Rebel News Podcast - Alberta election midway point checkup： Where’s the mainstream media？ (Guest： Keean Bexte)

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00:00:05.760 My guest tonight is my Calgary-based Rebel colleague, Kian Bextie.

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00:01:34.140 Two weeks down, two weeks left to go.

00:01:36.820 Thankfully, we've finally reached the midpoint in the Alberta election campaign.

00:01:42.700 I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed, and you're watching The Gunn Show.

00:01:50.920 You know, after the first week of the election campaign, I thought this thing couldn't really get all that much crazier.

00:02:09.680 The NDP have been rehashing things Jason Kenney has done 30 years ago as proof of his apparent homophobia,

00:02:16.220 despite his more recent track record of helping persecuted sexual minorities in the Islamic world.

00:02:22.960 The NDP have tried to take credit for pipelines they haven't gotten built,

00:02:27.860 jobs that haven't been created, and fiscal restraint they very clearly have never shown.

00:02:33.540 The NDP really has spent the last two weeks trying their best to paint the United Conservative Party

00:02:39.520 and the United Conservative Party voters as extremist, racist, and homophobic.

00:02:44.780 Basically, the NDP have continued their slander on regular Albertans,

00:02:49.040 and then just built a campaign for re-election around it.

00:02:52.520 I don't think it's going to work.

00:02:53.880 I think Albertans who mistakenly voted for the NDP last time have learned their lesson about being fear-mongered into voting for the NDP.

00:03:04.260 And noticeably absent in this election campaign is a mainstream media that is doing its job.

00:03:11.560 They aren't chasing down the NDP candidates to ask them tough questions about their own past or their own behavior.

00:03:18.400 And they're not even holding Rachel Notley to account for her decision that she made within her caucus

00:03:24.680 to protect the names of those accused of sexual impropriety.

00:03:29.320 They just aren't doing their jobs.

00:03:31.500 But my guest tonight is doing, well, all that and more.

00:03:34.840 Joining me tonight to talk about the last two weeks of the election campaign

00:03:39.020 and our predictions for the two weeks coming up

00:03:41.940 is my rebel colleague from Calgary, Kian Bexty,

00:03:46.180 in an interview we recorded yesterday afternoon.

00:04:05.720 So we're two weeks down in the Alberta election campaign.

00:04:09.380 I mean, two weeks left to go before our official liberation from our socialist overlords, the NDP.

00:04:16.540 And I don't think anybody knows the file on the NDP quite as well as I do,

00:04:22.680 except maybe my guest tonight.

00:04:24.600 Tonight, joining me from Calgary is my colleague, Kian Bexty,

00:04:29.540 who has been making a lot of NDPers uncomfortable out there on the campaign trail.

00:04:35.860 Kian, thanks for joining me.

00:04:37.300 Thanks for having me.

00:04:38.000 So let's talk about the wild week that was.

00:04:43.960 You and I are both going around the province delivering our gorgeous orange

00:04:48.780 stopnotley.com signs to help promote my book.

00:04:53.120 And I really appreciate you doing that

00:04:54.780 and getting those into the hands of the people who need them.

00:04:58.200 But for me, I really enjoy being out there giving them to the people

00:05:02.440 because you and I, I mean, we both spend most of our day in the pressure cooker of the Internet

00:05:07.200 where all of the fake leftist outrage mobs exist.

00:05:11.120 And it's been really good to talk to normal people who are just really cheering for us every day

00:05:16.520 and who really just want the NDP gone.

00:05:18.900 Yeah, no, it is.

00:05:21.140 It's been a delight.

00:05:23.400 You're right about the Internet.

00:05:24.820 It is toxic.

00:05:25.580 But I think equally as toxic is Edmonton.

00:05:29.480 I mean, I'm from Calgary, so there's the natural dislike for our neighbor city.

00:05:35.300 But, I mean, when I went there and was actually harassed for hours on end by five individuals

00:05:42.140 and then followed for blocks upon blocks upon blocks 0.98

00:05:45.160 while I tried to get back to my car by 16 socialist communist losers 0.99

00:05:49.620 who were trying to sort of herd me away from Minister David Egan 0.94

00:05:55.520 while I was trying to ask him questions that he really didn't want to answer.

00:05:59.060 After that toxic encounter, I was pleased to go to rural Alberta

00:06:04.040 where, you know, the folks are gentle, they're kind, they care about respectful dialogue,

00:06:11.260 and, you know, they're just good, wholesome people,

00:06:14.060 contrasted with the people that were at that GSA rally in Edmonton

00:06:17.480 that was supposed to be for the children.

00:06:19.860 Keep in mind, it wasn't just, you know, some political rally.

