00:01:49.420And he's just got a lot of background and knowledge and things to talk about with, you know, the inside part of politics, the party part of politics.
00:01:59.240He's got a lot of experience to land because we've got two big leadership races going on right now.
00:02:03.680And people who don't play within party circles don't necessarily keep good track of that or understand how some of the mechanics work.
00:02:10.400And Evan Jay going to join us is going to be good and informative on that.
00:02:15.040All right, let's talk about some of the daily observances before I get to my rant.
00:02:17.940I like to get everybody to tune in, you know, and get settled in.
00:02:21.720And this is a good thing to discuss before we get to the hardcore stuff.
00:22:37.320and her $5 million tour of Arctic countries
00:22:40.22020 years ago or 15 years ago or so they got everybody worked up but it seems we just forget
00:22:44.560about these things with these governors general and uh as Claudette one of our commenters pointing
00:22:49.700you know is that the amount with alcohol well we don't know because they haven't broken it down yet
00:22:52.960but I imagine there's so there's some nice single malt scotches mixed among there and some things
00:22:57.560Corey you think it you think there was uh more stuff spent on than just pretzels
00:23:01.940how could that be true right um but unfortunately I think you're really hitting the nail on the head
00:23:08.260this is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to governor general waste, right? We know that
00:23:14.300there's this expense program that all former governors general are entitled to that allows
00:23:19.520them to expense taxpayers for more than $200,000 every single year for the rest of their life.
00:23:26.060And up to six months after their death, their estate can still continue to bill taxpayers.
00:23:32.340Again, this is for former governor general. So after they retire, they're still able to
00:23:36.480expense taxpayers. And perhaps what is so frustrating about this is that Trudeau knows
00:23:41.880that this program exists. He spent $20,000 reviewing this program. The review was done in
00:23:48.7802019. And since then, he's just sat on his hands. He hasn't done anything about it.
00:23:54.120Well, I mean, that's a good one to point out. I mean, just how insane this is. They can reach
00:23:59.640out from the grave and posthumously screw the taxpayers. Or even six months after they stop
00:24:04.660drawing breath, they still managed to hoop us for as much as $100,000. Yeah, and I got another one
00:24:13.020for you. The expense account is bad. This one could be even worse. I don't know. Maybe we'll
00:24:19.340have to arm wrestle about it, but it's the pensions that these governors general get. We call it the
00:24:25.340Julie Payette pension problem because a governor general is eligible for the full taxpayer pension
00:24:32.180regardless of how long they serve. So you have the example of former Governor General Julie
00:24:37.900Payette, who served for a little bit more than three years, but she is still eligible to collect
00:24:43.320an estimated $4 million through the pension if she continues to collect it to the age of 90.
00:24:49.440So served for a few years, and she could still be eligible to collect millions and millions of
00:24:54.160dollars through her pension. Corey, there are five former Governors General that are still living.
00:24:59.400if they all continue to collect the pension to age 90 for five of them, it'll cost taxpayers over
00:25:04.960$18 million. Well, I guess maybe in some ways they'll save us some money if they're eating a
00:25:11.120lot of really, you know, butter filled high fat food and drinking a lot of that high end scotch
00:25:15.560and champagne on the flights. And they won't live as long due to the unhealthy living and won't
00:25:19.920cost us as much. I mean, I know I'm joking, but it's just in here going there for what's getting
00:25:25.200paid for ceremonial positions by people. And Justin Trudeau so recently having, I mean,
00:25:30.280basically embarrassed himself with the Payette catastrophe. I mean, as a governor general,
00:25:34.540she went out in scandal. You'd think he'd be more careful or the next governor general would be more
00:25:40.160careful to try and avoid this sort of thing. And she hasn't even made it a year yet. And then here
00:25:44.500we go. Yeah, that was a really good point right there that you ended on, right? We just had a
00:25:49.740very turbulent relationship with the last governor general. We're hoping for maybe perhaps a new
00:25:55.960relationship with this governor general, but she's off to a bad start when it comes to disrespecting1.00
00:26:00.580taxpayers' hard-earned money. There's a few more points that I think we have to talk about
00:26:05.120specifically with the $80,000 on in-flight catering. Number one, that happened in March
00:26:11.740of this year. That happened while Canadians were experiencing a three-decade high inflation.
