Western Standard - The Pipeline： Trudeau sells out Alberta, Hinshaw's under the bus, can Trudeau get it (the flag) up？

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00:02:30.160 Hello, I'm Derek Fildebrandt, publisher of the Western Standard.

00:02:33.420 Today is November 3rd, and you're watching The Pipeline.

00:02:37.440 Thank you for joining us today.

00:02:40.100 I'm joined, of course, as usual, by Western Standard news editor, Dave Naylor.

00:02:46.040 Derek?

00:02:46.980 Nothing better than that.

00:02:48.720 I'm saving it.

00:02:50.260 Also joined by Western Standard, Alberta political columnist and host of The Cory Morgan Show,

00:02:54.780 Winnie the Pooh.

00:02:56.560 Eeyore.

00:02:56.920 I mean, yes, Winnie is an inspiration.

00:03:00.000 I'm not sure if you can see at home, definitely you can't if you're listening on podcasts,

00:03:05.140 but Corey's got a classy Winnie the Pooh tie on.

00:03:08.280 You're insistent on making me wear ties, that's fine, but I'm going to choose this as a style.

00:03:13.800 This is like working to rule, this is your form of union activism.

00:03:17.200 Something like that, David and I's union didn't take off really well, so it's these small acts

00:03:21.440 of rebellion.

00:03:22.440 Who's the shop stewardess, Western Standard Writers' Union? 0.94

00:03:24.440 Corey.

00:03:25.440 Well there you go, there's a problem.

00:03:27.240 of the world. Forget about it. Today, we're going to be talking about COP26, the big powwow in

00:03:36.040 Glasgow. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau there defending Canada's interests. Speaking well

00:03:43.720 of the great accomplishments of Canada's oil and gas sector in reducing emissions.

00:03:47.780 We'll talk about the good work he is doing there. And speaking of Justin Trudeau,

00:03:51.760 can he get it up? The flag. Can he get the flag up? I did not mean to imply anything else.

00:03:58.540 Nothing worse than a flag stuck at half mast. Yes, a drooping flag. You may as well not even

00:04:05.380 get it on the pole. Just don't even try to get it up unless you can get it up. No, go to bed.

00:04:11.280 Yeah, just forget about it. We're going to be talking about the flag flap going on here.

00:04:17.480 Flags have been at perpetual half-mast for, God, at least roughly seven months.

00:04:22.760 Seven months.

00:04:23.440 Running up against Remembrance Day here.

00:04:26.980 It might be a bit of a problem.

00:04:28.580 Hard to get things down to half-mast when it's already there.

00:04:32.220 There's a pill for that.

00:04:33.500 Yes.

00:04:34.040 So, and we'll talk about a different kind of flap.

00:04:39.480 Jason Kenney and Dina Hinshaw.

00:04:42.360 Ooh, that relationship's starting to get testy.

00:04:44.900 Jason Kenney has thrown Dina Hinshaw under the COVID bus. 0.99

00:04:48.260 Dina Hinshaw has cancelled her press appearances.

00:04:51.160 We're all waiting to see what's going to happen now.

00:04:53.460 Potentially some serious fallout coming from that.

00:04:57.820 Before we get started, though, I want to thank all of our Western Standard members for your continued support.

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00:05:34.420 Okay, well, let's get started. Cop 26, Justin Trudeau has made his way to Glasgow.

00:05:40.820 But first, I think he went through Rome and the Netherlands.

00:05:43.440 Partying all the way, in pubs, observing social distancing, wearing masks, doing his

00:05:48.800 part for flattening the curve, right?

00:05:51.240 Yeah, not so much.

00:05:52.740 He started off in the Netherlands, he was pictured there and in a pub with champagne

00:05:57.420 and just people crammed in and non-social distancing, no masks.

00:06:02.260 From there he went to Rome and spread carbon emissions between Amsterdam and Rome for the

00:06:08.200 G20. And then on to Glasgow for the Glasgow Gab Fest on climate change. 30,000 people arrived there,

00:06:18.760 some 400 private jets all spewing emissions along the way. And Trudeau's first big announcement.

