Rachel Notley steps down as Alberta s premier, triggering a leadership race, and my friend Robbie Picard from Oil Sands Strong joins me to discuss the news, and to talk about the recent emergency alert about the power grid in Alberta.
00:00:00.000Albertans received an emergency alert to their cell phone this week about the power grid.
00:00:20.500Is there more in store for us? I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed and you're watching The Gunn Show.
00:00:30.000Alberta, but most of the prairies are in an absolute deep freeze. Now, cold weather, nothing new. Sub-minus 40. I've been here my whole life. It doesn't surprise me.
00:00:54.780Now, the length of this most recent cold snap is unusual, but it's nothing under normal circumstances that Albertans can't deal with.
00:01:06.340We plug in our block heaters. We let our diesels warm up a little bit longer.
00:01:10.780We might have to drive our kids to school like I've been because the school buses don't run when it's this cold.
00:01:16.740But very rarely have we received an emergency alert akin to an Amber alert to our cell phone from the government in general.
00:01:32.260But I think this is the first time we've ever received one about the potential failure of our power grid.
00:01:40.600I'll read it to you right now. Emergency alert. This is an Alberta emergency alert issued by the AEMA.
00:01:51.220The alert is in effect for Alberta. Extreme cold resulting in high power demand has placed the Alberta grid at high risk of rotating power outages this evening.
00:02:01.200Albertans are asked to immediately limit their electricity use to essential needs only, turn off unnecessary lights and electrical appliances, minimize the use of space heaters, delay use of major power appliances, delay charging electrical vehicles and plugging in block heaters, cook with microwave instead of stove.
00:02:23.760For more information, visit the Alberta Electric System Operator website.
00:02:30.340Receiving that emergency alert was shocking because Alberta is coal rich.
00:02:41.820But because of tinkering with our electrical system grid by the previous NDP government, along with the support of the Liberals in Ottawa, Alberta's grid is now at risk.
00:02:55.700You see, the NDP government opted for an early phase out of coal, which is reliable baseload electricity, and contaminated the grid with renewables, which are unreliable in the winter and when the wind doesn't blow,
00:03:15.780leaving us to unplug our block heaters, which keeps our vehicles able to be started so that we can go to work in the morning.
00:03:29.820We are wealthy with the potential for unlimited, nearly, electricity in this province, given that we have hundreds of years of clean burning coal under our feet.
00:03:44.060But this is a consequence of green energy policy is now joining me today to discuss this, the very recent resignation of Alberta's NDP leader and former Premier Rachel Notley, the one who made these bad green decisions.
00:04:01.060She's stepping down as leader of the NDP, triggering a leadership race and a few other things is my friend Robbie Picard from Oil Sand Strong.
00:04:20.880Joining me now is my good friend Robbie Picard from Oil Sand Strong and Oil and Gas World magazine.
00:04:26.780And Robbie, just before I hit record on this, we're recording it Tuesday morning, news broke that Rachel Notley here in Alberta is resigning as NDP leader, triggering a leadership race.
00:04:43.900She's resigning as leader of the official opposition.
00:04:46.640We don't know yet because this is all very fluid and she hasn't even held a press conference yet.
00:04:51.540That's going to be carried live later on today on some of the other networks.
00:04:57.740However, we don't know if she's stepping down as an MLA.
00:05:01.700I think she probably will because I think she has designs on the federal party.
00:05:06.640But I just want to get your reaction because this is wild.
00:05:09.800And she was the most anti-oil and gas premier in the entire country for a very long time, while four years have felt longer, in the most oil and gas province in the country.
00:05:24.220You know, when it comes to Rachel Notley, I've often thought that, I can't believe I'm going to say this, but I would prefer, I actually, you know, I tell him I'll care.
00:05:36.360I didn't agree with his politics, but I respected him as an opposition leader.
00:05:41.240I thought he was a good opposition leader.
00:05:43.040If this means that Rachel Notley would go federally and she'd take out that lunatic, Jagmean, and we'd have an opposition, I might be okay with that.
00:05:55.760Yeah, this is kind of shocking, but I'm also not shocked.
00:05:58.400I think that, you know, she had her time.
00:06:01.440She, I can make the argument, was the most successful NDP leader of all time.
00:06:06.740She broke the gas, well, the gas ceiling, the glass ceiling in Alberta.
