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00:19:25.640I love you all so much. Now, although we did not achieve the outcome that we wanted,
00:19:33.180we did take a major step towards it. The unprecedented growth of our party through this campaign is
00:19:39.940a warm light, one that gives me a lot of optimism for the work to come. My friends, let me be clear,
00:19:47.580now is not the time to let up. Now is the time to step up.
00:19:53.480Now is the time for us to do the work that has been asked of us. It is my honor to serve as your
00:20:22.640leader, and it is my privilege to continue to serve as leader of the official opposition.
00:20:33.640Our values will be represented in the legislature. We will have a say in the future of this great
00:20:41.580province. We will continue to speak up on behalf of Albertans who struggle to have their voice heard.
00:20:49.460We will fight for better health care, better education, better jobs.
00:20:56.920And my friends, we will be unequivocal in our demand for respect for the rule of law and an
00:21:03.620unqualified belief in the human rights and basic dignity of all Albertans.
00:21:15.220The challenges we face, the challenges facing Alberta, economic, environmental, social,
00:21:27.720they all require dedication and determination. And we will bring that to Alberta's legislature
00:21:34.960tirelessly. We will never stop working to rebuild our public health care, to support the well-being
00:21:45.960of our communities, to protect our mountains, our pensions, and our kids' education, all while ensuring
00:21:52.960we have an economy that works for absolutely all Albertans.
00:22:04.960So to all Albertans, we will be your voice when this government refuses to listen. And one small message to Danielle Smith and to the members of her new caucus, I say this. If we had won, because you know, it's an inside piece of information here, but it's an inside piece of information here.
00:22:10.960I actually had two speeches drafted for tonight. If we had won, our commitment was to have been to do everything that we could to move past division and to govern for the vast majority of Albertans. To be practical and pragmatic and to do everything that we could to move past division.
00:22:33.960And to govern for the vast majority of Albertans. To be practical and pragmatic and to listen to all voices.
00:22:42.960So I am asking you to remember the majority of Albertans tonight and admit to a government that prioritizes the need and aspirations of all Albertans.
00:22:56.960So in conclusion tonight, my friends, I just want to say I am so proud of the work that every single solitary member of our movement, of this NDP, has done over the last four weeks.
00:23:17.960Together we fought passionately for a better future. And I am so very, very proud to be the leader of this party.
00:23:27.960Thank you all very much. Thank you all. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
00:23:36.960You people like, who buys this? It's like a cult.
00:23:40.960She tricked me. She tricked me into listening to her because I thought she was going to resign.
00:23:45.960So I paid intense attention. I choked down a pickled egg.
00:23:49.960That was the first time I had a chance to eat. She comes on, ruins my pickled egg.
00:23:54.960I listened to the whole thing thinking she's going to resign. And then she doesn't resign.
00:23:58.960And then she feeds us a line of BS about how she's going to be the premier for all Albertans and move past divisions.
00:24:04.960She's the one being divisive and not speaking to all Albertans.
00:24:09.960What a load of baloney. And then to not even resign.
00:24:13.960You lost two back to back elections, sister. Move along.
00:24:18.960Let some new blood get in there. Let Shannon Phillips get in there, act crazy and remind people why they don't like the NDP.
00:24:25.960But no, apparently not. Do you think the party's happy with that?
00:24:30.960Well, I mean, given that a lot of these ridings were close, I think both sides are kind of taking victory laps right now.
00:24:37.960The NDP shouldn't be like, I mean, I'm looking at the numbers.
00:24:40.960I'm not happy with the fact that the NDP have such a large opposition like that is it makes things more difficult.
00:24:48.960So in some ways, I think both sides can claim a bit of a victory here.
00:24:51.960Like this is a strong conservative province.
00:24:54.960Jason Kenney united two conservative parties and 163 seats.
00:24:58.960I mean, we've had conservative governments here for a long time.
00:25:01.960And I also think even if she were to go to her team and say, look, I should step down tonight.
00:25:07.960They're probably going to beg her not to because I don't think they have much of a party without Rachel Notley.
00:25:12.960No offense to a lot of their more outspoken individuals that I disagree with in most, actually, if not all cases.
00:25:22.960But we end up in this situation where, yeah, the party would be kind of it would be a quagmire without Notley at the helm.
00:25:29.960I mean, she was she managed to not she didn't sell very well, but she she went around the province wearing a blue suit and blue jeans and trying to convince everybody that she was a conservative.
00:25:40.960Now, how that sits with the party grassroots, it's a different question.
