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On today's show, Sheila Gunn-Reed and her co-host Adam Sos talk about the upcoming United Conservative Party Leadership Debate and debate, which will take place on Thursday, August 25th at the Edmonton Convention Centre.
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On Thursday, August 25th, the Alberta Prosperity Project and Rebel News are hosting a special
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UCP leadership dinner and forum at the Edmonton Convention Centre.
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We're asking the UCP leadership candidates tough but fair questions, like how will they
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protect our rights and freedoms from the United Nations Agenda 2030 and World Economic Forum's
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Great Reset? How will they fight the climate change initiative? And how will they counter
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inflation? You won't want to miss this event. Get your ticket today at www.albertaprosperityproject.com.
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Oh, good morning, good afternoon, everybody, and welcome to the Revenue's daily live stream. I'm
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your host, Sheila Gunn-Reed, on Mondays, and my co-host is my friend Adam Sos in Calgary. And bear
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with me, everybody, if I'm a little bit rusty. I did not host at all last week, which is
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strange because usually I host sometimes up to three or four days a week. So pardon me
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if I don't know what's going on. Adam, how's it going?
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Oh, like I said, a little rusty. Now on Mondays, it's normally a pretty Alberta-centric show
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with me being east of Edmonton in an undisclosed location and Adam in the office in Calgary.
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And on Mondays, or some Mondays, our show is sponsored by the folks at the Alberta Prosperity
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Project or the APP. Guys, do we have a commercial to roll to from them? I know it's early, but
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Okay, no, no, no, that's okay. They're having a little bit of technical difficulty in the
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office. So not only did I put them on the spot, but they're having a moment with the
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TriCaster. But while they're sorting that out, I'll just tell everybody what we're doing
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comment, story idea live on air. I think that's everything now. Do we have the APP commercial?
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On Thursday, August 25th, the Alberta Prosperity Project and Rebel News are hosting a special UCP
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leadership dinner and forum at the Edmonton Convention Center. We're asking the UCP leadership
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candidates tough but fair questions like how will they protect our rights and freedoms from the
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United Nations Agenda 2030 and World Economic Forum's Great Reset? How will they fight the climate
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change initiative? And how will they counter inflation? You won't want to miss this event. Get your ticket
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today at www.albertaprosperityproject.com for your tickets for the... I guess it's a debate. They
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call it a forum, but really it's going to be a debate on the 25th in Edmonton. And from what I
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understand, there's a very fancy dinner and I'll be there and Ezra will be there and hopefully Adam
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will be there and a great chance to put some tough questions to the UCP leadership candidates instead
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of... Yeah, although I will say some of the questions at the other debates have been pretty
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darn good, but these will be, I think, more rebel-centric questions, I think.
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Yeah, definitely. It is interesting. Like, I have noted often it's the scrums at these other debates and
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it's great that there has been extensive opportunities because I think at every one of
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the UCP debates, I've managed to get two to three questions into every single leadership hopeful. So
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unlike some sort of past things, and we have seen the odd candidate dipping out on the, especially
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more federally, but dipping out on the scrums, but provincially there seems to be more of a
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sort of willingness to just stand there, answer questions, extensive availability. Hopefully there'll
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be a bit of that here, but definitely looking forward to it. It's going to be a great event
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and great to sort of, rather than having some of those concerns about the UN World Economic Forum
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government overreach freedom be a small portion or an emphasis in the scrums, it's good that it'll
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be the core emphasis right in the middle of that debate there. You know, the APP is so great. I was
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just out and we'll have a report coming soon at Bibles and Bulls in Mirror, Alberta at the
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Whistle Stop. APP, a sponsor there. They had a shoot or two sponsored as well. It's incredible how
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just ingrained in the community they've become, how quickly they've been sort of adopted by the
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community as a very sort of organic grassroots movement. So really great, grateful to have them
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as a sponsor and looking forward to this event. It's sure to be a good one. Yeah, I think it's going
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to be, I think at the, on the 25th, very Alberta first. What are you going to do to protect us from
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Ottawa? What are you going to do to protect us from the United Nations? What are you going to do to
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protect us from these nitrogen targets? You know, you hear a lot of, oh, strongly worded letters
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about things that the premier doesn't like in Alberta, but these are going to be questions about,
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okay, fine, you sent your strongly worded letter. What's the or else now that those are going to be
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the questions that will be put to these candidates. So we want to see some meat put on the bones of their
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policy ideas. Yeah, for sure. And I think, you know, I really think other journalists, like sort
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of mainstream journalists, have really sort of missed the crux of the opportunity here. These
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candidates are available, I've done or have sort of scheduled these 30 minute walking interviews with
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each of these candidates. And there's almost nothing else like that. And then like lots of other
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independent outlets are asking really strong questions during the scrums or whatever. But I
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hope that this will be a real, as you said, sort of meat on the bones opportunity to ask those tough
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questions. Because aside from the sort of scrum or those long form interviews I'm doing with these
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people, they're just kind of not being forced to engage with those ideas. I mean, they might do it on
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a town hall on a small level. But on a broader perspective, it's good that there's eyes being
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brought to that. Yeah, there's my as Brian Jean said, and Adam, so trademark walk and talk. But
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it's great to just have these politicians being willing to meet up and have these long conversations.
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I want to give a big shout out to Mocha right now. I mean, this guy walks backwards. For people who
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don't know, Mocha walks backwards for half an hour navigating like forests and towns and pedestrians
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and monitoring audio. He does it all. That's not a camera crew. That's one guy. So big shout out to
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Mocha Pazirian dudes. We joke he uses a force to navigate this. But Jill, I did want to ask you,
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it's a question that I often get from people. We can talk about all the candidates or we can talk
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about the front runners, whatever you prefer. But is there someone that you feel is sort of
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garnering momentum likely to win? Do you think there's I mean, we can probably agree to who that
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might be. But do you think there might be an implosion? What do you think about the other sort of
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candidates, their odds at catching up? What's your position on the race right now?
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You know, as I always say, no one will ever know whom I support, because I dislike all politicians
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equally. But I'm egalitarian that way. But I think Daniel Smith is clearly the front runner at this
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point, which I think speaks to the quality of Albertans, that they are able to set aside what
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she did in 2014, 2015, and give her another chance. And, you know, for people who don't know the
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history, she crossed the floor to the progressive conservatives and tried to take the party with
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her and the grassroots said, What are you doing? We exist because we don't like the old cronyist
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progressive conservatives. We're the real conservative party. And we are not going to join
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that party until you give us a chance. And so Jason Kenney did that appropriately, a few years later.
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But she has been on, I guess, a seven year long apology tour about that. She's the first person to say
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that I did it wrong. I didn't do it the right way. I would never do it that way again. And she bears
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a lot of responsibility in ushering in four years of NDP government. All that is to say, though,
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she's out there saying she's sorry, she got it wrong. And she's willing to say sorry to people that
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she didn't harm, but the Alberta government did. During the lockdown, she said that she would go on
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an apology tour. And so I think that actually says more about Albertans than it does about Daniel
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Smith, that they're willing to say, Okay, you know what, we are Albertans. This is a land of second
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chances. This is a land of redemption. And we're willing to offer it to you. If you don't screw us
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over. I think Taves, Travis Taves, he's just too much Jason Kenney 2.0. And while he is out there
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saying that he believes in freedom, he was on the cabinet that locked everybody down. He was on the
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COVID cabinet. So while he's saying, Oh, thank goodness that the court has overturned these contempt
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rulings against Pastor Art Poloski, you're the guy who brought in the restrictions on churches that
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ultimately ended up in his incarceration and his multiple arrests, these high profile El Chapo style
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takedowns on tarmacs and street corners. So I'm sorry, but where were you? Where were you? Except in
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the cabinet, but also in Sky Palace, by the way. Morally and ethically, I think Todd Lowen is right on point.
