Is Jason Kenney is trying to lose and make Rachel Notley Alberta’s premier again？
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Jason Kenney and his health minister Tyler Shandro were photographed having a private dinner party high above the little people, in a building nicknamed the Sky Palace, with white tablecloths, bottles of liquor, servants, breaking the rules for restaurants down below.
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Hello my friends, an incredible photograph, Jason Kenney and his health minister Tyler Shandro
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having a private dinner party high above the little people. They're in a building nicknamed
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the Sky Palace, white tablecloths, bottles of liquor, servants, breaking the rules for
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restaurants down below. Restaurants can only have four people on a patio and there were more than
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four at this secret patio, but it's not so secret anymore. I'll show you the photos
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and tell you why I think this is the death knell for Alberta's Conservative Party. It makes me very sad.
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That's a head. Boy, I wish you had a video subscription. We call it Rebel News Plus. It's
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the video version of this podcast. You just have to see these photos. I think they just show a
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luxury and an obliviousness, a lack of self-knowledge to be living that luxury life while enforcing a
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brutal lockdown. I just don't think it's going to be forgiven by the people. So if you enjoy the
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Tonight, sometimes I feel like Jason Kenney is trying to lose and make Rachel Notley Alberta's
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premier again. It's June 3rd, and this is the Ezra Levant Show.
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Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
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There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.
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The only thing I have to say to the government of Hawaii Publishing is because it's my bloody right to do so.
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I've known Jason Kenney, the premier of Alberta, for most of my life. We became buddies when I was a law
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student in Edmonton, and he was the head of the Taxpayers Federation in Alberta. Edmonton was a left
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leaning town, always really has been. And we felt like we were battling on the same side. In 1997,
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that's almost a quarter century ago, we both went to Ottawa at the same time. He went as a newly elected
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MP, and I went as a staffer to the party leader at the time, Preston Manning, along with Raheem Jaffer,
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also from Edmonton. We were part of a little team of youngsters called the Snack Pack, a funny riff on
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the Liberal Party's Rat Pack. That's what Liberal MPs like Sheila Copps and John Nunziata and some of the
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other youngsters had called themselves. I don't know if you can see this, but one day, the Ottawa Citizen did a fun
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story on the Snack Pack, and they wanted me to pose for them while grilling some steaks on a barbecue. I said yes,
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but I didn't actually have a barbecue, so I quickly ran out to buy one and assemble it quickly in time for the photo
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shoot. That wasn't easy. Now, I was a single guy. I didn't actually have any groceries at home either,
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so I walked across the street to a restaurant where I would hang out, and I asked if I could please get
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some of their ingredients so I could, you know, make a story of how I'm such a barbecue. Anyways,
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the story actually did give credit to the restaurant for the recipe. You can see there's Jason Kenney,
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and there's me, and there's Raheem Jaffer, and it actually lists our weights, and we're all snackers
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to this day. I guess my point is I've known Kenny for decades. I've seen him fight against overspending
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as head of the Taxpayers Federation, and then against Ottawa bureaucracy as a cabinet minister
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there under Steve Harper. And besides fighting against the size of government, I watched how he stood
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up for religious freedom too, especially for persecuted Christians. I don't know if you remember,
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but he actually set up an office of religious freedom to promote that around the world. He
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criticized places like China and Pakistan for their abuse of Christians, and he set up a private refugee
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program where Canadian churches could sponsor a Christian refugee to come over from, say, the Middle East
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to escape persecution. So that's the Jason Kenney I've known for many years, and that was how he was as
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premier, more or less, until pretty recently. Even when the pandemic caused other Canadian politicians
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to go into panic, Kenney didn't. He didn't lock down as quickly, as widely, as deeply as places like
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Ontario or Quebec or BC did. He held out, which I think is pretty much what Albertans wanted him to do.
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But then something changed. I don't know what. Until one moment, Kenney had been the decider.
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He listened to advisors, including from the public health bureaucracy, but he gave their advice a
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certain weight, no less but no more than it was due. He balanced public health advice against other
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concerns like, I don't know, other harms from the lockdowns, economic harm, mental health harm, and the
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alleged positive effects of a lockdown, of which I am skeptical there are any. I mean, one of the things
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Alberta has been better than the other provinces at doing is showing relevant health statistics,
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not just talking about cases, which really means nothing, but real things like, is anyone actually
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getting really sick? Is anyone dying? Okay, who is getting sick and dying?
