When the ethnic vote votes ethnic
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Summary
Western Standard editor Dave Naylor, senior editor Corey Morgan Morgan, and editor-in-chief Nigel Hannaford discuss Alberta's carbon tax sellout, and the growing problem of ethnic politics in Canada's political class.
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G'day, I'm Derek Fildebrandt, publisher of the Western Standard.
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Today is May 13th, 2026, and you're watching The Pipeline.
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I've got our normal crew of misfits here, our former opinion editor, Nigel Hannaford.
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all right you know sometimes it kind of fits with the business right uh we are going to talk
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about uh alberta's big carbon tax sellout uh confirmed today that uh the alberta ucp government
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has agreed to pay a carbon tax of 130 per metric con getting to that by uh 2040 in exchange for
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Well, we'll get the details of it tomorrow, unless it leaks out earlier.
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But we'll get the details at least officially tomorrow.
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But Friday at a press conference between Premier Danielle Smith and Prime Minister Mark Carney,
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where I guess there'll be some kind of announcements of a pipeline or towards pipelines.
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But either way, Alberta has had to sell the farm to get this.
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um the canada haters are rallying to save canada from alberta the only uh the only thing the canada
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haters hate more than canada it seems is alberta uh efforts by some in the foreign-owned and eastern
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owned uh mainstream media press to paint every every alberta independent supporter as a hater
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of canada while conveniently overlooking the people who genuinely hate canada people who topple
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statues of our founders people who change the lyrics of oh canada people who denigrate the
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military that kind of thing so we're going to get into kind of the hypocrisy around that
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but uh first uh what happens when the ethnic vote votes ethnic um you know we've had uh it's it's a
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thing not just in canada or alberta it's it's really everywhere in the western world that has
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mass migration, you get kind of balkanized pockets of people from different ethnicities,
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and they'll often vote, normally vote for someone of their own ethnicity once they reach a critical
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mass of the voting public. But there's a very interesting case we want to zero in on from
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Ontario, I think Scarborough, so you know, in the GTA, where Nate Erskine-Smith, he is a member of
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a Liberal Member of Parliament, and he's trying to become a Liberal Member of the Ontario Parliament
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because he's seeking the leadership of the Ontario Liberal Party. He has spent his entire political
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career supporting open border, virtually unlimited mass migration, Dave. There's video clips of him
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going back a decade and a mile long of him pandering to that local ethnic community,
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And I guess he was expecting a little gratitude
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when he was running for the Liberal nomination,
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in case it comes back and bites you on the ass,
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Yeah, he, in the nomination race for Scarborough,
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who is a local Bangladeshi businessman, owns 15 Domino's pizza outlets.
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I mean, it looked like Northeast Calgary politics at its worst.
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They were handing out Bangladeshi voting cards and telling them,
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You know, basically having these people, I don't mean these people like that, but not in a Don Cherry way.
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But, you know, he got the Bangladeshi community motivated and they came out and supported their Bangladeshi client, you know, or candidate.
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So, yeah, liberals all for mass migration.
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But now it's turning into, you know, hey, we can't even get elected in Toronto right now because of the ethnic group.
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And apparently he doesn't speak very good English, so I'm sure he'll be a worthwhile member of the Ontario Parliament.
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I think there's a good headline in there about the dominoes falling or something along those lines.
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And those enclaves continue to grow into other quadrants of both cities, even areas outside of both cities, increasingly.
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The Conservatives are absolutely no better on this.
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Doug Ford just the other week saying, hey, I wish I could snap my fingers and you could all stay and then become citizens.
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I think the Liberals probably lean into it the hardest, but the Conservatives do it pretty well.
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But the assumption has generally been you're going to support the politician that lets you in.
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We let your cousins and your uncles and your grandparents and all of these people in, and we've provided generous benefits.