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Um, I, there's not much that I would disagree with him on a policy issue. He stood up to Jason
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Kenney when he saw that people were being, um, or were having their civil liberties infringed on,
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and he paid the ultimate price for it in that he lost his, uh, role in the party. He was kicked
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right out. He sat as an independent, but he's wildly popular in his riding for that. Um, you know,
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much like, uh, Ella Drew Barnes, much like Roman Babber, same thing. These guys who are,
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were conscientious objectors and they didn't care if it cost them their career. Uh, I'm a Todd Lowen fan
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for sure, uh, morally and, and, uh, personally. Um, I think. If you don't mind sort of on that note,
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just because there's something. Yeah. Go ahead. Go ahead. Go ahead. No, I was gonna say it speaks to your
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point entirely and it doesn't relate to Brian Jean. So I think, and it just echoes back to it.
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Um, at the last Western standard sort of debate, it was incredibly interesting to see, um, Todd Lowen
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who said, Oh, well, I didn't want to leave the system. So I was fighting from the inside. You
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just, there's no evidence of it, but now that it's a popular sentiment and that may very well be true.
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He may have been pushing back against restrictions from the inside, but we never heard or saw any
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evidence of it until it became a popular sentiment. I severely doubt it. I severely doubt he did
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because you know what happened to those who did toss out on their ass. Exactly. So I really doubt
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that he did. But what's interesting is, uh, Todd Lowen pushed Danielle Smith on her floor crossing
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at the Western standard debate. And she said, I've apologized for that. I've been apologizing for
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that since it happened. When are you going to apologize for arresting pastors and the entire
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place? Like when, Ooh, then he said that Travis. Yeah. And then Travis Taves starts talking again
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and brings it back to her. And this is just to echo your point from earlier, brings it back to her
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floor crossing and the entire place was booing him saying like, like we're, we're not focused on
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the sins of the past. What do you stand for today? Um, cause there's a lot of finger pointing that could
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go along and don't get me wrong. The floor crossing of Daniel Smith is a massive and devastating blow
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in, in Albertan politics, but conversely it's, and I don't know if this will stand. I don't know if
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everything will fall apart. Perhaps it will, perhaps we'll make another mistake, but it seems as
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though she's learned from that and she's embraced and met the grassroots. And she's having these
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events where four or 500 people are showing up. Apparently other people I've been to events where
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six people show up for Travis Taves, for example. Um, so yeah, I just, I thought that was so
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interesting. It's, it just echoed everything you were saying perfectly. So, but yeah, carry on with
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Brian Jean. And lastly, Brian Jean, lastly, but definitely not least, um, Brian Jean, there are a
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lot of people who have Jason Kenney Byers remorse who wish they could have cast their vote for Brian
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Jean to be the leader of the United party, because both men decided now is the time we will unite
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the party. But unlike Daniel Smith, we're going to give the grassroots a choice in what happens
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here. So if they unite, vote to unite the party, then we will, as leaders of the two respective
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parties, Brian Jean as Wild Rose and Jason Kenney as the PCs vote to like bring the parties together
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and then have a leadership runoff for who would be in charge. Um, he lost and then he sort of went
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away to, uh, tend to his family, which no one can fault him for. Um, but there are a lot of people
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with Jason Kenney Byers remorse that they regret casting that vote for Jason Kenney to lead the party.
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And I think Brian Jean may capitalize on some of that. Um, he's got a willingness to sit and talk
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or walk and talk with independent media. And, uh, he was an anti, well, I'm not sure if he is anti
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lockdown, but Brian Jean also said there are a lot of things that we could have done differently during
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this pandemic that Jason Kenney just was not willing to hear those other voices. And, um, he, you know,
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he, he wrote several op-eds about it. So there there's that too. And, you know, I don't know, uh, UCP
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voters, they have, um, at least three very good, um, candidates to choose from. And then Travis Taves.
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Yeah. And that's just because of his role in locking down people.
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Exactly. And it's really interesting. Like, I mean, really quickly, I'll touch on the other
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people. There is Rebecca Schultz, um, something of a, of a insider as well, to an extent, I think
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she might've pushed back a little bit, um, but she hasn't gained a ton of traction. Interesting.
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She has Rona Ambrose on her team as well, which is a pretty significant endorsement and a team
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support. I'm surprised she isn't a little bit closer to Taves because they're both sort of,
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I don't know. She's not quite as much of an insider, but she is sort of an inside track
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MLA. I think, I was going to say, I think when she drops out, she'll throw her support
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behind. Yeah. She'll endorse Taves. Um, Brad Wall has endorsed her and you know, everybody
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loves Brad Wall. Um, he's endorsed her. So she's sort of, um, the outside of Taves, the second
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establishment candidate that comes with less baggage than Taves. For sure. And then some
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other interesting candidates, uh, Raja Ansani originally had some promise. And I know some
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people, including some people who were early resistors thought she might be able to like
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emphasize some of those values while still winning, um, some of these crucial city ridings.
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Um, I was originally scheduled to sort of meet with her and do one of these chats and then
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they changed their minds suddenly. Um, but yeah, they, I know like, uh, MLA Angela Pitt
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left her campaign as well. Um, so there's, that's clearly there's gone, they've gone, there's,
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there's some sort of shift there, but she's, she's virtually became a non-factor. She tried
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to attack Daniel Smith very aggressively in the last debate. And I don't, I think it pretty
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much backfired. And then there's also, uh, it was cringy to watch. Yeah, it wasn't. And
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then she's, she's attacking her and I asked her about this and then she's saying we all
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need to be united. I'm like, well, everyone else is talking, you're attacking. So what do you
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mean? United when you're attacking people? Anyway, she's kind of fallen by the wayside.
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And then there's Lila here who gained a bunch of points for taking on a bull, which was kind
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of cool. Um, at a rodeo, uh, some, a lady went down and Lila here jumped in and like
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shoved the bull away. So that was kind of cool. Cool. But on the other side, lady, she's just
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everyone lady. Yep. Every other candidate has said, she's like the nicest lady. She agreed.
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We haven't gotten something scheduled. She agreed to a walk and talk as well. Um, but yeah,
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she, I mean, a great deal of her principles, particularly on social issues. She's extremely
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progressive in the exact same camp as Justin Trudeau, presumably, um, on fiscal issues.
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She's okay. It's interesting because she was a wild roser. So on some issues, she's kind
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of conservative, but in the minds of many, I think, and this is a sentiment I've heard
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is why, why is she running in the conservative party? Cause her values aren't particularly in
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line with the conservative party. Um, but getting back, I don't know if you have any thoughts
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on Lila, but, uh, we can spend a little more time talking about the sort of the front runners
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if that's all right. Or do you have thoughts on any of those?
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Sure. No, no, no. No, I think that's great. I was, I was just going to say like with regard
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to Taves, I know some people whom I generally like and agree with on most everything, like
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MP Arnold Pearson from the North. I think he's endorsing Taves, but it could be like a, because
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everybody's Dutch. So he's like, yeah, if you're not Dutch, you ain't much. And so
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I see that he, I think he's endorsing Tave or I saw some supportive posts from him. Um,
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but, uh, I think that's probably the only high profile ish Alberta conservative federally
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Everyone like behind the scenes in the UCP and all the people I know, and even the social
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conservatives, they're all endorsing Taves. Taves is personally pro-life, whatever that
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means. Um, so I know for some people that's a plus, um, I don't think it's really actionable.
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I think Daniel Smith and him have the same plans, despite her being libertarian and pro-choice.
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So practically speaking, they're equally pro-life.
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I don't need them to support my church. I don't need them to support my church or my
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religious values. I need them to leave me alone.
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That's all I want. And Taves didn't leave the churches alone.
