Rebel News Podcast - April 13, 2019


Notley says she’s shocked to hear that anti-oilsands protesters are foreign-funded. Is she kidding？


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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.

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00:00:00.000 Hello, my rebels. We've got an interesting show for you today if you care about Alberta.
00:00:04.920 And to care about Alberta, you don't have to be an Albertan. You just have to
00:00:07.680 care about the economic success of our country and understand that oil and gas is part of that
00:00:13.180 and understand what happens when people say, oh, we can vote NDP. What could go wrong?
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00:01:14.380 Tonight, Rachel Notley says she's shocked, shocked to find out that anti-environment
00:01:23.700 protesters are funded by foreign countries. It's April 12th, and this is the Ezra Levant Show.
00:01:28.660 There are a few Yiddish words that we use in English. Most of them sound funny, like schlep,
00:01:56.940 or schmaltz, or schlemiel, or yenta. A lot of them sound like maybe you got something stuck in
00:02:02.280 your throat. Today, I want to talk about the word chutzpah. Have you ever heard chutzpah? Of course
00:02:07.720 you have. What's chutzpah? I guess the closest word in English is audacity, but that comes from the
00:02:13.360 Latin word for boldness. Audacity is usually good. Being bold is good, right? But chutzpah is more a
00:02:20.580 sneaky or outrageous kind of boldness and impudence, like the word gall. You've got the gall. Sort of
00:02:28.060 like the old joke about someone killing their parents and then asking the judge for mercy
00:02:33.120 because now he's an orphan. That's chutzpah. Chutzpah is like this.
00:02:38.300 Everybody's to leave here immediately. This cafe is closed until further notice. Clear the room at
00:02:45.100 once. How can you close me up? On what ground? I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going
00:02:53.220 on in here. You're winning, sir. Oh, thank you very much. Everybody out at once. Yeah, that's chutzpah.
00:03:00.860 And this is chutzpah in Alberta. In a new interview with David Staples of the Edmonton Journal,
00:03:06.160 Alberta Premier Rachel Notley says she is shocked, shocked to find some anti-oil sands
00:03:11.520 activists in Alberta are funded by foreign interests. Let me read a little bit of his story.
00:03:17.600 Now, Notley is also criticizing the U.S.-funded tar sands campaign dedicated to landlocking
00:03:23.780 Alberta oil by demonizing our industry. Quote, I'm frustrated by it, of course, Notley says of the
00:03:29.360 campaign. Vivian Krauss, the B.C. researcher, and people like her have done a good job of really
00:03:34.320 laying bare the details of this and really showing us the degree to which this has been going on and
00:03:39.440 building over time, unquote. Huh? So Rachel Notley is now criticizing foreign-funded environmental 1.00
00:03:46.760 lobbyists. And Vivian Krauss, who has documented so much of this going back about a decade now,
00:03:52.320 she's done a good job, says Notley. Yes, Notley is shocked, shocked that gambling is happening in
00:03:59.060 this establishment. Oh, here are her winnings. Thank you. Or permit me another movie clip from
00:04:04.620 the old horror movie, When a Stranger Calls. It was before cell phones were a thing, before caller
00:04:09.880 ID was a thing, a babysitter was getting harassing phone calls. 0.94
00:04:19.980 Leave me home! 1.00
00:04:21.420 Jill, this is Sergeant Sacker. Listen to me. We've traced a call. It's coming from inside the house.
00:04:26.860 Our squad cars are the way over there right now. Just get out of that house.
00:04:32.200 Jill, Jill, Jill.
00:04:33.540 Yeah, Rachel Notley, the foreign-funded anti-oil lobbyists that you are shocked, shocked by,
00:04:43.980 they're coming from inside the house. Okay, enough Hollywood movies. Let's look at some
00:04:48.140 YouTube clips instead. Let's start with the foreign-funded lobbyist,
00:04:52.080 Sephora Berman, that Rachel Notley hired to be Alberta's co-chair of the Oil Sands Advisory Council.