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for that. Well, they might still be willing to vote for the party
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you know they got people voting without proper id they're like the flimsiest of stuff that they're
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allowing to take place sounds like people got to vote more than once it sounds totally fraudulent
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but it's kind of a what else did you expect when you're playing this is tammany hall
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politics just in 2026 what else did you expect yeah well that the ethnic game is totally different
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as we've all suffered through it i'll just kind of quickly go back to a past story we had
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a nomination in northeast calgary with the wild rose party when it was up and coming
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we had five people four people running in it three were of ethnic minorities and one wasn't
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the three who were running immediately submitted thousands and thousands of brand new memberships
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and it's determined we quickly determined that actually all three had sold to the exact same
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three members over and over the duplicates were out of control so our executive director actually
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went door knocking and documenting and checking on these we had households with supposedly 20 people
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in them uh things like that and we disqualified all three of the others and kept the white guy
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i tell you the backlash looked awful but what are you supposed to do they play politics differently
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in blocks and they play the nomination game heavily so on the liberals well it looks good
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on you you back towards it you didn't put in the controls and you learned another hard lesson
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it's also a symptom though i think of not having good policies of multiculturalism but when these
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blocks and these enclaves are starting to turn so predominant for one group or another group or
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another. We're going to see more of that, whether it's conservative or liberal, because you don't
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play based on policy any longer. You've got to play based on finding community leadership and
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whatever that particular ethnicity that dominates a riding is. And I don't think it's healthy for
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Canada democracy, but we're just seeing it starkly with the liberals now having it happen to them.
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And we're going to see more. So a ton of people voting in this, it's claimed we're not citizens,
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which is allowed under the Liberal Party, but many of them were even temporary foreign workers,
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like they're not even permanent residents. But the Conservatives really can't get on their high
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horse here. The Conservatives don't at least officially allow temporary foreign workers to
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vote, but the Conservative Party voted against limiting membership and therefore voting in the
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Conservative Party federally to Canadian citizens at their most recent convention here in Calgary.
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The Conservatives voted against it. So they've got, they don't really have any high horse to
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stand on here themselves um but i think one of the lessons here is i don't know how to put it
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um in a way that's not going to get in trouble so i'm just going to get probably some trouble
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here i'll have to discipline myself um you know regular proviso not all migrants are cheats and
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engage in tammany hall style uh dirty politics but a lot do if you import people from the third
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world, you cannot act surprised and shocked when you get third world politics. Some people do leave
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that behind, and they want nothing to do with it here. But a lot don't. I mean, these are
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multi-generational habits. Democracy is not just the flip of the switch. You know, everyone sounds
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nice on paper, but it's a culture. It's a practice. It's something that often takes generations to be
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truly inculcated with. And then there's the other side, which is where I probably get in more
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trouble for saying that every other group in the world plays tribal politics. In the West,
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white people, we've generally been told that's a bad thing. We don't play tribal politics.
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We're colorblind. You know, a brown guy could represent a white riding, an Asian guy could
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represent a black riding, and none of it should matter
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and when we get to that, that's a bad spot to meet
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that the liberals have done since Pierre Trudeau
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back in 1967 they have always tried to play the race card play the cultural card in order to
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weaken conservative holdings we go back to the 1970s when joe volpe prominent liberal mp at the
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time uh basically stole the the uh ridings along the the shore of the lake there by importing
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portuguese immigrants and eventually they managed to get the the the majorities that they needed
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he was italian okay well he was but he used the portuguese and immigrants so uh yeah like
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everything they have done has been to expand the influence of immigrants as at the expense of the
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the conservatives lord knows jason kenny did a hell of a fine job trying to reverse that for
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for the time that he was in office you know mr curry in a hurry was the was the joke around the
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hill but uh you know it didn't stick so what we got we have got the full we are now seeing the
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start of the full flowering of all of those policies over a period of some 60 years and
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you get somebody like erskine smith who by the way is not a particularly sympathetic character
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for people like us i'd say no more i went through the how many stages of grief is it five i you know
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three seconds i was done and so so there you are the thing is this is a little bit unique in the
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sense that after the war we had a lot of ethnic communities from europe displaced dps displaced
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persons uh coming here germans austrians italians uh they didn't get into politics they showed up
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they got the job they did it uh took the paycheck went home to their families what's different is
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that the uh this particular group of uh immigrants from bangladesh and others like them do get into
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uh into politics because they have actually bought the package they think that this is a good thing
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this is how you get influence this is how you make things happen so let's play the game it's just
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Someone captured this picture. It was on social media
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all over the ground it doesn't look like a first world country it's gloomy out in the distance that
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he's walking to and there is a with the Canadian flag flying there's the weird uh trans pride
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progress flag flying at the same time like it uh whoever captured that photo I don't know if they
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that was intentionally meant but it was it's almost like a renaissance painting in its significance
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but I would rather have somebody like Shothmajumdar.
