Western Standard - November 05, 2026


Trump lost the midterms. How quickly will Canada's economy recover？

What do the US midterms mean for Trump and Canada？ Rempel Takes Aim at the Big Immigration Lobby

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00:00:00.000 Hey, welcome back.
00:00:27.520 hopefully i didn't lose some of you guys because of the time change now we haven't had a time
00:00:35.840 change in alberta for the first time for the first time since i can ever remember i mean as long as
00:00:42.060 i've known there's always been two time changes in alberta and uh we didn't have one this time
00:00:49.560 it confused me a little bit you know i think it was on monday we were supposed normally we would
00:00:54.600 I had the time change and then I had several machines at home, you know, the phone, the watch, the computer all had different times.
00:01:00.400 So it took a took a day to get everything settled in.
00:01:03.300 So hopefully nobody is missing the show because of that.
00:01:09.040 But but I'll be realistic. Maybe maybe some of you feel the same way.
00:01:13.660 I do feel as if my body was expecting that time change.
00:01:18.760 I know there wasn't a time change and things are normal, but somehow or other, I'm a little bit misadjusted right now.
00:01:26.480 I'm sure it'll pass.
00:01:27.980 The other thing that's really weird for me is this is the first time that I remember being only one hour behind Ontario.
00:01:37.120 Again, I noticed it this week.
00:01:39.080 I log in in the morning and I'm looking at news.
00:01:41.960 I go to websites like Stats Canada to see their updates.
00:01:44.980 I used to go to this. I used to get a Stats Canada update at 630 in the morning. Now it's at 730. Then after that, I'd go look at the stock market and look at the stock market at 730. Now I got to go look at it at 830. So it's, you know, it's creating some some some confusion for me. And then we had things like the budget, the budget's coming out this afternoon at four o'clock Eastern. Well, that's not to my time now. That's three my time.
00:02:11.380 um i don't know i i i i i'm on the fence on in terms of uh of the time change i guess um i
00:02:21.960 fundamentally i do like it when we have uh the daylight is more towards the morning versus the
00:02:29.220 evening um but uh not my choice i guess so all right um apart from that um i'm looking at the
00:02:38.580 screen yesterday i was doing another podcast and somebody was complaining because apparently my
00:02:42.960 poppy was on the wrong side my poppy was always on the on the correct side it's over the heart
00:02:47.520 but on the podcast that i was doing yesterday uh the software had mirrored my image now speaking
00:02:54.780 of poppies it is it is remembrance it's officially remembrance week i always thought like remembrance
00:03:02.780 i didn't know that remembrance was a week or very specific i always started wearing a poppy you know
00:03:08.560 sort of around halloween kind of thing um but now it's very specific and and then i noticed today
00:03:15.980 coming into calgary i was walking i was on the train first of all then i was walking downtown
00:03:21.100 and i i like i was doing a mental count in my head maybe five percent of the people have poppies
00:03:28.060 that's it i don't know hopefully it goes up over over the course of this week but but then at this
00:03:35.000 point, I'm willing to give people the benefit of the doubt. One of the things that happened with
00:03:38.500 poppies, unfortunately, is, you know, remember, there used to be the boxes were everywhere,
00:03:43.260 and you just put your coins, and they were all over the place. Well, people aren't carrying
00:03:46.340 coins. And I think that's part of the problem, right? You see the box of poppies, and you don't
00:03:50.620 have a coin. I think some people are solving that problem by bringing, you know, those card readers
00:03:56.200 or whatever. But so keep that in mind this week, you know, if you're coming for a walk, going to
00:04:01.080 the bank you know and the poppy boxes are usually in common places like that like at the bank
00:04:05.760 tellers and at your convenience stores and things like that so this week maybe do a little extra
00:04:11.060 effort to I know most of you just use credit cards and debit cards but throw throw throw five
00:04:16.400 loonies in uh in your pockets or some change or whatever and then go buy yourself a poppy okay
00:04:22.540 especially at this time um with uh here in Alberta with the tragedy that happened at uh Wainwright
00:04:30.180 You know, on October 17th.
00:04:32.460 And there's still, I mean, we shouldn't be just remembering our veterans and our soldiers this week, right?
00:04:39.060 We should remember them all the time and thank them for what they do.
00:04:43.620 But this week in particular, here in Alberta, because of the incident at Wainwright.
00:04:48.920 So it's a little closer to home.
00:04:52.120 All right.
00:04:53.060 Again, it's your show.
00:04:55.280 Call in.
00:04:56.020 Phone number is on the screen there, 866-479-WEST.
00:05:01.820 And as always, we only have one line.
00:05:04.520 It's not a classic switchboard where you can be put on hold
00:05:07.340 and then when I'm ready, we press a button.
00:05:09.580 John's taking your calls one by one.
00:05:12.580 And sometimes I'll ask you to stay on the line
00:05:15.980 and we'll have a bit of chat.
00:05:16.900 But if I know that there's other people trying to get through
00:05:18.760 because I hear the beep, then I'll ask you to hang up.
00:05:21.660 Let me know your name, where you're calling from,
00:05:23.620 and generally what's on your mind.
00:05:24.820 And the topic today, I think it's the topic on everybody's mind, is the midterm election that just happened in the U.S.
00:05:31.880 I want to talk about that.
00:05:33.120 But I mentioned earlier the budget's coming out.
00:05:36.720 Unfortunately, it won't come out until I'm done this show.
00:05:40.180 But, you know, there's a lot of things that have been leaked out of the budget.
00:05:43.140 So I want to talk a little bit about Carney's because it's his second budget.
00:05:47.160 The six by-elections that were announced earlier this week.
00:05:52.360 Poor Nenshi.
00:05:53.200 I think Nenshi's in for a rough couple of days here.
00:05:57.960 Colleagues here broke a story on the report that he knew about the water infrastructure problems and so forth,
00:06:03.880 as Calgarians are currently being asked by the mayor to, you know, take shorter showers.
00:06:09.200 Man, there was a cringe video on that.
00:06:11.240 So those are the kinds of things I want to talk about.
00:06:14.660 You know, Carney banning the junior Russian team from the tournament, stuff like that.
00:06:19.720 So those are the topics, but let's talk quickly or not quickly, but let's talk about the midterm because it's the title of today's show.
00:06:27.240 And before I get too deep into the results of the midterm, I think I need to, I hate to do this.
00:06:33.960 I hate to mansplain or explain what's going on.
00:06:36.400 I'm sure most of you guys know this, but I need to explain the difference between the American system and the Canadian system.
00:06:44.660 because I saw this week a lot of people really don't understand
00:06:48.720 what the midterms were, right?
00:06:50.600 So in Canada, pretty straightforward.
00:06:53.460 We have a Westminster system.
00:06:55.500 We have elections where we vote for our own member of parliament
00:07:02.100 in our own writing.
00:07:03.820 We elect them in what's called first past the post,
00:07:06.600 so it's not a majority.
00:07:07.580 So in any writing, you can have five, six people,
00:07:10.440 and whoever gets the most vote of those five or six or two people or three,
00:07:14.660 gets elected as a member of parliament now in now in principle we could we could elect members of
00:07:21.200 parliament that don't belong to any parties but they do belong to a party let's be realistic
00:07:25.040 and then and then we send those members of parliament to ottawa and among them and then
00:07:30.040 the side that has the majority forms government and the side that forms government uh in the house
00:07:38.680 of commons then chooses among themselves who's going to be the prime minister and then and then
00:07:44.400 And the prime minister has fundamentally not much different powers than all the other members of parliament.
