Rebel News Podcast - Alberta： Notley calls an election for four weeks from today. Here's what to expect.

00:00:00.000 Hey there, today is the day Rachel Notley announced she's calling the Alberta election. 0.90

00:00:05.100 It'll happen four weeks from today, April 16th, and I think she's going to get slaughtered. 1.00

00:00:10.320 I think Albertans have grown to despise the NDP.

00:00:13.680 I don't even think it's a hot passion anymore.

00:00:15.800 I think it's just a cold as ice heart.

00:00:18.820 200,000 unemployed, Calgary the largest unemployment rate in the country, no pipelines.

00:00:23.880 I just don't even think there's any, it's like they're not even bickering anymore.

00:00:28.240 It's like an old couple, they just, they're not even fighting anymore, it's just done.

00:00:32.020 Rachel Notley's going to try and smear Jason Kenney about this and that, 1.00

00:00:34.600 and she might even have a few good points to make, but I think it's over.

00:00:38.260 I'll tell you about that, and more importantly, I'll tell you about how we're going to conduct ourselves in the election,

00:00:43.420 including Sheila Gunn-Reid's new book!

00:00:46.860 Oh my gosh, I interview her next, so listen to the monologue, and then listen to Sheila.

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00:01:18.780 All right, without further to do, here is my show on Alberta's election.

00:01:22.140 You're listening to a Rebel Media Podcast.

00:01:26.360 Tonight, Rachel Notley has called an election for four weeks from today. 0.73

00:01:30.340 What can Albertans expect?

00:01:32.020 It's March 19th, and this is the Ezra Levant Show.

00:01:36.720 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?

00:01:40.440 There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.

00:01:44.520 The only thing I have to say to the government, the why I'm publishing,

00:01:48.320 is because it's my bloody right to do so.

00:01:50.360 Today, Rachel Notley dropped the rent and called the election for Alberta. 0.97

00:02:01.160 My friends, it is time for an election.

00:02:08.720 Are you ready?

00:02:12.680 My name is Rachel Notley, and I am running to be your premier again.

00:02:18.360 That cute kid holding her hands over her ears.

00:02:22.960 That would be me.

00:02:24.240 That was her announcement.

00:02:24.880 She did it in Calgary, which is, I guess, a courageous move in itself.

00:02:29.020 According to every poll published for months,

00:02:31.440 Notley and her NDP are about to lose very, very badly.

00:02:35.420 Wiped out in Calgary.

00:02:37.840 Reduced to fringe party status in rural Alberta.

00:02:40.620 And cut down to a rump in Edmonton.

00:02:43.580 There are 87 ridings in Alberta.

00:02:47.040 In the 2015 election, Notley won 54 seats.

00:02:49.880 I predict, are you ready for my prediction?

00:02:52.140 I predict they'll get just 20 seats this time.

00:02:55.240 Maybe fewer now.

00:02:56.160 Maybe I'm wrong.

00:02:57.020 We'll check back with you in 28 days.

00:02:59.100 It's mainly about the economy, I think.

00:03:00.680 While world oil prices have rebounded,

00:03:02.960 and other oil jurisdictions, including North Dakota,

00:03:05.660 which is not very far away,

00:03:06.900 or Texas, they're booming again.

00:03:09.420 Alberta has the highest unemployment outside of Atlantic Canada.

00:03:13.020 How is that even possible?

00:03:14.340 How is it possible that Calgary,

00:03:16.360 the most educated city in Canada,

00:03:18.380 the most trained city,

00:03:19.440 the most work-oriented city in Canada,

00:03:21.460 how can it have the highest unemployment rate in Calgary?

00:03:24.060 And it's about to get worse, by the way.

00:03:25.420 In fact, there's a second recession coming to the province.

00:03:29.700 Of course there is.

00:03:31.540 I'm deeply worried that rebounding won't even be that easy.

00:03:35.440 You know, our biggest energy customer,

00:03:36.720 the United States, is now our biggest competitor.

00:03:39.760 U.S. oil and gas production is at record levels.

00:03:43.580 They're now a net exporter of energy.

00:03:46.820 They're not only exporting energy to foreign countries,

00:03:49.080 but even into eastern Canada, too.

00:03:51.220 Is that crazy or what?

00:03:53.020 Most of the problem is the ban on oil pipelines in Canada.

00:03:57.160 Notley herself has been against oil pipelines for years. 0.74

00:03:59.620 That's her on the left there. 1.00

00:04:01.760 She's protesting against them.

00:04:03.380 No tar sands, no tankers, no pipelines, no problem.

00:04:05.340 That's her on the left. 0.99

00:04:07.100 But here she is as premier, still railing against them.

00:04:11.160 And God forbid, if Alberta were to export crude oil, remember this?

00:04:16.060 Our position on the Keystone was that if we ship unprocessed bitumen to Texas,

00:04:22.400 according to this government and to the American government,

00:04:25.240 we will give tens of thousands of Alberta jobs to Texas, not to Albertans.

00:04:30.240 And that's not what Albertans want to see.

00:04:32.920 That was her railing against the Keystone XL pipeline. 0.93

00:04:35.640 She was also against the Northern Gateway pipeline.

00:04:38.120 She didn't lift a finger to support the last two pipelines that were killed,

00:04:41.880 Energy East or the Trans Mountain expansion.

00:04:44.440 They were both killed.

00:04:45.160 She was against them in her heart, I presume, because she didn't say a word about them with her mouth.

00:04:51.780 She didn't go to Quebec or B.C. to campaign for them.

00:04:54.960 Now, today in her election announcement, she claimed to be pro-pipeline.

