Shaun Newman Podcast - Mashup 141

Episode Date: January 17, 2025

222 Minutes hops on to discuss this week's headlines. We have special guest MLA Shane Getson on who breaks down the US/Canada tariff wars that seem to be underway. Cornerstone Forum ‘25 https://www.showpass.com/cornerstone25/ Text Shaun 587-217-8500 Substack:https://open.substack.com/pub/shaunnewmanpodcast E-transfer here: [e-mail] Silver Gold Bull Links: Website: https://silvergoldbull.ca Email: [e-mail] Text Grahame: [phone]

Welcome to the nation. If you guys, if you guys, up or down, side to side, I sit to stand and fall to fly. Of all of my impulsive plans, popping locking salsa dances on demand. I follow leading off the map, stop the chatter, scream happening.

If you guys look behind me, you'll see where I move my guitar back there. And there used to be a filing cabinet. And I had to go through it and move it. And it's got bits and tidbits of, My entire damn life. It's got my high school transcript in there. Millions of interesting things.

This is my Saskatchewan ID, like the old school one. This is, you know, just so many neat things. But the coolest thing by far is this giant fat stack. This isn't even all of it. So there's a wallet in the bottom I found that has just oodles of Canadian tire money. I'm rich, bitch. And so public announcement, I imagine everybody has something in a drawer

or a glove compartment or something somewhere where they used to talk all their Canadian tire money. And did you cash it out before that all went digital? Because you should, because I'm about to go there and buy the whole damn store. Did you just say you found an old guitar from your high school days that was full of old junk? No, I moved the guitar back there.

I moved the guitar to the spot. that the filing cabinet was. But the filing cabinet, it's got, it's got everything in it. It had tax records from 2007. Welcome to the mashup 141, where Tews just pulled out his old drawer and just decided to be like, hey, this is what's in there. I haven't opened it up in a few days. And welcome.

It's been a long time. Nobody needs to see all the entire money, but there it is. There it is. Picture of my buddy Pat from high school. He's all like, yeah, a little flashback in the two's younger life. Happy Friday, Friday, folks, welcome to Mashup 141. We got a guest sitting in the background.

We're going to get to him here in a sec. There's a whole bunch of chatter going on with everything going on with Premier Smith, Alberta, Canada, the United States, Donald Trump, etc. But we got some things to get in before we get there. Everybody, good morning. We got a good afternoon. Karen, where are you listening from? The future.

We'd love to know where you're listening from, Karen. Yes, Henry Sattlett says Canadian tire, aka Ukrainian wheelcash, is almost on par with the Canadian dollar. I mean, technically it is on par with the Canadian dollar. Happy Airborne Friday, Jamie Sinclair, I saw him in there. He's finally figured out how to tune in to our live stream, and now I assume he's going to be here every Friday. But happy Airborne Friday to all the-y. And thanks for not showing up an hour late. That's right.

Happy Airborne Friday, all the military boys and Tigua. All right. there you go. Well, hello, Karen. Coutts, six and a half. Let's start there, or do we want to,

or do we want to, yeah, no, no, let's do this quick, and then we'll get Shane in. Coutes six and a half. Of course, we're always talking, Christopher Carbord,

Anthony, all in six and a half years. A man given bail twice in one night, wake of violent assaults. They accused allegedly, forcedly confined a 14-year-old at a hotel, and then later the same night tried to suffocate as intimate partner.

And you think, when I read this story, it would be somewhere on the far side of the world? Did I read this right? That was in Cochran. I'm not trying to make light of this. The serious incidents happened at a railway street hotel in Cochran.

Cochran. That actually shocked me about it because lately we've been talking on all these stories over in Ontario. And we got a lot coming out of Ontario today and involved with the cocaine bust. How many times do you have to try and kill somebody in one night before they're like, maybe we'll just lock you up and let you cool down for a couple hours? Yeah. Yeah.

that's a pretty wild story, honestly. Yeah, confined, a 14-year-old, and then goes back and tries to kill his intimate party. Anyways, the... Bail, bail, bail. Yes, bail, bell. What we're talking about, and we're going to invite in MLA, Shane Getson, we're talking about... Shane, welcome to the program, I guess. Hi, Shane.

Hey, so are we doing? Well, I mean, it's been strange times in a whole new way, right? I have been loving this entire week. Well, I mean, we went from last week with Trudeau's intent to resign, right? We had a little bit of fun here on the program. Chris Sims brought up a lot of great points. We had quick, McDick. Oh, man, quick Dick, McDick.

Sped it out, John. And Jamie Sinclair on to talk about that. And that was a really interesting thing. And then, of course, since then, you know, we're getting closer and closer to January 20th when Trump's supposed to be inaugurated. And this 25% tariff on all Canadian countries. Goods has become, you know, a giant story. And then Daniel Smith's position on that has become a giant story. And so we thought we'd just start there.

Obviously, in your position, you can maybe give us a little bit of insight on how Alberta sees this or maybe some insight on how the group of you see it. Yeah, why don't you just start telling us about it? And I got a few questions that if you don't answer, I'll jump in and try and prod you. Sure. Well, firstly, thanks for having me on again. It's always good to try to talk to folks. Coincidentally, I was just talking to an old friend. He'd called in from BC, an old boiler maker, and they're all worried about the tariffs out there as well. And I'd asked him, I said, well, you heard the reasons why? And he goes, well, what's that? Well, Trump wants the border secured.

He doesn't want a bunch of fentanyl flowing over the border. He doesn't want a bunch of illegals and going back and forth either side. We were on side with that, obviously. And then he doesn't want basically the human trafficking. So modern day slavery, like we have to address these things. And then he wants us to actually meet our NATO commitments. So pretty tough for us in the West to say no to that. That's what we've been wanting for a number of years. So the federal administration has been removing funding from the military nonstop.

So they've been doing that. They haven't been increasing where we're supposed to be at 2%. They've been decreasing. And they've been pulling money off of the borders and customs. they've actually been depleting their budgets. So yeah, it makes total sense. So my frustration is that the intonation is instead of addressing the issues, and Alberta did that and our Premier's leadership obviously,

said what can we do to address these things full on? So that's what we're doing within our wheelhouse and our control, and I was happy to see other provinces come along. The other side of it is when Team Canada approach, I would propose she's been the one filling that void because of fancy socks and his antics, finally his own party, even tore him down and had enough of it. So there's been an absolute leadership void.

If you have emotional outbursts of how dare you, you know, talk about things we should clean up in our own backyard rather than just looking at it and saying, okay, here's things that we can do. Then you're going to start saber rattling and doing all these other things that, quite frankly, doesn't make a ton of sense. You want to make sure your team can approach. You want to address this wholeheartedly and take these concerns that President's an elect Trump has with tariffs real because he will do what he says.

But why don't we just spend that effort and energy dealing with the things that are control that we can fix and sit down on the table from? And I think the Premier's done it honestly a great job. The feedback I'm hearing from down south from just being down in Montana for four days and being a welcome down there to a standing ovation in the Senate and then being asked to represent and speak at several of their committees and Senate committees. We just got to work with our trading partners and do that.

So that's kind of where I'll leave it there. Tews and Sean, I'll take a bit of a break for any questions and so I can collect my thoughts as well of where you want to go with us. Well, I don't know for me. Granted, I have the liberty of not being a politician, so I don't have to worry about being as collaborative. But I see some of the main parts of being the fact. of being the federal government as taking care of the border.