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Here's the Alberta government homepage on those stats. Average age of death, 80. Number of people in
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intensive care in the whole province, 122. Just for your information, there are 106 acute care
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hospitals in Alberta. So that's just about one ICU patient per hospital. So they get their own
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hospital. Now, I feel bad for anyone in the hospital, but we're not about to be overwhelmed
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here by a wave of sick people, thank goodness. Here's the best chart on their page, best in terms
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of telling you what's really going on, the most informative. This tells you how many people who
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died from the virus had these other serious conditions. You can see 85% had high blood
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pressure, 53% had heart disease, 50% had kidney disease, 47% had dementia, etc. In fact, the vast
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majority of people who died in Alberta, average age 80, had at least three of those serious diseases.
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That puts things into context, doesn't it? If you're 80 years old, and you have three or four
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or five serious diseases, you are at risk, that's for sure. So why would a premier of a province
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shut down schools for kids, or restaurants for families, or rodeos for young people? Well, I don't
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know. But there was a certain point where things just flipped. I don't know what it was that made
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Kenny move from being the decider, who was pumping the brakes on the lockdowns, to being a rubber
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stamper, stepping on the gas, just like other premiers have done. Until that moment, he was
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the closest thing Canada had to a Ron DeSantis, taking common sense precautions, but not throwing
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out the baby with the bath water. Then something flipped, and I don't know what, now he's a little
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bit more like Doug Ford. And remember what Doug Ford said about who really makes the decisions?
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Here's a video of that. I'm going to be very frank. There's no politician in this country
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who's going to disagree with their chief medical officer. They just aren't going to do it. They
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might as well throw a rope around their neck and jump off a bridge. They're done. I'm telling you
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the facts. It's very simple. I don't know. What caused the flippening? Was it when a dozen of his
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own senior staff and MLAs and cabinet ministers were caught going to luxury vacations over Christmas
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in Vegas and Hawaii? Again, I've got nothing against vacations in Vegas and Hawaii. It's just
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how do you do that, and how do you do it in secret, a secret guilty way? They all traveled. How do you do
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that when you're telling mere citizens to stay at home, no luxury travel? I understand their excuse.
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They say they wanted to get life back to normal. Okay, I get it. But why were they starting with
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themselves rather than with ordinary citizens? Anyways, it was a big black eye, that whole
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Aloha Gate. It looked luxurious. It looked like the rules were just for the little people. It was a big
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landmine that Kenney stepped on, and he actually paid a pretty big price for it. Not only did he
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lose cabinet ministers, but he lost his own chief of staff over it. That's a big deal. But that's the
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thing. Your private face has to match your public face. As long as Kenney was keeping the province
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open, resisting the public health deep state, I think he could morally justify living his own life,
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having his staff live their own lives sanely. I think it was the contradiction that did him in.
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And then they really started ratcheting up their lockdown. I don't know if that was driven by
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Kenney himself, but the public health deep state sure loved it, and I think they frankly don't care
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if Kenney does poorly. I'm talking about the various public health officers, the Alberta health
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bureaucrats, whatever police forces they convinced to help them enforce their non-criminal laws.
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I think that whole deep state started getting itchy. They wanted a war like there were in other
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provinces. So they jailed Pastor James Coates for 35 days, maximum security prison.
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And when he was out, they expropriated his church. And they hold it to this day with armed guards.
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They literally arrested Pastor Arthur Pawlowski on the highway, in the middle of the street,
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in the rain, cars whizzing by like he was a mob boss or something. They arrested Pastor Tim Stevens,
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too, in front of his own family. Each of these pastors was jailed. I'm talking about maximum security
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prisons in each case. They also jailed businessmen, too, like Chris Scott of the Whistle Stop Diner.
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They gave tickets to that cowboy who had a rodeo. They just went nuts, which is weird because the
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timing of their crackdown made no sense medically. Here's the chart of mortalities from the virus in
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Alberta. I've shown you this before. You can see it was high over Christmas, aka flu season,
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but it's fallen by, I don't know, 80, 90 percent then. So why the brutal enforcement now?
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Why the jailing of pastors now? That can only be political. Pandemic's over. And Kenny and his
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justice minister and his health minister were all fine with the lockdown, the crackdown.
