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00:00:00.000 On Thursday, August 25th, the Alberta Prosperity Project and Rebel News are hosting a special

00:00:19.820 UCP leadership dinner and forum at the Edmonton Convention Centre.

00:00:23.540 We're asking the UCP leadership candidates tough but fair questions, like how will they

00:00:28.300 protect our rights and freedoms from the United Nations Agenda 2030 and World Economic Forum's

00:00:33.500 Great Reset? How will they fight the climate change initiative? And how will they counter

00:00:37.260 inflation? You won't want to miss this event. Get your ticket today at www.albertaprosperityproject.com.

00:00:44.440 Oh, good morning, good afternoon, everybody, and welcome to the Revenue's daily live stream. I'm

00:00:48.780 your host, Sheila Gunn-Reed, on Mondays, and my co-host is my friend Adam Sos in Calgary. And bear

00:00:54.420 with me, everybody, if I'm a little bit rusty. I did not host at all last week, which is

00:00:59.080 strange because usually I host sometimes up to three or four days a week. So pardon me

00:01:03.820 if I don't know what's going on. Adam, how's it going?

00:01:06.280 Oh, it's going wonderful. How are you?

00:01:08.800 Oh, like I said, a little rusty. Now on Mondays, it's normally a pretty Alberta-centric show

00:01:16.360 with me being east of Edmonton in an undisclosed location and Adam in the office in Calgary.

00:01:23.100 And on Mondays, or some Mondays, our show is sponsored by the folks at the Alberta Prosperity

00:01:30.180 Project or the APP. Guys, do we have a commercial to roll to from them? I know it's early, but

00:01:37.060 let's do it. Or did I put them on the spot?

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00:01:45.700 Okay, no, no, no, that's okay. They're having a little bit of technical difficulty in the

00:01:48.840 office. So not only did I put them on the spot, but they're having a moment with the

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00:03:02.940 On Thursday, August 25th, the Alberta Prosperity Project and Rebel News are hosting a special UCP

00:03:09.800 leadership dinner and forum at the Edmonton Convention Center. We're asking the UCP leadership

00:03:14.580 candidates tough but fair questions like how will they protect our rights and freedoms from the

00:03:19.400 United Nations Agenda 2030 and World Economic Forum's Great Reset? How will they fight the climate

00:03:24.680 change initiative? And how will they counter inflation? You won't want to miss this event. Get your ticket

00:03:29.400 today at www.albertaprosperityproject.com for your tickets for the... I guess it's a debate. They

00:03:43.940 call it a forum, but really it's going to be a debate on the 25th in Edmonton. And from what I

00:03:49.700 understand, there's a very fancy dinner and I'll be there and Ezra will be there and hopefully Adam

00:03:56.940 will be there and a great chance to put some tough questions to the UCP leadership candidates instead

00:04:03.680 of... Yeah, although I will say some of the questions at the other debates have been pretty

00:04:10.140 darn good, but these will be, I think, more rebel-centric questions, I think.

00:04:17.320 Yeah, definitely. It is interesting. Like, I have noted often it's the scrums at these other debates and

00:04:22.840 it's great that there has been extensive opportunities because I think at every one of

00:04:26.760 the UCP debates, I've managed to get two to three questions into every single leadership hopeful. So

00:04:33.460 unlike some sort of past things, and we have seen the odd candidate dipping out on the, especially

00:04:38.940 more federally, but dipping out on the scrums, but provincially there seems to be more of a

00:04:43.420 sort of willingness to just stand there, answer questions, extensive availability. Hopefully there'll

00:04:48.460 be a bit of that here, but definitely looking forward to it. It's going to be a great event

00:04:51.400 and great to sort of, rather than having some of those concerns about the UN World Economic Forum

00:04:57.180 government overreach freedom be a small portion or an emphasis in the scrums, it's good that it'll

00:05:02.940 be the core emphasis right in the middle of that debate there. You know, the APP is so great. I was

00:05:07.820 just out and we'll have a report coming soon at Bibles and Bulls in Mirror, Alberta at the

00:05:12.640 Whistle Stop. APP, a sponsor there. They had a shoot or two sponsored as well. It's incredible how

00:05:17.580 just ingrained in the community they've become, how quickly they've been sort of adopted by the

00:05:22.680 community as a very sort of organic grassroots movement. So really great, grateful to have them

00:05:27.660 as a sponsor and looking forward to this event. It's sure to be a good one. Yeah, I think it's going

00:05:34.360 to be, I think at the, on the 25th, very Alberta first. What are you going to do to protect us from

00:05:42.540 Ottawa? What are you going to do to protect us from the United Nations? What are you going to do to

00:05:47.540 protect us from these nitrogen targets? You know, you hear a lot of, oh, strongly worded letters

00:05:52.580 about things that the premier doesn't like in Alberta, but these are going to be questions about,

00:05:57.240 okay, fine, you sent your strongly worded letter. What's the or else now that those are going to be

00:06:02.540 the questions that will be put to these candidates. So we want to see some meat put on the bones of their

00:06:09.000 policy ideas. Yeah, for sure. And I think, you know, I really think other journalists, like sort

00:06:16.240 of mainstream journalists, have really sort of missed the crux of the opportunity here. These

00:06:22.440 candidates are available, I've done or have sort of scheduled these 30 minute walking interviews with

00:06:28.200 each of these candidates. And there's almost nothing else like that. And then like lots of other

00:06:34.580 independent outlets are asking really strong questions during the scrums or whatever. But I

00:06:39.380 hope that this will be a real, as you said, sort of meat on the bones opportunity to ask those tough

00:06:44.020 questions. Because aside from the sort of scrum or those long form interviews I'm doing with these

00:06:48.820 people, they're just kind of not being forced to engage with those ideas. I mean, they might do it on

00:06:53.740 a town hall on a small level. But on a broader perspective, it's good that there's eyes being

00:06:58.640 brought to that. Yeah, there's my as Brian Jean said, and Adam, so trademark walk and talk. But

00:07:05.200 it's great to just have these politicians being willing to meet up and have these long conversations.

00:07:10.260 I want to give a big shout out to Mocha right now. I mean, this guy walks backwards. For people who

00:07:14.560 don't know, Mocha walks backwards for half an hour navigating like forests and towns and pedestrians

00:07:21.060 and monitoring audio. He does it all. That's not a camera crew. That's one guy. So big shout out to

00:07:26.560 Mocha Pazirian dudes. We joke he uses a force to navigate this. But Jill, I did want to ask you, 1.00

00:07:31.880 it's a question that I often get from people. We can talk about all the candidates or we can talk

00:07:36.440 about the front runners, whatever you prefer. But is there someone that you feel is sort of

00:07:42.900 garnering momentum likely to win? Do you think there's I mean, we can probably agree to who that

00:07:48.820 might be. But do you think there might be an implosion? What do you think about the other sort of

00:07:52.700 candidates, their odds at catching up? What's your position on the race right now?

00:07:58.260 You know, as I always say, no one will ever know whom I support, because I dislike all politicians

00:08:05.340 equally. But I'm egalitarian that way. But I think Daniel Smith is clearly the front runner at this

00:08:13.800 point, which I think speaks to the quality of Albertans, that they are able to set aside what

00:08:25.320 she did in 2014, 2015, and give her another chance. And, you know, for people who don't know the

00:08:33.680 history, she crossed the floor to the progressive conservatives and tried to take the party with 0.99

00:08:41.620 her and the grassroots said, What are you doing? We exist because we don't like the old cronyist

00:08:47.980 progressive conservatives. We're the real conservative party. And we are not going to join

00:08:52.860 that party until you give us a chance. And so Jason Kenney did that appropriately, a few years later.

00:09:01.880 But she has been on, I guess, a seven year long apology tour about that. She's the first person to say

00:09:08.620 that I did it wrong. I didn't do it the right way. I would never do it that way again. And she bears

00:09:13.980 a lot of responsibility in ushering in four years of NDP government. All that is to say, though,

00:09:21.460 she's out there saying she's sorry, she got it wrong. And she's willing to say sorry to people that

00:09:26.220 she didn't harm, but the Alberta government did. During the lockdown, she said that she would go on

00:09:31.020 an apology tour. And so I think that actually says more about Albertans than it does about Daniel

00:09:38.320 Smith, that they're willing to say, Okay, you know what, we are Albertans. This is a land of second

00:09:44.280 chances. This is a land of redemption. And we're willing to offer it to you. If you don't screw us

00:09:51.080 over. I think Taves, Travis Taves, he's just too much Jason Kenney 2.0. And while he is out there

00:10:00.780 saying that he believes in freedom, he was on the cabinet that locked everybody down. He was on the

00:10:06.160 COVID cabinet. So while he's saying, Oh, thank goodness that the court has overturned these contempt

00:10:12.380 rulings against Pastor Art Poloski, you're the guy who brought in the restrictions on churches that

00:10:19.840 ultimately ended up in his incarceration and his multiple arrests, these high profile El Chapo style

00:10:26.040 takedowns on tarmacs and street corners. So I'm sorry, but where were you? Where were you? Except in

00:10:33.340 the cabinet, but also in Sky Palace, by the way. Morally and ethically, I think Todd Lowen is right on point.