I mean, it's kind of what defines a country managing that invisible line and deciding what comes in and what doesn't. And then also having a legal system that, you know, and policing so that you do your best to minimize the number of bad things that happen, which is kind of playing into the fed. Sentinel thing. And so you look at it and you're like, this is your job. Like this is, this is the bedrock, the cornerstone. This is the first layer of tasks that you should be accomplishing as prime minister of this country. And you haven't been doing it. And it's taken someone else to pull you aside and say, you're kind of being a dick right now. I need you to smarten up. And it's getting bad enough that it's affecting my country. And so until it stops affecting my country, we're going to, we are going to recompense the cost of your bad governance

from your people. And, and everybody's looking at it and saying like, oh, Trump's just going to bring in these tariffs. No, Trump is asking you guys to do your job and you're not doing your job. And everybody's like, well, how are we going to respond to it? Are we going to get in a trade war? Are we going to do this? Are we going to do that? Why don't we just do the basic job that we're tasked with. And that's where it comes down to. And a lot of folks are fixated saying that, you know, President Trump is the only one that brought this up. And that's why it's so top of point. This isn't anything new. Like I've been involved with this trans boundary group, with Canada-U.S. relations for the last shoot, four and a half, five years, you know,

the last two years, I've been the lead on the file. I have Democrats, senators, and representatives bringing this up when we have these meetings with them when we're down south. This isn't new. they've been bringing this up for years. President Trump is just pointing it out, we've been in the province showing that, talking about the concerns of it as well. And again, we're in a position where we were already starting to

bolster up our sheriff's departments, etc. We just accelerated the program. So that's honestly, it's well received when you have these conversations across the border, rather than getting into a trade war with our partners, maybe our feathers are ruffled a little bit, but just sit down the table and figure this out.

Because again, you know, 90% of our stuff is basically traded with the U.S. We're 60% of their total energy imports, you know, on the oil side of the equation. The other thing, too, is 99% of their gas imports comes directly from us. Trading jurisdictions, you take the top three other countries in the world that trade with the U.S. Stack them all up. We still outpace them on that. You know, when they gave some stats to Montana of how integrated our systems are, they had the same concern with orders.

You know, cow calf operations, calves drops on the ground in Montana. Alberta goes down in Saskatchewan in the feeders. They go and buy them, bring them up north, feed them out because the grain and everything's here in the hay. And then we sell them back on the hoof, go across the border in 40 to 50% of their volumes down there being processed from Alberta beef.

Like it is 100% integrated when you look at things moving back and forth. The energy side of it, you know, when Premier said it very succinctly, and God bless her, she's to the point, and she's definitely doing the right thing for the country here. But the fact that we had so many headwinds for so long of trying to get our product off our own shores to other customers that want this to mitigate the differential, to bring that down of where we're out of globally. Everybody went another way to kind of two-block us in and do that. And now they want to use Alberta as the big stick that they have, this saber rattling they're doing like it's bonkers.

Like they don't realize when energy east got shut down, we were actually trying to keep the product within our own country and move it down to east. So instead what happens is we have all this material heads down to forward to Superior Wisconsin, goes back in line five, line five reversal, goes back into Ontario and Quebec.

So if all of them and their wisdom in that federal liberal cabinet literally want to choke supply to the states, they're actually cutting off supply there. And then what's their solution for that? Right, buy it from other jurisdictions. So all of the, you know, very environmentally sound groups and they have massive humanitarian records overseas and all this is. So this is just goofy of what they're doing.

And as far as the Team Canada approach, yeah, we're team Canada and we're the grownups in the room and we're going to continue to have that conversation. So both Stephen Harper came out and I said it, you know, said it very eloquently as well. You have to be respectful, but you have to hold your positions. but you also have to talk about the economy. And Pierre Polly, God bless them now too. He's actually mentioned those groups

that, you know, the president election's in the liberal caucus, a big bouquet of flowers because you've eroded our bargaining position through all your stupid policies for the last 10 years. It's just, it's whacked. And then the power avoid, Canada could literally have three prime ministers in one calendar year.

Like, this is ridiculous. So if we don't stand up and work together and actually have the grown-up conversations, that power vacuum will not do us any favors. I was wondering, Shane, and I don't know if you can answer this, but, you know, like Daniel Smith goes down to Mar-Lago, meets with Trump. I'm like, I assume the leadership of Alberta is like, we better go down there and talk to this guy, because right now we have a prime minister who intends to resign. We have, as you pointed out, we could have three prime ministers over the course of the next little, you know, stint. Like, is that coming from Alberta or did Trump reach out to Alberta?

I assume we were the ones that, because I'm just trying in my brain to make sense of a premier meeting the next president of the United States. I'm like, I don't, that seems so odd from just the common guy sitting here. It does. Wouldn't be the prime minister? Yeah, but think of it in this context. Well, he did meet with a prime minister and. Well, it's true. So, yeah, it was measured and found to be lacking.

And he's met with him a few times so he knows what he's getting into. But think about it in this way. So the U.S. superpower, all that good stuff, 60% of their supply is coming from our province of their strategic supply that they need for their economy for energy reserves. Why would you not meet with that? Like the top three oil producing countries that they buy from, Alberta outstrips all of them combined. So again, 60% of volumes. To me, that's just good business.

So the other one you have to recognize too, like Jordan Peterson, he's in Alberta. Kevin O'Leary, he's an Albertan fan. So when you start looking at what's taking place in those backgrounds, those channels, they're very switched on. They absolutely know where the footprint is. In a military context, they've always looked at our reserves as strategic reserves for a number of years because you don't have to send anybody over the Middle East to fight for it. It's right in your backyard.

So it's being there for years. So to me, that's just good business. Premier has been very rational. You've seen her on Fox News addressing these things. wouldn't you talk to the grown-up in the room? I agree. I'm not making, I'm not saying, if it was, I just mean in the sense that how it goes or how I think it should go is the prime minister should talk to the president, right? Like they're kind of equals.

And then underneath you have the premiers and on the internet you say you have the governors, right? And so if we're one to break ranks, so to speak, and go down there seems unusual to me, right? But not unusual in the times, I should point out. I feel like if you had a strong leader, if you had a grown up in Ottawa. Yeah, and Kevin O'Leary kind of brought this up too. So to bring it up, it's very that awkward time. So he's president-elect. He is not the president yet.

So right now, and Kevin O'Leary said it very well, because somebody had asked about Premier Smith's comments meeting with Mar-a-Lago and then why Ford or could Ford go see the president-elect. Right now, everything's kind of informal because he's not the president. until on the 20th, he is the president. Everything is 100% on record. It's all on presidential record. So there was a golden moment of opportunity to have a fireside conversation

or a golf course chat or anything else to be very informal to get to know people and do that. That was the opportunity that was afforded. Premier, I don't know the details if it was us asking them or them asking us. Or usually when those things, it's pretty mutually beneficial on both sides. You've got both parties kind of reaching out to each other. chicken and egg. But the fact that they did that have that chance, it just speaks volumes to the gap in leadership federally

and the lack of respect. I'm going to assume President, I'm going to assume President Biden wasn't calling any of the Alberta leaders saying, hey, you should come down here and have a chat. I'm just going to assume. I would suggest that that was a more formal conversation than it was anything that was passed on that one. They just put them in front of a telegraph and told them to tap it out.

I was curious, once again, you've passed out a bunch of this, but when you're talking Montana being down there and, you know, like the conversation with Alberta and how closely we work, is that something that came out of, I don't know, not out of the blue, but is that, was that something on the docket for a long time,

or is Montana like, we need to talk to you guys like immediately because of all the things that are going on? Well, it's a little bit of, So we belong to. We were a founding member back in the 90s of this group, this organization called the Pacific Northwest Economic Region. So at the time, you know, this is like deja vu all over again, at the time, there was some pretty big frustrations on both sides of the borders at the federal level.

