SHEILA GUNN REID ｜ Trudeau's 'climate czar' is the losingest loser in cabinet
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Justin Trudeau's environment minister becomes one of the losingest losers in all of Ottawa, and you just love to see it. My guest today is Robbie Picard from Oil Sands Strong, and we also talk about the Buffy St. Marie scandal, wherein CBC uncovered that the music icon has been masquerading as Indigenous for at least half a century.
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Justin Trudeau's environment minister becomes one of the losingest losers in all of Ottawa
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and you just love to see it. I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed and you're watching The Gunn Show.
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Justin Trudeau's radical environment minister Stephen Gilbeau has been handed a series of court
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losses these days starting first with the $20,000 judgment against him for blocking Rebel News
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online. He hasn't paid that judgment yet but building on that loss he lost in court
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in a challenge of the No More Pipelines Bill C-69. The province of Alberta was an intervener in
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that court action against Stephen Gilbeau and the federal government and the law was just very
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recently ruled unconstitutional. However Stephen Gilbeau remains undeterred completely ignoring
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the ruling of the court saying he's going to proceed on with the regulations in that law in some new
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iteration because he thinks he's apparently above the law and then building on those past two losses
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the federal single-use plastics ban was just overturned in court and again Stephen Gilbeau not
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one to be deterred by common sense says that he is going to charge forward with a law that rules that
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safe, safe, sterile plastic is somehow toxic classified as deadly as mercury under Canadian law. Yeah
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he's an absolute well loser based on his track record. So today my guest and I are going to talk
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about that. My guest today is Robbie Picard from Oil Sands Strong and we're also going to talk
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about the Buffy St. Marie scandal wherein CBC committed an actual act of journalism and uncovered
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the fact that the music icon has been masquerading as Indigenous for at least half a century. It is
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fascinating and since Robbie is Indigenous and he and I have very recently become obsessed with the story
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of the pretendian bluffy St. Marie I thought you know what let's talk about that too. So take a listen to
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this conversation Robbie and I had earlier today.
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So joining me now is my good friend Robbie Picard. I have a few things I want to talk to Robbie about but
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first thing I want to talk to him about is the courts overturning Stephen Gilbeau and Justin Trudeau's
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ban on single-use plastics. I think this is a big win for the industry and really embarrassing
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for Justin Trudeau because this was for some reason one of his flagship policies.
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I think that Justin Trudeau should take a walk in the snow and reconsider you know what his legacy truly
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will be. A ban on plastics is the most insane thing I have ever seen in my entire life and the so-called woke
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citizens that somehow thinking think banning plastic is going to make the world a better place
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because some poor turtle had a straw up its nose. It's insane. Plastic is every part of our lives is essential.
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It was essential during COVID. It's essential every single day and to ban it completely
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in a country that needs it more than ever is insane and I'm very glad that Justin Trudeau is you know
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eating crow right now but it also goes to show you how he has zero value for anybody in Canada but his
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I don't know his ideological views of the world which he just got proven that with plastic is not toxic
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it's essential. You can't say that plastic's toxic when it keeps you alive in a hospital like
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plastic's essential. Can we recycle better? Can we have less pollution? Can we you know instead of
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shipping our recycling to the Philippines to be recycled there? Can we handle it better? Sure
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but no Justin Trudeau I'm super happy this happened to him to be honest. It's really embarrassing and now
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Stephen Gilbeau not one to be corrected by the courts easily has said that despite this that he will
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continue on with his plastic span that he's going to take the ruling from the court and see what he can
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do to continue on with his obviously now it's been ruled illegal plastics ban he did the same thing
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with his no more pipelines law being overturned the federal court overturned it and instead of saying
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oops my bad let's just move on from this he continues to say you know what we're still going to bring this
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we've just got to figure out a better way to do it. I think when it comes to Stephen Gilbeau
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I don't think I've ever seen anybody less reasonable in politics instead of coming up with a plan
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that you know I'm all for less pollution I mean but you know here's the truth and people don't want to
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talk about the truth. If you go to the Dominican Republic and you go to Haiti there are two
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different countries one country has tons and tons of garbage and all kinds of stuff going down the
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river system and the other country does not. One has money one does not. If we want to make the world
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a better place for plastics in the ocean maybe help Haiti and other countries have better waste
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management. There's not tons and tons of plastic flowing here in Fort McMurray our rivers are pretty
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clean. Every year in spring all the people go together and they pick up all the garbage and we
