Juno News - Smith sticks it to the feds on gun rights

00:00:00.000 The Trudeau Liberals have wasted $42 million on a federal firearm confiscation program that

00:00:06.700 doesn't yet exist. 60 bureaucrats are working full-time on a program designed to confiscate

00:00:12.900 legally acquired property, including firearms which are used to sustain the livelihoods

00:00:18.380 of farmers and hunters. Documents obtained by the National Post reveal that costs could

00:00:24.940 balloon to as high as $2 billion. Ottawa is grasping at straws because provinces like

00:00:31.360 Alberta and Saskatchewan and Ontario have refused to aid the federal government in its gun confiscation

00:00:37.560 scheme. The efforts have so far been a disaster worthy of a national inquiry. I mean there was

00:00:42.840 a time when governments would be held accountable for wasting this much money. But at least one

00:00:47.460 premier has a positive take on the situation. That the program hasn't been a failure because it's

00:00:52.600 failed to confiscate a single firearm, but rather a success. I'm Rachel Emanuel and this is the

00:00:57.880 Alberta Roundup. Rachel Emanuel brings the news each day. On Alberta Roundup, she has her say. 0.79

00:01:10.000 So for those of you who were wondering what you just heard, that was my new Alberta Roundup theme

00:01:15.060 song generated by AI. Actually, Andrew Lawton put that together for me. I was feeling very flattered by

00:01:21.500 all the kind things that were said about me in the song and then I thereafter learned he was making

00:01:26.280 them for basically everybody. So I wasn't as special as I thought I was. I still really like

00:01:30.740 the song. I think I'm going to keep it in the show as our new theme song. Let me know what you guys

00:01:35.480 think about it. Are you a fan or did you prefer the old music? Okay, taking a look at our first story

00:01:40.840 here, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith was asked how she feels about Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's

00:01:45.780 gun buyback scheme, not confiscating a single firearm so far, despite spending $42 million of

00:01:53.180 taxpayer money. And honestly, I don't know if I can do this one justice. So I'm just going to let the

00:01:57.600 Premier's words speak for themselves. Take a listen. Well, I call that a success that they haven't been

00:02:01.760 able to seize a single law abiding firearms owner's gun. So I wish them continued success at being able to

00:02:08.220 achieve zero compliance with their program. And we are not going to do anything to help them.

00:02:12.840 We believe that the issue is the illegal firearms getting them into the hands of gangs and organized

00:02:18.940 crime coming across the border. And the federal government should be focused on that not focusing

00:02:22.980 on taking guns away from sport shooters, duck hunters and and farmers. A friendly reminder that

00:02:28.700 back in 2022, the federal government had asked the provinces for help with confiscating the guns

00:02:33.960 specifically, they had asked for Alberta's RCMP to aid in the gun confiscation regime. And then Alberta

00:02:39.740 Justice Minister Tyler Shandra said that it was not a provincial priority. And Alberta's RCMP would

00:02:45.560 not be aiding the federal government's buyback scheme. Taking a look at our next story here. This

00:02:50.580 one is a bit of an oldie, but I had to play it for those of you who missed it. Last weekend, Calgary

00:02:56.160 Mayor Jody Gondek was booed at a Calgary Flames game. This was pretty painful. Take a watch at this

00:03:02.040 video if you haven't seen it already. Now there was lots of controversy about this online. Many

00:03:15.380 people even conservatives were saying that it wasn't appropriate and that we should show respect

00:03:19.700 for our elected politicians, including Tamara Leach, who said that she found it painful to watch

00:03:24.560 the video. I'm wondering what do you guys think? Do you think it is appropriate to boo an elected

00:03:28.680 official? Or do you think that you should show them respect and decency and be civil and polite,

00:03:32.880 even when you disagree with their policies that could or could not be ruining a municipality?

00:03:39.820 Now, of course, we know that the recall Mayor Gondek campaign has been ongoing. As I've covered for

00:03:44.860 you guys, we knew from the beginning that it was going to be unsuccessful because they required over

00:03:49.120 half a million signatures. And the petitioner, that's Landon Johnston, said on this very show that he

00:03:53.940 would not be able to get those signatures. That petition ended on Thursday. The deadline was on

00:03:59.200 Thursday and volunteers garnered 72,000 signatures. So that is a far cry from the over half a million

00:04:06.000 signatures that were needed. Now we knew from the beginning that this campaign was not going to be

00:04:10.740 successful. I did expect to see more signatures. I'm going to be honest. I know that the campaign

00:04:16.080 had a lot of difficulties. They were not allowed to collect signatures around City Hall and they were

00:04:21.660 chased out of certain other areas. And also Landon Johnson filed this petition and then other groups

00:04:27.000 sort of gathered around to help out. I think it's one of those things where you really had to hit

00:04:30.760 the ground running. You had to hit the ground running with all your volunteers lined up with a

00:04:34.300 plan in place. And Johnson said on this show, maybe about two weeks into the campaign that they were

00:04:39.100 about ready and organized with their volunteers. That was really a period of lost time, I would say.

