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610 CKTB | Schrödinger’s Secession Petition and The Governance of Grievance · Kvetch & Release

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  Speaker 1: It's Jean Velitis on six ten CKTV, Najagrez News and Talk.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, very true. Our good friend, our storyteller, John Letke
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  Speaker 2: is joining us again this morning. Good morning John, How
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  Speaker 2: are you?
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  Speaker 1: Good morning, Gene. I'm great. I am so prepared for
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  Speaker 1: May one eight weekend right now. I bought myself a
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  Speaker 1: bulletproof vest. I've got cocaine, I've got alcohol. I am
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  Speaker 1: ready with my AI girlfriend. We are geared up.
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  Speaker 2: Somebody's been listening to the show this morning. Oh you
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  Speaker 2: are hysterical. Oh, that's just hysterical. We're going to talk
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  Speaker 2: about what's happening in Alberta. And before I asked you
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  Speaker 2: some questions about this, I just need you to set
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  Speaker 2: the table as it were for people here in Ontario
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  Speaker 2: who haven't been paying a lot of attention to it.
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  Speaker 2: There's been this secession petition, there was a court ruling
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  Speaker 2: the information of some three hundred thousand Albertas Alberta's may
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  Speaker 2: have been lead into the public domain. Set the table,
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  Speaker 2: what's happening out there, and then I'll ask you some questions.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean listen. The Premier of Alberta, Daniel Smith,
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  Speaker 1: has decided to take a page out of the David Cameron,
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  Speaker 1: former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom's epic fail playbook,
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  Speaker 1: and she wants to use it for herself. He of
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  Speaker 1: course wandered into Brexit, unknowingly as to what would occur,
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  Speaker 1: and she is eyes wide open walking into a secession referendum.
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  Speaker 1: But not only that, she's allowing the referendum to go forward,
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  Speaker 1: but when a court has quashed it down, she's now saying,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to use the full weight of the government
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  Speaker 1: to appeal it. It's madness, it's lunacy. It's bad for Canada,
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  Speaker 1: it's bad for Alberta, but it's entirely Danielle Smith because
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  Speaker 1: it's good for her brand.
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  Speaker 2: You're calling it the scorched Earth strategy. Why the strong language.
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  Speaker 1: Well, this is a pr shakedown playing in simple gene.
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  Speaker 1: It's not a legal strategy. This is a collection racket
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  Speaker 1: for grievances. She has a base that wants a very
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  Speaker 1: messy divorce of which we'd watch on reality TV, and
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  Speaker 1: they want it from Canada. She's terrified that the hounds
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  Speaker 1: that she released are going to start snapping at her heels.
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  Speaker 1: But when you would weaponize the full weight and the
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  Speaker 1: taxpayer funded Treasury of the province to defend a petition
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  Speaker 1: that was built on a data heist, criminal actions. You've
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  Speaker 1: crossed the line. She's not managing the base gene. She
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  Speaker 1: is literally dousing the fire station in high octane gasoline,
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  Speaker 1: handing out blowtorches to the most radicalized corners of her caucus,
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  Speaker 1: of her base. This is scorched earth, quite literally. It's
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  Speaker 1: a siege on reality itself.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, now, good listenership. You can read everything on the
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  Speaker 2: Cavetch and Release podcast and website that John runs. Now
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  Speaker 2: I was reading your piece. You described this as a
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  Speaker 2: Schrodinger's petition. What do you mean by that?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, well, you know Schrodinger's cat right, a thought process
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  Speaker 1: It's a quantum mechanics. You take a cat, you put
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  Speaker 1: it in a box, and you have a gas, poison
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  Speaker 1: and pill that can kill the cat. And the the
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  Speaker 1: thought processes is while the cat's in the box, it's
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  Speaker 1: both alive and dead because you don't know what the
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  Speaker 1: outcome is going to be. This with her, it's a
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  Speaker 1: Schrodinger's petition. This is peak administrative democracy. On the one hand,
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  Speaker 1: her government claims to be the party of law and order.
