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Smith fights U.S. tariffs, blasts Carney and Nenshi

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Alberta Premier Danielle Smith delivered a nearly 10-minute speech in the Alberta legislature defending her government's stance in the face of tariff threats from the United States. Her speech alluded to her upcoming meeting with Daily Wire founder Ben Shapiro, which we've previously discussed on the show. Separate from that, Smith blasted Mark Carney for flip-flopping on his stance on the oil and gas emissions cap, after a new report showed that Alberta would get the short end of the stick if that continues. An Alberta NDP MLA will run for Carney's Liberal Party despite years of blasting the party with some very strong language and now broken promises, a conservative Calgary candidate previously donated to the Liberals and Liberal MP George Johal s riding association, who wouldn't say whether his pre-election ads were funded with taxpayer money. All that and more on the Alberta Roundup with Isaac Lamoureux ( )!

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00:00:00.000 Alberta Premier Danielle Smith delivered a nearly 10-minute address in the Alberta
00:00:15.540 legislature about how her government has stood up for Albertans in the face of tariff threats
00:00:20.340 from the United States. Throughout the address, she took aim at Liberal Party of Canada leader
00:00:25.480 Mark Carney and Alberta NDP leader Naheed Nanshi, along with the Liberal NDP leadership
00:00:31.600 nationwide over the last decade. Her speech alluded to her defense of her upcoming meeting
00:00:36.820 with Daily Wire founder Ben Shapiro, which we've previously discussed on the show. She also
00:00:42.700 released a statement independent of that further defending the upcoming fireside chat. Separate
00:00:48.720 from that, Smith blasted Carney for flip-flopping on his stance on the oil and gas emissions cap
00:00:54.200 after a new report released showed that Alberta would get the short end of the stick if that 0.99
00:00:59.180 continues. An Alberta NDP MLA will run for Carney's Liberal Party despite years of blasting the party
00:01:05.920 with some very strong language and now broken promises. A conservative Calgary candidate previously
00:01:12.160 donated to the Liberals and Liberal MP George Johal's riding association. Speaking of Johal,
00:01:18.360 he wouldn't say whether his pre-election ads were funded with taxpayer money. And coming back to
00:01:23.020 Carney and sports, which we haven't discussed in some time, Oilers fans developed a new term,
00:01:28.180 the Carney curse, after the team had some bad luck following Carney skating with the Oilers ahead of
00:01:34.040 a recent game. All that and more on the Alberta Roundup today with me, your host, Isaac Lamoureux.
00:01:39.640 Now let's hop into that first story. So Alberta Premier Danielle Smith delivered an almost 10-minute 0.97
00:01:44.500 statement in the Alberta legislature, taking aim at Carney and Nanshi, while defending her position
00:01:50.020 and record of standing up to the tariff threats with a head-on approach to protect Albertans and
00:01:55.200 all Canadians. While I encourage you to watch the entirety of the 10-minute speech posted by Smith
00:02:00.980 to X because it was very powerful, I'll do my best to break it down for you in a succinct manner and
00:02:06.860 feature the clips that stood out most to me. Smith began by saying that the country was more or less
00:02:12.020 united aside from the Alberta NDP on trying to convince the US not to impose tariffs against
00:02:17.260 Canada over the last four months prior to the recent election call. She said that every premier
00:02:23.060 was encouraged by one another and even by former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to visit the US,
00:02:28.160 get on US media, speak with every American official and influencer possible to try and subside the tariff
00:02:34.340 threats. She said that was the entire position behind the Team Canada approach. But then she said
00:02:40.600 everything changed when Mark Carney became Prime Minister. She equated talking to media personalities
00:02:46.100 in the US now as, quote, treason, adding that talking to high-profile Republicans with influence over the
00:02:52.940 President as apparently now disloyal behavior. Smith said, quote, it is a high crime to try and convince US
00:03:00.580 officials to refrain from imposing tariffs until after our country has an elected leader with a strong mandate.
00:03:05.840 Shame on all who dare to speak with the enemy, they say. These are the Team Carney and Nancy NDP
00:03:12.280 talking points. Smith said the following on the talking points. Take a listen.
00:03:16.540 Their endgame is quite obvious. Frighten and divide Canadians. Try and make Canadians forget the utter 0.71
00:03:22.780 incompetence of liberal and NDP policies that have been inflicted on this country over the last 10 years.
00:03:29.440 Associate conservatives with President Trump. And if they play their cards just right and sprinkle
00:03:35.420 in just enough anti-Alberta rhetoric, presto, Canada might elect another liberal majority government.
