Rebel News Podcast - March 15, 2019


Here's what's REALLY wrong with Trudeau's Florida vacation (Guest host: Sheila Gunn Reid)


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A scandal-plagued Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has been crisscrossing the continent on a luxury vacation over the past couple of days, and boy is my wallet tired. Why is the party in power already campaigning like they re in opposition?

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00:00:00.400 You're listening to a Rebel Media Podcast.
00:00:03.840 Tonight, scandal-plagued Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has been criss-crossing the continent
00:00:09.600 on a luxury vacation over the past couple of days and, boy, is my wallet tired then.
00:00:16.420 An election in Alberta is imminent, or so our fixed election date law says, so why is
00:00:22.420 the party in power already campaigning like they're in opposition?
00:00:27.040 It's March 14th, 2019. I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed, and you're watching The Ezra LeVant Show.
00:00:34.440 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
00:00:38.320 There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.
00:00:42.400 The only thing I have to say to the government about why I'm publishing it is because it's
00:00:46.780 my bloody right to do so.
00:00:53.760 Scandal is raging in Ottawa.
00:00:55.940 Justin Trudeau and his Prime Minister's office are accused of putting illegal pressure on
00:01:01.300 Canada's former Attorney General Jody Wilson-Raybould to cut a sweetheart deal with a corrupt Quebec-based
00:01:07.820 company called SNC-Lavalin, all to protect liberal votes in that province.
00:01:13.900 The government is in complete crisis, and now they're being accused of a cover-up after using
00:01:20.380 their majority at committee to block opposition attempts to bring the former Attorney General
00:01:25.360 back to testify.
00:01:27.620 But what does a responsible grown-up do in crisis?
00:01:31.200 Well, we're not exactly talking about a responsible grown-up here, are we?
00:01:35.160 We're talking about Justin Trudeau.
00:01:38.140 And what does he do?
00:01:39.220 Well, he goes on a vacation to a private island in Florida.
00:01:42.840 Let me show you what Justin Trudeau was up to while the hot garbage fire of the SNC-Lavalin
00:01:50.260 scandal continues to burn like the fire of a thousand suns in Ottawa.
00:01:55.060 I found this neat little graphic on Twitter, and it shows Justin Trudeau's Challenger jet
00:02:01.580 over the last few days.
00:02:04.360 So, on Saturday, March 9th, Justin Trudeau leaves Ottawa for southwest Florida to a private
00:02:10.740 island called Captiva Island.
00:02:13.960 And then on Monday, March 11th, he turns around and flies back to Ottawa in the Challenger.
00:02:19.520 Then on the 12th, one day later, he flies back to Florida.
00:02:23.580 Was there no better way to plan this vacation so that there wasn't an extra cross-continent
00:02:29.640 flight involved, like putting it off for a couple of days like a normal person would have?
00:02:35.540 Now, according to the folks over at Post Millennial, Justin Trudeau's jaunting back and forth between
00:02:40.640 Ottawa and Florida over the past few days has run up a $100,000 bill to the taxpayer.
00:02:47.840 I've covered Justin Trudeau's travel expenses extensively here at The Rebel.
00:02:52.700 I go over those flight records for the government challenger all the time.
00:02:57.960 And, you know what, to be honest with you, I do get a lot of criticism for doing so, even
00:03:03.120 from people who profess to me that they're conservative, even from people who work for
00:03:07.960 official conservatives.
00:03:09.920 So, let me be clear on two things that people often get so nitpicky with me about.
00:03:15.580 I fully acknowledge that Justin Trudeau cannot fly on a commercial airline.
00:03:20.520 The security detail requirements just make that sort of thing completely impossible.
00:03:24.380 I mean, that's just logical.
00:03:27.100 And I certainly don't begrudge a man a vacation with his children, although my tolerance for 1.00
00:03:32.300 such things does run a little thin when it seems as though the family vacations are every
00:03:39.220 month or so.
00:03:40.580 And also, you know, in the middle of what could be a criminal investigation into obstruction
00:03:45.720 of justice back in Ottawa, normally the same people critical of Trump for golfing at his
00:03:51.260 private estate are the same ones completely excusing Justin Trudeau for wanting all of this
00:03:57.300 expensive family time.
00:03:59.180 Whatever, I get it.
00:04:00.200 It's political, fine and dandy.
00:04:02.880 But here's where all this excessive Trudeau travel sticks in my craw a little bit.
