In this episode, we discuss the disappearance of a young boy named Parker Wells, the new tariffs, the Prime Minister's meeting in PEI, the secrecy around the Gordy Howe bridge reopening, and the weird viral incident of the guy with the kerpan at the gym.
00:00:29.840afternoon in calgary uh it's a hot one out there uh if i wasn't doing the show today i would be
00:00:37.360out on the river but i'll do that tomorrow i'm gonna head out on the river and go for a float
00:00:42.220um you know before uh lots to talk about again today lots to talk about and as i've said many
00:00:49.760times we're this is a call-in show please uh call in number uh john the producer will put the number
00:00:56.600down on the screen and here in a second but uh don't be shy call uh let me know where you're
00:01:01.960calling from name and what you want to talk about the show is about you guys right now i mean we're
00:01:06.040making it about current events it's been a busy week and we got lots to talk about uh i want to
00:01:11.080talk about the the new tariffs the premier's meeting in pei um the secrecy around the gordy
00:01:19.480how bridge uh deal uh and and the bridge reopening uh what else inflation uh the weird viral incident
00:01:28.920of the guy with the kerpan at the uh at the gym there at the good life gym and things like that
00:01:35.080so but before we dive too deep into the show quickly uh just just a reminder um unfortunate
00:01:42.440event going on in calgary like i think we're on day seven or eight a young boy named parker wells
00:01:49.480has been missing um parker is diagnosed on the autism spectrum and his parents are worried that
00:02:00.160he might have wandered off and he has a tendency to go hide and he might and close doors behind
00:02:06.340him and he might be hiding somewhere closing a door behind him he might be in the shed he might
00:02:12.640be he could be anywhere and so the search is ongoing so if you have any uh information anything
00:02:19.460You know, there's websites, there's places, there's even calls for volunteers, I guess, to go do some looking.
00:02:28.780My kids are all grown and luckily I had very healthy kids, but I did have an adventurous youngster.
00:02:38.040So my youngest, Raymond, went missing twice, two memorable times in our life.
00:02:43.480and one of them was when we were camping uh we were camping up by dunvegan up in the peace river
00:02:49.560area he was the youngest at the time he was about three or four and his sister his oldest sister is
00:02:56.760you know seven eight years older than him so 11. the kids were gone went for a walk around the
00:03:01.720campground sarah comes back with nick and patrick and i said like where's your brother raymond and
00:03:08.760sarah kind of looked at me like i don't know i'm like what do you mean you don't know he was with
00:03:12.440you you know and i and i don't blame her i mean it wasn't necessarily it wasn't her responsibility
00:03:17.720to look after raymond but anyways we mobilized everybody in the campground to go looking for
00:03:22.280raymond and eventually we found raymond had wandered down by one of the creeks and was you
00:03:27.080know throwing rocks in the creek but but you know those those few minutes where we were looking for
00:03:32.360him were frantic and gut-wrenching and uh i can't imagine what's going through the minds of uh of
00:03:39.240parker's parents so uh good luck with that and i hope it comes out with a happy ending um all right
00:03:45.800so i listen i'm gonna jump right into it um you know the the title of the show today uh trump
00:03:51.960slaps more tariffs on canada we got to talk about that we got to talk about that i mean it's it's a
00:03:58.760it's a year and a half we're in a trade war and we're losing the trade war but but i want to go
00:04:03.720back to to sort of the beginnings and I want to ask people a question right have you ever you know
00:04:10.900have you ever taken something have you ever received a benefit that you didn't pay for like
00:04:16.760I don't know have you ever you know used somebody else's wi-fi you got a neighbor who didn't secure
00:04:22.080their wi-fi and you got to use their wi-fi or back in the good old days maybe you lived in an
00:04:26.300apartment with a with a bunch of people and you had you know coax splitters and you would split
00:04:31.960cable uh have you ever gone to work like do you have an employer somewhere that provides you with
00:04:40.040a plug-in for your car and over the year and you've bought yourself an electric car and now
00:04:45.320you plug in your car there even though the plug-in was just to keep your car warm uh or maybe
00:04:51.320somebody's taking advantage of you right maybe you know maybe you're the person who has a nice boat
00:04:56.520you had a nice boat at the lake and nobody else has a boat at the lake and for years everybody
00:05:00.920took uh you know jumped on your boat went for rides on the boat if you went out water skiing
00:05:05.560you invited people and you never asked for a dime for that boat but you certainly appreciate it if
00:05:10.920somebody said you know here's 20 bucks for gas for after an afternoon of water skiing right so
00:05:18.040people have been on the receiving end of that or on the giving end and and then all of a sudden
00:05:21.960you know what happens when when the neighbor suddenly says hey uh uh i'm not i'm not gonna
00:05:27.720give i put a password on the wi-fi and then you get upset because your neighbor put a password
00:05:33.400on the wi-fi and you're no longer getting free wi-fi well is that you know what what's the
00:05:40.200situation there well i think the situation there i'm getting to something that's what to me that's
00:05:46.520what happened with the us when donald trump got elected okay so donald trump got elected
00:05:51.400two years ago and donald trump has always said it clearly that um he felt in that a lot of nations
00:05:59.480around the world had been taken advantage of the of their goodwill but in particular he he turned
00:06:06.040and he pointed fingers at us at canada right so we uh we live north of the u.s so we're granted
00:06:14.120huge protection right sure we we you know we we had our own military but in reality if somebody
00:06:20.200if the russians came over the arctic and invaded us the americans would be there the americans are
00:06:25.160the ones who patrolled the the coast the north and the atlantic and and the arctic and protected
