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00:12:34.560cross iron mills and other ones right on city limits.
00:12:36.660People will go out there, and struggling businesses in the city are going to get punished yet again due to Ninchy's anti-business policies.
00:12:47.320Yeah, I think if there's essentially five days where the province has not got these mandatory mask laws, but the city of Calgary does,
00:12:56.960it's going to be like the dying days of World War I.
00:12:59.920The armistice is already signed, and no one wants to be the last guy shot.
00:13:04.200So, like, the bylaw officers, they're going to see if they might say, hey, please wear a mask.
00:13:10.520I really can't imagine, unless one is a real, real asshole, they're not issuing tickets.
00:13:16.740Unfortunately, we do have some praised anti-mask people.
00:13:20.680I mean, most people are just sick of it.
00:13:21.960But, you know, there's that mayoral candidate who's, I think he's still in jail.
00:13:26.720But him and he's got a small following of people, and they do get belligerent,
00:13:30.160and they get and they're going to feel more inflamed and empowered.
00:13:33.620And again, unfortunately, it's not the politicians who pay for this,
00:13:37.180it's the bylaws and the business owners and that when these crackpots come in and
00:13:41.140start pressuring them and this will incite them further and it's going to be more
00:13:45.480difficult to prosecute. It was foolish. They had no reason.
00:13:48.100And it was a 7-7 vote. So which meant it failed.
00:13:51.700Yeah. But, you know, this was split and it was just ridiculous.
00:13:55.720And it's just a case of trying to score political points on idiocy.
00:14:00.160Also, it makes it an interesting Merrill battle, too, because you've got Jeremy Farkas on one side, who has said drop it immediately, and you've got Judy Gondek on the other side, who said she quite passionately fought to keep the mass bylaw in place.
00:14:17.260So that's going to come back on the campaign trail one way or the other.
00:14:20.640Oh, yeah. Well, it shows, because she is. She's Nenshi's heir apparent, and she will do what Nenshi leads on, and it's good to remind voters of that, and I will all the way to a voting day.
00:14:30.160Yeah. Okay. Well, we'll move on to something in Ottawa. Good things always happen in Ottawa. Bill C-10 has passed the House of Commons. That is the internet censorship bill, or if you're a liberal, I don't know, the Canadian Cultural Protection. I don't know what they actually call the damn thing, but it's an update to the Broadcasting Act.
00:14:52.680but this is this is this very controversial censorship bill it's passed the House of Commons
00:15:00.600Dave why don't you tell us about the vote how it went down who voted for it who voted against it
00:15:05.020and what the status of the bill is now as expected Derek the Liberals were joined by the bloc and the
00:15:11.280NDP in supporting the bill it was a only the conservatives who voted against and an independent
00:15:17.820to MP Wilson Rabel so now it's it's past the House of Commons and now the Senate
00:15:24.660gets it and there's already warning flags from the Senators that they're
00:15:29.580no in no rush to try and pass this before the summer the summer recess the
00:15:36.380one senator quoted were saying they're tired of having to push through non
00:15:41.760COVID related legislation without being given a chance to to properly review it
00:15:48.720so opponents of the law like us I guess are are hoping that it the Senate
00:15:55.920debates it thoroughly and it gets not passed until after the summer and then
00:16:02.520if the the liberals call an election during the summer recess then the bill
00:16:08.760dies anyways so that's the only hope we have left is the Senate debates long
00:16:14.640enough to to have it die I will know one thing though that the it's been more
00:16:20.940than 25 years since the Senate has defeated a cabinet motion so that was
00:16:29.340the bill under the Mulroney government to bring in regulations on abortion
00:16:34.380after it had been struck down by the no yeah what I read this one is something
00:16:39.600to do with the Toronto Airport and insurance but that's what they the last
00:16:49.740time at least I'm aware of the Senate outright kill the bill was Supreme Court0.94
00:16:54.600candidate struck it down Canada's abortion legislation it didn't say that
00:16:57.720regulation of abortion was unconstitutional said that that particular
00:17:00.620bill was unconstitutional because the way it was written it put women's1.00
00:17:04.200health at risk if uh if there was medically necessary reasons for an abortion um the government
00:17:09.240had to come out with some kind of a compromise bill and it failed in the senate because both
00:17:13.380the hardcore pro choice and the hardcore pro-life both voted against it hardcore pro-life guys i
00:17:18.680guess thought they would get a better bill later on jokes on them they never got a bill like 30
00:17:23.480years later um so that's the last time i think that i can remember that there was a prominent
00:17:28.120piece of legislation that the senate has defeated it's it's quite rare but the senate will very
00:17:32.640often amend things significantly. I don't think they'll outright defeat this one. I mean, they've
00:17:37.340got the path out. They'll just let it die on the order paper. So it wouldn't be a defeat. It would