00:03:41.360 She added that they aren't entirely wrong because the country is vulnerable, which Smith attributed to
00:03:47.020 the liberals and NDP waging war on the country's natural resources over the last decade.
00:03:52.780 On top of waging war in the energy sector, Smith said that liberal and NDP leaders have weakened the
00:03:58.060 country's security and military in the name of their, quote, green extremist religion and its cult leaders 0.96
00:04:04.420 named Gibbo, Suzuki, Gore and Thunberg. Take a listen to the following quote.
00:04:10.200 Canadians are poorer than Americans, overly dependent on the Americans and vulnerable to many nations,
00:04:17.740 including the Americans. Canada has indeed been sold out big time and it's been sold out by the
00:04:23.500 utter incompetent, self-righteous and extreme policies of liberal and NDP leadership across
00:04:29.140 this country, including the NENCHI NDP right here in Alberta. From C-69 to oil and gas production 0.91
00:04:35.720 caps to tanker bans to a dozen other examples, the liberals and their allies have attacked the
00:04:40.780 Alberta and Saskatchewan economies mercilessly. She then took aim directly at NENCHI for making angry 0.99
00:04:47.000 tweets at Trump, becoming TikTok rage farmers to stir up fear and loathing, and throwing hands in the
00:04:53.400 air while accomplishing nothing. Conversely, she said her and her government have spent hundreds of
00:04:59.300 hours talking with, lobbying, educating and persuading anyone who would listen in the United
00:05:04.700 States about the economic devastation that the tariffs would wreck. Smith said she'd lost count
00:05:11.860 of the nights sleeping in hotel beds and in airports doing everything humanly possible to stand up for
00:05:18.040 Albertan and Canadian workers. She applauded other conservative premiers in Canada who have acted
00:05:23.440 similarly, naming Scott Moe, Tim Houston and Doug Ford. She said there have been some promising results,
00:05:30.360 notably that while steel and aluminum are being tariffed, remaining Canadian goods stand tariff-free
00:05:36.400 instead of the threatened 25%. Smith said the following of what would have happened if NENCHI were in power.
00:05:44.260 Take a listen.
00:05:44.860 And what has the NENCHI NDP done to contribute to this effort? Not a single thing other than raging
00:05:52.100 against this government for every effort we have taken to protect Albertans. Needless to say,
00:05:56.840 there is not a doubt in my mind that had the NENCHI NDP been in charge during this period,
00:06:01.460 we would likely have long ago been hit with across the board 25% tariffs and lost thousands of Alberta
00:06:07.300 jobs already. Because the NDP have no idea what diplomacy is, as they don't know how to talk
00:06:13.000 constructively or effectively with anyone they disagree with. And glad we never need to find out.
00:06:18.860 However, Smith said the war isn't over. There is another deadline looming on April 2nd,
00:06:23.740 and Smith is off to the United States again, this time to speak to Ben Shapiro and try and make a
00:06:28.900 difference. The last clip we'll have you listen to for this story is longer, but it's Smith's
00:06:33.480 conclusion and a powerful one at that. Take a listen. And what does Team Carney want me to do?
00:06:38.760 They want me to abandon my post, remain in Alberta and do absolutely nothing to defend our province.
00:06:44.220 They want me to cower in the face of Eastern media pundits and politicians who favor political
00:06:49.220 grandstanding to effective diplomacy. I'm fiercely criticized for going into the lion's den to change
00:06:55.400 the hearts and minds of the very Americans that we need on Canada's side to avoid a trade war with
00:07:01.120 the most powerful economy on earth. They want this lady and Alberta to just sit down and shut up. 1.00
00:07:07.460 Well, here is my response to that. I will not be silent. Alberta will not be silent. We will not
00:07:14.440 be pushed around and called traitors for merely having the courage to actually do something about
00:07:20.600 our nations and provinces predicament other than merely indulging in self-righteous tantrums. And I,
00:07:26.260 for one, will never be silenced by the party in Ottawa that has sold out our beloved province for the
00:07:32.900 last 10 years with the help of their NDP collaborators. I have and I always will put Albertans first. And until
00:07:40.160 this danger to Alberta and our economy is passed, they're going to have to have to roll me off off in a
00:07:45.600 stretcher before I will stop fighting for our province and our people. So they can call me, I'm a caucus,
00:07:51.260 whatever name in the dictionary they want. As long as Albertans know that we are fighting for them
00:07:55.800 and their families, we could care less with the members opposite or liberal politicians in Ottawa
00:08:00.900 have to say about us. Because Albertans expect their premier and government to always put Albertans first
00:08:07.100 and lead them through this storm with fearless determination. As Winston Churchill once said,
00:08:13.400 fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision. We on this side of the house have made the decision
00:08:19.800 to act with courage so that Alberta may remain forever strong and free.
