Western Standard - The Cory Morgan Show. June 25 2021

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00:02:30.000 Morning. Welcome to the Cory Morgan Show Friday, June 25th. Yeah, it's the 25th today.

00:02:47.000 Where does the time go? So I've got a good one today. I have Linda Slobodian coming on pretty 0.87

00:02:53.540 soon. Linda was an investigative journalist with The Sun, I believe with The Herald as well. She

00:03:00.320 was with the old Western Standard and Alberta Report, and she's doing things for the Western

00:03:04.980 Standard now, and she's written some fantastic columns and pieces on things she's dug into.

00:03:10.540 After that, I'm going to be getting on with Clinton DeVoe and possibly Mark Petroni joining

00:03:14.740 me. We'll talk some federal politics. Parliament just closed up. It's looking very likely we're

00:03:20.160 going into a fall election. So you see how the picture looks before we go into summer. It's

00:03:25.620 going to be a summer of unofficial campaigning. We just know that. And let's see what chances

00:03:31.360 we've got to coming into a better country this fall. Personally, I don't think it looks very

00:03:36.100 good, but we'll see. Things that are looking good, though, are things at the Western Standard. We've

00:03:40.860 got a great readership base growing. We report on things that other publications don't. We talk

00:03:45.680 about things other publications won't and we rely on subscribers and advertisers in order to do it

00:03:51.040 we don't take a nickel of tax dollars in order to do this and the subscriptions have been great

00:03:55.700 if you haven't subscribed already sign up you know there's a free trial you get some degree of free

00:04:00.480 stories to check it out uh get used to it and you know it costs less than an old newspaper

00:04:05.640 subscription does and you get all of that content and you help support us and we aren't taking tax

00:04:09.560 dollars and they aren't offering them to us and the other thing that helps us along of course are

00:04:14.220 our sponsors and they've been great one of whom is the canadian coalition for firearms rights and

00:04:21.740 nobody works as hard for your ability to use and own firearms these guys have been sponsoring us

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00:04:38.300 You know, there is definitely a push on to take away your property, to take away your firearms, take away your right to just go out and have a good time, do some plinking, do some hunting, whatever you want to do with them.

00:04:49.880 That's the thing.

00:04:50.360 You shouldn't have to justify what you want to do with firearms.

00:04:54.460 Assuming you aren't harming somebody else, it shouldn't be the government's problem.

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00:04:59.740 So the CCFR with firearmsrights.ca is fighting to make sure you can keep and maintain those rights.

00:05:06.600 We don't have a Second Amendment, but we do have the right to property and a great number of other things, and we need to stand up for them.

00:05:12.560 Another sponsor we have is the Resistance Coffee Company.

00:05:15.260 These guys are great.

00:05:16.200 So I ordered their coffee.

00:05:18.060 I finally got around to getting it in, and it was very good.

00:05:21.500 These guys, you know, if you're tired of buying things, finding out that some of your money went to some woke, politically correct cause from that company because they were virtue signaling, you know, essentially with your dollars you don't want to contribute to.

00:05:34.020 well you don't have to worry about that with the resistance coffee company you can see what their

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00:05:57.500 your purchases to that and if you go to resistancecoffee.com for your first purchase

00:06:01.280 if you put in western standard all in one word you get 10 off your first order so like 20 of

00:06:06.320 your purchase right off the bat you know some's going to a good cause some's coming off the price

00:06:11.520 and then of course they're sponsoring a western standard which is great and uh the coffee came in

00:06:15.440 and they got some great names like i said i've talked about it before you know liberal tears

00:06:19.280 and black gold and uh defund the cbc and i was thrilled i gotta admit thrilled when i i started

00:06:26.080 with the liberal tears and made the coffee the other day it was good it was really good coffee

00:06:30.080 Like, hey, I'll stand up for our sponsors, you know, and we'll certainly promote them. 0.98

00:06:34.520 But I was a little fearful, you know, what if their coffee's crap? 0.83

00:06:36.900 I mean, I'll still say thank you for sponsoring us and everything else. 0.86

00:06:39.080 But I couldn't in good conscience sit here and tell everybody, get it because the coffee tastes good.

00:06:43.620 I'd have to focus on all the causes they support and everything.

00:06:46.620 So I was very relieved the coffee is actually fantastic.

00:06:49.400 So, you know, it's not like you're making a sacrifice to go to these guys and get their product and enjoy that coffee.

00:06:55.520 It's just winning all around.

00:06:56.900 You're getting good coffee.

00:06:58.300 You're supporting good causes.

00:06:59.360 you're supporting the western standard and uh yeah they're having some fun with it you know

00:07:03.440 with some of those names and things like that you know so people got to lighten up a little bit

00:07:06.880 so i'm gonna yes claudette's pointing out a heat wave out there uh yeah and that's what i'll start

00:07:15.420 on you know let's talk about the weather it's not always about politics well i'll always tie

00:07:18.360 politics into it that's my nature but we're coming into a crazy hot week coming up and and it is

00:07:24.540 actually something of serious concern. You know, we're going to get into the high 30s. Edmonton

00:07:29.180 might hit 100 degrees. They've never been that hot before. And, you know, just like we like to

00:07:35.240 wave off when Vancouver or Texas or anybody gets crippled when cold weather hits, you know, oh my

00:07:39.720 God, they hit minus 10 and they're freaking out. Well, it's all a matter of what you're actually

00:07:43.240 geared for, what your infrastructure is equipped for, what your people are climatized for. So in a

00:07:50.280 warm area when they get hit with snow it's a very very serious thing. I mean in Texas some people

00:07:54.640 died in that cold snap that hit them before. Now up here in the north I don't know what the

00:07:59.940 percentage of homes are that have air conditioning but a lot don't because we usually say you know

00:08:04.400 we just need it's only a couple of days a year that we got to worry about it. This heat wave

00:08:08.820 that's coming up is going to be extended it's going to be going for a week. Seniors, people with

00:08:15.260 other health conditions, this could be very, very serious. So, you know, just prepare, do what you

00:08:19.860 can, find ways to cool your house down. The other things to worry about is those who can't take care

00:08:24.880 of themselves. So, I mean, let's hope we don't hear any stories about, you know, people who've

00:08:28.860 left their children inadvertently in a car. If you come across a car and somebody's left their pets

00:08:33.740 in it, not only should you just smash one window to get that pet out of there, make sure to smash

00:08:37.860 every other one of those windows just for good measure, you know, to make sure that they don't

00:08:42.140 forget the next time that you don't live a living creature in that sort of heat and you know people

00:08:47.160 don't take your dog running on that hot pavement if you want to do that take them out in bare feet

00:08:52.180 yourself so you can feel how it feels on your own feet I mean dogs love you they'll do whatever you

00:08:56.060 ask them to they won't complain but they're going to be roasting and they're going to have a hard

00:09:00.840 time and they're going to be breathing heavy and you know just watch it for yourself as well you

00:09:05.240 know if you were able to jog and run in the regular weather don't assume that you can do it when it

00:09:09.740 hits 38 degrees it could be very very dangerous for you yeah even if you think you're healthy

00:09:16.800 all around anyway so we we're coming up on an interesting time now to tie the politics into it

00:09:21.220 though coming up on Canada day and it's still going to be quite hot we are going to have

00:09:27.780 Alberta opening up the mask mandate is leaving all of the regulations are leaving essentially

00:09:33.240 businesses can you go to full capacity you don't need those shields between you and all of that

00:09:37.480 except in some of Alberta's cities. Calgary wants to keep the face diapers on probably all the way 0.95

00:09:47.240 till the end of July, maybe even longer. I mean, they wrote their legislation to go all the way

00:09:51.560 to the end of 2021. Edmonton, it looked like the majority of their council wanted to lift

00:09:57.340 the mask mandate on July 1st, but now through some point of order or something, they might

00:10:02.560 be putting off that discussion for a few days past july 1st as well lethbridge same thing all

00:10:08.480 these left-wing woke and that's the funny thing you see this is where it shows the the political

00:10:12.460 divide it is left and right lefties love control there's nothing to a science has nothing to do

00:10:17.580 with the infections edmonton had like eight infections the other day i don't think you know

00:10:20.500 what a million people uh alberta you know we're we're getting perhaps one person out of 4.4 million

00:10:27.000 in a day dying from this. This is not a crisis anymore, people. We can start to lighten up. We

00:10:32.820 can start to back off. The masks suck. I get tired of people saying, oh, quit whining. It's just a 1.00

00:10:39.460 mask. Well, I don't want to wear it. I don't like it. It's uncomfortable. It's dehumanizing. I can't

00:10:43.480 see people's facial expressions. I can't give people the proper scowls that I like to give them

00:10:49.000 or occasional smiles. I don't like breathing underneath them. And in that heat, it is going

00:10:54.540 to be horrible. And I know people say you don't have to wear them outside. Well, it depends. If

00:10:57.520 you're on a patio and you're going into the, use the bathroom, it's just uncomfortable. It's

00:11:01.340 miserable and it's rotten. And not every business has air conditioning. We don't need the bloody

00:11:06.440 things. And Ninchy and Iverson and Lethbridge, they're all keeping these mandates just to make

00:11:11.800 a political point. They want to keep us miserable. They want to keep us under control. They want to

00:11:17.880 make sure that Kenny, who has put out a lot of political capital on the best Alberta summer ever,

00:11:23.940 They want to make sure that people don't have the best Alberta summer ever.

00:11:26.380 They want it to be miserable.

00:11:28.000 They want them to hopefully push their ire on Kenny.

00:11:31.220 Well, don't.

00:11:31.780 I mean, there's a lot of things to get upset with Kenny about.

00:11:33.860 We do not give him an easy ride here at the Standard.

00:11:36.200 That's for sure.

00:11:37.600 But in lightening up with these mandates, he's doing the right thing.

00:11:42.960 Support him.

00:11:43.500 Don't get mad at him about that one.

00:11:45.420 And get out there.

00:11:46.600 So what I've been saying and I've been putting out on Twitter, and it's true, get out there.

00:11:49.720 there's all sorts of cities and towns and businesses around these cities that

00:11:54.040 won't have the mask mandate. I say get out there and patronize them. I mean,

00:11:58.000 all this nice weather, get out, check out Black Diamond, Turner Valley,

00:12:02.380 great shopping, great restaurants, pubs, brew pubs, a distillery,

00:12:07.120 Airdrie. They've got all sorts of businesses.

00:12:08.920 They're going to be fully open, unmasked. Drumheller, head down,

00:12:12.080 hit the Badlands. Again, it's going to be hot. Be careful.

00:12:14.140 Take lots of water, things like that. Check it out. Take your dollars out.

00:12:18.920 And people say, oh, why are you punishing Calgary businesses? I'm not. Nenshi is punishing Calgary businesses.

00:12:25.220 That's what you've got to take into account. If you're going to go shopping for the day, you don't want that face diaper on all day.

00:12:30.960 You can go to the Costco and the Sutina Reserve. You can go to the Costco and Okotoks or Cross Iron Mills.

00:12:36.740 Oh, we got all sorts of options, Home Depots, all sorts of businesses that actually when driving outside of the city,

00:12:43.240 when you consider the construction season in the city of Calgary, it's just as fast to get out

00:12:48.300 there and shop outside of city limits as to do it within. So get out there and do that. This will

00:12:55.980 help put that pressure on. Everybody else is moving towards economic recovery. Well, I feel

00:13:01.000 terribly for the Calgary business owners. I really do with the rotten anti-business council and mayor

00:13:06.080 they've dealt with for this last 10 years. And they are anti-business. I mean, they actually had

00:13:09.980 to protest outside of city hall a few years ago a small business protest because of literal some

00:13:15.740 businesses were getting hit with 400 tax increases nenshi and gang are anti-business it's not a

00:13:21.800 theory that's reality and they're going to the polls this fall nenshi's not he might be going

00:13:26.940 to the senate he might run for mp he might even become the governor general who knows he was too

00:13:31.940 cowardly to actually run again you know farkas is breathing down his neck so he took off he's 1.00

00:13:35.820 getting, but he's going to make it as miserable as he can for his last few months while he's in.

00:13:41.760 Cheryl Dawn's asking, you know, what if businesses still require masks after the mandate's lifted?

00:13:45.620 Well, in that case, it's up to them, to be honest. If you really feel that strongly about it, tell

00:13:50.780 the business and don't go there. But I mean, that's kind of their own choice. I mean, the whole

00:13:56.200 thing is choice now. It's leaving it up to us. I mean, that's something that the mask aficionados,

00:14:00.600 and I swear they're almost like fetishists, you know, is they don't like choice.

00:14:05.980 Let us choose. 0.99

00:14:06.740 If I don't want to wear the damn mask, I won't wear it. 0.99

00:14:09.500 If you want to wear it, wear it till the end of time. 0.99

00:14:12.020 I don't care.

00:14:13.060 Wrap your head in cellophane every morning.

00:14:15.340 It doesn't bother me.

00:14:16.400 It's not my problem. 0.79

00:14:17.520 You know, put on a gimp mask, a little zipper over your mouth if it makes you feel better 1.00

00:14:20.840 for yourself. 0.86

00:14:22.040 That's up to you.

00:14:23.260 I'm not telling you what to do.

00:14:25.180 I'm telling you to stop telling me what to do and telling others what to do.

00:14:29.640 Leave it alone.