00:07:51.780 And then our House of Commons makes laws and passes bills based on a majority.
00:07:58.920 And at any time, if one side gets voted, loses the confidence of the, if the governing side loses what's called the confidence of the House of Commons,
00:08:12.160 then either we go to another election or the other side gets asked to form government.
00:08:18.800 So it's as simple as that.
00:08:20.500 So, well, it's not that simple, but that's our system.
00:08:23.620 We're familiar with the system.
00:08:25.280 And now the U.S. has a very different system, very different system.
00:08:31.400 So in the U.S., their body that legislates and passes laws is the Assembly.
00:08:43.340 And they elect those representatives, the House of Representatives,
00:08:49.940 they elect their representatives to two-year terms, okay?
00:08:54.220 Not four years, only to two-year terms.
00:08:56.540 and so in the first and in the first year every every four years they elect them to a two-year
00:09:03.000 term and in that election they also elect a president so the in the u.s the president's name
00:09:10.180 is separate on a ballot so two years ago americans went to vote and they elected
00:09:16.220 their representative and they got to choose their president now this has happened in the past
00:09:22.980 rarely but it does happen that um that the house has a majority of one party that's different than
00:09:31.960 the president so it happened to reagan for instance so reagan was a republican reagan got
00:09:36.740 elected in his first term as president but in his first term the republicans had less members of the
00:09:43.440 house than the democrats okay so they do that and and then their their house functions sort of
00:09:50.680 similar to ours they they um their house of representatives they debate ideas and they pass
00:09:56.040 laws on based on majority but there's no concept of loss of confidence in the house okay they if
00:10:05.800 they if they vote down a bill or whatever there's no loss of confidence in the house
00:10:09.940 and there's no easy ability there's no easy way to remove the president the president sort of
00:10:16.880 stands separate from the house and the president stands separate from the house of representatives
00:10:23.600 and he has separate powers he has very powerful executive powers he has veto powers the house can
00:10:31.040 pass a bill and the president can just say not happening done because the president at the end
00:10:37.200 of the day he represents all of the people because they the whole country chose him whereas the
00:10:42.640 the representatives are chosen by their own little constituents, right?
00:10:46.000 So the president has these really powerful powers, strong powers.
00:10:52.160 And he can't easily be removed unless he's impeached.
00:10:55.580 And I'll get back to that.
00:10:57.760 So, and the president's elected for a four-year term.
00:11:01.000 Then he can get elected twice, and that's it.
00:11:03.260 That's their law.
00:11:03.940 That's their constitution.
00:11:05.000 You can't do more than two terms.
00:11:07.180 But so they elect all their representatives and the president.
00:11:10.980 Then two years later, they go back to an election, but two years later in that second election in the president's term, all the representatives are up for grab.
00:11:21.740 They all have to try and get reelected, but the president is not.
00:11:25.440 So that's what happened in the U.S. on Tuesday, two days ago, is that all the representatives had to run again for their position.
00:11:35.880 And that's where they say that the House flipped.
00:11:38.020 So the president stays, but now in the second half of his term, the House is more democratically leaning than Republican.
00:11:49.340 They have more members.
00:11:50.860 So now the House is going to continue to make laws.
00:11:54.100 So the American House will continue to pass laws.
00:11:57.260 But in all likelihood, a lot of those laws, if they don't come to a nice consensus, Trump can just veto it and scrap those laws.
00:12:06.000 So when the House now starts working, they kind of, and this is all designed, this was all designed, you know, 250 years ago. The Americans who wrote the Constitution thought of all these kinds of things. They created a system completely different than the Westminster system that we have on because they balance powers in a very different way.
00:12:27.700 and um so that's important right so so that's what happened last week the the house changed
00:12:34.440 but the president doesn't and that kind of changes the dynamics going forward because now
00:12:39.440 um in order to make law in order to pass laws the democrats who control have to do have to pass laws
00:12:46.900 that are kind of appeal to trump otherwise he'll just veto them and and um so that that that's one
00:12:54.940 thing. So the midterms, in essence, act as a kind of a really good gut check to the government.
00:13:07.860 It's a good balance, right? So if you're unhappy with the way that the government was going,
00:13:12.720 you don't have to wait four years. They can start having some change after two years. So it's a
00:13:18.200 pretty cool tool, I think. Now, I want to do, while I'm talking about this, I want to do just
00:13:24.640 a really quick interesting comparison because it's going to affect one of the other things i
00:13:28.640 want to talk about today which is we're we're in the process of uh adjusting the number of seats in
00:13:33.120 alberta but don't quote me exact unless john can find a diagram i don't know if john can find a
00:13:38.640 diagram if you can find a result of the election in the u.s or something like that but our our
00:13:43.920 Our House of Commons has 343 MPs.
00:13:50.540 The U.S. has something like 437 or 436.
00:13:55.820 Don't quote me exactly, but you know what I mean?
00:13:57.840 It's like pretty darn close, right?
00:13:59.480 Like maybe 100 more representatives than we have,
00:14:03.520 but for a country that's 13 times bigger.
00:14:06.880 So each, and you always hear that complaint in Canada,
00:14:10.160 like, oh, we need more MPs because they have to travel so much
00:14:13.560 and they have to visit their constituents and get their input and stuff like that.
00:14:17.140 I call BS to that, first of all.
00:14:19.080 Like, they barely travel.
00:14:20.200 They never come around door.
00:14:21.400 Like, the idea of door knocking is a thing of the past.
00:14:25.800 And they can get my feedback without having to travel.
00:14:28.640 They can get it electronically.
00:14:29.940 But at the end of the day, an MP in Canada represents about 50,000 people, 60,000 people,
00:14:36.320 some as high as 100.
00:14:37.300 Like, it's not completely even.
00:14:38.700 But if you do the math, you know, 343 divided by, 40 million divided by 343, it's about that.
00:14:45.660 It's about, you know, 50,000, 70,000 per MP, whereas the Americans are in the 700,000 range.
00:14:51.920 So that would mean that, like, if Alberta was a state, we'd have, like, five or six members, representatives.
00:15:00.380 And what do we have now in the House of Commons?
00:15:02.380 Like, 30, 34.
00:15:04.660 So a big, a big difference there. All right. So and and and because of that, because of the the way the Americans vote every two years, what happened on Tuesday was not entirely unexpected and uncommon.
00:15:25.580 There's been a lot of almost every president in the last 20 years that I've been that I've been following politics has lost the midterm, meaning that, you know, there's been a major change to the to the balance of power in the House of Representatives.
00:15:42.260 It happened to Obama. It happened to Clinton. It happened to George Bush. It happened to all of them. It even happened to Biden. So and some people are trying to make a big something out of of of Trump, you know, making it a victory for the other side.
00:16:00.240 it is a victory sure it's a victory but is it but it's not an unexpected victory and it's not a
00:16:05.460 total condemnation of what he was doing now i think me personally speaking i mean i'm not an
00:16:12.500 american i don't live in the u.s and i i do know this about americans they're not as interested in
00:16:18.860 in in our politics as perhaps we are in theirs and that makes sense right they're they're they're
00:16:24.020 13 times bigger they're the elephant in the room and and some people said that oh the tariffs
00:16:30.000 The tariffs against Canada were hurting Americans, and that's how they reacted with this vote.