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No. And one of the things with Taves and the support he's going to get, he was the head
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of a, uh, I don't know, the ranchers or beef association, cattlemen's association, one of
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those big ones for years. So he has relationships in the rural communities. And then he also
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has the inside political relations. So he will dominate rural areas. I think he will, unless
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people, uh, presumably, unless people have been swung over by Daniel Smith or potentially
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Todd Lowen. But I mean, I, I, I've been told with relatively good authority that a large
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number of ranchers and farmers just because of their relationship with him will be supporting
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him. Um, so, and the other thing too, is that like, we look back at what happened with
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Daniel Smith, part of the reason she crossed the floor and it doesn't excuse her behavior
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at all, but is that the Wildrose was set to win. And then Canadians or Albertans rather
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significantly backtracked, voted conservative, went with the old progressives. They voted very
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conservatively. Um, so there is this potential that on voting day, Albertans sort of deferred
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to this conservative instinct, which isn't necessarily bad instinct, but if you're going
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to go conservative and risk averse, you're probably not going to vote Daniel Smith. She's
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more saying all the right things, but you're worried if it might backfire. Um, I, I think
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some people may go, may, may sort of revert or at least put Taves or Jean second as a bit
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of a more sort of stable option. And on a preferential ballot that can quickly swing things. And if
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you have a bunch of people being like, well, Taves is okay and he's safe, but then you
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have, I don't know, 30% of the province being like Daniel Smith is my number one. Some weird
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things can happen where on the second ballot, Taves surges ahead. Um, so that's how we got
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Andrew Scheer. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. 100%. Um, Leslie Lewis was ahead and, uh, Bernier was
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ahead and then things shifted and that safe choice, um, on preferential ballots can sometimes
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swing. It'll be interesting to see. I think there is sort of a threshold of Danielle Smith
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being sort of the outsider saying the right things, but not being on the inside track.
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Then you have Travis Taves extremely on the right track saying maybe a few of the right
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things, but not necessarily enough. I think Brian Jean is like very much in the middle of
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those two positions where he's saying like, and we, we talked about this in the interview
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where like, for example, for Alberta, sort of whether it be separation or sovereignty issues,
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he's saying we need to open up the constitution and, and deal with those things. Uh, Daniel Smith
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is saying, we don't need to have that conversation. We're just going to take, uh, the sort of the,
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the action plan for Alberta and we're going to do it on our own. And Taves is like, we'll write,
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we'll push a little harder on some of these letters. Um, I think there's a pretty big gamut
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and I think those are the crux issues and it's across the board. Like both Daniel Smith and Brian
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have been pretty hard line on like, and Todd Lohan as well on, on getting rid of existing, uh,
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COVID-19 prosecutions, um, either, either, uh, like expunging records entirely. So there's no
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sort of record criminal record whatsoever, issuing formal apologies. Um, Travis Taves has said,
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we've made mistakes. We've made mistakes, but when I push them on those specific points,
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he's not willing to say a hundred percent, we'll stop all of it. He's deferring to the,
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well, politicians shouldn't meddle in the legal system, which is a cop-out. Um, I'm Todd Lohan
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obviously is still is in the cap with, with Jean and Smith as to let's put an end to this. And then
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this is ridiculous. Um, but it'll be interesting to see, like I said, if people go back from
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principled vote to strategic vote and vote for something a little bit safer and on preferential
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ballot, that could easily happen. You know, it's a real, it's a pathetic cop-out to say that
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politicians shouldn't meddle in the legal system. A hundred percent. They're the law, they're the
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lawmakers. Yeah. Who makes the law? But, but aside from that, these are unjust persecutions
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still taking place. Church in the Vine has to come up with $80,000 by the end of the month if
00:22:57.760
their appeal is not, uh, accepted. $80,000 that the state thinks they need more than this church
00:23:06.220
for the crime of not allowing an inspector to run around the church like a Muppet while church was
00:23:12.520
in service. And there, it is, it behooves politicians to speak out against that. These are
00:23:20.320
their rules that cause this harm to these people. It's, it's interesting that Jerry, uh, sorry. Um,
00:23:28.280
Taves was on, he was the president of the Cattlemen's Association, but he was also appointed
00:23:33.780
by Jerry Ritz, um, to fight the country of origin labeling for Canadian beef, um, for export, which
00:23:40.640
sometimes can, you know, like if people want to buy American in the United States, if you have
00:23:45.460
Canadian beef labeled as Canadian beef, they won't buy it though, which is, you know, so, um, he was
00:23:51.160
lobbied against country of origin stuff, but you look at someone who was so entrenched in the
00:23:56.640
agriculture industry, huh? And agriculture, they were a real civil disobedient people, um, with Rick
00:24:06.460
Strankman and Jim Ness going to jail to end the Canadian wheat board protesting a bad law. You know
00:24:13.360
what? At the time, politicians stood with those guys. They said, this is a bad law. And it was not
00:24:20.300
considered meddling in the legal system when Ralph Klein stood there and said, this liberal federal law
00:24:26.320
is sending these good men to jail and it won't stand. And when Harper said, as soon as I'm in
00:24:31.260
power, we're ending the wheat board because people went to jail for it. So it's, it's pretty pathetic.
00:24:38.980
The Taves can't even say the same thing. It's pathetic. Well, you're, you're an elected representative.
00:24:44.800
So you've been elected to represent, so represent. And I mean, the, the ultimate sort of,
00:24:49.320
whether anyone's on the fence about this anymore, the courts are now saying that based on the
00:24:55.620
instructions of these, uh, unelected health officials at the behest of Jason Kenny and his
00:25:00.160
government, police were enforcing illegally laws that didn't apply to people like so many of these
00:25:07.740
charges. And it's shocking because I still see to this very day, people tweeting in response to the
00:25:13.440
pastor, Tim Stevens arrest or Archer Pawlowski stuff. Well, maybe like maybe his kids will learn that
00:25:19.000
this is what you get when you break the law. Like the courts are now saying that the, that the,
00:25:23.160
the judges didn't understand the law and that the police broke the law and that these, these,
00:25:27.820
uh, lockdowns didn't apply to Albertans that large broadly. It's, it's unilaterally that
00:25:33.680
political influence did lead to the misapplication of these laws. We're seeing victory after victory.
00:25:40.780
Chris got a massive victory. Uh, Arthur Pawlowski, a categorical victory on so many fronts. He's now left
00:25:46.680
with what should amount to $1,100 in tickets. Um, of course the, the government is, is pushing for
00:25:52.660
more than that, but for any normal person in normal times under the law, he'd be getting in total,
00:25:58.560
no jail time and $1,100 in tickets. Um, so the, the, the, the, everything has slid so much and you
00:26:06.040
are seeing politicians start to adopt that. Now, Todd Lohan and Daniel Smith were a little,
00:26:10.820
Todd Lohan was way ahead of the curve. Daniel Smith was a little bit ahead of the curve. Um,
00:26:14.760
and then these other candidates are now starting to say it's now that it's popular,
00:26:19.340
but where were we this whole time? And, and for a candidate to not be willing to go all out and
00:26:24.820
say, we need to end this when the courts are even saying like, this was not legal. These,
00:26:30.480
this is a clear charter violation. This never applied to these people in the first place.
00:26:34.400
And it's just a matter of some people are still seeing charges and fines. Some people have court
00:26:40.840
appearances, including Chris Scott next week, where some of his colleagues who aren't as high
00:26:45.180
profile with the exact same charge have had all charges dropped. There's this, there's this wild
00:26:50.680
doubles. In fact, it's this week, I believe he's in court. There's this wild and, and political,
00:26:54.940
clearly political, not judicial thing in place. And these elected officials absolutely need to stand
00:26:59.820
up and say, this is enough. This needs to come to an end. The courts have made abundantly clear
00:27:04.160
the narrative of, we have to let the judiciary do their thing. Um, the judiciary is categorically
00:27:09.740
saying on almost all of these fronts, it's either massive, significant reductions to minor fines
00:27:15.080
or absolute acquittal on all charges. And in so many of these cases, and for a politician who's
00:27:20.640
leading the freedom minded, allegedly conservative movement, or wants to, uh, with the United
00:27:25.040
Conservative Party for him to be like, well, we have to defer to the legal system. Well, you should
00:27:30.640
have been speaking up two years ago and not just behind the scenes publicly.