And a number of the state representatives and provincial MLAs, the time, got together and said, well, this is enough of this BS. Why don't we just talk to each other? We'll figure it out what's a mutual benefit of this area. So it's Alaska, Northwest Territories, Yukon, Saskatchewan, Alberta, British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, Montana. Why don't we figure out what works in our areas? And then we'll lobby our governments, respectfully, in both sides. So this has been an ongoing organization for a number of years.

So every winter session, we typically have, through that organization, state visits or capital visits. So we as MLAs can go down and speak to not only the colleagues we have in that organization. but their colleagues. And depending on the state capital, sometimes the doors are open wider than others. But we get a chance to have these informal conversations. All of this happened to coalesce at this time and just proved its value because literally, you know,

the schedule is a little bit loose. All of a sudden we're in there. We're being invited. The Alberta delegations in town come speak at our committee. We want to talk to you. Let's go for coffee. And then, you know, being afforded half an hour to sit down literally with the governor yesterday

in his receiving room to have these type of conversations, the mutual benefits. And then meeting, you know, the actual livestock commissioner. So for those out there, it's actually not John Dutton. It's a different fella, but talking and sitting in those rooms and having those conversations directly of the impacts. These guys are switched on and they want to work with us. We've got a lot of friends. And again, pretty humbled as a legislator to be invited into, to be announced in the Senate.

And we get a standing ovation as an introduction in the room. Like that's how solid these relationships are and that's why we continue to do it. You know, if I go back to our earliest conversations, Shane, we were talking about energy corridors a long time ago. And you recall, I'll always go, well, when's it going to happen? Is it going to happen? Or is this like one of those political things where we talk about it for 20 years and we're still talking about it? You think that's any closer, the energy corridors?

Because, like, I think of all the pressure that's building up and some of the change in leadership, etc. The fact that you've been laying, I think the groundwork with all these different regions and areas, it sounds like the idea has been well received. Like is that, are we closer? And like when closer, I still assume years now at this point, but maybe just an update, if you would, on the energy corridor idea. Yeah, so the economic corridor part of it is also energy. It's planes, trains, automobiles and also commodities that we're looking to move back and forth. So when you have, as an example, the Montana tie line back as a young project engineer,

we built that line. Like I was sent down to Helena to troubleshoot that project and that literally we were flowing electrons north to south at the time. Now we actually bring it from south to north. That potentially is a corridor. The I-15 tying into our highway two, that's a corridor. These are things that are already in place.

So where we're at in the process on that one, Sean, is literally getting that model on the table through the organization like Penwar, directly to gentlemen, like the president of the Senate, as an example, I met with him. He's very interested in this.

Getting that paperwork down to them so we can get and sign a memorandum of understanding and then encapsulate that trade and commerce, the border issues, the logistics, all about there. That's where we're at. Like, we're literally getting to the point we're signing these things off.

We've got the Prairie provinces signed on Northwest Territories. The next ones that should come online would be Yukon. And then I'll have, like I'd mentioned, my colleagues in Montana, it'll be a foot race between you guys in Alaska who signs on first as one of the states. So this is advancing, and it's how we believe that we can meet both needs and both jurisdictions, and then obviously across the U.S. Ultimately, I want to get from Texas to Alaska through Alberta.

That's the idea here. All right. Well, I mean, that's, you know, the idea of a trade war might hamper that a little bit. But then circling back to things, I, I, I, can't really see this. I don't know. I have my thoughts on how it's going to go, but I'm definitely an outsider.

So with Alberta taking a different approach than everybody else in the country, I would say in this case, there's a lot of things I disagree with Premier Smith about, but I think she absolutely is hitting a home run on this, and this is the best

thing for Alberta, and I would say the rest of the country, do you think that there's going to, how do you see this playing out? What can you tell us? Yeah, on my side, again, there's a lot of things taking place in different conversations. So the last thing I would propose is I've got the crystal ball and part of all these conversations. That's not the case. But what I can see here, and you heard Scott Moe kind of say the same thing, yet don't start threatening energy.

I'll sign on to this, the old year we're team Canada. But yeah, careful on the energy, like don't swing a stick that you don't necessarily have. I think what will happen, I believe, is that we'll see some inroads on a number of files. I believe that you'll see, hopefully, our side, our other premiers and the federal powers that be cool the rhetoric. They might want to take a strong approach. They've done this before on specific commodities, whether it was on dairy or whether it was on aluminum steel, when it was intonated before, and that kind of worked. So talk about specifics.

what we can do in the relationship. And I hope, God's, God willing, and the creek don't rise, I hope we can actually get to the root issue. Before we talk about tariffs, get back to what the ask was. Get your money spending in NATO where you're supposed to. Fix the blessed

border issues and throw the capital where you should. One day of a 25% trade war would far surpass and outstrip the allocation of budgets that could make all of this go away. So instead they want to sit there and you know, puff out their chest for voters in their own jurisdictions rather than thinking about the country.

I think that's pretty unpatriotic. The Canadians have seen enough through all this stupid carbon tax policy through the crunch we went through COVID and trying to get the economy back on the blocks. People are very tough places right now for affordability, and you've got these people that are, in my opinion only, so frigging aloof from what the critical impact will be in people's day-to-day lives.

Park your ego for a bit, figure out and clean up your own bedroom first and then maybe let's have that conversation. Well put. How do you think this might affect Alberta's relationship with the other provinces? Well, I think there might be a blift in the road on a couple of items, but quite frankly,

our allies are still our allies and those that weren't really with us and a number of files aren't and haven't changed much anyway. So the provincial level, we're going to keep having the conversations where we can, but maybe this is the shot across the bow that the rest of the provinces and leaders should figure this one out, you're going to cut off my one partner trading partner that you allowed us to do out here because you wouldn't let us build the infrastructure to you in the first place.

You've eroded our position. So maybe, just maybe you should let us build up that energy infrastructure and get it going where it's supposed to and pull off your bands of our commodities to the markets that actually want to buy it other than our number one trading partner. You better start growing up here, kids, and letting us actually build up the country. this can't be lost too i was just going to say it can't be lost on everybody that they've been trying to like get rid of the the the oil field like that that's dirty energy blah blah blah and then it nobody wants it nobody wants soon as soon as they're like trying to burn her with the stays well

we'll cut energy from me it's like did this really happen and we're worried about what they think about Alberta who cares well i think like at this point they've already up until this point They've already made it known that they're going to be a little bit disagreeable. That's probably putting it lightly to Alberta and what Alberta does. And then when it comes to bargaining with the states, they're like, Alberta, you're going to sign on, right? It's like, no, I don't think so. It's basically my dad's going to come over here and beat you up.

And I think that there's a lot of gall from people saying that Alberta's not being a team player in Canada a week after equalization got announced. Right. Like, I mean, this seems, like, it's almost laughable what is, what is being talked about and how they're talking about Alberta right now. But it's classic Trudeau. Oh, shoot. The axe is going to fall on top of me.

Let's just divide everybody down the middle and get everybody fighting and we'll forget about the fact that I'm the one who screwed this up in the first place. Well, and the biggest point again comes back to they're going to fight and all, unify and fight that bad guy Donald Trump. Because Donald Trump's saying and doing this and he's going to threaten those those tariffs. Okay, his style is different. There's no question. This shouldn't be a surprise.

It's very bombastic. He's very straightforward. He'll throw those things out there. Maybe they should pick up the art of a deal and read it a few chapters. It's kind of there. This is nothing new. So again, they're going to look for, in my opinion, this is not the province's opinion or heaven forbid the premier's opinion.

