Rebel News Podcast - September 29, 2018


Trudeau’s feminist Utopia is no place for female victims of violent crime (GUEST HOST： Sheila Gunn Reid)


Episode Stats

Length

44 minutes

Words per Minute

167.7694

Word Count

7,514

Sentence Count

257

Misogynist Sentences

15

Hate Speech Sentences

8


Summary

This week, the world found out that the murderer of little 8-year-old Tori Stafford, Terry Lynn McClintick, isn t even in prison anymore. Not really. She s in an Aboriginal healing lodge in Saskatchewan, a place that doesn t even have fences. And Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale defends that decision.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 I guess it's tough to be a female victim of violent crime in Trudeau's feminist utopia for
00:00:05.700 female victims. Four liberal blunders in a little over a week. Will the mainstream media
00:00:11.160 finally start to notice a pattern? It's September 29th, 2018. I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed,
00:00:17.200 and you're watching The Ezra Levant Show.
00:00:24.880 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
00:00:28.460 There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.
00:00:32.520 You come here once a year with a sign, and you feel morally superior.
00:00:35.860 The only thing I have to say to the government about why I publish it is because it's my bloody right to do so.
00:00:46.320 This week, the world found out that the murderer of little 8-year-old Tori Stafford,
00:00:51.700 Terry Lynn McClintick, isn't even in prison anymore. Not really.
00:00:55.340 She's in an Aboriginal healing lodge in Saskatchewan, a place that doesn't even have fences.
00:01:01.740 And Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale, well, he defends that decision.
00:01:06.040 I'm going to show you a clip from CTV News.
00:01:09.400 Please pay attention to how Goodale describes the crime here,
00:01:13.280 which was procuring a little tiny child for sexual assault.
00:01:17.220 The kidnapping of an innocent little girl, and then the murder and disposal of her tiny battered body like it was trash.
00:01:25.300 Just listen to how Goodale describes it here.
00:01:29.080 And are you going to make society safer by developing the circumstances in which that life can be changed for the better,
00:01:38.500 or released cold turkey at the end of the sentence when there's no chance of the preparation?
00:01:42.980 It's not going to be released until 2031, Mr. Goodale.
00:01:45.200 That's a long way away.
00:01:46.380 Why are you getting into this so early?
00:01:47.800 Well, the prison management officials have determined this is the best way to both rectify her bad practices in the past,
00:01:56.960 but also to keep the public safe.
00:02:00.160 Bad practices, hey?
00:02:01.860 What bad practices is Goodale talking about?
00:02:04.340 The kidnapping, rape and murder of a tiny little girl?
00:02:07.840 Or is he talking about the very recent assault that McClintock pled guilty to,
00:02:13.000 that she committed while she was behind bars for Tory's murder?
00:02:18.360 Those bad practices?
00:02:19.880 Now, in all of this, something else was revealed.
00:02:22.440 Yet another layer of injustice for Stafford's family.
00:02:25.500 I don't know if McClintock is aboriginal or not, and apparently, it doesn't even matter.
00:02:30.480 Because to get access to these aboriginal healing lodges,
00:02:33.120 instead of the hard prison time these violent offenders deserve,
00:02:37.680 all they have to do is identify as First Nations.
00:02:41.220 There's no proof required of their First Nations status.
00:02:44.840 McClintock has absolutely figured out how to game the system here,
00:02:49.160 and somehow Trudeau found a way to blame the Conservatives
00:02:53.200 for what happened to McClintock on the Liberals' watch here.
00:02:58.480 Terry Lynn McClintock helped lure Tory.
00:03:02.220 Hit Tory three times in the head with a claw hammer.
00:03:06.060 She was on the lookout while Tory was raped,
00:03:09.240 and then helped place Tory's body in a garbage bag.
00:03:12.460 The Prime Minister knows full well that he has the power and authority
00:03:16.140 to change this case in an instant.
00:03:19.040 Why will he not use his power and authority right now
00:03:21.600 to do the right thing for Tory's family and the right thing for society?
00:03:25.920 Here, an honourable Prime Minister.
00:03:27.500 I hope Canadians pay attention to that question and this answer.
00:03:36.240 In 2014, the individual was transferred to a medium-security facility
00:03:42.980 under the previous government.
00:03:45.280 This individual is still in a medium-security facility today.
00:03:50.460 That question needs to be noticed by Canadians,
00:03:56.200 and that behaviour needs to be noticed by Canadians.
00:04:00.280 Well, now, Trudeau's comments there, they're pretty gross,
00:04:03.580 and they feel a lot like sympathy for the devil.
00:04:06.200 They really shouldn't surprise us.
00:04:07.900 He's so apathetic to these young female victims and their families.
00:04:12.420 You see, after one of Trudeau's Syrian refugees, a man named Ibrahim Ali,
00:04:17.100 was charged with the horrific murder of a 13-year-old Burnaby girl named Marissa Shen,
00:04:22.960 Trudeau was asked about it by McLean's Paul Wells in a sit-down interview.
00:04:27.500 We've got a little bit of time left.
00:04:28.880 I wanted to let McLean's readers have at you because we got a lot of interest,
00:04:34.760 both in all the issues that I've discussed and in a few that we haven't asked about before.
00:04:38.920 And so I'm going to pass along a few questions that came from McLean's readers.
00:04:45.500 One is asking what you have to say about the arrest in British Columbia of Ibrahim Ali,
00:04:50.340 who is a Syrian refugee, following the murder of a teenage girl named Marissa Shen.
00:04:55.200 Obviously, it's devastating news for her family, for her friends.
00:05:00.920 It's a terrible tragedy.
00:05:02.200 Anytime someone is murdered, it's a terrible thing.
00:05:06.580 I trust our justice system.
00:05:08.280 I trust our system to go through its processes,
00:05:13.320 to both apply consequences to this
00:05:16.660 and to make sure that we're thinking about how we continue to keep people safe.
00:05:21.500 So no apology to Marissa's family for allowing her alleged killer to come into the country.
00:05:28.140 Trudeau is defiant.
00:05:29.640 Nothing in policy will change despite Marissa's young life being lost.
00:05:34.300 So that's the responses to the deaths of two little girls being completely flubbed by the liberals this week.
00:05:41.480 They couldn't seem more cold and heartless and disrespectful to the families of these girls if they were trying.
00:05:47.240 Now, this all brings me to the troubling case of Christopher Garnier.
00:05:51.060 He brutally murdered an off-duty police officer named Catherine Campbell in 2015 in Halifax,
00:05:58.420 before he disposed of her broken body in a garbage can under a bridge.
00:06:03.180 Garnier claims he gave himself PTSD when he killed Campbell.
00:06:07.140 And now, because Garnier's father is a veteran, Garnier is receiving treatment,
00:06:12.180 courtesy of Veterans Affairs, for the PTSD he gave himself.
00:06:16.060 Yes, Garnier is receiving treatment for PTSD,
00:06:19.320 while actual veterans who got PTSD in the line of duty are doing without.
00:06:24.180 Let me show you what the liberals had to say when they were pressed on this incredible, disgusting injustice here.
00:06:32.340 Mr. Speaker, we're talking about a decision by the liberal government to pay for the benefits
00:06:37.060 of a convicted killer with money from Veterans Affairs when he's never served a single minute in Canada's military.
00:06:45.220 If a serving member is found guilty of murder and dishonorably discharged,
00:06:49.600 they and their family would lose all their benefits.
00:06:52.460 For the sake of all those who served honorably and continue to fight Veterans Affairs for the benefits they earned,
00:06:59.140 will the Prime Minister commit today to stop paying the benefits of this cop killer?
00:07:05.040 Your Honourable Prime Minister.
00:07:10.060 Mr. Speaker, we see once again that there is nothing the Conservatives won't stoop to to play politics with tragedies.
00:07:17.460 I will not answer that question.
00:07:19.120 Trudeau refused to answer because I guess Catherine's family doesn't deserve answers.
00:07:25.180 Now, the good news is the liberals, because of intense public pressure,
00:07:28.900 have agreed to stop the PTSD payments to Veterans' families.
00:07:33.000 But we don't know if that's being retroactively applied to Garnier.
