Rebel News Podcast - DAILY Roundup ｜ Premier Smith roasts Notley, Feds carbon tax fake news, Drugs killing Canadians

00:00:00.000 Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Daily Roundup, of course, I'm Sid Fezard with Rebel

00:00:18.800 News and Adam, my co-host today, both Albertans. And right now we're going through the midst

00:00:22.880 of an election. We're going to get to all that. Adam, how are you doing today?

00:00:25.000 Oh, I'm doing wonderful. I love the self-identification as an Albertan. It's truly taking hold. Welcome home, buddy.

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00:01:46.040 Yeah, no, I still remember the good old days of YouTube. And, you know, in a sad way, it's never

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00:02:26.120 get to today. This is effectively our Alberta edition during this election period anyways. But we're not

00:02:31.560 just going to be talking about Alberta today. We're going to start off talking about last night's

00:02:34.680 debate and some Alberta issues for folks who didn't get a chance to watch our live stream last

00:02:40.520 night of the election debate and all that coverage. Then we're going to get into some very sort of

00:02:45.640 topical things, including Bill C-21, the arrest of Josh Alexander, UCP, MOA is getting ejected from

00:02:52.760 the party, all that good stuff. But I think first off, unless you've got anything else to add, maybe we

00:02:56.920 can just start diving into some of these clips from last night's debate and discussing. So we'll start

00:03:03.560 with Rachel Notley's opening remarks from the debate last night and then we'll provide a little bit of feedback.

00:03:12.840 This election is about trust and it's about leadership. You know you can't trust Danielle Smith. 0.64

00:03:18.920 So my offer to you is this. I will work every day to be the premier you deserve, creating jobs and

00:03:27.400 diversifying for the future. I won't raise your taxes. I will cap your bills. I won't fund a war room.

00:03:38.520 I will fund an emergency room and I won't ever make you pay to see a doctor. I'll protect our healthcare,

00:03:45.960 protect our mountains and protect your pension. And having learned today that Danielle Smith broke the 0.99

00:03:51.800 law. I will also protect our law and I will never break it. When I say something, I mean it. And

00:03:57.240 that's the difference between Danielle and me.

00:03:59.480 You know, one thing that's really interesting is normal people, when they're looking down at their

00:04:05.560 notes, it's to confirm like a specific, like, oh, the number they're talking, they're expressing

00:04:10.520 their emotions. And then they'll look down at their sheet and they'll come up with like 82,000 or

00:04:14.440 whatever. They'll come up with a specific number they had to pull from their sheet. There's a couple

00:04:17.720 of moments during the debate last night where Rachel Notley was like, as your premier, I will

00:04:22.280 earn your trust. Like it was so bizarre. Like that's what you have to look down to read.

00:04:27.800 You know, Ezra did a whole stream about this yesterday, so I'm encouraging people to go back.

00:04:33.320 But just briefly, let's touch on this conflict of interest report for folks who didn't check

00:04:38.680 out the live stream or who aren't familiar with the story. For weeks now, the NDP, CBC,

00:04:44.040 a number of other outlets, all potentially up for litigation from Premier Danielle Smith,

00:04:49.080 have been stating that she repeatedly contacted prosecutors, that she's been pressuring for

00:04:54.840 Pastor Arthur Pawlowski, for all charges to be dropped. An in-depth analysis that included

00:05:00.840 looking at millions of emails found that beyond a short conversation with Tyler Shandro, she didn't

00:05:06.920 contact or pressure anyone in any way, shape or form. So she was exonerated on that, those sort

00:05:11.800 of allegations, which is what people were really upset about. What she did do is have a five-minute 1.00

00:05:16.440 conversation with her justice minister, who informed her that what she was hoping for is not possible,

00:05:22.360 and then she dropped it. And as it turns out later on, Pastor Arthur Pawlowski was charged.

00:05:26.600 So for most people viewing this objectively, unless you wanted it to look really bad,

00:05:31.560 all you can say is perhaps she should have had like a formal meeting instead of a quick phone call,

00:05:36.200 but nothing came of this. She accepted the recommendation that this was not something

00:05:40.360 she could act on. So this ruling was like, well, technically there was a conflict of interest. I

00:05:47.080 I don't know how valid that ruling is, maybe it's a technicality, but there's virtually no

00:05:52.360 consequences. They're saying they're going to undergo a little bit of training to make sure

00:05:56.200 that this type of communication doesn't happen again. But this is not serious. All the headlines

00:06:01.160 saying, oh, egregious Trudeau level conflict of interest, those are not reporting what's actually

00:06:08.440 taking place in this report, what's stipulated in this report. What did you make of all that?

00:06:11.480 I did a report actually on a bunch of access to information documents in relation to the Coutts

00:06:19.000 blockade. And as I was wrapping up that report, there was a final access to information document

00:06:23.880 exactly about this. Did Danielle Smith reach out to federal crown prosecutors, et cetera? 1.00

00:06:29.240 And the answer was no, there was zero documents found showing that she had reached out or done

00:06:33.800 anything like that, that the CBC, I believe had alleged. So at the end of the day, what did she do?

00:06:39.560 She had a little conversation to be like, hey, is there anything we can do about this? No? Okay.

00:06:43.720 Next topic. That's the gist of my understanding on that. Is that yours as well, Adam? Because

00:06:49.160 at the end of the day, it's not like she called and said, hey, what can we do about this? We're not

00:06:53.080 allowed to do anything about this. Well, we're going to do something about this change. That didn't

00:06:57.400 happen. But this story does show that the CBC lied. Yeah. And the comparisons to Justin Trudeau, who

00:07:04.440 pressured somebody repeatedly, had numerous people contact them and then fired them when they

00:07:09.320 wouldn't cave. This was quite the opposite. It was, oh, we can't do this. Oh, okay. And they moved

00:07:15.240 on. So much ado about nothing, it seems here. And if you read the report, it very much as a,

00:07:20.440 well, technically you were speeding, but it was about by five kilometers. So you're not getting

00:07:23.880 any demerits. That's what this amounts to. Curious timing that it comes out the day of the leaders

00:07:29.080 debate. But on that note, I think that Daniel handled it very sort of effectively. I think our

00:07:36.120 headline says something, the fact that Smith smokes Notley. It was interesting though, she beat her. 1.00

00:07:41.720 And I think even in liberal outlets are saying that Daniel Smith probably won. CBC called it a tie,

00:07:46.440 which is a clear indication that Daniel Smith won. But she didn't smoke her by attacking her 1.00

00:07:52.520 personally, which is what Rachel was doing all night. What she did was she talked about policies, 0.95

00:07:56.840 talked about issues. And I want to jump into our next clip as we transition now. One of those key

00:08:01.880 things that she's talking about is safety, supporting police, restoring order of law and

00:08:09.560 all that sort of stuff, those critical concerns for people living in cities who are seeing stabbing,

00:08:13.560 shootings, all of this violence unfolding in cities where this did not traditionally happen.

00:08:18.440 So if the team's got it ready, I'd love to roll that next clip.

00:08:21.720 First off, we wouldn't defund the police. Again, Ms. Notley has so many defund the police candidates on 0.99

00:08:27.240 her platform, on her candidate roster. I've lost count of them as well. The frontline services are

00:08:32.360 demoralized and we are giving courage and confidence back to our frontline officers.

00:08:37.400 We've embedded sheriffs in both Calgary and Edmonton. We're adding 100 police officers in

00:08:42.040 both Calgary and Edmonton because we believe that people have a right to take public transit and feel

00:08:47.720 safe. They have a right to go downtown and be able to have a nice dinner or see a game and not worry

00:08:52.600 that they're going to be randomly attacked. And they certainly have a right to walk past an open

00:08:57.000 doorway without having to inhale secondhand crystal meth smoke. We have an approach that is going to

00:09:02.840 make sure that we crack down on public safety and crime and make sure that people feel safe again.

00:09:07.640 All right. Thank you, Ms. Smith. We've got about 90 seconds for this free debate. Ms. Notley.

00:09:11.720 Well, I need to start by saying when it comes to defunding the police, the UCP actually defunded the police.

00:09:18.600 Interesting rebuttal there from Notley. Not sure how valid that is.