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try really hard to make our city a better cleaner place. I am against the plastic ban I'm also against
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let's talk about cities that have the plastic bag ban. How many times do you go for groceries and you
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forget a bag and you have to buy a buck for all the time and then those bags end up back in the
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eventually for garbage as well. I would I wouldn't even be opposed if there was some sort of charge
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to plastic and I went back into the landfill to improve plastic management and recycling actual
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recycling a certain amount of garbage can be buried it can be turned into golf courses and ski hills
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let's just be smarter how we manage our waste but a ban this makes no sense. Yeah we can be smarter
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about it like they are in Burnaby where they constantly protest the Trans Mountain pipeline you
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know what they have there to deal with their plastics an incinerator which uses the heat produced by burning
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garbage for electricity there are ways that we can deal with our garbage I mean it is a stored inert
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petrochemical and you get to use it for its intended purpose and then you get to burn it so you get to
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use it for a benefit twice seems like a good idea to me but I think the crux of your argument is that
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worrying about pollution is a first world problem and the richer the society the better you are at
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dealing with actual pollution so maybe if we want to deal with pollution we shouldn't bring in policies
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like the carbon tax that make people poorer. A hundred percent yeah I'm so happy to see the carbon
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tax now it for a while there in our advocacy realm it was almost taboo to talk about the carbon tax
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even for us yeah you can't talk about the carbon tax you're not supposed to talk about the carbon tax
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except the carbon tax I I'm just so sick and tired of being called a polluter because I'm trying to
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keep my house warm when it's cold I I find it hilarious like I had a conversation with someone
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the other day and they were talking how we could heat giant buildings burning wood pellets and I find
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that funny because they like they're acting like this is a new idea it's not a new idea burning wood
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like I worked on a farm when I was growing up and we had a wood furnace and we have an oil furnace and
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we prefer the wood because it heated the house better and we cut our old all our own wood down for the
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winter which a home could do a small home you can't do that for a sports complex and this is what has
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been pitched like there's so many things that are coming out of Ottawa these days with these so-called
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intellectuals theories but not tested theories like this could work if this has worked and they
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get the engineering node and they do the specs but practical it doesn't work natural gas like I was
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watching Daniel Smith talk about like it's hilarious like I'm gonna I'm gonna give up my natural gas for
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a reverse air conditioner wow I mean this is cutting-edge technology that like a heat pump is just a
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reverse air conditioner that's all it is it's like when in the middle of winter or sorry the middle
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of summer the hot air comes out and the cold air comes in you reverse it and then you got a heater
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that's not going to work when it's minus 25 it's not going to work at all and that is their big all
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this millions and millions of dollars that is what they're coming up with a reverse air conditioner
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but here in Alberta and Saskatchewan we've had natural gas in our homes for years we're already
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green cutting natural gas is the easiest most efficient cleanest way to heat our homes and we
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already have it sure better windows no problem at all improving some of these houses no problem but
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you know even as I have an older home my home my home was built with two by six construction and it's
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it's very energy efficient it was built in 1982 after my other house burnt down I bought a different
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house and I'm in the process of renovating it's taking forever but my point is is that my house
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is actually has really good installation so I've updated a couple windows I've made a few changes
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to my furnace and I have an energy efficient home some of these new homes that they're building so
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called energy efficient homes are so airtight that they cause mass mold and pollution like in internal
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pollution so my whole point of my rant is is that I don't trust Justin Trudeau to tell me how to live
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my life and never mind heat my home I'm not a polluter because I'm trying to keep my home warm
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with natural gas so this carbon tax is taxing the poorest of the poor and telling them hey we're going
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to give you 136 bucks in six months or four months or whatever and it does absolutely nothing to help
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but and the other part which blows my mind is that they don't understand like by the time the cow
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gets it's so many steps driving the cow to the pasture let the cow eat in the pasture and then
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if you keep the cow for winter you got to there's paneling of the hay and the grain and then the cow
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has to go to the slaughterhouse and then get butchered and then get processed and then come to the dinner
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plate every one of those steps now is being taxed more than it's already taxed before so like I don't