00:06:23.420 It was a rally that was supposed to be positive and about children.

00:06:27.480 And these socialists made sure to make it as uncomfortable as possible.

00:06:31.600 But, I mean, I got a pretty good video out of it, so I can't complain.

00:06:36.560 Yeah, let's talk about that a little bit.

00:06:38.340 I, like you, I suppose I live closer to Edmonton than you do,

00:06:42.560 but I still think it is a progressive hellscape that I avoid setting foot in as much as I can.

00:06:49.440 Not to say that the people aren't great,

00:06:51.240 but I just think their municipal government is crazy and it is the seat of the NDP.

00:06:55.420 So, yeah, I'm with you on that.

00:06:58.300 But let's talk about that Gay-Straight Alliance protest that took place at the Edmonton legislature.

00:07:05.300 It was, I mean, I don't understand why, let me, let me ask you a question before we get into this,

00:07:11.440 because I was talking about this actually last night with some Calgary Proud Boys.

00:07:16.360 I don't even know how you feel about Gay-Straight Alliances.

00:07:19.560 Like, I think we talk about work all the time and we talk about policy issues and things that are breaking in the news.

00:07:26.620 I know that as far as Gay-Straight Alliances go, I disagree with the NDP's forced secrecy,

00:07:32.880 that if teachers think that parents should know that their child is in a Gay-Straight Alliance,

00:07:39.940 for example, if that child has said that they're, you know, having suicidal thoughts,

00:07:44.800 right now as the law sits, those teachers can't tell the parents.

00:07:48.620 I don't believe that anybody should be fostering secrets with anybody else's kids.

00:07:53.540 But I've actually never asked you what your opinion is on Gay-Straight Alliances.

00:07:59.380 And it occurred to me that if I don't know, the people who were attacking you

00:08:04.980 simply for trying to cover that Gay-Straight Alliance rally, they mustn't know either.

00:08:10.680 So they were just jumping to conclusions about you and they really don't have any idea what you think.

00:08:15.340 All right. So, yeah, I guess let's just dive into it.

00:08:18.880 I mean, I graduated high school without a Gay-Straight Alliance and I came out fine. 0.96

00:08:24.200 You know, I wasn't suicidal. I wasn't lynched by anyone.

00:08:29.040 But I understand that some folks might think that GSAs are important and they have every right to create them if they deem fit.

00:08:37.940 I think that the issue isn't about Gay-Straight Alliances.

00:08:41.080 I think that the issue is that the NDP want to make sure that children's parents are kept as far away from parenting roles as possible.

00:08:49.560 And to scrape away all of the rhetoric from the NDP here, what Jason Kenney wants to do is he wants to reverse some parts of the law

00:08:59.000 to bring it in line with nine out of ten Canadian provinces so that in the event a grade two boy is beaten by his friends because he's gay,

00:09:11.100 the parent doesn't have to hand the kid over to the parents at 3.30 in the afternoon and say,

00:09:16.240 I can't tell you why this happened, but here's the kid. He has a black eye. Sorry about that.

00:09:23.800 You know, this Jason Kenney wants to protect children here.

00:09:26.300 And I'm not a fan of Jason Kenney by any means.

00:09:28.880 I think he's a very flawed individual and I think he's a flawed politician.

00:09:32.140 But in this instance, he wants to give teachers, some of the teachers, people in our society that we trust probably the most with our children,

00:09:43.380 he wants to give them the authority to reach out to parents in the event that they deem the parents need to be involved.

00:09:49.460 If the teacher knows that the child's parents has a history of abuse, which teachers know these kind of things,

00:09:55.760 don't misunderstand that, especially elementary school children.

00:09:59.180 Elementary school teachers, they're very involved in the lives of their children and know the parents,

00:10:05.160 especially in small communities in rural Alberta, which I'm sure these NDP socialists are thinking that it's the rural teachers 0.91

00:10:12.480 and the rural schools that, you know, lynch gay kids and it's such an evil place for them. 0.94

00:10:17.260 Couldn't be farther from the truth. 0.87

00:10:18.700 But in small towns, teachers are very involved in the lives of children and they know if they shouldn't tell parents

00:10:25.820 some secrets that maybe the child has.

00:10:29.180 But in the event that the child is getting beaten or abused or bullied, you know, or is suicidal in their older years

00:10:35.860 or even their younger years, the teachers should be the ones making that decision.

00:10:40.060 Not David Egg and not the premier of Alberta.

00:10:42.460 Teachers should be making the decision.

00:10:43.780 And that's what Jason Kenney wants to give them the power to do.

00:10:47.460 Yeah, I think that's a very moderate approach.

