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00:09:37.500And the other thing that I've noticed that is great and that I'm really appreciative of is the sort of evidence that the tide is beginning to turn over the past few weeks.
00:09:46.800And, I mean, people poked a bit of fun because Pierre Polyev tweeted in support after hiding in the bushes for a couple days that he supports parents and parental rights.
00:09:57.160Now he's also jumping on this criticism a little more boldly because I think he senses that the tide is turning.
00:10:05.120People are sick of playing these games and going along with it.
00:10:10.320Now Trudeau wants you to believe he didn't say what he said, which is pretty on par for Trudeau.
00:10:15.600He accused parents of this hate when they raised concerns about schooling.
00:10:19.640He divides to distract by creating villains out of Canadians, parents, hunters, truckers, and anyone else who disagrees with him.
00:10:26.720And I love there that parents, hunters, truckers, anyone else who disagrees with him.
00:10:31.560But those three groups are the principal groups who have been targeted, maligned, and vilified by this government.
00:10:37.100Parents who love their kids, hunters who, by the way, are the most responsible environmentalists and ecologists and help with healthy pet populations.
00:10:44.260Not pet, that's Bob Barker, but with healthy animal populations in the wild.
00:10:50.620And then the truckers who, when you talk to people internationally who are concerned about freedom,
00:10:54.820people don't, I think, grasp the extent to which the trucker story impacted people around the world.
00:11:01.580James Lindsay, Dr. James Lindsay, was in an event the other night.
00:11:04.300And Dr. Jay Bhattacharya the other night was in an event.
00:11:07.140Both of them sort of herald the truckers as champions of freedom the world over.
00:11:10.980And it was so incredible to see these groups, these polite Canadians, taking a stand.
00:11:14.620Good to see politicians, potentially the next leader of this country, Pierre Polievre, if polls are to believe, standing with these people for a change.
00:11:25.100Do you think that this is a signal that the tide is turning?
00:11:29.080Well, I think the tides are definitely turning.
00:11:31.560And Pierre, he's certainly doing his part to capitalize on it.
00:11:35.660I would mention, though, that, you know, Trudeau's talk of hate, you know, he said he didn't use these words of hate.
00:11:40.380Well, you can pull up his tweets where he is explicitly directing this hateful language, you know, that these LGBTQ people,
00:11:48.020the people that are concerned about this stuff in schools, he calls it hateful.
00:11:51.340He did the same thing with the vaccinated, the unvaccinated, as it were, were the fringe minority.
00:11:57.340They were hateful, racist, sexist bigots.
00:12:32.700And he doesn't even bother to say, like, oh, no, I wasn't saying like you could sort of if you were smart, which is not finagle your way saying, no, no, no.
00:12:42.320I only meant like people who do espouse those views, the parents who were at those protests.
00:12:55.120And then people believe him to see some of the and they're so fake, like it's the most forced thing you've ever seen.
00:13:01.120But the trending like I stand with Trudeau as he like invites a Nazi in and then refuses to apologize or spends a quarter million dollars on a vacation.
00:13:10.000Like, am I to believe that there's actually people out there who are tweeting like I support this.
00:13:14.520I support applauding Nazis and quarter million dollar vacations at taxpayers expenses.
00:13:19.720It's a complete disconnect from reality.
00:13:22.000This guy is absolutely embarrassing us.
00:13:25.200And he's not just embarrassing us here.
00:13:27.380It's amazing talking to people in the United States who don't know about Canadian politics.
00:13:31.220They're like, what's with this Trudeau guy?
00:13:33.320He's such a this is an international incident.
00:13:35.740Speaking of international incidents, let's jump now to this trip, this clip rather of Putin calling Justin Trudeau an idiot.
00:17:24.200And there's actually an article from Blacklock's reporter that brings up this possible secret list of Nazis that came over after World War II to Canada.
00:23:14.420They're never willing to sort of fess up, acknowledge and address the mistakes that they're causing.
