Rebel News Podcast - New Calgary based Rebel talks gun rights, transparency and pipelines (Guest： Keean Bexte)

00:00:00.000 We've got a new troublemaker on the Rebel team. He's based in Calgary and tonight we're discussing some of the things that we're both passionate about like gun rights, government transparency, how awful the NDP are, and pipelines. I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed and you're watching The Gunn Show.

00:00:30.000 Alberta's election is not even a year away. It's May 2019. Things are going to get a little wild in this province between then and now as the NDP get more and more desperate to hang on to power.

00:00:49.200 The NDP, they're going to hide their pasts and hide their lack of action and lack of advocacy on issues that are important to real, normal, everyday Albertans.

00:01:00.780 And just last fall, Calgary's Mayor Nenshi was given another term, despite a little bit of a last-minute conservative insurgency. 0.91

00:01:08.320 Nenshi feels like he's got a mandate to continue with his ongoing policy of governing from behind closed doors and wasting taxpayer money on vanity projects like an Olympics and public art that looks like garbage.

00:01:22.920 There is so much going on in our city to the south that we had to call in reinforcements.

00:01:29.460 We've hired a new advocacy journalist and some of you may have seen his work already.

00:01:34.660 His name is Kian Bextie and part of his job is fighting for issues that you care about.

00:01:40.900 So joining me tonight to discuss some of the things that are on the top of his mind and that matter to him is my scrappy new co-worker, Kian Bextie.

00:02:04.660 So joining me now from Vulcan, Alberta, is new Rebel contributor Kian Bextie.

00:02:14.800 Hey, Kian, thanks for joining me.

00:02:16.900 No problem. Thanks for having me.

00:02:18.180 So I think it's important to have you on my show because you and I are going to be working very closely going forward.

00:02:25.340 And I think we care a lot about the same issues.

00:02:28.820 I think we're passionate about, you know, government accountability and personal responsibility and holding politicians to account.

00:02:36.620 And I thought it was important to have you on so that our viewers could get to know you a little bit better.

00:02:42.400 And you and I could just sort of chit chat about the things that are important to both of us.

00:02:47.100 And you hit the ground running when you came to work for us here at the Rebel.

00:02:52.700 You started off your very first video, your very first story was a campaign against lowering the speed limit in Calgary.

00:03:01.080 Why don't you tell us a little bit about that and give us an update?

00:03:04.560 Because some of the circumstances around your story are changing pretty fast.

00:03:10.120 Yeah, for sure.

00:03:10.740 So we started this campaign about a week and a half ago where we after we found out that city council was interested or looking into reducing the speed limit in the residential streets of Calgary.

00:03:25.640 Drew Farrell, the councillor who's spearheading this, has a history of of wanting to reduce speed limits in the city no matter where they are.

00:03:34.060 That's just what she does. 1.00

00:03:35.360 Originally, it started back in her single ward in the Sunnyside area where she wanted to reduce the local speed limit to make the entire city more pedestrian friendly.

00:03:47.740 And it even went as far as to wanting to block off Memorial Drive, one of the largest arteries in the entire city.

00:03:55.160 Just block it off entirely for part of the day so that there could be a farmer's market type pedestrian gathering.

00:04:02.680 And she's just the most anti-car person you can find in the city. 0.98

00:04:06.420 And she just happens to be sitting.

00:04:08.020 Oh, sorry.

00:04:08.700 She just happens to be sitting on city council. 1.00

00:04:11.300 So after that failed the reducter part of her pedestrian strategy a couple of years ago, now that there's a new council, she thought she could have some more support for this.

00:04:22.280 She brought it back.

00:04:24.020 And and this time it passed.

00:04:26.520 So the speed limits aren't being reduced right now, but by margin of I believe it was eight to six, they've agreed to start looking into the idea.

00:04:37.200 So they've directed the city administration to start costing it out and working with their shareholders so that by the time September comes around next year, they'll be able to they'll be able to reduce the speed limits from 50 kilometers an hour to 30 kilometers an hour on every single residential street in the city.

00:05:00.960 Is it me or does this feel like nothing more than a cash grab?

