Juno News - December 12, 2022


Danielle Smith keeps triggering the left


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A province outside of Quebec and Ontario is daring to assert its constitutional authority over the federal government. The Alberta Sovereignty Act passed the third and final reading in the Alberta legislature on Thursday, and now awaits royal assent. Is this a good or bad thing?

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00:00:00.000 Welcome, everyone, to Ratio.
00:00:09.000 My name is Harrison Faulkner.
00:00:10.000 Well, Daniel Smith's Alberta Sovereignty Act officially passed on Thursday, and for
00:00:13.840 the past month, it has been exploding leftist heads across the country.
00:00:18.400 Particularly in Ottawa, where all the right people, I'm talking the Federal Cabinet, Justin
00:00:22.400 Trudeau, Jagmeet Singh, and the Laurentian legacy media, have all been losing it over
00:00:27.120 a province asserting its constitutional control over provincial jurisdiction.
00:00:31.600 On the show, we're going to go through some of the best examples of legacy media journalists
00:00:35.080 losing control over themselves, not able to handle the fact that a province outside of
00:00:39.080 Quebec and Ontario is daring to assert provincial jurisdiction.
00:00:42.760 They just can't control themselves.
00:00:43.760 They just don't know what to say.
00:00:44.760 They don't know what to do. 0.98
00:00:45.760 Also, we're going to discuss this very sad, very pathetic attempt to try and protest the 0.90
00:00:49.360 Alberta Sovereignty Act.
00:00:50.560 And thanks to the biased coverage of the Alberta Sovereignty Act, we're going to go through
00:00:53.680 what the Act is and what the Act isn't, because thanks to the journalists, there is a lot
00:00:57.440 of confusion out there about what is really inside the Alberta Sovereignty Act, what version
00:01:01.760 of the bill got passed on Thursday, and what didn't, because that seems to be the objective
00:01:06.800 now.
00:01:07.800 The objective now, at least from my perspective, is let's just confuse everyone as much as
00:01:11.280 possible to try and demonize this bill, to try and demonize the Alberta government as
00:01:15.680 much as possible, so that no one really knows what is actually going on.
00:01:18.560 We're going to go through all of that and more on the show.
00:01:21.120 But the common question for the episode is this, in your mind, is the Alberta Sovereignty
00:01:25.120 Act justified?
00:01:26.120 All right, let's get into it.
00:01:27.120 Well, despite the full court press put on by the legacy media, the Liberals in Ottawa and
00:01:30.960 the NDP, to demonize the Alberta Sovereignty Act and to demonize Danielle Smith, the Sovereignty
00:01:36.080 Act passed the third and final reading in the legislature, 27 to 7.
00:01:40.200 A significant number of NDP MLAs just decided not to vote, it turns out.
00:01:44.500 But the bill finally passed third and final reading, and the Sovereignty Act now awaits
00:01:48.660 royal assent.
00:01:49.660 Now, like I said at the beginning, there's a lot of confusion out there as to what the
00:01:52.580 Alberta Sovereignty Act is and what the Alberta Sovereignty Act isn't, and I believe that's
00:01:56.100 intentional from the legacy media.
00:01:58.240 The legacy media, in my opinion, have been trying to paint the bill as something that
00:02:01.240 it isn't, to try and make it out to seem like it's some grand constitutional overreach,
00:02:06.540 like it's some major constitutional violation.
00:02:08.660 Now, why don't we just go through what the Alberta government describes is in the bill,
00:02:12.420 the bill that got passed on Thursday.
00:02:14.160 The Alberta Sovereignty within the United Canada Act will only be used when Alberta's Legislative
00:02:18.340 Assembly debates and passes a motion that identifies a specific federal program or piece
00:02:23.480 of legislation as unconstitutional or causing harm to Albertans.
00:02:27.680 The government will ensure constitutional and legal requirements are met before steps are
00:02:31.780 taken to respond.
00:02:33.420 Government will respect court decisions if a response is challenged successfully in court.
