Rebel News Podcast - DAILY Roundup ｜ Ezra reacts as Alberta Ethics Commissioner says Danielle Smith interfered in justice - works

00:00:00.000 Ezra Levan is my name. I am here for the live stream, which we always do at 1 p.m. Eastern

00:00:22.300 11 a.m. Mountain Time. It's usually hosted by my colleagues, David Menzies and Sheila

00:00:27.560 Gunnery. But today I'm in the chair alone because there's an important breaking news item out of

00:00:34.420 Alberta. And it's something that I've been following closely. I'm originally Albertan

00:00:39.380 myself. And in fact, I play a very minor role in this story. Today, the ethics commissioner

00:00:46.860 ruled that Alberta Premier Danielle Smith broke the ethics code in regards to pursuing

00:00:56.360 lockdown amnesty. That is a stay of prosecution against people who are still being hounded by

00:01:03.280 prosecutors for obsolete rules that were in effect a year, two, three ago.

00:01:12.920 I'll take you through the ruling itself, what it says, what it does not say. But I think there's

00:01:17.520 an even deeper, more important story to it, which is how Alberta's deep state, as it were,

00:01:24.080 is trying to get rid of Danielle Smith with an election. What is it, 11 days away now?

00:01:32.260 Today, by the way, is the debate day in the province of Alberta. Danielle Smith, the leader of

00:01:39.160 the UCP, the United Conservative Party, and Rachel Notley, the leader of the NDP Socialist Party,

00:01:45.000 former premier who was deposed by Jason Kenney, but wants a second crack at it. And opinion polls,

00:01:50.660 I've seen opinion polls showing the NDP with a real lead, but I've also seen opinion polls showing

00:01:57.200 that UCP is in the lead. I think that means that it's a volatile electorate. Normally, pollsters are

00:02:05.360 generally in the same zone. I think that this election is really up in the air, and the deep

00:02:12.040 state has decided they're going to make the decision. I'll tell you what I mean by that.

00:02:17.280 Now, this ethics report was rushed out hastily. Most of the ethics reports by this commissioner take

00:02:25.040 three, four plus months to do. This one was done very hastily to make sure it got out before the

00:02:32.720 election. And maybe that's appropriate, or maybe that's someone putting their thumb on the scale.

00:02:37.600 It was released today, the day of the debates. Not tomorrow, the day after the debates, but today.

00:02:45.620 The day where the candidates are normally preparing, and where the candidates themselves

00:02:51.040 would choose the issues. No, the ethics commissioner herself will choose the issue. You know that that

00:02:57.280 will be the case. The CBC has a major role in what I am calling an attempted coup d'etat, and here's what

00:03:07.960 I mean by that. A few months ago, the CBC reported something as fact. They said that Danielle Smith or her

00:03:17.340 staff emailed prosecutors on the COVID files telling them to stop. They couldn't be more explicit. They said

00:03:25.680 they were emails. Now, later on, they said they hadn't actually seen the emails. Isn't that interesting?

00:03:35.120 But they insisted they happen. Well, this launched an enormous investigation in the public service by

00:03:41.300 the non-partisan public service. I don't mean political appointees. I mean the permanent bureaucracy

00:03:48.400 that runs the government. They checked over a million emails and couldn't find the emails that the

00:03:55.080 CBC said had happened, even though the CBC couldn't have been sure about it because they never saw them

00:04:03.000 themselves. Who would have told them, and why would they believe someone who wouldn't show them in the

00:04:10.460 face of a massive investigation by the bureaucracy that showed no such emails were done? Well, in today's

00:04:18.220 report by the Ethics Commissioner, which talks about Danielle Smith and her views on a kind of lockdown

00:04:25.080 amnesty, there's a major section on the CBC, and I want to show it to you. And this isn't the most

00:04:32.220 important part of today's story, but it shows you the collusion between the NDP, the media party,

00:04:40.000 Justin Trudeau's CBC, and how it's all happening, in my opinion, with some dissident conservatives who

00:04:48.400 have never accepted Danielle Smith as a leader. Here, I'd like you to, Olivia or Efron, I'm not sure

00:04:56.660 who's at the computer there. Is that you, Olivia? Can you please search for CBC and go to the next

00:05:02.580 instance of it and first show the title page of the report to show people what document we're

00:05:08.580 referring to? I have on the screen, and I'll show it to you, and we'll have a link to it, if you could

00:05:13.960 put that on the screen. This is the Office of the Ethics Commissioner, Province of Alberta, report of

00:05:18.020 findings and recommendations by the Honorable Marguerite Trussler, King's Counsel, Ethics Commissioner,

00:05:24.080 into allegations involving Danielle Smith. So it was published today. So that's the document I'm reading

00:05:30.180 from. And then do a find, the word CBC, and skip the first one. That shows that, you can put it on the

00:05:35.300 screen there. In January of 2023, the CBC aired a story relying on an unnamed source that a political

00:05:43.820 staff member in the Premier's office had directly contacted prosecutors, plural, in the Criminal

00:05:49.440 Prosecution Service about COVID-related prosecutions. In March of 2023, a tape was posted to the CBC

00:05:54.760 website of a conversation between Premier Smith and Arthur Pavlovsky. We can talk about that a little bit

00:05:59.340 later. The allegation is that the Premier and her staff, as a result of these two incidents,

00:06:03.420 interfered with the administration of justice and thereby breached Section 3 of the Conflict of

00:06:07.300 Interest Act. Oh, I skipped a paragraph there. Highlights from the tape are set out in the NDP

00:06:12.600 request for an investigation. I also downloaded the tape and personally listened to it. So those

00:06:16.640 are the two allegations that Arthur Pavlovsky recording of his personal conversation with

00:06:23.260 Daniel Smith, and far more serious in my mind, the accusation that Smith or her staff were literally

00:06:30.800 emailing prosecutors, plural, and telling them what to do. That would be political interference like

00:06:36.380 Justin Trudeau does. That's not something a conservative would do. Skip ahead to the next

00:06:43.020 instance of the word CBC, because this is quite something. And the next one, just one more.