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or giovanni who are respectively of south asian origin and jamaican origin who are true conservatives
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i would rather have them representing me in ottawa than i would have somebody
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who is of the same persuasion as mr erskine smith who has totally unconservative ideas and is
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actually part of the problem of how this country is going down to the point we can come out of a
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nomination meet and see you trash on the ground on a trans flag that's give me the give me the
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guy with the right ideas every time yeah but as we're quickly discovering though uh
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the rest of the world didn't stop playing tribal politics just because you know we kind of
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collectively decided as european societies some did break out i guess you could see like shoo he's
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in calvary heritage i think yeah i mean he's not going to get a block of south asian voters that's
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not an ethnic right he's he's won it based on his own merit and campaigning and uh he's a very
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popular member of parliament down there so we can we can break out of that that that thing and to be
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fair i think if shu ran in northeast calgary he would probably collect some of your support based
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on your your ethnic community but but shu've won a non non-ethnic rotting yes i said you want to
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well he's actually harper's right yeah it was harper's old right preston manning's running at
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for lack of a better term, he wanted a white rotting
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People liked what he stood for, he won the nomination,
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he won the general. A bunch of people like us voted
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that with a fair bit of confidence. Well, part of the way
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would have had to get some endorsement from some community
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are going to watch this and they're going to try and play it back
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All right. Fairly decent segue then, I think, into our next segment here.
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The Canada haters rallying to save Canada against Alberta.
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So I don't mean to pick on him. He's actually a decent writer. I don't often agree with him.
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But the Calgary Herald's Don Braid wrote in his column,
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The Alberta independence people hate Canada. They have to show hatred and contempt for Canada.
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He quotes some people saying, I don't think anything really hate, I don't know how in front of me, but, you know, that, you know, an independent Alberta would probably seek American recognition, which, I don't know, any country in the world seeking independence seeks American recognition, all the more so one that borders it.
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So I don't know how that's a newsy thing, but he says, you know, these people hate Canada.
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I think of the people who changed the lyrics of
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Old Canada to make it gender neutral and politically correct
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churches were burned to the ground or significantly
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patriotic Canadians their whole life. They might be
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born in Alberta or born elsewhere, loved Canada, loved what it stood for.
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They don't hate Canada, at least as they were born into,
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but they might hate what Canada has become and what Canada is becoming.
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Well, I've had 50 years plus to observe the difference between Canada that was
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And so I can 100% see where you're coming from that on, Derek,
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But, you know, people are always going to put the best, go into a back room.
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Obviously, somebody like Mr. Nenshi, a one-time mayor of Calgary,
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Well, how are we going to fight Daniel Smith on this one?
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Well, this is the same guy who tried to take one of the Canada Day celebrations
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and then turn it into a provincial lament for all the sins of racism,
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colonialism i don't know there was a long list and he didn't want to do canada day he wanted to
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he wanted to make it a day of protest so when you got people like that you have to wonder about the
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sincerity of it and you know because this came up i ended up looking around uh to see where where we
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were going with this and um you know there's something on facebook i'm sorry instagram from
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one court ellingson he's a an mla and this is the kind of ndp oh yeah very ndp so he says a few weeks
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ago this would be last week a few weeks ago the alberta ndp organized a day of action to fight
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against alberta separation here's what they got 75 people in calgary and 200 people across our
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province showed up on a snowy april day to talk to neighbors about why alberta is better leading
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canada than leaving it so you know after all the sound and fury and all the frankly the bs
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they managed to get according to this individual 275 people out so i don't think the tide is
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flowing their way because i think the what derek has just said about who it is who actually really
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hates canada and the kind of things that the ways that they choose to express it don't fit well in
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alberta um i think yeah sure go on take it from there but dave um you know i i uh i wrote a column
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my guess is they probably come disproportionately
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from other provinces uh because those other provinces are going to hell and they came to
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alberta for an opportunity they come to alberta because of what it stands for um and they're
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they're not anti-canadian at all they they're patriotic canadians but they see that canada
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has gone to hell and it's continuing to go further down into hell and there does not appear to be
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by leaving it, essentially. The rest of Canada is irreversibly
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These things are never, ever getting paid by us, our children, or even our
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even Quebec would be. I'm not even sure Quebec is
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necessarily anti-Canadian. It just wants to be its own
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So what plan are they living on thinking that this is somehow a Canada hate fest?
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Well, you've got to remember Dawn, who I consider a friend.
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He's a very left-wing, very left-wing writer, has been for decades.
