SHEILA GUNN REID ｜ Is climate change causing wildfire seasons to be worse？
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Sheila Gunn-Reed visits her home province of Nova Scotia and calls out a politician who thinks climate change is to blame for the forest fires that have destroyed thousands of homes across the country. Michelle Sterling of the Friends of Science joins The Gunn Show to explain the science behind it.
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Thousands of Canadians have been displaced this spring due to wildfires and as per the usual the
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left is using other people's tragedies to push their own progressive agenda. I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed
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I came to Ottawa this morning from my home province of Nova Scotia where our
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communities are literally on fire. Thousands upon thousands of families have
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been displaced from their homes. Hundreds are watching as our homes may be
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turned into ashes. Eight months ago Hurricane Fiona damaged our communities
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beyond measure displacing not just homes but sweeping people out to sea in some
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instances. Mr. Speaker the Conservatives are peddling policies that they know will
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increase the level of pollution that is causing these severe weather events. We
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have one planet Mr. Speaker it is my home it is yours I will not stand idly by and
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watch it burn. That clip you saw right there is Sean Fraser the Minister of
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Immigration and Citizenship in Canada for some reason pinning attributing the
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forest fires in his home province of Nova Scotia to climate change. Now I
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don't think he realizes the irony of his statement there that while he was leaving on his weekly
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commute from Nova Scotia to Ottawa on a plane he saw some fires and he thought that's it it's climate
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change. Now if Sean Fraser really thought that the fires were caused by climate change he himself would
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probably reduce his carbon footprint and find I don't know a less carbon intensive job one where
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he doesn't have to commute via airplane from the east coast to the central part of the country in
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Ottawa. He doesn't believe that his carbon emissions are causing climate change he just believes that your
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carbon emissions are causing climate change it's not his commute it's your commute don't you see that's
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causing the fires and therefore you must pay more for everything. Now that's obvious madness right and
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it's unscientific. I think we all realize that fire is part of the natural regenerative state of the
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forest and then there are other factors involved like cyclical weather patterns. Now I had to call in a bit
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of an expert here at least someone who has really drilled down on the data here to offer a more
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common sense explanation than your SUV caused the forest fires and so I called Michelle Sterling from
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Friends of Science. We are living through wildfire season here in Alberta. We did have tens of thousands
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of Albertans displaced. And Michelle is so great at calming people's fears by introducing some facts into an
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overheated conversation. So joining me now in an interview we recorded last week before the Alberta election is my
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friend Michelle Sterling from Friends of Science.
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So joining me now is good friend of the show and good friend of reality Michelle Sterling from Friends of
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Science and one of the things that has really been affecting not just Alberta but because of the smoke plume
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most of the western part of the country the wildfires here in Alberta and as I said to Michelle before we
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started recording it's an evergreen accusation that the wildfires that happen every year during what's
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known as wildfire season are somehow induced by climate change but historically that just isn't the
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case and that's why I wanted to have Michelle on the show well for a bunch of different reasons but
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Michelle has done some wonderful work this year but every year that spring weather catastrophes happen
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there's Michelle with your daily dose of reality. Michelle thanks for coming on the show
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why don't you explain to us a little bit about wildfire season because it happens in May but even
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sooner right? Well you see anyway first thanks for having me on the show but you see people don't
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realize that between snow melt and spring rain there's a gap that varies every year in April May and
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that gap depends on how dry it is and we've had three years of La Nina so the the prairies are very very dry
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we had a big gap this year with almost no rain in April almost no rain so you know and they used to say
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April showers bring May flowers well they brought a big wildfire and we also have in western Canada about
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18 million hectares of standing deadwood from the mountain pine beetle infestation so there's a map
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from Natural Resources Canada showing the scope of that and a lot of it is in Alberta exactly where
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those wildfires were that map is from 2012 so I imagine those trees have been standing there dead