00:06:25.160 I heard it was 600, maybe a month. Hundreds, hundreds anyway. Many hundreds. Including the most,

00:06:30.680 probably the most expensive one, Jeff Bezos, private jet arriving. So Trudeau marked the

00:06:36.680 first day with a speech to delegates saying he is immediately putting a cap on oil and

00:06:41.980 gas emissions. This was something they had campaigned on, but he wanted to be the world

00:06:49.400 leader on climate change, so he came out with it there. Jason Kenney did not have a lot

00:06:56.720 to say, other than that he was a bit upset that he wasn't consulted before Trudeau made

00:07:04.160 this announcement, asked what he was going to do, Kenny really didn't answer as usual.

00:07:10.700 But you know, a straight stab to the economic heart of the West, gentlemen.

00:07:16.540 Well, Corey, we've got all these important people meeting by Skype, I believe it's the

00:07:25.540 meeting by Skype or Zoom or something, because that is how you would stop a massive amount

00:07:30.260 of emissions from doing this.

00:07:32.300 It doesn't mention a pandemic that is still apparently going on.

00:07:35.560 Yeah, yeah.

00:07:35.940 So they're all meeting by Zoom right now to save on emissions and make sure no one spreads.

00:07:41.240 Not.

00:07:41.880 No.

00:07:42.320 Yeah.

00:07:42.740 Did you see the video of Joe Biden falling asleep?

00:07:45.460 No, I heard something else about Biden.

00:07:47.880 Oh.

00:07:49.980 I'm not sure if that's true or not.

00:07:51.900 No, but it was funny.

00:07:52.940 It was funny.

00:07:53.800 Maybe it's true.

00:07:54.700 I don't know.

00:07:55.720 It's a bit outside of our purview.

00:07:57.320 Something to do with the poo.

00:07:59.840 Just stop it right there, Corey.

00:08:01.860 There's always got to be toilets. 0.84

00:08:03.680 I know where you want to go with this, and we're not going there.

00:08:07.060 We're not going there.

00:08:08.080 But Sleepy Joe had a nap in the middle of a big plenary session.

00:08:12.980 It was...

00:08:15.080 In fairness, you can only be yelled at so many times by a teenager 1.00

00:08:19.180 and told you're the worst piece of crap in history. 1.00

00:08:22.480 No wonder he fell asleep. 1.00

00:08:23.420 He got tired of listening to Greta.

00:08:25.060 No doubt.

00:08:25.940 He was getting scolded.

00:08:26.980 Well, he was woken up, though, by a chanting of Let's Go Brandon.

00:08:31.140 Yes.

00:08:31.860 Yeah, the crowd was chanting, let's go, Brandon, and that woke him up.

00:08:37.400 No, actually, they had to send an aide over, and they kind of, he came over and tapped him on the shoulder,

00:08:41.580 and Joe woke up and rubbed his eyes a bit.

00:08:45.880 Can't blame him. I'd fall asleep, too, and that sort of stuff.

00:08:48.240 Yeah, so, but not everyone was sleeping through this.

00:08:52.940 Corey, how much does this announcement really matter?

00:08:55.880 Rachel Notley announced the cap of the oil sands emissions, and Jason Kenney has kept it in place.

00:09:00.700 Does it actually change very much?

00:09:03.440 Well, yes.

00:09:04.700 It just wasn't federally imposed before.

00:09:06.200 It does in our case, I think.

00:09:07.700 Normally, these are big virtue signaling fests for the world's elites to get together.

00:09:12.360 And we see all they really do is party, rub shoulders, and talk at feel-good things,

00:09:17.140 but never actually really do anything.

00:09:18.680 I mean, Norway's increasing their oil production.

00:09:20.740 Germany's burning coal for this winter.

00:09:22.840 They're all talking big, but they aren't acting.

00:09:25.300 I mean, the Paris Accord is now the old one.

00:09:28.720 the Kyoto was before that. Nobody ever met the goals. You just state those things. You don't do

00:09:32.900 anything. Trudeau is a different animal. This is a less than cerebral prime minister who makes it

00:09:39.180 pretty clear that he doesn't think much on economic issues. He doesn't. It's not his realm.

00:09:43.140 He doesn't worry about it. He doesn't have a legacy. I mean, he's into his third term now,

00:09:48.160 but he hasn't really established anything aside from being the second and lesser of the Trudeaus 0.64

00:09:52.880 in power in Canada. He wants to make his mark here. He wants to be the one who put down the

00:09:58.200 big bad oil field and save the world from climate change.

00:10:00.860 I think his cap is real in putting Gilbo in an environment and the other, was it Wilkinson 0.54

00:10:07.740 in industry, he's getting ready to actually, you know, not just talk but act and it's going

00:10:12.240 to damage us.

