SHEILA GUNN REID ｜ An NDP win in Alberta would directly attack affordability for all Canadians
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Sheila Gunn-Reed and Josh Andrus join me to talk about the upcoming election, bail reform, and what they think is going to happen on May 29th, and why Alberta is leading the charge on bail reform.
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Alberta's next election is less than one week away. What would an NDP government and their
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coalition with Justin Trudeau's Liberals mean for affordability here in Alberta?
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Not anything good. I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed and you're watching The Gunn Show.
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Albertans head to the polls at May 29th wherein we will decide the future not just of Alberta but
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also the industry that fuels the economy here in Wildrose Country and fills the coffers of the
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federal government. Albertans have been innovating to provide cheap, reliable, affordable energy for
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Alberta but also for the rest of the country. It's one of those things that Albertans I think
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do best amongst the country and we'd love to do more of it if the federal government would just
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get out of our way but we know in 2015 then Premier Rachel Notley of the Socialist NDP
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in her allegiance with Justin Trudeau's anti-oil, anti-Western federal Liberals deeply damaged
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Alberta's energy sector and our economy. It drove up the cost of living and the cost of doing business
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and it saw the end of nearly 200,000 Alberta jobs. Will Albertans repeat this collective madness?
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I'm hopeful we will not plummet into it one more time not just for our sake but for the sake of our
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fellow Canadians. A free, more prosperous Alberta is good for everybody. Somebody has to lead the way
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and I'm proud that it's often us. So joining me now in an interview we recorded earlier is Josh
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Andrus from Project Confederation whose organization argues for more autonomy and a better deal for Alberta
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within Confederation. We're talking affordability, Alberta leading on the way on a whole host of
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issues including bail reform and what Josh thinks is going to happen May 29th. Take a listen.
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Joining me now is Josh Andrus from Project Confederation. He's got an excellent article
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in the Western Standard that we're going to talk about but we're also going to talk about
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some predictions for the last anxiety inducing week of the election campaign here in Alberta
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and possibly how Alberta's stance on bail reform has influenced the feds for the good for once.
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They actually responded the right way to something so I think we should talk about that because that's
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definitely a win for Albertans but also win for public safety of Canadians. Josh thanks for coming on
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the show. Let's talk about your article in the Western Standard. It's titled
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What Ottawa wants is not less emissions but less oil and I actually don't even think they want less
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oil. I think they just want less Alberta oil because they're perfectly happy to import it from some of
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the more odious regimes of the world. Tell us about your article. Yeah so I was watching the debate
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and it was kind of nice to see that affordability is a key issue because it is something that comes up
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a lot across across the board but it's it's regarding the emissions caps and the moving goalposts that the
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federal liberals have brought in on the energy sector to effectively handcuff the ability of our energy
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producers to innovate internally and one of the things with the emissions cap is that Stephen Guibault
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our eco radical environment minister announced at COP27 that the Canadian government would be capping
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oil and gas emissions by the end of this year. Now because of the energy industry doesn't have the technology
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to to bring emissions down with to the levels that are expected without cutting production and emissions
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cap at these levels is a de facto production cut. We've also mentioned that the the environmental goalposts have
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been shifting on this issue for eight years. I mean I remember eight years ago being upset about a carbon tax and now
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it's just kind of one of those things where well that's really nothing if you get down to the nitty
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gritty. I mean we're at a point where the federal government has usurped provincial jurisdiction with the
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impact assessment act eight provinces as well as the Alberta government or seven provinces as well as the
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Alberta government came out with a legal challenge against the impact assessment act which is bill c69
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otherwise termed by uh you guys and others uh as the no more pipelines law but it goes further the
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federal government has environment environmental jurisdiction to veto any in any project whether it
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be a gravel pit in stettler or a major oil sands mine in Fort McMurray or even a highway across uh the north
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from Grand Prairie to uh Fort McMurray something that has been asked for for a long time the federal government
