Juno News - December 12, 2022


Danielle Smith keeps triggering the left


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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.
00:00:45.760 Also, we're going to discuss this very sad, very pathetic attempt to try and protest the
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.
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.
00:09:14.140 Now speaking of embarrassing, sad, and pathetic, how about that supposed protest that was supposed
00:09:18.080 to happen at the Alberta legislative grounds?
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?
00:10:24.300 F*** off.
00:10:26.300 So you're gonna tell a news source in Alberta?
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.