00:04:07.720 Let's look at the gold standard of prime ministerial responsibility and accountability for a second,
00:04:14.240 shall we?
00:04:15.640 The beloved Harpers.
00:04:17.700 The fiscally responsible, low-key couple did take family vacations.
00:04:22.860 Of course they did.
00:04:24.280 And they used the Challenger jet because that is what is required of them.
00:04:29.620 The Harpers, they're precious still and they need to be kept safe.
00:04:33.700 They are national treasures, but whenever they flew on the Challenger for personal reasons,
00:04:40.100 they reimbursed the taxpayer for the cost of the flight had they flown on a commercial
00:04:45.220 airline.
00:04:45.920 It was a good balance between security and respect for the taxpayer and paying for your
00:04:52.980 own family when you already have a pretty decent taxpayer-funded salary.
00:04:58.580 The Harpers didn't exactly come from wealth and means either, whereas Justin Trudeau came
00:05:05.260 into the job as MP and then prime minister as a millionaire with a million-dollar car.
00:05:11.100 Forgive me in this sickeningly slow economy where we can't even get a pipeline built and
00:05:15.820 there are looming layoffs in Alberta literally every single day if I think it's irresponsible
00:05:21.040 and inappropriate to pay for a millionaire's private luxury vacations.
00:05:26.660 But there's another reason for normal people to find this sort of inefficient travel plans
00:05:32.800 annoying.
00:05:34.700 The liberals are of the mindset that we only have, you know, 12 years left on this planet
00:05:39.960 before we die of climate change if we don't act now.
00:05:44.140 If I don't park my SUV and pay a carbon tax making everything I purchase and do so much
00:05:49.440 more expensive, then I'm part of the problem.
00:05:51.940 I'm killing us.
00:05:53.320 Or so Justin Trudeau would have you believe.
00:05:55.660 You see, Justin Trudeau cares so much about climate change that he even took the time
00:06:00.520 to lecture Canadians about impending doom of it all on Twitter.
00:06:05.600 He said, climate change is real.
00:06:08.100 That's why we're making big polluters pay and giving the money right back to Canadians. 1.00
00:06:13.980 Claim your climate action incentive when you file your taxes this year.
00:06:19.360 Now, when you think about it, Trudeau was probably just landing on the third leg of his Ottawa-to-Florida,
00:06:27.280 Florida-to-Ottawa, Ottawa-back-to-Florida vacation commute.
00:06:31.660 Thanks a lot, Justin Trudeau.
00:06:32.960 We probably only have 11 years left to live now.
00:06:36.220 I'd suggest to you that Justin Trudeau is probably one of the biggest carbon polluters out there.
00:06:41.700 You know, if you care about those sorts of things, I don't necessarily.
00:06:45.520 But instead of Trudeau paying for it all, like he wants big polluters to do,
00:06:50.160 it's always the rest of us paying, isn't it?
00:06:52.840 As a wiser man than me said once,
00:06:55.940 once they start acting like the climate is in crisis,
00:06:58.660 maybe I'll start acting like it is too.
00:07:01.120 Stay with us.
00:07:01.920 More up next after the break.
00:07:18.100 Welcome back, everybody.
00:07:19.740 We are officially in our campaign window here in Alberta,
00:07:24.780 and it's a big window, a bay window.
00:07:26.880 We have to have our elections held between March 1st, 2019.
00:07:31.300 We're already past that.
00:07:33.240 And May 31st, 2019, and we need to have a 28-day campaign.
00:07:40.300 Now, we aren't officially campaigning in Alberta yet,
00:07:43.780 but that hasn't stopped the parties from doing it.
00:07:46.060 But only one party is campaigning with my money.
00:07:50.440 And joining me now to talk about the state of the election campaign
00:07:53.500 that isn't quite yet is my friend William Macbeth from Save Calgary.
00:07:58.640 Thanks for coming on, William.
00:07:59.880 Oh, it's always a pleasure to be here.
00:08:02.740 Now, I was thinking, who would know,
00:08:05.960 and I don't want to toot my own horn here, but I'm gonna,
00:08:08.860 who would know as much about this stuff as I do,
00:08:12.360 that we would have an engaging 20-minute conversation,
00:08:14.560 and you were the first guy that popped into my mind.
00:08:18.280 Well, it's an honour.
00:08:18.960 Let's talk about some of the things that Jason Kenney has announced in the last little bit.
00:08:25.520 And there is a ton of red meat in this for conservatives.
