SHEILA GUNN REID ｜ Trudeau's separation a private affair – until public dollars are involved
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Justin Trudeaus has announced his separation from his wife, Sophie Gregoire Trudeau, leaving three of their four adult children in the care of three innocent children who did not ask for these people to be their parents.
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i think i had documents which proved marital discord in the trudeau household in my hands
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for about four weeks then robbie picard from oil sand strong joins me to talk about the phase out
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of the oil and gas sector under justin trudeau's liberals it's august 2nd 2022 i'm sheila gun reed
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well big news that i think most astute political watchers knew was coming at some
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point however i didn't think it would happen while he was still in the prime minister's office
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but here we are justin trudeau has announced his separation from his wife sophie gregoire trudeau
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here's the statement from the prime minister's office and naturally the social media prime
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minister also made the announcement on his instagram which is so perfectly trudeau 2023
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it's weird and off-putting but here's the pmo statement statement from the prime minister's
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office today the prime minister and sophie gregoire trudeau provided an update on their
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relationship sophie and the prime minister have signed a legal separation agreement they have
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worked to ensure that all legal and ethical steps with regards to their decision to separate have been
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taken and will continue to do so moving forward they remain a close family and sophie and the prime
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minister are focused on raising their kids in a safe loving and collaborative environment both
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parents will be a constant presence in their children's lives and canadians can expect to often
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see the family together the family will be together on vacation beginning next week for the well-being
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of the family we ask that you respect their privacy now if you've been paying attention you know the
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trudeaus have been living apart i think for quite a while trudeau's wife and children have largely spent
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much of their recent time over the last few years at the summer house of harrington lake
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while trudeau has been largely holed up in rito cottage the couple's lack of contact with each
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other was glaringly evident when sophie first brought covid home from a trip to england early
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in the pandemic but trudeau didn't catch it from her and you would think a recently returned wife
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to the loving arms of her husband would have given him this apparently highly contagious disease
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and then when trudeau did eventually catch covid sophie was already somewhere else where she
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wouldn't be in contact with her husband to re-contract the disease it was all just sort of weird if you
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were paying attention now let me just stop right here i want to say the dissolution of any marriage
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is an absolute tragedy even the dissolutions of the marriages of my political enemies particularly
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because there are children involved i have to tell you that despite my glaring differences with the
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trudeaus of course i always always cheer for intact families as the building block of a sane society i
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hate seeing this although it confirms a lot of my suspicions but still this is objectively awful and it
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changes the worlds of three innocent children who did not ask for these people to be their parents
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and these children have done nothing wrong and we should remember that when we are talking about
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the trudeaus marriage i realized something however in the news of the prime minister's separation from
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his wife as it broke this morning i think i had evidence of this in my hands for about four weeks
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i just really didn't know what i had at the time and i didn't have now the context of what i had
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let me tell you what i did i asked for the flight manifest for the prime minister's vip travel
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associated with the king's coronation ceremonies in the uk back in may of 2023 if you donate to a
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website rebelinvestigates.com you helped me get access to these records and many other access to
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information records we rely on your support we don't get any money from justin trudeau so thank you
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for making today's monologue possible if you donate there now at the time i just wanted to know how big
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the entourage was that canadian taxpayers were footing the bill for now on the department of
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national defense's manifest which would cover the prime minister's challenger jet i could not see
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sophie trudeau on his flights sophie must have traveled there separately because we know that she
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was in the uk for the coronation i just know she didn't travel with her husband on that challenger
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i thought it was odd and of course a poor use of tax dollars but now hindsight being 2020 it was
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indicative of something tragic unfolding in the trudeau family even more strangely on the manifest we can
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see that the nanny for the trudeau family sarah clark she was on the flight home with justin trudeau
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now she wasn't on the flight over i'm just going to assume that sarah clark flew over to the uk with
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sophie on whatever flight she took one might wonder why trudeau would need a nanny on a flight when his
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kids weren't on the flight with him because they weren't they were not on the return flight manifest i
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can see documentary evidence of that at the time i want to reiterate i just thought this was all
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sort of bizarre maybe the trudeaus had gotten into a fight it happens maybe sophie went early or
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stayed later maybe the couple's schedules just didn't align maybe they didn't care about taxpayer
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dollars i don't know it could have been a combination of many many things and i was just
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left to speculate at the time but in the light of today's news a nanny on justin trudeau's flight with
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no sophie or no kids what are we to think now and i want to tell you a divorce or separation is
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it's really a private matter it's really none of our business except insofar as justin trudeau made
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an announcement today sophie trudeau has really been out of the spotlight for years in fact she's
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had very little public role whatsoever and i'm not sure i mind all that much when she is in public
