SHEILA GUNN REID ｜ Alberta's gas price advantage： Shouldn't other provinces follow suit？
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The province of Alberta continues to set aside the provincial portion of the gas tax to make life a little bit more affordable for us. Why aren t our friends in Saskatchewan doing the same thing? Joining me to discuss this and, well, maybe even the cryptids of Canada, is my friend Chris Sims from the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.
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The province of Alberta continues to set aside the provincial portion of the gas tax to make
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life a little bit more affordable for us, so why are we the only province doing this?
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I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed and you're watching The Gunn Show.
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Alberta's Conservative Premier Daniel Smith has decided that the province just does not need
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to gouge Albertans for more money in a time of record inflation.
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The province has set aside the provincial portion of the gas tax to help us be able to fill up our
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vehicles, to go to work, to give us a little bit more money in our pockets, to pay for groceries,
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or maybe even have a little road trip here and there.
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We are certainly not the only Conservative-led province in this country.
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We're not even the only Conservative-led province on the prairies.
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So why aren't our friends in Saskatchewan doing the same thing?
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Why isn't Saskatchewan's Premier Scott Moe following in Danielle Smith's footsteps and
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giving some relief to the struggling families of Saskatchewan?
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Frankly, Alberta doesn't seem to be needing the money.
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We seem to be getting by as a province without giving this extra money to the provincial
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But couldn't the province of Saskatchewan do something temporary that may turn permanent
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to help out people who are dealing with Justin Trudeau's mismanagement of the economy and
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Joining me now to discuss this and, well, maybe even the cryptids of Canada in a roundabout
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way is my friend Chris Sims from the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.
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Joining me now is my good friend and good friend of the show, Chris Sims from the Canadian Taxpayers
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I just got back from a quick road trip up to your neck of the woods near Edmonton.
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And then we stopped by in Red Deer, talked to the good folks there, and into Drumheller.
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And we were promoting the fact that Alberta has got the lowest gas taxes in all of Canada.
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We save 13 cents per liter of gasoline and diesel.
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That saves you about 15 bucks if you're driving a light-duty pickup truck.
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I can get a roast chicken and a jug of milk for that.
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Interestingly, we're also putting pressure next door on our neighbour, Premier Scott Moe
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And we've seen an example here in Alberta all this time.
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So we're urging Premier Moe to cut taxes like a girl.
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Now, you actually found the lowest gas in the province, and it's in Drumheller, which is
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fun because that's kind of a road trip destination.
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So it's great to have the gas be the lowest at your summer road trip.
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Yeah, I was really surprised by that, actually.
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It was about $1.44, $1.45, and then I hit Red Deer.
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Come around the corner into Drumheller, which is just an amazing place.
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As a nerd who grew up loving dinosaurs and history her whole life, you come around the
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corner, you can see the KT line, like where the world changed.
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So you come around the corner, and after you're finished gawping at all the fossils, look up
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at the gas station price, and it was like $1.35.
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So that was the lowest I had found, which was super impressive.
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And again, that's money back into people's pockets.
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Like you said, that's a destination for a lot of people, especially families, especially
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My son was counting all the different license plates from out of province, and there were
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tons of them from BC, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, even a couple from Ontario.
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And so it was really good to see a really low gas price, and obviously the lowest gas
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Now, you know, it's interesting, too, because, you know, we can compare ourselves here in
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Alberta, as you point out, to our friends in Saskatchewan, but also to our friends in
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They've had a carbon tax forever, and their emissions are not going down.
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The federal liberals have reliably told me that the more you pay in carbon taxes, the
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And yet, that doesn't seem to be the case in BC.
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What's the impact of these ever-increasing taxes on the poor people who live in BC right
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I'm really glad you asked me that for a lot of reasons.
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One, I was born and raised in rural British Columbia.
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And so very similar, I would say, in kind of outlook, temperament, independence, resilience
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And they don't deserve this kind of carbon tax punishment that they're getting.
