Juno News - Carney bans independent media

00:00:00.000 Liberal candidate Mark Carney launched his campaign in Edmonton on Thursday by waging war

00:00:05.660 against the free press. I was denied access to the premises and asked to leave for simply attending

00:00:12.220 and perhaps being guilty by association. Alberta Premier Danielle Smith went to war against 0.97

00:00:19.100 Canada's proposed defence against the tariffs along with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's and

00:00:23.840 the other premiers' response to them. The Alberta government will also implement a policy it

00:00:29.360 initially passed through legislation in May, a program which will have 24-7 ankle bracelet

00:00:34.780 monitoring with GPS for repeat offenders out on bail to address the Liberal NDP's catch and release

00:00:40.700 policy. All of this and more on this week's episode of the Alberta Roundup. I'm your host

00:00:45.520 Isaac Lamoureux and it's always a pleasure to be here with you.

00:00:59.360 I know you're dying to hear about the Carney event, so I'll take you through my experience of what

00:01:03.880 happened now. So as some of you may know, Mark Carney announced his leadership campaign on Thursday

00:01:08.780 in Edmonton and the campaign kicked off at 12.30pm at Laurier Heights Community League. I was about

00:01:14.980 five minutes late because I was recording another show right before the event and when I arrived,

00:01:20.140 there was hardly parking within a few blocks of the Community League. And as I walked closer,

00:01:24.360 I saw a line of at least like a hundred people, so I thought to myself, wow, a lot of people are here

00:01:29.500 to support Carney. I had previously emailed the event organizers at 8am that morning to request media

00:01:36.100 access but received no reply. So hoping to figure out a way to skip the line as media, I tried to find

00:01:42.920 something that would suggest the possibility but there seemed to be no such mechanism and the doors

00:01:48.100 weren't even open. So eventually, Liberal MP George Chahal came out to address the line

00:01:54.180 and he said, sorry for the delay but we're just waiting for the police to come and that things

00:01:59.420 would get handled and get moving once they arrived. So I thought it was compelling that the police would

00:02:04.320 need to be at the event for it to proceed but perhaps this was standard practice at a federal event

00:02:10.360 of the sort. A minute or two later, I saw the counter signals Kian Bexty being escorted out by the

00:02:17.840 police. With him was independent journalist Mocha Bezergin but he was recording him so I wasn't sure if he was

00:02:24.060 being escorted out as well or just documenting what was happening. And the police escort created a

00:02:29.280 cosm and nobody was near the two journalists except me of course. As they got into their car, I crept

00:02:35.940 closer hoping to ask them what happened but before I had the chance, the police started questioning me.

00:02:40.700 I was just standing there. They asked me if I was with them and they asked me all these other questions.

00:02:44.880 I told them I wasn't with them. I gave them my name and I told them who I worked for which was of course

00:02:49.440 True North. And then the police woman who was questioning me, she was clearly messaging the

00:02:54.940 organizer and a minute or two later she came up to me and she said, you're not welcome here and you

00:02:59.920 need to leave. I asked why. I tried to reason with her and I was nothing but friendly to her but she 0.99

00:03:04.600 wouldn't tell me much. She just said that the organizers of the event did not want me there and

00:03:09.420 that it was a private event so I needed to leave. She kept repeating that. This is a private event.

00:03:13.280 You can't be here. Okay. Western Standard Journalist James Snell was also denied access to the event.

00:03:19.820 Keen Bextie, he took various videos of the event and in the following clip, you'll actually see the

00:03:23.780 two policemen that I spoke with as well. Here it is.

00:03:26.720 Do you guys know if you've been advised to leave? By nobody who's identifying themselves.

00:03:33.260 They're just random. A random dude came up and said that this fellow is well. If we have to leave,

00:03:39.920 I'm happy to leave. But nobody from whoever's book this has told us that they're actually an 0.90

00:03:45.440 authority figure. Just people that I think don't like us. So. Okay. You are trespassing.

00:03:49.940 Oh, okay. Okay. All right. Do you want to come up this way so you don't walk in front of all of them?

00:03:54.940 I don't. I don't. Sure. Yeah. Okay. Happy to. Yep. Can I stay with us? Okay.

00:04:00.740 What's your position in the campaign? No, no, no.

