EZRA LEVANT ｜ The federal government published a lie about the truckers and the regime media just ran with it
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An official lie spread by the government about the Freedom Truckers. Well, blow me over. I'll take you through that. And we'll also have a great chat with our friend Sheila Gunn-Reed, coming up.
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Hello, my friends. A great story in BlackLocks.ca today. As you know, they're one of the few
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independent media groups out there, along with us and True North and Western Standard. And
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I subscribe to them. I really appreciate their work. And boy, they got a doozy. An official
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lie, official misinformation spread by the government about the truckers. Well, blow me
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over. I'll take you through that. And we'll also have a great chat with our friend Sheila Gunn-Reed
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Tonight, the federal government published a lie about the truckers, and the regime media just
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ran with it. It's June 6, and this is The Ezra LeVant Show.
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You're fighting for freedom. Shame on you, you censorious bug.
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It's June 6, and before we go on, we have to remember what that day means. It's the anniversary
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of D-Day, the greatest invasion in history, when the Allies attacked the beaches of Normandy,
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France, sailing across the English Channel. It was the beginning of the end for the European
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front of the Second World War. It soon became a race who would go faster, who would reclaim
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territory faster, the democratic allies coming from Normandy, Canada, the United States, the UK,
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or the Red Army. Stalin's troops crushing in from the east. It became very important, because
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where the two armies stopped is where the battle lines for the Cold War would end. But I think back
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to the D-Day landings, and how they were young men, much younger than me, some of them teenagers,
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of course, willing to sail onto a beach under machine gun and heavier fire than that to attack
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and liberate countries. And I ask, how would they look at us today? The enormous sacrifices they made,
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the price that they paid, the freedoms they fought for, what would they say to us if they could see
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us now? I don't know if there's any veterans from that who are still alive. I doubt it. They'd be
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over 100. I wonder what they would make of us. That's June 6th. Let me tell you a story that ran
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today in June 6th. I saw it in Black Locks, which is one of the very few independent news outlets in
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Canada. Like us, they take no government money. This is the headline. It caught my eye.
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Government faked security bulletin. The Department of Public Safety issued a false security bulletin
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claiming it had confirmation. Freedom Convoy protesters ransacked federal office buildings.
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Access to information records show, the story goes on, the operations center on the first day of
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Freedom Convoy protests outside Parliament Hill on January 28, 2022, issued the security bulletin
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at 3.54 p.m. Eastern. We have received confirmation that protesters have started to enter office
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buildings in the Ottawa downtown core and are allegedly causing damage, said the bulletin.
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As a result, Minto Place is going into WeCound lockdown mode. All entrance doors will be locked,
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effective immediately. Oh, wow. So they've certainly taken that report seriously.
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But here's how Black Locks explains it. There was no incident involving protesters in office
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buildings. The Public Safety Department yesterday would not account for the source of the disinformation.
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So Black Locks actually called up public safety and they refused to say who made it up.
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Departmental records earlier released through the Public Order Emergency Commission
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disclosed that staff sought to discredit protesters as violent, even if allegations were untrue.
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Quote, some of their more extreme comments, i.e. calling for a January 6th-style insurrection,
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are getting more coverage in the media, staff wrote in a January 24, 2022 text.
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There could be an opportunity to get in on this growing narrative of the truckers.
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To get in on it, eh? So it's not about the truth. Let's get this narrative going.
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It goes on. Let me show you that memo. I got a copy of this Black Locks Access to Information
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for questions. It's their research, but I was so interested in it. I took a look at the document
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myself. Look at document number 137. This is the memo that was circulated. Update. We have received
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confirmation that protesters have started to enter our office buildings in the Ottawa downtown core
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and are allegedly causing damage. As a result, mental place is going into weekend lockdown mode.
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All entrance doors will be locked effective immediately. The situation is being closely monitored
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as we are getting updates from various sources and will provide further updates as events unfold.
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Signed, Harry Gill, CPA, CMA, Assistant Deputy, Acting Deputy Assistant Commissioner,
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and Agency Security Officer, Finance and Administration Branch, Canada Revenue Agency.
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Now, that was a pretty categorical statement by Harry Gill. Now, wasn't it?
