Will the Liberals and the NDP's attempts to censor the internet and free speech shut up pro-oil and gas advocates like Robbie Picard from Oil and Gas World Magazine? What do you think about the new proposed legislation that would ban all oil and gas advertising in Canada?
00:00:00.000Will the liberal and the NDP's attempts to censor the internet and free speech shut up
00:00:05.720Robbie Picard from Oil Sand Strong? What do you guys think?
00:00:09.800I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed and you're watching The Gunn Show.
00:00:30.000Oil has always relied on the Big Tobacco playbook of delay and disinformation.
00:00:36.320And so to tackle this immense threat to human health, we need to use many of the strategies that finally took down Big Tobacco.
00:00:44.140In 1997, the Canadian Parliament banned advertising from Big Tobacco because of the clear threat to human health.
00:00:51.200This is why I'm so proud to stand here today with representatives of Canada's medical community
00:00:57.400to state that the time has come to ban all oil and gas advertising.
00:01:03.700The Big Tobacco moment has finally arrived for Big Oil.
00:01:08.760Bill C-372 will, quote, provide a legislative response to a national public health and environmental problem of substantial and pressing concerns.
00:01:18.040The bill will make it illegal for Big Oil and the gas lobby or their front groups or paid influencers
00:01:24.940to falsely promote the burning of fossil fuels as a benefit to the public.
00:01:30.640The legislation will make it illegal to falsely claim that the use of one fossil fuel product
00:01:36.880is somehow better than another fossil fuel product in improving the environment.
00:01:41.940To claim that there are clean fossil fuels is like saying there are safe cigarettes.
00:06:38.700I mean, Sapporo Bourbon is the most scary woman ever born.
00:06:43.180I mean, her mere presence terrifies me.
00:06:45.620But I've never once pushed for her not to have the right to push what she believes in.
00:06:51.480And that is one thing I think that he just threatened.
00:06:55.100More and more, we're finding out about that electric cars are not environmentally friendly.
00:07:02.200The disaster that they are causing from multiple unintended consequences.
00:07:08.420And I love it when Stephen Gabot has this little flip where he, well, you know, it's a new technology, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
00:07:15.340So, like, they are going to put the world, I have a prediction, and in 15 years, 20 years time, we will end up in a weird position where we seem like those wacky environmentalists worrying about water, worried about all these things that they are going to be really affecting with lithium-ion batteries and mining, unregulated mining.
00:07:38.400Like, I'm very worried about our future because I'm really hoping that both countries, the United States and Canada, bring common sense back to government and stop this insanity of ruining our power grid, ruining what's already working beautifully for unproven technology that somehow is going to make the world better when it's really not.
00:08:04.340So, to kind of sum it up, yeah, he needs to have his head examined, and if he thinks I'm going to shut up, no, I'm going to fight harder than I've ever thought to stop this because this could become the norm.
00:08:16.680If we treat ourselves like frogs in boiling water where they just turn the temperature up a little bit on us and we don't jump out, like, this is serious.
00:08:25.520And, no, I think it's a threat that we need to take more seriously than just, oh, it's just a wacky NDP MP.
00:08:32.760Yeah, you know, it is an NDP motion, and so Lord knows if it'll be adopted, but we have never seen a more radical liberal party.
00:08:42.800And, quite frankly, the liberals are beholden at this point to the NDP.
00:08:46.580They're giving the NDP whatever they want because the liberals are so far down in the polls that if they break with the NDP, they go to election, and it's going to be an absolute blowout for the liberals.
00:09:10.840As you say, it's a wacky NDP policy, but there are a lot of wacky NDP policies being adopted by the liberals right now in an attempt to hold on to power.
00:09:19.320So, why do you think Charlie Angus wants to do this?
00:09:21.360I speculate that he would like to do this because, as you say, we're learning more and more about so-called green tech, about just how bad it really is.
00:10:28.840So, I think, literally, he wants to try and punish and shut us up and take away our rights.
00:10:34.840And, like, yeah, like, I mean, he should be, he should be resigned from being an MP.
00:10:40.160I think every MP has a serious responsibility to protect our rights, our rights of freedom of expression, our rights to disagree, and our rights to promote what we want to promote.
00:10:52.280And so, yeah, like, I realize that, you know, I mean, honestly, Elizabeth May is a little bit less wacky than him.
00:10:58.320And, I mean, she's the biggest whack job in history, you know, so, I mean, he's, yeah, he's a complete and utter whack job and he should resign.
00:11:07.020I mean, that should not, he should not have been able to put that forward.
00:11:10.460I mean, that's an attack on our rights.
00:11:13.460And so, I mean, like, you know, I don't really want to go to jail, you know what I mean?
00:11:18.260But that being said, I would, I mean, there was one thing I would do is I would fight, I would fight for the brand.
00:11:24.560I would fight for what I fought for for the past 10 years because I believe in it.
00:11:27.320And I think we have made a difference educating this country and trying to bring common sense back to the country.
00:11:33.280I mean, I don't know how many plane rides he's taken.
00:11:37.080Where is he, where, I mean, I should do more research, but where is he situated?
