Juno News - Smith says Trudeau appealing to ‘extreme base’

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

00:00:14.400 guys are having a great january so far i'm wondering is anyone keeping up with their new

00:00:19.300 year's resolutions mine certainly haven't been going quite according to plan but i haven't given

00:00:24.400 up altogether now it's been a crazy week in alberta politics so let's dive into it

00:00:29.280 here's what we're going to be looking at on today's show premier danielle smith says trudeau is seeking

00:00:34.120 to appeal to an extreme base an unvaccinated woman who was removed from the top of the organ transplant 1.00

00:00:39.400 list is hoping her case will be heard by canada's top court the federal court has granted alberta

00:00:44.680 intervener status in lawsuits against the liberal government's firearms ban and 250 000 units of

00:00:50.740 kids medicine are arriving in the province this weekend all that and more happening now on the

00:00:55.620 alberta roundup okay guys first up this is the biggest story of the week in my opinion

00:01:00.140 alberta premier danielle smith says prime minister justin trudeau is seeking to appeal to an extreme

00:01:05.880 base through his proposed just transition plan last week federal natural resources minister

00:01:11.260 jonathan wilkinson said ottawa would move ahead with a plan this spring on a just transition proposal

00:01:17.300 he said it would provide a seamless transition to incentivize workers to move to a less carbon

00:01:22.340 intensive economy wilkinson said the problem won't be in lack of jobs but finding workers to

00:01:27.060 fill the long-term needs of the changing energy landscape but premier smith disagrees she said the

00:01:32.480 legislation which hasn't yet been tabled provides a big threat to alberta's energy industry take a

00:01:38.100 listen to her comments for yourself i think it's a big threat and the reason for that is the language

00:01:42.200 they're using just transition is the language that they used when they phased out the coal industry

00:01:47.320 it is a social justice term if they wanted to talk about sustainable jobs that's uh completely

00:01:53.620 different and we'd be quite happy to talk to them about sustainable jobs in carbon tech sustainable

00:01:58.380 jobs in hydrogen sustainable jobs in this new economy that we're developing around small modular

00:02:03.980 nuclear and and other types of projects i think we're we're all on board with that but to use that

00:02:09.060 terminology they're virtue signaling to an extreme base that is openly advocating to shut down oil and

00:02:15.820 natural gas because look at what happened at a cop 27 the final communique talked about ultimately

00:02:21.160 shutting down the oil and natural gas industry in the same way that coal had been phased out

00:02:24.640 we have a prime minister who when you ran in the last election talked about that uh the need to phase

00:02:30.920 out oil sands eventually he looked at it as inevitability we we don't look at it that way at all

00:02:36.180 we think that the world is going to need more natural gas we believe that with carbon capture technology

00:02:41.120 uh it's going to make it more and more sustainable hydrogen at its base the the best way to make it

00:02:46.460 is out of methane which is natural gas when you look at uh our oil sands producers they have an

00:02:51.880 aggressive strategy to reduce emissions and use more bitumen beyond combustion there's a petrochemical

00:02:57.200 industry that we've been supporting here so we're just shifting the paradigm this is not about phasing out

00:03:03.020 any of these jobs it's about growing them and expanding the opportunity for oil and natural gas workers

00:03:08.360 and that's the kind of language i would like to hear the prime minister use okay guys moving into

00:03:12.620 our next story here the federal court of canada has provided alberta intervener status in six

00:03:18.460 ongoing lawsuits against the liberal government's firearms ban in september alberta justice minister

00:03:23.780 and attorney general tyler shandro first announced that alberta would seek intervener status

00:03:28.300 in the ongoing lawsuits against the liberal government's firearms ban that permission was granted this

00:03:33.800 week and the canadian coalition for firearms rights says alberta is leading the fight to ensure that

00:03:39.340 auto respects citizens property rights spokesperson tracy wilson told me this week quote the ccfr welcomes

00:03:46.220 alberta to our court challenge against the order and council gun ban the attorney general of alberta has

00:03:51.160 been steadfast in his support of licensed sports shooters and hunters we welcome them to the national

00:03:56.880 arena on this issue in related news shandro is urging the federal government to extend the amnesty

00:04:02.280 period for weapons deemed illegal under trudeau's may 2020 order in council saying the prime minister

00:04:07.440 must show a measure of decency to firearms owners you guys likely remember the details of this story

00:04:13.260 by now i cover it every week in september alberta was the first province to oppose federal public

00:04:17.980 safety minister marco medicino's request for provinces to aid the federal government in confiscating

00:04:23.140 those weapons that move was promptly copied by saskatchewan manitoba and new brunswick shandro now says the

00:04:29.480 federal government appears to be struggling to implement that buyback program despite a quote

00:04:33.880 mountain of money and years worth of time he continued at minimum they should proactively

00:04:38.760 extend the amnesty period that is currently scheduled to end in october 2023 such a decision

00:04:44.160 however would involve showing canadian firearms owners a measure of decency something that minister

00:04:49.700 mendicino and his federal government is seemingly incapable of and here's some good news for some parents

00:04:55.160 in the province alberta premier daniel smith announced this week that 250 000 units of

