SHEILA GUNN REID ｜ Leftists preen as Fort McMurray is threatened by wildfire, again
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It's fire season in Alberta, which means it's BLAME IT ALL ON CLIMATE CHANGE season. This week, my guest is an advocate for oil and gas, who's on the road spreading the word about the need to fight climate change.
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Well, it's fire season again here in Alberta, which means it's blame it all on climate change
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season. I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed and you're watching The Gunn Show.
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If you've even been loosely paying attention to Alberta for the last decade or so, but
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since always, spring means fire season. Grass fires, bushfires, forest fires. It's what the
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forest does to renew itself, burns down. It's caused by lightning. It's caused largely by
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human activity, but that's what happens when you plunk a bunch of people into the world's
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first or second largest, depending on how you measure it. Continuous forest, you know,
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the boreal forest, it encompasses so much of Alberta, including where I live, but also
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Fort McMurray. Fort McMurray, Alberta had a major fire that swept through the town about
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eight years ago. It burned down my guest's house and the town is sort of being licked
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by flames again. People are under evacuation notice. The province is, as it generally is
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this time of year, blanketed with smoke and people are taking precautions. But that also
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means the ghouls of the world, the climate change hucksters are happy to take advantage of this
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scary time for a lot of people to push their radical climate change agenda. One of those ghouls
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is NDP MP Charlie Angus, who recently tweeted a picture of Fort McMurray with flames outside of
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the city. And he said, Exxon knew in the 1980s, Imperial Oil knew in the 1980s, Shell knew in the
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1980s. Their reports predicted the climate catastrophe that is upending life today. They just never bothered
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to tell the people in Fort McMurray who are living with the consequences of peak CO2.
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He is blaming the very people who produce the oil and gas for the fire threatening their homes.
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He doesn't say, however, that it will be the oil and gas sector that will muster resources to help
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save Fort McMurray one more time. He also doesn't say it is the safety training provided by the oil and gas
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sector that will ensure that people, by and large, will be unscathed during the fire emergency in Fort
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McMurray. It's why there was no loss of life related directly to the fire during the last major fire in
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Fort McMurray. He doesn't say that it is the oil and gas sector that is bringing up resources to Fort McMurray
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right now on the highways so that firefighters have a place to stay. It's never the hippies and the tree huggers
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working to save these communities. They're just on the internet, blaming the communities for what could be their fate.
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Without acknowledging, once again, that Fort McMurray is plunked right in the middle of the boreal forest
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and the boreal forest burns. That's what it does to renew itself. They tell me to follow the science,
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but they never, ever do. Joining me today is my friend, Robbie Picard from Oil Sand Strong and Oil and Gas World
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Magazine. He's a staunch advocate for oil and gas. He's had it with Charlie Angus and he's under evacuation
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My good friend, Robbie Picard. However, he's not in his usual haunt of Fort McMurray. He's somewhere else
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and he is definitely someplace else, not in his usual office. Robbie, tell me what you're doing. Where are you?
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Well, I'm in, uh, I'm in Lavac, Ontario, which is a small town just outside of Sudbury.
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Um, after a bit of a hiatus and, uh, a great, uh, amazing Oil and Gas World slash Oil Sand Strong
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bus, I'm back on the road and, um, I'm doing maybe a little bit of advocacy, giving out stickers
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and talking to regular Canadians, interviewing them to the magazine and airing their stories.
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And, uh, it's kind of been really kind of refreshing. Like, uh, when I picked up the bus,
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the bus has been in Sudbury for a little while, there was actually, uh, seeing the off group
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that all changed. And they were, they watched the buses, they got this like secured storage
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area. And I didn't realize how many people appreciated the bus. Um, and even chased down
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a guy that tried to break into it, uh, throughout the course when it was parked. And it's been
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really nice. And the amount of this bus alone, just the amount of talk and support that I've
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So what are you doing with the bus? You said you're, you're doing oil and gas advocacy and
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interviewing people. What do you mean by interviewing people?
