Juno News - Here's my personal review of David Bexte's speech

00:00:00.000 Hey there, I'm Kian Bextie. This is The Counter Signal. And today we are going to be reviewing

00:00:09.620 and live reacting to a speech you may have already seen before. I'd be surprised if you hadn't,

00:00:14.400 because this speech has been one of the most viewed political moments in the country since

00:00:19.960 the election. It might be the most viewed speech since the election, actually, aside from maybe

00:00:26.640 King Charles's own speech that he delivered on behalf of Mark Kearney in the Senate building

00:00:31.380 just a week ago. This speech that I'm talking about is what was delivered by my father, David Bextie,

00:00:37.880 in Parliament. He's right now a rookie member of Parliament for the Conservative Party.

00:00:44.200 And we'll go through the speech, which you may have seen already. I want to live react to it.

00:00:49.520 I grew up in the region that he is talking about in this speech. So I understand a lot about the

00:00:58.340 people that he's speaking on behalf of, and why I think the speech that he gave resonated so much

00:01:06.240 with Canadians. It was a shock to me to see, obviously, my dad, who I grew up with, delivering 1.00

00:01:14.960 a speech in the House of Commons, for one. I mean, that's kind of weird for anyone. But to see it

00:01:20.220 be him and this guy that I grew up with and look up to, see it be so well received by the country

00:01:29.560 was really humbling. It did show, just to pontificate a little bit, it did show that there was

00:01:37.180 still a very clear divide in this country. The mainstream media wants Canadians to think that,

00:01:44.880 oh, you know, Mark Carney's in now. This is a new era. This is a new government. And we've put

00:01:51.580 the silly times of Justin Trudeau behind us. Now we have serious good government. But in reality,

00:01:59.420 the people that saw the speech and shared it to millions of people, they have a different idea of

00:02:05.340 what's going on right now. They watched the election, and they were disappointed by the

00:02:11.300 results. And then they continued on with their lives, and things were still bad. They still are

00:02:18.600 struggling to afford groceries. They're still frustrated by traffic. They're still frustrated

00:02:24.340 by wait times in their hospitals, seeing the fentanyl crisis explode. They're frustrated seeing this

00:02:31.560 country be re-illustrated by the liberal government, who, as we reported recently, has not put the

00:02:39.200 brakes on immigration whatsoever. And when they see what David was talking about in this speech,

00:02:46.140 it resonated with them. And, you know, it resonated with me a lot too. So I want to go through it.

00:02:52.880 I want to share some of the comments first, because you've probably seen the speech. So me showing it to

00:02:58.220 again, isn't going to be hugely interesting, probably, unless I'm like, cutting through it and

00:03:02.600 sort of sharing my thoughts on it. But I want to share with you some of the thoughts that I'm seeing

00:03:07.180 on Twitter. Here's one. David Bexty's speech struck a chord with me. His story echoed everything I said

00:03:14.940 about the Canadian dream. When his dad came here, he didn't ask for a handout. He came with pride,

00:03:19.780 purpose, and a work ethic that built this country. That's what Canada was. That's what it should be.

00:03:24.920 That's something that it's not right now. People come here with the expectation of handouts.

00:03:30.880 They come here expecting a hotel room, expecting three square meals a day provided by

00:03:35.780 the liberal government. They have no plans on getting a serious job. I mean, maybe they would

00:03:41.180 if they could, if they could just, you know, they would if they could. But the problem is,

00:03:44.760 there are no jobs for them. There's only a certain amount of Uber Eats drivers that we can have

00:03:48.680 in this country. There's only a certain amount of subways. There's only a certain amount of Tim Hortons.

00:03:52.360 The problem is that the liberal government's immigration regime wasn't bringing in the best

00:03:58.000 and the brightest from around the world. They were bringing in new voters. That was the goal.

00:04:02.580 And now Canadians are rightfully frustrated because Canadians, you know, this David's father,

00:04:09.460 who he talked about here having fled communism, he had to work in the sugar beet fields for,

00:04:13.700 I think, three years to pay off his passage across the Atlantic. That doesn't happen anymore.

00:04:18.220 It doesn't happen at all. And people see the difference between out-of-control immigration 1.00

00:04:24.700 and pioneers that came to this country to build something.

00:04:27.860 Lily in the Valley says,

00:04:28.940 A little glimpse of light in the dark clouds Canada is in at the moment.

00:04:34.320 David H. says,

00:04:36.180 This was a great speech, but like you said, the MSM will never air this. 1.00

00:04:40.080 They only air the garbage that comes out of the mouths of liberals. 1.00

00:04:42.760 J.D. says, 1.00

00:04:44.080 It's enough to make you weep for the country we've lost, the country that no longer exists for our youth

00:04:48.660 and future generations. I love Alberta and don't want to see it go. On the other hand,

00:04:52.620 in my head, I had to cheer them on because they hold the power to crumble this corrupt federation.

