00:03:52.100we've written a number of stories in columns
00:03:54.060exposing the extended and growing wait times
00:03:56.800for ambulance services across this province.
00:03:59.560The Health Sciences Association of Alberta
00:04:01.400has been posting daily red alerts in Alberta cities
00:04:05.240as areas find themselves with no ambulance services available.
00:04:08.740So, of course, what's finally happened, a woman in her 80s has bled to death while waiting over half an hour for ambulance services in Calgary.
00:04:16.220She was a mere four kilometers from the largest hospital in Alberta.
00:04:21.400According to Google Maps, it would have taken less than 10 minutes to drive her to that hospital in a car.
00:04:26.120An ambulance, presumably, would be faster.
00:04:29.200And speaking to a paramedic in Calgary familiar with the incident, he's heard that this death would almost certainly have been prevented had there been timely trained medical intervention.
00:04:38.540Bystanders waited helplessly as a woman slowly faded away in front of them and the minutes ticked away since calling 911.
00:04:45.900The problems plaguing Alberta's emergency medical services under AHS management are many.
00:04:51.980The big one yesterday, though, the largest contributing factor to the death of that woman in Capitol Hill, Calgary, was the usage of paramedics for hallway care in hospitals.
00:05:00.160At any given time in a large Alberta hospital, you'll see half a dozen or more ambulances parked in and around the emergency area.
00:05:07.480If you go into the hospital, you'll see upwards of a dozen or more paramedics hanging around caring for non-critical patients in the hallways and waiting rooms of the facility.
00:05:15.740They're not allowed to leave until hospital staff sign off on a patient.
00:13:55.120Yet, as Dave was saying, you know, we've got our reporters.
00:13:58.080We started that yesterday when we heard this story, calling AHS, calling, you know, the bureaucracies, calling the hospitals, calling the services.
00:15:47.340Because if we don't change this, if we don't realize, you know, that this is going to cause more, that we're going to see more of this happening, we're going to see more deaths.
00:17:04.300and maybe the next premier will bloody well do something about it this is a an embarrassment
00:17:10.600and and more than that it's causing deaths it's causing harm you know anybody who's taken any
00:17:17.720kind of first aid training should know that that there's that golden you know i think they call it
00:17:22.840it's not even a golden hour you know it's a golden few minutes the faster you can get to somebody in
00:17:26.700a trauma and something like that the better the chance that you can avoid a bad outcome
00:17:33.660As well with somebody else, one of the commenters, I'm sorry, it's already gone up the scroll, but was pointing out, you know, we don't rely on them, we start treating them ourselves.
00:17:44.580I had an EMS worker from out in Cochran on as a guest, some of the regular viewers might have seen.
00:17:49.400And he was talking about that, talking about how they've been setting up, putting defibrillators in public areas, training people in emergency management, things like that.
00:17:59.700I mean, being a bit more independent, absolutely.
00:18:02.820I mean, it's still good for the public to all be able to do some basic emergency care.
00:18:06.260I mean, everybody should take a St. John's ambulance course.