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British Columbia's cost of living is unaffordable for most average normal people, unless you've
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got some way of, you know, either living with your parents who are really well-to-do, or you
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managed to get into the housing market just before it went bananas.
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So much so, Sheila, that when people are buying a house now, having a suite that is rented out
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As a two-person couple working professional family, that you will have a stranger renting
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And so the carbon tax plays a big factor into that.
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Not so much into housing, obviously, but into the day-to-day affordability.
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And so they've had a carbon tax, like you said, since 2008.
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The B.C. Liberal government of Premier Gordon Campbell at the time brought in a carbon tax
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They sold people on a carbon tax saying that it would do many things.
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They said that it was going to be revenue neutral.
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They said that it was going to create a plethora of affordable alternative energy sources that
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And they said it was going to make emissions go down.
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So it's, as we know, $65 per ton, which is now the mandatory minimum imposed by Prime Minister
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But B.C. would do it on their own anyway, because they just love the carbon tax there.
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And alternative affordable energy sources are really scarce for most working people.
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Remember how I mentioned the affordability and the scarcity of that alternative energy?
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It's not like they're standing in a grocery line and they can pick paper or plastic bags.
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Most people, once they're beaten into a financial corner the way they have been in B.C.,
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And so this is why an economist would call this an inelastic demand for energy.
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This is why you've got emissions going up in B.C. along with the carbon tax going up in B.C.
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And as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said years ago in French on Toulombard and Paul,
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and as the parliamentary budget officer has said,
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even if Canada stopped everything tomorrow, like the whole country,
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we all just went and hid in a cave, stop eating, stop heating,
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So if your issue is emissions, it's not making a dent.
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Even if you just taxed people into oblivion and made them not be able to afford any energy,
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We've seen a severe financial punishment of Canadians that started in B.C.
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is using it as a template.
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And it's enormous to see the subsidies coming out the other side for green energy
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while we're handicapping ourselves with this affordable, reliable fossil fuel.
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You and I were having a very vigorous discussion about Bigfoot before I hit record.
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I prefer the term Sasquatch, by the way, but just so we're good.
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Um, it's just like how, um, some, or my religious friends prefer the term Latter-day Saints.
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Um, you know, we were talking about how, of course, of course Bigfoot can hide.
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Because there's one road up the middle of the province in B.C.
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And so there's a lot of places for our hairy, higher primate friends to avoid capture.
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Because you know what they're going to do if they find Bigfoot?
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I'm like, you know, imagine trying to find, uh, Sasquatch.
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Outside of the greater Vancouver area with an electric vehicle.
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And yet the feds are just pumping billions and billions of dollars into the creation of
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batteries for electric vehicles that nobody wants to buy because they're unreliable.
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So we have this really, uh, as you were talking, um, my wheels were turning and we have this
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We record vehicle registrations by fuel type, and then we publish it online.
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So we know exactly how many vehicles we have in Alberta registered on the road.
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Uh, that doesn't include grain trucks that may or may not be registered on the road.
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Uh, so we have roughly 3.6 million registered vehicles, which is pretty good for like a province
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But there are only 3,500 that are fully electric.
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Because you can pump billions at this as the liberals are doing, I think $20 billion to
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And you still can't get us to buy these things because they don't work.
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You can give them to me for free, but I can't use it in the winter.
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And this is very similar argument to what happens with the energy, right?
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You want to punish us for using natural gas or for diesel, right?
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There's just a blank stare that's coming from the government in that situation.
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Uh, there's a gentleman who works, uh, as a scientist in British Columbia.
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Uh, we happen to vigorously disagree on things like the carbon tax, but he knows his stuff
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when it comes to the amount of energy required for things to go.
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And he did the math years ago and said that this was a very conservative estimate.
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He said that if everybody had an electric vehicle delivered to them for free, okay?
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Like the electric car ferry brought you one overnight.
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Um, and you did bare bones, minimum home heating.
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So something to do with electric that just keeps your pipes from freezing.
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So not touching industrial, not touching business, okay?
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Just private use of transportation and basic home heating.