00:05:03.800 Well, it very well could be.

00:05:06.920 I mean, they say it's under the guise of wanting to protect pedestrians.

00:05:11.740 But if if that was the case, they would they would opt for a more sensible approach, like raised crosswalks or or less wide roadways.

00:05:24.220 But instead, they've decided to just slow the city down or at least the speed limit down.

00:05:30.080 Whether or not this is actually going to slow drivers down is another question.

00:05:32.720 But they the city collected over 20 million dollars in in revenue from photo radar taxes last like this was 2016 numbers, I think.

00:05:44.540 So when the speed limits reduced from 50 to 30, like just imagine how much money they're going to make.

00:05:49.800 And you can bet that they're going to be spending this on bike lanes, they're going to be spending on whatever they can that is just going to keep hurting cars and keep hurting suburban Calgary.

00:05:58.720 Well, and that's the thing, like we see it all the time in Edmonton.

00:06:03.140 But I would say that Calgary is even more sprawling.

00:06:06.320 It's a commuter city.

00:06:07.860 This idea that cities that were built and suburbs that were built for people to live outside of the city and commute like that's why suburbs are built so that you can get in your car, drive to the city and drive back out.

00:06:22.440 People don't necessarily want to live in the city and there's this perpetual war on cars that someone who lives in in Airdrie or, you know, one of the surrounding bedroom communities that they should be riding their bike.

00:06:35.560 It just doesn't work, especially in Western Canada, with the exception of probably Vancouver.

00:06:42.340 We're just not built to operate that way.

00:06:45.360 It's a strange mentality.

00:06:47.540 It is very strange.

00:06:48.360 I just want to quote something from the from the resolution that they passed yesterday.

00:06:52.820 It says, be it further resolved that all communities currently being planned have local road network designs that do not prioritize speed and flow of traffic over safety of non-motor vehicle users.

00:07:07.780 Communities under design shall recognize the need for safe pedestrian infrastructure.

00:07:11.920 They just have this warped idea that they need to pit drivers against cars, drivers against pedestrians, like this false dichotomy that only one can benefit if the other one is hurt in the process.

00:07:28.840 And it's really frustrating because they just don't seem to give any thought to infrastructure changes, be it speed bumps or raised crosswalks.

00:07:40.160 They just they just want to make pedestrians feel unsafe so that so that they can keep up their war on cars.

00:07:49.840 I guess that sort of brings me to my next question to you about what's happening down at Calgary City Hall.

00:07:57.360 It seems like they're a bunch of cloistered bureaucrats and frankly, a little bit like totalitarians down there.

00:08:06.080 They sort of don't think that the public has any right to know what's going on at Calgary City Hall.

00:08:13.540 We just received news that Mayor Nenshi has paid out $83,000 to lawyers representing city councillors to basically block the public from finding out what sort of misconduct, if any, is happening down at Calgary City Hall.

00:08:38.500 Yeah, well, I'm glad you clarified that was the thing that they were trying to hide from the public because there's a lot right now from the Olympic bid, from the leaked council documents, from the in-camera session to this.

00:08:52.080 Like, it's just Nenshi and his band of buddies are trying desperately to hide everything they can from the public.

00:08:59.520 Whatever it is, whatever they're doing, the public cannot know about it.

00:09:02.360 And it seems to be something that's really special to Calgary.

00:09:05.920 There's no other city in Canada that really comes close to, A, how much time we spend in camera, and B, how much time our councillors spend getting sued or suing other people,

00:09:17.960 or just spending money on lawyers for whatever reason, whether it be to hide FOIP requests or redact FOIP requests or because they've done other undesirable things.

00:09:33.360 So $83,000 is a lot of money.

00:09:35.880 It's really disappointing, I think, that it took so much effort on behalf of, you know, got to give the credit where credit is due, the CBC, how much work it took them to actually get this amount of money disclosed to the public.

00:09:51.440 It's just sad, really, all around.

00:09:53.500 Yeah, I mean, when you really think about it in real-life terms, Nenshi paid lawyers tax dollars to prevent taxpayers from finding out what's going down at City Hall when taxpayers pay their salary.

