Western Standard - June 12, 2025


The federation is broken


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Live from the Global Energy Show in Calgary, Canada, Cory Morgan gives us his thoughts on what's going on in Canada and why it's time to wake up to the fact that Canada needs to do something about it.

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00:00:00.000 Good day!
00:00:29.100 Hey, welcome to the Cory Morgan Show.
00:00:30.940 You can see a different background.
00:00:32.220 We're coming live from the floor of the Global Energy Show in Calgary.
00:00:36.200 We've got a broadcast booth out here.
00:00:38.700 You can see I'm holding a mic a bit differently, but we're live.
00:00:41.780 We're covering the stories.
00:00:42.920 We don't stop for this.
00:00:43.820 It's been a great time down here.
00:00:44.940 This is a huge show in Calgary.
00:00:46.600 It's a big deal every year.
00:00:48.040 I'm pretty sure, I should have asked somebody, it used to be the Global Petroleum Show, but
00:00:51.380 they broaden it to energy, and that's a good way to go.
00:00:53.880 It's a diverse thing.
00:00:55.360 I've got a guest coming on who's taking part in this show, and it's Tracy Nyholt of TechJutsu.
00:01:01.580 She'll probably correct me on the pronunciation of that soon.
00:01:03.660 That's all right.
00:01:04.800 Because we're talking about bigger, broader items with these larger companies and energy
00:01:08.700 and security and things like that, and it's an important conversation.
00:01:13.280 I use those live comments, guys.
00:01:15.760 Put them up there.
00:01:16.240 I've got to admit, I don't have my big screen to see them.
00:01:18.800 I appreciate the interaction, so I won't be able to read them out.
00:01:21.880 But, you know, have those conversations with each other, just make sure to keep things
00:01:25.060 civil, you know.
00:01:25.960 We can use that conversation to keep things going on the up and up.
00:01:31.340 So let me start with my usual monologue rant, get things going.
00:01:35.060 Let's talk about the Federation.
00:01:36.500 A nice, simple subject, right?
00:01:37.460 The entire point of a Federation is to have a mutually beneficial relationship between relatively
00:01:42.560 autonomous provinces.
00:01:44.080 Now, the central government is expected to stick to interprovincial and international issues,
00:01:48.440 while provincial governments are supposed to be left to manage their own affairs.
00:01:51.000 In Canada, that relationship's been turned on its head.
00:01:54.000 The federal government's inserted itself into provincial and even municipal jurisdictions,
00:01:58.580 whilst refused to assert its genuine authority in facilitating interprovincial infrastructure
00:02:03.200 and trade.
00:02:04.020 This has led to a lopsided Federation, where the provincial leaders are at each other's
00:02:07.920 throats, while the federal government milks the division for political benefit. 1.00
00:02:11.360 Prime Minister Mark Carney is trying to play both sides.
00:02:13.520 He claims he wants to enable interprovincial energy infrastructure in the national interest.
00:02:17.220 No, he never, and he refuses to use the word pipeline, though.
00:02:20.420 He's granted false authority to provincial groups and provincial governments and indigenous
00:02:25.400 groups to veto projects.
00:02:27.460 Carney said nothing will happen in Canada without national consensus between all the provinces
00:02:32.200 and indigenous groups.
00:02:33.520 In other words, nothing's going to happen in Canada, guys.
00:02:36.020 Canada's already been an investment pariah, as hundreds of billions of dollars' worth of
00:02:40.160 energy projects died in the planning stages due to Justin Trudeau's regulatory scheme.
00:02:44.200 While the world remains hungry for Canada's resources and energy products, investors won't
00:02:48.320 sink a penny into a country that won't guarantee project approval. 0.72
00:02:51.780 And with a history of pulling the rug out from under other investments, investors need
00:02:55.040 confidence that the projects will be approved and that Mark Carney simply isn't just offering
00:02:59.680 another walk in the garden path, I guess you could say.
00:03:03.500 Meanwhile, the federal government's spending remains out of control due to overreach.
00:03:07.520 The federal government's pouring funds into pharmacare, child care, dental care, housing,
00:03:11.320 but none of those things are federal jurisdiction.
00:03:13.600 But then they task the provinces to administer those programs and handcuff them through regulations.
00:03:18.160 It's a cynical political tactic that makes the federal government look like Santa Claus,
00:03:21.880 while the local level of government look like Grinch's when they can't effectively deliver
00:03:25.700 the services that the government dumped on them with their promises.
00:03:28.700 For example, under the original Canada Health Act, the federal government's supposed to cover
00:03:32.020 50% of the costs of health care provision.
00:03:34.440 Currently, it transfers 20% of those costs.
00:03:36.920 Meanwhile, though, the federal government strictly enforces the Health Act regulations,
00:03:40.280 which prohibit private provision of health care options, along with other micromanaging
00:03:44.220 clauses that inhibit provinces from trying to do innovative health care solutions.
00:03:50.360 The provinces get stuck with the bill, but lack the ability to make the changes
00:03:53.600 to the provision structure.
00:03:55.340 Due to this imbalance, access to health care is hitting crisis levels in every province.
00:03:58.700 In the country, despite spending increases from every province as well.
00:04:03.620 Carney's supposed to be the fiscal wizard.
00:04:04.960 He's supposed to be the man to bring leadership and sense to Canada's economic planning.
00:04:08.740 But so far, he's proven to be nothing but an utterer of weasel words.
00:04:13.620 Any mention of getting projects done always comes with a caveat.
00:04:16.900 Consensus should be aspirational, but it can't be a deal breaker.
00:04:19.960 It's an impossible goal, and Carney knows it.
00:04:22.280 He's no less in love with the fantasy than Trudeau is that there's going to be some magical
00:04:26.360 energy source that's going to appear and replace oil and gas, if only we could hinder oil and
00:04:29.880 gas development enough.
00:04:31.240 He's an ideologue rather than a pragmatic nation builder, and we're going to pay a terrible
00:04:34.620 price for it.
00:04:35.840 While new spending announcements come in billions weekly, no talk of spending cuts follows.
00:04:39.960 Just paying the interest in the national debt alone costs as much as the GST raises
00:04:44.120 every year.
00:04:44.540 Where's the money going to come from for Carney's plans?
00:04:47.040 The West is already being milked dry.
00:04:49.340 Equalization and civil service hiring is concentrating wealth in central Canada, while
00:04:52.740 the ability for the West to increase its earning through development is being handicapped. 0.98
00:04:57.080 We no longer are asking ourselves why we should leave the Federation.
00:05:00.240 That answer is becoming clear to a lot of people.
00:05:02.420 We're starting to ask ourselves why we should stay, and the answers are getting really hard
00:05:06.160 to find.
00:05:07.080 If the federal government isn't there to serve the interests of the nation as a whole,
00:05:10.200 well, people are going to start asking themselves, what is the point of a Federation?
00:05:14.540 All right, that's what's got me up and burning.
00:05:16.840 Let's get on to a more rational, cooler discussion and important stuff.
00:05:19.820 We've got Tracy and I who hold up, is it tech jiu-jitsu?
00:05:23.680 A jiu-jitsu, like martial arts.
00:05:25.860 Okay, so yes, I understand the reference in a sense, I guess, but I'm just not good at
00:05:29.820 the pronunciation necessarily.
00:05:31.480 So it was really interesting.
00:05:32.540 It was great to have you come by here to talk about this, because we've had an energy
00:05:35.320 focus.
00:05:35.780 It's an energy show.
00:05:37.420 Your services, your company talks about corporate security, I guess you could say, in a lot
00:05:42.980 of ways that impact energy areas.