00:11:49.500So, well, I'll be back in Ontario pretty soon with my, oh, my God.
00:11:53.280I am going to take the Oil and Gas World Oil Sand Strong bus to his office.
00:11:59.580And everybody in his riding, if you want to buy a T-shirt, no problem.
00:12:04.680I will sell T-shirts and give out free stickers in front of his office.
00:12:09.040That is what I will do, and I will do that in the spring when it's warm and I don't have to use too much fossil fuels to keep the bus warm.
00:12:16.560But as soon as it warms up, I'm there.
00:12:18.580The bus is presently in Ontario in a secret location, so I will definitely be taking the bus to him.
00:12:25.400That's the first bus ride I'm going to do.
00:12:30.980I just want to go back to a point that you made.
00:12:33.520You made it offhand, but I think it was a really great point.
00:12:35.820I think in 10 years, you and I are going to seem like the crazy environmentalists worried about the water and the air and dangerous chemicals.
00:12:42.900Because I don't think that you and I are all that far off with some of the more useful idiots of the environmentalist movement.
00:12:52.260And I don't want to say that I'm a useful idiot, but they have a genuine concern for the air and the water and the earth.
00:13:00.240I really believe that they are genuinely sincere, like the low-level activists marching in the street.
00:13:28.800I care about how green energy doesn't seem to work and is dangerous for the people who have to build it and create or at least find the components for it in the developing world.
00:13:40.680And I feel like the other people, they also deeply care about the earth.
00:13:44.480They don't have all the facts at hand.
00:13:46.560And I think in 10 years from now, you and I are going to be the, I don't want to say environmentalists, but conservationists worried about the state of the earth.
00:13:56.960And that's the thing that I think that there's been a misconception about the oil sands industry and the oil and gas industry.
00:14:03.560We obviously want to get a resource out that provides jobs, that provides a better life, and we all want to have our businesses be successful.
00:14:10.040But when you're in McMurray, we generally care about our environment.
00:14:26.060I did ice fishing in Lacklebish recently.
00:14:28.180Like, there is a lot of amazing things, and we care about the environment.
00:14:32.400And when you strip mine to get, you know, all these rare earth minerals and all that, it's from this mass panic to make all these electric cars that are going to draw more power, which are going to put more pressure on the grid, which is going to, in turn, cause more carbon.
00:14:50.060And you're doing it crazy without a real plan, for what reason, we don't know, when maybe, like, if you get all the countries in the world to simply just give a little piece of their farmland to wetlands and have, you can reduce the carbon footprint by simply repurposing some land that's already there.
00:15:10.140And we don't need to destroy the entire planet in this mass panic for why I don't know why we're panicking.
00:15:15.960So, yeah, I could see a flip happening fairly soon here, and it'll be interesting.
00:15:32.600And it's like, when you have, like, China's making all these coal power plants to back up their so-called green power ones that only work part of the time, that means they're turning on the coal again.
00:15:44.900So, like, it's just, it's just insane.
00:15:47.340But Charlie Angus, yes, I'm going to bring the bus to his office, and I'm going to park out there.
00:15:52.380I mean, yeah, that will be the mission.
00:15:58.340Yeah, I mean, Fort McMurray is such a great example of reclamation and how those plans have to be in place before a shovel even breaks for a mine.
00:16:08.260And then you contrast that with cobalt mining in Africa or how they treat coal electricity generation in China versus how we treat coal electricity generation here.
00:16:22.280I mean, we're an example which leads the world, which is a testament to how much we care about the environment.
00:18:29.720Robbie, you've touched on free expression.
00:18:33.000That's one thing I want to talk to you about.
00:18:34.480The Liberals are imposing the new online harm spell, and they'll do it with the help of the NDP.
00:18:40.500And they made it a poison pill piece of legislation because they are saying it's to prevent sexual exploitation of children online.
00:18:48.600But there are already existing laws that do a pretty good job, all things considered, of doing that.
00:18:54.740So, they basically made it so that if you oppose the censorship of Canadians online and the punishing fines that will go to social media companies if they don't censor Canadians online, if they do harmful content.
00:19:12.480And, you know, they're introducing things into the Human Rights Act, which people who say harmful things online, like you and I, I suppose, we could be dragged before the Human Rights Tribunal and face $20,000 in penalties.
00:19:29.000You are online, you say things that might harm liberal sensitivities and hurt the feelings of environmentalists.
00:19:40.320I think this legislation is targeted, while they say it's at preventing exploitation of children online, that is absolutely not true.
00:19:48.320That's just a thing in there that for the Liberals to say, look, if you don't support censorship, you don't care about kids.
00:19:55.320I think this is targeted at people like you and people like me.
00:19:58.640Is it going to stop you from doing the work that you do?
00:20:03.060No, but it ties back into Charlie Angus.
00:20:05.600OK, so I think this is where we have to actually be intelligent about it and not even treat it as a joke.
00:20:09.960So he's proposing something that will attack us.
00:20:12.740They're proposing something simultaneously that will also attack us.
00:20:16.480And look at what he just did successfully.
