DAILY Roundup | NDP activists rush Danielle Smith, Alberta health solutions, Fuel tax suspension
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Summary
Ezra Levant is back, and he's joined by Sheila Gunn-Reed, Adam Sosen, and Alex Blumberg to discuss the upcoming Alberta election, and what it's like to be a left-wing journalist in a province where media access is strictly limited.
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Oh, hi everybody, Ezra Levant here in Toronto. Joining me live from Calgary is Adam Sosen
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from Edmonton, Sheila Gunn-Reed, our chief reporter. It's great to be back. I was away
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for too many days. I had some elective surgery, nothing to worry, don't worry about it.
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I was just getting my mouth stretched so I can say bigger words and snack a little more. Sheila,
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how are you doing out there? I'm doing great, boss. I'm glad to see that you're better. And I know my
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email was full of people concerned about you, but I did my best to reassure them. And I think
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they're going to be glad to see you back in the big chair. Well, I'm glad to be back and it's
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nothing to worry about. I don't want to give away too many personal details because first of all,
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they're gross, but I have no terminal illness. I just, you know, it's just taking the car into
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the shop to get things tidied up a little bit. And, uh, I know a lot of people have been really,
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really saying, Ezra, if you get some major plastic surgery, we will pay for it. But, uh,
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I've always resisted that. I'm just joking around with all these dumb jokes. Adam, how are you doing
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out West? Oh, I'm doing wonderful. And it's great to see, I can tell it's the Julia Roberts smile
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extension that you've gotten. You know what? By the way, I'm joking. I have not had a smile extension.
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I have not, I just telling you like, like the joker, you know, like I, I just making dumb
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excuse. I had some oral surgery, but it was not to prettify me. It was, uh, anyhow. Um,
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but I won't even talk anymore about it because no one needs, no one cares. Um, but I'm glad to be
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here because Holy moly, are we in the thick of it? Alberta is having an election. I really do think
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it's important. Um, every election is important. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But the thing is Rachel Notley,
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the socialist NDP premier who sort of won an accidental victory in 2015. And for the next
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four years, just torched the province. It was saved by Jason Kenney. And then lo and behold,
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look what he went and did. And so now there's a rematch. Rachel Notley's back. She has the
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credibility of, well, I was premier once before and you're still around. So you can imagine me being
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premier and I'm the devil, you know, and this Danielle Smith, well, she's, she's kooky and
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she's radical and she talks to extremists. And, and, um, it's true. She has a different,
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Danielle Smith has a different style. She's not, I don't think the word gravitas comes to mind when
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I think Danielle Smith, I think interesting, interested, libertarian. I think she's a great
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communicator most of the time, but it's those times when she, maybe she's not that get her in
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trouble. Um, and so oddly enough, Rachel Notley, the devil, you know, I think has some advantages.
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Of course, uh, she has an enormous disadvantage. She's a socialist in the freedom lovingest province.
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Um, Adam, how long until election day? What is the election day?
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What are we at 18? It's the 29th. So we're closing in quick.
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Two and a half weeks away. Uh, I know you've been at events. She'll, I'll come to you in a moment,
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but Adam, what's it like on the campaign trail? First of all, let me ask you a question.
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Have you even been allowed in to NDP events or do they keep you out? Cause you ask prickly questions.
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Well, you know, there, there, there's been a concerted effort definitely to, uh, to limit people's
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access to that information. And it's not just us. There's journalists from left-wing outlets that
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haven't been able to get these media pressers like the Edmonton journal. Um, they go out of their way
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to ensure that these locations aren't made public. Even last night, I headed out to an event and, uh,
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the initial location I got there. Fortunately, I always arrive at these things probably would
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have an hour early. And there's a tiny little sign saying that they've moved to a different location
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because of the weather. Well, you get to the other location and clearly this was not a last minute
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of thing. They've got stages set up and everybody knows about this so that they're going out of
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their way to ensure people don't get in. Um, now, obviously we know Alex, uh, our, uh, one of our
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journalists was, was kicked out of an event. People haven't been allowed to ask questions. There's
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been quite a bit of a scandal on that front certainly, but I was actually quite hopeful last
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night because quite recently Rachel Motley said, no, no, no, actually I'm going to be taking questions
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from everybody. I think we might even have a clip of that, but she's like, I'm going to take
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questions from everybody except Western standard because there's sort of an unresolved issue there.
