00:06:11.320and we don't need to spend money on it.
00:06:13.000To give you an example, the British House of Lords, okay, which is over in the UK, part of our
00:06:19.420constitutional monarchy system, blah, blah, blah, blah. Royal chamber, they got the red carpet in
00:06:23.780there too. Sheila, House of Lords are not paid a salary. They're not paid a salary. But here in
00:06:30.820Canada, such chumps, okay, we're handing $190,000 to these people to be potted plants. So all of0.98
00:06:38.820this is to say, it's undemocratic, it's unelected, it's not accountable, it's wasting your money.
00:06:43.760We have Preston Manning and Abby Lewis agreeing to abolish the Senate. Stars have aligned, okay?
00:06:53.620So this is why, this is one of the reasons why the Taxpayers Federation fought hard for this.
00:06:57.440Also, I don't know if you saw, but did you notice how Prime Minister Mark Carney was asked about
00:07:03.000the follow-up questions that weren't just about sovereignty and he said oh um opening the
00:07:08.840constitution takes a long time and that sounds like a lot of work well we wouldn't want them
00:07:13.820to do any work would we exactly so strategically how you eat an elephant is one bite at a time0.88
00:07:20.480one of the reasons why we went after the senate is because it would require Alberta to work with
00:07:28.100other provinces in order to amend the Constitution, my friend. That's right. So it's one step further
00:07:36.620along that journey. And I know you wanted to get into the other questions as well. There's a lot
00:07:41.380of good for taxpayers and Albertans and people who value smaller government that came out of that
00:07:47.220night. Yeah, but just staying on the Senate question, the Senate... I'm so glad we won.
00:07:55.180You know, I'm so glad you won too, because we've tried, especially on the Senate here in Alberta, for viewers outside of the province, you may not know, but Alberta elects its own senators. We put their names on the ballot. Albertans choose them. And it was convention under Stephen Harper's conservative government to respect the will of Albertans and appoint the people that we chose.
00:08:37.580Because Justin Trudeau and now Mark Carney ignore the will of Albertans and appoint their
00:08:45.360own crazy people, like radical gender activist Christopher Wells, who this is me saying it based
00:08:51.260on posts he made where he co-opted a cartoon about Coptic Christian martyrs and put the LGBTQ0.97
00:09:02.220in the place of the martyrs. And the Christians were the bad guys in that. And then we've got0.83
00:09:07.980Senator Paula Simons. Nobody chose her. In fact, she railed against the unelected Senate until0.98
00:09:15.180somebody showed up with a paycheck for her and she uh gladly accepted so 192 000 per year plus
00:09:24.700expenses as so so albertans have tried to work within the confines of the constitution to change
00:09:33.340at least how we're represented in the senate and we've been ignored so yeah let's go nuclear
00:09:39.460And the courts, the courts slapped down Prime Minister Stephen Harper when he was trying to reform the Senate and make it elected. And we interviewed a Reform Party founder, Preston Manning, and he famously advocated for Senate reform. He wanted a triple E Senate, equal, elected and effective.
00:10:00.460okay um i did the math i was looking at the math and it's something crazy so i'm out here in
00:10:06.520atlantic canada right now because we're i'm fixing up a property i'm constantly chatting with people
00:10:11.600back home um in the beloved province of alberta and i was looking around at the numbers last i
00:10:18.080could see on the website i think atlantic canada all combined has a place for like 30 senators
00:10:25.720Yeah. Alberta's got six. Yeah. Like it is so lopsided. Now, I know there's a lot of good, good, hardworking people in Atlantic Canada. But if you look around on what's going on here, where they're constantly trying to strangle their own natural resources, they've got crazy high taxes here in Nova Scotia.
00:10:48.680You walk outside and you're hit with a 14% sales tax combined on everything.
00:11:10.980Alberta, for example, right now has the highest personal exemption,
00:11:14.900Meaning you can make, I think it's $24,000, something around there before you start even paying income tax in Alberta. So the difference in how it, and oh, in Alberta, you have recall legislation at the provincial city hall and school board level, meaning it respects its people more. It taxes them much less. It has more opportunities for regular jobs, including natural resource jobs.
00:11:39.960And you can fire the government at any moment in Alberta.
00:11:55.340Like, so many reasons to abolish the unelected Senate.
00:11:59.740And so I just wanted to thank Alberta Premier Daniel Smith, I will point this out, for adding some of these questions.
00:12:07.340Because I think we got some solid answers.