00:10:43.600 Um, I, there's not much that I would disagree with him on a policy issue. He stood up to Jason

00:10:51.500 Kenney when he saw that people were being, um, or were having their civil liberties infringed on,

00:10:58.460 and he paid the ultimate price for it in that he lost his, uh, role in the party. He was kicked

00:11:04.580 right out. He sat as an independent, but he's wildly popular in his riding for that. Um, you know,

00:11:11.740 much like, uh, Ella Drew Barnes, much like Roman Babber, same thing. These guys who are,

00:11:18.180 were conscientious objectors and they didn't care if it cost them their career. Uh, I'm a Todd Lowen fan

00:11:23.540 for sure, uh, morally and, and, uh, personally. Um, I think. If you don't mind sort of on that note,

00:11:31.360 just because there's something. Yeah. Go ahead. Go ahead. Go ahead. No, I was gonna say it speaks to your

00:11:37.220 point entirely and it doesn't relate to Brian Jean. So I think, and it just echoes back to it.

00:11:41.600 Um, at the last Western standard sort of debate, it was incredibly interesting to see, um, Todd Lowen

00:11:47.740 who said, Oh, well, I didn't want to leave the system. So I was fighting from the inside. You

00:11:51.300 just, there's no evidence of it, but now that it's a popular sentiment and that may very well be true.

00:11:55.880 He may have been pushing back against restrictions from the inside, but we never heard or saw any

00:12:00.460 evidence of it until it became a popular sentiment. I severely doubt it. I severely doubt he did

00:12:05.080 because you know what happened to those who did toss out on their ass. Exactly. So I really doubt 1.00

00:12:09.480 that he did. But what's interesting is, uh, Todd Lowen pushed Danielle Smith on her floor crossing

00:12:18.080 at the Western standard debate. And she said, I've apologized for that. I've been apologizing for

00:12:25.120 that since it happened. When are you going to apologize for arresting pastors and the entire 0.69

00:12:29.960 place? Like when, Ooh, then he said that Travis. Yeah. And then Travis Taves starts talking again

00:12:38.980 and brings it back to her. And this is just to echo your point from earlier, brings it back to her

00:12:43.600 floor crossing and the entire place was booing him saying like, like we're, we're not focused on

00:12:49.680 the sins of the past. What do you stand for today? Um, cause there's a lot of finger pointing that could

00:12:54.120 go along and don't get me wrong. The floor crossing of Daniel Smith is a massive and devastating blow

00:12:59.200 in, in Albertan politics, but conversely it's, and I don't know if this will stand. I don't know if

00:13:04.900 everything will fall apart. Perhaps it will, perhaps we'll make another mistake, but it seems as

00:13:09.120 though she's learned from that and she's embraced and met the grassroots. And she's having these

00:13:14.240 events where four or 500 people are showing up. Apparently other people I've been to events where

00:13:18.480 six people show up for Travis Taves, for example. Um, so yeah, I just, I thought that was so

00:13:23.080 interesting. It's, it just echoed everything you were saying perfectly. So, but yeah, carry on with

00:13:26.520 Brian Jean. And lastly, Brian Jean, lastly, but definitely not least, um, Brian Jean, there are a

00:13:33.020 lot of people who have Jason Kenney Byers remorse who wish they could have cast their vote for Brian

00:13:37.960 Jean to be the leader of the United party, because both men decided now is the time we will unite

00:13:43.140 the party. But unlike Daniel Smith, we're going to give the grassroots a choice in what happens

00:13:47.400 here. So if they unite, vote to unite the party, then we will, as leaders of the two respective

00:13:52.240 parties, Brian Jean as Wild Rose and Jason Kenney as the PCs vote to like bring the parties together

00:13:58.340 and then have a leadership runoff for who would be in charge. Um, he lost and then he sort of went

00:14:05.120 away to, uh, tend to his family, which no one can fault him for. Um, but there are a lot of people

00:14:12.200 with Jason Kenney Byers remorse that they regret casting that vote for Jason Kenney to lead the party.

00:14:18.100 And I think Brian Jean may capitalize on some of that. Um, he's got a willingness to sit and talk

00:14:26.200 or walk and talk with independent media. And, uh, he was an anti, well, I'm not sure if he is anti

00:14:35.360 lockdown, but Brian Jean also said there are a lot of things that we could have done differently during

00:14:40.260 this pandemic that Jason Kenney just was not willing to hear those other voices. And, um, he, you know,

00:14:47.720 he, he wrote several op-eds about it. So there there's that too. And, you know, I don't know, uh, UCP

00:14:55.620 voters, they have, um, at least three very good, um, candidates to choose from. And then Travis Taves.

00:15:06.700 Yeah. And that's just because of his role in locking down people.

00:15:12.400 Exactly. And it's really interesting. Like, I mean, really quickly, I'll touch on the other

00:15:15.560 people. There is Rebecca Schultz, um, something of a, of a insider as well, to an extent, I think

00:15:21.360 she might've pushed back a little bit, um, but she hasn't gained a ton of traction. Interesting. 1.00

00:15:25.220 She has Rona Ambrose on her team as well, which is a pretty significant endorsement and a team 1.00

00:15:29.880 support. I'm surprised she isn't a little bit closer to Taves because they're both sort of,

00:15:34.380 I don't know. She's not quite as much of an insider, but she is sort of an inside track

00:15:38.180 MLA. I think, I was going to say, I think when she drops out, she'll throw her support 0.66

00:15:44.000 behind. Yeah. She'll endorse Taves. Um, Brad Wall has endorsed her and you know, everybody

00:15:51.680 loves Brad Wall. Um, he's endorsed her. So she's sort of, um, the outside of Taves, the second

00:15:59.760 establishment candidate that comes with less baggage than Taves. For sure. And then some 0.94

00:16:05.240 other interesting candidates, uh, Raja Ansani originally had some promise. And I know some

00:16:10.180 people, including some people who were early resistors thought she might be able to like

00:16:14.600 emphasize some of those values while still winning, um, some of these crucial city ridings.

00:16:19.560 Um, I was originally scheduled to sort of meet with her and do one of these chats and then

00:16:23.400 they changed their minds suddenly. Um, but yeah, they, I know like, uh, MLA Angela Pitt

00:16:28.220 left her campaign as well. Um, so there's, that's clearly there's gone, they've gone, there's,

00:16:33.420 there's some sort of shift there, but she's, she's virtually became a non-factor. She tried 0.90

00:16:37.300 to attack Daniel Smith very aggressively in the last debate. And I don't, I think it pretty

00:16:40.880 much backfired. And then there's also, uh, it was cringy to watch. Yeah, it wasn't. And

00:16:45.840 then she's, she's attacking her and I asked her about this and then she's saying we all

00:16:48.620 need to be united. I'm like, well, everyone else is talking, you're attacking. So what do you

00:16:52.440 mean? United when you're attacking people? Anyway, she's kind of fallen by the wayside.

00:16:56.280 And then there's Lila here who gained a bunch of points for taking on a bull, which was kind

00:16:59.780 of cool. Um, at a rodeo, uh, some, a lady went down and Lila here jumped in and like

00:17:04.020 shoved the bull away. So that was kind of cool. Cool. But on the other side, lady, she's just 0.94

00:17:08.300 everyone lady. Yep. Every other candidate has said, she's like the nicest lady. She agreed.

00:17:12.940 We haven't gotten something scheduled. She agreed to a walk and talk as well. Um, but yeah,

00:17:17.400 she, I mean, a great deal of her principles, particularly on social issues. She's extremely

00:17:23.360 progressive in the exact same camp as Justin Trudeau, presumably, um, on fiscal issues.

00:17:28.020 She's okay. It's interesting because she was a wild roser. So on some issues, she's kind

00:17:32.440 of conservative, but in the minds of many, I think, and this is a sentiment I've heard

00:17:36.440 is why, why is she running in the conservative party? Cause her values aren't particularly in 0.99

00:17:41.120 line with the conservative party. Um, but getting back, I don't know if you have any thoughts

00:17:44.100 on Lila, but, uh, we can spend a little more time talking about the sort of the front runners

00:17:49.100 if that's all right. Or do you have thoughts on any of those?