00:10:49.840 I mean, it's for me, I just don't think that anything in my child's life should be kept for me.

00:10:57.080 I'm old enough to remember if you didn't know what what clubs your children was involved in at school,

00:11:04.440 you would be considered a bad and out of touch parent.

00:11:06.800 And now that's mandated in the law.

00:11:08.380 I just think it's really weird.

00:11:09.940 And I do believe that, you know, if our children are with teachers seven hours a day and they see that a child is struggling,

00:11:20.440 what is the problem with bringing in parents?

00:11:22.820 Because the more support a child has around them, the better off the child is.

00:11:27.340 But the government is cutting parents out of the conversation.

00:11:29.740 So I'm with you on that.

00:11:31.020 I disagree.

00:11:32.300 Now, you went to the Gay Straight Alliance rally for the childless weirdos who were down there rallying, 1.00

00:11:41.800 apparently in support of children who may or may not be gay or are part of these Gay Straight Alliances.

00:11:51.060 And it was a wild experience for you.

00:11:53.420 Thank God you rolled your camera the whole time.

00:11:55.880 Yeah, I had about three and a half hours of footage, sometimes overlapping footage,

00:12:00.700 because I had a camera on my phone going so that I had some eyes in the back of my head

00:12:05.080 when this face tattooed weirdo was trying to knock my phone out of my hands.

00:12:11.220 And there was also someone who was very close with David Egan, the Minister of Education.

00:12:16.360 I don't know if she was a staff member or what.

00:12:18.700 She was a Filipino lady, a little bit short. 1.00

00:12:21.240 She came in with David Egan and she left with him.

00:12:24.280 And she tried to flip my shoulder mounted camera off of my back. 1.00

00:12:29.080 She did that. 0.99

00:12:29.760 And I would think that someone coming to a protest and leaving with a minister from that protest would be a staff member.

00:12:36.820 I have to do some digging to figure out if she is.

00:12:40.380 But it's pretty disgusting what these people did to make sure that there was no coverage.

00:12:46.060 Because, to be honest, the only coverage was a global news helicopter circling overhead.

00:12:51.060 I was the only media personnel that I saw there.

00:12:53.720 So, I mean, why wouldn't they want the coverage?

00:12:58.020 Well, I know why they don't want the coverage.

00:13:00.240 Because the visual is very weird.

00:13:03.560 I've been to one of these things before.

00:13:05.580 I've been to the Women's March.

00:13:06.880 When you're there, you really are able to take in just the sights and sounds and smells of how weird everybody is.

00:13:15.740 It is just not normal.

00:13:17.220 Some of those people I would advise my children not even to talk to.

00:13:19.580 And yet they're out there rallying on behalf of children.

00:13:23.200 I think it's very, very strange.

00:13:25.020 Also, they bullied you.

00:13:27.340 Not only did they bully you, but trying to break your camera equipment, that's assault.

00:13:30.820 And yet they claim to be anti-violence and anti-bullying.

00:13:35.820 If what happened to, let's say, a global news journalist or, God forbid, a CBC journalist,

00:13:43.020 if what happened to you happened to them, it would be a provincial crisis.

00:13:47.820 The premier would weigh in about how dangerous it is for journalists out there.

00:13:52.980 But there has been no utterance of anybody condemning the sort of harassment and bullying that you were subjected to that day.

00:14:03.460 Yeah, I mean, Jason Kenney certainly didn't stand up for us.

00:14:07.540 I expect Rachel Notley to.

00:14:09.720 But maybe that'll change.

00:14:11.140 Maybe Jason Kenney is starting to see the light.

00:14:13.620 One of his candidates posts next to one of your beautiful orange signs.

00:14:16.700 So maybe the tides are turning for the rebel in terms of mainstream politicians actually seeing what we do

00:14:24.540 and standing up for our right to practice journalism.

00:14:29.360 Yeah, I'm glad you touched on that.

00:14:31.660 Casey Madu, I'm sorry if I'm saying his last name wrong, but he's a candidate here in Edmonton.

00:14:39.000 He's running against John Archer for the NDP, who currently works in Notley's government.

00:14:45.000 Um, he's basically been accused of white supremacy, um, for posing beside that photo. 0.97

00:14:52.040 He's a racist against, I don't know, black people. 0.95

00:14:55.680 I just saw his campaign volunteers and it's pretty multicultural, but yet the NDP are so wild and so crazy in their proxies and press progress 0.99

00:15:05.080 that they actually think they can gaslight the public into thinking that Casey Madu is a black white supremacist. 0.54

00:15:10.740 Yeah, I, it's kind of insane to think that these progressives here in Canada think that a Nigerian Canadian, 0.78

00:15:19.300 because he's from Nigeria, is a white supremacist.