00:04:59.400 I just don't think anyone believes it, though.

00:05:02.840 What we have done is we have pushed hard.

00:05:06.780 We have pushed the federal government to buy the pipeline.

00:05:09.740 We have talked to Canadians from coast to coast to coast to build support for that pipeline.

00:05:15.680 We have moved the dial in terms of the priority that Canadians across the country place on getting that pipeline built.

00:05:24.000 And I think that we will get it built.

00:05:25.920 And I will keep talking to Canadians.

00:05:27.640 I will keep pushing people in B.C.

00:05:29.240 I will keep pushing the federal government, and we will make darn sure that thing gets built. 0.99

00:05:33.560 It is absolutely fundamental to Albertans' futures and to Canadians'.

00:05:37.680 The kid with her hands on her ears was shown out, I guess.

00:05:42.500 I just don't believe that she supports pipelines, by the way.

00:05:45.200 Today she talked about Bill C-69.

00:05:47.900 That's Trudeau's proposed law that would put any new pipeline or major industrial project, even the mine, for example, through a gender analysis. 1.00

00:05:56.520 I'm sorry, I can't say that without laughing, but it's no laughing matter.

00:05:59.800 And I'm not even kidding.

00:06:00.900 Remember this?

00:06:02.040 Project's decisions will be based on science, evidence, and indigenous traditional knowledge.

00:06:07.440 We're also taking a bigger picture look at the potential impacts of a proposed project.

00:06:12.280 Instead of just looking at the environmental impacts, we'll look at how a project could affect our communities and health,

00:06:18.500 jobs and the economy over the long term, and we'll also do a gender-based analysis.

00:06:23.220 A gender-based analysis.

00:06:26.920 Yeah, Natalie's fine with that.

00:06:28.340 She's pretty much okay with all of that.

00:06:30.440 She's okay with even the carbon tax, even though it didn't buy the social license to put through pipelines as she promised it would.

00:06:37.260 In fact, the only thing she's positively done, besides putting in a carbon tax, raising carbon taxes, corporate taxes,

00:06:44.060 and generally demonizing the industry, is to literally ban Alberta oil companies from producing oil.

00:06:49.160 So, ordering them to produce less.

00:06:51.580 So, yeah, I don't think people are buying it, that she loves oil and gas.

00:06:55.300 But 28 days is a long time in politics, especially during a campaign.

00:06:59.100 I'm just worried.

00:07:01.640 But it's been flat on its back for four years.

00:07:04.260 Even if Notley is thrown out, there's still the pipeline problem.

00:07:08.280 Yesterday, in his latest cabinet shuffle, Justin Trudeau promoted Joyce Murray,

00:07:11.700 a far-left Vancouver liberal who campaigned hard against pipelines and against the oil sands.

00:07:18.900 She called them obsolete.

00:07:21.940 She called them Stone Age.

00:07:24.640 Yeah, really, Pipeline Stone Age.

00:07:26.680 Don't expect any new pipelines in a hurry if that's your cabinet minister.

00:07:30.480 So, the past four years, while Alberta's been in the fetal position,

00:07:33.900 the rest of the world has rebounded in oil and gas.

00:07:36.380 I'm worried we might have missed the moment in Canada, like Canada did with the delayed McKenzie Valley pipeline.

00:07:44.960 Red tape and green environmentalists delayed that for so long, for decades actually, that it's dead.

00:07:51.440 It was finally approved legally, but now it's dead economically.

00:07:55.020 The price of natural gas will probably never be high enough anymore to justify that pipeline now

00:07:59.100 because fracking has caused natural gas to be so cheap.

00:08:01.820 So, yeah, the North is waiting for that $20 billion McKenzie pipeline.

00:08:06.960 It's just not going to happen.

00:08:07.940 They missed their moment.

00:08:09.820 I don't think it's quite that bad for Alberta oil,

00:08:12.540 but in fact, the National Energy Board has reported that oil production in Canada is falling for the first time in a decade.

00:08:20.420 Canada has the third largest oil reserves in the world.

00:08:24.420 World oil demand has never been higher,

00:08:26.620 and yet we're producing less like Venezuela is producing less now, too, for similar reasons.

00:08:35.340 Notley has no clue what to do.

00:08:36.540 If you take her at her word that she actually supports oil and gas,

00:08:39.320 but like I say, I don't think she really does.

00:08:41.600 I knew this early.

00:08:42.680 I read her first speech in Washington, D.C. four years ago.

00:08:45.540 She didn't mention pipelines at all in that trip.

00:08:47.980 You go to Washington.

00:08:48.500 That's pretty much all an Alberta premier has to say in Washington.

00:08:51.440 Buy our oil.

00:08:52.240 And she wouldn't.

00:08:52.620 She prefers to talk about wind turbines and solar panels,

00:08:58.080 and she did that again today.

00:09:01.060 We're also investing and moving forward very aggressively on our Made in Alberta energy diversification program.

00:09:07.840 That, too, will ultimately bring about jobs,

00:09:10.580 and in the longer term, it will leave our economy more resilient to the inevitable ups and downs with respect to oil prices.

00:09:18.880 Would Silicon Valley diversify away from high-tech?

00:09:25.500 We've got to get rid of all these high-tech companies.

00:09:28.560 Diversify.

00:09:29.180 Let's get into logging.

00:09:31.600 Would Hollywood diversify away from movies?

00:09:35.580 Yeah, we've got to get out of this movie business.

00:09:37.160 Maybe we'll make cars here in Hollywood.

00:09:41.420 No, no.

00:09:42.620 Those are gold mines.

