00:00:00.020Hey everyone, welcome back to the Alberta Roundup. I'm your host, Rachel Emanuel.
00:00:04.760We have some great stories for you guys today, unless you live under a rock.
00:00:09.160You likely know that Tucker Carlson was in Alberta for two events this week.
00:00:13.840I saw some of you guys there. I was privileged enough to be able to introduce the Premier at his event in Edmonton on Wednesday evening.
00:00:21.280And of course, the left is melting down that he was here and at Alberta Premier Daniel Smith's involvement in the event.
00:00:27.480And you guys might have heard that there was a shooter in Edmonton City Hall this week.
00:00:32.180All that and more happening now on the Alberta Roundup.
00:00:44.220Taking a look at our first story here, American journalist and pundit Tucker Carlson was in Alberta this week for two events, one in Calgary and one in Edmonton.
00:00:53.280He was joined by Conrad Black, Jordan Peterson and of course, Premier Smith.
00:00:58.700Tucker Carlson warned that federal policies like safe supply and assisted suicide are destroying Canadian society as is mass migration.
00:01:07.840As he pointed to the long wait times at hospitals and the lack of housing we have in the country for everyone coming here and the people already here.
00:01:17.640Take a listen to some of his comments now.
00:01:19.380This is a destruction of you and your culture and your beliefs and your children and your future as a country.
00:01:28.140Premier Smith was at both those events and at the event in Calgary, she promised to double Alberta's gas and oil production.
00:01:35.980The Premier said Alberta will bring in new baseload natural gas power this year, which she said will stabilize the power grid, which we all know has been having some issues to say the least.
00:01:46.120The Premier said, so I think we should just double down and decide we're going to double our oil and gas production.
00:01:53.660Where else does America want to get its oil from?
00:01:59.560Or do you want to get it from safe Canada?
00:02:02.060I think that we can do a lot to make sure that the Americans know that we are here to provide energy security.
00:02:07.420We are a great friend, great ally, great neighbor.
00:02:09.620And we just need to get the political leadership to realize that we are a friend.
00:02:14.860The Premier opened the panel by telling the audience and the media that just because she's on the panel doesn't mean she agrees with everything the other panelists have said.
00:02:24.780The Premier was hammered for sitting side by side with the infamous Tucker Carlson at a media conference the next day.
00:02:31.160I do want to ask about your attendance at both of Tucker Carlson's events yesterday.
00:02:34.460This is somebody who has been accused of defending white supremacy, spreading misinformation about the war in Ukraine, as well as making disparaging remarks about women.
00:02:41.980So why did you believe that this is someone that you should be giving time and attention to?
00:02:45.980Well, I take a wide range of media requests.
00:02:49.260I've done, I've been told by my staff, 96 individual media events or interviews since I got re-elected, 24 press conferences.
00:02:57.260And I don't require, I don't do a screening test to make sure that every person that interviews me matches 100% of what I believe.
00:03:05.820And I don't expect that they're going to, that that would be an appropriate thing to do.
00:03:10.660So I take a wide range of interviews from CBC all the way through to alternative media because my job is to get our message out about Alberta.
00:03:19.120And I told everyone that I wanted to make sure that somebody who has a very loud voice in America knew that we were a partner in being able to provide energy security and energy affordability.
00:03:33.680In one of the best moments of the event, Premier Smith told Tucker Carlson she's trying to get Federal Environment Minister Stephen Guibo fired and asked Carlson to put the minister in his crosshairs.
00:03:44.500The next day, Guibo said he was targeted by the Tucker Carlson event and claimed he is the victim of political violence.
00:03:51.640I mean, this goes beyond me and the fact that I was targeted last night at this event.
00:03:58.560This increases political violence against everyone who runs for office in this country.
00:04:04.580While Federal Transport Minister Pablo Rodriguez claimed the event was an example of, quote, extreme right, end quote, infiltrating Canada.
00:04:12.420Federal ministers weren't the only ones dismayed at Tucker Carlson's appearances in Alberta.
00:04:17.740There was also many pundits who melted down online.
00:04:20.960David Frum expressed his disappointment on X saying, quote,
00:04:24.060The thing that's so sad is that I thought Canada had passed the point where Canadians had to make do with cancelled US programming as if it were fresh and new.
00:04:31.700Former Federal Environment Minister Catherine McKenna also weighed in saying, quote, appalling.
00:04:36.920Danielle Smith encouraging American right-wing rage farmer with a massive base to attack a Canadian politician.
00:04:45.900And of course, Alberta NDP leader Rachel Notley, who announced last week that she's going to quit once a new leader is elected, also weighed in.
00:04:54.560Sat across from a man moments after he promoted white supremacy and disparaged immigrants.
00:05:00.680In a lengthy post on X, Notley also said, quote,
00:05:04.120The Alberta NDP strongly condemns everything Tucker Carlson stands for, and we stand strong against such division and hate.
00:05:11.200We will never stop fighting for what's just, and continue working tirelessly towards a future where every Albertan lives the genuine experience of their inherent value.
00:05:20.220And finally, in news that will shock you all, it appears that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made an appearance at the Tucker Carlson event, and he might even be a fan.
00:05:36.480Of course, that was the Prime Minister at a women's hockey game the day after the federal court ruled that his invocation of the Emergencies Act to quell freedom protesters was unreasonable.
00:05:47.260I've never seen anyone clap like that in my life.
00:05:50.400I think we should all be asking some questions about what is going on with Justin Trudeau to make him act in such a bizarre manner.
00:05:57.180Moving into our next story here, I guess I could label this the controversy of the week, but that label seems a little light for the material.
00:06:03.200There was an active shooter at Edmonton City Hall this week.
00:06:07.080Early Tuesday mornings, shots ran out, and a Molotov cocktail was thrown inside the building, leading to its immediate evacuation.
00:06:15.560Edmonton Police Services posted on X that they were investigating around 11 a.m.
00:06:20.020And during the incident, Edmonton City Councillors were inside a scheduled meeting of the Emergency Advisory Committee,
00:06:26.320and loud gunshots can be heard in a recording of the video.