00:15:23.640 And I mean, press progress, we know how desperate they are.

00:15:25.780 So they reach as much as they can, wherever they can to connect the dots.

00:15:29.340 Like there's some super sleuth, you know, taking pictures of my glasses and trying to like connect, connect the dots.

00:15:35.340 Who is this person?

00:15:36.520 You know, they, they're, they try everything that they can.

00:15:39.240 Uh, and you know, what else is interesting?

00:15:41.180 The fact that press progress is finally, we're starting to finally shine a light on them as the media wing for the NDP.

00:15:49.000 I mean, it was clear before Brian Topp, the, uh, I, Nolly brought him in to run the government.

00:15:54.940 Basically he's an executive director or, or, or some sort of board member director with the Broadband Institute,

00:16:01.080 which is effectively what runs press progress.

00:16:04.400 But wait, and he's back working for the campaign now.

00:16:08.940 So there's your connection right there.

00:16:10.940 Brian Topp is working for the campaign.

00:16:13.060 Yeah.

00:16:13.300 They, I mean, it can't be, it can't be more transparent than this.

00:16:17.320 Even the NDP, uh, attack ad that just came out.

00:16:20.640 It's one of these like new YouTube style ads that, you know, it's kind of like Buzzfeed styled almost.

00:16:27.120 Uh, they have screenshots taken directly without attribution from press progress with their grainy style photo.

00:16:35.700 It's a very, it's a very unique, uh, wash that they put over their photos.

00:16:39.700 So it makes everyone in their photos look a little bit more, you know, creepy.

00:16:44.680 And it was directly taken from the top of two different articles, just put on their attack ad without any attribution whatsoever.

00:16:52.840 I mean, they're obviously in cahoots.

00:16:54.760 It's funny.

00:16:55.200 They actually even disabled the comments on their attack ad because they knew that Albertans would just, uh, give them a pretty bad, pretty hard time about it.

00:17:04.080 You should, uh, you should check out the video if you haven't seen it, the new attack ad.

00:17:07.420 Have you seen it?

00:17:08.140 Yeah, I saw it today.

00:17:10.020 You sent me that link and I was looking at it before, um, you jumped online with me.

00:17:14.400 It's, I mean, they're not even trying.

00:17:17.380 Like, it's so, it's so transparent.

00:17:20.320 They're not even trying.

00:17:21.260 It's like if the federal conservatives took everything they, um, used in their attack ads from the True North report and didn't attribute it.

00:17:31.740 I mean, it's so, it's so transparent and so shameless.

00:17:35.020 But when they do stuff like that, it's so insulting to Albertans when they think that we can't see right through it.

00:17:40.500 Um, yeah, it is, um, I mean, there's not much else to say other than press progress is largely irrelevant.

00:17:47.260 I mean, it's a little bit unfortunate that the CBC just takes everything that they say at face value.

00:17:51.920 But I mean, what else can you expect from the CBC?

00:17:54.780 This is, this is how, how narratives are created, right?

00:17:58.880 Like, a fake news website, it's just some dumpy blog, uh, publishes something that may or may not be true.

00:18:06.080 Then a larger blog publishes the same thing, saying, oh, well, they said it.

00:18:10.020 And then press progress picks it up and says, oh, look, this blog says it, so it must be true.

00:18:14.920 And then CBC publishes what press progress says.

00:18:17.900 Uh, it's called Trading Up the Chain of Fake News is what it's called.

00:18:20.880 And then CBC publishes it like it's fact.

00:18:24.180 Uh, and that's how they do it. 0.78

00:18:25.200 That's how they push out these stories, uh, trying to destroy the careers of individuals. 0.99

00:18:30.100 It's, it's pathetic. 0.93

00:18:31.900 The careers and the reputations. 0.90

00:18:33.960 Um, one thing I wanted to talk to you about was the fact that you broke the Darren Billis story a good month ago.

00:18:44.280 Um, you did all the legwork, you got his divorce records.

00:18:48.080 You didn't publish them all because, um, a lot of the stuff just wasn't in the public interest,

00:18:52.820 but you did uncover, um, an affair that he had, uh, with another MLA.

00:18:58.160 You also uncovered, um, accusations via his wife through a sworn affidavit about drug use

00:19:05.320 and, um, lack of, uh, paying child support.

00:19:08.900 Now, um, now your reporting has been vindicated, um, that other accusations about Darren Billis have

00:19:17.440 come forward.

00:19:17.940 And finally now, because of that, the mainstream media is tacitly asking questions to Notley about it.