00:09:26.040 Well, Smith actually follows up in that conversation and she addresses that point

00:09:32.200 about defunding the police and she opens the conversation up into the direction of

00:09:36.520 how a lot of this was funding that went to the medical industry in a sense to provide that kind

00:09:43.480 of mental health needs, those kinds of mental health needs and stuff like that. It's not all police work.

00:09:48.440 And maybe the right option is to have police step away from a very intimate situation with a person

00:09:54.280 who's clearly struggling with something. I don't know if, you know, I think that's just the conversation

00:09:59.240 that was had there and that's how it opened up. It wasn't just a bang, you know, UCP defunded the police.

00:10:04.680 Like, and I stress that because as we've seen across the set, especially in the states, like full units

00:10:10.600 and divisions are being shut down because they don't have the funding because of these politicians who are

00:10:14.680 actively defunding the police. So it's funny that she would come back with that.

00:10:19.160 Well, and you see with the NDP, like they want to be pro-oil and talk about building pipelines while

00:10:25.080 chasing businesses out of the place and all their rhetoric and candidates are anti-oil. They talk about

00:10:30.440 safety while a bunch of their candidates are defund the police folks who are all for certain types of

00:10:37.160 protests, but they want to wield police as a political arm. So sometimes they're happy to

00:10:41.160 call them to beat up protesters. Other times they want them defunded. So there seems to be this glaring

00:10:46.840 duality within progressives where they want these people militarized, but they want them

00:10:53.000 disempowered. That's not how the world works. It's sort of one way or another, but there is,

00:10:59.160 it is interesting. And we're going to talk about sort of addictions later, but it was incredibly

00:11:03.240 interesting to see at the recent UCP announcement on safety where they're talking about rampant drug

00:11:08.200 usage and the need to get people not with a free, safe supply of, as Mike Ellis referred,

00:11:14.040 a perpetual palliative drug care where they're just giving these people drugs because violence 0.55

00:11:18.760 follows that. As you see these, whether it be overdoses, deaths, drug uses, mass consumption,

00:11:24.600 you see crime increase in those same areas. So the UCP, it's funny, it's very much a talking

00:11:29.960 point to the left to provide social workers or helpers or additional venues that aren't policing

00:11:35.560 to help people. But it seems like the UCP is actually doing it. So there's, there's certainly

00:11:40.840 a glaring contradiction there. I want to talk about the addiction stuff now, but we'll wait

00:11:45.800 till later because we have another story that ties into that. We also have a clip coming up here,

00:11:53.640 and we've only got about four or five days. If you watch the debate, we'll be moving on soon.

00:11:56.840 Don't worry. But Smith highlights some new investments coming in to this province. And

00:12:04.040 Sheila was impassioned about this the other night. So interesting to see Notley talking about

00:12:08.920 new investments coming in while under the NDP, we saw so many head offices clear out of Edmonton.

00:12:15.160 And in the minds of many, that's one, there was oil price issues. There was all this stuff. It was,

00:12:19.240 there was talks about where you could extract oils cheaper. But ultimately, it suddenly emerged all

00:12:25.560 these concerns when you had an anti-oil NDP in government. So if we've got that clip ready,

00:12:29.560 we can jump to it. I would say that we have increased the amount of investment that has

00:12:35.000 happened in our province. We have a $760 million renewable diesel project announced by Imperial.

00:12:41.160 We have $600 million that came in from McCain's. Our pathways oil sands group is investing. We have an

00:12:48.120 increase in the amount of drilling rigs. That is not a sign that people have lost confidence in our

00:12:52.520 economy. You know what it is a sign of? That when you stand up to Ottawa and you tell the industry

00:12:56.520 that you're going to, you're going to stand up for them, they actually increase their amount of

00:13:00.360 confidence and they increase their investment. Except that we have fewer corporate headquarters

00:13:04.120 in Calgary, in Alberta now than we did before in 2019, before you announced your incredibly

00:13:11.560 spendthrift corporate handle.

00:13:16.440 You know, what's interesting is that later on, she goes on to say that we're not drawing as

00:13:20.200 as many investments as Ontario. Like, that's not a thing you say when you're running to be

00:13:27.080 the premier of this province, being like, we should be more like Ontario. Listen, the facts

00:13:32.360 and the record, and I know that this is almost a UCP talking point, but Daniel Smith is saying,

00:13:37.080 look at her record. The NDP is running away from their record. If you look at the facts,

00:13:43.640 if you look at the layoffs, the lack of investments, the fact, and this is the most glaring statistic,

00:13:49.000 because this isn't just a little anomaly, that the number of people coming into the province

00:13:53.720 under the NDP decreased dramatically. And we saw that population growth decline effectively

00:13:59.560 right as soon as they came into power, because people got the sentiment that Alberta wasn't 0.72

00:14:03.560 open for business.

00:14:06.520 Well, and especially a difficult thing to talk about or to diagnose in a sense is the last three or so

00:14:12.840 years that we've had with COVID and everything going on. It changed so many things. I mean,

00:14:17.320 we have a new premier because of the actions that were taken by government during that time. And,

00:14:23.080 you know, I can only imagine what it would have been like if Rachel Notley and the NDP were in charge.

00:14:28.280 I mean, they were calling peaceful protesters domestic terrorists, right? And I'm kind of jumping

00:14:33.800 around. But you guys, Adam and Sheila, Ezra, you've been in the game for a long time. You've been

00:14:39.560 Albertans for a very long time. You know, Rachel Notley, you've seen her in action. As somebody who's

00:14:46.040 newer to the province, I'm kind of coming into this fresh, in a sense, you know, watching Smith

00:14:51.320 and Notley and Notley talking about, you know, the previous experiences of hers. It just doesn't

00:14:57.400 seem like she has it. She doesn't have that same confidence and everybody knows what she did last 0.65

00:15:02.920 time. And I think she knows that everybody else knows and she's trying to avoid it, but she seemingly

00:15:07.880 is unable to. Whereas you see these new issues arise with Daniela Smith. It's like, it's nothing. I mean,

00:15:14.120 these are really the smallest of issues that could be had with a premier. So at the end of the day,

00:15:19.800 as a new observer coming into this, hearing these remarks from Ms. Notley, it just doesn't seem like

00:15:26.280 she's got that punch. And I genuinely just, yeah, I don't think it's there for her.

00:15:31.400 Yeah. And I think it's because Danielle Smith, and she's openly admitted this, an imperfect person who

00:15:37.320 makes mistakes. Again, I appreciate that she hasn't been entirely apologetic about comments she made on

00:15:42.840 a radio show. Because by the way, when you're doing stuff like this, you just talk about ideas.

00:15:46.760 You can even propose ideas you don't agree with for conversation. And that has happened sometimes.

00:15:51.880 Um, but what, what the difference is, is the UCP far from perfect, certainly, um, over the last few

00:15:58.680 years under Jason Kenney, um, extremely far from perfect. But even though there was this quote

00:16:04.280 unquote pandemic, even though there was all these extremely difficult circumstances, the UCP still managed

00:16:10.840 to do better than the NDP not during a pandemic, which is staggering. It's unbelievable to think

00:16:16.840 that. There should, we should be making excuses about how things were not managed well and how

00:16:22.360 there's a massive, like, like fiscal concerns and how they accrued more debt than the NDP because of

00:16:27.720 the pandemic. But we're not doing that because they did a better job. So Danielle Smith, I think,

00:16:31.720 is confident because she has the facts in her corner. Rachel Notley knows she can't run on a record.

00:16:36.920 Their policies aren't, aren't as strong. Danielle Smith often refers to them to them as gainsmanship,

00:16:41.080 where if, if Danielle says she's going to try and build 15 schools, uh, Rachel Notley says,

00:16:46.040 I'm going to build 40, uh, which is not realistic, but that's what she does. So, um, I think, I think

00:16:50.600 Rachel Notley is lashing out because she, she isn't confident in her positions. I think that's also the 1.00

00:16:54.920 reason she's not willing to answer questions from media outlets, even outlets like us that ask tough,

00:16:59.240 but fair questions of everybody. Well, and that's a huge thing, right? Like the, the next premiere,

00:17:05.000 who are we going to have? Are we going to have somebody that we can actually challenge

00:17:08.280 when they do things that the general public thinks is, uh, not okay? Or are we going to have

00:17:13.240 somebody who like Rachel Notley, who simply just tells all of the reporters asking the questions

00:17:17.880 she doesn't like to leave? I mean, that's a very dangerous precedent. And that's what she's shown 0.97

00:17:22.360 during, uh, her, her run up to this election. Yeah. Especially once they've formed government

00:17:27.000 like that, that's going to be increased. It's another thing for the opposition at private campaign

00:17:30.920 events to say, we're not letting you in. Uh, you're at a private facility, whatever. Now it isn't

00:17:35.160 right. It's, it's morally abhorrent, but you're at a private place running a private campaign event.