00:14:30.600 the infections are down in the toilet we're coming into what might not necessarily be the

00:14:35.980 best summer ever who knows we'll see but it's going to be one of the hottest ones obviously

00:14:39.520 and i don't want to wear bloody gagging stifling mask as i go through it and i don't need to

00:14:44.940 the numbers aren't there as others are pointing out texas florida all sorts of other jurisdictions

00:14:50.820 got rid of their mandates the doomsayers all went wild they had a lot fewer people vaccinated than

00:14:56.720 we do and guess what things are fine their economies are recovering people are enjoying

00:15:01.980 themselves they're getting out there they're they're looking back on the pandemic we're still 0.77

00:15:08.120 immersed in it and this fear-mongering crap you know the mainstream media i torture myself with 0.60

00:15:13.420 it at night i'm looking forward to when the western standard gets enough sponsors and expense 0.89

00:15:16.660 and of course other hosts because i don't want to watch myself but you know when we get some

00:15:20.280 evening programming on so i don't turn on the news just to see what's up because i see them lead in 0.96

00:15:24.200 with always the most fear-mongering negative crap you can imagine about the pandemic.

00:15:30.220 Whatever statistic is the most scary, they will report on it. 0.97

00:15:34.160 They love talking about the uber, double, triple whammy variant, lizard people thing, 0.97

00:15:38.720 whatever it is this week.

00:15:40.700 You know, oh my God, there was somebody who was fully vaccinated, who died, who died.

00:15:45.900 Even after being fully vaccinated, this is going to get us all.

00:15:48.640 Well, wait a minute.

00:15:49.300 Let's look a little further.

00:15:50.120 Oh yes, this was a woman in her 80s who was already in hospital, 0.91

00:15:53.120 who I hate to say it, but was already at one foot out the door. I mean, COVID might not even

00:15:57.540 been what killed her. It was just one of the contributing factors at the end. Let's get real

00:16:02.360 about it. But the headline doesn't go there. It just talks and says, oh my God, these vaccines

00:16:06.100 still might not save us. We still might die from these crazy variants now. And now they can just

00:16:13.780 create, and I'm not saying it's a myth, not so much create variants, but these variants will be

00:16:18.000 there. We can just really hyperventilate and get worked up about how dangerous they actually are

00:16:24.620 and exaggerate. And it's not healthy. We've got to move on. One of the things, again, I'll give

00:16:31.080 Jason Kenney a little credit for as he's talked about this. I notice every time he speaks, and

00:16:35.140 it's true, no matter what, this bug, COVID-19, is going to be with us for a while, no matter what

00:16:41.400 we do. It's going to be hanging around. So we've got to accept that. We've got to live with it.

00:16:46.560 we got to work around it. And the zero risk cult, and that's what I'm getting to the point of,

00:16:52.120 I'm calling them the zero risk cult. There's people who seem to feel that until this virus

00:16:56.900 is completely eliminated, we can't back off on all these restrictions. As we see inflation taking

00:17:02.980 off, as we see businesses going broke, as we see unemployment rising through the roof, I think I

00:17:08.000 could have it wrong, but I heard on the radio, Alberta had 17 overdoses deaths a day last year.

00:17:16.560 It's no coincidence. This came along with the restrictions that have put so much economic

00:17:20.480 and mental pressure on so many people. Addictions have gone through the roof.

00:17:25.100 There's a cost to these restrictions. That's the other thing that the mainstream media and the

00:17:31.300 controlling politicians and the others just don't want to address. When we talk about things,

00:17:37.500 we've got to talk about cost benefit. And the benefit of these restrictions is questionable

00:17:44.660 at this point, but the costs, they never talk about that. And those costs are high. They're

00:17:49.980 business costs. They're physical costs. They're making people sick mentally, physically, shut-ins.

00:17:57.420 I mean, seniors who have been imprisoned for the last year and change, you know, they haven't been

00:18:03.120 able to see their extended family. My grandmother is 101 years old, might be 102 in August if she

00:18:09.240 makes it there. She's not somebody that she's doing great for somebody that age, but she's not

00:18:13.540 going to get on a Zoom meeting. You can't meet with people that way. I haven't seen my mother

00:18:19.200 in person in over a year. The American border, everybody's freaking out. This one I don't get

00:18:22.800 too. I mean, come on. We're no better or worse on either side of this bloody border of the United

00:18:26.360 States and Canada at this point. Just open it up. Businesses on each side of the border are dying.

00:18:31.580 Our two countries, the United States and Canada are heavily integrated with people, families,

00:18:36.480 businesses, trade, and we're still stuck in this environment of fear. We won't open anything up.

00:18:42.440 time to tell the doomsayers to go to hell you know if you're that scared crawl into your basement 0.99

00:18:47.700 and wait it out but we've got to get on with living guys boy you know here's a scary thought 0.99

00:18:53.320 two more months from now and the leaves are turning yellow up here yeah we don't have much

00:18:57.380 time to get out and enjoy this summer so we can't drag out this reopening any longer let's get on

00:19:03.000 with it and as i said with others get out there you know what when you're out in canada today

00:19:07.180 having fun going to different locations shopping maskless and post that make sure take pictures 0.99

00:19:14.320 post them on twitter post them on facebook show people hey i left these idiots you know from the 0.99

00:19:20.620 city of calgary not the idiots living in it though the calgary has many living in it i don't want to 0.99

00:19:24.760 mock all of them but that city council is something else and i'm taking my dollars to businesses 0.99

00:19:30.120 outside of there and i'm enjoying myself i'm having fun living like a normal human being like

00:19:35.200 we used to not so long ago it seems well it's been a long time now hasn't it we've got this

00:19:41.660 pandemic on the run we've got to start lightening up we've got to start moving along uh linda seems

00:19:49.120 a little delayed you know i mean i'll talk about a couple of the columns she's gotten into the

00:19:52.520 they've been very interesting uh something that slid under the radar you know speaking of things

00:19:56.960 that the the western standard covers um who's that saying too much resistant coffee this morning

00:20:04.840 there's never too much coffee come on it gets me good and worked up somebody's commenting on the

00:20:09.640 western standard there it's good to know they're watching me at least it's not just my mom

00:20:13.200 but uh no no it helps keep the blood pressure up keeps the ranting going and you got to remember

00:20:18.700 to hydrate right this is hot weather coming along hydrate hydrate hydrate i consider coffee to be

00:20:23.100 hydration i'm doing this for my safety and everybody else's safety if you think i'm

00:20:26.480 crochy now think about me when my caffeine levels are low oh it's a terrible terrible thing

00:20:30.840 So getting back to Linda Slobodian here,

00:20:36.720 I believe.

00:20:37.960 So if somebody from the standard is watching this,

00:20:42.120 actually I see a call coming in from Manitoba.

00:20:43.840 I can't take a call right now.

00:20:44.840 I imagine it's her.

00:20:46.080 If you could get ahold of Linda

00:20:47.840 and let her know how to log in,

00:20:49.020 I imagine she's having login problems.

00:20:50.600 This is some of the challenges of a live show, I'm afraid.

00:20:54.500 I did send the link and somebody with the Western standard

00:20:57.520 access to this can get on StreamYard

00:20:59.440 send Linda another link perhaps uh in the meantime yes live show challenges uh Linda wrote a piece

00:21:07.680 on uh the Alberta NDP because they had their convention quietly and not a lot of people were

00:21:14.160 you know paying attention to it because really who wants to aside from other socialists and

00:21:20.640 the uh one of the things they passed was to legalize homeless encampments in municipal parks

00:21:28.000 you know this is for real they wanted to make it so that tent camps can set up in municipal parks

00:21:35.240 and we can't do anything about it this is how insane the NDP are now I know we've got a massive

00:21:39.400 homeless problem we got a massive addiction problem again that's tied in with the restrictions

00:21:42.460 and the lockdowns that the NDP want to keep going for years but I mean for those who remember

00:21:46.880 Occupy Calgary you know when we had a bunch of bums and squatters uh in our in Olympic Plaza 0.70

00:21:53.560 in Calgary. Let's see, what did they have go on in there? Multiple sexual assaults. I believe

00:21:58.540 there were a few drug overdoses. There was a tent that caught fire that somebody harmed

00:22:02.440 themselves with. There was public defecation. Yeah, two of the Occupy Calgary, two of them,

00:22:10.600 and I documented that because I was watching that quite closely back at that time,

00:22:13.700 were charged with child sexual offenses since then. These are not nice people who squat in our

00:22:20.680 city parks. We've seen that all over North America. When you get these large homeless

00:22:25.460 encampments going on, they aren't trouble free. This isn't something where they can just live

00:22:30.180 without problems. These turn into hell holes. They turn into dystopian nightmares and they take up

00:22:35.380 our park space. I mean, we can't visit them safely. We can't enjoy ourselves at these spaces that we

00:22:42.040 pay for because they're full of addicted homeless people who have mental health issues. We want to

00:22:47.340 address homeless people. We want to address addiction. Absolutely. You know, let's get out

00:22:51.040 there. Let's get more treatment. Let's get more mental health facilities. You know, I mean,

00:22:56.080 the deinstitutionalization, that's all showing itself. You know, this has been going on for a

00:23:01.600 long time since one flew over the cuckoo's nest and everybody thought that facilities for mental

00:23:09.200 health treatment were hell holes. And I'm certain some of them were. I mean, some institutions are

00:23:12.400 terrible things, but it made this trend that we always just, no matter what, have to try our

00:23:17.120 hardest to get people into community living, get them out of the institutions, get them onto the

00:23:21.000 streets. Well, a hard reality some people have to face is some people need secure facilities. They

00:23:27.220 can't take care of themselves. And that's our obligation as compassionate conservatives. We

00:23:30.340 take care of those who can't take care of themselves, not the ones who won't, but the

00:23:33.520 ones who can't. And a lot of people with mental health challenges can't take care of themselves.

00:23:38.700 And they were actually better off contained. And I'm not talking about in prison necessarily, but

00:23:43.160 you know, they don't have to be horrible facilities and there can still be treatment

00:23:46.520 and it doesn't have to be interminable hopefully we can get them out of there but right now the

00:23:50.360 trend is to put about what happens well often they self-medicate which means taking things

00:23:54.440 like fentanyl meth other things because they're dealing with mental health issues and then they

00:23:58.360 feel better when they take some sort of substances to cope with it and the other thing is they can't

00:24:04.200 maintain a job they can't maintain a home and they end up on the streets the ndp solution let's let 0.99

00:24:09.480 them tent in our parks okay guys that's not a solution i mean we agree there's a problem

00:24:14.360 them. But it's absurd and ridiculous to say that we should set up these shanty towns and 1.00

00:24:20.080 tent cities in our city parks. Again, we can't just keep kicking them out all over the place.

00:24:25.680 I understand they need somewhere to stay and sleep. But just to let them set up in any city

00:24:30.700 park, no, that's just ridiculous. And what Slobodian pointed out fantastically through

00:24:37.100 that was the hypocrisy of it. You know, the NDP have really been on about, oh, how the UCP

00:24:42.380 government is going to close all of our parks down and we won't be able to visit them and

00:24:52.360 they're going to be privatized. I'm sorry, I get a message. And yet at the same time,

00:24:55.940 they want to ruin all of our municipal parks. Let's see here. We're having some technical

00:25:01.940 issues with Western Standard saying, yeah, Linda's computer isn't handling it. Can I do it by phone?

00:25:05.580 I'm afraid I don't have a phone option for this. We could try putting her through speaker on your

00:25:11.700 access, whoever that is. I don't know if it's James over there or whatnot. I'm not sure how

00:25:15.160 well it would come through, but it's worth a try. I'd really like to talk to Linda there

00:25:18.520 and see if we can get her through because she did write a great piece on something I'd really like

00:25:25.960 to expand on a bit more if we can get her on. If not, perhaps we'll try and get Linda another time,

00:25:30.520 but I'll have to babble for another half hour here to try and keep people entertained because

00:25:35.040 I do have Clinton coming on and Mark Petroni in a little while and I don't have a good enough

00:25:41.140 script. Well, I can always ramble for quite a while, but to keep going for half an hour.

00:25:47.280 You know, one of the things, so what Linus Blodin also wrote about though, and I can start

00:25:53.180 setting this up, is doctor suppression. Again, go to westernstandardonline.com. You know,

00:25:58.380 these articles, these columns, they're up there. And this is a trend that's really been happening.

00:26:02.700 We've got some groupthink going on among the medical community. They have one version of

00:26:08.580 what's supposed to be happening. And they will shout down and stomp down professional associations, 0.79

00:26:16.260 organizations, any medical professionals who speak up and question what is supposed to be

00:26:21.640 the orthodox approach to the pandemic. So if there's any medical professionals who are questioning

00:26:27.300 adverse vaccine reactions, they're not supposed to utter a peep to the outside world about this.

00:26:33.020 You know, the secretive hospitals, I mean, come on, there's concerns. People are worried.

00:26:37.700 Maybe the adverse reactions aren't that bad, but when you see them trying to hide it,

00:26:42.280 that's what makes people even more worried and it makes them less inclined to trust vaccinations.

00:26:47.500 The system's not doing itself any favors here.

00:26:49.960 And Linda wrote about that.

00:26:51.640 She'd spoken with some doctors.

00:26:54.700 Other areas of things is treatment.

00:26:56.740 And that's something right off the bat.

00:27:01.580 Again, and we saw that from last year with hydroxychloroquine.

