If you support the oil and gas sector, does that suddenly make you a white supremacist? The Liberal Association of Carleton Ontario seems to think so, and the Liberals saw racism when they saw a picture of a dad with his daughter wearing a shirt promoting the Alberta oil sector.
00:01:57.720Well friends as you can see I'm not in studio today. In fact I'm actually covering the police raid at
00:02:03.580Grace Life Church but earlier this week before I headed off to my usual duties of covering government
00:02:12.020overreach and tyranny I recorded an interview with my friend Robbie Picard from Oil Sand Strong. Now
00:02:17.260many of you will know Robbie as an LGBTQ indigenous activist in favor of the oil and gas sector. He works
00:02:28.640largely in his other job with Robbie Picard media helping promote and grow indigenous run businesses and yet the
00:02:40.880Liberal Association of Carleton Ontario decided that the logo of his shirt that says Oil Sand Strong was somehow a white supremacist
00:02:54.640symbol and it was especially a white supremacist symbol when superstar conservative MP Pierre Poliev tweeted it out when he was out and about with his young daughter. Yes the Liberals saw a picture of a dad with his daughter wearing a shirt that promotes the Alberta oil and gas sector and the Liberals saw racism. No surprise but I thought I'd have Robbie on to talk about just about the
00:03:24.640I guess how ridiculous how ridiculous the whole affair was given as I pointed out earlier that he is a minority man and a part of the LGBTQ community. So please enjoy this interview I recorded earlier this week with my friend Robbie.
00:03:54.640Hey Robbie thanks for joining me I wanted to have you on because I'm sure as you're as shocked to find out as I am that you are indeed some sort of proponent of white supremacy.
00:04:08.440Alyse according to the formerly active Twitter account for the Carleton Liberal Riding Association.
00:04:19.440What like first of all what's your reaction to being called a white supremacist.
00:04:26.440You know Sheila I've had some time to reflect on this.
00:04:30.980It's I'm going to just be really really blunt and I and I and part of it is kind of funny because I'm you know very openly gay.
00:04:40.920My small business my staff are very diverse.
00:04:44.100You know I'm not going to get into that game of saying how diverse but incredibly diverse and it's really funny.
00:04:51.220Simultaneously as they labeled not just myself our brand and all the people that over 90,000 followers on Facebook that follow our movement.
00:05:00.980So I was actually on a mission to highlight and showcase in two separate projects one for McMurray 1000 and the other project on how multicultural the oil and gas industry is.
00:05:14.820And I was in the process of filming people and interviewing them based on why they came to Fort McMurray from all different backgrounds and all different multi called all skin colors all everything.
00:05:25.120So then I thought long and hard after this happened because you know me very well I try to be as nonpartisan as I can and I'm surrounded by people in the advocacy world that tend to lean very conservative.
00:05:36.320And it's hard because when you have a premier that like Rachel Notley, I want to try to do my best to work with the government of the day.
00:05:45.240And I have with with Rachel Notley when she wore that will I love all sounds hoodie, the former energy minister, wherever I could find common ground including the liberals.
00:05:56.600So my instinct is always to try as much as I can it's not easy try to be as nonpartisan now easy targets are like the largest hypocrite on the planet Elizabeth May.
00:06:09.240I mean I just had a picture with her where she is on a private jet, and it just shows her complete she's very very intelligent stupid person and I think the narcissism and the entitlement of Elizabeth May shows how out to lunch she is because she wants okay oil is dead but yet there's a picture with her on a private I'm on a private jet.1.00
00:06:34.080It just shows you that how out of touch they are with their own brand, however, when it came to the Carlton Liberal Association, I've had a lot of time to reflect so I'm not even angry and I'm going to say one thing it's real simple, Ottawa is recession proof for all parties.
00:06:54.180If you live in Ottawa there's always going to be some kind of job for political staffers writing associations, etc.
00:07:01.660This pandemic low oil prices has not affected them one bit, if they're broke they'll borrow money if they're broke they'll raise taxes, or they'll take oil and gas money from taxes of hard working Canadians in Alberta, and they will bitch about oil and gas and bitch about pipelines.
00:07:22.660And somehow act like they're above it.
00:07:29.660The part that bothered me the most is the fact that I actually quite like Pierre Polyev I've always had I like his spark.
00:07:35.660I think he's very good looking I mean he's kind of cute I mean there's just so many things that Pierre has going for him.
