Calgary s new mayor, Jyoti Gondek, has an emergency to fight already. Yes, it's a climate emergency. And yet, she's decided that the most pressing issue facing her city is not the 30% vacancy rate in Calgary s downtown core, the outward migration of oil field head offices, or the crippling crunch of public sector salaries and benefits. For her, it s global warming, climate change.
00:00:00.000The city of Calgary, Alberta has a brand new mayor and she's got an emergency to fight already.
00:00:06.060Yes friends, it's a climate emergency. I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed and you're watching The Gunn Show.
00:00:30.000You know, as I'm filming this right now, my kids are on a snow day. I'm filming this on the 16th of November 2021.
00:00:38.180I wouldn't say it's a climate emergency, but it's a bit of a climate inconvenience for me.
00:00:43.380And yet, brand new mayor in Calgary has decided that the most pressing issue facing her city is not the 30% vacancy rate in Calgary's downtown core or outward migration of oil field head offices
00:00:56.760or the crippling crunch of public sector salaries and benefits.
00:01:02.300No friends. For her, it's global warming, climate change.
00:01:06.880She's barely been in office but a few weeks.
00:01:09.880However, this focus should send a message to Calgarians about where their city government is going and they should be very worried about what this all means for their tax bill.
00:01:20.840But don't take my word for it because my friend and colleague, Adam Sos, actually lives in Calgary.
00:01:27.740He's going to have to deal with this and he's got a brand new petition at NoClimateEmergency.com where you can sign his petition calling on the city of Calgary to focus their energy somewhere less frivolous and more meaningful.
00:01:42.820And at that website, you can actually send the mayor's office a message via email directly.
00:01:48.540Now, here's Adam in an interview we recorded yesterday morning to discuss his new petition, but also the Conservative Party leadership chaos and whatever else two Albertans felt like talking about when they don't like, I guess, any government.
00:02:05.100Joining me now from his home studio in Calgary is my friend and colleague, Adam Sos, and we are doing a bit of a wrap-up about all things in the conservative sphere, not just in Alberta, but I guess all across the country.
00:02:26.080Adam, the first thing I wanted to talk to you about is an initiative that you've taken on yourself as a resident of Calgary.
00:02:34.180You've suffered for, you know, many, many years under former mayor Naheed Nenshi and his bad ideas.
00:03:10.580We put out a video this week, and it's part of our NoClimateEmergency.com campaign.
00:03:17.020And you can see the full clip of Jyoti endorsing all the environmental and economic perks of Canadian energy compared to other oil and energy providers around the world.
00:03:26.900So she was once very much on side and very much an ally.
00:03:30.340She and the rest of city council now, unfortunately, just last week, unanimously endorsed at least the notion of debating whether we should declare a climate emergency.
00:03:41.940So not even one person in all of city council in Calgary, the conservative hub of oil country, not one person was like, this is silly.
00:03:49.340All of them were like, yeah, we should probably have a chat about this.
00:03:52.900One councillor, I believe, said, well, the emergency is a bit sort of dire, but let's talk about it anyways.
00:03:58.060There was not one person who said, no, this is ridiculous.
00:04:02.520Again, they didn't unanimously vote to declare the emergency, but they voted that it should be given light of day in city council.
00:04:10.980Even councillor Peter DeMond, and you'll see this in the video as well, acknowledged that this was merely a symbolic gesture to which I replied that there's no such thing as a symbolic emergency.
00:04:22.080This is yet another in the never ending sort of political progressive opportunities to pat themselves on the back that does nothing to help people on a practical level, does nothing to alleviate the environment.
00:04:35.280It's an opportunity for more friends to get contracts, more taxes, more pains and sufferings for the average Joes, but nothing actually being done for the actual environment to help the environment out.
00:04:47.240So, yeah, no climate emergency, not in this province anyways, and certainly not in the city.
00:04:52.840Now, what changed, I guess, what changed between being like, hey, we're poor oil sands.
00:04:58.940I acknowledge the human rights abuses of the other oil producers of the world to, yeah, oil's bad in the, you know, oil capital of Canada.
