Juno News - Alberta opposes Ottawa’s firearm protocol

00:00:00.000 good afternoon everyone and welcome back to the alberta roundup i'm your host rachel emmanuel

00:00:14.400 we have so much news to cover today so let's take a look at what we're going to be talking

00:00:17.760 about on today's episode alberta says the crown shouldn't prosecute firearms owners who purchased

00:00:22.640 their guns legally we're going to dive into the details on that one the province launched a public

00:00:27.920 task force to respond to addiction homelessness and public safety in edmonton canadian hunters are

00:00:33.600 safe for at least six more weeks and finally the united conservative party say a vote for ndp leader

00:00:39.440 rachel notley is a vote for justin trudeau all that and more happening now on the alberta roundup this

00:00:44.960 first story is arguably the biggest in alberta politics this week the alberta government is

00:00:49.520 recommending that crown prosecutor don't press charges against firearms owners who purchase

00:00:54.480 their guns legally before prime minister justin trudeau's order in council in may 2020 a news

00:01:00.160 release from the province on thursday said alberta is taking back constitutional jurisdiction for

00:01:05.040 handling charges under the firearms act and alberta's crown prosecutors will now determine

00:01:10.160 whether or not to pursue charges the release reads quote while respecting operational independence on

00:01:15.920 individual cases the new protocol issued by the attorney general provides prosecutors with guidance

00:01:22.080 on how to evaluate the public interest when determining whether or not to pursue charges

00:01:27.120 the province's new protocol says it's not in the public interest to proceed with prosecuting a

00:01:31.200 charge of possession of a banned firearm one one the accused lawfully obtained the firearm

00:01:36.320 or prohibited device prior to may 1 2020. two the firearm or prohibited device was reclassified as

00:01:43.360 prohibited on may 1 2020 and three when the accused has not been charged with any other offense

00:01:49.920 related to the possession or use of that firearm you guys are likely familiar with some of these

00:01:54.880 details by now in may trudeau announced that he was banning more than 1500 models of firearms

00:02:00.560 including guns explicitly used by sport shooters hunters and farmers the government put an amnesty in

00:02:05.760 place until october 2023 but when that amnesty expires albertans who still possess their legally

00:02:11.040 acquired property could face jail time under the criminal code alberta justice minister and attorney general

00:02:16.320 tyler shandro says albertans should not automatically be considered criminals because of a weapon they

00:02:21.520 purchased legally quote this new protocol for prosecutors will help prevent otherwise law

00:02:26.560 abiding individuals from facing criminal charges and potential time in jail at the same time law enforcement

00:02:32.960 and prosecution resources can be prioritized for actual violent and repeat offenders while not further

00:02:39.040 clogging our already busy courts moving into our next story here the united conservative party say

00:02:44.080 ndp leader rachel notley's comments calling on prime minister justin trudeau to quell the alberta

00:02:49.360 sovereignty act were no slip of the tongue earlier this month the ucp demanded an apology from notley

00:02:54.960 after she said trudeau should squash the sovereignty act legislation notley said quote i think if they

00:03:00.560 revoke the act that would be the right thing to do she said in response to a question about whether

00:03:05.120 prime minister justin trudeau should revoke the bill ndp spokesperson benjamin aldrich immediately walked

00:03:10.400 back those comments he said notley was referring to the provincial government aldrich told the cbc quote

00:03:15.840 to be clear the alberta ndp is calling for the provincial government to revoke bill one but we are

00:03:20.640 not calling for the federal government to disallow it but alberta's chief government whip brad rutherford

00:03:25.840 said notley's comments were no slip of the tongue quote rachel notley clearly called on justin trudeau to 0.98

00:03:30.880 revoke an alberta law and override the will of alberta's democratically elected legislature miss notley

00:03:36.400 didn't even bother proposing any amendments to the bill she wants justin trudeau to revoke albertans 0.97

00:03:41.520 deserve better than this from the opposition ndp who have a duty to contribute to the legislative

00:03:46.320 process ultimately all mlas in the alberta legislature are there to serve albertans not

00:03:52.240 justin trudeau the ndp might want to remind themselves of that moving into our next story

00:03:57.360 here you guys probably remember some of these details from a couple of weeks ago the city of edmonton

00:04:02.400 won't say by which form racist comments were made against edmonton mayor and marit sohi so he said

00:04:07.920 he received racist attacks in response to the city's joint decision with the edmonton downtown