00:27:33.760
Right. You know, it's interesting to see the free market, free enterprise conservatives being
00:27:40.620
pro government controlling who you can serve your burgers to. And, you know, there's nothing quite
00:27:45.640
like the mindless droning of someone who says, well, those are the consequences because you broke the
00:27:52.280
law. Um, sometimes the law is bad. For example, the people who hit Anne Frank, they were breaking the
00:27:58.100
law. The people who turned her in, they were, uh, they were following the law. You know, it's just, I
00:28:05.640
don't get my morality from the government, but I suppose some people do. And some of these rulings are
00:28:11.220
effectively saying no. In fact, the government broke the law. The people didn't like it's not
00:28:16.440
translated into politicians going to jail, but the ruling is no, this absolutely never applied to these
00:28:22.840
people. There was no lockdown. Like most of the Rook order, particularly for a window, I
00:28:28.080
think it was, uh, the end of December, 2020. Uh, there was a window though, and a bunch of the
00:28:33.100
language following up, it's clearly worded and restructured. Um, and, and per the interpretation
00:28:38.080
of the court of appeal in Alberta, it never applied to Albertans broadly speaking. So effectively
00:28:43.660
everyone who received tickets in within those windows, and it's likely to cascade into other
00:28:48.700
windows, but the government has said this never applied to people because it's not a legal order.
00:28:53.600
Um, and the government didn't do its due diligence. They didn't phrase it properly.
00:28:57.420
Um, they didn't have the adequate evidence to infringe everybody's rights. Um, it did apply
00:29:02.340
to named parties, um, but not to everybody. They're saying actually, no, no, we broke the
00:29:07.640
law. These people didn't break the law and people are still trumpeting that. And it's
00:29:11.780
often the liberals who've been saying the same thing and are still saying that this is a Spanish
00:29:15.740
flu level thing. And they're still echoing the sentiments. It's weird though, cause they're
00:29:19.040
echoing the sentiments of health officials at the onset of COVID-19 and health officials
00:29:24.440
aren't saying the same thing that they were saying at the onset of COVID-19 or saying the
00:29:28.080
same things they said about vaccines. For example, the mainstream narrative, and I'm just echoing
00:29:32.660
the public health officer's sentiments, not disagreeing, but their sort of outlooks on the
00:29:38.100
outcomes has, has changed significantly. But the activists who are saying these things,
00:29:43.220
well, pastor, so-and-so got what they deserved. The evidence they're based on is the most sort
00:29:48.100
of hysterical and just disjointed evidence that not even Dr. Teresa Tam would agree with anymore.
00:29:54.940
I think the net, the next UCP leader has to commit to firing every single person in the legal
00:30:02.400
department at Alberta health services, every lawyer, every contract lawyer, every single one
00:30:07.660
should be out on their ass. Um, because they were running around getting secret court orders.
00:30:12.720
Naturally, the public health officer, Dina Hinshaw, with her signatures at the bottom of all those,
00:30:17.360
um, as like the, you know, you go to these churches that are ordered closed by the government,
00:30:22.640
it's by the order of Dr. Dina Hinshaw. But every lawyer that snuck around behind the
00:30:28.260
lawyers backs, lawyers that represented churches and businesses, pastors, every single one of those
00:30:36.400
lawyers should be fired. How absolutely unethical they are. They can keep the one who I think had a
00:30:44.000
major blunder in court and admitted that there was charter violations taking place and all the
00:30:48.880
other AHS lawyers panicked. Um, they can keep her because that was good. Everyone else should go
00:30:54.020
though. Yeah. You know, there's the, there's enormous, by the way, contract, uh, lawyers. So I
00:31:01.480
think they're hiring lawyers at a field law in Calgary, uh, to help with these prosecutions,
00:31:06.940
because they just don't think they have the in-house lifting power to persecute the amount of people
00:31:11.900
that Alberta health services would like to. Yeah. Also Dina Hinshaw's bonus, sign her petition for
00:31:18.400
her to pay it back, go to payitback.ca because she got a near quarter million dollars for the
00:31:22.680
absolutely laughable job she did. And it doesn't matter if you're a pro lockdown advocate or an
00:31:28.080
absolute freedom advocate. Um, there's basically a significant lack of evidence behind a bunch of her,
00:31:33.520
uh, decisions. And then when pressed in court, she was like, I don't know. I don't know.
00:31:37.540
Um, yeah, there, there's too busy. She said she was too busy to go to court that one time.
00:31:42.660
And then she went on vacation. Yeah. So yeah, she should pay back that. Let's get that signature
00:31:47.240
count up to 10,000, 8,400 something there. Let's get to, uh, let's get some signatures. I'd love to
00:31:53.160
deliver that. That'd be fun. $600,000 almost a year. And she is still cutting her own bangs.
00:31:59.040
I just, I can't. And you know, the thing that drove me nuts is like what they determined all
00:32:07.780
the people who were laid off and fired for vaccine reasons or businesses shutting down,
00:32:11.860
whatever they determined those people needed like $500 a week to get by. She was getting 11,000
00:32:17.800
something. So she, like, I think she was getting 23 times what she suggested that Albertans need to
00:32:24.200
get by. Like, yeah, we're all in it together, except for the politicians in Sky Palace and Dina
00:32:30.200
Hinshaw and everyone else. Uh, but we're, we're in it together. Trust us. Trust us. Yeah. Let's jump
00:32:37.220
to an ad. Remember the, yeah. Uh, hang on. Remember the only time we ever heard, the only time we ever
00:32:42.480
heard from Dina Hinshaw is when she was warning everybody about the outbreak of STDs in the wake of
00:32:47.200
the Calgary stampede every year. That's the only time we ever heard from the public health officer.
00:32:51.720
That's probably the only time we ever should. I wish it would go back to that. Anyway, let's
00:32:55.720
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Yeah, do that. I'll listen to that guy. Yeah. I trust that guy entirely. Listen to that guy. He's smart.
00:33:32.040
He's smart. Now, uh, Olivia suggests that we should go to some chats before we move on to,
00:33:37.640
I think we'll go to the fertilizer story because Greenpeace has taken up farming
00:33:40.860
advice now. So we'll get to them, but we'll go to some of these chats. I think the first one is from,
00:33:45.620
uh, Andrew, um, Chapados's dad, uh, Aaron Burton 32. I I'm not, I'm just joking. Uh, gives us five
00:33:54.360
bucks. It says, keep up the great work. PS bring Andrew on Wednesdays, bring back Andrew on Wednesdays.
00:34:01.640
And we've got King seven, seven, three, six gives us a buck. Does the rainbow community get bent out
00:34:08.400
of shape when a busy airport is referred to as a transportation hub?
00:34:17.260
Uh, Kane and Mark, uh, gives us two bucks. Pastor Archer is running for premier of Alberta
00:34:22.400
with the independence party. I saw that he made an announcement that he's running.
00:34:32.100
And then Kat barks 68, five bucks. Hey two. You make my Monday morning more bearable.
00:34:39.640
Yeah. Happy to have you here. Really appreciate that.