00:23:18.540Well, and a huge red flag is that any time there is a problem, like, for instance, them inviting and celebrating a Nazi in parliament, what do they do?
00:23:32.060What do they do in the freedom convoy?
00:23:33.580They said Russian, you know, infiltrators or whatever are a part of this movement.
00:23:37.940They keep going back to Russia, Russia, Russia bad.
00:23:40.560And if that's constantly the go-to here for all of these different issues that have nothing to do with Russia or the conflict between them and Ukraine, well, I think that's more of a reason for us to be concerned about them influencing that situation, about them financing the opposition to Russia, because clearly Russia is the scapegoat of all evils.
00:23:57.700Well, I think we need to be extra critical whenever they do this of what they're actually saying and where their money is actually going and what the justifications are, especially when Chrystia Freeland and Justin Trudeau can't admit to themselves or to the world, which clearly sees them as they are, that they invited and celebrated a Nazi and that Chrystia Freeland is literally the offspring of Nazis who did some pretty bad things.
00:24:21.020It's a shocking reality, and it shows you the split between them and everyday Canadians.
00:24:26.060And if that wasn't bad enough, and if you wouldn't think, like, hey, the liberal government probably doesn't want to reference Nazis for a bit, let's go to this Melissa Lantzman tweet here.
00:24:38.580Just days ago, this liberal government failed to prevent a Nazi being honored in Parliament.
00:24:45.960Now their MPs are downplaying the evils of the Nazi regime with garbage like this.
00:24:50.740So this is a member of Parliament for, I believe, Surrey, B.C., a liberal member of Parliament.
00:24:57.180If Joseph Goebbels can pick up question period down there, he will be so proud of Conservatives.
00:25:03.740Spouting a lie often enough and loudly enough is a tried and true tactic.
00:25:07.840Spouting multitudes of them, the Tories have perfected this.
00:25:10.940Oh my gosh, like this is the most, one, no one lies more.
00:25:14.520I mean, maybe the NDP lies more than the liberals, but it's pretty darn close.
00:25:17.880But to tweet this after you guys invited a Nazi in is just the most idiotic and tone-deaf thing.
00:25:24.960Like, literally, and this is the wild thing, if this was a conservative politician in a similar situation, they would have to resign right now, immediately after tweeting this.
00:25:34.020Well, what is it, the former Minister of Environment and Climate Change, they changed the title to include climate change, Catherine McKenna.
00:25:44.620She said in some bar when she was getting a little tipsy, she just said, you know, you repeat it over and over and over again, and they'll believe you in the Parliament.
00:25:51.240You just say it, and it'll be true, you know.
00:25:53.560Like, this psychotic behavior is what's enveloped itself, or has been enveloped in the Liberal Party.
00:25:59.900It's absolutely atrocious behavior, and we're seeing it time and time again.
00:26:02.700And usually what they'll do is they'll, you know, project exactly what they're doing, and I think that's very much so what this person has done.
00:26:10.860And the Liberals, it's their tried-and-true method is to say things, even though they don't care whether or not they're true.
00:26:16.980You know, I do want to jump to one more video before we jump to an ad break, and this ties into our next segment.
00:26:25.080But it's the video of Liberal MP Ken McDonald who broke with the party on the carbon tax vote.
00:26:31.320And it's, he's representing his constituents, saying they can't afford groceries, they can't afford to heat their homes.
00:26:37.300So finally, we've seen a few instances where Liberals, rare, but occasional instances where Liberals have broken with the party.
00:26:48.540The Liberal Party, they whip their MPs good.
00:26:51.520So let's listen to his message, and kudos to him for taking a stand on behalf of his constituents.
00:26:58.400Everywhere I go, people come up to me and say, you know, we're losing faith in the Liberal Party.
00:27:04.280They appreciate the fact that I've stood up now twice to do away with a carbon tax or to ask for it to be delayed.