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I don't know. I don't know what changed. I don't know what happened. Maybe it was just political
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theater to avoid the media party being mean to them, to avoid some other consequence. I don't
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know. But something changed. I sense the senior politicians, Kenny and those around him, never
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really believed in the lockdown because, would you look at this? These pictures were just published
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yesterday. It's Jason Kenney and his health minister, Tyler Shandro, another senior staff
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having a luxury white tablecloth dinner, bottles of wine and whiskey, servants on a patio roof of a
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tower overlooking the city of Edmonton. What a glorious spring night. They're the masters of the
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universe, living the high life. Except they were caught. See, in Alberta right now, you can't go to a
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restaurant and have that many people sit together. Here are the official rules as of June 1st for
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restaurants. Restaurants, outdoor patio dining for up to four household members per table or three
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people if diners who live alone are with their two close contacts. Yeah, okay. Look at that picture
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again. They are at an outdoor patio. They're each from different households. There's more than three
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people there, more than four people there. And then, of course, there's the waiters, the servants.
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What is that place, by the way? Is that some secret government restaurant? Looks like it. Table,
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tablecloth, waiters, service, bottles of liquor. But it's in a government building. Is that a secret
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government restaurant? Because no other restaurants are allowed in Alberta right now except, as I've described
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above, no indoor restaurants, just patios with strict limits. So what is this place? Can I book a table
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there? Or is it just for the bosses? Well, that is a very special restaurant. It's in a very special
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building. Its nickname is the Sky Palace. Isn't that perfect? It's where the king and his court can look
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at their kingdom. They're the master of all they survey. They maybe can look down with a telescope
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to make sure the little people aren't gathering in groups of more than four while they do. That Sky
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Palace, as it's called, was actually built under the tenure of Alison Redford, one of the least
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successful premiers of Alberta, the shortest-lived premier who was actually elected in the dying days
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of the Progressive Conservative Party about a decade ago. And one of the things that sealed her fate
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was this Sky Palace. It was just so out of touch with the times and the temperament. It would have
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had not just luxury offices, but an apartment for the premier and her family. It was a private
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penthouse at the top of a skyscraper just for the premier, nearly three million bucks to renovate,
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of tax dollars in a government building. And it was so shocking. It was the final proof that the PCs
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had to go and that they were thinking of the government as their own property.
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Surely a right-wing successor party like the United Conservative Party would know that. Surely the
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former boss of the Alberta Tax Federation would know that. Surely in a time of high unemployment and
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recession and lockdowns, that luxury Sky Palace would have been avoided, would have been padlocked,
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never to be seen, never to be used, like a haunted house in a mansion, a room. We never go into that
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wing. We never go into that room. Death lies there. But there it is, and there they were.
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It reminds me of Animal Farm by George Orwell. I just reread that book this year. I recommend you do, too.
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When the animals had their rebellion against the human farmers, they drove out the cruel farmer.
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They had a series of rules, as you know. But as the pigs, the ruling class, became a bit too
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comfortable as the new dictators, the rules were changed. One of them was a rule against drinking
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alcohol. Let me quote from the book. Muriel, reading over the seven commandments to herself,
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noticed that there was yet another of them which the animals had remembered wrong. They had thought
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the fifth commandment was, no animals shall drink alcohol. But there were two words that they had
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forgotten. Actually, the commandment read, no animals shall drink alcohol to excess. Yeah, no, that wasn't
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the original commandment. That's what the pigs changed it to. I don't know if you remember that book,
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Animal Farm, but it ends when the pigs are having a meeting with a neighboring farmer over alcoholic
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drinks and they're gambling and they're negotiating terrible things for the farm, the things they
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rebelled against originally. And it became impossible to tell the pigs from the men anymore. Let me just
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read the last sentences of the book. Twelve voices were shouting in anger and they were all alike. No
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question now what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man
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again and from man to pig and from pig to man again. But already it was impossible to say which was
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which. That's the last sentence in the book, Animal Farm. And that's the thing, that image of all the
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places, of all the things, the luxury, not just luxury, that luxury, that patio, that sky palace, that
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building that caused the undoing of the PCs, that led in many ways to the creation of the new UCP
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party. They made it necessary for the former Taxpayers Federation leader to come back from
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Ottawa to Edmonton to liberate the province. That is the place they went for their luxury dinner
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with liquor, with white linens, with servants looking over the city like kings. And the health
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minister, Tyler Shandro, the one who ordered the arrest and jailing of the Christian pastors,
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who ordered the arrest of Chris Scott for opening his diner in Mirror, Alberta. Tyler Shandro was at
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this dinner party. Yeah, no, I'm so sorry. Because I've known Jason Kenney for most of my life and he
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truly has been a conservative champion. But this bell cannot be unrung. The polls say he's going to
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lose the next election, which is incredible. And those polls were taken before these photos were
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published. He's going to make Rachel Notley the NDP premier again. I just think it's going to happen.