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It wasn't just an allegation or a rumor. The senior bureaucrat, Harry Gill, Deputy Acting Assistant
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Commissioner or whatever, he says that it was, in fact, confirmed. Various sources closely monitoring.
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Protesters are entering. They are causing damage. They're entering the buildings and causing damage.
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But then he throws the word allegedly in there, which is weird, since he just said it was confirmed
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and was giving details and said multiple sources said it. He says mental place, which is a large
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bridge building downtown, says they were on lockdown mode. This was sent to everyone in the regime.
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Here, take a look at these documents. Again, this is Blacklock's access to information request.
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Look at how many people Harry Gill emailed this lie to. Everyone got this report that was confirmed.
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So this wasn't an allegation or a rumor. It was confirmed. Take it from the big boss.
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Protesters were sacking the downtown court. Except it was a wicked lie.
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But it was all the regime that media needed to confirm their prejudices against the truckers.
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Let me read more from the Blacklock's report today.
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Records indicate several media corporations acted on advice that protesters were violent.
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The Canadian Parliamentary Press Gallery, in a February 1st, 2022 letter to the Commons Speaker,
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Some of our members have been harassed by protesters of the truck convoy in the last few days,
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and we cannot afford to be left exposed without protection for hours outside the building,
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wrote Catherine Levesque of the National Post, then Press Gallery president.
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CBC-TV assigned security guards to protect reporters assigned to cover the Freedom Convoy.
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Quote, at CBC, in order to go out, you need one-to-one security guards,
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reported Judy Trin until the March 8th, 2022 seminar at Carleton University.
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Your camera would have a security guard, and the reporter would have a security guard,
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No Freedom Convoy demonstrator was ever charged with any misconduct involving a reporter.
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Remember the protesters were committing an arson in an apartment building?
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But this lie we're talking about today is from the heart of government,
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The government phoned every landlord in the city and apparently told them that lie?
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All downtown landlords were contacted, and buildings are on weekend mode or lockdown.
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In addition, many of them have put emergency plans in place and are ready to respond as necessary.
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The situation is being closely monitored as we are getting updates from various sources,
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and we'll provide further updates as events unfold.
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I can imagine if you called a landlord from the government.
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We have confirmed reports that truckers are ransacking offices.
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Of course you're going to listen to them, especially if it's the government, and it's confirmed.
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It wasn't the truckers who planted fear and shut down the city.
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It was the government who planted the fear, who blamed the truckers, but they were the ones.
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Incredibly, there were some more sober-minded people in the regime, and they said, no, no, that's just not happening.
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They never phoned the landlords and said, hey, you know what?
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And here's France LePage, assistant deputy director, big bureaucrat, who actually pointed out, update, public safety, PSPC, that's the public safety department, advised that all downtown landlords were contacted and buildings are on weekend mode or locked.
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In addition, many of them have put emergency plans in place and are ready to respond as necessary.
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But look at this, also indicated the information about vandalism at Minto is not factual.
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They didn't call the landlords to tell them, though.
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Who challenged the crazy claim that people were sacking offices?
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Only black locks when the few independent voices left it.
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You can see the government was sort of panicking about the question.
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Blacklocks.ca, reporter's deadline, ASAP, publishing timeline, today, interview requests.
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Did CRA management at any point from the start of the truckers' protest Friday claim to have confirmation that protesters were looting office buildings?
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Does CRA management still believe that to be true?
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How did CRA management get, quote, confirmation?
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The Canada Revenue Agency has no knowledge of any looting in CRA-owned or CRA-occupied buildings located in Ottawa this past weekend.
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But they were talking about other buildings, too, weren't they?
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They claim they have no knowledge, but is that true?
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Because Harry Gill, a deputy boss, said it was confirmed.
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And if the truckers actually weren't bad, and if Trudeau isn't really good, well, so what?
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And when the truth comes out a year later, well, the lie is already well spread.
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You literally have, to this day, liberal politicians saying that the truckers were terrorists.
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I mean, I was just aghast this weekend that, you know, there's a bouncy castle and there's a hot tub.
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David, I wanted to go up there and poke that hot tub myself and let the water flow out of it
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and unplug that damn bouncy castle because it's just a symbol of the frustration that's gone on for 19 days in the Capitol.