00:06:49.000 Yeah, let's read this. The CBC allegation. We already read that. The person who was alleged to

00:06:59.380 have sent one or perhaps more of the emails was incensed by the allegations and denied them. The

00:07:04.880 lawyer conducting or participating in all the Cooch prosecution, Stephen Johnson, said that he was never

00:07:09.960 contacted by anyone in the Premier's office. Kim Goddard, Assistant Deputy Minister of Justice, at one

00:07:14.760 point, held a town hall video meeting with prosecutors and reiterated the impendence of the Crown

00:07:19.260 prosecutors. She told them to ignore political statements and to advise her if anyone was contacted,

00:07:23.660 particularly if the contact was from a political source. At one point, she requested and received from the

00:07:27.920 Crown Prosecution Service an update on all cases, but it was used by her merely as a reference to bring the

00:07:33.060 Attorney General and was never forwarded. The Public Service Commissioner, with the consent of the

00:07:37.960 Deputy Minister, conducted an email search. I referred to that. Keep going. Skip to the next page. Look at

00:07:45.560 this. I think it can be said that the members of the Crown Prosecution Services, that's another way of

00:07:51.740 saying prosecutors, were annoyed and even incensed by the allegation that one of them had received

00:07:59.200 outside political pressure. Assistant Deputy Minister Kim Goddard is confident no one in the service

00:08:05.020 received an email. So that's not a political appointee. That's a lifer prosecutor. But look at

00:08:11.400 these next two paragraphs. Absolutely devastating to the wicked liars of the CBC. Look at these two next 0.97

00:08:20.020 paragraphs. All 44 Crown Prosecutors who had coots, that was the border blockade by the truckers,

00:08:29.540 or COVID related files, provided a statement that they did not receive any contact relating to their

00:08:38.960 files from the Premier's office. 44 prosecutors on the COVID file. None of them appointed by Daniel

00:08:47.360 Smith, of course. They're not political appointees at all. They're lawyers who just work for the

00:08:52.660 government. 44 out of 44 said, I don't know what the CBC is talking about. I have never received such

00:09:01.440 an email. And then this next line. All 32 political staff members in the Premier's office at the relevant

00:09:09.660 time provided a statement that they did not contact any Crown Prosecutors regarding the coots or COVID

00:09:15.360 related files. 76 people said it is not true. That is absolutely devastating to the CBC. It was one of the

00:09:36.840 grounds for this ethics complaint. And here, Marguerite Trussler, retired judge, now ethics commissioner,

00:09:45.140 said in a polite way, the CBC made it up. And they continue to lie about it to this day.

00:09:59.920 That's a pretty devastating rebuke of the CBC. By the way, in my experience, government lawyers are

00:10:06.120 typically left of center compared to the rest of the profession. I don't think any of them are

00:10:11.000 particular fans of Daniel Smith. She's not in the club. She's not a lawyer. Most, not most, but a lot

00:10:16.140 of premiers are lawyers. Doug Ford is not. Stephen Harper, the Prime Minister is not. But Brian Marooney

00:10:23.200 was a lawyer. Jean-Claude Chen was a lawyer. Quite a lot of politicians are lawyers. It's a fit there.

00:10:29.500 Lawyers deal with laws. I think the fact that you're not in the fraternity, I think lawyers sometimes look

00:10:39.880 down on politicians who are not lawyers. What I'm saying is those 70, those 44 prosecutors are not

00:10:49.440 lying to cover up for Danielle Smith. If anything, they disagree with her. But they're honest enough

00:10:55.460 and bound by the professional ethics enough to tell the truth. Not a single prosecutor in Alberta

00:11:02.260 received a single email from the premier or her office. And remember, the CBC lie was that prosecutors,

00:11:10.860 plural, received it. Incredibly, the CBC itself has not seen these alleged purported, fabricated,

00:11:20.000 made-up, imaginary emails. And you would think, after that rebuke, the CBC might have a drop of

00:11:30.040 humility. But you would be deadly wrong because you don't understand the CBC is not a news organization.

00:11:36.500 They are a government news organization, which is completely different. You throw an adjective in

00:11:42.640 front of the word journalist. There's journalist. I know what that means. Government journalist.

00:11:46.820 There's no such thing. And so I want to show you how the CBC covered this story this morning.

00:11:53.700 This is incredible. I just showed you that this ethics complaint was founded on two allegations. One,

00:12:00.500 the CBC claim that prosecutors were contacted by the premier's office. And second,

00:12:06.520 a conversation with Arthur Pawlowski. Here's how the CBC covers it.

00:12:10.900 Alberta Premier Smith breached Conflicts of Interest Act, says Ethics Commissioner,

00:12:17.060 finding focus on Smith's contact with Minister of Justice in relation to COVID-19 related charges.

00:12:21.880 Okay, let's read a bit here. Alberta's Ethics Commissioner says, Danielle Smith, in her 0.88

00:12:26.200 capacity as premier, contradicted the act. Blah, blah, blah. Skip ahead. The whole scheme of things

00:12:30.740 is a threat to democracy. Skip ahead. In January, CBC News reported that a staffer in Smith's office had

00:12:37.820 sent a series of emails to the Alberta Crown Prosecution Service. A series of emails, plural.

00:12:45.180 Challenging prosecutors, plural, assessment and direction on cases stemming from the Coutts

00:12:49.980 border blockage and protests. Later that month, CBC News reported that Smith pressured Justice

00:12:55.260 Minister Tyler Shandro. Case skimmed down a little bit, skimmed down a little bit.

00:13:02.080 But just skimmed the whole way down. Can you see anything here, skimmed down, about the emails

00:13:09.080 being a lie? Chandro remembered a different version. Skimmed down, skimmed down.

00:13:19.360 Smith asked about the extent to which he could get involved. Seemed to suggest something was,

00:13:24.400 Smith pointed out that he was the Attorney General and seemed to suggest something that was influenced

00:13:28.560 by a letter sent by Ezra Levant, who runs the right-wing media company, Rebel News. She wrote,

00:13:32.700 I'll talk about that later. In response, blah, blah, blah. Scroll down, scroll down. We're scrolling

00:13:38.680 down now to see if there's any reference in this very long story to that absolutely devastating point

00:13:44.780 about the emails to the prosecutors not happening. Scroll down, scroll down, scroll down, scroll down.

00:13:50.680 Scroll down, scroll down. And then they link to the report about the author, Joel Dryden. So I just

00:13:58.760 showed, we just skimmed down. We didn't read it all. I'll come back to that Ezra Levant thing in a moment.

