SHEILA GUNN REID ｜ UCP leader Danielle Smith defeats the media, the NDP and the flawed pollsters to stay on as Alberta's premier
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In the wake of Alberta s recent election victory, Ezra Levant and his co-host, Sheila Gunn-Reed, take a look at the impact Danielle Smith's victory will have on the opioid crisis in the province, and why it's so important that Alberta lead the fight against it.
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Tonight, success in the ballot box for Alberta Premier Daniel Smith and success in drug treatment
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as she continues to make Alberta the control group for a better way in dealing with the
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opioid crisis. Then, Franco Teresano of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation joins me to discuss
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how the government agency tasked with affordability in housing is giving themselves
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bonuses while houses are more unaffordable than ever for Canadians. It's May 30th, 2023.
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I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed, but you're watching The Ezra Levant Show.
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Well, it's all over but the crying and a couple of recounts here and there, particularly
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in Calgary. But it is true, Albertans have given our freedom-minded, tax-hating, gun-right-supporting
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Premier a strong mandate to leave this province for the next four years. Danielle Smith is
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the political and intellectual foil to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. She might be his worst
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enemy. She's the outsider replacement to the previously disappointing United Conservative
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Party leader, Jason Kenney. And she was just given a strong, stable 49 seats in the Alberta
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legislature of a potential of 87. It really came down to Calgary. Edmonton, as you've heard me
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complain, is an NDP liberal stronghold and has been since the Ralph Klein era. Rural Alberta is
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consistently deep blue, my common sense people. And Calgary is becoming more purple. But I'm not
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sure it's going to stay that way. I think four years of what I anticipate will be a strong economic
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recovery, scientific innovation, a return to the frontier spirit of self-reliance and smaller
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government. Well, all those things can move Calgary back blue. I mean, the NDP and the Liberals can only
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predict a doomsday scenario in healthcare and education that never comes for so long before
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people start to leave the cult. That's how all death cults end, when the apocalypse prediction
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continues to miss the mark. And the NDP predictions of devastation in healthcare and education, they will
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miss the mark because they always do. Now, in the coming days and weeks, we're going to hear why certain
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politicians lost certain ridings, like Justice Minister Tyler Shadrow, who's been so great on
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gun rights recently. But I don't think he could ever recover from his mistreatment of pastors during the
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lockdowns at the behest of Jason Kenney. We're going to hear why some pollsters were just so wrong,
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why the media was also just so wrong. And we're going to hear from the left, particularly the Toronto
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left, why Albertans were just so wrong to re-elect their premier. Now, it's our job here at Rebel News
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to hold the government to account. And even though we have a conservative government re-elected,
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our job's not over. In fact, it's just beginning. If Danielle Smith does what her predecessor did
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and misleads Albertans or reneges on her commitments or refuses to stand up for us against Ottawa and Trudeau
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and all those external forces seeking to keep us down, destroy us, damage our way of life and
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disrespect our culture of liberty, she'll hear from us at Rebel News first, just like her predecessor did.
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But insofar as the newly elected conservative government has the opportunity to teach Calgary
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a better way for the next four years and alleviate the concerns of skeptical Calgarians,
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I think the conservative government in Alberta has the opportunity to teach the rest of the country
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a better way too, to alleviate some skepticism there. And it's on one very important, life-changing,
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life-saving issue where Alberta is truly leading the way. And if you've watched me host for Ezra in the
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past, I've talked about this very issue before because it's the one thing that is just so devastating
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across the board to rural Alberta, to our inner cities, and even to our suburbs. It's the opioid crisis.
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I want to show you this from the incredible folks at Black Locks Reporter just this morning.
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The Commons yesterday, by a vote of 209 to 113, upheld Cabinet's, quote, safe supply drug policy.
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The vote followed federal decriminalization of simple possession of cocaine, opioids,
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and methamphetamine in British Columbia. This is not about encouraging drug use or turning a blind
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eye to the consequences, addiction minister Carolyn Bennett said in Commons debate on the motion.
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Really? Because it feels like you're encouraging it, and I'm not sure why we have an addictions
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minister anyway, if we're not dealing with addictions, but rather enabling it. Anyways, I'll shut up.
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Let's go on. It is about acknowledging the reality that people will continue to use drugs and that by
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providing a safer alternative, we can minimize the harm and pave the way toward recovery. But I'll get
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into that because that actually hasn't happened anywhere that they provide a safer alternative.
