Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ Why every Canadian should support Danielle Smith, and every Albertan should vote for her

00:00:00.000 tonight why every canadian should support danielle smith and every albertan

00:00:20.500 should vote for her it's may 26 and this is the ezra levant show

00:00:24.480 the alberta election is on monday and i'm going to say something rebel news has actually never said

00:00:44.740 in our entire history we are making a formal partisan endorsement we've never done that

00:00:50.840 before actually not for andrew sheer not for erin o'toole not for maxime bernier not for doug

00:00:55.300 ford or jason kenney we have never formally black backed a candidate or a party because part of our

00:01:01.320 identity and part of the reason why people trust us because they know we hold all politicians to

00:01:05.780 account especially those who call themselves conservatives and we don't like to get too

00:01:10.520 chummy with any politician we don't want to ingratiate ourselves with them because we don't

00:01:14.780 want any favors from them we don't want them to think we're beholden to them at all i like it

00:01:19.600 when conservative politicians are a little bit afraid of rebel news they should be precisely

00:01:23.900 because they don't control us the reason why justin trudeau loves the cbc and gives him 1.5

00:01:29.800 billion dollars a year is because this is how the cbc's journalists treat him i don't want to be that

00:01:35.680 way with conservative politicians i want canadians to trust us not canadian politicians and you can't

00:01:41.200 have both but i have to make an endorsement because i believe a lot is at stake in alberta and it's a

00:01:46.560 confusing time for some conservatives in that province and i believe rebel news itself has had

00:01:51.480 some influence in that province over the past few years in politics and i believe in all modesty that

00:01:56.680 we are one of the reasons why there is an election on monday at all and it looks like albertans want

00:02:02.660 this election and know a lot is at stake advanced polls have been open for a few days and voter turnout

00:02:07.160 looks like it is about the same as last time when 1.9 million people voted out of a possible 2.8 million

00:02:13.860 registered voters so 68 percent which is pretty high compare that to 54 percent in bc's last election

00:02:19.880 or just 43 percent turnout in ontario's last election albertans know things are at stake and

00:02:25.540 they're showing up according to elections canada as of today more than half a million people have

00:02:31.300 cast their vote already in advanced polls so it looks like it's about the same intensity

00:02:35.680 as the last election which really makes sense it's a polarizing election the last election

00:02:41.280 in 2019 was a polarizing election of course rachel notley the incumbent ndp premier was thrown out by

00:02:48.920 voters in favor of jason kenney the former conservative mp and harper cabinet minister

00:02:53.240 who before that was the head of the taxpayers federation i mean what a contrast a carbon tax

00:02:59.940 loving oil patch bashing socialist ndp versus jason kenney who did a kind of unite the right in

00:03:07.440 alberta merging the two leading conservative parties and promising to return alberta to its

00:03:11.760 historic place as a small government freedom loving province that was a stark choice and kenney won that

00:03:17.940 election handily in 2019 55 percent to 32 percent nature was healing but then the pandemic struck and kenney

00:03:26.060 after a few months of being the most freedom-oriented premier in the country i don't know something snapped

00:03:31.460 he caved in and he became the most authoritarian premier in the country jailing christian pastors

00:03:36.820 and demonizing albertans who wanted a more hands-off approach it was hard to believe it was jason kenney

00:03:42.280 who literally set up an office for religious freedom when he was a federal cabinet minister

00:03:47.300 that's the same guy who sent over a hundred cops to expropriate a church grace life church in edmonton

00:03:53.460 and turn it into a police garrison because it wouldn't close its doors during the lockdown

00:03:57.060 kenney went from being canada's ron de santis to being canada's anthony fauci that shocked and

00:04:03.500 disappointed a lot of conservatives there's something else too kenney didn't fight back

00:04:07.160 against justin trudeau as hard as you'd think or want him to every alberta premier has to stand up

00:04:12.280 to ottawa especially for oil and gas and coal it's part of the job just as it's part of the job for the

00:04:17.080 premier of newfoundland and the premier of quebec it's just part of the system you need strong

00:04:21.980 premiers to push back against ottawa taking advantage of provinces pushing their way into

00:04:27.300 provincial jurisdiction but i got the feeling and a lot of other people did too

00:04:30.780 that kenney never really fought back hard because he was always keeping one eye

00:04:35.120 on a future candidacy to run for prime minister and so before fighting for alberta it was like he

00:04:40.400 was always checking how will this look in five years when i run for pm so even though his job was

00:04:45.880 to fight for alberta and he didn't have to care what the toronto star or the cbc's ottawa pundits

00:04:51.380 panels thought it felt like he was tailoring his message to keep a future career choice open

00:04:56.300 it was a disaster i think he lost both sides of the political spectrum the left hated him always

00:05:03.220 did always will for being a tax fighter especially for being a social conservative especially a pro-life

00:05:08.660 conservative they would never abide him fine you don't need their support in alberta but then he

00:05:13.760 dashed the right both the libertarian right the leave me alone right and the christian right