But my opinion is they're more fixated and concerned about how they appear in their own constituencies and quite frankly throwing Trudeau a blessed lifeline at this point of being the big leader of pulling it together than actually what's sitting at the table. Alberta spends more in health care than we do as a country in our national defense program. So it's not that we don't have the cash. And we've been sending a whack load of cash down east. We've got Suffield, Wainwright as an example, Cold Lake. All of these things are in our backyard.

Our men and women and service have been getting their budgets gutted for a number of years and trying to do more with less again because of the liberals as soon as they took power. How about the rest of the world sees this? How about we actually do need to pull up her socks and be in a position to, if we can't fully defend our own country, which is an embarrassment itself, to actually be good participants and good neighbors. And by the way, keep the deal we made, the fentanyl that's flowing in through the ports that is either being shipped out here and then through those soft points

or being cooked up out here and then sent south, we had Nahy and Nenshi and Nenshi, going, What's the big deal? It's only 40 kilograms. Well, that's enough dosage to kill two million people in one go. Yeah, that's kind of a big deal. So let's do that. And if you think, you know, human trafficking just rolls off the tongue. It's slavery.

There's a slave trade. Take care of that stuff. And then as far as the soft threats, yeah, we've had some loose stuff taking a place around the world that we've allowed people in and out. Sort that stuff out. That's the grown-up conversation rather than trying to placate to, uh, you know, the base and ramp up people so we can all jump up and down. And then, you know, here's an example. CPD News had reached out to me to do an interview while I was in Montana.

It was about 15 or 20 minutes of conversation. I'd yet to see that release come out because it was talking about all the good things we're doing similar conversations here, how we are taking it serious, how well we were received. On the way down there, I saw Alberta trucks whipping down to go help fight the fires in California. you. Like, this is what's happening, boots on the ground. We're addressing dealing these things. That poor interviewer wasn't getting that story herself because everything is out there is so negative. She was actually very encouraged to hear this. When she'd asked, well, how do you know this is genuine and real?

Standing ovation in the Senate, we're being invited to all these things, including meeting with the governor for half an hour. That's pretty darn genuine. She seemed relieved. I don't know if she's been able to get that report out because maybe that's not fitting the big narrative. we actually have later on in the episode two separate articles that CTV pulled this week because it didn't go well. I don't know how much more time Shane's going to give us. You know, it's been 30 minutes. I'm conscious of you being on the side of the road and driving. I was, too, as if you got another question by all means, I had one because I know that like one of the stories we're reading is that Trudeau has assembled a new Canada.

U.S. Relations Council to support the federal government as it deals with the incoming Trump staff. A canis relations. What? Canada, can U.S.? Canis relations? Sure.

18 members, one of them being Rachel Notley. And I'm like, I mean, I'm just like, okay. Well, if we're going to pick a bunch of one-hit wonders to come on this, if we're going to pick a bunch of much of Canadian one hit wonders to go on this committee. Let's get Jan Arden on there too. What I'm wondering, let's put this in context. We've had a shift down south. Like being at these different organizations, being up in Alaska right after the election,

it was absolute wind of change. So us conservatives, Republicans conservatives, have been taken a kicking for a number of years. There's no question both sides of the border. There is an absolute wind of change. There's such a feeling of hope and optimism of working together and doing these type of things. So with all of that knowing that the actual, the change is taking place down south, the master plan is to take your most socialist people that are absolutely contradictory

to the new administration coming in that's going to do the deal. Brilliant. Like, again, this is bonkers. So here's what's happening. We're actually getting invited to go to these things. It's not a ton of public knowledge, but I'll share it with you guys.

I literally have been invited by one of the U.S. senators from Michigan, Roger Victory as his guest to be down in there in the states on the 20th for the inauguration. Premier Smith obviously received an invite as well. These are the inroads that we have. We have personal relationships with them because we've spent the time and we've had the conversations in advance. Having Rachel or any other washed up socialist leader go down there and wave the flag,

this will not bode well for Canada. If you want to avoid a trade war, don't send the people the other ones can't respect or had been at odds with for a number of years. Let's start with that. And I guess with Trump's inauguration and being invited down, there's a ton of people saying, what are you going down there for? You're not doing your job, Shane. What is it?

Could you just speak to that real fast? Well, there's a number of levels, right? So as Parliamentary Secretary for Economic Corridor Development, reporting to the Minister of Intergovernmental Relations, there's a word, a mouthful, right? that's one of the other hats I wear. So that literally means everybody outside of our province that we deal with is governments or those things. That's part of the portfolio.

The reason why we do that is so we can at times when there's jurisdictions that get cross-threaded, that we can still maintain good relations. Because at the end of the day, it comes down to making sure we had good trade partners, so we have an economy so we can build the schools and have the roads and everything we need. And so folks can have some cash in the bank and they can keep that for themselves. else. That's our job basically to go out there and make sure that we don't have doors closed on us. And the U.S. takes military spending very serious. If anyone spent any time down there, you understand why they are a superpower. They don't want you to out-compete them. They just want you to

pull your fair share of load not to be taken advantage up. That's very near and dear to their hearts. So the military spending equates into dollars. You know, Stephen Harper, our best prime minister we've had in my opinion. He got that. The relationship means more than just placating to the speaking points of the day. They actually like to see demonstrations of that. And it's very honest and genuine. Up here we're pretty British. We have a lot of pomp and circumstance. Down there, not so much. They're set up differently, but they're very accessible. And a handshake still means something. Those personal relationships mean a lot. And if we can avoid having a tariff war that we come out on the short end of the stick all day long, that is money well spent to go down and to

receive as a diplomatic type thing, an invitation from a senator. He has only so many of those he can give out. And it's because we spent that time and he was up here in Alberta himself, literally with his colleagues seeing what we had a year and a half, two years ago. He understands those genuine relationships and that's why we do that. There's another gentleman out of North Dakota that I hit it off with in a training course. Former West Point officer is well and he's a representative Jeremy Olson. We're texting back and forth all the time where we're talking about things, sharing pictures, talking

about family, working on these issues. The only way you do that is by being present, meeting people firsthand. And that's how, quite frankly, we can keep the calm lines open, keep things going the right way when others are going to put their SWAT team of socialists together to go away with the Canadian flag.

That one blows my mind. Two's any final, one last question, are you good? Oh, he, um, Shane, he did a great job of it. anticipating my questions as always. Shane, we appreciate you. I'm nodding myself to your more color of all euthanisms,

so that'll work out well for both of them. Well, I've been holding back. When we let you go, I'm going to unleash a bit. Yeah, I appreciate that. One of the things that we did by accident or design, who knows last week is twos was relatively quiet. And what the listeners about to experience is what happens when you bottle twos up for too long.

I'm just going to turn my video off for a bit and let twos rant. That's probably what's going to happen. Shane, we appreciate you coming on and doing this and giving us some insight into, I don't know, this week has been pretty wild, I would say the least.

And so a lot of people appreciate and you hopping on the mash up here with us. And as always, appreciate you bringing some insight into, you know, the government, essentially, here in Alberta and international affairs, essentially. Well, I appreciate that.

And again, give them folks a chance for some hope and optimism, too, before the rhetoric cramps up too much. And again, it's appreciate the platform to work you guys do, the time and effort to go into that so we can literally still keep connecting to people. Because, again, you know, we'll take the interviews. We'll do those things. It's up to somebody else of what news they print. It doesn't mean the news isn't taking place up there.

It's what they want to tell people. So appreciate this opportunity. Thanks again, guys. Thank you, Shane. Thank you very much. All right. Shane gets in. You're out of here, booted.

Let's go, Tuse, you want to fire up some colorful language. Well, I don't know about colorful language per se. I just want to have an honest conversation about this. It's a little bit unvarnessed. And Shane did a great job. Okay. But there's a lot. It's tricky.

