Alberta： Notley calls an election for four weeks from today. Here's what to expect.
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Rachel Notley has called an election for Alberta on April 16th, and I predict it's going to be a disaster for the NDP. I'll tell you why, and how we're going to conduct ourselves in the election, including Sheila Gunn-Reid's new book.
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Hey there, today is the day Rachel Notley announced she's calling the Alberta election.
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It'll happen four weeks from today, April 16th, and I think she's going to get slaughtered.
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I think Albertans have grown to despise the NDP.
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200,000 unemployed, Calgary the largest unemployment rate in the country, no pipelines.
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I just don't even think there's any, it's like they're not even bickering anymore.
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It's like an old couple, they just, they're not even fighting anymore, it's just done.
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Rachel Notley's going to try and smear Jason Kenney about this and that,
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and she might even have a few good points to make, but I think it's over.
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I'll tell you about that, and more importantly, I'll tell you about how we're going to conduct ourselves in the election,
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Oh my gosh, I interview her next, so listen to the monologue, and then listen to Sheila.
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All right, without further to do, here is my show on Alberta's election.
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Tonight, Rachel Notley has called an election for four weeks from today.
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It's March 19th, and this is the Ezra Levant Show.
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Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
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There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.
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The only thing I have to say to the government, the why I'm publishing,
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Today, Rachel Notley dropped the rent and called the election for Alberta.
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My name is Rachel Notley, and I am running to be your premier again.
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She did it in Calgary, which is, I guess, a courageous move in itself.
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Notley and her NDP are about to lose very, very badly.
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Reduced to fringe party status in rural Alberta.
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and other oil jurisdictions, including North Dakota,
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Alberta has the highest unemployment outside of Atlantic Canada.
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how can it have the highest unemployment rate in Calgary?
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In fact, there's a second recession coming to the province.
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I'm deeply worried that rebounding won't even be that easy.
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the United States, is now our biggest competitor.
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U.S. oil and gas production is at record levels.
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They're not only exporting energy to foreign countries,
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Most of the problem is the ban on oil pipelines in Canada.
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Notley herself has been against oil pipelines for years.
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No tar sands, no tankers, no pipelines, no problem.
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But here she is as premier, still railing against them.
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And God forbid, if Alberta were to export crude oil, remember this?
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Our position on the Keystone was that if we ship unprocessed bitumen to Texas,
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according to this government and to the American government,
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we will give tens of thousands of Alberta jobs to Texas, not to Albertans.
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That was her railing against the Keystone XL pipeline.
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She was also against the Northern Gateway pipeline.
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She didn't lift a finger to support the last two pipelines that were killed,
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She was against them in her heart, I presume, because she didn't say a word about them with her mouth.
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She didn't go to Quebec or B.C. to campaign for them.
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Now, today in her election announcement, she claimed to be pro-pipeline.
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We have pushed the federal government to buy the pipeline.
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We have talked to Canadians from coast to coast to coast to build support for that pipeline.
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We have moved the dial in terms of the priority that Canadians across the country place on getting that pipeline built.
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I will keep pushing the federal government, and we will make darn sure that thing gets built.
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It is absolutely fundamental to Albertans' futures and to Canadians'.
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The kid with her hands on her ears was shown out, I guess.
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I just don't believe that she supports pipelines, by the way.
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That's Trudeau's proposed law that would put any new pipeline or major industrial project, even the mine, for example, through a gender analysis.
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I'm sorry, I can't say that without laughing, but it's no laughing matter.
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Project's decisions will be based on science, evidence, and indigenous traditional knowledge.
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We're also taking a bigger picture look at the potential impacts of a proposed project.
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Instead of just looking at the environmental impacts, we'll look at how a project could affect our communities and health,
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jobs and the economy over the long term, and we'll also do a gender-based analysis.
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She's okay with even the carbon tax, even though it didn't buy the social license to put through pipelines as she promised it would.
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In fact, the only thing she's positively done, besides putting in a carbon tax, raising carbon taxes, corporate taxes,
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and generally demonizing the industry, is to literally ban Alberta oil companies from producing oil.