00:08:27.760 Wow, Smith is not backing down. We discussed the upcoming Shapiro appearance on a previous episode of
00:08:32.680 the Alberta Roundup, but here Smith is defending it further. She issued a separate news release
00:08:37.800 explaining the importance of the upcoming chat with the Daily Wire founder. She said the show has a
00:08:43.600 monthly reach of 220 million people. Smith said, quote, I am committed to acting in the best interest of
00:08:51.020 Alberta and all Albertans. This includes continuing to engage with the influential Americans in the US
00:08:57.300 to make it clear that the continuation of destructive tariffs on Canadian goods and energy
00:09:02.600 will cost hundreds of thousands of American and Canadian jobs and benefit no one. This is an
00:09:08.740 important opportunity to gain support in the US and add voices to the conversation that will help
00:09:14.460 amplify Alberta's and Canada's calls to work together on solutions and to rebuild our important trade
00:09:21.720 relationship. Her itinerary is featured in the release and she said the expenses will be posted for
00:09:26.780 the public to see. Sticking with Smith for our next story, she called out Carney for his inconsistent
00:09:31.960 messaging surrounding his position on an oil and gas emissions cap. Smith said that Carney came to
00:09:37.880 Edmonton and said he opposed an oil and gas production cap last Thursday, but then said the
00:09:43.040 exact opposite, expressing support for it in Ottawa the next day. She said, quote, the more things change,
00:09:49.740 the more they stay the same. The Liberals clearly have not learned their lesson and have no plan to make our
00:09:55.760 country into the independent economic powerhouse it could be. Carney's new environment minister,
00:10:00.880 Terry de Guide, apparently told the media that the Liberals' emission cap is here to stay.
00:10:07.180 Smith said, quote, this has been the same story for the last 10 years. Liberals come to Alberta,
00:10:12.540 smile for the cameras, tell everyone how much they're going to work with Alberta and support the energy
00:10:17.180 sector. Then they leave, go home and proceed to do everything in their power to roadblock and scare away
00:10:23.160 investment from the energy sector. We'll remember Carney previously came under fire for similar
00:10:28.000 contradictory remarks, where he told English and French-speaking audiences conflicting stories about
00:10:33.780 the future of pipelines in Canada. The day after Carney called the election for April 28th, another report,
00:10:39.720 this time from the Conference Board of Canada, highlighted the economic devastation that a federal
00:10:45.260 emissions cap would have on the country. This report showed that while all Canadians will be poorer due to
00:10:51.100 the cap, Albertans will be affected disproportionately. By 2050, the report highlights that Alberta's GDP will
00:10:58.720 shrink by 11%, employment will decrease by 4.1%, and the average Albertan will have 3,300 less
00:11:06.220 indispensable income. By 2030, the report suggests that Alberta will experience a deep recession due to
00:11:12.680 the plan. Nationally, real GDP will fall by 3.8% due to the emissions cap by 2050. Canadian oil and
00:11:21.020 gas production would drop by 37% by 2050. Nationwide, employment is expected to fall by 2.6%, and consumer
00:11:28.640 prices are expected to increase by 2.5%. If the economic damage isn't bad enough, the report concluded that the
00:11:35.980 emissions cap won't even result in Canada meeting its emissions target. Alberta Environment Minister Rebecca
00:11:41.640 Schultz said, quote,
00:11:43.260 These findings should send a message to whoever ends up being the next federal government. Our province
00:11:49.260 remains firmly committed to protecting the environment and creating a future for our children,
00:11:53.260 but that can't be achieved by trampling on Canadians' livelihoods. She added, quote,
00:11:58.920 Ottawa has offered nothing but penalties and vague rhetoric. Instead of meaningful incentives to
00:12:03.540 reduce emissions, we get carbon taxes, production caps, and layers and layers of costly regulations,
00:12:09.940 all burdening families and workers who are already struggling. The emissions reduction plan includes
00:12:15.620 the carbon tax, emissions cap, electricity regulations, and more. The Parliamentary Budget
00:12:20.660 Officer similarly recently published a report showing that the federal emissions cap would lead to a
00:12:25.700 $20.5 billion decrease in Canada's GDP by 2032 and the loss of 54,400 jobs. Alberta has already
00:12:35.520 rejected the Liberals' electricity regulations and threatened a court fight. Canada's top energy
00:12:41.140 executives recently called on the federal government to declare a, quote, Canadian energy crisis and
00:12:47.120 cancel most of the measures contained in the plan. Smith said it was time for Carney to offer clarity to
00:12:52.900 Canadians on whether he supported the production cap before they head to the polls, not after. Now
00:12:58.400 hopping into an election story not involving the Premier, former Alberta NDP MLA Rod Loyola announced
00:13:04.720 he will be running a federal liberal candidacy right after he resigned from his seat in the provincial
00:13:09.660 legislature. He has a long history of slamming the federal Liberals and insisting he would never
00:13:14.320 work with the party. He wrote in a post to X, uh, Twitter at the time, on March 25th, 2015, quote,
00:13:20.200 You won't catch me working with the Liberal Party of Canada. They talk like NDPers, but they act like cons.
