SHEILA GUNN REID ｜ A rare win for common sense in Ottawa
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The City of Ottawa has a brand new mayor who doesn t seem to be a hypochondriac worrywart. How did we come to this startling turn of events, a rare win for common sense? In this episode, Sheila Gun Reid and the man behind the citizen organized campaign to ask questions joins me to discuss what unfolded in the city of Ottawa in their latest election.
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the city of ottawa has a brand new mayor who doesn't seem to be a hypochondriac
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worry wart how did we come to this startling turn of events
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a rare win for common sense i'm sheila gun reid and you're watching the gun show
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former ottawa city councillor social justice warrior climate activist and anti-convoy ball
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of nerves catherine mckinney lost her bid to be the next mayor of the nation's capital city after
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votes coalesced around someone far more reasonable but someone i probably disagree with on almost
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everything former broadcaster mark sutcliffe it's odd because if you got all your news from the
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mainstream media you would have thought that mckinney was an absolute shoo-in for the mayor's
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office she's immensely popular on social media she's the face of the anti-convoy city councillors
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on local and national news but none of that translated at the ballot box so what happened
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and how the heck did it happen i think it had a lot to do with citizens turning up at public forums and
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actually asking real questions and not the boring insufferable questions nobody cares about that are
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normally asked by equally boring moderators at these sorts of things and i think it caught mckinney
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completely flat-footed tonight ottawa resident tom harris the man behind that citizen organized
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campaign to ask questions joins me tonight to discuss what unfolded in the city of ottawa in
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their latest election now tom and i normally meet in some foreign country this time of year
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because tom's also with the international climate science coalition canada and this time of year
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we are often at the united nations climate change conferences but as you can see both of us are
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at home so we're going to discuss what we anticipate will come from the conference from afar check it out
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so joining me now is my friend and good friend of the show tom harris from the international climate
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science coalition canada and last time tom was on the show he was talking to me about
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normal people turning up at public debates for local politicians because where a lot of these
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majorly expensive climate change policies are coming from is not from the federal government
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it's coming out of municipalities that are being infected with world economic forum and u.n garbage
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and tom was telling us about the successes of normal citizens turning up at these debates now
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the municipal election has come and gone in ottawa and thankfully the climate alarmist lockdown alarmist
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anti-convoy candidate katherine mckinney who is running for mayor has lost i thought we could bring tom
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back on we could talk a little bit more about the successes that unfolded there to get i think a more
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reasonable i don't know if i would agree with your new mayor on very much but he seems at least
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reasonable and then we'll talk about the latest u.n climate change conference that's coming up and
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that's usually where tom and i meet but neither one of us are going this year so tom thanks for being
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patient with me through that big long preamble let's talk about the ottawa election tell me who won
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and why you think they won yeah exactly back in july katherine mckinney who is a current counselor in the
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council until november 15th that's when they have the switch over she was ahead significantly ahead
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and now her her support was only in the 30s but all of the rest of the candidates were splitting the
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vote so it looked very likely that she was going to win the election with a high 38 percent something
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like that and in fact over the time period between july and the final election her actual vote count
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slightly rose okay so she kept her solid um supporters and they did vote for her but a very
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interesting thing happened mark sutcliffe who was a previous radio announcer with cfra here in ottawa
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uh he actually was quite far behind her until just a few weeks before the election and what happened is there
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were two things first of all there was a huge percentage something like 30 undecided okay and they
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apparently all switched to sutcliffe the other thing that happened is the third fourth and fifth
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candidates lost their support to sutcliffe and i think what happened is that katherine mckinney scared
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people so much with their loony plans and i'll talk about that in a second please that that people
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you know even in my own family for example they had their own favorite candidates you know professor cadre or
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um mcguire all sorts of people but they finally realized holy smokes if we don't vote for the only