00:12:09.960that a lot of people can build off like we're building off the senate thing we're really happy
00:12:15.600to see some of the yeses when it comes to things like uh having uh more local smaller governments
00:12:21.380i know that king's bench things looks a little flippy right now yeah spoiler alert smith can
00:12:27.460still work on that if she wants right right like there's nothing telling her she can't and i know
00:12:32.780that there's folks for example in criminal justice reform circles that are outside of the taxpayers
00:12:37.240Federation, they'll be pretty happy to see stuff like this. And immigration reform advocates are
00:12:43.560going to be super happy with some of these results, Sheila. Yeah. And we'll talk about that in a
00:12:48.460second. But if viewers at home want to send me an email because I seem slightly distracted while
00:12:52.920Chris was talking, I am listening. But I was wondering, I was double checking my numbers
00:12:58.840because you said Alberta has six senators. Yes, we have nearly 5 million people in this beautiful
00:13:04.780province, just six senators. How many senators does PEI have? I think 12 or something. Altogether,
00:13:13.900it's 30. A PEI has four senators for a population of 183,000 people. So that's like Grand Prairie
00:13:25.620and Red Deer put together. Yes. How's that fair representation? It's not. It's not. And it's one
00:13:34.260of the many reasons why Preston Manning, bless him, thought about this all the time. And we
00:13:40.380interviewed him. And to have him as the Reform Party founder say, you know what, it is time to
00:13:46.580send a strong message to Ottawa and vote to get rid of this ridiculous unelected Senate. It was0.78
00:13:52.520huge. And I think that actually helped propel the vote and helped people start voting in favor of
00:13:57.840yes getting rid of it and you'll like this story because it's always so fun um i'm trying to get
00:14:04.720abby lewis to talk to me good luck my show i'm sure there's something that we can agree on i
00:14:12.720don't know what that is maybe you know i'm a little spooked by the price taggy things too
00:14:17.240let's talk abby um so i'll try um and in all honesty in the spirit of dialogue i think it's
00:14:24.640important to talk to people um the late jack layton used to be one of our most frequent guests
00:14:30.220on sun news network right realsies he did he came into the studio like all the time talk to us all
00:14:37.380the time um and so i think it's really important to get them talking about this and abby lewis
00:14:43.200um in keeping with uh the former jack layton's perspective uh um mr milcare's uh perspective
00:14:51.140all the way back okay to the origin story of tommy douglas with the ccf and the regina manifesto back
00:14:59.100in the 1930s they always called for the abolition of the senate always and so i want to call out
00:15:06.200on this because the alberta ndp leader said squat about the unelected senate actually he campaigned
00:15:16.260against the first nine questions. No to the nine. No to the nine. I know. And I noticed that, too.
00:15:21.880There's one prominent lefty there in Alberta as well. I wrote an article about this whole no to
00:15:28.780the nine push, and that was basically them saying, keep the unelected Senate. We love it. It's our
00:15:33.760best friend. It's the weirdest take for a lefty to have because they've been calling it this, you
00:15:40.300know full of aristocrats hold over from colonialism blah blah blah blah blah like anachronistic all
00:15:46.800this other stuff for years i did not understand why the alberta ndp were not coming out in force
00:15:52.820saying we should definitely throw off the shackles of the unelected senate but they were campaigning
00:15:58.860in favor of it it was the weirdest thing so and i'm super happy that albertans like cut through
00:16:04.060that spin and the propaganda and they came out and the majority of them as of right now as of
00:16:08.980tape time. The majority of them, around 53 percent, said, yeah, it's it's time to scrap that thing.
00:16:15.540And now just from a taxpayer's perspective, the first five questions regard immigration.