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But just look, I mean, the facts tell the story.
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Thousands of people from B.C. are fleeing the wacky government of David Eby.
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and where are they going? They're going to Alberta
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I'm sure some of them would probably vote for independence, but I think most of them would still be happily Canadian or happily say they're Canadian.
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It makes for, I mean, neither the nationalist camp or the federalist camp are homogenous, as you and I well know.
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Jay Zkenny, I don't consider to be a Canada hater.
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So among the roughly two-thirds that are currently opposed to independence, a majority of those are on the left, and they're backing parties that stood by as churches were burned down.
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They vote for politicians that wanted to change Canada Day from a celebration of Canada into a ritualistic self-flagellation of national guilt.
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an illegitimate settler colonial slave state founded on stolen native land it's hypocrisy
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and a purposeful cognitive dissonance i you know i like stirring things up when i get bored on x if
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i just wanted to get things worked up and that still works now i've took i've posted that about
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five times over the years i just a simple canada is not a genocidal country and the hornet's nest
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is poked i'm a racist i'm a denier i am you name it this and that the people who get so upset for
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me daring just to say that the country isn't genocidal. Their idea of where we're supposed
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to be sitting and where we're supposed to be thinking is we're always staring at our shoes.
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Canada is an awful place that did terrible things that probably shouldn't exist. It's a post-national
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state. We're settlers. We're colonialists. And then when we see independence movements blossoming
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on each side of the country, all I had tried to ask these guys, what the hell did you think was
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going to happen. You've been undercutting any sense of pride or identity or unity in this country for
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years. And lo and behold, some people said, well, I'm not about to stand up and hand it all off to
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the indigenous bands, but I don't feel any connection to this god awful state. So yes,
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I won't feel bad for a second saying, you know what, I might embrace an independence movement
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because you guys told me this country is not worth saving anyways. So yes, it's not helping
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them when they suddenly have cloaked themselves in this flag that they were so recently burning
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and pissing on and i got no use for them as samuel johnson said two centuries ago patriotism is the
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last refuge of a scoundrel he was of course speaking of the americans but uh it applies
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equally today well i think it's contextual i think uh the scoundrel can uh rely on patriotism to
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cloak his actions but i i would reject that patriotism is uh is a negative thing to begin
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with you know i believe in nationalism i believe patriotism uh it is often a force for good people
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doing bad yeah you can fall back and you use it as a cloak that's exactly what johnson was talking
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about and that people with dishonest or selfish motives will often use patriotic further to cover
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their tracks it's a tried and true method yeah i you know i i guess it doesn't need to be said
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not everyone in the Federalist camp is a hater
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there's just not particularly much evidence to support that
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what i am saying is it makes for awkward bedfellows when your goal is to save save canada uh i'm not
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sure what canada they're trying to save it seems to be the canada i i was born into was just long
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gone but yeah let me just say this what i notice about the people who i encounter in the alberta
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independence movement is that there isn't some culture or language that binds them together as
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be the case with quebec it is a set of values that they hold and all seem to hold which is
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what where we entered this discussion talking about the people who say that patriots for canada
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are the ones who have said everything about canada is wrong but those things that they
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say about canada being wrong are the things that uh alberta patriots if i can use that expression
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they're the ones they're trying to hold on to uh fair play decency parliamentary democracy
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you know this is a uh they're rejecting the socialists so okay you know we got a nice flow
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one topic's actually going to another fairly well today um we're going to talk about alberta's
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carbon tax sellout um so in november i think was the day before the ucp convention
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Daniel Smith and Mark Carney signed an MOU, Memorandum of Understanding,
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about working together if some give and take on environmental policy
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in exchange for fixing the situation around pipelines
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and possibly tanker access on the West Coast and things like that.
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I was actually shocked when we all showed up to the UCP convention covering that there.
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And I, in a very awkward moment, found myself to be the squishy moderate in the room.
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But I said, you know, I mean, we should encourage the premier to make a good faith effort on these files.
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we don't yet know is there going to be a pipeline
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the dotted line, it's agreed firm that Alberta will agree to increasing the industrial carbon
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tax to $130 per metric ton, elevating up to, uh, into 2040. Um, Corey, I, I went into this with an
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open mind. I took some guff for being too soft, which is a pretty rare thing for me to have and
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the Prime Minister and just give him the finger right off the bat.