00:07:37.580 And lastly, here's something that has been completely unreported in the mainstream media,
00:07:44.060 and it was the treatment of a 9-11 widow at the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights
00:07:50.640 by a Liberal MP named Arif Virani.
00:07:54.420 Just watch this lady here.
00:07:56.280 It is important not to conflate, either in this committee or in front of these witnesses,
00:08:00.500 the difference between terrorism that occurred in Afghanistan
00:08:03.300 and torture that this government was complicit with in Guantanamo.
00:08:08.460 And after two consecutive defeats in the Supreme Court of Canada on this very issue,
00:08:14.080 when Mr. Cooper's party ostensibly believes in reducing court backlog and courtroom delay,
00:08:19.660 it really begs the logical question as to why one would return to the courts,
00:08:23.580 which we all seem to agree are clogged,
00:08:25.600 with yet another likely failed charter claim.
00:08:28.880 So apropos of that, Ms. Baznicki, if we can agree that addressing court backlog
00:08:34.300 is an important imperative of this bill,
00:08:37.040 is settlement of cases a way of reducing court backlog?
00:08:41.160 I'd like to respond with that the charter, as it stands, does not define victims' rights.
00:08:48.280 I worked on the Victims' Bill of Rights,
00:08:50.340 and I'm only asking that my rights are regarded as Mr. Carter's rights are regarded.
00:08:59.520 I am not here to take away from Mr. Khadar's rights.
00:09:02.860 I'm only suggesting that as a victim, I should have rights too.
00:09:07.160 Mr. Khadar was a self-confessed terrorist,
00:09:11.640 not in an act in Afghanistan,
00:09:13.780 well, perhaps the venue was Afghanistan,
00:09:16.420 but was convicted and self-confessed in the U.S.
00:09:20.180 I am a Canadian citizen.
00:09:22.280 He committed his crime,
00:09:24.500 not alleged, but convicted, outside our country.
00:09:27.780 I'm only asking, as a Canadian citizen, as he is,
00:09:32.160 that I have rights too.
00:09:33.900 And it would appear that there is no balance in this
00:09:36.640 as it stands right now.
00:09:38.920 He belonged to the very organization
00:09:41.000 that was complicit in the murder of my husband, Al-Qaeda.
00:09:44.860 You can only imagine how I feel
00:09:47.440 when I see my government give him $10.5 million
00:09:52.580 for a violation of rights,
00:09:54.920 and I am at the same time begging my country
00:09:59.000 to afford me rights as a victim and a Canadian citizen
00:10:02.560 who was married to a Canadian citizen that lived in Canada.
00:10:07.720 Maureen Baznicki, that really nice lady asking the questions,
00:10:11.500 lost her husband on 9-11.
00:10:13.020 She's a victim of Islamic terrorism.
00:10:15.820 Islamic terrorism like that committed by Omar Khadr.
00:10:19.220 As a Canadian, Mrs. Baznicki paid for the payout
00:10:22.980 to that Islamic terrorist.
00:10:25.440 But just watch the response of Liberal MP Arif Varani here.
00:10:29.740 So I'll pass that over to Ron.
00:10:30.880 I'll just make sure that the record reflects
00:10:32.400 that Mr. Khadr is also a Canadian citizen,
00:10:34.420 Ms. Baznicki.
00:10:34.960 But your point is...
00:10:35.540 Yes, I pointed it out.
00:10:36.940 I'd like to remind you that I'm a Canadian citizen.
00:10:41.000 Thank you.
00:10:41.260 Thank you.
00:10:42.220 Instead of being shown the respect she deserves
00:10:44.740 for taking the time out of her life to come to committee
00:10:47.380 to advocate for other victims like herself,
00:10:50.400 Liberal MP Arif Varani scolded her.
00:10:53.400 You see, Mr. Khadr is a Canadian too, Varani said.
00:10:56.060 Same as Baznicki's husband.
00:10:57.820 Same as you and I.
00:10:59.120 Except we didn't plead guilty to war crimes
00:11:01.520 and murdering a U.S. Army medic in cold blood
00:11:03.980 and then blinding a Green Beret.
00:11:05.800 But other than that, Khadr's just like us.
00:11:08.480 Good God, these Liberals and their sympathy for the devil.
00:11:12.200 Varani needs to apologize.
00:11:14.580 But he won't.
00:11:16.120 And I doubt he realizes there's anything wrong with what he said.
00:11:20.220 Liberals keep talking about what a bunch of feminists they are.
00:11:23.080 They literally cannot shut up about it.
00:11:26.100 They actually just produced this very wooden and weird video
00:11:29.720 about Gender Equity Week.
00:11:32.200 I won't show you the whole thing.
00:11:34.560 It's embarrassing.
00:11:35.800 But here's a clip.
00:11:37.040 A lot of those sectors have been male-dominated for a long time.
00:11:40.780 And we need to make it easier for more people to enter these fields
00:11:44.140 so we can fill these jobs, grow our economy,
00:11:47.600 and strengthen the middle class.
00:11:49.000 That's why gender equality is an issue for everyone.
00:11:52.720 Back in reality, four female victims of violent crime
00:11:56.120 are making headlines in a little over the last week.
00:11:59.620 Four female victims of violent crime mistreated
00:12:02.320 and their families discounted by the Liberals
00:12:05.360 for their Liberal agenda.
00:12:07.560 There's a pattern here.
00:12:08.660 A devastating, disgusting, anti-women pattern.
00:12:12.400 But the mainstream media is just too sycophantic
00:12:15.520 to notice any of it.
00:12:17.100 And really, I guess, the only gender equity at play here
00:12:21.300 is that Omar Khadar's male victims
00:12:23.560 are being treated just as poorly
00:12:25.900 as the female victims of McClintick and Christopher Garnier.
00:12:30.820 Up next, after the break,
00:12:32.640 I have an interview with an incredible guest
00:12:34.880 that I recorded earlier this week.
00:12:37.660 Stay with us.
00:12:38.480 Thanks for joining me.
00:12:58.060 I'm going to read an excerpt
00:13:00.000 from an incredible opinion piece
00:13:03.180 in the Toronto Sun.
00:13:04.220 If you read just one article this year,
00:13:07.780 make it this one.
00:13:09.960 It starts,
00:13:11.100 While lamenting the potential plight of killer whales,
00:13:14.380 those opposing pipelines
00:13:15.600 could collect hand-me-down rubber boots.
00:13:18.760 That's one of the things
00:13:20.060 kind-hearted neighbours gave my family
00:13:22.160 when governments and circumstances
00:13:24.480 conspired to send our lives spiralling.
00:13:27.600 Today, that spiral is just starting its descent
00:13:30.200 for more than 8,000 families
00:13:32.120 who lost their jobs.
00:13:34.240 With the stroke of a pen,
00:13:35.400 a federal court of appeals judge,
00:13:37.600 Eleanor Dawson,
00:13:38.720 slammed the brakes
00:13:39.780 on the Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion.
00:13:42.920 It's a project that had won 17 times
00:13:46.380 in previous court challenges
00:13:48.140 and got the green light
00:13:49.780 from successive federal governments
00:13:51.620 for five years.
00:13:54.540 Dawson cited the plight of killer whales
00:13:56.380 57 times
00:13:58.300 and lack of consultation
00:13:59.960 with First Nations peoples.
00:14:01.820 What does this mean
00:14:03.560 for the 8,000 jobless?
00:14:06.180 I can tell you
00:14:07.140 because I grew up in it.
00:14:09.780 Now, my guest tonight,
00:14:11.820 I'm so excited about this,
00:14:13.220 is the author of this article.
00:14:15.380 Someone that I think
00:14:16.480 has been an incredible journalist.
00:14:19.120 The kind of journalist
00:14:19.780 I aspire to be.
00:14:21.540 And now she's not just
00:14:22.660 an incredible advocate
00:14:23.620 for the Canadian oil patch,
00:14:25.280 but for all Canadian taxpayers.
00:14:27.600 She's fighting her fight
00:14:29.000 in the belly of the beast.
00:14:31.820 Joining me now
00:14:32.660 is the BC Director
00:14:34.300 of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation,
00:14:36.680 Chris Sims.
00:14:37.660 I'm such a super fan.
00:14:38.880 Chris, thanks for joining me.
00:14:40.100 Wherever you are right now,
00:14:41.220 it's beautiful.
00:14:42.000 Where are you?
00:14:43.180 I'm actually standing
00:14:44.900 on the site
00:14:46.040 of the existing Kinder Morgan
00:14:47.800 or now known as
00:14:49.080 the Trans Mountain Pipeline
00:14:50.400 here in the Fraser Valley.
00:14:52.480 I'm actually physically standing
00:14:54.400 in a big patch of blackberries.
00:14:56.460 So if you see a bear,
00:14:57.880 could you just let me know
00:14:59.100 and make sure you YouTube it?
00:15:00.500 Well, that doesn't look
00:15:02.080 like the hellscape
00:15:03.020 that I've been led to believe.
00:15:06.600 Now, I read an article
00:15:08.020 or an excerpt
00:15:08.940 from your article off the top.
00:15:10.460 And when I first read it,
00:15:11.740 it made me sad
00:15:13.300 because like so many thousands
00:15:16.580 of Canadians,
