Rebel News Podcast - November 11, 2026


Alberta Now Targets Poilievre's Seat, UCP Gags Riding Presidents ｜ Buffalo Roundtable

Poilievre calls to fire Liberal Minister, Carney says U.S. is riskier than the CCP ｜ Roundup

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00:00:42.220 Hey everybody, welcome to the Rebel Roundup
00:00:49.580 up on this most solemn Remembrance Day. I'm Lise Merle, your host of the Rebel Roundup,
00:00:56.860 and today Tamara Leach, none other than Canada's own most beloved grandma. Tamara Leach is
00:01:02.980 joining me today. Tamara Leach, good morning. Good afternoon.
00:01:06.700 Good afternoon. Thanks. I'm happy to be joining you. It's funny that you should say that because
00:01:11.580 I was just remarking to my daughter about how I was Canada's most hated grandmother.
00:01:16.740 I guess it depends on where you sit.
00:01:18.900 Misinformation. Absolute misinformation. Tamara Leach, we have some plans coming up this weekend. This is a good news, bad news story for the Rebel News Live event coming up in Vancouver. We have good news and then we have bad news.
00:01:34.120 The good news is the event is still going to go ahead.
00:01:38.480 It is going to be a wonderful day packed with, we'll say, fraternizing with fellow common sense good humans.
00:01:50.040 The bad news is the event is sold out in Vancouver.
00:01:54.960 So if you didn't act fast on those tickets, they're already gone.
00:01:58.880 But great news is you have another opportunity because Rebel News is having a Toronto.
00:02:04.120 event as well uh this is coming up in a couple of uh not this weekend but next weekend and
00:02:10.240 Tamera Leach uh are you going to be at the Vancouver event yes or no I well I'm I'm far
00:02:17.060 too mischievous to be allowed out of the province of Alberta right now so I did apply for an
00:02:21.760 exemption to go to the Rebel News Live in Vancouver because I thought maybe that was an
00:02:25.680 option being is that it's so close and I could do it in one day but uh they still think um I should
00:02:31.100 be here in Alberta so I guess I won't be going but I definitely encourage everyone to get tickets I
00:02:35.480 was fortunate enough to attend the one in Calgary last weekend I was super impressed with the lineup
00:02:41.920 of speakers was amazing it was a packed house the the whole event actually went off without a hitch
00:02:47.840 so I definitely recommend it hey my criminal lawyer actually Lawrence Greenspawn one of the
00:02:54.360 most uh well-known lawyers in canada is going to be speaking in rebel news uh toronto so um i'm sad
00:03:01.560 that i'm going to miss that i actually even tried to use that angle with my po but she said no it
00:03:06.040 has to be a legal meeting you can't just be around your lawyer so hey you know a girl's got to try 1.00
00:03:10.440 anyways that's right shoot your best shot shoot your best shot that's right tamara leach is there
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00:04:19.560 exactly that uh but as you all know today um is wednesday and that makes it a special day on the 0.76
00:04:26.200 rebel roundup because it is western wednesdays uh with two wild western women and we like to
00:04:33.560 dedicate wednesdays to the pressing news of the day from western canada and today we have an
00:04:40.200 absolutely fabulous guest i'm just so delighted to have him everybody uh help us welcome mr drew
00:04:47.960 barnes drew barnes is a founding member of alberta's brand new federal political party
00:04:56.680 alberta now uh drew barnes good morning thanks for being here with us well good morning lisa
00:05:02.280 and good morning tamara thanks for hosting me thanks for giving an opportunity to discuss
00:05:06.680 about western needs and western ideas and and more in my case in alberta now what's important
00:05:11.720 to alberta and on a special day remembrance day and uh yeah it'll i look forward to the
00:05:17.560 opportunity to discuss things in fully there's been a lot of political action including today's
00:05:22.440 the day that alberta now submits our membership list to elections canada we need 250 verified
00:05:29.160 and we ended up at 635 and uh so we're expecting six weeks from now to be a fully registered
00:05:36.040 federal party that like the bloc quebecois only runs candidates in quebec we are only going to run
00:05:42.600 strong candidates in the 37 alberta constituencies incredible incredible so here we have a brand new
00:05:50.200 political party being born today on the prairies uh it's not every day that happens yeah on the
00:05:57.480 heels of the referendum too and you know i think um your memberships and how rapidly that they're
00:06:02.520 increasing drew shows that there is an appetite you know following the referendum in october
00:06:07.480 there's an appetite in alberta for something better um and obviously that wasn't the answer
00:06:12.760 uh at this point in time so people are i know that people have been contacting me asking me
00:06:18.120 how they can get involved and how they can help so you know what i think there's some excitement
00:06:21.800 around around this new party yeah thanks tamira that's for sure i i always viewed the referendum
00:06:28.040 as one of the steps to to complete our goal and our vision and that goal and vision is that alberta
00:06:33.720 should be the free and most prosperous place in north america if that's within canada that's fine
00:06:38.520 if that's without canada that's fine too and um i was grateful to to represent the people of cyprus
00:06:44.760 medicine hat for 11 years in the provincial legislature and one of the things that happened
00:06:49.080 during that time period is jason kenney asked me to be on the fair deal panel as ineffective as
00:06:55.400 that entire process was one of the real memories one of the real learning parts for me was 80
00:07:02.360 of the albertans in the meetings and we're in the thousands now went to the mic and said something
00:07:08.120 like they wanted to push ottawa for a better position for alberta probably 25 or 30 of them
00:07:14.680 wanted right out of canada it was over it was time to move on but another you know 70 or 80
00:07:20.200 80% wanted to try to change the pension, try to give Ottawa a warning.
00:07:28.040 There was strong desire five years ago for more Alberta freedom and autonomy.
00:07:34.040 And I'm glad that Alberta Now is going to be a big part of that future.
00:07:38.820 So how closely, Drew Barnes, does Alberta Now or is Alberta Now going to mirror Quebec's
00:07:46.320 approach to negotiating with the federal government?
00:07:49.580 We all know that Quebec has had a long and storied past sort of running pro-Quebec federal
00:07:57.020 parties and they've had a great, great deal of success negotiating their position when
00:08:02.840 they come at it from a Quebec centrist sort of position.
00:08:08.820 What do you see in similarities between those two approaches?
00:08:12.980 Oh, at least lots of similarities.
00:08:15.900 First and foremost, the Bloc Quebecois pushes strongly for what's in the best interest of
00:08:20.500 Quebec.
00:08:21.500 78 seats in Quebec.
00:08:23.940 One election, they won 50.
00:08:26.180 Last election, they won 22.
00:08:28.380 Most federal ridings, the 1-2 is split between the Liberals and the Bloc Quebecois.
00:08:34.060 They're very, very significant.
00:08:36.400 Also like the Bloc Quebecois, I believe having up to 37 of us in the Parliament of Canada
00:08:42.820 will give whoever's in power in Edmonton confidence,
00:08:46.380 confidence to do what needs to be done. 1.00
00:08:49.020 Danielle Smith is in huge trouble with her base 1.00
00:08:51.200 because she hasn't met Albertans' needs 1.00
00:08:53.620 in terms of reducing the size of government,
00:08:55.460 lowering taxes and doing some of those
00:08:57.640 important autonomy things like our own police force,
00:09:00.380 like our own immigration control,
00:09:02.260 like our own collection of taxes.
00:09:04.160 It's a mystery why none of that has occurred.
