“Climate Barbie” blackmails provinces with their own money — but can't keep her “trillions” straight (GUEST HOST： Sheila Gunn Reid)
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Environment Minister Catherine McKenna is trying to blackmail the provinces with $11 billion of their own money. Will the provinces cave to her extortion demands, or will they tell her to stick her carbon tax in a jet engine and take off?
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Canada's Minister of Weather and Twitter Gats is trying to blackmail the provinces with
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$11 billion gazillion dollars of their own money. Will the provinces cave to Catherine
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McKenna's extortion demands? Or will they tell her to stick her carbon tax in a jet
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engine and take off? It's August 31st, I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed, and you're watching The
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Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know? There's 8,500
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customers here, and you won't give them an answer. You come here once a year with a sign,
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and you feel morally superior. The only thing I have to say to the government about why I
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publish it is because it's my bloody right to do so.
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The federal government is now trying to blackmail the provinces into supporting a carbon tax,
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you know, with their very own money. Canada's gaffe-prone environment minister Catherine
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McKenna says that provinces who don't sign up to her plan to deal with climate change
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will now forfeit their share of her $2 billion federal low-carbon economy fund.
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So far, McKenna is trying to extort support from the likes of Saskatchewan, Ontario, New
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Brunswick, and unbelievably now Alberta. But before you Albertans get too excited, Alberta's
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Premier Rachel Notley has said that she'll abandon the federal climate plan until Kinder
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Morgan Trans Mountain Pipeline sees some firmer help from the feds. But you know what, Rachel
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Notley, she's still keeping her carbon tax firmly in place. So really, for Alberta taxpayers
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like me, it doesn't make any difference whether or not it's Rachel Notley's face on my carbon
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tax bill or Catherine McKenna's. It is literally all the same to me. But I think all these demands
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from Catherine McKenna might be to save her job in cabinet. You see, Trudeau just removed climate
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change from the official name of Catherine McKenna's cabinet committee on the environment. Her baby,
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her climate change, her reason to be, it's erased. Maybe Trudeau's getting ready to erase McKenna from
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cabinet. You know what, here's hoping. But the amount of money McKenna is trying to use to gang
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press provinces into saving her job might be the only thing she really knows. Everything else is just
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her making it up, blaming climate change for things she doesn't quite understand, like the economy or
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like science. Three weeks ago in BC at a cabinet retreat, McKenna was so sure she had the reason
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for this year's BC forest fires figured out. Just watch. Well, I've now been in British Columbia for
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much of this week and certainly seeing the forest fires across British Columbia just demonstrates
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that climate change is having a real impact on Canadians. You see, McKenna smelled smoke and when
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there's smoke, there's fire. And when there's fire, there's climate change. Except well before that
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statement from the brainiac McKenna, RCMP investigators had already determined that many of the wildfires
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plaguing the Okanagan were the result of arson. Apparently, climate change causes pyromania too. Is there
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absolutely nothing that climate change cannot do? But as recently as just a few days ago, Catherine McKenna
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was saying that if carbon tax skeptics didn't get on board with her plan to tax the air to change the
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weather, they'd be losing out on an impossible sum of money. A completely different amount than what
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she's blackmailing us with now. McKenna tweeted this out last week. Would also be good if the federal
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conservatives had a plan to tackle climate change. Like the Harper government, they fail to understand the
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real cost of climate change to Canadians. From extreme heat, to fires, to flooding, and the 30
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trillion opportunity of climate change. Let me say that again for you. 30 trillion dollars. That's a lot of
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money. In fact, it's so much money, it's around 15 times the size of the entire Canadian economy. How much
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scrutiny do you think McKenna got from the mainstream media for her $11 billion trillion carbon tax
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opportunity gaffe? You know it's next to nothing of course, right? Now back in April of 2016, McKenna told
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the World Bank Group Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition that climate change was a $3 trillion
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opportunity. Two years later, in April of 2018, in a press release from her very own ministry, McKenna said
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that climate change would open up nearly $23 trillion in opportunity. By July, though, of 2018, McKenna told
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CBC's As It Happens that climate change was a $1 trillion opportunity. She can't keep her BS straight. But you,
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dear citizen, you're the dumb one if you don't want to pay a carbon tax based on McKenna pulling numbers just out of the
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ether. McKenna's tried her hand at passing off other exorbitant amounts that we would lose without
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a carbon tax and no one really ever seemed to hold her accountable for making up these ridiculous
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figures. So why not just go all in and say like $30 trillion? McKenna's just making things up. The UN
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could sell her a bag of magic beans and when they didn't grow, she'd blame climate change, right?
