Rebel News Podcast - Robbie Picard confronts Elizabeth May on live radio

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00:01:05.840 An oil sands activist we all know and love derailed a very friendly CBC interview

00:01:25.860 with Elizabeth May. I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed and you're watching The Gunn Show.

00:01:30.480 Bear with me, friends. I'm going to show you about two minutes of a live stream of a CBC

00:01:53.360 cross-country checkup radio interview with Green Party leader Elizabeth May.

00:02:00.120 It was an ask me anything style interview. And Elizabeth May was getting some pretty friendly 0.99

00:02:08.020 questions. There weren't very many prickly ones lobbed at her until Robbie Picard from Oil

00:02:13.400 Sands Strong. Could take no more. You know, I'm surprised they let him through on the phone line.

00:02:19.260 Here's what he asked Elizabeth May. 0.94

00:02:21.780 So if you're focusing on Alberta oil, it does raise the question about your stance on pipelines.

00:02:26.740 And I think that's what our next caller wants to ask you about.

00:02:29.340 Robbie Picard is calling from Fort Mac, Alberta.

00:02:31.840 Hi. I have a question. It's a blunt question. So there's over 289 members of the Northeastern

00:02:41.980 Aboriginal Business Association. And there's the Mikasoo First Nations and the Fort Mackay First

00:02:46.660 Nations. Both these First Nations have invested each $250 million into a Suncor tank farm for a total 0.88

00:02:53.600 of $500 million. Pretty much all Métis Indigenous and First Nations businesses and nations in our area,

00:03:00.260 Fort McMurray, want the Trans Mountain Pipeline, including Chief Alan Adam. He's the guy that

00:03:04.820 brought Jane Fonda, Neil Young, and all those people to Fort McMurray. What happens to them?

00:03:09.600 I can tell you right now that we're terrified about what's happening because we believe that we have

00:03:13.080 the best oil in the world with the highest environmental standards. We have some of the

00:03:17.340 lowest emissions, only 0.15%. And this bash on our industry, bashing on our community, and this attack

00:03:24.120 constantly calling us dirty oil, blood oil, tar signs, and all that type of stuff has devastated our

00:03:29.140 community. And I know you're talking about the wildfire and you're going to bring the wildfire

00:03:33.080 up, but my house burnt down in the wildfire. And frankly, the forest is all back. It's all

00:03:37.560 rejuvenating. That's part of the cycle of the forest. It has to burn in order to rejuvenate.

00:03:43.100 The forest burnt in 99, or sorry, in the 90s. And so we're really worried about what's going to happen

00:03:49.380 to our pipelines. What happens to these First Nations when, if you succeed and the oil sands get stalled, 0.95

00:03:54.500 what happens to their $500 million, etc.?

00:03:57.880 Robbie, thank you very much for that question. And Elizabeth May got about a minute, so tackle that.

00:04:03.300 Well, it's the number one agenda item for this election from the Assembly of First Nations,

00:04:08.300 and I was the only leader to go to their annual general meeting this summer, but the Assembly of

00:04:12.660 First Nations is clear. The number one issue is the climate emergency. I know, Chief Adams, I know how the

00:04:18.200 Miccosucree and the Fort Mackay First Nations have suffered from the emissions from the oil sands,

00:04:23.280 and how it has concerned them about what's happening to their health. What the reality is

00:04:28.080 here is that we are in a global crisis with a fixed carbon budget. We can't negotiate our way out of

00:04:34.720 it. We can't beg the atmosphere for a bit more time because humanity doesn't seem to be able to listen

00:04:40.420 to the warnings of science. We know that there's a sustainable future for every single worker in the

00:04:46.640 oil sands. We know that Indigenous peoples who have invested in those operations will be using oil for

00:04:54.460 at least till 2030 from the oil sands, but we'll be cranking it down and we will not have a single

00:05:00.300 additional pipeline built. You know, that's a pretty paternalistic answer that May gave to Robbie, who happens

00:05:05.860 to be a Métis man himself, who works with Fort McMurray First Nation businesses every single day.