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for a decade right they're just tender so you just throw a little spark in there and that spark can come
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from anything you know there are some accusations and charges related to arson but you know a farmer out
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welding in you know trying to fix a piece of equipment and that spark can go haywire somebody
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inadvertently you know negligently tosses a cigarette butt somebody with a campfire if they're not
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experienced campers you know negligent at that point those sparks can fly and away we go you know
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an ATV spark from an ATV so you know it's not climate change every big fire in Alberta going back
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100 years has been in May these are all the biggest fires Fort Mac Slave Lake the Chichanga firestorm which
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was so big that the smoke ball actually was seen around the world and that smoke ball went up so high
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in the atmosphere that people didn't smell the smoke they just saw that the sun turned blue at midday it
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became dark in Toronto people were driving with their headlights on power consumption went up that's
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how dark it was people thought nuclear war had happened or the apocalypse had come but that's not the
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case 1919 Lac La Biche burned down completely wiped out the logging industry it took out so many trees
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1910 huge wildfires all along the the Rocky Mountain corridor there down by Calgary when we only had
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150,000 people in Alberta we'd only been a province for five years so you know this attribution of climate
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climate change the big problem with it is that people will go and do stupid things like build a
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wind farm to stop wildfires when wind farms actually raise the regional temperature and it doesn't stop a
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wildfire we need people in the woods clearing out that fuel load and we need to pay for that we need
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to pay for fire breaks around some of these cities and communities you know actually cutting down trees
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gasp you know to create a fire break in advance of these known things wildfires are like snowstorms they
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happen every year but we act surprised every year like oh my god it's a wildfire yes this is mother nature
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renewing the forest so wake up use fire smart tips and take care of your community and your property
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and we've seen accusations from the other side of you know like the climate change fear mongers
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that the wildfire season is happening earlier and earlier every single year but that's not the case
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at all it has always been may and as you said in one of your videos um in response to the slave lake
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fire they they actually said look we should be generally ready for wildfire season by the end
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of april we should have everybody on the ground and and that should and they decided that based on
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historical data right april 15th actually was what they concluded and uh slave lake fire by the way was
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arson but it was a massive destruction of that community um but um you know until they did that study
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i think that a lot of politicians and the public in general had thought well you know wildfire season
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starts in august so we've got until june to be ready and that study showed that no it starts very early
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be ready by at least april 15th um and then you know you're good to go um because and you can see in the
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fire risk maps from the canadian interagency fire service you can see the um the fire risk
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um you know there's almost nothing toward the end of april and suddenly there's a huge red patch all
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across the prairies and then now if you look at it today you'll see there's just a few blotches of
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red patches a couple of blotches of yellow and everything else is blue and green like it's just
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completely calmed down after the rain now that's another thing i i went back on the friends of
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science uh youtube page and it is either michelle explaining why uh fires are not climate change
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in may or michelle explaining why floods are also not climate change in may uh why don't you touch a
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little bit on that because parts of the province did get hammered by rain i didn't get any rain
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unfortunately but um what a blessing for these northern communities particularly in the grand
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prairie area where they've just been plagued by fire to get this rain but then people were saying
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oh they're going to get flash floods and that's also climate change so explain to us why flooding is
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a regular occurrence in alberta in may well flooding well a lot of flooding also happens in in june
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as the snowpack melts but um you know these are caused by different kinds of atmospheric um patterns
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that uh really have nothing to do with human caused climate change they are related to natural climate
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factors they're related to el nino and la nina cycles they're related to things like uh you know when
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there's a lot of aerosols in the air like we've had a number of big volcanic eruptions
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in um russia i think it's the shufalich and a few others big ones in the world you know so when
