Juno News - Smith has a plan to win in big cities

00:00:00.000 hey everyone welcome back to the alberta roundup i'm your host rachel emmanuel i hope that you

00:00:17.860 guys are having a great week so far i for one am definitely enjoying some of this warmer weather

00:00:22.660 here's what we're going to be taking a look at on today's show alberta premier danielle smith

00:00:27.060 said conservatives need to learn how to win in big cities i also have an update for you all on bill

00:00:32.320 c69 or as former premier jason kenney so endearingly called it the no more pipelines bill alberta finance

00:00:39.480 minister travis taves has made a big announcement and the ndp have a new proposal is it vote pandering

00:00:45.360 or is it actually a good idea all that and more happening now on the alberta roundup okay guys up

00:00:51.060 first speaking about the spring general election alberta premier daniel smith said that conservatives

00:00:56.040 need to learn how to win in big cities she was speaking on thursday at the canada strong and

00:01:00.820 free networking conference that was of course formerly called the manning conference take a

00:01:05.240 listen to her comments now the the good news is that we're finally united um as a as a conservative

00:01:11.580 movement now we just have to gain a little bit more ground in in in calgary and in edmonton and

00:01:17.700 i would say this because this is a challenge for all conservatives is we have to figure out

00:01:23.140 how to win in big cities because increasingly people are moving to big cities and i understand

00:01:29.500 completely why rural alberta loves us because our values resonate so well with rural alberta we we

00:01:35.420 believe in individual freedom and also strong families and multi-generational families often

00:01:40.360 working a family business often a family farm a lot of people are involved in their faith community

00:01:46.420 their faith community does a lot of good works in the community so you've got free enterprise and then

00:01:51.000 when people do really well they also give back to their community with with philanthropy like that

00:01:55.480 is the full conservative vision and it's played out every single day in rural alberta now when you

00:02:01.200 get to larger cities there's a few more disconnects the families are not necessarily all together in the

00:02:07.320 same city and you don't necessarily have generational and family businesses and you don't necessarily

00:02:11.140 have people who even know their neighbors let alone getting involved in community groups so it's a

00:02:15.900 it's a it's a very different challenge and how you and how you uh you talk to an urban audience so i can

00:02:21.820 tell you i'm a pretty known quantity as my conservative libertarian view since i've been in the public for a

00:02:28.220 long time but a lot of uh the vision that we're putting forward is one where we don't just focus on the

00:02:34.620 dollars and cents i have felt like conservatives say vote for me and i will cut your taxes cut your

00:02:40.860 regulation cut your spending and we don't really have a vision for what it is that we're going to

00:02:45.740 do with all of those dollars that get generated from taxes other than just hand it over to the

00:02:51.580 same people that the guys on the left hired and why would we think that we would get conservative

00:02:56.380 policy if we do that i think what we really need to do is to develop a vision for how we apply our

00:03:01.980 conservative values to the delivery of public services also this week alberta government lawyers

00:03:07.180 made their case for upholding a lower court ruling which found the federal government's impact

00:03:12.540 assessment act also known as bill c69 to be unconstitutional the supreme court of canada

00:03:18.220 began hearings on tuesday as the federal government asks it to overrule that alberta court of appeal

00:03:23.580 ruling several provincial governments told canada's top court that the act undermines their ability to

00:03:29.180 determine their own future in written legal documents to canada's supreme court the federal attorney general

00:03:34.940 argued that the act was adopted to quote establish a federal environmental assessment process to

00:03:39.820 safeguard against adverse environmental effects in relation to matters within federal jurisdiction

00:03:45.100 under the canadian constitution provinces have exclusive rights over resource development

00:03:49.820 but neither the provinces nor the federal government have total control over environmental regulation

00:03:55.340 alberta government lawyer bruce mellett argued that alberta already has a comprehensive

00:03:59.900 review process for projects and now the federal government wants to enforce this act which

00:04:05.420 prioritize federal policies manitoba lawyer charles murray argued quote what we don't need is one

00:04:11.900 party always holding the trump card while quebec lawyer frederick perot argued that the province's

00:04:17.100 main concern is preserving the balance of federalism perot said quote we're asking the court not to give

00:04:22.620 the federal laws more favorable treatment than provincial ones premier smith also briefly touched on this

00:04:28.140 legal battle at the canada strong and free networking conference here's what that sounded like we just

00:04:33.260 think we can reach carbon neutrality a different way if we export our lng that reduces emissions of more

00:04:39.420 polluting fuels elsewhere that's one way that we think we would be able to to reduce our emissions we

00:04:45.180 believe carbon capture utilization and storage will ultimately help us to capture and barrier or embedded

00:04:50.540 into useful products we believe that we will be able to use natural gas as a precursor to potentially a

00:04:55.820 hydrogen economy at some point we've got hydrogen construction happening in our province geothermal

00:05:01.980 is a an also a potential small modular nuclear is going to come on stream in ontario and new brunswick

00:05:07.420 i'm watching that with great interest i'd love to see that so those are the things that make sense for our