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So, yeah, I don't think people are buying it, that she loves oil and gas.
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But 28 days is a long time in politics, especially during a campaign.
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Even if Notley is thrown out, there's still the pipeline problem.
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Yesterday, in his latest cabinet shuffle, Justin Trudeau promoted Joyce Murray,
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a far-left Vancouver liberal who campaigned hard against pipelines and against the oil sands.
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Don't expect any new pipelines in a hurry if that's your cabinet minister.
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So, the past four years, while Alberta's been in the fetal position,
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the rest of the world has rebounded in oil and gas.
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I'm worried we might have missed the moment in Canada, like Canada did with the delayed McKenzie Valley pipeline.
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Red tape and green environmentalists delayed that for so long, for decades actually, that it's dead.
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It was finally approved legally, but now it's dead economically.
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The price of natural gas will probably never be high enough anymore to justify that pipeline now
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because fracking has caused natural gas to be so cheap.
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So, yeah, the North is waiting for that $20 billion McKenzie pipeline.
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I don't think it's quite that bad for Alberta oil,
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but in fact, the National Energy Board has reported that oil production in Canada is falling for the first time in a decade.
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Canada has the third largest oil reserves in the world.
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and yet we're producing less like Venezuela is producing less now, too, for similar reasons.
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If you take her at her word that she actually supports oil and gas,
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I read her first speech in Washington, D.C. four years ago.
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She didn't mention pipelines at all in that trip.
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That's pretty much all an Alberta premier has to say in Washington.
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She prefers to talk about wind turbines and solar panels,
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We're also investing and moving forward very aggressively on our Made in Alberta energy diversification program.
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and in the longer term, it will leave our economy more resilient to the inevitable ups and downs with respect to oil prices.
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Would Silicon Valley diversify away from high-tech?
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We've got to get rid of all these high-tech companies.
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Yeah, we've got to get out of this movie business.
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It's insane for Alberta, sitting on 173 billion barrels of oil, in the oil sense, to diversify away from oil.
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You'll recall she had a sham press conference a month ago where she said she was going to give a $400 million loan guarantee to an oil upgrader project,
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and the entire media party reported it like stenographers.
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Not only said, quote, construction was already underway, but remember, our Sheila Gunn-Reed went to the site and saw it's just a snow-covered field.
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The president of the company himself confirmed to me directly, they're not even hiring anyone, let alone the construction's underway.
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Unless you're part of Alberta's massive and growing government sector that's never been bigger.
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I think most government sector workers will be there for Notley, not just to vote, but to volunteer and to donate as third-party campaign groups.
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They know what side their bread is buttered on.
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But I bet that even some Albertans who work for the government know that even their own jobs are in peril if the economy keeps failing.
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As Margaret Thatcher said about socialism, sooner or later you run out of other people's money.
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I think that's the beginning and the end of it.
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Notley has harmed Alberta's key industry, both substantively and rhetorically.
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She hasn't stood up to Trudeau in any way, or to her fellow NDP or John Horgan, NBC or Jagmeet Singh, federally.
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But there are other reasons I think she'll lose, too.
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Notley's war on family farms, requiring farm kids to be treated like unionized workers, for example.
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It is unanimously despised by farmers and ranchers, which is the point.
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Notley hates them because they're the freest of Albertans, the least socialist of Albertans.
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And then there's her war against parents in the schools, especially a war against Christian schools.
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Test scores are plummeting in Alberta, but she's going full tilt with her ideological re-education.
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It's a communist propaganda tract called Mouse Land.
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She goes into schools and reads communist books.
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And you know her education minister, David Agin.
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That was him chanting no more approvals to the oil sands.
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They were an accidental government elected by accident when Albertans decided all at the
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same time that they hated and couldn't trust the late Jim Prentiss, who was then the progressive
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conservative premier, and Daniel Smith, who was then the Wildrose opposition leader.
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Because the two of them, Smith and Prentiss, had cooked up a backroom deal between them.
