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Alberta separatism is rising. What should we do about it？


Summary

A poll commissioned by the government shows support for Alberta separatism is on the rise, so what should we do about it? Ezra explains why the government won't allow a poll on the subject, and why it's not likely to happen anytime soon.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Tonight, Alberta's separatism is on the rise.
00:00:03.120 What should we do about that?
00:00:04.960 It's December 21st, and this is the Ezra LeVance Show.
00:00:12.940 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
00:00:16.720 There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.
00:00:20.420 You come here once a year with a sign, and you feel morally superior.
00:00:23.760 The only thing I have to say to the government about why I publish it
00:00:27.400 is because it's my bloody right to do so.
00:00:30.000 I haven't seen any public opinion polls on the question of Alberta's separatism of you,
00:00:38.920 but I am certain that both Rachel Notley and Justin Trudeau
00:00:41.620 have commissioned private polls with your money on the subject.
00:00:45.440 About two weeks ago, we approached a pollster to commission a poll,
00:00:48.920 as in we would pay them money, and they would do the poll.
00:00:51.400 They would approve the question wording.
00:00:53.080 They would go into the field with the poll.
00:00:54.440 They would crunch the numbers using their methodology and give us the result.
00:00:57.740 All we'd do, really, is pay them, but they refused.
00:01:02.200 That's weird.
00:01:04.200 I thought pollsters were supposed to be neutral.
00:01:05.740 That's the whole reason to hire them.
00:01:07.920 Yeah, next you'll tell me that the media are neutral, too.
00:01:11.180 I think sooner or later, a pollster will break the silence and publish a poll on the subject.
00:01:15.980 I predict Angus Reid will be the first because they're based in the West,
00:01:19.160 and they seem to be the most politically independent pollster.
00:01:22.420 They're the ones that did the big immigration poll back in August
00:01:24.960 that showed only 6% of Canadians want more immigration.
00:01:28.780 31% of it wanted to stay the same, and fully 49% of it of Canadians want it lower.
00:01:34.580 You do too many polls like that, though, and suddenly you can't get any government work,
00:01:38.960 which is why I suspect we were refused our separatist poll.
00:01:42.980 Just one more quick note on that.
00:01:44.780 The other day, a Quebec think tank called the Montreal Economic Institute
00:01:48.540 did a poll of Quebecers showing that a majority of them preferred oil from Canada
00:01:53.000 over imports from the U.S. or OPEC countries.
00:01:55.640 That poll was immediately attacked by Trudeau's CBC straight broadcaster
00:02:01.600 and their in-house government-funded poll analyst.
00:02:06.040 The CBC's poll analyst, Eric Grenier, said, I'm just quoting here,
00:02:10.580 said the questions in the survey missed the mark.
00:02:13.320 Oh, well, sorry.
00:02:14.780 The poll didn't ask the pertinent question whether or not Quebecers are willing to have
00:02:19.020 a new pipeline built across the province in order to get that Western Canadian oil, he said.
00:02:25.580 Yeah, that is an interesting question, and you could also compare it to Saudi oil tankers.
00:02:31.680 You can ask a dozen questions.
00:02:33.740 The question they chose to ask, which is, where would you prefer your oil from?
00:02:37.500 Canada, America, or Saudi Arabia?
00:02:39.260 How's that not the right question?
00:02:43.800 I've never seen that before.
00:02:45.640 The government broadcaster getting a government academic to go out and tell people,
00:02:51.680 don't pay attention to this poll we don't like.
00:02:54.000 They asked the wrong question, people.
00:02:56.120 And just today, that same CBC Trudeau poll analyst, Eric Grenier is his name,
00:03:00.960 he had another weird piece saying, don't pay any attention to polls that say Trudeau isn't
00:03:05.640 beloved by all patriots.
00:03:07.860 The polls I went through earlier this week that show Trudeau's approval levels have plunged
00:03:11.740 to just 35%.
00:03:13.480 Have you ever seen that before?
00:03:16.320 Government funded journalists at the CBC with government funded polling experts telling
00:03:20.440 you not to believe polls that paint dear leader in a bad light.
00:03:23.480 But I'm certain that behind the scenes, the message to pollsters is the same.
00:03:26.940 If you report on the wrong things, you'll lose your big government contracts.
00:03:30.380 Anyways, I think we'll probably see an Angus Reid poll on Alberta separatism pretty soon.
00:03:34.700 And depending on how the question is worded, I'm going to make a prediction.
00:03:38.400 I predict that support for Western separatism or Alberta independence, or however you want
00:03:43.220 to phrase it, I predict that support will range between 20% and even 40% or 45%.
00:03:51.420 Yeah, 45%.
00:03:52.740 If the question is written really hard, like, do you want Alberta to become its own country?
00:03:59.820 I think it would probably just be around 20%.
00:04:02.540 If you ask something easier, though, like the Quebec separatist referendum questions,
00:04:09.620 I bet it would be much higher.
00:04:11.460 Back in 1980, Quebecers voted on this question.
00:04:14.880 This is long, but I think it's pretty clear this is exactly what they voted on.
00:04:18.660 The government of Quebec has made public its proposal to negotiate a new agreement with
00:04:25.940 the rest of Canada based on the equality of nations.
00:04:29.720 This agreement would enable Quebec to acquire the exclusive power to make its laws, levy its
00:04:33.980 taxes, and establish relations abroad.
00:04:36.280 In other words, sovereignty.
00:04:37.740 And at the same time, to maintain with Canada an economic association, including a common
00:04:41.740 currency.
00:04:42.200 Any change in political status resulting from these negotiations will only be implemented
00:04:47.540 with popular approval through another referendum.
00:04:51.760 On these terms, do you give the government of Quebec the mandate to negotiate the proposed
00:04:57.180 agreement between Quebec and Canada?
00:05:00.160 Can you believe that was so long?
00:05:03.280 That was the question on the ballot.
00:05:04.760 So it didn't actually call for independence, did it?
00:05:10.520 You can see it.
00:05:11.360 It called for Quebec to negotiate a proposed agreement between Quebec and Canada, and then
00:05:17.020 afterwards, a second referendum to adopt it.
00:05:20.020 How could anyone vote no to that?
00:05:22.600 Even someone who doesn't want separatism, how can you oppose that?
00:05:25.360 Because really, for decades, that was the Quebec game.
00:05:28.200 There were some true diehard Quebec separatists who really did want their own country.
00:05:31.520 But there were a lot of so-called soft separatists who really just wanted more power for Quebec
00:05:37.100 within Canada, more money from Ottawa, more Quebec symbols, more deference.
00:05:42.040 And look what it got them in the 38 years since that 1980 referendum.
00:05:47.740 Quebecers have had the prime minister's office for 27 out of those 38 years, with the only
00:05:54.520 exceptions being a few months of Joe Clark and King Campbell, and then Stephen Harper.
00:05:58.100 I mean, is this guy a Quebec separatist or just a Quebec chauvinist?
00:06:03.640 Quebecers are better than the rest of Canada because, you know, we're Quebecers.
00:06:11.200 Or how about this guy?
00:06:12.760 Look, Canada is hard now because it's Albertans who control our community and socio-democratic
00:06:21.480 It doesn't work.
00:06:22.440 I mean, if you can threaten full separatism, as Quebec likes to do, but actually get $13
00:06:31.560 billion a year in extra money through equalization payments from the rest of Canada, and get
00:06:36.140 a guaranteed three out of the nine seats in our Supreme Court, they're set aside for Quebec,
00:06:41.100 and get affirmative action into every senior job in the federal government by enforcing French
00:06:46.200 English bilingualism.
00:06:47.840 That basically means Quebecers get the jobs, even in places like Vancouver or Hamilton where
00:06:53.660 no one speaks French.
00:06:55.240 And then even on a more aesthetic level, where you can just say and do things, like you want
00:07:00.720 20% fewer immigrants, and you want to ban the burqa in the civil service.
00:07:05.100 And not only will the Ottawa political class defer to you, but most of the media and punditry
00:07:10.000 will just accept that.
00:07:10.860 And they won't do what they normally do, call people racist or Islamophobic, because that's
00:07:16.740 a special status, distinct society.
00:07:22.140 You don't have to fully separate to get all these bonuses.
00:07:25.260 I mean, there's a divorce, and then there's a divorce with bedroom privileges.
00:07:30.360 Quebec separatism has given that province the best of both worlds.
00:07:34.580 Whenever they're unhappy, they stomp their feet, they threaten to go, and they get what
00:07:36.920 they want.
00:07:38.520 It's a game, really.
00:07:39.600 Look, there's a Quebecer in Quebec City who demands that a Quebecer in Ottawa give Quebec
00:07:45.040 more concessions.
00:07:46.220 And twist my rubber arm, okay.
00:07:48.980 So just last week, Trudeau gave another $1.4 billion a year in equalization payment to his
00:07:55.080 home province.
00:07:57.060 Quebec, as a province, is projecting a $3 billion surplus.
00:08:02.340 They don't need the money.
00:08:03.520 But sure, why not bring another $1.4 billion out of Alberta and Saskatchewan and BC?
00:08:07.700 And just to be crystal clear here, Justin Trudeau has given Quebec a veto over pipelines.
00:08:16.440 Just a real quick answer, Justin.
00:08:18.640 Are you open to revitalizing an Energy East pipeline?
00:08:22.700 There is no project on the table.
00:08:25.760 The proponent has walked away.
00:08:27.800 I understand that.
00:08:28.300 And there is no...
00:08:28.900 But if the government came forward to de-risk it, as you did with the Trans Mountain,
00:08:34.880 maybe you'd get a proponent.
00:08:36.080 You can't de-risk in absence of a project.
00:08:39.440 And there is clarity that under the current approach, there is no support for a pipeline
00:08:44.560 through Quebec.
00:08:44.980 So that's what Quebec has rung out of Canada for its separatist efforts.