00:17:39.240 Technically you can say you're not welcome here and you're trespassing, but once you form the

00:17:43.160 government, you know, and we've seen it with Justin Trudeau and it's completely unacceptable,

00:17:47.640 categorically and undemocratic in every metric. Um, that's, what's going to happen here in Alberta.

00:17:53.400 And that's troubling. Even the progressive outlets out here will have the opportunity

00:17:58.840 to question Daniel Smith incessantly about just about everything. And I think that's good,

00:18:03.640 even though we may not agree with them. I think that the, the broad range of diverse opinions,

00:18:09.000 um, assuming that they're law abiding, um, they should be presented and, and the, the leader of

00:18:13.960 a province or a country should be presented with those challenging opinions, because that's how you

00:18:18.280 stay on track. If you're somewhere in the middle of the extreme positions, if you're being challenged

00:18:22.760 on all fronts, that's a good way to stay honed and make sure that you're representing people more

00:18:27.240 broadly. If you exclude anyone who disagrees with you, well, then you get more and more radicalized

00:18:31.320 government. Yeah. And I, I'm certainly not looking forward to any radicalization of government.

00:18:37.160 That's probably the worst kind of radicalization, but, but on top of that, we do have some more

00:18:41.960 clips. Do you want to pull up the next one here? Yeah. Let's hop on this, this next clip. And I mean,

00:18:46.520 this one's just factually incorrect. This is, uh, Rachel Notley implying that pastor

00:18:51.560 Archer Pawlowski was charged with calling on violence against police officers. So,

00:18:56.680 I mean, this is shocking. I'm assuming pastor Archer's lawyers have probably seen this,

00:19:00.440 but let's play it. Yeah.

00:19:02.280 ...who was started by bringing in the Sovereignty Act, an act that her former finance minister 0.90

00:19:07.640 very clearly said was going to chase away investment because it undermined the rule of law.

00:19:13.160 That of course was before she was found today to have broken the law in an effort to support the 0.71

00:19:20.040 private interests of someone accused of wanting to, um, promote violence against the police.

00:19:26.280 All of that chases away investment because it is such a profound compromise to the rule of law.

00:19:32.120 Ms. Notley, it's you and the CBC who need to apologize for Albertans. You flat out lied for

00:19:36.600 several months saying that I and my office had contact Crown prosecutors. She said that is absolutely

00:19:41.240 not true. And she also confirmed that I did not direct or interfere in any COVID-related cases.

00:19:47.000 So that, that is, I'm sure, probably open to a lawsuit implying...

00:19:55.240 Three times. Yeah.

00:19:57.560 Three times Archer Pawlowski said peaceful during the demonstration, uh, during that speech he made in

00:20:02.280 Coutts. And this is revolving around the Coutts blockade incident, uh, where Archer Pawlowski a day

00:20:06.520 later was charged under the critical infrastructure defense act. Uh, and there was a court case that

00:20:10.840 recently happened, uh, Ezra Levant, obviously a commander in chief here at Rebel News. He was

00:20:15.480 in Lethbridge to cover this court case as well. Um, and yet here, Rachel Notley is alleging that

00:20:21.400 Archer Pawlowski was trying to have people commit violence in some way, shape or form when his charge

00:20:27.080 was a critical infrastructure, uh, uh, charge. Uh, it wasn't anything to do with him assaulting people.

00:20:33.000 It wasn't, uh, and it was all about him allegedly, possibly convincing people to stay at the blockade,

00:20:38.440 even though they had decided earlier in the day that they were going to stay at the blockade.

00:20:41.800 What does this have to do with violence, Rachel Notley? It doesn't. Yeah.

00:20:44.840 Yeah. And, and particularly, like, as you mentioned, repeatedly stating

00:20:49.480 peaceful and the charge being about not even, not even blocking infrastructure himself,

00:20:54.520 but allegedly, and this is going to be appealed clearly inciting others to continue blocking

00:20:59.720 infrastructure that like, and, and, and that's clearly, I mean, we saw, we were there firsthand.

00:21:04.680 Um, they opened that road. If there was like truckers with livestock or anyone needing to get

00:21:10.440 through, they, they weren't actually even fully blocking the road at all times. But what's wrong,

00:21:16.040 what the problem is here is, is Rachel Notley will characterize and mischaracterize and misconstrue. 0.65

00:21:21.480 I don't know if she's misinformed here, which as, as someone who's spoken to this for weeks

00:21:25.720 is embarrassing, or if she's overtly lying, but this is factually incorrect.

00:21:30.600 And it, it, it characterizes pastor Arthur Pawlowski in a horrific light to say repeatedly

00:21:36.760 that he incited violence against police officers is unbelievable. So it'll be interesting to see

00:21:42.040 what comes that I'm sure there will be a response coming, but I did want to highlight

00:21:46.040 that troubling clip, um, two more clips, and then we're going to get into some more, uh,

00:21:50.040 broader news beyond the election. So bear with us. Um, I think the next clip that we're going to jump

00:21:55.640 to is the clip of premier Smith, um, slamming Rachel Notley over her governing record and the

00:22:03.960 massive debt that she accrued, um, over $70 billion and her unwillingness to stand up to Jagmeet Singh

00:22:11.160 and Justin Trudeau. I know Ms. Notley likes to show grainy videos of things I said while I was on radio.

00:22:17.400 And the reason she does that is she doesn't want to run on her record. And the reason she doesn't

00:22:21.320 want to run on her record is it was an absolute disaster. She racked up $70 billion in debt, 0.99

00:22:26.520 more debt than any premier or actually all premiers combined in Alberta's provincial history.

00:22:31.880 She talked about deception. Did you remember her running on a carbon tax in the last election? I

00:22:36.120 sure didn't. And that increased the cost of everything. We eliminated it, but Justin Trudeau

00:22:40.520 wouldn't let us keep it off. And now Ms. Notley has not stood up to her boss, Jagmeet Singh in Ottawa,

00:22:47.240 and worked with us to say, don't increase that, that carbon tax any further. And in fact,

00:22:51.960 certainly don't increase it 300%. No one has any credibility talking about affordability,

00:22:56.760 as long as they support a carbon tax, which is going to increase the cost of everything.

00:23:03.080 Yeah, it's, it's, it's interesting. Like you, you look at, and we talked about this yesterday,

00:23:08.280 like Justin Trudeau and Jagmeet Singh are not popular at all here. And it's incredibly interesting to see

00:23:14.760 that, that particularly in Calgary, that Rachel Notley and the NDP are, are potentially,

00:23:19.880 according to some polls, gaining a little bit of ground. It's, it's unbelievable. You have

00:23:24.360 ideological doppelgangers, whether it be Trudeau, whether it be Jagmeet, whether it be

00:23:29.800 Rachel Notley or Calgary's activist, Mayor Gioti Gondek,

00:23:34.040 Calgarians oppose the ideas when they're represented federally. But then when you have radicals with those

00:23:38.840 perspectives locally, they seem to get, they seem to get elected. I can't quite wrap my head around

00:23:45.160 why that is. I know municipally, there was vote splitting, and there was, there was, there was

00:23:49.080 some sort of strategic concerns that may have contributed to that. But what do you make of this,

00:23:54.680 this sort of notion that someone who's espousing incredibly unpopular views in the vast majority of

00:24:01.240 the province is actually threatening to form the next government?

00:24:04.680 It's a little daunting, you know, like, I can't, I can't lie, I don't know what to think of that,

00:24:10.520 because I got here, I actually got here and became an Alberta resident, right as the restrictions

00:24:17.160 exemption program was coming into place. I thought I was escaping into salvation, yet, you know, that

00:24:22.360 turned out to be otherwise. But that, that was the UCP, that was Kenny, that was the Texas of Canada,

00:24:29.240 right, that was my vision of it coming in, in a sense. And to think about what it would have been

00:24:35.480 like, if Rachel Notley was the one who was, who was taking care of business in that sense,

00:24:41.480 I never would have come to Alberta, I guarantee you, I never would have stepped foot in Alberta.