00:14:02.840 More than a page in this report is dedicated to the CBC accusation

00:14:13.000 that staff in Daniel Smith's office improperly contacted prosecutors, plural, with a series,

00:14:26.200 plural, of emails. In fact, they restated that in the CBC story, didn't they?

00:14:31.680 CBC reported that, blah, blah, blah. But it didn't happen. More than a million emails were

00:14:42.900 searched. None existed. You search a million emails, you're going to find a lot of things.

00:14:50.800 You did not find this, let alone a series of emails to prosecutors, plural. And then just to

00:14:57.920 make sure every single prosecutor in the province that was dealing with the Coutts border issue or

00:15:05.540 COVID, every single one, 44 of them, which is an enormous waste of resources. You wonder why crime

00:15:10.720 is soaring in Alberta. Maybe take those 44 prosecutors, put them on real crimes instead of thought crimes and

00:15:16.540 COVID crimes. You got to be a certain kind of lawyer to enjoy prosecuting people for keeping their church

00:15:22.980 open or the business open or not wearing a mask. You got to be a bit of an authoritarian leftist to

00:15:27.980 think. That said, 44 out of 44 said, we don't know what the CBC is talking about. We have never

00:15:37.520 received such an email, let alone a series of emails. 44 out of 44. So look at this, issues and discussion

00:15:45.760 of the law. There are three questions that need to be answered. Scroll down. They are, did someone from

00:15:50.340 the premier's office send an email about the COVID-related prosecutions to a prosecutor. Scroll

00:15:55.440 down. I want to deal first with the allegation published by the CBC that a member of the premier

00:16:01.360 staff emailed a crown prosecutor about a case before the courts. I asked numerous questions of a

00:16:05.740 considerable number of people about the existence of any email and could find no evidence the event

00:16:11.180 occurred or that any email exists. The CBC has not seen the emails and has not divulged.

00:16:19.660 Quite rightly, it's sorts. Oh, is it quite right to protect a proven liar?

00:16:27.520 Does that, does that source really even exist?

00:16:31.720 It was public knowledge that this investigation was taking place and one might expect that the

00:16:35.220 CBC source would have come forward on an anonymous or confidential basis. All crown prosecutors who

00:16:40.180 have COVID-related files have stated they did not receive an email critiquing the crown's position

00:16:44.420 and all the premier staff has stated that they did not send such an email. As a result, I found no

00:16:49.760 evidence of such an email and I can only come to the conclusion based on the evidence I have

00:16:54.120 that no crown prosecutor was emailed directly about any of the cases. There appears to be no

00:17:01.100 interference with the independence of prosecutors on this level. There is no evidence that the premier

00:17:07.280 never ever spoke to any crown prosecutor. It would appear that she unfortunately used the term

00:17:12.060 inappropriately. I'll get to the next part in a second, but we just went through the CBC article.

00:17:22.880 They refer to the emails. They say we reported that these emails were sent.

00:17:27.500 They did not say they never saw them. They did not say they refused to tell them their secret

00:17:34.480 source. Does that really, does that secret source really exist? Or is it your imaginary friend? Or is

00:17:39.960 it your fellow journalist and you're his source and he's your source? Is it some deep state? Well, they

00:17:45.940 talked to the deep state. 44 out of 44 prosecutors said you made it up. Judge Tressler here said they made

00:17:53.520 it up. How, how could the CBC still run with that? How could they not even mention

00:18:01.900 that devastating rebuke from the ethics commissioner? How do you write? There were two charges against

00:18:10.860 Danielle Smith, a series of emails sent to prosecutors, and then a brief phone call with Arthur Pawlowski.

00:18:19.040 Two, two charges. The first one, absolutely not a shred of evidence, completely confected by the CBC.

00:18:33.720 How do you not mention that in your story? But I just took you through the CBC story. They don't

00:18:39.400 mention it. Is that what a news organization does? Or is that what Trudeau's state broadcaster does?

00:18:46.560 There's a big difference. I mentioned in this report, and I'll tell you about it. I'll read it,

00:18:52.640 and I won't hide it. I'm proud of my mention here, and I agree with and disagree with some of the judge

00:18:58.840 here. I'll take it through now. Yeah, let's show this. So back in October last year, I bumped into the

00:19:10.340 premier, and I said, look, there's a way, a legal way to stay these prosecutions. That's the legal term.

00:19:18.880 Amnesty is probably not the right word, and amnesty implies you did it, you didn't do it,

00:19:24.320 whatever stage of it, you're just, you're, you're washed clean of your sins. Amnesty isn't the word.

00:19:30.160 Pardon isn't the word. The legal technical term is to stay a prosecution. Now, I'm going to read you

00:19:36.100 some of the letter I wrote, and I wrote it to Danielle. So I met with Danielle Smith, and she

00:19:41.040 said, hey, give me your ideas on, on, on how to do it. So I'll just read some of this. You can see

00:19:45.360 this from October. Marshall is the name of her chief of staff. Please thank the premier for taking the

00:19:51.300 time to speak with me. It's nice to see her again in her new role. Nice to meet you. I'll send you

00:19:54.840 another note in a couple days about blah, blah, blah. On the lockdown and pandemic prosecutions, I was

00:20:00.760 heartened to see how well informed the premier is on these matters. She clearly understands how important

00:20:04.320 these issues are, both politically and morally. She really is on the right side of history.

00:20:08.960 Blah, blah, blah. The premier was interested in information that I could provide her about the

00:20:14.120 situation on the ground and mechanisms available to her to provide leadership on these issues.

00:20:18.060 The purpose of this note is to provide the premier with that information. So what follows is a slightly

00:20:22.620 more technical version of what I say on my nightly show all the time. There are still an unknown number

00:20:29.320 of tickets, charges, and contempt proceedings or related matters. I have good knowledge of some

00:20:35.920 of the prosecutions, but other lawyers have files and, you know, some trials have commenced. There

00:20:40.820 are real issues about why they're proceeding. As the premier says, they appear to have been

00:20:46.340 politically motivated. Staying or withdrawing the charges would send a strong message in support of

00:20:49.820 the rule of law. I'm only suggesting that prosecutions which have been politically motivated,

00:20:55.580 targeting people who only sought to exercise their constitutional freedom of expression and religion

00:20:59.860 be stayed or discontinued. So let's just go stand to, I'm not going to read all of it because it's a

00:21:06.480 little bit legalistic. Jurisdiction. Almost all the prosecutions that I'm aware of are conducted by

00:21:11.300 provincial prosecutors. They're under the premier's jurisdiction. The attorney general has the

00:21:16.480 discretion on whether and how to prosecute. Here's a leading case on the matter.