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So, um, I stopped along the road and I try to find people that, um, are interesting and
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I tell their stories. So if it's, you know, like, uh, people that have in some ways, oil and
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gas has, uh, you know, changed their lives. Still not to be able to do an oil and gas story.
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I interviewed interesting people. I interviewed one guy from an antique store. One guy that
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I met was worth millions and millions. And another person that, uh, she moved back to
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Sudbury, retired from work in Alberta, which is interesting because Sudbury's got a minor
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thing. And then my big plan is to eventually get this bus on the water. I have a few MPs
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places. I can sell my merch along the way and interview people along the way. So that's essentially
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what it's doing. Um, and I'm hoping to head there pretty quick, um, to a specific place
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that's three, some hours north of here. Um, however, uh, you know, there, there's different
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situations going on right now. So I'm a little bit kind of nimble.
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Let's talk about the situations that are going on right now, because while you were out on the
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road in Ontario and I re like, well, I saw you over the weekend. Yeah. You were, uh, I think one
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of the most well-received speakers at our rebel news live event, as you always are. But as you and
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I were sitting there, you got an alert saying you were under evacuation notice one more time
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in February because of the wildfires. Tell us a little bit about that. Well, it's, you know,
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I'll be honest. I'm trying to like not lose my mind. So, um, and, and, and, and as you know,
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the last fire, I didn't hold any punches. I was pissed off. I was pissed off at the mayor at the time,
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city and the province. And frankly, I still am this time, not as much. Um, I feel like,
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so it's sort of like 2016 over again. Uh, my, my, one of my staff that works for me,
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his home with his wife and his two kids is literally in the same area that my house worked
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down, you know, eight weeks ago. However, um, it's a different kind of fire. And I really
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truly believe they have it handled. Um, it, is there a risk? A hundred percent. Um, and the smoke
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is very dark. And what it is, is that there's this kind of the new growth. It's not, the last
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fire was very scary because it had these pine trees that were also right in the town. And it
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kind of created this jumping effect. And that's why it went so fast. This one's more like a bush
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fire, kind of like the evidence of Saskatchewan and Alberta, you don't get us worked up. It's just
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so much stuff. Right. So I, I, I, you know, my, my old neighborhood where my office, Robbie
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Carton is has been evacuated, but they're kind of people are still there. A lot of people have not
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left. I'm not overly concerned. I am headed home so that I wanted to, you know, my staff
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and, um, and, and be there to handle, you know, cause yep, a lot to do, but I'm not overly worked
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up about it. I feel like our mayor and I'm not just saying this cause he's my friend. I really
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believe he is a kick ass mayor. And I think they have an understanding. I do believe they've
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learned from the past, but after this is over, I do think we need to really look at like building
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a proper fire break around Fort McMurray. Like lots of cities have, as I travel around
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the country, I've, I'm noticing a lot of cities that have been around longer than Fort McMurray
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and they have better infrastructure than we do. We have a lot of stuff, but we need to
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really think about how to make a community that's a bit more like, can't be susceptible
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to this. Now, you know, I'm getting, I'm getting all the questions. Like you think this is
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vast climate change. I still believe in my heart of hearts that the forest is meant to
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burn every 20 to 30 years and burns and the burns again. If you look at other countries
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around the world that have addressed their forest issues and proper forest, that's fine. But
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when you put these forests around to burning, you're going to see us all look beautiful in
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a couple of years. Um, so I'm not overly worked up. I'm definitely like, you know, it does bring
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back memories here. I want to make sure that, uh, that everybody there is safe and okay. But I,
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I'm not, you know, I'm, I'm in a weird spot right now. Cause like I, I back on the road in Ontario,
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which has taken a lot longer than it was supposed to you to get the bus turned up and I need to go
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home again. The last time I had the bus in Ontario, I had to go home and I thought it was coming
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back in a couple of weeks and that was a year and a half later. Yeah. You know, I'm glad you
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mentioned that, you know, like the, the fear mongers immediately get on like, Oh, this is climate
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changed. They don't see it. And they say, you know, like this just keeps happening over and over and