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candidate that might beat her she could very win very well win the election and so when you actually look
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at the numbers and i plotted them not only in a graph but i also plotted them uh over time to show how the
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the change in other support just went to almost zero okay almost zero even shirelli went down to about
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five percent cadre lost his support um singh went from something like seven or eight percent to
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practically zero okay and what happened i think is all of these people who were supporting these third
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fourth and fifth candidates suddenly said oh my god this katherine mckinney is gonna win and so they all
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voted for sutcliffe and sutcliffe ended up getting more than 50 percent of the vote yeah okay and he beat
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mckinney by oh 14 percent or something so that was a huge change i think the polling was correct
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i think the polling showing that mckinney had the lead consistently was right but i think that her plan
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just scared people so much now there are two parts of her plans that are are actually of a concern and
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icsc actually has been publicizing the the terrible ottawa climate plan the 57.4 billion dollar climate plan
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but the thing that she did also is she really promoted bicycle paths i'm not kidding she said
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she was going to spend a quarter of a billion dollars on bicycle paths and it's interesting
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because mark sutcliffe did something very smart he figured out okay all that money would have to be
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borrowed because ottawa was miles in debt so what would be the interest charge over let's say 10 years
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and he calculated that the final cost of the bicycle paths would be about 400 million dollars
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now it was interesting because she was not only being attacked by sutcliffe on this point but she
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was being attacked by ade olamy okay he didn't get a lot of support but at the same time he brought up
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some really good points he said look we have a city that has a waiting list for drug rehab centers
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we have people living under bridges and you're going to spend you know a quarter of a billion or
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maybe 400 million on sort of cadillac bicycle paths i mean it's completely crazy and and you know i like
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to think that our group played a major role in educating people about what this would what this
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would um what would happen if if they really did what she wanted to do 710 industrial wind turbines
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and you know one of the things i worked with a few people a few volunteers behind the scenes
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before the debate started to talk about okay what are the important questions to bring up
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because typically when they have public debates they just get softball questions you know things like
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well how can we reduce greenhouse gases even more you know can we actually bike in the winter you know
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things like that so what we did is we got together and we spoke about okay what would really impact
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ottawans in this plan what's really important okay and we chose different topics and uh we we
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actually different people chose topics that would fit their personality and it was quite interesting
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because for example a french canadian lady she decided to talk about the the child mining in the
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congo for cobalt to make the batteries for electric vehicles and she said i am a mother and a
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grandmother and i do not want this to happen should ottawa be doing this and you know none of the
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people on the panel especially mckinney had any clue about this issue it was totally you know they were
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totally caught flat-footed so in the first three debates where they allowed questions directly from
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the public i'd say that our group actually absorbed about about half of all the questions nice
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yeah and i think this this must have shocked the the organizers now we were careful to not actually
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support or oppose any candidate we're talking about policy right okay if mckinney's policy was rational
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then she wouldn't have suffered as a result of the questions that we asked we also asked questions
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like well ottawa produces about one one hundredth of one percent of world emissions and so and the
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calculation was done in the u.s by a leading expert if we reduced our emissions to net zero and stay
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that way all the way to the end of the 20 21st century the net change in temperature would be
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about one ten thousandths of a degree so one of the people that was in our volunteer group he got to
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the mic and he said so you're going to spend almost 60 billion dollars for one ten thousandths of a
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degree what common sense does that make well what all the candidates said is well we're going to lead the
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world and but of course we weren't allowed to have a second question so it was a later debate that we
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brought up the fact that china was building call stations all over the world and china's not going
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to follow ottawa but they stuck to their line much as i like dr cadry he said well china is going to