00:04:58.360 Very true.

00:04:59.420 This was a historic speech that was delivered and I want to get to it. I'll start playing it

00:05:04.480 so that you can listen to it with me.

00:05:07.080 This particular one that we're going to watch was an edit that I saw on Instagram

00:05:12.660 from an Instagram account called Beautiful Canada.

00:05:15.200 They added some music to it and some B-roll.

00:05:18.400 It's pretty nice. Let's give it a watch.

00:05:20.480 Let's hit playing and see what all the fuss is about.

00:05:24.840 Mr. Speaker, I rise in this house today with humility and purpose.

00:05:29.020 I stand here with a promise,

00:05:31.360 one that shaped my family across generations.

00:05:34.400 I promise that if you work hard, raise your family and love your country,

00:05:39.200 you'll be free to live in dignity and peace.

00:05:42.460 I'm the great-grandson of a pioneer who broke the untamed fields of what would become Alberta

00:05:46.960 before there was power and pavement.

00:05:49.420 I'm also the son of a farmer who survived communism with nothing but his hands,

00:05:54.200 his family and the hope that Alberta would be a place where his children could speak freely,

00:05:59.100 live safely and never bow to a state that hated them.

00:06:02.420 Mr. Speaker, the writing that sent me here is called Bow River.

00:06:07.180 It's not just a place, it's a people.

00:06:09.680 It's a home. It's a promise.

00:06:12.280 You see, much like the people who rely on it,

00:06:14.560 the bow doesn't ask Ottawa's permission to float.

00:06:17.520 It carves through rocks.

00:06:18.920 It sustains life.

00:06:20.220 It cuts a path forward whether anyone is in this chamber or not.

00:06:23.540 The bow runs past oil wells shut down by people who have never set foot on a rig.

00:06:30.860 It flows past farms taxed by bureaucrats who couldn't grow a weed.

00:06:35.220 It flows past churches left to burn.

00:06:38.220 While politicians offered excuses instead of justice,

00:06:41.180 it flows past the homes of veterans.

00:06:43.700 Pause it right there for a second.

00:06:45.380 This was something that I was proud to see.

00:06:50.020 And I think that a lot,

00:06:51.200 this is one of the reasons why this speech blew up.

00:06:54.320 It's because no politician in this country seems interested at all in bringing up the church burning crisis. 0.99

00:07:02.640 If you look at Southern Alberta,

00:07:05.040 you can see the map that we put together at Juneau of all of the churches that have been burned down as a result of Justin Trudeau

00:07:13.240 and the lies that have come out in this country about the mass grave hoax.

00:07:20.260 It is a deliberate attack on a specific religion in this country.

00:07:24.740 One that if it was happening at this scale against synagogues or mosques,

00:07:32.200 the United Nations would be sending battalions here.

00:07:35.880 That's how bad it is.

00:07:37.100 But because it's Christians, nobody wants to talk about it. 1.00

00:07:40.340 And mentioning it here, I think, was important.

00:07:42.200 Anyways, we'll keep going.

00:07:43.680 Seniors and families forgotten by the system, but not by me.

00:07:48.780 The beautiful thing about the bow is this.

00:07:51.360 Even when the government grinds to a halt, it keeps flowing.

00:07:54.740 When politicians hostile to Alberta try to strangle our economy, it keeps flowing.

00:08:00.500 When bureaucrats and glass towers write the rules that cripple our farms, it keeps flowing.

00:08:05.740 When unelected judges rewrite our rules and call it progress, it keeps flowing.

00:08:11.000 When they shut down our churches, our rigs, and our rodeos, it keeps flowing.

00:08:16.340 The bow doesn't care about trendy acronyms or performative politics.

00:08:19.560 It cares about feeding cattle, watering crops, and quenching the thirst of a working land.

00:08:24.920 It fuels an ecosystem, an economy, and it helps feed the world.

00:08:29.320 It doesn't wait for permission.

00:08:31.340 It flows where it needs to flow.

00:08:33.060 And if it wasn't clear, Mr. Speaker, I'm not just talking about the river, I'm talking about the people.

00:08:38.360 Because just like the bow, we move with purpose.

00:08:43.080 And we're done with waiting for the rest of the country to catch up.

00:08:46.500 We don't need a national strategy.

00:08:48.500 We need Ottawa to get out of the way.

00:08:50.720 Mr. Speaker, I ran to represent the people who built this country,

00:08:54.300 and now watch it being dismantled by people who don't understand it.

