Juno News - December 13, 2022


The CBC can't hide their disdain for Danielle Smith

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Justin Trudeau David Cochran Andrew Antisocial Yob Coyne Danielle Smith
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For weeks now, the Laurentian legacy media have deployed their very best propagandists to try and spin the Alberta sovereignty act as some grand plot to form a breakaway state, a legislative coup. It's embarrassing how desperate they are to paint this as something that it isn't.

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00:00:00.000 For weeks now, the Laurentian legacy media have deployed their very best propagandists
00:00:03.920 to try to spin the Alberta Sovereignty Act and to make it seem as though it's some grand plot to
00:00:09.340 form a breakaway state, to form a legislative coup. It's embarrassing how desperate they are
00:00:13.260 to try and paint this as something that it isn't. Just look at the way this CBC journalist describes
00:00:17.380 the Alberta Sovereignty Act and how the Premier is shunning democracy. He can't control himself,
00:00:22.880 he's begging the federal government to do something, to do something before the bill has
00:00:26.000 even passed. If the federal government is basically telling you to calm down and relax,
00:00:30.240 then you've really gone a bit too far here. But after all, I bet you that's exactly what they
00:00:33.840 want of David Cochran. Danielle Smith is coming under fire for shunning democracy. Her long-promised 1.00
00:00:38.880 Sovereignty Act is supposed to shield the province from federal laws, but it also contains sweeping
00:00:43.840 new powers for her cabinet, including the power to change provincial laws without going through
00:00:49.500 the legislature. But on his face, you have a piece of legislation that allows the province to ignore
00:00:53.920 federal law, compel a string of provincial agencies to essentially do the same. I mean,
00:00:58.760 when you look at its intention, I mean, how is that acceptable in the Canadian system of government?
00:01:03.620 It's probably unprecedented in what it pretends to be able to do. This is some kind of legislation
00:01:11.120 that we haven't seen in provincial legislatures before. But provincial governments introduce bills
00:01:17.220 in their legislatures all the time. Not like this, though. We've never seen anything like this
00:01:22.160 before. Right. So it doesn't mean we have to rush around to some judgment. We don't have to
00:01:27.060 get ahead of our skis on this. Let's hear the voices in Alberta. Let's see ultimately what
00:01:32.680 the legislature of Alberta decides to do with this. Not like this before. How is this acceptable in
00:01:38.220 Canada? How can we allow this? How can we tolerate this? By the way, that was the same David Cochran who
00:01:42.760 graciously accepted a bowl of poutine from Justin Trudeau for being a really good CBC journalist,
00:01:47.440 for being a really good propagandist for Justin Trudeau. And for all of his hard work,
00:01:50.860 the Prime Minister gave him a poutine. How embarrassing. How cringeworthy. But perhaps
00:01:55.880 the best example of the legacy media showing their true colors when it came to covering the
00:01:59.820 Alberta Sovereignty Act was when the CBC put together an at-issue panel without one Albertan.
00:02:05.020 They discussed the Alberta Sovereignty Act without having the voice of one Albertan on the panel.
00:02:09.000 Instead, they had Rosemary Barton leading the conversation, the true paragon of journalistic
00:02:12.760 ethics. They had Andrew Antisocial Yob Coyne. And then they had the rest of the CBC panel just
00:02:18.060 there to criticize the Alberta Sovereignty Act without having one Albertan there to defend
00:02:22.560 the act itself. Classic CBC doing the bidding for their masters and not for the Canadians that
00:02:27.520 pay for their salary. I mean, you know, she believes a lot of strange things and it wouldn't be much of
00:02:31.620 a stretch to add this to it. But it's clearly unconstitutional. It clearly involves arrogating
00:02:37.280 to the province powers that it does not have to sit in judgment of federal law to effectively decide
00:02:42.240 which laws it's going to obey and which laws it's not going to, to order, not just to not enforce
00:02:48.900 it, but to order everyone in the broader public sector to basically disobey the law, I guess,
00:02:53.460 on pain of being found, you know, guilty of obeying the law. It's fancy land.
00:02:58.960 It seemed, at best, amateurs and at worst, completely, you know, lacking understanding of how the
00:03:05.660 constitution works.
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