00:08:30.160 Some are, you know, they weren't really top-of-mind issues,
00:08:34.240 but I think conservatives are going to jump at them,
00:08:36.820 like the financial supports for veterans and first responders,
00:08:40.480 and that hero fund that Tani Yao, who himself is a firefighter, announced.
00:08:46.100 I think that's fantastic.
00:08:47.460 And I think it might actually even sway some of those traditionally public sector votes,
00:08:54.080 you know, the firefighters union, the police union,
00:08:56.240 sort of in favour of the UCP.
00:08:58.460 You know, I think it's interesting that Jason Kenney has chosen to put out quite as much policy
00:09:05.600 as he has before an election gets going.
00:09:09.100 And I think in the case of this Heroes Fund, you know,
00:09:12.700 Alberta has, I think, a pretty enviable track record when it comes to its first responders
00:09:17.800 and the work they've done.
00:09:20.000 You know, we saw them here, where I live in Calgary, during the 2013 floods.
00:09:24.060 We saw them doing wonderful work up in Fort McMurray during those devastating fires.
00:09:29.560 And I think there's a genuine love from Albertans for the people who work as our first responders.
00:09:35.520 So I'm really glad that the UCP chose a policy and put forward a policy for a group
00:09:41.740 that maybe doesn't get enough attention from the government of the day.
00:09:46.760 But certainly that's just one of an entire range of policy that Jason's put out
00:09:51.740 over the past few weeks.
00:09:54.580 And he shows no signs of slowing down on the policy front.
00:09:58.240 So I guess every day we wait to see what comes next.
00:10:01.940 It is literally coming every day.
00:10:04.260 I mean, we're recording this on Wednesday afternoon,
00:10:07.640 and I think we've had three policy announcements this week.
00:10:10.720 One that I know you folks at Safe Calgary and some of your associated organizations have been
00:10:18.860 talking about is the red tape reduction.
00:10:23.320 Why don't you tell us a little bit about that one?
00:10:25.900 Well, you know, it's a term that gets thrown around, red tape, government regulation.
00:10:30.920 And it seems a little, you know, hard to concrete, hard to just sort of really understand what it is.
00:10:38.020 But if you think about it, since Rachel Notley became premier in 2015,
00:10:43.160 this government has been sending the message that we are closed for business,
00:10:47.380 that Alberta is not where, if you're an entrepreneur, if you're an investor,
00:10:51.800 this is not where you're choosing to put your resources and your time and effort.
00:10:56.700 And one of the big things she's done is written tons of new regulations.
00:11:01.660 Now, for a really big business, they have HR departments and legal teams and
00:11:08.780 the thousands of pages of government regulation that exists.
00:11:13.160 But for people who are small business owners, mom and pop shops,
00:11:16.080 people who are running restaurants and small stores and little groups like that,
00:11:20.500 it's completely unreasonable the amount of government red tape that they have to go through.
00:11:26.800 And it's time and money they have to spend complying with arbitrary NDP rules
00:11:31.760 rather than spending the money to create jobs and improve their customer service
00:11:37.080 and buy inventory and all those things.
00:11:39.420 So the one in three rule, which we've been calling for personally, which we love,
00:11:43.740 the idea that we are over-regulated to death.
00:11:46.980 Let's cut a third of all unnecessary government regulation.
00:11:50.640 So we can't wait for that to get going shortly after Jason Kenney
00:11:54.200 hopefully becomes the next premier of Alberta.
00:11:57.400 Well, and enforcing all that extra red tape is also very expensive.
00:12:02.360 So it's not just expensive for the business, but it's expensive for everybody else who's involved
00:12:07.560 in the economy, everybody else who's paying taxes, because those expenses are passed along
00:12:13.260 to the consumer, the ones that are incurred by the business.
00:12:15.640 But you also do need all these government bureaucrats to come along and make sure that you're following
00:12:21.060 all the rules.
00:12:22.220 And, you know, when you strip some of that out of the system, boy, that sure frees up
00:12:28.120 a lot of cash to do a lot of other things with like higher frontline staff in the hospitals.
00:12:35.360 Another thing that came out this week, I saw rookie MLA Devin Dreshen did a video explaining
00:12:42.040 this.
00:12:42.480 It's the new property rights legislation.
00:12:45.540 And I think this is a red meat thing that is tossed out to those former Wild Rose supporters
00:12:51.720 like myself, in all honesty, who were really concerned about the infringement of on our property
00:13:00.620 rights here in Alberta.