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I never would have thought it. I never would have imagined them going to the sky palace. But really,
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what's the sky palace when you're fine with jailing pastors for a month? If you can live with that,
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you can live with this. I don't think they're going to be in government for long. The only question is,
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will their own party walk with them into the next election? Stay with us for now.
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Do you support the Prime Minister's decision to veto the Northern Gateway Pipeline, Mr. Carney?
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I understand the veto of the Northern Gateway Pipeline. Do you support it?
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Given both environmental and commercial reasons. Do you support it? I think it's sensible. I wasn't
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involved in the decision, but I think it was the right decision. And yet your company has invested
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billions of dollars in oil companies in both Brazil and the UAE to buy pipelines. You've bought
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billions of dollars of pipelines as a company in the last five years. Do you support those investments?
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Mr. Poliev, there is a global energy system. And one of the issues, I'm trying to explain a bit of
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Well, it may help. One of the issues for this committee in thinking about a sustainable transition
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is where is Canada's role in those as energy transitions from fossil fuels to renewables?
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And in different jurisdictions, into different geography, it matters. It matters. And this is
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a fundamental point. I'm sorry, this is a fundamental point. You're finally getting to a point
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What you're saying is you oppose pipelines in Canada, but you support them in the UAE and in
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Brazil. That's what you've actually said. There are specific pipelines. That's your double standard.
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It is not a double standard. It is a double standard. No, it's not. You make billions of
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dollars off foreign pipelines and you shut them down here at home, putting our people out of work.
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That's my choice for leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, Pierre Pauly of Grilling,
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Mark Carney, the former banker in the UK, now coming back to Canada. I think he's going to throw
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his hat into the ring pretty quick as a Trudeau liberal. I don't think Carney had ever been asked
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tough questions before in his life. And I don't think he did a good job. He, of course, supports
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shutting down pipelines in Canada in the name of climate, you see, but his company believes in
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building pipelines for OPEC countries. Well, he's not the only one in that globalist world who hates,
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hates, hates ethical oil in liberal democracies, but supports them in unfree or partially free
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countries. I want to bring your attention to an article in one of my favorite go-to places for info on
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climate and global warming. I'm talking about climatedepot.com. It was originally published
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in Fox News. It's by DeRoy Murdoch, who has such a cheeky headline. He says,
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is Joe Biden a Russian asset? Trump's hard-won energy independence is gone. And joining me now
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to talk about this is the publisher of Climate Depot, our friend, Mark Morano. Mark, great to see
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you. I know that DeRoy Murdoch means that sort of tongue in cheek, but really, if Joe Biden were,
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a Russian asset, shutting down pipelines, stopping drilling in Alaska, long waiting lines for gas
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stations across America, it would be tough to see the difference between Biden, who was under
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the thrall of Putin and Russia, and the Biden we have in charge today. No, it wouldn't. And that's
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a great, great headline and a great thing by Murdoch. I mean, that's exactly, they asked if Donald Trump
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was involved in Russia collusion based on a joke about Hillary Clinton's email hacking. And that
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started the whole investigation. And here we have actual, you know, this is actual work that Russians
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couldn't have planted if they had an asset to do better work than this, to shut down American domestic
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energy. And of course, Russia will be benefiting. And you could also say is he a Chinese asset on the same
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level. Because as we're shutting down our domestic energy, we're going to be ramping up, of course,
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all the rare earth mining and minerals for the solar and wind mandates. And of course, China is set. So
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this has probably been the greatest six months for, well, actually, if you want to go 18 months,
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since the start of the pandemic, that's probably the greatest time in China's history. And I'm talking
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about China's long history. Never has China been more strengthened and their goals achieved in the
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last 18 months with the global lockdowns and COVID. And now, you know, Joe Biden's election and
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even more hammering of the United States. But Russia is also going to be benefiting greatly from these
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policies. Yeah, I mean, I think it couldn't be clearer, Joe Biden approving the Nord Stream pipeline
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that really makes Europe dependent on Gazprom, which is, of course, a strategic company. That's the
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title. It's only 50% by the Kremlin, but strategic in that any foreign contracts it signs have to be
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approved by the Kremlin. And historically, the Kremlin has turned on and off the gas to punish
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customers for political. I mean, Ukraine is a perfect example. They shut off the gas several times
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in the cold of winter. Pricing, if someone supports Russia politically, they get cheaper gas. If they
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oppose Russia, it's more expensive gas. I'm not some conspiracy theorist about how Russia's evil,
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Russia's evil. I don't think Russia is friendly. I think they're authoritarian and half free,
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half unfree. But I can see what they're doing with Gazprom. Here's Joe Biden explaining why he
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doesn't have a problem giving Nord Stream 2 pipeline the green light. Take a look.