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you know okay well let's see what we can do to potentially find mutually beneficial agreements
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for the country and for the province but the carbon tax I mean come on we've talked about
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this for a decade it doesn't do a damn thing to save the environment it never will it's a tax
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that's all it is is something Premier Smith has always been very clear about whether it's the
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consumer one or the industrial one and it puts Canada at a disadvantage around the world and
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trying to sell its products. Now, it puts Alberta at a disadvantage. The baloney we're seeing from
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guys like Corey Hogan, you know, that lone liberal MP, talking like the rest of the world is
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demanding decarbonized oil, this fictional imaginary crap. No, they aren't. And in fact,
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Canada isn't demanding it as they get Venezuelan, Russian, Saudi Arabian, and every other tanker to
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the East Coast they could possibly can get. But Alberta is the one and only beacon that apparently
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has to decarbonize its oil she capitulated i think she should have told him to go to hell
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it'll be interesting to see on friday i imagine they got something else but let's see where this
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proponent is then do you have a proponent have you got rid of the tanker ban have you said that
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the indigenous don't have a veto there's a whole lot more things i expect out of this if you're
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going to call it a victory so maybe she's letting something out and has a big announcement coming i
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don't know but i gotta see more there there is reporting now coming out of ottawa that
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But that's what in theory is going to happen.
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from uh uh being constructed and and and completed so the whole thing about the uh you know the
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shipping bans and and whatnot can be dealt with at a bit of a later time because there is
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because nobody's going to invest a nickel that's true unless they know it's gone that's the fair
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that's that chicken and egg game that's been great though now that would be a relatively easy thing
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for him to do now and say look we're making progress you know we've got rid of the tanker
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Tinkerban, there are no pipelines, we've eliminated that legislation, you've still got the promises
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you have hinted at to the indigenous peoples to deal with, but the things that we could
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do now and that we could do easily, we're doing.
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So this is the way it's going to, but we don't see that.
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Well, Nigel, even if, let's say there's a bunch of victories on those fronts, the West
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Coast Tinkerban gone, it's a project of national importance, all of these things.
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I know, and it looks likely, okay, we could get a pipeline of this.
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I don't care if we get a dozen pipelines or if they build them to the moon.
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What happened to, you know, Premier Daniel Smith has said she's not backing independence for Alberta.
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She's backing a sovereign Alberta within a united Canada.
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The carbon tax is a matter for Alberta to decide.
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This is an Alberta carbon tax, yet it's being dictated in terms of these negotiations to buy Ottawa.
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That doesn't sound like a sovereign Alberta with any United Canada to me.
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No, and you know, if I were Danielle, I don't know whether I'd be doing that.
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But I have to go back to where Corey started in this segment when he said,
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And you've got to try to make it look like you're working along.
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but she has the really has the world against her on this one for all the reasons we've just talked
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about the cost of burying carbon dioxide to make decarbonized oil is going to put 50 a ton or two
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onto oil this is what they tell me but people who know more than i do 50 a ton and you're going to
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go out and try and sell this overseas what exactly you know how long do you think the round war is
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going to last it's uh this is not going to work but she goes in and says what she has to say
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i've got a feeling that the thought may be by 2040 carney will be gone somebody else will be in
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charge it is inconceivable that the liberals should govern for another you know 14 years
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they've done it before we'll get well that would be a 24-year run you're starting to get back in
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mckenzie king territory but anyway you know this can't possibly last we've even got al gore saying
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like global warming which is the foundation of all this is going to be replaced by global freezing
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i mean i don't know who takes al gore seriously anymore but al gore is prepared to stake his
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reputation on being wrong this this i think is going to go away meanwhile as long as he's talking
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The Western, you know, the Alberta independence crowd cannot use that as a wedge against her.
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I don't know. I do agree that she, you know, can't walk into a meeting with Carney and just punch him in the nose.
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As good as that would all make us feel that is not what she should do, she should be negotiating in good faith.
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The problem is she's negotiated us $130 on carbon tax, and maybe Carney has gone by then.
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Maybe he is replaced by a more radical liberal.
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Maybe he's replaced by a crappy conservative because many conservatives won't take a standing even against the industrial carbon tax.
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They're, you know, they're going to hem and haw and they got they got a they don't want to rock the boat too much to win votes in central Canada.
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But also, I don't think we can rely one bit necessarily on the Conservatives being committed to repealing the carbon tax.
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Conservatives changed their mind about a bunch of things in the last two weeks of that last campaign when they thought it would maybe save the election for them.
