DAILY Roundup ｜ Ezra reacts as Alberta Ethics Commissioner says Danielle Smith interfered in justice - works
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Today, the ethics commissioner ruled that Alberta Premier Danielle Smith broke the ethics code in regards to pursuing lockdown amnesty, which is a stay of prosecution against people who are still being hounded by prosecutors for obsolete rules that were in effect a year ago. But there s an even deeper, more important story to it, which shows how Alberta s deep state is trying to get rid of Danielle Smith with an election just 11 days away.
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Ezra Levan is my name. I am here for the live stream, which we always do at 1 p.m. Eastern
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11 a.m. Mountain Time. It's usually hosted by my colleagues, David Menzies and Sheila
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Gunnery. But today I'm in the chair alone because there's an important breaking news item out of
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Alberta. And it's something that I've been following closely. I'm originally Albertan
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myself. And in fact, I play a very minor role in this story. Today, the ethics commissioner
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ruled that Alberta Premier Danielle Smith broke the ethics code in regards to pursuing
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lockdown amnesty. That is a stay of prosecution against people who are still being hounded by
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prosecutors for obsolete rules that were in effect a year, two, three ago.
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I'll take you through the ruling itself, what it says, what it does not say. But I think there's
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an even deeper, more important story to it, which is how Alberta's deep state, as it were,
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is trying to get rid of Danielle Smith with an election. What is it, 11 days away now?
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Today, by the way, is the debate day in the province of Alberta. Danielle Smith, the leader of
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the UCP, the United Conservative Party, and Rachel Notley, the leader of the NDP Socialist Party,
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former premier who was deposed by Jason Kenney, but wants a second crack at it. And opinion polls,
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I've seen opinion polls showing the NDP with a real lead, but I've also seen opinion polls showing
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that UCP is in the lead. I think that means that it's a volatile electorate. Normally, pollsters are
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generally in the same zone. I think that this election is really up in the air, and the deep
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state has decided they're going to make the decision. I'll tell you what I mean by that.
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Now, this ethics report was rushed out hastily. Most of the ethics reports by this commissioner take
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three, four plus months to do. This one was done very hastily to make sure it got out before the
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election. And maybe that's appropriate, or maybe that's someone putting their thumb on the scale.
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It was released today, the day of the debates. Not tomorrow, the day after the debates, but today.
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The day where the candidates are normally preparing, and where the candidates themselves
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would choose the issues. No, the ethics commissioner herself will choose the issue. You know that that
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will be the case. The CBC has a major role in what I am calling an attempted coup d'etat, and here's what
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I mean by that. A few months ago, the CBC reported something as fact. They said that Danielle Smith or her
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staff emailed prosecutors on the COVID files telling them to stop. They couldn't be more explicit. They said
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they were emails. Now, later on, they said they hadn't actually seen the emails. Isn't that interesting?
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But they insisted they happen. Well, this launched an enormous investigation in the public service by
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the non-partisan public service. I don't mean political appointees. I mean the permanent bureaucracy
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that runs the government. They checked over a million emails and couldn't find the emails that the
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CBC said had happened, even though the CBC couldn't have been sure about it because they never saw them
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themselves. Who would have told them, and why would they believe someone who wouldn't show them in the
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face of a massive investigation by the bureaucracy that showed no such emails were done? Well, in today's
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report by the Ethics Commissioner, which talks about Danielle Smith and her views on a kind of lockdown
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amnesty, there's a major section on the CBC, and I want to show it to you. And this isn't the most
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important part of today's story, but it shows you the collusion between the NDP, the media party,
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Justin Trudeau's CBC, and how it's all happening, in my opinion, with some dissident conservatives who
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have never accepted Danielle Smith as a leader. Here, I'd like you to, Olivia or Efron, I'm not sure
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who's at the computer there. Is that you, Olivia? Can you please search for CBC and go to the next
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instance of it and first show the title page of the report to show people what document we're
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referring to? I have on the screen, and I'll show it to you, and we'll have a link to it, if you could
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put that on the screen. This is the Office of the Ethics Commissioner, Province of Alberta, report of