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He estimated that British Columbia would need nine new sightseed dams.
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And so this is what we're saying, you know, we're not the energy experts, but we are really
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good on taxes and we're pointing out the fact that these high taxes and the fact that Trudeau
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is bent on bringing them up every single year for the next seven years is making the basics
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So things like electricity, things like home heating, transportation, even groceries, it really
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Um, so that's making, helping to make life unaffordable, but at the same time, there's
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And so this is where we're pointing out, God, folks, you need to figure that part out.
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You can't just keep punishing people with these carbon taxes because they can't afford
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Like I was just, and getting back to the, like the battery plant subsidies, $19 billion.
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I was thinking you could literally give everybody in Red Deer an electric vehicle with that money.
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Instead, we gave it, and I would never advise that by the way, because you'll never get to
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But, you know, instead we're just dumping it on these, like corporate welfare to private
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These are like Ford, Volkswagen, Salantis, like internationally known mega corporations.
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When you're trying to think of how much money this is, you can build a pretty good, smallish,
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but brand new hospital for about a billion dollars.
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So the next time a politician stands up on his or her hind legs and opens their mouth and
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tells you what they're spending your money on, and you think billions, picture a hospital.
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Every time they say billion, poof, in your mind, picture a hospital and all the stuff that
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So that's a really good rule of thumb, because otherwise they'll just keep using these huge
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numbers that don't really mean a lot to normal people.
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You know, in my mind, when you said when a politician stands up and I thought, in my
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Now, we were, again, talking before I hit record about this Ipsos poll that recently
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And I should preface it by saying Ipsos is not a conservative polling company.
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They've dedicated at least two pages on their website to their ESG score.
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And their poll was done on behalf of the Montreal Economic Institute regarding various issues
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And I think the Liberals have officially lost Quebec on this issue.
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And I think energy affordability is one of the things that really mugs people by reality.
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So six in 10 Quebecers believe that independent producers should be allowed to sell electricity
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They also say that 51% of Quebecers are in favor of developing the province's natural
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And there's been a fracking ban in Quebec for quite some time.
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So, I mean, and when you look at the numbers here, and you'll have to take my word for it,
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It's men and women across all age groups that agree with this.
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Six in 10 Canadians are, they don't want to pay any more in taxes to fight climate change.
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I think we've reached the event horizon for the Liberals on this issue.
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Very interesting coming out of Quebec that so over, so a majority, over 50% say they want
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to develop their natural, that's really interesting.
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Because they've been quite reliant on hydro, a lot like British Columbia has been, although
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British Columbia does more with their alternate natural resources.
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But that's really interesting that they're going that way too.
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If you can't afford your power bills, if you can't afford to get to work, if you're worried
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about how to afford to heat your home this coming winter, that gets really real, really
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Because then you're making decisions on what bill to pay and what minimum payment to make.
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And the last stat I saw out of MNP, which is like a financial advisory group that it's
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internationally known, and they measure things like debt levels, right, insolvencies.
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So between 47% and 52%, depending on what province you're in, half of the people there
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say they're within $200 per month of insolvency.
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That means you can't make your minimum payments.
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That doesn't mean like you've paid off your line of credit or your credit cards.
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This is making your very minimum payments within $200.
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When they did that survey, what I also find interesting is Atlantic Canada.
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So for a long time, Atlantic Canada, unbeknownst to a lot of us out in Western Canada, who've
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been paying the mandatory minimum Trudeau carbon tax now for years, Atlantic Canadians had a
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They had a cap and trade system through the different provincial governments, etc.
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So on average, they were paying about $0.02 per litre in gasoline for the carbon tax.
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Because presto, bingo, bingo, they were brought on to the mandatory minimum.
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So that first carbon tax went up by $0.12 overnight.
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And Prime Minister Trudeau has now created a second carbon tax, which is through government
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It's a super complicated international credit system on carbon.
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British Columbia has had one for years, and he's mirrored it after BC.
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So legit, he saw the price of gas in Vancouver and said, whoa, that's awesome.