00:16:23.740And the premier has been very clear for temporary residents to this country, be it workers, students,
00:16:29.620whatever, for every $1 that they generate, they cost the taxpayer $10. And to maintain our social0.99
00:16:41.180services, healthcare, schooling, etc., we need to have immigration at sustainable levels. And0.84
00:16:51.340while we can't necessarily stop the influx of people coming to this country,0.99
00:16:57.280We can disincentivize people from making this their final destination by requiring, by making a law that mandates only Canadian citizens, permanent residents and individuals with an Alberta approved, I like that, Alberta approved immigration status will be eligible for provincially funded programs such as healthcare, education and other social services.0.73
00:17:21.120now if you listen to the left they say this is racist but there's nothing about race in here
00:17:25.660at all and other western democracies do this all the time this puts us in line with places like
00:17:33.100a horrible far right places like australia
00:17:35.940like why this is just common sense uh why should taxpayers who've been living and working in
00:17:45.140Alberta for you know a few years depending on what you say contributing to the tax pool okay
00:17:50.740owning property you know generating wealth paying their income taxes all that jazz
00:17:55.460why should they be bankrolling people who just arrived yesterday and or might not even be here
00:18:05.440legally right like that's okay with you and I growing up in the same generation Sheila that
00:18:11.700would have been unthinkable. Right. Like that would have been unthinkable for them to be able
00:18:15.880to get social services and stuff if they're here illegally. Right. That makes no sense. And so just1.00
00:18:21.720from a nickel and dime, like actual dollar to dollar perspective. Sure. Sure. Of course, that
00:18:27.600was a smart question to ask. And I'm not surprised, actually, that it got pretty overwhelming support
00:18:32.700last I checked with those numbers. I will also point out it's not just schools and hospitals,
00:18:37.560okay which are paid for by taxpayers in some cases not all obviously in some cases there are
00:18:46.180folks who are in canada who aren't canadian citizens who are here illegally and who are
00:18:53.500committing crimes and they're in our criminal justice system and they're not getting kicked out0.74
00:19:00.920right they're not even getting jail time they're just put back out on the street they're part of
00:19:07.500that blew my mind. The whole revolving door justice thing, they're getting put back out
00:19:12.520on the street. And just even if you want to take away potential crime and the hardship that causes
00:19:17.680people who are victims of it, just from an arithmetic and money perspective, that's costing
00:19:23.240taxpayers a ton of money. So yeah, I'm glad to see that people championed this. And I'm glad to see
00:19:28.620from what I can tell from the current numbers, it looks like most of that stuff passed.
00:19:32.440It looks like the first five passed. You know, we have seen order paper questions where the government had to admit that temporary residents and people here illegally are qualifying for CCB.
00:19:46.220So that's the Canadian Child Benefit for children that don't live here with them.
00:19:52.660And I have to stress, folks. Half of what you make goes to government.
00:19:59.520So if you are a regular working person, okay, and you're pulling in your salary every two weeks, almost half of what you earn with your work is going to the state, various levels of the state of government.
00:20:18.220Imagine that you're at the grocery store, you know, shutter, right, of trying to pay for stuff and how much everything is costing and the inflation and just the fight to afford basic things, okay?
00:20:28.140Keep that in mind right now. Picture what lands in your bank account if you're paid a salary every
00:20:34.120two weeks. Got that amount in your head? Almost double it. Almost double it. What could you do
00:20:43.220with that money if it were almost doubled when it lands in your bank account? Could you afford
00:20:49.080more nutritious food? Could you pay to get your car fixed? Could you try to pay down your line
00:20:53.400of credit? Could you maybe try to save up for a down payment on a house? All that stuff. Now,
00:20:59.660my good friend taxpayer, realize what Sheila just said, that your tax dollars that are taken from
00:21:07.500you by force from the state are going to people who shouldn't be in Canada for children. Did you
00:21:14.380say that aren't even physically in Canada? They're their dependents. Guys, guys, you want to know
00:21:21.720where the money's hemorrhaging from it's stuff like this so that's why it wasn't our fight our
00:21:27.560fight was the senate question but i'm still as a taxpayer who wants smaller more accountable more
00:21:33.280affordable government i'm thrilled to see some of these answers there these are some solid bases to
00:21:38.720build on here in alberta yeah it and what surprised me but i shouldn't be surprised
00:21:46.180is that this was popular even in the cities so this and the reason i shouldn't be surprised is
00:21:56.700because almost all the polling data shows canadians when you say to them should we lower immigration
00:22:02.720levels or at least until very recently i think that the trend is changing because people are
00:22:08.240saying yeah definitely lower i don't care what they're at lower them but but until very recently
00:22:13.920Canadians said, no, immigration's fine. You know, we're a welcoming country and we're super nice and we're definitely not American. So we're not like those ice baddies. And so they were pro-immigration until you told them the immigration numbers. Once you told them the immigration targets, they were like, oh, that's too much.
00:22:34.780And it was across every voting demographic and voting proclivity.
00:22:42.200So even if you told NDPers the immigration numbers, they said, oh, that's a little much.
00:22:48.780Yeah. And so I think now you don't even have to tell them the numbers.
00:22:52.540They can see it manifesting around them that something isn't quite right.
00:22:56.460They're seeing their schools are overcrowded. Their emergency rooms are overcrowded.
00:22:59.780The streets are overcrowded. You can't afford a house.