00:09:44.280 It's insane for Alberta, sitting on 173 billion barrels of oil, in the oil sense, to diversify away from oil.

00:09:52.520 But that's her plan.

00:09:54.660 You'll recall she had a sham press conference a month ago where she said she was going to give a $400 million loan guarantee to an oil upgrader project,

00:10:02.580 and the entire media party reported it like stenographers.

00:10:05.180 Not only said, quote, construction was already underway, but remember, our Sheila Gunn-Reed went to the site and saw it's just a snow-covered field.

00:10:13.980 Hasn't been any activity there in a decade.

00:10:16.060 The president of the company himself confirmed to me directly, they're not even hiring anyone, let alone the construction's underway.

00:10:22.460 The whole thing remains a dream, a pipe dream.

00:10:24.520 So, yeah, there's no recovery for Alberta.

00:10:27.800 Unless you're part of Alberta's massive and growing government sector that's never been bigger.

00:10:32.100 Funny how that works.

00:10:34.540 I think most government sector workers will be there for Notley, not just to vote, but to volunteer and to donate as third-party campaign groups.

00:10:43.220 They know what side their bread is buttered on.

00:10:45.460 But I bet that even some Albertans who work for the government know that even their own jobs are in peril if the economy keeps failing.

00:10:52.100 As Margaret Thatcher said about socialism, sooner or later you run out of other people's money.

00:10:57.240 I think that's the beginning and the end of it.

00:10:58.780 Notley has harmed Alberta's key industry, both substantively and rhetorically.

00:11:03.240 She hasn't stood up to Trudeau in any way, or to her fellow NDP or John Horgan, NBC or Jagmeet Singh, federally.

00:11:11.060 I think that's actually all there is to know.

00:11:14.140 But there are other reasons I think she'll lose, too.

00:11:16.660 Notley's war on family farms, requiring farm kids to be treated like unionized workers, for example.

00:11:22.780 It's nuts.

00:11:23.420 It is unanimously despised by farmers and ranchers, which is the point.

00:11:27.860 Notley hates them because they're the freest of Albertans, the least socialist of Albertans.

00:11:33.100 And then there's her war against parents in the schools, especially a war against Christian schools. 0.98

00:11:37.560 Test scores are plummeting in Alberta, but she's going full tilt with her ideological re-education.

00:11:43.600 Here's a picture of her.

00:11:44.700 This is just crazy.

00:11:45.740 In school, do you see that book she's reading?

00:11:47.240 It's a communist propaganda tract called Mouse Land.

00:11:54.880 It's a socialist book.

00:11:56.140 She's reading it.

00:11:56.700 She's not hiding it, folks.

00:11:58.340 She goes into schools and reads communist books.

00:12:01.900 And you know her education minister, David Agin.

00:12:04.040 I mean, he's this kook. 1.00

00:12:04.920 Remember him?

00:12:06.160 No new approvals.

00:12:07.820 No new approvals.

00:12:09.500 No new approvals.

00:12:11.260 No new approvals.

00:12:13.880 That was him chanting no more approvals to the oil sands.

00:12:16.220 So yeah, they're awful.

00:12:19.120 They were an accidental government elected by accident when Albertans decided all at the

00:12:23.420 same time that they hated and couldn't trust the late Jim Prentiss, who was then the progressive

00:12:28.120 conservative premier, and Daniel Smith, who was then the Wildrose opposition leader.

00:12:32.540 Because the two of them, Smith and Prentiss, had cooked up a backroom deal between them.

00:12:36.440 Just to remind you, Prentiss had a majority.

00:12:39.160 He was going to win another majority.

00:12:41.200 Smith was the opposition to Prentiss's right, which is refreshing.

00:12:44.160 It was great, actually.

00:12:44.940 She might even have been premier. 1.00

00:12:46.660 Either way, it would be good.

00:12:48.860 But then they cut a secret deal together.

00:12:50.400 Do you remember this?

00:12:52.240 Where half the Wildrose opposition defected to join the government just weeks before the

00:12:58.880 election.

00:12:59.580 It was an obvious attempt to deprive Albertans of any real choice.

00:13:03.220 Albertans were so mad about this, they punished both parties for trying to destroy democracy

00:13:08.060 by voting for the NDP.

00:13:09.840 It was a disgrace, and it was a punishment.

00:13:12.840 But alas, the greatest punishment was meted out against Albertans themselves who have

00:13:16.200 suffered under the NDP for four years.

00:13:18.660 So now we have Jason Kenney, leading the United Conservative Party, or the UCP.

00:13:23.400 He first ran as leader of the PCs.

00:13:26.140 Then he merged with Brian Jean's Wildrose Party.

00:13:29.160 And then he won the leadership of that United Party.

00:13:31.780 And now here he comes.

00:13:33.020 He has lots of experience and staff inherited from his time as a Harper cabinet minister.

00:13:37.580 But now comes news of all sorts of Prentiss-like tricks.

00:13:42.460 Apparently, Jason Kenney met secretly with a spoiler leadership candidate for the UCP named

00:13:47.060 Jeff Calloway, who also ran for the UCP leadership.

00:13:49.820 But his job was to be a kamikaze against Brian Jean, saying awful things about Jean so that

00:13:54.680 Kenny didn't have to.

00:13:55.800 And then he'd drop out and back Kenny at the last minute.

00:13:58.840 In a well-timed series of leaks, details of those backroom deals have been leaked everywhere.

00:14:04.920 To the CBC, to McLean's magazine.

00:14:07.160 It looks really bad on Kenny.

00:14:09.380 There may even be some violations of the law.