00:06:32.440vessels when when we have a ship that's transporting goods from from japan back to canada or vice versa
00:06:39.000and those ships are in international waters and they get in distress they're calling americans
00:06:44.040canadians are calling on americans all the time um the anyway so lots of things lots of examples
00:06:51.000of that you know american car manufacturing having divisions in the in canada and building cars here
00:06:57.240and so forth so donald trump gets elected and and he's got a he's got a beef right he he doesn't
00:07:05.240like the trade imbalance between our two countries okay there's always going to be a trade imbalance
00:07:10.440but he doesn't but in his mind it's it's less than it's worse than it should be so there's a
00:07:15.720trade imbalance uh we are opening he's opening his border he's allowing canadian banks to do
00:07:22.480business in canada but we don't reciprocate uh we have two you know we force his manufacturers
00:07:28.960to provide services that are bilingual there's the dairy cartel there's all sorts of things right so
00:07:34.320trump is just upset and he gets elected and he's mandated by his people to reform their economy
00:07:41.840turn things around bring back manufacturing into the u.s and make america great again and
00:07:48.800and that for us it's unfortunate it had a negative consequence on us right right away but to me that
00:07:57.520should have just been a wake-up call okay it's just a wake-up call we were lucky we got the
00:08:02.800free internet we were lucky for years and finally when when the neighbor says enough is enough and
00:08:08.640i'm not giving you the free internet so donald trump says enough is enough i'm not letting you
00:08:12.720just build cars and and export and re-export them back to my country uh at a higher cost i'm going
00:08:20.720to put an end to that and i'm going to put tariffs on your products well i was always of the opinion
00:08:27.360that we shouldn't retaliate with tariffs that that was a wake-up call and that we should have just
00:08:32.080used it as an opportunity to smarten up and get more efficient but canada decided to retaliate
00:08:40.700with tariffs and so there's only and there's only a handful of countries at the and at the beginning
00:08:45.560trump didn't just pick on canada he picked on a lot of countries broadly and he implied imposed
00:08:51.640tariffs on a lot of nations and by the way a tariff is not a penalty on us on the exporting
00:08:58.080nation it's a penalty on his own country right so when he put a tariff on um you know call it uh
00:09:04.560lumber he's not punishing us per se he's saying to the americans find a cheaper place to buy your
00:09:11.120lumber but now in effect once the tariffs in place yes we might lose a bit of market share but what's
00:09:18.400our incentive if the tariff is 10 then reduce your cost by 10 and stay competitive so donald
00:09:24.240trump was a wake-up call but and it was a wake-up call to a lot of nations and a lot of nations
00:09:30.320responded in a very positive way they said yeah yeah sorry sorry we agree and and we're going to
00:09:35.920rectify things we'll we'll we'll buy more from you guys we'll adjust the trade imbalance and so forth
00:09:40.880and so forth but then you got canada that doubles down and immediately says no we're going to impose
00:09:45.680tariffs on you counter tariffs we're going to strike back and then you got carny going over
00:09:51.360the top saying you know the relationship is forever damaged and we can't count on the americans
00:09:56.080anymore and we're going to start the new world order and and uh and and antagonize and then you
00:10:01.920got doug ford who stepped in right remember doug ford like a year ago pouring uh um you know
00:10:09.520running ads in the u.s during the the world series criticizing donald trump and so forth and so forth
00:10:15.600and and this rhetoric between our two nations has kept on going and trump hasn't changed
00:10:21.960his stance fundamentally he keeps repeating it that you know he doesn't well there's a couple
00:10:28.320of things he doesn't like he doesn't one of the things he really doesn't like is the dairy cartel
00:10:32.520the fact that we are protecting a small uh industry in that's that's really only in a
00:10:38.660couple of provinces we're protecting the dairy cartel in quebec and ontario and and trump doesn't
00:10:44.820like that and by the way i i think that if we stop protecting the dairy cartel our own dairy farmers
00:10:51.060would still do fine because as long as you produce like there's a there's a demand people want good
00:10:56.400milk good cheese good yogurt and things like that and our you know our government our our farmers
00:11:02.320always are proud of the fact that we have i don't know less antibiotics in it and less growth
00:11:07.680hormones and it's whatever it's a more organic milk if that's the case and that's what people
00:11:12.620want then you should be able to compete on an open market so and the dairy cartel keeps coming up all
00:11:17.740the time all the time all the time so we've had this back and forth and and originally when carney
00:11:24.220was running to get elected this served him well right he had an instant boogeyman south of him
00:11:30.700he's got donald trump who's attacking canada it's a wake-up call fall folks he wasn't attacking
00:11:38.140canada but the liberals played it that way that trump was attacking us and carney was the man
00:11:44.780that could stand up to trump and carney played that card at the beginning and it got him it was
00:11:51.180popular and it got him votes and and it helped them win an election but he's been playing that
00:11:56.220card over and over and over and over and now it's become this stubborn battle and it's a stubborn
00:12:02.140battle that we're going to lose because the u.s economy is 13 times 14 times bigger than us and
00:12:09.020it's so don't call it giving in to the americans we're not giving in to the americans we have to
00:12:14.320be realistic they are our number one trader geographically they're right next door and
00:12:19.880if their demands we kind of have to meet their demands which some people call it bullying but
00:12:25.780it it's it's just that they're in a better bargaining position and they're taking advantage
00:12:30.720are the better bargaining position so we're not capitulating to the americans when we if we had
00:12:37.440just simply accepted the tariff and became more competitive not initially and that's the way most