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think they understand the amount of pain it's causing and that is why grocery store prices are going
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roof handling and transportation has gone up yeah we saw that um I think it was tiff macklem
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uh from the bank of canada say that this is adding uh an enormous amount uh to everyday inflation and
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kudos to the uh government of saskatchewan in their efforts to frankly in an act of civil disobedience
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scott mo is technically breaking the law by withholding uh the carbon tax on sask energy
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um sask energy this is one of the benefits which there are very very few to having a crown corporation
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deal with your energy is that sask energy being wholly owned and operated by the province of saskatchewan
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collects the carbon tax and the province of saskatchewan is not turning it over to the feds
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in an effort to fight for fat for tax fairness because parts of this country are getting a carbon
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tax carve out because they are electorally fragile for the liberals for example atlantic canada is
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starting to lose faith in the liberals so that liberal stronghold is getting a carbon tax carve out
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saskatchewan isn't alberta isn't and uh scott mo just introduced uh a new law it's called uh the
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carbon tax fairness for families act which will be the um the tool by which they are withholding
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submitting sask energy's carbon tax to the federal government uh it's uh i'm happy to see saskatchewan
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using this tool we should be using everything we can to fight for just equal treatment with other
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canadians a hundred percent i admire the western premiers particularly scott mo i admire all of them
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frankly that they're saying like this is ridiculous uh to tax people to just live but i think the deeper
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reason that trudeau's fighting for the karma tax it's nothing to do with making the world better
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it's because he needs that money because without that tax money that i mean it's it's insane amount
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of money they've collected uh how can he go on with this insane debt written budget that he has done to
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our country like i don't i've never in my life encountered a a more narcissistic time in our
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politics i mean you have this bizarre group of people at the head of our government that they
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don't they don't seem to have any common sense it's all based on theories of this and theories of that
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and feelings and not practicality and i'm glad that atlantic canada is waking up i'm glad that ontario
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is waking up and i really hope that when pierre poly of his prime minister that he keeps his words
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not like the gsd when the liberals said they would get rid of it when krecha was in there and this
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carbon tax is completely gone people have a right to exist and taxing air not oxygen the co2 like
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it's i'm breathing in air and i'm letting out co2 it's air right like i'm breathing in oxygen i'm like
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it's air and it's become okay to do that it i i'm just blown away by that i mean more people need
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to say no you cannot tax us for and then for living and if there is better technologies coming out
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uh then get those technology technologies out first don't why are you why are we penalizing
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everybody for existing i think i found something really funny the other day i was in calgary
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and they're talking about this carbon capture oh carbon capture carbon capture and then
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finally someone said you know that we're already doing all this carbon capture with the boreal
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forest and we're actually going to start crediting canada for the boreal forest which means that we
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are not even carbon neutral we're carbon negative but yet we got onto this argument that somehow we
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have to capture all our carbon or capture all our carbon and the argument that i was making 10 years
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ago like i'm really starting to believe there's no such thing as new ideas like i was at the grocery
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store at sobeys and they gave me a paper bag and she's like oh my god this is so innovative
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paper bags i was coloring on paper bags when i was three years old and they got rid of paper bags
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for plastic bags because they were cutting out too many trees for paper bags right like it's insane
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like i don't know we're in an interesting thing but no carbon tax we need to stop the stupid
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carbon tax thank you scott moe yeah i mean and if it were intended to stop pollution then why did
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they exempt the most dirty if you care about those sorts of things i don't but the liberals tell me
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they do they exempted home heating oil which is like adjacent to bunker fuel which is some of the
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dirtiest fuel there is they exempted that while penalizing people who use clean burning natural gas
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it's definitely not about making the world a cleaner better place um robbie i want to talk to you
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about something that you and i have very recently become a little bit obsessed about and the reason
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i want to have you on is because you are indigenous and i just want to make sure that i am uh sampling
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outside my own bias as they say um let's talk about buffy saint marie
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because um you and i are consumed by the fact that apparently buffy saint marie is just your average
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italian lady named uh beverly santa maria and she is not nor has she ever been indigenous she was
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definitely not 60s scooped in her 20s and um she has traded on an indigenous identity that she