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But Canadians aren't buying it. Canadians are smart enough to realize that they save money by not
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giving the government their money in the form of a carbon tax or any other tax, regardless of what
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Catherine McKenna says. Our $2 trillion economy will not grow to $30 trillion because of McKenna's
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virtue tax. But don't you dare criticize McKenna about it. She's got a rule about that. Again, back to
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McKenna's disaster Twitter account. When Lisa Raitt said at the Conservative Convention in Halifax
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that she would never be allowed in the Liberal Party because when Raitt succeeds, she doesn't want
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it to be because of some quota from the Prime Minister's office. Raitt said she wants to succeed
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because she earned it. McKenna chimed in. I suppose self-identifying as one of those quota hires
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rate was referring to. So maybe McKenna's becoming self-aware. That's good, I guess. But not really
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because McKenna called the comment about earning success a really strange comment. McKenna said,
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women should be supporting women from all parties, not trying to diminish them and their achievements.
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Rachel Harder, the hardworking millennial conservative MP, the Liberals blocked from sitting on the status
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of women committee because she may or may not believe that life begins at conception, was unavailable
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for comment. Stay with me. A much smarter woman joins me up next after the break.
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Congratulations, taxpayers. You bought yourself a pipeline that may never get built. Remember this
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photograph here? It's of Rachel Notley and Justin Trudeau's infrastructure minister, Amarjeet Sohi,
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and they're celebrating what's supposed to be the groundbreaking, the start of construction on the
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Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion. Oh, but it wasn't groundbreaking. They were shoveling us a
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bunch of BS because yesterday the Supreme Court of Canada squashed the pipeline approval, sending it
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back to the drawing board. Now joining me to discuss all this and more is one of my favorite, favorite
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conservative activists on the entire planet. She's a founder of Alberta Can't Wait, she's a founder of
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Safe Calgary, and she's a founder of Canadians for Democracy and Prosperity. Joining me now from Calgary
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is my friend Prem Singh. Hey Prem, thanks for joining me. Thanks for having me, Sheila. Now, on this bad day
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for Alberta and bad day for Canada. Yeah, you know, it is, we're on the hook now for something that costs
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roughly eight billion dollars, and we don't know if it's ever going to get built. The pipeline approval
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process has already taken five years, and the Supreme Court of Canada just sent it back to the
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drawing board. If the Supreme Court of Canada can overrule these decisions, why do we have a National
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Energy Board at all? Well, exactly. I mean, this is a very, it's a terrible, terrible day for Canadian
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taxpayers who invested billions of dollars in overpaying for this pipeline when a private sector
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company had the wherewithal to do it and wanted to do it. Delay after delay, I mean, now we're starting
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from scratch again, so even if the government can't get pipelines because they're over-regulated
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to the point that they can't succeed, why would anyone invest in Canada? Between our provincial
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government, First Nation bans, environmentalists, hostile federal governments, ever-changing
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regulatory regimes and assessment processes, now the Court of Appeals, there's zero investment
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certainty. You know, I was reading through some of the Supreme Court of Canada's decision,
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and they said that the primary problem in all of this happened on Justin Trudeau's watch. They said
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the consultation process part three and four with aboriginal groups was inadequate. Well, that's
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Yeah, I mean, where do we go? What's this definition of consultation? Like, no project's ever going to
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please every single person. The Court of Appeals said insufficient consultation occurred. How much
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consultation will it take to please the court? The Supreme Court already said the consultation need
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not be perfect, except when it does, apparently, like today. And it's important to note this is the
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same judge as the Northern Gateway. Yeah, you know what, and I was reading somewhere that two of three
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of the judges that ruled on this were appointed under Harper. So I think as Canadians, we have to have a
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really serious conversation, the way they have in the United States, about appointing activist judges
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to Parliament, or to the Court, who are overriding the will of Parliament and the will of the people.