00:27:04.740 roxychloroquine. I always mispronounce that one. It got politicized, you know, and this shows some

00:27:10.220 of the hysteric atmosphere in politics we have because Donald Trump talked about that as a

00:27:16.580 treatment. And as soon as he did, the establishment immediately said it's all wrong. Like, look,

00:27:22.200 I'm not a big Trump fan myself, never have been, but you can't assume everything the man says is

00:27:32.100 wrong. And what it did then was anybody who even mentioned it got canceled. People went wild.

00:27:37.140 And it's the wrong reason. It wasn't a scientific reason for cancellation or anything like that.

00:27:41.700 It was just that they wanted to score political points. So yeah, when Daniel Smith was on radio,

00:27:45.860 she even what retweeted once something talking about as a treatment. And due to that, she got

00:27:52.340 just laid upon. I mean, the radio station was backing off apologizing the work. So it's not

00:27:57.300 even up for discussion and it's ridiculous so this is i can i see i see dave here in the lobby i think

00:28:02.660 and uh i'm gonna pull him in for a minute discussion and it's ridiculous so it's like

00:28:09.380 how you doing dave i'm doing okay uh corey but i'm not having as many technical problems as you

00:28:15.540 although uh i am definitely not linda s uh as you can see by the the name there no no if i

00:28:22.340 I recall Linda's a lot prettier than you are. 0.94

00:28:24.880 Nothing.

00:28:25.800 She is.

00:28:26.740 So James is working with Linda right now to try and get her up and running.

00:28:31.800 But in the meantime, I guess you're stuck with me.

00:28:34.380 Oh, that's all right.

00:28:35.420 I've been babbling, you know, which is par for the course with me anyways and everything.

00:28:40.020 I see you're dressed in your summer wear there for the day.

00:28:44.320 Looking good.

00:28:45.000 What kind of stories are you working on today in the standard office?

00:28:49.420 Well, we've already published some good ones.

00:28:52.340 You know, just stories out of Ottawa that just make you shake your head.

00:28:58.300 We've done one on Canadian tax law.

00:29:02.780 Even Canadian revenue agency people say that it's too confusing for them.

00:29:14.740 I mean, if they can't even understand it, I'm not sure how we can.

00:29:19.200 another story in there on the liberals refusing to hand over millions of more documents in terms

00:29:27.880 of the pandemic they're sitting on them a house of commons has voted to have it released and

00:29:35.000 they're refusing to do so got a story on the fed saying that chinese secret agents

00:29:41.240 very active in canada and and are actually threatening canadian citizens including students

00:29:48.580 on campuses and stuff like that.

00:29:52.000 We've got an interesting story on the $15 an hour minimum wage.

00:29:57.640 A federal government report from the Labor Department

00:30:00.100 says that actually cost kids jobs.

00:30:03.640 And up to 5% of all jobs go

00:30:06.420 when that $15 minimum wage is introduced.

00:30:11.700 And we've got a story on the head of the public service

00:30:15.400 who yesterday praised the work of Ian Stewart.

00:30:21.920 He's the head of the public health agency

00:30:23.860 who was for the first time since 1891

00:30:27.720 censured in the commons

00:30:31.380 for refusing to follow their orders.

00:30:34.040 So, and even then he's refusing to cough it up

00:30:37.620 and this effort has gotten him praised

00:30:40.840 by the head of the civil service in Canada.

00:30:43.520 So the usual chaos and stuff out of Ottawa at the moment.

00:30:49.500 Well, it keeps you busy with lots of subjects to write on.

00:30:52.740 Anyways, as I said at the top of the hour, I've got a couple of guests coming on.

00:30:56.020 And yeah, we're going to be hitting that federal front.

00:30:58.680 You know, minimum wage.

00:30:59.840 I mean, that's usually a provincial jurisdiction sort of thing.

00:31:03.180 I imagine they're dipping into that just to try and put some feel-good policy out before getting ready for a fall election, I would think.

00:31:10.880 Of course they are.

00:31:11.680 It's part of their campaign to court young voters.

00:31:15.540 It's already $15.20 in British Columbia and $15 in Alberta,

00:31:20.880 so it's not going to make a lot of difference here.

00:31:25.400 The other thing we're keeping an eye on is rumors of an expected cabinet shuffle

00:31:30.840 in the Kennedy government coming down this afternoon.

00:31:36.680 Lots of birdies are squawking and telling us it's going to happen,

00:31:40.740 And we know how the government loves to bury news on Friday afternoons, especially hot Friday afternoons before beautiful weekends.

00:31:49.640 Yeah, well, that's it.

00:31:51.040 I mean, this is the time when you kind of take out the trash, right?

00:31:53.400 Like we're coming into the Canada Day sort of broken up week.

00:31:57.320 We got the hot weather.

00:31:58.340 If you want to do something that you don't want sticking in the minds of the voters, you know, a Friday afternoon right now would be the best time to get that out there.

00:32:06.200 So it'll be interesting to watch and see what's coming there.

00:32:08.720 Exactly.

00:32:09.160 And I'll be stuck at Western Standard World headquarters waiting for it, I guess.

00:32:15.400 Right on.

00:32:16.140 Well, thanks for the update, Dave.

00:32:17.480 And as I said, if James is working with Linda in the background, you know, we can grab her

00:32:21.300 another time if need be.

00:32:23.460 And, you know, she's writing some great stuff.

00:32:26.660 It's just we got these challenges with a live show that we still are ironing out.

00:32:30.700 Yeah, I'll give you a bit of a clue as to what she's writing for tomorrow, Corey.

00:32:36.420 She had a very lengthy interview yesterday with Maxime Bernier, head of the People's Party of Canada, talking about his arrest in Manitoba a week or so ago.

00:32:49.520 He's actually due in court in Winnipeg very soon.

00:32:53.580 And the shameful way that the RCMP treated him.

00:32:59.360 It sounds like the RCMP were sent out from Winnipeg,

00:33:02.840 almost acting on direct orders from the Pallister government

00:33:06.540 and handcuffed Bernier and threw him in the back of a police car.

00:33:14.660 He was very shaken up by it and quite disgusted with the RCMP's actions.

00:33:20.980 So Linda's going to have a column on that coming up shortly. 0.99

00:33:25.300 And I know she's very upset that they're going to buy a new computer now, just so she can get on her show.

00:33:32.220 Maybe Derek will let her expense it.

00:33:34.420 Yeah, we'll see with that. 0.99

00:33:36.240 If we're getting in line for the new computers, I'll put my shit in on that as well. 0.92

00:33:41.140 But yeah, and I'm looking forward to the columns, you know, technical difficulties aside. 0.97

00:33:44.640 Again, Linda's done some, you know, a history of excellent investigative reporting.

00:33:47.740 So well worth reading and, again, reminding our listeners, if you're not subscribing already, get on there.

00:33:53.140 She writes some great stuff.

00:33:55.100 And we're seeing some terrible optics coming out of Canada.

00:33:57.280 I mean, this stuff's going internationally.

00:33:58.760 You know, when we're seeing political leaders put into police cars, we're seeing the American Senate now talking about how Alberta arrests pastors.

00:34:07.380 I mean, this is some pretty heavy-duty stuff.

00:34:10.380 We seem to be getting better coverage in the States than we are in Canada on some of it.

00:34:13.960 We are.

00:34:14.660 I did a story yesterday on a U.S. Republican senator called Josh Hawley or something like that.

00:34:23.020 I can't pronounce his name.

00:34:24.360 Anyways, he sent off a letter to the Senate's Religious Awareness Committee asking for a candidate to be put on a religious watch list.

00:34:34.420 And he specifically cites the cases of Alberta pastors being arrested and thrown in jail, including James Coates from Grace Life and Tim Stevens from the Calgary Baptist Church and Art Pawlowski from the Calgary Street Church.

00:34:53.560 So what Alberta is doing is certainly getting noticed all around the world and even in the hallowed halls of the U.S. Senate.

00:35:01.820 yeah what an embarrassment you know i mean we do have a a free country i mean you know it's funny

00:35:10.780 i mean a lot of people like talking about how we're in a dictatorship and things i mean we've

00:35:14.060 got increasing authoritarianism without doubt but for the most part we still have a lot of freedoms

00:35:19.180 and everything but we can sure see how the authoritarians creep in you know incrementally

00:35:23.980 i mean little by little they do these things and we kind of passively let them go i wonder if we're

00:35:28.460 ever going to hit a tipping point where people aside from a small minority will actually start

00:35:32.700 pushing back uh it may take a while corey as you know once the government gets the power they're

00:35:38.540 very very uh uh hesitant to give them back uh and uh you know you've seen with the the slowness of

00:35:47.900 the pandemic reopening uh you know some examples there so you know the nenshi mask ban continuing

00:35:53.900 in uh in calgary is a good example so i think canadians have to be really on guard for for

00:36:01.580 protecting their their their rights uh constitutional rights and uh you know just to make sure that

00:36:09.420 governments don't take them away because if they can they will oh you forever have to be vigilant

00:36:16.060 well thanks for popping in and i i went back and forth with james i think we're probably gonna get

00:36:20.140 linda in on monday and it'll be interesting uh again she's never been on the show before so it's

00:36:24.860 kind of one of those things you don't find out if your stuff isn't compatible with the uh format

00:36:29.100 until uh uh you try it out so we'll get her on it'll it'll be uh interesting enough at the time 0.91

00:36:35.740 i'm sure it will be corey uh you have yourself a great weekend drinking that coffee yeah thanks

00:36:41.500 steve i'll talk to you later let's see ron here says you guys are tiresome well ron don't let 0.96

00:36:48.780 the door hit your virtual ass on the way out i'm sorry if i haven't hit your entertainment standard 0.96

00:36:54.860 for today so but comments are still welcome even the ones like that that's part of why i enjoy 0.97

00:37:00.540 twitter i don't exactly go on there to have nice exchanges with everybody all the time when i'm

00:37:04.860 chatting uh sometimes they can be uh tiresome um you know somebody commented uh andy said uh

00:37:11.660 the minimum wage is no longer $15 in Alberta, I believe $13.50 now. I think there was something

00:37:18.680 changed so that minors or certain roles could be under $15. But for the most part, I think for

00:37:25.060 anybody of age and who's not a student or whatnot, it's still $15 an hour. And since it looks like

00:37:33.780 we'll get Linda on Monday, I'll just kind of keep going. And by all means, if people want to comment

00:37:37.980 and bring up subjects for us to keep talking about we'll keep talking for those who don't know i did

00:37:42.460 own a pub for five years i sold it just before um uh the pandemic hit about you know it was it was

00:37:49.500 april of last year we handed off i feel for those uh new owners they're still hanging in there in

00:37:54.460 printis they're doing a great job what a year to try and run and open a pub but during the five

00:37:59.900 years that my wife jane and i ran it we unfortunately also with ourselves timed it

00:38:04.220 where we purchased a pub just as the NDP got in. And they started those incremental minimum wage

00:38:10.560 increases that were hitting us. And you know, it's the hospitality industry that gets hit the

00:38:14.720 hardest when these minimum wages increases come in. And it really hit our bottom line. You know,

00:38:21.480 and I wrote a blog posting on my own site at CoreyMorgan.com a few years ago on that,

00:38:26.700 because there's so much misunderstanding about how minimum wages work, how part-time jobs work,

00:38:32.100 how entry-level jobs work. And of course, there's a lot of that politics of envy, politics of the

00:38:37.300 left, that assumption that all these restaurant owners are rich and they're taking advantage of

00:38:43.020 labor and they're stepping on the little guy and all the usual socialist chatter. And it's not true

00:38:53.100 at all. And if you look, it's very out in the open. The average restaurant and bar in Canada

00:39:00.380 has a profit margin of about three and a half to 5%, depending on what type of bar or restaurant

00:39:05.940 you're looking at. A really good one. I think we were doing okay at 8%. But you got to sell

00:39:10.560 a hell of a lot of beer and French fries and burgers to make a living at an 8% margin.

00:39:16.320 And then some people say, well, just raise the prices. I'll come out and pay more to make sure

00:39:19.700 you're paying. And here's their favorite one, a living wage to your employees. Well, there's a

00:39:24.920 bunch of baloney going on in there. For one, you won't come out. Talk big, but you will not come

00:39:29.200 out. I know that you raise those prices too high. Most people will go somewhere else. It's an

00:39:34.820 extremely competitive industry. And those who will continue to come out and good on them,

00:39:40.560 you know, and embrace higher prices, they still have limited budget. So sure they'll come out,

00:39:44.540 but instead of coming out three times a week, they might cut it to two times a week. You can't

00:39:49.200 just keep raising the prices to pay every dishwasher a living wage. You know, I mean,

00:39:55.000 where it is a living wage that's where it starts getting uh you know questionable as well what's

00:40:00.360 a living wage in rural alberta where you could buy a home perhaps perhaps for 150 000 versus uh

00:40:08.600 you know downtown calgary where it's going to cost you half a million to get a decent spot

00:40:14.280 uh in why is everybody entitled to a living wage no matter what they do i i mean they're entry

00:40:22.600 level positions. They're part-time positions. They're supplemental positions. And when I moved

00:40:29.000 to Calgary, minimum wage back then, I'm showing my age, but I think it was like six bucks an hour.

00:40:34.120 So what did I do? I worked two jobs and I have roommates. That's the way it goes. You climb

00:40:39.240 the world's scrotum pole of living. You better yourself. You make yourself more valuable in the

00:40:45.880 labor market and you will make more money. It takes some time.

