The Pipeline： Trudeau sells out Alberta, Hinshaw's under the bus, can Trudeau get it (the flag) up？
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Join Western Standard editor-in-chief Dave Naylor, publisher Derek Fildebrandt, and political columnist and host of The Cory Morgan Show, Winnie the Pooh, as they talk all things climate change, the flag flap, and Jason Kenney.
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Hello, I'm Derek Fildebrandt, publisher of the Western Standard.
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Today is November 3rd, and you're watching The Pipeline.
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I'm joined, of course, as usual, by Western Standard news editor, Dave Naylor.
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Also joined by Western Standard, Alberta political columnist and host of The Cory Morgan Show,
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I'm not sure if you can see at home, definitely you can't if you're listening on podcasts,
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but Corey's got a classy Winnie the Pooh tie on.
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You're insistent on making me wear ties, that's fine, but I'm going to choose this as a style.
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This is like working to rule, this is your form of union activism.
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Something like that, David and I's union didn't take off really well, so it's these small acts
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Who's the shop stewardess, Western Standard Writers' Union?
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of the world. Forget about it. Today, we're going to be talking about COP26, the big powwow in
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Glasgow. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau there defending Canada's interests. Speaking well
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of the great accomplishments of Canada's oil and gas sector in reducing emissions.
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We'll talk about the good work he is doing there. And speaking of Justin Trudeau,
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can he get it up? The flag. Can he get the flag up? I did not mean to imply anything else.
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Nothing worse than a flag stuck at half mast. Yes, a drooping flag. You may as well not even
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get it on the pole. Just don't even try to get it up unless you can get it up. No, go to bed.
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Yeah, just forget about it. We're going to be talking about the flag flap going on here.
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Flags have been at perpetual half-mast for, God, at least roughly seven months.
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Hard to get things down to half-mast when it's already there.
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So, and we'll talk about a different kind of flap.
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Ooh, that relationship's starting to get testy.
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Jason Kenney has thrown Dina Hinshaw under the COVID bus.
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Dina Hinshaw has cancelled her press appearances.
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We're all waiting to see what's going to happen now.
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Potentially some serious fallout coming from that.
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Okay, well, let's get started. Cop 26, Justin Trudeau has made his way to Glasgow.
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But first, I think he went through Rome and the Netherlands.
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Partying all the way, in pubs, observing social distancing, wearing masks, doing his
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He started off in the Netherlands, he was pictured there and in a pub with champagne
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and just people crammed in and non-social distancing, no masks.
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From there he went to Rome and spread carbon emissions between Amsterdam and Rome for the
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G20. And then on to Glasgow for the Glasgow Gab Fest on climate change. 30,000 people arrived there,
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some 400 private jets all spewing emissions along the way. And Trudeau's first big announcement.
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I heard it was 600, maybe a month. Hundreds, hundreds anyway. Many hundreds. Including the most,
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probably the most expensive one, Jeff Bezos, private jet arriving. So Trudeau marked the
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first day with a speech to delegates saying he is immediately putting a cap on oil and
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gas emissions. This was something they had campaigned on, but he wanted to be the world
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leader on climate change, so he came out with it there. Jason Kenney did not have a lot
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to say, other than that he was a bit upset that he wasn't consulted before Trudeau made
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this announcement, asked what he was going to do, Kenny really didn't answer as usual.
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But you know, a straight stab to the economic heart of the West, gentlemen.
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Well, Corey, we've got all these important people meeting by Skype, I believe it's the
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meeting by Skype or Zoom or something, because that is how you would stop a massive amount
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It doesn't mention a pandemic that is still apparently going on.
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So they're all meeting by Zoom right now to save on emissions and make sure no one spreads.
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Did you see the video of Joe Biden falling asleep?
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I know where you want to go with this, and we're not going there.
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But Sleepy Joe had a nap in the middle of a big plenary session.
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In fairness, you can only be yelled at so many times by a teenager
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and told you're the worst piece of crap in history.
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Well, he was woken up, though, by a chanting of Let's Go Brandon.
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Yeah, the crowd was chanting, let's go, Brandon, and that woke him up.
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No, actually, they had to send an aide over, and they kind of, he came over and tapped him on the shoulder,
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Can't blame him. I'd fall asleep, too, and that sort of stuff.
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Yeah, so, but not everyone was sleeping through this.
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Corey, how much does this announcement really matter?
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Rachel Notley announced the cap of the oil sands emissions, and Jason Kenney has kept it in place.