00:12:44.000countries approached it but canada went with strict tariffs and so did china and this battle
00:12:49.200is ongoing so this battle is ongoing and so this week we just had another week where where trump
00:12:54.800announced more tariffs and and so the original um now remember we have a trade deal between
00:13:01.760canada the us and mexico the can the the kumsa or the usmca whichever country you're from
00:13:08.320whatever acronym you want and so trump wants to impose tariffs luckily that trade deal is in place
00:13:15.520and it limits the goods and services that he can tariff but despite that this week he announced
00:13:22.240another round of really big tariffs on another on a on a whole bunch of products from canada
00:13:28.640he did this to canada now he didn't do this to mexico he didn't do this to another any other
00:13:32.720countries he singled out canada okay that should tell you a lot he singled us out and these tariffs
00:13:40.240go into place on august 19th and about three weeks from now and look at what our country is doing
00:13:46.480again right we are doubling down on the rhetoric rather than addressing trump's initial concerns
00:13:55.200his initial concerns are simple right we should just get rid of the the dairy cartel by the way
00:14:01.280we can't even do that now one of the first things that carney did when he got elected is they passed
00:14:05.920bill i believe it's c2 or maybe c3 one of the very very very uh initial bills passed by our government
00:14:13.680explicitly states in the bill that in any ongoing trade negotiations the dairy cartel is off the
00:14:21.960table that's how entrenched that dairy cartel is in in uh in canadian um politics like it's
00:14:30.720untouchable and and it's yeah okay enough on the dairy cartels but so we're not addressing the
00:14:36.640original uh complaints another original complaint that trump had was that we weren't spending enough
00:14:43.460on defense that he was picking up the cost for most of nato and he wanted countries like ours
00:14:50.100to increase our spending as a percentage of gdp from two to five percent a pretty reasonable
00:14:56.140request certainly in canada in light of the fact that our military has pretty much been decimated
00:15:00.900for the last couple of decades right so and how could we have addressed that initial complaint by
00:15:07.340trump well look we're miss we don't have navy our boat our fleet of boats is is in disrepair we don't
00:15:14.860have any vehicles anymore because we lost them all in afghanistan we don't have any tanks our
00:15:19.180snowbirds can't even fly okay so we need military spending and what do we do normally in canada
00:15:26.380we study problems to death and we make ridiculous requirements and we engage in competitive bidding
00:15:32.860and then we we end up buying stuff from other nations that's not off the shelf that's customized
00:15:38.620that's overpriced that's complicated that's expensive that often doesn't work and what we
00:15:44.620could have done quickly when trump brought up these issues is we could have just gone to the u.s
00:15:49.740and said you're right donald we're not spending enough money on defense um how about we buy i
00:15:55.420don't know 30 f-16s from you or f-18s and how about we buy two uh harleyberg class battleship
00:16:03.820or not battleships destroyers and maybe one submarine and a whole bunch of whatever armored
00:16:09.900personnel carriers we could have done a quick deal like that but what are we doing even there even
00:16:15.020even in the process of of of ramping up we just announced that we're buying submarines from from
00:16:21.820germany which to me is a lose lose lose right we're pissed we continue to antagonize trump
00:16:27.420we're not helping any if if we wanted at least we could have at least uh if we're going to
00:16:33.420antagonize trump we might as well help our own local industry and buy locally we didn't even
00:16:37.740buy locally we didn't buy the cheapest of the best subs which would have been to buy from the koreans
00:16:42.700but instead we go to europe and we buy german subs you know what i mean so it's lose lose lose
00:16:47.340lose and and trump's watching this and he's he's picking up on this so he imposes these tariffs this
00:16:52.060week and and then how does canada respond you have doug ford standing on stage yesterday and the day
00:16:59.820before almost daily now doug ford is on stage um being critical of of trump still and then and then
00:17:08.940this week in particular we had a a first minister's meeting in uh pei so all the
00:17:16.140premiers of the of the country got together in pei and you'd think that our that our premiers
00:17:21.500would be preoccupied with this and that this is what they would be focused on but what did they
00:17:26.780discuss while they were there well i mean they still talked about health care and transfer
00:17:33.020payments and the threat of alberta independence and a few other things like that they never they
00:17:37.900never really addressed the plan to to deal with trump and to respond to his initial concerns
00:17:45.900and then what do we get out of pi this week we get another mou we get an mou now that the
00:17:51.580provinces are going to work together to further eliminate inter-provincial trade barriers
00:17:56.460specifically those around booze like like alcohol so the the whole country is in trouble with the
00:18:05.100americans and we're and our premiers are talking about alcohol like it's dominating the news this
00:18:10.220week dominating the news is is david eby in british columbia saying there will be no american booze
00:18:17.340on british columbian shelves and on and and doug ford in ontario saying almost the same thing by
00:18:22.940the way just just just for that after this show on my way home tonight i'm gonna go stop and i'm
00:18:28.300luckily we live in alberta where we still have uh private liquor stores i'm gonna go film in
00:18:34.940one of those private liquor stores what the american section looks like i'm pretty sure
00:18:38.540it's well stocked and i'm going to go find myself a nice american bourbon and that's not because
00:18:43.020i'm anti-canadian i'm i'm yeah i'm i'm canadian i'm definitely pro-albertan i drink my fair share
00:18:50.220of alberta whiskeys but in this instance just to spite doug ford and david eby i'm going to go buy
00:18:56.220myself a nice american bourbon for tonight um and and and i mean and it doesn't even stop there like