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Smith was the opposition to Prentiss's right, which is refreshing.
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Where half the Wildrose opposition defected to join the government just weeks before the
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It was an obvious attempt to deprive Albertans of any real choice.
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Albertans were so mad about this, they punished both parties for trying to destroy democracy
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But alas, the greatest punishment was meted out against Albertans themselves who have
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So now we have Jason Kenney, leading the United Conservative Party, or the UCP.
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Then he merged with Brian Jean's Wildrose Party.
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And then he won the leadership of that United Party.
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He has lots of experience and staff inherited from his time as a Harper cabinet minister.
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But now comes news of all sorts of Prentiss-like tricks.
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Apparently, Jason Kenney met secretly with a spoiler leadership candidate for the UCP named
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Jeff Calloway, who also ran for the UCP leadership.
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But his job was to be a kamikaze against Brian Jean, saying awful things about Jean so that
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And then he'd drop out and back Kenny at the last minute.
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In a well-timed series of leaks, details of those backroom deals have been leaked everywhere.
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But my point a moment ago about the secret deal between Prentiss and Danielle Smith to
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remove a real electoral choice to the people, that point remains.
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Why are you trying to pull a fast one over the electorate?
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Surely Jason Kenney was going to steamroll everything anyways.
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It truly feels like some students' union level hijinks.
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Why not just campaign on the obvious huge elephant in the room?
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Rachel Notley and her NDP destroyers have wrecked the province.
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And Kenney, he's a former Harper cabinet minister and former Canadian Taxpayers Federation
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And he's actually run part of a government before.
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Did he need to win the leadership with 75% instead of the 61% he got?
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And I note that all the mainstream media to whom Kenney has prostrated himself these past
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You might recall that two years ago, Jason Kenney denounced 3,000 unemployed oil and gas
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workers at a rebel rally outside the legislature.
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He called them ridiculous and offensive when they made a 30-second jokey chant of lock her
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This was an homage to the Trump rally saying the same about Hillary Clinton.
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Kenney thought he'd appease the fancy people at the CBC and push away the grassroots unemployed
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who were not protesting their unemployment politely enough.
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Kenney did it again this year when he criticized the United We Rule convoy and refused to meet
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Kenney just sent out some weird passive-aggressive tweet.
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I was on the editorial board of the National Post.
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When some of the red Tories on the board, the editorial board, would pitch some worthy
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There was these debates in the National Post editorial board.
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And I would answer by saying, we already have a Globe and Mail.
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Why would there be a need for a National Post newspaper that said exactly what the Globe
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My analogy is, what is the point of a UCP leader who is as mealy-mouthed and timid as,
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well, I don't know, in some cases, not only herself?
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Well, Jason Kenney supported her plans to nationalize a pipeline, at least at first.
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He supported her plans to put a cap, production cap, on the oil sands.
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Well, the race is on, and it's clear that Notley is opening up a personal front against
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Two days ago, we learned that Mr. Kenney cheated to win his party's leadership.
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And when he was caught, he didn't tell the truth.
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Mr. Kenney looked Albertans in the eye and very casually and very comfortably lied to us,
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which in many ways goes to the heart of this issue, how comfortable Mr. Kenney is with lying.
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And the well-timed news about Jason Kenney's secret arrangements with Jeff Calloway, that
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other candidate, that stocking horse candidate, they gave Notley a basis to make those claims
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Personally, I just don't think they matter enough to Albertans, though, not when 200,000
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people are out of work in provinces heading into a second NDP recession.
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I just don't think people care enough about shenanigans.
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I think the enthusiasm level for Kenney personally is probably way down.
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I think people will start to look at Jason Kenney as a BS-er, maybe an Ottawa slickster.
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That's what the NDP has been saying about him for years.
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I don't think people will love him as they might have, but that's fine.
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They just voted for him because he got the job done.
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Well, we've had an important role these past four years in Alberta, if I may say so myself.
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You might recall the emergency town hall meetings we had to packed houses in Calgary, in Edmonton,
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Fort McMurray, warning about the NDP's true colors.