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Why have you decided to meet with President Putin? And why are you letting Germany and Russia to
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continue building Nord Stream 2? Because it's almost completely clear, number one. The idea that
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anything that, and it's not like I can allow Germany to do something now. I have been opposed to Nord Stream 2
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in the beginning, but it only has, it's almost completed by the time I took this office. And
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to go ahead and close sanctions now would, I think, be counterproductive in terms of our European
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relations. They know how strongly I feel. And I hope we can work on how they handle it from this point.
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Mark, I wish Joe Biden were as supportive of American pipelines and American jobs. And
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I mean, the Keystone XL pipeline was nearly completed. Those are the reasons he's supporting
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Russia's pipeline. How can he, like, is there no cognitive dissonance for a guy who supports
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Russian pipelines, but shuts down American pipelines?
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It just makes absolutely no strategic sense, economic sense, domestic energy strategy sense. It makes no
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sense whatsoever. And even though the colonial pipeline, which I said was hacked, the Biden
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administration was kind of like, oh, you know, that's up to them. You know, they weren't even
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interested in helping a major pipeline or investigate who hacked them. And, you know, this is one state,
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one legitimate function of the government is to actually investigate. But you're right,
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allowing Russia to do this. I was in Poland actually three times for three separate United Nations
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conferences over the last 15 years. The most recent one in Poland, we actually had an alternative UN
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summit. And it was all about like what you're talking about, the Russians punishing people,
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very similar to way in lockdown America, Canada, around the world. If you don't go along, you're
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the ones that get punished with their policies and you get the extra thing, extra punishment from it.
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But they, Poland does not want to give up their coal mines for the exact reason that they don't want
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to have to rely more and more on Russian energy because they know what it's like. I don't know how Joe
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Biden has this cognitive dissonance. You just wish that he would have the same energy,
00:25:54.460
domestic energy policy that he's giving, that he's allowing and pushing for Russia to have in
00:25:59.540
Europe. This is, it's, it's, it's crazy. But I think on a separate note, within six months of just
00:26:05.520
Joe Biden, everything President Trump had done is just being washed away. You know, we were the
00:26:11.340
world's largest oil and gas producer. We had the biggest, more energy exports and imports for the
00:26:18.940
first time since Harry Truman was president. We were sitting pretty. And then this comes along.
00:26:24.800
And as we hammer ourselves, we're opening up China and Russia and with, with, with the pipeline and,
00:26:30.200
and Europe, it's just an incredible thing how this is benefiting Russia.
00:26:33.740
Yeah. Just one more note on Russia. You know, I, I haven't looked at it in a while,
00:26:37.020
but I remember when I wrote my book, Ethical Oil and my follow-up Groundswell,
00:26:40.480
there was a map, I think it was from Izvestia, the Russian media outlet,
00:26:45.320
that, that showed all the different countries in Europe to which Gazprom sells gas.
00:26:51.180
And it shows the price. And you look at the map and said, there's no rhyme or reason here.
00:26:57.980
Some countries pay two, three times what others do. There, the, the, there was this one quirk
00:27:04.980
where a pipeline went through one country and then the next country it went through, same pipeline.