00:10:13.240 Okay.

00:10:15.240 It's very clear where I think he wants to go.

00:10:17.040 He's got Gilbo, Gilbo, what do we call him?

00:10:20.860 Do we know?

00:10:21.860 Gilbo.

00:10:22.860 Gilbo.

00:10:23.860 Jubo in environment, Wilkinson in natural resources, coming from environment, where he was already pretty hardcore there.

00:10:34.120 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.

00:10:39.720 As I said, Notley brought it in, Kenney maintained it as a part of a Faustian bargain with Trudeau already.

00:10:47.340 This is, I think, just a sign of Trudeau maybe setting the board, saying, well, we've now capped it federally.

00:10:53.860 And maybe we're going to push below, but I'm not sure an announcement of a cap amount.

00:10:59.040 And also, this goes back to the Supreme Court ruling on the carbon tax.

00:11:02.900 The Supreme Court ruled that the federal government, the provincial government's jurisdiction over natural resources is null and void

00:11:12.220 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.

00:11:19.360 It's the most abused, overused part of the Constitution period

00:11:22.480 for federal intrusions in the provincial jurisdiction.

00:11:25.480 This just means, I think this is just true to setting up the board to go further into it.

00:11:29.560 But a cap in and of itself, I'm not sure is actually going to do that much.

00:11:33.940 I can see this is a massive chill.

00:11:35.880 It was already hard to get investment out here.

00:11:37.860 You can see how it's framing it.

00:11:38.980 I mean, his flowery speech, he talked about how lit and burned because of climate change.

00:11:42.440 It's a total change, and it is, I think, strategically important politically.

00:11:47.760 But we already have a cap here.

00:11:49.320 We've had it by our provincial governments going back to about 2016.

00:11:53.140 I don't think we've been near it, though.

00:11:54.500 I think it was a generous cap, if I recall.

00:11:56.420 I mean, there's a lot of ifs going on.

00:11:58.400 Yes, where is he going to set it?

00:11:59.920 How is he going to enforce it?

00:12:01.160 What are we going to do with it?

00:12:02.060 But as I said, in the case of Trudeau, though, I think he wants to do more than talk.

00:12:06.100 In this case, he really wants to actually hammer down somehow.

00:12:09.760 And I'm just curious to see how he does it.

00:12:11.800 And he took a plane full of bureaucrats to learn how to do it.

00:12:15.180 277 liberal bureaucrats joined him in the in Glasgow too and they're all taking

00:12:21.720 notes on how to bring this stuff into life. Step one, stop flying 277 people 0.98

00:12:27.900 overseas for a virtue signaling fest. Exactly and that didn't include 17 press

00:12:31.740 aides and the Trudeau's official photographer, his official videographer,

00:12:35.880 hairstyles, it just goes on and on and on. Well I'm sure so Aaron O'Toole has

00:12:44.380 come out very strongly in defense of the oil and gas sector against this cap on Alberta's

00:12:50.920 and in Saskatchewan, to a lesser extent, British Columbia's ability to generate energy wealth.

00:12:57.620 What was Aaron O'Toole's big response?

00:12:59.820 I've been searching.

00:13:00.820 I spent this morning searching.

00:13:02.700 For those who follow me on Twitter, I've been less than happy with him.

00:13:06.300 I have not seen, I cannot find a peep or O'Toole even acknowledging that the conference happened.

00:13:11.900 He hasn't responded to it.

00:13:13.460 He hasn't done anything.

00:13:14.300 his head in the sand. He's hiding from this issue. It's pathetic, to be blunt. It's pathetic.

00:13:21.660 I mean, there's a lot that could be spoken of on this. I mean, climate change is a real 0.99

00:13:27.460 consideration. People are concerned about it. Well, let's talk about some of the things

00:13:30.260 the energy sector's done. They have reduced emissions intensity. They are going into carbon

00:13:35.640 capture and hydrogen projects. We're doing a lot of things already. These are things

00:13:39.800 that O'Toole could have been speaking of. Again, it's not shutting down all efforts

00:13:43.760 to to hit your climate change but he could speak up for it and no he's just decided just to not

00:13:48.640 touch it whatsoever and it's sad my question is why isn't kenny over there saying okay look this

00:13:54.000 is what alberta is doing this is what our industry is doing and you know concrete examples of every

00:13:59.440 because you know there's been a lot of work done to reduce emissions he could have been saying

00:14:03.280 those as much as i i don't where is scott moe why isn't scott moe over there saying the exact same

00:14:07.440 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.