It's tricky when you got a politician on here. Even one that speaks as plainly as Shane. Okay. Because you're like, I have more thoughts. Okay. I have more thoughts. What are your more thoughts, Tews? this motherfucker

Justin Trudeau this is his one job I don't need to use Colip for language he says I'm not going to use color first thing he drops anyways carry on carry on

I can hear people just excited for it carry on we say look you've got you've been hired okay we we give you shit tons of money we pay for all your vacations we pay for all of your cabinet

booze all those idiot costumes that you've been wearing all over the world, we fucking bought them with our fucking money. And the only thing we really needed you to do is take care of the border, just take care of the edge of things and keep crime down. And then Trump comes in and he says, you're not really doing that. You need to step it up. And until you do, we're going to make it difficult for you.

All right. But this is just classic, classic Trudeau, because now it's, oh, we're going to get in a trade war. He makes everything complicated, everything. He says climate change is dire. We need to address it. We've only got 12 years left. Oh, so you're going to bring in, you're going to bring in nuclear power then, right? I mean, that's the obvious answer.

No, no, we're going to install carbon tax. And then when it cripples the economy, we're going to bring it unchecked immigration. And then that's going to amp up crime. And everything's going to be awesome. 15 million steps later, everything shit. COVID. Oh, oh, the Chinese released a virus. Well, I mean, obviously we're just going to deal with the fact that we're going to take a few more sick days.

Nope, we're going to shut the entire economy down for years. We're going to bring it vaccines of questionable worth. And we're going to make everybody's life shit until they storm the fucking capital. This is, this is it. And then he says, oh, well, you guys aren't being on Team Canada a week after equalization was announced. Oh, Alberta's not on Team Canada. Motherfucker, of course we're not. The last time there was a Team Canada event, everyone's bank accounts got frozen.

Where was Team Canada during the tanker ban? We can have tankers on the East Coast, but we can't have tankers on the West Coast. There's no business case for natural gas to go externally out to other foreign countries. This motherfucker is telling us that we need to be on Team Canada while he has parliament pro rogue so that his political party can get their fucking poop in a group. Listen, Justin, being part of a team. It's something you do all the time. It's not, you can't just take it off every time it's inconvenient like it's a fucking condom. And then this whole thing with the tariffs and where are we going to go with them.

Now we're picking winners and losers according to which province does what. Oh, well, we're going to, we're going to curtail Alberta's oil, right? Why? Why is this happening? because of Ontario's main industries are being threatened. Unchecked illegal immigration and fucking fentanyl. Is he going to talk to BC about this? Is he going to see, well, you know what, until this whole trade thing gets settled,

we're going to stop BC from money laundering through real estate? No. Is he going to say we're going to shut down Saskatchewan's potash? Maybe. Are we going to shut down Quebec's equalization until the tariff war's end? Are we going to shut down Eastern Canada's fucking employment insurance? No, this is brutal. And then he's got Ford as the main guy out in front.

G.B. Do Jedi. Daniel Smith doesn't speak for Canada. Well, no shit. She doesn't represent Brampton. She's paid to represent our interests, the same way that you guys give Quebec a free pass every time they fucking do it. And meanwhile, this fucking Michelin Man made in, tirely out of fucking tractor tires is up there front and center speaking like a goddamn idiot.

Listen, slightly more attractive Rosie O'Donnell. Your province just got half a billion dollars in equalization. So maybe when everybody's talking about economics, you can sit in the fucking corner, shut up, and speak when spoken to. God damn it. This guy, this Santa Claus with alopecia, he's just playing in with this whole classic Trudeau division. It's just, it's Trudeau's playbook. It's all he ever fucking does. And it's just, it's singling out the doers. It singles out the builders. It singles out the makers.

Are we really going to shut down the bureaucrats until this trade dispute gets settled? No. No, it always falls on the people with rough hands and dirty faces. Never, ever. Okay, are we going to send, remember when we talked about Tom Clark and now he's got that $9 million. penthouse in New York with the copper bathtub. You think we're going to say that Tom Clark doesn't get to use that anymore until this trade dispute's over? No, it doesn't even fucking occur to them to maybe punish. Like, you know, we're going to share this all equally.

Except for our guys. Get the fuck right out of here. This whole Operation Human Shield, they want Alberta to sign up for that we want you to be on board with Team Canada. Now go stand out in the front and take the first volley of fire. where have you fuck's been this entire goddamn time? And then Jagmeet sings out there saying, we need to shut this down.

We need to shut down our critical minerals. And we're going to stand up to bullies like Donald Trump. Motherfucker, the last time you spoke this aggressively to a world leader, you ended up being his little fucking bitch for three straight years. And to everybody's saying, it's not the people in these parts of the country. it's the politicians. No, I don't have time for that. I don't give a shit.

Those are the people who voted for those politicians to go there and represent them under this fucking auspice. They're doing what they ran on doing and you voted for them. So you are not absolved of responsibility at all. I think that's all I got. Man, we have to, yeah, I'm like, I'm reading all the comments, right? I'm like, we need to bottle twos up a little more often because that's vintage twos right there, isn't it? I feel like that's vintage twos. I'm liking this format.

I'm going against everything I ever did in this idea where I just bring on somebody intelligible to talk to the issue of the week. We bottle twos up so he explodes because he's got to hold it together because he can't go full on, you know, I don't even know. Explosion. What's word I'm looking for? But all I want from the listener is we should have a. song in the background. So it just, it just plays as he rants or something. Maybe I'm wrong. I don't know. I don't even want to do anything. Like, what else can we talk about? I mean, there's so much to talk about. Yeah. But I mean, it's well summed up, Tews. Yeah.

Right here. It's just, you know, it just, it just, it just, it just goes on and on. Oh, man. It just, there's. All right. Well, thank you guys. I was, um, I wasn't worried about Anyone have an extra, anyone actually have an extra $350,000 so twos can run for the liberal league? Okay. This is good. So twos just went full twos and it was tremendous. And then never go full twos. Paul, you are such an asshole.

Oh, man. Like, this is great. So, I don't know. What do you want to do from this point? We're 45 minutes in. We haven't touched it. We've touched a lot, but we haven't touched. Okay, well, first off.

Like, share, okay, so mental note, folks, every time we bottle twos up, okay, I want our entire audience to just put this in your brain for the next time. When we bottle twos up like this, and he goes full twos, we're going to call it that from now. He's going full twos. Is that we need you to share at that point in time because that is, you know, you want to clip it and everything else. Just share the bloody show when that's happening. and let's just get it out to as many people as possible. But going full twos, I think it should just become part of the show. Let's see twos go full twos.

Now, I'm not going to encourage it because now he's going to bundle it or bungle it. You know, he's going to drop the football next week or something, but that was fantastic. I mean, you got enough fodder with Ford and Trudeau and Singh and on and on it goes that I probably don't have to worry about anything for any time soon. But that was fantastic. Shall we do some headlines? Yeah. Like share, join the mashup team. leadership, a liberal

losership race, that is. I don't know if you've been paying attention or not. Mark Carney is... It's been beautiful. Even before Mark Carney, you had Christy Clark fucking things up. She goes on and she lies about whether she was a member of the conservative party or not. And it's just this deadpan disaster.

And then a couple days later, she says, actually, I'm not running. And then we get into Mark Carney. Well, I mean, two of the things that Carney and Freeland says they would scrap the consumer carbon tax if elected, right? Like that's, so everybody's getting, nope. Don't they care about Canadians? Eight out of ten Canadians get more out of the carbon tax than they put in.