00:06:12.500But yeah, no, I mean, I'm a little bit shocked, but I think that's good news for Alberta in a lot of ways because we need a really, really strong conservative government right now for what's ahead.
00:06:24.700And I'm hoping that Daniel Smith stays as our premier for as long as possible because I am terrified about our future.
00:06:33.220Yeah, you know, I do think she probably has designs on the federal party leadership and as a conservative, small C, not a big C conservative, but a person who cares about fiscal responsibility and personal freedom.
00:06:49.320The conservative party wins when there is a strong NDP leader, as you point out, Thomas Mulcair.
00:06:55.280I probably disagreed with him on almost everything, but I didn't think he was an absolute crazy person.
00:07:00.680And he sort of reined in the more radical parts of the NDP federally.
00:07:07.700We know that Jagmeet Singh doesn't do that.
00:07:09.240And he's a complete and total Justin Trudeau enabler.
00:07:12.200I think if Rachel Notley runs, I can't believe I'm saying this, but I'm cheering for her to run federally because it'll crack the progressive coalition wide apart and the conservatives will just come up the middle.
00:07:25.020And as you say, she was a successful NDP politician.
00:08:11.500And I mean, I always get a kicker of these champagne social, champagne socialists like him with his, you know, dual exhaust BMW car and his expensive suits.
00:08:21.200And it is like, it's just such a joke.
00:08:39.640And he's a little more social than me, which is kind of funny because he was, you know, done very well.
00:08:44.400But he's also, you know, kind of leans a little bit more social, social causes than I do.
00:08:52.500But also, you know, when you're retired and you have a ton of money, you can pivot and, you know, become your sets.
00:08:57.900But what I thought quite fascinating was, is, you know, when we're talking about Trudeau and these electric cars and my uncle's the kind of guy that would have a Tesla.
00:09:07.200And he's like, this is going to ruin us.
00:09:09.620And most people that I know right now that are talking like, like the notion that we are going to have electric cars in 11 years, especially after we had the coldest, you know, spell that we've had in 100 years.
00:09:25.780And we have a warning on the power grid and him and Trudeau, like the damage they've done to everyone in this country.
00:09:34.340If you're a small media company and you had Facebook, you lost that.
00:09:38.900He has done more damage than anyone else.
00:09:42.260And I can remember more than his father, like Justin Trudeau and Jagmeet and their little coalition has really damaged our country.
00:09:50.800And, I mean, at this point, like, I really hope that Pierre Paulyov gets in and I hope that we get some common sense.
00:09:57.480I mean, could you imagine what would have happened if, you know, one, they didn't put up that emergency alert to the grid would have shut down?
00:10:03.980I mean, this is what they're putting us into.
00:10:07.700They're putting our country into a state of complete chaos where common sense doesn't exist anymore for their woke ideology, which isn't even I don't even know why.
00:10:18.160I don't understand it. I mean, in Chicago right now, electric cars, they have only minus 19 and they're and they're shutting down like crazy.
00:10:25.600They're having a crisis from a little bit of a snowstorm and we're going to duplicate that across our country.
00:10:30.360I just I'm just shocked and blown away by this pure incompetence.
00:10:34.820You know, I'm glad you mentioned the electricity grid because I do want to talk to you about this because the NDP here in Alberta are trying to offload their mistakes onto the current government.
00:10:49.120The crisis in our electricity grid related to the cold weather that we're having and cold weather, my sub minus 40.
00:10:59.080You're from Fort McMurray. I'm from Fort Saskatchewan. That's nothing new.
00:11:01.760We get it every couple of weeks all winter long.
00:11:04.120And this extended deep freeze spell is what's been very hard on our grid.
00:11:09.480And the NDP, in particular, Brian Mason, a former NDP, you know, he was he was the former NDP leader before Notley.
00:11:22.500And he's sitting at home right now or sorry, I think he's in B.C.
00:11:26.120He retired to B.C. sucking up his pension.
00:11:30.360And he said that the reason the grid is is in danger right now.
00:11:36.380And we had alerts all sent to our phones like Amber Alerts telling us not to plug in our electric vehicles and not to, you know, not to start cleaning the oven.
00:11:46.060But he he said it is the fault of the hillbillies.
00:11:53.680He used that word for voting for the UCP.
00:11:56.580And I thought, you know what, you jackwagons, you guys are the ones who took us off coal.
00:12:01.920We've got 800 years of clean, burning, reliable coal under our feet.
