Rebel News Podcast - SHEILA GUNN REID ｜ An NDP win in Alberta would directly attack affordability for all Canadians

00:00:00.000 Alberta's next election is less than one week away. What would an NDP government and their

00:00:04.360 coalition with Justin Trudeau's Liberals mean for affordability here in Alberta?

00:00:10.000 Not anything good. I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed and you're watching The Gunn Show.

00:00:30.000 Albertans head to the polls at May 29th wherein we will decide the future not just of Alberta but

00:00:36.720 also the industry that fuels the economy here in Wildrose Country and fills the coffers of the

00:00:41.960 federal government. Albertans have been innovating to provide cheap, reliable, affordable energy for

00:00:47.420 Alberta but also for the rest of the country. It's one of those things that Albertans I think

00:00:51.880 do best amongst the country and we'd love to do more of it if the federal government would just

00:00:57.340 get out of our way but we know in 2015 then Premier Rachel Notley of the Socialist NDP

00:01:02.960 in her allegiance with Justin Trudeau's anti-oil, anti-Western federal Liberals deeply damaged

00:01:10.020 Alberta's energy sector and our economy. It drove up the cost of living and the cost of doing business

00:01:14.460 and it saw the end of nearly 200,000 Alberta jobs. Will Albertans repeat this collective madness?

00:01:22.380 I'm hopeful we will not plummet into it one more time not just for our sake but for the sake of our

00:01:29.540 fellow Canadians. A free, more prosperous Alberta is good for everybody. Somebody has to lead the way

00:01:35.260 and I'm proud that it's often us. So joining me now in an interview we recorded earlier is Josh

00:01:40.960 Andrus from Project Confederation whose organization argues for more autonomy and a better deal for Alberta

00:01:47.340 within Confederation. We're talking affordability, Alberta leading on the way on a whole host of

00:01:52.580 issues including bail reform and what Josh thinks is going to happen May 29th. Take a listen.

00:02:06.780 Joining me now is Josh Andrus from Project Confederation. He's got an excellent article

00:02:12.080 in the Western Standard that we're going to talk about but we're also going to talk about

00:02:15.820 some predictions for the last anxiety inducing week of the election campaign here in Alberta

00:02:22.520 and possibly how Alberta's stance on bail reform has influenced the feds for the good for once.

00:02:33.280 They actually responded the right way to something so I think we should talk about that because that's

00:02:38.000 definitely a win for Albertans but also win for public safety of Canadians. Josh thanks for coming on

00:02:43.480 the show. Let's talk about your article in the Western Standard. It's titled

00:02:46.760 What Ottawa wants is not less emissions but less oil and I actually don't even think they want less

00:02:52.160 oil. I think they just want less Alberta oil because they're perfectly happy to import it from some of

00:02:56.540 the more odious regimes of the world. Tell us about your article. Yeah so I was watching the debate

00:03:03.660 and it was kind of nice to see that affordability is a key issue because it is something that comes up

00:03:11.720 a lot across across the board but it's it's regarding the emissions caps and the moving goalposts that the

00:03:22.380 federal liberals have brought in on the energy sector to effectively handcuff the ability of our energy

00:03:28.300 producers to innovate internally and one of the things with the emissions cap is that Stephen Guibault

00:03:34.540 our eco radical environment minister announced at COP27 that the Canadian government would be capping

00:03:45.340 oil and gas emissions by the end of this year. Now because of the energy industry doesn't have the technology

00:03:54.700 to to bring emissions down with to the levels that are expected without cutting production and emissions

00:04:03.100 cap at these levels is a de facto production cut. We've also mentioned that the the environmental goalposts have

00:04:14.940 been shifting on this issue for eight years. I mean I remember eight years ago being upset about a carbon tax and now

00:04:22.700 it's just kind of one of those things where well that's really nothing if you get down to the nitty

00:04:27.500 gritty. I mean we're at a point where the federal government has usurped provincial jurisdiction with the

00:04:33.900 impact assessment act eight provinces as well as the Alberta government or seven provinces as well as the

00:04:41.100 Alberta government came out with a legal challenge against the impact assessment act which is bill c69

00:04:46.780 otherwise termed by uh you guys and others uh as the no more pipelines law but it goes further the