00:26:18.820So you have Canadians at home who are having a difficult time fueling up their cars on the way to work, who are having a difficult time trying to afford to put ground beef in the grocery carts, all while our apparent head of state, the Governor General and her entourage are racking up $80,000 in in-flight catering.
00:26:36.260But here's a second thing that we have to remember, Corey, you know, I travel a lot with work and it is reasonable that when you're on the road that you can expense your employer for reasonable types of meals, right? If you're on the road, you should be able to expense your employer for a reasonable meal, but not $80,000 on in-flight catering for yourself, your entourage, and whoever might be on the flight.
00:27:03.300I mean, we have to remember, too, is that the governor general, she is making more than $300,000 in her annual salary.
00:27:12.420So if she wants to have a fancy meal, by all means, she should be able to pay for it out of pocket.
00:42:44.660Well, and I think that increasingly, certainly those people in Western Canada that pay attention to what's going on in Ottawa have to question why there's no criteria and, you know, that you can measure people against when the prime minister appoints the governor general or senators.
00:43:01.920You know, clearly there should be something as a job description and something that we can sort of judge them by.
00:43:07.920Well, I mean, as a senator, even that there's some potential roles or things that they could be doing in power.
00:43:14.080But I mean, realistically, a governor general now is a figurehead.
00:43:17.520I mean, it's an important one, technically a very powerful person.
00:43:20.640But I said kind of in an earlier rant at the start of the show, I bet we could find somebody for half of that salary who could do it very well.
00:43:26.720A good public speaker, a presenter who could represent and give out the medals and cut the ribbons because that's really what they do.
00:43:34.840I'm sure there's lots of highly qualified people.0.97
00:43:37.340I think the worst recent example, and you mentioned her on your show, is Payette.
00:43:44.080You know, obviously, I don't know what screening took place before the Prime Minister Trudeau appointed her, but obviously it was inadequate.
00:43:52.900Oh, yeah. And I was ranting earlier about that.
00:43:54.680I mean, because even in her first year, she was complaining about her job.
00:43:57.260I mean, that's what really got me worked up.
00:43:58.640I was researching for my rant, and I found one of my old blog posts from a few years ago, me going after her then.
00:44:04.720Because, wow, you're making $300,000 a year with all your expenses, everything else.
00:44:08.300And you're saying, quit making me come in to sign these bills.
00:44:10.900It's tiring. I don't want to have to do all this.
00:44:13.220Oh, you poor darling. Oh, well, I'll get on some other stuff. I've been ranting on that for a while. We've got perhaps some opportunities for change. I kind of want to talk about it. We've got two conservative parties in leadership races right now. I mean, they're going to make a, they're going to obviously be very important for the parties, hopefully very important for the country and the province, depending on who wins it.
00:44:34.560uh the federal race is kind of dragging it's going to be a long one you know i mean it's
00:44:39.520already been going for quite a while and it's going into september uh they're all positioning
00:44:44.180themselves the memberships have closed now how do you think that's looking like where is that
00:44:48.320going right now well i think that there's general concern certainly in western canada uh whether
00:44:54.660pierre polyev can actually win uh he's certainly got a strong uh you know base of support here in
00:45:00.760the West. It's ironic, I guess, that at least at this point, he hasn't accepted the invitation from
00:45:07.280Western Standard to participate in the debate that the paper has organized. And so we'll see
00:45:15.920where that goes. I mean, all the other, what is it, five? Yeah, five of the candidates have all
00:45:21.340accepted the invitation to participate. Well, four now. We're working on it. And there's part
00:45:27.620are the problems I think that happens in politics a bit of a strategic we see that a lot uh as often
00:45:32.980with a front runner or a uh incumbent you know we know that from town hall meetings or election
00:45:38.260forums uh when it comes they often will decline on those because they realize well we don't feel
00:45:43.120there's a lot that could be gained but if we get in there and screw up there's a lot we can lose
00:45:46.720exactly so that's sort of the traditional position of the front runner and obviously Pierre uh and
00:45:52.800his supporters consider him to be the front runner. So, as you say, they have to weigh that balance
00:45:57.780about, you know, the risk, you know, whether you can gain sufficient to take that risk is really