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you get all that aerosol in the air then that is something that um water droplets water vapor can
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form onto creating rain uh same with wildfires they also create um climate change right so uh you know
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there's lots of images of the pyrocumulonibus clouds caused by the wildfires that go up
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tremendously high and they have an enormous enormous energy release far far more than hiroshima
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so uh these are factors that people you know are generally not aware of if you look at our burning
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questions report that was about coal versus wildfire emissions you can see more of that information there
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yeah and that's another thing so you know the province moves away from coal because of particulate
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but every year there's wildfire particulate and there are um pollen particulate that's far worse than
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anything the coal has ever done i think that's something that people don't realize pollen particulate
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farming particulate although i shouldn't give these people any ideas about you know dust and pollen um
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because they would you know further attack agriculture but far worse than anything coal has ever done in
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this province yeah that's right i i think in the year that we did that report we used the 2011 stats and
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wildfires put out a thousand times the pm 2.5 of coal so um you know and unfortunately speaking of
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coal now that we have pretty much phased out coal you know we are actually very reliant on saskatchewan
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our neighbor and their coal plants and um minister gilbeau simply threatened uh premier scott moe with
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criminal charges if they don't shut down their coal plants if they do shut down their coal plants
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alberta will be in blackout and it's really putting us at an energy security risk here because
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we used to have about 40 percent coal 40 percent natural gas and you have to understand like coal is
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a static substance you can actually store a year's supply of coal at your power plant but you can't do
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that with natural gas because it's a pressurized system so if some idiot decides to take out the
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natural gas pipelines or if market prices skyrocket as they have been doing especially in europe over
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the past uh year and a half um you know that's catastrophic and we don't have that backup of
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coal that we used to have so it's entirely stupid the uh pool price has tripled since the um the phase
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out coal policy came in and of course the people who are most advocating for coal phase out were the
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medical unions and dr vipon in particular of the cape organization and what does medicine run on it runs
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on affordable reliable electricity of all the people who should have been demanding that we maintain a
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reliable and affordable supply of power it should have been the health unions and instead they were
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shooting themselves and all of alberta's coal workers in the foot
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and you know if saskatchern is forced to shut down their coal plants what's alberta going to do are we
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just going to go into blackout are we going to buy from wyoming where they create electricity with coal
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so i mean there is only one completely reliable source of electricity on the grid um that i think
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is even more reliable than natural gas because as you say you cannot store natural gas on site
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it's coal if we can't get it from saskatchewan even though we have 800 years of it under our feet here
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in alberta we're going to get it from wyoming we're going to get it from montana heck we might
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even get it from bc well we hope we might get it from montana but you know if you look at recent
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reports about grid reliability in the states um they're getting near the breaking point as well so
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they may not be able to supply us you know because these interconnection arrangements are for excess power
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that's available from various provinces and you'll see sometimes in winter um you know there's there's no
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spare power from saskatchewan and even even quebec runs into that in winter parker galant has followed
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that case very closely and many times in winter despite the huge hydro output in quebec from the
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james bay dam they're propping up their system with natural gas power from ontario in the middle of
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winter they don't have the capacity anymore and yet we're supposed to believe that we can go all ev
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that we can decarbonize the entire country and flip entirely to electricity instead of fossil fuels
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i mean we've got a report called clean electricity um reality versus delusion i think it's called
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and it shows people the charts like wind and solar are presently like not even visible on the graph of
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our uh total energy consumption and we're supposed to believe that we can wipe out everything
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else on that and suddenly flip overnight to wind and solar no it's impossible
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not only do we not have the grid capacity but we don't have the access to the rare earth minerals