00:13:02.760 Yeah, absolutely.
00:13:03.800 It was a key Wild Rose core commitment.
00:13:08.260 And as someone who worked for Wild Rose for many years, I can tell you, it was one of those
00:13:14.480 things where when we particularly went to communities outside of the big cities, when we went to small
00:13:20.440 towns and villages, you would have farmers and leaseholders and other people who own property
00:13:26.860 up in arms about the then arbitrary actions of the Redford PCs, but then after that, certainly the NDP
00:13:34.900 in assigning huge swaths of property to protected status or cancelling mineral rights and cancelling
00:13:42.380 grazing leases without any real consultation.
00:13:46.340 And it seemed like it was just whether or not you would get to keep your full property rights.
00:13:52.680 So I think Jason looked at some of those things that people found were irritants under the old PC
00:13:58.560 government, now the NDP, and said, let's not repeat the mistakes of the past.
00:14:03.380 Let's make sure that this new United Conservative Party takes into account the fact that it has two
00:14:09.240 grandfather parties, two legacy parties, and for Wild Rose, absolutely property rights was a huge issue.
00:14:15.220 Now, sticking on the issue of us rural folks, us meaning me and not you,
00:14:20.780 you're one of those fancy city people. There's a new legislation that Jason Kenney has proposed that
00:14:29.640 I think is going to satisfy a lot of farmers. It is the replacement of Bill 6, that's that farm
00:14:39.160 unionization law that put bankers' hours rules on Alberta family farms. This new legislation comes with
00:14:47.240 a fantastic name and really a populist touch because for being someone who followed closely and covered
00:14:56.940 closely and spoke to the farmers and the people who were protesting Bill 6, I think Jason Kenney has
00:15:05.040 listened to exactly what they wanted in his new farm freedom and safety legislation that is the greatest
00:15:13.240 name. No, whoever worked on the team to come up with the name, you know, they deserve an extra day off
00:15:21.820 on the weekend, I think, for services to the UCP. You know, I think for Bill 6, what it demonstrated
00:15:29.800 more than anything on the part of the Notley government was an absolute ignorance of life outside of a big
00:15:37.480 city. And two, you know, the idea that somehow farmers didn't have the best interests of their
00:15:46.680 families and of the people working there. And therefore, the government approached it from a
00:15:52.440 let's treat farmers and family farms like villains. And as opposed to, okay, we see some issues with
00:16:00.120 some things, let's have a conversation with farmers and try and work out something that's going to work
00:16:04.740 for both. The NDP just, it was, it was so tone deaf on the part of the NDP when they put this forward.
00:16:10.400 And I think it really has hurt whatever slim reelection chances they had for their rural seats.
00:16:18.060 I, you know, there's been a couple long articles recently from some journalists about, you know,
00:16:23.560 Rachel Notley and her NDP. And they've talked about a few, you know, the big missteps. And I think Bill
00:16:29.240 6 when they brought it in was. So I'm really happy that Jason Kenney has decided we're going to,
00:16:33.500 you know, right off the bat, change this law, this law that seemed to suggest that, you know,
00:16:39.560 somehow Alberta farms were inherently dangerous and risky and that farmers couldn't be trusted to
00:16:46.040 work with their families to make good decisions about how labor gets done and needed intrusive
00:16:51.540 government in order to fix a problem that frankly, wasn't really a problem at all. So that's going to
00:16:57.480 be a good news for rural Alberta, I think. Yeah. And I like how Jason Kenney went back to what the
00:17:05.840 farmers were saying at the time. Part of the reason the NDP said that they needed to bring in Bill 6 is
00:17:12.220 because these farm employees didn't have insurance coverage. And so the NDP wanted to force everybody
00:17:20.760 to buy WCB coverage. So everybody knows WCB is expensive and it's a hassle. Most people who have
00:17:28.560 to put in a claim have to fight to get their claim acknowledged by the WCB bureaucracy. A lot of the
00:17:38.740 farmers at the time were saying, look, we have better insurance for our employees under our farm
00:17:44.220 insurance. But like you say, the NDP just didn't even understand that that was the case and painted
00:17:49.220 these farmers as cheapskates and villains. So this really does address the problem. It mandates
00:17:55.620 insurance and it gives farmers the choice for what's right for their farm. I think it is fantastic
00:18:01.920 legislation. Absolutely. And I think it shows the two different attitudes towards how to fix a problem.