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So I'm like, okay, maybe she's, she's realized that there is such a backlash. Um, so I show up at
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this event last night, I walk in, I ask where questions will be. And if a follow-up will be
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permitted, kind of making a joke about Daniel Smith, not allowing follow-ups. They tell me where I can
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set up my camera. They're telling me, yep, this is the spot you're going to go for questions.
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Everything's great. Um, then as the events unfolding, it gets to the question period. While I walk over
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to ask my question, uh, an NDP person who's been working on the campaign, I don't know if he's,
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I don't know if he's a staff or I don't know if he's a volunteer, but he's intentionally blocking
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my camera knowing that I've walked away from it now. And you actually have a CTV camera person
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giving him a bit of an earful about moving. And he says, he knows he's blocking my camera.
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He doesn't care. I go back to ask my question and right as they're about to hand me the mic,
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they just go, we're actually not taking questions from rebel news now. Apparently now rebel news is the
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outlet they don't take questions from. And then they just say, uh, no further questions from
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journalists and they end the event and Rachel runs out. So it's, it's, it's not just the fact
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we've seen this with Justin Trudeau before that they, they won't take questions, but it's the fact
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that Rachel Notley is campaigning saying Daniel Smith, who's answered half a dozen questions from
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us. They're saying she's hiding while, while Rachel Notley is pulling stunts like this.
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You know what? I saw that clip the other day where they said, we'll talk to anyone except for
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Western standard because they have committed hate speech against our candidates. Hey, I know a
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little bit about a hate speech section 319 in the criminal code defines hate speech. I, I think
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they're, they're calling any criticism, any political criticism, any skeptical journalism,
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hate speech. It's just so insane. But even if we take that insanity at face value, okay, that's
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Western standard. You work for rebel news. They let you in, but then they physically block you. You
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say we have footage of that. So what, uh, with setting up the camera, a Western standard
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journalist was there and they filmed it and we're efforting to get that footage. We do have footage
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of the person intentionally blocking my camera. That's so, that's so childish. So passive. Oh,
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we don't, I'm, I'm hearing. Yeah. They're working on the edit right now. That is crazy. That is a
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child's move. Oh, you can come in, but Nana, Nana, boo boo. You can't hear me. You can't hear. I got my
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hands on my ears and I'm going to block your camera. I'm going to block your camera. I'm
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going to block you. You're welcome. Free speech. Yeah. We respect journal. We just, we're blocking
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you. We're blocking. And you're saying CTV actually said, what are you doing? So CTV was so grossed out
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by this. Even they commented. This is, this is commonplace on the campaign trail. There's been
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instances where they know the sort of rough ride we get. Um, for example, at the last UCPA event,
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I was about fourth in line and everybody just took a step back and sort of waved me through as
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in let's get you to get, ask your question. So other journalists actually are so, well, that is
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an innovation. I mean, sometimes other journalists aren't, uh, uh, particularly friendly towards rebel
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news, but if you're saying that other journalists are so grossed out by this, that they actually part
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like the red sea to allow you to go to the microphone is interesting. Well, let me ask you one
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last question before I go to Sheila, uh, Adam, what you described suggests that there is some
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disgruntlement of, uh, even the media party who used to be gruntled and now they're disgruntled.