00:15:17.640 I lived a very similar
00:15:19.400 childhood experience as you.
00:15:21.700 I grew up in the devastation
00:15:23.540 of the NEP.
00:15:25.280 But after I got over my sadness,
00:15:27.420 although the sadness
00:15:28.120 sort of still lingers,
00:15:29.080 I have a hard time getting
00:15:30.000 through your whole article
00:15:31.000 to be honest with you.
00:15:32.540 I'm also so glad
00:15:34.040 and grateful
00:15:34.960 that someone who has
00:15:36.560 your platform
00:15:37.420 is trying to humanize
00:15:39.620 every single one
00:15:40.840 of those 8,000 job losses
00:15:42.820 because they're families.
00:15:44.240 They're families like yours
00:15:45.240 and families like mine
00:15:47.520 who sort of have
00:15:49.320 this uncertain future
00:15:50.620 while the federal government
00:15:53.120 dithers on pipelines.
00:15:54.580 We don't even know
00:15:55.300 what they're going to do next.
00:15:57.040 No, we don't.
00:15:58.500 And they ragged the puck
00:15:59.880 for more than a year
00:16:01.340 after giving this
00:16:02.720 private corporation
00:16:04.220 five years of green lights
00:16:06.180 and victory after victory.
00:16:07.780 Yes, yes, yes.
00:16:08.780 And then they just
00:16:09.660 ruined it so much
00:16:11.240 that the company
00:16:11.920 just finally threw up its hands
00:16:13.260 and walked away.
00:16:14.540 And now taxpayers
00:16:15.340 own this pipeline.
00:16:17.080 Taxpayers now own
00:16:18.260 the Trans Mountain Pipeline.
00:16:19.500 And we're on the hook now
00:16:21.000 for actually getting it
00:16:22.060 expanded and twinned.
00:16:23.700 And if anybody
00:16:24.700 actually watching this
00:16:25.940 doesn't know yet,
00:16:27.020 it runs from Edmonton
00:16:28.440 all the way through
00:16:29.420 the Rockies,
00:16:30.220 through B.C.,
00:16:30.960 right where I'm standing
00:16:31.980 here in the Fraser Valley,
00:16:33.220 all the way out to Burnaby
00:16:34.500 to its terminal,
00:16:35.780 to its port.
00:16:36.660 And that's where the oil
00:16:38.160 is shipped out for export.
00:16:40.480 And because the federal government
00:16:42.020 has done such a terrible job
00:16:43.760 of this,
00:16:44.320 and now we're stuck
00:16:45.440 owning the thing,
00:16:46.780 and now we're stuck
00:16:47.880 with this federal court
00:16:49.060 judge's decision,
00:16:50.160 8,000 families
00:16:52.400 just lost their jobs.
00:16:54.400 And I thought
00:16:55.120 it was really important
00:16:56.180 to put a face
00:16:57.360 to those numbers
00:16:58.040 and to put a real story
00:17:00.360 behind numbers like those.
00:17:02.400 And I know you had
00:17:03.560 a similar experience.
00:17:04.800 I know a lot of your viewers
00:17:05.940 right now watching this
00:17:07.040 have had a very similar experience.
00:17:08.960 They might be living it right now.
00:17:11.020 And to them right now,
00:17:12.040 I want to tell them
00:17:12.840 that they're not alone,
00:17:14.520 that people care
00:17:15.580 about what is happening
00:17:16.580 to them and to their families.
00:17:17.720 They may not see
00:17:19.080 their stories told
00:17:20.240 in literary award circles
00:17:22.420 and on some
00:17:23.500 mainstream media channels,
00:17:24.960 but people do give a damn.
00:17:27.380 And so I really wanted
00:17:28.420 to thank the
00:17:29.160 Canadian Taxpayers Federation
00:17:30.520 and Sun Media
00:17:31.580 for both encouraging me
00:17:33.100 to write this.
00:17:33.820 All of my colleagues
00:17:34.540 at the CTF said,
00:17:35.500 yeah, put that story
00:17:37.480 into words.
00:17:38.680 And so that's why
00:17:39.620 I wrote it.
00:17:40.480 I usually try not
00:17:41.340 to make myself a story,
00:17:42.600 but I was getting sick
00:17:43.540 and tired, frankly,
00:17:44.400 of those families
00:17:46.000 who were counting
00:17:46.820 on that pipeline work,
00:17:48.540 this pipeline work,
00:17:49.840 being ignored
00:17:50.520 and not heard.
00:17:51.560 And so that's why
00:17:52.300 I wrote it.
00:17:53.520 You know,
00:17:54.180 something in your article
00:17:55.680 really struck a chord
00:17:56.880 with me,
00:17:57.360 and it was when you were
00:17:58.260 talking about your mom.
00:18:00.300 Her breaking point
00:18:01.440 was using the no-name soap.
00:18:04.560 And, you know,
00:18:06.460 I've spoken to other women
00:18:08.340 that are very close to me,
00:18:09.440 and they have a similar experience.
00:18:11.060 It's so funny.
00:18:12.300 The one woman that I know
00:18:13.920 and love very much,
00:18:15.580 for her,
00:18:16.140 it's the sound
00:18:17.000 of a carpet sweeper
00:18:18.360 because for a time,
00:18:20.160 she wasn't able
00:18:21.020 to have power in her house,
00:18:22.360 and she just wanted
00:18:23.340 to vacuum
00:18:24.020 like every other woman.
00:18:25.720 And the sound
00:18:26.860 and the look
00:18:28.400 of a carpet sweeper
00:18:29.440 brings it back to her.
00:18:31.300 And for another woman
00:18:32.040 that I know,
00:18:32.980 it is the sound
00:18:33.960 of change jingling
00:18:35.680 because when she put
00:18:37.720 her money
00:18:38.360 into the collection plate
00:18:39.840 at church,
00:18:40.580 everybody in the pew
00:18:42.380 would know
00:18:42.900 that she was poor
00:18:43.980 because of the jingling
00:18:45.400 of the change.
00:18:46.860 And, you know,
00:18:47.840 that really struck
00:18:48.340 a chord with me
00:18:48.960 because it's not
00:18:49.600 just about a job.
00:18:50.760 It's about dignity
00:18:52.800 for these families
00:18:53.800 who have never
00:18:54.500 taken anything.
00:18:56.780 Yes, that's exactly right.
00:18:58.240 And so for my family,
00:19:00.020 my sisters were born
00:19:01.980 in the early 80s.
00:19:03.040 They were triplets.
00:19:03.780 I was born first.
00:19:06.020 Mom and dad tried
00:19:06.760 for a boy
00:19:07.320 and we wound up
00:19:07.960 with four girls.
00:19:09.960 And so my parents
00:19:11.340 wound up with four kids
00:19:12.420 under the age of four,
00:19:13.340 early 80s,
00:19:14.120 and just at that exact time
00:19:15.620 is when Pierre Elliott Trudeau,
00:19:17.880 the prime minister
00:19:18.520 at the time,
00:19:19.240 nuked the oil patch.
00:19:21.140 And so suddenly my dad,
00:19:23.060 who worked for Schlumberger
00:19:24.360 at the time,
00:19:25.360 all around that era,
00:19:26.520 had no job
00:19:27.260 to go back to.
00:19:28.220 He had come back here
00:19:29.140 home to BC
00:19:29.820 for when my sisters
00:19:30.680 were born,
00:19:31.220 but then when he turned around
00:19:32.700 to pick up that big paycheck again
00:19:34.500 to go back to the oil patch
00:19:36.020 and really earn that money,
00:19:37.820 it wasn't there.
00:19:39.440 And so the only thing
00:19:40.580 that got us through
00:19:41.420 was my mom
00:19:42.480 working graveyard shifts
00:19:43.920 at the local hospital
00:19:45.200 as an emergency room nurse.
00:19:47.300 A lot of my early childhood memories
00:19:49.140 are of her sleeping on the couch
00:19:50.460 because she'd been working all night
00:19:52.320 while we were in bed.
00:19:54.000 And yeah,
00:19:54.420 it was the no-name soap.
00:19:56.320 She just had it.
00:19:57.880 And I can still remember
00:19:59.460 what it smelled like
00:20:00.380 because she brought it home
00:20:01.440 in these big bags,
00:20:02.600 these big plastic bags,
00:20:04.000 and all 12 bars
00:20:05.100 were stuck together
00:20:05.980 and you had to break them apart.
00:20:07.700 And she just lost it
00:20:09.200 one day in the kitchen
00:20:10.100 because it stank.
00:20:11.640 It smelled like burnt metal.
00:20:13.240 It didn't smell like flowers
00:20:14.480 or roses or vanilla
00:20:15.460 or something pretty.
00:20:16.840 And it's things like that
00:20:18.200 that really stay with you
00:20:19.360 because like you said,
00:20:20.780 it connects back to dignity,
00:20:23.160 to having pride,
00:20:24.580 to having money
00:20:25.420 to be able to cover
00:20:26.260 the most basic things in life
00:20:28.740 that so many of us
00:20:30.160 can sometimes get away from
00:20:31.460 and we can take for granted.
00:20:33.560 And for me as a little kid,
00:20:35.180 the reason why I put that
00:20:36.240 in the article,
00:20:37.460 I remember the sound
00:20:38.920 of the box
00:20:39.960 thumping onto our porch
00:20:41.640 up in the woods
00:20:42.900 where we lived.
00:20:43.680 And I went running outside
00:20:44.980 as a little kid
00:20:45.760 and there's this big
00:20:46.840 cardboard box there
00:20:47.920 and it was full of
00:20:48.920 like donated stuff.
00:20:50.280 There was like an old set
00:20:51.220 of roller skates
00:20:52.060 that you needed to strap
00:20:52.960 to your shoes
00:20:53.620 and there was a doll