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Definitely, definitely. I mean, what's happened, we're always playing politics, not we, but our
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political parties and the politicians. They're always playing politics instead of doing the right
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thing. The real winners today are the Kinder Morgan shareholders and the executives that got millions
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of dollars in bonuses. They offloaded Trans Mountain to Canadian taxpayers at such a huge valuation
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before the court decision. How convenient. I mean, they were the smartest guys in the room. Mind you,
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with the Trudeau government, that's not that hard. But if you look, today, all of the Canadian oil stocks
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plummeted. Our differential is now the highest it's been since 2013, the WCS to WTI differential, that it's now
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$31. I mean, SEPA, our Energy Pipeline Association, they already testified that under Bill C-69, which
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hasn't even become a law, no pipelines would ever go ahead. Well, we don't even need that bill. I mean,
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it's already happening. I mean, we've criticized the Trudeau Liberals and the NDP on this from day one. I mean,
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frankly, in my opinion, it was all a facade and they're probably dancing secretly behind closed
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doors because we both know and we've seen how Justin and Notley like to dance. But if this was
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happening in India or China, do you think this would be happening? They would have built it 10 times the
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project in like one tenth of the time without any problems. It just happened. Well, and we hear this
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all the time, we hear Justin Trudeau saying, well, I didn't kill Northern Gateway. The court decided
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against Northern Gateway. They offload the responsibility and the no and the political
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hot potato of the no onto the court. That's right. Because they just want to maintain power and
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maintain votes so they make it look like they're trying, but they're not. I mean, this was all a
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facade. I mean, all of our major parties support some Soviet style protection for dairy farmers.
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The government, i.e., we own an overpriced pipeline we can't build and small groups are killing billions
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of investment in Canada. It's a double whammy for us with this week with Trans Mountain. We've yet to
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find out what's going to happen with NAFTA. I'm not too sure if Christia put her sneakers on today
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or what, but we're the laughing stock of the world. Like, we're a country that's blessed with energy
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resources and we shoot ourselves in the foot time after time. It's, I mean, I don't even know,
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it's day after day. It just keeps getting progressively worse. And that's why it's up to the grassroots.
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It's up to everyday Canadians to get engaged and hold our politicians and parties to account.
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I mean, Canada's closed for business. The biggest question on my mind today is can we survive? Can
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federation, can confederation survive this? And it's a serious issue. I mean, you look on social
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media, you talk to people out on the street. Everybody is talking about how Alberta and
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Saskatchewan have been taken advantage of and they're like, now's the time.
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Yeah. I mean, we're seeing, I think I'm seeing a rise in Western alienation like I haven't seen
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in my entire lifetime. And, you know, when you talk to the old timers around, they'll say,
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this is worse. This is worse. The sentiment that we are being taken advantage of by confederation,
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it's worse now for a lot of people than it was under the National Energy Program.
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If you see billions of dollars that weren't collected in taxes, the majority of which used
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to come from Alberta, you're going to see even more of that. Because I think a lot of executives
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downtown that I personally know, they're going to be like, you know what, I'm old enough,
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I'm out of here. I don't need to, as much as we all love Calgary, as much as we all love
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Canada, there comes a point in time where there's the straw that breaks the camel's
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back. And I think this is, this is, we're pretty damn close to it all happening. And
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we won't just see one or two, it's going to be a mass exodus. It's going to be a mass
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exodus of established, you know, Canadian families leaving, plus a brain drain. Because
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Now, speaking of who in their right mind wants to stay here, do you think that Amarjeet
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Sohi and Randy Boissoneau and Kent Hare, do you think they're going to stay in their role
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as MPs for the Liberal Party in Alberta? What does the demise of this pipeline really mean
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I think, I mean, Amarjeet Sohi should stick to his million dollar renovations of his office.
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But, well, I mean, it's clear that he was made the resource minister just because of where
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he's situated and they couldn't give that portfolio to Kent Hare right now. Kent Hare on the window
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of his office has a sign that says pipelines approved. I saw that from a tweet online. Are they both
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going to be able to survive this? I don't know. They're going to spin it in a manner where they
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will say, oh, we've done everything. And they'll do the typical blame game, which they do for
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everything in this government, is that they'll blame Harper. That seems to be the easiest thing
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for them to do is blaming Harper. I'm sure that if Chrystia Freeland fails this week, she'll blame
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You know, I was just going to say that because I saw a story with Bill Morneau, who is blaming
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Harper for this, is saying that Harper's responsible for the flawed process. But why then did his
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government approve a pipeline to be built under a flawed process? And the Liberals changed the
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Yeah, I think, you know, they have, the Liberals have their hands full with problems right now. And
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our key man, our Prime Minister is, again, taking another personal day. I think Canadians need to
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question, why is our Prime Minister absent? I mean, what is he doing? How many personal days? I know if I
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took that many personal days, I wouldn't be able to keep my lights on. I would not have, you know,
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it does not make any sense. Our governments need to run themselves like we run our own homes and our
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own businesses. And they're not because we pay for them to act this way. They're not celebrities.