00:22:13.760And we have to stop him because what he – like, I mean, tell me one thing that he has done for this country that has made it a little bit better.
00:24:55.480So it's time to stand up to him and protect our rights and get our country back.
00:25:00.720I mean, look, Canada could be the most powerful, richest country in the world if we had better leadership.
00:25:07.700And if we had leadership that had a plan to grow our economy, to build it, you know what I mean, to get our resources to market, to, you know, put money into our military.
00:25:17.660We – it's kind of sad what we've become, you know, and yeah, I think we need to seriously –
00:25:29.220Yeah, it feels like society is falling into decay all around me.
00:25:33.580And, you know, you look at the state of our cities with the opioid crisis that the liberals seem to think the answer for is just more opioids.
00:25:43.840Catch and release bail, which is driving up crime.
00:25:46.740You know, unfettered immigration, which is, you know, pricing people out of the housing market, including immigrants who are already here.
00:25:52.840And then we have the inflationary crisis exacerbated by the carbon tax.
00:26:11.600It feels like we were – we just were standing here and then all of a sudden we turned into some North Korean adjacent hellscape.
00:26:23.200We're not quite there yet, but it's happening.
00:26:26.660And if we don't fight crime and we don't, you know, deal with our issues and get to the issues that matter, you know what I mean, build our country, get people jobs, protect the citizens, you know.
00:26:42.720And, I mean, even the notion, like, if you look in Ontario right now, they're talking about all this, like, they want people to live in low-income housing their whole lives and then go into seniors' low-income housing, which means they don't own a home, which means they have no net worth.
00:27:11.800So, I mean, we need to seriously—I don't know what we need to do, but what we need to do—here's what I'm going to do.
00:27:19.840I'm going to double down on my advocacy.
00:27:21.700I'm going to tell Charlie Angus to shove my magazine right up his ass, and I'm going to go take my bus there and honk my horn, sell more T-shirts.
00:27:30.040I'm going to get out there and defend the oil and gas industry like I've never defended it before, and I'm not going to be intimidated by Justin Schroeder or any of them because I can't.
00:27:39.720What a great way to leave the interview, Robbie.
00:27:44.180Thanks so much, as I always say, for sticking up for families just like mine and thousands of other families just like mine all across this country.
00:27:51.800We're happy to have you in our corner standing up for our rights to have a job and pursue the Canadian dream.
00:27:59.140So, I appreciate you so much, and we'll have you back on again very soon.
00:29:13.380And it's what sets us apart from the mainstream media.
00:29:18.820Now, if you want to send me an email, it's sheila at rebelnews.com.
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00:29:27.700If you are watching the free version of the show over on YouTube or Rumble, you might get a slightly different version of the show than our paywalled subscribers, depending on what we're talking about.
00:29:37.220Because there are things that we cannot publish on YouTube because, wow, it's still a censorship platform.
00:30:10.460And it's on my show with William Diaz Bertayom on a similar topic to this week's.
00:30:17.140And I wanted to talk to, like, a younger person about Charlie Angus' crazy comments about whether or not that would, you know, intimidate them into being silenced or what they thought about that.
00:30:28.020And today I wanted to talk to one of the, as they say, OGs of oil sands activism, my friend Robbie Picard.
00:30:35.940And some of you may recognize William from his incredible work for us here at Rebel News.
00:30:41.560When he lived in Ottawa, he struck fear in the hearts of liberal politicians, making it unsafe for them to wander the streets of the nation's capital without a skeptical journalist asking them some tough questions.
00:31:04.600Then he moved to Alberta, fell in love with Alberta, and decided that he's going to fight for Alberta jobs through his new career in oil and gas advocacy.
00:31:14.520And a lot of you had a lot to say on Rumble about William and Charlie Angus and this desire to shut up anybody who might be telling the truth, contrary to the liberal NDP government agenda.
00:31:29.900And today's comment comes to us from Woofious, who says, speaking of criminalizing oil and gas, I take it that the NDP and their supporters have removed their gas-fired furnaces and switched to wind and solar to stay warm in midwinter.
00:31:44.500Yeah, as Robbie pointed out, Charlie Angus has a heck of a commute to work and back, greater than most of us.
00:31:53.320I mean, my commute is just down the stairs to my little studio in the basement.
00:31:58.100But he would call me a climate criminal because I am a farmer and my family works in oil and gas.
00:32:03.500So I'm the climate criminal with my itty-bitty commute, but he is the warrior for the environment with his flights back and forth to the office.
00:32:16.660Yeah, these people are just a bunch of hypocrites.
00:32:18.960As we saw with my friend David Menzies, when he ran into the environment minister out on the street and followed him back to his vehicle in the interest of journalism and discovered that it was not a fully electric vehicle the way he would like the rest of us to drive.
00:32:33.980So, you know, obviously, these people are hypocrites and the hypocrisy, it starts at the top, as they say, a fish rots from the head down.
00:32:43.280There is no more climate hypocrite than Justin Trudeau and his use of the Challenger jets like the family minivan.
00:32:55.340Well, everybody, that's the show for tonight.