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So she has then agreed to the principle that Ottawa has legitimacy in dictating this to us.
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So, you know, yeah, it's 2040 is, I guess, a ways off.
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I mean, we're still dealing with the disastrous policies of Justin Trudeau 10 years ago.
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Carney needs this to keep the Stephen Gilboa wing
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there's going to be a lot of people on our side
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I think this should be on the ballot in October.
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There should be a referendum question at this point.
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we have uh five questions on constitutional reform which i generally more or less agree
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with but that are never going to go anywhere because the rest of canada will not say uh
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yes to it we've got i think four questions on immigration what one's four one's five
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uh that's fine so and then probably independence as well let's put this one on let's let's see
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where albertans stand on this maybe i'm wrong but uh i this is not a deal i think i would vote for
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so look i think that mr carney has an incentive to to at least appear to offer a pipeline because
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if enough people believe that it's a real prospect that is going to subtract from the independence
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movement so he is not totally unmotivated to do something good or at least appear to do
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something good for daniel smith on friday that would have an impact now whether it's real
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that's a whole different discussion for next week but um i wouldn't write it off just yet
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all right all right uh party shots dave uh very disturbing video this week of uh gang of girls
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and uh yeah we'll show some of the video very disturbing uh uh poor girl in red deer beaten
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senseless swarmed kicked in the head repeatedly elbowed in the face repeatedly and then when she
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was unconscious she was dragged to a group of nearby trees and and dumped um disgusting behavior
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our linda slobodian wrote about it today you know nothing's stopping these miscreant teens
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uh nothing will stop because there's no justice no justice for them so uh rcmp under great pressure
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to make some arrests i think it'll be quick but uh yeah go go and check out the video because it
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really is really is disturbing you know i i got to my share of scraps as a teenager and uh we fought
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one-on-one and when someone lost it was over and if someone didn't stop your own friends dragged
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you off uh i i forget even the law here uh there's just doesn't see maybe there's just no code of
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how to have a proper scrap in high school anymore there's always going to be people fighting in high
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school it happens it's never going to go away but uh yeah we just there seems to be no common
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sense about how to have a proper scrap now no no cory uh so i guess due to good marketing and
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good branding tim horton's got practically a monopoly in the donut and coffee industry in
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Canada, and then devolved into what I think was one of the most overrated institutions in the
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country. So we're seeing that getting withered away with Dunkin' Donuts moving in and some
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others moving into the country. I'm just enjoying seeing competition come back. And I just want to
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say, I miss Robin's Donuts. I guess they still exist in other parts of the country, but they
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aren't in Alberta anymore because they just couldn't compete against Tim Hortons that really
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just kind of took everything by wave. But maybe we were reversing things. I want to see some
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competition in the donut and coffee world so come on back robbins we missed you so more more work
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for temporary foreign workers oh well you know you guys have a donut shop actually hired canadians
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that that's a bigger debate but i tell you as a serious industry owner put out an ad and see how
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many show up for it yeah fair enough but yeah tim hortons really is uh the canadian health care of
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uh of buddhist service delivery in canada where it's something where uh we have no right to be
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and we're happy to pass it on to everybody else.
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But on World Press Freedom Day, Prime Minister Carney
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What Black Locks revealed was that just about 10 days before,
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officials in all of the most powerful ministries have got together
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and we're trying what they were trying to do is work out who's a real journalist who should be
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allowed to go into me and i i'm just touting ahead i think we're going to put this out on friday uh
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i did a little rap this morning because i was kind of mad so watch out for it on friday talking
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about the hypocrisy of uh somebody who will stand up and say on one day that uh press matters and
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freedom press freedom matters and meanwhile is trying to sort of ways find ways to exclude
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people like us people like rebel news juno from being able to ask questions at government meetings
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uh mine i've got uh call them up now uh we don't report on rumor here but we ended up in a weird
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kind of twilight zone of information uh i've had some very good sources tell me that alberta
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finance minister nate horner uh not sure the reasons around it but he'll be stepping down
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or something to that effect in the coming weeks,
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and he will be replaced as Alberta's finance minister by Jason Nixon.
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But there's also pretty good sources in the government who deny it to me.
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And I've got other sources in the government who deny it, but unconvincingly.
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Jason Nixon is going to be the next finance minister
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retiring or moving out of the portfolio or something
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Western Standard, and by subscriber, I don't mean just getting