00:10:10.780 I mean, it's so sneaky and clandestine, and it's, you know, the opposite of the transparency that he promised Calgarians.

00:10:20.940 And you mentioned something that I wanted to touch on.

00:10:25.100 Our friends from Safe Calgary were talking about this this week.

00:10:29.740 They talked about the amount of times that Nenshi has appeared, or that Nenshi and City Council have met in camera.

00:10:38.320 Now, that's like a fancy downtown City Council jargon for meeting in private.

00:10:44.460 So there's no public participation.

00:10:47.700 You can't go down and see these council meetings.

00:10:50.400 The way you normally could sit in on any sort of legislative session.

00:10:54.280 The City of Calgary, in two years, between 2014 and 2016, so again, under Mayor Nenshi, they've met, as they say, in camera, 700 times.

00:11:07.100 And according to Safe Calgary, 25% of all council meetings are secret.

00:11:12.480 And, you know, when you compare that to other cities across the country, Toronto has only met 18 times in camera in that same amount of time.

00:11:23.000 It's shocking.

00:11:23.560 It is, and it's undemocratic.

00:11:27.440 Fundamentally, there's a problem where, when we go to an election, we are not able to judge our elected officials based off of what they've done because it's so in secret.

00:11:39.180 But going back to the $83,000 spent on legal fees, we still don't know which councillors were behind that because it was redacted by the city administration.

00:11:50.300 When they go in council, we have no idea what views these councillors are taking on matters that aren't allowed to be disclosed to the public.

00:12:00.140 And when someone does disclose it to the public, then Nenshi goes after them like they've just broken the law, like they're criminals, when all they really did was share with their constituents what their government is doing.

00:12:16.520 This isn't Nenshi's government.

00:12:18.480 It's the people's government.

00:12:20.240 It's Calgarians' government.

00:12:21.460 But Nenshi just seems to think that it belongs to him, and if it doesn't go his way, he's just going to go into the council chambers and make it so behind closed doors.

00:12:32.240 Well, in this attitude of secrecy and this idea that city council is entitled to information and they're entitled to withhold that information has sort of spilled over into the Olympic bid.

00:12:45.420 Yeah, I mean, there was a couple questions being asked of the Olympic bidding CEO.

00:12:58.680 I can't remember her name, it's slipping my mind right now.

00:13:01.400 But I went and sat in on that council session because I was interested in the 30-kilometer-an-hour speed limit reduction, which was supposed to be happening that same day,

00:13:08.380 but it was pushed back a couple weeks because it took so long to talk about the Olympic bid.

00:13:12.300 But after, time and time again, the councillor stood up and asked the Bidco CEO questions, and she just kind of gave non-answers.

00:13:21.520 And a lot of the councillors were completely fine with that.

00:13:25.080 They were shooting her puffballs.

00:13:26.460 And then it came to Jeremy Farkas, who was really interested in how much money was going to be spent, city dollars was going to be spent,

00:13:34.560 on Bidco advertising the bid to the public during the plebiscite.

00:13:39.560 And the councillor was, Jeremy Farkas, sort of put the Bidco CEO in a corner and eventually it came out.

00:13:48.840 But it was just, he had to fight tooth and nail that the city was going to be spending money on Bidco to be manipulating the public to be voting yes.

00:13:57.320 She said, and this is just a rough quote, but she said that they will be trying to inform Calgarians how impressive this bid will be and how, why they should be voting yes.

00:14:11.040 Not a two sides of the coin kind of thing.

00:14:13.360 It was just why they should be supporting the bid.

00:14:16.120 Millions of dollars are going to be spent on that.

00:14:17.560 So going forward, it's something that I'm really going to be interested in following and sharing with our viewers,

00:14:22.900 because I just think it's just the most dastardly thing to be spending this much money.

00:14:28.800 Well, we have yet to find out exactly how much money it will be.

00:14:31.400 But to be spending any money trying to manipulate the public in the midst of a democratic vote, I think it's deplorable.

