THE PIPELINEļ¼ The NDP convention goes off the rails as Alberta independence hits 177,000 signatures
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Western Standard editor-in-chief Dave Naylor, senior editor Cory Morgan, and senior editor-at-large Jordan Peterson join host Derek Vildebrandt to discuss the latest news out of the Alberta independence movement and the new leadership of the New Democratic Party of Canada.
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G'day! Today is April 1st, 2026. I am Derek Vildebrandt, publisher of the Western Standard,
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and you're watching the pipeline i've got the usual crew here today western standards former
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opinion editor nigel hannaford all again senior alberta columnist cory morgan news editor dave
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naylor good evening great show great show uh first the ndp go full retard by not only elect
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a trotskyite as their leader uh the convention itself descended into pure madness woke doesn't
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do justice to how i and i i apologize for the term retardant to the older people who don't
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get it we would never use that term for a person with actual disabilities
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well i use it in the turret way in which i used it in the fifth grade very liberally for just
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people who are cognitively functional but somehow still very stupid and uh we're gonna get into that
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you've seen i'm sure a bunch of the viral clips of it but we're gonna get into it talk about what it
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means for the NDP going forward. The Alberta independence campaign says that it has the
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177,000 signatures necessary to force a citizens initiated referendum on independence. All signs
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point towards go for a vote on October 19th. We're going to talk about where the independence
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movement goes from there. But first, news out of Ottawa. The federal liberal government is
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quietly considering modernizing Canada's national anthem, senior officials saying that they will
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remove some or all references to God and replace the words with something more inclusive.
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According to the documents we obtained in Access to Information,
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Department of Canadian Heritage has been revealing it, specifically the line,
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god keep our land glorious and free the idea is to change it and bring it in line with the successful
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2018 change to the national anthem to make it gender neutral when they removed in all thy
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son's command replaced it with all of us command uh some of the secularist groups in quebec have
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have praised this uh one group in quebec though uh says in addition to removing god they want to
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remove the word Canada, because Canada, as they see it, is a colonial and oppressive construct,
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so remove Canada from old Canada. The new NDP leader, Avi Lewis, says, I'll quote him here,
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I think we should explore whether God should be updated to something that better resonates with
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all Canadians, and express a solidarity with Palestine, perhaps something like Allah keep
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our land glorious and free uh others have talked about taking elizabeth may said it should take
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on our first nations that uh we should replace god with great spirit uh or creator and potentially
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even change canada to turtle island in the national anthem alberta premier danielle smith
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uh was fiercely opposed to it but she said uh it's hard for her to get worked up about it
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because canada could have its own anthem by november 1st and she guarantees it will have
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government that can't axe the tax, build the homes
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Conservative Party values the votes of newcomers,
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leader Maxime Bernier, he took a harder position,
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our country, deport them all, or burn them
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well for those of you who still haven't got it yet i already mentioned the top of the show it's
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april fool uh april 1st what's if you didn't get it i mean shame on you don't trust any of the news
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even us even us sometimes we're trying to pull one in on you uh dave our alex zoltan uh our bc
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reporter did this story you oversaw it uh it was top shelf it's kind of our standard practice for
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our annual april fool's day story we always want to do something that's outrageous and crazy
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but believable something close enough to reality and we sure tricked a lot of people this year
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certainly did you just read the comments and it was uh you know the liberals could the people
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bought it because it could happen it's not something that you would put past the liberals
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to do it and uh and that's the that's the key to making a good joke uh was it the year before
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the year before that we had the the federal government getting rid of a lane on the trans
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canada and doing a trans bike lane uh you know across country painted with colors and
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got a lot of people with that one including jordan peterson and we've got a lot of people
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on this one too it's uh it's always a good uh good fun day of the year to be a journalist
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yeah yeah we always try to start as believable and straight face as possible at the top and then we
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get into uh maxime bernier calling for burning people at the stake at the bottom we shouldn't
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to put the caveat though i mean when the conversation evolves into the ndp as bizarro
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and surreal as it is believable none of it is april 1st stuff guys this is real that's that
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that is why i think of all the news outlets we have the best april fools stories because we
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it's not true it is a trick it we are fooling you but it's something totally plausible it's
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not true but it's plausible we're lying by telling a greater truth i think that uh most people don't
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read very far into it but if you ran into it uh quite a bit and you got to a guy called frenchy