00:04:53.580 federal government has environment environmental jurisdiction to veto any in any project whether it

00:04:59.820 be a gravel pit in stettler or a major oil sands mine in Fort McMurray or even a highway across uh the north

00:05:08.780 from Grand Prairie to uh Fort McMurray something that has been asked for for a long time the federal government

00:05:14.860 can veto all those which very much goes against uh the constitutional jurisdiction of the provinces in

00:05:21.820 in terms of well a lot of areas um but at the end of the day a cap on production isn't the end of the

00:05:31.580 road either um the goalposts are shifting fast as well i mean we have the federal government early this

00:05:36.860 year announced a sustainable jobs plan otherwise known as the just transition which is effectively going to

00:05:43.820 legislate uh the the oil and gas the fossil fuel industry out of existence altogether and and it

00:05:50.860 given the affordability crisis that we we face this is in my view entirely inadvisable position to have

00:05:57.900 because energy is the industry that powers every other industry if you don't have affordable energy

00:06:02.700 you don't have innovation and this isn't just innovation within the oil and gas uh industry to help

00:06:08.140 bring down emissions which they are desperately working towards uh this this impacts every other

00:06:13.900 industry i mean take uh tech for example in the computer age that we're in now um think about those

00:06:20.220 old super computers that they had in the late 70s mid 70s i mean the amount of electricity used to power

00:06:28.860 those would have been monumental and and if if electricity prices have been twice as much they may

00:06:34.940 not we may not have had the innovation within that industry that we otherwise have had where we might

00:06:40.300 not be sitting on this call right now with a computer in front of us because the technology

00:06:45.260 just didn't develop because we didn't have the affordable energy to do so and it affects you know

00:06:49.900 people's bottom lines as well it stretches your wallet um if you have if your heating bill or your

00:06:55.740 electricity bill bill is climbing it makes it harder for you to to pay for food or school sports or

00:07:01.020 or you know a night out to dinner right um and in some cases uh with people below the poverty line

00:07:08.780 at least to homelessness divorce and crime so these are things that we we need to be concerned about

00:07:14.620 and it's deeply concerning that the the alberta ndp seems to be uh really moving in lockstep in a lot

00:07:21.820 of ways with the federal government on this the just transition was a part of their environmental plan

00:07:26.540 that that a group of blue ribbon academics and policy experts put together in 2015 and they had

00:07:33.340 their own just transition in in places like hannah with the with the coal phase out so it's really

00:07:39.980 concerning that uh this is the case and and it's something that we always have to keep an eye on

00:07:45.260 yeah and it's something that you know as canadians we've already seen happen so you know in the i guess

00:07:52.700 it was the early 2000s it seems a gazillion years ago but when the ontario government allegedly greened

00:07:59.500 their grid they made manufacturing so expensive because manufacturing relies on cheap energy and so

00:08:07.340 a lot of it went to the united states some of that manufacturing went to mexico and a lot of it which

00:08:12.220 will never be repatriated went to china where energy is very very cheap it's not anywhere near as clean

00:08:19.500 as canadian energy but it's very very cheap and it makes manufacturing for these companies

00:08:25.100 very attractive if they relocate to china well yeah and i think that's one of the things we need 0.99

00:08:30.380 to be concerned about i mean i don't understand how we can expect to have economic growth if we're

00:08:36.140 handcuffing our economy um and ontario is a perfect example they had uh under the premiership of dalton

00:08:44.220 mcginty and then kathleen win a very aggressive environmental policy that did bring in made

00:08:50.220 electricity very expensive and and for some of the poorer areas of the province uh like you know some

00:08:57.500 up in some of the northern reaches they there were people there that were suffering real energy poverty

00:09:02.940 where they were forced to effectively choose between heating their homes or feeding their families in the

00:09:09.100 winter and when you get to that point that's you have to question the ethics of of such a thing i

00:09:15.740 mean we claim to be trying to save the world but all we're doing is causing poverty um i i don't understand

00:09:22.540 how they can build back better when you're actually causing economic damage to to not just you know

00:09:29.900 industry but also to lower class people who are just trying to get by well and

00:09:34.460 and the societal carnage that poverty causes um you know it becomes just a

00:09:44.460 systemic social decay and it actually affects men the most although i'm sure the left don't want to hear

