Rebel News Podcast - Kids sue Canadian government over climate change (GUEST： Michelle Sterling)

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00:01:16.280 What's the real story behind the kids who are suing the federal government because of

00:01:29.860 climate change? I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed and you're watching The Gunn Show.

00:01:46.280 15 itty-bitty little human shields are suing the federal government in federal court. Here's the

00:01:58.520 headline from the CBC. Actually, it's from the abhorrent CBC Kids website. 15 young Canadians 0.94

00:02:05.760 suing the government over climate change. Now let's dig down deeper in this mildly exploitative article.

00:02:12.740 At the heart of the lawsuit is the idea that the government's role in the climate crisis

00:02:17.900 violates their fundamental rights. The youth ages 10 to 19 will attempt to argue in court that they

00:02:24.740 suffered specific individualized injuries as a result of climate change, said Chris Tollefson,

00:02:32.580 one of the lawyers representing the group. The kids did this with the help of an organization

00:02:37.320 based in the United States called Our Children's Trust, a foreign environmental charity that makes

00:02:44.380 these sorts of lawsuits a habit of theirs all across the world. Now my guest tonight has examined

00:02:51.300 the role of David Suzuki and other prominent Canadian environmentalists in this foreign-motivated

00:02:57.580 vexatious lawsuit. Joining me tonight in an interview we recorded yesterday afternoon

00:03:03.160 is my friend Michelle Sterling from Friends of Science.

00:03:21.720 Joining me now from her home in Calgary is Michelle Sterling from Friends of Science and

00:03:27.720 the election was all anybody could talk about but right in the middle of the last week of the election

00:03:33.780 campaign was a visit from Greta Thunberg and we'll get to her in a minute but in the wake of the 0.88

00:03:40.940 Greta Thunberg visit to Canada there's a lawsuit from a group of children because you know that's 0.99

00:03:51.000 that's what children do they just run to the law courts all the time and they want to sue governments

00:03:57.340 for the effects of climate change. Michelle please explain this madness to me. Well I can't explain

00:04:03.940 every detail of it but it's very interesting to note that this is a co-plaintiff is David Suzuki

00:04:11.460 Foundation and the constitutional aspect of the case is based on the fact that there's an inequity in

00:04:20.260 the law and that they're children and they can't vote and also when you look at the list of

00:04:27.140 signatories many of the people involved are their parents are very strong climate activists in Calgary of

00:04:33.140 course Dr. Joe Vipond and his daughter are named on that suit as plaintiffs and he brought us coal phase

00:04:42.180 out and that has resulted in billions of dollars of costs to Albertans and now we get to have the

00:04:49.860 federal government go to court and pay maybe millions of dollars more in this suit. So these are expensive

00:04:56.900 people and really you know when when you look at the claims made by some of the children in the case

00:05:06.740 and I'm sure that they do feel these emotional aspects but I think back to my mother growing up in

00:05:12.100 the prairies and as a pioneer you know my grandfather was breaking land out by Hannah and her childhood was

00:05:22.020 stolen because her mother died when she was about eight years old from complications after the birth of

00:05:30.660 my mother's brother and why because she had gone out to get the milk cow from going into the garden which

00:05:39.220 for a prairie farmer was a very important source of food and that caused her to hemorrhage so my mother 0.91

00:05:46.740 had to leave home at age 13 and was shipped off to England all by herself on a boat to take care of

00:05:54.740 her grandmother for the rest of her youth so you know when I read the stories these children are

00:06:01.220 reciting as something critical to their health I think well how did those earlier generations ever survive 1.00

00:06:10.180 I don't think climate change is a big deal yeah you know you put it in such a beautiful context

00:06:15.460 there this is truly a first world problem and these are rich people's very privileged children

00:06:22.020 these aren't you know struggling inner city kids who are are dealing with real problems with inequity

00:06:28.900 real problems caused by poverty by lack of jobs by you know fathers not being in the home like real

00:06:37.220 real problems that affect and and and and hinder kids um their opportunity for prosperity and growth