00:09:07.560 But anyway, so like the Bloc Quebecois,
00:09:10.060 the Alberta now will be looking for a provincial partner.
00:09:12.820 that we can voice Albertans' needs in Ottawa.
00:09:16.580 You know, finally to have a voice for Albertans in Ottawa
00:09:19.780 rather than MPs who let their votes
00:09:21.980 and their policy be whipped all the time
00:09:24.380 for what the 905 Toronto, Quebec or the Maritimes needs,
00:09:28.120 it's time to end that.
00:09:29.520 And again, I think the stronger thing
00:09:32.260 will be the confidence that will grow in Edmonton
00:09:34.380 when they know that there's a big nucleus in Ottawa
00:09:36.820 saying, yes, Alberta should do all these things.
00:09:39.020 Alberta should have total control
00:09:40.520 over its own environmental regulations, control over its own resources, Alberta should have
00:09:46.040 more control over trade and immigration. It's the confidence that we need.
00:09:50.280 So you touched on a little bit of my next question, Drew Barnes. Why is it that you
00:09:58.060 don't see a path forward for the people of Alberta working through the Conservative Party?
00:10:03.320 Because for all intents and purposes, we've already got a Conservative Party in Alberta
00:10:08.540 that represents our interests in Ottawa.
00:10:11.040 Or do they, Drew Barnes, or do they?
00:10:14.180 Yeah, that's the real, the nice qualifier, or do they?
00:10:19.040 Time and time again, the 34 MPs
00:10:22.280 that are part of the Conservative Party of Caucus in Ottawa,
00:10:25.400 they let their vote be whipped.
00:10:27.200 If the leader of the Conservatives says,
00:10:30.160 we need to change our vote
00:10:31.880 to win possibly some seats in Toronto,
00:10:35.100 to win possibly some seats in the Maritimes,
00:10:37.300 they forget all about what Western voices need
00:10:40.820 and what Alberta voices need.
00:10:43.660 Pierre Polyev is one of the best examples himself.
00:10:46.660 At the mid-mark of the last campaign,
00:10:48.820 he stopped talking about defunding CBC.
00:10:52.420 He stopped talking about eliminating the carbon tax.
00:10:55.140 He was already positioning himself
00:10:57.260 before the election was called.
00:11:00.660 And Lisa and Tamara, history proves that our system
00:11:04.380 is so broken for Alberta
00:11:06.220 lack of representation we have uh number one in the last hundred years uh we have voted solidly
00:11:12.620 conservative every time but the liberal party of canada has been in power 70 of those 100 years
00:11:18.140 our values are not registered even when we did have a conservative party of canada prime minister
00:11:23.820 and uh you know we're we're looking at a situation where we need that voice to be louder for for what
00:11:29.260 alberta needs okay so tell you as go ahead sorry i can tell you as an as an albertan how defeating
00:11:37.260 it is every federal election like as drew was just saying we've consistently voted conservative now
00:11:42.780 um for years and years and years and you know we watch as the results come in and and it's over
00:11:48.860 before our polls are even closed here and there's out there's nothing more defeating
00:11:53.020 um frustrating than that and we sent a a western prime minister conservative prime minister to
00:11:58.700 ottawa and i mean how did we really benefit from that so i mean i i think this is going to be
00:12:05.580 hopefully a really great option um for people to actually get behind a party that can make
00:12:11.180 their voices actually be heard yeah uh drew barnes what do you think the biggest hurdle is
00:12:17.420 for getting a new federal party off the ground because you know the naysayers you know those
00:12:22.140 those negative nellies are are already thinking if not saying well the creation of another
00:12:28.220 conservative or conservative-ish party is just going to split the conservative vote which is a
00:12:33.620 fast way for the libs to sneak in what do you have to say to those guys well the vote splitting is
00:12:39.940 is one of the common concerns that we hear but the vote splitting has been misdirected uh and
00:12:45.580 and this referendum three mondays ago supports that um the fact that somewhere between 25 and
00:12:52.480 35 percent of albertans voted for option two saying they wanted outright independence or at
00:12:57.200 the very least to push Ottawa for greater responsibility and autonomy for Alberta means
00:13:04.220 that a third of the voters are already in our camp. The other two-thirds are with the
00:13:08.800 two legacy parties, the Conservative Party of Canada, the Liberal Party of Canada, and
00:13:13.780 amazingly right now in Alberta, Mark Carney is polling ahead of Pierre Polyev. So the
00:13:19.660 actual vote splitting, we are the party that believes in Alberta first. We are the party
00:13:23.540 believes in Alberta being the freest and most prosperous place in all North America. The other
00:13:28.100 two are the two that believe in continuing the status quo, continuing where Alberta's voices
00:13:33.140 aren't heard. At least that's probably our biggest challenge. In the first past the post system,
00:13:39.140 quite often leads to two parties crowded in the middle, voters scared to split the vote. That is
00:13:44.660 what has held Alberta back, you know, for 150 years. So our goal to be that voice for Albertans
00:13:52.180 first and never compromised uh you know i'll give you some examples of uh how the in the situation
00:13:59.460 in ottawa uh john dieffenbaker uh one of the best prime ministers ever after he won the largest
00:14:05.860 majority in canadian history in 1958 it was 46 quebec mps 42 of them went to the office the next
00:14:13.060 day and said prime minister dieffenbaker unless you give quebec special treatment we're crossing
00:14:18.660 the floor to the Liberals. So under our current system, way back then, his hands were tied.
00:14:24.180 And back to Quebec. Quebec has been so good at understanding that this is political. For Alberta
00:14:32.420 to be stronger, for Alberta to be independent, yeah, the constitution's important, legality's
00:14:37.860 important, but really, at the end of the day, it's political. And Quebec knows that they need
00:14:42.340 a strong voice in Ottawa, hence the Bloc Quebecois, and they need a strong voice in Quebec City,
00:14:47.460 hence the party quebecois and and that's what we're going to replicate here in alberta
00:14:52.420 interesting so drew one of the one of the main concerns i think from from not only albertans
00:14:57.780 but from western canadians is uh the non-ability to keep ottawa's worst ideas out of the west
00:15:06.020 okay what would alberta now's plan be to keep the worst ottawa ideas in ottawa in other words what
00:15:14.420 What are you going to do to export Alberta's best ideas into Parliament?
00:15:21.660 What are you going to do different?
00:15:23.680 Well, we're going to stand up for Albertans.
00:15:25.800 We're going to talk loudly and confidently for what Ottawa needs to do to stay out of Alberta,
00:15:31.580 starting with their over-abuse and overreach and environmental regulations
00:15:35.360 with carbon tax, tanker bans, net zero emissions,
00:15:39.000 laws that have gone a long way to hold our industry and our people back.
00:15:43.400 And then we're going to focus on, you know, making sure that we stick to our values and we stick to our guns.
00:15:50.840 The NDP is as totally wrong as their philosophy is, and they've never ever held power in Ottawa, has stuck to their values of more socialism, more programs, more debt.
00:16:04.440 And look at how that's worked for Canada.
00:16:06.080 It has led to all these wrong things happening, but because they've stuck to their guns.
00:16:10.040 So Alberta now is going to stick to our guns, Ottawa staying out of the environmental regulations, ending the carbon tax, reducing the size of government, reducing taxes, reducing the borrowing.
00:16:23.740 And we're going to stick to ensuring that Alberta is first in all the decisions that come out of there.
00:16:29.200 And because this is maybe a short-term process, maybe we'll have success quickly.
