00:00:00.000I don't usually get too excited by cabinet shuffles, but Stephen Guabeau, named as Environment and Climate Change Minister, I mean, come on.
00:00:14.500If you thought Catherine McKenna was divisive, if you thought she was extreme that she rubbed people the wrong way, you ain't seen nothing yet.
00:00:22.800But Stephen Guabeau, what's he going to do as Environment Minister? I don't want to speculate because I don't want to give the guy any ideas.
00:00:30.880But there are a whole lot of people across the country, particularly in Alberta, who heard this news and, well, let's just put it mildly, they were not pleased.
00:00:40.380First of all, Stephen Guabeau, quite controversial in his former position as Heritage Minister.
00:00:44.940All of those nonpartisan experts, professors, and lawyers who were saying, these pieces of legislation, Bill C-10, Bill C-36, this is like internet censorship laws.
00:00:55.320And Guabeau, he was unapologetic about them, wanting to push them through, saying, we've got to act now, we need this stuff now more than ever.
00:01:02.520He was undeterred. He really seemed like a true believer when it came to that stuff.
00:01:06.900But guess what? That was just his side gig. That was just something that I guess Trudeau said, hey, can you do this position for a while?
00:01:12.680The thing he's really passionate about is environmental activism.
00:01:17.720In fact, let's just be plain and simple, call it what it is, environmental radicalism.
00:01:22.080Because I know you've all seen that picture of Stephen Guabeau being taken by the police.
00:01:27.740He's in what looks like an orange jumpsuit.
00:01:30.420And you're like, what's all that about? Is he actually a prisoner walking around in a prison yard?
00:01:34.360Or did he escape from prison? And they got him back in and so forth.
00:01:36.880No, that's not it at all. If you look closely, you'll see there's a little Greenpeace logo on it.
00:01:40.820So it was the outfit that he was wearing as a Greenpeace activist, a protester, to, I guess, draw further attention to himself and what he was doing.
00:01:48.500But he was running afoul of the law as he was doing some of those Greenpeace stunts.
00:01:53.200And then you have that photo taken of him from a number of years ago, although still very much an adult, where the police are taking him away.
00:02:00.280He was very much involved in some of the more radical initiatives of Greenpeace.