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610 CKTB: Succession and Treason Brings the North American Border War · Kvetch & Release

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  Speaker 1: I love having him on. John Lidkey is here, I
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  Speaker 1: never know what he's going to talk about, but it's
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  Speaker 1: always a great observation about Canada and life. John.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, sir, Good morning, Jean. Let's call it dispatches
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  Speaker 2: from the forty second Parallel.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, you're on with that one now, I understand this morning,
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  Speaker 1: you have observations on succession and treason, the new North
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  Speaker 1: American border war. Explain.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, let's forget the maps that you learn about in school,
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  Speaker 2: forget that handshake at the border. As of this morning,
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  Speaker 2: it's no longer a border. This is a target. Our
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  Speaker 2: border used to be the world's longest undefended border, but
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  Speaker 2: now it's looking like the world's longest for sale sign.
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  Speaker 2: Quite frankly, and this is all because of those secessionists
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  Speaker 2: in Alberta. And I don't like using that, like dropping
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  Speaker 2: the S word like that, but I mean, quite frankly,
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  Speaker 2: that's the only word that you can say when it
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  Speaker 2: comes to people who are actively trying to leave our country.
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  Speaker 2: We used to talk about and tell jokes about all
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  Speaker 2: Berta becoming the fifty first state because of how they
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  Speaker 2: were more American than Canada as it is, and that
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  Speaker 2: was before Trump used to started calling that's the fifty
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  Speaker 2: first state. But now we're not talking about regional grievances
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  Speaker 2: or grumbling anymore. We're talking about what could actually be
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  Speaker 2: a very serious unraveling. We've got these secessionist proxies right now,
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  Speaker 2: and they're not just sitting around in Alberta shooting back Molson,
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  Speaker 2: having conversations about how terrible Ottawa is. They're actually reaching
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  Speaker 2: out to Washington and asking for five hundred billion dollars
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  Speaker 2: to be able to bankroll their buyout. We've got a
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  Speaker 2: US president right now referring to our prime minister as
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  Speaker 2: Governor Carney, following through with what he did with Prime
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  Speaker 2: Minister Trudeau before that, he signals to this world that
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  Speaker 2: he doesn't view US as a sovereign partner, but rather
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  Speaker 2: just a resource colony ripe for corporate takeover and for
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  Speaker 2: us on the four to oh one corridor here. You
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  Speaker 2: know as well as I do, this is a very
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  Speaker 2: concerning thing, because if this grinds to a halt, that's
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  Speaker 2: cardiac arrest for the entire country. We're not in a
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  Speaker 2: domestic dispute right now anymore, Jine. We're in a one
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  Speaker 2: hundred plus year old union that is in shambles, and
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  Speaker 2: we have one partner that's looking to run away with
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  Speaker 2: another guy who doesn't even want a partner. They just
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  Speaker 2: want to extract everything that we have.
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  Speaker 1: What concerns me is the fact that actual Americans in
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  Speaker 1: Trump's administration are meeting with these people in Alberta. And
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  Speaker 1: you know that's called interfering with a foreign country. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the Americans may argue that Doug Ford's two commercials about
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  Speaker 1: free trade, you know, we're the same thing. I tend
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  Speaker 1: to disagree, but you know, an American administration should not
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  Speaker 1: be screwing around with a foreign country, i e. Canada.
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  Speaker 2: I agree with you one hundred percent, but we are
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  Speaker 2: well past the days of diplomacy. This feels far more
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  Speaker 2: the Russian pretext, quite frankly, than it does a diplomatic
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  Speaker 2: conversation with our neighboring partner. We have right now Canadians
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  Speaker 2: who are traveling to Washington having conversations with Treasury Department
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  Speaker 2: of Trump's administration again seeking five hundred billion dollars to
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  Speaker 2: be able to finance that exit from the country. That's
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  Speaker 2: the one thing that we've always been able to say,
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  Speaker 2: is Okay, you want to leave right, how are you
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  Speaker 2: going to pay for it? Well, they've actually got a
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  Speaker 2: plan and they've got the signatures too. They say, to
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  Speaker 2: be able to hold the referendum, to be able to
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  Speaker 2: move forward. Now we have clarity, of course, that's been
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  Speaker 2: provided by the Supreme Court, but let's be honest, Ukraine
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  Speaker 2: had sovereignty as well until those little green men started
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  Speaker 2: to show up and facilitating referendums as well. So this
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  Speaker 2: is really scary because it's moving beyond just conversations too.
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  Speaker 2: We actually have modern historical pretext for this exact scenario
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  Speaker 2: that's been unfolding. The Russian pretext is really simple, manufacture
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  Speaker 2: regional grievance, offer a security umbrella, and then boom, suddenly
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  Speaker 2: we might be seeing the maple leaf flying under stars
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  Speaker 2: and stripes yids.