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findings and recommendations by the Honorable Marguerite Trussler, King's Counsel, Ethics Commissioner,
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into allegations involving Danielle Smith. So it was published today. So that's the document I'm reading
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from. And then do a find, the word CBC, and skip the first one. That shows that, you can put it on the
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screen there. In January of 2023, the CBC aired a story relying on an unnamed source that a political
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staff member in the Premier's office had directly contacted prosecutors, plural, in the Criminal
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Prosecution Service about COVID-related prosecutions. In March of 2023, a tape was posted to the CBC
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website of a conversation between Premier Smith and Arthur Pavlovsky. We can talk about that a little bit
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later. The allegation is that the Premier and her staff, as a result of these two incidents,
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interfered with the administration of justice and thereby breached Section 3 of the Conflict of
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Interest Act. Oh, I skipped a paragraph there. Highlights from the tape are set out in the NDP
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request for an investigation. I also downloaded the tape and personally listened to it. So those
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are the two allegations that Arthur Pavlovsky recording of his personal conversation with
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Daniel Smith, and far more serious in my mind, the accusation that Smith or her staff were literally
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emailing prosecutors, plural, and telling them what to do. That would be political interference like
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Justin Trudeau does. That's not something a conservative would do. Skip ahead to the next
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instance of the word CBC, because this is quite something. And the next one, just one more.
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Yeah, let's read this. The CBC allegation. We already read that. The person who was alleged to
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have sent one or perhaps more of the emails was incensed by the allegations and denied them. The
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lawyer conducting or participating in all the Cooch prosecution, Stephen Johnson, said that he was never
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contacted by anyone in the Premier's office. Kim Goddard, Assistant Deputy Minister of Justice, at one
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point, held a town hall video meeting with prosecutors and reiterated the impendence of the Crown
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prosecutors. She told them to ignore political statements and to advise her if anyone was contacted,
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particularly if the contact was from a political source. At one point, she requested and received from the
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Crown Prosecution Service an update on all cases, but it was used by her merely as a reference to bring the
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Attorney General and was never forwarded. The Public Service Commissioner, with the consent of the
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Deputy Minister, conducted an email search. I referred to that. Keep going. Skip to the next page. Look at
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this. I think it can be said that the members of the Crown Prosecution Services, that's another way of
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saying prosecutors, were annoyed and even incensed by the allegation that one of them had received
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outside political pressure. Assistant Deputy Minister Kim Goddard is confident no one in the service
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received an email. So that's not a political appointee. That's a lifer prosecutor. But look at
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these next two paragraphs. Absolutely devastating to the wicked liars of the CBC. Look at these two next
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paragraphs. All 44 Crown Prosecutors who had coots, that was the border blockade by the truckers,
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or COVID related files, provided a statement that they did not receive any contact relating to their
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files from the Premier's office. 44 prosecutors on the COVID file. None of them appointed by Daniel
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Smith, of course. They're not political appointees at all. They're lawyers who just work for the
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government. 44 out of 44 said, I don't know what the CBC is talking about. I have never received such
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an email. And then this next line. All 32 political staff members in the Premier's office at the relevant
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time provided a statement that they did not contact any Crown Prosecutors regarding the coots or COVID
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related files. 76 people said it is not true. That is absolutely devastating to the CBC. It was one of the
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grounds for this ethics complaint. And here, Marguerite Trussler, retired judge, now ethics commissioner,
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said in a polite way, the CBC made it up. And they continue to lie about it to this day.
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That's a pretty devastating rebuke of the CBC. By the way, in my experience, government lawyers are
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typically left of center compared to the rest of the profession. I don't think any of them are
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particular fans of Daniel Smith. She's not in the club. She's not a lawyer. Most, not most, but a lot
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of premiers are lawyers. Doug Ford is not. Stephen Harper, the Prime Minister is not. But Brian Marooney
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was a lawyer. Jean-Claude Chen was a lawyer. Quite a lot of politicians are lawyers. It's a fit there.