00:05:12.080 May basically told Robbie that she knows his people and she knows what's good for them.

00:05:19.980 Where I come from, that's called paternalism and I'm old enough to remember when the left was

00:05:24.340 staunchly against it. But that wasn't the only crazy thing happening in climate activism news last

00:05:31.200 week in Canada. You see, our dear country had a visit from St. Greta Thunberg, the deeply troubled,

00:05:37.540 busybody Swedish girl who has been told by her exploitative adult handlers that she knows 0.96

00:05:42.760 everything there is to know about everything. Robbie joins me tonight in an interview we recorded

00:05:48.040 yesterday afternoon to discuss Elizabeth May, Justin Trudeau, Greta Thunberg and so much more.

00:06:07.540 So joining me now from his home office in Fort McMurray is my friend Robbie Picard from Oil Sandstrung.

00:06:15.240 Hey Robbie, thanks for coming on the show. I wanted to have you on because Elizabeth May,

00:06:23.140 the Green Party leader, she was having a lovely visit with the folks from CBC's cross-country checkup

00:06:29.880 until you phoned in. Why don't you give us a brief synopsis of exactly what happened there? Because

00:06:37.740 you sent me the link and I listened to it and I thought it was perfect. It was a very friendly

00:06:41.920 interview. Everybody was buying what Liz May was selling until Robbie called in. And I don't even

00:06:46.900 know how you knew to call in, which is great because, yeah, you derailed that whole thing for her.

00:06:52.440 Elizabeth May is one of my least favorite politicians for multiple reasons. Not because 0.98

00:07:06.900 she's a Green Party person. And in fact, I quite enjoyed her debating Ezra years ago. I think I

00:07:11.180 saw them debate. I think in a lot of ways she's an entitled person and I think she's kind of full of

00:07:20.160 shit. My question was simple. What happens to us in Fort McMurray? What happens to the 289 1.00

00:07:26.340 businesses, the Aboriginal business associations? What happens to the Micassee? What happens to the

00:07:30.560 Fort McKay First Nations? What happens to the ACFN? What happens to the numerous Métis groups,

00:07:35.700 particularly the ones down in Lac La Biche? Actually, I just I had a meeting with him the other day. I

00:07:40.940 borrowed his trailer and I blew a tire actually for the president of Robo. And they're concerned.

00:07:47.680 And I don't think I don't think she has a grasp on how concerned people are in Fort McMurray. And it's

00:07:54.300 not even just about the the big First Nations. It's about the contractors and the small business

00:07:59.980 owners. It's about the people taking the barge all the way to Fort Chippewan from here all summer

00:08:05.480 long. I mean, these are there's if she gets one bit of what her wishes are, she's going to

00:08:12.800 devastate our community. And her answers. I mean, her answer was vague. And and I really

00:08:18.100 found it insulting. And I wish I could get a second question because like my question would

00:08:22.200 have been so she I guess she talked about the federal First Nations that she was involved

00:08:27.680 with. So does that mean the ones here don't count? Did she try to trump them? Did she try

00:08:32.420 to trump us? I mean, she's she's a her philosophies are dangerous to our economy and to the future 1.00

00:08:42.080 of our area. And I mean, we only produce 0.15 percent of emissions. She didn't dispute anything

00:08:48.000 that I said. She just sort of went into her, I guess, her political mode. But I was happy

00:08:53.380 that I got to ask a good pointed question. And they let me ask my question. So I was grateful

00:08:58.820 for that. Yeah, I was surprised that they let you through on the line. I'm kind of glad

00:09:03.020 for that. My concern with Elizabeth May is that if the liberals form a minority government,

00:09:11.780 they need the cooperation of the Greens to prop up their government. And I'm worried we're

00:09:18.480 going to see a much more radical liberals, even more so than Justin Trudeau, if they do form

00:09:26.500 a minority government because they need to please Elizabeth May every step of the way 0.99

00:09:31.160 to stay in power. And we're seeing that whole scenario play out right now in British Columbia.