00:09:49.420 that um and it is deeply immoral um divorces suicides when those occur particularly to men suicide

00:09:58.940 it's normally uh through economic strife so it's not depression it's not any of those other things

00:10:04.220 it's not mental illness for men one of the indicators of suicidality is uh economic strife

00:10:11.260 not being able to be the providers of their family and what are we doing this for in pursuit of becoming

00:10:17.020 a statistical rounding error in the fight and global warming yeah and the other side of it too is

00:10:24.060 even if we do move towards these goals there's going to be uh issues in other parts of the world india and

00:10:29.900 china are growing their coal and natural gas power like all they're trying to do is provide affordable

00:10:35.420 energy for their people i mean they have massive populations i mean some of their poor areas don't

00:10:40.300 have electricity in their hospitals so this is something that they're trying to to move towards

00:10:45.180 um it's not clean energy it's not ethical i mean this these are dictated well i mean i'm not saying

00:10:51.100 india is a dictatorship i don't know much about their political system but i will say that china is a 0.98

00:10:55.340 dictatorship so these are things that we have to be monitoring as we go forward i mean this

00:11:01.900 may seem like a great fight to save the world but we're just a small uh small emitter and if you look

00:11:08.540 at uh the amount of uh trees and stuff we have we have we can effectively act through the carbon sink as

00:11:15.580 well so it's one of those things where the logic behind the entire push seems to be driven by ideology

00:11:22.300 more so than it is really economic means um the alberta both the alberta government and the

00:11:27.660 saskatchewan government uh the two provinces that have been fighting back the hardest do think that

00:11:32.940 we can reduce emissions but their timelines are much more realistic uh you know you you're probably

00:11:38.140 going to need an extra 15 to 20 years to develop the technology if not longer um i don't know did i

00:11:44.700 mention um so like there were some reports out done by uh some agencies in alberta alberta's electricity

00:11:53.260 services operator has calculated the cost of moving to net zero electricity by 2035 will cost alberta

00:12:01.420 government 52 billion dollars in infrastructure costs uh the lost economic activity uh was calculated by

00:12:09.260 independent econometrics firm navius uh they calculated the lost gdp due to increased energy

00:12:15.660 costs would be 35 billion dollars you add that up that's 87 billion the alberta budget usually sits

00:12:22.300 between 60 and 70 billion dollars a year it's more than the entire alberta government budget the impact

00:12:27.420 of this and it's just in a short 12 year span so yeah the costs are monumental um and they're gonna it's

00:12:36.620 gonna hurt western canada much more than it is eastern canada because our industries are like

00:12:41.900 our industry is energy and if we are we're already handcuffed but if the sustainable jobs act once that

00:12:50.140 gets rolled out and implemented the impact assessment act if the supreme court rules in the favor of the

00:12:55.500 federal government which it likely will um we need to be absolutely on guard um to defend our industries

00:13:02.060 and defend our our livelihoods i mean we all lived through 2015 and 2020 there where oil prices were

00:13:09.900 in the gutter but the federal government was still hammering us with policies that really crushed our

00:13:14.460 industries we had the tanker ban carbon tax impact assessment act i could go on um we have these

00:13:21.180 policies that are uh severely impacting the ability of our producers to to to really provide affordable

00:13:28.540 energy to the rest of the country we've got pipeline bottlenecks that have been there for years we've

00:13:32.860 got moving environmental goalposts that are chasing away investment and leading to major project

00:13:38.940 cancellations like the tech mine uh these are really devastating policies that are really hurting the

00:13:45.420 bottom line of of alberta and saskatchewan and and we have to do whatever we can to defend ourselves

00:13:51.820 well that's the thing it it's us it's not the companies however i feel for the employees at the

00:13:57.820 companies but these companies will just relocate uh to another part of the world where it's much easier

00:14:03.740 to pay off the local warlord to build an energy project than it is to do business in justin trudeau

00:14:11.900 and back in 2015 rachel not least alberta we saw just companies leaving constantly conical phillips and

00:14:18.860 you know tc energy changed their name to remove the stigma of alberta so you know the companies they

00:14:26.460 they've got cash you'll see cash flight but what's left behind in the wake is unemployment