00:04:59.840 Foreign-funded? You bet. She used to work for Greenpeace, based in Europe, where their head 0.80
00:05:04.780 office is. Then she came to Canada to fight the Oil Sands full-time. She was paid by Amsterdam-based
00:05:11.360 Greenpeace, and now she's paid by U.S.-based Stand Earth, which used to be called Forest Ethics.
00:05:17.620 She never quit those positions while she was hired by Notley to work for Alberta either.
00:05:22.600 So like I say, she was literally a foreign-funded lobbyist while working inside Notley's government
00:05:30.480 as the co-chair of her Oil Sands Advisory Council. Just a reminder of some of her views on oil and gas.
00:05:37.400 Just a few. Here's one.
00:05:39.160 We need to keep the majority of the carbon that we have left, the majority of the oil,
00:05:45.920 the majority of the coal, in the ground.
00:05:49.680 Yeah. Here's another. There's a hundred of these.
00:05:53.260 Have we solved our problem if we have a greener oil sands in Canada? No.
00:05:58.980 Ultimately, we need to slow it down. We need to phase it out.
00:06:03.120 I'll just hear one more. Just here's one more. I got a hundred.
00:06:06.200 That will lead to an enormous toxic legacy. 0.52
00:06:11.780 Toxic legacy. She's talking about the oil sands, in case you didn't know.
00:06:15.020 Also on that same advisory council for Rachel Notley was this woman, Karen Mahone.
00:06:21.640 I'm not even kidding. Notley appointed her and Berman together.
00:06:26.000 Here she is on a press release two years ago by the U.S.-based anti-oil sands lobby,
00:06:31.360 Stand Earth, that support Berman Works for Now.
00:06:33.480 Look at their press release headline.
00:06:36.360 They're bragging.
00:06:38.100 Karen Mahone of Stand Earth among four arrested by RCMP at Kinder Morgan protests.
00:06:42.580 So she's not just a lobbyist. 0.97
00:06:45.580 She's not just a foreign-funded lobbyist.
00:06:47.700 She's a criminal. 1.00
00:06:49.440 I know she's a criminal. 1.00
00:06:51.160 Here she is a few years ago, again, before Notley appointed her,
00:06:56.000 participating in an...
00:06:56.880 That's her being carried away by police.
00:06:59.000 Participating in an anti-pipeline riot,
00:07:02.200 being lifted away by the RCMP.
00:07:03.820 So, yeah, Notley is shocked, shocked to hear that foreign-funded lobbyists have been afoot.
00:07:10.600 Yeah, in her own hand-picked oil sands council, no less.
00:07:13.880 And her staff that she hired, you'll remember when Notley became premier,
00:07:18.260 10 out of 12 out of her cabinet's chiefs of staff were from outside Alberta.
00:07:24.000 She didn't hire Albertans to run the government. 0.97
00:07:25.540 She hired failed activists from Vancouver or Toronto,
00:07:28.860 mainly NDP activists who had lost, for example, Olivia Chow's mayoralty race there
00:07:33.100 or had lost the previous NDP election in B.C.
00:07:36.900 It was free jobs for NDP losers from across Canada.
00:07:40.560 They were sort of dumped on Alberta.
00:07:42.620 One of the people she hired was actually gainfully employed at the time.
00:07:46.760 His name was Graham Mitchell, and he was a well-paid chief lobbyist for Lead Now,
00:07:56.280 a foreign-funded anti-oil lobby group.
00:07:59.400 Here's a clip of a video that Graham Mitchell produced.
00:08:03.920 The Harper government has stripped our environmental protections,
00:08:07.220 put all our economic eggs in one risky basket,
00:08:10.100 and damaged our international reputation.
00:08:13.120 They've taken our country backwards
00:08:14.980 and used your tax dollars to attack anyone who stands in their way.