00:14:11.900 I don't know.

00:14:12.620 But my point a moment ago about the secret deal between Prentiss and Danielle Smith to

00:14:17.920 remove a real electoral choice to the people, that point remains.

00:14:22.000 Why are you being tricky?

00:14:22.900 Why are you trying to be too clever?

00:14:25.900 Why are you trying to pull a fast one over the electorate?

00:14:28.140 Why not just run?

00:14:29.960 Surely Jason Kenney was going to steamroll everything anyways.

00:14:33.300 Why the need for shenanigans?

00:14:35.060 It truly feels like some students' union level hijinks.

00:14:37.800 Why not just campaign on the obvious huge elephant in the room?

00:14:40.980 Rachel Notley and her NDP destroyers have wrecked the province.

00:14:44.740 And Kenney, he's a former Harper cabinet minister and former Canadian Taxpayers Federation

00:14:50.220 director who knows how to fix it.

00:14:52.900 And he's actually run part of a government before.

00:14:56.760 A normal conservative government like Harper.

00:14:59.020 Why not just say that?

00:15:00.860 Why all tricky and schemey? 1.00

00:15:03.540 So dumb. 1.00

00:15:04.400 What? 1.00

00:15:05.100 Did he need to win the leadership with 75% instead of the 61% he got?

00:15:10.660 He almost doubled Brian Jean. 0.98

00:15:12.880 What a foolish indulgence, that trickery. 0.97

00:15:15.320 And I note that all the mainstream media to whom Kenney has prostrated himself these past 0.99

00:15:20.860 few years are happy to devour him.

00:15:24.020 You might recall that two years ago, Jason Kenney denounced 3,000 unemployed oil and gas

00:15:28.240 workers at a rebel rally outside the legislature.

00:15:31.000 He called them ridiculous and offensive when they made a 30-second jokey chant of lock her 0.90

00:15:36.520 up outside the Alberta legislature. 0.95

00:15:38.560 This was an homage to the Trump rally saying the same about Hillary Clinton.

00:15:42.180 Kenney thought he'd appease the fancy people at the CBC and push away the grassroots unemployed

00:15:46.780 who were not protesting their unemployment politely enough.

00:15:51.240 Kenney did it again this year when he criticized the United We Rule convoy and refused to meet

00:15:56.280 with it.

00:15:57.520 Even Andrew Scheer met with it.

00:15:58.820 Even Doug Ford met with it.

00:16:00.560 Kenney just sent out some weird passive-aggressive tweet.

00:16:03.700 I'm glad you're staying positive for once. 1.00

00:16:06.860 Shut up. 0.99

00:16:09.240 You know, it reminds me of 20 years ago. 1.00

00:16:12.720 I worked at the National Post.

00:16:13.980 I was on the editorial board of the National Post.

00:16:15.360 Can I tell you a story?

00:16:16.280 When some of the red Tories on the board, the editorial board, would pitch some worthy

00:16:22.060 downtown Toronto idea, I would...

00:16:24.900 There was these debates in the National Post editorial board.

00:16:27.160 And I would answer by saying, we already have a Globe and Mail.

00:16:32.360 It wasn't even an insult.

00:16:33.800 It was a fact.

00:16:34.840 Why would there be a need for a National Post newspaper that said exactly what the Globe

00:16:40.140 and Mail was going to say?

00:16:41.180 You see my point?

00:16:42.300 My analogy is, what is the point of a UCP leader who is as mealy-mouthed and timid as,

00:16:49.520 well, I don't know, in some cases, not only herself?

00:16:51.580 Well, Jason Kenney supported her plans to nationalize a pipeline, at least at first.

00:16:56.020 He supported her plans to put a cap, production cap, on the oil sands.

00:16:59.800 What's the point?

00:17:00.760 We already have an NDP. 0.86

00:17:02.720 How about be conservative?

00:17:05.800 Well, the race is on, and it's clear that Notley is opening up a personal front against

00:17:09.980 Kenney, calling him an untrustworthy liar.

00:17:12.760 Two days ago, we learned that Mr. Kenney cheated to win his party's leadership.

00:17:20.960 And when he was caught, he didn't tell the truth.

00:17:26.180 Mr. Kenney looked Albertans in the eye and very casually and very comfortably lied to us,

00:17:33.340 which in many ways goes to the heart of this issue, how comfortable Mr. Kenney is with lying.

00:17:40.580 And the well-timed news about Jason Kenney's secret arrangements with Jeff Calloway, that

00:17:46.740 other candidate, that stocking horse candidate, they gave Notley a basis to make those claims

00:17:52.020 of Kenney being a liar.

00:17:53.080 Personally, I just don't think they matter enough to Albertans, though, not when 200,000

00:17:57.560 people are out of work in provinces heading into a second NDP recession.

00:18:01.980 I just don't think people care enough about shenanigans.

00:18:04.220 I think the enthusiasm level for Kenney personally is probably way down.

00:18:09.800 I think his likability is probably way down.

00:18:13.400 I think people will start to look at Jason Kenney as a BS-er, maybe an Ottawa slickster.

00:18:18.340 That's what the NDP has been saying about him for years.

00:18:21.140 I don't think people will love him as they might have, but that's fine.

00:18:25.380 No one loved Stephen Harper.

00:18:26.720 They just voted for him because he got the job done.

00:18:28.820 Hopefully, Kenney will do that.

00:18:31.700 And what will we do here at The Rebel?

00:18:32.900 Well, we've had an important role these past four years in Alberta, if I may say so myself.