00:05:44.980 It's just a reminder that there's much more to this show than just the energy companies.
00:05:47.940 Can you kind of start to break down what your services are?
00:05:51.120 Yeah, first, thank you for having me on, Corey.
00:05:53.060 It's an honor.
00:05:54.300 So, you know, as Alberta is showcasing our energy chops, it's important that in addition
00:05:59.080 to being a stable democracy, a place with great resources, that we have great cybersecurity.
00:06:04.000 Because if bad state actors can come and take down our critical infrastructure, no one's
00:06:09.260 going to trust us.
00:06:10.460 So we really need to take the time and the effort to ensure we have good cybersecurity.
00:06:14.860 And that's what we're all about at TechJitsu.
00:06:16.800 So jitsu just means skill in Japanese.
00:06:18.980 So our name literally means technical skill.
00:06:21.280 Yeah.
00:06:21.480 So, I mean, there's been already incidents.
00:06:23.900 I mean, it's kind of a whole new world of organized crime.
00:06:26.200 They're holding companies hostage.
00:06:27.440 We're so reliant on our communication structures, our digital well-being, and it's often overlooked
00:06:34.340 as an area for companies, I guess, to invest in and plug those holes, and they're paying
00:06:38.280 a bad price for it sometimes.
00:06:40.160 Exactly.
00:06:40.820 And companies have done a good job of securing their online and their mobile.
00:06:44.700 Where they haven't done a good job is at the help desk.
00:06:47.640 So in critical infrastructure, it's common for bad state actors to go through the help desk
00:06:53.320 and ask for a password reset to gain access to an account.
00:06:56.060 After they've researched an employee on, you know, the social media of their choice to
00:07:00.980 find out their birthday, their mother's maiden name, all the typical security questions.
00:07:05.180 So we can make that much more secure by using your existing multi-factor authentication and
00:07:10.100 make it easier for the employee.
00:07:11.880 Yeah, that's my next question is, you know, everybody's barraged with, I got 100 passwords,
00:07:15.980 I got a train member, I'm told to change them all the time.
00:07:17.880 I'm told to install this app to keep myself safe and disinstall that one.
00:07:21.660 You know, so you guys provide a service to keep it manageable, I guess.
00:07:25.040 Yeah, but security professionals, it has to not only be secure, but be accessible and easy.
00:07:30.780 So I think of my father, one day I was watching him call his credit union and try to change his
00:07:36.320 password. And they asked him security questions he didn't know the answer to.
00:07:40.340 Now he's in his 80s, he's starting to forget things, and it was embarrassing for him.
00:07:44.420 And it was very frustrating. And I never want anybody's father to go through that.
00:07:48.300 So by making a secure push notification to your phone, you can make it easy, you don't have to
00:07:52.940 remember anything, but it's also more secure and keeping you safe.
00:07:56.660 Yeah, so this kind of security, I mean, this applies to, I mean, here's a lot of heavyweights
00:07:59.680 playing, you know, big companies here, service companies, oil companies, but your services
00:08:04.760 apply to smaller outfits as well, I imagine.
00:08:06.760 Yeah, we're working with, you know, a lot of credit unions, but, you know, oil and gas,
00:08:12.000 really anyone who's got a help desk or a call center.
00:08:15.080 So just something interesting, kind of a side note we talked a little bit about earlier,
00:08:17.920 is I know some educational institutions got hit really hard.
00:08:21.700 They basically blackmailed because, you know, hackers got into their information and then
00:08:25.920 they managed to get away with some money on that.
00:08:28.900 But part of the problem is there isn't the investment coming on those institutions to
00:08:33.520 cover this kind of security.
00:08:35.160 Do you think that's going to change as they realize the need for this?
00:08:38.680 I hope so.
00:08:39.380 So I think the challenge when I talk to higher education is that people will donate money
00:08:44.340 for buildings or for classes, but they won't donate for cybersecurity because it's hard to
00:08:49.080 put your name on that.
00:08:50.820 Yeah.
00:08:51.280 And so what other aspects of your service provide?
00:08:54.640 Like you got centralized databasing going on.
00:08:56.980 And are there means of, do you help with the detection if something's been breached or
00:09:01.320 closing that hole when it happens?
00:09:03.120 What other areas do you help with?
00:09:04.760 Yeah, there's some threat analytics.
00:09:06.180 So if someone's tried to get into your account unsuccessfully multiple times, we can flag that
00:09:11.560 as, you know, potential risk and, you know, alert the help desk analyst or a security investigation
00:09:16.000 team so that we can cut off that account before anything bad happens.
00:09:20.500 Yeah.
00:09:20.720 So is this, I guess, just a short-term consultation you guys offer?
00:09:25.020 Or are you working on going with a company or business once they retain your services?
00:09:29.020 Yeah.
00:09:29.240 We actually have a product called Caller Verify that does what it sounds like.
00:09:32.620 It verifies a caller is who they say they are.
00:09:34.620 Um, so the way it works, say, you know, the tax authority CRA phones you and you're wondering,
00:09:40.720 is it really CRA or is it a bad actor just trying to get my information?
00:09:43.860 You could verify they are who they say they are and they could verify you are who you say
00:09:47.500 you are.
00:09:48.820 Yeah.
00:09:49.260 And that's really difficult for just a lay person.
00:09:51.460 I mean, you're getting all these calls on your phone all the time.
00:09:54.020 Uh, the spoofing is getting so good.
00:09:56.320 I mean, the caller ID could be coming up.
00:09:57.720 It could be a very professional person on the other side of that line.
00:10:00.280 But it gets hard.
00:10:01.740 I mean, boy, if I got a problem with my taxes, I don't want to drag and get those guys on 1.00
00:10:04.600 my case.
00:10:05.340 Uh, but I, I, I certainly want to find a way to know I'm not sharing because you do have
00:10:10.280 to share information with the tax man.
00:10:11.880 You just want to know you're doing it right.
00:10:13.780 Yeah.
00:10:13.960 And that's why we work with the businesses because I think it's up to business to protect
00:10:17.240 people.
00:10:17.900 You know, it's not reasonable to expect every person to become a cybersecurity expert, but
00:10:22.880 it is reasonable for every business to invest in cybersecurity and ensure that their users
00:10:27.780 and their customers are protected.
00:10:30.080 So, uh, you mentioned earlier too, I mean, AI, video spoofing, things like that.
00:10:34.080 I mean, you can take a known person and, and basically recreate them in a digital way.
00:10:38.800 How would you guys be able to prevent that sort of thing or shield against it?
00:10:43.780 Yeah.
00:10:44.060 So the famous use case, you're referring to someone used AI to mimic, uh, a CFOs, you
00:10:49.760 know, face and their voice.
00:10:51.020 And then they called someone and pressured them into doing a very expensive wire transfer.
00:10:55.580 I think it was $25 million.
00:10:57.920 So the way we would prevent that is to trigger that multi-factor, something you have, uh, authentication
00:11:04.000 from the video call.
00:11:05.380 Yeah.
00:11:06.380 And I mean, somebody could be destructive even, uh, I mean, we look at the world today,
00:11:10.680 if it's a, it's a high level CEO and something goes out as a false press release, you could
00:11:14.800 make a stock plummet if somebody said something unreasonable.
00:11:17.380 I mean, it would, it's just a game of whack-a-mole, I guess, trying to keep up with the technology
00:11:21.880 and the hackers out there.
00:11:23.240 Yeah, it absolutely is.
00:11:24.380 And it's up to all of us to be diligent.