00:07:41.660But I, as a person from Fort McMurray person from Alberta, to have a politician of his caliber that wears our hoodie, which is not a tall white supremacist, any movement that has a fist from feminism to communism to black lives matters etc.
00:08:10.660It's a movement trying to have solidarity.
00:08:13.660And when we design that logo, we wanted to point out that the solidarity of Alberta's workers, the workforce, the oil workers that has been so demonized and attacked by elite hypocritical politicians like Elizabeth May.
00:08:29.660And celebrities like Jane Fonda, Neil Young, that we wanted to say we have solidarity together and know you you're what you're painting us in our community and our jobs and our industry is completely false.
00:08:42.660So when you have a federal politician of Pierre's stature and to wear our hoodie in support of our movement, the brand, and everything else, it was an honor.
00:08:55.660When I first saw it before their gravely misguided missile they launched our way, I had a little emotional moment because he wasn't just you know he had his daughter, they're out having a beer with their family, it was a very, very peaceful tweet that he put out and one that took a little political capital to do, especially in Ottawa.
00:09:22.660So we owe Pierre Polyev support on this on the next level because that Liberal Riding Association, whoever's in charge of the communication is a complete and utter moron who lacks basic intelligence, common sense, and is a complete elite person.
00:09:39.660And I think I'm, I think I know who did the tweet and I have been calmly waiting before I responded.
00:09:46.660The thing that also concerned me very much, and I typically about to say something that I don't typically do.
00:09:56.060The fact that that was barely a blip in some of the mainstream media concerned me a lot.
00:10:05.060The Liberal Riding Association of Carleton owes, well, you know, and this is where I'm torn.
00:10:11.480I am not some baby that needs an apology when someone hurts my feelings.
00:10:16.480And everyone's like you need to get them apologize because that's what they do to the right.
00:10:21.480I don't want their apology. I don't give too much. I think they should apologize to Pierre and his family.
00:10:26.480A lot of the Liberals also feel the same.
00:10:59.480And I am going to be putting the video response out to it.
00:11:04.480I know it wasn't quickly as I should have, but I wanted some time.
00:11:09.480I, I, I, I play a long game I have in my advocacy.
00:11:14.480I don't just jump on every, every wave.
00:11:17.480And I wanted to think it through a little bit.
00:11:20.480I, I wanted to think about the, the cruelty that came from those very cushy politician type people or the, the staffers from the Carlton Noble Association.
00:11:35.480I'm going to stop short of going after Trudeau or, I mean, people said you should ask Justin Trudeau to apologize and all that.
00:11:54.480Um, maybe, I mean, I know Justin Trudeau.
00:12:00.480I, I did a few events for him and I actually helped the liberal party years ago.
00:12:05.480Uh, when Kyle Harrieta was running the campaign, I helped twice.
00:12:08.480And then I kind of became nonpartisan and then I helped David Udega a little bit.
00:12:12.480And I've also, I've helped people from all political stripes.
00:12:15.480So maybe, yes, maybe I could get a, an apology from our prime minister, but I think this, uh, identity politics stuff needs to stop and you cannot just label.
00:12:26.480Look, calling someone a racist is bad enough, but calling some organization, a white supremacist, that's the next level.
00:12:36.480That's trying to say that, you know, that I wouldn't associate with anyone from any other race that I wouldn't have employees that work for my business that are, you know, from the Philippines or trans or all other kinds of stuff.
00:12:48.480I, it was a way to, to paint a brush on something that is very valuable.
00:12:53.480Like I believe that these, these over-educated under intelligent political elites that don't have any real world experience, don't understand when you turn a light switch on how it turns on, or when you drive a solar car that it actually one way or another is powered by fossil fuels to make it.
00:13:18.480There is no such thing as green energy and attacking our main industry that's from Ottawa is absurd.
00:13:28.480And here's the thing they all need to wake up to.
00:13:32.480Ottawa is the capital, meaning that all MPs that are in Ottawa, particularly the ones from Ottawa, need to represent all Canadians.
00:13:43.480Not just the ones that they somehow think are morally superior in their false senses of morality because they don't have basic common sense.
00:13:54.480Well, and I think it revealed a bigotry.
00:13:57.480I think we all know exists inherently.