00:17:41.080just be dragging their feet, which a lot of those old fellows are good at. And, you know, things will1.00
00:17:46.820go into recess. And as Dave said, I mean, it's pretty much almost considered a done deal. Parliament's
00:17:51.840going to get dissolved. We're going into an election before they sit again. So this bill will
00:17:55.960have to be redrafted and represented and start all over again. Well, one of our viewers, Cheryl Dawn,0.97
00:18:01.800says that senator hosakos i don't know how to say that uh said that they will keep uh bill c10
00:18:08.840in the senate uh for six to twelve months or until it's dead um i don't know i hope that's a lot of
00:18:16.600old windbags speaking for a long time yeah they got four you can sit in the center for 40 years
00:18:22.600if you're at right age when you get appointed and that senator i believe is an ontario one he's
00:18:25.880actually going to get outspoken conservative senator but now he's from the old appointments
00:18:30.040there yeah he's in a minority uh well speaking of the senate uh let's go on to new senators uh
00:18:38.600justin trudeau has appointed three new independent members of the senate these are not liberals
00:18:46.040at all uh none of them were donors none of them have been candidates uh or am i wrong one of them
00:18:52.040was you couldn't tell the yes i was sarcasm you couldn't tell no it's my gem in humor
00:18:59.580ah there it is yeah uh prime minister trudeau appointed uh three senators yesterday including
00:19:05.580one who was actually a former liberal candidate but with a straight face he said that she would
00:19:11.660be going into the red chamber as uh as an independent uh the other uh other senators
00:19:17.820were appointed down east in new brunswick for example uh but it certainly plays into the current
00:19:24.380uh senate election uh that's being prepared for uh alberta on the same day as the civic election
00:19:32.140october 18th uh jason kenny has told trudeau not to appoint any senators from alberta until that
00:19:39.500senate election whether or not uh trudeau listens uh to kenny or not will remain to be seen but i
00:19:45.420think there's there's two vacant spots in alberta if i'm not sure yeah too yeah yeah so uh uh if uh
00:19:53.020Trudeau wanted to give a big middle finger to, like his family's famous for, to Alberta.
00:19:58.840He could certainly do that by usurping the Senate elections and appointing them before
00:20:20.380And so the interesting of these three that he put in, though, one of them actually was pretty hardcore NDP.
00:20:24.500He was the head of the Canadian Labour Congress.
00:20:26.700I see political brinkmanship going on here.
00:20:29.380I mean, that's a way to undercut NDP support and Jagmeet Singh by putting a hard leftist into the Senate, you know, of more of an NDP stripe and still pretend that it's independent.
00:20:40.900So, I mean, I think they are playing their cards carefully on what they'll do with Alberta.
00:20:45.020Well, where Trudeau has taken his government anyway.
00:20:47.060I mean, OK, so the senators are not liberals in the sense that they sit in the Liberal Party caucus.
00:20:55.620But they're – look, if I was an independent senator, I'd be independent in the sense I don't sit with a caucus, but I would very clearly have an ideological direction I move in.
00:21:04.920I would probably vote on the bills accordingly with that view.
00:21:08.520It's the same thing with these Liberal senators.
00:21:09.920And the way Trudeau has taken the Liberal Party ideologically, appointing people who
00:21:17.160are New Democrats traditionally, or from that kind of labor area, I don't think that's
00:23:18.440So technically, there has been a single Senate appointment of someone who was not of the party of the Prime Minister doing the appointment.
00:23:25.620And it was a politically complicated case.
00:23:27.500And then you'll notice, though, with the political scholars we have these days, like Premier Kenney and others, they modeled this so you couldn't have provincial candidates coming in.
00:23:35.620If any Conservative does win, they're going to be from the Conservative Party of Canada.
00:23:40.760And if, you know, lightning strikes twice or three times in one spot and Aaron O'Toole somehow actually manages to become Prime Minister, he might appoint those senators.
00:23:49.160But they're trying to hedge that bet right now.
00:23:51.880I mean, they certainly wouldn't want to see, yeah, Wilder's Independence Party senator-elect come in because then they're in that same hard spot that Marooning is in.
00:24:00.500But by excluding provincial parties and essentially just trying to more or less rig this so there's only Tories on the ballot plus a couple of independents who have no shot, I don't think it really, I don't think it creates a very legitimate election.
00:24:13.300So, frankly, I actually don't want these senators to get appointed unless we have a legitimate Senate election process.
00:24:19.120I don't think we should legitimate an illegitimate election.
00:24:23.100I think we should have Senate elections.
00:24:24.620I just think we should let federal and provincial parties run.
00:24:27.840Actually, I'm not even sure if federal parties should be running at all.
00:24:29.960But I think the best way to do it is you have provincial parties actually run.
00:24:33.800And the parties provincially and federally can decide if they want to have any kind of alignment or not.