00:08:52.220 It's got a veto over pipelines.
00:08:53.620 And really, that referendum back in 1980, even with all the weasel words and we'll have
00:08:59.140 a second referendum, that only got 40% support in 1980.
00:09:03.060 And yet we have had 40 years of Quebec getting whatever Quebec wants.
00:09:07.160 I estimate they got close to a trillion dollars worth in today's inflation-adjusted money of
00:09:14.240 financial and political perks from the rest of Canada.
00:09:16.880 Just for that lame effort, back in 1980, not even 4 million people voted in the whole referendum.
00:09:23.940 And out of those, only 1,485,000 voted to separate.
00:09:29.740 Let me be more precise.
00:09:31.200 That's how many voted to authorize their provincial government to negotiate a new deal with Ottawa.
00:09:37.160 But those 1,485,000 votes, each have rung out countless concessions that we keep paying
00:09:45.280 to this very day.
00:09:46.520 So 15 years later, in 1995, Quebec tried again, and they came much closer.
00:09:52.280 And here's the wording of that year's referendum.
00:09:55.780 Do you agree that Quebec should become sovereign after having made a formal offer to Canada for
00:10:01.000 a new economic and political partnership within the scope of the bill respecting the future
00:10:04.860 of Quebec and of the agreement signed on the 12th of June, 1995?
00:10:09.580 That bill they're talking about was basically a Quebec bill that laid out their plans and
00:10:13.120 vision to be independent.
00:10:13.960 So again, not even the courage to say, hey, we're out of here.
00:10:17.100 Do you want Quebec to be an independent country?
00:10:19.060 They didn't even have the courage to say that.
00:10:20.320 They just said, hey, Quebecers, we've got this aspiration for a new country.
00:10:24.820 We still want our Canadian passports and our Canadian currency, and we want Canadian trade
00:10:28.260 deals.
00:10:28.480 We want Canadian embassy help around the world.
00:10:30.800 But do you want us to, quote, make a formal offer to Canada for a new economic and political
00:10:35.280 partnership?
00:10:35.940 And even that failed.
00:10:38.360 Well, failed.
00:10:39.340 But of course, it really succeeded because it led to another round of endless political
00:10:43.600 and financial concessions.
00:10:45.040 Just one small example.
00:10:46.200 You might remember that it was in the wake of that referendum that Jean Chrétien's office
00:10:50.880 cooked up ad scam.
00:10:52.300 Just one tiny example where they sent a quarter billion dollars, a quarter billion, in kickbacks
00:10:57.960 and bribes and commissions into Quebec to try and quiet the place down.
00:11:02.000 To this day, Quebec has had a preferential place in the minds and hearts of our political
00:11:06.640 establishment just because they want to appease them.
00:11:10.720 Here's an example.
00:11:11.720 Quebec has an ethnic identity.
00:11:13.220 Of course they do.
00:11:13.940 They're Quebecois.
00:11:15.340 You know the phrase distinct society.
00:11:18.040 It's obviously true.
00:11:19.280 I think Newfoundland's a distinct society also, by the way.
00:11:21.240 I think Alberta's a distinct society.
00:11:22.760 But you must admit Quebec is a very distinct society.
00:11:25.580 The French, they have a language, they have a culture, they have a history that is all
00:11:29.180 their own, which is obviously true.
00:11:32.760 They have words that describe that.
00:11:34.560 Pure lane Quebecers, that means pure wool, like dyed in the wool.
00:11:38.120 Or Quebecois de souche, tree stump Quebecers.
00:11:41.360 These are, I think the analogy would be like old stock Canadians or pioneer stock Albertans
00:11:45.620 or whatever.
00:11:46.340 And those are not insults.
00:11:47.640 That's just how they describe it.
00:11:48.720 Remember, even in their provincial immigration rules, they have the power to prioritize immigrants
00:11:53.160 who speak French.
00:11:54.160 And fair enough.
00:11:57.000 When Quebecers make demands of Canada, they are, at the very least, those demands are discussed.
00:12:03.940 And I suppose they are occasionally rejected, but they are almost never mocked, are they?
00:12:08.700 In fact, any insult to Quebec, even a justifiable and reasonable one, is met with Ottawa politicians
00:12:15.600 going full tilt, outdoing each other, trying to out-pro-Quebec each other.
00:12:21.980 Do you remember this cover story in Maclean's magazine?
00:12:24.720 Remember that cover there, the most corrupt province in Canada?
00:12:26.820 I just said you remember this to Maclean's.
00:12:31.200 Does Maclean's even exist these days?
00:12:33.220 I'm not even sure if they're still around, other than to reprint the odd liberal press
00:12:41.040 release, I guess.
00:12:42.560 But almost 10 years ago, they wrote that pretty honest cover story about Quebec corruption,
00:12:46.700 and the Parliament of Canada voted unanimously to condemn Maclean's magazine.
00:12:52.840 Let me quote, here's a story from John Geddes.
00:12:56.640 A House motion upbraiding Maclean's for the magazine's cover story on corruption in Quebec
00:13:01.180 politics is thought to be only the second time in the century that MPs have closed ranks
00:13:05.660 to express their disapproval with the work of a news publication, unquote.
00:13:12.360 It's unthinkable that Parliament would vote to condemn, let's say, an attack on Alberta
00:13:17.220 by David Suzuki, a Trudeau state broadcaster.
00:13:20.780 It's just unthinkable.
00:13:22.940 But they unanimously, even the Conservatives, voted to condemn Maclean's.
00:13:27.180 Anyways, I said that I was going to talk about Alberta separatism today, and I will, but
00:13:30.980 I thought it was important to remind you just for a moment about Quebec separatism, because
00:13:35.800 that's the precedent here.
00:13:37.580 And more importantly, how it has been richly rewarded, not only financially, but politically
00:13:43.240 and morally and emotionally, and all that, despite the fact that they couldn't even
00:13:47.500 muster 50% to even negotiate with Canada, they, oh no, we can't, they didn't even have
00:13:53.000 the courage.
00:13:53.620 Let me put that 1980s referendum question to you again.
00:13:56.720 And all I'm going to do here is swap in the word Alberta for Quebec.
00:14:00.280 That's the only wording change I'm making here.
00:14:02.780 What do you think of this?
00:14:03.540 Here's my new wording.
00:14:07.020 The government of Alberta has made public its proposal to negotiate a new agreement with
00:14:11.620 the rest of Canada based on the equality of nations.
00:14:14.700 This agreement would enable Alberta to acquire the exclusive power to make its laws, levy
00:14:18.920 its taxes, and establish relations abroad.
00:14:21.100 In other words, sovereignty.
00:14:22.640 And at the same time, to maintain with Quebec an economic association, including a common
00:14:26.540 currency.
00:14:27.000 Any change in political status resulting from these negotiations will only be implemented
00:14:31.480 with popular approval through another referendum on these terms.
00:14:35.300 Do you give the government of Alberta the mandate to negotiate the proposed agreement between
00:14:39.380 Alberta and Canada?
00:14:41.880 How on earth could that possibly get less than 40%?
00:14:47.080 I mean, I suppose if people thought that the incompetent and disloyal Rachel Notley was going
00:14:52.040 to be the one leading Alberta's side of the negotiation, what a joke that would be.
00:14:55.260 I mean, frankly, the majority of her senior staff have always been NDP staffers from Ontario
00:15:00.000 and BC, including anti-oil lobbyists like Brian Topps.
00:15:03.780 So I suppose if people thought that Rachel Notley was going to be representing Alberta's
00:15:08.020 interests, they might not be thrilled about that.
00:15:10.000 I mean, when you have one Quebecer in Quebec City negotiating with one Quebecer in Ottawa,
00:15:15.180 negotiating how much money goes to Quebec, it's an inside job, right?
00:15:18.580 But when you have an anti-oil leader in Edmonton negotiating with another anti-oil leader
00:15:23.600 in Ottawa negotiating about Alberta oil, it is an inside job too, but it's to undermine
00:15:28.140 Alberta, not to help them.
00:15:29.460 So if you had even a moderately pro-Alberta, Alberta premier, and you then asked Albertans,
00:15:35.680 hey, guys, things aren't really working out too well.
00:15:38.160 Maybe we'd do better on our own, but let's at least try to negotiate a better deal with
00:15:41.900 Canada.
00:15:42.560 Let's keep independence as an option, but do you give us permission to negotiate a better
00:15:45.900 deal?
00:15:46.160 Well, who wouldn't in their right mind say yes to that?
00:15:50.340 And that is the wording of the 1980 Quebec referendum.
00:15:54.460 Here, let me just show you some streeters, some Vox Populi that our new Calgary reporter
00:15:59.200 Kian Bexty did the other day, just outside of Costco.
00:16:02.100 And he was asking sort of a practical version of that question.
00:16:04.440 He was just saying, who would be better for Alberta, Justin Trudeau or Donald Trump?
00:16:07.940 Here's just some random Calgarians.
00:16:09.700 Do you think Donald Trump would treat Alberta better than Justin Trudeau?
00:16:12.280 That's a good question.
00:16:17.300 As much as I don't really like Donald Trump, he does look out for himself, whereas Trudeau
00:16:23.640 is not, I don't feel that Trudeau is keeping an eye on Alberta the way he should be.
00:16:28.860 So, unfortunately, I have to say Donald Trump probably would.
00:16:33.560 Yeah.
00:16:34.020 Well, absolutely.
00:16:35.440 Why is that?
00:16:36.080 He's a businessman.
00:16:37.280 Trudeau isn't.
00:16:38.740 Trudeau's a teacher, if that.
00:16:40.460 Probably.
00:16:42.020 He has a few brains.
00:16:44.580 I have no faith in Justin Trudeau.
00:16:46.780 He makes promises and nothing.
00:16:50.060 There's nothing to them.
00:16:52.280 The last little offers, the case in point, it's all aimed at the wrong thing.