00:02:37.680 Now, the government also lays out what the Alberta Sovereignty Act isn't, thanks to
00:02:41.260 legacy media coverage, which seems to have only confused Canadians.
00:02:45.100 The Alberta Sovereignty within the United Canada Act will not allow Alberta to defy Canada's
00:02:49.800 constitution.
00:02:50.800 It will not allow Alberta to separate from Canada.
00:02:53.400 It will not allow Cabinet to issue unconstitutional orders in council, including giving instructions
00:02:58.560 that are outside of provincial jurisdiction to provincial entities.
00:03:01.900 And it will not allow Cabinet to give instructions to private individuals or corporations that aren't
00:03:06.600 provincial entities to violate federal law.
00:03:08.840 And it isn't just the Alberta government that have now introduced legislation like this.
00:03:13.640 Saskatchewan also have introduced similar legislation to try and combat against Justin
00:03:17.200 Trudeau's federal government.
00:03:18.880 The Saskatchewan government call it the Saskatchewan First Act, and it was first drafted in early
00:03:23.540 November.
00:03:24.540 It's important to read how the government themselves described the legislation, because if you take
00:03:28.140 it from the Laurentian legacy media, well, as you'll see, you're going to get
00:03:31.600 a confused and most likely not accurate description of what's in the bill.
00:03:35.540 So here's how the Saskatchewan government described this piece of legislation.
00:03:39.180 The Act amends the Constitution of Saskatchewan to clearly confirm Saskatchewan's sovereign
00:03:43.580 autonomy and asserts Saskatchewan's exclusive legislative jurisdiction under the Constitution
00:03:48.560 of Canada over a number of areas, including the exploration of non-renewable natural resources,
00:03:54.240 the development, conservation, and management of non-renewable natural and forestry resources,
00:03:59.240 and the operation of sites and facilities for the generation and production of electrical energy.
00:04:03.780 As you can see, both Saskatchewan and Alberta have drafted legislation to try and combat
00:04:08.660 what they consider to be an overreaching federal government, a government that they feel has
00:04:12.620 consistently sidestepped provincial jurisdiction to impose on them federal government policies
00:04:19.360 that they feel are not in the best interests of their provinces.
00:04:23.360 Critics of the Alberta Sovereignty Act have stuck to three main arguments to oppose the
00:04:26.940 Act.
00:04:27.940 The three main arguments are that one, they consider it to be unconstitutional.
00:04:31.200 The second is that they believe the Alberta Sovereignty Act doesn't respect indigenous
00:04:34.760 rights and treaties.
00:04:36.080 And finally, critics of the Alberta Sovereignty Act are labeling it as a political trap to
00:04:40.240 try and bait Justin Trude and the Liberals into a political dogfight in the province.
00:04:44.520 Now, surely, the Alberta Sovereignty Act and similar legislation, which will likely come
00:04:48.120 up across the country, can't come as much of a surprise to the federal government and
00:04:51.640 the Laurentian legacy media.
00:04:52.960 After all, where do you start with why, perhaps, Albertans are so fed up with Ottawa?
00:04:56.960 Anti-oil, anti-pipeline, leave it in the ground liberal laws have destroyed oil sands production
00:05:02.100 over the past few years.
00:05:03.420 The government has crippled LNG exports coming out of the province.
00:05:06.580 Ottawa has been imposing emissions reduction targets on fertilizer and LNG.
00:05:11.120 Years of uneven and unfair healthcare and equalization payments have planted the seed of frustration
00:05:16.680 and alienation in the province, which has led to the Alberta Sovereignty Act.
00:05:19.880 And lastly, what about an unconstitutional federal gun grab on hunting rivals?
00:05:23.700 I can't imagine why Albertans would want to have a sovereignty act to protect their
00:05:27.420 best interests.
00:05:28.640 For weeks now, the Laurentian legacy media have deployed their very best propagandists
00:05:33.020 to try to spin the Alberta Sovereignty Act and to make it seem as though it's some grand
00:05:37.420 plot to form a breakaway state, to form a legislative coup.