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Normally, these are big virtue signaling fests for the world's elites to get together.
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And we see all they really do is party, rub shoulders, and talk at feel-good things,
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I mean, Norway's increasing their oil production.
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They're all talking big, but they aren't acting.
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the Kyoto was before that. Nobody ever met the goals. You just state those things. You don't do
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anything. Trudeau is a different animal. This is a less than cerebral prime minister who makes it
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pretty clear that he doesn't think much on economic issues. He doesn't. It's not his realm.
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He doesn't worry about it. He doesn't have a legacy. I mean, he's into his third term now,
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but he hasn't really established anything aside from being the second and lesser of the Trudeaus
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in power in Canada. He wants to make his mark here. He wants to be the one who put down the
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big bad oil field and save the world from climate change.
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I think his cap is real in putting Gilbo in an environment and the other, was it Wilkinson
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in industry, he's getting ready to actually, you know, not just talk but act and it's going
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Jubo in environment, Wilkinson in natural resources, coming from environment, where he was already pretty hardcore there.
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This announcement of the cap, I'm not sure this is actually going to change much, because Alberta's already had a self-imposed cap.
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As I said, Notley brought it in, Kenney maintained it as a part of a Faustian bargain with Trudeau already.
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This is, I think, just a sign of Trudeau maybe setting the board, saying, well, we've now capped it federally.
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And maybe we're going to push below, but I'm not sure an announcement of a cap amount.
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And also, this goes back to the Supreme Court ruling on the carbon tax.
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The Supreme Court ruled that the federal government, the provincial government's jurisdiction over natural resources is null and void
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as long as the federal government believes that it is in the interest of peace order and good government of Canada to regulate the environment.
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It's the most abused, overused part of the Constitution period
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for federal intrusions in the provincial jurisdiction.
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This just means, I think this is just true to setting up the board to go further into it.
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But a cap in and of itself, I'm not sure is actually going to do that much.
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It was already hard to get investment out here.
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I mean, his flowery speech, he talked about how lit and burned because of climate change.
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It's a total change, and it is, I think, strategically important politically.
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We've had it by our provincial governments going back to about 2016.
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But as I said, in the case of Trudeau, though, I think he wants to do more than talk.
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In this case, he really wants to actually hammer down somehow.
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And he took a plane full of bureaucrats to learn how to do it.
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277 liberal bureaucrats joined him in the in Glasgow too and they're all taking
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notes on how to bring this stuff into life. Step one, stop flying 277 people
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overseas for a virtue signaling fest. Exactly and that didn't include 17 press
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aides and the Trudeau's official photographer, his official videographer,
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hairstyles, it just goes on and on and on. Well I'm sure so Aaron O'Toole has
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come out very strongly in defense of the oil and gas sector against this cap on Alberta's
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and in Saskatchewan, to a lesser extent, British Columbia's ability to generate energy wealth.
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For those who follow me on Twitter, I've been less than happy with him.
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I have not seen, I cannot find a peep or O'Toole even acknowledging that the conference happened.
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his head in the sand. He's hiding from this issue. It's pathetic, to be blunt. It's pathetic.
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I mean, there's a lot that could be spoken of on this. I mean, climate change is a real
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consideration. People are concerned about it. Well, let's talk about some of the things
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the energy sector's done. They have reduced emissions intensity. They are going into carbon
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capture and hydrogen projects. We're doing a lot of things already. These are things
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that O'Toole could have been speaking of. Again, it's not shutting down all efforts
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to to hit your climate change but he could speak up for it and no he's just decided just to not
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touch it whatsoever and it's sad my question is why isn't kenny over there saying okay look this
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is what alberta is doing this is what our industry is doing and you know concrete examples of every
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because you know there's been a lot of work done to reduce emissions he could have been saying
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those as much as i i don't where is scott moe why isn't scott moe over there saying the exact same
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I can't really say as much about Mo, but Kenny can't afford to leave within 100 meters of the legislative precinct right now.
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His government is too embroiled in daily scandal.
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The political intrigue going on, significant parts of his caucus want him gone.
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Huge parts of the UCP membership and base want him gone.
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Daily, at least almost every few days, a new scandal of some kind breaking out.
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He could come up with the greatest scientific invention tomorrow.
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I think he's got so little political capital right now that no one would take it seriously.
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So if he went to COP, I think he'd probably just get a bunch of bad press
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because he's an Alberta premier who does support the oil and gas industry.
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No one's going to care what he has to say, and he's got no ability to influence things right now.