00:17:51.480 Sure. No, no, no. No, I think that's great. I was, I was just going to say like with regard

00:17:55.620 to Taves, I know some people whom I generally like and agree with on most everything, like

00:18:01.540 MP Arnold Pearson from the North. I think he's endorsing Taves, but it could be like a, because

00:18:08.640 everybody's Dutch. So he's like, yeah, if you're not Dutch, you ain't much. And so 0.61

00:18:13.700 I see that he, I think he's endorsing Tave or I saw some supportive posts from him. Um,

00:18:20.340 but, uh, I think that's probably the only high profile ish Alberta conservative federally

00:18:27.360 that's with him.

00:18:28.580 Everyone like behind the scenes in the UCP and all the people I know, and even the social

00:18:34.460 conservatives, they're all endorsing Taves. Taves is personally pro-life, whatever that

00:18:38.400 means. Um, so I know for some people that's a plus, um, I don't think it's really actionable.

00:18:44.440 I think Daniel Smith and him have the same plans, despite her being libertarian and pro-choice.

00:18:48.920 So practically speaking, they're equally pro-life.

00:18:51.540 I don't need them to support my church. I don't need them to support my church or my

00:18:54.580 religious values. I need them to leave me alone. 1.00

00:18:57.120 Yeah.

00:18:57.320 That's all I want. And Taves didn't leave the churches alone.

00:19:00.240 No. And one of the things with Taves and the support he's going to get, he was the head

00:19:04.080 of a, uh, I don't know, the ranchers or beef association, cattlemen's association, one of

00:19:09.180 those big ones for years. So he has relationships in the rural communities. And then he also

00:19:14.620 has the inside political relations. So he will dominate rural areas. I think he will, unless

00:19:20.940 people, uh, presumably, unless people have been swung over by Daniel Smith or potentially

00:19:26.040 Todd Lowen. But I mean, I, I, I've been told with relatively good authority that a large

00:19:30.180 number of ranchers and farmers just because of their relationship with him will be supporting

00:19:34.700 him. Um, so, and the other thing too, is that like, we look back at what happened with

00:19:40.000 Daniel Smith, part of the reason she crossed the floor and it doesn't excuse her behavior

00:19:44.600 at all, but is that the Wildrose was set to win. And then Canadians or Albertans rather

00:19:48.620 significantly backtracked, voted conservative, went with the old progressives. They voted very

00:19:53.920 conservatively. Um, so there is this potential that on voting day, Albertans sort of deferred

00:20:00.180 to this conservative instinct, which isn't necessarily bad instinct, but if you're going

00:20:04.720 to go conservative and risk averse, you're probably not going to vote Daniel Smith. She's 0.99

00:20:09.120 more saying all the right things, but you're worried if it might backfire. Um, I, I think

00:20:14.040 some people may go, may, may sort of revert or at least put Taves or Jean second as a bit

00:20:21.600 of a more sort of stable option. And on a preferential ballot that can quickly swing things. And if

00:20:27.140 you have a bunch of people being like, well, Taves is okay and he's safe, but then you

00:20:31.820 have, I don't know, 30% of the province being like Daniel Smith is my number one. Some weird

00:20:35.720 things can happen where on the second ballot, Taves surges ahead. Um, so that's how we got

00:20:42.080 Andrew Scheer. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. 100%. Um, Leslie Lewis was ahead and, uh, Bernier was

00:20:48.120 ahead and then things shifted and that safe choice, um, on preferential ballots can sometimes

00:20:52.640 swing. It'll be interesting to see. I think there is sort of a threshold of Danielle Smith

00:20:57.080 being sort of the outsider saying the right things, but not being on the inside track.

00:21:01.640 Then you have Travis Taves extremely on the right track saying maybe a few of the right

00:21:05.460 things, but not necessarily enough. I think Brian Jean is like very much in the middle of

00:21:09.840 those two positions where he's saying like, and we, we talked about this in the interview

00:21:14.120 where like, for example, for Alberta, sort of whether it be separation or sovereignty issues,

00:21:19.340 he's saying we need to open up the constitution and, and deal with those things. Uh, Daniel Smith

00:21:24.240 is saying, we don't need to have that conversation. We're just going to take, uh, the sort of the,

00:21:28.040 the action plan for Alberta and we're going to do it on our own. And Taves is like, we'll write,

00:21:32.900 we'll push a little harder on some of these letters. Um, I think there's a pretty big gamut

00:21:37.320 and I think those are the crux issues and it's across the board. Like both Daniel Smith and Brian

00:21:42.300 have been pretty hard line on like, and Todd Lohan as well on, on getting rid of existing, uh,

00:21:47.440 COVID-19 prosecutions, um, either, either, uh, like expunging records entirely. So there's no

00:21:53.840 sort of record criminal record whatsoever, issuing formal apologies. Um, Travis Taves has said,

00:21:59.560 we've made mistakes. We've made mistakes, but when I push them on those specific points,

00:22:02.680 he's not willing to say a hundred percent, we'll stop all of it. He's deferring to the,

00:22:06.800 well, politicians shouldn't meddle in the legal system, which is a cop-out. Um, I'm Todd Lohan

00:22:12.900 obviously is still is in the cap with, with Jean and Smith as to let's put an end to this. And then

00:22:17.080 this is ridiculous. Um, but it'll be interesting to see, like I said, if people go back from

00:22:22.480 principled vote to strategic vote and vote for something a little bit safer and on preferential

00:22:29.240 ballot, that could easily happen. You know, it's a real, it's a pathetic cop-out to say that 0.86

00:22:35.200 politicians shouldn't meddle in the legal system. A hundred percent. They're the law, they're the 0.99

00:22:39.920 lawmakers. Yeah. Who makes the law? But, but aside from that, these are unjust persecutions

00:22:50.440 still taking place. Church in the Vine has to come up with $80,000 by the end of the month if

00:22:57.760 their appeal is not, uh, accepted. $80,000 that the state thinks they need more than this church

00:23:06.220 for the crime of not allowing an inspector to run around the church like a Muppet while church was

00:23:12.520 in service. And there, it is, it behooves politicians to speak out against that. These are

00:23:20.320 their rules that cause this harm to these people. It's, it's interesting that Jerry, uh, sorry. Um,

00:23:28.280 Taves was on, he was the president of the Cattlemen's Association, but he was also appointed

00:23:33.780 by Jerry Ritz, um, to fight the country of origin labeling for Canadian beef, um, for export, which

00:23:40.640 sometimes can, you know, like if people want to buy American in the United States, if you have

00:23:45.460 Canadian beef labeled as Canadian beef, they won't buy it though, which is, you know, so, um, he was

00:23:51.160 lobbied against country of origin stuff, but you look at someone who was so entrenched in the

00:23:56.640 agriculture industry, huh? And agriculture, they were a real civil disobedient people, um, with Rick

00:24:06.460 Strankman and Jim Ness going to jail to end the Canadian wheat board protesting a bad law. You know

00:24:13.360 what? At the time, politicians stood with those guys. They said, this is a bad law. And it was not

00:24:20.300 considered meddling in the legal system when Ralph Klein stood there and said, this liberal federal law

00:24:26.320 is sending these good men to jail and it won't stand. And when Harper said, as soon as I'm in

00:24:31.260 power, we're ending the wheat board because people went to jail for it. So it's, it's pretty pathetic. 0.99

00:24:38.980 The Taves can't even say the same thing. It's pathetic. Well, you're, you're an elected representative. 1.00

00:24:44.800 So you've been elected to represent, so represent. And I mean, the, the ultimate sort of,

00:24:49.320 whether anyone's on the fence about this anymore, the courts are now saying that based on the

00:24:55.620 instructions of these, uh, unelected health officials at the behest of Jason Kenny and his

00:25:00.160 government, police were enforcing illegally laws that didn't apply to people like so many of these

00:25:07.740 charges. And it's shocking because I still see to this very day, people tweeting in response to the

00:25:13.440 pastor, Tim Stevens arrest or Archer Pawlowski stuff. Well, maybe like maybe his kids will learn that

00:25:19.000 this is what you get when you break the law. Like the courts are now saying that the, that the,

00:25:23.160 the judges didn't understand the law and that the police broke the law and that these, these,

00:25:27.820 uh, lockdowns didn't apply to Albertans that large broadly. It's, it's unilaterally that

00:25:33.680 political influence did lead to the misapplication of these laws. We're seeing victory after victory.