00:04:03.180 Sorry. They're going to come to your key. Yeah.

00:04:06.600 Come here. Come here. Come here. Come here. Come here. Come here. Come here.

00:04:10.400 Hi, George. Have you stolen anything lately?

00:04:13.000 Edmund.

00:04:14.000 Anyone wrong with this, sir? No. No.

00:04:19.400 Back this day? No, sorry. We're actually going to go with this. Oh.

00:04:24.400 This way. This way, sir. This way. This is the weirdest I've ever been treated.

00:04:32.400 If you want to keep home, you're welcome to, but you're going to have to be off the community property.

00:04:37.400 We'll have to pick up our car, and is that okay? Where is it?

00:04:39.400 It's just in the parking lot. We can drive, but thank you.

00:04:42.400 I don't know about that. Oh, sure. Yeah.

00:04:45.400 So the entire community center has trespassed us, or was it the campaign?

00:04:50.400 It's the private event. Yeah, the private event.

00:04:52.400 Okay, but they haven't booked this, like, playground.

00:04:54.400 No, but it is part of the property, so we're going to get you to see off the property.

00:04:59.400 Okay.

00:05:00.400 You're pre-filled from there, but...

00:05:02.400 Sure, yeah. Well, thanks for being so professional about this.

00:05:05.400 It's strange treatment from someone who wants to be the prime minister of this country.

00:05:14.400 Just right up ahead here.

00:05:18.400 And here's another video of Snell showcasing some journalism students also not getting let in.

00:05:22.400 Can you believe it?

00:05:23.400 I mean, I assume the journalism students aren't legacy media enough for Carney.

00:05:27.400 I mean, this is crazy stuff. Just watch this here.

00:05:30.400 So now we have journalism students trying to get in.

00:05:33.400 Great young people looking to make a start in media.

00:05:38.400 And it appears they are being restricted.

00:05:40.400 So hopefully they will be allowed in, these great young people.

00:05:44.400 So let me know what you guys think of Carney launching his campaign by banning independent media from even attending.

00:05:56.400 I mean, I can hardly even get through the sentence.

00:05:58.400 It's such a ridiculous stance.

00:06:00.400 I never would have thought that waging war on free press and independent media would be a way to kickstart your campaign.

00:06:06.400 And also, do you think anything negative will result of this?

00:06:09.400 Or is this just business as usual for the liberals?

00:06:13.400 Yeah, that was fun.

00:06:14.400 I wish we could start every episode with story time.

00:06:16.400 But hopping into the news from Alberta this week.

00:06:19.400 As you can imagine, President-elect Donald Trump's tariffs have dominated the headlines.

00:06:24.400 And Smith has taken a surprising stance against not only the tariffs but Trudeau and even the other premiers.

00:06:29.400 So following her meeting with President-elect Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago, which was thanks to an invite from Shark Tank star and her recent business partner Kevin O'Leary, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith came back with the slightly surprising news that the proposed tariffs were imminent.

00:06:44.400 I honestly thought Smith would return from her meeting with Trump with better news.

00:06:47.400 But less surprisingly, she said that Canada would have to leverage its energy muscle to avoid the tariffs or to deal with them once they're in place.

00:06:55.400 Smith said that because of Trudeau's announced resignation, she's actually been speaking with U.S. administration independently.

00:07:01.400 She reiterated that this was the very reason she was calling for an immediate election.

00:07:06.400 Then Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Jolie said that, quote, everything's on the table when asked about cutting off energy supply to the United States.

00:07:14.400 Smith said a few things in response to this.

00:07:16.400 Firstly, that oil and gas is under provincial jurisdiction and this would not be happening.

00:07:21.400 She also suggested that Jolie pick up a map to look at where the Enbridge Line 5 travels.

00:07:26.400 If supply to the United States were cut off, so too would supply to Ontario and Quebec.

00:07:31.400 Smith said, quote, you should never, ever threaten something you can't do.

00:07:36.400 She added, quote, there's no point in making empty threats that cannot be executed on and we cannot do anything that harms Canadians in any substantial way.

00:07:45.400 Smith also said she does not expect Alberta to be granted any tariff exemptions despite being an energy exporting behemoth.

00:07:52.400 Smith will be attending Trump's inauguration in person on January 20th.