00:12:06.720And the NDP sided with Justin Trudeau and started taking our reliable coal fired electricity generation offline and polluted our grid with unreliable renewables that are operating at basically next to nothing right now.
00:12:23.380We're trying to have our natural gas plants keep up.
00:12:27.540And if we ever end up in a rolling brownout situation, guess what we're going to do?
00:12:32.560We're going to do what we always do by coal fired electricity from our good friends in Wyoming.
00:12:39.700So for all of the NDPs preening and blaming hillbillies for the failings of our grid that they tinkered with at the end of the day, we'll just buy coal fired electricity from Wyoming.
00:12:53.000So we're not really getting off coal and getting off coal jobs.
00:12:56.940We're getting off Canadian coal and Canadian coal jobs.
00:13:00.700You know, I always said this is a part that I find always perplexing.
00:13:06.040I call them the pseudo intellectuals that somehow think that they are superior to everybody and they don't need to call people hillbillies.
00:13:13.300I mean, I, you know, I don't think that Brian is in a position to criticize anybody considering the mess that they left the province in.
00:13:22.880And I have a friend who actually was a complete NDP supporter from Parkland County, who told me the devastation that shutting down the coal industry did to that community.
00:13:33.740This is stuff we, we, we produce 1.5% of all global emissions.
00:14:47.600We're doing that to our energy industry.
00:14:49.400We're sitting back and we're, we're becoming this stupid country.
00:14:52.860We've had this bizarre narcissistic leader who won't leave and, and don't under, you know what?
00:14:59.140And people like, well, he's, you know, you can't underestimate Justin Trudeau.
00:15:02.740You can make the argument that Justin Trudeau is the most successful leader.
00:15:06.760Cause he's the last one, you know, and I think we really need to take him seriously.
00:15:12.520Like, I mean, what, what is he willing to do to stay in power?
00:15:16.200I mean, buy in the media, like, think about that.
00:15:19.080Like, I was really funny cause I, like I was watching, um, at issue on CBC and, um, I found it quite interesting what Andrew Cohen said.
00:15:27.180Cause he said that even him, he made a statement saying that like the money that they receive, he wishes they didn't receive it because they lost all credibility.
00:15:35.300Well, how do you, you know, I have clients in my marketing company that are paying, do you just think I'm going to say anything bad about them?
00:15:57.160We're going to be the collateral damage.
00:15:59.320You know, like I did a post the other day where I had a picture of, you know, uh, uh, Daniel Smith and I put feminist and I put fake feminist.
00:16:05.980And then someone messaged me, well, you're chauvinistic.
00:16:09.300Cause I'm calling Trudeau a fake feminist.
00:16:11.500Like Trudeau has like, he want to talk about trans as stealing women.
00:16:16.120Well, Trudeau, I mean, look what he's done.
00:16:57.640Cause I watched all the media and that, like, that was like the number one story of the world for two days, three days.
00:17:01.940I mean, it was amazing, but like, I know David and you know, and I, I kind of like, I don't see David as like dangerous ever.
00:17:10.000You know, like, like, like even when he's like going after a story, like his treatment by, I've thought about this even more so.
00:17:20.120Cause some people are like, well, you know, he was arrested before, but like, what has he ever done to deserve any type of the treatment he's received?
00:17:28.000And you know, they, they were covering it kind of fairly, but I, I mean, I was watching, like they were struggling to just say, this is a reporter.
00:17:36.420Like they, they, they gave him, it was so pathetic.
00:17:40.180And I thought this is the world we're in.
00:17:42.400They can't just take their personal opinion aside and say, you know what?
00:28:12.920I'm, you know, I'm trying to track Jane Fonda down.
00:28:15.500She's like, well, you better hurry up because she's here at Moxie's.
00:28:18.380So, uh, managed to set up a bit of a media squirm and, uh, she wouldn't answer my questions.
00:28:23.440And my, of course, my cell phone was on like no battery and I had two seconds, but that, I mean, that did two things.
00:28:30.920It, it, it got me back my, in my advocacy lane, which I'm thankful for because, you know, I had that, uh, lesbian post.
00:28:37.440So I was kind of staying it there for a little while.
00:28:40.400But, uh, after that, it, uh, you know, it got me back and I, you know, I am so proud of it.