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follow ottawa we're going to go we're going to go to the egypt cop 27 conference and we're going to
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convince them that this is the way to go and you know it's interesting sheila uh when when he said that
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somebody in the audience yelled out not gonna happen and and it was hilarious because rogers
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censored the question they they censored the answer they censored all that stuff out they took out two
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major questions from the debates which put the city in a bad light so there was huge amount of
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censorship going on and you know you'd laugh that by the fourth debate i guess the organizers must have
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think oh something's going on here like how often in a public debate do half of the people ask hard
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questions now we weren't questioning the science and that was intentional because we didn't want to have
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people uh dismiss us as deniers what we wanted to is people to feel the pain that would be coming
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if this ottawa plan came in and the point that i brought up in the first debate actually the microphone
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was you realize that 700 people died in texas during the february 2021 cold snap because wind power
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failed and yet you're pushing ottawa to the same kind of situation as texas but it gets a lot colder
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in ottawa now mckinney responded by saying well she didn't think that wind power played a major role in
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the campaign and uh but we went later and we we checked and of course wind power is triple solar she said
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solar was more so in the third debate one of the members of our team a very brave lady she got to
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the mic and she read mckinney's quote and then she read the part of the plan that you know she interpreted
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that showed that she was totally wrong so the lady asked mckinney this question and you can see why
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rogers deleted it the question was did you vote for a 57 billion dollar plan without reading it first
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and so i think we did have a significant impact you know we we did other things lots of interviews you
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know presentations zoom talks being careful not to support or oppose any candidate and um we also
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handed out you know flyers and things like that always talking about not the science but the pain of the
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ottawa climate plan and various people are telling me that this did have an impact i mean it made people
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think about it at the ward level i went to the ward debate uh for our local councillor and you'd laugh
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to hear what happened uh i got up to start talking about the cost of the plan and everything else
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and the very left-wing candidate he's an ndp person jumped up and he started yelling at me
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i wasn't even finished my question and he said you know you're a climate change denier and everything
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else and he was trying to shut me up the audience of course jumped in as well and they're all yelling
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at this denier and then they noticed i was not wearing a mask oh my goodness oh they went berserk
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you know get out of here unless you put on your mask at first so i told them i said well it's not
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required anymore it's recommended but the city has rules and the rules say that you don't have to wear it
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no no no and the organizer came over and yelled at me and so eventually i put on the mask just to shut
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them up but by then they could say oh your time for asking a question is up sit down so i got an email
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actually the next day from the city of ottawa basically telling me i was right so there was a
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huge amount of censorship going on um not just in the way the debates were set up but also in the fact
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that if you disagreed but something really interesting happened i did get enough out that by the end of that
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debate none of the candidates in the ward were actually supporting the ottawa climate plan in fact
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even the ndp said ndp guy said almost 60 billion dollars he said you know when i saw that my eyes
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just rolled i thought that's like crazy and one of the candidates told me that in the later debates in
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our ward which i didn't bother going to he said you realize none of the candidates were supporting the
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ottawa climate plan anymore because the issue of cost had been brought up in a well i brought it up
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in a pretty solid way and none of them wanted to identify with it and you know it's interesting
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sheila after the fourth debate um maybe the fifth yeah the fifth debate for the mayors bob shirelli
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came up to me afterwards and he said you know the ottawa climate plan is dead now he was a former mayor
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okay so let's hope he's right let's hope he's right because just like you say sutcliffe um he won more
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than half the vote he's got you know only 44 percent of people voted but still you know he did have an
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overwhelming uh victory um we're hoping that because he's not a climate fanatic like mckinney that he'll
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actually allow open hearings you know bringing in people economists and engineers and others to talk