00:05:13.420It's who knows, who knows what happened.
00:05:15.820I mean, very likely she did become the favourite incumbent of Nahid Nenshi and was sort of pushed on this trajectory towards mayoralhood.
00:05:24.840And one of the other things that's extremely troubling about this is she didn't hide this.
00:05:28.940She talked about this when she was campaigning.
00:05:31.000So, practically speaking, while she didn't certainly get a majority of the vote or an overwhelming win by any metric, the challenger who probably would have been more reasonable and opposed to this stuff, Jeremy Farkas, she beat him quite sort of decidedly.
00:05:45.340So, she, as much as any mayor, has had a clear mandate to sort of endorse this.
00:05:50.600So, you can't even just necessarily point the finger at her.
00:05:53.800Problematically, people have also married into this ideology.
00:05:57.340And when you have all the media, all these international sort of lobby groups, everyone just heralding that this is the point we have to push.
00:06:04.820If you want to be popular and progressive, you have to marry this ideology, even if it's something that doesn't make sense, even if it's something that councillors are saying is simply symbolic.
00:06:16.020The person who actually put this motion forward was Councillor Raj Dhaliwal.
00:06:23.760So, obviously, there's some conversations that have been had, and they did this.
00:06:27.120Because when interviewed, he said that some of his constituents, this is reported, some of his constituents were very upset about, like, hail damage in a recent storm.
00:06:35.880That's why he's passionate about climate change.
00:07:06.840I think everyone, particularly if it's hunters or outdoor activists, or active people, not activists, rather, but people who spend time outdoors are for protecting nature in practical terms.
00:07:18.620That doesn't mean me sending tax dollars to the European Union or the Clinton Foundation or Tides Foundation.
00:07:24.840It should be practical, either restrictions or sort of tax breaks for companies that are doing the right thing.
00:07:32.620Not necessarily eco credits for people buying $140,000 Teslas or taxes that go into think tanks that don't actually produce anything or reduce pollution.
00:07:43.200So, yeah, big mess, yet another in the never-ending of eco schemes that are out there.
00:07:49.620Ultimately, I'm hoping that it is mere virtue signaling and it doesn't amount to anything.
00:07:54.660Or maybe it could be attempting to fill the core.
00:08:10.200But something good that helps the city.
00:08:12.400Because if it's just less, like taking our garbage even less and more pain in the butt stuff and limitations on vehicles that are further going to hinder a city that's already struggling and is already at a third capacity, I'm not interested in any of it.
00:08:26.920They say these declarations are purely symbolic.
00:08:29.740However, there are very tangible things that flow from these declarations in the same way that, oh, you know, like the Paris Agreement targets, those are purely aspirational.
00:08:42.100And so the Conservatives at the time under Andrew Scheer whipped the vote to support the Paris Accord targets.
00:08:46.700And then, well, then we get all these, like the gender-based analysis on energy projects.
00:08:54.400They all sort of get spawned from that.
00:08:56.460You end up seeing the carbon tax tick up and up and up because, oh, well, even the Conservatives agreed with this sort of stuff.
00:09:03.080And so I think at the municipal level, yep, this means fewer garbage pickup days, more expensive recycling, more bike lanes that nobody uses for sure.
00:09:13.660And I didn't realize that this was the case.
00:09:19.820But William Macbeth from True North, who is a municipal watcher in Calgary, he explained it to me that the reason they want to reduce the speed limit in residential areas is not really for safety issues.
00:10:01.080For example, like, a light car with a four-cylinder engine will be more efficient at, like, inner-city stop-and-go traffic.
00:10:08.320A big engine's more efficient on the highway.
00:10:10.100So it's like this nonsense blanket sentiment in the name of the environment, but it isn't actually based in any sort of tangible evidence.
00:10:16.820It's like a kooky idea that someone had, and now somehow, without any vetting or common-sense procedures, it's become a law that we're all, or a bylaw at the very least, that we're all forced to live by.