00:16:35.180 but Canada's 150 years old so we're viewing this as the long game we we are going to be a strong
00:16:41.900 voice for Albertans for a long time in Ottawa. Incredible okay uh hey Olivia can you pull up the
00:16:48.100 number two piece by the western standard uh this is this is a nice little intro into this piece
00:16:55.300 where Drew Barnes can explain to us uh if he is eyeing support in Pierre Polyev's riding
00:17:03.280 of uh what is it what is the writing called tamara leach black uh black battle battle creek no oh my
00:17:10.560 gosh just went totally totally blank battle river crowfoot that's what it is that's what it is uh
00:17:17.760 drew barnes do tell us do tell us is there a great deal of interest coming for alberta now out of
00:17:25.360 battle river crowfoot there absolutely is uh we're tracking where our members are coming from and
00:17:31.920 and where our supporters are coming from,
00:17:33.860 and a very high percentage are from Battle River Crowfoot,
00:17:37.820 from Drumheller, Stetler, from Hannah,
00:17:40.120 and that's a good start.
00:17:42.320 Also, in addition to that,
00:17:44.800 the third highest vote provincial constituency
00:17:49.340 was Drumheller-Stetler,
00:17:50.760 which overlaps Pierre Paulyev's federal constituency.
00:17:54.680 The third highest number of votes for option two,
00:17:57.940 for the potential of independence,
00:18:00.520 at the very least the potential for a stronger Alberta,
00:18:04.100 followed by Central Peace Notley.
00:18:06.380 And Central Peace Notley was number one
00:18:08.280 and Rocky Mountain House Sundry Rimby was number two.
00:18:11.660 So there was already almost 50%
00:18:14.040 that are supporters of Alberta now
00:18:16.380 in terms of wanting the same thing,
00:18:18.160 the more prosperous future for our kids and our grandkids.
00:18:21.820 Pierre, as unfortunately, if an election were held today,
00:18:25.700 the Conservative Party of Canada is in serious trouble,
00:18:29.540 based on the polling and based on what people are saying.
00:18:33.620 So that gives us an opportunity.
00:18:36.160 And of course, the other thing,
00:18:38.380 if Pierre does decide to run there again,
00:18:41.000 wherever the leaders run,
00:18:42.220 sometimes we'll create a greater media spotlight,
00:18:45.940 and that would be important for Alberta now.
00:18:48.620 There's many, many Canadians who don't understand
00:18:52.380 how unfair it's been for Alberta,
00:18:54.120 how much Ottawa's overreach and environmental regulations
00:18:57.480 And now ownership of pipelines has held us back and cost us all taxes and programs.
00:19:02.960 And, you know, one of the things I really, really like that a lot of speakers are saying,
00:19:08.380 and I think of Bruce Pardy, the constitutional professor for one.
00:19:13.140 Brilliant.
00:19:13.860 He talks about how if Alberta is stronger, the rest of Canada will be stronger.
00:19:18.360 You know, let's look at equalization as a prime example.
00:19:21.140 You know, since 1962, Alberta has poured, you know, hundreds of billions of dollars.
00:19:27.720 into Manitoba, Quebec, and the Maritimes, and none of these provinces are any stronger.
00:19:32.600 You know, they'd have been further ahead to embrace smaller government, low taxes, and more
00:19:37.640 free enterprise. So if we spread the word throughout the rest of Canada that a stronger,
00:19:43.640 more independent province of Alberta, all the provinces, is good for all Canadians,
00:19:48.840 we're going to get some uptake on that and we'll make things better for our kids and Tamara's
00:19:55.000 grandkids well the market creates itself in this political climate doesn't it true and you and you
00:20:01.560 know politics really is striking when the iron is hot and taking taking an opportunity when it
00:20:07.400 arises and so uh good for the people of alberta in in sort of exploring this option with alberta now
00:20:14.360 uh if people want to find alberta now or find out about it where can they where can they look
00:20:19.800 drew barnes where can they find you guys well thank you lise uh we have a wonderful website
00:20:24.280 set up uh albertanowparty.ca uh please jump on that and then join us fill out a membership form
00:20:31.480 it's absolutely free at this point and and you'll be on our email list and we'll keep you posted
00:20:36.600 uh we're very very visible on facebook instagram and x so so please look for us there uh and and
00:20:44.200 don't be shy about uh direct messaging us or messages and give it give us your ideas share
00:20:48.840 share your your ideas and your needs and your concerns and then from there at least what we're
00:20:53.400 going to be doing uh we're expecting mid-january elections canada to be back with us with our
00:20:58.360 verification that we are a registered party and then from there we're going to continue to grow
00:21:03.160 our membership list to 20 000. we're looking at an agm looks like the first week in march but
00:21:08.680 sometime in march we'll finalize the details uh down in medicine hat and if you're an alberta now
00:21:14.440 member from somewhere else you can join us by zoom and then we're looking at a leadership race late
00:21:19.320 spring and uh we are ready you know we're ready now really for for a by-election and we're going
00:21:26.200 to be working towards being that voice for albertans in ottawa right away and certainly
00:21:31.080 ready for the next federal election incredible incredible tamir leach do you have anything else
00:21:35.880 to add to the alberta now conversation before we move along well i just wanted to touch on
00:21:41.640 something about the battle river crowfoot riding and just to go back to that for a second and uh
00:21:46.520 drew's absolutely right there was a lot of pushback in that writing actually when uh pierre
00:21:51.080 polyev announced that he was going to be running it and there was a lot of support for the referendum
00:21:55.880 and i think a lot of the concerns that albertans have um because you know how the conservatives um
00:22:03.080 sort of reacted to this referendum you know we had a lot of alberta mps dane lloyd for example
00:22:08.840 uh came out he was he was handpicked by pierre polyev to lead a um to lead meetings town halls
00:22:15.240 across alberta um about staying in in canada and the the one comment that i heard from a lot of
00:22:21.560 people that i agree with is that you know these conservative mps um you know came out here um they
00:22:28.200 were constantly tweeting about it on x um slogans it was just all slogans no albertan actually ever
00:22:35.640 heard a solid plan from these people it was just um you know a stronger alberta within a united
00:22:41.960 canada and lead not leave but there was no substance behind it um and so this is one thing
00:22:48.440 that i'm really happy to hear from you drew is that it sounds you know like you already have
00:22:52.140 some plans in place you've obviously put a lot of thought into this and i think um i think that's
00:22:57.740 going to resonate with a lot of albertans and i guess obviously it is if your membership is
00:23:01.280 climbing as fast as it is it was it actually was an incredible thing to witness watching all of
00:23:09.160 these guys that can't get their stuff together to make it right for the people of canada all
00:23:14.280 adopt the same speaking points okay it did nothing to alleviate canadian sneaking suspicion
00:23:21.640 that it is one just you know one big uniparty and you're not part of it um that what was that's what
00:23:30.200 was most evident to albertans in the lead up to the referendum was just how many people were saying
00:23:37.440 the exact same thing. And I think it was a good illustration of how messaging can be whipped in a
00:23:48.000 certain direction as long as Ottawa's involved, okay? If Ottawa's involved, they're going to
00:23:53.420 decide on the narrative, they're going to promote the narrative, and that's the thing that they're
00:23:57.500 going to stick to, whereas there are, you know, there are people impacted that want to talk about
00:24:02.320 things that severely impact their lives and um i i don't think that that uh i don't think that that
00:24:09.760 that landed that i don't think that that landed the way they thought it was going to land and of
00:24:14.640 course uh it opened the door for drew barnes here to say well actually you know there is another
00:24:21.120 option coming where we we won't just preach from the same choir book as it as it is drew barnes
00:24:27.440 that correct is that fair that is absolutely correct uh thank you ladies like only two parties
00:24:33.600 have ran canada since confederation we know which two parties they are and and 70 of the time has
00:24:39.600 been the liberals canada is living so far beneath its potential alberta is part of that third
00:24:45.440 biggest oil reserve in the world and and we'd be one of the you know mid or poorer america states
00:24:50.800 it's just wrong we should we should be dubai we should be the dubai of the north that's how many
00:24:57.340 natural resources we have and yet we have this system where we have unfair representation as
00:25:03.740 it pertains to seats we have unfair you know well tamara leach is here we have an unfair judicial 0.76
00:25:08.720 system that treats our our people differently uh and here comes alberta now to maybe right some of 1.00
00:25:14.200 those wrongs. But you guys, it is Remembrance Day, and we should start out our Remembrance Day
00:25:25.300 segment with what happened this morning at the National War Memorial. Hey, Olivia, can you play
00:25:35.480 us what happened at the National War Memorial first thing this morning at the Remembrance Day
00:25:41.160 Ceremony, it's first on our list. Here we go, guys.