00:19:03.420today this morning there was somebody there was an interview and there was a wine a winery owner
00:19:10.940in british columbia who was on being interviewed by the cbc and he let out a big secret out of the
00:19:17.740he let the cat out of the bag i don't know where that expression came from but he literally said
00:19:22.460that despite he's from bc and he said despite tariffs from the u.s it's still cheaper for him
00:19:31.340as a canadian winemaker to do business with the u.s than it is for him to do business with the
00:19:37.100rest of canada like let that sink in right so okay folks i've talked like my opening monologue was a
00:19:44.300little bit longer than i wanted to i'm sure like what what are your guys's thoughts on on on pei
00:19:51.740on trump on uh doug ford david eby maybe this mou right i mean the mou like the mou i'm beginning
00:20:00.460to hate the word mou memorandum of understanding like it's getting uh to me now the mou at this
00:20:06.780point is basically when um when nothing concrete can be accomplished let's let's sign an mou right
00:20:13.580so mou now between uh danielle smith and and mark carney now there's going to be mous between all
00:20:20.540the premiers and and don't get me started on the fact that we we shouldn't even need an mou right
00:20:27.340that's the whole that's fundamentally shows the flaw of of a country you know of confederation
00:20:34.220when provinces have to negotiate so hard just to uh just to advance projects uh who said that so i
00:20:43.100got a sign on the or a chat on the screen he said memorandum of uselessness great interview who said
00:20:49.820that was that the was that the uh wine person talking this morning look at all the acronyms
00:20:55.820for mou i got mostly optics useless um mou equals kick the can down the road yeah okay cool um
00:21:08.220jesse and gp says someone better call or you'll have to hear my diatribes again no one wants that
00:21:14.620hey no no i mean it's okay to have regulars i appreciate having regulars who call uh or comment
00:21:22.220all the time uh jess if you want to call give give me a buzz but yeah you know um
00:21:30.380yeah doug ford what do i say okay well so let me continue on that topic right
00:21:35.660so here's the uh so i wish i wish we could play clips oh just lost the screen there john what
00:21:42.620happened okay that's the big screen's gone the little screen's still here um uh there was a clip
00:21:48.540uh there was a clip of doug ford basically making these veil threats right so doug ford had a clip
00:21:56.340where he said we have to i can't remember his exact words um we have to not retaliate but
00:22:02.540almost like we have to annihilate the americans john did i lose the caller or call on the line
00:22:08.400all right go ahead caller marty yes hello marty yes marty hey how are you doing good good0.80
00:22:18.480it's diane from devon hi diane another regular yeah um so i mean you just went through the whole
00:22:30.400list of everything and you made my blood pressure go up again i was having a nice relaxing afternoon
00:22:37.860sorry about that it's it's okay it's okay it's it's it's our lives um so it's it's being
00:22:47.300that's managed to a degree that like we've never seen before what is the end game because the
00:22:56.460train's going down the track and it's going to derail at some point so what is what is the end
00:23:06.420game um for i mean the independence um that we support aside what is the end game with carney
00:23:18.920and all these people so what what what is it let me clarify so you're asking me what my end game is
00:23:25.340or what do i think carney's end game is the end game for canada the the people who are mismanaging
00:23:32.780it and and really we we can't do anything about it we're just getting dragged along while this
00:23:40.180game is being played whatever game it is yeah what is their end game yeah i think that i think
00:23:46.580they've told us what their end game is right their end game is is things like the un agenda 2030
00:23:52.380um and and agendas and the agenda of the klaus schwabs of the world and the world economic forum
00:24:00.000Right. Their end game is that there's these weird, evil people that envision a different world where they're in power and we're all subservient.
00:24:10.780And and there's countries like Canada that are the testing grounds for this.
00:24:15.780Right. If we're an easy country to capture, we're letting ourselves be captured.
00:24:19.640We're letting ourselves be led down this evil path. And I think that's the end game.
00:24:24.200there's there's look at the un agenda 20 it's at 2030 it's a it's a redistribution of wealth
00:24:30.040it's a world without borders it's um it's it's it's it's a form of socialism on steroid where
00:24:40.440the average person will own nothing and be happy all those sentences that we used to think was just
00:24:46.440um people with bad intentions they're coming true and we're realizing that they're more powerful
00:24:52.940than we thought like it it's it's playing out i think do you agree or do you see it differently
00:24:59.820absolutely absolutely i'm and and donald trump is the stumbling block yes because donald trump
00:25:09.100is for his country you might hate him you might hate his rhetoric blah blah blah you might hate
00:25:15.020a lot of things about him but he is he's the only one standing up because britain and the eu
00:25:23.900and canada you're absolutely right we have like everybody in the cabinet is a young global leader
00:25:31.420anybody knows what that is yeah yeah that's in the cabinet you brought up a point that i didn't
00:25:38.460sorry diane you brought up a point that i didn't even have on my list for today which is uh um
00:25:43.740um uh care starmer from uh from england stepped down and then they replaced him with a guy who
00:25:50.320makes the carney look almost like uh tame so a lot every country's going down this path and
00:25:57.240and anytime there's resistance yes and they're friends carney and burnham are a burn bomb or
00:26:04.900burnham they're they know each other they've been previous associates in in business 100% yeah and
00:26:12.040and and then carney like don't be surprised if carney like carney to me looks like he's kind
00:26:16.920of failing down this path and i wouldn't be surprised if carney doesn't last a full four
00:26:20.920years and um and then and then they'll just put somebody else in place to try and finish the job