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Opposition leader Pierre Polyev sponsored the motion asking that Cabinet immediately reverse its deadly
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policies and redirect all funds from taxpayer-funded hard drug programs to addiction treatment and
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recovery programs. Spending since 2017 totaled over $800 million, Pierre Polyev told the Commons.
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In contrast, Alberta, from the very beginning of Jason Kenney's tenure, and much to his credit,
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chose a different way forward than many jurisdictions, not just here in Canada, but also around the world.
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We've even changed how we talk about the opioid crisis and treatment here in Alberta.
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We don't really use terms like safe supply because it's not true. There's no safe supply of injectable
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or smokable poison for which to slowly kill yourself. We don't use words like harm reduction to describe
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government-funded drug dens with state-issued fatal toxins handed to you by some government employee.
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In fact, we don't really use the word harm reduction at all anymore. I like the word that Alberta's public
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safety minister uses instead. He calls it palliative care. You know, I've never heard the government
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enabling of the slow agonizing suicide of the victim of drug use as palliative care.
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But I think it's accurate. It really is. There's no way out of drug addiction except for getting
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clean or dying. That's it. And the government and those around you can help you do one or the other.
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In Alberta, we've chosen life, not just for the addict by opening up thousands of drug treatment beds,
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but we've also chosen life and hope and freedom from addiction for the families of the addicts who
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suffer alongside the addicted in a thousand different and small ways. You know, there's one
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thing that came out of the leaders debate that truly revealed the dishonesty of the NDP who literally
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right now, even still won't shut up about Daniel Smith allegedly making Albertans pay for health care
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in all the NDP's dishonest and thankfully failed attack ads. Remember this ad?
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So my friends, if I am your premier, we will stop these attacks on our public health care and
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instead we will get to work on fixing it. We won't privatize it, we'll strengthen it. We won't fight
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with doctors, we'll recruit doctors. We won't cut, we won't cut diabetes pumps, we'll fund them.
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We won't blame Albertans with cancer or heart conditions. We'll make sure they get treatment
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and care. We won't make seniors pay more for medical exams. We'll cover more of their medications
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and yes, their vaccinations because we believe in science and evidence, not conspiracies. And my
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friends, we will not, we will not make women pay for reproductive health care. We'll cover the cost
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of contraception for free. I'm a very careful political watcher because it's my job, but it's
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also something I'm really interested in. And I'm also someone who pays very close attention to the
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addiction crisis. And let me tell you, I had no idea that the NDP had been charging the most
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vulnerable Albertans and those trying to get clean $40 a day for a treatment bed. It came out in the
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debate. Look at this. You know, one thing I'm so proud about with our UCP record is it's the,
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what's being known as the Alberta model for a recovery oriented system of care, because we know
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policing is only one side of the story. The other is getting people the help that they need. And my
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chief of staff is one of the foremost experts on the recovery oriented system of care. We got rid of
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the $40 per day user fee that Ms. Notley charged. We've added 10,000 treatment beds. We're building
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recovery communities, some in conjunction with First Nations partners. And we are going to make
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sure that every single person who wants addiction treatment has access to a treatment bed. Those two
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things have to go together. It's true. The NDP was charging people with nothing. The most desperate
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amongst us and their families, $40 a day for life saving treatment while flat out lying about the
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intentions of the UCP for our healthcare system. But not only is what the UCP doing with drug treatment,
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the moral thing to do by recognizing the dignity and potential of the individual and alleviating
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the suffering of the addict and their families. It's the effective thing to do if you actually
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care about what the left says they do. Overdose deaths. The left says we have to give addicts a
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quote, safe supply of drugs. Otherwise, they're going to get dirty drugs and then die. So we'd rather
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keep them alive and suffering on our drugs than have them die on their own. That's the theory
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anyway. Though we do have now 30 years, so about one and a half generations of suffering on the
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downtown east side, the Vancouver testing ground for these bad ideas, where society's forgotten people
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are used as guinea pigs for these societal experiments, which proves that safe supply has
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zero impact on overdose deaths and it might even have a negative outcome. Alberta's got early data
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proving that our approach is saving lives. Look at this. It's by Michael Schellenberger in the National
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Post comparing one approach from one province to another completely different approach in another
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province. All indications are that Alberta is getting it right. From 2021 to 2022, overdose deaths in
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the province dropped by 17%. In the same period, British Columbia saw a 1.4% reduction. In January
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2023, the latest month for which data is available in Alberta, overdose deaths dropped to 111 from 172
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in the same period last year. In April this year, BC counted 206 overdose deaths, a 17% increase
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over April 2022. Should Alberta continue on its recovery-focused path, we should expect to see
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overdose deaths drop drastically, while many more people with addiction find their path to a better
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life and recovery. Friends, it's my hope that other jurisdictions in North America plagued by this
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apocalyptic pandemic of death, crime, and human misery caused by opioids follow the Alberta example.