00:08:20.780 He was literally registered with the lobbying commissioner
00:08:25.300 as a foreign-funded anti-oil lobbyist
00:08:28.080 until the day he was hired by Notley
00:08:31.760 as the chief of staff to Notley's energy minister.
00:08:36.260 Yes, we're all shocked, shocked by this.
00:08:38.400 We're shocked by the fact that Notley's MLA, Rod Loyola,
00:08:42.060 wanted to jack up oil royalties a lot higher.
00:08:45.680 Remember this?
00:08:46.700 Absolutely essential is making sure that oil royalties
00:08:49.740 are a lot higher than what they actually are right now.
00:08:52.800 And I would even say that we need to get them up to at least 30, 35 percent. 0.92
00:08:57.580 We're all shocked, just shocked,
00:08:59.820 that Brian Mason is against all pipelines.
00:09:03.280 To the premier, will your government commit to prevent unprocessed bitumen 0.93
00:09:06.540 from being exported on any new pipelines that are built under this agreement?
00:09:10.300 And if not, why not?
00:09:12.200 We're all shocked, shocked,
00:09:14.380 by the fact that her MLA, Colin Paquette,
00:09:16.840 spoke at a rally to foreign media,
00:09:19.700 who were specifically invited,
00:09:21.320 denouncing Alberta's oil and gas industry,
00:09:23.740 denouncing them to the whole world,
00:09:24.940 saying he is embarrassed by Alberta.
00:09:27.940 He's a Notley MLA.
00:09:29.720 All of these people I'm showing you
00:09:31.260 were elected as Notley MLAs.
00:09:33.480 Look at this.
00:09:34.560 We just started organizing.
00:09:36.580 We have members internationally,
00:09:38.720 we have members in Europe,
00:09:39.920 we have many members in the United States.
00:09:43.240 This is going to become a global issue again,
00:09:46.400 and it's going to become a global issue
00:09:48.120 that's going to be in the incredible shape
00:09:50.040 and detriment of this province.
00:09:51.680 As an Albertan, I don't want to do that.
00:09:55.460 I'd rather be proud of where I'm from, right?
00:09:59.160 But how can you?
00:10:00.440 How can you know that here,
00:10:02.360 your name, your God is destroying people 0.99
00:10:05.780 as if they don't even exist, right?
00:10:07.940 Just kind of rush the sky.
00:10:09.820 I mean, this is just about to stop,
00:10:11.720 and we're not going to be going anywhere
00:10:13.940 until it does stop.
00:10:16.520 What an idiot.
00:10:18.600 And I'm sure you'll remember this
00:10:20.520 by David Eggen,
00:10:22.120 a senior Notley cabinet minister.
00:10:24.640 No new approvals!
00:10:26.300 No new approvals!
00:10:27.960 No new approvals!
00:10:29.740 No new approvals!
00:10:32.080 He's talking about the oil sands.
00:10:33.800 No new approvals.
00:10:35.120 And of course there's Notley herself,
00:10:38.520 seen here on the left
00:10:40.080 at an anti-oil, anti-pipeline rally.
00:10:43.580 Look at that placard.
00:10:44.420 Now, I've shown you a hundred times
00:10:47.280 the Rockefeller Brothers Fund
00:10:48.800 Tar Sands campaign plan.
00:10:51.980 It's from 2008,
00:10:53.420 when they decided to kill Alberta.
00:10:55.440 It took them ten years,
00:10:56.440 but they did it.
00:10:57.740 Look again at the page in their plan
00:10:59.840 where they list their Canadian front groups.
00:11:02.740 You can see Greenpeace
00:11:04.400 at the very bottom there.
00:11:05.920 So that was Sapporo Berman.
00:11:07.920 And then, do you see
00:11:09.160 Forest Ethics?
00:11:10.720 It's sort of on the left-hand side
00:11:12.080 of the middle.
00:11:13.380 That's now called Stand Earth.
00:11:15.760 So that's Karen Mahone also.
00:11:17.820 Do you see in the bottom right
00:11:19.260 the Pembina Institute?