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And what I want to ask you is if any of this is showing up in their publicity, in their, in their
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published work. And the reason I say that is, you know, it's, it's one thing for them to say,
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oh, we don't like what's happening to you. But I think that's a legitimate news story. It certainly
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would be if the shoe was on the other foot, if it was Danielle Smith or Doug Ford or the
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old Steven Harper who was playing those games. So they're being nice. The other media are being
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nice to you because they, there's, they're grossed out by, so that's, that's the guy standing
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in front of you right now. Yeah. And towards the end here, right here, you can, that's where
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the CTV guy, it's very quiet. I'm sure we'll be able to pull it off our mics. The CTV guy
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right now, when he leans out is giving him a bit of an earful. Um, and then he says, oh,
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I don't care. I I'm not blocking your shot, but I want to block his shot. He said that
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the CTV guy looks at me with a look of just absolute disgust in his face. And he says,
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I'm sorry, man. I tried, I raised my tripod and whatever. It's not the end of the world,
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but the CTV guy was just shaking his head. Similarly, one of the other journalists who
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they kind of acted like they were going to hand me the mic and gave it to her. She was
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a young lady. I'm a gentleman go first by all means. Um, but when she went to hand me the
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mic next and they grabbed it, the look on her face was of disgust. Um, on the Trudeau,
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on the Trudeau campaign, I think that, that there was, we did get some condescension. Some
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of the camera people would look down on us when we were covering the federal election. Um, I think
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the media at that point was definitely still bought in. Um, but I think it's shifting,
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but to your point, being a little bit sort of disgruntled off the record, giving a nod,
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moving your camera rigs. I mean, these guys will move their massive camera rigs so I can get my
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little cell phone in and get a shot at these events. Um, you can tell based on their actions,
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they're disgruntled, um, but they, they're still state funded. The bosses are still going to allow
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a message. So, uh, to your question, Ezra, I don't think that there has been enough outspoken
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criticism. We do see these rare instances where, where journalists will ask tough questions,
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where they, where they will sort of push back a little bit. I feel like the tide is changing,
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but we need more of these journalists, uh, to take a stand to maybe boycott a couple NDP events,
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if they're not going to allow, uh, people to ask questions because being nice to me while that
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makes my heart feel, uh, warm and fuzzy. And it makes me realize that I'm not crazy. And these
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people are the bad guys. Well, it doesn't really change things. It just makes me feel good, which
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that's great, but, but it doesn't really matter ultimately when we're dealing with an election
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that's, as you mentioned, two and a half weeks out.
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Sheila, I know you've got a lot of things to say about this. Let me invite you in and then I'm gonna,
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I'm just gonna ask, actually, let me just spit out one super quick question. Do you know the name
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of that NDP staffer who was blocking? Was that like a, was that just like some ordinary NDP or was
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that like a press secretary? Yeah, we don't know, but he, there, there's a gentleman, I don't know
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his last name, Mike, who is an NDP staffer and introduced himself as such. I'm sure it'd be very
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easy to find. He was talking to this guy quite regularly. And when Rachel Notley, it's funny when
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Rachel Notley was entering, um, he was the person sort of blocking people and ensuring
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the cameras. He's an NDP staffer. He's not just some, uh, some, you know,
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or volunteer, NDP volunteer at the very, very least. Isn't that funny?
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We'll figure it out. We will find out. And he's so childish about it. I remember federally,
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Terry Guillaume, uh, who works for Justin Trudeau, physically slammed young Kian Bexty,
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who was working for us at the time, like elbowed him like the thug that he was. So we call Terry Guillaume
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a thug, which he is and was, but this little, you know, uh, vegan, um, you know, I'm just going
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to come up with a bunch of left-wing insults, but I'm going to think better of that. This,
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this, uh, low testosterone, um, uh, passive aggressive, passive aggressive, you know what?
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I mean, like he doesn't even have the balls to, to, to slam you. I mean, I've seen you in person,
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Adam, that would be a fool's errand to, to physically tussle with Adam Sose who can bench
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press, I'm guessing North at 300. But, um, so he just blocks you like a child. So, so perfectly NDP.
