EZRA LEVANT ｜ NDP activists storm a conservative premier’s press conference, and the media blames the conservative premier
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Rachel Notley's event was stormed by NDP activists, but you wouldn't know it if you relied on the regime media for some weird reason they obscured the identity of her attackers. I'll take you through it, including the videotape.
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Hello, my friends. Great to be back. I want to talk to you about Danielle Smith and the fact
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that her event was stormed by NDP activists, but you wouldn't know it if you relied on the regime
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media. For some weird reason, they obscured the identity of her attackers. I'll take you through
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it, including the videotape. That's why I want you to get a subscription to Rebel News Plus.
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Tonight, NDP activists storm a conservative premier's press conference, and the media blames
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the conservative premier. It's May 12th, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.
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Hey, it's great to be back. I'm sorry I missed so many days. I was fine, except for I looked
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and sounded terrible, too terrifying to be on TV. I'm fine now. Great to be here, and don't
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you worry about me. Thanks to my friends who filled in for me. Let me talk about a story
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that I think is incredibly important, and not many other people in the media seem to believe
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it, but let me try and make the case to you. Here, watch this video.
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Hospitals are not for sale. Hospitals are not for sale. Hospitals are not for sale.
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We saw your video about buying hospitals. Check it out. We've got a big offer.
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We will not sell our arms and legs for hospitals. Hospitals should be public.
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They're going to cost us an arm and a leg when you sell it, though, aren't they?
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Everybody, we will resume the press conference and let's get the bees right off.
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So you've got some middle-aged men storming into a press conference by Danielle Smith,
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the conservative premier of Alberta. I'm not sure if you caught it since it happened so fast,
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but the protesters pushed and shoved a policeman. And the main police detail whisked Danielle Smith
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out of the room. She was wearing green. I don't know if you saw her. That's the right move. You
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don't know if there's a gun or if someone else is about to do something. You don't know if that stunt
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was just a distraction for the main attack to come. I don't know if you saw this literally a day
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earlier. A man was brandishing a gun at the legislature in Edmonton and Alberta. What did that
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have to do with this? Was that a part of this? The police didn't know, so they just got Danielle
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Smith out of the way. Here, let's watch that video just one more time.
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It's odd, isn't it? Look, I'm not an expert in security at all, but to my layman's eyes, it's a
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little odd that the premiers whisked away. That's very good. But there were two other women left in
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the lurch. I think at least one of them was an MLA or at least a candidate. The two women who were
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left standing there were clearly stunned and didn't know what to do with themselves. Did they run?
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Were they a danger? There was a cop who just let one guy go. That's weird. Security just seemed to
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stand around. No one said even get out or we'll call the cops. No one, I don't know if they called
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the cops. The whole thing's a little strange. And then the disruptors just walked out. No charges
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laid against them of any kind, to my knowledge. No trespass charges, no harassment charges,
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no assault charges, even for the guy who hit the cop. You try that and see how it works out.
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Now, isn't that funny? Because you see, in Alberta, they have been arresting and jailing
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a pastor named Derek Reimer in recent weeks for simply coming within 100 meters or whatever the
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rule is of drag queen story hour. He just comes near them. He's arrested and jailed. These thugs
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burst right in, caused a security incident, physically shoved a cop and nothing.
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Hey, if these had been conservative men storming a Rachel Notley event or a Christy Freeland event,
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I think they'd be in jail right now without bail, facing charges. I mean, ask Pastor Arthur
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Pavlovsky or Pastor James Coates or Tamara Leach just to name a few. None of those people even
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touched a cop or anyone, actually. Remember this? The incident happened on Friday when Deputy
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Prime Minister Christy Freeland was visiting the City Hall in Grand Prairie, Alberta. A man called
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her name. He unloaded a verbal assault of insults, F-bombs and worse. Freeland and her aides got away.
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The man was escorted out of the City Hall, still shouting. On Twitter afterwards, Freeland said,
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nobody anywhere should have to put up with threats and intimidation. Although she said the harassment
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doesn't reflect the people of Alberta. In Ottawa, the Prime Minister was speaking out for her.