00:21:21.860 Significant of what is common with various elements of prosecutorial discretion is that they involve the

00:21:25.500 ultimate decisions as to whether prosecution should be brought, continued, or ceased, and what the

00:21:29.400 prosecution ought to be for. Put differently, prosecutorial discretion refers to decision regarding

00:21:33.840 the nature and extent of the prosecution and the attorney general's participation in it.

00:21:37.460 Decisions that do not go to the nature and extent of the prosecution need the decision to govern a

00:21:40.920 crown prosecutor's tactics and conduct before the total court, blah, blah, blah. So you see I have

00:21:45.140 footnote number one there. Scroll to the very bottom on this memo. I want to show you that that case is

00:21:51.040 from the Supreme Court. It was in the case called Krieger and the Law Society of Alberta, a 2002

00:21:57.260 case. SCC says it's a Supreme Court of Canada case. So I'm quoting the Supreme Court. I'm not making this

00:22:03.580 stuff up. Okay, go right back up. Thanks very much. I just wanted to show my footnote there. This next

00:22:09.920 paragraph is important. Specifically, the attorney general can decide the nature and extent of the

00:22:13.700 prosecution and the attorney general's participation in it. And crown prosecutors employed by Alberta

00:22:18.760 Crown Prosecution Service have prosecutorial discretion to stay with raw proceedings, blah, blah, blah. It's

00:22:23.920 usually done in open court. Scroll down, scroll down, scroll down. The basis for staying them,

00:22:31.700 if there's no reasonable likelihood of conviction, and it does not suit the public interest.

00:22:37.160 There are clear legal issues with many of the cases, vague and confusing. As aptly noted by,

00:22:45.400 you know, and I quote others, other experts, Dr. Fluker.

00:22:56.260 Yeah, I'm not going to, this is a fairly dense legal memo.

00:23:03.080 The premier can, should she choose to, direct the attorney general to review and withdraw or discontinue any

00:23:10.980 cases arising from the chief medical officer of health orders under the public health act

00:23:15.140 or any pending charges. So I don't say that the premier should tell the prosecution what to do.

00:23:22.740 I say the premier can direct the attorney general to review and withdraw. The premier could request that

00:23:30.020 the review be undertaken with respect to each prosecution. Obviously, the attorney general would

00:23:34.480 take into account the premier's view that without more, proceeding these prosecutions is not in the

00:23:38.640 public interest. I would also encourage the premier to note that beyond the lack of merit and political

00:23:43.500 nature of these charges, the province has a shortage of prosecutors, court staff and superior court

00:23:46.560 judges. Can you imagine putting 44 prosecutors on this beat? In consultation with my lawyers, it appears

00:23:53.420 the most direct and efficient way to direct a state proceedings is to make a written memo, and I get into the

00:23:57.800 technicalities. Anyways, so thanks very much. You can read the whole thing. I've tweeted that. It's on our

00:24:02.380 website. It's a technical memo, but it's really what I say and have been saying in public for about two

00:24:08.960 years now, which is, I don't really use the word amnesty. I use the word amnesty, lockdown amnesty,

00:24:15.980 because it's a common parlance. People know what amnesty is. Stay of prosecution is a little more

00:24:23.600 technical. That's actually what it is. And you can see my memo from October outlines it, and you can see

00:24:32.280 and I mentioned it twice there, that nowhere do I recommend the premier talk to any prosecutors

00:24:38.860 at all. I say talk to the attorney general, have him review things with an eye to, are these good

00:24:46.140 cases? That's what I say. If you don't blame me, read the memo for yourself. But go back to Judge

00:24:53.560 Trussler's ruling, because I think she misquotes my memo. It's not a big deal. I mean, I don't care.

00:24:59.460 But she said, the only incident that is in any way close to what was reported

00:25:03.820 was the email containing a letter sent by Ezra Levant, criticizing the prosecutions

00:25:08.620 and purporting to show why they were wrong and what to do about them.

00:25:12.260 The communication was sent to the premier's chief of staff, who forwarded to the chief of staff of

00:25:16.080 the minister of justice, Christopher Thrasher, for response. As the latter was within the

00:25:21.500 jurisdiction of the justice ministry, the email was appropriately forwarded from one political

00:25:24.600 staffer to another, so the second political staff member could deal with the matter.

00:25:27.940 Mr. Thrasher provided the email letter to the minister of justice, Tyler Shandro,

00:25:32.300 who in turn forwarded to the deputy minister, Frank Basha. It was then sent to the assistant

00:25:36.180 deputy minister in charge of the crown prosecution service, who did not forward it to any crown

00:25:40.240 prosecutor. She appropriately had a discussion about it with the deputy minister, and nothing

00:25:43.820 further than it happened with the letter. So that's it. Can you scroll back up a little bit?

00:25:50.760 Okay, can you search my name one more time? Because it's at a later point where she refers to my memo

00:25:58.400 itself. Yeah, search it just one more time.

00:26:03.100 So I'm fine with what she described there. But here she says, scroll back up one or two. Yeah.

00:26:08.620 Yeah. So she says, on October 25th, Marshall Smith received the email directly from Ezra Levant,

00:26:19.060 which surprisingly, from someone legally trained, that's me, advocated direct interference by the

00:26:27.380 premier by having her order a stay in prosecutions. I did not say that. I just read to you what I said.

00:26:33.620 I didn't say that at all. I said that the premier should direct the justice minister to review the

00:26:41.240 cases, and the ones that do not meet the legal standards, the justice minister should state them.

00:26:47.620 I never said that the premier should order a stay in the prosecutions. I defy you to find that. I think

00:26:55.500 I'm going to write to the judge and point out that she's wrong. Not that anything turned on it. Like I say,

00:27:02.180 this fake complaint by the CBC was thrown out by the judge. But it bothers me about this much

00:27:09.740 that the judge didn't read my memo. It was only like five pages.