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All right, Sheila, I've taken enough time, uh, yammering. Why don't you weigh in on these
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shenanigans? And then we're going to show what happened to Daniel Smith yesterday.
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Okay. But before I weigh in, I have to do some housekeeping because we are 60 minutes into
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coverage on the campaign trail. So I think those are the nuts and bolts now to answer, um, as there's
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question about me weighing in, um, I think it's really interesting that the NDP, like two weeks ago,
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they, they were losing their ever loving minds and the mainstream media were doing the same thing too,
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um, about how it was an attack on democracy and attack, um, on accountability and attack on the
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free press. When Danielle Smith said, Hey, you know what, these press conferences are getting a
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little out of hand. We're going to limit the journalists to one question, no follow-up all
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journalists, not just the NDP ones or the, you know, the Trudeau colonized ones, but everybody's
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getting one question, no follow-up. And I think it had something to do with the fact that CBC sends like
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a gajillion journalists and then they send French language journalists and post media is basically
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in charge of the media here in Alberta because it's Edmonton Journal, Calgary Herald, National
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Post, and a lot of the smaller weeklies in your community newspapers. Those are all post media. So
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what you had was like all these journalists from these two companies showing up and asking the same
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question in English and French. And so nobody else is getting a question. So she limited them to just
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one and everybody lost their, their minds. Um, and so now the same journalists now, as like Adam
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says, there's some pushback, but I think you would think you would expect there would be more pushback
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from the mainstream media who were bawling their eyes out on Twitter two weeks ago, because Danielle
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Smith limited them to one question when they see time after time, not only Western standard, but
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counter signal and rebel news being physically blocked, physically removed from these being
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called out from the podium, um, accused of hate speech by Rachel Notley. They should all be speaking
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up. It shouldn't be just some silent cameraman who sees what's happening to Adam in person. They should
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be whining and crying just as loud on Twitter now as they were before when they were limited to just one
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question. I'm very concerned though, that, um, uh, not that I'm concerned that there are a lot of new
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people in Alberta, Alberta's calling move, come here for jobs and opportunity. But I think Rachel
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Notley is relying on the fact that there are so many new people in Alberta that they don't have the same
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memory of her dark days in power that the rest of us do, including her attack on the free press, because, uh,
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I think it was 20 early 2016, maybe late 2015 when Rachel Notley threw me out of the legislature.
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I was going there to report on a joint press conference being held between her and prime
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minister, Justin Trudeau. I think it had something to do with the carbon tax. If I recall correctly,
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she threw me out of the legislature and what ensued from that was an inquiry, um, which resulted in
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what's known as the Boyd report, which basically told Rachel Notley, sorry, you don't have the right to
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throw journalists out of government press conferences. She's getting away with it right
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now because she's not in government. But if Albertans are paying attention, this is a harbinger
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of things to come. If they send her back to the premier's office in some sort of bout of collective
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madness, she's going to be blocking everybody from her press conferences, except for her favorites.
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That's what's going to come. She's going to do it again. And we know from our treatment by the
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press gallery in Alberta, that there will be nobody from the media landscape standing in our
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defense. Yeah. Um, they're so authoritarian, they don't really hide it anymore. They don't have to.
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Um, I remember when you tried to go into the legislature, you had permission to do so.
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I had already, I had, I had previously reached out to the head of the press gallery at the time
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it was Darcy Hinton, who worked for post media. He said, yeah, yeah, just clear security and come
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on in. Notley had different, uh, different ideas because she knew that I was probably going to be
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the only journalist there asking her a critical question about the carbon tax and embarrassing
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her in front of Justin Trudeau. So she couldn't have that. They threw me off the grounds altogether,
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but it's much different now because the press gallery doesn't even want us to join.
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Yeah. Um, so we're not going to get the same defense.