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we would require to go completely green even though i can't think of anything further from green than
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cobalt mining um by child slaves um however i mean most of this um rare earth minerals required for
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batteries and green energy it's either in china or controlled by china on the african continent
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that's right yeah it's um actually the g7 were just yapping about um you know china bullying them and
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there were going to be repercussions and actually they're just sleepwalking into disaster because
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china has a stated public policy that there will be a made in china policy 2025 so in two years
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everything of high tech and clean tech in the world high tech aerospace everything they want to have
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produced in china and they mean it so you know they're uh i believe that the de-industrialization
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that we see going on in europe and in canada and the u.s i think that that's a strategic plan part of
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the plan of china and our useful idiots in government are completely sleepwalking into it and going oh
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yes we're going green we're going net zero you know just a reminder net zero 2050 is one year after
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china's plan to dominate the world in 2049 and i'm not telling you conspiracy theories this is published
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in bloomberg so um this is their plan you know and they're telling the world this is our plan
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and everyone goes oh but you don't mean it and that's bullying and we're not going to stand for it
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and yet we comply on the climate side in fact robert lyman just issued a report uh called the climate
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pond canada the climate pond we just posted it on the blog yesterday and you know we keep being told
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by people like minister o'reagan that you know canada people look to canada for an example oh no they
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don't you know we're leading a parade with no followers we're destroying our own economy and every
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uh climate policy benefits only one country china so we better wake up you know because we're actually
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just um laying down on the altar and saying please sacrifice our country our ourselves and our children
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and our future so that we can pretend to do some virtue signaling while you guys take over the
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world and you know what china's very smart i mean they're smart they're open about it and we're just
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letting it happen it's uh it's phenomenal it's unbelievable
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well and like china is telling us they do this sort of stuff i mean it is um china routinely describes
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what they're doing as a hundred year plan i think they're pretty well on target aren't they
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they are yeah that's 2049 that'll be their hundred year anniversary of the of the communist party and
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you know also historically china has always had the view that they are the middle kingdom you know
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that there's heaven the middle kingdom and then all of the rest of the infidels so you know it's a
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real world view that's very different than ours um um and the other thing you have to recognize too
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is uh china was under uh was going to be under investigation by the un canada and a few other
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partner countries like the uk and such like uh were asking the un to investigate china for the crime
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of genocide against the uyghur people now coincident to that came out the reports from the kamloops
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indian residential school that 215 alleged graves had been found there and which caused a huge furrow
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across the country and of course dozens of other uh first nations groups also said oh look we found
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some too so china flipped that at the un and has accused canada of genocide and we're being
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investigated for genocide now that happened in the spring of 2022 in the fall of 2022 october 27th the
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entire house of commons voted to declare residential schools to describe them as a genocide now the un
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special rapporteur on indigenous people was just here in march for 10 days and when he left his
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interim report said this is an appalling legacy so what do you think his um report is going to say in the fall
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now you have to realize also that the un in terms of climate change they just issued a summary for
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policy makers in march um they kind of rushed through this summary for policy makers they didn't
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even issue the final synthesis report but it's all catastrophic um and there was a very graphic image
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that was in almost all the newspapers of you know fairly nice weather up to here or fairly nice climate up
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to here and then boom we're going to have red horrible burning climate and our children will fry
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anyway this report was subsequently submitted to um the un's um international court of justice
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for an opinion on climate compliance so they're trying to criminalize climate dissent and just imagine what
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that means because you see in 2015 um the uh wealthy nations bribed the developing nations to come on to
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the paris agreement promising them a hundred billion dollars a year green climate fund and excuse me this
