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