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They're not people that we need to, like, bow down to. They're not special. And I think that's
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something in our next election, both provincially and federally, we need to realize that these people
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work for us. So they need to treat us with more respect. And I don't know about you, but I'm tired
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of all of our parties just doing what they want to do without any sort of respect to democracy.
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Well, and that is an excellent segue into me asking you about your latest project at Canadians
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for Democracy and Prosperity, because I think that's what you're trying to do. I think you're trying to
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hold the government to account. But you have some really exciting, like thrilling, for me, things
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that you have in the works for Calgary, if you're wanting to talk about them, now's your chance.
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Sure. We would like to educate the public and not just be hyper partisan about issues. We just would
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like to educate people on things that they're interested in. Education, electricity, our resources,
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you know, our borders, immigration, and even just how people can get involved. So we're trying to do
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that in preparation for the provincial and federal election. Obviously, we are fiscally conservative,
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and we want to be more common sense than anything else. But we want to hold our politicians to account,
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regardless of who, which party brand they work under. You know, it's more about politicians doing the right
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thing for our country and our province than just doing what keeps them in power. And I disagree with
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all these people that are, oh, well, we got to get into power right now. Saying that isn't enough to
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compel the everyday person that, oh, well, we just got to get these guys out, we're going to be better. Well,
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better how? Give us some thought-provoking ideas. Give us, tell us how you're going to be better. Tell us
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how you're going to make politics better for everyone involved. And so we are, in addition to doing some
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online educational videos, we are doing some training. We did recently a training for youth,
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and we taught them political training, both nation builder, social media training. They had practical
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experience, not just theoretical. We're going to be offering that up to corporations and others that are
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interested. And we are looking at having guest speakers, one every quarter. I'm excited to say our first guest
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speaker is Tucker Carlson, that is September 22nd at Spruce Meadows, and you can contact us for more
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information. And we just would like to, as I said, get more Canadians engaged and hold everybody to
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account. Everybody makes mistakes. We're not going to, we don't expect politicians to be perfect by any
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means. And I don't think that any Canadian is going to agree with their leader or their party 100% of the
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time. If you do that, then you obviously have no free, you're not a free thinker, and you're not able
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to think for yourself. So I think what we would like to do is promote civil discourse about issues that
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people are afraid to talk about, that need to be talked about, just like what's happened today.
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Because I do think it puts our country at a great risk of alienation on the Western front, and perhaps on the
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Eastern front for their own reasons. But we need to be able to talk about that as a country, and not just do things
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You know, Prem, I just want to thank you for coming on the show. And you are such a breath of fresh air in a world of
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quota hires. You are truly an accomplished woman.
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I'm sure a lot of people would disagree and would like me to just shut up. But I'm here now. So oh, well.
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Thanks for joining me, Prem. Up next, up next more after the break.
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Now, the last time I talked to my guest was in Halifax, and she was feeling a little dejected,
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much like me. We both felt that the Conservative Party was shunning the most devoted part of its base,
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social conservatives, like myself and like her. But after that night that we spoke,
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the next day, some changes took place. The social conservative movement within the party
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out-organized the party members looking to keep them quiet. And they had quite a few successes
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at the convention. So joining me tonight to discuss all of those, plus her plans for the future,
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is Christian broadcaster and author, Laura Lynn Tyler-Thompson. Hey, Laura Lynn, thanks for joining
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me. Sheila, thank you. It is always a pleasure to talk to you. I love what you and Ezra stand for,
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which is truth. You stand for justice and, you know, and you walk a very fine line between all the
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stuff going on and what we actually should be looking at. So I really like it. There's no fake
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news at The Rebel, and I love it. Well, thanks, Laura. I wanted to talk to you about some of the
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policy motions that were passed that are real successes for social conservatives, but some of
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them are just common sense things that shouldn't be controversial at all. For example, you and I were
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talking off camera about how the conservatives are trying to return government to Stephen Harper's
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focus on maternal health in the developing world, as opposed to Justin Trudeau's focus
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on abortion in the developing world. Right now, we spend about two-thirds of a billion dollars
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on just what I like to call abortion colonialism. But the conservatives have voted to remove that
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from official policy in government if they do form government in the future.