00:09:38.800 You know,

00:09:39.860 my expectations, like I'm actually sometimes I'm even debating getting into politics. I don't ever

00:09:48.360 want to be a politician. But I know that if I was one, I would articulate my views pretty

00:09:53.920 good. And my pray, I'm praying for Trans Mountain, I'm praying that it gets built. And I'm hoping like,

00:10:02.000 I don't know, I don't know which way the election is going to go. But I hope that there's one thing

00:10:07.300 that the conservatives and liberals can do together is get that built. And I'm hoping that this whole

00:10:14.040 minority parliament thing, I mean, politics are so divisive right now. This should be easier to call

00:10:22.680 than it is. But I'm just praying that they at least get one thing done. And before they go all radical,

00:10:30.920 which I mean, Elizabeth May, I mean, I don't think she has what it takes to be a leader. I mean,

00:10:37.060 I think that you may realistically, she's had one seat the majority of the time she's been in

00:10:41.120 parliament, I believe she has two now. That's, that's two seats. I mean, like, it's just,

00:10:48.000 if she has the balance of power, I mean, that'll, that would definitely be interesting. But I hope,

00:10:54.920 I hope that we can go to an issue an issue basis, and maybe get a few things done with between the

00:10:59.240 liberals and conservatives, I hope they have some integrity. Well, and I think too, it doesn't really

00:11:04.540 matter which progressive party holds the balance and power with the liberals. If the liberals do

00:11:10.940 form a minority government, because the NDP are just as radical on this issue, as the Greens are,

00:11:17.460 the Greens say that they want us all to transition into these green jobs, which don't exist without

00:11:23.360 government subsidies. And the NDP, well, they just want to completely nuke the oil sands. There's no

00:11:28.440 they're not, they don't have even these wistful green dreams. They just want it all gone. And they

00:11:35.200 want it all gone tomorrow. For example, Jagmeet Singh, he doesn't support the Kinder Morgan Trans

00:11:41.380 Mountain Pipeline. He says there has to be prior and informed consent from the First Nations. Well, 1.00

00:11:49.600 that's not quite how it works. The word is consultation.

00:11:53.580 The problem that's happening right now, I would argue the vast majority of Indigenous and Aboriginal 1.00

00:11:59.180 First Nations, Métis people support pipelines, they support energy. What you do is you have these 1.00

00:12:03.900 environmental organizations from the states, so called environmental organizations, and they pay

00:12:09.240 for lawsuits to a few First Nations to deliberately stall and stall and stall and stall in this never

00:12:14.340 ending fight. And, you know, I used like, I didn't agree with Tom Mulcair on everything, but I

00:12:23.960 respected him as a politician. I know he supported the Energy East, he probably was against the Trans 0.72

00:12:27.980 Mountain. But the NDP, I mean, I grew up in a family where it was NDP, NDP, and I was in Saskatchewan

00:12:35.340 when Roy Romano was the premier. And, you know, you don't love everything they do, but, you know,

00:12:40.080 they did decent under Roy Romano. They had a union-type mentality of jobs. Now you have unions like

00:12:45.400 Unifor, which is Suncor's union, but they protest pipelines. We're in a weird, weird place.

00:12:53.380 I think the NDP are sort of in this weird survival mode. I don't think, Tom Mulcair was a leader. He

00:13:01.040 was a good opposition leader. You like him or not, he asked tough questions. You know, he rescued that

00:13:07.200 girl when Justin Trudeau was stormed across, and he banged her in the chest. You know, like, I mean,

00:13:12.460 Tom Mulcair had some, I didn't love him. I don't see that in any of the leadership in the federal NDP

00:13:18.440 right now. It's quite sad. And if they, I mean, the two of them have balance of power, I mean,

00:13:27.140 I don't think their current leader has the real skill set or knowledge beyond his echo chamber to

00:13:37.440 understand how the world works. And you can go on and on talking about identity politics, but that

00:13:44.860 seems to be all I've ever seen or heard out of him. And Elizabeth May, I mean, her response to my

00:13:49.200 question on cross-country checkup was just so like, oh, there's going to be this, and there's

00:13:55.020 going to be these skilled workers, and they're going to, like, it doesn't work like that. Like,

00:13:58.560 the skill sets aren't always transferable either. Like, there's certain jobs that people want.