00:25:44.960I mean, on election night, you're not really hearing from the grassroots, you're hearing from the people that were on the campaign, the more the higher ups when you're making these decisions.
00:25:53.960And I think in her case, it's going to be interesting to see their their first AGM back, whether or not she does get a resounding vote of confidence from her membership if they have a leadership vote.
00:26:04.960So it'll be very interesting to see how this plays out over the next four years.
00:26:09.960It may be possible that the federal NDP job comes open and she makes a run for it, or maybe even if there's an opening in the Liberal Party of Canada that she does throw her hat in that ring as well.
00:26:21.960I mean, the parties are kind of two diametrically opposite on policy, so she could probably fit one or the other.
00:26:27.960So the next four years, how they play out is really going to shape 2027 election.
00:26:32.960I mean, it'll be it'll be very interesting to see whether or not she sticks it out for four years or she or she's forced out by her party or she decides to take a step up to the federal arena.
00:26:45.960Yeah, you know, when I heard that, I thought, you know, who's just as disappointed as I am that Rachel Notley is staying on probably Shannon Phillips, probably Rod Loyola, probably Sarah Hoffman, because I think if you had a leadership race, it would be those three.
00:26:59.960One is, you know, the big government side of the NDP party.
00:27:05.960One is the radical environmentalist side of the NDP party, and one is the just abhorrent social justice side of the NDP party.
00:27:13.960So it was like the trifecta of what makes the NDP just completely unpalatable for people like me.
00:27:18.960All three of them were sort of waiting with bated breath to be disappointed like me.
00:27:23.960It was the one time that we agreed on something.
00:27:26.960And for me, as as a conservative or a member of the conservative movement that is nonpartisan conservative, I would love to see Rachel Notley run to lead the federal NDP.
00:27:41.960She checks a lot of identity boxes and they tell me they care about those things.
00:27:45.960She's Western. She's female. She as far as the NDP are concerned, she's probably the most successful NDP politician in the last 10 years.
00:27:53.960She cracked fortress Alberta. And so as a conservative, I'd love to see her go that way because it would cause an intense fracture on the progressive side federally.
00:28:06.960And much the way Thomas small care did, it would allow the conservatives to run up the middle and we would see, I think, if Rachel Notley moved to the NDP federally, we would see a poly up government next.
00:28:18.960I think that's the case, but I also want to point out, like, I don't want to sound like I'm tooting her horn too much, but she does have Jack Layton vibes.
00:28:25.960She's very charismatic. She's good in front of a camera. She's not, she's good at moderating her, her edges. Um, maybe I'm just boosting her cause I'm trying to, you know, maybe she'll listen and go. Yeah. Um, but no, she, she like the NDP.
00:28:43.960And they lost, but they, they didn't lose by a lot. And I think that's something that we all have to keep in mind as we head into the next four years, that this was not the resounding majority that we were hoping to see.
00:28:56.220That being said in 1993, Ralph Klein had his miracle on the prairies. I think he got 45% of the vote. Daniel got 52. So we're in this interesting part piece of history in the province where we really only have two mainstream parties and, and, and without Notley, I don't see the NDP.
00:29:13.960being anywhere near where they are. And that that's, that's even with like Shannon Phillips or let's even throw Naheed Nenshi, Naheed Nenshi's name in there. Right. Like, I mean, he was the mayor of Calgary for, I want to say 10 years, maybe more. Was it 20? A long time. Right. And he was, he somehow managed to keep getting reelected. He claims he's purple. I don't see it, but it's one of those things where without Notley, I think the party starts to
00:29:43.680fracture. So I do understand why she didn't resign from that point of view is, yeah, there's a lot of people waiting in the wings, but do they have the ability to keep the party together? Do they, is the infighting going to, to flare up? Does Rod Loyola run for leader in his communist ties get exposed in the mainstream media? I don't know.
00:30:01.680I mean, there's a lot of this going on, but yeah, no, I think, I understand why Notley stuck around. I do hope she goes federal. I do think that would be great for conservatism because she would 100% fracture the vote. She's a very capable politician. And, and yeah, I, I wish her the best of luck if she takes that.
00:30:22.420Me too. Me too. Now I saw a release from the Canadian Taxpayers Federation this morning, Chris Sims, my friend wrote it, and they are suggesting that it is time for the Alberta government to shrink the size of cabinet, not against it. What do you think?
