Helen Zaltzman

Well, Andy, they're talking about this unacceptable, quote, level of feral horses, which might not be millions, might be 2,000.

So hard to tell these days.

They're suggesting putting the horses up for adoption or administering contraception in order to control population because these horses love to far.

And there's a lot of people in Canada already dealing with the effects of forced adoptions and eugenic strategies via contraception in the indigenous nations.

And Alberta's like, well, worked on the humans, let's horse it.

Worked on the humans, let's horse it is a lovely phrase.

You have to give them that.

Lovely and terrifying, Josie.

Lovely and terrifying.

And the Alberta government terms these horses to be not wildlife, but strays.

The strays suggest that there's somewhere that they would have strayed from, but they're feral horses.

So they just strayed from like over there.

In which case, what else?

I mean, everything's a stray, isn't it?

Except a tree.

Not in Alberta, it's landlocked, as you said.

The horses are just gearing up for Alberta's maybe separatism referendum that allegedly they have enough signatures to hold this autumn, but they have not yet verified whether those signatures are real.

Well, it's very hard for the horses to complete this survey because every question they have to do one knock for yes and two for no.

And that takes a long time.

You know, oh, it's a yes.