00:05:18.740 and the way he discussed the trucker convoy was positively utopian trudeopian i was going to say

00:05:24.360 utopian he sounded like trudeau i know that these do not these marginal voices do not represent

00:05:31.400 albertans they certainly do not represent the united conservative party but i am determined to ensure

00:05:39.220 that such hateful extreme and divisive voices do not find a home in this mainstream broad uh conservative

00:05:50.340 party and uh i uh so that's that's an issue that is very much at play here and i will not apologize

00:05:57.940 for calling out these kinds of voices of division um in the past in alberta politics we've always had one or

00:06:05.620 two kind of hard right parties that were i guess a natural home for people like this there was two or

00:06:12.180 three percent of the province that voted for uh uh hard right parties in the last election provincial

00:06:18.100 election including derek phildebrand's party which is now called the wip uh and there was one percent

00:06:24.580 that voted for the maverick party in the last federal election so people who have hateful or extreme views

00:06:30.740 they can find a political home but not in the united conservative party if they do not believe

00:06:35.940 in human dignity they're not welcome in this party every single one of those truckers and farmers at the

00:06:41.140 coots border crossing voted for kenny in 2019 every one of them and he started spearing them using

00:06:48.740 trudeau's language it was nuts by the way i'm not the only one who thought so i learned that kenny's own mlas

00:06:54.660 were much more supportive of the truckers one of them actually visited the truckers at coots several times

00:06:59.140 those truckers made kenny blink which he hated but the feeling was mutual take a look at this

00:07:07.780 here's an aggregation of public opinion polls in alberta over the years past few years you can see

00:07:12.580 that kenny started as premier with a huge lead obviously and it just plunged during the pandemic

00:07:18.740 and the lockdowns he was on track to lose the election hated by the right and the left last may his

00:07:25.140 party gave him the weakest endorsement possible just a 51 confidence vote at a convention that

00:07:31.620 kenny's team tried to stage manage kenny quit which was the right move and the party selected a

00:07:37.620 new leader in october and it was the non-mla danielle smith who won that's important think about that a lot

00:07:45.540 of kenny cabinet ministers ran including the treasurer of the province an outsider beat them all i think

00:07:51.540 that tells me the party didn't just want to replace kenny with a kenny mini me they wanted to purge the

00:07:56.900 party and punish it or at least its leadership or anyone too closely associated with the atrocious

00:08:01.380 decisions during kenny's term but how does that work when an outsider takes over a party not just a

00:08:07.060 party but a government over the last seven months or so smith didn't just have to run a party she had

00:08:12.500 to run a province she had to run a cabinet and every single cabinet minister was appointed by jason kenny

00:08:18.260 and many of them still carry a flame for jason kenny and resent his ouster and certainly resent

00:08:24.180 that this outsider this usurper is running the thing and how disgraceful was it that jason kenny

00:08:30.980 when he left his premier refused to help in any way with a transition look it's a tradition in

00:08:36.500 democracies that when a prime minister or a president or a premier leaves an office he or she meets with

00:08:41.940 the incoming leader to show them the ropes explain things help the transition not out of affection for

00:08:47.700 the rival as a person but out of loyalty to the country and serving the country it's the difference

00:08:52.180 between helping a partisan opponent which you would never do and helping the province which everyone

00:08:56.340 should do how grudging and bitter do you have to be to say to danielle smith i'm not going to help

00:09:01.380 you be premier at all i'm so full of rage and vengeance that i won't just punish you even though

00:09:08.020 you have already run the prize but i will punish the whole province too because they chose you over me

00:09:14.180 kenny's worst day as premier wasn't when he arrested christian pastors or small businessmen

00:09:18.740 like chris scott at the whistle stop diner it was when he was so angry with albertans for not

00:09:23.300 supporting him that he left in a pout not even helping the new government take the reins

00:09:29.860 it was a low moment we had some paternity in all of that i suppose i personally did too to a degree i mean

00:09:35.940 i had been friends with kenny since we were young i met him when i was in law school and he was a young

00:09:40.340 lad running the canadian taxpayers federation we would hang out in edmonton a couple of right-wing

00:09:44.180 guys in the left-wing city we had a little crew we called the snack pack including the young mp

00:09:50.580 named raheem jaffer jason kenny was a close friend of mine for 20 years i knew him and trusted him and

00:09:56.500 he was surely the strongest of stephen harper's cabinet ministers the most able the smartest the

00:10:00.900 best french speaker for an anglo the best organizer especially with new canadians hard worker best

00:10:06.340 debater best media relations best team so to see him become the locker downer the jailer of pastors

00:10:12.900 the enforcer of vaccine mandates was shocking and uprooting and alienating to be honest my response

00:10:17.700 for the first few months was just to go silent to pretend i didn't see it not to call him or text him

00:10:22.340 as i used to do from time to time since we were friends in our 20s i just thought let me wait this

00:10:26.420 out i don't want to quarrel with my old friend i'm just gonna sort of pretend none of this is happening

00:10:30.740 and hopefully it will go away soon but it did not it got worse and the thing about being in my