00:16:57.080 He needs to put pipelines through.
00:16:59.240 And until that happens, the whole country is going to feel the crunch.
00:17:03.260 Do you think Donald Trump would build pipelines?
00:17:05.640 Oh, sure.
00:17:06.180 Anything in the economic interest.
00:17:07.800 Look at how the American economy is going.
00:17:10.560 Yeah, I do.
00:17:11.620 I think he probably would because he's a businessman and he gets what's going on.
00:17:16.600 I'm not a fan of him.
00:17:17.580 Yeah, I think Donald Trump would treat them better because he's very much about, I don't
00:17:24.000 know, he's a rebel.
00:17:26.740 What can I say?
00:17:27.440 Yeah, and that's the thing.
00:17:30.080 If you look at the map, obviously, Alberta is landlocked.
00:17:35.020 That's the problem.
00:17:35.960 B.C.'s, New Democrats, the courts, Justin Trudeau are blocking access to the West Coast.
00:17:41.260 And Quebec's politicians, the courts and Justin Trudeau are blocking access to the Atlantic
00:17:45.360 Coast.
00:17:45.660 But Donald Trump couldn't be plainer about pipelines.
00:17:48.500 He loves them.
00:17:49.120 Literally, in his first few days as president, he revived the Keystone XL pipeline that Barack
00:17:55.880 Obama had killed.
00:17:56.780 Remember this?
00:17:58.020 Thank you.
00:17:58.740 This is with regard to the construction of the Keystone pipeline, something that's been
00:18:09.460 in dispute, and it's subject to a renegotiation of terms by us.
00:18:14.680 We're going to renegotiate some of the terms, and if they'd like, we'll see if we can get
00:18:21.740 that pipeline built.
00:18:23.080 A lot of jobs, 28,000 jobs, great construction jobs.
00:18:28.740 Okay.
00:18:39.380 Keystone pipeline.
00:18:43.000 Yeah.
00:18:43.900 I know who'd be better for Canada.
00:18:46.620 And Alberta, of course, but better for Canada, too.
00:18:49.820 Now, the other day, a very blue-chip professor in Calgary, at the University of Calgary, Jack
00:18:53.840 Mintz, economist, wrote an op-ed in the Financial Post.
00:18:57.440 He had visited the United Kingdom, where they're going through their whole Brexit debate, and
00:19:01.980 here's what he wrote.
00:19:03.220 Jack Mintz, Alberta has better reasons for Albexit than Britain did for Brexit.
00:19:09.880 Whatever negatives Alberta would face are easily swamped by the positives that would
00:19:14.840 come with separation.
00:19:17.180 Wow.
00:19:17.580 Now, let me quote a few lines from the professor.
00:19:20.900 He said,
00:19:21.200 It's typical to poo-poo the possibility of Alberta's separation as unrealistic, given
00:19:27.480 the close familial and economic relationships Alberta have, Albertans have with other parts
00:19:31.740 of Canada.
00:19:32.260 But if Brexit happened, then Albexit is just as possible, probably more so given the existential
00:19:38.360 threat to Alberta's prosperity over resource development.
00:19:41.740 Yeah, exactly right.
00:19:42.520 See, the European Union, it's awful.
00:19:44.820 It means taxes and regulations, it undermines democracy, it's costly, it means open borders,
00:19:51.020 lots of things.
00:19:53.180 But that's its general nature.
00:19:54.900 It's awful to everyone in the EU.
00:19:57.320 The Italians, the Greeks, everyone.
00:19:58.840 Maybe it systematically benefits Germany, maybe, or France, maybe, certainly Brussels, where all
00:20:04.280 its bureaucrats are headquartered.
00:20:05.360 But it's not explicitly, genetically anti-British.
00:20:08.540 As in, for example, the EU countries don't put a naval embargo around the island of Great
00:20:13.840 Britain stopping exports, which is exactly what is being done to Alberta.
00:20:18.180 It's an embargo.
00:20:18.840 It's an economic boycott.
00:20:20.140 It's like what America's doing to Cuba, except Canada is doing to Alberta.
00:20:23.920 We're blockading Alberta oil.
00:20:27.540 BC is blocking Alberta oil.
00:20:30.560 Quebec is blocking Alberta oil.
00:20:32.520 Neither has the constitutional right to do so, by the way, except that Trudeau voluntarily
00:20:36.560 grants it to them because he agrees.
00:20:38.540 As does Trudeau's boss.
00:20:41.440 We think that the oil sands have been expanded too rapidly without a serious plan for environmental
00:20:47.680 remediation in the first place.
00:20:49.740 So that's why we don't think it's up to us to decide whether there should be another route
00:20:54.800 for a pipeline.
00:20:55.920 Because the real alternative is not an alternative route.
00:21:00.500 It's an alternative economy.
00:21:03.240 Yeah, that's Gerald Butts.
00:21:04.320 So exactly, he doesn't believe in oil.
00:21:09.520 And it shows.
00:21:10.780 Here's some more from Professor Mintz.
00:21:12.200 He says, Alberta will also be able to keep for itself the annual $20 billion more it sends
00:21:18.920 each year to Ottawa in taxes than it gets back in federal spending.
00:21:21.940 That $20 billion is roughly 6% of the province's GDP.
00:21:24.960 Hard borders and potential trade barriers with the rest of Canada would be a cost, but these
00:21:30.540 would be subject to negotiation, and would they really be drastically worse than current
00:21:34.260 internal barriers to trade, including pipeline obstacles that already exist between provinces?
00:21:38.780 The national debt assumed by Alberta would be contentious, since Alberta would seek a credit for the $220 billion
00:21:46.680 in net transfers it made to the rest of Canada over the past decade.
00:21:50.320 That's so right on.
00:21:53.780 And as I've always said, if British Columbia can embargo Alberta oil pipelines getting to
00:21:59.740 the West Coast, doesn't that mean that Alberta can embargo, let's say, BC rail cars and semi-trailers
00:22:07.940 bringing their imports from the port of Vancouver east to Ontario through Alberta?
00:22:15.680 And anything Ontario and Quebec want to export west to the BC coast, couldn't Alberta block those
00:22:22.480 the same way those places have blocked pipelines?
00:22:25.340 I don't want that, by the way, but that's what reciprocity is all about.
00:22:28.960 We were supposed to all be able to live with each other in a confederation
00:22:32.360 where provinces and towns and villages didn't destroy each other or have toll booths for each other,
00:22:37.480 but Justin Trudeau seems to permit that.
00:22:39.360 If Alberta were independent, it could say to BC,
00:22:41.800 hey guys, we'll totally let you ship your Chinese imports, like computers and cell phones
00:22:48.920 and your Japanese car imports that are offloaded.
00:22:52.020 We'll totally, absolutely love it.
00:22:54.800 You guys can ship that stuff right through Alberta to get to Ontario.
00:22:58.000 No problem.
00:22:59.000 If you let us ship our oil to China.
00:23:01.120 Deal?
00:23:02.360 I tell you, more people die on the Trans-Canada Highway driving from Vancouver through Alberta
00:23:08.220 than die in a pipeline.
00:23:09.380 No one dies in a pipeline.
00:23:10.620 Why would we allow such dangerous goods on our roads?
00:23:13.500 Look, if not, not.
00:23:17.520 But I get the feeling BC wants its port as badly as Alberta wants its oil.
00:23:22.880 Jack Mintz points out Saskatchewan would likely join Alberta pretty quickly.
00:23:26.300 I mean, seriously, the only place that Trudeau and Catherine McKenna hate more than Alberta these days
00:23:31.600 is Saskatchewan, and the feeling's mutual.
00:23:35.440 So where do we hear the rebels stand on separatism?
00:23:37.460 Well, we're not calling for Alberta separation.
00:23:40.200 In fact, we recognize that the worst damage to Alberta was done by the Alberta NDP, elected by Albertans.
00:23:47.000 But we regard that as a once-a-century anomaly, a freak accident.
00:23:52.480 The congenital constitutional hatred for Alberta from the Ontario and Quebec elite, the Laurentian elite,
00:24:00.400 that, though, is permanent, isn't it?
00:24:03.440 Preston Manning campaigned on the West wants in, but I don't think that worked.
00:24:07.520 Stephen Harper allowed the West to live as equals, no special favors.
00:24:10.400 And, in fact, Harper gave tens of billions of dollars in extra cash to Quebec.
00:24:16.240 But fair enough.
00:24:18.320 But remove that man, Stephen Harper, and the system very quickly reverted to its natural posture.
00:24:23.320 So we think at The Rebel that it's probably healthy if the Quebec style of negotiation is adopted in Alberta.
00:24:33.480 Quebec said, give us more or we're out.
00:24:35.520 But they never had the courage to leave because they always knew they didn't really want to leave.
00:24:39.680 It wasn't a better deal.
00:24:40.960 I think Albertans would learn more and more just how much better things actually would be in many real-world measures,
00:24:48.600 mainly financial but also cultural.
00:24:51.260 I mean, I suppose Alberta has its own distinct society, its own traditions, freedom, individuality, entrepreneurialism.
00:24:58.360 That's Alberta's culture.
00:25:01.160 So how are we going to cover Alberta separatism as journalists?
00:25:04.480 With respect, I think.
00:25:07.900 And with an understanding that it comes from a genuine grievance.
00:25:11.120 Not an ethnic nationalism like in Quebec.
00:25:13.840 Not an attempt to extort more cash like in Quebec.
00:25:18.540 Desired to be allowed to live freely and fairly under the rules of Canada as they were written.
00:25:22.960 Our Constitution.
00:25:24.000 And I think one thing we'll do as we cover this phenomenon
00:25:26.940 is constantly point out how Alberta separatists are covered by the rest of the media
00:25:31.740 versus how that media covers Quebec separatists.
00:25:35.880 Here's just one example.
00:25:37.060 And I just pulled this at random from one of Justin Trudeau's bailout media.