00:05:00.680 children's medicine will be arriving in the province this weekend for use by alberta health services the

00:05:06.040 shipment took a little longer than the premier was hoping but here's what she had to say about it on

00:05:09.880 tuesday there's a couple of things that we had to do in working through with a new supplier the um

00:05:14.840 health canada has to go through and uh examine the manufacturer they have to examine our import

00:05:19.640 facilities we had to make sure that the formulation was the same as we would sell for uh generic products

00:05:27.000 here we had to get french and english packaging approved and we went through all of those different

00:05:33.320 steps and so as a result we have our first shipment arriving on the weekend it's going to be for alberta

00:05:39.480 health services use it's 250 000 bottles the remaining 4.750 bottles is 4.7 4.750 million bottles

00:05:49.480 are going to be subject to an additional uh delay because for retail use you have to have a child

00:05:56.040 proof cap as i understand that we are working on making sure that that approval process is taking

00:06:01.000 place and so that'll be the second batch amid the national shortages of children's medicine last year

00:06:06.200 smith and her health minister jason comping announced that they secured 5 million units of

00:06:10.520 children's medicine from a manufacturer in turkey okay guys moving into the controversy of the week

00:06:16.120 or is it i'm curious to hear what you guys think premier smith announced on thursday that she's

00:06:20.840 asking on a regular basis shandro and his deputy minister whether charges made during the coven 19

00:06:27.320 pandemic are in the public interest to continue pursuing i'm going to play her comments for you now

00:06:32.920 the way our system of uh of justice works is that we do have an independent justice department and

00:06:39.400 independent crown prosecutors and i have asked them to consider all charges under the lens of is it in the

00:06:46.040 public interest to pursue and is there a reasonable likelihood of conviction um as we continue to

00:06:52.600 see some of these cases go through some of them get dropped some of them fail they have to consistently

00:06:57.080 recalibrate but i do want to make sure that they have an independent process for assessing that

00:07:02.840 but i ask them on a regular basis um as new cases come out is it in the public interest to pursue

00:07:08.920 and is there a reasonable likelihood of conviction and so i'll leave the the justice system to work but i

00:07:13.960 i do i do think that's an important lens for us to be looking at these kinds of charges now the reason

00:07:18.520 this has become such a big story in headlines is because about three months ago at the united

00:07:23.000 conservative party annual general meeting in october just after smith was sworn in as premier

00:07:28.200 she said she wanted to seek pardons for those who were charged for breaching covet 19 restrictions

00:07:33.800 we're going to play those older comments for you now seeking some legal advice on that and i'll get

00:07:38.280 back to you a quote i know about halfway forward it would be a lot of the fines that were delivered

00:07:42.440 were administrative fines that came out of alberta health services so i beg you differ it was a

00:07:46.520 political decision to uh to throw the charter of rights and freedoms and to put those fines in place

00:07:51.240 in the first place and i think it can be a political decision to make amends and apologize for

00:07:55.080 it and eliminate them but i'm getting some legal advice on that this whole issue has turned into quite

00:08:00.040 a scandal in legacy media with many saying that the premier is walking back her promise

00:08:04.280 to pardon those charged for covet 19 restrictions and well-known calgary street pastor art polowski

00:08:10.920 who was charged many times during the coven 19 pandemic he was well known as someone who breached

00:08:15.400 the rules on a frequent basis is now calling smith a kenny 2.0 so you guys have heard the comments

00:08:21.960 now i'm curious what do you think is smith walking back her promises or is this pretty much what you

00:08:26.920 expected her to do she's looking into the issue she said she wants to keep the justice system separate as 1.00

00:08:31.480 it should be but she's still calling the justice minister and asking him to recalibrate that was

00:08:36.440 her words so comment under the video below do you guys think the premier is walking back on her promise

00:08:41.800 or are you happy with her actions thus far what we're watching in the weeks to come this story

00:08:46.440 was huge a couple months back it's now back in the headlines an unvaccinated woman who was denied

00:08:51.640 an organ transplant for yes her vaccination status is now hoping canada's top court will hear her case

00:08:57.960 in november three alberta appeal court judges unanimously upheld a lower court ruling saying

00:09:03.240 that clinical judgments are not subject to charter scrutiny ending annette lewis's bid to return to

00:09:08.520 the top of the organ donor transplant list this week lewis filed an application with the supreme

00:09:13.720 court of canada asking them to hear her case against alberta health services allison payovic the justice

00:09:19.560 center for constitutional freedoms lawyer overseeing lewis's case said her client is nearing the end of the

00:09:24.680 legal road she said quote she has made the difficult choice to stand against an unethical

00:09:30.120 and unscientific vaccine mandate which has come between her and her chance to survive we hope the 0.99

00:09:35.560 supreme court of canada is interested in hearing this very important case so we're waiting to hear

00:09:40.520 now whether they will agree to hear lewis's case and i'll be sure to report on that as soon as i have

00:09:45.080 the details for you all okay guys that's everything i have for you today don't forget to comment under this

00:09:49.080 video and let me know what you think about the controversy of the week as always if you're able please

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Juno News - January 14, 2023

Smith says Trudeau appealing to ‘extreme base’

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