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she's you know kind of embarrassing remember her weird warbling that one time some people doubt
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that little angels can fly and some people fight without knowing why
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some people live oh no no no no but not quite and i know that good will prevail and i could conquer the
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world with all the love that i feel when you smile back at me when you smile back at me
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when you smile when you smile when you smile when you smile when you smile when you smile
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i love you my child but it is legitimate to ask if like the cheater john torrey the former mayor
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of toronto who had an affair with an underling while his city was locked down but he had sent
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his wife to the free unlockdown state of florida trudeau was flying around his kid's nanny on
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taxpayer dollars when there were no kids with him to nanny at all and i can see in the records
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there were no kids to nanny this is a question in the public domain because now it touches
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on public dollars and i think the public deserves some clarity because while and i reiterate someone
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else's marital strife is their own business and it kind of grosses me out to know about it because it
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feels voyeuristic and creepy i also don't want to have to pay for it stay with us robbie picard from
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imagine you are in a federal industry and with the stroke of a pen the feds have decided to outlaw
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what you do for a living and the money that you generate into the canadian economy well i think
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that's what it feels like to be an oil patch ceo right now and to be someone who works in the oil
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patch and yet when environment minister at the time stephen gilbeau was pushing his net zero green
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transition plan two weeks ago he refused to meet with oil patch ceos to explain himself and what he
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wants to do to the entire energy sector it's crazy i think it's a slap in the face and joining me now
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is somebody who's been a staunch advocate for people who work within the oil and gas sector and
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for canada's oil and gas on the international market uh my friend robbie picard founder of oil
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sand strong he joins me now from fort mcmurray robbie thanks for coming on the show what do you think
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about this uh stephen gilbeau refusing to meet with the oil patch ceos now gilbeau said that he
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would rather meet with people that he doesn't normally get to meet with i guess like environmentalist
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organizations um but but what do you think about this refusal to explain himself to the people whose
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industries he plans to destroy i i think it shows you where his mind at from his past history from his
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past activism like you know he's the guy that uh you know put solar panels on ralph klein's home or
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attempted to uh i i think it's very scary but i'm not surprised it's a sign of the times i mean
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they don't want our industry to be successful they want to shut it down there's a rush to shut it down
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and um it's terrifying and i i truly hope that we have a proper change of government right now because
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that the damage that trudeau is doing to us um i don't think people understand how severe it is i
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mean it candidly you know i'm trying to be very hopeful about fort mcmurray but
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if it's almost like they've put a kind of like a a countdown clock on our entire economy in our entire
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future and it's very scary and um i'm i'm worried i'm worried about our future um i i think that he
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should be ashamed of himself that he wouldn't meet with any of i mean when you're the environmental
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minister you're supposed to meet with everybody and it was so it's about making the environment
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better i do not believe shutting down oil and gas is going to make the world a better place it's
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going to make other countries richer and canada poorer what's it like in fort mcmurray what's the
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sense in fort mcmurray because you know i think it's a surprise to nobody my husband works in oil
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and gas and we're in a bit of a boom right now i think owing some of it to frankly the war in
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ukraine that sort of always drives up the price of commodities like oil and gas but things finally
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after a very long time are picking back up in the oil patch we're seeing mass hirings instead of mass
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layoffs things have been hopeful especially with premier daniel smith's advocacy for canadian oil and gas
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and then all of a sudden we have the feds just throwing this wet blanket over top of the industry
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what's it like in fort mcmurray honestly like right now i'm not i'm not hearing about a lot of job
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hires i mean i know that if you're in heavy equipment or an operator they're pretty short in that
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department but um candidly i mean you're hearing about a lot of layoffs um you know especially at
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suncorp right now so but i mean i i don't i don't know that could just be with the with some
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decisions they've made internally to do some you know shifting that now they've kind of really taken
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over syncrude uh but the the morale in our community sucks like it feels really kind of bad
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and and uh there's a lot of empty buildings there's not a lot of investment i mean we have we might be
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getting a super walmart but i think our community um has been hit with two things there's a lot of fly
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and fly out people live in camps we've got like 30 000 people live in camps um and we are for
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whatever reason the pariah of all things bad in the world so i do believe it's booming a little bit
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but the feeling isn't overly optimistic right now i mean there's there's there's lots of houses on the
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market the prices are dropping i think this interest rate hike has really hurt a lot of people
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um i i think that that like the decisions that trudeau has made and the comments he's made it's
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just really bad but i mean i want to be hopeful sheila but it's not always easy to be hopeful like
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for what fort mcmurray has contributed to the rest of the country alberta and everywhere else it
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we should have a lot more than we do right now and that part is a little bit uh kind of scary
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yeah i mean you have to think about what these net zero policies and they say they want everything