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So, yes, we are making changes to do everything that we can do to end this illegal occupation of our city.
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This group is emboldened by the lack of enforcement by every level of government.
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They are terrorizing our residents, torturing them with incessant honking, threatening them and preventing them from leading their lives.
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People cannot go to work or open their businesses.
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They cannot sleep, walk, shop, go to medical appointments or enjoy their neighborhood.
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What we're seeing is bigger than just a city of Ottawa problem.
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We need a concrete plan to put an end to this now.
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You know, there was some violence during the convoy, of course.
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It was directed at another one of the independent journalists in this country, our own Alexa Lavoie.
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Yeah, real violence from the government, not fake violence smeared on the truckers.
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Well, I enjoyed staying on the studio until it was about 1 a.m. Eastern time on the night of the Alberta election.
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Of course, the Alberta election was on mountain time, so I was a little bit pooped.
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But I had to go early, and it was a very interesting night.
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It was a night of relief for me because I was genuinely worried that the socialist NDP had a real chance of winning.
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In fact, there was a while there where the NDP seemed to be ahead in the polls, even incredibly in Calgary.
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That seemed to stop when Danielle Smith had a great debate performance, and Rachel Notley was uncharacteristically wobbly.
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And even strange things like wearing conservative blue.
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I'm not saying that was an important or decisive moment.
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But I think the NDP didn't really know what they were doing in the debate, whereas Danielle Smith knew exactly what she was doing, stopped the bleeding of votes, built up confidence, and went on to win.
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I looked at the stats afterwards, and I know it's been a week, but forgive me.
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Danielle Smith was only down 2% and change from where Jason Kenney was in his huge unifying victory in 2019.
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2019, Jason Kenney comes back, unites the Wild Rose Party and the Conservative Party into one.
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And the NDP were atrocious for four years, brought in the carbon tax, almost destroyed the province.
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Well, here we are four years later, and Danielle Smith was just a touch, just a fraction below that.
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Despite the most abusive, war room-style, unfair critiques and propaganda I've ever seen by the CBC in Alberta, it was astonishing.
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The reason why the seat count fell, however, is that anyone who didn't vote for the Conservatives coalesced around the NDP.
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There used to be sort of a vanity party in Alberta called the Alberta Party that, if I recall, got about 9% in the last election.
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The Liberal Party of Alberta, seriously, Justin Trudeau's party, provincially, got less than 1%.
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What I'm saying is, if you weren't for Danielle Smith, you were only for Rachel Notley's socialists.
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So, it wasn't so much that Danielle Smith's support fell, but rather that Rachel Notley sopped up the anybody-but-conservative A, B, C vote.
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But a question immediately poses, and I'll bring in our next guest in a moment to talk about it.
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Would Jason Kenney have won had he remained his premier?
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And I mentioned that not just because it's an interesting academic exercise in alternative history,
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but because there was a moment there where I truly believe Jason Kenney was no longer a conservative.
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He was destroying the values that conservatives believe in, property rights, individual choice, freedom of religion, freedom of association,
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all the things that the lockdowns and the forced vaccines were taking away from us.
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But many people in the conservative party said, Ezra, you and Rebel News are going to re-elect Rachel Notley.
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Sure, he's not great these days, but he's better than Rachel Notley.
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As you may know, 30 years ago, I was active in the conservative party.
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Join the team, or you are strengthening Rachel Notley.
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But alas, we could not hold our tongue because we're not partisans.
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Danielle Smith came in, and boy, it looked wobbly for a bit there, but alas, she won.
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Well, to paraphrase our dear friend, Ralph Klein, welcome to another Miracle on the Prairies.
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I've got some poll numbers to show you, but first, let's introduce our guest who really
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She's our Alberta Bureau Chief, our Chief Reporter in general, and my good friend, Sheila Gunn-Reed.
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And thanks for doing the great work that you do.
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I was nervous there about a week out from the election because I was worried that my
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They're saying, Ezra, you and Rebel News criticized Jason Kenney so hard you knocked him out of
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And I thought, oh, brother, maybe they were right, but didn't turn out that way.