00:06:46.260 for generations this is not not what we're talking about these are some of the most influential people

00:06:51.540 in the country they're very privileged kids who are just being human shields in the court of law

00:07:01.860 for their parents agendas um and of course david suzuki's hands are right in the middle of it

00:07:08.580 right and the suzuki foundation you know it was interesting to see david suzuki speaking to

00:07:14.260 the crowd of children at the vancouver climate strike and saying you know and here's greta all by herself

00:07:19.780 you know who only a year ago started this well um you know we uh now have a video out about the

00:07:27.060 backers of the greta thunberg movement it's an organization out of sweden we got their ipo their

00:07:33.780 prospectus and they're selling basically social engineering um social media and carbon offsets and

00:07:42.900 they have a vast international network of people pushing this whole climate strike thing fridays

00:07:49.540 for future and that's why it's spiraled so quickly it's not because greta's an inspirational young

00:07:55.300 woman it's because there's a huge network behind her and um that network is pushing things like 1.00

00:08:02.820 carbon offsets and so here's david suzuki saying well you know those greedy corporations are trying to

00:08:09.460 take over the world and we want to stop them and greta's a symbol of that well he's funded by power

00:08:16.100 corporation and has been his uh sorry his foundation is funded by power corporation and has been since

00:08:22.900 2007. i don't know for how much but you know if you want to talk about big corporations power corporation

00:08:30.660 was in 2017 the 358th largest corporation in the world according to forbes and so you know what

00:08:39.060 what what game is being played here these children are being gaslit for commercial interests in carbon

00:08:45.220 offsets carbon trading and renewables yeah i i've always gotten the sense that greta was just a 0.68

00:08:52.180 marketing campaign and really that's what she is she's the marketing campaign the tv commercial for

00:08:59.460 this big carbon offset trading company and yet the likes of david suzuki they're lecturing us about big oil

00:09:06.260 well i'm more worried about big carbon offsets because um i need oil to survive but i certainly

00:09:12.820 don't see the effects of paying for carbon offsets to satiate my first world guilt right well you know

00:09:20.180 carbon uh trading markets are described by mark shapiro in the harper's magazine in february 2010

00:09:27.540 as um the lack of delivery of an invisible substance to know that's what you're paying for you know so

00:09:36.100 interestingly enough in calgary calgary supposedly 100 renewable now so that means that we're

00:09:42.020 paying for offsets and yet calgary has very significant financial problems right now who are

00:09:48.340 we enriching and why you know that that's a great point when these cities again pat themselves on the

00:09:57.780 back and brag to the world that they have gone 100 renewable or all their buses are running on green energy

00:10:05.060 that's not the case the buses are not hooked up to the electrical grid they are taking taxpayer

00:10:10.820 dollars and giving it to a carbon trading company yes um just so that they can uh pretend that they

00:10:19.540 have gone 100 renewable when really that's not the case right and anyone can go on the alford electric

00:10:25.940 system operator market demand and supply site any time of the day and i did that earlier this morning and

00:10:33.060 i saw that um we had about 5 000 megawatts being generated from natural gas two or three thousand

00:10:39.300 from coal 300 maybe from wind we were importing a fairly significant significant amount i think 700

00:10:47.220 megawatts from uh 200 from bc hydro and the rest from montana coal so you know now sending money out

00:10:56.180 of the province to buy power that we used to make ourselves here and um

00:11:03.060 you know we're certainly not running on wind or solar so yeah yeah i think a lot of people don't

00:11:09.380 realize we have decided to abandon and we i don't mean you and i i mean the government collectively on

00:11:16.980 our behalf um has abandoned to or has decided to abandon about 800 years of some of the cleanest burning coal

00:11:28.180 on the face of the earth in the interest of pretending to be green so that that we can then

00:11:33.700 import coal fired electricity from montana yeah or saskatchewan but today it wasn't saskatchewan today

00:11:42.100 it was montana yeah it's uh it's pretty depressing and uh really just a boondoggle on taxpayers and

