Where the f＊＊＊ is Nenshi’s NDP？!
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In this episode of The Pipeline, the usual suspects are back, and they're joined by former Western Standard opinion editor Nigel Hannaford and Senior Alberta Columnist Cory Morgan to talk about a variety of topics, including: The Alberta NDP's troubles in the polls, Queers for Palestine's attempt to disrupt the Toronto Pride parade, and Why we should all be scared of the "Queer for Palestine" movement.
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2025 I'm Derek Fildebrand publisher of the Western Standard and you're
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watching the pipeline I'm joined by my usual buddies here former Western
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Standard opinion editor and Nigel Hannaford here I am again and Western
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Standard senior Alberta columnist Cory Morgan always a pleasure having
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internet trouble so she may or may not join us from Vancouver is the always
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lovely Elise Mills we'll see we'll see if she makes it on if so we'll put a
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sneaker in um before we get started though i just want to remind everyone the western standard is
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So, you know, it can be a little troublesome sometimes.
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And I thought, well, what's something that's not in the news?
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Trouble it's had punching through in the polls.
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has become a big issue, and it's got a lot of different facets.
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uh seems like it should should be an uncontroversial thing the only controversy should
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be why the hell are we doing that to begin with uh so we'll talk we'll chat about that bill
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and issue but we're going to start first with i love this headline uh queers for palestine
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versus palestine for queers um the uh well i'll let you set it up cory um this is a controversy
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I guess they're trying to outwoke each other or
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Pride Parade, one of the big ones. It's kind of the
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the tri-actor of Pride parades in Canada, you've got Ottawa, Montreal, and Toronto. I guess
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Vancouver's another brute, so maybe there's a fourth. They were going to have their big march,
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and Queers for Palestine basically set up and blockaded them, stopped the parade in its tracks.
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They negotiated, it was a bunch of ridiculous demands, I guess, of the Pride marchers, which,
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again, how Pride marchers could do anything with Palestine or anything of the sort, who knows.
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And in the end, the organizers of Ottawa Pride canceled the parade.
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It's just the levels of weirdness and extremism and ridiculousness of this whole thing on so many levels.
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Again, Queers for Palestine, everybody was like, you guys are, you know, I think the best meme is the one saying, you know, chickens for KFC.
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You guys are supporting a group that wants to kill you.
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If you go to Palestine, they will kill you.
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The only ones that deny that are Western liberals.
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Meanwhile, the pride organizers for the rest of the parade,
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it just shows the weakness of them too, though.
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if you've got a tiny minority blocking your own parade,
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you'd maybe kind of just shove them aside and say,
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that's enough out of you guys and whatever the gender may be of the bunch
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LGTBQ+, 2SI, XYZ, Palestine, or Black Lives Matter?
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You're asking me the distinction between a gnat and a louse, really, aren't you?
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There's another one that you could have thrown into the mix there.
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They're killing women before they're born.
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That was an old Western Standard print magazine
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I remember it was when I was in a university case.
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But remember, the way the thing ended up, in the end, the feminists decided it was
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more important that they should have their right to abortion than that they should defend the
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lives of unborn women. So I thought that was a crazy thing. Actually, I didn't see that coming.