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Threats, violence, intimidation of any kind are always unacceptable. And this kind of cowardly
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behavior threatens and undermines our democracy and our values of openness and respect upon which
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Canada was built. Trudeau was the victim of a stone-throwing attack during last year's election
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campaign. He says these behaviors are getting worse. F-bombs or worse, said the journalist. I'm
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not sure what worse is because I listened to it. I didn't hear anything worse, but it sounded very
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dramatic. Look, I don't like that. I don't like shouting. He was a scary guy, I suppose. I don't
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like that. I don't like the kid who threw pebbles. I don't like that. Not at all. But where is Trudeau
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with his dramatic actor voice here? Where is the national media outrage here? Neither Christopher
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Freeland nor Justin Trudeau had to be whisked away to safety by police. Neither had their event
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canceled. But it was a national disaster. I'm surprised they didn't invoke the Emergencies Act.
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That came later, of course. National news. Every conservative was asked to disavow that shouter in
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Grand Prairie. If these folks storming Danielle Smith had been conservatives, they would obviously
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have been kicked out of the party if they had done this to Rachel Notley. They would have been kicked
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out of the conservative party. We'd have a week of deep thinkers talking about radicalized extremists
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who were fed disinformation and became violent or whatever the liberals say these days. Oh, I forgot to
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mention one of those dirty tricksters is actually an NDP candidate. Patrick King is his name. He ran
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in the federal NDP in Calgary last election, a year and a half ago. And the other fella is a provincial
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labor union organizer. Aaron Doncaster, I think is his name. Just to remind you, Rachel Notley's husband,
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Lou Arab, is a senior labor organizer in the province who surely worked on same campaigns as him.
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These were as insiders as can be. But no arrests, no nothing. The NDP put out this tweet gently
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disavowing the storming of Smith's event. But it was their people who did the storming.
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In fact, and this is really bizarre, the NDP themselves tweeted out the location of Smith's
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event. Why would they do that? They directed their supporters to Smith's event when they were asked
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about it. Notley claimed, oh, no, no, no, no, no. Don't you worry your privilege ahead. They always do
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that. There's nothing weird about that. They always, all the time, tweet out the location of Danielle Smith's
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events. Rachel Emanuel with True North. I wanted to ask you about the protesters that interrupted
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Daniel Smith's press conference today. I know that after it happened, the Alberta NDP issued a tweet
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saying they condemned the protests. Elections is about time of reading voters. However, prior to that
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event, the Alberta NDP had also tweeted the location of Daniel Smith's. They had also tweeted
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Daniel Smith's location and where her event would be. Do you have any regrets about doing that? Do you think
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that was a mistake that actually might have led to the protests occurring? No, because my understanding is that
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the UCP had also tweeted the location of the press conference. And that's actually where we got the
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information from. So it's quite common for press events to be described publicly about where they are.
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But let me say that once again, I don't support that kind of intervention in a public event that's designed
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to deliver message to voters. Whether you agree or don't agree, our elections and our democratic process
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is sacred and people need to be able to speak to voters without fear of intimidation or any kinds of
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threats like that. So I definitely do not support or endorse what happened. What a weird lie. That question
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was asked by Rachel Emanuel. None of the mainstream media would ask that question. So that's what
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happened. That's what it looked like. That's who did it. That's who teed it up. So how did it look to
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the millions of people or hundreds of thousands of people who only heard about it later through the
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regime's media in a newspaper on TV? Well, let's take a look. The Canadian press, which feeds into newspapers,
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they had this article in the Toronto Star as it happens, but this appeared elsewhere.
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Alberta election campaign continues. That's their headline. Alberta election campaign continues
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after minor drama at Danielle Smith's announcement. Minor drama. She's so dramatic. She's so sensitive.
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And of course, the main news here is that the campaign continues. Imagine thinking that's news at all.
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The Alberta election is nearing the end of its second week as United Conservative leader
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Danielle Smith dismisses concerns about over past musings about selling hospitals to private operators.
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Smith was hustled offstage Thursday after a handful of vocal placard waving protesters
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disrupted a news conference in Calgary. She later returned to take questions comparing the protesters
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to the opposition NDP and saying both seek to misrepresent her position on health care.
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So that's the news, eh? That's it. So an NDP candidate and a senior NDP organizer are placard-waving
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protesters and nothing about security or police whisking Smith away, which is safety, nothing about
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police being assaulted. There was just a disruption. No mention of the NDP identity of the protesters.
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They called the peaceful truckers terrorists for honking their horns, but attacking a cop and causing
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an assassination scare. It's just a protest, you see. And of course, they'll mention the NDP advertising
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the location of the event. Here's how Justin Trudeau's CBC state broadcaster treated the issue.
