Part 2 of the Omar Khadr CBC Love Affair. The entire country is revolted by the CBC and their celebrity welcome of him, and their reaction to his appearance on their show in Quebec. I don t think they ve ever faced that kind of pushback before.
00:00:22.360Hey, before I cork it and get on with the monologue, can you do me a favor and go to the rebel.media slash shows or make a note to do it later?
00:05:47.400Of course, Khadr just can't believe he's living in such a clown world where the state broadcaster of Canada, a country he tried to destroy, a country whose soldiers he tried to kill with IEDs.
00:05:59.260This is an Al-Qaeda video of Omar Khadr making IEDs in Afghanistan.
00:06:05.860He was planting them in Afghanistan, and for all we know, he did, in fact, kill Canadians with those IEDs.
00:06:13.580He can't believe that the country he tried his best to murder made him a millionaire and is now treating him like a millionaire rock star.
00:06:22.500Treating him like they treat his friend, Justin Trudeau.
00:06:25.820I want to show you a bit more from that show.
00:14:08.120And a hatred for any bigots who don't see Cotter that way.
00:14:11.960The press is actually saying, their headline there, they're saying that the criticism of Omer Cotter and the treatment of Omer Cotter, that's the international disgrace.
00:15:21.140But when you turn devils into angels, when you turn murderers into victims, when you hate citizens but love Al-Qaeda, as surely as night follows day, death will come to you.
00:16:13.260Well, it has been a week since Alberta's accidental NDP government was reduced to an opposition party.
00:16:21.080Granted, one of the largest oppositions Alberta has had in memory.
00:16:24.420Normally, that place operates rather like a one-party state.
00:16:28.420Jason Kenney, the new premier who will be sworn in in about a week, says that he will make rekindling the oil patch and building pipelines his obsession.
00:16:39.360That's the word he used, and I think people are glad to hear it.
00:16:43.960But what about the rest of the country?
00:16:45.860Within hours of Kenney's victory, the Quebec legislature, which they somewhat presumptuously called their National Assembly, passed a motion unanimously rejecting oil sands oil.
00:17:01.200Well, it wasn't just the parties of the hard left.
00:17:03.660It was the alleged conservative party, the governing party, the CAC, the Coalition Avenir Quebec, led by Francois Legault.
00:17:10.640And now you hear voices including those of, well, for example, this guy, Jamie Carroll, former director of the Federal Liberal Party, saying Justin Trudeau shouldn't just block any pipelines.
00:17:23.760He should block them as a rebuke to Alberta to punish Alberta voting for Kenney and canceling the carbon tax.
00:17:30.200The website itself is owned by Bruce Cameron, the father of Justin Trudeau's director of communications.
00:17:37.080So this is the kind of talk they actually have in those circles.
00:17:41.420Joining us now to talk about what all this means is our friend, Lorne Gunter, senior columnist with the Edmondson Sun.
00:18:09.920But he he's he poses as giving advice to Justin Trudeau.
00:18:14.340And he's telling Trudeau to to basically write off Alberta and use it as judo to to hate Alberta.
00:18:21.940And you're probably going to lose the handful of seats there.
00:18:25.160But hate it to the delight of B.C. and Quebec to to officialize and normalize the policy of hate the oil patch, hate the oil sands, hate Alberta and triangulate that way to win.
00:18:38.240That's the that's the prescription on this official liberal page.
00:18:41.340Yeah. And I and I don't and I don't dismiss that easily or or even well.
00:18:50.940This could easily be what they're thinking of.
00:18:53.000You have to remember, as I'm sure you do, in the 1980 campaign, this is the one after the very short lived Joe Clark government.
00:19:00.880And Keith Davey, who was the longtime national campaign director, made a senator so that he could work full time on liberal reelections.
00:19:10.860His motto inside the war room, the liberal war room at the time was screw the West.
00:19:19.100And I can easily see that happening now.
00:19:22.020They they don't think they have any chance at all of holding on to three of the four seats that they won in Alberta in 2015.
00:19:30.140And they're not very confident they have much of a chance on the fourth one, which is Edmonton Center, held by a guy named Randy Boissoneau, who, if if you were watching really carefully at the Justice Committee during the SNC-Lavalin investigations, was in charge of killing the questioning into SNC-Lavalin.