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Lawyers deal with laws. I think the fact that you're not in the fraternity, I think lawyers sometimes look
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down on politicians who are not lawyers. What I'm saying is those 70, those 44 prosecutors are not
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lying to cover up for Danielle Smith. If anything, they disagree with her. But they're honest enough
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and bound by the professional ethics enough to tell the truth. Not a single prosecutor in Alberta
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received a single email from the premier or her office. And remember, the CBC lie was that prosecutors,
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plural, received it. Incredibly, the CBC itself has not seen these alleged purported, fabricated,
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made-up, imaginary emails. And you would think, after that rebuke, the CBC might have a drop of
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humility. But you would be deadly wrong because you don't understand the CBC is not a news organization.
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They are a government news organization, which is completely different. You throw an adjective in
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front of the word journalist. There's journalist. I know what that means. Government journalist.
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There's no such thing. And so I want to show you how the CBC covered this story this morning.
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This is incredible. I just showed you that this ethics complaint was founded on two allegations. One,
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the CBC claim that prosecutors were contacted by the premier's office. And second,
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a conversation with Arthur Pawlowski. Here's how the CBC covers it.
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Alberta Premier Smith breached Conflicts of Interest Act, says Ethics Commissioner,
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finding focus on Smith's contact with Minister of Justice in relation to COVID-19 related charges.
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Okay, let's read a bit here. Alberta's Ethics Commissioner says, Danielle Smith, in her
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capacity as premier, contradicted the act. Blah, blah, blah. Skip ahead. The whole scheme of things
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is a threat to democracy. Skip ahead. In January, CBC News reported that a staffer in Smith's office had
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sent a series of emails to the Alberta Crown Prosecution Service. A series of emails, plural.
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Challenging prosecutors, plural, assessment and direction on cases stemming from the Coutts
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border blockage and protests. Later that month, CBC News reported that Smith pressured Justice
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Minister Tyler Shandro. Case skimmed down a little bit, skimmed down a little bit.
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But just skimmed the whole way down. Can you see anything here, skimmed down, about the emails
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being a lie? Chandro remembered a different version. Skimmed down, skimmed down.
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Smith asked about the extent to which he could get involved. Seemed to suggest something was,
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Smith pointed out that he was the Attorney General and seemed to suggest something that was influenced
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by a letter sent by Ezra Levant, who runs the right-wing media company, Rebel News. She wrote,
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I'll talk about that later. In response, blah, blah, blah. Scroll down, scroll down. We're scrolling
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down now to see if there's any reference in this very long story to that absolutely devastating point
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about the emails to the prosecutors not happening. Scroll down, scroll down, scroll down, scroll down.
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Scroll down, scroll down. And then they link to the report about the author, Joel Dryden. So I just
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showed, we just skimmed down. We didn't read it all. I'll come back to that Ezra Levant thing in a moment.
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More than a page in this report is dedicated to the CBC accusation
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that staff in Daniel Smith's office improperly contacted prosecutors, plural, with a series,
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plural, of emails. In fact, they restated that in the CBC story, didn't they?
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CBC reported that, blah, blah, blah. But it didn't happen. More than a million emails were
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searched. None existed. You search a million emails, you're going to find a lot of things.
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You did not find this, let alone a series of emails to prosecutors, plural. And then just to
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make sure every single prosecutor in the province that was dealing with the Coutts border issue or
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COVID, every single one, 44 of them, which is an enormous waste of resources. You wonder why crime
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is soaring in Alberta. Maybe take those 44 prosecutors, put them on real crimes instead of thought crimes and
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COVID crimes. You got to be a certain kind of lawyer to enjoy prosecuting people for keeping their church
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open or the business open or not wearing a mask. You got to be a bit of an authoritarian leftist to
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think. That said, 44 out of 44 said, we don't know what the CBC is talking about. We have never
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received such an email, let alone a series of emails. 44 out of 44. So look at this, issues and discussion
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of the law. There are three questions that need to be answered. Scroll down. They are, did someone from
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the premier's office send an email about the COVID-related prosecutions to a prosecutor. Scroll
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down. I want to deal first with the allegation published by the CBC that a member of the premier
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staff emailed a crown prosecutor about a case before the courts. I asked numerous questions of a
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considerable number of people about the existence of any email and could find no evidence the event
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occurred or that any email exists. The CBC has not seen the emails and has not divulged.