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A group interrupted a UCP event to protest a 2021 Danielle Smith video today. What's it all about? A group. I love
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that. And the group has a name, of course, NDP. If that's too much reporting, this is about obscuring
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facts, not revealing them. During a United Conservative Party event Thursday focused on a
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seniors discount, Pamela Rath, UCP candidate for Calgary Mountain View, was interrupted by a group
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of protesters. Oh, so Danielle Smith wasn't either? They interrupted. Rath was in the middle of a sentence
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discussing jobs and investments. When she looked to her left, there were a group of three protesters,
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a group holding signs like one that read for sale Foothills Hospital began shouting. One of the men
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wearing a tan colored hat was Patrick King, the NDP candidate in Calgary Signal Hill in the 2021
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federal election. Another unidentified man made it past event organizers and began to shout hospitals are
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not for sale. Organizers attempted to stop the man, but he was able to make it to the front of the stage
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where he stood unimpeded, holding up a sign for more than a minute before the UCP feed cut up.
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When it returned, UCP leader Danielle Smith addressed the incident. I think that activists,
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like we just saw here, and the NDP keep trying to confuse the issue, Smith said.
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So the CBC eventually did identify one of the men, give them that. Not in the headline,
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not in the lead, a group. And weird, they never mentioned that Smith herself was whisked away
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by police. Why? And they certainly never mentioned the assault on police. Why did they not see it?
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They were there. I'm 2000 miles away. You watch the TV report that actually went on air. It's even
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crazier. A UCP campaign announcement hijacked by protesters today. Party candidate Pamela Rath was
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cut off mid-speech as protesters, as you saw, rushed the stage area holding signs. One of them reading
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the Rocky View Hospital is up for sale. The announcement was paused as the protesters were
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ushered off stage. As you can see, the NDP condemned that disruption in a tweet.
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So as you just saw, concern over the privatization of healthcare is pushing some Albertans to act out.
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It stems from a video from a couple of years ago where Danielle Smith spoke about potential
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reforms to Alberta's health system. Got it. Danielle Smith provoked these
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disruptors. She caused it. And by the way, they didn't storm the floor and cancel the event. They
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just were acting out. Did the CBC cover the trucker convoy this way?
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No. It's not just the CBC. Here's CTV. They went to the head of the nurses union for reaction.
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The union representing nurses believes election spin is just pulling attention away from where it
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should be. People are still waiting 12 hours in the emergency room. And that's not acceptable.
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Oh, Cam Westhead. Seems like a really good source on this. But who's he? They said he had the
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nurses union. Why didn't they say this? He's a former NDP MLA. Why didn't CTV mention that?
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Did they truly not know? This CTV broadcast, they actually led with Rachel Notley's announcement
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first, then Smith's coverage. They rewarded the NDP dirty tricksters. Global News didn't mention NDP
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involvement at all. And spent more time on an NDP candidate's signs getting damaged. That's more
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important than an assassination scare. The police jumped in and whisked Smith away. Seriously.
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You just had some angry men shouting and storming the premier's event, assaulting police. Smith had to
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be rushed away. And that is the media coverage of it hiding NDP involvement, calling it much ado about
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nothing. A minor drama. Smith deserved it. She caused it. Are you serious? Yeah, deadly serious.
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I say this again and again in almost every news story about which I have first-hand knowledge.
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When I know what happened, when I see the regime media's coverage of it, it's spun, if not an outright
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lie. Now here, I don't have first-hand knowledge. I was not there, but I have two things. The raw video of
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what happened and the curiosity to Google the people who were talked to. Don't tell me the media party
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didn't know what they were doing. Why are their errors and omissions always pointing in the same
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direction? Anti-conservative, pro-NDP, pro-Trudeau. Why did they downplay violence against the right? For
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example, they never mentioned the attacks on our rebel news journalists. Why do they excuse violence
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violence committed by the left, especially Antifa and these thugs? I'm not overreacting. They
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assaulted a cop and committed trespass, but were let go with nothing. The NDP itself hasn't kicked them
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out. Never believe the media. Never. Not when they tell you they're afraid of the truckers or the
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proud boys or conservatives or Christians or whoever they're demonizing today. They're lying.
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They're not afraid. They're accusing you of what they're doing themselves.