00:14:33.420 yeah unemployment and suicides and i mean albert we went through this like it was one of the most

00:14:40.620 depressing periods in this province's history just in a sense that you know people didn't know what to

00:14:45.500 do i mean we had a they there was an ndp government in in edmonton that was bringing in policies that were

00:14:52.140 costing them their jobs i mean we had 183 000 jobs lost in alberta during the ndps to uh first term

00:14:59.420 and it wasn't just caused by low oil prices i mean you had the the alberta government was bringing in

00:15:04.620 policies directly trying to you know shut down the energy industry i mean they called us embarrassing

00:15:10.060 cousins yeah of confederation and and when you have a government that views its its primary industry

00:15:16.620 is a threat to civilization you're going to have problems with your economic activity in the

00:15:22.300 province it's just you know the government isn't going to be able to transition us to a different

00:15:29.020 uh economic barometer i mean energy is the industry that powers every other industry and if we have

00:15:35.580 and and the periods where we've seen the most economic diversification are the periods where oil prices

00:15:40.460 are high and the money's flowing in because alberta is a great place to do business you want to come

00:15:44.700 here because there's investors everywhere you know there's in there's investors on every street corner

00:15:49.820 um or or every street in every town because they've got cash flow they've got money they've got you know

00:15:55.900 they're building out there they want to grow wealth so alberta the alberta advantage is very much a real

00:16:01.980 thing and and again it goes across economic uh sectors i mean you innovate energy affordable reliable

00:16:10.620 energy and the ability to produce copious amounts of it is a huge benefit to the province of alberta

00:16:17.420 and for the provincial government or the federal government to move to eliminate that altogether

00:16:23.180 is short-sighted and it's gonna that will have ripple effects across the country and ripple effects

00:16:27.820 through the province too i mean albertans are frustrated with the way that they they're viewed with

00:16:32.140 the rest of the country people in downtown toronto they don't necessarily hate western canada but they

00:16:37.180 don't think about us i mean from their vantage point it's everything uh the environment is

00:16:42.860 everything outside of the greater toronto area um there might be a few pockets of people here there but

00:16:48.780 it's just the great you know the canadian shield and you know the great canadian prairies

00:16:54.620 and the mountains that's all they think that is out here but there's people out here people

00:16:58.620 who have jobs and people who have families and and that's something that you know it's it's just a

00:17:04.700 it's a fact of the matter i'm optimistic that minds are changing in other parts of the country just

00:17:09.980 based on the economic conditions i mean we're not just affordability isn't just an issue in alberta

00:17:15.260 it's an issue across the country but it's just one of those things that as affordability gets

00:17:20.060 uh becomes a bigger issue which it likely will um i mean uh it's not just an energy issue obviously i

00:17:29.180 mean there's monetary policy and fiscal policy as well and we can talk about that if you want to get into

00:17:33.340 that but it's going to be an issue in other parts of the country too and and the federal government

00:17:38.060 has a tendency to take from the west to pay for the rest and if we're in a position where affordability

00:17:43.580 is a really it's challenging the federal government they're likely to bring in some kind of a program

00:17:49.340 that lead that effectively acts another financial transfer i mean every program daniel smith said it

00:17:54.220 best every program that the alberta government signs with the federal government is bad for alberta

00:18:00.620 in the sense that it acts as another transfer program so we have to be absolutely vigilant in

00:18:06.380 in what we're dealing with because we just can't afford to have a federal government that's shutting

00:18:09.900 down our industries and then turning around and taking whatever money that those industries uh pump

00:18:14.780 out and it's in their dying phases now you talked about the success of alberta having a ripple effect

00:18:21.180 across the rest of the country and and we saw this but not in the energy sector last week

00:18:29.100 so the alberta government premier daniel smith has taken a very tough on crime approach when the feds

00:18:36.540 have not and one of her recent policy announcements was that the provincial government would be

00:18:43.100 slapping ankle monitors on people who are out on bail when the feds wouldn't and pretty quickly right

00:18:50.700 after that we saw the feds announce bail reform to tighten up um some of their um release conditions

00:19:01.100 for some of the more serious offenders not those who honked their horns and said hold the line but

00:19:06.140 actual real criminals um who are being released with pretty lax bail conditions i think this is a