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Absolutely. And that was an amazing moment. I will tell you that the crowd cheered and it gave me
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hope again. It gave me hope for integrity and valuing life in our nation, which has become a topic that
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we don't even want to bring up anymore. This was a moment where you could see the actual real
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grassroots of the conservative party rise in a standing ovation, cheering and clapping. It was an electric
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moment in that room. And I'm so grateful. And, you know, I know that if we would just open this debate
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for, you know, just to be able to talk about it, that I think that we could come to even more
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resolutions that are not, you know, unacceptable to the vast majority of the conservatives, fiscal or
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social, you know, that we would open some debate. I would really like to see us be able to talk about
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genderside, that no children, you know, need to be, you know, disposed of just because it's a baby girl
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or a baby boy and the parents didn't want that. That seems wrong in this day and age. Isn't that
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something we could at least talk about? Also, late-term abortions. They don't happen an awful
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lot, but they do happen. And can't we talk about how that baby is just a breath away? You know,
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these seem like things that we should be able to discuss in this nation. You know, and you did
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mention late-term abortion. The conservatives also passed a policy that would support legislation to
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give infants born alive, uh, life-saving measures. So, you know, and that's just not babies that are
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born alive, born preterm, but those are babies who survive abortions. And that does happen. Um, and
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those babies are denied, um, life-saving measures even after they take their first breath. And the
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conservatives have, have passed a policy motion that says that they will support legislation that will
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provide life-saving measures to babies born alive. That shouldn't be controversial. If a baby's born
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alive, why can't we help them? I mean, isn't, I don't understand if the law is that if the baby's
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born alive and they're, then they're human, why aren't we providing life-saving care to them? It
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shouldn't be controversial, but it is. Should it be controversial? It makes total sense to anyone
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who's a human being. If you have a heart, if you have empathy, if you care about a baby, this is not
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something, uh, you know, that you'd expect anyone to have an argument against. And yet we do have that
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argument against that. What is wrong with people? I, I've been off, uh, uh, I've been asking the question
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lately, you know, what has happened? Has the world gone mad? And this is one of those things that it
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shouldn't be difficult, Sheila. Now there was another, uh, motion that was passed that I think
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is of particular interest to you because you also speak out quite loudly about, uh, the introduction
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of gender theory, uh, to our children before they're ready. Um, and presenting gender theory as
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fact instead of just a theory. And the conservatives passed a motion, overwhelmingly passed a motion
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that would oppose any legislation that forces compelled speech. And this includes forced use
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of pronouns. Right. You know, it's interesting, uh, what, what the left wants is that they, that we'd
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get in a lot of trouble, have to face tribunals, all kinds of things for misgendering. I mean,
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you can drive down the highway, give someone the finger, call them, you know, use the F bomb a hundred
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times. Uh, you can in fact be at a, you know, any office here where there's a fight going on and
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you'll have the worst, most horrible things said to somebody, you know, in a fight in,
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in an office environment, or how about a family environment? But God forbid that you misgender
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someone and that you have to actually speak an untruth from your lips that you don't believe
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in that they are the opposite gender from what they're representing. Uh, that you, you know,
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that, that you can speak this, um, that you have to be compelled to speak an untruth. How is that
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okay? Like we are not, this is Canada. This is where we respect everyone. This is where we
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respect diversity. We respect gays and lesbians and transsexuals and pansexuals. And we say live
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your life and be free. But of course I've spoken out a lot on the gender fluidity, um, ideology that
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is being, uh, you know, absolutely put through all BC schools. Now I think there's, uh, some test
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cases in Alberta by next September, one year from now, Alberta will be facing what we're facing,
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which is it goes into every school. And it, you know, when you think about the amount of abuse
00:29:02.620
that is hurled at you or I online, they routinely call us, you know, the C word or all kinds of stuff
00:29:09.420
that's perfectly legal to call us those things. It's gross. And, and it's uncivilized to call us
00:29:15.580
those things, but that is perfectly legal. But I, if I misgender someone currently in Canada,
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that's a hate crime. I can have, uh, my life ruined. I can be left in absolute financial ruin
00:29:28.460
because I called someone he, as opposed to she, and I'm supposed to know ahead of time what they
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preferred to be called and, and, you know, lives are ruined over this stuff. So I'm happy to see,
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um, a boldness in the conservatives about this issue. Absolutely. And, uh, and, and these are
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things that made the room erupt. These are things that really brought everyone together, uh, at the
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convention. And I've been a lifelong conservative, Sheila. My parents have been conservatives, my whole
00:30:02.700
family. I have operated in conservative, uh, communities. The, the thing is, is I was never
00:30:09.780
really in the, uh, the political realm. I've always been doing television and, you know, I'm a speaker
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and an author, a professional speaker for 15 years. Um, so it hasn't been my realm, but to get into that
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room and to feel that electricity that binds people over what is good was, was very good.