00:11:26.600 Um, but I think it's, you know, the companies that have the budget for this, that they should
00:11:30.280 bear the larger burden as well as government.
00:11:32.540 Yeah, so have you been, uh, meeting with them and interacting with some of the people here
00:11:36.980 at this show?
00:11:37.620 Have you found it to be a good area for receptive to the services you're offering or?
00:11:41.120 Yeah, we had a great couple of conversations at the, the Texas Canada Chamber of Commerce
00:11:45.860 event.
00:11:46.460 So they had a dinner afterwards after the energy show and, uh, met a lot of business leaders
00:11:51.820 there who were very interested.
00:11:53.240 Yeah.
00:11:53.540 Well, that's the, the point of this whole affair, you know, is the networking and getting
00:11:56.500 together.
00:11:56.880 Uh, I just found it fascinating.
00:11:59.000 You know, I've been looking at some great energy related things, a solar, uh, energy
00:12:03.480 provider and well servicing things in different countries here.
00:12:06.340 I'm looking at the Petroleum Association from Nigeria, but all of those other services, I
00:12:10.720 mean, it's just important for, to get together in a room and realize how important it is.
00:12:13.900 I mean, energy infrastructure, if that gets hacked, we could lose, uh, you know, the pipelines
00:12:19.200 are getting shut down.
00:12:19.880 It sounds like James Bond stuff, but it's a realistic thing that could happen.
00:12:23.180 Yeah, absolutely.
00:12:24.860 And I mean, we live in a cold country, so if energy goes out, we're all freezing at
00:12:28.500 night.
00:12:28.880 So we need to work together to make sure our energy infrastructure is secure.
00:12:32.920 And I, I think that's a place where Alberta can really shine. 0.62
00:12:35.500 You know, we're obviously leaders in that we have so much energy.
00:12:38.540 We have so much innovation and entrepreneurial mindset, but we can also lead in cybersecurity.
00:12:43.620 So I spend a lot of time down at Platform Calgary and there's some amazing, uh, cybersecurity
00:12:48.760 companies that are, are starting off right here in our own province.
00:12:51.460 And we can really help solve those problems and be a leader on the world stage.
00:12:55.440 Great.
00:12:55.960 Well, uh, before I let you go then, is there, is there anything more you'd like to add and
00:12:58.980 where can people find out more about your services and offerings?
00:13:01.520 Yeah, people can find out more about us on callerverify.com, our website.
00:13:05.800 Uh, we are having a webinar coming up on June 12th as well.
00:13:09.240 Um, so certainly invite anyone who's interested to join on and thank you so much for the conversation.
00:13:14.660 Oh, I appreciate it.
00:13:15.800 Um, I appreciate the services you're providing.
00:13:17.980 I mean, you know, if we're, if we're going to make mistakes and go broke, let's do it on
00:13:21.820 our own and not be robbed by some of these bad actors that are out there.
00:13:24.700 We, we need every level of protection we can get.
00:13:26.720 Exactly.
00:13:27.520 All right.
00:13:27.820 Well, thank you again.
00:13:28.520 And, uh, perhaps we'll talk again soon.
00:13:30.200 Yeah.
00:13:30.440 Thanks, Corey.
00:13:30.980 All right.
00:13:31.180 Thank you.
00:13:31.920 All right.
00:13:32.840 So one more time, that was, uh, Tracy Nyholt of Tech Jitsu.
00:13:35.840 And, and yeah, you know, it's easy to stick to just talking about, uh, straight energy
00:13:40.660 issues and things like that at a global energy show, but there's all of these other aspects,
00:13:44.680 services and parts of the whole that keep it all together and is important with these
00:13:49.960 kinds of, of events.
00:13:51.380 So it's been fun here already.
00:13:53.400 I mean, if you are coming down to the show, uh, it's going to be going on tomorrow as well.
00:13:57.100 And it's on this afternoon.
00:13:57.880 We do have a booth just next to the USA, uh, booth as well.
00:14:02.360 We've got a big cutout picture of a Steven Gilboa here that some people have been, uh, taking
00:14:06.820 selfies with and others have wanted to throw darts at and things like that.
00:14:10.440 But it's, it's been fun.
00:14:11.620 We can be a little light with things as well.
00:14:13.660 Uh, so normally I do my news check in with Dave, but we're going to let the Billy get
00:14:17.780 beleaguered, uh, news editor stick to in the office there and keep to what he's doing.
00:14:22.660 He's, he's always got a lot to work on.
00:14:24.160 It's kind of a quiet time for him while we're all down here so he can work on things.
00:14:27.920 This is what I'd like to remind you though, we are subscription based and I got to get
00:14:31.620 that nag into you. 1.00
00:14:32.920 It's a 10 bucks a month, a hundred dollars for a year and you get full access past that pesky
00:14:38.240 paywall and it helps support us so we can do things, get out to spots like here, talk
00:14:42.960 to interesting folks and watch our channels.
00:14:44.660 By the way, this week we've got, uh, Derek was doing a bunch of interviews yesterday.
00:14:48.340 Nigel was doing some, I was talking to, uh, minister Nathan Newdorf earlier this morning.
00:14:52.600 That's going to be going up.
00:14:53.800 So all of those YouTube channels, uh, rumble, whatever platform you're watching us on, check
00:14:59.560 them out.
00:14:59.960 Oh, so one person I spoke to was with the, uh, ways it was an indigenous corporation,
00:15:04.900 uh, or it was for financing, loan guarantees and things like that.
00:15:09.300 That that's been a big issue in the, in the energy, uh, front lately.
00:15:13.600 I got to keep looking to my right.
00:15:14.540 I don't have my normal screen going on here, but you know, we should talk about that.
00:15:18.940 Uh, some of the, the, the questions, I mean, you know, we get political on this.
00:15:23.300 There's, there's been a lot of misinterpretation of what the indigenous rights are.
00:15:27.340 And that's what I get frustrated with Kearney about, right?
00:15:29.020 The, a false veto authority that first nations may or may not have.
00:15:33.200 They don't have one.
00:15:34.120 If you go to the UN declaration on indigenous peoples, it's in there.
00:15:38.420 Uh, they say you have to get consent, but according to our Supreme court, no, we don't,
00:15:42.980 but we should consult if we want to develop our energy further.
00:15:48.380 And we must, uh, even if they don't have the veto ability, partnering indigenous groups
00:15:54.500 in is just win, win, win.
00:15:56.760 And it really is because the people, uh, who are with the, uh, indigenous community
00:16:02.320 who have concerns, who are upset, well, if they have a piece of it, if they're a partner
00:16:06.740 in it, they're not just a, a token, you know, I mean that, that when I started in the oil
00:16:10.720 field, that's kind of how it was, I hate to say it, but we'd show up, even if we're
00:16:14.440 working on reserve land where there's a definite direct interest, you got to cut a check to certain
00:16:18.560 people, the right people, you get your job done, you move along and, uh, you know, the,
00:16:23.800 whatever's left behind is left behind the people as a whole, didn't really see a benefit
00:16:28.040 out of that.
00:16:28.600 They didn't see a longterm gain from our operations in the area.
00:16:32.480 I mean, it pays off in the broader scheme of having a law, you know, economy in general
00:16:36.580 that pays for services and things like that.
00:16:38.160 But these are isolated areas and energy is one of the main, you know, uh, industries out
00:16:44.460 there.
00:16:44.740 And if they could be participating directly more in it as partners, as, uh, shareholders
00:16:51.080 and, uh, people working out there, building out that sort of thing, it works on so many
00:16:56.980 fronts.
