Rebel News Podcast - DAILY Roundup ｜ Three days to go until Alberta Decides

00:00:00.000 Oh, hey, good afternoon. Good morning, everybody, depending on what part of this beautiful country

00:00:19.500 that you're in. Welcome to the Daily Roundup. It's Friday, which means it's the Alberta edition

00:00:25.240 because you have two Alberta co-hosts. We will talk about Alberta, but I think if you're a viewer

00:00:30.800 from anywhere in the country, what happens in Alberta affects the rest of you. It seems as though

00:00:38.900 these liberal attacks on Alberta, they start here and then they go everywhere else, but we're also

00:00:43.360 one of those places that is leading the charge against the things that Ottawa wants to do to

00:00:48.480 you. When I say Ottawa, I used to never actually mean the city, but after the Freedom Convoy,

00:00:53.780 I think maybe it is the city, but I use that interchangeably with Justin Trudeau's Liberals.

00:00:59.560 My co-host today is Adam Sose, based in Calgary. Adam, how's it going?

00:01:04.420 Oh, it's going wonderful. Happy to be here. Friday before the election,

00:01:07.920 things are heating up, so I'm looking forward to getting into it.

00:01:11.580 Yeah, I'm not sure. Are they heating up or are they settling into probably where they

00:01:16.780 are supposed to be? And I guess we'll talk about that. And I think maybe there's,

00:01:22.380 people are starting to see through some of the mainstream media slash NDP, but I'm probably

00:01:27.740 repeating myself, their rhetoric. I think one of the underreported stories of 2015 was just how

00:01:35.920 many people in the mainstream media then went on to work as communication staffers in Rachel

00:01:42.420 Notley's government. It was probably a lateral move where they didn't have to adjust their ideology

00:01:49.160 whatsoever. I should tell everybody what we're doing though, before we get any further into the

00:01:53.680 show. So this is the daily roundup. It's normally hosted by David Menzies, but on Friday, it's an

00:02:00.040 all Alberta show. And throughout the week with David, you will get, you know, a rotating cast of

00:02:05.960 characters and co-hosts with him because David is the gas pedal. And sometimes somebody else has to be

00:02:13.000 the breaks, if you know what I mean. And it gives us a chance to talk about the news of the day,

00:02:17.180 completely unscripted in sort of a casual way, maybe the way that you might talk about it with

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00:02:57.720 without you, there really is no Rebel News. We would never ask Justin Trudeau for a penny.

00:03:04.780 I don't know if that's a good segue to talk about what we're actually doing in HQ

00:03:10.000 in Toronto. Maybe we'll bring that up right now. Efron or Olivia, stop me if I'm being crazy. But

00:03:15.720 let's talk about this. Maybe do we have a clip from what we're doing in Toronto? Maybe let's show

00:03:22.660 that first. And then we'll talk about why I'm so grateful that you've all been so patient with us.

00:03:28.840 As we sort of didn't have a live stream during the week, we had a Twitter spaces to sort of

00:03:36.740 compensate for that. And then we didn't have a live stream yesterday. And then we probably won't

00:03:40.860 have one on Monday, but there are other reasons for that. But let's maybe if we have a clip from

00:03:45.500 Build the Dream, let's show that.

00:03:53.900 Today, I want to announce the biggest plan, the biggest idea we have had in years, eight years,

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00:04:23.920 Some quick background. In the eight plus years we've been operating, we've published around

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00:05:01.140 much. We've seen more than 20 million times. No one had ever laid a glove on him before until we

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00:05:15.980 For years we've been using what's called a green screen. It's just what it sounds like,

00:05:19.960 a green blanket really. And I sit in front of it and the computer replaces the green blanket with

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00:05:31.960 card table as a desk in front of that blanket. Now that's fine, but I think it's time we grew up a bit

00:05:38.420 like a teenager who has outgrown his one suit and needs to dress a bit more like a grownup. So that's

00:05:43.460 the big plan to replace our homemade green screen studio, which served us well with a state-of-the-art

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00:06:01.780 Room to have specials like election night with a bunch of people. Even room for a real studio audience.

00:06:08.640 Obviously that's not going to work in front of a green blanket and a little card table.

00:06:12.500 We have to grow up a bit now and realize we're not just the homemade YouTube operations

00:06:16.640 we were when we started in my living room back in 2015. We are Canada's largest independent

00:06:22.260 broadcaster now. It's time we grew up a bit, not for its own sake, but so that we can do more and do

00:06:28.420 new things and do them better. More reporting, more commentary, more analysis, more podcasts,

00:06:33.260 more special broadcasts. And frankly, we need to improve our game. As you know, we've had some issues

00:06:38.120 with our audio quality and even the coloring of the green screen technology.

00:06:41.920 So what happens when you use six, seven, eight-year-old video and computer equipment? It's

00:06:46.600 good, but it's a bit homemade. We've grown so much. We're almost 10 years old. It's time we thought

00:06:52.080 about the next 10 years. And so we're doing it. We've hired a professional studio design firm.

00:06:59.600 We did our own last time, homemade, and that was great, but we've hired an agency that does studios

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00:07:11.500 working on the design already. That's why I've been doing my show out of our boardroom for now.

00:07:16.440 Here's a sneak peek of how it's going to look. And here's what the studio looks like right now.

00:07:22.100 I mean, the workers have gone home for the day, so I'm not in their way. You can get a hint of it

00:07:26.320 coming to life. So here's the plan. We will continue to produce hundreds of videos, podcasts,

00:07:32.440 and news items every week. But we're going to add to it. We're going to ramp up our work on

00:07:37.300 rumble.com and on Twitter, which is fast becoming a great free speech platform for video.

00:07:43.060 Right now, we rival major news organizations. We do. We have more than 45 people working for us,

00:07:49.580 both here in our main office and across Canada, and even in Australia and the UK. And when important

00:07:54.800 news happens, we actually compete with the big boys in terms of audience. As you remember,

00:07:59.360 we had over 400 million views and impressions during the trucker convoy alone. That's more than the

00:08:05.320 CBC receives on any average month. We have less than 1% of their budget. Our new studio will literally

00:08:13.180 be on par with the CBC studios, except we're not going to burn a billion dollars to do it.

00:08:19.180 The last time we built our studio, we spent $85,000. But this time, even though we're using

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00:08:35.320 And you can already see that it's going to have a real wow effect.

00:08:40.760 So that's about an 11-minute video from Ezra, so I don't think we're going to show it all.

00:08:45.980 But if you want to watch it, it's on the Rebel News main page on YouTube and wherever you find us.

00:08:51.380 And the website is called buildthedream.ca. And you can watch Ezra's video there.

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00:09:46.780 to live. And you're giving voice to them. They gave you a brick, but you're actually giving voice

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00:10:35.440 So there are plenty of different ways that you can get involved. But we're not changing the

00:10:39.640 grassroots feel of the company. You can tell that it's still a very modest set. And I still, you know,

00:10:46.400 have my green bed sheet behind me. Nothing's changing over here at the Liberty Outpost on the

00:10:52.400 gun Ponderosa. But we're just upping our game in the studio a little bit. And things age pretty quickly

00:10:58.320 with technology that we're using constantly. So again, that's buildthedream.ca if you want to help

00:11:03.480 out and help us compete with the CBC in their $1.3 to $5 billion annual budget, we need $70,000.

00:11:13.980 Yeah. And compete we can and compete we will and compete we have been. Last night, it was incredible

00:11:21.580 to be out. We actually had like a crew of four of us out covering this UCP rally that took place

00:11:27.360 in Calgary. And a bunch of people were coming up saying, hey, is anyone else here? There's a

00:11:33.360 couple cameras there. But they're saying, wow, is Rebel the only one covering this? So it is really

00:11:37.400 incredible. And it's because of people out there watching this, supporting this, the probably 100

00:11:42.520 or so people last night who shook my hand and got the opportunity to take pictures with some of these

00:11:46.860 people as well. A really incredible opportunity. Obviously, we're covering this election on

00:11:51.340 albertacides.com. But it is so nice to get out to some of these events where we can meet the people

00:11:55.560 who not only watch the show, but help make this possible. Listen, whether you like it or not,

00:12:00.060 if you're paying taxes, CBC is getting some of your money directly. Why not sort of even if you've

00:12:05.840 never chipped in before, why not chip in five bucks or chip in what you can help us take a sort of

00:12:10.920 stand and let them know that we're the big boys. I have to say, honestly, whether it be the political

00:12:16.780 parties, NDP, Fruto aside, who try to exclude us, the political parties, the staffers, even the other

00:12:24.040 media outlets, they're respectful of us. Their tone is changing. The culture is shifting. I had

00:12:31.620 an NDP event the other day when their staffers were being rude to me. A CTV camera guy yelled

00:12:37.200 at an NDP staffer for blocking my camera. Like the tide is changing. And it's because of everyone

00:12:41.860 out there supporting us and making this possible. So again, thank you so much. If you could chip in

00:12:47.540 something to help. We're not talking about billions of dollars here. We keep it modest. We keep

00:12:51.840 grassroots. We always will. But if we can get that studio built, we can do more. We can invite people

00:12:57.600 in. There's more opportunities. We can have those conversations. Ask those questions only we're

00:13:01.760 willing to ask and ask those questions that you want answers to, which is precisely what we're doing

00:13:06.040 last night. Quite a turnout at this UCP rally originally, actually, that they were expecting

00:13:12.280 it to be inside. So when you got there, there's construction going on, parkings all over the place.