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absolutely doesn't have for the better part of 60 years to the point where she threatened her own
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family with accusations of pedophilia to shut them up if they ever did tell the truth because her family
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the real heroes in this story are such good people she knew she couldn't buy them off with money she
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had to do something much much worse robbie um tell me about your opinions on this canadian icon
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cbc darling living a lifetime of lies you know i went down this rabbit hole uh yeah we did
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um i have to admit i've always liked buffy saint marie but truthfully after doing all this research
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in the last few days i realized i really didn't know much about buffy saint marie i didn't really
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listen to her music i knew maybe one or two songs and i don't candidly she's successful but she's also
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not successful she's had a fair bit of a good career but it's not like she's taylor swift or madonna
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it's not like she had massive sold out concerts or anything like that okay so monetizing as far as
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record sales and that type of thing i don't think she's even as big as jan arden frankly so oh i think
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she might be particularly in the united states but you also have to realize she is part and parcel
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a creation of the cbc and as it turns out probably not even canadian born in the states to american parents
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definitely not from the pie pot first nation in saskatchewan uh i think a lot of her success
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financial and otherwise uh comes by way of trading on an identity she just didn't have and because of
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that she took opportunities and financial rewards from real indigenous women who just couldn't live up
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to this you know idealized version of the indigenous woman that buffy saint marie represents
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well see and that's the part that that i think that is is the is the worst part and the most ethically
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sad part of what she's done here so it's not like she's a massive pop star sure she had some success and
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she made some money but i would make the argument that the majority of her money came off of her fake
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indigenous status yes and and being in that space so i i and i'll have to admit like there's a lot of
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talent like i watched i watched her on sesame street recently and i was just like some of the stuff like
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when she's the scene about how the wind blows it's so captivating but the truth of the matter is and
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this is the part that is really hard to swallow there's there's so many indigenous people that
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had a tough time by the deal with racism had to deal with issues internally that could have used
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the award or the shot or the attention she took and all the attention she got was slowly based on
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her indigenous today so what i was getting at earlier about i don't believe she's a massive
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success on her own without that thing and i think like even the award that she recently got in the
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the alberta arts museum and you know it's all it's all based on government type things that artists would
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get i bet you she's gotten millions of dollars of government grants or the money from from indigenous
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sources like it goes really deep and i think it is two things that i'm kind of perplexed by i'm perplexed by
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the amount of people that are they're so wrapped in her lie and they don't want to believe what that
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what she has done and how she's actually taken space from people who needed it but also i mean
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this is where it's going to be very interesting for the future this is probably the best thing that
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ever happened to her being discovered because i believe she's a narcissist if you look closely
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and you look at her face she's always got kind of like this duper's delight that little smirk
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whenever she tells the lie um i went back and watched and watched and watched and i'm like
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and i look closer and closer and you could see her makeup and you could and then when people
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questioned her she would ramble this and ramble that and there was not a real truth to it and i i
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think that that's the sad part but even if you look back at the the adult adoption um i would even make
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an argument that uh she probably helped the pie pot first nation simply because a star of her level
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gives them attention which gives them some purpose as well but i don't give a shit about them i don't
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care about that i just think that two things are like she just got another emmy like i i don't know
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how that happens like for a documentary on her life a documentary on her life yeah i i don't get it and
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and when you the hardest part too is there's there's a lot like her family like she she had a perfect
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family she had a perfect upbringing um you know uh i i i'm surprised that people are okay with the way
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she just rid off her family like that for this identity so i think she's the next level narcissist
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i i don't think you'll hear a lot from her again i think she'll kind of just fade away now um i don't
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i and it'll be interesting how it plays out but in history she this is probably good for her because
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now she's cemented as one of the biggest like i mean forget her music she should get an academy award
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she's better than meryl streep i mean to play that role for 60 years
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well done buffy but it's a shame for the people she took the spotlight from and i think that that
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is the the saddest part i'm surprised that trudeau hasn't commented on this and and that she's not