00:16:39.000 I think it comes down to some much simpler things.
00:16:41.980 Definitely Americans were not happy with the war against Iran dragging on and jacking up the price of oil.
00:16:49.940 They definitely weren't happy about $6 gasoline.
00:16:55.200 Every nation, every place has their own sort of sacred cow.
00:16:59.400 The Americans don't like expensive fuel.
00:17:02.200 I wish I knew what our sacred cow was.
00:17:04.200 I don't know what it is.
00:17:05.060 It's, you know, we seem to endure a lot of suffering and keep re-electing the people who cause that suffering.
00:17:14.640 But I think for the Americans, it was a combination of those things.
00:17:18.460 And it was one thing.
00:17:19.560 I mean, I think they were sending a message to Trump, which is, you're not listening to us or you're going too far.
00:17:30.460 And so he's going to, I think he's going to have to, well, in the U.S. they have an interesting term.
00:17:35.800 So once this happens to a president in the second half of his second term, they call it a lame duck president, right?
00:17:43.380 So basically, the president in the U.S. right now can't do a lot of things because he'll all he can do is veto a bunch of new bills that get passed or he can keep using his executive powers to to like tariffs.
00:17:57.460 Tariffs are tariffs were done with an executive power.
00:18:00.580 They're not something that was voted in their House of Representatives.
00:18:03.560 Trump can literally just say, I'm imposing a tariff on on whatever aluminum.
00:18:08.940 And so he can keep doing that.
00:18:10.180 So the House of Representatives doesn't have the ability to reverse the tariffs.
00:18:14.560 But back to what I was saying, Trump is limited in what he can do.
00:18:19.860 John, can you, I always like doing this.
00:18:22.140 We don't get a lot of these.
00:18:23.100 We got a super chat.
00:18:24.160 And so can you just bring it up?
00:18:25.480 And I'd like to be able to read it.
00:18:27.720 So JP, Alberta First, $5 super chat says, yes, we would have five or six representatives,
00:18:33.820 but we would have two senators.
00:18:35.880 And so would Ontario have two senators.
00:18:38.120 Yeah, yeah.
00:18:38.440 So thanks, JP.
00:18:39.840 I didn't bring up the whole balance of power.
00:18:42.260 The U.S. also has a second house to try and balance out the power.
00:18:46.260 We have that. 0.99
00:18:46.920 Plus, they have governors.
00:18:48.080 They have a whole lot of things.
00:18:49.620 But fundamentally speaking, they get away with a lot less representatives than we do per population. 0.99
00:18:56.960 But anyway, so Trump is kind of, he is a lame duck. 0.98
00:19:00.860 That's the term they use. 0.98
00:19:02.020 He can't do much.
00:19:03.780 So that was one of the questions I've been asking, and I'm asking you guys.
00:19:09.120 Like, what does this defeat mean for Trump going forward?
00:19:14.720 I think he's going to end up, unfortunately, he's going to end up fighting, you know, somebody said lawyer up.
00:19:19.980 We know this happened in his last term, right?
00:19:22.600 In his first term, like the Democrats are going to get ugly.
00:19:25.900 They're going to try and impeach him.
00:19:27.840 Impeachment is how they try and like that's their tool for saying we don't you've lost the confidence of our of the House and and we want you gone and you should resign kind of thing.
00:19:38.220 They're going to go down that path, which is ugly.
00:19:40.500 I don't even think they'll be successful down that path because they don't have the two-thirds majority.
00:19:44.640 I mean, they have a majority in the House, but it's not a super majority.
00:19:47.480 So impeachment is not necessarily available to them.
00:19:51.120 I personally hope that Trump spends more time just listening, taking this as his own wake-up call,
00:20:00.440 listening to what the people really want,
00:20:03.420 focusing on ending that war in Iran and bringing costs down
00:20:08.180 and maybe advancing some of the things he'd been doing
00:20:10.500 and make sure that another Republican president gets elected.
00:20:17.740 I think that's the number one thing I'd like to see.
00:20:20.720 I still think that the U.S. and Canada does better
00:20:25.000 when there's a Republican president next door than a Democrat.
00:20:29.160 But the other question then this week was, what does this mean for Canada?
00:20:35.040 And I think I've already answered that.
00:20:37.920 It doesn't mean much, right?
00:20:39.740 So Trump doesn't need to reverse tariffs.
00:20:45.480 I also don't think the Democrats want to reverse tariffs
00:20:48.280 because a lot of the tariffs that are imposed on Canada
00:20:50.720 are for things that they want to bring back jobs to the U.S.
00:20:55.880 they're imposing tariffs on us to protect
00:20:58.040 because they're worried about us 0.93
00:20:59.760 cozying up with China
00:21:01.060 and the Democrats and the Republicans
00:21:03.660 agree on that, right? Down in the US
00:21:05.680 China is viewed as a bad guy
00:21:08.120 the tariffs
00:21:10.320 so I don't
00:21:12.060 think the tariffs are going to go
00:21:13.840 away
00:21:14.260 I don't think
00:21:17.140 any politician other than maybe Doug
00:21:19.800 Ford, yesterday Doug Ford was the only one
00:21:21.880 who seemed to stand on stage saying
00:21:23.560 hey, I'm glad to see
00:21:25.800 Trump defeated. Everybody else was being pretty diplomatic about it. Carney didn't make any
00:21:31.340 pronouncement. Nobody said anything to rock the boat. I think the politician witnessed what
00:21:36.520 happened and there's not going to be a big change for us in the relationship between Canada and the
00:21:44.760 U.S. in the next two years. Although it's already softening up a little bit and we keep hearing
00:21:51.420 talks of the trade negotiations still being ongoing and stuff like that.
00:21:55.840 So, I mean, that's all I got to say about, because I don't follow American politics much
00:22:02.280 closely either.
00:22:05.460 I've always said I kind of like what Trump was doing, but it was a wake-up call for him.
00:22:12.160 And I think a lot of politicians around the world right now have been getting wake-up
00:22:15.640 calls, including here in Canada.
00:22:18.460 We had EB a couple of weeks ago, and I think Danielle better pay attention 0.99
00:22:22.720 to what happened at the referendum and so forth and so forth.
00:22:26.100 So that's my thoughts on the U.S. election.
00:22:32.320 What kind of comments? Any special comment?
00:22:34.440 Go ahead, folks. Call.
00:22:35.500 Again, I guess, fair enough.
00:22:38.280 I think some of you folks, yeah, it's kind of the format, right?
00:22:41.140 I talk, I do a bit of a monologue at the beginning,
00:22:44.100 and then after that, we'll take some calls.
00:22:46.520 So consider my monologue on the U.S. election done.
00:22:50.920 I'm not, let me summarize it.
00:22:52.740 I'm not entirely surprised.
00:22:54.440 It's expected.
00:22:55.620 Their system works that way.
00:22:57.560 There's generally a nice, it keeps the powers in balance
00:23:02.960 and it prevents one side from getting too crazy.
00:23:06.180 So I like that about the American system.