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Quite rightly, it's sorts. Oh, is it quite right to protect a proven liar?
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It was public knowledge that this investigation was taking place and one might expect that the
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CBC source would have come forward on an anonymous or confidential basis. All crown prosecutors who
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have COVID-related files have stated they did not receive an email critiquing the crown's position
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and all the premier staff has stated that they did not send such an email. As a result, I found no
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evidence of such an email and I can only come to the conclusion based on the evidence I have
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that no crown prosecutor was emailed directly about any of the cases. There appears to be no
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interference with the independence of prosecutors on this level. There is no evidence that the premier
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never ever spoke to any crown prosecutor. It would appear that she unfortunately used the term
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inappropriately. I'll get to the next part in a second, but we just went through the CBC article.
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They refer to the emails. They say we reported that these emails were sent.
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They did not say they never saw them. They did not say they refused to tell them their secret
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source. Does that really, does that secret source really exist? Or is it your imaginary friend? Or is
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it your fellow journalist and you're his source and he's your source? Is it some deep state? Well, they
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talked to the deep state. 44 out of 44 prosecutors said you made it up. Judge Tressler here said they made
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it up. How, how could the CBC still run with that? How could they not even mention
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that devastating rebuke from the ethics commissioner? How do you write? There were two charges against
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Danielle Smith, a series of emails sent to prosecutors, and then a brief phone call with Arthur Pawlowski.
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Two, two charges. The first one, absolutely not a shred of evidence, completely confected by the CBC.
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How do you not mention that in your story? But I just took you through the CBC story. They don't
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mention it. Is that what a news organization does? Or is that what Trudeau's state broadcaster does?
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There's a big difference. I mentioned in this report, and I'll tell you about it. I'll read it,
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and I won't hide it. I'm proud of my mention here, and I agree with and disagree with some of the judge
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here. I'll take it through now. Yeah, let's show this. So back in October last year, I bumped into the
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premier, and I said, look, there's a way, a legal way to stay these prosecutions. That's the legal term.
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Amnesty is probably not the right word, and amnesty implies you did it, you didn't do it,
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whatever stage of it, you're just, you're, you're washed clean of your sins. Amnesty isn't the word.
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Pardon isn't the word. The legal technical term is to stay a prosecution. Now, I'm going to read you
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some of the letter I wrote, and I wrote it to Danielle. So I met with Danielle Smith, and she
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said, hey, give me your ideas on, on, on how to do it. So I'll just read some of this. You can see
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this from October. Marshall is the name of her chief of staff. Please thank the premier for taking the
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time to speak with me. It's nice to see her again in her new role. Nice to meet you. I'll send you
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another note in a couple days about blah, blah, blah. On the lockdown and pandemic prosecutions, I was
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heartened to see how well informed the premier is on these matters. She clearly understands how important
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these issues are, both politically and morally. She really is on the right side of history.
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Blah, blah, blah. The premier was interested in information that I could provide her about the
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situation on the ground and mechanisms available to her to provide leadership on these issues.
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The purpose of this note is to provide the premier with that information. So what follows is a slightly
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more technical version of what I say on my nightly show all the time. There are still an unknown number
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of tickets, charges, and contempt proceedings or related matters. I have good knowledge of some
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of the prosecutions, but other lawyers have files and, you know, some trials have commenced. There
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are real issues about why they're proceeding. As the premier says, they appear to have been
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politically motivated. Staying or withdrawing the charges would send a strong message in support of
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the rule of law. I'm only suggesting that prosecutions which have been politically motivated,
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targeting people who only sought to exercise their constitutional freedom of expression and religion
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be stayed or discontinued. So let's just go stand to, I'm not going to read all of it because it's a
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little bit legalistic. Jurisdiction. Almost all the prosecutions that I'm aware of are conducted by
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provincial prosecutors. They're under the premier's jurisdiction. The attorney general has the
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discretion on whether and how to prosecute. Here's a leading case on the matter.