00:19:49.360So if Edmonton voters have been paying attention, he's out, too.
00:19:53.500So they don't think they have many chances of winning any seats in Alberta.
00:19:58.640And even if they did, the top number they would get would be four.
00:20:02.800By contrast, they have 18 in B.C. and they have over 40 in Quebec.
00:20:08.400And they need to hold on to all of those if they have any hope at all of winning, especially with the damage done by SNC-Lavalin in that ring around Toronto.
00:20:17.820I mean, this all starts to sound very esoteric and and sort of like playing Tetris.
00:20:22.560But, you know, they've lost much of that ring around Toronto, at least temporarily.
00:20:31.340And one of the ways they could do that easily would be to kill Trans Mountain.
00:20:37.720And as you will recall, because I've said it many, many times on your show, I one of the reasons I was convinced they bought Trans Mountain, the federal government bought Trans Mountain back.
00:20:48.620Not quite a year ago now was so that they could kill it if they wanted to.
00:20:54.100So they could hold off on getting it built until after the federal election, at the very least.
00:21:00.200And if they needed to, they could kill it entirely.
00:21:03.840And and so I still think it's all very plausible scenario.
00:21:09.340I I it you're you mentioned SNC-Lavalin and that there's there's so many aspects to it.
00:21:16.740But even putting aside the corruption aspect and and the actual interference with criminal prosecution, what it's done is it's taken the bloom off the roses, finally scraped the Teflon off Trudeau.
00:21:28.780And it's taken away his running on sizzle because all the dreaminess, it's the feeling is gone.
00:22:41.340And both of those elements are in this op-ed by Jamie Carroll calling Albertans, thugs, Nazis, right-wing fascists and saying we have to punish them because they're climate criminals.
00:22:54.940I have to say, I don't know what else these guys are going to run on, Lorne, because they can't run on the economy.
00:23:18.760And I think that's because both of those appeal to younger voters who don't have as much connection with economic decision making as middle-aged and older voters do.
00:23:32.460And that might impassion those younger voters to come out in greater numbers and vote liberal.
00:23:40.260You know, as well as I do, better probably than I do, that the instant you say something that isn't politically correct 100%, you get lambasted for being a racist.
00:23:53.460Well, that's all because on social media, the majority of people who drive that agenda are under 30.
00:24:00.500And so Trudeau needs the under 30s to come out.
00:24:03.560They are also the people who are most passionate about climate change because they are the first full generation to have had nothing but climate change propaganda in school for 12 years and then in university after that.
00:24:17.480And so, sure, I can easily see those two being the pillars of the Liberals' re-election bid and cancelling Trans Mountain would be it.
00:24:26.440And so you notice that in the last few days, Justin Trudeau announced that the decision on whether or not to re-approve Trans Mountain, which was cancelled, the construction permits for which were cancelled last year by the federal court in August,
00:24:41.700the decision now that they've had the National Energy Board say, yes, it's still OK environmentally, and they're in the middle of consultations with the indigenous group.
00:24:52.180The decision was supposed to be done by the end of May.
00:24:54.960It's now not going to be done until late in June.
00:24:57.700And I can easily see them coming out and saying, you know, we're very concerned about the southern resident killer whale population that will be affected by this.
00:25:08.800And we've heard from a lot of indigenous groups that this will disrupt their traditional way of life.
00:25:15.760And so, you know, as much as we'd like to get this built, we simply can't see any way to do it.
00:25:22.500And I can easily see that as a launch for them into the fall federal election.
00:25:28.820Well, and that's the thing is, I mean, I never believed for one second that Justin Trudeau was for any pipeline.
00:25:36.660The only pipeline he pretended to support was the Keystone XL pipeline because he thought that it was already dead because Obama and Clinton had killed it and Clinton would win again and it would be dead, dead, dead.
00:25:48.760He did not expect Trump to come back and revive it.
00:25:51.220So that was the only pipeline he publicly mused he might support.
00:26:21.780And more importantly, do you think the media political establishment will embrace him as enthusiastically being nasty as they did when he was being nice?
00:26:34.700I think that the same outlets that have fawned all over him for his sunny ways are going to chomp big time on the bone that he's offered, the two bones he's offering now, the climate change and right-wing extremism or white nationalist extremism.