00:27:16.120 Anyway, so that's my involvement there. And I got a rule of thumb when I talk to politicians. I talk

00:27:23.740 to politicians from time to time. Almost always they reach out to me. In this case, I had something I

00:27:30.900 wanted to share with the new premier of Alberta. But my rule of thumb is don't say anything verbally

00:27:38.040 that you wouldn't say if there was a camera there. And don't write anything in writing that you would

00:27:45.040 be shy for it to see the light of day. And I stand by this memo absolutely completely.

00:27:52.460 I would like to hear the associate deputy minister, assistant deputy minister's reply to it.

00:27:59.600 Um, why wasn't this a good idea? You know, literally citing a Supreme Court case and the

00:28:08.000 prosecutorial discretion is obvious, famous, commonplace. I mean, Justin Trudeau only formally

00:28:16.100 legalized marijuana in the past couple of years. But de facto, it was decriminalized probably for 20

00:28:24.240 years. I don't think that there was a, I would doubt if there were 10 prosecutions for mere possession

00:28:31.460 of marijuana a year in Canada. The police literally did not prosecute possession. They would take your

00:28:37.540 marijuana joint, throw it in the gutter, stamp it out or whatever. They wouldn't charge you with it

00:28:42.160 alone. Like if you were charged with 10 crimes, they might throw that on top just as a bargaining

00:28:47.040 chip. But police in Canada have not prosecuted marijuana possession in over a decade.

00:28:53.500 Why? How are they allowed to do that? By exercising their political prosecutorial discretion. Prosecutors

00:28:59.580 aren't going to waste time because someone was caught with a pot joint. Justin Trudeau campaigned on

00:29:05.860 making that the law and he did. How's that different here? But I just wanted to tell you my own role

00:29:14.280 here unless someone says, or why don't you talk about your memo? Okay, I did. My point is

00:29:19.100 this is not a real complaint. Both elements of the complaint, the lie about the emails and the

00:29:30.300 author Pavlovsky video came from the CBC. The CBC is an activist organization, not representing its

00:29:41.120 taxpayers and viewers, but representing one man, Justin Trudeau. And they know it

00:29:48.820 because if they were truly independent journalists, would they not report on the news of the day?

00:29:55.380 The news of the day is, as I said at the outset, Danielle Smith was found in breach of these

00:30:02.040 ethics rules by a judge who had a hasty hearing to make sure she got it out before the election

00:30:07.100 and on the day of a debate, which is a little sketchy. That is news. And it's news about the

00:30:14.440 author Pavlovsky video, which we'll talk about a little later. But half the entire case, and by far

00:30:20.140 the more serious part, was the fabrication, the lie that the CBC claimed emails, a series of emails

00:30:34.740 was sent to prosecutors. That is a damnable lie. And yet, show the CBC article again. How do you do a

00:30:44.820 lengthy, detailed article? Lengthy? And not mention that. Like, not even in one sentence at the very end.

00:30:55.520 That's not journalism. That's campaigning. That's Justin Trudeau's state broadcaster

00:31:04.920 directing their government journalists to attack a political foe and to hide their own involvement in

00:31:13.520 it. Not just their own involvement, but the fact that their own involvement was completely false.

00:31:23.920 Every single prosecutor, every single staffer said, it did not happen.

00:31:33.000 And the CBC will not even say they were rebuked, let alone own up to it.

00:31:37.400 That's the deep state. That's the deep state. But I'm afraid that, I mean, before I came on the show

00:31:44.780 half an hour ago, I read probably 50 tweets about this by different journalists in Alberta. And other

00:31:50.660 than the independent journalists at True North and Counter Signal and Western Standard,

00:31:58.280 the media party, the CBC, the Post Media, City TV, not one of them mentioned the CBC lie.

00:32:05.500 Why wouldn't they mention it? They don't have any skin in the game, or do they? Of course they do.

00:32:11.560 They're on Trudeau's payroll now, too.

00:32:17.480 Very interesting times. It's 1.35. We're going to take a short commercial break.

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00:37:46.420 there were two reasons for this investigation, two purported reasons of this investigation. You

00:37:54.680 really, you know, these fake investigations with fake timing. It really feels, you know,

00:37:59.700 in a way it feels like what they did to Donald Trump, you know, constant accusations, constant

00:38:06.420 media lying. Oh, she's misspoke this. She said that she used the word amnesty and said a stay of

00:38:13.400 prosecution. She said prosecution instead of attorney general, ha ha, we got you. And in the end, no,

00:38:18.800 it was all a lie. The, the hoax, it was a hoax. Like the Russia hoax, this email hoax, it's a hoax.

00:38:25.780 But once the CBC has told the lie a thousand times, and finally you have a judge here saying,

00:38:32.940 no, that's a lie. They're still not even willing to correct the lie, but they've done their damage.

00:38:40.780 Rachel Notley has a friendly neighborly smile. She comes across as mild-mannered most of the time. 0.97

00:38:47.680 Which is the perfect cover for her absolutely devastating attacks on the economy and civil 0.99

00:38:55.800 liberties. Danielle Smith, every misstep or misspeak is magnified, and then they just outright

00:39:03.920 lie as the CBC does, as I've shown you. And so I fear that 11 days to the election, I think it's 11 days,

00:39:12.420 it's not about substance. It's not about ideology. It's not about who's going to destroy the province

00:39:22.140 or not. It's about chaos around Danielle Smith. And why is it chaotic around here? Well, of course,

00:39:29.220 because she sent these emails. Oh, no, she didn't. Well, the CBC says she did.

00:39:33.420 A judge said that was false. Well, the CBC still says it. The CBC are not journalists. They are

00:39:39.440 the NDP war room here. Hey, put that new poll up. I appreciate that. I see you've got a poll here.

00:39:47.880 Alberta Provincial Polling from Research Co., I guess. NDP, 49. UCP, 47.

00:39:58.320 Green Party, 1% SMA. I don't even know what that stands for without refreshing my memory.

00:40:08.320 That's within the margin of error. I'm actually more interested. I wonder if that's Janet Brown's

00:40:15.180 polling company. Is there a link to click on there? Go to the next tweet. They often link to the actual

00:40:19.480 poll in the next one. Oh, Solidarity Movement of Alberta. Yeah, I didn't know what it stood for.