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I thought, oh, there you go. That's going to really punch a hole in the side of the abortion
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movement. Well, now we come to Queers for Palestine that wants to uphold the
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state of palestine which as you said would be distinctly unfriendly to people of their
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persuasion friendly against israel quite way of putting it yeah well i mean we try to be polite
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but uh we come to against israel which it's very tolerant of that point of view so uh-huh
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i i take cory's point obviously there is a moral weakness gosh how are we talking about morality
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here there's a moral weakness in the leadership a lack of intestinal fortitude that would just say
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as you said get get out of the way we've got a point to make and it's not yours go well and
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they've lost the whole narrative of rights for lg tbq people i think maybe that's part of the
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problem is they've won every battle in canada you've got marriage you've got human rights
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protection you've got everything else but instead of looking outwards to where those battles still
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should actually be fought like where they're executing gay people you're instead introverting
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into this bizarro world of of queers for palestine i just uh it's it's serious to them but i'm gonna
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laugh at you guys get your crap i think it's because these movements don't tend to stop of
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their own volition they stop when they run out of steam or are set back um you know uh you know
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the movement coming out of the the civil rights movement united states for equality for black
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people, etc. That started as a reasonable proposition, and then it turned into affirmative
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action, and then it turned into DEI, it turned into segregated college graduations. So we'd
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like me, they got right back to segregation. These movements don't often, I can't think
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of many examples, nothing. Think of the anti-smoking movement. They beat mainstream smoking, and
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and then they go after vaping, which is what's getting people off the few remaining people who
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are smoking. Vaping gets them off of that. The anti-smoking movement can't stop. Literally no
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movement stops. I used to think, I used to use the example when I was working at the Canadian
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Taxpayers Federation back in the day, that if we had succeeded in abolishing taxes, abolishing debt,
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and abolishing the government, we'd have to invent something else because, well, this is our careers,
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This is our movement. This is what we believe in.
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and subdividing, it's almost like a Protestant church
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Well, you realize, of course, that in that particular instance, there is a lot of government money that goes into the anti-smoking movement.
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Well, that's a separate issue, but there have been some groups funding.
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Obviously, somebody is behind this and keeping them going.
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I mean, I'm hesitant to discuss this logically because it's not very logical.
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I mean, you can, I mean, I've got some sympathy for the situation of Palestinian civilians.
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I mean, you're fighting this kind of guerrilla war, terrorist organization.
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The line does get fuzzy between civilian and combatant, obviously.
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uh but you know i a reasonable person left or right can have sympathy for the situation and
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whatnot but then to frame it as as you put it cory you know chickens for kfc i mean you could
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just say i'm for palestine and i happen to be gay but like yeah it's leading those two things
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together you could talk about all the other things i want to see a two-state solution i i don't like
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All sorts of things. Fine. That's not a problem.
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when you fit everything into identity politics?
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people denying that they have a problem with that
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Yeah, Hamas is not finding how they feel about this.
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We saw videos of that in the early protests as well
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when some fellow showed up flamboyantly running around at one with a rainbow flag
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and the other Palestinian punch jumped out and grabbed his flag
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The intolerance towards that community is horrific,
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but they've got this purposeful blindness towards reality again
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So, as I said before, too, I think it could be the beginning of the end of the pride parades.
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It's getting to such absurdity that I think rational LGBTQ people, and there's many of them,
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they're just not going to come out to this crap anymore.
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Slight change of the topic, but still pretty close, I think.
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Because for, you know, you were here in Alberta, you know, is Daniel Smith going to attend the pride parade?
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You and I were chatting offline about this, Corey,
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of the early Pride Parades. Yeah, back in the 90s.
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good cause um i'm i didn't go to them but uh i guess but um you know they they were fighting
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for something and they weren't these ostentatious um overly uh overly sexualized public displays
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of something that's very personal they were they were for a cause it made sense uh but for a lot
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That has not been the case with Pride for a long time.
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They're not all the same, to the credit of Calgary's.
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Yeah, it's pretty sexualized, but it's not in the same category as, say, Toronto,
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where you have a bunch of pedos walking naked down the street,
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displaying their genitals in front of little kids,
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which confounds me that these people aren't arrested
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and doing serious time in prison for what they're doing.
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Sorry, the pedos or the parents who bring the kids?
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So, but, you know, it's a ritual that politicians have to attend pride or you're labeled every time pride comes to the city every year, you're labeled a bigot.
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I mean, are we at the point where it's where pride has jumped the shark so terribly when you go the queers for Palestine thing?
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You've got extreme transgender ideology preying on children in this where it's affiliated itself with a bunch of other stuff that most gay people I know want nothing to do with.
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Has it jumped the shark to the point where a politician can safely say, you know what?
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They'll say, you know, I support that cause, but I'm not going to be seen there because of this, this, or this.
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There's so many more reasons that they're giving them.
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As I said, those 90s gatherings, and I was a nervous young guy, gay people, geez, whatever, I was dragged here by a girlfriend.