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can veto all those which very much goes against uh the constitutional jurisdiction of the provinces in
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in terms of well a lot of areas um but at the end of the day a cap on production isn't the end of the
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road either um the goalposts are shifting fast as well i mean we have the federal government early this
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year announced a sustainable jobs plan otherwise known as the just transition which is effectively going to
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legislate uh the the oil and gas the fossil fuel industry out of existence altogether and and it
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given the affordability crisis that we we face this is in my view entirely inadvisable position to have
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because energy is the industry that powers every other industry if you don't have affordable energy
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you don't have innovation and this isn't just innovation within the oil and gas uh industry to help
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bring down emissions which they are desperately working towards uh this this impacts every other
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industry i mean take uh tech for example in the computer age that we're in now um think about those
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old super computers that they had in the late 70s mid 70s i mean the amount of electricity used to power
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those would have been monumental and and if if electricity prices have been twice as much they may
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not we may not have had the innovation within that industry that we otherwise have had where we might
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not be sitting on this call right now with a computer in front of us because the technology
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just didn't develop because we didn't have the affordable energy to do so and it affects you know
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people's bottom lines as well it stretches your wallet um if you have if your heating bill or your
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electricity bill bill is climbing it makes it harder for you to to pay for food or school sports or
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or you know a night out to dinner right um and in some cases uh with people below the poverty line
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at least to homelessness divorce and crime so these are things that we we need to be concerned about
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and it's deeply concerning that the the alberta ndp seems to be uh really moving in lockstep in a lot
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of ways with the federal government on this the just transition was a part of their environmental plan
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that that a group of blue ribbon academics and policy experts put together in 2015 and they had
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their own just transition in in places like hannah with the with the coal phase out so it's really
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concerning that uh this is the case and and it's something that we always have to keep an eye on
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yeah and it's something that you know as canadians we've already seen happen so you know in the i guess
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it was the early 2000s it seems a gazillion years ago but when the ontario government allegedly greened
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their grid they made manufacturing so expensive because manufacturing relies on cheap energy and so
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a lot of it went to the united states some of that manufacturing went to mexico and a lot of it which
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will never be repatriated went to china where energy is very very cheap it's not anywhere near as clean
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as canadian energy but it's very very cheap and it makes manufacturing for these companies
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very attractive if they relocate to china well yeah and i think that's one of the things we need
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to be concerned about i mean i don't understand how we can expect to have economic growth if we're
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handcuffing our economy um and ontario is a perfect example they had uh under the premiership of dalton
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mcginty and then kathleen win a very aggressive environmental policy that did bring in made
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electricity very expensive and and for some of the poorer areas of the province uh like you know some
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up in some of the northern reaches they there were people there that were suffering real energy poverty
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where they were forced to effectively choose between heating their homes or feeding their families in the
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winter and when you get to that point that's you have to question the ethics of of such a thing i
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mean we claim to be trying to save the world but all we're doing is causing poverty um i i don't understand
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how they can build back better when you're actually causing economic damage to to not just you know
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industry but also to lower class people who are just trying to get by well and
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and the societal carnage that poverty causes um you know it becomes just a
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systemic social decay and it actually affects men the most although i'm sure the left don't want to hear
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that um and it is deeply immoral um divorces suicides when those occur particularly to men suicide
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it's normally uh through economic strife so it's not depression it's not any of those other things
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it's not mental illness for men one of the indicators of suicidality is uh economic strife
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not being able to be the providers of their family and what are we doing this for in pursuit of becoming
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a statistical rounding error in the fight and global warming yeah and the other side of it too is