00:28:46.180I, I'm, the two things I'm most proud of is that, uh, I was supposed to debate Mike Adima from Greenpeace and, uh, he told the, I think he told the reporter that they, that, uh, they were scared of the baby because I, I was not scared to take on the environmentalists.
00:29:02.220So they would have to get counseling after I was done with them.
00:29:13.460I mean, you could say Greta, you know, was here, but Greta lied so low and basically, you know, did it, she didn't do much, but I, and I, I have, I'm proud of that.
00:30:02.200Even not, he spoke against her visit and, and it was just, it was such a perfect storm.
00:30:07.360Um, and it kind of goes to show you like, cause the other cool thing I'm proud of, but was that they were all going to come here for tech and I warned them.
00:30:57.140Um, tech, you know, that was a project that our community, um, and they won, they managed to get tech council.
00:31:05.620And I think part of that was, is that, uh, Martin Machine, Jane Fonda and all them, instead of coming here, they were supposed to, I believe they canceled that they did at Washington steps.
00:31:14.980So, you know, if I had the resources, I would have loved to have just hopped a plate and gone to Washington to confront them because that Jane Fonda, like, I mean, and Neil Yard and the sheer.
00:31:27.560And they knew, they knew they couldn't have protested in your community because they would be faced with the people whose lives they were about to change for the worse by denying them their jobs.
00:31:39.840And so, uh, next time, I think it is very important.
00:31:44.640Um, and I'll do everything I can to help you get there.
00:31:47.520The next time these environmentalist yahoos in their 50,000 square foot mansions and their private jets decide to tell indigenous people, they don't deserve a six figure job to get themselves out of generational poverty.
00:32:05.580They are not going to do it unopposed.
00:35:34.520So it's like, it's kind of hilarious, I think, that these so-called woke people are trying to tell people how to live instead of just living their lives.
00:35:50.220But this infringing on everyone else's right to live, I don't get it.
00:35:56.880You know, it's like, I remember watching when I, they had, they were at some award show and then they had the, they showed pictures of Atalius Pond in Fort McMurray and that all these millionaire celebrities were dressed up full, talking about, talking about the cars, right?
00:36:24.960I think we have accomplished, you know what I mean?
00:36:27.140Like, we've managed to, there is a massive, like, they don't want to speak like they used to without knowledge or, or, or if it's a cause, it's a cause that, you know, makes sense.
00:36:36.720It's not a cause of ripping out, taking a job out of an indigenous person's future.
00:36:41.480Like, and I, and so I think that is a good thing, but my favorite moment of my whole advocacy was not, uh, besides Jake, I was in, uh, I was filming chief, uh, Crystal Smith.
00:36:56.420I finished, um, interviewing her and then this kind of an older guy, like, you know, 56, not older, but like, you know, like middle age plus came up to me and he was almost in tears.
00:37:07.800He said, uh, you know, I just got a job with the coastal gas link and I'm going to be able to provide my grandkids with a little bit of cash.
00:37:16.360I've always worked, but I never could get that perfect job.
00:37:18.920And they had some, and I think he has some disabilities, so he had to, they had to put him through some training and he did really well.
00:37:24.980And now for the next 10 years of his life, he's going to have the highest paying job he ever had.
00:37:28.680He's going to leave a little bit of money and it gave him a purpose.
00:37:32.420That's, that's, that's what Jane Fonda takes from people with her bullshit.
00:37:38.900And candidly, I, I mean, they, they, they, they avoid the, avoid me like the plague.
00:37:42.460So I, you know, it's, uh, that's, I, that's, if I was to say one thing in this anniversary of, uh, you know, the Jane Fonda day, um, I'm happy that she's never come.
00:37:56.940Robbie, uh, tell us how people can support the work that you do, um, at oil, sand strong and, and how they can access oil and gas world.
00:38:06.920Because as I always say, you're sticking up for a family just like mine, but your, um, your advocacy really does stick up for the men and women.
00:38:17.480Like that man you met when you were filming with chief crystal, um, go to oil and gas world.ca and sign up for a newsletter.
00:38:26.520And then we are going to be having some, if people want to like find us a little bit or give us like 20 bucks a month.
00:38:32.840We haven't really done that, but we're going to start now.
00:38:34.980Um, I've, uh, been, I've got a lot of projects.
00:38:38.960I've got, um, live in Fort McMurray video series, which is, uh, the reincarnation of my visit Fort McMurray series, Fort McMurray 1000.