00:46:04.300what it comes down to. And as front runner, they often will decline these invitations because of
00:46:08.700that. So, I mean, we'll have to see how this develops. It's an interesting race, I guess,
00:46:14.760as a Conservative. I mean, lifelong reformer slash Canadian Alliance slash Conservative Member
00:46:21.900of Parliament. Obviously, I have an interest in seeing how that develops. But I guess we could
00:46:28.560talk about what comes next. That's what you and I were discussing previously on your program,
00:46:34.460is for most Albertans and Canadians, I think you have to look beyond the existing race. Okay,0.92
00:46:42.060so it's fine to win the race and become the leader of that party, whether it's the
00:46:46.340the Conservative Party of Canada, the CPC nationally, or the United Conservative Party,
00:46:52.680the UCP provincially. It's fine to win the race, but what comes next? How well positioned are they
00:46:58.260to take that next big, hopefully victory as a Conservative, I'd say hopefully victory,
00:47:04.540and win either as Premier or as Prime Minister? Yeah, I mean, it's a big task, and it's a different
00:47:12.120type of task. It's a different strategy. I mean, winning among ostensibly conservative members,
00:47:17.240you can say a lot of the good conservative language to get in there. Next, if you're
00:47:22.020trying for the general populace, well, if we're going to follow our ideals, you would stick to
00:47:25.720your conservative message and you'll sell it well enough to enough Canadians that they will embrace
00:47:29.760it. What often happens though is they get in and then they say, well, the only way I can win now
00:47:34.080is to expand the base by going more liberal. But I mean, that's failed for two candidates in a row.
00:47:39.220Well, hopefully whoever wins doesn't go that route. As you say, they try to sell a Conservative message to Toronto, Montreal and Points East, as opposed to trying to change the party. And of course, that was the big problem that many Westerners in particular had with Mr. O'Toole, is he no sooner won the leadership of the Conservative Party as he started to say, well, Conservatives have to change.
00:48:04.320It's not that people down east had to change to a more conservative philosophy, if you will.
00:48:10.980It was that the party and the membership was expected to change.
00:48:14.560And that didn't sit very well with a lot of conservatives, particularly here in the West.
00:48:18.880No, and it does seem to be the cycle of battle, though, right?
00:48:22.600And then the conservative members, we are the most notorious for ripping out our own leaders.
00:48:26.460I mean, we're unforgiving when they take us off.
00:48:33.200same with premier kenny yeah uh so i mean they they have to manage to as you said the big what
00:48:39.040if after they win okay they got a couple of big tasks not only do they have to turn win election
00:48:42.960they still got to keep those members happy too while they're at it whether it's caucus or at a
00:48:47.760ground level and it's quite a juggling act i have given this a considerable thought in the last
00:48:52.480while as i suspect a lot of canadians are when we look at the national party the cpc's leadership
00:48:57.680race, because people are saying, well, you know, at the moment, Pierre Polyev has a very strong
00:49:05.220conservative base. When I say conservative, fiscal conservatism, even in many respects,
00:49:11.260social conservatism, I mean, he seems to be appealing, as Mr. O'Toole did, to that hardcore
00:49:17.180base. And so then people have been saying to me, you know, based upon my experience, say,
00:49:23.420well, you know, how would he morph, as you're suggesting, Corey, how would he morph to actually
00:49:28.880be in a position to win the prime ministership? And I've been saying, well, there's a number of
00:49:35.340factors that might work in his favor. Were he to win? You know, is he actually the front runner,
00:49:40.680first of all? And then secondly, under this goofy system, they have the equality of all
00:49:44.880ridings, regardless of the size of the membership. Can he actually win? And, you know, that remains
00:49:50.840to be seen on September 10th. But my point is, is that you and I, because we do have some gray
00:49:57.580hair, we know that in most cases, governments are defeated, they're not elected. And by that,
00:50:03.300I mean, that they all have a lifespan, if you will. And at some point, the electorate gets
00:50:10.480tired of them. And that'll happen, believe it or not, even with Justin Trudeau, I think is and
00:50:15.980we're starting to see that a little bit in some of the criticism coming out of the mainstream
00:50:20.280media in the last while. They've been so silent as far as criticizing him. But in the last while,
00:50:26.480that's starting to change. So is that a sign that Central and Eastern Canada might be becoming a bit
00:50:33.980more critical of Justin Trudeau and his government? We would hope so. Us in the West would hope so.