00:10:36.180 position as a pundit and as a journalist and as the leader of rebel news which is full of pundits

00:10:40.820 and journalists and whose mottos you know are telling the other side of the story and whose

00:10:45.780 mandate is fight for freedom the thing is i really couldn't not talk about it how on earth could rebel

00:10:51.060 news not talk about jason kenney the best young conservative in the country becoming the worst

00:10:56.740 and going you know doing in alberta of all places and to christian pastors of all people how could

00:11:01.940 we not talk about it and so we did and we championed the little guy we championed his victims chris scott

00:11:09.220 and the whistle stop diner pastor arthur pavlovsky pastor tim stevens arrested in front of his children

00:11:15.060 just a disgrace churches across the province truckers we told the stories of the protesters and we

00:11:20.340 crowdfunded lawyers to pay for their defense we had billboards and we literally did a hundred

00:11:25.540 news reports and we sent more than 10 million emails into the province about it i think that

00:11:32.100 woke a lot of people up like i say kenny resigned when he got 51 in a confidence vote by party members

00:11:38.180 those are party insiders activists not just regular voters they're like members of his local boards of

00:11:42.340 directors but people who were in the part the the movement i truly believe that had we not engaged in

00:11:49.540 the freedom fight in alberta the way we did kenny probably would have slouched to i don't know 71

00:11:55.620 instead of 51 approval and he would have stayed on people would have been demoralized conservatives

00:12:02.580 would have said what's the point and as that poll graph shows kenny would go to a slaughter by a

00:12:10.180 rampant ndp that's what the poll showed it was disaster kenny was a disaster because he ran alberta

00:12:17.780 like trudeau would run it frankly using the same language now i see a new poll in the cbc just out

00:12:22.660 today which is basically being operating as the ndp's war room i mean the cbc couldn't be more absurd in

00:12:28.660 their partisanship the poll today suggests that danielle smith will indeed beat rachel notley on monday

00:12:34.740 the poll suggests smith's united conservative party will get 56 seats and notley's ndp will get 31

00:12:40.420 that's still far too many for the socialists but it's a solid majority

00:12:44.740 i'm not sure if i trust that poll things are volatile and the ndp knows it's now or never

00:12:49.380 they're doing everything they can and so is the toronto star and the globe and mail they're appalled

00:12:53.300 with smith and her real conservatism they hate the fact that she cared about civil liberties during

00:12:57.940 the pandemic they hate her sovereignty act though they're fine with it when it's applied by quebec

00:13:04.580 the cbc has been absurd by the way they concocted a story that danielle smith or her office sent emails

00:13:10.180 to prosecutors telling them not to continue prosecuting lockdown offenses but every one of

00:13:15.300 the 44 alberta prosecutors who works on lockdown files said that none of them have ever received

00:13:20.580 such an email from anyone and all 32 staff of the premier's office were to the same fact and a massive

00:13:26.820 search by over a million emails done by the civil services it department found not a single such email

00:13:32.900 the province's ethics commissioner a former judge said she found no evidence of these emails at all

00:13:40.260 and yet the cbc continues literally to this day to claim that it happened they're wicked liars

00:13:44.820 it's just insane that's a conspiracy theory that's disinformation that's the toronto cbc trying to rig

00:13:50.740 the alberta election and they just might get away with it who would want smith to lose well the ndp of

00:13:57.060 course and trudeau the owner of the cbc of course and the rest of the regime bailout media of course but

00:14:05.620 also others within smith's own government as i said who would want a restoration of the kenny

00:14:10.500 regime not a return of kenny himself who has burnt his bridges but kenny's inner circle the people who

00:14:16.260 was partying with that day at the sky palace you know the image where the mere citizens down below were

00:14:21.620 banned from going to restaurants or having parties but kenny and his team met high above the night

00:14:28.740 gathering in that famous or infamous photo is tyler shandro who is kenny's health minister who enforced

00:14:35.700 the brutal lockdown he's smith's justice minister now he'd love to get rid of smith he'd surely run

00:14:42.500 himself in fact you might say he's done his best to get rid of smith already instead of helping her

00:14:47.620 fulfill her campaign promise to stay the prosecution of those lockdown laws he has embarrassed her and

00:14:52.740 refused to help her it's atrocious and disloyal but again what what could she do about it she's

00:14:57.700 an outsider being injected into a cabinet and a caucus that was constructed by jason kenny her bitter

00:15:03.140 rival what can she do oh there would be plenty of kenny mlas who would rather lose on monday

00:15:08.660 and select a new leader they prefer and try to win the province again in 2027 rather than win

00:15:14.180 today under danielle smith absolutely it's probably jason kenny's view too if he can't have it no one

00:15:19.860 can it's obviously his view given that he refused to help smith with the transition in the premier's

00:15:24.980 office in recent days arthur pavlosky the christian pastor that we talk about a lot here spent nearly

00:15:31.380 50 days in prison for opening his church during the lockdown he started his own political party and