00:40:48.840 as Rose is pointing or some other, you know, well, yeah, there's a crazy article I saw where

00:40:54.040 tipping is now considered racist. Who knows where to begin with that? You know, part of what a lot

00:40:59.680 of anti-tipping sort of people, there's a bit of that movement as well. And again, in that blog

00:41:05.480 post, I think I'm going to do a video on that whole thing down the road because I'll break it

00:41:08.520 all down. I showed the charts on it and everything. No tip models for one fail. They fail everywhere

00:41:14.520 they tried. Earls in Calgary tried it. It failed. The reason that the left hates tipping, it's

00:41:20.400 merit-based because the better workers make more money and they don't like that. We're supposed to

00:41:27.740 be all equal. It doesn't matter how much you put in, you're all supposed to get the same amount out.

00:41:31.780 Worked great in Mao's China, didn't it? Or the Soviet Union. I mean, it really is. They're all 0.96

00:41:36.560 symptoms of the same thing. I know it sounds like exaggeration. So I talk about the communism,

00:41:39.540 But you look at those same bare principles of envy, entitlement, laziness, expecting to be compensated at the same level as everybody else, no matter how little you put in.

00:41:48.720 Yeah, that's all the mindset that brings about socialism, communist states, and they always fail.

00:41:54.140 And that's why things like tipping bug them.

00:41:56.760 And it's kind of interesting as we get closer to a cashless society because we could really track those stats a lot.

00:42:00.620 You know, because we did tip out the kitchen, by the way.

00:42:02.840 Most restaurants do that as well.

00:42:04.580 just so you know a portion of the tips for every server typically will be set aside and it will go

00:42:09.800 towards the kitchen staff the front end still tends to take make more money than the back but

00:42:13.840 it gives some incentive to the back to get those tips because they contribute to the whole thing

00:42:18.240 too it's a tough business it really is and uh you would see some servers who are really good and

00:42:24.340 I'm talking they will make 50 percent 30 percent more in a night than other servers they're just

00:42:29.920 that good. It's part of their table latitude, the speediness, their personalities. When I was

00:42:35.220 bartending, I was a grump, grumpy bugger. I mean, hey, my service was always adequate. You'd get 0.98

00:42:39.440 your drink quickly and responsibly and such. But my tips would be lower than some of the others,

00:42:45.340 just because if people want a smiling social experience, I wasn't necessarily the best person

00:42:49.680 for that job. That's fine. That's the way it goes. Maybe I should learn to be more perky if I wanted

00:42:54.480 to make better tips. In the kitchen, where I ended up spending a heck of a lot more of my time,

00:42:58.320 it's a tough job a line cook is a bloody tough job it's hot it's stressful and yeah it doesn't

00:43:05.680 pay a lot realistically it can't to give this living wage they keep talking about with that

00:43:13.920 we would bankrupt ourselves so again I'm working on a five to eight percent margin here I would

00:43:18.560 love to pay my cook thirty dollars an hour when you get a great one and I tended to they all got

00:43:22.620 paid more to minimum wage in my pub but it still wasn't a heck of a lot of money

00:43:26.320 um we just can't do it it's the nature of the industry and the other thing is too it's not a

00:43:32.680 highly skilled job i'm sorry but a bright person can be adequate i mean certainly there are some

00:43:37.660 very good line cooks versus some bad ones but you can get somebody adequately working on the line

00:43:41.980 with a week worth of training we're not talking about physicians here guys these are starting

00:43:48.120 positions and the person wants to work up and become a kitchen manager and so on they can make

00:43:52.320 more money. So the ridiculousness, the shallowness, I don't know how many studies, how many times

00:43:57.620 it's been proven that minimum wages don't make anybody richer in the long run. They still keep

00:44:03.760 pushing for that. So the Liberal government looks like they're going to use that though for a bone

00:44:06.860 to try and push ahead. When I wrote that post, I looked up, though, there were a bunch of these

00:44:11.280 living wage restaurants all over the states that were opening. It was a little trendy for a bit.

00:44:15.820 You know what? They all failed. Every one of them. I couldn't find one that made it more than a year.

00:44:20.280 I found another one that talked about, and they opened a couple of branches where people pay what

00:44:24.640 they feel was appropriate. They say, you pay what you think you should for this meal when you come

00:44:28.040 in. Again, you know, the pure socialists, the naivety they have, you know, the ones who say,

00:44:31.820 we will come in and pay more. They went broke. There was one that was outright communist and

00:44:36.340 they were a Marxist restaurant. If you look it up again, I'll have to dig those numbers up when I

00:44:41.700 do my piece on this. I'm going to have to do something on it because that one was hilarious

00:44:47.980 because, yeah, all their staff quit because, you know, again, as with every commune and socialist

00:44:52.700 environment, the handful of those making all the sandwiches and doing all the work got tired of

00:44:57.640 being paid the same as the ones who just sat around and did nothing. Gee, who saw that coming?

00:45:03.240 So, I mean, we do have a crunch coming in the service industry. I mean, because I've seen that

00:45:06.740 they have a labor shortage coming and you see the same responses on social media from the same 1.00

00:45:12.220 idiotic leftists. They say, oh, if you just paid a living wage, you wouldn't have a labor shortage. 1.00

00:45:15.600 all right um no we're just gonna have a shortage of jobs is what we're gonna have you know i mean

00:45:22.140 it cycles that way in the end the problem is and they're saying oh it's just a free market they

00:45:27.160 won't come out to work uh because you're not paying enough well no when you got a two thousand 0.98

00:45:30.860 a month bar for sitting with your thumb up your ass it's not a proper market when you can be paid 0.95

00:45:35.900 that much to sit around doing nothing uh then the market will be skewed and that's what we've got 0.99

00:45:41.880 right now. And I understand CERB had to come in. I mean, when the government makes it illegal to

00:45:46.580 make a living, and that's what they did, they are obligated to do something so you can make your

00:45:51.540 bills. But it has a consequence. And some people say, oh, nobody can live on two grand. I'm sure

00:45:57.280 they can. And they're trying. And there's side hustles you can do. And there's gigs. And there

00:46:00.680 are people who are just, again, more than happy to live on the cheap, take in every social service

00:46:04.580 they can, and live like that. I know it sounds unbelievable to those of us who work for a living,

00:46:09.540 but there really are people of that mindset. And there's some people who just slip into that hole.

00:46:14.720 During one of my relationship breaks in my younger years, I lived in a fourplex in Forest Lawn for

00:46:21.280 about four months with a roommate. I tell you what an experience that was. Some of the best

00:46:27.840 parties I'd ever enjoyed were living in that part of town. But some of the most irresponsible,

00:46:34.580 entitled and lazy people I'd ever met in my life did dwell there. By the way, there's some 0.97

00:46:38.020 fantastic people in Forest Lawn as well. And there's some great parts of that district. And

00:46:41.520 a lot of it's just working people, getting up and, you know, just need to live somewhere

00:46:45.620 affordably so they can get rolling. But there's also a hell of a lot of bums in there. And when 0.99

00:46:50.420 you get to see them firsthand, you get to see just how bad it gets. Rose asking if I know anything

00:46:57.460 about the overhaul of the disability benefit. I'm afraid I don't. So you know what, I won't speak to

00:47:03.580 it uh like yeah but i'll look into it for sure uh claudette pointing out automatic tipping is

00:47:09.660 terrible uh services is great already you know for those who've gone i mean there's some people

00:47:14.940 say we should go tip free and fair enough uh i went to australia a few years back and they've

00:47:20.060 got you know they're tipless down there they don't do it and i loved australia it was great i mean

00:47:24.700 the climate the beaches but one thing i couldn't stand i couldn't get good restaurant service i

00:47:29.260 I mean, I'm just raised and used to this North American service and tips are what facilitate

00:47:33.900 that.

00:47:34.680 So to accommodate for this lack of tips and for these living wages for everybody who's

00:47:38.740 in there, what they've done, of course, is gotten rid of the service.

00:47:41.300 Everywhere I'd go, I'd go to a bar, you wait in a lineup and order off a board for your

00:47:45.780 food and they would either give you a little remote control disc that would vibrate on

00:47:49.160 your table when it's time for you to get up and pick up your food, or they would give

00:47:53.060 you actually just a number that would be called and then you go up and get your food.

00:47:56.140 Then you wait in another line and get your drink.

00:47:58.260 And of course, you got to pay each time. I mean, it was only in the fancy, fancy spots where you

00:48:01.700 can actually run a tab and get some table service. And you're waiting in lines back and forth. You

00:48:07.760 finish your drink, you got to get up, you got to pay again, you got to get another drink. It's all

00:48:10.580 purely self-service. I mean, that's fine, but sometimes I don't want to. I want someone to

00:48:14.960 come serve my table and I'm okay with tipping them for that. But this is the only model they

00:48:17.940 can afford. So that way, that restaurant, of course, would only employ, you know, half of

00:48:22.000 the people that North American restaurants do. You see, that's the thing for the people talk

00:48:25.320 jobs, jobs, jobs. Well, you bring these living wages things about, there's going to be some

00:48:29.180 individuals making a higher hourly wage, they'll make less than a good server who makes tips, by 0.88

00:48:34.540 the way, though. And fewer people overall working all together. Is that a better outcome? I don't

00:48:41.600 know. I guess it's questionable. But for people who think we should live in a tip-free society,

00:48:46.000 give it a crack first. You know, it's not all necessarily all, some people seem to think it's

00:48:51.140 cracked up to be, it is not that great. Okay, I'll pivot away from that with the service industry

00:48:59.020 though. I'd like to hit on that more down the road because again, I think there's a lot of

00:49:01.840 misunderstanding on how things can be fixed through government mandating about minimum

00:49:05.660 compensation levels and things such as that. Again, it's the same attitude and mentality.

00:49:11.040 People think we can print money to make ourselves rich. We're going to be paying a consequence for

00:49:14.220 that pretty soon too. Somebody else mentioned actually a rebel truck going around the city.

00:49:19.380 my thoughts on that uh boy I should be keeping more track of things Linda I I'm not sure what

00:49:25.740 they're doing but uh I like what rebel does sometimes they really like to stir things up

00:49:29.780 let me know what that's going on with the rebel truck there and uh I'll speak to what I think on

00:49:36.080 it uh getting back to Linda Slobodian um so doctor suppression something uh about a month and a half

00:49:41.560 ago I went out and I couldn't quite put enough stuff together to make a full story on it but I

00:49:45.780 met and sat down with a Western Canadian physician. It was a nice, you know, day trip driving a few

00:49:50.300 hours and getting out. And that's the best description I could give this physician. It

00:49:54.840 was very important that it had to be anonymous. And I was put onto this doctor by a very credible

00:50:02.600 person. And he had been treating his patients with ivermectin. He had, he felt that the numbers

00:50:12.000 he gave me at the time, I don't have the notes, Andy, because I wasn't planning on going to this

00:50:14.600 today, but still ties into what Linda's talking about. He had had about 100 diagnosed COVID-19

00:50:22.540 patients. So people have been positive. They've got it. They're symptomatic. And he prescribed

00:50:27.180 them ivermectin. And now he's not allowed to tell other physicians that. You are not

00:50:31.400 allowed to let them know. But he says of those 100, only one went to hospital. And he said

00:50:39.080 that that one didn't properly follow the prescription and orders he'd given him as

00:50:43.260 a doctor. He felt very strongly that ivermectin was working effectively on reducing the blood

00:50:49.620 clotting and things that happen in a person's lungs because that is what kills you with the

00:50:53.460 COVID-19 for those who do get harmed by it. And he's not allowed to even talk about it. Why is

00:51:00.820 treatment so suppressed? Why are we not even allowed to speak of it? And why was it? So this

00:51:07.300 this doctor I met with, yeah, he was fearful. I mean, you know, he could lose his license. He

00:51:13.260 could lose his job. He's an emergency room physician. He's got to practice. But why can't

00:51:18.560 we look at treatments? If this was the grand emergency that we're in, shouldn't we be looking

00:51:24.980 at everything optimistically to see if it's effective, to see if it'll help? Ivermectin,

00:51:30.600 this isn't something new too. We're not talking about a doctor who's saying about prescribing

00:51:35.160 something extremely dangerous or untested. If you walk in to a doctor's office and say, I got scabies

00:51:41.800 or I got a tapeworm, they're going to give you ivermectin. They treat people with ivermectin.

00:51:47.320 This isn't brand new. Same with the hydroxychloroquine. They use it for malaria. So these

00:51:52.360 aren't applications that have never been used on people. And ivermectin, I mean, for those who own

00:51:58.760 horses, you know, you give that to them regularly to keep the parasites off them. Now, I don't know

00:52:03.880 enough about it to definitively say if ivermectin works or not but there's more and more discussion

00:52:10.200 oxford oxford university now just recently has said they're studying ivermectin because they've

00:52:17.240 seen some promise they did see on some preliminary tests that it reduces uh the viral growth and

00:52:24.120 again this is some of this beyond my educational level but this is oxford guys we're not talking

00:52:28.440 about some cornflake university in the backwoods of some odd place. Why is it that we're 16 months

00:52:36.880 into this pandemic and now the heavyweight universities are having a closer look at

00:52:41.780 treatment options? Why weren't we doing this off the start? And kind of before I got rolling on

00:52:48.180 things, I was talking about how they politicized it because Trump started onto it and now anything

00:52:55.640 Trump says is automatically evil, so we can't talk about it. Ivermectin falls into the same

00:53:00.060 things, you know, hydroxychloroquine and these other treatments. Get the politics out and let's

00:53:05.360 look clearly at it. I mean, if we talk about with all of this hysteric, if it saves one life,

00:53:09.900 if it saves one life, well, this stuff might be saving some lives. Let's look closer at it

00:53:13.560 instead of canceling and shouting down anybody who speaks to these things. There's got to be

00:53:19.600 other alternatives. As Cheryl's saying, Ivermectin's off patent. There's no money in it for Mert.