00:19:48.400Okay, I'm going to get off the ranting. I'm going to get on to one of our advertisers and then get
00:19:52.720on to Chris Oldcorn out in Saskatchewan. So yeah, just a reminder as well, it's not just
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00:21:00.320it. Okay. So let's get on to Chris Oldcorn. He's our Saskatchewan chief out there. Hey,
00:21:06.680Chris, how are you doing? I'm doing good. How are you, Corey? I'm good. Good. Like I said,
00:21:10.600know i get worked up you probably caught a bit of my the tail end of my rant there but we just had
00:21:14.200an awful awful situation out here in alberta i i'm wondering actually since i've got you or do you
00:21:18.840follow that so much in saskatchewan like are the ambulances uh centralized there as well or is that
00:21:23.640uh sort of spread out among the communities uh well it depends on where you are they are actually
00:21:29.560having some issues uh in rural areas uh because they don't have doctors the staff the ers and
00:21:35.720they have some problems also with ambulances but they are trying to put ambulances as close as
00:21:41.080possible like spread them out uh as opposed to having sort of a centralized spot that they would
00:21:46.120come from but obviously with the province the size of saskatchewan and the size of the population
00:21:51.880uh they do obviously it's hard to cover the whole province effectively and uh there's there's plenty
00:21:57.960of areas where um you know there might be one er doctor so obviously that doctor's not working 24
00:22:04.520hours a day seven days a week uh they are trying to recruit um just but so is everybody else on
00:22:10.200the planet it's like where do you recruit from when every other province is recruiting at the
00:22:15.640same time uh and also across the us so the the market for doctors is is pretty hard to find them
00:22:23.400they're doing everything they can but the government actually is bringing in nurses
00:22:27.960from the philippines they're hiring 3 000 over the next two years to help with the nursing shortage
00:22:32.600uh but as far as ambulances go um there hasn't been much in terms of expanding that beyond what
00:22:38.040it is right now yeah it's happening everywhere and that's health care in general so i'm throwing you
00:22:41.960curveballs you were you know that aren't related to your stories but i like checking into somebody
00:22:45.000in another province so we can see that we're sharing these issues because we are uh kimmer's
00:22:48.920kenworth also pointing out you know why don't we bring back the ones they fired for not being
00:22:52.360vaccinated uh thousands of health care workers you know that's kind of another issue that ties
00:22:56.360into the whole thing province by province some have dropped their vax mandates some haven't
00:23:01.160uh and then some people i think you know even though the vaccine mandates have dropped they've
00:23:04.760said well i'm not coming back to you guys you you left me out in the cold i'm done so we got a lot
00:23:08.840of factors contributing to this uh health care problem we actually have a lot of travel nurses
00:23:12.920working in saskatchewan right now which is basically you're you're hiring there's there's
00:23:17.240companies and all they do is travel nurses and you hire nurses and then they come and work for
00:23:21.480you for like two months and then they go somewhere else for two months and they're they're trying to
00:23:25.320do that to sort of uh plug some of the problems in the system because they they just don't have
00:23:29.560have enough, but some of those travel nurses are practical nurses, not RNs, and they're making $851.00
00:23:34.800an hour. That's lucrative. Yeah, which is about $35 more an hour than you make as an RN working1.00
00:23:41.920for the province. And I won't even say how much more it is compared to what a show host at the0.95
00:23:46.800standard makes, but that's a separate issue to go into altogether too. All right, we'll get back to
00:23:51.420more of the stuff of your stuff though. Something a little broad and interest though, and it's a
00:23:55.880column you put out last weekend on everybody's favorite young scold Greta Thunberg and how the0.95
00:24:02.700eco warriors want you poor and dead. Where were you going with that there? Well, if you just simply
00:24:09.720look at the policies that are out there and actually yesterday, there was a big surprise
00:24:14.000to everyone who went to get gas. I did a story last Friday on gas being a buck 96 here in the
00:24:19.580province actually can see it on the screen there uh and it's now uh 207 uh and that's just like
00:24:26.440four or five days later and that was after the raise to a buck 96 we were at a buck 79 uh basically
00:24:32.780about a week ago uh and my column is is basically uh about how the there's no longer there used to
00:24:43.080be a push that economic growth meant that every country was supposed to grow and eventually become
00:24:48.320developed country like canada the us uk you know europe that type of thing uh there's now a push
00:24:54.400uh instead of economic growth it is to stall countries where they are and then uh take the
00:25:00.240wealthiest countries and move them down into the poorer brackets so they're not using as much
00:25:05.840uh and this is an actual you know this is things are talked about at the wf and the un and so on
00:25:12.240uh and they and so basically they want you either poor or dead that's your two choices uh and if
00:25:17.360there's a thing called the human development index there's four different um quadrants on it
00:25:22.800canada obviously being in the top and basically they want to eliminate the top two quadrants and
00:25:27.200have everybody living in the bottom two and then eventually everybody down at the bottom which is
00:25:31.520essentially we're all living in mud huts again and walking two miles a day to get our water
00:25:36.400that's the only way the planet will survive apparently but right now i don't think people
00:25:40.240are going to survive the gas prices if uh the federal government and provincial governments
00:25:43.680don't start doing something, because it's getting to the point of absolute ridiculousness now.