00:25:48.040 National Remembrance Day Ceremony. Bienvenue à la Cérémonie Nationale du Souvenir du Canada.
00:25:56.120 We would like to acknowledge the land on which we gather. It is the traditional and unceded
00:26:02.040 territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabe Nation. Nous voudrions reconnaître que la terre sur laquelle
00:26:09.400 so so they started one day for our veterans just one day
00:26:19.720 yeah does it do land and acknowledgement excuse me belong at a national remembrance day ceremony
00:26:26.680 or does it pull the attention away from the veterans that are supposed to be being honored
00:26:32.440 you guys what do you what do you say to really just kick off go on i'm afraid to talk
00:26:38.360 it might might be not very ladylike um you know what again i we need one day for our veterans
00:26:46.120 when we can just focus on them and i think that's absolutely what it does these is it pulls the
00:26:49.800 attention off of um the veterans um the people that sacrificed everything for this country
00:26:56.360 and you know i think people are really getting uh dei fatigue oh people are starting to get
00:27:03.640 really frustrated that this from the conversations that i'm having with people and i don't think that
00:27:08.840 a land acknowledgement has any place at at a ceremony to remember um our our veterans who
00:27:14.840 fought and died for our freedoms or what's left of it at this point anyways yeah drew drew barnes um
00:27:22.120 today's remembrance day ceremony uh was actually preceded by indigenous veterans day in canada
00:27:30.440 just a couple of days ago do you think that there's benefit in um in sort of pulling out the
00:27:38.760 various intersections of of the canadian armed forces do you think that there do you think that
00:27:45.880 this is going to bring people together do you think that this kind of you know racially segregated
00:27:53.080 um holiday observance does more to sort of drive us apart what do you think yeah it it does more
00:28:00.680 to drive us apart uh for sure uh and let's not forget the number of first nations men and women
00:28:06.680 metis men and women that served for the canadian armed forces and and of course a lot of them with
00:28:11.320 the ultimate sacrifice so so god bless to them and all the veterans past and and present uh you know
00:28:18.680 So this whole land acknowledgement thing has created more division, has created more uncertainty,
00:28:24.580 has created more problems.
00:28:26.920 When I was MLA and I was grateful to represent the people of Cyprus Medicine Hat for 11 years,
00:28:32.020 I remember being a couple of First Nation ceremonies where the First Nation leaders
00:28:36.660 would say to me, stop those land acknowledgements.
00:28:39.100 You guys don't even need it.
00:28:40.120 You're just talking, you know.
00:28:41.900 And so, you know, that's years ago.
00:28:45.140 And of course, with the nature of politics in Canada now, you know, the leaders without visions, the leaders more wanting to perform and bring greetings to the girl guides rather than actually solve problems.
00:28:57.600 You know, it's time to accept that, you know, like First Nations, Métis, our grandparents, you know, built a great nation together.
00:29:08.480 We were on the edge of not doing as well of it, with it as we should have or could have.
00:29:13.460 And it's time to thank them for what they did to honour them on November 11th.
00:29:18.440 And let's go forward.
00:29:20.280 Well, it begs the question, who was asking for this?
00:29:23.420 Who is asking for this?
00:29:25.080 Is it the veterans themselves?
00:29:26.320 Is it the First Nations veterans saying, we need a special holiday?
00:29:31.840 Something tells me no. 0.97
00:29:33.480 Something tells me it wasn't those First Nation Métis service members that asked for this,
00:29:40.120 that this was a bright idea, that of course Ottawa, you know, 0.62
00:29:42.460 Ottawa would have just gone down its DEI checklist.
00:29:45.140 Well, we must have, you know, we must do this in both official languages.
00:29:49.440 Like, of course, that is, it is in Ottawa.
00:29:52.060 We must have it in both official languages.
00:29:53.500 And then we must do a land acknowledgement because that's on the DEI checklist and that's what we have to do around here. Whereas I think this is one of the very rare occasions where we can say every service member put in what they had to at the time to protect our freedoms and we don't need to pair individuals or groups out because it was such a noble group effort.
00:30:21.340 And so we're going to go next to the CAF, okay?
00:30:28.700 The CAF chaplain prayer restrictions took effect this year for the first time.
00:30:37.240 So no longer can chaplains in the Canadian Armed Forces mention God.
00:30:43.060 And I think we have a video of this, and we're just going to listen to what they say.
00:30:51.340 Surrounded by Canadians from all walks of life, and the belief systems, faiths, and worldviews
00:31:08.420 which strengthen us, we pause to remember those whose service and sacrifice have helped
00:31:16.400 shape the world in which we live.
00:31:20.940 We are mindful of the recent tragedy in Wainwright, carrying in our hearts those who lost their
00:31:27.820 lives, those recovering from injury, and all who mourn their loss.
00:31:35.260 We are not only remembering the courage we have made the proof of those who have served
00:31:41.940 in the time of conflict, but also of the heavy human tribes that have occurred.
00:31:49.380 You know, I can't help but think that so many of those old guys there 0.98
00:32:05.160 that were pictured there at that ceremony went to war with the Bible in their pocket.