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No, and I think Jason Kenney would have been the person who reelected Rachel Notley.
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And part of that has to do with Jason Kenney hanging on as long as he did before going to
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a leadership review when it was becoming increasingly clear that he was wildly unpopular with the
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And he sort of ragged the puck on that leadership review, which left Danielle Smith with really
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not very much runway for people to get to know her.
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And if people had gotten to know her and she was able to implement some policies that didn't
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cause the sky to fall the way the media and the NDP said that they would, she would have
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that little bit of cushion where she wasn't this unknown quantity for a lot of people who
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are new to Alberta or skeptical of her past floor crossing or some of her, you know, more
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And so she basically became premier, had a little bit of time to get out of the pandemic
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So I think if there were some sort of catastrophe a week ago, the blame probably would have rested
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And of course, our job is to speak honestly and give our opinions.
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It's our role to report the facts, give our honest opinions, express our values and give
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I mean, my God, if all they consumed was the CBC, they'd be full of Trudopian propaganda.
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The events that happened were caused by the actors in the main case, Jason Kenney.
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We are observers and, you know, we're not going to be blind to what the actors are doing.
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Jason Kenney was acting a lot like Justin Trudeau.
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And, Sheila, this is what I want to talk about, because in my bones, I think Jason Kenney
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would have lost because he wouldn't wouldn't have picked up any voters in Edmonton that would
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I think he would have held most of the rural parts, if not all.
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But I think there were ridings in Calgary that they were people were just a lot of people.
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You know, I think a lot of true blue conservatives and Christian conservatives and leave me alone
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privacy conservative libertarians just they would not stomach voting for him.
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But here's a study by a company called Research Co.
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And their pollster, Mario Canseco, he's been polling for decades.
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So maybe he doesn't have a lot of personal knowledge about Alberta.
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He asked conservative voters, would you have voted for Jason Kenney had he been the leader?
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And the number plunges, especially in Calgary and most pointedly in the rural parts.
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You take 30 percent off the conservative vote in in some really rock ribbed right wing ridings
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and in rural Alberta, you're still going to win for the UCP.
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But if you look in Calgary, which was sort of iffy, if there were about five or six ridings
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in Calgary and one in Lethbridge, that Danielle Smith won by just a few percent.
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If you look at the closest ridings in Calgary and Lethbridge, I take Mario Canseco's poll
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and you chop five, 10 percent off the UCP vote because people are so mad at Jason Kenney.
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All of a sudden, there is no majority for the UCP.
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And remember, there's one independent candidate.
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Now, it would at best be a tie and more likely a notly win.
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Mario Canseco's poll asking the question, would you still support Kenny had he run?
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And proves that pragmatically it was the right thing to get rid of him.
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I've always said morally it was, but even pragmatically it was.
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Danielle Smith saved Alberta from Rachel Notley to whom Jason Kenney was going to hand the government.
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Jason Kenney did two things in his time here in Alberta provincial politics.
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But then he united the left around Rachel Notley.
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In Alberta, the progressive vote coalesces around Rachel Notley in the way that the progressive
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vote coalesces around Justin Trudeau federally.
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So it is really a two-party system here, much the same as it is federally, even though they
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But to prove your point, you look at what happened to a cabinet minister named Tyler
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Shandro in Calgary, Acadia, which is generally a conservative stronghold.
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He's a cabinet minister or he was a cabinet minister.
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He was the chief locker downer under Jason Kenney.
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He lost his seat in a recount now that has added to the NDP cushion.
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Shandro has been amazing on gun rights in the last four months, five months.
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That's Danielle Smith trying to save his butt because she gave him a file that she knows
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It's a red meat conservative issue and everybody will support him on that issue.
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But 25 conservatives could not stomach casting a vote for him and he lost his seat because
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Why would that one district despise Shandro 20%?
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People outside Alberta say, what are you talking about?
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It was built as sort of like a private apartment for the premier of the day more than a decade
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It was a scandal back then because it was so luxurious.
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And it's called the Sky Palace because it's a patio on a skyscraper.
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Except for when you banned all the little people from having their gatherings, their
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weddings, their funerals, their Christmas dinners, their churches.