00:25:48.780Those international organizations, there was a thing a while ago with the World Economic Forum,
00:25:53.060as you mentioned them, and they had a picture showing the empty streets and saying, you know,
00:25:56.540look what the pandemic did. It's great for the environment. We want to see more of this. Like,
00:25:59.700well, that wasn't a good sign seeing empty streets. That was a world that was in lockdown.
00:26:03.540We shouldn't be celebrating this. We should be avoiding it.
00:26:06.420Yes. It's crazy. I really don't understand why our leaders and other leaders of the developed countries participate in the WF and so on. It doesn't make any sense. Like, why put restrictions and stuff on your own growth and essentially try and destroy your own economy?
00:26:28.400um yeah that's a great picture uh and like i don't get it i don't understand why our government
00:26:36.560is so incompetent uh and or purposefully trying to make things as expensive as possible because
00:26:43.200we're not even done with the climate um the carbon tax uh hikes uh we've only had three so far and i
00:26:50.640by 2030 i think gas is going to have what is it about 36 cents 37 cents per liter will just be
00:26:58.440the carbon tax i mean can you imagine how expensive gas is going to be and this hurts
00:27:04.160and in particular the gas price hurts a sector that was just absolutely killed in covid which is
00:27:09.380called travel um and when you make it so expensive now just to fill up your car people aren't going
00:27:18.500to travel. And then once again, you're destroying another industry that's very strong in Canada.
00:27:22.580The travel and tourism industry in Canada is massive. It's one of our biggest businesses.
00:27:28.840But when you have gas prices this high, I mean, they're over $10 in California, America. Now
00:27:33.980that's per gallon, but still that's even more expensive than gas is in Canada. We need our
00:27:38.360governments to actually stop this craziness about like not drilling here, not getting oil here,
00:28:14.020So either way, I just like I wanted to bring that up to start and just remind everybody, you know, you write an opinion piece once a week as well, not just all that Saskatchewan news you do.
00:28:22.780So for folks who, you know, you're allowed to put your opinion out on some items as opposed to just writing on the news.
00:28:29.120And that was a good one. So I appreciate it.
00:28:31.740And Moe is actually right now doing the same kind of tour of Washington, D.C., New York that Kenny did.
00:28:37.460He's down there pushing energy and investing in Saskatchewan actually this week.
00:28:40.880Yes, I was just about to bring it up because it's a story of yours in the scroll there, which I think is great.
00:28:46.760I mean, it's unfortunate that our federal government has dropped the ball.
00:28:49.920They're not doing their job on our behalf because that should be a federal government's role.
00:28:53.340But at least the premiers like Kenny and Mo now are saying, well, to help this, we're going to go down and speak up for our provinces in person down there.
00:28:59.660And when I was covering news in Ontario, Doug Ford was making trips down to America and doing trade deals with states.
00:29:06.040and not the the u.s government but doing an actual trade deal with individual states
00:29:11.160uh and that is something i think maybe other premiers need to look at as well if the federal
00:29:17.480government's going to neglect you know trade for our biggest industries such as energy for example
00:29:24.480then um then it falls it has to fall on the shoulders of the premiers there's there's no
00:29:30.620option. I mean, Trudeau has basically proven that he can't do anything right. And we're seeing that
00:29:38.840now. And unfortunately, with the NDP propping him up, we're gonna have him around for at least a
00:29:43.300couple more years. So if I'm a premier, if I'm Mo, if I'm Kenny, or whoever replaces Kenny, I'm going
00:29:51.380down south of the border and seeing what I can do myself outside the federal government.
00:29:55.960Yeah, and I'm hoping we see more of that, you know, across the country. I mean, why not in
00:37:09.380Yeah, well, the Saskatchewan Rough Riders, they've got their home opener this weekend
00:37:14.460against the Thai Cats on Saturday at 5 o'clock, so I'll have a preview for that.
00:37:17.800working on a story where I'm in the process of trying to buy a gun which will actually take
00:37:24.860eight months so I won't be able to do that before the federal government makes it impossible for me
00:37:30.080to actually purchase a gun but I'm going to show what the process actually is at the present moment
00:37:34.980in time which will who knows how fast the Trudeau government's going to move on that handgun ban
00:37:41.120But I had a very interesting discussion yesterday with the owner of a gun store, and he explained a lot about gun rules in the past and how useless they've actually been.