00:05:11.820 economy and those are the things we could work uh constructively with the with the federal government

00:05:17.100 on but when you have an ideological government that wants to achieve unrealistic targets as quickly as

00:05:23.580 they do it's just we're on a collision course and so you're going to see the first of that

00:05:28.300 in the courts this week um but we're we're really hoping that uh that we're able to convince them to

00:05:33.420 back off on friday morning ucp mla leadership runner-up and alberta's finance minister travis

00:05:39.420 taves announced that he will not seek re-election in the next provincial election which of course is

00:05:44.380 coming up in may travis taves of course came second last in the ucp leadership contest won by daniel

00:05:49.500 smith in october on the sixth and final ballot he says while he's not seeking re-election he

00:05:54.620 remains deeply committed to the conservative movement okay guys and moving into the controversy

00:05:59.100 of the week i'm curious to hear what you all think about this the alberta ndp said that if elected

00:06:05.260 government in may they will create a somali curriculum during question period on monday ndp

00:06:10.940 education critic sarah hoffman challenged her ucp counterpart that's of course education minister

00:06:16.460 adriana lagrange she said the government isn't supporting youth in schools and questioned why

00:06:22.300 the government hasn't yet developed a somali curriculum take a listen to her comments given

00:06:27.260 that that's false and given that create a somali curriculum is about celebrating the vibrant

00:06:31.660 language and culture of somali somalia while creating and ensuring that youth are supported

00:06:36.780 in their learning in alberta schools and given that we are in the ndp and we are committed to making

00:06:41.500 sure that all students in alberta schools have the tools they need to be supported and given that

00:06:46.780 clearly hasn't been a priority under the ucp we are committed to offering a somali curriculum so

00:06:52.780 why didn't the current education minister or anyone in the ucp make this a priority they've had four

00:06:57.740 years lagrange responded that schools already have the ability to develop a curriculum for a given

00:07:03.660 student or region if necessary that includes language and culture needs this video has been

00:07:09.100 circulating online and one user asked sarah hoffman what exactly a somali curriculum would entail

00:07:14.780 the ndp deputy leader said it's quote a chance to learn language and culture of somalia just like

00:07:20.460 many other languages we offer in alberta schools french german spanish now there are a large number

00:07:26.140 of somali canadians living in edmonton where the ndp already have a large stronghold it sounds like

00:07:31.180 schools already have the authority to develop curriculum based on a given student's needs or even a

00:07:35.660 community's need i don't know why the ndp is pushing this curriculum but i'm wondering if you

00:07:39.740 think it's something that's necessary or does it sound like more ndp vote pandering ahead of the spring

00:07:45.100 election so that's my question of the week for you guys comment on the video below and let me know

00:07:49.340 what you think about the ndp's latest proposal also this week premier smith announced that 48 million

00:07:55.020 in unpaid municipal taxes are now under repayment plans following a new government directive

00:08:00.860 she was speaking at the rural municipalities of alberta 2023 convention on wednesday morning

00:08:05.900 the premier touted her government's plan to force oil patch companies to pay unpaid municipal taxes

00:08:11.420 saying it's quote unacceptable when delinquent companies aren't paying their municipal taxes

00:08:16.700 under a new government directive oil patch companies will not be able to transfer licenses

00:08:21.580 or get new ones unless regulators are satisfied that their taxes have been paid earlier this month

00:08:26.940 rural municipalities alberta released figures that showed energy firms owed 268 million in back taxes

00:08:33.740 in 2022 a figure that is up more than six percent from the year before okay guys and finally i wanted

00:08:39.500 to end my show with my weekly comment roundup last week i did an interview with pastor derek reimer

00:08:44.940 he was a pastor that was arrested in calgary after protesting at a drag queen story hour and shortly

00:08:49.980 after our interview he was arrested for a second time so i'm going to take a look at some of your

00:08:53.980 comments here user sylvana from chester said good interview thank you and please follow this brave

00:08:59.500 man story this is a travesty of justice this country is sinking into utter depravity user angel may

00:09:06.140 connelly said glad someone will stand up to drag queens reading to our children it's not right read to 1.00

00:09:11.900 those that want to hear that and a couple of you did comment and say that you thought the length of

00:09:16.380 the podcast was a little bit too long i think that's a fair criticism last week's episode was 20 minutes

00:09:21.820 i generally try to keep my episodes to 10 minutes so what i'll do moving forward is maybe a separate

00:09:26.380 video with a full interview and i'll cut some clips from that interview and embed it into my show so

00:09:31.020 that you guys can all get a taste of it and those of you that actually want to watch the full interview

00:09:34.940 can seek that out and watch it online later so i do appreciate the constructive criticism there

00:09:39.900 okay guys that's all i have for you today thank you so much for tuning in i hope that you get to go

00:09:43.900 out for the rest of your saturday and enjoy the beautiful spring weather that we are finally

00:09:48.060 seeing i for one am very excited about it as always if you're able please consider supporting

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Juno News - March 25, 2023

Smith has a plan to win in big cities

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