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And I think that is a great segue into where I want to go next with you. And I want to
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talk about your future because you aren't in broadcast. Well, you are, I guess, still in
00:30:37.480
broadcasting, but you've left your day job. Um, and I was curious about where you're going with
00:30:42.840
your activism next. Right. Well, um, I've had to make some, some big decisions. You see, uh, the party
00:30:50.200
that I have been loyal to, uh, has decided that they didn't, uh, you know, in all fairness, they didn't
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give me a waiver and they have every right to do that because I hadn't been a party member for six
00:31:01.620
months. So they had every right to do that. So they said, no, we're not going to give you the
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waiver and you cannot run, uh, for a member of parliament in new Westminster. And so that was
00:31:11.300
interesting. Uh, then what they did was they acclaimed a young 23 year old who currently lives
00:31:17.600
in Ottawa, who did not get any of the 25 signatures, uh, that is required in order to submit your application.
00:31:25.660
And, uh, and so I guess what they did was they granted her a waiver of not, um, fulfilling
00:31:32.660
the requirements for the application. And I had to ask myself, so what is this about? And
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of course I did describe on my previous interview that I really think it's about my activism.
00:31:42.280
It's about, uh, my, you know, standing very strong against, um, you know, sexual orientation
00:31:49.040
and gender identity that is going into our schools. This, this resource that is being taught
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to every kid. And I, and I, I said to them, I wrote them a very, um, heartfelt letter. I
00:32:00.320
said, you have been my party for my whole life. Are you not the party that will stand for the
00:32:05.600
children? I travel with a transgender man and speak with a transgender guy. I am not a transphobe
00:32:11.920
or a homophobe, but I do believe that you cannot indoctrinate kids with five transgender books.
00:32:18.920
Let me show you what they are. My princess boy, I am jazz, Jacob's new dress, all about transgender
00:32:26.600
children, 10,000 dresses in which this boy for the entire, um, for, for the book is misgendered
00:32:34.600
as a her. His parents are made to look like complete bigots and nasty people. And of course
00:32:40.700
there's a red, a crayon story. How many books on transgenderism does a elementary class need
00:32:51.200
across the province? How many books on transgenderism? How about let's talk about being polite and
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having good, um, you know, good morals. Uh, that would be a book that would a conglomeration
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of all those kinds of books, not bullying. That would be great, but this is what they're doing.
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And I'll tell you what, Sheila, I will not be silent, uh, silent on this matter. I will not bow
00:33:15.400
to the ideology that is being put out in our nation. And I'm not afraid of being called names
00:33:20.800
and I'm not afraid of rejection by any party. I do not represent a party in my life. What I represent
00:33:27.080
is my values and my traditions that are given to me, uh, given full right by Canada. So I represent
00:33:35.240
every Canadian being able to live and to function according to their beliefs. Now, if you're, uh,
00:33:42.420
like, uh, Morgan Auger, uh, uh, the vice president of the NDP and you want to be a transsexual and you
00:33:48.260
want to live, uh, saying that you're a woman, I give all freedom for Morgan to live that way. But I also have
00:33:58.300
the right to live according to my beliefs. And I especially have the right to teach my children
00:34:03.720
those beliefs. And Morgan has the right to teach, uh, his children those beliefs. That is a right of
00:34:11.120
every Canadian, but we do not have the right, I don't believe, for state run schools to be telling
00:34:17.220
our kids that they can now, uh, go up to a board and become, you know, and switch genders. That I'm
00:34:23.200
standing against. So what I'll do in the future, I think that might've been your question, Sheila,
00:34:28.820
is, uh, I'm leaving all my options open. I believe that there is a lack of courage in this nation.
00:34:36.740
People are unwilling to speak, uh, against the LGBTQ who now rail against us. If we do not bow to their
00:34:44.680
ideology, they become terrorists. They, they call our workplaces. They get us fired. They call us those
00:34:50.940
horrible names you were talking about. And I don't think that's fair because I'm not a bully,
00:34:55.960
but I think that they are bullies. I am not, uh, into not being diversified and not accepting people
00:35:03.180
as they are, but I think that they're not accepting of me. And that's where this has crossed the line.