00:19:12.060 direct response to daniel smith pushing back and embarrassing the feds on this issue

00:19:17.900 it's not just daniel smith this is an issue across the country yeah um alberta has been a leader in

00:19:24.380 standing up to the federal government and the one thing that i will say is that when jason kenny was

00:19:28.700 first elected it was just alberta standing there i mean saskatchewan uh as well but it was just the

00:19:33.580 two provinces we've seen substantial changes i think and i think this has something to do with the

00:19:38.540 federal government's tendency to want to centralize control as they centralize control they take control

00:19:43.740 away from the provinces take the impact assessment act uh alberta government uh went took the federal

00:19:49.500 government to court on the constitutionality of the impact assessment act in the sense that

00:19:54.780 number one it does uh well i mean it directly interferes with provincial jurisdiction on a number

00:20:00.380 of issues and impacts projects that don't even cross provincial borders that are within provincial

00:20:06.700 jurisdiction um so it wasn't just alberta that interview that brought forward the case there were

00:20:13.900 seven other provinces that intervened interestingly not one province intervened on behalf of the federal

00:20:20.060 government on bail reform i believe it was all 10 provinces sought uh changes to bail reform and it's

00:20:28.220 interesting because uh the the issues with the bail system were actually caused by uh federal government

00:20:35.420 law bail reform law passed in 2018 um and there's some incredible statistics on this and in one single

00:20:43.340 calendar year uh there were 40 offenders responsible for 6 385 negative police contacts which are defined as

00:20:52.620 an interaction where someone is a suspect or chargeable in in an offense so we're we're in a in a position

00:21:00.220 where people are basically committing crimes and then getting let out on bail and going committing

00:21:05.100 more crimes um so yeah stricter bail um or yeah stricter bail conditions was something that

00:21:12.780 it was the alberta government leading the way on but uh yeah 10 other or all 10 provinces stood up and said

00:21:18.620 something so we're definitely starting to see uh that the pressure from the provincial from alberta is

00:21:25.260 starting to really catch the attention of the rest of the country and everybody's got issues um with

00:21:32.380 with centralization of power i mean i don't think any province is happy when the federal government

00:21:37.420 stomps on provincial rights especially in quebec and there is something going on over there something

00:21:43.340 that we aren't talking about here uh poll numbers have support for sovereignty now that not being

00:21:49.020 being separate from separation there's you know i just do want to draw that distinction but support for

00:21:55.020 for for sovereignty is rising at an astonishing rate um the parti quebecois was supposed to be left for

00:22:03.500 dead because francois legault was being very strong on cultural things um cultural uh issues uh the

00:22:12.700 parti quebecois not only stayed alive won a whole bunch of seats and then refused to swear allegiance to the

00:22:18.540 king and caused a constitutional crisis um and now there's questions as to whether or not the bill

00:22:24.460 they passed to rectify that problem is constitutional i'm sure that's an issue that we're going to have

00:22:29.260 um so we're in this position where the rest of the country is starting to recognize that there are

00:22:36.540 issues it's not just western alienation anymore there's a lot of of uh focus on on you know having

00:22:43.900 decentralization be a theme of the government it's something that the opposition conservatives have

00:22:48.620 begun to talk about and i do think that that's part of the solution i think that the more uh power

00:22:54.380 provinces have to handle their own affairs the better off they're going to be because we're more

00:22:58.780 nimble and responsive to local issues as they rise i mean take rural crime for example uh in the

00:23:05.420 period from 2015 to 2019 i believe it did escalate in 2018 after the bail reform conditions came into

00:23:11.420 to effect but rural crime in alberta was a pro was a severe issue people were really scared i mean

00:23:19.020 there was a what was that gentleman's name and uh he shot an intruder and there was a big trial over

00:23:25.180 that i can't eddie maurice yes that's the one and that captured the attention of everybody across

00:23:32.860 rural alberta in the sense that yeah there are concerns about safety and and to have to be able to

00:23:39.100 have the alberta government to address it and not wait for changes from the federal government would

00:23:44.220 have given us the ability to to to maybe increase police force capacity change training methods um

00:23:51.420 but to really bring a made in alberta solution to the problem and and i think that the concept of a

00:23:56.860 made in alberta or made in saskatchewan or made in ontario or made in quebec solution is something that