00:27:13.580I said to someone earlier today, I said I stand with Premier Fiori in trying to get not this done away with as such, but get it delayed till we get past this affordability issue.
00:27:26.040I've had people tell me they can't afford to buy groceries, they can't afford to heat their homes, and that's hard to hear from especially seniors who live alone and tell me that they go around their house in the spring and winter time with a blanket wrapped around them because they can't afford their home heating fuel, and they can't afford to buy beef or chicken.
00:27:47.300I mean, that's heart-wrenching when you hear somebody say that to you, and my purpose and the way I voted was to make sure that their voices are heard.
00:27:54.660Stephen Gilbeau, obviously, is the point person for your government on this.
00:27:58.360I talked to a lot of people who are politically active in Atlantic Canada, and they say he is a problem in the region, that he's too dogmatic on this and a flashpoint, and he doesn't get the issues of the region.
00:28:08.900Is he the right messenger for that part of the country on this?
00:28:12.520No, he's not, and because he's so entrenched in us, and I get it.
00:28:19.480I mean, where he came from, and his whole idea of making a big difference in climate change, but you can't do it all overnight.
00:28:29.840You can't make it more expensive on people than what they can handle, and that's exactly what's happening right now.
00:28:38.480The government has to put a lens on it, a rural lens, for the sake of a better word, and try and come up with a plan that's satisfactory and appealable to people who live in rural.
00:28:50.840Now, maybe no plan will be appealable to rural.
00:28:53.260I don't know, but I think the government has to try, and if they do that, I think they've got a chance of moving past it and go on and whatever the polls will be, the polls will be.
00:29:03.800So, that one, I absolutely love the accent.
00:29:09.340It's the best, and I love, he says in such plain terms, in such a charming accent, what almost all Canadians are thinking, and it is so refreshing.
00:29:21.460We joked off the top about half a turkey, but that is the very valid concern.
00:29:27.320It's people are like, people are actually having to make those considerations.
00:29:30.460Like, we're going to cut back on desserts this year, we're just going to do a turkey breast, we can't do a whole turkey.
00:29:35.600That is the outcome of this government, is everybody across this country suffering.
00:29:40.180So, I, for one, it is a harbinger of the end, for sure.
00:29:44.880Not just that conservative politicians actually sound conservative and are being supported,
00:29:49.200but that even the liberal politicians are starting to sound somewhat conservative and rejecting this Trudeau government and what they are doing to this country.
00:30:03.120The liberal party is cracking in many ways.
00:30:06.360And, you know, you think about it, $9 billion, almost $10 billion that we've sent to Ukraine, right?
00:30:12.780And every single Canadian is going to be paying more for turkey this Thanksgiving.
00:30:16.900And how many of them are going to choose not to buy turkey because they can't afford it now?
00:30:20.700And yet, we're off spending billions of dollars internationally.
00:30:24.300And you look at all the crises that are building here, it's irreparable damage.
00:30:28.260I mean, how many of these people, especially the elderly, they're going into the final years of their life and Justin Trudeau is destroying them.
00:30:36.340This is absolutely atrocious behavior.
00:30:38.640And, you know, no wonder the liberal party is crumbling here.
00:31:01.140So on that note, we're going to jump into a quick commercial break.
00:31:04.300Then we're going to come back, get through a lot more stories today.
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00:35:00.540Let's jump to, speaking of Don't Ottawa My Alberta, this video clip with Premier Danielle Smith laying out three circumstances that would cause her to use Alberta's Sovereignty Act to push back against Ottawa's energy plans.
00:35:15.360You know, I do want to ask one more thing here in regards to the regulations because you've already raised the specter of using Alberta's Sovereignty Act to oppose it.
00:35:37.180If they proceed with the 2035 net zero power grid that will criminalize the building of natural gas units, we won't use it.