00:08:58.240 And worse, don't even like it.

00:09:00.720 This week, the prime minister stood before this country and promised more of the same.

00:09:05.060 A new housing bureaucracy.

00:09:07.340 A new set of buzzwords instead of a budget.

00:09:09.440 Pause it for a second, because I want to go back to something that he said there.

00:09:12.980 Talking about the, I mean, this was a beautiful speech.

00:09:16.480 I have to give it to him.

00:09:17.700 This was cut, a little bit was cut out, I think, by this Instagram cut of it.

00:09:22.700 But at the beginning, he mentioned his time in 4-H Alberta,

00:09:25.220 which is what gave him the speaking skills that he has.

00:09:28.100 You know, I was in 4-H as well, and that contributed to my ability to public speak as well.

00:09:33.080 But this speech is a, you know, obviously he's my dad, so I like him, right?

00:09:38.760 But I would say this about anyone who delivered this speech,

00:09:42.520 or speech even close to this caliber.

00:09:46.800 That the feelings and emotions that he brings up,

00:09:51.740 talking about the Bow flowing, the Bow River is this major water artery

00:09:56.100 that goes through southern Alberta that, you know, irrigates,

00:09:59.360 provides water for the breadbasket of North America.

00:10:05.300 The way that he talks about it, it continuing to flow,

00:10:08.520 even if everything in Parliament is on fire.

00:10:11.240 Parliament could burn down today,

00:10:13.580 and the Bow River would continue to flow.

00:10:16.840 And he goes on to say that it's not just the Bow that he's talking about,

00:10:20.920 he's talking about the people of Alberta.

00:10:22.980 And in my mind, I think about the people in the oil and gas industry

00:10:27.160 who have been working for 10 years.

00:10:29.760 You know, the oil and gas industry crashed around 2013,

00:10:33.880 and they've been trying to recover.

00:10:35.440 And then they were hit by Justin Trudeau in 2015.

00:10:38.760 And then they had 10 years of that,

00:10:40.400 and now they have Mark Carney.

00:10:41.300 And they're still continuing, they're keeping on.

00:10:44.720 They're continuing to put pipe in the ground, drills in the ground,

00:10:49.660 pull oil out, and try to ship it to markets around the world,

00:10:53.100 despite every roadblock being put in front of them

00:10:56.160 by Justin Trudeau and Mark Carney.

00:10:59.580 And the message here, I think, you know,

00:11:01.480 David is an oil man himself.

00:11:03.900 He was an executive with Slumberger.

00:11:05.800 Okay, is Albert, you cannot put a roadblock in front of Albertans.

00:11:12.200 They will continue to do what they were meant to do.

00:11:15.320 And that is innovate, build an economy, build communities and family,

00:11:21.160 whether Ottawa wants them to or not.

00:11:23.560 Whether they get in their way,

00:11:25.100 they're going to continue doing the jobs that they need to do

00:11:27.760 to put food on the tables of their families.

00:11:30.100 I think that that is another reason why this resonated so much with Albertans.

00:11:35.620 And I shouldn't, you know, just say Albertans.

00:11:37.680 David's obviously an Albertan,

00:11:39.160 but this resonated with people in Ontario, in Toronto even.

00:11:43.140 Even in Quebec, people were sharing this and putting captions in it in French.

00:11:50.320 Because I think, you know,

00:11:53.200 every Canadian that has been here for a long time,

00:11:55.800 that has a family,

00:11:56.620 they have a very similar work ethic to Albertans.

00:12:03.420 They want to build,

00:12:05.460 they just don't have the oil in the ground, I suppose.

00:12:07.620 They would love,

00:12:08.420 a lot of people I see in the comments,

00:12:10.080 they say,

00:12:10.400 oh, I would move to Alberta in a heartbeat.

00:12:13.540 They're restricted for one reason or another.

00:12:16.240 But the spirit of Alberta that he's talking about here

00:12:19.800 is shared by a lot of Canadians.

00:12:21.200 And I think that that message resonated with them a lot because of that,

00:12:26.260 this message resonated a lot.

00:12:27.840 Anyways, we'll keep going here.

00:12:28.920 We have about four more minutes, I think.

00:12:31.040 And we're done with waiting for the rest of the country to catch up.

00:12:34.180 We don't need a national strategy.

00:12:36.140 We need Ottawa to get out of the way.

00:12:38.380 Mr. Speaker,

00:12:39.220 I ran to represent the people who built this country

00:12:41.540 and now watch it being dismantled by people who don't understand it.

00:12:45.880 And worse, don't even like it.

00:12:47.400 This week, the Prime Minister stood before this country

00:12:50.740 and promised more of the same.