00:07:57.400 And on the opposite end of the spectrum, Trudeau is having his last cabinet retreat in Quebec on the same day Trump is sworn in.

00:08:04.400 So it gets even more surprising with this next bit about Smith.

00:08:08.400 And I mean, this one took me by complete shock.

00:08:10.400 So a few days after the previously mentioned statements, Trudeau and the premiers met on Wednesday.

00:08:15.400 Smith was attending the conference virtually and she did not attend the closing press conference.

00:08:21.400 Following the conference, all of the premiers and the prime minister released a joint statement of the Canada United States relationship.

00:08:28.400 Well, not exactly all of them.

00:08:30.400 At the bottom of the statement, it reads, quote, the government of Alberta did not approve the joint statement between the government of Canada and the Council of the Federation.

00:08:39.400 I mean, wow.

00:08:40.400 And in case you've forgotten, the Council of the Federation is Canada's premiers.

00:08:43.400 So this means that Smith opposed all of the premiers and the prime minister.

00:08:47.400 Their joint statement had various quotes that touched on several things like the border issues and Canada reaching its 2% NATO spending target as soon as possible.

00:08:56.400 But it didn't say anything really that shocking that Smith would have to oppose it.

00:09:01.400 So that was really surprising.

00:09:02.400 But she did go on to release her own statement.

00:09:05.400 She said, quote, federal government officials continue to publicly and privately float the idea of cutting off energy supply to the U.S.

00:09:13.400 and imposing export tariffs on Alberta energy and other products to the United States.

00:09:18.400 Until these threats cease, Alberta will not be able to fully support the federal government's plan in dealing with the threatened tariffs.

00:09:25.400 Smith said that Alberta will not agree to export tariffs on energy or any product and will not support banning these products.

00:09:33.400 She said she would do anything in her power to protect Albertans from such destructive federal policies.

00:09:39.400 She added that the whole country should use the threat as an opportunity to fix Canada's, quote, misguided direction and start supporting infrastructure projects that support oil and gas.

00:09:50.400 She concluded by saying, quote, I will be traveling to Washington, D.C. this week for the inauguration and will be returning to the United States several times over the coming months to meet with U.S. lawmakers and officials to continue to make the case against the imposition of tariffs on Canadian products and to strengthen and grow the trading relationship between our two great and independent nations.

00:10:11.400 Let me know in the comments what you think about Smith standing up, not only to Trudeau, but now against all the other premiers.

00:10:18.400 So sticking with provincial news, the Alberta government has taken its next step in fighting Canada's catch and release bail system that has let high risk and repeat offenders roam free.

00:10:27.400 This is by implementing the provincial ankle bracelet electronic monitoring program, which came on Wednesday.

00:10:34.400 The program will allow offenders and accused who are deemed a public safety risk to be subject to court ordered 24 seven electronic monitoring by Alberta Correctional Services.

00:10:44.400 Alberta Public Safety Minister Mike Ellis said, quote,

00:10:47.400 You might remember that Canada's provincial and territorial premiers previously called on the federal government to reform the bail system.

00:11:17.380 following various murders by those out on bail.

00:11:20.380 Then the federal government shifted the blame to the provinces, saying it was up to them to fix the crime issues caused by the catch and release bail system.

00:11:28.380 The Alberta government said ankle bracelet monitoring will help secure offender restricted areas such as victims residences, places of employment and other areas deemed off limits by an accused bail release conditions.

00:11:41.380 The previous system saw probation officers monitor high risk individuals only during regular business hours and did not include GPS monitoring.

00:11:50.380 Alberta's Justice Minister Mickey Amory repeated the call for bail reform.

00:11:54.380 He said, quote,

00:11:56.380 Alberta's government continues to call for federal bail and sentencing reform to stop violent criminals from reentering our communities.

00:12:02.380 The Alberta government allocated $2.8 million to cover the implementation costs for the 2024-25 fiscal year.

00:12:10.380 Alberta previously released a provincial police force plan and stricter penalties for repeat offenders.

00:12:15.380 Bill 11, which was part of the previous announcement, provides legislative amendments to establish the ankle monitoring program for violent and sexual offenders out on bail.

00:12:25.380 The ankle bracelet monitoring program is part of the Alberta United Conservative Party's Safe Streets Action Plan.

00:12:32.380 The plan was put forward in their 2023 election campaign and has various measures to increase public safety.