00:25:41.240 Here's one in Post Media's Calgary Herald.
00:25:43.240 It's written by some left-wing kook named Naomi LaCritz who writes editorials there for some reason.
00:25:48.520 Well, I know the reason because Trudeau likes her.
00:25:50.980 This was really written in Calgary.
00:25:53.560 You're not going to believe it.
00:25:56.780 I mean, this is in the Calgary paper.
00:25:58.220 It looks like it was written as a condition for the $595 million Trudeau bailout.
00:26:02.160 I'm sorry.
00:26:02.800 I can't believe it's in the Calgary Herald.
00:26:04.300 It's called Alberta separatists fueled by loss of civility.
00:26:07.180 This ran in the Calgary Herald.
00:26:08.400 How much did the editor hate their own readers to publish this?
00:26:14.300 I mean, I suppose it's true.
00:26:16.100 Where is the civil comity?
00:26:17.620 Where's the reciprocity between Quebec and BC and Alberta?
00:26:20.800 Where's the civility?
00:26:21.820 Why is Quebec calling Alberta oil dirty?
00:26:24.480 But that's not the lack of civility that Naomi LaCritz is talking about.
00:26:28.080 She's blaming Albertans for being the rude ones.
00:26:31.440 I'm serious.
00:26:32.180 Let me quote from this insane suicide note of the Calgary Herald.
00:26:35.060 So, Alberta separatism is just another variation of extremist response to the otherwise politically ordinary.
00:26:43.340 Okay, got it, got it.
00:26:45.020 Albertans are extremists, eh?
00:26:46.720 Everything the left doesn't like is extremist or bigoted or racist or whatever, isn't it?
00:26:51.600 And what's happening in Alberta is just ordinary.
00:26:54.540 Let me read some more.
00:26:55.120 Every time Alberta perceives itself and its oil to be insulted by the rest of Canada,
00:27:01.320 the separatists start clamoring for the province to go.
00:27:03.820 Oh, yeah, sister, I don't think Albertans care about oil being insulted.
00:27:10.360 I think they care about pipelines being blocked and having Alberta jobs destroyed
00:27:16.980 by foreign-funded lobbyists and Canadian politicians who put their anti-Alberta bias ahead of the Constitution.
00:27:22.720 I don't think it's insults that bug Albertans.
00:27:24.480 It's the fact that they can't get work.
00:27:26.300 Now, the Heralds quotes some American book written about other subjects to describe Albertans.
00:27:34.300 It's really weird, but they say,
00:27:35.940 Many derive their standards of conduct from the Bolsheviks.
00:27:44.080 They think it reflects credit on them to scream in the faces of people they don't like.
00:27:49.080 So you Bolshevik Albertans, I think that's projection.
00:27:54.120 Is that what she really thinks of Albertans?
00:27:55.960 That they scream in the faces of people they don't like?
00:27:58.320 Now, I've never seen that.
00:28:01.300 I think that's more of a leftist move, an Antifa move.
00:28:04.220 I've seen that in Montreal, Toronto, and Vancouver.
00:28:06.360 Haven't seen that in Alberta, have you?
00:28:09.060 Let me read some more from this bizarre, bizarre editorial in the Herald.
00:28:12.020 Selfishness and fanaticism are the raison d'être, as they're fancy, eh?
00:28:17.640 For the knee-jerk separatism that periodically rears its head whenever it feels the West is even mildly hard done by.
00:28:25.860 Yeah, you Albertans, you're so selfish.
00:28:29.500 You're so fanatical.
00:28:30.880 You want to work.
00:28:31.760 You're so selfish that way.
00:28:33.140 You selfish, selfish people.
00:28:35.540 Why don't you just ask Trudeau for a bailout like Naomi Le Critts and the Calgary Herald are going to get?
00:28:39.960 That's not selfish, you see.
00:28:42.420 I don't even know what this next line means.
00:28:45.200 The West is like a cat meowing at the back door.
00:28:48.560 Now it wants in, but no sooner it is let in than it wants out again.
00:28:54.640 Say, do you think this insulting, factually inaccurate, historically illiterate, bizarre rant,
00:28:59.960 calling Albertans' names for wanting to work,
00:29:02.180 do you think that will make separatism higher or lower?
00:29:08.280 Justin Trudeau has not received his briefing note yet from Gerald Butts.
00:29:11.700 on what to say or do about Western separatism.
00:29:14.380 But you can bet it's going to be along the lines of the media party,
00:29:17.680 the professors, the pundits, the paid-for bailout media,
00:29:21.200 all demonizing and denouncing Alberta separatism.
00:29:23.640 They hate Alberta anyways.
00:29:25.560 They'll want to hang separatism as an accusation around the neck of Andrew Scheer
00:29:30.160 in the upcoming federal election.
00:29:32.080 That'll hurt him in Ontario and Quebec.
00:29:35.000 But mainly, the liberals and the media party,
00:29:38.980 they don't disagree with the underlying premise.
00:29:42.460 Albertans are different.
00:29:44.480 And their proper role in Canada is to provide money to Ottawa
00:29:47.180 and to be a bad guy that every liberal can bash.
00:29:51.400 So, Justin Trudeau and Gerald Butts and the leftist media want this fight.
00:29:57.500 Us here at the Rebel will report on it fairly.
00:30:00.400 We'll respect people who are driven to contemplate separatism
00:30:03.100 by a system that is clearly broken.
00:30:05.740 We'll call out the double standard by which the establishment
00:30:08.560 woos and pays off and praises Quebec separatists,
00:30:12.380 but attacks and ignores Albertans desperate enough
00:30:15.000 to contemplate doing the same thing.
00:30:17.060 And we'll say the obvious mathematical truth.
00:30:20.180 Of course Donald Trump and Americans
00:30:23.360 would treat Alberta better than Justin Trudeau and the liberals do.
00:30:28.820 Stay with us for more.
00:30:29.940 Well, Omar Cotter is a convicted, confessed terrorist, murderer, and war criminal
00:30:51.740 who was sentenced to 40 years in prison by a jury.
00:30:56.260 However, before he had to serve that sentence,
00:30:59.920 Barack Obama cut a deal to spring him from Guantanamo Bay
00:31:03.680 and foist him on Stephen Harper, who I don't think particularly wanted him.
00:31:08.380 Well, once in Canada, he proceeded to woo the hearts of the media and the courts,
00:31:13.980 which granted him bail.
00:31:17.360 And Justin Trudeau put the cherry on the top,
00:31:20.140 giving him a public apology
00:31:22.020 and $10.5 million cash structured in a way
00:31:25.820 to hide that money
00:31:27.480 from the victims of Omar Cotter,
00:31:30.220 the widow of the man he killed,
00:31:32.820 Christopher Speer being the deceased,
00:31:35.460 Tabitha Speer, the widow,
00:31:37.320 Tanner and Taryn Speer,
00:31:38.680 the two fatherless children.
00:31:40.700 But until moments ago,
00:31:44.200 Omar Cotter was treated uniformly
00:31:46.440 as a saint by the establishment.
00:31:48.460 That changed about a week ago
00:31:49.760 when our own Kian Bexte scrummed
00:31:53.380 Omar Cotter
00:31:54.900 and to the shock and appall
00:31:58.260 of the other journalists assembled,
00:32:00.800 actually called him a terrorist
00:32:03.120 and asked him where the money is
00:32:06.700 and what airline
00:32:07.780 would possibly let him on a plane.
00:32:10.780 Here, here's a quick flashback of that.
00:32:13.320 Even if he gets a passport,
00:32:14.760 which airline in Canada will take him to Saudi Arabia?
00:32:17.160 You'd have to ask some Canadian airlines.
00:32:20.500 I doubt that they'd want to take a terrorist
00:32:22.280 across the sea to Saudi Arabia.
00:32:24.920 Oh, I see. Okay.
00:32:25.940 Well, the media couldn't believe it.
00:32:27.900 Well, if you thought Kian Bexte was tough,
00:32:30.440 today, our whole Alberta team,
00:32:33.260 Kian and Bureau Chief Alberta Gunn-Reed,
00:32:36.000 deploy to the court
00:32:36.820 and they join us now via Skype.
00:32:38.500 Hello, Team Rebel.
00:32:40.160 I am so proud of you
00:32:41.740 for what you are doing,
00:32:43.540 i.e. basic journalism.
00:32:45.340 Thank you.
00:32:47.340 Hey, Ezra.
00:32:48.140 Thanks for having us on.
00:32:49.500 Well, tell me what's going on there.
00:32:51.260 Kian, you were there
00:32:52.160 about a week ago or so
00:32:54.200 and Sheila, you joined today.
00:32:55.660 Kian, give us a quick recap.
00:32:57.560 We saw your clips last week,
00:32:59.300 Speaking Truth to Power.
00:33:00.240 Give me a short summary
00:33:02.260 of what happened last time
00:33:03.600 and then I understand
00:33:04.860 Sheila accosted Qatar today.
00:33:07.320 So, Kian, you start.
00:33:09.580 Well, we came to Edmonton
00:33:12.360 out from Calgary last week
00:33:13.500 and we waited in the courtroom.
00:33:15.800 We heard the judge say
00:33:17.500 it's going to be a week
00:33:18.320 until there's actually a verdict.
00:33:20.600 We came out of the courtroom
00:33:21.880 and waited with the rest
00:33:23.000 of the mainstream media
00:33:23.800 to ask Omar Khotar questions.
00:33:25.400 But it turned out
00:33:25.920 when he came out with his lawyer,
00:33:27.720 well, I don't think
00:33:28.320 he was expecting me, first off,
00:33:29.780 but when he did come out,
00:33:31.800 the lawyer said
00:33:33.060 they just weren't going to be taking,
00:33:34.720 Omar wouldn't be taking
00:33:35.520 any questions
00:33:36.000 and we had to ask
00:33:36.580 the lawyer questions.