00:25:40.780 Chris got a massive victory. Uh, Arthur Pawlowski, a categorical victory on so many fronts. He's now left

00:25:46.680 with what should amount to $1,100 in tickets. Um, of course the, the government is, is pushing for

00:25:52.660 more than that, but for any normal person in normal times under the law, he'd be getting in total,

00:25:58.560 no jail time and $1,100 in tickets. Um, so the, the, the, the, everything has slid so much and you

00:26:06.040 are seeing politicians start to adopt that. Now, Todd Lohan and Daniel Smith were a little,

00:26:10.820 Todd Lohan was way ahead of the curve. Daniel Smith was a little bit ahead of the curve. Um,

00:26:14.760 and then these other candidates are now starting to say it's now that it's popular,

00:26:19.340 but where were we this whole time? And, and for a candidate to not be willing to go all out and

00:26:24.820 say, we need to end this when the courts are even saying like, this was not legal. These,

00:26:30.480 this is a clear charter violation. This never applied to these people in the first place.

00:26:34.400 And it's just a matter of some people are still seeing charges and fines. Some people have court

00:26:40.840 appearances, including Chris Scott next week, where some of his colleagues who aren't as high

00:26:45.180 profile with the exact same charge have had all charges dropped. There's this, there's this wild

00:26:50.680 doubles. In fact, it's this week, I believe he's in court. There's this wild and, and political,

00:26:54.940 clearly political, not judicial thing in place. And these elected officials absolutely need to stand

00:26:59.820 up and say, this is enough. This needs to come to an end. The courts have made abundantly clear

00:27:04.160 the narrative of, we have to let the judiciary do their thing. Um, the judiciary is categorically

00:27:09.740 saying on almost all of these fronts, it's either massive, significant reductions to minor fines

00:27:15.080 or absolute acquittal on all charges. And in so many of these cases, and for a politician who's

00:27:20.640 leading the freedom minded, allegedly conservative movement, or wants to, uh, with the United

00:27:25.040 Conservative Party for him to be like, well, we have to defer to the legal system. Well, you should

00:27:30.640 have been speaking up two years ago and not just behind the scenes publicly.

00:27:33.760 Right. You know, it's interesting to see the free market, free enterprise conservatives being

00:27:40.620 pro government controlling who you can serve your burgers to. And, you know, there's nothing quite

00:27:45.640 like the mindless droning of someone who says, well, those are the consequences because you broke the

00:27:52.280 law. Um, sometimes the law is bad. For example, the people who hit Anne Frank, they were breaking the

00:27:58.100 law. The people who turned her in, they were, uh, they were following the law. You know, it's just, I

00:28:05.640 don't get my morality from the government, but I suppose some people do. And some of these rulings are

00:28:11.220 effectively saying no. In fact, the government broke the law. The people didn't like it's not

00:28:16.440 translated into politicians going to jail, but the ruling is no, this absolutely never applied to these

00:28:22.840 people. There was no lockdown. Like most of the Rook order, particularly for a window, I

00:28:28.080 think it was, uh, the end of December, 2020. Uh, there was a window though, and a bunch of the

00:28:33.100 language following up, it's clearly worded and restructured. Um, and, and per the interpretation

00:28:38.080 of the court of appeal in Alberta, it never applied to Albertans broadly speaking. So effectively

00:28:43.660 everyone who received tickets in within those windows, and it's likely to cascade into other

00:28:48.700 windows, but the government has said this never applied to people because it's not a legal order.

00:28:53.600 Um, and the government didn't do its due diligence. They didn't phrase it properly.

00:28:57.420 Um, they didn't have the adequate evidence to infringe everybody's rights. Um, it did apply 0.93

00:29:02.340 to named parties, um, but not to everybody. They're saying actually, no, no, we broke the

00:29:07.640 law. These people didn't break the law and people are still trumpeting that. And it's

00:29:11.780 often the liberals who've been saying the same thing and are still saying that this is a Spanish

00:29:15.740 flu level thing. And they're still echoing the sentiments. It's weird though, cause they're

00:29:19.040 echoing the sentiments of health officials at the onset of COVID-19 and health officials

00:29:24.440 aren't saying the same thing that they were saying at the onset of COVID-19 or saying the

00:29:28.080 same things they said about vaccines. For example, the mainstream narrative, and I'm just echoing

00:29:32.660 the public health officer's sentiments, not disagreeing, but their sort of outlooks on the

00:29:38.100 outcomes has, has changed significantly. But the activists who are saying these things,

00:29:43.220 well, pastor, so-and-so got what they deserved. The evidence they're based on is the most sort

00:29:48.100 of hysterical and just disjointed evidence that not even Dr. Teresa Tam would agree with anymore.

00:29:54.940 I think the net, the next UCP leader has to commit to firing every single person in the legal

00:30:02.400 department at Alberta health services, every lawyer, every contract lawyer, every single one 1.00

00:30:07.660 should be out on their ass. Um, because they were running around getting secret court orders. 0.99

00:30:12.720 Naturally, the public health officer, Dina Hinshaw, with her signatures at the bottom of all those,

00:30:17.360 um, as like the, you know, you go to these churches that are ordered closed by the government,

00:30:22.640 it's by the order of Dr. Dina Hinshaw. But every lawyer that snuck around behind the 1.00

00:30:28.260 lawyers backs, lawyers that represented churches and businesses, pastors, every single one of those

00:30:36.400 lawyers should be fired. How absolutely unethical they are. They can keep the one who I think had a 1.00

00:30:44.000 major blunder in court and admitted that there was charter violations taking place and all the

00:30:48.880 other AHS lawyers panicked. Um, they can keep her because that was good. Everyone else should go

00:30:54.020 though. Yeah. You know, there's the, there's enormous, by the way, contract, uh, lawyers. So I

00:31:01.480 think they're hiring lawyers at a field law in Calgary, uh, to help with these prosecutions,

00:31:06.940 because they just don't think they have the in-house lifting power to persecute the amount of people

00:31:11.900 that Alberta health services would like to. Yeah. Also Dina Hinshaw's bonus, sign her petition for 0.96

00:31:18.400 her to pay it back, go to payitback.ca because she got a near quarter million dollars for the 0.91

00:31:22.680 absolutely laughable job she did. And it doesn't matter if you're a pro lockdown advocate or an

00:31:28.080 absolute freedom advocate. Um, there's basically a significant lack of evidence behind a bunch of her, 0.97

00:31:33.520 uh, decisions. And then when pressed in court, she was like, I don't know. I don't know.

00:31:37.540 Um, yeah, there, there's too busy. She said she was too busy to go to court that one time. 1.00

00:31:42.660 And then she went on vacation. Yeah. So yeah, she should pay back that. Let's get that signature 0.96

00:31:47.240 count up to 10,000, 8,400 something there. Let's get to, uh, let's get some signatures. I'd love to

00:31:53.160 deliver that. That'd be fun. $600,000 almost a year. And she is still cutting her own bangs. 1.00

00:31:59.040 I just, I can't. And you know, the thing that drove me nuts is like what they determined all

00:32:07.780 the people who were laid off and fired for vaccine reasons or businesses shutting down,

00:32:11.860 whatever they determined those people needed like $500 a week to get by. She was getting 11,000 0.51

00:32:17.800 something. So she, like, I think she was getting 23 times what she suggested that Albertans need to

00:32:24.200 get by. Like, yeah, we're all in it together, except for the politicians in Sky Palace and Dina

00:32:30.200 Hinshaw and everyone else. Uh, but we're, we're in it together. Trust us. Trust us. Yeah. Let's jump

00:32:37.220 to an ad. Remember the, yeah. Uh, hang on. Remember the only time we ever heard, the only time we ever

00:32:42.480 heard from Dina Hinshaw is when she was warning everybody about the outbreak of STDs in the wake of

00:32:47.200 the Calgary stampede every year. That's the only time we ever heard from the public health officer.

00:32:51.720 That's probably the only time we ever should. I wish it would go back to that. Anyway, let's

00:32:55.720 throw to an ad. Adam Sose here for Rebel News. You know, our company is growing quickly and we'd

00:33:02.900 actually like for your company to grow too. That's why this ad space that I'm speaking through right

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00:33:26.620 Yeah, do that. I'll listen to that guy. Yeah. I trust that guy entirely. Listen to that guy. He's smart.

00:33:32.040 He's smart. Now, uh, Olivia suggests that we should go to some chats before we move on to,

00:33:37.640 I think we'll go to the fertilizer story because Greenpeace has taken up farming

00:33:40.860 advice now. So we'll get to them, but we'll go to some of these chats. I think the first one is from,

00:33:45.620 uh, Andrew, um, Chapados's dad, uh, Aaron Burton 32. I I'm not, I'm just joking. Uh, gives us five

00:33:54.360 bucks. It says, keep up the great work. PS bring Andrew on Wednesdays, bring back Andrew on Wednesdays.