00:14:38.420 Well, and I think it is something that while, you know, currently taxpayers are footing the bill for Bidco, this company, that it exists, at least according to its mandate, to decide or to present, you know, evidence whether or not Calgary should even pursue the bid.

00:14:58.660 That's why it exists, but it looks like it's already promoting the yes side and City of Calgary is already spending money on that.

00:15:06.060 But the bid itself lowball $5.2 billion, and that number keeps going up.

00:15:13.200 It's gone up a billion dollars since last spring, and apparently it's supposed to be a cost-sharing initiative.

00:15:20.700 The feds are going to kick in some money. 1.00

00:15:23.020 Rachel Notley is supposed to kick in the money. 1.00

00:15:24.940 No level of government can actually afford that in this economy.

00:15:27.880 But I think it's something that the entire country needs to care about, because every single Canadian taxpayer is going to be footing the bill for,

00:15:35.300 what I would suggest is a vanity project and legacy project for Mayor Nenshi and, to some extent, Rachel Notley.

00:15:44.580 I mean, absolutely.

00:15:46.000 I think Rachel Notley specifically knows that she's going to be, she's probably going to be gone by the time, but it will be her legacy.

00:15:53.340 I want to go back to what you said, though, about the feds, the province, and the city pitching the money.

00:15:59.120 It seems like every level of government is trying to say, oh, but look at how much this other level of government is pitching in.

00:16:06.140 At the end of the day, Calgary taxpayers pay money to the city of Calgary, the province of Alberta, and the federal government of Canada.

00:16:14.960 They say it's the other government pitching the money, but at the end of the day, it's the exact same people time and time again.

00:16:21.340 Whether or not you're in southern Alberta, northern Alberta, Quebec, or in Calgary, the amount is variable.

00:16:29.280 But at the end of the day, every taxpayer is going to be on the hook for these games, which have a track record of overspending, of losing revenue,

00:16:39.080 and being just a corrupt organization that we just don't need to take any part in.

00:16:46.140 Now, we sort of wandered into Rachel Notley Criticism Country, which is one of my favorite places to be.

00:16:54.640 Again, you know, credit where it's due, but the CBC got access to our energy minister, Marga McQuaig-Boyd, and her chief of staff.

00:17:07.380 The CBC filed a freedom of information request to get access to their emails during the time of April 8th and May 28th.

00:17:15.640 So that was, you know, basically deadline time for Trans Mountain.

00:17:22.660 And I guess the first thing I'll say is I'm always glad when Marga McQuaig-Boyd is in the news,

00:17:28.360 because I'm always happy to hear that woman is still alive, because we actually never hear anything from her,

00:17:36.440 and she should be one of the most prominent people in Rachel Notley's cabinet, considering.

00:17:40.440 So, you know, good that we have proof of life.

00:17:44.620 But during that time, when they should have been furiously working on doing whatever they could to save Trans Mountain,

00:17:52.800 their main focus was on Jason Kenney,

00:17:56.520 and how the allegedly non-partisan bureaucrats in the energy ministry could spin the failure of Rachel Notley's government on Trans Mountain

00:18:09.780 as somehow Jason Kenney's doing years earlier.

00:18:15.220 I mean, time and time again, whether it's the mainstream media or partisan bureaucrats,

00:18:22.840 they keep saying that Stephen Harper and his government made absolutely no progress on pipelines,

00:18:29.580 when that's categorically untrue.

00:18:31.600 And the stark contrast between the tone of discussions back in the Harper era is so, so different than right now,

00:18:42.400 where right now it's all about reconciliation and appeasement, whereas before it's about getting a job done.

00:18:48.860 That doesn't seem to be the case anymore, certainly not for Rachel Notley.

00:18:51.980 I mean, Trudeau's a lost cause, but at least you'd think that the premier of oil country would be sticking up for us.

00:18:59.100 But no, for her, it's just, it seems like a game, honestly, a political game that she's just barely hanging on to

00:19:10.660 so that she can try and get elected next term. 1.00

00:19:14.000 You know, and can anybody really not understand why we can't get a pipeline done

00:19:19.500 when the energy ministry bureaucrats are worried about helping Rachel Notley win the next election

00:19:25.520 instead of saving 8,000 jobs directly tied to TMX.