00:16:57.280 It helps the local economy.
00:16:58.660 It helps get the energy products done.
00:17:00.840 And you know what?
00:17:02.060 If there's one thing that terrifies federal politicians more than Alberta doing well is
00:17:07.500 indigenous people getting upset with them.
00:17:11.000 You want to stop Carney from shutting down energy projects in Alberta and things like
00:17:15.960 that.
00:17:16.540 Make sure you've got indigenous partners in it.
00:17:18.620 Have him tell the chief and council of a number of reserves that just invested a whole
00:17:22.540 bunch of money into a pipeline, into a new energy development or, or any other type of
00:17:27.380 resource development.
00:17:28.680 Let's see you go out there and tell them that they can't do it now, uh, Mr. Carney.
00:17:31.680 He won't, he won't.
00:17:33.080 That's the shield guys.
00:17:34.320 That's the way to do it.
00:17:35.200 And as I, as I say, not sticking indigenous people in front of the shield, but having them as
00:17:39.160 full partners in that, and we're seeing more and more of that happening, but at the same
00:17:44.360 time, we've got opponents to development or opponents to independence, which is a separate
00:17:48.780 discussion claiming that, uh, the treaties give a veto power or that, uh, the, the declaration
00:17:55.420 indigenous people does.
00:17:56.420 They do not.
00:17:57.300 I think we have a moral reason and even an economic reason to want to bring indigenous 1.00
00:18:02.360 people on board, but they don't have a veto.
00:18:04.080 So let's stop that discussion, but have a respectful one with each other and go from
00:18:08.000 there.
00:18:08.840 And let's speak about our, uh, broken, uh, broken federation more ways.
00:18:14.200 I don't know if people saw that other story, uh, from a judge, some pedophile who had a child
00:18:20.100 porn and the judge said, no, we're, we're going to give him a no jail time.
00:18:24.860 And what he actually said was he had a modest amount of child porn, a modest amount.
00:18:31.980 So I guess this is the new legalities in Canada.
00:18:35.180 You know, if you only have just a little child porn, you won't have to go to jail.
00:18:38.620 It's just the, the volume that you have.
00:18:40.360 This is repugnant.
00:18:41.740 Look, anybody who has that garbage wants to mess with kids. 0.90
00:18:47.240 And it doesn't matter if he has just a little bit of it or a lot of it, this is a dangerous
00:18:53.080 person.
00:18:53.980 This is one we've identified.
00:18:55.400 This is one who wants to victimize children.
00:18:58.420 Uh, I guess the possession of a small amount of child porn perhaps may not warrant 30 years
00:19:03.400 in jail or 40 years in jail, though I was tempting to say so, cause it's just such a vile crime
00:19:07.360 what leads to that.
00:19:09.100 But this is where you, I think you should incarcerate somebody then and study them bloody well closely
00:19:14.700 and watch and see, and if it's possible to try and rehabilitate or determine what kind
00:19:19.620 of threat they are.
00:19:20.280 Cause we don't like dealing with them after the fact, once they've victimized kids.
00:19:24.320 And it gets frustrating.
00:19:25.600 I remember those discussions way back.
00:19:27.960 Uh, people might forget about that.
00:19:29.220 There was a fellow named Robin Sharp and this was during the nineties.
00:19:32.500 This is one of the things that got me politically inflamed back then.
00:19:34.780 He actually went to the Supreme court and got charges against himself thrown out and got the
00:19:38.900 child porn laws thrown out because he, some of the porn that was taken from him had been
00:19:43.820 hand drawn stuff.
00:19:45.620 And, uh, he was saying it was art and you can't recognize the context as to whether or not
00:19:50.740 it's porn or not.
00:19:51.600 And for a little while, and I believe Anne McClellan was our justice minister at the
00:19:55.000 time for a little while, the child porn was actually legal in Canada.
00:19:58.120 How embarrassing because we'd thrown out our own law on it.
00:20:01.040 How is it, is it really that impossible to find the nuance, the common sense on the part
00:20:05.120 of a judge?
00:20:06.000 You see, with things like that, it's a matter of context.
00:20:09.060 That's why we use a judge, not just AI even to, in court cases.
00:20:13.560 If a person has a family photo album with a couple of kids in the bathtub nude playing,
00:20:18.500 that could be technically called child porn if the judge is an idiot.
00:20:23.080 But at the same time, if a guy has a photo album with pictures of children playing in bathtubs
00:20:27.860 and hundreds and hundreds of children from all different families, same photos, different
00:20:32.600 context.
00:20:33.300 It's a crime.
00:20:34.160 It takes some thinking.
00:20:35.000 I understand that.
00:20:35.960 That makes some blurry areas.
00:20:37.760 But again, that's why we put very well-paid people in the position of being a judge so
00:20:42.500 they can determine that difference.
00:20:46.060 And Canada has always been woefully light on child victimizing criminals.
00:20:52.120 I don't know why.
00:20:53.080 But this judge should be thrown off the bench to say something like, oh, well, it was only,
00:20:57.700 what was the term again?
00:20:58.820 A modest amount of child porn.
00:21:01.920 That's just sick.
00:21:02.940 Like, you know, one photo is too many.
00:21:06.340 And people say, there's been people who made that case.
00:21:08.860 They've said things like that, that, hey, the person indulging in the porn isn't committing
00:21:12.980 a crime, really.
00:21:13.700 They're supporting something where a crime had to be committed in order for that stuff
00:21:17.980 to be produced.
00:21:19.040 A child was victimized somewhere.
00:21:21.860 And you were contributing to that if you're somebody who consumes that vile, vile stuff.
00:21:26.940 So, you know, we talk about preventative crime management.
00:21:31.600 We talk about trying to stop crimes before they happen.
00:21:33.620 Well, when you're identifying people who are into that sort of stuff early, those are
00:21:36.720 the ones we need to catch before whatever their sick proclivities blossoms into something
00:21:42.780 much worse.
00:21:43.280 Yet here we are in Canada.
00:21:44.540 No jail time.
00:21:46.240 Modest amount of child porn.
00:21:47.700 You know, it just makes it hard to get out of bed sometimes when I read stories like
00:21:51.180 this and realize these are the judges.
00:21:53.060 Somebody else brought up another one when I put that out on X who said, don't you remember
00:21:56.920 that other judge who had chided a woman who had been sexually assaulted saying, why didn't
00:22:01.840 you keep your legs together?
00:22:03.620 He really did.
00:22:04.420 He said that.
00:22:04.920 That was a few years ago.
00:22:05.700 Some of you might remember it.
00:22:06.700 I mean, judges can make mistakes.
00:22:08.900 I understand that.
00:22:09.580 They're not perfect.
00:22:10.060 But really, man?
00:22:11.460 Oh, well, you didn't fight hard enough.
00:22:13.680 Wow.
00:22:14.620 So, I mean, we got a lot of justice issues to deal with.
00:22:18.180 Okay, Gilboa.
00:22:18.940 I mentioned him earlier.
00:22:19.980 Might as well bring that demon up again.
00:22:23.100 I was listening to a fellow earlier.
00:22:28.880 He was talking about, you know, this is a made news recently with Daniel Smith, Premier
00:22:33.320 Smith, saying that she is not going to allow any more national parks to be formed in Alberta
00:22:39.520 under her watch.
00:22:40.800 And, of course, people are all screaming at her.
00:22:42.100 What kind of monster are you?
00:22:43.040 Why would you not want more national parks?