00:32:11.680 Drew Barnes, is this, you know, with the censorship of God, we'll call it,
00:32:19.380 censorship of god you may not mention god uh even as a chaplain in in the armed forces in canada
00:32:26.740 do you think this is a betrayal of those old men who who went to war who by the grace of god
00:32:31.540 survived uh and do you think that this honors them appropriately or could we be doing better
00:32:36.660 oh absolutely it's a betrayal and absolutely they need to be honored better you know the people in
00:32:43.220 charge are forgetting you know that christian values in our culture built built a great great
00:32:48.420 country and they're also they're creating more division there's something like 850 000
00:32:58.420 albertans that are regular church goers believe in their faith and believe in their families in
00:33:02.740 their community is something like this going to drive them or is it going to uh or is it going
00:33:12.420 to force them to stand up and and try to push more more you know more and more people withdraw
00:33:17.380 and and that's what's happening so so lisa i i just think no uh you know let let people honor
00:33:24.020 their guard god let people god chaplain stands for the representative of god and you know like
00:33:29.140 like god bless tamara and what she went through but immediately it reminds me of the you know the
00:33:34.580 fence around the grace uh church here in alberta during covid uh pastors arrested and uh and you
00:33:42.340 know i know covid is in the rearview mirror for sure but it's ultimately still a string of many
00:33:47.860 of the troubles that we're having today so so let's not repeat the mistakes of the past
00:33:53.380 well uh tamara leach tamara leach what is your what is your take on this like do tell me where
00:34:01.460 your head is at because it is um it well i think it's horrible i think uh as drew said it it's
00:34:09.220 just going to lead to a lot more division I don't really understand 0.56
00:34:12.580 what's behind this policy other than that I mean Canada was built on Judeo
00:34:17.720 Christian values so to tell a chaplain of all people that they can't use the
00:34:22.840 word God or pray in a certain way according to their beliefs I think that
00:34:27.900 I think it's a charter violation and I'm actually surprised that that it hasn't
00:34:31.880 been challenged to be frank well are we are we watching are we watching in real
00:34:37.180 time a revisionist history being taken over? Is this the natural result of DEI capturing
00:34:46.340 all of our public institutions, what we just saw there? Because it is such a deviation,
00:34:52.020 and how we describe Remembrance Day is evolving at a pace and with a discomfort for the Canadian
00:35:03.500 people because it does not mirror our understanding of what's supposed to be happening here.
00:35:10.640 And it looks as though DEI is being prioritized over honoring those actual boys who went to
00:35:18.140 war and didn't come home and for those that did, by the grace of God, survive the horrors
00:35:24.040 of going to war and didn't make it home.
00:35:28.180 What do you think? I guess I guess my question is, who do you think the restriction of God is serving in government?
00:35:36.380 Like, what does this what does this actually do? Is it supposed to? Is it meant the liberal government?
00:35:40.760 It's serving the liberal government. We have a we have a liberal government in charge right now that are behaving literally in some pretty hair raising authoritarian manners.
00:35:51.040 and um lisa i'm sure the same with you you know when i when i was in school i grew up every day
00:35:56.900 in school saying the lord's prayer we sang the national anthem we sang god save the queen and
00:36:03.060 we've seen them edge god out of everything i mean it's in the very first line of our charter of
00:36:08.600 rights and freedoms um so i think it's i think this is a purposeful erosion um meant to demoralize
00:36:16.640 uh christian canadians personally i don't think they've talked to any of the serving members or
00:36:22.240 veterans to get their opinion on this policy whatsoever so it was just politics it's just
00:36:28.640 more politics well a a uh a chaplain right a chaplain who talks about world view over over uh
00:36:39.200 over a relationship with god is replacing god with the political with the political
00:36:46.880 worldview and i think we just saw that so i don't know what this what this says for for at least
00:36:52.240 my last point here is yeah how how many um of our of our soldiers you know got through these wars
00:37:01.120 and their tours because of their faith you know and i mean i'm no veteran by any means and i would
00:37:07.760 never compare myself but as such but i know from my time in jail i leaned very heavily on my faith
00:37:14.160 and especially you know in the years since and the things that have happened to me it has brought me
00:37:18.320 closer to my faith and so for them to think that they can take this away from our soldiers um is
00:37:25.600 to me is extremely frustrated it's very frustrating it's it makes me very angry i don't think it's
00:37:31.200 right i think it's just more more division and as i said earlier i think it's just more liberal
00:37:35.920 politics yeah you're absolutely right um the way that this is also the way that remembrance day is
00:37:42.800 being packaged and promoted to children is really interesting right now um what they're telling kids
00:37:50.160 in canadian schools in the lead up to remembrance day is that you had a greater chance of um you
00:37:56.080 know of dying in a residential school than you did going off to war this is what they're telling
00:38:00.880 our kids they're telling our kids that war memorials aren't worthy of being visited go
00:38:06.540 to peace memorials instead so there's an active it very much feels like there is a an act
00:38:13.860 of promotion of of revising history on this for canada and i think it's really important
00:38:19.900 for for canada canadians to um to steep themselves in the truth steep themselves in the truth
00:38:27.160 And remember that our freedoms are certainly, and we're certainly not free.
00:38:31.840 We continue to pay for them every single day.
00:38:34.800 Hey, can we talk about Danielle Smith's totally normal Remembrance Day post real quick?
00:38:41.400 We have a video at number four.
00:38:43.020 Olivia, can we quickly watch that together?
00:38:46.340 We're gathered to honor the men and women in uniform who've paid the price of our freedom.
00:38:52.040 Canada lost tens of thousands of people in World War I and many thousands more in World War II.
00:38:59.720 Wearing a uniform from the Canadian Armed Forces is a declaration that you will lay down your life
00:39:05.240 for the values of our nation. This is our civic duty, to honour their memory, cherish their
00:39:11.320 sacrifice and mourn their loss. We will forever carry gratitude in our hearts for the men and
00:39:16.680 women who have served and who continue to serve in armed conflicts around the world on behalf
00:39:21.960 of a very grateful province thank you for everything that you do we will never
00:39:26.400 forget the brave men and women who've continued to keep Canada our true north
00:39:31.020 forever strong and free
00:39:35.840 okay you guys drew Barnes what do you what do you think of that messaging
00:39:40.500 we'll say oh very neutral you know talking about the Canadian you know
00:39:48.660 contribution you know rather than focusing on the Alberta contribution you
00:39:53.880 know in interest you know interesting that she's kind of there out there on
00:39:57.660 her own where you know this could be a day for families and that kind of
00:40:01.080 fellowship I you know Danielle has disappointed so many conservatives in
00:40:07.440 Alberta for not standing up more for for Alberta for not for not standing up for
00:40:13.340 for less of the uni party system that exists in Ottawa and again you know a
00:40:17.760 a message about god and values could it could have been important there uh one of the stories
00:40:22.320 that ran through my mind from from your and tamir's last discussion was one of the amazing
00:40:26.560 stories from world war one and how it related to christianity and unity was on one christmas
00:40:33.040 uh day uh didn't the german soldiers and the allied soldiers stop fighting and actually played
00:40:38.480 soccer yeah i mean it can bring us all together and instead we're we're looking now at a at a at
00:40:45.680 a message from the premier of alberta that's just that stock message that's been put out the same
00:40:50.960 for for 50 or 50 years or more since media got there and uh yeah you know like let's let's come
00:40:58.480 up with a real good way to honor our past and and fall and and and future and current veterans and
00:41:05.280 let's come up with a real real way to for alberta and families yeah tamara leach yeah absolutely
00:41:11.120 Yeah, absolutely. I think Remembrance Day is an opportunity to bring people together and to unify them. And again, like to touch on what Drew said, to talk about the sacrifices that Albertans have made so that we can enjoy some of the freedoms that we have today.
00:41:29.920 Yeah. I wanted to just really quickly touch on the social media aspect of this. Remembrance Day is a day that isn't supposed to be about us. You know, it's not supposed to be about us. It's a day meant to remember and memorialize people that did things on our behalf.
00:41:51.900 And what do you think the role of social media is in the promotion of these kinds of messages that is sort of about the political person being featured in the online clips?
00:42:08.200 Do you think that there are times and places where elected officials should bow out of the performative social media part and just do the job?
00:42:21.900 Do you think that it's time for that, you guys, or do you think that there's still room for this?
00:42:26.920 Oh, Lisa, you're absolutely right.
00:42:28.720 Today was a day where it could have just been about the veterans.
00:42:31.740 It could have just been about the people serving us now.
00:42:35.140 But this is what we see.