00:34:00.000 Sure. Mr. Chapados.

00:34:01.640 And we've got King seven, seven, three, six gives us a buck. Does the rainbow community get bent out 1.00

00:34:08.400 of shape when a busy airport is referred to as a transportation hub?

00:34:13.480 It's only a transatlantic fight.

00:34:17.260 Uh, Kane and Mark, uh, gives us two bucks. Pastor Archer is running for premier of Alberta

00:34:22.400 with the independence party. I saw that he made an announcement that he's running.

00:34:25.980 I think he's running as an MLA.

00:34:27.960 As an MLA. Yeah.

00:34:29.280 Yeah. Not leader, but yeah.

00:34:31.460 Yeah.

00:34:32.100 And then Kat barks 68, five bucks. Hey two. You make my Monday morning more bearable. 1.00

00:34:37.520 Thanks for all you do. Well, that's very nice.

00:34:39.640 Yeah. Happy to have you here. Really appreciate that.

00:34:42.860 And, uh, King seven, seven, three, four gives us a buck. Did all the leaders, politicians,

00:34:47.920 the world economic forum is taking credit for educating. Go to, uh, world economic forum,

00:34:53.920 you as in we F you, the common folk, ha ha ha. And then Fraser McBurney, our friend from

00:35:01.260 Hamilton, who just loves the capital locks. Uh, he gives us a buck and says, are any of

00:35:07.320 these candidates members of the world economic forum? Do any of them follow the W E F if

00:35:11.280 so fire them? I don't think they are, but I'm sure they're going to get some tough questions

00:35:15.440 about world economic forum policies, um, at the forum slash debate on the 25th. Um, which, um,

00:35:25.440 brings us to our next thing, because this is directly out of, uh, uh, this is a world economic

00:35:30.700 forum policy really quickly. Check out the long form interviews I did with Daniel Smith,

00:35:35.300 Brian Jean and Todd Lowen. So far, we do talk about that at length. Um, and the majority of

00:35:40.180 those guys have made a Daniel Smith sort of the firmest, but have made concerted commitments

00:35:44.860 to ensuring the world economic forum has no business in Alberta whatsoever. So, but we'll

00:35:49.980 hear more on August 25th for sure. Yeah. And you've done, um, some exposés on how the world

00:35:56.140 economic forum implants their people into municipal politics, because if you get in at the municipal

00:36:02.120 level, your politicians are, um, more accessible. They can get in front of council. They can get

00:36:07.860 a meeting with the town councilor. And all of a sudden you have an $87 billion climate plan

00:36:13.920 in Calgary, just like that. Global shapers. Look it up. Yep. Global shapers. It's creepy.

00:36:20.140 These nitrogen targets that are causing math protests in Holland will require farmers to

00:36:30.200 abandon land and cull livestock to meet the nitrogen targets, which if you eat, you're involved because

00:36:39.800 it will drive up the cost of food to the consumer to such a point where only rich people can afford

00:36:46.080 meat and you will be eating the crickets. And in Canada, these targets are coming for us because

00:36:54.060 these targets were written into a free trade agreement by you guessed it, the world economic

00:37:00.220 forums, Chrystia Freeland, our deputy prime minister and our finance minister who also had to get her 1.00

00:37:06.880 parents to co-sign her mortgage and burn down an entire section of Reuters economically when she was 0.99

00:37:12.080 in charge there. And now she's in charge of our whole economy. But these nitrogen targets and the 1.00

00:37:16.440 Paris agreement targets were built into a free trade agreement that she was part of getting done

00:37:24.500 with Europe. So that's where their nitrogen targets come from. So now we have to get them too.

00:37:30.580 And they were recently announced. So if you are not experiencing enough food inflation at the grocery

00:37:36.200 store, guess what? More is coming. And by the way, this idea, as a farmer, this idea that we're just

00:37:42.240 like, oh, let's put extra fertilizer on the field. No, fertilizer is really expensive. You use exactly

00:37:50.040 what you need and not a teaspoon more because it's super expensive. So this idea that we're just like

00:37:55.140 going overboard with nitrogen in the field, we're not. We're really not. We can't afford it.

00:37:59.640 Is a fair analogy to insist bakers use 30% less flour?

00:38:02.860 Yeah, pretty much.

00:38:05.460 It's that catastrophic.

00:38:08.300 Yeah.

00:38:08.840 Or a trucker using 30% less fuel.

00:38:11.740 Yeah. Yeah. And I would equate it to the yeast and the bread. So when you're like, oh,

00:38:17.180 I should have 10 loaves of bread, but instead I have these like three little lumps, that's how

00:38:21.280 important it is to farming and our yields. But here comes Greenpeace, not known for their

00:38:28.120 agricultural good sense. They say higher federal target needed to curtail fertilizer emissions says

00:38:35.040 environmental organization. I like how they call Greenpeace an environmental organization. They don't

00:38:39.540 even name them as Greenpeace until the sub headline because most people would immediately write them

00:38:44.460 off when they say it's Greenpeace. Greenpeace Canada is calling on Ottawa to increase its target

00:38:48.640 of reducing fertilizer emissions by 30% below 2020 levels.

00:38:53.160 Oh, God.

00:38:54.260 Oh, God. That's two years ago. By 2030, up to 50%.

00:39:00.040 And there's the agriculture minister supporting agriculture by wearing a red leather jacket,

00:39:06.240 supporting our beef producers. An ambitious target set by the federal government to reduce

00:39:11.480 greenhouse gas emissions associated with fertilizer does not go far enough, according to environmental

00:39:16.820 organization that argues Canada needs to restrict its production of synthetic fertilizer. So

00:39:22.440 they not only do they not want us to use it, but they want us to restrict production of it

00:39:27.920 because there's already a shortage because of the war in Ukraine and Saskatchewan produces an

00:39:36.060 enormous amount of potash and potash is required in fertilizer production. So not only do they want

00:39:41.460 to kill farmers, they also want to kill mining jobs simultaneously. So Saskatchewan, they're getting 0.52

00:39:46.980 a double dose of this on both sides of their economy. And I bet, I bet Justin Trudeau is going to go

00:39:54.220 along with this. Oh, yeah. 100%. And you know, I mean, there's no trying to rationalize this as a

00:40:01.500 sane person who cares about other human beings is completely impossible. Like life is untenable right

00:40:07.500 now. The costs, unless you're extremely wealthy for even upper middle class, like heating bills are

00:40:14.040 astronomical. Grocery bills are sky high. Fuel costs are high. Everything is so challenging,

00:40:19.720 particularly for Justin Trudeau's beloved middle, lower class. Um, he's making everything so

00:40:25.400 incredibly difficult and these policies are making it worse, but forgive me for, uh, prophesying a

00:40:30.820 little bit here. I think this dude wants absolutely to bring back martial law. And he wants to, he's

00:40:36.900 like, he just got over the trucker rebellion and the, the coots blockade and all of this stuff.

00:40:42.560 And he misses that power that grab. So he's like, huh, this clearly negligent decision that will

00:40:48.580 destroy livelihoods, drive up costs, make everyone completely dependent on the government. Uh, that

00:40:54.080 was COVID-19 is, has passed. So now we've seen massive rebellions and resistances in Europe to

00:40:59.880 this type of policy. Let's bring it in here. The whole world is looking at this. Like, what are you

00:41:03.880 doing? And Justin Trudeau was like, yes, that's the next step for us. His only regret, I think is that

00:41:08.220 he didn't get to it first. Cause he would have loved to stick it to the West and stick it to

00:41:12.320 working class people. Now he's imitating what these other countries are doing, doing this. 0.97

00:41:18.560 And I'm not espousing this. I'm not advocating for it, but when you push truckers who have,

00:41:23.600 and farmers and ranchers who've already been pushed to the edge, they will push back. We've seen it

00:41:28.660 before and we're going to see it again, particularly if the government keeps heading down this dangerous

00:41:32.600 path. I just want to read to you something from some website known as the progressive farmer. So

00:41:40.840 that should tell you where they are coming from on this issue. Um, as Sri Lankan, Sri Lanka's 0.91

00:41:46.600 government collapses, farmers in the Netherlands continue protesting. And the one connection between

00:41:50.900 the civil unrest is government fertilizer policies. Empires have fallen over food. Um, with the war in

00:42:00.980 Ukraine driving up food and energy prices, fertilizer access has become a major point of contention as

00:42:06.460 immediate food needs overwhelm long-term environmental policies, such as reducing emissions. Sri Lanka's

00:42:12.800 president attempting to reduce government subsidies for important fertilizer announced an end to chemical

00:42:18.160 fertilizer and inputs saying Sri Lankans agriculture would go 100% organic. The move failed as land was

00:42:27.740 idled and production of crops such as rice and tea staples collapsed. Farmers in the Netherlands are

00:42:35.580 continuing to shut down towns with their tractors, protesting a plan passed by the government in late

00:42:39.520 June to reduce agriculture emissions from ammonia and nitrous oxide by 50% by 2030. Um, this is, it's,

00:42:49.100 this is really bad, not just for Canadians, but for the rest of the world, because Canada feeds the world.