00:11:48.820 consumers and citizens and certainly these poor kids i mean these kids going back to this climate

00:11:54.100 strike and such like they're being scared to death and one of the things that we also found this

00:11:58.740 week is there's a group called the three percent that has infiltrated almost every school in canada

00:12:05.060 and it's unbelievable they go in there they scare the pants off the kids they tell them to become

00:12:09.620 activists go go go that's probably part of the source of this child's lawsuit but um there's this uh

00:12:17.300 group called our time and just yesterday they were thrown out of the house of commons in ottawa because

00:12:23.780 they entered i believe as visitors and then began some kind of um protest there but they're being

00:12:31.460 driven by this three percent organization which of course is connected to climate reality and who is

00:12:37.540 climate reality it's al gore and what has al gore done for canada he's been cheerleading the block

00:12:44.900 blockadia of kinder morgan transmountain pipeline and every other pipeline since uh since we began

00:12:52.260 trying to get them through so like what's the big deal here why are we having our politicians welcoming

00:12:58.740 greta to canada when she actually represents a group that's associated with mr gore and his blockadia

00:13:05.940 efforts in canada you know i was just thinking as you were talking about al gore and i was thinking

00:13:12.100 about the foreign money that flows into canada in the um lead up to any election anywhere really um

00:13:22.100 does friends of science register as a third party advertiser before you put up a billboard

00:13:27.540 do you guys have to do that well only during an election period yeah so you know greta can come 1.00

00:13:34.900 to the country and she's a marketing campaign for these carbon trading companies and yet never uh

00:13:42.180 there's no cries about her having to register as a third party advertiser or the people behind her

00:13:49.140 having to register as a third party advertiser um when the money is coming from out of country and yet

00:13:57.540 somebody like friends of science you folks have to register as a third party advertiser

00:14:02.740 to put up a billboard in your own country expressing a political opinion and nobody sees a problem with

00:14:09.060 any of this right well you know with uh with greta and again i'm not denouncing the child

00:14:15.620 no of course not that she actually probably believes everything that she says and does

00:14:21.700 um but the movement behind her uh you know as we just did a video about it where we also show that

00:14:29.300 one of the people on the board of the foundation associated with the um we don't have time movement

00:14:36.740 is a canadian kathy orlando she's with citizens climate lobby they've been one of the most effective

00:14:43.860 lobbyists according to their website for uh carbon um fee and dividend you know the the carbon dividend

00:14:51.540 the rebate so you know that actually directly ties everything to canada and in in fact you know there's

00:15:00.020 a new method of advertising in the digital world called native advertising where um basically it's

00:15:06.500 the form of sort of placing an advertorial you know an editorial light column that moves around through

00:15:13.700 social media on different platforms so people are exposed to it in different ways

00:15:18.180 and i would say that in a stroke of brilliance greta thunberg is actually a walking native

00:15:24.820 advertisement and um just it's brilliant but it's also frightening because again all these children

00:15:32.420 are scared to death and why because people want to get rich on carbon offsets yeah i mean these people

00:15:39.140 are getting rich while kids are getting anxiety disorders um now speaking about law fair um and and just to tie

00:15:46.980 everything back to david suzuki using children as a friend for his lawsuit you guys have actually two

00:15:54.580 rebuttals and video about uh 28 law professors who are demanding climate accountability laws and you

00:16:03.460 called them ungrateful and i thought it was excellent yeah they are ungrateful these five of these

00:16:08.660 law professors are from the university of calgary canada's energy university and uh every university in

00:16:16.580 canada i would say without exception has been funded in some way shape or form by big oil big gas big mining

00:16:25.940 but certainly calgary's university has been funded a lot by big oil small oil supply chain to oil and um

00:16:36.980 what a bunch of ingrates really uh they have no idea uh what energy delivers conventional energy delivers to

00:16:45.380 our world and they're proposing that cities could uh go out and just uh sue big oil and you know get some

00:16:52.900 money because uh climate change you know we had a flood so uh that's your fault big oil mind you we used

00:17:00.900 all the oil but it's your fault for selling it to us so you know these are absurd notions and dangerous

