Juno News - December 23, 2023


Danielle Smith trashes Trudeau's EV mandate


Episode Stats

Length

10 minutes

Words per Minute

177.86116

Word Count

1,896

Sentence Count

116

Hate Speech Sentences

2


Summary


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Hey everyone, welcome back to the Alberta Roundup. I'm your host, Rachel Emanuel.
00:00:04.160 We have a great show for you guys today. I thought there wouldn't be a lot of news headed into
00:00:08.500 Christmas, but there is never any shortage of controversy in Alberta. Taking a look at what
00:00:14.060 we're going to be talking about on today's show. A Medicine Hat High School is receiving backlash
00:00:18.340 after students sought instructions for how to safely prepare illicit substances for consumption.
00:00:23.920 The chief of Edmonton Fire Rescue Services says there's an unacceptable number of serious
00:00:28.800 injury-causing and even fatal fires in the city's homeless encampments. And finally,
00:00:34.100 Canada will have to be zero emissions by 2035 under a new electric vehicle availability standard.
00:00:40.580 And you better believe that Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has some thoughts.
00:00:44.460 All that and more happening now on the Alberta Roundup.
00:00:46.760 Starting with our first topic here, a Medicine Hat school is receiving backlash after students
00:01:01.180 were given pamphlets informing them how to safely consume illicit substances. Pamphlets included
00:01:07.260 information on quote, safer crystal meth smoking, safer crack smoking, and safer snorting. The material
00:01:15.140 was made available by a booth from Safe Link, Alberta, a harm reduction organization. The pamphlet
00:01:21.540 was among several distributed at a wellness booth at the school earlier this month. Sarah Anderson,
00:01:26.760 a parent at the high school, told Chat News she was disappointed with the pamphlet, adding that she was
00:01:31.480 so mad and that the information was inappropriate for high school students. Safe Link said pamphlets were
00:01:36.780 not actively handed out and were removed from the booth after a request by school administrators
00:01:42.000 within an hour of the start of the event. In a letter addressed to parents, Principal Dean Brown
00:01:47.100 apologized. He said quote, to be clear, we are not okay with content being shared in our school
00:01:53.220 and we are committed to doing better. We want to share a sincere apology with our students and
00:01:58.800 families. In a statement, Safe Link said that students using amphetamines is not uncommon across
00:02:04.340 southern Alberta. Safe Link said quote, in sharing this information, our intention is not to promote
00:02:10.460 substance use, particularly in youth. Instead, Safe Link said they hope the information would be used
00:02:16.020 by students who are already using to prevent disease transmission and overdose deaths. Mark
00:02:21.740 Davidson, the superintendent of the Medicine Hat School Division, said the pamphlet came as a surprise.
00:02:27.740 He said quote, as a father, educator, superintendent, and member of our community, I was angered by the
00:02:33.680 materials Safe Link displayed for students. He said the materials were not reviewed ahead of time by high
00:02:38.980 school staff and that they will now work harder to make sure they screen what comes into schools.
00:02:44.660 He added quote, as a result of this incident, we are redoubling our efforts to ensure all outside
00:02:50.020 agencies understand the need for caution, respect, and sound judgment when they are guests in our
00:02:55.620 schools. Moving into our next story here, the Edmonton Fire Rescue Services says there is an
00:03:00.500 unacceptable number of serious injury-causing and even fatal fires in the city's homeless encampments.
00:03:07.580 Joe Zatlany described the camps as extremely unsafe for the people living there, as well as for the
00:03:13.580 fire rescue service and the surrounding neighbors. Zatlany said there are issues of crime and safety,
00:03:19.700 particularly in the camps that are close to the river valley or near buildings. He described what
00:03:24.340 it's like for the fire rescue services when they have to attend an incident in one of these
00:03:28.480 encampments, saying quote, they're made of materials not meant to build, tents and structures.
00:03:34.200 There's all sorts of storage and materials and items that can easily explode in these structures.
00:03:39.820 People are cooking in them and they're struggling with all sorts of issues, right from addictions
00:03:44.180 to mental health. And it is an extremely unsafe situation and presents many challenges for our
00:03:50.360 first responders. Our firefighters have risen to this challenge and continue to do incredible work
00:03:55.180 for our most vulnerable. He said the people living in these structures need more resources
00:03:59.840 and the encampments need to be taken down immediately. Alberta Premier Daniel Smith responded
00:04:05.060 to the chief's comments, saying they are another example of how quote, organized crime operating
00:04:09.980 drug markets is making encampments dangerous for our most vulnerable and the surrounding community.
00:04:14.700 Moving into what we're watching in the weeks to come, the federal government has announced
00:04:18.180 that it will appeal the federal court's decision to overturn its plastic span. Alberta Premier Daniel
00:04:23.900 Smith said her government will keep fighting for what's right. Here's what that sounded like.
00:04:29.120 Alberta will keep standing up for what's right. And in this case, what's right is the fact that
00:04:33.580 plastics aren't actually toxic. If they were, they wouldn't be in nearly every product in the economy.
00:04:40.180 And Alberta can't regulate, or Ottawa can't regulate whatever it wants by arbitrarily classifying
00:04:45.220 something as a toxic substance. But we shouldn't be surprised by this, which should come as no surprise
00:04:50.800 to Ottawa that we intend to continue pushing back on their unreasonable and unconstitutional orders.
00:04:56.600 We were interveners in the original case, and we will stay involved throughout the appeals process.
00:05:01.880 The stakes are too high to do anything less. If Ottawa's approach ultimately wins, it will be a