00:42:56.520 Yeah. Especially the developing world, because what people don't know is not only are we the world's

00:43:03.620 largest exporter of canola, so places where you don't, it becomes difficult to have animal fats,

00:43:12.760 whatever. Canola is the solution to that. But also we export the world's largest, um, we're the world's

00:43:23.480 largest exporter of pulses. So chickpeas, uh, lentils, and that is an absolute food staple in the

00:43:30.100 developing world because it's cheap, it's dry, it's portable, and you can store it forever. And it's

00:43:35.520 calorically dense. And if our food production collapses here, if things are going to be tough

00:43:43.400 for Canadians, people are going to be experiencing food insecurity. But when you think about who this

00:43:49.400 hurts the most, it is the Canadian poor and the developing world, because we cannot give them 1.00

00:43:54.860 the calorically dense, dry, portable, easily stored food that they need. But maybe that's the intention

00:44:02.920 here. Yeah. Well, it's time and time again, you look at the sort of decisions and they're not rational.

00:44:10.520 They're not good for average Canadians. They're not literally like the, the end game in all of these 0.97

00:44:15.640 things is, is increased dependence on the government. But like we saw in China with the great leap

00:44:21.340 forward, that manifesto of theirs, when they're like, ah, we'll centralize authority and everyone

00:44:26.220 will be dependent on us and we'll force people into a new age. It was the first great reset imposed by

00:44:31.540 communists, something like 50 million conservatively starved to death. Um, because if farmers aren't

00:44:37.600 making food and providing food for people, it doesn't matter what government policies you have. It doesn't

00:44:43.040 matter how much, uh, they say is in the silo, if the silo is empty. Um, it's, it's incredible. And

00:44:50.040 it's such an extension, especially to see, like we were just talking about lots of the COVID-19

00:44:55.680 overreach being condemned now by the courts that the courts aren't waking up and taking immediate

00:45:01.740 action to cease this activity because fundamentally undermining people's livelihoods like this is,

00:45:07.920 is tantamount to theft. Like we're going to completely clip and, and, and, and like clip

00:45:14.320 your wings as a citizen in this allegedly free country. Farmers, some years can do very well and

00:45:20.520 make good money. Other years it's incredibly difficult and they lose money and they sort of

00:45:25.040 do that dance and they keep afloat by doing that. I guarantee you, if you are successful in limiting

00:45:31.740 effectively 30% of that income right off the top, those float years will no longer accommodate for

00:45:38.240 the hard years. You, you're losing so much money that the farms will go away. And when the farms go

00:45:43.340 away, well, the food goes away. I don't, I don't understand how Justin Trudeau can be so disjointed

00:45:49.300 from reality. I don't know if he is overtly evil or if he has really bad advice or if he's absolutely

00:45:56.020 daft and clueless, um, but the courts, other politicians, people need to universally take a 0.96

00:46:01.940 stand and put an end to this. I, for one, back to the conversation about UCP leadership, I'm grateful

00:46:06.440 that virtually all of the candidates have said the, this fertilized reduction thing is not happening

00:46:12.700 here. Like they've said no categorical full stop. Just so people understand what this means to farmers

00:46:20.360 again, because there's a lot of people out there who think, oh, those rich farmers, look at how much

00:46:24.340 land they have. It's one thing to be land rich, but, uh, then you're paying taxes on the land and,

00:46:32.000 uh, mortgage payments on the land and finance payments on your equipment. And pretty soon

00:46:37.800 you're just scraping by and one bad hailstorm can level you. A combine, just so people understand.

00:46:47.500 Yeah. Remember when I was, uh, watching the, um, trucker documentary, the Coots documentary,

00:46:51.640 and I was like, ah, look, that's like $750,000. I was so excited. I love looking at farm equipment

00:46:59.900 until you have to pay for it. Uh, I just pulled up Kijiji right now, a 2014 John Deere S 680 combine,

00:47:08.300 uh, a fairly good deal. $315,000. And that's, you know, eight years old used. Um, and you're going to

00:47:17.400 have to go all the way to Saskatoon to get it, pick it up and truck it back, which is also a

00:47:22.740 substantial cost. So that's just used farm equipment just to farm. And so you have to think,

00:47:29.080 you know, when you are telling farmers, okay, you have to make now you have to make 50% less

00:47:36.200 and still pay for this stuff. What happens? People just get out of farming because you can only lose

00:47:42.040 money for so long. And what does that do to the state of the world? Um, that, uh, Clarkson's farm

00:47:48.660 show. I don't know if you've seen it on Amazon, Jeremy Clarkson from grand tour and top gear and

00:47:54.720 all that good stuff. He does a farming show and like, he doesn't know what he's doing, but he

00:47:58.860 enters this. And if you don't know anything about farming, you don't know what's this, what this is

00:48:03.080 like. He works harder than he's ever worked. He hires people. He's learning this stuff. He buys all

00:48:07.400 the equipment. And after the sort of hardest period of work of his life, I think he makes $736.

00:48:13.920 Now a professional farmer is going to do better than that in those circumstances,

00:48:16.900 but it is a really good introduction for folks who don't understand what goes into it.

00:48:21.680 And the sort of, you basically need to be quite good at math, quite good at farming,

00:48:26.380 quite good at a bunch of other things, and then have an economic mind. Hey, look at this. They pulled

00:48:30.100 up the Jeremy Clarkson Lamborghini tractor already. So that's great. There's such wizards in the studio,

00:48:35.040 but it's worth checking out because it's one, it's beautifully shot too. He's very funny,

00:48:39.480 but you really do get a sense of the sort of, even the politics and the rural homeowners groups and

00:48:46.260 everything, everything that farmers have to deal with to sometimes make 700 bucks a year. And they're

00:48:50.960 probably living off their own crop in order to eat for that year. So check it out. And, and,

00:48:55.360 and then imagine, imagine that experience and then add 30% of like your core sort of fertilizer

00:49:01.320 scrapped. Yep. Plus carbon tax on fuel plus, plus carbon tax plus now reduced yield. So, um,

00:49:10.000 yeah, it's, it's not going to be good, but the good news is if you don't have beef to eat,

00:49:17.120 because you can't grain finish them because it's, there's no grain. Um, you can just eat maggots.

00:49:25.200 Um, apparently, um, there's, speaking of which I just, the clip is two years old, but, um, it got

00:49:33.280 pushed, the algorithm pushed it to me. Um, which, you know, in that sense, the algorithm knew what I

00:49:38.760 wanted to see. Um, we've got this clip here about once there's no more conventional dairy producers,

00:49:48.280 because there's this weird war on the cow out there. And I'm willing to make the argument that,

00:49:53.700 uh, humanity's best friend is not a dog, but rather the mighty ruminant, the bovine. Um,

00:50:00.520 but since they're not good for the environment, so the good people at Greenpeace tell us there are

00:50:06.400 other ways to get the animal fats that you need. Can we go to that clip, please? And if you have a weak

00:50:13.000 stomach like me, I'm just so sorry in advance. All this cake needs is flour, eggs, and 20 grams

00:50:20.740 of dead insects. No, you haven't misheard. A team of scientists at Belgium's University of Ghent

00:50:26.680 are trying to find a way to substitute dairy in cakes, cookies, and waffles. They say deriving

00:50:32.620 grease from insects is more green than dairy production. And they are more sustainable because

00:50:38.940 they use less land. They are more efficient converting feed to weight. And they also use less water to

00:50:46.940 produce. And in this case, they are, they can be produced within Europe. That will decrease the

00:50:55.100 footprint that other type of food sources bring because they come from far away, let's say South

00:51:02.300 America or Southeast Asia. By soaking the insects in a little bit of water and then

00:51:08.780 mushing them with a kitchen blender before centrifuges separate a butter-like substance,

00:51:13.500 the grease is made which the team used to bake with. But how does it go down outside of the lab?