00:10:30.820Beyond that, there is always the hope, as we said, that, like, oh, they're already working on a green transit line.
00:10:38.440Like, it could just be, not that this is necessary, but they're just patting themselves on the back, and they're going to start saying,
00:10:43.320all these things we're doing are part of our effort to be green, and maybe that attracts investors from tech companies, whatever.
00:10:51.220That's the best-case, most hopeful scenario.
00:10:53.340But the other negative outlook to this is, like, oil companies who view Calgary and have been moving to Calgary,
00:11:00.400they may get the impression, depending on how it's handled and how it's declared, that the mayor of the city, who's, like I said, the core is one-third vacant,
00:11:08.320there's businesses, and these landowners would clearly, like, renters or leasers in those buildings.
00:11:14.620You think, as the mayor of a city, you'd be like, we want big tech, we want eco-tech, we want oil and gas.
00:11:21.400Come on, this is the place to do business.
00:13:20.320I mean, we just think what we've done to children.
00:13:22.820And I mean, we as society and the people in charge of it, not you and I, who want our kids to be normal.
00:13:29.000What's happened in the last 20 months with kids being constantly injected with fear from the TV, from school,
00:13:37.680from all the rules that say you can't hug your little friends and you can't smile, you have to wear a mask and you have to stay apart.
00:13:44.020And then you overlay climate hysteria on top of that and you've got a recipe for an anxiety riddled adult created in this time from what should be perfectly healthy little kids.
00:13:57.520And moreover, to your point about the migration of head offices outside of Calgary, that's a very real thing.
00:14:04.340For example, Chief Billy Morin from Enoch First Nation, just outside of Edmonton, one of his main economic goals is to attract oil and gas head offices there.
00:14:16.460In fact, I think Mikasoo has an office there.
00:14:22.720So the supply side of the Mikasoo First Nation, they have one of their head offices there, even though Mikasoo is in Fort McMurray.
00:14:31.520And speaking of Fort McMurray, they have a brand new mayor who's pro oil and gas and pro small business, Sandy Bowman.
00:14:38.320And he wants to make Fort McMurray, which makes a lot of sense, actually, the oil field head office hub.
00:14:44.500And he's willing to create economic incentives for companies to do that.
00:14:49.340So, I mean, Calgary's loss could be these other places gain.
00:14:53.160And she's really sending a message to those companies with this climate emergency baloney.
00:14:58.160And the impact in the community, like we talked about the mental health on this, but like parents losing their jobs and the economic instability within a community is also devastating.
00:15:07.320For years and years, McLean's magazine would often have Calgary as one of the cultural hubs of Canada, sometimes putting it above Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver.
00:15:15.980Sorry to break it to the progressive left who love all the arts and culture.
00:15:19.340But the ballet, the museums, all that lovely stuff, the private art shows, the galleries, it was all oil money, funding, all of it.
00:15:26.800So all your pretty museum openings and all those ballet things, which I happen to like, too.
00:15:30.680I'm being a little tongue in cheek here.
00:15:32.600But that goes away when you kick away the oil companies who are paying for all of it.
00:15:37.560So they're going to notice that, oh, these eco investors who are relying on government grants and aren't making billions of dollars for the economy, they don't quite have the assets.
00:15:46.820They aren't all Elon Musk to fund a massive cultural scene in a community.
00:15:51.020So you're not only kicking them out, but you're kicking so much of the culture out with it.
00:15:55.480Not to mention that the oil industry in itself is a culture, a rich and unique culture.
00:15:59.880You can go to Heritage Park or some of these other places if they would let you in if you were unvaccinated.
00:16:04.560They won't, so I'm not going to endorse them.
00:16:06.220But they do have, whenever they get back to normal and sensibility, rich cultural displays of the oil heritage, like what went on, how hard people worked to make this place the great place it is.
00:16:18.320And frankly, the only reason that Mayor Nenshi and Gondek are the mayors of world-class cities is because of the oil industries that built Calgary.
00:16:30.000Now, moving on from how awful the so-called climate emergency is, although I could talk about that for hours and hours and hours.