00:18:11.640 There's big government, big intrusive government, top down, or there's listening to Albertans,
00:18:17.960 to stakeholders, to people who are directly impacted by these things and using their wisdom
00:18:23.500 in building policy solutions. And of course, the NDP, they've never found a government program that
00:18:30.060 they thought they didn't think should be bigger or more intrusive. And I think for Jason and the UCP,
00:18:35.440 we're like, look, we've been farming in Alberta a long time. Maybe our farmers have a better idea of how
00:18:41.360 to handle some of these things than bureaucrats in Edmonton. Yeah, I mean, it's fascinating to see
00:18:47.420 a party listening to the people actually affected as opposed to the Alberta Federation of Labour.
00:18:56.320 Now, I wanted to talk to you about one that's been moderately controversial, I suppose,
00:19:03.140 on line amongst the NDP troll accounts on Twitter, which I guess the mainstream media thinks
00:19:10.320 is news. Jason Kenney has proposed lowering the minimum wage for young people, which would
00:19:18.000 naturally create jobs for young people who are actually seeing some pretty high unemployment rates.
00:19:23.180 But for some reason, that's controversial to the NDP who don't have a business person amongst the
00:19:30.320 bunch. Yeah, I you know, I think for the New Democrats, a lot of them are are very idealistic.
00:19:38.220 And in their world, there are a lot of black and white issues. And there are a lot of we have to 0.64
00:19:46.040 set a pure ideological policy and, you know, regardless of the impact. But the impact has
00:19:53.660 been pretty brutal. For anybody who's been looking at job availability in those service sector jobs,
00:20:00.180 places like McDonald's and Walmart and things like that. The $15 hour minimum wage has hit
00:20:06.620 younger workers by far the hardest because they don't have the experience that older workers do.
00:20:12.620 I think a lot of employers look at older workers and see someone who could be working there for
00:20:16.900 five or 10 years, not a teenager who may only work there for a few. So, you know, yes, some people are
00:20:24.240 getting paid more per hour now. They're getting paid $15. But a whole lot of them are just not working
00:20:28.560 at all and are unable to find those entry level jobs that are so important for young people to get
00:20:34.340 the experience they need. Jason's solution is, well, maybe we have a age based discount on that
00:20:42.200 minimum wage in order to spur job creation. The NDP, you know, call it high heresy. But I think for a lot
00:20:49.500 of teenagers, they're like, look, this $15 an hour minimum wage isn't doing me any good if I don't
00:20:55.280 have a job. And jobs, I think, are where some of the things the NDP are going to find really tough
00:21:00.760 going. And, you know, they've been talking about Alberta's recovery is working. Well, give me some
00:21:05.960 evidence that Alberta's recovery is working because Alberta's unemployment rate, 7.4%, Calgary now with
00:21:11.640 the highest unemployment rate of a major city in the entire country, those jobs aren't being created.
00:21:17.620 And it's why, you know, they think that the proposed corporate tax cut from 12% to 8% is, you know,
00:21:24.560 just the most evil policy that's ever been put forward. Whereas Jason Kenney says we need to do
00:21:29.240 something like that, something radical, something dramatic, something bold in order to send the
00:21:34.420 message that Alberta is open for business, that Alberta is where businesses and investors should
00:21:39.860 send their money. It's a distinct opposite message than the one the NDP have been sending. So I think
00:21:45.240 you're going to see a lot of policies that the NDP and the left think are horrible, but that everyday
00:21:51.820 Albertans and that those who are involved in businesses, including small and medium sized businesses,
00:21:55.780 are going to be, thank goodness, this these changes are coming.
00:21:59.360 Yeah, a lot of these policies have a very Ralph Klein feel to them. Which I mean, who isn't
00:22:05.920 nostalgic for the Ralph Klein days? And, you know, I, I often joke, I think the minimum wage
00:22:14.520 hike to $15 is just the NDP giving them a post election, giving themselves like a post election
00:22:21.080 race, because I think that's where a lot of them are going to land, giving their, given their 0.89
00:22:26.200 qualifications.
00:22:28.440 On the minimum wage, Sheila, I had to laugh because I saw an online ad, the NDP are advertising for
00:22:34.780 door knockers and phone callers, and they're paying $20 an hour. And of course, I was shocked by saying,
00:22:40.880 well, wait, surely people will do these jobs for $15 an hour. That's why the minimum wage was hiked up.