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mcfrench i didn't i didn't quote him saying tabernac i think that's when most people probably
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all right um anyway the the risk of what we're doing is we actually give uh the federal government
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ideas because this is something they would do they would do it okay all right the next part i
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swear to god this is true news we are not making this up uh you probably know it because you've
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probably seen a bunch of the clips on it these clips first went viral when uh again our bc
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reporter alex zoltan he was uh monitoring the ndp convention most of what the media watch and
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what the public watch if the public most of the public watch none of this but they'll watch like
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speech from you know the winner and stuff like that of the leadership they don't watch the the
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nuts and bolts of the convention itself oh they were nuts uh i'm not sure which of them had nuts
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we're not allowed to say nuts there some bolts too i'm sure yeah missing some nuts and bolts
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oh god i'm having evisions from silence of the lambs um okay uh so we're just
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many of you have already seen it we're just going to play a quick little montage of some of the
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the best of moments from canada's democratic socialist parties convention the point of
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privilege on microphone one then we'll go to microphone three go ahead delegate yes hello i
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i was standing here with my gender equity card before you called on the previous speaker
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this card was used in an inappropriate matter i see that we are one minute ahead of schedule
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and so i'm going to get out of here these are my rights being directly under attack
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right now in alberta and that a cisgender woman had spoken uh over me i will invite delegates to
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assist me in better using the card by forming a straight straight line behind the microphone
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um with a prominently displayed equity card and we thank delegates not to call me
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And with regret, you've spoken to the resolution.
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It's not open to you to also call the question.
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you start I don't know I don't even know what to say well I think it goes down as the you know
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Nigel's been around a lot longer than I have but certainly the most bizarre political convention
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and in Canadian history uh some of the most bizarre attendees uh you know you've seen it by
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the uh the little clips that John just played the gender cards and cis cards and cards coming here
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cards come in there and it was it was it was a little ridicule uh and unfortunately it is
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it's brought shame on the country out of canada uh it's being mocked around the world sky news
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had a segment in australia where they're saying canada is not a real country greg gutfeld on fox
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last night was saying they got to build a wall northern canada to keep out the wackos you know
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he gave out about 20 minutes which is a lot they gave a lot of material yeah they gave him
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two hours worth of material to work with so yeah i've certainly never seen anything like it uh
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i feel sorry for the the average real ndp person who goes to these pays their money and then goes
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to the convention and is probably sitting in row 12 just wondering what the hell have i got myself
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into and it's uh you know by uh electing uh uh avi lewis they've moved so they are now left of
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elizabeth may okay we'll get to avi lewis uh i want to focus on uh yeah it was crazy everything
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but yeah um i'm not positive it was john john k may have been him or someone else uh dubbed uh
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Let's juxtapose it with old school OG Hitler.
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You could see where they, them is going with this.
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There was one segment where she, they had to use the word straight
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in some very non-obviously gender-related things.
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just straight like she choked on it yeah like it showed on the word the word itself was too much
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for her yeah it's um not even in sexual context can't talk about us god damn it cory oh my god
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what what did you read into that i wasn't even heard that time
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you guys picked up what cory said right no no okay okay it's just me okay i don't know i know
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normally i'm going to see something true this time i missed it let me know what i was getting
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let us know in the comments if you guys took cory what i said maybe i'm just over sensitive
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kind of things he says now probably after the show okay um so to dave's point cory uh
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you know what are the regular members thinking sitting there i'm not sure how many are there
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because you know at the core and i'm speaking in very broad strokes here but you know at the core
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of the left in general is a sense of a lack of self-esteem of victimhood of and of moral
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superiority to compensate fear a lack of success and so if there i'm sure there were a handful of
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like white straight cisgendered males there and they're they're not allowed to speak because they
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all have they're literally playing race cards they're literally playing gender cards and
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Could you imagine Gil McGowan sitting in that crowd?
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a white... I don't know. How do you think a Gil McGowan,
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Are they kind of enjoying this humiliation ritual
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or are they actually upset like what happened to my party?
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That's what happened here is that Jagmeet Singh and so on
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And what we saw was a display of what the husk of it is.
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You know, the pragmatic labor types have moved on
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or at least they won't show up for these meetings.