00:05:40.480 It's embarrassing how desperate they are to try and paint this as something that it isn't.
00:05:43.700 Just look at the way this CBC journalist describes the Alberta Sovereignty Act and how the Premier
00:05:48.480 is shunning democracy.
00:05:50.440 He can't control himself, he's begging the federal government to do something.
00:05:53.540 To do something before the bill has even passed.
00:05:55.700 If the federal government is basically telling you to calm down and relax, then you've really
00:05:59.340 gone a bit too far here.
00:06:00.620 But after all, I bet you that's exactly what they want of David Cochran.
00:06:03.480 Danielle Smith is coming under fire for shunning democracy.
00:06:06.640 Her long-promised Sovereignty Act is supposed to shield the province from federal laws.
00:06:11.040 But it also contains sweeping new powers for her cabinet, including the power to change
00:06:16.240 provincial laws without going through the legislature.
00:06:19.240 But on its face you have a piece of legislation that allows the province to ignore federal
00:06:23.040 law, compel a string of provincial agencies to essentially do the same.
00:06:27.520 When you look at its intention, how is that acceptable in the Canadian system of government?
00:06:32.400 It's probably unprecedented in what it pretends to be able to do.
00:06:37.540 This is some kind of legislation that we haven't seen in provincial legislatures before.
00:06:42.580 But provincial governments introduce bills in their legislatures all the time.
00:06:47.660 Not like this though.
00:06:49.660 We've never seen anything like this before.
00:06:51.300 Right.
00:06:52.300 So it doesn't mean we have to rush around to some judgment.
00:06:54.940 We don't have to get ahead of our skis on this.
00:06:58.240 Let's hear the voices in Alberta.
00:07:00.080 Let's see ultimately what the legislature of Alberta decides to do with this.
00:07:05.120 Not like this before.
00:07:06.120 How is this acceptable in Canada?
00:07:07.320 How can we allow this?
00:07:08.320 How can we tolerate this?
00:07:09.640 By the way, that was the same David Cochran who graciously accepted a bowl of poutine
00:07:13.480 from Justin Trudeau for being a really good CBC journalist, for being a really good propagandist
00:07:17.920 for Justin Trudeau.
00:07:18.920 And for all of his hard work, the Prime Minister gave him a poutine.
00:07:22.000 How embarrassing.
00:07:23.000 How cringeworthy.
00:07:24.240 But perhaps the best example of the legacy media showing their true colors when it came to
00:07:28.000 the Alberta Sovereignty Act was when the CBC put together an at-issue panel without one
00:07:33.040 Albertan.
00:07:34.040 They discussed the Alberta Sovereignty Act without having the voice of one Albertan on
00:07:36.760 the panel.
00:07:37.760 Instead, they had Rosemary Barton leading the conversation, the true paragon of journalistic
00:07:41.360 ethics.
00:07:42.360 They had Andrew Antisocial Yob Coyne, and then they had the rest of the CBC panel just there
00:07:46.820 to criticize the Alberta Sovereignty Act without having one Albertan there to defend
00:07:51.320 the act itself.
00:07:52.440 Classic CBC, doing the bidding for their masters and not for the Canadians that pay for their
00:07:56.520 salary.
00:07:57.520 You know, she believes a lot of strange things, and it wouldn't be much of a stretch to add
00:08:01.280 this to it.
00:08:02.700 But it's clearly unconstitutional.
00:08:04.480 It clearly involves arrogating to the province powers that it does not have to sit in judgment
00:08:09.280 of federal law, to effectively decide which laws it's going to obey and which laws it's
00:08:12.740 not going to.
00:08:14.200 To order, not just to not enforce it, but to order everyone in the broader public sector
00:08:19.980 to basically disobey the law.
00:08:21.700 I guess on pain of being found guilty of obeying the law.
00:08:26.880 It's a fancy land.
00:08:27.880 It seemed, at best, amateurs, and at worst, completely, you know, lacking understanding
00:08:33.840 of how the Constitution works.