00:33:37.860 So we did,
00:33:38.940 but the only questions
00:33:39.900 that actually seemed to matter
00:33:41.900 were the ones that we asked
00:33:43.180 because the mainstream media
00:33:44.220 didn't ask any hard questions at all.
00:33:48.040 So we ended up leaving
00:33:49.560 after his lawyer
00:33:51.580 wouldn't answer
00:33:52.480 any of our questions.
00:33:53.540 The scrum sort of dissipated
00:33:54.840 and we came back this week
00:33:56.380 to follow up with them,
00:33:57.600 hoping that we'd be able
00:33:58.320 to ask more questions.
00:34:00.640 Turns out when we actually showed up,
00:34:02.860 Omar Khotar,
00:34:03.460 we saw him through the glass window
00:34:04.780 and he made eye contact with me.
00:34:08.280 We saw his lawyer
00:34:08.860 and him and his lawyer split up.
00:34:10.740 His lawyer came out the door
00:34:11.700 and Omar Khotar
00:34:12.420 went back into the courthouse
00:34:13.780 and disappeared.
00:34:15.300 We weren't able
00:34:15.940 to ask him any questions,
00:34:16.760 but we did get to his lawyer.
00:34:18.220 Well, we know Omar Khotar
00:34:19.400 is a coward by nature
00:34:20.560 when he killed Christopher Speer.
00:34:22.780 Christopher Speer
00:34:23.400 was coming in
00:34:24.020 in the role of a medic
00:34:25.860 to actually help
00:34:26.880 Al-Qaeda and Taliban terrorists
00:34:28.800 and Omar Khotar
00:34:30.240 in a cowardly act of terrorism
00:34:32.400 threw a grenade
00:34:32.980 that killed him.
00:34:33.780 Just for background,
00:34:34.540 because I think
00:34:34.920 I jumped right into it.
00:34:36.160 The reason we're at the court,
00:34:38.260 the reason Omar Khotar
00:34:39.120 is at court with his lawyer,
00:34:39.980 this whole thing,
00:34:40.680 is Omar Khotar
00:34:41.240 is seeking a revision
00:34:43.260 of his bail restrictions
00:34:45.180 that forbid him
00:34:46.160 from traveling
00:34:47.160 without getting the permission
00:34:48.760 of his bail officer,
00:34:50.140 deny him a passport,
00:34:51.860 deny him other
00:34:53.640 pro-terrorist activities.
00:34:56.100 He wants to go
00:34:56.800 to Saudi Arabia.
00:34:58.720 Oh yeah,
00:34:59.300 there's no terrorism there.
00:35:00.600 To connect with his
00:35:01.720 pro-terrorist sister,
00:35:03.100 Zainab Khotar.
00:35:04.780 The ex-wife of Joshua Boyle,
00:35:06.960 one of Justin Trudeau's friends.
00:35:08.660 So that's what we're doing
00:35:09.800 at court.
00:35:10.780 Now Sheila,
00:35:11.580 let's bring you
00:35:12.380 in the conversation.
00:35:13.780 Last week was the application,
00:35:15.380 this week was the result.
00:35:16.920 Tell us what happened in court.
00:35:19.620 Well,
00:35:20.220 what happened in court
00:35:20.980 was that the judge
00:35:21.980 called the conditions
00:35:23.300 that are placed
00:35:24.000 on Omar Khotar,
00:35:25.040 as in he cannot travel
00:35:26.380 to Saudi Arabia
00:35:27.180 and he cannot have
00:35:28.080 unfettered communication
00:35:29.440 with his terrorist
00:35:30.700 sympathizing sister,
00:35:32.040 Zainab.
00:35:32.960 The judge called
00:35:33.740 those conditions
00:35:34.540 reasonable
00:35:35.140 and that they would
00:35:36.020 stay in place.
00:35:36.820 But the judge also said
00:35:38.040 that the conditions
00:35:39.100 aren't written in stone.
00:35:40.680 So that opens the door
00:35:41.940 for Khotar
00:35:42.680 to make an application
00:35:43.800 to change his bail conditions
00:35:45.280 in the future.
00:35:46.400 But I did have
00:35:47.320 a little run-in
00:35:48.020 with Omar Khotar
00:35:49.140 this morning
00:35:50.740 before Kian got here
00:35:51.940 because as you know,
00:35:52.720 Kian was coming up
00:35:53.440 from Calgary.
00:35:54.020 So I staked out
00:35:55.520 the courthouse
00:35:56.120 early this morning
00:35:57.380 and I caught Omar Khotar
00:35:59.360 as he was coming
00:36:00.600 into the courthouse
00:36:01.820 alone without his lawyer.
00:36:04.220 He came in the back side
00:36:05.480 of the courthouse.
00:36:06.820 I was standing there
00:36:07.560 with some other journalists
00:36:08.700 and they all sort of
00:36:10.680 watched him
00:36:11.740 walk up the steps
00:36:13.680 and nobody asked him
00:36:15.880 a single question.
00:36:16.780 It was like wildlife photography.
00:36:18.700 Nobody lunged at him
00:36:20.420 to ask him any questions
00:36:21.620 and I was the only one
00:36:23.000 who did.
00:36:23.460 And then the other journalist
00:36:24.500 looked at me
00:36:25.220 like I was the terrorist.
00:36:26.940 Yeah, you know,
00:36:27.380 this didn't happen
00:36:27.900 when they came
00:36:28.620 out of the courthouse.
00:36:29.820 Nobody asked the lawyer
00:36:30.800 any questions.
00:36:31.480 We followed the lawyer
00:36:32.240 for about 100 minutes
00:36:33.800 asking him questions
00:36:34.580 but there was just
00:36:35.600 no response,
00:36:36.580 no comment,
00:36:37.180 no comment.
00:36:38.300 They just weren't
00:36:39.040 in the mood
00:36:39.400 to talk to the media
00:36:40.320 and the media
00:36:40.960 was letting him
00:36:41.660 get away with it.
00:36:42.460 Well, that's the thing.
00:36:43.160 There's two things
00:36:43.860 going on there
00:36:44.380 in my view.
00:36:44.960 First is,
00:36:46.100 last week
00:36:46.900 and in every press conference
00:36:48.480 that this terrorist
00:36:49.760 has had,
00:36:50.600 his lawyers have said,
00:36:51.400 here's the rules.
00:36:52.380 No one talks
00:36:53.800 to Cotter.
00:36:54.500 You talk to me.
00:36:56.300 Yeah, there's no rules
00:36:57.260 it's a free country.
00:36:58.020 We don't follow instructions.
00:36:59.640 We're not in Pakistan
00:37:00.400 or Afghanistan
00:37:01.360 but the media
00:37:02.080 are compliant
00:37:03.100 because they want to be
00:37:04.140 on the good side
00:37:04.880 of Omar Khadar
00:37:06.060 and what would they
00:37:07.320 ask him anyways
00:37:08.300 other than,
00:37:09.560 you're dreamy.
00:37:10.240 What's it like
00:37:10.720 to be so dreamy?
00:37:11.680 So,
00:37:12.480 this is the perfect
00:37:13.740 anecdote
00:37:15.700 that proves
00:37:17.140 that you just can't
00:37:18.080 trust the mainstream media.
00:37:19.180 I mean,
00:37:19.800 Omar Khadar,
00:37:20.500 I compare him
00:37:21.140 to Paul Bernardo
00:37:21.900 in terms of the cruelty,
00:37:23.640 the way he
00:37:24.160 luxuriated
00:37:25.820 in the murder,
00:37:26.900 the way he is
00:37:27.680 completely unrepentant.
00:37:28.980 If Paul Bernardo
00:37:29.840 were to walk
00:37:30.460 in or out of a court
00:37:31.480 and his lawyer said,
00:37:32.620 don't ask him
00:37:33.080 any questions,
00:37:33.620 the media would laugh
00:37:34.940 and lunge at him
00:37:35.820 with a thousand questions
00:37:36.800 but our obedient
00:37:38.000 media party
00:37:38.900 will comply.
00:37:40.120 I think we have a clip
00:37:41.040 of your encounter,
00:37:42.420 Sheila.
00:37:42.820 Here,
00:37:43.260 let's take a look
00:37:44.020 at it now.
00:37:45.540 Omar Khadar,
00:37:46.280 do you think
00:37:46.740 the Spear Kids
00:37:48.440 deserve some
00:37:49.320 of your taxpayer
00:37:50.040 funded windfall?
00:37:51.640 Omar Khadar,
00:37:52.360 do you think
00:37:52.760 the Spear Kids
00:37:53.700 deserve some
00:37:54.900 of the money
00:37:55.540 the Canadian
00:37:56.080 taxpayers gave you?
00:38:00.380 Well,
00:38:00.920 Sheila,
00:38:01.220 back to you.
00:38:01.880 You say
00:38:03.500 that the other
00:38:04.060 reporters looked
00:38:04.900 at you
00:38:05.220 like you were
00:38:05.860 a terrorist
00:38:06.580 for daring
00:38:07.520 to talk
00:38:08.440 about Omar Khadar
00:38:09.320 in a way
00:38:10.400 that was less
00:38:10.980 than obedient
00:38:12.020 and submissive.
00:38:14.200 How many
00:38:14.940 reporters were there?
00:38:16.160 How many
00:38:16.560 other journalists
00:38:17.600 were there?
00:38:18.280 Do you know
00:38:18.920 the media outlets
00:38:19.900 they were with?
00:38:21.700 Like, seriously,
00:38:22.460 please tell me
00:38:22.960 there's one journalist
00:38:24.260 in the entire city
00:38:25.360 you're in
00:38:26.080 that wasn't afraid
00:38:27.400 to ask an accountability
00:38:28.360 question of this terrorist.