00:13:17.440 You go into one spot. It was a high school grad, so that wasn't the spot. The other room it was

00:13:22.000 originally supposed to be in. Well, we couldn't go into there because they wouldn't fit. Over 1,700

00:13:26.480 people registered. But the tent that they set up for 1,700 people, well, that completely overflowed.

00:13:32.740 And there's actually hundreds of people standing outside around the tent. I think it wound up,

00:13:37.400 there's about 35, they're scheduled to be 37, but I think about 35 former MLAs and UCP candidates

00:13:44.140 were on location. We'll have a video out soon. I actually spoke to 14 of those candidates.

00:13:49.480 So asking some tough questions, but incredible. What do you make of this momentum in what is

00:13:55.120 supposed to be such a hotly contested battleground to have 2,000 plus people show up at this event?

00:14:01.500 Yeah, I think it was 2,500 was the final count, sort of a rough estimate of the crowd size. It

00:14:07.660 caused a traffic snarl for hours, which could have got them all charged with terrorism. This is

00:14:14.940 Justin Trudeau's Canada, don't you know? But I think this leads to what I sort of was talking about

00:14:24.320 off the top of the show. And that is that while the pollsters who seem to be oversampling Edmonton

00:14:32.660 and the NDP want us to believe that Calgary is really the battleground for, I guess, the fate of

00:14:42.560 the province. I'm not so sure it is. I've been talking to some contacts inside the UCP, people

00:14:50.760 who are privy to internal polling, and they're saying it is, they're happy. They're pretty confident.

00:14:56.280 Now, Edmonton, the UCP are going to lose some seats, I think, even in some of the suburban areas

00:15:03.020 where, you know, they've really been UCP and CPC strongholds. Some of those are going to flip.

00:15:12.120 But, you know, rural Alberta is always going to be completely conservative. It always is.

00:15:17.620 In Alberta, you have to win all of rural Alberta and either Edmonton or Calgary. The UCP are going

00:15:28.020 to take Calgary. They might lose a couple seats. But I really think on the issue of affordability,

00:15:34.320 jobs, and fighting back against Ottawa, provincial autonomy, those are the winning issues for all

00:15:44.660 Albertans, including new Albertans. People who have moved here because their own province's

00:15:51.100 closeness with Ottawa has destroyed their local economy. They come here and they want a province

00:15:56.560 that's going to fight back and be different. And I just don't think those people are being swayed by

00:16:01.100 the NDP. I just don't. Yeah. And I think that even when we're talking about, Tarek and I had a

00:16:06.520 conversation about where potential battlegrounds could be. I think the point is more so, aside from

00:16:12.040 maybe, like Banff, Kananaskis, that's a little bit up in the air, and a few other places,

00:16:16.440 anything outside of Calgary and Edmonton are pretty much decided UCP. Edmonton going to

00:16:21.420 overwhelmingly go NDP, that's clear. I think what we're saying is that there's a potential that

00:16:26.720 Calgary is the only place where it could be swayed. But I think you're probably right.

00:16:29.900 I certainly hope you're right that it won't be as much of a battleground. But you're basically,

00:16:34.360 I think there's about eight ridings constituencies. Some have cited it as 12. But within Calgary,

00:16:39.760 there's probably eight where there's a little bit of contention. And what you would have to have

00:16:43.380 happen is I think the NDP would have to win seven or eight of them, basically a sweep in what are

00:16:48.160 the polling is generally favoring the UCP and those ridings a couple, the NDP are a bit ahead.

00:16:54.780 But you would need a very unlikely NDP sweep of Calgary to turn things. Now, likely not to be a big

00:17:02.700 majority government. I mean, obviously, in Alberta, it will be a majority because that's how it works

00:17:06.460 effectively with the two main party system. No one else, likely, aside from the UCP-ejected

00:17:14.180 Johnson candidate, likely to win as an independent. So it will be a majority. It might be a small

00:17:19.760 majority, but I think you are right. Tomorrow will be interesting. Alex Daliwal, our reporter who's been

00:17:25.580 covering the election as well, will be at the, I think, Rise and Shine NDP rally that's taking place

00:17:30.460 in Calgary. And it'll be interesting to juxtapose those, juxtapose those and see what the turnout is

00:17:37.120 like. Obviously, they could bust people out. Who knows? That's also on the weekend. But if they

00:17:41.800 don't have significantly more people and it's a weekend, that'll be a pretty strong indicator.

00:17:46.940 Well, yeah, it's a Rise and Shine rally. Like, what time is it? NDP voters don't get up early.

00:17:52.300 I know.

00:17:52.680 It's a little early for them.

00:17:54.180 It's a little early for them. You know, and that's the thing. We've seen these

00:17:58.480 videos of massive UCP turnouts for their rallies. People are really energized. And I think

00:18:05.760 that might be the fatal flaw in the NDP strategy of talking up their polling is that that really

00:18:12.540 motivates the UCP-based turnout, to get the vote out, to volunteer. People, disaffected conservatives

00:18:19.880 who are like, I'm just so fed up with the UCP because of Jason Kenney, by the way. He kneecapped

00:18:25.460 Daniel Smith by staying on too long. But those disaffected people who are like, they haven't

00:18:32.100 earned my vote quite yet. Those people will turn up on election day if they think the NDP

00:18:36.620 are going to win because they're not NDPers. They are conservatives who just really want

00:18:41.720 their politicians to prove to them that they are indeed conservative. So I think this might

00:18:46.740 blow up in the NDP space. But I mean, even last weekend, I poked my head into a Daniel

00:18:54.680 Smith rally. I just thought, you know, I wasn't going to do a report, but I wanted to see for

00:18:59.240 myself because I'd seen earlier in the day, Daniel Smith was doing like a whistle stop

00:19:04.020 campaign tour through the capital region. And, you know, just stopping in on the local candidates,

00:19:11.540 whatever. And there was an unannounced stop with only the campaign volunteers, by the way,

00:19:19.540 in Sherwood Park. And I think one of those ridings in Sherwood Park is going to be a toss up.

00:19:25.980 So the NDP tweeted out this picture. Oh, Danielle Smith can't get people to turn up 1.00

00:19:30.720 for like a campaign stop in the greater Edmonton area. It was completely unannounced. And also,

00:19:39.800 what kind of weirdo are you that you're lurking in the bushes? Basically, I knew where I like I'm I'm from

00:19:47.260 this area. So I knew where that photo was taken. And so I was like, are you hiding behind like a

00:19:52.640 lilac bush? You total weirdo. Oh, yeah. They have people sneaking into events. I'm not joking. They have

00:19:58.020 people sneaking into events. It's creepy. A hundred percent. And they're getting caught because one of

00:20:04.180 them said something to that effect to Alex Daliwal. Like, basically, you can't come in because the

00:20:11.080 UCP kicked us out, like the NDP staffer out of an event. And Alex is like, I'm a journalist.

00:20:18.060 You're an NDP staffer. We are not the same. But anyways, I poked my head into this Edmonton event.

00:20:24.240 And the venue was like it was enormously hot that day, like super muggy. My hair was a disaster.

00:20:29.680 It was just packed like five, six hundred people up the stairs, out down the street. And I'm like,

00:20:35.760 this is pretty good turnout momentum, even in Edmonton, where it seems that all might be lost.

00:20:42.580 The UCP energy is still really high there. And I have not seen images like that from any,

00:20:50.740 not a single NDP event, no matter how many union activists they truck in.

00:20:54.860 Yeah. And it's, you know, what's wild is it just speaks to the continued American style

00:21:01.360 lying campaign. And we can say lying now because it's not, it's not up for debate.