00:17:08.820 um these are legally authorized companies uh they're providing an essential service this is why they're

00:17:15.460 so highly regulated because um you know you don't want big oil to one day say well you know what we're

00:17:22.420 going to jack up the price of our product 3000 and see what happens to you guys so they're very regulated

00:17:29.140 on many different levels supply delivery uh quality um emissions price uh so these guys are now proposing

00:17:40.740 that these highly regulated and compliant organizations should be sued for giving us the things that give us

00:17:47.860 everything of modern life we would not survive a week without a consistent supply of of oil gas coal

00:17:56.100 um and related products to our homes we'd all be dead it'd be a zombie apocalypse so how how energy

00:18:05.380 illiterate are these people why are they doing this is it just ambulance chasing i'm just uh trying to

00:18:11.380 cash in on the climate change hysteria thing it's uh and and think of that that would be bad for

00:18:16.740 taxpayers what would we get to do we'd get to pay the lawyers and we'd have to pay the other side because

00:18:22.340 the companies would of course tack on their costs to the product they deliver to us it's insane

00:18:30.420 yeah it seems as though there's no no foresight here and you you make a good point so the company

00:18:36.660 sells you something that you want and then you use it and then you turn around and sue the company

00:18:43.620 because you don't like the ill effects or the alleged ill effects of your own bad behavior it's crazy

00:18:50.580 well they're trying to use the tobacco analogy and the tobacco analogy is completely false

00:18:56.100 you know uh back in the 1600s king james the first wrote uh what did he call it the counter

00:19:02.660 blast against tobacco and he's he noted how tobacco was bad for your health and he didn't want it anywhere

00:19:09.220 near him so it didn't take uh lawsuits to figure out that tobacco was bad for your health

00:19:14.740 uh but um fossil fuels have been good for our health you know just 100 150 years ago people died

00:19:23.140 at age 40 if you live to age this is why the pension was set at age 65 because most people didn't

00:19:28.820 live very long after that well now people live into their 90s into the hundreds and often in very good

00:19:34.500 health why because we can do knee replacements we can do heart surgery we can remove tumors from lungs and

00:19:41.620 brains and heaven knows where thanks to fossil fuels you don't have modern medicine without them

00:19:48.580 so you know what are what are they talking about it's a crazy analogy uh speaking of environmentalist

00:19:56.820 wingnuts i think this is a good segue into steven gilbo or gilbo honestly i i don't know how to say his

00:20:04.660 last name and uh i think i'm probably not learning just for spite um he's a radical environmentalist um

00:20:12.740 and he's a new uh liberal mp and i've heard musings that he could be the new environment minister if

00:20:22.820 katherine mckenna is shuffled out and somehow somehow the liberals are musing uh about putting someone even

00:20:31.220 more radical than katherine mckenna in the position of environment minister that's going to do nothing 0.99

00:20:37.140 for canadian unity i'll tell you that much well you know the challenge with him is that um he and

00:20:45.060 marlo reynolds formerly of pembina institute wrote um the press uh release or op-ed in um 2008 i believe it

00:20:54.900 was that the tar sands are tarnishing canada's reputation and that was the first time that i know

00:21:01.300 of that dirty oil appeared in print so he was uh with greenpeace for a long time then with equiter

00:21:10.180 in montreal and although people like to think that the tar sands campaign was only perpetrated against

00:21:16.900 alberta it's actually been perpetrated against all of canada and it began a long time ago in quebec

00:21:23.460 and uh you know about 11 million dollars that i can account for was dumped into quebec to

00:21:31.620 mostly to the global climate change action fund which i i read yesterday in an article by cory

00:21:38.500 morgan star morning star that that the gcca was formed by greenpeace and world wild fund

00:21:46.660 so um the gcca claims to have 470 organizations around the world non-profits in 70 countries that

00:21:57.140 oppose the use of fossil fuels so if you want to know why we couldn't get energy east built you can

00:22:02.420 start there then of course uh you know he was associated with equiter and they were very active in