00:24:45.240 And if she gets elected, well, that's going to be a scary thing. And I'm sure, like we saw last time,

00:24:51.080 there's going to be hundreds of thousands of people that leave again.

00:24:53.400 Okay. I want to jump to this next clip as well, that Daniel Smith, for some people during the

00:25:00.360 leadership races, some of her opinions weren't necessarily popular. And I had the opportunity 0.95

00:25:05.240 to question her. Don't worry team, I'm not asking you to pull up the clip from that. But I had the

00:25:09.080 opportunity to ask her why she uses this sort of zero emissions language. And it is interesting to see

00:25:15.240 in her rebuttal, she's like, listen, we can work towards carbon neutrality towards 2050. This close

00:25:21.080 deadline is not at all feasible. So perhaps not popular among everybody, but a more measured

00:25:28.280 response. So if we can pull that clip up, then we'll discuss a little bit.

00:25:33.160 Erin, in the intro, talked about shifting away from petroleum products. And I would say that that

00:25:39.000 is the Notley view of the world. That is certainly not my government's view of the world. We believe

00:25:43.240 that we are going to reduce emissions, not that we are going to reduce oil and natural gas. We know that

00:25:48.280 with all of the exciting things that are happening with carbon capture, utilization and storage and

00:25:53.160 all the green technology, we can continue to have a robust, vibrant oil and natural gas sector for

00:25:58.520 years to come. What we want to do is make sure that we're finding more opportunities for our products,

00:26:03.960 having bitumen be used more for asphalt so it reduces the amount of emissions, having LNG export,

00:26:09.560 which creates a brand new stream of income for us. We know that as long as we keep our energy

00:26:14.200 industry strong, we're going to keep Alberta's economy strong. Ms. Notley won't do that. I will.

00:26:18.680 Okay, we'll leave it there. Ms. Notley, your rebuttal.

00:26:20.600 Well, you know, there was actually some elements of what Ms. Smith said that I actually agree with.

00:26:25.960 You know, I want to create jobs producing energy. I want to create jobs upgrading our energy. And I want

00:26:33.400 to create jobs reducing emissions. And reducing emissions is absolutely the focus. It's not about

00:26:38.760 reducing or production. It is about emissions. The difference is, is that Ms. Smith and her caucus

00:26:45.320 have spent much of their career pitting emissions reduction efforts against economic growth. And when

00:26:52.040 we do that, we fail on both. Well, notice how she's talking about energy, not oil, not gas. She's

00:27:00.520 talking about energy. That's her follow up. And that's her trying to placate the Daniel Smith. She's 0.98

00:27:04.760 chasing Daniel Smith. Because Daniel Smith owns it. And Notley, I mean, what was another thing that

00:27:11.160 Smith brought up last night was the fact that the just transition, was it the just transition idea or

00:27:17.080 the one preceding that, that Justin Trudeau was advocating for, he got from Rachel Notley. It's

00:27:24.120 really hard to see the credibility in Rachel Notley at this point, from my perspective.

00:27:29.320 Well, and you know, what's interesting, and I love, I've been at a couple like small town halls early

00:27:34.680 on where there's 20 people there. And Danielle Smith gets really excited talking about this,

00:27:39.880 almost comedically. So she's kind of a nerd for this super nuanced energy stuff. Well, 0.99

00:27:44.520 and I appreciate that, that some of what she talks about, she's like, no, we're going to keep selling

00:27:49.960 oil, we've got the best oil in the world, let's keep doing that. She's talking about actually bringing

00:27:54.040 new industries in, like we can do carbon capture and sell that while exporting the cleanest oil.

00:27:58.680 And I think that that's an approach. Yeah, go ahead, go ahead.

00:28:01.400 That's exactly it. Why not sell the environmentalists the tools that they're

00:28:04.760 looking for? Yeah, right. Okay, you want to do carbon capture? Oh, look, I got the best carbon

00:28:08.840 capture. Looks like you're gonna have to buy from me. You know, I don't know if that's, you know,

00:28:12.200 Smith's plan or not. But why not do it better than them, just so that when they come back to you,

00:28:16.280 you know, calling for, you know, the end of the world and whatnot, because of global warming,

00:28:19.800 well, you can say, look, we're the ones who set this whole operation up, we know how to take care of

00:28:24.040 our stuff, you know, we know the smell of our own stink, and you don't.

00:28:27.080 Yeah, you know, fear mongering is a tool often used by environmentalists to step to

00:28:32.040 sell technology that isn't quite there yet. We often refer back to the Chinese sort of

00:28:36.360 leap forward manifesto, which actually resulted in the deaths of millions, because the technology

00:28:41.160 wasn't there yet. Listen, I think every one of us probably if it got to the point where

00:28:46.280 for a very affordable rate, you could slap a panel on your roof and get free electricity forever,

00:28:50.600 we'd probably all be on board with that. If these ideas were commercially viable,

00:28:55.160 they would take off. And I think what Daniel Smith is saying is, let's be the place that gets

00:28:59.480 these technologies there. We don't want to completely abandon our industries. There are

00:29:04.440 countries all over the world, including Canada, because of our size, because of the climate here,

00:29:08.760 that are going to need oil, that are going to need petroleum, that are going to need these

00:29:12.360 byproducts, roads need to be built. Plastics that result from the byproducts of these processes

00:29:17.720 are needed. These products are needed and will continue to be needed. But Daniel Smith wants us,

00:29:23.000 as Notley says she does, but really what she wants to do is scrap all of our industries. She wants us 0.99

00:29:28.200 to use the wealth and opportunity generated to also start controlling, taking over and dominating

00:29:33.560 these other industries. Be the place that everyone goes to for energy capture. You can buy your energy

00:29:39.080 from us, we can pay to clean up the air, all that stuff. And I think that those are opportunities that

00:29:43.320 it doesn't matter where you are on the political spectrum. If it makes sense, and if it makes money,

00:29:47.320 and if it keeps our taxes low, keeps houses affordable, creates jobs, people are going to be

00:29:52.280 on board with that. And I think on that note, we are way overdue for a quick ad break. So if you don't

00:29:58.360 have anything else, I think we'll jump over to an ad break. Right before we go to that ad break.

00:30:03.560 Yeah, I just want to say, Adam, you know, the electric vehicle market in Alberta, it's just explosive,

00:30:08.440 right? With all of this cold weather, you know, there's just so many electric vehicles that really put in

00:30:12.520 that work to get people where they need to be when it's colder than death outside, quite literally.

00:30:18.680 So yeah, I want to thank all the electric car producers for all of their great work providing us with

00:30:23.320 nothing on that end. Let's go for an ad break.

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00:32:36.440 Tamara is the best.

00:32:37.400 Yeah.

00:32:38.200 I think everyone should pick up a copy. Go ahead.

00:32:41.560 I've never actually, like I've seen her, but I've never actually had a moment to have a conversation with

00:32:47.720 her. So that is still something on the checklist for me.

00:32:51.000 Yeah. Pick up the book, guys, really. One, I mean, Tamara is the type of person, 1.00

00:32:55.160 I hope I'm not speaking out of turn here, but she loves people so much. She's not like a militant

00:33:00.360 activist. She's a strong woman. Don't get me wrong. But almost every time I see her and she sees somebody

00:33:05.240 from the convoy or she's talking about something, her eyes well up with tears. I'm used to it now.

00:33:10.040 It's sort of like a running joke. What are you crying about today? She is such a kind person.

00:33:15.240 And she's such an emblematic figure of the rebellion that took place, that resistance,

00:33:21.240 the freedom convoy, because she was a reluctant participant. She was not a political activist.

00:33:27.640 She's not someone who set out to make a point. She's somebody who has simply pushed too far

00:33:31.880 and then said, listen, I have to do something. So do go out and pick up that book. I want to get

00:33:38.600 into, we've discussed this. We discussed it last night. We're probably going to continue discussing it.

00:33:43.240 Certainly the mainstream media and the NDP want to discuss it. But UCP candidate Jennifer Johnson

00:33:49.720 was forced to apologize and then eventually was actually ejected from the UCP and will be running

00:33:54.280 unless, unless she's decided not to run. But I don't think that's the case. We'll be running

00:33:58.280 and sitting if she's elected as an independent. Lots has been made about the sort of quotes of her

00:34:03.800 comments. But we actually have the audio purportedly. Someone posted this on Twitter saying this is an

00:34:08.680 actual recording of the comments. So if we could, I think it's about two minutes, maybe not even.