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They were flamboyantly, unapologetically gay people in a big park after a parade, not in thongs and sexualized and everything else, but just making no bones about it, saying, hey, we're here, we're queer, the old thing, you know, just we're allowed to be.
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You know, people who were interested anyways got together and realized, you know, they don't bite well unless you ask them to or something, you know, but it's just a gathering of people and realizing your neighbors are people you can get along with.
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because if he went over a certain number of days
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wooden dinghy back to wherever the hell he's from
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um the conservatives uh so michelle remple i think has led the charge on this one
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uh have put forward a bill to prohibit judges from including someone's immigration status
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um in consideration for sentencing um the toronto i think it was the toronto star had a
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just wild uh editorial or comment on this saying oh that's not true um this is
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uh you know yeah it's not true the conservatives are making this up and then in the in their
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headline and then their main piece in the lead but then you go further into it and it said uh
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well actually they do but it's a good thing it's a good thing uh so they're kind of arguing out
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out of both sides here um but i i feel like we're just absolutely bonkers that there's anyone in
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this country, Nigel, who is going to stand up and defend giving lighter sentencing to sexual
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predators on children because it could harm their ability to stay here even longer and have even
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more rights in our system. Yeah, well, there's really nothing to argue about here to the point
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of the case that Michelle Rumpel was talking about and that we ran yesterday, I think. The
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The offender had stabbed his victim in the arm and stomach, leaving him with 18 stitches and 50 staples.
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Instead of jail, the man received a conditional sentence of two years less a day to help him avoid removal from Canada.
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And, you know, we do know that the Canadian judiciary has already been instructed to apply justice unequally.
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I'm speaking here of the Gladube decision, which is a few years old now, but the basic gist of it is that you treat people of indigenous extraction differently to everybody else in recognition of the peculiar cultural circumstances under which they labor.
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so we don't have equality under the law with indigenous people now apparently we don't have
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equality under the law not merely with people who do this kind of thing they're not even bloody
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citizens you know like be a non-citizen you'll get off more likely uh that if you're a canadian
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citizen and stab somebody in the arm and stomach and put a bunch of stitches in them this is crazy
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Well, Najee, you mentioned differences in sentencing, which we would have for a long time with Indigenous versus non-Indigenous Canadians. You know, you're from England. Maybe it's worth bringing up then that there is differences for sentencing or the justice system for Indigenous Britons versus non-Indigenous Britons, except it goes the other way around. Indigenous Britons get thrown in prison for memes.
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among our politicians, our bureaucrats, our business leaders, our judges, our prosecutors.
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And, you know, I do think that there's some truth in that old saying
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that those whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad,
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because this is madness, and it is destroying us.
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There just isn't an argument that would impress me to say that somebody who's not a citizen
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should be treated more leniently than somebody who is.
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If you're going to have equal justice under the law,
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And that's what we've always thought that we had in Canada.
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I think they actually want to feel they did something good.
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But they were, you know, when they could have been mean,
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it's all about the gratification of the feelings of the judges
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and the people in it, because there's no other explanation
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that I can think of that would make some sense.
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Unless you have such an overwhelming conspiracy theory,
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I can't figure out the grand conspiracy to explain this one.
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And just I see what you'd think would be a simple route out of this.
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And you've got a conviction of a serious crime.
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I don't even talk about, you know, putting him in prison
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for a couple years and then deporting him. Why should we spend
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We need to punish them first. They need to be punished.
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your problem. If you want to punish them, deal with them. They've been
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convicted here on that, but we just don't want them.
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They're gone. They're never set in foot here again.
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They should never set a foot on free Canadian soil again.
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But if they commit a serious crime, I feel like we need to, yes, at our costs, we need to punish them here first.
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Because there's a good chance that where they're going back to, they're not doing any time.
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What is something else I get a little concerned with is when politicians get a little too prescriptive onto judicial discretion.
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but I don't like seeing politicians handcuffing
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area, it's not necessarily as cut and dry as some people
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although it depends if you like their decisions or not
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willing, and you've gone mad, and you've beaten that man
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before you got regained control of your senses.