00:51:21.580 For me, there's no difference. So it's actually better. Yeah.

00:51:27.740 Do you think you would eat insect fat cakes again?

00:51:30.780 Yeah. Yeah. Why not? Why not? Yeah. Um, I don't think so.

00:51:38.140 No? Nope.

00:51:40.060 The team say that consumers can't taste the difference when a quarter of the milk butter

00:51:44.300 is replaced with the fat from the insects. But they start to notice when it gets to the halfway mark.

00:51:49.980 So who knows, one day you could be munching on a cockroach croissant as you head to the office,

00:51:54.940 or making your nearest and dearest a beetle birthday cake.

00:51:58.540 Like, that's a hard no for me.

00:52:04.060 Yeah.

00:52:04.380 Coming here from Alberta, that's a hard no.

00:52:06.380 That's a hard no, friends. And it's, it's just fascinating to watch this because you think,

00:52:13.340 okay, well, there's cows all over the place. You can just go milk one,

00:52:17.980 wait till the cream rises to the top, scoop that off, put that in a mason jar. You don't need any

00:52:23.340 technology. You don't need any blenders. You don't need a centrifuge. You don't need any,

00:52:28.700 you don't need a bucket of maggots. You need a cow. Or even if you get, if you're lazy and you don't

00:52:35.660 know where there are any cows, go to the grocery store, get some heavy cream, pour it into a jar,

00:52:41.020 shake the daylights out of it. You've got butter and you've got buttermilk. Use the buttermilk for

00:52:46.780 biscuits or pancake and you have butter. If you're lazy, put it in the blender, literally put it in

00:52:53.020 the blender. You will have butter instantly. And yet they are telling me that the way the future is

00:52:58.540 this extra complicated labor intensive and disgusting way to get fat from this animal,

00:53:06.220 from this animal we shouldn't be eating. No, no, just give me butter. What's wrong with these

00:53:11.420 people? It's so gross. It's like a lab is trying to counteract the evolution of tried, tested and 0.99

00:53:18.780 true practices. Like farmers want to get the most, like these, we're talking about people who make

00:53:23.420 clocks out of animal droppings. Um, like the entire pelt turns into, uh, jackets and leather

00:53:31.100 and car interiors. The fat is turned into like the dairy, like every part of the bloody cow is used

00:53:37.980 minus some entrails. And even in some places, those are used like this. They're using the whole thing.

00:53:43.260 They put the heads on walls. They're using every possible inch of this cow. And then they're like,

00:53:48.940 oh yeah, no, of course we need to use bugs instead. I mean, it's not as though those bugs don't output

00:53:54.140 anything either. And then these lab grown processes, it's absolutely just, and the other thing too,

00:53:59.420 is I don't even care about all those academic arguments. Like during the last federal debate,

00:54:04.620 I remember Roman Bavar saying like, I'm not going to eat crickets. And Josh,

00:54:08.300 and we're like, I'm, we're not eating bloody crickets. Just like on a sensible level,

00:54:13.900 sane people don't want to eat bugs. We want to eat a delicious steak. That's, that's what

00:54:19.580 normal sane people want to do. So go away, stop spending money on bugs. We don't want to eat the

00:54:25.100 bugs. If someone wants to eat bugs and they're a kooky environmentalist who has a hundred grand to 0.85

00:54:30.220 drop on a Tesla and has all the money to drop on solar powers panels, they can start their own

00:54:34.940 little cricket farm. They can custom source it. But like the fact that government resources are

00:54:39.420 being allocated on this nonsense is insane. I wonder if Justin Trudeau has ever eaten anything

00:54:43.740 bug related. Like I probably not, probably not. Yeah. I don't, this is the stupidest push. It's like,

00:54:52.380 you know, the other stuff you get the kooky, I completely disagree with like the, the COVID

00:54:57.580 lockdowns restrictions. I completely disagree with this fertilizer cap, but like you get the sort of edgy

00:55:03.900 world economic forum, misguided inspirations and political aspirations behind it. It's stupid, 1.00

00:55:10.140 but you get it. This bug push is just moronic. Like it's, it's not, I don't understand why. 1.00

00:55:17.820 I don't understand. We don't eat bugs. My great grandmother stood somewhere on this property,

00:55:24.220 actually over there and shook a mason jar full of cream to make butter for her family right here. 1.00

00:55:32.460 Why are we doing this crazy labor intensive laboratory food business? When you have cows 0.99

00:55:40.620 that are chocked full of fat, you can get tallow from them. You can get butter from them. They're

00:55:46.740 ruminants again. I think they're magical creatures. They, they are man's best friend. And yet there's

00:55:53.420 this weird push to get us eating bugs and it is not good for human nutrition. I think it's not good for

00:56:00.120 the future of humanity. I really don't. And there's a, I've, I've read that book of the Bible

00:56:05.320 where the plague comes and I feel like this is going to set off a plague. I really do.

00:56:11.160 Yeah. The locusts come, they're going to come on our plates instead of by the sky.

00:56:15.000 You know what I think we should do? And this is completely off the cuff and I don't know if it's

00:56:19.320 possible. I'm sure it is. We need to get a rebel cow, like buy a cow, have it be our mascot. 0.99

00:56:24.840 Um, let's play a cow. A steer. Yeah. A steer. Let's get a steer so I can eat it at the end.

00:56:32.520 Um, yeah, no, I'm good with it. We'll all have a rebel dinner. Okay. We'll get a steer. Go to buy the

00:56:37.400 steer.com.

00:56:40.840 Now, uh, one last thing before we go, because it's in the headline of the YouTube description

00:56:44.840 and I will get emails if it's not, we should talk about, um, how I think it is. The liberals knew

00:56:53.480 that the airports were understaffed. Let's bring that up. It's from the good folks at black locks

00:56:58.360 reporter. If you don't have a subscription to them, um, it's worth every single penny. They do the work

00:57:04.440 that, um, the mainstream media doesn't do and that the liberals don't want anybody doing. So

00:57:11.080 the government knew of short staffing and right now the government is trying to blame the airlines,

00:57:16.200 but the airlines are not the people in charge of security screeners, uh, transport minister,

00:57:21.480 uh, that hobgoblin Omar al-Jabra knew last spring. So like months and months and months ago, 0.99

00:57:30.360 just slightly after we all knew this was going to happen. Yeah. Yeah. That the federal airport

00:57:37.080 security workforce was short staffed by 25%. According to a briefing note, they also laid

00:57:41.640 off a bunch of them as a cost saving measure during the pandemic. They can't even save money

00:57:45.560 properly. This federal government, you know, Al-Jabra at the time blamed airport delays on

00:57:50.200 Canadians eager to travel. Ah, it was our fault. Just like how it's our fault. It's a systemic

00:57:57.560 misogyny that caused Justin Trudeau to grope that reporter that one time. And then systemic racism

00:58:02.600 that caused him to wear blackface, uh, thrice, I think, uh, staff in a May 13th briefing note

00:58:08.520 called airport and flight delays told Al-Jabra the Canadian air transport security authority was

00:58:14.120 short a quarter of its employees due to COVID layoffs. The authority retained 75% of its workforce

00:58:22.280 during the pandemic to assist with recovery, wrote staff screening contractors called back all available

00:58:28.200 personnel in preparation for the summer peak. Uh, he said, we are witnessing delays across all

00:58:35.160 sectors of our economy that are a result of increasing demand imbalance. He told the commons,

00:58:41.320 we are seeing an increased demand and appetite for people who want to travel. Yeah. And that goes with

00:58:46.520 everybody, by the way, not just for the vaccinated, the unvaccinated wanted to travel too, but I guess

00:58:51.320 their needs and wants weren't considered, but they did this, they laid off people to, um, save money

00:58:57.480 during COVID. And here we are, and this is being replicated at the passport office. Um, I think it's

00:59:04.200 half, maybe more, maybe more than that. I forget the exact number. Cause there's so many bizarre

00:59:10.440 cost saving measures and, and work from home measures that the federal government took that they are not

00:59:15.400 ending for some reason. Um, at the passport office where an enormous amount of them are still working

00:59:21.480 from home while Canadians are lined up around the block to, uh, wait in line to get their passport,

00:59:27.720 getting there at 6am or sleeping there. Like it's a Garth Brooks concert tickets for sale the night

00:59:32.840 before. And, uh, the liberals, their solution was not to bring people back. Say like everybody get back

00:59:38.920 in the office. They said, you know what the problem is with these people sleeping on the streets? We need

00:59:43.320 more office chairs. So they ordered office chairs instead. You know, it's like, you, you wonder how

00:59:48.920 a country goes from Venezuela to Venezuela. Um, this is it. It's a bunch of stuff like this. This is how

00:59:56.280 Canada goes from Canada to Canada. So, uh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Keep an eye out. Stay vigilant. Stay frosty.