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they've allowed the fringe to dominate now i mean they're down to they're just a a fringe party in
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the house of commons and you know we we know from even established parties if you've got a small
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room the nuts can take the committee pretty fast and that's what happened there somebody referred
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to it as the victimhood olympics you know because they had a point system you know you started at
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a straight white man okay you're down at zero and everything you can come up with whether it's a
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a handicap or racial or sexual identity and you just added all those points
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until you got to jump the line I mean it was absurdity so how does the the last
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of the stalwart NDP members feel about this I don't know you've got your green
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card you've got your yellow card you've got your white card they're still need
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to guys with the credit card yeah and that's the old school that you're
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talking about now i you know this was hilarious in a sad kind of way and of course you have to
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remember we've got people who think like that and do that kind of thing and speak like that
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right here in alberta as well so you know we can't we can't afford to be too too snooty about it but
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you know um most people don't take that much notice of politics when it's not an election on
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this will be over and done with in a day or two everybody had a good laugh meanwhile you're a new
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leader he'll make his presence felt in the in the commons no he won't well he's got to get a seat
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but he's not going to run for one he goes no real seats available he's safe to win but uh you know
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he's going to have his uh he's going to have his say and when the election does come around remember
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there are 3 million people who normally vote NDP that's the pattern over the last several elections
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only 1.25 million voted for Jagmeet Singh that is there's going to be a bounce back up and it's
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going to come from people to whom all of what we are talking about meant nothing they were born NDP
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they will die NDP they will vote NDP and it's going to be interesting see what that you know
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when one and a half million people come back to the NDP at the next election,
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which I think they will, what difference does that make to the outcome?
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You don't think there could be a 1.25 million leave?
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The autoworker whose dad was a member of the union in Windsor, and you're a member of the
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union, and you've always been an NDP and you're looking at this.
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Well, it's an interesting point because when the Reform Party got started,
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There was a lot of people who walked over from the NDP to join the people who they would never have thought they would ever have any agreement with, and the Reform Party was born.
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Well, this is a broader trend across the whole Western world right now, where traditional Labour versus Bourgeois Party politics of Europe have faded down.
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It was never as strong in the United States and Canada as it was in Europe, but it's breaking down even in Europe, where social democratic parties have lost basic blue-collar unionized support.
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People vote along the lines of, how do you feel about mass migration?
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Much more than they feel about, you know, what do you think policy should be on open versus closed shop for unions?
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I think this is just accelerating, though, the NDP.
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So this is a good way for us, I think, to pivot into the party more broadly under the direction of Abbey Lewis.
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So Abbey Lewis, I mean, his predecessors, and he comes from NDP aristocracy.
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His grandfather was the leader, I believe, of something called the Waffle,
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which was a radical Marxist and Trotskyite faction within the federal NDP.
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time. I don't know what his last days were like, but
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it's good to see, you know, to see your son go on a
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to say, tell Albertans what's good for Alberta.
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You know, or you see lefties always say, oh, if the conservatives have this leader, they're going to be too right wing and they'll never get elected or something.
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I mean, they all said that about Danielle Smith.
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You know, so I'm always hesitant of leftist advice for rightists.
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So I'm cautious of committing the same sin in reverse.
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I think there is a market for the crazy left.
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I don't think he would deny that characterization
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Of course, Trotsky says, and I would have been nicer, I wouldn't have murdered all those people.
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Too bad he led the Cheka, oh no, he didn't lead the Cheka, he led the Red Army and murdered hundreds of thousands or millions of people himself.
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So I think, you know, a bit of historical digression, but yeah, he comes from a Trotskyite position that thought Stalin was too conservative.
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Not to win, but to have a crescent supply line.
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Well, people would be able to like to, there are the kind of crazy pinkard people out there that we saw.
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They will be, the spotlight will not be on them.
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The party will take its case to the people and saying that Mr. Carney has betrayed the Green Movement,
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they'll say they're in solidarity with the palestinians which is kind of odd given that i
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believe the family the lewis family is jewish isn't it well i want to talk about that that
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is a weird thing that also comes back to trotskyism but uh we'll go down that path a little bit yeah
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yeah but anyway that no i mean these people know how to know how to run an election campaign
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now they've got people out of the way who don't and like everything else they play out their
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strengths and certain people will be told to just sit still and be quiet over there don't rock the
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boat you'll get your you'll get what you want but let the big people who know how to do politics
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win this election or win the seats and that's that's what they have is the possibility to take
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power away from mr carney mr carney's right sitting on the edge of a of a majority with the
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next three by-elections are supposed to go his way um they have the power to take that
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away from him when it's that when it's that uh thin companies are hanging on less than 300 votes
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dave this said is it what jade meet singh would say when i am prime minister blah blah blah blah
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and everyone would laugh it was so self-evidently ridiculous but we'd humor him in that like well
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you know they've got a you know respectable chunk of seats in parliament they build some power he's
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He's not going to be a prime minister, but he says it, whatever.