00:11:21.620 That's where Rachel Notley's
00:11:22.960 new appointee
00:11:23.780 to the Alberta Energy Regulator
00:11:25.580 came from.
00:11:26.480 That's where Catherine McKenna's
00:11:27.840 Chief of Staff in Ottawa came from.
00:11:29.300 And do you see at the top right there
00:11:30.720 the World Wildlife Fund?
00:11:32.200 That was run by Gerald Butts.
00:11:34.420 And, of course, you can see
00:11:35.780 the Sierra Club.
00:11:37.560 It's in the center-bottom right there.
00:11:40.500 Their former president
00:11:41.540 works for Trudeau in Ottawa now, too.
00:11:43.600 So, yeah.
00:11:44.420 Rachel Notley's saying
00:11:45.600 she's shocked.
00:11:46.820 Shocked.
00:11:47.480 Sure she is.
00:11:48.720 Sure she is.
00:11:49.840 Let me leave you with one last item.
00:11:51.460 It's from when Notley
00:11:52.340 was in opposition.
00:11:54.440 Greenpeace demonstrator.
00:11:55.600 Let me read the headline here.
00:11:56.720 Greenpeace demonstrator
00:11:57.500 who crashed Premier's dinner
00:11:58.700 works for NDP.
00:12:00.500 Let me read this story.
00:12:01.300 It's from when Notley
00:12:01.840 was in opposition.
00:12:03.040 And I think it was Ed Stelmack,
00:12:03.980 the Premier.
00:12:05.320 The NDP MLA
00:12:06.840 for Edmonton's Strathcona,
00:12:08.200 Rachel Notley,
00:12:09.000 is refusing to say
00:12:10.020 how she will deal
00:12:10.800 with a staff member
00:12:11.600 who disrupted
00:12:12.540 a fundraising dinner
00:12:13.420 held by Alberta Premier
00:12:14.620 Ed Stelmack
00:12:15.240 last Thursday night.
00:12:17.140 Denise Oganoski
00:12:18.180 was one of two
00:12:19.080 Greenpeace protesters
00:12:19.900 who snuck into
00:12:20.940 Edmonton's Shaw Conference Center,
00:12:22.680 dropped from the ceiling
00:12:23.680 in harnesses,
00:12:24.760 and unfurled a banner
00:12:25.760 that read,
00:12:26.200 Stelmack,
00:12:26.840 the best Premier
00:12:27.440 oil money can buy.
00:12:29.360 Yeah,
00:12:30.120 I think it would be quicker
00:12:31.700 in this video
00:12:32.540 to just list
00:12:33.580 notley staff
00:12:34.500 who were not
00:12:35.920 funded by foreign
00:12:37.120 lobby groups
00:12:37.800 than the ones
00:12:38.780 who were.
00:12:39.440 So yeah,
00:12:40.200 chutzpah.
00:12:40.960 It's a Yiddish word.
00:12:41.920 You've got to say
00:12:42.320 the ch-ch-ch 1.00
00:12:43.280 like you're clearing
00:12:43.940 your throat.
00:12:44.820 Chutzpah.
00:12:45.960 It's Yiddish,
00:12:46.680 but it's the mother tongue
00:12:48.300 of Alberta New Democrats.
00:12:50.800 Stay with us for more.
00:12:51.840 We've got good news next
00:12:52.780 with Kian Bexsey
00:12:53.560 about how the election
00:12:54.540 is coming.
00:13:09.960 Welcome back.
00:13:10.900 Well,
00:13:11.300 it is just a few days
00:13:12.960 until Alberta's election.
00:13:16.060 It's been a terrible four years
00:13:17.680 by any measure,
00:13:19.260 especially economically.
00:13:21.000 But there are so many
00:13:21.800 systemic changes
00:13:23.760 that have been made
00:13:24.560 by Rachel Notley's
00:13:25.720 radical NDP.
00:13:27.020 It will take many years
00:13:28.320 before Alberta
00:13:29.040 finally recovers.