00:04:12.320 business association not to install a christmas tree this year at the association's annual holiday

00:04:17.360 light-up event in response to a query from true north a city spokesperson said quote i'm unable to

00:04:22.480 confirm whether the mayor received messages by phone email mail or social media now the edmonton

00:04:27.200 downtown business association also said it was the subject of racist remarks the association's

00:04:32.720 executive director panina mcbryan told me that she received a combination of racist xenophobic and

00:04:38.800 some just outright nasty foul and aggressive language she said such comments were left on the organization's

00:04:45.120 social media accounts voicemails email and comments under media articles explaining the decision

00:04:50.880 not to have a christmas tree this year she also pointed to one letter to the editor published in

00:04:55.200 the edmonton sun which appears to have been deleted the letter says the edmonton downtown

00:04:58.880 business association should have adopted canada quote as is not with a dream of making it what

00:05:03.920 you chose to leave or perhaps you shouldn't have left your home country another letter published in

00:05:08.240 the edmonton sun shame the mayor for cancelling the tree quote then to make matters even worse

00:05:14.000 he says that people who don't agree with him are racist because they are upset once again shame on you mayor

00:05:20.160 as i've previously told you guys the edmonton downtown business association

00:05:23.600 decided not to have a christmas tree at its annual holiday event this year for the first time since

00:05:28.240 1999 and the city of edmonton said it wouldn't step in to provide a tree setting the environmental

00:05:33.840 impact of cutting down and transporting a mature natural tree moving into our next story here i have

00:05:39.120 a feeling some of you are going to be a little bit excited about this canadian hunters are safe for

00:05:43.760 at least six more weeks at least that's what one conservative mp told me when the house of

00:05:47.680 commons rose for christmas break this week pausing the public safety committee study on bill c21 now

00:05:54.240 we have talked about this a couple times i'm sure you guys are somewhat familiar with the details by now

00:05:58.320 during clause by clause consideration of bill c21 a couple of weeks ago the liberals introduced an

00:06:03.360 amendment to ban hundreds more models of semi-automatic shotguns and rifles including those primarily used

00:06:09.040 by hunters farmers and sport shooters considering the outcry over the legislation a bloc quebecois

00:06:14.240 mp on the committee put forward a motion on tuesday suggesting that the committee hear from

00:06:18.640 more witnesses about the specific amendment the bloc quebec quat mp christina michaud suggested two

00:06:24.000 more meetings to hear from witnesses but it's safe to say that conservative public safety critic

00:06:28.240 raquel dancio was less than impressed by this suggestion take listen to her remarks now what's

00:06:33.280 really frustrating for us as conservatives is this work should have been done by the liberal

00:06:36.960 government and their vast resources but now the committee as you know mr chair this is now our fourth

00:06:41.840 week talking about this we're going to have to go back sort of flip-flop through this backwards in

00:06:46.800 this committee process because they didn't do their homework and now they're sort of turning it around

00:06:51.920 and saying well okay we'll do it in two meetings so we have two meetings we barely scratched the surface

00:06:56.800 of the people that are impacted by this ban again the largest uh hunting rifle ban in canadian history

00:07:01.520 here uh we barely scratched the surface for people who don't know two meetings as you know mr

00:07:05.680 chairs about 12 witnesses 12 witnesses 12 witnesses i don't think that that's nearly enough so we just

00:07:13.360 feel that any suggestion that two meetings is adequate uh is i'm gonna say it i do feel that

00:07:20.240 it's offensive to the people that are going to be impacted by this it does not give them the dignity

00:07:24.400 of having a seat at the table because the house is now risen for christmas break the committee won't

00:07:28.880 get back to this amendment for another six weeks so you guys are safe with your guns for a little while

00:07:33.360 longer at least okay guys moving into the controversy of the week common sense calgary is calling a city

00:07:39.600 of calgary proposal to limit election signs ridiculous and self-serving ahead of a provincial

00:07:45.760 general election this spring calgary city council wants to limit election signs according to a motion

00:07:51.760 before the city's executive committee signs are placed temporarily for the purpose of elections

00:07:57.200 and sign proliferation creates visual clutter and unsafe distractions along highways

00:08:03.040 the motion says the majority of temporary election signs are made from single-use corrugated plastic

00:08:08.720 quote corrugated plastic signs are not accepted for recycling through city of calgary facilities

00:08:14.080 thereby generating high volume landfill waste council has declared a climate emergency