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Stay with us. You know, I had a chat today with Sheila Gunn-Reed and Adam Sosa about this on our
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live stream. And I'd like to show you an excerpt of that. Take a look.
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Let's show what I think can only be called the storming. Maybe not a hurricane category five,
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more like a category two storm, but it was storming. These dirty tricksters stormed
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an event. And I'm going to watch it very carefully because I understand that they shoved a cop.
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One was restrained by like, this is not prickly journalism. This is not journalism at all.
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This is the premier of the province having her event stormed. And you're not even going to believe
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what I'm about to say. One of the stormers, de Sturmer, was an NDP candidate from the last federal
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election. Patrick King, I believe, was his name, no relation to the trucker. And another was Aaron.
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Oh, shoot. I just forgot his last name. A labor union organizer who has worked in the past
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on labor projects with Rachel Notley's husband. So you've got
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a labor union organizer who knows Mr. Notley, Lou Arabs' name, and an NDP candidate from the federal
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election 2021. Like these people are so brazen. They didn't even outsource this dirty tricksterism
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to some college kid. They did it themselves. Without further ado, take a look. And let's play this
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once and then maybe we'll even play it and pause in key moments a second time. Take a look.
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Hospitals are not for sale. Hospitals are not for sale. We saw your video about buying hospitals.
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Check it out. We've got a great offer. Yeah, this is a great opportunity for everybody in
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Alberta. Madam Premier, anything to say? Madam Premier, no? You have a lot to say about this not so long
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ago. Madam Premier, hospital for sale, anything? Yeah, you had a whole show to talk about this.
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We will not tell our arms and legs for hospitals. Hospitals should be public.
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They're going to cost us. That's not going to lie when you sell it, though, aren't they?
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You've already privatized lab services. How does it end?
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In this case, video silence, eh? That's all good. Yeah. We got all day.
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Yeah, we're here for a first hearing. It's all the time.
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Where's the security? Yeah, how did this go on this long?
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Yeah, so basically what happened was security moved, because one of the big concerns is they
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pretty much rushed, and I don't want to get into gender politics, but one, the Premier of Alberta,
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two, a lady, and intimidated her. Both things I have problems with. But security effectively
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enveloped her and moved her off to the side. It should cut over. If nothing else, I do have a shot.
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I think it's going to be here in a second, of them over to the side with the Premier, ensuring that
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she's safe. And then basically, at that point, it is shocking that they got in and they got that far.
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I believe it was Becca Pollock at that point, said, you've made your point. Get out of here.
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We're going to proceed. Daniel Smith was saying, you know what, I'm going to answer the question,
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but get out of here, and then I'll talk about it. At that point, yeah, there's a shot of me
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capturing the action. But then staff from the hotel actually came in and said, we're going to call the
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police. You will be charged with trespassing. And at that point, they left. So they clearly,
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these weren't just random people. They understood that sort of nuance of being formally informed that
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you're trespassing. At that point, they left pretty quickly. They were saying, we've got all
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day and we're not going anywhere. The second that language came up and the facility said,
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this is a private facility, that's when they cleared out. Yeah. Can we watch it again? And I
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don't know if it's possible to play it slow or if it just pause it. I want to watch this thing from
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the beginning. If you want to, yeah, play it a quarter feedback, a quarter speed. I just want to watch it.
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I had a tough time seeing anything besides that guy's gut hanging out of the bottom of his shirt.
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it. Okay. So go ahead and play it at a quarter speed.
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And then just let them go for a second. Just let them go. Here. Okay. So play it again. I want to see
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the preener being whisked away. Go back to the beginning, if you please. Thanks for your help.
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Go back to the beginning. I just want to watch. What's the very first part we can spot? Is she
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even at the mic at this point or was she rushed? It looks like she was not at the mic anymore.
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Looks like they maybe whisked her away right away. And some guy's running in the back.
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Someone who looks like security is pushing the bearded guy away, but then it looks like maybe the
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premier was. Yeah. So you can see behind them, they took the premier away and then they left
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them here. So thanks very much. We don't need to see anymore. So what we have here is a bunch of
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middle-aged guys storming a stage with, it looks like three women were there, the premier and two
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other women. Apparently the other women, the protective premier, but those other women there
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are expendable. Um, I think it is right to take the premier away. I mean, she is the protective person
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here, but, but why did they let these other, uh, blokes free just to listen? I, I'm not a security
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expert. So I, and I suppose they were clearly not being violent at this point, but, but why did that
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guy not escort them out of the room? I don't quite know. Well, you know, I think that go ahead, go ahead.