00:24:02.380 it it does capture the the attention of the politicians and it does capture the attention

00:24:07.580 of the people because as the federal government centralized they've done a bad job in governing

00:24:12.700 and that has led to to increase frustration and really a deterioration of federal provincial

00:24:18.300 relations across the board so it's nice to finally have some some allies as we move forward in this to

00:24:26.060 try and get as much uh control over our own affairs in alberta and across the country as we can i think

00:24:32.620 decentralization again like i said it gives us local policy um priority control where we can actually

00:24:39.820 focus on the problems that are important to the people now before i let you go i want to ask you

00:24:46.060 we're in the home stretch for the provincial election it appears as though the battleground remains

00:24:51.180 calgary um although i i've seen some shifting in the polls in some ridings in edmonton that i think

00:24:59.100 the ndp thought were sure bets for them that might be a toss-up now um of course rural alberta

00:25:06.540 is going to go ucp it's good conservatives be worried on election day or should they always

00:25:14.620 just be worried because that's how you get the vote out yeah i'm glad you qualified it with that

00:25:19.980 that second little part there because i don't want to come across as uh being too confident uh i am

00:25:27.500 seeing some very positive signs though from the polling um keep in mind that i i think if my number

00:25:34.300 if my memory serves me correctly uh the polls that came out in 2019 undercut conservative support by a

00:25:40.940 wide majority by a wide margin um it was supposed to be a lot closer than it was and kenny blew the polls

00:25:47.180 out of the water now i don't know if methodology has changed in the last four years with these

00:25:51.820 polling companies but i will say that i have seen a somewhat of a stabilization of voting preferences

00:26:00.700 following the debate there was a lot of noise going on um we i mean obviously there's the take

00:26:07.100 back alberta stuff there's art palowski but i think for most conservative voters that's just noise

00:26:13.500 i mean people say stupid things somehow i hope i don't um but um you end up in a position where

00:26:21.420 the left is going to be hitting you on all these things and and i think it it's it was frustrating 0.76

00:26:26.860 for a while because like a lot of these were on they were avoidable errors you know like

00:26:31.900 unforced errors but i do think you're seeing in the home stretch here the conservative votes coming home

00:26:37.900 i do think this is a conservative province i've seen some positive poll uh data out of uh lethbridge

00:26:44.860 east and and some of these swing ridings and rural that you know even a month ago we thought were gone

00:26:50.860 so i think it's one of those things where they sure make you earn it but the conservatives are uh

00:26:58.380 they're i think they're i hope they're coming home it comes down to turnout i have seen you know

00:27:03.980 the turnout i think was 20 000 higher for the first day of advanced polling um so yeah if the turnout's

00:27:11.420 high i think that's good for the conservatives because it means that the conservatives are coming

00:27:15.340 home grudgingly um because of all the unforced errors but it's one of those things where i

00:27:23.020 yeah it i'm comforted that i i'm hoping to see a 52 to 55 seat uh ucp majority government um i'll take 46 if

00:27:33.420 it comes uh but uh just in the sense that yeah i do think the conservative votes coming home and i

00:27:41.980 think that's gonna be demonstrated in the results on uh tuesday night or monday was it monday or

00:27:47.740 tuesday 29th that is monday night um so yeah it'll be i think the conservative votes coming home but like

00:27:56.300 i said yeah she sure had to earn it and i think that debate performance was really good the ndp has been

00:28:03.100 trying to paint the ucp as a bunch of extreme uh angry uh for lack of a better term nazis uh and

00:28:11.500 danielle the way that she kind of handled herself like if you if someone's trying to paint you as an

00:28:16.380 angry extremist and you stay calm and measured it's very difficult to do so i thought she her demeanor

00:28:22.140 was fantastic i thought she handled herself really well and i think that that's really one of those

00:28:27.660 things where those conservative voters in south calgary that don't necessarily uh buy a lot of

00:28:34.620 the rural ideology um they're coming home because at the end of the day we are united or there it is

00:28:43.260 the united conservative party i don't think they were ever considering voting ndp but they might have

00:28:47.340 stayed home yeah i think that uh but i think that the ndp's track record i think everybody remembers what