They depend on that money. And it's helping save the planet. We only have 12 years. Remember, Sean? When two years ago, we only had 12 years. And last year, we only had 12 years. And this year is like the 14th year in a row that we only have. have 12 years to stop climate change in its tracks.

And all the economists that are coincidentally paid by the liberals have told us that this is the best thing we can possibly do to save the planet. And they're just going to abandon that when it gets difficult. This is so goddamn important that they can't, that they're just going to drop it because it's not politically expedient. what a bunch of racist bigots. And then you have Mark Carney using the same logo as Met Credit. Which, by the way, is like a Met Credit is a collection agency, which is a little bit on the nose.

And Keene Bexey here, you've got it up. This is hilarious. This is one of the funniest things he's ever said. Hey, George Chahal, did you design Mark Carney's logo? I only ask because it was stolen. So, yeah, you're right. Like the leader, losership, liberal losership race has been,

well, it's been fantastic. Strong Eagle Man is going to run again, and he's hoping it's under Freeland. I'm like, Strong Eagle Man is not going away, folks. He's going to stick on for at least a few more months. All the Randis have signed on to run again in the new leadership. Jamie Batiste, the guy who had a whole bunch of unfortunate tweets

about shit-talking native chicks. Yeah, he's going to run and hoping to be a voice for Aboriginal people. Or at least he's looking into it. Karina Gold is expected to. I wonder if instead of her publicly supporting that Nazi in parliament, maybe she can invite him back and he can reciprocate it.

You also had Christia Freeland scrubbing her entire Instagram account, folks. Went down to two posts, two posts. That's it. Yeah, which is interesting because there's going to be, you're going to see a whole lot of people, not me, because I don't have the time and I can't be bothered, but you're going to see a whole lot of people comparing and contrasting everything that the liberals said about carbon taxes over the past nine years, compared to what they're going to be saying it now, that they're looking at being absolutely fucking annihilated. Like this next election is going to be an extinction level event for the liberal party.

I don't know. Am I hitting the buzzer? Do you want me to hit the buzzer? Is that what we're doing today? We didn't do the buzzer last time, folks? I'm like, where are we at? We using the buzzer? All right, well, buzzer.

Sure. Yeah, yeah. Well, buzzer. What's next? We got some rapid fire news. Rapid fire news. David Spade offers bounty for people starting fires in California. I offered five grand if anyone caught and got them arrested for starting a fire in California. That was, well, an unusual way to go about it.

But I think I'm going. I'm going to assume twos is going to applaud. The stars may be using their status to make sure that people aren't being absolute and utter degenerates in the middle of a forest fire. You also have the United Kingdom landlords could ban drinkers from talking about controversial topics that bar workers think are offensive. I'm going to assume twos. Name one other thing you want to talk about at a bar.

Correct. I'm like those bars aren't going to be that enforced that aren't going to be in business very long. Just going to throw that out there. More than 74,000 Canadians have died on health care wait lists since 2018, a report says, and it's probably higher because they still are missing data from Quebec, Alberta, Newfoundland, Labrador, and most of Manitoba. So essentially, half of Canada hasn't given them any data. Yeah, I think it was only 62% of the data was accounted into that.

All right. And then we got the Black Hawk helicopters and drones are part of Canada's new border security plan. I imagine that they're just regular hawk helicopters, but because they're Trudeau, he painted them black. You got a lot of, a lot of people talking about the very real, tangible situations that Alberta has been in

over the past 10 years with all the canceled projects, all the regulatory bullshit, which the conservatives are not exempt from. By the way, do not give the conservatives a pass when it comes to this stuff. but lots of people bringing up really good things and then of course Trudeau talking about Canada first on the same day that we're now going to bring in

5,000 Palestinian refugees after they have a ceasefire. There's a ceasefire in Israel and we're still going to accept 5,000 Palestinian refugees and the Americans are like motherfucker, didn't we just tell you goddamn idiots that we're going to impose a tariff if you don't figure out your borders and you're going to bring in 5,000 largely unvetted people from a place that is pretty well known for blowing up buses?

You got a man set on fire in Vancouver on the Sky Train station over the weekend. A woman walked up and sprayed fluid in his face and he thought it was a joke, but then she let him on fire. So that happened in Vancouver. you got Prime Minister Justin Trudeau assembled the new Canada-U. Canada-U.S. Relations team, which had Alberta's

Rachel Notley's on it. I'm like, I've scrolled in the article. I'm like, I didn't, I had to stop. I'm like, Alberta, Rachel notley? Okay. How does that person get a job? It doesn't matter. And Quebec's Jean-Sheret is on that list as well. It's like they took the worst set of people who could not find their way out of

any negotiation, stuck them in a group and said, hey, go deal with our biggest ally in the United States. And oh, wait, Donald Trump's going to be the one that's at the helm of that. I think this should go well. Limited, limited defense here, all right? I mean, you know, I'm sure there's a lot of people saying, hey, when it comes to this stuff, Jean Choray doesn't have a leg to stand on for obvious reasons. But I will say that that guy has been a lobbyist for TC Energy, TransCanada, in Ottawa for like a decade or two or something like that. This guy, this has been his job since he exited formal politics.

Two of the 18 people, Rachel Notley and Rachel Notley's former chief of staff. That's two of the 18. When we talk about the United States, couldn't find anyone better than Joe Biden to run for the Democratic Party back in the day when we're having this argument, or Kamala Harris, for that matter. we got 18 people we're going to send down in the United States to negotiate and like work on relations. Yep. And we're sending Notley, her former chief of staff and Jean Choray. All right. You're looking at this.

You're looking at this from a logical sense. You're looking at it and you're assuming that they want to send the best piece of people possible to achieve the most quality outcome for Canadians. Well, that's what I would do. that's what you would do. Correct. And that's where this whole thing falls apart in your mind. Is because you're looking at it like, well, if we wanted things to go well for Canada, we wouldn't send these people.

And you're right. And they're thinking the same way too. Forget Donald Trump. Canada's own trade barriers amount to nearly 25% tariffs. All told, non-geographic internal trade barriers in Canada add up to a tariff equivalent to 21% estimates show. Yep. Now,

if you ever noticed that when you pick up booze, they always really want to give you the receipt, give you the receipt, give you the receipt. And when you get pulled over, you've got to be able to produce that receipt. Even if the box of beer is unopened, right?

And you can get a ticket for not having the receipt. Why? Because you need to be able to prove what province you bought that beer in. I literally live. right on the border twos. You're not allowed to transport it across provincial borders. Now, that does not fucking stop me from stocking up on bow every time I go back home.

But you got to hide it. A physician setting up a new practice in Brockton, Ontario said he'd take the first 500 patients who showed up. The line of people waiting years for family doctor wrapped around the block. It looked like a freaking concert to try and get a doctor in Canada. Look at this. For people listening, this line is wrapped around the block. And these people have been waiting their hours because he just said, listen, the first 500 people to show up, you can be one of my patients.

This is the state of Canadian health care right here. Well, there's that, but we got more about Canadian health care. Actually, we could probably jump ahead to that. Sure. Where is it the Canadian family seeks asylum in the U.S. After Trudeau regime threatens to euthanize their disabled son. in October 2024, two-year-old Arthur Tetrell from Montreal, and nearly drowned him, was rushed to hospitals.

Doctors at Montreal's Children's Hospital informed his parents, Nicholas and his wife, that Arthur had suffered brain damage. They threatened to remove him from life support and harvest his organs as he was drain on the state and considered too useless to be kept alive. Since then, they went to the United States and are starting to see inroads and his health coming back. And he's starting to make a recovery. Now, let's just pause for a second. He's got brain damage.