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even if we do move towards these goals there's going to be uh issues in other parts of the world india and
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china are growing their coal and natural gas power like all they're trying to do is provide affordable
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energy for their people i mean they have massive populations i mean some of their poor areas don't
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have electricity in their hospitals so this is something that they're trying to to move towards
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um it's not clean energy it's not ethical i mean this these are dictated well i mean i'm not saying
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india is a dictatorship i don't know much about their political system but i will say that china is a
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dictatorship so these are things that we have to be monitoring as we go forward i mean this
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may seem like a great fight to save the world but we're just a small uh small emitter and if you look
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at uh the amount of uh trees and stuff we have we have we can effectively act through the carbon sink as
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well so it's one of those things where the logic behind the entire push seems to be driven by ideology
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more so than it is really economic means um the alberta both the alberta government and the
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saskatchewan government uh the two provinces that have been fighting back the hardest do think that
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we can reduce emissions but their timelines are much more realistic uh you know you you're probably
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going to need an extra 15 to 20 years to develop the technology if not longer um i don't know did i
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mention um so like there were some reports out done by uh some agencies in alberta alberta's electricity
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services operator has calculated the cost of moving to net zero electricity by 2035 will cost alberta
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government 52 billion dollars in infrastructure costs uh the lost economic activity uh was calculated by
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independent econometrics firm navius uh they calculated the lost gdp due to increased energy
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costs would be 35 billion dollars you add that up that's 87 billion the alberta budget usually sits
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between 60 and 70 billion dollars a year it's more than the entire alberta government budget the impact
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of this and it's just in a short 12 year span so yeah the costs are monumental um and they're gonna it's
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gonna hurt western canada much more than it is eastern canada because our industries are like
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our industry is energy and if we are we're already handcuffed but if the sustainable jobs act once that
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gets rolled out and implemented the impact assessment act if the supreme court rules in the favor of the
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federal government which it likely will um we need to be absolutely on guard um to defend our industries
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and defend our our livelihoods i mean we all lived through 2015 and 2020 there where oil prices were
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in the gutter but the federal government was still hammering us with policies that really crushed our
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industries we had the tanker ban carbon tax impact assessment act i could go on um we have these
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policies that are uh severely impacting the ability of our producers to to to really provide affordable
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energy to the rest of the country we've got pipeline bottlenecks that have been there for years we've
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got moving environmental goalposts that are chasing away investment and leading to major project
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cancellations like the tech mine uh these are really devastating policies that are really hurting the
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bottom line of of alberta and saskatchewan and and we have to do whatever we can to defend ourselves
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well that's the thing it it's us it's not the companies however i feel for the employees at the
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companies but these companies will just relocate uh to another part of the world where it's much easier
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to pay off the local warlord to build an energy project than it is to do business in justin trudeau
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and back in 2015 rachel not least alberta we saw just companies leaving constantly conical phillips and
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you know tc energy changed their name to remove the stigma of alberta so you know the companies they
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they've got cash you'll see cash flight but what's left behind in the wake is unemployment
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yeah unemployment and suicides and i mean albert we went through this like it was one of the most
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depressing periods in this province's history just in a sense that you know people didn't know what to
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do i mean we had a they there was an ndp government in in edmonton that was bringing in policies that were
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costing them their jobs i mean we had 183 000 jobs lost in alberta during the ndps to uh first term
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and it wasn't just caused by low oil prices i mean you had the the alberta government was bringing in
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policies directly trying to you know shut down the energy industry i mean they called us embarrassing
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cousins yeah of confederation and and when you have a government that views its its primary industry
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is a threat to civilization you're going to have problems with your economic activity in the
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province it's just you know the government isn't going to be able to transition us to a different