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  Speaker 1: Are these people in all Berta just like the party
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  Speaker 1: quebec Qua traders?
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  Speaker 2: I would say, so, I don't see any other way
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  Speaker 2: to label it, And of course I'm not branding all
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  Speaker 2: Albertans or all Westerns by any means painting with the
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  Speaker 2: same brush here. However, the ones who are actively doing this,
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  Speaker 2: they are secessionist traders in my opinion at least, and
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  Speaker 2: it's not just my opinion. That is the opinion that's
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  Speaker 2: shared by the British Columbia premier who called them traders.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, treat them, Daniel leebe So what is the Premier
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  Speaker 1: of Alberta, Daniella Smith, What should her position be? What
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  Speaker 1: should she be doing? Because I mean, you know, let's
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  Speaker 1: not forget she went down to Tomorrow Lago to kiss
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  Speaker 1: the ring.
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  Speaker 2: There's one thing about kissing the ring. There's another about
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  Speaker 2: fanning the flames of secession. If Daniel Smith wants to
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  Speaker 2: prove herself to be a noble, patriotic Canadian, she can
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  Speaker 2: do one thing very quickly. Stamp this out. Don't fan
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  Speaker 2: the flames, don't provide any fire for it. Tell people
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  Speaker 2: this is wrong, Tell people you stand against this, Tell
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  Speaker 2: them that they are wrong, and do not even begin
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  Speaker 2: to have a conversation about why their grievances about things
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  Speaker 2: might have led to this. Are there issues that exist
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  Speaker 2: in our confederation? Absolutely, of course, should they be heard. Absolutely?
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  Speaker 2: Should we be ignoring these secessionists. No way, because it's
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  Speaker 2: a very real thing. Do I think that this is
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  Speaker 2: going to lead to anything in the short term. No.
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  Speaker 2: In the medium to longer term, I think we need
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  Speaker 2: to be very concerned. We're seeing a fractionalization of our
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  Speaker 2: confederation and we need to get a hold on that.
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  Speaker 1: On the other side of the coin, I found it
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  Speaker 1: interesting that earlier this week, the former governor of Minnesota,
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  Speaker 1: Jesse Ventura, was suggesting that given the problems they're having
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  Speaker 1: in their state with ice, maybe it's time for Minnesota
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  Speaker 1: to join Manitoba and become Minietoba.
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  Speaker 2: It is quite a surreal twist that, else Alberta is
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  Speaker 2: trying to call its way out, or at least some
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  Speaker 2: secessionists there, Minnesota is seemingly wanting in. And it goes
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  Speaker 2: to show that, you know, we do have allies on
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  Speaker 2: the other side of the border. Maybe not at the
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  Speaker 2: federal level, but this is a desperate trade. We've got
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  Speaker 2: Alberta's resource wealth for Minnesota's democratic stability.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it would also give Canada it's first NFL team.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, there you go. It's It just goes to show
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  Speaker 2: that while Mark Carney is trying to play the middle
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  Speaker 2: power playbook, pivoting to the EU, joining these defense packs
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  Speaker 2: and trying to trump poof ourproof the economy, we can't
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  Speaker 2: pivot globally if we're falling apart internally, So we gotta
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  Speaker 2: we gotta get a hold on this.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and uh Trump, you know people always forget. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: Trump has only been in office for one year. We
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  Speaker 1: got three more years to go.
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  Speaker 2: We sure do have three years to go. And that
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  Speaker 2: is what's concerning, is just how quickly this is all
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  Speaker 2: unraveling and unfolding quickly. But it just goes to show
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  Speaker 2: we have We can't keep pretending that this is business
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  Speaker 2: as usual until the four oh one turns into a
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  Speaker 2: three hundred and fifty kilometer parking lot. We need to
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  Speaker 2: make sure that our manufacturing towns don't become ghost relics.
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  Speaker 2: We need to get real about this, this secessionist threat.
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  Speaker 2: Well it sounds funny and we can make fun of
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  Speaker 2: it and poke fun of them as being at Westerners
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  Speaker 2: who are just out of it and not connected. We've
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  Speaker 2: got to figure out how to get this connection going between.
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  Speaker 1: Us all again, Well said John, always appreciate your voice
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  Speaker 1: on a Tuesday morning. You always have something great to say.
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  Speaker 2: Ah, well, thank you so much, Gene, until next time.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, talk to you next Tuesday. There he goes John
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  Speaker 1: led Key. I never know what he's going to talk about.
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  Speaker 1: But Ben he's been hitting and out of the park lately.