00:28:53.660 what happened from 2015 to 19 and i i don't think the province's demographics have changed substantially

00:28:59.580 in that sense so you should i think i yeah i'm not panicking get out and vote um obviously but

00:29:06.700 yeah uh uh well i mean hopefully nothing bad happens in the next five days it changes this i guess i'll just

00:29:12.540 say that from your lips to god's ears josh uh the uh that's the thing about conservatives though hey is um

00:29:19.500 we don't blindly follow the leader like the liver no so we are easily disgruntled and we can be

00:29:25.260 disloyal particularly in alberta because this is where parties fracture here and we fracture because

00:29:31.580 you're not conservative enough so as you say uh they did make danielle smith uh work for it now before i 0.99

00:29:37.740 let you go because i have about one minute before i need to be somewhere else um why don't you let us know

00:29:43.020 how people can uh get involved in project confederation and find out a little bit more about the work that you're doing

00:29:48.540 yeah just check out project confederation.ca there's some buttons on the top uh obviously

00:29:54.460 our news all of our content gets posted there i don't publish everything in the western standard

00:29:59.340 because sometimes i forget to send it but uh all of our stuff's on our website at www.projectconfederation.ca

00:30:07.660 there's a join button a donate button at the top uh you can sign up for a mailing list you'll get all

00:30:13.420 of our content right in your email inbox um yeah that's pretty much it josh thanks so much for um

00:30:20.380 putting everybody's minds at ease with the uh hang on just panic and vote that's all i'm saying make

00:30:26.700 sure everybody freak out yeah everybody freak out yeah exactly yeah yeah yeah we can't act like we're

00:30:33.180 the lead act like you're behind right yeah yeah well thanks so much for coming on the show we'll have

00:30:37.740 you back on again after the election to sort of break down um and do some analysis for us if you

00:30:42.940 wouldn't mind if you would be i'd love to do that absolutely yeah and thank you so much for your

00:30:47.500 patience with me with our technical difficulties that our viewers will not see but boy did you ever have

00:30:53.020 them that's on my end don't yeah no i don't apologize i need to figure that out okay thanks josh

00:30:59.740 we'll talk soon perfect sounds good okay talk to you later well friends we've come to the portion

00:31:11.500 of the show where we invite your viewer feedback it's the reason i give out my email address right

00:31:15.820 now it's sheila at rebelnews.com put gun show letters in the subject line so i know that you're 1.00

00:31:20.700 writing in because of something you've seen in the gun show as opposed to one of my daily videos or

00:31:26.540 some other work that i've done here at the network because i also write articles as well

00:31:31.340 and i appear on shows and i co-host the live stream sometimes and we do twitter spaces so if you put gun

00:31:36.940 show letters in the subject line i know it's about this right now and i do invite viewer feedback for

00:31:42.940 better or for worse because without you there really is no rebel news we don't have a sugar daddy named

00:31:48.220 justin trudeau reaching into other people's wallets to give us money to create content that nobody could

00:31:52.780 possibly care about like the mainstream media and uh last week i read a viewer email that was quite

00:32:02.460 critical of me for actually not anything content wise but my appearance and my on-air demeanor and

00:32:12.060 i read it because i wanted people to know that i i do read the hate mail too but i also wanted to

00:32:18.940 address it and i showed you the overly i thought polite email that i sent back to john from i think

00:32:26.540 it was mill bay bc because i wanted to show you that i really do try to be a happy warrior um that

00:32:34.860 you know while the left says the right is sort of angry and disgruntled all the time and we're inarticulate

00:32:41.180 and all we know how to do is like and say racist things or whatever they say that we we are we're

00:32:48.540 definitely not and you can respond to some pretty harsh personal criticisms without being sort of

00:32:58.060 caustic and vulgar which i think i did or at least i hope i did um sometimes snark is uh a tougher more

00:33:09.900 toxic pill to swallow than confrontation which i think is the case from last week's letter and if

00:33:16.460 you want to go back and see my response it's at the end of last week's show um it's me responding

00:33:24.140 to a very personal appearance-based criticism from john from mill bay bc who never did actually ever send

00:33:31.260 me um the three candid full body shots that i asked him for before i would accept his criticism now

00:33:42.940 tonight's letter comes from somebody named sean who is responding to my response of last week's