00:27:13.840
It was cheaper. So the gas was going further through a pipeline further. And how could it possibly
00:27:21.640
be cheaper for a further destination except through political manipulation? You would look at this map
00:27:27.360
and there was no way it made sense other than when you realize the politics immediately, the map makes
00:27:35.840
sense. And I just think it's incredible that something that's so blatantly politically, I mean,
00:27:41.220
I got no beef with Russia selling its gas. What do I care? Other than it is not a commercial tool.
00:27:47.020
It's a diplomatic military tool. And I don't, I've got to think Biden knows that. But then again,
00:27:52.780
his son, Hunter Biden was involved in all sorts of shenanigans with Russian and Ukrainian and,
00:27:59.660
and, and foreign energy oligarchs. Like he, Hunter Biden took a multimillion dollar payoff from the
00:28:07.140
wife of the former mayor of Moscow. What on earth is that about?
00:28:11.700
Yeah. I mean, and that, that's a whole other thing. Biden's also asked legitimate question.
00:28:18.060
Does Biden have a, a compromised family situation here? In fact, when Biden said at the debate with
00:28:23.500
Trump last fall, I personally have not benefited. Well, his personal bank account, well, his, he may
00:28:29.860
not personally have any way to show for it, but his family wealth has increased radically because of
00:28:35.400
what Hunter Biden was doing. But on this pipeline, the, the, the, the gas pound Nord Stream 2,
00:28:41.440
the environmentalists are the ones that should be outraged. The same environmentalists who cheered
00:28:46.100
Joe Biden shutting down Keystone are now, I think their estimate is 74% of the global warming benefit
00:28:53.640
is going to be wiped out because they're now pushing this. So it just goes to show you that
00:28:57.880
whenever you shut down, particularly Canada, United States, or, or Europe, our energy supplies,
00:29:04.680
and you're, all you're doing is you're raising emissions period. You're outsourcing it to people
00:29:08.820
without, uh, the same environmental standards. You know, that I know that, but this is just,
00:29:13.480
I don't know where this is going to end because three more years of this under a Biden presidency,
00:29:18.520
he can seriously hobble. They're not just going after these projects, you know, and not allowing
00:29:23.940
them. They're going after the financial structure behind it. So you can't even fund this. They won't
00:29:28.700
even be able to get bank loans. This is a form of Chinese social credit system. Now, if you own an
00:29:33.300
energy company, any kind of mining, any kind of energy exploration, you will now be considered,
00:29:38.960
you know, a, a, uh, a narrative wall in our society and you can't even get a private industry
00:29:44.120
to fund you. Huh? Hey, I want to talk about something else. One of my favorite cities these
00:29:48.640
days, even though I haven't been there in over a year because of the quarantine up here, uh, is Miami.
00:29:55.780
I mean, I, I love all of Florida because it's the free state. It's the great Ron DeSantis is the
00:30:01.660
governor. I love how he's fighting back against so many things, including big tech.
00:30:06.160
And, and I like that mayor of Miami, Francis Suarez. I like his style. He's upbeat. He seems
00:30:11.620
like he's supportive of the governor. He's Republican himself. Um, and I like the fact that he's future
00:30:17.020
thinking. I like the fact that he's into crypto. There's a lot of things I like about Miami. Uh,
00:30:22.160
and mainly it's jealousy because I'm trapped here in the anti-Miami Toronto, the most locked down
00:30:27.100
city in the world. But I see that, uh, one of my heroes, Francis Suarez, the mayor of Miami
00:30:32.040
is participating, or at least they allege that he'll be participating in a conservative
00:30:40.160
climate rally. And that gives me the willies. Cause I know up here in Canada, our conservative
00:30:46.000
party has totally bought in to the carbon tax. They're calling it a carbon levy. And I've just
00:30:51.040
worried that when conservatives think they can buy the love of the left, if they just
00:30:56.420
give that green new deal light, I'm worried. It's a path that goes nowhere. Good. What do you have
00:31:03.280
to say about this conservative climate rally in Miami? First of all, I want to maybe burst your
00:31:08.680
bubble about the mayor of Miami. I never trusted the guy. He could talk a good game on some issues,
00:31:13.640
but here's two reasons why I didn't trust them. The COVID lockdowns and the COVID mask mandates.