00:34:42.860
And, uh, King seven, seven, three, four gives us a buck. Did all the leaders, politicians,
00:34:47.920
the world economic forum is taking credit for educating. Go to, uh, world economic forum,
00:34:53.920
you as in we F you, the common folk, ha ha ha. And then Fraser McBurney, our friend from
00:35:01.260
Hamilton, who just loves the capital locks. Uh, he gives us a buck and says, are any of
00:35:07.320
these candidates members of the world economic forum? Do any of them follow the W E F if
00:35:11.280
so fire them? I don't think they are, but I'm sure they're going to get some tough questions
00:35:15.440
about world economic forum policies, um, at the forum slash debate on the 25th. Um, which, um,
00:35:25.440
brings us to our next thing, because this is directly out of, uh, uh, this is a world economic
00:35:30.700
forum policy really quickly. Check out the long form interviews I did with Daniel Smith,
00:35:35.300
Brian Jean and Todd Lowen. So far, we do talk about that at length. Um, and the majority of
00:35:40.180
those guys have made a Daniel Smith sort of the firmest, but have made concerted commitments
00:35:44.860
to ensuring the world economic forum has no business in Alberta whatsoever. So, but we'll
00:35:49.980
hear more on August 25th for sure. Yeah. And you've done, um, some exposés on how the world
00:35:56.140
economic forum implants their people into municipal politics, because if you get in at the municipal
00:36:02.120
level, your politicians are, um, more accessible. They can get in front of council. They can get
00:36:07.860
a meeting with the town councilor. And all of a sudden you have an $87 billion climate plan
00:36:13.920
in Calgary, just like that. Global shapers. Look it up. Yep. Global shapers. It's creepy.
00:36:20.140
These nitrogen targets that are causing math protests in Holland will require farmers to
00:36:30.200
abandon land and cull livestock to meet the nitrogen targets, which if you eat, you're involved because
00:36:39.800
it will drive up the cost of food to the consumer to such a point where only rich people can afford
00:36:46.080
meat and you will be eating the crickets. And in Canada, these targets are coming for us because
00:36:54.060
these targets were written into a free trade agreement by you guessed it, the world economic
00:37:00.220
forums, Chrystia Freeland, our deputy prime minister and our finance minister who also had to get her
00:37:06.880
parents to co-sign her mortgage and burn down an entire section of Reuters economically when she was
00:37:12.080
in charge there. And now she's in charge of our whole economy. But these nitrogen targets and the
00:37:16.440
Paris agreement targets were built into a free trade agreement that she was part of getting done
00:37:24.500
with Europe. So that's where their nitrogen targets come from. So now we have to get them too.
00:37:30.580
And they were recently announced. So if you are not experiencing enough food inflation at the grocery
00:37:36.200
store, guess what? More is coming. And by the way, this idea, as a farmer, this idea that we're just
00:37:42.240
like, oh, let's put extra fertilizer on the field. No, fertilizer is really expensive. You use exactly
00:37:50.040
what you need and not a teaspoon more because it's super expensive. So this idea that we're just like
00:37:55.140
going overboard with nitrogen in the field, we're not. We're really not. We can't afford it.
00:37:59.640
Is a fair analogy to insist bakers use 30% less flour?
00:38:11.740
Yeah. Yeah. And I would equate it to the yeast and the bread. So when you're like, oh,
00:38:17.180
I should have 10 loaves of bread, but instead I have these like three little lumps, that's how
00:38:21.280
important it is to farming and our yields. But here comes Greenpeace, not known for their
00:38:28.120
agricultural good sense. They say higher federal target needed to curtail fertilizer emissions says
00:38:35.040
environmental organization. I like how they call Greenpeace an environmental organization. They don't
00:38:39.540
even name them as Greenpeace until the sub headline because most people would immediately write them
00:38:44.460
off when they say it's Greenpeace. Greenpeace Canada is calling on Ottawa to increase its target
00:38:48.640
of reducing fertilizer emissions by 30% below 2020 levels.
00:38:54.260
Oh, God. That's two years ago. By 2030, up to 50%.
00:39:00.040
And there's the agriculture minister supporting agriculture by wearing a red leather jacket,
00:39:06.240
supporting our beef producers. An ambitious target set by the federal government to reduce
00:39:11.480
greenhouse gas emissions associated with fertilizer does not go far enough, according to environmental
00:39:16.820
organization that argues Canada needs to restrict its production of synthetic fertilizer. So
00:39:22.440
they not only do they not want us to use it, but they want us to restrict production of it
00:39:27.920
because there's already a shortage because of the war in Ukraine and Saskatchewan produces an
00:39:36.060
enormous amount of potash and potash is required in fertilizer production. So not only do they want
00:39:41.460
to kill farmers, they also want to kill mining jobs simultaneously. So Saskatchewan, they're getting
00:39:46.980
a double dose of this on both sides of their economy. And I bet, I bet Justin Trudeau is going to go
00:39:54.220
along with this. Oh, yeah. 100%. And you know, I mean, there's no trying to rationalize this as a
00:40:01.500
sane person who cares about other human beings is completely impossible. Like life is untenable right
00:40:07.500
now. The costs, unless you're extremely wealthy for even upper middle class, like heating bills are
00:40:14.040
astronomical. Grocery bills are sky high. Fuel costs are high. Everything is so challenging,
00:40:19.720
particularly for Justin Trudeau's beloved middle, lower class. Um, he's making everything so
00:40:25.400
incredibly difficult and these policies are making it worse, but forgive me for, uh, prophesying a
00:40:30.820
little bit here. I think this dude wants absolutely to bring back martial law. And he wants to, he's
00:40:36.900
like, he just got over the trucker rebellion and the, the coots blockade and all of this stuff.
00:40:42.560
And he misses that power that grab. So he's like, huh, this clearly negligent decision that will
00:40:48.580
destroy livelihoods, drive up costs, make everyone completely dependent on the government. Uh, that
00:40:54.080
was COVID-19 is, has passed. So now we've seen massive rebellions and resistances in Europe to
00:40:59.880
this type of policy. Let's bring it in here. The whole world is looking at this. Like, what are you
00:41:03.880
doing? And Justin Trudeau was like, yes, that's the next step for us. His only regret, I think is that
00:41:08.220
he didn't get to it first. Cause he would have loved to stick it to the West and stick it to
00:41:12.320
working class people. Now he's imitating what these other countries are doing, doing this.
00:41:18.560
And I'm not espousing this. I'm not advocating for it, but when you push truckers who have,
00:41:23.600
and farmers and ranchers who've already been pushed to the edge, they will push back. We've seen it
00:41:28.660
before and we're going to see it again, particularly if the government keeps heading down this dangerous
00:41:32.600
path. I just want to read to you something from some website known as the progressive farmer. So
00:41:40.840
that should tell you where they are coming from on this issue. Um, as Sri Lankan, Sri Lanka's
00:41:46.600
government collapses, farmers in the Netherlands continue protesting. And the one connection between
00:41:50.900
the civil unrest is government fertilizer policies. Empires have fallen over food. Um, with the war in
00:42:00.980
Ukraine driving up food and energy prices, fertilizer access has become a major point of contention as
00:42:06.460
immediate food needs overwhelm long-term environmental policies, such as reducing emissions. Sri Lanka's
00:42:12.800
president attempting to reduce government subsidies for important fertilizer announced an end to chemical
00:42:18.160
fertilizer and inputs saying Sri Lankans agriculture would go 100% organic. The move failed as land was
00:42:27.740
idled and production of crops such as rice and tea staples collapsed. Farmers in the Netherlands are
00:42:35.580
continuing to shut down towns with their tractors, protesting a plan passed by the government in late
00:42:39.520
June to reduce agriculture emissions from ammonia and nitrous oxide by 50% by 2030. Um, this is, it's,
00:42:49.100
this is really bad, not just for Canadians, but for the rest of the world, because Canada feeds the world.
00:42:56.520
Yeah. Especially the developing world, because what people don't know is not only are we the world's
00:43:03.620
largest exporter of canola, so places where you don't, it becomes difficult to have animal fats,
00:43:12.760
whatever. Canola is the solution to that. But also we export the world's largest, um, we're the world's
00:43:23.480
largest exporter of pulses. So chickpeas, uh, lentils, and that is an absolute food staple in the
00:43:30.100
developing world because it's cheap, it's dry, it's portable, and you can store it forever. And it's
00:43:35.520
calorically dense. And if our food production collapses here, if things are going to be tough
00:43:43.400
for Canadians, people are going to be experiencing food insecurity. But when you think about who this
00:43:49.400
hurts the most, it is the Canadian poor and the developing world, because we cannot give them
00:43:54.860
the calorically dense, dry, portable, easily stored food that they need. But maybe that's the intention
00:44:02.920
here. Yeah. Well, it's time and time again, you look at the sort of decisions and they're not rational.