00:12:52.760 A new housing bureaucracy.

00:12:54.860 A new set of buzzwords instead of a budget.

00:12:57.440 And more red tape instead of results.

00:12:59.500 And not a word,

00:13:00.740 not a single word about oil and gas pipelines

00:13:03.160 or the workers who drive our economy. 0.99

00:13:07.360 Let's be honest with Canadians.

00:13:09.720 We don't need to renew the consensus on immigration,

00:13:13.200 the one that's fueled the liberal political ambition for a decade.

00:13:15.680 We need to rebuild this country for Canadians.

00:13:19.140 We don't need to gaslight working families 0.99

00:13:21.240 into acceptance of out-of-control immigration 1.00

00:13:23.240 while wages stagnate,

00:13:24.980 house prices explode,

00:13:26.360 and services collapse.

00:13:27.840 We need to restore common sense

00:13:29.440 and put Canadians first in their own country.

00:13:32.300 We don't need more empty promises.

00:13:34.920 We need paychecks you can raise a family on,

00:13:37.200 homes you can actually afford,

00:13:38.860 and streets you feel safe walking down.

00:13:41.100 We need less gatekeeping,

00:13:42.900 less government,

00:13:43.760 and a whole lot more grit.

00:13:44.980 You can hear,

00:13:47.220 I think that's,

00:13:48.000 I can hear her voice.

00:13:50.200 I think that's Shannon Stubbs

00:13:51.360 shouting in the background.

00:13:52.260 Yeah!

00:13:52.940 She's one of the other great conservative MPs in Alberta.

00:13:56.500 Always fighting.

00:13:58.020 Like, she's got grit.

00:13:59.200 And one story about Shannon Stubbs,

00:14:00.480 actually,

00:14:01.360 it's kind of funny.

00:14:02.680 Once I was covering a caucus meeting in Alberta,

00:14:06.020 or sorry,

00:14:06.400 in Ottawa,

00:14:07.420 one of the first caucus meetings

00:14:08.440 after Pierre won the leadership,

00:14:11.440 I think.

00:14:12.520 And Shannon Stubbs was holding a press conference

00:14:14.960 outside of that caucus meeting.

00:14:16.460 And I had asked a question,

00:14:17.780 I forget what it was.

00:14:18.600 And I was about halfway through my question

00:14:20.160 when a CBC reporter

00:14:21.280 steps in front of me,

00:14:22.480 pushes me out of the way,

00:14:23.200 and starts talking over me.

00:14:25.340 And just like,

00:14:26.340 intentionally,

00:14:26.860 because he hates the independent media,

00:14:28.560 everyone at the CBC does.

00:14:30.460 And Shannon was like,

00:14:32.540 not having any of it.

00:14:34.520 Shut him down completely

00:14:35.380 and rejigged the entire press conference

00:14:37.880 to say,

00:14:38.260 no,

00:14:38.380 we're going to take this question

00:14:39.480 from this independent journalist

00:14:40.560 because that's,

00:14:41.600 you know,

00:14:42.000 not only fair,

00:14:43.000 it's just a polite way

00:14:43.900 to conduct a press conference.

00:14:45.840 And she stopped the entire, 0.93

00:14:47.120 she shut the entire thing down 0.91

00:14:48.280 to take my question.

00:14:49.240 I never thanked her for that,

00:14:50.460 but that's,

00:14:52.000 that's,

00:14:52.600 that's something that shocked,

00:14:54.820 I think,

00:14:55.020 the mainstream media at that moment.

00:14:56.720 And it was,

00:14:57.600 I mean,

00:14:57.880 it was before Pierre really started,

00:15:00.620 you know,

00:15:01.200 it was before the Pierre Apple moment

00:15:02.620 and a bunch of other things

00:15:04.580 that have changed in this country since

00:15:06.420 where the Conservative Party,

00:15:08.460 and I'm happy about this,

00:15:10.780 generally speaking,

00:15:12.180 that the Conservative Party

00:15:13.360 is not

00:15:13.960 completely focused on

00:15:15.980 what the CBC thinks

00:15:17.720 about them anymore.

00:15:19.480 they much,

00:15:20.300 you know,

00:15:20.620 maybe it wasn't reflected

00:15:21.660 in the actual election

00:15:23.080 where they were,

00:15:23.920 I think,

00:15:25.240 missing the mark

00:15:26.000 on going

00:15:26.480 onto independent podcasts

00:15:28.240 in Canada and abroad.