00:38:29.560 No, there's about
00:38:31.620 five journalists
00:38:32.720 and they had
00:38:35.080 with them
00:38:35.380 their videographers
00:38:36.180 and they stood
00:38:37.820 there silently
00:38:38.500 as Omar Khadar
00:38:39.500 walked by.
00:38:40.120 They were simply
00:38:40.580 just collecting
00:38:41.280 B-roll
00:38:41.800 like he was a moose
00:38:42.800 walking through
00:38:43.440 the forest.
00:38:45.080 And I jumped up
00:38:46.300 and asked him
00:38:46.880 questions
00:38:47.320 because nobody
00:38:48.320 else was going
00:38:49.060 to.
00:38:49.520 And I wanted
00:38:50.340 to know
00:38:51.080 if he thought
00:38:53.340 the Spear Kids
00:38:54.400 deserved
00:38:55.100 some of the money
00:38:56.480 the Canadian
00:38:57.120 taxpayers have given
00:38:58.240 him and he
00:38:59.920 completely ignored
00:39:00.920 me as though
00:39:01.700 my question
00:39:02.960 was absolutely
00:39:03.720 ridiculous.
00:39:04.580 Right.
00:39:04.820 Of course,
00:39:05.340 Omar Khadar
00:39:05.860 ignored you
00:39:06.240 because he's
00:39:06.700 a murderer
00:39:07.100 and a terrorist
00:39:07.720 unrepentant war
00:39:08.620 criminal.
00:39:09.260 But I'm getting
00:39:09.860 more at the
00:39:10.460 other journalists,
00:39:11.200 the five other
00:39:11.780 journalists who
00:39:12.300 were there.
00:39:13.340 I bet they don't
00:39:14.280 even know the
00:39:14.900 name Spear.
00:39:15.980 They're saying
00:39:16.240 Spear Kids?
00:39:17.340 What's a Spear
00:39:18.260 Kid?
00:39:18.620 They probably
00:39:19.080 don't even know
00:39:19.800 the names
00:39:20.260 of the murder
00:39:21.360 victims.
00:39:23.140 You know,
00:39:23.340 Christopher Spear
00:39:23.900 murdered and those
00:39:24.740 are the two
00:39:25.100 fatherless kids
00:39:25.800 because in
00:39:26.620 their narrative
00:39:27.160 if they knew
00:39:27.960 about the Spear
00:39:28.800 Kids,
00:39:29.640 then they
00:39:30.100 couldn't portray
00:39:30.860 Khadar as the
00:39:31.600 victim because
00:39:32.680 they are the
00:39:33.500 victims.
00:39:33.880 That's why
00:39:34.240 they've written
00:39:34.860 the Spear
00:39:35.760 family out of
00:39:36.560 the story
00:39:37.040 because otherwise
00:39:37.920 it changes
00:39:38.960 the narrative.
00:39:41.400 Yeah,
00:39:41.580 that's true.
00:39:42.640 Have you noticed
00:39:43.480 in all of the
00:39:44.740 footage in the
00:39:46.000 mainstream media,
00:39:46.980 absolutely nobody
00:39:47.960 mentions the
00:39:48.920 Spear Kids?
00:39:49.560 Absolutely nobody
00:39:50.440 mentions how
00:39:51.800 he's currently
00:39:52.980 fighting Christopher
00:39:55.060 Spear's widow
00:39:55.960 in court and
00:39:57.700 hiding the
00:39:58.380 money from her
00:39:59.060 because she
00:39:59.520 does have a
00:40:00.140 judgment against
00:40:01.140 Omar Khadar for
00:40:01.980 the wrongful
00:40:02.940 death of her
00:40:03.500 husband.
00:40:04.100 Absolutely nobody
00:40:04.920 is talking about
00:40:05.620 any of that.
00:40:06.460 Yeah, well I
00:40:07.100 bet his lawyer
00:40:07.980 Nathan Whitling
00:40:08.640 got paid.
00:40:09.440 Kian, I
00:40:09.740 understand that
00:40:10.380 Omar Khadar was
00:40:11.480 a student of
00:40:13.380 nursing at
00:40:14.200 Red Deer College
00:40:14.920 which is a
00:40:16.420 bizarre thing for
00:40:17.260 a cruel murderer
00:40:18.200 to sign up for.
00:40:20.500 Bizarre because
00:40:21.340 it's obviously
00:40:22.100 it has the milk
00:40:24.360 of human
00:40:24.720 kindness in
00:40:25.940 him but it's
00:40:26.400 also legally
00:40:26.980 bizarre because
00:40:27.600 to join the
00:40:28.060 nursing profession
00:40:28.700 you can't have
00:40:29.880 a criminal record
00:40:30.500 you must be of
00:40:31.200 good conduct
00:40:31.900 and good repute.
00:40:33.340 I understand he's
00:40:34.140 no longer
00:40:34.580 registered there.
00:40:35.260 What do you
00:40:35.540 know about
00:40:35.960 Omar Khadar and
00:40:36.600 how he passes
00:40:37.260 his days?
00:40:38.320 Does he roll
00:40:38.740 around in that
00:40:39.320 10.5 million
00:40:40.320 that Trudeau gave
00:40:41.100 him?
00:40:42.140 Where is he
00:40:42.940 physically?
00:40:43.400 What do you
00:40:43.660 know about him
00:40:44.300 and what do you
00:40:46.060 think he's up to?
00:40:47.580 So what I know
00:40:48.580 about Omar Khadar
00:40:49.580 is that he
00:40:50.040 faces PR team
00:40:51.100 far, far too much.
00:40:52.360 We saw him in
00:40:53.780 the courtroom last
00:40:54.500 week and he had
00:40:55.280 poppy socks on
00:40:56.320 just weird and
00:40:57.740 ironic and kind
00:40:59.060 of annoying but
00:41:00.380 also this whole
00:41:01.100 nursing schtick.
00:41:02.540 We haven't confirmed
00:41:03.600 if he's actually
00:41:04.200 ever gone to a
00:41:04.700 nursing class before.
00:41:05.660 We're not sure how
00:41:06.240 he got into RBC in
00:41:07.600 the first place if
00:41:08.380 it was just an
00:41:09.480 oversight on behalf
00:41:10.160 of the college and
00:41:11.340 maybe this newfound
00:41:12.720 publicity with his
00:41:14.520 hearing is what made
00:41:15.680 the college realize
00:41:16.560 what was happening
00:41:17.220 and then kicked him
00:41:18.260 out.
00:41:18.400 We're not sure.
00:41:19.200 We're looking into
00:41:19.880 it but it's pretty
00:41:20.720 hard with privacy laws
00:41:21.720 so we'll have to
00:41:22.820 see what happens
00:41:23.680 there.
00:41:24.500 Well I do know
00:41:25.100 we did ask his
00:41:27.760 lawyer and his
00:41:29.340 lawyer just said
00:41:30.020 no comment.
00:41:30.820 His lawyer, there's
00:41:31.640 a reason he was
00:41:32.520 kicked out of RDC
00:41:33.660 and his lawyer
00:41:34.400 doesn't want us
00:41:35.020 to find out.
00:41:35.820 Yeah.
00:41:36.380 Now last week you
00:41:37.720 had a good question
00:41:38.580 for Omar Khadar
00:41:39.500 which was what
00:41:41.340 airline would even
00:41:42.100 fly you.
00:41:43.840 And I know that
00:41:44.560 Omar Khadar has
00:41:45.120 come to Toronto
00:41:45.840 and I know he's
00:41:46.240 come to Ottawa.
00:41:47.380 We don't know if
00:41:48.060 he's met with
00:41:48.640 Justin Trudeau.
00:41:49.380 I assume they've
00:41:51.100 spoken on the
00:41:51.740 phone.
00:41:54.540 You made inquiries
00:41:55.880 with different
00:41:56.420 airlines.
00:41:57.400 I think he called
00:41:57.920 WestJet, AirCan,
00:41:59.100 etc.
00:41:59.720 Do we know if
00:42:00.740 those airlines
00:42:01.360 would put this
00:42:02.820 convicted confessed
00:42:03.860 terrorist on one
00:42:04.920 of their planes
00:42:05.600 or is he on a
00:42:06.760 no fly list?
00:42:08.060 Do you know how
00:42:08.500 he gets around?
00:42:10.500 Well we're not
00:42:11.280 sure how he flies
00:42:11.860 to Toronto.
00:42:13.020 We did follow up
00:42:14.000 with every airline
00:42:14.860 that could get him
00:42:15.820 from here to
00:42:16.460 Saudi Arabia.
00:42:17.640 That doesn't matter
00:42:18.300 so much now but
00:42:19.140 I certainly would
00:42:19.880 be interested and
00:42:20.440 I think our viewers
00:42:21.000 would be interested
00:42:21.640 to know what
00:42:22.660 airline he's
00:42:23.320 getting on to
00:42:23.900 get to Toronto
00:42:24.480 or if he has to
00:42:25.160 go by bus or
00:42:26.240 by train because
00:42:27.180 I certainly
00:42:28.040 wouldn't want to
00:42:28.620 be on a plane
00:42:29.100 with someone who
00:42:30.120 throws grenades
00:42:30.640 at American
00:42:32.040 Slopers.
00:42:32.660 That wouldn't be
00:42:33.460 a fun flight.
00:42:35.020 So we're going
00:42:35.700 to keep looking
00:42:36.120 into that for sure.
00:42:38.360 Sheila, I know
00:42:41.780 that there's a
00:42:42.280 disconnect between
00:42:43.020 the elite opinion
00:42:43.880 and the grassroots.
00:42:45.060 When Trudeau gave
00:42:46.380 Cotter $10.5 million
00:42:47.460 he thought it was
00:42:48.440 wonderful.
00:42:49.660 All the criminal
00:42:50.380 lawyers loved him,
00:42:51.180 all the judges
00:42:51.580 loved him,
00:42:51.920 all the professors
00:42:52.400 loved him,
00:42:52.740 all the media
00:42:53.120 loved him,
00:42:54.100 the Muslim
00:42:54.620 community,
00:42:55.240 too many of them
00:42:55.820 loved him.