00:44:10.520
They're not good for average Canadians. They're not literally like the, the end game in all of these
00:44:15.640
things is, is increased dependence on the government. But like we saw in China with the great leap
00:44:21.340
forward, that manifesto of theirs, when they're like, ah, we'll centralize authority and everyone
00:44:26.220
will be dependent on us and we'll force people into a new age. It was the first great reset imposed by
00:44:31.540
communists, something like 50 million conservatively starved to death. Um, because if farmers aren't
00:44:37.600
making food and providing food for people, it doesn't matter what government policies you have. It doesn't
00:44:43.040
matter how much, uh, they say is in the silo, if the silo is empty. Um, it's, it's incredible. And
00:44:50.040
it's such an extension, especially to see, like we were just talking about lots of the COVID-19
00:44:55.680
overreach being condemned now by the courts that the courts aren't waking up and taking immediate
00:45:01.740
action to cease this activity because fundamentally undermining people's livelihoods like this is,
00:45:07.920
is tantamount to theft. Like we're going to completely clip and, and, and, and like clip
00:45:14.320
your wings as a citizen in this allegedly free country. Farmers, some years can do very well and
00:45:20.520
make good money. Other years it's incredibly difficult and they lose money and they sort of
00:45:25.040
do that dance and they keep afloat by doing that. I guarantee you, if you are successful in limiting
00:45:31.740
effectively 30% of that income right off the top, those float years will no longer accommodate for
00:45:38.240
the hard years. You, you're losing so much money that the farms will go away. And when the farms go
00:45:43.340
away, well, the food goes away. I don't, I don't understand how Justin Trudeau can be so disjointed
00:45:49.300
from reality. I don't know if he is overtly evil or if he has really bad advice or if he's absolutely
00:45:56.020
daft and clueless, um, but the courts, other politicians, people need to universally take a
00:46:01.940
stand and put an end to this. I, for one, back to the conversation about UCP leadership, I'm grateful
00:46:06.440
that virtually all of the candidates have said the, this fertilized reduction thing is not happening
00:46:12.700
here. Like they've said no categorical full stop. Just so people understand what this means to farmers
00:46:20.360
again, because there's a lot of people out there who think, oh, those rich farmers, look at how much
00:46:24.340
land they have. It's one thing to be land rich, but, uh, then you're paying taxes on the land and,
00:46:32.000
uh, mortgage payments on the land and finance payments on your equipment. And pretty soon
00:46:37.800
you're just scraping by and one bad hailstorm can level you. A combine, just so people understand.
00:46:47.500
Yeah. Remember when I was, uh, watching the, um, trucker documentary, the Coots documentary,
00:46:51.640
and I was like, ah, look, that's like $750,000. I was so excited. I love looking at farm equipment
00:46:59.900
until you have to pay for it. Uh, I just pulled up Kijiji right now, a 2014 John Deere S 680 combine,
00:47:08.300
uh, a fairly good deal. $315,000. And that's, you know, eight years old used. Um, and you're going to
00:47:17.400
have to go all the way to Saskatoon to get it, pick it up and truck it back, which is also a
00:47:22.740
substantial cost. So that's just used farm equipment just to farm. And so you have to think,
00:47:29.080
you know, when you are telling farmers, okay, you have to make now you have to make 50% less
00:47:36.200
and still pay for this stuff. What happens? People just get out of farming because you can only lose
00:47:42.040
money for so long. And what does that do to the state of the world? Um, that, uh, Clarkson's farm
00:47:48.660
show. I don't know if you've seen it on Amazon, Jeremy Clarkson from grand tour and top gear and
00:47:54.720
all that good stuff. He does a farming show and like, he doesn't know what he's doing, but he
00:47:58.860
enters this. And if you don't know anything about farming, you don't know what's this, what this is
00:48:03.080
like. He works harder than he's ever worked. He hires people. He's learning this stuff. He buys all
00:48:07.400
the equipment. And after the sort of hardest period of work of his life, I think he makes $736.
00:48:13.920
Now a professional farmer is going to do better than that in those circumstances,
00:48:16.900
but it is a really good introduction for folks who don't understand what goes into it.
00:48:21.680
And the sort of, you basically need to be quite good at math, quite good at farming,
00:48:26.380
quite good at a bunch of other things, and then have an economic mind. Hey, look at this. They pulled
00:48:30.100
up the Jeremy Clarkson Lamborghini tractor already. So that's great. There's such wizards in the studio,
00:48:35.040
but it's worth checking out because it's one, it's beautifully shot too. He's very funny,
00:48:39.480
but you really do get a sense of the sort of, even the politics and the rural homeowners groups and
00:48:46.260
everything, everything that farmers have to deal with to sometimes make 700 bucks a year. And they're
00:48:50.960
probably living off their own crop in order to eat for that year. So check it out. And, and,
00:48:55.360
and then imagine, imagine that experience and then add 30% of like your core sort of fertilizer
00:49:01.320
scrapped. Yep. Plus carbon tax on fuel plus, plus carbon tax plus now reduced yield. So, um,
00:49:10.000
yeah, it's, it's not going to be good, but the good news is if you don't have beef to eat,
00:49:17.120
because you can't grain finish them because it's, there's no grain. Um, you can just eat maggots.
00:49:25.200
Um, apparently, um, there's, speaking of which I just, the clip is two years old, but, um, it got
00:49:33.280
pushed, the algorithm pushed it to me. Um, which, you know, in that sense, the algorithm knew what I
00:49:38.760
wanted to see. Um, we've got this clip here about once there's no more conventional dairy producers,
00:49:48.280
because there's this weird war on the cow out there. And I'm willing to make the argument that,
00:49:53.700
uh, humanity's best friend is not a dog, but rather the mighty ruminant, the bovine. Um,
00:50:00.520
but since they're not good for the environment, so the good people at Greenpeace tell us there are
00:50:06.400
other ways to get the animal fats that you need. Can we go to that clip, please? And if you have a weak
00:50:13.000
stomach like me, I'm just so sorry in advance. All this cake needs is flour, eggs, and 20 grams
00:50:20.740
of dead insects. No, you haven't misheard. A team of scientists at Belgium's University of Ghent
00:50:26.680
are trying to find a way to substitute dairy in cakes, cookies, and waffles. They say deriving
00:50:32.620
grease from insects is more green than dairy production. And they are more sustainable because
00:50:38.940
they use less land. They are more efficient converting feed to weight. And they also use less water to
00:50:46.940
produce. And in this case, they are, they can be produced within Europe. That will decrease the
00:50:55.100
footprint that other type of food sources bring because they come from far away, let's say South
00:51:02.300
America or Southeast Asia. By soaking the insects in a little bit of water and then
00:51:08.780
mushing them with a kitchen blender before centrifuges separate a butter-like substance,
00:51:13.500
the grease is made which the team used to bake with. But how does it go down outside of the lab?
00:51:21.580
For me, there's no difference. So it's actually better. Yeah.
00:51:27.740
Do you think you would eat insect fat cakes again?
00:51:30.780
Yeah. Yeah. Why not? Why not? Yeah. Um, I don't think so.
00:51:40.060
The team say that consumers can't taste the difference when a quarter of the milk butter
00:51:44.300
is replaced with the fat from the insects. But they start to notice when it gets to the halfway mark.
00:51:49.980
So who knows, one day you could be munching on a cockroach croissant as you head to the office,
00:51:54.940
or making your nearest and dearest a beetle birthday cake.