00:16:37.520And I do think it's funny because you're like, I like going to the ballet.
00:16:40.060And you and I are from a little bit two different worlds because I'm like, you know, my brother used to say he was going to the ballet, but he was going to watch the ladies dance at the airwaves.
00:16:49.860To be fair, my wife took me, but it was good.
00:16:54.060Now, I wanted to talk to you about somebody stepping his foot back into Alberta politics.
00:17:02.000Brian Jean, former Wildrose leader, finished as first runner up, which unfortunately is also first loser to Jason Kenney and the leadership of the United Conservative Party after the two parties joined.
00:17:20.340I do think the party needs a change in leadership.
00:17:23.280This is not an endorsement of Brian Jean, but Jason Kenney is out of runway to fix his popularity problems.
00:17:30.800And Brian Jean is saying all the right things.
00:17:33.380I've seen some polling the other day that said up to 41 percent of people across the political spectrum say these vaccine mandates are a bridge too far.
00:17:42.580And that's like that's not a conservative thing.
00:17:51.460He thinks vaccines work, but he doesn't think you should lose your job if you've made the decision not to get one and you shouldn't be carved out of society.
00:17:58.940And yet we're seeing Kenny proxies out there in the media saying Jason Kenney is appealing to the rural anti-vaxxer crowd.
00:18:07.880Well, that's a bold strategy crapping on rural issues.
00:18:13.720You know, it's really interesting because and this is just I had something else pretty much in mind to say, but this is just daunting on me now.
00:18:19.100Now, Jason Kenney has gone out of his way to appeal to everybody and has, in fact, appealed to nobody by attempting to like the restriction exemption program is the pinnacle of tiptoeing on the fence, where in practice you're implementing the worst type of segregation and exclusion in Canadian history next to potentially Japanese internment.
00:18:39.580That is functionally what you're doing, but you're pretending that it's kind of open and airy fairy.
00:18:43.940So there's like maybe a hint of a suggestion that you respect freedom, but ultimately you're you're not doing anything at all.
00:18:51.340Everything he's done has been middle of the fence, utterly void of principle.
00:18:55.040Just trying to say trying he's got his think tank people trying to massage the situation and fit something into a mold that doesn't fit.
00:19:51.420What's interesting now, though, and this is what just sort of dawned on me, is Brian Jean, if he has an ounce of principle in him, for example, as he said, saying that fundamentally undermining people's medical privacy or right to freedom with vaccine passports is wrong.
00:20:07.080By having that principled stance that Jason Kenney seems to have completely lost track of, he is actually going to win over the reasonable people.
00:20:16.960By instead of acting like quicksand and trying to fill in every gap and then sinking into nothingness, becoming a shadow of the man we once knew as Jason Kenney, if Brian Jean has some points that he can fix onto and lock onto and say, you know what?
00:20:31.380We as a society, we as a society do not exclude people based on their vaccine status.
00:20:35.780If he comes out and says that plain and simple, well, the conservatives who are sick of Jason Kenney but are still going to vote conservative, they're going to vote for him.
00:20:42.940But I think he'll actually succeed in what Jason Kenney's been trying to do.
00:20:46.940Jason Kenney and Aaron O'Toole, and we'll get to that, I'm sure, have been trying to win over some of the left, assuming they can treat the right like dirt and get away with it.
00:20:54.080Brian Jean is going to win over those people on the left who are principal, and we've seen people who aren't traditional conservatives, some of our lawyers, some of the business owners we've talked to, who are coming on side with Rebel News and the alleged conservatives, saying, you know what?
00:21:09.260This has nothing to do with right or left anymore.
00:21:11.540This has to do with respecting human beings.
00:21:13.400And I think Brian Jean is going to do pretty damn well for himself if he can say, no, enough is enough.
00:21:19.780I don't care what Justin Trudeau says.
00:21:22.880I don't care about what Dr. Joe Vipon says.
00:21:25.380We do not discriminate against people because we're Canadian, and Canadians simply don't do that.