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over again in Canada. Yeah. Because we live in the boreal forest, which is like the world's first
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or second largest continuous forest. And we have, especially in the West here, forest communities that
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are plunked right in the middle of it. So of course you have these small cities in the middle
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of the world's largest continuous forest. Of course, they're going to be exposed to forest fires in a
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way that you don't see in other countries. And yet, of course, the scaremongers push this idea that
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it's climate change, climate change, climate change, instead of just the normal cycle of the forest
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that you don't see in other places without the boreal forest. Well, yeah. And, and, and, and it goes
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to show you too, like one thing that like, I'm, I'm trying to be a little more level-headed than last
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time, but at the same time, like, like Charlie Angus made that post and like, somehow like there, he's
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like, I really don't like that guy. I think he's a giant douchebag. And I really, truly like, cannot wait
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to drive my bus close to his office. I mean, it might be a little belayed now to get home, but I saw his
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tweet. And I thought that was just such a, it just comes from a guy who's, you know, a lost 20
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year politician. He was really never had to do real work in his life, other places. And I really
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like, I, one thing I will say that I love about Ontario is the vast majority. And I'm not even
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talking minorities or us and what our pipelines, they want Canada. Our GDP under, I, the liberals
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did this under protest. They didn't want to do this pipeline. They had to. And I mean,
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I bet you they're banking the gods right now because they're disastrous establishment of
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our budget. When the Trans Mountain opened up, the GDP went up a little bit and that's some
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good news. And Ontario. And, you know, when I, when I spoke in Toronto, like, you know,
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it seems like I said, but it's just like, Alberta is the heart of this country and
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metal oil, which feeds the arteries, feeds the entire thing. And it's really nice to see
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the average Canadians and the people here at Sudbury. Sudbury is a similar town to Fort
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McMurray, a very big mining town as the industry doesn't really crash on it. You know, they
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always keep mines going somewhat suspicious. But everyone here supports us. So I'm hoping
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that, you know, I think this fire of McMurray is going to be short lived. And then I'll get
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back on the bus and I will tour. And I, I feel like, you know, I love, I love this piece
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of the bus. And I stop, I talk to meetings, I have coffee with people, I interview them.
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If I'm interviewing, you know, some multi-billionaire celebrity, I guess the same treatment as just,
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you know, it's easy at the coffee shop there. And it's been an eye opening experience.
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So, you know, um, and I, and I, you know, obviously I'm thinking about home and I'm not
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worried. Like, you know, my partners with my dogs and my famous turtles, I got world famous
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turtles, you know, the rest of the turtles and, uh, uh, everything's fine. And, but I, but I,
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I feel good. I, I, we, we have a great mayor. We have a great fire chief. And what I love
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about this round, excuse me, one for the last one, I don't see a lot of egos on the
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people on the podiums. I just see, this is the update. This is what you do. This is how
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we're going to help you. And the last fight was just too many, like, oh, I'm this one
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and I'm this, I'm, that shit's over. Our mayors are down to earth. God, our fire chief's
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good. Our, our CEO, you know, so I think they got a handle on this. Now I'm not there at
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this moment. I will be probably tomorrow morning and, and, uh, see how it plays out.
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But I, I, in my heart of hearts, I feel strong that we're in a good position and I trust people
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there that they will do the best that they can. Um, they're on it. Like the last fire,
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you know, eight years ago, you know, I, I don't believe they were on it. And we live
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in a forest. I mean, and that's the reality where I live now. I would say, you know, you
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could throw a baseball and tree. Like it's even now, like in that. So if we're going
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to live in the forest, like you got to find a way to manage it. So it doesn't, it's, and
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here's the problem, like fire happens and then it doesn't happen. And then you get all these
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people like, well, I want my trees. Well, you got to look at it from a thing. And one way
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how houses are made. Like, you know, when I was in Toronto, I was super impressed. They
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are better at building houses in Toronto than we are in Alberta. I mean, I know
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siding and why, like that's the Alberta house. So going forward, we need to build
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trees and fire. Right. And I think that's something to look at in the future. Right.