00:52:06.380
That's a hard no, friends. And it's, it's just fascinating to watch this because you think,
00:52:13.340
okay, well, there's cows all over the place. You can just go milk one,
00:52:17.980
wait till the cream rises to the top, scoop that off, put that in a mason jar. You don't need any
00:52:23.340
technology. You don't need any blenders. You don't need a centrifuge. You don't need any,
00:52:28.700
you don't need a bucket of maggots. You need a cow. Or even if you get, if you're lazy and you don't
00:52:35.660
know where there are any cows, go to the grocery store, get some heavy cream, pour it into a jar,
00:52:41.020
shake the daylights out of it. You've got butter and you've got buttermilk. Use the buttermilk for
00:52:46.780
biscuits or pancake and you have butter. If you're lazy, put it in the blender, literally put it in
00:52:53.020
the blender. You will have butter instantly. And yet they are telling me that the way the future is
00:52:58.540
this extra complicated labor intensive and disgusting way to get fat from this animal,
00:53:06.220
from this animal we shouldn't be eating. No, no, just give me butter. What's wrong with these
00:53:11.420
people? It's so gross. It's like a lab is trying to counteract the evolution of tried, tested and
00:53:18.780
true practices. Like farmers want to get the most, like these, we're talking about people who make
00:53:23.420
clocks out of animal droppings. Um, like the entire pelt turns into, uh, jackets and leather
00:53:31.100
and car interiors. The fat is turned into like the dairy, like every part of the bloody cow is used
00:53:37.980
minus some entrails. And even in some places, those are used like this. They're using the whole thing.
00:53:43.260
They put the heads on walls. They're using every possible inch of this cow. And then they're like,
00:53:48.940
oh yeah, no, of course we need to use bugs instead. I mean, it's not as though those bugs don't output
00:53:54.140
anything either. And then these lab grown processes, it's absolutely just, and the other thing too,
00:53:59.420
is I don't even care about all those academic arguments. Like during the last federal debate,
00:54:04.620
I remember Roman Bavar saying like, I'm not going to eat crickets. And Josh,
00:54:08.300
and we're like, I'm, we're not eating bloody crickets. Just like on a sensible level,
00:54:13.900
sane people don't want to eat bugs. We want to eat a delicious steak. That's, that's what
00:54:19.580
normal sane people want to do. So go away, stop spending money on bugs. We don't want to eat the
00:54:25.100
bugs. If someone wants to eat bugs and they're a kooky environmentalist who has a hundred grand to
00:54:30.220
drop on a Tesla and has all the money to drop on solar powers panels, they can start their own
00:54:34.940
little cricket farm. They can custom source it. But like the fact that government resources are
00:54:39.420
being allocated on this nonsense is insane. I wonder if Justin Trudeau has ever eaten anything
00:54:43.740
bug related. Like I probably not, probably not. Yeah. I don't, this is the stupidest push. It's like,
00:54:52.380
you know, the other stuff you get the kooky, I completely disagree with like the, the COVID
00:54:57.580
lockdowns restrictions. I completely disagree with this fertilizer cap, but like you get the sort of edgy
00:55:03.900
world economic forum, misguided inspirations and political aspirations behind it. It's stupid,
00:55:10.140
but you get it. This bug push is just moronic. Like it's, it's not, I don't understand why.
00:55:17.820
I don't understand. We don't eat bugs. My great grandmother stood somewhere on this property,
00:55:24.220
actually over there and shook a mason jar full of cream to make butter for her family right here.
00:55:32.460
Why are we doing this crazy labor intensive laboratory food business? When you have cows
00:55:40.620
that are chocked full of fat, you can get tallow from them. You can get butter from them. They're
00:55:46.740
ruminants again. I think they're magical creatures. They, they are man's best friend. And yet there's
00:55:53.420
this weird push to get us eating bugs and it is not good for human nutrition. I think it's not good for
00:56:00.120
the future of humanity. I really don't. And there's a, I've, I've read that book of the Bible
00:56:05.320
where the plague comes and I feel like this is going to set off a plague. I really do.
00:56:11.160
Yeah. The locusts come, they're going to come on our plates instead of by the sky.
00:56:15.000
You know what I think we should do? And this is completely off the cuff and I don't know if it's
00:56:19.320
possible. I'm sure it is. We need to get a rebel cow, like buy a cow, have it be our mascot.
00:56:24.840
Um, let's play a cow. A steer. Yeah. A steer. Let's get a steer so I can eat it at the end.
00:56:32.520
Um, yeah, no, I'm good with it. We'll all have a rebel dinner. Okay. We'll get a steer. Go to buy the
00:56:40.840
Now, uh, one last thing before we go, because it's in the headline of the YouTube description
00:56:44.840
and I will get emails if it's not, we should talk about, um, how I think it is. The liberals knew
00:56:53.480
that the airports were understaffed. Let's bring that up. It's from the good folks at black locks
00:56:58.360
reporter. If you don't have a subscription to them, um, it's worth every single penny. They do the work
00:57:04.440
that, um, the mainstream media doesn't do and that the liberals don't want anybody doing. So
00:57:11.080
the government knew of short staffing and right now the government is trying to blame the airlines,
00:57:16.200
but the airlines are not the people in charge of security screeners, uh, transport minister,
00:57:21.480
uh, that hobgoblin Omar al-Jabra knew last spring. So like months and months and months ago,
00:57:30.360
just slightly after we all knew this was going to happen. Yeah. Yeah. That the federal airport
00:57:37.080
security workforce was short staffed by 25%. According to a briefing note, they also laid
00:57:41.640
off a bunch of them as a cost saving measure during the pandemic. They can't even save money
00:57:45.560
properly. This federal government, you know, Al-Jabra at the time blamed airport delays on
00:57:50.200
Canadians eager to travel. Ah, it was our fault. Just like how it's our fault. It's a systemic
00:57:57.560
misogyny that caused Justin Trudeau to grope that reporter that one time. And then systemic racism
00:58:02.600
that caused him to wear blackface, uh, thrice, I think, uh, staff in a May 13th briefing note
00:58:08.520
called airport and flight delays told Al-Jabra the Canadian air transport security authority was
00:58:14.120
short a quarter of its employees due to COVID layoffs. The authority retained 75% of its workforce
00:58:22.280
during the pandemic to assist with recovery, wrote staff screening contractors called back all available
00:58:28.200
personnel in preparation for the summer peak. Uh, he said, we are witnessing delays across all
00:58:35.160
sectors of our economy that are a result of increasing demand imbalance. He told the commons,
00:58:41.320
we are seeing an increased demand and appetite for people who want to travel. Yeah. And that goes with
00:58:46.520
everybody, by the way, not just for the vaccinated, the unvaccinated wanted to travel too, but I guess
00:58:51.320
their needs and wants weren't considered, but they did this, they laid off people to, um, save money
00:58:57.480
during COVID. And here we are, and this is being replicated at the passport office. Um, I think it's
00:59:04.200
half, maybe more, maybe more than that. I forget the exact number. Cause there's so many bizarre
00:59:10.440
cost saving measures and, and work from home measures that the federal government took that they are not
00:59:15.400
ending for some reason. Um, at the passport office where an enormous amount of them are still working
00:59:21.480
from home while Canadians are lined up around the block to, uh, wait in line to get their passport,
00:59:27.720
getting there at 6am or sleeping there. Like it's a Garth Brooks concert tickets for sale the night
00:59:32.840
before. And, uh, the liberals, their solution was not to bring people back. Say like everybody get back
00:59:38.920
in the office. They said, you know what the problem is with these people sleeping on the streets? We need
00:59:43.320
more office chairs. So they ordered office chairs instead. You know, it's like, you, you wonder how
00:59:48.920
a country goes from Venezuela to Venezuela. Um, this is it. It's a bunch of stuff like this. This is how
00:59:56.280
Canada goes from Canada to Canada. So, uh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Keep an eye out. Stay vigilant. Stay frosty.