00:22:09.620 montreal um and uh more recently uh stephen gilbo has been the um climate action advisor of uh he and a

00:22:23.220 lady from vancouver vancity formerly with vancity trust i believe um anyway they were the ones who

00:22:30.820 implemented the new ev policy for which we don't have enough power generation in canada to meet their

00:22:37.780 targets so that means we'd have to build billions of dollars of power generation plants and trillions

00:22:46.100 of dollars of transmission lines just so people could drive evs that can't drive farther than from

00:22:52.980 here to red deer without a charge so these are like i said earlier they're very expensive people

00:22:59.140 they're costing us a lot of money and the benefits are not clear and yeah and there's not enough

00:23:05.460 electrical vehicles in the country yeah for the for any of this to matter anyway um you and i were

00:23:12.100 talking off air about how at least in alberta you can go on the government registries um website and

00:23:18.660 they publish the data about the you know the types of cars types of trucks um types of registration and

00:23:26.340 you know it's a couple of years ago it was under 500 fully electric vehicles in alberta and i guarantee

00:23:33.620 you most of those were bought by the ndp government and so you know they they want to put in this big

00:23:41.140 huge massive nationwide electric grid um to uh to uh really uh prop up this sort of uh hobby hobby of

00:23:53.300 rich people that's what i think about when i think about electric cars i think it's just a hobby for rich

00:23:57.940 people the same way i like to ride dirt bikes you know what i mean yeah well you know it by pushing

00:24:04.820 the sense of climate catastrophe and that we have to get rid of these uh ice vehicles internal combustion

00:24:11.300 engine vehicles then um they're trying to create a new market for all of the institutional investors

00:24:18.260 because those institutional investors would be invested in those transmission lines and the power

00:24:23.060 plants that they're not talking about right now and if they make it illegal to drive a conventional

00:24:29.140 vehicle then you'll have to buy one of these and boy you know look what happened in france when they

00:24:35.300 tried to do that they still have thousands of people in the street in their yellow vests people who said

00:24:40.740 hey you told me a few years ago i should buy a diesel so that i would save money and do the right thing

00:24:48.020 for the environment now you're telling me i have to dump my diesel and buy an electric vehicle i can't

00:24:54.100 afford it i can't afford your carbon taxes you know the people just simply cannot keep paying this money

00:25:01.780 and if you are a true environmentalist why would you throw away a perfectly good working vehicle

00:25:08.100 when it probably has 20 or 30 more years on the road yeah i mean it's the same thing as

00:25:15.060 environmentalists throwing out their old fridges and putting their old fridges and landfills um

00:25:20.420 because they want something more efficient and then they you know smile and tell everybody how green

00:25:26.020 they are in the meantime all all their old appliances are filling up the landfill um i wanted to

00:25:32.660 ask you about um another organization similar to yours that's doing great work grassroots alberta

00:25:40.820 and uh go ahead oh well i was just gonna say yeah they have a great campaign running right now on

00:25:46.420 their website uh it's called um isn't it time we had a responsible conversation on climate

00:25:52.660 and they have lots of information there as well and i think that's a good question you know because

00:25:58.420 i think everyone has concerns about climate or the environment um but let's have a responsible

00:26:05.460 conversation about that let's not be hysterical let's sit down and look at the facts and see

00:26:11.780 if there really is a climate emergency you know that i mentioned a while ago and i did that video

00:26:17.140 a while ago that there are 500 scientists who signed a petition that there is no climate emergency there's

00:26:23.860 now another two or three hundred who have signed on to that petition and it just continues to grow

00:26:29.380 so um you know these are very qualified scholars who are standing up and saying this is not appropriate

00:26:40.020 we should not be scaring the public there's no emergency we have time to implement new solutions

00:26:47.140 regarding emissions or whatever concerns we have but we should not be rushing into this and not scaring

00:26:53.940 people so it's a growing petition and i think grassroots alberta you know which independently

00:27:01.220 came up with their own campaign is asking the right questions and people should go on their website