00:22:44.580 This is the game of whack-a-mole with a government that is opposed to all energy development in
00:22:48.840 the West, that wants to strangle our economy, that wants to keep shutting us down. 0.80
00:22:51.880 People thought when you put that pinhead Gilboa, that extremist Gilboa, the man who was running
00:22:56.380 around in his little prison orange jumpsuit, the man hanging off of the CN Tower, you know,
00:23:04.400 well, now he's in heritage.
00:23:05.700 He can't hurt anything.
00:23:06.540 Well, yes, here he's found a new way.
00:23:09.760 National parks.
00:23:11.160 If you stick enough national parks in the areas where you want to develop oil and gas,
00:23:14.720 suddenly the oil and gas gets shut down.
00:23:17.000 So he's starting to propose all these new spots.
00:23:19.560 You can rest assured they're going to be in pinch points that will block pipelines,
00:23:22.320 that will block oil sands development.
00:23:23.780 This game never ends.
00:23:27.780 So thank you, Premier Smith, for standing up.
00:23:29.920 It's not a matter of being opposed to national parks.
00:23:31.680 We've got lots of them, guys.
00:23:33.260 We've got plenty of them.
00:23:36.000 It's this debate.
00:23:37.580 We've got to change the tone on some of this debate.
00:23:40.260 There's so much ignorance on what a pipeline really is.
00:23:43.900 You know, people think it's some harmful thing.
00:23:45.840 Try to rationalize a little bit.
00:23:48.500 Try to think of energy right-of-ways, infrastructure, and how much impact a pipeline has.
00:23:55.700 A lot of you, if you go out in the bush where there's a pipeline,
00:23:58.320 the only reason you'll know it is because there's a cut line.
00:24:00.040 If you're out on farmland, you won't even know it,
00:24:01.700 except you'll see the signs on the fence posts,
00:24:04.160 because there's a pipeline under the ground there.
00:24:06.780 And they don't leak.
00:24:08.320 There's been some blowouts that make big news, and they're terrible, and that's fine.
00:24:13.060 But we clean them up, and we move on.
00:24:14.340 And they're rare.
00:24:15.820 You know, it's the safest means of transporting energy.
00:24:19.520 It always has been.
00:24:21.220 Yet we've turned it into something.
00:24:22.860 People are saying, oh, my God, how are we going to build a pipeline?
00:24:25.120 It's going to ruin the environment.
00:24:26.020 Guys, look at a road.
00:24:28.840 Just a gravel road that gets cut into an area.
00:24:31.820 We don't hear all that fuss.
00:24:32.640 Guess what?
00:24:33.000 A gravel road with 10 meters on each side of it takes up as much space
00:24:37.840 and has as much environmental impact as a major pipeline.
00:24:41.020 It really does.
00:24:42.420 And we've got hundreds of thousands of kilometers of those.
00:24:44.960 We don't think twice about it.
00:24:46.040 Once the pipeline's underground, it's not even hurting anything anymore.
00:24:48.920 The road, cars are hitting deer and little fluffy bunnies,
00:24:52.960 and there's an impact from that.
00:24:55.160 There's dust going into the air.
00:24:56.780 There's disruption.
00:24:58.540 A pipeline doesn't offer those things.
00:24:59.940 We've got to get realistic about what the impact of a pipe is.
00:25:03.680 But people have made it sound as if it's a bad thing.
00:25:05.840 You want to, you know, ask Quebec how well transporting energy by rail works.
00:25:10.720 A lot of people died due to that.
00:25:13.420 You know, the Trans Mountain Pipeline was built in the early 50s.
00:25:16.760 It's been running through the mountains to BC,
00:25:19.160 putting out millions and millions and millions of barrels of oil,
00:25:22.300 and there's never been a problem because they are safe.
00:25:26.920 The other ways aren't.
00:25:28.940 But if we keep demonizing these things,
00:25:30.640 we keep playing upon the ignorance of people not realizing the safety and the reality of the pipelines,
00:25:35.280 we aren't going to get them done.
00:25:36.840 And what their issue is isn't the pipeline itself.
00:25:39.920 They're anti-oil and gas.
00:25:41.540 People, they're delusional ideologues.
00:25:43.560 They think that we can just shut down oil and gas,
00:25:46.200 and the world will go ahead, you know, without a problem.
00:25:50.000 Guys, we're an energy-based world.
00:25:52.120 We're the modern world.
00:25:53.960 I saw a dingbat on X.
00:25:56.500 You know, there's no shortage of them on there.
00:25:57.880 We're talking about, again, you know,
00:26:00.800 the damage these energy companies have done,
00:26:03.660 and the horrors, and it should be turned back.
00:26:06.340 Do you realize without oil and gas,
00:26:07.700 most of us wouldn't live beyond the age of 40?
00:26:09.460 We really wouldn't.
00:26:10.940 And the alternatives aren't there yet.
00:26:12.380 We've got to get in the right order.
00:26:13.560 If we're going to get off one,
00:26:14.720 show me the alternative first.
00:26:16.540 We've got to have those conversations.
00:26:17.660 Those conversations are happening here,
00:26:19.440 at this Global Energy Show.
00:26:21.460 You know, it's interesting seeing all of the people,
00:26:23.520 the names, the presenters coming up.
00:26:25.760 Not seeing a heck of a lot of federal presence here.
00:26:28.680 I mean, yeah, we've got Gilboa, our cutout here,
00:26:30.380 over at the Western Standard booth.
00:26:32.440 I noticed Carney didn't come here.
00:26:34.460 I know with something that powers this nation,
00:26:36.340 that's something that brings in so much revenue to this nation,
00:26:40.920 but the federal government doesn't want to talk about it.
00:26:42.920 Why? Because it's in Western Canada.
00:26:44.960 I mean, as I said, right next to me is a Polaron Solar Energy Company.
00:26:48.820 They're talking about a solar energy project.
00:26:50.340 Like, this show isn't just about oil and gas.
00:26:52.980 It's predominantly that, but it's not just that.
00:26:55.500 So shouldn't our federal masters be here talking to us?
00:26:58.920 Well, they're not taking the time.
00:27:00.200 They have a presence.
00:27:01.540 They come around, but not much.
00:27:03.140 Because, again, we're dealing with ideologues.
00:27:06.140 Let's see.
00:27:07.980 For interesting things online south of the border,
00:27:11.520 it's going to be interesting to see how much longer
00:27:13.480 the Trump tariff war and the rest is going to go on.
00:27:18.440 We've been watching the Trump, you know, Donald Trump, Elon Musk blow up.
00:27:22.460 What a bizarre scene.
00:27:24.140 What a weird time to be alive, eh?
00:27:26.240 But, you know, that partnership is gone.
00:27:29.440 So we've got basically the most powerful business interest in the country,
00:27:33.700 Elon Musk, fighting with the most powerful politician in the country,
00:27:36.460 Donald Trump.
00:27:37.060 I think Musk couldn't bite it off back any longer.
00:27:41.000 Look, and this is something I think people are starting to realize, more so.
00:27:46.520 When I first was getting critical of Trump with his tariffs and everything else,
00:27:49.740 the cult of Trump went bananas on me.
00:27:51.060 I lost, you know, thousands of followers on X,
00:27:53.020 and I had nasty emails and everything.
00:27:54.720 We get less and less of that.
00:27:55.580 Maybe I've just annoyed the hardcore Trump followers enough
00:27:59.400 that they've just already gone, so they don't hear me anymore.
00:28:01.620 But, guys, his economic policy is crap.
00:28:04.600 Quit pretending that his stuff is any good.
00:28:08.280 You know, tariff policy, that's lazy taxation policy.
00:28:10.740 That's not good economics.