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It works, and the numbers don't lie, and lives depend on it. And one of those things that makes Alberta
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great and different is how we treat our people. We treat them like human beings, and I hope that never
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changes. Stay with us. Franco Teresano from the Canadian Taxpayers Federation joins us up after the break
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for a bit of a victory lap. They got an entire government program cancelled. Up next.
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While government bureaucrats and health bureaucrats were sending you home to languish in unemployment,
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they were giving themselves huge bonuses. And this didn't just happen in one bureaucracy. It really
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happened across the whole of government, and that's been evidenced in order paper responses across the
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board. Now, it also happened in several government agencies, not just in ministries. For example,
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new release from the Canadian Taxpayers Federation today notes that the CMHC sunshine list and bonuses
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ballooned during the housing affordability crisis. So, while you're struggling to get by to pay your
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mortgage, the bureaucrats who are in part responsible for some of this are seeing their bank accounts get
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bigger and bigger. Now, joining me about this new press release from the Taxpayers Federation is Franco
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Teresano. Franco, this is your work. Tell us about it.
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Yeah, well, look, the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, another crown corporation that is
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rewarding itself for failure with bonuses and pay raises. Get this, folks. The CMHC, according to
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its own website, has one objective, housing affordability for all. Well, guess what? Over the
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last three years, either you couldn't afford a home, or if you do have a home, now you're worried about
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your mortgage payments going through the roof. Now, if that's the objective for the CMHC, in what world
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does it make sense for them to be handing themselves $93 million in bonuses and pay raises when Canadians
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can't afford a home or during a pandemic when the taxpayers were losing their jobs, taking pay cuts,
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when many small businesses were using the credit card to take out a line of credit just to keep their
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lights on? You know, and you looked at this a couple of different ways. So you looked at it
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from the viewpoint of the Sunshine List. So employees making over $100,000 a year. They have 931 of those
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staffers in 2022. You also looked at the bonuses being paid out. And I've looked at this data in
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other agencies and ministries. And I can't see how, what the metric is for paying out these bonuses.
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I don't know if they're performance reviews. I don't know if it's just you showed up at work while
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everybody worked remotely. I can't figure out how they're paying these bonuses. Tell us a little bit
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about these bonuses. And have you been able to get to the bottom of what the metric is by which they
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measure a bonus for a government bureaucrat? No, I think if you show up to work with the shoes tied,
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you're getting a bonus if you're working in the federal government. But seriously, folks, Sheila,
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I'm so glad you brought this up that it's across departments. It's all these different crown
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corporations that are rewarding themselves for failure. Let me give you a couple examples.
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Okay, the federal department bureaucrats, they can't even meet half of their own performance
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targets, not even meeting half of their own performance targets. They've been getting bonuses.
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Now, in the real world, you don't meet half of your own performance targets. Your boss shows you the
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door. Your boss doesn't hand you a big fat bonus check. Let's look at the Bank of Canada, right?
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They're the group that's in charge of keeping inflation in a low and around 2%. Well, if you've
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been living anywhere outside of Iraq in Canada the last couple of years, if you've gone to the grocery
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store, you've gone to the gas station, you know that the Bank of Canada failed to do its one and only
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job, yet it handed $45 million in bonuses and raises to its central bankers. Let's look at the
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CBC for a second, right? Everyone's favorite state broadcaster. Well, during the pandemic years,
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it handed out $80 million in bonuses and raises to its employees. But here might be the craziest
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example of all, Sheila. Destination Canada, a crown corporation that is tasked with marketing
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Canada's tourism industry. During the years of 2020 and 2021, our borders were shut down. People
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couldn't come to Canada for tourism. Many restaurants shut down. Many others in the
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hospitality industry shut down. What does Destination Canada do? It also handed out bonuses
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and raises during those pandemic years. It's shocking because, you know, you cite some data in
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your press release here that one third of Canadians indicate that they think the government isn't doing
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enough to deal with the affordability crisis. And that many Canadians who don't own a home,
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I think it's two thirds of Canadians who don't own a home, just now have given up. They feel like that
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goal is completely unattainable. And yet the government bureaucrats whose job it is tasked to make
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housing more affordable for Canadians, they're taking home $12,000 annual bonuses.