00:26:26.760but they don't have anybody right now right there's nobody but yeah no we're on the same page
00:26:31.480now just to finish on your question just to finish on your question i think you and i and a bunch of
00:26:37.240us in alberta have identified what's going on right and that's one of the things we've always
00:26:41.000said like when as an albertan why am i for independence because we're seeing this this
00:26:47.400madness in the rest of the country and we're like we got to protect ourselves from this madness and
00:26:51.640one of the only ways we can do it is by separating and and and forming your own country to try and
00:26:57.720resist it i i mean i hope i hope we can resist and i hope it's not futile but but that's why
00:27:03.080i'm a separatist i i see what's happening in the rest of canada and there's nothing changing them
00:27:07.320like they they know yeah I think honestly Marty there's a lot of people in Alberta who are going
00:27:19.300to vote yes I think there's a lot of people that when you were doing your your campaign a lot of
00:27:28.680people didn't want to show up because people were afraid but every day things get worse and worse
00:27:35.700works with all the censorship and and and so on so on like everything and i think there's a lot
00:27:41.860of people who are gonna stand up and vote yes there's a still a group of people though that
00:27:49.940they don't even all these issues that you've just talked about and i have just addressed
00:27:54.820there's a lot of people who say because i start the conversation and just the most minor thing
00:28:04.260they either don't know or they do not want to know they are willing to let that train hit that cement
00:28:12.100wall and then they're going to say what happened but they don't want to know what it all this is
00:28:18.820that's going on it stresses them out or it upsets them or it's not the canada that they love and
00:28:24.340so on so forth awesome uh well i appreciate thanks for calling in hopefully you broke the
00:28:28.820ice for the rest of the gang and other people will call in today have a great day diane
00:28:32.420yeah you as well take care of yourself cheers um yeah she brings up a bunch of good points but i
00:28:40.920just want to go back to um i i want to go back to that the alberta independence was on the topic
00:28:48.320this week uh in pi but i i want to talk about how um how suddenly everybody wants alberta on
00:28:57.680team canada and i keep saying this like they want us on team canada when it's convenient
00:29:02.000and then as soon as it's inconvenient they'll kick us off the team right like they that that's
00:29:07.320that's my opinion and this week was another example of that Doug Ford Doug Ford's been in
00:29:12.920front of the mic all week long and keep keep putting the mic on him folks because every time
00:29:17.080he talks like it's comedy and so he he had the mic on him today and he was or yesterday and like
00:29:23.600I said I can't find the exact words but he was saying something like along the lines of we can't
00:29:28.180take it sitting down from trump we need to like retaliate and annihilate like he was using that
00:29:34.500kind of language right and and and then and then he went from there and talking about we
00:29:41.180how he was going to do that and will annihilate them by denying them you know energy and power
00:29:47.480and stuff like that and right away everybody who was listening to him especially from alberta were0.70
00:29:52.280like doug those are things you don't even have right and and so doug ford that doug doug i'm
00:30:00.540talking to you man you have no oasis up your sleeve in terms of how you're going to deal with0.63
00:30:05.700donald trump you have nothing that donald trump needs nothing maybe you got a little bit of you
00:30:13.480got a bit of critical minerals you got some copper maybe up in northern ontario and you got a few
00:30:19.080things but fundamentally what does donald trump need that he can't supply himself and then he can't
00:30:26.560get quickly from other places you're on to something doug donald trump needs oil the u.s is
00:30:32.140a net importer of oil so they need like 12 million barrels of oil per day that they consume and they
00:30:38.100produce about 10 so they need two from somewhere else so they get it from us they actually get more
00:30:42.700from us than the two they buy four and then they resell a couple so they're a net importer of oil
00:30:48.340so they need our oil and they can't replace that quickly with anywhere anybody else's oil not
00:30:52.700venezuela's not nobody else's that just takes time they need natural gas from us they produce a lot
00:30:58.560of natural gas and they export natural gas but they're doing the same thing the americans are
00:31:02.320doing the same thing we are they're going down this ai path and they need to burn a lot of natural gas
00:31:06.940to make electricity to power their ai facilities and uh and they're great at exporting but the
00:31:13.380gulf of mexico is exporting like millions of metric tons of lng per year to uh europe so they'll
00:31:19.760buy all the natural gas from us for cheap and resell it so they need that they need nuclear
00:31:24.460okay they need uranium the americans don't produce uranium they really don't and they have this huge
00:31:31.860fleet of they project their power around the world right they are aircraft carriers and they're
00:31:36.960submarines and they project their power and their power is powered by nuclear energy so they need
00:31:44.080uranium from us and they can't get that from anywhere else i mean they could get it from
00:31:47.640russia doubt that's going to happen and then they can get it from other countries but it needs to
00:31:52.160be enriched a lot more and it's different so we get the best uranium for them so so far i've said
00:31:58.340oil natural gas that comes from alberta a little bit from bc uranium that comes from saskatchewan
00:32:04.280the americans need potash okay potash is critical for growing stuff for growing carrots potatoes
00:32:12.520corn whatever so they need potash and we're like the number one two or three producer of potash
00:32:18.840on the planet the other ones is australia and places like kazakhstan or whatever so the americans
00:32:24.400can't uh produce enough potash for themselves so they need to import it and they get it from us
00:32:30.540and it's super critical it might as well be a critical mineral for them so they need potash and