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was to come from uh only from western nations and there were not to be any requirements for performance
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or accountability the money was just going to be doled out well they never ever put that fund together
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in 2019 both china and india went to the un um climate fest in the uh fall of september 2019th
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with basically a demand note saying pay up we want this money and now at cop 27 of last fall
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um there was a motion to provide loss and damages to countries for climate damage allegedly
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caused by the west so just imagine if at the un international court of justice that there's a
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ruling that climate compliance should be mandatory and that there are certain kinds of i don't know
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punishments to countries or repercussions to countries that have not paid think about how much
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money that is and think about what that could mean for our economy and our world uh we're talking about
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now climate gulags right people like you and i who dissent on climate change you know may have to
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face trials actual trials for ecocide right canada may have to face a trial for actual genocide not
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cultural genocide actual genocide and people say oh you know you're just making things up you're you
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know getting carried away well look at the world who's in charge right now it's the bricks nation
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the u.s is not the dominant power anymore we are not under the protection of their wing and um you
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know based on a lot of material coming out of the u.s actually we are deeply in in um infiltrated
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by china so they're working our country to their own ends and we're blind to it or willfully blind as
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sam cooper wrote in his book i was just as you were talking there i thought you know what
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has the u.n ever used the phrase climate genocide and they have as recently as 2018 is sort of when
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it came into the parlance i did a quick google search it came from those um i don't want to call
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them useful idiots but they just might be the marshall islands every time the u.n needs uh some
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excuse to impose some sort of major wealth transfer they love to point to the marshall islands and say
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these guys are going to be underwater and it's your fault sheila your your jeep did this um and
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you know you mentioned the climate gulags david suzuki has openly mused about locking up climate
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critics like stephen harper um they they should face time in jail for the crime of disagreeing with
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his worldview on climate change so it's it's not outlandish this is how they think in polite
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left-wing environmentalist society this is how they talk about us over there right and you know
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you should have a look at this book by uh colonel newsham um when china attacks a warning to america
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because he's talking in here about the critical importance of those little tiny islands uh because
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you know the u.s strength is actually in its navy uh so uh the naval strength in in the asian
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theater is really all those tiny islands where the u.s has a lot of bases but according to even
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wikipedia china has been making incursions into places like vanuatu they've been you know building all
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kinds of um um these are the sinking islands they're building them all kinds of airfields
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right and airports but but airfields and airports have dual use don't they you know and it's
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interesting that west coast environmental law from vancouver has been working closely with the vanuatu
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equivalent for many years uh we have that in our report manufacturing and climate crisis
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so um and another item on uh of interest on wikipedia related to um the canadian steamship line
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running out of vanuatu on their flag of convenience now that's you know that's just from wikipedia so it may
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not be verified but uh most of these little islands that claim they're sinking they're drowning and sea
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level rise and climate change from the west is causing it most of them have um second and third
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tier marine registries where all these huge boats from around the world fly with flags of convenience
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registered in these tiny islands and marine emissions are like the most polluting ever you just
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don't see them because they're out of sea but they're using you know the dregs of the diesel that's
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what bunker oil is so i mean in one sense it's a good use for the bunker oil but they could probably
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put filters on those ships but how hypocrite how hypocritical to claim oh we're drowning and dying
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because of you guys and oh by the way here's your flag of convenience you can fly that that uh smelly old
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cargo ship anywhere you want now i just wanted to ask you uh before i let you go about the attacks on
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free speech uh related to climate change for people who uh regularly poke around on your youtube channel
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like i do um you you get slapped with a climate change warning as though you were a cigarette package
