:55:24.460 innisfail uh rocky view county uh left bridge boy they've had some hornet's nest politics going on

00:55:31.900 down there in municipal politics since as far as living memory goes for me so we as i was kind of

00:55:39.820 saying with my opening ramble we've just got such challenging times distracting times tough times

00:55:46.780 and it can lead people to not paying full attention to these issues as they go.

00:55:52.380 As Marcel was saying, people are going to be enjoying the summer. They want to get out. They

00:55:55.340 want to live a little. Hopefully the bloody masks come off. Here's another reminder. Let's remember

00:56:00.300 that with Ninchy. He set the mask mandate all the way until the end of 2021. So even if assuming,

00:56:08.140 you know, and again, I don't want to get in the debate. I don't think Marcel either

00:56:11.100 effectiveness of vaccines or whatever, but let's assume that everything's reopened. Provincially,

00:56:14.620 it's reopened. The infections are down. We're in full force this summer. You're still going to be

00:56:19.820 gagging under a mask all the way till Christmas because Nenshi and the majority of members of 1.00

00:56:25.440 the current city council made the law all the way to the end of this year. That's the kind of

00:56:30.120 imbeciles we've got in city hall. That's the kind of control freaks we have in city hall. 1.00

00:56:37.160 They want these laws. They keep their thumb on you. They put them in for such a ridiculously

00:56:42.680 long time on a fluid situation and uh they should be fired for it we're gonna do it this fall so

00:56:50.740 marcel is providing uh yeah information on that so we know who to fire i think a lot of us already

00:56:55.700 do the other thing of course is remember to get up go out and actually cast your ballot you know

00:57:01.620 it's important in municipal politics it's it's one of the worst for us being apathetic and not

00:57:05.640 getting out and voting on it and you can't forget they are a huge part of your life whether you like

00:57:10.180 or not they tax you a whole lot they're very directly involved with you uh as government

00:57:15.380 goes and that's part of why they slide under the radar uh and and we just need to pay attention

00:57:21.220 to it and fix that up the other thing as was pointed out yeah i've been seeing those those

00:57:24.900 gondek and mcrae signs all over the city make sure to call 311 call them up and complain about these

00:57:30.580 things get those things out there maybe if they get enough you know nancy's not running again

00:57:35.140 maybe uh city of men will have lost the fear and actually issue some fines to these guys because

00:57:39.620 do you really want to see this is something i've written on in the past anyways a couple of things

00:57:44.820 i'll go on a side rant as i wrap up the show today i i've managed a number of campaigns i've

00:57:49.460 run in a couple um the election signs are almost kind of one of the most fun parts in a campaign

00:57:54.740 you're really excited you get them in there you get those bundles you uh you know get out you want

00:58:00.820 to get that name out there it's really exciting it's a step up but they're terribly overrated

00:58:04.980 especially on public land the amount that signs actually impact electoral decisions is minuscule

00:58:11.860 i mean you don't want to have none because then people do say well is that person in the race or

00:58:15.300 not and it's just kind of a each race is the others that have more and more and more signs

00:58:19.380 of public land it just clutters it and eventually you don't even see those signs on the side of the

00:58:23.460 road you know because there's so many of them they're just a colorful ugly blur of plastic and

00:58:29.380 would the signs that count are on people's lawns the the the ones that count are when you go to

00:58:36.180 a door you knock on their door you talk with them so theoretically you've got their support

00:58:43.300 and uh you ask them if you can get the sign on the lawn and that's a show of support from that

00:58:48.660 person for your candidate or if you're the candidate for you yourself that is a sign that'll

00:58:53.380 have some impact that's a sign that has the neighbors on either side looking saying oh you

00:58:57.220 you know, such and such there supports the, you know, this candidate. Maybe there's something

00:59:03.820 about it, but it's a lot of work. You really got to go pound those doors and get the permission,

00:59:07.300 get those signs out. The ones on public land really have little impact. But if, I mean,

00:59:12.440 personally, I don't think they should be out at all. They're just ugly and they don't have much 0.98

00:59:14.920 impact. If you just ban everybody from the public land ones, then everybody's equal on it. But if

00:59:19.360 not, they should just have them during the election period. So you only have to look at the bloody

00:59:23.300 things, you know, for 28 days. But we got Gondek polluting illegally on a bunch of areas all over.

00:59:31.940 As I said, on Blackfoot Trail, you're not even allowed to put signs on Blackfoot Trail

00:59:34.860 during the election, much less often. It's the attitude and you can tell from campaign

00:59:41.380 management and so on. It's the put it out. We'll apologize later. Well, let's make that apology

00:59:45.600 with a fine, perhaps, because we've got a long campaign ahead of us. So let's try and keep on

00:59:50.120 on equal ground uh cheryl's saying yeah the premier said the masks will be gone once we hit

00:59:54.040 stage three that is true provincially and i'm really looking forward to it but municipally

01:00:01.800 it's a separate bylaw so you see there could be some battles and there's been some articles i

01:00:06.200 believe the western standard i think dave wrote something on that already dave nailer

01:00:09.400 on western standard online um there's very possibly going to be some municipal

01:00:14.680 provincial fights as we get citizens standing up saying hey the mask law is gone i want it gone 0.99

01:00:20.120 ninchy get rid of that stupid bloody law let me go to a business but a business again you can't 0.99

01:00:24.440 expect them to sacrifice themselves because you get your license pulled you get fined and right 1.00

01:00:29.320 now businesses are hurting badly enough they're not going to play martyrs for this we got to stand 0.99

01:00:33.240 up and tell goofballs like head ninchy back off on that stupid control freak law rescind it now 0.99

01:00:39.800 it's done and all those counselors who stood up for it um what else do we got here so miranda 1.00

01:00:47.480 you've got a story

01:00:49.840 you're interested in having some coverage on

01:00:51.680 by all means send me

01:00:53.820 an email

01:00:54.500 at albertarep

01:00:58.140 at hotmail.com

01:01:00.320 and let me know

01:01:01.800 what's up with it and I'll have a look at it

01:01:03.520 maybe it's more appropriate for the news area

01:01:05.820 of the standard or what not

01:01:07.660 but I can certainly check it out

01:01:09.560 and we look into things

01:01:10.940 and speaking on

01:01:13.800 something of abuse of power apparently

01:01:15.640 so that's about it for today though I've we're changing our format as I said last week on Friday

01:01:22.700 too we're going to shorten these shows up a little I'm going to go to actually probably a

01:01:26.160 recorded format we'll go with live stuff when there's specials and things going on but it'll

01:01:31.280 help us be able to get maintain more guests actually if we could schedule a little more

01:01:35.740 and have a little more fluidity with it we're always looking for interesting people to speak

01:01:39.760 to like Marcel and such and we'll keep these shows going on the same schedule but eventually

01:01:44.700 they are going to be recorded ones coming up. But of course, you know, by all means, email the

01:01:48.580 comments and send them in and we'll discuss and debate them. Today was really good. There were

01:01:52.480 some good questions sent out to Marcel and he was happy to answer them. And I appreciate those.

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Western Standard - June 15, 2021

The Cory Morgan Show June 14

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