00:15:36.100 he condemned danielle smith and notley this week he held a press conference at the legislature denouncing

00:15:42.580 both smith and notley calling smith a traitor and calling notley a witch i don't think pavlosky's

00:15:49.060 party will win i don't think it'll even get one percent of the vote and i don't think it'll be

00:15:52.980 enough to even split the vote but the charge that pavlosky made and of course you know rebel news has

00:15:58.260 crowdfunded his legal defense through the democracy fund and we've done dozens of news stories about him

00:16:03.860 his charge is that smith has been a traitor on the lockdown issues but i disagree in fact she has been

00:16:09.780 the most sympathetic person in the legislature really the only sympathetic person in the legislature

00:16:14.340 and her efforts to get prosecution stayed by talking to the justice minister in a lawful way

00:16:20.900 and careful way the efforts uh have been weaponized against her by the cbc and others within her own

00:16:27.780 party including tyler shandro if you have to say the biggest landmine that danielle smith has stepped on

00:16:32.820 in this campaign the biggest embarrassment her critics would say was her attempt to help

00:16:38.020 arthur pavlovsky and others and i feel compelled to give you my view on this since rebel news directly

00:16:43.220 and our legal support for pavlovsky and my own meeting with smith give me a perspective on this

00:16:49.700 look i have had my disagreements with danielle smith before i've known her since we were students

00:16:54.260 together at the university of calgary 30 years ago i was friends with her i was a supporter when

00:16:59.620 she became the leader of the wild rose party and was set to win the election in 2012 until she did a

00:17:04.180 backroom deal to dissolve the opposition and join with the pc government an anti-democratic act so

00:17:09.380 appalling imagine dissolving the opposition weeks before the election and joining the government that

00:17:14.260 appalled voters that they punished both the pc party and the wild rose opposition and just looked

00:17:18.980 around and said who's left oh give the province to the ndp in a shock result i was so appalled

00:17:23.940 by all of that i do not endorse her lightly but that was more than a decade ago

00:17:28.100 and what is at stake is the future of alberta today and what i would say to pavlovsky and in fact i did

00:17:34.500 tell him this directly is that anything that damages danielle smith has only one result

00:17:39.780 to strengthen the chances that rachel notley the destroyer will take office again and the fact that

00:17:44.500 smith has not been able to convince kenny's loyalists in cabinet to help her stop the prosecutions of

00:17:49.460 lockdowns is not comparable to not least passionate commitment to prosecute anyone and everyone she can

00:17:55.620 not just for lockdown crimes but many other political offenses by the way i think pavlovsky's

00:18:00.980 press conference was so vitriolic i don't think it actually moved the needle it had no appeal to

00:18:05.300 ndp voters other than they found it embarrassing for smith and i simply don't think it moved

00:18:10.180 ucp voters because it was so bellicose here's what's at stake on monday there will either be a

00:18:16.820 premier rachel notley the socialist destroyer the hater of the oil sands and other fossil fuels

00:18:22.500 the taxer the big government errand girl for public sector unions someone who hates the essence of

00:18:27.700 the province namely it's freedom and individuality we already know the damage she can do and will

00:18:32.980 do and is itching to do in cooperation with the media party and trudeau's liberal party it could be

00:18:38.820 her or it could be danielle smith the ucp leader who it must be admitted sometimes has too much of a

00:18:45.460 media pundit in her and muses out loud about ideas too freely and can come across sometimes as too

00:18:51.380 whimsical it's a hazard for someone who spent their life in the world of journalism where you can say

00:18:55.940 things with no consequences then to become premier but it is absurd to me that smith would be called

00:19:01.220 too ideological or too extreme for championing basic alberta ideas like smaller government or

00:19:06.820 provincial jurisdiction but rachel notley who wants a wholesale reform of the entire capitalist economy

00:19:13.860 she avoids that name imagine saying smith is too ideological but not saying that not lee is imagine

00:19:21.140 saying that smith is a risk to investment but not lee and her war against oil and gas isn't they say

00:19:26.740 smith is extreme but she's actually a pro-choice libertarian always has been but that's just the cvc

00:19:33.540 smear you want extreme how about an ndp cabinet in alberta calling for a ban of oil tankers

00:19:41.460 or the ndp candidate who literally says alberta should completely abolish oil and gas 100 transition

00:19:47.780 off it that's crazy talk that's really comparable to stalin and the forced collectivization of ukrainian

00:19:54.020 farms level communism and authoritarianism imagine telling a hundred thousand people we will end your

00:20:00.660 job that's that's the risk in this election that's the insane choice the case against danielle smith is

00:20:07.300 that she's too concerned with civil liberties too concerned with the lockdowns i don't see that as

00:20:11.380 a flaw that she's too concerned about alberta jurisdiction well that's that's her job actually

00:20:17.140 i wish rachel notley had been concerned what i'm more worried about is the true case against danielle

00:20:22.740 smith by ucp party members who resent her replacing jason kenny or by those who are red tories and care more

