Juno News - The Alberta NDP’s “shameless stunt”

00:00:00.000 hey everyone welcome back to the alberta roundup i'm your host rachel emanuel today we're going

00:00:16.480 to be talking about the alberta government who paid tribute to queen elizabeth ii this week

00:00:20.720 we're also going to be talking about the ndp who blamed the ucp government for its vaccine portal

00:00:25.920 crashing even while one of its mlas hacked the system another coutts border protester has been

00:00:31.440 charged by the rcmp and of course we'll have our usual ucp leadership race update all that and more

00:00:36.720 happening now on the alberta roundup let's get into it mlas gathered on thursday to pay tribute to queen

00:00:42.240 elizabeth ii who passed away last week at age 96. take a listen to the ceremony i move government

00:00:48.640 motion 32 which reads that an humble address be presented to his majesty the king as follows

00:00:54.080 we your majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects the legislative assembly now assembled wish to

00:01:01.440 express the deep sympathy felt by this assembly for the great sorrow which your majesty has sustained

00:01:07.200 by the death of the late queen your majesty's mother extend to all the royal family the deep

00:01:14.160 sympathy of this assembly in their grief alberta premier jason kenney also formally recognized king

00:01:20.000 charles as the king of canada take a listen to that as well your honor mr chief justice mr speaker

00:01:27.200 fellow members of alberta's executive council it is my duty to advise the lieutenant governor

00:01:32.480 to issue a proclamation under the great seal of the province of alberta announcing the death of her

00:01:38.400 late majesty queen elizabeth the second and the accession of his majesty king charles the third king

00:01:46.240 of canada and the premier announced that alberta's federal building will be renamed the queen elizabeth

00:01:51.280 the second building let's talk about the coutts border blockade for a minute a coutts border

00:01:55.440 protester who made headlines last month when he was implicated in his friend's conditional release

00:01:59.840 has now also been charged by the alberta rcmp marco van huygenbos told me this week he's been

00:02:04.960 charged with mischief over five thousand dollars stemming from his involvement with the coutts border

00:02:09.200 blockade in late august van huygenbos's close friend and fellow coutts border protester alex

00:02:14.960 van huyck was detained by the rcmp you guys might remember the story officers attempted to get van

00:02:20.160 huyck to sign a conditional release saying he would end contact with van huygenbos the two have been

00:02:24.640 close friends for years but that condition was dropped after hundreds of people showed up to

00:02:29.120 the rcmp detachment to protest van huyck's detainment i caught up with van huygenbos this

00:02:33.840 week and he said he was concerned the rcmp were going to try something similar especially considering

00:02:38.160 they would have had more time to think about what happened with his friends and to strategize to

00:02:41.600 make sure the same thing wouldn't happen with him but he had no issues when he turned himself

00:02:46.080 in on monday to be formally charged he said things went exactly as planned and noted especially that

00:02:51.440 there was no condition for him to end contact with his friend alex van huyck quote in my mind that was

00:02:57.040 a small win end quote okay guys let's move into the controversy of the week unsealed court records

00:03:03.360 show that rachel notley's ndp knew one of its mlas hacked alberta's vaccine portal causing the system to

00:03:08.880 buckle and then blamed the ucp government for the system's failure in september 2021 mla thomas dang

00:03:14.720 allegedly hacked alberta's vaccine record system by sending 1.78 million queries to test for a

00:03:20.720 security fault meanwhile albertans attempting to access their vaccine records through the portal

00:03:25.280 were forced to wait for hours behind a queue of up to 50 000 users at time and while this was all

00:03:30.320 going on some members of the ndp government blamed the ucp for the slow system chief government

00:03:36.160 whip brad brotherford said the ndp crashed alberta's vaccine system yet chose to play them

00:03:40.720 anyway and attack the government quote this is probably the most shameless stunt we've seen

00:03:45.600 from the notley ndp so far he said in a statement to true north what we're watching in the weeks to

00:03:50.880 come ucp leadership candidates danielle smith and travis taves have both surpassed 1 million dollars in

00:03:56.400 fundraising efforts that's more than the ucp fundraise in both the first and second financial

00:04:01.200 quarters however it falls short of the ndp's fundraising efforts for the year travis taves

00:04:06.960 has not released the amount of donors he has but the smith campaign says it has 5 442 donations with