00:12:38.380 So that wraps up our stories for this week.

00:12:40.380 I'm really looking forward to the comments this week on the questions that I've raised.

00:12:44.380 But bringing it back to last week's comments, let's hop in to the comment roundup.

00:12:48.380 The first comment I'll highlight from last week comes from at Bumpsy58, who said, quote,

00:12:53.380 Advances in technology should be the primary focus.

00:12:56.380 In the meantime, hybrids are a good path. 1.00

00:12:58.380 Fully electric cars are not suitable for Canadian geography and climate.

00:13:02.380 Or for that matter, the electrical grid cannot sustain that surge in power usage.

00:13:07.380 Yeah, I decided to highlight this because of how closely it aligns with what Energy Minister Brian Jean said when I interviewed him.

00:13:13.380 Essentially, he said that the Liberals are trying to supersede technology with emissions reduction goals that will obliterate Canada's economy and job market.

00:13:21.380 Whereas if they were a bit more patient, technology would catch up and emissions reduction would follow suit.

00:13:26.380 And time is not of the essence.

00:13:28.380 We've seen research showing that carbon taxes and emissions reductions tactics of the like do little to nothing to reduce emissions.

00:13:35.380 And in Canada's case, even increase emissions.

00:13:38.380 On top of that, Canada's impact on global emissions is negligible at best.

00:13:43.380 And in reality, we could have more of an effect by being pro energy and supplying our responsible clean energy over that of dictatorships from their coal plants.

00:13:53.380 The next comment comes from at Thomas Herman 12, who said, quote, Alberta will be both stronger and have greater freedom as a U.S. state.

00:14:01.380 We would have to start as a territory, but statehood would be achieved swiftly.

00:14:05.380 The American Constitution is better than the Canadian one by a country mile.

00:14:10.380 Alberta 51.

00:14:11.380 Yeah, Thomas.

00:14:12.380 So I decided to highlight your comment, but it could have been any number of comments from the last video of people suggesting that Alberta separate from Canada and become the 51st state to bolster our economy, security and other things.

00:14:24.380 I wonder what this would result in for Albertans and how negatively the rest of the country would be affected without Alberta's oil and economy.

00:14:31.380 In fact, I thought this was a widespread belief in Alberta, but a recent poll suggested otherwise.

00:14:37.380 So a recent poll conducted by the Angus Reid Institute highlighted that 90% of Canadians do not want to become the 51st state.

00:14:44.380 And OK, that's a pretty high number, but I thought Alberta would be an anomaly. 1.00

00:14:48.380 And it was, but not to the extent I had imagined.

00:14:51.380 Alberta favored separation the most, but still only 18% of Albertans said that they would vote for Canada to become the 51st state in a referendum.

00:15:01.380 This was the most among any province, but it was much lower than I expected.

00:15:05.380 Let me know what you think.

00:15:07.380 The last comment comes from Vinny379L4, who said, quote, never again with NDP in Alberta.

00:15:13.380 Never forget what Notley did to this province.

00:15:16.380 Yeah, this is a sentiment I've highlighted before, but something I think Albertans who lived here during the NDP's reign will never forget.

00:15:23.380 That being the economic ruin that the Alberta NDP put the province in and how much poorer everyone was during their tenure and thereafter.

00:15:31.380 However, as I've previously mentioned with immigration, there are a lot of new Albertans who may not have lived here during the NDP's rule.

00:15:38.380 And so they may not have the same strong held opinions as so many Albertans do.

00:15:42.380 Before Rachel Notley took office in 2015, conservatives in Alberta had held office for 44 years straight.

00:15:49.380 Given how poorly the NDP's recent reign was in Alberta and how vehemently rural Alberta is against the Alberta NDP.

00:15:57.380 I was meaning to ask you guys if you think there will be another multi-decade rule of conservatives in Alberta or what will end up knocking them out of office eventually, if anything.

00:16:07.380 That wraps up our comment roundup in this week's show.

00:16:10.380 My name's Isaac Lamoureux, your host of the Alberta Roundup.

00:16:13.380 Have a great weekend.

00:16:14.380 Thank you and God bless.

00:16:16.380 May Alberta prosper strong and free.

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Juno News - January 18, 2025

Carney bans independent media

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