00:21:06.220 There'll be dozens of events with hundreds of people. And then literally Jeremy Nolay and the

00:21:11.240 NDP staff will take a picture of like a meeting and pretend that that is the type of rally that

00:21:17.260 they're having. It's just so categorically dishonest. They'll say they'll take questions from

00:21:21.740 everyone. Then they don't take questions. They'll tell me to my face. Oh yeah, two questions are

00:21:25.740 fine. Then they'll pretend to hand me a mic and yoink it away last second. It's ridiculous. And

00:21:31.000 frankly, it's embarrassing. And it's incredibly unbecoming of politics and Alberta Canadian 1.00

00:21:36.080 politics. I mean, Justin Trudeau is to blame. This sort of radicalization of politics, excluding

00:21:42.860 media outlets. Listen, if there was someone within the media who was literally engaging in constant

00:21:48.640 hate speech, I wouldn't have a problem with them being excluded, to be honest. But that's

00:21:52.820 not what's happening here. They're taking people who are asking fair, tough questions, the same

00:21:58.180 types of fair, tough questions we asked to the UCP or anyone else, by the way. And they

00:22:02.020 don't want those. They want those people excluded. They only let the people in who are going to

00:22:05.680 echo their talking points. People who are screaming at the UCP, having outbursts at events,

00:22:11.220 making absurd allegations, like asking Danielle Smith if she's a follower of Hitler. Those

00:22:16.720 people, well, they're certainly allowed and welcome into the NDP event. But if you want

00:22:20.440 to ask a question about, say, the NDP cutting funding for a hospital, well, then you're not

00:22:24.760 welcome. It's troubling to see. And it's a pattern that I'm shocked that NDP voters who

00:22:31.120 hate the term American-style anything, American-style healthcare, American-style gun control, American-style

00:22:37.060 whatever it may be, they hate all that. But then they're engaging in this very US presidential

00:22:41.180 campaign where it's all personal attacks and overt lying. We've heard numerous times

00:22:47.280 allegations on the front of Pastor Arthur Pawlowski from Rachel Notley, even though I think she's

00:22:51.520 been warned. She again tweeted the other day he was charged with sort of inciting violence

00:22:56.460 against police. That's also false. That's not what was alleged at all. So there's been lying

00:23:02.400 throughout this campaign. And I think and I hope Albertans will see through it. It is very

00:23:07.080 much a test of this province. If the UCP manages to win, despite the sort of conglomerates of

00:23:14.920 media cabals conspiring against them, all the hysteria, all the madness, all the clips from

00:23:21.280 a radio talk show, everyone has been working against Danielle Smith except for her team.

00:23:28.260 We've been asking tough questions, holding her to account as well. It's going to be a strong

00:23:34.020 litmus test, and I've called it a test of the soul of Alberta. If it's still there, if they can look

00:23:39.320 past all that, look at the policies, look at the facts, look at the economic recovery, and see the

00:23:44.180 direction that this province is going, it's going to bode well for conservative politics moving

00:23:48.960 forward. And I think the NDP is going to have to take a serious look at themselves. If the NDP loses,

00:23:54.760 I hope that they turn into a serious party, not a radical, ideological, extremist party that's

00:24:00.680 pushing things that, frankly, most Albertans don't want. I hope that they serve as a sensible

00:24:04.940 counterpoint that holds the government to account instead of a radical, ideological wing of the left.

00:24:11.580 You know, this is where I will put this into context for the rest of the country and why this

00:24:17.540 election is so important. So besides the fact that, you know, if you have a government here that does

00:24:26.000 not push back against the feds on the things they want to do to our energy sector, the rest of the

00:24:31.760 country is far worse off. If Alberta is not busy drilling, exporting, the rest of you are far worse

00:24:39.840 off because of it. Because whether you like it or not, we tend to be the economic furnace of this

00:24:45.660 country and our furnace runs on oil. And all of that affects affordability for everybody else. So you

00:24:52.040 need a province that's pushing back on energy, but you also need a province that's pushing back on

00:24:57.480 public safety. So Alberta and Saskatchewan sort of led the way when it came to the pushback on the

00:25:03.860 latest gun grab. And then all the other provinces said, yeah, us too. Yeah, us too. Yeah, us too.

00:25:09.400 But here's the big one that happened, I guess, probably 10 days ago now. Daniel Smith makes an

00:25:15.820 announcement saying, you know what, if the feds aren't going to deal with bail, we will. We're going to

00:25:20.440 start slapping ankle monitors on violent criminals who probably shouldn't be out on bail and probably

00:25:25.900 shouldn't be anywhere near a school. But we have no way of knowing if they're anywhere near a school.

00:25:30.580 So we're sticking ankle monitors on them because Bill Blair won't. And Marco Mendocino doesn't care.

00:25:37.480 So guess what happens right away? After every single province and just about every single police force

00:25:44.020 in this country, begging the feds for some sort of bail reform, including putting a stop to no cash

00:25:52.200 bail, you know how frustrating that is for cops arresting the same guy over and over again. And

00:25:57.140 he goes before judge and the judge says, you know, 50 bucks, 100 bucks, but no cash. So he's out like

00:26:02.600 literally then and that cop who's got better things to do is going and arresting the same local crime

00:26:09.640 wave guy over and over again, because they just go before JP and the JP says no cash bail and you're

00:26:15.500 out again. Well, meanwhile, Tamara Leach is sitting in there for 50 days. She said Daniel Smith makes 0.60

00:26:21.520 an announcement saying, look, the feds aren't doing anything about bail reform. We technically can't

00:26:26.300 do anything about bail reform, but we can make it harder for offenders who are released in Alberta.

00:26:30.240 And so she did. And what happens, like maybe 72 hours later, the feds announced bail reform.

00:26:38.180 So she did that. You know, she, she, somebody had to say, okay, the feds aren't doing this.

00:26:43.780 We're gonna. And it shames the feds into doing something because all of a sudden Bill Blair's

00:26:48.820 like, oh heck that, that lady who doesn't like us who's running Alberta is actually doing something 1.00

00:26:54.220 good. And then it forced the hand of the feds. And so a freer, stronger Alberta led by someone who

00:27:03.480 believes in freedom and liberty and public safety is going to make the rest of the country better

00:27:09.740 because it will force the hands of the feds. And there's also the sort of sentiment that

00:27:14.660 Saskatchewan is very much along the same trend you mentioned with firearms, but on a number of other

00:27:19.460 fronts, taking a stand as a result, Saskatchewan is also booming. But if Alberta, we've got these

00:27:24.920 two provinces saying, no, no, no, enough is enough. Obviously BC is where they are beyond lost,

00:27:30.020 it would seem. But if you have these two sort of strong Western blocks, reasonably strong economic

00:27:36.160 engines, major resource providers, major contributors to the economy saying, no, no, no, enough is enough.

00:27:41.240 It isn't just one place standing alone. And then you start to have momentum. Canada is very much

00:27:46.420 monkey see, monkey do. One city says, oh, we'll bring back fireworks. Suddenly everyone else is

00:27:50.860 bringing back the fireworks. We'll talk about that later. But you literally saw even throughout

00:27:54.840 COVID-19, if Toronto locked down and shut down schools, Alberta would follow suit once they

00:28:00.580 unlocked. So there's some copycatting and people like to have someone else taking the lead. They

00:28:05.260 don't want to be alone. If we have an NDP government in Alberta and we stop standing up to

00:28:10.000 Ottawa and it's Saskatchewan left alone. Well, if they don't have that ally to take a strong stand

00:28:14.560 and to push back, well, lots of that progress in the right direction could be lost. If on the other

00:28:20.260 hand, we see with this strong position that Daniel Smith has taken advocating for this province,

00:28:25.900 which by the way, when BC does it in order to legalize drugs and do crazy stuff, the media has

00:28:30.300 no problem with it. But when Daniel Smith does it, she's a separatist lunatic, according to them,

00:28:35.080 which is ridiculous, by the way. But if we have two provinces with valid mainstream governments

00:28:41.180 elected that win elections and have a clear mandate, and they're campaigning on standing up

00:28:45.920 to Ottawa and saying, no, enough is enough. We're not going to apologize. That is a winning recipe

00:28:50.340 for conservative ideology within this province. Now, I don't know if it's going to affect and

00:28:54.200 change minds in Toronto, but it does to some extent because people are leaving Ontario. Once

00:28:59.200 again, they weren't when the NDP was in. We saw a population growth decrease. But now that the UCP is

00:29:05.100 back in, we're seeing population growth. We're seeing people come here because they're in pursuit of these

00:29:09.760 ideas. They're in pursuit of these jobs. They're in pursuit of these opportunities. So it is promising

00:29:14.840 for the long-term prospect of conservative government. Pair that with the fact that the

00:29:20.020 federal liberals are dipping. Some polls even have them not able to form a coalition government.