00:04:44.520 So, you know, we knew this campaign wasn't going to be successful. I did expect to see more

00:04:48.580 signatures. I don't know how much of an impact it's going to leave because there were so few

00:04:52.500 people who signed the petition. The real indicator of how successful the impact of the petition has

00:04:57.300 been is Jodi Gondrick herself. Will she change her ways? Will she recognize that she is the most

00:05:01.960 unpopular Calgary mayor of all time and actually seek to put forward policies that people want and

00:05:07.700 that will better their lives? Or will she continue to raise taxes and drive through her anti-Canadian agenda? 1.00

00:05:14.640 Just going to take a quick look at this story. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was in Calgary,

00:05:18.380 again this week. He was in the city on Friday for a housing announcement. And of course,

00:05:22.980 he allowed only his bought and paid for legacy media to question him. Just going to play a short

00:05:29.520 clip for you guys now so you can see what our beloved Prime Minister is up to.

00:05:32.800 We want to excel pace in construction to levels not seen since the end of the Second World War.

00:05:39.660 To do that, we need to change our approach and adopt innovative technologies.

00:05:44.060 We need more made-in-Canada success stories like here at NRB Modular Solutions, the largest modular

00:05:51.740 building solutions provider in the country. And more centralized manufacturing sites where

00:05:57.500 the best workers in the world, Canadian workers, can build faster for cheaper all year round

00:06:03.800 with the help of innovative solutions around robotics, AI and innovation. That's why in Budget 2024,

00:06:11.480 we will announce a package of over $600 million, specifically for innovative housing solutions.

00:06:19.940 This package will include the launch of a new $50 million home building technology and innovation fund.

00:06:34.220 The goal of this fund will be to provide more homes faster by scaling up and promoting innovative

00:06:40.620 technologies and materials like modular and prefabricated homes. The package will also include

00:06:46.800 another $50 million to modernize and expedite home building through the regional development

00:06:53.400 agencies. In other positive news, I know we've all been fairly concerned about the drought that was

00:06:58.020 expected for this spring in Alberta. The march that just happened is the second snowiest march on record

00:07:04.160 for Calgary. And I just have to show you this tweet from a friend of the show, Marty Up North,

00:07:08.680 who wrote on X this week. I was listening to the radio yesterday and all the host could bring

00:07:12.720 himself to say was, that's a bit more than the average. No moron. It's almost three times the 1.00

00:07:18.420 average. Listening to the media and politicians do mental gymnastics when facts don't agree with

00:07:23.160 their narrative is hilarious. So obviously this is good news for the province. If you've watched

00:07:27.380 the show for a little while, you know by now that I actually hate winter. I hate the snow. I hate the cold.

00:07:32.680 So I don't personally love the snow, but I know that the land and the farmers desperately need it for

00:07:37.200 their crops. So I'm going to choose to see the positive in this. And if you're on X,

00:07:41.140 you should definitely go follow my good friend, Marty Up North. I love his content.

00:07:44.960 He always hits the nail on the head. Okay, everyone moving into our next story here.

00:07:49.200 One of the biggest news stories in the country is happening in my backyard this week.

00:07:53.120 The axe attacks protest on highway one heading west from Calgary to Banff is still ongoing almost

00:07:58.540 a week later. Organizers and protesters are very determined to stay for weeks on end until their

00:08:04.080 plight is heard. If you guys saw my midweek show, you know that the RCMP showed up in full numbers

00:08:09.060 on Tuesday to back protesters up so they could no longer slow highway traffic. On Wednesday,

00:08:15.700 those officers mostly left other than a small contingency left behind to monitor the situation.

00:08:20.620 I wasn't able to get a very clear answer from the RCMP, but they said it looks like they just

00:08:25.400 wanted RCMP there to ensure that protesters were not slowing traffic. At one point on Tuesday,

00:08:29.940 there was about 100 officers there. There's been about 100 protesters there every day of the week.

00:08:34.400 So it was about a one to one ratio. It was pretty crazy. Some super surreal scenes. Although I don't

00:08:39.680 know that they are so surreal anymore because we're just becoming so used to that type of insane police

00:08:45.140 presence and crackdown on freedom loving Canadians and freedom loving protesters. So we'll play some

00:08:51.800 of those images for you guys now.

00:09:21.800 I came out here today because people are having trouble buying food and paying rent and paying for

00:09:36.360 their mortgages. We're being taxed again and more and more people are falling behind. They can't keep

00:09:42.200 up. I'm standing here for the people who can't be here because we deserve to have our rights to peace

00:09:50.140 to the protest. And just because the protest is happening so close to my house, I've been trying

00:09:54.000 to get down there every day to do some interviews and just to take some shots to keep you guys updated

00:09:58.340 on the situation. If you'd like to see those, you can follow me on my X account where I post

00:10:02.660 everything. We will link that for you on the video. Moving into our controversy of the week,

00:10:07.260 an Alberta NDP MLA is facing controversy from a Jewish organization over her anti-Israel commentary.