00:19:25.180 But I think it is remarkable and a little bit pathetic that your reporting had to go through

00:19:31.900 the rinse cycle of the mainstream media before the UCP could touch it.

00:19:37.400 Um, yeah, the UCP, oh my God, they, they, this story blew up back, I think it was February.

00:19:43.780 Yeah.

00:19:43.940 And all of the people who view our videos, who are largely probably, um, UCP members and supporters

00:19:52.060 of the UCP, uh, I think that's fair to say.

00:19:55.100 It's a fair assumption.

00:19:55.900 And they are talking about this, trying to get Jason Kenney to, uh, you know, move forward

00:20:02.160 on this issue that one of the highest ranking members of the NDP government, Darren Billis,

00:20:07.060 someone who was part of the four NDP MLAs who were elected before the Orange Crush in

00:20:12.640 2015.

00:20:13.180 Um, he, he, he's a longtime NDP staffer, uh, and, and MLA, and he has been charged with serious

00:20:22.900 drug and alcohol addictions, something that, uh, federal ministers resigned over when it,

00:20:28.000 when it got published.

00:20:29.020 Uh, he's been charged with, you know, kind of messing around outside of his marriage,

00:20:34.200 which I mean, whatever, what have you, but that the problem was that, that philandering,

00:20:40.260 uh, coincided with the NDP timeline, uh, the NDP sexual misconduct coverup timeline and

00:20:47.400 putting those two things together.

00:20:48.660 There wasn't that much of a jump yet no one in the mainstream media decided to cover it.

00:20:53.780 Even the CBC journalist who joined me on the United we roll convoy for the first day, uh,

00:20:59.160 talked to me and said, yeah, well, you, you did send us hightailing it to the, uh, Edmonton

00:21:05.300 courthouse to pick up the documents, but, and, and we read them all, but there wasn't enough

00:21:09.860 for us there.

00:21:10.800 There just wasn't enough.

00:21:12.120 So they left it, but they did spend the time to go to the courthouse to read all the documents.

00:21:16.400 So, you know, that they verified my work and they just decided it wasn't worth it.

00:21:21.820 Well, uh, I don't know if they decided it wasn't worth it or if the narrative wasn't correct.

00:21:26.820 They, I mean, they tried to bury it as long as they could.

00:21:31.280 And now it's come up again, you know, it's harder to hide the truth when it's coming up

00:21:38.480 again and again and again.

00:21:40.140 I mean, uh, Jason Kenney sort of did the same thing to me, um, when I broke the story using

00:21:47.260 access to information documents about how the NDP knew that, uh, the carbon tax before

00:21:53.440 they brought it in would be largely unpopular.

00:21:55.380 People were rejecting it.

00:21:56.460 They didn't think it would, they didn't think it would get social license.

00:22:00.660 Back in 2015, internal, um, focus grouping said, no, no, one's going to buy that.

00:22:06.760 They went ahead with it anyways.

00:22:09.000 Post-millennial, whom I consider fellow travelers in the conservative media atmosphere, uh, they

00:22:16.980 republished my work, linked back to my work.

00:22:20.440 And only then did Jason Kenney share it.

00:22:23.300 Um, and it, I mean, it's just, I wish they would have more moral courage because it's

00:22:29.780 pretty clear I'm about as mainstream conservative as you can get.

00:22:34.000 So are you, um, why does our work have to go through some sort of sanitization process

00:22:40.380 before someone has the guts to say, yeah, they did good work.

00:22:44.060 They published the documents.

00:22:45.220 It's all there read for yourself. 0.77

00:22:47.080 Um, I just think it's so cowardly. 0.97

00:22:49.360 It is cowardly.

00:22:50.460 And I know for a fact, personally, that Jason Kenney reads our work.

00:22:55.400 I know that he watches our videos and I know that all of his staff watch our videos yet,

00:23:00.060 you know, when it comes down to it, when it comes down to the, uh, sharing it and, or even

00:23:05.860 commenting on huge stories of provincial interest, sometimes even national interest, they just

00:23:12.320 decide press progress says they're evil.

00:23:16.460 So we better listen to the media arm of the NDP.

00:23:20.460 Yeah.

00:23:21.340 Yeah.

00:23:21.720 I mean, isn't that funny that, uh, they're so intimidated by those bloggers overhead press

00:23:27.280 progress, um, that they're worried about backlash from talking to me.

00:23:31.380 I mean, hopefully that changes after the election, although it's not going to change the work I

00:23:35.300 do if they never talk to me ever again, I'll still, um, I actually, I think my job after

00:23:40.340 the election will be making sure that Jason Kenney keeps his promises and, um, Rachel Notley

00:23:47.080 has never promised, uh, conservatives much of anything, but I think if Jason Kenney doesn't

00:23:52.460 keep his promises, there will be a real sense of betrayal and, um, that can send us spiraling

00:23:58.460 back into an NDP government.