00:14:05.600 There's certain people have got, it's not that simple. I don't think she understands how the oil

00:14:09.520 sands work. I mean, I think she thinks she knows, but she truly doesn't.

00:14:15.120 Robbie, I'm going to give you a quote, because I think this quote, I don't know if you're going to

00:14:21.200 get it right. I think you might, because it'll show just, it'll demonstrate something. I'm trying

00:14:29.160 to prove a point. Okay, here's the quote from a political party leader. You can't make a choice

00:14:34.640 between what's good for the environment and what's good for the economy. We can't shut down the oil

00:14:39.080 sands tomorrow. We need to phase them out. We need to manage the transition off our dependence

00:14:44.900 on fossil fuels. That's going to take time, and in the meantime, we have to manage that transition.

00:14:51.240 Who said that, do you think? Oh, well, I want to say Elizabeth May, that would make it easy,

00:14:57.200 or a jug mean, but it's probably Trudeau. It is absolutely Trudeau, and my sneaky little point that

00:15:02.440 I was trying to prove is, there's literally no daylight in between all three progressive parties on this

00:15:08.560 issue. So, I guess I'm debunking my own point by saying the Liberals are actually going to get

00:15:13.340 more radical on the issue of being anti-fossil fuel, because Trudeau said that two years ago.

00:15:19.140 So, I mean, they're pretty radical and pretty in line with Elizabeth May. I mean, that could have

00:15:25.560 been said by Elizabeth May. It could have been said by one of the more radical NDPers, but it was

00:15:29.920 actually said by our Prime Minister about our best resource.

00:15:35.840 So, Justin Trudeau came here many times. I know Justin. I've hosted some events for him, and

00:15:41.900 you know that I try to stay as nonpartisan as I can. Yeah, of course I do.

00:15:46.060 It's not easy, particularly right now. I recently did an interview with a publication, which I can't

00:15:56.080 say what it is right now, because the guy made me say, be quiet about it, because he didn't want

00:15:59.640 anyone to know he was doing a story to scoop him. But it was a pretty big publication, and I was

00:16:04.020 honored that they asked me to do an interview. And when it comes out, but I actually, for the first

00:16:09.500 time, really was critical of Justin Trudeau. And I believe everybody makes mistakes. They do things

00:16:18.920 10, 15 years ago, and I mean, that type of stuff comes up. I've never seen a leader in my entire life

00:16:24.280 that has gotten as many passes as Justin Trudeau. Yeah. If Stephen Harper would have wore black

00:16:29.180 face for five minutes, it would have been done. And Justin did it that we know about three separate

00:16:36.560 times. I think there's a fourth one that just came out. We're recording this on Tuesday. And there's

00:16:42.540 a fourth one of him in an Afro wig that just came out literally moments ago. So I guess

00:16:51.480 if I was Justin Trudeau, I would brag about all the resources we had, I would never undersell it,

00:17:01.140 I wouldn't apologize for it. I'd say the oil sounds the best thing that's happened to Canada. And I

00:17:04.680 really understand it. I understand it in a deeper way than just showing up and giving lip service.

00:17:08.880 I would also do that for solar. And I do that for wind. And I do that for wheat and canola.

00:17:12.680 I would do that for everything. I would be the leader the country needs. And that's someone who

00:17:19.160 doesn't matter if you voted them for not or not. You try with everything within your power,

00:17:24.360 if you have integrity, to sell what they're selling. And we don't need to apologize about

00:17:30.080 the oil sounds. And Justin knows that he knows he knows how good it is for Canada. I'm terrified

00:17:36.300 that identity politics and some weird socialism agenda is slowly creeping its ways into our policies.

