SPECIAL! Sheila Gunn Reid looks at her top 3 expos�és of 2018
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Sheila Gunn-Reed, our Alberta bureau chief, joins us to talk about her favourite YouTube videos of 2018, and her look ahead to 2019. She also talks about her experience covering the United Nation's Global Warming Conference in Katowice, Poland, and why she thinks climate change is going to kill us.
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Tonight, who is the most beloved rebel personality?
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Well, I haven't taken a poll, but I guess it's this gal, Sheila Gunn-Reed,
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our Alberta Bureau Chief, for a special full-length interview.
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It's December 28th, and this is The Ezra LeVant Show.
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Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
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There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.
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You come here once a year with a sign, and you feel morally superior.
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The only thing I have to say to the government for why I publish it
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Well, I am based here in our world headquarters in Toronto,
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but I was born in the West, and in many ways, my heart remains there.
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And I'm glad that we have such a strong representation in Alberta.
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We have a new reporter in Calgary named Kian Bextie,
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But, of course, the bedrock of our Western reportage
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And it's a delight to talk with her today about her favorite three videos
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and, in fact, you have traveled quite far for the rebel.
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In December, you went all the way to Katowice, Poland,
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to cover the United Nations Global Warming Conference.
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It was really great to see Poland be very, very happy to take all those tourism dollars,
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but not to take the advice of the United Nations.
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The whole conference was a message to the United Nations
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that Poland is staying with their coal reserves,
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and they're going to use coal as long as they can.
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You know, I'm so glad you go to those conferences.
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They force you, even if you weren't a skeptic, and you are, of course,
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but even if you weren't, they would have transformed you into one,
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because they just won't let you inside the conferences anymore.
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And they specifically say it's because you have asked questions
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that the Canadian delegation finds impertinent.
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Yeah, there's no way that you could walk away from those climate change conferences
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feeling as though climate change is the most impending danger facing planet Earth right now,
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because the people who attend those conferences sure don't act that way.
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I mean, those conferences are absolutely fueled by fossil fuels,
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So when the UN delegates start behaving like climate change is going to kill us,
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and you've been right in the belly of the beast.
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I've never been to such a conference, but I read about them closely.
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It's like they're their own club with their own secret handshakes and secret languages.
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Even the name of the conference, they call it COP, COP24, and next year will be COP25.
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They've had this every year, so it's a perpetual motion machine.
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They don't want to solve whatever the problem is they claim is the problem,
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And even the fact they say COP this, COP that, and their whole jargony language,
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it's deliberate, it's the opposite of plain language,
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because they want to create this new priesthood, this new fancy class,
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that you don't understand what they're saying, but that's sort of the point,
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so you have to rely on them, and how dare you doubt them,
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and only they are enlightened, and sure, they're jetting around,
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but you see it's important because they're important.
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Like, it is, it is, if you went to a laboratory and said,
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invent for me the most sneering, out-of-touch, globalist, elite caricature,
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Yeah, and they use weird language, like you said.
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Like, they say things like, elevating ambition to fight climate change.
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And there's one thing, I know we pointed it out last year in a video,
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there's a lot of swag, like there are swag bags that are given out
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at these United Nations climate change conferences,
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and everybody this year got a scarf, and they got a water bottle.
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I mean, there's enormous expenses from the United Nations
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to make sure that all the delegates are sort of dressed in their priestly garb,
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their scarf, their vestments, to attend these things.
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And if you really cared about, if that were your concern,
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how climate change is affecting the poor in the developing world,
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you wouldn't be buying fancy people's scarves at the conference.
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Well, you know, there are some absolutely true believers there.
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There are ideologues, I'd call them almost cult-like.
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because there's an important difference between the two.
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I mean, to see all the private jets in the airports,
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You will say, how can these people be the saviors
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if they're actually the biggest carbon consumers and living large,
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we're going to go through your three favorite videos of the year,
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but I just wanted to talk about this for a second.
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like she's the princess of Azkabad or something,
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So many of them are lobbyists and schemers and scammers
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who are just in it for the fun of the parties and the inertia.
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But then you've got all the little parasitical grant appliers,
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is handouts are inked and special deals are cut.
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There's always the cult leader or the cult body,
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at these United Nations climate change conferences.
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I've been in a cult both as a leader and a follower.
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that is exactly what the global warming scheme is.
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because that's one of the amazing things you've done
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that you thought were most interesting in 2018.
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we were just joking a little bit about global warming