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over there but you know you get the little youtube un warning you're demonetized you cannot ever be
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monetized on youtube because you're a climate skeptic organization i wouldn't even call you climate
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skeptics i just think that uh really from the outside looking in the the view of friends of
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science is that maybe it has something to do with that big burning ball of gas in the sky
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more than your car um and um you know what going back to david suzuki that wants to lock up climate
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skeptics um but just tell us we've talked about it on the show before but just so people understand
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what can happen to you if you simply have a dissenting view from the government narrative
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on climate change um well you know in 2015 ecojustice went after us via the competition
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bureau they wanted us fined and thrown in jail for our billboards um you know and our billboards
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had scientific messages on it uh more recently fault lines has come out which is a report that cbc
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covered quite extensively and we did a deconstruction of their coverage um where of course they're
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trying to uh set the stage to say well any anything that uh you know is holds a dissenting view or
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anyone holding a dissenting view should be labeled disinformation misinformation and should be blocked
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from the airways that's what a lot of all these censorship things are about um you know and in that
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fault lines report friends of science was the only party singled out in the climate skeptic world and
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john robson over at climate nexus was really disappointed that they weren't mentioned but uh
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you know and one of their criticisms was that they they um uh couldn't find clear evidence of our
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sources of funding and so they assumed based on previous works that we were funded by fossil fuels you
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know we operate on 150 000 a year this organization that published that report has gotten something
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like 55 million dollars in government funding um and uh and they can't google our account our our online
00:30:41.260
website and blog and find our agm listings which show our funding and the sources so you know it's
00:30:49.240
really a joke it's a travesty and yet this is funded by government um and intended to intimidate and
00:30:57.480
threaten ordinary people who stand for freedom of speech and scientific inquiry
00:31:03.160
and it's also nearly impossible for you to get your message out on social media although twitter is much
00:31:13.240
better now uh but i think it was at one point that you were blocked from buying ads on facebook
00:31:19.320
um for yeah we still are because well you take a skeptical viewpoint yeah you still are go ahead
00:31:25.300
yeah we still can't uh buy ads on facebook or i don't know if we can buy ads on twitter we haven't
00:31:32.220
tried in a while but we were blocked from that as well and um facebook regularly blocks my video
00:31:39.200
where all i did was read the press release from clintel of 2019 wherein 500 scientists
00:31:46.160
uh said there's no climate emergency well facebook book will not let anybody post that video on facebook
00:31:53.780
anymore uh and now fortunately clintel has grown to more than 1500 scientists and scholars and they all
00:32:01.260
continue to say there's no climate emergency so that information should be front and center for everyone
00:32:07.220
and not blocked and we should have open public debate about it
00:32:10.720
yeah i i guess that would be great unfortunately the social media giants won't let us have that
00:32:19.580
michelle you are up against the deep pockets of foreign funded um environmentalist organizations but
00:32:26.320
not only are they foreign funded they're domestically funded so often by the government
00:32:30.340
um and they are doing their best to shut you up so tell us how people can support the work that
00:32:36.020
friends of science does um to just bring a little bit of balance to this conversation that is
00:32:44.380
dominated by a bunch of people who just want you to shut up
00:32:47.260
well thank you first of all everyone can share our material because that doesn't cost any money
00:32:53.760
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00:33:01.620
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00:33:18.840
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00:33:25.380
that but uh that promises to be um a nice in-person event like we used to have and um you know just uh
00:33:34.760
get on our twitter thread get on to facebook we're on uh rum uh we're on uh youtube we have a blog
00:33:43.940
um you can see us on linkedin so you know interact with us engage with us and uh let's talk about it i
00:33:53.400
mean i know a lot of people are afraid of climate change and they're stricken with fear and concern
00:34:00.000
we offer people what i call climate hope because once you see the context of climate over the
00:34:06.780
historical period you realize that yes humans probably are having some impact but it's not
00:34:14.400
catastrophic and that we should adapt we should learn how to do things like address the fuel load
00:34:21.360
before the wildfire rather than putting up wind and solar farms and claiming oh we saved the planet
00:34:28.160
so when we actually finance china to dominate the world anyway
00:34:34.740
well michelle i want to thank you so much for coming on the show and i want to thank you for your um
00:34:45.460
rational facts um when the other side of this debate is so hyperbolic um and so
00:34:53.220
driven with their agenda and their fear-mongering and and this bizarre desire to control the actions
00:35:00.840
of other people um and to bend other people towards their will i i'm just so happy that friends of science
00:35:07.220
supports free open civil debate free speech and letting people live their lives without this
00:35:13.440
impending doom of a an apocalypse just around the corner it's uh it's a real relief i think for a lot
00:35:21.100
of people thank you sheila and thanks for all the work you guys do at rebel
00:35:25.740
well we've come to the portion of the show where i invite your viewer feedback every single week
00:35:38.960
i take questions comments story ideas sometimes even criticisms from the public right now it's the
00:35:48.220