00:23:09.380 It's not unexpected.
00:23:11.360 It's not unusual.
00:23:12.500 Trump lost some seats in the House of Representatives,
00:23:17.140 but it's nowhere near the record.
00:23:19.180 There's been other presidents that have lost way more than he has.
00:23:22.980 I don't think it fundamentally changes Trump's strategy.
00:23:27.760 He's still the president and he's got his plan
00:23:30.180 and he's going to try and do it.
00:23:32.180 Besides, by the way, if Trump changed strategy
00:23:35.460 every time he got defeated, he wouldn't be who he is, right?
00:23:38.720 He's the kind of guy who, and that's, maybe I'll bring that up.
00:23:42.060 That's one part of this weekend of the election that still makes me nervous.
00:23:52.060 There is a wokeism that has taken over Western society.
00:24:00.060 And like we're taking progressivism too far in many instances, way too far.
00:24:06.340 And then there's the establishment, right?
00:24:09.140 We see that all the time.
00:24:10.640 There's an establishment in the world, like big, big, powerful families, big, powerful groups like the World Economic Forum and people at the top of the UN and people in government all over the world.
00:24:24.420 There's an establishment. There's an establishment here in Canada.
00:24:28.400 There's an establishment in Alberta.
00:24:30.680 I mean, we saw the establishment.
00:24:33.700 Caller on the line, answer when ready.
00:24:35.680 I'll come back to the establishment in a second because that's a I'm just going to write it down.
00:24:39.780 go ahead caller where are you calling from and what's on your mind hey i'm luke and i'm just
00:24:45.440 south of lethbridge how's it going and uh i'm doing all right doing all right so uh trump's
00:24:54.200 a lame duck president and that's interesting i don't think the uh tariffs are going to go away
00:24:59.020 if next time they're up for election i'm pretty sure like if they get a democrat president
00:25:06.000 That actually doesn't do anything for the tariffs.
00:25:08.640 I mean, they could executive order and remove them,
00:25:11.620 but it doesn't reestablish the NAFTA or anything like that.
00:25:16.580 So what do you think about that?
00:25:19.100 Do we think we have tariffs beyond the next two years?
00:25:26.800 Gut answer is yes.
00:25:28.200 My gut answer is yes, even beyond the next two years.
00:25:31.120 i i think there's a broader plan the americans want both sides of the house both all americans
00:25:39.580 kind of want a change to the nafta deal the usmca so they're going to so the tariffs are
00:25:45.700 going to stay until there's a real significant change to the usmca that's kind of my thought
00:25:50.240 yeah that's kind of where i'm thinking too uh and i i think that leads into all of our issues with
00:25:58.600 dairy trade. I've looked at
00:26:00.540 some of the preliminary stuff and responses
00:26:02.800 from some of the EU countries, and they all
00:26:04.620 say, well, we don't really want to trade with Canada
00:26:06.440 because you don't take dairy. And that's also
00:26:08.820 what the States is upset about,
00:26:10.980 and I think that that's also going to affect
00:26:12.800 free trade now
00:26:14.860 and in two years when probably
00:26:16.900 tariffs get re-examined.
00:26:18.260 Now, hey, just
00:26:20.700 because it's on a different topic, but
00:26:22.760 because you're calling from, you said Lethbridge, right?
00:26:26.200 Yeah, I just
00:26:26.860 South of Lethbridge.
00:26:27.600 Awesome.
00:26:29.400 I wanted to cover this today, but what's your thoughts on that?
00:26:32.520 Lethbridge seems to be in the center of a bit of a storm when it comes to the redrawing the Alberta electoral boundaries.
00:26:38.160 Are you caught up on that?
00:26:39.540 Am I catching you off guard or do you have a thought on the electoral boundaries?
00:26:44.420 No, I think it's a good thing.
00:26:46.840 I mean, my personal politics are reasonably conservative.
00:26:49.860 And what it looks like to me is they're taking a lot of the lands surrounding Lethbridge and combining it with more rural communities
00:26:56.380 in order to dilute the conservative vote.
00:26:59.220 I mean, I know that I think it's Elections Canada
00:27:01.680 that reaches the boundaries, but I like it,
00:27:05.300 but that's because it agrees with my politics intuitively.
00:27:07.940 Right, right. Okay. Fair enough. Fair enough.
00:27:09.840 Okay, well, I appreciate the call, Luke.
00:27:11.020 Thanks for calling.
00:27:13.140 Yeah, no problem. Have a good day.
00:27:14.580 You too.
00:27:16.440 Yeah, yeah, that's, I mean, we'll see.
00:27:20.440 We'll see where the tariffs go.
00:27:22.120 I mean, I think both sides have already kind of adopted
00:27:25.280 to the tariffs anyways they're built into everything uh the economy's moving along
00:27:30.700 things are going but but uh let me go back so i was talking about the establishment right and
00:27:35.220 and how that was one thing that scared me so first of all i said donald is not uh donald's
00:27:42.800 been fighting hard and uh he gets knocked down and he keeps on fighting and and i've always said
00:27:49.040 i really consider donald to be not part of the establishment and that's one of the reasons he
00:27:54.080 gets attacked so hard right he he's disrupting uh and that's why you got guys like carney talking
00:28:00.900 about the new world order and the european union like there's been a battle i mean americans have
00:28:06.200 been a a dominant powerhouse uh since the end of world war ii and there's always been groups that
00:28:13.360 are trying to wrestle that power away from the americans and and and you had some american
00:28:20.360 presidents in the past played the game and everybody you know there's a big game of people
00:28:25.780 in the establishment and donald trump is anti-establishment i've always said this i do
00:28:30.820 believe this and um and i've always and i'm always worried i'm glad i'm glad he got you know he took
00:28:37.800 a punch and he's staying up and he's good because i've always said if they can get to donald trump
00:28:43.440 and and the establishment can fight him then what hope is there for all of us right like i just saw
00:28:49.160 But, like, I'll bring it up again.
00:28:50.740 I saw, you know, the independence movement in Alberta,
00:28:53.940 like, it was an example of a populist group against the establishment.
00:29:01.660 Look at what the other side did to us, right?
00:29:04.620 Carney came to visit.
00:29:06.340 Poilievre came to visit.
00:29:07.580 Smith was against us.
00:29:10.960 Jason Kenney and Rachel Notley were singing Kumbaya.
00:29:15.320 Like, everybody, like, name me a politician who was on the independent side.
00:29:23.340 None.
00:29:23.920 Because at the end of the day, it's the status quo, and the status quo is the establishment.
00:29:29.020 And so the establishment is, you know, you got a guy like Carney, or not, like Trump,
00:29:34.580 who comes around once in a while, and they weren't able to completely defeat him.
00:29:38.960 And I'm glad, because if they did, then that's a giant, you know, victory for the establishment.
00:29:43.880 Think of the resources they are throwing at that guy.
00:29:47.440 It's incredible.
00:29:49.060 Actually, and I just want to, I'll throw that out there.
00:29:52.820 Somebody brought this up.
00:29:54.260 Like they were trying to, they were mentioning to me last night
00:29:58.080 sort of broken promises that Trump made.
00:30:03.700 And the one that kept coming up is the Epstein files.
00:30:07.480 Do you guys really think that the Epstein files are a deal breaker?