00:17:47.180 Last week, when you have Greta Thunberg coming to our country, and it's very clear that she,

00:17:57.420 her speech to the United Nations was, I mean, it was a complete and utter disaster. It was

00:18:08.140 embarrassing. I found it so insulting that someone with such privilege, and I mean, let's talk about

00:18:15.440 privilege. Privilege is getting floated on a $20 million yacht. Privilege is when Arnold Schwarzenegger

00:18:22.220 lends you his Lexus. Privilege is when each world leader meets with you and sits down.

00:18:27.860 And somehow her childhood has been stolen from her. That is the biggest load of bullshit I've ever heard

00:18:33.260 in my entire life. Because you actually have children in Africa and countries that are starving.

00:18:38.520 They're not eating hummus on a train with peanut butter. And I understand that she's got problems.

00:18:44.080 But when Justin met with her, I lost a lot of respect that I had left for him. And I'm also blown away

00:18:55.300 at celebrities because let's just be candid. Greta Thunberg right now is the biggest celebrity in the 1.00

00:19:01.200 world at this moment in time. She's got the highest social media following, the highest engagement,

00:19:05.780 and celebrities that are sort of has-beens are jumping on her bandwagon to get pictures with her. 0.98

00:19:12.760 And I felt that our prime minister was a little bit of a celebrity. He is the poster child for Canada,

00:19:19.700 like it or not. And that includes the oil sands. It includes selling our oil to market. And I'm concerned

00:19:26.840 that if we're being lectured to by a child, and who really, I mean, her arguments are weak at best.

00:19:37.260 And if you cross, if you have to cross-examine her, I mean, she crumbles. She's already crumbling

00:19:40.760 now a little bit. It wasn't a good defense of us. And it kind of said like, hey, well, she's in town,

00:19:48.360 I better have my picture taken with her. I lost respect. The other thing is, is that this argument

00:19:54.440 that somebody who's like a grown man in their 40s cannot question her. They're trying to use that

00:20:00.320 to emasculate people that are actually questioning her. This is the part where I'm completely and

00:20:06.760 utterly perplexed. Okay, so when her argument suits your narrative, she's an expert. Greta Thunberg,

00:20:12.180 an expert. She's a well-spoken, great person. And if that's the case, then she should be able to be

00:20:18.980 cross-examine. And I mean, there's plenty of 16-year-olds that are brilliant. Brilliant 16-year-olds

00:20:25.440 you can argue with. You can, I mean, my little foster sister, when she was 16, I mean, she used

00:20:31.580 to argue with me and she beat me in arguments. But I mean, she did something stupid. I have no problem

00:20:37.100 calling her out. So my concern is that we're being duped. And we are scared to stand up to her

00:20:48.380 because she's, you know, she's a 16-year-old girl who's, you know, got a disability or superpower,

00:20:54.800 either way you look at it. The point of the matter is, is that if you're going to play in that league

00:20:59.440 and she's in the big leagues, then you need to have rebuttal. These grown men, a lot of them are

00:21:05.260 fearful for their family's future. They've got own 16-year-old children that they've got to put

00:21:10.100 through school. They don't have the luxury of being funded by billionaires and multimillionaire

00:21:16.460 celebrities who lend them their Lexus. Her speech was an embarrassment. It's an embarrassment to people

00:21:23.060 across this country that are struggling across the world. She has an amazing childhood. No one stole

00:21:30.100 anything from her. She doesn't need to work a day the rest. She doesn't have to go back to school.

00:21:33.840 She's a famous international celebrity now who's got connections. She's done. I mean,

00:21:39.480 she doesn't have to go back to school at all. She can float around, public speak, do whatever she 1.00

00:21:43.940 wants. Arnold Schwarzenegger will help her out. So will Obama. And so will Trudeau. And like,

00:21:49.100 I mean, and that's fine. I mean, I'm not trying to, like, she's got to seize her opportunities.