00:31:18.320
He pandered to the mainstream media on that. I particularly even the mask mandates well
00:31:23.320
beyond that. He was not in line with governor DeSantis on that. So I didn't trust him. If he
00:31:27.800
wasn't, if he couldn't see through what was happening with COVID lockdowns and the mask mandates,
00:31:31.740
I was not able to trust him. And now of course, I've seen him do pandering interviews with mainstream
00:31:37.180
media about climate change in Miami. First of all, Miami is sinking subsidence, a natural process,
00:31:43.240
and it's always had king tides and other floods, and they try to tie that to climate change. So what
00:31:49.260
he's done now is he's tied up with these conservative, allegedly Republican climate groups,
00:31:53.900
one of them by Benjamin Bakke, who actually interviewed me for an hour recently. And I have
00:31:59.140
a 10 minute highlight reel of how that interview went. But essentially, Ezra, their message is,
00:32:04.160
Republicans believe climate is a problem. It needs a solution. And they want to come up with a
00:32:08.480
Green New Deal light with a, you know, some lesser proposal that the Democrats are, but it never
00:32:13.960
has historically worked. They've given over the framing. They've given over the messaging. They're
00:32:18.500
not challenging the narrative on any of this. They've given up on challenging any of the science.
00:32:23.120
And instead, it's a me too, not so fast Republican who eventually will turn into the me too.
00:32:28.740
And you cannot peddle a Green New Deal light because the people you're peddling it to aren't going to
00:32:33.380
think it's strong enough. But that's what the mayor of Miami has got himself into. But I'm not,
00:32:37.800
you know, I don't think much of him anyway, because he already proved himself
00:32:41.160
no good on the COVID lockdowns and mask mandates.
00:32:45.540
Well, I mean, I'm just thinking, again, I'm here in Toronto and summer is a lovely three weeks
00:32:52.120
long up here. We're in the middle of our three weeks. I'm kidding around. I mean, listen, it's
00:32:55.580
cold up here. And one of the reasons Canadians love Miami, there's a lot of Canadians on the East
00:33:00.340
Coast to go down to Miami on the West Coast, again, before the quarantines, people go to, I don't know,
00:33:05.580
Phoenix or whatever. It's the climate. You know, the fact that Miami has a gorgeous climate,
00:33:11.020
that's half the fun of the place. It seems a bit weird for the mayor of Miami to be
00:33:15.900
kvetching about the climate. Now, is this going to spread? Is this just some virtue signaling by a
00:33:21.400
few low level Republicans? Or is this something that's going to spread within the party like
00:33:27.260
is being done, unfortunately, up here in Canada in our Conservative Party?
00:33:30.920
Well, you know, I don't know. The House Minority Leader, Kevin McCarthy, about a month ago,
00:33:36.520
came out and gave a speech on climate. And it was just atrocious talking all of their all of the
00:33:42.100
left and climate activists framing and climate's the problem. And they want to plant trees, which
00:33:46.980
is fine. But they're selling tree planting as though it's some kind of alternative to the Green
00:33:51.760
New Deal and will solve climate change. They want carbon capture, which again, Washington spends
00:33:57.080
money. I long ago gave up worrying about or trying to stop Washington from wasting money. They want
00:34:02.580
to spend money on carbon capture, fine. But this is where they're headed. And it's a package of just
00:34:09.180
virtue signaling things. But the problem is they're no longer challenging any aspect of the climate
00:34:14.340
narrative. And that's the problem with this whole thing. Again, I don't care if they spend money. I
00:34:18.640
don't care if they do boondoggle programs like carbon capture. But this is where we're headed. And a lot
00:34:24.440
of them support carbon taxes, a lot of these founders. And of course, they'll find some common
00:34:30.780
ground with the left on that. I always laugh because where libertarians go wrong, in my view,
00:34:36.640
politically, is they're most legislatively effective where they agree with liberals. So that's why they
00:34:43.800
can always get anti-police or pro-pornography or prostitution, drugs. They'll always be successful
00:34:50.780
in that area. But in other areas where they're with a disagreement, particularly economic issues,
00:34:54.800
they have no chance of success. And I think that's what we're finding with the Republican
00:34:58.940
climate movement, is it will have some success, but it's going to be all on the terms of the
00:35:05.040
Yeah, well, that's disappointing. Hopefully, we can get Mayor Suarez to talk more about crypto
00:35:09.620
and a little bit less about climate. And I'm glad that that governor is just doing better all the
00:35:16.120
time. Give me 30 seconds on that. I mean, listen, you follow these things more closely than I do.