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We know, for example, in Atlantic Canada, they have regulated fuel prices through the government.
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So I think what Franco, my colleague Franco Teresano, told me was that it was around $0.05
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So $0.12 plus $0.05, their price of gasoline went up $0.17 overnight.
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So that's going to get real, real fast, because it's not just at the pump.
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A big chunk of people, especially in Nova Scotia, still use heating oil for their furnaces.
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You know, that is evidenced in these results, because they break it down also by region,
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because they did some polling across the country too.
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And increasing taxes to fight climate change by socio-demographic group
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See, that's pulling up almost to B range if you're grading it.
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And again, I want to just reach across the aisle.
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I think a lot of us are small e-environmentalists.
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I also spent a lot of time on Vancouver Island.
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I have hand-sewn my baby's cloth diapers, okay?
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Even if we stopped existing, it wouldn't make a dent in global emissions.
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So this is where I'm trying to reach people that are like,
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You know, we are the tax people, but I can't help but read some pretty smart things sometimes.
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The government of India has been asking to buy natural gas from Canada for years.
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Hundreds of millions of people in India every day burn garbage and old wood.
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The amount of heavy emissions coming out of those poor folks' homes is enormous.
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Not to mention the indoor air quality for a lot of these families.
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That would reduce global emissions and provide jobs here for people.
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So why aren't we thinking of doing this instead of taxing people to death for driving their minivans?
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And there's a level of colonialism there that really bothers me.
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And I'm reliably informed that the left is there against colonialism.
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But I think you are imposing these policies on people who just want to be able to have a car and flip their lights on,
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And we're preventing them from achieving the same quality of life that we have.
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And it sort of has a tinge of the noble savage bigotry that I just cannot abide.
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There was a lady I was listening to the other day.
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And again, let's talk India because they're a democracy and, you know,
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we can kind of relate to them a little bit easier in some cases.
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Like, we do trade deals with them all the time.
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So this is just another trade deal we should be doing.
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But she had basically said, read back into Dickens.
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Read back into the time where we were in the middle of the Industrial Revolution in places like England.
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Their emissions were so thick and their particulates were so thick that it would combine with the fog and the stench coming up off of the ground where people were still using horses.
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And it was causing like pea supers that were so thick that people were getting hit by carriages because they couldn't see their hands in front of their faces because of the smog.
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I happen to know because I read history a lot that back in those days, women were sent out to the country when they were expecting a baby because it was cleaner air for them and they wouldn't get rickets as easily.
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And so this lady was making this comparison saying, why are we insisting that some families in other countries stop in the middle of that?
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You are in the middle of an Industrial Revolution, but you're not allowed to go further.
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Maybe there's a reason, but that doesn't sound...
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We have got record demand for food banks across Canada.
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So here in Alberta, like we're pointing out, we do have it better.
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I want to give credit where it's due and it's smart of them to do that.
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But we're seeing record demand for food banks across the country.
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And I dug into that a little bit more because you probably saw the note on that, Sheila, a few months ago.
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Increasing demand mostly from working families.
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So let's break that down what that really means.
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That means if you're a parent and you're working a job, you're still counting on donated peanut butter to feed your kid.
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And the carbon taxes are a big reason why things are becoming unaffordable for working people in Canada.
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All it's doing is creating this huge cash grab from the government, taking away from people, and is not helping the environment.
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So this is where we're urging smart people in Ottawa to wise up and do the right thing.
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Interestingly, I think I just saw this in Manitoba.
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It was the leadership of the NDP, the party, saying we need to cut gas tax.
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Because if they cut their gas tax in full, that would negate the cost of Trudeau's carbon tax.
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It would completely take the sting out of it because it's the equivalent amount.
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As you were talking there, I thought, you know, not only is it making, it's turning more people to food banks,
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but it's also making it harder for people who have a little bit extra to donate to the food banks.
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So the food banks are shrinking, but the demand is rising.
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Because they don't have as much extra now to give to that food bank.