00:10:15.660 The Jewish Federation of Edmonton has accused Edmonton MLA Janice Irwin of cozying up to 0.98

00:10:21.160 people who support, quote, the erasure of the state of Israel without condemning Hamas,

00:10:26.400 a recognized terrorist entity by the government of Canada. Among other things, Irwin shared a post

00:10:32.100 denying that Hamas committed mass rape against Israeli women. This comes despite testimonies

00:10:37.240 from Israeli women about sexual violence. As well, the United Nations found, quote,

00:10:41.760 reasonable grounds to believe that conflict-related sexual violence, including rape and gang rape,

00:10:46.540 occurred across multiple locations of Israel and the Gaza periphery during the attacks on October 7th.

00:10:51.940 In a statement posted to X, the Jewish Federation of Edmonton accused Irwin of, quote,

00:10:57.120 ardently demonstrating that she does not support all Albertans, including those impacted by the

00:11:01.560 October 7th Hamas terrorist attack. Irwin has not responded to the allegations. Moving into what

00:11:07.340 we're watching in the weeks to come, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says there's a worrying trend

00:11:12.160 of prescription opioids seeping into the illegal market. We covered a few weeks ago that Alberta

00:11:18.060 had asked the federal government to put a chemical tracer in drugs that were part of prescription opioids,

00:11:23.560 which is also referred to as a safe supply. The federal government rejected that request,

00:11:28.920 and now the Premier is continuing to raise the alarm over drugs that are coming across the border from

00:11:35.300 BC, where they have the so-called safe supply program into Alberta. The Premier says that BC has

00:11:40.460 a right to develop its own policy, but she needs to look out for the interests of Albertans. Take a 0.72

00:11:45.180 listen. We need to know when there's overdoses, if there's some evidence that that came from the from

00:11:52.500 British Columbia. So we're going to continue pressing on that. My ministers have also met with their

00:11:56.700 counterparts in British Columbia so that we can talk about how we can get more data on this there.

00:12:02.760 Right now, it's a bit of an unknown how much of the drug seizures contain these prescribed

00:12:10.860 high-powered opioids, and we think we need to know that information. In the same press conference where

00:12:16.100 she made those comments, the Premier also announced two new organizations dedicated to helping those

00:12:20.660 struggling with addiction. The first organization, Recovery Alberta, will become the provincial health

00:12:26.080 agency responsible for mental health and addiction services currently being offered by Alberta Health

00:12:31.440 Services. And the second organization is the Canadian Centre of Recovery Excellence, which will conduct

00:12:38.200 research and program evaluations, provide advice to the government on international best practices,

00:12:44.220 and develop standards of practice on mental health and addiction. And that second organization

00:12:48.840 will be a crown corporation funded by the Alberta government. And finally, moving into our weekly

00:12:53.080 comment roundup, I pulled these comments from my midweek episode, which exclusively covered the

00:12:58.160 carbon tax protest. You guys can go take a look at that. I have a lot of interview content in there

00:13:02.380 with many people who are out there at the protest, including some who said they were disappointed

00:13:06.200 that Danielle Smith did not show up to the protest and that she had asked protesters not to block

00:13:11.600 traffic. Let's take a look at some of these responses. User Super Ginray said,

00:13:15.520 I think Danielle Smith's statement was completely reasonable. She seems to be doing what she can

00:13:20.340 to oppose the unholy liberal NDP federal alliance that's intentionally making life miserable for all

00:13:26.360 Canadians. User Bev Nate said, quote, good grief, no, Smith didn't need to be there. She testified at

00:13:32.660 committee and did a great job praising Alberta and talked against the carbon tax. Everyone paying

00:13:38.080 attention knows how she feels about a carbon tax. She does not need to give the MSM or Trudeau any 0.96

00:13:43.920 ammunition to use against her. She has done more for this province in the last little while than 0.99

00:13:48.780 any premier I know. Finally, user Sagana said, Danielle Smith should be asking who ordered those

00:13:55.360 officers to be there. If it wasn't her, it was someone butting their nose into her province's

00:14:00.860 business. Not a good look. Okay, everyone, that's all we have time for today. Please like this video

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00:14:22.160 you guys have a great weekend. If you're in Calgary, you should be at the carbon tax protest

00:14:25.320 and I'll see you guys next weekend. Have a good one. God bless.

00:14:28.980 In the heart of Alberta, where the Cowboys roam, there's a media star with a voice so strong.

00:14:41.100 Rachel Emmanuel brings the news each day. On Alberta Roundup, she has her say.

00:14:50.380 With a twinkle in her eye and a fire in her soul. She dives into politics. She takes control.

00:15:01.620 No topic too tough. No question too hard. Rachel digs deep. She plays her cards.

00:15:13.380 Tune in to Alberta Roundup, hear the truth unfold. Rachel Emmanuel's voice, bold and bold.

00:15:24.320 So bold. She's the voice of the people. She's their God in life. On Alberta Roundup, she fights the goodbyes.

00:15:43.380 Yeah.

00:15:44.320 The following three talks out, she plays ahora. I'm sure she fightsygen. 0.97

00:15:48.820 I'll be passionate about it.itch

00:16:00.580 What is it always unafeng general?

00:16:02.180 Yeah either.

00:16:04.620 Yeah, yeah, yeah it's a choice.

Juno News - April 06, 2024

Smith sticks it to the feds on gun rights

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