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Cause you know, even my house now is final side. So I mean, like, you gotta, we gotta
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build fire for, and I get, you want trees in the city too. So you got flat tree, smart,
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nurture the trees, make sure they grow, but you don't want a bunch of pine trees that can, you know,
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like they create a castle. Yeah. I remember last time around with the NDP and power they
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had leading up to the fire season, they cut egg and forestry, which covers the water bomber
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contracts. They meddled in the water bomber contracts. And then the water bombers, the
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guys got to pay the bills. They signed on with other provinces and it left the province in
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a difficult position to elicit, uh, water bombers to deal with the fire season in 2016.
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And it was terrible. I have more confidence in the provincial government now than I did then.
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And Danielle Smith, I mean, people can say whatever they want about her, but I've never in my life
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seen a politician with more balls to get stuff done. I mean, I had the privilege of sitting with
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her prior to her being premier. We went to Boston a couple of years ago. And I mean, that woman is
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incredible. And this is why I'm not as, uh, as I was before, as I know that my mayor is amazing.
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I know our premier, it has our back. She cares about the oil industry, cares about Fort McMurray.
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And I mean, she, she is fighting this chauvinistic tyrant in Ottawa. And then they're just trying to,
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like, I mean, this thing and difficult, like for the climate change, right?
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The climate change is okay. It's like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, wait a second here. In the 90s,
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it's having almost wet. In the 70s, it's having almost wet. Fort McMurray is surrounded by forests
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that burn. I think we need to, if I was to critique, and this is not an immediate critique,
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we need to build a city that can handle this without a lot of worry. And I think we have the
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technology to do it. I mean, you don't see, like, here's, here's a real point. Like if you go,
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like when we did turn the fire a few years ago, you go by the Mormon church, it went through the
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Beacon Hill, right? You know, you can make arguments that, you know, that it was protected by God,
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which, you know, it was, but at the same time, the brick and the tin and all that shot, shot cable,
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went through the Beacon Hill fire too. It still stood. It'll stand again. How we build our homes
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matters, right? And I think that's part of the, like, I mean, like you go through, like,
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we don't build homes in Alberta in general. Very, very fire resistant. We build them with
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cheap plywood and insulation. And I mean, and you know me about, like, I'm not a big fan of
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vinyl plank floors. I mean, why do people cover perfectly good hardwood with vinyl plank? Mind
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you, I can make that argument that wood burns, but it'll burn a little slower. The vinyl plank just
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takes it. So my point is, is we could do better. Well, but we try to build things affordably here
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as opposed to the rest of the country. But listen, you mentioned Charlie Angus's tweet. I want to go
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back to that because there's a point I want to make. And I wonder if you'll agree with me. So
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Charlie Angus, the city of Fort McMurray is under evacuation notice. People are scared. They're
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scared because they went through this very recently. Charlie Angus decides, you know what I'm going to
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do? I'm going to blame the people in Fort McMurray who work in the oil and gas sector. So we've got
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him saying Exxon knew in the 1980s, Imperial Oil knew in the 1980s, Shell knew in the 1980s.
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Their reports predicted the climate catastrophe that is upending life today. Okay, Charlie. They never
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bothered to tell the people in Fort McMurray who are living with the consequences of peak CO2.
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What a vulgar tweet. Because basically, he's attacking the very people whose houses are
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burning down because they have the audacity to fuel the economy of the rest of this country,
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including Charlie Angus's salary. But also simultaneously, it was in the past, the training
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of the oil and gas sector that prevented any deaths from the fire last time around. Everybody knows
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how to evacuate. Everybody knows confined space. Everybody has safety training in Fort McMurray.