00:53:25.640 uh so they're redeveloping something similar but patentable i can believe it one of the things

00:53:30.440 that the physician did tell me as well though which is interesting and again it gets more

00:53:36.680 deeply out of my depth to a degree but it was interesting to speak to a professional on these

00:53:40.360 things was that of course the reason that the vaccinations got through with such short testing

00:53:46.920 is because it was considered an international health emergency right like this was an

00:53:51.160 outstanding circumstance and we had to set aside some of the regular regulations and steps

00:53:57.720 in order to have a health emergency. One of apparently the requirements to have that kind

00:54:03.880 of emergency though is that whatever this infection is has to be untreatable. If the

00:54:10.600 infection is treatable then you can't justify putting a vaccine out without full testing.

00:54:15.880 So if ivermectin or something else proved to actually be an effective treatment

00:54:21.160 then they would no longer have the case to fast track the vaccinations and we got a lot of

00:54:27.640 billions and billions of dollars from a lot of countries going into a lot of companies

00:54:31.880 to produce these vaccines and if suddenly it turned out that they no longer could put them out

00:54:39.080 and give them to people because an effective treatment was found there's going to be a lot of

00:54:44.360 very upset companies, investors, and other individuals. That was how it was explained to

00:54:50.520 me. It sort of makes a little sense. Again, and I'm not going to go into the depth of whether the

00:54:56.200 vaccines are effective or whether they're too dangerous or a lot of things. There's a lot of

00:54:59.080 questions and there's a lot of mistrust. I mean, even the most optimistic person about vaccines,

00:55:04.120 I do understand. I would rather this had been tested for a good number of years before we're

00:55:08.200 giving it to people. The only justification to get it into people's arms before testing it for some

00:55:12.760 years is that the emergency is so dire that you have to do it for fear of making, you know,

00:55:18.880 things becoming much, much worse. So if hydroxychloroquine or ivermectin or whatever else

00:55:24.700 turned out to be effective treatment, so the person gets sick with it, say, we can save your

00:55:28.560 life if you take this stuff. Well, then we can let this pandemic run its course and treat the

00:55:35.200 vulnerable. We've got a whole lot of questions, you know, and there's going to be a whole lot of

00:55:39.200 hindsight uh going forward to try and and figure out what the hell happened and what is happening

00:55:47.200 but the suppression of doctors is really concerning and nurses and other health professionals

00:55:50.800 we need to see what's happening in our health institutions i know there's a lot of myths

00:55:56.160 a lot of misinformation that comes and a lot of conspiracy theories and things but you know what

00:56:00.720 when you're secretive that's how you feed them you know when you do gag medical professionals

00:56:05.920 when you gag people on the front lines that feeds conspiracy theories when people see a void

00:56:11.040 somebody will make something up to fill it and it won't necessarily always be accurate the cure for

00:56:15.680 that is transparency let's see what's going on stop gagging doctors stop gagging nurses let's talk

00:56:20.880 about it uh so sylvia's saying uh so i was asking about that rebel sign uh they're going around with

00:56:26.160 a shame on shandro digital billboard with clips of the arrests of the pastors and the audio of the

00:56:32.400 the kids crying and it's epic to see apparently, you know, I, I, I, uh,

00:56:37.400 and rebel does what rebel will. And, uh, uh,

00:56:41.220 they get their message out there, you know? So, um, uh,

00:56:46.920 it's, I like that sort of thing.

00:56:48.480 It's just like with the Taxpayers Federation when they had the ticking, uh, uh,

00:56:51.960 debt clock going along, you know, these optics, these, these visuals,

00:56:55.400 they help get the messaging out there.

00:56:56.960 So it's interesting to see what rebels up to they're stirring the pot. Uh,

00:57:00.120 Shandro, you know, as a health minister, even before the pandemic was certainly getting in a

00:57:03.660 lot of trouble and a lot of controversy. As the rumors are that there might be a cabinet shuffle

00:57:09.340 coming up. As I was saying with Dave, you know, now's the time. Politically, when you want to do

00:57:13.580 it, when you see something coming out on a Friday afternoon, it's not going to be pretty. It's

00:57:18.060 something the government wants to get done quickly and get out of people's minds. So yeah, today will

00:57:21.680 be the day to watch not only the UCP, but the liberal government or anybody else, even companies.

00:57:27.080 You know, if you want to put out a pressure release up, you have to kind of tear off a band-aid, but you don't really want to go farther into it.

00:57:32.340 Fridays and summer are your friend, particularly before a long weekend.

00:57:39.400 Yes, a lot of the CDC talking about side effects and things with vaccinations.

00:57:47.580 It's a tough area, you know, and that's why I wanted to hear as much as possible.

00:57:52.420 I get on social media, and yeah, I like to poke at and stir up the people with the true anti-vaxxers, you know, because there's some people who just, they feel vaccinations are all a conspiracy and that they're terrible, and they will never take one under any circumstance.

00:58:06.680 But, you know, they have the right to be that way, and I have the right to bug them.

00:58:12.880 But when we want to have real discussions, when we want to go into things on the efficacy of treatments, vaccinations, we need to open it up.

00:58:22.180 And, you know, the secretiveness, the group think, the swarming, you know, and it's not just it's interesting to watch how communication is evolving.

00:58:32.540 Look at social media. Look at how when somebody speaks up, if they speak to the wrong thing, the bots on Twitter that will just come in and attack.

00:58:42.180 Oh, once in a while, you can see it. I'm trying to remember what one it was.

00:58:45.880 It was something I tweeted a few days ago, not one of my better ones.

00:58:48.380 But obviously it triggered something because suddenly I've got all of these, you know, five follower, 10 follower, three follower accounts, all just barraging my Twitter account, attacking me on it. 0.97

00:58:57.600 Like, whoa, where did you clowns come from?

00:58:59.440 Well, the reality is, yeah, there's people who have bot farms and they do that. 0.97

00:59:02.480 And we see that it's another form of suppression of discussion.

00:59:06.080 And if you hit the wrong subject, they will trigger their little bot farms and shut things up.

00:59:14.040 you know, things that they don't want to hear, they can gag it. So I'm going to take a very short

00:59:20.940 break. You know, I'll put up the countdown timer there for a moment. I'm going to have, it looks

00:59:25.800 like Mark Petroni coming on. I wasn't sure if Clinton was going to get him or not. It's great

00:59:29.480 when he comes on there. He's from Saga 960 of Mississauga. I'm going to get Clinton on because

00:59:35.200 we're coming into a summer of, well, the federal session has come to an end and there's a lot of

00:59:41.520 politics to talk about, there's polling numbers to talk about, there's strategy to talk about,

00:59:45.040 there's always more to talk about, and we're going to get talking. So bear with me, let me

00:59:49.680 put things on for a one minute break, and we'll get back on and get on to some federal issues for a while.

01:00:11.520 Thank you.

01:00:41.520 Okay, I'm back. That's better. I see Mark disappeared from the lobby, but I think he's

01:01:05.460 having maybe some technical issues there too. I'm certain he'll be back. As Teresa's saying,

01:01:10.300 she loves Mark. Yeah, Mark gets on some fantastic rants as well. And I do like getting Clinton and

01:01:16.060 Mark on, you know, because you get an Ontario view, you get a Nova Scotia view, you know,

01:01:20.360 we're pretty Alberta centric around here. And it's important to hear what the other parts of

01:01:25.600 the country are thinking. I mean, realistically, there's a lot more love for Trudeau than we like

01:01:30.300 to think. And it's personally, I think we're in for a Trudeau majority coming up. But I mean,

01:01:38.920 getting those perspectives. And we've got to see what people are thinking across the country if

01:01:43.340 we want to make changes or see why we can't make changes. And it's important to get those other

01:01:47.500 voices out there. Claudette pointing out, yeah, wait till Trudeau's hate speech is enacted. I

01:01:53.940 imagine you mean the legislation. I think it's Bill 36, if I'm not mistaken, C36. They kind of

01:02:01.700 threw that out just before the end of the session. It's sort of bringing back section 13 of the

01:02:07.700 Human Rights Act to criminalize speech that's considered hateful. It's a very frightening

01:02:13.160 affront on free speech, actually. And it's probably not going to pass before the next

01:02:18.300 election, but it shows what they're going to be campaigning on. And the platform we're going to

01:02:25.000 be in for, well, those are always that way, but a very heated and odious fall election, I suspect.

01:02:30.500 What do we got here? If governments don't want people to believe that vaccines are a conspiracy, they should be more transparent, open, and honest. Absolutely. And that just applies to everything. You know, if they would just quit being so stubborn and hiding from us information and trying to gag other views rather than debate them, I think people would be more inclined to believe them when things come along.

01:02:54.900 so uh okay we will get on i believe everybody's just about set up here i see mark uh playing

01:03:03.040 with the camera angles and clinton back there so let's pull them in here and get those cross

01:03:08.180 canadian views going on hey clinton how you doing good how are you doing mark can you hear me clearly

01:03:13.200 right now um i'm hearing you good i'll pull mark in there there's mark hello how are you good thanks

01:03:20.280 for coming on. I always love it when Clinton can round you up to get in here and give these

01:03:25.980 viewers, again, something other than my rambling points of view out there, especially on these

01:03:30.100 federal issues. Because as I was saying earlier, we can be kind of introverted and Alberta-centric

01:03:34.180 and we forget what's going on across the country at times. I think you should be more introspective

01:03:40.520 anyway. I think you guys should be thinking more about the future of Alberta within Canada,

01:03:48.040 given the possibility and perhaps even probability that we're going to have a liberal majority

01:03:53.080 government but i know you want to start off with clinton this is clinton's show and your show morgan

01:03:57.720 so i'm not going to hijack it just yet oh quite all right you're going right where i like going

01:04:03.000 anyways so but yes to set it up uh clinton is kind of a for those who haven't seen him on before he

01:04:08.600 loves the the polling and the data and the stats and he watches it very closely on the federal

01:04:14.440 front and uh so perhaps clinton if you can kind of run down where our federal polling is sitting

01:04:20.120 today sure so uh this week there's been uh numbers that have come out from nanos as well as abacus

01:04:29.560 data so a lot of people that are sort of conservatives get upset with nanos numbers

01:04:36.120 for whatever reason even though he's nailed every election essentially perfectly since 1993 from his

01:04:44.040 days with Compass Research. And obviously, Abacus data leans more conservative with Bruce and Rick

01:04:52.920 Anderson and David Coletto running that particular operation. So what's interesting is that in both

01:05:01.640 sets of data, the Conservatives are essentially in the mid-20 range nationally. The Liberals are in

01:05:10.920 solid majority territory. So what we're seeing is the Tories are between 23% and 27% nationally,

01:05:24.200 and the Liberals are in that 37% to 40% range.

01:05:33.640 So what that basically means is that if an election were held today,

01:05:37.320 that the Liberals would form a solid majority government. And the Conservatives would be

01:05:47.960 in really deep trouble. In fact, I would argue that they would have a hard time

01:05:53.320 holding on to 100 seats in the Canadian Parliament. So that gives you sort of a

01:06:00.040 national breakdown of what we're looking at. And then if you want later, we can go into the

01:06:04.920 regional breakdown sure well and then mark so i guess we'll pop over to you you know and when

01:06:11.880 we're looking at uh i mean i i see a freight train of a liberal majority heading towards us uh is

01:06:19.560 there any possibility we can turn this around in this next two months somehow yeah you need a major

01:06:24.200 liberal scandal but they do that periodically and i think they're going all out to prevent

01:06:30.760 details from what happened in that Winnipeg microbiology lab in 2019 and before. And we're

01:06:39.560 talking about two researchers there, two Chinese researchers brought in. I mean, who gave these

01:06:45.440 guys security clearance? Who knows? Possibly somebody in government maybe wanted to suck up

01:06:51.200 to the Chinese. Why aren't these two arrested? What was their raid about? What did they do? 0.74

01:06:57.920 What are they alleged to have done? I mean, that scandal is brewing. But of course, the liberals have pulled out all the stops now, even going so far as to take Speaker Rota to court in order to prevent, in order to stop this move towards releasing potentially damning documents related to that raid.

01:07:19.260 We've already seen Ian Stewart, head of the public health agency, called on the carpet, and none of that has deterred the liberals from doing everything in their power to prevent those documents from coming out.

01:07:35.020 So that potentially is a major liberal scandal.

01:07:38.980 And so the liberals want to go before that thing plays out.

01:07:43.000 So I suspect that they want that majority back.

01:07:46.020 One reason, besides continuing to push their tyranny on the rest of the country, is to

01:07:51.520 use their numbers to block any further release of those key documents and any more potentially

01:07:59.420 explosive details from what took place at that facility.

01:08:03.000 And that's why the Tories, they could smell a potentially huge scandal there as well.

01:08:08.180 So they've been pushing very hard to have a look at those documents.

01:08:12.880 To be fair to the NDP, they've done the same thing.

01:08:15.200 They've been involved in trying to find out exactly what happened there and why.

01:08:19.500 And I think that could potentially help O'Toole and company.

01:08:23.900 But we've got to find out what happened first.

01:08:26.780 And it looks like the Liberals are heading for an election before all the details from that raid become public.