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uh economic barometer i mean energy is the industry that powers every other industry and if we have
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and and the periods where we've seen the most economic diversification are the periods where oil prices
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are high and the money's flowing in because alberta is a great place to do business you want to come
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here because there's investors everywhere you know there's in there's investors on every street corner
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um or or every street in every town because they've got cash flow they've got money they've got you know
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they're building out there they want to grow wealth so alberta the alberta advantage is very much a real
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thing and and again it goes across economic uh sectors i mean you innovate energy affordable reliable
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energy and the ability to produce copious amounts of it is a huge benefit to the province of alberta
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and for the provincial government or the federal government to move to eliminate that altogether
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is short-sighted and it's gonna that will have ripple effects across the country and ripple effects
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through the province too i mean albertans are frustrated with the way that they they're viewed with
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the rest of the country people in downtown toronto they don't necessarily hate western canada but they
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don't think about us i mean from their vantage point it's everything uh the environment is
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everything outside of the greater toronto area um there might be a few pockets of people here there but
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it's just the great you know the canadian shield and you know the great canadian prairies
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and the mountains that's all they think that is out here but there's people out here people
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who have jobs and people who have families and and that's something that you know it's it's just a
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it's a fact of the matter i'm optimistic that minds are changing in other parts of the country just
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based on the economic conditions i mean we're not just affordability isn't just an issue in alberta
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it's an issue across the country but it's just one of those things that as affordability gets
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uh becomes a bigger issue which it likely will um i mean uh it's not just an energy issue obviously i
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mean there's monetary policy and fiscal policy as well and we can talk about that if you want to get into
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that but it's going to be an issue in other parts of the country too and and the federal government
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has a tendency to take from the west to pay for the rest and if we're in a position where affordability
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is a really it's challenging the federal government they're likely to bring in some kind of a program
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that lead that effectively acts another financial transfer i mean every program daniel smith said it
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best every program that the alberta government signs with the federal government is bad for alberta
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in the sense that it acts as another transfer program so we have to be absolutely vigilant in
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in what we're dealing with because we just can't afford to have a federal government that's shutting
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down our industries and then turning around and taking whatever money that those industries uh pump
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out and it's in their dying phases now you talked about the success of alberta having a ripple effect
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across the rest of the country and and we saw this but not in the energy sector last week
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so the alberta government premier daniel smith has taken a very tough on crime approach when the feds
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have not and one of her recent policy announcements was that the provincial government would be
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slapping ankle monitors on people who are out on bail when the feds wouldn't and pretty quickly right
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after that we saw the feds announce bail reform to tighten up um some of their um release conditions
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for some of the more serious offenders not those who honked their horns and said hold the line but
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actual real criminals um who are being released with pretty lax bail conditions i think this is a
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direct response to daniel smith pushing back and embarrassing the feds on this issue
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it's not just daniel smith this is an issue across the country yeah um alberta has been a leader in
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standing up to the federal government and the one thing that i will say is that when jason kenny was
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first elected it was just alberta standing there i mean saskatchewan uh as well but it was just the
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two provinces we've seen substantial changes i think and i think this has something to do with the
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federal government's tendency to want to centralize control as they centralize control they take control
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away from the provinces take the impact assessment act uh alberta government uh went took the federal
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government to court on the constitutionality of the impact assessment act in the sense that
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number one it does uh well i mean it directly interferes with provincial jurisdiction on a number
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of issues and impacts projects that don't even cross provincial borders that are within provincial