00:08:35.060 Take a look at this Toronto Star op-ed from Althea Raj, who was also on that CBC at-issue
00:08:40.240 panel.
00:08:41.240 Daniel Smith's Sovereignty Act eats at our trust in democracy.
00:08:44.160 Why aren't conservatives calling her out?
00:08:46.160 This past week offered another example of the deficit of truth, honor, and facts in our
00:08:50.240 politics with the introduction of the Alberta Sovereignty Act.
00:08:53.080 Oh, give me a break. 0.60
00:08:54.820 And from the Toronto Star, no less.
00:08:56.640 What a surprise there.
00:08:58.140 Where were they when the federal government decided to trample all of our rights?
00:09:01.660 Nowhere to be found.
00:09:02.520 They hand-held this government while taking money from the taxpayer all throughout COVID.
00:09:06.760 Now they want to come after a province daring to stand up to the federal government.
00:09:10.300 No surprise there.
00:09:11.300 You're nothing but propagandists, nothing but stenographers for the federal government. 0.98
00:09:14.140 Now speaking of embarrassing, sad, and pathetic, how about that supposed protest that was supposed 0.96
00:09:18.080 to happen at the Alberta legislative grounds? 0.96
00:09:20.060 Now the left were expecting thousands of people to protest the Alberta Sovereignty Act outside
00:09:24.160 of the Alberta legislature.
00:09:25.160 And it turns out actually that hardly anyone showed up and the majority of people that
00:09:29.100 did show up were in favor of the Alberta Sovereignty Act.
00:09:32.180 Talk about embarrassing.
00:09:33.280 Could it be perhaps that Albertans are actually in favor of the Sovereignty Act and the legacy
00:09:37.160 media is not telling the truth when they say that, oh, Albertans aren't really on board
00:09:40.740 with this act?
00:09:41.920 Could it be that the legacy media is not telling the truth?
00:09:44.780 Probably not, right?
00:09:45.780 They would never do that.
00:09:46.780 And the surprise attendance of a bunch of Daniel Smith-supporting Alberta Sovereignty
00:09:49.840 Act promoting protesters at the supposed Anti Sovereignty Act protest really got under
00:09:55.340 the skin of one protest organizer, Gil McGowan, who's a former NDP candidate.
00:10:01.300 Just look at his meltdown at the protest.
00:10:08.300 Hey, excuse me.
00:10:09.300 I'm with the Western Standard isn't it?
00:10:10.300 Hey, isn't this supposed to be a peaceful protest?
00:10:11.300 I'm full of hate?
00:10:12.300 Isn't this supposed to be a peaceful protest?
00:10:13.300 Hey, excuse me, I'm with the Western Standard, isn't it?
00:10:18.300 Hey, isn't this supposed to be a peaceful protest?
00:10:21.300 Isn't this supposed to be a peaceful protest? 1.00
00:10:24.300 F*** off. 0.99
00:10:26.300 So you're gonna tell a news source in Alberta? 1.00
00:10:28.300 You're not a news source, you're a propaganda source.
00:10:32.300 Sir, I disagree with your comments, sir.
00:10:36.300 I hope you keep your liberal job right.
00:10:38.300 This is supposed to be a peaceful protest.
00:10:40.300 Don't touch me, don't touch me.
00:10:42.300 You're a right-wing authoritarian propaganda news source.
00:10:49.300 It's supposed to be a peaceful protest.
00:10:55.300 Well, that was a cold dish of reality for those two, wasn't it?
00:10:59.300 I'd be pretty upset too if the legacy media had successfully convinced me
00:11:03.300 that the majority of Canadians, the majority of Albertans were against this sovereignty act
00:11:06.300 because as it appears in that video, and as it appears from what we now know
00:11:10.300 from that sad and pathetic protest, well, it looks like actually Alberta's on board.
00:11:15.300 Alright, that's gonna do it for us this week on the show.
00:11:16.300 Thank you so much for tuning in.
00:11:17.300 My name is Harrison Faulkner, and this is Ratio.