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Significant of what is common with various elements of prosecutorial discretion is that they involve the
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ultimate decisions as to whether prosecution should be brought, continued, or ceased, and what the
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prosecution ought to be for. Put differently, prosecutorial discretion refers to decision regarding
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the nature and extent of the prosecution and the attorney general's participation in it.
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Decisions that do not go to the nature and extent of the prosecution need the decision to govern a
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crown prosecutor's tactics and conduct before the total court, blah, blah, blah. So you see I have
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footnote number one there. Scroll to the very bottom on this memo. I want to show you that that case is
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from the Supreme Court. It was in the case called Krieger and the Law Society of Alberta, a 2002
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case. SCC says it's a Supreme Court of Canada case. So I'm quoting the Supreme Court. I'm not making this
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stuff up. Okay, go right back up. Thanks very much. I just wanted to show my footnote there. This next
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paragraph is important. Specifically, the attorney general can decide the nature and extent of the
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prosecution and the attorney general's participation in it. And crown prosecutors employed by Alberta
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Crown Prosecution Service have prosecutorial discretion to stay with raw proceedings, blah, blah, blah. It's
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usually done in open court. Scroll down, scroll down, scroll down. The basis for staying them,
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if there's no reasonable likelihood of conviction, and it does not suit the public interest.
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There are clear legal issues with many of the cases, vague and confusing. As aptly noted by,
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you know, and I quote others, other experts, Dr. Fluker.
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Yeah, I'm not going to, this is a fairly dense legal memo.
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The premier can, should she choose to, direct the attorney general to review and withdraw or discontinue any
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cases arising from the chief medical officer of health orders under the public health act
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or any pending charges. So I don't say that the premier should tell the prosecution what to do.
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I say the premier can direct the attorney general to review and withdraw. The premier could request that
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the review be undertaken with respect to each prosecution. Obviously, the attorney general would
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take into account the premier's view that without more, proceeding these prosecutions is not in the
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public interest. I would also encourage the premier to note that beyond the lack of merit and political
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nature of these charges, the province has a shortage of prosecutors, court staff and superior court
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judges. Can you imagine putting 44 prosecutors on this beat? In consultation with my lawyers, it appears
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the most direct and efficient way to direct a state proceedings is to make a written memo, and I get into the
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technicalities. Anyways, so thanks very much. You can read the whole thing. I've tweeted that. It's on our
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website. It's a technical memo, but it's really what I say and have been saying in public for about two
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years now, which is, I don't really use the word amnesty. I use the word amnesty, lockdown amnesty,
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because it's a common parlance. People know what amnesty is. Stay of prosecution is a little more
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technical. That's actually what it is. And you can see my memo from October outlines it, and you can see
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and I mentioned it twice there, that nowhere do I recommend the premier talk to any prosecutors
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at all. I say talk to the attorney general, have him review things with an eye to, are these good
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cases? That's what I say. If you don't blame me, read the memo for yourself. But go back to Judge
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Trussler's ruling, because I think she misquotes my memo. It's not a big deal. I mean, I don't care.
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But she said, the only incident that is in any way close to what was reported
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was the email containing a letter sent by Ezra Levant, criticizing the prosecutions
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and purporting to show why they were wrong and what to do about them.
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The communication was sent to the premier's chief of staff, who forwarded to the chief of staff of
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the minister of justice, Christopher Thrasher, for response. As the latter was within the
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jurisdiction of the justice ministry, the email was appropriately forwarded from one political
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staffer to another, so the second political staff member could deal with the matter.
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Mr. Thrasher provided the email letter to the minister of justice, Tyler Shandro,
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who in turn forwarded to the deputy minister, Frank Basha. It was then sent to the assistant
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deputy minister in charge of the crown prosecution service, who did not forward it to any crown
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prosecutor. She appropriately had a discussion about it with the deputy minister, and nothing
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further than it happened with the letter. So that's it. Can you scroll back up a little bit?
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Okay, can you search my name one more time? Because it's at a later point where she refers to my memo
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So I'm fine with what she described there. But here she says, scroll back up one or two. Yeah.