00:20:55.180 in there
00:20:55.720 and I remember
00:20:56.640 there were a pair
00:20:57.600 of kind of tinkish,
00:20:59.140 grayish used gumboots.
00:21:01.120 And I was a little kid
00:21:02.060 so I'm like,
00:21:02.760 hey, free stuff.
00:21:04.060 Yay.
00:21:04.580 I stuck them on my feet
00:21:05.840 and I was so happy
00:21:06.700 they fit.
00:21:07.600 But I remember
00:21:08.300 the look on my mom's face
00:21:09.740 and I realize that now
00:21:11.760 as a wife and mother
00:21:13.180 how hard that must have been.
00:21:15.820 And so I really wanted
00:21:16.820 to reach out
00:21:17.360 to those families,
00:21:18.420 those oil sands families,
00:21:19.800 those oil patch families,
00:21:21.020 the families who are
00:21:21.740 trucking right now
00:21:22.820 who in some cases
00:21:24.440 have bought new trucks,
00:21:26.560 pickups to be able
00:21:27.340 to do this job.
00:21:28.780 They've put down
00:21:29.480 lease money already
00:21:30.860 between here and Edmonton
00:21:32.940 to be able to do this job
00:21:34.220 and it just evaporated
00:21:35.740 out from under them.
00:21:37.140 And I wanted them
00:21:37.740 to know that they're
00:21:38.340 not alone
00:21:38.880 and that we've gone
00:21:40.100 through this before
00:21:40.920 and we need to fight
00:21:42.120 really hard
00:21:42.780 but we will get through it.
00:21:44.820 And back during the NEP,
00:21:46.820 I got to stress,
00:21:47.820 my family did better
00:21:48.820 than a lot of people.
00:21:50.320 I saw a lot of people,
00:21:51.480 their trucks
00:21:52.100 were repossessed,
00:21:53.080 their boats taken away,
00:21:54.320 they lost their homes.
00:21:55.780 They literally lost
00:21:56.460 their homes,
00:21:56.880 they were sleeping
00:21:57.200 in their cars.
00:21:58.180 Some of them got divorced.
00:21:59.600 People within my family
00:22:00.760 lost their marriages
00:22:01.740 and the unspeakable
00:22:03.320 also happened.
00:22:04.660 Back then,
00:22:05.200 nobody ever talked about it
00:22:06.520 but people took
00:22:07.320 their own lives
00:22:08.100 and I saw that
00:22:09.860 there's a 30% increase
00:22:11.520 in Fort Mac
00:22:13.020 in people taking
00:22:13.860 their own lives
00:22:14.620 in the year 2015
00:22:16.280 which is just
00:22:17.600 because of the bust.
00:22:19.020 It's just because
00:22:19.620 of that cycle.
00:22:20.560 It's not because
00:22:21.140 of this news.
00:22:22.300 And so I especially
00:22:23.020 want to speak
00:22:23.560 to those people
00:22:24.220 who are there.
00:22:26.520 Just pull back.
00:22:27.840 Just pull back.
00:22:28.880 People love you.
00:22:29.840 People care about you.
00:22:31.160 People are listening.
00:22:32.360 Just hang in there.
00:22:33.660 It will get better.
00:22:35.400 You know,
00:22:35.900 you just reminded me
00:22:36.920 of the days
00:22:38.300 of jingle mail
00:22:39.140 with people.
00:22:42.720 For myself too.
00:22:44.260 Neighbors
00:22:44.680 who didn't fare
00:22:45.740 as well as we did.
00:22:46.960 People who couldn't
00:22:47.740 grow their own food
00:22:48.860 the way we did
00:22:49.960 or kill their own food.
00:22:51.800 They were mailing
00:22:52.860 their keys
00:22:53.740 back to the bank.
00:22:55.020 It happened so frequently.
00:22:56.740 It became a phenomenon
00:22:57.800 called jingle mail
00:22:59.660 and I don't think
00:23:00.660 the elites
00:23:02.380 who are sort of
00:23:03.340 kicking the ball
00:23:04.140 down the road
00:23:04.760 with this pipeline
00:23:05.380 truly understand
00:23:06.820 what it's like
00:23:07.860 to live with
00:23:09.160 that sort of
00:23:09.840 what's the right word?
00:23:11.540 Survivor's guilt.
00:23:12.340 When your family
00:23:13.300 has nothing
00:23:14.080 but you're still
00:23:14.940 doing better
00:23:15.460 than your neighbor
00:23:16.120 and you feel
00:23:16.940 bad about that
00:23:18.560 because you couldn't
00:23:19.340 help them more
00:23:19.960 than you already are.
00:23:22.700 I wanted to ask you
00:23:24.160 I know
00:23:25.400 at least it's
00:23:27.200 correct me
00:23:27.980 if I'm wrong
00:23:28.700 but you didn't
00:23:30.680 really intend
00:23:31.340 to change
00:23:32.140 hearts and minds
00:23:33.380 with this article.
00:23:35.880 I don't think
00:23:36.680 it was motivated
00:23:37.920 to sort of
00:23:41.000 change the minds
00:23:41.880 of those Laurentian elites
00:23:43.360 who will sort of
00:23:45.100 spit out words
00:23:46.560 like those Albertans
00:23:48.280 with their jacked up
00:23:49.260 trucks
00:23:49.720 and their skidoos
00:23:50.940 and their toys
00:23:51.640 while they reach
00:23:52.480 into a handbag
00:23:53.820 worth more
00:23:54.600 than my ATV.
00:23:56.040 I don't think
00:23:56.780 your article
00:23:57.280 was designed
00:23:58.140 to make
00:23:59.940 those people
00:24:00.600 feel anything
00:24:01.560 about the oil patch.
00:24:03.840 I just don't think
00:24:04.680 they care.
00:24:08.000 A lot of them
00:24:08.920 don't
00:24:09.340 unfortunately.
00:24:10.800 A lot of them
00:24:11.280 don't
00:24:11.680 but I'm always
00:24:13.240 you can have to
00:24:14.060 laugh or cry
00:24:14.760 right
00:24:15.100 and I'm always
00:24:15.780 looking for the
00:24:16.380 silver lining
00:24:16.960 and even in
00:24:18.340 that federal court
00:24:19.480 judgment
00:24:19.960 there was a
00:24:20.860 tiny little window
00:24:21.880 where she said
00:24:23.360 if you do
00:24:24.180 efficient
00:24:25.080 consultation
00:24:26.520 and another
00:24:27.900 review of this
00:24:28.760 judges don't
00:24:29.400 usually use
00:24:30.000 the word
00:24:30.240 efficient
00:24:30.620 and by that
00:24:31.600 she meant
00:24:31.900 a tight
00:24:32.240 timeline.
00:24:34.040 I tried to
00:24:34.700 find some
00:24:35.240 little crack
00:24:35.740 of hope
00:24:36.080 in there
00:24:36.460 and I wrote
00:24:37.560 it number
00:24:37.940 one to put
00:24:38.520 up a flag
00:24:39.100 and to tell
00:24:39.920 people who
00:24:40.500 are in that
00:24:40.980 situation
00:24:41.500 they're not
00:24:42.120 alone
00:24:42.440 we've done
00:24:43.180 this before
00:24:43.780 we'll have
00:24:44.500 to do it
00:24:44.860 again
00:24:45.220 keep fighting
00:24:46.360 it will get
00:24:47.160 better
00:24:47.460 but number
00:24:48.180 two
00:24:48.580 I wanted
00:24:49.180 to reach
00:24:49.800 those folks
00:24:50.540 who were
00:24:50.880 kind of
00:24:51.260 on the
00:24:51.540 fence
00:24:51.960 in war rooms
00:24:54.200 people would
00:24:54.700 call them
00:24:55.060 the swing
00:24:55.520 voter
00:24:55.800 I wanted
00:24:56.800 to reach
00:24:57.220 out to
00:24:57.500 those folks
00:24:58.160 who vote
00:24:59.360 for whoever
00:24:59.800 they want
00:25:00.280 to
00:25:00.460 but who
00:25:00.860 maybe
00:25:01.140 have an
00:25:01.860 uncle
00:25:02.180 who worked
00:25:02.740 in manufacturing
00:25:03.520 right
00:25:04.360 in Ontario
00:25:05.000 who knew
00:25:06.820 somebody
00:25:07.320 who helped
00:25:07.820 build a
00:25:08.200 highway
00:25:08.500 I'm looking
00:25:09.440 for those
00:25:10.000 people who
00:25:10.700 are in that
00:25:11.280 kind of limbo
00:25:12.120 they're in
00:25:12.520 that grey
00:25:13.060 area
00:25:13.460 where they're
00:25:14.220 maybe one
00:25:14.800 generation
00:25:15.400 removed
00:25:15.920 from working
00:25:16.600 class
00:25:17.120 blue-collar
00:25:17.640 families
00:25:18.140 like we have
00:25:18.740 here
00:25:19.040 and really
00:25:19.900 tap them
00:25:20.420 on the
00:25:20.700 shoulder
00:25:20.980 and remind
00:25:21.680 them
00:25:22.260 that while
00:25:23.040 they may
00:25:23.480 be a lawyer
00:25:24.060 or an
00:25:24.540 accountant
00:25:24.920 or something
00:25:25.700 really special
00:25:26.440 like that
00:25:26.900 now
00:25:27.180 who might
00:25:27.880 have a
00:25:28.360 lever of
00:25:28.780 power
00:25:29.080 to pull
00:25:29.580 to pull
00:25:30.480 it
00:25:30.720 and to
00:25:31.740 write to
00:25:32.300 their member
00:25:32.720 of parliament
00:25:33.300 to write
00:25:34.300 to the
00:25:34.640 prime minister
00:25:35.160 to call
00:25:36.000 in to
00:25:36.320 talk radio
00:25:36.960 shows
00:25:37.420 including
00:25:38.100 places like
00:25:38.940 the CBC
00:25:39.560 I mean
00:25:40.160 it
00:25:40.460 unless we
00:25:41.460 stand up
00:25:41.940 and holler
00:25:42.440 we won't
00:25:43.340 be heard
00:25:43.960 and so
00:25:44.700 that's who
00:25:45.200 I'm really
00:25:45.660 trying to
00:25:46.600 appeal to
00:25:47.200 there
00:25:47.500 I'm trying
00:25:48.300 to reach
00:25:48.700 out to
00:25:49.020 those folks
00:25:49.680 who have
00:25:50.340 probably
00:25:50.760 experienced
00:25:51.560 unemployment
00:25:52.040 in their
00:25:52.560 own lives
00:25:53.360 it doesn't
00:25:54.140 just hit