00:21:30.620He will win people over, and he's probably going to be the next premier of this province if he manages to stick to that line and has some good, reasonable, sensible economic policies.
00:21:39.380But I think we are at a value test crux for Alberta.
00:21:42.840And if someone doesn't come forward and have that strong position and win over Alberta, at least enough to form a government, we're in trouble.
00:21:53.480And Brian Jean is the only one saying the right things, particularly in that riding.
00:21:59.240There are some, you know, UCP backbenchers at this point who are saying, you know, I'm against the vaccine mandate.
00:22:07.140Okay, well, what are you doing about it, though?
00:22:10.140Well, why am I just hearing from you now, after it's implemented?
00:22:14.700Even with those people, they're still clearly, like, I have no doubt they said, I'm doing this, I'm letting you know.
00:22:21.640And Jason said, well, as long as you don't talk to Rebel about this, don't go on.
00:22:25.140None of these people are doing interviews or talking.
00:22:27.580They're putting out a letter that expresses their opinion that's probably been okayed by the party to some extent.
00:22:33.300And then they're not talking about it after the fact.
00:22:36.540So it's almost a washing of the hands.
00:22:38.460I support Matt Jones and some of these other people for these strong letters that they have put out.
00:22:44.520But these people should be stepping up and being the next leaders, not just someone who issues one letter and then goes back into the back benches.
00:22:52.540Yeah, they fall in line really, really quick.
00:22:55.840So I feel like they've allowed a bit of purging by allowing these letters out.
00:22:58.720But when fundamental human rights violations and freedom violations are taking place, one letter doesn't cut it.
00:23:05.660So hopefully Brian Jean, Drew Barnes, some of these other folks who are out there, politicians, will continue to fight for freedom for Albertans.
00:23:12.920Well, and the other person running in Jean's writing, Joshua Gogo, he is, I think it sounds like he's a Kenny loyalist.
00:23:23.360He refuses to give his opinion on vaccine mandates, which is refusing to give your opinion on fundamental human rights at the end of the day.
00:23:30.860And Jason Kenney seems to be writing all this off.
00:23:46.420And I mean, the fact that he did a press conference and he said, and frankly, he said some of the points that I've raised as points of concern.
00:24:07.940And that is further evidence, not only in his basically borderline personal attacks on Brian Jean, not altogether out of off base, but they're clearly personal attacks.
00:24:18.020But other UCP loyalists, think tank people, advisors, all that, they've taken every opportunity to jump on Brian Jean in the last few weeks.
00:24:26.100I, for one, think that if Jason Kenney spent less time, him and his group of little advisors spent less time on attacking Brian Jean, they could spend a little more time on bringing in some much needed things like, let's say, natural immunity testing for Albertans.
00:24:40.460But he's too busy for that because he's already campaigning for the leadership.
00:24:44.000I don't think, I don't know if it's, he has his own little bubble and he's isolated from the world, but he's lost everyone who loved Jason Kenney does not anymore.
00:25:27.220I think Jason Kenney doesn't realize that the same buyer's remorse that he benefited from, people who voted for the NDP who were like, yikes, Brian Jean's about to benefit from that too.
00:25:41.760And I think Jason Kenney would do well to take that seriously instead of writing it off as a nuisance.
00:25:49.400His popularity or lack thereof, that's not a nuisance.
00:25:55.240That's a catastrophe waiting to happen.
00:25:58.040And Jason Kenney might have to decide that he cares more about Alberta than he does about being in charge of the party he helped unite.
00:26:07.420Because if he stays on and he doesn't permit a leadership review, because I think he's the guy with the final say, it spells an NDP government going forward.
00:26:19.400And we will 100%, for those folks who don't know, we will be at the UCPAGM this weekend.
00:26:25.880We're going to be talking to people, getting a vibe, hopefully putting out videos as the day goes along, getting a vibe for what the sentiment is.
00:26:35.340There are the little lackeys and tagalongs and inner circle who are Team Kenney first and foremost.