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You know, there was a brief period in time when, when journalists cared about independence and
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freedom of speech. Uh, I mean, I'm, I know I'm very, very old, but, uh, when I published the
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Danish cartoons of the Muslim Prophet Muhammad in February of 2006, I think it was, I know that
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sounds so long ago. Okay. It was 17 years ago. That's not a hundred years ago. That's not 50 years
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ago. Every single journalist I spoke to for the following year, and I talked to a hundred,
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every single journalist except for one was supportive, including CBC radio. Like no one
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was for my censorship. And in fact, uh, you might recall there was a pollster back then called
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compass, which was, you know, quite famous back then. I don't know if it's operating now.
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They did not just a poll. They did a survey of working journalists. Like they called up working
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journalists. So it wasn't even like a general opinion poll. And they said, what should be done?
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And 70% of working journalists at the time said, not only should I and Western standard magazine,
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which I then ran have published those Danish cartoons, but every media should think of that
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in 17 years, we've gone from 70% of journalists saying not only was Western standard Ezra right
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to publish those cartoons, we should have done so also. We've gone from that to woke cancel culture,
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uh, de-platform people we disagree with, uh, block people it in not even a generation.
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Absolutely. And I, I ascribe part of it to the fact that they have been rented by Justin Trudeau and
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they're absorbing his ideology. But of course in 17 years, you pump out a whole new generation of woke
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journalism students. I mean, listen, if the national post, which was started, and I was there in the
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early days, I was there. You want to know how old I was? 25 years ago, I went to work for national
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poster just under 25 years ago. It was right wing. It was led by John O'Sullivan and Conrad Black. And
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now, a couple of years ago, the majority of their working newsroom signed a petition to cancel Rex
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Murphy. Like they were not only, they were so cowardly, they bent the knee to the woke karate,
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but so brave in their cowardice that they were willing to publicly sign a letter condemning the
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star columnist of the newspaper because he said Canada is not systemically racist. Every white
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journalist who signed that was terrified they would be canceled next if they didn't join the mob.
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And it was, it was such a disgrace. That's how far we've fallen. So why wouldn't the NDP
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be the vanguard of that? Sorry to interrupt you, Ezra, but before we move on from the National Post,
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let us not forget that they are the single largest recipient of Trudeau's bailout box.
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Yeah, absolutely. Well, very, very frustrating.
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If I may, I just wanted to also, obviously, I think Justin Trudeau is the leading contributing
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factor. He's also a symptom of a society. But I also wanted to point out the sort of double
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standard, like what Justin Trudeau has done to the media is what Rachel Notley is doing to the media.
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And Sheila hit the nail right on the head. They don't want real journalists there. I want to remind
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people that I don't think anybody in this province held the UCP as accountable as we did here at the
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Alberta Bureau for Rebel News. We were as critical as anybody. We asked many of the tough questions
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that very likely contributed to the fact that Jason Kenney is no longer leader. I drove a
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Shaman Shandro truck up to his stampede breakfast, pulled in and played footage of pastors being
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arrested. And despite this, he understands that that was a point being made and journalism
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criticizing him for his failure in governance. And now he's doing some good things on firearms.
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So he will stand there and do an interview with me because he understands, as imperfect as the UCP is,
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he understands that that's the role of journalism. That's the role of media. It's absolutely shocking
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to see how far we have slipped and how these progressive media outlets, sorry, these progressive
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political parties think themselves exempt from the criticisms of journalists.
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Yeah. If anyone thinks Rebel News does not challenge conservatives, they should ask the late
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Premier Jason Kenney or Doug Ford or Aaron O'Toole or Andrew Scheer, almost forgot his name.
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If, I mean, we are truly independent. And to this day, I think the MPs who are more scared of us are
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conservatives. Liberals aren't really scared of us. They just ignore us or block us. Conservative
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politicians are scared of us because we have a strong connection with their voters because people
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trust us to be ideologically coherent and not to sell out. We don't sell out to anyone. We don't
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suck up to anyone. Well, and they know when the criticism is coming from us, it's honest criticism.