00:34:15.080 I think we just play those comments in their entirety so people know the context

00:34:19.160 and then we can just discuss it briefly. So for folks who haven't heard this yet,

00:34:24.360 some of the comments that have led to the ejection of Jennifer Johnson from the UCP.

00:34:28.920 Yeah. Enjoy. I only put a teaspoon of poop in them, but it doesn't matter because you want a teaspoon in a whole batch.

00:34:35.320 So you pick which one is good. Yeah. And they, they obviously put the cookie. This is not a true story.

00:34:41.560 So we can be top three percent, but that little bit of poop is what wrecks it. Oh yeah.

00:34:47.240 Yeah. Right. And it is when we've got furries in the classroom. Do you know what I'm talking about?

00:34:53.160 These kids who are identifying as cats and the teacher puts a litter box in the classroom for them.

00:34:58.280 And girls saying, I'm not a boy anymore when they're seven years old and transitioning at 14 years old 1.00

00:35:04.280 and getting mastectomy, double mastectomies and getting chemically sterilized when they can't even

00:35:10.920 go to a liquor store and buy a beer. And yet we're allowing them to be chemically castrated and sterilized. 0.97

00:35:17.800 This is more than a teaspoon of poop in the cookie batch. Right. And so it doesn't matter to me.

00:35:23.880 It does not matter that we're in the top three percent of the world. Who cares if they got an 89 on

00:35:28.120 chemistry 30, who cares that they're entering post-secondary if they're chemically castrated.

00:35:34.280 And by the age of 18, 90 percent of these kids who were gender, this, uh, yeah, who were struggling

00:35:42.200 with this have real, have grown through it. They got over it just like I did when I was six and I had

00:35:48.360 three brothers and ripped my shirt off on the farm. And my mom said, put that back on. And at six,

00:35:53.160 I didn't look any different than my brothers. And I was, I pouted for a little while. I was really mad

00:35:57.240 at my mom. And then I realized I should probably put my shirt back on because I said, well, I don't want

00:36:01.000 to be a boy or I don't want to be a girl. I want to be a boy like my brothers. Well, you're not now.

00:36:04.040 Get your shirt on and go and play. That was the end of it. And I went, okay. So I went and played

00:36:08.280 and I'm pretty glad I did. So now we say, you know, that's the core of the sort of part that

00:36:15.400 was being quoted. And it's interesting before I had the opportunity to hear the audio, the way CBC

00:36:21.080 quoted it, uh, was to suggest that she was saying trans people are feces. Um, that is not at all what, 0.98

00:36:29.400 what is stated there. And I think anyone for listening or reading skills, what she's stating

00:36:33.880 is it doesn't matter if the entire school system is the best performing and everything about it is

00:36:38.760 the best. If they're pushing ideologies that are resulting in these outcomes, that's, and I hate,

00:36:43.720 I hate the language used, but that's the poop in the brownies that spoils the whole pot. So when I 1.00

00:36:49.320 first read this, the initial comments, I really have no problems with any of her criticisms. These are

00:36:53.720 things that we know are happening that are problematic. And most people would probably condemn

00:36:58.840 transitioning children, double mastectomies, um, litter boxes, which they try to debunk, 0.94

00:37:03.000 but apparently even our own Key and Simone in his small town in Ontario, there was a litter box in

00:37:07.160 one of the schools for a kid. Um, so they'll try and debunk this and say, none of this is happening.

00:37:11.400 Well, there's legal proceedings on this. These things are happening right now. And so most of her

00:37:16.680 comments there, they've been characterized as bigoted or hateful. Um, those are probably comments

00:37:21.400 that most people would deal with and none of them are personal attacks on individuals. It's an attack on

00:37:25.640 confusing children. The comment about, uh, poop and the brownies, which I hate saying, but

00:37:31.640 in my opinion, from what that's laid out there, it clearly stipulates that the, the problematic

00:37:37.560 ideologies that are infiltrating schools are undermining the value of the quality education.

00:37:42.680 What do you think? Well, and I don't, you know, this is, I guess, a question that I have, and I don't say

00:37:48.200 this as necessarily a criticism of anybody's, you know, right to, you know, educate their child on

00:37:53.560 whatever they might educate them on. But in my head, if I'm going to, let's say, take my child

00:37:58.680 to some kind of, uh, weekend class, you know, an hour a week, they get to learn karate. They get to

00:38:03.560 learn, uh, you know, business, they get to learn how to cook, whatever it might be. Why would I spend

00:38:08.200 an hour every week confusing them about sexuality? Um, because, uh, you know, there's the argument that,

00:38:14.280 oh, you know, they're confused. They need to support this and that. Well, at the same time,

00:38:17.560 they are being confused by these events. And I think it's a very dangerous precedent. Um, and,

00:38:22.280 you know, maybe it's a little, uh, cross to talk about it with such, uh, uh, words as, you know,

00:38:28.280 fecally related, but at the same time, you have to make sure that children are protected because

00:38:33.560 there's a reason why things become legal at 18. Children just can't handle certain things. They

00:38:38.280 don't have the wherewithal to defend themselves against certain, certain things or certain ideologies.

00:38:42.200 Um, so at the end of the day, I think there is, there has to be some protections for children in

00:38:48.120 regards to things like sexuality, simply because if you take somebody who is purely a blank slate,

00:38:53.960 I mean, yes, you can change that and you can change their beliefs to be whatever you might

00:39:00.280 want them to be. But at the end of the day, is that going to be the best thing for them?

00:39:03.320 I mean, Adam, what's your take on that? Well, you know, I'm just interesting. I'm just,

00:39:07.240 I'm just reworking my way through the abolition of man by CS Lewis. Um, and there's an

00:39:11.880 entire segment about education. Um, and he says something to the effect I'm paraphrasing is that

00:39:16.360 if you sent your kid to the dentist to get a cavity film and he came home with a head full

00:39:20.200 of Marxist ideologies and a hole in his tooth, you'd be pretty upset. Um, that's what's happening

00:39:24.440 in these schools. People, parents are sending their kids to schools, hoping they'll get some

00:39:29.160 basic foundations, some history, um, some hopefully, uh, age appropriate education. And what they're

00:39:36.680 getting is a whole bunch of radical ideologies being pushed by adults, um, who aren't addressing

00:39:42.200 kids on an age appropriate level and are very often, whether it be the parents, whether it be

00:39:46.440 the adults, people taking their kids to these drag shows, whatever it may be, they're trying to like

00:39:49.880 score some sort of imaginary social capital by being the most woke parent in the room, by being the most

00:39:55.960 woke teacher in the school. Um, but what they're not doing is actually educating the kids. I don't

00:40:00.680 really care if you're a boy or a girl or trans or whatever. Um, we can sit here and learn about

00:40:05.160 history. We can sit here and learn numbers. Those are things that should be focused on, uh,

00:40:09.640 in the school, math, science, biology, all of these sorts of things, which, which, uh,

00:40:14.600 the, the former UCP, um, hopeful talks about is we need to get back to biology. We need to get back

00:40:19.560 to basics. Um, I think at this young, young age, we can, we can leave those conversations,

00:40:25.800 those identity forming conversations to family, to the home, and we can focus on education. It doesn't

00:40:31.800 need to be all, you know, ideology has permeated so much of our lives. Progressivism seems to be

00:40:38.440 taking everything over. Um, but we've seen it, we've seen it happen in Ontario. We've seen it

00:40:42.920 happen in other places. The second you start pushing it on kids is when parents push back. So,

00:40:46.760 uh, yeah, I, I'm hoping that there, and another concern, maybe perhaps election wise, I'm hoping

00:40:53.480 that this isn't the start of, uh, every candidate who's ever made any comment, um, is going to get

00:40:58.360 kicked out because the UCP cannot play that game anymore. We've seen that federally. We've seen

00:41:04.120 that even with, with the UCP before and prior conservative governments, some comment from years

00:41:08.680 ago being dug up or a comment that frankly, probably most people agree with a great deal

00:41:12.840 of her sentiment though might've, uh, worded it more eloquently. Um, we can't accept that those

00:41:17.640 positions like let's not transition. Little kids are radical and bigoted. We cannot accept that narrative

00:41:22.600 and particularly a UCP government, uh, cannot. Speaking of radical, if you don't mind, do you

00:41:28.280 have one more thing on that and then we'll jump to our next article? Well, I was actually just going

00:41:31.960 to say, uh, there was an event that took place in Calgary recently, uh, exactly on this subject. Uh,

00:41:36.680 I was there as a camera. We had a reporter, Alex Daliwal, uh, and Kian Simone, another cameraman there as

00:41:41.800 well. Uh, and there was quite, um, an event, I guess you could say, uh, and this was pertaining around

00:41:48.360 Josh Alexander. Some of you may know the name, uh, but maybe we can just, uh, pull up that clip

00:41:53.320 and, uh, give you a little insight into the days of ass. 0.96

00:42:18.360 kind of thinking. 0.99

00:42:41.320 Oh, my.