00:50:40.000So timing is everything. Perhaps whether it's Pierre or Mr. Charest or whoever becomes the
00:50:46.760next conservative leader, timing might be right. And they might be able to sell a conservative
00:50:52.720message, not really because people are embracing that message, but because they're tired of the
00:50:58.340liberals and they feel they've had their chance. They're ready for somebody else. The opportunity
00:51:02.140is there. Yeah. And we are seeing that. I mean, I'll name a couple. Yeah. Don Martin came up with
00:51:05.540just a scathing tear into Justin Trudeau. And Selly was another one, I believe that, again,
00:51:14.080very critical and saying maybe as the veneer is coming off the members are getting tired the
00:51:18.240liberal members are getting tired uh so i mean it provides opportunity well we saw with we saw
00:51:24.080the mandate issue right uh all of the opposition to these travel mandates uh that has been building
00:51:31.200and building and building and and yet it appears to be that it took the the insiders i'll call them
00:51:38.240the liberal members of parliament themselves where they finally said enough enough this is
00:51:43.280ridiculous. We're the only country left on the planet, basically, that still has these travel
00:51:47.800mandates in place. And it took that kind of pressure, internal pressure, before Trudeau
00:51:53.820eventually said, okay, I'll lift the mandates. Well, we'll be watching with interest. They've
00:51:59.260got a lot to work with. But again, you know, as I said, there's two races they got to do,0.57
00:52:02.180win the leadership and win the election. Exactly. Even more immediately pressing,
00:52:06.360I'll move into the provincial one. So we got quite one developing. I believe now there's
00:52:10.340nine candidates announced for this one. We'll see. I'll kind of start though on that bar they set.
00:52:16.560What's the party signaling when they're saying you have to come up with $175,000 in two months
00:52:22.200just to run? Yeah. That bugs me. I got to admit, I mean, I understand the need for a bar, but
00:52:27.820setting it that purposely high, I don't think it shows respect for the grassroots.
00:52:33.060No, not at all. I would agree a hundred percent with you. The last time I was on your program,
00:52:37.240And we discussed that because we didn't know what the threshold would be at that point.
00:52:41.420And we also discussed, as I recall, Corey, the challenge that whoever runs and whoever wins and becomes our next premier by default is, you know, at least for a few months, they'll be premier and hopefully longer.
00:52:57.360You know, the challenges that they have.
00:52:59.840And one of those challenges, I believe, is to try to convince people that they're not elitist, that they're not insiders.
00:53:06.560And they will not govern like Jason Kenney did, or he allegedly did, which is that, you know, it was his way or the highway. He only consulted, apparently, with a very small number of people. It's sort of his core group of two or three advisors. He didn't even listen to his own cabinet or his caucus.
00:53:26.060You know, and I think that was really what would eventually inflamed the rank and file membership of the United Conservative Party against Mr. Kenny was this, whether it's right or not, the perception and in politics, perception is reality, the perception that he wasn't listening to anybody but a few insiders.
00:53:49.380And so the challenge will be for all of these candidates, especially the cabinet ministers, especially former leaders like Brian Jean and Danielle Smith, to convince Albertans at large, not just the UCP membership, convince Albertans at large that they can broaden their base, that they will listen to the people as opposed to a few key insiders.
00:54:15.200So, yeah. And I mean, that's something we used to pride ourselves as reformers way back in the time.
00:54:20.140The fundraising numbers were always great because it showed it was ten dollars here.
00:54:23.620It was fifty dollars there. It was a KFC bucket passed at a town hall meeting or a cowboy hat.
00:54:29.720Yeah. And it was still it added up to a lot of money.
00:54:32.340People really reached deeply and funded that party in that movement as it went and thousands and thousands of people did.0.74
00:54:38.040But with this bar set and the timeline, it means no matter who gets into this race,
00:54:42.740It means they had a few very heavy duty donors in order to pull it off.
00:54:47.660They just don't have the time to build that network of grassroots support.
00:54:51.800But then you really, it's hard to sell yourself.
00:54:53.440And when clearly you're at least a little beholden to five or six heavy duty donors or action groups or something of the sort in order to get in it.
00:55:00.780It's just an unfortunate way they went.
00:55:04.800And, you know, there again, the last time I was on your program a couple of weeks back, we were talking about that.