00:35:44.420If they bring through an aggressive emissions cap on our natural gas and oil sector, they've been talking about 42% reduction by 2030, which would essentially be a production cap, we'll use it.
00:35:55.260And if they bring through an over-aggressive emissions target on methane, we've already reduced methane 45%.
00:36:09.480As I said, we are aligned around 2050.
00:36:11.460I know and have confidence in my business sector that as they start seeing new incremental improvements in technology, as we start having the time frame to be able to develop some of those new technologies, we can get there by 2050.
00:36:24.080But I have to be realistic and I have to be practical and I have to be truthful.
00:36:29.240And the truth is 2035 is not achievable.
00:36:31.980And the federal government needs to know it.
00:36:33.520You know what really resonates with me there is when you look at the media, McLean's I think recently had Daniel Smith on the cover of their magazine and called her a folksy kook or something, sort of dishonorable, something along those lines anyways.
00:37:13.380But I certainly will take 2050 over 2035 because there's no plans for 2035 by this federal government.
00:37:20.940This federal government doesn't plant the trees they promised, doesn't clean up the sewers they promised, doesn't provide clean water to First Nations like they promised, and doesn't do anything to help the environment other than take tax dollars away from people.
00:37:32.360This provincial government actually has a plan to do something on this on a reasonable timeline that won't see rolling blackouts.
00:37:39.760I, for one, frankly, if they didn't talk about this anymore and just said no one moved on with their lives and didn't reference 2050, I'd be fine with that.
00:37:46.860But I'm happy to see a calculated, planned out, rational response where these are our lines.
00:37:55.120Now, it'll be interesting to see if those lines are crossed, how quickly this happens and how quickly Alberta asserts its autonomy.
00:38:02.160But this is certainly, I mean, this is week after week now, but it's refreshing to see that not only are they saying we're going to push back,
00:38:07.960but now they're pointing out these are the points that we have.
00:38:11.280And that wasn't a planned press release.
00:38:18.200No, I think it's certainly a good thing to have the premier of Alberta with sovereignty in mind because you want to use your you want to have power against the federal government.
00:38:27.120And that's exactly what she's focused on.
00:38:28.820She is focused on holding the federal government to account and allowing industry to grow and develop.
00:38:33.960And we've talked about this previously, as you mentioned, and Smith is very much so in alignment with the industry.
00:38:39.440You know, you and I may personally have our qualms about the environmental, you know, case for 2050.
00:38:44.500But regardless, she is, you know, helping the industry do what the industry is trying to do while maintaining while doing it in a realm of feasibility.
00:38:52.840Whereas Justin Trudeau and, you know, his gang over at the World Economic Forum, they've decided and the United Nations, let's not forget, they've decided 2035 is, you know, the main go to target or that was the target.
00:39:05.160Now, there's obviously debate amongst which year it'll happen, but they're all going for that same path.
00:39:10.260And Justin Trudeau is sticking to the hardest.
00:39:31.820And it's like this environmental Marxism, it is a religion and it seems to be the only, I mean, I know Trudeau professes at least to formally have been Catholic.
00:39:40.220I don't know what he professes to be now, but he's an environmental Marxist.
00:39:43.720That's his religion and he's unwilling to compromise or bend the knee and 2035 is the dogma that has been set forth.
00:39:51.360Let's jump to this next clip now, though.
00:39:52.880And I want to talk about the use of this word denialism because that's also a word that's been used and abused and disused.
00:39:59.820But let's watch this other clip from Premier Daniel Smith from the interview.
00:40:03.460But, you know, there was a reception this week in Ottawa that the prime minister attended.
00:40:10.440It was with a group of Alberta business leaders who did come to the nation's capital.
00:40:15.200And the prime minister, he did not name names, but he did say that there are politicians who would rather deny facts of climate change than take action.
00:40:22.600And by denying facts, he argues, are denying certainty for investors, opportunities for workers and denying kids a future they deserve.