00:22:47.360 Are you instead saying that you have to set a salary rate that the market decides is what is worth time
00:22:54.480 and effort? So if you're only going to get door knockers and phoneers for $20 an hour, that's what you
00:22:58.940 pay? Goodness me, they're following the, you know, the conservative approach, let the market set the salary
00:23:05.260 rates. And so, I mean, it means that they don't even believe their own minimum wage, you know, propaganda.
00:23:12.220 Yeah. And given their ability to fundraise, I just, I don't know if they can afford $20 an hour, but that
00:23:20.740 is what the market is paying these days. There's another big one. I think Bill won when Jason Kenney
00:23:28.880 takes office, at least that's what he's campaigned on since the day he decided that he was going to run
00:23:33.580 for PC leader before the parties united was the repealment of the carbon tax. That's Bill one.
00:23:41.740 What do you think that's going to do for business in Alberta?
00:23:45.240 Yeah. I mean, certainly people may not know a ton about where the United Conservative Party is going
00:23:50.980 to land on some issues, but they definitely know that they're against this carbon tax. And I think
00:23:56.620 the carbon tax thing, it's funny how many different sort of economists and other people are now
00:24:02.660 championing the carbon tax because they know it is not politically popular with Albertans,
00:24:08.780 even with rebates and things like that. I think the reasons are pretty simple.
00:24:12.700 It makes life more expensive for Albertans and for businesses at a time when families and businesses
00:24:19.280 are both struggling. The things you buy most, gas, groceries, even insurance, products like that,
00:24:26.960 they're all being driven up, the cost of those driven up by this carbon tax. And as a result,
00:24:33.120 businesses don't want to do business in a place with the carbon tax. You know, you look at our
00:24:37.520 neighbors to the south of the United States, their economy going gangbusters right now. And one of the
00:24:42.760 reasons is if you're looking to invest in North America, do you want to go to Canada with this built-in,
00:24:47.220 make everything more expensive tax? Or do you want to go to the states where they say, no,
00:24:51.820 we want you to come here and do business. And that's why their unemployment rate is,
00:24:55.940 you know, several percent lower than us. It's why their business growth is dramatically higher than
00:25:00.720 ours is. So I think for carbon tax, it was one of those ideas that economists and government people,
00:25:08.540 you know, who live in a very different world than a lot of us sat around and said, well, this is an
00:25:13.280 excellent idea, but that everyday people really haven't gotten on board with and have a lot of
00:25:19.240 concerns with. And rightfully so, there has been no reduction in greenhouse gas emissions because
00:25:25.280 of this carbon tax. BC's analysis, you know, most people have, you know, BC's had the carbon tax
00:25:30.220 the longest. They look at it. Emissions haven't gone down. So what on earth do we have a carbon tax for
00:25:35.440 if it's, you know, giving us all this economic pain, but it isn't actually making the environment any
00:25:40.800 better? Yeah, but you got free light bulbs in a low flow showerhead, William. Aren't you happy
00:25:46.660 about that? Yeah. Well, yeah. Surprisingly, the NDP didn't send me my light bulbs. Maybe I,
00:25:52.980 maybe I was on the wrong mailing list. You're a big boy and I feel like you could probably change your
00:25:58.240 own. I have changed them. Yes. On my own. Didn't need government to do it for me. Oh boy. Now on the
00:26:04.700 flip side, it looks like the UCP, they're campaigning like they are going to form government.
00:26:11.260 They're coming out with actual proposals for legislation that I think, it seems as though
00:26:17.660 each piece of their legislation addresses one major concern with what the NDP have done in the last
00:26:24.260 almost four years. Whereas the NDP, they seem to be just campaigning on dishing out money. And if you
00:26:31.160 go to the Alberta NDP website, it is nothing but a tax on Jason Kenney. There's no real policy
00:26:40.780 proposals happening there. It's Jason Kenney waffling on Springbank. Damn, Jason Kenney's hurt students.
00:26:47.980 Um, it's just, um, uh, like they are campaigning like they're the opposition already. Uh, no,
00:26:54.340 you're absolutely right. And I think it's interesting because a lot of people I think
00:26:57.940 would have described Rachel Notley herself as quite positive and, and, uh, you know, optimistic
00:27:04.700 to use the phrase from our prime minister, a sunny ways person, so to speak. But the NDP campaign
00:27:11.980 is one of, if not the most negative campaign I've ever seen in provincial politics. They are
00:27:17.940 offering virtually no positive image for middle class, middle income, everyday voters, and instead
00:27:26.460 are gambling that if they attack Jason Kenney enough, if they, if they, uh, find enough little
00:27:34.660 things to try and paint him as this, you know, extremist, crazy right wing, Attila the Hun type figure
00:27:42.660 that somehow Albertans are going to forget the frankly quite lousy record of this NDP
00:27:48.620 government in office. I mean, what they, I think should be doing is they should be figuring out
00:27:54.180 if they have any achievements and they should be trying to showcase that and say, you need
00:27:58.080 more of this. We want to continue whatever it is that we've been doing for the last four
00:28:02.220 years. But I mean, I guess they know that that isn't going to work for them because they
00:28:06.620 frankly don't have a record that they can campaign on. They can't campaign on the economy.