00:55:10.380We're talking about the advantage for the party and certainly for the individual to have somebody that's widely viewed as an outsider, a bridge builder, we used to call them in the Reform Party.
00:55:20.560Somebody that could appeal to all, like urban and rural, was as comfortable in a boardroom talking to businessmen in Calgary or Edmonton as he or she would be, you know, standing with some crap on their boots in a farmyard.
00:55:35.840you know and someone that could appeal to all age groups you know which would by necessity probably
00:55:42.680mean uh not myself not a gray-haired fella uh we need somebody that can appeal to the next
00:55:49.100generation because it's them that's facing a lot of the challenges today yeah and i don't fault the
00:55:53.340candidates they weren't a part of the committee so those who were entering those who managed to
00:55:56.360make it they did what they have to do to get in uh richard blackburn say yeah he agrees it's high
00:56:00.500but you know you have to have something in place you know to ensure there aren't 40 candidates and
00:56:03.860I agree, but we've always said there should be a bar,
00:57:00.740And I said that right from the beginning as soon as Mr. Kenney announced that he was going to be stepping down.
00:57:08.020And, you know, basically that was the start of the replacement race at that time.
00:57:15.600And I said right away, I said, I hope that every single candidate that eventually runs not only commits to greater autonomy for Alberta and curbing the Ottawa overreach and the infringement on the provinces, really the basis of our economy.
00:57:36.300And when we look in particular, of course, the oil and gas industry and what's happened to that because of the, I would almost call it, it seems like a personal vendetta on the part of the prime minister to destroy our industry.
00:57:48.900And yet it's the cash cow, it's the golden goose, if you will, that's funding the country.
00:58:05.340I was talking to Franco Tarazano from the Taxpayers Federation earlier in the show, and again, we're just stumped.
00:58:11.820I mean, Chrystia Freeland, okay, we don't expect much of the Liberal government, but still, I mean, just the most basic thing, you know, is you can't keep spending or you're going to cause inflation.
00:58:22.500If we're going to stand up and say, we're going to spend $9 billion more to fight inflation, it makes no sense.
00:58:27.760So this is not a government we can expect rational behavior from.
00:58:30.600So even though they're as reliant on oil for their revenues as anybody else is, they're still trying to attack it.
00:58:36.620They're still trying to knock it down.
00:58:38.120It's just like Joe Biden saying, oh, it's not my fault that the prices are high throughout North America.
00:58:42.060Now hold my hat while I go snivel for oil over in Saudi Arabia and I don't want any more Canadian stuff.
00:58:49.220And I think increasingly, hopefully, I say this, increasingly Canadians, in particular Western Canadians, are getting fed up with this hypocrisy on the part of leadership.
00:59:00.600whether it's in in the states or here in canada and increasingly people are calling them out on
00:59:06.200it and well they should i know the one thing that prompted me a couple of years ago you and i have
00:59:11.160talked about this to come out of my retirement at the time and start that new political party
00:59:15.800the maverick party uh was this sense that um that i was just fed up with the hypocrisy where our
00:59:23.880political leadership, say, you and I, as sort of average Canadians, should do such, you know,
00:59:31.340such and such. But then they turn around and don't apply those same rules to themselves.
00:59:37.840And I hope that the apathy that we've seen on the part of a lot of Canadians as they struggle,
00:59:44.400as you said earlier in the program, to meet their mortgage payments, to put food on the table,
00:59:49.140fuel in the car in order to go to work. As they struggle under those, that the apathy that we see
00:59:56.840towards politics will end. And there'll be more people involved in things like the Freedom Convoy
01:00:04.100that say enough, enough, we're fed up. The apathy tends to go in when you finally get kicked in the
01:00:10.760butt. You know, talking about green things, climate emergencies, plans like that, that's all
01:00:14.560beautiful so you can't pay the rent yeah you know so you can't you can't feed your kids well enough
01:00:19.420for choosing between you know keeping them well dressed for school or or buying a decent food
01:00:23.740so I think people will be ready for change if again if the right person approaches them so I
01:00:29.420mean I think part of this regionalist approach too is I mean we're seeing that too from from
01:00:34.080establishment candidates uh Taze and others they're trying to carefully distance themselves
01:00:37.540from Kenny while not being insulting at the same time but they do every candidate has to explain
01:03:21.700And the cabinet ministers, and in particular, Travis Taves, that is a huge hill for him to climb, to be able to say to, first of all, the UCP membership, and then provided he was successful, and to Albertans, oh, well, that was Jason Kenney.