00:32:35.980then um what else do they need um that's about it they need a couple of other things but that
00:32:42.940but almost everything else they can produce in sort of suitable quantities for themselves
00:32:47.180so i mentioned four things well so and those four things i mentioned come from saskatchewan alberta
00:32:54.380and a bit from british columbia quebec oh minerals yes let's go i mean we don't produce a lot of
00:33:01.020rare earth minerals but we do produce quite a few important critical minerals that the americans need
00:33:06.560um you know like the the tungsten and nickel and magnesium and lithium and some of those things
00:33:14.320and um that they have the ability to source of from a few more places around the world but
00:33:21.440they'd rather source it from us and again the minerals come from yeah northern quebec northern
00:33:26.920ontario a little bit of places like that but i basically ranked them in order and so the americans
00:33:31.700need that stuff from us and when doug ford was threatening the americans i'm sure trump was
00:33:37.180laughing because trump knows that hey you personally dougie you don't have anything that i
00:33:42.720need yeah dougie needs to sit down somebody that's exactly right and doug in his exact sentence
00:33:48.700started mentioning the things i mentioned which is and then he appealed i knew i said yesterday i
00:33:54.680said how long before doug ford appeals to alberta to jump on team canada and help out and what does
00:34:02.140doug ford want us to do on team canada he wants us to take one he wants us to shoot ourselves in
00:34:09.040the foot and he wants us to cut off the oil and the natural gas to the u.s he wants one he wants
00:34:14.380us to take one for team canada hurt our own economy and take one for team canada so the
00:34:19.340dougie can you know stick it to the americans luckily uh danielle smith today being interviewed
00:34:26.060said you know she wants no part of that and i don't blame her and by the way that would actually
00:34:30.420be uh an act of war like shutting off another nation's supply of energy even though it's done
00:34:37.260as part of trade i mean that's how uh the americans and the japanese uh got into a conflict
00:34:42.760that the uh you know in world war ii the americans cut off japan's oil supply so i'm not i i don't
00:34:48.760think we should be cutting off america's oil or gas supply and uh it's potentially an act of war
00:34:55.880and it would only hurt us and that and elevate things so all that to say that i don't like the
00:35:01.240path that this is going down i think the solution is obvious which is you know uh lift the dairy
00:35:06.600cartel which and i think the dairy cartels could take care of themselves buy some stuff from the
00:35:11.640americans work on the imbalance lift the uh lift the um our tariffs and uh focus on becoming more
00:35:19.800efficient but you know carney's refusing to do that and he's gonna keep being stubborn and and
00:35:25.960go down this path for uh for as long as possible and i don't think it's going to end up well for us
00:35:32.440uh where to go next um i got so many places i can go um let's actually let's let's just i'll
00:35:43.060finish picking on carney i'll finish picking on carney and then i'll move on uh this week we're
00:35:48.160getting so you guys know the story of the gordie howe bridge um back in about 2008 under the harper
00:35:56.820government so this started under the harper government we decided that we needed to somebody
00:36:02.500was thinking into the future okay this is good this is forward looking somebody saw that there's
00:36:06.740a problem there's a bottleneck at the border the uh peace bridge is not or the peace bridge or the
00:36:12.660whatever bridge is down in that windsor uh detroit corridor was insufficient somebody mentioned on
00:36:18.740somebody tell me what the name of that bridge was in the chat there please so we we had a vision and
00:36:23.700we decided we're going to build a bridge across and uh d bottleneck the traffic which would help
00:36:31.380for the import exports of auto parts and things like that good good good right infrastructure
00:36:36.100and then we didn't quite negotiate a really good deal with the americans and we basically
00:36:41.700unilaterally built this bridge so canada builds the bridge and then canada sets up the toll and
00:36:48.660canada is going to collect the tolls but then donald trump gets elected donald trump's a wild
00:36:53.620man and he says no we're not opening this bridge on our side so we pay billions of dollars build
00:36:59.220the bridge we expect to have it open and we're going to collect tolls and trump says nope you
00:37:04.340should have signed a better deal and uh i'm not opening this bridge until so he's using it as a
00:37:09.540bargaining chip right and this and then carney tells us that oh i i i went and met with trump
00:37:17.300we negotiated and the bridge will open and it's all good so then people start digging and went
00:37:22.580oh wait a minute wait a minute wait a minute wait a minute and so uh carney got challenged on this
00:37:28.980and carney almost refused to talk about it turned away from the mics wouldn't talk about it and now
00:37:34.020we're getting the whole story the bridge is going to open and uh we will recover the cost of the
00:37:41.380the bridge through tolls but in the meantime regardless half the tolls we collect on this
00:37:47.800bridge are just going to go to the U.S. so the U.S. who put no money into building this bridge
00:37:52.160is going to is going to get money revenue from the bridge and now it's going to take us twice
00:37:58.700as long to pay off this bridge because half the money we're getting every year is instead of going
00:38:04.440to pay off the bridge is just going to go to the U.S. so another example of an absolute monumental
00:38:09.500failure on the part of carny and um and and and this is you know was it a bad deal to start with
00:38:16.920sure but remember he was touted as carny the magnificent the guy who could negotiate anything
00:38:22.760and so far he just hasn't negotiated anything whatsoever for us i'm scrolling through the
00:38:29.280comments folks there is a lot of comments there um all right well i'll keep pei is a place that
00:38:38.260is all no okay cool folks uh numbers on the screen there i i know it's uh just after lunchtime maybe