00:15:29.700 But by and large,

00:15:31.560 you have to give it to them

00:15:32.520 that

00:15:32.720 they were not

00:15:34.320 driving the campaign

00:15:35.640 based off of

00:15:36.420 how,

00:15:38.720 what the CBC was saying

00:15:40.120 on any given morning,

00:15:41.260 what Rosemary Barton 0.99

00:15:41.980 was,

00:15:42.280 was barking at them.

00:15:43.360 So I appreciate that

00:15:44.960 and I appreciate that

00:15:45.620 about Shannon Stubbs.

00:15:46.780 But anyways,

00:15:47.680 I think that was her,

00:15:49.320 long story short,

00:15:50.220 shouting in the background,

00:15:51.540 cheering them on.

00:15:52.160 So let's keep going.

00:15:52.880 Mr. Speaker,

00:15:53.860 I come from the part of Canada

00:15:55.020 that feeds this country

00:15:56.060 and fuels its economy.

00:15:57.360 So you'll understand

00:15:58.300 if I speak plainly.

00:15:59.820 Because where I come from,

00:16:01.000 words matter.

00:16:03.000 But work and deeds matter more.

00:16:05.000 I'm here to fight

00:16:07.240 for the honest worker,

00:16:08.360 the family farmer,

00:16:09.360 the rig hand,

00:16:09.940 the rancher,

00:16:10.500 the welder,

00:16:10.960 the widow,

00:16:11.720 the help worshiper,

00:16:13.180 and every kid

00:16:13.940 who still believes

00:16:14.640 this country

00:16:15.100 can be worth something.

00:16:17.360 I come to this house

00:16:18.540 with one of the strongest

00:16:19.440 mandates in the nation.

00:16:21.000 And Mr. Speaker,

00:16:22.100 do you know

00:16:22.500 how I earned it?

00:16:24.220 I promise to rip 0.83

00:16:25.420 this place down 0.97

00:16:26.080 to the studs

00:16:26.680 and start rebuilding

00:16:28.180 a country

00:16:29.280 we can recognize again.

00:16:31.300 The Prime Minister

00:16:32.160 this week showed

00:16:32.860 he's here to do the opposite.

00:16:34.680 Behind the pageantry

00:16:35.580 and parades,

00:16:36.200 he disrespected the Crown

00:16:37.260 by using the King

00:16:38.440 to deliver a tired

00:16:39.340 and empty speech

00:16:40.180 meant to distract Canadians 0.81

00:16:41.560 from a simple truth.

00:16:43.500 He's still stumbling forward

00:16:44.720 on the heels

00:16:45.260 of Justin Trudeau's

00:16:46.120 failed record.

00:16:47.820 Mr. Speaker,

00:16:48.540 I have deep respect

00:16:49.300 for our institutions.

00:16:50.660 But what Canadians 0.95

00:16:51.540 needed this week

00:16:52.320 wasn't ceremonial flourishes.

00:16:54.040 They needed substance.

00:16:56.000 Not sentiment,

00:16:57.000 but solutions.

00:16:58.440 Not more speeches

00:16:59.360 from elites and suits,

00:17:00.580 but action for people

00:17:01.600 and coveralls.

00:17:02.860 The farmers,

00:17:04.460 the builders,

00:17:05.360 the rig hands,

00:17:06.500 the parents wondering

00:17:07.300 how they afford groceries

00:17:08.380 and heat at the same time.

00:17:11.120 Canadians are tired

00:17:12.080 of being lectured.

00:17:13.440 They're tired

00:17:13.820 of being told

00:17:14.360 everything is fine

00:17:15.280 when they can see

00:17:16.280 with their eyes

00:17:17.040 that it's not.

00:17:18.320 That's positive there.

00:17:19.700 That's another thing.

00:17:22.080 People can see

00:17:23.400 with their own eyes

00:17:25.660 that things are not going well.

00:17:28.440 They can see

00:17:29.340 that grocery prices,

00:17:30.520 despite inflation

00:17:31.280 being under control.

00:17:32.440 Grocery prices

00:17:33.400 are sky high,

00:17:35.240 higher than they've ever been.

00:17:36.940 They can see

00:17:37.620 that the Prime Minister

00:17:38.320 is lying to them

00:17:39.620 constantly

00:17:40.400 about the state

00:17:41.600 of international trade negotiations.

00:17:45.520 Things are getting

00:17:46.320 more difficult

00:17:46.980 for the average Canadian.

00:17:48.560 Not just since

00:17:50.060 the Liberals took power

00:17:50.820 in 2015,

00:17:51.720 but since this election.

00:17:53.080 Since Mark Carney

00:17:56.320 took the reins,

00:17:57.420 things have continued

00:17:58.380 to degrade

00:17:59.660 and diminish

00:18:01.280 for the average Canadian.