01:08:35.080 Yeah, well, and Liberals, I guess you could say that the liking of the Liberals, the support for the Liberals just remains strong in central Canada and parts of the East.

01:08:43.280 But the other thing is I'll get Clinton to go into some of the regional things.

01:08:46.680 Conservative support, it has to be noted, is extremely weak, particularly in the Western strongholds.

01:08:51.960 I mean, not only do people need to get sour on the Liberals, they've got to fall back in love with the Conservatives somehow, and it's not looking very good for O'Toole out in the prairies.

01:09:00.900 Yeah, so to your point, Corey, if we look at Western Canada, where Conservatives like to often sort of brag about as being the heartland of conservatism and how the East is bad and that kind of thing,

01:09:21.040 What we actually find, in fact, is that in British Columbia, it's a three-way race with the Conservatives in third place.

01:09:32.520 When we look to the prairies, this is where things get really interesting.

01:09:38.320 So in Alberta, the Conservatives are leading, but they're not leading like they would have 10 or 20 years ago.

01:09:47.100 it they're currently at 39 percent in alberta federally and the liberals are at 34

01:09:55.080 um so you know let's not kid ourselves this is a a tight competitive race that's going to occur

01:10:04.440 in alberta and i am i guess one of the few uh i guess in a minority uh that that generally

01:10:12.720 believes that the liberals are going to elect members of parliament in Edmonton and Calgary,

01:10:18.720 assuming that the current trends continue. And then when we look at the numbers in Saskatchewan

01:10:25.200 and Manitoba, the liberals are actually beating the conservatives right now in the regional

01:10:30.160 breakdown. So it's very tight and it's almost a virtual tie. But in Saskatchewan and Manitoba,

01:10:38.640 it's 34 to 33 for the liberals and you know when we look at uh ontario well that's where the blowout

01:10:47.840 is so uh you know both the abacus data numbers as well as the nanos numbers show uh that the

01:10:56.480 liberals are way out in the lead in nanos's case uh they're predicting 50 of ontarioans

01:11:02.720 are comfortable with the Liberals

01:11:06.380 and only 27 are prepared to support the Conservatives.

01:11:12.660 So what this means is that, you know,

01:11:16.060 if during this snapshot in time,

01:11:19.380 if an election were held today,

01:11:21.720 the Liberals would probably sweep,

01:11:24.240 if not all of Ontario, most of Ontario.

01:11:27.080 and um when we look at uh at quebec obviously your listeners understand it's a slightly different

01:11:36.400 scenario there where you have uh the liberals the conservatives and block quebec wall

01:11:41.300 uh but even there it's it's a dog fight uh between the liberals and the bloc

01:11:47.640 uh for who's going to win the most seats and uh then when we look at atlantic canada

01:11:55.620 It very much looks like Ontario in the sense that the Liberals are up at 50% support in both sets of polling data.

01:12:06.880 And the Conservatives are back in the 20s.

01:12:11.260 So, you know, they're back 25 points.

01:12:15.680 That's why I believe we're probably looking at a solid Liberal majority.

01:12:20.220 Sorry, I didn't mean to hog all the time.

01:12:22.120 I just thought we'd go through the numbers.

01:12:24.580 Yeah, well, so it's clear, you know, in light of the numbers like that, and the implosion of the Greens helps the Liberals as well, because it gives another left of center, you know, vote that's going to move somewhere, and they're not going to go to the Conservatives.

01:12:36.220 So, I mean, you can tell that they're chomping at the bit to try and get that majority to withstand pending scandals, as Mark was pointing out.

01:12:43.320 So, you know, when Parliament closed, I mean, we can tell, again, they don't expect to sit again.

01:12:48.500 Some of them were giving their farewell speeches before the end of Parliament, you know, the ones who weren't going to run again.

01:12:54.000 uh they dropped a few bills that clearly aren't again unless we actually go through a fall session

01:12:59.360 you know these are not actually going to come into being their campaign planks is what they are

01:13:03.280 and we're seeing uh c36 which is bringing back the hate speech laws we're seeing minimum wage hikes

01:13:08.800 uh mark like as we get into campaign mode you know barring uh uh you know the scandal breaking uh

01:13:15.680 what's the campaign going to look like what kind of planks are people going uh setting up

01:13:19.200 up themselves for? Well, barring a major liberal scandal, I think the West is going to see what's

01:13:26.560 going on in the rest of the country. They're going to see that liberals are going to win big time

01:13:33.300 in Ontario, like Clinton said. They're polling somewhere between 42 percent and 50 percent.

01:13:40.540 From what I'm hearing, O'Toole could even lose his own seat. I mean, I'm not saying it's going

01:13:45.860 to be a complete debacle, but it really looks bad at the moment. It's a snapshot in time. A lot can

01:13:50.960 happen between now and election day, but that's the way it looks right now. So if it starts moving

01:13:56.360 and the liberals are in cruise mode and O'Toole continues to spin his wheels, although we're

01:14:03.020 starting to see maybe some strength from the NDP, Jagmeet Singh polling in the high teens, now 18%,

01:14:08.980 and maybe that's the result of some of the implosion in the Greens. Maybe some of them

01:14:14.860 are going over to the New Democrats rather than the liberals. But I think potentially this could

01:14:20.880 be a huge debacle for the Tories in the sense that Albertans and people in Saskatchewan right

01:14:27.220 across the prairies are going to see, oh, look, liberals are going to get, the Tories are going

01:14:32.260 to get slaughtered in Ontario. They're getting no traction whatsoever in Atlantic Canada.

01:14:37.060 They're going to lose maybe half of what seats they have in Quebec. I mean, do we really want

01:14:43.340 to have the one lone Tory rump going into Parliament? Or do we want to have somebody

01:14:49.580 representing us like the Mavericks, who are going to say to the rest of the country, look, we're not

01:14:54.980 happy. We used to want in, but now we want out. And so they're going to be the Western version of

01:15:00.560 the Bloc Québécois. They're going to be the little group that's going to say, screw you, 0.99

01:15:06.100 Ottawa. We're not interested in playing along. And the rest of Canada can pound sand if they don't 0.99

01:15:12.440 care about us then we're going to look for the door and so more and more albertans might start

01:15:18.360 looking seriously at the maverick party and think you know if we're going to have somebody

01:15:22.280 representing us in an atmosphere where the tories are decimated elsewhere in the country do we

01:15:27.000 really want the conservative party of canada or do we want a party that represents our interests

01:15:31.880 in the same way that the bloc represents quebec interest so if that happens then it's a wipeout

01:15:37.400 for the Conservatives.

01:15:39.920 I mean, if that starts to happen

01:15:41.860 and we're midway through the campaign

01:15:43.640 and O'Toole is getting nowhere

01:15:45.740 and the Liberals are in cruise control,

01:15:48.540 then Albertans have a choice to make.

01:15:50.320 We want to be the lone area of the country,

01:15:52.660 along with Saskatchewan,

01:15:53.860 that has maybe 30 or 40,

01:15:57.500 you know, between those two,

01:15:58.600 across Western Canada,

01:16:00.820 30 or 40 Conservative Party of Canada members.

01:16:03.820 Or do we want somebody really there

01:16:06.620 to send a message to the rest of the country, which is we're fed up, we're done, we're out of

01:16:11.420 here. And when you couple that with the fact that a lot of people in the business community, as I'm

01:16:17.040 hearing from my friend Jocelyn Bamford over at the Coalition of Concerned Manufacturers and Business

01:16:22.020 of Canada, what are they doing? Corey, they're giving their money to the Maverick Party. They're

01:16:26.200 not giving money to the Tories because they know the Tories are DOA. They're not going to win.

01:16:31.380 And so they're not going to waste their money. They're not going to waste their time supporting

01:16:34.080 the Conservative Party of Canada. They're already serving that up. Every time that call center,

01:16:39.680 the folks in that Conservative Party call center call up and say, hey, you know, we need your

01:16:43.560 dollars to defeat Justin Trudeau. What are they hearing? They're saying, well, screw you. Get

01:16:47.880 yourself a real Conservative Party leader, and then maybe we'll support you. In the meantime,

01:16:52.100 I'm going to support the Mavericks because I know that they're going to push our interests here in

01:16:56.720 Alberta and perhaps elsewhere in Ottawa, like I said, in the same way that the bloc. So if all

01:17:02.780 that starts to roll out then the tories could be facing a generational defeat generational defeat

01:17:10.460 in terms of the kind of scenario that we saw maybe not quite as bad as the early 90s but pretty bad

01:17:21.260 can i just jump in here if you don't mind so uh a couple of things that mark has brought up i mean

01:17:28.140 the and this is not an endorsement by the way but he is correct that uh the maverick party

01:17:35.420 uh does appear to be gaining some sort of uh organizational strength i mean they are showing up

01:17:44.380 uh in a series of polls uh you know whenever those numbers come out so you know they started

01:17:53.260 with nothing obviously and they've been able to to show up on the polling data you know on the

01:17:59.180 charts and graphs so that does speak to a uh to a potential uh loss of votes uh from the conservative

01:18:08.380 party to some other entity well and that is jay hill and and the old reformers i mean at some of

01:18:16.140 the frustration but we've been down this road before we know how to do it and uh you know

01:18:19.980 don't underestimate what they're going to do on the ground. I can see some of the pressure showing

01:18:24.380 I mean the donations also indicate as much as polling does as Mark pointed out. And as Clinton

01:18:31.580 said I don't think it's impossible to see a few Liberal members end up winning in Calgary too.

01:18:35.180 We got some swing seats and when I see the you know Nahed Nenshi I still think he's posturing

01:18:40.300 to run for MP and in a couple of writings in Calgary it's very possible he could pull it off

01:18:45.420 and boy he'd be right into cabinet he knows it and I mean the way he's talking to the news all

01:18:49.580 over i mean you can't turn on the news without seeing his bloody face up there talking about

01:18:53.180 issues that have nothing to do with municipal politics he's definitely he's not running for

01:18:57.100 mayor again so he's positioning himself for something and then the other thing that was

01:19:01.100 telling was uh michelle rempel for example who i love and i i i thought she's been great up there

01:19:06.380 and taking advantage of social media and just being a good modern face of conservatism putting

01:19:10.940 out a debasing social justice tweet essentially apologizing for being white what are you doing i

01:19:17.740 I mean, are you guys in panic that you feel that you've got to swing hard, hard left in order to keep your Calgary seats?

01:19:22.480 Because she's in a tight one in Calgary.

01:19:23.940 It's a difficult one.

01:19:24.760 I want to add something else to this that I think, can you hear me by any chance?

01:19:32.100 Yeah, you're kind of a little low, but you're still, we can hear you.

01:19:35.420 Okay, perfect.

01:19:36.440 Let me just adjust my mic some more here then.

01:19:38.360 I apologize.

01:19:39.660 No problem.

01:19:40.080 So, look, one of the things I want to point out is that there's another angle to this that I think could make some of your listeners uncomfortable, but it's something that I've been grappling with.

01:19:54.480 And maybe conservatism, as it's currently constructed in Canada, is not necessarily a winning game anymore.

01:20:07.000 And the reason I argue this is because if we look at Alberta, for example, the so-called heartland of Canadian conservatism, to me, when I look at the polling data at the provincial level, and I'm by no means an expert on Alberta provincial politics,

01:20:27.160 But it looks to me like the new Democratic Party of Rachel Notley is well positioned to most likely win another majority government.

01:20:38.440 And if we look at the mayoralty races in Calgary and Edmonton in recent years, we have seen Mayor Nenshi in Calgary and Mayor, I believe it's Iveson.

01:20:54.160 Edison, in Edmonton, that have had politically very successful careers.

01:21:02.900 And when we combine that with the federal outlook of liberals, member of parliaments

01:21:12.260 being elected in Calgary and Edmonton, and a new Democrat federally being elected in

01:21:17.400 edmonton strathcona uh perhaps the culture of the political culture has changed in such a way that

01:21:27.960 conservatism as as canadians sort of know it perhaps it it's run its course in alberta

01:21:35.880 as it's currently constructed and that might be something for pollsters to examine and for

01:21:43.080 strategists to think about but i do think it's important to examine what's happening municipally

01:21:48.840 and provincially as well as federally to kind of get a better understanding of how regions and

01:21:58.200 provinces and cities are changing across the country well there's there's definitely some

01:22:03.800 flux going on i mean the possibility for notley to get in isn't so much that that conservatism

01:22:10.200 has collapsed and that not least popular, it's that the UCP is doing a piss poor job and losing

01:22:16.020 support and they were split four different ways now. But I mean, again, that does mean that, I

01:22:20.860 mean, for one conservative group or movement to get it together and get a large enough group of

01:22:24.900 people together to make a change, they've got to change their strategies somehow because this

01:22:29.480 isn't working. And the loathing, I mean, we're seeing NDP doing strongly in Alberta federally

01:22:34.480 as well. But I think, again, that's just because, I mean, liberal is still poison out here to most

01:22:38.320 of us. We have no use for it. But as Mark's talking about too, though, this could be a 0.73

01:22:44.480 turning point. And as some of the commenters are saying on here as well, we're at a point where

01:22:49.520 maybe we want to see a liberal majority because we want to get this ban going. Let's get the 0.97

01:22:54.340 separatism going. We beat our head on this wall long enough. It's time to get out. I mean,

01:22:59.120 conservatism won't take hold anywhere else in the country, but we've still got a foothold here.