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you should still be charged with assault, but maybe you're taking this
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Well, it depends on how many people his wife beds,
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You know what I mean? It is quite different than, yeah, somebody randomly said, you know, I'm just going to walk by and beat the heck out of somebody on the sidewalk. That's a much more dangerous person than one who's provoked. Now, no law can prescribe to cover those exact situations. That's where a judge has to sit and weigh those circumstances and come up with a determination. And likewise, perhaps in an immigrant case, depends on the crime. It depends on the history.
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I mean, I just, and I know, I know they're doing terribly when, when we're keeping 15 year old, you know, sex offenders with 15 year old girls or people who stab people. I do not want to see lighter sentences for those people. I just worry when we start to get reactive and politicians start writing in and pulling away that discretion on the judges.
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That is, I think, a very fair and reasonable cautionary concern for this.
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Yeah, I mean, or if they're going to be there, they got to be pretty damn careful how they're applied.
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I think the Conservatives, when they were, you know, during the Harper government, applied it appropriately sometimes.
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But sometimes I think that it got a little to trigger happy with them.
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uh and and so we should be cautious when we get into the business of uh you know the political
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side parliament prescribing uh you know more specifically how judges interpret and apply the
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law it's i think it's a fair concern but i think uh in this case the judges have been found at
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least enough judges have been found to have completely abused and disregarded that discretion
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I'm re-evaluating how we're appointing our judges.
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yeah on that point the application form for judges because you can if you want to be a judge you can
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you can put your application form and makes it very clear who the government is and is not
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looking for so you have to tick the boxes that you are a member of a vulnerable group or you're a
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woman or your gabe or whatever dei yeah basically uh you know people like us shouldn't bother
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finishing the application so that's one there's a very active attempt on the part of this
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government nice so i'm treating carney and trust in druder was one continuous government it's our
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new government yeah didn't you see the memos well i saw the memos and didn't believe them and neither
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did you derek so uh this is the same old crowd and this is what they have been trying to do and have
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been very successful that's one thing the second thing that goes with it is that every several
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months the judges are gathered up they ship them out to banff or some other regional center according
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to where they're operating and they physically they actually indoctrinate them and they tell
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them the kind of way they are supposed to interpret the law and i find this an outrageous thing
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because it but they the government is very specific in telling judges but these are the
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kinds of judgments we these are the considerations you need to have this is comes back to indigenous
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and glad you quite often but there are other things too so actually the government is perhaps
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can dig us out. I think this country has already
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I guess some of the cyclical nature of a democracy
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I guess you could say. I mean, it begins properly
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and with good intent, with freedoms, but eventually
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And unfortunately, those resets can be pretty ugly sometimes.
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Yeah, I'm not really looking forward to the reset.
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But I'm not really enjoying what we're doing now either.
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When I mentioned this to you as a topic when you came in the newsroom today, Nigel, you said,
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I guess is there anything in the news that brought them up?
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And I said no, which is why we should talk about them.
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The Alberta NDP is a pretty large opposition party.
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I think it's actually the biggest opposition in Alberta's history.
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They kept the UCP to not a narrow majority, but a smaller majority.
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EBE pulled pretty respectively in the last Alberta election.
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But he's been the leader of the NDP for, you mentioned how long,
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And the NDP is weaker than it's been at any time,
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I think, since they were first elected to government in 2015.
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Their polling is not abysmal, but it's pretty far behind.
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Well, I think, okay, let's start by saying they are nowhere, and then see if there is
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anything that we can concede as being a reasonable explanation for that that could change.
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legislature in session they're spending your money best of these best of they not uh not show up but
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it does not give the leader of the opposition a chance to grandstand and make speeches and show
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off and occupy uh the the tv channels now you made the point that they've got no money it's actually
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quite bad um i won't bore you with the details unless you want me to but uh
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they're having trouble the ucp is not vastly out out um raising them when it comes to money and you
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could say mr mr nancy is just uh keeping his powder dry waiting for the right opportunity
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right now smith is riding high in the polls and making good headlines you're not going to punch
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through on that but the thing is he's actually uh i don't think he's got a hell of a lot of powder
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and what he has been trying to do hasn't worked.