00:37:52.580For example, when they banned AR-15s, an AR-15 has never been used in a shooting in Canada that was legally acquired.
00:41:39.960I'm going to go through the news a little bit before we get to our next guest, Mr. Rock there.
00:41:44.120And yeah, this was a story that was put out.
00:41:46.540This shouldn't shock anybody, but this is Anita Anand, our defense minister.
00:41:49.860When we're in a world, a period of world turmoil like never before, you know, when there's not been Canadian Armed Forces taking part directly in anything with all that crazy stuff in Eastern Europe so far, but we're certainly paying a lot more attention to those things.
00:42:04.520They've realized that we need new recruits for the Army, Navy, you know, air people within the Canadian Forces.
00:42:12.120Well, because they fired a whole pile of them with the vaccine mandates.
00:42:16.280She didn't make any mention of that when she talked to the Commons Defense Committee.
00:42:19.120You know, if they wanted to bring back a whole bunch of already trained, already, you know, qualified people for the armed forces, all they have to do is lift their bloody vaccine mandate.
00:42:30.680And there's a number of them you can bring back into your ranks.
00:42:34.580I mean, again, how many times does it have to be said?
00:42:39.340We're seeing columnists, personalities, doctors talking all over saying, look, these mandates don't stop the spread.
00:42:46.440There's not much point in maintaining them any longer.
00:42:48.720they're causing more damage than good. Those who have chosen to get vaccinated have done so. Those
00:42:54.100who won't will not at this point. So get over it. It's spite. It's pure spite. And yeah, so the
00:43:03.200Department of National Defense said on May 31st, a total of 1,573 soldiers, sailors, and air crew
00:43:08.700resigned, were discharged or faced discipline for failing to show proof of vaccination. And in a
00:43:14.540force the size of Canada, it's not a very, very large force. That's a pretty significant chunk
00:43:21.160pulled out of there. Plus another 307 civilian employees were suspended without pay. And then
00:43:26.440reservists, that's another aspect of our military that wasn't even disclosed. But no, she went up
00:43:32.100and just talked about this great hiring fair and recruitment campaign they're going to put out,
00:43:36.000but won't even entertain the question of perhaps taking back some of these people. I mean, of those
00:43:42.2801,500 soldiers and sailors. I imagine a number of them were highly skilled people. It's going to
00:43:48.400take, you know, you don't just hire somebody and pop them in and fill the role. That's a lot of
00:43:52.040training. That's a lot of experience. That's a lot of time out there. And they just, this government
00:43:58.020is so stubbornly hung up on their vaccine mandates, no matter what the costs are. And it's just,
00:44:04.880as I've said in a recent column, I think it's mostly because Trudeau has a chip on his shoulder.
00:44:08.500He got pushed. He's dug his little heels in, and he just does not want to be. I mean, the rest of the world is opening up. The rest of the world lets people fly domestically without masks and vaccine mandates. We're the ones who are the outlier. And it's been getting embarrassing. There was that hockey player from the Spinning Chicklets podcast. You know, I'm forgetting his name offhand now. He was live tweeting his experience at Pearson Airport. I think he was just trying to get to Buffalo. And he was stuck there for basically a day and a half. Massive, long lineups.
00:48:18.860Thank you very much for having me on your program.
00:48:20.560Yeah, so something I said right at the start of the show earlier when I was listening to my guests coming on today, something that was good to see and refreshing with yourself is of all the people lining up for that top job, they're all either current MLAs or former MLAs, so you're not coming from within the pack.
00:48:41.940Yeah, well, and that's a large part of the province without doubt. I would imagine your platform is still going to encompass policies for the sake of urban as well.
00:48:49.620Oh, yes. I see a big divide between rural Alberta and urban. You know, we all have the same struggles. We have crime, we have issues with our hospitals, we have issues with our ambulances. And, you know, the infrastructure, whether it's Calgary, Edmonton, rural Alberta, we're all way behind the ball on infrastructure. So I want to close the divide between rural and the cities.