00:29:26.220 And it suggests a positive trend. We're far overdue for a pendulum swing back from that extreme left.

00:29:32.940 And this provincial election, followed by the next federal election, I think, will be key in determining

00:29:37.620 where this country heads moving forward.

00:29:41.540 I think on even another plane. So if I had to guess, I've had to even put money on it. I'm not

00:29:47.600 much of a gambler. But if I had to put money on it, when Rachel Notley loses, there will be a pretty

00:29:52.740 heavy lobbying campaign from within the NDP proper to have her replace Jagmeet Singh.

00:30:00.080 Because she's female. She's from Alberta. She's Western. She's checking a lot of boxes. 0.99

00:30:05.660 She's a former premier. And so she's probably the most successful NDP politician 0.81

00:30:11.940 by NDP standards, right, in the country in, I think, probably the last 20 years. I mean,

00:30:18.940 she won in a conservative stronghold. She cracked Fortress, Alberta. So for them, that looks really

00:30:25.500 good. And frankly, it makes me want to join the NDP just to vote for her to be the leader, because

00:30:33.740 it is the best thing that ever happened to conservatives if there is actually not a mental

00:30:41.600 lightweight like Jagmeet Singh running the NDP. The only reason, or one of the only reasons,

00:30:48.460 or at least a major contributing factor to Harper's success for so long,

00:30:51.960 was the leadership of the NDP, which acted as a counterfoil and offered something different

00:30:57.260 than the liberals. So Thomas Moore, fundamentally opposed to, well, almost everything that comes

00:31:03.800 out of that man's mouth, but not a crazy person at all, and would hold the liberals to account. He

00:31:10.620 made the House of Commons quite interesting. And instead of, as it is right now, the progressive vote

00:31:18.440 coalescing around the liberals, it makes it almost an insurmountable hill for the conservatives to

00:31:25.160 climb. You need to fracture that progressive vote on the other side. And wouldn't it be great if this

00:31:31.320 woman from Alberta was suddenly the federal NDP leader? It would do terrible things to Justin Trudeau's

00:31:40.400 polling numbers, and the conservatives would come right up the middle. So anyways, if you are in the

00:31:47.120 rest of the country, cheer for Danielle Smith to lose, you don't, or I'm sorry, don't cheer for

00:31:52.300 Danielle Smith to lose. Cheer for Rachel Notley to lose. I don't care who you support, but cheer for

00:31:58.140 Rachel Notley to lose, because it is the best thing for the rest of the country, if there will be that

00:32:02.960 lobbying campaign for her to join the NDP proper and lead the party there. Yeah, well, and I think that

00:32:10.020 there, and I talked about on the provincial level, if the NDP sort of refocuses, gets away from the

00:32:15.400 radical stuff, and is serving as a sort of sensible counterpoint, to have that on the federal level,

00:32:21.900 because Jagmeet might occasionally tweet a criticism of Justin Trudeau, but he's actually the only person

00:32:27.340 who can do anything about it, and he doesn't. If there was someone there who was advocating for

00:32:32.040 things, and the thing is, as conservatives, as we've seen, people can use the term slippery slope,

00:32:38.060 but conservatives are generally willing to work with people from other parties on initiatives that they

00:32:44.220 support, because it's not like every single idea that progressives, I mean, maybe ideologically,

00:32:49.160 but every single sort of social element that progressives have, there was a question during

00:32:53.360 the Alberta debates about what policies do you agree on? There's some opportunity to work together.

00:32:58.200 Justin Trudeau doesn't really want to work together with anybody. He has Jagmeet and the NDP

00:33:02.620 basically just propping him up. He gives them the odd sort of, he throws them the odd bone on some of

00:33:07.560 their policy ideas, but he's basically unilaterally acting in his own interests, and to the exclusion

00:33:13.340 of anybody else. That's why his polls are plummeting. I think a Pierre Polievre government, with perhaps

00:33:20.340 Rachel Notley, and we're getting into federal politics now, as an NDP opposition, if they surpass

00:33:25.080 the feds, but we do have, or the liberal federals, and we do have a majority, or at least a strong

00:33:30.580 conservative government, I think there's a possibility they could actually work together, and you could have

00:33:34.800 the conservatives being held in check by something, perhaps perspectives on the left you and I don't

00:33:40.000 agree with, but having those sensible countermeasures there, I think is pretty important

00:33:45.860 towards a country moving forward. That's what politics before Justin Trudeau was like. The

00:33:49.680 parties weren't all too far from each other. It wasn't radicalized to this extent. One party would

00:33:55.100 be saying, oh, let's cut taxes a bit more and change this. One would be saying, oh, no, we need to spend

00:33:59.260 into a deficit of it now because of this. It was nuanced. This was a time when $80,000 could get

00:34:05.140 you booted out of the office. We've entered a completely different world of politics now.

00:34:10.320 It's extremely concerning, and hopefully an Alberta win for the UCP results in not only a win for Alberta

00:34:17.200 moving forward and continued growth, but sort of restructuring, re-envisioning of how federal

00:34:22.020 politics works so we can have a little bit more honour restored and decorum restored at Parliament Hill

00:34:28.780 in the fashion that you expect Canadian politics to be carried out.

00:34:33.360 We've touched on a couple of things that Danielle Smith is proposing. Closer monitoring of repeat

00:34:41.380 offenders who are out on bail. She's also proposed locking in personal taxes. She wants to lock in

00:34:53.100 corporate tax, small business tax. The NDP are proposing a hike in the corporate tax because

00:34:59.420 the NDP don't know who the corporations are in this province. It's not Walmart and Amazon.

00:35:03.940 It's the guy with the welding truck. That's who you're going to hit with these. It's the farmer who's

00:35:09.200 running his farm as a corporation so that he can pay for his kid's tuition by giving the kid a salary

00:35:16.380 for on-the-farm wages. There are lots of different ways why people choose to be a corporation to structure

00:35:21.180 things. So when Rachel Motley raises her corporate tax, Amazon, Walmart, you know, John Deere, they can 0.97

00:35:28.120 eat those, but it's the guy with the welding truck or the oil field contractor because the entire oil

00:35:33.520 field runs on contractors now. Those are the ones that are going to get hit. But the NDP, they really

00:35:38.600 know what is important to Albertans and it is getting a plastic healthcare card. Adam, this is your story.

00:35:46.300 It is so stupid that the NDP think that this is a campaign thing that anybody even cares about.

00:35:56.320 My healthcare card, I don't know what healthcare cards are like in other provinces, but in Alberta,

00:36:01.140 there are these little paper things that languish away in the part of your wallet that you can't get

00:36:06.460 your finger into, but you should be able to. Mine turned to literal dust when I was 21 and I've never

00:36:14.280 been denied healthcare because I didn't have the physical piece of like a snippet, a remnant, a

00:36:20.400 relic. I, you know, if it were a piece of a saint, it would be a relic. It's just like nothing. But I've

00:36:26.560 never been denied healthcare because I didn't have this thing, but the NDP, they're going to blow a ton

00:36:31.040 of money on this. Go ahead. Yeah. $46 million. Like nobody cares. First of all, I think every

00:36:38.100 adult can probably laminate their card if they want to preserve it. I did. Mine's fine. If you

00:36:43.940 didn't, you can still access healthcare. What's that? It's 10 and a half bucks a Canadian for a

00:36:50.440 plastic card, Albertan for a plastic card. Yeah. Yeah. 10 bucks per like, and we'll talk about this

00:36:56.660 later, but keep in mind, this is the government that pulled spending the NDP that pulled spending

00:37:01.100 on the building of a Red Deer hospital. But Hey, if you have a card, if you have a card, a polycarbonate

00:37:06.840 $11 card, that that's going to absolutely save your life when you don't have a hospital to go to.