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  Speaker 1: She deserves a new law and order show dun'tu. But
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  Speaker 1: on the other hand, they're acting as the legal defense
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  Speaker 1: fund for a petition propped up by stolen data. She
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  Speaker 1: wants it every which way. I don't know if you
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  Speaker 1: saw the movie last year or the year before, Everything everywhere,
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  Speaker 1: all at once, But Geane, she lacks the charm or
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  Speaker 1: the cool factor to pull off that kind of multi
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  Speaker 1: universe chaos. We're left with a premier who treats treaty rights,
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  Speaker 1: which are the architectural bedrock of her democracy, as a
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  Speaker 1: legal loophole or a nuisance that need to be bypassed.
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  Speaker 1: But you can't claim to respect the crown while you're
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  Speaker 1: trying to melt it down for scrap metal.
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  Speaker 2: Well, the court ruling was centered on the duty to
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  Speaker 2: consult with the First Nations in Alberta now, but she's
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  Speaker 2: framing it as an anti democratic obstacle. I don't get it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, this is the total betrayal of the office. Will
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  Speaker 1: stop Gene. These treaties that we have aren't dusty suggestions
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  Speaker 1: or old pieces of paper. These are the literal title
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  Speaker 1: deeds to the land. By framing the judiciary, by framing
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  Speaker 1: the indigenous partners as radicals or as obstacles that need
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  Speaker 1: to be clear out of the way with a bulldozer.
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  Speaker 1: She's doing the laundry for the very extremists. She claims
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  Speaker 1: that she is just stage managing. You don't get to
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  Speaker 1: treat the foundation of our country like a speed bump
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  Speaker 1: just because it's politically inconvenient. This is not just dangerous rhetoric, Gene.
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  Speaker 1: This is a forensic dismantling of the province's legitimacy as
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  Speaker 1: a whole.
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  Speaker 2: Now you know what concerns me. I forget the guy's name,
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  Speaker 2: but there's a lawyer out there who represents the separatist
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  Speaker 2: movement in Alberta, and he's making you know, he's not
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  Speaker 2: hiding the fact that he has been going into the
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  Speaker 2: US and he is meeting with US officials. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: to me, that's called foreign interference in another country.
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  Speaker 1: Huh. You could call it for that. I would say
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  Speaker 1: that some I won't, but some might refer to it
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  Speaker 1: as a seditious actions to try to circumvent our federal
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  Speaker 1: government against the benefits or the overall standing of our
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  Speaker 1: country for the benefit of yourself and for a foreign nation.
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  Speaker 1: But again I wouldn't make that claim because my lawyer
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  Speaker 1: tells me not to go to make such for most
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  Speaker 1: claims on the radio. But listen, this is not a
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  Speaker 1: win in the courtroom, Gene. This win is the grievance.
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  Speaker 1: As long as she's able to just keep this process
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  Speaker 1: on life support, she's able to fundraise.
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  Speaker 2: Ah okay, because legal experts are saying this appeal is
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  Speaker 2: really a long shot at best, dead on arrival.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, she can keep the outrage machine fueled. She can
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  Speaker 1: campaign against the activist judges or the indigenous vetos to
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  Speaker 1: distract her base from the fact that her policy shop
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  Speaker 1: is effectively bankrupt. She's using the legal system as a
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  Speaker 1: stage for performance that has nothing to do with the
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  Speaker 1: law and everything to do with keeping her throne from
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  Speaker 1: wobbling into decay. This is a theatrical shakedown of the
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  Speaker 1: judicial system, and we're all paying for tickets to the show.