reason i give out my email address it's sheila at rebelnews.com put gun show letters in the subject
00:35:54.060
line so i know that you're sending me this email in direct relation to the show that you've watched and
00:36:01.920
who knows i might just read it on air but i also go poking around on some of the platforms where we post
00:36:08.240
the free version of the show on youtube or rumble to see what people are talking about and that's
00:36:15.580
where i get this week's question comment story idea viewer feedback from it's actually from the
00:36:22.280
youtube comment section last week first one from jeff nagy who says to me i think you underestimate
00:36:30.100
how much eastern canada despises alberta now this is i should have clarified this before i started
00:36:35.600
talking this is on my show with josh andrus from project confederation and we were talking about
00:36:42.040
affordability and how a vote for the ndp in alberta would be a vote for increased costs on literally
00:36:49.080
everything because of the ndp coalition with trudeau and rachel notley's past history of doing
00:36:56.060
absolutely nothing every time trudeau did terrible terrible things to alberta like blocking our energy
00:37:01.920
um increasing carbon taxes all those fun things so we were discussing that last week and um it sort
00:37:11.780
of came up that you know our premier daniel smith one of her first things that she did upon uh being
00:37:19.800
elected to lead the united conservative party was uh pick an open fight with justin trudeau
00:37:25.300
on matters of well basically everything any time that justin trudeau is going to put his grubby hands
00:37:34.740
into provincial jurisdiction our government here in alberta is legally obligated to fight back
00:37:40.760
through the sovereignty act and uh jeff says as as i read earlier i think you underestimate just how
00:37:47.980
much eastern canada despises alberta i actually don't think eastern canada despises us
00:37:53.260
i actually think they don't care about us i don't think they think about us as much as we think
00:38:00.240
about them seems kind of pathetic when you say it that way but it's because we have this unfair
00:38:08.920
treatment within confederation that we look at the other provinces and say don't you understand how
00:38:15.360
bad we're getting screwed here don't you understand how much we contribute and how little we get back and
00:38:22.640
don't you understand how much we want to contribute if you would just get out of our way and let us do
00:38:28.660
what we do best i don't think they worry about us at all i i really think that they don't care and
00:38:35.600
i've heard this from a lot of people because there are so many people moving to alberta now um for
00:38:42.800
you know economic opportunity issues of housing affordability jobs freedom
00:38:48.940
um there are a lot of people from other places in alberta and i speak to them
00:38:54.500
and they say you know we we know that you're different in alberta and we know you're kind
00:39:01.040
of squawky sometimes but i didn't realize how bad it was for you till i got here and became one of you
00:39:09.660
my friend kian simoni our chief documentary filmmaker he had this exact experience
00:39:15.380
and it's one of the inspirations for his documentary ungovernable
00:39:20.420
about the history of western separation and western autonomy
00:39:26.220
and where that started and how it's going here in alberta and if you are a subscriber to our paywall
00:39:34.160
content if you're watching this early and ad free behind the paywall then you are you can go
00:39:39.440
catch that documentary on the paywall and if you're not might i invite you to because it's
00:39:45.800
really great kian looked at this through a baby alberta lens it was kind of fascinating for me to
00:39:52.760
watch him sort of grow as an alberta as he made the documentary um freedom barbie says i haven't
00:40:00.620
talked to one person that was voting in ndp and i've talked to a lot of people lately not one
00:40:06.220
that may be true um perhaps you don't live in an ndp stronghold like edmonton um because if you
00:40:16.060
live outside of edmonton we're pretty deep blue out here and so it would be difficult to find an ndp
00:40:23.800
voter in your circle of friends probably freedom barbie it sounds like you're pretty conservative as
00:40:29.620
it is and outside of the cities i think people are kind of ashamed to admit that they would vote
00:40:37.220
for rachel notley i mean they should be um overlord says the ndp youtube channel has the comment section
00:40:45.440
disabled they obviously had more negative comments than positive well that makes perfect sense
00:40:50.900
and uh that's one of the reasons we leave our comment section open and i give you my email
00:40:56.280
is because uh i i want to know what you think and the ndp obviously doesn't and i think
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thankfully they did not form government which means that alberta remains freer than anywhere else
00:41:10.280
and uh rachel notley is going to have to figure out other ways to block journalists from doing their
00:41:15.900
jobs because she can't use the hammer of government to do it and lar m says the ndp already has a
00:41:26.220
proven disaster record in alberta years earlier yes also true uh i documented uh the radicals within
00:41:35.800
the ndp in my book the destroyers it's available on amazon and then i documented how the destroyers
00:41:43.440
went about destroying things um in my book stop notley also available on amazon and you know on our
00:41:52.360
election night coverage i think it was lauren gunter sun columnist who joined us who did say
00:41:58.820
the ndp should have had a harder go of it from the ucp as in the ucp should have been hammering
00:42:08.760
the ndp on their track record of credit downgrades capital flight uh corporate head offices leaving
00:42:17.360
outward migration from alberta which is completely unheard of in my lifetime outward migration from
00:42:25.300
the province um rachel notley's failure to improve health care wait times her failure to uh actually
00:42:36.180
get any major energy projects done without the feds getting involved and buying a pipeline that was
00:42:44.120
ready to be built in the private sector like give me a break um they they really should have been
00:42:48.560
hammering her on those issues her attacks on agriculture small businesses her tax hikes the
00:42:55.220
carbon tax she never campaigned on there's a whole host of things as i said i wrote a book about it um
00:43:02.200
but they really didn't and they could have and they probably should have they should have said
00:43:08.580
we are just recovering now four years after unelecting the ndp that's how long it has taken for us to even
00:43:18.520
get back to boom country and uh if the ndp were given another four years in power i don't think we would
00:43:28.120
ever recover well everybody that's the show for tonight thank you so much for tuning in i'll see everybody
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back here in the same time in the same place next week and as always remember don't let the government