00:27:05.860 and read their material it's very good yeah and i know some of the people behind grassroots alberta are

00:27:12.260 farmers and generational farmers who've worked the same land for generations so i think they're attuned

00:27:19.060 to the climate and and the environmental changes around them and so when they are posing these

00:27:23.780 questions as opposed to people who could go their whole day without ever putting their foot on some

00:27:27.860 grass um you know i think that it's important to listen to people who are you know on the land and

00:27:34.660 whose livelihoods depend on the weather every day um i last thing i wanted to ask you about

00:27:41.620 is the freedom talk conference um you're going to be speaking at that um let us have it

00:27:49.060 uh well freedom talk is coming up the weekend of the uh i think i'm booking in on the 15th the 16th

00:27:55.860 17th and red deer at uh the cambridge uh conference center and it's a great lineup of speakers and my

00:28:05.220 particular um talk will be on foreign fingers in the pie excuse me foreign fingers in the pie where

00:28:12.500 we'll be looking at some of the um interlopers who have changed climate and energy policies in canada

00:28:19.540 for the worse um uh danny hozak is behind it of course and john robson and uh one of the great

00:28:27.220 things is that they're also looking for solutions because the focus of the conference is really

00:28:32.340 kind of should we stay or should we go it's about confederation it's about the angst and anger that

00:28:38.260 there is in western canada what can we do about it where did it come from what's driving it and

00:28:44.420 what are possible ways of working some of these things out so you know you probably have some

00:28:49.220 people who are let's get out of here some people who are let's stay and fix it and other people who

00:28:55.940 are well how can we massage these kinds of arrangements that we have and improve them so i

00:29:02.660 i think it'll be a great conference so um book it yeah i think it's at freedom talk dot ca i'm i'm

00:29:10.100 pretty sure danny still has some tickets available but i do think it's interesting um and i think you

00:29:15.540 might be the first person who is sort of pointing this out the role foreign funded radical environmentalists

00:29:22.980 meddling in canadian political politics the role that's played in cracking this country right apart

00:29:30.580 right now yes of course they these foreign interlopers looked at the map of canada and 0.99

00:29:36.020 they saw a few very simple things first of all we only have two major ports to speak of uh vancouver

00:29:43.940 and montreal for a while right i mean there's some also on the east coast but you know that's a step

00:29:49.060 further than we would need to go for a pipeline so that end of the country is already taken up and

00:29:55.700 already had this bizarre thing in place called the nop the national oil pipeline policy from the 50s

00:30:03.620 where there was an agreement that alberta oil would not go beyond lakehead because there was a mr levy

00:30:10.340 who came from the states and said we want to use the montreal port and everyone okay so that was an

00:30:15.940 existing thing but these guys looked at the map and said hey all we have to do to get out on canada

00:30:22.180 particularly alberta off the map is just block these ports block access to ports so they did 0.97

00:30:27.620 that then they said wow look there's 600 um indigenous first nations in canada and many of

00:30:34.900 them have been poorly treated and most of them have and uh so let's just go and exacerbate that so they

00:30:41.380 did that and then they said um you know actually bc is so beautiful and green let's make sure that the

00:30:48.980 people in bc protect that natural supernatural country meanwhile there's a port there is the

00:30:55.460 world's largest ferry system there's a one of the biggest airports in canada cruise ships

00:31:02.580 cruise ships coming and going like are you kidding me but but it worked and you know then they fomented

00:31:10.340 this hatred toward canada and toward um oil i was just going through some forest ethics annual reports

00:31:17.700 last night and it's unbelievable the uh demarketing campaign that they ran against canada for years

00:31:25.940 and uh very uh you know just going to companies that might buy product from canada and saying if you

00:31:36.020 buy product from canadian tar sands we're going to smear your name all over the world so they go okay

00:31:42.340 we're not buying anything from them like i think that's extortion but i'm not a lawyer but anyway

00:31:49.300 so you know they created hatred from bc hatred from quebec um hatred within alberta uh and the

00:31:58.340 alberta narratives project i would say is one that uh is the most insidious and i did a video about that