00:38:43.620you're digesting maybe you're at work and you're uh you don't want to be uh uh you got rules you
00:38:49.460can't uh make phone calls on i don't know what the deal is but come on folks uh there's the number
00:38:55.860on the on the screen there and give me a give me a call um all right where do i go from here
00:39:03.220uh i want to talk about this one i don't know how long i'll be able to talk about this one but this
00:39:07.940was another one of those weird stories this week um how many did you guys all see that um gentlemen
00:39:16.580the the the young man of uh the seek persuasion who went to the good will or good life gym uh
00:39:26.660in somewhere in ontario and made a big deal so this guy's an influencer and he's obviously likes
00:39:33.460to film himself doing things and so he goes to the gym he's not wearing a shirt and he's
00:39:38.820got his kerpan right that little curved um ceremonial knife and and the gym a lady who
00:39:47.460works at the gym walked up to him and said i'm getting complaints and people uh would like you
00:39:55.460to you know cover up and hide that kerpan or keep it in your in your locker and i mean this thing
00:40:02.180that like he was openly wearing it and this thing was long right like not not just a little
00:40:06.980ceremonial thing this thing looked like a hunting knife kind of thing and she and and then he got
00:40:12.740into this back and forth with her and he posted it on the internet and then he posted all these
00:40:17.380all these other videos came out about it and there was at first there was a rumor so
00:40:23.460i'm i'm gonna try and keep this concrete but at first there was a rumor that good life had fired
00:40:30.740the uh lady in this in the in the business the the gym attendant that turns out that no that wasn't
00:40:36.420the case i wouldn't be surprised if there's a lawsuit against good life that comes out of this
00:40:43.060but he's an influencer i get it but then other people piled on right and so then jagmeet singh
00:40:50.020former leader of the ndp his brother comes on and now everybody's making a big deal about how
00:40:55.300this is a human right folks i looked into it and uh the i mean this is an this is an awesome debate
00:41:04.100right now and i and i like it i i think it's going to backfire on that guy yes the courts have ruled
00:41:11.380that um the gyms have to accommodate that they're allowed to bring a kerpan but the the court said
00:41:18.980a small one like a four a four to six centimeter one and that it has to be sort of not visible
00:41:26.420under the shirt kind of thing etc etc and so there there's attempts to accommodate and the gym
00:41:35.220i think has accommodated and is accommodating but this is a example i this is where i i get upset
00:41:42.420we live in a country where we are extremely accommodating to all sorts of people for all
00:41:48.100sorts of reasons even when it's not required by law okay we're just a nice nation of accommodating
00:41:54.740people if somebody comes to me and says you know i need uh i i can't work on saturdays or i can't
00:42:01.620work on fridays because because because i'll accommodate if somebody came to me in in the
00:42:07.140camp that i managed and said i need a quiet place to go pray i'll accommodate we'll find you a quiet
00:42:13.540place but if you come to me and say i need you to build me a temple at the work site so i can go
00:42:18.660pray i'm not going to build you a temple at the work site right that's the concept of accommodating
00:42:22.660is means that you do something that's not too unaccommodating for me not too intrusive not too
00:42:29.140complicated it's not just religious it's uh it's it's it's in other instances right you come to me
00:42:35.780and you have a wheelchair but you're perfectly capable of doing a job but you just need you know
00:42:41.300i need to provide you an office with wider doors and do something like that we will accommodate
00:42:45.780that's not going i don't it's not crazy accommodation doesn't mean i have to you know
00:42:52.020widen every single door in the office and and pave every sidewalk that's the you know what i mean so
00:42:58.820that's that's what accommodating and we live we're living in a world now where um we accommodate we
00:43:04.580give an inch and they'll want a mile and it's starting to backfire so i i didn't like that
00:43:09.780story and i i think we're in i think we're seeing a tipping point because online i didn't see too
00:43:15.940many people that were on side with this gentleman now i want to just add one other thing that was
00:43:21.700interesting despite accommodating this debate brought up other uh other groups that want to be
00:43:31.460accommodated which is interesting because so i went and looked at the supreme court ruling on
00:43:38.340this one that said a business had to accommodate one of the things that said in there is that
00:43:44.100simply having a kerpan or something like that looks like a weapon does not prove intent to
00:43:51.060use as a weapon and i looked at that and go oh that's interesting so just because you have a
00:43:56.420knife doesn't mean that the knife is a weapon and the supreme court went on to say other things like
00:44:02.820in a gym the dumbbells could be used as a weapon so it said a weapon cannot be defined by just
00:44:10.980the purpose of the object almost anything can be a weapon and almost anything that's
00:44:15.060a weapon could be used as a non-weapon you know where i'm going with this so if you have
00:44:20.740so in one instance the the the courts rule that just having a knife doesn't
00:44:25.620prove any intent well then what about somebody who's walking around with a firearm
00:44:29.460i guess just owning a firearm is not intent on using the firearm you see where i'm going with
00:44:36.360this i got a caller i want to definitely prioritize callers go ahead where are you calling from what's
00:44:40.340your name please hey marty it's jess and gp thanks for calling jess our thanks good how are you dude
00:44:49.480good good um accommodate is that another you know there could be another term for accommodate and i
00:44:56.180I would liken it to consults, just like consultation.
00:45:00.260Oh, I was going to go there. You beat me to it.
00:45:04.400Right? It's a perfect segue to what we're encountering with the two-tier justice that we see evident.
00:45:14.120And let's even correlate that with what we see with the Forever Canadian, what's happening here.
00:45:21.980It all works together, it seems, right?