00:49:14.920yeah no and it's good to see somebody you know addressing it i mean that is a lot of uh
00:49:20.360i guess kind of as my earlier rant but we've got different ideologies and still there should be
00:49:25.080room though to have people have different needs and ideologies in different regions of the province
00:49:28.520to still stay within the same umbrella as a party i would think oh yeah definitely definitely uh
00:49:34.360you know we all want a better alberta that's what we're all here for we're here to make a better
00:49:40.040Alberta for all Albertans, whether you're rural, small town, you know, whether you're Fort McMurray
00:49:46.320or High River or Medicine Hat, we all are in the same boat. Yeah, well, and as some of the
00:49:55.540commenters are saying, like Mike Bedard saying he wants to get the hell out of Calgary anyways,
00:49:59.540and myself, you know, I live just outside of the city. A lot of urban people, actually, I think
00:50:03.840the rural or at least semi-rural is where we're going to have a lot of growth. So, you know,
00:50:08.460should be embracing each other's movements within the province and we've seen a lot of that movement
00:50:14.940uh from the cities out into the rural portions of the province but what of course is is delaying
00:50:20.940that movement is you know we we struggle with internet access we struggle with cell phone access
00:50:27.820um you know we talk to a lot of people uh i'm just i'm just fortunate amisk has not too bad
00:50:35.020of internet i'm able to do this interview but if you try and phone me chances are you're not going
00:50:39.340to get a hold of me i have no cell phone service in alberta we're not a third world country out here
00:50:44.860yeah and it's been frustrating actually i've got starlink at my place in uh and i'm just
00:50:49.10010 minutes out of the city borders of calgary but that it's either that or the telus hub for
00:50:53.180internet service where i live which again is it's kind of ridiculous that close to a developed
00:50:58.140province like this you know i don't know how many years it's been and you know and they've they they
00:51:02.860keep saying, well, you need a minimum of 100 megabytes per second upload speed. A lot of our
00:51:09.420area out here, we're working at two and a half to three. We're lucky in Amos, we're at 12.
00:51:16.380That's a long ways from 100. Yeah, it's functional anyway,
00:51:19.740but there's room for improvement and internet is becoming a need. I mean, 20 years ago,
00:51:24.060okay, it wasn't something considered, but now it really is a requirement for workplaces,
00:51:27.740for communication and just living in general. Yeah, and the COVID brought that,
00:51:31.660you know, the real strengths and weaknesses to it. You know, we went to a lot of Zoom meetings,
00:51:37.500you know, so we were social distancing and we found that a lot of our people on our board of
00:51:44.500directors across central Alberta, you know, they couldn't really attend the meeting because it was
00:51:51.540so delayed that they were missing out. And I'm talking people that are just outside the city of
00:51:55.500Red Deer. Yeah. So going further, I guess, into your campaign now, you're in your early stages
00:52:01.100and that, but have you fleshed out, like, what are your main planks that you're bringing as a
00:52:04.860leadership candidate? Well, the main things I'm after is, you know, bringing awareness to rural
00:52:10.880Alberta. And like I said, rural crime, I've been an advocate for the rural crime associations for
00:52:17.460many years now. Our ambulance service and hospital services has taken, you know, significantly been
00:52:26.860reduced and you know that in the cities as well how many code reds do we have across the province
00:52:33.980and our infrastructure we've been promised money for infrastructure federally not so much
00:52:40.780provincially but federally we've been you know promised money for infrastructure 2013 we got
00:52:47.100promised 17.1 million dollars to date and this is 10 years later we've seen 2.1 million dollars of
00:52:54.460that infrastructure money so albertans are paying a lot of money uh into these programs whether it's
00:53:00.860federal you know federal gas taxes or income taxes and we're seeing that money end up in
00:53:06.140vancouver and toronto and quebec and not not staying in alberta yeah so um maybe moving on
00:53:15.020a little more internally uh especially since you're not as ingrained into the party itself
00:53:20.620or at least not on the elected level of it at this point.
00:53:24.240But party unity, you know, the UCP has been like a bunch of hornets on each other
00:53:27.820for a couple of years now from the constituency level up to elected members within caucus.
00:53:33.800What could you bring to try and pull that together?
00:53:36.640Because, I mean, it doesn't matter who's leading.
00:53:38.340If that party keeps up like that, I can't see them winning another election.
00:53:45.980You know, I, like I've been a councillor for the last eight years.
00:53:50.740I've been a mayor of our village for the last five.
00:53:53.900I sit on quite a few boards and I've been chairman of quite a few boards.