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Also, even if they're just buying at the store, so say you want to buy an extra jar of peanut butter and put it in the hamper as you're leaving,
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that jar of peanut butter is now almost eight bucks, whereas before it was around five bucks, four bucks.
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So that means that you now will have less money in order to buy that purchase and then give it to the food bank,
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or even to have money, because some people prefer to give money to the food bank,
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to when the cashier asks you, you know, can you donate this?
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The answer is going to more likely than often be no now because people have less money.
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And so this is where we're imploring the government that, you know, good intentions and saying things like,
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but this is for the environment, don't actually make a difference to people if it's impoverishing them and it's not helping the environment.
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And so this is where we're saying, scrap the carbon taxes, leave more money in the pockets of working people,
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and they will be able to do good things with them.
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We're not the environment experts, but if you want to tackle things like emissions, deal with the big end of the arithmetic problem.
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Also here at home, there's ways of capturing CO2 as an element and just think of it as recycling.
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Instead of just letting it fritter off into the atmosphere, get a company without government money,
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get a company to capture it and utilize it as a recycled element.
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Like we do with aluminum or glass or other products.
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So there's other ways of doing this that doesn't require impoverishing working people and forcing them to go to food banks.
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Next time you're around, we should go to the carbon capture site up the road from me.
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The reason we are, as they say, Upgrader Alley is because we have salt caverns underneath us, underneath the farms.
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There's big, massive salt caverns, and then they inject the CO2 underneath as part of their carbon capture
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and just store it down there until they figure out what to do with it and how to use it and turn it into something better than pollution, as the feds call it.
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But so next time you're around, we should do that together.
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Chris, tell us how people can support the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.
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You are completely independent of government funding.
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And I think that's why we love you and that's why we know we can trust you.
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So for folks who aren't aware of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, we were founded in 1990, so before the internet was a thing.
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We don't care what color jersey the politician's wearing.
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We want low taxes, less waste, and more accountable government.
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So depending on what your thing is, this is the best way to help us.
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If you want to oppose the gun grab, we've got a petition for that.
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If you don't think journalists should be paid by the government, we've got a petition for that to defund the CBC.
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If you want to scrap the carbon taxes, based on what Sheila and I have just been talking about, sign up for that.
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And what that does is, see, you join the taxpayer army that way.
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And so the next time an issue comes up in Edmonton or Ottawa, depending on what it is, we will send you like a mobilizing email saying, flood the minister's email right now.
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So, for example, just recently here in Alberta, they scrapped their silly idea to host the Commonwealth Games, which was going to cost us probably more than a billion dollars building wooden circular...
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I ended up being anti-Olympics there for a while because of Calgary.
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I'm like, wait, do I not like the Olympics now?
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Why are we going to spend a billion dollars on indoor circular wooden racing tracks for bicycles?
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So any of those things that really get you going, sign on to those petitions and then you join our army and we're actually able to cause change to happen in a grassroots, citizen, nonpartisan way.
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Chris, thanks so much for the work that you do advocating for families like mine all across this country, but particularly here in Alberta, boy, are we sure glad to have you.
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I know it turns off some of my viewers, but it's my show, so whatever.
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It's one of those things where you can either – I get so bogged down with real stuff and government stuff.
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And I actually do think it's real, so I don't mean it like it's not real.
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But I like more whimsical things, magical things, right?
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Because it gives me hope that there's more to life than, like, death and taxes, as they say.
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Do you – are you friends with – if I've got you still for a second – are you friends with Annie Oz on Facebook?
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And they spend enough time on the land that we should listen.
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And so we got Facebook messaging, and that's how I became friends.
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I think maybe he was even a mutual friend of yours.
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Well, I hope people listen to those folks, and I hope that they eventually get a picture.
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Because, again, I say, if the government sees it, we're screwed.
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We're never going to be able to drill on the eastern slopes of the Rockies ever again.
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Like, some stupid caribou that aren't smart enough to join the rest of the herd in the north.
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They, all of a sudden, they're outlawing forestry in these areas because of the woodland caribou.