00:30:39.720I think cabinet's massive. I mean, I understood why Smith kept cabinet as, because can he just, it seemed like he was just handing out favors to stop opposition within his own caucus. So, so cabinet kept expanding and kept expanding. And by the time the election was, or by the time he was out of office, I think there were more cabinet ministers than he had MLAs and caucus, like, or like, like backbenchers.
00:31:07.840Right. So do I want to see cabinet reduced? Absolutely. I mean, I don't see anything wrong with having a small capable team overseeing the direction of the government. I think when you get too many cooks in the kitchen, it leads to more chaos and less decisions. So I think streamlining government is an absolute necessity. And I would like, I 100% agree with Chris that we should, I would love to see a streamlined cabinet.
00:31:35.120Yeah. Like you, I understand why she sort of kept cabinet large. She was dealing with now Kenny's, not like, not just her people, but she was trying to sort of heal a party that had been divided and, and, you know, Kenny's people didn't like her and maybe her people didn't like Kenny's people. So it was like a healing cabinet, I guess.
00:31:54.420I just, I just don't want to pay for their therapy session. You know what I mean? Now I want to ask you, what's the one thing, one thing besides fighting with the feds that Smith should do now that she has a mandate to lead?
00:32:07.300I'd like to see some changes to healthcare. And, and I'm open to suggestions. I don't have anything off the top of my head. Obviously, we don't want to see funding cuts, but there's something going on with the model in the sense that we are spending more per capita on healthcare than everybody except for, I think it's Prince Edward Island, or it's one of the maritime provinces does spend more per capita on healthcare.
00:32:32.380But our system has been in, in the verge of collapse, if not collapsing for as long as I can remember. And I've been paying attention to politics for the better part of my adult life. Right. I mean, that's all you ever hear about. And whether, whether we see the bureaucracy kind of maybe cut a little bit so that we can get more money to the front lines, something like that, uh, just, uh, it's at the point where, yeah, it's noticeable when you, when you're dealing with the system. My grandfather died in the fall. I understand things have improved since then, but
00:33:02.360dealing with the healthcare system has been a huge issue. And I would also just, since I'm going here, um, I'd like to see this, not just the size of cabinet cut, but the size of government cut. Yeah. I mean, like the oil prices are relatively stable, but we're, we're always at risk of another price drop here.
00:33:24.200I mean, it's just something that's a reality and yeah, it's nice to get a hundred dollar oil or where we're sitting at around $70 for a West Texas, but I would like to see the size of government cut and bigger surpluses.
00:33:37.200So that we're not as reliant on oil and gas for, to keep the lights on here. And we don't, we're not running massive deficits. If we get a surprise shock out of OPEC where they decide they're going to, you know, pump a whole bunch to drive prices down. And that's really the, the concern I have. So those are the two big areas that I would probably point out. Um, also fiscal policy, it does weigh on inflation, right? Like, so if governments are spending too much money, it puts too much pressure on the central bank.
00:34:06.200Bank to raise interest rates faster. That puts pressure on the financial system at large. Alberta here, we've been, you know, relative to the rest of the country stable in terms of affordability. But if we're, if we're cutting spending, it takes money out of the system and it does help keep prices even more stable. And we don't have to rely as much on the central banks to bail us out when, you know, that could lead to challenges within the financial system.
00:34:32.800Now, Josh, how do people find out about the work that you're doing at Project Confederation?
00:34:38.900Just go to www.projectconfederation.ca. We've got a pretty easy to navigate website. I usually send people to the news section so you can follow what we're doing. We post, we try to post once a week.
00:34:51.140Um, and we'll see how we do in the summer, but, uh, we've been pretty good at, uh, getting, getting something out there once a week, just commentary on, uh, a really inter, on the relationship between not just Alberta and the federal government, but the entire, but the provinces and the federal government.
00:35:07.140We want to see a more decentralized federation because we think that we are a country of unique, um, regions that need, that all need to be treated like they're unique and that their needs are addressed in that manner.
00:35:20.880And, and, and, and a centralized power structure as, as the federal government under this administration has, has sought out, has diminished national unity and, and created and fractured us.
00:35:32.140So we were trying to bring us back to trying to bring the country back together. And we think we do that through decentralization.
00:35:36.640So that's just a quick pitch. There's more to it, but, uh, check us out www.projectconfederation.ca.
00:35:42.660Awesome. Uh, Josh, thanks so much for coming on the show. It's always a pleasure to talk to you. You're quickly becoming a fan favorite and I will have you back on again very soon.
00:35:51.760Well, thanks for having me. I, I always enjoy these.
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