00:23:59.900 And I never want that to happen again.

00:24:01.960 So I think it is in my best interest and Jason Kenney's best interest if I work to hold him

00:24:06.940 accountable.

00:24:08.260 I'm, I'm keenly interested as, and you know this about me, I'm keenly interested on how

00:24:12.960 Jason Kenney progresses on the advanced education file.

00:24:16.480 I want to know what he's going to do with student unions.

00:24:19.420 I want to know if he's going to follow in the footsteps of Doug Ford, Premier Doug Ford

00:24:23.340 in Ontario, who has made serious steps to getting, uh, student unions to the place where they're

00:24:29.520 voluntary, where they're opt-in, where, uh, students' human rights are respected so that

00:24:34.540 they have the decision whether or not to join a political advocacy union, uh, while they,

00:24:42.480 while they get their university degree.

00:24:44.360 Because as you know, getting a university degree in this province, uh, is part and parcel

00:24:48.500 with being successful.

00:24:49.560 Uh, I mean, any post-secondary, it doesn't have to be a university degree, going to SAIT

00:24:53.620 or NAIT or Red Deer College, uh, you know, that, that comes with being successful in life,

00:24:58.600 having a salary that you are happy with, uh, and it's not a choice.

00:25:03.280 So it, the, it is a, it is a necessity to go to university.

00:25:07.200 Therefore, you cannot force someone to join a political union just because they're in an

00:25:12.360 institution to make their lives better.

00:25:14.040 And successful.

00:25:15.200 I, it's, it's disgusting, the state of student unions in this province and in this country.

00:25:18.720 And Jason Kenney owes it to the members of his party who passed back last year or the

00:25:25.000 year before, uh, that the party will support voluntary student unionism.

00:25:29.480 I, it's not in his platform, which is a little bit disturbing to me that he's just completely

00:25:34.800 ignored that file.

00:25:36.100 Uh, but maybe he'll follow in Doug Ford's footsteps.

00:25:39.440 I mean, it wasn't in Doug Ford's platform either, but it was, uh, abundantly clear that

00:25:44.020 it was something that he wanted to do.

00:25:45.440 So we'll hope, hopefully Jason Kenney's going to follow through on that and, uh, on a whole

00:25:49.900 host of other files in terms of scrapping the carbon tax.

00:25:52.560 Uh, he says, uh, he says it's going to be bill one.

00:25:54.480 We'll see, uh, and we'll see if it's a full scrap or, or just a partial scrap.

00:25:59.480 Uh, we know conservatives in this, in this world these days, think about, um, Teresa May 0.95

00:26:05.160 like to do, like, like to implement conservative ideas half, half acidly.

00:26:10.040 We'll see if Jason Kenney follows in his globalist pals footsteps or, or in the more populous

00:26:15.900 footsteps of, of Doug Ford.

00:26:18.380 Uh, your, uh, wishlist is a little more specific than mine.

00:26:21.620 I just want him to fire three in every two bureaucrats.

00:26:24.940 That's it. 0.63

00:26:25.340 I just want them all gone, all of them fired.

00:26:30.000 Um, because I've seen it firsthand, the bad ideas that become legislation are, are born

00:26:37.420 in the bureaucracy and then they're fed back up the chain, back up to the assistant deputy

00:26:41.600 ministers and then to the ministers.

00:26:43.420 And then they're introduced as legislation.

00:26:46.160 Um, most of the bad ideas are born in the public sector.

00:26:49.080 And so I would like to see as many of them out of work as possible, at least 50,000 that,

00:26:55.340 Rachel Notley hired.

00:26:56.400 I'd like those people to just run off back to the booming future, booming public sector.

00:27:01.700 Hopefully.

00:27:02.720 Um, I hope they leave the province.

00:27:04.620 I mean, she's brought in so many out of province workers.

00:27:07.120 I hope that they are not unemployed if they stay in the province.

00:27:09.960 I hope they find a fruitful employment in the private sector.

00:27:13.200 But, you know, if they're one of these out of province shipped in people like Brian

00:27:17.920 Topp, I am more than happy to see them enjoy unemployment or not so much enjoy unemployment

00:27:24.100 in the same way that tens and hundreds of thousands of people, uh, of Albertans have had to suffer

00:27:30.760 through, through Rachel Notley's four years.

00:27:33.480 Um, now I think I've taken up a good portion of your afternoon, Kian.

00:27:37.720 Um, I wanted, I wanted to ask you, um, predictions.