00:32:04.180 last year and we did a couple of items on the blog about it uh where they brought climate george marshall

00:32:10.580 from the uk this is the ndp paid paid uh eco i think it was alberta ecotrust they funded them and

00:32:17.620 then those guys paid for him to come here and try and tell alberta oil and gas workers that your future

00:32:26.180 is glum because oil and gas will not be required anymore meanwhile you know it's booming out there in

00:32:33.060 the rest of the world so uh this guy was a lifelong anti-oil activist used to be part of uh rising tide

00:32:40.420 which is a direct action group so he comes here as some kind of missionary preacher to tell us what

00:32:46.740 to do with our resources and i say get back on your plane actually walk walk yeah yeah with your carbon

00:32:54.180 offset certificates in your back pocket it's uh it's so fascinating you know as suicides were skyrocketing

00:33:04.420 in alberta we had this foreign funded activist coming to tell our men our embattled male workforce 0.85

00:33:12.180 that there's no hope for you it's just disgusting oh it's really sick and this is the same kind of

00:33:17.540 thing they're doing to these kids now yeah they're um i just read a paper i can send it to you i can't

00:33:23.380 remember the author but they did um they did a research paper showing people scary things scary images of

00:33:32.180 climate and saying you know if you see this image does it make you want to do something constructive

00:33:38.180 or does it make you want to die and most people said they want to die so that's what they're doing to

00:33:43.940 our kids this is a crime against humanity it's criminal what they're doing child abuse it is it's

00:33:52.820 it's brainwashing like i i joke about that they're trying to brainwash our kids in school i'm sort of

00:33:59.220 joking but really on some level it is absolutely actually true michelle you've been very generous

00:34:07.060 with your time i think we're coming up on a half an hour um why don't you let us know how we can

00:34:12.580 support the work that you're doing because i think you're doing important work educational work and

00:34:18.020 really work that isn't being done anywhere else by anyone else you're injecting facts into this

00:34:24.980 very hyper emotional conversation about climate change well thank you thank you um you can uh see

00:34:32.900 our work on our website friendsofscience.org uh we have a blog we have a very active youtube channel

00:34:40.900 twitter feed friends oh science uh our facebook page um you can also look at our plain language

00:34:48.980 bilingual website which is called climate change 101.ca and um you know we're happy to accept new

00:34:57.380 members and donations and um we work on a very limited budget with lots of volunteers nominal uh

00:35:05.540 subcontractor services people like myself and we don't represent any industry uh we may you know no one

00:35:12.020 directs us from outside and says you guys should do this we make our own decisions about what we do

00:35:16.660 and we try to represent topics and interests that we feel are important to the general public

00:35:23.140 and uh certainly we are completely opposed to scaremongering of children this is criminal

00:35:31.060 michelle thanks so much um i'm going to try to make it to the freedom talk conference if just to

00:35:36.340 hear your talk but it looks like there's a great lineup of speakers including my friend prem singh

00:35:40.980 um so we'll see you then and i hope that the conference sells out thank you thanks very much

00:35:47.060 sheila and keep up the good work i will thank you you too okay

00:36:01.300 frightening little children into thinking that the end of the world is nigh just to push a pro-carbon

00:36:06.660 tax anti-development agenda is frankly evil however it's the sort of thing the cbc has given a platform

00:36:14.740 to david suzuki to do for the last several decades now if you want to find out more about david suzuki's

00:36:21.300 long history of hypocrisy political meddling and flat-out weirdness i'm recommending that you check out

00:36:27.540 my book i wrote it a couple of years ago it's called the case against david suzuki the unauthorized

00:36:34.100 biography and you can get your copy today at suzuki book dot com well everybody that's the show for

00:36:41.540 tonight thank you so much for tuning in i'll see everybody as always back here in the same time

00:36:47.060 in the same place next week and remember don't let the government tell you that you've had too much to

00:36:52.660 think

Rebel News Podcast - October 31, 2019

Kids sue Canadian government over climate change (GUEST： Michelle Sterling)

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