00:30:12.200 Like, you know, do you absolutely need to know what's in the Epstein files?
00:30:17.820 I mean, this is what I'm going to say.
00:30:19.520 I think there's a bunch of bad people and perhaps even some innocent people that went to visit the Epstein Island.
00:30:26.080 Right. It's a it's a it's a big club and we're not in it.
00:30:29.300 Celebrities like to, you know, hang out with other celebrities.
00:30:35.320 If somebody said, hey, you know, we're flying to this island, it's in the Bahamas, blah, blah, blah.
00:30:39.620 I think, I think, I think there's a, and I think at the end of the day, there's a lot of names on the Epstein file from both sides, right? If there was only Republicans, then the Democrats would have brought it out a long time ago. And if it was only Democrats, the Republicans would have brought it out. But there's names from both sides. And revealing that list is sort of a mutually agreed destruction kind of thing. And so it didn't come out. Now, some people are pissed off because they want to see who's on the list.
00:31:04.580 um i don't know what's your thoughts i mean i i'm okay not knowing who's on the list maybe we'll
00:31:10.280 know you know 30 years from now but uh but i don't think that was a deal breaker go ahead
00:31:15.660 caller where are you calling from oh hi good afternoon marty it's uh gordon calling hey gordon
00:31:22.140 hi uh yeah just in regards to the election yeah i don't think it changes much i think uh i think
00:31:28.560 Trump is going to forge ahead with his attack on the globalists.
00:31:33.440 And I think what he needs to do, though, is he needs to wrap up Iran and Ukraine really quick 0.53
00:31:40.720 so that they can concentrate on doing what he needs to do, satisfying the American people. 0.78
00:31:47.440 And this week or the last couple of days, yeah, they've been talking about some sort of rift before J.D. Vance and himself.
00:31:54.560 No, there's no rift. It's planned.
00:31:56.900 He's going to be helping the young men get established and get their campaigns going.
00:32:01.840 J.D. and Marco, he's going to be helping the guys.
00:32:05.380 He knows he's on his way out.
00:32:06.840 He doesn't want to do anything to hurt them.
00:32:08.960 So I think that's kind of going to be the agenda.
00:32:11.400 Get these things wrapped up and really start working on the American problems
00:32:14.980 and get back into the people's favor.
00:32:18.220 Yeah, no, I'm with you on that one.
00:32:22.700 Go through some of the names.
00:32:24.020 So who are some of the names you favor?
00:32:25.620 Who do you think is going to, who's interested in Donald J. Trump's job, do you think?
00:32:32.660 Versus who do you want to see?
00:32:34.080 Is there somebody you'd like to see?
00:32:36.620 Well, I think the two guys who are going to really be going into it is going to be J.D. Vance, the vice president.
00:32:43.820 I think for sure him.
00:32:44.880 And now I read something this morning that they're saying it's a clock watch for Rubio's resignation so that he can go concentrate on his campaign.
00:32:57.920 So that's the way I heard it.
00:32:59.320 So I think because those two are very prominent in Donald's cabinet, you know, his group.
00:33:05.040 Yeah, no, Vance for sure.
00:33:09.240 I mean, that's sort of like why they choose those guys as vice presidents and then they get groomed.
00:33:14.380 But for me, one of my favorites, and actually I thought he did brilliantly in this, like there were some upsets, right, in the by-elect, or not the by-elections.
00:33:23.400 There were some upsets in the midterms, right?
00:33:25.320 Like Texas went completely blue.
00:33:27.740 Like I was like, whoa, what happened there?
00:33:29.940 But for me, it's Ron DeSantis.
00:33:31.920 I still love that guy.
00:33:32.900 I think he should be a great, he would be a great American president.
00:33:39.440 Agreed, yeah.
00:33:40.640 Yeah, cool.
00:33:41.600 Okay, awesome.
00:33:42.280 Well, thanks for calling.
00:33:43.600 Have a great one.
00:33:44.900 Okay.
00:33:45.300 I just wanted to ask you one more question, and it's in regards to the APC.
00:33:50.040 Yep.
00:33:50.800 I just wanted to ask, what's ever happened to Dr. Mudry?
00:33:54.820 Is he still involved with it? 0.60
00:33:56.540 Because that's when I got active with listening and following it and actually signing up.
00:34:01.120 There was Dr. Mudry, and there used to be this young guy out of Lloyd Minister, and he was an economist.
00:34:07.120 He was a farm boy.
00:34:08.720 You know, he drove a truck, but he had a degree in economy.
00:34:11.320 And all of a sudden, these people have just gone by the wayside.
00:34:14.520 Do you have any idea?
00:34:15.860 Can you respond to that?
00:34:17.600 Was the economist a guy named Tanner?
00:34:19.880 Was that the guy you're thinking of?
00:34:22.760 That's right.
00:34:24.100 Listen, I'm not an insider, right?
00:34:28.940 I'm not a board member.
00:34:30.880 So it's kind of speculation for me.
00:34:35.060 But this is what I think happened with the APP.
00:34:39.020 The APP was trying to, did form a, you know,
00:34:44.080 a sort of a call it a non-profit group
00:34:46.120 and try to register as a society slash corporation.
00:34:50.340 And then they got sloppy.
00:34:53.560 Some of their filings went here and there
00:34:55.960 and things that they assumed that happened didn't happen.
00:34:58.300 So they're kind of having to clean up
00:35:00.780 who's actually on the board of directors
00:35:02.620 and that kind of stuff.
00:35:03.380 So they're working that out right now.
00:35:05.340 I know they're working that out
00:35:06.400 because we saw it publicly,
00:35:07.480 like the disagreement between Chris Scott and Mitch Sylvester.
00:35:10.980 I didn't like that, but they shook hands, right?
00:35:12.980 There's a picture on social media.
00:35:14.220 They shook hands.
00:35:14.820 They agreed.
00:35:15.360 So they're trying to clean it up and then they'll let us know what's going on.
00:35:18.740 Because if it was working really properly, you and I wouldn't be,
00:35:23.700 we wouldn't need to ask these questions.
00:35:26.080 We should be able to just go to a website and see, you know,
00:35:29.760 the constitution and who the directors are, right?
00:35:32.700 And so I think that was a big oops on their partner trying to fix it.
00:35:36.660 Now, when it comes to Dennis Moodry, even if even if the system was working, I think Dennis properly stepped back and would have stepped back no matter what, because he has his own he has his own legal issues right now.
00:35:53.760 And again, I don't know what they are, but, you know, he he was the executor of somebody's estate and they got it got sort of ugly.
00:36:01.300 And I think he did the right thing by literally stepping back.
00:36:05.040 So, like, they're separate issues.
00:36:08.160 I think Dennis is stepped back.
00:36:10.440 Hopefully he'll come back at some point when it's all settled.
00:36:13.240 I think he's a smart guy and he's a founder and he's helpful to the movement.
00:36:20.180 But right now, the first priority for the APP is to clean up just the paperwork
00:36:26.100 so that we can finally agree and be, you know, who's the directors.
00:36:31.020 Does that make sense?
00:36:33.280 Yeah, no, absolutely.
00:36:34.760 No, great.
00:36:35.480 Thank you for answering that.
00:36:36.860 And I'll let you go.
00:36:38.220 I mean, you've got other callers.