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Also, the oil and gas companies, they, you know, building berms, pushing dirt to try to save the
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community. There are no hippie tree planters up there working to save Fort McMurray, and there never is.
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So the way I see it with Charlie Angus is it reminds me, like, these guys are very bitter.
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They're, they're, they're very angry. And, and, and would like to see Charlie's personal
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comfort. But you love that, you know, um, he, and, and Channely, look, I'm very close to his
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variety right now. And pretty much everyone that I talked to says he's a dick, and that they don't
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like him. And that, uh, that he's given up on the working class and he becomes an elitist. I mean,
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it's like, I think, look, here's the deal. We care about the environment. We care about our planet
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and we, we are making it better. And Fort McMurray will get us through this. This is going to be a
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little bump and we're going to boom. We're already on the board. And I think going forward, we need
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to like, one thing is when I spoke at Rebel Live, I really clicked with, it's like, you know, kind of
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when we were, when Donald Trump Jr. was up there, I'm like, I agree with this. I agree with this. I
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don't agree with that. And I didn't discount everything he said because I didn't agree with one
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point. I'm going to really try to go back to that because this country needs dialogue in a good
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way. And people like Charlie Angus are these, these hypocrites, like Jack Musine, you know,
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Jack with his Rolex watch, BMW car, it's like expensive bike. And then all the grocery stores,
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like I find it hilarious. Like I don't like going after, uh, you know, Galen West, even though he's
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a billionaire. I'll tell you why, because at least it's a Canadian company. Well, I don't really see
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them going after Walmart. Walmart has massive grocery stores. So he got some successful
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Canadian companies to continue with Walmart. And then you find out that his little brother
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is on, uh, is, uh, you know, it was a lobbyist. It's for a company for a grocery store. It's
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like the hypocrisy that comes up in the West is insane. You know, it's like, and as I saw
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a CTV reporter rip and jag me to part about like, okay, why didn't you stop Trudeau? Well,
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well, well, we know why, because you want your pension so you can afford your cigars,
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you can go around and act like you're a socialist, but you're really not a socialist.
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You're a stock up, up for middle class, not quite a multimillionaire, but you sure like the taste
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with the crumbs of the billionaires throw down at you. And the rest of this country has to work
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and figure out how we're going to get ahead. I'll tell you this for McMurray. Now I feel good
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about for McMurray. And I think internally for McMurray has kind of made some progress to making it a
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better community. 97% of our taxes come from industry. And I think that's been our whole
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focus. Not anymore. We're having more social programs where the indigenous are opening little
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businesses. It's not so much like they need the money because of industry, because it makes the
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community a better, more inviting place to live. There's a push at a camp. I'm not going to let
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this fire stop it. I'm going to work my ass off and elites stuck up. I've always been politicians that,
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you know, play in shitty bands. They're not going to, you know, not going to be too worked up about it,
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you know, and I just, unfortunately, I need to figure out what I'm doing right now because I have
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a business and, you know, and I don't have a sweet house government tension that to fall back
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on. And I got scared staff. I mean, I'm not scared. And if I was in McMurray right now, I would
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let me tell you something. If I had went back to 2016, I would never have evacuated. I would have just
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stayed. I would have found a different place to stay. And I would have just input. And it's like
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my biggest regret. My biggest regret thing is I'm not there to help people because I think it was
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a mistake for me to evacuate last time. I could have helped. It's far better just giving
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common people down. So I'm going to, you know, that's the thing. But like, I have scared staff
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about people worked up. And, and what I'm going to relate to it, I've only missed a lot of posts.