00:21:54.180 But we as a country need to understand that Canada needs to get our oil to market. And we don't have

00:22:00.020 time for childish distractions. You know, I watched that whole Greta Thunberg in Montreal thing. It 1.00

00:22:11.480 was very alarming to me because I've seen some of the, um, the counts of the crowd size. 50,000

00:22:20.360 of our fellow Canadians took to the street, the streets of Montreal to say, shut down Alberta.

00:22:28.260 That's what I saw when I saw that. That's what I saw when I saw those signs holding up that our

00:22:35.020 fellow Canadians want to unemploy us because a 16 year old girl from a continent away is telling them

00:22:44.440 to do it. And really, I look at Greta Thunberg with great sympathy as a mother, I feel like she's

00:22:50.640 being abused and exploited. And people are exacerbating her vulnerabilities, because it gets

00:22:57.340 good TV play. It makes for great soundbites. And I worry about her future when she's all used up and

00:23:04.320 thrown away. And I feel like she's being used as a human shield. The same way I would say that Hamas 0.98

00:23:14.020 uses human shields. They put the women and the vulnerable children up front in the war. Well,

00:23:18.320 they think they're on a war against fossil fuels. And guess who's standing up front? The women and

00:23:22.560 the children. So that the moral people, you and I, we don't fire at those people. We don't attack

00:23:28.020 those people. And that's what I see happening here. But my very wise 13 year old, who has been talking

00:23:35.180 to me and nagging at me in a Swedish accent for over a week now, since she saw Greta do it, she watched

00:23:41.480 that video of Greta's speech. And she said, Mom, that's not a compelling argument or whatever

00:23:49.920 in her little 13 year old language she said. But she said, that's just every other teenager

00:23:55.300 talking sass mouth to an adult and thinking that they know how to run the world. And I thought, 1.00

00:24:01.680 you know what, that's true. You know, we're we're holding Greta up as special and somehow insightful.

00:24:05.600 But really, when you boil it all down, she's just a regular 16 year old who thinks she knows 0.97

00:24:10.820 everything.

00:24:13.120 Um, yeah, I'll try to unravel some of that. So first, I believe that they had a good turnout,

00:24:21.580 but I would argue that it's a false turnout. And I'll tell you why they planned it a long time.

00:24:25.640 They were skipping school. You're in a city with a population. I mean, there's all like we

00:24:30.440 skip school Fridays. It'd be interesting to see how long that happens. I'm sure it'll happen a few

00:24:34.660 more times. Um, back in the rally days, when we were across the country, I would argue we had

00:24:40.500 pipelines number one issue in Canada for quite a while is build that pipe, build those pipes when

00:24:45.160 we want pipelines on them now. Um, unfortunately, we have jobs and we get on caught up in our lives

00:24:50.860 trying to keep things going. I'm going to blame us. I'm going to blame myself, Cole, Cody, um, our

00:24:58.220 whole little activism group, because, um, I think we when we got pipelines, the number one issue,

00:25:03.940 we kind of got complacent. And it's but it's it's hard. Like, I mean, we all you know, we

00:25:09.780 all have, um, lives to try to run businesses. I can't, you know, fly to Ottawa all the time.

00:25:14.900 And Arnold Schwarzenegger is not lending me a Lexus anytime soon. Um, so, um, but, um, I do believe

00:25:23.780 that it is our duty, all of us to try and get this pipeline issue back in people's consciousness,

00:25:29.700 because it's real. Like, I don't think people in Ontario realize what's happening, like borrowing

00:25:35.540 copious amounts of money to prop up their economy. And when we last so long, Alberta used to prop it 1.00

00:25:42.100 up and Alberta needs help. We're not asking for much. We just want a couple of pipelines. So you

00:25:47.620 could stop importing oil from the United States or Saudi Arabia or wherever, and help us be competitive

00:25:53.860 in the world market. And, um, if Justin Trudeau wants to plant 10 billion trees, go for it. But

00:26:00.820 get me a pipeline. Um, seriously, like, uh, we need a pipeline. We desperately need pipeline. And, um,

00:26:08.580 I'm terrified. And we don't, I don't think I miss politicians that are boring, non charismatic.