00:36:39.280 Great show.
00:36:39.880 Awesome.
00:36:40.340 Thank you.
00:36:41.880 Is that right, John?
00:36:42.760 Do I have another caller just waiting right now?
00:36:45.500 Oh, somebody hung up.
00:36:47.000 Yeah, no, that's a great question.
00:36:48.580 And that's an important thing, right?
00:36:51.720 I'm all for that.
00:36:52.720 I had that issue with the APP a long time ago
00:37:00.020 with the fact that I'd go to their website
00:37:02.940 and I couldn't see who the directors were, right?
00:37:05.240 I brought that up a long time ago.
00:37:07.420 I mean, if Mitch is the leader, that's fine.
00:37:10.840 I'm cool.
00:37:11.400 Like, I'm not disagreeing with who is or who isn't,
00:37:14.880 but I would have liked a little more transparency
00:37:17.580 on who are the directors
00:37:19.420 and what their constitution looks like and stuff like that.
00:37:21.940 And it's not just APP.
00:37:23.280 I expect that from everybody who's,
00:37:26.100 whether you're a business or a non-profit or anything, right?
00:37:29.800 Like, if you're organizing, organize yourself properly.
00:37:33.600 And I think it just got away from them, right?
00:37:36.520 Somebody thought that somebody was making the filings and stuff like that.
00:37:39.420 I know that world.
00:37:40.380 I mean, I was a director.
00:37:41.760 I was a vice president and president of companies.
00:37:45.680 And, yeah, you spend an incredible amount of time, you know, in front of lawyers signing documents because, you know, meeting minutes and everything has to be done by the book.
00:37:55.420 And then, you know, you got to elect people and do it.
00:37:58.560 There's an order to everything.
00:38:02.000 So hopefully, but yeah, there was some falling out online,
00:38:08.460 but they appear to be working that out.
00:38:12.280 Now, I'll say this.
00:38:14.740 I've been approached for my skills as a facilitator.
00:38:23.560 And some people are trying to organize a meeting for a lot of these groups.
00:38:28.560 the coming month to try and see what we can all learn from each other and what
00:38:34.460 went well during the the campaign what didn't stuff like that and and I'd be
00:38:38.940 happy to to organize that but it's a big effort it's a big job because we got to
00:38:44.100 try and bring together people that right now right now there's some there's some
00:38:48.320 tempers and there's some people that are not too happy with each other in the
00:38:52.560 independence movement but trying to park hopefully we can all park that and I
00:38:57.480 agree you know the biggest problem coming up for us is uh is is the election a year from now and
00:39:04.260 anyways that that wasn't a topic i wanted to talk about today i i can't i mean if you guys want to
00:39:09.020 talk about it but uh all right so what was second on my list um second on my list today was the
00:39:15.820 budget which comes out in uh in about geez i think it's coming no it comes out in an hour so
00:39:23.960 the budget gets tabled by Kearney at 4 p.m. It's his second budget. Remember, he was reluctant,
00:39:31.640 right? He didn't want to do the first budget. He had all sorts of excuses last year for not
00:39:35.880 doing a budget. And finally, he published a budget. He was forced to do one. And he did
00:39:42.700 a couple of things in the budget last year. One was he pushed it out. He changed the budgeting
00:39:50.740 cycle. Now, I actually agree with the changes to the budgeting cycle. So he's about to publish
00:39:58.700 the budget today. He's going to table what he's expecting to do for next year. And he's tabling
00:40:04.500 it, you know, two, three months in advance of next year. I think that's okay. That's a good
00:40:09.380 change. That's how it should have been done all the time, right? The previous year's data
00:40:14.200 is all compiled we have the the uh the public account which is the the the reconciliation of
00:40:21.380 all the spending and stuff like that is is done we see how last year went and then and then he can
00:40:27.880 consult with people through the summer and then in november he can say what he wants his budget
00:40:35.620 to look like and then it coincides with the start of uh of the next year in the past the budget was
00:40:41.980 around um the sitting of the house of commons which is bizarre right the house of commons
00:40:47.960 recesses through christmas and goes back and starts sitting sort of in april so no they're
00:40:52.840 aligning the budgets closer to the way industry does it which is on a calendar year so the 20
00:40:57.860 now the only thing i don't like is they're calling it the 2026 budget i think it should
00:41:02.040 be called the 2027 budget what he's publishing now should be uh 2027 and he should let us know
00:41:07.500 what he's doing next year.
00:41:08.700 So I'm okay with that change.
00:41:11.020 The budget is a confidence vote.
00:41:15.580 So he'll publish it.
00:41:17.120 And then the House will, he'll table it.
00:41:19.360 Officially he presents it to the House of Commons.
00:41:21.540 Everybody gets a chance to read it.
00:41:23.000 And then they can debate back and forth.
00:41:24.980 And then sometime in the near future,
00:41:27.720 there'll be a vote on whether the budget is approved or not.
00:41:31.820 Now, I'll come back to, I'll touch on this in a minute.
00:41:36.460 But right now, he's got a one-seat majority.
00:41:42.960 So something as contentious as the budget could very easily be defeated if people are not happy.
00:41:53.000 It could be defeated.
00:41:54.840 And we'll see if it gets defeated or not.
00:41:58.040 But I think that's why there are six by-elections coming up.
00:42:03.040 I'll park the by-elections for now.
00:42:04.880 but the budget could be defeated and maybe carney wants a defeated budget because if it's defeated
00:42:11.700 then he has an excuse to uh drop the writ and have an election sometime early next year and i'm
00:42:18.440 thinking he's feeling pretty confident that he would win a real majority uh in an election that's
00:42:25.520 what the polls seem to indicate right now that the polls are indicating you know that he could have
00:42:30.480 that he's getting 60% of the popular vote
00:42:34.200 because on the other side,
00:42:35.740 the Conservatives right now under Poilier
00:42:38.480 are floundering.
00:42:40.560 So the budget is coming out today.
00:42:43.040 Now, right off the bat,
00:42:44.240 on top of the budget,
00:42:45.360 they give a theme to every budget
00:42:47.200 and this year's theme,
00:42:48.400 they already let us know what it is.
00:42:50.880 It's written in French and in English,
00:42:53.180 but in French, it's Maître chez nous,
00:42:55.380 which is Masters at Home.
00:42:57.300 and we saw the cover of the budget.
00:43:03.140 We haven't seen the budget itself.
00:43:04.520 Masters at Home, which is already pissing off all the Quebecers,
00:43:08.800 it's pissed off the Premier, it pissed off the leader of the Bloc Québécois
00:43:11.800 and pissed off a whole bunch of other people
00:43:13.160 because Masters at Home was a hugely popular rallying cry in Quebec in the 1960s.
00:43:22.480 So before, before the, you know, like after the quiet revolution in Quebec and when they started building the big dams up in James Bay and all the power infrastructure and the St. Lawrence Seaway and all that other good stuff, when like when Quebec, after its quiet revolution, that was a big, big slogan for the masters at home.
00:43:43.900 And so the Quebecers are not happy that of that cultural appropriation that Carney used that.
00:43:49.620 um so what so we'll see uh what do i expect right now from the budget we've all heard this
00:43:56.620 uh and i'll just go through it quickly carney has announced some like the parliamentary budget
00:44:02.620 officer has been keeping track of all of carney's promises right the alto train um the the the rail
00:44:08.840 cars for via the the expanded power dams in quebec and in labrador um the the six ice breakers
00:44:19.340 the pipeline for Alberta, LNG, you name it.