00:26:40.500There are some politicians who probably would not have won their nomination and were put in by Kenney.
00:26:45.760Those people are likely to remain loyal to Kenney, regardless of what he does.
00:26:49.900And they'll probably work with him wherever he goes afterwards.
00:26:52.800But yeah, for the rest of us, there's a stark reality dawning for Jason Kenney.
00:26:59.420And hopefully the rest of the party, I know lots of people, but hopefully we hear from a lot of people who are willing to voice their concern,
00:27:06.940if not on camera, at least off camera.
00:27:10.380Now, speaking of Conservatives not as advertised, I know I've kept you a little late, so we'll just tear through this kind of briefly.
00:27:17.920We're recording this on Monday because of how schedules permit, but our viewers will be watching it on Wednesday.
00:27:23.440And about an hour ago, a Conservative senator launches petition to oust Erin O'Toole as leader.
00:27:31.180And this shocks me because she's not much of a wave maker.
00:27:59.620And for the longest time, she was an Erin O'Toole loyalist too.
00:28:03.280But right now, she's launched a petition to oust Erin O'Toole as party leader, and she's the highest profile one to be saying this yet.
00:28:13.100There was Burt Chen, I mean, but he's been purged from the party altogether.
00:28:16.680She said that O'Toole's, on O'Toole's watch, the party flip-flopped on major issues, such as carbon pricing, firearms, and conscience rights, and has once again lost Conservative seats in urban and suburban ridings in Alberta, BC, and the greater Toronto area.
00:28:35.060And she said, while he campaigned as a true blue Conservative in the leadership race, he ran a federal election campaign that was nearly indistinguishable from Trudeau's Liberals.
00:29:01.120And, you know, the wild thing with all this, one, I'm going to thank her for not only saying what we're all thinking, but saying what Erin O'Toole is doing.
00:29:07.640At least Andrew Scheer, despite sort of being floppy on this stuff as well, he has, like, a personality and he was kind of funny.
00:29:16.860Erin O'Toole, if you had a shot every time that guy just said, our plan, our plan, our plan, instead of saying anything like he believed it, you'd be in trouble.
00:29:44.180But Harper, boring, but everything was sort of, like, we had a decent plan and the economy was online.
00:29:49.660This is absolutely boring and yet still a categorical disaster and still wish-washing on everything.
00:29:57.000I think one of the problems with Erin O'Toole as well, I mean, they have to get rid of everyone in the war room.
00:30:02.080It's absolutely embarrassing how they write that campaign.
00:30:04.180And if they don't get over themselves and fire everyone involved, frankly, including the leader, he has no business leading anything beyond the, I don't know, what's something really boring, leaving the most boring thing possible.
00:30:22.380But it's so, like, milquetoast and vapid and empty and there's no adherence to principles.
00:30:30.880It's the same thing we talked about with Kenny, where it's a windsock, but it's not a windsock among the conservative movement or a windsock about where the tides are going.
00:30:40.340It's like, what is Justin Trudeau saying and how do we not get in trouble with his base because we want to win people over?
00:30:48.360That's the entirety of the campaign strategy.
00:30:51.140How do we, like, submit to not allow him to create?
00:31:05.320And the conservative movement has been trying to not lose.
00:31:07.880The assumption that Justin Trudeau is so bad, which is true, that Canadians won't vote for him.
00:31:13.760Well, Canadians aren't necessarily good voters.
00:31:15.760They don't have a good track record of it.
00:31:17.240And don't get me wrong, the majority of more Canadians voted for conservatives than Justin Trudeau.
00:31:21.180But to lose to that guy, the reason they lost isn't necessarily where they stood on anything.
00:31:26.740It's because they didn't stand for anything.
00:31:28.780They lost votes to the PBC because you knew where the PBC stood.
00:31:31.920And as much as you can dislike Justin Trudeau, barring a few things, you know he's a radical activist who's going to do, you know what you're getting with him.
00:31:41.700With Aaron O'Toole, you literally never know what you're going to get.