00:08:19.760 and has adopted a single-use item reduction strategy

00:08:23.440 for christy kohler executive director of the citizens advocacy group common sense calgary

00:08:28.400 says candidates in municipal elections rely on name recognition in the absence of political parties

00:08:34.000 quote incumbents as sitting councillors have huge amounts of taxpayers funding to help elevate their

00:08:38.320 profile and name recognition for many challengers their privately funded signage is their only chance

00:08:43.600 to compete this is an entirely self-serving proposition that will favor incumbent councillors

00:08:48.800 during the next election and should be dropped okay guys what we're watching in the weeks to come

00:08:53.200 the alberta government has launched a public task force to respond to issues of public safety

00:08:58.080 homelessness and addiction in the city of edmonton the government says the edmonton public safety and

00:09:03.600 community response task force will be funded by an 187 million dollar commitment as a response to

00:09:10.000 a city that's been hit especially hard here's mental health and addictions minister nicholas millican

00:09:14.720 explaining what the task force will do today we are establishing the edmonton public safety and

00:09:20.000 community response task force to improve public safety and tackle social issues meanwhile edmonton's

00:09:27.040 police chief dale mcfee has been very supportive of the government's move take listen to his remarks i

00:09:32.160 think this task force certainly as somebody that's been on the mental health and addictions task force

00:09:37.040 the human trafficking task force and the minimum standards and homeless this needs leadership and

00:09:41.840 leadership needs political will the fact that we have open-air drug use everywhere in front of the mall

00:09:48.480 that's not acceptable but what's also not acceptable is somebody with an addiction isn't going to go

00:09:54.400 straight to the justice system because that's not the answer for some of these folks but there's also

00:09:58.800 a disproportionate number of the criminal element that are influencing and preying on these people

00:10:03.040 so what you see here now is leadership real leadership to say this is enough to me that's encouraging

00:10:09.600 because not only does it take the enforcement arm in relation to it but it also needs the resources of

00:10:14.160 where to take people and you need to give people options and you need to have some accountability to

00:10:18.480 those options and that accountability doesn't have to be the justice system so that's what we're hoping

00:10:22.720 will happen quickly and i think at the end of the day we also have to work towards zero tolerance for

00:10:28.960 open-air drug use but not by using the justice system as the hammer but using as a multi-discipline

00:10:34.320 approach i've been around a long time this is the first time that i've seen the right ministers take the

00:10:39.680 right approach in my opinion to actually drive change and we need that public will to say you

00:10:44.800 know we got to try something different because every time i turn around there's another approach

00:10:49.680 that's not an evidence-based approach and unfortunately there's a lot of good people

00:10:53.200 working in this space what i see here is bringing coordination to something new that we don't have

00:10:58.800 and using all those resources as you see many of them here right now to say we're going to tackle

00:11:03.680 this differently and finally ending our show on a lighter note as always the united conservative

00:11:08.640 parties say a vote for ndp leader rachel notley is a vote for trudeau ucp mla rebecca schultz has the

00:11:14.240 breakdown a vote for rachel notley is a vote for justin trudeau and let me explain why federal ndp

00:11:21.360 leader jagmeet singh is rachel notley's boss now the ndp is a unique political party for conservatives

00:11:28.800 and liberals provincial and federal parties are separate that is not the case for the ndp in the ndp

00:11:35.440 it's all one big happy family so if you're a member of the federal ndp you become a member

00:11:40.800 of the provincial ndp and vice versa so if the ndp was a company jagmeet singh would be the president

00:11:48.640 and ceo which makes rachel notley kind of like a regional manager i'm pretty good on politics

00:11:54.240 schultz goes on to remind voters that federal ndp leader jagmeet singh opposes oil and gas mining

00:11:59.520 and modern agriculture while trudeau wants to phase out the oil sands now i'd love to tell

00:12:05.040 you what the alberta ndp think about this video but unfortunately they don't respond to media

00:12:09.040 requests from true north okay guys that's all i have for you today thank you so much for tuning in

00:12:13.600 if you support independent media you can visit us over at donate.tnc.news i'd also like to let you

00:12:18.880 guys know that there won't be an episode next week saturday as it is december 24th christmas eve

00:12:23.680 so i hope you guys all have a very merry christmas and i will see you in two weeks time thanks

00:12:27.440 so much have a great week and god bless

Juno News - December 17, 2022

Alberta opposes Ottawa’s firearm protocol

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