00:13:30.460 I want to show you
00:13:31.220 a very enjoyable,
00:13:33.200 satisfying video
00:13:34.900 that we put up
00:13:35.760 on YouTube yesterday.
00:13:36.740 I'll just play a couple
00:13:37.440 minutes of it for you.
00:13:38.460 It was one of
00:13:39.800 the rebels' actions.
00:13:41.980 Our reporter in Calgary,
00:13:43.220 Kian Bexsey,
00:13:43.920 personally commissioned
00:13:45.160 a jumbotron billboard truck
00:13:47.800 that had loudspeakers.
00:13:50.500 I want to show you
00:13:51.000 the first couple minutes
00:13:51.880 of that fun vid,
00:13:53.800 and then we'll talk
00:13:54.340 to Kian himself
00:13:55.260 both about his participation
00:13:56.860 in the election
00:13:57.620 and the general,
00:13:59.160 you know,
00:14:00.040 facts and figures
00:14:00.740 of the election itself.
00:14:01.700 Here, without further ado,
00:14:02.480 take a look at this.
00:14:03.640 See right behind me,
00:14:04.400 the billboard is here.
00:14:05.520 It's in Calgary.
00:14:06.360 It was a quick turnaround,
00:14:07.520 and we're just down
00:14:08.820 the road from
00:14:09.320 Anne McGrath's campaign office. 0.84
00:14:10.620 You can see it right there.
00:14:12.420 We're going to drive
00:14:13.340 this bad boy around
00:14:14.260 Anne McGrath's constituency
00:14:15.300 to make sure
00:14:16.520 that her constituents
00:14:17.240 know that Anne McGrath
00:14:18.940 in 1984 deemed it
00:14:20.040 a good idea
00:14:20.600 to run under the ideology
00:14:22.680 of Stalin, Marx
00:14:23.580 and Chairman Mao.
00:14:25.400 She's tried to censor us 0.91
00:14:26.540 at every turn,
00:14:27.200 but she can't censor this.
00:14:29.500 I'm very excited.
00:14:30.500 Let's hop into the truck
00:14:31.680 and start driving.
00:14:32.240 the
00:14:45.820 new
00:14:50.240 new
00:14:55.500 edition
00:14:56.020 So 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.
00:15:18.700 We'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.
00:15:32.980 So 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...
00:15:47.140 The 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?
00:15:55.340 Well, 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,
00:16:16.440 I'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.
00:16:40.060 Thanks, 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,
00:17:09.680 and 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,
00:17:23.420 all 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,
00:17:46.940 but 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.
00:18:13.000 You 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,
00:18:41.860 when 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,
00:19:00.520 you just ask them blunt questions that in four years, they have never been asked by any other journalist, that's what's incredible.
00:19:11.940 And 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,
00:19:22.600 that 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,
00:19:36.460 we 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,
00:19:46.080 I guarantee you, she would be stumbling over herself trying to explain her actions for showing up in an event with a confirmed communist.
00:19:54.800 You 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
00:20:03.700 Sheila'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.
00:20:12.520 And 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.
00:20:19.200 They tried to shut Sheila Gunn-Reed out of the legislature by sending an armed sheriff. They had to back down legally. 0.58
00:20:25.160 So they can live in their own happy place, their safe space, their trigger-free space. But Albertans are watching the rebel.
00:20:33.060 We'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.
00:20:43.500 And I have to say, I think, I think that Albertans are going to throw out the NDP in a historic drubbing.
00:20:51.800 I think the NDP will get fewer than 20 out of 87 seats in the province.
00:20:56.380 But there is some blame and some reflection needs to happen from the oil patch, at least from the senior leadership.
00:21:05.360 Grassroots oil and gas workers knew that the NDP was a threat from day one.
00:21:10.460 But CEOs thought they could game the system, bargain, compromise, cut side deals, as the four CEOs who endorsed the carbon tax did.