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No, no, no. I was just going to say, uh, like they, they tackle him and they just let him go.
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Like, you don't even know what this guy has in his pockets, what he's going to do. Uh, I, I found it,
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you know, kind of weird to see, okay, they grab him. He obviously is willing to wrestle a cop and they
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just let him go stand by these ladies who are sort of, I guess, shell shocked. What I can tell you though,
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is if you toss a little bit of gravel in the general direction of the prime minister,
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you're going to be flattened like a pancake and taken away in handcuffs. And these guys were treated
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with kid gloves. And I, I want to know why. Yeah. I wonder if some anti-mask or anti-vax protesters
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would have wrestled with a cop like that, if they would be caught and released within seconds and
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let go without criminal charge or, or yeah, you know, um, right now in Calgary, there's a pastor named
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Derek Reimer who merely for being near, um, uh, extreme, uh, cross-dressing, uh, what's a drag
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queen story hour is done. What three weeks in prison just for being near them. And here you have
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people breaking in, threatening the premier physically wrestling with cops and okay guys,
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no problem. See you next time. NDP candidate. Have your say. They let them have their say and
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even argue back and forth. Yeah. And, and so shoe on the other foot, what would have happened had
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three burly men stormed an event with, uh, Christia Freeland or what's her name? Catherine McKenna,
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the former environment minister, or Rachel Notley herself. We don't have to, we don't have to wonder
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that guy in Grand Prairie yelled at Christia Freeland and they investigated him for a hate crime.
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I remember exactly the case you're talking about. They merely hollered, he merely hollered at her,
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not disrupting an event. Let's take a look at what Trudeau CBC state broadcaster that can't shut up
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about microaggressions and gender rising things. And, um, what do they have to say about a couple of,
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uh, white dudes, middle aged, burly white dudes. Normally those are the hated people in the CBC,
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but, uh, let's see what they have to say today. Take a look.
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A UCB campaign announcement hijacked by protesters today. Party candidate Pamela Rath was cut off mid
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speech as protesters, as you saw, rushed the stage area holding signs. One of them reading
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the Rocky View hospital is up for sale. The announcement was paused as the protesters were
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ushered off stage. As you can see, the NDP condemned that disruption in a tweet.
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Thanks for staying up with us. I'm Rob Brown. So as you just saw, concern over the privatization
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of healthcare is pushing some Albertans to act out. It stems from a video from a couple of years ago,
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where Danielle Smith spoke about potential reforms to Alberta's health system.
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Our Joel Dryden has the details in our top story.
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We're right here. She can say anything that she wants.
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That we're having and you're disrespecting everybody here.
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Their protest ties back to an NDP event on Wednesday and a 2021 video of Danielle Smith.
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In the video, Smith suggests if AHS isn't meeting terms,
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then the province could issue a request for proposals for private entities to run hospitals
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Fiona Clement specializes in health policy at the University of Calgary.
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It's the same kind of law as the private surgical delivery system.
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I mean, she's absolutely correct in her interpretation of what's allowable and what's possible.
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Clement notes that's not to say anything about how effective
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So I should let you know that it was Danielle Smith who pushed them to do this.
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And by the way, they never disclose that these, quote, protesters are senior NDP activists.
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I just sent you, Olivia, the CBC headline, which I'm sure you have there, a group.
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They said the NDP condemned the protest, but they didn't say that the NDP inspired it and tweeted out
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exactly the location so that not only protesters would go there, which I think they were already
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organized by the NDP if I had to speculate, but they were hoping that other ones would go too,
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because the NDP tweeted out the location of this event and CBC also refused to disclose that.
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You know, we're talking about very serious matters here.
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It certainly would be a national crisis if the shoe were on the other foot.
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Imagine if some dirty tricksters in their 40s and 50s from the UCP stormed a Notley event,
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one of whom was a former candidate, one of whom was a senior organizer.
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But I want to show you see that guy there, Patrick King, and you see he's wearing that hat there.
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Patrick King of the NDP is such a loser. I'm not saying you can't wear a hat.
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My dear friend David Menzies wears a hat, and I think it suits him.