00:42:41.880 There you go.

00:42:44.440 You're pushing people.

00:42:49.240 Yeah.

00:42:49.940 This is why.

00:42:50.940 He's pushing us.

00:42:51.940 He's pushing us again.

00:42:53.940 Push out of the water.

00:42:54.940 That's not fair.

00:42:55.940 That's okay, right?

00:42:56.940 Yes, sir.

00:42:57.940 Yes, sir.

00:42:58.940 Yes, sir.

00:42:59.940 Yes, sir.

00:43:00.940 Yes, sir.

00:43:01.940 Yes, sir.

00:43:02.940 Yes, sir.

00:43:03.940 Yes, sir.

00:43:04.940 Yes, sir.

00:43:05.940 Yes, sir.

00:43:06.940 Yes, sir.

00:43:07.940 Yes, sir.

00:43:08.940 Yes, sir.

00:43:09.940 Get out of my way.

00:43:11.940 Why are you holding it on me?

00:43:13.440 I said nothing to you.

00:43:14.440 Get out of my way.

00:43:15.440 I didn't attack anyone.

00:43:16.440 I didn't attack my stuff.

00:43:29.440 If we can cut the audio, we can start commenting as this goes because it goes on for quite a

00:43:34.040 while.

00:43:35.040 But it was pretty shocking.

00:43:36.040 I know from what I saw, and you can probably comment on this, it seemed like sort of a crowd

00:43:40.440 encircled Josh, who was speaking, for those who don't know, he was sort of outspoken on

00:43:45.440 some of these trans issues and has garnered quite a bit of opposition for those perspectives.

00:43:49.440 I think he was suspended from his school, a Catholic school, for harboring shockingly 1.00

00:43:54.440 Catholic opinions.

00:43:55.440 Though I don't think he's Catholic himself, but that's an aside.

00:43:58.440 So this crowd, some of them I know have assault charges.

00:44:01.440 A few of those people already have assault charges and a history with police.

00:44:05.440 And he was simply trying to leave as things escalated.

00:44:08.440 And then they started pushing him, restricting him, preventing him.

00:44:11.440 You could hear, I believe, Nathaniel Pawlowski saying, why are you pushing people?

00:44:14.440 We're just talking.

00:44:16.440 Is that effectively what happened from your perspective?

00:44:18.440 So as Josh and Nathaniel and their group of a couple individuals, they were walking up

00:44:25.440 to the school on the sidewalk.

00:44:27.440 And already the Antifa members had lined themselves up along the sidewalk in front of the school.

00:44:33.440 And they were just resting along the wall, basically.

00:44:36.440 And then Josh showed up, they arrived.

00:44:39.440 And oh, we got the next clip up here.

00:44:41.440 Yeah, Josh showed up and they started getting physical with him.

00:44:44.440 They tried to prevent him from using the sidewalk and moving forward to set up where they had a speaker system.

00:44:50.440 They just wanted to set up shop on the sidewalk, I guess, and speak to those who may have come out of the school to hear.

00:44:56.440 And there were quite a few students that came out to listen.

00:44:59.440 But before they could get to that and before they could have a lot of great conversations with students that they had near the end of the day,

00:45:05.440 this whole thing happened and the Antifa members and a few specific individuals from here got charged with the assaulter.

00:45:15.440 They got charges late after the event, as you can see, clearly shoving him around obsessively.

00:45:21.440 And it seems like he's trying to be very clear that he's not doing anything showing that the person you can see there is someone with a number of charges against them for going after people in the past.

00:45:30.440 We've had some encounters with some of these folks as well. So I think I think I kind of joked on Twitter about the Calgary police's arrest the Christians and ask questions later.

00:45:38.440 So he was arrested, released shortly thereafter. And then some of the other people ultimately were arrested and charged. Is that correct?

00:45:45.440 Detained. Josh, technically, I guess, was detained.

00:45:49.440 He wasn't, you know, yeah, you know, whatever. They put cuffs on him, they put him in the back of a paddy wagon, whatever you want to call it.

00:45:56.440 And we've seen all the Antifa members. So, yeah, yeah.

00:46:00.440 Although there were charges actually late to some of the individuals that were assaulting him.

00:46:05.440 Yeah. And then I want to get to, I don't know if we have the clip, but the Bible burnings. 0.51

00:46:10.440 So Josh was handing out Bibles to people. If we don't have that clip, that's OK.

00:46:15.440 We can talk about it. But I know they were on social media. If they pop up, I'll stop and let those air.

00:46:19.440 But handing out Bibles and sort of good faith, having these conversations.

00:46:23.440 And then these individuals took to burning Bibles within the city.

00:46:28.440 Our own Alex Daliwal, I think, put out a tweet effectively stating that if imagine if this was the Koran, this would be completely unacceptable.

00:46:35.440 But these people on Calgary streets, not to mention with a wildfire crisis raging and a fire ban.

00:46:42.440 In effect, we saw people burning Bibles in the city.

00:46:46.440 If that doesn't put the bow on the package of who the bad guys are here, I don't know what does.

00:46:52.440 It's just so categorically disrespectful.

00:46:55.440 I mean, I suppose you're free to do it, but is that the right thing to do?

00:46:59.440 And also, burning books.

00:47:01.440 Is that the anti-fascist way of doing things?

00:47:05.440 No, I think it was the fascists who tended to burn the books, but hey, what do I know?

00:47:10.440 Very few comments from politicians condemning this.

00:47:14.440 Justin Trudeau, I highly doubt he's going to be making a trip to the location here to condemn these hateful acts.

00:47:21.440 As, by the way, burning Bibles, not the only thing that maybe not these people, but certainly some of their ideological counterparts do.

00:47:27.440 They also like burning churches in this country.

00:47:30.440 So, yeah, and extremely troubling, especially the fact this was the high school I went to.

00:47:36.440 These kids would have been my age a couple, I would have been this age a couple of years ago.

00:47:40.440 And to see students from this school, presumably doing this, ripping up Bibles, burning it in the street.

00:47:47.440 They're not making a point.

00:47:48.440 This is just pure wanton destruction.

00:47:51.440 It's really heartbreaking to see, to be honest.

00:47:54.440 Well, and, you know, as you see there, it was he lit it on fire.

00:47:58.440 He stomped on it as well.

00:48:00.440 They ripped up the pages.

00:48:01.440 And as you can see, Josh, he's just hanging out, having his conversations, right?

00:48:06.440 It's a bit of that turn the other cheek mentality, I suppose.

00:48:09.440 Yeah.

00:48:10.440 But at the end of the day, it's not going to stop him.

00:48:13.440 Where are these people going to go that, you know, they burnt books?

00:48:16.440 At the end of the day, how far are they going to get in life?

00:48:18.440 Yeah, exactly.

00:48:19.440 Let's get to, because we're running tight on time here, this Marco Mendocino clip on Bill C-21.

00:48:26.440 And obviously Bill C-21, extremely troubling.

00:48:28.440 It fails to address the core issues of illegal gun trafficking, and it punishes law-abiding firearms owners who subject themselves to extensive training and daily police checks in order to participate in sports shooting, hunting activities.

00:48:42.440 They're the most screened people in the country categorically.

00:48:44.440 They continue to be punished by this liberal government that gets soft on crime, soft on gun crime, soft on gun trafficking, soft on the porous border that's allowing so many of these illegal, already illegal firearms, pre-Bill C-21, that are trafficked into this country.