01:04:11.300I think that the regionalism is really planned strategically to reach out to those members who were really alienated by the lack of action or feeling of lack of action on Kenny's part.
01:04:20.040if it works, one of them is going to win, they get in. Now they've got six months,
01:04:24.720you know, maybe what a short session in the legislature. I think they're going to have
01:04:28.480to hit the ground running with some action if they're going to, but careful action,
01:04:32.760if they're going to win the next election in spring, that's going to take some pretty good
01:04:35.960political acumen. Yeah. And I would say, you know, that hopefully whoever it is,
01:04:41.280is going to learn a bit from history. One is that you have to have a united team. So the first thing
01:04:46.080is to try to, you know, heal the wounds that are going to develop during the leadership race.
01:04:51.940We've seen that time and time again, no more so than currently happening with the CPC race,
01:04:57.780you know, where they're just sniping at each other constantly and dragging each other down.
01:05:02.380Hopefully we don't see that level in the provincial race. So the first task obviously
01:05:08.520will be to heal the internal divisions within the UCP. The worst case scenario is that, you know,
01:05:15.500if somebody wins that like a Travis Tavis,
01:05:18.360it's viewed as sort of a conservative and the wild rose folks say, well,
01:05:22.600the hell of that. That wasn't my guy that won. So I'm leaving.
01:05:42.140We got a lot of, all the candidates, well, aside from a couple that you don't hear of, but the ones that we know of have some baggage that they're carrying in that sort of way.
01:05:50.740I mean, Danielle Smith, of course, made a catastrophic decision when she was leading the Wild Rose Party.
01:05:55.040That's definitely her biggest hurdle to try and overcome as she's coming in.
01:05:59.700I mean, she's said it a hundred times, and I think she's convinced some people, but some are still hesitant that she's learned and realizes it was an error and it's made her better for it.
01:06:08.000But a lot won't necessarily believe that.
01:06:09.560But Brian Jean has been very divisive as well.
01:06:13.300I mean, he kind of stomped out the door once the leadership was over.
01:06:16.900And would he be more cooperative getting in?
01:08:14.000He's got the baggage of being within the government,
01:08:16.060but he's personally never done anything untoward.
01:08:19.080If he comes in, though, he's going to have to reach out then to the alienated ones.
01:08:22.460He's going to have to reach out to Drew Barnes, Todd Lowen,
01:08:24.640And even, you know, Leela here, I mean, the list is fairly long of some outspoken caucus members that you can't afford to just say, ah, well, you're out now and we're done with you.
01:08:34.480No, you've got to pull these people in convincingly or you are going to go into the next election with a hornet's nest fighting within your caucus.
01:08:41.240And I think that most of us recognize that, you know, as I said previously, sort of the non-socialists, which I hope are still the majority of Albertans that don't believe in socialism of the type that's being peddled by the NDP, both provincially and federally.
01:08:59.120the non-socialist Albertans have got to feel that this is, regardless of who wins, that this is a
01:09:07.400team they can get behind, that this is a team that's united, that as you say, there's room for
01:09:13.340everybody inside the tent, keep everybody pulling in the traces together, and we'll see where that
01:09:19.240goes. But if they don't do that, if they can't, you know, there's an age-old thing that I'm often
01:09:24.680reminded about when it comes to political parties. And that is if they're divisive and they're seen
01:09:31.280as that, that they can't, it's like, if you can't govern yourself, what would lead you to believe
01:09:38.480that you should ask, in this case, Albertans, to give you the chance to govern them? And that's
01:09:45.040the challenge for all of them. And their timeline is tight. Well, I'm going to be, before I let you
01:09:50.000go, I will be interviewing all of them, I'm sure, over the course of this. I got three more of the
01:09:53.580leadership candidates come up just next week alone. And I had Danielle yesterday. So what would you0.85
01:09:57.560think I should ask them as a prime question? Well, I think for me at least, and obviously
01:10:04.080as the founder of the Maverick Party, the big issue, and you got back to it with your mention
01:10:10.340of the fair deal panel recommendations, is that why is it that nobody has taken a look at the five
01:10:19.300constitutional amendments that I put forward as part of the Maverick platform. And actually to
01:10:25.720draw attention, it's not like we'll ever accomplish them, but draw attention to the inequities and the
01:10:31.340unfairness that Ottawa heaps on Western Canada. Nobody has mentioned that type of thing and said,
01:10:38.140okay, well, it's unlikely that that's ever going to be accomplished, but that's what needs to be
01:10:43.140accomplished if Albertans are ever going to be treated fairly. And the Fair Deal panel, another
01:10:48.320one. It's not enough that these people, and I questioned Danielle Smith in the sense of
01:10:53.000calling it a sovereignty act, because my belief is that as soon as you talk about sovereignty
01:10:57.660or separatism, you're going to lose people, right? If you talk about autonomy or some form of
01:11:04.240independence, and that's what I was trying to do with Maverick, was talk about the need for greater
01:11:09.060independence. And where we stop along the spectrum is up to Albertans and up to Westerners.