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Cowboy hats, there's some people for whom it's a fixture.
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I got good friends who wear ball caps all the time, and I get it.
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Tim Pool, part of his persona is that toque he wears, or beanie, as they call it in America.
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I'm not anti-hat, but when you are sort of a young guy wearing a fedora like that in that way,
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it looks like he got the safari fat flaps tucked up this time, then I can mock you because you,
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look at that picture of him. Look at his official biography picture.
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Did he think there were going to be elephants there yesterday? Like, why is he dressed like that?
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Was it like he had to wait to keep the sun off his head?
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You know, our alumnus, Gavin McInnes, says that there's a place for bullying.
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And I'm not sure I want to go that far because bullying implies a cruelty and a malice and an unfairness
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that I don't subscribe to. But I think what he means is just public peer pressure to jostle people
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back into some norms. And if that's what Gavin means, I think that Patrick King needs to be
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given what would be called an attitude readjustment on that hat.
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Just starting there, like a guy wearing that hat needs an attitude readjustment, just a friendly way.
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And maybe he'll stop doing other antisocial things like storming events from women
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and shouting over them. The hat's the giveaway. I'll tell you right now, he's a male feminist.
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If you are wearing that hat, you are a male feminist.
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People who wear those hats don't actually go outside. That's what I've learned.
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Like you want to give the perception of being outdoorsy, but you don't actually go outside.
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The guy at the store said I'm the only one he's ever seen pulling off.
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If I may, one thing that I did want to get to, and then we can do the haberdashery breakdown.
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Over to you, Adam. Take it away. Make this serious again.
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That was incredibly interesting here. Listen, these people clearly are associated in the NDP. I don't
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know if they were hired by them. I don't know if Rachel Notley asked them to go. They claim they
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didn't. But whatever happened, they were clearly doing something inspired by the comments of Rachel
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Notley and the NDP. That's why they were there. That's why they were shouting those sentiments.
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But I very likely think beyond the sort of evident point slip you're going to see in the NDP from
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this disruption, I think that they've awakened Daniel Smith. At a few of these events, Daniel Smith has come
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out, issued sort of bland statements about saving 700 bucks on taxes, which is great, or a 25% tax cut
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on registry, or cost cut on registry services. Okay, wonderful, great. These aren't sort of key
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critical things. After that disruption, after those people burst in, and after Daniel Smith was pushed
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away, I think she had a bit of an adrenaline rush. Because when she came back, it was a little bit more
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rock and roll. She was going after the NDP. She seemed engaged. I don't know if this is a conscientious
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UCP strategy to have her ramp up towards the election. But the previous events have not felt
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rock and roll. They haven't felt exciting. I'll give the NDP credit. Their events, it was music,
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it was boisterous. The UCP events have felt a little bit drab. This is the first time I really felt like
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Daniel Smith was sort of speaking from the heart, wearing her heart on her sleeve a little bit.
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And a few journalists that I talked to there shared the sentiment that they think this is a turning
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point, not just because of what just what happened, because those people disrupted the event, but
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because Daniel Smith and the UCP, who have been sort of on the defensive, who've been sitting back,
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are now saying, you know what, enough is enough. It was interesting to see. And I hope that continues.
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I will echo Adam's sentiment that these people are being radicalized by NDP rhetoric and lies.
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And I worry that it's only a matter of time before somebody is hurt. Yeah. Thanks to just the
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superheated nonsense that Rachel Notley is spewing at these low information voters who are
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on just a little bit too much CBC. You know, that's exactly right. I mean,
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I always thought this about the left calling Trump a Nazi. Like that's laughable to me. And I think it's
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laughable to, it's laughable to half the world. Another 40% say, well, we know he's not a Nazi,
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but we know what you mean. 10% say, yeah, I'm really worried. He's going to take away all my rights.
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1% says, well, yeah, maybe he really is a Nazi. And maybe one, maybe one in 10,000. So 1% and 1% says,
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oh, he's a Nazi because these authoritative people say so. I've never seen any rebuttal to it. I think
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he's a Nazi. And then maybe 1% and 1% and 1% or maybe one in a million people says,
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oh my God, he's a Nazi. And I have to stop him by any means necessary. We all know the
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thought experiment. Would you go back in time and kill baby Hitler?