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jurisdiction um so it wasn't just alberta that interview that brought forward the case there were
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seven other provinces that intervened interestingly not one province intervened on behalf of the federal
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government on bail reform i believe it was all 10 provinces sought uh changes to bail reform and it's
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interesting because uh the the issues with the bail system were actually caused by uh federal government
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law bail reform law passed in 2018 um and there's some incredible statistics on this and in one single
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calendar year uh there were 40 offenders responsible for 6 385 negative police contacts which are defined as
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an interaction where someone is a suspect or chargeable in in an offense so we're we're in a in a position
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where people are basically committing crimes and then getting let out on bail and going committing
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more crimes um so yeah stricter bail um or yeah stricter bail conditions was something that
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it was the alberta government leading the way on but uh yeah 10 other or all 10 provinces stood up and said
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something so we're definitely starting to see uh that the pressure from the provincial from alberta is
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starting to really catch the attention of the rest of the country and everybody's got issues um with
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with centralization of power i mean i don't think any province is happy when the federal government
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stomps on provincial rights especially in quebec and there is something going on over there something
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that we aren't talking about here uh poll numbers have support for sovereignty now that not being
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being separate from separation there's you know i just do want to draw that distinction but support for
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for for sovereignty is rising at an astonishing rate um the parti quebecois was supposed to be left for
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dead because francois legault was being very strong on cultural things um cultural uh issues uh the
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parti quebecois not only stayed alive won a whole bunch of seats and then refused to swear allegiance to the
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king and caused a constitutional crisis um and now there's questions as to whether or not the bill
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they passed to rectify that problem is constitutional i'm sure that's an issue that we're going to have
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um so we're in this position where the rest of the country is starting to recognize that there are
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issues it's not just western alienation anymore there's a lot of of uh focus on on you know having
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decentralization be a theme of the government it's something that the opposition conservatives have
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begun to talk about and i do think that that's part of the solution i think that the more uh power
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provinces have to handle their own affairs the better off they're going to be because we're more
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nimble and responsive to local issues as they rise i mean take rural crime for example uh in the
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period from 2015 to 2019 i believe it did escalate in 2018 after the bail reform conditions came into
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to effect but rural crime in alberta was a pro was a severe issue people were really scared i mean
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there was a what was that gentleman's name and uh he shot an intruder and there was a big trial over
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that i can't eddie maurice yes that's the one and that captured the attention of everybody across
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rural alberta in the sense that yeah there are concerns about safety and and to have to be able to
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have the alberta government to address it and not wait for changes from the federal government would
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have given us the ability to to to maybe increase police force capacity change training methods um
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but to really bring a made in alberta solution to the problem and and i think that the concept of a
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made in alberta or made in saskatchewan or made in ontario or made in quebec solution is something that
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it it does capture the the attention of the politicians and it does capture the attention
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of the people because as the federal government centralized they've done a bad job in governing
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and that has led to to increase frustration and really a deterioration of federal provincial
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relations across the board so it's nice to finally have some some allies as we move forward in this to
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try and get as much uh control over our own affairs in alberta and across the country as we can i think
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decentralization again like i said it gives us local policy um priority control where we can actually
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focus on the problems that are important to the people now before i let you go i want to ask you
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we're in the home stretch for the provincial election it appears as though the battleground remains
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calgary um although i i've seen some shifting in the polls in some ridings in edmonton that i think
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the ndp thought were sure bets for them that might be a toss-up now um of course rural alberta
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is going to go ucp it's good conservatives be worried on election day or should they always
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just be worried because that's how you get the vote out yeah i'm glad you qualified it with that