00:53:58.820So, you know, I have the experience of bringing a team together and, you know, getting to the, you know, the root of the problems and being effective.
00:54:07.440uh i think that's what's happening now is we aren't listening to our membership like we should
00:54:14.900be listening to our membership i know there's a lot of ca associations that you know are are
00:54:21.380really struggling with their membership and and that boils down to leadership yeah okay um so one
00:54:29.580of the big issues we've had going on for quite a while is uh of course it's jurisdictional i mean
00:54:35.020Alberta versus Ottawa on a number of levels, independence movements are really starting to gain some steam.
00:55:20.300And I know there's other premiers in Canada that want to stand up to Ottawa.
00:55:24.740But, you know, it's one of those things when Ottawa is holding the purse strings, you got to be very careful what you say so you don't lose your purse, you know, your money.
00:55:35.020So are there ways, though, to defend, you know, getting out of being that vulnerable to them? I mean, as a, you know, a province where they could pressure us with our own money like that?
00:55:44.500Well, this is where we go back to, you know, our own pension fund, like Quebec in Alberta, you know, having our own revenue agency, you know, you look at what Quebec does, and the leverage they have over the federal government. And, you know, that's, that's kind of the leverage, you know, we're a very rich province, we send a lot of money to Ottawa. And they, we need to leverage all of those things.
00:56:13.240oh yeah it's something i've said a lot over the past is we got to stop getting so upset with
00:56:17.880quebec uh and start figuring out what they're doing and emulate it because uh hey you know
00:56:22.120stomping our feet hasn't gotten us anywhere maybe realize why they're they're as influential as they
00:56:26.300are yeah yeah and and you know we have as much leverage as the big cities in in ontario we
00:56:34.000you know we have a lot of money uh we have a lot of technology that we should be selling around the
00:56:40.300world that the federal government isn't pushing. I happened to meet with a lady here on the
00:56:47.220weekend and a lot of our innovation and technology in Alberta, of course, is oil and gas related.
00:56:55.240And this technology is sought after worldwide. And yet our federal government is not pushing
00:57:02.800the technology that we have available here in Alberta. You can probably talk to a lot of people
01:12:10.640And they can do this without warrant, at least if this bill goes through.
01:12:14.500So, I mean, witnesses are testifying that no, you need a higher threshold. You know, you've got to. And that higher threshold is already on with letter mail. So why are we not having it with our digital devices? I'm hoping. I'm kind of watching this issue with interest, though, because mostly the Senate's dysfunctional. Mostly the Senate's loaded with appointed, useless, you know, just guys who sit around collecting massive salaries and they're going to get a great pension.
01:12:40.440but they're actually standing up this time0.88
01:14:07.160likes to keep a stupid cabinet around himself.1.00
01:14:09.360And he does. I've never seen so many lackluster individuals holding senior cabinet positions in a government than I have in the Trudeau administration. All of them, all of them. And Omar Al-Habra, Al-Habra, I'm sorry, I'm bad with pronunciation, though. You watch that transport minister, that goofy little weasel. And he is, again, not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but he's a transport minister.1.00
01:14:34.760So he's just saying, oh, it's good news.
01:14:36.360We're seeing tremendous demand for travel.
01:15:26.060In the UCP race also, yeah, Leila Ahir, she's the MLA from Chestermere.
01:15:30.400She's expected to be announcing today that she's running for the UCP leadership as well.
01:15:36.620You know, here was one who kind of, she was on the outs in the UCP government under Kenny, for sure.
01:15:40.880She was not getting along with the premier.
01:15:43.540I was kind of thinking and waiting that she was going to be another one of the ones turfed out pretty quickly off to the wayside with Todd Lowen, who's now running for the leadership, and Drew Barnes.
01:15:52.920She kind of clung in there in the back bench.
01:15:54.560You didn't hear a lot about her, but now she's popped forward and said she's going to run for the leadership of the UCP.
01:16:02.200An interesting thing is she used Ryan Jesperson's show to announce her bid for that leadership, which Ryan Jesperson's show, we've gone on about that on here.
01:16:13.640He had that crazy woke producer who had a meltdown and basically, you know, shut his show down for weeks and it's back.
01:16:21.380It's a very left-leaning show, very much like ours.