00:18:03.440 So when David

00:18:04.600 goes out there

00:18:05.280 and says the obvious,

00:18:07.180 you know,

00:18:09.620 maybe it's not so obvious

00:18:12.380 to these politicians,

00:18:13.200 but as someone

00:18:15.160 like him

00:18:16.020 who just,

00:18:17.520 you know,

00:18:17.920 just this weekend

00:18:18.700 was on his farm

00:18:19.700 getting ready

00:18:23.420 for a new season,

00:18:25.780 it's obvious to him.

00:18:29.320 To the people

00:18:30.220 who live in Ottawa

00:18:31.260 full-time,

00:18:32.580 who hardly step foot

00:18:34.280 out of the Ottawa bubble

00:18:35.260 or have been there

00:18:36.640 for decades

00:18:37.380 and decades

00:18:37.820 and decades,

00:18:39.360 stating the obvious

00:18:40.180 is kind of difficult

00:18:41.080 because the obvious

00:18:42.040 is pretty foreign to you.

00:18:44.700 I think about

00:18:45.740 my friend

00:18:46.280 who mentioned to me

00:18:47.820 that he saw

00:18:48.620 Jagmeet Singh

00:18:49.920 shopping at

00:18:51.720 Whole Foods

00:18:52.720 in Ottawa frequently.

00:18:54.160 Like that,

00:18:54.440 he shops at like

00:18:55.420 the most expensive

00:18:56.440 grocery store

00:18:57.740 you could possibly find

00:18:59.200 in Ottawa.

00:19:01.280 He's not shopping

00:19:02.280 at Walmart

00:19:03.100 or even Savon Foods

00:19:05.780 or, you know,

00:19:07.560 wholesale,

00:19:08.880 whatever,

00:19:09.400 superstore.

00:19:10.480 No,

00:19:10.700 the price of groceries

00:19:12.000 don't matter

00:19:12.840 to people like that,

00:19:13.960 to people like Mark Carney.

00:19:14.840 Mark Carney,

00:19:15.280 the one notorious

00:19:16.440 for having said,

00:19:17.720 or infamous

00:19:18.280 for having said

00:19:19.500 that he doesn't even

00:19:21.180 shop for himself anymore.

00:19:23.720 These people

00:19:24.400 are completely

00:19:25.280 out of touch.

00:19:26.480 So,

00:19:27.120 it's refreshing

00:19:27.860 and again,

00:19:29.200 I think the reason

00:19:30.060 why this went viral

00:19:30.980 is because David there

00:19:32.560 was speaking

00:19:33.280 the obvious,

00:19:34.580 but it was stuff

00:19:36.100 that the average politician,

00:19:37.820 was not obvious,

00:19:38.580 I don't think,

00:19:39.080 to the average politician

00:19:39.940 exactly how bad

00:19:41.060 the situation is

00:19:41.780 in this country.

00:19:42.680 Keep going.

00:19:43.340 This country

00:19:43.760 has a proud

00:19:44.300 and noble history.

00:19:45.640 It was built

00:19:46.160 by pioneers,

00:19:47.540 sustained by families,

00:19:48.680 and defended

00:19:49.060 by those willing

00:19:49.740 to risk everything

00:19:50.600 for the promise

00:19:51.260 of freedom

00:19:51.780 and prosperity.

00:19:53.760 But after a decade

00:19:54.840 of mismanagement

00:19:55.580 and division

00:19:56.140 from the liberal

00:19:56.720 front bench,

00:19:57.740 that promise

00:19:58.360 is fading.

00:20:00.220 Alberta separatism

00:20:01.120 is no longer

00:20:01.760 a fringe idea.

00:20:03.020 I heard it at the doors

00:20:03.980 more times

00:20:04.600 than I can count.

00:20:05.300 And I'll tell you plainly,

00:20:07.480 Alberta staying

00:20:08.140 in confederation

00:20:08.980 is not up to me,

00:20:10.480 and it's not up

00:20:11.140 to the liberal government.

00:20:12.400 It's up to the people

00:20:13.160 of Alberta.

00:20:14.220 And the Albertans

00:20:14.880 know that they have options.

00:20:16.780 If this house

00:20:17.480 continues to insult,

00:20:18.720 abuse,

00:20:19.080 and neglect Alberta, 0.97

00:20:20.080 if it refuses

00:20:20.740 to treat our people

00:20:21.680 and our industries

00:20:22.300 with the respect

00:20:23.340 that they've earned,

00:20:24.340 then the future

00:20:25.000 of this country

00:20:25.580 is not guaranteed.

00:20:28.280 None of this job

00:20:30.620 here tomorrow,

00:20:32.140 at any moment,

00:20:33.220 this government

00:20:33.640 could lose

00:20:34.060 the confidence

00:20:34.540 of the house.