00:28:10.360 They can't campaign on job creation. Uh, they can't campaign on, uh, you know, helping, uh,
00:28:16.960 ordinary Albertans, you know, live more affordably or things like that. So instead it's the Sable
00:28:22.720 fear and smear campaign from the left, which has been their standard practice since, well,
00:28:28.200 since I've been doing politics, I remember the 2000 election and how Stockwell Day, that's
00:28:32.760 all the liberals wanted to talk about was, was how evil Stockwell Day was and how evil Stephen
00:28:37.620 Harper was. And now how evil Jason Kenney is. I don't think Albertans are going to buy
00:28:41.660 it though.
00:28:42.620 I don't think so either because, um, it feels like a campaign of gaslighting. We're like,
00:28:48.400 we're supposed to, um, maybe we've experienced the last four years differently to use, you
00:28:56.760 know, the prime minister's excuses. You know, like when the NDP paint themselves as the champions
00:29:02.000 of the healthcare system and Jason Kenney's just going to burn down all the hospitals and
00:29:05.660 bulldoze all the schools, wait times have gone up. We have some of the worst wait times
00:29:11.320 in the country. So for the NDP now to say, no, we need to continue doing it our way. Our
00:29:17.040 way is the best way. Uh, Albertans know if you've tried to access the healthcare system,
00:29:22.040 they've utterly failed on this.
00:29:25.160 Absolutely. I think for any, uh, healthcare is a great example. It's the NDP solution is
00:29:29.740 no other changes other than just pouring more money into the system. And at some point,
00:29:36.080 when do we say that's not enough? That is not enough to fix our healthcare problems.
00:29:41.120 Healthcare budgets were once 25% of the provincial budget, then they were 30. Now they're over 40.
00:29:48.240 Is it when it gets to 50% of, you know, one out of every two of our tax dollars being spent
00:29:52.940 to fund healthcare that we finally say, maybe it's time for some new thinking.
00:29:56.700 And instead of, of demonizing people who suggest there might be other and better ways of delivering
00:30:03.200 healthcare, uh, you know, we should be looking around the world at jurisdictions that really
00:30:08.600 have figured out how to do this better. Uh, it's a source of pride. I know for Canadians are publicly
00:30:14.240 funded healthcare system. Personally, uh, I think it's great to have a universal public system,
00:30:19.880 but I don't think that simply maintaining healthcare status quo is either a good policy
00:30:26.140 or it's what particularly Albertans want when they see their grandmothers and grandfathers
00:30:31.740 waiting months or years for hip and knee replacement surgery. When people are waiting months and months
00:30:37.520 and months for MRIs that, you know, that's time that they could be diagnosed and starting to start
00:30:41.680 their treatment programs. There's so many examples of, of inefficiency and waste in healthcare.
00:30:46.420 And for the NDP to suggest that any change, any new thinking on this is, is heretical. Well,
00:30:52.440 that's one of the reasons, the big government reasons why people aren't looking at the NDP
00:30:56.220 for reelection.
00:30:58.280 Now, one last question for you. Um, when do you think the writ is finally, finally going to drop?
00:31:07.440 When can we get out of this campaign loop that isn't a campaign?
00:31:13.120 Well, I, I should offer the caveat, Sheila, that I've been almost wrong every single time on when
00:31:18.920 I thought an election would be. Uh, it's not been one of my fortes for getting right, but I think
00:31:25.440 there's two schools of thought. I mean, I think there was a thought that it would happen relatively
00:31:29.140 quickly. In fact, a lot of people thought next week, given that there's a throne speech coming out and
00:31:34.560 the government's going to lay out its agenda, uh, and then would go to the polls and campaign on it.