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The NDP briefly contested for power, sort of, before Jack Layton died and early Thomas Mulcair.
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They were the up-and-coming party that could challenge the Conservatives in a two-party system.
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I think this is the NDP explicitly just adopting its more traditional role of,
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we're not contending for power, we're the conscience of Parliament,
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the Green Party doesn't make claims to run for power
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but they make claims to try to change the conversation
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and not worry about trying to win too many seats
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You may be, or you may be reduced to a rump party and end up just having one or two seats next to Elizabeth May.
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They've got to find, as Nigel says, they've got to find some money men who are willing to put up big bucks to help them, you know, get some money in the bank.
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But this could, by going really hardcore here, you could get some lefties who have, you know, some of them have jobs.
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You know, they're white-collared, unionized government employees and professors.
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By going this radical, you might convince the faculty lounge at whatever Ryerson University is called now to open up their wallets.
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I mean, Lewis's family himself is worth $28 million, according to reports.
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They didn't get that rich by giving it all to the party.
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You know, I'm going to give the donation cap, maximum donation limit.
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But, you know, you can't come in and just lay down millions of dollars.
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You could put up a secure line of credit for the party to keep it afloat.
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um but you know you can't come in just by your way like that super straightforward anymore
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when you are positioning yourself to the left of elizabeth may a lot of most people most sane
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canadians will not take you seriously uh you're right about some university professors and uh
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and uh some of the uh david suzuki's of the world but for for most people no um i would think for
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most NDP voters know. I don't think most people joined the NDP five, six years ago for it to be
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run by the freaks that are running it today. For me, the question is where does the NDP
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vote go to? Do they go to the Liberals or does it go to the Tories?
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Well, you see there, Dave, that's where I think we're on slightly different tracks.
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I think that the NDP will play down the freaks when it gets close to an election.
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And they'll play on the old sentiment of, you know, we're the revolutionary left-wing party.
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But the Tories and the liberals can just put out what their policies are.
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I think he's going to run as an, to his credit, I think he's going to run as a radical leftist.
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The guy who's come out of the gate saying he wants to nationalize grocery stores, nationalize housing construction, nationalize.
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I think he's in on this, I don't think he's going to
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is not starting to, now he's won the leadership
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government-run grocery stores, as ridiculous
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He's certainly not orthodox, and he is explicitly, and in very no uncertain terms, anti-Zionist.
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He was asked about this at a press conference just the other day, and he says he comes from a long line of anti-Zionist Jews.
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He was a part of the Bund, which was kind of a Jewish communist group in the former, what became the Soviet Union, pre-revolutionary Russia before 1917.
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And I mean, I think that's a head scratcher to a lot of people that he would be not just not a Zionist himself, but explicitly anti-Zionist.
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I don't understand it terribly well, but I mean, there is a tradition on the radical left of that, like Trotsky.
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Trotsky was Jewish and he came from the radical, radical left in the Bolshevik Party.
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And so there was kind of historically, if we're going back over 100 years here, 100 years, 100 years plus,
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conflict within the community about where you're going to be nationalist,
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so a Jewish nationalist being a Zionist, or internationalist being the extreme communists.
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And so I think that's the best sense I can make of it, is he comes from the other tradition, and it's the minority tradition, certainly, within the world Jewish population today.
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But it is a tradition that I think he comes from, and he says his father and his grandfather always come from.
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I don't think that we need to be too puzzled about that, Derek.
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I mean, we tend to think of the Jewish people as being united by their sufferings and therefore all thinking the same thing, but they don't.
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And there are some who will cheerfully sell out their, you know, their race, if you want to put it that way, for their own advantage.
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It's not a surprise to me because there are lots of people who look like you and I who sell out people like us all the time.
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Well, it's much more common among white people.
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And it is. There's a number of different sects.
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There's a Messianic Jewish congregation that believes actually,
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they've created this hybrid of believing in Jesus being the Messiah,
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yet claiming to still be Jewish. They've got a church down in West Calgary.
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Well, they would be ethnically Jewish, but religiously Christian.
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Exactly. But they deviate from the other things.
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I mean, part of it too, with the Israel connection,
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because those who are the true believers believe that
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they have to be in possession of the temple map
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But the bottom line is, as far as ideologies go, his extreme socialist ideology has overwhelmed any of the Jewish identity when it comes to the Zionism part.