00:21:18.620 I think what happened is a lot of the devastation.
00:21:22.900 I mean, you can see this picture here. That's Rachel Notley.
00:21:25.400 And in the back row, you can see four oil sands CEO.
00:21:28.940 In fact, there's Murray Edwards there from CNRL, for example.
00:21:33.140 There's some extreme environmentalists there.
00:21:35.140 Ed Whittingham, second from the right, Stephen Gilbeau on the right.
00:21:41.340 Four oil sands CEOs were the handmaidens of this disastrous government.
00:21:48.020 And I don't think that there's been a proper comeuppance is the wrong word, but a taking stock.
00:21:57.260 And why did those CEOs sell out their own people to Notley's socialist hordes?
00:22:04.280 I think that reckoning needs to happen.
00:22:07.220 And hopefully Jason Kenney is, maybe it comes from them trying to suck up to the government of the day.
00:22:13.540 I have no idea what would compel CEOs to do that.
00:22:16.260 Maybe they're just so out of touch with their workforce and Albertans, given that they're millionaires in their own right,
00:22:23.660 that they just suck up to the government to get personal favors. 0.99
00:22:26.900 But when Jason Kenney is elected, we'll have to see his scrapping of the carbon tax.
00:22:30.860 I'm sure he's not going to have a royalty review like Rachel Notley started her government off with.
00:22:35.040 So we'll see how the CEOs respond to Jason Kenney's government.
00:22:39.440 I'm going to be interested in watching closely.
00:22:41.820 Well, we had a lot of fun watching you go after Anne McGrath, the communist candidate in Calgary Varsity.
00:22:47.380 But you have traveled around other parts, and so has Sheila.
00:22:49.660 I know the Toronto-based media and the Twitter-based media think it's close.
00:22:58.980 My sense, watching the province through your camera and Sheila's camera, is that it's unanimous in rural Alberta.
00:23:08.740 It's unanimous in all but maybe one or two ridings in Calgary.
00:23:13.540 I can't speak to Edmonton proper. I think there might be 10 or 15 seats to go NDP there.
00:23:21.180 Yeah, no, I agree exactly with that.
00:23:22.520 I think there's probably going to be 15 or 16 seats in Edmonton that go to the NDP.
00:23:26.920 But I think that that's going to be their stronghold.
00:23:30.820 Calgary, rural Alberta, I think it's going to be nearly unanimous sweeps for the UCP.
00:23:36.340 Anne McGrath's riding is close, though. 0.91
00:23:37.880 So Deborah Drever's riding was won by just a few hundred votes, I think 200 votes in the last election.
00:23:45.740 She's definitely going to lose that one, given that the polls are so different than they were in 2015.
00:23:53.760 So maybe McGrath wins her riding.
00:23:56.260 But outside of that, maybe Joe Ceci in Calgary, Calgary-Buffalo.
00:24:00.160 But Edmonton is probably going to remain to be the only place that the NDP actually get any large amount of seats.
00:24:10.060 You know, there was a by-election, a provincial by-election, I think it was last year.
00:24:14.500 I forget the exact name of the riding.
00:24:16.040 I think it was Innisfail, which is southern Alberta, rural, one of the best places in the world.
00:24:21.040 And the United Conservative candidate, I think his name is Dreschen, what's his first name?
00:24:27.980 Devin Dreschen, yeah.
00:24:29.720 Innisfail, Sylvan Lake.
00:24:30.860 I think he got, so it's near Red Deer, so south of Red Deer, right?
00:24:36.200 Yeah.
00:24:36.680 Perhaps the most conservative place in the world outside of Texas.
00:24:40.900 I think Dreschen got 81% in that by-election.
00:24:45.160 I think that's a premonition of how a lot of these rural ridings are going to go.
00:24:51.040 I think you could actually see, I know it's going to sound nuts, but I think we're in record-setting territory here.
00:24:58.740 I 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
00:25:12.540 with a strong UCB candidate and just people, I think that's the blowout.