00:18:37.740 You might recall the emergency town hall meetings we had to packed houses in Calgary, in Edmonton,

00:18:43.120 Fort McMurray, warning about the NDP's true colors.

00:18:45.380 Those warnings all came true and more.

00:18:49.240 Sheila Gunn-Reed published what I think was the best-selling Alberta political book of all

00:18:53.300 time called The Destroyers, doing a deep biography of Notley's key staff and their awful backgrounds.

00:18:59.240 She broke a lot of news in that book.

00:19:00.560 Sheila followed up with another best-selling book about David Suzuki, one of Notley's key

00:19:05.140 allies in the war against the oil sands.

00:19:07.240 Notley grew to hate Sheila very personally.

00:19:09.520 You'll recall, Notley sent an armed sheriff to stop Sheila from even stepping onto the

00:19:13.620 legislature grounds.

00:19:14.680 A clearly illegal act by Notley that she finally abandoned in the face of national scorn.

00:19:19.580 Notley, of course, is trying to take a run at us again, complaining to her own hand-picked 1.00

00:19:23.240 elections commissioner to shut us down for having critical commentaries about her.

00:19:26.760 She said this just the other week about us.

00:19:29.940 You work for an organization that probably ought to be registered as a third party under

00:19:34.600 the elections legislation, and so I have nothing more to say to that.

00:19:39.900 Yeah, well, we don't pack down so easily.

00:19:42.140 So I'm delighted to announce that we're publishing a new book by Sheila Gunn-Reed, and I think it's

00:19:50.240 going to be her best-selling book yet.

00:19:52.800 It's called simply Stop Notley, The Case for Throwing Out the NDP, and you can order it

00:19:58.440 right now on Amazon.ca.

00:20:02.360 It's a short book.

00:20:03.660 It's just under 25,000 words, but it is jam-packed with facts.

00:20:08.180 Facts of the mainstream media have not told you about these past four years.

00:20:11.080 It quickly recaps the highlights from Sheila's book, The Destroyers, and then gives you three

00:20:15.120 more years of facts on top of that.

00:20:16.980 It's a great read.

00:20:17.840 I just finished reading it myself.

00:20:20.260 Yeah, it's $5 as an e-book or $10 as a paperback.

00:20:24.040 Again, you can get that on Amazon.ca, or you could go to StopNotley.com, and while you're

00:20:28.920 there, you can order a lawn sign to promote the book.

00:20:33.240 What do you think of that?

00:20:34.460 That is an actual lawn sign in the wild.

00:20:37.660 Obviously, we can't put a 25,000-word argument against Notley on a lawn sign or even on a big

00:20:42.300 billboard, but if you put up the lawn sign, you can send a clear enough message

00:20:46.680 in those two words, even if someone's driving by quickly, StopNotley.com.

00:20:51.760 But more importantly, you can tell people how to get around the mainstream media, how

00:20:55.060 to get the book directly for just $5 as an e-book, $10 as a paperback.

00:20:59.880 So you can do both of those things on StopNotley.com.

00:21:02.940 You can get the book, and you can get the lawn sign to promote the book.

00:21:07.540 I think that Jason Kenney has made some big mistakes.

00:21:09.960 He's been too clever by half with his backroom deals.

00:21:12.120 They just weren't necessary, and they were too tricky, too gimmicky, not plain and normal.

00:21:17.480 They smack of the weird deal Prentice and Danielle Smith made.

00:21:20.080 Why would he even do that?

00:21:21.840 And he has been far too eager to suck up to the leftist media, whether it's bashing us

00:21:25.860 or bashing the pipeline convoy or even his monthly anti-Trump rants, which I think are

00:21:31.560 bizarre and inappropriate, given that Donald Trump is probably going to be the only person

00:21:35.180 who built a pipeline for the oil sands in the next five years.

00:21:37.400 I think it's Kenney's attempt to get the CBCs and the McLeans of the world to like him.

00:21:41.720 And as you can see by the wall-to-wall mockery and accusations against him, yeah, that's not

00:21:46.140 working.

00:21:47.640 How about just being a conservative candidate in the most conservative province?

00:21:51.680 There's still time for him to do that.

00:21:53.440 But who knows what else the NDP and their media allies have in store for the weeks ahead.

00:21:58.240 I know what we have in store.

00:21:59.600 A great book by Sheila, a great new part of the team in Calgary, namely Kian Bexte, and a

00:22:05.940 huge swath of Albertans who now get their news from us, not from the state broadcaster

00:22:10.560 or part of Trudeau's bailout media.

00:22:14.020 Let the campaign begin.

00:22:16.100 Stick around.

00:22:16.840 Sheila's next.

00:22:30.820 My friends, it is time for an election.

00:22:35.940 Are you ready?

00:22:42.600 My name is Rachel Notley, and I am running to be your premier again.

00:22:48.280 There you have it, Rachel Notley.

00:22:49.840 And I got to say, put aside her deadly ideology and policies, she comes across as quite a charming 0.99

00:22:55.280 lady.

00:22:55.920 She smiles with her eyes.

00:22:57.500 She has a warmth to her that, frankly, Jason Kenney does not.

00:23:00.460 He comes across sometimes as sort of Fred Flintstone, both in his shape, like a weeble 1.00

00:23:05.380 a little bit, like those little Russian dolls within dolls.

00:23:09.680 And he's always needed a bit of a shape.

00:23:11.260 He comes across a bit of a grouch sometimes.

00:23:13.480 And I think for some people, it's that look and feel that they vote for.

00:23:17.280 I think that's how Rachel Notley slipped by last time. 0.97

00:23:20.460 People looked at her and said, well, she doesn't look that bad.

