Rachel Notley says she's shocked, shocked to find out that anti-oil sands protesters are funded by foreign countries. She also criticizes the U.S. campaign dedicated to landlocking Alberta oil by demonizing our industry.
00:14:56.020So I'm in the billboard truck, I'm very excited still, and we just left the University of Calgary, campus security came and kicked us off, not much of a surprise, I guess they told us that we needed to book the space, I didn't know that you needed to book roads, but whatever, it was kind of expected.
00:15:18.700We're on our way to Rachel Notley's campaign stop now, it's just outside of Calgary Varsity, but it's being co-hosted with the communist Anne McGrath, so we're going to go park outside of the event and see if we can catch some Notley, or some Notley supporters looking at the board.
00:15:32.980So I'm standing right outside of the breadline at Rachel Notley's campaign stop here with Anne McGrath, you can see behind me, the billboard is right there, the refresh rate on my camera, it's probably not going to pick it up, but I'm going to go into this breadline here and ask if they even knew that Anne McGrath...
00:15:47.140The video goes on for almost 10 minutes, it is gold, it is so delightful, you know, people sometimes say, what do you mean by the rebel, why are you called the rebel?
00:15:55.340Well, there's a rebellious, irreverent spirit, and you can see it there, Anne McGrath, of course, being an actual communist party candidate from the 80s, running for Rachel Notley in 2019, Kean has done outstanding work on that, but of course that's just one of 87 ridings across the province, and between Kean and our Alberta Bureau Chief, Sheila Gunn-Reed, we have covered,
00:16:16.440I'd say most of them, and covered them not only journalistically, but with our Stop Notley lawn signs, and Sheila Gunn-Reed's latest best-selling book, Stop Notley, The Case for Throwing Out the NDP, Kean joins us now, live via Skype from Calgary, Kean, great to see you again, congratulations on a triumphal tour yesterday, that was so cathartic and so much fun to watch.
00:16:40.060Thanks, yeah, it was a blast to do, we got in the vehicle around the end of the work day for everyone, and then drove around the riding through campus, where there's tons of students, we hung around outside of the residence buildings, where there's thousands of young voters needing to hear this message, and then we took it to a Rachel Notley campaign stop, where there was a line of folks, we had originally parked it right in front of the actual location,
00:17:09.680and then the driver actually did a loop around to get into a better position, and when they did, when the driver did that, the NDP advance team that was in the building waiting for Rachel Notley to come and preparing for the event,
00:17:23.420all came out of the building at once, ran to their cars, and moved them in locations so that we couldn't get back to our original spot, but we parked right across the street, which was fine, and what was really funny was that Rachel Notley's appearance was delayed by an entire hour, everyone that got there appeared at 5.30, got into the event at 5.30, and that's when Rachel Notley was supposed to appear,
00:17:46.940but she was actually delayed by an hour, because they couldn't figure out how to get her into the building without me asking her any questions, so they ended up bringing a bunch of folks back outside to act as like a human shield between myself and Rachel Notley's campaign van that pulled onto the property, so she was sheltered the whole way, so I wasn't really able to ask her what she thought about the billboard, but I took a little bit of entertainment from the fact that the whole event was delayed by an hour.
00:18:13.000You know, it's fun to watch, and you are quite precocious, I'll say it, my view is, you are an antidote to the compliant, submissive, stenographic, crony media, and they don't know what to do, but when you asked Anne McGrath questions about a communist past, or when you asked Darren Billis about his wife's sworn court affidavit that he's a drug addict and a philanderer,
00:18:41.860when you asked these tough accountability questions, the look on the face, you've talked to Rachel Notley directly, Darren Billis, Anne McGrath, others, they're stunned, you're never rude, you never swear, you never raise your voice, you never make physical contact, you never get right in their face,
00:19:00.520you just ask them blunt questions that in four years, they have never been asked by any other journalist, that's what's incredible.
00:19:11.940And it's not just Rachel Notley, it's everyone that supports her. Drew Farrell is a great example, she was in that video, she's a city councilor for Calgary, a fairly popular city council, I would say,
00:19:22.600that is farther left than he and she, in terms of political spectrum. And she never has questions asked to her as well. And in that video, when I asked her for appearing at this event,
00:19:36.460we can take her as supporting former communist candidate, she was just, took it in stride, said, I don't talk to the rebel and kept going. But if the CBC asked her that,
00:19:46.080I guarantee you, she would be stumbling over herself trying to explain her actions for showing up in an event with a confirmed communist.
00:19:54.800You know, it's, it's a line they all use, we don't talk to the rebel. Fair enough, but we can talk about them. And one of the reasons why
00:20:03.700Sheila's book, Stop Notley, has been a bestseller is precisely because, you know, the establishment may try to lock us out or shut us out.
00:20:12.520And they can shut us out from private property, we would never trespass, for example. But they can't shut us out from the public discourse.
00:20:19.200They tried to shut Sheila Gunn-Reed out of the legislature by sending an armed sheriff. They had to back down legally.
00:20:25.160So they can live in their own happy place, their safe space, their trigger-free space. But Albertans are watching the rebel.
00:20:33.060We've never had more viewers in Alberta. And I think it's because we were the voice that warned against the NDP from the very first day.
00:20:43.500And I have to say, I think, I think that Albertans are going to throw out the NDP in a historic drubbing.
00:20:51.800I think the NDP will get fewer than 20 out of 87 seats in the province.