01:23:03.320 Well, look, and one of the other things, just to go back to the reason I think it's important to sort of think about conservatism's role in Canada today and its future is because when we look at some of this polling data that Abacus Data has released over this last week, you know, when we look at the urban centers, so cities across the country, the Liberals have a 15-point lead.

01:23:30.720 Now, a lot of conservatives would say, well, that's to be expected. Liberals generally do well in cities, in city cores, whether it's Edmonton or Toronto or Halifax or Vancouver or wherever.

01:23:45.160 But what's more interesting about this polling data is that when we examine the suburbs of cities, those key areas where conservatives have to appeal to soccer moms and dads, the liberals are leading by 10 points.

01:24:08.080 and when we look at the rural parts of canada it's actually a tie so when we look at the

01:24:21.360 the rural parts of canada the towns and villages uh the conservatives and liberals are tied at

01:24:27.740 about 33 34 percent each so that tells me that culturally that there's a big change

01:24:34.120 occurring throughout the country and that poses a lot of problems uh for conservative politicians

01:24:41.020 and parties and conservative strategists uh i'm going to just temporarily log out for a moment

01:24:48.160 to try to get a better connection sure i apologize there's a bad connection but i will jump back in

01:24:54.040 here in another minute if you guys can just carry on sure no quite all right uh and and yeah mark

01:24:59.860 You're in, as is often labeled, vote-rich Ontario.

01:25:04.320 But, I mean, that is the biggest swing we have in the nation.

01:25:08.160 I mean, that's where the decision is.

01:25:09.700 There's no appetite or little appetite for fake Conservatives.

01:25:13.800 Conservatism is not dying in Canada.

01:25:16.500 What's dying is people's appetite for fakes, like Aaron O'Toole.

01:25:22.780 And even Nahed Nenshi sold himself as a fiscal Conservative when he first got elected in Calgary.

01:25:28.940 He went to the Calgary Sun and sat before the editorial board and told them, oh, yeah, I'm the fiscal conservative.

01:25:37.420 Vote for me.

01:25:38.220 And he managed to finagle support from the Calgary Sun. 0.96

01:25:41.560 And he's a fake. 1.00

01:25:42.520 He's a fat-faced, narcissistic moron who should never have been elected in the first place under the pretext that he was a fiscal conservative when he's anything but. 1.00

01:25:50.880 He's just another liberal. 1.00

01:25:52.320 And now he's proved it.

01:25:53.500 And so once he got in there, it was just too hard to get rid of him.

01:25:56.040 and there was never anybody really out there to run against him to the degree that they should

01:26:01.800 have run against him as for o'toole he sold himself as a true blue he's the guy votes who

01:26:07.080 said come out you know support me i'm the true blue conservative you know i'm not going to have

01:26:12.040 a carbon tax and it's that you know uh fake over there in atlantic canada it's peter mckay he's the

01:26:18.620 liberal light and it turns out to be that he was the liberal all along aaron o'toole is a fraud

01:26:24.740 So people out West see Aaron O'Toole, see him flip-flopping on the matter of a carbon tax.

01:26:30.480 So, of course, they're going to get demoralized.

01:26:32.580 Of course, they're going to say, you know what, I'm not interested in supporting a guy like that.

01:26:35.740 It's not conservative policies and values and principles that are unpopular out there.

01:26:42.200 It's the people who are flip-flopping all over the place under the guise of being conservative, but they don't talk like conservatives.

01:26:49.160 I mean, you mentioned Michelle Rempel-Garner, you know, supposedly a conservative.

01:26:54.700 What does she do? 1.00

01:26:55.460 She comes out.

01:26:56.580 Yeah, she talks a good game in the House when she's going after Justin Trudeau. 0.98

01:27:01.000 She does a pretty good job there. 1.00

01:27:02.300 But she puts out this tweet, as you were mentioning earlier, saying, yeah, I admit, you know, I have benefited from white privilege because I am a cis white woman.

01:27:12.920 But, you know, I'm also a victim because of all those all that maleness around me. 1.00

01:27:18.620 amongst all these conservatives, but what the hell is she talking about? What is she really

01:27:23.680 saying here? She's saying, yeah, I may be white and I may be straight, but I'm also a woman,

01:27:30.140 so I'm also partially a victim. She's playing identity politics just the way the liberals do. 1.00

01:27:35.000 And so conservatives see that and they smell a fake. They smell a rat. They have no interest 0.99

01:27:39.900 in supporting that kind of crap. What we need is real conservatives saying, this is what we believe. 1.00

01:27:45.460 You know, these are our principles. We believe in them. We're going to stick to them. Lower taxes, more freedom, less regulation. We believe in free markets as a way to bring more wealth, not all these oppressive climate policies that are not going to change one iota about the global temperatures.

01:28:02.760 So we need somebody to be firm in those things, not fakes, not lily-livered fake conservatives like Aaron O'Toole.

01:28:10.000 And when you start having that, you will find people rallying behind somebody who's a true believer.

01:28:14.960 Right now, conservatives in this country are demoralized.

01:28:18.080 That's the real story behind the polls.

01:28:20.120 They're demoralized.

01:28:20.920 A lot of them are going to stay home because they see no one to vote for.

01:28:25.200 Out West, however, they're going to take a long, hard look at the Mavericks and think, maybe this is our ticket.

01:28:30.040 And you look also at the Wild Rose Independent Party gaining more and more support.

01:28:34.680 Why do you think, speaking of fakes, what about Jason Kenney?

01:28:38.740 He was the great unifier bringing conservatives together in Alberta.

01:28:43.140 What did we see from him?

01:28:44.280 Strong conservative policies?

01:28:46.020 No. 0.97

01:28:46.620 We saw a guy trying to suck up to Ottawa every chance he got. 0.97

01:28:49.800 No wonder people are disappointed and demoralized in conservatives. 0.84

01:28:54.380 It's not that they don't believe in those policies.

01:28:56.340 is that they look around and they don't see too many people apart from a handful who really

01:29:01.400 represent and speak for them. That's what's going on here, in my view. Oh, absolutely. And you hit

01:29:06.220 it on the head. And I'm glad you mentioned that with Nahed Nenshi because, I mean, Nahed was

01:29:10.980 elected on a mountain of bullshit. And when I was involved in that campaign, my wife actually 1.00

01:29:17.160 ran for council during that campaign. So we were watching it very closely. And I mean, we knew him

01:29:21.840 from Mount Royal College. It was surprising that the son actually fell for his line of being

01:29:26.380 conservative. He had enough documented history. This guy is almost NDP territory and our own

01:29:32.340 apathy has allowed him to stay in as long as he did. But I like what you've brought up because

01:29:38.700 it's a matter of principle more than policy. I mean, people will vote for an honest politician

01:29:43.700 if they feel comfortable with him. You can write all the policies in the world. And then when you

01:29:47.860 see O'Toole flipping, flopping all over the place and everything he's got to. I mean, there's a lot

01:29:52.480 of conservatives in Ontario. There's a lot of conservatives in the Maritimes, but they're not

01:29:56.560 going to hesitate to vote for somebody else if they see what they think is a liar. Yeah, they

01:30:00.560 don't have the courage of their convictions. And in Aaron O'Toole's case, he doesn't even have

01:30:04.680 convictions. So, you know, he just wants the big job. You know, he wants the sweet gig. He wants

01:30:10.200 the big office. He wants the title. He wants the money. He wants to be able to travel all over the

01:30:15.220 place and say, look at me, I'm prime minister. But at his core, he doesn't believe in conservative

01:30:20.100 policies, because if he did, that would be reflected in the way he conducts himself in the

01:30:24.740 policies that his party is going to run on. And you're not seeing that with Erno O'Toole. And

01:30:29.000 that's why people are not supporting the Conservative Party of Canada, not because they don't believe

01:30:33.360 in conservative policies and values, but because they don't believe in the people running for the

01:30:38.460 parties that are supposed to be standing up for them well look i i think it's important though

01:30:45.820 that to my earlier point that when we examine the polling data we have to ask ourselves those

01:30:52.240 questions as to why is it that in rural canada typically where the conservatives would easily

01:30:59.100 win hands down that they're in a virtual deadlock heat uh you know with the liberals and the

01:31:06.860 conservatives in it because the conservatives are not conservatives clinton i mean that's that's the

01:31:11.300 short answer people in the rural parts of the prairies are looking at the conservative party

01:31:16.940 in canada say well i'd like to vote conservative but they're not conservative so why should i

01:31:21.740 support them and so they're looking around they're not sure what they're going to do do i vote for

01:31:26.160 max's party do i vote for the maverick party and so you're seeing a fracturing it doesn't mean that

01:31:31.620 those people are any less conservative than they were last year or 10 years ago what it means is

01:31:36.840 the conservative party of canada has abandoned them and so they're looking long and hard at

01:31:41.720 alternatives but that doesn't mean that they feel any differently about conservative values

01:31:46.200 and principles in my opinion anyway so one of the things i believe that will be a a huge sort of

01:31:55.640 game changer over the next 12 months when it comes to conservatism in canada

01:32:00.360 is probably going to be the early election call from Prime Minister Trudeau.

01:32:06.860 You know, like I've heard from multiple people that have indicated that the writ campaign will most likely begin on August 1st.

01:32:20.340 But then in the last week, I've heard that timetable has been sped up.

01:32:28.340 And the reason it's been sped up is because the polling data is just so strong that the Liberals would rather go sooner rather than later because they sense a majority government.

01:32:43.640 and um you know if it is a major defeat uh for the uh for the conservatives this is going to give

01:32:54.600 them time to rethink uh what they need to do in order to win because uh you know if there's a

01:33:06.000 liberal majority that means basically conservatives out of power for a decade you know by the time

01:33:12.300 you get to the end of four years and well they brought it on themselves as far as i'm concerned

01:33:18.060 you know two rigged leadership races in three years you know treating their uh base like a

01:33:25.100 giant atm machine uh playing them for fools you know people have had enough and then inserting a

01:33:33.740 guy who's probably the least conservative of the bunch of the people running you know if you compare 0.90

01:33:38.780 him even to you know leslin or or derek sloan or peter mckay this was the furthest left of the

01:33:47.040 bunch a guy who's only in the conservative party because of his old man he was the conservative

01:33:52.020 and he and i guess aaron just went along for the ride and so people have people are fed up people

01:33:58.580 are angry with the conservative party that's why they're not giving them money that's why they're

01:34:02.120 looking around so maybe the conservative party of canada needs to be wiped out you know to make

01:34:08.200 way for something else because right now it's a very corrupt party it's uh betrayed its base

01:34:13.940 they install this dud of a candidate who's a want to be liberal and so now conservatives are

01:34:22.920 looking around and i suspect out west they're going to give the mavericks a long hard look

01:34:27.520 and this country could look very very different after the next election very politically as

01:34:33.840 fractured as it's ever been i mean it's good it should be an interesting election well we'll be

01:34:39.680 that if nothing else i'll kind of close off it's looking pretty bleak but with the speculation

01:34:44.160 because uh i i know and as clinton has said uh you know the liberals are salivating they want

01:34:49.280 to get to the polls i mean it's not looking any better than it will right now you know the the

01:34:53.360 greens are in disarray the conservatives can't gain traction and as was noted there might be a

01:34:57.760 scandal approaching them that they want to get this done before that hits but uh i'll just kind

01:35:03.120 to for from each year get your speculation on when they're going to pull a pin like because the

01:35:07.360 liberals will still need an excuse they'll need a reason they'll need an issue they're going to say 0.99

01:35:11.200 this is the hill that we're dying on this is what we have to take to canadians and i don't see a

01:35:16.400 single issue right now that they're going to use to go to whatever they have to use it as a

01:35:22.320 substitute for governor general and say we need to dissolve the parliament and go to the people

01:35:26.320 uh when do you think they're going to go uh i'll start with you clinton you said earlier uh

01:35:31.040 possibly the start of august and what excuse will they use to do it well so i actually think they're

01:35:36.800 they're they're uh looking to actually uh to go earlier so you know the the talk on on parliament

01:35:44.720 hill was the first of august i believe they're probably gonna go uh the second week of july

01:35:53.920 probably like roughly two weeks from now um and i believe the campaign is probably going to be a 36

01:36:01.760 day uh long campaign which is the bare minimum that you need in regards to elections canada laws

01:36:10.480 um and as far as the rationale for what they will use uh look we've heard the a number of

01:36:20.080 member of parliaments on the government side say how unworkable this minority government is.

01:36:26.400 And as Mark alluded to earlier, there are lawsuits that are either being instigated or threatened

01:36:35.600 towards the Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons in regards to intelligence briefings

01:36:43.680 and documents and those kinds of things and so the government may say that this has gotten so bad

01:36:51.840 that we have no choice but to go to the governor general uh in order to seek a majority and um

01:37:00.080 look it depending on the questions that the public starts to ask um you know it could

01:37:09.280 be problematic for the liberals uh it's not a guarantee that they will you know that they're

01:37:15.120 going to stomp to a huge majority any government can lose uh but it it looks like the expectations

01:37:23.680 are so low for for aaron that um that even if he exceeds expectations the bar will be so low that

01:37:34.480 no one will pay attention.

01:37:37.120 So that's kind of how I view things unfolding here

01:37:40.620 over the next, say, two to three weeks.

01:37:45.080 What do you think, Mark?

01:37:46.860 When's it going to happen and how are they going to go?

01:37:49.500 Well, Clinton is right about some possible headwinds

01:37:52.720 for the liberals because, frankly,

01:37:54.960 nobody likes Justin Trudeau.

01:37:57.540 Young people don't even like him.