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In a lot of the debates online and as vitriolic as they get, I certainly wade into them on X, you know, because I really take pleasure in the nuanced discussion I get.
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And some of the lunatics who really come after me on that one, though, you'll see they have the Palestine Plague and a shocking amount, honestly shocking, of the hammer and sickle.
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There really is some people trying to make a resurgence,
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And they're tied into that whole Palestinian thing.
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All I can say is, look what happened to Trotsky.
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Dave, I feel kind of like we're crawling around,
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I'm feeling our way through an unlit cave in this discussion of that.
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I don't fully understand it, but I don't think it'd be fair to call him an anti-Semite.
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He is a hardline anti-Zionist, but I don't think it's not plausible.
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I'm not sure he is self-hating because there is a, maybe he is, maybe he's not.
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soft sell or apologize and hopefully that doesn't happen
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say for the ones who've been targeting a Jewish
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that is uh but there are the people who are just critical of the concept of israel at all together
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not necessarily the jew aspect it's very hard to untangle those two things but that is where
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they're coming from i think i i'm gonna guess that lewis is landing where they haven't seen it
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but again the interesting thing i mean the only one and only flag waving on the stage when he did
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the big money shot at the end of the convention was a palestinian flag no canadian flags no manitoba
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flags no not even a trans flag just a palestinian well okay so that is the most baffling part of all
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that i just don't get like why why like why would you have okay i guess
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you guys like palestine good for you you like trans but you didn't have the fan
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they didn't have a canadian flag does anyone want to attempt to that and i know we're really
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deep into the dark cave at this point you know we're trying to get inside their minds and i'm
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sure we're not doing a great job crazy place to get it it's a terrifying dark cave any idea of
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why they would choose to have a only palestinian flag on a stage and not even a canadian flag
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not even alongside it just a way of giving the finger to everybody who doesn't agree with them
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don't forget you've got a most disagreeable bunch of people there we were talking earlier about the
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there they were with their cards and their pink hair and their shrapnel in their ears and so forth
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Well, by their appearance and by the positions they take,
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they're just saying, screw you to the rest of Canada.
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Do we think they did it deliberately or do we think they were just an organ?
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You're careful about who brings which flag onto a stage for a shot like that.
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But you know darn well they're not going to have a conservative event where one flag in the background is the Star of David waving around there.
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As you're pigeonholing and causing division, you don't need to embrace.
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The conservatives would be rightfully ripped if they had any foreign flag on stage besides...
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If it's alongside the Canadian flag, even that's a bit weird if you're supposed to be the Canadian party.
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But you have only one, and it's a foreign flag.
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of a nation that this question of whether it exists or not
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I don't think we're gonna, this is the wrong room
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well, let's face it, we have seen a lot of our old
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that's what I mean that's where you get to the bottom
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That's what I was saying, the hammer and sickles.
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Anyway, yeah, I guess when the segment's called NDP Go Full Retard,
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um so cory uh the alberta prosperity project says that it has reached 177 000 signature threshold
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they're obviously going to try to get more than that because some signatures will get disqualified
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for different reasons uh there was one setup uh you know i live out in county i there was a
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new location set up just on the side of uh township road i was driving home to yesterday and
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I stopped by and chatted with them, so they're still going strong at this, but it seems extremely likely now they're going to get the signatures, and we're going to be having a referendum alongside nine other questions on referenda in October.
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Yeah, and yeah, Stay Free Alberta, they did their thing.
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I'm a little perplexed as to why, I mean, if there was a successful petitioning thing,
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to give a little credit where it's due, you know,
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Lukasik didn't let a peep about his numbers out until the very end.
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And then floored everybody with a massive number.
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And that way he kept his volunteers constantly pushing and going and going.
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I know that Stay Free Alberta is saying, but don't stop, guys.