00:35:21.660
You are an American. Do you like the looks of DeSantis for a possible 2024 candidacy?
00:35:28.860
You're asking me questions. These are good questions. I like DeSantis' views and policies.
00:35:33.180
Originally, he was a little weak on COVID, but then he immediately recovered and became the leader,
00:35:37.440
I think. However, he does have, you know, in terms of running for president, he comes off,
00:35:41.980
to me, a little bit too slick as a politician, a little bit too telegraphed. Christy Noem is
00:35:47.560
someone, but I'm worried she may have the Palin effect of just not enough gravitas behind her.
00:35:52.480
But she's another one. But DeSantis, you have to remember, if you're thinking of moving to
00:35:56.620
Florida, I always remind people, he won by one tenth of one percent, and he almost lost to an
00:36:00.620
Andrew Cuomo-like Democrat. So if that election had gone the other way, Florida would have been
00:36:05.660
locked down, similar to, you know, to New York and Michigan, possibly. But interestingly enough,
00:36:11.760
with the future of Florida, with all the New Yorkers and Northeastern people moving there,
00:36:17.780
it's possible it could go either way. But Trump did win handily in Florida. So that might be good
00:36:22.400
news. Maybe Florida has gotten even more conservative. But yeah, DeSantis is a great
00:36:26.020
option for 2024. Well, I'm glad to hear it. And there's some interesting names there. Well,
00:36:30.740
great to catch up with you, my friend. Thanks for the update, as always. And we'll keep in touch
00:36:34.420
with you and ClimateDepot.com. Thank you, Ezra. Appreciate it. All right. Cheers. See you later.
00:36:39.640
There you have it, Mark Morano. Stay with us. More ahead.
00:36:41.760
Hey, welcome back. On my show last night, Enzo writes, how are people still listening to Fauci?
00:36:59.260
Oh, still listening to him. He's treated as a secular saint. Although it was shocking to me
00:37:05.380
that his book, he's got a new book, just like Bonnie Henry, the public health officer of BC,
00:37:10.600
she managed time during this emergency to write a book about herself. Yeah. Sounds like a really
00:37:16.020
busy emergency. Fauci did too. But the book was yanked from Amazon and all the other distributors
00:37:21.700
yesterday. I wonder if there were just so many lies that were revealed by these emails. I think
00:37:26.280
he's being unpersonated. I'm only half kidding when I say there's a chance he'll be Jeffrey Epstein over
00:37:31.500
it. Jeffrey Epstein was in the middle of such scandals that global leaders, billionaires like Bill Gates,
00:37:39.300
his good friend, would have had an enormous interest in him not testifying. I don't think
00:37:44.860
there's that sexual element with Anthony Fauci. I think there's something far more grave.
00:37:50.800
The nature of the pandemic and the culpability of that Wuhan Institute for Virology. Yeah,
00:37:56.240
it would not shock me if Anthony Fauci was Jeffrey Epstein. And I know that sounds like a conspiracy
00:38:01.340
theory. It's not a theory. I'm just telling you it wouldn't surprise me if given what's come out about his
00:38:06.940
warnings he received about the Wuhan virus and given his role in funding gain-of-function research.
00:38:14.000
Wouldn't surprise me if Anthony Fauci did not live out the year.
00:38:18.200
Club writes, gain-of-function research is a politically correct term for
00:38:21.280
bioweapon research. Isn't that the truth? You know, I first heard gain-of-function,
00:38:26.960
I don't even know, like that's just such a generic, what does that mean?
00:38:30.260
You're exactly right. That's a fancy way of saying, let's make weapons out of viruses.
00:38:37.440
On a publication ban case, Andy writes, way to go rebel, fixing the broken system,
00:38:41.580
even for the people that hate you. Yeah, I mean, I still have to see the form of the ruling and we
00:38:47.080
still have to learn what we can or can't report. But I thought it was incredible that we were the only
00:38:52.840
media company in court asking for the clarity, asking for these publication bans to be pruned
00:38:59.820
back. And I think that says two things. First of all, the media party is probably broke. And second
00:39:06.920
of all, they don't actually care about holding power to account anymore because they've merged big
00:39:12.360
media and big tech and big government have really joined up. It's only the independent media you can
00:39:20.080
trust now. That's our show for today. Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Number
00:39:25.380
World Headquarters, see you at home. Good night and keep fighting for freedom.