01:00:05.800 It's how we go from Harper's Canada to Trudeau's Canada. Exactly. Sunny ways. Okay. Sunny ways. Let's get to

01:00:12.120 some of these chats. Uh, Paul Otto. Oh no, sorry. Let's go up one. Uh, AMT 60 a buck. I live in

01:00:20.280 Ottawa, but my mortgage renews June 24 or 2024. Okay. I want to sell here in over a year and move

01:00:27.560 somewhere cheaper. New Brunswick is cheaper, but not freedom oriented. Could I buy a decent small

01:00:32.040 house in Alberta for 25,000 or 250,000? You could buy a McMansion in some of the, uh, bedroom communities

01:00:40.840 for 250,000 with low property taxes and no traffic congestion. So I don't know, go where your buck

01:00:48.920 takes you, but Alberta for sure. Yeah. Uh, Paul Otto Newman gives us, uh, five bucks and says,

01:00:56.840 is it possible or even viable to replace farm credit Canada with a provincial alternative

01:01:01.400 in Alberta kind of, kind of, kind of have one with the ATB, Alberta treasury bank or whatever it is

01:01:09.480 now. Um, so we kind of have an alternative with the ATB, but it's still, it, it, I mean, they have

01:01:17.560 some strong agriculturally, um, crafted products for farmers, but, um, farm credit Canada was designed

01:01:26.520 for farm credit. Maybe they should provide that without the, uh, litmus test of politics.

01:01:33.080 Well, I know, uh, Brian Jean and a couple other people are talking about ATB. They basically have

01:01:37.480 this board of executives that hosts these elaborate bourgeois events as though they're banking

01:01:42.760 executives. They're not serving Albertans. They're taking massive profits off a bank that's owned by us

01:01:48.040 effectively. Um, so I know that there's extensive talks about having the most competitive rates,

01:01:52.680 uh, particular bonuses for small businesses, rural businesses, um, and, and a major emphasis

01:01:58.040 and shift towards helping farmers. So I know that that is, uh, that's something that's being discussed

01:02:02.280 broadly. Yeah, that's great. Yeah. The Alberta treasury branches is what it is. Yeah. Everybody

01:02:11.800 just calls it ATB, but it's wholly owned by the province. Yeah. Um, Fraser McBurney, two bucks. When I get

01:02:17.960 my pension, this is what I'm buying a photo of a scorpion saying, so you want to eat me?

01:02:22.680 Uh, you to Bursey or Judah Bursey gives us five bucks. What a bunch of morons trying to convince 1.00

01:02:27.480 us to eat bugs that are supposed to taste like butter. Yeah. Or like you could just eat butter, 1.00

01:02:32.200 like butter. You know what tastes like butter, butter. I want to, I want to, I want a flag of a

01:02:37.160 grasshopper that underneath it says don't crunch on me. Adam, you shouldn't have given that idea out to

01:02:45.880 the world. I'm sorry. Go to Rebel News store. It'll be there soon. It better. Yeah.

01:02:51.960 Uh, Adam Ottawa gives us a buck. They're trying, they're trying already, or they're already making

01:02:59.320 cat treats with discreetly added crickets for protein. I bought some that made my cat vomit.

01:03:06.360 Check those pay, those pet food labels. Now. Um, I know that that, um, massive, um, cricket farm

01:03:14.360 in Ontario, the new one that got all the money, aspire foods, aspire foods, um, that got all the

01:03:21.720 money from the feds. Theirs is supposed to go to pet food with an, a keen eye to being people food

01:03:28.680 later on down the road. Um, I don't know. I, I've seen my cat try to eat grasshoppers, but I think it's

01:03:36.280 just for fun. I don't know if it's something that cats generally would eat, I guess, just cause it's

01:03:42.520 fun. Cause they're hopping in and like, you catch it, then you eat it. It's kind of fun if you were

01:03:45.920 a cat, but I don't know. I just, I don't know. I've seen it's, but I guess it's better than the

01:03:51.780 vegan cat treats. Have you seen those? I guess. Oh my God. Like what? You know who's making the

01:03:57.380 decisions? Yeah. It's not the owner. Oh, by the way, real quick. Great to see a lot of interaction

01:04:03.960 today on the chats. I love to see that real quick. Adam Ottawa, you're on like all of our

01:04:08.420 streams all the time, whether it's an election coverage thing or this, uh, Adam, I'd like you

01:04:12.980 to shoot me an email at adam at rebel news.com. I'm going to send you a shirt, uh, from the store

01:04:17.820 that you pick. So shoot me an email. We'll chat. And I'm going to send you a shirt. Cause you're

01:04:21.320 just always here, always participating, always engaging in these chats. Lots of other people

01:04:24.680 are as well. So thanks to all of you, but I always see Adam Ottawa's name always engaging.

01:04:29.420 So shoot me an email, adam at rebel news.com. We'll set that up.

01:04:33.960 And let that be a lesson to the rest of you. Continue to chat, continue to submit those

01:04:39.040 paid chats. Cause Adam's house might select you at random for a t-shirt just like that.

01:04:44.400 And it's not just his name's Adam. I'm not biased.

01:04:46.940 Oh, I don't know. By the way, if you, uh, if you want to support the work that we do and

01:04:51.360 wear your, uh, rebel spirit with pride, uh, head on over to rebel news store.com. Adam's

01:04:58.720 got a shirt. I've got a shirt. I've got my resistance shirt on. It's got, uh,

01:05:03.040 tractors and I think that's what it is. Yeah. No farmers, no food is my shirt.

01:05:09.620 Yeah. So we've got some new stuff up there, new Justin Trudeau stuff, new farmer beef pride stuff.

01:05:15.560 Um, this Castro one is, uh, highly popular. So we've got no farmers, no food. And then we've

01:05:20.300 got the resistance one, which is great because it's the truckers and the farmers together.

01:05:24.220 We have a cool clean water now one as well, actually too. It's like a water drop with,

01:05:29.200 yeah, I like that shirt a lot. I've got one coming in the way. So yeah.

01:05:32.700 Oh, that's cute. The rebel heart one. And we've got a monkeypox one too. Um, so yeah,

01:05:38.300 we've got, uh, a lot of great stuff that we're always refreshing the store.

01:05:43.340 I just saw pro firearms rights one that I don't have yet.

01:05:46.800 I have to submit an order to the store. Um, I think that's everything. Do we have everything,

01:05:53.460 Olivia? Is that all, we're all cleaned up?

01:05:58.160 Great. Adam, thanks for co-hosting the show with me today.

01:06:02.020 Happy to do it.

01:06:03.700 Uh, thanks to Olivia and Efron in the studio in Toronto and everybody who works very,

01:06:08.820 very hard behind the scenes to make sure that the show gets out in places where you can find it.

01:06:13.080 Thanks to everybody who tuned in today and a special thanks to everybody who pitched in a

01:06:17.340 little bit to keep the lights on. And as you just saw with Adam, so, so you just might randomly be

01:06:22.680 gifted a t-shirt. Um, and, uh, I think I'm here tomorrow with David Menzies, but you never really

01:06:28.320 do know. And as David Menzies always says, stay sane.

01:06:33.360 You said today that Tamara Leach was a political prisoner and a victim of a weaponized court system. 0.99

01:06:38.660 Could you elaborate on that and why you think she was treated unfairly?

01:06:42.400 Well, two judges, uh, it's, they, that really, those aren't really my words. The judges have

01:06:49.900 come out and said clearly that, um, the court system is not a system that should be judging

01:06:57.740 people's political views. And in the first case, the judge that detained Tamara was a former liberal

01:07:05.640 candidate and many believe that she should have refused herself from that case. And in the, in the,

01:07:12.600 the other situation includes a crown attorney who over a long period of time has given over

01:07:20.040 approximately $17,000 to the liberal party. And so there is a presence of bias. And I think that the

01:07:27.400 criminal justice system has to be above reproach. It, justice does not only have to be done,

01:07:33.240 it has to be seen to be done. And when a judge has to step in for a second time and say that the

01:07:40.740 court system is not a place to settle political vendettas, then it's obvious that her detention, 1.00

01:07:47.060 uh, went beyond just near web, uh, legal principles. It went into her political beliefs,

01:07:55.300 um, which the judge clearly said that she was not at a trial. It was a bail hearing and the facts will

01:08:03.300 come out at a trial. And, and so the bail hearing wasn't the proper form for that.

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