00:27:40.940 Uh, what, what, uh, how many seats do you think the NDP are going to get?

00:27:46.500 Uh, okay.

00:27:47.480 I had a prediction at the start of the, uh, writ.

00:27:50.980 I wrote it down the moment the writ was dropped and I, I can't remember it exactly, but I think

00:27:55.720 it was something along the lines of 64 seats go to the UCP, 15 to 16 seats go to the NDP

00:28:03.540 and once he goes to the Alberta party, I think that Greg Clark might elbow out, uh, Schweitzer.

00:28:11.140 I'm not sure about that.

00:28:12.480 You know what?

00:28:12.920 I would be fine with that.

00:28:14.340 I would, uh, there's a, not a lot of UCPers I want to see lose.

00:28:19.160 It's him.

00:28:19.880 I mean, he campaigned on calling us white supremacists and racist and intolerant and saying

00:28:24.640 that we sympathize with Nazis, even though our boss is a Jew who sent me to Israel twice.

00:28:29.080 Um, he, he sent out a letter, um, trying to basically run his leadership campaign by campaigning

00:28:36.660 against the rebel and rebel supporters.

00:28:38.620 And I don't care what he calls me, but the day he calls our people who support us and cheer

00:28:43.420 for us every day, uh, bad names, maligning them, assassinating their characters, then

00:28:48.860 he's run afoul of me.

00:28:50.020 So if Greg Clark beats Doug Schweitzer, um, I'm supporting the Alberta party that day.

00:28:55.280 Yep.

00:28:55.760 And I, I, I support what I, what I want to see is, uh, oh, and to finish off my prediction,

00:29:02.100 I think that, I think that the FPC might get zero.

00:29:06.360 I'm, I'm worried.

00:29:07.480 I, I want Derek to beat Lila just because, and this gets to the back of the point that

00:29:12.140 I'm, I was saying, I prefer it when there is a large group of political parties.

00:29:17.800 I want there to be that third party, like in New Brunswick, like in British Columbia, where

00:29:22.940 the, where the Greens have some, some seats as well, where there's, can be more diversity

00:29:27.480 of opinion.

00:29:28.600 I don't, I don't want the UCP to just have a mandate for four years because frankly, I

00:29:33.380 don't trust the UCP.

00:29:34.760 I don't trust Jason Kenney to do it.

00:29:36.600 He needs people to the right, holding him to the account, to account.

00:29:39.300 He needs people from the left, holding him to account.

00:29:41.420 And I think that Derek Fildebrandt would be a great voice in the legislature to keep Jason

00:29:45.580 Kenney's feet to the fire.

00:29:46.720 Um, so I, I, I want the Alberta party to win in that seat.

00:29:50.680 I want the Freedom Conservative party to win.

00:29:52.820 Uh, and I, I would love it if an Alberta independence candidate won as well, because I mean, that's

00:29:59.380 probably who I'm going to vote for at the end of the day.

00:30:01.840 I would like to see my friend Bernard the Roughneck shake it up in Grand Prairie. 0.96

00:30:07.620 Um, I'd love to see his beautiful hair in the legislature one day.

00:30:12.060 Um, I think he's just a game changer.

00:30:14.680 We don't have enough common men in politics and, uh, you know, Bernard's rough around the

00:30:20.980 edges, but so is Grand Prairie.

00:30:22.400 And I think, uh, that would be a welcome sight in the legislature.

00:30:26.460 I think I accidentally called, uh, Greg Clark, Doug Clark.

00:30:29.920 So if I did that, I don't know, but I apologize anyways, but I predict actually 24 NDP seats.

00:30:36.600 And I'll tell you why.

00:30:37.440 Um, because there are 20 seats in Edmonton and, uh, that's heavily weighted in the NDP

00:30:43.540 favor and the NDP are, they're hurrying hard on this, um, lake of fire baloney.

00:30:50.960 And I just wonder how many people are going to get spooked, um, by the UCP and not even

00:30:59.400 by the UCP, but just by the fear mongering from Rachel Notley.

00:31:02.560 Um, I worry that there might be some, they might round up some like outlier seats, um,

00:31:09.620 outside of, uh, Edmonton.

00:31:12.000 And, uh, I, I wouldn't be surprised to see them go as high as 24.

00:31:16.380 Uh, yeah.

00:31:16.860 I think the question is how far from the center of Edmonton will the NDP be able to reach?

00:31:21.800 I think that's the question.

00:31:23.240 And Calgary Varsity, Calgary Varsity is going to be an interesting one.