He's a drain on the state, and he's too useless to be kept alive. If that is the criteria. You're coming to some politicians. I know you are. If that is the criteria for when we want to kill people and harvest their organs, after Trudeau retires, explain to me why this conversation should not be had with him. I knew you're coming to a politician. Maxine Bernier.

Maybe I'm getting predictable. in 2021. No, I think a lot of Canadians are thinking the same thing. It's a sad story on Canadians' health care, by the way. I don't mean to laugh at the fact that that's what's happening in Canada. People are fleeing it. They were going to kill him and harvest his organs. And he's like, or I can go to a place with some decent fucking health care.

In 2021, so Maxine Bernier is fighting to get on the national debate. So in 2021, parties needed to meet one of the three criteria to qualify, have at least one MP have had at least 4% of the total vote count in the previous election or have at least 4% on average in polls at the beginning of the campaign. The PPC did not meet one and two and its leader was disqualified on three by using dubious polling results. This is his tweet. That is, we've talked about this for years.

In which the PBC barely registered. This is Maxine Bernier laying out. Which gave the party an average of only 3.27% only through its support was clearly much higher at the end, the scoring 4.9 on Election Day. Just like not being in the debate. Yesterday, the commission announced a key change, dropping their criterion and requiring that parties must now meet not one, but two of the following, two of these three criteria. One, have at least one MP, have at least 4% on average in the polls at the beginning

of the campaign, run candidates in at least 90% of writings. They got made two of those three. So the only way that this makes sense, you look at it and you say, and, look. All right. I get the fact that PPC people don't like CPC and that CPC people don't like PPC. I don't like either one of you. All right. I don't like the CPC because they have been a left wing party for as long back as I can remember pretending to be conservative. Can anybody remember a guy named Aaron O'Toole, for example, running on a carbon tax less than four years ago? I don't like the PPC because despite the fact that they have a lot of good policies,

Maxine Bernier is a lot more interested in being the face of it and a martyr than he isn't just buckling down and winning. All right. So everybody can be mad at me all at once. What he's saying here is on point. And why the hell are these laws changing? Why are these rules changing? Well, presumably it's because they don't want a further right perspective.

to be legitimized in Canada. And it's bullshit. So I guess I look at this and I go, okay, one, there's 840,000 people roughly in Canada that think Bernier should be on the debate. So here is your, like, like, listen, I look at this and I go, this isn't like that high of a watermark to jump to be on the national debate. You have to have one sitting MP. okay you can argue for and against that but don't okay you don't have that well you need to

at least have 4% on average in the polls at the beginning okay so you got 840,000 people that is no small number make it happen and you're going to say dubious polling I get it I get it run a candidate at least 90% of the writings you can like this is ridiculously doable is it not two's it is it is so I but this is exactly what I just said about Maxine Bernier, though. No, and the number four, I would say in there, because the one that really annoys me, is number four should be, and you want to be prime minister. Because if you don't want to be prime minister, what the hell you're doing on the debate

stage? Anyways, it doesn't matter. I look at this and I go, this system has been doing this for forever. They don't want Maxine Bernier on the stage. They don't. And why don't they? Because he's probably going to say some things that are uncomfortable. And I would say the conservatives don't want on there because he's probably going to steal some

of the conservatives. So this system isn't, this isn't new. This isn't new. This is literally the way this game has been played for forever. So he's been, I just have zero time. I have, sorry, PPC folks. I just almost have zero time for this. There's 840,000 of you get organized and get him on the debate.

That's my thought. And I could be wrong. That's fine. I can be wrong. It's just bitching and moaning about it. When there's 840,000 of you, all you got to do is running 90% of the ridings and have 4% I'm like, I don't know. Saskatchewan in Saskatchewan on its first go-around.

You know, its first vote had 23% of that riding. I get it. It's like run a good campaign and you realize you're going into politics where it's going to be the dirtiest of dirty tricks in the book. This shouldn't shock anyone anymore. We're not amateurs on this side anymore. I mean, Trudeau wasn't even able to get out with his face clean. When Pierre Pouliyev ran in the leadership race,

they did the same things there. We've interviewed people. So if you really want the PPC to be the next government or even have a chance at being on the leadership debate, that's you. It's on you. Stop bitching and moaning and find a way for them to get two of the three things. It's not asking that much.

I don't think. I could be wrong. This might be a good point, though, and I don't know about this, but one of the comments came in. Here's the thing. They changed the rules to polling results. Many polls do not include the PPC as an option. It's other.

Well, then create some absolute stink. I know PPC have their right talking points on a lot of different things. I got a lot of time for Maxine Berne. I got a lot of time for a lot of people who vote PPC. I just look at it and I go, there's a frick ton of you. Make it happen. Make it happen. That's fair.

Finally, Canadian trucker, this is a wild story. You know, I remember Gordon McGill talking to me about this too. About the trucking industry, Canadian trucker nabbed in a 32 million cocaine bust in Arizona. Okay, that's bad enough. 31-year-old driver Amarjit Singh, suspect of showing multiple signs of criminality, was arrested with 550 pounds of cocaine. Okay, that's Arizona. Okay.

Then back you go to September. The guy has been arrested like $7,000. I know. That's what I was thinking. September, Naseeb Kisti, 49. he was caught with 300 pounds in northwestern Indiana, Canadian trucker. August, a 42-year-old Canadian trucker, Julie Sabozen-Sathasilin, was nabbed with 260 pounds of cocaine. Are we seeing a trend here?

Like, this isn't small bus. And it was back in February. Gangapri, Gagampri, Deep, I, Gail, Singh was arrested for 661 pounds of cocaine at the Ambassador Bridge in Detroit. I don't know if there's a trend. Certainly looks like there's a trend. Canada's rebate program is nearly out of money. If you're looking to buy a EV, there's about a half month left before funding runs out on this program. Yep.

So you used to, the government of Canada was subsidizing further subsidizing the EEB industry by offering a $5,000 rebate if you bought one. And given how fucking broke this country is, somebody finally realized we can't god damn afford to do this anymore so it's stopping but also in terms of renewable energy north america's first solar community comes to an end in okotokes because it was just too damned expensive to do i forget what mash you paying for everything i forget what mashup we talked about this on but we we brought this up a while back yeah it well see you later you know it's it's a good experiment right it doesn't mean that people People shouldn't try these things.

People shouldn't try and work towards these ideas. No, agreed. I actually agree with you. But it's just the rubber's got to meet the road at some point. Yes. And maybe 50 years from now, they'll be like, oh, yeah, if they'd have only known they could cover the whole thing and, I don't know, snail juice. It would somehow increase the amount of photons coming in. And yeah, this was a major breakthrough that somebody made completely accidentally when a snail walked across their solar panel and it blew up a transformer.

but until something like that happens, this is just the state of things right now. We haven't been able to turn oil into salt yet. That's going to end it for rapid fire news. What do we got next to us? We got the goofy now. Public relations for Donald Trump sounds like they went full twos. Why don't you just read or here?

Maybe I could read this off. All right. So this is, okay. Hi, Arthur. I am a reporter from The Guardian. I am working on a story from Newk that's in Greenland where Trump went. Have spoken to the CEO

of the hotel Hans Egetty who told me that Donald Trump Jr. invited homeless people and drug dealers he had met on the streets of Nuke who had no idea who he was for a free lunch to make it look like they were supporters of his father. Does Donald Trump Jr. have any comment on this?