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And I'm like, the woodland caribou are not a real species.
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They are not genetically distinct from the rest of the caribou, which is, like, one of the most populous ruminants in the country.
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But because there's, like, this little herd that's dwindling.
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And I'm like, I don't care if those caribou are not getting it on.
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We can't do seismic there because of these, like, dwindling woodland caribou herds.
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And I'm like, let me hunt them or put them in a truck and send them to the rest of the caribou.
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And so I see that and I'm like, that's what, we can't find the Bigfoot because that's what they're going to do.
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I never thought, honestly, until you mentioned it, I never thought of the implications.
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Only we must find his hair and his turds in the woods.
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Just, like, send me a wink and I'll know what that means.
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Okay, next time you're down here in this territory, let me know.
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Well, we've come to the portion of the show where we invite your viewer feedback.
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It's the reason that I give you my email address right now.
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If you have a question or comment about the show today, just put gun show letters in the
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But also, don't hesitate to leave a comment wherever you might be watching us.
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I might go poking over there to find, you know, something thoughtful or even maybe hate mail
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And it's on last week's show with my friend Michelle Sterling from Friends of Science.
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And we were talking about the pause on green energy projects that our premier Daniel Smith
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has put in place to deal with end of life issues of these projects.
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You know, the same things we do for oil and gas.
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And also, what are the implications that these green energy projects may have for our electricity
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Are they going to cause brownouts and blackouts if we become oversaturated with these unreliable
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projects that don't work when the sun isn't shining or the wind isn't blowing?
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And Max Wellbeing 9449 writes, now, if the male leaders of the other provinces had balls
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as big as hers, hers being Daniel Smith, our lovely female premier, the country might actually
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Our premier, Daniel Smith, she has a bit of a DeSantis effect.
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She is willing to go out and propose the policies and the ideas and take the slings and arrows
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so that the others might follow in her footsteps.
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The others being, you know, Scott Moe in Saskatchewan.
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Although, to his credit, he leads the way on a lot of issues too.
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Or at least marches together with premier Daniel Smith towards the fire of the mainstream media
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and the feds, but her ideas also stoke, not cowardice, but rather fear in, for example,
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the other territories, Yukon, Northwest territories, Manitoba sometimes falls in line with premier
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So there is some of that happening where she comes out first and sort of charges towards
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the enemy line and then everybody sort of falls in line.
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So, you know, hopefully her boldness will make this country a little more free.
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Now I have a, I had somebody write in to ask why I'm always looking out of the corner of
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my eye or looking down on a screen or seemingly somewhat distracted sometimes when I'm on air.
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It is because I don't have a producer who is with me when I'm recording and I don't have
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a video tech or a videographer who is with me when I'm recording.
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So when I'm recording, I'm talking to you, the camera, I have a computer on my desk, which
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controls my camera and my monitor and all that sort of stuff.
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And I've got notes on another laptop sort of beside me.
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And so the reason that sometimes you might see me not paying attention to my guest is
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I can hear everything they're saying, but they're deaf.
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But I'm also making sure that I'm still recording, that I haven't had an internet catastrophe,
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that my software hasn't failed, that my computer hasn't just turned itself off, that my guest's
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quality is still at least usable as I work remotely.
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I'm monitoring with the recording process just to make sure that there's a functioning
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So it may seem like I'm distracted, that I'm not paying attention to my guest.
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But really, I'm just trying to make sure that everything's working.
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And sometimes that means taking my eyes off the camera to check as I'm doing right now,
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So I hope that answers the questions and sort of maybe addresses those concerns that people
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think that I'm, you know, just, I don't know, writing emails, sending text messages, doing
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But that is the nature of what I do here because I don't work in the studio in Toronto.
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I send them all these audio files and video files and they package it up to a show and
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I'll see everybody back here in the same time, in the same place next week.
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Big shout out to everybody who works behind the scenes at Rebel News to turn this jumble
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of audio and video files into a show that's watchable for you.
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And as always, remember, don't let the government tell you that you've had too much to think.