00:31:25.700 Um, Anne McGrath, the Cold War communist, as I'm now calling her, because she actually 0.78

00:31:31.380 ran for the Communist Party of Canada during the Cold War, which should have been treason 0.65

00:31:36.500 as far as I'm concerned.

00:31:38.280 Uh, she ran for the communists and is now running for the NDP and has been running the

00:31:43.200 Notley government from Calgary for the past couple of years.

00:31:46.920 Uh, she deserves to lose and she deserves to lose hard, but this election was called during 1.00

00:31:53.580 the, uh, uh, while the University of Calgary is in session and while the University of

00:31:58.140 Lethbridge is in session.

00:31:58.940 So there's, there's heavily, and we both know, and I might do a story on this, there's specific

00:32:05.660 voting centers made for students in advanced polls so that they can get as many votes in

00:32:11.160 as possible as easily as possible, which I mean, should be good for democracy, generally

00:32:16.200 speaking, but that kind of effort doesn't, doesn't extend to the oil patch.

00:32:20.500 Uh, you know, it, it, it's only the students that get very specific, long hours to go and

00:32:28.060 cast their ballot, right?

00:32:29.380 All they have to do is walk downstairs in their dorm and they can vote for a communist

00:32:33.820 in Rachel Notley.

00:32:34.820 So I think that's sad.

00:32:35.960 And I'm going to do a story on it probably, uh, if, if I can get enough information on it,

00:32:40.300 but as you know, as well, elections Alberta thinks that they're not foipable.

00:32:44.360 So it might take a little bit.

00:32:47.240 Yeah, they do think that for some unknown reason.

00:32:50.000 Um, yeah, I didn't, uh, I didn't realize, well, not that I didn't realize, but I didn't

00:32:54.440 put together that the election is perfectly timed for when the university students are

00:32:58.240 still actually in university, but the oil patch is just coming into breakup and farmers

00:33:04.020 are just starting, uh, to get on the field.

00:33:06.780 So isn't that, uh, isn't that convenient?

00:33:09.000 Yeah, cultivating and seeding is going to be happening here pretty soon.

00:33:12.760 Uh, and I guess what is the election is, well, at the time of filming this, it is 14 days

00:33:18.080 away.

00:33:18.840 So halfway done.

00:33:20.680 Yeah.

00:33:21.940 Well, Kian, uh, thanks for coming on the show. 0.94

00:33:24.000 Thanks for being so generous with your time.

00:33:25.740 I know you're just as busy as I am with this election.

00:33:28.340 Um, it's a big job covering the other side of the story.

00:33:31.860 Um, it's a dangerous job sometimes covering the other side of the story.

00:33:34.900 Um, so thanks and I will catch up with you later.

00:33:38.400 Sounds good.

00:33:39.040 Thanks for having me, Sheila.

00:33:40.080 Thanks.

00:33:52.640 There are just two weeks left in this Alberta election campaign and I guarantee you it is

00:33:58.240 going to get weirder and sleazier and dirtier and the mainstream media is going to continue

00:34:04.040 to abdicate their responsibility to you to tell you both sides of the story.

00:34:09.740 And that is why Kian and I are going to be working right down until the final vote is

00:34:15.740 cast here in Alberta to tell you the other side of the story.

00:34:19.980 Right now, we're crisscrossing the province, getting out those beautiful orange stopnotley.com

00:34:25.120 signs.

00:34:25.540 And we're out there talking to real people, actual voters in places Notley doesn't like

00:34:31.580 to think about out there in rural Alberta.

00:34:35.060 Now, if you want a chronology of the failures of Rachel Notley over the last four years that

00:34:39.320 the mainstream media just refuses to talk about now, be sure to pick up my new book,

00:34:44.420 Stop Notley, The Case for Throwing Out the NDP.

00:34:47.920 I checked yesterday and it was the number one political book in the country on amazon.ca.

00:34:53.460 And every day that it stays on the bestseller list is another day that the NDP hearts are

00:34:59.560 breaking.

00:35:00.780 Now, thank you to everybody at home who has already supported what we do here by getting

00:35:06.240 one of those stopnotley.com signs and buying the book.

00:35:09.780 We couldn't do what we do here without the generous help and support from all of you at

00:35:14.480 home.

00:35:15.320 Well, everybody, that's the show for tonight.

00:35:18.020 Thank you so much as always for tuning in.

00:35:20.420 I'll see everybody back here in the same time, in the very same place next week.

00:35:25.440 And by then, we'll have just one week left in the election campaign.

00:35:30.200 And remember, don't let the government tell you that you've had too much to think.

00:35:50.420 We'll see you next week.

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Rebel News Podcast - April 04, 2019

Alberta election midway point checkup： Where’s the mainstream media？ (Guest： Keean Bexte)

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