00:40:23.740 That's Arthur Pawlowski's new political party. Click on 338Canada.com.

00:40:34.400 And maybe they have a link to that. We're going to take a minute to look at it.

00:40:43.840 Can you scroll down a little bit?

00:40:45.160 Okay, so the latest

00:40:48.960 projection here.

00:40:53.700 That latest poll projects

00:40:55.520 the UCP squeaking

00:40:57.400 through.

00:40:59.480 But this late hit might make

00:41:01.280 a difference. Odds of winning the most seats.

00:41:03.240 They say the UCP majority, they're tilting

00:41:05.260 towards it. But I saw a poll just

00:41:07.260 the other day that frankly looked

00:41:08.940 the opposite way. Scroll down.

00:41:10.360 All right, well that suggests three polls

00:41:15.060 in a row. Put the UCP ahead.

00:41:19.800 Seat projection.

00:41:23.020 They suggest 49 to

00:41:24.640 38.

00:41:27.160 All right, well these polls are less

00:41:28.680 traumatic

00:41:29.840 than what I saw earlier.

00:41:33.900 Odds of winning the most seats.

00:41:35.420 Whatever math they're using.

00:41:38.180 Okay, thanks for that.

00:41:40.360 Those polls aren't as

00:41:43.460 bad as the ones I saw. I'm not sure which

00:41:45.380 one I was looking at. Maybe it was an Abacus poll

00:41:47.340 that I saw. I think it was. Now of course

00:41:49.180 Abacus is part of

00:41:50.700 the liberal octopus as well.

00:41:54.220 Abacus, I like their pollster

00:41:55.620 David Coletto. I think he's a good

00:41:57.320 egg and I think he's a fair minded guy. But the company

00:41:59.360 is owned by Bruce

00:42:01.000 Anderson who is the father

00:42:03.400 of Justin Trudeau's

00:42:05.300 former director of communications.

00:42:06.940 So they're pretty tightly tied

00:42:08.660 together.

00:42:10.920 Yeah, click on that one there.

00:42:12.740 Click on that. Yeah, so this is from

00:42:14.580 yesterday.

00:42:16.240 This is the poll.

00:42:17.840 Over the weekend we released a new poll that found

00:42:19.380 the NDP taking a lead over the UCP.

00:42:21.520 Several other polls have been released or leaked

00:42:22.720 which have found varying results from a large

00:42:24.340 UCP lead to a large NDP lead.

00:42:26.980 So I wanted to verify and update the province-wide

00:42:28.900 picture and conducted a quick survey with just under

00:42:30.760 500 eligible voters.

00:42:32.140 Here's what I found.

00:42:34.640 Statistical tie.

00:42:38.060 Looks like it.

00:42:40.040 Scroll down a little bit, please.

00:42:44.200 All the movement from our last survey is

00:42:45.800 within the margin of error.

00:42:48.260 Okay.

00:42:49.740 But the undecideds are pretty low.

00:42:52.060 Current vote intention.

00:42:53.240 Likely voters.

00:42:54.240 NDP slightly ahead.

00:42:55.840 Keep going.

00:42:56.280 If, okay, keep going.

00:43:03.560 Likely decided.

00:43:06.420 Choice by community.

00:43:07.400 So Edmonton, look at that.

00:43:08.520 You'd be lucky to get a single conservative

00:43:10.600 reelected.

00:43:11.340 Calgary, the UCP is ahead.

00:43:13.780 I mean, it would be devastating if they weren't.

00:43:15.280 Rural parts, that's what other areas mean.

00:43:17.060 So if this holds,

00:43:20.980 I think you've got yourself a conservative win.

00:43:23.180 But boy, an ugly win, eh?

00:43:26.280 But scroll down a little bit.

00:43:27.700 When you remove the undecideds,

00:43:28.960 the results by region are Calgary, 51 to 44.

00:43:32.000 Edmonton, just a crushing win.

00:43:35.160 Vote by age and gender.

00:43:36.660 Young people are socialists in Alberta, 0.99

00:43:39.000 which is too bad.

00:43:40.040 They've lost the Albertaness in them.

00:43:42.560 Older people are conservative.

00:43:43.760 Men are more conservative.

00:43:44.880 Women are more leftist. 1.00

00:43:46.700 That's how it is, I regret.

00:43:48.800 Scroll down.

00:43:51.120 The Alberta party is a minor party.

00:43:53.780 Impressions of Danielle Smith are negative.

00:43:58.520 You can see that they're negative in every demographic,

00:44:03.160 except for Calgary, where she's a little bit positive.

00:44:05.740 They're negative in Edmonton.

00:44:08.460 They're sort of tied in the rural parts

00:44:10.120 and barely ahead in Calgary.

00:44:12.620 I hope she gets a chance to get her sea legs under her. 1.00

00:44:17.840 She has been premier for more than six months,

00:44:21.040 but I don't know if she has a core team around her.

00:44:27.360 Do we have any super chats?

00:44:32.980 Sounds like we have one.

00:44:34.200 Let me move on over to that.

00:44:37.640 Okie doke. 0.85

00:44:38.220 I don't see it here.

00:44:38.860 Feel free to put that right there

00:44:40.060 in the live stream Slack account.

00:44:42.740 You know, I didn't deal with the Arthur Pavlovsky thing.

00:44:46.680 Rachel Notley had a phone call with Arthur Pavlovsky

00:44:50.260 where he talked about staying prosecutions,

00:44:54.020 and she said something like,

00:44:56.200 I'll look into it or something,

00:44:57.520 and the judge said that that was an inappropriate thing to say.

00:44:59.800 I don't know if I have strong thoughts on that,

00:45:04.080 but I think it was destructive by Arthur Pavlovsky to do that.

00:45:14.300 I don't think it moved the lockdown amnesty movement forward

00:45:19.000 to release that video.

00:45:21.680 Don't know why he did it.

00:45:22.820 I support Arthur Pavlovsky's legal cases.

00:45:25.640 We crowdfund.

00:45:27.080 We've crowdfunded for 16 of his court hearings,

00:45:29.640 if you can believe it.

00:45:30.740 I don't know why he did what he did.

00:45:32.440 I think it was counterproductive.