00:37:12.800 And the fact is it's not just the NDP acting like this is this big glorious thing. Like the media got

00:37:19.720 on this. Like finally, how many people who are watching right now have ever thought, man, oh man,

00:37:25.560 I really wish they would bring an $11 polycarbonate card. If a party is willing to do that, I will

00:37:31.260 vote for them. It's such a non-issue, especially we're like, we're, we're trending away from like

00:37:38.600 needing this. And I know there's been, there's been talks in the past about just sort of amalgamating

00:37:44.320 it and having it within your driver's license. And then when people were renewing their driver's

00:37:48.960 licenses, they could just read rationally and without a massive cost, upgrade them as they go

00:37:55.140 gradually. No, but this, they have to create this massive card system. You know what this is? This

00:37:59.280 is a mascot. It's, it's a, it's some physical representation that we're the party that cares

00:38:05.180 about healthcare, the party that cancels hospitals. And then most of their announcements about new

00:38:09.760 hospital developments, their developments that are already underway into the UCP. So they're really

00:38:14.100 not doing anything, but you're going to have this, this symbol that I'm sure progressives will have

00:38:18.740 tattooed on them of, of $46 million in spending. How many surgeries is that? How many nurses is that? 0.95

00:38:24.900 How many doctors is that? That are sorely needed. And this is what they're spending it on.

00:38:30.440 And there's the tweet for the hospital. Yeah. Yeah. So they, they made an, the UCP invested in the

00:38:38.540 Red Deer Regional Hospital expansion. It's now in the design phase. It's going to begin construction

00:38:43.500 immediately. The NDP took it off the capital plan in 2018. They can't be trusted to get it done.

00:38:49.120 And incidentally, that's the first time in 2018 that the NDP floated the idea of the stupid plastic

00:38:55.820 cards when they were in government. Now I, anytime I go to the doctor, like my family doctor knows who

00:39:01.720 I am. So it doesn't really matter. But if I've ever had to take the kids to the emergency room,

00:39:05.980 because they're in a sports related incident, as my older daughter frequently is, um, I just go there

00:39:13.820 and I'm like, they're like healthcare card. I'm like, no, uh, mine vaporized in, uh, you know,

00:39:19.300 the early or the late nineties, I guess it turned to dust and they're like, okay, last name. And they

00:39:24.500 just look it up and they're like, yeah, perfect. We got you here. Thanks. So I don't even know why

00:39:28.040 we need a card at all, including the paper one. You just give them their name. If they need to prove

00:39:32.980 who I am, here's my driver's license. Um, and that's it, but I've never even gotten that far

00:39:38.560 because I'm reliably informed that you can't deny people healthcare in this country. So I don't know

00:39:43.780 what the point of all of this is, um, except just pointless virtue signaling. And you know,

00:39:49.020 one thing that came up in the debate, by the way, was the constant talk of, uh, the NDP saying,

00:39:55.900 Danielle Smith is going to make you pay for healthcare. And Daniel Smith is like, nope,

00:39:59.120 never said that. And they keep saying it over and over again. In the meantime, it comes out in the

00:40:03.420 debate that the NDP, when they were in power, we're charging drug addicts like 40 bucks a day

00:40:13.440 for inpatient treatment. I'm like, these people have nothing, nothing. They're on the streets.

00:40:20.540 They're stealing for their next fix. They're living in a cardboard box and you want 40 bucks for them to

00:40:28.140 stay in treatment. The NDP were the ones who were charging the most vulnerable and the most unable

00:40:35.240 to pay for life-saving healthcare. The gall of these people to lie about what the UCP plans are.

00:40:44.460 For me, honestly, and I did not expect it because I didn't know what this announcement was going to be

00:40:48.480 when I got there and I saw like four chiefs and elders from different communities and like

00:40:52.600 20 people lined up. Um, I was like, Oh, this is going to be something this, the addictions

00:40:57.840 announcement. And I've had the opportunity. I talked to Nicholas Millican, who's mental health

00:41:01.520 and addictions, uh, last night, as well as after that event, um, as well as, uh, speaking to Mike

00:41:06.340 Ellis about this, who gave that incredibly impassioned, uh, response about not leaving

00:41:10.360 12 year old Alex addicts rather on palliative care by giving them drugs. The NDP's proposed

00:41:16.620 response, which Rachel Notley has now tried to deny this, despite the fact that, uh, Janice Irwin

00:41:21.800 and a number of other MLAs have advocated for this. Their effective plan to treat this and what

00:41:27.220 they would like to do is charge addicts $40 a day for recovery and then give them free

00:41:31.940 drugs. Yeah. That's their plan for addiction. It's insane. If anyone cares, if you care about

00:41:40.020 healthcare, if you care about the vulnerable, if you care about people who are struggling,

00:41:45.000 the UCP's approach to addictions and mental health issues is far more like a concerned parent.

00:41:50.960 And the NDP's is far more like a bad friend who sort of enables your, your, your addiction.

00:41:57.020 It's, it's wild. I think people on the left, progressives, concerned people, uh, people who

00:42:02.680 are passionate about issues for homeless people, that should be the number one voting issue for

00:42:06.540 them. Yeah. The NDP is literally the devil on your shoulder. The devil, you know, you have

00:42:14.140 the angel in the devil and the, the angel's like, no, that'll be bad for you. That that'll

00:42:18.480 ruin your whole life. And the NDP are like, just do it. And then just do it. Like that's who

00:42:25.620 they are when it comes to addictions treatment. That's, that's their role in all of this. Um,

00:42:31.060 maybe we should bump ahead. Let's talk about the endorsement of pure poly up. Cause you have a

00:42:36.100 video of that. And then, um, I think we have the Harper one now. Yeah. The Harper one, there's

00:42:42.200 the second Harper one. Cause he already endorsed once, but now he really, really means it. And then

00:42:47.380 we also have a poly of one where he endorses Smith also. So I don't know whichever one the

00:42:53.260 team wants to play first. And then we'll talk about the, uh, victory of the fireworks after

00:42:58.180 that. For the noise on the choice between the NDP's Rachel Notley and conservative Danielle

00:43:06.020 Smith. Notley will work for Trudeau and sing the NDP liberal coalition bosses in Ottawa.

00:43:12.660 She'll support higher carbon taxes on your gas, heat, and groceries. She'll help Trudeau attack

00:43:18.180 the energy sector, putting you out of a job. And speaking of jobs, she'll raise taxes on job creators, 1.00

00:43:24.500 pushing you onto the unemployment lines. That'll mean a weaker economy with less money for schools

00:43:30.180 and hospitals. On the other hand, conservatives will fight the carbon tax, stand up for Alberta

00:43:36.340 and its energy sector and unleash the full potential of our Alberta economy in order to grow and prosper

00:43:44.260 in the future. That means more money for schools and hospital. In other words, vote for Alberta,

00:43:50.740 vote conservative, vote early, vote now.

00:43:53.620 And vote often.

00:43:57.940 Vote a lot. Vote repeatedly and block and block infrastructure.

00:44:05.700 I'm joking. I'm joking. Gee, um, you know, it's, it's really interesting. The responses to that,

00:44:10.660 obviously, uh, the last time we saw a political rally in Calgary that was similarly sized was at

00:44:16.340 Spruce Meadows and it was Pierre coming down. Um, I think it was 3000 plus at that event. Um,

00:44:22.180 so generally among conservatives, obviously in the polling, he is quite liked. Now I know some

00:44:28.740 people who are concerned about, uh, Daniel Smith, maybe leaning a little bit left or a little bit

00:44:33.940 progressive or mainstream compared to what they supported in the leadership. That's kind of the

00:44:38.020 only criticism I've heard of this, but generally, uh, this endorsement seems to be a positive one.

00:44:42.900 I know a lot of people last night, there was some rumors spreading at the event that there's

00:44:46.500 going to be a surprise guest, which I didn't hear from anyone other than people there, but a bunch

00:44:50.420 of people thought Pierre was going to show up. Um, and they were very excited for that. So I think

00:44:55.060 that, that this is a, uh, a strong indicator, Pierre, obviously, uh, pulling quite well here

00:44:59.700 in Calgary compared to Trudeau. What do you make of it? Yeah. I mean, it's unsurprising. You assume

00:45:05.540 that the federal conservative party leader is going to endorse the conservative leader here for victory,

00:45:13.220 but I think it will alleviate. I think some people who are like, like people who are skeptical of her,

00:45:19.700 um, establishment conservatives are probably more skeptical of her than, um, freewheeling

00:45:26.420 conservatives like me. Um, I think this actually will help them, uh, cast a vote for her. I think.