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about what would be the impact if we actually did this right versus the payoff yeah like 57 and a half
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billion dollars what's the payoff hoping beijing follows along with what ottawa's doing imagine the
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narcissism in thinking that that's right well it's it's all virtue signaling and it's extremely important
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and totally useless sorry extremely dangerous and expensive and useless um virtue signaling because
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china is simply not going to follow us and you know the organizers in the third debate they actually
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eliminated from the debate everybody who actually had been strongly against mckinney's climate plan
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you know for example uh mike mcguire he was eliminated from the fourth debate same thing with
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ade alamid now in ade's case he's a black fellow who was very outspoken about the bike paths being stupid
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he actually had a written commitment from the organizers to be in the debate he accepted it and they still
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eliminated him and you know so there's a lot of corruption in this election something that
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really has to be looked at i think for future elections ade has actually registered a complaint
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and his objective is to try to clean up the process so we were actually you know ottawa dodged a bullet
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because everything was stacked in favor of mckinney winning the structure of the debates the fact that
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the first four debates were all climate change that they eliminated candidates they censored
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questions etc etc and she's still lost so that actually gives a pretty powerful message i think
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to other politicians that if you come across too strongly in favor of woke climate change
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the average person is going to get a little uncomfortable and in this case mckinney's support
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didn't drop but suck cliffs went through the roof so i think what happened very clearly is that people
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were frightened by her and thank goodness they were i am a little frightened by her generally speaking
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um and it became a pretty evident by that fourth debate that they really were doing everything they
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could to stack it in her favor including bringing in a true believer from the cbc as their unbiased
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moderator yeah in fact he even said in the in the debate he said well all scientists agree didn't say
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like 80 or 90 he said all the experts agree that we're in dire peril and i thought oh yeah that's
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a really neutral you know share person so so that was crazy so i mean i think it was really a wake-up
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call to politicians that if you go too far on the climate thing yeah people will be shocked and they
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will naturally not vote for you um you know so so i think that we had an impact we brought this to
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public attention we we've been doing it of course for years we put out a report in january but it
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suddenly became really relevant because as the only candidate who was currently on the council
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she was the only candidate who was really responsible for the plan and when people started
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looking at what the heck say this is crazy you know um so i think it's actually a good lesson for
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conservatives that if you properly publicize the issue you know you give presentations and you don't
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back down you're not scared you go to these events you hand out flyers you talk to hundreds of people
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that you can actually stop the extreme climate people from getting in well i don't by the way i
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don't pretend that we stopped by ourselves there were a lot of factors um but i think we played a
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significant role you know another factor that played a very big role is just before the election
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the ottawa police association came out and yeah very strongly condemned mckinney for her defund
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the police her accusations that the police were racist and all this sort of thing i was shocked
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when i saw it i mean i was happy to see it but i was really surprised that the ottawa police association
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and they said it's funny because at the end of their little dialogue they said oh but we're not
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supporting or opposing a candidate after giving us three straight minutes of how horrible mckinney was
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you know and i mean even we didn't do that because of course we're not promoting a candidate or
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opposing one we want to see good policies and you know once again if she had good policies it's fine
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you know she wouldn't have been damaged by the public learning about her plans and about the city's
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plans so you know we're careful not to actually um tell people who to vote for there is a real
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lesson in here as you say for conservatives and i've been sort of banging this drum for the last
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two years maybe a little longer but particularly because of the pandemic restrictions many of that
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patchwork pieces of that patchwork quilt of lockdown restrictions those were done at the hands of your
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local municipal politicians and you know that's why it's so important to have people there who truly