00:31:40.260 We're getting word today though, that they do intend to hold a spring session. They want to
00:31:45.260 introduce another healthcare bill in order to, you know, basically, I guess, guard against the evil
00:31:51.020 Jason Kenney healthcare destruction plan that they foresee coming. Uh, and they probably want to,
00:31:56.800 you know, pass a couple other sort of, you know, uh, bills that, that really help them with their
00:32:02.660 campaign strategies. So we may not end up having this campaign until we get, you know, kicking off
00:32:08.860 in April or even possibly kicking off at the beginning of May. So we may, you know, I would
00:32:15.380 say too, personally, if I were the NDP and I'm looking at these poll numbers, why wouldn't I stay
00:32:20.460 in office every single last day that I could get in my taxpayer salary and my government benefits,
00:32:27.640 knowing that in 28 days after that election call, I'm going to be out of job looking for new work.
00:32:32.660 So there may be that there too. I see that side of the argument, but I just think that it is time
00:32:38.560 to put Albertans out of our misery instead of hanging onto power, like Maduro as long as you can.
00:32:47.040 Um, William, I want to thank you so much for coming on the show and being so generous with your time
00:32:51.600 all the time with me. Um, and thank you and keep fighting for freedom. Well, thank you, Sheila. And I
00:32:57.680 want to say Canadians should be so grateful to have you. How many news stories have you broken
00:33:02.580 in the last few weeks that other media have been, you know, taken credit for? Uh, I think it shows
00:33:08.440 why we're so lucky to have you in the, in the job that you're doing. Well, thanks. You know,
00:33:12.840 sometimes I think I'm doing the Lord's work in that if I can get the national post to chase me,
00:33:17.960 to cover the stories, uh, Canadians actually care about instead of the stories that they care about,
00:33:23.920 maybe they can stave off job losses over there just a little bit longer. So, you know,
00:33:28.320 maybe they should thank me for that. I certainly think they should.
00:33:32.760 Thanks, William. Have a great day. Stay with us more up next after the break.
00:33:48.140 Before we go today, let's take a look at some of your feedback, some of your comments,
00:33:53.340 your queries and questions to us. When David Menzies was in Ottawa this week with our gorgeous,
00:33:59.880 beautiful, jail Trudeau billboard truck, Menzies did an interview with a citizen who was after my
00:34:06.680 heart. She had a lot to say, not much of a good about the state of affairs in Canada under Justin
00:34:12.240 Trudeau. Al Peterson writes, as a typical narcissist, Trudeau does not hate women. He hates anyone who stands
00:34:20.400 up to him. Men or women are fine as long as they know their place in a supporting role. If they
00:34:27.040 don't, they are treated with contempt and kicked to the curb. You know what, Al? I think you are right.
00:34:34.460 Justin Trudeau uses women for the purpose of preening to the entire world about what a feminist 0.99
00:34:40.300 he is. But if men's rights were the flavor of the day, then Trudeau would be holding them up to
00:34:46.560 virtue signal too. I think that's how he is. For Trudeau, it's whatever gets him the most clicks,
00:34:52.660 the most likes, the most shares and the most favorable international press coverage and not
00:34:58.160 about how his bad ideas affect those of us at home. As you know, I'm filling in tonight because the boss
00:35:04.440 is over in the UK covering Tommy Robinson's lawsuit against the Cambridge Shire police. Now, Ezra did a video
00:35:12.200 about how he became part of the whole story when the judge at the trial told him to stop giving his
00:35:18.680 color commentary and just act as a court stenographer while reporting. Stephen E writes,
00:35:25.960 when in a police state, don't poke the bear. If it's a matter of two or three days for the judgment,
00:35:31.360 just wait it out. Once outside the UK, you can always be as opinionated as you wish. Just remember,
00:35:38.500 there are 900 thought police in London alone, and if you say something that hurts the feelings of one of those
00:35:44.820 constables, you may get a 5 a.m. visit. Stephen, I think that's good advice, although I feel like Ezra
00:35:52.420 would probably like to experience the exhilaration of being a political prisoner just once in his life,
00:35:59.040 even if it is just for a couple of hours. Could he stand to go on the political prisoner diet?
00:36:04.840 Maybe, but I don't think he'd like it for all that long. Well, everybody, that's the show for tonight.
00:36:11.140 Thanks so much for tuning in. Thank you to everybody in Rebel HQ in Toronto for turning what I've given
00:36:18.240 them into a show for you tonight. Ezra should be back in his rightful place tomorrow. And remember,
00:36:25.340 don't let the government tell you that you've had too much to think.
00:36:34.840 We'll see you next time.