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Yeah. So she says, on October 25th, Marshall Smith received the email directly from Ezra Levant,
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which surprisingly, from someone legally trained, that's me, advocated direct interference by the
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premier by having her order a stay in prosecutions. I did not say that. I just read to you what I said.
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I didn't say that at all. I said that the premier should direct the justice minister to review the
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cases, and the ones that do not meet the legal standards, the justice minister should state them.
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I never said that the premier should order a stay in the prosecutions. I defy you to find that. I think
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I'm going to write to the judge and point out that she's wrong. Not that anything turned on it. Like I say,
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this fake complaint by the CBC was thrown out by the judge. But it bothers me about this much
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that the judge didn't read my memo. It was only like five pages.
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Anyway, so that's my involvement there. And I got a rule of thumb when I talk to politicians. I talk
00:27:23.740
to politicians from time to time. Almost always they reach out to me. In this case, I had something I
00:27:30.900
wanted to share with the new premier of Alberta. But my rule of thumb is don't say anything verbally
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that you wouldn't say if there was a camera there. And don't write anything in writing that you would
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be shy for it to see the light of day. And I stand by this memo absolutely completely.
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I would like to hear the associate deputy minister, assistant deputy minister's reply to it.
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Um, why wasn't this a good idea? You know, literally citing a Supreme Court case and the
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prosecutorial discretion is obvious, famous, commonplace. I mean, Justin Trudeau only formally
00:28:16.100
legalized marijuana in the past couple of years. But de facto, it was decriminalized probably for 20
00:28:24.240
years. I don't think that there was a, I would doubt if there were 10 prosecutions for mere possession
00:28:31.460
of marijuana a year in Canada. The police literally did not prosecute possession. They would take your
00:28:37.540
marijuana joint, throw it in the gutter, stamp it out or whatever. They wouldn't charge you with it
00:28:42.160
alone. Like if you were charged with 10 crimes, they might throw that on top just as a bargaining
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chip. But police in Canada have not prosecuted marijuana possession in over a decade.
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Why? How are they allowed to do that? By exercising their political prosecutorial discretion. Prosecutors
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aren't going to waste time because someone was caught with a pot joint. Justin Trudeau campaigned on
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making that the law and he did. How's that different here? But I just wanted to tell you my own role
00:29:14.280
here unless someone says, or why don't you talk about your memo? Okay, I did. My point is
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this is not a real complaint. Both elements of the complaint, the lie about the emails and the
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author Pavlovsky video came from the CBC. The CBC is an activist organization, not representing its
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taxpayers and viewers, but representing one man, Justin Trudeau. And they know it
00:29:48.820
because if they were truly independent journalists, would they not report on the news of the day?
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The news of the day is, as I said at the outset, Danielle Smith was found in breach of these
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ethics rules by a judge who had a hasty hearing to make sure she got it out before the election
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and on the day of a debate, which is a little sketchy. That is news. And it's news about the
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author Pavlovsky video, which we'll talk about a little later. But half the entire case, and by far
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the more serious part, was the fabrication, the lie that the CBC claimed emails, a series of emails
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was sent to prosecutors. That is a damnable lie. And yet, show the CBC article again. How do you do a
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lengthy, detailed article? Lengthy? And not mention that. Like, not even in one sentence at the very end.
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That's not journalism. That's campaigning. That's Justin Trudeau's state broadcaster
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directing their government journalists to attack a political foe and to hide their own involvement in
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it. Not just their own involvement, but the fact that their own involvement was completely false.
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Every single prosecutor, every single staffer said, it did not happen.
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And the CBC will not even say they were rebuked, let alone own up to it.
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That's the deep state. That's the deep state. But I'm afraid that, I mean, before I came on the show
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half an hour ago, I read probably 50 tweets about this by different journalists in Alberta. And other
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than the independent journalists at True North and Counter Signal and Western Standard,
00:31:58.280
the media party, the CBC, the Post Media, City TV, not one of them mentioned the CBC lie.
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Why wouldn't they mention it? They don't have any skin in the game, or do they? Of course they do.