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believe in freedom but also people who will look at a 70 no sorry a 57 and a half billion dollar
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municipal climate plan and say where's the payoff for the taxpayer here you know you're not going to
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save the planet and i think that's what i like about what you did there you framed it in a way that
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no matter what side of the climate change debate that you're on how do you justify spending this much
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money to virtue signal and really make no impact either way at the bitter end of it all i think that was
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really important because you were able to capture people from all sides of the argument yeah exactly
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and we'll put out a science report we actually have had it in the wings for for a few months it's
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been ready but we didn't want to put it out because we didn't want to taint our message sure our message
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was very straightforward you know it's interesting sheila in the fifth debate where they wouldn't take
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questions from the public i went up to the microphone i went you know after they uh had finished the
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debate i went up to ask katherine mckinney if she'd read our report and as i approached the stage she
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saw me so as soon as she finished with one of her supporters she started walking off really quickly
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and finally she went behind a black screen and i called out i said uh katherine uh excuse me katherine
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and she said no no no and she ran away and i thought wow like that's not very accountable and of course
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i reported that in my articles because the other candidates they all hung around for a good half
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hour talking and you know like you say mark sutcliffe is somewhat of a climate alarmist himself
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but he's a reasonable person you know like he actually spoke with me as a normal human being you
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know he knew i disagreed with him but it didn't matter he spoke with me and lots of other people
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so i think it's a it's a very positive development having someone come in who's not a politician
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that's actually good you know i think that's what happened with trump he sort of actually came in
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not a politician's it was it's a breath of fresh air and i think we're going to see a really good
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development come out of him and i think now the potential exists for us to get them to drop the plan
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entirely and that's of course going to be our goal when we release the science report because
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Sutcliffe yeah it's pretty decent guy and the other people cadre and shirelli they were all very
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friendly too so i think to some extent catherine shot herself in the foot not only by running away
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because of course she wasn't talking to anybody else either but also because she pushed these plans
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that it only appealed to the hardcore climate activists in her base the average person would say
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that's crazy yeah yeah and we know how catherine mckinney feels about normal people based on how she
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treated those people in the convoy who were just there to ask for an end to vaccine mandates and
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other covid restrictions now sorry you'd laugh sheila one other quick thing she wanted all of us to call
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her they and uh i did for a while but then somebody wrote me an email saying what are you doing she's
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only one person she's not plural so i stopped doing it you know so i mean i think that also didn't help
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her you know the fact that she was getting all excited about so odd wanting people to call her
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they them there you know it's such a weird idea she's such an odd woman i watched a lot of her
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testimony from the trucker commission oh yeah and she would wander the streets filming the truckers
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and i frankly hoped she never stopped because she didn't see what everybody else saw you know she's
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wandering the street saying look at these truckers invading our cities and i'm looking thinking okay
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well right behind you is an open lane of traffic that's great i don't hear any horn honkings that's
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great and you're able to wander the streets bad-mouthing truckers while the truckers are in the background
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just looking at you like you're a crazy person not saying a single word to you so apparently you can
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wander the streets without being harassed everything she showed uh only reaffirmed my position that uh the
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convoy was relatively peaceful but moving along this is the time of year where you and i normally
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meet at a fancy locale somewhere in the more exotic parts of the world um like madrid or berlin and this
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year is egypt neither one of us are going you're busy with other things i didn't think it was safe for
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me to go because i wasn't accredited with the united nations which didn't give me the same protections
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as the other journalists there um because the only the true believing journalists can get into the
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united nations complex so just for the safety of our team we decided not to go this year but this is
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where the gathering of the globalists happens to decide how much money in climate tithes the rest of