00:25:18.100 And 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.
00:25:25.860 I mean, you win by one vote, you won.
00:25:28.640 But it's the repudiation of the media party that's so important.
00:25:32.340 It reminds me of when the New York Times and the Washington Post and CNN all said Hillary Clinton had it in the bag.
00:25:37.720 And all these lies in the media party, especially the CBC, and even my former colleague, Charles Adler, who has been outrageous in this election,
00:25:46.980 they all think it's close.
00:25:49.100 It's not close.
00:25:50.140 And I think that's my prediction for the election night.
00:25:53.160 It's going to be a blowout.
00:25:54.640 The number one loser will be Rachel Notley.
00:25:57.160 The number two loser will be all these media pundits.
00:26:00.260 Yeah, I think so.
00:26:01.620 I think that both Edmonton, but will the UCP and Edmonton have inefficient support bases?
00:26:07.320 The UCP has a lot of support in rural Alberta and NDP have a disproportionate amount of support in Edmonton.
00:26:12.720 But I think that the UCP are definitely going to edge out by 10% to 15% in most all Calgary roundings, I would assume.
00:26:20.000 Yeah.
00:26:20.620 All right.
00:26:21.080 Well, last comment.
00:26:22.600 I mean, a lot of our viewers are not from Alberta.
00:26:24.180 This is of interest to me because I'm originally from there.
00:26:26.320 I think all Canadians understand the importance of Alberta's economy to the country.
00:26:31.260 Are there any lessons or templates or models here for other jurisdictions?
00:26:37.320 Is 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?
00:26:46.560 Is there anything you think that folks outside Alberta should take from what we've been seeing?
00:26:51.780 Yeah, for sure.
00:26:52.980 I 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. 0.54
00:27:04.540 That's not a platform that's not going to help you form government.
00:27:08.340 Jason Kenney has made so many mistakes during this campaign with his candidate selection and really weird nomination processes.
00:27:17.060 And even himself personally has done some weird things when he was younger.
00:27:23.180 And that's all Rachel Notley is focusing on.
00:27:25.480 And Jason Kenney has a platform of ideas.
00:27:28.180 He's running on jobs, pipelines in the economy.
00:27:30.780 That's what people want.
00:27:32.020 You know, back in 2015, when the federal election was happening, the Conservatives made the mistake of attacking Justin Trudeau on his personal weaknesses.
00:27:40.120 And it fell flat on its face, very similar to how Rachel Notley's campaign is falling on its face as well.
00:27:47.360 That's interesting.
00:27:48.560 I think that the federal liberals have already tipped their hat.
00:27:51.400 They are going to exactly run the Rachel Notley personal smear and demonization campaign.
00:27:56.940 In fact, they started this week by calling everyone a white supremacist neo-Nazi.
00:28:01.080 I think that's the only card they have left in their hand to play.
00:28:05.060 Ken, it's great to have you on the show.
00:28:06.680 So thank you for your edgy coverage, which is such an antidote to the stenography from the media party.
00:28:16.680 I think I used to be the most hated conservative journalist in Alberta in the eyes of the NDP.
00:28:22.940 Then I think Sheila took that trophy away from me.
00:28:27.320 I think you earned that first place trophy this past week.
00:28:32.040 I think they loathe you in their DNA.
00:28:35.320 So congratulations.
00:28:37.380 Thanks.
00:28:37.760 And don't forget to tell all your listeners to tune in to our live election coverage.
00:28:41.760 April 16th will be streaming live on YouTube.
00:28:45.120 I'm so glad you reminded me of that.
00:28:46.860 That starts at 7.45 p.m. Mountain Time, 9.45 p.m. Eastern Time.
00:28:53.300 I'm going to be out here in our Toronto headquarters.
00:28:56.180 I'm going to be thinking about you guys.
00:28:57.640 You and Sheila will be live from the UCP election night event.
00:29:02.480 So we'll have a live broadcast, and it's on YouTube, and it'll be a live chat.