00:20:31.620 about social acceptability in the eyes of the cbc than what's right for the province and its economy

00:20:37.140 those who would vote uh ndp but they just are team blue instead of team orange i see that stephen

00:20:44.260 harper has made up his mind and maybe it's not a surprise that he's endorsing smith he would never

00:20:48.820 endorse an ndp but he could have simply remained silent let me play for you his endorsement released

00:20:54.340 today fellow albertans after some tough years our province has finally recovered from the last ndp term

00:21:02.500 but rachel notley is promising to undo all that progress the ndp is promising to hike taxes on

00:21:08.660 job creators by 38 percent a massive hike that would kill tens of thousands of jobs rachel notley

00:21:16.340 tried a similar tax hike the last time she was premier investment fled our province and mass layoffs

00:21:22.820 ensued it's no wonder rachel notley doesn't want to talk about her record as premier nor does rachel

00:21:29.220 notley want to talk about the fact that the trudeau liberals are voting ndp in this election rachel

00:21:35.940 notley and justin trudeau are a combination that puts alberta's economy at great risk in this election

00:21:42.900 there's only one option to protect the economic livelihoods of you and your family that's danielle

00:21:48.580 smith and the united conservative party thanks for listening pierre poly of two he doesn't have to

00:21:54.980 endorse he could have stayed silent in fact there's sometimes rivalries between provincial and federal

00:22:00.340 conservatives here's his video let's cut through the noise on the choice between the ndp's rachel

00:22:06.420 notley and conservative danielle smith notley will work for trudeau and sing the ndp liberal coalition

00:22:14.180 bosses in ottawa she'll support higher carbon taxes on your gas heat and groceries she'll help trudeau

00:22:20.260 attack the energy sector putting you out of a job and speaking of jobs she'll raise taxes on job

00:22:26.020 creators pushing you onto the unemployment lines that'll mean a weaker economy with less money for

00:22:32.260 schools and hospitals on the other hand conservatives will fight the carbon tax stand up for alberta

00:22:38.820 and its energy sector and unleash the full potential of our alberta economy in order to grow

00:22:45.940 and prosper in the future that means more money for schools and hospital in other words vote for

00:22:52.420 alberta vote conservative vote early vote now now i would never say vote for danielle smith but because

00:22:59.540 stephen harper or pierre poly had said to do so i would say vote for danielle smith because her

00:23:05.220 the case against her is absurd and it's made in bad faith by the kenny loyalists in the party

00:23:13.140 by cbc axe grinders working for justin trudeau by those who simply want to take the alberta-ness

00:23:19.460 out of alberta and that's what scares me you know alberta will not survive the ndp winning i mean of

00:23:27.540 course it will survive but it will not survive in its current form it will not be recognizable it will be

00:23:33.940 detroited it'll go the way that california is going the specialness will be beaten out of it

00:23:43.460 it won't survive another four years of socialism not just in terms of the economy but civil liberties

00:23:48.980 too if arthur pawlowski thinks he's being persecuted under danielle smith who has repeatedly tried to end

00:23:55.060 the kenny era persecutions well he hasn't seen anything like that yet if rachel notley is elected

00:24:01.940 i mean notley has shown what she thinks of civil liberties throughout the campaign look at this

00:24:07.220 one example of her press aide telling a mild-mannered reporter from the western standard that he is a hate

00:24:12.580 criminal for merely criticizing the ndp in his journalism jonathan bradley western standard i got

00:24:18.660 a question about the the mili hey don't don't yell your questions out okay you know that made a policy

00:24:24.580 with your particular outlet where you have operated in hate speech against our candidates how we might

00:24:29.860 be taking questions from you i've gone over this jonathan several times happy to continue talking

00:24:35.220 about it happy to have that discussion with your editors thank you for coming yeah imagine what they

00:24:40.420 would do to you danielle smith must absolutely win and every albertan must vote for her and even if

00:24:49.460 they have been offended or embarrassed or confused by the last six months of her tenure much of which was

00:24:55.300 done by kenny underminers danielle smith has to win on monday and then the ucp can patch up the party

00:25:02.820 and the government for the next four years but if she loses that it's the end of alberta as we know it

00:25:10.580 i make this video especially for the thousands of albertans who know that rebel news and i supported

00:25:16.420 freedom and fought for freedom and hired lawyers to fight for freedom even for arthur padlovsky i'm here

00:25:21.700 to say if the ucp and danielle smith do not win on monday freedom's light will go out in alberta

00:25:29.540 the cbc wants that and jason kenney doesn't seem to care but i sure do and you should too thanks

00:25:40.420 well look let me be honest although i'm an albertan at heart i still have my old alberta

00:25:54.020 phone number uh i have been out here in toronto for a while i no longer have an alberta license plate or

00:26:00.660 a driver's license i guess i'm a torontonian and um you know i shouldn't be ashamed of it a guy is

00:26:07.540 who he is and there's wonderful things about every city you can find wonderful things about

00:26:11.380 toronto i'm not gonna i'm not gonna bad mouth the town i'm in but my heart pumps alberta blood because