01:00:05.800
It's how we go from Harper's Canada to Trudeau's Canada. Exactly. Sunny ways. Okay. Sunny ways. Let's get to
01:00:12.120
some of these chats. Uh, Paul Otto. Oh no, sorry. Let's go up one. Uh, AMT 60 a buck. I live in
01:00:20.280
Ottawa, but my mortgage renews June 24 or 2024. Okay. I want to sell here in over a year and move
01:00:27.560
somewhere cheaper. New Brunswick is cheaper, but not freedom oriented. Could I buy a decent small
01:00:32.040
house in Alberta for 25,000 or 250,000? You could buy a McMansion in some of the, uh, bedroom communities
01:00:40.840
for 250,000 with low property taxes and no traffic congestion. So I don't know, go where your buck
01:00:48.920
takes you, but Alberta for sure. Yeah. Uh, Paul Otto Newman gives us, uh, five bucks and says,
01:00:56.840
is it possible or even viable to replace farm credit Canada with a provincial alternative
01:01:01.400
in Alberta kind of, kind of, kind of have one with the ATB, Alberta treasury bank or whatever it is
01:01:09.480
now. Um, so we kind of have an alternative with the ATB, but it's still, it, it, I mean, they have
01:01:17.560
some strong agriculturally, um, crafted products for farmers, but, um, farm credit Canada was designed
01:01:26.520
for farm credit. Maybe they should provide that without the, uh, litmus test of politics.
01:01:33.080
Well, I know, uh, Brian Jean and a couple other people are talking about ATB. They basically have
01:01:37.480
this board of executives that hosts these elaborate bourgeois events as though they're banking
01:01:42.760
executives. They're not serving Albertans. They're taking massive profits off a bank that's owned by us
01:01:48.040
effectively. Um, so I know that there's extensive talks about having the most competitive rates,
01:01:52.680
uh, particular bonuses for small businesses, rural businesses, um, and, and a major emphasis
01:01:58.040
and shift towards helping farmers. So I know that that is, uh, that's something that's being discussed
01:02:02.280
broadly. Yeah, that's great. Yeah. The Alberta treasury branches is what it is. Yeah. Everybody
01:02:11.800
just calls it ATB, but it's wholly owned by the province. Yeah. Um, Fraser McBurney, two bucks. When I get
01:02:17.960
my pension, this is what I'm buying a photo of a scorpion saying, so you want to eat me?
01:02:22.680
Uh, you to Bursey or Judah Bursey gives us five bucks. What a bunch of morons trying to convince
01:02:27.480
us to eat bugs that are supposed to taste like butter. Yeah. Or like you could just eat butter,
01:02:32.200
like butter. You know what tastes like butter, butter. I want to, I want to, I want a flag of a
01:02:37.160
grasshopper that underneath it says don't crunch on me. Adam, you shouldn't have given that idea out to
01:02:45.880
the world. I'm sorry. Go to Rebel News store. It'll be there soon. It better. Yeah.
01:02:51.960
Uh, Adam Ottawa gives us a buck. They're trying, they're trying already, or they're already making
01:02:59.320
cat treats with discreetly added crickets for protein. I bought some that made my cat vomit.
01:03:06.360
Check those pay, those pet food labels. Now. Um, I know that that, um, massive, um, cricket farm
01:03:14.360
in Ontario, the new one that got all the money, aspire foods, aspire foods, um, that got all the
01:03:21.720
money from the feds. Theirs is supposed to go to pet food with an, a keen eye to being people food
01:03:28.680
later on down the road. Um, I don't know. I, I've seen my cat try to eat grasshoppers, but I think it's
01:03:36.280
just for fun. I don't know if it's something that cats generally would eat, I guess, just cause it's
01:03:42.520
fun. Cause they're hopping in and like, you catch it, then you eat it. It's kind of fun if you were
01:03:45.920
a cat, but I don't know. I just, I don't know. I've seen it's, but I guess it's better than the
01:03:51.780
vegan cat treats. Have you seen those? I guess. Oh my God. Like what? You know who's making the
01:03:57.380
decisions? Yeah. It's not the owner. Oh, by the way, real quick. Great to see a lot of interaction
01:04:03.960
today on the chats. I love to see that real quick. Adam Ottawa, you're on like all of our
01:04:08.420
streams all the time, whether it's an election coverage thing or this, uh, Adam, I'd like you
01:04:12.980
to shoot me an email at adam at rebel news.com. I'm going to send you a shirt, uh, from the store
01:04:17.820
that you pick. So shoot me an email. We'll chat. And I'm going to send you a shirt. Cause you're
01:04:21.320
just always here, always participating, always engaging in these chats. Lots of other people
01:04:24.680
are as well. So thanks to all of you, but I always see Adam Ottawa's name always engaging.
01:04:29.420
So shoot me an email, adam at rebel news.com. We'll set that up.
01:04:33.960
And let that be a lesson to the rest of you. Continue to chat, continue to submit those
01:04:39.040
paid chats. Cause Adam's house might select you at random for a t-shirt just like that.
01:04:44.400
And it's not just his name's Adam. I'm not biased.
01:04:46.940
Oh, I don't know. By the way, if you, uh, if you want to support the work that we do and
01:04:51.360
wear your, uh, rebel spirit with pride, uh, head on over to rebel news store.com. Adam's
01:04:58.720
got a shirt. I've got a shirt. I've got my resistance shirt on. It's got, uh,
01:05:03.040
tractors and I think that's what it is. Yeah. No farmers, no food is my shirt.
01:05:09.620
Yeah. So we've got some new stuff up there, new Justin Trudeau stuff, new farmer beef pride stuff.
01:05:15.560
Um, this Castro one is, uh, highly popular. So we've got no farmers, no food. And then we've
01:05:20.300
got the resistance one, which is great because it's the truckers and the farmers together.
01:05:24.220
We have a cool clean water now one as well, actually too. It's like a water drop with,
01:05:29.200
yeah, I like that shirt a lot. I've got one coming in the way. So yeah.
01:05:32.700
Oh, that's cute. The rebel heart one. And we've got a monkeypox one too. Um, so yeah,
01:05:38.300
we've got, uh, a lot of great stuff that we're always refreshing the store.
01:05:43.340
I just saw pro firearms rights one that I don't have yet.
01:05:46.800
I have to submit an order to the store. Um, I think that's everything. Do we have everything,
01:05:58.160
Great. Adam, thanks for co-hosting the show with me today.
01:06:03.700
Uh, thanks to Olivia and Efron in the studio in Toronto and everybody who works very,
01:06:08.820
very hard behind the scenes to make sure that the show gets out in places where you can find it.
01:06:13.080
Thanks to everybody who tuned in today and a special thanks to everybody who pitched in a
01:06:17.340
little bit to keep the lights on. And as you just saw with Adam, so, so you just might randomly be
01:06:22.680
gifted a t-shirt. Um, and, uh, I think I'm here tomorrow with David Menzies, but you never really
01:06:28.320
do know. And as David Menzies always says, stay sane.
01:06:33.360
You said today that Tamara Leach was a political prisoner and a victim of a weaponized court system.
01:06:38.660
Could you elaborate on that and why you think she was treated unfairly?
01:06:42.400
Well, two judges, uh, it's, they, that really, those aren't really my words. The judges have
01:06:49.900
come out and said clearly that, um, the court system is not a system that should be judging
01:06:57.740
people's political views. And in the first case, the judge that detained Tamara was a former liberal
01:07:05.640
candidate and many believe that she should have refused herself from that case. And in the, in the,
01:07:12.600
the other situation includes a crown attorney who over a long period of time has given over
01:07:20.040
approximately $17,000 to the liberal party. And so there is a presence of bias. And I think that the
01:07:27.400
criminal justice system has to be above reproach. It, justice does not only have to be done,
01:07:33.240
it has to be seen to be done. And when a judge has to step in for a second time and say that the
01:07:40.740
court system is not a place to settle political vendettas, then it's obvious that her detention,
01:07:47.060
uh, went beyond just near web, uh, legal principles. It went into her political beliefs,
01:07:55.300
um, which the judge clearly said that she was not at a trial. It was a bail hearing and the facts will
01:08:03.300
come out at a trial. And, and so the bail hearing wasn't the proper form for that.