00:25:54.500 the resource
00:25:54.940 sector
00:25:55.360 and I'm
00:25:55.960 trying to
00:25:56.460 remind them
00:25:57.200 of what
00:25:58.100 it happens
00:25:58.640 when you
00:25:58.940 have a
00:25:59.320 mass
00:25:59.880 unemployment
00:26:00.480 hit a
00:26:01.600 specialized
00:26:01.960 sector
00:26:02.500 like the
00:26:03.300 resource
00:26:03.600 sector
00:26:04.020 like oil
00:26:04.960 and gas
00:26:05.540 and I
00:26:06.080 wanted to
00:26:06.540 really put
00:26:07.000 a human
00:26:07.340 face to it
00:26:08.100 because it's
00:26:08.740 super easy
00:26:09.360 to love
00:26:10.440 a killer
00:26:10.860 whale
00:26:11.140 it really
00:26:11.600 is
00:26:12.000 I grew up
00:26:12.500 here and
00:26:12.940 I grew up
00:26:13.300 on Vancouver
00:26:13.880 Island
00:26:14.260 I absolutely
00:26:15.240 love our
00:26:16.840 natural world
00:26:17.660 but those
00:26:18.280 are theoretical
00:26:18.820 issues
00:26:19.400 right
00:26:19.820 that can be
00:26:20.320 dealt with
00:26:20.700 usually through
00:26:21.220 math or
00:26:21.740 conservation
00:26:22.120 or being
00:26:23.000 careful of
00:26:23.500 where you're
00:26:23.760 putting your
00:26:24.100 shipping lanes
00:26:24.740 I mean
00:26:25.100 humans can
00:26:25.860 figure this
00:26:26.300 stuff out
00:26:26.820 but I really
00:26:27.760 wanted to make
00:26:28.440 it crystal clear
00:26:29.180 to them
00:26:29.560 that judgments
00:26:30.740 like this
00:26:31.520 and foot dragging
00:26:32.520 like this
00:26:33.180 has an immediate
00:26:34.100 impact
00:26:34.680 and that immediate
00:26:35.540 impact
00:26:36.100 is little kids
00:26:37.420 maybe not getting
00:26:38.540 a Christmas this
00:26:39.260 year
00:26:39.440 it's of parents
00:26:41.300 getting into
00:26:41.760 volcanic arguments
00:26:43.060 it's of marriages
00:26:44.540 breaking down
00:26:45.300 it's of what I
00:26:46.640 talked about as
00:26:47.300 being unspeakable
00:26:48.140 that is an
00:26:48.880 immediate consequence
00:26:50.180 and reality of
00:26:51.260 judgments like
00:26:51.960 these
00:26:52.240 and so that is
00:26:53.200 where I really
00:26:53.760 wanted to tap
00:26:54.500 them on the
00:26:54.920 shoulder
00:26:55.240 and to remind
00:26:56.560 them
00:26:56.900 I also wanted
00:26:57.880 to point out
00:26:58.600 and I gotta be
00:26:59.240 real clear here
00:27:00.020 the judgments
00:27:01.180 also said that
00:27:02.200 they needed to
00:27:02.820 do meaningful
00:27:03.440 consultation with
00:27:04.480 some First
00:27:05.000 Nations peoples
00:27:05.680 and this can't
00:27:06.720 be stressed
00:27:07.160 enough
00:27:07.600 more than 40
00:27:09.200 First Nations
00:27:10.060 have signed
00:27:10.820 on
00:27:11.180 signed on
00:27:12.040 in support
00:27:12.840 of this
00:27:13.200 Trans Mountain
00:27:13.680 pipeline
00:27:14.140 including where
00:27:15.180 I'm standing
00:27:15.680 right now
00:27:16.320 here in the
00:27:17.220 Fraser Valley
00:27:17.780 and in my
00:27:19.420 article
00:27:19.820 I said
00:27:20.900 that some
00:27:21.800 of our
00:27:22.100 neighbors
00:27:22.420 brought us
00:27:23.000 their food
00:27:23.560 salmon
00:27:23.980 at that time
00:27:25.380 those were
00:27:26.460 the First
00:27:26.840 Nations peoples
00:27:27.620 of the area
00:27:28.640 that's why
00:27:29.320 I called it
00:27:29.740 food salmon
00:27:30.320 they cared
00:27:32.160 they gave
00:27:32.980 a damn
00:27:33.400 because not
00:27:34.340 only were they
00:27:34.940 compassionate
00:27:35.460 human beings
00:27:36.300 they worked
00:27:37.200 in the oil
00:27:37.980 patch too
00:27:38.760 and just like
00:27:40.060 today
00:27:40.480 they're depending
00:27:41.520 on these
00:27:42.080 jobs for this
00:27:42.860 pipeline expansion
00:27:43.840 too
00:27:44.260 and I want
00:27:45.220 their voices
00:27:45.760 to be heard
00:27:46.400 as well
00:27:46.860 and I don't
00:27:47.520 want those
00:27:48.340 folks who are
00:27:49.060 in power
00:27:49.600 to forget
00:27:50.540 that
00:27:50.940 now
00:27:52.160 I don't know
00:27:53.700 maybe you
00:27:54.120 share my
00:27:54.700 theory
00:27:55.260 but I feel
00:27:56.820 like there's
00:27:57.220 a level of
00:27:57.880 classism
00:27:58.820 in all of
00:28:00.060 this
00:28:00.500 that you
00:28:03.100 know
00:28:03.260 and these
00:28:03.800 are my
00:28:04.140 words
00:28:04.440 not yours
00:28:04.980 but elite
00:28:05.680 people
00:28:06.100 and over
00:28:06.880 educated
00:28:07.440 useless
00:28:07.920 people
00:28:08.480 I think
00:28:08.960 they have
00:28:09.580 a level
00:28:11.020 of resentment
00:28:11.940 that the
00:28:14.260 resource sector
00:28:15.240 is really
00:28:15.560 the great
00:28:15.980 equalizer
00:28:17.100 in all
00:28:17.680 of this
00:28:18.080 where someone
00:28:18.900 who works
00:28:19.980 hard
00:28:20.760 with their
00:28:21.500 back in
00:28:22.040 their hands
00:28:22.700 but has a
00:28:23.720 high school
00:28:24.140 education
00:28:24.760 can earn
00:28:25.800 as much
00:28:26.420 as those
00:28:27.180 elite
00:28:28.000 and fancy
00:28:28.940 people
00:28:29.460 and I think
00:28:29.920 there's a lot
00:28:30.400 of resentment
00:28:31.140 around that
00:28:32.800 from sort of
00:28:33.600 Canada's ruling
00:28:34.360 class
00:28:34.980 there can
00:28:36.960 be
00:28:37.220 I don't
00:28:38.240 discount
00:28:38.560 what you're
00:28:38.900 saying
00:28:39.140 there can
00:28:39.560 be
00:28:39.740 I've run
00:28:40.100 into it
00:28:40.680 I've worked
00:28:41.600 on Parliament
00:28:42.140 Hill for
00:28:42.600 many years
00:28:43.220 I've worked
00:28:43.700 in rural Nova
00:28:44.220 Scotia
00:28:44.620 I've talked
00:28:45.020 to people
00:28:45.440 from every
00:28:46.320 walk of life
00:28:46.840 from literally
00:28:47.500 homeless
00:28:48.440 drug addicted
00:28:49.020 people who
00:28:49.640 are in
00:28:49.880 desperate
00:28:50.180 straits
00:28:50.680 in like
00:28:51.200 a women's
00:28:51.620 shelter
00:28:51.860 all the way
00:28:52.440 up to the
00:28:52.760 prime minister
00:28:53.220 and everything
00:28:54.120 in between
00:28:54.640 most people
00:28:57.200 are good
00:28:57.640 I think a lot
00:28:59.040 of this
00:28:59.360 is misunderstanding
00:29:00.080 I truly
00:29:00.820 do
00:29:01.060 I think
00:29:02.000 there are
00:29:02.360 those hard
00:29:03.060 boiled
00:29:03.360 people who
00:29:04.360 don't like
00:29:05.420 other people
00:29:05.900 and they'll
00:29:06.560 come up with
00:29:06.960 any reason
00:29:07.420 that they
00:29:07.760 want to
00:29:09.020 not like
00:29:09.360 them
00:29:09.500 and that
00:29:09.760 can include
00:29:10.480 blue collar
00:29:11.300 working class
00:29:11.940 people
00:29:12.260 people who
00:29:12.880 work in
00:29:13.180 trades
00:29:13.480 people who
00:29:13.860 drive trucks
00:29:14.460 people who
00:29:15.040 hunt for
00:29:15.740 their own
00:29:16.020 food
00:29:16.360 people who
00:29:16.780 fish
00:29:17.040 people who
00:29:17.420 own ATVs
00:29:18.200 there is a
00:29:18.940 class of
00:29:19.340 people who
00:29:19.780 just look
00:29:20.160 down on
00:29:20.580 that
00:29:20.780 but we're
00:29:21.460 never going
00:29:21.900 to change
00:29:22.360 those people's
00:29:22.960 minds
00:29:23.280 who we can
00:29:24.700 change
00:29:25.220 is the
00:29:25.680 majority of
00:29:26.440 people who
00:29:26.860 are good
00:29:27.700 who would
00:29:28.680 only hurt
00:29:29.200 another person
00:29:29.900 by accident
00:29:30.700 and this is
00:29:31.920 what I think
00:29:32.340 is happening
00:29:32.820 here
00:29:33.160 I think
00:29:34.060 because this
00:29:34.760 has become
00:29:35.200 so theoretical
00:29:36.240 and so
00:29:36.920 top line
00:29:37.760 and all
00:29:38.540 about macro
00:29:39.200 and micro
00:29:39.660 economics
00:29:40.200 and shipping
00:29:40.780 or not
00:29:41.180 shipping
00:29:41.480 or China
00:29:41.900 or not
00:29:42.260 China
00:29:42.580 that it's
00:29:43.460 easy to
00:29:43.900 forget
00:29:44.240 that there's
00:29:44.920 human beings
00:29:45.580 behind all
00:29:46.220 of these
00:29:46.500 issues
00:29:46.900 and those
00:29:47.900 are the
00:29:48.160 people that
00:29:48.600 I'm trying
00:29:48.960 to remind
00:29:49.600 that there
00:29:50.320 are human
00:29:50.700 beings
00:29:51.160 and that's
00:29:51.680 why I'm
00:29:51.940 appealing to
00:29:52.500 them
00:29:52.740 remember when
00:29:53.980 say your
00:29:55.100 mom who
00:29:55.960 was a
00:29:56.280 teacher was
00:29:56.920 laid off
00:29:57.620 for years
00:29:58.540 and you
00:29:59.620 had to
00:30:00.700 search for
00:30:01.120 work
00:30:01.400 remember
00:30:02.020 when your
00:30:02.460 mom maybe
00:30:03.060 who was
00:30:03.440 a nurse
00:30:03.960 back in
00:30:04.360 the 80s
00:30:05.000 the hospital