00:44:23.600 All the upgrading the harbour in Thompson, Manitoba,
00:44:29.120 all of those promises are in the trillion-dollar range.
00:44:33.180 So money we don't have.
00:44:35.680 Sorry, I wish I had a little bit of water here.
00:44:37.360 So it's already been telegraphed.
00:44:41.380 The budget is going to have a huge, huge, huge deficit in there.
00:44:47.500 But Carney's going to try and sell it to you and me doing two ways.
00:44:53.620 He's already trying to break out operating expenses and capital expenses.
00:45:00.020 So he's saying he almost wants two budgets.
00:45:03.600 He's going to want the operating budget, which is the embassies, the salaries of people, the Canada Pension Plan, EI, health transfers.
00:45:14.200 He's going to say, that's the ongoing budget, and I'm not borrowing for that.
00:45:19.080 I'm keeping that, you know, there's no deficit there.
00:45:21.580 That's what he's going to try and make you believe.
00:45:23.540 And then he's going to say, and I got the separate budget, which is the capital spending budget,
00:45:27.260 and this is where I'm borrowing money, and I'm investing.
00:45:30.140 He's going to call it investing for the future.
00:45:33.300 So watch out for that.
00:45:35.120 But at the end of the day, he's borrowing money, and borrowed money is money that we don't have.
00:45:42.000 And the debt, like prior to Trudeau, between whatever, 1867 and 2015, like the country accumulated something like $600 billion in debt.
00:45:52.560 It's just a huge number, right?
00:45:54.540 Trudeau doubled that in just the 10 years that he was in power to like $1.2 trillion.
00:45:59.200 And now Carney's about to double it again in a matter of like three or four years.
00:46:03.040 So that's a scary number, right?
00:46:04.520 The debt is money we don't have.
00:46:07.000 And you'll see in the but and the way he's going to keep trying to sell us on the idea.
00:46:11.980 Listen to him very carefully.
00:46:13.320 He's going to say the debt is manageable and he's going to use a measure like he's going to say the debt to GDP, the debt to the gross domestic production is lower than everybody else.
00:46:25.700 But pay attention because he's not going to say debt to GDP.
00:46:29.220 Carney started saying debt, net debt to GDP.
00:46:33.440 And he'll say our net debt to GDP is lower than anybody else in the G7, which is not true, by the way.
00:46:39.240 But it's also playing with games because how does he achieve net debt?
00:46:44.560 He's reducing Canada's debt by the gross debt by adding, by subtracting the Canada pension funds and other funds, right?
00:46:55.540 There's money put aside for the Canada pension plan, and there's also money for the civil service pensions and military pensions and RCMP pensions and things like that.
00:47:05.920 So he's netting out some of the debt by saying, I have these funds.
00:47:10.380 Those funds are not his.
00:47:11.620 He can't borrow against those funds.
00:47:13.580 He can't use those funds as collateral.
00:47:16.160 Those are monies that are being held in trust for pensioners, for people like you and I.
00:47:20.940 So that's a nasty game that he's playing.
00:47:22.640 And he's also playing the game of of decreasing the debt by by using some sleigh of hands.
00:47:29.900 And he's also cheating on the GDP, the gross domestic production.
00:47:35.340 Those numbers came out this week and same thing.
00:47:37.720 They go, oh, look, it's inching up. It's like two percent growth year over year.
00:47:41.900 But they're they're adding government spending and like the more people you can make the GDP of our country go up just by adding immigrants, 0.99
00:47:50.600 which which makes sense now right do you understand why we're adding immigrants 0.99
00:47:55.080 and so so the debt's going to be ugly um he's going to make a whole bunch of promises that go 0.51
00:48:01.980 out into the future i and i think you're going to see an announcement that he it's it's been
00:48:09.340 telegraphed already he wants to increase immigration again because he has no choice we've talked about
00:48:14.760 this a lot immigration temporarily solves a lot of problems that they have but it's a long-term
00:48:19.580 bad solution. Go ahead, caller. Where are you calling from?
00:48:23.760 We'll just say from now on when I call you, I'll say
00:48:26.040 it's Rimby Rick. All right. How's it going today?
00:48:28.900 What's on your mind? Yeah, good. You know what? You're
00:48:31.860 covering so much stuff here. But one of the things you also
00:48:34.800 didn't mention was about him moving pension money
00:48:37.820 around. He just moved the union pension money around
00:48:40.980 and he's trying to transfer that into the thing.
00:48:44.140 They are, the unions are up in arms
00:48:47.060 about that as well, that all of the ridiculous finance, central banker kind of things that 0.95
00:48:55.880 he's trying to pull is so disgusting.
00:48:58.700 Well, and that's if you and I, like, do you even still think there's money in the pensions,
00:49:06.680 right? Like, I have days where I think it's probably not even there.
00:49:10.560 Well, and when you see those deals that he was doing, like what he was, when he's talking
00:49:16.240 about creating this um carbon market here yeah you remember him talking about underwriting it
00:49:23.920 the government of canada and the government of alberta were going to underwrite it so that they
00:49:29.680 would maintain their value and it would be on a uh on a what's the word index kind of scale and
00:49:36.940 i'm just like are you kidding me and then now he put his wife into this ocean on boy role because
00:49:42.520 They want to go find all the green grass and algae, the carbon sinks,
00:49:47.380 and they've now been doing deals with those.
00:49:50.460 Thanks for bringing that up.
00:49:52.260 I wasn't even thinking about that one. 0.99
00:49:54.020 Maybe tell the listeners, how big of a budget was she given to do that? 0.99
00:49:58.980 What, $2 billion? 1.00
00:50:00.700 She got a $2 billion expense account is what that is. 1.00
00:50:04.200 Oh, she's doing it for free. 0.99
00:50:06.160 Oh, yeah. 0.52
00:50:06.500 What she's going to do, she's a bigger climate zealot than him.
00:50:10.980 Yeah. And then and then and they sold it to us by saying, well, she's the expert on climate or whatever.
00:50:16.120 Can you believe it? But if you're like, yeah, no, now you're making my heart rate.
00:50:22.660 I apologize, Marty, but I think that he went and did these deals in the Caribbean this early this week.
00:50:32.500 And that announcement of that little deal that they're doing there with those islands, because you go to them and say, you guys don't have a lot of money.