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  Speaker 1: And quite frankly, a judge should just shut this all down. Hm.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, Well, you know I love your style of writing
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  Speaker 2: in your call and again it's on covetch and release
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  Speaker 2: the writing blog. You write that quote Smith, only you
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  Speaker 2: would write this. Smith would rather rule in hell than
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  Speaker 2: serve in heaven. So what's the long term consequences for
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  Speaker 2: the rest of Canada.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, this is the ultimate ego trip. Danielle Smith would
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  Speaker 1: rather rule in hell than serve in heaven. But the problem, Gene,
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  Speaker 1: is that when you light a fire that big just
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  Speaker 1: to keep yourself warm, you don't get to control which
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  Speaker 1: way the wind blows the sparks. The rest of Canada
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  Speaker 1: is being forced to breathe the smoke from the fire
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  Speaker 1: that she lit willingly. It's destabilizing our trade, it's fracturing
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  Speaker 1: our federation. It's telling every other would be aspiring populist
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  Speaker 1: secession that the truth is whatever you can get three
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  Speaker 1: hundred thousand people to sign off on a petition for
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  Speaker 1: even if the signatures were harvested via a criminal data heist.
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  Speaker 1: She's playing a zero sum game. The rest of us
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  Speaker 1: are all footing the bill for the losses. And even
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  Speaker 1: if it goes well, I don't think you and I
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  Speaker 1: are get any shareholder dividends, Gene.
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  Speaker 2: No, you're right, Okay, you put it in perspective. I
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  Speaker 2: get it, and you know it's going to be really,
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  Speaker 2: really interesting. And Daniella Smith is meeting up with the
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  Speaker 2: Prime Minister in about an hour and a half, and
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  Speaker 2: you know, they're announcing some sort of an energy deal,
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  Speaker 2: and I was thinking, Yeah, we're going to finally put
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  Speaker 2: a shovel in the ground, We're going to start selling
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  Speaker 2: our oil to the air. And then I'm watching the
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  Speaker 2: news this morning and I'm doing my homework for the show,
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  Speaker 2: and what do I start hearing carbon pricing, carbon pricing,
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  Speaker 2: And then you know, you probably heard the clip of
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  Speaker 2: a Prime minister word salad. I played unolightness on the news. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: I don't even understand what he's talking about. So my
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  Speaker 2: prediction is no shovel in the ground, no pipeline announcement.
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  Speaker 2: It's just going to be like I said, the mo ou,
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  Speaker 2: the Ei, I O, the Wingo tango wango bangle of
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  Speaker 2: never getting a pipeline developed in Men. We could sure
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  Speaker 2: use the dough right.
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  Speaker 1: Now, the waterwater bing bang. I love it. Yeah, you know, listen,
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  Speaker 1: I just you know, I think that there are built
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  Speaker 1: in poison pills into that that the federal government is
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  Speaker 1: able to come forward and say we want this, it's
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  Speaker 1: going to happen. Look at all the money that we've allocated.
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  Speaker 1: Oh gosh, darn it. If only you know things A preparations, A,
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  Speaker 1: B and C fail. What are we going to do?
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  Speaker 1: But that's why I guess there's always preparation.
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  Speaker 2: H right, yep, let key, great job as usual, and
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  Speaker 2: I just want to wish you a very happy Victoria
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  Speaker 2: May one to eight weekend.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Jean. Enjoy your cocaine and alcohol.
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  Speaker 2: No, I know what's best. That was a news story.
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  Speaker 2: You can't say things like that. People are going to
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  Speaker 2: think you're sering.
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  Speaker 1: Oh I'm sorry, don't go hang out with your AI girlfriend.
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  Speaker 1: Then he thereup, you're gonna get four years in jail
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  Speaker 1: if you do.
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  Speaker 2: You're gonna you're killing me.
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  Speaker 1: Here you Jean, had a great one.
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  Speaker 2: See you later. If that was we were talking, It
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  Speaker 2: was so funny. We were talking about a story of
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  Speaker 2: the news in valais on the news that I had.
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  Speaker 2: That was classic. That was just epic. Only led key. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: let's take one last look of the weather for the
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  Speaker 2: May one eight weekend. Cue the music, Very Gigure's Al