00:30:06.100 shut down
00:30:06.700 in Saskatchewan
00:30:07.580 and you guys
00:30:08.600 lost your
00:30:09.080 job
00:30:09.440 and now that
00:30:10.300 you are maybe
00:30:10.920 an accountant
00:30:11.760 or a writer
00:30:12.460 or a lawyer
00:30:13.100 maybe you're
00:30:13.640 living in
00:30:14.040 Toronto
00:30:14.360 maybe you're
00:30:14.840 living in
00:30:15.160 Ottawa
00:30:15.420 or Montreal
00:30:15.980 or somewhere
00:30:16.660 urban and
00:30:17.580 fancy and
00:30:18.180 removed
00:30:18.540 remember where
00:30:19.600 you come
00:30:20.000 from
00:30:20.280 and remember
00:30:21.340 most importantly
00:30:22.260 where your
00:30:23.280 food comes
00:30:23.840 from
00:30:24.100 where your
00:30:24.780 resources
00:30:25.240 come from
00:30:25.900 where your
00:30:26.500 electric power
00:30:27.340 comes from
00:30:27.940 how all of
00:30:28.900 your stuff
00:30:29.560 your food
00:30:30.180 your supplies
00:30:30.840 your furniture
00:30:31.340 was trucked
00:30:32.240 to you
00:30:32.840 using oil
00:30:34.180 and gas
00:30:34.900 and to
00:30:36.060 damn oil
00:30:37.120 and gas
00:30:37.820 is to
00:30:38.240 damn the
00:30:38.980 lifeblood
00:30:39.800 of the
00:30:40.500 modern world
00:30:41.220 we could
00:30:42.260 not function
00:30:43.200 the way we
00:30:43.720 are right
00:30:44.160 now without
00:30:44.700 oil and gas
00:30:45.520 and I encourage
00:30:46.480 those folks
00:30:47.100 who maybe
00:30:47.820 yeah like I
00:30:48.440 said now
00:30:48.720 are teachers
00:30:49.240 crack open
00:30:50.160 your history
00:30:50.680 books to
00:30:51.340 1850
00:30:52.240 and set
00:30:53.400 yourself back
00:30:54.200 and think
00:30:54.960 about what
00:30:55.580 that would be
00:30:56.160 like to
00:30:56.980 live without
00:30:57.600 oil and gas
00:30:58.400 because we
00:30:59.380 take it
00:30:59.760 for granted
00:31:00.320 now
00:31:00.680 so yeah
00:31:01.440 I think
00:31:01.800 there is
00:31:02.340 maybe a
00:31:02.900 small percentage
00:31:03.560 of people
00:31:03.980 who are
00:31:04.240 hard-boiled
00:31:04.800 they just
00:31:05.620 dislike other
00:31:06.220 people
00:31:06.580 especially those
00:31:07.560 who are not
00:31:07.920 of their
00:31:08.180 class
00:31:08.620 those sorts
00:31:09.560 of bigots
00:31:10.020 will always
00:31:10.500 exist
00:31:10.920 but I
00:31:11.540 heartily believe
00:31:12.400 the vast
00:31:12.960 majority of
00:31:13.600 people are
00:31:14.040 good
00:31:14.340 and they
00:31:15.020 just don't
00:31:15.700 know
00:31:16.000 what they
00:31:16.680 don't know
00:31:17.320 and that's
00:31:18.200 what I'm
00:31:18.400 trying to
00:31:19.040 educate them
00:31:19.700 about
00:31:19.960 what they
00:31:20.580 don't know
00:31:21.020 now do
00:31:21.880 you think
00:31:22.440 that we've
00:31:24.160 seen the
00:31:24.560 worst of
00:31:25.060 this or is
00:31:25.600 the worst
00:31:26.100 really yet to
00:31:26.960 come
00:31:27.300 the reason
00:31:27.980 I say
00:31:28.360 that is
00:31:28.960 I just
00:31:29.940 read an
00:31:30.240 article this
00:31:30.760 morning that
00:31:31.220 Kinder Morgan
00:31:32.040 who you
00:31:33.580 know is
00:31:33.820 looking at
00:31:34.220 liquidating
00:31:34.720 their Canadian
00:31:35.240 assets
00:31:35.620 they've
00:31:36.100 already
00:31:36.400 washed their
00:31:37.540 hands of
00:31:37.940 a pipeline
00:31:38.540 they're
00:31:39.300 looking at
00:31:39.800 investing in
00:31:40.740 a Bakken
00:31:41.300 shale pipeline
00:31:42.180 in North
00:31:44.640 Dakota
00:31:44.980 meaning they're
00:31:45.880 happily ready
00:31:46.660 to invest
00:31:47.440 in oil and
00:31:48.060 gas projects
00:31:48.780 they just
00:31:49.640 don't want
00:31:49.960 to do it
00:31:50.360 here and
00:31:50.860 I mean
00:31:51.140 the point
00:31:51.720 to be made
00:31:52.240 is that
00:31:52.620 you know
00:31:52.960 southern
00:31:53.820 Saskatchewan
00:31:54.620 is
00:31:54.920 Bakken
00:31:55.440 shale
00:31:55.780 but
00:31:56.400 Kinder Morgan
00:31:57.540 is not
00:31:57.860 investing
00:31:58.500 there
00:31:59.020 they're
00:31:59.640 investing
00:32:00.080 on the
00:32:00.520 American
00:32:00.960 side
00:32:01.560 and then
00:32:01.940 with this
00:32:02.800 whole
00:32:03.180 C69
00:32:04.580 environmental
00:32:05.440 review bill
00:32:06.700 that's meandering
00:32:07.600 through the
00:32:08.200 Senate
00:32:08.420 and that's
00:32:08.980 going to
00:32:09.280 give
00:32:09.560 undue
00:32:10.800 political
00:32:11.360 powers
00:32:11.900 to the
00:32:12.340 environment
00:32:12.720 minister
00:32:13.100 to basically
00:32:13.920 squash
00:32:15.460 any
00:32:15.900 environmental
00:32:16.840 review
00:32:17.400 I'm really
00:32:18.640 worried about
00:32:19.460 the signal
00:32:20.020 that this
00:32:20.420 is sending
00:32:20.860 to the
00:32:21.360 global
00:32:21.760 investment
00:32:22.320 community
00:32:22.980 we're
00:32:24.180 sending a
00:32:24.680 terrible
00:32:25.000 signal
00:32:25.420 to the
00:32:25.740 global
00:32:26.000 investment
00:32:26.360 community
00:32:26.820 you talk
00:32:27.580 to anybody
00:32:28.260 worth their
00:32:28.960 weight
00:32:29.300 who understands
00:32:30.280 resources
00:32:30.800 and the
00:32:31.160 resource
00:32:31.440 sector
00:32:31.860 and trade
00:32:32.620 between
00:32:32.960 Canada
00:32:33.400 and the
00:32:33.660 rest of
00:32:33.940 the world
00:32:34.300 especially
00:32:35.080 the complicated
00:32:35.880 relationship
00:32:36.460 we have
00:32:36.960 with our
00:32:37.200 neighbors
00:32:37.420 to the
00:32:37.720 south
00:32:37.940 and the
00:32:38.200 United
00:32:38.400 States
00:32:38.840 and we're
00:32:39.660 sending
00:32:40.020 all the
00:32:40.820 wrong
00:32:41.020 signals
00:32:41.480 for a
00:32:42.560 company
00:32:42.900 like Kinder
00:32:43.500 Morgan
00:32:43.880 to fight
00:32:44.680 for five
00:32:45.200 years
00:32:45.640 begging
00:32:46.400 money
00:32:46.900 into our
00:32:47.820 hands
00:32:48.400 getting
00:32:49.040 approvals
00:32:49.840 to twin
00:32:50.580 a pipeline
00:32:51.160 they literally
00:32:51.860 already
00:32:52.500 owned
00:32:53.020 and operated
00:32:53.820 for years
00:32:54.840 and to have
00:32:55.920 them walk
00:32:56.520 away
00:32:56.840 that's
00:32:57.780 enormous
00:32:58.180 that's like
00:32:59.760 Microsoft
00:33:00.280 saying you
00:33:00.900 know what
00:33:01.280 I'm not
00:33:01.840 dealing with
00:33:02.340 personal
00:33:02.780 computers
00:33:03.260 anymore
00:33:03.660 in this
00:33:03.980 country
00:33:04.280 I'm walking
00:33:05.140 away
00:33:05.480 that's
00:33:06.640 crazy
00:33:07.040 and so
00:33:08.120 that needs
00:33:08.820 to change
00:33:09.520 and so
00:33:10.060 to answer
00:33:10.500 your question
00:33:11.080 I'm really
00:33:11.960 worried about
00:33:12.500 the future
00:33:12.940 too
00:33:13.300 but ultimately
00:33:14.640 this is a
00:33:15.260 democracy
00:33:15.760 and the
00:33:16.620 cabinet
00:33:17.040 and the
00:33:17.360 prime minister
00:33:17.920 do represent
00:33:19.140 Canadians
00:33:19.680 and they need
00:33:20.360 to answer
00:33:20.760 to them
00:33:21.220 and so I
00:33:22.200 think the
00:33:22.560 best thing
00:33:23.120 that we
00:33:23.440 can do
00:33:23.980 is try
00:33:24.840 to convince
00:33:25.520 them
00:33:25.900 change
00:33:26.640 their minds
00:33:27.360 make them
00:33:27.960 realize
00:33:28.520 that our
00:33:29.400 economy
00:33:29.960 our livelihood
00:33:30.880 our way
00:33:31.520 of life
00:33:31.960 our amazing
00:33:32.680 standard of
00:33:33.260 living
00:33:33.500 all depend
00:33:34.860 on the
00:33:35.540 resource sector
00:33:36.360 at its very
00:33:37.040 foundation
00:33:37.640 where I'm
00:33:38.160 standing right
00:33:38.900 now
00:33:39.260 at its very
00:33:40.020 foundation
00:33:40.600 that they
00:33:41.560 wouldn't be
00:33:42.080 able to
00:33:42.720 fly to
00:33:43.660 New York
00:33:44.180 to address
00:33:44.980 the United
00:33:45.420 Nations
00:33:45.940 unless we
00:33:46.820 had jet
00:33:47.320 fuel
00:33:47.620 and unless
00:33:48.460 we had
00:33:49.000 those minerals
00:33:49.860 that were
00:33:50.240 mined out
00:33:50.720 of the ground
00:33:51.280 to build
00:33:51.860 those airplanes
00:33:52.800 and those
00:33:53.360 jet planes
00:33:53.980 like it
00:33:54.700 sounds simplistic
00:33:55.700 but it seems
00:33:57.020 like it's too
00:33:57.500 simple for some
00:33:58.480 people to get
00:33:59.300 and that's what
00:34:00.300 we really need
00:34:00.940 to push right
00:34:01.580 now is that
00:34:02.260 we've got the
00:34:02.780 government we've
00:34:03.280 got they're the
00:34:04.300 ones in power
00:34:05.000 they're the ones
00:34:05.820 that say they
00:34:06.680 want to get
00:34:07.140 this thing built
