The biggest name in rap music finds Jesus, and the celebrity left doesn t know what to do with it. Do you know Kanye West? He s one of the best selling musicians of all time, if you measure it the old fashioned way: 21 Grammy Awards. He s in the news whenever he says something interesting, including irritating or annoying things, or just being there. He famously denounced George W. Bush as a racist in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. But really, he s a celebrity, singer, songwriter, and fashionista. Should we pay too much attention to what he says?
00:21:44.380But the culture has you focused so much on fucking somebody bitch and pulling up in a foreign and rapping about things that could get you locked up and then saying you about prison reform.
00:21:56.880Like, bro, we brainwashed out here, bro.
00:22:22.520You know, I can't tell y'all how to feel.
00:22:26.240But what I can tell you honestly is how I feel.
00:22:29.340And when I sat there seven years in, six years in, to the Obama administration, when I was sitting at the Met Balls, when I was sitting in front of white people and they thought, I wouldn't have thought you would like Trump because of the racism.
00:22:45.160So you mean to tell me I make every decision based off my color.
00:22:49.480The most racist thing a person could tell me is that I'm supposed to choose something based on my race.
00:31:05.140You say, you know, we all know that the liberals were wiped out in the West, not a single seat in Alberta or Saskatchewan.
00:31:15.880Ralph Goodale wasn't a particular advocate for the West in cabinet, but at least he felt some obligation, I think, to do so.
00:31:23.500What do you mean by it doesn't matter that there's no one in cabinet from those two provinces?
00:31:28.300Well, there was Goodale from Saskatchewan, and at one point there was Amarjeet Sohi from Edmonton and Kent Hare from Calgary.
00:31:38.580There were five total members, liberal MPs in the caucus from Saskatchewan and Alberta from 2015 until 2019.
00:31:48.180One of the Alberta liberal MPs was kicked out of caucus for sexually harassing employees.
00:31:54.960But what I was saying is that there was lots of representation in the caucus and at the cabinet table from Alberta and Saskatchewan between 2015 and 2019.
00:32:08.400Who cares whether we have a member there who's just going to come back to Alberta and Saskatchewan and explain Justin Trudeau's latest wisdom?
00:32:19.680You know, we had an Edmonton MP, a guy named Randy Boissoneau, who thankfully was defeated, who led the charge at the Justice Committee in the House of Commons to have the SNC-Lavalin investigation killed.
00:32:32.680What good did it do us to have liberals in the caucus and in the cabinet when they passed Bill C-48 and C-69, which killed pipelines, banned Alberta oil, specifically Alberta oil, from northern BC tankers?
00:32:53.920And so, having more of those same sorts of people in Ottawa doing the same sorts of bowing and scraping to central Canadian bias isn't going to do us any good now either.
00:33:06.220Yeah, I suppose it's better not to have those because they'd be a placebo.
00:33:09.880They would be a fake, oh, well, they're representing us.
00:33:12.840At least now the hoax is gone and the reality is revealed.
00:33:16.680Let me ask you, does Justin Trudeau or the PMO, to the best of your knowledge, have someone in Alberta who's speaking the truth to them quietly, off the record, you know, just saying, hey, it's really this bad?
00:33:35.540Or, hey, you know, like, someone who Trudeau or Gerald Butz knows and trusts enough that he can tell them what they don't want to hear.
00:33:46.900I think Trudeau is surrounded by flatterers and hollow men, empty suits.
00:33:53.280Do you know if he has anyone who can say, I want to tell you some hard truths now, boss, here's what it's like?
00:34:02.480No, and I think the people who are talking to him from Alberta, I mean, former Premier Alison Redford, oh, my goodness, so glad she's back.
00:34:14.580She's offered to give advice to Trudeau.
00:34:18.600I once called her the first NDP Premier of Alberta before there was any inkling that there would be an NDP Premier of Alberta because she's so left-wing.
00:34:28.480And she's so condescending to people who have what I would consider Alberta viewpoints or Western viewpoint.
00:34:36.100She couldn't possibly represent the majority of people in Alberta if she was giving advice to Trudeau.
00:34:42.360Then there was Nehat Henshi, the mayor of Calgary, who's as left as you can get.
00:34:49.420And all those people would do is say, oh, listen, Mr. Prime Minister, I know that that nasty Mr. Kenny says X, Y, Z, or that there's a lot of Albertans around who are writing letters to the editor or speaking out online who say X, Y, Z.
00:35:04.660But you know what, they're not speaking for all of Albertans.
00:35:08.340There are lots of people who really do think that your environmental programs, which would be absolutely bogus.
00:35:19.560So maybe it wouldn't be someone who's in the political class, like the partisan class.
00:35:26.240I've got to think that in the oil patch, I mean, there are senior oilmen who, for whatever reason, are liberal partisans.
00:35:36.660I mean, I've never understood it, but I would call them good Albertans who just, they have this quirk, maybe they want to be different.
00:35:43.620So they're partisan liberals, but they are living the Alberta way.
00:35:48.720And there's even, there's even a kind of liberal, I think of a Lawrence Decor style liberal, who is not a conservative, loves Alberta.
00:36:01.160I mean, there are liberals in Alberta who are not just Trudeau repeaters.