00:23:22.620 Well, Abacus Research said 91% of Albertans voted for Rachel Notley last time just because

00:23:27.540 they wanted a change.

00:23:28.600 Well, will Albertans be fooled again?

00:23:31.620 Or has the mass unemployment, the carbon tax, the war on schools, and the lack of pipelines

00:23:38.140 made that charm rather hollow?

00:23:41.140 Joining us now to talk about it is our friend, Sheila Gunn-Reed.

00:23:43.760 Sheila, great to see you again.

00:23:45.900 Hey, Ezra.

00:23:46.360 Thanks for having me on.

00:23:47.000 You know what?

00:23:48.200 Rachel Notley comes across as a nice lady. 0.97

00:23:52.700 And I think that goes a long way in politics.

00:23:55.340 It almost got Bitto O'Rourke elected the senator for Texas.

00:24:01.240 Will it be enough for Rachel Notley in 2019?

00:24:05.240 Or is it just things too far gone?

00:24:08.880 I think Rachel Notley is a great actor.

00:24:11.280 I don't think she's a very nice lady. 1.00

00:24:13.520 And I think the veil has slipped a few too many times for Albertans to be fooled coming

00:24:20.880 into this election campaign.

00:24:22.300 I don't think any amount of smear campaign on behalf of the NDP and their collaborators

00:24:28.000 in the mainstream media are going to convince Albertans to vote for more carbon taxes, more

00:24:35.220 attacks on Christian education, and fewer jobs.

00:24:38.600 You know, I immediately accept your correction there, because even in her—I mean, I just

00:24:44.100 watched that again, and I thought, boy, that she came across nicely there. 0.98

00:24:46.860 But she quickly descended into mud-throwing, Jason Kenney is a liar. 0.99

00:24:52.280 I mean, she can be brutal. 1.00

00:24:53.960 And of course, her delegates are even more brutal.

00:24:56.980 And of course, their surrogates are even more brutal.

00:24:59.800 I'm talking about the public sector union-funded front groups in Alberta.

00:25:04.340 I take your correction, Sheila, she's a polished politician, and she comes by it naturally. 1.00

00:25:11.540 She was the daughter of Grant Notley, a lifelong career politician, so she's learned the craft

00:25:17.940 of public acting.

00:25:19.880 She's learned how to fake sincerity very well.

00:25:23.680 I think you're right.

00:25:24.980 I think she's actually governed quite brutally, despite her friendly facade.

00:25:30.120 It's very hard for Albertans to forget just how much she's attacked normal Albertans and

00:25:39.120 how much she's allowed her high-profile cabinet ministers to attack Albertans. 0.83

00:25:44.840 Just very recently, we ran our Fire Phillips billboard on the side of Highway 2.

00:25:52.200 It's still there.

00:25:52.880 It's big, it's beautiful, and it's bold.

00:25:54.640 And we ran that campaign because Shannon Phillips, the environment minister, lied on several

00:26:01.420 occasions about how violent and how threatening Albertans are in small towns who are opposing

00:26:07.780 her plans to turn their backyard into a provincial park that they can't really use anymore.

00:26:14.440 Albertans have not forgotten how the deputy premier and the health minister called them

00:26:20.560 all a bunch of sewer rats, and Rachel Notley didn't have much to say in defense of normal 0.98

00:26:25.520 Albertans. 0.97

00:26:26.460 Neither one of those two cabinet ministers faced any sort of real reprimand.

00:26:30.240 They're still cabinet ministers.

00:26:32.140 So while Rachel Notley has crinkly eyes and a nice smile, it's just a polished veneer.

00:26:39.060 I accept that.

00:26:40.120 And of course, you have been the recipient of the brunt of her rage.

00:26:45.060 I remember when you simply wanted to attend to the legislature a few years back, she dispatched

00:26:50.440 an armed sheriff.

00:26:52.440 So, you know, the friendly schoolmarm look, the mask quickly falls, the veil drops, as

00:26:57.580 you say, when she's feeling a bit of rage.

00:27:01.220 And look, it's been a rough week or so for Jason Kenney and the media.

00:27:05.600 No surprise there.

00:27:06.480 The media hate conservatives.

00:27:07.960 I think Jason Kenney has made it easy for the media to take shots at him in the last week

00:27:12.800 with his behind-the-scenes weirdness with other candidates.

00:27:16.500 Completely unnecessary in my mind.

00:27:18.460 But I think that my own sense of Alberta, and I'm not there as much as I'd like to be

00:27:23.980 anymore, is that it's just too far gone.

00:27:27.320 That really they would vote for almost anyone just to get rid of the carbon taxing, oil patch

00:27:32.820 destroying NDP.

00:27:34.140 I just think that no matter how brutal the campaign is to Jason Kenney and the UCP, I

00:27:42.040 think they're going to win anyways.

00:27:43.940 I do too.

00:27:45.440 With regard to Jason Kenney, for all of his pandering to the media and denouncing people

00:27:52.340 the media wanted him to denounce, they sure don't like him.

00:27:56.320 And they're sure willing to do whatever they can to help Rachel Notley and the NDP win this

00:28:02.060 next election.

00:28:03.180 But I think there's a strong sentiment, much like in the dying days of Alison Redford's

00:28:10.480 PC government and then Jim Prentice's PC government, that Albertans are desperate for something

00:28:16.060 different.

00:28:16.640 And they're willing to vote for just about anything just to get that change.

00:28:21.400 Yeah.

00:28:21.720 Well, I think you're right.

00:28:23.440 We'll follow it closely.