00:50:39.660 you're not uh you're not very you don't have a lot of uh of an economy but we've got an idea
00:50:45.100 for you and look what you can make and we're building this and you can buy in and then we get
00:50:49.900 your uh votes at the un right remember he was the climate envoy before uh at the un when before so
00:50:58.300 yeah he's not changing he's not changing his stripes like i've said that so many times i mean
00:51:03.260 he's he's already told us what he's going to do and i think we need to believe him
00:51:06.780 um you brought up by the way you brought up a good point and i'm sorry folks i i a lot of people say
00:51:13.340 this i talk about a lot of subjects every week it it is you know my my list is long i almost could
00:51:20.260 have a daily show but that would be too taxing on me so i apologize if i bring up a lot of issues
00:51:25.280 every week yeah derek we need two shows a week let's just try two shows a week and then if we
00:51:32.160 can grow from there yeah yeah if marty has time maybe we should try to work it in well we also
00:51:37.760 talked about a 90 minute show which might be uh the thing in the new year i might switch to 90
00:51:42.580 minutes okay yeah oh there you go that'll give you more time you know what what you might be
00:51:47.240 able to do marty that's not a terrible idea just sit balling with you for a second you do what you
00:51:52.100 want but if you did a 90 minute show you could actually have say the first half hour is going
00:51:57.740 be my monologue and we don't do calls then you could shift into your one hour where you do still
00:52:02.620 talk and take calls but then you could actually frame it and you could actually get all those
00:52:07.980 things you wanted without being interrupted interesting awesome yeah yeah cool all right
00:52:12.860 well i'll let you go just in case i got another yeah as far as though i wanted to touch on also
00:52:19.100 though uh don't tease us on the non-confidence possibility uh but this eu associate member thing
00:52:26.060 I think that Smith and Dorkson and Mo need to get right beside Clement Donk on a stage
00:52:33.980 and say, not on our watch.
00:52:37.640 Right.
00:52:37.900 This is our resources.
00:52:39.640 And just like she did, she had some interview.
00:52:41.680 She was with Ezra and did a town hall or something and said, yeah, we're not doing this.
00:52:46.080 Clement Donk came out and said, no.
00:52:48.420 This is a question I have for you.
00:52:49.720 Can you imagine holding if Mark Carney had held some sort of this event, the EU, whatever it was called, on a First Nation reserve?
00:53:00.100 He said to the chief, we're going to tell you how we're going to manage your resources while the EU is going to tell us what to tell you.
00:53:08.380 And by the way, your chief doesn't get to have a word to say at the meeting and we're not going to do a land acknowledgement.
00:53:15.600 So how would have that gone versus how they treated Plymont-Dom?
00:53:20.980 And I think that those four premiers need to stand up and together and say,
00:53:25.520 we're first ministers and this is how we feel about this.
00:53:29.080 We're not doing this without consultation with Canadians.
00:53:33.000 I'll be here to answer with it.
00:53:34.680 Yeah, again, you and I, you could, buddy, I could have you on stage here.
00:53:39.280 Maybe that's the other thing I got to bring in just some of the viewers
00:53:42.000 and you can sit here.
00:53:42.960 you and I could have a nice chat about all these things.
00:53:45.500 You bring up some great points.
00:53:48.700 Well, I just think, what do you think about those premiers coming out
00:53:52.600 and saying, excuse me, Dorkson is definitely going to be on board with.
00:53:56.700 The only one who has the guts to do it has been Plamondon.
00:54:02.140 I think the other ones are too, they would never say that.
00:54:05.700 Not yet.
00:54:06.560 No.
00:54:07.580 Daniel did.
00:54:08.220 She was on that little town hall with Ezra and actually said when it comes to national security, Arctic stuff or things, those are national things.
00:54:18.700 When it comes to resources and students and stuff, like them saying they're going to be able to bring students across, that's education.
00:54:27.140 That's our jurisdiction.
00:54:29.360 Yeah, but actually we're running out of time, but you bring up a good point. 0.51
00:54:33.480 Danielle speaks a good, you know, she talks, but she doesn't walk the walk, right?
00:54:38.600 So she talks it to Ezra, I get that, but I want her to go one step further
00:54:44.200 and literally address Carney in some of these instances and say,
00:54:47.740 you've gone too far.
00:54:49.660 Yeah, that's why if you bring those ministers, you get together,
00:54:52.520 stand the science plan, I never thought before that I think that the guy
00:54:56.700 that might be the most benefit to our country was the leader of a party
00:55:00.080 you me both it was not on my bingo chart all right have a good day all right thanks appreciate it
00:55:05.480 okay uh same as last week i'm running out of time um i you know maybe i'll i i'm getting better at
00:55:13.840 this folks i mean it's almost been a year i think it'll be uh no it's not been a year i think i did
00:55:18.340 the first show in february so it'll be a year in february uh i'm getting better i know i've been
00:55:24.620 told this a lot i got a lot of topics maybe i talk about too much of some of the topics
00:55:29.140 and maybe so i i got two ways to go about this either i sprinkle all the topics and and and go
00:55:35.040 from there or i do more deep dives in the topics i don't know i mean i wanted to talk about um
00:55:40.900 today i i also wanted to talk and i guess we can talk about this one next week you know i i was a
00:55:46.860 little upset that carney is uh is um not allowing the russian uh junior team to come play hockey
00:55:56.640 right so the the world juniors are in uh are in alberta again this year they were here during
00:56:03.440 covid you know they tried to do the edmonton red deer kind of didn't work out very well during
00:56:08.080 covid so they're doing it again it's great hockey man it's great hockey and um it's kids that are
00:56:14.580 like 18 17 18 19 i i don't even think you can be 20 at the world juniors or maybe you can be up to
00:56:20.480 21, but he's, he's using politics and, uh, yeah, there's been, there's been, um, you
00:56:30.260 know, the sports has been used in the past as kind of, uh, as a political tool.
00:56:36.220 And I, I disagree with that.
00:56:37.760 I mean, you can do, uh, business embargoes and trade embargoes and you can do boycotts
00:56:43.680 and stuff like that.
00:56:44.500 But, you know, when the Olympics were first conceived of, like, whatever, in 1890, like, you know, it was a Frenchman.
00:56:53.960 It was, I can't remember his name, Coubertin or somebody like that.
00:56:59.740 And he had thought of, you know, he brought back the Olympics.
00:57:03.880 I mean, the Olympics had happened in ancient Greece.
00:57:06.340 And so he brought them back.
00:57:07.400 And the spirit of the Olympics that he brought back was that nations don't know each other very well.
00:57:12.740 and we fight and often we fight
00:57:16.340 because we just have these misunderstandings
00:57:18.600 and we don't understand each other.
00:57:20.000 So he had the idea that let's do sports.
00:57:22.760 Let's do the Olympic sports
00:57:23.880 and let's set aside those differences
00:57:25.800 and let's compete in sports instead of wars, okay?
00:57:29.860 And I get it.
00:57:30.580 It's not the same.
00:57:31.840 Hockey's not the Olympics.
00:57:33.240 But even the Olympics started having boycotts.
00:57:36.840 And now boycott is one thing.
00:57:38.280 If you choose not to go to the Olympic,
00:57:40.640 that's one thing.
00:57:41.400 But if the Olympic committee says, no, you can't come, I think that's different. And so and I see I see a similarity here. These are young kids that play hockey. OK, so don't punish the kids who play hockey because of the stupid decisions of Putin and Zelensky and Carney and others. Let the kids come and play hockey.
00:58:03.160 I want the best to come and play hockey.
00:58:06.720 So I'll bring this up next week again because it ties into immigration.
00:58:12.420 It ties into a whole bunch of other things.
00:58:14.800 I never even talked about the by-elections.
00:58:18.280 I'll have time to talk about the by-elections next week.
00:58:21.120 I think they are important because they're on December 7th and there's six by-elections.
00:58:25.840 So it could be an opportunity for Carney to either secure his majority or maybe lose a little bit of his majority.
00:58:31.880 so who knows um we'll go from there next week all right again um
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