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that second little part there because i don't want to come across as uh being too confident uh i am
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seeing some very positive signs though from the polling um keep in mind that i i think if my number
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if my memory serves me correctly uh the polls that came out in 2019 undercut conservative support by a
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wide majority by a wide margin um it was supposed to be a lot closer than it was and kenny blew the polls
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out of the water now i don't know if methodology has changed in the last four years with these
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polling companies but i will say that i have seen a somewhat of a stabilization of voting preferences
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following the debate there was a lot of noise going on um we i mean obviously there's the take
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back alberta stuff there's art palowski but i think for most conservative voters that's just noise
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i mean people say stupid things somehow i hope i don't um but um you end up in a position where
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the left is going to be hitting you on all these things and and i think it it's it was frustrating
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for a while because like a lot of these were on they were avoidable errors you know like
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unforced errors but i do think you're seeing in the home stretch here the conservative votes coming home
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i do think this is a conservative province i've seen some positive poll uh data out of uh lethbridge
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east and and some of these swing ridings and rural that you know even a month ago we thought were gone
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so i think it's one of those things where they sure make you earn it but the conservatives are uh
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they're i think they're i hope they're coming home it comes down to turnout i have seen you know
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the turnout i think was 20 000 higher for the first day of advanced polling um so yeah if the turnout's
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high i think that's good for the conservatives because it means that the conservatives are coming
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home grudgingly um because of all the unforced errors but it's one of those things where i
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yeah it i'm comforted that i i'm hoping to see a 52 to 55 seat uh ucp majority government um i'll take 46 if
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it comes uh but uh just in the sense that yeah i do think the conservative votes coming home and i
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think that's gonna be demonstrated in the results on uh tuesday night or monday was it monday or
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tuesday 29th that is monday night um so yeah it'll be i think the conservative votes coming home but like
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i said yeah she sure had to earn it and i think that debate performance was really good the ndp has been
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trying to paint the ucp as a bunch of extreme uh angry uh for lack of a better term nazis uh and
00:28:11.500
danielle the way that she kind of handled herself like if you if someone's trying to paint you as an
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angry extremist and you stay calm and measured it's very difficult to do so i thought she her demeanor
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was fantastic i thought she handled herself really well and i think that that's really one of those
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things where those conservative voters in south calgary that don't necessarily uh buy a lot of
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the rural ideology um they're coming home because at the end of the day we are united or there it is
00:28:43.260
the united conservative party i don't think they were ever considering voting ndp but they might have
00:28:47.340
stayed home yeah i think that uh but i think that the ndp's track record i think everybody remembers what
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what happened from 2015 to 19 and i i don't think the province's demographics have changed substantially
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in that sense so you should i think i yeah i'm not panicking get out and vote um obviously but
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yeah uh uh well i mean hopefully nothing bad happens in the next five days it changes this i guess i'll just
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say that from your lips to god's ears josh uh the uh that's the thing about conservatives though hey is um
00:29:19.500
we don't blindly follow the leader like the liver no so we are easily disgruntled and we can be
00:29:25.260
disloyal particularly in alberta because this is where parties fracture here and we fracture because
00:29:31.580
you're not conservative enough so as you say uh they did make danielle smith uh work for it now before i
00:29:37.740
let you go because i have about one minute before i need to be somewhere else um why don't you let us know
00:29:43.020
how people can uh get involved in project confederation and find out a little bit more about the work that you're doing
00:29:48.540
yeah just check out project confederation.ca there's some buttons on the top uh obviously
00:29:54.460
our news all of our content gets posted there i don't publish everything in the western standard
00:29:59.340
because sometimes i forget to send it but uh all of our stuff's on our website at www.projectconfederation.ca
00:30:07.660
there's a join button a donate button at the top uh you can sign up for a mailing list you'll get all
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of our content right in your email inbox um yeah that's pretty much it josh thanks so much for um
00:30:20.380
putting everybody's minds at ease with the uh hang on just panic and vote that's all i'm saying make
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sure everybody freak out yeah everybody freak out yeah exactly yeah yeah yeah we can't act like we're
00:30:33.180
the lead act like you're behind right yeah yeah well thanks so much for coming on the show we'll have
00:30:37.740
you back on again after the election to sort of break down um and do some analysis for us if you
00:30:42.940
wouldn't mind if you would be i'd love to do that absolutely yeah and thank you so much for your
00:30:47.500