00:04:13.520 an average donation of 191 dollars they are the only two candidates to release their fundraising numbers

00:04:19.200 so far i'm curious to see what is everyone else pulled in the schultz campaign and the gene campaign

00:04:24.400 both told me those numbers are coming at a later date so we'll have to keep an eye out for that

00:04:28.320 however the raj and sani campaign and the leela here campaign said they have no plans to release

00:04:33.600 their fundraising numbers worth noting as well both those campaigns they're pulling at the bottom

00:04:37.920 likely to finish in the last two place on october 6th okay guys let's move into our ucp leadership

00:04:42.800 race update we are coming close to the end of the race now here are you guys excited about that are

00:04:47.440 you excited to see who the new leader is are you going to miss the drama i for one will not miss the

00:04:51.520 drama this week united conservative party leadership candidate rebecca schultz sent supporters an email

00:04:56.720 pretending to be an ndp supporter and begging conservatives not to vote for schultz saying

00:05:01.840 the ndp are afraid of her ucp members on schultz's mailing list received an email from

00:05:07.360 your friendly neighborhood ndp supporter with the subject the ndp's worst nightmare the actual email

00:05:12.720 address listed was info at rebeccaforleader.ca that is rebecca schultz email address for her campaign

00:05:18.800 the email is written to conservative voters and says the ucp appeared to be finished governing

00:05:23.440 until schultz came in on the scene as a candidate to take over as party leader and premier we're

00:05:28.480 terrified of rebecca schultz the email says some of us actually say she's the ndp's worst nightmare

00:05:34.720 the email goes on to say that schultz is the only candidate who has a chance of beating the ndp due to

00:05:40.080 her clean record and fresh perspectives which will win both urban and rural areas the schultz campaign

00:05:45.280 told me the email was clearly fake as it contains schultz's logo and was sent from her email quote the

00:05:51.200 intent of the email was to ring the alarm on the possibility that the ndp will be the ones who

00:05:55.360 come out as winners should we get this wrong and that is precisely what it has done they said in

00:06:00.160 a statement to true north at least one voter who received the email reached out to me and said they

00:06:04.240 were deceived by it and actually thought it was from the ndp at first they said they didn't appreciate

00:06:09.280 the strategy there was another ucp leadership debate this week of course not an official debate

00:06:13.920 those have all been finished now but there was the fort mac forum and there was a tense moment

00:06:18.080 between lila here and danielle smith where it appears that smith accused a hear of calling

00:06:22.960 her a racist take a listen you can see that why lila lost her board and probably isn't going to win 1.00

00:06:28.400 her nomination she lies about my platform all the time and calling somebody a racist on this uh

00:06:34.080 platform and calling some of the separatists on this platform is not acceptable that's what happens

00:06:38.640 when you critique a policy and you critique the way the policy is coming in and the concerns around

00:06:44.560 that policy particularly with the way the world is right now and uh that person is not able to answer

00:06:50.320 succinctly about how that policy will work and goes into personal attack of course as we've talked

00:06:55.120 about in some of the other podcast episodes at all the debates it seems like a lot of the candidates

00:06:59.360 are pretty keen to pile on smith looks like she got a little bit frustrated with it this time around

00:07:05.040 okay guys let's move into the alberta politics funniest moment of the week i have to set the record

00:07:09.600 straight on something i am not a constable in ottawa and i did not donate to the freedom convoy

00:07:14.880 there is a rumor circulating online picture of my photo with a statement about christina a constable

00:07:20.400 in ottawa who did donate to the freedom convoy and is now at risk of losing her job with the ottawa

00:07:25.200 police service and at risk of a dishonorable discharge for this donation now i've appreciated

00:07:30.080 all the support but i have to admit that i'm not constable christina i'm sure she would appreciate

00:07:33.440 your support maybe we can find out who she is and set the record straight on it however you know some

00:07:38.320 people have been saying that i likely deserve a promotion and a raise i think that they're

00:07:42.000 probably bang on about this okay guys thanks so much for tuning in as always if you support our

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00:07:52.320 keep bringing you the unbiased and fair reporting thank you so much for your time have a great weekend

00:08:08.320 thank you

Juno News - September 17, 2022

The Alberta NDP’s “shameless stunt”

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