00:45:33.940 Yeah, I agree. Certainly. That's almost the inverse of the point I made. If people

00:45:38.500 on the fringes are a little more like, I don't know about this mainstream thing, people within

00:45:42.340 the party. And I think that is probably a group you want to win over. There probably are undecided

00:45:47.540 moderates who like Pierre and have bought into some of the media spin that Danielle is so kooky,

00:45:52.740 um, to have someone like that way. And, and then to the next extent, someone who's definitely very

00:45:57.860 establishment has also endorsed a Daniels. But then it's, it's not entirely common. Uh, it's not

00:46:02.820 uncommon either, but to have former leaders step in, but Stephen Harper has also offered his endorsement.

00:46:07.700 Twice. It's interesting. Twice. Yeah. Twice.

00:46:10.020 It's really interesting to see though, like all the fake former conservatives that the NDP are

00:46:16.100 rolling out, uh, despite the fact that they, they've been not conservative for a very long time.

00:46:20.740 Um, here are actual conservatives. Sorry. You know who's doing a really funny job of this? Okay.

00:46:25.940 So I think we're referring to Thomas Lukasik that you're talking about who he's voting for the NDP. Now,

00:46:32.180 Thomas Lukasik was a Redford, Alison Redford cabinet minister from the old progressive

00:46:38.260 conservative party of Alberta. And I forget the tens of thousands of dollars he ran up

00:46:44.580 in cell phone fees on a single trip to Europe. Um, I think it was like 60 or 80,000. It was something

00:46:53.220 enormous, right? He was so entrenched in the old corruption of the former progressive conservatives

00:47:00.580 that he played a very strong role in bringing the party down and thus electing the NDP and giving us

00:47:08.260 four years of just absolute misery. He was part of that debacle. Um, and so now though,

00:47:15.380 he's endorsing the NDP as a former conservative. I don't even think he was ever actually a conservative.

00:47:20.100 I think his only ideology was power. And that's how you got elected in Alberta was, um, you just

00:47:27.460 sort of hooked your cart to the progressive conservatives on the flip side. I see Raj

00:47:32.500 Sherman is running for the UCP. And I think Raj Sherman was a liberal at one point, and he's had a

00:47:37.860 bit of a come to Jesus moment. Um, which is fine. I know people are skeptical, but we're out there

00:47:43.140 evangelizing the good word of personal responsibility, freedom, and, uh, conserving cultural, um, uh,

00:47:49.700 attributes. And if we get a convert, I think we should welcome them into the fold until they prove to

00:47:54.660 us otherwise. And so, yeah, Raj Sherman on the flip side, he's like, yeah, I was one of them and yikes.

00:48:00.100 So, um, anyway, by the way, Brad Tennant, former, uh, UCP staffer, so funny on Twitter. He's doing a

00:48:07.780 great job of saying like, as a former NDP or this, this and that, and as people don't get that he's

00:48:12.900 joking. I know. Yeah. It's so funny. Cause he's so good at it. Anyway, I'll shut up. You were making

00:48:18.740 a point. He said media could send me a message for a quote and I sent, I'm going to send him one for

00:48:23.860 sure. Harper clip. Yeah, please. Sorry. Fellow Albertans after some tough years,

00:48:37.940 our province has finally recovered from the last NDP term, but Rachel Notley is promising to undo

00:48:43.860 all that progress. The NDP is promising to hike taxes on job creators by 38%, a massive hike that

00:48:51.620 would kill tens of thousands of jobs. Rachel Notley tried a similar tax hike the last time she was 1.00

00:48:58.100 premier. Investment fled our province and mass layoffs ensued. It's no wonder Rachel Notley doesn't 0.77

00:49:04.660 want to talk about her record as premier. Nor does Rachel Notley want to talk about the fact

00:49:10.260 that the Trudeau Liberals are voting NDP in this election. Rachel Notley and Justin Trudeau are a

00:49:16.500 combination that puts Alberta's economy at great risk. In this election, there's only one option to

00:49:23.460 protect the economic livelihoods of you and your family. That's Danielle Smith and the United 0.99

00:49:29.220 Conservative Party. Thanks for listening.

00:49:33.380 God, he looks good. Yeah, he looks good. He looks healthy. He looks, his skin looks great. He looks

00:49:38.900 good. You look at him. You know that, and I think that this endorsement too, it's to the point you made

00:49:45.700 earlier. For those people who are on the fence, or those people who have bought some of this, I mean,

00:49:51.540 listen, the fact with Danielle Smith is she was on a talk show where she asked questions. We talked a

00:49:56.420 little bit earlier about paying to see a doctor. She was on a talk show discussing and she said,

00:50:00.980 does the government really need to pay for every doctor visit? That's called a question. And that's

00:50:04.740 what you often do when you're engaging in conversations. I know the NDP doesn't like

00:50:08.500 taking questions and they don't seem to understand how conversations work, but that's what was happening

00:50:12.740 on that show. But people did see lots of those clips, did hear that. Often we throw back to this lake

00:50:20.340 of fire incident terminology, which now apparently if you do anything or question anything,

00:50:25.140 you're right along those lines. But having people like Stephen Harper, like Pierre Pauli,

00:50:30.100 a number of other folks coming out mainstream conservatives and endorsing Daniel Smith,

00:50:35.780 I think does win those people over. And I think it really does matter because

00:50:41.300 if we're willing, if Albertans are willing to buy into that sort of push narrative, the fear

00:50:47.700 mongering, the characterization of Daniel Smith is extreme. Daniel Smith is very socially progressive. I

00:50:53.380 don't agree with her on a lot of those issues. But she's she has a libertarian vent with her

00:50:58.340 within her. So she tends to want to leave people alone, which I agree with. And she tends to just 1.00

00:51:03.700 want to give people opportunities by cutting taxes, by creating jobs, by bringing people in 0.99

00:51:08.500 to the province who want to work, by bringing businesses into the province to create jobs and

00:51:12.420 opportunities. That's what I think she wants to focus on. If there is an extreme person or an extreme

00:51:17.860 party in this election, it's not Daniel Smith, it's not the UCP. It's Rachel Notley and some of her

00:51:22.340 active communist, anti oil lobby, anti Alberta friends who are who are literally active communists.

00:51:29.220 That is the that is what the media should have been focusing on as the extremist concerns. I had

00:51:34.500 a few people last night saying they wish the UCP would have gone after them, would have would have,

00:51:39.700 I mean, they pointed it out. But unlike the NDP, they weren't harping on this. But I think the UCP

00:51:44.500 wanted to stick to this, you know what, we're not going to get into dirty politics,

00:51:47.700 we're going to focus on here's our policies, here's what's working for the province,

00:51:51.300 they can sling mud, we've got work to do. From what I hear most people that is resonating

00:51:56.660 well with them, we'll see on an election night, if that play was worth it, or they should have gambled

00:52:01.700 more with some active attacks, attack style campaigns. But I, for one, appreciate just it's

00:52:08.740 more like old school Canadian politics, where you're arguing about your your your best idea.

00:52:13.780 We saw Jean Chrétien was actually likely to lose the election. And someone made a comment

00:52:20.500 about his face of personal attack. And after that, it actually swept. And that's why he became the

00:52:26.660 leader of this country. That used to be the state of Canadian politics. If you went after somebody,

00:52:31.540 it was considered low, it was considered dirty. The media have not been decrying the NDP for all of

00:52:36.820 these personal attacks, were overt and evidenced, and what can be clearly certified in court as lying,

00:52:43.220 or at least omissions of the truth. They've not been criticized or attacked in any way,

00:52:47.060 shape or form. So I hope that Albertans are a little more old school, a little bit more the

00:52:53.140 way politics used to be. And I hope they see through that.

00:52:55.540 Yeah, I think that's one of the things that Harper will bring to the table is, 1.00

00:53:02.020 it harkens back to the times when politics were boring. And I miss that. I miss his boring clothes,

00:53:08.260 and I miss his Lego man hair. And I missed his boring, uh, sweaters that he sometimes wore and his

00:53:15.300 droning voice. Um, but he was smart. I mean, he was an accountant. The most interesting thing about

00:53:22.740 him is that he foster parented a chinchilla at one point, like that was the most outrageous thing

00:53:28.580 that Steve, Oh, that he, and he drank a Palm Bay, which was like, I was like, you Palm Bay. Uh,

00:53:34.340 what are you 17 and named Bailey and you're a cheerleader. Um, but, but yeah, he drank a Palm

00:53:41.860 Bay once. And I was like, that's a little, I like him less now, all of a sudden, but it harkens back

00:53:45.940 to the times when politics were boring and grown up and it's definitely not grown up these days.