00:26:14.980 I want a bean counter. I want a politician that like is socially awkward and still uses a handkerchief 0.78

00:26:20.980 and then offers it to you because they're so little, they're so socially, but they're really cheap.

00:26:26.020 And they're too cheap, too cheap, too cheap by Kleenex. You can wash a handkerchief. Um,

00:26:31.700 but, um, no, I'm, um, I, I'm, I'm hopeful that something, something good comes. Also,

00:26:38.500 I want to say something. Um, I think it's a shame that, uh, one of your reporters recently got kicked

00:26:44.660 out of, uh, Andrew Sears Lane. I'm still going to try to be as non-partisan as I can, but that's not

00:26:52.980 right. It's not right when Rachel did it to you and it's not right any other way around. Uh, uh,

00:26:57.940 it's not, especially that guy, like, you know, he's, he's such a softie. So, um, it, we got to go

00:27:05.460 back to, like, the rebel serves a very big, important purpose. And, um, there's a lot of

00:27:13.780 stories that have been broken because of you guys. So, I mean, does everyone get it right all the time?

00:27:17.700 No, but I would argue you guys get it right pretty more times than you don't.

00:27:22.980 Oh, well, thanks Robbie. Yeah. I think I, the moral of the story is just leave us alone. Let

00:27:28.420 us do our jobs. Just let us do our jobs. We're not there to make trouble. We're there to ask

00:27:32.740 questions. You can even ignore our questions, politicians. If you're watching, uh, you could

00:27:38.420 just ignore us and talk right over us. Like Justin Trudeau does to literally everybody. Um,

00:27:43.540 but, uh, costing us, throwing us out of places, it's just a bad look on everybody. And I think,

00:27:50.340 um, if we are going to be outraged that the liberals didn't allow my friend, Andrew Lawton

00:27:59.220 to attend to their campaign events, the same must be said of us. And we have to see past our

00:28:05.140 partisanship and, and how desperately we all want Justin Trudeau to lose. I'm speaking for me and not

00:28:10.180 you. Um, we have to be able to see past that to stand on principle sometimes or all the time. Uh,

00:28:17.060 Robbie, I know that you had, uh, meetings today and, uh, we're working late in the afternoon. Um,

00:28:23.220 I want to thank you for being generous with your time. Please tell everybody how they can support

00:28:27.380 the work you do because unlike the Greta Thunbergs of the world, you don't have anybody throwing a big

00:28:32.420 stack of cash your way to do the advocacy for families like mine that you do every single day.

00:28:37.060 Um, please go to oilsandstrong.com and buy 10 t-shirts.

00:28:43.460 Thanks, Robbie. Have a great day. We'll have you back on again sometime very, very soon.

00:28:48.020 Thank you for having me.

00:28:48.740 I think for the majority of Western Canada, and I know definitely for Alberta,

00:29:02.980 most people are voting because they care about one single overarching issue. It's the same issue

00:29:09.220 that swept Jason Kenney into power provincially. That issue is jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs. And regardless

00:29:15.620 of Elizabeth May's grandiose dreams of the lease hand on your drilling rig, suddenly becoming a green 0.98

00:29:21.540 energy mogul, it's not happening, at least not anytime soon. And at least not without a lot of

00:29:26.980 government intervention. Demand for oil is rising globally and Canada should and must be the ethical

00:29:34.020 supplier to the rest of the world. Progressive parties need to stop colluding with each other

00:29:39.380 to further foreign interest to block Canadian oil. This is a Canadian sovereignty issue that's going

00:29:45.460 to trigger a separatism crisis that I don't think anybody is prepared for. Well, everybody, that's the

00:29:51.700 show for tonight. I'll see everybody back here in the same time, in the very same place next week.

00:29:56.820 And remember, don't let the government tell you that you've had too much to think.

Rebel News Podcast - October 03, 2019

Robbie Picard confronts Elizabeth May on live radio

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