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He can't influence things in Alberta, let alone in Ottawa.
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Well, so, speaking to failure to get things up on the agenda, we're going to talk about Justin Trudeau's difficulty getting it up the flagpole.
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and what are we expecting as we approach Remembrance Day here
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and some of the veterans groups are not too happy about this.
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As Corey said, the flags were lowered after the start of the discovery of bodies
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at residential schools, the one in Kamloops and the one in Saskatchewan.
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Trudeau ordered the flags lowered then and they've stayed lowered ever since.
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And it's ludicrous because he's only lowered them for a while
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Some cities, actually once I think it was Victoria, only lowered them for 215 hours,
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which was the number of bodies that they apparently had discovered in Kamloops.
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But Trudeau wanted the federal building flags that kept lowered, and they've been kept lowered ever since.
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And as we know, we're getting close to Remembrance Day,
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honoring our tens of thousands of war dead and injured over the years.
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and Trudeau has made no effort to raise the flag so they can be lowered again.
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So how do you honor veterans when the flag's already lowered?
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Trudeau was asked about it in Glasgow and he said,
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well, consultations are still going on with the Indigenous communities
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So we're down to less than a week to remember and stay now.
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Consultations are still going on. I don't know why Trudeau just can't unilaterally say, you know, six months of remembrance is enough.
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We're going to raise the flag now, lower it on Remembrance Day, and every September 30th on National Day of Truth and Reconciliation, we'll lower it again for that day.
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I need to do some math on this. Maybe remind me.
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mind me. I am pretty sure at this point that the Canadian flag on federal flagpoles, federal
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buildings has been lowered for more days over the residential schools issue than all other
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acts of remembrance since the second or possibly first world war. Because that's a single day.
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So you know, add that up by a number of years since these wars. The flag has been lowered
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more than it has been for the veterans of two world wars since at least 1945, possibly
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1918. I'm going to have to do some math on this, but I think it adds up pretty easily
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that we've spent more, if we're going to measure acts of remembrance and grief in days per
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flag being down, and I think that's pretty strange. And remember, Remembrance Day is
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actually it's down for is it just a few minutes no no it is okay so it's not even 24 hours so
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we're roughly 12 hours it's a very strong symbolic action you start your day by lowering that in
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morning and then and then end with kind of a positive note we've we have made our observance
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we've remembered we've mourned and now we're moving forward and the flag will go back up usually it's
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It's national tragedies, the flag goes down, and then it goes back up again the day of
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I mean, keep in mind, there's 70,000 dead in World War I and World War II, each of those
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conflicts, a quarter million injured in each of them, you know, and they get 12 hours once
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And now this has been seven months, and consultations are still going on less than a week before
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It's truly a controversy that Trudeau has made for no reason whatsoever.
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And First Nations didn't ask for this because it's ridiculous.
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First Nations are, I mean, there's differences in their leaders.
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I think some of their leaders are better than others, like any form of governance and authority.
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I think this is the exact kind of crap that's led to them being in the mess they are.
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Virtue signaling, bullshit, basically, but no action.
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I mean, we did see hundreds of unmarked graves at residential schools.
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They want, you know, resolution and things moving forward.
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And Trudeau, in true-to-Trudeau form, takes the easiest path.
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well, we'll just lower the flags indefinitely rather than actually doing anything.
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I wonder if they've stayed down longer than he originally intended
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because he was caught in Tofino on the first National Reconciliation Day.
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So he said, well, okay, I'll keep him down and lowered for a little bit later.
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If there was any foresight whatsoever into this permanent flag-lowering debacle,
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it would have probably been to have it resolved roughly maybe a month earlier from now.
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But then his Tofino trip, that was a pretty significant blow to his political capital
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with all Canadians, but with First Nations in particular.
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I mean, it's pretty hard to have your grand gesture of raising the flag back up
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because everybody's kissed and reconciled and made up.
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Hard to do that when he creates a national holiday out of thin air,
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spends the very first one going surfing in Tofino.
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So I think it's largely a matter of political capital.
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Yeah, I grew up mostly in military, Air Force and Army towns.
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So Remembrance Day was a particularly big deal for me growing up as a kid.
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I still go to these things, but it's not quite as all-consuming
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as an entire day of parades and marches and ceremonies
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and eating egg salad sandwiches at the Legion all day.
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even those who don't maybe live and breathe this in military towns
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I have a hard time seeing how politically he's going to get his way out of this
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he's going to have to raise a backup before Remembrance Day
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I mean it's starting to turn into an issue finally
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raise it the day before and then we'll, you know, go through the ceremonies.