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the world has to pay to the climate cult what what do you think is going to come out of egypt this year
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well it's a good question i don't think we're going to see any new greenhouse gas reduction targets
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i don't think we're going to see that but the the whole objective of this conference is like you say
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it's money it's money because india for example has said that if they're not paid one trillion dollars
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up front they're not going to pay any attention to their greenhouse gas emission reduction targets
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okay i'll take that deal you know what yes fine no money no money and you don't care about climate
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change and i'm happy what's the what's the problem so we can save the money and they can go ahead and
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industrialize and bring their people out of poverty perfect deal yeah but you know there's three main
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flows of money it's first of all mitigation trying to stop climate change and that one is actually
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fairly well established as to how much we're supposed to pay supposed to be 100 billion a year
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starting in 2020 100 billion a year coming from developed countries to developing countries to
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supposedly help them stop climate change you know reducing emissions things like that but but it
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hasn't happened okay it just simply hasn't happened and i don't think it's going to happen now the
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second one is uh adaptation and the third one is uh loss and damage and that's the nine thousand
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pound gorilla in the room okay that could be literally many trillions of dollars but i'll just give
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you one other number that'll blow your mind the um african group of countries they want to get
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1.3 trillion dollars per year between let's see i'll just check the number the actual dates uh it's
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important because it does give a number for canada okay here we go they want to get 1.3 trillion per
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year between 2025 and 2030 with further increases uh beyond that now they haven't actually decided how
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it would be a proportion to different countries who would pay how much but if they do it based on
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GDP it turns out that canada's share would be 54 billion dollars per year in canadian dollars okay
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that first number was american and that's two-thirds as high as the federal government's 84 billion
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dollar equalization payments and it works out to about 1400 per year for every canadian to just pay
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for the demands of the african countries so what's going to happen of course is they're not going to get
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the money and so i think that by the end of the conference we won't have any significant
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agreements for emissions reduction um they might promise a lot more money but i i really can't see
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even trudeau um paying 54 billion every year to the africans you know like it it's just a bit loony
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but but that's going to be the main focus okay give us the cash that's what they want and as i said
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before the 9 000 pound gorilla in the room is loss and damage okay that comes from the warsaw loss and
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damage part of the different u.n agreements what they want what they want us to do is to pay for the
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uh reparations to pay for the recovery from extreme weather events in developing countries now the
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interesting thing about this sheila is there's no actual statute of limitations they're not saying well
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before the year 2000 you don't have to pay anything they could go back to hurricane high end or they
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could go back to previous tornadoes and and typhoons and say well you owe us for a typhoon that happened
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in 1996 because you clearly caused it you know so so that if it ever gets to fruition if we ever see
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that come about it's going to make these numbers i just said sound small because we're talking about
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many trillions of dollars but i think honestly the whole thing is going to fall apart oh my goodness
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tom from your lips to god's ears they tell me this isn't a cult but it sounds a lot like superstition
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when i hear things like generational guilt for weather events that have no scientific tie to my suv
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that may have happened 30 years ago that i have to pay for today that seems like a religious
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superstition to me yeah well you know the interesting thing also is that the science is not
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there i mean if you look at documents like this which is climate change reconsidered this is the
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most recent one it talks about the benefits of fossil fuels what it has done for us and it's done a great
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deal they also talk about the climate issue and you know it turns out during cold weather during colder
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times when we saw more extreme weather even the chinese academy of sciences they did analysis of
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sediments on the bottom of the pacific ocean and they showed that typhoons were stronger and more
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common during the little ice age during the cold period so the whole i you know i mean the science
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just isn't there to back up what they're saying um and we want to start bringing this kind of thing