01:37:59.240 You can see that reflected in some of the polling.

01:38:01.500 So, yeah, he's doing better, certainly,

01:38:04.480 And he appears headed for a majority. 0.97

01:38:08.280 But Canadians, a lot of Canadians know he's a fraud, know he's a fake. 0.88

01:38:12.640 This guy positioning himself as somebody who's going to represent, you know, ethnic diversity and fairness, and he's going to tackle race. 0.98

01:38:23.600 this is a serial blackface wearer who has abused more women in his caucus than any prime minister 0.81

01:38:31.700 in the history of this country. Whether you go back to elbowing that new Democrat, she's obviously 1.00

01:38:36.580 not in his caucus. But early on, he was manhandling a conservative and he elbowed a woman in the

01:38:42.840 chest. He alienated Selena Cesar Chavanis to the point where she felt she was just nothing but a

01:38:49.980 token black woman. And when when she said that he didn't she didn't want to run, he reduced her to

01:38:56.000 tears right there. Everybody could see it. They could see how abusive he was to her. And she wrote

01:39:01.580 about it. And she said he was fake as a F word. Then you had, of course, the treatment of Jody

01:39:07.380 Wilson-Raybould booting her out because she wouldn't bend to his will and wouldn't acquiesce

01:39:13.280 to his demands that he give SNC-Lavalin a get-out-of-jail-free card, and of course,

01:39:20.300 Jane Philpott booted out. This guy has treated women incredibly shabbily. So for him to come out

01:39:26.500 and say, look at me, the great feminist vote for me, that just doesn't wash anymore. Everybody 1.00

01:39:30.980 knows he's a fraud. Everybody knows he's a phony. So those are the kind of things that he is facing 1.00

01:39:35.540 now as he's going out, trying to bring back some of that magic that he had from 2015. But

01:39:41.760 unfortunately, conservatives are demoralized. We're starting to see a bit of a surge for the

01:39:47.120 New Democrat Party. So that may actually be a huge fly in the ointment for Justin Trudeau

01:39:51.960 as he tries to drag the party further left. We're talking about some of, you know, if you see

01:39:56.780 censorship, you know, bringing back the hate law. Remember what he did in Quebec where he said,

01:40:02.280 yeah, Quebec is a nation and French is its official language. Well, how is that going to

01:40:07.620 fly out west where Albertans would say, well, excuse me, we're a nation too. And maybe English

01:40:12.560 is going to be our official language out here. So it's starting to cause huge rifts right across

01:40:17.780 the country. I just want to jump in. One of the things I want to also mention just to some of

01:40:24.660 those earlier points in regards to what Mark is saying, and I may have missed it when I had to

01:40:30.040 jump out due to my poor connection. Sorry about that earlier. Is that, you know, besides the

01:40:37.120 Maverick party, the separatist guys there. There's also, you know, there's serious talk

01:40:43.680 that former Conservative MP Derek Sloan is going to have a new political party that he's getting

01:40:50.220 ready to unveil. And, you know, that I'm guessing is a party that could probably appeal to a lot of

01:40:57.600 the social conservative vote that exists out there. And so if Derek is successful at launching

01:41:04.280 a new political party before the general election is called, you know, that could eat away at a lot

01:41:11.620 of conservative parties' support. And so that's not helpful to Mr. O'Toole or the conservatives.

01:41:19.720 And then, you know, there are sort of what I like to call kind of the fringe

01:41:23.080 elements out there, like kind of the Max Bernier's, the sort of anti-immigration types

01:41:29.660 that could also eat into Conservative Party support.

01:41:36.700 So it's strange because we're seeing the Green Party collapse.

01:41:39.960 And by the way, I think not only will we see a new Conservative Party leadership race,

01:41:45.020 but I think the Green Party may be facing a leadership race

01:41:49.500 because I don't believe Anna Mae Paul is going to survive over the next six months.

01:41:57.480 And to Mark's point, if the new Democrats can't get their act together, Jagmeet Singh may be looking for a new job soon as well.

01:42:08.560 So I think we're in for some exciting times when it comes to, you know, watching politics and kind of seeing how everything unfolds here over the next 30 to 45 days.

01:42:20.180 Well, for political wonks like us, there's definitely going to be lots to watch over the next couple of months.

01:42:25.980 uh probably not good by the sounds of it but uh definitely worth discussion maybe we'll move on to

01:42:31.340 better things we're moving on to a heat wave here in alberta i'm not sure what the eastern

01:42:35.180 forecaster looks like it looks like mark's enjoying the outdoors right now yeah it's over

01:42:39.180 it's overcast but it's cool it's not hot at the moment it's uh so we'll look at the bright sides

01:42:45.980 we've got and celebrate canada day uh next week where it's still allowed anyways and uh

01:42:51.500 yeah watch for how little justin trudeau says about how good canada is this guy is in the

01:42:58.560 business of destroying this country and i'm sure he hates canada today because he feels obligated

01:43:02.940 to say something nice about this country but nobody has been more of a downer than justin

01:43:08.600 trudeau when it comes to his talking up this country you know you expect the leader to talk

01:43:13.400 up your country justin trudeau doesn't do that because he's too busy wrecking the place

01:43:18.680 Yeah.

01:43:19.300 No, the Trudeaus have been a destructive force in Canada since before it was born. 1.00

01:43:24.280 What a slime ball. 0.97

01:43:25.540 Thanks, guys.

01:43:26.680 Appreciate it.

01:43:26.900 All right.

01:43:27.140 Thanks for coming on, Mark.

01:43:28.180 So you're on Saga 960, by the way.

01:43:30.580 Saga 960, yeah, on 9 a.m. Eastern to 11 a.m. Eastern.

01:43:35.520 You can listen to us out there in the West on Saga960am.ca.

01:43:41.500 So it would be on, I guess it would start around 7 a.m. Mountain Time

01:43:45.700 if you happen to be in Alberta.

01:43:47.260 check out or you can listen to the podcast available everywhere spotify iheart google

01:43:52.700 apple oh google's trying to censor it though i think it keeps booting me off but uh too bad for

01:43:58.060 them you can find my uh podcast if you look for the mark petroni show thank you very much guys

01:44:04.460 thanks mark and clinton uh you see you've got your twitter handle up on there and i gotta ask though

01:44:09.580 what's that cow bay love thing about on your street there so calabay is a surf community in canada

01:44:16.300 so it's uh i live in cal bay and uh it's an ocean beach community and surfers from all over the

01:44:24.900 united states and canada come up here and surf uh you know winter months summer months it doesn't

01:44:31.420 matter there's no cows there there's no cows no no there's no well there's deer so there's you can

01:44:37.080 get a you get a decent steak but yeah yeah well there's deer and that kind of thing but uh yeah

01:44:42.920 it's surf country so if you like spending time on the ocean in the water and and that kind of

01:44:48.840 thing calve is uh it's the best place in canada great yeah we got lots of cows but we mostly got

01:44:54.840 sloughs when it comes to water so we just have to enjoy what we got but we've got some fantastic

01:44:59.400 mountains anyways every area has some great stuff if you want to look for it so thanks again for

01:45:04.280 coming on guys uh we'll see you some point i'm sure as the campaign gets rolling along and uh

01:45:09.800 try to chart the future of this country or what's left of it thanks guys see ya thank you for having

01:45:16.200 me on thanks bud bye all right so yeah i always love when i can get those guys on like i said uh

01:45:27.000 and as mark said i certainly agree with me alberta needs to just get more introverted

01:45:31.400 but apologizing for for being what we are and uh again i said before we should emulate quebec uh

01:45:37.880 just get into it for ourselves don't worry about the rest of the country and i got a feeling we're

01:45:44.760 see a heck of a lot more of that attitude come along after this federal election where we're

01:45:50.280 probably going to be seeing a liberal majority coming and yet again we can't get rid of these

01:45:54.680 guys uh we keep creating rotten conservative alternatives to vote for it it's gonna be

01:46:03.560 interesting seeing what springs up coming out there. Sloan, yeah, he's trying to get something

01:46:09.060 rolling. I've been hearing those rumors. Though the logistics of getting a good campaign base

01:46:13.700 going, I mean, he can cut in, he can get some candidates out there specifically, I guess,

01:46:18.180 on the social front and some things. How much of a bite he might take, I don't know. Somebody

01:46:22.080 was saying that maybe he'll kind of tag team with Hillier and there's a bit of an Ontario

01:46:28.140 base that he can nibble at. I mean, some of those swing seats, if this election is going to be this

01:46:32.580 tight. You can't underestimate anybody anymore. A lot of races are going to be decided by literally

01:46:38.540 a couple or a few hundred votes and dismiss Bernier and dismiss Jay Hill, you know, at your

01:46:47.600 peril. They can be the decision maker in those constituencies because of conservatives who just

01:46:54.440 can't stomach voting for Aaron O'Toole's party. Calgary, look at those numbers. Look at the numbers

01:47:00.140 from past elections. We've got, you know, Calgary Centre, some of those Northeast ridings, Edmonton.

01:47:05.880 I mean, yeah, we've got an NDP member sitting in there. We can't sit here and say it's impossible

01:47:10.600 to get Liberals in Alberta. It's very possible right now. Sloan, Aramita Sloan, O'Toole is just

01:47:16.820 not winning the hearts and minds out here. And it's going to have to be a whole another election

01:47:21.020 cycle. I'm starting to get along the lines like one of the commenters Albertans was saying is

01:47:25.300 accelerationism. Let's just pull off the bandaid, get Trudeau in for a majority so we can quit

01:47:30.720 pissing around and wasting our time on the federal front. And let's get moving on the

01:47:34.640 Wildrose Independence Party. Let's move towards the real referendums and not just this equalization

01:47:39.820 one that's just going to get thrown back in our face. I'm supportive of the equalization

01:47:43.560 referendum because I want to see people practice campaigning. I want to see them learn how to win

01:47:48.340 a referendum because that's what we have to do. We don't just have a referendum, we got to win it.

01:47:52.400 And that's a whole different type of campaigning. And this is a good practice run. So this equalization campaign will not be a waste of time, despite what some people are saying about it. It's a trial run is what it is. It's a dry run. And when we get a liberal majority, I tell you what, we're going to start getting the atmosphere for the real campaign. And this country is broken. It really is.

01:48:13.440 I mean, we pit regions against each other, we can't seem to get good government, we just get effective politics from some of them. 0.99

01:48:21.380 I mean, as Mark pointed out, this is a prime minister, he's faker than Anna Nicole Smith's tits were, for crying out loud, and we can't seem to get rid of him. 0.98

01:48:30.320 I mean, they call him a feminist, and he's been one of the worst abusive prime ministers against women in living history. 0.99

01:48:36.720 He's worn blackface multiple times.

01:48:39.120 Let's talk about that double standard.

01:48:41.400 If any conservative had even had a brown smear on his cheek for five minutes, he'd be finished in politics for life.

01:48:47.900 What does it take to get a good prime minister in this country?

01:48:50.960 So people are feeling the same way, particularly in the West, particularly in Alberta.

01:48:56.280 So maybe it's time to move towards that nuclear option and start, you know, I mean, the thing is, it doesn't have to be over, guys.

01:49:02.040 If we can't, the Constitution is part of the problem.

01:49:04.500 The system is part of the problem.

01:49:05.640 It's deeper than just who's at the top.

01:49:07.380 And that's what people have got to realize.

01:49:08.560 Even if we got another good conservative leader, if we got somebody in there, Harper came back or somebody of that sort and ran it for a term or even two terms, the system's still broken. It doesn't change. If anything, it drags it out longer. We need to change the system.

01:49:28.940 And we saw from Meach Lake and Charlottetown, for those of us old enough to remember, it's almost impossible to change the system, unfortunately. It will take a serious crisis to make the country ready and willing to change the system. And I can't think of one more serious than to have a province voting to leave. That's it. You know, we're out.

01:49:46.200 The Clarity Act tells us how to do it. A clear question, yes or no. And at that point, the

01:49:51.840 country is, according to our local legislation in Canada, obligated to negotiate our secession

01:49:58.380 in good faith. So you know what? Let's get Prime Minister Trudeau back in there. Let's give the

01:50:03.700 jerk a majority. We're not going to hurt any worse for it. And then we can just start planning on 1.00

01:50:10.400 what really will change things. And that's independence, because nothing else is going

01:50:13.100 to. We're just beating our heads against the wall. But either way, we might be in for a summer

01:50:16.420 campaign. You know, I differ with Clinton a little bit on that one. I don't think they're

01:50:20.960 going to want to go in midsummer. We'll see. I mean, that's the beauty of a parliamentary system.

01:50:24.860 Summer campaigns are difficult. I mean, people are distracted. I mean, you kind of do informal

01:50:31.560 campaigning. You hit the barbecues, you hit the summer events, and you do things like that,

01:50:35.880 and the handshaking. But when it comes to outright door knocking, trying to catch people when they're

01:50:39.800 at home, catch their ear. They're busy vacationing. They're busy doing what they can, particularly

01:50:44.400 this year, even if it's local campgrounds and such, you know, due to travel restrictions,

01:50:48.820 it's going to be a hard time to campaign. I'm thinking maybe mid to late August. My internet's

01:50:54.220 fading on me here too. One of those days. And we'll be into a September election, but we'll see.

01:51:00.240 It's definitely coming soon. You don't have to read that hard in the tea leaves for it.

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01:51:19.700 As Dave said, she's working on more stuff right now.

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Western Standard - June 26, 2021

The Cory Morgan Show. June 25 2021

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