00:40:31.280What's your reaction to that pushback from the prime minister?
00:40:34.600Again, not naming names, but politicians in general who don't agree.
00:40:37.780I'm not sure who he's talking about because he's not talking about me.
00:40:41.260I have said that we need to reduce emissions and get to carbon neutrality by 2050.
00:40:45.280I wish that the media would also report exactly what those business leaders told him time and time again in every meeting that 2035 was not achievable in Alberta would result in a lack of investment, lack of stability.
00:40:56.680And they're aligned with our target of 2050, something that they can even get there by 2045.
00:41:01.360And so I would say that the business community in Alberta, our Alberta electric system operator and us are aligned on the same target, which is 2050 emissions neutrality, even saw in Ontario, their electric system operator also expressed concern about the lack of stability and reliability of trying to attain a target too early.
00:41:25.220We need to achieve the target that also ensures reliability and affordability.
00:41:29.360That's what a power grid is for, is so that when people turn the lights on, it comes on.
00:41:32.800When people need their furnace turned on, it comes on.
00:41:35.440And it's our obligation as a province, which has the exclusive jurisdiction, that's what it says in the Constitution, exclusive jurisdiction to manage our power grid, to be very forceful in ensuring that we're protecting our consumers.
00:41:50.000So this whole ask, like, the environment is a scientific question.
00:41:54.060It's not a dogmatic question or a philosophical question about rights.
00:41:59.460And it's troubling everyone from Pope Francis's recent encyclical, which is problematic in its own as a Catholic, not too happy about it.
00:42:06.780But to this federal government, they use the term about, like, very valid questions and looking at scientific evidence and asking questions.
00:42:17.180By the way, that is the scientific process.
00:42:19.240They refer to asking questions or being doubtful as denialism.
00:42:23.560Denialism is a term we use about the Holocaust or, like, I don't know, maybe sweatshops or slavery or horrific instances like that.
00:42:33.020I don't think it's a term that we should be using so flippantly about something that is a scientific question that is, despite what they would tell you, up for debate, there is no consensus on this.
00:42:44.760The same way there was no consensus on COVID and they tried to manufacture one, despite the fact that it wasn't true.
00:42:50.220But what do you make of this sort of sentiment that anyone who doesn't agree to the absurd metrics, which have nothing to do with the environment and have to do with collecting taxes, is a denialist?
00:43:02.600I think it's just a little bit, I don't know.
00:43:05.640It reminds me of James Lindsay and the discussions that were had in the previous interview you did with him, where he's talking about this mentality that they have, a lot of these lefties.
00:43:15.200And if there's one truth that comes to light or one truth that is brought forward, it invites other truths to be revealed.
00:43:23.280And this is the dilemma, because once you allow for questioning, you allow for the whole house of cards to fall.
00:43:29.180It's only a matter of time at that point.
00:43:31.140That's why they got to nip it in the butt.
00:43:32.360But if you're even questioning these things, or if you say that something can't be done, like a 2035 agenda, you must be out to lunch, right?
00:43:40.300Because there's no other option aside from my option.
00:43:47.620And this is the thing, though, is the people who just invited a Nazi in are using the denialist language intentionally to brand someone as a villain.
00:43:59.120Like they're using someone who has questions, they're using this term denialist intentionally.
00:44:23.800Because lots of these things Quebec has already done for themselves.
00:44:27.900And it's fine because they're kind of sometimes liberal voters.
00:44:32.020They've done everything that's being discussed, whether it be the pension plan, whether it be a provincial police force, whether it be all these kooky, crazy things that Daniel Smith is doing.
00:44:41.160The Quebec government has already done it.
00:45:38.700It's like in Calgary, there's probably 10 people calling these venues over and over and over and harassing them to the point they're canceling events like the Dr. James Lindsay event, which regardless managed to go off without a hitch.
00:45:49.020But I want to jump now to this tweet from this Toronto jazz radio station.