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It's not criticism that's been bought and paid for by Justin Trudeau. They know that we are being
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honest critics of them because they are not acting like conservatives. And so it stings. It has an extra
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level of pain. Yeah. When we criticize liberals, they love it. They say, look, who hates us?
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Rebel News, they're those crazy right wingers. It's a man. It's a dog bites man story. But when we
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criticize a conservative, it's a man bites dog story because, oh, how often do you see conservative
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media criticizing conservatives? That's our one of the reasons we're trusted, in my opinion, is because
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I don't think there's anyone in the country who genuinely thinks we are in the pocket of
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Pierre Polyev, Doug Ford, Danielle Smith. I'm trying to list nominal conservative politicians.
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No one thinks we're in their pocket because every day we prove we're not. So that's 27 minutes of
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preamble for what happened yesterday. Yes. Because yesterday, and I don't want to overreact. I don't
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want to be a nervous, the sky is falling. I don't want to be like those British soccer players,
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European soccer players, who someone looked at them wrong and then they do this dramatic
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thespian, you know, oh my God, I'm mortally injured. Someone looked at me. I don't want to be
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like a European soccer player feigning an injury. But let's show, Olivia, let's show what I think can
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only be called the storming. Maybe not a hurricane category five, more like a category two storm,
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but it was storming. These dirty tricksters stormed an event. And I'm going to watch it very carefully
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because I understand that they shoved a cop. One was restrained by, like, this is not prickly
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journalism. This is not journalism at all. This is the premier of the province having her events
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stormed. And you're not even going to believe what I'm about to say. One of the stormers, de Sturmer,
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was an NDP candidate from the last federal election. Patrick King, I believe was his name,
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no relation to the trucker. And another was Aaron, oh shoot, I just forgot his last name,
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a labor union organizer who has worked in the past on labor projects with Rachel Notley's,
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husband. So you've got a labor union organizer who knows Mr. Notley, Lou Arab's his name,
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and an NDP candidate from the federal election 2021. Like these people are so brazen, they didn't
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even outsource this dirty tricksterism to some college kid. They did it themselves. Without further
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ado, take a look. And let's play this once and then maybe we'll even play it and pause in key moments
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Hospitals are not for sale. Hospitals are not for sale. We saw your video about buying hospitals.
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Check it out. We've got a great offer. Yeah, this is a great opportunity for everybody in
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Alberta. Madam Premier, anything to say? Madam Premier, no? You have a lot to say about this not so long ago.
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Madam Premier, hospital for sale, anything? Yeah, you had a whole show to talk about this.
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We will not tell our arms and legs for hospitals. Hospitals should be public.
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They're going to cost us an arm and a leg when you sell it though, aren't they?
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Yeah, so basically what happened was security moved. Because one of the big concerns is they
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pretty much rushed, and I don't want to get into gender politics, but one, the Premier of Alberta,
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two, a lady and intimidated her. Both things I have problems with. But security effectively
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enveloped her and moved her off to the side. It should cut over. If nothing else, I do have a shot.
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I think it's going to be here in a second, of them over to the side with the Premier,
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ensuring that she's safe. And then basically at that point, it is shocking that they got in
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and they got that far. I believe it was Becca Pollack at that point said, you've made your point,
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get out of here. We're going to proceed. Danielle Smith was saying, you know what,
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I'm going to answer the question, but get out of here and then I'll talk about it.
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At that point, yeah, there's a shot of me capturing the action.
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Um, but then staff from the hotel actually came in and said, we're going to call the police. You
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will be charged with trespassing. And at that point they left. So they, they clearly, these
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weren't just random people. They understood that sort of nuance of being formally informed that
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you're trespassing. At that point, they left pretty quickly. Um, they were saying we've got all day,
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we're not going anywhere. The second that language came up and the facility said, this is a private
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facility. That's when they cleared out. Yeah. Can we watch it again? And I don't know if it's
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possible to play it slow or if it just paused it. I want to watch this thing from the beginning.