00:14:17.000 His government is too embroiled in daily scandal.

00:14:20.760 The political intrigue going on, significant parts of his caucus want him gone.

00:14:25.640 Huge parts of the UCP membership and base want him gone.

00:14:29.840 Daily, at least almost every few days, a new scandal of some kind breaking out.

00:14:35.920 and he's got no political capital to speak of.

00:14:38.480 We just had a referendum on equalization

00:14:40.220 where Albertans decisively said

00:14:42.560 they want to change the status quo

00:14:44.940 one form or another.

00:14:46.800 Something that was a very popular promise

00:14:48.800 to do in the last election.

00:14:51.360 And what happened?

00:14:52.900 Nothing.

00:14:53.720 The silence is deafening

00:14:54.620 because he's got no political capital.

00:14:57.220 Jason Kenney could invent a device

00:14:59.400 that made oil net emissions zero.

00:15:04.000 Like, the oil sucks carbon out of the air.

00:15:08.180 He could come up with the greatest scientific invention tomorrow.

00:15:11.180 I think he's got so little political capital right now that no one would take it seriously.

00:15:14.880 He's just got no ability.

00:15:15.740 So if he went to COP, I think he'd probably just get a bunch of bad press

00:15:19.940 because he's an Alberta premier who does support the oil and gas industry.

00:15:26.080 No one's going to care what he has to say, and he's got no ability to influence things right now.

00:15:30.280 He can't influence things in Alberta, let alone in Ottawa.

00:15:34.000 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.

00:15:49.780 Dave, lay the groundwork for us.

00:15:54.840 How long have we had the flag down for?

00:15:57.340 and what are we expecting as we approach Remembrance Day here

00:16:02.560 and some of the veterans groups are not too happy about this.

00:16:06.260 As Corey said, the flags were lowered after the start of the discovery of bodies

00:16:11.480 at residential schools, the one in Kamloops and the one in Saskatchewan.

00:16:16.700 Trudeau ordered the flags lowered then and they've stayed lowered ever since.

00:16:23.620 And it's ludicrous because he's only lowered them for a while

00:16:27.180 Some cities, actually once I think it was Victoria, only lowered them for 215 hours,

00:16:34.080 which was the number of bodies that they apparently had discovered in Kamloops.

00:16:38.920 But Trudeau wanted the federal building flags that kept lowered, and they've been kept lowered ever since.

00:16:45.920 And as we know, we're getting close to Remembrance Day,

00:16:48.680 honoring our tens of thousands of war dead and injured over the years.

00:16:55.500 and Trudeau has made no effort to raise the flag so they can be lowered again.

00:17:01.620 So how do you honor veterans when the flag's already lowered?

00:17:05.760 Do you lower it into the mud?

00:17:08.240 So the controversy has been building.

00:17:10.220 Trudeau was asked about it in Glasgow and he said,

00:17:13.080 well, consultations are still going on with the Indigenous communities

00:17:17.060 as to when we should raise the flag.

00:17:20.400 So we're down to less than a week to remember and stay now.

00:17:24.320 Consultations are still going on. I don't know why Trudeau just can't unilaterally say, you know, six months of remembrance is enough.

00:17:31.320 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.

00:17:40.320 I need to do some math on this. Maybe remind me.

00:17:44.320 mind me. I am pretty sure at this point that the Canadian flag on federal flagpoles, federal

00:17:52.600 buildings has been lowered for more days over the residential schools issue than all other

00:18:00.980 acts of remembrance since the second or possibly first world war. Because that's a single day.

00:18:08.880 So you know, add that up by a number of years since these wars. The flag has been lowered

00:18:13.460 more than it has been for the veterans of two world wars since at least 1945, possibly

00:18:19.920 1918. I'm going to have to do some math on this, but I think it adds up pretty easily

00:18:24.680 that we've spent more, if we're going to measure acts of remembrance and grief in days per

00:18:32.640 flag being down, and I think that's pretty strange. And remember, Remembrance Day is

00:18:36.540 actually it's down for is it just a few minutes no no it is okay so it's not even 24 hours so

00:18:44.620 we're roughly 12 hours it's a very strong symbolic action you start your day by lowering that in

00:18:50.460 morning and then and then end with kind of a positive note we've we have made our observance

00:18:56.760 we've remembered we've mourned and now we're moving forward and the flag will go back up usually it's

00:19:02.140 It's national tragedies, the flag goes down, and then it goes back up again the day of

00:19:07.380 the funeral.