00:19:30.520 I mean, that's the story of this government, though.

00:19:32.320 Nothing is their fault, and their priorities are just so skewed.

00:19:37.440 They were focused on saving their own political shirts

00:19:40.880 instead of, you know, keeping clothes on the back of the children of 8,000 oil patch workers.

00:19:47.860 Absolutely. There's that.

00:19:48.840 It's either past government's fault or another government entirely.

00:19:54.200 You're right. It is never Rachel Notley's fault.

00:19:56.260 There's that.

00:19:57.520 There's the blame, name and blame game.

00:19:59.780 And then there's the fact that our confederation is in shambles,

00:20:02.980 the fact that we can't build such a simple project.

00:20:06.320 I mean, I don't want to say it's simple.

00:20:07.840 There's so much money being invested in this, and so many workers' jobs are on the line.

00:20:12.300 But really, this should be simple, right?

00:20:15.420 Like, it should be laying a pipe to tie water.

00:20:18.520 That's what it needs to be.

00:20:19.940 And there's just so many variables thrown into this, needless variables,

00:20:24.600 by our confederation from Quebec to BC that are making this difficult

00:20:30.040 purposely for either ideologically driven reasons

00:20:36.920 or because they just really don't like Alberta for some reason.

00:20:41.380 And at the end of the day, it's the workers and the children of those workers

00:20:45.120 that are catching the flack for that.

00:20:48.460 You know, and you're so right when you say it really,

00:20:50.740 this pipeline is a literal no-brainer.

00:20:53.560 It's the twinning of an existing pipeline that has been in operation since the end

00:21:00.800 of the Korean War, and it'll be twinned in the existing easement.

00:21:06.520 You know, I've been up on Burnaby Mountain.

00:21:08.640 You don't know that there's a tank farm there.

00:21:10.680 The trees have grown up around it because the thing has been there that long.

00:21:15.420 And the people who live on Burnaby Mountain literally don't care

00:21:19.300 that there's a tank farm there.

00:21:20.500 It's all these, like, foreign interlopers from other places in British Columbia 1.00

00:21:24.500 and foreign-funded radicals who seem to be fighting

00:21:28.100 for what the people who live in the community don't actually care about.

00:21:33.560 Yeah.

00:21:35.580 Now, the last thing I wanted to talk to you about today is because you're rural,

00:21:42.120 you're from a farm, I'm from a farm.

00:21:44.460 And so firearms are a way of life for, at least for me, I bet they are for you.

00:21:51.180 You know, it's from gopher shooting in the spring, which is pretty fun,

00:21:55.960 to predator control, to hunting.

00:21:59.760 It's just a way of life.

00:22:02.320 And on Monday night in the House of Commons,

00:22:06.660 the Liberals' latest gun control law, Bill C-71, passed the House of Commons.

00:22:12.380 And now it's headed off to the Senate.

00:22:13.820 And what I think a lot of people don't realize is it's not just about new rules

00:22:22.000 around transporting restricted firearms.

00:22:25.440 But this also, again, made a series of Canadian firearms,

00:22:31.500 at least when this passes the Senate,

00:22:33.060 it will make a bunch of those firearms illegal again.

00:22:36.900 So they've moved directly from not even restricted.

00:22:41.060 They're just from regular old, you know, long guns sitting in the gun cabinet to prohibited.

00:22:48.440 So again, because of an act of parliament,

00:22:52.740 a whole swath of Canadians are criminals on paper when they haven't done anything wrong.

00:22:58.820 And it just seems like constantly these gun control legislation seems to be churned out of

00:23:04.860 this belt between Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal and the rest of the country.

00:23:11.060 I guess what the Americans would call flyover country,

00:23:13.940 but the West and the rest of down East.

00:23:17.900 We have to live by these rules created to deal with criminals in their progressive cities

00:23:24.140 when we haven't done anything wrong.

00:23:26.460 No, it's just like back, I don't remember the bill exactly,

00:23:29.660 but when they made a .22 clip, a criminal offense to have.