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If you want to, uh, yeah, play it at a quarter feedback, a quarter speed. I just want to watch
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it. Yeah. I had a tough time seeing anything besides that guy's gut hanging out of the bottom
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of his shirt. Okay. So go ahead and play it at a quarter speed.
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Okay. So play it again. I want to see the premium being whisked away. Go back to the beginning,
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if you please. Thanks for your help. Go back to the beginning. I just want to watch. What's the
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very first part we can spot? Is she even at the mic at this point or was she rushed? It looks like
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she was not at the mic anymore. It looks like they may maybe whisked her away right away. And
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some guy's running in the back. Someone who looks like security is pushing the, the bearded guy away,
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but then it looks like maybe the premier was. Yeah. So you can see behind them, they took the premier
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away and then they left them here. So thanks very much. We don't need to see anymore. So what we have
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here is a bunch of middle-aged guys storming a stage with, it looks like three women were there,
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the premier and two other women. Apparently the other women, the protected premier, but those other
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women there are expendable. Um, I think it is right to take the premier away. I mean, she is a, the
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protective person here, but, but why did they let these other, uh, blokes free just to, I, listen, I, I'm not a
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security expert. So I, and I suppose they were clearly not being violent at this point, but, but why
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did that guy not escort them out of the room? I don't quite know. Well, you know, I think that go
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ahead, go ahead. No, no, no. I was just going to say, uh, like they, they tackle them and then just let
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him go. Like, you don't even know what this guy has in his pockets, what he's going to do. Uh, I, I found
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it, you know, kind of weird to see, okay, they grab him. He obviously is willing to wrestle a cop and they
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just let him go stand by these ladies who are sort of, I guess, shell shocked. What I can tell you though,
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is if you toss a little bit of gravel in the general direction of the prime minister, you're going to be
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flattened like a pancake and taken away in handcuffs. And these guys were treated with kid gloves. And
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I, I want to know why. Yeah. I wonder if some anti-mask or anti-vax protesters would have wrestled
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with a cop like that, if they would be caught and released within seconds and let go without criminal
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charge or, or yeah, you know, um, right now in Calgary, there's a pastor named Derek Reimer who merely
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for being near, um, uh, extreme, uh, cross-dressing, uh, what's a drag queen story hour is done. What
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three weeks in prison just for being near them. And here you have people breaking in, threatening the
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premier physically wrestling with cops and okay, guys, no problem. See you next time. NDP candidate.
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They let them have their say and even argue back and forth. Yeah. And, and so shoe on the other
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foot, what would have happened had three burly men stormed an event with, uh, Chrystia Freeland
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or what's her name? Catherine McKenna, the former environment minister or Rachel Nathalie herself.
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We don't have to, we don't have to wonder that guy in Grand Prairie yelled at Chrystia Freeland and
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they investigated him for a hate crime. I remember exactly the case you're talking about. They merely
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hollered, he merely hollered at her, not disrupting an event. And it was a five alarm fire nationally.
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And that's, what's incredible. I'm going to do my show on this tonight at 8 PM Eastern time for
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those who subscribe. Point one is that these were not random people. These were senior NDP activists.
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Point two, uh, this is how they're deployed to Danielle Smith's events, but you even go in as a
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polite reporter as Sheila and Adam were saying, and you don't, you don't love to ask questions at all
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as a polite reporter. Um, point three, the media coverage. Do we have a clip of the CBC's coverage?