00:35:08.560
And that's where I'm going to make a stand. So right now I have some calls in. And one thing that's
00:35:14.480
interesting to me is I'm getting a lot of calls and people are beginning to ask me, what are you going to
00:35:19.560
do? I can tell you right now that, uh, I, I have some plans beginning to formulate and I'm ready
00:35:27.020
to stand and I'm ready to, to compel the nation to stand. We can't compel speech. We should never
00:35:34.240
do that, but we should compel each other to stand up for our beliefs. You know, Laura Lynn, uh, I'm so
00:35:39.760
sorry that the party disallowed your nomination, but I think you're like me and that you're still
00:35:45.200
cheering for these conservatives to find some guts, to find, uh, some ears to listen to the
00:35:51.560
grassroots. And I think you're like me in that even though they might not like it, I think it's my job
00:35:56.820
to drag them back right when everything else is dragging them to the left. Absolutely. And I think
00:36:03.180
that, um, if they see that their grassroots really wants to stand on an issue that they, uh, hopefully
00:36:10.460
will have the courage to do that. I will tell you what I believe is being missed and I want to help
00:36:15.100
the conservative party right now. Let me tell you what they're missing, Sheila. They are missing that
00:36:20.660
the grassroots moms and dads of this nation are beginning to freak out. You know why they're
00:36:26.640
freaking out? Because Jacob's new dress is being read to their kids in kindergarten, which tells their
00:36:32.140
little boy that they can wear a dress and become a girl. And, and when they're seeing all of this,
00:36:37.620
my princess boy, you know, where the dad is just celebrating that his boy is wearing a little
00:36:44.020
dress. I can tell you that the Sikhs, the Muslims, the Christians and the Jews, the fathers, they're
00:36:49.600
not my princess boy, daddy right here. And they're saying, we don't want our little boys and girls,
00:36:54.920
uh, told that. And as they are finding that out, they are very upset. Who is the party who will stand
00:37:03.460
for those parents to not have compelled indoctrination? Who is that party? And of course,
00:37:10.440
I've been on this bandwagon. I stand for everything else that conservatives stand for. I stand for
00:37:15.480
fiscal responsibility, um, you know, and having parental rights, which they talk about, but we
00:37:20.640
have been violated in this nation. I, I stand for, uh, free speech, you know, and, uh, bill C-16. I'd like
00:37:27.820
to see that, um, overturned because we are putting our women. We need to respect women in this nation
00:37:33.920
and, um, we shouldn't be having, uh, you know, men who identify as women being put into rape shelters,
00:37:42.220
for instance. And, um, I just feel that, uh, that it is time for us to all stand together. And
00:37:50.120
the conservative party, that's my party in my heart. There's no other party. There's nobody else.
00:37:57.860
It's them. It has to be. They've denied me to run in their party. And so I'm going to look at what I
00:38:06.600
have to do from here on out. Well, Laurelyn, I, I hope that you get back in touch with me when you
00:38:12.480
figure out a little bit more about your future, but boy, you know what? I love your fight. I'm so glad
00:38:17.780
parents have you on their side. And I want to thank you so much for coming on the show today.
00:38:24.640
Thank you, Sheila. And just to let your viewers know that we are going from, um, from province to
00:38:30.040
province, from town to town. We're talking about this stuff. We're asking them to be courageous and
00:38:36.100
not to be afraid. And I'm tired of seeing the fear in some of their eyes. Uh, I'll tell you, I will,
00:38:41.700
I will take the brunt of it. I, I will be called any name, all of you out there. You don't have to be
00:38:47.160
called the names or be targeted because you will be targeted. You don't have to do that right now,
00:38:51.400
but if you would come together and you would stand together, they can't, they can't kill us all.
00:38:56.500
You know, they can just try to pick off one of us at a time. Uh, but if we stand together arm in arm,
00:39:02.480
I think that we're going to be able to make some changes and it is time for change because this
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cannot keep happening. Thank you, Laurelyn. Thank you, Sheila. More ahead up after the break.
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Now, this is the part of the show where Ezra normally reads his hate mail. Now, I'm not going
00:39:29.220
to read hate mail, but I am going to read mail that I got that was critical of my opinions and
00:39:34.920
my reporting on supply management. After our coverage in Halifax, I received this email from
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Emily. She's from New Brunswick. Emily wrote to me and said, have supported and subscribed to the
00:39:49.680
rebel for many years. I have encouraged many friends and contacts to support you and watch
00:39:55.920
your reporting. And I signed many of your petitions, including the one for you to be allowed into the
00:40:02.800
Halifax conservative party convention. I tried to find you in Halifax. I did not because I wanted to
00:40:09.120
meet you in person and tell you, I appreciate your work. I did not know about your hospitality room
00:40:15.060
until too late. I still support you at the moment. On our way home, I listened to your wrap up on my
00:40:23.340
iPad. I can hardly believe that you have stooped to CBC like reporting for all the good things that
00:40:30.020
happened at the convention. And you chose to present a one-sided tirade against many hardworking
00:40:37.300
farmers. And no, it is not a Quebec cartel. My son milks 40 herd of jerseys here in New Brunswick.