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People are scared. Even though, and, and this is what I will say about speaking to the people
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of McMurray. Like, you can trust the officials this time. Like, if they say wait and thick
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would wait and thick would. Last time, no. I mean, I was the guy that they told me go
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north. I'm like, fuck this. I went south. And I pinned it. I went south, right? Thank
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God. Could you imagine two scared 150 pound pit bulls on a plane sitting next to some chihuahua
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and some laden's lap would have been disaster. Honestly, they don't like little dogs, right?
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So said, you know, so my point is, is like, I'm glad. But this time, no, I think part
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of the problem with the creatives. Everyone left, period. Even from Beacon Hill or Timberley.
00:24:00.360
And like, I'm like, guys, calm. This is a different situation. So please listen to Chief Jody
00:24:05.360
Butts. Listen to Mayor Bowman. They truly have your back. And they're not narcissistic people
00:24:11.380
trying to get the spotlight. They literally want Fort McMurray to do well. They want you
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to be safe. So I have full faith in that. Full faith in most of them.
00:24:21.200
Now, speaking of wanting Fort McMurray to do well, not only do you want Fort McMurray
00:24:25.280
to do well, but you want the whole country to do well. And you do that through Oil Sand
00:24:29.560
Strong and Oil & Gas World magazine. How do people support the work that you do and that
00:24:33.820
you're currently doing while your community is under fire threat?
00:24:38.000
Let's see. So we got two new holding lines. Oil & Gas World, which we support the natural
00:24:43.180
gas and or the conventional oil. Oil Sand Strong, the legendary brand. And then, so you go to
00:24:49.120
oilstandstrong.com, oilandgasworld.ca. Sign up. Buy at least $127 worth of merch. You know,
00:24:56.080
and that would be amazing. So yes, please. So the more shirts, we are selling quite a bit, but
00:25:01.160
this bus, this bus runs on propane. So I should get some kind of propane brag going. Um, but it's,
00:25:06.860
uh, it's pretty awesome. You know, and if you see the bus, you know, uh, stop, I am going to maybe
00:25:12.640
do a GoFundMe or go give a send go or something. So I've never really done that. Like, yeah, like it's my
00:25:18.200
marketing company pays for this. And I want to really make a difference. I want to be in fight.
00:25:23.360
Uh, I'm not scared to fight. Like, I'm not scared of Charlie Angus or Jane Fodd or other
00:25:28.840
celebrities. In fact, I kind of, you know, like I, I, I believe that that's a necessary thing to
00:25:34.060
defend, you know, our way of life. And I, and I stand by it. Um, so please support, check out the
00:25:40.020
website. If you see this bus, give it a home, you know, and then, uh, and then maybe I'll pull over
00:25:44.920
a sticker, um, and a t-shirt or whatever, uh, sign the bus. It's a pretty fun bus actually. Like I,
00:25:50.640
I didn't realize how cool it was. So I've had a, I have some time in it now where I've been kind
00:25:54.620
of not sure if I'm going to Fort McMurray or not. So I camped out in front of my cousin's house,
00:25:58.840
you know, and then, uh, so it's pretty cool. I shook up the neighborhood. I was doing, so it's good.
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So. Awesome, Robbie. Yeah. I would love to see just social media flooded with pictures.
00:26:11.380
Um, yeah. We'll send strong buses. It makes its way across the country. That would be just amazing.
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Yeah. It's going to be fun. And it's a fun bus. I mean, it does need to be, I think I'm going to
00:26:21.060
upgrade the seats a little bit. I'm going to make a few changes, but, uh, it's fun. And it's fire it
00:26:26.040
up. It fire right up. Like, I mean, it's been sitting for two years. The first try it fires up. I mean,
00:26:32.080
it's 1977. I mean, that's pretty impressive. So all these people going on about these new,
00:26:36.320
I don't think no Tesla would fire up in 40 years. Robbie, I got to let you go. You've got a lot of,
00:26:42.800
I guess, plans to make hours. Uh, thanks so much for sticking up for families, just like mine.