00:23:01.920and they're putting two and two together even in the cities and that gives me hope
00:23:06.260yeah and it's one of those things where and then you add the and you're paying for it right like
00:23:12.720and you're paying for it so the taxpayer tax dollars are paying for a lot of that which is
00:23:19.620why it was smart to put those questions on do you want user fees do you want the requirement to be
00:23:24.260there i think is for 12 months at least before you start qualifying like these are all very
00:23:28.340common sense things that should that should be able to save taxpayers money because like I pointed
00:23:35.580out we can't afford to pay more we have got to start paying less in taxes like yesterday right
00:23:42.720yesterday now I do like the idea that the premier put these questions to the people so that she could
00:23:48.940enact the people's will I like that but the first five questions are just policy questions she could
00:23:54.040just do them anyway yes yes i understand so uh i've known premier daniel smith for around 20
00:24:02.100years because we worked in radio kind of in the same sphere so we'd wind up seeing each other
00:24:06.580conferences and stuff and just from my own knowledge of her she loves referendums she
00:24:12.080loves being able to actually hear from people directly yeah uh and recall legislation and all
00:24:16.840that stuff she really likes that grassroots direct democracy thing um so i think that's
00:24:21.640one of the reasons why she added a lot of those questions of she wanted to kind of get a feel for
00:24:27.120it. But you're right. A lot of the stuff they can just do. They can just do. And again, some of the
00:24:33.040constitutional questions, that's a very good test pilot for Prime Minister Mark Carney and see how
00:24:41.640he's reacting to this. So something like the Senate, for example, depending on what happens
00:24:46.340with the snap provincial election in British Columbia,
00:24:49.740you should be able to get a majority of premiers on board of that.
00:26:33.760But I need to tell you, Alberta is really special. Like it really is. I have lived and worked professionally in most provinces of Canada. There's nowhere like Alberta. The fact that you guys have this direct democracy, that you have referendums, that you have recall legislation, that you have a Taxpayer Protection Act where they have to have a vote to increase a tax on you.
00:26:58.300That's wild that you have recall at the school board level, guys, city hall level, that I can walk into any random hotel on a Wednesday night in Red Deer, okay, or Lloyd or Lethbridge or wherever, and trip over some grassroots group that wants to fix something about Alberta.
00:27:25.180So if you're upset by some of the answers, I understand. But you've got to know for hope for the future and the health of the province. Alberta is so well equipped. Yeah, change. It is. I'm making sure that we keep more of our money, that we have more of our freedom and that we have smaller, more accountable government. I just have to tell you from experience, Alberta is set. Like it's really well set.
00:27:50.180And so if anybody does want to join with the Taxpayers Federation on our various fights, okay, we're fighting industrial carbon taxes, we're fighting to defund the CBC, we're fighting the censorship laws, all this stuff, just go to taxpayer.com for free, click on the petitions tab, sign one of the petitions that speaks to your heart, and bingo, bango, you're part of the tax fighter army, and you'll start getting a whole bunch of emails from people like me that it's time to team up and gang up on Carney and do a phone bank or do an email or something like that.
00:28:20.020It's how we win stuff. Hey, we helped win the no more pipelines ruling. We were an intervener in
00:28:25.360that case just the other day in the Alberta Court of Appeal. OK, so that's part of the tax fighter
00:28:30.480army. You can totally sign up for free. You don't need to donate. Just sign one of the petitions
00:28:34.700and you're part of the team. Yeah, I know there are a lot of people out there who feel like now
00:28:38.680that the referendum is over, that they feel like they need to get involved in something and do
00:28:44.760something and i think the taxpayers federation is a great way to get involved make change
00:28:51.480and enjoy some of that fellowship that a lot of people felt during the referendum campaign
00:28:55.960big time and we're happy warriors it's super yeah we have trivia nights and people will show
00:29:01.080off in porky costumes it's it's really fun yes chris thanks so much for jumping on the show today
00:29:07.740i know you're very busy um doing manual labor in atlantic canada um but it's good for the soul
00:29:41.140So I got some good feedback on my show last week with our two newest interns, Drew and
00:29:49.020Anastasia, on the work they are doing to expose campus radicalism.
00:29:55.060I think that what's happening on university campuses is radicalizing kids in two ways.
00:30:03.940It's radicalizing kids into far left pro terror extremism.
00:30:08.780But on the other side, it's radicalizing kids like Drew and Anastasia to be activists for the free and liberal exchange of ideas, which is how it's supposed to be on university campuses, however, decreasingly so.
00:30:22.140But today's comments come from the YouTube comment section on my video announcing that we had a small but important win in our battle with Elections Alberta and the Elections Commissioner to tell us if they are investigating Thomas Lukasik's multi-million dollar Forever Canadian campaign.