00:40:44.340
He is honest and hardworking and gets his product to market in a safe, timely fashion. I'm not going
00:40:50.500
to argue the pros and cons of supply management here. The system may not be perfect, but it is a
00:40:56.460
good system. It is good for the large farmer and equally as good for the small farmer. I would ask that
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you do some fair reporting. You do not even try to show both sides. You just stooped to childish
00:41:10.340
name-calling. Well, Emily, hi. Let me speak directly to you. First off, I want to thank you for your
00:41:17.440
support in the past and hopefully going forward. And I wanted to thank you for taking the time to write
00:41:22.260
me so that at least I have the opportunity to tell you why I hold the opinions that I do.
00:41:27.980
Let me explain that I have examined supply management for many years. And I'm a farmer myself. So more
00:41:34.880
than anybody else in all of the media, I understand the pressures put on farmers. And just because I've
00:41:41.500
come to a different conclusion about supply management, well, that doesn't mean that I'm doing
00:41:47.000
CBC-style reporting. I reject that conclusion wholeheartedly. It is not CBC-style reporting to
00:41:54.060
say that the majority of milk producers in this country are in Quebec and Ontario. Milk.ca data
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reflects those findings. Now, we both know there are many other farmers in this country who produce
00:42:07.380
highly perishable foodstuffs in a competitive international marketplace, competing with cheaper
00:42:13.860
American labor and their cheaper American input costs, coping with daily price fluctuations,
00:42:20.920
managing high transportation and storage logistics. And they do it without price protection for
00:42:27.320
themselves. And they produce a product that, in spite of all those other factors, consumers still
00:42:33.120
think is world-class and it's something that consumers want to buy. I myself am a price taker on the
00:42:39.840
international market. I'm not a price maker. I am pro-farmer. I'm the most pro-farmer journalist
00:42:46.300
in all of Canadian media. And my stories are often shaped by the six generations of my family
00:42:52.260
that live on the land that I still farm. And I've also been very poor. So I'm vehemently pro-consumer,
00:42:59.020
which is why I am anti-carbon tax, anti-tariff, anti-wheatboard, anti-central control, pro-free trade,
00:43:05.580
pro-oil and gas, pro-small business. And I firmly believe in the universal conservative principle
00:43:11.140
that competition makes everyone better and helps the poor. Like roughly 50% of the Conservative Party
00:43:18.720
of Canada's membership, I am anti-supply management. And I hold a very mainstream opinion within the
00:43:26.100
conservative movement on that. But more than anything, this, like any other issue, should not
00:43:31.600
be off-limits for discussion amongst the membership of the party. Nor should it be directed from outside
00:43:38.580
the membership by a very small but very powerful lobby group, as was revealed in those dairy lobby
00:43:44.940
briefing notes. If an environmentalist organization wielded that much power within the Liberal Party
00:43:51.780
of Canada, and we all somehow knew about it, our hair would be on fire over it. I believe in Canadian
00:43:59.380
farmers. And I think that Canadian farmers are the best farmers on the planet. Because of that,
00:44:05.500
I firmly believe that they can compete and succeed. I simply hold a different opinion than you.
00:44:11.960
And for now, although that's changing quickly, the conservative movement in Canada has been the one
00:44:17.960
movement that supported a diversity of opinion and the free and liberal exchange of ideas. If I wanted
00:44:24.680
to think the same as everyone else and report a party line verbatim, well, you know what, I'd be a liberal
00:44:30.400
and I'd work for the CBC. I've been a conservative activist my entire adult life. And I'm cheering for
00:44:37.260
Andrew Scheer, despite his petty grievances against me. I want him to be ecumenical towards the Bernier
00:44:43.360
folk and tell them that there's a place for them within the conservative party. The party needs the Bernier
00:44:49.440
folk to win. I'm not seeing that happen. And I am disappointed because I know that means at least
00:44:55.660
another four more years in the wilderness for conservative Canadians. Thanks, Emily, again,
00:45:02.760
for reaching out and giving me this opportunity to explain my side. Well, I want to thank everybody
00:45:08.880
for tuning in to an inadvertently all-female Ezra Levant show. And I want to thank everybody in Rebel
00:45:15.360
World Headquarters in Toronto for turning this made-in-Alberta production into a watchable
00:45:22.140
show. Ezra's back on Monday with an all-new show. And remember, don't let the government tell you