00:29:07.880 So the three of us will be talking, and all our viewers can chime in, too.
00:29:13.380 I think it's going to be a really fun night.
00:29:15.920 I'm very excited.
00:29:17.180 All right.
00:29:17.420 Well, congrats again.
00:29:18.540 Great campaign on your part, Kian.
00:29:20.740 Thank you.
00:29:21.340 Okay.
00:29:21.920 Stay with us.
00:29:22.540 More ahead on The Rebel.
00:29:23.180 Hey, welcome back.
00:29:36.040 Lots of comments on my monologue last night about Andrew Scheer's new friend, Omar Subadar, who he met for a photo op.
00:29:42.380 Subadar is an Islamic teacher, publisher, politician who's published tips on how to beat your wife. 0.92
00:29:47.500 Robert McClellan writes, well, it could have been worse.
00:29:50.680 Smile and Andy could have gone all Trudeau and donned full Muslim regalia for the photo op while doing a little dance number. 0.81
00:29:57.620 You're right.
00:29:58.380 I mean, I noticed he tried to do a couple things right.
00:30:01.320 He had photos with women who were uncovered.
00:30:03.720 I thought that was very progressive.
00:30:05.240 He said he's against anti-Muslim bigotry.
00:30:09.440 I 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.
00:30:24.160 So I think he was trying to do some things right.
00:30:26.440 But why would you meet with the king of wife beating? 0.68
00:30:28.980 It's just so weird.
00:30:30.940 Billy Howard writes, I assume it was due to a failure of due diligence.
00:30:35.060 I hope to see him admit to the mistake of a photo op with someone who promotes such violent misogyny.
00:30:39.640 Just a simple tweet would do.
00:30:40.940 We're waiting, Andrew.
00:30:42.340 Well, yeah, maybe.
00:30:43.940 But 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.
00:30:54.400 Now, I'm not saying that Andrew Scheer should have watched that, but it's not a secret.
00:30:58.680 I mean, you can Google it pretty quickly.
00:31:01.500 Jan Baker says,
00:31:02.920 It's troubling, but I'm still going to vote conservative.
00:31:05.260 After all, there's no other viable alternative.
00:31:07.400 Max will have to prove himself first in the next four years.
00:31:10.300 Yeah, fair enough.
00:31:11.460 I guess my job here is not to particularly be a partisan, but to tell the truth and to hold Andrew Scheer to scrutiny,
00:31:19.720 just as I intend to hold Jason Kenney to scrutiny, especially if and when they become leaders.
00:31:25.820 I think Jason Kenney is going to win election next week.
00:31:30.300 I mean, of course he will.
00:31:31.780 I think conservative media becomes even more important then to make sure that Kenney governs as a conservative and to answer the media,
00:31:41.160 which will take on the role of left-wing official opposition.
00:31:44.980 We will do the same to Andrew Scheer.
00:31:46.480 We're the only honest media out there.
00:31:47.940 Yeah, I mean, that Omar Subedar is a huge Trudeau fan.
00:31:58.480 I mean, there are so many pictures of Subedar with Trudeau, including when Trudeau was wearing full abayas and other Islamic regalia.
00:32:08.000 It's quite something.
00:32:10.600 Omar Subedar has all the bases covered.
00:32:12.680 Is there some leader who won't meet with him?
00:32:15.140 I guess he's very powerful.
00:32:17.800 Well, folks, that's the show for today and for the week.
00:32:20.260 We've got lots of great YouTube videos.
00:32:21.940 I tell you, our talent has been on fire lately.
00:32:24.140 I encourage you to go to our YouTube page and watch some of the great, great videos.
00:32:29.800 David Menzies has had some really good ones.
00:32:32.440 I'm not even going to try and list them.
00:32:33.700 We've got 10 more every day coming, right?
00:32:35.960 Until next time, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home, good night.
00:32:40.360 Keep fighting for freedom.
00:32:45.140 We'll see you next time.