01:11:16.240You know, so you can have independence at various levels and enacting various things along the way from the fair deal panel, as an example.
01:11:26.180But if I was asking them questions, I'd be saying, okay, what's your timeline?
01:11:32.040How have you prioritized what you're going to do?
01:11:35.020Like whether it's a pension plan, whether it's control of taxation, whether it's, you know, that you're going, as she has mentioned, there's certain federal laws.
01:11:43.300she's going to say, you know, they, they shouldn't apply to Alberta. That's fine.
01:11:46.760How are you going to do that? And what is your timeline?
01:11:49.700Because one of the lessons with Mr. Kenny, as you say,
01:11:53.680was the disappointment that he didn't walk the talk.
01:21:38.140He's writing, rewriting regulations to give airlines more leeway in denying refunds for flight delays.
01:21:44.580I mean, the government's made an unholy mess of travel across the country, and they are now, they've infuriated the airlines, but they're trying to, it seems they're more content to screw the passengers than the airlines, so they're finding ways to tell the airlines they can deny you a refund if they've screwed you on your flight.
01:22:01.240It's just horrible, this government, what they're doing.
01:22:06.900That's, again, the committees are putting the government on the spot with these things.
01:22:10.660Let's see, we've got some other news to run through.
01:22:12.980Oh, yeah, here's another beauty. Speaking of entitlement, seeking to waste. So, yeah, there's a $12,000 yearly bonus, basically automatic to the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation employees, pretty much every one of them.
01:22:28.240How many of you get your $12,000 Christmas bonus?
01:25:20.100All they do is always, whether it's trying to regulate the internet, regulating the media, taking away your firearms, now going after your privacy, as well as a bill in the Senate that was looking to go after, you know, giving customs agencies the ability to read through your personal email, phones, and information.
01:25:36.960this country needs a change in a big way and i mean i know the conservatives alone won't be able
01:25:43.360to do it even if we get a conservative prime minister whoever wins that race there's still
01:25:47.640the changes too big for that but it would be less damaging than the current government this
01:25:50.680government needs to be flushed out of there mitigate the damage got to all right uh it's
01:25:57.620enough renting out of me so let's say that reminder again go to the western standard online
01:26:00.980we got the debate on again it's going to be in july 8th at the petroleum club and uh you can
01:26:06.300get there in person. It's only 300 seats. So that means, you know, it's a pretty intimate setting
01:26:11.140and there'll be a cocktail period afterwards where you could, you know, meet and greet with
01:26:15.800some of those candidates after the debate and chat with them yourself. And yeah, just for 25 bucks.
01:26:21.120Like I said, you can get in and see the Pete Club. It's on a Friday, you know, so you can,
01:26:25.620if you get out of work an hour early, you can catch that. It starts, I think it's going to start
01:26:29.580three. And as well, so Monday, I'll be back. I'm going to have guests, former cabinet minister,
01:26:36.600Rebecca Schultz. She's running for the leadership of the UCP. She's going to come on and talk about
01:26:41.440her platform. And Chris Oldcorn, our Saskatchewan writer and columnist is going to come on. We'll
01:26:47.220just talk some more Saskatchewan updates and news. And I got a lot of guests lined up for the rest
01:26:51.760of the week as well. So you all have a good weekend and I will see you all Monday morning at 1130.