00:34:07.880 and so all we
00:34:09.180 can do is take
00:34:10.000 them at their
00:34:10.420 word and fight
00:34:11.360 as hard as we
00:34:11.960 can try to
00:34:12.540 convince them
00:34:13.140 and now
00:34:13.860 especially here
00:34:15.020 with the
00:34:15.300 Canadian Taxpayers
00:34:16.100 Federation that
00:34:17.080 we own this
00:34:17.800 thing so we
00:34:18.980 spent about
00:34:19.500 4.5 billion on
00:34:20.980 the one I'm
00:34:21.400 standing on
00:34:22.040 right now and
00:34:23.460 to actually
00:34:24.460 twin the thing
00:34:25.300 will cost between
00:34:26.180 7 and 9
00:34:27.480 billion dollars
00:34:28.380 you add all
00:34:29.640 that up
00:34:30.280 Sheila and
00:34:31.280 take a look at
00:34:31.880 what we could
00:34:32.320 have bought
00:34:32.680 for it you
00:34:33.760 add up that
00:34:34.320 money it's
00:34:35.420 staggering so
00:34:36.780 for every single
00:34:37.720 first nation
00:34:38.340 across Canada we
00:34:39.640 could have built
00:34:40.260 state-of-the-art
00:34:41.400 water treatment
00:34:42.400 facilities
00:34:42.880 and septic
00:34:43.980 systems four
00:34:44.960 times over for
00:34:46.280 what we just
00:34:46.880 blew on this
00:34:47.980 pipeline for no
00:34:49.160 reason we could
00:34:50.360 build sick you
00:34:51.200 know those really
00:34:51.800 fancy rec centers
00:34:52.960 that you see
00:34:53.440 nowadays the
00:34:54.060 Olympic-sized
00:34:54.540 swimming pools
00:34:55.120 and the hockey
00:34:55.560 rinks and
00:34:55.980 libraries and
00:34:56.460 the theaters
00:34:56.860 they just yeah
00:34:58.320 they just built
00:34:58.820 a really big one
00:34:59.420 in Calgary
00:34:59.880 we could build
00:35:00.960 67 of them
00:35:02.340 across Canada
00:35:03.440 we'd run out
00:35:04.440 of places to
00:35:05.060 stick it in
00:35:05.580 Nanaimo we
00:35:06.580 could rebuild
00:35:07.160 sick kids
00:35:07.700 hospital from
00:35:08.400 the ground up
00:35:09.240 three or four
00:35:10.100 times over in
00:35:11.200 Toronto like
00:35:12.240 for what we
00:35:12.700 just blew
00:35:13.420 unnecessarily on
00:35:14.700 this thing we
00:35:15.320 didn't have to
00:35:15.880 do this all
00:35:16.860 Trudeau needed
00:35:17.480 to do all the
00:35:18.180 Prime Minister
00:35:18.580 needed to do
00:35:19.280 was declare
00:35:20.060 paramountcy he
00:35:21.460 didn't even need
00:35:21.960 to pass a bill
00:35:22.580 would have taken
00:35:23.260 about a morning's
00:35:23.900 worth of work
00:35:24.380 is a term
00:35:24.980 called paramountcy
00:35:25.940 that's where he
00:35:26.700 says you know
00:35:27.120 what we're the
00:35:27.860 federal government
00:35:28.440 we have jurisdiction
00:35:29.440 over this pipeline
00:35:30.420 we're going to
00:35:30.980 enforce the rule
00:35:31.680 of law
00:35:32.140 Kinder Morgan
00:35:32.900 you've got your
00:35:33.540 green light go
00:35:34.180 for it that's all
00:35:35.240 that needed to
00:35:35.740 happen and they
00:35:36.300 didn't do it
00:35:37.000 so we've really
00:35:37.960 got to work hard
00:35:38.580 at convincing
00:35:39.060 them otherwise
00:35:39.740 unbelievable
00:35:41.840 now I said off
00:35:45.220 the top that you
00:35:46.060 are in the
00:35:47.180 belly of the
00:35:47.880 beast but I
00:35:49.300 don't really feel
00:35:50.060 like you're in
00:35:50.460 the belly of the
00:35:51.100 beast and the
00:35:51.600 reason I say
00:35:52.240 that is because
00:35:53.680 while I think
00:35:55.260 you are an
00:35:55.800 exceptional
00:35:56.240 individual Chris
00:35:57.240 I actually think
00:35:58.340 that you're
00:35:58.680 probably indicative
00:35:59.560 of the normal
00:36:00.680 BC-er and I
00:36:02.220 think sometimes
00:36:03.140 us in Alberta
00:36:04.120 and Saskatchewan
00:36:05.160 to a certain
00:36:05.800 extent we sort
00:36:06.980 of feel like
00:36:07.420 we're constantly
00:36:07.860 on the defensive
00:36:08.600 with the rest
00:36:09.220 of the country
00:36:09.820 the east is
00:36:10.660 trying to pick
00:36:11.160 our pockets
00:36:11.840 and the west
00:36:13.880 is trying to
00:36:14.580 block our
00:36:15.100 pipelines but I
00:36:16.700 don't think that
00:36:17.600 that's really
00:36:19.040 what it's like
00:36:20.780 on the ground
00:36:21.580 with the everyday
00:36:22.480 BC-er
00:36:23.220 that's absolutely
00:36:24.680 true so right
00:36:25.900 now I'm physically
00:36:26.700 standing in the
00:36:27.540 Frasier Valley
00:36:28.040 so we're in the
00:36:29.100 corridor where
00:36:29.760 Highway 1
00:36:30.320 comes through
00:36:30.980 Kinder Morgan
00:36:31.780 pipeline comes
00:36:32.440 through I think
00:36:33.040 there's two or
00:36:33.660 three natural gas
00:36:34.720 pipelines running
00:36:35.460 around me
00:36:35.920 somewhere it
00:36:36.860 is promoted
00:36:37.740 and supplied
00:36:38.840 by fishing
00:36:39.460 logging mining
00:36:40.320 you name it
00:36:41.100 it is a major
00:36:41.640 resource area
00:36:42.480 it really only
00:36:43.640 starts to get
00:36:44.500 anti-Alberta
00:36:45.540 when you cross
00:36:46.660 over the
00:36:47.440 Surrey-Langley
00:36:48.460 border
00:36:48.800 I'm not kidding
00:36:49.740 as you're driving
00:36:50.420 into Metro
00:36:51.040 Vancouver
00:36:51.460 it is you know
00:36:53.040 very supportive
00:36:53.800 of oil and gas
00:36:54.780 every time I do
00:36:55.440 streeters to go
00:36:56.260 ask people
00:36:57.000 what do you think
00:36:57.780 of oil and gas
00:36:58.460 what do you think
00:36:58.960 about the pipeline
00:36:59.560 what do you think
00:37:00.080 about Alberta
00:37:00.620 what do you think
00:37:01.120 about resource
00:37:01.620 development
00:37:02.060 it's very solidly
00:37:03.620 in favor
00:37:04.120 no matter how
00:37:04.760 they vote
00:37:05.220 and I mean that
00:37:05.820 it's very solidly
00:37:06.880 in favor of things
00:37:07.740 like that
00:37:08.200 right up until
00:37:08.920 you get to
00:37:09.660 the Fraser River
00:37:10.840 when you cross
00:37:11.880 over between Surrey
00:37:12.880 and over that
00:37:13.640 Portman Bridge
00:37:14.340 into Burnaby
00:37:14.880 that's where things
00:37:15.980 really change
00:37:16.740 and you can take
00:37:17.540 a look at it
00:37:18.100 on any sort of map
00:37:19.080 depending on how
00:37:19.920 people vote
00:37:20.560 or how they express
00:37:21.300 themselves in polls
00:37:22.180 and opinion polls
00:37:22.960 but most of BC
00:37:24.200 is with Alberta
00:37:25.660 on this
00:37:26.360 including First Nations
00:37:27.840 and people from
00:37:28.680 every ethnic
00:37:29.440 background and walk
00:37:30.660 of life
00:37:31.080 because most of them
00:37:32.280 depend on the
00:37:33.320 resource sector
00:37:34.100 even if they don't
00:37:35.060 work in it directly
00:37:35.860 and just to give you
00:37:37.000 an example
00:37:37.540 I remember back
00:37:38.700 when I was at
00:37:39.120 Sun News Network
00:37:39.820 doing a story
00:37:40.780 on a corporation
00:37:41.920 in New Brunswick
00:37:43.020 of all places
00:37:43.760 that built
00:37:44.980 modular houses
00:37:46.500 for Fort Mac
00:37:47.760 that is how they lived
00:37:49.400 they were amazing
00:37:50.520 they built these things
00:37:51.460 like Lego pieces
00:37:52.460 and then they shipped
00:37:53.300 them up to Northern Alberta
00:37:54.280 and stuck them together
00:37:55.220 their livelihood
00:37:56.560 depended on it
00:37:57.580 and they were almost
00:37:58.300 a world away
00:37:59.100 and so many people
00:38:00.680 it's funny
00:38:01.220 if you go around
00:38:01.960 the Atlantic Canada
00:38:02.780 Canadian provinces
00:38:03.760 their phone numbers
00:38:05.360 will be a 780 area code
00:38:07.460 or it'll be a Calgary area code
00:38:10.020 because they fly out to work
00:38:11.840 one of the major employers
00:38:13.300 in Atlantic Canada
00:38:14.360 is the oil and gas sector
00:38:16.540 in Alberta
00:38:17.260 and like we were here
00:38:18.620 with my own family
00:38:19.640 we always lived in BC
00:38:21.220 dad flew out to go to work
00:38:23.520 that was my early childhood
00:38:25.140 existence
00:38:25.680 of crying
00:38:26.300 when he'd leave
00:38:27.000 for so long
00:38:27.720 and so much of Canada
00:38:29.740 depends on it
00:38:31.180 and loves the oil
00:38:32.460 and gas sector
00:38:33.300 that I think it's easy
00:38:34.360 to just forget
00:38:35.560 that most of BC
00:38:37.380 is that way too
00:38:38.200 it's just the folks
00:38:39.220 who live in like
00:38:40.300 the heart of Metro Vancouver
00:38:41.600 and who pull the levers
00:38:43.360 of power in Victoria
00:38:44.440 they get an awful lot
00:38:45.720 of media
00:38:46.100 and it's easy
00:38:46.980 to start thinking
00:38:47.780 that you're full