00:49:00.440 This government is failing on every front, and now they're just continuing to punish those of us who have one or two sports firearms and are safe, and go out occasionally on the week and maybe shoot some targets, shoot a deer or two.

00:49:11.440 Extremely troubling, so if we can pull that clip up.

00:49:14.440 We just passed Bill C-21 through the House of Commons.

00:49:18.440 This is the most significant gun control legislation in a generation.

00:49:21.440 It's going to strengthen the national ban against AR-15 style firearms.

00:49:25.440 It's going to put in place permanently a national freeze against handguns, and it's going to introduce red flag and yellow flag protocols, which will reverse the alarming trend between domestic abuse and the presence of guns.

00:49:37.440 And now we're going to take this bill to the Senate and hopefully get it passed there as quickly as possible.

00:49:42.440 This bill, Bill C-21, is going to save lives.

00:49:47.440 What a joke.

00:49:49.440 AR-15 style.

00:49:50.440 Absolute joke.

00:49:51.440 I'd love to hear him define AR-15 style.

00:49:54.440 Well, people think AR is an assault rifle.

00:49:56.440 It's Armalite rifle, by the way.

00:49:58.440 But the lack of just information, the lack of understanding, the fact that as these handgun bans come into effect, we see gun violence and violence generally increase.

00:50:08.440 Not to mention, I saw a tweet from some MP, doesn't matter who, Liberal MP, saying that, oh, this is what democracy looks like.

00:50:15.440 Well, actually, if you study the course of human history, disarming the population is very often the opposite of what democracy looks like.

00:50:21.440 It's what totalitarian regimes that don't like the potential of someone pushing back looks like.

00:50:26.440 And if you were to take one instance on its own, say Bill C-21, well, that might be something.

00:50:31.440 But when you're talking about all the other legislation on the table, restricting what content you can see on social media, regulating what content is permitted on the air,

00:50:40.440 is regulating who's allowed to ask questions and now taking away people's firearms that aren't being used for violent crimes.

00:50:47.440 There's a pattern there that becomes very hard to deny.

00:50:50.440 Well, and, you know, on that point, you look at his face and what he's saying during that whole thing,

00:50:55.440 and I understand why somebody would be concerned about what he's implementing, but who actually cares about him implementing it?

00:51:01.440 A bunch of people who are misled about gun violence? I mean, really, that's what it is at the end of the day.

00:51:06.440 Who cares that you're going to ban legal guns? That doesn't do anything for crime. 1.00

00:51:12.440 When was the last time a bunch of gangsters made sure that all their guns were registered, right?

00:51:17.440 I mean, people can 3D print guns in their own home at this point, and you're stopping people who are trying to,

00:51:23.440 and painfully so, trying to go through every legal hoop they can imagine or the government can imagine,

00:51:29.440 in order to obtain the firearms they have every right to obtain.

00:51:32.440 And that's the big problem here, is this actually does nothing to stop crime.

00:51:36.440 And let's say, like what, should there be a knife ban in Winnipeg?

00:51:41.440 Like, it's not the guns that are murdering people, it's people.

00:51:45.440 And those guns that some people are obtaining, generally speaking, if they're going to use them for nefarious activities,

00:51:51.440 they're going to get them in nefarious ways.

00:51:53.440 This whole bill does nothing, and should please nobody.

00:51:56.440 But at the end of the day, they're still going to push it.

00:51:58.440 Yeah. There are two more key articles that I want to get to today before we wrap up, but let's jump to one more ad break.

00:52:04.440 We'll come back.

00:52:05.440 We're going to talk about the failing addictions program, rather the lack of addictions recovery programs in BC,

00:52:11.440 and the massive deaths that are resulting, as well as one of our headline articles, the carbon tax.

00:52:16.440 But first, we'll just jump to a quick ad that we'll come back, touch on those issues, read your chats, and then we'll call it a day.

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00:53:04.440 Yeah, let's jump straight into this clip, so we have time to get to it, of Stephen Guilbeault talking about clean fuel regulations.

00:53:19.440 Very much in line, as we talked about with Rachel Notley's comment, these limitations will drive innovation.

00:53:25.440 I know that's the policy that most people believe in, limitation driving innovation.

00:53:30.440 Let's grab this clip right now.

00:53:32.440 The truth is that the Conservatives have absolutely no plan to do anything to fight climate change, and we'll set our country back on making promises towards a cleaner economy.

00:53:41.440 When it comes time to ask the oil companies to reinvest their record profits in the innovative solution in clean technologies, the Conservatives immediately back down.

00:53:50.440 We're proud to support the Clean Fuel Regulation, which, when fully implemented, is already contributing more than $2 billion in the last year alone, Mr. Speaker, to the Canadian economy.

00:53:59.440 Thank you.

00:54:00.440 The Honourable Member.

00:54:01.440 The truth is that…

00:54:02.440 Yeah, so some questions about the facts there.

00:54:06.440 What do you think of that, Sid?

00:54:08.440 Well, I mean, Greenpeace activist Stephen Guilbeault, who once climbed the CN Tower and failed to criticise or adequately criticise the oil sands in any capacity.

00:54:18.440 I mean, why should I be bothered with his advocacy for environmentalism when that's exactly what it is?

00:54:23.440 He's not coming to this from a perspective of the world international body.

00:54:27.440 Well, I can't even say that anymore because those are all corrupt, but he's not really coming at this through an in-depth logical perspective.

00:54:35.440 He's advocating for the same activism that he's been doing his entire life, and he figured out how to make money doing it, so he keeps doing it.

00:54:41.440 Yeah, and, you know, these comments have been sort of criticised broadly, the sort of fake news that's being pushed, that this is going to benefit farmers, this is going to drive innovation.

00:54:52.440 Scott Moe actually weighed in on this as a schedule in Premier, talking about, much in line with the comments made by Daniel Smith during the debates, that this 2030 narrative is not possible, and that in order for this country to survive, in order for there to be affordable resources there available, that coal-fired resources will be needed.

00:55:15.440 So if we could just jump to that clip, that would be greatly appreciated.

00:55:19.440 If where we've come to in this country is when, you know, individuals in this province or any other province flick their lights on or their furnace fan kicks in that, you know, that's deemed illegal and cause for someone to, you know, someone to go to jail, come get me.

00:55:36.440 I mean, we're standing up for an affordable, reliable power supply here in Saskatchewan.

00:55:42.440 But where we've come to in this country is when, you know, it's great to see politicians speaking like that, standing up, saying no, enough is enough.

00:55:51.280 This is sort of fake news fear-mongering by the liberal government, by someone who's, like you've mentioned, I think we've been charged for his eco-activism, some might say eco-terrorism.

00:56:01.220 For a politician to say, you know what, come get me, I'll go down with the rest of these people who are just trying to keep the lights on, who are just trying to pay their bills, if Daniel Smith is elected, if Mo is in power.

00:56:14.620 There's a sort of Western bloc developing.

00:56:16.860 We're going to talk about BC in a second, but there's a sort of Western bloc developing, saying no, enough is enough.

00:56:21.340 We've seen pushback on firearms.

00:56:23.840 We've seen pushback on the social media censorship.

00:56:27.480 The sentiment, even in public opinion and polls, is starting to turn.

00:56:32.180 I think the liberals are in their death throes, and they're trying to do as much as they can in the time that they have left.

00:56:37.740 Not saying Pierre will necessarily win the next election, but I know that Trudeau's time is probably running short, and I think they know that very well.

00:56:46.000 Just a moment ago, I talked about BC and their troubling overdose numbers.

00:56:52.780 If we can just pull up that article, we'll just look at it really quickly.

00:56:56.280 I'll pull it up myself here.

00:56:58.240 So Premier David Eby says the latest overdose death numbers provided by BC Coroner Service are profoundly troubling as the province continues to face the challenge of toxic illicit drugs.

00:57:08.900 The Coroner Service said that they killed 206 people in BC in April, raising to 814 the number of overdose deaths so far this year.

00:57:19.440 People can check out that article for themselves.

00:57:21.480 But I do want to juxtapose and contrast this approach that has been taken in BC that has been, despite Rachel Notley now trying to deny it, advocated for by a number of NDP MLAs.

00:57:34.960 This sort of harm reduction, safe injection site mentality that keeps people on a perpetual cycle of drug abuse.