00:42:56.700 But severely
00:42:57.340 normal Albertans
00:42:58.020 were appalled.
00:43:00.160 You're in Edmonton
00:43:01.340 which has been
00:43:02.160 and it's so unfair
00:43:03.600 that Omar Cotter
00:43:05.300 is in Edmonton.
00:43:06.820 Why does he have
00:43:07.960 to be in that
00:43:08.580 great city?
00:43:10.120 But do
00:43:11.840 grassroots
00:43:12.400 Edmontonians
00:43:13.440 share this
00:43:14.800 bizarre love
00:43:16.320 for a
00:43:17.760 depraved
00:43:19.760 murderer?
00:43:20.400 Do they love
00:43:21.020 him?
00:43:21.540 Do they go along
00:43:22.320 with the official
00:43:22.880 spin?
00:43:24.440 Or are they
00:43:25.040 uncomfortable?
00:43:25.380 Absolutely.
00:43:26.600 I think they're
00:43:27.500 uncomfortable.
00:43:28.300 Absolutely.
00:43:29.360 I think that
00:43:30.560 your regular
00:43:32.160 run-of-the-mill
00:43:33.160 Edmontonians
00:43:34.020 are pretty similar
00:43:34.780 to your regular
00:43:35.700 run-of-the-mill
00:43:36.460 Canadians from
00:43:37.940 all across the
00:43:38.520 country.
00:43:38.940 And as we saw
00:43:39.900 when we
00:43:40.500 fundraised for
00:43:41.460 the Spear Kids
00:43:42.340 that people
00:43:44.400 are appalled
00:43:45.900 at Justin
00:43:46.700 Trudeau's decision
00:43:47.540 especially,
00:43:48.620 you know,
00:43:48.940 Edmonton is a
00:43:49.680 military city
00:43:50.440 and, you know,
00:43:52.080 we're one of
00:43:53.900 the cities that
00:43:54.660 were hit with
00:43:55.340 the largest
00:43:56.020 number of war
00:43:57.020 dead in
00:43:57.680 Afghanistan.
00:43:59.100 And so that's
00:43:59.980 part of the
00:44:00.700 social fabric
00:44:02.600 here that we
00:44:03.480 are a military
00:44:04.080 city, that we
00:44:04.780 love the
00:44:05.220 princess hat.
00:44:06.920 And the fact
00:44:07.620 that Justin
00:44:08.120 Omar
00:44:09.680 Cotter,
00:44:10.340 excuse me,
00:44:10.980 wrong terrorist
00:44:11.680 sympathizer,
00:44:12.800 the fact that
00:44:14.420 Omar Cotter
00:44:15.220 chose Edmonton
00:44:16.380 as the place
00:44:17.480 to call home,
00:44:18.180 it's really just
00:44:19.080 a slap in the
00:44:19.720 face.
00:44:20.380 Well, listen,
00:44:21.180 you guys,
00:44:21.480 I'm so glad
00:44:21.880 you're both out
00:44:22.400 there at the
00:44:22.800 courthouse,
00:44:23.620 not just to ask
00:44:24.700 Cotter questions,
00:44:25.380 which of course
00:44:25.840 he will not
00:44:26.400 answer,
00:44:27.340 but really to
00:44:27.960 shame the rest
00:44:29.140 of the media
00:44:29.680 for being
00:44:30.480 complicit in the
00:44:31.640 PR stenography
00:44:32.780 for this
00:44:33.900 unrepentant
00:44:34.820 al-Qaeda
00:44:35.280 terrorist.
00:44:35.760 So I hope
00:44:36.660 you continue
00:44:37.100 to stay on
00:44:37.580 this file,
00:44:38.480 and I think
00:44:38.900 we should do
00:44:39.320 more,
00:44:39.980 because we
00:44:40.460 have to be
00:44:41.140 a megaphone
00:44:41.880 for those
00:44:42.780 severely normal
00:44:43.660 Edmontonians
00:44:44.300 and Canadians
00:44:44.840 of all stripe,
00:44:45.720 to let the
00:44:46.820 world know
00:44:47.440 that we are
00:44:47.840 not complicit
00:44:48.640 in the cover-up
00:44:49.820 for Cotter,
00:44:50.540 and I'm glad
00:44:51.160 you reminded me
00:44:51.780 because we
00:44:52.140 raised $230,000
00:44:53.460 from our viewers
00:44:54.420 for Taryn and
00:44:56.820 Tanner Spear,
00:44:58.060 the two
00:44:58.680 fatherless
00:44:59.240 children,
00:44:59.980 and when I
00:45:00.480 spoke to
00:45:00.880 Tabitha Spear
00:45:01.640 when we handed
00:45:02.400 over the
00:45:02.840 money to
00:45:03.240 them,
00:45:04.580 she told me
00:45:05.160 the timing
00:45:05.580 was perfect
00:45:06.280 because they
00:45:07.060 were just
00:45:07.380 starting college.
00:45:08.700 So imagine
00:45:09.280 sending nearly
00:45:10.240 a quarter of
00:45:10.740 a million dollars
00:45:11.420 to the
00:45:12.800 children just
00:45:14.640 in the nick
00:45:15.080 of time for
00:45:15.580 college.
00:45:16.040 I felt like
00:45:16.980 it was one
00:45:17.340 of the best
00:45:17.700 things that
00:45:18.220 the rebel
00:45:18.540 did.
00:45:19.260 Obviously,
00:45:19.840 all credit
00:45:20.220 goes to our
00:45:20.780 viewers who
00:45:21.200 were donors.
00:45:22.340 I think
00:45:22.740 you're right,
00:45:23.180 Sheila,
00:45:23.400 that is the
00:45:24.000 spirit of
00:45:24.440 Canada and
00:45:25.260 Alberta and
00:45:26.060 Edmonton and
00:45:26.900 the disgraceful
00:45:27.980 media.
00:45:29.680 I mean,
00:45:29.840 I understand a
00:45:30.560 lawyer has got
00:45:31.220 to represent a
00:45:31.800 murderer,
00:45:32.400 a murderer has
00:45:33.180 a right to
00:45:33.540 a lawyer.
00:45:34.140 I'm not going
00:45:34.600 to be too
00:45:35.480 angry with a
00:45:36.120 lawyer for
00:45:37.360 representing a
00:45:38.220 disgraceful
00:45:38.960 terrorist.
00:45:39.640 Even a
00:45:41.080 terrorist needs
00:45:41.780 a lawyer.
00:45:43.180 But what the
00:45:43.820 excuse is for
00:45:44.520 the media
00:45:44.900 party, I do
00:45:45.600 not know.
00:45:46.380 So you guys
00:45:46.900 keep on this
00:45:47.440 beat, okay?
00:45:49.140 We will.
00:45:49.740 Thanks,
00:45:50.000 Ezra.
00:45:50.380 All right.
00:45:50.780 Well, thanks,
00:45:51.260 Sheila.
00:45:51.520 Thanks,
00:45:51.860 Kian, and
00:45:52.580 Merry Christmas
00:45:53.100 to you.
00:45:53.980 Well, there
00:45:54.280 you have it.
00:45:54.760 The whole
00:45:55.160 Alberta rebel
00:45:56.040 team at the
00:45:56.900 courthouse in
00:45:57.680 Edmonton doing
00:45:59.160 the job the
00:46:00.080 mainstream media
00:46:01.060 won't,
00:46:01.520 which is
00:46:02.700 trying to
00:46:03.260 hold the
00:46:03.700 terrorist to
00:46:04.740 account.
00:46:05.540 Stay with us.
00:46:06.260 More ahead on the
00:46:06.740 report.
00:46:18.360 Hey, welcome
00:46:18.980 back on my
00:46:19.420 monologue yesterday
00:46:20.060 about President
00:46:20.700 Trump bringing
00:46:21.320 home 2,000
00:46:22.000 American troops
00:46:22.500 from Syria.
00:46:23.120 Brian writes,
00:46:23.840 Trump has the
00:46:25.420 point of view
00:46:25.900 that the U.S.
00:46:26.520 should only
00:46:27.060 fight wars
00:46:27.820 where the U.S.
00:46:28.740 is a national
00:46:29.260 interest.
00:46:30.120 This seems fair
00:46:30.960 and it looks
00:46:31.320 like a good
00:46:31.920 time to withdraw
00:46:32.460 from ISIS
00:46:33.000 beaten down
00:46:34.000 and their
00:46:34.280 territory taken.
00:46:39.300 Well, look,
00:46:40.280 I think you have
00:46:40.740 to make a
00:46:41.000 decision.
00:46:41.360 What is the
00:46:42.180 purpose of
00:46:43.040 having troops
00:46:43.580 there?
00:46:43.940 Is it they're
00:46:44.680 there and then
00:46:45.260 you can decide
00:46:45.840 what you want
00:46:46.200 to do with
00:46:46.480 them or are
00:46:46.680 they for a
00:46:47.120 purpose?
00:46:49.080 Is your
00:46:49.520 purpose to have
00:46:51.080 regime change
00:46:51.760 and knock off
00:46:52.380 Bashar Assad?
00:46:52.980 First of all,
00:46:53.560 I don't think
00:46:53.920 you will.
00:46:54.220 I don't think
00:46:54.440 the Russians
00:46:54.840 will let that
00:46:55.280 happen.
00:46:55.860 And second of
00:46:56.300 all, even if
00:46:56.700 you do, who
00:46:57.100 are you going
00:46:57.280 to replace
00:46:57.600 them with?
00:46:58.160 I think that's
00:46:58.680 the problem
00:46:59.140 that Canada
00:46:59.860 and Barack
00:47:00.980 Obama and
00:47:01.440 Hillary Clinton
00:47:01.900 had with
00:47:02.540 Gaddafi in
00:47:04.500 Libya.