00:28:12.140 That's not good conservative policy.
00:28:14.740 It's foolish protectionism that doesn't work.
00:28:16.900 That's been proven around.
00:28:18.100 It's as bad as a socialist when they keep coming up with a rent control, for example,
00:28:21.040 saying rent control will work, rent control will work.
00:28:23.160 No, it's got a 100% record of failure.
00:28:24.740 And no country has been able to tax itself rich through tariffs either.
00:28:28.260 Integrated economies are the path to prosperity for everybody.
00:28:32.680 But he won't back off on that.
00:28:34.620 And meanwhile, what's been going on?
00:28:36.020 Well, despite the doge and all that, they're spending more than ever.
00:28:41.340 They're spending, spending, spending.
00:28:42.620 And that's where Musk finally blew up.
00:28:44.120 I mean, Musk has got his odd things and so on,
00:28:46.460 but he's got enough economic understanding to realize that this is a bad path.
00:28:50.760 And he called it out.
00:28:51.580 And there's no calling something out with Trump and getting a minor reasoned pushback.
00:28:55.540 They know it's just going to blow up into a tantrum.
00:28:58.740 I don't know.
00:28:59.720 I hope things get straightened out.
00:29:01.060 I hope that the economically smart people eventually start to dominate the discussion
00:29:06.280 south of the border.
00:29:07.940 And we can get back to having that integrated trade that we should,
00:29:11.340 that would benefit both sides.
00:29:13.380 I mean, he's going to run out of allies.
00:29:16.480 I mean, there's always more people who'll come around and kiss the ring of the king
00:29:20.200 and not question his actions.
00:29:22.140 But when the heavyweights like Elon Musk are saying,
00:29:24.360 we're out, and he certainly didn't do it diplomatically,
00:29:27.600 hopefully some of that's getting home to the orange man.
00:29:30.620 But I mean, again, when we talk about realism and politics,
00:29:32.920 it doesn't necessarily come together.
00:29:34.120 I'm looking here, too, with the BC.
00:29:37.980 You know, we got David Eby.
00:29:39.800 There's the part where we're talking about consensus
00:29:41.280 and getting another pipe to the coast.
00:29:42.660 There's the cowardice of Carney, right?
00:29:44.580 The bottom line is, and Polyev has said as much,
00:29:48.760 it's the job of the federal government to say,
00:29:50.520 that's it, it's going to go.
00:29:52.320 Eventually, they just have to say it's going to go.
00:29:54.480 The Trans Mountain expansion, the BC government opposed that,
00:29:57.300 too.
00:29:57.420 Christy Clark was opposing that.
00:29:58.780 They were all fighting it, but eventually it went
00:30:00.620 because the federal government had to put their foot down
00:30:02.580 and say, it's going, it's going to happen.
00:30:05.320 And you want to start with consultation,
00:30:07.300 but eventually you just say, that's done,
00:30:09.340 we're getting it finished.
00:30:10.700 First, you can't have a province cut off the rail line
00:30:13.360 from one province to another.
00:30:14.540 You can't have them stop a roadway from one province to another.
00:30:17.080 You can't have them divert a river away from one province to another.
00:30:19.420 They also should not be able to stop a pipeline
00:30:22.120 from going from one province to another.
00:30:24.020 In fact, they can't, not according to the Constitution.
00:30:26.560 But Carney doesn't have the balls to enforce it.
00:30:29.780 So Eby's saying that the pipeline's not going to happen.
00:30:31.920 Well, then, one of the two things is going to happen.
00:30:33.580 Either it's not going to happen,
00:30:34.860 or Carney's going to tell Eby, well, that's a shame,
00:30:37.100 but it's happening despite you.
00:30:38.280 So, this showdown has to be resolved soon, guys.
00:30:42.120 Our GDP per capita keeps going into the toilet.
00:30:44.360 This country's economic outlook is bad.
00:30:46.980 We need energy development.
00:30:48.940 We need resources.
00:30:49.680 A lot of the conversation has been going, too,
00:30:51.400 that's saying, you know, listen to the Andrew Coins
00:30:53.480 and the other clowns like that out there, too.
00:30:55.660 Well, look at that.
00:30:56.600 Alberta's got record production happening already.
00:30:58.680 You know, Vashi Capellos was talking with Daniel Smith about that.
00:31:01.480 You've already got record production.
00:31:02.760 Why do you want to produce more?
00:31:04.300 Well, listen, you dingbats in Ontario
00:31:06.180 and we're bringing hundreds of thousands of immigrants in every quarter.
00:31:09.180 That means there's going to be more demand for energy
00:31:11.600 and for money and for resources.
00:31:13.700 We can't just stay flatlined with our production.
00:31:16.440 Premier Smith already did say she wants to double production coming out of here,
00:31:19.780 and we can't do that without more export infrastructure.
00:31:23.980 Why do we want to increase it?
00:31:25.220 Because the world wants our product.
00:31:27.060 We'd be stupid.
00:31:27.820 We're punching ourselves in the knackers by trying to keep it in the ground.
00:31:31.040 It's not stopping the world from utilizing these resources.
00:31:35.540 It's just making everything more expensive and it's hurting our own economy.
00:31:39.580 I mean, liquid natural gas.
00:31:41.020 We've got to bring that conversation back to that.
00:31:43.440 Do you really care about emissions?
00:31:44.580 Do you really care about making the world a cleaner place?
00:31:47.620 Well, guess what?
00:31:48.420 A lot of the world's still burning coal.
00:31:50.000 A lot of the world's still burning wood and animal dung in some of the third world countries. 0.79
00:31:54.200 Liquid natural gas is a clean form of energy, but we've got to get it to them.
00:31:58.000 Canada has some of the largest resources of it on the planet, and we aren't getting it to them.
00:32:03.300 Other knobs, you know, talking about, oh, the Trans Mountain pipeline and the expansion,
00:32:07.640 it's not even full yet.
00:32:09.060 Well, no, they don't run it at 100% capacity, but it's getting darn near full,
00:32:12.740 and the contracts are getting bought out for that to export and get it into use.
00:32:16.720 We need more.
00:32:18.420 Other people saying the demand for oil is going to go away.
00:32:20.520 I guess that's peak oil crap, guys.
00:32:22.720 That's been going on, that conversation since the 60s.
00:32:25.160 Since before I was born, they've been talking about that.
00:32:27.440 The demand hasn't gone away.
00:32:28.820 It's going up, and it's been going up for decades.
00:32:30.860 It's still going to go up for decades more.
00:32:33.140 And even if it is going to eventually peak and cap off,
00:32:36.560 well, that's telling us let's develop it and sell it as much as we can
00:32:39.320 while there's still a market for it, and there will be for quite a while yet.
00:32:42.520 But no, we're in this ideological pitched battle with Ottawa,
00:32:47.420 with central Canada, who don't realize where their bread's buttered.
00:32:51.520 There's that frustration.
00:32:52.600 There's those maps that really show the image so well.
00:32:54.600 When you show the liberal red on the east side of the country,
00:32:57.640 and then you show the same map with who's receiving equalization versus who's paying the bills.
00:33:03.840 And the west is the three provinces in the west are paying the bills.
00:33:06.920 The parasite provinces in the east are draining us, including Ontario.
00:33:10.180 We've got a whole lot of economic idiocy in that discussion going on.
00:33:13.520 I mean, I see people talking about, well, look at this, Ontario.
00:33:15.460 50% of Canada's GDP, yeah, but they make up more than 50% of the country.
00:33:21.000 It's a disproportionate amount because they're saying we subsidize Alberta.