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you just show up you know there's no question of it uh being closed off in that way so that's
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that's not going too well the next thing is that uh where a couple weeks ago there was a silly
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story about uh the ucp keeping receipts hidden i don't think that came from the top i think
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i don't know how that well smith denied that she knew anything about it uh it's a it's a bit
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odd but some direct in the direct it was a misstep though there's no doubt about it
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it was certainly and then she questioned it and daniel just said well all right we'll put them
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we'll make them available get their fixed done so where does that go nowhere uh we talked about
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the fundraising i mean that's certainly a barometer of uh of how badly they're doing in the um what
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have i got here the um the ucp strong fundraising into early 2024 2.6 million and quarter one the
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ndp only a million you know people don't believe in it enough to give them their money fourth thing
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we came when the chinese applied uh tariffs on canola you tried to blame daniel smith well
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actually you can blame somebody that would be ottawa because of the territory so like you take
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you dart and then you throw it at the wrong target so that was uh just a the the attack on smith
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over the jasper wildfire is just fizzled that was that uh it wasn't it wasn't credible that uh her
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attempts to control the situation would have been resented by the towns and the town of jasper and
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it wasn't that came out and then of course there was that um healthcare scandal as they like to
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call it where the issue was who got us who got hockey tickets somewhere else and you know they
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just couldn't tell that story it wasn't that it was such a great thing for for the ucp but that
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fizzled as well so every time he's put something out there it's just gonna like that so smith
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basically is just doing doing too well using up all the oxygen uh then she thought that he would
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not seeming well to work, but yeah, they aren't working.
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You know, as far as... It's Alberta. There's going to be one at least
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every few years. Yeah, getting people worked up and worried
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and, you know, you could start the fear-mongering
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and the corporate and I mean there was a golden story basically dropped in his lap with it and
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he couldn't seem to keep that thing with legs it has still hasn't been resolved but they can't make
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hay of it and it's it's a weakness I I sort of it's a speculation I think but I've always said
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that about him and she's not a team player he never was whilst mayor that's why there was the
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back very well. He's trying to operate on his own.
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infighting necessarily, but he's not drawing their
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we've discussed this before, I thought it was a little
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available opportunity so that Pollyup could get in
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but uh then she hasn't been in the legislature yet does it matter yeah but then she's already
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a known quantity in alberta it's not like he's you know uh like when rachel notley became ndp
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leader she would definitely if she needed to have a seat she had a seat but she needed it because
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she was not a household name in alberta no one very few people outside of some hardcore government
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union circles knew who rachel notley was um everyone already knows who nenshi is um i don't
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think on your feet debating is necessarily his strongest point i'm not sure how weak he is or not
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yeah but uh you know his big thing is you know he could do little video clips and he already does
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that but nothing seems to be punching through um so i'll talk to either of you like you know
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if you think there's going to be a significant difference once he's in the legislature in his
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Is he leading the opposition in the House or not?
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You know, he made his reputation in 2013 during the floods in Calgary.
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What he did, he very small, he put himself out there in his anorak,
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got film saying, we're doing, everybody stay calm.
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And, you know, as a mayor in a city that's facing a disaster,
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he did a pretty good job at that time two things though one is that's like 12 years ago and secondly
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that's something that means something in calgary and edmonton they don't even know we had a flood
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they had their own stuff but they didn't you know so that's not really building his his reputation
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and he may be thinking that he's got a more of a reputation than he really has
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the other part i mean is to whether or not the legislature will help him with that now
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it remains to be seen but i i know speaking for myself watching city hall meetings and so on and
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how he presents himself in that room i don't know if he's going to be endearing when he's in the
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legislature i mean when he closes the eyes and puts the head up and does he's never done well
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when he's challenged you ever just how sensitive absolutely so premier smith is firing back and
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you get the opposition leader losing his cool that doesn't help in the legislature we'll see
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I mean, he's training up. He's not a he's not a dumb man, you know, but I don't know if that legislative time is going to be what gets him to, as we're saying, kind of punch through or bring himself in anywhere.