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It's outrageous. Crazy. If their one job, according to their own website, is housing affordability for
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all, in what world should they be tapping themselves, patting themselves on the back
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with these huge bonuses that average nearly $12,000? And again, the sunshine list, the number
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of bureaucrats at the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation taking home more than $100,000 in annual
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salary, you have 931 of these bureaucrats. I mean, if the government was really worried about making
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life more affordable, they would build more homes. And you could do a lot more to make houses more
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affordable by having 931 carpenters, rather than 931 overpaid bureaucrats, right? The last thing that we
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need in Canada is more overpaid government bureaucrats. What we actually need in Canada are more homes being
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built. Now, this wasn't on the list of things that you and I were to talk about, but I want to talk
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about this because I think this is the Canadian Taxpayers Federation win. You guys did this. I think
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you should take a victory lap for this one. Because talk about useless bureaucrats. I don't know what the
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Mission Cultural Fund did before, but I know what it does now. And I don't like it. And I don't want
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to pay for it. And thanks to the exposure of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, they really don't exist
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anymore. Tell us about, well, give us the PG version of what they were doing with our money
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and what's happened to them since, if you wouldn't mind. Because this is a reason to donate to the
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Canadian Taxpayers Federation, this right here. Well, thank you. And yes, we were really the ones
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that were digging up all of this waste. Our supporters kept the pressure on the government,
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so very proud of the work that our supporters did. But look, there was one of the most wasteful areas
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of this government, which is saying a lot, is this little-known slush fund within Global Affairs
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Canada, known as the Mission Cultural Fund. Now, they dubbed this fund as a way to promote Canada's
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foreign policy abroad. But when I tell you what they were spending money on, I think you're going
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to be shaking your heads, folks. Okay, so one thing that they did, they spent $12,500 for seniors
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to give their audiences a recount of their sexual histories. Oh, wait, I forgot the best part. No,
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no, no. These were seniors in other countries talking about their sex lives. Folks, the government
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was outsourcing old people sex stories in places like Taiwan, Australia, and Austria, where you actually
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had tax dollars going to fund these performances where geriatrics in other countries would tell the
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audiences their best time, first time, last time, worst time. Absolutely crazy stuff. One other
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crazy example, a separate example from this fund, $8,800 for a sex toy show in Germany. Now, Sheila,
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maybe I'm just a little old-fashioned, but if the Germans want to have a sex toy show,
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You know, that's something I never want to see as a German sex toy show, let alone participate in
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the payment of it. And there's other ridiculous things in here. For example, the government was
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using the slush fund to act as press secretaries and PR agents for their friends. For example,
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$51,000 on red carpet photography exhibition for Canadian rock star Brian Adams. The guy's a
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millionaire. Hire your own PR agency. Don't make me. Likewise with Margaret Atwood to promote a new
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book in Australia, nearly $10,000 for a liberal feminist to help promote her book. You know, I'm
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just surprised that somebody else is reading a different book than The Handmaid's Tale, but she's
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got her own PR agency. Why did the liberals think that this was something that Canadians needed to
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pay for? Oh, I have no idea. And you know what? Nothing in government is done on its own, right?
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You always have these band of bureaucrats around a table who are all getting bonuses, I'm sure,
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trying to decide what to spend the money on. Wouldn't you just love to be a little fly on that wall,
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in the wall of the committee of bureaucrats saying, yep, let's pay for this sex toy show called
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Whose Jim is this? Yeah, approved rubber stamp. You know, I would love to actually just have maybe
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a coffee with one of these government employees. If you're listening to the show, please just reach
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out to me. I would love to have a coffee and pick your brain to understand why you think that the
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Canadian taxpayers who are struggling right now should be paying thousands of dollars for things
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of this nature, whether it's the seniors talking about their sex lives in front of a live audience,
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whether it's that art show, if we can call it that in Germany, or if it's whether it's just,
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you know, handing tens of thousands of dollars for this photo exhibit, red carpet photo exhibit for
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a rock star, or to Margaret Atwood to promote her famous book. Like, in what world does this pass
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the test of sanity to be using Canadian taxpayers' money? Now, the Mission Cultural Fund is now defunct,
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thank goodness. But I don't think that watching for this to pop up rebranded in another way in another
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department, maybe under Canadian heritage, I think that there's a real potential here. So that's why
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I admire the work that the Canadian taxpayers' federation does. And I encourage people to
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support it because you're looking out for these things when the rest of us don't really have the
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time. So, Franco, how do people support the work that the CTF does? Because you're like us,
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you won't take government money. And how could you if you're trying to hold them to account?