00:45:53.120Now, I want to remind you that this ad, the Tell the Fed campaign from the provincial government, is effectively about concerns over rolling blackouts in winter, which in Canada is problematic.
00:46:06.120Like a hot part of California, rolling blackouts, not great, but not necessarily the end of the world.
00:46:10.720This is a campaign about how we need grid stability.
00:46:14.240There is nothing contentious about this whatsoever.
00:46:36.220This is not an organization that has been connected with problematic elements or terrorism or threats of violence abroad.
00:46:44.760This isn't the founder of an organization advertising has been charged with something.
00:46:48.660This is the government of Alberta saying,
00:46:50.380Listen, if we do this, we're probably going to have rolling brownouts, potentially even blackouts, during winter, and that is dangerous for our people.
00:46:56.460And it's now safe to cancel over a couple of call-ins from the woke mob.
00:47:02.800This one really, this isn't an event by a private organization with a certain ideology that might not align with the radio station.
00:47:12.420We can't do this right now because people are going to freeze in winter.
00:47:14.840Yeah, well, you know, I think the canceling here is a bit silly, and not to say that I disagree with Premier Smith and the advertising being presented here.
00:47:23.940However, it does make me think, you know, to what extent should the government be allowed to put out messaging to the public like this?
00:47:29.860That's, I guess, at the end of the day, my question to come out of this.
00:47:33.480Even though I think, you know, it's a bit ridiculous that this jazz station would cancel it.
00:47:38.160I mean, you think about all the other messaging that we've seen, especially over the years with COVID.
00:47:42.420I mean, there's some pretty egregious messaging that the government's put out there that still gets aired on a lot of these platforms.
00:47:48.460And what, they're going to go after somebody concerned about rolling blackouts?
00:47:51.560It's a bit ridiculous, you know, to say the least.
00:48:50.740The reason they're attacking it and the reason they're suddenly saying the government shouldn't be advertising is because they do it all the time.
00:48:56.600And now the Alberta government is doing it better than them.
00:48:59.900Like, I do think it's weird that the government's spending a bunch of money advertising and promoting this.
00:49:04.140I happen to agree with the message, so I'm not all that upset.
00:49:07.380But I like that you pointed that out because that is a very fair criticism.
00:49:12.080But we're going to change notes a little bit now here.
00:49:15.940And we're going to view the Premier Smith comment on the Calgary Catholic School District's new policy requiring staff to call students by pronouns and names their parents prefer.
00:49:29.000Calgary Catholic School District has a policy on the books this fall for the first time that requires school staff to call students by the names and the pronouns that their parents prefer, even when a student disagrees.
00:49:40.100So the Premier, this is for the Premier, you've described yourself as an LGBTQ ally.
00:49:45.880Wondering if you agree with this policy and if the Mayor would like to weigh in on whether she agrees, that would be great.
00:49:52.760Well, I always approach these issues by looking at it through the perspective of the child.
00:49:58.460And we've been having discussions in our caucus and discussions across watching what's happening across the country.
00:50:06.040And I would say from the perspective of the health of the child, it's important that all the adults in their life support them.
00:50:13.280And we would love to get to a point where everybody is included in a decision that a child makes.
00:50:19.380We are watching with interest to see how that unfolds.
00:50:23.500We don't have policy established on it yet, but we are having having those discussions.
00:50:28.480These are really very complicated family matters, very personal decisions.
00:50:33.420And it's been my hope from the beginning that we wouldn't politicize this.
00:50:38.440I think that we have to always be mindful as we have these conversations that there are young people who are really struggling with gender identity.
00:50:46.640They're struggling with puberty, struggling with how they fit in.
00:50:51.300And I think we should, it's incumbent upon us as adults to make sure that we keep a safe, supportive environment for kids.
00:50:58.000So that's what we've been trying to do, trying to be very cautious that we maintain that kind of environment here.
00:51:03.560And we're watching it with great interest.