00:31:44.060And more often than not, and to the credit of the senator, you got whatever Trudeau was saying.
00:31:48.820And you would swap from week to week on this.
00:31:51.260I think one of the biggest issues with people within the party being loyalists to Aaron O'Toole is I think lots of their policy writing was sort of suave and tongue-in-cheek.
00:32:04.560And so there'd be like a little like, it sounded like it was all super pro-eco.
00:32:10.800And then there'd be like a little paragraph at the end that would say like, and we support our oil industries, blah, blah, blah.
00:32:16.180So anyone you'd rate, and I talked to good principled conservatives, who when you'd raise oppositions, they'd say, well, actually, in the policy platform, it does say this.
00:32:25.540I'm like, yeah, but there's several paragraphs about all this eco-nonsense.
00:32:29.620And then there's one little line about this.
00:32:34.140Aaron O'Toole was unwilling to answer questions and wouldn't talk in favor of Alberta oil in the Quebec debates.
00:32:39.360Furthermore, I mean, if you're going to profess to be a party that tends to represent Western values, that entire debate process where people were excluded, the PPC was excluded, the debates effectively all took place in Quebec.
00:32:53.200Two out of three were French language.
00:32:55.660Aaron O'Toole, the first thing he should have done is you're excluding journalists and you've completely alienated the English-speaking West.
00:33:02.420I'm not taking part in your joke debates.
00:33:04.640Maxine Bernier and I are going to have a real debate in somewhere in the middle, let's say, Calgary.
00:33:10.780And anyone who wants to come, anyone who's the leader of a party, have some thresholds.
00:33:16.860But that would have been the move, and he would have been the prime minister of this country right now.
00:33:21.140If he would have done anything to indicate he had an ounce of principle, that's what people are looking for.
00:33:26.220One of the problems with Justin Trudeau, successes rather, is that he believes some of the stuff he says, as much as he stumbles through it, and he says it with conviction.
00:33:37.420So people are like, well, you know, at least that guy seems to care.
00:33:40.320I mean, he may be wrong about everything, but he really seems passionate.
00:33:42.980It's the same thing with the appeal with Jagmeet Singh.
00:33:45.440Like, everything he says is ridiculous, but he says it like he really means it.
00:33:49.460Aaron O'Toole, I don't know if he said anything that he really meant the entire campaign.
00:34:39.580There's a lot of people who are exceptionally strong.
00:34:42.960Dr. Leslie Lewis would be incredible because all of the sort of race-baiting, gender-politics stuff that Justin Trudeau somehow manages to pull off.
00:34:51.040As a privileged, rich white male would be completely shot in the face.
00:35:39.060He's incredibly popular, and he's probably gotten in trouble with the party for putting out some of these videos that are sharing popular ideas.
00:35:45.840And, frankly, we did the do-you-know-who-this-is, Aaron O'Toole thing.
00:36:25.200And some of that, for me, is for spite, because O'Toole didn't give her a critic position, which is basically just relegating her to an inconsequential backbencher within the critic's role instead of a potential party unifier with new ideas.
00:36:44.280And, of course, perennial favourite, Candice Bergen.
00:36:48.180She's so strong on oil and gas and so strong on firearms rights and, you know, always consistent.
00:36:56.020And so I don't think she should be overlooked.
00:36:59.060Well, you know what, I kept you 15 minutes later than I said I would, and you and I have very busy days, very busy weeks covering all the news.
00:37:09.700Adam, thanks so much for coming on the show.
00:37:12.040You always do such great work for us and such a great advocate for your community, but also for the people, just the normals of Calgary, the non-victims of climate change in Calgary.
00:37:24.140So, you know, keep up the great work out there.
00:37:36.560Again, friends, if you'd like to sign Adam's petition to the City of Calgary and the mayor, it's at noclimateemergency.com.
00:37:45.040And at that special website, he's got a special link there where you can click on it and send a message directly to the mayor's office telling her that Calgary has more pressing issues than the weather unless she wants to do something about snow removal.
00:38:04.080Well, everybody, that's the show for tonight.