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into future debates you know so i encourage listeners if in your city in your town they're coming
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forward with crazy climate plans like in calgary we'd be happy to help out because you know we actually
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did raise public awareness in ottawa significantly and i do think that had a significant impact on
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people sort of scratching their heads and saying wow do we really want this so so we'd like to do
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this across canada actually is as i say people should contact us we can help them out there's great
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strategies to make sure you get your questions in and what you do when they try not to answer and of
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course the response is that you have to interrupt them you have to say my question is dunk my question
00:29:54.800
is dunk you're not answering my question you have to be a lot more dogmatic and you know it's it's sad
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because the organizers wouldn't like that of course because they say you're not following our rules
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but they're talking about the destruction of a city and the death of thousands of people i mean i'm not
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too worried about their rules under circumstances like that you know if you look at what like we were
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talking about last time alinsky's rules for radicals right yeah let's start applying those against the
00:30:23.120
extreme woke leftists in the climate debate and again i'd be happy to help others do this in other
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cities you know the left does this all the time they used to do it with the pipeline uh public
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hearings lead now would organize activists to come and their campaign was called mob the mic and they
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would just make it impossible for anybody with anything reasonable to say to take the mic and say you
00:30:46.640
know what that we want the pipeline it's great for jobs now you'd have these outside activists from the
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likes of vancouver taking over the microphone in terrorist bc or wherever you're actually proposing
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something a lot more reasonable actual residents of a municipality who live there who are not low
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liability activists this they will pay the price of these climate change policies going and being
00:31:11.540
actively engaged with politicians in their community at public open debates where exactly these
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discussions are supposed to take place it's just that so often conservatives are just too busy paying
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the bills and doing things with their kids to turn up to these things and that time i think has passed
00:31:29.540
yeah because they're relying on how busy we are to get these things right well also this ottawa climate
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plan was snuck through right during the covid thing eh definitely there were no public hearings calgary same way
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yeah and it's so it's really dishonest in that sense but you know people who don't want to get to
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the mic and risk the abuse from the audience and everything there's still things they can do and that
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is go to these events and cheer for the good questions you know when people actually ask good
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things you say hey good question you know clap clap clap because i mean think about it let's say i go to
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the mic and you know i go to these events quite often all across you know different hearings from the
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intero government etc i'll go to the mic and i'll be the only one bringing up dissenting points of
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view and you know you get nobody in the audience clap you might get quite a few boos how seriously is
00:32:22.100
the panelist going to take you not that seriously but if you go to the mic and you ask a question and
00:32:27.500
the audience erupts in applause yep and then the next person asks another hard question and the next
00:32:33.480
person and the next person would they start to take it seriously and this is alinsky's first rule
00:32:38.700
a you have to make it look like your group your you know your side in the political argument is big
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and strong the trucker effect this is the trucker effect yeah exactly so so i think yeah it's way past
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time for conservatives to start attending these events and at the very least cheer for the volunteers
00:32:56.520
that get up and ask the hard questions because it takes a fair bit of courage to do that you know
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but at the same time if you don't do it the left will just ruin your society thousands will die will
00:33:08.100
be frozen in the dark you know so the alternative is a lot worse well and let me give some advice to
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those people taking to the mic you know who is more scared than you are because it is intimidating
00:33:19.240
to speak truth to power and to hold politicians to account it can be it's nerve-wracking you know
00:33:23.980
who's more scared the politician you're about to ask a question to because this might be the first
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time in a long time they took an unscripted unfriendly question and they are already rattled
00:33:35.480
before you open your mouth that's right and and if you look at the video the third debate uh no second
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debate in canada the one where that lady asked about the cobalt oh you can just see that they don't know
00:33:46.840
what to say because if they say oh i don't care about the children i want electric buses and cobalt
00:33:51.120
from the tongo they look terrible if they say oh well i don't want electric buses they look terrible
00:33:56.100
so yeah you you basically catch them in their own policy failures basically right now tom first
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couple of questions how do people support the work that you're doing at international climate science
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coalition canada and secondarily if they are in one of these unfortunate municipalities bringing