00:14:00.480We all know that bigotry from the liberals against Alberta exists, but it's very rare to catch it in nature happening like that.
00:14:10.480And I think that's what happened there when they just couldn't get their heads around the fact that the oil patch, I would suggest not only is it multicultural, I would say the oil patch is the most indigenous industry in the entire country.
00:14:27.480If I had to call an industry indigenous, I would call the oil patch, it's an indigenous communities, it's employing indigenous people, it's giving indigenous people a way forward out of generational poverty.
00:14:37.480It's a wealth generator, and it's something to be proud of.
00:14:40.480And when the liberals from outside of Alberta looked at that picture of Pierre Polyev with his little daughter, by the way, and saw something evil about not just Pierre Polyev, but about the industry and the people who support it.
00:14:55.480It revealed a lot about exactly how they think about Albertans something you don't always point out is that you are a full member of the average Alberta Aboriginal Business Association and 90% of the revenue of Robbie Picard media comes from indigenous owned businesses.
00:15:22.480You not only are an indigenous man, but you're helping indigenous companies become successful, and the liberals from their perch somewhere outside of Alberta saw the work that you do and said that there gotta be a white supremacist.
00:15:37.880Why? He's from Alberta. It's gross.1.00
00:15:40.320Yeah, it is gross. And it showed the true disdain. I think he touched on it. And I think, you know what, we need to start addressing it as there is, there is, there is some sort of
00:15:59.120In a coin phrase, oil worker phobia that comes out of Ottawa, and it's two, three, it's threefold. One, you see it all the time. Like, I mean, I deal with it here too.
00:16:10.320You have certain people that are kind of employed in government that somehow just think that they're better than everyone else. And they, they, they have this era about them that is just sort of like, and I think that came out a little bit.
00:16:26.000Um, I think the hate they have for Pierre as a person, as a politician came out the venom that it wasn't, it wasn't, I mean, it's vicious. Um, and I think basically they're, they're very, very misguided on what the rest of the country is going through and what we've contributed.
00:16:46.660Um, and I think one of the things, and I, I struggle with this. I, I'm a fighter. I don't like, uh, I don't like talking about hurt feelings or when I, you know, when I'm stunned, I'd rather just, you know, take deal with it internally and not be a victim.
00:17:03.180And that's one of the reasons I like, I didn't jump on this right away. I mean, you can call me sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never hurt me. And I, and I think that we're in a society now. Like I don't, I don't need to, to freak out.
00:17:16.380Every time someone says they don't like my shirts or me, I don't, I, I do, I give to be perfectly honest with you. You have to bleep that, but I don't care. So I had to pause a little bit, but I also smell a little bit of an opportunity here to awaken and educate Ottawa.
00:17:33.340And I think next chance, again, I'm going to go to Ottawa. I'm going to go hand out, I love, or sorry, oil, oil sand strong stickers and buttons and, uh, hoodies in Carlton. And maybe I'll pay a visit to the local riding association. I mean, who knows, maybe just a post office box, but I, I think that I'm going to, to, to, to set up shop there for about a week and have conversations with the, the elite that live there that throw this venom.
00:18:03.340Um, I mean, it's just, it's, it's absurd. And, um, I, uh, you know, I'm shocked. I mean, it was shocking how absurd that was. And you're right. There's an underlying hate there. I mean, and you, I mean, even, you know, even Gerald Butts chimed in on it too. You know what I mean? And, um, he went after Pierre a little bit and said, well, this is his next role.
00:18:30.460We'll be working, uh, um, with a VP with cap. Okay. Butts what's wrong with having a role at the VP of cap. Yeah. I mean, it, it beats, uh, you know, manipulating the only, the first, uh, indigenous, uh, a minister of justice.0.77
00:18:48.520Um, it, it, it beats working with SNC Lavalier. It beats, uh, one day we're at the world wildlife foundation. And then the next for this, I mean, um,
00:18:59.100Um, I met Gerald Butts once, he ran from us. We tried to talk to him when he was in Florida McMurray. But, um, I would argue that people that wear the oil sand strong hoodie are a lot, have a lot more values in their ability to bend and break, uh, female politicians.0.97
00:19:19.240And that spectacle, what would happen to, um, to, um, Jody Wilson, right? Yes. Jody Wilson, right? Yes. Jody Wilson, right? Well, and, uh, Jane Phillipa was, uh, next level creepy.0.95