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to be net zero by 2050 that's really only you know 25 26 27 years out when you think about the time it
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takes to build a major oil and gas facility it can take upwards of a decade and that's multi-billion
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dollars of investment and that's just not going to happen here in canada with the sun setting on
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the industry if the liberals have their way that money is not going to come to fort mcmurray is not
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going to come to fort saskatchewan's upgrader alley it's going to go to places like north dakota west
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texas kazakhstan nigeria places where it's safer to invest in the oil industry than in justin trudeau's
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canada well and i think that's what he wanted and and uh i i think i think history like you know
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people judge people by his history you can always make statements on that i don't i don't think
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history is going to look very kindly on his effect on canada um and i think like the damage that you
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know the damage that he's done to our industry i think will be paying for for a very long time
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um you know for example example like if he would have decided to do something for lng and liquefied
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natural gas and became a friend to germany a friend to japan that could have set our next generation up
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for success but instead he said there was no business case for it yeah i think that that that
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is the intention of the bigger plan it's just to you know just get the oil and gas industry to die a
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slow death i i'm not really much of a conspiracy theorist but i do question so much of what's
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going on right now and why it's going on and i i'm very worried um when it comes to fort mcmurray
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like you know we should be the richest city in canada we should be booming we should have all this
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amazing stuff and there's not a lot of new investment here right now and and i don't believe
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it is lack of opportunity i i think it's just the the it are the way the government has basically
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done the narration of our community that communities that rely on oil and gas are just going to be shut
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down and i i i'm i'm worried because it's our morale and our future the house prices are dropping
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interest rates of i mean so many people are upside down on their mortgages um you know there's only so
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much people can take and then they break and that's sort of the feel right now i wish it was
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optimistic i mean i do believe other parts of alberta are booming more than us but it just goes
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to show you how the heart of the canada's energy industry isn't always the most loved yeah isn't that
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the truth now i i want to pivot away from politicians who hate the oil and gas sector to politicians who
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love the oil and gas sector and i think uh daniel smith our new premier is a true advocate for
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canada's oil and gas sector in a way that we haven't seen in a very long time she has basically
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obligated herself to fight with the feds anytime the feds encroach on provincial jurisdiction
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particularly when it comes to energy and energy projects and energy project approvals um tell me
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what do you think about daniel smith and her advocacy for the oil and gas sector i know that you had
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discussed with her sort of as she was campaigning and before she even became premier the first time
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around um uh what she would do for the oil and gas sector what do you think about what she's done so
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far daniel smith i i think she's an amazing leader um i'm very impressed with the way she fights for
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our community i stand by this she's one of my favorite politicians anytime i've met with her people
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i've met with her she listens to them she's concerned and she's kept every promise she's ever made to
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me and she's met with every person i've ever asked her to meet with so i i do believe she truly cares
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um i hope people humanize her i hope that um they the conservatives you know learn from a lot of
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their mistakes in the past um because i truly believe that their values are what alberta needs
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right now and to fight for what alberta needs but um when it comes to the feds i mean i mean honestly i
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mean they they have no respect for us they want us to shut our energy industry down uh even though
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our energy industry carries them in their perfect recession proof lifestyle so it's quite terrifying
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now before i let you go i want to ask you about what this means for indigenous reconciliation because
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that's something the feds just can't seem to shut up about that they just keep talking about
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indigenous reconciliation but the phase out of the oil and gas sector will directly affect the
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indigenous population because i think there is no more an indigenous industry than the oil and gas
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sector so you work very closely with the indigenous community in fort mcmurray you are indigenous yourself
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tell me what what you're hearing in those communities they want the federal government to butt out when it
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comes to getting in the way of oil and gas production in our region not just here british columbia as well
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um and there's a lot of talk about the energy corridor the indigenous energy corridor which we're
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working on right now um there's a lot of people that are disgusted that the way they shut down the
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you know the they didn't support the keystone pipeline and then the there was the um the the gateway
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the gateway pipeline that they shut down no no gateway pipeline so it's just honestly um
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um i mean there's some hope i mean there's we're going to go to conference in a couple weeks i mean
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i do i do feel like there is some hope but um i just think that our federal government if they
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really believe in reconciliation and truly making up for the past um the energy industry is the best
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way to do that the fastest way the most environmentally safe way um and uh they have they haven't been an
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advocate for us in a long time so i'm hopeful but i'm i'm also coming from a place today that where
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i'm i'm concerned that they don't seem to really care and they say one thing but their actions say
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something else so i when it comes to advocating for alberta and my community justin trotto's probably