00:53:51.540 And, uh, I think that endorsement from Harper will also alleviate some of the fears of Kenny loyalists,

00:53:57.940 because we know Kenny was intensely loyal to Stephen Harper. And, um, Daniel Smith was a big

00:54:04.180 critic of Jason Kenny. And, um, but in the before times before she came back into politics and after,

00:54:13.140 and so the fact that he's there to sort of, I think maybe that's the second endorsement is sort of to

00:54:19.140 heal those divisions, you know, it might help. And I think that the fact that so many of the people,

00:54:26.100 uh, basically setting Leela here aside, who was attending liberal events and

00:54:30.660 probably wasn't going to stay with the party anyways. Um, and she got the least votes in the 1.00

00:54:34.580 leadership. The, some of the major players, whether it be Rajan Sani, Brian, uh, Jean,

00:54:40.100 Rebecca Schultz, they've been into, they've been like intimately involved with this campaign,

00:54:44.740 very close to Daniel Smith. Um, and this, despite them being at odds, um, if Daniel Smith can bring

00:54:50.740 those people who are basically strongly opposed and we're lobbying some of these allegations

00:54:54.980 against her. Now, some of the old guards, some of the people who've been in for years with Kenny,

00:54:59.380 um, very Kenny loyalist people, they, they are not seeking reelection. A few folks that could just

00:55:04.420 be because of the longterm though. Lots of them have been certain for a long time. Lots of those

00:55:07.620 people who are some of the most staunch opponents have come in and taken key positions under Daniel

00:55:11.940 Smith have been advocating, speaking by her side. So if you can have like Stephen Harper,

00:55:17.700 Pierre Pauly ever. And then if you can have these people who are her opponents in the leadership

00:55:21.620 race, not stepping aside, but bring being brought into the fold, um, because every one of those

00:55:26.740 leadership candidates, they represent somebody, whether it be the, the more progressive conservative

00:55:31.300 back, whether it be the social conservatives, every one of those leaders sort of represents

00:55:35.300 a different demographic and they haven't been cast aside. They haven't been relegated to the

00:55:39.460 back benches. They've been at the forefront advocating for their constituents and advocating

00:55:44.340 for the views that align with them. And Daniel Smith has managed. And again, part of this is

00:55:48.660 thanks to our sort of libertarian event, everyone can fit. I kind of joke last night that there was

00:55:52.820 this massive tent. We've been talking forever about a big tent party. And it's interesting to

00:55:57.460 see that it seems that the radical outlandish extremist Daniel Smith, it's one of the first

00:56:02.020 times that it isn't just a general term being used, but, but you literally, literally and figuratively

00:56:07.940 have people coming together from all kinds of backgrounds saying the NDP option is not for us.

00:56:12.500 That's going to destroy our province. That's going to set us back. Let's come together and unify

00:56:16.660 a little bit of boring politics. Like you said, uh, never hurt anybody.

00:56:21.780 Well, and I just, even in a selection of her cabinet, you know, she, it was more of like a

00:56:28.420 healing cabinet than a division cabinet. Um, and there's some pros and cons to that. So sometimes

00:56:34.900 you do want to drain the musk egg and just put your own people in because those loyalists may work 1.00

00:56:40.260 against you and that's the risk you have to take. But she moved Shandro to public safety,

00:56:46.260 where he is actually after being the harshest critic of him and his treatment of, um, you know,

00:56:55.060 conscientious objectors during the time of COVID, he's doing good work on the gun file. So I'm not

00:56:59.940 mad about it. And he's doing good work on bail reform and things like that. So, you know,

00:57:04.660 she's taking some of the old guard and giving them things that they can do and making them 0.99

00:57:11.700 better. Likewise with tapes, you know, didn't shuffle tapes out of finance, um, because he's

00:57:16.020 doing a good job there, even though he's a Kenny loyalist. So, you know, um, there are some risks

00:57:21.620 there for sure. Um, maybe it'll blow up in her face, but so far so good.

00:57:24.820 Yeah. Well, and I think though, I think it's strategically, I know we're coming up against

00:57:30.980 it here strategically. I think knowing how she was being portrayed, being like, we need to come

00:57:37.140 together and I'm willing to work with you. I asked her a question about whether UCP MLAs will be able

00:57:42.500 to vote freely or whether they'll be controlled because under Kenny, we saw two exceptional MLAs,

00:57:47.860 uh, in, in, uh, uh, Taves and, uh, sorry, in, uh, Barnes and Lowen ejected from the party.

00:57:53.300 Lowen's now back in the loop, but because they were, they were speaking out and they were

00:57:57.220 questioning it, it seems like you aren't going to have that sort of hammer fest and they're

00:58:00.660 going to have conversations. And when I asked that question, all the MLAs behind her were

00:58:04.180 sort of nodding and saying, yeah, we actually can bring forward our concerns. We can express

00:58:08.100 alternative views. Um, and, and that's what she needs to do because she doesn't have, 1.00

00:58:13.460 she's going to be held accountable. We held Kenny accountable. Don't get me wrong. But Kenny came

00:58:17.060 in as sort of this salvific favorite figure. Um, and everyone was like, oh, Kenny, Kenny. And I'm

00:58:21.220 sure he had a pretty strong grip on the party. And if COVID-19 wouldn't have happened, he probably

00:58:25.380 would have been in power for quite a period of time. Danielle Smith doesn't have that same luxury. 1.00

00:58:29.540 So she has to be willing to work with everyone to bring them in and have their support. Because

00:58:34.100 if, if, if she were to exclude a bunch of these leadership candidates, if it were to create greater

00:58:38.740 divides, she might not have the support she needs to win this election. She might not be able to sway 0.98

00:58:43.780 over those people who may be like Rebecca Schultz, but aren't crazy about Daniel Smith. Well,

00:58:48.020 if Rebecca Schultz is seen as right alongside her, they can come in and they can vote for that party,

00:58:52.820 knowing that they'll be representative. I think that was the strategy involved.

00:58:57.060 Well, and you've seen in these campaign announcements, Schultz and Jean, so, um,

00:59:02.660 two competitors against Smith for the leadership. They've been very prominent, making some very high

00:59:08.020 profile, uh, campaign announcements on behalf of the premier. And I think that is a very strategic

00:59:13.860 choice to, uh, alleviate the fears of the people in those camps. Um, we should, I know we have three

00:59:20.340 chats, Olivia whispers in my ear. Um, but we should briefly touch on the fireworks issue, uh, in Calgary.

00:59:30.180 Uh, apparently fireworks are racist. And so a bunch of privileged people and city council got offended on

00:59:37.300 behalf of indigenous people. It's a very, um, difficult needle to thread. I couldn't make a lot of sense of 1.00

00:59:42.740 it. But, uh, so the privileged people on council said, no, no, no, we're offended on behalf of the

00:59:48.500 indigenous people. We're canceling the fireworks on Canada day. The indigenous people said, Oh, 1.00

00:59:54.900 what? And Dan McLean, one of the, I don't know, maybe two, uh, conservatives on Calgary city council.

01:00:03.220 Yeah. Uh, he sort of raised holy hell and fireworks are back. This is, I guess when the outrage mob

01:00:12.740 works in the other direction and does something good. Yeah. Yeah. And it, you know, it's funny

01:00:18.740 because a couple of the more sort of activist counselors were taking to Twitter saying that,

01:00:24.020 like, and I tweeted like, Oh, this is for whites by whites as, as though white people are not to have 0.52

01:00:28.420 anything. And that's terrible, but it isn't Canada is the most unifying thing imaginable.

01:00:34.260 It's all about people coming together. And I have to tell you, as soon as this came out,

01:00:38.020 I was already reaching out to Tsutina who barring a fire ban are going to have fireworks anyways. 1.00

01:00:44.100 So the first nations communities all around Calgary, well, well, they're having fireworks. 0.56

01:00:48.340 So it isn't them. Someone was also saying that it's offensive to the Chinese community.

01:00:51.940 I don't think that's quite true. I'm pretty sure they're rather fond of fireworks.

01:00:55.540 So yeah. Isn't that where we got fireworks from?

01:00:58.740 Yeah, it sure is. And they, they tend, it's either Canada. I think Israel is pretty good too.