If so, please get back to me ASAP today. Thanks. Miranda Bryant. And then the reply was, that's pretty wild. Did the hotel CEO provide any actual evidence that Don did that, or are you just planning to run an unsubstantiated

claim with no evidence to corroborate it? Hi, thanks so much for your message. Does he dispute the hotel CEO's claims? You tell me, do you think Donald Trump Jr. was wandering around Greenland, inviting homeless people and drug addicts to a lunch? Or do you realize that the situation, suggestion sounds so beyond the pale

ridiculous that you should feel stupid for even asking the question. There were cameras following him around from the second he got there to the second he left. Did they miss him recruiting homeless people and drug addicts to his homeless person slash drug addict lunch? Are you fucking retarded?

They actually put that at the end. Pasadena temporarily bans leaf blowers to combat poor air quality. No, that is that's an actual story. The strong eagle man as we pointed out, seeks re-election in Emmington Center. So we're going to get a few more Randy stories before this is all said and done.

Seven ideas to help you break free from living paycheck to paycheck. Bring her back up to. This is one of those articles that CTV came up with. Seven ideas to help you break free from living paycheck to paycheck. And number seven was reduce your standard of living. One of the biggest mistakes you can make is having too high of a standard. of living. And this is from Crumbs Body. God, I love the guy, that classic picture of Paris Hilton wearing the shirt that says stop being poor. So this is one of the articles that

went over so poorly that they erased it. That if you go and you try and click on this, oh, it just goes to the business section. It's not there anymore. It's gone. Local news matters. CBC to hire more journalists, launch new platforms. CBC News will hire up to 30 new journalists to work in an underserved Canadian communities. And Lloyd Minster, Battlefords, you're one of them. So look out there, Lloyd Minster. There's a whole bunch of communities that are getting new CBC journalists. Should be fun.

It should be hard hitting news, I'm sure. Should be fun. Passner who grabbed a wheel of taxi and hit transport charge. Can we please show the video of this? You got it up to's by chance? Do I got it up by chance? I got, uh, I think I got it.

Oh, here it is. Here it is. This is wild. It's, I don't know. It's, it likes you, it doesn't like you. Everything's froze up. All right.

I think I got it right here. You're froze up. Everything's froze up. All right. Well, here, I'll play it. Tews is froze. You can watch it and just watch. dude grabs the wheel

hits into the side of a semi-truck and then does it again kids in the background on that one too folks we've lost twos what would you know what twos it looks like Sean's finishing out mashup 141 this should be kind of dull folks this should be kind of dull because there won't be any

explicit of it because that's what we got twos for anyways this dude in a highway out in Toronto of course uh does the unthinkable pulls a semi into uh, uh, uh,

oncoming traffic. Tuesday. I don't know what's going on here. Is this me? Can everybody hear me? Oh my goodness. Can people see me? Am I all messed up?

Tuse is all messed up. I'm back. Why is this all screwed up? I have no idea. Can people hear us? Okay. All right. Everybody can hear and see.

I don't, I don't know what the heck just happened. Thank you. Thank you, everybody. I'm sure if you're listening to this after it's released. You're like, what's going on?

Everything, everything on my end, like all my screens went black. We were having way too much fun and CIS decided to cease and assist the old mashup 141. He went full twos. We need to shut this down. Chicago Animal Control was called to a Chicago Aldi store. That's a grocery store. And it removed a freaking coyote from the aisle.

That the, my goodness. A coyote went into a grocery store. store. I mean, at least it knows where as bread gets buttered, I suppose. Do you want to show that video? Maybe I got there. No, I think I've learned my lesson, Sean. We're going to hold off on showing videos

here for the next little bit. And the last one from CTV news again. California man says two of his cats died after drinking raw milk, recalled for bird flu. And then I was never able to actually read this story because the dairy cartel

had it pulled. if you, it's the same thing we just talked about with that other CTV article. You try and click on it. It just goes to one of their main pages because the dairy cartel was like, we can't have people talking about milk in a bad way. I'm still trying to freeze up. No, I'm still trying to find the video of the coyote. People got to see the coyote.

The coyote video is, there's a coyish. Wait, no, it's freaking wild. Okay. How about this? It doesn't matter. I can't find it anyways. Oh, whatever. People will be fine.

You know, can't see the video of the coyote. I got it, and I got it off of X instead of some embedded things. So it should be fine now. Here you go. It's just hiding in the dairy section. It's just hiding in the dairy section.

And it hops back in. Oh, man. And it just jumps right back in. It's just like, it's just like this damn dog. Like, yeah, you're not supposed to be in there. Oh, I'll go in there again, motherfucker. And then finally, do we want to do some happy news? Let's do some happy news.

Yeah, we got some happy news. Happy news. A mother dog stuns. vets in Turkey by carrying her unconscious hypothermic puppy to their clinic, drops it off on the front step, and the vet's like, holy crap, pulls it in, warm it up, get it back living, everything's hunky dory. That's, well, we always got times for heist stories on the mashup, and certainly when animals do super cool things. And the happy news this week is a mom saving her pup from certain death and dropping it off on the vet's doorstep of all things, which is pretty unbelievable.

right okay and then we got community notes so uh jamie sinclair who has been texting me why are you texting me while i'm going live you're watching this he said uh well said brother what a great rant reminded me of will smith will feral of old school when he had to answer that question blacked out and then nailed it um but uh he asked if we could talk about march first uh regina beach lions club is handing having its annual fishing derby all the money goes towards kids sport in our communities eight o'clock is breakfast and registration at the Memorial Hall in Regina Beach on Central Street. There's a 50-50 draw by the United Church. Tournaments over at 2 p.m.

All money stays within our community for our community sports. Anybody wanting to sponsor this event, please contact Regina Beach Lions Club. And so that's actually the first fishing derby we've been able to talk about on this show, which is nice for me. I've been wanting to do one of those for a while. And he wants to know if Sean's going to send down some swag. Yeah, we could do that.

We could certainly figure something about Jamie. And he also brought up a Veterans Ice Fishing Derby up in Tisdale. Oh, the land of raping honey. Do you not know about that? Anyways, it doesn't matter. May 10th, Cornerstone Forum. Tuesday is going to be there. A whole bunch of people are going to be there.

We're going to be live in Calgary, Martin Armstrong, Tom Longo, out, Scranton, Chuck, Proudnick, Chase, Barbara, Kaelan Ford, Matt Air, Ben Parenthack, Rod Giltack, of Vince Lanci, Tom Bodrovic, Chris Sims, Tews, Yax-Tack, Marty up north. Anybody and everybody. We're going to have a bit of fun. Tuesday is going to have a meetup for some people on the Friday night. I don't know if I'm supposed to announce that on the mashup, but what the heck?

I don't know. If people want to run into Tews, there's some things going on. We're all going to be in Calgary and would love to see you guys at the show. And also, you never know. maybe we can run into each other before then too. Yeah, you bet you. Ontario Farmers Bonspiel, January 17th, 18th, 19th at the Sydenham. I'm not sure.

Community Curling Club. I don't even know where that is. But Machinist reached out and asked if I could talk about that. So yeah, Farmers Bonspiel. That sounds like a good time to me. And then Bonnie has Alberta Pension Plan Info events with Tanner Nadei and Mitch Sylvester, January 23rd in Castor, Alberta,

oh, sorry, in Castor, and January 25th in Sylvan Lake. Uh, so there's, there's multiple events. Look in the, um,

comments. In the comments, uh, you'll see it on Facebook, uh, register at Alberta First Pensions. dot C.A. And then,

uh, you pointed out, Canadians for Truth is also hosting John Carpe, uh, this Saturday, uh, covering the government pro rogue. So that should be interesting as well.

Yeah. I don't know. I think that's about it. That was a lot of fun. Folks, thanks for tuning in to Mashup 141. We always appreciate having you here. And, well, we'll catch up to you next week, A-2's. Same time, same place, 10 a.m. Mountain Standard time on all the platforms.

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