00:42:37.060 We see, whether it's Prime Minister Carney, but especially Premier Smith,
00:42:41.140 like she goes to five or ten events daily and presents in that way.
00:42:47.960 You know, where the people I talk to say they would way, way prefer a premier who sits in her office and finds a way to save money and lower taxes.
00:42:57.280 And my time as an MLA was, it was impossible to be effective.
00:43:03.820 You know, 87 MLAs, and I think we've all heard how they're increasing that to, is it 91 or 93?
00:43:10.380 lobbyists seem to have all the access and all the you know a lot of influence in alberta uh with
00:43:16.460 mla sitting there doing nothing you know it's it's time to uh it's time to use those mlas more
00:43:22.060 for access to to government and uh here here we have again a premier that's just interested in
00:43:27.420 in being performative we uh well i think that we might be revisiting this in the public square
00:43:33.420 i think that we might have to start visiting this in in the public square uh hey olivia
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00:43:48.380 against an okay hey you guys we're gonna come back right after the break with a bunch more stories
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00:46:36.480 tamara leach and drew barnes founding member of alberta now a brand new federal alberta centric
00:46:42.000 party um which we're going to hear about a little bit more today but before we get before we get
00:46:47.440 on to that uh we just we were just talking about danielle smith and her remembrance day social
00:46:54.080 media post uh but the ucp in alberta is making some other waves for demanding this is from um
00:47:02.640 this is number three on the list olivia jason markasoff says that the ucp is demanding that
00:47:10.480 all 87 riding presidents sign an nda this is a non-disclosure agreement and say that they'll
00:47:19.360 respect and abide the uh independence referendums results and i was just wondering drew barnes if
00:47:28.480 you think it's a good idea for the ucp to try this on their uh riding presidents this is normal
00:47:36.080 know at least it's it's a terrible idea and it's a sign of a premier that's losing her position
00:47:42.320 and her leadership of the party uh when you have to make people sign things when you have to make
00:47:48.800 people uh adhere to this uh it's first of all it's contrary with our free speech is contrary with our
00:47:55.600 human nature it's contrary with the ucp bylaws which which put in free speech and then at least
00:48:03.040 it does remind me of a little danielle smith history uh i was elected with her in 2012 uh 0.91
00:48:09.120 one of the 17 wild rosers from across the province we had then the nine crossed the floor which she
00:48:15.360 was part of but thursday one thursday she calls us all into a caucus meeting and she made us all
00:48:22.400 promise to not cross the floor and uh three days later she led most of the caucus crossing the
00:48:29.680 floor so so so why we're going down the path of more sign here press hard we need three 0.88
00:48:36.720 coffees do as i say really surprises me tamara leach like like do help me understand
00:48:44.240 how this could possibly be happening as part of the ucp like help me understand
00:48:50.480 why this is happening well i made a comment to uh some of my lawyer friends last night about
00:48:58.160 this because i i it shocked me actually to read this and i my comment was basically that i i
00:49:05.120 couldn't decide if this was a performative measure or an authoritarian style measure but either way
00:49:12.000 i think it's fear-based i obviously um would you agree i mean i think there's there's a little bit
00:49:18.160 of she's uncomfortable perhaps maybe after you know the referendum of course the option two
00:49:23.360 didn't win but there's still one in four albertans that you know is open to exploring independence so
00:49:30.080 i i think it's fear-based what do you think drew yeah absolutely it's fear-based and it's a sign
00:49:36.000 that her leadership is slipping away uh it's amazing how much of her base is so disappointed
00:49:42.000 that she hasn't met expectations and and i know it's tough i know canada's become this progressive
00:49:47.920 socialistic mess but if she'd have just reduced the size of government and our taxes somewhat 0.59
00:49:54.320 if she'd have done one or two of the easier firewall items like our own police force our 1.00
00:49:58.880 own tax collection i know the pension one's a bit more controversial uh she'd have gone a long way 0.85
00:50:04.880 to uh appease her base instead she's decided to to appease ottawa appease carney appease the 0.86
00:50:11.120 centrists and uh now she's making another mistake instead of doubling down and giving her members
00:50:17.280 more autonomy and more free choice she's uh she's i think out of here she's doing more performative
00:50:23.680 uh if this isn't going to work this isn't this is only going to make her situation worse
00:50:28.400 interesting okay uh we have a we have a little piece from unscrew the news this is number five
00:50:33.440 on the schedule olivia if you could pull that little video up we're going to watch it real
00:50:37.200 quick because i think i think this this topic does deserve more scrutiny like what is actually
00:50:43.120 happening here uh if you could play us that little video that'd be this is great what i was watching
00:50:49.840 for in the referendum is to see whether uh alberta independence the movement had reached its tipping
00:50:55.760 point and for me there's there's just no question the confirmation is there uh i think for people
00:51:01.920 like danielle smith and mr carney they're trying to put this genie back in the bottle they thought
00:51:08.320 that the referendum was going to be the be all and the end all of albert independence and in fact
00:51:14.880 they're discovering to their horror that this is not true at all and that uh you know we're going
00:51:20.880 to keep going it might even mean um a change in leadership in the ucp um there's a lot of talk
00:51:27.840 about or more than talk about creating new parties in alberta uh mr barnes has created a new party
00:51:35.120 I understand Mr. Lukasik is going to close his own party.
00:51:41.400 So there's a lot happening, but I think all of these are signs that point to the reality that Alberta independence is not done.
00:51:50.440 It's going to keep going.
00:51:51.840 It's past its tipping point, and it's going to have a life of its own, unless and until the basic fundamental problems,
00:51:58.980 the ones described in the in the questions on that referendum uh unless though until those
00:52:05.380 are resolved it's just going to keep going and um this oh am i frozen am i frozen on this can you
00:52:13.480 hear you can you hear my voice okay well but at least you have your eyes open lisa you look pretty
00:52:17.740 how many times it how many times it freezes with my face on with my okay so you're just
00:52:26.720 to be able to hear my voice this is like going back to radio you guys so this is that's right
00:52:30.400 this is my happy place right now but this this may be is starting to sound to me like one of those
00:52:38.160 um you know in order for danielle smith to get her pipelines in order for her to get the agreements 1.00
00:52:43.040 out of the the federal government she had to she had to she you know she has to do the the the 0.99
00:52:50.960 song and dance of the federal government and maybe for danielle smith that involves saying
00:52:55.520 the independence talk is over we're not talking about it but as we all know you two when an
00:53:01.200 elected official tells you to not look at something to stop talking about it and to not pay attention
00:53:08.000 what does that tell the public to do it means the public should look look closer at the situation
00:53:14.640 demand to talk about it um because because at the end of the day uh power power flows one way in
00:53:21.200 politics it goes from the bottom up always and the cream always rises to the top and so to cut
00:53:26.320 people off from conversations and having these really really critical conversations um i think
00:53:31.840 it looks petty i think it looks petty and it doesn't give people in alberta the benefit of
00:53:36.320 being really brilliant bright people who can do things better than ottawa that's the one question
00:53:42.800 drew barnes is there any what is there anything that ottawa can do that alberta can't do better
00:53:47.680 like really is there is there no there there's not uh you know local decision making and the fact
00:53:54.800 that our our economy is so much stronger you know we've seen these politicians present the the the
00:54:02.320 wrong uh facts for so often you know they talk about how investment is going to be driven out
00:54:07.600 of alberta if we dare mention the independence word are you kidding me alberta's been the the only
00:54:13.680 slightly positive investment area in all of canada for a number of years and it seemed like the talk
00:54:19.200 of albert independence you know only only increased the number of capitalists that wanted to look look
00:54:25.520 at alberta um and you know what and we yeah you it's great to hear the federal government might
00:54:31.120 want to build us a pipeline but we do not want the federal government owning all our pipelines
00:54:36.880 i mean we don't want them to have that extra cost and inefficiency and that kind of control
00:54:41.440 over over our private industries and our our resources and albertans own the resources
00:54:48.880 and when it comes to like the talk of bending you know the talk on independence i agree with
00:54:54.160 what uh leighton and your speak and your clip said he's exactly right this is in the early steps
00:54:59.920 all new teams when they come together there's all kinds of storming there's all kinds of ideas
00:55:04.240 there's all kinds of ideas of people rather the charts to the front and and sometimes they're a
00:55:09.680 a little too loud sometimes they're they're they're a little too wrong about what they're
00:55:13.100 saying but at least they're furthering the goal there and and what what the independence and what
00:55:18.540 what a strong and free Alberta needs is just the right leadership to show up interesting uh hey
00:55:24.460 Tamara Leach I can't get my camera to work so I'm just strictly on auto audio right now would you
00:55:31.340 mind uh there are some emergency room doctors uh there's some emergency room doctors in in Alberta
00:55:39.380 who say that healthcare chaos could defeat Premier Danielle Smith and the UCP.