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We never have taken a penny from the government, never have, never will. Please head over to
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taxpayer.com. Check out our newsroom for more information on some of these crazy stories and
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how government politicians and bureaucrats are spending your money. Or check out some of the
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petitions. I think we've got some great campaigns that your folks will admire and want to get behind.
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Got some great t-shirts, too. I got one from Chris Simms, which I love very dearly. It says,
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this is why we can't have nice things. And it has a picture of Parliament Hill on it.
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Oh, she's the best. She's the best. I'm sure she's watching.
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I'm sure she is. Franco, thanks so much for coming on the show. We'll talk to you very,
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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 portion of the show where we read your viewer feedback. Unlike
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the mainstream media, we actually care about what you think about the work that we do here
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at Rebel News. That's why we leave the comment section open if you've been to a CBC article
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these days. Or even a tweet by a CBC journalist who, I'm reliably informed, is supposed to have
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given up on Twitter because Elon Musk is mean. They normally close the comments or don't allow
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comments. And, you know, it just speaks to how much they know you disagree with the work that
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they're doing. And, you know, I actually welcome the free and liberal exchange of ideas. If you
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disagree with me fundamentally on a point, I'm happy to hash it out with you. And so that's why
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sometimes, like I did a couple weeks ago, I read hate mail to my regular Wednesday night show,
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The Gun Show. Now, I think you guys are pretty nice to Ezra. So maybe this isn't going to be
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hate mail. But on Ezra's interview with Aaron Gunn about his new documentary, Canada is Dying,
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Iron Woman Canada writes, I used to work in a suboxone clinic. Oh my goodness. I'm just going to stop
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right here. My producers didn't know that my monologue was on the Alberta recovery-based approach
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to opioids. So this is fascinating that they sent me a letter about the drug crisis. Anyway, I'll
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restart. Iron Woman Canada writes, I used to work in a suboxone clinic and 95% of the clients came
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there addicted because their doctor prescribed them opioids for their injury or after their
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surgery. One client, for example, was an accountant who tore her rotator cuff swimming and that's what
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she was prescribed. She became hooked and when her doctor cut her off from her prescription, she began
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getting them on the street. When that became too expensive, she went to the cheaper heroin. Doctors are the
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biggest drug dealers. You know, there's a lot of truth to that. Doctors were encouraged to
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prescribe opioids and downplay their addictive nature. I think both the doctors but also the
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drug manufacturers did that and it has caused an absolute crisis. And as you say, once doctors
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stopped prescribing, they didn't take the addiction away and then they turned to cheaper, dirtier
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alternatives and then society decays around the addict. And there's never really been full
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accountability for that. On Ezra's endorsement, our first ever as a company in eight years of Daniel
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Smith. And he didn't tell me that he was endorsing Daniel Smith. I don't tell Ezra what to do, but
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as editor-in-chief, he didn't tell me that he was endorsing Daniel Smith. But we're a free speech
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network and this is something that Ezra did. Baskethound2 writes, I have since she took over.
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You are right, Ezra. Canada needs more like her and all of Pierre's conservatives in Ottawa. Hard
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for me to even type that name Ottawa. I've lost respect for any of them. Thank you for standing
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up for Canadians when we needed you, beloved truckers. Yeah, I'm a firm believer in a strong
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Alberta is a strong Canada. A robust, economically sound Alberta is the best thing for the rest of
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this country. I just don't think our Prime Minister feels that way. I do know that our Premier here in
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Alberta feels that way. And more than anything, maybe Canada doesn't want our help. That's okay.
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But just get out of our way. Because Albertans need jobs and we need economic prosperity. And
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even if the rest of the country doesn't realize that they benefit from it, why can't they just
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leave us alone to do what we do best? And that's create energy and fuel the economy. Well, everybody,
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that's the show for tonight. Thank you so much for tuning in. Thank you to everybody who works
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behind the scenes in HQ in Toronto to put the show together and everybody who works
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for Rebel News across the country. There are hands in multiple time zones working to bring you the
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news every single day. And as Ezra Levant always says, keep fighting for freedom.