00:26:17.780 i love the province i love it geographically it's the place where i grew up so i have a nostalgia for

00:26:22.500 it i love the free spirit i love the fact that i grew up and i was amongst ranchers and farmers and

00:26:28.100 free people cowboys and indians and the indians were often cowboys i just love everything about

00:26:34.980 that province and the fact that the ndp won in 2015 felt so invasive and unnatural and when kenny won

00:26:43.540 in 2019 i thought finally things are restored to normal but kenny was not what was expected and now

00:26:51.220 we find ourselves in the terrifying position where oh my god rachel notley might come back in and maybe

00:26:56.100 the alberta i once knew and loved and grew up in as a child is not going to be that way anymore and

00:27:00.820 when i ended my monologue by saying it could be detroited we think of detroit now as a run-down slum

00:27:08.980 but a hundred years ago it was the leading industrial city in america the highest wage in america it was

00:27:14.900 a place of racial harmony by the way it was a wonderful industrious city because of the auto industry

00:27:21.300 well i think that alberta could go that way joining me now is a true blue albertan who has not left

00:27:28.340 for other pastures and she's in the heart of it i'm talking about my friend sheila gun reed sheila look

00:27:32.980 i i know i'm not an albertan anymore even though i feel in many ways that i am but you are and you

00:27:37.860 have a foot in agriculture and you have a foot in oil and you have your finger on the pulse and

00:27:41.860 you're in the north of the province when we have reporters in the south i don't know if i'm being

00:27:48.180 dramatic dramatic but i think that if alberta goes to ndp again it will forever

00:27:56.660 deracinate the province it will change the province from a free place to just another

00:28:02.340 canadian trudopian province that's what i'm afraid of but i'm here in toronto what do you say out there

00:28:06.820 in alberta yeah we may as well name the place toronto west because we will have leadership here that

00:28:13.460 will put up no objections to all the terrible things that justin trudeau wants to do to agriculture

00:28:18.180 through his fertilizer targets to oil and gas through his net zero goals and his attempts to

00:28:23.220 phase everything out gun grab i mean you look at the things that justin trudeau is doing as part of

00:28:28.580 his liberal agenda they are all focused like laser beam on the culture of the west and he sees us as

00:28:35.220 culturally incompatible with him and we know you know you to predict future behavior you only have to

00:28:43.700 look at past behavior and rachel motley rolled over every time justin trudeau wanted to do something

00:28:50.500 to alberta she brought in a carbon tax before he did um it's something she never campaigned on she

00:28:57.060 never pushed back on any of the pipeline cancellations because that's what she wanted to she didn't want

00:29:02.340 keystone excel done in fact one of her first acts after becoming premier here was to recall our energy

00:29:10.340 ambassador we had somebody who was working in washington to lobby on behalf of the canadian

00:29:16.500 oil and gas sector uh which is i guess the fiduciary duty of the alberta government because

00:29:21.460 it's their job to market this thing that we all own she recalled him right away and fired him uh rob

00:29:28.340 merrifield and uh and so there will be a repeat of this i've spoken to people and our old reporter holly

00:29:37.060 nicholas was one of these people in the days and weeks and months after the ndp were elected i think

00:29:43.700 totally cumulatively it was close to 200 000 jobs lost i think 185 uh to like 190 000 jobs that were

00:29:53.300 lost as a direct result of the attack on the energy sector and it was bad in downtown calgary

00:29:59.700 holly told me these stories and she was one of them where you would look out your office window in the

00:30:04.980 morning and it would just be a lineup of cabs and people coming down from the head offices with their

00:30:11.780 belongings and getting in the cabs every day it was like 800 jobs here 400 jobs here conoco phillips

00:30:18.900 leaving and tc energy changing their name and houston energy leaving it was just constant it was hard to

00:30:24.580 keep up with we will return to that in the middle of an economic recovery yeah that's shocking you know

00:30:30.660 um there were there was a brief hope in 2015 when rachel not lee was elected that she would be a good

00:30:38.580 kind of ndp and some people say no such thing well saskatchewan had ndp governments for so long their

00:30:45.300 last government if i'm remembering correctly was a premium named roy romanoff who actually balanced the

00:30:53.300 budget actually allowed some free market health care actually um i mean i listen i i of course

00:31:02.580 supported with no choice quite frankly where the place is headed towards bankruptcy and there was

00:31:07.700 an absolute influx of people from saskatchewan into alberta that was the joke at the time is everybody

00:31:13.220 in alberta was from saskatchewan roy romano was even forced to close hospitals the rural hospitals to

00:31:19.140 balance the budget and and i'm not saying he was great but i but people said but he didn't have the

00:31:24.820 cultural extremism like that's another thing rachel not like there's different streams of new democrats

00:31:30.660 there's that prairie farmer grassroots um you know tommy douglas bill aber hurt strain but there's

00:31:39.380 this new woke university faculty lounge strain and the funny thing is rachel not lee's dad grant grant