00:33:48.940 letter which i think is like a perfect fibonacci sequence golden ratio of viewer feedback but um

00:33:56.620 the reason i want to respond is because i sort of think it might be a little bit over complimentary

00:34:00.780 and uh i don't want things to go to our heads here at rebel news and i i want to assure you that um

00:34:06.780 while we appreciate how much you love us i want you to know how hard we are working to be better

00:34:11.900 um every single day so john writes to me you folks at rebel news are the only perfect news show in the

00:34:18.700 world particularly you sheila now i'm going to stop right here before i keep going because i'm very

00:34:24.540 grateful and i'm thankful that you think that but i don't think that and i don't think people should

00:34:30.140 generally think that they're perfect or that they're perfect just the way you are i think that

00:34:35.820 sort of talk is the wet blanket on your human potential i try not to compete with other people

00:34:44.220 although i do admire the work that other people are doing and i think i can learn from

00:34:49.260 uh what other journalists are doing even the ones i don't like sometimes they do things right

00:34:54.940 um but i try to be better than i was yesterday how much harder can i work what can i do better what

00:35:01.980 can i learn from what i did or didn't get done yesterday um so i i never think of the work that i did as

00:35:10.780 perfect i think it is something that i can always improve on and i i should always strive to improve

00:35:17.340 improve but i i take that philosophy into the whole of the company i think there are always things that

00:35:24.220 we can improve on and tweak and we should always be working to be better as a company than we were

00:35:30.620 the day before more efficient more streamlined sometimes too because we do work on a shoestring

00:35:35.420 budget um and we are always cognizant of um the fact that our donors are choosing to give us their

00:35:45.580 hard-earned money to tell stories that they can't see anywhere else or talk about perspectives that

00:35:52.780 other companies maybe wouldn't allow their journalists to talk about on air so uh well i appreciate the

00:35:58.140 compliment i don't think i'm perfect and i don't think anybody is uh sean goes on you are the only

00:36:04.860 reason i can stand it all it all being the corruption of the world which you seemingly alone can illuminate

00:36:11.340 i don't again i don't think we're alone but i think we do talk about things that maybe even other

00:36:17.900 people in the conservative media sphere don't talk about it is your gift and you all may well be well

00:36:28.220 chosen saviors of our broken world i'm not a savior of a broken world there is but one savior through the

00:36:35.100 christian world view which i hold to be true um and uh we are all just um we are

00:36:45.900 things that he could use he big h e um uh you know like we should all strive to make the world a

00:36:53.900 better place but there is but one one savior the way you folks shine a light on an issue gives me hope

00:36:59.660 for the future my hope someday all new shows will be made this way smart funny but most of all true

00:37:05.660 you know i hope i hope you're right about that too um i don't like the the stuffy overly produced news i

00:37:13.500 i like when we look good when we do a good job but what i'm really proud of here at rebel news is that

00:37:21.100 we are news for normals by the normals i think we talk about issues that you might talk about around

00:37:26.860 your dinner table um and we are you know we're moms i'm a farmer my husband's in the oil patch

00:37:33.260 you know tamara is a mom who stays at home with her little ones and her husband is a business owner

00:37:39.740 and you know we're all really kind of normal people affected by the things the government does

00:37:45.740 in many of the same way that you are at home and so i i think we might be a bit of the antidote

00:37:54.300 to the people on the mainstream media who won't shut up about systemic racism and pride flags and

00:38:01.180 crypto nazis under the hood of every convoy truck um nobody cares about that stuff except them

00:38:06.220 because they're paid by justin trudeau to care about it and you can tell that we are not so um

00:38:12.300 i think that's it uh sean thank you very much for the complimentary email um i appreciate your kind

00:38:19.020 words and i want you to know and everybody at home to know that we work hard to make

00:38:24.060 tomorrow's rebel news even better than today's was well everybody that's the show for tonight

00:38:29.100 thank you so much for tuning in i'll see everybody back here in the same time in the same place next

00:38:32.940 week and remember get out there and vote if you're in alberta and don't let the government

00:38:38.940 tell you that you've had too much to think

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Rebel News Podcast - May 24, 2023

SHEILA GUNN REID ｜ An NDP win in Alberta would directly attack affordability for all Canadians

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