00:13:26.140 Loyola resigned his provincial seat in the Edmonton Ellerslie riding on Tuesday. He announced his
00:13:30.900 candidacy for the federal Liberal nomination in Edmonton Gateway the following day and was confirmed
00:13:35.860 as a candidate shortly after. In 2014, Loyola also criticized then-Liberal leader Justin Trudeau,
00:13:41.920 writing in a post to X that Trudeau, quote, only cares about his Liberal Party, not the hardworking
00:13:46.960 Canadians that built this country. With an evident change of heart, Loyola said he was excited to be
00:13:52.020 a part of Carney's team. He called Carney the first, quote, Edmontonian Prime Minister. Carney was born in
00:13:58.440 Fort Smith, Northwest Territories. He moved to Edmonton at age six and his father ran as a Liberal
00:14:04.160 candidate for Edmonton South shortly after, in the 1980 federal election. The Liberal leader has taken flack
00:14:10.440 online for resigning outside of Canada over the past decade and being unclear about whether he had a
00:14:15.840 Canadian residence. Carney has been an Irish citizen since birth and a citizen of the United Kingdom since
00:14:21.360 2018 when he was the former governor of the Bank of England. Loyola also previously shared a quote from
00:14:28.140 Anne McGrath in 2013, the former president of the Alberta NDP, who said, quote,
00:14:32.740 we must win is who we are. We must not win as a Liberal Party. Alberta's Environment Minister,
00:14:38.760 Rebecca Schultz, blasted Loyola for his change of heart. She said, quote, there is zero difference
00:14:44.040 between the NDP and the Liberal Party of Canada now. Maybe a different color, but same ideological
00:14:49.440 activists, same broken promises. Popular poll aggregator 338 Canada currently has Edmonton Gateway
00:14:56.520 as a toss-up between the Liberals and Conservatives, giving the Conservatives a slight edge. The Conservative
00:15:02.240 candidate in the district is Tim Uppel, who currently sits as an MP for Edmonton Millwoods.
00:15:08.120 Edmonton Gateway is a new federal riding. The 2022 Canadian Federal Electoral Redistribution
00:15:14.000 saw it created out of parts of Edmonton Millwoods, Edmonton Riverbend, and Edmonton Wetaskiwin.
00:15:19.620 Sticking with stories on individual candidates, this time with an exclusive, Elections Canada
00:15:24.000 records reveal that Calgary Skyview Conservative candidate Amanpreet Singh Gill previously made donations
00:15:30.340 to the Federal Liberal Party and Liberal MP George Chahal's Riding Association. According to filings
00:15:36.220 from Elections Canada, Gill made multiple donations to the Liberal Party of Canada and one donation to
00:15:41.640 the Calgary Skyview Federal Liberal Association in 2022. The documents show a $500 donation by Gill
00:15:48.420 to Chahal's Riding Association on July 8, 2022. Chahal was elected as the Liberal MP for Calgary Skyview
00:15:55.100 in 2021 but is now running as a candidate in the neighbouring Calgary McKnight Riding. The other
00:16:00.320 donations were made to the Liberal Party of Canada. Despite his monetary support to the Liberals,
00:16:05.180 Gill ran for the Alberta's United Conservative Party in the 2023 provincial election and is now
00:16:10.980 seeking federal office under the Conservative Party of Canada banner for the upcoming federal
00:16:15.260 election on April 28. Gill's donation to the Calgary Skyview Federal Liberal Association
00:16:20.300 came after incumbent Chahal was caught violating election advertising laws in 2021. He was caught
00:16:26.800 on video removing an opponent's flyer from a residence's home, replacing it with his own,
00:16:31.900 and fined $500 for violating election advertising laws. Similarly, Chahal recently faced public scrutiny
00:16:38.640 for not revealing if taxpayer funds were spent on pre-election ads. Popular poll aggregator 338 Canada
00:16:44.860 currently has Calgary Skyview as a toss-up between the Liberals and Conservatives. Now, sticking with
00:16:50.380 George Chahal, he recently faced accusations that he was using public funds to sidestep political
00:16:56.160 advertising rules prior to a federal election after signs emblazoned with his face and the House of
00:17:01.760 Commons logo popped up in Calgary. Chahal's signs, which displayed Logans like Canada is not for sale
00:17:07.540 alongside the House of Commons logo, have prompted concerns about whether current election laws are too
00:17:13.240 easily skirted. The signs also refer to his official title as Member of Parliament, Calgary Skyview.