00:33:23.860 How on earth do you subsidize Alberta?
00:33:26.240 We've got to have a conversation and defend ourselves and defend our industries better.
00:33:30.020 I mean, some people talking about the, even Grok, AI, I saw that discussion online,
00:33:36.480 saying the Trans Mountain Pipeline is a subsidy.
00:33:38.620 No, it's not.
00:33:40.220 It's something that the government bought because the idiots made the regulatory environment so bad
00:33:46.140 that the private operator was forced to pull out of there,
00:33:48.420 and the government took it on themselves, and they blew it.
00:33:50.480 They took a $7 billion budget and turned it up to $30-some billion to build this thing.
00:33:55.660 And now, it's not a free service to the oil field, guys.
00:33:59.320 They pay tolls to put their product in that pipe and ship it to the coast.
00:34:02.980 They pay to use it.
00:34:04.540 That's not a subsidy.
00:34:05.660 It just means the government has taken over the ability.
00:34:07.460 It would have been a private company that would have charged tolls to do so.
00:34:11.640 And whenever that pipeline is transferred to a private owner, hopefully, it'll be sold to them.
00:34:17.020 And it'll be sold at a discount because the government blew way too much building it
00:34:22.120 because governments can't build things.
00:34:24.120 They can only screw them up.
00:34:26.640 So when people talk about that the government's subsidizing Alberta by billions of dollars
00:34:29.940 and they include the pipeline in it, they're lying.
00:34:31.880 That's the bottom line.
00:34:32.840 They're lying.
00:34:33.900 And then what are the other areas of subsidies?
00:34:35.860 Because remember, Gilbo announced years ago that we're ending all oil field subsidies.
00:34:39.900 Oh, big performative thing.
00:34:41.620 There was nothing to end because the oil field was never getting them in the first place.
00:34:45.240 We're talking about capital tax allowances, things like that, tax deferrals.
00:34:49.840 I guess on a long stretch, you could call that a subsidy.
00:34:52.140 But it's just putting off what they have to pay in later.
00:34:54.160 They still pay in.
00:34:55.240 There's no check coming from Ottawa to any energy companies.
00:34:58.640 It doesn't work that way.
00:34:59.880 It isn't that way.
00:35:00.780 But they're calling it that.
00:35:02.640 So we got this illusion from people in Ontario and Quebec that they're subsidizing Alberta.
00:35:08.700 And why are they afraid if we leave?
00:35:10.440 Guys, the numbers are pretty clear.
00:35:12.660 No, the equalization and the rest.
00:35:14.600 Why are you collecting equalization if you're subsidizing us?
00:35:16.740 It doesn't make sense.
00:35:17.700 You shouldn't need equalization, which is true. 0.93
00:35:19.380 They don't need it.
00:35:20.480 But we've got a shell game.
00:35:22.240 And it's being played by ideologues.
00:35:24.640 So meanwhile, as well, BC is handcuffing itself with this mining industry up at the north.
00:35:28.740 I mean, it's not just oil and gas.
00:35:30.580 So it looked like they had these copper mines, things like that were going to start coming up.
00:35:35.300 They're getting those rolling.
00:35:36.540 And now suddenly, oh, no, there's a year-long suspension of mining in the northwest while they figure out more regulation.
00:35:44.940 How are we going to pay the bills eventually?
00:35:47.340 You know, where do people think money comes from?
00:35:51.180 And these foolish socialists, you know, they want social programs.
00:35:56.120 They want big spending for everything.
00:35:57.360 And at the same time, they're working their hardest to shut down every possible means to make the money to go into it.
00:36:01.540 I've always thought that the left-wing mind and the right-wing mind is the left-wing mind takes some sort of mental disconnect and inability to understand supply, demand, basic economics, and how to pay the bills.
00:36:12.440 So they can live in a fantasy land to think that we can have this beautiful socialist world where everything's paid by the government.
00:36:18.000 And somehow we can shut down every possible industry and means of making the money to pay for all those programs.
00:36:24.040 And it's coming to a crash.
00:36:25.340 And that's why our productivity is in the toilet. 0.99
00:36:27.360 That's why Canada is in a bad, bad way with a bleak-looking future, which is so frustrating when we are blessed with some of the most abundant resources in the world.
00:36:36.680 So here's B.C. shutting in their mining now because, you know, the shutting in oil and gas wasn't enough.
00:36:41.660 Meanwhile, this is a neat one that's hit the news with them, though.
00:36:44.000 They're partnering with China to build ferries.
00:36:48.380 So the ferry contracts for B.C. ferries, there was a Norwegian contractor looking to build it.
00:36:53.760 But no, B.C. said, how would that?
00:36:55.300 We're going to go with China. 0.99
00:36:57.680 China.
00:36:58.960 You know, speaking of interest, there's a country we want to be beholden to further, isn't it?
00:37:03.520 But that's where they're going.
00:37:05.680 So, so much for standing up with things such as that.
00:37:11.080 I mean, where do we go, guys?
00:37:13.920 Where do we go?
00:37:17.080 But these new national parks, the mining, I'm running out of things.
00:37:21.040 I don't have my usual teleprompter going on here.
00:37:24.640 Oh, yes, the electrification of the world.
00:37:27.920 Let's get back to that myth for a bit.
00:37:29.460 Anyways, as I said, I was speaking earlier with Nathan Newdorf.
00:37:32.760 It's another interview we were on for 15 minutes there.
00:37:36.720 We want to go all electric vehicles.
00:37:38.720 Calgary is going to get their electric buses, supposedly.
00:37:41.080 That's been another screwed up contract that's blown up.
00:37:43.240 Even the trial buses, they haven't been able to get them in.
00:37:45.680 We don't have the grid.
00:37:46.580 We don't have the ability.
00:37:47.720 This is back to B.C. again.
00:37:48.720 They did the Site C dam, hydroelectric.
00:37:50.960 That took how many years and years and years to get completed?
00:37:53.460 And that was, again, with environmentalists opposing it.
00:37:58.920 Where is this power going to come from?
00:38:02.120 You know, this is, again, that delusional world, right?
00:38:04.740 How are we going to power these electric vehicles?
00:38:07.380 How are we going to power these electric buses?
00:38:08.880 I think there's even talk about electric ferries, electric planes.
00:38:11.120 You want to get on one?
00:38:11.840 The time might come, but it's not here yet.
00:38:16.700 We don't have the grid.
00:38:18.800 And we are handcuffing ourself.
00:38:22.080 We don't have hydro ability in Alberta.
00:38:25.340 I mean, there's the other talk we don't hear from the federal government.
00:38:27.740 What about nuclear?
00:38:28.460 Oh, we don't want to talk about that.
00:38:30.520 Well, what's it going to come from?
00:38:32.020 Where do we avoid the emissions?
00:38:35.380 How are we going to pay those bills?
00:38:36.600 Look, the system's broken.
00:38:39.640 This is where I keep getting back to the independence aspect.
00:38:42.960 We've got to break the agreement.
00:38:45.920 We've got to shake it up.
00:38:47.640 Nothing else is going to do so.
00:38:48.900 We're in a swirl to the toilet.
00:38:50.080 We've got cowardly politicians that are incapable of making change on the federal front.
00:38:54.700 They feed themselves just on the point of getting re-elected, re-elected.
00:38:57.320 They don't look at the actual needs of the nation any longer.
00:39:00.780 But it's not sustainable.
00:39:03.100 So, this is where the West needs to have this referendum.
00:39:09.440 This is where people are saying, why is Smith shaking so many things up?