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But what a, such a pointless mess he's made as usual.
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And I mean, I saw some columns on it, you know, with people talking,
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saying citizens who don't even realize or know that the flag was down.
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I mean, the gravity of it has been so eroded due to this foolishness.
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And we shouldn't forget, if you go to the Heritage Canada site,
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it shows the number of days that the flag gets lowered for annual things.
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A couple are like a firefighters, emergency responders' remembrance because a lot of them
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Those two passed without the flags being lowered.
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When the Queen dies, it's going to be lowered for a year.
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Well, regular watchers will know that Dave is an ardent monarchist.
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If it was his way, we'd just do away with Parliament and put the Queen directly in charge.
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I'm not saying it wouldn't have a better result, although who would be worse, Trudeau or Charles?
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Charles would be entertaining at least, Trudeau just angers me.
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I don't know who would be worse, Trudeau or Charles. Both entitled Petite d'Enfance.
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Leave Charles as King in England and Prince William as Prime Minister of Canada.
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Well, I'm personally in favor of a Horenzelen restoration, but I'm not sure that's a very popular option right now.
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this is not as good of the same way as I was hoping.
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Jason Kenney pretty much blaming the debacle of ending his
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open for summer, open for good plan on Dina Hinshaw.
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Yeah, if you picture COVID as a bus, Jason Kenney is the driver, and poor old Dr. Hinshaw is underneath his front wheels as we speak.
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In questioning at the legislature this week, the NDP was on to Kenney again about the COVID crisis in Alberta, and he laid it squarely on Hinshaw's feet.
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He said he wanted to bring in lockdowns earlier or quicker to try and prevent the fourth wave.
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And he claims Hinshaw says they weren't necessary.
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She did have a regularly scheduled press conference, Tuesdays and Thursdays for the last month or so.
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She suddenly cancelled her press conference yesterday.
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and you remember the fourth wave just decimated Alberta death tolls daily you know as high as
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closing in on the 40 range ICUs were filled to maximum AHS had to open surge ICU beds it it was
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a mess and and Kenny was slammed from all sides for not bringing in for doing something to slow
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the wave of the Delta variant and now he is firmly blamed Hinshaw saying he
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Cory, I recall Kenny saying something about Dina Hinshaw's not in charge, he's in
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charge. She makes recommendations, he makes the decisions. He's the decider, if
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Well, you know, this reminds me of a recent staff meeting I attended where a gentleman was speaking on, you know, when things go well, it's my thing to take credit.
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When they go poorly, it's the other person's issue.
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I don't know who could have said such an outrageous and pompous thing.
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I mean, Kenny has used Hinshaw as a foil for almost two years now.
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I mean, when it's an unpopular decision, he says it's the medical decision.
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and this is just I mean I'm sure she must be getting tired of that usage but I mean
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she's more popular than him which you know a lot of people are getting kind of tired of
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Dina Hinshaw as well. COVID is more popular than Premier Penny right now. And then Hinshaw is almost
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the closest thing he had to an asset at least as a part of government in a sense that people
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respected and listened to and looked forward to. Throwing her under the bus is just kicking himself
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if he's trying to set a new record for low support
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how this all went, what the premier knew, when he knew it, what advice I gave him, what advice
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If she does that, we don't know exactly what she knows, I guarantee you she'd have a few
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I guarantee you she probably took tape recording meetings of all these.
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Allegedly thought maybe, no, allegedly, allegedly, or took detailed notes at the very least.
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But she's guaranteed to have had detailed notes on it and, you know, especially after the meetings and wrote down exactly what happened.
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She's obviously not a smart, or she is a smart woman, excuse me.
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And she may have seen the writing on the wall a couple of weeks ago that the blame was coming her way.
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you're not allowed to tell everybody about the things
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We're going to have to talk about your contract.
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You're not allowed to disclose these kinds of internal things,
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but at the same time, she might be a whistleblower.
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office. Anyone at AHS or Dina Hinshaw's office watching right now, our mailing address is
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forward to envelopes showing up. We do. Not so much packages, because we're not quite sure of those.
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Lots of wrap for us, but we're not all you have.
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Tune in tomorrow, 7 p.m. Mountain Standard Time for Uncensored.
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some of the incredible subsidies going into this,
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and problems it's creating for landowners around them.
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So check them out, Uncensored, 7 o'clock, Thursday, Mountain Standard Time.
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