00:45:34.380 And if this ethics violation

00:45:37.800 is the thing that tips the balance,

00:45:40.740 it was his leaked recording

00:45:42.520 that was the source of the conviction.

00:45:44.520 The lie about the emails was found to be a lie.

00:45:49.840 So that would be an embarrassing and unfortunate

00:45:52.920 and inappropriate legacy for Arthur Pavlovsky

00:45:57.400 if that were the case.

00:45:59.380 Here's a super chat from someone named Justin Turdow.

00:46:04.120 Five bucks.

00:46:04.900 Elections should be postponed

00:46:05.740 until the wildfires are under control.

00:46:07.220 Funny how the old communities in Alberta

00:46:08.800 are under threat of evacuation or on fire,

00:46:10.940 and those people are going to go vote.

00:46:12.420 I disagree with you.

00:46:13.660 There's always an excuse to not have a vote.

00:46:16.200 I mean, the excuse of the COVID.

00:46:18.640 There's COVID out there.

00:46:19.920 We can't have people go vote in person.

00:46:23.160 We need to have mail voting, vote harvesting. 0.92

00:46:26.920 We need to have all these kind of iffy

00:46:29.380 and less hard to verify systems for collective.

00:46:33.040 No.

00:46:33.900 If there are some districts,

00:46:35.600 I mean, across Alberta, the air is very smoky.

00:46:40.340 That's not a reason not to vote.

00:46:41.740 In those particular areas where there is an evacuation,

00:46:46.160 let there be solutions just in those areas.

00:46:52.940 I think it's fair to guess that those areas would vote UCP

00:46:56.620 because they're typically rural areas,

00:46:59.520 but hold the results until then.

00:47:03.200 Or do whatever engenders the most trust and verification.

00:47:08.340 You don't want to mess around with this election.

00:47:09.960 You don't want to mess around with any elections.

00:47:11.700 But you don't need to delay the election.

00:47:14.580 If you reward politicians by delaying the election

00:47:17.560 for there being an emergency,

00:47:19.560 they'll come up with emergencies every time.

00:47:21.820 So I disagree with you, caller,

00:47:23.300 but thank you for your point.

00:47:24.280 Well, it's 1.50 in Eastern time,

00:47:28.580 11.50 in Alberta,

00:47:29.800 and normally we go the full hour,

00:47:31.900 but I feel like I've covered the basis on this.

00:47:33.880 Let me sum up my views.

00:47:37.320 I think it is absolutely legitimate

00:47:39.780 for a political candidate to say

00:47:42.760 in advance of seeking office

00:47:44.040 that her campaign platform

00:47:45.520 is to decriminalize civil disobedience

00:47:49.360 during the lockdown.

00:47:50.000 If Justin Trudeau can decriminalize marijuana,

00:47:53.280 why can't Danielle Smith decriminalize 1.00

00:47:55.960 opening up a church in the middle of lockdown?

00:48:00.380 She said she would do that if she became premier.

00:48:03.040 She became premier,

00:48:04.400 and she asked the justice minister to look into it.

00:48:08.300 How on earth is that possibly interference?

00:48:11.440 That's her job. 0.97

00:48:12.180 That's her campaign promise.

00:48:13.320 The CBC lie is being conflated

00:48:16.780 with what she actually did.

00:48:18.000 The CBC has the most to answer for here,

00:48:20.860 but they have their answer

00:48:22.620 only to Justin Trudeau, who loves it.

00:48:25.780 What a disgrace for any journalist

00:48:27.200 who would write this story

00:48:28.300 without referring to the fact 0.75

00:48:29.260 that the CBC are proven liars.

00:48:33.260 That said, I would say

00:48:34.960 the fact that myself and other outside people

00:48:39.160 gave advice to the premier,

00:48:40.460 we should always be allowed to give advice

00:48:41.880 to whoever we want.

00:48:44.240 But I think it's

00:48:45.360 a sign of the deep state,

00:48:50.080 so to speak,

00:48:51.020 that within the government,

00:48:53.420 the premier of the province,

00:48:55.060 who has at her disposal

00:48:56.320 maybe a thousand lawyers

00:48:57.620 in the Department of Justice,

00:48:58.620 I don't know how many work

00:48:59.260 for the Department of Justice,

00:49:01.320 that there was no ally there

00:49:05.180 to listen to the premier as a client

00:49:07.500 and help her find a path here.

00:49:12.980 Maybe that person was supposed to be

00:49:14.600 Tyler Shandler, the Attorney General,

00:49:16.140 but he is a conflicted party.

00:49:17.600 He was the health minister

00:49:18.460 who enforced all of these lockdowns

00:49:20.460 in the first place.

00:49:22.560 I think maybe there ought to have been

00:49:23.880 a special lawyer

00:49:25.060 in the Justice Department

00:49:26.780 who was given this task

00:49:27.880 to do it carefully and lawfully,

00:49:32.360 which, by the way,

00:49:32.780 I think Danielle Smith did it 0.99

00:49:34.020 carefully and lawfully.

00:49:34.900 I think the timing

00:49:37.800 of this late hit

00:49:38.860 on the day of the debate

00:49:40.800 is suspect.

00:49:42.800 I think the fact that

00:49:44.080 literally a quick phone call

00:49:45.960 with Arthur Pawlowski

00:49:46.900 from which nothing came

00:49:48.280 is grounds for a conviction

00:49:50.860 is laughable.

00:49:53.700 I don't think that Danielle Smith

00:49:55.560 is going to appeal this ruling.

00:49:57.080 I don't think she wants to prolong it.

00:49:59.240 But the NDP are gleeful

00:50:00.500 and I bet Arthur Pawlowski

00:50:01.860 is because his party,

00:50:02.840 I just, Solidarity Movement Party,

00:50:04.500 it's a 1%.

00:50:05.380 It ain't going to win,

00:50:07.040 but it may help

00:50:08.740 Rachel Notley to win.

00:50:11.880 Interesting days.

00:50:13.400 I'll tell you one thing.

00:50:14.100 Here at Rebel News,

00:50:14.700 we will always fight for freedom.

00:50:16.260 If you want to know

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00:50:18.100 just read us

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00:50:20.760 We serve our viewers

00:50:21.880 in Alberta and abroad

00:50:23.060 and afar,

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00:50:25.940 We fight for freedom.