00:30:46.940Now, the referendum is over, and I think we'll learn more about exactly how big the campaign finance violations were coming from Forever Canadian, but we will learn too late.
00:31:07.700However, we were able to force Elections Alberta through our StopTheCheaters.com campaign. You can donate to offset my legal fees, which are enormous. At StopTheCheaters.com, we had over 200 pages of complaint that we served Elections Alberta with.
00:31:29.640it was evidence of campaign finance violations for Forever Canadian. We compiled that with the
00:31:40.520help of Williamson Law back in July. We went to court, I think it was in August. We tried to get
00:31:51.300it in front of the Associate Chief Justice, and then the Associate Chief Justice said he just
00:31:57.900couldn't hear our case before the referendum but elections alberta did put lukazik's forever
00:32:08.680canadian campaign under a compliance agreement now you only go under a compliance agreement
00:32:14.580if you haven't been complying with the rules so we knew that that was a passive admission
00:32:21.640that Forever Canadian had been found to have been breaking the rules,
00:34:47.100custis longarm5738 says and the state mainstream media seemed to forgot to report on this when
00:34:58.640carney met with forever canadian this week yeah they didn't bring it up they didn't bring it up
00:35:03.340that their favorite federalist smith basher was the only third-party advertiser under a compliance
00:35:11.240agreement I won't stop till that guy gets massive fines if it was a group for separation they would
00:35:19.640have been investigated that day and all over the news for a week yeah yeah we have been compliant
00:35:26.640with the rules filing our expenses and income weekly and Thomas Lukasik has been well not
00:35:34.780Lukasik but at least his operation they've been in the same parking lot as me doing the exact same
00:35:40.940work as me it was in lethbridge alberta it was on a sign tour and forever canadian was across the
00:35:48.740parking lot handing out signs taking donations with their volunteers maybe their paid volunteers
00:35:58.380and only one of us filed expenses for that day guess who that was
00:36:04.100william mckeever 4790 says so forever canadian is not likely to face any consequences i don't know
00:36:12.980let's see the compliance agreement says they have to comply um and it is like a plea deal
00:36:18.940right like as i've said before it's like running over and killing somebody with your car and then
00:36:23.920you plead down from vehicular homicide to a parking ticket is what he did but he's still
00:36:30.860being investigated for other things. So we'll see. And he is technically a third party advertiser.
00:36:36.480He registered his group as a third party advertiser. He promoted one side in the campaign.
00:36:41.560That's why he had to register as a third party advertiser. So why didn't he comply with the rest
00:36:46.040of the rules? And why did Elections Alberta let this go on for so long until it was too late for
00:36:53.240any of us to do anything? Basically, they got away with cheating this whole time and nothing is going
00:36:57.760to be done about it i no longer have faith in alberta elections or the current government not
00:37:01.880that i had much to begin with yeah elections alberta mishandled this referendum from the very
00:37:07.500beginning i mean last no two sundays ago the sunday of the long weekend before the vote
00:37:18.260before advanced voting started we were told us third-party advertisers were told that our
00:37:25.980scrutiniers would not be allowed to watch the vote. Only parties and their scrutiniers would
00:37:32.960be allowed to watch the vote. Well, this is not a party election. This is a referendum where third
00:37:38.740parties are the ones who are making the case. And they did it in such a way that nobody had any time
00:37:44.720to try to get it before the courts. And then there's the whole Lukasik thing. And so it's a
00:37:51.520over there and you know it's days later now and we still don't have the results so i don't know
00:38:00.740reeks of ineptitude anyway michelle bud10x says thank you so much for your hard work well i i
00:38:10.580honestly i think it was it was as i've said many many times a sprint of a marathon it just felt
00:38:18.460like we were running for months um you guys know i have a big job here at rebel news i'm in charge
00:38:24.580of a lot of things and i have a huge huge workload here and i do a lot of other special projects and
00:38:32.540missions and i oversee the work of the other journalists and then in my spare time i was
00:38:37.940working on the third party advertiser i wrote a book i toured a book um but all that is to say
00:38:44.160The work is not yet done. I don't I don't think this issue is going away. In fact, one in four, 25 percent, that's a sustainable movement. And I think 75 percent is the high water benchmark for the Federalist, because if there aren't any deliverables on those other issues that the Premier put forward.
00:39:06.180my assessment of the referendum results it is that people were willing because she is doing
00:39:18.800a good job i think so people were willing to give premier smith another shot to try it her way