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You can't even go to a gym, a restaurant, a bar, a school.
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And then these masters of the universe have this Sky Palace, white tablecloth, boozy party.
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And they look down below at the people like ants and they say, how dare they get together?
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And Tyler Shandra was in the photograph and Jason Kenney was in the photograph and all
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the honchos were in the photograph that you can't undo that.
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And it changes the character of the entire lockdown from something.
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This is about me controlling you and having different rules for myself.
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He was the most prominent locker downer and he had to go.
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Maybe that was the right thing to do just to pull that party together.
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No, I'm saying she tried to save him by giving him the gun rights file.
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Really, that was her attempt to redeem him from the things that he had done previously,
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to rebrand him as a Smith conservative instead of a Kenney conservative.
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And I think Calgary Acadia would have gone UCP if there was a different person in that riding.
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And the fact that he lost 20 points, but Smith held the total loss to two points,
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So that's what was weird is Kenney was kicked out, but all the other leadership candidates
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were part of the Kenney regime, obviously, because they were all MLAs or cabinet ministers.
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Sorry, one or two of them had expressed some contrariness.
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But Danielle Smith was most clearly the outsider and she was resented.
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Anyways, I'm pleased to say that Alberta will live to fight another day.
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And people say, oh, come on, stop being so dramatic.
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When you say Alberta will be gone forever, Alberta would still be there.
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It would be like Detroit 2023 versus Detroit 1923.
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Why should Alberta forever be the freest, most prosperous place?
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And, you know, it's ironic because in a way, Danielle Smith installed Rachel Notley eight
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But in a scandalous move, when she was leader of the opposition back then, on the eve of
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an election, she cut a secret deal with the PC party to basically merge and take away the
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opposition and say to the public, oh, no, we're all in agreement.
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You really don't need to vote because we all agree.
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The public was so outraged by that anti-democratic move.
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They put Rachel Notley and they were so disgusted by Danielle Smith and the PC party today.
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So in a way, Danielle Smith sentenced Alberta to four years of Notley socialism.
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But then perhaps it's a redemption story, Sheila.
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That same person who sentenced Alberta to four years gave Alberta a reprieve and saved it from
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There's something almost like a Greek tragedy here, but maybe in reverse, that Danielle Smith
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redeemed herself, redeemed the province, saved it, made up for it, and saved Alberta not
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only from Notley, but from Kenney, who would have handed it to Notley.
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I look forward to her, to having a, getting her sea legs under her.
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Jason Kenney didn't even meet with her to be a transition.
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Normally, a president hands a baton to her successor.
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Your predecessor, did you get, he made, he promised to have an orderly transition, as
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Did you, did you have a chance to talk to the former premier?
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I reached out to him and he did, he has not accepted my invitation for a meeting.
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And I think my fellow Canadians should be glad that she went too, because Danielle Smith
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is really sort of Canada's Ron DeSantis, in that she is sometimes the first to go out
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on freedom-minded issues, although our friends in Saskatchewan are quietly leading the way.
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But, you know, she's leading the issue on appointing our own chief firearms officer,
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fighting with the feds on energy issues, on net zero issues, on gun rights, on a whole
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host of issues, and the other provinces then have the bravery to say us too.
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Yukon says us too, and Saskatchewan says us too, and then Manitoba says us too, and then
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So she tends to be a leader on these freedom-minded issues.
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So the freer Alberta is, and the better that Danielle Smith does in leading our province,
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I think the freer Canada will be at the end of the day.
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And while it was close this time, I think like Ron DeSantis, who won basically by a
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statistical rounding error in his first election and then blew it out four years later, I think
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if Danielle Smith now is able to shake off the shackles of Jason Kenney, rebrand that
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party as something her own, get rid of the Kenney stigma, and start making some changes
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fast so she can teach those chicken littles in the media that the sky is not going to fall
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and everything's going to be fine, I think we will see Calgary return to confidence in
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And I don't know if Edmonton can be turned around.
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Well, I mean, listen, there's a lot of good people.
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It's the doorway to Fort Mac and the oil sands.
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I went to school there for four years and, you know, I mean, there's a rivalry between
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Calgary and Edmonton, but you have to love Edmonton too.