00:23:34.720 I think if it had more than 10 rounds in it,

00:23:37.420 if you're going outside into your field to shoot more than 10 gophers,

00:23:41.440 you're a criminal, you know, like, 0.60

00:23:42.760 and they changed the rules in the middle of the game, just like that,

00:23:45.580 when there was really no reason.

00:23:47.280 I can't, I don't know if there's ever been an instance in Canada

00:23:51.100 where a .22 has been used for a mash,

00:23:53.760 a .22 long gun rifle has been used for a mash shooting.

00:23:58.520 I don't think it ever has, but no, those farmers out in the field,

00:24:03.360 they're the criminals and they're the ones that we got as scapegoats, so.

00:24:07.600 You know, on some level, you know,

00:24:11.640 as someone who firmly believes in firearms rights

00:24:14.060 and who makes it a point to exercise my firearms rights as a Canadian

00:24:19.220 as frequently as I can, because, you know, frankly, it's fun,

00:24:22.500 I sort of welcome the blowback the Liberals are going to get for this

00:24:28.420 from their own rural ridings.

00:24:34.000 I was talking to Tony Bernardo from the Canadian Shooting Sports Association

00:24:38.000 and by their best estimates,

00:24:40.280 they say roughly 60 seats were lost by the Liberals

00:24:43.560 over the long gun registry

00:24:46.640 and more specifically by Stephen Harper promising

00:24:49.860 to nuke the long gun registry.

00:24:53.020 That was enough to flip those rural ridings. 0.97

00:24:57.360 So I, as much as I hate, you know,

00:25:01.380 being tread upon by the Liberals,

00:25:05.260 this could be the, between this

00:25:07.240 and their musings about handgun confiscation,

00:25:11.600 they're in for a world of hurt, I think.

00:25:15.200 Yeah, I mean, those seats that they lost,

00:25:17.500 they're the seats that are in Saskatchewan that they could have won,

00:25:20.340 they're the seats in Manitoba and rural northern Ontario

00:25:24.000 that really it's the lifestyle, like you said earlier,

00:25:27.780 from predator mitigation to pest mitigation.

00:25:32.060 It's not like shooting gophers and controlling pests like that.

00:25:35.160 It's not even just a fun activity on the weekend.

00:25:39.140 They destroy fields of alfalfa in magnitudes of bales, you know,

00:25:45.680 like you shoot a certain amount of gophers

00:25:47.520 and you have a certain amount more revenue on your farm

00:25:50.580 because those gophers aren't a problem.

00:25:52.580 I mean, I guess the alternative is spreading strychnine around the field

00:25:56.800 so that it gets biomagnified into the ecosystem

00:25:59.540 and then there's hawks and birds of prey

00:26:04.440 that can't have hashlings anymore.

00:26:06.820 So I guess it's up to the Liberals

00:26:08.960 if they want to take the environmental stance on this one

00:26:11.160 or if they want to attack firearms owners,

00:26:14.520 but it's one of the other guys.

00:26:16.200 You know, isn't that always the way?

00:26:17.240 There's always those unintended consequences

00:26:19.020 that urban Liberals just don't understand.

00:26:21.840 Always, like every single time.

00:26:24.580 You know, Kian, I wanted to give you a chance

00:26:26.880 to let us know what sort of stories

00:26:30.100 that you're going to be working on in the future

00:26:31.740 and maybe just how people can get a hold of you

00:26:34.760 if they have story ideas or concerns and comments.

00:26:38.720 Where can they find you?

00:26:40.160 Sure.

00:26:40.500 So you can, if anyone has a story idea,

00:26:43.680 they can always tweet me at economic.

00:26:46.300 I'm sure it can show up somewhere on the screen here.

00:26:48.800 And then also my email,

00:26:51.420 which is kian at rnnmail.ca.