00:47:05.720 You knock
00:47:06.300 them off,
00:47:06.680 okay, you
00:47:06.900 didn't like
00:47:07.360 them, now
00:47:08.160 what?
00:47:09.920 There are no
00:47:10.740 good guys in
00:47:11.820 Syria.
00:47:13.880 If the goal
00:47:14.560 is to protect
00:47:15.120 the Kurds,
00:47:16.280 the Kurdish
00:47:16.720 enclave, let's
00:47:17.340 say so and
00:47:18.140 let's be
00:47:19.080 explicit about
00:47:19.700 that and let's
00:47:20.720 deploy the troops
00:47:21.460 to that effect.
00:47:22.460 But that's
00:47:22.820 not what's
00:47:22.980 what they're
00:47:23.140 doing there
00:47:23.420 now.
00:47:25.440 Lou writes,
00:47:26.680 I donated
00:47:27.200 $100 to that
00:47:28.020 GoFundMe page
00:47:28.740 to build the
00:47:29.140 wall.
00:47:29.440 I think it's
00:47:29.760 the best
00:47:30.020 Christmas gift
00:47:30.560 I will give
00:47:30.920 this year.
00:47:31.700 Good walls
00:47:32.200 build good
00:47:32.820 neighbors.
00:47:33.720 Hi, Lou,
00:47:34.200 thanks for
00:47:34.700 your note.
00:47:35.180 Yeah, I
00:47:36.080 haven't checked
00:47:36.620 that GoFundMe
00:47:37.360 page for the
00:47:37.860 U.S.
00:47:38.140 wall in a
00:47:38.940 couple hours.
00:47:39.680 Last I did,
00:47:40.340 it was $11
00:47:41.400 million.
00:47:43.780 This is
00:47:44.280 crowdfunding.
00:47:44.960 This is people
00:47:45.340 like you, Lou,
00:47:46.260 chipping in money
00:47:46.840 to build a wall
00:47:47.500 that of course
00:47:47.920 the U.S.
00:47:48.340 government should
00:47:48.680 build on its
00:47:49.120 own.
00:47:49.740 But until
00:47:50.120 yesterday, the
00:47:51.260 House of
00:47:52.180 Representatives
00:47:52.640 voted to spend
00:47:53.520 $5 billion on
00:47:54.260 it, I think
00:47:55.120 Trump finally
00:47:56.240 realized this is
00:47:57.020 so critical to
00:47:57.640 his base.
00:47:58.380 I think that
00:47:58.900 GoFundMe
00:47:59.380 project helped
00:48:00.520 catch his
00:48:01.060 attention because
00:48:01.660 if you have
00:48:02.460 ordinary people
00:48:03.800 chipping in
00:48:04.280 $11 million
00:48:04.800 over just
00:48:05.720 four days to
00:48:06.920 build a wall
00:48:07.500 that the
00:48:07.760 government should
00:48:08.240 do, and the
00:48:08.960 crowdfunding goal
00:48:09.560 is a billion
00:48:10.160 dollars, that's
00:48:13.160 a pretty
00:48:13.560 incredible sign
00:48:14.380 that people
00:48:14.720 want it.
00:48:16.340 On my
00:48:16.740 interview with
00:48:17.140 Kurt Schlichter,
00:48:18.880 Paul writes,
00:48:19.420 big fan of
00:48:19.820 Kurt's work,
00:48:20.220 the U.S.
00:48:21.680 can still
00:48:22.020 support the
00:48:22.400 Kurds after
00:48:22.920 they've
00:48:23.060 withdrawn, I
00:48:23.500 hope they
00:48:23.740 do.
00:48:25.180 Well, that's
00:48:25.660 the thing, I
00:48:28.180 believe in
00:48:28.500 supporting the
00:48:28.900 Kurds, I
00:48:30.060 don't know how
00:48:30.560 far to go in
00:48:31.600 that, do they
00:48:32.660 declare independence,
00:48:33.480 does America
00:48:33.860 help them, stay
00:48:34.640 independent of
00:48:35.120 Iraq, I don't
00:48:35.600 know.
00:48:37.060 But that starts
00:48:37.940 with the policy
00:48:38.580 decision, and
00:48:39.760 then the troops
00:48:40.520 are the
00:48:41.300 manifestation of
00:48:42.660 that, the
00:48:42.980 implementers of
00:48:43.720 that, the
00:48:44.100 helpers and
00:48:44.660 protectors of
00:48:45.660 that.
00:48:46.020 You don't start
00:48:46.640 by saying,
00:48:47.120 okay, I want
00:48:47.700 soldiers there,
00:48:48.300 what do I do
00:48:48.760 with them, yeah,
00:48:49.720 you go to
00:48:50.140 Kurdistan, you
00:48:50.760 make the
00:48:51.740 decision, we
00:48:52.500 support an
00:48:53.060 independent
00:48:53.420 Kurdistan for
00:48:54.180 this reason, or
00:48:55.200 we want to
00:48:55.520 protect Kurdistan
00:48:56.300 from Iran for
00:48:57.260 this reason, and
00:48:58.160 then you do
00:48:58.560 that, you don't
00:48:59.440 just say, well, I
00:48:59.900 got 2,000 troops
00:49:00.740 there, and I
00:49:01.920 sort of want to
00:49:02.500 keep them there,
00:49:02.940 what should I do?
00:49:03.580 It's the other
00:49:04.060 way around.
00:49:05.440 And 17 years in
00:49:06.760 Afghanistan, okay,
00:49:08.160 what's the goal
00:49:08.900 again?
00:49:09.900 I saw someone on
00:49:10.860 Twitter say, well,
00:49:12.460 don't tell Donald
00:49:13.080 Trump, but there's
00:49:13.700 been U.S.
00:49:14.760 military bases in
00:49:15.540 Germany and Japan
00:49:16.180 since the end
00:49:17.020 of the Second
00:49:17.340 World War, and
00:49:18.180 Korea since the
00:49:18.880 end of the
00:49:19.060 Korean War, it's
00:49:20.080 true, it's
00:49:20.860 absolutely true, but
00:49:22.020 they are not in
00:49:23.300 combat, they are
00:49:23.940 not on patrol
00:49:24.580 every day, being
00:49:25.520 attacked every day,
00:49:26.260 being killed by
00:49:26.760 IEDs every day, or
00:49:28.100 terrorist suicide
00:49:28.700 bombs, those are
00:49:29.200 just forward
00:49:29.940 staging bases, and
00:49:32.160 it's really
00:49:32.420 cementing the
00:49:33.240 alliance, and in
00:49:35.340 the case of South
00:49:36.360 Korea, it's a
00:49:37.160 strategic deterrent
00:49:38.080 to North Korea, but
00:49:39.620 soldiers in
00:49:41.200 Germany, Korea,
00:49:42.660 Japan, and other
00:49:43.780 military bases in
00:49:44.720 most of the world
00:49:45.520 that America has,
00:49:46.580 America has a
00:49:46.940 great number of
00:49:47.460 bases, they're not
00:49:48.680 on hot combat
00:49:50.340 patrols in a war, so
00:49:53.440 I think that
00:49:53.760 comparison is false.
00:49:55.180 Why should one
00:49:56.220 more American die
00:49:57.760 in Afghanistan?
00:50:00.000 No one says, why
00:50:00.760 should one more
00:50:01.420 American die in
00:50:02.260 Germany, because the
00:50:03.180 only Americans that
00:50:03.780 die in Germany on
00:50:04.440 the military base are
00:50:05.120 from accidents or
00:50:06.400 mishaps that could
00:50:07.700 happen anywhere.
00:50:09.180 The reason people
00:50:10.060 say bring troops
00:50:10.820 home from Afghanistan
00:50:12.820 is for reasons of
00:50:14.020 blood.
00:50:14.720 Not reasons of
00:50:15.860 treasure, although
00:50:16.500 it's both.
00:50:18.260 Well, that is our
00:50:19.460 show for the day and
00:50:20.600 for the week.
00:50:21.680 We have recorded a
00:50:23.300 series of semi-biographical
00:50:25.920 interviews over the
00:50:28.380 Christmas period, and I
00:50:29.500 hope you enjoy them, so
00:50:31.200 we won't be giving you
00:50:32.120 up-to-the-minute newsy
00:50:33.580 reports over the
00:50:34.600 break, but we will
00:50:35.500 have a new show for
00:50:37.060 you every single day.
00:50:39.160 I won't tell you who
00:50:40.720 they are, I'll wait for
00:50:41.480 you to find out the day
00:50:42.780 of, but we'll be back
00:50:44.180 here on Monday, which
00:50:45.360 is Christmas Eve, and
00:50:46.960 we'll have shows New
00:50:48.080 Year's Eve, and we'll
00:50:49.220 have shows into the
00:50:50.020 new year, and I hope
00:50:50.920 you enjoy them.
00:50:51.920 I want to thank you for
00:50:52.860 your support over the
00:50:53.800 past year.
00:50:54.960 We're going to turn four
00:50:56.020 on February 15th.
00:50:57.240 That's quite an
00:50:58.400 achievement, I think,
00:51:00.000 especially in this age
00:51:01.300 of media collapses and
00:51:03.700 bailouts.
00:51:04.480 We're never going to
00:51:05.360 take a dime from the
00:51:06.280 government.
00:51:06.640 Maybe that's why people
00:51:07.920 support us, is they
00:51:08.840 know we tell it like it
00:51:10.240 is, we tell the
00:51:11.700 other side of the
00:51:12.320 story.
00:51:12.600 Thanks for being there,
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00:51:22.180 Until we see you next
00:51:23.220 time, on behalf of all
00:51:24.280 of us here at Rebel
00:51:25.120 World Headquarters, to
00:51:25.960 you at home, good
00:51:26.520 night, and keep
00:51:28.020 fighting for freedom.
00:51:28.640 Thank you.