00:19:08.780 But certainly nothing like this.

00:19:10.020 I mean, keep in mind, there's 70,000 dead in World War I and World War II, each of those

00:19:16.220 conflicts, a quarter million injured in each of them, you know, and they get 12 hours once

00:19:23.740 a year.

00:19:24.740 And now this has been seven months, and consultations are still going on less than a week before

00:19:29.860 Remembrance Day.

00:19:30.860 It's truly a controversy that Trudeau has made for no reason whatsoever. 0.95

00:19:37.120 And First Nations didn't ask for this because it's ridiculous.

00:19:40.540 First Nations are, I mean, there's differences in their leaders.

00:19:44.360 I think some of their leaders are better than others, like any form of governance and authority.

00:19:49.980 But they didn't ask for this.

00:19:51.220 None of them asked for this.

00:19:52.720 This is a white liberal woke thing.

00:19:55.980 They want something other than this. 0.99

00:19:57.400 I think this is the exact kind of crap that's led to them being in the mess they are. 0.99

00:20:02.120 Virtue signaling, bullshit, basically, but no action. 0.99

00:20:05.960 I mean, they want action. 0.98

00:20:07.220 They're very upset.

00:20:08.740 I mean, we did see hundreds of unmarked graves at residential schools.

00:20:12.740 The nation was horrified.

00:20:14.480 They want consultation.

00:20:15.860 They want, you know, resolution and things moving forward.

00:20:19.660 And Trudeau, in true-to-Trudeau form, takes the easiest path.

00:20:23.780 well, we'll just lower the flags indefinitely rather than actually doing anything.

00:20:27.500 It's an insult.

00:20:28.640 I wonder if they've stayed down longer than he originally intended

00:20:32.320 because he was caught in Tofino on the first National Reconciliation Day.

00:20:37.360 So he said, well, okay, I'll keep him down and lowered for a little bit later.

00:20:40.420 If there was any foresight whatsoever into this permanent flag-lowering debacle,

00:20:48.280 it would have probably been to have it resolved roughly maybe a month earlier from now.

00:20:53.760 But then his Tofino trip, that was a pretty significant blow to his political capital

00:20:59.160 with all Canadians, but with First Nations in particular.

00:21:02.580 I mean, it's pretty hard to have your grand gesture of raising the flag back up

00:21:07.380 because everybody's kissed and reconciled and made up.

00:21:10.620 Hard to do that when he creates a national holiday out of thin air,

00:21:15.040 spends the very first one going surfing in Tofino.

00:21:18.280 So I think it's largely a matter of political capital.

00:21:23.980 Yeah, I grew up mostly in military, Air Force and Army towns.

00:21:27.660 So Remembrance Day was a particularly big deal for me growing up as a kid.

00:21:33.260 I still go to these things, but it's not quite as all-consuming

00:21:35.960 as an entire day of parades and marches and ceremonies

00:21:38.640 and eating egg salad sandwiches at the Legion all day.

00:21:41.700 but this is a big deal for a lot of Canadians

00:21:45.480 even those who don't maybe live and breathe this in military towns

00:21:49.380 it's

00:21:51.060 I don't see how we're good

00:21:53.060 it's weird

00:21:53.540 I have a hard time seeing how politically he's going to get his way out of this

00:21:56.760 it's now just going to have to be

00:21:57.920 he's going to have to raise a backup before Remembrance Day

00:22:01.800 but we don't have an answer yet

00:22:03.260 he's getting pressured

00:22:04.040 I mean it's starting to turn into an issue finally

00:22:06.220 I think he'll come out and say

00:22:08.100 okay I've made enough phone calls

00:22:09.420 and you know we're going to do this

00:22:11.020 we're reconciled

00:22:11.560 raise it the day before and then we'll, you know, go through the ceremonies.

00:22:14.520 But what a, such a pointless mess he's made as usual.

00:22:20.280 And I mean, I saw some columns on it, you know, with people talking,

00:22:22.840 saying citizens who don't even realize or know that the flag was down.

00:22:27.260 You know, they, oh, it's still down.

00:22:28.420 They don't know why. 0.92

00:22:29.080 I mean, the gravity of it has been so eroded due to this foolishness.