00:36:06.540And there were in the mid-90s what they called the 3M liberals.
00:36:10.540You had Manly, McLaren, and Martin, who were pro-business.
00:36:14.960You know, they were liberal on social policy, liberal probably on immigration.
00:36:20.160They didn't mind a little bit of deficit spending here and there, but they knew how to balance the books and they were pro-business.
00:36:26.560They wouldn't have come in, for instance, with Bill Morneau's punitive tax on small business people of a couple of years ago.
00:36:35.320They wouldn't have come in with a litmus test for women's reproductive rights for Christian summer camps the way that the latest group did.
00:36:49.880And there are some, perhaps still in the oil patch, who are like that.
00:36:53.880When I was, and some of your viewers may be surprised to find this out, when I worked for a liberal cabinet minister from Alberta in the mid-1980s, Alberta, despite the national energy program, was still contributing about one quarter of all the annual operating funds for the Liberal Party of Canada.
00:37:16.280And that was coming mostly from oil people who hoped that by contributing and being involved in the Liberal Party, it would help mitigate some of the worst parts of the national energy program.
00:37:32.040And that's why I said I don't think it matters whether or not we have any representation at the cabinet table or any representation in the caucus.
00:37:38.840They're not going to listen to us anyway.
00:37:40.680This is not a group that is driven by business instincts.
00:37:45.540It has no understanding of how you create wealth.
00:37:48.900It has no understanding of where the money to run government comes from originally.
00:37:53.480They just think it's – I saw it, for instance, in some of the Liberal campaign material during the election.
00:37:59.260There was this idea that they would cut a loophole in the income tax, and that would save the federal government close to a billion dollars a year.
00:38:30.140But that's the mentality that's involved.
00:38:32.160There is no understanding that without pipelines, there is no money to tax to – but it's – to them, it's like, well, if there are no pipelines, we'll just all get barista jobs, and the money will come from the taxes we pay as baristas.
00:38:48.520Oh, you know, it's just – it's cluelessness, and it's this magic – I keep calling it magic wand thinking when it comes to the environment.
00:38:55.600There was a lot of excitement on Monday when a large accountancy firm, Ernst & Young, put out this report that said if Canada would be a rapid adopter of e-vehicles, electronic cars, we would reduce our oil dependency by 250,000 barrels a day.
00:39:18.640Now, we consume about 2 million barrels a day, and we could reduce that by about 250,000 a day, so roughly 10%.
00:39:26.720If we would simply go to 30% of our fleet as electric vehicles by 2030, to do that, we would have to buy 720,000 electric cars a year between now and 2030.
00:39:41.800We buy a total of 1.5 million new cars a year, new light trucks, SUVs, CUVs.
00:39:50.720We'd have to – half of our new fleet, half of all new vehicles bought in the country for the next 10 years would have to be electrical, and that would be half of the volume of all the electrical vehicles made in the world.
00:40:04.040And so that's the kind of thinking that goes into this.
00:45:11.720But they just, the politics of that city destroyed it.
00:45:15.000I just spent two days in downtown Calgary,
00:45:17.360trying to get a feel for what people were thinking after the provincial election and after the federal election.
00:45:22.340And it's, it's really disheartening to go to downtown Calgary.
00:45:29.160Now, you know, a lot of people used to think that Calgarians were bombastic and braggadocio.
00:45:34.840And, you know, they had big fancy cars and they were buying big houses and they were getting huge bonuses and, you know, spending, like the clothing stores were busy and the malls and the restaurants and everything.
00:45:48.200And, you know, interior designers and caterers and everybody was just rushing back.
00:45:54.200I so much preferred Calgary when it was like that.
00:47:04.380But I'd like to see what we can do with sort of a firewall kind of strategy, see if we can't wake up the voters in the GTA to the fact that they are going to be hurt if they continue to vote in a government that is destroying the number one export industry in the country.
00:47:56.860Best line about that, I'm not a big Peter McKay fan, but Peter McKay, who now is making noise about trying to replace Andrew Scheer, as a conservative leader, said,
00:48:05.820the conservatives under Andrew Scheer failed to score on an open net.
00:48:29.020I think that this time, I mean, in 1980, the National Energy Program, the rise of the reformed party, rise of Western separatism back then,
00:48:36.600it was, what was being done to Alberta was maybe unthinkable, although I suppose it had happened 50 years earlier.
00:48:43.760But now people see the game is rigged.
00:48:48.080It's more malicious this time because they really do want to shut down the oil.
00:50:36.760I mean, I showed you the, I didn't even show you a tip of the iceberg of the rage and the insults targeted at Kelly Leach when she proposed a similar thing when she ran for the conservative leadership.
00:50:48.800I wonder if it's because, if it's because Quebecers are given a special pass to maintain their Quebecois nature, or if it's just because everyone knows if you fight against that in Quebec, you're going to be thrown in the dustbin of history.
00:51:02.300Anyway, Francois Legault threw out the Liberals with his new party.
00:51:07.100The Bloc Quebecois came roaring back on these cultural identity issues.
00:51:12.580I think it's a combination of ideological fear of taking on anything Quebecois and pragmatic fear of being wiped out in Quebec.