00:20:36.440 And when that moment

00:20:37.500 comes,

00:20:38.200 Canadians will remember

00:20:39.080 who stayed with them

00:20:40.100 and who stood

00:20:40.900 in their way.

00:20:41.960 Because when the system

00:20:42.820 stalls,

00:20:43.820 the Bow River

00:20:44.260 keeps flowing.

00:20:45.660 When this government

00:20:46.420 offers platitudes

00:20:47.300 instead of a plan,

00:20:48.640 the bow keeps flowing.

00:20:50.460 When they forget

00:20:51.420 who built this country,

00:20:52.720 we remember

00:20:53.360 and we keep moving.

00:20:55.620 Mr. Speaker,

00:20:56.460 I want to thank

00:20:56.940 the people of Bow River

00:20:57.800 for one of the strongest

00:20:58.680 mandates in this nation.

00:21:01.280 To my family

00:21:02.000 and my friends,

00:21:03.020 my neighbours,

00:21:03.520 thank you for trusting

00:21:05.020 me with this duty.

00:21:06.180 I won't let you down.

00:21:08.180 I didn't come here

00:21:08.900 to rub shoulders

00:21:09.520 with royalty.

00:21:10.440 I came here

00:21:10.940 to fight for the families,

00:21:12.120 farmers,

00:21:12.540 and energy workers

00:21:13.200 who built this country.

00:21:14.660 And I'll keep fighting

00:21:15.820 until the Liberal government

00:21:16.780 gets the message.

00:21:18.200 Because that promise

00:21:19.180 still lives

00:21:19.800 and I intend to keep it.

00:21:21.120 Thank you, Mr.

00:21:22.460 Thank you.

00:21:26.580 Really,

00:21:27.460 really powerful stuff.

00:21:30.540 And I'm excited

00:21:32.460 to see what he

00:21:33.260 continues to do.

00:21:34.540 I'm going to do my best

00:21:35.780 to be completely transparent

00:21:38.400 with how I cover David

00:21:41.420 as well.

00:21:41.860 I think that's important

00:21:42.620 to my viewers.

00:21:44.700 I owe it to you,

00:21:45.380 I think,

00:21:45.800 to explain

00:21:46.520 my relationship

00:21:48.460 with him

00:21:48.920 and why,

00:21:50.340 you know,

00:21:50.760 I said earlier,

00:21:52.620 I would have covered

00:21:53.180 this speech here today

00:21:54.520 if it was delivered

00:21:55.400 by anyone

00:21:56.060 in that way.

00:21:57.140 If Mark Carney

00:21:57.840 himself

00:21:58.400 gave a speech

00:21:59.360 like that,

00:22:00.040 I think I would have

00:22:01.120 given him pretty high marks

00:22:02.220 and I would have

00:22:03.040 shared it with you.

00:22:04.040 But as we go forward,

00:22:05.700 this is obviously

00:22:06.380 new territory for me,

00:22:08.160 for my audience.

00:22:09.620 He's my dad,

00:22:10.560 but frankly,

00:22:11.760 we disagree about

00:22:12.580 a lot of stuff.

00:22:14.220 We have my whole life.

00:22:15.560 He'll be the first person 0.98

00:22:16.380 to tell you that

00:22:17.040 around the dinner table

00:22:18.840 when I was younger,

00:22:19.500 we got into

00:22:20.560 plenty of disagreements.

00:22:23.320 Now,

00:22:24.060 obviously,

00:22:25.120 we're in

00:22:25.560 different roles.

00:22:26.900 I'm in the media

00:22:28.020 and he is

00:22:29.800 in Ottawa

00:22:30.580 doing his thing.

00:22:33.160 And of course,

00:22:33.740 I'm proud of him,

00:22:34.780 but nobody,

00:22:35.820 I guess I should say,

00:22:37.100 has higher expectations

00:22:38.300 of him

00:22:38.840 than me.

00:22:40.480 And if he

00:22:41.720 was to

00:22:43.100 get abducted

00:22:45.740 by the Ottawa bubble,

00:22:47.020 I'd be the first

00:22:47.880 to call him out.

00:22:50.340 That

00:22:50.360 Albertans deserve,

00:22:53.400 whether it's him

00:22:54.060 or anyone else,

00:22:56.080 Albertans deserve 0.65

00:22:56.980 strong representation

00:22:58.320 that puts

00:22:59.380 Albertans first 1.00

00:23:00.280 and

00:23:01.920 makes sure that

00:23:03.620 when

00:23:03.960 there are

00:23:04.720 national negotiations

00:23:05.860 about the future

00:23:06.520 of this country,

00:23:07.580 that the people

00:23:08.420 who drive this country,

00:23:09.780 who feed this country,

00:23:10.780 who fuel this country

00:23:11.780 are not forgotten.