00:22:33.000 And we shouldn't forget, if you go to the Heritage Canada site,

00:22:35.940 it shows the number of days that the flag gets lowered for annual things.

00:22:39.440 A couple are like a firefighters, emergency responders' remembrance because a lot of them

00:22:44.000 get killed. 0.94

00:22:45.000 There's another police one.

00:22:46.280 Those two passed without the flags being lowered.

00:22:48.380 When the Queen dies, it's going to be lowered for a year.

00:22:53.120 Well, regular watchers will know that Dave is an ardent monarchist.

00:23:00.000 If it was his way, we'd just do away with Parliament and put the Queen directly in charge. 0.99

00:23:04.400 She would make more sense.

00:23:05.780 Believe me.

00:23:06.780 I'm not saying it wouldn't have a better result, although who would be worse, Trudeau or Charles?

00:23:13.780 Charles would be entertaining at least, Trudeau just angers me.

00:23:16.780 I don't know who would be worse, Trudeau or Charles. Both entitled Petite d'Enfance.

00:23:23.780 Leave Charles as King in England and Prince William as Prime Minister of Canada.

00:23:27.780 Hey, now we're moving along.

00:23:29.780 Well, I'm personally in favor of a Horenzelen restoration, but I'm not sure that's a very popular option right now.

00:23:35.780 No, it's not.

00:23:36.440 No.

00:23:37.720 All right.

00:23:38.660 Let's move on.

00:23:41.280 Speaking of deposing in strange fights here,

00:23:45.880 this is not as good of the same way as I was hoping.

00:23:48.120 Jason Kenney and Dina Hinshaw.

00:23:50.940 Jason Kenney pretty much blaming the debacle of ending his

00:23:57.660 open for summer, open for good plan on Dina Hinshaw.

00:24:02.500 Lots of drama.

00:24:03.940 Dave, set it up.

00:24:04.540 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.

00:24:15.380 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.

00:24:25.880 He said he wanted to bring in lockdowns earlier or quicker to try and prevent the fourth wave.

00:24:32.980 And he claims Hinshaw says they weren't necessary.

00:24:37.680 Now, we haven't heard from Hinshaw yet.

00:24:39.300 She did have a regularly scheduled press conference, Tuesdays and Thursdays for the last month or so.

00:24:46.120 She suddenly cancelled her press conference yesterday.

00:24:49.520 So we haven't heard her side of the story.

00:24:51.820 and you remember the fourth wave just decimated Alberta death tolls daily you know as high as

00:24:59.160 closing in on the 40 range ICUs were filled to maximum AHS had to open surge ICU beds it it was

00:25:08.980 a mess and and Kenny was slammed from all sides for not bringing in for doing something to slow

00:25:17.180 the wave of the Delta variant and now he is firmly blamed Hinshaw saying he

00:25:22.700 wanted to, but she advised against it.

00:25:26.180 Cory, I recall Kenny saying something about Dina Hinshaw's not in charge, he's in

00:25:36.180 charge. She makes recommendations, he makes the decisions. He's the decider, if

00:25:41.900 you will. Does that still apply?

00:25:45.980 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.

00:25:54.240 When they go poorly, it's the other person's issue.

00:25:56.620 I don't know who could have said such an outrageous and pompous thing.

00:26:00.320 Yes, but that's what's going on.

00:26:02.460 I mean, Kenny has used Hinshaw as a foil for almost two years now.

00:26:07.060 I mean, when it's an unpopular decision, he says it's the medical decision.

00:26:10.000 When things did go right, oh, that was me.

00:26:11.780 I opened this up for the best summer ever.

00:26:13.320 and this is just I mean I'm sure she must be getting tired of that usage but I mean

00:26:20.080 she's more popular than him which you know a lot of people are getting kind of tired of

00:26:26.840 Dina Hinshaw as well. COVID is more popular than Premier Penny right now. And then Hinshaw is almost

00:26:31.800 the closest thing he had to an asset at least as a part of government in a sense that people

00:26:36.220 respected and listened to and looked forward to. Throwing her under the bus is just kicking himself

00:26:42.080 in the nuts. I don't know 1.00

00:26:44.300 if he's trying to set a new record for low support

00:26:46.260 or what he's doing, but

00:26:47.460 it's mind-boggling.