00:57:43.640 How it simply is not working, and it also is not at all compassionate.

00:57:48.900 It is in concept, you can say, well, you're not actually affronting on anybody and you're not forcing anybody into treatment.

00:57:54.600 Well, I don't think any one of us, for someone we loved, a family member, a friend, would advocate for just providing them with free drugs and letting them destroy their lives.

00:58:04.220 What the UCP announced at this recent announcement, and perhaps we can use the social that was edited together of that powerful announcement after we've gotten through the Super Chats to wrap up today.

00:58:14.900 But the conversations that were had, Mike Ellis, the Minister of Public Safety and Emergencies, a former street cop, has seen it all.

00:58:23.340 He was emotional and teary-eyed.

00:58:25.120 I also spoke with Chief Roy Whitney, who said that these people who are on Tsutena and on many First Nations reservations,

00:58:32.040 they are human beings who deserve care, who deserve compassion, and who deserve to have their lives restored.

00:58:37.420 These general progressive policies that profess to be compassionate, but ultimately result in people dying from state-provided overdoses.

00:58:46.140 Well, that's not compassion at all, and that's not what Alberta is about. 1.00

00:58:50.000 We stick up for each other.

00:58:51.040 We stick together.

00:58:52.380 And I hope that this Alberta model that Premier Daniel Smith is so proud of, of actually providing care,

00:58:57.980 cutting the $40 a day that the NDP was charging addicts, providing those opportunities, and enabling parents.

00:59:03.320 Listen, if someone's dealing with a mental health crisis or is incapable of managing their own lives,

00:59:09.880 there are interventions that can take place.

00:59:12.560 This offers that opportunity and extends that opportunity for parents, concerned friends, police authorities,

00:59:20.940 to intervene and help a person, as these people who've struggled with addictions attested.

00:59:27.080 At the time they were addicted, they didn't want this help.

00:59:29.760 As soon as they were recovered, they were so incredibly grateful, brought to the point of tears.

00:59:34.460 And that's why you had a stage full of people who've lost people or who have struggled to addiction themselves.

00:59:40.700 Outstanding in support for Forest Nations chiefs or elders, and the community at large rallying behind this.

00:59:47.320 This, for me personally, is potentially the strongest and most critical issue,

00:59:50.800 because as much as jobs matter, as much as all these other things matter,

00:59:55.000 the fact that addiction has made downtown cities unsafe,

00:59:58.500 and the fact that these people are being left in squalor, these people are being left to suffer,

01:00:02.620 and they're being abandoned is absolutely unacceptable.

01:00:05.200 It is a test of the soul of Alberta.

01:00:07.400 And I think only one party presently has an adequate response that acknowledges both individuals' freedoms,

01:00:12.980 but also the responsibility to care for everybody.

01:00:15.500 Yeah, well, and you can take care of the people that have been affected by these issues,

01:00:20.780 those who have been struggling for years and are beginning to struggle with serious addiction.

01:00:25.460 But you also have to look at the cause for this, and you touched on it as well.

01:00:29.580 In part, the pharmaceutical industry and the kinds of medications and the kinds of almost enforcement,

01:00:35.440 in a way, or pressure that they put on people to get to start using certain drugs that are extremely addictive

01:00:43.800 and can be extremely dangerous.

01:00:45.340 And then the mismanagement thereafter, once ascribed to these seriously addictive drugs, it's horrible.

01:00:52.280 And then they get cut off one day, and then all of a sudden, the thing the doctor told them that they needed,

01:00:56.700 they can no longer get, but they're still left with the residual effects, the dependency that they feel.

01:01:01.620 And unfortunately, a lot of them do seek that out in other means.

01:01:05.340 And if you really want to solve this problem, yes, you have to help the people that have gone through it

01:01:08.280 and are going through it, but you also have to stop more people from having to deal with this.

01:01:11.800 And one way is, I think, to put big pharmaceutical industries in better check.

01:01:16.800 Yeah, I can certainly agree to that.

01:01:19.140 Well, folks, that is all the time we have for today.

01:01:21.280 I think we're going to rip through some of these super chats.

01:01:23.980 Again, these chats are rumble chats, a way for you to interact with us, a way to have conversations,

01:01:29.260 but also, ultimately, a way for you to support us, help us have the lights on.

01:01:32.500 We don't get those big handouts from the government.

01:01:35.780 So, I don't know.

01:01:36.240 Sid, do you want to read these?

01:01:36.960 Do you want me to read them?

01:01:38.540 Sure.

01:01:38.940 Take up the first one there, and then I'll pick up it.

01:01:41.820 Wonderful.

01:01:42.440 All right.

01:01:42.700 So, our first chat here, $10 from a longtime viewer, Fraser McBurney.

01:01:47.460 In the mail, I usually get junk mail or bills, but today, I got a surprise.

01:01:51.940 Three letters from Hamilton Court dismissing the last three tickets I got.

01:01:56.180 It was like the sort of Damocles lifting off my neck.

01:01:58.740 Well, that is wonderful news.

01:02:00.260 There has been a lot of legal successes, victories, some of them through our Fight the Fines initiative,

01:02:05.440 some of the legal efforts we've had on behalf of pastors, helping them fund their legal defenses.

01:02:10.220 So, it's incredible to see that the courts, maybe not always, but often are getting these things right,

01:02:16.300 and tickets are just being dropped massively across this country.

01:02:20.520 Thanks so much for sharing that incredible news.

01:02:23.580 I think we also have – go ahead.

01:02:25.600 Yeah, go ahead.

01:02:26.880 No, congratulations is what I'm saying there.

01:02:28.400 Yeah, awesome.

01:02:30.140 I think Yankee also used the Rebel microphone with a $1 donation, our own Yankee Pollock.

01:02:38.240 And that's a new Rumble feature you can access, correct?

01:02:42.180 I believe so, yeah.

01:02:43.620 So, there are certain Rebel News-specific emojis that you can use in comments on Rebel News Live videos on Rumble,

01:02:50.800 not YouTube or the other platforms, especially not YouTube.

01:02:54.960 They're just horrible, as you know.

01:02:56.380 But Rumble is the place to be, and with these new features, it is a little more exciting,

01:03:00.400 and we do hope to have more engagement on that platform.

01:03:02.440 Wonderful.

01:03:03.580 Wonderful.

01:03:04.560 And then, do you want to go to the last one?

01:03:07.400 Is that a – I see another one from Fraser here.

01:03:10.120 $5.

01:03:11.320 Saturday, May 20th, the world kicks off a worldwide rally.

01:03:15.400 If you live in Hamilton, shout out to studio producer Efron, who should join.

01:03:19.820 Join him at City Hall 12 noon.

01:03:21.760 Let's have some fun.

01:03:23.960 Awesome.

01:03:24.580 So, I know Efron's going to be in attendance now.

01:03:26.380 No, I'm kidding.

01:03:26.980 I can't speak to these on the weekend.

01:03:29.940 Yeah, incredible.

01:03:30.820 Well, thanks so much, everyone, for watching today.

01:03:33.000 It's been a blast.

01:03:33.620 Do, I encourage you, again, look back to yesterday's live stream where Ezra Levant did a sort of in-depth

01:03:38.720 with his sharp legal mind analysis of the ruling on Daniel Smith and that conflict of interest.

01:03:45.160 You can also look back and check out our coverage of last night's leadership debate.

01:03:48.760 As always, all of our coverage for this leadership election is at albertadecides.com.

01:03:53.560 A lot of conversation, in-depth analysis, interviews with some of these MLAs.

01:03:57.780 So, the election's sneaking up on us.

01:04:00.400 We'll have, I believe, one more of these Alberta edition election-focused talks next week.

01:04:05.540 And then Monday after that, well, that's election day.

01:04:07.940 So, we're looking forward to seeing you one more time.

01:04:09.960 As always, I want to thank you all so much for tuning in wherever you're watching us.

01:04:13.620 Special thanks to my co-host today, everyone in the studio.

01:04:17.140 And as always, we want to thank you so much for tuning in.

01:04:19.380 For Rebel News, he's been Sid, and I'm Adam Sos.

01:04:21.860 Thanks.

01:04:22.140 Thanks.

Rebel News Podcast - May 19, 2023

DAILY Roundup ｜ Premier Smith roasts Notley, Feds carbon tax fake news, Drugs killing Canadians

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