00:26:56.180 What I'm going to be working on here in the future is,

00:27:00.160 and I don't want to give away too much,

00:27:01.660 but there's a lot of work

00:27:03.120 that we're going to be putting into

00:27:04.560 really taking down the NDP backbench or MLAs

00:27:10.220 one by one,

00:27:12.180 really showing to the public

00:27:14.540 how much they've been A, wasting taxpayers' money

00:27:18.440 and B, how they've been misrepresenting Albertans

00:27:21.760 because we know that they're an accidental government

00:27:26.420 and most of these NDP MLAs

00:27:27.940 who you can see are jumping ship already

00:27:29.760 from that guy in northern Calgary Hawkwood MLA.

00:27:33.360 What's his name?

00:27:34.200 Mike Connolly.

00:27:35.380 Yeah.

00:27:35.700 He's out.

00:27:37.860 He's the latest to a rat to jump off the SS Notley.

00:27:40.340 Yeah. 0.84

00:27:40.580 And they're all jumping ship,

00:27:44.020 and you know because they really don't care about this job.

00:27:46.020 They just happened into it in their 20s and their 30s.

00:27:49.880 They don't know what they're doing,

00:27:51.060 so there's lots of ammo,

00:27:52.580 and we're going to be slowly taking that apart

00:27:55.020 as we come up to the next election

00:27:56.700 because it's pretty soon here.

00:27:57.800 I think it's in six months or so.

00:28:00.320 May.

00:28:00.340 Yeah, May 2019.

00:28:02.200 Can't wait.

00:28:03.000 I cannot wait.

00:28:04.460 I am going to be,

00:28:07.580 well, let's just say I'm taking the next day off work.

00:28:10.160 Like, don't expect any work from me the next day.

00:28:13.540 Yeah.

00:28:13.700 And I wanted to thank you so much for coming on the show,

00:28:16.540 and I look forward to seeing

00:28:18.880 what sort of exciting things you're working on next.

00:28:21.820 Awesome.

00:28:22.280 I'll keep you posted, and thanks for having me.

00:28:23.760 Thanks, Kian.

00:28:24.200 Thanks, Kian.

00:28:24.240 Thanks, Kian.

00:28:24.280 Thanks, Kian.

00:28:24.320 Thanks, Kian.

00:28:26.320 Thanks, Kian.

00:28:28.200 Thanks, Kian.

00:28:28.320 Thanks, Kian.

00:28:30.200 Thanks, Kian.

00:28:30.320 Thanks, Kian.

00:28:32.320 Thanks, Kian.

00:28:34.060 I'm very excited to be working with Kian.

00:28:40.040 He and I are committed to holding the government accountable,

00:28:43.400 and we don't just mean Rachel Notley's NDP government

00:28:46.860 or Nenshi at Calgary City Hall

00:28:49.020 or Don Iverson in Edmonton

00:28:51.040 or even Justin Trudeau in Ottawa.

00:28:53.640 We also mean that when Jason Kenney

00:28:56.840 eventually defeats Rachel Notley in the next election,

00:29:00.060 that we will be there to hold Kenney accountable

00:29:02.940 to the people who elected him also.

00:29:05.760 We are going to remind Kenney

00:29:07.600 that he promised to repeal a carbon tax

00:29:10.020 as his first act as Premier.

00:29:13.100 And when the United Conservative Party

00:29:14.900 inevitably drifts left,

00:29:17.060 it will be our job to gently drag them back right.

00:29:20.720 It might not make us very popular

00:29:23.120 with Conservative politicians,

00:29:24.880 but being a thorn in the side of politicians

00:29:27.520 has never really bothered us much.

00:29:29.740 Well, everybody, that's the show for tonight.

00:29:32.320 I hope you know Kian a little bit better now.

00:29:34.760 I know I do.

00:29:35.820 Thank you so much for tuning in.

00:29:37.580 I'll see everybody back here in the same time,

00:29:39.960 in the same place next week.

00:29:41.460 And remember,

00:29:42.440 don't let the government tell you

00:29:43.920 that you've had too much to think.

00:29:59.740 We'll see everybody in the same place.

00:30:13.320 Thank you.

Rebel News Podcast - September 27, 2018

New Calgary based Rebel talks gun rights, transparency and pipelines (Guest： Keean Bexte)

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