00:32:17.480
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there were two reasons for this investigation, two purported reasons of this investigation. You
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really, you know, these fake investigations with fake timing. It really feels, you know,
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in a way it feels like what they did to Donald Trump, you know, constant accusations, constant
00:38:06.420
media lying. Oh, she's misspoke this. She said that she used the word amnesty and said a stay of
00:38:13.400
prosecution. She said prosecution instead of attorney general, ha ha, we got you. And in the end, no,
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it was all a lie. The, the hoax, it was a hoax. Like the Russia hoax, this email hoax, it's a hoax.
00:38:25.780
But once the CBC has told the lie a thousand times, and finally you have a judge here saying,
00:38:32.940
no, that's a lie. They're still not even willing to correct the lie, but they've done their damage.
00:38:40.780
Rachel Notley has a friendly neighborly smile. She comes across as mild-mannered most of the time.
00:38:47.680
Which is the perfect cover for her absolutely devastating attacks on the economy and civil
00:38:55.800
liberties. Danielle Smith, every misstep or misspeak is magnified, and then they just outright
00:39:03.920
lie as the CBC does, as I've shown you. And so I fear that 11 days to the election, I think it's 11 days,
00:39:12.420
it's not about substance. It's not about ideology. It's not about who's going to destroy the province
00:39:22.140
or not. It's about chaos around Danielle Smith. And why is it chaotic around here? Well, of course,
00:39:29.220
because she sent these emails. Oh, no, she didn't. Well, the CBC says she did.
00:39:33.420
A judge said that was false. Well, the CBC still says it. The CBC are not journalists. They are
00:39:39.440
the NDP war room here. Hey, put that new poll up. I appreciate that. I see you've got a poll here.
00:39:47.880
Alberta Provincial Polling from Research Co., I guess. NDP, 49. UCP, 47.
00:39:58.320
Green Party, 1% SMA. I don't even know what that stands for without refreshing my memory.
00:40:08.320
That's within the margin of error. I'm actually more interested. I wonder if that's Janet Brown's
00:40:15.180
polling company. Is there a link to click on there? Go to the next tweet. They often link to the actual
00:40:19.480
poll in the next one. Oh, Solidarity Movement of Alberta. Yeah, I didn't know what it stood for.
00:40:23.740
That's Arthur Pawlowski's new political party. Click on 338Canada.com.
00:40:34.400
And maybe they have a link to that. We're going to take a minute to look at it.
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one I was looking at. Maybe it was an Abacus poll
00:41:57.320
egg and I think he's a fair minded guy. But the company
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Over the weekend we released a new poll that found
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Several other polls have been released or leaked
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So I wanted to verify and update the province-wide
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picture and conducted a quick survey with just under
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I mean, it would be devastating if they weren't.
00:43:20.980
I think you've got yourself a conservative win.
00:43:58.520
You can see that they're negative in every demographic,
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except for Calgary, where she's a little bit positive.
00:44:12.620
I hope she gets a chance to get her sea legs under her.
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but I don't know if she has a core team around her.
00:44:42.740
You know, I didn't deal with the Arthur Pavlovsky thing.
00:44:46.680
Rachel Notley had a phone call with Arthur Pavlovsky
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and the judge said that that was an inappropriate thing to say.
00:44:59.800
I don't know if I have strong thoughts on that,
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but I think it was destructive by Arthur Pavlovsky to do that.
00:45:14.300
I don't think it moved the lockdown amnesty movement forward
00:45:27.080
We've crowdfunded for 16 of his court hearings,
00:45:44.520
The lie about the emails was found to be a lie.
00:45:49.840
So that would be an embarrassing and unfortunate
00:45:59.380
Here's a super chat from someone named Justin Turdow.
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and less hard to verify systems for collective.
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In those particular areas where there is an evacuation,
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I think it's fair to guess that those areas would vote UCP
00:47:03.200
Or do whatever engenders the most trust and verification.
00:47:08.340
You don't want to mess around with this election.
00:47:09.960
You don't want to mess around with any elections.
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If you reward politicians by delaying the election
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but I feel like I've covered the basis on this.
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She said she would do that if she became premier.
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and she asked the justice minister to look into it.