00:55:46.180 Can we bring that?
00:55:47.300 Now, this is famously, this piece is coming from The Breakdown, Alberta.
00:55:53.500 Okay, these are some pretty, we'll say, left of center, left of center reports.
00:56:03.220 But of course, the left of center would say, oh, our healthcare is a disaster.
00:56:08.300 everything is falling apart and then who do they trot out here is the the doctors now tamara leach
00:56:14.460 is as you well know um many many of these associations these colleges of physicians
00:56:19.500 and surgeons they're they're activist arms of of of the of the left wing um and what are you
00:56:26.700 hearing in alberta in terms of health care i guess delivery um and how things are being managed
00:56:33.500 there because it's one thing for the doctors to be like we're overwhelmed and nothing is making
00:56:37.020 cents and the only way for us to do better is for you to give us more money but what are you hearing
00:56:41.740 from actual people in alberta about the health care delivery that they are receiving well it's
00:56:47.100 not good but to be fair um i'm hearing it the same all across canada i was just talking to someone a
00:56:53.340 couple days ago who took their son to uh emergency um for an asthma attack i think it was something
00:57:00.220 that could have been fixed within minutes and they sat there for over five hours waiting to see a
00:57:04.060 a doctor um so we have really unreasonable wait times here um in not just in alberta but across
00:57:10.860 across the country so it's i think it's definitely a concern i i haven't personally spoken to anyone
00:57:16.380 that say that their um support of our premier hinges on on health care yeah what about you
00:57:21.980 dear yeah yeah true tell yeah same thing um you know health care you know there's been some small
00:57:28.300 improvements like more access to nurse practitioners uh you know more you know more of that and some
00:57:35.420 of a few more family doctors here and there but the but the big concern is is the taxation and
00:57:40.220 the size of government just keeps growing and and people always come back their two biggest concerns
00:57:45.260 are the affordability crisis you know uh and social disorder in our community
00:57:50.860 uh you know everywhere you go there is homeless and and drugs on the street issues and crime issues
00:57:58.300 and and and again as governments it could address those and they're not uh so health care is that
00:58:05.400 is that distraction that um you know give gives them something to beat the drum on but but at
00:58:12.080 this point in time i if i'm danielle smith i think the the two biggest concerns are first of all
00:58:17.280 another party because she hasn't met expectations and secondly strong strong conservatives whether
00:58:23.160 it's alberta first or fiscal conservatives just staying home next time yeah yeah i yeah i don't
00:58:29.240 think i don't think that uh health care delivery is like first on the list i think that you know
00:58:33.640 that's most important to health care delivery providers maybe we'll say uh yeah i wish we could
00:58:39.160 keep i wish we could keep having this conversation um i think there's a ton of things to talk about
00:58:43.880 as it pertains to health care delivery in in the country one of them being ai health care delivery
00:58:49.400 if you have not had the honor
00:58:51.100 of having an AI-driven healthcare appointment, you guys.
00:58:54.420 Let me just tell you what a pleasure that is.
00:58:58.200 But Drew Barnes, it has been an absolute pleasure
00:59:02.360 to have you on the program today.
00:59:04.560 I wish you could see my face.
00:59:05.860 It is just so full of appreciation
00:59:07.980 for you being here today.
00:59:10.120 But do tell the people where they can find you again,
00:59:14.540 and so we can all keep in touch.
00:59:16.300 Tell us where we can find you, Drew Barnes.
00:59:18.000 Yeah, thanks Lise, thanks for hosting me.
00:59:20.400 albertanowparty.ca, please join up as a member
00:59:25.460 and please help me and thousands of other Albertans
00:59:28.780 be the voice for Alberta in Ottawa.
00:59:31.280 It will be effective and it will be fun.
00:59:34.680 It was just incredible.
00:59:35.520 I got my membership.
00:59:36.740 Oh, thank you Tamera Leach.
00:59:38.960 I did, yeah, I think it's important.
00:59:41.140 So full disclosure, I got my membership last week.
00:59:44.220 Well, there you go.
00:59:45.640 That's a pretty great endorsement for you, Drew Barnes.
00:59:48.500 It's a pretty great endorsement for you.
00:59:49.920 Absolutely.
00:59:50.280 Buddy, thanks so much for being here today.
00:59:52.900 And do tell us that you'll come back soon, okay?
00:59:54.960 Please just tell us that you'll come back soon.
00:59:57.200 I absolutely will, anytime you invite me.
00:59:59.820 Awesome, awesome.
01:00:00.880 Thanks for being here, buddy.
01:00:02.320 Great to see you, Drew.
01:00:03.860 Great to see you.
01:00:04.600 Thanks for joining us. 1.00
01:00:05.000 Thanks, ladies. 1.00
01:00:05.760 Bye-bye.
01:00:06.120 So for everybody still on the stream, I'm Leigh Smurl.
01:00:10.040 You can hear my voice.
01:00:10.920 You can't see my face.
01:00:11.700 I don't know why.