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been the worst thing that's ever happened for us and now before i let you go robbie you basically
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are up against the deep pockets of foreign funded uh green charities advocating for canada's industry
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uh you do it largely on your own with you know you have a little tiny team around you but it's not
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like tides or make way money or greenpeace money or um forest ethics or whatever they call themselves
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these days you don't have that kind of money uh it's this is grassroots as it comes so tell me how
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people support the work that you do and um how they can find out what you're doing next so please
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go to oil sand strong um dot com and buy a couple hoodies that would really help out especially as i'm
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on my way to go back and finish the bus tour the buses in sudbury right now and we're going to head
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to ottawa next um and also if you can um you know participate in oil and gas world magazine at
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oilandgasworld.ca um i interview a lot of different people and um if you can buy an ad or something that
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definitely helps us out great robbie thanks so much for coming on the show and thank you so much
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for working so hard to advocate for families just like mine okay thank you very much for having me as
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well stay with us your letters to ezra read by me up after the break
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well friends we've come to the letters portion of the show where we read your viewer feedback good
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bad or indifferent uh we take it just the way we find it because we live and die on the support and
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feedback of our viewers at home we don't have a sugar daddy named justin trudeau giving us a bunch of
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money to create content and do the news that nobody cares about so we care what you have to say
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because without you there is no rebel news now we've got some letters from gary and sherry
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shouston says hey ezra if alberta did separate from canada i would sell everything here in ontario and
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move there i won't do it now because i have my family business and property here but when push comes
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to shove i'm out of here now i'm not sure if um alberta will ever truly separate um it's a fantasy
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football sort of ideal for me because i feel that we're sort of culturally incompatible with
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vast swaths of this country and we have been treated fairly poorly since we joined confederation in 1905
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along with our friends and neighbors in saskatchewan and i think there are parts of british columbia that are
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culturally compatible with us here in alberta i think most of the interior seems a little bit more
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alberton and western in their thoughts than for example the lower mainland or vancouver island
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but the reason i don't think at this point separation is a real possibility is our new premier daniel
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smith is giving the separatist movement a lot of the things that it wanted without separation
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a lot of people expressed separatist sentiment because they were frustrated with how they were
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treated by ottawa but also how our so-called conservative politicians were reacting to that
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treatment of ottawa jason kenney our former premier would send a series of strongly worded letters to
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justin trudeau who i don't think normally reads things without pictures and strongly worded letters
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were not enough they have never been enough and all it did was well frankly nothing and it never
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stopped the feds from overreaching into provincial jurisdiction our new premier daniel smith has
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basically legislated and obligated herself to fight with the feds on all matters in which the feds
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overreach into provincial jurisdiction it's called the sovereignty act and it gives the sovereignty
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movement a lot of the things that it wants from our premier without actually having to leave the
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country because i think a lot of sovereigntists are reluctant sovereigntists they see it as
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the last resort and a lot of sovereigntists love canada but they just never felt like canada loved
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them back and maybe this is the way to save that relationship by the way might i encourage you to just
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move out here anyway if you sold your property in ontario your dollars to buy new property here in
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alberta would go a heck of a lot farther uh you've just got some wildly out of uh proportion property
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prices in ontario i don't know how young people ever think about living the dream of homeownership there
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let's keep going on last night's ezra levant monologue about what if deputy premier and finance minister
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christia freeland is worse than justin trudeau wow ezra bold proposition nicole heck writes she's on
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the wef board of trustees major conflict of interest yeah you better believe that uh if christia freeland
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is operating as someone who is on the wef board of trustees is she putting canada first how do and
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how do we even know that's the problem she might be but the conflict of interest means that we
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might never know we're just supposed to take her at her word for it and i don't take any politician
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of their word unacceptable and deplorable rights um freeland oozes condescension and smarminess when
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she speaks she comes across as even more phony than trudeau uh yeah she she does doesn't she she
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talks to canadians as though she were speaking to a group of kindergartners which is insulting to our
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our intelligence um and it is it's just so uh sickly sweet like she has this mother canada feel
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about her like i'm just doing these things for your own good and you people are just too immature
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to realize why i'm seizing your bank accounts for your own good i don't know she she very well could
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be worse than justin trudeau i'm not sure depends on the bar by which you measure it doesn't it
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well everybody that's the show for tonight thank you so much for tuning in uh i think ezra's back
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hosting the show tomorrow thanks for everybody's patience with me including the production team in
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toronto and across the country viewers may or may not know but i did have some technical difficulties
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today that through the magic of television you may never be aware of so thank you for that and
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thank you for the hard-working team behind the scenes and as ezra levant always says keep fighting for