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Sheila Gunn-Reed published what I think was the best-selling Alberta political book of all
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time called The Destroyers, doing a deep biography of Notley's key staff and their awful backgrounds.
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Sheila followed up with another best-selling book about David Suzuki, one of Notley's key
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You'll recall, Notley sent an armed sheriff to stop Sheila from even stepping onto the
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A clearly illegal act by Notley that she finally abandoned in the face of national scorn.
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Notley, of course, is trying to take a run at us again, complaining to her own hand-picked
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elections commissioner to shut us down for having critical commentaries about her.
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You work for an organization that probably ought to be registered as a third party under
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the elections legislation, and so I have nothing more to say to that.
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So I'm delighted to announce that we're publishing a new book by Sheila Gunn-Reed, and I think it's
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It's called simply Stop Notley, The Case for Throwing Out the NDP, and you can order it
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It's just under 25,000 words, but it is jam-packed with facts.
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Facts of the mainstream media have not told you about these past four years.
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It quickly recaps the highlights from Sheila's book, The Destroyers, and then gives you three
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Yeah, it's $5 as an e-book or $10 as a paperback.
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Again, you can get that on Amazon.ca, or you could go to StopNotley.com, and while you're
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there, you can order a lawn sign to promote the book.
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Obviously, we can't put a 25,000-word argument against Notley on a lawn sign or even on a big
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billboard, but if you put up the lawn sign, you can send a clear enough message
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in those two words, even if someone's driving by quickly, StopNotley.com.
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But more importantly, you can tell people how to get around the mainstream media, how
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to get the book directly for just $5 as an e-book, $10 as a paperback.
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So you can do both of those things on StopNotley.com.
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You can get the book, and you can get the lawn sign to promote the book.
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I think that Jason Kenney has made some big mistakes.
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He's been too clever by half with his backroom deals.
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They just weren't necessary, and they were too tricky, too gimmicky, not plain and normal.
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They smack of the weird deal Prentice and Danielle Smith made.
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And he has been far too eager to suck up to the leftist media, whether it's bashing us
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or bashing the pipeline convoy or even his monthly anti-Trump rants, which I think are
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bizarre and inappropriate, given that Donald Trump is probably going to be the only person
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who built a pipeline for the oil sands in the next five years.
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I think it's Kenney's attempt to get the CBCs and the McLeans of the world to like him.
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And as you can see by the wall-to-wall mockery and accusations against him, yeah, that's not
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How about just being a conservative candidate in the most conservative province?
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But who knows what else the NDP and their media allies have in store for the weeks ahead.
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A great book by Sheila, a great new part of the team in Calgary, namely Kian Bexte, and a
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huge swath of Albertans who now get their news from us, not from the state broadcaster
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My name is Rachel Notley, and I am running to be your premier again.
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And I got to say, put aside her deadly ideology and policies, she comes across as quite a charming
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She has a warmth to her that, frankly, Jason Kenney does not.
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He comes across sometimes as sort of Fred Flintstone, both in his shape, like a weeble
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a little bit, like those little Russian dolls within dolls.
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And I think for some people, it's that look and feel that they vote for.
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I think that's how Rachel Notley slipped by last time.
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People looked at her and said, well, she doesn't look that bad.
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Well, Abacus Research said 91% of Albertans voted for Rachel Notley last time just because
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Or has the mass unemployment, the carbon tax, the war on schools, and the lack of pipelines
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Joining us now to talk about it is our friend, Sheila Gunn-Reed.
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It almost got Bitto O'Rourke elected the senator for Texas.
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And I think the veil has slipped a few too many times for Albertans to be fooled coming
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I don't think any amount of smear campaign on behalf of the NDP and their collaborators
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in the mainstream media are going to convince Albertans to vote for more carbon taxes, more
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attacks on Christian education, and fewer jobs.
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You know, I immediately accept your correction there, because even in her—I mean, I just
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watched that again, and I thought, boy, that she came across nicely there.
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But she quickly descended into mud-throwing, Jason Kenney is a liar.
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And of course, her delegates are even more brutal.