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forward one of these crazy climate policies that will cost you billions of dollars and will force your
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great grandchildren into energy poverty how do they get in touch with you for some help organizing
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those questions at the mic well the way to go is to get to our home page which is icsc-canada.com
00:34:34.600
and there's a connect button it'll give you my email address which is icsc.tom.harris
00:34:40.560
at gmail.com and you can either email me or phone me it's you know my phone number's on there as well
00:34:46.120
and i'd be happy to help out but uh yeah people can help us because we rely entirely you can be sure
00:34:51.240
the government's not funding us when we when we say what we say um people can help us whether it's
00:34:56.460
fifteen dollars or fifteen hundred dollars i mean it's all you know thankful we we're very appreciative
00:35:01.800
and you can donate the big donate button on our home page and help us do this because we want to do
00:35:07.820
this across canada we want conservatives to be organized to know how to fight back and um yeah our
00:35:14.040
ottawa experience was a kind of a pilot study to show what you can do to raise the awareness of
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issues in a population and you know from that point of view we succeeded well and expose how little the
00:35:26.360
politicians actually know about the very things that they're voting for you to pay for yeah but so many
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of them flat-footed they hadn't given even something beyond the surface level they hadn't even thought
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about the issue um and uh every little bit helps when you donate to the international climate science
00:35:44.100
coalition canada because you are non-funded by the government you're really non-partisan you're just
00:35:51.120
advocating for the policy issues and you are up against all that foreign money flowing into those
00:35:58.320
environmentalist organizations you are just a small group of people battling billions and dollars
00:36:04.260
of foreign money flowing into canada as we found out in the uh alberta inquiry
00:36:09.360
yeah exactly and but we have the right on our side i mean we are we're correct in what we're saying
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okay there is no climate crisis this is a huge waste of money it's going to kill thousands of people
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we're going to freeze in the dark i mean that's the results of not standing up against this so we want
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to help other people stand up against it so yeah thanks for promoting us you got it tom i love the work
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that you do i can't see what you do next and where you'll do it next but i'll have you back on again
00:36:38.980
very very soon so you can tell me okay thank you thanks tom
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well friends we've come to the portion of the show where unlike the mainstream media we actually
00:36:54.680
invite your viewer feedback because we care about what you think about the work that we're doing also
00:36:59.720
unlike the mainstream media will never take a penny from justin trudeau it's funny hey they they take
00:37:06.640
your money and then they close their comment section they don't even want to hear from you
00:37:10.260
that's not what we do here at rebel news and that's why i give you my email address
00:37:13.600
at the end of the show it's sheila at rebelnews.com if you want to send me any sort of viewer feedback
00:37:20.220
that's the best way to do it please put gun show letters in the subject line though so that i can find it
00:37:26.120
because i'm not exaggerating here i get a couple hundred emails a day and i just don't want yours
00:37:31.420
to get lost in the shuffle now today's viewer feedback comes to us from bruce atchison it's
00:37:37.940
regular viewer of the show regular writer of letters to me bruce has a cat if i recall correctly
00:37:44.300
and he lives in beautiful radway alberta and if you need a reason to go to radway let me tell you
00:37:49.720
they've got a really great army surplus store there um or at least they did and it it's worth
00:37:55.980
your while to drive there anyway bruce writes hi sheila i'm sorry about your cold that's right last
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week you people had to suffer through my scratchy voice after i had recently lost it because i was
00:38:09.180
just smacked by a cold anyways he offers me some health advice good host iced tea with hot water help
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me stay awake and get things done whenever i had colds i also remember you in my prayers well
00:38:19.920
thank you i think that's even better than your health advice bruce anyway bruce goes on i'm
00:38:25.000
thoroughly enjoying this inquiry into the trucker convoy in the enactment of the emergencies act
00:38:29.720
the sunlight of rebel news reporting is showing the infection of corruption in our governments i also
00:38:34.800
wonder what excuse trudeau will try to get out of the inquiry doubtless it will involve another case of
00:38:41.140
covet 19 yeah the more trudeau gets his booster shots the more he just conveniently comes down
00:38:46.000
with covet anytime he has to face any sort of scrutiny or accountability and there's even another
00:38:54.060
politician in the mix of all of this who uh i want to be surprised at his attempts to skirt
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accountability but unfortunately after the last two and a half years i'm not surprised whatsoever and
00:39:05.460
that's doug ford he's currently fighting a subpoena to appear before the convoy commission
00:39:12.660
and uh my friend tamir eulini was in court on tuesday covering all of that and you can see her
00:39:20.700
reportage from the courtroom at trucker commission.com or dot ca in fact you can see all of our coverage of
00:39:29.960
trucker commission at that special website trucker commission.com or dot ca and you can support our
00:39:35.720
independent coverage there as i pointed out earlier we don't take a penny from justin trudeau and we
00:39:40.760
have all hands on deck covering this thing what's called the public order emergency commission in
00:39:48.360
ottawa we've got a team in ottawa we're cycling journalists through as relief we've got an airbnb
00:39:53.800
as a satellite studio there too and i know my i have two colleagues from alberta as i'm filming
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this who are on a flight headed to ottawa to relieve some of the team there well everybody that's the
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show for tonight thank you so much for tuning in i'll see everybody back here in the same time in the
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same place next week and as always remember do not let the government tell you that you've had too much