00:05:06.700 disaster for Alberta's and Canada's economy. It would destroy our petrochemicals industry,
00:05:12.580 driving away tens of billions of dollars in investment and eliminating tens of thousands of jobs.
00:05:16.940 And it will harm the progress that's occurring in plastics, reuse and recycling.
00:05:21.620 Ottawa should listen to these objections. They come from the courts and the constitution and the
00:05:26.720 provinces and the people Ottawa claims to serve. And finally, moving into the controversy of the
00:05:31.280 week, the federal government has announced that all new vehicles in Canada must be electric vehicles
00:05:36.780 by 2035. That falls under its new electric vehicle availability standard. The federal government is
00:05:43.340 pitching the program as a means to ensure that EVs are available quickly for people who want to get
00:05:48.640 them, which is interesting when you consider how little uptake there's been on electric vehicles
00:05:53.440 in Canada. Alberta Premier Danielle Smith said her government will do everything within its legal
00:05:58.760 jurisdiction to thwart implementation of the unconstitutional regulations in the province.
00:06:03.920 She added, quote, in another show of total disregard for the well-being of Canadians,
00:06:10.060 the federal government has unilaterally imposed an unconstitutional edict with a bizarrely impossible
00:06:15.800 timeline that will result in massive increases in the cost of vehicles and utility bills, vehicle
00:06:21.860 rationing and weightless, increased cost to businesses and elevated difficulty and safety risk for
00:06:28.040 hundreds of thousands of Albertans and Canadians just trying to get to work and family activities
00:06:32.680 in our unpredictable and often cold climate. Later on, while speaking about the announcement on the
00:06:38.440 Sean Newman podcast, Premier Smith said that soon Canadians will have to put their name on a list
00:06:44.100 at the beginning of the year in hopes of being able to get a new vehicle. Take a listen to her
00:06:49.280 comments for yourself. I'm beginning to wonder what in the world, why this federal government has handed
00:06:54.320 over all of the reins of decision making to somebody who is so clearly destructive, destructive
00:06:59.460 national unity, destructive to our economies. I was on a show on the weekend and I said, you know,
00:07:04.440 maybe the rest of the country doesn't have a lot of sympathy for Alberta because we have been a
00:07:08.840 major oil and natural gas producer and it has caused tension because we are so wealthy. But if they
00:07:13.960 allow Gibault to come and kill our principal industry, it'll be their industry next. And we're
00:07:19.280 seeing it. They're about to set out on destroying the auto manufacturing industry with aggressive targets
00:07:24.980 that everyone is going to have by electric vehicles as their new vehicle by 2035. There's no way to
00:07:31.280 to force people to buy electric vehicles. So it just means what they're going to do is start
00:07:35.660 ratcheting down the amount of production they do on regular cars. We're entering into a world where
00:07:40.420 we're going to literally have to sign up at the beginning of the year because they're going to
00:07:44.760 ration the number of vehicles that are sold into a given market. This is crazy.
00:07:49.280 Okay. And finally, you guys moving into our weekly comment roundup. Jim BD said, I am in complete
00:07:55.240 agreement with Premier Smith's assessment of Gibault. He is a zealot, an extremist, and he hasn't changed
00:08:01.140 from his days in Greenpeace. On top of that, he and his crowd are dead wrong about the imminent threat
00:08:06.660 of climate change. Yes, it is a problem, but not one that threatens our immediate future as Gibault
00:08:12.780 and his band of climate alarmists would have us believe. User KT Jane wrote, great job, Rachel.
00:08:18.460 I am so tired of the woke BS. I've watched both those documentaries and Aaron Gunn has done an
00:08:24.480 incredible job in reporting what's really going on. I live in BC and it's horrible what is going on
00:08:30.340 here at so-called Safe Supply. What a joke. Don't have a favorite song, not really an X-mas person,
00:08:36.220 sorry. I agree that we need prayer and lots of it. For those of you who missed last week's episode,
00:08:41.420 I encouraged all of you to go watch Aaron Gunn's documentaries. I believe you can get them for
00:08:45.320 free on YouTube. Canada is dying and Vancouver is dying is a two I recommended. Now those are not
00:08:50.600 necessarily some light material for Christmas, but nonetheless, I always encourage you guys to
00:08:54.840 stay educated and I think that you would all really appreciate the information you can find in the
00:08:59.220 films if you haven't seen them already, especially if you're wondering why our cities are looking so
00:09:04.220 badly right now with the many homeless encampments that we're seeing and the extreme rise in violent
00:09:08.840 crime. Lastly, I just want to thank you guys for your Christmas song suggestions. You guys really
00:09:14.000 understood the assignment and I have some great additions to my new playlist. Also just a shout
00:09:18.720 out to the person, I don't remember who it was, who recommended Boney M, Zion's daughter. I've been
00:09:23.380 listening to Boney M since before I could speak. I listen to them every year. One of my favorite
00:09:28.060 Christmas albums for sure. My brother kind of makes fun of me for that. He doesn't think they're very
00:09:31.800 good. Actually, I noticed that last year and this year they performed in Alberta. So I'm wondering if
00:09:37.020 they do that every year. I had hoped to go, but I actually can never find anybody who wants to go
00:09:41.000 with me. So let me know if you're a big Boney M fan. Maybe we'll have to make that arrangement to
00:09:45.680 go together next year. Okay guys, that's all I have for you today. Thank you so much for tuning
00:09:49.620 into the Alberta Roundup so close to Christmas. I hope that you all have a very blessed Christmas
00:09:54.260 celebrating with your friends and family. As always, if you enjoy our work over at True North,
00:09:59.580 you can support us over at donate.tnc.news. Thank you so much. Have a great weekend. God bless.
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