00:31:45.860 not lee was an old school new democrat sort of a little bit working class a little bit bookish but

00:31:51.780 rachel not lee is full identity politics you're a hate criminal racial this gender that and just

00:32:00.740 she is she is not a roy romano she is not a grant notley she is a destroyer akin to trudeau i can't

00:32:10.340 to this day i can't think of a single thing she stood up to trudeau on um even verbally even just

00:32:17.380 even just to say hey man stop doing that let alone challenging anything in court no no absolutely

00:32:25.460 not and even just more close to home i mean moreover to your point rachel notley is a university

00:32:31.300 socialist that's where her riding is she's just surrounded by you know the left-wing wokeism 20

00:32:36.980 somethings that's where her riding is it's the most progressive part of edmonton which is the

00:32:41.540 most progressive city in all of albert as ralph klein said a nice place with too many socialists

00:32:47.060 and mosquitoes that's an evergreen statement that will never go away but even closer to home the one

00:32:52.820 of the harshest locker downers was rachel notley i recall her saying that it is time to seize grace

00:33:00.420 life church shut it down go in there before the rcmp ever did before jason kenny ever did she was

00:33:07.060 cheering for the arrest of pastors jason kenny was bad terrible i mean it was a civil liberties bonfire

00:33:16.180 in alberta constantly and all we could do every single day was just run up and pour a cup of water

00:33:20.260 on it in our own little way but notley would have been so much worse we'd still be wearing masks we'd

00:33:26.580 still have vaccine mandates every single person who objected or honked their horn would still be

00:33:32.100 in jail every oh you know you're not even kidding there were ndp-ers who were wearing masks like at

00:33:38.900 official ndp events i think even at the start of the campaign i call them ndp lawn signs for your face

00:33:46.180 yeah it's it's crazy well um the cbc has just been atrocious i mean i i mentioned that they had this

00:33:55.140 bombshell story that danielle smith interfered and emails prove it and after the entire public

00:34:00.820 service searched for it all 44 prosecutors swore they hadn't received it a judge said they're still

00:34:06.100 sticking with their story like that is pure disinformation to use a trudeau word and i just

00:34:14.260 i've never seen such a bald-faced lie as that um and the trouble is you know rebel news has a big

00:34:19.700 following in alberta proportionately it's actually our strongest place in the world is how you're

00:34:23.940 welcome yeah well you're doing a great job you're a chief reporter for a reason but there's a lot of

00:34:30.580 people who don't know about rebel news or western standard or counter signal or true north and there

00:34:34.820 are four good independent voices in that promise i'm very proud we have some affiliation with all

00:34:40.660 all of them um but there are people who still only get their news from the well i wouldn't say the

00:34:47.060 globe and mail no one in alberta reads that but from the cbc and post media who have been like the

00:34:53.060 liberal or the ndp party war room they have they have hated danielle smith i think it's because she's

00:34:58.420 not from the club you'd think they would like her because she's a former journalist but she's just

00:35:03.460 not their kind it's it feels very um snooty and clubby you know there's also i think a self-preservation

00:35:12.820 reason for why all these journalists are actively campaigning for notly like you cannot read their

00:35:18.500 articles and think this was like it looks like it was written in the notly war room and that's because

00:35:24.260 in 2015 through to 2017 we know that dozens of journalists from the mainstream media went directly

00:35:32.340 into the government they want the jobs they want the jobs they want that's the thing they all went over

00:35:38.500 there they went as um issues managers which is just a bunch of nerds who run around and record

00:35:44.180 everything they became press secretaries half the work and twice the pay every you know shoe leather

00:35:50.500 journalist on on the legislature who's making 65 grand a year and been working you know 60 hours a week

00:35:59.780 thought i if i am hired as a director of communications for some uh ndp cabinet minister now i'm working

00:36:08.500 less time and for six figures and i'm not just kidding that is the destination that's the dream

00:36:15.220 job of any journalist is a guaranteed income lots of benefits tons of days off like the alberta

00:36:22.260 legislature all is this is never sits yeah it sits less than any other legislature in canada which is

00:36:27.620 actually a good thing they can't yeah i don't mind i don't mind i think that's a real uh moral hazard

00:36:33.540 for journalists well i've seen two polls in a row one by uh jennet brown i think is her name who's

00:36:39.780 regarded as a pretty accurate pollster they say and another by abacus which is run out of

00:36:45.700 ottawa by liberals but both these polls put the ucp ahead now they could you know some people would

00:36:53.060 say oh that's just to lull us into a sense of complacency no i think they're actually real polls

00:36:57.860 like come on it's still alberta but boy it's too close for comfort for me what do you think

00:37:02.260 you know i was never quite convinced that it was as close as the mainstream media and the ndp were

00:37:09.860 saying and as i say i mean there's real there's really no difference between those two things i

00:37:14.580 probably repeat myself there but janna brown has been consistently right she was right in the last

00:37:19.700 election she was the closest pollster i know abacus has sort of corrected their polling because i think

00:37:25.540 in earlier polling they had the ndp and the ucp neck and neck which probably frightened a lot of