00:28:24.440 I'm so glad that you're on this beat.

00:28:26.240 You have owned the Rachel Notley NDP file more than any other reporter in Alberta.

00:28:31.560 I'm so pleased that a few months ago you were joined in Calgary by Kian Bextie, who's really

00:28:36.520 come along as a reporter and he's broken some great stories.

00:28:39.860 A few months, about a month ago, he broke the story of Darren Billis, a senior cabinet

00:28:44.020 minister in Rachel Notley's government and, you know, not paying alimony, his wife accusing

00:28:49.480 him under oath of drug abuse, an affair with a senior NDP MLA, like just crazy, crazy stuff.

00:28:57.000 Um, I'm glad you guys are there.

00:29:00.020 You'll cover it hard.

00:29:00.920 And I just finished reading your new book called Stop Notley, the case for throwing out

00:29:08.240 the NDP.

00:29:08.880 It's a quick read, which is good because everybody's busy these days.

00:29:11.740 It's just 25,000 words.

00:29:13.800 I like it.

00:29:14.960 And, uh, don't give it all away, but give, give folks maybe a one minute summary.

00:29:19.860 What's in your new book, Stop Notley?

00:29:23.100 Well, the new book, I suppose the motivation for the new book is the same as the motivation

00:29:28.180 for the old book, The Destroyers.

00:29:30.360 We just can't trust the mainstream media to accurately give us the NDP record.

00:29:35.860 Um, so I documented the NDP record.

00:29:39.920 We documented stuff that the mainstream media has either underreported or refuses to report.

00:29:45.840 You mentioned Kian's expose on Darren Billis.

00:29:49.420 Um, in that expose, he discovered, um, the use of caucus resources, namely, um, Heather

00:29:56.160 Mack, Sandra Janssen's chief of staff that attended court hearings of Darren Billis and

00:30:03.080 his, uh, soon to be, or now currently ex-wife that wasn't covered in the mainstream media.

00:30:09.000 You and I covered the story of Value Creation Inc., which was, um, basically a fraudulent

00:30:15.260 press announcement by Rachel Notley, who promised to give, uh, nearly half a billion dollars

00:30:20.820 to a company that hasn't done anything, that went broke 10 years ago, and has a technology

00:30:26.940 that nobody thinks will work.

00:30:29.080 Um, it's that sort of stuff, um, that's in the book.

00:30:32.700 Um, it's a sort of, uh, re-documentation of the NDP's, uh, biggest failures and, um, some

00:30:41.300 of the things or much of the things that the mainstream media refuses to report.

00:30:45.600 Yeah.

00:30:46.080 I mean, the subtitle says it all, the case for throwing out the NDP.

00:30:49.420 Well, I'm really excited about that book and, um, you know, traditionally, I mean, I've

00:30:54.120 written a number of books, uh, for example, I wrote books, uh, for, uh, McClellan and Stewart,

00:30:59.820 which is now owned by Penguin Random House, huge publisher, one of the world's biggest

00:31:03.920 publishers, in fact, and I remember being on a book tour when I did Ethical Oil, when

00:31:07.860 I did Shakedown, and they would set up a, a media tour for me, uh, including a lot of

00:31:15.520 CBC venues and a lot of, you know, newspaper editorial boards, and you would do the circuit.

00:31:20.680 I know, Sheila, that the CBC will not have you on to talk about your book, not even to

00:31:27.180 attack you, um, because you could hold your own and it would spread the word about your

00:31:30.920 book.

00:31:31.280 I am certain in advance that only maybe a few folks in talk radio or a few sort of internet

00:31:38.440 YouTubers or whatnot, I know no other mainstream media would have you on.

00:31:42.760 And even if there were friends of yours working at different newspapers, their editors would

00:31:46.840 blacklist you.

00:31:47.480 I know this.

00:31:49.140 So we've come up with an idea to promote your book that I think is very appropriate for

00:31:54.640 the season, and that is lawn signs promoting the book.

00:32:00.180 And I like the look of them, and you and Kian have taken delivery of thousands of these lawn

00:32:05.400 signs, and they promote the book.

00:32:07.680 I, I can't think of anyone else who's promoted a book with a lawn sign, but I think it's a

00:32:11.020 great idea.

00:32:11.480 What do you think?

00:32:12.940 I think it's a brilliant idea.

00:32:15.080 I'm glad we had it.

00:32:16.580 Um, yeah, with regard to, uh, there, the fact that there will be a near complete mainstream

00:32:22.620 media blackout with regard to my book, uh, I had two Canadian bestsellers before this,

00:32:27.880 the destroyers and, uh, a David Suzuki auto, not an autobiography, a David Suzuki biography.

00:32:34.820 Um, both of those were Canadian bestsellers.

00:32:36.740 They didn't make it on any official bestseller list because they basically blacklisted us.

00:32:41.500 So we have to have a bit of a guerrilla marketing campaign with the new book.

00:32:46.240 Um, and like everything we do here at the rebel, we have to rely on our viewers and our supporters

00:32:52.820 for help.

00:32:54.120 Um, so that's what I love about the lawn signs.

00:32:56.660 They are a great way for people to show support for us to show their interest in stopping

00:33:02.480 Notley and promoting the book.

00:33:04.540 And they can get those lawn signs at stopnotley.com.

00:33:08.280 That's right.

00:33:09.080 Stopnotley.com.

00:33:10.020 Now I want to say, of course, a lot of viewers of this, uh, video we're in right now will be

00:33:15.420 outside of Alberta and we want to reserve the lawn signs for Albertans.