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And of course, their surrogates are even more brutal.
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I'm talking about the public sector union-funded front groups in Alberta.
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I take your correction, Sheila, she's a polished politician, and she comes by it naturally.
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She was the daughter of Grant Notley, a lifelong career politician, so she's learned the craft
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I think she's actually governed quite brutally, despite her friendly facade.
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It's very hard for Albertans to forget just how much she's attacked normal Albertans and
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how much she's allowed her high-profile cabinet ministers to attack Albertans.
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Just very recently, we ran our Fire Phillips billboard on the side of Highway 2.
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And we ran that campaign because Shannon Phillips, the environment minister, lied on several
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occasions about how violent and how threatening Albertans are in small towns who are opposing
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her plans to turn their backyard into a provincial park that they can't really use anymore.
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Albertans have not forgotten how the deputy premier and the health minister called them
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all a bunch of sewer rats, and Rachel Notley didn't have much to say in defense of normal
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Neither one of those two cabinet ministers faced any sort of real reprimand.
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So while Rachel Notley has crinkly eyes and a nice smile, it's just a polished veneer.
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And of course, you have been the recipient of the brunt of her rage.
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I remember when you simply wanted to attend to the legislature a few years back, she dispatched
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So, you know, the friendly schoolmarm look, the mask quickly falls, the veil drops, as
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And look, it's been a rough week or so for Jason Kenney and the media.
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I think Jason Kenney has made it easy for the media to take shots at him in the last week
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with his behind-the-scenes weirdness with other candidates.
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But I think that my own sense of Alberta, and I'm not there as much as I'd like to be
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That really they would vote for almost anyone just to get rid of the carbon taxing, oil patch
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I just think that no matter how brutal the campaign is to Jason Kenney and the UCP, I
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With regard to Jason Kenney, for all of his pandering to the media and denouncing people
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the media wanted him to denounce, they sure don't like him.
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And they're sure willing to do whatever they can to help Rachel Notley and the NDP win this
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But I think there's a strong sentiment, much like in the dying days of Alison Redford's
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PC government and then Jim Prentice's PC government, that Albertans are desperate for something
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And they're willing to vote for just about anything just to get that change.
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You have owned the Rachel Notley NDP file more than any other reporter in Alberta.
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I'm so pleased that a few months ago you were joined in Calgary by Kian Bextie, who's really
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come along as a reporter and he's broken some great stories.
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A few months, about a month ago, he broke the story of Darren Billis, a senior cabinet
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minister in Rachel Notley's government and, you know, not paying alimony, his wife accusing
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him under oath of drug abuse, an affair with a senior NDP MLA, like just crazy, crazy stuff.
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And I just finished reading your new book called Stop Notley, the case for throwing out
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It's a quick read, which is good because everybody's busy these days.
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And, uh, don't give it all away, but give, give folks maybe a one minute summary.
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Well, the new book, I suppose the motivation for the new book is the same as the motivation
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We just can't trust the mainstream media to accurately give us the NDP record.
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We documented stuff that the mainstream media has either underreported or refuses to report.
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Um, in that expose, he discovered, um, the use of caucus resources, namely, um, Heather
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Mack, Sandra Janssen's chief of staff that attended court hearings of Darren Billis and
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his, uh, soon to be, or now currently ex-wife that wasn't covered in the mainstream media.
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You and I covered the story of Value Creation Inc., which was, um, basically a fraudulent
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press announcement by Rachel Notley, who promised to give, uh, nearly half a billion dollars
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to a company that hasn't done anything, that went broke 10 years ago, and has a technology
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Um, it's that sort of stuff, um, that's in the book.
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Um, it's a sort of, uh, re-documentation of the NDP's, uh, biggest failures and, um, some
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of the things or much of the things that the mainstream media refuses to report.
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I mean, the subtitle says it all, the case for throwing out the NDP.
