Western Standard - August 28, 2021


Wellwood： ＂Albertans are tired of Ottawa, we need less Ottawa and more Alberta＂


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In this episode, I chat with Nadine Wellwoodwoodwood about Derek Sloan's announcement that he is running as an independent in the riding for Banff-Airdrie, Alberta. Nadine and I discuss why she thinks Derek Sloan is a good choice for the riding, why she supports him and what she thinks about his chances of winning this riding.

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00:00:00.000 All right so I am here with Nadine Wellwood and we just finished watching Derek Sloan's
00:00:13.040 announcement that he is going to be running as an independent in the riding for Banff Airdrie
00:00:19.560 and Nadine's running with the PPC and I was just wondering what are your thoughts on Derek running
00:00:24.880 in your riding well let's start with I didn't actually watch Derek Sloan although I was
00:00:30.760 getting the play-by-play via text and supporters I was actually walking my dog because I live here
00:00:38.860 imagine that we have an Ontario politician that thinks that he can parachute his way into a rural
00:00:47.620 riding in Alberta and steal an Albertan seat he's got another thing coming so is
00:00:54.580 is Derek running is that going to change how you do your campaign or are you going to keep
00:00:59.320 the course that you're already going with you know what thank you Derek Sloan because I think he's
00:01:03.460 going to bring more attention press-wise to this riding and that will bring more press and attention
00:01:08.120 to the real issues that are going on in this country and you know Derek Sloan has made a
00:01:13.800 commitment to be here for 33 days 33 days he's got the support of a couple of washed up reform 0.85
00:01:20.740 party politicians and he thinks he's going to win this riding absolutely not going to happen
00:01:26.860 Albertans are tired of Ottawa and we need less Ottawa in this province and especially in this riding
00:01:34.180 so the last campaign you did fairly well against the CPC candidate and now we're looking at another
00:01:43.540 I guess popular former CPC candidate former CPC leadership candidate coming in do you see any sort
00:01:54.020 of vote split happening and do you think that vote split would happen in your favor or do you think a
00:01:58.500 liberal could end up sneaking sneaking past the the group of conservatives I don't think we can see
00:02:04.300 a liberal or an NDP sneak into this riding I think the riding has a very very strong conservative base
00:02:10.880 splitting the vote conservatively I don't think is a bad thing I think that's a good thing Blake has
00:02:15.940 got some competition we did and and Blake I think will admit we did a good campaign the last time
00:02:22.180 around and without the fear of an anti-Trudeau vote I think last time we would have done far better
00:02:29.480 I've already got far more support I think this time around because people know Aaron O'Toole is not
00:02:35.040 going to win Justin Trudeau is going to get in so this time they're free to vote for what they want
00:02:39.680 and Albertans are sick and tired of being told from Ottawa what we're going to do and they're tired of
00:02:46.860 no opposition there has been no opposition from the Conservative Party of Canada they have folded on
00:02:53.360 carbon tax they have folded on everything that has mattered to Albertans and they see it they see it
00:02:59.480 Blake has lost a lot of support in this riding and I'm not I'm full steam ahead I'm more charged and
00:03:06.560 ready to go now than ever awesome so I'm I think a lot of people are going to find that Derek Sloan
00:03:13.260 seems to be a one issue candidate how how do you see the issues in this riding for you so with Derek
00:03:22.160 Sloan from what I've heard of him speak he ran a leadership campaign for the Conservative Party of
00:03:28.360 Canada basically on Maxime Bernier's platform he has had no original thought there's nothing new he
00:03:36.940 and he is a one-trick pony everything for him is going to be about abortion and social conservative
00:03:43.480 issues that's not the key issues in this riding right now I think fundamentally my campaign is going
00:03:52.180 to focus on fundamental rights and freedoms which are being attacked I mean you're in the press censorship
00:03:57.760 oppression if we lose our right our ability to freely openly debate ideas to our own ability to
00:04:04.660 have our own thoughts I'm going we are not living in a free society anymore that I think is the number
00:04:10.960 one issue that is on the minds of so many people you got the liberals who are trying to force individuals
00:04:16.000 to take medical intervention that they don't want and that's an issue and it's not about the vaccine
00:04:24.760 it's about our charter of rights and freedoms which were put into place to protect us in times of crisis
00:04:31.780 so we had a principle we had a foundation to come back on with calm heads to say this is what we believe
00:04:40.060 in and that's freedom and then fiscal responsibility you know that's a huge one here in this
00:04:45.980 riding people are tired of the government spending we need smaller government we need government to
00:04:51.280 get out of Albertans way please just get out of our way we know what we need to do to recover
00:04:56.440 absolutely and it's not a she recovery either it's a recovery what an insult to women when 1.00
00:05:02.380 Justin Trudeau came out with his she session and she I as a chartered investment manager I just sat back
00:05:10.060 and went who takes this man seriously and no opposition so where where does your campaign go
00:05:20.860 from here now what do you have planned what's around the corner for you well interestingly enough there
00:05:25.600 is going to be in Jensen Park on Saturday a celebration of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms how timely
00:05:35.980 is that and I will be there to meet and greet anybody who wishes to speak with me we also have
00:05:42.640 some events here on Saturday in Cochrane we have our fair we have our barn dance and the bull riding
00:05:49.820 lots of activities I will be out and about and of course we're full steam ahead as you can see I was
00:05:55.340 fully prepared for this today fully prepared we knew this was coming we had a press release as soon
00:06:02.720 as I heard yep he's running saw his poster Banff Airdrie it was hit hit play so we're we're going
00:06:10.680 full steam ahead there'll be lots of door knocking we've got our rack cards we're organized we've got
00:06:14.800 our signs out most people called me and went good job on the signs um they're we're we're ready to go
00:06:20.600 yeah there's absolutely a ton of them coming in here um so if uh the Western Standard members are
00:06:26.800 interested in learning more about you where can they find your information
00:06:29.800 nadinewellwood.ca is my website that will take you to my Facebook my Twitter my YouTube where you
00:06:36.480 can watch my response uh that I recorded actually today and read the press release uh in response to
00:06:42.940 Derek Sloan's announcement and uh issues such as inflation issues uh such as Afghanistan which I've
00:06:49.800 been asked about um you'll find pre-recordings that I will be releasing um pretty much every day
00:06:55.400 I suspect now um until the election is called awesome well thank you very much for this nadine
00:07:01.320 nadine wellwood is the candidate for uh the people's party of canada for the riding of Banff Airdrie