00:33:20.180 And I'm sorry for folks in other provinces who want one of those lawn signs as a souvenir.

00:33:24.900 If there are any left after the, after we're done, the project will make them available.

00:33:30.220 But please understand, uh, that the focus of this book, of course, as the subtitle says,

00:33:35.040 the case for throwing out the NDP.

00:33:36.200 Um, so if folks want to get the book, they can get it on Amazon.

00:33:39.560 You can get the lawn sign.

00:33:40.960 You can get both of those things at stopnotley.com.

00:33:43.400 I'm really excited about it.

00:33:44.460 And I'm going to make a prediction right now.

00:33:46.860 I'm going to predict you're going to have your third national bestseller on your hands.

00:33:49.980 And I encourage everyone to take a look at it.

00:33:51.900 Last word to you, Sheila.

00:33:54.000 I think you're right, Ezra.

00:33:55.100 I think this is going to be a phenomenally successful book.

00:33:59.120 And I think the success of my book falls squarely on the mainstream media and their complete

00:34:03.640 and total abdication of their duty to bring Canadians and Albertans the full story.

00:34:09.220 Yeah, I think you're right.

00:34:10.380 Well, there you have it.

00:34:11.200 Sheila Gunn-Reed, our Alberta Bureau Chief and the author of the new book that is literally

00:34:15.960 debuting tonight on Amazon.

00:34:18.280 And you can find out how to get it by going to stopnotley.com.

00:34:22.540 Thanks, my friend.

00:34:23.900 Thanks, Ezra.

00:34:24.580 All right.

00:34:24.980 Stay with us.

00:34:25.640 More ahead on The Rebel.

00:34:33.640 Hey, welcome back.

00:34:39.580 I'm sorry I was away yesterday, but I'm back all week.

00:34:42.720 Thank you for sticking around.

00:34:44.900 On my monologue Friday about Tommy Robinson losing his case against the Cambridgeshire police,

00:34:49.180 Deborah writes,

00:34:50.500 Tommy and his family need to get out of the UK.

00:34:52.780 The whole system is stacked against him.

00:34:55.140 Yes, I've heard that countless times.

00:34:57.580 And I myself sometimes think it.

00:34:59.500 But if you know Tommy, you know, that's like, you know, he's a British 100 generations in

00:35:06.200 the UK.

00:35:07.580 It's almost like he could survive nowhere else.

00:35:10.360 He's just British. 0.76

00:35:11.520 He just, I don't even think he would know what to do in any other country.

00:35:15.000 He's so essentially British. 0.79

00:35:17.760 And why should he leave his own country?

00:35:20.700 Robbie writes,

00:35:22.100 The video Tommy filed pretty much spoke for itself.

00:35:24.400 Tommy should crowdfund and appeal.

00:35:26.440 You're talking about when the Cambridgeshire police just ordered Tommy with his kids to

00:35:31.560 get out of a pub and then ordered them to leave the city.

00:35:35.140 It was incredible.

00:35:36.000 I've never seen anything like that in North America.

00:35:38.780 It really did remind me of some sort of deep South Jim Crow law era segregation, you know,

00:35:45.420 mean cop in Mississippi burning or something.

00:35:47.540 That's what I thought of.

00:35:49.020 Michael writes,

00:35:49.860 I'm just glad Ezra got out of there without the judge putting him in the dungeon.

00:35:52.960 Yeah, I was live tweeting as if I was in Canada or the United States.

00:35:57.540 I was live tweeting freely.

00:35:58.900 By the way, I've done the same thing from the old Bailey and the Royal Courts of Justice

00:36:02.280 in the UK before without any problem.

00:36:04.000 But the judge stopped things three times to wag her finger at me and say, don't you offer 0.98

00:36:08.480 any opinions at all?

00:36:10.800 I asked her, was there any particular tweet?

00:36:13.080 And she just said, no opinions allowed.

00:36:16.360 I've just never heard of that before.

00:36:19.000 You're not allowed to have any opinion on what you see in court.

00:36:21.300 You just got to be a court reporter.

00:36:22.460 What's the point?

00:36:23.840 Anyhow, I'm, I'm, I got to tell you, I'm scared about the UK, but I see news just,

00:36:29.320 was it today or yesterday, that the Justice Committee in Parliament is now going to reopen

00:36:35.340 the censorship provisions of the Canadian Human Rights Act, Section 13, that was repealed

00:36:41.320 by Stephen Harper.

00:36:42.860 The liberals want to rev that up again.

00:36:45.540 They want to bring internet censorship back.

00:36:47.380 I'll do a story on that later this week.

00:36:48.740 So yeah, we're only about five minutes behind the UK in terms of censorship.

00:36:52.840 Well, that's our story for today.

00:36:54.280 Please head on over to StopKnotley.com.

00:36:56.920 Get a copy of Sheila's book.

00:36:59.360 If you're from Alberta, get one of our lawn signs. 1.00

00:37:01.980 I'm afraid if you're not in Alberta, we want to keep them just for the Albertans, at least

00:37:05.980 for a while.

00:37:06.540 When the project's over, you can, you can have them, but you can imagine we have 5,000

00:37:09.320 lawn signs.

00:37:10.060 We want to give them to Albertans first. 1.00

00:37:11.420 All right, folks, that's our show for today.

00:37:12.880 Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home,

00:37:15.980 good night.

00:37:16.220 Keep fighting for freedom.

00:37:18.740 We'll be right back.

00:37:19.180 We'll be right back.

00:37:45.420 We'll be right.

Rebel News Podcast - March 20, 2019

Alberta： Notley calls an election for four weeks from today. Here's what to expect.

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