00:38:49.160 of enemies here
00:38:49.820 you're really not
00:38:50.580 you know
00:38:51.800 you remind me
00:38:52.480 of the old joke
00:38:53.280 that Fort McMurray
00:38:54.420 is the largest city
00:38:55.780 in Newfoundland
00:38:56.980 it's so true
00:38:58.520 it's so true
00:38:59.780 well hey
00:39:00.480 there's that Robert Munch book
00:39:01.840 right
00:39:02.100 I forget what it's called
00:39:03.240 but it's all about
00:39:04.400 a family up in Fort Mac
00:39:06.000 and if you look carefully
00:39:07.380 in a little kid's bedroom
00:39:08.680 and look on their poster
00:39:09.660 there's the big flag
00:39:10.480 in Newfoundland there
00:39:11.520 they're eating fish
00:39:12.600 it's a Newfoundland family
00:39:13.820 that's living up in Fort Mac
00:39:15.160 yeah
00:39:16.100 I just think that's beautiful
00:39:17.540 it's really what
00:39:18.560 our country is all about
00:39:20.500 and it's a shame sometimes
00:39:21.760 that as Albertans
00:39:22.960 we sort of feel alienated
00:39:24.360 when we really have
00:39:25.740 a lot of friends
00:39:26.660 and allies
00:39:27.360 across the entire country
00:39:28.780 Chris I think I've taken up
00:39:30.460 enough of your time
00:39:31.660 it looks beautiful
00:39:32.680 so get out there
00:39:33.640 and enjoy your day
00:39:34.380 but I want to thank you so much
00:39:35.460 for coming on the show
00:39:36.780 I want to thank you
00:39:38.440 from the bottom of my heart
00:39:39.620 for writing that poignant article
00:39:41.320 and I want to thank you
00:39:43.060 for being such a strong advocate
00:39:44.740 for the forgotten man
00:39:46.860 and his family
00:39:48.080 thank you for having me on
00:39:50.260 and thank you for the work
00:39:51.480 that you do
00:39:51.960 to help these people
00:39:52.860 and their voices matter
00:39:54.380 and I really appreciate the time
00:39:56.620 thanks Chris
00:39:57.740 there you have it
00:40:00.540 Chris Sims
00:40:01.120 of the Canadian Taxpayer Federation
00:40:03.140 she's the BC director
00:40:05.460 and she's fighting
00:40:06.420 for families like yours
00:40:07.820 hey everybody
00:40:19.720 welcome back
00:40:20.500 now this is the part of the show
00:40:21.820 where Ezra normally reads
00:40:23.400 his viewer feedback
00:40:24.440 in other words
00:40:25.440 his hate mail
00:40:26.580 now I didn't actually
00:40:28.100 get a lot of interesting
00:40:29.620 hate mail this week
00:40:30.640 maybe I'm losing my touch
00:40:32.500 for irritating people
00:40:33.580 or maybe I'm just getting
00:40:34.540 desensitized to the amount
00:40:35.760 of gross things
00:40:36.520 that get slung my way
00:40:38.460 on the internet
00:40:39.100 so maybe
00:40:39.760 let's end the show
00:40:41.200 on a more
00:40:41.920 constructive note
00:40:43.500 I went to the comment section
00:40:45.200 of our rebel website
00:40:46.460 and twitter
00:40:47.100 to see what you guys
00:40:48.420 are saying about what we
00:40:49.840 are covering this week
00:40:51.320 now Ezra had a phenomenal
00:40:53.700 interview with
00:40:54.660 People's Party of Canada
00:40:56.480 leader Maxime Bernier
00:40:58.560 Wednesday night
00:40:59.380 if you haven't watched it
00:41:00.600 go back and do it
00:41:01.880 it's great
00:41:02.520 and it's out from behind
00:41:03.800 the paywall
00:41:04.320 for everybody to see
00:41:05.600 Ezra asked Bernier
00:41:07.000 some really pointed
00:41:08.120 tough questions
00:41:09.060 about immigration
00:41:10.220 and Canadian values
00:41:11.600 and the CBC
00:41:12.360 and the dairy cartel
00:41:14.100 and whether or not
00:41:15.220 Bernier thought
00:41:15.840 his new party
00:41:16.540 was too splittist
00:41:18.220 on twitter
00:41:19.280 Dr. Michael Popp
00:41:21.260 writes
00:41:21.660 I give Maxime Bernier
00:41:23.380 credit for the courage
00:41:24.760 to go on the rebel
00:41:25.700 when every other
00:41:27.380 conservative politician
00:41:28.660 hides under their desk
00:41:30.320 you know what doctor
00:41:31.660 I completely agree
00:41:33.740 with you
00:41:34.140 Bernier really wants
00:41:35.600 to set himself apart
00:41:36.960 from the often
00:41:37.840 cowardly conservative
00:41:39.420 establishment
00:41:40.240 and he wants to
00:41:41.560 take on the bias
00:41:42.560 in the mainstream media
00:41:43.800 so speaking directly
00:41:45.240 to potential supporters
00:41:46.760 all one million
00:41:48.020 and then some
00:41:49.000 of our subscribers
00:41:49.840 is a terrific way
00:41:51.280 to do that
00:41:51.960 and I thought that
00:41:52.880 interview was excellent
00:41:54.080 and I hope it inspires
00:41:55.560 others to have
00:41:56.520 Bernier's fearlessness
00:41:57.640 when it comes
00:41:58.860 to the mainstream media
00:42:00.360 now my colleague
00:42:01.660 Ben Davies
00:42:02.500 has a really great
00:42:04.040 video this week
00:42:04.880 about Ted Cruz
00:42:05.840 and his wife
00:42:06.600 being harassed
00:42:07.600 and heckled
00:42:08.380 out of a restaurant
00:42:10.040 in response to that story
00:42:12.020 Paul McCullough comments
00:42:13.840 this incident has been
00:42:15.820 great advertising
00:42:17.420 for the Republican Party
00:42:18.860 voters have a choice
00:42:20.420 between Republicans
00:42:21.600 and these unhinged
00:42:24.000 mental patients
00:42:24.940 you know Paul
00:42:25.980 I think you're right
00:42:27.260 the crazier the left is
00:42:29.080 the more the walk away
00:42:30.560 from the left movement
00:42:31.700 grows
00:42:32.200 so while public life
00:42:34.340 for high profile
00:42:35.180 conservatives
00:42:35.780 may become a little
00:42:37.080 more difficult
00:42:37.720 in the foreseeable future
00:42:39.820 it really is making
00:42:41.280 the fringe left
00:42:42.160 and the mainstream left
00:42:43.640 that's embraced
00:42:44.440 the tactics
00:42:45.160 of these lunatics
00:42:46.200 look more and more
00:42:47.440 like something
00:42:48.020 normal people
00:42:48.660 just don't want
00:42:49.920 anything to do with
00:42:50.940 so I guess
00:42:51.780 in that respect
00:42:52.800 the glass is half full
00:42:54.900 and on my video
00:42:56.620 about Bill Blair's
00:42:57.720 ongoing ignorance
00:42:58.720 about the crisis
00:42:59.980 on the Canadian border
00:43:01.140 and what that means
00:43:02.700 to Canada's newest
00:43:04.020 sanctuary city
00:43:05.000 Edmonton
00:43:05.620 Alan Peterson writes
00:43:07.300 welcome to Canada
00:43:08.760 America's septic system
00:43:10.860 flush twice
00:43:11.860 it's a long way
00:43:13.060 to Edmonton
00:43:13.700 you know
00:43:14.480 that is
00:43:15.300 a brutally honest way
00:43:17.120 of putting what's
00:43:17.960 happening
00:43:18.380 on the Canadian border
00:43:20.080 the people leaving
00:43:21.560 the United States
00:43:22.580 to claim asylum
00:43:23.840 in Canada
00:43:24.400 are already
00:43:25.320 illegally
00:43:25.920 in the United States
00:43:26.900 they don't qualify
00:43:28.540 for asylum
00:43:29.540 in the United States
00:43:30.540 they don't even
00:43:31.540 qualify for
00:43:32.200 permanent residency
00:43:33.300 because they couldn't
00:43:34.440 follow the rules
00:43:35.820 that got them
00:43:36.640 into the United States
00:43:37.720 in the first place
00:43:39.460 and all these people
00:43:40.840 who couldn't
00:43:41.340 obey the rules
00:43:42.440 follow the rules
00:43:43.600 and do immigration
00:43:45.700 the right way
00:43:46.380 in the United States
00:43:47.180 well now
00:43:47.740 they're in Canada
00:43:48.800 and headed to Edmonton
00:43:50.440 to use resources
00:43:51.420 Edmonton taxpayers
00:43:52.440 paid for
00:43:53.040 and the city
00:43:54.020 didn't even bother
00:43:54.840 to ask taxpayers
00:43:56.100 their opinion
00:43:57.260 before they did it
00:43:58.340 but I want
00:43:59.480 to ask them
00:44:00.540 and I need your help
00:44:01.460 to do it
00:44:02.000 you can go to
00:44:02.580 upholdthelaw.ca
00:44:03.860 where I'm trying
00:44:05.000 to crowdfund
00:44:05.800 a proper opinion poll
00:44:07.120 so that Edmontonians
00:44:08.320 can have their say
00:44:09.720 and every little
00:44:11.000 donation helps me
00:44:12.220 well everybody
00:44:13.260 that's the show
00:44:14.080 for this Friday
00:44:14.680 thank you everybody
00:44:16.280 so much
00:44:17.320 in the Toronto office
00:44:18.880 for helping me
00:44:19.840 put together
00:44:20.680 the show tonight
00:44:21.360 thank you so much
00:44:22.320 for tuning in
00:44:23.180 thank you for your
00:44:24.100 continued support
00:44:24.900 of what we do
00:44:25.580 here at The Rebel
00:44:26.340 and remember
00:44:27.380 don't let the government
00:44:28.840 tell you
00:44:29.380 that you've had
00:44:30.040 too much to think
00:44:31.240 thank you
00:44:46.120 for helping me