00:26:57.800I mean, you had on your side, I think it went up yesterday, the city TV news panel in Edmonton on the night that Kenny was elected, being absolutely astonished that he'd won.
00:27:12.120Because every panelist was someone who didn't know anyone voting UCP.
00:27:19.180They were all people who were aghast by the UCP stance on gay-straight alliances.
00:27:25.740They were aghast on the economic side of it, the environmental side of it.
00:27:29.760And the only people they ever talked to were people who were equally aghast.
00:27:33.820And then when Kenny won a huge majority, a very resounding majority, everywhere but Edmonton is completely blue with a few little tiny microscopic pixels of orange, that just flabbergasted them.
00:27:50.420They'd never seen that coming because they don't understand Alberta.
00:27:54.680They don't know anybody beyond their own little circles.
00:27:57.300And I think that you're going to see that sort of strategy or that sort of reaction from the mainstream media based in Toronto, Montreal and Ottawa in the upcoming election.
00:28:52.360On election night in Alberta, he spoke a lot in French, which sounded like an attempt to offer a fig leaf to Quebec.
00:28:59.360It was immediately slapped out of his hand.
00:29:01.920I think he has big dreams of being the grand reconciliator or something.
00:29:07.080I don't think the other side is going to let that happen.
00:29:09.880So how does Jason Kenney, who I think harbors ambitions to be prime minister one day, he's bilingual, he has a good national footprint, why not?
00:29:18.880I think that he wants to remain popular in Ontario and Quebec and other places, but his job now may involve fighting at least Ottawa.
00:29:29.240How's he going to handle the coming six months?
00:29:34.700I mean, I agree with all of those things that you said, that those are all things that have played out in his mind at one time or another.
00:29:41.320But I see another one, too, and that is he has to put out the fig leaf.
00:29:45.240He has to show that he's tried to be conciliatory because then when he comes down like a ton of bricks on using the Constitution and pushing the federal government really hard, then he can at least say, look, I tried the peaceful way.
00:30:00.460I tried to be Mr. Nice Guy, but no one wanted to listen.
00:30:06.180And it's a tough position to be in because as Alberta premier, you know what has to be done in order to better the Alberta economy, which also will better the national economy.
00:30:18.380But we are now finding with the B.C. government, the Quebec government and certainly with the federal government, people who live in Fantasy Island and cloud cuckoo land and who just think that, well, if we don't have oil, we'll have bug burps and we'll all get rich making apps for alternate energy that we can put onto our smartphones.
00:30:42.580And no one understands the practical side or the impractical side of that.
00:30:47.500They just magically think there'll be wands waved and we'll all we'll all have great, well-paying jobs in a prosperous economy without any connection to reality.
00:30:58.700Yeah. You know, I it frustrated me to see that unanimous vote in the Quebec legislature.
00:31:04.140They've never had such votes against American oil imports, which is actually a huge source of oil in Quebec now by rail.
00:31:34.740Quebec could probably raise about two billion dollars for its own government coffers if it allowed fracking in Quebec, which it will not do.
00:31:44.580But it doesn't have any trouble bringing in fracked oil from the United States.
00:31:47.880I mean, there's just so many incongruities and inconsistencies and hypocrisies in environmental thinking that some days I laugh and other days I wake up and I just want to spit barbed wire.
00:33:37.020Peter writes, That's the first time I ever heard you use the word satanic.
00:33:43.320Yeah, you know, I don't reach for that word a lot.
00:33:46.040Because I'm not trying to say supernatural.
00:33:50.020I'm not trying to say, you know, I'm not referring to God as a supernatural being or, you know, a devil or a fallen angel.
00:34:00.140I'm saying, when you invert all of morality, when you turn man's nature inside out and our culture upside down, that is, I think that's Satanism.
00:34:12.700I think the symbol of the upside down cross, which sometimes is exactly it.
00:35:03.300Don't expect that to happen anytime soon.
00:35:06.020Stephen Harper, who is probably the most right wing prime minister we'll see in our lifetimes, did not privatize the CBC, let alone shut it down.
00:35:14.560And if he didn't, in his, what was it, three terms, don't expect the new guy to.
00:35:19.060If it's Andrew Scheer, he's never even hinted that he would do that if elected.