00:20:56.380But there is some blame and some reflection needs to happen from the oil patch, at least from the senior leadership.
00:21:05.360Grassroots oil and gas workers knew that the NDP was a threat from day one.
00:21:10.460But CEOs thought they could game the system, bargain, compromise, cut side deals, as the four CEOs who endorsed the carbon tax did.
00:21:18.620I think what happened is a lot of the devastation.
00:21:22.900I mean, you can see this picture here. That's Rachel Notley.
00:21:25.400And in the back row, you can see four oil sands CEO.
00:21:28.940In fact, there's Murray Edwards there from CNRL, for example.
00:21:33.140There's some extreme environmentalists there.
00:21:35.140Ed Whittingham, second from the right, Stephen Gilbeau on the right.
00:21:41.340Four oil sands CEOs were the handmaidens of this disastrous government.
00:21:48.020And I don't think that there's been a proper comeuppance is the wrong word, but a taking stock.
00:21:57.260And why did those CEOs sell out their own people to Notley's socialist hordes?
00:22:04.280I think that reckoning needs to happen.
00:22:07.220And hopefully Jason Kenney is, maybe it comes from them trying to suck up to the government of the day.
00:22:13.540I have no idea what would compel CEOs to do that.
00:22:16.260Maybe they're just so out of touch with their workforce and Albertans, given that they're millionaires in their own right,
00:22:23.660that they just suck up to the government to get personal favors.
00:22:26.900But when Jason Kenney is elected, we'll have to see his scrapping of the carbon tax.
00:22:30.860I'm sure he's not going to have a royalty review like Rachel Notley started her government off with.
00:22:35.040So we'll see how the CEOs respond to Jason Kenney's government.
00:22:39.440I'm going to be interested in watching closely.
00:22:41.820Well, we had a lot of fun watching you go after Anne McGrath, the communist candidate in Calgary Varsity.
00:22:47.380But you have traveled around other parts, and so has Sheila.
00:22:49.660I know the Toronto-based media and the Twitter-based media think it's close.
00:22:58.980My sense, watching the province through your camera and Sheila's camera, is that it's unanimous in rural Alberta.
00:23:08.740It's unanimous in all but maybe one or two ridings in Calgary.
00:23:13.540I can't speak to Edmonton proper. I think there might be 10 or 15 seats to go NDP there.
00:24:36.680Perhaps the most conservative place in the world outside of Texas.
00:24:40.900I think Dreschen got 81% in that by-election.
00:24:45.160I think that's a premonition of how a lot of these rural ridings are going to go.
00:24:51.040I think you could actually see, I know it's going to sound nuts, but I think we're in record-setting territory here.
00:24:58.740I think you might see a rural riding in Alberta somewhere hit 90% for a particular candidate in a hard-hit rural oil patch ranching farming oil community
00:25:12.540with a strong UCB candidate and just people, I think that's the blowout.
00:25:18.100And the reason I say that, the reason I mention 81% in the by-election and my prediction of a 90% is because, not that it matters.
00:25:28.640But it's the repudiation of the media party that's so important.
00:25:32.340It reminds me of when the New York Times and the Washington Post and CNN all said Hillary Clinton had it in the bag.
00:25:37.720And all these lies in the media party, especially the CBC, and even my former colleague, Charles Adler, who has been outrageous in this election,
00:26:22.600I mean, a lot of our viewers are not from Alberta.
00:26:24.180This is of interest to me because I'm originally from there.
00:26:26.320I think all Canadians understand the importance of Alberta's economy to the country.
00:26:31.260Are there any lessons or templates or models here for other jurisdictions?
00:26:37.320Is there anything that we can learn from this campaign for the federal election, for, I don't know, future elections in British Columbia, for example?
00:26:46.560Is there anything you think that folks outside Alberta should take from what we've been seeing?
00:26:52.980I think that Rachel Notley has to, well, anyone running a campaign has to learn from Rachel Notley and her failure here, that you can't just attack a leader and their candidates for bozo eruptions.
00:27:04.540That's not a platform that's not going to help you form government.
00:27:08.340Jason Kenney has made so many mistakes during this campaign with his candidate selection and really weird nomination processes.
00:27:17.060And even himself personally has done some weird things when he was younger.
00:27:23.180And that's all Rachel Notley is focusing on.
00:27:25.480And Jason Kenney has a platform of ideas.
00:27:28.180He's running on jobs, pipelines in the economy.
00:27:32.020You know, back in 2015, when the federal election was happening, the Conservatives made the mistake of attacking Justin Trudeau on his personal weaknesses.
00:27:40.120And it fell flat on its face, very similar to how Rachel Notley's campaign is falling on its face as well.
00:30:05.240He said he's against anti-Muslim bigotry.
00:30:09.440I am, too, by the way, which is different than saying he's against Islamophobia, which lumps in any legitimate criticism of the ideology, philosophy, and religion of Islam, which, of course, we all have the right to feel and think in a free country.
00:30:24.160So I think he was trying to do some things right.
00:30:26.440But why would you meet with the king of wife beating?
00:30:43.940But as I said yesterday, the reason I immediately clicked into action when I saw the photos is because I actually did a big video about Omar Subedar back at Sun News.
00:30:54.400Now, I'm not saying that Andrew Scheer should have watched that, but it's not a secret.
00:30:58.680I mean, you can Google it pretty quickly.