00:50:27.120 We hold politicians

00:50:27.840 of every stripe to account.

00:50:29.480 We give the same advice

00:50:30.680 in private as we do in public.

00:50:31.960 Let me close by reading

00:50:33.860 Danielle Smith's tweet

00:50:34.900 on the subject.

00:50:35.540 I see you have that up there.

00:50:38.220 The Ethics Commissioner report

00:50:39.340 has confirmed

00:50:40.080 the CBC and NDP lied

00:50:41.300 regarding Crown Prosecutor contact.

00:50:43.560 I was gratified

00:50:44.340 to read the Ethics Commissioner's

00:50:45.420 finding confirming

00:50:46.000 that neither I

00:50:46.520 nor anyone in my office

00:50:47.340 tried to or did contact

00:50:49.140 any Crown Prosecutors

00:50:50.080 regarding any COVID-19 prosecutions.

00:50:52.380 Read my full letter below.

00:50:54.680 And I'll let you read that letter

00:50:56.240 on your own

00:50:56.760 if you want to find it.

00:50:57.600 I'm ending this live stream

00:51:02.220 more upbeat than I started it

00:51:04.040 because I was under the impression

00:51:06.000 that the polls were dark

00:51:07.660 to begin with

00:51:08.320 and this might just

00:51:08.940 nudge things over.

00:51:09.800 But if I'm reading the polls right,

00:51:11.640 the last three put the UCP

00:51:13.340 in the lead.

00:51:15.120 And I think anyone

00:51:16.140 who would vote

00:51:17.120 against Danielle Smith

00:51:18.000 based on this,

00:51:19.380 they probably already

00:51:20.260 made their mind up

00:51:21.100 to vote against Danielle Smith

00:51:22.280 no matter what.

00:51:22.980 Danielle Smith is correct.

00:51:26.800 This report does

00:51:27.580 absolutely vindicate her

00:51:29.140 on the CBC NDP lie

00:51:32.420 that she contacted prosecutors.

00:51:36.180 It'll be fascinating

00:51:37.400 if there's any justice there at all.

00:51:40.000 She has threatened them 0.98

00:51:41.780 with defamation action.

00:51:43.320 I don't know if she's taken it,

00:51:44.340 but it sounds like

00:51:45.460 the CBC just made it up

00:51:47.660 and has no proof of it.

00:51:49.860 And the fact that

00:51:50.520 they did not acknowledge

00:51:51.600 that they were rebuked

00:51:52.580 in this report today

00:51:54.160 is incredible to me.

00:51:56.240 Interesting days.

00:51:57.000 If you asked me today

00:51:57.900 who's going to win the election,

00:51:59.060 I would say,

00:51:59.560 you know what?

00:52:01.640 It's 50-50.

00:52:03.520 If I were a conservative

00:52:05.060 voter in Alberta,

00:52:06.340 I would say,

00:52:07.780 if you don't stop

00:52:10.080 Rachel Notley,

00:52:10.960 you are going to

00:52:11.840 not only lose

00:52:12.560 your civil liberties,

00:52:13.420 but your economic prosperity.

00:52:15.920 And the knock

00:52:16.960 against Danielle Smith

00:52:17.860 is that her wording

00:52:18.800 is sometimes imprecise.

00:52:20.060 She sometimes

00:52:20.880 has ideological

00:52:21.620 or policy flights of fancy,

00:52:23.060 and I'm sure that's true.

00:52:24.640 I think one of her problems

00:52:25.820 is she has not yet

00:52:26.720 been fully accepted

00:52:27.540 as the team leader

00:52:28.380 by the team she has taken over.

00:52:30.700 Remember,

00:52:30.980 she was not an MLA.

00:52:32.000 Most of the people

00:52:32.520 she's working with

00:52:33.180 are Jason Kenney MLA's

00:52:35.220 and cabinet ministers,

00:52:36.040 including Tyler Chandra himself,

00:52:38.160 the right-hand man

00:52:39.040 who was there

00:52:39.540 at the Sky Palace

00:52:41.200 breaking the COVID rules,

00:52:42.820 looking down at little people,

00:52:43.820 having a party,

00:52:44.960 a liquored-up party

00:52:45.820 with Jason Kenney

00:52:46.660 while they were banning

00:52:47.420 gatherings down below.

00:52:49.100 That's the guy

00:52:49.980 who's the justice minister now.

00:52:51.380 No wonder you're having

00:52:52.100 problems doing anything.

00:52:54.580 I think it's important

00:52:55.760 that Danielle Smith

00:52:56.540 win this election

00:52:57.280 and then the next day

00:52:58.520 that she cleans house.

00:53:03.120 Until next time.

00:53:05.140 Oh,

00:53:06.040 before I say goodbye,

00:53:07.100 I'm told there's one more chat.

00:53:08.240 Is it in the live stream?

00:53:12.300 In the same area.

00:53:18.500 Okay,

00:53:18.660 I read that one

00:53:19.360 in the wrong stream.

00:53:20.500 There we go.

00:53:22.000 I Love Canada

00:53:22.880 says

00:53:24.240 50 bucks.

00:53:26.360 Thank you.

00:53:27.360 My picture

00:53:28.180 says it all.

00:53:30.580 Okay.

00:53:32.500 And the picture

00:53:33.600 is a

00:53:34.500 Trump shirt.

00:53:37.420 Yeah,

00:53:37.640 I see it there.

00:53:38.500 Okay.

00:53:38.860 Well,

00:53:41.500 thanks very much

00:53:42.180 for the 50 smackers.

00:53:43.260 I really appreciate that

00:53:44.140 and thanks to giving that

00:53:45.080 through Rumble.

00:53:46.340 That's our show for today.

00:53:48.020 I'll be talking about

00:53:48.820 this subject again tonight

00:53:49.840 on my APM show.

00:53:51.360 You can sign up for that

00:53:52.260 at rebelnewsplus.com.

00:53:56.020 Until next time,

00:53:56.820 on behalf of all of us here

00:53:57.900 to you at home,

00:53:59.760 goodbye

00:54:00.120 and keep fighting for freedom.

Rebel News Podcast - May 18, 2023

DAILY Roundup ｜ Ezra reacts as Alberta Ethics Commissioner says Danielle Smith interfered in justice - works

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