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I mean, they're laying their hope on that, I think. But I don't know if he has the personality to do that.
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Rachel Notley was actually charismatic. She could handle herself well, you know, opposition and kind of smile and poke at them.
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But I don't know if my head's going to do that effectively.
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Every time I see him, I think of Gilmore Gowen and what we've lost.
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That's down roughly, I think, five-ish or so from the election.
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There's more like about half a dozen seats if it sort of translates.
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The NDP outperformed generally what they should do,
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but they unified the left pretty hard behind them.
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In Edmonton, the two parties are statistically tied.
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The NDP has won every single seat in Edmonton since 2015.
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Ten years. It's been a decade, and they've held every single seat.
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Now, again, you have to look. How's that going to break down in actual seats? Hard to say.
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But it means they're probably going to lose a couple Edmonton seats.
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And the NDP are 34 points behind outside the two big cities.
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And the NDP simply cannot win unless it starts winning some of the small cities that they won in 25th.
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Small cities and some kind of northern rural ridings that they won in 2015 due to so-called boat splits.
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um that's 34 points behind outside the two big cities they have no chance of picking up any of
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those there's just no right now there's no mathematical path to victory still two years
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to go until the next election campaigns matter people pay more attention all sorts of things
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can happen uh but you know if there was one area of vulnerability and nigel you touched on this
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it was perhaps around independence independence is supported depends on the poll roughly
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the very highest we've ever seen it in some polls.
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That's a good issue for the NDP. They're on the side of majority support. The other side can't be on the side of majority support because it'll split the party. Two thirds of the UCP's voters support independence, probably even probably significantly higher among party members.
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That should be good for the NDP. But ever since independence has flared back up again, the NDP has actually dropped in the polls. Explain the math of that to me, Corey.
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I'm not quite sure because it would be a good wedge.
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I mean, that's one of those things that's a deal breaker for a lot of people.
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You're often either in or out, and he's not capitalizing well on it.
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But I think Smith has been very effectively straddling the line in keeping her party members happy with it,
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but not taking an overtly independent stance because then that would be the deal breaker for a whole lot of Albertans.
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It's kind of along the lines of even we'll respect the right to hold a referendum.
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or 40% to go into a referendum I think it would leave
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hardcore independence money when they say things
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like that but it's worked well for her to kind of
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a penance stance, which would cost her dearly.
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They've tried to paint her. They've called her that
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put out saying she's a separatist and her party separatist
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a penance out there, because we're almost out of time.
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the CBC reporter, what do you think about buying
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he says, oh you already are, just from the Americans
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like for god's sake why did i think of that first we don't deserve this piece of land
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i'll tell you fourth it's the quick shot at canada's silent service the rcmp whereas i was
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driving back from bc yesterday an accident on the rogers pass on the trans canada highway corked it
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up solid whereas so as many as probably because there's 6 000 vehicles a day use that route
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uh it was corked for eight hours we were stuck sitting in hot weather on the
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everything is a need to know with Canadians
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well they didn't even tell when there was a mass shooting going on
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or in Strathmore when there was a guy shot two people
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If you made it through that, you'll make it through anything.
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Let's throw the original image up first before we put up that AI image.
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We were kind of talking about some of the madness in the UK.
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The UK's police willfully ignored migrant grooming rape gangs.
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Um, rape for all countries in Europe that have high migration rates is way up, up, up, up.
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No, people don't want to talk about it, but it's a real issue.
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And a little 12-year-old girl, maybe overzealously, I don't know.
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I don't know the circumstances, uh, armed herself with some blades, uh, because she's
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worried about these migrant rape gangs going around in Scotland.
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And she got arrested, a little 12-year-old girl.
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I mean, she looks like Bill the Butcher from Kings of New York, or some of said Braveheart.
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Yeah, kind of capturing the spirit of Scottish resistance to the madness that is consuming Scotland, the UK, Europe, and all Western civilization right now.
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So tip of that to her, at least based on what we know so far.
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