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And I don't know if that's a problem that can be solved for Danielle Smith.
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You don't want that part of the province to feel perennially marginalized or left out.
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It is the heart of government and civil service bureaucrats, institutions like the university.
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And like, maybe there's something inherently left wing about the place.
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And I believe that Rebel News had a positive role to play the whole time.
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I believe we were candid, honest, ethical critics of Jason Kenney in good faith.
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I believe we put aside our personal friendship with them and to speak the truth to it.
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I believe we stood by the truckers who made him blink and we were their megaphone.
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I believe we covered Danielle Smith very vigorously and in our own way, paved the way for her to
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I think Rebel News has a role to play in Alberta.
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And especially seeing the kind of wicked lies coming out of the CBC.
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See, to this day, the CBC is publishing some disinformation, claiming that Danielle Smith
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interfered with prosecutors by sending, quote, emails.
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But a massive search by the public service, more than a million emails reviewed, not a single
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All 44 prosecutors who worked on the files and questions testified that they had not received
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All 32 staff in the premier's office testified they had not sent an email.
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A former judge named Marguerite Trussler said there was no evidence whatsoever that these
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And the CBC itself grudgingly admitted they hadn't even seen them.
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And yet they published that these damning emails exist.
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What is that but state propaganda designed to destroy a political enemy of Trudeau?
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So you still have a strong, not the opposition.
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So a bit of a breather for Danielle Smith, but the battle starts anew.
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I think she's going to have her cabinet in place by as soon as this weekend.
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And just on the flip side of those comments, I think our job remains making sure that Danielle
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Smith keeps her promises to Albertans that we are completely independent.
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And I think for Alberta to do well, it needs a fiscally conservative government.
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But at the same time, all the forces of the universe are currently acting on Danielle
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The mainstream media, the opposition, the federal government, the public sector, the judicial
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All those things are working to pull her to the left.
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We need to be on the right, pulling her back in the right direction.
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And that is why our criticism of Jason Kenney hit home, because people knew that we liked
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him, that we were friends with him, that we were supporters of him.
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And so our criticisms of him were not in bad faith.
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And it's almost like a man bites dog versus dog bites man.
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I mean, people know we criticize Trudeau every day.
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But when Rebel News, when Sheila Gunn-Reed, when Ezra LeVant, when Adam Sows, the rest
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of our Alberta team criticizes Jason Kenney, let's stop and pay attention, because what's
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We had the courage to call out our personal friends who were making moral errors.
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You're our chief reporter and our Alberta bureau chief.
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And both of those positions had an oversized role to play in the events we just discussed.
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Your Letters to Me, Wren 500, says, Europe is controlled by unelected tyrannical bureaucrats.
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The UK, which is one of the oldest democracies and the healthiest democracies in the world,
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despite its warts, it's the best, its decisions were being made in Brussels.
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And I think that the substance of it and just the emotional realization that the UK was not master of its own home.
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I think that was in 2016, if my memory is correct.
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But it took years for the Brexit to be effectuated because the elite said, no, no, no, you didn't really mean that.
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So the UK got out and there are exit movements in many other European countries of varying degree.
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You have political parties, mainstream political parties in most European countries that have a Brexit orientation.
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It's sort of incredible that the European Union would seek to rule an American company, but why not?
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We're still figuring out a few things, but I think we're getting closer there.
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I'm sorry I was away for most of next week, but I look forward to really inhabiting the place this week.
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Peter Story says, hey, man, it is wonderful to see you back in the saddle looking good.
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Well, Peter, I thank you for your baseless compliments, but keep them coming.
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And again, thanks to everyone who held the fort when I was away.
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You know, we've got some exciting stories coming up in the days and weeks ahead.
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An incredible story coming to you actually from Toronto that will shock you.
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I don't want to give too much away, but let me put it this way.
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It's about the pro-hard-drug-free-needle crazy public policy in this city.
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As you may know, we're suing the federal government for blocking us on their government Twitter accounts.
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I'm talking about official government Twitter accounts.
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We're actually going to the federal court on, I think it's Tuesday.
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So there's a lot cooking, and I hope to cover it either from this table here or from in the field.
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Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home, good night.