01:01:03.620 And China that like win the big fireworks competitions. Um, so you're talking about

01:01:07.780 like communities, first nations people, obviously they were going to do it. There's, there's advocacy

01:01:11.780 there. Melissa Embarkey, um, uh, first nations Cree Métis woman, I believe was speaking out,

01:01:17.540 a friend of ours. And then she's been on a few times. Um, she was speaking out saying,

01:01:20.980 Hey, don't blame us for this. We want the fireworks. Um,

01:01:23.780 so just another in the latest of, uh, sort of guilt, guilt point scoring, uh, we have to take

01:01:31.620 down the racism flares. Like I, I don't get what the basis for this was. You know, I get there's

01:01:38.500 some people out there, their dogs are sensitive, or they're worried about migratory birds. Your

01:01:42.020 dog will get over it, whatever. I get that. That's probably the only thing I've ever had any sympathy

01:01:46.900 towards in this. But frankly, if once a year, some fireworks go off, Canadians come together,

01:01:51.220 we set the politics aside and we agree that at least we live in a beautiful place and we can

01:01:55.300 be together. I think that notion of authentic unity, authentic coming together, authentic

01:02:01.780 Canadian is where it doesn't matter where you're from. It doesn't matter what your background is,

01:02:06.020 what you believe. But for one day, we're just going to wash some fireworks together. We're all

01:02:10.420 going to be happy. We're going to be Canadian. That sort of unity is destructive to the progressive

01:02:15.620 left. And that's what they wanted to destroy. They wanted to take that moment away. They want

01:02:20.500 us divided. They want us in these sort of tribal packs, thinking we're enemies. And well, when

01:02:25.220 fireworks go off, everyone gets the exact same smile on their face. That's what they hate. That's what

01:02:29.300 they attack. And I'm proud to see Dan McLean and a number of these other counselors. It's happening

01:02:33.540 right across the country. People are speaking back. Don't mess with our fireworks.

01:02:37.140 It sounds like the Canada Day celebration, at least the fireworks, is also canceled in Vancouver.

01:02:49.300 In reaction.

01:02:49.940 Vancouver, of course.

01:02:51.460 Yeah. And they're not even calling it Canada Day anymore. They're calling it Canada together.

01:03:00.980 That's the whole point.

01:03:01.860 Yeah.

01:03:02.820 Yeah.

01:03:03.060 Like, what is the point? So in reaction to residential school findings, including the

01:03:07.300 renaming of the event to Canada together with a refocus on daytime programming planning,

01:03:12.100 collaboratively with the local First Nations of the Musqueam, Squamish, and

01:03:17.780 I'm going to butcher it, so I'm not even going to say it. Last year's revamped theme was weaving

01:03:21.540 together the fabric of a nation.

01:03:26.100 You know, by the way, moreover to your point about,

01:03:28.340 you know, yes, it does scare the dogs and the horses. But as a responsible dog owner and a livestock

01:03:35.620 owner on Canada Day and on New Year's, I make sure everybody's put away. Because I know my neighbors

01:03:43.300 out here in the country are going to get a little wild. And also, when I do set off fireworks that can

01:03:49.860 be seen from the International Space Station, I go tell the neighbors.

01:03:55.300 Like, honestly, I don't wait for a particular reason. Like, if I'm feeling fireworksy, I go up

01:04:00.740 to the store and get some fireworks. But I do let the neighbors know, like, hey, things are going to

01:04:04.980 get a little frisky on the homestead after dark, so you might want to put your dog in. Just out of

01:04:10.020 respect for our neighbors. But if they said, no, we're not putting our dog in, then I would say,

01:04:14.260 well, that's your problem then.

01:04:15.460 Yeah, you know, it's never come to that.

01:04:18.340 Whether it be the Alberta election, whether it be this fireworks incident, whatever it is,

01:04:24.820 when you look at the progressive left, they say all these things that sound nice.

01:04:32.020 Just there's this thin veneer of nicety and fake politeness. And you know what it is? What it is,

01:04:38.820 is ultimately, they're pitching all of this stuff that is tolerant. And Canadians want to love each

01:04:44.580 other. Tolerance is a horrible thing. If I tell you that I tolerate you, that's a pretty awful thing

01:04:49.300 for a human being to say to another person. Canadians, we respect each other. We want to

01:04:53.140 come together. We want to share each other's culture. And we don't want to tolerate each

01:04:56.980 other. We want to love each other. And that's not what they do. They may have love signs on their lawns,

01:05:02.900 and love belongs here, and hate has no homie. But ultimately, everything they do has a thin veneer

01:05:08.020 of nicety. But the underlying sort of substance of it is division, is taking away nice things,

01:05:14.660 is attacking fireworks. Honest to goodness, it's ridiculous. And again, this election,

01:05:20.900 the federal election, I hope there's a repudiation of all of this nonsense. It just has to stop.

01:05:28.500 The drag queen story hours are not okay. Fireworks are okay. 1.00

01:05:32.180 Yeah. Yeah. I can't believe this is where we're at in society. That a man in sequined underpants,

01:05:39.780 sequined ladies underpants, reading your kid a story is appropriate. But blasting off some 1.00

01:05:46.420 fireworks on Canada Day is the racist, intolerant thing to do. I can't even believe this is where

01:05:51.300 we're at in society. And Adam, unlike you, I don't care to be loved. I just want to be left alone.

01:05:57.780 I don't need to be affirmed by the people around me. I really don't. Just leave me alone. I'm going

01:06:02.580 to set off fireworks. You know, respecting somebody though, leaving them alone, that's like love in

01:06:10.660 its own right. You know what I mean? It's respecting people. It's actually having, you know what I mean?

01:06:14.980 That's authentic. The veneer would be the constant weighing in, modifying, controlling every aspect of

01:06:23.060 your life. That's what the other side wants. Love is wanting the best for another person. And if you

01:06:28.020 wanting to be on your farm, enjoying your animals, having some peace and quiet is what's best for you.

01:06:32.820 That's what I want. It's not what the NDP want. Yes. Love me by leaving me alone. Yes.

01:06:39.380 That's your love language. Leave me alone. 1.00

01:06:42.020 Yeah. My love language is being left alone. Exactly. Getting off my lawn.

01:06:46.820 Yeah. Okay. We've got three chats. We'll get to them. And then we're already past the top of the

01:06:55.140 hour. And I realized my Skype connection was horrible today. Mike from Freedom Honey. This

01:07:00.980 is my friend, Mike Mayer. Great guy, veteran and atheist. Five bucks. The NDP will never be a sensible

01:07:09.220 party towards Somali curriculum. Yes, they did want a Somali curriculum. And I'm just like,

01:07:16.660 can we have a Canadian one? Can we just have a Canadian one? It'd be okay. Then we've got one

01:07:22.660 from Cheryl Don V. Because it's five bucks. Very, very disappointed in Pastor Art. Lost a lot of

01:07:28.420 respect for him. I think you're referring to his press conference the other day that he held at the

01:07:31.860 steps of the legislature. What people have to remember is Pastor Art is also a politician. And so

01:07:39.140 politicians will hold press conferences and be critical of their political adversaries. And for Pastor

01:07:46.420 Art, it is both Daniel Smith, but also Rachel Notley.

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01:08:04.180 Fraser McBurney is a fight the fines recidivist, but also a fight the fines victor. He got a fine.

01:08:11.860 He was helped through the democracy fund to get those lifted from his shoulders. And he is a

01:08:20.900 perpetual protester for freedom and a lover of the cat's lock and a regular viewer and a regular donor.

01:08:27.780 And I know a lot about him from just his little chats every day, don't I? I think that's it. I think

01:08:33.620 we're all wrapped up. I should remind everybody, it sounds like we're not going to have the regular

01:08:39.140 daily roundup live stream on Monday. And the reason for that is because it is going to be

01:08:45.700 an absolute marathon session for Sheila later on in the day as we work to cover the live stream.

01:08:51.300 So just to take some of the burden off our crew in HQ, because they are going to be working late and

01:08:58.820 frankly, two hours later than the rest of us here in Alberta. It's going to be a very late day for them.

01:09:03.380 So we're going to kill the stream. But we would encourage you to tune in later on in the day.

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01:09:56.180 it. I do encourage folks just quickly on that note, it can be really tempting on election day to turn on

01:10:01.380 your TV. Let's give the mainstream media some ratings on election day. Consider going to

01:10:08.820 albertadecides.com. Watch our coverage. We're going to be there all night. We've already been guaranteed

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01:10:54.020 it all there. Great. I think that's the show. Thanks to everybody in the studio in Toronto for

01:10:59.700 making sure that we were able to broadcast today. Adam, thanks so much for being my co-pilot. It's

01:11:04.660 always you and Jesus co-pilots on Friday. Thanks to everybody at home who tuned in and to those of you who

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01:11:23.780 but later on in the day. And as David Menzies always says, stay sane.

Rebel News Podcast - May 26, 2023

DAILY Roundup ｜ Three days to go until Alberta Decides

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