patience with me with our technical difficulties that our viewers will not see but boy did you ever have
00:30:53.020
them that's on my end don't yeah no i don't apologize i need to figure that out okay thanks josh
00:30:59.740
we'll talk soon perfect sounds good okay talk to you later well friends we've come to the portion
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00:31:15.820
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00:31:26.540
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00:31:31.340
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justin trudeau reaching into other people's wallets to give us money to create content that nobody could
00:31:52.780
possibly care about like the mainstream media and uh last week i read a viewer email that was quite
00:32:02.460
critical of me for actually not anything content wise but my appearance and my on-air demeanor and
00:32:12.060
i read it because i wanted people to know that i i do read the hate mail too but i also wanted to
00:32:18.940
address it and i showed you the overly i thought polite email that i sent back to john from i think
00:32:26.540
it was mill bay bc because i wanted to show you that i really do try to be a happy warrior um that
00:32:34.860
you know while the left says the right is sort of angry and disgruntled all the time and we're inarticulate
00:32:41.180
and all we know how to do is like and say racist things or whatever they say that we we are we're
00:32:48.540
definitely not and you can respond to some pretty harsh personal criticisms without being sort of
00:32:58.060
caustic and vulgar which i think i did or at least i hope i did um sometimes snark is uh a tougher more
00:33:09.900
toxic pill to swallow than confrontation which i think is the case from last week's letter and if
00:33:16.460
you want to go back and see my response it's at the end of last week's show um it's me responding
00:33:24.140
to a very personal appearance-based criticism from john from mill bay bc who never did actually ever send
00:33:31.260
me um the three candid full body shots that i asked him for before i would accept his criticism now
00:33:42.940
tonight's letter comes from somebody named sean who is responding to my response of last week's
00:33:48.940
letter which i think is like a perfect fibonacci sequence golden ratio of viewer feedback but um
00:33:56.620
the reason i want to respond is because i sort of think it might be a little bit over complimentary
00:34:00.780
and uh i don't want things to go to our heads here at rebel news and i i want to assure you that um
00:34:06.780
while we appreciate how much you love us i want you to know how hard we are working to be better
00:34:11.900
um every single day so john writes to me you folks at rebel news are the only perfect news show in the
00:34:18.700
world particularly you sheila now i'm going to stop right here before i keep going because i'm very
00:34:24.540
grateful and i'm thankful that you think that but i don't think that and i don't think people should
00:34:30.140
generally think that they're perfect or that they're perfect just the way you are i think that
00:34:35.820
sort of talk is the wet blanket on your human potential i try not to compete with other people
00:34:44.220
although i do admire the work that other people are doing and i think i can learn from
00:34:49.260
uh what other journalists are doing even the ones i don't like sometimes they do things right
00:34:54.940
um but i try to be better than i was yesterday how much harder can i work what can i do better what
00:35:01.980
can i learn from what i did or didn't get done yesterday um so i i never think of the work that i did as
00:35:10.780
perfect i think it is something that i can always improve on and i i should always strive to improve
00:35:17.340
improve but i i take that philosophy into the whole of the company i think there are always things that
00:35:24.220
we can improve on and tweak and we should always be working to be better as a company than we were
00:35:30.620
the day before more efficient more streamlined sometimes too because we do work on a shoestring
00:35:35.420
budget um and we are always cognizant of um the fact that our donors are choosing to give us their
00:35:45.580
hard-earned money to tell stories that they can't see anywhere else or talk about perspectives that
00:35:52.780
other companies maybe wouldn't allow their journalists to talk about on air so uh well i appreciate the
00:35:58.140
compliment i don't think i'm perfect and i don't think anybody is uh sean goes on you are the only
00:36:04.860
reason i can stand it all it all being the corruption of the world which you seemingly alone can illuminate
00:36:11.340
i don't again i don't think we're alone but i think we do talk about things that maybe even other
00:36:17.900
people in the conservative media sphere don't talk about it is your gift and you all may well be well
00:36:28.220
chosen saviors of our broken world i'm not a savior of a broken world there is but one savior through the
00:36:35.100
christian world view which i hold to be true um and uh we are all just um we are
00:36:45.900
things that he could use he big h e um uh you know like we should all strive to make the world a
00:36:53.900
better place but there is but one one savior the way you folks shine a light on an issue gives me hope
00:36:59.660
for the future my hope someday all new shows will be made this way smart funny but most of all true
00:37:05.660
you know i hope i hope you're right about that too um i don't like the the stuffy overly produced news i
00:37:13.500
i like when we look good when we do a good job but what i'm really proud of here at rebel news is that
00:37:21.100
we are news for normals by the normals i think we talk about issues that you might talk about around
00:37:26.860
your dinner table um and we are you know we're moms i'm a farmer my husband's in the oil patch
00:37:33.260
you know tamara is a mom who stays at home with her little ones and her husband is a business owner
00:37:39.740
and you know we're all really kind of normal people affected by the things the government does
00:37:45.740
in many of the same way that you are at home and so i i think we might be a bit of the antidote
00:37:54.300
to the people on the mainstream media who won't shut up about systemic racism and pride flags and
00:38:01.180
crypto nazis under the hood of every convoy truck um nobody cares about that stuff except them
00:38:06.220
because they're paid by justin trudeau to care about it and you can tell that we are not so um
00:38:12.300
i think that's it uh sean thank you very much for the complimentary email um i appreciate your kind
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words and i want you to know and everybody at home to know that we work hard to make
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tomorrow's rebel news even better than today's was well everybody that's the show for tonight
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thank you so much for tuning in i'll see everybody back here in the same time in the same place next
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week and remember get out there and vote if you're in alberta and don't let the government