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kicked out of the order of canada yet i mean it's and she's not even canadian i mean what does
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say about canadians yeah that's the thing i what bothers me about the buffy saint marie story
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is just that buffy took whatever she wanted all along the way and she never cared she took a
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canadian citizenship she took awards and accolades that uh were only meant for canadians or indigenous
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canadians uh she had herself adopted into the pie pot first nation and i think in part because
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they thought we're having this woman returned to us who was taken from us by the government and i think
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in retrospect if they had known she was just like a random white liar from just outside of boston
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would they have taken her and adopted her as one of their own i don't think so but now the the lie
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has been told so many times how how do they now give her the boot i mean there are stories about her
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taking other women's husbands um it's just there's she took everything that she ever wanted and she
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didn't care that she was taking it from someone else and i think that's the most atrocious part
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in all of this for me it's just i just don't know how you can do that and then even now continue to
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lie she knew the cbc hit piece was coming out i don't want to call it a hit piece it was actually
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a really good piece of journalism they went and dug up her birth certificate she said didn't exist and
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they went and contacted the saskatchewan government to fact check her on her lies when she said
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oh uh i was born in the craven hospital um and the saskatchewan government said yeah there there
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wasn't actually even a craven hospital that year that you say you were born in a craven hospital
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she said uh my birth records were destroyed and they said actually no we don't have any fires or
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floods destroying birth records in those years like um so cbc did actually a really good piece of
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journalism on her and even though she knew it was coming out and even though after all these years
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her birth family which is her real family would be speaking out she still continues to lie she just
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won't be honest and i that's a special level as you say of narcissism yeah i i think and you can
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there's there's stuff too like her we found her in a rabbit hole digging we found uh we did her we we
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found her son and and there's proof that he was talking about this way before the documentary came
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out i mean he was he knew about it um so yeah but i guess if you're buffy what do you do now
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do you admit it do you say hey sorry or do you just kind of go down in history is this i don't know
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it's a it's a next level of nar and but i think she's a cruel person um very cruel and um probably
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dangerous and uh and i don't know like that but you got to give her credit i mean she i mean she
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one of the posts i was watching she was talking about the soprano as well tony soprano ain't got
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nothing on her she's she's she's a soprano i mean she like literally and figuratively like she
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she showed a level of something that's sad but it also in some ways it makes me sad for canada it
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makes me sad for indigenous people to yeah that hunger to have a hero especially back then you
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know what i mean and buffy was a hero and she provided like someone can make it they can do
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something and and you know to have to have another pretend person i think that's sad yeah i agree with
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you and really at the end of the day this could really just all be cleared up with 23 and me um
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we know that buffy has lots of biological family out there um including her niece who is finally
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speaking up for her father um so but her son released his dna test and it showed um i found
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something about that too her son did it already and he was like he's a he's indigenous because of the
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father but uh yeah yeah but on his mom's he's related to his grandparents that's how he knew
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so if he already did yeah it got posted a while ago so this i think this is why it's been kind of
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brewing for a little while so well robbie i'm i'm glad we could talk about that because you are such a
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strong advocate for indigenous people and and and as you say back when buffy became prominent there
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really wasn't anybody else and she just attached herself and stole opportunities from indigenous
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people and i i don't know i think it's sad because she became an idealized version of an indigenous
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woman that real indigenous woman struggled to live up to and and uh i can't imagine what that did to
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their psyche no and i think it's depressed like actually i met a friend of mine lauren so we were
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having coffee and he knows her and yeah he was he was devastated by it it hit him hard because it
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was like because they believed in buffy so um but i guess some good point comes out i think there is a
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hunger for indigenous culture and hopefully where she you know gets her old ass out of the space uh
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put some people in there maybe there's a chance for other people to shine a little bit you know and
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uh i think you know that i mean she's something buffy i mean i like that you gotta say like that
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is a next level so and i don't i'm curious what is she doing in hawaii but i mean she's 81 i mean