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look these are volunteers who have been sitting out on cold highways they've been getting the
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finger from people they've been taking time out of their lives and some will continue to do so
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but that's hard work and it's going to be a little harder when the weather's bad you get up in the
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morning geez do I want to go set up at a table outside or go knocking on doors or maybe I should
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you know clean the bathroom or something it's going to slow down the collection but they were
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feeling some pressure I mean it seemed like every week another story was coming out saying that
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they're not going to make it. And it's freaking people out and freaking supporters. There was
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another one saying, oh, that was hitting the headlines just two days ago. Oh, there's problems
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with rural addresses and they might not make the bar. And I think they were getting frustrated with
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that and just wanted to say, look, we're getting it done. And then there's that potential injunction
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coming on the South, which isn't stopping a referendum. It's stopping the petitioning,
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which is really bizarre. And for most legal people I've talked to, though, you can never
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predict a judge saying it's really, it's junk. It's not going to go through, but they're feeling,
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well we want to establish we crossed the line there's going to be a referendum injunction and
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no referendum we did what we had to do and they'll have that moral ability to push for one this fall
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so i think that's the rationale on releasing that but it's clear there's going to be a referendum
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this fall people had better accept that and move on to the campaign mode now um yeah and so campaign
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mode is i think where this they need to start start thinking about things um jason kenny is
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I think that's what he's trying to position himself for
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The pro-independence side, though, that's got no clear leader at all.
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I know Kenny's going to be debating with Keith Wilson of the Alberta Prosperity Project.
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But, Dave, there does not appear to be any real major figure yet on the independent side.
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And to me, that looks like that is the single biggest thing that's got to get fixed.
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So he's quite happy to let things grow from the ground level up.
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I think that they need to have somebody, and they need to have somebody in place quick if they want any chance of winning this thing.
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But they don't seem to be in any rush to appoint a leader unless they're keeping something up their sleeve.
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Well, I know when, Nigel, one of the things, you know, Alberta Prosperity Project says is, well, you know, this is nonpartisan, it's decentralized, you know, Corey and I have been around this movement a long time, we know that by its very nature, the movement attracts very independent minded people that sometimes have a hard time working together.
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So it might be very difficult for you to get literally everyone else to stand down, essentially become lieutenants and have one guy up front and everybody agree to do that.
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A lot of that is being independent minded. Some of it, no one will admit it, but some of it is going to be ego.
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So I don't know. Is this just is it just kind of an excuse?
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The reason we have no leaders because everyone's a leader and it's organic and everyone goes out.
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I see it as a bit of an excuse for the independent side not able
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to organize itself appropriately for even a short term
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campaign like this. Well no disrespects to many of the people who work very hard
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by their words and actions distinguished themselves
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as the leader. It ought to be pretty obvious by now who the guy
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as well it would be a guy uh but it's not just uh it's it's not obvious from the words and actions
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so far so i think what you're going to get is uh you're assuming everything goes according to plan
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you will get a referendum it doesn't have to be in october there's a number of things that could
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delay it including the legislature itself that could schedule it later than october
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or the legislature is within the legislature's gift to amend the question or just defeat the
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bill there is actually no legal requirement for it to go ahead even if they get the signatures
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so there's a lot of things that could interrupt the flow of this thing but until somebody comes
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along who actually has the credo and the clout to challenge the federal government personally
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and thereby draw to himself or herself all the bad words
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that make other people want to rally around them and help them.
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We've not got the people who you're going to send to the Constitutional Convention
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get a party shot, we have such little time, so we're going to go
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quick firing line of parting shots starting with nigel all right so my my thing is about air canada
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you know they'll they'll reroute you they'll start you early in the morning and deliver you
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at late at night they'll lose your bags they will cancel the flight that you booked and put you on
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at a time and then that you don't want to go and then as for the flight itself sometimes it goes
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well and sometimes it's exciting none of that matters life goes on but when the chairman of
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air canada gets up and delivers his heartfelt condolences for the two pilots who were killed
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in new york in that accident and he only does it in english well then the bloody roof comes down
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and oh well this can't be tolerated you're down the road and we're going to get somebody who can
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speak both languages that's the problem you know like this is the problem i see in so many areas
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of our life is that people are focused on the wrong things and that's just a beautiful
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example and he was effectively fired by parliament the committee voted to recommend he be fired he
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was essentially forced to retire and it wasn't just the liberals and the bloc it was the
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conservatives too yeah well we got shame on the cash you know we've got it we've got to start
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focusing what it is that matters to make this country work yeah corey i'll go quick i just
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think since the condolences weren't properly delivered in french we should have the highest
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office in the land do so and our governor general should give those condolences in an extended
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french speech that's cruel you mean hey have corporate heads got to speak french shouldn't
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our governor general dave uh the good ward good lord willing uh the uh manned mission to the moon
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is underway as we speak uh for the first time in half a century uh godspeed artemis 2. amen it's
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fake they're filming it in northern ontario all right nigel cory dave thank you thank you
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