00:23:13.760 That is

00:23:14.360 what I'm interested in

00:23:15.480 and I know that's

00:23:16.060 what my audience

00:23:16.620 cares about,

00:23:17.620 whether they're in

00:23:18.300 Alberta or not.

00:23:19.400 They want to see

00:23:20.220 a freer,

00:23:21.060 more prosperous

00:23:22.540 Canada.

00:23:23.260 That's what I want

00:23:23.780 to see.

00:23:24.740 And I'm going to hold,

00:23:26.280 whether it's David

00:23:27.080 or any of my other

00:23:28.860 friends

00:23:29.240 in Parliament,

00:23:31.100 I'm going to hold

00:23:31.900 them to account.

00:23:33.200 You have my word

00:23:33.820 on that.

00:23:34.700 That will never

00:23:35.340 change.

00:23:37.460 And yeah,

00:23:38.940 I'm excited

00:23:39.840 to see what

00:23:40.580 happens here.

00:23:41.640 I'm excited

00:23:41.940 to see more

00:23:42.460 speeches like this

00:23:43.360 from both

00:23:44.340 David and others.

00:23:45.980 You can see

00:23:46.780 some maiden 0.99

00:23:47.160 speeches

00:23:47.440 from other folks

00:23:49.540 and many of them

00:23:50.360 were really good.

00:23:51.040 Andrew Lawton's

00:23:51.780 speech,

00:23:52.500 who my audience

00:23:53.240 probably knows

00:23:53.680 quite well,

00:23:54.460 was fantastic.

00:23:56.760 Aaron Gunn

00:23:57.480 is coming up too.

00:23:59.160 I don't know

00:23:59.860 if he delivered

00:24:00.340 his maiden speech

00:24:00.960 yet or not,

00:24:02.220 but we can expect

00:24:03.760 some pretty good

00:24:05.000 things from

00:24:05.920 an opposition

00:24:07.300 that is stronger

00:24:09.720 than ever

00:24:10.160 in terms of

00:24:11.880 this liberal regime.

00:24:13.380 There's more

00:24:14.380 people punching

00:24:15.200 back now

00:24:15.980 than there have

00:24:16.580 been for a long

00:24:17.320 time.

00:24:18.420 And we've got

00:24:19.580 to remember

00:24:19.960 that this

00:24:21.300 parliament,

00:24:22.240 while it's not

00:24:22.680 hanging by a

00:24:23.580 thread,

00:24:24.500 it is on the

00:24:25.420 edge of a cliff.

00:24:26.800 They do not

00:24:27.400 have a majority.

00:24:28.900 They have

00:24:29.280 they have

00:24:30.820 a minority

00:24:31.400 plus Elizabeth May 0.95

00:24:32.440 and whether

00:24:34.860 this government

00:24:35.320 lasts one year,

00:24:36.720 two years,

00:24:37.200 three years ago

00:24:37.720 is the full term.

00:24:39.460 At least I have

00:24:40.800 hope that

00:24:42.760 with the NDP

00:24:44.420 not having

00:24:45.380 party status,

00:24:47.020 with the conservatives

00:24:47.960 taking up more

00:24:48.680 space on committees,

00:24:50.760 this government

00:24:52.760 hopefully will be

00:24:54.120 slightly more

00:24:55.960 to the right

00:24:56.620 than what

00:24:57.360 Justin Trudeau's

00:24:58.000 government was

00:24:58.640 just because he

00:24:59.280 was being dragged

00:24:59.860 along by the

00:25:01.200 hair by Jagmeet

00:25:02.160 Singh.

00:25:04.480 I expect good

00:25:05.620 things from

00:25:06.460 this opposition

00:25:07.420 and I hope

00:25:08.600 that they have

00:25:09.300 what it takes

00:25:10.200 to put Mark

00:25:11.680 Carney in his

00:25:12.160 place and

00:25:13.100 force his hand

00:25:14.140 to deliver for

00:25:15.240 Canadians and

00:25:16.720 the counter

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00:25:24.180 this and others

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00:25:28.940 mainstream media

00:25:29.540 will not do

00:25:30.320 it, evidenced

00:25:31.880 by the very

00:25:32.520 fact, actually

00:25:33.800 I should note

00:25:34.640 that this speech

00:25:35.880 has not been

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00:25:46.100 to see this

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00:25:49.660 Charles' own.

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Juno News - June 03, 2025

Here's my personal review of David Bexte's speech

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