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Well, I'm really excited about that book and, um, you know, traditionally, I mean, I've
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written a number of books, uh, for example, I wrote books, uh, for, uh, McClellan and Stewart,
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which is now owned by Penguin Random House, huge publisher, one of the world's biggest
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publishers, in fact, and I remember being on a book tour when I did Ethical Oil, when
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I did Shakedown, and they would set up a, a media tour for me, uh, including a lot of
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CBC venues and a lot of, you know, newspaper editorial boards, and you would do the circuit.
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I know, Sheila, that the CBC will not have you on to talk about your book, not even to
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attack you, um, because you could hold your own and it would spread the word about your
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I am certain in advance that only maybe a few folks in talk radio or a few sort of internet
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YouTubers or whatnot, I know no other mainstream media would have you on.
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And even if there were friends of yours working at different newspapers, their editors would
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So we've come up with an idea to promote your book that I think is very appropriate for
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the season, and that is lawn signs promoting the book.
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And I like the look of them, and you and Kian have taken delivery of thousands of these lawn
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I, I can't think of anyone else who's promoted a book with a lawn sign, but I think it's a
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Um, yeah, with regard to, uh, there, the fact that there will be a near complete mainstream
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media blackout with regard to my book, uh, I had two Canadian bestsellers before this,
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the destroyers and, uh, a David Suzuki auto, not an autobiography, a David Suzuki biography.
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They didn't make it on any official bestseller list because they basically blacklisted us.
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So we have to have a bit of a guerrilla marketing campaign with the new book.
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Um, and like everything we do here at the rebel, we have to rely on our viewers and our supporters
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Um, so that's what I love about the lawn signs.
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They are a great way for people to show support for us to show their interest in stopping
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And they can get those lawn signs at stopnotley.com.
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Now I want to say, of course, a lot of viewers of this, uh, video we're in right now will be
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outside of Alberta and we want to reserve the lawn signs for Albertans.
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And I'm sorry for folks in other provinces who want one of those lawn signs as a souvenir.
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If there are any left after the, after we're done, the project will make them available.
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But please understand, uh, that the focus of this book, of course, as the subtitle says,
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Um, so if folks want to get the book, they can get it on Amazon.
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You can get both of those things at stopnotley.com.
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I'm going to predict you're going to have your third national bestseller on your hands.
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I think this is going to be a phenomenally successful book.
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And I think the success of my book falls squarely on the mainstream media and their complete
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and total abdication of their duty to bring Canadians and Albertans the full story.
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Sheila Gunn-Reed, our Alberta Bureau Chief and the author of the new book that is literally
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And you can find out how to get it by going to stopnotley.com.
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I'm sorry I was away yesterday, but I'm back all week.
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On my monologue Friday about Tommy Robinson losing his case against the Cambridgeshire police,
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Tommy and his family need to get out of the UK.
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But if you know Tommy, you know, that's like, you know, he's a British 100 generations in
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It's almost like he could survive nowhere else.
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He just, I don't even think he would know what to do in any other country.
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The video Tommy filed pretty much spoke for itself.
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You're talking about when the Cambridgeshire police just ordered Tommy with his kids to
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get out of a pub and then ordered them to leave the city.
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I've never seen anything like that in North America.
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It really did remind me of some sort of deep South Jim Crow law era segregation, you know,
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I'm just glad Ezra got out of there without the judge putting him in the dungeon.
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Yeah, I was live tweeting as if I was in Canada or the United States.
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By the way, I've done the same thing from the old Bailey and the Royal Courts of Justice
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But the judge stopped things three times to wag her finger at me and say, don't you offer
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You're not allowed to have any opinion on what you see in court.
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Anyhow, I'm, I'm, I got to tell you, I'm scared about the UK, but I see news just,
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was it today or yesterday, that the Justice Committee in Parliament is now going to reopen
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the censorship provisions of the Canadian Human Rights Act, Section 13, that was repealed
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So yeah, we're only about five minutes behind the UK in terms of censorship.
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If you're from Alberta, get one of our lawn signs.
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I'm afraid if you're not in Alberta, we want to keep them just for the Albertans, at least
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When the project's over, you can, you can have them, but you can imagine we have 5,000
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Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home,