00:45:25.500yeah and and accommodate and consult have similar words and then consult definitely doesn't
00:45:30.900necessarily mean uh agree right or um um or what's the other terms i'm thinking of uh i i see where
00:45:41.080you're going with this i was going to go with this perhaps in the context of uh of major projects
00:45:46.020right now and consulting and accommodating first nations and things like that um but you yeah i
00:45:53.420i like where you took it yeah because condone i think would be a word that you're looking for as
00:45:59.980well we you know or um we're consulting doesn't mean we uh doesn't mean we take oh yeah the word
00:46:07.580that wab canoe used trying to think of that well i think he used did he use consent or consensus
00:46:13.420there's there's there's those terms get mixed up too right so yeah consent yeah accommodating uh
00:46:20.780consulting is a tough one right i i've dealt with that right consulting i mean uh some people could
00:46:26.020interpret consulting as me simply telling you what i'm going to do right i'm going to build uh
00:46:30.720i'm going to build a road in your neighborhood next year and i'm giving you time to know that
00:46:35.860it's going to happen so you can adjust i'm not necessarily seeking your permission to do it but
00:46:40.400these days consulting has become um uh equivalent to a veto and everybody is uh you know is assuming
00:46:49.440that they they have to get absolutely everything that they want and and that's not what consulting
00:46:54.240means exactly yeah and i agree 100 percent um and this you know this just goes to show for many
00:47:02.560reasons um you know including the the uh uh the uh poking the bear of donald trump right
00:47:11.840and we didn't vote for any of this no no absolutely not and i and i like what diane
00:47:17.280said earlier right and that that that donald trump is doing what's good for the americans
00:47:22.320and that's yeah i mean like him or not that's one thing i fundamentally like about him yeah i don't
00:47:27.120like all his rhetoric and sometimes i wish he'd just get off x and stop trolling us but at the
00:47:32.800end of the day he's doing what's best for his people like he's that's what he got elected to do
00:47:38.400and if only we had somebody that did that here can you imagine
00:47:41.520all right well thanks have a good day yeah thanks for calling awesome um boy this again another hour
00:47:50.940that's just going to fly by and i'm going through my list of things and and uh i'm not even going
00:47:55.740to have time to cover all of the topics that i wanted to talk about um so anyways uh where do
00:48:02.920i end off on uh on the good life um it's well to see i i guess we're going to see what happens
00:48:10.940um i i feel bad for them already they're they're already the subject of memes they're already the
00:48:17.500subject of boycotts and things like that and uh and and that's too bad like it's i i guess i'm
00:48:24.200going back to accommodating and i think we are next actually this is one thing i wanted to say
00:48:28.460i'm going to tie this in accommodating and and other things it's it what's really interesting
00:48:34.020is when accommodation starts to uh accommodating one person impacts another and even when you have
00:48:42.320well intentions right good intentions so I'll give you an example right I talked about wheelchair
00:48:47.080access and so in order to make a property wheelchair accessible you might have a property
00:48:52.900like a you know I might have sidewalks with a curb and so somebody can't go up and down the sidewalk
00:48:58.920when they're in a wheelchair so to accommodate somebody with a wheelchair i might put a little
00:49:04.320area at the end of you see it in city streets right the sidewalk suddenly smooths down and
00:49:09.040that's to accommodate a wheelchair but when you accommodate a wheelchair by removing that curb
00:49:15.100you are inconveniencing a blind person who is walking along with the cane and who's relying0.56
00:49:21.140on that curb to know where something is you know you see what i'm saying so this whole concept of0.99
00:49:26.600of completely accommodating everybody on everything all the time is impossible right you can't please
00:49:34.100all the people all the time so it's the same thing with accommodating it you you end up with a you end
00:49:39.860up with an overlap in a conflict and an example of the conflict that showed up this week with this
00:49:44.940gentleman you know I gave the example of the guns which is perhaps a stretch because um you know
00:49:51.040i'll leave it at that but somebody else brought up a very real case like if a young lady has a
00:49:57.940bear spray and brings a bear spray to the gym because she's nervous and she's worried um how
00:50:05.440come she's not accommodated or or should women expect to be accommodated by having a separate1.00
00:50:11.820hours at the gym or a separate area of the gym and stuff like that right so that that's where1.00
00:50:16.460whole accommodation thing keeps on uh on on on going and uh and i'll leave it at that um okay
00:50:23.820i wanted a couple of things i wanted to talk about uh maybe i should have brought these up earlier
00:50:29.420might have resonated more with people locally elections alberta this week elections alberta has
00:50:34.460been in the news a lot this week they're uh they're actually almost asking that uh influencers
00:50:39.660like myself stop talking about them okay that's an interesting one right so when the government
00:50:45.820or an institution doesn't want us to talk about them uh why and so i find that elections alberta
00:50:52.060lately is going out of its way to defend itself they're running a big ad campaign you know
00:50:57.660promoting themselves as impartial this blah blah blah this week uh for them the they're they're um
00:51:06.060they continue to be under call under criticism by a lot of valid uh by a lot of separatists who
00:51:14.540who are bringing up points of why actually let me let me bring this back we had a very successful
00:51:20.700uh telethon last uh saturday uh five days ago where we promoted all the third party advertisers
00:51:27.180we did a 12-hour telethon and during the telethon i got to interview one of the third party
00:51:32.460advertisers and talk in depth about you know what they have to do to comply with the elections
00:51:39.880Alberta rules regarding raising money campaigning and stuff like that that the advertiser I got to
00:51:45.280interview was Jason Levine of the Levine show but you know right here Corey Morgan is a third
00:51:53.200party advertiser and others and so we are held they are held to a very high standard of transparency
00:52:02.480by Elections Alberta when it comes to all these things and there's been a lot of criticism this
00:52:08.220week that thomas lukasik's group the forever canada group is not being held to the same level
00:52:13.260of compliance and elections alberta's excuse is that they're not campaigning they're just
00:52:19.900promoting something and you know and elections alberta went as far as issuing a bulletin
00:52:25.700trying to clarify the situation and when you read the bulletin it just looks like they're
00:52:29.480making excuses for thomas's group uh go ahead caller where are you calling from what's on your
00:52:34.160mind. Oh, Marty here from Abbotsford, British Columbia. I'm glad there's a referendum. Yeah,
00:52:43.120it's Donald. You know who I am. So we're having problems here with fires right now here in the
00:52:49.080Boston Bar. We have a lot of talking about this regime and NBP. I want to talk about Michaela
00:52:56.280the Resistance, the so-called left-wing Antifa girl who literally went up to Daniel Smith and
00:53:02.440I called her an F of fascist parenthood.0.98
00:53:06.120Like, is this woman mentally ill or is she – how do I feel it?1.00