01:00:12.340 my camera has has just decided that my face is not going to be on the program for the rest of
01:00:16.580 the program but i did want to tamir leach get it some of these chats that are awesome viewers
01:00:23.220 have actually had one for drew here but that's okay um did we will send it to him we'll make
01:00:28.500 sure that he hears it we'll make sure that he hears it uh hey olivia could you pop those chats 0.91
01:00:34.420 up on the screen because none neither of your old ladies are wearing their glasses oh there we go
01:00:40.740 okay erica ritz erica ritz sent five dollars thank you so much erica and she says you both
01:00:47.220 rock but extra thanks to lise for hosting so many shows lately oh erica i'm so happy to do it truly
01:00:53.860 truly like this is um this goes back to my time in radio uh my superpower is is uh just talking
01:01:00.100 to people like that is what that i could just do this all day every day so i'm so excited that
01:01:04.660 you're that you're enjoying this show um and our sheila gun reid who has been on top secret rebel
01:01:11.140 news um a top secret rebel news we'll say uh caper we'll call it just assignment thank you that's
01:01:19.620 that's a better word than caper um on special rebel news assignment we'll be back with us
01:01:23.460 soon but it's been a real pleasure to spend all this time with you over these last couple weeks
01:01:26.900 you guys uh nobody loves doing this work more than us and uh we're just so pleased to be able to do
01:01:31.700 it okay we have uh we have a message this is the one yeah this was someone that was for
01:01:37.700 i think targeted for drew from don p e7g five dollars thank you so much don uh who's your
01:01:44.900 main target roughnecks tradesmen teamsters or those who those who are autonomous republicans
01:01:50.340 as i i like you so far nice i think i think people that like freedom and freedom that like autonomy
01:01:57.700 and free to people that want to be free from uh you know the grasp of on of ottawa really you know
01:02:04.340 drew laid it out quite nicely it's about getting a better deal for alberta we should be the richest
01:02:10.020 most prosperous province in the country but here we are still continually having to beg for things
01:02:16.020 and i think uh i think it's directed to those people who are tired of begging and can i can i
01:02:21.940 just tell you how refreshing how truly truly refreshing it is to have had drew barnes on
01:02:26.660 today somebody who is willing to just have conversations uh you will have noticed you
01:02:32.660 guys that drew barnes didn't come to us with a bunch of pre-packaged slogans that we could that
01:02:39.380 you know you're you can't that aren't questionable oh here's some here's some three word slogans on
01:02:44.180 the screen right now but you've never heard but you've never heard drew barnes saying this today
01:02:51.460 he was uh the difference at least the difference is that his slogans come with an actual plan
01:02:56.820 they're not just empty slogans like lead not leave or whatever the heck that's supposed to mean
01:03:03.300 right and and uh and it sounds you know it sounds like this isn't a necessary development
01:03:09.300 in alberta's evolution we i think as albertans you uh you're just acknowledging that no matter
01:03:15.620 what happens we gotta get through it together we're still going to be neighbors and friends
01:03:19.540 and family at the end of this and what happens to us is really important and uh
01:03:23.700 i just i just appreciate drew barnes very much for this really fascinating conversation that
01:03:28.260 we were able to have today uh we have one i think we have one or two one or two more my
01:03:33.140 goodness uh yeah hey thanks don p e7g for that last one uh this is from i grok it and they say
01:03:41.380 yes land acknowledgements do belong these indian tribes need to acknowledge that this isn't solely
01:03:47.780 their land well isn't that interesting and that's one of the things that is so obvious to me every
01:03:54.740 time um i'm being held hostage by a land acknowledgement and i really feel like i like
01:04:00.660 they start with the land acknowledgement there's like there's no way out of this you can't you
01:04:05.300 can't opt out of this silly thing and here we are every time i think to myself i'm in saskatchewan
01:04:11.220 This is unnecessary. I'm in Saskatchewan. This is unnecessary. I think that there's merit to this
01:04:19.940 $10 comment from High Grockett. Okay. If I had a rubber stamp, I would rubber stamp that one for
01:04:25.880 good job on that comment. Thank you so much for it, buddy. There's another one from Javelin Blue
01:04:33.440 and this one, ooh, okay. This is interesting. Javelin Blue says, if I was running for PM,
01:04:40.280 Military would be deployed.
01:04:41.800 All the MPs would be arrested.
01:04:43.340 Judges, Senate, Supreme Court, borders closed.
01:04:45.760 So Javelin Blue is saying that a coup would happen.
01:04:49.620 Okay, a military code just to get things under control
01:04:51.900 just for a second.
01:04:52.620 We don't want anything bad to happen to anybody, right?
01:04:54.680 That's right.
01:04:55.360 We are advocating, we're just obviously advocating
01:04:59.320 for the best interests of the country.
01:05:01.860 And sometimes in other places,
01:05:03.420 this is a way to clean up some of the corruption
01:05:06.220 is what I think Javelin Blue was saying here.
01:05:09.820 um i think there's uh well i think that that challenging the uh the institutions and the
01:05:16.460 status quo is really important too and so uh thanks for let us know when you're running for
01:05:21.500 pm javelin blue okay when you have an announcement um you can let us know and we'd be happy to have
01:05:27.500 you have you on the program to promote your ideas so uh tamara leach i think that's it for the
01:05:34.300 chats uh but olivia did we have do we have any more or was that it babe just checking okay did
01:05:43.100 we have it did we have a cringe to show people today or no you know what you know what we could
01:05:48.460 show we could show let's show remember and stay from last year let's show remember and stay from
01:05:53.820 last year because we just heard the um land acknowledgement this year and we heard the uh
01:05:59.340 chaplain from the Canadian Armed Forces take out God out of the equation, but it could be worse.
01:06:05.660 It could be last year at the Remembrance Day celebration in Ottawa. I think we have a little
01:06:09.740 video, a throwback video from Dahlia Kurtz. If we could bring that up, Olivia? I know it's...
01:06:29.340 So that was Remembrance Day last year on Parliament Hill, as you can say there in the background,
01:06:42.100 and it looks as though it was hijacked by activists, you know, promoting a different thing.
01:06:47.740 Tamerilich, I think this goes right back to what we were saying earlier about Remembrance Day being a solemn occasion
01:06:53.340 where it's not about you or it's not about you it's not about your issue it's not about
01:06:58.160 what you know what bandwagon you're on today but it's in a it's in a solid moment of solitary
01:07:04.560 reflection about what specifically what others did for us and uh and i think anything that we
01:07:12.100 can do to go back to that to just go back to normal uh i think that there are so many people
01:07:16.900 who are just um who are really just thirsty for something that resembles uh old common sense
01:07:24.020 canada and this is just another great example of how it doesn't how this place doesn't um hey you
01:07:29.140 guys you know if you uh if you enjoy your freedom today thank a veteran and uh before i sign off
01:07:34.340 lease i just want to one more time bring attention to uh captain ken conkle's case he was the
01:07:39.620 cadet leader that was badly beaten in hamilton last week when he was with some cadets selling
01:07:45.060 poppies i strongly encourage i'm not a obviously a supporter of gofundme but there is a gofundme
01:07:50.820 setup uh to help him through his recovery so uh again if you are enjoying your freedoms today
01:07:57.300 thank a veteran oh well including including this guy including this guy and amen to that
01:08:03.700 um hey everybody sorry about my tech malfunctions that you can't see my face on the program today
01:08:08.900 uh believe me when i say you're not missing anything that the show was a fantastic thanks
01:08:13.380 so much to the hard work of Tamara Leach.
01:08:16.560 Tamara Leach, thanks so much for being here today.
01:08:18.340 I just love having these conversations with you.
01:08:20.960 You continue to be an inspiration and delight
01:08:24.080 for the country and a really bright light
01:08:27.180 for what's good and right in this world.
01:08:28.660 And we appreciate you so much.
01:08:30.420 For Olivia and everybody in our Rebel News Control Room,
01:08:33.800 you guys are just the cream of the crop.
01:08:36.280 Nobody does a better job of pulling these shows together
01:08:38.740 than you guys in the country, really, I mean that.
01:08:41.000 And thanks for all of our viewers for hanging on today.
01:08:44.180 I hope you enjoyed the program.
01:08:46.000 I thought Drew Barnes was absolutely
01:08:47.540 knocked it out of the park.
01:08:48.420 We need to have more conversations
01:08:50.000 to get this right in the world.
01:08:51.040 And thanks so much for joining us today.
01:08:53.760 So you guys, we're gonna be back tomorrow.
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01:09:02.400 sometimes around here.
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