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Why don't we play that? I have not actually watched it yet, but I understand which of the media said
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it's, it's a minor drama horn honking. We'll throw the country under a martial law because someone honked
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their horn meanly in a mean way. And you can tell, but, um, yeah. Oh, what was that? Is that the Toronto
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star there? The Toronto star called this a minor drama. Why don't you get over yourselves? You
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guys, what kind of a country do we have if you're not allowed to storm, um, an event and, and drive
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the premier herself off the podium? What kind of country do we live in? If we're not allowed to do
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that says the Toronto star that called for the lockdown of 40 million of us because there's some
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truckers honking. Okay. Yeah. I think he's, you've got it there. Let's take a look at the
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CBC piece together. I haven't watched this yet. Um, let's take a look at what Trudeau CBC state
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broadcaster that can't shut up about microaggressions and gender rising things. And, um, what do they
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have to say about a couple of, uh, white dudes, middle aged, burly white dudes. Normally those are
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the hated people in the CBC, but, uh, let's see what they have to say today. Take a look.
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A UCB campaign announcement hijacked by protesters today. Party candidate Pamela Rath was cut off
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mid-speech as protesters, as you saw, rushed the stage area holding signs. One of them reading
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the Rocky View hospital is up for sale. The announcement was paused as the protesters were
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ushered off stage. As you can see, the NDP condemned that disruption in a tweet.
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Thanks for staying up with us. I'm Rob Brown. So as you just saw, concern over the privatization
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of healthcare is pushing some Albertans to act out. It stems from a video from a couple of years ago
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where Danielle Smith spoke about potential reforms to Alberta's health system.
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Our Joel Dryden has the details in our top story.
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We're right here. She can say anything that she wants to interrupt to.
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Their protest ties back to an NDP event on Wednesday and a 2021 video of Danielle Smith.
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In the video, Smith suggests if AHS isn't meeting terms, then the province could issue a request
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for proposals for private entities to run hospitals while remaining publicly funded.
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Fiona Clement specializes in health policy at the University of Calgary.
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It's the same kind of model as the private surgical delivery system.
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So, I mean, she's absolutely correct in her interpretation of what's allowable and what's possible.
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Clement notes that's not to say anything about how effective
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So, I should let you know that it was Danielle Smith who pushed them to do this.
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And by the way, they never disclose that these, quote,
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I just sent you, Olivia, the CBC headline, which I'm sure you have there, a group.
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They said the NDP condemned the protest, but they didn't say that the NDP inspired it
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and tweeted out exactly the location so that not only protesters would go there,
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which I think they were already organized by the NDP, if I had to speculate,
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but they were hoping that other ones would go too.
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Because the NDP tweeted out the location of this event and CBC also refused to disclose that.
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You know, we're talking about very serious matters here.
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It certainly would be a national crisis if the shoe were on the other foot.
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Imagine if some dirty tricksters in their 40s and 50s from the UCP stormed a Notley event,
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one of whom was a former candidate, one of whom was a senior organizer.
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But I want to show you, see that guy there, Patrick King?
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And Olivia, I don't want to play too much of it,
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but I have to show you a sketch by Tim Robinson
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So show the hat one more time that Pat King was wearing, if you please.
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Of him, that picture is a picture that he chose.
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I want to play for you one or two minutes of Tim Robinson
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Tears are literally streaming down my face,
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Brian's hat just got him in huge trouble in a meeting.
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What did he do when Mr. Andrews made him take it off?
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I've never fought for anything in my entire life.
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he tried to roll the hat down his arm like Fred Astaire,
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but the back flap got trapped around Rick's wheelchair.
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I thought he was going to have a heart attack.
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I'm really appreciating the diversity of the speakers
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they all contribute really specific details on what to do as an aspiring journalist
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it's been absolutely mind-blowing from start to finish firstly beautiful hall
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we've been stuffed it's like Thanksgiving dinner every night so that's amazing but the only thing that beats that are
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I met many prominent figures in this field and I got great advice
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it's very good to meet all the lovely people here
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and we're doing it again this year with the Democracy Fund
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and it's actually a doorway into Rebel News as well
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you might have recognized William Diaz Bertheon
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not only will you learn a few tricks of the trade
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I don't think anyone here went to journalism school