00:17:19.600 Some online have suggested that taxpayers might be footing the bill.
00:17:23.400 Federal laws exist that prohibit the unauthorized use of official symbols, including parliamentary shields,
00:17:29.180 crests, and royal coats of arms. While Elections Canada does not regulate the use of parliamentary
00:17:34.240 resources outside of election periods, MPs are expected to avoid using taxpayer-funded resources
00:17:40.560 for partisan purposes. Once the writ is issued, the Canada Elections Act prohibits using public funds
00:17:46.180 for campaign advertising. And remember, these signs popped up about a week before the election was
00:17:51.080 called. Rules on how MPs may spend parliamentary budgets outside of election periods are governed by
00:17:57.060 the House of Commons Board of Internal Economy, which prohibits using resources for activities unrelated
00:18:02.960 to a member's parliamentary functions. For our last story today, we'll be diving back into sports,
00:18:08.580 which we haven't talked about in a while. And you might think with the MLB season just starting,
00:18:12.840 it would be on that, which is why I'm wearing my Blue Jays jersey. But no, today we're talking about hockey
00:18:18.400 and what some Oilers fans are now calling the Carney curse. Firstly, the Edmonton Oilers decided to post a
00:18:24.860 video of Mark Carney skating on the ice with the team at practice. The post was not taken well,
00:18:30.560 as most of the top comments were blasting the team for letting politics enter the game they loved.
00:18:35.820 In fact, many of the top comments contain language too explicit to show here.
00:18:40.180 One of the top commenters who received over 1,000 likes on his reply wrote, quote,
00:18:44.760 As an Oilers fan, I am disappointed and disgusted with the Oilers for allowing this.
00:18:49.520 Top commentators on X also shared other images and videos of Carney participating with added commentary.
00:18:56.260 One political commentator said, quote,
00:18:58.120 We all know if this guy had his way, he would force them to change their team name. He hates
00:19:02.660 Oil and Gas. Carney was wearing goalie skates despite skating around as a forward. He played
00:19:07.860 for Harvard University as a third string goaltender. A popular hockey commentator and former Edmonton
00:19:14.100 Oiler Ryan Whitney created a new term after Carney's display. He said, quote,
00:19:19.300 The Carney curse is real for Edmonton. What the hell just happened? Guy is on the ice with the Oil this 0.80
00:19:25.020 morning and now everyone is injured. Of course, Leon Dreisaitl was injured before Carney's trip to
00:19:30.700 Edmonton. However, the Edmonton Oilers played the Winnipeg Jets the night Carney laced up his skates.
00:19:35.760 And during the game, the Oilers' best player and arguably the best player in the world,
00:19:39.980 Connor McDavid, and starting goaltender Stuart Skinner, were both injured and had to leave the
00:19:45.820 game. The Oilers ended up losing to the Winnipeg Jets in overtime.
00:19:50.280 While this game happened last Thursday, McDavid and Dreisaitl remain injured. Stuart Skinner returned
00:19:56.260 but was injured again and had to leave the game this Wednesday. Despite Carney lacing up and trying
00:20:02.340 to appease Edmontonians, he named his 23-minister cabinet last week. Of the 23 ministers sworn in
00:20:09.400 by Governor General Mary Simon, only one is west of Winnipeg. Energy Minister Jonathan Wilkinson,
00:20:15.700 who represents the BC riding of North Vancouver. Not a single minister was elected in an Alberta
00:20:22.080 riding. That wraps up this week's show. My name's Isaac Lamoureux, your host of the Alberta Roundup.
00:20:27.840 Have a great weekend, thank you, and God bless.