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yeah she won she rode the lie to the very end she probably has 10 years left on this earth and she's
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just going to finish it up in obscurity and wealth in hawaii yeah i mean you think about it there'll
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probably be a full movie done on her there'll be a full movie because she had such a journey and
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so i mean like if anything this is probably good for buffy because it kind of took her it take i would
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say she was a b celebrity even at her height that's what i'm talking about record sales right
00:30:41.900
like i mean it's not she didn't it's not like she i've never seen her in concert i've seen you
00:30:48.080
know jan arden concert it's like i mean i i would say i i put jan arden kind of here at kind of a
00:30:54.000
good local she'll sell out centennial hall she'll you know 2 000 people come see her right constantly
00:30:59.660
but you know taylor swift and she'll change the local economy so i would say buffy buffy was jan
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arden level right and talented but she's you know she but how buffy made her money was the cbc
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specials that type of stuff she's not no rita mcneil rita mcneil would be bigger than buffy
00:31:19.300
i mean rita mcneil would pack a house but not taylor swift level but she was so she's like a
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canadian and bluntly here's the part where canadian should be pissed right buffy would what would
00:31:30.840
buffy be without canada long term yeah she had she won an oscar for her song she did some stuff i'm
00:31:37.580
not i'm not taking anything from her american thing but i don't i don't see i didn't i don't remember
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her selling out concerts so it was sort of the arts world the government funded stuff so that's
00:31:49.500
my take on it can con canadian content she rode that right to the top she really did um robbie
00:31:58.600
i could talk to you all day about buffy saint marie and all of the things that we uncovered in our own
00:32:03.680
after hours facebook messenger investigation chats that we had um but tell us just here
00:32:11.380
yes we found our sister hippie we did we did yes yes yeah sorry we did no it's good i was just
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going to invite you to tell people how they can support the work that you do in oil and gas advocacy
00:32:25.400
because um unlike buffy saint marie you are not government funded go to oil and gas world magazine
00:32:33.360
dot ca sign up go to oilsanstrong.com and sign up um and uh yeah buy merch uh we're uh we're on our
00:32:43.180
third issue of the magazine it's going very well i'm working on the fourth issue and things are
00:32:48.000
plugging along oh i'm glad to hear it um and uh yeah the merch uh i hear that you just got a restock
00:32:56.200
of merch yeah that's awesome great christmas gifts people right order them now to get them
00:33:02.540
in time for christmas robbie thanks so much for coming on the show um i'll i mean i'll talk to
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you very soon but on camera i'd like to have you back on again very very soon thanks so much for
00:33:15.520
being on the show thank you well friends we've come to the portion of the show where i invite
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your viewer feedback unlike the mainstream media and i say this every week i actually care about
00:33:32.260
what you think about the work that we're doing here at rebel news because without you there's no
00:33:36.880
rebel news because we're not funded by justin trudeau so we rely on your support to keep the lights on
00:33:43.020
and to keep us going it's the reason i give you my email address it's sheila at rebelnews.com if you've
00:33:50.360
got something to say about the work that i do put gun show letters in the subject line so i know what's
00:33:55.820
about the show instead of some other thing i said on one of the other on-camera appearances that i do
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every single day every single week and uh who knows you might just get your letter read on air but
00:34:11.220
also if you are watching us on one of the other platforms on youtube or rumble if you're sitting
00:34:18.180
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00:34:23.680
but leave a comment in the comment section because sometimes i'll go looking over there
00:34:30.420
do you see what you guys are saying about us so today's letter actually comes from the email inbox
00:34:38.020
and it is on last week's show with my friend chris sims from the canadian taxpayers federation
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gosh i'm so glad she's in albertan and i'm so glad we're friends we have a remarkable amount of
00:34:54.860
things in common um and she's always such a wonderful guest on the show and i sometimes i wish
00:35:00.000
i could hit record before and after um we do the show because we have such a robust conversation
00:35:06.500
before and after about you know things that are not they're in the conservative woman realm
00:35:11.860
but they're not you know exactly in the taxpayers federation realm so we try to keep the topic the
00:35:19.920
show topics to you know the things relating to the organization she's on the show to represent and
00:35:26.720
not you know our theories about bigfoot and uh 1960s era um china by china i also mean like
00:35:40.280
like porcelain not not the country um anyway uh this letter comes from jerry sheila thanks for
00:35:48.900
your discussion with chris sims on modern journalism yeah for those of you who don't know chris sims
00:35:54.220
in her before life was a journalist uh actually with sun news when ezra levant was there and so
00:36:02.060
she comes at this through a journalist lens but also through a taxpayer advocacy lens about why
00:36:09.980
we should not be funding journalism and the crisis it's causing in trust with journalists jerry says
00:36:16.740
over my 20 plus years in the newspaper business my goal was always i don't make the morals i just tell
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stories while our american government doesn't officially bribe the media it offers a lot of
00:36:31.700
perks to those outlets that spout the right talking points that is true sometimes they get contracts for
00:36:37.180
advertising uh jerry's obviously an american looking upon canada with horror um i hope that you in the
00:36:43.980
united states don't go down the same road that we have with funding your media because um
00:36:49.540
apparently the funding becomes never ending as we've learned in the most recent fiscal update
00:36:55.500
justin trudeau has not just extended the mail media bailout past 2027 but increase the media bailout
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um and by the way 2027 that's after the next election so you know exactly what that bailout is
00:37:09.300
designed to do for his electoral prospects anyways let's keep going
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in the process they keep the folks ignorant both of our countries need a change citizen jerry
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jerry jerry jerry jerry from your lips to god's ears well everybody that's the show for tonight thank
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you so much for tuning in i'll see everybody back here in the same time and in the same place next
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week and as always don't let the government tell you that you've had too much to think