00:39:12.880 Well, she's frustrated.
00:39:13.920 She can read the writing on the wall.
00:39:15.500 She knows about economics.
00:39:16.700 She knows about the trouble we're in.
00:39:18.640 But what else do you do?
00:39:20.840 Even if Premier Smith doesn't want to go fully independent,
00:39:24.480 let's shake this country up by allowing the referendum on it
00:39:28.100 so we can actually make people realize just how dire things are getting.
00:39:33.740 But they're demonizing her. 0.94
00:39:35.200 And they're talking about the selfish Albertans.
00:39:37.260 You know, she was quoted poorly.
00:39:40.880 Or she gave the wrong words when she said, you know,
00:39:43.460 Alberta has the lowest standard of living on Earth or Canada does.
00:39:45.900 No, okay, that was a poor way to put it.
00:39:48.520 You know, there's certainly many, many countries that have much lower standards of living than us.
00:39:51.560 The developed countries, though, and at the rate we're going
00:39:54.160 and at the progress we're making on it, yeah, we're sinking.
00:39:57.440 We're sinking fast.
00:39:58.520 We should be up near number one.
00:40:00.520 And we're dropping like a stone when it comes to that.
00:40:03.520 Even though we're sitting on all these resources, we're sitting on all this space,
00:40:06.580 everything from lumber to agricultural to oil and gas.
00:40:10.580 So, what have we got to do to change that?
00:40:13.080 Well, I think we've got to change the entire system.
00:40:15.480 How do we change the system?
00:40:16.680 Meach Lake, Charlottetown, we tried those in the 90s.
00:40:18.640 Not even close.
00:40:19.440 We didn't get there.
00:40:20.400 Well, maybe if we're on the brink of a province actually saying we're out,
00:40:24.840 we're totally ripping the deal apart, we're going to get out of it.
00:40:29.400 Maybe that's what it's going to take.
00:40:31.960 And it's time to stop talking to Ottawa.
00:40:34.780 It's time to talk to Albertans.
00:40:36.620 To act with Ottawa.
00:40:37.360 You can't reason with them.
00:40:38.440 You can't reason with the unreasonable.
00:40:40.960 And you waste your energy on it.
00:40:43.620 I was at a great event last night down in Turner Valley.
00:40:46.940 It was grassroots things that are happening.
00:40:49.020 This is a fellow named Clayton Foster who lives down there.
00:40:52.120 And he's just been organizing friends into having weekly independence meetings.
00:40:56.540 It started with like half a dozen people a few weeks ago, a month or two ago.
00:41:00.220 Last night there was about 50 people all at Hard Knocks Brewery.
00:41:03.220 And it's spreading.
00:41:04.260 And we're seeing these little groups popping up all over the place.
00:41:06.660 We're taking the power back from the government hands.
00:41:08.560 We're pursuing the change.
00:41:09.400 And it doesn't matter what the politicians think.
00:41:12.740 And that's how they're not going to be able to stop us.
00:41:16.380 We're playing by the old rules.
00:41:17.680 We're losing.
00:41:18.620 So let's change the book.
00:41:19.920 They gave us an interesting book.
00:41:22.200 When you talk about the referendum, you talk about the Clarity Act, you talk about the province leaving.
00:41:25.540 It's funny.
00:41:26.060 They'll never tell Quebec that they can't go.
00:41:28.180 But they keep telling Alberta that you can't go.
00:41:29.840 The double standard, even in the independence movement and the treatment of it, is pretty striking.
00:41:35.160 And it's great because the government, if they wanted to take away the ability for Alberta to go, they'd have to repeal the Clarity Act.
00:41:42.200 That's all they'd have to do.
00:41:43.400 That we wouldn't actually have a mechanism.
00:41:45.060 People do point out that almost no countries give a mechanism for a region to choose to leave, for a democratic way for a province or a state or anything like that to leave a federation.
00:41:57.260 But Canada has one.
00:41:58.780 So they could remove that any time.
00:42:00.880 The House of Commons or the majority vote could get rid of the Clarity Act.
00:42:03.300 Why won't they do it?
00:42:03.900 Because Quebec would go ballistic.
00:42:06.740 So we can't thank Quebec for one thing.
00:42:09.260 They're protecting that Clarity Act.
00:42:11.340 It's keep the means in the hands of the provinces to leave the federation.
00:42:15.820 Just like the pension plan.
00:42:16.860 It's built right into it.
00:42:17.640 I mean, they're saying Alberta can't leave the pension plan.
00:42:19.060 Why not?
00:42:20.400 Well, because it wouldn't be nice.
00:42:22.160 Too bad.
00:42:23.080 We're done playing nice.
00:42:24.920 So it's built in.
00:42:25.900 There's a mechanism for the province to leave the pension plan.
00:42:28.360 And the only fighting point is how much of the principle within the pension plan Alberta is entitled to.
00:42:34.600 And they're not going to get rid of that.
00:42:36.420 Quebec already has their pension plan.
00:42:37.820 They were smart enough not to get into the federal one in the first place.
00:42:40.540 We've got to start playing by different rules.
00:42:42.380 Stop trying to let them rig the game.
00:42:45.200 Yeah.
00:42:45.480 Throw the pieces off the chessboard.
00:42:47.340 Start our own game off to the side.
00:42:48.860 We don't have to worry about what they think any longer, guys.
00:42:51.020 We should stop worrying about what they think any longer.
00:42:53.700 We've got to stand up for ourselves.
00:42:55.160 And you know what?
00:42:55.680 It will be better for the whole country in the long run.
00:42:58.580 This is hurting everybody.
00:43:00.420 The resources, the healthcare system that's falling apart, everything.
00:43:04.100 We're all going down the tubes and it's ridiculous when we're gifted again with so much strong resources.
00:43:10.080 All right.
00:43:10.620 So I think I've bent your ear enough.
00:43:12.320 I keep looking to the side of the computer.
00:43:13.960 It's different than these broadcast booths.
00:43:15.440 So if you get the chance, though, come down here to the Global Energy Show.
00:43:18.420 Come by the Western Standard booth.
00:43:20.420 We're here tomorrow as well.
00:43:22.580 Again, I'd like to remind you guys, share this stuff.
00:43:25.000 Check all the interviews that are going to be coming up from this show, the people we've been meeting with and people we've been talking to.
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00:43:33.500 This is how we pass the legacy media, pass the Andrew Coins, pass the snobby CBC and make real change, have real discussions, talk about real issues.
00:43:43.620 So thank all of you guys for tuning in today.
00:43:46.660 I really appreciate it.
00:43:47.720 It's fun coming from a broadcast booth, but a little different too.
00:43:51.480 And keep up the good fight, guys.
00:43:54.180 We're going to win it.
00:43:55.460 So tune in tonight for the pipeline.
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00:44:37.540 We'll go to the retailers.
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00:44:39.300 Welcome.
00:44:39.360 Welcome.
00:44:39.880 Amen.
00:44:40.320 Today we're going to record all the polls and I'll see you back next week.
00:44:41.820 Welcome.
00:44:42.400 We're going to record that today.
00:44:43.260 I won't be watching.
00:44:44.360 Come watch the rest of our channels.
00:44:46.700 Let's remember how many people will hear this.
00:44:49.720 We'll see you go on the next week.
00:44:52.840 Let's begin singing.
00:44:54.480 We'll also see you back on our horrible governo team.
00:44:55.580 Let's begin with the action of our car.
00:44:57.600 We're going to try and stress on our personalities like that.
00:44:58.700 happen to Mayor. 0.67
00:45:00.720 Nice.