00:26:49.860 What do you think of the risks that

00:26:51.600 Hinshaw says, screw it,

00:26:54.760 I'm out. Clearly the Premier

00:26:56.240 doesn't have confidence in me, so

00:26:58.180 I'm out. And then she's a free agent. 0.98

00:27:00.520 She's free to

00:27:01.520 hold her own press conference and say, 0.99

00:27:04.240 let me show you how the sausage

00:27:06.300 was made over the best summer ever.

00:27:09.440 Let's just go through

00:27:10.480 how this all went, what the premier knew, when he knew it, what advice I gave him, what advice

00:27:15.340 I didn't give him.

00:27:16.760 If she does that, we don't know exactly what she knows, I guarantee you she'd have a few

00:27:23.100 things to say that would be less than ideal.

00:27:25.080 Well, absolutely.

00:27:26.080 I guarantee you she probably took tape recording meetings of all these.

00:27:30.780 Allegedly thought maybe, no, allegedly, allegedly, or took detailed notes at the very least.

00:27:36.520 Dave is guessing.

00:27:37.520 We are not even alleging.

00:27:38.520 That is just a guess.

00:27:39.520 But she's guaranteed to have had detailed notes on it and, you know, especially after the meetings and wrote down exactly what happened.

00:27:47.980 She's obviously not a smart, or she is a smart woman, excuse me. 1.00

00:27:51.940 She's obviously a very intelligent woman.

00:27:53.620 And she may have seen the writing on the wall a couple of weeks ago that the blame was coming her way.

00:27:57.820 So it's going to be really interesting to see.

00:28:00.400 Her contract would require non-disclosure.

00:28:03.580 I mean, you guys, if you leave here,

00:28:06.040 you're not allowed to tell everybody about the things

00:28:08.400 that definitely do not take place around here.

00:28:11.900 You know, that's pretty...

00:28:12.940 I've already told some.

00:28:16.420 We're going to have to talk about your contract.

00:28:19.880 You're not allowed to disclose these kinds of internal things,

00:28:22.980 but at the same time, she might be a whistleblower.

00:28:27.460 It could just be, oops, it fell in the mail.

00:28:30.820 If a notepad landed at the Western Standard,

00:28:32.700 office. Anyone at AHS or Dina Hinshaw's office watching right now, our mailing address is

00:28:39.480 1220 at 717 7th Avenue, Southwest Calgary, T2P0Z3. We check the mail multiple times a day. We look

00:28:50.260 forward to envelopes showing up. We do. Not so much packages, because we're not quite sure of those.

00:28:56.060 But we have had some sketchy packages.

00:28:58.960 We have.

00:28:59.460 And none of them have killed us yet.

00:29:01.360 Not yet.

00:29:02.000 Not yet.

00:29:02.960 Okay.

00:29:04.360 Lots of wrap for us, but we're not all you have.

00:29:08.280 Tune in tomorrow, 7 p.m. Mountain Standard Time for Uncensored.

00:29:13.580 That is Bruce McAllister, Danielle Smith, and Rob Anderson.

00:29:17.040 They're going to be talking about some of the madness around wind farms in Alberta,

00:29:20.880 some of the incredible subsidies going into this,

00:29:22.820 and problems it's creating for landowners around them.

00:29:25.440 So check them out, Uncensored, 7 o'clock, Thursday, Mountain Standard Time.

00:29:33.120 Again, I want to thank all of our Western Standard members for your continued support. 0.97

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00:29:52.820 But most people who sign up do.

00:29:54.840 All right.

00:29:56.260 Dave?

00:29:57.340 Derek?

00:29:57.900 Snoopy?

00:29:59.300 Do you have a Snoopy tie for next week?

00:30:00.960 Not yet.

00:30:02.060 Snoopy.

00:30:02.700 I'm accepting ties at the address aforementioned.

00:30:04.860 You can also mail tacky ties to...

00:30:08.860 You know what?

00:30:09.840 I like Winnie the Pooh.

00:30:10.540 It's got character.

00:30:11.600 It's a beloved children's tale.

00:30:13.520 Once or twice I've been accused of being stodgy and sour.

00:30:17.220 This is lightening enough.

00:30:20.020 Okay.

00:30:20.680 He's our Eeyore.

00:30:21.400 Dave, Sunshine, thank you very much, and God bless.

00:30:51.400 .

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Western Standard - November 04, 2021

The Pipeline： Trudeau sells out Alberta, Hinshaw's under the bus, can Trudeau get it (the flag) up？

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