00:37:31.540 skeptical uh conservatives who are sort of skeptical of daniel smith because sometimes

00:37:36.660 she says kooky things it'll energize those people to get to the polls yeah but abacus data was

00:37:42.500 over sampling edmonton and who cares if the ndp numbers go up in edmonton all is lost there you

00:37:49.300 can't win those ridings twice so there's an ndp surge in edmonton who gives a darn it's really battleground

00:37:55.060 calgary and i never believed that calgary was as close as those early pollsters were staying yeah

00:38:01.060 well we'll find out very soon all right sheila great to see you thanks for your great work on

00:38:05.300 this and we'll see you on monday night yes for our live stream when we're going to try out our

00:38:09.220 new studio i'm very excited about that yes and if everybody wants to see our reports from the

00:38:13.780 campaign trail because our team has been everywhere it's albertadecides.com albertadecides.com that's a great

00:38:19.700 url take care of my friend thanks for everything thanks boss all right cheers stay with us uh my

00:38:24.900 final thoughts are next

00:38:37.860 hey welcome back you know um we launched our build the dream.ca a campaign for the new studio and i was

00:38:44.740 in there today and we're it's really coming together i'm so excited by how it's looking we're putting the

00:38:49.300 lighting in now it really feels professional look it's not a gazillion dollar cbc studio i don't know

00:38:55.300 if you remember when i was back at sun news network my studio there was one million dollars look we're

00:39:00.900 spending seventy thousand dollars all in that's still a lot of money for us but i think it looks great

00:39:05.540 it really kicks it up a notch anyways we we put that out um by email and video and on twitter and we

00:39:12.580 must have attracted the attention of some left-wing internet army or something sometimes i call

00:39:19.220 them true anon that's sort of the trudeau cult q is like q anon but when they're trudeauists all

00:39:24.660 these twitter accounts that had like 10 members or 20 members and have a really obscure name and no

00:39:30.180 real name and no real photo so it's clear that some organizations some i don't know george soros funded or

00:39:37.460 liberal party funded war room said we've got to embarrass this which tells me we're on the right track

00:39:42.340 but i there were some funny um comments there like some of the the haters said

00:39:46.500 so you criticize cbc for taking money but you want money from the public how is that different

00:39:53.460 well it's easy how that's different when we ask for support from the public it's voluntary

00:39:59.300 you don't have to give if you don't want to when the cbc asks for support they just call up trudeau and

00:40:04.500 say extract the money from the taxpayers it couldn't be more different one person said uh-huh well you

00:40:11.300 don't take money from the canadian government but i'm sure you take money from vladimir putin

00:40:19.060 all right um maybe because i'm not a cheerleader of a war that's killing hundreds of thousands of

00:40:24.020 ukrainians by the way my family is originally from ukraine from dniepro uh which uh it you know

00:40:30.340 who would be for war certainly not for me but i reminded that uh critic on twitter that i actually did

00:40:37.060 something uh i don't know if you remember but russia invaded ukraine before when obama was president

00:40:42.980 in 2014 and shortly after that i published a book called groundswell the case for fracking and i have

00:40:50.100 a whole chapter in there about why europe should get off of gazprom gas and develop its own gas through

00:40:56.340 fracking and i don't know if you know this because this was before we started sun news but i actually went

00:41:00.580 on a short speaking tour in germany i spoke in munich i spoke in frankfurt and i made the case

00:41:09.140 to germans why they should stop buying gas from gazpro in fact i did this whole funny routine making

00:41:16.020 fun of putin i don't think i can travel to russia because i was so critical of him so i just had fun

00:41:21.540 using that robot and if you if you follow me on twitter you can see me sort of haggling with these

00:41:25.700 critics sometimes i don't fight with twitter accounts that are obviously fakes or robots because

00:41:30.340 they have like 10 members and 20 followers or something and i've got i don't know 400 000

00:41:34.420 or whatever it is but um the fact that the left is so up in arms about our new studio makes me feel

00:41:41.780 great you know they they mock how it looks and they mock how the construction is and they and they say

00:41:48.180 all sorts of oh you're fox news north how is that an insult oh you're just like tesla how is that an

00:41:53.940 insult anyways it made me feel good and i feel great about it and i think that the new studio will be

00:42:00.180 ready ready and i'm giving it away here on monday night when alberta is having its election we have

00:42:08.340 our election live stream that will be the first time we try out this studio and see what it can

00:42:13.700 do we might have some first day hiccups too i mean it's always dangerous to launch things on a big day

00:42:19.380 but we're our team's going to be working on the weekend actually to get the lights and other things

00:42:23.540 installed so hopefully monday is a great day sure it will be that's our show for today until monday in

00:42:30.020 our live stream from all of us here at rebel world headquarters to you at home good night and keep

00:42:35.540 fighting for freedom

Rebel News Podcast - May 27, 2023

EZRA LEVANT ｜ Why every Canadian should support Danielle Smith, and every Albertan should vote for her

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