00:51:05.100So this has been, for me, the one spot where I was worried a little bit about Danielle Smith, as far as she is, I think she inherently is progressive on these issues, a little bit, at least.
00:51:23.100But I think she's the reasonable sort of progressive there, and you heard it there, that what is in the best interest of the children is for all the adults in their life, nominally their parents, to be sort of involved and notified.
00:51:35.760I don't like, however, that there wasn't sort of an, and she was being very political there.
00:51:40.340Jyoti Gondek, who we're going to hear from, was also at this conference.
00:51:42.920I'm not crazy about the fact that she was being so political as to not say parents are the primary caregivers or the primary educators or parents need to be included.
00:51:51.800She kind of said that, but not quite where I'd want it to be, though.
00:51:56.040But she also didn't cave completely and say, oh, no, everyone should do whatever they want, blah, blah, blah.
00:53:09.240So I would just like to say to all the adults in the room, let your kids be themselves, their complete selves.
00:53:16.640And to the policymakers, make sure you're thinking about the people that you're making these policies for.
00:53:21.620And you're looking out for the mental health and well-being of children while you're doing it.
00:53:25.260So the disconnect there would be if your kid was out with an adult who was talking to them about sex and changing their gender and you didn't care, that would be called negligent parenting.
00:53:43.220I get what she's saying as far as we've become a little helicopter parent-y and people used to be able to do things a bit more.
00:53:52.820You're not going to be able to control every aspect of your child's life.
00:53:57.420But that is absolute BS, excuse my French, as far as what the concerns are about here.
00:54:02.820The concerns here are about teachers with radical agendas pushing them on kids and confusing kids.
00:54:08.220And that's not the type of innocuous thing that you just let slide.
00:54:13.320So I do appreciate, too, as you mentioned, and I'd like to hear you comment on this.
00:54:17.120You talked about the juxtaposition between the two and how differing they were.
00:54:22.040But Daniel Smith is putting a bit of a spin on it, but she seems to be siding towards parents need to be informed and you can't exclude them and she's not willing to condemn it.
00:54:30.940Jyoti is trying to be political, too, but you can tell the way she leans on this issue.
00:54:34.660What do you make of the contrast there, though, Sid?
00:54:36.380Well, exactly. You can tell exactly how she leans.
00:54:39.640And this did come right after Premier Smith gave her two cents.
00:54:44.480And this is Gondek suggesting that children should be able to have conversations that the parents don't know about.
00:54:49.960Children should be out of the house for an entire day without parents knowing where they are.
00:54:54.140This is the exact same kind of thing that is the problem here.
00:54:57.860She's suggesting that in schools, these private conversations parents or children, pardon me, are having with either educators or other people that are hired to work at the schools.
00:55:08.640These conversations are leading to child mutilation.
00:55:11.580And these are the kind of conversations that Gondek is saying you shouldn't need to disclose to the parents of those children.
00:55:16.600So, you know, that's the brass tacks here.
00:55:18.800She's still going down those lines that we're seeing lead to very horrible things happening to children here in Canada.
00:55:24.780And the, like, I'm a human and I care about humans, like, as she's looking at Smith, implying she doesn't.
00:55:31.680Like, it's just the disconnect is absolutely wild.
00:55:34.700And ultimately, and this is getting to be cliche, but I'm going to have to say it to you one more time.
00:55:40.820Parents care more about their kids than the government does.
00:55:43.860And if they don't or if they're abusive to their kids, there are already laws in place to address that.
00:55:50.040Now, if the NDP government were to come out and say, listen, there are cases of abuse, there are individuals who are bigoted against certain communities, let's implement training or safeguards to ensure that no child is ever abused.
00:56:07.020The concern, no one would be upset about that at all.
00:56:09.860What people are concerned about is pornography being presented in schools, drag queen story hours, twerking in schools, kids thinking they're cats and kitty litter boxes, allegedly, which could be an urban legend, but I've heard numerous accounts of such things being verified.