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If you could, to save the course of the world. And if maybe one in a million people actually
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believes that Trump is a Nazi, well, that's 300 and some people in America who would act on that
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if they could. And I'm not saying, I'm not saying the leftist thing of, you know, words are violence.
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But if you say something that insane, why are you saying that endlessly?
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Right. Ezra, but more to your point, sorry to cut you off, but that is the problem here. The left
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thinks that words are violence. So if somebody is committing violence against you, you are now
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justified in responding in kind. And that's the real problem here. When Rachel Notley is saying,
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you're going to sell off a hospital and privatize healthcare and people are going to die. What's your
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thought experiment? If I stop this, I'm going to save lives and I'm going to be a hero because I'm just
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a useless, over-soyed man in a stupid hat and I've never done anything good for anybody in my life.
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Now's my chance to save lives. What's the next natural step except violence from these people?
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Yeah. And these are, and these are folks who reach for violence. There is no right-wing equivalent
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to Antifa. There's not. No. The, the left tried to make the proud boys into that. Proud boys
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is a, is a, is a pub crawl. It's a fraternity. It's a drinking club. Yeah. Yeah. Um, there is no
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movement on the left like that. And of course, Rachel Notley would, has never, and will never
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condemn Antifa because they're her street teams. They're her street gangs. Last, oh, you know what?
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I, I, uh, it's, it's almost the top of the hour. Adam, let's close with last thoughts to you.
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You can either introduce the Rachel Emanuel vid or, or have your closing thoughts in general.
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Yeah. Rachel Emanuel obviously doing some incredible stuff. I think that opens a whole
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different conversation. There's some, there's some distinct questions there. Um, but I, I did
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want to say that ultimately, I think what this election will come down to, uh, is whether people
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believe the things that the NDP say, or if they look at the, I'll be an imperfect track record of
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the UCP. And that's what Danielle Smith asked people to do at this conference. She was saying,
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I hope that the media will simply be fair, present the facts as they are. And she asked not to be
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judged on promises that are unlikely, uh, to, to be realized by the NDP, but on the actions that she
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has taken. I I'm, I'm ever the optimist. I, I tweeted the other night that I really do want
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to have a conversation with Rachel Notley. I just want to ask her fair questions. Um, I, I want to have
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authentic conversations so that our viewers can have an informed opinion when it comes time to vote.
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That's ultimately what I'm after. Uh, unfortunately, Rachel Notley is imitating the federal liberals.
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Um, Rachel Notley is engaging in, in very anti-democratic practices. And for anyone in
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Alberta, wherever you sit, wherever you are on the spectrum, that should be extremely concerning
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to you. So, uh, hopefully people will take some time to actually look at the issues, not believe the
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buzzwords, not believe the hype, uh, the, the empty sentiment of love, tolerance, and sharing that the
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NDP, uh, profess while everything they practice seems to, seems to signal otherwise. So I urge
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people out there to just sort of take a strong, hard look at the facts. Yeah. Well, Adam and Sheila,
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great to catch up with you. The election is less than three weeks away. Um, and the latest polling
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I've seen suggests that it will be a modest, uh, UCP government. I think that's probably right.
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Uh, I think it, it avoids the, um, self-destruct button that Rachel Notley, um, uh, embodies.
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I think it gives Danielle Smith a chance to grow and to improve. Yeah. I, I think that, um,
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she will be a more seasoned premier. Obviously she's never been premier before,
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Well, that's our show for today. It's great to be back. I apologize for being away for days.
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I felt motivated to come back, but you would not have wanted to see me or, or listen to me. Uh,
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don't worry. I'm, I'm fine. It's just that some, I had some, uh, oral surgery and I, I looked and
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sounded atrocious and I just couldn't go on TV like that. I just couldn't do it. Um, but I'll be
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here on Monday and, um, I do have one more day. I'm going to be, I have some oral surgery in a couple
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of weeks, but I will do my best to be here as much as possible. And I'm really grateful to the
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team that covers for me when I'm away. What do you think of that Danielle Smith thing? Hey,
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I mean, I, I'm not being hypersensitive, but when you storm into an event like that and when security
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is on edge anyways, because there was a gun incident at the legislature the day before
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and the media laughs it off, they hide the identity of who did it and just move on.
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You know, they wouldn't do that if the shoe is on the other foot.
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That's our show for today until Monday on behalf of all of us here at rebel world headquarters to you
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at home. Good night and keep fighting for freedom.