00:26:50.020
And, uh, just let your friends and family in Fort McMurray know that we're, we're rooting for
00:26:56.800
them. We're, we're praying for them. Thank you. Yeah. And so far it's good news. Like nothing has
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been buried yet. So it's just, it's just the outskirts. You know what I mean? So I, I feel
00:27:05.080
good. I feel good. And I, and I, and I, I feel good about the communities.
00:27:15.300
Well, we've come to the portion of the show wherein we invite your viewer feedback. I say
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it every week. I realize it's getting redundant, but without you, there's no rebel news. So
00:27:23.100
of course we want to hear from you because if you don't like us anymore, then we just don't exist
00:27:28.740
because we'll never take a penny from Justin Trudeau. And how could we hold him to account if we ever
00:27:33.660
did? So this is why I give you my email address right now. It's Sheila at rebel news.com put gun
00:27:40.200
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00:27:44.980
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00:27:53.100
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00:27:59.320
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00:28:03.540
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00:28:08.360
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00:28:12.140
comment there. I do go looking for viewer feedback over there from time to time. Now today's viewer
00:28:18.900
feedback does come from the email bag and it is on last week's show. I believe it was last week's show.
00:28:26.660
The last week has just been an absolute blur. Um, on, uh, my interview with Robert Krejcik
00:28:34.740
on his coverage of the ongoing anti-Semitic encampment happening at the University of Ottawa.
00:28:44.620
He's been there at least twice now. And it was very odd the second time around because there were these
00:28:50.660
hobo handlers, I'll call them. And they were going around making sure that nobody talked to Robert
00:28:58.860
because they might actually tell the truth to Robert if they didn't know any better. For example,
00:29:05.540
who's paying for all those matching tents? If you guys are a bunch of starving, over-educated
00:29:10.460
barista career students, or who's paying for these matching signs? When you say that Israel is occupying
00:29:20.400
Gaza, what do you mean by that? Since Israel pulled out of Gaza years and years and years ago. So,
00:29:29.180
you know, we went anyway, the moral of the story is they had these handlers going around making sure
00:29:34.120
that Robert didn't actually get an opportunity to ask a question of the squatters so that the squatters
00:29:42.460
might accidentally say what they really mean and what they really want. So, so today's gun
00:29:50.380
show letter comes to us from Jerry, who writes, Hi Sheila, thanks to you and Robert for your spot-on
00:29:55.760
coverage of Hitler's hobos at the University of Ottawa. Yes, I did begin calling them Hitler's
00:30:00.780
hobos because their view on the state of Israel is indistinguishable from the Nazis. Also, vagrants
00:30:06.780
of the Third Reich applies as well, but Hitler's hobos, it's kind of catchy. Those of us in the states
00:30:12.800
have been dealing with this lunatic fringe as well, but I'm also seeing some pushback.
00:30:18.860
At about midnight on May 6th, when everyone must have been asleep
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or had gone home, because I highly doubt many of these people are actually camping overnight
00:30:28.880
in these encampments, do they seem like the outdoorsy sort? The camping type? Yeah, right. I bet most of
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them are just sitting beside a tent all day and then going home at night. Anyway, let's go on.
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At about midnight on May 6th, when everyone must have been asleep, the protester encampment at
00:30:50.720
Harvard was treated to a loud rendition of our national anthem. I hope the music spreads across
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both our nations. From Jerry. Yeah, that's a great idea. We know in Canada that the left's
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major thinkers think that the Canadian flag has been co-opted by crypto-Nazis and the Freedom Convoy,
00:31:17.400
so now that when they see a Canadian flag, they are triggered and they think there's just some sort of
00:31:23.860
Russian-backed radical waiting to honk their horn at them. I imagine it's the same in the United
00:31:31.220
States. Well, everybody, that's the show for tonight. Thank you so much for tuning in. I'll
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see everybody back here in the same time, in the same place next week. And as always,
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don't let the government tell you that you've had too much to think.