00:56:26.380That is what parents are concerned about, their kids being confused.
00:56:28.980I remember I used to work for the Justice Center for Constitutional Freedoms, and one of the stories that we worked on, a child came home, a girl, and she couldn't, she was so confused by what she had been taught in school, and she was asking her mommy if the table was real, and the mom didn't understand what the girl meant.
00:56:49.260And she said, well, like, I think I'm real, but the teacher said girls aren't real, and it's just a construct, so like, this little girl didn't understand what was happening, and she thought maybe she wasn't real, because girls, like, this is not age-appropriate, that is the type of stuff that people are concerned about.
00:57:08.700Now, we're running up against it, we've got a couple more stories from the headline that we want to get through.
00:57:12.880I do want to jump to this tweet, and this is part of it.
00:57:15.840This ideology, the disrespect of parents, the economic irresponsibility, the unlivability, the madness of the world has people fed up.
00:57:23.700Going back to people being upset with Justin Trudeau from the start, let's pull up Efron's tweet here about this confrontation that he's sharing with Trudeau and someone who confronted him in Toronto.
00:57:35.480Frankly, I do want to say this is the closest thing that Trudeau's ever done to answering tough questions from journalists, I think.
01:12:58.600So, yeah, you hit something on the head there that I think that that folks struggle with.
01:13:01.940Even people who are in support of the you know what they had to acknowledge, well, not
01:13:07.920necessarily overtly stating that it affected fertility, but that said thing we won't mention
01:13:12.520on YouTube did affect menstrual cycles, which which to those who understand science, despite
01:13:18.860doctors saying that that's not part of fertility.
01:13:21.180Sorry to break it to you, but the menstrual cycle is part of the reproductive cycle.
01:13:25.520Sorry to break that to you doctors out there who don't understand that.
01:13:28.020But I would suggest that more than a medical concern, what we have is an ideological contagion
01:13:33.100because in progressive socialist left leaning countries, the sort of replacement rate, people are having one
01:13:39.640kid or one point four or they're not having two or more than that, which was typical.
01:13:45.100And the economic growth that resulted from population growth used to be internal.
01:13:50.060Now, it doesn't matter if you're in northern Europe or you're Canada, United States, as progressive and left leaning ideas spread through other parts of the world.
01:13:57.460The notion of a nuclear family and the notion of having several kids that goes away as people pursue more meaningful things like money and vacations.
01:14:05.960I'm joking, of course, but I think that the ideological issue there is problematic where there's some some humor, though, or some irony, at least on behalf of these
01:14:16.020these governments that are very happy to control population is that they're bringing in massive numbers of like the same people who are espousing Bill Gates, World Economic Forum talking about reducing population are bringing in record numbers of immigrants into areas that aren't polluting and are doing pretty well.
01:14:33.240So there's the countries that have bought into their narrative are doing what they want and population would reduce gradually.
01:14:41.840But then the same same politicians are bringing in record numbers of people, completely undermining their message.
01:14:47.460It's another in the holes in progressive thinking where their ends and their their ends and their means just contradict each other at every turn.
01:14:56.100I know Jesus said, don't let your one hand know what the other hand is doing.
01:14:59.060But these people took that extremely literally and are fighting themselves.
01:15:03.040They're in a tug of war with themselves in seemingly perpetual fashion, like the Oribus self-consuming that that is progressivism in a nutshell.
01:15:11.840But yeah, taxes, theft and happy Thanksgiving to everyone.
01:15:15.880I want to thank, you know, Thanksgiving coming up.
01:15:18.440I want to be thankful for the incredible team we have at Rebel News.
01:15:22.580Sid, you're doing an incredible job on stream and many of you, the videos that I put out, Sid and lots of our other folks are the people who edit them.
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01:15:57.860So most of all, I am thankful for Rebel News viewers.
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