00:38:47.200And then on the bigger scale, oil and gas world magazine travels around the country and we interview people all walks of life.
00:38:53.440Uh, we've some massive big hitter interviews coming up, but one thing we do is we interview people all equally.
00:39:00.400So other than the cover photo, everyone gets the same treatment.
00:39:05.940So, um, yeah, like, so it was, uh, it was the lady that I interviewed when I was at Upsilon Ontario at her gas station, Shannon.
00:39:13.620Uh, and that's what I, what I truly believe.
00:39:16.380I, I, I, I believe that, you know, everybody has value and everyone's interesting.
00:39:21.780And I, and I, and the goal is to humanize conservatives and tell the stories of people that, you know, that are being drowned out by this fate wokeness that we are surrounded in.
00:39:55.600Uh, yeah, we are doing a whole new branding thing and I'm actually teaming up with a friend, Chris, I mean, Chris, and we are going to be taking the bloody line across the world.
00:40:46.780Well, we've come to the viewer feedback portion of the show.
00:40:51.280It always comes after the interview and I try to get viewer feedback on last week's show, but sometimes on other things that are happening in and around the company.
00:41:01.400And as usual, there's completely nothing happening here at rebel news, just boring, trying to find things to talk about.
00:41:09.020I can't keep up to the work that the team is doing in Davos.
00:41:12.720If you want to see their reports and support their independent journalism from on the ground, from the globalist gathering of the world's power brokers and oligarchs in Switzerland, go to w e f reports.com.
00:41:27.300I give out my email address right now because I care about what you think about the work that we're doing here at rebel news.
00:41:36.940I say this every single week, but we get new people here all the time and they have to know what the rules are, too.
00:41:41.520So, Sheila at rebel news.com, send me an email, put gun show letters in the subject line so that it's easier for me to find, not because I'm a lazy little journalist like those of them working in the mainstream, but because I do get dozens, if not hundreds of emails a day, depending on how rambunctious I have been on the internet or what sort of controversial work we've done here at rebel news.
00:42:10.240So, gun show letters in the subject line, it's easier for me to find.
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00:42:43.460If you've been a little bit too truthy, if you know what I mean.
00:42:46.640All that is to say, though, today's comment comes to us from YouTube and not on the gun show.
00:42:55.500However, it is on a story that I did this week.
00:42:58.740Now, earlier this week, I don't know if you saw it, but I published a story about how the Liberal government, and this is an exclusive story because we painfully watched the government contracts website,
00:43:13.400that the Feds are blowing $7 million on consultants to advise them on how best to make the Canadian military net zero.
00:43:28.620Now, I have my suspicions that I think the Liberals' endgame on how to make the Canadian military net zero is to not have a Canadian military at all through a crisis in morale.
00:43:43.400And a lack of deployment-ready equipment so that nobody ever joins.
00:43:51.580And so the military just ends through attrition.
00:43:54.700People retiring, quiet quitting, as the youngsters say, and they just, nobody ever joins.
00:44:01.380So we just button up the entire department.
00:44:05.960I mean, that would be what the Liberals would ideally want.
00:44:12.320But anyway, I published that story this week, and I thought, what are people saying about that story?
00:44:19.920Do they, are they concerned about the woke climate madness now infecting the Canadian military?
00:44:31.500I mean, they're already infected with wokeness in the upper echelons.
00:44:35.320I mean, now you can get feminine hygiene products in the men's room on Canadian forces, bases, and facilities.
00:44:47.320Now we're worried about the climate and carbon footprint of our tanks and jets, if we can ever get some working jets.
00:44:58.700Anyway, Joan H., Joan H. 1952 writes on my video on YouTube.
00:45:05.900First, Trudeau needs to have a net zero private jet fleet that he travels on instead of polluting the planet willy-nilly.
00:45:14.620There's always Zoom, which would reduce security costs and be good for the environment.
00:45:19.580Oh, but you can't Zoom yourself to a luxury vacation on your billionaire friend's private island, as the Trudeau family did for Christmas vacation this year.
00:45:36.980Right? And as I'm recording this, I know Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland is at the World Economic Forum.
00:45:44.600She easily could have twitched her way through a speech via Zoom.
00:45:51.060However, she didn't, because who would give up a trip to Davos?
00:45:56.220I mean, it's like Banff. It's beautiful.
00:46:00.520And there are lots of high-end restaurants and powerful friends for you to visit and network with.